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Honey; Vasa Meson, Augusta Thomann, and lira OttrEns.—And Ql7lEr LODGENG6 smAinne. 1160 smelts, Till JOLLY DOOB OF LONDON; OR. TWO ROADS Of Llll.—Min Lydia Latimer, Hem ilamsaa, C. Drown, sod Yeater Wltel AN fleadera— THI Aad TH2 DIJEITILLICS TlitallUßE ; D BOFFIN& man WATZR AT LONDON BRIDGE. TM DAT —llordag. Eh. Ma Afternoon. 511. 158 in. TO-Noinoß—Morning, O. Um-- -Menace, Oh. 4. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. IT will be generally conceded that the discus sion of Tuesday evening has placed the question of Governor EYRE'S responsibility upon new ground. From the publication of the Report of the Jamaica Commissioners, and Mr. CARDWELL'S despatch thereupon; until now, Mr. Eva has been com monly supposed to lie under the mild and hesi tating censure of the Colonial Office ; his removal from office took place without any expression of unfavourable opinion by his superiors ; it was merely a necessary preliminary to an inquiry which had become inevitable ; and when the time came for deciding whether he should be reinstated he was superseded with many apologies. Still, there was a prevalent notion that in some way he lay under the displeasure of the Government. What- ever foundation there may once have been for this belief, it must now be abandoned. If there is any censure of Mr. EYRE, however faint and indirect, in Mr. CARDWELL'S despatch, that censure must, after Mr. AnnzatEY's speech, be con- sidered as recalled and annulled. Mr. EYRE is vindicated and praised by the representative of the Colonial Office ;n the House of Commons. It is now plain that if the present Ministers had been in power last year, Governor EYRE, instead of being displaced, would have been upheld. The chivalry which justifies a fallen Governor who has authorised atrocities exceeding anything ever laid to the charge of HAYNAII and MOUBAVIEFF, would not have disowned the same officer while he held the Quaisx's commission. Mr. Eras may now return as soon as he likes, and fairly expect the next desirable poet which it may be in the power of the Colonial Office to beew. No one who has watched the course of the Qualm's present advisers will be in the least surprised at the position they have taken up with reference to this Jamaica business. The first words which Lord DERBY spoke in Parliament at the beginning of the session were to complain of the ir- justice which the late Government had done to Mr. Etas. If that functionary had been as zealous to uphold law and order as he a itually was to subvert both, Lord DERBY could not have shown more concern for him. It is in the same spirit of sympathy with arbitrary power that Mr. EYReB conduct is now defended. Of all his acts in Jamaica that which has caused moat indigna tion in this country was the taking the life of Mr. GORDON. Mr. Erse was at variance with the House of Assembly, public sentiment in the island was very strong against him, and meshares were in progress to move the Home Government for his recall. The outbreak took place, and with out any evidence to connect Mr. GORDON with it, Governor EYRE seized his most constant and most powerful parliamentary opponent, took personal charge of him, and never left him until he had handed him over to the Provost-Marshal at the foot of the gallows, with the certainty that he i would never be troubled with him again. This is the conduct which Ministers defend, and which, therefore, we may suppose they would feel themselves at liberty to imitate under similar circumstances. The public, which has had placed before it all that the enemies of Mr. GORDON can allege against him, and mere than they ven tured to submit to the Royal Commissioners for examination, has already formed its opinion of the pretences on which Mr. GORDON was condem and executed ; that condemnation, however, and that execution are seized upon by the present Under- Secretary for Colonial Affairs as a fit subject for eulogy. He holds that they were " substan " tially just ;" and we know not what more he could have said in their praise. For a month after the rebellion was, by his own account, completely suppressed, he prolonged the official anarchy which is styled martial law, and during that period the island was delivered up to the unlimited in dulgence of vindictive passion. Under his own eye hundreds of men and women were " hanged like " fun by court-martial," to use the expression of Colonel ELRINGTON, after the necessity of keeping up martial law had confessedly passed away. Our new Ministers say that by this very keeping up of martial law Governor Eras has made his lawless ness safe, and oven legal. As often as we com plain of it they petulantly rebuke us for forget ting that martial law covers every irregularity, and that a Governor has only to proclaim the suspen sion of the laws in order to be completely above them. It would not matter if these propositions were not seriously maintained by men who have the power, and who are only too ready to exercise it, of calling out the troops against the peaceful multitudes of our great cities—by men who only last week celebrated their accession to office by exhibiting the household troops arrayed against the people in the Park, standing at the " Prepare to load." For the vindication of outraged right, and for the protection of our fellow-countrymen, it has now become necessary that the claim of Ministers to govern on Warsaw principles should be brought to the test of the law of the land. 'Ceti. now we have doubted the -propriety of the course which the Jamaica Com mittee announced its intention to pursue, but after the Manifestoes of Mr. Disarms and Mr. An- EIPALE DEALEY, and the maxims of government whit& they have proclaimed, we cam doubt no long". Englishmen can live happy oak grateful ender thlit QUEEN, the judges, and the laws, but they will never consent to hold their lives and liberties at the pleasure of a set of men to whom party in frighb in a House of Commons which does not re present more than a sixth part of the adult popula tion may happen to give the temporary control of the Horse Guards. The unconstitutional doctrines of Ministers are only such as might be expected from men who occupy a position so thoroughly un constitutional as theirs is, governing without the confidence of either Parliament or the country ; but they must be resisted wherever they are en countered, until wo have once more a Government which comprehends the ancient principles of Eng lish liberty. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) ogee an opinion until we have heard the statement of the Irish Secretary, aid the evidettes by willoh it is supported. Met the Asst fears very none that tills es mod ' of legislating for the Irish teseile will not ated to conciliate them, or to induce them to coniliker their in terests safe in the hands of the imperial parliament. They will say, and with great appearance of justice, that raft ' meat could find no time to pass a single beneficial measure for Ireland, though many are notoriously wanting, but that on the eve of prorogation an act was passed to which, under similar eireumetanoes, the English people would never dream of submitting. The Times could wish Ireland had made a better appear. ance at the close of this session than in a measure of " coercion " and a preposterous scheme ; but the measure is a matter of course, and cannot be helped, and the scheme is one of those earth bubbles seen only by Celtic eyes. The scheme referred to is a suggestion by Kr. O'Beirne that her Majesty should adopt for Ireland the functions of a freehold land society, or rasher of the specu lator called in the English land market an " estotebutoher." The question virtually asked by Mr. O'Beirne last nisht was, " Why should not this be applied to Ireland!" The true &newer to this question is another, " Why is not this practice applied to Ireland '!" THE CNUECH-BATZ QUESTION. Referring to yesterday's debate on the church rate question, the Timer remarks that Mr. Gladstone must surely be convinced by this time that whatever else may be the virtue of his Church-rate Bill, it will certainly not be accepted as a compromise. A measure proposed with this object must be considered a failure when it is reprded by one of the parties to the dispute as we,., than the original proposition. Such, however, is the tone now adopted towards Mr. Gladstone's bill by those who represent the real church party. When Mr. Henley pointed out the extreme difficulty of exactly distin guishing between ecclesiastical and secular interests in the admink 'rn of a parish, he hit a blot in the very conception of the scheme. This impracticable dirtinaties, however, in one form or another, is implied in every part of the bill. It assumes the ex'stence of a radical division between churchmen and dissenters, and then proposes to sharpen and consolidate the division by a legal enactment. Such a supposition is, the Times believes, as false in fact as the consequent proposal is mischievous in principle. It is the fatal objection to Mr. Gladstone's Bill, that it seems almost to be framed on the principle that dissent is neither to be forgotten nor, so long as it lasts, forgiven. The bill has been read a second time, by an arrangement between Mr. Gladstone and the gover.iment which was not very clearly understood, but which appeared to amount to no more than a truce. The conservative speakers have made demonstrations against every part of the measure but have abstained from • formal attack, and the two hostile forces have now gone into winter quarters. It was never intended that the MI should proceed beyond the second reading ; and it is hard to see what purpose Mr. Gladstone expected to answer by " obtaining the judg ment of the house," when the judgment wig to go by de fault. The Times trusts he will think better of the subject during the recess, but should the measure reappear it shall be surprised if the conservative, are the only preens found to oppose so ungenerous and so shortsighted a pro- Byacceding to the second reading of Mr. Gladstone's bill the government, says the Daily News, escaped a defeat, but having secured that advantage, they opposed it in debate. The house had previously carried the second reading of Mr. Hardcastle's b'" for the absolute and un conditional abolition of church rates, so that the principle of abolition has been affirmed in two forms in the present session. Mr. Gladstone exprose_d a hope that he should receive sufficient support next year to enable him to carry the measure ; andl Mr. Hard castle, in withdrawing his bill, resin red to himself the right to bring it forward again in another session. Lord John Manners enunciated the singular opinion that Mr. Gladstone's bill would prove more injurious to the church than that of Mr. Hardcastle. The Daily News would suggest to the defenders of the rate that they had better make up their minds on what ground to take their stand, for time is not fighting for them. Their conduct much resembles that of the petty Ger.rian pi . nceswho have been these 20 years disag.eeing about the details of a federal reform which should satisfy the people without diminishing one of their privileges, and, neglecting to adjust their pre tensions to the changed state of public op* lion, find them selves suddenly dispossessed by the power s which they had trifled, and are now in consternation and dismay, having lost mach more than they ever believed to be in danger. The strong probability is that they %." caip at details until they have convinced even Mr. Gladstone that in view of their obstinacy the best thing that far-seeing c'airchmen can do is to vote for immediate and uncon ditional abolition. _ On the very eve of their taking office Mr. Gladstone's bill for the settlement of the parochial controversy placed the government, says the Telegraph, in an awkward position. It involved a compron•ise, but not such • com promise as they could consistently favou-. In opposition, they had bitterly assailed the principle on which the measure was founded; what, then, were they to do when in office? To accept it frankly would have been wise, statesmanlike, liberal—but they could not do so without confessing that they had for a generation been committing an enormous blunder, to which the influence of the Treasury bench had miraculously opened their eyes. To oppose the motion before the bout., world have bxen honest but not safe, as it would have subjected them— an infant government—to certain detest. Hence the tortuous genius of Mr. Disraeli suggested, • third COMM THI BAR[ CHARTIM ACT. Commenting on the recent debate in the House of Com mons, the Tunes observes that Mr. Watkin, who brought the subject forward and asked for a commission of inquiry, offered no assistance of his own, had no plan, and did not even hint at a remedy which would have his approval. The Bank of England, says the Tim ?s, is the chief usurer in an age which no longer thinks usai7 sinful, but which still does not like paying high interest for loans. Mr. Watkin, however, does not attempt to show that the cave of the Bank is substantially different from that of the other capitalists. He hardly ventures even to suggest that the Bank could have lowered its rate of interest considerably six weeks ago, and extended its operations accordingly, • Ab out the usual consequences of excessive open'undedness. Capital, Mr. Watkin seems to think, ought to be obtain able at a fixed price ; but the 5 per cent. offered by one borrower is not the same price as the 5 per cent offered by another ; nay, it is often worth the other borrower's 10 per cent. or 20 per cent. It is only a promice, and the value of a promise must always vat; • :th the character and circumstances of the man. But no lender, whether private or public, can lend more than he has, and it lies at the very basin of this subject that capital in all its forms and quantities is finite and exhaustible, and to be treated accordingly. The greenest of the current fallacies rerrvt'ng credit formed in the estimation of the Telegraph the keynote of the whole argument of Mr. Watkin, namely, that govern ment was somehow or other bound to take action in aid of the credit of the country. He said tt ily enough that credit was to a great extent " ideal," but he might have added that the notion of bolstering it up by artificial means was chimericaL In his reply to the Glasgow de putation Mr. Disraeli expressed opinions on the currency question at once unsound and pnetae, for he declared his doubts as to the necessity of any restriction on the right of issue. No doubt Mr. Disraeli would repudiate with horror any desire to bring about the results to which unlimited banes must give rise ; but an English Chancellor of the Ex. chequer should be above even the suspicion of a wish to tamper with the convertibility of our paper currency. The present law might be so far modified as to leave with the directors discretionary power to extend their issue, when the reserves bad fallen below a certain limit, on the two fold condition, that they should exact sufficient security, and that the rate of discount should not be less than 10 per cent. Under such a modification, anything like blind panic would in future be avoided. POLICY TOWARDS IRELAND. Although (says the Pat) we are still unacquainted with the grounds on which her Majesty's government propose to night to suspend for • further period the operation of the Habeas Corpus Aet in Ireland, we may not unreasonably assume that they are based on the continued existence of such a state of disaffection in that country as renders it expedient to invest the executive with the power to im. prison at pleasure such pawns as it conceives to be engaged in • traitorous conspiracy. Whether this state of disasection does in truth still exist, and whether it demands so large a concession by parliament to the executive, are matters on which we forbear to THE CIIOLEBA. The sanitary condition of the metropolis in connexion with the prevalence of cholera is discussed in the columns of the Herald, Telegraph, and Star. the (curt. OSBORNE, Aucrer 1. The Queen went out yesterday afternoon with Princess Louise, and again this morning with her royal highness, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice went out also. The lion. Lady Bidduiph had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial offloe from the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the governors of the West India Islands, Bri. tish Columbia, Vancouver's Island, and the Australian colonies. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle will shot ay take possession of their new mansion on Carlton HOLUM terrace. The Duchess (Dowager) of Cleveland leaves town to-clay for the season. The Marquis of Exeter is still much indisposed at his residence in Grosvenor-square. The Earl and Countess of Wilton, after the Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta, come to too.) on their way to Scotland for the season. _ The Earl and Countess De Grey will leave Carlton gardens on Monday next for Studley RoyaL The Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope left Strathfieldsaye yesterday, after a short visit to the Duke and Duchess of Wellington. The Earl and Countess Spencer retut a to Spencer House, St. James's, to-morrow, from Sussex ; and either the following day or on Monday go to Althozpe Hall, Noi;,hamptonsh're. THE LABOUR PENSION FUND IN FRANCE. The following is the letter which the Emperor has addressed to the Minister of State on this subject : " Saint Cloud, July 28. " Monsieur le Ministre—The decree of the Bth March, 1855, which founded the asylums of Vincennes and V esinet, directs that those establishments shall reeeive not only convalescent workmen, but also those who have been mutilated in the course of their work. For those who prefer to remain with their families, the admission can be converted into an annual or monthly subvention, fixed by an administrative commission. However, up to this time the credits, devoted to this foundation, and ariaing from a payment of 1 per cent. on the amount of the public works adjudged in the city of Paris and its suburbs, have only permitted to afford suc cour to convalescents, the mutilated workmen being de prived of ariatance. It appears to me just to realise in a more general manner with regard to these latter the promises of the decree of 185.5 ; and to that effect it is necessary to employ other besides those which were at first created. " I should consider it useful, in the first place, to cal' for the assistance of the persons themselves interested, whom it is not proper to discharge from the care of every fortnight. From them might be asked a voluntagi and moderate contribution. To the produce of that subscrip tion would be added the sums wising from the payment of 1 per cent. effected on the public works executed by the State, the departments, and the communes. That would be • sort of assurance fund, receiving a subvention. It would be administered by the government, and might take the name of Missy des /amnia du Travail... " Its object would be to aid :-1. Workmen of the towns and country districts, who, after having assured them. selves, should receive in the exercise of their labours wounds entailing a continuous incapacity for work ; 2. The widows of those who, in similar conditions, should have lost their lives. " It would be useful to come to an understrnding with the railway companies, that they should consent to the ne cessary deductions on the amount of their works, in return for the same advantaged accorded to the men in their em ployment. " According to this organisation, the individuals assured personally or by their directors would alone have the right, as is seen, to a pension for themselves or to assistance for their widows. "In suppcwing that the retention of one per cent. exercised on the amount of all the publ:c works above enumerated should bring in forr millions a year, and that the subscription of a certain number of workmen amount, to one million, the revenues of the 01/1143 would be five millions annually ; and, in estimating the average duration of the pensions at twenty years, there would be means of giving about 800 pensions of 300 fr. a year to the victims of labour. " I request you to come to an understanding with the Ministers of the Interior and of Public Works to draw up on the above bases a draft of decree, in concert with the Council of State. _ . "On which, Monsieur le Miniatre, I pray God to have you in hie holy keeping. " Nerolion." ILLNESS OF THE EARL OF SRAPTERBEILY.—AIsrm ing accounts have reached London in reference to the state of health of the Earl of Shaftesbury. His lordship pro ceeded to Cumberland on Monday, and was to have been t yesterday at the annual educational festival given Fr. George Moore (of Cheapside, at V. nitehall, near igton), in company with the Bishop of Carlisle and other gentlemen. The noble earl was, however, attacked by illness, which soon assumed a von, sei:ous character. For some time pat his lordship has coffered from intermittent attacks, and for many weeks in theesrly part of the present year he was prohibited by his medical attendants from feting part in business of any kind. DEATH OF SIR CHARLES HASTENOS.—WE have to record the death of Sir Charles flutings, who has long held high rank as a physician. The deceased, who was the sixth son of the Rev. James Hastings, rector of the princely living of Hartley, near Worcester, was born in 1794. He was educated at the university of Edinburgh, where he took his M.D. degree in 1818. Shortly after wards he commenced his professional career at Worcester, and remained in practice there until his death. He was the founder of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Associa tion, of which he filled the office of president, and was the author of a treatise on " Inflammation of the Lunp," "Illustrations of the Natural History of Worcestershire," and many professional works. He was an honorary D.C.L. of the University of Oxford, and received the honour of knighthood in 1850. DEATH OF MR. T. N. FAEQUHAR.—The death is announced of Mr. Thomas Newman Farquhar, who had been for many years past the chairman of the Palace Company. He was a partner in the house of C 7oru s i! stone, Farquhar, and Leicb, of Moorgate-street, which had anand in many of the railway schemes which have been successfully carried oat. CHAPEL ROYAL, SAVOY.—Her Majesty's Chapel Royal in the Savoy is undergoing a thorough restoration under the Earl of Devon, the new Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. When it was re-opened after the fire it was found that the walls were bare, the ceiling defective, that common deal seats had been put down, and that the whole arrangements were of the most meagre character. It is expected that the chapel will be re-opened before Christina& ADMIRALTY, Auousr L—Aprorreerams.—Chief Engineer S. )(edam to the Clown. Engineers W. H. Jen kins and J. Meiklejohn to the Ocean. Fiat-thee Assis tant baptisers J. Green sad A. Gibson to tire Ocean. Beeeod-ehms Assistant Engineer W. H. Gulliver to the Ocean. , THUR§Dff = EVENING, AUGUST 2, 4166. LATEST INTELLIGEN AUSTRIA. The Vienna correspondent of the Debuts gives the following description of the state of things in Vienna, and other parte of the Austrian empire : For some days past there has been a kind of !acute, but an baeate of the German kind—without cries or menaces — before the police-01m. Workmen exhausted by hunger came to ask for labour or bread. A supply of the latter for one week was given, but after wards? The Emperor, the Empress, and some of the grandees have given liberally to this crowd, who are dispirited sad homeless from want. The proclamation of the state of siege is explained by what takes place here each day. The time had come when the Civil authority would have found itself dimmed in the presence of a double agitation. But the proclamation of the state of siege ought to have been dated in 1766. There is one paragraph of the proclamation by which corporal punishment is to be indicted for certain crimes. In fact, the old Austrian policy has won back the ground which it had last under the pressure of recent events. On this head one of the leading minister. said : " The European powers who are good enough to interest themselves in our behalf by recommending to us a new system should at the same time give us two things which are necessary to put it in practice—the assurance of a long peace and money without interest." Whilst waiting for these two conditions to be realised, Austria is acting _ _ like a military power that was soon to have all Europe to fight. Peace, it is said, will be made next week between the two sovereigns of Austria and Prussia, and yet every measure is taken as if hostilities were at hand. Meanwhile there is great depression. The army, it is said, will not fight. The soldiers have lost confidence in their officers and moreover there are national rivalries amongst the sol; diets. The Hungarians and Croats of the southern army look down upon the Czechs and Austrians of the army of the north. The &laves who are now putting forward their national pretensions at Vienna, say that they are 15,000,000, and that they represent nearly half the empire. This does not look propitious for the consolidation of the empire. I am informed from a good source that the party of Desk will shortly be overborne by the ultras in Hungary, wbo de mind the constitution of 1848, with a separate Hungarian ministry and parliament. Desk's party still recommend moderation and patience, but there are events in prepara tion on the Danube which will find an echo along the Hungarian frontier and which may precipitate a crisis. The Moldo-Wallachian army are en echelon so as to be in a position to meet an attack of the Turkish troops which they anticipate, while Russia has made an advance to Radzivilow. Will the excitable imaginations of the Hungarians remain calm in this state of things ? It is to be desired that they may, but it is impossible to say. A states man has thus defined the situation of the Empire : "Austria is a mighty ruin which is falling to pieces,but which may be kept up by strong props." (arvres's nascatues.) OCCUPATION OF MANNHEIM AND HEI DELBERG BY THE PRUSSIANS. MANNHEIM, Am's? 2. The Pruasian troops entered Mannheim and Heidelberg hat night. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. VIENNA, AUGUST 1, EVENING. The King of Prussia left Nikolaburg yesterday. Negotiations for peace will be opened shortly a t Prague. Baron Brenner will represent the Aus trian, and Baron von Werther the Prussian govern ment. PRUSSIA AND BAVARIA. WURZBURG, Aucusr 7, Evsimia. A convention has been concluded between Prince Charles and General Manteuffel, according to which a Prussian brigade will enter this town to-morrow morning. The fortress and the suburbs remain in the hands of the Bavarians. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. RENEWAL OF THE TRUCE. PADUA. Auauer 1. The Italian government being without a reply from Austria relative to the proposed armistice oZ four weeks, General La Marmon tele€,:aphed to the governor of the fortress of Legnano, pointing out the consequences that might ensue if no reply arrived from Austria before 4 o'clock to-morrow morning, and proposing to him a second suspen sion of hostilities for eight days, in order to give time for the diplomatic reply of the Austrian government to arrive. The governor of Legnano replied that he was authorised by the commander of the army of operation to accept the proposed suspension of hostilities. Signor Farini is dead. GENOA, AUG= I. ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 2. The North American Lloyd's steamer Atlantic, from New York, pelted the Needles at 11.40 a.m. to -day. TEE BRAZIL MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Avousr 2. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Oneida, with the above mails, passed the Needles at 11.40 a.m. to-day. Tab CROWN Ram :fuss or H►xovzH.—The Prussia* Ga:tUe publishes the following note : " Hanover, 27th July. In reprisal for the removal of a large part of the treasures of the State from Hano ver to London, the Prussian government has ordered that the Crown revenues shall be placed under sequestra tion. deducting the necessary charges, and that conse quently they will no longer be at the disposition of the King of Hanover, as they have been until now. These revenues arise from domains assigned to the King as his civil list." A proposal for the erection of a statue to Vauban, the great m;litary engineer, having been favourably received by the town of Avallon (Yonne), the committm wrote to the several marshab of France to request that their names might be planed at the head of the subscription. A reply was immediately sent by Marshal Vaillant, himself a fellow townsman of Vauban, in the shape of a banknote of one thousand francs, with the following quatrain attached : Maximus fogad° don& qu' romper, mecca Is rolhl exemplum et compatrlo4 felt; Quod al disclpulum memorem demi ere megletti Malmo par ea Zero miners panes ego. LutetiaTarlstoram, JoL 22, 18603.—Vaimmer. MAmnIONIAL REFORM IN EGYPT.—A letter in the /merest du Hence has the following :—" Ismael Pubs, Viceroy of Egypt, is about to publish a decree which will abolish polygamy in his family. Henceforth the viceroys will only be able to have one wife. They will only be able to divorce her in the case that the wife shall not give them a male child. If, at the moment of the divorce, the wife should be enceinte, and she should have • eon, the divorce will be void. All the high Egyptian functionaries raise the wisdom of this decree, which has been commu nicated to them, and they have all declared their intention of imitating the Viceroy." The proceeding may be bind ing on the Viceroy himself, but it cannot well =relye him per form, as the Koran sanctions • plurality of wives. ReVISING Barcaurrsaa.—The act which was yes terday printed to emend the law relating to the quailica tions of revising herniae?. simply declares that a barrister being appointed a commissioner under the act 16th and 17th of Victoria, cap. 57 (copyhold commiasionen) is not disqualified as a revising 6irrister. The appointment of revising barristers, from recent events, should be known. By the 27th section of the 6th of Victoria. asp. 18 (the Registration of Voters) the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench Is directed in the month of July or August in every year, to appoint a revising barrister for the county of Middlesex, and other banisters for the me tropolitan boroughs aawell as the cityof Loudon. Although annually appointed, one barrister has held the appointment until he has succeeded to another appointment or bean re moved by death. Mr. Bailee has held the appointment for the county of Middlesex for some years, and it is not publicly known whether the Lord Chief Justice liss ap pointed him for the nest revision. Tie Posrg•arsn-Gawnsa..—Yeaterday an act was printed to amble the Postmester-Gassrel to sit in the House of Commons. If a member assepte the ales • re action is to take plate, but he is eligible to be re-elected. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. -...,- (MON OUR OWX CORIMPONDI:II7.) PARIS, WZDNIBDAT Evans°. "I have received from an English invalid lady now taking the Vichy waters a letter from which I make the following extract : Vichy, Pavillon Sevigne, July M. • • You may be expecting fo hear something of what has been going on in Vichy the last few days, as the Emperor came down on Saturday, and the little town was called upon by the mayor to manifest its loyalty to its benefactor by universal and unanimous acclamations. So Vichy was Fiesta everywhere with tricolours ; eagles and triumphal arches abounded, and there were inscriptions, "The Medi ator of Europe," he. At night there were illumin►tions, s ome of them very splendid. As we are on the Boulevard Napoleon, and only some 50 yards frour the chalet own ,lied by the Emperor, we walked down there in the evening and saw him come in, ran up the steps, shake hands pith a few gentlemen who were standing about the hall, and bow to the little knot of paralli assembled before his door. He looked much fatter and more good-natured than when I saw him many years ago in Bath. On Sunday he went to mass at the new church, where he met the bishop, and there was some speech:- tying. To-day there are bills about, requesting people not to form groups about him in the streets, or present peti tions except in the box at his door. The three or four little chalets in which he and his ministers reside are small unpretending buildings, to which I went the first day I was here, in the hope of getting furnished apartments in them. There must be a good deal going on in them now, I should think. _ . The Presse says that in a French point of view the peace preliminaries of Nikolaburg, so far from being the destruction of the treaties of 1816, are an aggravation of them. That is doubtless the general feeling in France. The Imperial Advocate delivered his opinion to day in the case of the heirs of the Duke de Gramont Caderousse against Dr. Declat. He advised the court to declare the will in Dr. Declat's favour void, as being made in favour of a physician who attended the deceased in his last illness. Judgment will be given this day week. The Bourse, so far from being frightened by the purchase of cavalry and artillery hones in the Caine, was firmer than it has been for several days. Rent. rose 50c. for cash and 42ic. for ao count, closing at 69fr. 60c. in each case. Italian rose 45c., closing at 52fr. 55c. Mobilier rose 10c., and Credit Foncier 15c. There was a considerable upward movement in railways. Orleans, Northern, and Lyons rose 10fr. each. New York despatches, dated this day (August 1), by the transatlantic cable, have reached Paris, and are published in the evening papers. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TRIIRMIDAY, AUGUST 2, $ AIL H. T. w. liti,', 11 '---7-,'" w. 1. it --- I , I — --. Nabs 29.9064 KN.& 1 1 W. et 0. 1 - Leith UM 67 I.N.H. 2 3 K. r 0.341 2 Ardroema. 15,55 68 N.N.K. 6 3 8.8. W. re 0.701 4 Oreemosalle : 22.57 27 N.N.L 2 5 LILL rm 0.30 1 Yalmitia 29.70,60 Y. . 1 I W.&W. to 0.17 3 - - Liverpool 29.63 69 W. 3 4 8.8.11. 0 0.52 2 Holyhead 49.5 1 .59 W. 6 7 8.8. W. oo o.os 6 Petutatice 29.71 61 N.W. 4 7 8.8. W. to 0.9 3 Brest .. ... ;29.73 Li W. 5 7 B.W. tr 0.39 4 Lorieut ..: '29.00 63 W. 3 6 B.W. r 0.612 3 Rochefort .129.00 66, W.B.W. 5 4 LW. rOl 2 Plymouth _129.43 841 N.W. 4 7 It to 0.23 2 Weymouth _129.59 63, W. 3 0 B.W. oe 0.1 3 P0rtam0uth...29.57 63 . W.S.W. 3 6 8.8. W. r 0.09, 3 ' London _. 149.57 62' W.S.W. 2 4 N.W. to 0.101 - Tarm0uth. 2 .129.132 681 8.8. W. 6 2 N.N.H. Cr 1— 1 1 Scarborousb. 29.62 66, 8. 3 5 &K. er 6.31 3 Shields 129_5268' ILL 2I 1 2.1. a' 4.11 4 Strong south-wed winds blew on the southern coasts last night, veering to the westward this morning and moderating. On our northern coa.t.:. the w* - vds see easterly. A slight increa of barome.ric pressure has taken piece In the westward, but the general diminution has been considerable. Temperatures have Increased, and the amount of evaporation is mina No settled weather is probable at pre:Ant. ETON COLLEGE ELECTION.—The result of the election of eighteen candidates out of seventior the foun dation, was announced on Tuesday evening ' the Head- Master, the Rev. Dr. Ralston, as follows : — If. Armitskad, C. Bayans, J. G. P. Mackenzie, J. E. C. Weildon, G. C. G. /Liman, F. J. Tuck, C. G. Browning, H. R Salt, F. E. Grainger, E. W. Collin, R. C. Beads, C. A. D. Clark, J. H. J. Ellison, R. T. Richardson, J.H. T. Hill, C. F. M. Mundy, F. Freetb, and B. F. R. Gould. MatmoalsL To THE DUKE or WELLINGTON.—A handsome column of grey polished granite on an expanded base of three steps has been erected at Strathfieldsaye, in memory of the late Duke of Wellington. The column, which bur taken three years to build, weighs nearly 60 tons, and is an entire block of granite, surmounted with a Corinthian capital. Above it is a figure in bronze of the great duke in his uniform as field marshal, standing unco vered, with his face to the east, his plumed hat in his left hand, and his right resting on his hip. The position of the figure is free and graceful. It is one of Baron Maroohetti's most successful productions. The figure stands 9 feet in height, the entire column from base to summit being 82 feet and some odd inches high. The memorial is erected on the high road between Barungetoke and Reading, immediately in front of the Heckfield-lodge. On the met side, in gilt characters, is the simp le word, " Wellington." On the south side inscribed, He was honoured abroad, for in all mighty conquests he was just, considerate, and humane ;" and on the north, "Be was beloved at home, for he had great power, and ever used it well. He was firm in friend ship,. and his hand was ever open to the poor." The re maining compartment in the plinth to the west bears the following inscription:—" Erected by Arthur Richard, Duke of Wellington, and by the tenants, servants, and labourers on the estate of his father, as a token of their affection and respect-1863." The completion of the column was signalized on Tuesday by en entertainment to the tenants who belonged to the estate durizg the Duke's life. A dis tinguished company was invited to Strathfieldsaye on the occasion. THE GALWAY ELECTION.—Mr. Morrill has been elected member for Galway by • large majority. At the close of the poll the numbers were—Morris, 747 ; Stubber, 170. NATIONAL ARTILLERY ARROCIATIOII. —A plea sant change took place in the weather yesterday, sad the proceedings at Shoeburyness were conducted with some thing like comfort. The Houses of Lords and Commons prize, on the previous day, fell to the Eastbourne de tachment. The competition yesterday was for the Duke of Cambridge's prize. The firing was the same as on Tuesday ; but the detailed scores had not come to hip' when the report left. It was known, however, that the Aberdeenshire detachment had won—a fact which gave great rejoicing throughout the camp, where all have ad mired the pluck of men coming 600 or 700 miles to compete. REDUCTION or TAXATION.—The following are the names of the articles, and the amount taken off or totally melded, from the year 1851 to 1866, In the year 1851—coffee, 149,1611.; sugar and molasses, 95,928/. 1853—tea, 968 ,8771.; butter and cheese, 106,53 m. ; sugar and molasses, 78,793/. ;' raisins, 65,6591. •, other articles, 279,6101. • soap, 1,171,0001. tamps, 277,00 01. ; 'unposed taxes, 30000/. 1854—tea, 980,568/. ; plaiting of chip and other articles, 2,539/.; stamps on bills of exchange, 11,0001.; assessed taxes, 290,0001. 1855—window-glass and other a rticles, 2,960/.• newspaper stamps. 250,0001.; stage 'marriages, 60,0001. 1 856—Customs, 3,4751.; malt, war tax, 2,200,0007. 1857-coffee, 145,816/. sugar and molasses, 418,9881.; tea, 1,054, 6 3 7/.; other wades, 9,141/. ; income and property-tax, 9,125,0001. 1858—income and provcrty tax, 2,100,000/. 1859—nil. 1860—butter, 104,321/. ; cheese, 49,3961. ' • egp, 24,721/. ; leather boots and shoes, 8,6191. ; gloves, 64,794/. ; oranges and lemons, 35,656/. ; rice, 25,0601. ; silk manufactures, 337,244/. ; tallow, 74,9'12/. ; other duties, 315,3711. ; currants, 210,5801. • raisins, 45,353/. ; foreiv,n spirits, 313,745/. • wine, 831,694/. ; wood and timber , ; hops, 105,1500% ; game certificates, 140,000/. 1861--straw hats or bonnets, 2851. • books, and prints, 29, 7437. • hops, 5,3721. ; wine, 1;445 - r; income and protax,l,o6ooool. paperduty,t3 so . 6oo 4 1862--hops, 348,671!; stamps, 5,000 L 18113—tea,1,641,5411.,• tobacco, 74,055/. ; charges on import entries and bills o f lading, 180,723/. ; income and property-tax, 2,750,0001. 1864—sugar and molasses, 1,741,272/. ; succades, confection ery, and other articles preserved in sugar, 3,112/. ; tea licenses, 15,001 E. • licenses, various trades t ransferre d te the Excise, 110,6001. ; fire insurance duty on stock-is trade, 255,000 i. ; property and income tax, 1,230,0001. 1865—tai, 2,214,9811. - ; malt made from barley, weighing less than &lb. per bushel, charged with duty at the rate of a bushel for every &ih of such barley, 10,0001. ; fi re insurance duty, 520,000/. ; property and income tax, 2,600,000/. 1866—timber, 307,030/. ; wine, 58,0001. ; pepper, 112,000/. • omnibuses and stage coaches, ho., 85,0001. From which it will be seen that in 16 years customs, excise, property, and income tax, stamps, and other taxes have been reduced or repealed to the amount of 42,713,3841., mignst the imposition during the ease time of 27,40,5861., being en actual diminution of taxa tion of 15,254,7881. LAW INTELLIGENCE, (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Conamiaskmar Hoirait) /N tt MAC DATIL This was a renewed application for rehashes ' , The bankrupt described himself as a sahib(' m en agent, formerly of Pelham-place, Bromptc % 6,41 Werwick-cresoent, Kensington, and at Pondgete end Margate. The debta sm r t i ttlit 4,147/. Mr. Reed opposed on behalf of Mr. E. ro pie, Ovingtonoquare, Brampton, a detaining mt . Otiffiths supported the bankrupt; Mesas. ffiel i k Clark, on behalf of the assignees, did not opp ois 11 , 11 1 plication. The bankrupt was examined, and said Al* k. struck o ff the rolls of the Courts of Qum' s 1 3 4' let Common Pleas in 1845. He believed he reendelii,4 torney of the Court of Exchequer, and would le ft 4 ., he was still a solicitor of the High Court of "'" Since the year 1845 he bad acted as • faunal 2 . Z dential agent. He need to be consulted by mu fti gentlemen who considered his advice worth Mgt. ", 1 . 1 laugh.) He gave advice free of charge. H. bid engaged in discounting bills; he must ki te 601 thmumnds, and occasionally it answered his — 7 4 0,. .„ make any charge. He did not keep any Mr. Reed asked that the petition should ' on the ground r' mieducripon. sidered, had no After hearing His Honour the application opportunity of a similar order of common law bankrupt was t He did not nor genes should 4,000 i. and +' upon giving . Rio Honour—j I have dated. Application Charles was described 10, Kennington. William Fe Alderman money bel gregate to u A solicitor Mr. Stephen sire business prisoner was' seven MOM. among solicit up amount. accocuttu. papers to were all t the manager, the money at and receipts ?wipers of e wish. It He bad not had ernberub would &iv. then ask William of 46, Flr there as e papers relating to Somerset-b- duty upon on the 23rd of Samuel . He gave t the purpose 0.._. taking Somerset-house, to see if they were corritcC. the prisoner reported that they were correct, Wier him 661. lie. 91 to pay the duty. The pinned Is same day, said to witness he had paid the it tel the money was duly entered in the esehha ported in the ledger. On Monday ht sal the prisoner if he had sent the min Ist to Norwich, and he said he had. and owed that a telegram should be sent to Mr. Bellsyodig if he had received them. Witness, homer, mil Somerset-house, and found the money bad sot losespd On Tuesday morning he spoke to the prime *awl asked him if he was sure the papers had km seat, milt said " Yes." He asked him how it was melds bend have paid the duty when there was • Tustin epee us one of thepapers. Hesaid it was right. Witness told MO caner theduty hsdnotbeen paid at Somenebboess,mil then said he had not paid the money, and the pipe bi not been sent down. He further said they wend Grapes public-house in the Haymarket, kept hf Barns, and that the money was with the papa wrote • note to Mr. Barnes for the parcel seng•er brought back • packet containing no papers. Those notes were part of he had given him to pay the dull then said the papers were in his desk, them. Witness telegraphed to Mr. lie back instructions to gyve the prisoner • be did. The solicitor said that was all the to adduce now, and asked for a remand. Alderman Ennis remanded the prime CLERKENWELL. DARING BURGLARY AT A JEWT.LLIAO Henry Dugard, aged 26, of 4, street, Holloway, and George Hill Hewitt's-terrace, Holloway-mad, two fellows, the former describing himself latter as • potmen, were charged beta w.th burglariouily breaking and er house of Mr. Charles Fletcher, worki Cottage, Holloway, and st ealing books, two pairs of gold ear-rings, two clocks, and other details of the PertY• It appeared from the evidence that occupies the shop and parlour for the on his business, and this shop and municate with the other psi of the occasionally that the complainant' the night of the robber Mr. 6 Clifton-place, Holloway, boot-make home when be saw the prkoners on shop, and immediately afterwards and then • cry of Stop tl' ' had effected an entry by shutters and breaking the heard by the parties in the he had not gone to bed, the alarm can prisoners were stopped by Kr. Conn, today, and were with some di`ficulty police-station. They were then was found on them, and tl up in esparto cell; Whilel jay Aylett, l 5 Y, went into the condor leaning w cells, and heard some other par 'es who came k lY r cell with Deward ask him what ne was locked sp for. replied, " I and my mate in the next cell are r b ; 72 cracking a jeweller's shop have ; but we went tops still's,' nAbbed. But it is all righl ; they ls tbs Tag on us, for we dropped the lot on the police-station." Ayle:t then procured irtr A. and went the way the pr soners had bees and immediately on the cpot where they had Melt he picked up the brooches, the pins, and the 5ta" .. .., which were identified by the prosecutor " 18 "" f jj o ill and which were safe in his shop window when he „ so up the shop for the night. On examining the found that two clocks had been removed from ON which they had been left, and had been placed sa window all ready for removal. esc beefs The prisoners at first denied any knowledge of or of having beep near the prosecutor's window, kni ftif tb° afterwards said they should reserve their Mesas did not wish to be sent to the Middlesex 807 7 : 1 4 should prefer going to the Centnl CriminslConr4to, as there they were certain to get full, fair sed justice. es el Mr. D'Eyneourt inquired if anything was tY prisoners by the police. trri Polioe-rergeent Cooke, 8 Y, said he ha d knoin boner as the commotion of most notorious thieves VIAL" &re They had both been tried and convicted !Mil; but et present he was only able to produce i Siiest copy of the conviction of Du , from the Sessions. eke la ° Mr. D'Eynconrt committed thepneo• ners to serious for trial, and refused to take bail MARLBOROUGH - STRE ET. A TROUBLZSGME WOILICHMASZ IYBA Mary Fox was charged with being dru nk .7iedi in • disorderly manner at the door of st. Inn .1 - Workhouse. Deck: 0 81 tb. The ease having been proved by Mr. officers of the workhouse, Mr. Knox asked if anything was known of the Deck said that on the 28th of August, 186°J H ie was brought before the late Mr. Deaden . 1 0 1 . ,.. t. conduct and sentenced to seven days' the 4th of November she was brought bar ass magistrate and discharged with • caution. b al before the magistrate in 1861 and ow a ¢ melded and once committed for K ils i al In 1863 she wee charged with making &It via ed u f, and after being remanded seven "7/,: e • c, , afterwards charged with s i s s i c r i da r mandea for fourteen days, and thee d !_.jee disorderly conduct, when she was ooni mitted 0 / . "'"" ere ogl In 1864 she was charged with roskingewslln th ' before Mr. Eno: and remanded seven days, a?....1 1 In 1665 &are with being drunk and nr," - 1040 1 66 , discharged. 1866 drunk and disorderly o,'" tr; with th e away In and . Zoos William W Bethnal AiAtl e . A elo • blood, and --ga l elled littelt wxmAgistrate_wi i sextrai ed. tai : wi ese l e ; l4' o te_ t ( m au hlv th e. eai alla i e Ditht : ibll 1 is ic istram-1 Witness—No, hi; morning. ♦LL Mr. Martin Kensington, al charging theta Thomas Offer < tity of farnitni Mr. L Lewis Martin for qt.? The oom WU we! u Hayward, a goods on credi producing so get afm guarantee pa brought Mr. her trustee, some goods. a guarantee Blenheim-te be bad not Van Buren w man. Abort for the mon her name, an said that she to call and psi BuzHe t i c! he would be him to draw i should haves himself if his accordingly d by the days bef4 defew few open him an rigs. He Witness refs that he wan she had the skOtset Ida In cllOllll4ll female befor Other evi was not Mi living as a g At the r remanded f being accept ,sHocl A the gloom over common about ten in the me' of a mark It appears drawn by boy, an along t towards age are be mounds of Just u th flora are wheel get was in moment heavily the unto Waggon in a frig by a num who were fainted a the oou domed d who wee the fads were i good will night an have men Place in eltuate a Killer's The o took P the cam ngeisk likea:se belonstlg! Cae floor we beat, &C. TEM Ml* foil tde eom M e : ' ..._ , Y me pep iliFra to VI Use . 1 Oviedo kis bekui Reform charge. ne ata nos seep any boob. -"'" — ; --- a_ od asked that the petition shoald be No and of mildew:Apt:ion. The benla 6 ad no right to describe himself as • i i, 'is - tit= ' wing Mr. Griffith', X near declined to dismiss the pets ' ation must stand over to live the ask s M 174—1 took ty of applying to the Court o Chu m/ i s i" said that his wif Wi a = — No order to that which had been model', ib s are fraimenta of o law, for the puipose of asoeytainias s a this earthen was still entitiedtodenrffie nizaseu ass N ew li n h a da t consider that the case was one in vim • ' Prisoner wss re mid be shown, as the debts were • RUE ILECSNI CAR 1 there were no assets. ffiths—Will your Honour release Hs A fortnight • • no bail ? was chanted at t . nonr—No, I cannot do that The order eih s Luke whale in a led. 'The complainant lion refused. but swore with that the magist Twirt, o young corner of the (THIS DAY.) of the musical —.---. Indignantly de , none . GUILDHALL. Iru in the same ICKSIZZLEMILKT. complainant did i Coulson, a respectable-looking yaw on his bin, was gibed on the charge-sheet ai a dirk - denied that th. ington-road, was placed at the bar in made against Fenn, a City detective officer, civi l * matter, but th a Finals, with embezzling Tams as court, and the Belonging to his employer, amounting 1 2 i s o upwards of 4001. Tin Deem itor amid he appeared to prosecute on ble hen Wasted Hooper, who carried co a say Charlotte You loess as a law stationer at 45, Fleet-stmt. in stealing from was his clerk. and had been in his sera I Staff-sergeant onths. Mr. Hooper had a great country after a very elicitors, and they were in the habit of A person of n me to settle for legacy duty and duty re said that her h It was the prisoner's duty to tale inebriation, an. to Somerset-house and ascertain ff i t Ilion, which she 1 correct ; if they were he reload I Kr- Cooke • lager, Mr. Bowker, got a cheque from NBA but he felt jus ey at Somerset-house, and then sent the sia ipts back to the client who sent then se, - fi e f that nature were sent up by Mr. Barb die It was upon that case that he intended to pen Police-serge Woolrych that not bad time to ascertain how muck fir Ow lezzled, but they feared it was muck one iiii la . with being . . the court and ive just enough evidence to justify a reveal, al . chol 'e diary • for the postponement of the case. Mr. Woolryc em Bowker said he was manager to Va Hine' win make her leet-street, law stationer. The prisoner kain Police-acrgea clerk five or six months, and his duty mob* the divisional s elating to the residuary secounte and km Em s , had been sent rset-house, get them passed, and thes Ni s h - he Ea eata4 non them. Some papers came up fras Um" Mr. Woolryo 3rd of July with 13 receipte rela ting to tis sit Smith—ln a tel Ringer. They came from Mr. Bar sy, slain Mr. Woolry re the prisoner those papers the amyl Horton's direc died poseof his taking, taking them to the lepsy dsty ,.. as I am a with the pro• • he parcel, end as ow' aining 4 in rt of the 66L lL duties. The desk, and he Ir. Hooper, ner into custody, to evidence he wand. prisoner far a wok. ELL. smor.--oomaimat 4, Seyotrst, Hillier, if 1 two well malt as a bears, 4 11 ! before Yr. D d entering the OMINI orking jeweller, sf fills og therefrom asleP 1, three gold dirt he value of 131., lhr that the prosecutoredl a the pumas of CWI nd parlour does sot err the 'edit we ant's son slept them le John Could, d maker, was ce p : o l s outside the ards be head e thief." The lel 7 Pulling do s ems. and thi. , home, who faarr, was rapidly owme tt, and4 0 . 1. " -- iltytaker to the n searched, asd they were the at there acfl4 people far ~: