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Woodman, Sydney, and Plunipton.—To conclude with BAR RINGIVN, THE GENTLEMAN PICK POCK ET.—Commeoce, ASTLIS re. Tim Eammin. HAZISPIA.—AIteI which SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. Edlie. Mancini, Madlie. Lillian, and Young Dever.= —To conclude with a comic BALLET in which the Mimes Gun nies will appear.—Commeuee at 7. HIGH WATIRAT LONDON MIDGE., TIM , DAY Morning, lb. 50as.. AIS Dom sh 10111. TO-DOlROW—Mornieg. Eh. 25+32.....ADar500n, Di. 4.m. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. THE Archbishop of CArrasamtv has passed peacefully away from the scene which he so long adorned with a calm and gentle piety. Few bishops have been more honoured by the general body of their contemporaries than Dr. JOHN BIRD SUMNER, and his death will rekindle the senti ments of reverence and esteem with which Chris tians of all orders have been accustomed to regard him. The anomalous arrangement under which the most successful politician of the day gives chief pastors to the Church of England excites the admiration of Christendom ; but the most light-hearted of Premiers will doubtless feel on this occasion that a very serious duty is cast upon him. Lord PALMERSTON has had a rare experience in bishop-making. Without looking across the Irish Channel, we may count up fourteen appoint mental of this class under his administration. Objections, some of them well founded, have been made to certain tendencies perceptible in his nomi nations ; but we think the quiet worshippers who make up the body of the Church would acknow ledge that on the whole they had never better rea son to be satisfied in this respect. Whatever orna mental acquirements the bishops of the present day may lack they are men who regard the care of true religion as their chief business. It was not always so. For the high station now vacant, however, the average bishop of the day will not in all respects suffice. There are defects which, though of comparatively small moment in the administration of a restricted diocese, the highest excellences could not compen sate in an Archbishop of Canterbury. If Lord PAL mnawrow will on this occasion only look at things with his own eyes, and give the country the advantage of his practical sagacity, we shall all have reason to thank him. We think it will be generally agreed that in these days it is not desirable that the Primate of all England should be a man prominently con nected with either of the great Church parties. The opposite tendencies which are struggling in the bosom of the Established Church have their root deep in English history, and are stimulated by events of daily occurrence. To understand and appreciate them, in order to do justice to both, is one of the first duties of the prelate who is placed at the head of the English hierarchy. This is difficult under the most favourable circumstances, but it would be peculiarly so to one who had iden tified himself actively with either side. No doubt high responsibilities constitute of themselves an education, and any Archbishop would come to learn in time the value of good ministers of all kinds to a religious society. But it is not desirable that he should learn this lesson by a slow process at the expense of the Church during years of weakening prejudice. This matter is the more important, because the old expedient for evading the diffi culty by selecting a person of weak religious cha racter, and then vaunting him as • " moderate " man, is no longer applicable. Another evil to be guarded against is the choice of a bishop addicted to governing over much. It would be easy to name prelates who are greatly admired by some for the zeal which they display in hunting up their clergy and driving them, when possible, into novel and unauthorised organizations. Not content with overseeing and encouraging, and, if need be, stimulating the independent action of the local pastor, they accuse themselves of negli gence if their hand is not seen and felt in all parts of their diocese. An ordinary bishop needs some high qualities to outweigh the evils of ex cessive interference, but we have only to suppose the same meddlesome spirit transferred to the sphere tilled by the Primate, enlarged as that has been by the revival of Convocation, and imagine it busying itself with the larger concerns of the Church, to see how pernicious must be its action. It is not superfluous to add, that the new Arch bishop should be a man who understands his age, and especially its spiritual maladies, dan gers, and trials. Happily there is reason to believe that we have bishops qualified to do this. Unfortunately there are others who have taken too many pains to prove that they do not, and are moreover inclined to worry and annoy those who do. Much of the efficiency of the Church of England in the present generation will depend on her power to win minds which, albeit Christian in tone, need the patience of sympathy while they struggle to the sun and centre of religious truth through the perplexities of modern thought. Certainly if we were in danger of ex aggerating the influence of the prelates of the Church upon the formal and authoritative decla ration and Constitution of its doctrine, the expe rience of the last two years would have warned us. But, without falling into this error, we may recog nise the great moral influence of the most eminent of their number as representing to the world at large, by their writings and in their personal inter course both public and private, the attitude, so to speak, of their communion towards those who, weary 11.. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1862. and heavy laden, are seeking rest. If, however, we have been asking for too much in the new Arch bishop, at least we may hope to be preserved iron the exaltation of voluble episcopal pamphleteers, whose crude and rash judgments have been known to turn doubt into despair. We have made no reference to those family claims of divines to conaiderstion which it is usual to discuss at a time like this. We prefer to believe that Lord PALMF.RSTOW will on this occasion look only at qualifications and courageously appoint the best man. Walla most other departments of business are marked by the dulness incidental to the season ; while the Stock Exchange is almost deserted, and half the partners and employs in every commer cial and financial establishment are to be sought at the seaside or the lakes, on the moors or the continent—anywhere except at the well-worn desk—the cotton trade continues characterised by a most remarkable and exceptional excitement. There is still nothing in the whole course of com merce to compare for a moment in point of impor tance with the movements in this branch. The result, so long apprehended, appears, in the opinion 'of most persons, to be drawing nearer and nearer—namely, the complete exhaustion of the stock of an article of prime necessity. Those who have not watched tho progress of events may indeed be startled at learning that the entire stock of cotton in port at Liverpool is now reduced to little more than enough for a single week's con sumption in ordinary times. Of American cotton there is only sufficient for half a week's former average consumption. The natural inference would be that nothing remains but to arrest the stroke of industry throughout the manufacturing districts, to shut up every mill, and to throw the whole host of operatives upon . the poor-rates, or rather, upon that wider and exceptional measure of national bounty which in such case would become imperative. Bad, however, as the case is, it fortunately has not yet arrived at so extreme and calamitous a pass. At the present reduced rate of consumption there is still enough cotton to last for three or four weeks longer—say till beyond the end of September, and a temporary rescue is at hand from India. The excitement in the Liverpool market has at last produced • tangible response in that country, and, under the stimulus of the unprecedented prices offered, the quantity of East Indian cotton ou the way to Great Britain has now been raised to 462,000 bales, being about 100,000 more than was on the water at the corresponding period of last year. It has now become a mere question of hand-to-mouth supply; and, as the cotton trade strains its eyes and scans the ocean, it sees with a feeling of deep, though perhaps only transient relief the prospect of the arrival of about 200,000 bales towards the end of the present month, just as the existing stock here will be almost entirely used up, while of the rest of the Indian supply at sea, and men tioned above, the bulk ought to arrive in the course of the ensuing six weeks. It is anticipated that for two or three months the shipments from India will decline, by way of reaction after the effort just made. It may be so, but we are not sure that sufficient allowance has been made for the immense attractive power which will be exercised by the exorbitant prices now current. Even in such case, however, it is a matter of relief and congratulation to see how India, with her for despised production, steps in thus effectually and beneficially between our cotton operatives and starvation. India may now indeed be depicted as staving off absolute want for a period of some week', or even months. The fact that a portion of the much needed supply is close to our doors, com bined with the accounts of the activity occasioned in the producing districts and shipping ports of India, has already had some effect during the last two or three days in the Liverpool market. At the commencement of last week speculation was wild and rampant as ever, and prices leaped up enormously every day, but there has since been a pause, for the reasons assigned; and, though quotations are still much higher than they were seven days ago, the extreme prices of the week are no longer obtainable. It is true that the cotton at hand is in quantity only sufficient to give a working supply, and nut to afford hopes of a real replenishment of our exhausted stocks ; yet, after the anxiety which has lately prevailed, even this is a great gain, and, on the whole, it seems probable that the stock in port at Liverpool has seen its minimum for some time to come. As to the prospect of employment increasing in the manufacturing districta, there is, unhappily, none. The closing of mills has of necessity been resorted to more extensively u the stock of cotton fell, but was not solely determined by that con sideration, inasmuch as it was likewise greatly in fluenced by the range of prices ; and as there is no improvement in this latter respect (prices, on the contrary, being, as already stated, considerably higher than they were a week ago), it follows that employment will be further curtailed. This results naturally from the fact that, to take orders at the present prices of goods, and to buy the re quisite supply of cotton at present prices, would lead, as a matter of arithmetical certainty, to a heavy loss to the spinner or manufacturer, and the extent of such loss would be determined pre cisely by the extent to which he might choose to carry so disadvantageous a transaction. Some mills are of course in possession of cotton at the relatively lower prices previously current, and are steadily engaged in the execution of orders pre viously booked, while in certain credit able instances millowners keep at work on a reduced scale, though at a positive loss, as the beet means of holding their people together, and meeting the exceptional distress of their respective districts. There need this be no apprehension of a universal cessation of cotton industry. Indeed, now that a certain quantity of Indian and other cotton is coming in, there can be uo occasion for so extreme a measure, arguing, as it would, a virtual abdication of their duties by the employers amid the greatest casis ever known, the strain of which must be cheerfully borne, in due proportion, by every class. Never theless, the prospects of employment must unquestionably vary with the price of cotton, every rise of a penny per pound meaning—in the present disturbed state of the relations between the price of the raw material and that of the manufactured article—a further diminution of work for the operatives ; and thus, as cotton has ruled higher during the pest week than in the week before, it is to be inferred that more hands will be idle, and more mouths empty. Alluding to the reduction of the estimated stock of cotton in Liverpool to a quantity equal to less than eight days' average ordinary consump tion, an intelligent Manchester authority, from whom we have sometimes taken occasion to quote, observes :—" The bare mention of this fact only " shows too conclusively, after all that has been " written and said on the subject, how completely " broken is the reed on which the most important " trade and industry of Great Britain is made to " rest—that of anticipated supply from other " quarters than America." Yet the same reporters proceed then to enumerate the supply close at hand from India, and the additional quantity further off at sea from that country, admitting practically that, for the time, the famine is stayed. Let us hope, then, from this very evidence (the object of which is apparently to urge • pernicious and dangerous inter vention by England in the American contest) that the " reed " is not " completely broken," but merely bent. Great Britain has been able to get on thus far trilhottt that supply of American cot ton, the want of which, as the Southerners antici pated, was to beggar her and make her ready to cast to the winds all moral principles and international obligations. We recognise fully the exceptional character of the crisis in the cotton trade, result ing, as it does, not from a natural dearth of the article—not from any niggardliness on the part of nature—but from the abso lute withholding of an abundant existing supply through circumstances beyond our control. It is believed that there are at this moment in the Southern States upwards of three millions of bales of cotton, and • curious calculation has been made that, valuing this mass of property at only one half of the prices now bid at Liverpool, the loss of interest alone amounts to three millions sterling a year. tinder these circumstances, the fortitude with which the deprivation and its attendant trials are borne in this country is one of the sublimest spectacles of modern times. There is • great lack of logic in the tone with which the subject is treated in many quarters : possibly logical sequence is not to be looked for where in terest or feeling steps in and disturbs the calm ba lance of the judgment. Take, for instance, the tr.ially well-considered and always valuable state ment issued once a month by Messrs. Du FAY and Co., of Manchester. "So far, this year," this firm remark. " we have consumed about one " half the quantity of cotton which we did in 1861 ; " but how will it be next year, if the destructive war "in America should continue ? Our workpeople " have had at least half-wages compared with " the preceding year to exist upon ;" and here the local interest asserts itself, and Messrs. Du Fay and Co., regardless of all considerations higher than those of cotton, echo indignantly the trader's cry that " It is monstrous to think that " half a million of industrious people should be de " prived of the food necessary to life for want of " an article of which three million bales axe lying "ready for shipment in America." Out of con sideration for the mental effects produced by the painful circumstances of the time, we may peas by without further notice the peculiar doctrine latent in this sentence—which evidently is that, because our cotton interest has suffered itself to become almost solely dependent upon America, America may, under any and every circumstance, be com pelled to afford us the usual supply. But we may venture to think more highly of the prospects of the cotton trade than of the logic of its most intel ligent advocates when we find the same firm con fessing, only a few lines lower down, as follows : " We know from the beat authority that double " the quantity of Egyptian cottonuaually imported " is to reach this country next year, but the whole " production of Egyptian cotton is comparatively " small ; nevertheless, everything helps, and it is " now generally believed that ma if the American " supplies fail us in 1863, we shall be able to keep " the factories employed at half time with the cot " ton coming from other countries." The cotton trade, then, need not utterly despair, upon Messrs. Dc FAY and Co.'s own showing, even should the war in America continue throughout next year. LATEST INTELLIGENOL GARIBALDI. The news of Garibaldi's wound in the foot laffords ground for anxiety. Although the telegraph has repeatedly said that there is no projectile in the member, other accounts tell a different story, and the France, yesterday evening, affirms that 1 " the ball has not yet been extracted." Dr. Denegri, a personal friend of Garibaldi's, who was sent for by telegraph, saw him on the sth instant, sounded the wound, and expressed a wish Ito have a consultation. In the meanwhile he sent to Genoa for some ice, the application of which he ordered as a precaution against gangrene. Three deputies, MM. Mancini, Crispi, and Fer rari, have offered to defend Garibaldi before what ever tribunal he may be tried. The Italian government persists in withholding from publication the report of General Pallavicini upon the affair of Aspromonte, and this silence gives rise to conjectures and statements which are discreditable to the general in command of the royal troops. It is said that the Bersaglieri ap proached the Garibaldians with the shout, " Viva Vittorio Emmanuele !—Viva Garibaldi !" which was reciprocated by the volunteers. When within a short distance, the troops suddenly bred. Gari baldi was hit by the first discharge and fell. All the subsequent fighting took place around his body. The Ihritto publishes the letter of a Garihaldian officer, written on board the Duke of Genoa frigate, I in which we read : When the general received the bullet he was passing slung our front of defence, outside the first line, situated on the elope of, the undulating ground which forma a little bill close to a wood of fir trees. He was there ordering the men not to fire. I saw a slight shiver of his body. He took two or three steps, and then began to stagger. We ran to him, and, holding him up, placed him upon the narrow border of the wood. It would be impossible to describe to you the scene at this moment. The wounded lion, regardless of his suf ferings, was truly great in his indignation, and superb anger. Raising his cap on the back of his hand, he cried " Viva Italia! Viva Italia!" It was a sonorous, pro found, Titanic cry, which ctme from his heart. I had his poor foot resting on my thigh ; and when in his exaltation he apostrophised the assailants, and as he cried out to them, and as he looked at the guard and asked them what they did with his followers, I felt a shivering in all his limbs, and, reminding him of his wound, I implored him to be quiet. They constructed, as well as possible, a sort of hand tarrow, and the same evening at sunset the sad convoy commenced to defile from the Caacina del Forestall, which is in the middle of the plain of Azpromonte, to the hut of a shepherd named Vincenzo, whom I have known siooe 1860. If you bad seen Garibaldi carried on to the frigate ; if you had Nell him hoisted in his litter upon the deck, half raising his body, with his serene forehead, with his fascinating eye, speaking in his favourite Genoese di►lect to the commander and the officers, advising them himself as to the move ments of the litter ! It was a magnificent spectacle, and we ourselves, despite the grief of seeing him wounded, could not escape the effect. All this seems to me a dream. I can not realise the idea that the general is with us, that the lion of a hundred battles lies there bleeding, unable to move. • • • • The Mocimento of Genoa gives the following par ticulars as to the place in which Garibaldi is con fined. The building, which contains six rooms, has no furniture whatever, with the exception of some mattresses stretched on the ground for prisoners. The kitchen contains no other articles than two magpies, which often hop over the whole house. The food is not bad, but it is served without any tablecloth. The general's chamber alone presents any appear- SUPe of furniture. It is not very large. The walls have been at one time covered with velvet paper, which uow hangs down in shreds. There are two great cupboards of wretched appearance, and painted yellow, four or five chairs, a little table, on which stands a brass candlestick with a tallow candle, and the bed where Garibaldi is lying. " This bed is worth notice. The mattress is of doubtful thickness. There are four bolsters, but two are with out cases. We ought to add that M. Ansaldo, the commander of the fort, and Colonel Santa Rosa try to mitigate by their manner the harshness of the orders of the Rattazzi ministry." THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE DEPUTIES. The reply of the President of the Chamber to a letter addressed to him by 29 deputies, who begged him to ask for explanations from M. Battazzi of the arrest of some of their colleagues, is published lin the Italian journals. The president states that directly he heard of the arrest be went to the Pre sident of the Council of Ministers and asked for an explanation. M. Rattazzi replied that he did not believe the inviolability of deputies could be invoked during the prorogation of the session, and that the deputies Mordini and Fabrizzi had been taken fingronte &lido. The President of the Chamber goes on to say that he does not possess, in his opinion, the right to act in the name of the cham ber, unless that body have previously de liberated uponthematter ; and that as any deliberation of the chamber during the prorogati on is null, be does not , wish to subject himself to receiving a lesson in con stitutional law by interfering in his official capacity. "But," he adds, "if these con sideeations have dissuaded me from adhering officially, and in the character of president, to the document drawn up by the twenty-nine deputies, I am sure that they will believe that as much as any one I shall take officious' means, such as may seem most compatible with the dignity of the assembly and the defence of its prerogatives and guarantees—the common object of all the deputies of the Italy which we have the honour to re _ present." M. Crispi has addressed the followiug letter to the Diritto: Sir,—As the tribune of the nation is now silent, I avail myself of your paper to denounce to the country the machi nations of • political party that purposes to govern Italy with the violence of a state of siege. In the mouth of Juoe, unknown persons, having all the appearance of provocative 1 agents, presented themselves to me with offers of service for political ends of a natnre that no honest man would listen to. From the beginning of July I was continually accosted in the Carignan° Palace, in the streets, at my own house, by young men much of the seine stamp as the famous Troglia, i of the Acerbi cause notoriety, who unceasingly asked me to get them enrolled for Garibaldi. These cowards seemed to desist front their malpractices, after I had recourse, on the Itn of August, to the Questor Chiapupi, and charged this magistrate to turn his attention to 1 the discovery of all these proceedings. After • stop was put to the attempts of these pretended 1 partisans, and of those who feigned • wish to enlist, another and not less immoral plot was laid to entrap me. On the ! 10th of August • captain in the army came and asked me : for some money, that he might desert and join Garibaldi ; I and on the 30th of the same month, the morrow of the massacre of Aspromonte, • workman who said he belonged to the p r inting-o ffi ce of the Espero (a government or 'moderate paper), came to ask my advice for organising • popular demonstration in Turin. Faith ful to the plebiscite of October 21, 1860, of which I was one of the authors, my enemies should have known • that my loyalty and my duty forbid my offending the law, and, therefore, that their foul contrivances have been and ever will be ineffectual. Nevertheless, they return to i the charge ; and to-day they have given me notice that the police intends to arrest me, of its own special will (sun maw proprio), in contempt of the 26th and 45th article' of the statute, which, as a cigar and a deputy, I shall still and can invoke, in defence of the freedom and of the inviolability of my perm:. I can understand that Commendatore Rattazzi, in order to get rid of my importunate presence in the chamber, may be willing to violate in me the parliamentary guarattee,violated in my colleagues and friends the Deputies Mordini and Fabrisi. I defy him and his lawyers, however, to take criminal proceedings against me, that will not prove at least as clumsy and ill-founded as those taken against Colonel Acerbi. In any cue I shall remain at my post ready to combat by all legal means, and to disclose to the nation the: I)ecembriat designs and deeds of an anti national government —Behave me, &c., F. Cabo% Deputy to the Parliament. EXPitEss FituM PARIS (FION 00ft OWN CutIRESPONDINT.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVLtING. Much has been said and written on the subject of alleged meditated changes iu the French ministry. It is needless to observe that such changes under a system in which ministers are mere secretaries are of comparatively small signi ficance. Attributing to the subject, therefore, the exact weight which is its due, and no more, I be lieve I can safely say that the only change of the slightest importance likely to occur is the secession at a more or less remote period of M. de Persigny. Whether the Minister of the Interior will fall, as is insinuated, before a court intrigue, or retire at his own wish, it little matters. But I am given to understand that he will, iu all probability, not in any case continue to hold office for many months. The number of those months will depend upon the question whether or no the elections for the Corps Legislatif take place this year. If they do, M. de Persigny will remain to preside over them ; if the contrary is the case, M. de Persigny may be ex pected to quit office shortly. I finds remarkable unanimity of opinion here upon the question of the conduct to be henceforth pursued by the Italian government towards Gari baldi. Neither council of war, nor erection of the Senate into a court of justice, but amnesty, complete amnesty. Such is the general cry. There are, it appears, according to a let ter from Turin, something like 2,500 pri soners to be dealt with. Say you contrive to reduce the list by 90 per cent. Even 250 will form a tolerably heavy calendar. The idea of erecting the Senate into a high court of justice has appa rently been rejected, as presenting legal and tech nical complications impossible to deal with. There remains the court-martial ; but no one doubts that in the event of an adverse decision (which is inevi table) an appeal would lie to a Court of Cessation. This supreme court would probably declare the military tribunal incompetent to deal with offences of a civil and political character. It is known that the Emperor himself has advised an amnesty. In the..meantime, delay and perhaps hesitation on the pert of the Italian government are no more than natant!. The feeling of the country on the subject lhas to be ascertained, and the responsibility is great which weighs upon the constitutional advisers of the King. . M. Lavertujon, the editor of the Gironde, writes an account, in the same number of his journal which contains a warning for an article on Garibaldi, of an assault committed upon him by two persons, who forced their way into his house. The editor of the Phase de in Loire was lately subjected to a qimilsr outrage. M. Lavertujon, in a letter to the Pro cureur-imperial, declares that be shall hereafter be obliged to adopt the American system, and write with a loaded revolver on his table. The proceedings of a court-martial just held at Besancon bring to light a very serious military riot which occurred in July List. A detachment of 311 men of the garrison of Metz, who had volunteered for Mexico, were ordered to march, under the com mand of a captain of the Sth Regiment, to Lona le Baulnier, there to be incorporated in the 99th, which was about to go out. They arrived at Dole by railway on July 14, and the next day pro ceeded on foot for the little town of &therm, where they were to pass the night. It is alleged that the captain did not properly divide his men into sec tions, and that in consequence of his neglect the subaltern officers found their influence paralysed. It does not appear, however, that the captain has been brought to a court-martial. But whatever may have been the cause, the fact is that the march from Dole to Sellibres was most disorderly, and the soldiers entered the latter town tumultuously, singing obscene songs, and rushing wildly into drinking shops. Many of them got drunk before the captain had time to distribute the billets. A man named Leroy,who quarrelled about the amount of his reckoning, was arrested by the gendarmes, whom he resisted with violence, and attempted to stab with a knife. In the evening the soldiers turned out, made a riotous demonstration in front of the Hotel de Ville, and afterwards marched to the captain's lodgings to demand the release of their comrade Leroy.' The captain felt it necessary to promise that Leroy should be set at liberty within an hour. This promise was not thought sincere, for the men soon began to cry "Down with the captain—we will throw him into the water!" A hundred of them fixed bayonets, snapped percussions cape, to strike terror, and threatened to drive in the doors of the Hotel de Ville. They were only appeased by the release of Leroy, and then they carried him in triumph round the town. The next day a section of the troops, headed by a man named Rouiller, refused to march with the rest, and hoisted a Garibaldi flag, made out of red handkerchiefs tied together. In consequence of the above events eleven of the men were brought to a court-martial. The necessity for indulgence was evidently felt by the military authorities. Extenuating cir cumstances were admitted, otherwise some of the men might have been condemned to death. As it was Rouiller, the ringleader, was sentenced to ten years' hard labour in public , works, and two others, who had made use of their arms, to fifteen years of the like punishment. Two were acquitted, and lighter sentences were passed upon the reniainder. Such serious infractions of military discipline are no doubt rare in the French army, but I think there have been more frequent instances of them lately than heretofore. A very gross case of sack ing a wine cellar, on the line of march, was before the public not long ago, and the scandalous street fights of the carabineera at Versailles must be yet fresh in your recollection. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND HIS SCHOOLFEL - Lou's. --The commemorative banquet of the old ponds of the St. Anne public school at Aupburg took place a few days ago. The local Gazeitt publishes en autograph letter of the former ClitinOli the Emperor Napoleon , eddreseol to Dr. Hertel, who took the chair on the occasion. The following is the text :—" St. Cloud, August 30, DV -Monsieur le President,—l have heard with gat interest of the intended meeting of the old pupils of the Lycee of Augsburg, who wish to celebrate by a banquet the remembrance of former years of studies passed together: and I desire, es an old schoolfellow, to take part in ides 03 that pleasing fife. I have never forgotten the time whirls I mimed in Germany, where my mother found a noble b%- pitality. and where I eojoycd the first blessings of (dura tion. Exile supplies sad but motel experience. It teabes • knowledge of foreign nations, and an unprejudiced appreciation of their good q ualities and of their value ; and if we are afterwards fortunate enough to re turn to our native land, we nevertheless retain the riveit pleasing remembrance of the countries where we lase 1 , aa , 0 1 our youth—a remembrance which endures in spite of tree and political occupations. Your meeting gives me an oppor tunity of expressing those sentiment.. Receive them a" A proof of my lively sympathy, and of the oonekleration with which I em, yours affectionately—HAPOLDON." -tfter reading the letter the president delivered • few expressiom of gratitude, and gave the toast of " Napoleon, our old schoolfellow," which was immediately transmitted by tele paph to St. Cloud. In St. Louis, Missouri, all business is suspended between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., and those three hours a re de. voted to drill. - mied Tbe sed Unteci verea Sta w tef a i h war steamer Niagara is tlbe ROYAL FRES 1108PITAL, URAY'R-lEN-ROAD.—Th e number el patients relieved at this beapitr.l during the week eatheg Sept 6 wee 2,942, of which 894 were sew cases. ne Court. The Prince of Wales left Buckingham Palace at one o'clock on Saturday afternoon for Woolwich Arsenal, and embarked on the Osborne steam yacht at two o'clock for Ostecd. His Royal Highness was attended by Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles B. Phipps, Lieutenant-General Knollys, and Lieutenant• Colonel KeppeL Viscount sod Viacouniess Palmerston arrived in town on Friday (+venial; fmm Northampton. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office on Satur day from the Governors of Canada, British Columbia, and Vancouver's Island. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the North American pros inces and Bermuda, and also to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES The Prince of Wales embarked on Saturday at Woolwich, on board the royal yacht Osborne, for Antwerp. Instructions had been issued that the strictest primly should be observed, and that none of the usual demonstra. tions should take place on the arrival or departure of his Royal Highness. It was at first stated that the Prince would embark at ten o'clock in the morning, subsequently the hour of mix in the evening was named, but notwith. standing these statements, • large number of prisons assembled in Woolwich, near the entrances to the Arsenal, many of whom waited there for several hours, expecting the arrival of his Royal Highness. Early in the day a telegram was received by the authorities stating that the Prince would arrive about two o'clock. A small body of the police, under Inspector Birne, were stationed outside the gates and along the arsenal yard. The Prince and suite arrived in a carriage, drawn by four horses, and preceded by • single outrider, at ten minutes peat two o'clock, and were received by Sir Frederick Nicholson, the commodore of the dockyard, the only officer in attendance. The royal carriage wee driven to the head of the T pier, and his Royal Highness stepped on board, and immediately the moorings were let go, and the Osborne (Captain Bower) steamed away from the pier at 20 minutes past two. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived in Edinburgh on Friday from Stirling. His royal highness has been on a visit to Drummond Castle, and be fore leaving Stirling visited his Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess de Flabault at Tulliallan °Ardis. His royal highness left Edinburgh on Saturday on his return to London. His Highness the Prince lts.dziwill, Marquis de Beaufotte, and the Baron and Baroness Rottermand hare left the Brunswick Hotel, Jernlynetreet, for Paris. Prince Adalbert arrived iu London ou Saturday front Prussia. The Marquis of Breadalbano, who has been suffer ing from indisposition for some days past, is, we hear, much batter. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have returned to Hatfield from Bournemouth. We (Pori) believe that, although nothing is as yet officially settled with respect to the vacant see of Can terbury, there is no doubt that the Bishop of London, Dr. Tait, will be translated to the primacy. The Preston Guild Festival was brought to a close on Saturday evening by a juvenile ball in the Corn Exchange. There was a very large attendance, and the little folks enjoyed themselves amazingly. Nearly all the visitors have returned to their Lome., and the streets have assumed something like their ordinary aspect. Many of the' decorations were removed on Saturday, and probably not a vestage of them will be visible today. It has not yet been I ascertained what surplus, if any, will remain to be handed over to the Relief Committee. The festival has brought a good deal of money into the town, but the shopkeeper s complain that their extra receipts will barely enable them to pay for the painting and upholster/ work with which they endeavoured to do honour to the Guild. It is calcu lated that if the operatives had been in full employment, some 16,0001. to 20,0004 more would have been spent dur. ing the week . . The New York papers state that a cargo of 400 slaves were landed last month within twent3 -five miles of Havanna. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. The Oat Deutsche Post says :—" Despite the pre parations in the Garibaldi precis, despite the an nouncement that be is to be judged by the Senate, and although several eloquent deputies have offered to undertake his defence, we are convinced that the Turin government will not dare even to dream of carrying out any such idea as that of • triaL" Austria seems desirous to favour desertions in the Piedmontese army, and the ministry has just published a special decree on this subject. The prin cipal regulations are to the effect that the Piedmontese soldiers who desert shall be received on their entry upon the territory of the empire by the nearest military outpost, and handed ova: to the civil authority of the district. It will be only upon their wish, expressly signified, that they will be incorporated under the ordinary conditions as to the number of years of regular service. The only exception will be for Lombard soldiers who have previously served in the Austrian army and who, by virtue of the Treaty of Zurich, have been ceded to Pied mont. The latter, on their entry into the Austrian states, and after making known their intention of re-entering the ranks of the Austrian army, will be simply received. The time which they have passed in the Piedmontese army will be considered as leave which they passed in the country, so that the years of service will be counted to them from the date of their first incorporation. PORTUGAL. The Portuguese Cortes met on the 4th to give their approval to the contract of marriage be tween the King of Portugal and the Princess Pia of Savoy. The marriage will be cele brated at the end of this month. The Marquis de LouloS, who was to leave Lisbon on the 7th to join the young princess at Turin, took with him the Duchess of Terceira, three ladies in waiting, three gentlemen in waiting, and a physician. The future Queen will enter Frame by land. She will stop at Paris two or three days, and stop at Bordeaux, after having paid a visit to her sister Clothilde. FRANCE AND MEXICO. La Patrie, in announcing the departure of the last vessels that convey a caps d'art's& of nearly 30,000 men to Mexico, concludes as follows: On entering Mexico our soldiers will find what France always expected to find—friends. Our flag, in protecting the reorganization of an independent and local power, will only be completing the work decided upon by the parties who signed the Treaty of London. As regards the issue of this expedition, it may be easily foreseen. Our soldiers, return. iog their swords to their scabbards, will lame to French diplomacy the care of carrying out the task generously undertaken. And French diplomacy will call European diplomacy to her, and it is with the councils of the great Powers that civilisation, expected for more than half a cen tury, will make its first steps on Mexican soil. It is then that, free from the passions and rivalries which obscured it, the Mexican question will appear as France put it. It will be seen what interests were engaged in this enterprise, so badly understood at the onset, sod England and Spain will not have to regret having let France commence without them, without their flag, what France will ask than loyally to complete with her in common. (Rzuna's natisaAxa) SPAIN. MADRID, fiirr. 7. The government will take very severe measures against the fomentors of disorder, who throw bombs in the public streets. The Correspondencia Autugrafa asserts that the Pope would receive the hospitality of Spain should he request it. TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO. PARIS, Szrr. 8. The Paris papers of to-day publish the following telegram : " Rafalia.SePt• 7. " The Montenegrins refuse to accept the condi tions offered them by the Turks, and, taking ad vantage of the present armistice, have instructed their representative at Constantinople to demand more favourable terms. " The Montenegrins are transporting all their valuable effects to Cattail)." INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA. CALCUTTA, AuGum' 16. Shirtiogs lower. Twist dull Indigo unchanged. Copper firm. Exchange, first-class credit, 20ij ; government securities, Four per Cents., 931 ; Five per Cents., 105. Freight advancing. CANTON, Jun •2G. Shirting% no transactions. Tea held for high prices. Total export to date, 17,375,0001b5. Exchange on London, 4e. 7d. SHANGHAI, JULY IL Shirtings firm. Tea and silk active. Settlementa of silk during the fortnight, 6,000 bales. Export, 9,750. Exchange on London, 6s. 40. Freights higher. MELBOURNE, doLy 25. The shipments of gold since the departure of the last mail, amount to 144, 7500 z. Trade is active. Exchange unaltered. Trade at Adelaide and Sydney dull. Exchange at both places unaltered. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Sept. 8: CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, Bar. 5. The Euxine and Pers, with the above mails sailed this morning for Marseilles and Southampton respectively. The Per-a may be expected at Southampton about the 18th inst. The Colombo brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 4th. The Pacific Mail Steam Navigation Company's stammer Lima, which was lost near Cobija, on the south western coast of America, was insured. She had been ten years on the mail station between Pain= and Valparaiso. Last year she underwent a thorough repair in England. FRENCH AND &roman Fnmsammt.—The naval authorities upon the north-east coast are taking active mea sures to put an end to the encroachment. of large French fishing lugger' within the limits of our English :ierring fish ing grounds. The destruction done to the nets of our north country fishermen by the encroachments made by the French fishermen with their large looms upon the English ground has been serious. On Friday two French loggers Were brought into the Tyne by the gunboat Lively, Lieu tenant Kerby ; and cc Saturday the master' of these craft, Lejeuoe Henry, of Le Nord, N 0.460 ; sad Eidel Victor, of the Victoria. Lo'4lllll, No. 106, were brought before the North Shields magistrates, charged with fishing within the limits on Friday morning last. Henry, who had offended previously, was fined IW. and costa, Victor si. and coats. i