The Express. — London, England, 1859-09-02 00:00:00

OKCOND-HAND PIANOFORTRIL-CHANIK Ztt erpreso* TO CONALSPONDINTL ,STifttretainto lauad.4 br "no 1 1:11: 11 ..amg Pere, mist be as be as.., 10, b 7 iwo e'Clook dr ‘y of poblicablea. RAT iILRITET. TION iffOONSAALLOWZIOL—TIS OONTIONTED tLiCTION. tu red Mo. c. itats....--uoT OW SWOT OPT Of MID(I). immo—Aall A DAVOUTAII TO .1111 .0 •11y14. Tao CTopso, TOE INCIVIDIARIAL—A VOCAL INTEL TA113114C32. Mr. J. ImAL—Aati =ma CLAMS AND CLAN/. NIOR WAITS AT LONDON =IDOL Tess rair—Vonsirr. p. 12.— --Wigwag. bx TOIIOIIIIOII-41111ISint. ••••••••• On—•, 6a. Us. LONDON. PXIDAY, SEPT. 2. Tan position of oar great railway companies is visibly improving. Financial irregularities ere IX. coming more rare; more attention is paid to economy ; and as the geeeral progress of the traffic is extremely satisfactory, the prospect of remunerative result, to railway proprietors is beooming more and more hope ful. Below we recapitulate the rates of dividend declared on the ordinary stocks of the leading com panies (or the six months ending the 30th June in the last three years: 18.19 1858 1857 P. ct. P. et. P. et. SAL NAL London and North Weetdra p. 41 .. p.st. .. p. Gred ,Irru londos rod Sahib Woman .. 43 Berwick York and Ntatil 41414•41 .. 3 .. 4 h EMS rn Midland London rad It I . • Loormiko mid Torloileo l.. .. I Overt Nortliors Zoos Cowin Nort il h Irttiob 3 •... 1 Coloaka• - I Railway profit,, as • matter of coarse, are to• great extent dependent upon the amount of the gross business. Trade in all branches, internal and external, was unusually active in the first nine months of the year 1857, although the event proved that the stimulus was not entirely of • healthy &muter. In several instanoss, the dividends of 1859, in consequence, do not compare very faro/ar idity with those of 1857. The exceptions are pre sented by the Great Western, South Eastern, Mid land, and North British Companies, all of which have announced larger rates of distribution. A comparison of the dividends for the fir..t six months of 1539 with those for the corresponding period of 1858, showy, however, a decided improvement, affording at once the assurance that an important class of investments is becoming more remai restive, and that the general trade of the country is steadily increasing. It has often been re marked that when our railways are prosperous, the community at large we doing well. As proving how rapidly railway traffic can grow, the statistics of the Midland Company may be cited. For the last six menthe there hes been an ;lamas, under every hand—dos.: An increase in coackifne traffic of 17,78841 is merchendise of 32,8151.; is minerals of 22011.; and in cattle of 1,1591.; reek ing • total Wastes of no less than 71,1311. The aggre- gate re.sipts of the undertaking for the last half year are thus rsi+ed to 910,9361., against 838,9731. far the corresponding period of last year. As this important increase of income has been earned at a relatively mallet increase of expenditure, the dividend frtwd beemes 314,6021, against 2514,1341. last year. The railway proprietors' maxim should ever be to keep the expenses down, and to rely upon the progress of traffic for an increase of dividend. The present prosperity of the Midland Railway Company, es denoted by the aagmentatioa of the dividend, by the rise in the price of the ordinary stank eosin per cent. premium, and by the high credit enjoyed by the company, indicates what may hereafter be accom plished by other companies now ander a cloud. The Midland Railway, it is true, occupies a peculiarly strong and independent positioc, but other undertakiogs may yet become almost equally succereful, provided the resources of each be developed with an equal degree of care. Whilst congratulating the Midland shareholders upon the improvement in their property—a property which represents an actual outlay of upwards of twenty millions sterling—we find in the statement of accounts last submitted half•a-dozen points which prove—what railway shareholders an now becoming well aware of—that directors require to be watched as narrowly as ever. The aggregate capital rapes. diture still grows far too quickly. The motley on capital account far the last six moths has been much as 90,8664, or 16,7561. more than the screw io the gross receipts. This emporium furnishes another proof that, no matter how rapidly the traffic may rime, the outlay of capital will always. wiles* rigidly checked, increase in astill greater ratio- The item which chiefly moires explanation upon the present occasion is 22,2031. for the old " main line? . Is there tear to be an end to the exproditure on Capi tal Account on this portion of the undertaking:' Thee, again, we remark that, against the increase of 74,1311. in the half year's traffic receipts, an addition of 59,093/. has been made to the permanent expen diture for working stock. Nor is this all, for, at •be general meeting recently held, the directors ob tained leave to expend and charge to capital a fresh gam of 42,7604, of which 21,0001. figures again under the instiller bead of "Rolling Stock," whilst 13,0004 is for a little speculation in hotel building at Leeds. If it be urged that railway companies should not travel beyond their legitimate functions, the success of the Great Western Railway Hotel at Paddington is cut is the teeth of the hardy objector. That metropolitan hotel having yielded a good dividend, of course all undertakings of a similar kind, even in the provinces, must prove a profitable investment ; at least this is directors' logic. But we have not yet concluded the enumera tion of the immediate additions to the Midland capital, another vote having been asked, and of muse obtained, for 14.710/. for tools, machinery, horse boxes, and engines. As regards the engine's, the Report naively remarks that they were " ob .. taised before a special vote of the proprietors was " necessary to sanction the outlay." There is, it is true, the germ of improvement in the official recog nition that the formal sanction of the proprietors must be given to each individual item of expenditure. Shareholders will do well to canvass these special votes with the utmost rigour. Let them never forget that the sums demanded each half-year involve a permanent addition to the number of part ners loaded to share with them in the profits, and that the new partners, in the majority of instances. even possess preferential rights. The Slidland Rail way is a noble and improving property, and has nothing to fear if the capital outlay be prevented from assuming more onerous proportions. Another prosperous company. the Great Northern, whose ordinary stock, like that of the Midland, stands at a premium in the market, likewise adds too rap... 11 to the capital account. For the last six month*, the Great Northern Muffle has increased 31,0001., bat the dividend has not increased. I luring the same period a sum of 65,0001. has been charged to capital. in face of the candid declaration of the Chairman that " as long as shareholders keep in. " creaming the capital account, so long 14 ill they " put off the profitable malt of the undertaking." Of the chrrges to capital 5,8361. is for law and Parliamentary expenses incurred in the eta iggle with the London and North Western Company, and forms, it would appear, only a portion of the Great Northern Company's law expenses set down for the six months. It would be far more judicious and legitimate to defray these charges '-om revenue. The litigious propeesities both of directors and share holders are less likely to be checked if the oast can he thrown with this questionable facility upon the future. Then, the large sum of 25,0001. advanced by the Great Northern Company to the Manchester and Sheffield during the lets alliance proves to be a permanent cession to the latter, who assign to the former, to give a colour to the transaction, the use of the station at Sheffield. The reasoning by which this sum is carried to capital is very unsound ; although, to say truth, no one expected that any attempt would be made to deal with it in accordance with sound financial pi:ncipies. The amount of the " loan " may almost be regarded as one of the losses sustained by the Great Northern Company through their recent aggression. We offer these remarks in no ins:dious spirit, bat merely in order to remind railway proprietors of the absolute necessity of continued vigilance. Even companies of the highest credit have a proclivity to financial error. AUSTRIA. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1859. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. The following telegram has been repaired at Mr. Raster's office this day : VIENNA, BM. R. . No measures announced in the Ministerial pro- gramme have yet been serried out. It is smarted that the privileges to be granted to the Jews will not be the same throughout the whole empire, but will be influenced by local cireametancee. The principal pri% :lege granted to them ill be the tight of acquisition of hoax, pro perty in larger towns. It it also reported that Austria intends to discount that portion of the Austrian debt which will be trarvfetred to Lombardy, and to sell the public domains. A Vienna letter of the 27th tilt. says The deliberations of the new cabinet cout;nue day after day, because the wish ;n to bt'ng to a speedy con clusion not only what concern, the reconstitution of the ministerial departmentn, but also to tin the bane of the new policy. The mere suppression of the ministry of commerce and the ruign'ng of its differ ent branches to other depertmentn occupies much time." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Crook oro own; PARIS, TEVILSDAT EVENING, While it is satisfactory to have to record a daily increasing confidence in the estimate annexation of the Duchies to Piedmont, it is impassible to shut one's eyes to the fact that we are rapidly coming to the kernel of the Italian nat—the Roman guidon. The Constitutions', yesterday, in its otherwise encouraging article, told as is plain terms that the Emperor Napoleon cannot Include the Holy See in the system of absolute non-inter caution which is to be applied to the rest of Central Italy. The interests of catholicity I'll, sa heretofore, in opposition to those of humanity and civilisation, require that the Pope shall be propped up on his tottering throne by something more then a moral interference. True, there is one mode by wHch the bayonets may be dispensed with—papal reform; but as we know the mat d'ordre at Rome in reply to all impertinent observations is now possums's, we see that bayonets, and nothing but bayonet., will be called into requi sition in the States of the Chu.ch. Our vulgar adage tells us what is mace for the goose is ditto for the gander. Bayonets at Rome—bayonets, then, in the Legations. Can thus thing be ? Can that pre scription of highly tempered steel be ordered for Bologna which, it 's admitted, will not be ad ministered to Florence ? The trsenetion will lead to the horns of a terrible dilemma. But M. Privost Paradol, whose signature in the Debate will be hailed with satisfaction at this interesting crisis, foresees a danger short of this possible armed inter fererce by France herself ; he says : But may not the anthem of the revolution in the Dacb'em in their turn makdain that to support the Holy &ie at gums erti"e it is attaclr'ng the Legations, whereby the entire divots' of its on a forces is *men t to it, is to wage war indirectly spinet all the 'tees of Central Italy, rAd the. to otwerve but imperfectly the. proclaim of stou•interven- Lion, which now apperre to cerstitute the clief court, at the insurrectionary dates? Meanwhile order reigry in the Romagna. This very let of September is the day appointed for the meeting of the National Assembly. As in Tuscany and in Modena, the members are chosen from the flower of the aristocrecy of rink and wealth. It appears that one-third of the chamber are nobles. It is said that, instead of voting the separation from the States of the Church and the sonexation to Piedmont in two separate motione, es was done in Tuscany and Modena, the Assembly will unite the two in sue. Minghetti will, it is confidently anti cipated, ensure the obsei vow° of the same dignified demeanour in the act* of the Assembly at Bologna which has prevailed under the presidency of Rica soli at Florence; in particular an address to the Pope is talked of, respectfully but firmly announcing the national will. No militaq movements are es yet circumstantially reported ; bat the faces of the league have received & valuable ac cesaion, 5,000 Romagnol volunteers, who were enrolled in the Sardinian army, having resolved, in stead of returning to their homes, to take seri,:ce with Garibaldi. As to the plenipotentiaries at Zurich they seem to have come to an absolute dead lock: some persons even go the length of emerting that they will sepa rate very shortly without doing enything. The Indepoodance says " they have discussed none bat the most secondary questions, and upon these tbey have been hitherto unable to agree." Such questions for instance as the nuns of the new kingdom, which Victor Emmanuel wishes to call Upper Italy, and Francis Joseph Lombardo-Srrdinis ; the proprietor ship of the Iron crown, and the right of bestowing the order attached to it; and the extent of the cir cumference of the fortified places of Mantas and Peschiem, which Victor Emmanuel would confine to 600 metres, Frrncis Joseph would extend to 6,000 (the range of rifled ornuon), and which the French plenipotentiary suggests she' I be 3,000, split ting, es it were, the difference between the two. All this looks rs if the congress word ritimately be called upon to do that which the conferences have failed to do. According to the Borsets-lialle, the treaty of peace will be signed in the course of next week; the question of the Duchies will be reserved, and that of the debt left to be settled by a commis sion. Prince Richard Metternich im said to be gone to St. Rumor, probably to talk things over in a friendly way with the Emperor, who will, doubtless, enlighten him • little u to the utter hopelessness of the restoration of Fa muter's protegees. The Bourse was very heavy to-Clay, owing chiefly to the evident inability of the Zurich conterers to do business to any purpose. The settlement, too, wes unsatisfactory, many persona preferred to sell and buy age, to paying 20 centimes, the price uked, for continuation. Mobilier vs well so Rent*. wee dull. Closing priers :—Rentes, 68fr. 45c. cub, and 68fr. 35c. account, being a fall of 25c. and 35c. respectively ; Mobilier, 813 fr. 75c. cash, and 810 fr. account, being a fall of 7fr. 50c. and 10fr. respec tively. ROME AND THE 1/GIATIONB. A letter from Rome, of the 27th ult., stye: . The Doke da Oranthnnt leaded at Claim-Vecchia three daya hack, and after breakfasting sith the apostolic dele gate, proceeded at ones to his country seat without stopping at Home. The of St. Louis, Meg of France, has been celebrated here in the French church with the castorarry solemnity. The Pope, who generally mikes it a rule to be prefect at Ibis ceremony, was unable to attend on this occaaiun, his Holioris i.eiug atiil sftlic , ol with a son leg awed by mialpelas, which pre yenta him from leaving his pike,. Twemy mirrliosis took their places In the choir; Handsaw. the Viceresent intoned the miss. The French emlmasy,the diplomatic body, General Count de Goy= with his staff, the French Andesay, the French reeidents, and detachments of the Preach troops were prevent. On leaving the church Count de Goyon, followed by his aides-de-camp, repaired to the Vatican to inquire after the health of the Holy Father. Another letter from Rome of the same date says: It is believed , n well-informed quarters that the government contemplates making an attempt to re ! establish by force its authority in the legations. It has collected fur the purpose between 7,300 and 8,000 men, 4,000 of whom are Swiss ; it has pro vided them with ten pieces of cannon. Rimini will probably be the first town attacked." The Governor of Bologna has issued a decree or dering all the tribunals of the Romagna to present to the section of Grace and Justice, within the month of September, their observations on the best means of Winging the Code Napoleon into activity on the Ist of January next. BRIBERY AND THE BALLOT. Th. following letters have been publithed ten,—'.%ith the peronviou of the wester I tend the m elded letter from Mr. Walkinbzu, formerly member for Lambeth, for publication in your paper. In considerfar the rentedim to be applied to the defects an our preeent Mentorsl spare, the ant point to aim at is • perfect knowledge Odle extent of the evils to be dealt with, and to this end the testimony of the tato member for Lambeth, and the candi date to Reigate, is important. Whilst with my pen in hued, let me add a word on the subject of the recent rejoicings of our opponents over the Wars addressed by Mr. Dana to Laud Redetack on the ballot in America. They would haver believe that the people of the United State. do not care for the protection of the mint veer. My answer to this fa—Pled as a dozen mail sees fn the free states of America who would exchange their mods id voting for ours. - it ur owing to the peat indeprodemos and gees nil equality of the population of the egvicultural stun, abso lute secrecy ia got much cared for. In Mistaachoestts, how ever, where there is a large proportion of the people remployrd in trade and manufactures, a demand has boa made for in Improved system of taking the ballot, which shall afford perfect protection to the voter, and it bag already been partially successful. _ hty answer, once (or all, to those who tz:unigh over the Inetficiency of the system elsewhere Is, give me a trial of the ballot M ass election for soy large borough Is this country. end I • II undertake to devise a clan white shall afford complete pro:action to the voter. Will this nay command it to the favorr of those who are now pending the vast of secrecy in 84 " . ! - . But 1 .111 go Weber. If after one such Wel a oendl tarry voluntarily rosslves to abandon this ordeely, moment, moral hallos, and MISS to oar present mode of tat* the poll, I will engago to swept their decialoo, and say no more upun the 'abject during the res: ~ f my pulitic.l ILeg I a 55,11169. your obedient wirvont, R. COBDEN. ust 31, LITT= TIOII W. A. WILKINSON, 14Q. TO IL COBDEN, TAQ., LT. Augur ID, ). My der Mr. Co observe flat your woe lBM the . Jay es the am.slootere of ItoehArle, yea owe. so a peers toe ttr Mewl of belbry at artier to *rare, the lergeore of orriteenelor, red st ate 1 yew °Ogee of too leepribillty of emerveg an eleetteu by bribery at 31sachti• re, or Le: he, oe uty Ober large tore. Nee Me err moor my ogee opitiom, bat expes:aace boo Illaviseed se that this oputiou arraacor., end teat berm, Is jar as ray, or even wore easy, ii a kris aciasil tong Una in a mall one—et treats 'a the present mate of ear eletiorel ro—sad for this reason la a =all cautitassey btbety thorny practivd by tha davit payment of mousy, whorl I. &pat.( the law and wry datettioa ; is • largo coaatitoeutty, haboty is arecomplialwl by the honag of o o army of rea•moirs, rid • hasolnd or two of pubt . e•to.'l44l, wr , rh it 1101 rasing% the law, and may, tbsreforr, be perprirsted wo:h laapraity. Ad that I% ittowsry Ea tha lotto( eve is • le Ter exprodarm of way. If two amaildataa were to room Wore such • cuWita•sey es that at 1114.71• Nair, or Fistobta.', or Lambeth—so motor whoa lb. twfwearo of det. nap ;tore qualodwioa• (eacopt Pt IMAM atteanto two of the appearaoc.- od • maa of groat wry, tits yourself)—mad one of tare emolidatcs took thereat*" WO6 I bar. door. is , 1. rad "to other did sot, I Wier. yea would dad In too vesiors fa the borough at to the moot. Atil sta set witbout ripe Once of both rani of oonstitn mmlee. I am ours you •.I1 etcuse my obtruding my notions upon you, ibis more rep cially re yap 11111 , 11413 t petition his deprived you, la • greet tears, of it , * saps:war, ), mid ••• pot lir% ms dente, Le railed soon to take. cosaidereble pert tu the framing of ray new reform billorlteu it will be im portant to determine whether the largeness of • matt'. blew, boa so Indwiewo, and what inflossot, on ire enpuelty be bribery, I us, my dear Mr. Cobden, yaps tenly t W. A. Waxman. Laird Cublis, 114.1 LP. The Basra/tire JON7IIIII says it is now positively ittooa that hie floral Messrs the P.leet of Wets. will visit lovers/ea, Fort-Gtorge, So., about the middle of the esottog mouth. _ Viscount and Viseountem Palmerston arrived la town yesterday, from • 'nit to Sir William and Lady Mid dleton, bltrubland Park, seer !pewit.lt. . _ The Duke and Du;hese of Athol have, since the ceestmeereatoot of grouse•ehootiog, received s select party at nor Ath .1, Perthshire. Toe Horl sod Countess of Derby end Lady Emus Stealey have been Among the gusts of the nob:, duke sod decheek The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire have anived at Hillsh,rough Castle. the fatally *eat In Irelasi, from Itaathatopetead Perk, Berkshire. The Marquis and lliarettiotteas of Headfort Lan arrival at their Feat is helsatt f rr the autumn. Tart Eirl of Bective, M.P., has arrived at his sat ha Imbed from adorky Park, Wootatoralluid. Viacount and Vissootatsoo Vdtieta Ilrft ved is town ea Wodoesday from the Costinoot. Tao sable Timm% olooonatais kayo tots to-day for Uptoa Hall, Woo vidtalafro. Lord and Lady Petra have arrived at Thorndon Sal, Ewes, [rola Brighton. Lord and Lady Forester are passing the season at Willey Para, Ilhespatuni. - - Lady Post ha arrived in Whitehall-gardens from Vichy. Ear ladyship paned a few day. to Paris en her wa7 hone. The Earl of Dalkeith, eldest sou of the Dabs and Duchess of Bueeleuch, is about to marry the Lady Leaisa Hamilton, third daughter of the Marquis and Mar- Ahem of Marconi. The Queen, on meeting the Dub of Decelseeh et St. Margaret's station, neer Edinburgh, us Tendsy saoralog last, graciously evutut herself of the op portunity of congest Wating hie grace oat the happy event. . _ Lord Stratford de Itedcliffe is now residing at Kisfaue. Gude, the prizeipri wet of Lord Gray. L-td Stratford her tekvw a Irese of the erstle lea biz maths, and aa•ered es pose s.ioa tart wevk. In reply to • memorial from Greenock, request tog toe tordahm to deliver a lecture is that tows Oil his marks to Chin., the Earl of Elgia writes that, from the preseure of paLlie basissee, he is usable to comply with the moist. W. ( Wiltshire Independent) regret to have to record • very pilot eccaleat which occurred lately to 0. H. W. liesesge, Req. He ham bees staying is the sixth of lendend, aad wan drineg out. is • doptsre, for • day', Mooting, while, on going down a steep descent, he wee by sena mesas throws eat, and received very ateliers injuries, three ribs beteg tinctured, and Lis ehoulder boa* broke. • sedieed oda wee k•pplly se.: the elm end gave hie isms. Mete attendance, and we understand that by the .ii eonssate the pstiest wee pas/rowing eidevourebly au could be expected. A letter from Rome, of the 27th ult., eve:—' The Duclarie d &. MIAs., the your &eke, sad Lady Dina Beanderk hate brought their ealleyierra et Albeas, oar Rome, to a otoelsatea 11000e1 than was originally eranses. plated, aed hare thew delightful redraft at the Villa Or votti, to embark tomorrow at Civil& Vecchia for Mesesales, whew* they will prvered aL rue of the Gerteas watertag pleas. Lord Falkhad ham aL.o Mtt Anoka kr Frew." PIEDMONT. "Diplomatic despatehes from Turin," says the Nord, " speak of the approaching return of Coast Cavour to the head of ed•`n. The Count deemed it his duty to retire in coowqaence of the sitastion of affairs which arose out of the peace of Villafraaca, but his policy hes, nevertheleee, been in the rimendant, owing to the strong national feel ng of the Italians, and the fideiity of the Em peror Napoleon to the object with which he entered upon the we-. The recall of the ex-Setdinien minister would be a new gaarente in fayou , of the policy which he represents." TURKEY. TRIESTE, SErr. 1. The Austi:an Lloyd's st•mmer, jr.it ei.ived, brings advice, flan Coratr-itgnople t . i.he 27th r't. The health of the Sultan has been restored. A comm'aion has been appointed in order to con sider measures for reducing theexport, and increasing the import duties. Saffet-Bey hr , left to att-nd the sittings of the Monteneg.in Boundary Conm'ssion. The French Goveument hu intimated to the Porto that it would support the Suez Cruel under taking merely for commercial sod industrial pr goers. liisiorbrrn continue at Cretl. SMYRNA, ArOV-T 26. In Caters a fix is to be levied on all foreigners et ./ing on business bare. THE CAPE OP GOOD HOPE. (at sizciaw rsizawax.) (mom ova own oozasirorawrr.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAT. The Dine has strived with the Cape of Good Hope mails, fifteen pessengers, and 10,0001. is specie. The latest dates ar —Table Bay, July 23; St. Helena, Aug. 7 ; and Ascension, Aug. 6. The recall of the govetaor, Sir George Grey, is apsken of by the Cape journa's vtith great regret. The foundation stone of a patent slip and pier has been laid at Simon's Bay. The oonsttuction of a railway from Port Elizabeth to Orebairstowa is contemplated. The Cape parliament terminated its sittings on the Bth of July. It has declined to annex British Karelia to the colony. The barque Medium sad the ship Covenanter, both for Liverpool, put Into Algae Bay leaky. The captain and crew of the ship Wolfe, from Kooria lloot . at to Liverpool, were landed at Algoa Bay, the Wolfe having foundered at sea. Her Majesty's ship Hermes was at Simon's Bay, the Perseveresee at Table Bay, the Syra at Natal. The Dane broke her min shaft on the 24th. THE UNITED STATES. (By itEcraic yayzoura.) moat ova ow( OORRRIPOWDINT.) SOLITILLNI PION, FRIDAY. . - The Fulton hos arrived with the American mai's for England and for France. She lollop 200,000 dole. for England, 266,000 dole. for France, sod adCcee of the 30cli. She spoke the ship Woliam Kelion, brrques An tigua and Cr-oni, and the steamer Ocean Queen. The lonian parliament, which wrs to r•semble on the 10th September, has bces prorogued by hie Extent/hey the Lord High Consolietioner I - WI the 10th Deeeetber. The tnr•riage of the Princess Muhllde, fourth daughter of Dias Mexlmilirn of Bevala rad sister of the Empress of Aren:s rld of the Qum of Naples, • :th the Count de Tree', htf•brother of the Wyly of Naples, which was to have been celebrated figs year, w:11 not take place, letters from Munich state, rotil the 'Stirs of Italy shall have teen complet •ly settled. The hand of the P.'ocess Chalon?, youngest daugh.or of Dote Maile% n, ie prom's: I to the Archduke Louie Victor, youngest brother of the Emperor of Austria. Amongst those who have rernsed to Wks ides-- top of the mummy lately groat 1 by the Emperor rye to I a added the armee of Barb?. aid Chun•. It is stated t%at Blazqui, Deleachuze, sad idiot, who were triasported, ',PI accept it, so far u It relieves thank from their preempt pod+ tiort, although they do not think it desirable to retain to Frrsee. " It is believed," says the Paris Union, " that there will be sent year on exhibit:as at Preach uninefactuarre is the CbanipaLlyoes. ?be French indent:al exhibitions eternity take Owe every five year, and it ta now tire 'care use. one W.. been Isla." The investigation hstituted by the authorities re specting the death of M. Deka; the stockbroker, .ho wee lately found dead in the Seine, neer fit. Ouen,hea establiehed beyond ell doubt that he eltumitt d "Eis fatal re solution," pay, the Droit, " oritaated, It appears, in other inotivee than unfortunate Boone apieulaticsa" . . There is uow exhibiting . ' in the court of the Louvre, at Praia, the model of &statue whiab healing fort► the admiration of the ps•wre•by. It is by Faloonl. It re presents Acimon priag on Dion& as she lofts the bath. The transformation is Jed commencing; of this ha Is not swarm but his dog no longer recognises him, and is beginning to attack bhp. The statue of homer, the founder of vaccine,- don, restrains foe a short period longer M front of the Loner% lacing the Institute; but subscribers for carrying out the Ides of s toe marble statue ate so rare that it is believed the I•ttestion cannot be teased. The Bombay spot of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, writes, under date the sth of Anwar, as follow', snit rotenone to the cyclone at Calcutta: Fears Wen can't. tsinet of the safety et the Cited* but by subentry nt menage I kata that she paned ep Use river Is misty on the 29th alt." Despatches were received at the Colonial-offies yeeteaday, from the Governors of Newfoundland and Mahe. Deenstehes were seat to the Gosersore of the Went ladle lase& sad British Cohnebia. P2lll4llaN Hottowt&—The Nazieme of Florence bee the follorbit hoot Mamma .—" At order of the day, dad the Stli of Ampret, and signed by Cardinal Asuman!, as Minister of War, confers nee creme and modals, balder premetioe, on the omenerors of Perugia. A °firer model of the 3rd dimension le fronted to ell she adorn not otherwise and totter rerrardad, sad a bonze model of the 3rd dines/ins to all the entrofiteem end privets that, as before, bore not received °t other rewards. Tale is to commemorate the mamma rees." RUSSIA AND ITALY. 'rite St. Petersburg Gazette, in at article on Ita lian affair., suggests that, in the interests of Italy, ' France ought to form part of the Italian Con federation as a counterpoise to the Pope and Austria. After declaring his opinion that the Germanic Con federation would hare been long since broken up or absorbed if Austria and Prussia did not counter balance each other, the Russian journalist observes: The Pope will always he a despot la religious, sad thi Emperor of Autos in secular, affairs. This le a asomeity Imposed on the former by the very pncripis of whollairth ; red on the latter by the historicel cuartitutico of his state. These two sovereigns being legally united in the Federal Iteilen Diet, • ill have the prepoodemace over 13erdials. To restore the balsam Freers, ought to be thrown into the male, se the Gailicanisin sad modcrite institutions would ha • check on the despotism of Austria. The writer then proce*ls to discuss the means for realising that equilibrium, and comes to the conclu sion that the best mode would be to establish • kingdom in Central Italy for Prince Napoleon. A letter from Florence of the 28th ult. states that Count Morelli is ebortly to leave for Sr. Petersburg, in order to draw the attention and kind consideration of Ramis towards Tuscany. TUSCANY. The Tuscan government has issued a decree enact ing that the arms of the late Grand Ducal family shall be obliterated from the government stamps, and that the latter shall remain in blank until further orders. By another decree, volunteers under fur lough from the Piedmonteee army are to be admitted into the Tuscan army. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 27th say that the Cartes will most probably be convoked for the 10th October, and that amongst the first memires sub- mitted to them will be the budget of 1860 and a bill on the press. The government was preparing to send off a division of 12,000 or 14,000 men, with artillery, to chastise the Riff pirates, and it was believed that General Echague would be appointed to the command of it. Considerable sensation bad been caused in Fgh circles by the sudden death of a lady of rank, the Duchess de Ahumada, one of the ladies of the court, in the midst of a soiree given by the Marqu , s de Miraffores, at La Granja. An Eng lish resod, the Oscar, had been detected at Cadiz in the very act of aningeing. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAIL. As the Indy , wes peashig Tarifa, a fortified Spanish sea port town in the straits of Gibraltar, en the 27th of August, at about 9.30 a.m., a gun wee fired from the foet ; no notice wan taken of tbia, when a second was fix d, and a large mund shot came bounding along the water and sank within about fifty yards of the ship. tiad this idiot been fired with one or two degrees more elevation, it ror td not have failed to fall on board, and notbirg but its havng struck the water several times preva-ited it from striking the hull of the bathe right amidships, si it WPI. The pemmican* were ell looking over the aids at the toe.t at 'he tlme. The Indus was about two eines off the town, the British ensign was flying at the peak ; the weather was beautiful, and the sea remarkably smooth. Neese had reached Gibesher from Cents that hostilities had broken oat between the Moore end the Spaniards of that fortress. Oa the 24th, about noon, 400 Moors appeared on the plains before the fortifications, sad began firing on the Spenish outposts. They killed • sentry end wounded two others. The troops in garrison, immediately on the receipt of this information, were marched out to meet the Moore, when a heavy firing ensued between the belligerent parties. The gnus on the ramparts also took pert in the contest. The Moors, who were several dame driven beck, renewed the eherge. Five Moors were reported to have been killed. The filing continued at the time the vessel which brought over the intelligence left the Bey of Ceuta, on the 24th alt. About 6 p.m. on the 24th some irowalar firing, with heavy pens, was heard in the direction of Cents, from the lipter Signal Station at Gibraltar, and again et 10 o'clock the fol lowing morning. News reached Gibraltar on the 26th that the Moors had lost about 50 men. Troops ;;;;;;t over by the Comm .ndant-Cenral of the neighbonr , ,g district to reinforce the garrison of Cents. The master of a &Mato reports the following occurrence: —" WWI. off Apes' Hill with his &limbo. on the 25th, to company of 16 berquillas, or open boats, engaged in the cuzal 6sbery, upwe-ds of 7,000 Bedouins were obeerved going in she direction of Cents., and, after ascending the bill, coal. menced firing upon them. Tho master of the above Writhe as well se the man la the other boats were obliged to cut their note snd move as quickly as possible out of range of the bullets which ware falling around them. Great firing could be distinctly bend in the direction of Cents. The wind being favourable, the other sixteen boats made sail for Tangier. The Gothenbarg left Carlin at 6 p.m. 20th alt., for London direct, ti:th a cargo of wine and lead, and six pusengers. The Peninsula will be the next to start from Cadiz on the 6th, and the Gibraltar on the 16th September. The Gothen burg w :11 leave Loadon again on the 3rd inst., and Cadiz on the 23rd. After this there will he a rteemer leaving Cadiz on the sa, lath, sad 23rd of every month. BRAZILS AND THE PLATE. The Tasmarian arrived at Southampton yesterday with the Brazils and River Plate malls. Her dates are—Buenos Ayres, July 31 ; Monte Video, August ; Rio de Janeiro, 9; Babia, 12; Pernambuco, 14. She brings diamonds value 13,2001., and specie value 27,3801. Her Majesty's ships Spy and Oberon were at Monte Video. Her Majesty's ship Buzzard had sailed for Rosario, convoying to that port the General Havelock, screw steamboat, bound thither with British cargo and passengers, but said to have been purchased by General Orgill= for 20,0001. In the northern part of the province of Buenos Ayres sheep still died in vast numbers for want of rastenance, caused by the continued drought. One person had lost 6,000 in a week. No such mortality had occurred for twenty years. Business in general was stagnant, from the dis turbed state of matters. Mr. Yansi, Peruvian minis ter, had visited Buenos Ayres to mediate between the cooflicting partite. At Bahia business was mostly suspended in ex ports, from the late heavy rains. The following is from oar correspondent at Rio ; " Rio de Janeiro, August 8. "The project of the Minister of Finance, which I mentioned in my last, was carried in the Lower House by a majority of eleven, but great doubts are entertained of its getting through the Senate. " The 20th of July was the anniversary of the Princess Imperial, the &short Donna Isabel, the presumptive heiress to the crown of Bri.zil. Amongst those who attended the " beija mao" usual on those occasions (and which few would wish to see abolished), I heard various opinions expressed as to the probable consort of the future Empress. Some were inclined to believe that it would be the present Duke of Oporto, the brother of the King of Portugal ; bet it appears to me that this probability is based only upon the iden tity of language and religion and the ties of family, and from what I have observed generally here this union would be very unpopular with the greater part of the Brazilian people, national sympathy between the two coantries being at a rather low ebb. In a physiological point of view it would be objectionable on account of the close consanguinity of the parties. Others spoke of the Prince Teuthicon, son of the Prince of Joinville, the brother•ia-law of the Emperor. Here, in Brazil, the Prince was very popular, and his Brazilian wife is so well beloved by her countrymen that this union would certainly have the approval of the entire nation, as in it they would hare (as I heard some of them remark), the surest guarantee of a future representative system. Finally, the union of the Princess with our own Prince Alfred was men tioned, and the idea was caught up with the greatest enthusiasm by many Brazilians of the highest influ ence and position. This, however, cooled down somewhat when it was remembered that the diffe rence of religion would be an insuperable obstacle to this alliance. Prince Michel Olsrenovi.ch has refused a deletion of 20,000 dollars, which was voted to Mot by the Silesian Senate. The Pricer, in a letter to the senate, thanks them for their kind tntentions, but says that, in presence of the pressure on the public reveaue, Da cauld not accept the offer. A letter from Alexandria, in the Levant Herald, says. "The Viceroy bas been forming during thews week, an encampment of hie troop* at Kairwl•reie, where are now o Alerted some 30,000 infantry, cavalry, end artWory, under trate, probably there awaiting the Sultan's expected vials, to ban a grand review of nearly the whole of the viceregal army before him. The scone presented by throe Egyptian troo;s thus encsmced along the banks of the Nile, with the splendid iron bridge spenoing it, in front of the camp; the eteamcrs detonated with five lying al. ngaide ; the railcard from Caro to Alexandria, with locomotives hurrying slung with their trains of carriages and trucks, wahine passengers and goods through the midst of this • tented field,'—ell form a acme not only picturesque in ireelf, hot which is highly illustrative of the material i.rogreas of Egypt:' The Sphinx SyyptieW reports the ' narrow escape et hie Hieheees the Viceroy, during a collieioa en the rail way between Dineraaaour and Kaf el-Z.yat. The Cra nial train bad jolt *topped at one of the stadia:La, when a inggep train which had not been signellel dashed up behind, on the saute line of raffle. Oa perceiving the coz negro ahead, the driver of the approaching angler reversed. and did his utmost to sweet the collisi a, but is vain. The two carriages which fortunately intervened between the sip-coming train and the carriage in which Use Pasta eat were smashed to atoms, sad that which contabsed his Highnees wee Moo cmulderably damaged, bat its august occupant escaped without a bruise. Two of hie eulte vole lee■ fortelMAtt, but the escape of the whole from iaateda &traction wee censideted cheat miraculous. LORD CANNING ON MISSIONARY PREACHING IN GAOLS. --..-- We take the following important despatched Lord Camas to the Punjaub Government from the Bombay Standard of August 6 TU R. It. DAVIES, =Q., SECRETARY TO GOVEREUENT Or TYL VENJACR AND ITs Sir,—l am (greeted by the Governor-Gmeral in Coercel to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 174, dated the 25tb Fibres:7 last, submitting for an exreseion of the yews of the government of India a correspondence relative to the admission of missionaries to gaols. 2. It appears that in August, 1858, Mr. E. H. Stevenson, on behalf of the American miesionerite at Seelkote, of the deputy-commissioner there (Mr. Prinaep) "whether there was any objection to their visiting the government gaols for the purpose of talking with the prisoners and en tending among them the knowledge of Chteitiarey F " Mr. Stevenson stated his belief that in the central gaol at Lahore the gospel had in some traumas been conveyed to the prisoners by oral teaching and by the aid of Christian books and tract. and that the Bible had recently been pia el within the ramie of the prisoners at Goojranwellab. He saked, therefore, whether the missionaries might have scrams at fixed hoar. to " the Ssalkote Gaol," and expressed their readiness, tf rermitted, to embrace so " good an opm ea tunity of peeclaiming the gospel among men who free their circumstances might be disposed to listen and profit by it:. 3. Mr. Stoves.= also asked whether the reimiomeies could have permission either "to robe a thabooral (or m.t -' oonry platform) near the liutcherry, for the prawn of preaching to the hundreds of idle men who are daily con gregated there," or "to preach within the government en close» without a platform. 4. On the Bth November Mr. Prineep forwarded Mr. Stevenson'. letter to the commissioner (Mr. Cat) for orders, ' stating that he saw no objection in either case to give the permission asked for; but the commissioner on the 16th November promptly refused permission, =miring that the practice of admitting missionaries to preach to the °envies had been interdicted in the Labors Central Gaol and in other parts of the Wore division. 5. On the 20th January, however, Mr. Cost saber 'toted the oorrespoudence for the perusal of the jadicial commissioner, observing that when employed as a district officer in the North-West Previewed he (Mr. Coat) had been in the habit of admitting missionaries to his gaol, but that, alter late events, he now thought the practice one which could no looser be permitted. 6. On the 26th January the Judicial Commissioner (Mr. Thornton) submitted the papers to the Lieutenant-Governor. observing that though be condemned the compulsory attend ance of a Mahomeden or Hindu convict at the preaching of a Christian clergyman, yet he questioned the justice of entirely excluding Magenta-Ws from the gaol, and so preventing the convict from receiving religious advantage' which he might be willing to accept. Mr. Thornton recommended that We 'Mouth, should be allowed to visit the gaols end to preach to such, and such only, of the convicts es might wish to heir them. T. The 'abject was then referred by the late Lieutenant- Governor to the Financial Commissioner (Mr. Macleod), who on the 21st Feb. reported that so far as other gentlemen are allowed to enter the gaols aid convene with the pioneers, miesionaries might be allowed to do so, but that under the tenting order. of government, no special opportunities could be afforded to roheionartes, as this would commit the officers of government in their official character to a recog nition and facilitation of missionary efforts. Mr. Macleod, however, expressed his opinion that In declining to afford a mitsionery the opportunity of maninunicating religious ht atraction to a convict, especially a file convict, the govern ment is responsible for withholding the gospel from Lim, and took the opportunity of preceeding to disrobe the ques tion whether neutrality in religious matures is a position which a Christian government can maintain in India , or not, and to declare his opinion that while eaxefolly sbwia log from everything lilts force, constraint, or inducement by way of reward, with a view to proselytism, the government should avow and evince a preference for the Chritewn religion. 8. In your letter under reply the late Lieutenant-Gover nor has expressed his opinion that the exclusion of missiona rya from gaols would no• be an act of neutrality, but ra her the creation of a disability that missionaries ahortd be allowed to visit gaols iike other persons, that peiners should not be " exempted" any more than tree natives from the liability to hear the gospel preached, and that the ees which the natives entertain be not of missionary perenastos, bat of forcible or fraudulent oonversien. His honour, there fore, proposes that missionaries should be allowed, as they have been occasionally allowed heretofoee, free entry to the gaols at certain hours and the free exercise of their tenet function., subject to any precautionsry rules it may be ad visable to make. 9. The Lieutenant-Governor would not allow the mit sionaisa to erect Ripener= &rematching near the Kutcheree, thinkieg it sufficient that they are at liberty there or e!et.- where to preach to the people. 10. The Governor-General In Council cannot concur in the view taken of this question by Sir J. Lsweetce and by the Judicial and Financial Commissioners of the Panjeub. 11. The chief argument by which the admission of min nominee to preach in gaols is supported teem to be—tirst, that es all gentlemen see allowed to visit wile r e i ss i o e e ee e ought not to to, shut out. On this his Excellency in Council observes that there is no right on the pert of any meager to visit a gaol, and that although, in practice, all gentlemen are let in, this le done, not In order that they may there exert!sa their railing, whatever that ma) be, but that they may see for theouelvee how the gaol is einducted. The gaol, too, breath by each palette inspection. To the entrance of a missionary upon this footing there is no objection; and ii it be allowed to bee, no injustice will be done to him ma com pared with other.. 12 It ls next contended that, as all natives, when free, are lisble to hear the gospel preached, It le not fair to en ded. them from this advantage bemire they are in gaol. On this lam desired to remark that if a man Is free he hest. the preacher only when it pleases him ' and that if being in gaol he should desire to do so, it would be quite right to admit a preacher to him individually. Ile the case of a Mattel's' prisoner this moult be dune, as a matter of course ureter such rules as prise. discipline may prescribe ; end .ho'uld the ease come of e prisoner who Is not a Chest an &sinter to hold intracourso with a Christian teacher, hi. with should not be refused. But this lea very different thing from riv ing to seiselemaries access to gees, and allowing thew to preach to whemetever they chst. 13. In the opinion of the Governor-General in Council, It is Idle to talk of prisoners as tree agents, even in the le ,'ter of lietenine, std even though (Be i. conceded in your fetter under reply) they are Dot to be collected weather by guards to hear the preaching or to hove anent to the preecher's doctrine forced upon them. An earnest whale:eery, whose teal would deserve nolen,-; but praise and admira tion, it exercised upon Men as free as hie:weif meld trot be trusted au to measure his action as to &beta's from foreleg him., if upon those who might desire to nape from him, bet wise would to unable to do so; and to watch his pro neseiegs through any officer of competent authority would be impossible. 14. His Excellency In Council cannot eerily Imagine a step more likely to be undo-Wood by natives as tallying our pries.- races of neutrality in matter. of religion than then:twine:me of the practice which Is here recommended. It would be unposeible to deny that, in adoring tbat Terrence, we were twiner the machinery of Janice and civil government to religious purpose*. lt is still firmly relieve] that we have made men soldiere, and have entered them to bite certridgee, in order to convert them. It will not do to give a handle to the supeosition that we sentence them to tuiprinonnent in our caus fur the same purl ore, under the pretence of ad. ministering justioe. he 1 mu, therefore, directed to state, for the Information of the Linuenuit-Governor sad for general guidance , that the admeeion of a oriesionary to a gaol ter the peep° T of preath . leg Is not to be perieeted unless when a primmer makes • ' request ter the presence of one. lam to add that the pear -1 ties advocated in then peplos is nut in accordance with the principle of neutrality in metiers of religion, which the go. eernment will observe in .11 its measures, and which It will require its servants to =neve in all their official acts, 16. The Governor-General in Connell approves of the late Lento:Lent-Governor*" intention to prohibit the role sioneries from steering a platform for preaching in the Cnt- alwrry premises. 17. lu comiusion I am &skid to annex a copy of a de spatch on this subject, addressed by We honourable Court of Directors to the coverntnent of Madru, No. 6, dated the 2nd April, 1845, and to remark that the question relating to the policy of government in wavers tionoected with religion has beau very unnecessarily roixod in connexion with the subject in hand, and that it is siogularly untwonat g In otilivre in the position of some of the writers who have token part in the e,rrespondeuce to advocate sad maintain views on this important and delioaie sut.ject so directly opposed to the strong and lately reiterated ' commands of bet ktojtsty's Government. The Govirnee- Gatiend in Cot nail desires that the practice of originating mucks and raising and prolongiog discussions on 'objects of general policy, a practice which ban been of late Indulged in by subordinate executive offices in some parts of !cats, and which bas boa n too easily tolerated by tho local adiu!nts• 'ration, may to entirely diocouretred and repressed.--I have, C. BEA DON, BECTEI•Ey to Government of India. Fort William, 10th May, 1839. Two nominations to compete for Government ap peintments haviog been recently pieced et the disposal cf the Cooneil of the S, iety of Arts by Lori Peltnerstse, the candidates nominated by the council were Mr. George William Wicker, et the Watt insti tute, Porters, who distieguiehed himself at the Society's esti minetions last year; and Me. I,.ba Itekeb,np, of the m e . chasing' Institution, Olesgow, one of the primrose in the 0141011141i05e hell in May Ind. Beth these candidates have been succeesful, baying obtained the third and MTh places respectively. There were on the occasion Ave vacancies end fifteen competitors. The funeral of Surgeon Simpeon, of Hasler Hos pital, who died at that estsblishrarnt on the 29th Mt. of brain foyer, took place yesterday with military honours in the armada attached to the ho.pital. Dr. Simpson semi lire years in the Arctic expedition in teach of Sir Join Franklin in the Plover, weinmandrd by Lleent B. Maguire, new catiamsmdiwg hr Majesey's ship Imperious. I I li_