The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-04 00:00:00

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Hooey: Mime Neilson, Augusta rhoionoo, sod IrR liiiellog.—And QUIET LODOLNUS. BRITANNIA. Evicirco, THE CHILDEILY.—Mbas I Latiaber_. . Mr. U. MAearthy ; The iAlous liArtLuettai.--And THE MUILNY AT Mt NOM. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIM& Mg DAT —Yarning, fib. 13 Atbernoon, *. 600. TO-NLOAbow—itornlus, 10b. Altarnaca. 111 LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. A raw weeks before the prorogation of Parlia ment, the House of Commons was engaged in a rather sharp and personal debate on the subject of the dealings of the late Governmen;; with the Irish University system. Ministers were charged with having evaded a solemn pledge to submit the entire matte; to the decision of the House of Commons, by secretly issuing a Supplementary Charter to fie Queen's University, which silently accomplished a considerable part of their compact with the Irish Catholic Bishops. Into the question of the bona fides of the Government and of the formal legitimacy of their procedure, it is not necessary tint we should now enter. The Senate of the Queen's University regard ing themselves less as the nominees and creatures of the Crowu than as the trustees of the institution committed to their charge, and of the principle embodied in it, declined to receive the charter thus thrust upon them. Imitating a well known parliamentary form, they deferred its con siderat;on until that day three months. In so doing they secured to the Legislature the oppor tunity, which the late Government promised and withheld, of fully considering the matter before any decisive action should be taken. For although the three months will expire before the commencement of the next session, it is not likely that in the interim a charter will be accepted which does not express the intentions of the present Executive, and which embodies a policy unsanctioned by Parliament. Still less is it probable that Lord DERBY and his colleagues, who can only protract their ministerial existence by consummate prudence and by defe rence to the House of Commons, will persist in the error of their predecessors. We may, there fore, we trust, consider that the question is rill open ; that the Government will approach its con sideration next session unpledged by any action taken during the recess, and that the House of Commons will be unemb-rraased by a doubtful ex ercise of the prerogative. The materials for a sound judgment are multi plying. The latest contribution to them is the very able Report which has just been published by the President of the Queen's College at Galway. This Report is inure interesting than satisfactory. For the first time during many years, the President has ,to acknowledge a decline in the number of students entering and attending the college. Hitherto the success of that college has been re markrble, considering the difficulties with which it has had to contend. While the population of Galway has gone on steadily diminishing, the number of student& had until the session just ended exhibited a considerable and constantly growing increase. "In the Year 1851, the popu " lation of the town of Galway amounted to " 23,787. In the same year the entrances " into the college were 23 ; the number atterd "in lectures, 63. In 1861, the population " of the town had diminished to 16,786, while " the college entrances had risen in that year "to 60, and the number attending lectures "to 144. Since that time the emigratior, " always increasing, fns continued to thin the " population of the town, which can hardly now "exceed from 12,000 to 13,000 persons." Not withstanding, the number of students entering the college in the session 1864-65 was 70, the num ber attending lectures was 169. Last session, however, saw a sudden turn in the tide. As com pared with the previous year, the entrances in 1865-66 fell off from 70 to 49 ; the attendances on lectures from 169 to 144. President BERWICK feels no difficulty in ac counting for the decline ; and his explanation, if not conclusive as proof, is at any rate weight/ as an opinion. He refers the diminution in the number of students to the threatened reversal by the late Administration of the educe tional policy hitherto pursued by every govern ment that has held office in Ireland for more than a generation past. The eneiries of mixed educa tion have been encouraged ; its friends have been dispirited ; and the prospect of obtaining a 11 versity degree without preliminary a mdemic train ing has aided to deter students from entering the College. Institutions cannot flout:sh while their character and their future are uncertain ; they cannot live a healthy life with a Damocles' sword suspended over them. It is natural that the Gal way College should be more sensitive than the sister institutions to any doubtful influences. Situated iu the declining capital of an impoverished and depopulated province it has its roots in a thinner and poorer soil than that which feeds the Colleges of Cork and Bel:as But these institu tions also have been prejutr.cially affected by the threatened sectarianizstion of the University on which they depend. In Cork the entrance' have diminished from 90 in 1864-5 to 77 during the last session; and in Belfast, with a trifling increase of 8 in the attendance, there has been a diminu tion of 17 in the entrances. These are sy .np toms which are surely worth noting. To provide the beat academic instruc tion for the greatest number of students was one objects of Parliament in establishing the Uaiveraity and Colleges. No one can • that an institution, like the Catholic Tensity, drawing its teachers from a single and, we may say, from a single in that Church, will be able to command • and ability such as are at the disposal I of the ol ( p Queen's I pretend Umverei Church, party ii learning *4l, THE EXPRESS, of Colleges whose choice of Professors is unre stricted by dogmatic considerations. It is not the fault of the Irish Catholics, it is the necessary consequence of their social position, and of English .nestle, that the highest scholarship and cultiva tion are rare among them. If the rising gene ration is to be taught by the compara tively untaught, the time of their elevation to their proper intellectual position will be delayed. But this is not all. Assuming President BERWICK to be correct in his inter pretation of the discouraging facts which he recites, a diminution of the quantity, as well as of the quality, of education in Ireland will be the consequence of the recognition by the Govern ment of the sectarian principle, and of the attempt to graft it upon the Queen's University. It may effect, not a transfer of students from an open to a denominational institution, but a decrease of the number of students receiving academic educa tion of any kind in Ireland. A course of conduct which seems fraught with so many and such grave consequences, should at least not be rashly entered upon, nor obstinately persisted in. Mr. GLAD sToNE, it is true, maintains that the policy an nounced and partially carried out by the late Co vernment is an essential corollary from the prin ciples of civil and religious liberty. Though lie knows that many sincere Liberals differ from him on this point, he is at a loss, he says, to under stand how they can differ from him. If civil or religious liberty were really at stake, we should not care to press the argument from consequences. Our love of justice is, we trust, stronger than our distrust of Ultramontanism. But we require some thing more conclusive on an issue of this kind than Mr. GLanwross's assertion. On matters academical, he has yet to earn the confidence which the Liberal party concedes to nas a finarcier and a Parliamentrry reformer. Recoi l. zting his votes and speeches on questions affect ing the English Universities, we cannot b'indly follow his guidance with respect to the Irish U3l verity system. THE settlement of the quarrel between Prussia and Austria promises to irclude a partial redress of tie wrongs they combined to inflict on Den mark two years ago. The separation from the Danish monarchy of Northern Schleswig, which had been thoroughly Danish throughout its entire history, and earnestly desired to re.artin under the Danish crown, was naturally regarded with indi3natien throughout Europe as an extreme act of international N . olence on the part of the conquering Powers. It is satisfactory to find that these Powers a: leng:h recognise the substantial justice o 7 this adverse judgment, and are anxious to remove from them selves the stigma it involves. No article in the Treaty of Peace just concluded between Austria and Prussia will be more favourably regarded than that which provides for the restoration of Northern Schleswig to Den mark. According to this article the Emperor of At-sritia transfers to the King of Pitessia all his rights to the Dachies of Holstein and &log :wig acquired by the Vienna Treaty of Octocsr, 1864, " with the underwianding that if the populat:ons "of the northern districts of Schleswig shall " manifest by free voting the wish to be "united to Denmark, the districts in question " shall be ceded to Denmark." During the pro gresa of the peace negotiations it has more than once been reported that the restoration of Northern I Sehleswil to Denmark would be included amongst its terms. But there were no sufficient groan& for riauming the correctness of the report, Pi ussia having shown litt'e regard for international r':ht, and Austria having no direct interest in the prin ciple of nationality. The concession to this prin ciple, included in the conditional ceding of Northern Schleswig to Denmark, am -at how - ever, to have been primarily made by Austria ; and, if so, it is highly creditable to her. But if Austria has taken the initiative in doing this act of international justice to Denmark, it is im possible not to see that Prussia has the largest interest in recognisinl fully the principle on which the restoration is made. The avowed aim of Prussian policy is to secure a united Germany, and the animating principle of that policy is of course the princip'e of nationaliti. By maturing, however, Schleswig to Dennia.rk, Prussia relieves herself, ou comparatively easy terms, from the charge of having flagr►ntly violated that principle, and pr. • pares the way for its extended future application in her own interest. 'While the article of the Treaty re:erring to Schleswig may be fairly re garded, therefore, as a concession to national claims supported by the public opinion of Europe, the principle on which it is founded is at the same time one which Prussia is peculiarly interested in maintaining as a cardinal principle of Europ3an policy. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) once sash a rotten inheritance &albeit oil the Papal poveru ' merit, sad to be encumbered with another civil list of two millions sterling, to set against an manual revenue of searoely one million. The Italians may well trust to me diatise the Pope ere long asPrussia has inediatised Saxony, nourishing, perhaps, the hope that the ranch-tried son of Kastai Ferreti may prove, when he dies, to have been the last of the Pope-Kings. The Telegraph observes that the marvellous occurrences of the last few months have all been adverse to the policy which If. Drouyn de Lbuys has supported. He was an advocate of Austria ; he wan jealous of Ita"an indepen dence; and he defended the temporal power of the Pope. And naturally his resignation is ref ei.ed to the new aspect of Roman affairs. The surrender of Venetia, the Telegraph ' eonsiders, must lead to communications tend;ng to bring ' about a reconciliation between the King of Italy and Pius the Ninth. The domain will have to be surrendered to the authority chosen or accepted by the people ; but it does not follow that the sacrifice would be the slightest deb:- mat to the comfort or to the substantial influence of the Pontiff as spiritual ruler. CONTINENTAL AFFAIRS. Identifying the aspirations of the Germane for unity with those which have distinguished the Italians, the Tints proceeds to show that the position of the two countries is altogether different. Germany is still strong enough against her neighbours, but not against herself. Count Bismarck, who has shown the firmness and even the harshness which to a certain extent were fleeciest/ for the work, is yet far from his goal, and his frankness in avow. tog the difficulties with which his great undertaking is still beset amounts almost to rashness. Of the ultimate drift of his long meditated policy he leaves us in no doubt. The idea that Prussia's strength is the strength of Ger many cannot fail daily to gain ground. All that Prussia gets at the expense of Hanover, Hesse, and other states mast be allowed to have been won for the cot/2'130U secu rity and independence of the Fatherland. Saxony and Darmstadt shrink from the subordinate position which Prnaria has made out for them, but in her own selfai - fence it is necessary that Prussia must have absolute control over the military and diplomatic affairs of the Northern Confederacy, and however hard these conditions may prove to the Sovereigns themselves, there is no doubt of the acquiescence of their subjects in the new order of things. In commercial disputes the South never failed to be dragged along and absorbed by the North. In the same direction as material interests set, political combinations must necessarily follow. The Pod lectures the Italians on th 3 necessity of re. trsnohment, and discussing the affairs of Austria, expresses a doubt if any of the belligerents will be a greater gainer than she by the events of the last few months. For years pad Austria has been simply wasting her energies in a struggle with Prussia, which from the beginning was hope less. From a further persistence in an unequal contest she has now been relieved, and is thereby enabled to devote to herself and to her own political and commercial interests that attention which she has hitherto profitlessly wasted upon her neighbours. Already we learn that the Emperor is responding to the demands sal frequently made to him by his Hungarian subjects for a separate ad. ministration, and relieved as he now is from the distract ing influences of Germany and Italy, it is not unreason. able to hope that hie well-meant efforts will be rewarded with success. The Herald at this moment will not attempt to arbi trate between those who condemn and those who approve the withdrawal of the Emperor Napoleon from the occu pation of Mexico, and apparently from the defence of the temporal power of the Pope. The retirement of M. Dronyn de Lhuys is looked on by the friends of the Pope as a most ominous circumstance, but the Herald thinks that Italy after all cannot be vet/ desirous to assume at TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1866. LATEST IN TELLIGIMME. iLlVrties TELKGRAMB.) FRANCE. PARIS. San 4. Yesterday the Emperor visited the works at Trocaderb. His Majesty returned to the Palace at St. Cloud by way of the Chsmps Firm,* and the Bois de Boulogne. PRUSSIA AND SCHLESWIG. COPENHAGEN, Bwr. 3, Bvimuo. The Faedrelandet of to-day says :—" On Friday last a numerous deputation from the inhabitants of Schleswig proceeded to Berlin, in order to pre sent a petition for the reunion of Northern Schles wig with Denmark. Count Bismarck, however, refused to receive the deputation. PRUSSIA AND HESSE DARMSTADT. BERLIN, Bien. 4. - . The treaty of peace between Prussia and Hesse Darmstadt was concluded here at noon yesterday. SPAIN. MADRID, San. 3, Evrrnia. A royal decree has been issued appointing a spe cial commission to examine projects for the oon struction of different branches of railways, all of which, it is intended, shall join the main line• THE ArrAtirto CAELEB. Imagining some of the results which follow our improved oommunication with America, the Tine: con gratulates the mercantile public upon the resat, though it reflects that these new opportunities in commerce bring with them fresh labour end a fresh burden, wh;ch, while they constitute the triumph of strong heads, overtax the feeble. Infallibly, according to the Times, refer..ng to the diplomatic results, the Atlantic telegraph 1171 Europeanise America more than anything yet has done ; it s have a great effect in taking away the remoteness and the strangeness—if we may say so without gis ; often..., the rawness of the New World, and it w all, i r short, bring the New World into the Old World. The Daily New remarks that the picking up of the rne of 1863 proves the science of cable-laying to be so advanced that casualties are of slight importance, ►nd that, with a sound rope and proper ntactrosery, deep sea Pees can be brought to the surface and repaired whenever a hitch arises. The electricians can by their exquisite testa declare the locality of a " fault" diroctly it occurs, the navigators can steer direct to the spot indicated, and the engineers and mechanicians can grapple and secure a cable in any sea and at almost any depth. These are obvious deductions from the facts before the public. Each link fits into the other, and the doubts frequently uttered as to the permanence and regularity of the communication now established with America must henceforth be at an end. The faithful promoters of Atlantic telegzaphy have come into such • wealth of material that its proper dis posal and adjustment is one of their first duties to the communit✓. The Post offers a variety of suggestions, such as that two telegraph cables might be laid down simultane ously, &c. INVITATION OF THE QUEEN TO MANCHESTER. — The approaching completion of the A'bers Memorial hes induced the general purposes committee of the city oorpo- ration to pas; a resolution for int :ting hei Majesty to visit Manchester on her return from Scotland, and to be pr. , ent at the inauguration of the statue. The Queen's journey southward is expected to take place in the early port of November. FORTHCOMING VISIT OF THE PRLYCE OF WALES To DUNBOBIN.—M previously report - 1, his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales has accepted the cam of honorary colonel of the Northern Brigade, composed of the Caith• ness Volunteers. IN royal highness will assume the com mand of the bii!ade at the forthcoming review at Dunro bin about the lilt October. Great preparations are being made at Dunrobin for the visit of the Pl 'noe and I .incess. The Earl and Countess of Caitbnecs have been invited to meet them at Duorobin Castle.—Scotamaa. The Earl and Countess of Dudley strived at Inverness on Wednesday last, and on Saturday left for Banavie on their way to the Black Mount. Prince Napoleon, travelling incognito, &hived at Lucerne, in Switzerland, a few eveoings back, azcompanied by two persons and a single servant. The crowd of tra vellere so great that he could only find room in the second story of one of the hotels. _ _ . An association is being organised for setting up in the various arrondiasements of Pai:s 20 establishments for soup made from horse•Ecsh. The beautiful château of Johan&sberg has not hitherto been liable to have Prussian sAdiers billeted in it, but a fortnight ago a detachment of 60 men, under the command of an officer, presented themselves to be board' d and lodged there at the expense of the proprietor. Arrange ments, however, were made whereby the officer alone was accommodated in the chateau, the non-comm;ssionod offi cers and soldiers being provided for at the inns in the village at the charge of the prince, amountin to about 250 fr. a day. A portion of the fam"y of the l'..nce de Metternich is now at the chateau. In the theatre at Padua a piece is being per- formed which the Pope's authorities and the more effica cious power of the Austrian police had, up to the last month or so, banished from Venetian theatres. The piece is called the Jew Family, and is founded upon the fact of the stealing and baptising of the Jew Mortara by the priests at Bologna before the revolution of 1859. The alma is full of political allusions, and at the end of it Victor Emmanuel 'a name is proclaimed as that of the sovereign who has succeeded to the fallen government of the Popes. The cheers at this particular point are tremendous. The new number of the Revue des Deux Mmules is of unusual interest to English readers by reason of the nature of some of its articles. M. Woloweki, of the lust% tate, contributes a very long paper, " The Financial Cris's in England," and M. Forgues the first part of a tale in tended to illustrative the prison life of English female aviminals. The fortnightly chronicle comprises a b'ghly eulogistic notice of the meeting of the British Association, and the usual political summary by M. Forcade, who in sists upon an increase of the military power of France, as rendered indispensable by the consequences of the late war i i Germany. _ _ _ The Indipendarce Beige states that the Emperor Napoleon is at this moment collecting materials for the history of Charlemagne, which will be published after the Vie de Cl:emir." A private letter from Hanover says :—" The Queen's time is much filled by receiving the nobles and gentry, and indeed all classes, who flock from every pal of the kingdom to pay their duty to her Majesty, and to evidence their respect, affection, and admiration. A great part of each day is passed in giving these audiences, which, however soothing in one sense, cannot but be ex ceedingly trying to another. The relaxations are family masio, family intercourse, and visits to the wounded and sick, always accompanied by the two lovely young prin cesses, who promise well to follow in their royal mother's steps. lam truly grieved to say that her Majesty's health has given way .luring the last week. She still, however, bears up bravely. In the last two months her hair has grown quite grey—l might say white. Four mouths since, one could scarcely discern a grey hair—now I can hardly see a dark one." Sir John Lawrence has agreed to the construction of a railway from Lahore to Attock, on the Indus, some 60 miles from the frontier. A bridge is to be built over the Indus at that spot, and, doubtless, the iron horse will soon be heard snorting at the mouth of the Khyber, if it gets as far as Attock. THE FORTHCOMING ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. —The election of a Lord Mayor of London for the year 1866-7 is fixed to take place on Saturday, the 29th inst. The members of the Court of Aldermen who have passed the shrievalty are alone eligible, and those who have not passed the chair stand in the following order:—Alderman Thomas Gabriel (Vintry), elected 1857; Alderman William Ferneley Allen (Cheap), elected 1858 ; Alderman Ababa (Bridge Within), elected 1859 ; Alderman Jaires (Car! e Lawrence (Walbrook), elected 1860 ; Alderman Thomas llakin (Candlewick), elected 1861 ; Alderman Lusk (Ald gate), elected 1863; and Alderman Gibbon (Castleßaynard), the present sheriff, whose shrievalty will then have ex pired. The aldermen below the chair who are not eligible are Messrs. Waterlow, Stone, and Cotton. The ordinary coarse pursued at such elections Is for the livery to return the names of the two senior aldermen below the chair to the Court of Aldermen, who select one as the new Lord Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen almost invariably select the senior of the two. In the event, therefore, of the old custom being adhered to, Alderman Gabriel will be the Lord Mayor of London for the year 1866-7. THE MIDNIGHT MEETING MOVEMIN'T.—Three midnight meetings were held last month—one at New ington-causeway, attended by twenty-five poor girls; one at Knightsbridge, when twenty six were present ; and one at the Cafe Royal, Regent-street, attended by 166 unfor tunates. At each meeting suitable refreshments were pro vided, and addresses were delivered by ministers and others. 21 applications were made at the office during the month—fourteen poor girls having been sent to homes, and seven otherwise disposed of. SPEECH OF THE DUKE DE PERSIG] The Duke de Per2igny del'vered a long address the day before yesterday at Montbrison, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Diana Hall, the ancient ha'l of the Estates of Fors, which has been recently decorated. We extract from it the following passages : The weight of past ages unconsciously weighs upon the mind as the weight of the atmosphere en the body. Igno rance and presumption alone could conceive the idea of getting rid of it. For having wished to sup pre,. the past the passions which contributed to the rime lotion rendered its realisation impossible. On the contrary, by uniCng the grand ideas of that epoch to the traditions of our history, the restoring hero secured their triumph. f3^e with What wonderful art the principles of 1789 are united in his work with the alightlymodified forms of the past ; how all the new ideas—equality before the law, the abrogation of privileges, the right of admission for all citizens to public offices, the control over the government by the nation in its right to vote the taxes, and the unifi cation of all the elements of the nation, have been core. bined with the re-establishment of the monarchical form of government, the retain to catholic worship and the reor pulsation of a political anti adni nistrative hierarchy." The " strong hand " of the Napoleons was neees. nary, according to M. de Persigny, to keep down the Bourbon, ()demist, and Republican parties, which were struggling for mastery. " Without the fact and theory of the empire, society would have been oondemned to the perpetual agitations of a struggle of classes." Society had been pre pared for a reconstruction, but what wag necessary to accomplish this without the accompaniment of convulsions 1 M. de Persigay thus answers the questions he puia : A power not only liberal but strong, capable of holding the balance between interests and controlling passions. Un happily at that t'me royalty represented by a good but weak pi:nce, resigned authority to the multitude, and every thing fell into chaos. Now, gentlemen, the first duty of a prince is to secure public order. The sword which God or the nation gives him is not his own. It is the safezuard of all the interests of the people. To desire to tear it from his hand s in the name of llber .1 is a sure sign that the liberty thus invoked is but a lie, for true liberty cannot exist without authinity. A pr:nce may expose his life to the steel of factions, and busy Walsall beneath the 1.1' , / of his throne ; but he should never resign his sword. This great lesson of history has not been always understood or followed since the revolution. However, we have just seen it put in practice under remarkable circumstances by a foreign piece, whom fox :ens has recompensed far his boldness. He, likewise, was exposed to the attacks of an imprudent liberalism. The deputies of Prussia, whe in their inexperience believ.•d that they were augmenting their new liberty by diminishing the priv:lege of the crown, were certainly animated by honest intentions. But what would have occurred but for the resolution of the King? After having disarmed the prince they would themselves be exposed, without defence, to those violent spirits who are always ready to falsify the conditions of liberty and to exaggerate its consequences. Germany would probably at this moment be in the midst of anarchy, whilst now, by a just turn of opinion, the same men who would have trampled under foot the rains of the monarchy, pro claim the King as the benefactor 'of his country. The empire (14. de Persigny proceeds to say) is not to be muffled in the rags of past regimes, nor is the giant to be stretched on the bed of Freer ustees. The France of to day is about to see opened before her a whole world of development and practical liberty. To speak indeed of the petty pocecres of paltry liberty at a moment when the reign of a mighty democracy is beginning ! when the popular masses, so long dis'nherited and worked up by selfish schemers, demand their share of the banquet of civilisation ; when they demand of public power not words but acts, not the struggles of ambition but life, light, and activity ; and when in their mighty asphations they say to the sovereign of their choice, " King of the people, onward ! Continue and complete your work; finish the machinery of the country; put the most remote hamlet in easy commu nication with the centres of intellect and prosperity ; let labour be honoured ; let a become the principle, the nobility of the new society, and let it fertilise all pm is of France. King of the people, onward ! Let your sword assure the peace of the world ; let the noble words of St. Helena be accomplished : nationalities which are consti tuted under your auspices can only knit more closely the ties of European brotherhood. Onward, King of the people ! March at the bead of pacific victories, but retain with firm hand the sword which the people has confided to you." ITALY AND GERMANY. The Nord Deutsche Zeitung publishes the text of a note addressed by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Visconti-Venosta, to Herr von lisedom, on the receipt of the notification of the treaty of peace between Prussia and Austria. The note terminates thus : The government of the King of Italy is agreeably affected by the wishes which the government of his Majesty the King of Prussia expresses for the continuance of the a" i ance between the two states after the present period, and his own views are warmly the same in this respect. We attach great value to the ties of sympathy and common interest which are destined to unite the German and Italian nations. These ties will only be the closer in that pe'iod of tranquillity which the union of Venetia to Italy sill bring about. A letter in the Debatie of Vienna says that pre parations are actively going forward for the re moval from Venice of the property which belongs to the crown of Austria. The furniture in the Imperial Palace at Venice is already packed up. The objects of art, the documents in the Palace of the Doges and in other places which were bought by the government are also ready for removal. The transport of the large quantity of materials in the arsenal of Venice to Pole has already commenced. In short every preparation is made when peace is signed and its conditions fulfilled by Italy, for the immediate evacuation of the foi aesses. THE OCCUPATION OF ROME. The Monde, referring to a report that the occupa tion of Rome by the French troops might be pro longed for two years more, says : It is extremely doubtful whether Pius IX. can live in Rome with Victor Emmanuel. The primitive church is cited as an example. But the example shows the im possibility of the joint habitation by the martyrdom of so many Popes for three hundred years, and by the voluntary exile of Constantine to Byzantium. And it is in the name of liber4 that persecution is offered as an ideal to the church ! If it be a pat: of the arrangements of Victor Emmanuel to leave the Pope • portion of Rome, that portion will be lessened every day, and Pius I& would be about as free in the Vatican as was Louis XVI. in the Tuileries or the tower of the Temple . A resides.). at Malta would secure to both him and the cardinals more complete liberty. The Pope will consult the interest of the church alone, but should he ask France to keep her troops at Rome for a year or two longer, it is probable that France will not refuse, were it only to dispel the dark aloud which the exile of Plus IX. would cast over the Exposition of lea. In another placo the Monde utters the follow ing cry of despair : We cannot see indeed what is to prevent the Italian re. volution from ascending the capitoL France abandons Rome ; Austria makes advances to King Victor Em manuel : all the catholic powers become more and more entangled in revolutionary embarrassments under the pretext of escaping from the embarrassment of the Roman question. Christian princes seem mere disposed to ally themselves with the re►olution than to rise in defence of the Holy Father and the catholic church. Rome then for one reason or another le realty abandoned by men. It h quite natural, therefore, that the Cialdinis, Rinasolis, and Garibaldis should pre issaethtdr instal mesas for taking possession of it. The only power which the revelation has noir to bar it Gel. But what is God in the eyes of certain persons who are on the high places of power! A child's scarecrow. AU this is horrible, but it is true. EXPRF-SS FROM PARIS. (mom ous ow, am PARIS, MONDAY EVININO. Those semi-official public instructors, the Con stitationnel, Pays, Etendard, and Patrie, have not a single reflection to offer to their readers on the " circumstances," evidently moat important, al luded to but not explained in the Emperor's letter to M. Drouyn de Lhuys, as the reason why it was necessary to accept his resignation. The clerical journal the Monde offers the following observa tions, which are quoted in several of the evening paPers The bearing of this change is rather difficult to estimate all at once. If we out our eyes a few years back, we find M. Drouyn de Lhuys resigning his poet, a first time, at the moment when our policy, declaring itself in favour of Piedniontese ambition, became disquieting for the inte grality of the temporal power. A few years later, in 1862, the war in Italy being ended. Piedmont aggrandised, and the treaty of Zurich executed in that negative way which we all know, M. Drouyn de Lhuys resumed his portfolio and place in the Senate. That circumstance occurred just after the diplomatic campaign undertaken at Rome by M. Thouvenel and the Marquis de IA Veldts', and the milit►ry enterprise of Garibaldi. The diplomatists had failed at Rome, the Condottiere at Aspromonte; the Italian government was desirous of making a weapon of defence out of its resistance to the schemes of the revolution ; M. Drouyn de Lhuys, still crowned with the halo of his reale . nation, was the expression of a formal opposition, tem porary at least, to the projects of Piedmont on Rome, and his return to office was interpreted by all in that manner. The change which is now being effected, the retirement of M. Drouyn de Lhuys some weeks before the term of the September convention, cannot be considered as facts of small importance. The attitude taken up by M. Drouyn de Lhuys had made his ministry, as respected the Roman question, one of transition only. His acts, his circuity's, several of which contained formal declarations in favour of the independenee of the Holy See and protests against the invasions of Piedmont, would have made the acceptance of the crowning of the Italian edifice a difficult matter for that statesman. There are certain disavowals a man cannot inflict on himself. The Union says on the same subject : The resignation of M. Drouyn de Lhuys, the honours heaped upon M. Benedetti, and the interim ministry of the Marquis de La Valette, have a manifest connexity, which the Monitear reveals without explaining. • • There was a talk of the retirement of M. Dronyn de Lhuys at the moment of the signature of the Convention of Septem ber 15, and again when the debates in the Turin parliament betrayed the Piedmontese interpretation of that convention. At either of those periods such a determina tion on the part of the mMister would have been under stood and appreciated. Can it be that the approach of the 11th of December, by which day the convention must be entirely executed, is the reason for his retirement now ? We are reduced to vague conjecturer. Can the course of affairs in Germany have anything to do with the crisis! Was M. Drouyn de Lhuys more in clined to an Austrian alliance than to marked cordiality with Prussia! We do not know. But it is impossible not to be struck with the coincidence that he leaves the ministry at a moment when M. Benedetti, the present ambassador at Berlin, receives the highest honorary distinction, and when the Marquis de Moustier, M. Benedetti's predecessor, and the first envoy to the Court of Prussia under the second empire, is called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mdlle. Corn6lie Meyerbeer, the youngest daughter of the composer, was married at Wies baden on the 27th August to M. Richter, an emi nent printer, and a professor in the Berlin School of Fine Arts. At the Bourse Italian rose 55c., but in other re- spects the market was not so good as on Saturday. Rente fell 15c. both for cash and account, closing at 69fr. 75c. and 69fr. 85c. Mobilier fell sfr. The money article of the LiberU says that though the ministerial change announced in yesterday's Monifoir is interpreted favourably to peace in Germany the recall to Europe of the Marquis de Moustier from Constantinople is thought by some to indicate a revival of the portentous " Eastern question." THE EMPRESS OF MEXICO AND THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. A correspondent of the Avenir National writes as follows from Brussels : Persona have been much surprised in Brussels that the Empress of Mexico, on coming for the first time to Europe since the death of her father, Leopold 1., did not at once pay a visit to her family here. It appears that a point of etiquette has been the cause of it. The Empress felt hurt because the King of the Belgians had sent no one to receive her on her landing at Saint Nazaire. A correspondence on the subject has since taken place between the brother and sister—the difference has been arranged, and the Empress will come to Brussels on her return from Miramar. At Vienna the cost of the war, including the loss?. undergone by the neutral countries and the indem nities to be paid, is estimated at 40,000,000 i. The Nourelliste of Rouen relates that as the per formance of the Vieux Garcons at the theatre of Dieppe was about to commence three eveninp back a gendarme arrived to arrest an actor named Deschamps, who fills the part of lovers, for neglecting to present him self to fulfil his militatj duties, he having been ' drawn in the conscription. The director was about to return the money to the audience when the actor obtained permission to play his part that evening, promising to give himself up on the following morning. M. Deschamps appears, however, to have no ambition for military glotf, for he had no sooner ended his duties a t the theatre than he hastened to the milway and started for Paris. He was, however, Mopped at one of the inter mediate stations by a telegraphic despatch and sent back to Dieppe under arrest. The ladies of the Casino have sines opened a subscription to purebase a subatitute for 'him. Tug LATE ACCIDENT ON MOAT BLANC.—M-. Bulkley Samuel Young , , 8.A., of King's College, Cam bridge, brother of Sir Clicarge Young, and one of the sons of Lady Young of Cookham, who lost Ids life lately while descending from the summit of Mont Blanc, took his Vrduring the gear, when he irradnated as 28th an e gler, and 17 wood clam of the Classical Tripes. He went from Eton to Kin's as Eton scholar, in 1862: In 1864 be took Sir Wllliiare Brown's medal foe Latin epigrams. The " Dead March" was performed in Kings's College Chapel at the afternoon service on Sunday by order of the Vice-Provost. prisoner perked 0 ti said he for 101. spent all himself uj Mr. Da, Lad been bad a ver August a tainsd a c hg it int Co.'s foi Lard not sia en j irao4c. p but the o inquiries at ditiere bis bad Thep lerd red s / Rewoom into the now • John defendan West H end Kim and the l a n d to Do among were thrown • boy sr the side with six boy was Dinah hu The Pears wii7 tee order t o from Cu Thu cu mn Mr. that the b 7 his Auot z o w :he Lae. with. v A foil lost his Deenii 4 4% bet ' lllO 4 of 460 07 -41h.ikmw %AM yo The m warn of e morning r---".........."".11ZAT ACCIDZiIi ' S DAY.) while m i t r.ie, c o roner fet , mynah at 6t. G.., l '• it On the body a l over gild kin e d ii .. The r, living i t Tv ~ ameet lis sir t • afternoon be was . of . near the ; P m P l44. ' • iria, &PPM ° dwa The thwe he makes Me JO .no,. • of 9,500 L hotel ' • return*, wk. 4 bankniPt a ing towards tha b t from cue .. ,1 37 the pole sad Il s t an d over , but th e driver p e ll*. was held o for • spate o t w ay ; nor was uP b owned f,' Kr. Du • mind f o b he am, i i Wards!, of .he broken, the Wei t4 tom I Mr- -205, mid that he * dridlle ": Kr. '. of the van, salt . asee 01 the Dianthus hams bankrupt t avoid the &onion • nothing to p , submitted "AI the bankru . lichen*, clarity th e sPt- ' i to the death of .1 it lately living at 2, weeks in as 1,189 L , ince that on Welaii, d amount. iriving a mega aaa i wed& • of the hor s* ki s k e4 would be ' . he head; he ties i patron. 11 , If in such a mama * hag credit° hough he lied i t , discharge, ut, and bolted. Th. ad would co - I; the pavement b l i ti His : .. d clew. Be wag Iti t ff he were was laden with * wok urge, and • . 'er and crushed of 6 Dad put he lingered altar* although h E "Accidental Des*: WSJ , vary . ............ The queeti • bankrupt's i Y A GAMEKRIIPII ea thew. !TLEPOUL. Mr. L glYilliThe ba il . •• Hartlepool Seat* : bat ekeeper in the tortes AO" • . it Hartlepool, was 'lt iiirder Edward 84 , wi t , !iv steamers tridla t ti t i i the afternoon of dart : Lodi:nen driokin t W a i t I depoeL They both vw, i course of oonvenatiall (Before • 1 if them had uttered. lh BO at into the street kiln TAoreme him. He was mei it puree •. . 10 was abusing his; e Berm. 1 ' of the street the paw" p oft the nipple or bias II ; up foci' . . The l mecotor. Citycsker Baia flaturdny • in front of the want ' whitwokis . I ismer pulled the r*• mum ,. • missed. Some peg** I h a nd, bat the time ititnewsi * ' the time 1 Styzaker was in, Whitt man who 11 his pocket when he tivi At the took out another esti g o, l' s a ß tu t f i t litmPa h l u rets, PjP e ih e u :;a r:s.edui n i e laWestn ed filhl oy. v itil asp, sedfo an. e h o th t ve.ill m n lli b 4e nn h o, iti i l e twtud taidePrv an m h hish : i t e Msoee lm erl imir eHrotel Esta tiuDs i a ls. th ilili fix noexiii4 lllli titdmine: "lllu i s i : ' : andl b ßlp fro:7, l. . tS ezeii ie skai u i ted vic h midP. oro .w isont s7 b he ng t" wn Taeri rotil e' eo, ',. the police statioo, wit ' pe k mate . d all y the gun, be fond it es wder and shot. The pesos • j u T ti ve w i ll° , d up. When the we eat debtors' . J. T. Belk, solicitor** . ban take , id arrsagea not to power ' th „ am t l that he declined yes .1 ' him from able a temper:meat !had : aa „ m him i that the primate sse ' . Jeers , --- - wish to injure bin oagistrate, said it sass imtmt iecutor was desirous at . d allow the prima bay ' l = w ion to him in future. ' Mr. . . ..—e—...... mouton ; • The a OTTERY ST. MaT.- room nt a ironicle a devastaing kit prosecutor re the sad task of rocs* on the mo • he went iced last eeeD 4 'al, b 7 Ai vs, and a number of Ohm the key con, ; rti i t 'a . P°4l o t ognsmichin th th te o e e int. e i n f e e :ll ed y re b lif y d s;ro t l f f i :li rmib ini i imm i . the sI oarsbu e w a at found the indebted , in 0 : d ~ moors.pi n gileam4' r e'' , L nfm t dhe l o o " h*rbrwacre: eb ru d i b no af ieft w c lo etl ari Ed t e t . ild t : .:o.e morsel ni l : e eneg"wteolekleliiaelt peoplet I b rickwork an lw ir i gtri t ier: e c h ntw : lltwl:f li al 1 ita al.: 111 S i 's . I that t httddt:l rh& nihm7l The ' enhtwor: of rd, ow: a all:tchm E li t :g et ame.rbrha l:sne uri:aboY" :;; laalvell e ii proanAntsliirtn:::. SHOCKING AHD NATAL SZ INQUEST.--(TIES This forenoon Mr. W. Pay .it City and Southwark, held an tuy Workhouse, Mint-street, Borough, Miles, aged 35 years, who was tan 0/dMe?t-rsed! - The deceased was a brash maker, street, Walworth. On Saturday I friend in the Brighton beer-house, Arms station, with a friend. Al laden, came to • stead in the roach attached to it, not being the deceased went, pushed at the ~ set.,ing it in motion. As be was mk s well pleased, an omnibus pin.- Nelson came along ; be was st. ack done. The wheels went over him, I suddenly the hind wheels rested I his body. When he was taken surgeon's shop, where be was tot skull was fractured and his i.l injuries being dreadfully severe. Henry Davis, omnibus driver 205, deceased beating the fors horse of tls. afterwards found him under the omnibus pulled up instantly, but amid not avoid t The Coroner having summed up, The jury upturned a verdict of " Axidt An inquiry was held by Mr. Richards, at the London Hospital, relative 1 Taylor, aged 42 years, a carter place, dt. George's- 4 1-the-Fast. It appeared from the evidence afternoon last the deceased was driv' horses in East Smithfield ; one of be Bogged them both over the temper, and conducted himself a witness named Apr the drinkh.g. Both horses kicked out of the waggon struck deceased; narrow that he could not stood down under the waggon, which wi of dust, and the wheels went over was taken to the hospital, where ' day last. The jury returned a verdict of ATTEMPTED MURDER R 1 AT WEST HART, Yesterday, at the West Isaac Atkinson, an under-gameki Mr. F. A. Mlthanks, Marie, near ' with shooting with intent to mi fireman on board one of the sow Stockton to the Continent. On ult. the prisoner and prosecutor ludic. at a public-house in West Hartlepool little the worse for drink, and in r out about some exciression one of got to very high words, and went The prisoner had a gun with I excited at the prosecutor, who when they got into the middle of swearing, pulled the trigger up and said he would shoot the prom not the threat, sad remained i the gun quite firm, and the pre but the cap missed fire. I twice, and both times the cap urn were about Whitby-street at tl act and, alarmed at the danger St) The prisoner put his hand into bus the cap would not go off, and tool deliberately placed it on the nip just in the act of raising the gu, when Mr. Wright, of the Victor, tracted by the cries outside, seized the muzzle of the gun taking aim. The prosecutor charge. Both were taken to Sergeant Newton examining tl loaded with a full charge of pow,. was much excited when locked on for hearing yesterdsy, Mr. J. prisoner, said the prosecutor had Styzaker was present, and said outing as he was of as excisable when in liquor, and he found ' married man and he did not - W. S. Grey, the presiding magistrate. serious offence, but as the prosecut drawing the charge, they would r and trusted it would be a cauti, SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT 1, A short time ago we bad to chronicle Ottery St. Mary ; now we have the that a shocking accident ()wetted I several persons lost thel , - lives, were seriously injured. On 8 member of the Plymouth Br Treble's paper mills, Exwick, ad, to 150 persons, train the ruins of by Abraham Harding, grocer, at . leading into the square. Opixerix the house occupied previous to the saddler, consisting of a portion of and 10 feet in height, and a chi= hind it. At half-past 7 the congregatir bouring chapel augmented the crowd. cation of approaching danger, and 0. listening to the preacher. 14esee' thing giving way was heard, ear tottered over and fell on the had time to escape the mass t The scene was of the most In place of the one voice which the cries and shrieks of a hum' road was covered with the de, mangled bodies of those on sr groans of the injured and dying tines of their friends, whom tb brought to the spot. The unto extricated, and conveyed to pt homes, were those in whom . attended by Dr. Whitby, Messrs. geons, Ottery, and Dr. Jerrard, ' a state of the greatest oonster— was speedily communicated The names of the dead are:—. of age, son of Mr. Gillum, single woman, 20, (laughter of a thet machinist; a,. wife of James Lang, carpenter and Cuion ' Bishop, widow of a miller (she buried her busbaed week) ; Elizabeth Davis, a young woman, dremsbt residing with her grandfather, a mason; Elizabeth Eta 16, living with her mother, a wido w, who tee?' 1.. dairy. Emma Hake 16, daughter of Jo hn lb* ft the Lamb and Fl ag Inn, and James log husband of the woman ang who was killed, ono seriously injurod that they are not expected to merge The setiotudy injured persons are :—Elisibeth Itearseg daughter of Samuel Rounsevill, 20, 'Aeon! Temple, 20 ; Elizabeth Green, daughter of Jame Goa shoemaker ; George Pyle, 8, son of Mr. Pyle. OS Volunteer Inn; Gillam, a y ; ou ng woman of 17, OM the boy Gillam who was killed RiddyJeffrey.lollolll of W. Jeffrey, of the Five Bells Inn ; Laney, II! aioner from the Marines, working as a laborer , sal tlq, his wife, each aged about 50; and Robt. (Unison, 24, 00 W. Churchill, 23, labourer, had his toe srouhrd; leloo 50, gardener to Sir John Coleridge, had his leg built 0 J 11 is now an inmate of the Devon and Exeter Rosprtal sides these, at least a dozen per sons were Inas of 101 severely bruised. Lovell, a labourer, bad his ckslionn in pieces, but escaped with slight bruises ; and mg persons (waned with comparatively slight injyrno strong wind was blowing at the time of the it is believed that the foundation of the chimy no sapped by water which had collected around ine eats t I ' ought not to have b ee n allowed to stand' DO Plymouth Gazette. PERILOUS BOATING ADVENTUR E.— young men who went out from Douglas, Isle of Masi boat, on Wednesday afternoon, and who, aa tl!lr a been heard of up to Friday night, were have been picked up. They are MefirlL C0U11043.,..2611 wood, boot and shoe manufacturers, hampton, where they have three places m."; They had bad very little experience in Wow.; when they left Douglas the bind and the against them. When the y thought they wo o nine and a half from the Shore they the °,,„„i i miles; and alter turning the boa- houl towards land they found that their Wring ' 01_M'27-, impeded the progress of the boat to sea, to withstanding all their efforts, they we re "" -- 0 0 drifting. At 6 o'clock, when their hands were blistered, and when they were wet through and from thirst, occasioned by swallowing the us spray beat into their faces, they saw a vereb M best 114 1 ,70" they made for the course she was ru nning, aloiraly le' s _aar a few hundred yards of he r when a cont fi drove them into an altogether opposite &entice. thee efforts to get back to land were fra ide°; hoisted handkerchiefs upon their WI, soon blown off. Their thirst beesme so w 5 °,17011 they bean to desire a speedy death by drono than a ering one by thirst and storrsl;? night was Doming on, however, the Wtehaven, John Daugherty master, free( r t igi Duddon May,Cumberland, providentially th l nu ; „ tx wind out of her course, crossed their rat them up. Here they were hospitably effort was made to get them into Don °"`„, o would not allow the Catherine to get in. The. men and the boat were therefore taken on toPgu....di which they reached at about 3 o'clock orso_ilff7o afternoon. They could eat notbinc tbO morning, but drank water moot greedily' J us ' twined one hour longer °°°b •erled the lv:desolo 7 down, so heavy was the storm c• When picked up they must have been ton o°• • Douglas. # TIDY 4 ` co. Despatches were received rote brig aue...—a • Colonial-offiee from the governors of /ong 1 7011 0 , lon. Despatches were sent to the go of ' Malts, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Daman. ~~ I i