The Express. — London, England, 1867-10-24 00:00:00

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RMR WATER AT I.I,XDoM RRIDGIL _ _ • ... !ins ItAr —Nforntnig, lIA, 4;m. Afternoon, Oh. Om. to•mogickar—Slorulng. oh.WCI2OOII. oh. 3las. LONDON, THURsDA Y, OCTOBER 91. A orannm., which we should hesitate to call by that name had not one of the parties so described it, has broken out between the Hon. Mrs. Noirros and the T The main question is whether some of the characters in " Ohl Sir Douglas," Mrs. NonTo.s's latest novel, are true to nature and life. A reviewer has been permitted by our contemporary to say that James Frere, one of the personages of the story, is a "dis tortcd shadow," a " conventional puppet," and that :mother, Lady Clochintben, who is represented as an astute Seotchwoman, is made to act with impulsiveness and want of caution. The authoress retorts that the reviewer cannot have read the novel. The reviewer replies that he has read it "painfully through from beginning to end"—the only unkind remark in his rejoinder. All this is very amusing to those who have time for it, and we hope the contest, if it should go on, will retain its present mild character. We trust, however, that novelists generally will understand that Mrs. lionros's example is not to he made a precedent. Much may be conceded to the gifted grand daughter of SHKRIDAN, but, as a rule, literary criticisms must be left to find their own level ; it would be too terrible for newspaper readers to think of if writers of fiction were to acquire a right to criticise in turn every unfavourable review of their works. Mrs.N..r.r.):i observes that she finds great comfort in the extraordinary diversity of the criticisms upon her writings : ono reviewer finds tame and vapid sentiment where another is delighted to recognise tragic force and wondrous skill ; one declares characters to be mere conven tional puppets which another thinks are only too literal copies from life. No doubt of it, and if the question were one of literary principles this diversity would be a striking evidence of the want of any settled canons and methods of criticism; but when, as in this case, it is one of observation upon matters of every-day experience, it is only a natural result and illustration of the freedom with which the diverse habits of thought and fueling of the public find expression in critical literature. The prodigious mental activity which this freedom en sures is the best condition which any author could desire, became it is that which gives the greatest number of readers ; and novelists, whe ther distinguished or otherwise, cannot do better than surrender their works unreservedly to the free play of the opinion thus produced. Foa the sake of a large number of English creditors of the United States, it is necessary to correct a somewhat serious mis-statement made yesterday by the Times, respecting the attitude of the most powerful party in the Union towards the public debt of the country. Having described in a leading article as being now in full progress a repu diation movement which was in fact nipped in the bud, the Times observes, "So mach have the people "to thank their Radical leaders for." Those who read the letter of our able and trustworthy New York correspondent which we published on Tuesday know what to think of a represen tation which connects the Republican party in the Union with a policy of repudiation. That our contemporary should know better is shown by his admission that General BUTLER is the only advo cate of the proposal referred to—that of paying the interest on the Five-Twenty bonds in currency rather than in gold—and that the public journals of the party have instantly denounced his amazing act of folly. The fact is , that BUTLER bad no sooner ventilated his ideas than the Re publicans turned round upon him everywhere, and reduced him to silence if not to shame, and, as our New York correspondent wrote on the 10th : " The discussion about the public debt still rages, " but rather for the punishment of the would-he " repudiators than for the purpose of guarding the " public against their wiles." It is not true that General BUTLER is the original advocate of repu diation. That character had been previously and appropriately assumed by Mr. Parourroe and Mr. VALLANDIGHAM, who, it will be remembered, opposed the war for the Union in all its stages. General BUTLER',, conduct has provoked more indignation than theirs, because it was at once felt that a proposal which would be consistent with the principles of a peace Democrat or a beaten Southerner was scandalous in a professed Republican. In making these remarks we confine ourselves to a simple statement of facts. 'Whether the United States are likely to pay the in terest on their bonds in currency or gold, or at all, is a question on which opinion will be much influenced by the estimate antecedently formed of the American character. It is one on which Mr. BUSIER or Mr. Thomas CARLYLE would be likely to make a forecast very different from that of Mr. FoRATER or Mr. BRIGHT. All we wish to point out is that the party which carried the nation through the war is pledged by its spirit, its character, its hopes, and its interests, to the equitable treatment of the national creditor. We may add, that the highest financial authorities in the United States agree with all men of honesty and intelligence everywhere in holding that the Government is bound to pay the interest in gold. Upon these data the public must form its own judgment. A supplement to the London Gazette was put. Idled last evening, containing an order in council, laying down certain quarantine regulations for vessels arriving from the West Indies and parts of the continent of Awasiwa. ()UR CONTEmI , ORARD2i. (THIS DAY.) .si observing that the failure of t:aril al ire par ticin•, md the ability of the government to do melee pressure that which a few days ,t.nce a professed its: if un.ible to do, havo oio,litied most of the impressions recently preeritirx on the subject, tie Ti,.• , nevertheless 1. t:iiits tile opii.iou that the P.m!, ear policy is marl to Italy and periluiti to Europe, i;hoot being v.intrgeous to Frmice. It .3 by no taro,. au: , yet that thi+ storm has missed over ; it is perfectly certain that wary :ire storm must mine. What we have seen daring the Wit fortnight may lie expected any week in the }e.rr, and the insurrection may not always be no partial, or ii, Pontifical troops so fortunate. Ilehieles this, the strait, tiro the young kingdom of Italy i.n!inost too never,' to be endured, while the provisional arrangement satisfies nobody. Pet haps Itattazzi, no lens than Garibaldi, bet on this occasion been reckoning a little too fast; but the calculation, for all that, was bilged essentially on political reason. TUE rool, The Timex expresses its surprise that with the harvests of the world at our disposal, fleets at our command, and the !imam; of instantaneous communication always every where at hand, prices should nevertheless have risen, till last week, to a point only accountable on ignorance and miscalculation. Of four or five hundred grain-laden ships, more than a hundred have arrived within a few days ; more than fourteen thousand quarters of foreign wheat arrived in the port of London last week, and wheat bus fallen rather suddenly Js. id. a quarter. There is no reason why this conclusion should not have been fully anticipated, and why the public should not hate been spared some needless anxiety as to our " food prospects" for the coming twelvemonth. Even if we had to adopt the estimate of the harvest of the world which allitlrlief it to be no better than ours, yet we need not apprehend a scarcity, inasmuch as we should outbid other populations, who would be unable to pay 70s. a quarter. The British farmer, the Daily Ne✓'a says, finds a bad harvest in France a good thing, and the calamity of the cattle plague was such a godsend to the butchers that they have never known bow to make enough of it. Indeed had any individual butcher not fulfilled the general expecta tion that he would raise the price, the public would have suspected his meat. The ordinary principles of trade come into play more slowly in the supply of the necessaries of life than they do in other matters. Retail mices respond readily enough to any upward tendency in the wholesale market ; but they always lag behind it when its tendency is downwards. Neither co-operation among customers, nor vain attempts to do without meat, nor grumbling. at butchers' bills, will effect a reform. But we have fre quently observed that when the difference between the price of the loaf and that of wheat at Mark-lane has become very considerable, the public discussion of the subject has usually resulted in a reduction in the price of bread. We meat rely upon the effect of similar publicity to ream* the price of meat. The butchers will soon find it to be impossible to keep up their prices when the public know them to be extravagant.. Thu present prices are the result of a panic, and the 1k3.4 News believes that the butchers will see that the time has come fur a large and general fall in the price of meat. THE CoNNERVATIVE srERENDER. ! l6 The Daily IVrp.s thinks thellameittations of the Quarterly Reeler , over the latest betrayal of constitutional principles deserve greater respect and sympathy than such wailing* usually meet with. The conservative surrender which is deplored is a surrender of political and almost of personal honour. The conservative leaders have recklessly flung away all confidence in their political integrity, and have exchanged the character of volunteers fighting in a cause to which they wets devoted for that of mercenaries anxious chiefly for pay and plunder. Lord Derby has elevated (political profligacy to the rank of a principle co,lly avowed and deliberately practised. Ravin; taken office for the sake of his party, he uses his party simply as a means of keeping office. Office on these terms, and for these ends, will more rapidly disorganise by demoralising the conservative party than a half century of opposition. The Herald and Standard comment on the political article in ,the Edialmrolt Berle , . The Herald declares that it was the liberals and not the tories who threw out Mr. Gladatont's bill, and that the passing of the bill last session was the symbol, not of Mr. Bright's victory, hut of his defeat. According to the Standard no conservative really asserts that the settlement of the question of reform is final ; he can only hope it is, and he oan say in justifica tion of his hope, that be has done his best to discourage further agitation. At lead the Reform Act of this year has done more in this direction than any other measure that was ever proposed by the liberals. It is not perfect and it is not complete ; but it is as near a conservative measure as the liberals would permit it to be. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1867. MtSCELLANEOUN TurlCs. The Pot regrets that there is nothing in the modern history of the London corporation to warrant the belief that it will ever of its own free will display sufficient good sense to give up its annual pageant, and we shall probably have to wait for its extinction till time and ■ reformed parliament have invaded the sacred precincts of the City and imposed upon the corporation the necessity for setting its house in order. The Star approves of the redaction of the Lord Mayor's proceesion as, at all events, a step in the right way of re form, and says it may be that a Lord Mayor will yet crop up who is alive to a sense of ridicule. The worthlessoess of Mrs. Janman's evidence in the Bloomsbury murder suggests the danger of offering a pecuniary recompense in such cases, but the Times is of opinion that the fear of being denounced by a confederate for the sake of the reward is a safeguard against criminal enterprises with which society cannot afford to dispense altogether. We have to choose between the risk of occa sional perjury and the risk of such crimes as these Fenian outrages going unpunished; and of these two evils the former is probably the less. The Telegraph cannot praise the way in which the Bloomsbury case has been conducted by the police. They have carried on all their investigations on the basis that the murder was connected in some way with Fenisnism, but what their grounds of conviction are we bavo abso lutely no means of knowing. The result is that the neat time they pronounce a fatal shot to have been fired by Fenians, the public will be disposed to regard the accusation as an imposing ramp de llWellre designed to conceal the simple incapacity of its authors. The ease with which an obscure and uneducated woman turned the magnates of Scotland-yard round her finger affords material to the Star for no very pleasant reflections. They walked into the mare laid for them with a simplicity which is marvellous, and would be highly comical if the life of a fellow-being was not at stake, and were the police really the dressed-up supers of a theatre bound to provide amusement for the audience. At the meeting of the Town Council of Edin burg on Tuesday a letter was reed from the secretary of Mr. Disraeli, who expressed his appreciation of the honour to be conferred on him by the presentation of the freedom of the city. The copper ore exported from the Cape in the mouth of August Lot amounted to 731 tons. HAYTI.—The mail which has arrived at South ampton brings news from Hayti of Sept. 23. The Cams were in full retreat. The state of affairs was daily im proving, and General Salnave, the president elected by popular suffrage, was fulfilling the expectations of the country. The chambers had been opened. The harvest promised well. TFIr. PRISON% Acr, 1866.—Yesterday morning, in accordance with the provisions of " The Prisons Act, 18AV a large painted board was affixed to the front of Newgate gaol, upon which is inscribed, in large-sized white letters upon a black ground, the whole of clauses 37, 38, and 39, having reference to the penal enactments now in force as to the aiding in the escape of prisoners, the sup plying of masks, &c., to assist prisoners or others in evading justice, the introduction of any kind of spirituous liquors, &c., clandestinely, into such prisons ; the sending of any letters of communication surreptitiously, and otherwise contributing to the liberation of parties convicted of any crime, or acting in any way in contravention of the law for the safe custody of such prisoners. The regulations prohibitory of warders giving facilities for such purpose are also affixed to the notice. THE CHAUNTRY ' Surroti.—This important freehold residential estate, comprising the noble mansion with beautiful gardens sad *rounds and six hundred acres of pasture, arable, and wood lands, the property of the Lord Chief Baron, has been i;l i c i l ee t private contract by Mews. Farebrother, Lye, and Cite Court. BALMORAL. OCT. ?I'. 'lle Queen and royal family ,liove .•lit a: The Delo of Buckingham has the honour of dining with her M.,jehty and tte royal family. Thu Prince of Wats, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Kennel, visited the Guards' Industrial H. me and Guards' In.titute yesterday. A Comuittee of ch.. Locda of her Majesty's Most Hon. Priiy Council >at oa Tuesday at the l'ris y on the subject of the cattle plaque. Thu lords present were the Lord President and Lord Robert Montagu. A Committee of the Lords of her blajesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Coutail-ottice, Whitehall, on matters relating to quaran• tine and the eattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President, Lord Robert Montagu, Sir StalLird Nortlicote, and the Right Hon. Gatliorne Hardy. A de putation of working men from Klitibur,;ll, intiv iluced by Mr. Charles ScAt, advocate, and consisting of Mr. Thomas Young, cabinet-maker ; Mr. William Jack son, secretary of the Operative Loot and Shoemakers' A• ,, ociation of Scotland ; Mr. George Scott, glasscutter ; and Mr. James C. Fleming, skinner, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street, on Tuesday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial °thee from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Saud. and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the l:overnors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa. The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judge+. Queens Counsel, Lc., at hie lordship's residence, No. 7, L.' iton. square, on Saturday, the 2nd of November (the fult day of Michaelmas Term), at 12 o'clock. CA IaNKT CouNei Summonses have been issued for a Cabinet Council on Tuesday, the 3th proximo, at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence, in Downing-street. l't.vssourn, (kr. i3.—To-day his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge paid his annual visit of in spection to this port. This morning the troops in the garrison here were reviewsl by his royal hi;hness in Devonport Park, and in the afternoon the Duke inspected the progress of the forts forming the western defences. In the evening he dined at Mount Wise with the local heads of departments. He concludes his inspection to-morrow, and takes his departure in the afternoon. 31INI-yrr.RrAr, Movr.mvers.—The Earl of Derby, accompanied by the countess, will leave Knowsley on the tth of the ensuing month for their residence in St. James's-square ; his lordship is e .pected to remain in town six weeks. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsfonl and family return to their residence in Eaton-square towards the latter end of next week. The whole of the members of the cabinet will assemble in town the week after next. The Prince and Princess of Prussia are expected in Belgium to-day on their way to England. They are to embark at Ostend on board the royal yacht Osborne. The thirty-sixth birthday of the Prince Royal of Prussia was celcbrat•,l four days back at Baden, where the ursud Duke and Duchess, Prince Louis of Rude, and Princou Alice of Englaud, bad arrived to join the King and Queen of Prussia. The festivities were quite private. The Countess of Gainaborough died on Tuesday at 12.30 p.m. at Exton-park, near Oakham. Her ladyship, who was in her forty-sixth year, was the eldest daughter of the late Earl of Erroll, and was married in 1841 to the Earl cf Gainsborough, then Viscount Camilalen. As Lady Ida Hay, her ladyship was one of the bridesmaids on the occasion of her Majesty's marriage. The Duke of Norfolk has left Paris on a tour in Germany. The Marchioness (Dowager) Townahend and Lady Audley Townshend have arrived in Paris from a tour of the German Spsa. The Earl and Counteea of Dudley have arrived in Paris from the noble earl's shooting•box at Black Mount, N.B. Viscountess Palmerston, accompanied by Via countess Jocelyn and Hon. Miss Jocelyn aid Viscount and Viscountess Sudley, arrived at her residence in Park-lane yesterday, from Brockett Hall, Herta. The Right Hon. Edward Herman, M.P., and Mrs. Honman left Gleufrahie, Kinsman, on Saturday, for Lochinch, near Stranraer, on a visit to the Earl of Stair. Sir Edwin Landseer is at present in Ross-shire, the guest of Mr. J. E. Coleman, at Lochluichard Lodge. The veteran artist is still well sod active, and is enjoying his favourite sport of deerstalking with considerable gnome's. THE FATE OF DR LIVINGSTONE. The following is the full text of the letter written by Mr. J. S. Moffat respecting his brother4n4sw, Dr. Livingstone : o " Claremont, Sept. 17, 1867. " Sirs,—People are incessantly asking me whether I have not given up all hope respecting Dr. Livingstone. There appears to me no necessity for us to make up our minds on the subject at present. I put off writing to you until we should hear once more from England, and as no further intelligence about Dr. Livingstone has been re ceived I shall say once for all what appears to me to be the state of the case. " All the evidence to the effect that Dr. Livingstone was murdered by the Mazite comes through one channel, namely, the Johanna men, with Monate at their head. Two or three different accounts have been given by these men, and no one account is reconcilable with the others. I will not occupy space or time by going into details, but anyone may satisfy himself on this poi n t. Reports have been received t hr ough other channels, not corroborating, but absolutely contradicting the account given by the Johanna men. Arab traders have come from the immediate vicinity of the spot where the murder is alleged to have occurred, and yet have not heard of en event which could not have failed to cause a good deal of excitement through an extended region. A message had been sent to the Sultan of Zanzibar by a chief inland that Livingstone had passed his territories alive and well at a point beyond the scene of the supposed murder. ' What has beeoins of the Africans who were with Livingstone? Be started from the coast with three sorts of people. The Sepoys soon came back, unable to bear the hardships of the climate and journey. The Johanna men came back with the story which has made so much noise in the world ; but where are the negroes, of whom there were nine or ten, who had been sent with Livingstone, and the Sepoys from Bombay ? Is is not said th a t th e y were killed. What has become of them "Great stress is laid on Dr. Kirk's opinion. Granted. No man is better qualified to judge. But has he made up his mind! He wrote at the first blush of the affair, and said he feared it was true. A month later be wrote and raid it was not well to go spreading reports and putting things in the papers. We had better wait for more evi dence. lam not aware that he has expressed himself very decidedly since then. " The continued silence of Dr. Livingstone is said to look bad. How long has be been silent ° Not much more than twelve months. He was silent longer than that when he crossed the continent further south at a narrower place. I myself have been twelve months with out communication with the civilised world, though I have never been in such secluded regions as those to which Livingstone was directing his course when the Johanna men say he was killed. If Livingstone is off the caravan routes which lead to the coast near Zanzibar, he is not likely to find any one to carry his letters. If, as I think quite possible. the negroes are still with him, having got 60 far, he would not be likely to return, but would con tinue his journey, and I should not be in the least sur prised if be turned up in some moat unexpected quarter. "Probably the Johanna men, like their neighbours on the Continent, can tell most circumstantial lies. My father has been killed and buried, too, before now, with all the necessary formalities ; and so h.ve I, on ► smaller scale. " My own belief is that when the Johanna men found that Livingstone was going into a region too remote for their taste, they did what many servants, black and white, have done before them—took to their heels some fine night when the explorer was asleep, and made the best of their way back to Zanzibar,—l am, kc., " JOHN SMITH NiOITAT." CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION AT COLCHESTER. —The annual dinner of the Colchester Conservative Asso ciation took place yesterday (Wednesday) evenine at that town. The chair was occupied by Ilr. C. H. Hawkins, and there were also present Mr. E. K. Kerslake, M.P. for the borough ; Colonel Learmonth, who will offer him self sea conservative candidate at the diSsolution ; Mr. J. Goodson, M.P. for Great Yarmouth ; and Major Jervis, MP. for Harwich, Mr. Kerslake spoke hope fully of the prospects of the oonservative party, although he remarked there were rocks ahead as the professions,' agitators threatened renewed efforts. He believed, how ever, that old England would still be old England. Colonel Learmonth was enthusiastically received. Major Jervis, M.P. and Mr. Goodson, M.P., repli e d t o th e toast of the "Conservative Members of the House of Commons." Major Jervis with reference to the Reform Bill professed all much confidenoe in the future as Mr. Kerslake. LA FEST 1NTE1,1,16 ENCE. THE EMPEROR OF .ICSTRIA IN I'ARIS. 'FL, to-day $ :—" The Emperor of Austria c.,anot but meet with a sympathetic re eeptian in I 'aris. A tragical interest attaches to his percoll, his house, and his empire. Heir to a tralitnin hostile to the modern spirit, and of a rower which he soug!it to uphold, but which ho hail the grief to see receive serious blows, he is at thic moment engaged in praiseworthy and as we are peNuadol very sincere efforts to re-establish tie• ancient fortune of the Haosburghs by liberty. We kn.,w net whether these efforts will succeed, but we ought nevertheless to thank hint for thew, and this moreover is not the only claim to our sympathies. Almost all the disasters which the house of Austria has suffered from the time of Richelieu to the present day have been caused by us, and a fatal singularity, which we would believe exhausted, has more than once rendered our alliance as fatal as an hostility. Sadowa was nut ours, but we made it possible, and it was clearly not that Maximilian should be led to Queretaro that we took hint to Mexico and established him there. The Emperor and the two archdukes who arrive to-day are the brothers of the unfortunate prince whose youthful ambition met with so terrible a punishment, and the recol lection of the loss, still so recent, will excite in all right thinking men a tender respect and interest." The A n ttir Nefioitat says :—" It will be a spec tacle of no small interest to see, side by side, two Sovereigns, one of whom, ruling the destinies of the country of Voltaire, upholds the temporal power of the Pope ; whilst the other, the inheritor of one of the dynasties, the most attached to the principle of divine right, allows the Concordat, that is to say, the temporal power of the church, to be abolished in his empire." GARIBALDI'S ESCAPE FROM CAPRERA. We find in a Genoa journal, the Morin c, some hurridly written details of Garibaldi's escape. Caprera was kept in a state of siege by the Italian commander, but two young men appear to have gone to the Island of Maddalena, opposite Caprera, and to have hidden themselves in the woods until they succeeded in getting a small battered boat which had escaped the notice of the cruisers. Garibaldi appears to have got into this boat alone on the night of the 15th, and, rowing himself, to have arrived on the morning of the 19th off Veda. At 6 o'clock in the evening he risked a landing, which the marshy soil made dangerous, and reached a Tuscan village. Here the general, in a post chaise, with some friends who had assisted in arranging his escape, galloped off towards the Roman frontier. state that the government had : out ti'Ara to take command of Civita Vecchia. (BY ATIASITIC TELE...RA.I'a.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, 0( r. The Cunard steamer AL•ppo arrived out to-lay. Closing prices :—(/old, 14:q ; Sterlinq Exchange on London, 109 ; Unit ...d States Bonds, Iss2, 11'25 ; ditto 188,1, Ito. • 111Mois, 1•2•2: • Erie, 71.1. Cotton, middling Upland, 19:. PHILADELPHIA, 0,7. 2.!. Standard white petroleum, :141. NEW Yol:K, OLT. :2:i, 4; e.m. The steamers Borussia, Ville de Paris, Colum bia, and Atlantic have arrived out. Closing prices :—Gull, 1.13!„ sterling exchange on London, 1081 5-110 Cnit:d States ; Illinois, 122; Erie,7l. Cuttun : Middling upland, 19c. ritILIDELPILIA, Oct 23. Petroleum, standard witite, 35c. [Arrived in London 1 i a.m., Oct. NJ THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE LATE EVENTS. (LIEUTEIfS PARIS, OL r. Evcsr.N... The weekly political summary of the .1f. , ,,ib.0r fly ti,,ir contains the following remarks upon the late events in Italy : The note published in yesterday's Moniker has made known the result of the appeal addressed by France to Italy, in requiring from her qua execution of, the Conven tion of the Kith September, and the adoption of measures suitable to arrest the enterprises of the revolutionary party against the Holy Father. The Italian government has admitted the force of the engagements it has con tracted, and has made known its firm will to Mop the Caribaldian bands, to oppose the enlistments, and establish a rigorous watch upon the Pontifical fron tier. M. Rattazzi has given in his resignation, and general Cialdini has been charged by the King to form a new ministry. l'pon the other band the invaders who, in violation of all the rules of the law of nations, had thrown themselves into the Pontifical territory, have been forced to abandon the position they had taken up in consequence of the uninterrupted series of grave reverses inflicted upon them by the troops of the Holy Father. At Monte Libretti and at Ncrola the Pontificd sobliers hare bravely attacked an enemy always superior in numbers, and have everywhere vanquished him and put him to flight. These exploits do the greatest honour to the email Roman army, all the corps of which—both foreign and native—have vied with each other in courage and ardour. The population of the Pontifical States have made it a point of honour to prove their sentiments of fidelity towards their sovereign by themselves fighting the aggressors. Squedriglieri (volunteer detachments of peasants) have taken an energetic part in the struggle, and have shown by their resolute attitude that the revolutionary agitation could no more reckon upon their indifference than upon their complicity. The municipalities of the majority of the towns and villages have requested arms of Rome, which have been given them, and they have taken part, together with the Pontifical soldiers and gendarmes, in the defence of their homes. For the last three weeks the population of the Roman States have victoriously refuted, by their attitude, the assertions of the revolutionary press, which had endeavoured to give the name and character of an insurrection to the brutal a• , -ression attempted by the party of action, and the self-styled liberators have met with a reception which has proved to them that they were considered as invaders whose doc trines and whass violent acts were equally disapproved. WRATBICR REPORT.-(TFIIS DAY.) THCRSDAY. 0ett.111614 24, 8 CIL THE STATE OF ITALY. The news from Italy describes the agitation in that country to be very great. The Dirittu of the 21st, in its daily bulletin, says : Napoleon 111. has gone openly into the camp of reaction and declared war upon the revolution. This, at all events, gets rid of all equivocation, and places the question in a clear light. Napoleon 111. themes war upon the revolu tion, and the revolution declares war upon him. In a contest between the reaction and the revolution the issue cannot be doubtful Then, referring to an article in the Daily News, in which a French intervention was qualified as an act of madness, the Di ritto says: This is the unanimous judgment of • all who are not bereft of common sense or blinded by partisan rage. IC:Tel:l43n 111. will not, at least, be able to say that he has not been warned, and he will have only to blame himself if ho adds another illustration of the proverb—" Whom the Gods mean to ruin they first make mad." In another column the Diritto writes : In this supremo hour there remains only one thing for ns to do—to rally round whoever holds high the honour and right of the nation. If Signor Rattazzi is resolved on this he unquestionably represents the national feeling. Resistance to France is not only s duty and a right, but, under pre sent circumstances, safety. Who could recommend to this Italy, unfortunate in war and in peace, to abandon Rome? What chance have we of internal peace, or what weight can we expect in Europe, if the threat of intervention scares us from a territory that is ours! With regard to the future even, it is better to try the fate of arms than to run the risk of what is before us if we abandon Rome. To France, invading our soil, let us oppose a firm resistance. These Frenchmen are not so terrible that we cannot meg. sure sword with sword. At Puebla they were beaten by the Mexicans, and at San Pancrazio by Garibaldi. We have our native soil to defend, a just cause, and the indignation of a studied insult. They will come over the SO& in search of a Pope in whom they do not believe. They will come into Italy with an iniquitous war, whilst all Europe distrusts them, and only awaits the occasion to crush them. Let not the ministry be deterred. The country is with them ; let them be assured -let them at least once show to Europe that in Italy there is a nation and a government, and not a prefecture of France. The Si;Tie says : The reports circulated this morning in Paris afford grounds for apprehension that grave complications me likely to arise in the Italian Peninsula. The dismissal of of the Rattazzi Ministry and the position of the king, since the injunctions of the French government, have produced extreme agitation. A demonstration by the greater part of the deputies present in Florence is spoken of. The officious journals which announce in joyful tones that Victor Emmanuel is prepared to master the revolu tionists, and that Cialdini's sword will do the busi ness of the Papal Zonaves, are quite at their ease. But they forget that all is revolutionary in Italy—revolu tionary the king, who usurped the ligitimate thrones of the Archdukes of Modena and Tuscany, and of King Francis in Naples and Sicily—revolutionary Cialdini, who defeated the l'apelini at Castelfidordo—revolutionary the army, which has amongst its generals of division, the fonuer leaders of Garib►ldi's "Thousand "—revolutionary the Italian Senate, where Lombards, who have escaped from the cells of Spielberg and Neapolitans wbo had been shut up in the prisons of King Bombs sit aide by side— revolutionary the parliament which bail confiscated the pro perty of the church and proclaimed Rome as the capital of Italy. A reactionary ruinktry in Florence would infallibly fall, if nut before a poplar revolution, before the first vote of the national representatives of Italy. The French government is assuming a serious responsibility on the other side of the Alps. There is, however, one way of repairing the evil, which has been already done, and of avoiding the last mistake. It is the only possible issue out of a deplorable situation. The September convention must be given up, and Rome restored to the Romans. The French govern ment must abstain from interposing between the Pope and his subjects. _ _ " We learn," says the France, " from our pri vate sources of information, that a great effer vescence of opinion shows itself in Italy. The party of action is expected to attempt some po pular movement; but the government is resolved to make its authority respected, and to repress any revolutionary enterprise." (azuria's Tri.r.G luxe.) FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 24. - - - The Coisfitlifientnet of to-day publishes an article signed by M. Limayrac, in which he says that the people of Paris have received the Emperor of Austria with sympathy, inasmuch as he has courageously undertaken and is resolutely execu ting the glorious work of regenerating his country, by granting useful reforms and wise measures of liberty. THE PAPAL STATES. MA.RBEILLES, Oc - r. 24. Advice' from Civita Vecchia to the 21st inst. V. 1 11.. Itzirama. 8.. 11. T. W. lto .----,—.... W. 1 w i_ 12 F. tI. Watts W.O.W. o 1 0.2' 1 ibarrima 19.94 40 N. 1I 1 I S.W. bo O.OS 2 Leith 29.94 531 8.8. 2, 2 8. Iro 0.06 - Ardroman .115 52. N.N.W. 1 4 8. ioc 0.09 1 GremicaaUs 111.93 611 8.8.8. , 4 O.W. Iro 0.47 - Yahmtta 12111.96 491 8.8.8. 1 2 8.8.8. ;bc S Itoches Point 29.84 49 Y4.N.8. 8 ! 8.8. W. . ro 0.70 4 29.89 611 S. E. ,3 I KILL ct 1 i kt..o= l9 84 '5O 11.5. W. I 3 I 0.8. W. om 0.09 - Penzance.— ,29.11/ 54i ILS.E. I 6 i 8.8. E .u A Brost .29.30 54 W.B.W. 5 B. W. cr 4 [orient !0.:352 E ' 2 N.W. ro 2 Rochefort.— 29.8152, 8. ' 2 8.8. let 2 Plymouth Weymouth 20.84 58. 11.8.8. 3 8.8. Ico 3 Portamouth MEE 65, S. 3 ' 8.8. c 2 London - Yarmouth 29.90 67. B.&W. 2 8.8.8. oc 1 2 Scarborough 29.9031. 8.8. 3 B.W. co I— 1 ,hlelds M 9.01 66 0 B.E I - 2 B.W. cut 2 Helder 29.06 511 B.W. i 3 - - 2 M A RKS. The decrease of barometrical prcAsurr reported yesterday at the southern staCon ha. extended to the eastward, where the fall since yesterday amounts to fof on Inch. A rise has recom. teemed in the south of Ireland. Pressures are generally very uniform In amount. The aria& are light and very varlehte. The temperature in the north is loner than It was yesterday, but at nor southern stations it is comparatively high. Heavy rain has fallen on the wed, Boast of inland. and some ut reported from Scotland. Weather is generally cloudy. The Belgian legislative session of 1867-8 com menced yesterday without any speech from the throne. A Paris letter of Tuesday says :—" The drives of the Bois de Boulogne look very gay in these autumn The crowd of foreigners in Paris adds one or two tiles to the two ordinary ranks of carriages on the borders of the lake. To-day the Emperor and the Empress were there in an imperial carriage, also the Queen of Holland in another of the imperial carriages ; Count and Countess Walewaki, Princess Murat, and Prince J uan hi n , M ura t i n a phaeton ; M. Paul Demidoff and his young wife in an open carriage, magnificently appointed ; several Hursi.in carriages, accompanied by outriders ; carriages with foreign liveries, and with occupants in Greek and Oriental cos tumes. Paris, despite all crises, is still the city of the world." October 10 was observed throughout the Caned ian dominion as a day of thanksgiving for an abundant har vest. The crops in Canada this year are reported to have yielded as bountifully as those in the United States. Mulberry trees are being planted at the Cape of Good Hope for the purpose of silk growing. THE C.HERIFFs' ISAILa . CRAMS DINNER.—A grand banquet to celebrate the election of the sheriffs for Lon don and Middlesex, Alderman D. H. Stone, and Mr. W. M'Arshur. was held last evening at the Haberdashers'. hall, Gresham-street. Amongst the numerous company there were Sir R. W. Carden, Alderman Lawr en c e , M . P., Alderman Sir Sidney Waterlow, Sir F. Lyoett, Mr. R. W. Crawford, M.P., Mr. W. T. Mee. Tureens, M.P., Mr. Gilpin, M.P., Mr. Kennard, M.P., Sir Joseph M'Kenna, M.P., Mr. T. Cave, M.P., Mr, Edwards, 31. P., Sir J. Thwaites, Sir C. S. Crosley, and the heml, of the chief City and munici pal institutions. The toasts usually given by the chair. man were proposed alternately by the two Sheriffs. The loyal and patriotic toasts were duly honoured. The toast of " The House of Commons" was proposed by Alderman and Sheriff Stone, who said there would have been no difficulty a year ago in dealing with a toast of this kind, but the case was altered now. An act bad been passed which h►d so altered the constitution of the house that he felt in a difficulty as to how he should speak of it. It had been said that the Reform Bill was a leap in the dark, and if that was so, it would not become the Sheriffs of London to leap into the dark too. At all events he believed the house would always uphold its own dignity, and maintain for this country those rightful privi lege@ upon which every British subject relied. Mr. Craw ford, M.P., in returning thanks, said be should not j re nounce an opinion upon the merits of the Reform Bill, although he might say there never was each a session as that of this year. The effect of the bill upon the City of London would be such, that not more than a couple of hundred voters under 101. would be added to the electoral list. The toast of " The Bar" was responded to by Mr. Sleigh ; that of "The City Companies" by the Prime Warden of tho Goldsmiths' Company ; " The trade and commerce of the City," by Mr. Kennard, M.P. A selec tion of songs and glees was performed during the evening by Mr. J. L. flatten, Mr. iChapiin Henry, Miss Wells, Mies J. Wells, Mr. F. Walker, Mr. T. Young, and Mr. Wino THe muomsnuftl MURDER. ADJOURNED INQUEST.—(TIIIB DAY.) This afteniom the inquiry into the cir..enn - stances attending the death of Edwin MA) ea. H. bandsman in the 2nd Life Guards,whe was shot iu V, e Illoomsbilly, on the morning of 8 iturday, the ':S:h of September last, was resumed before Dr. Lankester at the University I , :llege Ifo , pital, Mr. Poland appeared for the crown, and Mr. Warner Sleigh, who has been watching the case on behalf of John :i.'s es, was also prkvesit. The Coroner, on taking his seat, stated to Vac jury th It since the court had met, the magistrate who h... 1. investigating the case had acquitted Groves, who, howev ei , had been committed on a charge of assault, and, nuc ii. 4 able to find bail, was Mill in prison. They could not, therefore, have him present for examination that .1.. y. Tue. question as to the guilt or innocence of Groves was, how. ever, still before them. Frederick Elson, cabdriver 7,919, deposed—On the night of Friday, the fith of September he drove to tl.e Tu. k's Head, Southampton-row. He arrived there at oh nit a quarter to 1. He drove a gentleman whom be left at tie house. Witness remained outside, and saw Howler, who.a he asked to fetch him some beer. He had sonic conver sation with Bowler, who said theme was a tow abort Fenian inside, or something to that effect. lie remained outside till the house closed, when eight or ten persons mime out. Five men stopped just opposite his cab, and had a few words with Bowler. There was moo slurring. Bowler called one of the men • counter.jumper. He war a tall man, standing nearly six feet high, with a black moustache. This gentleman said to Bowler, "Am I? you'd better try me." Witness interfered, and on reminding the gentleman that Bowler was only • cabman he went away and got into a Hansom cab driven by Bush. The other four men went on the left hand side up Southampton-row. Did not notice whether one of the five wore a moustache. Would not know any of them again but the gentleman with the moustache. He saw some women come out before the men, and they went in the direction of Holborn. After the house was closed he heard what he took for the report of firearms, but Bowler said he thought it was only the slamming of • door. Witness turned round and went in the direction of Holborn. Bowler got on to his cab and went with him as far as the corner of Southampton-street. Between 2 and 3 in the mourning when he put up his cab he heard of the murder. [The inquest wu proceeding when our report left.] MIDDLESEX REGISTRATIONS.-(THIS DA K) Mr. James Newton Goren, the barriat,r appointed to revise the list of voters for knights of the shire to serve in parliament for the county of Middlesex, held his last court this morning, at Radley's Hotel, for the revision of the lists of the llri parishes comprising (with hoe other parishes who return no lists) the city of London. Mr. Gilbert, of 47, Charing•cross, appeared as agent for the Middlesex Liberal Registration Society ; the conser vatives were represented by Mr. T. Alley Jones, of 1, Clifford's-Mu, and Mr. J. Alley Jos.ei. of Chancery-caue. Robert iiorton Parry, of Itulhaimhill, Surrey, claimed to vote for 21 and 22, Camomile-street; but the overseer had not published his claim. The Barrister—l cannot assist you. Mr. Dear (Mr. Gilbert's assistant)—You should get one of the agents to assist you. Mr. Parry—What have I to do with agents? I made my claim myself, and I demand that my name be placed upon the register. Barrister—The overseer says he does not remember your claiming. The discomfited voter became very irate, attain re;ected Mr. Dear's proffered assistance, and protested that he would appeal against the barrister's decision. The Barrister told him he would not grant an appeal, and called on the next business. The Overseer of the parish of St. Alpbsge, London-wall, preAented a bill for expenses, N. ss. The Barrister—That is It. Is. a head. Mr. Gilbert—And in another cue—All Hallows. Honey lane—there are three names, and the charge is IV. ris. On behalf of the Liberal Registration Association, I will take care that the ratepayers' interests are cared fur. Otherwise what shall we have next year, when the num bers on the lists will be twentyfol d! The charges are monstrous. The Barrister—l think the ratepayers ought to be represented. 'Mr. Blatehford said be had been vestry clerk of a parish for :t. yeArs, and there was just the same trouble whether the list was long or abort. . . Mr. Gilbert—and I have had 35 years' experience as parish officer, poor law guardian, and registration agent ; and in all the esperienoe which I have gained I have met with such charges as these. I say the charges are monstrous. Barrister— Well, next year I shall consider the question of charges, with a view to the formation of a scale. In another case, there were 700 names on the list, and the overseers made no charge. In another there war no claim and no objection, and the overseer had charged 11/. In St. Andrew, a large pariah, the charge was only I Is. A pretty general charge was 21. 24. Mr. Gilbert—According to Mr. Blatchford's doctrine the charge next year ought not to be increased, under the operation of the new Reform Bill. Mr. Jones—And the charge for large parishes ought not to be larger than for small ones. Mr. Blatchford, the advocate for equality of charges irrespective of the length of the lists, appealed as repre sentative of the parish of St. James, Drake's-plat:, to give a practical and personal confutation of his own doctrine. Itarrister—Well, the list is small enough whatever the bill may be. The list contained three names, and there was neither claim nor objection. Barrister—The amount is 2/. 3s. Gd. ; and there is LO printer's bill. Mr. Blatchford—The 3s. Gd. is the printer's bill The charge has remained as it was in the time of Mr. Shad [The court was sitting when our report lett.l RATTENING RENEWED AT SHEFFIELD. THE EDOE•TOOL TRADE. We learn with regret that the crime of stealing wheelbands—a form of robbery with which Sheffield has been too familiar—is not wholly put down. This most di, arscef ul description of theft has been renewed at 111,2. N. Ward and Payne's, whose business—the edge-tool trade — is well known to be one of the best pail branches for work men. The bands taken are those used by a workman who is said to he in &mars with his society. The followin4 c ine.pondene! has taken place between Mr. WI r.l and the secretary. There are numerous old and respectable workmen in the edge tool branch who are disgusted with this attempt to renew criminal practices, aml who will be rejoicM if a spirited and unanimous effo.t is made to stamp it out. " Oct. 23,1 9 4 r. " To the Secretary of the Edge-tool and Wuolahear Grinder*. " Sir,—We beg to inform you that a cam of rattening has again occurred at our grinding wheel, in the removal of some of our wheelhands, and since it was clearly proved before the Trades Inquiry Commission that these proceedings were connived at by the secretaries and the unions, we beg to state that the bands must be forth coming before work is resumed. —We are, yours respect fully, "WAND AND PAYNL" " Sheffield, Oct. 23, 1567. " Dear Sir,—ln answer to your note of this date, allow me to inform you that it is no news to me that some bands have been removed from your grinding wheel, us I heard of it yesterday, and your men, or those of your men who told me, can bear we out that I know nothing about them, as I distinctly told them that they who had removed them must replace them. Certainly Ido not ex pectito be believed because I an. secretary. In respect to your men not being allowed to resume work, that is entirely your own business. The men will want their wages, and think they can get them, either from our funds or from you as their employer, but that is a matter which does not concern me ; certainly I would rather hear of some arrangement being made betwixt you, and believe me in an sincerity yours, SALL. STACEY. Secretary. _ . . " P.S.—lllness prevented roe being at the Kings Aims, or I should have sent you word by tour respected manager, C. Birkhead."—Sheffidd Daily Tde9raph. THE BOUNDAZIES Or SOUTHWARK. COM M IS SI oNERS' MEMiINO. —(Tins DAT.)—This morning Major- General Itainbrigge and Mr. Nassau Senior, the assist. ant-commissioners. appointed to inquire into the bow, daries of Able bisJugl , held a sitting at the Vestry-1 elf. y i e ttee. For Borough-road. THY. MEMBERS YOH MULL ON REFORM. —Last night Messrs. Clay and Norwood addressed their consti tuents at HulL Mr. Clay told the meeting thet the people of England had no party to thank for the Merin Mill but only themselves. Hid connection with the Tea room party he looked upon as a cause for congratulation th a '' i ' m g a i l t the future, whatever reforms were wanted would be given and triumph, of in i sszuzh as sa p., j t , : ein T iiriainaG h noug t h l N ia .t t i part omThld. judieions) if the people only did their duty by se nding representatives w ho shared their opinions. Mr. Norwood also conside re d the passing of the Reform Rill a great triumph of the ' peo ples power. Votes of thanks were pissed e e b o th gentlemen. November I. wforußtbaltakAirepitricti u( CA preu li n so t, on r m ,.. ru slants Day, I