The Express. — London, England, 1846-10-17 00:00:00

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We cannot notice, in sny way, any communication dud is sent to as anonymously; but those who eboo'o to address KE in confidence will Ind their confidence respected. NEITHERCAN W E UNDERTA TO RETURN ANY MANUSCRIPTS WisATEVER. Advertisements intended for TUE:press must be at the Office by Two o'clock on the day of publkation. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tun DST. —Morning, 0 min. Put 0; Afteroooll, 14 min. past 0. To.3o3asow.—Morning, 32 mm. put 0 ; Afternoon, 30 mkt. post 0. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 17. THERE could not be a more striking, pithy, yet comprehensive survey of the shameful and ludi crous deficiencies in our system, or no-system, of • public education, than that taken by Professor TAYLOR in the opening lecture the other day at University College, which was reported in our columns thefollow ing day. The marvel, and at the same time the stum bling-block, is to think how it happens, that with such preposterous principles, such gross negligence, suck null and defective machinery in the matter of educa tion, the English have yet contrived to grow up a • moral, industrious, and enlightened people, who have invented and perfected constitutional liberty, and given immense impulse and development to the human mind in every sphere of its activity. We believe, however, that the ruder the state . of society, and the more scattered the population, • the less the want of any instruction is felt, beyond what tradition and the first elements of religion con vey. It is in a more advanced and populous state, where life is a struggle, in which fortune and conduct lead to so many different paths and ends; where temptations are so constant and rife ; where the cur rents of ideas and morals are so contrary and confused; and where, independent of moral training altogether, so much is required to be known in order to place the individual on the common level of knowledge ;—it is here that education becomes necessary to life. in a great crowd, whoever falls is sure to be trampled to death. In an advanced state of society, the ignorant is sure to fall, and, in falling, to perish. We see this in the prevalence of crimes and con victions, compared with their infrequency beside the progress of real education. The subjection to brutal passions and precipitate indulgencies is best com bated in the lower class by its means. But inde pendent of the necessity of erecting this barrier to crime, and strengthening it more, the more a society becomes dense and thickly sown with temptation and distress, a most peremptory demand for educa tion arises from the irresistible force acquired by pub. lie opinion ;of which public opinion every man's voice forms an important unit. Democracy without intelli gence is the most fearful of governments; and democracy gains ground daily, and mast continue to gain ground, in despite of all that can be ruled or done. In order that knowledge may keep some proportion to this power, a system of what foreigners call secondary education has become indispensable. Abroad there is a department which is called that of Superior Instruction, intended for the facilitation of those studies which do not form part of the common speculations of life, and the profession of which forms a kind of priesthood of science and of letters. England has made more apparent provision for this department than for any of the inferior ones. It has furnished for it, wealth, edifices, and honours ; at least academical ; al though such has been the perversion of all these, that the greatest intellects and discoverers of our day have germed not in the garden of a university, but in the common soil of every-day life. The very name of superior education is indeed perverted in England. It means, in general, the peculiar education of an aristocratic class ; as if ten thousand a year required a different culture from ten hundred, and as if capacity of intellect was proportioned to grades of society and wealth. Mr. TAYLOR gave a most vivid and most amusing picture of "superior education" in the English sense of the term ; that is, the education of the well-born and well-provided. Strange it is to see how much the education of an English aristocratic youth resem bles that of the savage, and how the extremes of civili sation and barbarism are thus made to meet. The young Englishman, like the young Iroquois, gets instilled into him by his mates, not his masters, the essential virtues of unflinching courage, truth, and manhood. Honour, and the esteem of his class, become his religion ; the chase is his pleasure ; the steed his pride; the knowledge of some songs and jingling metres, his literature. Science he abandons to the sorcerers of the tribe. He knows life, that is, his fellows. He can live with them, compete with them, struggle with them. So can the savage. One might really think our universities and schools founded on ROUSSEAU'S principle, that the more man approaches the primitive state, the better and the greater he is. This rude excellence and aboriginal majesty being decidedly denied to the middle classes, it the more be hovesthem very seriously to direct their attention to the more vulgar means of education ; to the becoming fa miliar with the wisdom and experiences of past ars, and especially with that language which is the first best study of logic, and noblest exercise of reason and of in tellect. These and the other necessary parts of "edu cation secondaire," are in our opinion best provided in the Gymnasts of the German cities ; institutions far superior to the German universities, and peculiarly suited to the education of the civic and middle class in all countries. Mr. TAYLOR'S lecture was on the education of all classes ; and was calculated to leave a strong persua sion that while, as matters stand at present, we succeed in giving more of the elements of knowledge, with oat giving more of actual knowledge to the poor, — we are certainly allowing the intellects of all classes above the poor to stagnate and go astray in super annuated and inefficient modes of education, to which sensible men might be excused for preferring downright ignorance. THE rationale of reward in this country wants its Au kAt SMITH. It defies ordinary calculations and baffles commonplace interpreters. The Minister has at his command a certain sum, some 1,2001. per annum, for the reward of distinguished merit : literary, artistic, scientific, and we may now add, patriotic. Naval and military, political and quasi political pensions, are not awarded from this limited fund. These flow from a bater furnished purse. National gratitude shows itself in tangible and weighty forms to its defenders and diplomatists ; to those who die, and those who lie, in the service of their country. Our Generals stare their own colos susses in the face; our Admirals make signal for action under the inspiring alternative, "a peerage or Westminster Abbey." The well-dressed wily attaché looks up from an ambassador's dirty work, to the ambassadorial dignity in the future ; and dreams of lucky speculations in the funds, and blue ribands to come ; to say nothing of the pension list. But our poets, our historians, our painters, our chemists, our naturalists, our scientific discoverers, our social reformers, if they venture to contemn present pelf in the pursuit of the ideal, the abso lute, or the perfect, must bound their hopes of public remuneration by the 1,2001. of the Premier's Fund. Either a poor man has no business to be poet, painter, inventor, or reformer; or poet, painter, inventor, or reformer has no business to be poor. The choice lies clear before him ; as unmistakeable as that of HERCULES. Worship your ideal and be poor. Flatter vulgar tastes and be rich. The country will not encumber the question with situations for the acceptance of high-reaching art or science, or with pensions in indirect payment of a na tional debt—beyond the 1,200/. And even of this scanty 1,2001., part finds its way, it would seem, into strange pockets. Sir ROBERT PEEL WOn some credit by his distribu tion of it. The last moments of HOOD were lightened by the knowledge that through this fund his widow was secured against destitution. The aid that HAYDON implored in his death hoar was not refused; and here, too, the widow and the tt therleas were comforted from the limited but well-husbanded source of relief. ALFRED TE,i- NYSON has been raised above the carking cares thht fret the poet into incapacity, from the same fund. Regretting much that was left undone, we have had much to applaud in what was done. We have, in :a fair proportion of instances, seen the ground of the proffer, and applauded the justice of it, while in the hands of the late minister. But what does the reader suppose was the List pension granted by this grave and decorous states man—its amount, its object, and the service it rewarded? We subjoin the exact terms of the grant ; quoted from the Pension List, not from Punch. "251. per annum to JOHN LLOYD, in con sideration of the serrices rendered by his ancestors to King CHARLES 11. in his escape after the battle of Worcester." We have no pedigree-book of the Shropshire Yeo manry at hand ; but we presume, after a vain exami nation of the Boscobel tracts for the name of LLOYD, that JOHN MOM be a descendant of the PENDERELLS, the honest family of Hobbal Grange; perhaps of that very RICHARD "who was called among them TRUSTY RICHARD," who lent the King his "greasy old grey steeple-crowned hat, with the brims turned up with out lining or hat-band, the sweat appearing two inches deep through it, round the band-place ; a green cloth jump coat, threadbare, even to the threads being worn white ; and breeches of the same, with long knees down to the garter; and an old sweaty leathern doublet." Or he may be of the stock of that worthy WILLIAM, who did such gal- 1 lant devoir in shaving Royalty, and who, when his Majesty, after his day in the oak, "desired some mutton, if it might be had," did not scruple to lay sheep-stealing upon his soul in the cause of hungry royalty, but went with Colonel CARLIS to Mr. WILLIAM STAUNTON'S sheep-cote, where the colonel "chooses me one of the best sheep, sticks him with his dagger, and WILLIAM brings home the mutton on his back." Nor did his services stop here. " As soon as the mutton was coId,WILLIAM cut it up, and brought a leg of it into the parlour. His Majesty called for a knife and a trencher, and cut some of it into collops, and pricked them with the knife -point ; then called for a frying-pan and butter, and fried the collops himself; of which he ate heartily. Colonel CARLIS the while, being but under-cook (and that honour enough too), made the fire and turned the collops in the pan." From whichever of those true-hearted six brothers (all of whom knew the secret and kept it, when a word would have enriched them for life) JOHN LLOYD be descended, if from any, we can hardly find in our hearts to grudge him the 25!. per annum : and this withont discussion of the point whether the royalty saved was worth the saving. But is it possible that the merry monarch forgot his preservers, and left to Sir ROBERT PEEL, after two centuries, the task of rewarding them at the expense of the nation ? And if the 25/. per annum be pay for any of these services ; for keeping the secret, or for lend ing the jump -coat, greasy hat, and sweaty doublet, or for sheep-stealing, or for shaving his majesty ; what a very trifling sum it seems, to be paid in 1846 for the smallest of these values received in 1652. The interest has been accumulating all the while, and at last amounts to this ! Why, the cost of a penny shave of the period, calculating the different values of the copper then and now, put out at decent interest, would have realised more. As to the hire of the clothes, or the price of the sheep stealing in a court of conscience, allowing for time, it is miserably ander the mark. And how comes it that we, loyal and dutiful subjects of the GUELPH, " Black Hanoverian," every man of us, should be called upon to pay for services done to a Stuart? We prefer putting it in that dynastic way, to any discussion of the niceties of value in the good deed of JOHN LLOYD'S ancestor. . Is it not, on the whole, a pity that Sir RonERT PEEL did not come nearer to our own time ? These have been self-devotion and loyalty between the battle of Worcester and the defeat of the Protectionists, that have not been too richly rewarded. There have surely been unrequited services conferred on living people, as worthy of reward as the best done to a dead monarch. Is there not the poet with songs that have gladdened a nation's heart, whose own would have been lightened even by this poor pittance ? the hungry artist, with thoughts full of ideal beauty, and pockets shamefully empty of the one reality— money ? the scientific projector, whose conception may be enriching thousands, while its creator starves ? Might not official activity have found some case of virtuous self-denial, as rare as HUMPHREY PEN DERELL'S when he refused to betray his king ; of life and character risked in as good a cause as stealing a sheep to supply royal collops ; and acts of ready-witted rough kindness, as memorable as WILLIAM'S when he shaved the " merry monarch ?" Happy England, if her minister must go back two centuries for merits poor enough to want a pension ! Lucky JOHN LLOYD, whose ancestry instinctively knew that to serve a king was that only method of " casting their bread upon the waters," which would ensure their " finding it after many days." IT may be the magistrate's duty " to support the police ;" that is, to put the best construction on all they do, and to give the utmost amount of belief to all they say. But when a case presents two bodies of evidence in diametrical contradiction,—one furnished by an inspector, three serjeants, and four private constables of the police force ; the other by a number of witnesses, respectable in station, strangers to each other, and not labouring under any snapicion of col lusion with the accused or each other,—he must be a hardy magistrate who acts on the assertions of the police, and rejects those of the independent and unprofessional witnesses. He must be still bolder or less logical if, while admitting that the evidence is conflicting and irreconcilable, and, therefore, that there is a lie on one side or the other, he expressly leaves out of consideration the facts which determine where the lie is, and convicts, relying on evidence THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY qhiab Di reftemie exempla ...—, nake oneti itOugfit le be tared on. Ctimbirsietion:fit 4 / 7 oltrox aebie, -maw tie INUIIIOL - -1 . _ illbgicliikis is whaf Mr, lilitatGßlON has - iaved hi a dad at Worship street, reported in our paper of'Thuriflayi • • William Scott was charged with drunkenness and obstructing the police. Inspector Julian, IC division, deposed that while passing as horseback tbrouah Wlute-strect, Ilethaal.frreen. *bora, after twelve o'clock on Saturday night last, be observed a crowd of persons 38100. bled in front of a public-liouise, the majority of *horn wen latest. Wed. Having desired them to disperse, he again proceeded on Ws numbs, bat returned shortly afterwards, and found the gripper straggling t latently to dieengnie himself from n policeman who Ad ham in charge. He was emoumited in this I . ..anal:KV by a large mob who surrounded him, rind, apprehending an immediate rescue, wit ness sprang his mule for asniAtonoc, which arrived soon afterwards, and the prisoner wassecured. The Inspector added, that be himself gave no directions to the constable to arrest the accused. Here the prisoner is said to have been in charge, when the Inspector first appeared on the scene. FttAzen, 121 (K division also), found the crowd hissing and booting the Inspector, and threatening to drag him off his horse. The prisoner was prominent in the row, and he took him into custody. Here islio mention of any previous arrest of the prisoner. The prisoner denies the charge; brings forward householders of the neighbourhood, strangers to him, to testify to his sobriety; and declares that the Inspector's overbearing and intemperate con duct was the cause of the whole confusion. This is the householders' evidence: Mr. Henry Jackson, an undertaker in Winchester-etreet, Bethnal- I was then called, and stated, that while standing at the door of green, a house . with hie wife on the night in question, Inspector Julian sud denly turned the corner of th e street upon horseback, and advanced at full gallop down the road. The prisoner was standing at the time quietly conversing with two or three other persona, when the inspec tor rode in amongst them, and caused his hone to curvet and plunge so furiously, that in the rush or the crowd to save themselves from the animal his wife was flung down by them, and fell heavily upon the pavement. The inspector pursued this extraordinary line of con duct for some time, until a large crowd bad collected, and several of the adjoining shopkeepers ran out and advised him to dismount from his hone, as he was manifestly so much intoxicated that he could scarcely retain his seat. Witness did not observe the prisoner take any part in the tumult, end considered that his behaviour was both orderly and inoffensive, and that he was perfectly sober. John Sorrell stated, that he was present at the closing of a public house called the Woodman, in White-street, at the time spoken of, and while not more than about a dozen persons, who hadj ust left the house and were collected in several little groups, were conversing together, the inspector rode up to the publican's door, and, addressing a polices man who was standing with his beck against a shutter, told ltim to go in and see that the house was cleared. The policeman answered that he had already dose so ; when the inspector demanded to see Mr. Hayward, the landlord, who directly appeared, and told him that all the company bed left the house several minutes : to which the Inspector replied that he was as bad es they were, and he would make them all move off instantly. The inspector then struck his spurs into the horse, which reared in the air, and in descending came so close to Mr. Howard's shoulder that he believed it was struck by one of the animal's fore feet. He then turned the horse round, and, while the persons who bad been engaged in conversation were separating, rode in amongst them like a mad man, driving them from one side of the street to the other, and loudly exclaimed, "Beck all of you, or I'll run over you." The result of this conduct was the greatest confusion and con sternation, end the assemblage of persona, which had not before ex ceeded a down at the utmost, quicJtty Increased from the adjoining streets to 100 or 120, and a scene of indescribable tumult and indigna tion ensued, everybody crying " Shame " upon the inspector, and accusing him of being drunk. The prisoner was standing quietly by at the time this charge against Aim arose, when the Inspector, who had ridden out of the street, returned, pointed him out to a police man, and exclaiming "That's one of them," ordered him to be taken into custody, which the constable had previourly, be thought, no Intention to do, but then, of course, followed hit instructions. Wit nese felt satisfied that the prisoner was perfectly sober, but the inspector appeared so drunk he could scarcely sit on his horse ; end he could bring forward, if necessary, a greet number of housekeepers, a list of several of whose names he had then in his possession, to establish that fact. Mr. Thomas Saris, a surgeon, of Winchestersitreet, who witnessed the whole of the transaction from his door, also deposed that the prisoner appeared to him to be sober, and that though he could not take upon himself to state that the inspector was drunk, he could scarcely believe that any person in authority could have acted in so capricious and violent a manner if he had ben in • state of sobriety. No mention is here made of the prisoner's precious apprehension by the police. This fact, testified to by JULIAN, is never mentioned by any one else, and is inconsistent with the evidence of the witnesses. A Mr. BLAKE, a watchmaker, had made a separate charge against the inspector. Mr. Thomas Blake, a watchmaker, next stepped forward to make a distinct complaint against the inspector, and stated that, as he was coming out of a public-house, called the Britannia, about an eighth of a mile from the scene of this disturbance, he found the pavement so obstructed be the horse of an inspector, which was standing across It, that be wad scarcely get by, and that the moment he appeared he inspec tor addressed him in a harsh tone with, " What shall Ido for you ? ' and drove on his horse so furiously, that before he had time to get out of the way the head and neck of the animal were forced over his person, and he had a very narrow escape of his fife. On reco vering himself a second attack was made upon . him by the inspector, and he w-as oompoUed to rush into an adjounort chandler's shop for protection. lie immediately proceeded to the station-house, ACCOM panted by four or five witnesses, to lay aeoinplaint against the officer. , No proceedings, we may mention by the way, have followed this complaint. Hitherto the witnesses tell a consistent story. Now for the other side of the picture, as drawn by the police : In reply to this evidence for the defence, Inspector Julian called Sergeant • Graves, who received the charge at the station, and who stated that the prisoner was positively drunk, and that the inspector, who conversed with him for ten minutes on the routine business of his office, appeared to be perfectly sober. Two other sergeants ant threw private constables were also examined, and each of them deposed, in the most positive terms, to the ;arm: cffert, and that the prisoner had been very violent in the street. Here is manifest perjury either on the part of l the Bethnal-green housekeepers or the police. The case turns on the credibility of the witnesses, and their credibility on dehors evidence or inherent pre sumption. There is no use in calling more policemen. They will probably go on, ad infinitum, in the same story. The Dagenham murder case revealed their, readiness to perjure themselves, and their notions of the necessity of being " all in a tale:* The reputa tion of the K division is at stake. JULIAN may reward FRAZER, 121, and even serjeants are not beyond inspectorial favour. The witnesses for JULIAN are all of a trade, and a trade proved to be not very scrupulous in the matter of perjury. They live in the atmosphere of every-day oaths, administered in an unintelligible manner, and taken with a wink. No place is so likely to breed and encourage irreverence of such sanctions, as the police or assize court. Oaths, in such places, are the merest matters of business. On the other hand we have, among the householders, an undertaker and a surgeon (who, though they may be popularly con sidered members of two branches of one profession, are of two trades by the Directory), and a watch maker ; men of probable substance, intelligence, and respectability ; strangers to the prisoner ; who testify in the teeth of the police state ment. The watchmaker not only gives evidence, but has made a charge against the inspector on his own account. The account they give is consistent with itself, and probable. The whole story of JULIAN rests on one fact, the arrest of Sulam before the in spector's appearance, which is not mentioned by FRAZ Ell or any one else. Without this fact, JULIAN 'S interference is unexplained. Why is not the police , man called who is said by JULIAN to hare first taken SMITH into custody ? He would have settled this fact : a very material one, under the circumstances. Of the two stories, then, we maintain that, by the laws of evidence and the weight of inherent probabi lity, the householders' version should outweigh the policemen's. But, setting them on a par, what fol lows? Why, the case should be dismissed. What is Mr. BROUGHTON'S verdict? We will venture to say, one which no lawyer, no simple-minded unprofessional man, could have anticipated: " Mr. Broughton, in delivering judgment, said that he had devoted great time and attention to this case, which was certainly at great im portance to the public, as in producing en exculpation in the defence, the conduct of an officer of 15 yew,' standint in the force, awl from whom the utmost forbearance and discretion might be expected, was impugned; but the eridence adduced on either side leas so conflicting and contradictory ne to render it somewhat difficult to come to a satisfactory determination upon it. He should entirely (mac out of consideration the allegation of intenspera nee and riolenee against the inspector, as that was not then ',triunity before him for adjudication, and simply confine himself to that against the occused; and as the po pr ndiratiny ',eight of testimony had decistrely, i n his mind, esttc - blillied the fact of the pri.loncr's intorieation. tic should concirt him of that offence; but as he had already been subjected to a cotunderable period of oonfinement and inconvenience, he should impose upon him a much lighter amount of penalty than he should feel otherwise called upon to inflict, and that was, that be pay a fine to the Queen of or in default be committed to the tiOill4 of Correction for ace week." _ _ Mr. BROUGHTON convicts, leaving out of considera tion the allegations against the inspector'. But Mr. Buotunvos has no business to do anything of the kind. The charge against the prisoner is inextricably mixed up with - those allegations. JULIAN and police say, SMITH was drunk and violent. SMITH and householders say, JUL! kN was drunk and violent. " SMITH tens drunk," says Mr. BROUGHTON ; " but I won't say whether JULIAN was so or not." But un less you determine thatJULIAN was not so, you haven() business to believea word which he or the policemen say. You must settle this point before you have a right to move a step towards a settlement of the other. Yon cannot ignore the doubt as it affects SMITH, because you cannot clear it up as it affects JULIAN. Mr. BROUGHTON has, he declares, given care and attention to the case. We cannot conceive care and attention employed to worse purpose. lie has brooded over the affair till he has riven birth to a reductio ad absurdum. His verdict is sheer nonsense; and this is a case where rigid justice and strict logic were peculiarly 'G, OCTOBER nsteesary.,By his present judgment, Mr. BROUGHTON shrinks from declaring anything as to JetaAN, but has HO screple in convicting all the witnesses for SMITH of 'Wholesale perjury. Mr. BROUGHTON MIT not, and probably does not, see this. But it is, never theless, the sum and substance of his most sapient award. He has fallen very heavily to the ground between the two stools of the Bethnal-green and K division depositions. The suspension of the storm of polemics on the marriage question produced by the Genevese revolu tion among the Parts journalists was but momentary. It has recommenced with unabated fury. The despatches of our Paris correspondent of Thursday, which have arrived by . the ordinary express with the French and other foreign journals, assure us that the leading journals of both sides, having recovered breath, have returned to the charge with increased vigour. It would be impossible within our necessary limit to give even an abridged view of the articles pro and con which appeared on that day in the Paris papers alone, to say nothing of the provincial press. If the space devoted by the press to this question be any modulus of that which it fills in the public eye in France, great indeed must be the interest it excites. In ten principal political Parisian papers, eight oppos ing and two supporting the marriage, there are ac tually 32 leading columns devoted to it, 23 being opposed to and 9 in favour of it! On the eve of the marriages the royal printer issued a programme of the ceremonial which La Presse not only gives textually, but assures the Parisians that it was " stitched in a blue cover and stamped with the Royal Arms." The Debuts also continues its journal of the princely progresses and the nuptial festivities to the night of the 10th inclusive, on which, at a few minutes before ' midnight, the marriages were solemnized in the Salle der Trune, in the royal palace. The archbishop the patriarch of the Indies performed the ceremony. Besides Monsieur Alexandre Dermas, the novellist, and ' MM.,;Earl,'Girardet, and Blanchard, painters, commissioned to perpetuate, the one by his pen and the others by their pencils, the various scenes of the marriage festivities. Two leadiugfeuilktoniats, MM. Theophile Gautier and Amadee Achard, have accompanied the princely suite for the purpose of sending home from day to day reports for the ministerial journals, which reports occupy a conspicuous place in the columns of the D4ats, the Epoque, &e. &e. On the Bth, at half-past nine o'clock in the ev,ning, the court marriage took place, which consisted of the usual formal signing and attesting of the acts of marriage. The witnesses being assembled in the apartment called the Camara, at half-past nine o'clock precisely (says the report) the door was opened, and Queen Isabella entered the salon, accompanied by the queen-mother, the Infanta Donna Fernanda, the Infante Don Francisco de Paulo, with the son and one of his daughters, and the Dukes of Aumale and Montpensier. The two infantes wore the uniforms of cap tains-general with all their orders. The Duke d'Aumale that of a lieutenant-general, and the Duke de Montpensier that of field marshal, both wearing the cordon of the Legion of Honor. The two brides wore red dresses of a simple fashion, the queen-mother being dressed in white. The con tract being formally read, Den Cirnega, Minister of Justice, presented the pen to the queen, who first signed, and was succeeded by the queen-mother, the infante and his two children, and the Dukes d'Aumale and Montpensier. The only individual present, besides those who signed the contract, was the French ambassador, who affixed his signa ture as the representative of the King of the French. The royal family then retired, the French princes taking leave and retiring to the embassy. On the 9th, after paying his respects at the Palace, the Duke de Montpensier received numerous deputations at the embassy: the first of which was the diplomatic corps, all of whom, except the British minister, were present; Mr. Bulwer, however, sent an logy, expressed in the most polite terms, to the effect that peculiar circumstances compelled him to be abeent, profess mg. neverthelen,the most respectful devotion towards the King and royal family of France. A grand dinner suc ceeded at the embassy, and in the evening the receptions were continued. On Saturday last, the 10th, in the evening, the religious solemnization of the marriage took place; in the course of the day (being the birth-day of the Queen) the Duke d'Aumale waited on her Majesty with the felicitations of himself and the Duke de Montpensier, usage obliging the latter to confine himself to his apartment during the day. This custom requires that on the day before the public celebration of the marriage, the patriarch, charged with prsnouncing the nuptial benediction, should;demand of the august bride if the consent given by her proceeds from her own free will, and if any reason or religious vow is opposed to the celebra tion of the marriage. From the moment at which the answer to these formal questions has been rendered the bridegroom is not permitted to see the bride, nor to appear in the palace she inhabits until the solemnisation of the marriage. In the evening the ceremony took place in the grand Sella da Trone. To the right of the throne, were placed five seats fur the Infanta sister of the Queen, the Infante Don Francisco de Paulo, his eon the bridegroom, and the Dukes d'Aumale and Montpensier. To the left of the throne was erected the altar, with its ornaments. Behind their Majes ties, who occupied the throne stood the Great Officers of State, and behind the Infanta and French Princes stood the Ministers and Presidents of the Chambers. On the left of the throne were ranged the Ladies of Honour of the Queen, the Lady of the French Ambassador, the Archbishop and Bishop, and the Commission of the Royal Council. Oppoeite the throne stood the corps diplomatique. When their Ma jesties took their places upon the throne, and the 'dental' their seats, two processions were formed, each composed of four Grandees, four Major Domes, four Gentlemen of the Chamber, and four Gentlemen Ushers, who went to seek the august bridegrooms. The latter being thus conducted, and having saluted their Majesties, took the seats reserved for them. All being prepared for the commencement of the ceremony, the Queen rose, and, descending the naps of the throne, presented herself at the altar. The Infante, her intended husband, placed himself at her left side, giving her his right hand. The Queen-Mother then assumed her place to the right of the Queen. The Infanta Luisa placed herself to the right of her mother. Then came the Dukes de Montpensier and d'Aumale. The Infante Don Francisco de Paulo stood on ee left of his son. The Patriarch now ad vanced, wearing the mitre, but without the crosier, and ad dressed to the brides and their bridegrooms the customary questions. After the expression of their assent, the mem bers of the Royal Family interchanged felicita ions and their Majesties retired. On the next morning (Sunday) the royal cost,* was to proceed in grand state to the Church of Atocha. The procession was to consist of an escort of ca valry ; bands of music ; the carriages of the grandees of Spain and majors -demo; the carriages of the Duke d'Au male, Don Francisco de Paulo, the Infanta Luisa and her husband, the Queen-Mother, the Queen and her husband, the Captain-General, the Etat-Major, and an escort of ca valry. The Patriarch, seated at the door of the church, with his cope, mitre, and crosier, was to receive the cortege. On its arrival, laying aside his crosier, ho would celebrate the nuptial mass. The Onistitutionnel ridicules the version given by the Ileraldo of those negotiations which have caused the estrangement of England and have broken the entente confide. According to the Herald° ' Lord Palmerston happening to be absent from London when M. do Jarnac called at the Foreign-office to inform him of the arrangement which was proposed with regard to the double marriage, believed himself to be sported with on receiving the first intimation of the measure from the columns of the Debuts. Hence arose the com plaints made by him to M. Guizot, and the dissatis faction expressed by Queen Victoria in her letter to Louis Philippe. This difference was, however, ar ranged by explanations from Paris, when despatches arrived from Mr. Bulwer, at the Foreign-office, an nouncing that the proposed marriage of the Infanta was raising in Spain an opposition that would lead to civil war. Lord Palmerston then required that the departure of the Duke de Montpensier should be delayed, and upon receiving a refusal, he laid to the charge of the French government the events which might, in consequence of this alliance, disturb the peace of Europe. The Constitutionnel thinks that " The Recident of Lord Palmerston being not at home when M. de Jarnac called on him, should be the cause of the rupture of the entente cordials and the estrangement of two great nations, was about as reasonable as that the earth. quake at Lisbon was produced by the nod of the head of a Brahmin in India. In short," says the organ of M. Thiers, " the double marriage is perpetrated and the entenre cordial* broken. There remains a dispute to settle between England and France. Will England silently submit to what she has endeavoured to hinder , Evidently not. We believe that ' the offer of the renunciation of the Duke of Montpensier of his succession to the crown of France will not be accepted. It is probable that the renunciation of the crown of Spain by the Infanta will not he required, for that would be the occasion of immediate war. But it is probable that England . will immediately declare her resolution to oppose the succes sion of the Infanta or her children, if the Queen should not have issue. Such a threat hanging over the politics of Europe, would be productive of serious consequences, even though the contingency it contemplates should never actually occur. Nor would the presence of direct heirs to Queen Isabella remove these consequences. The relations of France and England, the probability of peace or war, the safety of the Spanish monarchy, would all fluctuate with the varying health of a young woman and her first infant. Suppose a year or two to pass with no signs of issue. Duriag all this time, mutual distrust in creases between England and France; peace becomes pro- blematical, and protracted uncertainty puts in peril interests which need to be supported by the assurance of the future. Is this perpetual state of dissent and distrust a favourable position for the two nations to assume? Thus the political relations of three constitutional countries—France, England, and Spain—are hazarded for the sake of a petty family inte rest, and the continuance of peace is suspended upon the existence, the health, and the nursery incidents of an infant yet unborn. Meanwhile, our family ministers and *mess sailors have obtained a fine triumph in the cold reception of our princes, the irritation of a part of the Spanish nation, and the rapture of the English alliance, with all the quarrels which the mutual ell-wal of the countries may excite in every part of the globe. And these are the ministers who for six years have prostrated themselves before England, and thought no sacrifice too great, no humiliation too debasing, to *mediate a country whose good-will is nowunhesitatingly sacrificed for a marriage and a dower." The revolution at Geneva is consummated, and the city restored to tranquillity. The provisional govern ment appears to have acquired the public confidence. When we compare the calm which reigns at this moment in Geneva, says the Revue de Genire, with the agitation which prevailed here some days ago—when we see the extreme confidence exhibited by the provisional government which has not hesitated to reinstate the militia, which three days ago had marched against the people. We cannot but consider that things have already returned to their ordinary state. The former government was the cause of constant irritations, because it belied its origin. Springing out of a constitutional regime, this government lately sought support in ultra-Montane fanaticism,sought equoroceal majorities, and damped the popular sympathies. Assuming a false position, by the incompatibility of its retrograde policy with the spirit of our new institutions, its existence has been marked by a continued attempt at reaction, manifested sometimes by unconstitutional laws, sometimes by the toleration of illegal acts on the part of those who desired to effect a counter revolution. Thus the constitution was falsified on the one hand, and a for midable reactionary party was allowed to be formed on the other. So early as the 13th of February, this illegal farce produced disturbance in Geneva, in endeavouring to pre vent the public from attending the debates of the Grand Council. The situation of Switzerland soon encouraged again this faction, ever ready to attack the constitutional laws. It declared openly the omnipotence of parliament, and put aside those articles of the constitution, which guaranteed the liberties of the people, In lending itself to the ultra montane faction it showed the intention to destroy those rights which the people had vindicated on the 21st November. It was very natural that the people of Geneva should be strongly excited on this occasion, its union with the liberal cantons was menaced, it was drawn towards an alliance at variance with its sentiments, and it was not con sulted in an affair which concerned its independence, although the constitution required that it should be. Moreover, when the people exercised its right of assembling, when they protested against an unconstitutional decree, the government took arms, issued warrants, and attempted to occupy by the military the e Faubourg St. Gervais. What was to be done ? To await a massacre of the Trient—to accept stupidly the unlawful yoke openly attempted to be impesed on us. That was im possible. The people, in their turn, took arms, entrenched themselves in the Faubourg, and waited the event. It was then that the republican government resorted to cannon, regarding neither property, nor women, nor children, bru tally pouring, upon a population which had not attacked them, murderous missiles, and which, until the moment when the necessity of a legitimate defence arose, had never, for a single instant, exceeded the limits of strict legality. Public opinion, however, soon exerted its power—the can nonade was silenced, the reactionary government fell, and the moment of its fall, tranquillity, security, and confidence were restored. The present peaceful state of Geneva affords the most unequivocal proof that the fall of the former government was called for by the public. The justice and moderation which seemed likely to mark the conduct of the successful Liberals, is rendered apparent by theannounce ment, that the establishment of an exceptional tribunal for the trial of the authors of the attack upon the people has been rejected, as not being conformable to the true wishes of the population, which is very far from entertaining any idea of vengeance. It appears by a return published in the Journal de ['Ain, of the 12th inst., that the number of killed and wounded has been as follows : In the city, five killed and forty wounded ; in the Faubourg, two killed and five wounded. The Commerce denies that the Gexevese revolution is to be laid to the account of the Anti-Catholic party exclusively, and as a proof quotes a Catholic paper, La Sentinelle, in which au article is given strongly favorable to the new government. A great protectionist meeting took place at Lille on the 13th. According to the Courrier Francais the last news from the Indian sea is of serious preparations at Ma dagascar, and that the government will, in spite of itself, be compelled to act to a certain extent. For a long while the Comores Isles, on the east coast of Africa, have been ravaged by the Nlalgaches pirates, who have ventured even to the roadstead of the Isle Mayotte, belonging to France. The Commandant Paasot has informed tho Governor of the Isle de Bourbon of this, and he has sent an expedition to chastise the pirates. The corvettes Prudente and Zelee, after taking troops on board, have gone to Mayotte, with instructions to coast along as far as Cape Amber. The expedition having reached the Isle de Sables, it was reported that Captain Remain- Desfosses was preparing to land in the bay of An tongil, at some distance from Tamatave or Foulpoint. El Herald° of the 10th says that " the man on whom were found two pistols on the day of the Due de Montpensier's entering into Madrid was mad, and it appears has been sent away from the capital." The Dukes de Montpcnsier and d'Aumalc took with them, besides several decorations for high func tionaries, three grand., cordons of the Lelgion d'hon neur, one for Don Francisco, another for Isturitz, and the third for the Duke de Rianzares (!). The Madrid Gazette informs us that if Don Fran cisco de Paula does not come to France, as it has been reported he will do, he is to take up his resi dence at the Palace of Buona Vista. The Heraldo says: Two days ago it was reported that the British govern ment had sent in another energetic note against the conse quences of the marriage of the Infants; but yesterday we were assured on the contrary that Queen Victoria had written a very satisfactory letter to Louis Philippe, iu reply to one which she had received from him. The rise of the funds here yesterday is attributed to this announcement." Letters from Valencia and from Saragossa are said to have arrived, announcing that a Carlist insurrec tion had broken out in the Maeztrazgo. This news has come at the same time from two opposite quarters, and is given in very positive terms. ITALY.—NAPLES, Ocr. 7.—A terrible storm, ac companied by waterspouts, bunt over Naples on the morning of the 7th. It is feared that great damage has been done to the country. At Portici two or three houses fell in, and fifteen persons lost their lives. On the railway two bodies were found, washed away by the torrents. In the evening of the 6th the telegraph was at work, but owing to the fog all that could be made out was, Alessiaa disaster. It seems that Messina was visited by a terrific storm. Seven villages are said to have been destroyed by the flood ; but the ru mours on the subject are vague. GERMANY.—BERLIN, OCT. 11.—We are assured that a rigorous Cabinet order has been addressed to the authorities of Nuremberg, on account of the resolution come to by the municipality not to send representatives to the Diet, on account of the expense and its uselessness. The government informs the inhabitants that they have not only a right, but that it is their duty, to elect a representative ; and to this is added a threat of a dissolution of the Assembly of Delegates of the town. ELECTORATE OF HESSE.—CASSEL, OCT. 10.—The Anita Gazette of Cassel of the 2nd inst. contains the follow ing ordonnance, relative to the execution of the second paragraph of the resolution of the Diet of the sth July, 1832, published the 20th July of the same year, concerning the prohibition of political associations: We, Frederick William, Prince Elector, co-Regent of Dense, refer ring to our ordonnance of the 20th July, 1832, concerning the ulterior measures resolved by the German Confederation for the maintenance of legal order and of tranquillity in Germany, make known : —The Feder II Diet, having reed ved in Its 23rd sitting of the 6t i August that communist associations are to be COOSidered es coin priest expressly under the head of paragraph 2nd of the resolutions of July, 1832, whence it follows that the authors, leaders, or members of such associations, in so far as they nourish plans of high treason, arc liable in all the states of the confederation to the penalty of high trea son, conformable to the established laws: the authorities, and all persons whom this concerns, are called upon to pay attention to It. (Signed) }foes D'ARNBERO, countervigned BICKEL. Cassel, October 2, 1846. FRANKFORT, Ocr. 10.—The anxiety caused from fear of political dissensions, owing to the affair of the Spanish marriages has subsided. Austria willl remain as hitherto in a neutral position. Nevertheless, the state of the Bourse is anything but statist ctory. 'the money-market is depressed for want of cash, which is to be attributed principally to the railway-speculation mania, as also to the increased price of provisions. The Prussian government is taking energetic steps to come to the aid of the Berlin Bourse ; new bank notes, to the amount of ten million dollars, are to he i-sued, and advances are to be made by the royal bank on available scrip. Some of the railway companies, who owing to the want of cash were on the point of stopping the works, received direct aid from the government ; 200,000 dollars are to be advanced for the Msulgeburg and Wittenberg line. These energetic measures will save Germany from the scan dal of a railway bankruptcy. A stoppage of the works at the present moment, when the price of corn is on the rise, and winter at hand, would have led to serious consequences. The news from Berlin operated favourably on the Frankfort exchange. GALICIA, 2.—ln the lust week seditious pamphlets, supposed to have been printed at Paris, contain ing communist ideas, have been distributed among the pessantry : the peasants, it is true, informed the authorities of the fact, hut, at the game time, manifested a sort of resis tance, which causes some anxiety to the government. The government has ordered large quantities of provisions for the needy districts. Tisisowskt, the ex-dictator of Cracow, is treated with great severity. It seems that by doing so the Saxon government seeks to avoid his extradition being demanded, and, at all events, the fortress of Knnigateiu is preferable to the mines of Siberia. POLAND.—Waasaw,- Ocr. s.—On the Ist Oct. the Jews at Warsaw were obliged to appear in the dress pre scribed by the authorities. It was a day of wailing for many who held it derogatory to their faith to appear in the European dress, and it fell heavy on many who were short of means to procure the necessary foods. Some of the wealthy Israelites still retain their own costume, by paying a heavy tax, on which condition a it till 1850. i s HUNGARY.—WhiIst the Jews in Hung ary rejoicing at the aboliti on o f t h e toleration tat, aaa that th r hreans rendering l a s jun° issued number e h hb e b! n hk ti ihlfrat settle d fGgot Aehr it turned "n3 thee w o i t J oe : d , m y wi hn i t ee 4i t h n o cg p s ynagog u es perm i t o " nd ar a i xvg a e nut n b n arengsuarYobtitholc;tajerniuSotidpfSe:SediLiv.onitiha dhias.c.beeinngsiattinnegwforeotnhsetitlutuuoteaard:rh matey, projected last spring . by a special committee Petersburgh. It tends to give the peasants a greater, of independence than they enjoy at present. g aa ,,, clergy sent in a memora n d um to the convention a necessity of a reform in the organisation a the ink * the labouring classes. .01t AND THE ) _ T C H O E L G O o N c LA ER L N MAURITIUS. —The strong measure adopted by Sir Willi G ee compelling the Abbe Eggermont to quit the colon,a certain to be brought before p ar li ament is - ' es ,,a' - government do not avert the necessi t y b y m eZ t e decision that will allay the popular ferment pen---/gd, island. Our latest journals f rom the ISlauritia— us to state the case in detail. The fa ts, as far .;•.! gather them from the colonial journals, ar e ; during the late visit of the Bishop of Mileve (ths e i Catholic bishop in partioui for Mauritius) to L e ; selected the Abbe Eggermont, a nat i ve of bteigiu. data in the colony. The choice was &par am F s ; Secretary of State for the Colonies. The Abbe p re , Mauritius, was appointed cure of t h e di str i ct of annual paid by government. Ile was ind e agi in the discharge of his priestly functions. 19seal evinced any excess of proselytising zeal, we lim e unable to learn. About the time of hi s a PPiI however apprehensions from Protestant prose's-ft.' widely spread among the Catholics of the diatriet; dissenting minister had established himself in the ri a gratuitous school was countenanced or support e d be Gomm ; and the foundations of a Protestant ciau4 laid at Plaines Wilhems. This was all very proper part of Protestants, but necessarily awakened a ps acting zeal on the part of the Roman Catholic clergy. Abbe Eggermont was pre-eminently zealous is his d reclaim or win souls for his church, and the ji • cautious and moderate journal, says : " Ile was 1 1 4 with jealousy; he was even injured on account of hag as we can prove." Affairs were in this state when lan occurre d w hi c h, we give in the words of the** " At the beginning of the month of May (the itl curate, having had occasion to go to administer sg consolation to a dying man, on his road visited ah who had from the beginning of the year bees &alai consumption, and was then in a state that left little / of her recovery. He left her, satisfied that in a ye ? time she would terminate her existence. Oa his towards the presbytery he was called by the hashed woman to announce that she had just died. They e the desolate house. There the curate is told orris that the woman had been pregnant some remitta l recognised that the infant still existed. He ex* the husband and to those who were present that an Bible to save the child ; and, authorised and mks them, he performed as operation, and succeeded, is as the child lived a few hours and was baptised by his its existence was of short duration, as it was not sulkiest vanced to live any length of time." It requires tobern here that the abbe possesses some chirusgical sad g skill, and had been accustomed to avail himself of it I benefit of his poorer parishioners. The district of Mol not contain a single medical prathitioner. A short Ma this transaction Sir William Gomm wrote to tie Mileve ' calling his attention to it, asserting the excited "disgust and amazement" in all classes of tb munity, and inviting him to concur in exacting th from the colony. The Bishop refused to accede te the nor's wishes ; and it was then notified to him that tie salary would cease at the end of the month, and ti chief commissioner of police had orders for his dept the month of June. To this the Bishop replied by I: against such an excessive exercise of authority, appeal to the Secretary of State for the Colons the 12th of July Abbe Eggermont said his fi mass at Moka, in the presence of a eonsiderableca both of the higher and lower classes. " Though the e was unfavourable, " says the Cerneen, never vas' more numerous congregation ; a protest at once ekes peaceful against the order by which that respectable elastic is expelled from our island. When the Able mont bade farewell to his parishioners, in words fa, of regret and propriety, the emotion was lathers's& taneous, and broke forth in sighs and sobs." Tkid look like " amazemen• and disgust" on the part of ti munity. And Sir William Gomm cannot pretend in that sentiment, even if it had existed. In his lees Bishop, he said that "the cond::ct of Abbe Egress:et' from any imputation of immorality,. his motives we and he had even obeyed a conscientious comet acting as he had done." " Why, then, is the without either formal trial or specific charge of deprived of his salary, and driven from the i He may be an alien, hut he has been ea and paid by the British government, and ens common right of all its employes, not to be dismissed Ili specific and adequate accusation, and opportunity! him for defence. Sir William Oomm lays noting Abbe's charge sufficient to warrant dismissal; as he says about the general sentiment is disproved by th at the Abby's farewell celebration of the maw I Circumstances, conjecture is afloat. Some attribute pulsion to the Governor's sectarian zeal ; othen tOri him a declaration " that in Mauritius they ought only English priests." On this assumption, even theta Maurieien exclaims : " We do not hesitate to say that this is intolersi that the question of individuals disappears—the Al germont is no longer the only person offended. ' spectable priest may leave our shores without fear of! disgrace accompanying him. It is not the man that missed, it is not the priest—it is the alien, the alien lie ! Oh, if English priests are sent here, they sod ceived with joy if they are like those whom we could!! they have the same affection for the colonists as the e have respect and affection for them. But when it I cult to compose as English clergy for a colony soh French language alone is understood, would it sot lation of the liberty of conscience to refuse to the pot the right to choose their spiritual guides elsewhereth Great Britain ?" The decision of the British government on the q the Bishop of Mile ve will be anxiously looked h conduct of Sir William Gomm is ill-calculated to eon loyalty of the Mauritians ; and this incident in the b Mauntius will make the priesthood of Ireland as flocks pause before they accept of donations or ' , oh from the British government. Me Court. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—Her Majestr, arm by H.R.H. the Princess of Hesse and HAUL tl ditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, w Frogmore this morning, and paid a visit to 11.1 Duchess of Kent. The august party returned to th in a pony carriage and four. Prince Albert, accompanied by tbi ditary Orani Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, enji sport of shooting this morning. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and 11.1 Princess of Hesse left the Castle to-day and tel Cashiobury Park, Herts. H.S.H. Prince Edward of Saxc Weimar Castle this forenoon and returned to town. Earl I left to-day. The royal dinner party at the Castle this is expected to include 11.1 CH. the Duchess of Ki R.H. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand D Mecklenburg Strelitz, the Earl of Auckland, and S Couper. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards w during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will a attend in the Castle. Their H.H. the l)uke and l)uchess of Cat and H.S.H. Prince Frederic of Hesse honoured market Theatre with their presence yesterday mai THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER.—Oa t/ Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester , been sojourning for a few days with the Marquis of derry, at Wynyard Park, visited the Dean of Dart the same occasion, Lori Scmham and his young Si their first visit, since their marriage, to the city. I occupied six c trriages and four. As a mark of M attachment to Lord and Lady Scaham, the horses sac out of the carriage in which they were mated, and t drawn two or three times round the market ph lordship briefly addressed the crowd, thanking the courtesy and kindness they had manifested toward and Lady Seaham. Her Royal Highness, after a at the Deanery proceeded to view the ca thedral, al wards proceeded to Wynyard. . _ THE CABINET.—Lord J. Russell has i.qm of invitation to all the members of the adriiinisn attend a Cabinet dinner at his residence in Cholla oa Tuesday, the 27th instant. The Noble Lord a: town yesterday morning from Wimbledon, sad tr business at his official residence in D ow ning-street. . Despatches were sent off yesterday , evenl the Colonial-office for the Governors of the We Colonies. Sir H. Pottinger, C. 8., takes his departure Cape of Good Hope immediately in Her M a j est y 's° Sidon, Capt. Henderson, now lying oil Weolwieh D The newly-appointed Minister front the States, Mr. Bancroft, in the room a Mr. Y petaled by his lady, as arrived in town from New COLONIAL APPOlNTMENTS. — Thed oubtswhi been so long entertained as to the destination o D' Urban arc at length definitively set at rest by his ment as Commander of the Forces in the Wind', Leeward islands. This extensive com mand (of ww badoes is the headquarters) comprehends the wball British West India Islands, with the exce_ption 0! and some minor dependencies. Sir B. exception) appointed Captain Kirkland, of the 20th Foot. military secretary. This is the only staf f &opium made by the gallant general, hie aides-de-canip and major not being yet nominated. The doubts yip!' to whether Lord Cathcart might not continue to re appointment of Commander of the Forces la although superseded by Lord Elgin t vernor-Gcneral, would seem t o be without tion, as we understand an offer of that it command was made to Lieut.-Gen. Sir J, fir Done , although the offer has been for the present declined gallant and distinguished veteran, little or no doubt