The Express. — London, England, 1866-08-25 00:00:00

THE EXPIiESq, SATURNY EVENING, AUGUST 25, -1366. I GOLD CHAINS.—JOHN BROODEN boss to call the attention of the gab& to the POEM of 114- VOICE which he delivers wild odd Chains pezobaaed at his manufactory : s. 64 Maas long To workmanship of pattern chain, To (IS) carat gold, weighing or. dwt pa, at 43 3s. aid per ounce. Mint price Total L • Upon Ws wins, the QUALITY, WEIGHT, and VALUE of the grid are actually defined, and guaranteed to the purelmoar •has Breeden looking for a fair remuneration on the workman ship only, which is charged according to the intakes* or simpli city of the pattern. —Manufactory, lf, Henrlettawtreet, Covent garden, Lembo*. Jand G. SAMPSON, Tailors and Outfitters, . 1 and 2, Prtncesatreer, Leicester-square, W., keep an enonnoes Mock ot BOY'S CLOTHING ready sat Bons Belekerboeker Buns Eton and Ores. Bolts St lo 40s. Sumer Overcoats let to Vs. Iltdtable for .11 times CtO AND SEE THE SHOW NJ' of 12s. ed TB.OUSIELS in the shop window, and select therefrom, at J. and O. SAMTISON'9, Tailors awl Ontettere, I sad; Princes street, Leloseteregeare, (PRIZE MEDAL AWARDED. ALLEN'S PATENT PORTsqopardngs. US and TRAVELLING BAGS with uare LADIES' WARDROBE TRUNKS, DRESSING BAG., with rinser fittings DESPATCPI BOXES, WRITING and DRESSING CASES, and 111* other articles for borne or continental travelling. Illestrated catalogues post tree. Also Allen's Barrack Furniture Ca4bgae al Portable Bed steeds, Dramas, Easy Chars, Washband stands, Cantons, de., J. J. W. ALLEN, Manufacturer and Patentee. $7. West Strand, London. W. C. I . ~i ! $. t , I. r.l 1 the needle-gun to carry the Prussian ag ree through that wood at Chlum, swept by ern and upto within twohumbed yards el the Amillog before they could bring their weapon into play. There was ample courage on both aides, but the Prussian military system brought the weight of superior intelligence and morale which, combined with discipline, never fail to tell. Here again the system is in strong contrast to our own, as well as other European military organizations ; it has neither the defects nor the oppression of the con scription, nor the failings and vices of our recruit ing by so-called volunteers. While we take the scum of the large towns and the needy field labour ers, both for our regulars and militia, the Prussians take the whole mass leavened as it is naturally, the good with the bad. They get a steady army free comparatively from the crime and desertion which thin our ranks regularly by at least 10 per cent., and add enormously to the cost of the service, and while the country is thus ably and efficiently served the social and physical condition of the people is raised, and the national spirit maintained. Compulsory cervioe even in this very modified and least objectionable form does not sound agreeable to our ears, but it is a question whether our 120,000 militia might not be converted into a more military body that would enable us to relieve our regular army from some part of their long foreign service, and reduce their term of enlistment with out curtailing their claims, thus making the service attractive to a better class of men. The militia are now hardly worth their salt, but if they were regularly embodied, by a few regiments at a time, for three years, according to a roster of service, they might be made more like the German Landwehr, and turned to good account for garrison duty at home, and perhaps in the Channel Islands. We doubt also whether such a force would not as readily accept foreign service as the regular troops always do now. This would be an improvement upon the annual month's training, which really amounts to an an nual disturbance of the county town, and only con tributes to make the most idle more dissolute and disorderly. When the militia regiments were last embodied we remember how it was considered a great grievance that they were dismissed to their homes, and how it was found that they furnished many good recruits to the line—men who preferred the soldier's life, after thus trying it against the civilian's. The present army of volunteers would no doubt willingly yield many good men to a force thus raised into equality with the regulars, whose noble traditions they would be ambitious some day to share. We can see no such dire rence between Germans and Englishmen that this kind of compulsory service, which would be so only as all honourable contracts are compulaory, should not be found acceptable enough, especially as the Volunteer movement has shown that we are not quite so unmilitary a people as was once supposed. THE WEEKLY PRESS. How is the Emperor satisfied? asks the Examiner, in an article on " The Result of the French Emperor's Plettings." Are we to look at the cards on the table, or to reckon on those which may be under the table? Probably there is a court card under the table ; it may be that the little passage of bad play gone through with ostentation of good humour by the French gambler, as against his Prus sian confederate, is only a delusive prelude to the plucking of some now unoonsdous pigeon. That this may be so the Examiner has some reason for thinking. But if it be not so, if we are to look only at the game aboveboard, to see what tricks have been made, and what lost, and how the open game has gone, the French Emperor has played a losing game, and been put out in all his cal. oulations. The engineer is hoist into the air with his own petard. Amongst the curiosities of history must be placed his modest demand upon victorious Prussia for a slice of her territory. The answer was tantamount to "come and take it if you can." The Emperor knew better than to insist, and said quietly—Let us be Mends. He is praised for changing his mind ; but, if the demand was serious, he should have changed his mind sooner, with the change of events and I fortune. He should have abandoned his scheme of com• penestion when he found the power and prowess of Prussia so much beyond hie calculation, and that she was not less able to hold what was her own than to take largely what was not her own. The demand in such case was the blunder which the great French diplomatist con demned as worse than crime, and a rebuff was the con sequence. The wonder is that the Emperor uid not rectify his policy sooner. He might soon and easily have learnt that Prussia would not part with an inch of the soil which she is thoroughly well able to protect. Can be win by the card under the table ? He may not even dare to play it. His policy in other directions is coming to a bad end. Mexico is punishing his unprin cipled interference. He cannot sliced to waste more blood and treasure on the puppet be has set up, and whether he perseveres or withdraws, the result must be a signal and disastrous failure. Napoleon 111. believes in his star, and are there not signs of its waning? The Examiner is not without hopes of seeing political justice deal out the re tributions of poetical justice. In a second article, headed "TheSouthamptonScandal," the Exlmiaer contrasts the reception given by the people of Southampton to Kossuth with that given to Mr. Eyre. In the former case Englishmen went forth to welcome tho fearless though unfortunate man who bad risked and lost livelihood, home, and all that makes life sweet, in the effort to snatch the dripping lash and the hangman's cord from Austria's hands. Now we have peers without influ ence and sycophantic municipals crawling roundawretehed maladministrator, with whose name will never cease to be associated the implements of lawless and ruthless torture. Then Southampton shouted as one man. Thank God there are now two voices, and the predominant voice, that of nine men out of every ten, has been one of loathing and execration. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Looking around him from his nest at the Vatican, Pio None sees himself deserted, says the Saturday Review. His old allies are gone, and gone for ever. A liberal European power has crept np on every side of him, almost to the walls of Rome, and the wave of Austrian influence has receded in proportion. The Pope therefore Is alone, except so far u he can rely on the precarious piety of the Emperor Napoleon. Send! medic.* defames is hates. There are but two courses open to him besides the ignominious alternative of flight. He may either throw himself on the menhir arm of France, or make his peace with the Italian government ; and both courses are naturally distasteful to an old man who has a childish terror of the growth of democratic opinions which he observes on all sides. To him the French Emperor is only the first French Revolution with a pious face and with ostentatiously decor ous manna& And the progress of Italian politics threatens too immediately the status of the Catholic hierarchy in Italy to make it agreeable for Pio Nam to accept the future mapped out for him and for his clergy by the Italian Chambers. It is difficult for him to know what to decide, and meantime, if accounts from Rome are veracious, he hesitates daily between two paths, and is inclined at one hour to call the French Emperor, and at another the King of Italy, to his arms. We may, the Saturday Retitle thinks, expect that the efforts of Napoleon 111. will be exerted to bring about some reasonable compromise between Pio Nono and the Italian government ; and though Pio Nono is obstinate, and the Italian Chambers are not conciliatory, a compro mise of the sort, as a consequence of the Peace of Prague, cannot be considered impossible. In an article headed, " Mr. Charles Kingsley's New Creed," the Sperlatur remarks :—" Mr. Eyre is so noble, brave, and chivalric a man, so undaunted a servant of the Crown, so illustrious as an explorer in Australis and a saviour of society in the West Indies, that peers, actually peers—my soul sinks with awe as I repeat peers—mem bers of the `sacred' order, which represents chivalry, which adopts intoita ranks all genius, all talent, all virtue, and all beauty, condescend, not indeed to give him a dinner—that would be too much—but to dine in the same room with him." Only imagine Charles Kingsley, apostle of muscularShriatianity, author of " Yeast," of " Alton Locke," of the only song ever likely to be used as an agricultural Marseillaise,saying a speech which will condense into that at a public dinner, with reporters present. So odd is the exploaion of dunkeyism, so utterly out of accord with the whole character of the man, yet so evidently genuine that it is almost impossible to discuss it seriously, or animadvert on it with the scorn it so thoroughly deserves. Such a speech is one of those surprises which provoke only • faintly amused laughter; it is like a bad pun, mirthful only because of an absurd incongruity. That Mr. Kingsley should admire and defend Mr. Eyre we can understand, can, we think, ex plain as a natural development of his mind, but that he should go down on his knees to the peerage, declare the Red Book " sacred"—he, the Christian socialist--an insti. tntion " second in sacredness to that most sacred of insti tutions, monarchy," and consequently more sacred than the church. Was there ever a funnier little window opened in a man's mind? W. *naiad by one d his aideede-cemp, Captain Swat Jervis. Is the end Certain Jervis wee acieused d yawls. dans waa &Waded befog, his bonbar sid•erai and planed I SPERM OF THE BING OF 7.318814. rinderearest. Then • general oont-enatial was Aratreli,, I The Merit Gazette publishes the following imply and, thus beset, Captain Jerrie brought 4 an action against Sir William Mansfield for 1,40 D rupees, alleged to be due of the Kin g of Prussia to an address Prawn" to on a building account, and another action for defamation him by the thunithFal authorities Of Brandenbu r g : of character, in which he lays the damages at • Ise of lam delighted tkat you are mime be express your ern rupees-10,000t. The court-martial was sitting at Simla pithy with me. Your address contains the whole truth. when the last mail left, and additional charges of Yon are right in saYlriff that great things have been misappropriating wine, giving Parties at ear 'William accomplished, and I return thanks to God that I Mansfield's expense, and otherwise making free with am in the position I occupy —I, who have victuals and drink were brought against Captain Jervis, aided in obtaining this mighty success. lam personally So far as Captain Jervis's defence has been beard it se ems convinced of the immense calamities and sufferings which to the Times that he has fully exonerated himself. The wet inflicts on nations and peoples, and lam grateful to accused shows great determination, and if he perseveres in God that these disastershavebeen spared to myown people. in his two actions at law this scandal will be the first and Bat we owe theeesaceesses to our army, exceedingly valiant last lesson Sir William Mansfield will ever need to take in and incomparable, as you say in your address. I have farming. Great mistakes in farming hive been made before seen it accomplish, on different °cessions, heroic exploits now, but the Timm remembers Done at once so oomplete which history will insert in its =Debit and I haws °and and so ludicrous as this of Sir William Mansfield's. He dance that its success will contribute to the safety of has handled the sword so much to his honour that it is a Prussia and of Germany. Much still remains to be done. pity he should ever have meddled with the crook and the Our arms have been blessed : blamings will not be sheep pen. wanting to the pen. The frontiers of Prussia will be enlarged. The address says very properly that the Prus sian kings will never lose the confidence of their people- For myself I can say I never lost that confidence, although an attempt was made to alienate my people from me by • inveigle against an institution which is exactly what has procured for us these brilliant results. The dope ties,—yours too, gentlemen,--made my life very un comfortable during the last four years. But this is now pardoned, though I never can forget it. It is a bitter experience which I shall bequeath to my son. However, gentlemen, as I have said, let us turn our looks from the past to the present and the future, and let us have °Galt dense. Once more, I thank you for your address, which the strict tt ath. LATEST INTELLII ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA. QIIEF.NSTOWN, AVOUNT 25. The Royal Mail steam-ship China arrived here at 5.45 this morning, with 117 passengers, and 25,215 dollars in specie. She landed a portion of the mails, consisting of 111 sacks, and proceeded for Liverpool at 6 s.m. All well. She was detained twelve hams at Halifax by fog. NEW YORK. Ave= 16, EVIIFUnk The Philadelphia Convention has elected Senator Doolittle as chairman. Mr. Vallandigham has withdrawn from the convention. The Massachu setts and South Carolina delegations entered the , convention arm in arm amidst cheers for President Johnson and the 36 loyal states. The President telegraphed that the people must be trusted. The country, he said, would be restored, and his faith was unshaken as to their ultimate success. The convention adjourned to-day, the 16th, after passing resolutions declaring the Union and the Constitution to be restored, and that neither Congress nor government could deny representation to any state. The resolutions urge the people to elect none but men admitting this principle. The right to prescribe qualification for the elective franchise is reserved to states. No state can with draw from the Union, nor, by its action in Con gress, exclude another state from the Union. The resolutions further tender sincere support to Presi dent Johnson. _ . —..... Cholera is abating in New York, but is raging fearfully through the west and south-west. The Bavaria has arrived out, and been placed in quarantine. She has had eight cases of cholera and three deaths on board. (By ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, stover 23. President Johnson has abandoned the Fenian prosecutions. MEXICO. NEW YORK, AUGUST 16, Evarnrcl Adrices received here from Matamoros to the 10th inst. announce that the liberals occupied Monterey, Saltillo, and other towns on the 28th ult. The imperialists retreated to Sans Luis Potosi. Marshal Bazaine had set out for the City of Mexico. Juarez was en route for Monterey. The liberals occupied Tampico on the let inst. The American general, Lewin Wallace, had arrived at Matamoros in a steamer from New York with men, arms, and ammunition for the liberals. Wallace holds the commission of major-general in the liberal army. A French corvette is blockading Matamoros. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mom OUR owle CORRZOTORDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVZJThO. A Paris letter in the Independence Beige says that before it was decided to insert the paragraph in the Afoniteur denying that the Emperor had written an autograph letter to the King of the Belgians, a long discussion took place on the sub ject between the Emperor and his ministers, many of whom thought it most unnecessary to contra dict the story of one Sovereign having written to another to protest that he did not mean to filch the whole or a part of his dominions. "It is supposed," continues the Inel•lpendattet, " that the motive which finally determined the insertion of the note was a desire to imply that the considera tion which the French government professed for the rights of neutral powers did not extend to others, and in particular was not obligatory in regard to those nations which might make an abusive use of armed intervention." A considerable crowd passed the night in the Place de la Roquette in the hope of seeing the murderer Collignon executed. The news has transpired this morning that the Emperor has com muted the sentence to imprisonment with hard labour for life. This is the wretch who, as the agent of his sister, threw her husband's daughter, a child ten years old, into the Seine. The only ground for the commutation must be that the brutality of the action, coupled with the absence of any selfish motive, is deemed to imply weakness of intellect. The Avenir National says letters dated Breslau, August 21, have been received by several Germans in Paris informing them that the Prussian govern ment has ordered the mobilisation of the last re serve (ersatz reserve) of the landwehr, which at the beginning of the month it had been resolved not to call out. Ido not find this news confirmed, and doubt its truth. The King of Prussia has put a distringaa upon a quantity of choice Rhenish wine, which the Duke of Nassau, in the beginning of July last, had re moved from his cellars, and deposited for safe custody in the Strasbourg Custom-house. Prussian agents now swear that great part of this wine came from "domanial" vineyards, of which the duke was not the absolute owner, and that the state of Nassau now belonging to Prussia, has a lien upon them. I presume that nothing but a lawsuit can decide this weighty question. A very old lady, who passed for being the largest landed proprietor in France, the Marquise de Pommereu, died on Tuesday last at her hand some mansion in the Faubourg St. Germain, which she had inhabited for more than half a century. She was the daughter of the Marquis d'Aligre, a peer of France and the descendant of two Chancellors of that name. In the time of the first empire she married the Marquis de Pommereu, a member of the council general of the Seine Inf4rieure, and the representative of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Nor mandy. She leaves three sons to inherit an im mense fortune both in real and personal property. The pri%ilege of selling the catalogue at the Universal Exhibition, put up to public competition by sealed tender, has been awarded to M. Dentin the Palais Royal publisher, who made the enor mous bidding of 503,000 fr. (20,1201.) A Florence letter says that Admiral Persano is preparing his defence in a royal chAteau, the Vigils della Regina, near Turin, where he is leading a retired life with his wife, his son, Lieutenant Per nano, and a relative, General Cicala. He occa sionally receives despatches from the Bing, who appears to take great interest in his case, and some little time since, when the admiral was at Ancona, sent his aide-de-camp, Count Litta, on a confiden tial mission to him. The Italian journal the Movimento says that the letters of Deputy Boggio said to have been fished out of the sea after the battle of Lissa are forgeries concocted by the Persano party. It must be ad mitted that these letters turned up with a suspicious apropos. _ . . The Bourse was firmer, but business continues to be extremely restricted. Rent* rose 20c. for cash, and lbc. for account, closing at 69fr. 25c. in each ease. Italian rose 46c., closing at 69fr. 250. Mo biller and Credit Foncier rose Mr. each. The Memorial of Amiens gumminess that M. Perillier, agent de change of that place, has just been declared a bankrupt by the Tribunal of Com merce. The liabilities are supposed to be heavy. 1 , 1 if ,( 2 . . • THE EXPRESS, . SATIJED4Y EVE _.. _ . gIOLD CH A INS. —JOHN BROOD EN beg s the needle-gun to carry the Prussian edam •W. Mlandlehl by one of his aidesde-cessp, Caplet& Beset VI to call the attent i on of the pshito to mof e roam through thit wood at cm t h • N ib' • Jervis. Is the end Ceistain Jarvis wee sensed of pawls- VOICE which he delivers with Gold Chains pedibseed at his Univ IMF y etY. tins , ~„.. manufactory K 1 & and upto within twohuncleed yards of the Amalie= --alresa.d balms his blialur *lbws' sad pissed BPI To workmanship of pattern chain, 54 inches long before they could bring &sir weapon into undersexed. Then • general ocent-emetial was ;tit, 1 Th e To (18) carat gold, weighing oa. dwt pa, at P IG, '" and, thus beset, Captain Jervis brought 4an satins against 4). £3 Se Std par ounce, Mint prim -- Sir William Mansfield for 1 , 400 rupees, alleged to be due o f- ',_ _ e Total E Primed= military system brought the weight of on a building account , and another action for defamat ion him 1)3 • Vete Ws imam, the QUALITY . WEIGHT, and VALUE of , . she geld see actually denied, and guaranteed to the purchaser; superior intelligence anti inorale which, combined of character, in which he lays the damages at •kw of lan J os /Seem looking for a fair eemtherathe en th e weekthen- with discipline, never fail to tell. Here • the rapees-10,000t. The court-martial was sitting at Simla PsthY ' ship may, which is charged according to the intrierey or simpli- city of the pattern.—Masufsztory, 16, Henriettestreet, Covent- system is in strong contrast to our own, as well as when the last mail left, and additional charges of You sA garden. Webs• mesa propriating wine, giving parties at Big 'William soooluY other European military organizations ; it has • Mansfield's expense, and otherwise making free with am 1 . 4 J and G. SAMPSON, Tailors and Outfitters, neither the defects nor the oppression of the coa- -1 e I and L Princesatreet, Leloesterequare, W., keep an victuals and drink were brought against Captain Jervis. aided i scription, nor the failings and vices of our recruit- se far as Captain Jervis's defence has been heard it seems convinc 1 snormons Stock of BOY'S CLOTHING ready made. Boys Knickerbocker Sults Eton and Ones Snits Ms. to 40s. SCA= of the large towns and the needy field labour- accused shows great determination, and if he perseveres in God till ; summer overcoats . to Suitable for ell times in his two actions at law this scandal will be the float and But we • ~. its Ala era, both for our regulars and militia, the Prussians lagt leseon Sir Wam Mansfield will ever need to take in and lc take the whole leavened as it is naturally, G 0 ., 14.' N ttoulleats E ! th e T aii ii z SHOW thenit good with the bad. They get a steady . army free . comparatively from the crime and desertion which now, but the Times remembers none . at once so complete which 1 sad so ludicrous as this of Sir William Mansfield's. He dance ! !.' (PRIZE MEDAL AWARDED. thin our ranks regularly by at least 10 per cent ., has handled the sword so much to his honour that it is a Friuisii ALLEN'S PATENT PORT US and and add enormously to the cost of the service, pity he should ever have meddled with the crook and the , 04 • T 11 TRAVELLING BAGS with squar m e si madat ee and while the country is thus ably and efficiently s h eep Pen- wantin LADIES' WARDROBE TRUNKS, D enlargt , • diver fittings. G ' with served the social and physical condition of the eases ki DESPATCH BOXES, WRITING and DRESSING CASES, and people is raised, and the national spirit maintained. THE WEEKLY PRESS. Ste other articles for home or continental travelling. Illestrated For in] catalogues post tree. Compulsory corvine even in this very modified and --•-- an att4 Also Allen's Barrack Furniture Ca d ratable Red - least objectionable form does not sound agreeable How is the Emperor satisfied ? asks the Examiner, eteeAs, Drawees, Easy Chairs, Washhan=s, Cantons, As., strut& . post free. to our ears, but it is a question whether our in an article on " The Result of the French Mai,peroes Pee= J. W. ALLEY, Manufacturer and Patentee. FL West strand, 120 000 militia might not be converted into a more Elottin s." Are we to look at the cards on the table, or to eics, — , Landon. W. C. i gr , %. military body that would enable us to relieve our reckon on those which may be under the table? Probably i condom 1 regular army from some part of their long foreign there is a court card under the table ; it may be that the now pt 11-' itite erpreoo. service, and reduce their term of enlistment with- little passage of bad play gone through with ostentation of : expo re good humour by the French gambler, as against his Prue_ I gentle' I I - out curtailing their claims, thus making the service put to sum' confederate, is only a delusive prelude to the plucking 0 TO CORRESPONDENT& attractive to a better class of men. The militia of some now unconscious pigeon. That this may be so the dawn Ateerelle nenee in t e nded for "The la io wN4" imd°lllirenin g are now hardly worth their salt, but if they were Examiner has some reason for thinking. But if it be Vinare o=must be at the Odic, 10, souverlestrest, by Two ic on the day of publication. regularly embodied, by a few regiments at a not so, if we are to look only at the game aboveboard, pRo4 --- -- time, for three years, according to a roster of to see what tricks have been made, and what lost, and t I PRINCESS'S. service, they might be made more like the German how the open game bas gone, the French Emperor Th 4 1 1 Tim imams, THE HUGUENOT CAPTATN. Messrs. Vining, end G. Honey; Misses Neilson, Augusta Thermos, end am Landwehr, and turned to good account for garrison atirling.—And QULET LODGING& duty at home, and perhaps in the Channel has played a losing game, ann put out in all his cal. outs • The enpn* eer is bout into the air with his ProciE own petard. Amongst the curiosities of history must be Naha Witt ei;preoo. TO COREESPONDENTS. hemlines:anis intended for "The Express," Landow Evening P meat be at the Mice, Pk Bouverleolreet, by Two de on the day of publication PEINCESE. TEM EsEsisS, THE HUGUENOT CAPTATA. Messrs. ',bass. Sad G. H Aad ; Misses Nellsos, Augusta Tboassas, and MIS. lIIILET LODGING& BYIT4 Tins Emma, TIM MUTINY AT THE NOBS.—Mr. O. W. Jester: Mr. C. Brown; The New Ethiopians; Mr. T. Evans & Mir Amy Rosalind ; Miss LystiaLatimer ; Muter R. asaden.— Acid JACK MLNOO, THE LONDON STREET BOY. NIGH WATZB AT LONDON BEIDOL TIM DA;=riontrnilij. 44m:::::AtiatVoW. 11 He. TO.MORROW—Morning, Eh. 1m Ananias, Id Um LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25. Tau brilliant campaign which Prussia has just closed with such signal triumph to her arms offers certain lessons to us which no national vanity or overweening confidence in ourselves should lead us to disregard. Any one who has followed the brief and rapid course of the war must have been struck with the completeness of everything, from the first start to the consummation of the plan of action, and the final victorious result at Sadowa. Could our War Department have organized, and our Generals have planned and carried out, such a campaign without a reverse, a false move, or a break down of any kind ? As to the War Department, there is no reason whateverto give us increaseof faith in the capacity of its administration, or the prac tical efficiencyof theorganization adopted; the name has been changed into one that sounds more loud and powerful, but we suspect the old weaknesses _ . of constitution would show themselves at the lint strain upon the sinews of the department. The heads would come into collision, and the hands and legs would be waiting for orders, or doing every thing that would have to be undone. As to the generals and the fighting men, they would, no doubt whatever, rise to the occasion, and as cer- tainly triumph in the end ; but it would be after having vanquished their old enemy, " The Depart " manta." We have no confidence in the system which, Sir Joan Busoonsrc told us, in his evidence to the committee on our military organisation, could not be ready for a campaign in less than a year. It is not bravery or good strategy that we have now to point to so much in the Prussian campaign, thougl it would be difficult to praise these qua lities too highly, but the perfect working of a mili tary system that enabled an army thrice the num ber of any that we could bring into the field to be equipped, and in the space of a week, after a series of minor battles in its march through a difficult country, concentrated upon a chosen battle ground to win a decisive victory. The precision with which this junction of corps to form one great host was accomplished was a most vital point in the success, and had it failed " Sadowa" might not have remained to be borne on the Prussian colours. That any military organization should be able to work such rapid results without bending to those accidents of war the dealing with which has hitherto been accounted an important part of the art is astonishing enough, but it is still more remark able that this was done by an army one-third of which only may be said to have been the standing army of the country, the rest being called out from the store of fighting men which the system provides. Indeed, with the exception of the recent Danish campaign, the Prussian army had no expe rience, the instruction of its officers and men hid been one of theory for half a century; but then to what different purpose must this time of inaction have been occupied to that which em ployed our army and War Office between Waterloo and the Crimea ! At that time the Prussian army had their needle-gun, when we sent out our lines men with the old " brown bees," although it was well known that the breechloader, which has now been accepted as an indispensable weapon, was in use in the Prussian service. It was also, we believe, actually shown to the "proper authorities." and, as it now turns out, the present Superin:endent of the Woolwich laboratory, Colonel Boise, in 1854 specially directed attention to the importance of such a weapon. But our " Select Committee" were intent then upon a rifle with great range and accuracy, and they were so far right in establishing Enfield and arming the Guards with the weapon that brought down the Russians by sections at the Alma and Inkermann ; but still we have to thank our lucky star that Russia had not got the Prussian needle-gun. We may admit that this was to some extent an excusable oversight, but still it remains undeniable that the Prussian War Department saw those valuable qualities in a breechloader rifle of which our Department were entirely ignorant, and remained so for ten years. It is this want of official intelligence and foresight that we have to complain of ; that we pay a price that should give us the pick of every kind of talent, and yet we are led by an official eye thlt never sees an inch beyond the official nose. There is not a single improvement in modern warfare that has not had to be hurriedly forced into adoption by our War Department under most urgent stress, whether it is iron-plated ships, turret-ships, or breech-loading rifles. Unfortu nately, too, there is still a heavy arrear against them on all these points, to say nothing of high steam power, twin screws, steel guns and their projectiles, to which our mechanical engineering science has been pointing for years past. The fault of our system is that years of time and millions of money are lost in tinkering our arms and ships, while the real fighting power of men and officers, and a military system in perfect work . ing order, are for ever being neglected. But the weapon of the Prussian army is really the least element in their success. It most have required something more than the possession of BRIBERY AT ittEcrioNs. " More election commissions !" exclaims the Times. It expects great things from Totnes, but the evi demo at the Reigate commission does not add anything striking to the annals of bribery ; it only gives us an addi tional scene of the loose morality which prevails. It is in vain that people look solemn, and shocked, and horrified, and grieved, and indignant ; all these grave faces are con sidered by our borough populations to be parts of the general sham. "We get our fit., and you look like a judge at us—that is to say, we play our part, and you play yours." That bribery is a misdernamour is a part of the joke, and gives a high relish to the whole proceeding. In the judgment of the electors, it cannot, they think, matter a straw to the nation which of the candidates is elected. In this state of the case a poor man is offered • gratuity if I he will vote for one of them. They have their moral dis tinctions, and it seems to be considered unfair for a man to be bribed by two sides, or to be bribed by one side and vote for the other ; but as for a man receiving a 5/. note and voting for the gentleman who gives it—the im morality of such • transactions as this lies altogether beyond them. All possible ultimate tendencies are mere abstractions in their eyes. What harm they are doing they cannot see. Even dwellers in 16/. and 121. houses are unable to penetrate this mystery. Both the receivers and distributors of bribes give their evidence with the greatest openness and in the easiest and most cheerful way imaginable. " What slid I want' I was asked. I put up my hand and said five.' He said. ' Very well, I will give it you out of my own pocket.' I " ' • went then and voted." "All the voters," says a distri• hater, "expected to be paid. When you told them it would be all right they understood it to mean they would be paid. A nod is enough." A defrauded and aggrieved witness moralises before the commission :—" I voted for Gower, but have never got anything. When a man promises he ought to do it." The distributors of bribes enter into the joke more genially and vigorously than the passive recipients. They wield their weapon with a grand and exulting swing, and their languge is re dolent of that mirthfulness and facetiousness which attend so often upon spirited operations. If the Daily News turns to Reigate, it sees much the same state of things as at Yarmouth, without, however, the excuse, if excuse it be, of any party considerations being involved. The three candidates at the last election are described as being "all thorough liberals ;" but per sonal or local considerations seem to be just as efficacious in extracting money as any political distinctions can be. " There is a little jealousy," it seems, " existing between Redhill and Reigate ;" and " Mr. Gower has the ma jority among the Reigaters, and Mr. Monson at Redhill." In one respect, however, the Reigate tactics are very j superior to those in use at Great Yarmouth. In the former place the great invention has been introduced of bribing on credit and not paying the bills. A promise of Si. usually means a payment of 21., a promise of 3/., a pay- • ment of 30a. Apparently this practice has been in use for 1 some time, for one witneu says :—" A person named Stephens asked me what I wanted. I held up my fingers and said "—as being determined to leave no room for mistake—" ` Five.' Stephens said, ' Very well ; but I i never got it. I never expected to get it." But still the chance of a bribe seems to have been thought worth secur ing, for the witness adds, " I voted because Stephens • said he would give me the 5/. Referring still further to the evidence before the commissioners on the Reigate election, the Daily News says it is this entire unconscious ness of there being anything wrong or unusual in what the voters were doing that strikes one at the first glance as presenting the immense difficulty in determining how to treat the disease. The Herald cannot read the disclosures at Yarmouth, or recall others made in previous inquiries, without asking from what class the delinquents usually come, and in what places they moat abound. The answer to this inquiry is not favourable to the advocates of " Manhood Suffrage and Vote by Ballot," of "Bailee and Bright," of " Gladstone and Reform." If we could but believe what we have been told such places as Wakefield and Great Yarmouth should be the purest of the pure. The working-class element, to which we have been taught to look as the great purifier of existing constituencies, is exceedingly strong in both places. At Wakefield one-eighth, at Yarmouth one-fifth, of the entire number on the register are members of that class, yet in both these boroughs the amount of corruption has been simply startling. Baron Bentinck has arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. His Excellency the Hon. G. S. Stafford Jerning ham, her Britannic Majesty's Minister to Sweden and Norway, has arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Stockholm. Sir Edward Cunard, Bart., has arrived at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham-gate. The Hon. J. D. Macpherson, Mrs. Macpherson, and family have arrived at Brown's Hotel from Toronto. Sir Robert and Lady Gerard have left the Cla rendon Hotel for Lanombire. Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Hobson and family have , CHINA AND JAPAN. left Maurigy's Hotel for a Continental tour. j (By Overland Telegraph from Galls.) D. The John Bull announces the sudden death of Mr. Alcock, M.P., at Great Malvern, on Wednesday. SHANGHAI, JOLT 25. SIR WILLIAM MANSFIEL The Nyenfei have been successful in the North. A good scandal, says the Times, is the seasoning et life The late Sir Gilbert East was yesterdav buried Two French bishops and seven priests have been in India, and this year the fates have been particularly liberaL It must be a very had season when everybody's in the family vault in the village of Hurley, Berkshire, massacred in the Cores. and the fans al of his brother, Mr. Charles Bast, took Ira te non received here from Japan announces conduct is above reproach, but no one could anticipate place at the same time. A large number of persons that the careful and judicious Sir William Mansfield, assembled to witness the funeraL The procession on its that civil war was being carried on between some hitherto the very pattern of a discreet and well-disciplined way to the church passed Hall-place, the estate of the baronet, who was much esteemed in the district. of the princes. n, would, within a few months of his secession to the daelle"d The Rev. Francis Vidal, A.M., bas been admitted OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL. chief command in India, voluntarily supply the country curacy Bisho of Gloucester Bristol to the LIVERPOOL, atiIViDAY. with a fund of gossip large enough to last a twelvemonth. 8 0.% bi er, ch epa t ow, vacant by t rP oe t iou The Times then proceeds to give a history of the scandal, of the Rev. Tur Horn. The patron is the vicar of Tian• The Royal Mail steamer Scotia, sailing to-day which originated out of the management of a farm of Sir hem, Gloucestershire. for New York, took out 110,0001. in specie. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamship Delta, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here with 52 passengers, 1,1101. in specie, and a large cargo, in cluding 2,000 elephants' tusks. She experienoed foggy weather up the Channel. On the 18th she spoke the steamer China, and on the 22nd Mist. the Surat. PROCLAMATION OF THE GOVERNOR OF The Grecian independent — publishes the following proclamation of the Governor of Crete, Ismail Pacha : - . Inhabitants of Candia,—The imperial government, as I have already informed you in my previous proclamation, has been pleased to order that your meeting should be at once dissolved, and that all persons should retire to their own homes, and yet the insur gents and their so-called commission dared yesterday to disobey these orders of the government, and to persist in their insane resistance. Everybody will condemn their conduct, as they must now be regarded only as rebels. Consequently the government will be justly in dispersing, and will disperse by force all meet ings; and will prosecute with the utmost vigour of the law the guilty chiefs of the rebellion. Let no inhabitant. therefore, receive them into his house, let no one give them any aid ; let not people follow them, or give credit to their lies and plots, but let each person mind his own business and the welfare of his own family, because anyone who transgresses this procla mation will be treated as a rebel and punished as such. On the other hand, the government will protect the life, honour, and fortune of all peaceable citizens. The same journal contains the reply of the Cretan Central Committee to the answer of the Grand Vizier to their petition, and the address of the Cretan deputies to the foreign consuls. (REUTICE'S TELRORAMI.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Amon 25. The accession of Austria to the Geneva Conven. tion, for assistance to the wounded upon the field, has been officially published this morning. The Press states that the A uatro-Prussian peace treaty contains 14 articles, together with supple mentary protocols referring to the transport of troops, the exchange of prisoners to be effected at Oderling, and the question of Federal property. The New Free Press says that the cession of Venetia to Italy has been expressly mentioned in the peace treaty. The Frenwlenblatt asserts that immediately after the conclusion of peace the interior questions relating to the constitution of the empire will be settled " The principle of a separate administration of Hungary and Austria will," it says, " prevail in the new political organisation of the empire. "An imperial manifesto will be published, granting responsible ministries to Hungary with such power of independent action as is compa tible with the unity of the empire." The Fremdenblatt further states that the Em peror will reside during several months of the year at Buda. Prince Alexander of Hesse was received yester day by the Emperor in special audience in order to take leave of his Majesty. The prince subse quently set out for Stuttgardt. HUNGARY. PESTH, Auccar 24. It is stated that the Tavernicus, Baron Sennyey, will be entrusted with the formation of an Hunga rian ministry upon the basis of the Constitution of 1848. There will, however, be no portfolios of war or finance for the present. . The Hungarian Diet will probably open in September. SPAIN. MADRID, Auoverr 24, Evranc, A circular from the Governor of Madrid haabeen posted up at the Bourse, cautioning the public against attaching credit to the false rumours disseminated by revolutionists. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Atauer 25. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Nyanza, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 99 passengers, specie and precious stones value 654,9741., and a full cargo, including 1,608 packages of silk, value 158,0001. _ _ _ She experienced dense fog along the coast of Portugal and up Channel, which occasioned consi derable delay in the passage. On the 20th she spoke the British ship Para matta, from Callao ; and on the 22nd, the steamer Surat, off Cape Finiaterre. The British vessels Cornidus, John Ball, Glamorgan, Galarvor, and Louisa, and the steamers China, Theban, Crimean, Hutton, Fairy, and Mission, had arrived out at Gibraltar. Exchange on London at Gibraltar was quoted 49 1 ; on Paris, Mr. 10c. ; on Marseilles, sfr. 11c. ; Madrid, 2 to 3 discount. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, AUGCBT 2.5. THE ELECTION 001 GREAT YAB.MONTIL At the sitting of the commissioners Mr. James Goodson was examined , member for this borough. I was als o 11 1 11 g„ Eastern Railway Compeny.gi es ; s pressed an intention to retire thought - "n s ir gi M' suitable person to all the vacancy. Tin 1864. I was not a stranger to Yarmentl i Ti Kr. Reynolds, and told him my innings place vacated by Sir H. Stacey. I w aied March, 1864. I used to meet Sir E Lem, I did not communicate my intention to ' it from the local papers. I stood on the tenet, and canvassed with Sir E. Lmon. stood that we should share the expenses, ee mr. Reynolds so. Sir E. Leon told Le she would be about 5001. or 600/. m ars position as to any other expense, / that the constituency of y arn . ostk quire anything else. (Laughter.) Ir a ; tab: the idea of any other expense. I =that Mr. Nightingale spent 4,0001,t of all that. I don't dispute what g e l said. I never dreamt of anything b ut kw e Yarmouth. I had no idea of illeinileren ne t e (Lotter.) Near largely interested feu, was E . Loom, I thought we should be say difficulty. I have known more apt during the last two or three days than I nue in (Itsr.) I knew but little of Yam** lam a barrister on the Western Circuit. I s e e quiries as to Yarmouth before my eleeties. flan s SLmg about Yarmouth being a perfectly pu n I certainly heard something about the alsetiale,k I was not " read up," except a little from ni l lam frequently . here now. I heard at the s wi m bribery was going on on the liberal side. It we. as ; I heard it, and that's all ; whether it wee eas talk I can't say; I heard it ; whether I believ e d it I I did not hear that bribery ins going on OR 1: 1 4 mauve s id e . (Laughter.) I stuck to my owe ten th eanvasaing the borough—and knew nothing as to e t ee . going sa t o bribery. I had Do reason to bellsiCe7 shalhng_was spent in bribery on our behalL Mr. Yanderbyl, M.P. for Bridgwater, dated one of the candidates for Yarmouth with Kr. ' the late election. It he =weeded he was to ans - iti; penes with Mr. Brogden, but if mmuccenfol *es to pay for printing and other incidental thought if he succeeded it might coat from At 1 0 e lie never contemplated any illegal exneners, mg ;T 1 k now l e d ge no bribery was committed in his inn, I, paid for expenses under 2001. Mr. A. Breeden was examined - and stated that a person who went .. spent 3,9121. 10e. He provided the mew and had it sent to a place where Jones se g provided in the first instance 4,0001., and Ins further sum of 2.0001. The committee then adjourned. REIGATE. The evidence given before the day vas similar in affect to that takes cc y. " Ephraim Row, a carpenter and joiner, VII Iforrieon's committee, voted for him, and fells him to different persons, principally in animal $7 wee not over and above plentiful at tie it (Laughter.) Received la as remuneratica for ' Part of his work was to attend a committee' brandy and water. (Laughter.) James Payne, shoemaker, received IL far rendered to Mr. Gower as a committeemen. A number of other witnesses, mostly t deposed to hating been paid icr services sad votes at the but election, after which the f• spin adjourned• TOMES. The commissioners met yesterday took the evidence of George Presswell, ihs taw Totnes ' as to the different elections for the 1826. In 1839 he believed there was ag, bribery. The candidates were Mr. Blasi and Mr. Baldwin (conservutive). There et voters, and the candidates polled Id tl He bad heard that Mr. Blount had qui NI 1,5001. to 2,0001., chiefly in bribery sad *Wig lh heard that there was a club at the Kiag Willis ha, ea that there seven men received 8001. for their reis election was declared void on the ground ci of notice. At the election of 1840 Kr. Oihnss,, liberal candidate, spent about 1,2001., and Br. who was trucoessful, also spent a great deal la lid was an increase of voters, Mr. Baldwin havingpsniani Canton estate, and manufactured a numbers' MA July, 1862, when the candidates were Lord Kt Mills, and Mr. Baldwin, there was a great Esel d The people had got to such a state that they did slim ashamed of the bribery that went on, but tined skis freely. He did not hear of any bribery in 167, he had no reason to believe that the borough had bore denly pure. He beard that a meat deal al wags spent in 1859. [The evidence of this witness had not cceeleishi the inquiry was adjourned.] THE LANCASTER ELECTION INQUIEY.—NO missioners (Mr. T. J. Burstow, Mr. It. M. Newts d Mr. Alexander Staveley Hill) appointed to Imam the existence of oorrupt practices at the hat ds the borough of Lancaster commence their WWKI er Shire-hall, at Lancaster, on Monday next. GAZETTE NOTICES.—Last night's Geslit pounces :—The Queen has been pleased to dindliff patent to be passed under the Great Bedpa* dignity of a baron of the United Kingdom of Gratis and Ireland unto Gustavus Frederick, Tisreezt NW that part of the said United Kingdom called bduqd the heirs male of his body lawfully begot kf tidok style, and title of Baron Brancepeth, of the county palatine of Durham.—The Rigid liweelk, the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council la bi have received, from the Secretary of State 4 Pep'' Affairs, a copy of • despatch from her Mlia_o l6ol/ ks at Madrid, reporting that the authorities at Msbff imposed a three di a' quarantine on all WIWI Gibraltar, to be performed at one of the &Of° lazareta of Cadiz or Carthagen• ROYAL HORTICULTURAL ..SOCIETY.-0 11 next, August 27, the gardens of this society al tanks stilton will be opened to the public free, re ear ration of the birthday of the late Prince Coosa ro, fountains and cascades will play throughast the kil l various military bands will perform both wirdll o l afternoon. w o eigi NORWICH M VBICA L FESTIVAL The , Norwich fifteenth triennial festival is fixed twit the 29th October, and four following dap, e dp arrangements are now nearly completed. nit strong body of principals has been Mdlle. Titiens, Madame fludersdorff, Mirtitk u l e : and Milne. Sinioo, sopranos ; Madame D emerit and Mdlle. Anna Drasdil, contraltos; Mr. Bier Signor Morini, and Mr. W. H. Crunmings, NM" Mr. Bentley, Mr. Weiss, and Signor Gamier, bra CITY PRIVILEGES. —At the Judges Nil estenlay, before the Lord Chief Barou, 9 1, Barnett r. Prosser was heard. Mr. Butler 941_ I on the part of the defendant, a builder at prohibition to stay an action in the Cit y Na t on the ground of juri.liction. Mr. Suckansa The defendant, the learned counsel subizithd• come within the 39th section of the City Smell DO. A^ as the goods were supplied in Middlesex. /ix. 14111 said the words were whether the act part in the City. Window sashes City to be glared, and then sent ship held that the plaintiff was eat An order sent to the City might be cation was dismissed with costa. THE HOLBORN VALLEY IM PS dignation meeting was held last evening yard, Holborn, to protest against 0" poor persons from their houses. the chair, and the meeting was the poor people, male and female Whitworth moved a resolution of was of opinion that the crowded streets, courts, and alleys, in habitation, was an evil of such to call for the immediate attent_ The resolution was seconded end • second proposed by kb. Osborne, . Mayhew, urging that it was the in: public to demand that all persons dwellings should receive some con was read from Mr. T. H. Torrent, s3mpathy with the objects of the t' his assistance in any movement rated far the remova l of the eviL bar added:—" Some of us who re tried hard last session to get a bill; done much to mitigate the evil in don of selfish interests and selfish pi enough to cripple our beat effort through its various stages this year. tine, however, to renew the endeavon the meanwhile every circumstantial 4 ships inflicted on the working class thins and demolition as now carried tial service." The reading of thi cheered. It was decided that a pub' be raised in aid of the 'pavement, High Holborn, was appoinsed treasurer• to the chairman concluded the Waimea. STRIKES AT STOCKPORT. -1 several estahlishmcnu at Stockport 1 vanes of 20 per cent. on the lower qe week the stonemasons in the emplOY a id 9 builders, struck work against thew felekosk& sot have been disputes at various other works• istkutessoinscotdel:arnettioref unceerelronylocobyyedinthpanstetyh!eiwancbssuirezancioatenivoia;7•,°l4o, Norris, struck for 22a. per week, A new comedy, by 31r. T. w • A° 4 ltir =ll with great success at WryPfiobs Liverpool, by Miss Ma ri We" l pany, on Thursday. *tt ,Z 41,11 1 Melia I Wooden loom**, et to Ig * ,, m the waismaft. Ltooo. j Penal,* i so , told Le fe a , MI R Int ge e 1126. oath "Mid b e ) I did 6* mee. 4,0001. wa m( but kid emi , ei r hoe gis T t 1.471 1 19 d my* 04 be Mama alk an I use ken Yam** wi z' revit. I mig.7• l eleak* ctlY love -- "" 4 he elation it c ,4 e from*. en., i lt th e le u ti m iT a ae. tti rh ether it as en. - ' believed al aegona% l t to 13 1 Y ova bei k. alto a Wasi k *a, add thdh iN r with Mr. 11** he was to g kin ski 'avocado' he au idental *from 1,21 1 1 / 4 4 expenses, si g to . al hie hi* 1, 7 "411MA the J =t4 IMIel 000 i., and %nail s • :he committal% taken en the ieu m ud joiner ,au k ,im, and paid*** ly in maid Ma 16" ful at tie lta* newton far bias* ommittee reea, ram eeived Y, Ice tai g itteenan. , mostly labos, fcr services ea b.k which the haa eaterday mar** =well, the tin Add ne for the bees* at ore was a putild Mr. Blunt ging eve). There um Liddlesax. es47lll—, Leh a ction arose ; had two " 51 000 A to Bromic/. !ntitled to Al a Visti be IlllfECiat No d egovewris. —All pvening in 1310414 , * BM id the ertm °` Mr. G. Brooke s numerously 'le, of the dieWer._.: affirming that thaw" condition of tall: mithrEers ! e g ita i eopnoarprev u llsiudicov.tofie t ‘opran u migtiufnur:eoted.i d u e:th:..d eE s,......:6ol : :; l t..aith... : fte ol:lo: ; :opy.tit infu dial exposure „ . . 1 .0 G lares W LiTiod E this lAter„ pubile FUM eri li;;;o m eat, sod Mr. tower. A vole bumble+. 1 - —lot° —The 82 °"7, -- r ek ; ar t bare art F rer mate nntof nt..! "I