The Express. — London, England, 1867-09-13 00:00:00

DUTCH BULBS. —Mr. STEVENS' SALES of I HYACINTHA, Tulips, Crocuses. and other bulbs, Melba ported from Holla n d, wi l l take place every WEDN VADAT and SATURDAY, and frequently on Hominy, at the Auction -rooms, 81, King-street, Corentwden, London. BROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDRIN'S DIET. To obtain extra profit by the We other 'dna sre s ometime s offered Instead of BROWN and YOLSONII. "John Brown," "John Poison," la algood by the makers on each packet. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. (Managing Director. Mr. Strange.) Three Ballets, 200 Dancers, 60 Instrumentalists, Singers Acrobats, Minna!: Pic tures, Welt Telegrams, Saloons, Sapper-rooms, Lavatories, Penokingrooms, Evening Paper : 10 Orchestral Pkcee Every Night. Open at Hall-past Seven, begin at Eight. Prlcee—la., and 64.: Reserved seats, 45.: Private Boxes, from Et Is. Box-office open from Eleven to Four. COVENT GARDEN PROMENADE CONCERTS. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. 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Bucketono.—And OCT Or WATER. rangesqrs. TEn MTEII7IIO, POOR PILLICODDY. Werra Dominick Murray k Gresham MIN Polly Harahan. —And THB bTREBTB nY iiiNDON. Mr. Vining, Hamra M'Lean, D. Hurray, din ; Movlanim Stuart, Barnett, and Manion ERITAIMA. THIS Emma, THE alay LADYE OF YFJUSLEA.Iea F. courteuay.—MM. ConteMar and Eugenio ; Mr. llumptoo Mr. and Dra Coleman ail Mr. Brown.—And THE WIDOW'S FIRESIDE. Mr. E. Conrtenny. HIGH WAIT& AT LONDON BILIDGIL DATLioinina7li.3l.olW- - ......aitie — r - selZ lb. t.7go. To4ilolzow—llaeniag. 93L 13a..--Attienoos. Sh. 31m. LONDON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. THE more we hear of Abyssinia the less we shall like the prospect of having to carry a war into that savage and pestilential country. The best thing that could happen for us would bo to meet the concentrated force of the enemy soon after landing and decide the campaign by a fair stand-up fight. But it is morally certain that we shall have no such advantage. It is much more likely that we shall be drawn onward over mountains and rivers, and that our men exposed to a burning sun, with bad water to drink, will drop off by hundreds of fever and dysentery, while in search of a savage who perfectly understands that the climate is his best ally, and delay his best generalship. All this the public by this time must perfectly understand ; there can, however, be no harm in repeating it for the purpose of urging the Government to make its prepara tions as complete and efficient as possible. With Ministers rests the full responsibility of this enterprise, and they will be overwhelmed with public indignation if it should appear by and bye that they have sent our soldiers on a most perilous errand without taking every precaution against failure. It is not very encouraging to know that the Abyssinian expedition is being organized by the same Administration which in 1869, in the expectation of a European war, could give us nothing better than those good-for-nothing " bounty-men" who were fiddled about London on the tops of cabs and omnibuses. No one can give us the assurance that this will be a little war. Its risks bear no manner of proportion to the rank and political importance of the potentate assailed. We are as likely as not to leave thousands of our soldiers in Abyssinia to be devoured by wild beasts and birds of prey, while Mayers at home may think themselves fortunate if they get off with an addition of no more than sixpence in the pound to their income tax. The public, knowing this to be the state of the case, would feel very much obliged to any one who would show it a way out of its difficulty. Undoubtedly it is of the first consequence that we should not underrate the serious difficulties of the war upon which we are entering ; but it is equally important that, while recognising its risks and liabilities, we should deliberately make up our minds and abide firmly by our resolution. It is one thing to remember the dangers to be encountered in order to make our preparations more perfect, it is another to dwell on danger so exclusively as to unnerve the public mind and weaken the Government. It is not too late even now to countermand the orders given at Bombay and Woolwich, and if it is the fact that nothing can be gained by sending troops to Abyssinia, it would be better at once to sacrifice the two millions which have already been spent, than to make the discovery when a further enormous out lay has been incurred and many lives have been lost. The question which the Government has had to consider was simple and practical—How were Colonel CAMERON and Mr. RADIUM, with their fellow-prisoners, to be released 1 No questions of policy embarrassed the case, for we are all agreed that if once we can get our countrymen safe back we will have no more to do with THEODOR*, Emperor of Abyssinia. Even Lord Pauszsurrores Government had come to this resolution, and was far from intending to impose any duties on Consul CAMERON which would place him in Teso- DOME'S power. If there is any bishop at Jeru salem, any monk in the mountains of Armenia, who can negotiate the return of our countrymen, by all means let us avail our selves of his services, and not be niggardly about the ransom. But, in the last resort, we shall have to face the question—Suppose we cannot get the prisoners in any other way, are we to go to war? It has been said, " If it be possible let " us save our countrymen, but let us not throw " away life in the attempt." That is plain advice, but wo do not think it is worthy of the country. If the attempt to which we are sum moned is hopeless, then on no theory of duty ought we to send our soldiers to make it. But, on the other hand, if there are reasonable grounds for believing that by judicious military operations, more or less combined with skilful diplomacy, our countrymen may be delivered, then we are bound to make the attempt. We trust we are not insensible of the preciousness of human life, but life itself is given to be nobly spent, and may be so degraded by mean evasions of duty as not to be worth having. It is time seriously to ask whether there are really amongst us those who think that rather than encounter the risks of an Abyssinian campaign, we should fold our hands, take our ease, and leave our country men to their fate. We shall decline to believe it without indubitable evidence of the fact. If our military men were to tell us that the expedi tion is impracticable ; or if anyone versed in the ways of the East, and otherwise entitled to atten tion, would state that there are more efficacious means of delivering the prisoners than fighting, then Government would not be at liberty to sacrifice a single life in war. But if all pacific means fail—and Lord STANLEY declares that ho has exhausted every such resource—and if our officers experienced in warfare in India tell us that they can cope with such difficulties as may be expected in Abyssinia, then our course is surely clear, and neither obstacles nor dangers ought to deter us from proceeding to the rescue of those who have fallen into the hands of a cruel barbarian while engaged in our service. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) A WORKMAN'S VISIT TO THE TRENCH EXHIBITION. The Times publishes to-day a long account of the Paris Exhibition, written by one of ► band of workmen who have visited the building under the auspices of Mr. lAyard's committee. Ile started apparently from Shrop shire, and it is made evident that he was many years since, perhaps is still, employed as a painter upon chin►— indeed. he confesses to have been a participator in the fabrication of old SZvres, ornamented with designs after Boucher and Watteau, for the English market. In addition to this he has been thrown among the iron manufactories of the country, and he prepared for the exhibition of 1851 • collection of the fossil plants of the coal-fields of Shropshire. The summary of his impressions appears to be that there is danger of a decline in the excellence of our home productions from the insufficiency of the technical educa tion of the workman. When we come, he rya, to high class ornamentation in iron, earthenware, china, or glass, the superiority of French art is obvious. The French oollections of faience exhibit a richness of colouring which is not seen in English productions. It is admitted, indeed, that in ordinary decorations for the general market Eng land probably stands first, but there is no power to go beyond this line. In support of the same view it is observed with reference to porcelain that the best spe cimens exhibited by English manufacturers are painted by French and even German workmen. In elegance of outline and delicacy of tint these artists excel all rivals. Our backwardness he explains by the assertion that the French workman has an artistic education forced upon him, while English workmen have been left to find out their paths for themselves. The Times, however, argues that we might buy superiority in the decorative arts at too high • price, and that a tendency on the part of the state to patronise and stimulate them must be accompa nied by a reciprocal tendency to defence and a loss of pri vate energy. It is not too much to hope that we may in the future be able to reconcile the inestimable benefits of individual development with the growth of national taste, and to point to products of English art worthy to vie with those of foreigners without being overrun with an army of art teachers, still more without being burdened with national manufactories. .TOPICP4 The Daily News is disposed to expect something In Irish affairs from her Majesty's preeent government, who have already, at the risk of alienating their fanatical supporters, instituted proceedings against certain orange disturben, and who through Mr. Disraeli have pledged themselves that no step shall be taken affecting the educational system of Ireland without the knowledge and consent of parliament. The Daily News then refers members of parliament who are desirous of forming a sound judgment upon a vital branch of Irish policy, to the report of the president of the Queen's College, Galway. This document proves to demonstration, that the catholic party in Ireland previous to the mischievous step of the late government, were not dissatisfied with mixed education to any appreciable extent. The Times refers to the speeches of Gailaldi at Geneva and the Bishop of Orleans at Relines as illustrations of intemperate controversy which is distasteful to moderate men on both aides. According to the Timer, Garibaldi hu stolen away without taking leave, "with evident compunction at his own rashness and folly," and Mgr. Dispanloup shocked right-minded and conscientious Roman catholic. at the general assembly at Ballad. Both men outrage the better feelings of the age; one of them finds out his error when he is driven from Geneva, the other when many even of the Ultramontanee fall away from him at lifelines. The same retribution awaits all exaggeration of political animosity. The Post also regards Garibaldi's presence at the Geneva Congress as a mistake, and describes the opinions which he enunciated as so many bombshells. The much-vaunted Peace Congress has unquestionably belied its title by the character of its proceedings and the circumstances of fits dissolution, and the saviour of Italy has unnecuaatily ex posed himself to the shafts of ridicule. Commenting upon Ruseian affairs, the Daily Ares says that the attempt to adopt the military organisation of Prussia has been unsuccessful, while the imitation in civil matters of the wearisome procedure of Austrian lawyers and diplomatists has been only too complete. Never theless Russia has derived valuable consideration from its connexion with Germany. It is not going at all too far to my that nearly eve:, well-managed estate throughout the empire is under German direction. The Telegraph rebukes the Times for dwelling on the difficulties in the way of the Abyssinian expedition. That the campaign will be very costly admits of no doubt ; but the qu.!stion of expense has been well considered and publicly debated ; and, alter comparing the probable out lay which the invasion may entail with the certain lou which would result from our remaining inactive, the mum , try, no less than the government, Las said that a decisive blow must be dealt, and dealt at once. FEMALE MEDICAL Socusrr.—The fourth session of the Ladies' Medical College will commence on Oct. 1, and continuo on till April next. This year's introductory address will be delivered by Dr. Aida, F.R.0.P., at the Hanover-square Rooms, on Oct. 1, at 3 o'clock, and the general public are invited to be present. It appeared that on the 31st of August 26,191 applications boatmen received and 22,737 volunteers enrolkei in the Royal Naval Reserve. Of these 102 possess certiti cotes of competency ss masters ; 870 certificates of com petency as mates ; 9 certificates of service as masters ; 25 certificates of service as mates—total, 1,006. The force also includes 2,976 petty officers in the merchant service. Deduct for men who have joined royal navy, 606 ; been discharged, 1,159 ; died, 1,679 ; not applied to be re d enrolled, 3,766—t0ta1, 7,112. Present strength of the re , serve, 15,625. Tho Rev. H. R. Stern, one of the Abyssinian captives, writing to his wife on the 29th o f J une , describes the pr isoners at Magdala as almost daily agitated by reports relative to hostile neighbours, the Gallas, and from the various provinces in possession of the rebel troops. A dozen stout Englishmen," he says, " with a revolver or two each, might easily subdue the whole garrison here, and set us all at libe r ty." Of the king, Mr. Stern writes :—" I trust we shall never see his face again, or hear his venomous and unblushing tongue prate about Solomon, Jerusalem, Scnnear, England the Turks, the bishop, and an sorts of worthless trash with which he has tormented his white prisoners, and delights his malicious heart. The report about the imprisonment of the Garet workmen is contradicted, and it would appear, if the ac count we have received is correct, that they are, on the contrary, in Theodore's favour, and are the manager of his artillery." In the postrript Mr. Stern suggests that these workmen have been obliged to submit to become the king's artillerists to save themselves from a worse fate. Despite the revolt of so many of his subjects, Mr. Stern thinks it more than probable that the king will maintain his position "till a hrgher power terminates the devastating contlict, and restores peace and quiet to this unhappy, torn, and distracted country." MI PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD.—The scial ser vices in connexion with the Lambeth Synod, w hich are to be delivered in the church of St. Lawrence Jewry, will be commenced by the Bishop of London on Saturday next, the 14th hut. The other preachers, as far as they have been arranged, are—September 15, the Bishops of D err y and Dunedin (the church in Ireland and New Zealand; ; September 16, the Bishop of Quebec and the Bishop Coadjutor of Newfoundland (North America) ; Septem ber 17, the Bishop of Barbadoes, the Bishop of Lawn, and Archdeacon Hunter (Asia and the West Indies) September 18, the Bishop of Honolulu, the Bishop o f the Orange River Territory, and Bishop Tozer (Scat tend Missions) ; September 19, the Bishop of Ar lianas', the Bishop of Vermont, and the Bishop of New York (United States' church) ; September 20, the Rey. W. F. Erskine Knollys, M.A., chaplain to the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Graham's Town, and She Ftishop of Cape Town (South Africa) ; September 21, the Very Rev. J. Pow nall, late Dean of Perth, and the Bishop of Perth (Australia) ; September 22, the Bishop of New Zealand and the Bishopot Andrew's(New Zealand and Scotland). Cite (curt. BALMORAL, BUT. 11. The Queen went out yesterday morning accom panied by Princes Christian and Princess Louise, and in the afternoon drove out with Princess Christian, attended by the Hon. Lady Bidduiph. Princess Louise went out riding, attended by Lady ChurchilL Mr. and Lady Frances Baillie arrived ►t the Castle yes terday, on ► visit to her Majesty. A deputation from the guardians of the poor of the City of London, East London, and West London Unions, con sisting of Messrs. D. Smyth, W. WaWord, J. Thomas, J. ',taker, 0. Shaw, R. White, H. Nird, C. Barber, C. Crane, R. B. Whiteside, W. Clements, A. Suter, J. Butterworth, P. Johnson, J. Toads, J. Hudson, Colman, Rigby, G. Cuthbert, and G. Shaw, accompanied by Messrs. Bowring, Baylis, and Pontifea, clerks to the guardians, had an inter►iew with the Earl of Devon at the office of the Poor-law Board yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of New Zealand, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, the Mauritius, and the Straits Settle ments. Despatches were sent to the Governor-General of Canada. The British Medical Journal states of the Princess of Wales, that in addition to the exercise which she is able to take in a carriage and Bath chair, over ground however rough, she is able to walk in her room, and, with the help of a crutch, to bear slightly Wpm the affected joint, which is moveable. Thus,"even the minor misfortune of a fixed joint, which seemed almost inevitable, is likely to be averted, and an almost =hoped for success will be attained." The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury are now staying at Vichy, and will remain on the Continent for several weeks. The Marquis of Lorno left Scotland on Tuesday last for Turkey. His lordship also intends visiting Inds, and will be absent for several months. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have strived in Paris from Aix-la-Chapelle. Viscount Burke was returned for Galway yes day without opposition. He was proposed by Mr. Robert Bodkin, and seconded by C►ptain Blakeney. At a meeting subsequently it was resolved to erect a statue to Lord Dan kellin. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1867. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (agar's's TELEGRAMS.) THE CRETAN INSURRECTION. BERLIN, S. 13. The Biirsemeitung of to-day publishes a telegram from Vienna, stating that Omar Paella has received orders to suspend hostilities in Crete for four weeks. A general amnesty has been granted to all insurgents, and foreigners can, if they desire, leave Crete in Turkish vessels without hindrance. RESIGNATION OF ALDERMAN ABBISS. Alderman Abbiss has addressed to his consti tuents of the ward of Bridge a letter of which the follow ing is • oopy : TO THE WORMY FREEMEN ELEOFORB OF MD WARD OF Gentlemen,—lt is now within a few weeks of eight years since I had the honour of being unanimously elected to the high and important position of alderman of the ward of Bridge. During the whole of that time my dear wife has been confined to her bed by serious IMBiction, and I have waited patiently and hopefully, trusting that it would please God to restore her to health and activity. The period is now fast approaching when in the ordinary amine of succession I should be elected to the chief magistracy of this great City, but as the continued illness of Mrs. Abbiss would render it impoesible for her to dis charge the duties of Lady Mayoress, or even to be removed to the Mansion-house, lam compelled to resign into your hands the important o ffi ce . you committed to my trust. I have not arrived at this decision without mature reflection, nor can I sever this connection with my kind friends of the Ward of Bridge (between whom and myself mutual confidence and esteem have always existed) without ex pressing my warmest thanks for the courtesy and kindness which have ever been evinced towards me. The regret of officially separating myself from you lain some measure mitigated by the thought that I shall dill live amongst you, in Um ward where I have resided for more than thirty years, and by the hope that although I cannot serve you as your alderman, I shall never cease to be considere d as your friend.—l am, gentlemen, yours faithfully, JAmta ABBISS. Alderman Abbias invited the common council of his ward to dine with him at the Albion last evening, when the foregoing intention was announoed. THE PEACE CONGRESS AT GENEVA. The second meeting of the Peaoe Congress, on Tuesday, was a very crowded and tumultuous one, and did not break up till half-past five. M. Jolissaint, the president of the day, opened the meeting with • speech in which he invited the speakers to moderation. M. Fousserandot read • strong protest signed by MM. Pail lotot, Molinari, Schmiedlin, D•meth, Hornum, Giraud- Tenlon, AG., against the address of the Working Men'sCon geese, which they characterised as a proclamation of war between capital and labour. The statement that society was divided into two classes of exploiteurs and exploit's the signers of the protest declared to be as dangerous as untrue ; that it was false to affirm that society presented the odious spectacle of two hostile camps, and that such sentiments were calculated to spread distauirt and hatred. These declarations were received with strong marks of I saint and dissent, which prevented the remainder of the protest from being heard. It concluded with the following quotation from Franklin :—" If anyone tells you that a workman can become rich otherwise than by labour and saving, do not listen to him : he is a poisoner." After this preliminary scene, M. E. Quinet addressed the Congress on the two first questions of the programme, and lamented the death of the human conscience under the heel of despotism. The world, he said, will not be redeemed till the people become conscious of their fall—till the new God appears—but between this time and then whattears will be shed! " Let the soldiers of right and liberty," he concluded, " spring from the earth to follow the hero whom I see at your bead—Garibaldi." M. Borkheim spoke against the tendency to unity in Germany, and said that the Fede ralists were cowed by the sabre. This speaker raised • new storm by alluding to M. Schulze Delitaseh as the com mercial traveller of a bourgeois political economy. M. Simon, of Troves, said that peace could only be pre served by liberty and self-government. H. Bakonnine, • Russian, spoke in the same sense, and declared that there was no harmony between the wishes of liberal Rua. sians and those of the government, and that the defeats of the government gave the only chance of infusing life into the people. The temper of the congress was once more aroused by M. Dupont, •delegate from • society of workmen, "who were proscribed by the bourgeois republic of 1848," who asked for the abolition of all sects with their per manent armies of priests, and the destruction of all churches as wall as of all barracks ; and Baron de rennet, who said that in Christianity there were two contending moralities—one which was pagan and good ; the other, peculiarly Christian, which brought war and not peace among nations and families. He estimated at 100,000 the number of men who fell a yearly a sacrifice since 1791 in ware which had their foundation in religions principles. The sitting was brought to • o inclusion by M. Carteret who made • speech in favour of peace and moderation. They must have public opinion on their side before they could succeed, not the opinion of a few or even thousand., but the opinion of millions. He invited the congress to confine Itself to the last article of the programme, and to shout forth with unanimous voice to all parts of Rurope—" Anathema to war." The Convalescent Home erected by public sub scription ►t Bournemouth, in Hants, to the memory of the late Lord Herbert of Lea, will, it is expected, be opened the latter end of this month. The building hu cost 5,0001. At the September fair just held at Bridgewater there were 3,000 sheep penned. The ruling prism wes bid. per lb. Some cottages are advertised for sale at Taunton, and in the advertisement it is stated that "each of these houses will give the franchise to the occupier under the new Reform Bill." A nunnery is about to be built at Taunton, in The Bristol papers record the death of an old woman named Gerrish, at the age of N. She was with hie husband, who fought under Wellington, in the Penin sula and at Waterloo. Tams ♦r ♦ BIRTH.—Mrs. Carrington, of 7, Wyford-terrace, Lechmere-road, was yesterday eddy de livered by Dr. D. Leslie, of three female children. All are doing well. The wife of a butler named George Frederick Williams, living at Newbury, presented ber husband with three sons at a birth, about three weeks ago, and her Majesty the Queen has just sent through the Mayor of Newbury, a gift of M. for the mother, who, with her throe infants are doing well. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, S. 13. An understanding has been arrived at between the Aintrian and Hungarian Ministers of Finance in reference to the financial quota to be contributed by Hungary. This understanding is on the basis of the resolutions adopted at the late ministerial council. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Bm. 13. The Danish ambassador at Berlin has been defi nitely appointed the commissioner for Denmark in North Schleswig negotiations. ITALY. FLORENCE, Env. 12, Etrarnra: The Official Gazette of to-Clay states that the transport of the remains of Daniel Marvin to Venice has been postponed in consequence of the sanitary regulations existing in those places through which the procession would have to pass. The Italie publishes a rumour that the papal authorities had made 'several arrests at Viterbo. AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TZLEGRAPH. ) NEW YORK, S&PT. 12, 6 P.M. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Cambria arrived out here at 9 this morning, and the Cunard steamer China to-day. _ _ Closing prices :—Gold, 146. Sterling exchange on London, 109 k. 6-20 United States Bonds, 116 i. Illinois, 122. Erie, 70k. Cotton—Mid dling Upland, 24. PHILADELPHIA, Sm. 12. Petroleum : Standard white, 31k. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (71011 0431 OWN PARIS. MD V71:217110. The Libert4 states that M. de Bismarck is so well satisfied with the peaceable professions of the Marquis de Moustier's circular that he requested the most influential members of the liberal national party not to ask any question relative to the Salz burg interview. The policy of Prussia is evidently to " gang its own gait," and assume that France has disclaimed any intention of interfering in German affairs. The Liberte contrasts the quiet practical tone of the Bing of Prussia's speech, carving out no pro granume but that on the immediate order of the day, with the rhodomontade and uncartainty and contradictions which have long distinguished all official declarations in France. There have been successively the theory of grand agglomeration ; the theory of the three frescos.; the theory of the freedom of alliances ; the theory of non-interven tion ; the theory of nationalities ; the theory of attentive neutrality ; the theory of strict im partiality ; the theory of the equilibrium ; and the theory of natural frontiers. "We know," says M. de Girardin, " to what point practice has brought Prussia. Where has theory led us, and whither will it lead us 1" Rivarol said of one of his colleagues, " Just as some people are always about to sneeze that man is always about to be witty." In the same way it may be said the French government is always about to have a policy. At the Bourse the Rente was relatively firm, but all other securities declined. The Three per Cents. fluctuated between 70fr. 12ic.. and 69fr. 5c., but closed with the figure of 70fr. both for cash and account, falling only sc. and 211 c. Credit Mobilier fell 18fr. 76c., closing at 286 fr. 25c. All its dependent securities were in great disfavour. It is not known what M. Rouher and the Bank of France may have decided to-day ; but the prevalent opinion among speculators was that no advance could prevent the winding-up of the Credit Mobilier, and at the utmost could but render the " liquidation" some what more easy. A good many speculative sales of Italian funds were made for the end of the month, in anticipation of a movement in Rome, which it is said that Garibaldi, who suddenly left the Peace Congress, is more decided than ever to attempt. A correspondent at Vienna 'writes :—" You come and go to and from Austria, and you move about as freely as you do in England ; no one alike you who you are, and what your business is. For anyone like myself, who has only known the old system, it seemi like a dream. As censorship is abolished, books and newspapers come in as freely and, as far as my experience goes, as regularly as in any other country on the continent. But the most extraordinary thing is the change in the press. The Rona Gazette and the Osterreichische Beobachter, which was edited by the Foreign-office, were once the only papers; now not only Vienna and provincial capitals, but small towns, have their own local papers, and, especially in some of the organs of the different extreme fractions of the Austrian nationality, you find things which very likely the boldest organ of Fenianirm in Ireland or England would hesitate to insert, while in France, Germany, and probably Italy, such outbunta would not be tolerated for an instant." A letter from Homburg, dated the 10th, says : " This place is not so crowded as it was a fortnight ago. but is still vet/ full of company of varied character. The Duke of Cambridge, the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Mar quis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Hartington, Viscount Hamilton, and scores of fashionable M.P.'s may be seen daily at the wells and the green tables. The annual two days' athletic sports and games of the gentlemen cadets at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, commenced yesterday, and will be concluded this day. The weather was all that could possibly be de sired, the rain of the previous night having rendered the turf springy and excellent " going." There was a large number of spectators, including the Ilite of the neighbour hood and many friends of the cadets from town. The Snit appearance of Madame Jetty Tref& at Covent Garden is announced foi Monday next. THE MEDICAL SCHOOL.S.—The Winter Session of the Medical Schools will commence on Tuesday, October Ist The inaugural addresses will be delivered as follows : —St. "nartholomew's Hospital, by Dr. Odling, at 5 p.m. ; Charing-cross Hospital, by Mr. Canton, .t 3 p.m. ; St. George's Hospital. by Mr. Holmes, at 2 p.m. ; Guy's Hospital, by Mr. A. E. Durham, at 2 p.m. ; King's College, by Dr. W. A. Miller, at :i p.m. ; London Hospital, at 4 p.m. ; St. Mary's Hospital, by Dr. Broadbent, at 8 p.m. ; Middlesex Hospital, by Dr. Swaim. Cobbold, at 3 p.m. • St. Thomas's Hospital, by Mr. Holly, at 3 p.m. : University College, by Dr. Orally Hewitt, at 4 p.m. ; Westminster Hospital, by Mr. Teevan. at 8 p.m. In the provinoes, the following introductory lectures will be given :—Queen's College, Birmingham, by Mr. Pemberton, at 3 p.m. ; Leeds School of Medi cine, by Mr. T. P. Teak, jun. ; at Liverpool Royal In firmary Szhool of Medicine, by Mr. A: B. Steele, at 3 p.m. ; Manchester Royal School of Medicine, by Dr. Thorburn, at 12 noon ; Newcastle-on-Trine KNollege of Medicine, by Dr. Humble, at 2 p.m. ; She Meld School of Medicine, by Mr. W. Baker, at 8 p.m. At the Royal Veterinary College, the session will be opened with an inaugural address by Professor Jewnsal. AN A FAR MURDER. The Melbourne Ara of July 27 contains tho falowing narrative The elands of Vistseka have just afforded a striking in stance of what the old writers called "God's revenge errmarcher." On the 14th July, 1862, on the banks River Coliban, an escaped convict named William Henry Terry murdered • as Dutchman named Peter Reddick was arrested at the time for the crime, confessed it, was not believed, was discharged, and now, five years a l ha being charged with bigamy, the bones end skull of the murdered man are found in the dry bed of the Cabin, on the beaks of which the murderer and the murdered were last seen • old suspicions are revived, circumstances are fitted together ; and, lastly, Terry lies cast for death, having been convicted of his crime on the 10th instant. The long series of collateral facts adduced by the police at the trial, to sheet home the guilt of the accused, need not be recounted here ; but we will give an outline of this remarkable atm, taking our readers beck to July, 1862. Then Terry—who was known by different names, and at that time pared as Maguire—was living with • freed con vict woman from Tasmania of the same name. He had bad two children by her ; but that, and the fact that ten years before he had married under the name of Mitchell one Eliza Gill, at Geelong, did not prevent him from desir ing to marry Elizabeth Hockey, the daughter of James Hockey, a miner living at Taradale. Like most convicts from Tamale, Terry was a woodsman, and as much had agreed with Reddick to work with him. Reddick had been • farm servant, had saved money, bought land, and was known by his peculiar narrow retreating forehead and prominent eye-bone. The exact circumstances of their partnership are not known, but at this point Terry's par mour gives some evidence. She stated at the trial that in July, 1862 Reddick was living in a tent closing to theirs, and that Terry had no money, but that Reddick sup plied him with some, with which he bought • horse. Whether she knew a or not, Terry at this time wanted to marry this Elizabeth Hockey, but lacked money for the purpose. He bad himself to merry on Monday, and on e ll ' o g iTA l night he came to his tent, and having lit a candle went out to go where Reddick was lying in his tent. His paramour had beard him say be wanted money, and " If I ever shake (rob) any man, I'll shake him" (Reddick). Fearing something, she followed Terry out of the tent, whereupon be beat her, and pulled her hair out, but gave up his design for the time. The next day Terry and Red dick went to work, came back at noon, had dinner together, and again went out together. Reddick was never seen after; and Terry, who had pro mised to return to his mistress that night or next day, never again came bask to her. The scene then shifts to Hockey's next day, where Terry appeared, not at 8 a.m., as he had promised, but at 4 p.m., to marry Miss Hockey. He had money (he had days before acoomited to those who knew him for having money by raying he got it from a Mr. Frazer, which was a false hood), and deeds conveying titles to property, which, together with his clothes , were wet thrOugh. This he explained by • story about his falling into a waterhole • the Coliban, where his horse was drowned, and he narrow escaped with his life. He was then married under the name of Reddick, and so assumed the possession of all Reddick's property.. It was not long before the police began to make inquiries for the missing man, and here the strangest part of the story. Terry was ermined, and then and there confessed the murder, which be said was • job concocted between him and Hockey. They murdered Reddick together, be said; and afterwards, when be married Miss Hockey, it was at Hockey's suggestion that he married under the name of Peter Reddick, • deoeption not then detected ; an impro- vised story of his having gone under • false name previously was deemed suifiment explanation. The de tectives even then doubted his story, believing him to be implicating an innocent man in revenge for some injury ; and as their prisoner varied in his account, took them to different places where he said the body was buried, and finally declared that Reddick had gene to New Zealand, they gave up their accusations, and he was discharged. No trace of Reddick was discove.ed after ; and there were then left in the hands of the police a curious waistcoat with glass buttons, • sugar hag weighted with stones which fitted to a piece of rock over hanging the river at the point where Terry and Reddick were last at work—both articles fished from the bed of the river—and • white hat, with a curious hole in it, found in some rashes near the last-mentioned place. The hat and waistcoat were known to be Reddick's, but their discovery proved nothing. Five years elapsed ; and some miners found in the dry bed of the river, 100 yards from the place where the rocks had been broken, human bones and a sku ll . They were suspecte d to be Reddick's, for the shape of the. skull closely resembled his well-remembered • bead ; and when the old white bat was brought from its receptable and fitted to it, there WM► deadly hole in the skull which exactly corre sponded tothat in the bat. The suspicions against Terry, who still lived in the district, were revived. He was arrested, sad tried on the 9th and 10th inst. ; the old evidence was reproduced, and siientific evidence having proved the skull to be that of • European, and the bole to be a necessarily fatal injury, probably inflicted by • pick found near the place, the jury, after half an hour's deli. beration, brought in a verdict of " Guilty." The Chief Justice, who presided, then sentenced the prisoner, who seemed unconcerned, to death, without hope of mercy. CHILDREN LOST IN THE BUSH. (From the Mdbourne Argie, July 27.) Late on Sunday night, the 30th of last June, the Daylegion' police were told • sad story of missing children. At 10 o'clock that morning three boys, William Graham, aged 7, Thomas Graham, aged 4 and Arthur Burman aged 5 years, the sons of respectable persons, started from i their homes, in Connell's Gully, to search for wild goats. They did not come back to dinner, and the fathers, some what alarmed, started with some neighbours to look for them. By aon.o means or other it was ascertained that they had gone towards the junction of two creeks, but all traces were lost on the ranges between Sailor's Creek and Blanket-flat. Night set in, and the anxious fathers spoke to the police, three of whom turned out at once and joined the parents and Blanket-flat police in • search which lasted till 1 o'clock ' 1 in the morning. The night was cold and dark, and as no good could be done by looking, further operations were suspended till the morning. Then further inquiries elicited that a storekeeper named Muteh had seen the children four miles on the Ballan-road, and bad directed them to follow the telegraph wires back to Daylesford. They must have been afterwards led astray by the beaten track to Specimen-hill, on which, about dusk, they met a boy named Quinn, who told them that they were going train Connall's Gully instead of to it. The eldest boy did not seem at all alarmed ; but since Quinn left them they have been lost. This information was the fruit of Mon day's search, and becoming known it caused • feeling at wide-spread excitement. The mince of the Specimen bill Company's claim put aside their work and began • search, in which !bey were joined by the MOO on the Corinella mine, the telegraph saw-mills, and Clarke's mills, and nearly all the splitters in the terrible forest. The weather was boisterously wet and cold, but though it obliterated tracks it did not deter the zealous searchers, who at last found impressions of two different sized children's shoes, two miles from Specimen-hill, and in the direction of the source of the Werribee River. This is all Bullazook forest, and a nearly impenetrable region, the scrub growing high and abundantly, so that a man might securely hide from his pursuers a very few feet from them. Even the searchers themselves got bewildered, and when night set in the task was absindoned in despair. The party returned to Daylesford on Tuesday evening ; but so violent was the ebullition of public feeling at this want of success, that a public meeting at Bleackley'a Notel was called that very night. The town crier went round, the fire-bell rung, and at 8 p.m. the large room of the inn was filled to suffocation. The mayor presided, and with one voice it was agreed that business should be utterly suspended next day, that the search might be prosecuted by the inhabitants and the police, who had obtained the services of black trackers. The rendez vous was fixed at the Specimen-hill works, the manager of which kept the whistle, which could be heard two mike, sounding to nightfall. The fire-bell was also rung at given hours, and all day long the work continued, under the guidance of experienced bushmen, who carried bread and wine for the revival of the lost ones if found. Altogether, 600 or 700 persons joined in the search. Though all was in vain, the labour of love wee not suspended. Next day the shops were still kept shut, 500 persons went out, and in the evening 70/. was collected and offered as • reward for the recovery of the lost children. The reward was subsequently increased to 200/.• and tbegovernment offered • reward of 100/. more, but thi s was for the encouragement of bushmen and others, not the people of Day. lesford and neighbourhood, who continued their exertions all through the week with such utter unselfishness that it was only to remove a peat public inconvenience that shops were partially opened on Friday. All was still in vain, however, and a month has elapsed without furnishing the f aintest clue to the fate of these poor children. The two fathers, Graham and Bureau, have written to a local pair to express their sincere and heartfelt thanks to the inha bitanta of Daylesford, and their satisfaction that all that human aid could do has been done. The children cannot possiblyhave survived, although they were accustomed to travel about the ranges, were familiar with their father's stories of camping in the bush when he was a trader among the Caffres, and the eldest one bad often talked of what be would do if benighted in the bush. The pecu niary sacrifice made by the people of Daylesford, beside their offer of reward, cannot be less than 1,5001. Melan choly as this story is, it has • bright side in its exhibi tion of an unselfish public spirit, which we are con vinced is not confined to Daylesford, and of which we as Victorians have good reason to be proud. REVIVAL OF COVIIIITNO IN VIZ HONE PARR. — The refusal of the Duke of Beaufort (Master of the Horse), in his official capacity as Chief Ranger of the Home l'ark, Hampton Court, to allow coursing clubs to sport in this royal demesne last season, is this year withdrawn, and the sport will be resumed under more favourable auspices. The hares have bred prolifioly this summer, and, with certain stipulations, coursing will commence in the Home Park early in the mace. WRECK OP A YACHT.-POUR LIVES LOST. DONAGHADEE, THURSDAY Evzimia. The schooner yacht Tana, from Greenock to Kingston, has been wrecked off the coast, near //msg. hedee. The owner, Captain Knowles, of the 83rd Rep. ment, his wife, child, and servant girl were all drowned. The Grew were eased. LONDON ' DINNERS. The correspondence and controversy respecting London dinners confine° with unabated vivacity. " Hungry Clerk," who has just returned from a trip is Paris, publishes a bill of fare in which very excellent broth figures at three halfpence a bean. No attempt, he says, is made to worry • customer into ordering an beyond what he actually wants. Governesses , clerk ything s, saa that numerous class to be found in Paris, " petite rentiers," order just what suits their tastes and pockets, Clean tumblers and water are placed on every little table, so that there is no occasion to take wine or beer for the "good of the house," although of the former the "notion" (about a gill) may be had for three halfpence, quite enough for many when mixed with water. Another correspondent, who has been to Paris, dwells on the fact that, though meat is much clearer there than here, • good dinner including wine is served at ratan. rants suited to clerk., at from Id. to 10iL Where the charges are made only according to the dishes chosen, the prices are generally for soup 2d., meat 3d. and 4d., veg.. tables Id. and 2d., fruit or cheese, Id. and 2d.; coffee Id., 2d., and 3d. ; bread no charge at dinners. A box on the counter receives any gratuities for waiters. Tickets are sold and • discount allowed, varying with the number bought. In Reading, writes W. H. F. " I can get • first. class dinner, consisting of • large plate of meat, potatoes , cabbage, and bread, in fact as much as any moderate man can eat, for 9d. How is it, then, that the eating-house keepers of London cannot afford to do the same`" At • Working Man's Hall, established in Shrewsbury, a good dinner, it is stated, can be obtained for 54d. —th.., one good-sized plate of meat, 4d. ; one ditto potatoes, ld.; bread, } d. ; • cup of good tea or coffee, Id. extra, if re leveral correspondents suggest the establishment of co. operative dining and reading rooms with • committee of London clerks. It only wants, says the writer, some eau. getic man in London to start this, and in three months the city clerk micht have • good dinner for about 7d„ " The Civil Service Supply Association" is an instance of the beneficial results attainable by co-operation. Bra. playa engaged in the various branches of that service by the outlay of se. in the purchase of a yearly ticket have the opportunity afforded them of obtaining goods of every description at • discount, varying according to the dif. ferent trades, from 5 to 30 per cent. From another letter it appears that the Working Men's Club and Institute Union are endeavouring to promote the object in view. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) Tztoky, 88przisca 18, 8 A.X. 11. I L W. ' i l: 7 1drepe. , a IW. i N. It? -.—.----- .- —.....' ......--- ..-..- -... Nairn -- 606 7 .; W. 2 3 &N.Y. o 0.18 I Aberdeen - 20.6367] 8.8. W. 1 6 16. L cr 0.68, 3 Leith Ardroreen 29.77,- 1 W.N.W. 2 5 8. 0 0.25, 1 Greeneestle- .7867 W.N.W. 2 6 Z. re , 0.16 - 1 Valentia.., '1996 671 N.W. 1 4 W.N.W. 6 0.02 ' 3 Ilache's Point 29.60 621 W. 4 6 W. eI- 4 11= 90.8880! B. 4 5 8. eb 1- it 41 0.84 67. B.W. 3 8 I B.W. at 0.02 - Peersuce i 29.98 611 W.N.W. 1 5 1 W.S.W. crb , - 2 Brest ..- -eOO 60 N.W. 4 6 W.N.W. c,- I 4 'orient 925L N.N.W. 1 s w.s.w. Is , 11 Rochefort.- .96= LW. 2 4' W.N.W. r 0.79 t Plymouth 29.9157' Z. 0 6 , W.N.W. bt OAS 1 Weymouth 10.995 d W. 1 li W. LW. 6 - 2 Portersouth 2907 69 N.W. 2 4' W.LW. a- I 1 London 29.95 67. W. 2 i 5 I B.W. be - - Yarmonta„ 29.95 58. W. 3 6 1 & r- 2 Scarborough 19.88 54' LW. 2 3 . &W. b 0.07 2 Shields 29.8468' LW. 22' LW. a- 1 2 .IP t EMARICI. A strong easterly wind has passed over Scotland, and In the Channel the winds have been fresh from southwest. There has been a general increase in the barometrical protium ore the British lilies except in the north of Scothtnd. Thls increase, reported as taking place yesterday afternoon at Valentia has been considerable on the west coasts—nearly half an inch at ol) h. ad. Light north-westerly winds now prevail In the south of Ireland. Rain has fallen chiefly in North Britain, whilst the tall reported from Rochefort is large. " Argue," of the Post, complains that, " really the jockeys of the present day, with the exception of some three or four, give themselves such intolerable airs, that there is no standing them ; when they indulge in chats• paps for breakfast, and turn up their nose at any cigar afterwards less than the size of a sausage, how can they be expected to be fit for their business, or get through the work prescribed for them ? And those who hare led them to imitate their own follies are responsible for mat serious and expensive evils than they contemplated at the time." It is stated in a letter to a contemporary that at the jurors in the ease of Augusta Ann Mitchell, ten were in favour of an acquittal, and that two only were in favour of finding her guilty, and positively coerced the ten by the fear of being looked up ; so they compromised by strongly recommending her to mercy. _ _ The Bishop of Chester, writing to Dr. M'Neile, repudiates any intention of exactly balancing defects ea the evangeliml side in the church against excesses in the other. " Yon must allow me to remind you," be says, writing on the sth, " that the first formal complaint made to me of irregularities in the conduct of Divine service came from yourself and your friends. It seems to me, accordingly, just and right that while the reasonableness of your complaint is admitted, as it fully is by me, you should at the same time bear in mind, what I for my part am not permitted to forget, that faults of this kind are not peculiar to one aide." A CHILD Burrs sr • VIPER. -The distressing narrative which follows has been communicated to us .- " Two little children, aged respectively nine and eleven, were looking for blackberries in Handsworth wood, Tester day (Thursday), when the younger (a little girl) was suddenly bitten in the leg by a snake (supposed to be a viper). The elder (a boy) screamed for assistance, but, being frightened at the reptile, ran to his home, in a lane adjoining the wood. His mother was at home, and came to the assist- ance of the girl (her niece). But the poor little thing ass in her last agony. It looked piteously in her aunt's farm, and died without saying a word. The child's mother (Mrs. Hunt) was soon informed of this most distressing event She at once fell into a fit, and it was two hours before sin recovered. Her grief was heartrending ; she wept ad tore her hair, and showed every sign of the deepest woe. She is a widow, and the little girl who has expired under such painful circumstance was her only surviving child. The body lies at the Grove Tavern, Hareiworth, awaitial the inquest, which will take place to-morrow (Saturday). -Birmingham Poet. CROYDON CATTLE MARK ET.-BLISHICAE wY slightly better yesterday, at the following prices at per stone and sinking the offal : Sheep-Choice tiouthdoes wethers, es. 10d. to se. ; West Kent ditto, 4s. Bd. to es. 10d. ; and coarse sheep and fat ewes. 4a to 4s. 4d. pie, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 2d. ; store pigs, 15e. to 18e. a head. THIS PRICE OF BUTCHERN' MEAT.-The live cattle markets in the north seem to be quite glutted with shelf and lambs this season, and a great quantity of sheep is* be upon the farms in most of the grating district' ported to fact seems to be that farmers bought great numbered lean sheep and lambs last year in the expectation that do hrice of all kinds of stock would be very high, in which they ave been grievously disappointed, as at the present use sheep and lambs are lower than they have been for time years at least. In the second week of September, Irei. 6,300 sheep and lambs were offered for sale in Neersak market, and the avenge prices were-sheep, from 61. Bd. ; lamb, 70. to 84d. per lb. ; in the same week of leg 7,:018 sheep and lambs were offered for sale, and the price o}d. per per lb. ; were-she ep , ieen frost week l ef t• ir'466 " s s , o s d 2O is lit h eeP ,M. " ll. lambs were offered for sale, and the average prices wen-- sheep, from 81d. to 0.1, ; lamb, Bd. to 94d. per lb. TM week 11,100 sheep and lambs were on offer, and the svergo quotations wer e -sheepand lambs, :d, to 7d. per lb. in ma, case sinking the offal. In Newcastle and the district Fop , wholesome wedder mutton and lamb are selling in inn! ti retail at from 6id. to lid., and mutton and lamb of so ir feeler quality of from 5).d. to bid. per lb. The ven quality of oxen and heifers see alio 9d. per imperial •-"ru . lower than last year, and beef upon the average is sell". retail at ld. per lb. less. Turnips are an abundant one' the north, and fodder of all kinds is very plentifi.L PRINCESSES AND PERFTMERY.-NoRNIII” 3 princess cannot marry without some pert" ft ho mediately announcing that he has made use of bR to compose • perfume. Thus, when the Crarowirs 1 , 1 1 , married, a Parisian perfumer announced the " Enna Prinoees Heinen" for the pocket handkerchief. ?enure! sovereigns cured the king s-evil;' at present they contest themselves withscanting our linen. People hove sonic veil erroneous opinions about perfumers ; they imegine 0, 0 they are always occupied in chooving from WHOP; various plants those most likely to furnish an Renew perfume ; but it seems they pus their time in turnmi over the leeves of the Almannch aotha ; and when de name of • princess strikes them they ask themselve. wh"s will be the hest thing to make of her-an essence , ' cream. This question satisfactorily settled, they t ikr their princess, distill ber, bottle her up, place her nrs their shelves, and dispense her at the rate of threefranes half-bottle. If it amuses princesses to be distilled and 04 by the half-bottle, no one has • right to complain ; buy °I may remark that if a French dramatist had introdaer ,a Princess Dagniar into • piece, be would have been sector"" diately arrested by the censure. Nevertheless. it seems" us far lag unbecoming to introduce the Princess MPS on the boards of a theatre than in the adverti.ing agent' of newspaper between " sue au hi heron " and the " cis a Maims des Canass.-Tingey's Maga:use for September'