The Express. — London, England, 1862-07-21 00:00:00

HENRY BRETT and CO., Brandy DOUllers and Wine Marehanta. HOLBORN-SAM and 30, JIHOINT-STERET, WATERLOO. PLAOL OM MITE LID 00.11 pIIRS XXIiiiTfforl5AVVES' FEET, Tor Invalids and Cannery Vas. Told IL, and L I T p by sit dualist gTOCerk &C. ILANITYACTOILY, tS, POSTLLNIMM, Eagent,st, F. QICOOND-HAND PIANOFORTES. h 3 BIALE. and WOOD have a large assortment of seeohd-band itabotartee, by the ghost esteemed makers, at waft reduced odes—SOL itaganhathset Fll NN, EVERY WEEK, ONE PENNY. gite erpregos. TO CORRPSPONDECTS. rlvertleementa intended for The Express" London Evening Paper, must be at the office, 10, Bouverleatreet, by Two ocbck on the day of pubbcatton. HAYMARKET. Tim Ry Ham THE WOLF AND THE LAMB.—OUR AMERICAN 0008LN. Wawa Soar% Sackslane : Mn. Tatum Mlasollver.—LA CONTRAHANDISTA. Fran Now and Senor AI oragaa—And FAMILY JAIL IRYNCOIPM. Tens Evicarno, IHE IiNVIEYOi:S.—KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Medan Cherie@ Kean, Jordan, Potter, Raymond, J. F. Cathcart, Everett, Garden, and Meadows : Mrs. Charles Kean and M h .ea Chapman.—And THRICE MARRIED. JAMINIII . - Tim EvEmva. VND= THR ROML—FRIENDS OR FOES. Messrs. George Vining, Dewar, and F. Matthews , Mrs. F. Matthews. Mimes Herbert and Lien Turner.—And PRINCE BRITAX/11A. THY 11=0.0. ONE THOUSAND NAPOLEONS.—Singing by Sydney end Yrs. Georp.—THE HARVEST STORU.- -And THE ROMANCEOF A POOR YOUNG MAN. Mews. J. Reynolds, W. Uantord, Bligwood ; Mn, i YarsokL— •arc:rs ETionsa, MAZEPIA:=Aite; which SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. MD,. MaaaitL—To conclude with THE MARRIED BACHELOL—Camanas at T. HIGH WAITE AT LDIEDGH BRIDGE. Tins Afternoon, 9b. Mat. To-moutow—Mornlng, 10h. Aftoruoon, 11h. O. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 21. Tim meeting held at Bridgewater House on Sr turday is a good commencement of the more syste matic organization of voluntary effort which is so much needed in order to meet the growing dis tress in the manufacturing districts. At the same time, both in its composition and results, it can only be regarded as a beginning. While a good number of noblemen and gentlemen connected with the manufacturing districts were present, many, and amongst them some of the largest landowners, were absent: and though ten thousand pounds is no doubt a considerable sum, it is a mere drop in the bucket compared with the territorial wealth of the subscribing classes, or the fearful exigencies of the crisis to be relieved. The importance of the meeting mainly lies in the decision unanimously arrived at—" That the increased distress "in the cotton districts calls for increased " efforts for relief, and that it is incumbent on " those who are connected by property with those " districts to take a prominent part in contributing " such relief." This decision marks another stage in the progress of the distress, by formally recog nising that the time has fully come for voluntary effort to do its utmost towards relieving the grow ing pressure of this great calamity. The decision has not been arrived at a moment too soon. The close of the session is near, and before Parliament rises it may possibly be necessary to bring the sub ject under its consideration. But no appeal can well be made to the Legislature on behalf of the districts affected until these districts have done their utmost to help themselves. " The public "purse," as Lord DERBY justly said, "is the last " resource ; and if it should come to that, those " connected with property would be placed in the " best position for asking such assistance, if they " could show that they had not abandoned their " duty, and bad acted liberally in relieving the " distress." Now that the wealth and landed property of Lancashire and the adjacent districts are formally appealed to we very confidently ex pect a prompt and liberal response. Contribu tions will flow in on a scale proportioned to the magnitude and severity of the suffering to be re lieved, and the sum already subscribed will doubt less be multiplied over and over again in the course of a few days. But, after all, as we have repeatedly urged, money is not by any means all that the case requires. Well-considered distribution of the sums collected was quite as essential to the effectual re lief of the local distress as large subscriptions. Then there is the equally important question of finding, if possible, some means of employment for those who are striving in every way, and by every sacrifice, to keep themselves above the condition of paupers. But if the larger plan of conference and co-operation referred to at the meeting is carried into effect, we may hope that these more difficult conditions of the problem to be solved will be satisfied. BANKERS and capitalists are once more begin- ning to feel uneasiness, not from apprehension of bad debts or commercial crises, any unsound de velopment having long been discountenanced, but simply because they do not know what to do with their money. The accumulation is becoming in conveniently large ; and though the inducement usual at such times is held out in the shape of a gradual concession as regards terms, there is no adequate demand. The banks and discount esta blishments are all underbidding the Bank of Eng land, yet are evidently much fuller of money than they like to be, while the business of the Bank itself is gradually dropping off, notwithstanding the recent re duction of its charge to 2i per cent. It would seem that trade is not in a condition to receive a stimulus from any possible increase of financial facilities or financial temptations. Legitimate trade ia, or ought to be, by its very nature exempt from influences of this nature ; to a house carrying on a steady mercantile business, in the proper sense of the term, it ought to matter little whether the rate of discount be 5 per cent., or only half as much. But there have been many occasions when the more speculative classes of the commercial community have been found keenly susceptible of elation or depression, according to the variations in the money market, and when a large influx of speculative commercial business has followed such an accumulation of idle capital as that now witnessed. A system of credit of this kind was, of course, unsubstantial, since it rested mainly on conditions which any accident or adverse event might invalidate, when its fate was that of a house of card; except that its collapse carried desolation over a wide area. Now, however, there is nothing of the sort. While legitimate trade does not seem to be accelerated one jot by the abundance of money, mercantile speculation seems to be sunk beyond the reach of any stimulus. Apart from the exceptional speculation in cotton, there is little disposition throughout the produce markets to purchase goods on borrowed money, as in the old times. There is a general want of life and spirit in commerce which is depressingly dull, though satisfactorily sound. Its refusal to respond to any invitations seems to render it probable that the difficulty of the capitalist will still incrusts. It would be vain at present to speculate upon klas prospects of the harvest. Where, then, are weto look for the means of relieving the monetary plethora? We might embark our surplus fast enough in the heaps of securities which are being manufactured in America, but the English public will not so much as look at them ; on the contrary, they have been actively intent, for some time past, on realising a portion of their old American securities which they have held for years. As regards American trade, the course of affairs bodes no relief to the capitalist, but rather an aggravation of the existing plethora; for although those persons who are going about prophesying an en tire stoppage of our trade with America as a re• snit of the new fiscal regulations, are merely drawing upon their strained imaginations, it is naturally to be expected that interchanges with America will receive a further check. This means that the capital of the numerous important houses connected with America will be to a still further extent thrown out of mercantile operations, thereby increasing the glut in Lombard-street. Amongst the other considerations which tend to increase, for the time, the abundance of unem ployed money, is a vague impression that the con test in America will not last long. Even those who are not at all clear in their ideas as to how it will end, are foremost in believing that it will end suddenly " some fine morning." Then a wide field of speculation is at once opened as to the effect that would be produced by its termination upon the whole course of commercial and financial affairs, and particularly upon the money market. Conjecture being somewhat at sea upon such wide and hypothetical matters, the practical conclusion arrived at is that it is advisable to keep a good deal of money lying idle, in order to be ready for all eventualities—that it is better, in fact, to de rive a limited return for a time from a large sur plus balance than to enter into long engagements, or invest it in securities of long currency, from which its subsequent detachment, if required, might be difficult or costly. This is the reason why the joint stock banks and discount establishments find so much money lying about, despite the very low rates-14 to 12 per cent —now allowed by them. This is the reason why their deposits, after being swelled to a high point by the forcing action of a liberal rate of allowance, do not fall off now that the attraction has been removed. These establishments are more likely to turn away depo sitors for some time to come than to have to seek after money. Finally, we have here an explana tion why Exchequer Bills, though yielding only 3 per cent. per annum interest, command 1 per cent. premium in the market, while Console, which offer a larger re turn, have been very languid until within the last few days, and are even now too low in relation to the value of money, as measured by the old standards in these matters. Exchequer Bills are in favour, in spite of all the unpopularity with which recent Chancellors of the Exchequer have invested them, because they are a short and non-speculative investment, from which a holder may detach his money at any moment, without risk of heavy fluctuation in prices ; while the English funds are neglected because they are a fixed, as distinguished from a floating or termi nable, investment. A feeling of mercantile uncer tainty and indecision is at the root of the difference in the public estimation of these two classes of securities issued by one and the same borrower. Under present circumstances, it does not seem likely that the market will be soon relieved of the superincumbent weight of money through the medium of loans, public companies, or other agencies tending to send capital out of the country ; the accumulation is so large that this gradual process will probably fail to exercise any perceptible influence. New projects will doubtless continue to be announced from week to week, but no very large transaction seems to be threatened at the moment. Allusion has been made recently to a coming Portuguese Loan for 5,000,000/. of stock, or 2,200,0001. cash, and the prospectus is now formally issued. Portugal has, of course, as much right to borrow here as any other State, for, though her financial escutcheon has not escaped without tarnish in past years, she came some time ago to a settle ment with her creditors, which they accepted as satisfactory, and none of them care now to throw a stone at her. The present loan is but a small affair, and our money market is in a mood to swal low it without feeling it iu the least. A matter of a couple of millions, spread over a twelvemonth, is not worth considering in its in dividual effect on the money market. The public have had their appetite for low-priced foreign stocks sharpened by the profit which has accrued to them from the Moorish, Turkish, and Egyptian Loans, and a Portuguese Three per Cent. stock at 44 is not likely to go a-begging in the present humour of the market. The object of a loan should always be narrowly scrutinised, and in the present instance there is the satisfactory assurance that the money is wanted for the completion of railway works now in process of construction under contract. It must be admitted that a State having a large agricultural area to develop cannot ask • loan for a more legitimate purpose than the improvement of the means of communication and transport. As having no remote bearing upon the pro spects of the money market, re would also point out that the time is at hand when a considerable portion of the gold lately draughted away from us in payment for the Turkish, Egyptian, and Russian Loans, will begin to now back. In the natural course of trade those countries seem to be always in debt to Great Britain. The movement will commence first with Turkey, who has now made the first redemption of her caimh, paying the holders 40 per cent. in gold out of the proceeds of the last London loan, and GO per cent in a funded stock. The gold may be looked for again in England in the course of a few months, adding to our superabundance. r • TEE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING JULY 21, 1862. THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC The foundation atone of the Roman Catholic University was laid at Dublin yesterday. A proceesioe, composed of the trades and Roman catholic societies, numbering about 8,000, walked to the site, displaying banners and flap and accompanied by bands. About 36 Roman catholic bishops, dressed in their robes, attended, including several from America and the colonies. They rode in close carriages. The M.P.s present were The O'Donoghue, Major O'Reilly, Mr. Maguire, and Mr. Lanigan. In point of number the demonstration was the largest that has ever taken place in Dublin. The procession passed off quietly. A banquet was given in the evening at which The O'Donoghue, Dr. Nixon, and Major O'Reilly spoke. " The Pope," was the first toast, and "The Queen," followed. A meeting is to be held to-morrow to again agitate the grant ing of the charter. His Royal Highness the General Commanding in Chief will bold a levee at 1 o'clock on Thtusday, the 24th inst. Mg &nine OSBORNE, JuLT 19. The Queen, accompanied by Princess; Helena, drove cat yesterday. The Countess of Desert (and Lord Charles Fitritoy were in attendance. Mr. and Mn. Auguatos Paget arrived on Thursday, and returned to London to-day. _ _ Her Majesty held a Privy Council today at Osborne, at three o'clock, at which were present Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord Stanley of Alderley. Mr. Helps, the Clerk of the Council attended. Earl Granville had an audience of the Queen and remained at Osborne after the Council. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, drove out tPd•y. SUNDAY, JULY W. Her Majesty, the Prioce of Wales, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Hohenlobe, attended divine service this morning at Osborne. The Rev. G. Proitero officiated. The Princess Helena and Prince Arthur attended the =- vice at Wluppingham Church. Earl Granville, the Dake of Amyl!, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and Mr. Helps, the Clerk of the Council, left the Waterloo station of the South Western Railway by • veinal train at ten minutes past 10 o'clock on Saturday morning to attend • Privy Council ►t Osborne. The ministers embarked on board the Fire Queen, at Gceport, at I, and reached Osborne at 2 o'clock. After the council, the Duke of Argyll and Lord Stanley of Alderley left Osborne at a quarter to 4 o'clock, recrossed, in the Fire Queen, to Gosport, and returned to London by special train at half-pest 7 p.m. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treatury in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of New castle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somer set, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Despatches were received on Saturday et the Colonial office from the Governors of the Australian colonies, Ceyloc, and Hong Kong. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Yalta, the Mauritius, Gibraltar, Labium, the Lora High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and to the Governor of Canada. DEATH OP THE LORD PRIMATE OF IRELAND. The Dublin Evening Freeman publishes the following :—" Belfast, Saturday, July 19.—1 t is with ex treme sorrow we announce the death of the venerable and beloved Lord Primate of all Ireland. His Grace Lord John George Beresford died this (Saturday) morning at Wyburn Donaghadee, the residence of George Dunbar, Req., D.L., his nephew by marriage. His lordship, who was in his 89th year, died without the slightest struggle, having literally fallen asleep." The nearest relations of the Primate bad not, we are informed, received such information by tele graph up to a late hour last night. At the Primate's house in Charles-street, St. James's, no authentic news has been received of his death. Lord John George Beresford, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh, whose death we record to-day, was the second son of the first Marquis of Waterford, and was born in 1773. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where be graduated in 1793. After filling various minor offices in the church be was nominated in 3806 to the Bishopric of Cork, and shortly afterwards was translated to the sees of Raphoe and Clogher. 1820 be was appointed by Lord Liverpool's government to the Archbishopric of Dublin, and by the lame government in 1822 to the Archbishopric of Anr.agh and the Primacy of Ireland. He was Vice-Chancellor and Visitor of Trinity College, Dublin, from 1829 to 1851, when he became Chancellor. Connected with the archbishopric are the offices of Lord Almoner of Ireland, Prelateof the Orderof St. Patrick, and the patronage of 56 livings. The province contains the dioceses of Meath, Deny, Down and Connor, Dromore, Tuam, and Elphin. The archbishopric is worth 15,0001. a year. The Queen (says the Observer) is expected to arrive at Windsor next week from Osborne, and will pro ceed from thence to Balmoral fora short sojourn into August, Sir Charles Wood is expected to be the Secretary of State in attendance upon her Majesty in her journey to Scotland. Her Majesty will proceed to visit her relations in Germany in September, and will probably be attended by Earl EusselL The Duke and Duchess of Wellington entertained a select party at dinner on Saturday evening at Apsley House. Later in the evening her gram had an assembly, which WM most numerously and fashionably attended. The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Caven dish have left Devonshire House for Holkar Hall, Lan cashire. The duke goes to Boltoe Abbey, Yorkshire, about the middle of next month, for grouse shooting. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and family have left Bt. James's-square for Blenheim Palace near Woodstock, for the seams. The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford leave town to-day, for Carragbmore, Ireland. The Countess of Scarborough was safely delivered eta Boa on the 18th hen., at Bandbeck Park. The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury enter tined the Earl and Countess of Donoughmore, Lord and Lady John Manners, Viscount St. &mph, Lord and Lady Raglan, Lord Redesdale, Lord and Lady Edward Thynne, the Right Hon. Benjamin and Mrs. Dizraidi, Hon. George and Mrs. Barrington, Colonel Taylor, Colonel Browalow Knox, M.P., Mr. and Hon. Mrs. William Rose, &c., at dinner, on Saturday evening, at their residence in Strat ford-place. Frances Countess of Albemarle and Colonel the Hon. Peregrine Coat entertained at dinner on Saturday evening, at their residence in South Audley-street, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Duchess of Inverness, Lord de Tabley, Viscount and Viscountess Torrington, lady de Dunstanville, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Berkeley, Lord and Lady Bury, Sir William Alexander, Earl of Romney, Mr. Hope, &c. Lord and Lady Llanover will give a grand enter tainment this evening to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-arelite at their residence in Great Stanhope-street. After the labours of the session are brought to a close, it is stated the Premier will pay a visit to the High. lands of Scotland, taking up his abode at Tulchan Lodge, near Grautown, as the guest of Mr. Bus, M.P. Lord Ranelagh has been censured by the Secre tary of War. The War-office sent down Lieutenant.' ' Colonel Morris to the late review at Peosbanger to superin tend it and report upon it. The report of his reception by Lord Ranelagh was such that his lordship was called upon for an explanation of what be bad said and done, and fur nished it at some length, declaring that Colonel Morris had given an undue colouring to what took place. Sir George Lewis received the explanation, and ordered the Lord Lieutenant to censure Lord Ranelagh. The volunteer field-day at Ascot is fixed for Saturday, the 2nd of August next. The forces on the occa sion will be commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir John Pennefather, K.C.8., commanding the troops at Aldershott. who, it is expected, will associate with the volunteers • force of regulars, consisting of artillery, cavalry, and infantry. The district chosen for the military movements is that in the immediate neighbourhood of the Grand Stand at Ascot. Thu Dublin Evening Mail undoratanda that a writ has issued superseding Mr. Harry Weann in the com mission of the peace for the county of Longford. It will be remembered, it adds, that Mr. M'Cann, who is the son of the member for Drogheda, wss the gentleman who distin gniebed himself as the proposer of Major O'Reilly at the late election for Longford. It appears, from a parliamentary return issued this morning, that the surepte annual receipt on articles individually yielding 10,0001. and upwards to the Customs' revenue, the duties on which were repealed in the tau yews from 1832 to 1881, inclusive, was 821,0351. The guardians of the Blackburn Union have unanimously resolved to petition the Poor-law Board for pecuniary assistance. The guardians request the central board, by application to parliament or otherwise (but not by • rat• in aid), to assist them with money which will be repaid in more prosperous times. From • calculation of one of the guardians it appears that the rate of 3s, in the pound, laid in February, and now nearly ex hausted, produced 18,0001. ; now, it is assumed, the rime rating would not produce 12,0001., whilst ••much larger amount will be required to meet the existing distress. LATEST INTELLIOENO& POLAND. The following telegram from Cracow, of the 19th init., appears in the Presse : The separation of the kingdom of Po- land from the Russian empire is decided on. A Russian custom-bouse will be established at Kowno, and a Polish Douane at Kribarts ; the Grand Duchy of Lithuania will not form part of Poland. The determination of restoring to Poland its administrative independence is attributed to the Emperor, and the Grand Duke Constantine has been appointed to carry out the plan. The declaratidn of a general amnesty is expected at Warsaw. (astrza's TILIOKAX.) THE BRAZILS. RIO, JUNE 25 (per Beare, rid Bordeaux). Intelligence from Monte Video and Buenos Ayres during the last fortnight is entirely devoid of im portance; even here quiet has followed the late excitement. The present period is especially that of religious fetes. The Chambers are leisurely exe cuting their duties amidst the usual digressions, for the speakers' tribune here serves for a variety of things—personal recriminations, accusation and defence, and the interminable speeches of our deputies are filled with matters utterly foreign to the questions under debate, and of entirely private interest. The sittings of the past fortnight have not been destitute of curious traits of characteristic anecdotes, of details which might throw a broad light upon the political customs and the state of society in this country ; but nothing of actual im portance has transpired. The Senate has voted, almost without debate and amidst general indifference, upon the motion of M. Silveira da Motta, a bill prohibiting in future public sales of slaves by auction, and preventing the separation of husband and wife, or parents and children. This proposition, of which none can deny the high morality, even should it become law, will not exercise a large influence upon the fate of the blacks. The number of those who are married is extremely small, and it will always be easy to evade the prohi bition to separate mother and children. The pro vision respecting sale by suction bears also little upon the happiness of the slave. It must not be supposed, however, that this grave question of slavery pre-occupies the minds of the Brazilians. The value of this description of " merchandise " has certainly been somewhat affected by the recent occurrences in the United States, but nobody here thinks seriously of the abolition of slavery. The motion of Silveira da Motta is looked upon generally as a mere philan thropic caprice. There has been some mention of a scheme for a fusion of the banks. A meeting has been held by the shareholders at which a resolution was adopted that the Bank of Brazil should be authorised to buy up the privilege of emission granted some years ago to the Agricultural Bank and the Mortgage Bank, and shall then proceed to liquidate the affairs of the other two establishments. The sanction of the Cham bers being requisite, the Council of State has been previously consulted, and has given an opinion in accordance with the above resolution. It is there foreprobable that this important measure will be shortly realised. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova owx consamouNT.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The bulletin of the Moniteur states that General Forey, being sent for to Vichy to confer with the Em peror prior to his "approaching departure," stayed twenty-four hours with hia Majesty. This looks like a confirmation of the rumour which I noticed yesterday, that General Furey was going out im mediately, although the Pays of Friday, as you , were informed by telegraph, said that his departure was postponed. The wording of the paragraph in the Moniteur clearly implies that be has taken the Emperor's final instructions. Admiral Jurien de la GravAre left Paris last evening for Cherbourg, and will embark almost immediately for Vera Cruz direct, on board the iron-plated frigate Normandie. He takes with him a number of decorations and promotions for officers and soldiers under General de Lorencez's command. The following bulletin was published at the Palain Royal this morning : Sunday, July 20, 8 a.m. Her Imperial Highness the Princess Marie Clotbilde Napoleon, after having slept tranquilly, has begun this morning to feel the first symptoms of the milk fever. Her Imperial Highness, nursing her child herself. is as well as can possibly be. The young prince, who already takes the breast without any difficulty, is perfectly stroog and healthy. (Signed) CHAILLT (Honor 4). This bulletin confirms the interesting news which I gave yesterday, that the princess, repudiating the almost universal custom of French ladies, nurses her own child as nature intended. The judgment of the Correctional Tribunal in the secret society case frankly admits what was stated by the counsel for the defence, that there is no sufficient evidence to make out the offence charged apart from the "reports" of the police. In order fully to appreciate the import of this frightful doctrine, it is essential to bear in mind what appeared on the trial, that the reports of the police in this case consist not of anything that the witnesses had heard or seen themselves, but of their version of statements made by in formers, whose names they refused to disclose. The informer may sometimes be a necessary evil, but it was hitherto thought that an accused party had a right at least to " look at the villain—to see his eyes—that when he mot another man like him he might avoid him." But this it seems is what the French government will not give simple people a chance of doing. It has spies in its service too precious to be exposed to infamy by showing their faces in a court of justice ; it is not enough that they should stab once in the dark—they must continually wear the veil of government protection that they may go on with their trade. The court lays it down broadly that in criminal cases in France there are no rules of evidence whatever. The dutytof the judges being to ferret out the truth, they "indications, eyhave, bejupdgmumenpttio d eclara tio ns, says, a right to rely upon reports, indicative circumstances, and information and revelations of all kinds ;" and their "intimate persuasion," no matter how derived, is a sufficient ' ground for a conviction. Acting upon this doc trine, they despise those miserable canons which fetter the investigations of English courts, such as "the beet evidence should be given that the nature of the case will admit," and " hearsay is not evidence," dm They admit as evidence the sworn testimony of a spy as to whet he heard said by another spy, who not only does not come forward to be sworn himself to what be saw and heard, but whose very name is concealed, and whose absence is not even pretended to be accounted for. These are enormities fit only for the Inquisition, the Pope, and the Neapolitan Bonbons, and which cannot possibly last much longer in France. Victor Hugo, Colonel Charms, Ledru-Rollin, Louis Blanc, and others were wise not to accept the amnesty. They not► see what would have happened to them. As soon as they had set foot in France a detachment of spies would have been told off to dog their steps wherever they went, and to take down the names of everybody who came to see them. These gentry, anxious for reward and promotion, naturally and sometimes bond fide exaggerate the importance of the facts which they pick up. After months of labour and pay, they know that their employers expect a result. A more striking in stance of the sort of result that may be obtained could scarcely be adduced than the trial just con cluded. After six months' secret observation of the spies eighty-four citizens are arrested on a charge of conspiracy to overturn the government, thrown into separate cells at Mazes prison, and kept in solitary confinement for many weeks, without the possibility of communicating with their friends ; ultimately, thirty of these men are released, it being found impracticable to frame any indictment whatever against them. The prosecution is com pelled to abandon the original charge of conspiracy against the remainder, and the fifty-four are, after a scandalous delay, placed at the bar on the vague accusation of belonging to a secret society. Six teen of the number are acquitted, so that of the eighty-four men consigned to dungeons on the re ports of spies so many months ago it is judicially admitted that there was nothing at all proved against more than thirty-eight. These latter are convicted upon hearsay evidence of the worst pos sible description—upon a spy's report of what another spy said. An extraordinary care of murder, committed by a woman, has just been tried in Paris. The pri soner, a widow named Parisot, 54 years of age, is described as a most horrible-looking creature—one of those miserable wretches in the lowest strata of the sex who haunt the purlieus of barracks, and who are known by the unfortunately ignominious term of "soldiers' women." She had for a regular lover a pensioner with a wooden leg, and the weight of 76 years to carry with it. His largesse to her— all that his means allowed—was the sharing of his daily rations. He does not appear to have known, however, what turns out to have been a fact, that a rival named Hertz was in the habit of enjoying the lady's favours when he was away. One even ing Hertz was either indiscreet enough or unlucky enough to knock at the door of the woman's lodg ings when she was in bed with the old man with the wooden leg. She thereupon snatched from the bedside a sword belonging to the pensioner, and, without saying a word, attacked Hertz with it lus tily, inflicting upon hint thirteen wounds and cleav ing his skull. He died almost immediately, and the surgeon who gave evidence said he should have thought it impossible that a woman could have in flicted such wounds. The verdict of guilty being qualified by extenuating circumstances, this virago was sentenced to 20 years' hard labour. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. The Princess Clothilde rejected the services of the eminent accoucheure who were at hand, and was assisted only by a midwife. It is said that she means to nurse the child herself—a most wholesome example to the fashionable world of Paris. The birth took place in the Palais Royal, and not, as had been expected, at St. Cloud. Judgment was given this afternoon in the cane of the secret society. Sixteen out of the 54 pri soners are acquitted ; one of this fortunate number is M. Greppo, the ex-deputy. Four, namely, Vas sell, Miot (ex-deputy), Gaatinel, and Curd, are found guilty, with the aggravating circumstance that they were founders of the society, and are sentenced to three years' imprisonment, 400 francs fine, and five years' interdiction of civil rights. A like punishment is pronounced, by default, against Bachelet, the suspected agent provocateur, who is out of the way. Three are awarded two years' im prisonment • and the remainder one year, six months, and three months. They are all, as a consequence of their conviction, liable at any time during the remainder of their lives to be trans ported for life at the Emperor's pleasure. The new Hotel de la Paix, which was opened with great pomp and ceremony on the 15th, will be obliged to change its name. A person named Mul ler, who has for twenty years been owner of a fur nished hotel, corner of the rue de la Paix, lately commenced a suit against the Compagnie Immobi here, proprietors of the immense building on the Boulevard des Capucines, to prevent it from giving the Lame of " Hotel de la Pail " to its establishment, that designation having been adopted by him for very many years. The Tribunal of Commerce, before which the suit was brought, ordered the Compagnie Immo biliere to affix to the name of its hotel such a &algae tion as would prevent all confusion or mistake as to name, and m consequence the company decided on calling the new building " Le Grand Hotel de la Paix.' Muller, considering arch a title as au aggravation of his position, as it implied that his was the Little Hotel de la Paix, appealed, and the case was decided yesterday by the Imperial Court. The sentence declared that as Muller had for many years held an establishment called the " Hotel de lx Pair," at the corner of the Boulevard des Capu cines, no other hotel in the neighbourhood could take the same name, or one with the word, " Grand" before that appellation. It therefore interdicted absolutely the Compagnie Immobiliere to give to its hotel the name of " Grand Hotel de la Paix," and condemned it to pay the costs. The Bourse opened with a little more animation, but soon became languid, and the closing prices show very little change. Renters rose sc. both for cash and account, closing at 68f. 35c. and 681. 40c. Mobilier rose 2f. 50e., and the Italian loan 10c. In railways the only marked change was a rise of 10f. in Lyons, caused by the improvement in the last returns of the receipts. A letter from Vichy of the 16th Bays :—" Napo lean 111. is going through the same aqueous regime as MM. the ordinary bathers and water drinkers. His Majesty is up early, and may be seen at the Grande-Grille taking his two or three glasses with a familiar group of invalids from all parte of the world, who, like himself, are here seeking health. After imbibing this mineral tipple, which, by the way, is very like soda water, the elected of the French nation takes his bath about half-past 9, accompanied by General Fleury and M. Mooquard in his walk to and from this establishment. He dedicates only two or three hours to work after breakfast, when the water drinking com• memos again, and finally, after a walk or drive, the day is closed at an early hour. The Emperor will remain 21 days at Vichy, living in as much retirement as possible." A letter from Munich of the 16th, in the A ugs burg Gazette, says :—" A family dinner was given yesterday by the King and Queen on the Isle of Worth, in Lake Stern berg. The guests were the Emperor and Empress of I A us t r i a , the Queen of Naples, the Count and Countess of Trani, and all the ducal family of Bavaria. On the previous day King Maximilian paid a visit to his august guests at Pasienhofee." By accounts received from Stettin it appears that • greet festival has been held there in honour of the pre -241000 of the governor of the province, the Crown Prince. On Tuesday evening five steamboats. on board of one of which washis royal highness, left for Frauendorf. The shore of the river was lined with the populace, and • great display of flags was made at several points. Refreshments were partaken of at Frattendorf, when the chief burgomaster took occasion to expreu to the Crown Prince, on his first visit to the province, the wants and wishes of the people, and con cluded by proposing a cheer for the prince and the royal house. Du Crown Prince replied in • long speech, in which he expressed his intention to earnestly fulfil his duties as governor of the province, and of not being merely • governor by name. Advice. from Cologne state that preparations are being made in that city for the interview of the Km peror of the French with the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia, The belief there is that the meeting will take Otos some 4, between the sth and the 10111 of Sep tember. ENGLISH OPINION UPON THE AMERICAN WAR. .---_________ IC AMERICAN '' r WEED. I a letter t., ii,. 'Expremiona of tl, d es countries, gather. l pd Re itimate r e l a a„, , a. 1 favour of f:ur o p e. arpose, worked ..s th, unconscious of I tire emissaries of I sing ministers :.t.4 the iide of the A tlonti . frc against the I . ni , .t. Ta oted or bean!. 1:... ' 5,7: history ba..kw,r.ls, ' of be greasers. The Ln , t t: ho tration were 'duvet ' ter ere, as here, 1., a l t 'loyal cabiuet and Pu, th sellion in the bu.t an, ell as pretexts t,r ma altered in Enrol,. sin remember the, be ir own sympath i . , a t 'be struggled ~., 5 we have show% Ad endemic. of ..u.ii .1: Na HI nations oust mil Toriif was rt. and land it WAS believed rex to I thugs towards ttat 1 friendly relations. ago aid upon that inc rent of feeling i e be rim I that the difference igeniality ' betereee 2 radical discordance of lity. Indeed, these Sp' bat Mr. Gladstone, by , stated that the yea col dissoluble when. pro o any of the pa. the eminent StaW4MUI COO -overlooked or i,, , .. eve gen sion co-partners ix Drs valuable valuable securities, or in other wade ing fortifications, the the ofiloes, and the Pot go' ii 3, or of robbery in a ma I in England. bore of ruitentiary. While 5 sy, begin to expe. the pre eminent from their to I apprehend imme. I will intervene, bas subject has been Ne tbi once is even more the from unfriendliness, the . absence of employ hat tut we have nothing eat in the prosecution not , Winchester, New not Bri longest arguments the that determine all ter mere are, however, aril eprehending future gat i I doubt the pro ET, thy upon a danger WSO 1 welfare of both in. to i r because rightfully ins 1 barb festering in DO he impression that tags, availed herself at of a snivel coni• ] led throughout the I and intended war, An and in gigantic admitted to be I de to a correct on. government, sad of abed, we are bound,' I tat government ard pit red a rupture with l taunt and to sod cot as the soppo. ter !oratory of State p th ul os 1 hostile sentr 4 pressions, it wu as ed advantages in Jre ed Vancouver bow seed their minister, relay ; that our ayn with their envoy; " WI wrest Canada from Be award had avowed Cb Some of them bit know, well taken, 'in an felt tbat thew tic a I .y as • belligerent 11 AD isty and migration nei reposition to in th, a lawyers enforced ni, IR that standpoint a mooed that the ie. Ve Le of war, and wished TL bility of treatiug Jack an for without the in Ile lt reu the Nashville or of sea. But, *Month. A the existence is th not friendly to Be lenient, the Units WI tb in England, and an elves and labour to 081 The paths of pews th I for England and otl are which I do ob it of mutual nor MI If the people of bolt tm toleration,ntinientai and -it i* l. urge feu n stimulate SailtiAg dr mate of the degree lit our domestic true CS . tb House of Commas a, ed unfriendly legit. fa so lro = in, Lea. —The ollicii pu Ix Rifles, under cm. co 1, by Colonel Moon tb is appointed to tan by die lbagent'apirk. it se under command of or th he ii, ,p u N i t p .K._s t €7d Ho ur rft, : u.ig : M ; was observed drill' of srpool, with • flu; d de mid Lifeboat Inuits. her help. The ve'l l South Shields, fro wl in. Thelifeboot found Ps indoned her in Ibe 2 a d l in reaching Lethes • br biog boat, whenoeld ea him out and brought 4 : ippears likely to be dc hat the cause of the be alDrosigrow.:sotuywhissßogsipiotasii::::: _ cit fl i sp three o'clock, at •• . es ' , [4do rees teipil. f i al tado l n o" Plu g upon : a i l ' lig entire horse, ' es, restored to its i ' ro Nearly onwoite ' sudden') or °B ' .. ' Li d galloped into W th chemists sod dent the drinking Po a lore any effectual Ins steer it rushed into eat arther end of I • tei difficulty rem° de ... L ou ar o l at The shop, which ;or . of first•rate establ' ed a mad apnea • , tom , WU a glees, sPlii?t e " Al t f y s of r a t.rgo l is h.,, u h:o . p .lo 3 wi t it the floor iu • stained with ' • I about in its WO 46 • poetion of the ' 1;o r, s hop was wee) w as Glom it far the *l4 LETTER OF NIL THUELOW WEED. Mr. Marlow Weed btu§ addressed a letter municipality of New York, giving his imptes:ion of th relations between America and foreign countries, ge,b,„! during his late visa to Europe. He says : " Beeteeion, while undermining for ultimate was thoughtful of the importance of the favour of Europ e. The South, with its long-cherished purpose, worked sie diligently abroad as at home. The North, unconscious the great crime meditated, slept. Active emissaries of secession, aided too often by sympathising ministers consuls, settled the public mind on this side of the A thoni against us. Public opinion was formed against the r n i,, u before our side of the question was presented or heard. 1:, turning truth end for end, and reading history teekwoo. s , we were held by Europeans as the aggressors. The 1„,,t three months of Mr. Buchaoan's administration were slosst as injurious abroad Si at home. For there, as here, 1.,11 men only occupied the places of a disloyal cabiuet sad foreign ministers, too late to nip the rebellion in the lead. Unfortunately there were causes as well as pretexts fa. the lack of sympathy which we encountered in Enrol,. The governments of the Old World remember the. from the nature of our instructions, our own eympatia., have generally run with those who struggled overthrow monarchies, sod that we have show% alacrity iu encouraging the independence of .. u d, .• as struggled successfully. With the nations Inc 4 intimately connected with us, the Morffl Tariff was rt. girded with great disfavour. In England it was belte‘el that we not only cherished unfriendly feelings towards ttht country, but we desired a disruption of friendly relations. The emissaries of rebellion seized upon the, canoes and pretexts to turn the current of feeling in their favour. It was too plausibly urged that the difference in climate, soil, habits, and 'want of congeniality' helmet, the North and South, constituted such radical discordame that our union bad become an impossibility. Indeed, these fallacies were so ancomsfully pressed, that Mr. Gladstore, in a recent speech at Manchester, stated that the Union was but a co-partnership dissoluble when ever passion or caprice prompted, in any of the per. ties, a desire to withdraw. That eminent stater= —if for a montant we adopt this theory—overlooked or nored the circumstance that our secession co-pertain m retiring broke open the safe, and stole valuable securities, the common property of the firm— or in other worth that in separating they seized the fortifications, the arms, the custom houses, the post offices, and the public monies, acts of treason in a public, or of robbery in a private sense, which would, perpetrated in England. hots consigned them to the Tower or the Penitentiary. While England, France, Belgium, and Germany, begin to rape. risme serious incoovenienoe and embarrassment from their short supply of cotton, I do not apprehend Mime. diately that these governments will intervene, though with the two former the subject has bea t considered. It is proper to say that Prance is even more impatient than England ; not, however, from unfriendliness, but because the Emperor assumes, in the absence of employ meat, to supply his people with food. But we have nothing to fear from Europe if we are successful in the prosecution of the war. Fort Danielson, Nashville, Winchester, New Orleans, and Memphis are our strongest arguments spinet intervention with governments that determine rp questions by military measurement. There are, however, but too well founded reasons for apprehending future embroilment with England. Nor can I doubt the pro priety of dwelling briefly, but earnestly upon a danger fraught with consequences so vital to the welfare of both to. Mons. The Trent ►ffair, though happily beaus rightfully settled, has left the arrow with poisoned barb festering in our flesh and irritating our nerves. The impression that England, willing to take us at disadvantage, availed herself of the erring judgment or impulsive zeal of a travel con. mender to wage war upon us, has obtained throughout the country. That England expected war, and intended war, nuking, with unparalleled alacrity and in gigantic proportions, preparations for war, is admitted to he true. But with opportunities favourable to a correct derstanding of the views of the English government, and the feelings th►t swayed the English mind, we are in truth and fairness, to say that that people mincingly believed that we desired a rupture with them ; that we sought occasions to taunt and them ; and (egregiously unfounded an the sition was) that the present Secretary of was the representative of this hostile meat. In justification of these impressions, it said that by 'bullying' we obtained advantages m the settlement of the North-Eastern and V,- dart' questions ; that we abruptly dismissed their Mr. Crampton, and their consul, Mr. Barclay ; that our us. pathies in their war with Russia were with their -- that we bed often threatened to wrest Canada them ; and, finally, that Secretary Seward had hostile inteatime towards England. Some of Rounds of complaint were, u we know, well sad all were believed to be ao. We all felt recognition of the Southern Confederacy as a England and France wee an over-hasty and act. But in submitting the proposition French Emperor, the English crown lawyers it by argtunenta which from that were forcible. Both governments soppooed that surgent states bad or could fit out vessels of war, and to relieve themselves from the responsibility of trellis, vessels u pirates. In this they erred, for without the purity thus extended to them not even the Nub,' Sumter would ever have ventured to sea. But, standing these adverse influences and the existence certain high quarters of views not friendly the sitcoms of our form of government, the ' has m►ny ardent, well-wishing friends in England, have many more if we act justly ourselves and labour correct grossly erroneous impressions. The paths of are the only paths of pleasantness for England America. In view of the dangers which I not exaggerate—dangers growing out of mutual apprehatu7con of each other'• ;cal sentiments—it ham the government, the press, and the people d I coantries, by enlightened counsels, large toleration, wine forbearance, to soothe rather than stimulate irritations. Nor, in forming our estimate of the and value of English sympathy during our domestic Wes, is the fact that her Queen and House of modified harsh despatches, and misted latioo, without significance." THE NORTH MIDDLESEX RIFLE& —The inspection of the 29th North Middlesex Rifles, - mend of Lieutenant-Colonel Whitehead, by Colon. government inspector of volunteers, is appointed place on Wednesday evening next, in the Regent's-p.. 7 pm. The South Middlesex Riles, wider command Lord Ranelagh, and the lit Emmy Light Horse, uro command of Captain Mellor, will keep the ground on occasion. gHIPWHECK ON THE HORSE BANK.--SOUTION.M. Jotr 20.—Yesterday afternoon a brig was observed ing towards the Hone Bank, near Liverpool, with a distress flying. The lifeboat of the Nation! Lifeboat It tion was launched as soon as possible to her help. The proved to be the brig Commodore, of South Shields, Trieste to Fleetwood, withacargoof grain. Thelifeboat ft that the ship's crew had previously abandoned her in own boat, and eventually had succeeded in reaching Lr The miner bad been put on board a tishiog boat, wilt signalled for the lifeboat, which took him out and b him to Southport. The Commodore appears likely come a total loss. It is supposed that the cause at wreck arose from the master being ignorant of his sawn , and that at the time the vessel struck he was trying to' out the NOTZL VISITOR TO A Darwin's Sat Saturday afternoon, between two and three o'cloc of Greenwood's omnibuses was proceeding down street, Manchester, near the Royal Hotel, its prof suddenly checked by one of its three horses falling pavement. The animal was a fine young entire home, on being released from its position and restored to ite suddenly darted down Market-street. Nearly owes! Angel lon it fell a second time. arid, suddenly sr' from the pavement, wheeled round and galloped int shop of Messrs. Jetoibury mod Brown, chemists sod gist., destroying glass cases, counters, the drinking UM, and everything in its way. Before any effected tempt could be made to c h eck its career it rushed io narrow confined spice at the further eud of shop, from whence it was with difficulty after kicking and plunging shoat for nearly an was at length thrown down sad dragged out of du one of its sides, and taken to a veterinary surge legs were much bruised and eat, but Done of it:. broken. nor was it senously injured. The shop. superbly fitted op io the modem style of first-rat meats of this kind, afterwards presented a sad of wreck and destruction from broken -* wood, sod spilt drugs, which lay about confusion. Mazy of the things were oh w i th which the ordinal had lost in plunging about in itr sad it was found that it had destroyed a portion of the shop. The damage done in the shop was dersble, and it was toned necessary to close it mainder of the day.