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Among the remark able facts brought out, one of the most sug gestive is that, generally speaking, the sickness and mortality of the district have decreased, except in Manchester, where there is a considerable aggravation. At - Coventry, it appears, there was a much improved state of health during the long period of distress ; and this was attributed by the medical men to the better care taken of the children while their mothers were compelled to stay at home. The same cause seems to be operating in Lancashire at present, reducing the infant mortality in a marked degree. The improved health of the adults may be accounted for by the compulsory abstinence from drink, by the wholesome quality of the relief food, and by the employment of the men and boys in the open air. In the discussion at Cambridge some fears were expressed of damage to the chari table funds if the impression gained ground that the people are better off under their present than their usual circumstances, while it is widely be lieved on the spot that the relief given is, in most of the towns and villages, altogether inadequate to the support of the health and spirit of the reci pients. The apprehension seems to be reasonable; for it is certainly true that ls., or Is. 3d., or even Is. 6d. per head per week is insufficient to provide the food that a strong man and growing youths require. It would be so under the best management that is ever to be looked for among factory workers: and it is too well known that nothing is rarer than good management in the women of that class. There are long intervals in the degrees of deficiency. Some of the better qualified housewives can make the relief food palatable, as far as it goes, while others can do little with it ; and then the monotony and the bad cookery cause a loathing which drives the poor people to such drink as they can get, or to solace themselves with savoury scraps which do no good as nourishment. We spoke of this lately, in connexion with the pro posal which had appeared in the Manchester Guardian of an apparatus of cooking schools, in analogy with the sewing schools, which are doing so much good throughout Lancashire, and we re turn to the subject now because it appears that some attention has been paid to the suggestion, but that a great extension of zeal and enlight ened effort is required to meet the present oc casion. It appears that somebody has been to Glas gow for the purpose of studying the management of the Cooking Depot there ; and the intelli gence brought by this good citizen to Manchester ought to stir the spirit of the place so as to establish, without any delay, an institution which would do as much good at as small a cost as at Glasgow. It is strange not only that this should remain to be done, but that it has hitherto been found impos sible to interest the Manchester people in it. The ladies cannot, it is said, be induced to set about the work, though they are very zealous about the sewing 'schools, which answer a corresponding purpose in regard to clothing. There seems to be no dispute about the facts of the Glasgow plan ; and, taking them as set forth in • letter to the Manchester Guardian, we venture to appeal to the public-spirited among the citizens and the ladies to try at once what can be done. One gentleman, we observe, proposes to open a kitchen on the Glasgow model. Will not his neighbours work with him, and prevent his effort being crushed by the pressure which his benevolence will otherwise bring upon him ? If the facts are as follows, where is the difficulty f It cannot be said that any mode of relief can be of greater or more immediate importance. There are twelve of these cooking depOts in Glasgow, each being in the heart of a populous _ . neighbourhood. Nothing can better show their value than the fact that they art is 113 , fiportiny. In two years they have yielded • fair per centage to the founder, and a surplus of 1001. (which he has given to the poor). Seventy girls and women are employed in them ; and this is one of the beat features in the scheme. It would be no small blessing to Manchester if a hundred factory girls and women could be taught to cook, or two hundred, or three hundred, in rotation ; and if the scheme were extended to all the factory towns, a blessed improvement in the domestic economy of the district would date from the year of dis tress. The food (all of the best quality) cooked in the Glasgow kitchens consists mainly of beef, potatoes, broth, puddings, and tea and coffee. These are served out in penny portions ; and of these portions 66,000 were sold in August hat. Comfortable eating-rooms for men and women apart are attached to each kitchen ; and in these rooms a hot breakfast is ready every morning at eight, and a dinner and tea at the usual popular hours. The breakfast—porridge or coffee and substantial ac companimenta—costs twopence ; and the dinner, of meat, and vegetables, and pudding, coats three pence. In too many their homes, the factory people have, at a greater cost, dry bread, or some distasteful mess which does them no good ; and, if the best materials are given to them, the women THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1862. waste or spoil them, for want of training in cookery. It might be far otherwise henceforth if a dozen schools were opened for the young women to practise in. The whole institution in Glasgow coat at first 2,6601.—a small sum in comparison with the funds spent every week in relief in Man chester. A general manager and a cashier super intend the whole set of kitchens, and there is a matron in each. In Manchester the plan would be longer in becoming self-supporting, because the young women have everything to learn, and because there must be a constant succession of raw pupils in order to fulfil the purposes of a school ; but it is plain that, at worst, this mode of assisting the distressed might be one of the least expensive and most efficient that could be de vised. There cannot be a doubt that, from the day when men, women, and children found them selves able to get good food so cheap, in a warm room, in comfort and in society, they would be as eager to exchange their relief food or money for nourishment as the women now are to enter the sewing schools. It should be remembered also that these warm eating-rooms, with their supply of newspapers, would be powerful rivals to the public-house and the gin-shop. All England will be glad to hear, any day, that the relief food throughout Lancashire is given out through these kitchens. One of the remarks in the Guardian is that the gentlemen have their hands full of busi ness—between the sewing schools and the admi nistration of the relief funds ; and that this new scheme is the proper business of the ladies. They should undertake the raising of the fund for the beginning, the search for proper rooms, the furnishing the kitchens, the choice of the matrons, the purchase of the main stores, and the discipline of the young women. Whenever they resolve to begin, they have an admirable pattern to work by; they have every reasonable security against failure; and we will undertake to say that they will have the sympathy of all the world. It will be a noble recompense for any toil and trouble they may take upon themselves if it should be told next year that Manchester has ceased to exhibit an increased mortality under the cotton famine. THE outrages committed against the liberty of meeting and speaking by the lower order of Irish in our large towns require to be met, by those who are answerable for the public peace, with much more rigour than has hitherto been opposed to them. The disgraceful attack on the Brooke-street Institute, at Birkenhead, on Wed nesday evening, shows that it makes no difference to the evil•disposed whether those they dislike meet in the open air or under a private roof. That some persons had made known their intention to talk about a hated subject—Gsamtun and Italy—was quite enough to stir up the Irish dock labourers to a riotous attack on the building in which the meeting was held. Between three and four thousand persons, we are told by the Liverpool Mercury, were in front of the institute, when they suppressed the meeting, and broke the windows, and then dispersed the congregation from Dr. BAYLEE'S church adjoining. It is quite time that this tyranny should cease. The tyranny of a majority is bad enough, but the tyranny of a minority is not to be borne. It appears that the police were not strong enough to disperse the mob, and the superintendent was compelled instead to make a speech, and endeavour, we are told, to " prevent a collision between his men and the "rioters." The consequence was that none of the ringleaders were taken into custody. There is something wrong here, which Birkenhead will have to look to. areas was beaten at Juke the other day, when we know by all the authentic report. that he completely demolished General Pries sad his rebel army. It is said that among the trophies captured were six batteries, 36 guns, and 600 pri aooe4l. We have some information of an interesting character from the Gulf coast, by the arrival of the gunboat Con necticut. The Connecticut captured the British schooner Rambler, which tad ran the blockade at Sabine, Texas, bound be Havana with a heavy cargo of cotton, the pro em& of which, according to the papers found on board, were to be invested in ammunition, medicines, and other contraband article+ for the rebels. She was sent to Ship blood. The Connecticut also report. that on the after noon of the 30th the United States gunboat Winona, Lieutenant-commanding Thornton, ran under the fire of Fort Morgan, which is considered the defence of Mobile, and opened fire on a rebel steamer lying inside, driving off her crew and damaging her greatly by the explosion of an eleven-inch shell in her bow. Fort Masan opened a heavy fire on the Winona, but she 'soaped unhurt. Reports from Apalachicola state that Piro rebel ironclad gunboats, mounting six 68-pounders, are nearly ready for sea, under command of G. Catesby Jones, who says he will sink every gunboat on the Gulf coast. The steamship Philadelphia marked at this port last even ing, from New Orleans on the 18th of September and Ha- V4lllllll on the 20th. The news from New Orleans is two days Liter, but of no political importance. General Butler has issued the following general order : " Head-quarters Department of the Gulf, " New Orleans, Sept. 14. "As in the course of ten days it may become Paperer) to distinguish the disloyal from the loyal citizens and honest neutral foreigners residing in this department,—it is ordered that each neutral foreigner resident in this department shall present himself with the evidence of his nationality to the nearest provostuarshal for registration of himself and his family. This registration shall include the fol lowing particulars :—The county of birth, the length of time the person hu resided within the United States, the names of his family, the present place of resideooe, by street, number, or other description ; the occupation, the date of protection or certificate of nationality, which shall be endorsed by the passport clerk " registered," with date of register. All false or simulated claims of foreign alliance by native or naturalised citizens will be severely punished. " By order of Karr-General Butler. " Oconee O. STRONG, A.A.-Gen., Chief of the Staff." Among the recent exchange of prisoners are 94 Federal officers, the majority of whom are of Pope's army, released by the Confederates notwithstand ing President Davis's threat of regarding them as felons. The first and most important section of the new tax bill before the Confederate Congress is as fol lows : That on the first day of January, 1863, there shall be levied and assessed on each person resident in the Confede rate States, for the support of the government and the de fence of the country the following tax, to wit : One.fifth the value of all the wheat, corn, rice, rye, oats, potatoes, hemp, flax, peas, beans, barley, bay, wool, resin, tar, pitch, turpen tine, cotton, sugar, incluse% and tobacco produced by him in those states during the previous calendar year ; also one fifth of the value of the increase for the preceding calendar year of the horses, ames, cattle, sheep, and swine; aud, also, one-fifth of the profits made in the preceding calendar year by the feeding of swine, sheep, cattle, or mules; also One fifth of each person's yearly income for the preceding calen dar year, from all sources whatsoever, except f corn the sources hereinbefore described, and except from the interest on Confederate bonds, certificates, or Treasury notes ; pro vided that said tax so levied and assessed shall be due and payable on the lit day of April, 1863; provided, further, that foreigners resident within the Confederate States shall not be required to pay, except from the aforesaid articles produced by or for them, or from incomes or profits derived from business conducted by them within those States ; no r shall any tax bo levied upon the products of residents where the total value of such products, during the said year, is less than 500 dols. ; nor shall any tax be levied upon the income of residents where the total value of such income is leas than 500 dole. LATEST INTELLIGENCJE. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN SPAIN. The following is the judgment of the tribunal of Grenada in the case of Teva and Metamoroe for propagating protestant doctrines in Spain : • • . Are condemned—Jose Albania Tem to nine years' im prisonntemt, and Manuel' Matamoros to eight years' im prisonment, and both are for ever prevented from following the profession of teacher, interdicted from all political onion and rights during the term of their sentence, sad condemned to pay a quarter of the expenses each. The books and papers seised will be retained. _ _ The other prisoners to the number of 11 are acquitted. The Correspondencia says: These men were condemned not because they were protestant" seeing that nobody is punished in Spain for religious opinion, bnt because they openly, with tongue and pen, excited a propaganda in favour of protestantism, which is forbidden by the constitution of the State—a constitution which in this respect is in harmony with the moat demo• critic institutions which have existed in Spain since 1812. The &Me, commenting on this, says : _ _ That the protestante of Grenada have been condemned under law we do not doubt ; but what surprises us is, that such a law should be in existence in the 19th century in a civilised country, and applied with so much rigour ; and this for having read the bible in public, or lent it to a neigh. boar. The Correspondencis says that no one is prosecuted in Spain for his religious belief. But what is a religious belief that cannot be openly professed without committing an offeuce, and which is prohibited from being embodied in wor ship? Spain likes to boast of the material progress which she has made for some time past—of her military glory. I her industrial prosperity, and her agricultural re-' sources. All this is not enough. It is by the gene rous principles on which institutions are based that nations are elevated or degraded. All her railroads, bridges, and canals will not raise Spain from the secondary position she occupies. If she wished to take her place amongst the Great Powers, Spain mint begin by adopting the principle of religious toleration which constitute the strength and superiority of France and England. . - The Temps notes the material progress Spain has lately made, and asks what is the value of such development of resources, and of the greatest agri cultural and industrial prosperity, if unattended by a corresponding progress in the manners, usages, and legislation of the country : Can Spain flatter herself that she may be associated with the rest of Europe in what concerns the creation of wealth, and yet remain alien to those ideas which are the very essence of modern society? Spain bas given herself repro imitative institutions. Do we not there find a stamp in consistency? A modern government and an exploded legis lation—institutions borrowed from the 19th century, and • code still redolent of the superstitions of the middle ages. It is not forgotten that Spain made, not long ago, an attempt to take her place among the great powers of Europe. The attempt was unsuccessful. It is fortunate that it was repulsed; it would have been too painful to have seep seated in the first rink of the council of nations • power which, wittingly and voluntarily, continues to lower itself to a level with the very last. PRUSSIA. The Indepetulance of yesterday says : The declaration of Y. de Bismark on Tuesday, in the Prussian Chamber of Representatives, in the name of the government, and the significant vote which followed it, have caused a very natural sensation at Berlin, and this sensation will not be leas great perhaps in other German "apitals. We are aware, indeed, that in other places as wall as in Prussia the constitutional conflict between the ministers of King William and the national representatives has caused much anxiety. Our correspondence from Vienna alludes very distinctly to the eventuality of a romp &Etat, to be atoned for by what the friends of the new Prussian minister all "a lofty policy." A coop d i cta! and a lofty policy mean not only a menace to the liberties of the Prussian nation, but likewise a menace to the peace of Europe ; and we wish we could say that there was no foundation for such apprehensions. Unfor tunately, if the well-known political probity of King William• and the uprightness of his character, seem to afford some security against such plans, the proceedings and language of Y. de Biamark, OA well as his antecedents, justify all sorts of hypotheses. THE CAMORRISTS AT NAPLES. A Naples letter of the 4tb, in the Debats, says :. Yesterday • tragical incident showed the necessity of send. lug away the Camorrists who have been arrested at Naples Antonio Labruna, a contrabandist of the Ports di Masse, near the port of Naples, one of the principal Camorrista, had refused to pay 1,000 ducats, his share of the con tribution which the Camorrists arrested at Vicarie had imposed on their brethren who had remained at liberty, and which the committee of the Camorra had fixed as a subsidy for the imprisoned members daring the whole period of their detention. Lebrun having refused to pay that imposition, the confraternity of the Camorrists pro nounced his condemnation to death ; it selected, by lot among the prisoners, four pieriotti de Sgarro to assassinate him, and another who should assume before • court of justice the responsibility of the crime. Yesterday morning Labruna was arrested by the polio', and taken to the Vicaria prison. Having a fore boding of what might happen, he begged the gaoler to place him in • separate celL The other refused, and almost immediately after Lebrun had entered that of his brother Camorrista the four pieriotli sprung on him and stabbed him in seventeen places. The pireiono designated by the committee to &saurus the responsibility of thecrime im mediately presented himself to the authorities of the prison, but the deception was at once detected. You perceive that this sanguinary association cannot be regularly destroyed, and that the government will be forced to take exceptional measures respecting it. (INCITZVB TILNOZAML) AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 10. The North German Lioyd'asteamship New York, Captain G. Wenke, from New York on the 27th ult., has arrived off Cowes, en route for Bremen. She brings 146 passengers, and 42,036 dohs. for France, and 1,600 for Bremen ; total, 43,036 dole. During her passage she spoke the following ships: In 46. 3 N. and 45.27 W., the English barque John Bongan, bound east ; in 49. 21 N. and 31.53 W., the Bremen steamer Hansa, bound west; in 49.30 N. and 22.0 W., the English brig Nina, from Antigua for London ; in 49.38 N. and 8.38 W. the English 'barque George Shidd, bound west ; off Edictone, the English ship John Morre, bound east ; also the steamer Adis, bound west. NEW YORK, Erzr. 27. The New York Herald of to-day gives the follow ing as the situation of affairs : Asidefrom some skirmishing of our troops across the river into Virginia, there appears t i be no movement of General Id 'Clellan's army going on near Sharpeburg. The rebels are evidently in force opposite Sheppardstown, and along the lice of the Upper Potornoc, as our pickets and scouts con stantly come within reach of them. On Thursday evening the 62nd Pennaylvanis, with a section of ,the Vint New York Artillery, and Griffin's brigade, crossed at a ford near Shepperdstown, and took 400 rifles marked "London, 1832," some of the contraband weapons, no doubt, and one 12-pounder rifle brass gun. The rebel pickets did not dare to roust this formidable force, but fell back on their approach. There is a rumour, which calm from Washington, that the President contemplates issuing another proclamation, proclaiming the state of Florida a government cotton plan tation, and inviting all labourers white and black to settle there for the purpose of cultivating cotton. Ample pro tection, says the rumour. will be guaranteed by the army and navy to all such matelot-a. The state constitution is to be eat guide temporarily, and Florida reduced to a terri torial condition. Thin movement of the President is said to be only pre liminary to a policy which is to be adopted hereafter with other Southern states. We give the rumour as it reaches us. We give to-day some further extracts from the Southern journals of one day later than those which we gave yes terday. They continue to announce a great victory at An tietam, and endeavour to make another triumph of the recent skirmish at Shappardstown-ford. It is manifest, however, that these amounts of victories which were really defeats are not satiafactory to the Southern people. In like manner the Richmond papseu claim that General Rosen- THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO GERMANY. Prince Leopold has so far recovered from the inituy sustained by him, that Dr. Wilms, the surgeon who wee summoned to Rheinhardtabrunn, has now returned to Berlin. The Duchess of Saxe-Coburg will remain at Ehrenburg, the Grand Ducal Palace, during the stay of her Majesty and the royal family ; but the Duke of Saxe-Coburg has proceeded on • bunting excursion, in order that greater aeoommedation may be provided for his illustrious guests. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of his Grace the Moet Reverend John Bird Sumner, D.D., P.C., Archbishop of Canterbury, was proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate on the Ist inst. The trustee. and executors nominated are his son, the Rev. John H. It. Sumner, M.A. ; his son-in-law, the Rev. John Thomas, D.C. L. ; and his nephew, Charles Sumner, Fag., barrister-at-law. The personalty was sworn under 00,000/. The will bears date 1858, signed J. B. Cautaur, and wit nessed by his secretary, Felix Boynett, Eq., solicitor, and W. H. Withall, solicitor, Parliament-street. The will is contained in a few brief sheets. Dr. Sunnier's wife died in 1829, the year after bier elevation to the see of Chester, leaving several children. The archbishop bequeaths all his copyright end MSS. to bin son, Robert G. M. Sumner, end his .en.in-law, John Thomas, subject to the right of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge to publish any of his expositions of scripture. To his daughter Georgians, who is already provided for, he leaves a legacy of 1,0901. To the trustees of his late daughter Eliza he leaves one-tenth of his entire property, real and personal, for the benefit of her only child. The estates in Cheshire, Lancashire, and Northumberland, and all other his estate', real sod personal, he directs to be divided be tween his sons John and Robert. and his daughters Maria snd Louies. On the decease of hi. daughter, Louisa Sumner, a sum of 5,0091. is left to be divided amongst the children of his late daughter, Ann Colpoys; and on the decease of his daughter Mali* the interest of her share to be paid to her husband, the Rev. John Thomas, and the principal to their children on coming of age. His gram has left legacies to all his servants proportioned to their length of servitude. The will of John William Spicer, Esq., of Esher, Surrey, was proved in Leaden under 160,000/., the executors nomi nated in the will being the testator's son, John W. G. Spicer, Poq., and Abraham G. Roberta, Esq. The latter gentleman having since died, the testator appointed by codicil his brother, Henry Christopher Roberts. Esq., as an executor, to whom a power was reserved. The testator died possessed of a handsome fortune, consisting both of realty and personalty. Mr. Spicer was a partner in the long-estab lished and wealthy firm of Messrs. Comb., Delatield, and Co., brewers. The will was executed in 1859, and a codicil in 180 U, and contains the following dispositions :--To his wife, in addition to 1.000/. a year under marriage settle meat, he leaves a further annuity of 8001., with an injunc tion to his executors and trustees that sbe is to possess during the remainder of her days those comforts which she has hitherto enjoyed. To his eldest son he has devised his real estate, together with the residue of the personal pro- perty. To each of his two younger eons legacies of 5,0001., and to his other children 2,00 Y. each. Them is also a legacy of 5004 tea son of the late Major Spicer, 11.E.1.C. Legacies are left to servants, varying in amount to the time they have been in his establishment. the will of Major-General John Charles Beckwith, C. 8., was proved in London by Captain John Halliburton Mur ray, R.N., the testator'. brother-in-law. The property in this country was sworn under 25,0904 The general died in July Ist at A la Tour Remont, Italy, having executed his will in DM and a codicil in 1850. To his wife he bequeathed his plate, furniture, money in England and at his foreign banker's, together with an immediate legacy of LOW/. and many other bequests, as well as having settled upon her an annuity. The general has bequeathed literal annuities to his sister and nieces, and made bequests to other members of his family, appointing his brother-in-law, Captain ,Mur ray, residuary legatee. Legacies are ahm bestowed upon his @eremite. —lllustrated London News. Mr. Galt, of Canada, had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle, on Wednesday. Mr. Hugh Childers. M.P., had also an interview with his Grace at the Colonial- Devatches were received yesterday at the Colo nist-office from the Governor of Canada. DEATH or THE BISHOP or NAMAII.—The death is announced of the Rigbt Rev. Dr. Caulfield, wbo only a few months since was consecrated Bishop of Norman, a new Lee formed out of the dieceee of Jamaica. According to the accounts received, the bishop died of the yellow fever. Dr. Caulfield was formerly Archdeacon of the Bahamas. FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 10. The Moniteur of to-day announces that the Cour tier du Dimanche has received a second warning, for an article signed by M. Prevost Paradol, as the said article excites to hatred and contempt of the government. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARTS, Ocr. 10. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results as compared with the September account : INcitzasa Bills discounted, not yetdue 651 millions. Advances Bank note, 3l „ Current accounts Damao& Cash io hand 29 2-3 „ Treasury balance THE WEST AFRICAN HAILS. LOBS OF THE CLEOPATRA. LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 10. The steamship M'Gregor Laird has arrived here with the above mails, 62 passengers, and 2,175 ounces of gold. The Royal Mail steam-ship Cleopatra was totally lost ou the bar at the entrance of the Sherbro River, south of Sierra Leone. The passengers were saved in a lifeboat, and the officers and crew on rafts. The chief engineer, Mr. Webster, was drowned, and a crew of five men, who put off from Sierra Leone to the assistance of the Cleopatra, were also lost. The captain is highly praised for his intrepidity and determined efforts to save the vessel. The dates of the M`Gregor Laird are Benin, August 24 ; Cameroons, August 30 ; Old Calabar, Sept. 2 ; Bonny, 6 ; Accra, 13 ; Cape Coast Castle, 14 ; Sierra Leone, 21 ; Teneriffe, 31 ; and Madeira, October 2. A letter from Rome in the Corriere delta: Marche relates the following story :—" A priest was lately bar gaining with the eriver of a public carriage to be taken to a certain place. The coachman had mentioned his price, and the priest, thinking it too much, offered something less. ' Now possesses,' replied the Jebu, with an air of mock dignity, and drove off. In the evening the driver was arrested ; the priest bad taken his number, and de nounced the unlucky jester to the police." The Journal de St. Peterstxnerg of the 4th inst. contains an important announcement with respect to tele graphic communication between China and this country. An order of the day of the Director-General of Ways and Public Works states that the construction of the line of Siberian telegraph, which has already reached Omsk, and will in the course of 1863 be extended to Irkutsk, has, with the assistance of the post, allowed of a more rapid inter- change of communications between Europe and China, and in consequence of this. and through the medium of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, to open communications there- I upon, arrangements have been carried out to enable the western powers to correspond with China yid Russia. De. ' "patches from the interior of the empire, destined for K malts and Pekin, will be received for transmission at the telegraph stations at St. Petersburg, Moscow, and bikini. Novgorod. The expenditure of the Confedetate government, up to the Ist of August last, is declared by the secessionist journals to be about 70 millions sterling. In the city of New York 6,000 persons are em ployed in the printing tads. They nes up every year 5,000,000 dollars' worth of paper, ink. km, and produce 11,000,000 dollars' worth of books. The capital employed is estimated at 8,500,000 dollen. Amongst the shipments made at Chicago during the week ending the 20th ult., were the following. vie. :- 81,340 barrels of flour; 394,674 bushels of wheat ;1,524,678 bushels of eorn ; 120,512 bushels of oats ; 13, 050 bushels of rye ; 179,27 0 1 b5. of seed , ; N, oool be. of cut meet ; 1,724,0261b5. of lard ; 39,9051ba. of tallow; and s 17,637 live hogs. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova owx PARIS. THUBLIDAT EVINING. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Imperial Prince arrived at St. Cloud from Biarritz in the middle of the night. The ministers (with the ex ception of Marshal Bandon, Minister-at-War, who is absent on leave) went to the palace this morning to present their respective reports. A ministerial council will be held ou Friday. Prince Napoleon, whose intentions (or whose orders) about the Egyptian visit have fluctuated wonderfully, is now said to have given up the trip, and the papers say be will be back in Paris by the 26th instant. . The Bourse opened with considerable animation on the strength of M. Fould's report, but in the latter part of the day it became heavy, and Refute closed with a fall of sc. for account. Mobilier rose 8f r. 75c. The Italian Loan fell 25c. The Lyons and Southern railways fell sfr. each. M. de la Gueronniere's journal La Fiance, while joining the older ultramontane and the government press in extracting from the late deplorable riots in Hyde-park the con venient moral that all public meetings are bad things, and should not be allowed by any well oonstituted government, makes a touching appeal to its readers in favour of the ten thousand inno cent Irishmen who, as it represents, were wantonly set upon, ill-used, and overwhelmed by a ferocious majority ten times as numerous. La France, with true jesuitical reticence, carefully conceals from its readers that not one of the 100,000 Garibaldians assembled in Hyde-park went there for the purpose of imposing upon any human being an opinion by physical force. Not one of that vast multi tude of Italian sympathisers would ever have dreamt of interfering by physical force with any meeting which the partisans of the Pope might have desired to hold at their own time and place. The Irish papists alone, M. de la Gueronnihre's clients, went to a peaceable meeting armed with cudgels, with the savage purpose of preventing loyal and orderly Englishmen from giving expres sion to their opinions in a peaceable way. I pre sume to say nothing upon the question whether Hyde-park is a proper place for a public meeting under any circumstances ; but my English blood boils when I find the servile hirelings whose trade it is to deprecate every kind of liberty, arguing that the grand English right of holding public meetings is to be done away with, because in a per ticular instance a few suborned agents of the Pope, heading a band of the most benighted population in the world, succeeded in kicking up a row and breaking a few heada. M. Mathieu (de la Delme) lately sent a paper to the Academy of Sciences, which was read at a pub lic meeting, prophecying that from the 7th to the 14th October there would be such heavy rain in France as had scarcely ever been seen before. In Paris the prophecy has hitherto been singularly falsified, for we are enjoying fine autumn weather, which seems likely to continue. But M. Mathieu will probably find materials in the south of France for saying that he was right.. The Toulon journals state that heavy rains have prevailed there during the last few days, and the water in the streets has been so deep and rapid that the shopkeepers have had great difficulty in securing their property from injury. The day before yesterday a heavy thun derstorm broke over the town and neighbourhood, and the rain fell in torrents Marseilles also was yesterday visited by a heavy storm ; the scaffolding erected for the repairs of Notre Dame de is Garde and several buildings in the town were struck by lightning. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE SLAVE QUESTION. --4,-- The following circular, by Mr. Seward, addressed to all the diplomatic and consular agents of the United States, is published in the Paris papers : Department of State, Washington, Sept. 22, 1862. "Gentlemen,—You will receive by the mail which will carry you this despatch evidence which will convince you that the aggressive movement of the rebels against the states remaining faithful to the Union is arrested, and that the forces of the Union, strengthened and reanimated, are again ready to undertake a campaign on a vast scale. , if you con sult the newspapers you will easily perceive that the Guth- cial resources of the insurrection decline rapidly, and that the means of raising troops have been exhausted. " On the other side Ton will see that the financial situp• Sion of the country is good, and that the call for fresh troops, without which the material force of the natioa would be seriously crippled, is being promptly responded tr. " I have already informed our representatives abroad of the approach of a change in the social organisation of the rebel States. This change continues to make itself each day more and more apparent. " In the opinion of the President, the moment has come to place the great fact more clearly before the people of the rebel States, and to make them understand that i these States persist in imposing upon the country the choice between the dissolution of this government, at once neces sary and beneficial, and the abolition of slavery, it is the Union and not slavery that must be maintained and saved. With this object the President is about to publish a pro clamation, in which he announces that slavery will no longer be recognised in any of the States; which shall be in rebellion on the Ist of January next. While all the good and wise men of all countries will recognise this measure u • just and proper military act, intended to deliver the country from a terrible civil war, they will recognise at the same time the moderation and magnanimity with which the go vernment proceeds in a matter so solemn and important.— I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, "WILLIAM li. SEWARD." The Queen of Prussia, who is still at Baden- Badeo, will remain there for some time, and, after paying a short visit to Coldents, will proceed to Durckheim, in Bavaria, and enter on • course of the sanatory process known as the " Tranbeneur," or grape-cure. The Messager de Bayonne gives an account of an extraordinary effect of electricity produced last week in the village of Saint FAZO, near Perpignan. About one in the morning, while M. Gaily, the mayor, and his family were in bed, they were aroused from their sleep by a tremendous clap of thunder, a,companied by heavy rain. The lightning had fallen in the garden of • house about 800 yards from them, but as the storm did not appear to have touched their house, and had soon afterwards passed away, they again composed themselves to sleep. On getting up in the morn ing, however, they were astonished at the effects that had been produced by the lightning. All the doors and windows, both on the ground and first floors, that of the dining room, which led into the garden, and of the kitchen, which opened into the street, were covered with patches of a substance like melted tin or silver, and round all the edges were shining streaks of the same kind. It would appear that another set of requieitionista have their eyes on the Guildhall, for on Wednesday the Lord Mayor received on intimation that a requisition might soon be presented to him, asking for the use of the hall for • meeting "to adopt an address to the Queen praying that her Majesty will be pleased to command her wielders to abstain from urging on the Emperor of France the with drawal of his troops from Rome, as such withdrawal would, under present circumstances, cause tho invasion of the capital of the dominions of the sovereign pontiff, the ally of her Majesty." This, of cows., emanates from the Roman catholic. It is also stated that a communication has been received at the Mansion-house from • Roman catholic scarce to the effect that an organised attempt would be made to detest the object of the proposed meeting, and that • serious disturbance might take place, adding that the Irish population in London are in a st►te of great excitement. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. Yesterday, the cold bright weather wu pecu liarly suitable for Exhibition visitors, as the h i . terior was warm, and its atmosphere clear enough to permit of the pictures being seen. Nevertheless, the attendance was not above the average of Thurs days, which now, and until the end, ought to be a. good day. From Monday next the building will be closed at 6 o'clock, and probably as the days grow shorter the hours will be still further cur tailed. It therefore becomes necessary to warn all persons who have yet to see the Exhibition that the sooner they undertake their pilgrimage to South Kensington the better. The question of the price of admission during the fortnight that is to be allotted for sales made some progress towards settlement yesterday, in the announoemeut that during the supplementary period season tickets, exclusive of those which were issued for the shilling days, will be admissible. It is to be hoped that the tariff will be reasonable, as with anything like a high tariff the whole object of the bazaar will be defeated.. . The Americans, even at this advanced period of the season, have introduced a novelty into tbe ma chinery department. It is a grinding machine, in which the emery is bedded in a new material w ade from linseed oil, and which the patentees, Mem & Warne and Co., assert to to a perfect and incl. hausttble substitute for indiarubber. The schools, &c., visiting the Exhibition ven t er. day were :—Lymington and Boldre, National, British, and Sunday Schools, expenses paid by Lord G. Lennox and Mr. Mackinnon, the members, 313 ; St. Saviour's, Southwark, Pa rochial, subscription, 126; King Edward, South wark, Parochial, governors, 25; South Mimms, National, W. R. Price, Esq., 26; Upper Norwood, National, anonymous, 180 ; Bt. James's College, Clapton, the warden, 13 ; Trinity Church, Step ney, Choir, Rev. F. S. Lea, 16 ; Trinity, St. Marylebone, Choir , J. Alexander, Esq., 12 ; St. Martin's, Westminster, Sunday, fri ends, 37 ; Harp. alley, Farrington-street, British, subscription, 12 ; Christ Church, Streatham Rev. W. Raven, 30 ; Holy Trinity, Up per . Tooting, Rev. F. Borr a dale, 20 ; St. Mary, Hastings, Sunday, Miss Morlees, 138 ; National, Rev. Rd. Croft, 90 ; St. Andrew's, Wells-street, choristers, Lord Dillon, 15; lads from her Majesty's gvardship Fisgard, Woolwich, Commander Lychell, 62. The highest temperature yesterday, as shown by Negretti and Zambra's patent thermometers, was :—ln the nave, 63.3 deg. ; in the galleries, 63.6 deg. ; in the western annex, 68.8 deg. The dew point at 3 o'clock was 15L The readings were taken at 3 o'clock p.m. The following were the total numbers admitted yesterday, compared with the corresponding day in 11851 : One 9311Witg day. Thursday, Oct. 9 Sewn tickets 4,419 Ten Shilling ditto l,Oll • k Paymtut Total 47.37 1851. One Shilling day. Thursday. Oct. 9 3,131 inkmals Wel 9O.E NORTH WALSHAJI AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. NORTH WALSHALL Ocr. 9. The annual meeting of this society was held last eveoing in this pleasant little Norfolk tows, Lord Scrim° presiding. It was expected that the proceedings would have been enlivened with a speech from Lord Wodehouse, late Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, but the noble lord's other engagements prevented his attendance. Among those present, however, were Mr. E. Howes. MY., Mr. C. Bux ton, M.P., .Sir H. Robinson, Major-Gesseal Windham, Admiral the Hon. E. T. Wodehouse, °Tilde Windham, R.N., the Hon. W. R. Roue, the Hon. W. Harbord, ke. The CLUBMAN gave " The County Members." (Cheers.) Mr. E Howers,lLE, In acknowledging the compliment, said it mud have been observed of late that at all agricul tural meetings, members of Parliament bad not only taken upou themselves to give an account of their own indi vidual stewardships, but also to make excuses for the House of Commons itself because of its weaned inactivity. Now, it mast be seen readily enough that the House of Commons was not a mere workshop for the manufacture of acts of parliament ; it should rather be regarded es the mouth-pieta of the nation—the arena in which the pest principles of our domestic, colonial. and foreign policy were promulgeted for the satisfaction of our own people at home aad the increase of confideuce on the part of foreign nations —the publicity given to the proceedings of the House being the surest guarantee for domestic union and peace abroad. (Cheers.) Some reference had been made to the preservation of game. Now a bill had been introduced and had recently become law which was generally spoken of as the Poaching Act ; and he regretted to soy that there was a very strong opposition to that act iii the House of Commons. He himself supported that bill. (Hisses and cheers.) If lion. gentlemen would hear him out he was sure they would themselves agree to the conclu sion to which he bad come. The opposition to that mea sure was raised on various grounds, but the principal pine to which lie wished to refer was this—he believed the bill was not wanted for the county of Norfolk. (Cries of " Oh.") It was wanted, however, for counties in the middle of EoglaM, and it was for the sake of those counties that be mainly supported the measure. (Renewed hews.) Where it was carried into effect with judgment and discre tion it would be of the greatest possible use, not only in supporting laws which so hem as they remained laws ought clearly to be supported, but it would also have the effect is directly of preventing many positive crimes intimately con- Dieted with violations of the laws to which he bad referred. The bill was also opposed on the ground of expense ; bet be believed that in Norfolk, which had a chief constable of great judgment and discretion, there was nothing to fear on that bead. Upon the new highway ba be need say nothing, as it rested with the ratepayers whether they put it into force or not. Another act passed would be of the greatest use in preventing collisions be tween class and class, so far as rating was concerned ; he re ferred to the Parochial Assessment Act, which was the fruit of two yaws legislation in the House of Commons. Great trouble had been taken with that maim, and the house had also been impartial, as the act would impose no slight trouble upon the counties concerned. (leinghter4 An amusing episode had been introduced in relation to the pig and the pig feeder, and to the correspooding retains betweeu constituents and their representatives. Whatever might be the support ghee by the constituent to his rem. seatetive, the position of the latter was not a bed of roses, as the very high position of an M.P. involved dancer and disgrace, if he did not nee every effort to promote the je' e. rests of his constituents, and through them of the com munity at large. (Cheers,) At a titer period of the evening. Mr. C. 8. BRAD responded to the toast of "The Judges,' as did Mr. Henry end Mr. Overman. Mr. Read observed that tenant-farmers had been requested by preceding speakers to give free utterance to their opinions. He WO a tenant farmer, and as he had heard no other tenantfamer say anything upon the matters which were taking Plae around then., he would take the liberty of doing so. it was customary for tenent.farmers to be patted on their .. backs and to be told that they were a very enterpreiel and enthusiastic body of people—a very independent me improving set. The great and noble of the land told thus these things, and he supposed they believed them to he true ; but he would remind his friends among the tenet farmers that in private life a man was always valued. liSe by the compliments which he pad, but by the goal "den he did. Yet when great landed proprietors and arcul' hued M.P.s went to parliameut, they seemed tow some thing like this: "You are such an isuslligent set of inm that you are DOW no Mager capable of managing. our roads. and therefore we will do it for you ; you are so indepesdee t, and have shown yourself independent so long in your landlord's game. that now we think yon oott! to pay for the preservation of it also. (Cheersand cries d "Goon,* " Let's have some more of it..") No; be would met* "God preserve the fanners from their wa ll ed friends." (Laughter and cheery.) ..T M b r e . Successful Exbibiton ,' said the lastwith.p.thersotoeft possibly call foe a reply, and he might at some future tiros be tempted to give it. (Cries of "Do it now!" " It ' it now ") No; be would take another opportunity. el . 1 0mg it. Ile was quite sure that the two measures inettioned Mr. Real would, when thoroughly understood, b e bill appreciated as by no means bearing in any way agains the agricultural interest of the kingdom. The remaining proceedings of the evening scarcely mil foe notice. - NARROW Escars—On Monday afternoon 4tne td the most wonderful secapen from instant death otxtirred st Wick. A number of children were smusing thcirielow with drtgging a long cart across the Pelf' behind the inde pendent chapel, the eastern side of which is bounded by precipice of great height. After giving each other "a sail" for imam time, they put two children into the (" 2 . 6 ' and giving the cart cosaiJerable momentum in the direction of the precipioe—the speed increasing by the declivity ci the field—they left it to roil forward. The two childrea strange to lay, rolled out of the cart before it reached the edge, and in a few seconds it was over the cliff. Still maw wonderful, there was a cooper at his work right on the spot where the cart was falling. There wee not the , bc 1,06 nom or indication of the imminence of his claimer. but be Ming down, he was just in time to leap fortunately happened to look up, and seeing the cart tame m' mu* w h o t cart fell and was dashed to pieces at his feet.—Natti c, Ensign. I