The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-27 00:00:00

B RZ.A K F AST.-EPPS'S COCOA. BROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIET. To °Waft extra profit by the sale other kinds are sometimes offere 1 instead et BROWN and POUIONS. "John Brows," "Jobs Polies," is signed by the makers on sack packet. ROYAL •LEAMBRA PALACE. (minweinx Director. Err. Y. Savage.) 11IfedIlets, 200 Dancer!, Instnimentalists, Singers, Acrobats, Mimics; Pie 'UM latesl Teleersma Saloons, Supper-rooms, Lerfaiorkim Smoking-rooms, Evening Paper : 10 Orchestral Pieces Every Night. Open at Half-past nevem begin at Eight. Prices-Is., ta. and Reserved seats, 45. Private Dozes, from Cl 111. Dot-office upon from Eleven to Your. 00 ENT-GARDEN CONCERTS. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—EVERY EVENING at 8. Under the selr Direction of Mr. JOIIN RUSFIELL. Mdile. Mdtk. &sato, W. J. M. Webil, Mr. k Levey, Mr Ron" ?tr. Tyler. 'Jr. J. H. young, Mr. Phooey. Mr. Winterbottnn, the Courtols Union, and Hand of 100 perform'''. • Coodudor—efesoi BUTTSSISI. Conductor of the Dance Music. lien Johann Stratus, from Ifteoin.t. .... Pit Thursday next Classical Night, when .111 be performed • selection from the works of Haydn and Weber. Itozoiffice open from !OJAI 5. Proiornade One Shilling. Doors open at half•past 7. Zhe OVVrtIM TO CORRESPONDENTS. Avertlaments Intended for •• The &press," London Treeing Paper, must be at the °See, 10, Bouvertwetreet, by Two dela* oa the dar of DOW:whoa. HAYM ARKET. TIM EVENING, AN UNEQUAL MATCH. Mew. Blackstone. Chippendale. loners. Kendal, Clerk Weathereby, He. : Mee- Uinta 9etlitssick. Yitzwillim, DA TV PAILS AND BACK NUR K.S. Its. ltucks.ons.—Ang PISTKR SKINK. BRITANNIA. Two P:TrrtEn, THE SEA OR, THE OCEAN CHILD The Brothers Hanlon the Champion Skaters: Mr. J. Plump too Mr. mot Mrs. Coleman rind llr. W. Brown —And THE LAST MAN . OIL , THE SUMER OF ELTHAM GREEN. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIB DAY —Morning, Ilh. 5Ac0.......Afi0rn00n. Oh. Ow. To-liroutow—llornlng, od 11m.......Atiernoon, Ih. Om. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27. SIGNOR Rarrsur, who, since Aspromonte, was pronounced an almost " impossible " Minister, and who indeed seemed for some time to tacitly accept his ostracism as the proper fate of a statesman who had saved his country at the coat of his good name, is once more not only a possible Minister, but to all appearances the only possible Minister, or at all events the only one who has been tried and not found wanting. Even Riessom, who was looked upon by all parties and by all men of no ' party as the only legitimate successor of CAvova, in character if not in capacity, has broken down in public reputation more completely than even Rarrazzr after Aspromonte, for at the fall of the latter there were many who could not but respect the firmness of the man who had deli berately confronted the storm of unpopularity under which he was sinking. But " the Baron," whose worst fault as a statesman was his " inflexi " bility "—always "an ancestor in armour," as somebody said of him—has in some mysterious manner lost the confidence of Parliament and the esteem of the nation from his imputed deficiency in those very qualities which had been always attributed to him, alike by friends and adversa ries, and which, in the opinion of both, consti tuted him the natural leader of the State in supreme emergencies. RICASOLI, who a year ago was suspected at Rome of being a pervert to Pro testantism, is accused by the advanced Liberal party in the Chamber of coquetting with the Court of Rome through confidential emissaries, and offer ing to make things as pleasant as possible to the Vatican in the matter of the sale of Church pro perty, on condition of the HOLY FATHER'S acquies cence in the financial negotiations then goingon with foreign capitalists in the confidence of the Vatican. It was stated that RICASOLI and ANroxim.r had come to an understanding on the Roman quest'oa which implied nothing less on the Italian side than the concession of the fullest liberties to the Church, and nothing more on the Papal side than the gracious consent to be relieved of a proportional share of the public debt of the Legations and the Marches, without abandoning in principle the ter ritorial rights of the Holy See. Something was said about the abolition of passports and of the search of passengers' luggage at the frontier, of a customs union between Italy and the States of the Church. But the great object of the negotiations on the part of the Court of Rome was, if not to convert the sale of the Church lands into a mere mortgage, at any rate to secure to the episcopacy the control over the salaries of the clergy. What ever in thelK arrialgetnenta Appeared to favour the pretensions of the Court of Rome was ascribed by the " Left " to a sudden and mysterious weakness of the armoured " Baron " for the Church. A great deal of the bitterness of the opposition to Signor SCIALOJA'S schemes was due perhaps to this prejudice against RICASOLI. The Baron, it is true, was not compelled to resign on an ecclesias tical question ; but the order of the day with respect to the right of public meetings in Venetia was the pretext rather than the motive for giving him a lesson which his pride could not accept. The imputation against him of making things too easy and pleasant with the Roman Government was, we daresay, unfounded and unjust. Ries, sou's real error had probably been that of mis taking the time and the manner and the conditions of legislating upon CAvous's formula of " a free " Church in a free State," and in endangering, by precipitation, the freedom of the State without obtaining the quid pro quo from the Church. But perhaps it is a sufficient explanation of the fall of RICASOLI that, among many high cha racteristics, be has not the temperament of a par liamentary statesman ; be lacks the suave and easy temper, the tact, the suppleness, the insou ciance, the give and take, theimperturbable assurance which charm and convince supporters, and disarm all furious opposition by making their rage ridi culous. Miasma never knew how to parry or disengage the thrust of an opposition speaker ; if ho did not cut down then and there his agile adversary, armed with nothing better than " a " sling and a stone," he fell, like GOLIATH, " upon his face to the earth." Such is the position of Rteesor.r at this moment. But in justice to Signor Rarram it should be remarked that he did not supplant his predecessor in office by any factious vote or in triguing party combination ; on the contrary, he lent a general support`to Baron RICASOLI'S Go vernment. RICAROLI fell because the majority of the Parliament objected to his mode of dealing with the Church property as too favourable to the Church, and because, however unjustly, they suspected his new leanings towards a " reconcilia " Lion" with Rome. One of the singularities of the political situation in Italy is the rapid exhaustion of all the avail able statesmanship which Southern and Central Italy hive supplied to the new kingdom since Piedmont became absorbed in Italy. Rieman' has carried a whole company of Tuscans with him to an untimely parliamen tary grave. It seems only the other day that the cry of all the " annexed" provinces was against the monopoly of Piedmontese ministers. They were detested as cordially as Dr. JonssoN detested the Scotch, and partly for the same rea son. What Mr. DISRA kLI says of the Whig monopoly of Parliamentary Reform, the Italians were always saying of the Piedmontese monopoly of administration. Yet already what do we find T Six years have devoured, as the French Revolution was said to have devoured, the first generation of Italian statesmen ; and in the present most critical hour of the country's fortunes, when it is a question between im pending national bankruptcy or the most strenuous and persistent national self-sacrifice, the one man who is found not unequal to the occasion, as a parliamentary leader and debater, as a financial negotiator, as Foreign Minister, is a statesman who was President of the Council of Ministers at Turin nineteen years ago, when the ambition of the House of SAVOY and the hopes of Italy lay bleeding at Novara. There is nothing in this evident superiority of Signor Rarrazzi to his rivals (his only probable successor at present is a Piedmontese also) which should discourage the rising generation of Italians ; there is much that should solicit their most serious reflection. It should convince them that statesmanship is something more than de clamation, and even than patriotism ; and demands long and persevering studies, habits of attention to business, and laborious application to details ; patience, punctuality, precision, and a host of other minor qualifications. In tl•ese Signor RArrezzi, whatever may be his defects, appears to be at present with scarcely a competitor out of Piedmont. What a second generation born in freedom may produce, time will show ; but if Italy is to live her own life, and possess herown destinies, it is high time she should begin to educate her sons for her service, and train them up in the austere and bracing discipline of duty, labour, and vhdts us, to degenerate in turn into a blind trust of every pretender, no one will venture say. On the subject of the Birmingham riots the Star observe' that there is only one way of dealingwith Mr. Murphy. Let no one go war him or his lecture". The Madame will then fall through of itself, and Mr. Murphy's occupation will be gone. Mr. Murphy is in all respects an undesirable theo logian. He will insist on being pelted, and pelting him necessitates a disturbance. Birmingham should refrain from indulging him. The Salzburg conference, the Spanish insurrection, and the Abyssinian expedition, continue to be topics for remark in the Ihreld, Telegraph, and other journal". THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1867. THE RISING IN SPAIN. (120TIltlf 11171tt88.) MADRID, Avatar 24. The civil governor of the province has published to-day the following official extract of the despatches received at the Ministry of War : Catalonia.--. 111 the railways and telegraphic lines are free. The column of Lieutenant-Colonel Rodriguez de• Tested yesterday, on the territory of Tapis (Gerona), near the frontier, two bands of rebels, who were obliged to take refuge precipitately in France. Numbers of insurgents have surrendered. The Alcade of Liorono (Boragodo) with volunteers has assisted the carabiniers in defeating the insurgents. Volunteers of the province of Girone and of the civil guard of Torella have taken some prisoners, amongst whom are four Frenchmen who had escaped from the prison of Ceret (France). Fernando Pierned Roger and 27 men belonging to this band have been arrested by order of the French authorities and taken to the prison of Per pignan. Valencia.—Perfect tranquillity ha reigned here since the destruction of Carlet's band. Aragon.—General Monso de Zuniga, nominated General in-Chief of the Forces in the Upper Aragon, set out from the capital oa the 20th. He arrived at Saragossa on the 21st. In his impatient ardour to place himself at the head of his troops, who had already been on the march for some days pant, and without duly considering the enemies he might meet on his way, he left Saragossa on the 21st, with • small column of 250 chasienrs of Ciudad-Rodrigo, and 30 Cavaliers del Rey. Yesterday afternoon they encountered, at Linas de Mar. cuello, the combined factions of the Ex-Generals Pierard and de Marione', 1,200 strong. Taking advantage of the enthusiasm which animated his troops, he resolutely attacked the position occupied by the rebels, and, after a fusillade of two hours' duration dislodged them at the point of the bayonet. The email detachment of cavalry at the same time charged with fury, and followed the rebels almost to the gates of the town. The Being continued until, the ammunition being exhausted on both sides, Monso 's troops formed in column, and quietly awaited the enemy, who for an hoar and • half hesitated to attack them. Night coming on, the column encamped at Ayerbe, where it halted, intending to continue its march towards Huesca this morn ing. The rebels have retired to Zacc•, having, lott 50 men killed, besides three officers, and • great number wounded. The column lost, besides General Monso de Zuniga, who fell a victim to his ardour, one captain and one lieutenant, wounded, 13 soldiers killed and 21 wounded, OUB OONTEMPORARIE3. (THIS DAY.) THE WAR IN CRETE. The famous Arkadi, remarks the Times, has dosed her daring career. Some twenty times has she deemed from the roadatead of Syr* with arms, ammuni tion, and volunteers, and, in spite of the ponderous Turkish navy, succeeded in running to unfrequented spot' on the Cretan coast. Never again will her exploits fill the cafes of Athens with exultation, set the telegraph in action, and cause the capitals of Europe to speculate on the hopes of a struggle carried on apparently with such determination. As the Alabama found her Kearsarge, so the Arkadi has at length been destroyed by the Izeddin— a vessel of the power which she had so long defied. The Greeks will, no doubt, be able to replace her: they have patriotism and they have money; they have one of the great European powers at their back, and they believe that to keep alive the Cretan contest is one of the most certain means of attaining their ends. The Arkadi was a vessel of war carrying on hostilities, and her unmolested departure from Greek ports would have justified a declaration of war on the part of the Porte, which, indeed, has only been restrained from avenging itself on its tormentor by the fear that recourse to extreme measures would brine on the hostile inter ference of the European powers. Such covert warfare it is impossible for England to approve. It is generally, and the Tines believes correctly, understood that the British government, under the influence of Lord Stanley, declines in any way to promote the severance of Crete from the Turkish empire, or to gratify the . mbition of the Greeks by encouraging them to extend their frontiers northward. The Pose also refers to the destruction of the Arkadi and says that the hot cinders of the insurrection may be said to be banked by action which is only not directly hostile to the Porte, and for which the governments of Athens ' and St. Petersburg are undoubtedly answecable. There is eve', reason to fear that Greece is not acting inde. pendently or honestly. As much is, in effect, admitted, and it is asked why England shuts her eyes to the fact. England, however, is not shutting her eyes, and it is her foresight and not her blindness which is deprecated. We are sensible that in dealing with Greece we have bought experience, and imputations which reveal the operation of restless intrigue and suicidal subserviency must not be overlooked in considering the character of an in. surrection that has agitated Europe more than it has dis turbed the government of the Porte. The Standard emph►tically repudiates the ide► that England has incurred any obligations to the Greek', because Lord Russell once gave them a king. Then as to the creation of the kingdom itself by England, it is true that in a weak moment se listened to a generous senti ment, rather than to the dictates of prudence, and spoilt Turkey in order that we might make Greece. But to pre tend that we are bound to enlarge the frontiers of Green because we helped to bring her into life, is as absurd as though a man whom one saved from drowning should expect his preserver to keep him in luxury for ever after. We have done enough, it may be too much, when we started Greece into existence. As for the reek, we ars under no liability to indulge her with every new posses irion which she may think necessary for the maintenance of her dignity. 111 TOPICS. Reflecting on the probable effects of the Reform Act, the Daily News thinks it is • great question whether in the absence of any proportionate redistribution of political power it has not conferred almost •a much power upon the agricultural labourers as upon the artisan clue. There are 41 boroughs in England and Wales in which the male oc cupiers under 41. exceed those of 101. and upwards. Of those 41 boroughs in which the new voters of the very poorest class are more numerous than the present electors at least 27 are agricultural towns, ue towns in which, •e in the caeca of Ayleabtuy, Much Wenlock, and Wallingford, a 1 number of agricultural villager groopad around the central borough are, for parliamentary purposes incorporated with it. The labourers live in thetown,and work in the surround. ing country, often going several miles to their labour. They are away early in the morning, and beck completely tired at night, and have no more interest in the town or real connection with it than the feeling that it is the place whither they retire to sleep. The conclusion of the Daily New is that as a rule the agricultural towns will more than ever be " supplementary to the landed interest," and the mall boroughs are likely to be far less independent, under • suffrage which enfranchises their agricultural la bourers, than they would have been under a 61. or 71. qualification, or than they are at present. The Act of 1832 did a little towards rendering some of them • little more independent of exterior influences ; it will be • curious anomaly if the Act of 1867 should give them back again to their dependence. The position of the money market is undoubtedly sin gular, if not unexampled, observes the Tines. The Bank rate is at 2 per cent., and as the Bank holds nearly fifteen millions of money in hand to meet current liabilities amounting to little more than twenty-six millions, the rate ought, according to the ordinary policy of the Bank directors, to be still further lowered. The Bank of France has more than thirty-seven millions of money in band to , meet current demands of all kinds of less than sixty two millions, and the stock of coin and bullion at the Bank of France continue, to increase. At first sight it would be thought that these facts must produce an instant and decisive effect on the trade of the world. But it is not so, and the explanation is not far to seek. Burnt children fear the fire, and they not uncommonly have such wholesome recollections of recent suffering that they shrink from anything that looks even warm. The peculiarity of the present time is that money is at once cheap and dear. The stocks of all companies are low in the market. The inference is obvious. Money is cheap, but it is not cheap to all. It is cheap to some, it is dear, or rather inaccessible, to more. It is cheaper, indeed, to the favoured few, because the rest are cut off from the supply. There have been accidental and foreign Gauzes which have helped to aggravate the in tensity and duration of the fit of suspicion which has followed a fit of too easy confidence ; but the real spring of the ills of the commercial community is to be found at home. The seat of sensation in that huge commerce which, serpent like, eneoils the world is here. There is distrust in London, and its effects are felt in the remotest parts. We suffer, and all the extent of an organisation as sensitive as it is vast suffers with us. Haw long a time moat slaps' before a nameable oonlidenes re- DEATH OF PROFESSOR FARADAY. The public will hear with sincere regret of the death of Professor Faraday, which took place on Sunday, near Hampton-court. Micheal Faraday was born in 1791 in the parish of New ington, Surrey, and, like many others who have illustrated the page of British history, was entirely a self-made man. After being instructed in the mere rudiments of knowledge he was apprenticed to a bookseller and bookbinder, and continued to work at his trade till 1812. During this early period of his life, however, be showed the bent of his genius, for in the intervals of his employment he not only read with avidity such works on science as fell in his way, but applied himself to the construction of electric and other machines. Having been present at some of the last lec tures delivered by Sir H. Davy, Faraday wrote to that dis tinguished chemist—asking him for encouragement, and at the same time inclosing notes of the lectures a t which he had been present. Sir H. Davy answered the request of the young aspirant promptly and kindly, and in 1813 be was admitted in the Royal Institution Its chemical assistant to Professor Brande. Faraday soon became the favourite pupil and the friend of his patron, whom he accompanied in the autumn of the same year in a visit to France, Italy, Switzerland, &c., returning to his place in the Royal Institution in 1815. He now pursued his investigations of Nature with great ardour, and published the results in various scientific journals. In 1820 he discovered the chlorides of carbon, and, the year following, the mutual rotation of • magnetic pole and an electric current ; in 1823 the discovery of the condensation of gases ; in 1831 and following years the development of the induc tion of electric currents and the evolution of electricity from magnetism. The establishment of the principle of definite electrolytic action, the discovery of diamagnetism and the influence of magnetism upon light, obtained far him, in 1846, the Rumford medal and that of the Royal Society. In 1847 he announced to the world the magnetic character of oxygen and the magnetic relations of fame and gases. When Mr. Fuller founded the Chair of Chemistry, in the Royal Institution, in 1833, Mr. Faraday was appointed first professor. In 183.5 he received a pension of 3001. • year from Lord Melbourne's government in recognition of has important services to science. In the following year he was appointed scientific adviser on lights to the Tri nity-house, and was subsequently nominated to a similar post under the Board of Trade. He was chemical lecturer from 1829 to 1842 to the cadets at the Royal Military Aca demy at Woolwich. In 1851 he was made a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris ; in 1825 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ; and in 1832 the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Laws was conferred on him by the University of Oxford. He was a Knight of the Prussian Order of Merit, of the Italian Order of St. Maurice and Luerus, and one of the Eight Foreign As sociates of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Paris. In 1855 he wan nominated an officer of the Legion of Honour, and in 1863 he was made an associate of the Paris Academy of Medicine. Although the late Professor chiefly confined himself to experimental researches, there are theoretical views thrown out with regard to static induction, atmospheric electricity, the lines of force, both representative and physical,' , which are well worthy of consideration. His papers on the conservation of force, and on the division of gold and other metals are amongst his latest productions. His lectures adapted for young minds, delivered at the Royal Institution during Christmas time, will not easily be for gotten. The ease with which he descended from the heights of science and conveyed in the minds of his youth. ful listeners the scientific principles of " common things " was not the least of the many gifts possessed by Dr. Faraday. Bat it is in connexion with electricity, and its relations with almost ell physical, chemical, and physiological phenomena, that his fame will principally depend. His investigations on this subject led him to the presumption that electricity, magnetism, and light are but one and the same force, varying in effect according to circumstances, but obedient to law, which will one day be discovered. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have left the St. George's Hotel. The Earl ana Countess of Roue and Lord Ox raantown arrived on Saturday last at Birr Castle, Parsons. town, King's county, for the season. Lord and Lady Charles B. Percy returned to Gay'. Cliff, Warwickshire, at the close of the past week, from Alnwiek Castle, Northumberland. Lord Courtenay, M.P., is among the arrivals at Brighton. Lady Emily Drummond and Min Drummond returned to Tile House, Denham, Bucks, from Alnwick Camels, lest week. Lady Franklin, widow of the lamented arctic explorer, has, according to the Cherbourg journal', arrived in that town on board a United States frigate from New York. The removal of the remains of the late lamented Lady P►nmure from Paris to their final resting-place in Mr. Power's vault at Bensall,reen Cemetery, took place on Saturday. On the ooffin was the following inscription " Elizabeth, Lady Penman, born the 19th Jan., 1799, died the 21th of June, 1867." We (Post) hear that Colonel the Hon. Henry C. Lowther, M.P., is suffering from indisposition, but not of s serious nature. Sir Henry and Lady Blake have arrived at Ferranee's Hotel, from rialtfield Lodge, sear Barg St. Ed munds. Colonel and Mrs. Rich have arrived at the South Ketucingtou Hotel, Queer's-gate•ternace, South Kensington. Nabaraouy Bey hu left the Clarendon Hotel for the Continent. Miss Gabriel has left for Wrottealey Hall, the mad Lord Wrotteeley. Mr. Pickering, Q.C., Mr. Patterson, and Mr. Shiel had an interview with the Hon. A. Liddell at the Home-office yesterday, on the subject of the Trades' Unions Inquiry Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial-office from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Knog, Labuan, the Straits Settlements, the Australian colonies, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and Gibraltar. It is stated that the Irish Solicitor-Generalship has been given to Mr. Harrison, Q.C. Mr. Harrison was called to the bar in Trinity Term, 1849, and received the dignity of a silk gown in February, 1863. At a meeting of the finance committee of the Dublin corporation on Saturday, a resolution was adopted recommending an application to have seats set apart in the Roman c►tholic cathedral, Marlborough-street, for the Lord Mayor and members of the corporation. A deputation from Brighton is to visit the Bri tish Association at Dundee, in order to Invite that body's attendance there in 1869. • A supplement to the London Gazette, published last evening, gives the "Consolidated Cattle Plague order of August, 1667," which is a consolidation of the orders of the Privy Council with reference to the cattle plague. THE SULTAN'S FIRST RAILWAY JOURNEY IN TERICRT.—Then is no doubt that the Sultan's first rail way journey in his own d om i n i ons was a great success. The line from Rustchuk to Varna is about 120 miles in length, and runs through some of the finest hill and wood scenery of Bulgaria. His Majesty, after a stay of two days at Rustcbuk, left that city on the morning of the 6th ult. in a train consistir4 of nine carriages, painted white and emblazoned with the star and crescent in white and gold. The engine was also elaborately ornamented, and was in charge of an English driver named Frank White. The journey occupied seven hours as the Sultan received deputations en route at Rasgrad;the Schurnla-road, and Pravadi. The embarkation at Varna was made before sunset, a stay of only three home being made at that port. The imperial suite of 700 persons, with their baggage, bones, kc., were conveyed to Varna in nine special trains, and no hitch of any kind occurred during the journey. The Sultan has signified his intention of conferring the Order of the Osmanli on Mr. J. Trevor Barkley, who was in immediate charge of the imperial train, and who has been most actively engaged for many years in forwarding railway enterprise in i s Europe. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (raox oua owx COINAMPONDINT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The first meeting of the International Anti- Slavery Conference was held in the Salle Hers , at noon this day. It was organised by the Britis h and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, the Comit4 Francais d'Emancipation, and the Sociedad Abo liciouista Espanola ; but a great many delegates from other societies attended. The large hall, without being inconveniently crowded, was very well filled considering the intense heat of the weather and the advanced period of the season. The Duke de Broglie, one of the honorary presidents of the French society, had been asked to take the chair, but on account of his great age and infirmities he could not promise to attend on both days. In his absence the chair was admirably filled by the accom plished M. Labonlaye. He was supported on his right by M. Olozaga, delegate from Spain, and on his left by M. Cochin, of the In stitute, secretary to the French society. At the table on the platform were the Hon. J. D. Palfrey, Mr. Wm. Lloyd Garrison, and Rev. Professor Thome, United States ; M. Vogeli, Brazil ; Mr. Joseph Cooper and M. Chamerovzow, England ; M. de Vizcarrondo, Spain ; General de Rovas, Venezuela ; Mr. Wm. Rainy, the barrister, Western Africa ; General Dubois, Haiti ; Prince Albert de Broglie, France, &c. Letters expressing regret at inability to attend the meeting were read from M. Guizot, M. Monts lembert, the catholic Bishop of Orleans, Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P., Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart., Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P., Mr. Charles Savile Bounden, late secretary to the Jamaica Commission, at As many u 150 delegates from various parts of the world were present. The first resolution was moved by M. Co chin, an extremely eloquent speaker, who gave a touching account of the existing state of slavery and the trade, which still prevail to an extent not generally believed. M. Horace Waller, a com panion of Dr. Livingstone, gave statistical informa tion touching the extent of the slave trade on the West Coast of Africa. Lieutenant Mage, of the French navy, gave his testimony concerning the trade on the east coast of that con tinent. The Rev. Geo. Knox, delegate from the Church Missionary Society, addressed the meeting in French. The chairman then said that M. Olozaga, one of the most eloquent men in Spain, had proposed to address the meeting, but that in consequence of the events now passing in that country he preferred to renans silent lest his speech should be construed as a political act. [lt was rumoured in the hall that Saragossa was in the hands of the insurgents. J M. Borate, a Spanish delegate, then mounted the platform, and in very fluent French described the progress that anti-slavery opinions had made in Spain. M. Labonlaye thought himself authorised to tell the meeting that if M. Olozaga had spoken, he would have testified that the slaveowners in the Spanish colonies were now desirous for complete emanci pation. This important evidence was translated in English to the meeting by M. Chamerovzow. A coloured bishop (Bishop Payne, of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, of Baltimore) then spoke in very good English. He spoke principally of the progress of schools and churches among the negro population since the suppression of the Southern rebellion. M. Laboulaye then seeing the lateness of the hour said the meeting had been treated according to a French proverb eomme dca victgres—laughter)--and he moved an adjournment till to-morrow, when practical remedies will be suggested for the evils set forth to-day. The Bourse was somewhat uneasy at the Spanish news. Rente fell lbc. for cash, and 7ic. for account. EMIGRATION TO MArRITIIIII. —lt appears from the official returns that the number of emigrants who arrived in Mauritius during the year 1866 was 5,596—viz., 3,702 males and 1,894 females, of whom 584 had been in the colony before. This is a decrease as compared with the emigration of 1865 of no less than 14,687. The total number of emigrants in Mauritius on the 31et of December, 1866, was 246,049—viz., 165,550 males and 80,499 females. The departures during the year amounted to 3,815, of whom 2,925 were males and 890 females ; the deaths numbered 8,244—viz., 6,007 males and 2.237 females; and the births 6,812-3,470 males and 3,342 females. The number working nnder indenture at the end of 1865, the latest date for which the Emigration Commis sioners have information, was 86,578, of whom 64,133 were " old immigrants," who had re-engaged themselves after the expiration of their first engagements. The average wages were 14s. 4a. per month. The measures taken for the prevention of the spread of the cattle plague in Ireland appear to have cost upwards of 60,0001. The following are some of the charges on the civil contingencies fund :—Veterinary department soil other expenses of the Privy Connoil-of6oe, 14,7931. 15a. 6d. ; payment to inspectors of cattle, 34,7571. 6a. 3d . ; insertions in newspaper s of orders in council. 15,6751. An Irishman is in custody at Shields for biting eff a sun's aces LATEST INTEIALILIENCIL THE MEETING AT SALZBURG. The late meeting at Salzburg suggests to the France a long series of observations in favour of peace, unless, indeed, Prussia should think fit to cede to warlike ideas. Neither France nor Austria has, it says, any intention of interfering with the Confederation of the North, their object being to accept, as hitherto, what has been accom plished in Germany. There is no eventuality of a menacing character anywhere unless Prussia should aim at still further enlarging a position which the lucky chances of an unjust war had given it. If, after having incorporated with herself the Northern States, she should pretend to dominate Bavaria, Wurtemburg, and Baden, then the gravest compli cations would, of necessity, arise. The Press of Vienna traces in the following terms the ride which Prussia ought to adopt in order to assure peace in Europe : As to that kingdom, we should profoundly deplore that, in opposition to the tenor of the Tre►ty of Prague, she should wish to extend the bonds of the Confederation of Northern Germany to the States of the South. We should see in it • menace for Austria so long as Prima:6lnd not renounced her intimacy with Russia. Surrounded on three sides by Russia and Prussia, and on the south-east by the small Sclave states, worked by Russian emissaries, that would be, we must avow, • situation which Austria could not possibly support any Icriger. Let Prussia redact, then ; let her not push matters to extremities, and let her await the future with moderation and tranquillity, or, which would be better and more advantageous, let her break with Russia, and let her join heart and soul the civilised peoples of the West. Let Prussia think that in letting go the hand of Russia she will, as far as diplo_ macy goes, entirely disarm Austria. For the latter does not really wish to place herself at the head of the States o f Southern Germany, and there is entertained here es well as in France • certain value for the sincere friendship of Prussia. (anima's 2r.craßams.) THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. PARIS, Avous2 27. The Emperor Napoleon, during his journey to Lille to be present at the fêtes to be held in that city in commemoration of the 204th anniversary of its annexation to France, passed through Arras I yesterday. The following is his Majesty's reply to an address from the mayor of that city : "With pleasure I find myself once more among you after so long a lapse of time. I have seized with eagerness the occasion of a national fete to come and acquaint myself with your desires, and to assure you that my solicitude for all the interests of the country shall never fail you. You are right to have confidence in the future. It is only weak governments who seek in foreign complications to divert attention from troubles at home. But he who derives his strength from the great body of the nation has only to do his duty and to satisfy the permanent interests of the country, and while hold ing aloft the national flag we should not allow our selves to be drawn away by intemperate impulses, however patriotic they may be. I thank you for the sentiments you have expressed towards the Empress and our son. Be assured that they share my devotion for France, and that their most ardent wish is to put an end to all misery and alleviate all misfortunes." Despatches from Lille state that their Majesties were received in that town with enthusiasm and passed through the streets and boulevards in an open carriage. The following is the sense of his Majesty's reply to the address of the Mayor of that town : " It is now 14 years ago when, shortly after my marriage and the commencement of my reign, I was received here in a manner which will always be remembered by me. I have constantly sought to make France prosperous and respected. If there have been some dark spots, France has neverthe less resumed her place in Europe. I hope to ob_ tain the co-operation of everyone in consolidating the work begun." THE SPANISH INSURRECTION. MADRID, Amu's? 27. According to official despatches published here it is believed that the rebel band of Prierot has been dissolved and that of Priorsti has surrendered to the authorities. The insurgents have disappeared from the district of Valencia. ITALY. FLORENCE, Aucrin 26, Evviixo. The Italia of to-day says that the Italian govern ment has as yet received no communication con firming the report that it is the wish of the Emperor of Austria to meet King Victor Emmanuel in Paris. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aram 27. The Russian Ambassador returned to Constan tinople with Fund Pacha ; the latter has received the order of Alexander Newski. The Sultan is about to send some Arab horses to the Czar. General Ignatieff will return to the Crimea in a few days to be present at the fete of the Crar. GREECE. TRIESTE. Atrause 27. Advioes from Athens state that the subscriptions to the new Greek Loan have readied ten million drachmas, the greater portion of which has been spent in the purchase of vessels and munitions of war. Three steamers have already been bought in England, and two other ironclad vessels have been ordered. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF TIM CITY OF LONDON. The Inman steamer City of London, from New York on the 17th, arrived at 7.30 a.m. to-day (Ang. 27), with 65,709 dola in specie, and 55 pas sengers. She proceeded for Liverpool imme diately. NEW YORK, 17m Amos?, Moiumw. General Pope ham removed all civil officers in Naomi county, Alabama. The white police in Mobile refuse to serve under negro offloers and are resigning. The registration ia completed in Louisiana. 45,000 whites and 83,000 negroea have been registered. The registration in Georgia was nearly completed. The whites were slightly ahead. Yellow fever was increasing in Texas. Thirty deaths occurred d►ily in Galveston. Violent rain storms have greatly damaged property throughout the country. The Fenian picnic in Chicago yesterday ended in a gene ral fight. Advice'. from Matamoros to the 3rd state that it wan re ported that Castillo had escaped. Cornalea had revolted against Juarez. and was marching on Matamoros. A compliment is about to be paid to Mr. Justice (Megan in Belfast, his native town, which indicates a generous spirit in political opponents. It is proposed to place in the town-ball s bust of the learned judge, which has been executed by Mr. Shakespeare Wood. A com mittee has been formed, subscriptions have been freely given alike by conservatives and whigs, and on the list of trustees are the names of the mayor, the chairman of the Harbour Oonuniadoners, and the president of the Chamber of C,ornmerce. THE REPRESENTATION OP BELFAST, —In the event of a vacancy occurring in the representation of Eel fest, we believe that Mr. Johnston, of B a llykilb eg , i s lilt* to be a sanddats.—Dablin Evening Moil. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAy. (Td DAY.) Thin morning a meeting of the B and C shar e . holders (Metropolitan Extenaioa), convened by the B and C committee, was held at the London Tavern, to receive a statement from the chairman, Mr. WASTER. The CHAIRMAN called attention to the circumstances under which the committee were appointed in Jan last, for the protection of the B and C holders, and ob served that they had brought two actions against Mew % Peto, whose reply was a general denial of their liability under the agreements. On consulting counsel the con. mitts* found that the matter was so beset with legal tech. nicalities that it was advisable to suspend proceeding s , They came to this conclusion on several grounds, one being that they were engaged in an expensive parliamentary contest which rendered it necessary that they should husband their resources; another, that they had lesson to believe that, so far from Me ssrs Peto's estate yield yielding 20.. in the pound to crediten and leaving • surplu s o f something like a million, as b e d been stated, there was every probability that the dividend would be • very small one, and that, theref ore, if the committee recovered a verdict, that verdict would be hardly worth the expense of obtaining • Messrs. Peto having now goes into bankruptcy it would be of wane open to every B and C beig e to go to the court and endeavour to establish hie claim against the firm. Whether he would se e . ceed or not was another question. He himself had a claim against them of something like 3,moy, which if he stioceecled in establishing would be of nuns for himself individually, unless a committee were placed in ion of funds to enable th em t o t a k e action on L e h le alr of the general body. It appeared on investigat ing the affairs of the company that 300,01.01. • rail due to the Metropolitan Extension by the general undertaking, that money having been misapplied to other purposes. Had it been properly applied not only would all the land for the e x t ens i ons have been paid for but they would have had 90,0001. to the good. The boar e l of directors fell in generally with the views enunciated in the report of the committee, and • clams was accordingly prepared for the protection of the B and C holders to be inserted in the bill ; but after some time the anualgama. tion with the debenture holders took place, to the result wee that, instead of l,500,000(., 600,000,, only was to be raised as • first charge. By clause 4 of that which was now the Aet, all prineedings were to be stayed, end clause 6 fixed the suspense period at ten years-• period within which he had every confidence that the undertaking would have recovered itself, especially the metropolitan extensions, about which he was more sanguine than the rest of the undertaking. Very little was required to be spent either on the main line or the extensions beyond the 30,000/. which was needed for the coal ahedn. Recapitulating several clauses of the bill, the Chairman went on to say the more important were these by which the rights of the A and B holden were reserved, and which fixed the suspense period at ten years. As attempt was made to make the period five years, but he had sucenefully opposed it, considering that it was monstrous to give power to sell the line through the Court of Chancery if It could not pay its way, which wee the condition, within a term too short for it to recover I itself. He added that, although the committee had paid the parliamentary agents' and the house fees, they wen still indebted for counsels' fees and other charges. Several of the larger shareholders had not contributed the shilling per oent. agreed upon, although the debenture holden and other interests had paid, some of them 20e., some 10a, and some ss. per cent. to protect their into rest. If the B and C holders would all of them pay the shilling that would enable the committee to discharge their outstanding liabilities, which was all they required. He reminded the meeting that there were various im portant questions yet to be decided as to the positi on o f the B and C holders with the general undertaking, as, for instance, their liability to the passenger duty, with which they were charged for the first time a twelve. month ago, end to rates and taxes, with which they were charged first at Christmas lest—two items which together made 8,0001. a year. What he proposed was that • petition should be presented to the Lords Justices, under the authority given in the act, and in that way • de cision could be cheaply obtained which he trusted would satisfy all parties. In conclusion, he would move the following resolution :—That this meeting entirely approves of the successful efforts of the B and C shareholders' committee, and having re gard to important pecuniary questions still to be nettled between the Metropolitan Extension and the main line, requests the committee to continue to represent and protect the interests of the Metropolitan Extension slum holders." He ought to add that the result of the parliamentary campaign had been to raise the B stock 15 per cent it the markets Captain IsHetwoou seconded the resolution. In reply to 11r. HARRJAON, The CHAIRHAII said the question of the Victoria im. provemente, and various other matters, would be as far es possible embodied in the petition. The resolution was put and carried. Another resolution, moved by the CHATRYAN, and *wooded by Captain leweewoon, was adopted, authorising the committee to make further application for the shilling a share to those shareholders who had not yet paid. A vote of thanks having been aosorded to the ehahmisa and other members of the committee, The, CHAIRMAN, in acknov: „ Ving it, observed that the first 30,000 f. of increased pte would cover the entire interest on the 600,0001. to be raised under the act of par. liament which 600,00 0! . was to be spread over the entire undertaking ; whereas, when the accommodation for the coal traffic was completed, the Metropolitan Extension would receive 30,00 W. a year from the Great Northern Company. The meeting then separated. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TMISDAY, AVM= 27, 8 &IL 4. I Ridreree. w 2. I t & h W. 1 1 : 1 7 . .... t i .14 __, Roans .... 40 W. 4 W. eb I t Abadan .• MI B.W. 1 &W. bi -. 1 L.eltb *Anemia Orerseastle .90, W.N.W. 4 W.S.W. re 9.06' - Valenti& . Roche's Polnl9o 00 56; W.N. W. 4 W. eb ' 3 I2verpool 130.03 62 1 &W. 1 &9. W. b•— I 1 LI oly herd •••f30.02 57 B.W. 3 B.W. e l - Pensenoe 140. L 3 W.N.W. 4 N.N.W. l eb I Brest 130.20 57 N.W. 3 N.N.& fro RN 4 Lerient ,:.330s SA N. lIN. I oc 104 2 Rochefort,— 34.03 61 N. 3 N.W. ee —i S Plyre.eith OO. I 2 66 N.W. 3 W.N.W. b 1 Weymouth 30.11 68j N.W. 1 W. eb -- I 3 Portsmouth 30.03 66, N.N.W. 13 N.N.W. rc 6.19 2 London 30.06 60 W.N.W. , 3 W.&W. ore 013 - Yarmouth 14.98 56' N.W. 1I 1 &W. rb 2 14 dearbeeough .28 671 B.M. 111 4. W. II• 32 2 Shields 30.057' N.W. I B.W. e 2 Helder i. I , - - ___ RIM AHAB. The stmoapherical pressure is Inc:riming generally over the British isles this morning, mid temperature hes drat:awl . 1,, yesterday, especially on the southern and eastern coasts of tap land. The winds have veered towards north% est, with sled weather. MARITTHR CAPTURIL—The Times publishes letter from the Earl of Denbigh, in reply to that of Lad Hobart, relating to maritime capture. His lordship says: " If hostile operations are to consist merely in a gls&• tonal contest between armies and navies. unless some yell extrarirdinary success were to follow the arms of one side, wars might last for a long period, merchants would profit by war prices, and would soon find it their interest to pro long rather than to terminate a war, if only their cornmeal were held inviolate. As to the argument employed by Lord Hobart, and by many others, that, as we hove the greatest commercial navy, we should, therefore, be the greatest sufferers, I do not see that ought to weigh mot than it did in former times, when we so jealously defendelow right of maritime search and capture against the whole world in 1786. We have still a greater number of wooden vessels adapted to the work of cruisers than any other country, and England, I trust, is not so enervated that she cannot defend her own commerce. Beside% I hold it a sufgriest answer that Lord Stanley, in his reply to Mr. Mill, wooed to take it for granted that, in case of a serious wit England would ignore the provisions of the Declaratio ns ' Paris, and revert to her ancient custom of seizure. Would it not, therefore, be far more consonant to dis honour and dignity of England toreeede now. deliberately, from her false position, instead of waiting till she ls driven rudely to violate her pledges by self interest? I think it cannot be too clearly insisted on that iu s magi. tutionally-governed country like this every nl.Oll oughts have a personal interest as well as a voice in the PO, questions of peace or war. War should never be a s t o except in the last resort, and then only in a just cause, it which ease all means are lawful to be tried for the end le view—viz— the conquest of the enemy. if commerce SW be unchecked except by blockades, which must beef five, bow case all dames have an equal interest at .tau. But some will urge the 'horrors of war,' which ought • be mitigated as much as possible. For what reason, tar I ask, are we multiplying engines of destruction, elsoef',n render war so horrible that none will lightly movok' "' Mr. Mill has, I think, most properly urged the rico is. portant points :—First, that, by acceding to the doriripe s Lid down in the De cla ration of Paris , all essentially a, vet powers are reduced to the level of military 1 0"", sad shorn of their peculiar advantages. Second, that. in ems of a war, say between England and France, id: the Ir,ski sailors would flock to those neutral power. a 6051' arty trade would then be inviolate, and we shoui.i in s on.in time find ourselves incapable of mooning Cur urine, since few men will prefer a hazardous emplm went whet their lives are endongcnoil to • remunerative eugoVia 4ll where they are safe. FRIGHTFUL FALL FROM A RAILWAY linrou•-• On Sunday night last • number of youths were 0 3 01 the Midland Railway bridge at Nottingham, when on e them, named Nathaniel Needham, who had climbed to tM to of the bridge, was seen suddenly to !nixs his hold id fan on the iron lines below. The poor lAA's skull INS smashed by the violence of the fall, a nd hie brvin Pp truded. He was instantly taken to the Ventral florr 3 " bat expired in • few minutes. ruptcies re erred alleged for the but upo audited i that ther Ilia H 4 the ban weans c rneleatin be woub further mamiliuee• APPIk . - itobert Mr. I prisoner. The p as • hon skittles: The prom hating 1 from wiz son who his beck ptmecut el the pl 11111 prisoner into the 308 T, w morning. " I supp I would I dare ma Mr. G/ ViNDOOT, the (midi upon. The ju The J opinion rid, •' I was who (B Alfred were ind the prop The pr The pr 41:1z and ran of the Ci — The •ju Yr. 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