The Express. — London, England, 1862-11-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY Ermug°, NOVEMBER 11, 1862. mittee itself admitted the soundness of this prin ciple when it acceded to Mr. WHITWORTH'S stipulation that members of scientific societies should be present at the experiments. But besides that it rendered the concession practically futile by refusing Mr. WHITWORTH the means of fully showing the capabilities of his guns, and by refusing to conduct the experiments so that he and other men engaged in business might attend them, the concession itself fell far short of what the public is entitled to require. There are thousands of men of science whose opinion is eminently entitled to respect who cannot go down to Shoeburyness at all, and there is a constant stream of inventors, whose schemes, for aught we know, may be entitled to as much consideration as even Mr. WHITWORTH'S. To meet these cases there is but one resource. The authorities ought to announce each trial before it takes place ; they ought to admit all who desire to see it, and they ought to publish at once an official statement of its results. Then there would be security that nothing was done through special favour, that nothing was incorrectly reported, and that no suggestion which might come from the re motest part of the kingdom should escape due con sideration. There is nothing but the merest red tapeism which is opposed to such a principle. When Sir Gamins Lewis, last session, refused to produce to the House of Commons, then en gaged on the question of the Spithead Forts, the results of the trials of guns against armour plates, results obviously of vital import to the dis cussion in hand, he could allege no other reason than that "it was not usual to give " such returns." Now, beyond any doubt, these returns were at the moment in the hands of all the Continental Governments, for there could not be, and there was not, any pre tence that the trials could be conducted in abso lute privacy. The result, therefore, of adhering to precedent was simply that our governing body, the House of Commons, was deprived of data for its decision which the Governments of all our pos sible enemies had in their possession, and which we had furnished them with. What has thus happened with regard] to our means of defence, is happening equally with regard to our means of offence. While our Ordnance Committees are feebly invoking form and precedent, foreign nations are actively trying and carefully deciding. Despotisms have at least the advantage of being above partiality, and of being compelled to pre serve their existence by finding out and securing the best procurable weapons. A free nation can fight against them only by asserting its right to know everything on which its safety depends, and it can only save its Ministers from yielding to weakness or to malign influence by insisting that they act in the full light of day. first class credits, 2s. 01d. Government securi ties—Five per Cents., 101 i. Freights to London for seeds, 90s. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The attendance at the Exhibition was very slack yesterday, probably in consequence of the Lord Mayor's show, which filled the streets both with carriages and pedestrians. There was more pack ing up than trade, hut the former still chiefly con fined to the heavier and less saleable articles. We find that in mentioning in yesterday's Exhi bition notice the cessation of the more elaborate operations of the culinary department we were in error in stating that on the withdrawal of the fire men the commissioners had taken the initia tive. It was the contractor who gave notice that he was about to diminish the number of his fires, and as a necessary consequence a pro portionate number of firemen were withdrawn. The substantial facts, however, remain the same ; the firemen have been withdrawn, and the cooking has bad to be simplified to soups, chops, and steaks in consequence. The number of visitors was about 6 000. , . _ . Yesterday a further portion of the jury reports-- those on steel, musical instruments, surgical instru ments, and works in precious metals—was pub lished by Messrs. Bell and Daldy, for the Society of Arta. DRAMA. OLYMPIC. After the long dearth of dramatic novelties which has characterisrd the Exhibition year, it is a comfort to welcome anything in the shape of a new play. Without feeling any contempt for Lord Dundreary, or any want of appreciation of the "Colleen 13awn " and the " Peep o'Day," we are delighted at any alteration of our theatrical diet. Fortunately the drama by Mr. Watts Phillips, produced last night at the Olympic Theatre, under the title of "Camilla's Husband," has sufficient merit and taking quality to warrant us in applauding it on other grounds than a weak desire for change. The story is interesting, but somewhat involved. The dialogue is ambitious, and studded with a number of epigrammatic sarcasms on the world, such as have orna mented other dramas by the same author, but it is seldom weak, and is always dramatic. As the time of the play, however, is laid in 1762, the dialofoe might have had a little more flavour of the period. The acting contributed much to the success of the drama -CIRICC6IIII which was deserved andgenuine. Lady Camilla was played by Miss Kate Saville with a degree of power and earnestness reminding us very forcibly of her teacher Miss Helen Fancit. Her two great scenes with her husband bad all the dignity without the staginess which is the curse of whht is called the high drams, nor was she wanting in tenderness and womanly grace, when these qualities were required. Mr. H. Neville, as the &diet, has taken a first place as a romantic actor. His performance was worth more than the affected mouthinga of a dozen ordinary Claude Melnottes. His .sentiment was manly, his action graceful, and his elocution pleasing end unlabor-ed. With many opportunities for ranting, he kept his energy down, and reminded us at times of Mr. Alfred Wigan in his best moods. We can hardly give him higher praise. It is something new at this theatre to find Mr. Robson playing the her." of an underplot, and playing it with all that old spirit which first made his reputation. As a travelling tinker named Dogbriar, a character which is neither the Boots at the Swan nor the old porter in the Porter's If not, but which seems to be partly acompound of the two, he gave one of those characteristic sketches which have placed him at the head of low comedians. His dress, of the " Cheap Jack" order, was true to the life—the life, however, of 1861 not 1762—and his low, cunning humour, drawn from long observation of the class he was representing, relieved the more stilted portions of the drama. Miss F, Haydon played a young gipsy in love with the artist with a good deal of gentle grace; and Mr. Horace Wigan, as usual, made a quaint substantisl creation of the merest trifle of dialogue put into the mouth of an old selfish innkeeper. Mr. G. Vincent, as the villain of the piece, would have been much better if his make up had been less like a villain of the good old melo-dramatic school. Such villains take such pains to carry their designs upon their foreheads, that it would be wonderful if they suc ceeded in deceiving a child. There is no good reason why stage villainy should always be emaciated with a long, curly raven wig, and knowing a good many fair scoundrels, we should like to see a little change of hair. Him acting wu careful, studied, and not offensive. The minor cheraa tars, which were rather numerous, were tolerably well filled ; and Miss Stephens—a true artist—made the most of an old gipsy woman. The principal perfumers were enthusiasti. rally called before the cut Min at the end of each act, and the piece was announced for repetition by Mr. Robson amidst loud applause. The new farce—adapted from the French by Mr. Horace Wigan—called A Southerner Just Arrived, amuses by its extravagance, and serve to show the versatility of the company. MUSIC. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. EUROPEAN MEDIATION IN AMERICA. Under the above heading La Patric publishes the following : We reterdayconfirmed the news already spread for some days in England of an attempt at mediation projected by France and Russia in America. The initiative ef this step is due to the Imperial government. The proposition emanating from France has been immediately accepted by Russia, and it is with this important adhesion that the same proposition has just been made to the British government. What will be the reply of the cabinet of St. James's Public opinion is anxious to ascertain it. The joint action of France and of Russia might perhaps suffice to assure at Richmond and at Washington the success of an offer of mediation. France exercises a legitimate influence in America, due to her con. ciliating sad frank policy, and recently to her intervention in the Trent affair. Russia, on her pert, still entertains intimate relations with the Northern States, farmed by the exchange of services the least forgotten of which date from the Crimean war. But we do not hesitate to admit th►t on this occasion the concurrence of England is almost indispensable. The common action of the cabinets of Paris and of St. Peters burg would be powerfully strengthened by the adhesion of Great Britain, whose political position is especially under stood on the other side of the Atlantic. Yet, if we are to credit the stiU somewhat vague reports in circulation, the proposition of France and Russia has not met with a favourable reception at London. A Cabinet Council is to be held on Tuesday, and at this council the Palmerston cabinet will adopt its resolutions. GREECE. According to a despatch from Trieste, of the 9th net., General Grivas had addressed, on the 4th of November, the following proclamation to the Greek people : Citizew!—ln again assuming arms for the defence of the national liberties, crushed without pity by a system of government detested by all men, I request you, in the name of our country, to rally round the national flag, which the garrison of Vonitsa has so courageously raised. Citizens!—We are all Mothers. We all entertain the same sentiments. We all seek the cure of the same sores. Rise, then, all of you, es one man, to defend the National Sovereignty. GILIVA& The same despatch says that the convocation of the Assembly of Athens wiU certainly take place between the 20th and 30th of November, and that the elections will take place simultaneously in all the provinces. AIISTRU. The Vienna Gazette publishes the imperial decree convoking for the 10th of December the diets of the following provinces: —Bohemia, Dalmatia, Gallicia, Austria, Salsburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carviola, Bukoviue, Moravia, Silesia, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, and Istria. There will soon be nearly a thousand deputies assembled in 16 diets. It is wished by the government to cir cumscribe their deliberations in narrow limits, but there is a general belief that political questions will be thoroughly discussed. The reader will un derstand that the Reicharath, being composed of delegates from the provincial diets, the delibera tions cease from the moment that the latter com mence their sittings. Consequently, the deputies of the Reichsrath are making all possible haste with the remainder of the business before them. ROME. The Independence publishes a letter of M. de Persigny, addressed last year to the Archbishop of Bordeaux, in which he defines in remark able terms the situation of the temporal power. "Not having been able," says the Minister of the Interior, " for a long time past to govern its little state unless Italy was under the yoke of Austria or of France, the temporal govern ment finds itself smitten with powerlessness before every eye." The French occupation of Rome is characterised in terms equally remarkable. "It is," says M. de Persigny, "a strange situation; for, while on the one hand the interest of France requires that Italy should govern herself freely, without our having to spend our money and sacrifice the blood of our children in an odious mission, on the other hand, it is the interest of religion that the Pope, whether he exercises or not his temporal power, should be equally independent." The Prease of to-day observes that to those who would weaken the effect of this letter of M. de Persigny by objecting that it is a year old, it is sufficient to reply that in a recent circular the Minister of thelnterior ham declared that " nothing has been changed in the policy of France." NAPLES. The Italian deputy, M. Petruccelli della Gattina, thus sums up his opinion on the state of Naples at the conclusion of a long letter dated from that city, Nov. 2, addressed to the Presse of Paris : The condition of Naples is bad, but, not irreprrable ; to effect a core there is no need to can in foreign doctors, as has been done for Garibaldi. If the government should be lucky enough to find a dozen or fifteen capable men to be prefect; ; if it should please God, by a miracle, to give to the city of Naples a prefect, a mayor, ands municipal coun cil endowed with intelligence, activity, and a truo under. standing of the spirit of the revolution, men who have seen and understood what has been done in Perim ; if the parlia ment shall accept the proposal which I intend fru divrith to make that the session of 1863 shall be held in Naples—l am not speaking of making it the capital ; I do not inter fere with a principle, but only propose a remedy- -then, and in such case, you will see brigandage extinguished in a few months without the violent treatment of M. Lemartrions ; the city and provinces will be born again ; Francis 11. will become a Capuchin in Bavaria or Spain ; the Pope will turn his eyes towards heaven, and at Paris it will be understood at last that it is useless to remain at Rome—for Italy will be made—in spite of everything and in spite of everybody. The regeneration of the people will be accomplished by those means which in the last century were called six medi catrix netunr. (NEUTER'S TELZOIId v.) THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 11. The Royal Mail steam-ship Armenian has arrived here with the above mails. She brings 1,928 oz. of gold-dust, 525 doll., and 3,151 fran c s. Alarm has been caused at Cape Coast Castle by a mutiny amongst the soldiers of the Gold Coast Artillery. All was quiet when the Armenian left. It was expected that the war between the King of Bonny and the Eboe country would end a few days after the departure of the steamer. The King of Dahomey is expected to attack Lagos this month. He has been sacrificing some of his slaves, and is preparing for a grand human sacrifice to exceed his former atrocities. Major Burton, consul at the Bights, has suc ceeded in ascending the Elephant Mountain. Captain Tracey, of the Pride of Canada, and fire of his crew, died on the 28th. Trade at the various stations is dull ; but the health of the trading districts is on the whole good. INDIA. BOMBAY, Ocr. 27. Skirtings and mule twist improving. Cotton firm. Dialwa opium, 1,630 rs. per chest. Ex change on London, 2.8. 11. Government securities —Four per Gents., 93 ; Five per Cents., 103} ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 111. CALCUTTA, OCT. 213. Shirthip and mule twist firm. Oopper dull. Linseed and rice quiet. Exchange on London, Inc Court. OSBORNE, Nov. 9. The Queen, attended by Lady A. Bruce and Lord Charles Fitzroy, drove out this morning. The Princess Alexandra, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, also drove out, attended by the Honourable Mrs. Bruce. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday, from his seat, Broadlands, Banta. The Chancellor of the Exchequer ham arrived at his resi dence, on Carlton-horse-Mt:ace, from liawo-den Castle Chester. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, and Hong Kong. Advice,' from Naples state that the Prince of Wales and the Prince and Princess of Prussia, who are staying in that city, maintain the strictest incognito. Their royal highnesses, who reside on board the Osborne, lately made the ascent of Mount Vesuvius. The Duchess of Graftu left town yesterday to join the duke at Wakefield Lodge, Stoney Stzatford. The Earl an d Countess of Clarcudon have been receiving a select party at The Grove, oar. Watford, dying the part week. The Earl and Countess Russell and family arrived atChesham•place yesterday afternoon from Woburn Abbey. The Earl and Countess of Ayleeford and the Hon. Colonel Finch have left Claridge's Hotel for Paclenston Ha'l. The Earl and Countess of Morley arrived in town yesterday from The Grove, where they have been stay 'og on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarendon. Lord and Lady Ashburton left Bath Bone yes terday for Nioe, where the noble lord and her ladyship will remain for some months. Lord and Lady Taunton and family left town on Friday, on a tour in Ireluel. _ _ Loral and Lady Burgbley have arrived at Brown's Hotel. Lord Henry Bentinck has arrived at Claridge's Hotal, from Lincoln. Lady Agnes Jolliffe was safely delivered of a son and heir yesterday morning, at her residence in Upper Hyde-park-gardens. Baron and Baroness Meyer de Rothschild ar r:ved at their residence in Piccadilly yesterday, from Meet- I more. His Excellency the Hon. George Stafford Jer aiogham, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary, has left Maui:gy's Hotel for Stockholm. The Grand Duke of Baden received a visit on Saturday morning from the Duke of Nemours and his two eons (in the Spanish service). His royal highness after wards went to Brighton to call upon the Duchess of Cam bridge, and thence to St. Leonard. for the night. The Grand Duke left yesterday evening from Dover, via Calais to Brussels, where his royal highness will be received by the King of the Belgians. Major-General Sir Richard Dacres, commanding at Woolwich, having received a representation from the ' commanding officer of the Dapa Brigade, Royal Artillery, to the effect that the medical authorities had brought for ward for discharge from the service an unusual number of invalids of the depiit, who were in a had state of health, Sir Richard directed the subject to be investigated by • court of irstuiry, which is now bolding its sittiugs. A snit of the Hon. G. F. Berkeley, fur tho resti tution of conjugal rights. is to be beard in the Divorce Court during the present term. _ The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce are follow ing op the movement begun by Mr. Cobden for a change in the rules of international maritime law. Yesterday, the chamber adopted • resolution to memorialise the govern ment on the subject, asking for information of all the nego tiations, hitherto attempted on the part of any foreign government, which would affect the abolition of commercial blockades. The Dunfermline News emphatically contradicts the rumour that Lord Elgin, through ill-health, was about Ito resign the Governor-Generalship of India, and adds that the Countess of Elgin bas just left Broornhall, to proceed to India to join his lordship. The first meeting of the Royal Geographical Society for the present season was held Lust evening at Burlington Home, and was numerously attended. Sir It. Murchison presided. The subject for consideration was the recent re markable explorations in Australia. The number of persona who have attended the Royal Dublin Society's Botanic Garden at Glaatievin since the Ist of January, 1562, is 226,762, of which only 43,220 attended on week days, from which it appears that the people have availed themselves extensively of the opening on Sunday. There was a great struggle made against the opening, chiefly on the ground that the property would be damaged; bat, notwithstanding this very large attend ance, the council have much pleasure in stating that no damage has occurred to any portion of the property within the garden. The Prose states that the ex-Queen of Naples has at length, alter mach hesitation, resolved more firmly than ever not to return to Rome, bat to remain in the Utuallas Convent at Augsburg. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 11, Mounio. The Inman steamship City of Manchester, from New York on the morning of the 30th ult., has arrived here. She brings 38,000 dollars in specie and 24 pas angers. The City of Manchester did not touch at Cape Race. Her news has been anticipated by the Asia, viA Halifax. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Glom oint cows PARIS, MONDAY Enanto. People are on the tiptoe of expectation for news from London as to the answer to be given to the Emperor's alleged proposal for a triple media tion in the American quarrel. It is given out that the matter will be considered at an English cabinet council to-morrow ; but meanwhile some of the evening papers express, a feeling of disappointment that the telegraph should bring no opinions of the London journals of Monday morning. The Prase, observing that the fact of France having taken the initiative is now as certain as any extra-official fact can well be, says that it is a very serious matter, but that, although on the first blush nothing could be more conformable to the generous traditions of France than an attempt to put a stop to • bloody and disastrous war, the misfortune is that in the present case "the end proposed would not be attained." Slavery being, in spite of all assertions to the contrary, at the bottom of the war, the immediate effect of an armistice would be to re-assure the alaveowners and encourage them to take vengeance upon run away and rebellious slaves. The servile war now feared would be indefinitely threatening ; peace, assuming it possible, would only be made upon the backs of the slave, and that in a literal as well as metaphorical sense. The torrents of blood shed by the northern arms would have been poured forth iu vain, and the black spot would remain on the Union flag. The Temps, citing the paragraph in last night's Patric, says : We think no peat hopes can be attached to this news, even admitting it to be correct. The civil war in the United States is doubtless a great calamity both in itself and in its consequences. But how is European diplomacy to stop it? By what arguments is it to impose an armiatice ? And how in the present state of the question can it be hoped that "good daces" will bring about a reconciliation ? Mr. Slidell, the unrecognised representative of the Confederate States, is now very assiduous in his attendance upon M. Drouyn de Lhuys. The guests at Compiegne this year find the;* apartments all filled with new furniture—mahogany is discarded—nothing but ebony and Japan lacquer is now thought good enough. Bullier's Corres pondence, which I should be sorry to deprive of the credit of the story, says that the trans iformatiii is entirely owing to the Empress's late visit to Chamarande. Hee Majesty, on that occasion, was struck with the comfort and mag nificence of the Countess de Pereigny's visitors' rooms, and resolved at once that Compiegne should no longer be second to them. On her return to Paris she ordered her carriage, visited Suisse, Tallien, Giroux, and other purveyors of all that is most novel and expensive in furniture, and made a regular ra is of the contents of their warehouses. A whole army of upholsterers invaded Compiegne the next day, and within two days of the imperial visit to the minister, the apartments of the Chateau of Com piegne were transformed. The author of " Ten Years of Imperialism in France" may adds notice of this fact, in his next edition, to the chapter headed " The Imperial Fertilising System." The Bourse has been very heavy to-day. The abolition (whether temporary or not seems doubt f til)of the supplementary market of the "assessors" renders transactions difiicult ; there were rumours of a great diminution in the bullion of the Bank of France, and the uncertainty of foreign affairs, par ticularly with regard to America and Greece, con tributed to the indisposition to buy. Rente fell 20c. for cash, and 25c. for account, closing at 70fr. 80c. and 70fr. 85c. Mobilier fell 15fr., and the Italian Loan 50c. The Lyons Railway fell sfr., and most of the other lines 2fr. 50c.; but the Eastern rase lfr. 25c. A Paris letter in the Inclipendance says : The savors at the Bourse, who have just been deprived by an administrative measure of the exercise of the func tions to which they had been appointed by imperial decree, have appealed to the Council of State against the deciaion of which they have been the object. Should the suppres sion of the 118110111011 be maintained, an increase of the num ber of agents de change may possibly take place. There is a rumour that the Emperor will, after all, not come to the inauguration of the Boulevard Prince Eugbue on the 15th instant. M. Pereira has purchased the whole of the new building ground ou that boulevard for 8,600,000 fr. THE FRENCH COURT. A letter from Compiegne says :—" The first hunt of the season, at which both the Emperor and Empress were present, took place three days back. The meet was at Fort Poirier, and, as usual, attracted a large number of spectators. Their /dainties, with a num ber of the guests, arrived at about half-past one, attired in bunting costume. The Emperor, having mounted his horse, gave the signal for the start. While those who took part in the hunt were in pursuit of the stag, the spectators walked about in groups, di recting their steps where the halloo was beard, with the hope of being present at the finish. As the stag escaped, they were doomed to dire. pointraent ; and the curie, of course, could not take place in the evening. The Prince Imperial rode a spirited little pony, and seemed quite at home on horseback. He was dressed in the full uoiform of the hunt. The following morning the Emperor, accompanied by several of the guests, shot in the forest preserves. In thellaftesnoon an excursion was made to the Castle of Pierrefunds. In the evening Cuimir Delavigne's comedy of the Emit de.* Viellards was played by the company of the Thatre Freesias" Primo Napoleon paid • visit two days back to the Emperor at Compiigne. Oa the previous day bin Imperial Highness gave a grand dinner at the Palate Royal, to which were invited several of the principal editors of the Paris journals. IL Denny. de Limp has visited his; imperial highness. It is now generally admitted by commercial men that trade in France cannot be established on a solid founda tion until a thorough reform shall be accomplished in the laws which regulate IL The Corps Legislatif, in its last address, alluded to this reform as a neoessity of the present period. Parliamentary commissions have been appointed to recommend such thanes as are required in the existing commercial regulations. The Council of State has been charged to prepare the laws for enacting such changes, and the chambers of commerce are assembling, at the invitation of the Ministers of Justice and Commerce, to give their opinion on the laws in preparation. &America or rim Jaautra —From a book lately pabiisdied in Amain, it appears that them are at proseA 7,231 Jesuits. Of tame there ars 349 in Austria, 266 in England, 642 in Belgium, 2,203 in Frame, 156 is Galicia, 661 in Germany, 126 in behind 742 in Spain, 246 in Mary land, E.S., 19 in Maxim, 403 in Mimourl, 206 is the king dom of Naples, 201 in Holland, 277 in the proviam of Turin, and 226 in that of Venice. The., is not one in Hamda—lutes CRYSTAL PALACE. The "Saturday winter concerts" at Sydenbam began on Se turday last, and promise to be attended with the success of former seasons. Notwithstanding the November weather there was a large audience, who enjoyed an excellent entertainment—good music, well performed. The orchestral pieces were Gade's Symphony in E flat, and Weber's Overture to the freislititz, both of which were played, under the able direction of Mr. Menne, with great precision and spirit. Joachim's execution of Spohr's fine Cowart° in E was magnificent. We regret to observe that we are about to lose this incomparable violinist, who is re called to his duties as Music Director to the King of Hanover. The vocalists ere Mr. Santley and Mdlle. Zeiss, an Wye of Le Conservatoire of Brussels, who made her first appear once before an English audience, and Jiang two sirs of Rossini with considerable applause. Her voios is a fine contralto, and her style is good and musician-like. The concert concluded with " God save the Queen " and the Danish National Hymn, arranged by Mr. Mums. The concert-room has been entirely enclosed, newly vents. lated, and rendered more commodious than formerly, as well as improved in its acoustical qualities. Mr. D. W. Harvey suggests that all persons to whom tickets of leave Lave been granted end are still in force should be ordered forthwith, by competent authority, to report themselves at a given quarter, with their names and residences, and if need be to present themselves ; and that those persons who do not comply with such order within seven days should lose the privilege of their tickets, to be dealt with for disobedience ; and further that those who comply with this order, and give satisfactory accounts of themselves, should be placed in communication with the heads of police in the district in which they reside, who should receive instractioos to afford them the countenance which their conduct may deserve. ' " Accounts received from the cotton-manufacturing districts state that several manufacturers who bad continued to work notwithstanding the high price of the raw mate rial, that their produce has not risen in proportion, have closed their mill; having calculated that it would be mere beneficial to sell the raw cotton on hand than to ma nufacture it. _ _ The King of Sweden and the princes of his family were present lut week ►t the opening of a railway from Stockholm to Gottenbnrg, traversing the southern portion of the kingdom from the Baltic to the Northern See. This is described as one of the finest engineering enterprises of modern times. The A lta-California of Oct. 1 says :—" The de spatches which we publish to-day were transmitted from Chicago, Illinois, to Corson City, Nevada Territory, direct —a distance of two thousand three hundred miles—the longest circuit overland that the current has ever worked over. Were it not for the atmospherical phenomena of the Sierra Nevada, whose altitude is 6,000 feet above the ees, the CODOSiiOI/ to this city would have been maintained ; even as it was, the operator at Sacramento informed as that he distinctly felt the carnet and was able to read wane of the news in transmission. Sacramento is two hundred miles west of Carson. It is difficult to realise this wonder ful achievement." STOPPAGE OP ♦ VIEBIL LADEN WITH POWDER FOR TEI SounnaN Brass.—The Lieetpool Journal of Commerce has received informatics that the British steamer Anton, taking ammunition as board at Cork, has been stopped by order of the British government, on the posed that the supplies of powder, kg., were intended for the Southern Ohs deny. The same journal has reason to believe that despatches hams bees received, ressoestratmg with the British government for allowing as previous occasions privateers end weasels laden with ammunition, to be built and fitted out in Ilittlak ports. puus FIRST CLASS sad LONDON PRIZE MEDAL& WATHEIBTON cad BROODIN, GOLDSMITHS sad Hsssbcto77.l4 licortettaotreet, Coveotigardco. W.e., Leedom, N.B nos establishment la closed at •la the evoking sod co Saturdays at 1 o'clock. HARMONIIIMS.-NEW MODEL CRAMER, BEALE, and WOOD, 201, Begent,-xtreet. SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE. Bite iLr xpregigi• TO CORROYONDENT3. ,dvertteementa Intended tor " The Express" London Evening piper, must be at the calm Booverleatreet, by Two o olOck on the day of pebliestien. XWINT GARDEN. THIS Evamaa. Lorrs TRIUMPH. Mae Louisa Ppm and Madame Laura Bader: Maws. G. Perren, W. H. Weise. H l'..rri, Apieey Cook. and W. Harrison.—condnetae, Mr. A. Melleo.--Cummeace at L HANILUMIT. Tins \''Ycsisce. A DAILTOVTIR TO HARRY. Mies L. Romer. .—oUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Mame Sothern. [Mauston. : Mrs. R. Pitzeilliam —DUCK HUNTING. Mrs.Wilkins.—A.nd JACKS RETURN FROM CANTON. The Leelereqe. PRINCESS'S. Tina Evinnice, TIME ALL Maim Stephens and H. 'Feria Mimi Aylmer and Murray.—(Seeond ttrne; ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER. Ileum o.Vinliq and Stephens; Ulm Amy dedgwick.—And A ROLAND FOR A.N OLIVER. BRITANNIA. THIS Evennto, CAST ON THE MERCY OF THE WORLD. Mrs. S. Liwe —Sitialug by Means. Randall. 'Plimpton, Profe•wr Miley and Little Bob, Miss H. Coveney—Dsocing Mdlle. Stephen. —And THE FEMALE IiLEEREARD. Mini M. Lacey. HIGH WATZRAT LONDON DRIDOL, MI DAT Morning. 4b. 30m......1.144r000n. 4h. 4Sta. To-moshow—licehing, 6h. bm.....Atterhooh. btu Zia. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11. SIR Was. ARMSTRONG and Mr. WHITWORTH, while eagerly pressing their rival claims as artil lerists, have at length agreed on one point. They both impeach the fairness of the trials to which their respective systems are subjected by the authorities, and appeal to public opinion to com pel an open and equal comparison. It is but a week since a report appeared in our columns of some experiments at Shorncliffe in which the Arm strong gun was made to appear inferior to the Whitworth, both in accuracy and rapidity of fire. Sir W. ARMSTRONG immediately wrote to com plain that his guns should have been tried in a competitive examination in his absence. Mr. WHIT WORTH retorts that his guns have for four years suffered in estimation from trials conducted in the sine way. Each is confident that if he has only fair play he will be found the victor. But each has to complain that his efforts are misjudged and thrown away, because they are arbitrated on by an incompetent, an indifferent, or a partial tri bunaL In the interest of the public, whose inte rest after all happens to be supreme, we are bound to say they are right. The mere outline of the facts is sufficient to establish the charge against officialism. It is four years since these guns were first pitted against each other, and there is as yet no decisive experiment to tell us which is best. There were indeed some comparative trials insti tuted in 1858, the result of which, as stated offi cially, appeared to show a superiority on the pat t of the Armstrong gun. On the faith of these trials this gun has been adopted, millions have been, and are still being, spent in its manufacture, and it has been issued to our troops and garrisons in every part of the world. But the data on which this momentous decision rests are all at once vitiated when Mr. Wiirrwoivra assures us that his gun was then tried in his absence, that it was not served by his own men, that till this moment he was denied inspection of the official result of its trial, and that that result is utterly different from what his gun has been proved to be ca pable of doing in hands acquainted with its ma nagement. He tells us, moreover, that no subse quent comparison has been made, because the Ordnance Committee would not agree to the con ditions which he laid down as preliminary. These were—firstly, that the trials should be in presence of disinterested spectators, including members of scientific societies ; secondly, that the Whitworth guns should be worked by his own men ; and thirdly, that the trials should be continuous, so as to cause the least possible interruption to his busi ness. The Committee conceded the first point, but they refused the two others, and it is from their rejection of such obviously fair and reason able stipulations that there results the adoption of the Armstrong as the gun of the service, and the utter ignorance of the public whether it is or is not inferior in the most important respects to the Whitworth. This fact is of itself damnatory of the Ordnance Committee. It is quite clear, indeed, that the whole system of " secret experiment " is rotten. It is impos sible it can give satisfaction to the inventor, who cannot tell what private influences, or even what accidental blundering, may have been at work to render all his labour nugatory ; and it is equally impossible that it can give confidence to the public. The public, in this matter, is thoroughly impartial. It has, and it can have, no desire but that the most efficient gun should be that adopted in the service. It did at first full justice to Sir WILLIAM ARMSTRONG'S merits. It backed the Government in taking measures for procuring a supply of the weapons invented and manufactured by that gentleman, in the belief not only that they were an improvement on the old smooth bores, but that they were the ultimate improve went which science had as yet suggested. If, then, the public now begins to doubt that conclu sion, Sir WILLIAM has no one to blame but et) Committee which too ardently espoused his cause. We have, indeed, no satisfactory comparison be tween his gun and his rival's; but it is the very absence of such a comparison which throws doubts on the merit of Sir WILLIAM. For when it comes to light, as it now has done in official docu ments, that the Committee which professed to ad judicate with impartiality gave to one competitor the advantages of superintendence which it den'ed to the other, adopted the one principle while r - fusing to allow the other to be exhibited by any one cognisant of its method of work ing, and ffirdly, allowed their own Secre tary, by whom the experiments were recorded, to become a partner in the firm which undertook to supply the favoured gun, Englishmen are driven to the conclusion that fair play has not been done, and that the result might have proved very dif ferent had the ordinary rules of impartial competi tion been adhered to. The remedy for a blunder, the cost of which cannot be counted in money alone, lies in the adoption of the only system yet discovered which can secure impartiality, the system which we adopt whenever we refer a question of fact to the arbitra ment of • jury, or a question of legal science to the decision of a judge—the system of publicity. None other can relieve the tribunal, however honest and able it may be, from suspicion ; none other can yield reliable results. An Ordnance, Committee does not comprise the whole science of the nation, and on • question which concerns the nation, it is entitled to have con sulted the whole 00i01100 it contains. The Coin- SUDDEN DEATH OF T. MILLS, ESQ., .V.P, With sincere and deep regret we announce the sudden death of T. Mills, Req., of Tolman, and member of parliament for Totems. AU that we can learn from rumour prevalent last evening is to the following effect: —That Mr. Mills was riding yesterday (Monday) morning to the meet of Lord llacre's hounds, at Colecuan.green, sad when on the St. Albaserroad he stopped at a turnpike ( we hear the Fiddle gate) topay the bar, and there while nub. lug forward to pay the money he was seized with apoplexy and fell from his horse. Assistance was procured, and news of the sad event was sent to Tolman ; his carriage was de,• patched at once, the Rev. Mr. Houle going with it ; hut, before the scene of the attack could be reached, Mr. Mills wu quite dead. This sad news will muse general regret. Mr. hfills wu deputychairman at quarter sessions, man at Hertford Petty Sessions, and a very active cad able magistrate. He will be greatly mined.—Htrts Guar than. TES NEW LORD MAYOR A CANDIDATE POE PARLIAMENTARY HONOURS. The new lord mayor is a candidate in the con secrative interest for the representation of Southampton, sod has issued the following address : "Gentlemen,—A vacancy having occurred in the r e p t . mutation of your borough, sod having been requested by as influential deputation to do so, I venture respectfully to offer myself as • candidate for your suffrages. Whilst en. gretting the came of the present vacancy, I am glad of an opportunity of making myself better acquainted with y our important town, and I now proffer my beet services w the promotion of your social and commercial interests. 14 political principles are liberal-conservative, and it W.ll be one of my first duties to support such measures as will maintain intact the national honour. I am, therefore, of opinion that the army, navy, and defences f the nanny should be kept in a most efficient condition, so that we mar be independent of toy warlike movements which may l adopted by other power, but I think that the expense this should be reduced to the lowest possible estimate con. sisteut with efficiency. Having been from the commence. meat • warm supporter of the volunteer movement, continue of opinion that it is calculated to promote, as is has done, • feeling of confidence in the debility of our initi. tutions, which is so essential to the welfare of the people and the success of commerce. If returned as your represents. ties, it will be my duty to uphold that happy constitution under which we live, to preserve the relations between church and state, to remove as far me possibleall restrictioca upon trade and commerce, and to modify those inequalities in taxation which may unduly press on precarious incomes. Although sincerely attached to the Church of England, I think that all sects and denominations shou:d have the most complete freedom of worship ac. cording to their respective creeds, and I desire that education should be promoted amongst all claw:. I am prepared to support any measure that al settle the question of church-rtes on an equitable bus. Vinilst deploring the fratriddal contest now taking place in Metric', I approve of the principle of non-intervention which has hitherto been proposed, yet I trust, should her Majesty's government find it possible, by a judicious mediation, to arrest the horrors of war, sod alleviate the suffering of our fellow-uountrymen in Lancashire. they will neglect no opportunity of doing so. If returned as you representative, the consideration of all matters of local interest, especially that of extending works calculated to improve your town and port, will be my constant care. I shall take the earliest opportunity of addressing a public meeting of the constituents, and as far as time will permit of personally soliciting their support. —I have the hour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant, " WILLIAM A. lloso. " Mansion House, London, 10th November, 1802." THE REINDEER BET. Admiral Roue this morning publishes letters from Lord Portsmouth, Count Bathyany, and Sir W. Codrington, relative to the above bet. Lord Po rtsmouth rites : " Eggesford Rouse. North Devon, Nov. 9, Pea "My dear Admiral,—l forgot t mention in my state ment of what occurred at Mamboed that a paper was passed round the table at dinner with this on it—' Colonel Bar. naby bete 51. with Mr. Stewart on Reindeer v. Reindeer, referrible to Johtuon.' This caused the discussion and the beta ea to which was sight. The next morning Colonel Bar. naby came to me, and asked me to sign a statement to the effect that the bets he made were referrible to Johnicio. I declined—' Colonel Burnaby, I had no bet with you w with any one else on this subject, and I will not help you to recover your beta,' or words to this effect. I cannot reconcile Colonel Burnaby's statement in the Morning relating to the original bet with the paper I saw Nandrd cooed the table at Mamboed, and with Colonel Buruaby's request to me the next morning. Asa friend of your: I feel bound to tell you all I know of this.—Yours truly. " POILTSMOUTH. " I feel sure that Newman, Wentworth, Lamb, Mr. Gni wicks, &a. will corroborate this statement of whatthe papa contained." . . . . . Count Bathyany says that when the betting about tin word Reiodeer took place at Mambead, nothing was said about soy dictionary. " Secondly, that when, after fliDDer, Captain Stewart strongly insisted on the case being decided by Johnion's Dictionary, I declared that Mr. Ten Broect had never admitted any such reference. Thirdly, I believe that it was in consequence of my strong opposition to the ro ferringor deciding to any dictionary that it war sereednpon to refer the question to you and Justice Colbourn." Sir W. Codrington says that at the dinner Captain Stewart was the only one, he believes, who betted on tine same side with Colonel Burnaby. After the bets were made there was a discussion as to how they were to be settled. Johnson, Webster, and Welker were named ; but Colond Burnaby and the majority were strongly in fever of Johnson. "AD old edition was produced, chick gave it Reindeer, and when I and others objected to such an old edition, Colonel Burnaby said, ' When I speak of Johnson, I mean Johinco as published in bison lifetime.' To this I said, ' I give way to you there, bat Johnson must himself have published more than ore edi• lion, and as the last edition is always considered the mod correct, if Johnson is to decide, it must be the last editing written during his own lifetime.' However, what we in. tended to bet about was not how words were spelt in olden times, but how a man of authority and of good educating wouli spell in the present day. Nothing was settled about the bets that night, and I left Hamhead the next morning, end therefore was not present at the warm discussion that I bear took place the next night. I was not at the Fun October meeting, but when I went to the Houghton I heard that Captain Stewart had consulted you ; and I then told you of the bets I had made at Mambetul, an.l I understood you to say these beta were considered to be dropped." MYSTERIOUS CASE OF POISONING IN WILTSHIRE. The secluded hamlet of Ludwell, in Wiltshire, has been thrown into a state of great excitement by the discovery of what is hand to be a very foul and raj-de l...we murder by poisoning. In Ludwell lives Mr. Juba Riddle, a wheelwright., who was held in very high esti. ?nation by his neighbours. His wife, Ann Riddle, died on the 22nd of October, after an illness of some tIW end the investigation into the cause of her death is 'ltaly to have a very serious aspect. At the first ioqutry held before Mr. Nelson, one of the coroners for Wilts, Dr. Shettle, of Shaftesbury, was the pnocipal airman examined. He mid he had attended No. Riddle professionally since the 25th of August latit. When he first attended her she appeared to be autfenal from irritation of the stomach, and Dr. Shettle prescribed semodies for that complaint. These, however, produced no effect, and the patient's sufferings continued, sickle/ cud retching following after she had eaten or drunk any. thing. The doctor on boding this suspected that some irritant had been administered to the deceased, and ex' pressed that opinion to the husband, who stated that that was impossible, since almost everything given to his sifs was prepared at the house of • friend and neighbour mind Mrs. Trowbridge, a schoolmistress in the village, who "e in constant attendance on Mrs. Riddle. After sow nrr. sition on the part of her husband, Dr. Shettle idled Dr. Roberts, of Salisbury, who saw the patient on the 14th. To him Dr. Shettle communicatA his inss pinions, but that gentleman did not entirely concur io the opinion, and thought the CP.6 one of malignant &sada of the stomach. The ease was looked upon by both ► s hopeless one, and no medicine wee administned aftertts Bth. Mrs. Riddle died on the ?god. On the Nth Pt Shettle made, on his own responsibility, • post-""'lases examination of the deceased, which was at first objected to by Mrs. Trowbridge. The intestines an d omen:tan were much inflamed, bet the lungs, heart, and Fen cer ' dium were particularly healthy. The neopludtt stomach, bowels., and liver were placed in • jar. eb ,l was sealed and forwarded to Dr. /I erapath, 1 "'",„ Dr. Shettle doing this without communicatieg with It' family of the deceased woman. He strongly suspected not Mrs. Riddle bad died from poison. The body wan °le. quently disinterred, and examined by Mr. Carden, surge'''. of Salisbury. He found a remarkable absence of decor& I salon, sod no trace whatever of any organic disease. di! also was of opinion that a virulert poison had been IT miniesred. As Dr. Herepath could not conclude ba analysis for some time, the inquiry was adjourned till the 21st inst. Mrs. Trowbridge is meanwhile io custody. ne! stands remanded till Wednesday next. The other Pox of the body bash by direction of the coroner, been 'e nt another analytical oheasiek —Western Dail y Peas. Tag GLABGOW MIIRDER.—The convict takes the heal destiny assigned to her by the Home sorro w ! with some chagrin sod disappointment, and has shed tow abundantly at the provost of penal servitude for life. 11l the enthosisam of them who believed her ionomot. tw!W their wooer in saving her life, she had been uplifted HI the notion that she was forthwith to be set at liberty. At° she has sow asked " If the folk ootaide moos do oometluot mair for her." 111'14'61'a, the husband, who, we belle" is a respectable man, sad much to be pitied render tire w r. cumetenomb &boat to emigrate in a few weeks. Be .„ act of parliament it appears that penal servitude, Awl ""'" transportation, is the doom of those who have Wm ww demued to death sad whose sentence has been commuted.