The Express. — London, England, 1866-08-15 00:00:00

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TurN EVINTRO, JACK MINGO, CHB LONDON STREW BOY: OR, TRY AGAIN, Mr. Reynolds ' • Mn. Yarnold.— Mr. F Kranz £ Miss Amy Rosalind : Mr. C. Brown ; Miss Lydia Latimer; Muter K. Sanders.—THE JOLLY DUGS OF LONDON. HIGH WATS& AT LONDON BRIDGE, -..--- Intt DAY —Morning. 4h. 54m Afternoon. Sh. 11m. To-Yonnow—Morning, sh. YSm Afternoon, Mx 47m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 15. 'Paz outspoken jubilations of what may be termed the party of obstruction are not the least ominous consequence of the recent proceedings of the Poor-law Board. It is undoubtedly strange that alterations professedly made with an eye to improvement should command the admiration of men desperately opposed to change; and when parish official and the consistent advocates of routine unite in praising, reformers may be par doned if they look their gift-horse somewhat curiously in the mouth. Mr. GATHORNY HARDY represents that typical quadruped. After many angry denunciations from fortuitous concourses of vestrymen, after patient investigations into the causes of the evils which lay heavy on the conscience of the country, and just as the difficulties attending a change were being generally recognised, the gods sent the present PIAESIDRNT of the POOR-LAW BOARD upon the scene. Mr. VlLmass, remembering the interested opposition with which his Union Chargeability Bill and the Metropolitan Homeless Poor Act had been met, had publicly confessed his powers to be insufficient, and that until definite control over parish guardians was awarded by Parliament, he had little hope of effecting any radical or compre hensive change. Every independent inquirer, philanthropist, politician, or publicist, who had made the Poor-law abuses of London his study, endorsed a view which constant newspaper re ports and the frequent speeches and acts of parish guardians tended to confirm. An action in the Court of Queen's Bench had been the penalty paid by the Poor-law Board for one of its inspectors attempting to perform his bounden duty ; official instructions had been openly defied until public opinion was brought to bear upon the offenders ; the gauntlet had been repeatedly thrown down by vestry-mom oracles. Workhouses were notoriously mis managed sick paupers tortured and starved ; the houseless poor stacked away in noisome holes; while the rules and regulations, which in theory made all these things impossible, were quoted with amazement by those seeking to solve the difficulty. In the typical cases of Ber mondsey, Lambeth, and Clerkenwell, the cen tral authority was defied or defrauded. The indignant questions put by the House of Commons were met by renewed confessions of inadequate power ; no man or body of men seemed directly—that is, penally—responsible for the inhumanities so frequently proved ; and the country stood aghast at the shameful fact of the first duty of the wealthiest and most powerful city in the world being entrusted to incapablea, who were too stupid or too corrupt to mend their ways. Such was the situation when Mr. VILLIZIS met the influential deputation advocating the cause of the sick poor, with a frank endorsement of the charges they preferred. It was then patent to us all that reform was needed, and that neither petty interests nor local dignity must be allowed to impede common jus tice. For the argument used by the Archbishop of YORE, at the initiatory meeting of the Sick Poor Association, was the one which formed the common-sense basis of the discussions held. The poorer class of ratepayers had no guarantee against ill-treatment if they fell upon evil times, and it was insisted that to ensure them this was no less the duty than the policy of the State. Just as these arguments were known to be bearing fruit, Mr. HARDY astonished the country by declaring existing evils to be due, not to the legal powerlessness, but the personal incapacity of the late Poor-law Board. Nothing could be e osier, he argued, than to keep guardians to their duty ; nothing less difficult than to ensure proper treatment to paupers. Scandals had arisen only because the remedies at the com mand of the central authority had been neglected ; and it was with the modest inference that, as a really able steersman now held the helm, rocks and breakers would be avoided, that the new Presi dent inaugurated his term of office. The transfer of Mr. FARNALL from the metropolitan to the pro vincial district, and the formal refusal to annoy guardians by an official inquiry into the suspicious circumstances under which a pauper died, have up to this time been the only noteworthy incidents of the new reign. It is, however, widely rumoured that Mr. FARNALL'S removal is due to other causes than a wish for unbiassed information respecting the evils rampant in the metropolitan district ; and this hypothesis gains force and strength when the officials who were assn many thorns in the aide of Mr. Vumeas are found to be retained in office by his successor. It would have been far less startling to learn that an official nonentity had been sent as inspector to a distant province than that the inspector whose honest endeavours to carry out the law have identified him with progress should have been roughly shelved by (he President, who ostenta tiously vaunted himself as a reformer. But in truth the constitution of the Poor-law Board needs modification as strongly as the most ill conducted board of guardians of them all. At present a change of Ministry bestows absolute power upon some gentleman whose party services entitle him to office. The permanent officials THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1866. almost necessarily have their new chief at their EDUCATION.—EEPOBT OF THE COMMITTEE. mercy, and the policy of the Minister is facilitate d T h y morn i ng scorning was issued . th • repast of the select or thwarted as best harmoni ses or their tastes. Knowing till h . ii,nd ' uw as . 1 :4:71 . : ::, commutes mi co ttaxegro o in i ted to hpe o i u nre u inns the constitution of and the sydem to lose Mr. FARNALL, because wishes tto ion-' under seliga i Ths businnet of the offise is conducted, and prove the condition of the poor, we should be also into the best modular extending the benefits of go glad to know on what principle other officials varnment inspection and the parlianioniary grant to having the ear of the President are retained at ';hootat present unassisted by the state. The com- WhitehalL If it should turn out that the Poor mittee state that they have devoted their attention for the to e t vi h d e e impo nce th rtau e t have e iriee en law establishment is divided into two parties, and that greater part pt:rttnoefmtwonodeeeertha.otneth the one deaf to the voice of the country, and resolute of which a portion was presented last yea r y and the ne ontaken, . upholding a system proved to have broken down, ' mOnder is now presented, raises several great questions of is now triumphant, it will not be difficult to esti- ' policy upon a subject of general interest. Many of the wit mate the good likely to be effected by Mr. peeves suggested material and fundamental alterations in HARDY. It is freely stated that Mr. VILLIERS . : the whole system of national education, and in the constitu ' had to contend with serious difficulties, owing to tiers of the department of the government at present charged with its administration. The e vi dence touched not only the supineness and opposition of the men to whom upon modifications of the existing rules under which the he had a right to look for aid. If it be true that state assists the voluntary e ff orts of private persons , but the present PRYsIDENT of the POOR-LAW BOARD has I, raised the question whether the action of the central de been influenced bythese, then sinecurists, red-tapists I partment should not be more largely aided by local or and parish guardians have reason to be glad. The I ganisation ; whether the principle of rating should not to present system will be patched up for the time, I some extent take the place of the principle of voluntary and the snake scotched, not killed. Paupers will, it I effort ; and whether, us . consequence of these changes, • is true, suffer and die as hitherto, but the sacred nal sub s Y st .t i rt u t :I f I'i for ixed the re lig den ne o • ed t u to cation sY' mu m st n n o o w t be in principle of mismanagement will be left untouched operation. These are questions upon which the committee in its essentials, and the troublesome advocates say it is obviously undesirable to disturb and unsettle the of a searching reform may hold their peace, until minds of those who are actively engaged in the promotion another turn in the political wheel makes huma- of the existing system, unless there is a clear prospect of nity and justice of higher importance than the arriving at conclusions which it may reasonably be expected conciliation of the local oracles violating both. that the legislature will adopt. But it would be difficult to come to any such conclusion without a knowledge of the view of her Majesty's government upon the subject, and that knowledge, owing to a peculiar combination of cir cumstances, they were unable at present to obtain. Dur ing the whole of the inquiry the committee have had the advantage of the presence and assistance of the Vice-Pre sident of the Committee on Education, who had repre sented the views of the government. At the mo ment, however, of proceeding to the discussion of the report, the right honourable gentleman enly held office till the appointment of his successor, and if the com mittee adjourned their proceedings till a new administra tion was formed and had had time to consider the difficult questions which had been raised, it was obviously impos sible that any conclusion could have been arrived at during the past session. Under these circumstances the committee decided, though with great regret, that they could not for want of time enter with advantage upon the discussion of the im portant draft report presented to them by their chairman, and resolved to lay the evidence alone before the House of Commons, leaving the house to determine whether they should be reappointed next year, in order to prepare their in his grace's mind, and states that the eflicial answer (signed by Mr. Ling's, as Secretary of the Ootnnsittee et Council) to Mr. Scott, 'his (Earl Granvillettellini: Ole House of Lards, and the present oorrespon had all the same object, eh. :—" To explain that the Mose Clause inserted in school deeds, in districts where only one school sea be maintained, does not restrain the derive= from giving any religious instruction ho may think fit to the children of his flock, or of others who do not objeoll That it does prevent him from extending such reli gions instruction to the children of those dissenters who object to their children being taught that which they believe to be erroneous doctrine." The paper closes with a letter from the archbishop thanking Earl Gr.uiville for the further explanation of Ins views, and expressing a hope that the correspondence might be published, as it would give the clergy a clearer idea of the meaning of the noble earl's words in the House of Lords than they could otherwise have formed. Elle Court. OSBORNE, Auartrr 14. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, embarked yesterday afternoon on board the royal yacht Alberta, Captain the Prism of Leiningen, a nd steamed through Bpithead, passing close to the forts in course of erection there. In attendance were Lady Waterpark, the lion. Flora Macdonald, and Colonel Du Mat. The Duke of Marlborough had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the royal family in the evening. The Queen drove out this morning with Princess Louise. Prince Leopold drove out also. Lord Stanley had an audience of the Queen to-day, after which he presented to her Majesty the Rev. John Fladtl, lately detained in Abyssinia. Mr. Fluid, whose family remain in that country, is about to return there, under instructions to effect, if possible, the release of the remain ing prisoners. _ The Governor of the Bank of England had an Interview with the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at hie official maidence in Downing-street, on Monday. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-(THIS DAY.) The marriage of the Lady Roes Sophia Mary Fane, only daughter of the late John, 11th Earl of West morland, and Priscilla Anne Wellesley-Pole (3rd daughter of William, 3rd Earl of Mornington), Dowager Countess of Westmorland, with Mr. Weigall, was solemnised this morn ing with full choral service at Westminster Abbey, in the presence of numerous friends. Nis Grace the Archbishop of York, who came expressly to London for the occasion, performed the ceremony, being assisted by the Very Rev. the Dean of West minster. At the conclusion of the marriage ceremony the wedding party left the abbey for the residence of the Dowager Countess of Westmorland, in Portman square, where a breakfast was provided for about fifty friends. Early in the afternoon the newly-wedded couple took their departure for Apthorpe-hall, the Earl of West. morland'e seat, near Wandsiord, Northamptonshire, to pus the honeymoon. The bridal presents were very aurae roue, and sonic of a very costly description, including valuable gifts from the Dowager Countess of Jersey, the Earl and Countess of Westmorland, Hon. Julian Fano, &c. The Prince of Wales, says the Leeds Mercury, ap pears to be enjoying kis visit to the Yorkshire Moors, and to be meeting with most excellent sport. His residence daring the present week is the inn at High Force, close to the beautiful falls of the Tees, and he is shooting over the moors of General Hall on the northern borders of York shire. The Duke of Cambridge and six other gentlemen are with his royal highness, and the bag of the party on Monday, the opening day of the season, amounted to the large number of 595 brace. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle left town on Monday evening for Mrs. Hope's seat, Blayney Castle, Castleblayney, Ireland, where the duke and duchess intend to remain a fortnight, and then go to Clumber for the autumn. The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare and family are expected to leave Carlton House.terrace on Monday next for Kilkee Castle, their seat in Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon and family, accompanied by the Countess of Ches:erfield, passed through town yesterday on their way to Buxton, Derby shire, from Higholere Quid*, near Newbury. The Count and Countess de Jaucourt have ar rived at Claridge's Hotel, from Paris. The Countess de Noailles, accompanied by Mrs. Vicars, has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Ingatestone, Essex. Viscountess Jocelyn, accompanied by Viscount Jocelyn and the Hon. Miss Jocelyn, is expected to return home in a few days from a tour in the south of France. The Lord Chancellor left town on Saturday to join Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Miss Thesiger at Folkestone. Lord and Lady Walter Scott have joined the family circle staying with the Duke and Duchess of Buocleuch at Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire. _ Lord Henry Percy, M.P., left town yesterday for a tour in France and Spain, and will be absent abroad for several months. We (Morning Poat) understand that a marriage is arranged and will shortly take place between Mr. Henry Arthur Herbert, of Mushroom, Killarney, and M.P. for Kerry, and the Hon. Emily Keane, only child of Lord and Lady Keane. Captain and Lady Cecilia Brinckman left town on Friday but for the captain's shooting quarters near Inverness. Major and Mrs. Huxham have arrived at the South Kensington Hotel, Queen's-gate-terrace. Mr. and Mrs. Chatto and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Preston have left Brown's Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Barron have arrived at the South Kensington Hotel, Queen's -gate-terrace, South Ken sington. THE POLLUTION Or RIVERS COMMISSION.—IL has now been definitively arranged that this commission, under the presidency of Mr. Robert Rawlinson, C. 8., will resume its inquiry in the first week of October next at Swansea and Newport. When they have completed their investigation in that locality, the royal commissioners will proceed to investigate the pollution of rivers in the vicinity of Bradford and Halifax. LADIES' GALLERY IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. —Under this heading, and subscribed " Wives of Mem bers," the following appears in the Times :—" Before the next session of parliament commences I entreat you to persuade Lord John Manners and Dr. Percy to assuage the sufferings which we women are made to undergo in the little, hot, ill-ventilated dens which are assigned to us in the House of Commons during debates. My husband, sir, is an eloquent member, and naturally wishes hia wife to be the witness of his many triumphs. My brother is • member, too, and often speaks. I have four cousins, be sides a large circle of friends, who are members, and all of whom are kind enough to ballot for sittings for me, and desire my presence; so that I spend a good deal of time during the season in the very uncomfortable little holes from which we look down upon the floor of the house. During many evenings last session, when the thermometer stood at 80 deg., my sufferings were hardly bearable. The heat ascends to our gallery, and the ' only ventilation we can obtain is by throwing open the doors ; but this is • dangerous proceeding, for it oftentime happens that we are in evening dress, on our way to bans and at homes, and the draught is then severe. I was twice laid up during the season with the influenza owing to this persecution. Honourable members can persuade Dr. Percy to give each one the exact dose of hot or cold air wanted, and I am told that the Speaker himself can turn on • oonl draught to his head and • hot one to his feet. With such applications of science bandy, is it not barbarous to place us women in little dungeons like the Black Hole of Calcutta? If there is to be • ladies' gallery, do pray help the First Commissioner of Works to render it a healthy and • decently-comfortable one." ATTENDANCE AT VICE CHANCELLOR STUART'S CHAMBERB.--Yesterday Mr. Peaks, the chief clerk to Vine-Chancellor Stuart, attended at chambers, and dis posed of a list of nearly 70 summonses. In• case in which time was given to answer, an application was made to settle • form of advertisement to sell a country newspaper, which the chief clerk declined to do, on thecround that it was not vacation business, and that the ap pli cation might been made at the chambers of Vise-Chancellor Wood. It was stated that the matter was very urgent, as the expenses were about 40/. a week. The chief clerk and if the matter was as stated the parties must be better pre pared for him to take the came out of the amines of Vice- Chancellor Wood. New Parson Acy.—Yesterday was priblialted an Act to amend the Prison Act of last year. Some difficul ties have arisen as to the removal of prisoners, in conse quence of arises being appointed at older place s, and such difficulties are now removed. Any • to as to the amount of expenses payable by the authority to the receiving authority is to be sealed by THE CONSCIENCE CLAUSE. The correspondence between the Archbishop of Canterbury and Earl Granville on the subject of the Conscience Clause was published this morning. Earl Granville, writing under date :30th of June, 1866, refers to a speech delivered by the Archbishop at the annual meeting of the National Society, in which his grace had stated that a reply of the noble earl's to a question put to him in the House of Lords was as far as it went satisfactory, and if ratified by parliament more would not be required, but teat the interpretation put by the noble earl upon the Conscience Clause was at variance with that which bad been put upon it by the Committee of Council. Earl Granville, that all doubt might be removed before his successor entered upon his official duties, asks where any interpretation by the Committee of Council differing from his is to be found. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in reply, points to the language of Mr. Lingen, the secretary of the Committee of Council, in his correspondence with the Rev. Mr. Scott, quoting from a letter dated March, 1866, the words— "No child ought to be compelled to receive religious in- struction contrary to the professed and declared wish of its parent. It is hardly neoessary to add that such compulsion might be applied without the direct use of sped& formularies, inasmuch as all that is contained in them might be taught in other words." This passage his grace understands to imply a prohibition to any clergyman or schoolmaster to explain say part of the Scriptures, in conformity with the doctrine of the es tablished church, or to touch upon any Christian doc trine incidentally in any other lesson, if any parent chose to require that his child should never be exposed to such instruction. This being the case, either a bondage was imposed upon a clergyman to which no one would volun tarily submit, or the child must be deprived of the instruc tion which it was the object of the Committee of Council to secure to him. " Your lordship," his grace continues, . . seems to proceed upon tho assumption that religious in struction will shelve be confined to the teaching of the formularies ; whereas we think that inasmuch as Christian doctrine is the mainspring sad motive of Christian action, a careful and conscientious pastor or master might find oc casion at any moment of school hours to inculcate Christian conduct from Christian principles. If he be debarred from that opportunity whenever it may arise, then follows that interference with religious teaching which your lordship de clares not to exist in connexion with the Conscience Clause. Heartily should I rejoice if Mr. Lingen's statement, as above quoted, could be brought into harmony with your lordship's assurance that the Conscience Clause did not in the least interfere with the religious instruction in our church schools; but under my present impression it seems to me to deal a serious blow to the cause of Christian education in the schools connected with the Church of England." Earl Granville writes on the 12th of July that he canna perceive the contradiction referred to, and that the pas sage quoted from Mr. Lingen was the substance of his answer in the House of Lords to the first part of his grace's inquiry. Mr. Scott's proposal had been to omit the word " doctrine " from the clause, and the letter of the Secretary of the Committee of Council purported to show why that word ought to be retained. The noble earl points out that he had endeavoured to enforce the same argument by reading an extract from the (Jhureh and State Reber, which went to prove that the word " formularies " without the word " doc trine," or some equivalent expression, did not secure the object for which it was worth while to discuss the clause at all. The Conscience Clause assumed it to be possible in a strictly denominational school to give the fullest religious instruction to the children of parents who belonged to the denomination of the school, and at the same time to admit into the school the children of parents who did not belong to that denomination, and instruct them along with the other children in all those particulars which did not cause say religious differ ence. To show that this is possible, the noble earl refers to the feet that a large if not the larger portion of the managers of national wheels were already doing all that was sought to be imposed upon them by the Conscience Clause ; that the Endowed Schools Act of 1860 embodies almost the same words as the Conscience Clause, and that in the scheme for the government of schools, sanctioned almost daily by the Court of Chancery, the conscience clauses are inserted almost as part of a com mon form. If the trivial and vexatious objections were practised which his grace imagined dissenting parents might make under the datum, each objections would simply recoil upon their authors. If their remonstrances were unattended to they must go to a legal tribunal for redress, and those who went into court without a plain and substantial grievance were not likely to take much by their suit." The letter concludes :—" The object of the department responsible to parliament for the distribution of public money for the purposes of education has been, not to alter the character of the schools of the established church, but to enable the government to extend their benefits to the whole community of districts in which no second school can be maintained." The archbishop writes again on the 20th of July, refer ring to the concluding words of Earl Gnuerille's reply in the House of Lords, in which his grace says the noble earl distinctly stated that not only did the Conscience Clause not interfere with the religious instruction of the schools but that it required that no interference should take plays; with inch instruction. "It certainly," he says, " never occurred to ese that the principle of the Conscience Clause, thus broadly laid down, could be compatible with the power of interference on the part of any parent with the exposition of Holy Scripture in the Bible class. It is now, however, evident that such is the case, and that I attached a meaning to your words which they were nos intended to convey. It appears that a clergyman, by ac cepting this Conscience Clause, will be bound to abstain from explainiag Holy Scripture according to the tenets of the Church of&gland, or indeed in any way that shall offend the religious views of any dissenting or unbelleviag permit if required so to do. Under these circumstances I 21 m l/self compelled to retract those expressions of see on with year lordship's swine to which I gave ut terance in the House of Lords." Bari Granville esatinnes the correspondence for the pur pose of correcting a misapprehension which seems to exist LATEST INTELLIGENCE. A VIENNESE VIEW OF THE FRENCH DEMAND. _ _ The Vienna journal, Des New Fremdenblatt, contains the following on the subject of the French demand on Prussia : France cannot view with indifference the projected in. corporation of the whole of the German territory now occupied by Prussia and the submission of South Ger many to Prussian domination, with the prospect of its annexation in view ; and even though the Emperor Napoleon may shut his eyes, in the desire of peace, to this transformation, France would never forgive him for having permitted such a power to grow up at his own door. It is not, therefore, in the shape of a demand of German territory that the chagrin of the cabinet of the Tuileries will manifest Wolf , but in a representation that so considerable an aggrandise ment of Prussia might awaken in France the idea of the Rhine frontiers. Should France therefore oppose the trans formation of Germany as designed by Prussia, should she insist, as perhaps she may, on the necessity of • position for Austria in Germany as • basis of a definitive peace, the state of things in Germany will be completely changed, and Austria may have a word once more to say on the Ger man question. (11ZUTIIIII TILEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA AND FRANKFORT. VIENNA, AUGUST 14, Evixixo. The Abend Post (evening edition of the Vienna Gazette) declares entirely false the statement of the Swabian Mercury that the free city of Frankfort would not, even had Austria been victorious, have maintained its independence, and that the Frank fort Senate upon asking at Vienna during the first fortnight in June whether Austria would guarantee the independence of Frankfort received an evasive reply. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Auouor 14. The official Northern Post of to-day publishes the following : " The investigation into the late attempt to assassinate the Czar has terminated. Several accomplices in the attempt have been arrested and have confessed their guilt. Their names will shortly be made public. " Two societies founded on the principles of socialism and hostility to the government existed at Moscow under the names Organisation and Hell. These societies were in connexion with the European Revolutionary Committee. A number of Poles who supplied the members with poison belonged to these societies. " The object of the attempt on the life of the Czar was to bring about a general rising and revolution in Russia. A Polish agency for the introduction of forged Russian Rank notes in the empire has also been discovered." QLTARA/CTINE AT MALTA. MALTA, AUGUST 14. All departures subsequent to the lat of August from Cronatadt, Stockholm, Antwerp, the Nether lands, Stettin, and the porta of France between Dunkirk and Nantes ; and subsequent to the Bth of August from Algiers, Taranto, Brindisi, Con stantinople, and the Black Sea ports are subject on arrival here to 15 days' quarantine. THE BRAZILS. ARRIVAL OF THE NAVARRE. (By Telegraph from Lisbon.) RIO DE JANEIRO, JULY 25. Exchange on London, 22i to 24. Coffee, 6.400 reis to 6.600 reis. Shipments since the departure of the last mail, 77,000 bags, of which 4,500 were for the channel ; sales, 30,000 ; stock, 90,000 bags. BAHIA, JULY 29. Exchange on London, 24 to 241. Sugar, whites, 2.200 milt to 2.300 reis ; browns, 1.800 to 2.000. Cotton, 15.500. PERNAMBUCO, Auoutrr 1. Exchange on London, 244 to 25. Sugar, 3.300 to 3.800 reis ; browns, 2.200 to 2.600. Cotton, 14.000 to 15.000 reis. The Royal Mail steamahip Rhone arrived here on the 27th. LISBON, AUGUST 14. The Messageries Imperiales Company's steam ship Navarre arrived here at 7 a.m. to-day, with the Brazil mails. OVERLAND MAILS. MALTA, Avourir 14. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Tanjore leaves at 8 a.m. to-day. She may be expected at Marseilles on the evening of the 16th inst. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Syria, from Southampton on the 4th inst., reached Malta on the 13th at 8 a.m., and left at 10 p.m. for Alexandria. AMERICA. (aT ATLANTIC TYLEOLLPII.) NEW YORK, Atom 14. The Philadelphia Convention has assembled, and harmony prevails. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WIWNEIDAT, ACOUST 15, • A.M. a W. 19 iZtr t•-•-• 1". ..,1 W. I 1; 12 F. A —l- 1 Nahm - I 1 Aberdeen 29.77,54 N.W. 1 2 8.5.8. eb - 1 Leith - 1 Ardroman 29.89,56 N.W. 3 S W.N.W. co - Greencastle 29.93 66, W. 2 4 W.N.W. rc .0.02 1 ValenlJ .s. 30.06 WI N.N.W. 1 6 24 . oe -• 1 Lix. Orr. .—j - - - - W o r 91 1 76 r7 l V,h7W. N.W .. co - I ; Penninoe.....llo.lo 50 N.W. 3 4 N.W. loc -12 Brest - 4 Lorient - 2 Rochefort .30.08 all Z. 0 2 N.W. co - 2 Plymouth 30.006 11 W. 1 4 W.N.W. cm -' 1 Wsymoutb '30.03 61 N.W. 3, 6 N.W. co - 2 Portsmouth 20.99 00 N.N.W. 3 4 N.N. W. o -! 1 Lmulon la 96 60 N. N.W. 214N.N. W. re 10.03 - Yarmouth -. 1 29.39 59 N.N.W. 3 1 N.W. ro iO.ll 2 Scarborough:29.B3 53 B.W. 1 2 N. co I- 1 Shields 120. - 90 58 N.W. 2 2 N . B. c- 2 Hodder — - - REMARKS. Barometers in Italy fell yesterday to 29.0 inches, and In Russia to 29.5 inches. On the coasts of Norway pressure was higher, about 29.9 inches, and oa the Spanish coasts it was as high NA 30.2 inches. To-day it is diminishing slightly on the northern and western coasts of the British Isles. The winds continue moderate from northwest on the British and French coasts, with a smooth sea. The sky la overcast or cloudy. " The Empress of Mexico," says the Nord, " is expected at Brussels. Her Majesty is rid to have ex pressed a desire that no official honours should be paid her either on her arrival or departure." The Hanoverian government has drawn up a long reply to the Prussian Gazette, which recently stated that previous to the outbreak of the war Hanover negotiated at the same time with Prussia for neutrality and with Austria for an allianee. The Hanoverian government denies that this was the awe. ---- The Irish Master of the Rolls died on Monday at his residence in Scotland, Bellied, near Blairgowrie. We announced yesterday that he had had an apoplectic seizure, and we now learn that he never recovered his consciousness. The Right Hon. Thomas Berry Cusack Smith was called to the huh bar in 1819. In 1842 he wan raised to the Solicitor-Generalship by Sir R. Peel, and after about six weeks' tenure of that office became Attorney-GenereL The same government made him Master of the Rolls a short time before their displacement in 1846. PATENT-01710E 11111781111111, Boors lESIIMMOTOM. —Number of visitors for the week emoting August 11, 2,133. Total number since the7ring of the Museum free daily(l2th May, 1868), 1,060, OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Now that Italy has become by the annexation of Venetia a member of the European family of nations, the Tines oaks what she will do in this new character, and answers the question by expressing its belief that the influ ence of the new kingdom will lie in a liberal direction, and that it will bring very large and increasing resources to support the line it adopts. The Times then proceeds to a consideration of the moral and material elements of strength possessed by Italy, and comes to the conclusion that with increased resources, a fine army, an enthusiastic population, and a cool-headed and able government, we may expect Italy ultimately to rise to her proper place among the great Powers of Europe. The Herald should be extremely glad to be able to be lieve that the frontier difficulty between France and Prussia will be arranged amicably, but cannot see a strong hope of such a solution. France cannot recede from her demands. Prussia will not—perhaps cannot—grant them. Nothing remains, therefore, but war. Not a war, perhaps, that will burst upon us this week or the next, but a war not the leas certain to come that it may be some time preparing. Nothing can be more mischievous than the attempt to lull people into a false sense of security upon this point. Of course peace may be preserved. In smite of all appearances, France may retire crestfallen, or Prussia may yield what she now refuses. But we must not calculate upon miracles—we must shape our course upon the assumption that nature follows her ordinary laws, and the only honest and sensible course under the circumstances is to warn the public that the storm is gathering. They may then take the precautions which will enable them to ride it through without dis aster or even damage. It is a very easy thing for Englishmen, observes the Telegraph, safe in our insular freedom, to blame our neigh , boars across the Channel for their jealousy of Prussia, but it is impossible for us to enter into their feelings. They are in all probability deeply wounded in their self-esteem because the Emperor must in a great degree adapt his I policy to the will of the North German government. The Emperor, in the opinion of the Telegraph, endeavoured to - obtain from a sense of fairness what he could not expect to extort by force, wad bee reason to believe that the pro posale or suggestions made by France were more moderate than had been supposed, that they have been cour teously though firmly declined by Prussia, and that no attempt will be made at present to press them any further. In the speech from the throne the King of Prussia, ob serves the Post, almost went out of his way to admit that the manner in which the budget had been provided for during the past four years was unconstitutional, and, waiving all those advantages conferred on him se a sove reign reigning by Divine right, he modestly asked the Chambers to pass a bill of indemnity for the past offences of his ministers. To a monarch thus pleading to his sub jects for forgiveness of course nothing could be refused. If the Chamber is prepared to forget the past and to grant to the crown the supplies of which it is in need, it is of little consequence in what language the address is couched which expresses its willingness to adopt this policy. Count von Bismarck will now again have to deal with a parliament more ready to make concessions, and we believe he is much too astute a minister to throw away the opportunity now afforded him of ranging the popular party on his aide. AMERICAN rocmcn. The Daily News, referring to the division amongst the republican party in the United States and the junc tion of • minority of that party with the Northern democrats and the South in support of the policy of the President, observes that the meeting of these sections held yesterday in Philadelphia tinder the name of the " National Union Convention," is an event the importance of which in the present state of American politics it is hardly possible to exaggerate. The Philadelphia Conven tion is called, of course, with a view to the elections of the ensuing autumn. Its object is to form a new and com pact party, and in the name of that party to attempt to secure • Johnson majority in the fortieth congress. There can be no question that there are certain strong elements out of which such a party as this may possibly be formed. The South will heartily support it, and the Southern States will, most likely, be very largely represented in the " big wigwam " at Philadelphia. Mr. Johnson waits to restore the states at once to their position before the war. If he suoceeds in this, it will be entirely owing to the mismanagement of some of the leaden of the republican party ; but, in the opinion of the Daily News, it is because Mr. Johnson's policy is pro- Southern, because the old friends of the South are rally ing to its support at Philadelphia, and because it is sure that the North is still sound at heart on the great quer tions for which it toned, that it does not believe the President's confident bid for popular support will he re ' warded with the success which he and his friends so con fidently expect. THE SHIPPING TRADE OF THE UNITED KENO- Dnn.—From a parliamentary return issued this morning we learn that the number of vessels and the tonnage en tered inwards and cleared outwards at the twelve princi pal ports of the United Kingdom during the year 1865 was es follows :—Vessels entered inwards, 30,444, tonnage, 9,756,502 ; vessels cleared outward', 26,648, ton nage, 8,998,152. The comparative position of London and Liverpool is es follows :—London vessels entered in wards, 11,610, tonnage, 3,646,142 ; vessels cleared out wards, 8,093, tonnage, 2,627,809 ; Liverpool vessels en tered inwards, 4,827, tonnage, 2,644,821 ; vessels cleared outwards, 4,425, tonnage, 2,631,827. The aggregate declared value of British and Irish produce and manu factures exported from the 12 ports in 1865 was 144,363,16/6/. In the case of London the amount was 37,009,7181. ; in that of Liverpool, 73,066,7731. POOR RATES AND PAUPERISM.—From a par liamentary paper issued by the Poor-law Board this morning, it appears that there are at present 14,886 parishes in England and Wales maintaining, or liable to maintain their own poor—that returns of paupelipm are revolved weekly in respect to 14,695 of that number ; and that 191 parishes, incorporated under Gilbert's Act, or still under the provisions of the 42nd Elizabeth,make nore. turn of the number of paupers they relieve. The number of paupers relieved in England and Wales in the fourth week of May, 1865, was—ln-door, 123,988 ; out-door, 757,806 — total, 878,794 ; the number relieved in the corresponding week of this year was—ln-door, 121,045; out-door, 727,888—t0ta1, 848,873, shelving a difference between the two 'wields of 29,921, or 3'4 per cent. THE PITBLIC DEBT OP THE UNITED STATES.— Tlre public debt of the United States in 1861, on the Ist of July, which is the close of their financial year, was only 18,930,7971. In 1862 it had risen to 107,127,369/. ; in 1863 it was 228,915.2461. ; in 1884. 362,643,8521. ; in 1865, I , 2.682,688,022 dela , or 568,673,6461 EXPRESS FROM PARK Oxon one owe oosassroinsw) PARTS, Meson Rviss st It is happily beyond a doubt that, 'W eft , have been the intention • few clays ag o , th e peror now means to preach peace on his fsi. y. This evening's Pays, speaking mon yisi s 4 its twin brother the Constitutionnei (wh om paragraph of yesterday is a theme for vritski imb all the morning journals), says : It is certainly not at • moment when the I ._ given to Europe the most convincing m uc h as ; and disinterested love of pesos that he would &skin merit of his devotedness to the cause of im ps humanity, which prolongation of the war Lou m a., by putting forward personal claims, bo ormo i; mate Frauds has a power of metal, intellectual, L id os sing expansion which renders her strong ens* no diminution of her influence from the sgge ts 4. l 74 her neighbours. God keep the Emperor in this happy pig II friends of humanity will say. The doctrine k ; doubt widely different from that of his oienhig o ; M. Drouyn de Lhuys, and miehanta le r; may, perhaps, talk about sour grapes, bee ha l good doctrine in itself, it is none the woos l i t being a second thought. Indeed, a timero ftert proverb says that " second thoughts are h ie It is amusing to see how the most furious Trami el in the French press, seeing the course matte s ,. taking, show their ingenuity in inventing ea% for eating humble pie. That whilotn deter* fire-eater, Gueroult, of the Opinion Nationalc 4 kisses that whereas he was for war two menthe % he is now for peace. The reason he give ith the Emperor mimed his opportunity two suety ago. Then, according to M. Gueroult, he * between two opinions, listened too much to h peace orations of M. Thiene and IL leee e k e‘ and neglected to make a bargain with Prose h the Rhine frontier, when Prussia would have% seated to any terms to obtain French rids ante. Now that Prussia has shown he self able to do without France, it veil be inopportune to insist upon French claim lh is about the truth, and all the circumlocutioe euphemistic phraseology of the semi-official jte nals amount to nothing else. M. Guermilt feseg admits that the frontiers of 1814, even if* could be got, would be a miserable satistactios* unworthy of France to accept, because they ell fall far short of restoring that balance of pcareh l disturbance of which she complains of. Wily waiving the claim for the entire Rhine frosts, he reoommends waiting for the time when Pieh will be involved in a war with Russia, sad vine glad of French help. This respite at a long dr is very comforting. Prince Napoleon left Paris yesterday snug for his property at Pranging in Switzerland. Among the new generals created on the es sion of August 15, I observe the name of Ida worth de Mallet, Colonel of the 49th Raga* who is half an Englishman, and whose rinks are three-fourths English ; he is the se ci English lady of the Molesworth family, sad a wife was a Miss Sykes, from Yorkshire. The Journal du Havre says that me d the attractions of the Universal Exhibition of rat year will be a prize for the best singer ia ths world of 10,000 fr. I predict that this will he failure. No first-rate artiste will risk his tion on a sort of Vauxhall, or cafi &Want form for the chance of a sum of money not ing his standing weekly salary in London or • The idea has the vice common to many schemes which adopt the Chinese system of pctitive examination as an infallible test of tie highest merit. Prizes are very well to enemy students, but the public is the only Jody I excellence in a singer or composer. It would I impossible to constitute a board whose jars men like Lablache, Rubini, Tamburini, Row( Verdi, would consent to abide by. The Tribunal of Correctional Police is skeet . be regaled next week with a swindling ore s which a prince is a defendant. M. Beeline, tl cashier of the Sous-Comptoir des Chemins de Fr M. Duprey de la Maherie, and the PrineedeCror Chanel, are accused of embezzlement to the eta of three millions of francs. The twofust-mai d e fendants are in custody, but the prince kale sconded, and will be tried by default. The Bourse continues dull, but there vs 1 alight improvement in quotations. Rents Mal for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 69(t. si 69fr. Sc. Italian rose 25c., closing at Mfr . .4k Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c., and Credit Fenner Ift. CENTR Morgaree Bak w ith obi wilful i F. H. ritisimer was di • h. • owe wl slat the Prim 1 obis court occa s ion the j on deliberation The facts lay in prisoner was in an d the family was in the fami very in and left warn, in cone „b e d by the pi in attendance, b a cs her bow d o n, but ulti boles belonging body of a chit, fo und the o wns Awing, au .f death from made, the Prim , " I am a murder that the child death, the surge memose that tl IVY born alive ; had been occasio neck. The med able length by 211 particular point, positive opinion I?4°P.Tden! erzii deihiition of the billeted upon it, Mr. F. H. Lel cation, observed be felt for a yo t the prisoner, the that numbers and that they cif gm law. li e th e prisoner had rent* in the wa3 on the contrary darer, and site medical man, si shored the ohil, B.ibton half of the prii if the evidence murder had bee verdict, he she there was an al two most impor ribs considerat naiad The le that, in the Are the child wi there was nothi the neck of the The learned The jury AM tided her of th the birth of the She wee soot labour for two Pfato Sdra Ott, far robbery, wi from biz' the si Mr. Cooper prisoners. The evident) emtermonger I Common, in art about 6 lad, when the known, palmed gene forward a the prosecutor. Mow under him and hi beds. Ares prosecutor's po pony cart and as he was able o Felthain.bridg Ayres threw hi itrito loot ieek w trating a the rho sensible, and erasing. The pr.:swirl features by • Polios.oonstabl lame night. /I proved the 11At was produced was found on Mr. Harris celled several tight between the Railway Is Ayres. Re c the ntsupporti The Record , found both psi, THE PRUSSIAN ANNEXATION& The Times correspondent at Berlin seed* di following by telegram : " The government had intended to some the annexation of the conquered Norther:lBW in parliament to-day, but is prevented dohgwlll the influence of some illustrious persongs court. A council of ministers a ill be held tag on the question." F A LLING DEAD IN THE STREET.—AD incised IM held last evening by Dr. Lankeate r, et the laud Tavern, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, on th e body unknown, apparently about 60 years of age, who ha._ denly dead in G eo rge -street, St. Giles's, os day afternoon last, as witnessed by a woos Mary DriscolL police-ooustable, 146 F, sistance, conveyed the body to St. Giles's woidoes Mr. William Bennet, who made the peat lsa*". 4s° urination, found the body ver y badly Is There was no appearance of food in the &oath 111 deceased had undoubtedly been arery Rot 4 drinker, and the canoe of sudden death wanthe 6 the action of the heart through valvalw Mr. Blake (coroner's officer) produced the found on the deceased, viz., several carnal( pieces of bone and ivory, on one of which thew in course of cutting. There were two paint cedes (for a vice, in the name of " John RV a vest, "John Moore"), a sermon on " The Life of I a temperance ticket, dated March 14,1866, Wart lowing declaration :—" I, John Richards. MPe from all intoxicating liquors as a beverage, suu able ways to discountenance their use then' munity." A pair of spectacles, a comb, and a halfpenny completed the list deceased had slept in a neighbouring like most others who had become reduc. refused to give his name. The jury!ett " Death from natural causes, intoxication." HORNCASTLE HORSE FAlR.—This shire horse fair was opened on Monday wi handsome and well bred ca ttl e . There was • attendance of dealers and breeders, and the P foreign horse dealers brought promising pose suitable for exportation for military purpose' ill, competition. By yesterday morning many hehoUL sold, at following prices. Horses for town on and public, carriers' work, 45 to 55 guinasx sadirgoo grown young cart horses suitable for brover%_,l iM and road team work, 50 to 65 guineas ; 11.27.7/ bait for farming work, 20 to 28 guineas ; and we.- active horses for artillery and other militel 35 to 45 guineas. Horses well-bred and of WI; fashion, broken to pair harness, and suitable ~0r. 2 7;10 carriage purposes, 75 te 90 guineas ; and we? • 7s.ads Pews of ditto 200 to 2 50 guineas, and young see uuT o • - • horses of this class 55 to 70 guineas- , r as, • for saddle vases 60 to &5 guineas and u 0 4 10 hones of blood and pedigree for the : 4 : made from up to 200 guineas, .na stroll , 25 to 35 guineas ; roadsters, common hacks, an d nest horses ranged from 20 to 30 guinea e l, anstiwo soles took place. The horse fair oaf 1 111 to (Wednesday), and he kept opeD u• ditrinVu",.. l os this week. Several strings of sale homes cosiest from Intlaud. TB aettia Nt Humming° . Vont . RA I eabins.7 Pure, was ke s eramp y is /siding wit] /rirshte-roi A _ tw,„.thL— mu. ?dr. 'ticket fi a swihdling we i M. Bertha* ti Tii der Chemins de fa I the Prince deCree clement to the mil The two furtivai 1 ,ut the prince lase William ,y a • default. . • , u,war eh' P., with ern dl, but there ms I sasis of nor., alvTinkt , of ions. Bente nosh '• • , and 1 ~ closing at 691 r. id • . other goo( closing at bgr. la mortar, t fr Credit Fowler lft The i7n . fey .---. • was antrum • Lips* ICEXATIONS. • the mirthful w harp at Berlin send* i •• • d 5 '• ' • ' to Int 313 n the Mended to smog : . ..' ‘. l . r iered Northern SW .. 1 7,: p : 4 re q ve n n s w i tr.we dthm.l .04 1 ",,, 7 .1 . ,„„ s P tri !Ts will be held to o to attend 1 The father ' 7 to the A' • hie um, 1 team b i t ( .EET._An igrito g to .11.r.AUderut l er , at the I' l4 '-- of i r, on the body a : Of 10 In Of age, "'be fai sri ..._ hard lab( St. Giles's, os 0 7, NI by a roam rea d . ! acm dile 146 F, 14 11: "Tweet G m I Si. 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