The Express. — London, England, 1866-10-22 00:00:00

VID OYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. -11-11. me Alf/MAL 111[571216 wm held oa 111.1 DAY, 10Thth:slowr— " • al respects the amount ot bald ness the mama of by Perns7oll7 - m 7— il a ttl i chairman of this pent. exhibiting by hit the measure of increase which elidoM pasty hag ever " Tbe lead led Vire premium for the year, atm. deducting gairegtthe, Min 1 01. "Taming now to the life branch. it resaldnito be reported that the has beenmarked by al i cheoked . success. This will be 7 e , : k ass hmr Igni t e or two statisti cal periods, it foam that Um Ord, hem 1846 t 01849 inclusive, commenced with • Me assured foe— &ASO _ Ye& 180 of mid ended the period with a total sum assured of =14796 . The [Second, 1850-54 Do. 1850 96,650.. do. do. 758.408 lye Third, 1866.00 Do. 1855 106,514.. do. do. 1,554678 The Youth, 166084 Do. 1800 And now the first year of the fifth like period, MA the Company has granted assurance" for 4586,46 3 , nearly twice the amount at the ounthencement of the last quinquennial period. " li, tbareforo, the result of the total five years, ending In the year 1869, were to have a corresponding Increase with the p-e- Mous periods of fro years each, the amount of business that would be of in the quinquennial period now running would be mere than has ever been on record in say Insurance sWdLs meet la this countly. The Directors bare likewise to report that the Lib hinds have increased by the sum of £103,144 the accumulated funds of this department now amounting to £740,459. As an addition of at Meat 15110,900 per annom to these accumulations during the next ten years may now be fairly anticipated, it is within rue mashie expectation that during this period the Life Miele will approach nearly to £2,000,000 sterling. The Dtrecton propose to the Troprietors that a dividend be declared of Is. per share, and a bonus of 4s. per share, together 7s. per share, free of Income-tax. Ti is a matter of satisfaction to stabs that after withdrawing the amount of this dividend and bones from the predt and loss account, a credit balance will still remain to that account tit no lees them 6.4078 fie. in addition to the reserve fund, which. no th ix e apaeutation - of the year, now reaches the sum of £116,915 This report was unenhnonsly adopted. PERCY N. DOYH Manager and ArgaT m. JOHN B. JOHNSTON. itheratery in JOHN BEOGDEN. riBIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, ILF scrurrra-srmer, COVENT-0 UDEN. JOHN DROGDNITS 18-carat GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. j 98 21 tROGDKNI3 GOLD ALB= CHAIM _ JOHN BROODEN'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. Nn-BEON'S TCHES, d SO, LottgatoshOl ; 2S O l d Bond•street. BROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIET. To chests arfra soft by the male other kinds are scenetiates offered Instead of DROWN and POLSON'S. "Jobs Drown," "John Pobon," b stool by the makers on each packet. %TY MINSTRELS, ST. JAMES'S HALL, V TOW OFZN for the SEASON, every night at eight; Wednesdays and Saturdays, three and eight. Hall newly and beautifully decorated ; company greatly tameable' ; new mem bers, tweedy performers of known excellence and aldllty, in cluding all the original metriheas ; even... Meg new lee the new season. Yanteulle, Ga ; stalls, la. ; area, Ix ; g enet', Is. Tickets at Austin's dice. MI, Ficcculinp—Kawrs- Moore, endue. and Hitter, proprietors.—lfenager, Mr. Frederic Bargees. • NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High Holborn—Tilts very elegant and spacious establishment having been entirety redecorated. OPEN EVERY EVENINO lhe grand bend, condu by Mr. W. M. Packet, will perform nightly a choice selection c ot ted operatic and dance music. Open at tali past 8; 01009 at 11. Admission. la. I)OYALPRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIeLesse• and Mansur Mr. VIMING.—LAST WEEK BUT ONE of THE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN.—TIIIB EVENLUG, and during the week, a Comedy in Three Acts, by John Ozenford, Eq., entitled THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Characters by Mr. Vining, Mr. J. G. Shore, Miss Rodgers, Yin Nelison, and Hrs. ingham Mite. Tto be followed by, at 9 o'clock, THE Hu- OT PTIN, byKatherine Watts Phillips, EN. Prindpel dram- Mys.CA A dttrtheg, Miss Neilson, Miss Augusts Thompson, Mr. George Hone) and Mr. J. G. Shore. Grand Ballet of Dohe la which Messieurs flageolet, Clodoche, Cornett, aad Normand* w9l appear. New Scenery by My. F. Lloyds. the e'ae'ews• TO CORREEPONDENT3 Advertisements intended for The Express," London Evening Paper, must be at the Mee, 10, houverisstreet, by Two o'clock on the day of publication. DRURY LANZ. TAM ETEKING, FAUST. Mr. Phelps. Hearn E. Phelps. W. Ilarrieou, H. Vandenhoff, and J. Joluistone : Mn. Herman Vezin and Mies Po o le And THIS COHILDY OF SHAOSS. The Brothels Webb. PRINCWIra. TEp ItTurrtna, THE TRIPLE A I.LEANCE.—Artor which THE HMI:WM CAPTAIN. Messrs. .G. Shore &0. Hooey ; Mims Hewn, Animas Thomson, and J Mi.. lillatiag.--AW QUIET LODGING& HAYMARKET. THIS Emma. THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Mom. C. Ma thews, Buckstene. Chippendale. ; Mesdames C. Matbews, Chippendale, Wright. &c. —A Ballet Divertissement. the Mims HoMey.—Tll.l CIUTIC.—And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. LICEIIM. Teta EVINTWO, BEUTUS AND MAIL Him tienracie.—And THE LONG STRIKE. Hamm D. Honefault, Emery, Wtddlearab, Cowper. de. ; lira D. &mote:salt —Cataluna( with TWEEDLE: TON'S TAIL COAT. Mr. H. Widelicomb. —Commence at 7. STRAND. trairma,. THE WARMED BACHEIDE.—TV THE WRONG BOIL—DER FREISCHUTE ; OR, UN A GOOD CAST TOE A PIECR— And WAITING IOR THE DERGROUND. HOLBORN. THIS Evranta, at 7, LARKIN'S LOVE LEITERS. Mr. Bel- Mon awl Min C. Saumiers.—And FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville. Belmore, Blake. V°liaise, &t. ; Mesdames F. Josephs, C. Saunders, Bessie Foote, Flddes, Lennox, Raymond, &e. BRITANNIA. THIS vrornia, TEE OLD CHERRY ISM Ws. Late.—The Wondrous Bro.hers Vlctorelli; Master Perks; Ali. N. Ogden, •' Kind Old Daddy ;" Paul Detain.— THE MIDI uF ALDOATE. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BEIDOL TEM DAY —Morning. IL 17m......Afternoon. OIL 40a. To-Itortow—litorni O ng. lb. Sm......Aftentogo, 24m. LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22. LIKE all panics, that of 1866 is likely to leave traces that will endure long after the cause of distrust has passed away. The late crisis was emphatically a financial crisis. Except in an in direct way, it did not touch the mercantile public at all. Banks, discount companies, and financial associations were the sufferers ; and, it has been pretty clearly shown, generally by their own fault. Still, even as regards these institutions, there has been* a reaction in public opinion. Of the three London joint stock banks that suspended pay ment, one has long agoresumed business, its shares stand at a premium, and only last week the management notified their readiness to anticipate the payment of the obligations of the bank falling duo next February. A second is being actively reorganized, and within a short period will proba- The meetings of the Cabinet will, it is said, bly be again in profitable working. The banking be resumed in the first week in November. disasters, therefore, so far as the metropolis is PROPOSED BANQUET TO Ma. GLADSTONE IN concerned, are limited to one, and it is doubtful PARIS.—A Paris correspondent of the inctopengence Belpe whether, even in this case, the failure might not s ays :—" Mr. Gledston . , is . expected in . Parts about the 15th have been prevented if timely precaution had been November . Th e e des Econ are pomeeipastes, oring f which %h e w h ta ig a . Michr is Seea ch t u 'te ' taken. Of the general want of confidence in all welcome. It hen been decided ' to offer a grand banquet to banks, good or bad, that prevailed last May the illustrious English statesman." hardly a vestige remains. Financial companies CRYSTAL PALACE.—Her Majesty the Queen of certainly continue out of favour, less, perhaps, Denmark and her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, from disbelief in the soundness of their manage- accompaniedand lriceacte he Drucanhetratle?ideTrglygaaPriru Thyrs n. Colonel ment than from a conviction that in the Home Pnrves and Major Grey, paid a visit to the Crystal present circumstances of the time it is impossible Palace on Saturday. The royal party inspected the various objects of interest contained in the buildiiig. The for a finance society to make the large profits it gra t fountains were played specially. The Saturday has hitherto done. The mere words " new cons- concert took place as usual, the palace being illuminated "parry" and"concession" justnow excite as marked afti t rw E ard ritE. s g f e o si r . I; A roj w e c 'd e i m Bzur . —Mr Charles a loathing on the part of the public as a year or Ins on proclaims - himself, in his addres s . to th e . electors of two ago they were eagerly welcomed. The period Belfast, a cordial supporter of her . Majesty's present go for " inviting subscriptions " has temporarily s w ear i e t t co " so ns : i r u r tio u n t o h r th m e aluta T ry th f s t me l fi r, P V e u rnl Passed away . Discount companies have fared claim for himself, in the interest of the conetituency, worse, but the reason is easily found in the tre- perfect independence of action. The liberal party have, mendous effect produced by the failure of Overend, been e i of t no ear n i s dige ihe bu co t ui tr e . John Mulholland a p p oi e n re t e e a d Gurney, and Co. Still there is no indiscriminate to ai a Likely man. The selection of Mr world :Lanyon is under distrust. One or two establishment*, indeed, can stood not to have given u party in the t n o mixed satisfaction to the have b . e named that hold a position hardly, if at all, Zre rv f a er:l b wn , some of 7e h ir plbebed d nymo ve . Inferior to that of any bank in London. The Rev. Dr. Cooke. the Presbyterian champion, intimates The railway companies are now coming in for his intention of supporting Mr. Lanyon as a gentleman in respect of and character well qualified to repre- their turn of popular dislike. The unfortunate t tegialm lap career of the lees important troubles Mill, upon the Talus ci railway yglagetyi arj whatever condemnation it may be ,suet to pass upon this or that company, it is only right to bear in mind that we are considering the exception, not the rule. tlt is, in fact, very well known that at reoent meetings of many of out largest undertaking it has been distinctly stated in answer to ques tions, that no issue beyond the legal liin4 had taken place. The point, too, was met, not in that cool, perfunctory manner with which railway directors are too apt to reply to the inquiries of their constituents, but seriously, as s matter of business too important to be trifled with. Under the growth of our railway system the finan cial reputation of a company ranks as h;ghly in value as that of a foreta government. In the great majority of cases, fee-afore, the directors must be especially alive to the fault of anything approaching illegality. The public, however, appear to be, as usual, in danger of running intoextremes, and of confounding good and bad alike. Er sae dime omnea is the maxim invariably applied, whe ther in estima*.ing the profits of a new bank on the basis of one successfully established for twenty years, or in judging the demerits of a railway company by its neweet . and most extravagant competitor. The railway interest, as represented in Parlia ment, is, we suspect, stongly repenting of the op position that they have persistently made to any system for the registration of debentures. For what reason it was done it is difficult to conceive, except from the innate dislike of individuals and companies to have more to do with the Govern ment than they can possibly help. It should also be remembered that railways have a great deal to do with the Government, and have more than ample experience of the impracticability, routine, red tape, and delays that are the special characteristics of a " department." There can be no doubt that a system of registration of deben tures would entail much additional trouble end labour upon managers, secretaries, and solicit - us, and as these officials are often the wire-pullers of a company, it is not surprising that they have done their best to defeat the innovation. At the present motnerg, however, the boards of directors can hardly feel altogether easy. A registered railway deben ture would form the perrection of a security. It would rest, as it does now, upon a title both legal and parliamentary that is impos sible to be contravened ; there are no lawyers' expenses, investigation of deeds, and delay ; a fair interest is given for the use of the money, and at a specified period the full capital is sure to be repaid without the trouble of a formal foreclosure. Only one danger has been open, the possibility that the property was over-mortgaged, or in other words more debentures issued than allowed. A system of registration would have removed this solitary defect. Notwithstanding that nine times out of ten we believe it to be practically unneeded, the illustration that is afforded by the ladies of the tenth peccant oomix.ry weighs, although un fairly, upon all the others. It is no light matter that a security that has been for years readily appreciated and taken, should at once fall into disfavour. Railway de bentures constitute a fair and legitimate channel of investment, and considering the magnitude of their total amount, their general discredit would result in no small amount of evil and inconve nience. Already there is sufficient difficulty in the satisfactory employment of money, so that loans on the Stock Exchange can be obtained on Government securities at almost nominal terms. Suppose that the debenture-holding public should insist upon being repaid, the end would be that the existing plethora would be increased, and that from the sheer dearoi of good investments money would be squandered haphazard. It is perfectly true that in this case, as there is a lender for every borrower, the funds paid away on the one hand would be received on the other, and that, therefore, the supply of float ing capital would be the same. The distinction is that it would be in different hands. The lenders would be shrewd capitalists, making the best use of their money, and the payees, the general public, who having got their bank notes, would not know what to do with them. It is hardly worth while to dilate upon the possibility of a mania arising, when it proceeds from the small public, instead of great capitalists, having too much money at command. History, as well as every day experience, shows that the latter class are occasionally not deficient in credulity, but as a matter of habit they are far more careful than their neighbours. We trust that the public will for once depart from their usual practice, and look upon this question with fair discrimination. Unfounded alarm and unfounded confidence are equally foolish, and in the long run equally harmful. The experience of the late crisis will have taught every unprejudiced observer that if trust has beenunduly placed in some institutions, from others it has been as unduly withdrawn. The lesson cannot fail to have been duly appreciated by those who will only give themselves the trouble to look candidly into the facts. All railway companies are not, we may say very few are, like the London, Chatham, and Dover, and it is unjust to visit the discredit that bad management hasbroughtupon one on all others. Even in this instance the ill that has been brought about by one set of Directors can easily, by the exercise of a moderate amount of prudence, be re paired by their successors. At all events, no course cau be more opposed to common sense than to condemn without inquiry, and to assume that all railway companies must be systematically going wrong because one or two of their number have admittedly evaded the safeguards imposed by 14 Akin. 4 - --- • • 1 . ... . • r • - • : ..: •.i;- , , •' . IN . • 0' . • l i t .t• : -, I ..1 ' _. ... . ! , London, Chatham, said Daiet,'"all the 1 ''' ... "'OU ; • — CO ••,I'0'•‘• . I 1 • '" A troubles of the Great Eastern, have (TEM DAY.) TRADE! MELLOWS. It le observed by the Daily News that the strong ! weeds in which the trade outrages whisk have been per in two towns noloorious for the lawless violence of a portion of their population, have been denounced, lose some of their force when they seem less to spring from a hearty moral reprobation than to be dictated by an ulterior political purpose. The party of reaction is bent on making capital out of the misdeed' imputed to the trade societies. But is it not the first business to consider who are really incriminated ? The outrages have, in all probability, been the work of individual fanatics; and even ** the complicity of any one union could be proved, it would still be most inequitable to extend the condemna tion beyond the limits of the offence. Particular trades and districts have a deservedly evil reput►tion among the working classes themselves ; and none more so than the trades of Sheffield. But why should one class be singled out for blame? Frauds in the mercantile world have during the present year occupied at least as much attention as trade outrages. They show • personal morality as lax, and a sense of social obligation as defective, ea the worst trade outrages, and have diffused ruin and misery as wide-spread as those consequent on the most irrational strike, and far less reparable. The cue of Barnedh Banking Company affords an argument in favour of the disfranchisement of the middle classes not less sound than that drawn from the Fearneyhough ease in favour of the continued refusal of the suffrage to the skilled artisans of the country. Even taking the matter at its worst, the remedy is not to be looked for by keeping up a political outlawry, but by transferring the allegiance of the working classes to the laws and government of the empire, which the exercise of the parliamentary franchise would considerably promote. THE LAST GCNBOAT. The Time/ thinks that when the new gunboat, the Waterwitch, glides into a foreign port, under full water, she will astonish the spectators as completely as the Chinese were astonished at first seeing ship, under steam. The whole secret of the method of propulsion is that on each aide of the Waterwitch is a metal pipe for continuously discharging water by the propnlaion of steam. She has engines of 160-horse power, which turn a huge waterwheel 14i feet in diameter, and weighing eight tons. The water requ'red for her work is admitted through boles in the bottom of a vessel to a long iron box, somewhat analogous to the " well" of a Thames punt in which gudgeon are kept alive. Then the wheel, put in motion by the steam-engine, socks in this water, and discharges it with immense forte through what we may call the water guns outside the ship. The Times thinks this idea will bring ns well abreast of the Americans in matins novelties. Certainly neither the Miantonomoh nor the Cige- Ship can beat the Waterwitch, with her pro algioaa waterwheel, her heavy guns, her ironclad aides, and her propelling " jets." As to her seaworthiness, the t: --antes now obtained seems unexceptionable. The Prince of Wales's Theatre was honoured on Saturday evening by the presence of the Queen of Denmark, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Thyra, end Prinos Waldemar. THE Perigee AND PRINCESS OP WAlke.—Prepa rations are being hurried on at Norwich for the reception of the Prince and Princess of Wales in that city. On the Tuesday in the festival week their royal highnesses will arrive at the Wymondham station, and proceed to Cossey Hall. On the Wednesday morning their royal highnesses will leave Cossey-hall, and be met at the city boundary by the mayor, sheriff, and the city officials, who will escort them from thence through Heigham and St. Giles'-road to st. Giles'-gates, where a handsome triumphal arch will have been erected ; at this point the procession will be formed, consisting of the magistrates, town council, cor porate officers, deputations from the Odd Fellows and other friendly societies, the Norwich volunteer corps, the Ist Norfolk Light Horse, acting as a guard of honour. On arriving at the Guildhall, the royal visitors will alight, and ascend to the council-chamber, where addresses will be presented from the corporation of Nom Ich, and the lord bishop and clergy of the cl'oeese. After the presentation of the addresses, and the replies thereto, the proces sion will be re-formed, and precede their royal highnesses to St. Andrews-hall, where the Norwich Musical Festival will be proceeded with. At the con clusion of the morning's conoert, their royal highnesses will be escorted by the same procession, by way of Princes street, Tombland, London-street, Market-place, and St. Stephen's-street, to the chapel field, where it is at present proposed their royal highnesses should plant two trees to commemorate their visit to Norwich, and conclude the proceedings of the morning by formally opening a new drill-shed. Due honour will be paid to the occasion, and the loyalty of the citizens will be manifested by a brilliant illumination, which is to take plate in the evening. On the Friday evening there will be a display of fireworks on that part of the castle hill called the Haymarket. One of the trees, it is expected, will be planted by the Prince, and the other by the Princess. That to be planted by the Prince is the Weilingtonia gigautea, and will be presented by the Odd Fellows, together with a handstftne silver spade. The other tree, it is understood, will be planted by the Princess in the name of the ladies of Norwich, and is to be selected from Cossey by Lady Stafford. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was honoured by the company of the Queen of Denmark and the Prince and Princess of Wales at dinner, en Friday last, at Gloucester-house. We understand that the contemplated visit of their Royal Higlinesaes the Prince and Princess of Wales to Lord and Lady Londesborough at Grimston Park, York shire, which was expected to take place in the course of next month, is unavoidably put off. The Duke of Leeds slid Ladies Osborne have arrived at Torquay. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester arrived in town at the close of the past week from their seat in Ire aIrICELIANSOCI3 TOPICS. land, and to-day go to Kimbolton Castle. The Times discredits the statement that the temporal The Earl and Countess of Minto have left town power has found a new champion in Queen Isabella, for Brighton. The object most probably assigned to the Spanish frigates The Earl and Countess Russell and Lady at Civita Vecchia, is to offer the Ex-King Francis 11. of Georgian& Russell, who left Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Naples a safe conveyance out of what has since Wows Park, on Thursday for the Continent, are expected to become an unsafe refuge. The Spanish Queen, it is said, leave Paris either to-day or to-morrow for Italy. is using her influence for the establishment of a joint The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bar t•, M.P., protectorate of all the catholic powers over the Holy See , has arrived at Pentodes, his seat in Northumberland, and there is no doubt that if every catholic state would from a t our of visits in Scotland. tax itself to make the Pope a position, to enable him to The Loan Exhibition at Southampton will be live in all the splendour and dignity befitting the primate , closed to-morrow by the Earl C•rnarvon, amidst grand of their church universal, it would require no great effort ceremonies ; 100 singers will take part in the choral cele to bring Pius IX. to relinquish a sovereignty which has brations. Upwards of 2,000 persons visited it daily last become for him a snare and a mockery. 1 week. On most days the price of admission was reduced The Past has disoovered that Mr. Ey re's literary friends are almost without exception advanced liberals. It is not Gd. and nearly 401 . was t aken ever y da y . On Saturday Mr. Strange, of the London Alham easy, our contemporary adds, to conceive what the Jamaica bre, C omm ittee hope to gain in return for the 10,000/. which Exhi bition allowed his musical band to perfor m in the building during the afternoon. A large they propose to expend. A verdict recorded under the number of artisans and mechanics have won p rizes direction of the presiding judge would not meet their for works which they have exhibited. Amongst the requirements ; a verdict of acquittal on the merits leer- p tainly not desired ;and if the verdict which they claim pries which will be distributed to-morrow will be a silver medal and a certificate of honour to Thomas Chamber were to be set aside by the royal pardon, the question raised would be left open precisely as it now is. But they layne, Esq., one of the richest landowner s in the south of England, "far the skilful execution of a serial of turnings probably feel that they have committed themselves too in ivory, especially of an endless chain, turned out of a far to permit of their retreating with safety. single piece of ivory, and for ingenuity in the desifp of The Herald begs the Irish patriot to have faith in the in- cirtain improvements in railway carriages." tentions and the ability of the conservative government. , On September 16, the anniversary of Mexican Not only are they not prevented by any principle of their independence, the Empero r received at his palace, in the policy from doing justice to Ireland, but they are better city of Mexico, a large deputation, who presented con thelified to do so than their predecessors. They come to tniatory addresses. In reply, Maximilian, considering task at least with minds unhampered by old traditions the dange rs that surround his throne, made a remarkable and old prejndicea, and perfectly free to adopt a new line . speechHe . --" I still firm is the Position which of policy if they please. They have • right to fair play • the votes of the nation have made me occupy, notwith end a free trial. I standing all the difficoltiee, and without failing in my duties ; for it is not in adverse moments that a tree PROPOSED ALTERATION OF THE MILITIA &WEIL-- Hapsburg abandons his post. The majority of the nation The Marquis of Salisbury has addressed to the Secretary elected me to defend its most sacred rights against the of State for War a letter, suggesting a p l an f or the mo di. enemies of order, property ; and true independence. The fi el d-ion an d ex t ens i on of t h e m aw s s y s aam , so as to ren d er Almighty should therefore, protect us, it being a sacred it more available as a permanent defensive force. By an act truth that ' the voice of the people is the voice of God.' of IMO, it is remarked, power was given to commute the This was shown in a miraculous manner at the time of our personal obligation of those whowere fit to bear armsto nserve first national rising ; it will be shown in the present re into a local tax upon the community, and this • rdp i o generation. The great heroes of our country look upon was distinctly recognised. Clause 10 of the 22nd and Find our efforts. Let us follow their immortal examples with ' Victoria, cap. 126, having given tall power to par i a h" to out vacillstion, without distrust ; and to us will then adopt this mode of providing their quota of men, the belong the enviable task of consolidating and crowning noble marquis thinks it should be rendered imperative to the werh of i n dependence , which they began with their blood." i adopt this mode of levying men, arguing that this would Preeieue remove the oppression upon a particular elan which I A letter from Verona of the 16th says :—" The most accompany any system of conscription, and be at the Teatro Nuevo was opened to-night with a piece in which a same time a saving of large expense to the public purse, priest reconciles all sorts of quarrelling people, finally and a great diminution of the local taxation incident upon and with great difficulty a Garibaldian and a Bersagliere raising a militia force. It is suggested that the poor-law the former being especially untractable and bursting oni union system should be used for the purpose of supply i ng into Viva Garibaldi' on every possible oocasion. A the quota ; that the present retaining fee to the volunteer great deal of good advice was given, Rome was openly pro militia should be paid frequently in order to secure that posed as the next object of their ambition, and the excel the men may be forthcoming when wanted ; that the men lent priest was made to ray that their religion was one of should be mustered once in every quarter in their reipee.- progress.He brings forward a sneaking-looking fellow, five divisions ; and that the penalties upon unions for not evidently intended for a Jesuit, and tells him that his furnishing the quota to which parishes are liable should religion is one of backwardness, sloth, and even of hi:gond be rigidly enforced. The noble marquis observes under age, and that he must change all this . isr the good of existing circumstances it would not he prudent b res . riot , Italy. A real priest was making a speech from a balcony the number of men for England to lose thaa 200,000, 'in the market-place to-day, when the Austrian role and and & proportionate number for Scotland and Ireland. I Austria's maxims were animadverted upon very strongly. PROPOSED STATUE OF THE QUEEN IN LIVERPOOL. It was spiced far the crowd, and they enjoyed it —Now that the statue of Prime Albert bas been rean - ; thoroughly, being kept in a perpetual laugh at the sallies ideted, a proposition will be laid before the town council ,of the priest . Lag may they keep their good humou r ; to-morrow to erect as equestrian statue of the Queen on the but they will wen miss, an d ra t a f or some t i me , th e money east aide of the St. George's bath, as a sompanion to that ; of her late husband. The WWI to be entrusted to Mr. spe nt here by the Austrians Thorneycroft, and the estimated oat is 5,0001. I METRIPOLITAN FRES HOSPITAL, DEVONSETRE REGISTRATION APPEALS.—The appeals from the SQUARE, Cl/T.—The aggregate number of patients relieved Revising Barristers' Courts must be lodged within four during the week which 641 were cow "Seg. ending Oct. 20 was—Medical, 799 ; mu , dnys of the ensuing term, and heard before its conclusion. irked. 63 4 : total. 1 , 433 01 AMERICAN POLITICS. The people of the South have reason to complain, the Daily News mils, of the exteet to which they have been misled by those of the North whom they bad too readily trusted. There is nothing in the constitutional amend ment which they would not have accepted gladly as the condition of their restoration to Congress if Mr. John son bad not given them reason to suppose that he could procure them admission upon easier terms. If Mr. Johnson should continue the contest it would be rather in a spirit of obstinacy than for the sake of gaining specific political clads. His Southern clients are not likely to pates him to do so. They at any rate know by this time the limit. of his power, and according to the best opinions that can be obtained, it is probable that if they are reasonably prompt in acknowledging the requirements d the republic they may resume their old position in the Union by simply ratifying the amendment, but that the North will not be disposed to wait beyond a certain time, probably not more than two, or at most three, months for that purpose. Should the ratification be delayed beyond that time, it is pretty certain that the condition of negro suffrage will be added. The Telegraph enumerates a variety of difficulties which it sees in the way of the impeachment which has been threatened of President Johnson. The whole case, it mays, seems involved in a vicious circle from which there is no outlet except by the bursting of revolutionary violence. The Times finds in the character of the political agita tion now proceeding in America apt illustrations of what would occur here under the system to which it says England is now hounded on by the chief agitator of the day. The good men, as they might think themselves, would not allow the power and the government of the country to fall into bad hands, and they would have no other way to avert that fate and arrest that ruin than in the old corrupt fashion—doing evil that good may come. i......... 40110110" ••,. % •, ICTOI Court. *AL ORAL, Oar. la. The Queen went out yesterday, twoompauied by Princess Louise arid Prcncese Beatrice, and attended by the Duchess of Roxbrrgho. Sir Stafford.liortbooto had the honour of fling nith the Queen and the royal family. Oct. 20. The Queen and Princess Christian drove to Abergeldie and visited the Duchess of Animals. In the afternoon her Majesty went out acoompanied by the Duchess of Awlsle and Princess Louise. Princess Christian drove out in the afternoon attended by the Duchess of Roiburghe. Sir Stafford Northoote has left the Castle. The Queen of Denmark, with the Primes' of Wales, Princess Thyra, Prince Waldemar, the Duchess of Cam bridge, and the ladies sod gentlemen in waiting, drove to the Crystal Palace on Sato day. The Queen of Denmeek, the A:nee and Prinoess of Wales, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine worship yesterday morning. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honounsble Privy Council sat on Saturday, at the Council chamber, Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The lords present wers—the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole and the Right Hon. H. Corry. Mr. G. A. Hamilton, of the Treasury, was present. Mr. Frederick Goulburn (deputy-chairman of the Board of Customs), Sir Richard Mayne, Mr. Helps, Mr. Harrison, and Colonel Harass@ attended the committee. Mr. Hodgson, M.P., and Mr. C. Howard, M.P., had an interview with the Lords of the Council at the Privy Couna-office, on Saturday, relative to a memorial praying for the removal of the restrictions on the rattle trade with Scotland. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governors of Canada and the Whams. MIMIC :AT. PARTY AND AUSTRIA. The Dibats of to-day finds fault in the following terms with the clerical party for their ingratitude to Austria in the hour of her aiation : Although we caneot be . saspected of sympathy with Austria, we cannot but feel for her a oet:a'n degree of commiseration, excited. not by her reverses indeed, but by the reproaches of those whose cause she upheld at the cost of her own ruin. Aceerding to these persons, all the misfortunes of Austria were deserved ; she brought down on her own head the entire vengeance of heaven. The needle guns executed the office of the locusts. Austria has been punished for giving herself up to Joseph inn, to pantheism, to rationalism, to protertantism, to Judaism, and freemasonry. She had, however, defended to the utmost, and to the lart moment, the cause of the Papacy ; on the eve of the war even she would not nego tiate without the sanction of the Holy See. Now that she has given up everything to secure her own safety—at least her temporal safety—there is no insult that is not lavished on her, and her hidden sores which brought about her wonderful and sudden collapse are pitilessly exposed to the public gaze. The religions journals it is which tell us that treason existed everywhere —even in the highest ranks; that the army was demorsl• iced, and the administration corrupt ; that the soldiers of the faith scandalised by their impiety the Prussian' them selves ; they tell us in recitals which ca n only be com pared with those in Ceadrillon and La Belk Helene that the ceremonies of the catholio worship had become in Vienna itself a kind of pagan r ates ; that the mass was but an appendix to the music, to which ladies of all the " monde." resorted in order to display their fine toilettes ; where Patti, announced in the bills, was saluted in tte midst of the divine office with salvos of applause. Even to the King of Bavarbs—catholic Bavaria—there is not one— oh, abomination of desolation—who does not play the music of the future with freemasons! The misfortune is that if all this be true, it was as true before se after the war. It was not to-day or yesterday that this complete demorali sation of classes, and of an entire people, was produced. P e ople exclaim with regret, " Ah, if Austria had made the concordat in 1815 instead of 1855 all this would not have happened." On the contrary it would have happened twenty or thi• ty years sooner. That social state, the sudden fall of which astonished the world, was the product of the Concordat, of that violent effort to throw back a nation for a whole century, which forced all the intelligent and industrious classes into religions in- credulity and political opposition, and which left standing in the empire only bureaux, military Etas, and uncon vertible paper. ACQUITTAL OF COUNT CLAM-GALLAS. The Emperor Francis Joseph has addressed the following letter to Count Clam-Gallas : Dear Count Clam-Gallas, General of Cavalry,—ln con- sequence of information received from the head-quarters of the army of the north, announcing that the condition of your corps d'armee,afterthebattle of Gitschin, necessitated a suspension of the operations of the principal army it was requisite that an inquiry should be made into statements of such grave impm.nnee, and that you should be re called from the army. The preliminary investigation having failed to being any act home to you, I willingly approved of the council of war which you yourself asked for with a view to your own reputation, and now I express to you my complete satisfaction that the council of war, confirmed in all particulars, has admitted your entire inno cence, and that it has thereby preserved without stain to my army, and to the state, the name and the reputation o f a brave general who has served me and , my house for many years with true devotion. fiehonbrunn, Oct. 13. IBEt sop.' I I L '4 AT LIGENI ITALY. The Italian journals publish the following address from " Rome to Venice." It is dated Oct. 6, and signed " The Roman Committee." The Romans send their sincere felicitations to the Vene tians on the occasion of their obtaining libel ty • and they hail the happy day which shall un ite them 'with their Italian brethren as the precursor of that which shall herald the longed for liberation of Rome. HUNGARY. - - - The following autograph letter has been ad• dressed by the Emperor Frances Joseph to Count Mailath : Dear Anna Councillor von Mailath,--Among the med. flees imposed on me by the fatal period of war, which has just terminated, the adjownment of the diet of Hungary has been one of the most trying, because the final settlement of the constitutional relations of my Kingdom of Hungary and consequently of the revival of the constitution throughout the whole Empire, have been thereby postroned fora certain period. It gives me lively pleasure that the treaty of peace makes it possible for me to oonvoke once more the Hungarian Diet which was adjourned by the resolution of the 24th of June last till the end of the war. But darlwf the lamentable extension which the reigning epidemic has taken, to my great sorrow, especially in the capitals of my dear Hungary, I mud at present abstain from fixing the day of meeting, but I d;rect you to make at once the necessary preparations for that purpose when the sanitary condition shall have improved. I order you moreover to express my most sincere thanks to all the inhabitants of my kingdom of Hungary, who have voluntarily taken up arms for the defence of the empire, whose existence was menaced, and to let them know how I appreciate the innumerable marks of sym pithy which all chasm of the population have given in the kind care which they have taken of the wounded of my valiant army and that of my brave allies. The persons whom this concerns may be assured that whilst they have thus fulfilled one of the noblest duties, that of love for our neighbour, they have given real consolation to my paternal heart in its profound affliction. Oct. 17, 1866. (uunsit's nusowas.) FRANCE. _ PARIS, Ocr. 22. The Emperor, Empress, and Prince Imperial arrived at St. Cloud last night. SIGNATURE OF THE PRUSSO-SAXON PEACE TREATY. DRESDEN, Ocr. 22. The treaty of peace between Prussia and Saxony was signed yesterday at Berlin. THE PLEBISCITUM HT VENETIA. FLORENCE, Oar. 22. Intelligence received here from Venetia to yesterday's date announces that the plebiscitum has taken place amid the greatest possible enthusiasm. The concourse of the inhabitants was very large. At Venice out of 30,000 electors 26,110 took part in the suffrage, almost all of whom voted affirmatively. In the city of Padua 8,000 votes were recorded• In the country districts the peasants proceeded to the ballot-boxes with the cures at their head. In the district of Dolo 7,170 persons voted out of a total of 7,700 electors. At Udine the workmen's society opened the pro ceedings by the ceremony of the benediction of the national flag. All the inhabitants of the city and many priests flocked to the balloting urns, which were placed in the public squares. At Rovigo the plebiscitum was inaugurated by the bishops. In all the rural districts there was a very large concourse of the population at the voting places. ITALY. NAPLES, OCT. 21. The fiste in celebration of the anniversary of the plebiscitum in Naples took place to-day amid great popular demonstrations. The Working Men's Association shouted : " Venetia for ever ! the unity of Italy for ever." of the Post predicts t hat ChepOir. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. Preeerpioe a Ws oat the winner of the Caw BUCHAREST, OCT. 21. and next to them be expects to hear that Acta* so All the foreign consuls in this city have offered davit have been placed., their congratulations to Prince Charles upon la official recognition by the Porte as DolsPodar of the Danubian Principalities. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE MAIL, PLYMOUTH, Ocr. 22 . The Union Company's steamer Roman with die alley ; mails has arrived bent Her dates are Table Bey ma'. September, St. Helens 27th, and Ascension lit Oct. lbe brings 58 peseengsra, inedading Sir Perry Douglas, g e t. Commander-in-Cbief at the Cape of Good Rope, se e 9 m , two Mises. Beagles ; Lkllli. Byng, 99th Regiment, A.D.C. Lient..CoL Montego., 10th Regiment, from the Cape ; c ap , ten Sall, lZth Regiment, from the Mauritius ; Copies Bickford, R.N., Governor of Ascension, and family ; mt Captain Elliott, R.N., and Mrs. Elliott , from Assemble. The cargo I-reindeer 5 boxes of pieces, 1,090 bake of west. 3 bales of Angola 865 boas of rice, 112 begs of cede s . 1,948 begs of copper ore, 67 bake of sheep skins, 1,349 bundles ow hides, 6 mess ostrich feathers, 6 cases old copper, 3 seeks and 18 mass of wine, 10 packages sr sa d s kins, 57 tasks of troy, 835 bundles of cuir yarn, am 9 cases of gambles from Ceylon. The Roma experienced light southerly wands sad calms to lat. 16 isorth, then a light northerly bream is Madeira, and, eroming the Bay of Biscay, light northell airs end a heavy westerly sea. At the Ceps cattle stealing continued rife, especial, in the frontier district.. It wee, however, generally id. witted that this crime was caused more from weal of employment in the present depressed cesdi. tion of the colony than in any actual foodless for such thefts on the part of the natives. A s matters improved generally sheep and cattle stalks , will decline in proportion. The farmers, especially these in British Kaarsris, were, however, inclined to take straw measures to protect their property, independently of Ike government and the armed police. biabnost every division of the colooy abundant sek, had continued to fall. The drought was eatirely broke up, and the colonists were looking forward hopefully fir return of favourable seasons. The settlement of the Free State frontiers was being interfered with by the Basntos, and the land cassia. stoners were unable to mark out the sew farms a itheat a considerable escort. They had encountered threatening, and warnings on every aide. The Basuto' were said to be starring, and a rewound of the war wmfeared. The aspect of frontier Alliers was otherwice pacific. The third session of the third colonial parikureat was opesed by Governor Wedebouso on Sept. 6. New gows % went measure were announced in the form of three for the establishment of a new government paper currency. for the revision of the customs import tarid, and for the imposition of an export duty. Th e harbour commissioners will require 50,0001. mow to complete the breakwater and locks, which may be ex pected to be ready for the reception of shipping by skied . of next year. The mail steamer Meters arrived out Sept. 15, sad the Cambrian on Sept 17. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STANDARD THEATRE. LATEST PARTICULAR/3. — MM DAY.) This great fire was not entirely ertinguilbld during the night, and firemen were actively employ/4 I s preventing any fresh outbreak. In some of the imbue immense beams of timber, which are still berm% and as they burn away the heavy brick vele lean and sway to and fro to the danger of the firemen working below. Amongst the other property de stroyed were the whole of the manuscript plays, optre, to. The whole of the corps dramatigue will be KUM lame. Mr. B. Wright, the lowoomedian, hu aloes isolpr perLy valued at over 100/., and amongst the other sedan are Miss Rita Percy, Miss Saunders, Mims Rose Wasksi Miss Clara Griffiths, Miss Ada Harland, Mr. H. Warr - Mr. 0. Fyson, Miss Armitage, Miss Laura Ashby, ad Rogers, Mr. Littleman, Mr. Smallchild, about 40 WM d the corps de ballet, and also Miss Thome. Plumb of 200 hands are thrown out of employment. The aura, dew Unent was 100 feet long, and out of the rut quoit, of eoenni not a single piece has been saved Wirt • A very pitiable scene presented itself at re lady Oar this morning. Many of the pertormers not baring lewd any thing of the fire until they read the repeal ai thole breakfast tables, hurried to the spot in a Mak of* wildennent, and mould see prly the principal facing the Great Eastern Railway, and the store receneuti anything like intact. The tottering walls present such a dangerous apperiest that even those who have lost property by the dilutor MB very properly prohibited from entering the mins M us* for it. It is stated that several of the metropOes managers intend to give benefits to the burnt oat Wand other enplogis. Captain Shaw thus describes the damage :—"204 111 1 11, street and 28 to 34, George.yard, Sher/ditch. inuaisd. Theatre, John Douglas, proprietor. Cause not lusea.. Main building and contents destroyed. Principal eekswe and store rooms over damaged by fire and hest. list to 31 in George-yard burned out and roofs off. 32asiE severely damaged ; all used as dressing rooms and mot nicating. Insured in the Phenix and North ibid mi Mercantile Fire oases. THE STRIKE AT MIDDLESBROUGH. ADDAMS 10 THE IRON-WORKERS IT B. BERNHARD SAMUELSO:..7, M.P. The following address was issued on Tim** by the hoe. member for Banbury to the inin ea dike in the iron trade at Middlesbrough. From Oat Os: man's well-known sympathy with the working dour, aal from the fact that he is in no way connected with the web able iron trade, his advice cannot but he listened to et* respect. Mr. Samuelson says :—" Having new hei week the fearful distress which prevails at Iliddlesbresglif 1 think it my duty, as an impartial neighbour. to ger t word to the workmen employed in the rolling nitk. I do not blame them for having. in the first Moot refused to accept the reduction of 10 per cent. Ir et etZ been, unfortunately, so much misunder standin g masters and men that the substance of b oth must °hob wasted in contests like the present before the markets/is of labour can be ascertained. But the market value Iss been dearly shown, by events to be st emysit though I hope only for the present, very low. Ora! are scarce, and what few there are bars Denws.sl gone to other parts of the country, or to Eekall• The longer this state of things continue the lower mg! must fall, and the longer it must be before they at oil agaiut if you go to work now trade will re t ur n to de distri n. B ct, the demand for labour will increase gab, ssol_ a r g may be able before many months Me to Orr higher wages. In the meantime you will DO IOW& WS Mr lees women and children waste away, or die by whitest/0e tall typhoid, but should in truth be celled tulles Iron Once at work again, let us hope that bitter We"! may have taught both master, and men to treat other with greater confidence, so that wages nisi b". Wed from time to time without ruin to the e and starvation to the employed.-1 am, part; , friend, "B. Samoa With reference to Mr. Samneleon's Mit, stand that a few of the leading work men were innu to him.—Dantingtan and Maddox Thud WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) MONDAY, ocrosza =, 6 A.K. 2/1. t B. Aberdeen .79 Leith Ardronan W.B.W. Greencastle WALT/. Valetas .91 7 &W. Cape Clear 421.96 Al LW. Liverpool ta.9366 61. W. Holyhead be W.P.W. Penzance 94100 2 1, A.W. Brest .. 30 .00 56 ' A.W. Lottent !9.36 66 W. Rochefort . Klee 911 Ph mouth Weymouth 29.90 681 N.H. W. Portatendh 29.91 69 6.&W. Louden Yarmouth }9.976 7! 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