The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-08 00:00:00

REAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. B ROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIET. o obtain extra proet by the sale other kinds are sometimes offered Instead et BROWN and POISON'S. "Joke Brown," "John PoDon." is signed by the makers on each packet. Eft, el:Pre/41i* TO 00111t6PONDENTS. •dtaettaementa Intended for " The Repress," London Evening Paper, meat he at the Oleo', 10 , Bouverle-atreet, by Two nisiock on the day of publication. DRURY LANE. Tlll9 EtStem, THAT RASCAL JACK. Meson. Rowe and Neville : Mesdames Allem end Thompson—To conclude with THZ GREAT CITY. Ileum Cowper, M'lntyre. Villiers, Irving, Zoo" L. RignohLt Werner ; Mesdames Robertson & La There. HAYMARKET. Tate Evanum THE LOVE CHASE. Mews. Chippendale. Howe. R.gers. Kendal, Clarke, Weatherby, de.; Mesdames Redorirk, Chippendale, Bute, Re.—TO PARIS AND BACK Melt Es.—And TUB KIM, AND HOW TO USE IT. PIIHNCIEWIL TRH Evelyn.", THE DAY AYEEE THE WEDDING.—THE MAN tY AIRLIE. James Harebell, Mr. Herman Vssia ; Ileum K Price. Forrester, Gresham, Marken, and Ellertoo ; Misses E. Nell Moore. i.e.—And THE CLUCILMAKU3 HAT. Tim EVENTIIO, REVERSES. Mew. Emery, Patella, Rob taro, and s.asteavagE : Mesdames Ada Swarbornagb sad John nie** —And TIIE LATEST EDITION Or YEA DIAVOLO. Mews. Thorpe t Jams; Meadows* Molt, Newton, Ac. ERITANNIAL TIM MIMS, SCARLET DICE; OR. THE ROAD AND ITS RIDERS.—The Champion Skaters; Mr. C. Woodman; Little I.evittr. Jessie Nene; and Mr. J. Humpton.—And JACE 0' LANTERN. Mr. Reynolds and Miss S. Mites. HIGH WAIL! AT LONDON BILIDOC. 11/18 DAT —Mori:deg, 711. 455.... —Afternoon, 811. Ms. to-Kozsow—Mornbag. bli. 47w.._..Aftseuook oh. Zuo. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8. THE decision of Sir JANIS WILDS pronouncing against the validity of the will of Mrs. ANN THWAYTES, th ,,h its soundness will scarcely be disputed, reveals a story of domestic life more in teresting and amusing than many a sensation novel. Mrs. THWAYTES had been a widow from the year 1834, and since that time her affairs were managed by Mr. SAMUEL SMITH, who lived in the house with her, while his brother, Dr. SMITH, a medical man, came to see her every fort night, and, besides, received her dividends and paid them into her bankers'. These two gentle men Mrs. THWAYTES made her residuary legatees, and as the property disposed of amounted to 400,0001., the importance of the case in a mere pecuniary point of view is very considerable. We do not propose at present to enter into any discussion as to the principles of the which apply to such cases. The simple question was, whether Mrs. TawaYTES was of " sound and dis " posing mind, memory, and understanding " at the time she made her will. There is no country in the world, said the Judge, in which the law per mits a larger exercise of volition in the disposal of property after death than in England ; but it re quires, as a condition, that this volition should be that of a mind of natural capacity, not unduly impaired by age, enfeebled by illness, or tailded by nambid influence. The question, in fact, came to this, whether Mrs. Tuwarrits' mind was tainted by morbid influence ; and the test which Sir JAMES WILDE applied in order to determine this was to compare the sayings and doings of Mrs. THWAYTES with those of persons notoriously sane and notoriously insane, and by this means to arrive at an opinion as to her sanity or insanity. So far as the ideas of Mrs. THWAYTES were con cerned, they were no doubt sufficiently eccentric and extravagant. According to this lady, she had constant and direct communication with Coo ; she was the Holy Ghost, Dr. Sarrrir was the Father, and with some other person they constituted the Trinity. Through her agency came epidemic diseases such as cholera and influenza. GOD said, " Turn on the screw," and the cholera came " Turn it again," and it ceased. After hearing a sermon on the Holy Ghost at Canterbury, on nearly the only occasion she ever went to church, she said, " The man little thought who I was." And, again, " People wonder why I do not go to " church. They do not know that I am immortal; s` that I am equal with GOD." Nor were her extravagances confined to mere ideas. She believed, indeed, that the final judgment of man would take place in her drawing-room, and that she would sit there in judgment on her fellow-creatures with the CaLtroa. But, acting upon this notion, her drawing-room in Hyde-park gardens was furnished at the expense of 15,0001., for no other occasion than the Day of Judgment, nor was it ever brought into use, but was carefully kept for that great event. Indeed, a foreman of Messrs. GILLOW received an annuity of 501. for looking after this room. Besides this, a tiara of diamonds was bought, which was never worn, but kept in reserve for the same " august occasion." It is remarkable, however, that although Mrs. THWAYTES was steeped to the lips in re ligious delusions, she was by no means an enthusiast. She preached no faith ; she held forth to the world no doctrines ; she sought no converts. On the contrary, she never went to church ; she had no intercourse with ministers of religion ; and was almost wholly without religious literature. Indeed, she is de scribed as extremely ignorant on religious subjects, though her character was that of a shrewd calculating woman. So far from being a headstrong enthusiast, she never broached her peculiar notions except in confidential talk, and if any one attempted to dispute with her, she simply dropped the subject. She led a most regular life ; took regularly an early dinner ; an equally regular drive ; her afternoon sleep ; her game at whist in the evening; and then went early to bed. There have, no doubt, bean religious enthusimts who have proved themselves eminently capable of man aging their sublunary affairs, but Mrs. THWAYTEB was no religious enthusiast. Yet if this lady was so extravagant in her views as to the next world, how did she conduct herself in matters which concern the present ? Here was a woman who, during 32 years, was in possession of an enormous property. How did she manage that property ? For it m a; be admitted that, if during so long a time she conducted herself with propriety and prudence, discharged all her ordinary duties, and exhibited neither excess nor extravagance, she could scarcely have been afflicted with mental disease. This question opens perhaps the most mysterious difficulty in the case. When Mr. TewerrEs died in 1834, be left his wife a fortune of half a million. Now, it was distinctly proved to the Court that a sum not exceeding 3,0001. must have covered all her annual expenses. A certain amount of her income is accounted for by the 2,0001. a year she gave to Dr. SMITH, and the 400/. a year to his brother, and by other known items. But, as Sir JAMES WILDE asked, "What became of the " rest? On what objects was it bestowed?" No explanation on this point was furnished. It was established beyond doubt that at her death Mrs. THWAYTES did not leave a six pence more than she had received thirty-two years before from her husband. The only persons who could throw any light on this interesting subject were Dr. SMITH and his brother. But the in formation «hich they vouchsafed, and 'the books which they produced, were not so explicit ishalght have been desired. On the other hand, the ab sence of such evidence, and the impossibility of accounting for the fact that the capital had not increased, furnish conclusive proof that Mrs. TawsrrEs was either ludicrously extravagant or had been judiciously and periodically drained of her fortune by some means which remain as yet undiscovered. The diffi culty of ascertaining the real history of Mrs. Tnwsvres was greatly aggravated by other circumstances. The only persons to whom she revealed herself were those of her own house hold. These persons were not numerous, but, singularly enough, almost every one of them was entered in the will as legatee for large sums— some for 5,000/., some for 15,0001.—50 that it became their interest to tell no more than was ab solutely required of them. " A recollection to "be exerted in destruction of its own into " rests must be vigorous indeed if it go the " full length of the truth." No doubt the effect of these dispositions in the will was to close the mouths of those who could throw most light on the character of Mrs. THWATTES ; but it has not availed. The will has been pronounced invalid, and the relative, of the crazy old lady will now enjoy the property of which no attempt should ever have been made to deprive them. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) A iLS.. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1867. PARLIAbitiTARY • HOUBB - OF COMMONS, Atone? T. UNIFORMITY ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Order for third reading read ; motion made and question proposed, "That the bill be now read the third time." Amendment proposed to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day three months."—(Mr. Bentinck.) question put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes, 34 ; noes, 41. Adair, H. E. Edwards, H. Mill, J. & Adam, W. P. Fawcett, H. Mitchell, A. Ayrton, A. S. Dude, Salt. Neste, C. Baines, Z Glyn, G. G. Norwood, C. M. Barley, T. Goidamid, Sir F. o•Loghkei, Sir C. Buller, Sir A. Goschen, G. J. Potter, Z. Butler, C. S. Gray, Sir J. Smith, J. A. Cluidlish, J. HedSeld, G. Stacpoole, W. Cardwell, E. Hay, Lord J. Taylor, P. A. Chambers, T. Jackson, W. Cowen, J. Knatchbull . Huge& PM.LIBS. Dixon, G. sec, K. Bouverle, E. P. Dodson, J. G. Labouchere, H. White, J. NOES. Adderley, C. B. Hardy, G. Northoote, Sir S. Barrow, W. H. Meathcote, Sir W. Parker, Major W. Beach, Shill. Henley, J. W. Powell, F. & Brett, W. B. Ileeketh, Sir T. G. Read, C. 8. Bridges, Sir B. Howes. E. Schreiber, C. Bruce, Sir H. Hunt, O. W. Sclater.Booth, G. Chatterton. H. L Yentas, Sir J. Selwyn, 8l C.J. corrance. Y. S. Kendall, N. Stopford, S. O. Cot. W. T. Knox, Col. S. Stuart, Lent.-Coll Cubitt, G. n, W. G. Walpole, 8. 11. (Amadei., R. lA iLa =y, Col. C. Whitmore, H. Egerton, A. 7. Lowther, J. Goldney, 0, Montgomery, Sir G. TILLIRS. Gorit, J E. Newdegste, C. N. Bentlock, C. Greene, E. Noel, G. J. Bereeford•liope,A. J FARM AMENTARY DEPOSITS OF RAILWAY& REPORT OF A BELE(Y COMMITTEE. The select committee appointed to join with the 'elect committee appointed by the House of Lords to con sider the act 9 and 10 Viet., c. 20, and the standing orders of both homes In relation to parliamentai! deposits, and the completion of railways within a prescribed time, end to report what alterations it is expedient to make therein for the present and for the ensuing session, have made further progress in the matters to them referred, and have agreed to the following second report : " The committee recommend that the following stand ing orders should be adopted by both houses : " In every railway bill, whereby the construction of any new line of railway is authorised, or the time for complet ing any line already authorised is extended, promoted by an existing railway company which is possessed of a rail. way already opened for public traffic, and which has, dur ing the year last past, paid dividends on its ordinary share capital, and which does not propose to raise under the bill a capital greater than its existing authorised capital, there shall be inserted a clause to the following effect, viz. : " (A.) If the company fail within the period limited by this act to complete the railway authorised to be made by this act, the company shall be liable to a penalty of fifty pounds a day for every day after the expiration of the period so ,limited until the said railway is completed and opened for public traffic, or until the sum received in respect of such penalty shall amount to five per cent. on the estimated cost of the works ; and the said penalty may be applied for by any landowner or other person to be com pensated in accordance with the provisions of the next fol lowing section of this act, and in the same manner as the penalty provided in the 3rd section of the act 17 and 18 Vic., c. 31, known as "The Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854," and every sum of t money recovered by way of such penalty as aforesaid shall be paid under the warrant or order of such court or judge as is specified in the said 3rd section of the act 17 and 18 Viet. c. 31, to an account opened or to be opened in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery in England (the Queen's Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, or the Accountant- General of the Court of Chancery in Ireland—according as the railway is situate in England, Scotland, or Ire land), in the bank named in such order, and shall not be paid thereout except as hereinafter provided ; but no penalty shall accrue in respect of any time during which it shall appear, by a certificate to be obtained from the the Board of Trade, that the company was prevented from completing or opening such line by unforeseen acci dent or circumstances - beyond their control ; provided that the want of su ffi cient funds shall not be held to be a cir cumstance beyond their control. "In every railway bill whereby the construction of any new line is authorised, or the time for completing any line already authorised is extended ; if such bill be promoted by an existing railway company which is not p o ssessed of , a railway already opened for public traffic, or w - chi h has not I tithing the year last past paid dividends on its ordinary share capital ; or by en existing railway company when I the capital to be raised under the bill is greeter than the I existing authorised capital of the company, or by persons I not already incorporated, there shall be inserted a clause .to the following e ff ect, : " (R.) Whereas, pursuant to the standing order' of both houses of parliament, and to an act of the 9th and 111th years of her present Majesty, c. 20, a sum of £ being 5 per cent , upon the amount of the estimate in re spect oft he railway authorised by this act, has bees de posited with the Court of Chanel in England (or with the Court of Exchequer in Scotian er the Court of Chan cery in Ireland, as the case may be , (or Exchequer bills, stocks, or funds to the amount of £ , have been deposited or transferred pursuant to the said act, as the case may be), in respect of the application to parliament for this ace : be it enacted that, notwith standing anything contained in the said recited act, the said sum of £ (or the said Exchequer bills, or other funds as the case may be) so deposited (or transferred) as aforesaid, in respect of the application for this act, shall not be paid or transferred to or on the application of the person or persons or the majority of the persons named in the warrant or order issued in pursuance of the said set, or the survivors or survivor of them, unless the said corn pant shall, previously to the expiration of the period limited by this act for completion of the railway hereby authorised to be made, either open the said railway for the public conveyance of passengers, or prove to the satis faction of the Lords of the Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations that the said company have paid up one-half of the amount of the capital by this act authorised to be raised by means of shares, and have expended for the pur poses of this act a sum equal in amount to such one-half of the said capital ; and if the said period shall expire be fore the said company shall either have opened the said railway for the public conveyance of passengers, or have gi +en such proof as aforesaid to the satisfaction of the Lords of the said committee, the said sum of money (Ex chequer bills, stocks, or funds) depoeited (or transferred) as aforesaid , shall be applied in the manner hereinafter specified • and the certificate of the Lords of the said com mittee th at such proof has been given to their satisfac tion as aforesaid, shall be sufficient evidence of the fact so certified ; and it shall not be necessary to produce any certificate of this act having passed, anthing in the said recited act to the contrary notwithstan ding. " In every railway bill whereby the construction of any new line of railway is authorised, or the time for com pleting any line already authorised is extended, the follow ing clauses shall be inserted, in the order in which they are here placed, immediately after that one of the two last preceding clauses which shall have been inserted in the bill • viz.: "t.) The said sum of money (Exchequer bills, stocks, or fun ) deposited (or transferred), as aforesaid (or, every sum of money so recovered by way of penalty, as afore said) shall be applicable, and, after due notice in the London Gazette (or Edinburgh or Dublin Gazette, as the case may require), shall be applied towards compensating any landowners or other persona whose property may have been interfered with, or otherwise rendered lees valuable, by the commencement, construction, or abandon ment of the said railway, or any portion thereof, or who may have been subjected to injury or loss in consequence of the compulsory powers of taking property conferred upon the company by this act and for which injury or loss no compensation or ina dequate compensation shall have been paid, and shall be distributed in satisfaction of such compensation as aforesaid, in such manner and in such proportions as to the Court of Chancery in England (or Court of Exchequer in Scotland, or Court of Chancery in Ireland, as the case may be) may seem fit : and if no such compensation shall be payable, or if a por tion of the said sum of money (Exchequer bills, stocks, or funds) (or of the sum or sums of money so recovered by way of penalty as aforesaid) shall have been found suffi cient to satisfy all just claims in respect of such compen sation, then the said sum of money (Exchequer bills, stock', or funds) (or the said sum or sums of money re covered by way of penalty) or such portion thereof asmay not be required as aforesaid, shall be paid (or transferred) to or on the application of the person or persons, or the majority of the persons named in such warrant or 'order as aforesaid, or the survivor or survivors of them (or the company from whom such penalty was recovered) : Provided that until the said sum of money (Exchequer bills, stocks, or funds) shall have been repaid to the depositors, or shall have become otherwise applicable as hereinbefore mentioned, any interest or dividends accruing thereon shall from time to time, and as often as the same shall become payable, be paid to or on the appli cation of the person or persons or the majority of the persons named in such warrant or order as aforesaid, or the survivors or survivor of them. - 14:is.LIIiheciLieleitered(i) is inserted in the bill, the proviso at the end of the obtuse lettered (C) shall be omitted. " (D.) If the railway authorised by this act shall not be completed within the period limited by this act (such period not to exceed live yeah in the case of a new line, and three years in the case of the extension of time for completing any line), then, on the expiration of such period, the powers by this act granted to the company for making and completing the said railway, or otherwise in relation thereto, shall oease to be exercised, except as to so much thereof as shall then be completed. " In any railway bill to which the preceding provisions are not applicable, the committee on the bill shall make such other provision as they shall deem necessary for en suring the completion of the line of railway." The British Medical Association yesterday elected Dr. Acland, of Oxford, president for the wining year. Oxford was also appointed the place of meeting for 1868. St. Bartholomew's Hospital was founded in 1123, by Rayhere, minstrel of Henry I. Henry VIII. refounded the hospital by myal charter in 1544. At that time 100 beds were made up, and its medical staff con gated of a physician and three surgeons. In 1866 the hoe pital afforied relief to 5,070 in•patients, 19,188 out-patients, and 100,000 casualties, and 1,200 women were attended in their confinements in their own homes. Harvey, the discoverer of the circul►tion of the blood, was appointed physician to this hospital in 1609, and held the office 34 years. The Dublin Exhibition Palace, which was esta blished under very encouraging auspices, has proved an unfortunate speculation. A meeting of the shareholders, at which Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, M.P., presided, was held on Monday, to consider the alternative of raising • further sum of between 30,0001. or 40,0001. to pay off the liabilities of the company, or having it wound up. A strong feeling against miming the latter course was ex pressed, and • committee was appointed to confer with the directors, and report to a meeting to be held in September whether it is possible to retain the building. the eaurt. OSBORNE, Aucnler 7. This Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Primer Beatrice, and the Princess of Leiningen, drove out yesterday afternoon. Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold walked out. The Prince of Wake, attended by Captain Ellie, arrived in the evening on a visit to her Majesty. A committee of the Lord' of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President, Lord Robert Mon tagu, and the Right Hon. Wilson Patten. A deputation on the subject of Scotch education, con eisting of Dr. Knox, Mr. John Msotark, and Mr. Henry Sinclair, had an interview with Lord Robert Montagu at the Privy Council-office yesterday. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Sandford (president of the Pharmaceutical Society), Mr, Morson, Mr. More, and Mr. Darby (London), Mr. Evans (Liverpool), and Mr. Brady (Newcastle), had an interview with the Duke of Richmond and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday, on the subject of the Merchant Shipping Bill. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the Mauritius. The Marquis of Exeter (the captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen.at-Arms), the Earl of Tankerville (Lord Steward of the Queen's Household), the Earl of Shrews bury and Talbot, and the Earl of Longford, dined with the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms at their mew, in St. James's Palace, last evening. THE QuEstets HIGHLAND VISIT.—The Orathie correspondent of the Edinburgh Courant writes that it is now definitely settled, according to present arrangements, that her Majesty the Queen and court will arrive at Balmoral Castle for the autumn sojourn on Saturday, the 24th August. The EXPECTED VISIT OP THE PRINCE OF WALES To InizairD.—We regret to learn that the expectation of the public that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales would visit Ireland during the present month, and be pre sent at the Royal Agricultural Society's show, is not to be fulfilled. An official communication, received in town on Tuesday, states that it is not his royal highness's in tention to visit Ireland this summer.—Dub is Express. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as Held Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee yester d►y afternoon at the HMO Guards. The attendance was rather numerous, upwards of 150 ofiken being present. The Duke of Devonshire has left Devonshire House, Piccadilly, for Holkar Hall, near Xibiethorpe. The Earl of Clarendon has gone to Wiesbaden. The counter and Lady Emily Villiers are at The Grove, near Watford. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney left town yes terday on a visit to Lord and Lady Ebury, at Moor Park, Itickmansworth, Herta. LETTER FROM THE EMPRESS CRA ON TILE MEXICAN CLERGY. The following letter from the Empress Charlotte, dated January, ma, appears in a pamphlet just published by M. Aymot, Paris, under the title of "The Relations of the Court of Rome with the Mexican Government : " " Your excellent letter, I repeat, has afforded me double pleasure, for it is at once a proof of your souvenir and of the friendship which does not cease to unite us. To speak frankly, we have need of them just now, for the situation is far from being bright. Ido not know if you are aware that the Pope, who has a sprightly disposition, often says of himself that he is a jettatort. It is certain, however, that ever since hie envoy set foot on our land we have only experienced bitter =unifications, and we are in ex pectation of others not lees numerous in future. Energy and perseverance I believe we have ; but I ask myself, if dalecritics of this kind continue, whether it will be possible to overcome them. This is, in truth, the actual state of things. The clergy, mortally offended by the letter of December 27, is not to be easily overcome. All the old abases combine to evade the orders of the Emperor re garding them. In this. perhaps, there is no fana ticism, but there is in it such steady and manceuvring tenacity that I believe it impossible for the persons who now compose the body of the clergy to adopt any other system. The question is what is to be done with them. When Napoleon I. obtained from the Pope the dismissal of the emigrant bishops they were living abroad, and as they were holy persons they were resigned. Those whom we have here would readily leave their sees but not their revenues. A salary from the state would not be an equivalent, and their Ideal is to live in Europe in the poseeesion of money whilst we are struggling her e to establish the position of the church. There is to be • revi sion of the church property sold—a second apple of discord 1 1 —for in consequence of acknowledging the reformed laws , we have brought the conservatives upon us. Now we are going to have upon our shoulders the liberals and the allottees. As there can be but one weight and one measure for all, those who have been guilty of illegal operations must give up their gains, and I am afraid that this work of reparation and of justice will excite as much passion as the loss of their pro perty did in regard to the clergy. In the midst of all this Oajaca is not yet taken, and this troubles the public mind. If unhappily anything should go wroug there, the shell would burst in several places. During the last month we have been passing through • very sharp crisis. If we pass through it successfully the future of the Mexican Empire may be brilliant ; if not, I do not know what we must expect from it. During the first air months every body considered the government perfect ; touch anything, put your hand to any work, and you were cursed. It is Nothing that will not have itself dethroned. Perhaps you would believe with me that Nothing is a manageable substance, because it is nothing; on the contrary, you come against it at every step in this country,l and it is of more solid granite than almost ►ll the forces of the human mind. The pyramids of Egypt would be less difficult to raise than the Mexican Nothing to be overcome. However, everything here would be of secondary importance were it not for the main fact that the army is diminishing and with it the material force of the government. lam ever afraid that we are grasping the shadow for the substance. No doubt the Corps Legislatif in France will speak out, but that will he nothing more or less than sounding speeches. Here, however,- it is facts which can compromise the success of the work which France has founded, and which is destined to bear the name of Napoleon 111. to future generations. It is very well to say, as is said in the English parliament, ' Mexico is really in such good order that it does not need any help,' but for my part I prefer keeping to r ealities. In order to civilise this country it is necessary to be completely master of it, and in order to get elbow-room it is necessary constantly to rea lise its strength in great battalions. This is an argument which is not disputed. All strength which cannot be reathied, such as prestige, skill, popularity, enthusiasm, has only a conventional value ; these are resources which rise and fell—troops are indispensable. Austrians and Bel gians are very good in times of calm, but let tempest come and they are only red trousers. If I may tell you all my thoughts, I believe it will be very difficult for us to pass through all the first vital crises if the country be not more occupied than it is. Everything is much scattered ; and it seems to me that instead of recalling anything, it is, perhaps, essential to augment. I fear very much that the Marshal repents; of not having written in the month of October what we asked him to write. He has dreaded the discontent in France, and has, I believe, exchanged a little unpleassatneu for a great one. This is not my opinion only ; if it were, I could not venture to give it with so much assurance ; it is that of —, and also of —, who are both competent judges. They say that they are not reassured, not so much on our account as on account of the army ; for we can bear a check— nobody would be surprised at th►t—but the French army could not. We can, if need be, retire like Juarez into • distant province ; we can go back to where we came from ; but France must triumph, first, because she is France, and next because her honour is engaged." The annual show of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society commenced yesterday, at Think, and though the number of entries is not so great as last year, when the show was held at York under special circumstances, the present meeting seems likely to be in every respect a Deo. cesaful one. MR. BRIGHT'S SPEECH AT MANCHESTER. The Times attributes Mr. Bright's opposition to the representation of minorities, to his inability, despite the fact that he is the vested of our orators, to grasp the essential idea of a representative assembly. In discussing the aim of Lord Cairns' amendment, Mr. Blight is like a man who is colour-blind talking about colours. Con sidering the liberals who have voted for it, it is not consistent with the rough honesty of his nature to declare the proposition comes from a very suspicions quarter. As to his objection that only twelve consti- tuencies are to be taken for the experiment, this is not due to its friends. With his remarks on voting papers the Times entirely concurs, and trusts the House of Commons will jealously guard against all danger of interference with the spontaneous action of voters, and adhere to its first decision. The Daily Neves urges that the power of minorities is in excess in England already. The checks, restraints, and balances of our system need to be diminished rather than multiplied. Mr. Bright's vigorous speech disposes very satisfactorily of the scheme of Lord Cairns, but, unfortu nately, after his too frequent custom, he did the best to ' weaken the force of his arguments by violent language. It is ridiculous, as well as insolent, to speak of the opinions of Mr. Hare and Mr. Mill as the " offspring and 'pea 4 of feeble minds ;" and to hold up men like Mr. Fawcett and Mr. Hughes as undeserving of the confidence of any true friends of reform and of freedom. Justice revolts against this language, and the reaction will, the Laity News fears, profit the cause which Mr. Bright assails. Those gentlemen have, nevertheless, made a serious pray tic►l blunder. They and the other democratic supporters of the representation of minorities in three-cornered con stituencies fancy that, once introduced, it will become general. They underrate the power of resistance in Eng lish polities, and the dread of logic and uniformity which animates the English mind. The limited vote, once adopted in a few large towns, will acquire soon the sanctity of an anomaly, and it will be equally difficult to extend or abolish it. To the Post Mr. Bright really appears to be answering the appeal which was lately put to him to make himself the present champion of the constitution against its ancient defenders, and it is to be hoped and expected that the bill will very shortly be relieved from the two vicious and mischievous additions which alone remain to show that it has passed through the House of Lords. The Herald and Standard vehemently oppose the course taken by the government, and especially Mr. Disraeli, with regard to the representation of minorities, and use lan guage towards Mr. Bright with which their readers last session had become very familiar. He is called to-day "a foul-mouthed agitator," "a self-convicted libeller," "the implacable enemy of reform," and his arguments are charietet:aed " idiotic tot ge, . The TelegrapA expects Mr. Diane li to recommeTt4 the adoption of the amended oopyhold franchise; but, on the clause referring to voting papers, it hardly imagines the Cabinet will endorse with vigour the action of the peers. Lord Cairns slid big clause through In the unlucky inter val when the Premier lay sick; and Mr. Disraeli would crown all his bonoun by asking the Peen to " see it in a new light," as they so sucendully saw the lodger franchise. Mr. Bright's speech, according to the Star, may be taken as a fair exposition of what the robust, common-sense, and healthy patriotism of England think of the proposal to force what is called the representation of minorities upon • few of the great constituencies of the country. Mr. Bright's language was pretty strong ; but it is difficult to measure language when dealing with so impudent • pro. posa I as that which Lord Cairns succeeded in carrying through the House of Lords. BIZ W. MANSFIELD AND CAPTAIN JERVIS. The Times expresses its belief that the minority In the Hones of Commons on Tuesdaynight were in the right, and that whatever indiscretion or impropriety Capt. Jervis may have committed, justice requires that the extreme pa nalty of dismissal from the service should not be enforced. We at home, who now know more of the truth of the matter than even the court-martial did, can see how that tribunal decided rightly. Why, then, should we allow its judgment to be set aside by the man whom everyone now admits to have acted with the utmost intemperance and unfairness? Are all military controversies to be decided on the principle that, whatever the rights of the question, the inferior must always be sacrificed as a tribute to discipline? If so, let the doctrine be boldly enounced; if not—if justice and mercy are to have any part in military affairs, this unfortunate officer, who has already suffered so much, may be well allowed to return to his regiment. It is undeniable, the Post says, that Captain Jervis no longer holds her Majesty's commiarion because the com mander of the forces in India believed him guilty of an offence of which he had, by a duly constituted court, been adjudged innocent. This is the real hardship of Captain Jervis's case ; and, whilst thinking that on the whole the House of Commons may have exercised a sound discretion in refusing to interfere, the Post cannot help regretting that his royal highness the commander-in-chief did not think fit to overrule Sir W. Mansfield's rejection of the merciful suggestion of the Simla court-martial. TRANCE AND itaratA. It seems to the nays that, whatever the probabilities of a war may be, they will hardly be enhanced by the pro jected meeting of the two Emperors at Salzburg. It is hardly to be presumed that the French monarch would choose the moment in which the consequences of his Mexi- can scheme are so awfully arrayed against him to ley new platys of a hardly less desperate nature before the very man on whom the failure of that recent scheme has inflicted such irreparable loss. If Francs would not move a finger for Austria or Denmark when they were up and doing, is It rational to suppose that she will either take up their canoe or set great store by their alliance now that they lie proetrate There is no doubt, moreover, that France will in this quarrel either have to fight alone or not fight at ►ll. Henceforth the ambition of Austria will have a homeward or at the utmost an eastward tendency. Whether France be satisfied or not, Austria and Italy are content, and on a first declaration of hostilities would probably proclaim their neutrality. Of this the Emperor Napoleon, if he could have any doubt of it, may easily satisfy himself by reading the opinion of the Austrian and Italian press long before he starts for the interview at Salzburg. The " stone fleet " sunk in Charleston harbour during the war does not appear to have done any perma nent injury. An English vessel, drawing 18j feet, has entered the port, loaded with railroad iron. The deepest laden vessel that bad previously entered drew but 17 feet. PROFESSOR THOMPSON AND THE FENIANS. This morning was published the correspondence between the Irish government, the President of the Queen's College, Galway, and Professor D'Arcy Thomp son, Greek Professor of the Queen's College, in reference to the publication of two letters by the latter gentleman, one in the Daily News and the other in the Scotsman, urging the remittance of the capital sentence in the cane of the Fenian', and denouncing the Irish landlords and middlemen as the cause of the rebellion. " Until the former," he said in the letter to the Scotsman, " maul of themselves or be forced to mend, and until the latter are pretty well exterminated, Ireland will be a trouble and disgrace to England." On the 15th of May Sir Thomas Larcombe, at the direction of the Lords Justices, trans mitted these letters to the President of the College, re questing him to call upon Mr. Thompson to state whether he acknowledged the authorship. On the 11th, the following day, Professor Thompson wrote to say the letters were his " The one addressed to the Scotsman," he says, " was written almost immediately after my perusal of the conviction of the two prisoners when I was under very strong mental and nervous excitement. Had I to re-write it, I should still advocate clemency, but certainly in terms more moderate. With the general tone of the letter in the Daily New I am not disposed to disagree." The next letter that appears is a note from Mr. Thompson, written eleven days afterwards, asking the President if he has heard anything of what the government were likely to do. The President replied that he had not yet received any communication from the government; but he (the President) could not let the opportunity pass w:thout expressing to Mr. Thompson the surprise of the entire collegiate body that he had not ere this endeavoured to free himself from the charge of en deavouring in some degree to justify or palliate • move ment, the avowed object of which was to over turn the throne under which he held his office. The following day Mr. Thompson wrote a letter acknowledging that be had committed a very grave aca demical offence in affixing his professional title to the letters referred to, and which was an error of pure thoughtlessness. The letters themselves now appeared to him to contain overch►rged rhetorical expression', and he was " appalled to think " that some portions of them, which he owned to be extravagant and undignified, should have been for a moment discussed as earnestly meant- His dispassionate belief was that the Irish landlord was as much the creature of circumstance as the tenant, and that there was no question between them which could not be settled by constitutional legislation. He abhorred violent interference with law and would shoot down a rebel in arms without the slightest compunction. He detested rebellion, but did not of ne cessity detest a rebel. A week after receiving this, the President of the College wrote to the under-secretary at Dublin, transmitting the letters referred to, and express ing a hope on the part of himself and the entire collegiate body that Mr. Thompson having repudiated the obnoxious sentiments which parte of his letters might seem to imply, the government would not consider it necess►ry to deprive the college of a man " whose rare attainments as a scholar, whose indefatigable industry as a teacher, and whose conduct as • gentleman have rendered his mei vices so valuable." Rather more than • month subsequently, viz., on the 11th of July, Lord Nam wrote as follows to the President of the College: " Irish Office, July 11,1867. " Sir,—l am directed by the Lords' Justices to acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th ultimo, and to inform you that their excellencies have carefully consi dered that letter, and the one from Professor Thompson, which you enclosed. Their excellencies are glad to find that Professor Thompson disclaims the obnoxious senti ments expressed in his previous letters, that he has de clared his abhorrenoe of Fenianism, has avowed that he is actuated by no other feelings than those of loyalty and de votion to his Sovereign, and has expressed his regret and sorrow for h►ving, under the pressure of intense excite ment, broached opinions which he now acknowledges to be quite unjustifiable. Their excellencies are willing to believe that Mr. Thompson's letters were not published from a desire to stimulate disaffection or sow dissension between different classes of her Majesty's subjects, but are to be attributed to a nervous temperamentand over-heated imagination. They are, therefore, disposed to take a mer ' ciful view of his errors, and to accede to your recommend ation that no further steps should be taken to mark their disapprobation of his conduct. They are the more disposed to adopt this lenient course, because they anticipate that the disavowal, and retractationa contained in his letter of the 30th May last will probably counteract and neutralise any mischief likely to be produced by his previous letters. —I am, Ste., (Signed) " NAAS. " The President, Queen's College, Galway." Mr. Rearden, on Friday, will move " that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to grant an amnesty to the political prisoners in Ireland, England, and Canada, as the revolt of the Belgians in 1830 against the legitimate author rity of the King of Holland (through which her Majesty's late uncle was constituted King of the Belgians), and the rebellion of Gener►l Garibaldi and his confederates in Italy and Naples, and that of the Southern States of America against the Union, were encouraged and aided in this country, thereby affording a temptation to that portion of the inhabitants of Ireland, and the Irish emigrants in Canada and the United States, who are discontented with British rule in Ireland, to follow their example ; and to pray that, in consideration of such extenuating circum• stances, her Majesty will be pleased to extend her most gracious pardon to all persons now in prison in the United Kingdom and the colonies for political offences." Reports from the island of St. Thomas state that the United States is still negotiating for its transfer to them for a naval station, and the impression prevails there that they will succeed in getting it. One of the most magnificent buildings of imperial Paris, the new opera-house in the boulevard facing the Rue de la Pain, is now very nearly completed externally. It was to have been presented to the public daring the height of the Exhibition period, but the completion of the entered ornamentations took longer to execute than was anticipated. Some 300 of the most dexterous carvers in stone have been employed, and have now very nearly finished their work. Within a few days the scaffolding and hoarding which still screen the building will be removed, and pro bably the most superb temple of Apollo ever built in any city, ancient or modern, will be seen by the cosmopolitan population of Paris. - A public meeting of 2,000 persons took place three days back in the theatre at Treviso, when motions declaring Rome to be the capital of Italy, and approving of the bill on ecclesiastical property, voted by the Chamber of Deputies, were carried by large majorities. The s p ea k ers showed great moderation, and the business passed off in good order, terminating by loud cheers for the Bing and for Garibaldi. The Russian government has ordered the esn straction at Kertch of important fortifications, the earth works alone of which will cost 1,728,000 fr. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ruzaaiuse.) FRANCE. PASTS, &DOM ✓4 The Constitutionnel of this morning denies current report that preparations are being made tor fêtes at Salzburg, and says :—" The proposed visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French to the Emperor Francis Joseph is an act of affectionate courtesy and private sympathy. As such it is viewed by both sovereigns, and as such will be interpreted by all serious minds.• HUNGARY AND AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Amer 8. The deputation elected by the Hungarian Diet and the Austrian Reicharath met to-day to com mence deliberations upon the final settlement of affairs common to Hungary and Austria. The public will be excluded from the sittings while the debates are being carried on. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, ArcrsT S. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce will shortly leave on s tour of inspection through Schleswig-Holstein, probably first visiting some of the Western Islands belonging to these duchies. ITALY. FLORENCE, Atourr 8. The Italia announces that Baron de Malaret, the French Minister at this court, is about to leave Florence, and will probably not return. Cavalier di Nigra, however, will continue to represent Italy at the court of the Tuileries. He returns to Paris shortly. THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CON VENTION. PARIS, Acct.'s.? S. The Greek and Roman governments have offici ally notified their adhesion to the International Monetary Convention. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Atom 8. The National Steam Navigation Company's steamship Virginia, from New York, arrived off Queenstown at midnight with 323,000 dollars in specie. She landed paamengers, and proceeded for Liverpool. (sr ATLANTIO NEW YORK, Accosv 7, 6 P.a. Week receipts of cotton at United States ports, 6,000 bales. The National Steam Navigation Company. steamer Queen, and the Allen steamer St. George, arrived out to-day. Closing prices :—Gold, 1401. Sterling exchange on London, 104. 5-20 United States Bonds, 113/. Illinois, 119 ; Erie, 714. Cotton : Middling Up land, 28i. . _ PHILADELPHIA, Aocum 7. Standard white petroleum, 29. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (111011 OUR OWN COI PARIS, WEDNVIDAY EVENING. The Emperor goes to the Chalons Camp to. morrow. The Empress will join him there on the 14th, and one of the reports of the evening is that on the 16th their Majesties will leave the camp for Salzburg. The Patrie, however, says that the day for the arrival at Salzburg is " not yet fixed." Can it be possible that the visit itself is yet problematical L The Liberte goes so far as to say that the Emperor and Empress of Austria are expected to accompany Napoleon 111. and the Empress Euenie on their return to Paris about the 21st. I look upon this as very conjectural news indeed. The Emperor Napoleon is duo at Lille on the 23rd, and it is not ad missible that he would leave Paris when such distinguished guests were at the Tuileries. More over, the Patric of last night contained a repetition of that singular paragraph, couched in the "take notice" tone of a parish clerk, which excited ►tten tion in the Constitufionne/ a few days ago, and stating that if the Emperor of Austria was coming here soon it must be before the Ist of September, because on that day the court would leave for Biarritz. It it plain that the host of the Tuileries wants to count the Emperor of Austria among his guests ; but it is equally plain that he does not know when he is coming, nor even whether he will come at all. • " The King of Sweden, who was to have gone with the Emperor to the Chhlona Camp, has excused himself en the ground of indisposition, and will leave Paris on Monday for the Hague. He has given up the project spoken of when he was at Vichy of a trip to Pau. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde have left Paris for the Pyrenees. One of the programmes of the Emperor's where abouts for the month state that he has promised to be at Nancy on the 25th. The Bourse was very firm and more active than for some time past. Rents rose 25c. for cash and 12ic. for account, closing at 69fr. 4.5 c. and 691 r. 3i 4c. Italian rose 10c.; Mobilier, 71r. 50c. ; and Credit Fonder. 2fr. 50c. King Victor Emmanuel, with the object of en couraging the breed of horses in Italy, has founded a prize of 40,000 fr., to be run for in 1871 at Florence. For the races of next year his Majesty has given a prize of 15,0infr. The King's horses may run, but in the event of one of them winning the stakes will be given to the second. THE MUSICAL FESTIVALS or 1867.—The pr. vincial musical festivals which are held in the native. of the year are now close at hand. The meetings this year wall loth be held in the present month— , Festival of the Three Choirs (144th annual fe.tivan, st Hereford, on the week commencing August PA and the Birmingham Musical Festival on the following week. AS the Hereford meeting the principals engaged are Madame Lind-Goldschmidt, Miss Edith Wynne, Mlle. Tietjenes Miss Julia Elton, Madame Patey-Whytock, Mr. Sum Reeves, Mr. Montem Smith Mr. Saab y, and Mr. Weiss. The oratorios (to be performed at the cathelrill on the four mornings are Handers Israel in and Messiah, and Mendelssohn's SU,MA. The other mend pieces are Mozart's Requiem, Spohr's 84th Psalm, st anthem by Dr. Wesley, " Ascribe unto the Lunl... sad a sacred pastoral, Ruth, by Otto Gol.b.climidt. The evening concerts (four) will be of a miscellaneous chi racier, but on the Wednesday evening Handers Aer,e 4 Galatea will be given. The novelty of the festival is of course Goldschmidt's Ruth, which has never yet been formed, and is now in active preparation. The pr nete'd reappearance of Madame Goldschmidt has mated quite • furore in the west midland counties, and the seat- ate rapidly filling for the Messiah and Ruth mornings. These festivals are held for the benefit of the charity for the relief of clergymen's widows and orphans of the diocese. of Hereford, Worcester, and Gloucester. The Birmingham festival is also a charitable undertaking, the Birmingham Hospital profiting thereby to a considerable extent. tg the Hereford principals, five viz. , Mille. Tictjens, M: done Patey-Whytock, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. smtley..n.l Mr. Weiss—are also engaged at Birmingham. with Madame Lemmens-Sherrington, Mille. Christine Nilsson. 11. dame Sainton-Dolby, and Mr. W. H. Cummings. Madame A re. belle Goddard is the solo pianist., and Costa awalucW. the baton at Hereford being wielded, according to Precvd e T i, by the cathedral organist, Mr. Townshend Smith. lu =lngham presents • great array of novelties—a sacred our tate, the ii mean of Samaria, bProfessor W. S. Bennett; the Ancient Mnriner by J. F. Emmett; a .tlrer S4f,nterret b Conned ; and Beaedlet's St. Cecilia, which is Dew la tie country ; the Messiah, Elijah, Alr.rawler's Mit Aida, AfaccuMnis, farad in Ear*, and it. Paid are qee down in the programme, the 'art-named oratorio snedge,_ up the festival on Friday evening. The present praert°' of both the festivals are very good. N o twithstanding the counter attractions in Paris, the demand fur tickets ke greater than was ever known at Hereford. 31 N The Loan M.Aeoi that . , them , be moved mast be i me the Deem LADOUCHI jog petition : (unibly she. vibe Ho• .ercioe and to their iv of it, For that cot necemary for as the time .) He addres • in turn, and the Lords' r to be a - alution and be kingdom ' the threat, elector to vote eifect,and te largest constituencies o ze resolution, he had no d I would present the petition, Mr. Alderman J. LAWRE su one of compromise, tuatisfactory and an is to renewed agitation, wtuicl kthe first to deprecate. (H Ire so politically educated tie franchise with prudena wpresentiog minorities was salorities. (Cheers.) A Mies would not show what the majority of the country minorities was against lice of the constitutii there would be a univen hear•) The practice of conduce to the independer to bribery, corruption, a (Chears.) He bad great I lotion. Mr. J. &Xis, foe resolution, expromed the p part in such a meeting. A great measure was placed it duty to add his humble throughout the country ag Rouse of Lords, and end carried into effect. (Cheer qualification, he voted forth restore the clause to the ate Rouse of Lords. As to the the first time the question a bill was carried autl in case of the two maven against it, and predicted the to extend the system. He Proposed became law a fui Posed. Nothing could be to be called upon to sign a he might not understand. (I that the elector. under au, tans aware of the fp merits of rival candid Ws* men might be in eases by over-persuasion the liberties of the country t he representation of minors ro many able and philose it He agreed in this ---(creat obeering)— who tutton. (Hear, hear.) He roe four members for the C them in their place in puller Three of them.") They I' *hen it was required. (eh , member declared his detern sf the meeting in the House The resolution was then p Br. R. W. CluirrOltD, M confound the principle of v icalot. The object ant to enable men to vote e abject and intent of voting) (hear, hear)—to bring an sew methods. As to the red abject of the bill was to enabl minority to return a men esnid be, if they were three representative' one of the minority. th eir Political distincti with the City were 111 t ' b lectionlible change. (Hes rras honoured by being spa regard to this matter, it b should vote for more than t P o ned the Reform Bill du believed it would work we effort to undo what had beef Mr. GOSICHEN, M.P., in served that no single confetti so little affected by the Heft 1 . EFORM MEET (TH: Th i s day a public ~,ion was held in the chair, for the purpos „bj e ct of reform, and pet . of copyhold and Is ~,,., the use of voting pap electors in theCityof n eutralising their rep one of their votes unit, minorities, and the n unty or borough rate in e ting was called by . e rously attended. An Crawford. MX, Mr. ; ,,, s key, M.P., Mr. J. Lo Mr. Alder= e re, M.P., Mr. G. I S. Waterlow, , C. Lawrence, Mr. .1 C. Reed, Mr. J. F. B r . J. Bennett, Mr. R. a ,chanison, Mr. J. Hor .oads, Mr. Thomas A , jog, Mr. S. Read, Mr. The LOW) MAYOR, in op ~ said that its object calling them together, , be moved must be pe Id see the necessity of .t[r. H. LADOUCHERE, M •elicwing petition "Humbly sheweth,-11 for the Representatia the House of Lords, to .sst your honourable hoe hr, Ist. The raising of from 5/. to 101., wl area of enfranchisemem t representation of prop oxu • Um. 2. Whates principle of polli arrangemerta propoem effect are calculated to .. exercise of undue influ .lions, and to aggrav talent, of making I „ ,u the real convictions c . • tion and dexterou 1,6 difference of opinion , ,resentation of mmoritis es to say that the mode b sot* effected by the mem opportunity for the practis or supposed advantages adequate compensation. under any circumstances 1 tie end proposed, while inch scope for ministerial sanity of election agen heel faction and for ostensible purpose of the E tie proposed mechanism 01 toners earnestly protest made at once the objects at ', eat, directed apparent] ,ent of the electors of the' ind calculated to neutralis ,ff their representatives. payment of the borough al the poor r►te, as the conditi restriction of it, irksome forcement, and imposed '.jections to which it is ith the preparation c isanoe and control the borough and coup mods of persons who usessment, rating, or col, the parochial authorities, t isrnsters. For these and renestly trust that it may t disagree to the amender Bill for the Represent& " And your petitioners w • was not neeesaary for hi ins, as the time for bar.) He addressed pots in turn, and con, t have the Lords' amendn lit was to be a satisfactor, third resolution more especi , and be thought of London and othe, of the kingdom to try sn e hlieved the three-cornered re of an elector to vote for most prejudicial effect,and unto.