The Express. — London, England, 1868-10-08 00:00:00

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A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, conamtia The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest Cite; Railway, Mining, and other Shane; Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS PUBLISH= EVERY EVENING. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 8. GENERAL PRIM. TnE reception given by the Madrilenes to Gene ral SERRANO, enthusiastic as it was, appears to have been but a faint foretaste of the ecstatic and almost frenzied welcome which met General Pant on the day following. The " dumb-founded fipaniard," to use Mr. Royercx's cour teous phrase, has at last found a tongue. The fervid temperament of the southern race, not cooled by admixture with hot Moorish blood, has broken through the restraints of that dignified gravity which Spaniards especially affect. The tumult of feeling which surged round General SERRA-No on Saturday became a tempest, and even a hurricane, on the Wednesday following when Pang entered Madrid. The whole city turned out to meet him; the procession which passed through the streets was five hours in making its way; traffic was completely stepped. There is, however, a bitter drop in the cup of delight. Among the multitudes who rejoice there are families who mourn. In the throng that pressed and swayed before General Panes hotel, and in what was the Puerta del Sol, several men and women were crushed to death, sacrifices, as old superstition would have held, by which a people besides itself with joy and hope appeased gods jealous of a too perfect human happiness. It is impossible not to sympathise with the out burst of Spanish feeling. The dull oppression of the weight thrown off is measured by the jubila tions which follow its removal. The intensity and intoxication of joy are proportioned to the depth of gloom which went before. In the acclamations which have greeted SERRA-NO and Pats, the people of Madrid are congratulating each other and them selves. The victorious Generals, the organiser of the revolution and the successful instrument of it, have earned the popular gratitude; but they rather present points to which the eddying cur rent of emotions may flow, and on which the tumult of feeling may spend itself, than the objects of • just and sober esteem. If Palm were a Spanish GARIBALDI, he could not have been greeted with a more passionate fervour of affec tion. Making every allowance for the effervescence and effusiveness of a southern people, it may be doubted whether the welcome given to General PRIM is of good augury for the in stitution of a free and stable govern ment in Spain. It is out of nab ele ments as those which fermented on Wednesday in the streets of Madrid that military dictatorships are formed. PRIM has been a lees conspicuous actor in the present revolution, in such part of it at least as has passed in the open day, than SERRANO ; yet ho has outrun the conqueror of NOVA LIMES in the race for popularity. Is be to be the restorer of Spain to free dom, internal tranquillity, and prosperity, and to the forfeited respect of foreign powers I' One may doubt it. General PRIM has hitherto been a disturber, and not a constructor. Be is a man of restless activity, not insensible to generous feelings and just sentiments, but without fixed and clear principlim, or steady and consistent purposes. finch a character, indeed, as is needed for the salvation of Spain could be scarcely formed in milieu which the society and politics of that country have for a generation presented. A Catalan, by birth and descent, General PRIM bail the keen and flashing genius and the unstable tempsr of the people of Southern Prance, to whom rather than to the pure Coatillan Spaniards the Catalans are in race allied. His earliest training was in civil war. At the seces sion of Issiteims 11., then an infant of three years of age, Paim was a lad of 19, and drew his sword on behalf of the child Queen against the Carlists. Maturity of judgment in so young a man is not to be looked for, and, perhaps, it was not unnatural that personal loyalty to his Sovereign should have converted him into a partizan of the QUERN-MOTURR, in spite of the measure.; in restriction of municipal liberties which marked the close of her rule. During the constitutional regency of EspAirrsao, which followed the successful insurrection against CHRISTINA'S Government, PRISE was a constant conspirator and fomenter of disturbances against the Duke of VicfroaY, and was a party to the alliance between the Christine and the Fro greseistas, which ended in the return of the Quires-Maras to power. Under her adminis tration, PRIN, raised to the rank of general, was appointed governor of Madrid. Sent to suppress a liberal rising in Barcelona, he is accused of having connived at it, and fanned the disturbance* which for a year made Ostalonia the seat of civil war. The work which he was affecting to do made him bated by the popular party ; his failure to do it disgraced him at Court. He was deprived of his command, put on his trial for a conspiracy against the Government, and sentenced to six years imprisonment, from which, after six months, ho was released, at his mother's prayers. For nine years he lived in retirement. In 1833, the outbreak of war with Russia afforded a vent for his active spirit. He was appointed to a command on the Danube, and the first successes of the Turks at Oltonitsa and Silislria are attributed to his skill and daring. The insurrection of 16M summoned him to Spain. Ho associated himself with the progreesist party, under his old rival Bsrsteratto. Though elected to the Congress of Doputies for Barcelona next year. and raised to the Senate in 1838, Punt's military career was more illustrious than the part he played in poli tics. His brilliant services in the war with Morocco in 1839 and 1860 made him fora time the national hero. His separation as the loader of the Spanish force from partnership with the policy of France in Mexico, and his protests in favour of the independence of that Republic, earned him a truer title to esteem. Interpreted by the light of his conduct on this occasion, it is possible to believe that an impulse of patriotism and of resentment at the oppression and degradation of his country urged him to the insurrectionary movement which he set on foot in 1866, renewed in 1867, and after those unsuccessful attempts, has carried to a successful iilSllo, in 1869. So far as the Spanish Revolution is the work of one man, Palm may claim to be its author. Tho youthful solder of ISABELLA, and the partisan of CHRISTINA, has been in his maturity the instru ment for expelling the last of the Bouttaoss from Spain. It remains to be seen whether years and experience have converted the adventurer into a statesman, and have strengthened generous impulses into a steady patriotic purpose. EXPRESS, THURSDAY E' thousand—times its bulk of a gee. To speak of the value of this discovery would b. prematuro. Lot it stand as $ great fact of nature, the applioa tion of which to the wants of man and the inci dents of every-day life will follow in due time. Meanwhile we would honour its discoverer, THOMAS ()RAMAN, Master of the Mint and s high priest of Samoa _ TnE Prussian and French journals disouss from very different points of view the paragraph in the Ring of DENMARK'S speech relative to Northern Schleswig. The official German papers say that the delay in the execution of Article V. of the treaty of Prague. by the terms of which Prussia undertook to consult by universal suffrage the populations of Schleswig, and to give beck to Denmark the portion of the country in which the inhabitants voted for their former King. has been caused by the difficulty of obtaining guarantees in favour of the German notion of the inhabitants. The affection which Prussia professes for the Germans of Schleswig is thought by our French contemporaries to bo so ardent as to load Prussia to believe that those inhabitants will find no protection so effective as its own. However this may bo, the Paris journals contend that not only is justice violated, but the general security of Europe affected by the present state of things. Another broose, in fact, appears to be rising. OUR CONTEMPORARM3. (THIS DAY.) TOBACCO RMOAINO. TUE appearance of the new Tobacco Loan of Italy seems to have caught the fancy of the conti nental journals, which dwell just now as much upon tobacco as upon the Spanish revolution. In the midst of the smoke a certain society just esta blished in Paris has very little chance ; we mean the " French Association against the Abuses of " Tobacco." It is more modest in its ob jects than the Anti-Smoking Association in England, but its moderation avails it no thing with the critics. Dr. Blderts, the pre sident, is called upon to state the exact number of cigars which constitute abuse, and the number of times a meerschaum can be safely and decorously filled. " I have several colleagues," says ono writer, " who smoke fifteen cigars " a day, and I know others could not write " four lines of verse or forty lines of prose " without a pipe between their lips." As people are not all constituted alike, it must in these matters always be difficult to trace the exact line between use and abuse. But the foregoing bit of personal observation helps to ex plain a statistical statement which is given some where else. The tobacco annually used in France as snuff is declared to be equal to thirty oolumns of the size of the Column Vendome. The tobacco for smoking represents a cube, heavily pressed, equal to the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile with its foundations. The tobacco for chewing would fill 3,780 puncheons of Bordeaux. The cigars put end to end would go twice round the globe. So there is work cut out for the doctor. But be is told that you cannot have too much of a good thing. " Permit me to observe, monsieur," says one, " that tobacco is the recreation, the de " light, let me say the consolation, of half a " million poor Frenchmen. Three sous of tobacco " will fill six pipes, and each pipe is entertain " ment for half an hour. I have, then, " whatever may be my state and my " fortune, roseate dreams, voyages in the " blue ether, fleecy clouds to surround me like the " gods of Olympus, all for fifteen centimes. The Italians call tobacco the erba sancta, the sacred herb ; but it needs, they say, more sedulous wor ship, and they seek to offer British gold at its shrine. If the lender has any scruples as to the destination of his money, perhaps this tribute from French devotees may help to remove them. OCCLUSION. Tall Mama of the Mira has recently discovered an entirely new property of metals. Having oc casion to minutely analyse one of those curious messengers from the skies termed meteorites, he noticed that in addition to certain common metallic substances it contained hid up or occluded among its particles the gaseous element hydrogen. Following up this observation ho soon found that the metals palladium, platinum, and iron, thoegb well hammered and, in common language, per fectly compact, absorbed many times their volume of various gases in which they wore placed. Not only were these gases not driven off when the pieces of metal were heated, but ex posure to high temperatures greatly facilitated absorption. This seemed to indicate that the gas was not in a mere condition of condensation within the pores of the metal, but had passed into some solid state of combination, an assump tion that was confirmed on exposing palladium containing hydrogen for two months in a tube from which the air had been pumped, not a trace of gas escaping from the metal into the vacuum during that period. That this property of occlusion is some thing tangible and powerful may be gathered from the statement that, under favourable circumstances, a piece of metal can be made to take up several hundred--in one ewe nearly a Tall MODNAIr T. PAM The Times ootumenta upon the sooonnt of the " Farewell services of the metropolitan of South Africa." It appears, sap our contemporary, that an event of stu pendous importance is to happen this week. A new apostle is about to start on a career of evangelisation, and we must go back to the Acts of the Apostles to find a pre cedent for the °erasion. The Timm does not like to men tion names, lest they should lower the reader's imagine iron, but must just say that Dr. Gray is sailing for South Africa with a clergyman who is to become a bishop in Natal. The latter gentleman—Mr. Macrorie—preached a sermon which w as designed to explain the nature of the event. Mr. Macrorie says that the cause in which the Bishop of Capetow n and he himself are engaged Is " not less im portant than was that in which Paul wont forth." The parallel is complete, for the Pan-Anglian bishops held a council at Lambeth last year, and this synod " was not leas important than the first council held by the Apostles." Nay. according to Mr. Macrorie, it was, if possible, even more important. if the course which Dr. Dray has pur sued durii.g his sojourn in England be that of a St. Paul, the day for such apostolic characters is past, and the more they are confined to South Africa the better. If, how ever, Dr. Gray and Mr. Macrorie want to play the Apostles, the Times recommends them, until they are more perfect in their parts, to confine their exertions to South Africa; and when the bishop has established apostolic unity in his owu diocese, we may aucept his nostrums for producing similar results in this country. SRI NEW Mr. Disraeli's latest ecclesiastical appointments are not. rays the Daily .NeteA, open to reasonable objection. Wu may reasonably expect the appointment of Dean Magee to be popular, not only in the diocese of Peterborough, but with the English clergy generally, both on account of the . . . _ personal merits of the Bishop-designate, which are consi derable, and from the fact that he is an Irishman by birth, by °duration, and by ecclesiastical connexion. With respect to the deanery of Bt. Paul's, the Daily Nines cannot congratulate Mr. Disraeli upon so discreet a choice. It is not as the Hampton lecturer of 1858, as the editor of Sir William Hamilton and his champion against Mr. Mill, as the commentator on Dean Aldrich, or, in a word, as metaphysician and logician, that Dr. Maned is named to the Deanery of Bt. Pour.. It is as the centre of the tory propaganda at Oxford and as en active mem ber of Mr. Gathorne Hardy's committee thathe has earned his elevation. The Herold believes that the nominations to the bishopric and the deanery will achieve the rare distinction of satisfying both high and low churchmen. Indeed, there is not a flaw to be found in either of these appoint ments ; and churchmen of all shades of opinion will en dorse the premier's choice with admiration and thank fulness. A.DVICII ?O The Te :seraph concurs in the suggestion that, to prevent conservative succor and liberal disunion, candidates should consent to be bound bye preliminary vote, whether it be cast by a committee or the general body of liberal elector& We are in the preynoe of a disciplined, deter mined foe, who knows every inch of the ground ; yet those who ought to lead the people to victory are engrossed in selfish quarrels among tie:l:Reaves. the Court. BALMORAL CASTLI, Oor. 6. The Quern, scoompaniod by Prinocas 13oatrion and attended by Lady Churchill end the Hon. Mary Lemhes, drove out y esterday. Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, accompanied by Madame and Miss Van de Weyer, drove to the Lynn of Quoich. Prince Arthur and Prince Christian went out deer stalking, accompanied by Mr. Oathome Hardy and Mr. Albert Van de Weyer. M. and Madame Vsn do Weyer bad the honour of dining with the Queen yesterday , and on Sunday evening the Rev. Dr. Gard had the honour of dining with the Quern. Despatches wens received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Heligoland and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Mauritius, Malta, and to the Governor-General of Canada. Tim PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.--. EDT/MYRON, WEDNESDAY NIOUT.—The Prince and Prin ces of Walee arrived at the Waverley station this evening at 10.20, from Durobin, the train being 35 minutes late. Their royal highnesses were received by the Lord Provost and magistrate, Mr. Stirling, chairman of the North British Railway Company, Mr. Harrison, director, and others. The Prince and Princes were loudly cheered on their arrival. They drove, amid renewed cheering, to the Douglas Hotel, where they will stay the night. Their royal highnesses will proceed to Glasgow to-morrow fore noon, to take part in the ceremony connected with laying the foundation of the University building. They will re. turn to Edinburgh to-morrow night, and leave by the 10.15 express for London. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff and family are expected shortly at the Proasian Embassy, on Carlton-bonse-terrace, from Germany. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and family are: expected to have Gordon Castle, N. 8., early in the eissiag month for town for the autumn. The Earl and Countess of Cork are about to entertain a succession of visitors at Manton House, near Fame. Lord and Lady Bateman and family have arrived at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham-gate, from fihobdeu Court, Herefordshire. Lord and Lady Willoughby de Broke have ar med at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham-gate. The Right Hon. the Premier and Mrs. Disraeli returned to town yesterday from • visit to Baron Roth schild at his racing villa at Newmarket. The visitation of the Bishop of Rochester. which was to have been held in the autumn, has been postponed until next year. Mr. Moore, M.P., had, it is stated, lodged the animal of the purchase-money (14,6001.) for All• whßally . , Prolunti, and will enter into pentagon on the l s t ot November newt Robert Lincoln, son of the late President, has bees aiarrld is Waidagica to Kin Mazy Barka, daughter of MUWe Hub of lows. The wedding woe celebeated re - irately, sad Yrs. Abrahan Liao° la was preset OCTOBER 8,11803. MR. LAIRD, M.P, AND 'TUB ALABAMA. to won mime cm TO =MUM BlR,—Thy attention of Messrs. Laird Brothers, the builders el the Alabama, has been sailed to a leading al Cele in your publication of the Gth instant, la which you state that a suit hes been oommencrd in the United States MAI ict Court against Mr. Laird, the builder of the Alabama, by the owners of the Sonora, one of the meerb destroyed by her. The article further states that Mr. Laird has funds in America. We Rhea feel much obliged to you if you will favour us with the autholity on which you make these statements, inasmuch as Messrs. Laird Brothers have not received notice of any such proceedings, and it is not the fact that they have any funds in the United States.—We are, ko., NULL, STONE, and rurranut. 8, Cork-street, Liverpool, Oct. 7. We subjoin, for the informatics of Noma Hull, &one, and Fletober, the evidence upon which oar stateownt wee beard (From the Now York Theo, Sept. 24.) UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT- - DISTRICT. (13410 rs Judge Blatoidord.) sa £LIDAM4—A NM ♦OLDEN Eli IeILDIS. _ _ • libel be. been lied w thin mart ageint John Laird, Jun., the builder of the rebel cruiser Alabensa, by John N. Cushing and William Cushing, of Newburyport, owners of the *hip Senora, claiming to recover 119,000 dole. damages for the destruction of the ship by the Alabama, in December, 1033. The libel alleges that the Alabama was fitted out by Laird , in violation of law, for the pur pose of preying upon American commerce, end that he is liable to the adapts for the damages. An order for the attachment we. issued on application of the libelant's proctor, and, ea we understand, friends [funds 19 of Mr. Laird's were attached under it. The trial of such a suit will bring up some very inte resting questions for decision by the court. It will be secn by oar law rcporta this morning :that a suit has been commenced against Kr. Laird, the builder of the rebel privateer Alabama, by the owners of one of the verde which she destroyed. It is claimed that she was fitted out in violation of law, and that her owners and builders are liable for damages sustained at her bands. We understand that Mr. Laird had funds in this country which were accessible, and that they have been attached, end are held liable for whatever he may be bold to pay. The case is novel and arse of decided iiitertat. Mom the Kew York Truism, of Sept. 24.) TIIE ALABAMA CLAIMS. While the Honourable Reverdy Johnson, our Minis ter to England, le endeavouring to obtain a satisfactory settlement of all the claims of our citizens against the Brittl government for the depredation, of the Alabama on our commerce, Meters. John N. and William Cushing of ewburyport, blee/L. owners of the American ship Sonora, which was burned at sea by the Alabama, have taken time by the forelock, and, instead of awaiting the issue of red tape negotiations, have initiated • suit against John Laird, jr., of Linke:ahead, England, the builder and titter-out of the Alabama, to reoover for the lose of their vessel. The libel has been filed in the U.S. District Court, in Admiralty for the Southern Diitrict of New York, the libelant seeking to recover, not for a violation of the neu trality laws, but for what is legally and technically known as • 'spoliation." On the libel being filed, all the effects of Laird, the claimant, found within this district were attached by Marshal Murray. The libel alleges that libelant' are the owners of the American ship Sonora; that on the 2Gth of Decemberlbli3, while she was at sea, on • voyage from Hong Kong, China, to Akyati, in British India, under • charter party to deliver cargo at the latter place and receive cargo for England, and while in the Straits of Malacca, in latitude J dogs. N, longitude 101 degs. F., the Alabama, which had been wrongfully, and in direct violation of the laws of Great Britain, tittiAl out and equipped for the purpose of prey ing upon American commerce, piratically destroyed the vessel and property of the libelauts. The libelant, claim b66OU dole., the •sille of the ship, and 4244 dohs., the value of the charter party, in all 119,044 dole., and to secure themselves, in case of a decision in their favour, have attached all the effects of the claimant in the hands of Foster and 'Thompson of this city, and in the hands of the assistant treasurer of the U. 8., and all the proceeds of the steamship Wren. This is the first suit of this nature brought in the United States mince the commence- meat of the late war, an&it involves points of the greatest importance to our maritime interests, reaper the es tablishment of precedents that may have material • upon future interpretations of the neutrality laws. U r. Johnson should, previous to the conclusion of this suit, obtain full indemnity for the depredations of the Ala bama, it would operate as en estoppel . upon the libelants, and the British government, having satisfied the claims of our citizens, would have—providing the course of that government was not held to encourage the fitting out of privateers in its ports to prey upon our com merce—its remedy against, and loot for reimbursement to, the parties fitting out such vessels. A precedent for the claims of our citizens for damages sustained by the Alabama and other Confederate privateers, was established subsequent to the war of 1812. Before the commencement of that war, while England and . . France were engaged in hostilities against each other and wo were at peace with both nations, French privateers were fitted uut in the port of Baltimore—then as celebrated for its fast clippers as the Clyde is now, and was during the war, for its blockade runner,— to pro y upon British commerce. British merchants presented claims through their government, at the close of the war in 1812, for in demnification for their losses from the depredations of these privateers, and these claims were allowed by our government to be just and were satisfied. BLECTIONIERING 1Y DErOYSHIRE. SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, M.P. Corildderable exatememt prevailed at Cullomp ton, North Devon, yesterday afternoon. A numerous body of conservative* assembled in the open air to bear addresses from Sir Stafford Northcote and Mr. Wairond. Amongst the audience was a band of roughs, who by their demonstrations prevented the speakers from obtaining a bearing. The liberal candidate, Mr. T. 1). Acland, and his supporters were in the opposite balcony. The chair man (the Rev. John Huysbe), who had been 40 years • liberal, was greeted with cries of " Tmweost," and the roughs set up • continuous yell. Sir Stafford had a more favourable reception, but Mr. Walrond could scarcely be board. At the dote of the meeting Mr. Acland, who had been charged with shirking arguments, essayed to address the electors, but the audience would not listen. Rotten eggs and apples were thrown, and the roughs had several tights. The police made their appearance, and this seemed to increase the uproar. Several persons were severely bandied. Sir Stafford and Mr. Acland in vain endeavoured to restore quietude, and it was not until all the candi dates disappeared that the audience began to disperse. Such excitement had not been witnessed in the town for years peat The o:ntest in North Devon will be very severe. Wo understand that Mr. Goldwin Smith will deliver a locture oil "Chatham and his Timm - at the St. George's-hall, Laugham-place, ou Wednesday, the 21st instant. The Social Science Congress at Birmingham was brought to a close yt Manley. The Earl of Carnar►on, at the concluding meeting, held in the Midland institute, reviewed generally the work that had been accomplished during the meeting, and repeated his conviction that a monument to the late Lord Brougham ought to be placed in Westminster Abbey. A further advance was obtained yesterday in tho prices of sheep at &amebae. The total flunks sold in the two days was 61,866; unsold, 10,186. The supply of horses was good, and prices ranged born 3W. to M. Foreign buyers were warming troopers. Cattle are coming in, and sales an already made. A man was trampled on by horses on the green, and lulkid. The weather continues fine. As three soldiers at Camden-front, Cork, were withdrawing a charge of powder for blasting, the fuse of which bad apparently failed to Ignite, an explosion occurred, and one of them was killed and the others were seriously injured. The staple production of the Island of Jersey may now be said to be early potatoes. The land is =e nured to an extraordinary degree with ma weed, stable manure, and Peruvian guano, to force the potatoes for. ward. They are met to market early, and thereby fetch so great a prim, that an sore of early potatoes is valued at 16W. Tim ANZHICAIT linturrait's Vie= ro POOL.—At the meting at the Li I Tows °mail retard& , ea the arson of Xs. BobstsasGladeleaa by lb. Aldermen Men* it wee rushed : "Tk&t es adders of welcome be resealed be his low the the Boa. Howdy Adam% the lliaistas et the veiled moo" at the meek= of the intended blett theepeol, mad thes the pawl asolra.rootory oom• LON rocoestod to promo look ea FOREIGN NEWS. (TMIS DAY.) THE SPANISH REVOLUTION. The Madrid Gazette of the sth publishes the following proclamation of Marshal Serrano: Spaniards! Inverted with supreme power, and charged with the formation of • government which is to rule the country provisionally, I have the honour and the happi ness to announce to the people of Madrid and to all Spain, that I am going immediately to discharge the trust which the country has confided to me. Men identified with the revolution will compose the provisional government. Let tranquillity continue; let confidence not be weakened; and let the magnificient spectacle which has excited the admiration of Hurope not be interrupted. The union and patriotism of the whole army, its fraternisation with the people, and the patriotism of ell will complete the revolutiCmary work, while avoiding both the impulse of reaction and the dia. credit of disorder. Madrid. Oct. 4 4 lOW Dro Ds La. Tomas. The Madrid Gay& of the bth says :—" The Duke de Is Torre remained at Pinto a whole hour with the brave Marquis Novaliches. He embraced the wounded man in the most affecting Jammer. The latter, not being able to speak, the conference took place by signs, or in writing. Serrano with Pavia seemed like a brother comforting a brother. The reply of Serrano to the junta, when it felicitated him on his vic tory, was as follows My friends, I have passed the bridge of Alcola, but I have no desire to pass the bridge of government. I have now but one wish, that is, to live with my children.' In the person and character of the Duke de la Tone ono sees at once Coriolanus and Du 'cloche." (11110r0/1 saunas LO/LaCT.) PARIS, 00T. d. The Moniteur of this morning contains the fol lowing news from Madrid of yesterday's date : " Distend Prim made a speech to the people from the balcony of the office of the ministry, and laid stress upon the intimate unity existing be tween Marshal Serrano and himself, and urged tho necessity for liberals of all shades, for the people, and for the army to preserve concord. ' The vic tory of revolution,' ho said, ' wan duo to the joint action of the fleet, Marshal Serrano, and the exiled generals.' " At the conclusion of the speech, General Prim embraced Serrano, saying out aloud, ' Down with the Bourbons" This was received by the people with unanimous applause. In the evening Madrid was magnificently illuminated. " Admiral Topete has arrived at the capital," MARSEILLES, Ocr. 8. Letters received hero from Barcelona state that after the festivities on the occasion of General Prim's reception the artisans returned to their work, and a very good understanding prevailed between the workpeople and their employers. SPAIN AND THE COLONIES. PARIS, nor. k. A private telegram received from Madrid states that Cuba and Porto Rico have declared their in dependence, that great agitation prevails in Ma drid, and that the fleet would be sent to Cuba. No official confirmation of this news has yet bean re ceived. PORTUGAL. LISBON', Om. 7. The organs of the Portuguese press, both in Lisbon and the provincee, are unanimous against union with Spain and the creation of an Iberian kingdom. PRC&SIA. BERLIN, Ocr. 8. The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess will leave to-morrow for Dresden on a three days visit to the royal court of Saxony. Her royal highness will depart for England im mediately after the celebration of the birthday of the Prince, which is to be held at Baden Baden on the lbth instant. The Crown Prince intends to return to Berlin on the 20th instant, and to leave again on the 3rd proximo to join her royal highness in Englund. ItUNGARY. PESTII. Ocv. 7. The government will lay before the Hungarian and Croatian Diets a bill for the final settlement of the question as to the free sea-port town of Piuret, the possession of which is claimed both by Hungary and Croatia. Princo Karageorgierich has again applied for a postponement of his removal to the fortress of Scullin. ITALY. FLORENCII, Oor. 7. Up to this evening, 91,600 bonds of tho tobacco loan have been subecribeil for in Italy. OUR PARIS LETTER. (ram ova owx PARIS, WEDNESDAY Lomvani, The Paris press takes considerable interest in the speech of the King of Denmark on the opening of the Danish et salon of parliament, and comments very freely upon the relative situation of Denmark and Prussia. The most important paragraphs in the royal speech were received here by telegraph last night. The announcement to tho chambers that the confidential negotiations opened with Prussia on the subject of relinquishing Southern Schleswig remained fruitless, only stamped with authority a fact about which there was no manner of doubt in this capital, notwith standing opposite statements made by the semi official press of Berlin. The liberal and inde pendent press of Paris make no secret of their sympathy with the despoiled little kingdom of Denmark. The Minister of Prussia at Copen hagen, and the representative of Copenhagen at Prussia, having both left their poets — whatever may be the explanation of that step—necessarily gives rise to the belief that the relations between the two governments are on anything but a friendly footing. The French journals for the most part take sido3 with Mr. Gladstone and his party in the coming electoral contest. The substance of the speeches and addresses of English statesm en i s g i ven w ith care and generally with fidelity. The papers then proceed to take their own view of the great ques tion of the day with which politicians on your side of the water are engroescd—the disestablish ment of the church in Ireland. They debate tho matter with as much earnestness as it the measure directly and immediately affected themselves ; and indeed, so far as their religious susceptibilities are concerned, it is obviously very far from being to them a subject of indifference. This is what a French journal says of Mr. Disraeli's address : Need we say that Yr. Giessen appears to us to exaggerate the question greatly. Tb. established church of England is in no way threatened by the propositions of Mr. Glad stone. It is a question of dealing with Inland, whose situation has keg bean an object of the deepest refleotion sad anxiety on the part of English statesmen; of Ireland, whose rakeries have no equal in Europe but in Poland, and which is wasting away beneath ea absurd poli- Ilikz 'sue ant tallgleali Oitilsw. But • 11 1 r. Dis mal is inpreduit, we had shiest said odious, when be speaks of the triumph of • principi„ in tbo puce . of so 11=6 dept 'Edon Ind suirenng. I) m Iss mot Imagentaaoll tbat .00k fruits S. Cleo, sro thQ V.lty arodoomantion GI OW pined* ; on I that hie argurivo, weak upon himself, Maw ome ban a light to sal, after affirmation of this kind, whether this same grievously experimented upon in Ireland could anymb.„ else be productive of good results? The Bourse opened under much bettor condition, than yesterday, the Rente beginning with RN :v. firmness at 69fr. 20c. Foreign events did not 4! ,_ pear to exercise any influence on transacti , e; i . There was nothing to show that the spopeh of th : Sing of Denmark on the subject of the neg,t, tiona with Prussia for the execution of arti.:le fir, of the treaty of Prague occupied the atteuti ou ~ the financial world. The market closed very fi rm . Threes, at 69fr. 20c.; Italian, 52fr. 47c. ; 27fr. 250. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT Asnmrs THEATRE. The Biege of Mac/dales, now being perform,,,) s. Adler*, was on Tuesday night wide more than madly realistic by ea accident. To add to the effect of up, misses ess**, the gateway of the *ortress is assaulted i n 4 , Let act by a body of soldiers of the Scots Fusilier lin el, The discharge of ordnance ia imitated by little ber„.,., plead behind the scenes. One of these, oonsi.tie; some 16 gone attached to a frame, was laid behind ft, of the wings. The pyrotechnist* having the workm it fired all 16 barrels at once just at the moment the gates were burst open. During this discharge , the barrels burst, and the fragments were scat,r,i amongst the British hoops. The excitement a t so great that for the moment it was 11 .4 served that any accident bad taken place the two men who were wounded remained steam.; apparently unconscious of the fact that th,y fuel • .., struck. The curtain descended at the usual I nn s % then Private Ashley, of the Ist battalion of th, • Fusiliers, fainted from leas of blood. A fragment gun-barrel had passed through the del thigh and calved a vory bed jagged wound. I'. . 0 My, also of the lit battalion, was hkewi.vi w but act so seriously. A splinter of iron str in the foot, lacerating it to acme extent. A-1.: • already dated, lost so much blood that be became &dour, and he was removed to a private Cri a . ... I 10-t much blcod also, but his wouad is not very 4. • . They were as soon as possible placed in cab. and r. to the military hosplal in Vattxhall-bridgo-na their wound% were drawvd by the surgeon. Aces latest ac,ounte both the men are progranimr Whoever may be the new sovereign of Span. revolution is cottain to effect a considerable sa,n-,•.:: the civil list, the annual flotation to the royal fan2:4 ing hitherto b.eu 458,.;001., apportioned at loilows - Queen, 310,000/.: her husband, 24,0001. ; her son Alfo 24,5001. ; her daughter Isabel (the Countess Gir;ro 20,0001. ; her sister, Donna Maria Luisa, 2 hOOOl. ; au 1 mother, Qu. en Christina. 30,0001. The theatre at Treviso bus just been comp!. detstr - .yed by fir,. General F.-coffier, commanding in Itavenn% informed the Florence government of the cVath bandit Luigi alum Gaging. Thie m.►lei n refuge• in a heti.% in the Villa Fil••tto which w rounded by the royal troops under Captain 1%4 . - stoutly defended himself, and killed one of th, and wnunded another before he fell deal ikvald bul tt.. A letter from Brusiee, in the Astrio, iy. the King of the Bel isas is indivosed et the 7 , . Lakk, n Ile ha+ gr. we very t An, au! uhn :oot , ha cou t i.aacu aso Llrsv Lu .. st4te. Count Binnarck is not yet well enough t•o r . as Engl.ah watering-place. Since his fall from pity h • has been obliged to pips the greater part of the day reeambuit position. The irritability of the nerved 1, .1 to have brought on permanent pain in the muscle.. There is a rumour at Berlin that King Geer; • Hanover, in the neat session of the British Parham.% will take his seat in the Lords as a prince of the royal. The improvement in the Krupp cannon, prodw jive of such formidable results. consists in the enlarsi: the chamber in which the cartridge is lodged. The ohs; Is to be double what it wee, while the bail remains at . former weight of 2001 h. When tried side by side s. the 9-inch Armstrong. having a ball of 227 lb , the 1 sun gun proved greatly the superior. The Russian General Frit"..ricks h.6.f apoplectic stroke on Sunday while in his carriage a: races in the Bois de Boulogne. Death at once .30.411... The Russian Invalide says that the Emper..r the French has presented the Sultan with cuirasee I boats, to be employed on Lake Scutari agaimit the 31 The Russian frigate Alexander Neepily. in Archduke Alexis was wrecked a few days ago on the ' land coast, is hopelessly embedded in the sand. The P: :ian man•of-war Medu , se. despatched to h& nice... come back without cdorting anything. Tha crew 10,t vessel is shortly :pseud at Berlin en rlve i:r stadt. A Swiss contemporary emeludes s rmnAr',i t" article against duelling, with tLis appeal .---• some intelligent men, some true philosophers, hs.s the courage to found an association against Temperance and other societies of the same k - . have been formed to arrest the prognas of br,:, • icing vices. Well, we propose that there ski!: s.• be an association against that prejudice, thst rid: - .: and bloody vice, which goes under the name of Will there not be found some citizens roars:. and intelligent enough to found one ? 11 we hid i~ reputation or authority we would apply ourselves to tug the basis of such an asexistion, and appealing t.r I to intelligent men and fri. nag of justice. Alas! we sat:. ' even undertake this noble task; but we hope that voce will reach some elevated minds. To the work' whed this great ant novel &Ivan shall be realise I v will have denrved will of humanity." SOCIETY Or ENGINEERS.—At the first °rain ry meeting of the Sudety of Engineers for this sass held on Monday last, Mr. Baldwin Lathan', k: in the chair, a paper was read on the •• S: Propeller," by Mr. Arthur Rigg. Jun., and the lowing members were balloted for and duly elacte. l . as members Edward Baker, Reading Oa Works ; Oeorge Atteock. Great Eadera Railway ; Aroh. bald 1). Dawnay, Maismoraaquare ; Jams Eldridge, tie Works, Richmond ; and as associate, Mr. John Walter Smith, Oston, near Birkenhead. TUE GUARDS' INSTITUTE.—The following noti fication, issued by the adjutant-general. Lord Wlllidrie Paulet, has been promulgated :—•• The Field ILarshi. Commanding in Chief has the utmost satisfaction in nm: lying to the army that a communication has been received frum the general officer commanduig the brigade of Guards, stating that the Guards' Institute. situate in Franevitstrset, Vanshall-road, London, is open to all n •u -commissioned officers and men of the army, either on S. y or on furlough in London. The institute is free to boa , r• ary members for any period under a fortniett, after wh: the monthly subscription is fid., 6d.. and 4d.. for @srg am*. t corporals, and privates, respectively. Emery kind of re eat and malt liquor can be obtained at the an4l. tote, and the oupsruiteudent has orders to give ani .r. 'station where respectable and cheap lodgings cut obtained. His }loyal Highnees assures himself that stl soldiers • the instihite will show by their conduct dni demeanour they tightly appviciat• the hamlet:my held out to them by their omorades in her majesty s rep ine:ft of Foot Guarde." TEN QtrilLrell ROYAL &TlMM"'lros.—Tha hunting season with the royal pack commensal on Tuoc• day, the meet being at the Ascot Royal Kennels, when there was s muster of familiar faces of stAutteh en, in uding the often of the Life Auarde and EColdstream Guards in garrieon ea Windsor, and gesit of the neighbourhood. Harry Ring, who succeoled Davis as royal huntsman, and She whip, splendidly mounted, were in capital tram and eager fur sport, and the hounds were also well prepared for a good 1111411011. Thera were among the peck 'lighter ten coupleof young hound.. looting Inolaarfot promising. A due hand, caught in Windsor Great Park a week previous. was unearloa the aide of Sir Williams Baylor s park. and went Imo over Ascot-heath, pawing the deer paddocb at Swittley. the music of the hounds giving note of what the imam , . may shortly espied when called upon to pilot the C. 4,1 over the huntang distrirb of Buckinghamshire, in Vt.* coarse of a few weeks ; from Swink, the kind etniol round to Ascot, took a pasha; view of the konnela, am( was sof* taken at Laurel Cottage. seer Winkfleki. The iamb for leant hunting will be enTuseday. and Fridays. at the Remmak snail the diet Teseday to November r whon *stars oat wli be at Kr. leery Cenerelre, Baylis Perms Salt-hilk Moat* NATIONAL NXIIIRMON OF WORKS OP ANT, AT Later—listura of a d m isMohs : —Wednesday ' Oct. 7 by 641000 hake.% 1,107: by Mom* 1,107: 29 . dti molts 1.i01; 2.201. LS Tb • dy • . 111 ,1 11 rgl . • WO o d bt /w .t Wi llf r. • I on. -1 • owl TM Dm Di Hi s 1V 1 1 ic- in :z• • ••• • a•