The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-31 00:00:00

lIIIMPI JOHN BILOGDEWS BRACELETS. 'OHM BROODER'S BROOCHES. JOHN BROGDRNB NEOKLACBS. 4 OHN BILOGD_RN EARRINGS. CIUE EN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. NA psalm-11r. W. H. LISTON. TEI LANCASHIRE LASS. try Henry J. Brun. hewing helm Coestred thrum. hoot its performance with the greatest enthu siasm, by nrowdel and excited audierwes, p yri . ll=eoted EVERT NTENINCL at Quarter to concluding sit IL RE LANCASHIRE LAMS, at a q uarter to 8. T The demonstrations U. favour of ' The Lancashire Law We loud sad nminsinons."—Tinico. LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. _a. 11 .4 r Lou. the enibudann wound. nit Ind..' o.ntro_ and of planar, el and waving eimov , hini% lovctnu lb. am., •of tie hero and herome."—The Schoen from the Club'. /1111 E LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8 . "The teem tluoughont was effectively meted. and the awn. italgenal ;0.n.0. of the plot keeps the aattinnes to a perpetual state of eiesit,ment."—MuM. nd London News. - riE LANCARLIIRE LASS, at a crarter to 8 . .On its second representation was wed ged with even greater miaow. than on the evening of prodteileo."—Dady Telegraph. TI9tLANCASHIRE LABS, at a qua rter . to 8. A loco run may to predictod for the p an& when Loudon tills eosin, It will be ria great a kite the Colleen " .-1/aily MLLE lANCAKRIRE LABS, at a quarter to 8. Altoic4hor, judging from the interest of the plume, the m oniker. f the moths, and the beauty of the scenery, to say id the lance mid nipbtlythermaing audience& 'The ire Lel,e Win form • @mires of attraetion !I s e= • ported as any drama that Imo lately hem produced." LYCEUM THEATRE. FAIRCLOUGH havingrowle an extraordinary mows en his dre t elosorse to England, hew II have the honour of appearing Ei , T EVEN. INA during the west in HAMLET. - very kind reception he mot with to • fathionable end crowded home on Saturday will never be effaced from his memory. nor the onthoidairtic calls that be morivrd to the curtain. by • • kind and ducrimuuthi . udience. entire drawn to him. and tow rely of whom heard at hie Mimi attack of Mem on arrival in this eountry. RAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Three -LW Ballots. Pro:sena& Ooacart. Band of SO. Seen at 41. open from 11 to 4- WILLIAM CHURTON and SON, 1108t1218 and 8111/111WMA LAMI2I' lINDLRCLOTSING• al and 14. OXFORD-87'RM. 'OEN BIaiCIDEN'S CLASSIC JEWELRY. paws FIRST-CLASS SILVER MEDAL, 188' OILN BROODEN'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS. 'OHN BROODEN'S GEM sad WEDDING RING& 101NAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY. No. 16, ILENRIETTA-81BILICT, Covent- Orem NEWTON WILSON INEIL and Co.'s SEWING IN•OH PARIB EXHIBITION TWO PRI= MEDLIN. NNW HANTS summing. WHIM MAL CLEOPATRA. HAND LocworrrcHimieht, DORCAS. AND PINSLOPE The mar hearl.ewing nes that lave miss medehi. 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Tax epistolary literature of the Credit Ponder of England grows apace, and when completed will, we trust, be republished in • volume, with the title of " A Handy Guide for Shareholdtan" This morning, the Eight Hon. &rya= WOITIXT, inspired, perhaps, by that esiigio loci which a man may be supposed to feel whose name is not an alias, who is an Englishman by right of birth, and whose habitation is of older standing than that of a naturalised adventures who should write from " Champignon Hall," addressee to the Times from " Wortley Hall, Sheffield," a letter which may be accepted with tolerable con fidence as a genuine and authentic production, since it is dated three days before its publication. This letter deserves respectful attention, if only as an instance of the fine sense of family and per sonal honour which moves a g en tl eman of high social consideration, who, after having had the misfortune to be caught and dragged down into • financing whirlpool , is anxious that the public should understand that he has escaped out of it with a sum not even approaching 18,0001. sticking to his heels. Mr. STUART Worruts, in his capa city of .ex-chairman of the Credit Fonder, is par ticularly susceptible to " impostures." When he wrote last week to repudiate the offer of restitu tion unwarrantably attributed to him by an im pudent usurper of his name, he had none of his papers at hand, although he wrote then (on Monday, August 2'l), as he does now (on Fri day Auguat 28), from " Wortley Hall, Ethef " field," and his " chief object" was simply to give the publio the earliest intimation, through the Times, of " tho im w hich had " been attempted on us all!'tuirLding we sup : pose the Credit Foncier shareholders. The chief object of Mr. Bremer Woe:ma's letter, date! August 28, is to oonfitm his former statesmen that be bad " never received from the Cce It " Fonder* sum even approsohing 18,0001." What he did receive the public of course has no right to ask, but Mr. STUART Woirrt..rs carefully intone+ the public that " the directors had no salaries nor " board fees unless they attended," which, under the circumstances, was certainly very oonaid trate (not to say self-denying) on the partof the direotors. Why Mr. STUART WORTLEY should put so fine a point on salaries and board fees for attendance we cannot understand ; since neither the one nor the other of those usual items of remuneration has been called in question. " The commission we " received"—that is the question. Let us see how Mr. STUART WORTLEY meets it. " The " commission we received," he says, " was cal " masted strictly upon rates that were from time " to time deliberately sanctioned after discussion " at the public meetings, and upon profits which " I then believed, and still believe, to have been asks " ally earned for the benefit of the Company." Mr. STUART WORTLEY wee a lawyer before he was a director; he knew then, and still knows, the precise value of words. We should like to know what he means by a deliberate sanction after publio discussion. According to their articles of association, it may very well be that the directors of the Credit-Foncier were entitled to divide profits on commission, for floating all sorts of companies, destined like the parent company itself, to enrich their directors and impoverish their shareholders. But were those articles of association ever read at any meet ing of the shareholders and deliberately adopted after public discussion ? Had a single shareholder, who was not also a director, the slightest acquaint ance with them ? One cannot expect every director to be so extremely nice as Mr. STUART WORTLEY, who it seems declined to accept a sum of money which had been calculated as commission on profits accrued while he was still on the direction, but when he had been absent from illness. Only when he was well, and able to take his seat at the board, was Mr. STUART WORTLEY willing to take his commission on " profits accrued." But will he explain to the public the nature of those profits? From what source did they accrue ? To whom did they accrue 1' What were the profits ? Into whose hands did they fall! Who was the richer for them ? Thousands of families can tell Mr. STUART WORTLEY who are the poorer by those " profits." If, indeed, according to its articles of associa tion, the Credit Foncier was founded for the benefit of its directors only, there is nothing more to be said about these profits on commission, except that the shareholders, in their eagerness to pocket forty per cent. without inquiring how they got it, have been vary properly and righteously made the victims of their own credulous rapacity, and have put themselves out of court as the voluntary duped of a system which enables three of their directors to invoke the decision of any tribunal of law or equity in their own favour. Mr. STUART WORTLEY, however, goes further than this ; he has always been willing, and is still prepared to surrender any portion of his receipts as a director, " of which not only any court of law " or equity might compel the payment, but which " any properly constituted tribunal of honour or " commercial integrity might hold to be due from " us." Mr. ALBERT GRANT will probably con sider such an offer as this Quixotic, and will begin to dread the tardy susceptibilities of right hon. gentlemen with a local habitation and a name. He has learnt the virtue of silence in that greet school of honesty and honour, the Seconh Empire, and has reason to regret, that in stead of adopting England as a country he did not remain on the other side of the Channel, to become, at least, a Senator. Such a court of honour as Mr. STUART WORTLEY desires ought not to be absolutely undisooverable in England. Without undertaking to say off- hand of whom it should consist, there can be no difficulty in deciding whom it should exclude. Wanted, a DIGGENES lantern ! LORD esirriznosen confirms the statement al ready made by another passenger that at the time of the fatal railway accident at Abergele some at least of the carriages were looked upon both sides. The railway officials state, on the contrary, that, according to custom and regulation, they were locked upon one side. The public may be per mitted to ask why this senseless and dangerous custom—a custom by the way unknown upon the Continent—is permitted to prevail at all In the case of the recent tragedy it was perhaps imma terial whether the carriage doors were locked or not, eo rapid and almost instantaneous was the work of destruction. If, however, another moment or two had intervened, the chance of life or death would have depended upon whether the doors were locked or latched. It is pretty certain, how ever, that this railway regulation will not be re scinded except upon compulsion ; and in the meantime the best advice that can be given to the traveller is to carry a key in his pocket. At Windsor Castle preparations have been com menced for the reception of the Queen and the junior members of the royal family, who are expected to arrive on or about Friday week from Switzerland. Her Majesty will seek a few days' repose at the castle, and then pro seed to Balmoral. The royal grounds and Windsor Park bare greatly Improved in appearanee gage the resent nine. The aoooneheinent of her Royal Highness Prin cess Militias may. nye tb. AO, be impanel se ao way &Must date. Their Ito* Highnesses the Prince and Prince., of Waldo are expected to pay a visit to the Duke old Alamo of liatinclaad at Duarobta Castle before they kb,. Scotland. The Count and Countess de Paris and the Duke de Poathilem are making • tour in North Wales. Tea TilWel AHD Panrosse OP Waxa.--The Prises of Wales, Prince John of Denmark, and the gen. Hessen of the suite, continue to enjoy mealiest sport, on the moors and in the !med. On Friday, the Prime of Wales went deer stalking in the A Tomei, and killed two fine stags On Monday Mt= west again deer stalking, and killed three very fine which were shown in front of the castle by aid of after dinner, in the usual way. On Tues day, theb Boyal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Priam Jobn, and the rest of the suite, went to Loth:Mak to a Mario. The day was somewhat cold an d rough, yet the royal party seemed to enj o y th enne i ven Wisday forenoon, tieing the =summary of the birth of the late Prince Consort, was celebrated (am:ding to the practice since his death) by the tena n t r y, tenants, As., on the royal estates, mooting' at the monument mead to his memory. On Wednesday afternoon the woods of Abergeidie were " beat" for deer. It is said the stay of their royal highnes ses will not extend beyond the Bth or loth of September. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, it is expected, will arrive in the course of this week. Mr. Hadfield, M.P., writes from Southport to a friend in Sheffield (we the Bhejleid Tsisgraph) informing him thad epa t on the 27th natant his beloved wif e , l ong an in vrted this life. The sympathy of the town will be alid, wd.II Hr. Hadfield is paiatull breavaaent. iIii•EMMINNM=Mm OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) )s or Tun 1110111KIVES . 11 urns'. Condoling with the Chancellor of the E sehequer that figures follow hineven to Inverness-shim, the Tins says that his reply to Mt. GledligeneetnsiaM snakily in what lawyets oesdlesaion osti availidanos. 4 it ad 'ohs tiet the optional expenditure of the 'country hes been increased by about 4000,0001. to two years; and Its de ft nee. is that the additional outlaw was compelled by 11 1001111 of policy. Thus the Timm acknowledges that if the expenditure of the government was neoes lazily increased in some departmentb it should have economised in other directions. The policy of saving adopted by the late ministry has been abandoned. The present one has launched out in all directions and re trenched in none. If Mr. Hunt's letter was intended to supply tory candi dates with a reply to the charge of extravagance brought against the government, it is, in the estimation of the Doily News, a complete . and conspicuous failure To the charge of extravagant estimates he vir tually replies, " I assure you the money is really spent on the army and navy." The more closely the wilt:Wars are scrutinised the more clear will it appear that they are charges for which the administration itself is responsible. With 30,000,0001. to manipulate a prudent and resolute finance minister would find it easy to reduce expenditure in one department if it was necessary to increase it in an other. During the tart three years of him administration Mr. Gladstone reduced the expenditure 3,000,0001. The 1 Tory government have increased it by 3,000,0001. Thus a weak Tory government costs the country some 0,000,0001. annually. The Morning Fast adopts the same view. Mr. Hunt admits the fact of increase, whilst his explanations of it are by no means satisfactory. Tho taxpayers of the country will regard it as a very ugly fact to swallow. In the opinion of the relegreph, if the defence of the government fails in the hands of such a competent advo cate as Mr. Hunt, it must be because of its inherent weak ness, and that the case of the government is a bad one in itself the Tr/ever/ph proceeds to point out. The Herald doubts whether Mr. Gladstone would have pressed his question as to the increase of 3,000,0001. for 1868-9 if he imagined that the answer would have been so prompt and so effective. The Chancellor of the Ex chequer's letter not only repels the attack upon the finan cial policy of the government but fastens the increase of waste and extravagance ou Mr. Gladstone himself. Mr, Hunt admits the fact of increase, but his defend and ex planation is that it was rendered not only justifiable but necessary, either from the shamefully inefficient condition in which Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues left the ser vice', or by engagements to which they bad pledged themselves, and which they transmitted to their suc cessors. In the opinion of the Standard, " Mr. Gbdstone has had another fall," and Mr. Hunt " has flung his intemperate and disingenuous assailant very heavily." The Standard adopts the same ground of defence as the Herald. 01.111111117.11. Without pronouncing in any way on the merits of the quarrel, the Daily Newt confiders that the cabmen are altogether wrong in their mode of waging war. They have committed the strategic error of attacking the arbiter in the quarrel. To avenge themselves on the railways they punish the public. To withdraw the oldie for , certain home of every day is an infraction of the conditions on which their owners hold their Swinges. An entire cessation of work—a cab strike against the publio—is a refusal to carry out their stile of • contract. Nor can such • strike in any way influence the railways. For the sake of the cabmen themselves it is to be hoped (says the Herald) that they will reconsider their deterrai nation before they put themselves hopelessly lathe wrong. There was a sort of constitutional argument in favour of punishing the public by • strum against what their repre sentatives bad done in Parliament; but there is none at all in visiting them with all manna of pains and penalties because the railway companies drive what the cabmen consider a hard bargain. Whatever may be the moral right of the cabmen to strike, they have not made it out to the public satisfaction. They, no doubt, have a grievance against the eompaniee ; but is that grievance big enough to Justify the measures for redress they have begun to adopt f In one respect however, the cabman has the advantage of his antagonist; he has condescended to make a »presentation of his case to the public. The railway companies, so far as the Star is aware, have not. The character of the meeting at the Agricultural-halt gives the Timm no reason to doubt that the men are in earnest in their desire to abolish the restrictions which exclude so many of therm from the railway stations, and the recollection of former years shows that when they ere thus in earnest, they will resolutely maintain their ground. Sooner or later, the public, therefore, must be prepared to deal with another cab strike. The Times advocates the principle of free trade in locomotion as the only one that will reconcile the interests of the cabs and their customers. -. ~- THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1868. THE WATERING PLACES OF NASSAU. TIM TRANCO-BZERIAN LEAGUE. The thing cannot be, says the Time,. The same ob jections rise against the scheme at the present moment as in the time of Louis Philippe. It would be difficult to say to what extent the banns to a union, either commercial or political, Gould be forbidden if it were the object of the mutual wishes of both partite. But from the strong manifestation of opinion in Belgium the reluctance of the latter country to the arrangement is placed decidedly beyond question. Belgium will not hear of it ; France must not think of it. M.B. eItrART WOITLNY AND TIM CREDIT PON stsn CONPANT.—Tbe nwoopublishathefollowing letter.— " 84,—When I wrote the letter which you wee good enough to insert in a recent number of the nom Thad none of my papers at hand, and my chief object wee to give you and the public, thuytighyour columns, the earliest intimation of the imposture which had bean attempted upon us all , but I am now confirmed in my former state. ments that I had never received from the G`ridit loonier Company any sum even approaching 18,0001., as alleged by your false corre spo ndent . 'The directors had no salaries nor board fees u nl ess they attended. The c ommissi o n we received was calculated strictly upon rides that were from time to time deliberately sanctioned after dis cussion at the public meetings, and upon profits which I then believed, and still believe, to have been actually earned for the benefit of the company. On one occasion I refused to accept and returned a sum of money sent me, and calculated as commission on profits accrued while I was still on the direction, but when I had been meas• sully absent from temp racy illness. I have now elm seen the letter in the Ttisw of yesterday from my friend and colleague, Mr. J. Westmoreland, and ,_ eon ' curring from the Aril with his view and that of M r . Lane, I have always been , and still amp repared, to sat. I render any portion of ts ea • dimator, of which I not only any court of law or equity might scalpel the payment, but which any me e i ib a n ib y o f Mummy commercial in might hold to be due from us. I shall not extend lades, or further encroach upon oar space, by any attempt hers to vindicate the cy of my punts and polities] term which you have thought it right to impugn in an artiste asoorapany iag the publication of my last lOUs. It is only aa ohl chirp esvrreksod which I answered and explained years ago in the elec ti on for the West Biding of this sandy in 1869, to which you allude, aod whets, at lead, I may hope that my 7 answer; and explanations edified the 13,000 who »eaedd their votes for me on that occasion.-1 am, dr, you, °bodies* servant, ifram: Woomsr. Woedry- BleMeld, August 28." Tllie LORD Ltainkawirr.—The Manuel Fleet, which remains in Lough loyk t was visited on Saturday by his Exesllesey the Lord Ltenlinant. The !squadron will sail to-day Mead toe Belted Lough, where it may be expected to-morroer morning. It in rumoured that the Duke of Abereom will shortly pays visit to the Duke of Manchester at Tandragee, and, during his stay, will do the Tandragee Spinnizig C.pany the service of darting the machinery of their new Trim EAST Kw Eiscnow AND rye Diertrras.— gy John Croft, a liberal candidate for Beat Kent in • letter to the Mime denies the sharp made against him by Mr. Lotto, Pembertos of having been guilty of gross behaviour" to that gentlandis brother during the last election, adding, " La I was on perfectly timidly terms, not only with Mr. Loftus lownhcaton himself, but with the whole of his funnily derby/sod sham that election, I am surprised that be Amid beak to justify him self by amputations which I now call • owe him to substantiate or withdraw." Anot her letter, written by Mr. E. H. Xnatchbult-Hugesseu, replying to Mr. Pemberton's ac...-naation with regard to the concretion of squibs at the last election, says :—" The late election was prolific of • squibs.' lam ignorant of the author of by far the greater part of these. Nothing was either written or sanctioned by me which could justify the epithet 'scurrilous,' nor do I know to what Mr. Loftus Pend erton alludes in the specific charge which I hear of for the first time to-day. Certainly I never signed another man's name to a production of my own calculated to damage the . supposed writer, and I . agree with Colonel Deedea in stigmatkiny such a proceeding a s ' a disgraceful trick upon the oonstttuency.' FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) WAR OR PEACE. ' Vb. rtiejl of to-day has an article with Orel alnico yCsdlpir. . , Tbe war (it gags) if war is to be, prig is* be 'a. war, of piethey not 'bf conquest, but ( -AV pradige. It will be • rr , for the recovery 01E. the tart rep ui .aVed which has been goospretalaed th& vtetory of Asia:lows. Absolute goveigneent 'had Imski France an essentially military power. The consequenee is that Prance must remain indisputably the most fonnidelde enemy of other countries. This superiority is by no I.)ea,u clear at present, and the uncertainty must be ran melt. This is theirst same of lunar. The second is the necessity of rspahing the reverses of the imperial policy. The war which many persons regard as imminent will have this peculiarity, that them is no imaginable pretext for it. And no one can say what we are to gain by it. (11111100011 asurss's Lotavoir.) SPAIN. MADRID, kuctern 391 The ministerial journal Espana of to-day pub babes an article pointing out the urgent necemity of carrying on works of public utility as a means of preventing revolutionary outbreaks. The authorities have discovered a secret depot of powder and ammunition at Valens, in the province of Alicante. Several bands, each about 60 strong, ha♦e sp pearod in the mountains nom Toledo. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, Auouirr 31. The West Coast of Africa mail steamer Man dingo has arrived here from the West Coast. Her dates aro Benin, August 3 ; Fernando Po, July 30 ; Cameroon, 30 ; Old Calabar, 29 ; Now Cala bar and Bonny, August 2 ; Lagos, 5 ; Aocra, 7 ; Cape Coast Castle, 8 ; Cape Palma., 10 ; Mon rovia. 14 ; Bathurst Castle, 17 ; Toneriffo, 22 ; and Madeira, 24. The Mandingo brings 36 passengers, amongst whom are Governor Maher, of Lagos, and Admiral Patey, from Gambia. The news from all parts on the coast, so far as commerce and health are concerned, was satisfactory. There was a cessation of hostilities between the natives at Bonny. OUR PARIS LETTER. (saw ova owir oosastroxnzrr.) PARIS, Btiviny DIZIIIWG. It appears that the Queen will not return home through Germany. Aooording to present arrange ments she is to pass on through Paris to Cher bourg on the 12th without resting a moment here. At this date the Emperor and Empress will bo staying at the camp of Chalons. M. Drouyn de Lhuys returned to town a few days ago; but instead of going to preside at tho council general of the Aisne, he went back to Lucerne, which he is to leave on the 11th. It is thought that he has gone to Switzerland to discharge a political mission. Be this as it may, warble symp toms continuo to show themselves. Of those ter rible engines of destruction, the mitrailleuses, ordered by the Minister of War, several hundred are manufactured and ready for distribution, They are to be served out to the army in the proportion of one mitrailieuse a oompany. The 2,000 which Marshal NW considers necessary for the safety of France will be furnished before the end of the year. It is stated in different papers that an army clothier to whom a large contract has been given, a little mere than s week ago had 1,800 hands employed both night and day in making panta loons, tents, and " camp effects." The result of the trial of MN. Racy, Guillon, and Ribot, is not yet known here. These gentlemen, it may be remembered, were arrested in the house of M. Beanie?, on the charge of having taken part in an illegal mooting. M. Jules Fevre was retained by them. On his arri val at Nimes this Illustrious member of the French bar was enthusiastically received by the populace, which had turned out to acclaim him. A deputation awaited him at the terminus to offer him the hospitality of the town, and a dense crowd was stationed in the Rue Fencheres, through which he was to have passed ; but when his carriage issued from the court-yard of the terminus a party of police agents ordered the coachman to drive another way. To make sure of their orders being carried out, some of them walked at the horse's head to the hotel, on a balcony of which M. Jules Fevre was twice obliged to show himself to an ex cited multitude in front. Here are fresh details concerning the accident which last Wednesday befel M. de Montalem but at Charquemont, the chateau of M. da Merode, in Pranche Comtk. During an afternoon drive M. de Montelambert (who has long been in a precarious state of health), thinking the horse in need of refreshment ordered him some oats. The coachman, as servants too often do, to keep the bridle clean, removed it; and the horse, on finding himetlf free, rushed forward drawing the carriage with If. de Montalembert in it after him, when, trying to hold him back by the mane, the coachman was thrown violently against the kerbstone. The carriage, a few minutes later, was dashed to pieces, and If. do Ifontalembert pitched against a heap of stones where he was found senseless. The mars Odille, who was the cause of the accident, died in lees than twenty minutes from contusions in the head. Several children who were playing in the road when the horse ran away, narrowly escaped being killed. One of them, a little girl, however, met with serious injuries from which her recovery is doubtful. The Pays has a coarse article on the decision of Victor Hugo and his sons not to follow the remains Madame Hugo beyond the frontier. The liberal press overflows with expressions of sympathy for the family of the poet. The first page of to-day's Agars is exclusively devoted to a biographical notice of Madame Hugo, whose name is closely associated with the litesary greatness of hes hue- band. The Count and Countess of Girgenti dine to-day at Fontainebleau. Their suite is out of all pro- portion with the charge of the countess on the Spanish civil list, or the position of the count, who is only the younger brother of an exiled king. The Emperor has put of his visit to Chalons in order to do them the honours of Fontainebleau, where theyare to pass a few days. The oonntees, though tall and slender, is said to bear a striking resemblance to the Queen of Spain, her mother. Her husband is destined to hold a high rank in the Spanish army. He is a fine looking young man, and served with credit under Benedek, in the campaign of 1866. The match between him and the Infanta was made up by the Pope, who thought that his military experienoe and ap titudes qualified him to become the son-in-law of Isabella, it being necessary to her safety to keep the command of the army in the royal family. The Emperor and Empress, I understand, through the cordial reception they have given the Count and Countess of Girgenti, wish to convey a re buke to the Prince and Princess of Piedmont for neglecting when so near Paris as Brussels to pay their respects to thee. WIESBADEN, Avow)? 27. Homburg was a village which has been con verttcl intrirfibign by a gambling establishment. W (Auditoria Mown in which gambling is but an re ory. -It As, until the sat German war, the cal lb lof the duchy o• Nassau. It beaded of court, of reweeentative chambers, and of a muni cipality which had always protested against the an eetaiiin granted by the sovereign to the spite 'eters who levied blackmail on all comers in tho Kuriuml. In 1849, when most of the small Ger man potentates were driven by their subjects from their thrones, the Duke of Nassau purchased im munity by abject submission to his dearly beloved children, but the gambling establishment was closed, and the citizens, to their credit be it said, refused to allow either trente et guarante or rou lette to be played within their town. When the reaction set in, and the duke, by the aid of Aus trian bayonets, re-acquired his former power, gam bling was again legalised, to the disgust of the Wiesbadeners. It still flourishes, but the Prussians have given the "company" notice to quit, and in 1872 it will come to an end. The townspeople are of opinion that they will gain by this change. Their mineral waters, which taste like chioken broth, and of course cure every disease, will, they imagine, suffice to attract visitors. I should not be surprised if this were the case. All who come to a German watering-place do not drink the waters, but the drinkers form a nucleus, and, as man is a gregarious animal, they attract others. The chief objection to Wiesbaden is its tempera ture. From some unknown cause, in summer it is several degrees hotter than any other place in the neighbourhood of Frankfort. The accommo dation is much the same as at Homburg, but the surrounding country is by far more beautiful. Its walks and drives have been celebrated by Sir Francis Head in his " Bubbles of the Bruunens," and they have lost none of their charm since he wrote. There are two classes of Englishmen who in the autumn leave their native shores for foreign ports. The first class consists of those who are determined to see as much as they can during their excursion. They live in trains, in steamers, or on donkeys. They seem to be of opinion that to remain alive twenty-four hours in the same place is to lose a day—they live with their loins girded up, and their luggage consists of a flannel shirt, two pairs of stockings, a "Bradshaw," and a " Murray." To quiet persons this hurry scurry way of rushing through Europe appears a strange mode of enjoyment, but happiness, as we know, is not an absolute term, and everyone is right to take it where he finds it. The larger class of English tourists consists of individuals, or rather of families, who leave Calais about the commence ment of August, get as quickly as they can through Belgium, and when they find themselves safe in a hotel at Cologne, begin to ask themselves whore they are to pass the next few weeks. Whether rich or poor they are alike anxious to economise, for I have remarked that in proportion to the wealth of the tourist is his anxiety to pay little for his dinner. To this class I would recommend Wiesbaden. It is neither so gaudy, so grand, nor so rakish as Homburg or Baden, but there is an air of solid respectability about it which is not to be found in most German watering-places. The gambling is kept in the back-ground, and does not obtrude itself upon thosewho do not seek it out. There are a good many Russians, and not a few English, but it is princi pally affected by Germans. Ladies do not dress half-a-dozen times a day, and the oldest shooting jacket of Paterfamilias is not out of place. He may sit in the gardens, reading his morning paper, or taking his coffee after dinner,' with nothing to come between the wind and his re spectability. In the neighbourhood of Wiesbaden, however, there are places in comparison with which Wiesbaden is a centre of dissipation and of move ment. Nestled in the midst of a forest are the modest watering-places of Schlangenbad and Schwalbach, and I have often wondered that they are frequented by eo few English. Each has of course its " waters." Schlangenbad boasts of baths, where ladies may be " made beautiful for ever." That they produce this result I am not prepared to say, but they probably are as effica cious as the balms and cosmetics of Madame Rachel, and they certainly are much less costly. Their reputation has stood the test of ages, for they were frequented by the Mrs. Borrodailee of the ancient world. And many a Roman matron, no longer young, but anxious to captivate some young knight or senator, has bad recourse to them. Schwalbach is given up to ladies. I went there some years ago and found myself quite a cynosure, as I was the almost solitary represen tative of the male species. I breakfasted sur rounded by ladies. In the afternoon I went to the borders of a small lake, where the band, repre sented by two gifted beings, who played on the fiddle, was the centre of attraction, but I instead of the band became the attraction, and I felt like the black swan of the Latin grammar. Ladies were everywhere, men nowhere. Fortunately only chairs had been provided for a quarter of the fair creatures, so they made up for the want of beaux by intriguing for chairs. In the evening there was a ball, but still nothing but ladies. I sauntered in, when in a few moments a stalwart dame came up to me, and said, " You are to dance with me, I have won you," and I found that I had been raffled for. Attention from the fair sex is always agreeable, so I soon over came my native bashfulness, and at the com mencement of each dance my name was put into I an urn, and I danced with the lady who drew me. I was the first prize in the raffle, a music-master was the second, and an aged Russian general the th4rd. One old lady, lam convinced, cheated, for to my great grief she won me three successive I times, while the prettiest girl in the room always drew a blank or the veteran. I have not been to Schwalbach this year, because the Emperor of Russia has been there, and I fear that I should no longer be considered a prize. Last year the Prince and Princess of Wales passed some months at Wiesbaden, but those who love royalties have been obliged to put up with a short visit from the King of Prussia, and a Prince of Wurtemberg who passes the season here. The townspeople are not very fond of the Prussians, and they showed it by giving the King a cold re ception, but no love was ever lost between them and their Duke. That ex-potentate has taken up his residence in Frankfort. From the wreck of his fortunes he has saved about 100,0001. a year, his palace at Biberich, a country house called the Platten, and several of the best vineyards in Germany. The wind, therefore, has been tempered to this shorn royal lamb. There are no celebrities of any note here, either British or foreign, no gossip and no scandal. People lounge about all day doing nothing, and doing it with gratifica tion to themselves. The temperature is mild, the society is mild, the gambling is mild, the flirta tions are mild, and the conversation is mild. PROFE:49OII AGABSIZ BOBBED.—A few days sines the house of Professor Agents, in Cambridge, Hass, was entered and ransacked by thieves, the family being absent. A gold watch and penal and some valuable seals are sainted, and possibly other articles ,were taken.—Now York Thew, August 19, XLECTION INTSLIAIENCE. CAMBRIDORIRTIRIL—Lord George Marmon, ,„ Viscount Royston, the conservative candidates for the county of Cambridgeshire, addressed the ere, toi Ot conclusion of the ow n market on tirtuelay :dune en. from one of the stands. There was a very largi• attelida.4 of ba th parties, and amongst their au ditors worn Mr. It. Young and the Right lion. If. Brand, the blab al Dates. Lu,d Geo go Menne,' having brelly dote ' , votes during the present parliament, lend loydon aI. dressed the meeting. He ()testicle d that if M 4 i1a4141,, succeeded in his p ol icy on the Irish church be wo 6 , 1 trio make an attack on the haute of lend. The been taunted with a want of policy, but they had nets,,, „ to do with a dot:aeration of pohey at present. Ti, to resist Mr. Gladatone. Ilia lordship also Ilk I 14.1 t, t:, pawing of the Reform Bill. Mr. Brand Ihnn, :amid oloyeataons, mounted the rostrum. In critiaLing the of the conservative party, the right bon. gemJec e ,,, ,". they themselves had adopted a new name—they called themselves obastitutanialiNta. (A Voice •• And vmy good names too.ii) Whet Wall 6., alltit . lL , Pat ,q, lie would tell them. e apprehended it was s st I conservative, one who hid been educated by that cs,, schoolmaster, Mr. Dimaeh. (Cheese and lausiaar.) Lord Roy.ton gloried on account of the maii..ervat, government .ptiog • Reform Bill giving housch o !.l huge. Well, he gloried in it too; b u t h e cos not underet and the noble lord glorying in because, if be was not very moil tnietaken, it wu not many years ago that the noble Iced owed a Ti. franchise a degradation of the hoe b.,. (Cheers.) Well, then, the noble lord, ar , nr.!lng t published address, gloried in the aboliumi of elvish •rd,.. Be was net aware that his .noble friend had taken active part on the question of chureh-netes. (.;h "'4A As the noble lord had opposed household suffmrs, now gloried in it, and had opposed the ~, church-rates, but now gloried in would probably though now opposing th e di ...tab:,,i,. ment of the Nish church, glory en its diseitablislimiar (Cheers and laughter.) [A Voice: What shone lb,. NI nuoth grant HO would terminate that, awl all endowments in Ireland. Ile would also billy s the endowment of a catholic university. Th s ;, 411 gentleman concluded his address amidd ni;114!od andgroane. A general move was now mad- tar Town-hall, where the liberal candidates aihireitsd crowded =din& and received an alin , ,st unannii 4,14•4 of confidence. ___ _ _ EVILSHAII.—Three candidates are 0,, n . i n LI . field for the reprer.entatiou of thin bor , 4.th. Bourne, the corwervative member, and two u-w candidates, Mr. Hichardion, banker, lAtift,ll, 011 , 1 X, Alex. Holcomb, who dotal from .‘ The Liwa, Wandsworth." _ _ _ EkwrEis.--Sir John Karalake cone] o canvass on Saturday, and prior to leiroi,.! th a few days addressed a crowded meeting of the el ...to, lie confined his remarks chiefly to the , oimasoi, form and the Irish church. His experience ur li\,.te: he said, still further proved to him that the tivee had acted wisely and patriotically in griutto.; generous extennon of the franchise to the people. FINPIBURY.—Mr. Torrene and Mr. Luc issued their addressee. The former hon. gentlotuan i u it • ing of his long advocacy of household suffrstie, that now it has been granted it should be accomi,,,,,, by the ballot. He will support Mr. Glad ton„ a k, policy of disestablishing the Irish church. With eve'. to the national expenditure, believing that then u LA , hope of retrenchment save by lessening the am. nut ALL,. ation, Mr. Torrens is prepared to entertain any well-enttil• dared scheme of reduction with a view to lighteto ing the burdens which enhance the coat of hoc, Mr. Lusk says :—." I have earnestly striven to fultil honestly every promise I made when I first obtain e d p.c. support, and id I have failed in any respect I eak yo.i kindly to judge me by what I did rather than by slut I should have done. All my actions and every vote 1 whether having reference to local or public I conscientiously believed to be for the good of my tuenta and the country at large." NOBWICIT.—A rt;quisiti - on is being got up f in duce Mr. Benjamin Leigh Smith, son of the Lite m mm.r for Nonrieh, to stand for that borough in conon..t”., with Mt. Tillett. Mr. Benjamin Leigh Smith ill ICII•er, to a large circle of friends as a man of great eirn,tin.,, and capacity, a consistent liberal, and clear-heeded y.h tician. He is a member of Lincoln's-inn, and gnu.' Lee! in honours at Jews College, Cambridge. NOITINGLIAM.—A largo meeting of the snp potters of Sir It. Clifton war held ou Friday night, in market-place. &mai resolutions were carried, on Sir Robert to again stand for Nottingham, the main.; pledging itself to do its utmost to promote his return, no election to be conducted on the beet principle* of dente in every reepeot, and to secure his election fov expense. A deputatton war then appointed to wait upon sir Raped, inviting him to stand, and the meeting cow ludol with three cheers for the hon. baronet and Lady Clifton, OXFORD Ctrir.—The conservatives have objeet,l to between 700 and 800 voters, a large proportion of wiwit: are working men, who will thus be put to trobl.:,, and in order to prove their right to the fraud..., awest:mt.—Mr. Clement and Mr. (1....r4 , Towline, the sitting members for this borough, 141V1 retied addresses solicit - rag SOUTUAIIMON. Mr. Russell Gurney, Recorder of London, has issued an address soliciting election for the borough of Southampton, for which h.. fat in the conservative interest during the late parliamuut. SWANBEA.—Mr. Hillwyn has trued his addre4, seeking re-election. ViARVTICKSHIRi (8017111).—A requisition Iltl been presented to Sir Robert Hamilton, of Avon Bin;;. requesting him to come forward in the liberal inta'Ll•At on 'unction with Lord Hyde. WENLOCK.—Mr. Alexander Hargreaves 8r..0.0. the liberal candidate for Much-Wenlock. is tho of the late Sir William Brown, Bart., of Liverias.l. Wurrnv.—The Rev. W. Keene, M.A., the re•t i 7 of Whitby, in view of the approaching election, lit, Li:: •t the somewhat unusual course of issuing a politic.d pet .t d address to his paiinhionem, "on the eunvaas of Mt. W H. Gladstone for the borough of Whitby." The ell,. • is devoted entirely to the Irish church question, wlde; • rev. gentleman baiter will " test the hou,ir awl Ir , nn:,t of every individualvoter, and assail the into;:rity, vintu..l welfare, and ultimata prosperity of the nation." WILTON.—Mr. E. Antrobus, the ie....en' member, bas just issued a second addrees Inference drawn from his first that he had conlidol.., P the Irish church establishment. If re-elected, he says he shall be prepared to give his support to ite satid , - bshments THE PAM('E IMPERIAL AT FONTAINEBLE According to the Ittdipouldereee Beige the Prince Imp :rill dances a good deal at Fontainebleau, although his pr ceptor, M. Filon, proved himself lamentably delleitn:t n the art on a late occasion, when he was dancing to the young Prince. M. Pike has accordingly cruse• menced to take lessons in the art and it showing lau•Lihl : seals improving his education in this ruspeet. following words are attributed to his imperial highuees. which shows that his religious education has not boon neglected :—" When lam Emperor I will hero rylpnly perform his religions duties—l will not hare p, ores without religion." It is said that ho shows great apti tude for music, but the Emperor rather ili-icouragns inclination in his son. "I will not lust him a eulmr.;, ' was the oloervati an of his Majesty. ETON COLLEOII.—The long vacation will t,rini nate on Wednesday, the 23rd of September, with tlin turn of the lower boys. The fifth and sixth form- will come on the two succeeding days. The principal butt ton work during the recess is the adding mother ston•! the "old Christopher," now in the occupation or tha Rev. F. Wad, as an extension to his boarding-home. Tin greatly increasing number of pupils at Eton—now -oecessitatee the enlarging of accommodation in every possible manner. TRH mien Cinivii A01TR2202t.--On Thuraly night the Rev. Dr. liassingluun delivered a lecture in de fence of the Irish church establishment, at the Mane Rouse, Newbury, under the auspices of the uswlyefortnei Constitutional association. No resolution wan put to the meeting at the thee, as it was evident, as stated ;dm by the mayor, who is connected with the airiciatimi that the numbers . Present were pretty freely di v id e d. On the fol lowing night (Friday) the Rev. C. wuname , of Southamp ton, delivered a reply, and the result showed that a moo template refutation could scarcely have been fite'll• A t ' the close a resolution oondemning the statements advanced on the previous evening. andapproving of the diseetablid r went of the Irish church, was carried with only two sentients. Cheers were given for the lecturer. the chair man (Mr. G. White). and the liberal auulidates for Berko (Messrs. Walter and Herbert). A treaty of friendship and commerce bet,ven Belgium and Siam weeggned on the29th inst .at the Belgian Legation by the respective ministers plenipotoutimli Baron du Jardin and Xir John BOATiair, Lord Mayo has announced, in a spec ' ial circula r to magistrates, that henceforth practising barrieterv. sob eitors, and attorneys will not be excluded from cornro• tion for petty aseeions elerkshipe in Ireland, ii under firoftv years of age, but they must gyve up the practice of ti profession if appointed to that cake. Srmanu OBerrarronoNe To COMMIBCE. — A or" eat (says the Lisorpeel ..416ins) oors m cnicaU- th a . following r facts to us :—" A noel sailed from Liver."' for Bilbao, with a cargo of wheat, on the 6th inst, with' clean bill of health from the Spanish Coruna, had a long passage of twelve days, and was ordered three are, quarantane, at the end of which she was ordered to Vlir to perform another quarantine of ten days, and the wind bong strong in, she is still detained at the bar; whore" steam vessels nailing after the 6th have been admitted with three days' observation. Will not our rulers try. some means to bring the Spanish government to reason ? Shipowners have continually to complain of the obstrue: lions placed in their way by the Spanish authorities. sol until our government mates up its mind to retaliate ea Spanish vessels coming to English ports, we are not lik e) ! to obtain any amelioration of the obnoxious and senseless regulations which exist at many of the Spanish ports CRYSTAL PALACIL—HALF-A - CRO WN &OVID" AljeVir 29. t9 l by seance tickets, 3 1 09 3 i ditto on payesent,l,l9l-404.1 visitors, 419"- r ira