The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-01 00:00:00

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In 2 1.15., at all Übnd.s. °IR C E.— A LARGE HOTEL for NEW YORK.—The hl ILDER of WEIDE td., or by post IN.; ; contains • I :'w View and parti c ul a r s o f the proposed large Hotel le New .4-.. toe ge.,dlectlons of the fleet River, with illustrations no. f 'A.M. of Argue.. Normandy, with Plan--Bketchea In AI b andale—Reform of the Night Watchmen—Competition De for cntesse•—A Puzzle In the Names of some Architects— n'e Pahlie Health—Pletures Bought, and many other papers.— 1 . V ont - street, CovenAgarden, and all newsmen. Fataoarn, JULY 31.—The New York and Sarre Company's steamer Guiding Star, Captain Vansie, Nee N ew York, arrived here to-day vritls Ave bags of tads, ZS pas sengers, an d 160,000 dole. in specie. After luting six passenger. she proceeded for Havre. Nearly the whole passage the Guiding Star experienced light winds and foggy weather. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (azuna's TXIIGBAIS.) THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION. MARSEILLES, JULY 31. Intelligence has been received here from Athens dated 25th instant. The Athens journals publish the following telegram, alleged to have been ad dressed to their governments by foreign consuls in Candle :—" The Turks are massacring women and children. The Turkish authorities are neither able to subdue the insurrection nor to put a stop to these massacres. Humanity demands the immediate suspension of hostilities or the transferenw of the Christians to Greece." The blockade-runner Ar eadion had undertaken her twentieth voyage. She was bringing back to Greece 800 Cretan women and children. The Greek government had called out reserves. Several brigands had been killed. FRANCE. PARIS, JUT 31, EvENING. The evening Muniteirr in its bulletin says : " The Empress has returned from her excursion to the Isle of Wight, where her Majesty received from Queen Victoria the kindest and most affec tionate welcome. France and England have wit nessed with pleasure this fresh proof of the friend ship of these two sovereigns, whose lofty qualifica tions have inspired both nations with a lively feel ing of respectful sympathy." The same journal says :—" The article in the M 'tore of the 2 9 9th, upon the general political situation, is considered in France and abroad as a confirmation of the conciliatory ideas and moderate views which guide the policy of the imperial go vernment, and regulate its relations with all other powers. its language and its acts afford a valuable guarantee for the peace of Europe. The good sense of the public, reassured by so valuable a declaration, knows how to estimate false rumours and imaginary alarms." The l'atrie of this evening, in an article entitled " Who desires war I" says, " Neither France nor Prussia desires war—it is only some few of the papers in both countries which are trying to bring it about" The article concludes as follows : " France cannot go to war with Prussia excepting in the events of aggression and a flagrant violation of her rights, or she would sacrifice her generous influence over democratic Europe. Prussia cannot enter upon a war with I. rants: unless she resolve to lose the fruits of fifty years' political efforts and of three months of sanguinary vic tories. This is the stake which would be at issue in a Franco-Prussian war." The same journal says :—" It is believed that the arrival of the Emperor Francis Joseph in Paris will coincide with the visit of the Emperor Napo leon to the camp of Chalons, and that the two sovereigns will return together from the camp to Paris, where brilliant fetes will take place. After wards the Emperor Napoleon will go to Biarritz, where not Count Bismarck, but Baron Beust, the Austrian Premier, will also arrive on a week's There has been a rumour on the Bourse that an attack had been made by a body of Garibaldians upon Viterbo. Up to the present, however, no telegram has been received confirmatory of this report. The Etendard of this evening publishes intelligence from China, which states that the French troops had occupied without resistance three of the western provinces of Lower Cochin China, capturing large quantities of munitions and stores, and that the troops were favourably re ceived by the inhabitants. PRUSSIA. WIESBADEN, JOLT 31. King William arrived here to-day and met with an enthusiastic reception. In reply to an address ) presented to him by the burgomaster his Majesty said :—" This is the first time that we meet under the altered circumstances. The change has cer tainly been radical, and we observe it moat in this your former duke's capital. It pained me to have to act as 1 did, and the decision I came to cost me a great amount of resolution, but history cannot stand still—it must advance. The sentiments with 1 which you have addressed me I have heard fre quently uttered throughout the country, and I hope that you have really expressed the feelings of all good citizens. I also trust that these feelings will become stronger and stronger ; my officials shall act with that object in view. Thanks for your good wishes." BERLIN, JULY 31, EVENING. The New Prussian (Cross) Gazette of this evening, in an article criticising and replying to Baron Dupin's speech in the French senate, says :—" We should take no notice of it were it simply the ex pression of individual views, and nut rather that of the feelings of a large proportion of the French people. Moreover, Denmark might conclude from it that a declaration of war by France against Prussia was imminent, and in con sequence evade an equitable solution of the Schleswig question. We reply therefore to Baron Dupin, and at the same time to the Danes, that Schleswig did not fall into the hands of Germany and of Prussia through intrigue, but as the result of a just war provoked by the E stematic oppression of the German Duchies of the Elbe. In the treaty of Prague Prussia entered into I lan engagement with Austria to cede the northern districts of Schleswig to Denmark, in case the inha bitants of those districts should by • free vote' , express their wish for such cession. But for all that Prussia will not hand back to Danish arbitrariness and fanaticism Germans for whose liberation German blood has flowed. No, not even if in France such an unjust demand should be raised. The Luxemburg question was more of an international than a national character, but Schleswig is a Prussian province, which cannot be disposed of by a conference." The article of the Cron Gazette concludes with an assurance that as ' Prussia has never interfered in the domestic affairs of foreign nations, so also will she repel any foreign intervention in her internal affairs. The semi-official North German Gazette of this evening repels the accusations of the France against the Prussian press of writing in terms of provocation. "We are ready and willing," I says the Gazette, " to use our best endeavours to put an end to the state of hostility which exists between the press of the two countries, whose go vernments are upon such a friendly footing." Herr von Savigny has not, as reported by some newspapers, retired from the public service. He has only been unable to undertake the duties in the Federal Council which were allotted to him on account of a wide difference of opinion between him and the other members of the council. It is semi-officially stated that the conferences between the government and the Hanoverian notables afford hopes of a satisfactory result, as concessions have been made by both parties. The reply of the Prussian cabinet to the last Danish note will be despatched shortly after Count von Bismarck's return to the capital. THE EMPRESS CHARLOTTE. BRUSSELS, JULY 31. The Empress Charlotte, accompanied by the Queen of the Belgians, arrived at six this evening at Terreren, one of the royal castles in the environs of Brussels. The King and the Count of Flanders went to meet the Empress Charlotte on her arrival. The journey was performed in the most satisfac tory manner. AUSTRIAN FINANCE. VIENNA, JOLT 31. The .IVele Free Press publishes a continuation of the report upon the finances in 1866, showing that the revenue fell short of the estimate by 40,000,000 florins. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1567. THE SULTAN. VIENNA, JULY 31. The Sultan left this mo ' for Pesth, pro ceeding down the Danube on the steamer Szechenyi. RUSSIA. ST. PETER.SSUR . 9, JULY 31. An imperial ukase has been published to-day authorising the Minister of Finance to lease the Nicolai Railway to a public company for 75 years. In order to facilitate the operation the government issues for the new company 600,000 bonds of 125 roubles each, bearing interest at 4 per cent., and redeemable in 64 years ; the bonds to be exempt from all taxation. The redemption of the capital of the loan and the payment of interest is to be made by the company under the guarantee of the state. The purpose of the loan is to establish a fund for the continuance of the railway limes. The subscription is to be opened by Messrs. Baring, Hope, and Hottinger, and the Canoe d'Eacompte of Paris. HAMBURG. 11A3IBUItO JULY 31. The Council of Burghers held a sitting to-day to deliberate upon the proposed military convention with Prussia. No decision on the question was arrived at, but it was determined to send commis sioners to the special sitting of the Senate, which is to be held to-morrow on the subject. COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN AUSTRIA. OSTRAU (MORAVIA) ? Jun' 30. Yesterday, at noon, a terrible explosion of fire damp took place at the Rothschild Colliery, near °strain. At the time of the occurrence there were 100 men in the pit, but up to the present 50 only have been got out, of whom 20 were dead and a large number terribly injured. The most active efforts are being made to extricate those still in the pit, but all attempts to descend by the shaft are attended with extreme danger. THE BRAZIL MAILS. LISBON. JVLT 31. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Oneida has arrived here from the Brazils, and will leave at 4 p.m. to-day for Southampton, with 14,328/. in specie, 1,852 bags of coffee, 300 barrels of tapioca, 150 rolls of tobacco, 222 packages of sundries, and 107 passengers. The Shannon, with the outward mail of the 9th July, was at St. Vincent (Cape Verdi) on the 20th instant. RIO DR JANEIRO, Jinx 8. Exchange on London, 211 ; on Paris, 4.50. Coffee, good first, 6,200 to 6,400 reis. Shipments since the departure of the last mail, 83,188 bags, of which 10,149 were for the Channel, 18,070 fur the north of Europe, 4,900 for the Mediter ranean, and 4,212 for the Baltic. Sales, 70,000 bags. Stock, 90,000 bags. Freights, 555. BAHIA Jeur 14. - . Exchange on London, 22. Sugar, wines, 2,700 to 3,400 rein ; browns, 2,450 to 2,500 reis. Cotton, 12,700 reis. PERNAMBUCO, Juts 16. Exchange on London, 21/. Sugar, whites, 3,800 reis ; browns, 2, 2 00. tton, 13,000 reis. The Navarre arrived at Bahia on the lith inst. AMERICA. (HT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, JVLY 31, 6 r.n. The Transatlantic Company's steam-ship St. Lawrence has arrived out. Closing prices : Gold, 140. Sterling exchange on London, 110. 6-20 United States Bonds, 1111. Illinois, 1181 ; Erie, 76i. Cotton : Middling Up land, 28. PHILADELPHIA, JULY 31. Petroleum, standard wh►te, 32i. THE RETRACTATION OF FATHER PASSAGLIA.—A letter from Rome, dated 24th ult., to the Genera/ Corn sionsdoire of Vienna, says :—" The learned Abbe Passaglia, yielding to the persuasions of Mgr. Clifford, his former pupil, and now Bishop of Clifton, in England, has made his retractation, by declaring that, as a catholic, he gives in hie complete adhesion to everything declared by the bishops respecting the temporal power of the Pope, in their Address of 1862, and that he submits all his publications to the judgment of the Holy See. People are awaiting the pub lication of this retractation, some expressions in which have been changed ; for this reason Mgr. Clifford went a second time to Turin to the Abbe Passaglia. Meanwhile the Pope has given 3,000 francs to pay the debts of this erring servant." THE ARTILLERY ACCIDENT AT DOVER.—The shocking accident at one of the Western Heights batteries by the premature explosion of a cartridge on the occasion of the royal salute in honour of the Sultan's departure, on Tuesday week, whereby three artillerymen were injured, as already reported, had a fatal termination on Saturday last, one of the poor fellows, George Turner, a gunner of the 13th Brigade, after lingering through intense suffering from the time of the accident, expiring on that day. The military authorities failed to communicate the circum stance to the civil power, and, indeed, made anangements for the interment of the deceased on Tuesday without the formality of nn inquiry. The fact of the man's death, however, having some to the knowledge of the coroner for the borough, Mr. W. H. Psyn, be at once put himself in communication with the military authorities, and the result was the opening of the inquiry yesterday morning. The first witness celled was Thomas Robert Dewdney, sergeant in the 13th brigade Royal Artillery, stationed at the Western Heights, Dover, who said be knew the deceased, who was a gunner in the Royal Artillery, and was about 3.5 years of age. Witness continued—l was on duty with him on the 'Gird July, at No. 6 gun of the Drop Battery, on the occasion of the royal salute being fired in honour of the Sultan's departure. The battery consisted of six guns. The deceased was No. 3 man on the gun to which he was attached, and it was his duty to load and assist in ramming home. Five rounds had been fired from the gun, and we were reparingfor the 6th, when I observed that before the ' was half driven home it exploded. The deceased was in the act of r.umning home. The dis charge bad the effect of driving the ramrod from the gun and blowing the deceased and another man from the muzzle. It was the duty of No. 2 moo to sponge out the gun, of No. 4 to serve the vent, and I can say that both these duties were properly performed after the firing of the fifth round. It was rather au old sponge. It was rather too small for the bore, and possibly the effect of this would be that a little fire was left behind in the gun. Under these circumstances it would be of very little use for the vent to be served. The sponge was wet four or five times during the firing. George Stainfield said—l am armourer's sergeant of the Coast Brigade of Artillery I examined the gun in question on the day following the accident. I found the exterior perfectly free from flaws. I searched the inside with a spring searcher and found one flaw at eighteen inches from the muzzle. I then took a gutta.percha impression. The flaw was in the position technically known as "left of up." The flaw was three eighths of an inch deep. and about the eighth of an inch in diameter. It was deep enough to hold fire, and was of a kind likely to retain it. The sponge that was used on the occasion would not have touched this orifice, but the sponge used was, in my opinion, a serviceable one, and adapted for this description of gun, which was a 42- pounder. The hole ran vertically, and was a little rough at the edges. It would be likely to retain fire.—After some further evidence, the coroner brie fly observed that there seemed no neglect of duty on the part of anyone concerned, and that the accident had probably resulted from the entail fissure in the gun which had remained previously un detected.—The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, but suggested that a reoommendation should be made to the government in favour of a periodical inspection of guns in active use, irrespective of the number of rounds fired, or whether used for shot or blank cartridge. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 31.—A court-martial assem bled on board the Victory this morning for the trial of the officers (with the exception of Commander W. Men zies, Lieutenant R. P. Moutray, and Lieutenant F. W. Christian) and crew of the Osprey. 4, screw gun-vessel, for their conduct on the occasion of the lose of the ship on the morning of the 30th May, off Cape St. Frances, on the south-east coast of Africa. The following officers composed the court :—Rear-Admiral Warden, C. 8., Captains F. B. P. Seymour, C. 8., R. J. J. G. Macdonald, the F. Egerton. C. 8., E. W. Vansittert, W. Chamberlavne, M. S. Nolloth, J. Corbett, and R. Dew, C.B. Mr. E. Hoskins officiated as judge advocate. The officers and crew were acquitted, the court being of opinion that no blame was attributable to them. A second court for the trial of Commander W. Menzies and Lieutenant F. W. Christian was then held. Lieutenant Moutray, the officer of the watch ; Mr. John Saunders, the gunner ; Acting-Liente nant Meade, and Robert William Hitchcock, the look-out on the morning of the wreck, were examined. The case was not concluded when the wart adjourned. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PION OM OWN 0011310.140111 DINT.) PARIS, WinllO4OAT EVWXQ. The Cologne Gazette, received to-day, contains a column and a half in blank. There must be some thing in the German edition which the editor knew would have occasioned a seizure at the French fron tier, and therefore a special edition was prepared for French readers. Count de Boltz, whose approaching departure for Berlin, which I announced yesterday, was delayed, is to leave this evening. He has doubtless conferred with M. Benedetti, who has just arrived here from Corsica. M. Rouher's holiday trip to Carlsbad is deferred. By the way, a story good in another sense than being funny is current about M. Rouher. On the breaking up of the Corps Legislatif a deputy con gratulated him upon the repose he was about to enjoy after a laborious session. "Oh !" said M. Rouher, " I never feel so much disposed to work as during the vacation." "Then," said the deputy, soddenly becoming ironical instead of complimen tary, "you will perhaps find time to attend a little to the finance department." The fact is that M. Ronher's many duties as Minister of State are quite inconsistent with proper attention to the finances, which require the exclusive energies of the ablest statesman that can be found. The only reason for the extraordinary prolongation of the provisional arrangement which gives M. Rouher two port folios must be that the Emperor does not know where to find another man able and willing to make the management of the budget subservient to his mysterious and constantly fluctuating foreign policy. The vote in the House of Lords on Lord Cairns amendment, provokes the following observations from the Siècle : The effect will be to erase from the lists many citizens who expected to find themselves voters. Will the English aristocracy be gainer% by this change ? Certainly not. It will augment the discontent of the working classes and alienate the affections of a people yet attached from routine to its old institutions but which will at length be weary of injustice and the niggardly paring down of its *Ma. At the Bourse Rente opened briskly and rose to 69fr. 20c., and 69fr. ;ire. ; but the highest quota tions of the day were not sustained and business was decidedly heavy after the " options " were declared. The latest quotations were 69fr. for cash and 68fr. 92ie. for account, with a fall of 10c. and Thc.; Italian fell 20c.; and Credit Foncior and Mobilier, sfr. each. NATIONAL REFORM UNION.—A meeting of the executive wee held on Tuesday night in the Council chamber, Gladstone-buildings, Manchester ; Mr. R. I). Rusden, the treasurer, occupying the chair. After the adoption of the minutes, and the transaction of the routine business of the company, a spirited conversation took place respecting the proceedings in reference to the Reform Bill in the House of Lords on the previous night. A strong feeling was expressed that the government bad shown a gross breach of faith by the course which it had pursued in raising the N. copyhold qualitimtion to 10/., and in altering the qualification for the lodger franchise from 10/. to IN., in opposition to the recent decision of the House of Commons. It was felt by the committee that the bill, as passed by the Common. was already limited enough, without being mutilated, ai d made more restrictive, by any action of the peers. On the termination of the conversation, the following resolution was proposed, seconded, and carried:—" This committee regrets to learn that the House of Lords, in committee lut night, pained resolutions calculated to restrict the franchise proposed in the government Reform Bill, which is already limited and unjust in ire provisions ; and this committee would urge upon the House of Commons to reject the said so-called amendments, and any others which may be proposed, designed to render the bill more narrow and partial than at B RITISH BRITISH ARCH.EOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.—Lt• P LOW, WEDNEsDAY.—Our report of the proceedings of this body broke off yesterday at a point where the excur sionists, having visited Bitterley Church and Middleton Chapel, ascended 'lltterstone Cleehill, after which they repaired to the residence of Sir C. H. Rouse Boughton, the president, at Downton-ball, where they were moat hos pitably entertained by Sir Charles. This beautiful man sion is most picturesquely situated in one of the most lovely spots of Sabres. The party, having assembled at four o'clock, sat down to a most mnuiptuous dijeiluer, under the presidency of their hospitable host, and after due justice had been done to the viands, a number of toasts were drunk and speeches delivered. At the evening meet ing, Mr. R. Kyrke Yemen, F.S.A., read a paper on Lud low Church. Mr. T. Wright, M.A.. F.S.A., made some remarks upon early churchwardens' accounts, the mate rials for which he had obtained from corporation records. Church property, he said, was evidently at one time under the control of guilds, and this might account for the books being mixed up with the corporation records. The entries, which he produced, extended back to 1540. A abort dis cwsion followed, in the course of which the Rev. Sir F. A. G. Ousley expressed a hope that further search would he made in their records for entries relating to organs, organ building, and organ playing. This morn ing Mr. Wright conducted the archaeologists over the castle, and two hours were occupied in examining and describing the different portions of this very interesting edifice. Afterwards the party adjourned to the beautiful restored church—the finest parish church in England— when Mr. Hills, the treasurer, explained its structure. The mayor afterwards entertained the party ; but as the morning's work had not been half gut through when the train left, we most reserve our report till to-morrow. COPYRIGHT WITH AMERICA.—A weekly paper of this city is reviving the agitation for an international copy right law which was so active last year, but which, like many previous attempts to secure that simple measure of justice, was quieted in Congress. Thirty years ago Henry Clay put the rights of the else as clearly as it is possible to put them. " A British merchant," he said, " trans mits to the United Statea a bale of merchandise, end the moment it comes within the jurisdiction of our laws they throw around it effectual security. But if the work of a British author is brought to the United States, it may be appropriated by any resident here, and republished without any compensation whatever being made to the author." That is wetly how the matter stands, and we are at a lOU to comprehend how there can be any dispute about the justice of the proposed law. The squabbles which have broken out with such violence of late between rival American publishers and be tween American publishers and foreign authors, are cer tainly reason enough for pronouncing it expedient. The good, honest custom of plying a man for the use of his property, whether he be a fellow-countryman ora foreigner, is happily coming more and more into vogue, and we ought by all means to enforce it by legislative action, both for the sake of the national honour and as • just measure of protection to those who practise and to those who profit by it. —thew York Tribune, July 20. SAN PAULO (BRAZILIAN) RAILWAY.—The fol lowing directors' report was read at the meeting held to-day :—" The directors regret that at the present meeting, which is merely convened to satisfy the requirements of the company's articles of association, it will be impossible to lay before the proprietors a state ment of the accounts for the past half-year, as those accounts must henceforth be agreed with the Imperial Brazilian government before they can be finally passed on the books of the company ; it will be necessary therefore to adjourn the meeting to some future period, which et present cannot be precisely determined. The board avail themselves of the present opportunity to assure the pro prietors that the prospects of the company are highly en couraging, and that the traffic, which to the present time has been very satisfactory, is, according to &deices recently received, likely to increase rapidly. The directors have also to state that the works remaining to be executed in connexion with Messrs. Sharpe's contract, and the re quirements of the government inspector, Senr. Sobregy, are being promptly carried out, and the whole will, no doubt, be completed in the course of the present year. Annexed is • report from Mr. Brunlees, the company's engineer-in -chief, to which the shareholders are referred for further information on the various points connected with his department." A correspondent writes that the passengers of the little steamer Flora City, on Lake Ontario, were hor rified the other day at the appearance of • huge serpent which raised its monstrous bead in the front of the ves sel's bow, and projected its jaws toward the promenade deck. The serpent was about fifty feet long, and followed the steamer as a shark follows • slave ship.—Rochester Union. _ _ - --.- OXVITAI PALACZ.-ONE SHILLING DAY. -WED NISDAT, JOLT 31.—Adnliiii0211 CM payment, 8,283 ; ditto by moos tickets, 2,998: total viiiton, 11,281. [STAMPED, Id. ADDITIONAL.] AMERICA. (ntom OCR emu'. CORIUMONDUCT.) NEW YORK, JOLT 37. The majority in Congress can prevent t le taking up of any subject of legislation except the one which has called them together, but it cannot pre vent members talking about this one, and some of the opposition have certainly made good use of the privilege. A Mr. Munger last week tilled six columns of the Globe, the official reporter of the debates, its pages being about the size of your own, with a speech in opposition to the Reeonstruc- tion Bill, which was partly devoted to the question of race, and partly to a minute description of the negro'.s physical conformation, and especially of the size end shape of his brain ; and when be was near the close announced that for moat of " the ideas and thoughts" in his speech he was indebted to a friend, a doctor, somewhere in Ohio. Long discourses, almost as absurd, have been delivered by others on the Mexican question, the condition of Ireland, and divers other matters having no rela tion whatever to reconstruction, or one so remote that it would require considerable ingenuity to trace it. The composers of these discourses of course have not the least expectation that they will make any impression on their hearers, or in any way affect the division. They are produced simply for publi cation in the Globe, and when the performance is a more than usually ambitious one, are reprinted in a pamphlet form on coarse paper at the orator's own expense, and sent in bushels to his constitu ents and the newspapers. Against this sort of thing the majority have of course no protection except the " previous ques tion ;" and I think the lavish and often tyrannical use of the " previous question "by the majority for the purpose of putting an end to debate is due in the main to the impatience bred by these essays. The art of debate, properly so called, that is of attack and defence on the spur of the moment, of extemporaneous charge and reply, if it ever existed in America, has died out. I do not know of one professor of it in public life who would in parlia- ment secure any reputation whatever. There is I perhaps no country in which there are not many ready, fluent speakers, men who can get on their legs and say something reasonably good off hand on any subject that may be under consideration, but there are very few, :f any, who are capable of extemporaneous debate, in the proper sense of the term. On the rare occasions in either house of Congress in which this is attempted, it is either carries' on in a con versational way, as it might be across a diuner table, or it degenerates very rapidly into personality. The usual course of anybody who wants to reply to a speech on the spot is to interrupt the orator as he goes along, ask him questions, or make rejoinders. a practice to whieh the official speaker rarely makes any objection. When the orator is allowed to finish without interruption, and his antagonist rises to reply in regular order, either the reply is already prepared, and is therefore, strictly speaking, not a reply, or if extemporaneous, the cliancea are ten to one that it is a simple personal castigation. In almost all debates of importance the speeches are written out beforehand, and learned by heart, and therefore contain hardly any reference to the argu ments used by others, or else they are simply read, or offered and not read, so as to fulfil theeonditions required to procure their publication in the Globe. One day in the week—Saturday—iP, during the regular session, given up to mere oratory. Members who have not had a chance to air their eloquence on any other day, or who have ideas on some subject which is never likely to come up for dis cussion, on this day talk as much as they please. Most of the othermembera absent themselves, and even the audience in the galleries is thin. The causes of this state of things, like the causes of nearly all social phenomena, are various. tine is, perhaps, the absence amongst all but a few public men of parliamentary training. Only very few Northerners go to Congress early, or remain in it many years, and practice in speaking at public meetings, or at social gatherings, which all Americans have in a greater or less degree, is not a preparation for parliamentary debating, any more than practice in the pulpit. Though public meetings here, as in England, are theoretically "meetings for discussion," in reality no discussion ever takes place at them. Only one side of the question is presented at them. Opposition is not permitted, and the speeches are all prepared before hand ; so that a man might be never so great a plat form orator and yet be completely unable to rise in his place in Congress and refute an oppo nent, or cover him with polite ridicule, on the spur of the moment Another and more powerful cause, I think, of the absence of debating power at Washington, is the imperfect education of most members of Congress. Nothing but a well stored mind—wide reading, familiarity with his tory, and political principles—will enable a man to make a good figure in extemporaneous debate ; and these things only a few congressmen have got. There are veteran politicians and sharp lawyers, who can spring to their feet and handle their weapons with reasonable dexterity, but their mun ber is small. The number of good debaters is, of course, small in all legislative assemblies, but here it is very small, much smaller than in England. The result of this state of things is, that the majority here is armed with powers of stopping dis cussion such as the majority in England dare not ask for, or if it got them dare not exercise. A bill might be passed in Congress without any body being allowed to open his mouth upen it, except the mover and seconder ; and bills have been passed, not precisely in this way, but with little or no debate. " Half hour rules," " fifteen-minute rules," and " five-minute rules," are also for the same reason constantly adopted at the commencement of important discussions, as the only adequate means of getting any business done ; and the " previous question," which anybody can move, and which in stantly cuts off all debate, is held in reserve behind • these, and is often used remorselessly, and often, too, as might be expected in exciting times, grossly abused. But of its value, or even necessity, nobcdy who has 'eon much of Congress doubts. What makes it all the more necessary is, what I sup pose I may call the individual good nature of the members. Good nature, in the sense of unwilling ness to hurt the feelings of others or bear hard on them, is, perhaps, the most prominent of American characteristics. The exaggerated, or one might almost say diseased, form of it. which produces the extraordinary patience and submissiveness in the presence of all aorta of abuses, such as the impu- [TWOPENCE ot , ice and e xt ,, rtion of railroad and other officials and ~1* hotel-keepers, always tills English travellers with astonishment. But it is nowhere displayed in such perfection as at public meetings, and in fact in all deliberative bodies. Therefore, you can never in this country trust to an au dience to suppress a bore by its spontaneous action. He is almost sure of freedom of non interruption, and in fact from any greater punish ment than not being listened to. He will not be coughed down, or laughed down, or roared down. People will go to . sleep under him, or leave the room * but they will not rise in insurrection. In the House of Commons, orators who wander from the point, or talk nonsense, or become wearisome, are at once delivered over to the wild animals who lurk on the back benches, and who speedily sup press them with all kinds of disturbing noises, and these receive a helping hand in the good work from the steadiest and most decorous. No formal action of the house is therefore in most cases ne cessary to prevent its time being wasted and the public business impeded by bores and dunces. It protects itself by revolution simply, and scorns the forms of law. Here the work cannot be done in this way. No member of Congress would undertake to put down a speaker by disorderly interruptions, and if he did he would certainly receive no aid from his fellows. On the contrary, the serjeant-at-arms would probably be called to the aid of the bore, and the impatient listener be reduced to silence by brute force. The house has to protect itself from bad or irrelevant speaking by regular rules. Individual volunteers will not do the work for it. Thew rules have of course to be very stringent, and when enforced, to work with remorseless rigour, and shut out good speakers as well as asses. But of course, except on occa sions in which affairs of great importance are under discussion, and when men's passions are strongly roused, these rules are seldom resorted to, and it may be said that, on the whole, there is far greater freedom of debate—a man may talk more non sense, and wander farther from the point, and on a greater number of occasions in the course of the year in the capitol than at St. Stephen's. I am inclined to think, from what one sees here, that should the character of the members of the House of Commons be changed considerably by the Reform Bill, it too would have to protect itself against rambling and incoherence by more strin gent rules than now exist. There is nothing which men of limited cultivation find it harder to do than stick to the point when they are on their legs, and there is nothing they are more willing to do than force others to stick to it when they are listeners. The sense of the ridiculous, which is, after all, the great defence against bores, prevails here to only a very limited extent in literary and oratorical matters, although it is rapidly growing. A "spread eagle orator" is now received, both in and out of Congress, with more or less laughter ; a few years ago only a very small circle laughed at him at all. The war, in some manner which 1 cannot undertake to explain, has greatly sobered the national taste, and at the same time developed the national sense of humour. I might illustrate this in various ways, but I will confine myself to mentioning the fate which has overtaken the famous " Fourth of July oration." It used to be the custom, until within the last ten years, for every village, I might almost say every township, to celebrate the day by ringing the bells at day break, letting off firework/ and cannon all day long, and assembling in some convenient place about noon to hear the Declaration of Independence read, and to listen to an " oration" from some speaker of more or less celebrity. In the smaller towns he was generally a local lawyer, or politician. The "oration" was generally a glorification of the United States, its size, wealth, and prospects, accompanied with liberal abuse of the European aristocracy. and glowing description of the agonies with which its members watched the rising power of the great republic. The rhetorical accounts of the feelings of the aristocracy towards this country became ridiculous long ago, and many a pleasant bit of satire has been published on the popular impression of the way in which the nobles of the Old World passed the Fourth of July. The wags have long been in the habit of describing them as re treating on the morning of the great day to their back drawing-rooms and other secluded retreats, and there passing the long hours in wailing and gnashing of teeth, fancying that they heard at every moment on the breeze the roar of the re publican cannon celebrating the birth of the de tested democratic commonwealth. Before the war, Fourth of July celebrations had become much less frequent, and the " orations " furnished every year a greater number of jokes ; but since the war they may be said to have become extinct. This year I only heard of one or two, while the newspapers abounded in ridicule of them, and anecdotes about them, and about the "American eagle," which has always played a leading part in them. Moreover, fireworks were suppressed in most of the great cities, although the day was as usual kept as a holiday, and shone glo riously on innumerable picnics and processions. One of the best of the anecdotes which wont the round of the papers was of a Southern orator who as usual opened his discourse by describing the gyrations of the eagle in the upper air. " Feller citizens," said he, " I see him a-soarin' and a-soarin', and a-soarin'," all the while keeping his eyes moved skyward, as if he was really watching its flight. A countryman in the crowd, who fol lowed the speaker's looks, here called out—" Do g gaun me, if 1 see cry bird " Feller-citi zens," roared the orator angrily, " I was speakin' in a figger THE CoNrEDERATE GENERAL , .—We feel im pelled to guy u word in behalf of the military skill. valour. and ability of certain of the rein generals whom the Southern papers are now denouncing for incompetence and imbecility in the held. Since Jeff. Thompson, Chalmers, Hindman, and especially Longstrett. have come out iu favour of reconstruction under the Military Bill, we find that their services to the rebellion are spoken of with utter contempt. and Longstmet is said to have proved him self a " failure " and a" nobody " tbmughout the entire war. Now, we are quite certain that Longstreet, at least, was not rated in this way by any of our generals or by oar soldiers who fought him. It was con ceded by them all, that with the exception of Stonewall Jackson, Lee had no subordinate, and the t 'onfederacy no upholder, who tendered more efficient and signal military service than Longatreet. We need not recall the lon lid of terrible battles in which he and his corps figured, tor the hundred times in which he put to test the genius of our greatest commanders. We are sure that neither Giant, Hancock. Sheridan, nor Warren would speak of Leapt:net, as a soldier, in any such way as he is now spoken of by his unreconstructed fellow-citizens of the South. But is daring to exercise his owe judgment upon polities, he could expect nothing better than he is receiving at the hands of the :•loutlivrn turnibproofa."—Ecio Than, July 19. ice ens I, a rai Nil ;hter mirk. WI, of the W. S. Ole. S. S. nnth• 4. S. g OM 115,..