The Express. — London, England, 1858-10-29 00:00:00

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A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS; isatataiag tame resales of the day'. Rams, Is pal limbed every maize daring the Sporting Simon, at Ma 'Week. FOR the filet time since his election for Birming ham, Mr. BRIGHT has found himself sufficiently re covered from the effects of his recent indisposition to meet his constituents. Between him and them there seemed formerly to be no special es penile/ sympathy. Birmingham, like most of our gnat industrial communities, which owe their greatnem, and feel that they owe it, to the self-reliant working out of their own ideas and capabilities, hes always had its political and intellectual idiosyncrasies, and far from being disposed to qualify or disguise them, it has generally taken can, in the selection of its ns presentative@ and the expression of its will, to make these distinctive characteristics felt. But while adhering to this rale in the main, the people of Birmingham have not ceased to be as English as the rest of their countrymen, and they have not, therefore, ceased to be tolerant, generous, and Jost. They differed oftentimes with Mr. Baum! on questions of public policy ; but the difference did not blind them to his talents or hie services as a public man. And when by a scandalous coalition of Whigs and Tories, he was driven from Parliament at the general election of 18,57, the people of Bir mingham beard the tidings with disgust, and re sented the wrong with mute but deep indignities. They felt that a truthful, able, and courageous 'hid of the great class to which they belong had had bid play ; sad that from the too limited Teaks of the people's real representatives in Parliament, a man bad been struck down who did not deserve it, and who could not be spared. In • few months the re presentation of their town falling vacant, they re solved unanimously to elect him in his absence, and thus at once to repair the shameful fault Manchester lad committed, and to administer the most dignified and at the manse time the most expressive reproof to the cum-plotters of Piccadilly and Pell-mall. And now, for the firm time, Mr. BRIGHT has the opportunity of meeting the men of Birmingham face to face, accounting for his past omission in this respect, and thanking them for their conduct to wards bun. He does so gracefully and well, with the self-respect and brevity characteristic of a proud-hearted man, but with the delicacy and feel ing of a man whose gratitude has been touched to the quick. The allusions to his late prostration of body and mind. traces of which be seems to have Mill about him, are equally free from the unworthy affectation of infirmity and the boastful reas surance of strength. But whether his actual vigour be or be not less than it used to be, he declares himself ready to gird himself once more for the battle of the people, and eager to participate in the coming tray. To some there may appear, perhaps, rather more than requisite of a tone and spirit of pugnacity in his mode of dealing with the subject of Parliamentary Reform. We do not ourselves concur in the opinions be bee mrpremed on some incidental topics ; and there ine others which, for the sake of the cause, we bad rather be bad omitted altogether. We are. however,for keep fag the middle of the road during our morels together OR a great undertaking, and suffering an inanity of minor objects to pave =contended foe, and at the time unheeded, rather than distract at sr lemon the general zeal by efforts which, however legitimate and right, are unessential to the main and in view. We decline, therefore, to be lured into the byways of eontroverey which Mr. flaw= here and there temptingly opens up a te. A gnat MON is at lane, we in whisk the welfare and sententment of the bulk of the nation is involved, and one which by anima, pesseueremek and deasemieation may, we believe, be wee. Whether the complete triumph of repreesotative right ma be attaised in a stogie battle or in one sampaign, we knew net. Mr. BRION?, like other want men, would seem inc.ined to say, if we comet get ell the messtial things we ask next session, we will take none. We do not say so; bet while we declare, it berme the moat plain and unequivocal, that to say thing like • settlement of the question of Reform a widely extended franchise, the protection of the ballet, • re-distribution of electorates, and a diminu tion of the wet of elections, are each and all of them indispensable, we are not prepared rashly to pledge ourselves to reject any and every Bill beams it may net Notate the whole of these sessatials. If the pri vileged orders are tools enough to think that they can bay off the popular demands for justice by conceding adekitiesal means for enforcing them, let the ems sequences be upon their own heads. They have tried this vain policy before, and reaped nothing bat humiliation and thavklesenese from it. Grudgingly Red timidly they yielded bit by bit of sectarian ltheety,alwaye nursing something the people would not forego, until at last they were compelled, under threats of violence and tumult, to pass Cothelis Emancipation. Untaught by experience, they played the same game with commercial liberty. teas after another the fondly prized items of restric tion were lung overboard ; and in the end the most dearly cherished remnant of all was wrenched from them with ehoutsof triumph, and amid the tolling of the death-bells of parry power. Let the aristocracy at their peril repeat the same suicidal impolic-• now, when the disfranchised iuduatry mid intellect of the coun t r y, weary of waiting, comes to demand its ' eights. But let us not, through any passing irrita tion or impatience, be led into diruLo g popular UTILIZES', Tom Own LONDON AMIC1•110S. Ism& Osorse l it Lanr i . AaVka ~1/10l0S. 0•/11 1.° ?P AS T POST • STOLL MT. n evouffire. AWay IMO MILLICINOLY.—AaI JOES. Mr. mai Ilia C. Imis.—Ormasi al /. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVNNING, OCTOBER strength by premature discumions IA to what we shall consider a final victory. •It will be times enough to debate that matter when the breaches I seem to be practicable, or who our standard is planted upon a portion of the walls. It will be our own fault if unoonditional surrender does not follow after that. We mast say, however, that we think it was high time that a clear and unmistakeable rallying cry should be beard throughout the country, in order to arouse the dormant energies of all classes out of doors, and to stimulate the good intentions, if any such there be, of those within. If some notes of the trumpet sound harsh in fastidious ears, it cannot be helped. There wee a plain and maaihst seed, an obvious and incontestable duty; and Mr. Bea= deserves well of the country for having performed it. Without combatting theories or plunk( as with abstraction, he adopts and reite rates the principle for which we have so long and so often pleaded—that of liability to rating as the fair basis of the franchise. He says with unanswerable truth that this old and established test of fitness, which we have long used in the parish, the munici pality, and the union, cannot be objected to ea any fair ground for the city or the borough. It would, moreover, have thief advantage, that it would inevitably, if not instantly, lead' to a simplification of registers and registrations, and to the establishment henceforward of one simple and comprehensive list, on which if a man's name were inscribed he would be entitled to vote as a ratepayer in hie parish, hie ward, his anion, and his borough. This in itself would be a great good gained ; and if in the redistribution of parliamentary districts the corruptly small circumscriptions be put an sad to, there will no longer exist the unnatural and immoral asperity of contention about who should be kept on and who should be left off, the real root of which lies is the Ignitions importance with which individual votes are at present invested by a partial Gad unequal law. We need hardly say how cor dially we concur with Mr. Brunar in the earnest nen of his plea for the Ballot. What a carious confession of the truth of all that its advocates have urged these five and twenty years in its behalf was that whioh we heard the other day from the late Tory candi date for East Norfolk, who in a Conservative ga thering reminded his friends that he had been beaten last time by the exercise of landlord influence, and who pledged himself in future never again to vote against that protection which he had learnt by ex perience the would be independent farmer needs as much as the would be independent tradesman ! There is nothing new in the Reform programme put forth by Mr. Bumf; nor is it desirable there should have been. The thing wanted was a bold and authori tative declaration by a leading Liberal, of the broad outlines of each a Reform in Parliament as will alone satisfy the rational friends of Progress. Such a declaration Mr. BRIGHT Rail supplied. There it is : Rating Pranchise ; more equal distribution of Elsetcral Districts ; Vote by Ballot. Nothing ease be broader and more simple. To the critics who complain that there is nothing original in all this, the short answer is that we want, not ingenious theories, but practical malts. Let ns achieve first, and refine afterwards. The people of England are not fastidious or finical. They like plain things set before them in a plain style. In transatlantic phrase, they want a broad platform and • clear ticket. Mr. BRIGHT has furnished them with both. Their part in the business is not to cry out for something more new-fangled or far-fetched, but to stick to these plain, clear, home spun demands till they carry them. It won't be too easy • work in any ons, but the way to make it harder—the way to make it impossible —is to divide and distract effort by directing it to a diversity et objects. Let Reformers, then, of all shades, abandoning whims and fancies, stick to this plain, pregnant text :—Ballot ; Rating Franchise; Redistribution of Electoral Districts. There will be a time foe niceties and refinements after wards. Let us be downright and straightforward now. So far, then, from its being a reproach to Mr. BRIGHT that he has given uv nothing that is new, we beg leave to tender him our thanks for having confined himself to enforcing what was old. The people want not to be puzzled with crotchets bat to be furnished with watchwords; and we are quite sure that all earnest Reformers will cordially concur with as in the expression of our satisfaction, that on the part of the inadequately represented millions of this reentry there should have been put forth so bold, and, at the eame time, so practical a statement of their wants and their will, as that which has just emanated from the Member for Birmingham. bt court. WINDSOR. ocr. 28. Tits Petsish Ambeasador sad the Duchess of illankbelf sad the Earl and Cosiness of Maltoesbary arrived yestertley as a silt. Shortly after their arrival the Duke of Mslakholl and the Earl of Meleasehary (Principal &mazy of Shim kr Amiga /Mies) hod sadism of her Majesty. no Miss enisbAhoE was pessaind le the Quota by Oessims of Masearary. The bat of Twain sad Colossi the Hon. A. Liddell Tema the Ltd sad Oroom is Walther. la milldam le t. visitors staying in the Cootie, her MOWS Mem party Wield the Belgian Manner and Nobs* Vas de Warr, I Emily Seymour, sad Major- Oared as Ma. C. Grey. The bemi d dr GMOaf Chards paellassd during defter die lieeeleg essepediese _ . ... ........ ....... ......... ...... u.....___ sakiaks --- .::::::::::::::::::::: ifiraim. Nat 1/11/4waWa ONO and allawarda Arid la th• mss/ *psi No lA/aft ripahas: Ownies." MIMI= arm". • -r•-• ************ • ;carAtc *IA Pram ...... ..... . ..... M '''°••••• .................. - - ..... • The Clem wile la Os Ii fai Howe this akoraing, lassald by lima Ike. laity Cat/tout. Paws; A&s and Phnom. Helena took equastrisa minim SU Wm ef Cambridge is oxpectad this ahsrnoon. TM bilge-AdvoosteOmieral had an audience of her akkiis r 1e41n7. Mr. Chipors, stein a, Captain Mack % )LP., and kr. LA* lbeibm. el the lad* Ansuralls, aril China Taken* Osimpsy, assompoisal by Mr. Tantalised, soli dest, led ea Warrior id& Mr. Essallem, at th• Traisnry, ralarday, es Me as** of lebraphia conimunicadaa bum= loft red Mies. His Royal Highness the Doke of Cambridge left boa yeslwday, a• a visit to her Majesty and the Priam Oassee. si Wham Carla. Thai Cabs de Stackelberg, accompanied by her &sedum the Ihwassis d. Caws, have left Claridge's Hotel, for Illbrolieds, army Ipswich, oa a et& to Sir W. aed Lady PAhNfaisa. W. (Manchester Guardian) understand that our Crary, the Nemec root, is in error in respect to the unless of Lord Ashburton, announced in its impromice of yeisnisy. His lordship is about to be married to blise Stewart lieeteaste, and not to the Marchioness of Mir, as snood by ear oestemporary. The bias of St. Paul's and Mrs. Milmaa, Lord Macaulay, the Hos. Mr. sad Lady Louisa Howard, the Rev. Cease sad Mrs. Guthrie, sod Sly Henry Rased, have be.. eroding woe days with the Marquis 44 Lanadowse this week, at Howood. WI (Plymouth Journal) are informed that Lady Hanlock bas darn Osborne Limn, Ikukt, as hut futon residescs. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. roes government, which has from the beginning neglected no effort to enlighten that of hie Most Faithful Meleety about the true character of the affair, hoped . that the cabinet of Lisbon, after having sass cordows oilY. tdrettmetanose of the arrest, end the doommesetts belouging to the case at Mozambique, would !mein to acknowledge the Irngularity of the proceedings which the Governor-General of that colony had adopted towards • seesel @can't which net even • suspicion of the slave-trade eould be alleged. At bet this hope wee intsteken ; but the Portuguese government, led by • more attentive examlnation to views mare cornet, has deferred to the jut representations of the Ecoperole goveranmat. A resolution so conformable te equity, by causing every trace of a misunderstanding blames the two countries to dimppear, will, we doubt not, have the effect of restoring to the relations between them the same character of cordially as they bed before this regret able imideut occurred. ITALY. THE PAPAL STATES. Mow ova owx ROME, Ocr. 23. The migratory movements of sovereigns are usu ally attributed to politico,' motives, and it will there fore mate no 'uprise if the prolonged visit of the Duke and Duchess of Modena to the Pope's capital, and their actual presence in the dominions of the Xing of Naples, are here amounted for by a most important project, viz., the formation of an anti- Oallic alliance in Italy, to comprise the Lombardo- Venetian kingdom, the Duchies of Puma, Modena, and Tummy, the States of the Church, and the kingdom of Naples, to the entire exclusion of consti tutional Piedmont. There certainly appears to be • little coldness just now between the Papal govern ment and that of France, but that the Pope should enter into any alliance against the Power which holds his own capital and his own person in pledge seems to be an improbable supposition. Whether the Duke of Modena's mission really concealed state secrets of importance, and whether it was merely in accordance with " &truant disposition," it tams to an end, as far as Rome is concerned, on the morning of the 18th, when having exhausted the benevolent de monstrations of the Pope, the diplomatic civilities of Cardinal Antonelli, and the antiquarian disquisitions of the Commendatore Visconti, their Royal High names took their departure for Naples, making . their first halt at Albano, to observe the magn ificent viaduct which connects that town with Arida, and which 11.1 s duly exhibited to them by Monsignor Amici, Minister of Commerce and Public Works. . . On Thursday morning the Pope visited the church of St. Peter, to examine the works still going on for the completion and interior embellish ment of that majestic structure, and especially admired the mosaic representations; of Saints Simon and Jude. His Holiness then visited the vast hospital of Santo Spirits in its various de partments, and the neighbouring military hospital, where he was received by the Commander-in• Chief, General di Gregorio, and where he consoled the sick with his usual benignity. He then proceeded to the mad hospital, and conferred his blessing on the poor wretches confined there ; and went on to visit the female correctional prison of the Buon Pastore, with its cells of retirement, and schools; returning to the Vatican after a long morning's work of charity and consolation. It is on such occasions that the amiable benevolence of Pio Nono's character is so strongly brought into evidence. What a contrast to the oc casional instances of sacerdotal depravity which we hear of in this country as in every other ! It appears that there is to be no more fox-hunting at Rome, unless some very influential person per suades the Pope, or Cardinal Antonelli, or whoever has come to this determination, to revoke the damning edict. British and Roman sportsmen are in despair, the very large number of persons who directly or indirectly find employment arising out of the hunt will be thrown into distress, and a valuable class of wealthy foreigners annually attracted to Rome for the sake of hunting will now benefit other places instead. With hunting, racing of course ceases also, end the Roman Spring Meeting, one of the prettiest sights possible, will cease to enliven the picturesque valleys of the Campagna. As the hunt was a subscription affair, and nominally entirely Roman, the government has complete con trol over it. Far better if it bad continued as the Chesterfield hunt, and been a British concern alto gether, for perhaps his Holiness would then have let our northern sports alone, or at any rate, if shocked by the death of poor Signor Bossi last winter, he would have contented himself with prohibiting his own subjects from attending the break-neck amuse ments of ultramontane visitors. As it is, we have no minister to intercede, and can only hope in the good offices of the Duke de Grammont, or the argu ments of the new American minister, Mr. Stockton; for the Roman princes, few of whom ever attended even the meets, have neither the wish nor the power to change the determination of their ecclesiastical governors. PROROUTION OF 00IINT MONTA- LEMBERT. AND Rams"' TILIOLU R.) PARIS, FRIDAY MOILNING. The Meatier announces that the Correspondent has been seized for the article by Count Monta lembert upon England and India. A prosecution is to be instituted against Count Montalembert and the publisher of the periodical. •: Extracts from the article mitered to will be found ow our fourth page. FRANCE. PARIS, TIIIIIIDLT E,w,.. The Emperor came to Paris yesterday from St. Cloud in au open earriage and four, with postillions, proceeding along the Champs-Elyges, the Naos de la Concorde, and the Quai, to the Tuileries. His Majesty, soon after his arrival, went into the garden to examine the works in progress there, and returned about five to St. Cloud. A grand banquet was given at Marseilles last even ing to M. de Leesepa. Four hundred persons were present at it, and that gentleman announced that the works of cutting through the Isthmus of Suez " would commence in three months." Prince Napoleon three days ago gave a grand dinner, at which several dishes were Chinese ; some of the wine drunk was from Siam (hiving been sent by one of the Kings of that oountry to His Imperial Highness), and one of the guests was a Chinese mandarin. Among the dishes were swallows' nests, cooked in the Nankin mods ; fins of a shark fried ; olothuries d la mandarins : the interior of a sturgeon toetogewaire, au: remelts. de bambou ; olothuries in salad, with pheasant jelly ; rice des iminortas fowl with Japanese curry ; spinage with balkhao, which was much esteemed at Rome under Augustus ; rice in Chinese fashion, ordinary India curry, &c. M. Nader, the photographist, made, as announced, an ascent in the balloon of the Hippodrome, on Sun day, but, shortly after the departure, having entered a thick cloud, he was Linable to execute his project of taking with his instruments views of the earth. He intends consequently to make an ascent on some other day, when the state of the atmosphere shall be favourable for photographic operations. "We have already mentioned," says Goligriasi, "that the church of Scotland had decided on esta blishing a regular service in Paris. That intention has now been carried out, and we have no doubt the numerous British and American visitors of the presbyterial' persamion will receive the intelligence with much satisfaction. Aooordiog to present ar irangements, Principal Tolloch, of St. Andrews, will officiate during a great part of the year, and the Scottish church are from time to time to send over some of their best preachers. Principal Tnlloch is the same gentleman whose talents, a short time ago, attracted the attention of government, who, besides making him principal, conferred on him the theolo gical chair of St. Mary's College. The Scottish church liberally pay the expense until such times as a congregation can be formed on its own basis ander the Consular Act. Dr. Moffatt, honorary secretary in Paris, writes favourably to the oommittee in Edinburgh as to the progress made." The Three per Cents, closed to-day at 73fr. 60, for the end of the month, and the Four-and-a- Half per Cents. at 96fr. 600. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,347 fr. 60o.; Greet Northern, 9636.; Strasburg, 720 fr.; Paris to Lyons and the Mediter ranean, 8756. ; Western of France, 6106. ; Bordeaux and Cutts, 670 h.; Lyons and Geneva, 6226. 50c. ; Bank of Cr6dit Mobilier, 910 fr. ; Austrian Rail ways, 6686. 76e.; Roman Railways, 416 fr. ; Russian Railways, 611 k. 26c. THE FRENCH DISPUTE WITH PORTUGAL (From mien/6j' Monitor.) The MONII4IW has announced the conclusion of the Mariam which had arisen between Frame and Portugal upon the subject of the venal Charles et Georges. The lirmarcer's government had demanded the liberation of the captain, the restitution of the reseal, and an indemnity for the injury caused to the parsons interested in her. These demands have obtained ea metre atlsfaction. Him Majesty's government had not premaied them until after, by a re peated exmoination of the affair, it had acquired a profoend oniviatlon that it nal In the right, and a plain statement of the faota will milk, to notabliah that these demands were legitimate. - A Breech vend, the Charles et Georges, authorised by the colonial goverment of the Reunion to recruit for free =grow by voluntary engagements, la arrested by a Portu guese ("delta in the Bay of Conducts, a possession depend ent an Mozambique. She had on board her one bandied and ten wrote, part of them remelted at Mayotte and the Greet Consorts Island, and part of them at Matibone, on the Portu guese meat. Ravin bean taken to Etossanhiqus, the Charles et Georges is referred to ahi banal which ocadanse her as guilty of having carried en the slays-trade; a sentence of two years' imprisonment is pronounced on the captain • the vessel is ordered to be confiscated, and the mimes ted, found ott bawd of her are pieced at the disposal of the local authorities. Now, the Aro observation which presents iiselflTthat, ac cording to the deckwations made by the captain, and the verification. of by the Mulder et Marine, the arrest of the vowel took place beyond the limits of the territorial see, and things* outside the Forewarn Jurisdiction ; the Noremtdque anthorithe that had no right to take condones tithe metter. But, eves admitting that the arrest was performed in the territorial sea, as the Portuguese officer pretends it was, the conduct of the Mosembique authorities is no lase un justilable. To thessastrate this, it is stifficieht to remark that the Gorsivese-f3eneral and the commission &wad to yea Named ea the Oberlin et George@ did not take into ' secomal deer the awake ppm with which she was pro vided, and which proved the legal* at air altilialthir th• lemma of a delights of the Pence administration on hoard of her, or Wind any of the circumetiacee which ought to hew ha ao deubt about the legtheaelesees of her minks, sad the Satire good faith of the espial. We may be the rather annisbad at the Portuguese gnaw rhise baying canal M vegeed a mite of alaw-trading, tame. ware white we *idly Islas& and regulated by Preach leghistisa, is, ea the 11th of November, lei/, that le to say, more days haws the arrest of the Charles et Georges, the Goverear-Osearal had addressed to the district governor. a ciroder, the prelim Sheet of which was to mutate their ewes°. with mewl le the Preset ?MINIS which might arrive in say of the Portuguese porta, to order to recruit for Wearers thin. These lustrushotts Intimate that the eathethise we to lake the plated owe not to eadowid seat vends with these which devote themselves to the slave trade. After renterkieg that the easels recruiting for ishowere arnmehtly have on board of then, far the convey. sacred web 'shower., articles the dadiag of which is re garded by the Pertagaess doom of 1836 as widener of the treat to sieves ; the eiroskr sada, that SeriovA embarrass ments aright result from an isomaidemre application of that decree to vesicle which should be within the 000ditions dying by the French law. The Governor-General then recommeadie the district governors to act with much chatmageotion with regard to the Preach vessels in question, preweibrag to them, in cam of such vessels appearing la a Portuguese port, to confine themselves to la. hunting -to them the ceders probibliory of the engagement and emberhatioa of outdraws, sod electing from the rip tide a writhe promise to conform to those order.. TM trimaran to be adopted with respect to the Charles et %owes were this clearly fathomed bythe Portuguese authority itaelf, and we cannot comprehend how ft can have entered upon a coarse so cootrary to its (Intim The Charles et Georges was brospht to Lisbon to be Judged op appeal by a super Lit jurisdiction. The Brim THE UNITED STATES. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY Mourrwo. The Argo has arrived with the American mails, one day'. later intelligence, and 427,000 dole., for Franoe. _ The New York cotton market was irregular. Flour was without change. Coffee firm. Freights moderate. At New Orleans cotton unsettled. At Mobile cotton brisk ; prices nominal. At Charleston cotton brisk, at a decline of fe. At Savannah the cotton market closed with a downward tendency. The California and Pacific mails had arrived. The news was unimportant. Dates from Jamaica of the 9th inst. ; weather ens, Sagan dull, business improving. tee news frau the French West India Islands states that imported provisions were abundant, and prices high. Yellow fever is still prevalent at New Orleans. TAHITI. The Monitaur Tahiiies publishes an account of the cueing of the native Legislative Assembly as Tahiti in the 12th of July. The Preach Commissioner, seacespealed by his stet end the cliptalue end Akers of the dillenat musk in the harbour, proceeded, at two o'clock the afternoon, to the residence of Queen Poznan, fa order to mememany her liejsety to the Protestant chureh, where the ceremony had bees appointed to take plan. • *alum of twenty-one gam announced the departure ef the sertifee from the palace. On rearktag the church, the Queen sod the Imperial Commilioser wise received by ► *station of twenty deputies, sad heeded by the Regent Paralte. The Rev. A. Simplon, ■ Protesilet miniskr, delivered the usual prayer, and a hymn wee sang by the children si the charity schools. The Queen then delivered to ber harikari. Arilfealte, the following speech to rararahaliaissuallits the Assembly : MOM thus a year'. absent,. from Tahiti, which time I have passed at Ralatte, whither my duties sea mother had called me, I am happy to find layoff la the midst of the Amenably, which, la accord with the imperial Commissionst, I have called together conformably In the law. At the news of the attempt of the 14th of hammy, I, Its yea, offered up thmthe to God for laving saved the U of the Emperor Napoleon, our power ful protector, so 'weaken to Freaks, to Europe, and to them Woad& The most perfect wideretanding has never owed to subedit between the Imperial Commissioner and myself. I have proved my °madame in him by placing on board his Milli my well-belayed son Joined* for the purpose of being ednethid, and Irstelag the French isagusp. I every ream to be sthindled with this arrangement. Costlier, gentkreen, to mat the Impsviel Dironmkeimier In improv lag our laws. mod la speeding mom the people instruc tion, sod a Pete for labour sad order Yon will thee worthily tent the mandate which is ocelerred on yea by the kw and by the choke et the inhabitants of the verbs§ districts. Our cosmos carte having also for object to reader them Wands prceporone and hippy, we may rely on dm moteetion of Divine Providence." The Imperial Comatimianer Mterweade addressed the As illaddy to a long 'yowl; la which be drew a very fitttertag picture of the prosperous state of the country. The presi dent of the Assembly made a brief reply, in which he sawed the Queen that she might &says rely on the devotedness of the Assembly. The procomelioss tam terminated. 1, 1858. WOOLWICH ARSENAL. Yesterday the Commiseioners were to have re sumed their investigations at the Royal Anneal, but from some unexplained ewe the further prosecution of the in quiry was postponed till Thursday neat. The representa tives of the press were, however, very courteously conducted over the establishment by Colonel Tulloah, Ca pthin Clerk, Captain Farmer, and Captain Orr • and, se pub to attention Is just now being directed to the intemanageresst of oar great national manufactories and del:4ga, a few observations on that at Woolwich may not be considered out of place. To those who knew the establishment formerly, but who have not visited it during the last half-dozen years, the appear ance of the premises most be very striking. In every direc tion new buildings and workshops have sprang up ; and, in point of fad, the Woolwich of to-day as little resembles the Woolwich of old as the broad sheet of 1858 resembles the Moreton& of the Commonwealth. Before the Russian war the mammal was little more than a large store for the munitions of war; and though manufsottutug processewaretuidoubtedly carried on even on • tolerably large male, it was chiefly by hand labour. Under the old system, all that could be dm' wee to accumulate in time of pesos large supplies, which when an emergency arose were generally food ete have become antiquated. Then the gonenneent had to mum= to its aid all the resources at the disposal of private Om tractors ; but as these latter had gemr•U le provide them selves with plant for the new 111•13 they were called upon to execute, they naturally expected to be ouch prices as would not only remunerate t for making the articles supplied, but would cam penaste them for the outlay they bad incurred to qualify them for undertaking the government orders. A single illustration of this will render the point quits clear. The contract price paid at the commencement of the war for Captain Boxer's 6-pounder diaphragm Shrapnel] shells was 731. per cwt., whereas the article can be actually made for 141.95. 2d. per cwt. Woolwich Is now not only an immense magazine for all the munitions of war, but it is the largest manufactory in the world. In the huge workshops there have bean acuminated the greatest variety of ingeniom meth/Woe contrivances for maybe labour and dispensing with manual dexterity. If Ile. Kuala values his peace of mind, let hint by all means, give Woolwich • wide berth ; for there he will find the principle he so much decries of the subdivision of labour,and the making of workmen into mire machines, carried out to • most seartling extent. Scarcely anything is completed by one person. There is nothing that a workman as say he makes —nothing that grows up by 'low degrees under his hand he may take a pride in. Nay It is found by experience that machinery itself works all ihe better for being brought under the great economical law of the subdivision of labour. People have heard talk of • wonderful American machine in which you put • sheep-skin and • few old shirts at one end, and from which you received • handsomely-bound volume, hot pressed and with gilt edges, at the other. But such as in vention would be a gram blunder after all. There are actually several machines in the arsenal which are capable of performing several operations, but which are now rigidly re stricted to only one. For instance, there is a machine for making caps, which used to cut the copper from the sheet, stamp it to fit the gun's nipple, charge it with detonating powder, and turn It out ready for use. By its aide is another which omitted one or two of these prompts, and which was found a decided improvement—and a little further on is third which is still more self-denying, and which works heat of all. The automata character of the machinery generally is truly wonderful. If ware and ra tiears wars should ever again depart from us, the eatab light:neat might be reduced to a mere skeleton ; and if there should at • period of profound peace suddenly arise new throats of hostilities, the government might fill its work shops with common labourers, sad they would be perfectly able to turn out of hand any quantity of orsateral ready for um in the course of a few days, or even hours. The reader will please to image himself in the carriage factory. He is first shown into • abed which covers four acres, and which is capable of receiving 5,000 loads of timber, although It does not at present contain more than 2,000. Here the dither intended for such purposes as the traverang plaited's of large guns is kept eeseoniog for years, the very best and soundest wood alone being snit sole for the work, Next he is shown the saw mill, where huge truaks of tress ere being drawn slowly and reluctantly up to monsters with any number of rows of teeth up to 20, which convert them Into planks before a pair of ammo mold have taken off their coats and fixed their weapon in its place. Sometimes it is required to cat • log in two; and than, obedient to • word, there arias. out of • crevice in the floor a huge circular saw which severs the thick block almost " before • man can say, behold." The unexpected apparition of this terrible implement has a grim humour about it which almost savours of the medireval disoleris, and Is well calculated to impress the visitor with • wholesome dread of all crevices, holes, and crannies for the future. Ano ther species of steam saw which performs • great ride at Woolwich is a toothed steel baud which is pawed over two rollers like an endless strap, This was brought from the Paris Exhibitiag by Tanoek, but it has been much improved since Its'. sataralleation In ads country ; and it is now used for every purpose for which • carpenter's directing saw would formerly hest been employed. The fellow of each wheel, after being cut out with this implement, are put together and turned, so as to maks • perfect Sects. The nave is also turned and pierced for the spokes by machinery. The spokes themselves are shaped by a most Ingenious contrivance, by which certain ' cutters are made to reduce a straight _piece of wood into an east fee simile of a cast iron model. The parts of the wheel as thee fitted together, and placed in • pressing machine, where by the force exerted by six hydraulic rams, the whole I. firmly compacted and made reedy for the tire. This pressing machine does in two or three minutes what would taks • wheelwright at least three quarters of an hour ; but it has been found that the band saw will cut one particular portlw of the work in 30 seconds, which could not be done y hand is lees than le minutes. The saving of time in this indorse is thus thirty-fold. But there is a further advantage derived from the employment of machinery; every like por tion of every article being of exactly the same size, no dif ficulty is experienced in making the parts fir, or in supplying any faulty part when on service. It would take too much time to describe the many endow mechanical contrivances made use of is the carpentary de partment, amongst which may be enumerated the engine, for asking mortices and dovetails, and the wooden linings of scabbards. A simple but very clever device for saving time Invented by Captain Clerk, however, deserves notice. It moats of a broad strikes band, which runs down the satire length of the shop. From each bench there is • small trans verse band, which nearly touches the long one; and as each article is finished it is placed by the workman on one of thew. It is immediately carried down to the principal band, which in its turn conveys it to a basket at the end of the room • and thus the man is saved the trouble and hind:ems of hav ing to carry his work away es he completes it. In the smiths' shops there is an infinite variety of inge nious machines, amongst which the Nsamyth hammer stands t. This famous ismation hits of late been much Improved. rseizien Formerly it wee encumbered with an exceedingly elaborate apparatus, which had to be adjusted every time the form of the blow had to be varied. Now it stands las • giant in its naked simplicity and the question whether the blow is to fall on the anvil with an impact of 4 toes ' or only with sufficient force to drive • pin into a cork without bending it, is determined by simply moving • lever which • child might menage. Close by the Neemyth hammer is • ponderous adaptation of the guillotine used for cutting metal. Looking at the deliberate ease with which the knife shears through a piece of tough wrought ken, four inches long by an inch and as eighth thick, one seance but feel that hardens is a very relative quality after all. Ths butter knits at breakfast really seems to meet with far more resistance than this ter rible enema when performing its greatest feats. There la Morel's a punching tool, which perforates iron an inch thick with the tactlity with which • lady's stiletto phases • pima of muslin. On. large:shop is entirely occupied with process eon netted with the manufacture of rifle balls, shot, shed* rockets, ape, and the like. The lead for Mini. ballets Is formed hoc rids, which are celled round • wheel on the ma chine. This told is prepared by forcing it, In a seval-lbeid etas, through • hole in • cylinder ; and it is ealoubsted that the saving to the country by executing this proem' on the premises instead of buying the metal in rods I. at Imat 100001. a year. There are eight doubts Idinle- bullet ma chimes, which can turn out no fewer than 480 belle a minute. Th. diameter of in... balls is new being reduced front .688 inch to .66 inch—• &menaces whisk, while almost equally effective, ts expected to foul the piece lees. The mode to which the caps are charged, counted, end made up Into parcels is very curious ; but we hurry on to the cart ridge room. Here a Babel of voices takes the pine of the ' Incessant ham sod clangour of machinery ; and so wonder, fur in this room there are between 400 and 600 boys who have no particular reason for holding their tongues. Thee, lads are paid ltd. per hun dred cartridges ; and some of them have been known to make up as Mane as 2,000 per day. &nand ed them actually earned 10a. 6d. last weak,. bat that sum mem to be rather over the average. There is, however, • ahem far dietenslng with • great deal of this boy lemur. A awake of little canvas bags are plumed Mb • trough meeshabg pulp. The air is then draws teem the Wes eflheeelmge, and they are nasally coated with paper. Them baler sae taken t.fr and dried, end thenartridge case iseampiebe Alias boys on t h e embedment Mind missal eight beam le Os week, and work 48. The maths is the sai view ispirtment (about 70 in number) angel gated live bum pat in*, in addition to the 66 hoots Mew. flop me inelreeied to messuratien, the higher beenehee at adlkamila, drawing, mid natural philosophy, es blaring upon the particular branches of indusuy in which they are employed. At the present time great activity prevails in the Ar cousecsience of the demands of the Indian service a a, " 6 the come defences. The carriage department every week ••mel•ls• • battery. consisting of six muss and 2i with all their appointments. It also turas out tea LT= pie platforms for the coast, 2,000 shot sad shell i 5..., slail 400 powder cases. There are no fewer dial 2.100 else flat played In the department. To give anythiag like • ootoplAs Mad (be mealmilisel wonders whith abound at Wooluiela remild fee meal the limits of an article ; hut even • anew plasm at the main &Hoes departments of the mooed meet sacisfy • %•ll- gent person that the popialer sopereardoe which lige idea of wrosehra4edr est, mete, mad baptised. far meet with the very idea of a_gegessmsat esselllebmine. ti utterly without foundation. No en whisk use said can be aconotMeed, time saved, mend Mem &pawl with, is for one moment aigleggei; and any suggestion which • workman is fortunate essugh to make for obtaining say one of these ends Is promptly acted upon and rewarded. Oo us whole, we should say, that the =premien moat likely to be made on the stied of any patriotic visitor to Woolwieb would be. that the country has • right to almond of our great national workshop. 8001TI811 4178T1ALLI 1Y INVILITZZAr 00t. P4NY.—(22IDI DAT) This day a meeting of shareholders in this tort. cagyfanas held at the London Tavern, f or th e of COO. resolutions which were unenimona y at a of the company held on the 30th July =e ' f l ir d Zr object the conversion of the 200,000 one- ns, p shores of the company into stook. Mr. Drum, who occupied the chair, said that at the last meeting the subject had been discussed and met with gement approval. It was the unanimous opinion of the board that the alteration wee desirable, u it would give tressed security, save expense in the transfer of shares, end cuumw l labour in the office. Ths motion having bean seconded, was put and unsni• anomaly adopted. Mr. Goer moved a vote of thanks to the manager, Mr, Morehead, for his long, valuable, and able service, to e a company. (Hear, boar.) The motion having been adopted, Ths Cmitismex said that the dire:tors entirely symp. third in ths compliment which had been paid to IG. 166. haaiL _Tear. bow.) Mr. MORZ/11AD returned thanks, sad exprsimad bib es* Mom I. the prospeces sad polities of the comm. The moan then separated. ORRAT DIDLAN PENINSULAR RAILWAY. (TIIIB DAL) Thum day at noon the usual half-yearly meeting of the above company Irma held at the London Tavern ; Cap tain HAMILTON (chairman of the board of directory) in thy chair. The report has already been published. d come spondee*, between Mr. Franklin (one of the and ere) and the directors was read, in which Mr. Franklin pointed out certain detente, end suggested altera tions in the mode of making the audit of the half= t y i z counts. Mr. Franklin, fi nding that Mere was no ' to adopt his suggestion, announced his Intention to with. draw from the office of auditor. He had therefore clecliasdes the existing accounts, except the directom commend to LL gaing so in a qualified form. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, observed that the worm under construction were making se. tefamory progresa During the pan year 680,0001. had been expended in engineering operations; in 1866-67 the slumber of persons employed by the company in all departments was 45,000, whereas last year it had reached 65,000. The returns upon those portions of the line already open would yield 61. 17s. ed. per cent. per annum upon the capital expended. This was 17s. ed. In excess of o Llguarantee of the government ; but the surplus being s mall, any divisions of it at present was oat of the question ' • besides the terms of the gammas provided tha t • division of the surplus profits should not be made until the entire was cons. pate; and in the meanwhile, therefore, the surplus due to the company would go in reduction of the debt owing to the ggoovernment. Having entered into some explanations respecting the dispute with Mr. Franklin, the auditor, the chairman concluded by congratulating ties proprietets up on the prospects of the undertaking. They bad ample grenade for considering that it woad ultimately yield a very hand some return fur the large outlay which it had involved. Mr. FIRTH, the deputy-cheirroan, seconded the make, and declared that nothing whatever had been witheld from Mr. Franklin. All the books, registers, and vouchers bad been placed at his diermeal, and the insinuations which Mr. Franklin had made were tuigenerous and ill-founded, if not absolutilf indecent. rln y to questions, The MADMAN stated that no new projects beyond those already entered upon would be undertaken without the pre vious consent of the shareholders. The present works, with the exception of some 800 miles, had been let under the engineer's estimates. In the nee of the 300 miles the original estimate was exceeded by about 601. per mile. The total amount paid to the East India Company for interest ce the loans up to the date was 559,0001., but from that sum must be deductea 98,0001. the net earnings of the lines in °parsec& Mr. Fume's Luc, the *editor ' vindicated the course be had taken, and in doing so, he said he wished it to be undentood that he meant to cast no reflections upon the integrity of the directors in what he had written. Mr. ANDERTON, the other auditor, declared that no oysters of audit could be more effective than the one in this com pany. It was subject to checks and counter checks, and the shareholders might tint satisfied that the accounts were true and accurate to a 'lulling. The report was then adopted. A resolution was afterwards passed, authorising the direc tors to convert the paid-up shares Into stook, and the pro-- wading@ closed in the nanel manner. MI 7.174 Z PIER AZ GREENWICH. At the Greenwich Police Court yesterday Richard Roper wee charged on remand with setting Bre to his thy& ing-honae, with intent to defraud the Best Fire Insurance Company. Mr. fieudamore, solicitor, and Mr. Landon, eecretary to the Kant Fire Insuranceponpany, appeared for the prosier tMn ; and Mr. Ingle. of hibernia•chambers, London-bride, dehetted the risower. Maria Harding, daughter of Mr. Harding, oil and colour dealer, of London-street, Greentrioh, deposed that on the night of Saturday, the 11th of September. she was employed behind the counter, and about 11 o'clock a young woman came into the shop, whom witness served with a half-pint of turpentine. Witness wee tenable to identify the person whom she served. The witness Elizabeth Waterfall, examined on the last 0} 011iOn, wee now recalled, sod identified the Lit *thus r the person who served her with the turpentine. Thomas Smart, a fireman, mid the ruins of the premises bed not been thoroughly examined until Thursday last Mica he did so In order it possible to arrive at some last, to the origin of the Bre. He went Into the °eller, end saw that the roof, which formed also the floor of the shop, was sena I burnt, especially near the steps. The remaining portion of the woodwork to the cellar was more or lem c.harred, bid the portion near the steps was entirely consumed. Tbs cellar bed two 'avenue—a trop-dour which opened at the rear of the premises—and an entrance Into the shop, by mesas of wooden steps. The entrance from the shop wee partially choked up with rubbish. On removing the top rubbleh he found a large quantity of straw, which was laid across the naps. A portion of toe sides of the bottom steps was not consume& It is my derided opinion, said the whams, that the tire broke oat on those steps and burnt rapidly upwards. I fent this opinion from my exoenenoe of finis sad the presented. I should judge from the remains that i =fo c :r or five truism of straw most have been on the stairs. By Kr. Traill—Tlie woodwork of the uprights la the cellar wee charred the whole length. Had the fire broke or in the shop sad a second fire been caused in the cellar by the fall of burning material., it would not have caused the ap• Flimflams pistated. The whole of the woodwork in the caller pirservi tint pe,imiar charred appearance which Mods me to believe that the fire most hare broke out from below and burnt upwards. This wiener wee eau-examined at some length by Mr. Ingle, without effecting his evidence. Mr. Renderer foreman of the Foathwark-bridgeved stetion of the Lon don Firs Brigade, confirmed the *rider* of the last wither. He had seen scores of firs which lad originated from the cellar, sad the appearances were unmet. takable. He was certain that this Ike broke out err the cellar eters Mr. Tradt—Suppring that the fire broke out in the slop, and the falling embers set fire to the straw la the oar, would that hey, accomited for the app.manoe. you law P Witness—l em quite sure it wouWaot. Mr. lagle—Are you ewer that the shop bad a cams rod? Whams—lf so, this description of roof der not bane on account of the large quantity of pasta Mg% — itobset Morris, sbopboy in the employ of the !whams woe then examined, and proved that oa the Saturday bdas the Ere he brought eight truss* of straw from Deptford to Sr prisoner's shop. Before be procured this straw, theresme about eight armee on the premises, which was an seance stock. Straw wee sometimes placed In the cellar, bat oa the opposite side to the meta. The prisoner was then further remanded for a week. The Duke of Devonshire, President of the Ches terfield and Brampton Mechaeics Institute, will take the chair at the rimming =ma wirer, which is flied to take place on the 9th of November. The medical attendant upon Mr. Watson Taylor, M.P., states, with regard to tam late molds; dist shitowil h four or five pallets struck that gentlemen in the b, Ito will not be disfigured thereby. " Only one pellet pond into the left eye, and has destroyed the eight of that eye toe the Pt" sent ; but Mr. Fergoseon and myself have groan* , that the sight will be ultimately restored." A deputation of the principal wilt producers in Cheshire and Worcestershire welted on Lord Eitaithe yaw _day, iatrodoced by Mr. Bromley Moore, M.P., to filprillat the itjury the trade =stains from the 'Mena of boa* privileges in the other ports of India similar to those edged at Calcatta. His lordship gave sernranoss that the maw shall be oarefally looked into, and no doubt is entertain! 01 the grievance being remedied. We (Tune.) have reason to believe that the pro clamation which wee to announce the easumption of the government of India by the Queen was drawn 59 qd despatched trout this country some weeks slum. Intta. 9o9 of ins snivel in Inds may be very shortly =pined. Last evening a crowded public meeting of the electors was held at the Fishermen's Arms TIMM, near the factory of Messrs. Penn, Coldbetb, Greenwich, to how " address from Mr. Alderman felonious, explanatory of hie political prlacipas se • =dilate for the remmeetation of the borough. The King and Queen of Prussia have arrived at Moran. --- The King and Queen of Wurtembarg are now • Carlaruhe, ou a visit to Una Grand Duke and Grand Deimos of Baden. r