The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-07 00:00:00

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Emery, Parselle, Rob- Soo. 3,..1 Swaillp,pdigh . %miasma Ads Swanhorougb end John et,,lie —And 111 E LATE :r EDITION OF Flit VULO. 31.ists. 111" no: 44 James; Mesdames Bolt, Newton, &e. .82XTAIt1LL Tr! , EvENIN , :.I.) , IletlirTihri;eActs fir HAMLET. Met.4r.. Howe : I: v ..1.14. : Coven :y it Nlararthe. the:dere, Hr. C. Worelinen, Little Leritte, Jotsk earl Mr. liumptuu. —Anal THE iilltatiONOl rAltri. DIOR WATIII AT LONDON ENDOGL TIM TAT —Th.ming. 6b. 665......Atken00n, 7b. Sin. To.Slonnow—llorning, Tb. 14ts. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7. ONE of the most unfortunate changes in the last draft of the Reform Bill is that by which undergraduates at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge are permitted to vote for the borough members. The unprincipled way in which the Government first supported the clause excluding these young gentlemen, and within a few days afterwards supported a clause having precisely the opposite effect, is perhaps the most glaring in stance of inconsistency for which the present Ministry has mule itself notorious. It is vain to pretend that any man who has the interests of learning at heart can seriously believe that those interests will be advanced by allowing the members of the University to interfere with the elections for borough members. It is no doubt very easy for Lord DERBY to find one head of a house ready to declare that " the argu " manta brought forward against" the under graduates voting for the borough " have no real " weight or value." If Lord DERBY had said that such was the opinion entertained by " one of " the oldest of the heads of colleges in Oxford," nothing would have seemed more natural ; but when he says that the old gentleman who hazarded this assertion is one of " the most " distinguished" of those heads, few indeed who know Oxford would have expected to hear that the Chancellor's confidential friend is Dr. WYNTER, the President of St. John's College. To vouch one of the most notorious Tory partisans of one of the least distinguished colleges in the University may be an ingenious way of avoiding Lord Gaaievizr.e's challenge to ascertain the opinion of Oxford on the subject, but it is really no answer to the challenge at all. As well might Mr. SPOFFORTH be asked whether he ap proved of Mr. DISRAELI'S Reform Bill—with its thousand and one amendments. If the Bishop of LONDON had been able to attend in his place and argue this question, we cannot believe that Lord DERBY would have ventured to persevere in his ill-advised attempt to override the borough voters. It is true that the Lords, following the House of Commons, have resolved to admit the members of the University to vote for the borough members, and that Lord Gite.svirte failed on Monday night in his attempt to alter this resolution. Butwe trust that it is not yet too late to introduce once more the clause suggested by Mr. CARDWELL. There is the more reason to indulge in this hope bemuse it must be admitted that the amendment originally proposed on Monday night by Lord GRANVILLE was liable to serious objections. Ac cording to his original draft, the only under graduates who would have been excluded from voting for the borough members were under graduates living in college, while those who lived in lodgings in the town would have been admitted as borough voters. It is well known that the number of undergraduates above 21 who live in college is infinitesimally small, and therefore Lord GRANVILLE:3 motion was exposed to the un answerable criticism, that while an insignifi cant number of undergraduates would be excluded, a much larger number would be included among the borough voters. Lord GR►NVILLE, indeed, acknowledged the jus tice of this criticism, and altered his amendment so as to exclude all members of the University who were ;it state pepalari. But it was too late ; the argument had been conducted upon a different policy, and, as might have been expected, Lord Ga tNVILLE'S motion was negatived. In these circumstances it may be said that the whole subject is still open to discussion, and it is to be hoped that the opportunity will not be lost of settling the question in a satis factory way in the Howe of Commons. No one, probably, who considers the matter without reference to party politic, would hesitate to concur with the opinion of Lord CRANwORTE that neither at Oxford nor Cambridge is it de sirable that the members of the Universities should have anything to do with the town elec tions. There is surely nothing more important than that the old antagonism between the town and the University, which has now happily almost ceased, should not be revived ; and it is difficult to imagine any means more admirably fitted to revive this jealousy and ill-feeling in the most malignant form than to allow the members of the Uni versity to interfere with the town elections. Any such interference would be completely novel, and if the votes of the Uni versity men turned the scale, the sense of injury and heartburning would rankle deep in the breast of every borough elector. Nor would this bitterness of feeling be allayed by the fact, which is notorious, that there is no sort of sympathy between the members of the University and the townspeople. They have scarcely any interests in common ; they have no social relations with each other. The University is in fact, as Lord CRAN WORTH said, an insperium in imperio. There is nothing which the present Ministers have opposed with more determination than the plan of grouping boroughs, on the ground that any borough which THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1867. has hitherto enjoyed its own member would be mat unwilling to share its privilege with any other borough. The introduction of the Univer sity mulergmbiates into the town constituency must I.e even more obnoxious. This is grouping iu its worst form; for while the townspeople will be subject to be overridden by the University voters, the University will still retain its right •.f electing its own members. If anomalies such as these do not produce disastrous consequences to the peace which now happily subsists between the towiispeople and the Universities, human nature must undergo a is more startling transforma tion than there is any reason to anticipate. But it is not only the danger of disturbing the harmony between the town and the University that should make Parliament pause before adopting this proposal. The position occupied by the undergraduates in Oxford and Cambridge is quite peculiar. They are not, like the undergra duates in London or in Scotland, in the position of other citizens ; they are under a special juris diction. They are not subject to the police, nor can they be sued in ordinary courts. The heads of colleges and the proctors are responsible for them to the State. They are bound to see that they keep the peace, and these University officers have the most extensive powers to enforce their duties, and even to control their morals. An undergraduate is not a citizen in the ordinary sense, for he has not all the rights of a citizen. The case has been put of an undergraduate being rusticated, or confined to the college, and it has been asked what is to be done if these punish ments are inflicted during an election ? Is the undergraduate to exercise his privilege of an elector, and are the rights of the proctors and heads of houses to be suspended ? or is the civil right of the citizen to give place? The young men who are sent by their parents and guardians to the University aro sent there, not to take part in elections, but to cultivate their minds and to devote themselves to study. To permit them to mingle in the politics of the borough is to permit them to interfere in matters with which they have no real interest, and to distract their minds from those pursuits and associations which particularly belong to them. It would be strange indeed if the voters of Dover and Portsmouth I could be swamped by the Government keeping for l a year the same five or ten thousand troops in I barracks, situate withinthe limits of these boroughs. ) And yet it is obvious that officers and soldiers living for a year in barracks are quite as closely connected with the townspeople of Dover and r Portsmouth as the undergraduates of Oxford and • Cambridge are with the residents of these towns. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. ROUSE OF COMMONS.-AtGUST 6. SIMLA COURT-MARTIAL Motion made, and question proposed, " That an humble address ho presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to reconsider the sentence of the isourtqmirtbil held at Simla on I . .ipt,tin Jervis, with a view to reinstate that oilicer in his rank in the army and in his reziment" (Mr. Brett). Motion, by leave, withdrawn. Motion made, and question put, " That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pie wed to give infect to the recommendation to mercy contained in the sentence of the court-martial held at Simla on r:iptain derv:a" (Mr. Otway). The house divided : Ayes, 48 ; noes, Cid. .%.I.u.i. W. P. liar, Um! J. O'Beirne, J. 1.. A lincaley. Col. Bibikrt, .1, 411:414.44. 4.1 r P. ayrton. A. 3. 1144,4ht5. T. irb.giilen, Sir C. M. Aytuuti, R. 3. Jurvoo, Major Parry, T. Barrow, W. IL Jervolse, Hr J. I'. Seymour, 11. I). Barry, C. R. 1: nt. Col. s stnepcole, W. I:nicc. sir 11. Laicatchere. 11. Stork, 0. cmollish, .1. Lawrence, W Sykes,, Col. 4 '4 . 44w444nt, It. W. Lcke, J. r.:rrena, R. Binirdate, It. Lowther, .1. Watkin. E. W. Eykn. It. 11.1..nreu, D. Whalley, G. U. Fawcett, U. Ilactilre, J. F. White, l'apt. Filler. J. 31ilhank, F. A. White. J. I:melte, Serf. 11th, .1. S. Wynne, W. R. linitlamill, Sir F. Mitchell, A. TELLERS. Burst, J. E. 3lonek, C.. 1. Brett, W. It. Cray. Sir J. Norwood, C. Y. Otway, A. J. NOES. _, Adderley, C. B. Glyn, 0. 11. Noel. 0. J. Barclay, A. C. Gurney. K. Northente, Sir R. Barrington, Slut. Hamilton, Lord C. l'akington, Sir J. Beach, sir M. Henke,, T. Patten. CuL Bingham. Lord Hardy, G. Peel, ...en. Bridges, Sir It. Harlington, Mar- Powell, F. S. Bruce, Lord C. wile of linbertson. P. F. Calcraft, J. 11. Hay. Sir J. C. Royston, Viset. Campbell, A. It. Hogg, Lt.-Col. Rime% Sir C. Capper. C. Howes, E Satater-Booth, G. Cave, S. Hunt, ft. W. Selwyn, Sir C. Cavendish, Lord F. Karslake, Sir I. Seymour, G. H. Chattertna, 11. E. Kerslake, E K. Somerset. E A. Clinton. Lord E. Kingsoote, Col. Stanley, Lord Corry. 11. L. lwforre, 0. J. stopford, S. O. Cox, W. T. Liddell, H. G. Stuart, Lieut.-Col Disraeli, It. Lindsay, Col. C. Walpole, S. H. Du Cane, C. Hamming, T. Wyk', J, Dist al, R. H. Manners, Lord J. Wyndham, P. Egerton, E. C. Montagu, Lord R. Feii,nus.ri, Sir .1. Montgomery, 81r G. 711.1.110 i. Forester, General Mowbray, J. IL Taylor, Col. Gladstone. W. E. Naas, Lord Whitmore, H. Gladstone, W. 11. Norte, C. LATEST INTLLLICIEIkTCE. (sauna's TELEGRAMS.) HUNGARY AND CROATIA. PESTH, AVGCAT 6, EVEMNG. From the Ist of September next the Croatian llnancea will be placed under the control of the Hungarian Finance Minister. The Croatian Credit Establishment will also be placed under the mune control as soon as its statutes have been sanctioned. A general meeting of the shareholders to deliberate on the statutes takes place to-day. ROUMANLk. BUCHASEST, Accost , 6, Evmix°. Prince Charles of Roumania paid a visit of cour tesy to the Sultan at Rustchuck to-day, crossing the Danube in the French steamer Magicion. The Prime had a prolonged interview with the Sultan, and was received with great honours. ITALY. FLORICNCIL Auaort 6, Evcanwc. The Opinions of this evening says :—" The late order of the day adopted by the Chamber of Deputies upon the incident of General Dumont's mission to Rome is not judged favourably by the Paris press. According to their views it would appear that a convention between France and Italy is net equally binding upon both govern ments, seeing that France could interpret it in the manner most suitable to herself. The journal La France goes as far as to threaten holding up to our view the spectre of a new armed intervention. We shall not look upon such fits of ill temper as serious. We are sure that the French government will not allow itself to be cheated by insidious sug gestions into undertaking another expedition to Rome, which Italy would feel herself bound to oppose to the utmost, and which, even if success ful, would only place France in the same position as that recently occupied by Austria in Venetia." The Italia, of this evening, referring to the mine subject, says :—" Liberal journals are seeking to induce the belief that the incident of General Dumont's mission to Rome may give rise to . fresh complications between France and Italy. We consider ourselves able to affirm that the incident in question terminated with the publication of the late note in the Monitettr, and a despatch to that effect must already havebeensentbyourgovernment to Paris. If Signor Rattami has displayed in the negotiations on this subject a proper firmness, for which ho has the thanks of the public, he also knows that it is necessary to stop when full satis , faction has been received." (opposition) was returned by 1,001 against 671 given to M. Panama. In the Dordogne, M. Gagnebe, a mayor, a notary, ands capitalist, who, under prefec torsi patronage, had sat in the council for Cartes unintemiptedly since 1852, is thrown out. Five other opposition candidates have been elected for the arrondissement of Sarlot. In the Sarthe the Duke de la Ruchefoucauld and Count de Dreux Bread, both opposition candidates, are returned by large majorities. At Nantes two opposition can.l didates are returned, and for the third seat there must be a second election. MM. Nassans, Pereira, Maurice, Richard, and Le Pere, oppo sition candidates, have been returned respectively at Limoges, Orleans, Houdens, and Auxerre ; thel figures from these towns have not yet come to hand. At Montrevault (Maine et Loire) M. d'Armailld was returned by 1,978 against 1,690 given to the government candidate, M. Saillard, a judge of the Paris Court of Appeal, and brother-in-law of the prefect. M. Saillard had thought it consistent with his judicial position to issues circular to the curds calling upon them to give him that support which was " his due." Opposition victories have been gained at Lille, Met; Niort, and Dieppe. In general it may be safely said that the elections have been far more favourable to the cause of liberty than could have been expected. Wherever a struggle was possible —wherever it was practicable for opposition candi dates to publish their circulars, to obtain the sup port of a local journal, and to put themselves in communication with the mass of electors, there has been a good fight. The example will have an immense influence in the next general elections for the Corps Legislatif, whenever they may occur. Everybody feels that the immense majority for government which the Muniteur returns will make up, and which the Constitutionnt/ will glorify, is nothing. The real question is what is the number of votes obtained by the opposition as compared with the last election. The final ballot for one remaining member of the Council of the Order of Advocates resulted to day in the election of M. Ernest Picard, the de puty, after a close contest with M. Champetier de Ribes. M. Desmarest, the last battonier, is thrown out of the Council of the Order this year. It has hitherto been customary to elect past batt4miers without exception, but there is a strong party among the junior bar in favour of a large infusion of new blood at every election. Four writers in the antrrier Francais, MM. Ver morel, Page, Duchene, and Towne, are cited to appear before the Correctional Tribunal on Friday next to take their trial for a libel upon the Caasag nac family. Tho Bourse was very firm. There were rumours of a peaceable character. Rente fell 10c. for cash, but rose 7c. for account. THE REFORM BILL PASsING THE LORDS. After adverting to the very slight show of ex citement which attended the passing of the Reform Bill in the Lords yesterday, though so historic and important a scene, the Timm proceeds to observe that the assurance which has been given of the maintenance of representative government under all changes (meaning thereby the re presentation of minorities) removes the apprehenaions which a simple reduction of the suffrage would otherwise have caused. Of the two amendments intro duced by the Lords, voting pavers appear worse the more they are examined, and the Commons cannot by any pos sibility assent to a machinery so obviously open to abuse. On the other hand the amendment for the representa tion of minorities rests on ► platform unassailable and un- The Tdegraph cannot speak with satisfaction of a bill defaced with such palpable evils as the voting papers and the representation of minorities. It would bear with the unjust f►te which the copyholders have sustained by way of " sop" to their lordships' just ambition of only being remembered by the bill, if this sinister and fragmentary folly were abolished. The Mar expects to see the three-cornered crotchet ex tinguished by the resolution of Mr. Disraeli. The voting paper amendment will remain, and strong efforts will be made to intimidate the House of Commons into adopt ing it. OUR EXTRADITION TRRATIVI. Having sketched the proceedings which led to the new extradition treaty with France, the Dual y Pros expresses its hope that in the course of next session, as Lord Stanley and Mr. Layard suggest, a well-selected parlia mentary committee will decide the principles upon which, so far as this country is concerned, the law of extradition should be based. Such a law can never be properly settled by a diplomatic negotiation between two powers. No country can possibly be more interested than our own in ridding itself of that class of criminals to which an ex- tradition treaty applies. But the principle cf treaties, and especially of extradition treaties, is mutual good will. and this principle is defeated when the operation of the treaty between two neighbouring nations is not strictly territorial, and where different judicial institutions are brought into conflict. The Post is confident that the experience of the next twelve months will show that the present treaty is not 1 only absolutely neoessary to the due and dignified fulfil ment of our treaty engagements, but that it is eminently just and proper in itself. ENEMILS' GOODS IN NEI;TRAL VESSELS. The rillUJ recovers from its surprise at finding Mr. Mill opposed to relaxation from the miseries of war, to challenge his arguments on the right of neutrals. The concessions we have made have had their fair equiva lents. We have learnt by experience,though at first we were very slow to believe the fact, that it is quite possible for a foreign war to be waged between first-rate powers, and yet for us to take no part in it. We have not the slightest wish to attack anyone, and why should we seek, in favour of belligerents, to repeal the rule, and so make the posi tion of neutrals almost intolerable ? The Timis is glad to see that Lord Stanley evinces no inclination to yield to Mr. Mill's views. The declaration of Paris may not be capable of holding its ground under all that may occur, but that is no reason why we should not take advantage of it as far as it goes. Indeed, every restriction placed on a belligerent, and every facility accorded to a neutral, has a tendency in favour of peace. The security of neutrals operates as a fine on the belligerent, by withdrawing one Bourse of his wealth, and it is a reward to the pacific, to whom it trans fers the profit, which, in their mutual hostility, nations forego. Having entered into this agreement, moreover, we are bound to maintain it. We have derived very con siderable advantages under it, and have as yet suffered no injury. The Herald and Standard are delighted to applaud Mr. Mill for his speech on tho declaration of Paris. According to these papers, that treaty is for England political muti lation, if not political suicide. The Standard has ever believed, with the great body of the conservative party, that the famous " Clarendon capitulation," made in Paris at the close of the Crimean war, was one of the grossest and most fatal blunders for which whig diplomacy is re sponsible. - The Star agrees with Mr. Mill that we cannot stop in maritime war with exempting private property in neutral ships from capture, but what then is the next step ? On. ward, the Star says, in the path Mr. Cobden so long pointed out—the path which the United States were willing to follow—to the exemption of all private property from cap ture at sea during war by armed vessels of every kind. Backward, says Mr. Mill, to the system which searched for your enemy's private property wherever it might pos sibly be found, and dripped him of It. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. George Long, of the Chancery bar, Secretary of Presentation' in Erof Mr. LUlhillgioll, whose resignation was announced The Bishop of London was able to sit up on Monday for the first time since his recent attack, and to dress hunself. Taa lisavarr sx Awznica.—The harvest in Minnesota will allow her to rapist 1%00,000 bushels of Pain. THE REFORM BILL. PROT FAT. The following protest has been made by Lord Ellenborough "To the third reading of the Representation of the People Bill dissentient : "1. Because the bill, creating in almost every city and borough in England a new constituency more numerous than that which exists, impairs, where it does not de stroy, the power of the present electors, and substitutes for it that of a new body interior to them in property and education. " 2. Bemuse the confidence justly placed in constituen cies of approved worth cannot reasonably be transferred to such men now first intrusted with electoral power; and it is to be fei red that when labour makes laws for capital —poverty for property—legislation, no longer directed by educated intelligence, will impair the individual freedom of action and the security of possession which have been the foundations of our prosperity and wealth. " 3. Because it more nearly concerns the public welfare that representatives should be well chosen than that con stituencies should be numerous ; and the larger consti tuencies have rarely been fortunate in the choice of their representatives, or persistent iu retaining them when they proved worthy of support. "4. Because a seat in the House of Commons, more difficult in attainment than heretofore, less secure in pos session, and not exempt from humiliation while occupied, will cease to be an object of the same ambition to that high elan of gentlemen by whose patriotic spirit and states manlike wisdom the liberties of the people were secured and the greatness of the country has been achieved. "5. Because the House of Commons, composed of in ferior men, dependent upon the fickle feelings of the masses they represent, will not afford to any ministers a fair and consistent support ; and successive Governments, permanently weak, limited in the choice of men to fill the great offices of State to the few who may have the best hopes of re-election, compelled to feel their way by measures of a tentative character, not fully approved even by themselves, will exist from day to day by concession, lose all respect for themselves, but not before they have lost that of others, and at length retire with the convic tion that the theoretical perfection of constituencies is in compatible with the successful conduct of the affairs of the country in parliament." the Court. OSBORNE, Aucurr 6. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of Leiningen, drove out yesterday afternoon; mid her Ma jesty and Prince= Louise rode on ponies in the grounds this morning. The Royal Family walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon. Today is the birthday of the Duke of Edinburgh. The Rev. George and Mrs. I'rothero had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday. The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellis, left Marlborough house yesterday afternoon for Osborne, on • visit to the Queen. A deputation from the Fisheries Preservation Associa tion, consisting of Lord de Maguire (president), Lord Northwick, Mr. Bohn, Mr. H. Cholmondeley Pennell, Peter Hood, M.D., Mr. H. A. Glass (hon. secretary Salmon Fishery Congress), Mr. Frank Storr (secretary to the 'hue Waltoniau Society), Mr. T. Smith, Mr. John Candlish, M.P., and Colonel Sykes, had an inter view with the Right Hon. Outhorne Hardy at the Home office yesterday, on the subject of the pollution of rivers. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Rose (chairman of the Vale of Aylesbury Cattle Plague Association), Mr. J. K. Fowler, Mr. John Riggs, and Mr. John Dcuchfield (Roy►l and Central Ducks Agricultural Association), Mr. George Fell (secretary to the above associations) Mr. J. Odame (Hertfordshire), and Mr. T. Pitta (Plymouth) had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing street, yesterday, to urge the adoption of Mr. Corrance's amendment to the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Bill. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•ofce from the Governor of Malta. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, it is expected, will leave Marlborough-house about the Lath, and pay a visit to Wiesbaden. The Prince and Princess will probably remain on the continent for about two months, and then return to London. The Duke and Duchene of Sutherland have left Stafford Rouse, St. James's, for Lilleahall, Shropshire. The Marquis of Bath has arrived at the Hotel Westminster, Paris, frow Vienna, on his way to London. Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley have left town for a tour in Germany. A marriage will shortly take place between Mr. Reginald Chohnondsley, of Condover Hall, Shropshire, and the Hon. Alice Egerton, second daughter of Lord and Lady Egerton of rattan. The Archduke Regnier of Austria, and the Archduchesa, with the Archduke Charles, uncle of the Emperor, who have been for some time on a visit to Lord Cart!mese, at Killarney, left Kingstown, on Monday evening for England, on their return to Germany. Lord Castleroaee accompanied them. M. Anspach, the Burgomaster of Brussels, has forwarded thromh Colonel Lloyd Lindsay the sum of 4261. 9s. 6d., as a donation to the Anglo-Belgian Societe de Bienfaisarme in London. This sum is given by the members of the Belgian Garde Civique, who took part in the recent expedition to England, in token of their appre ciation of the cordial welcome they received in this country._ THE BELGIAN VOLUNTEER* AND Mles BURDETT Corrrs.—We read in the Primmer of Antwerp, of the 4th :—"The general meeting of the London excursionists of the Antwerp Civic Guards was a very large one. It took place yesterday evening at the lietel de Ville, Major Be: in the chair. The first resolution was that an album—a genuine work of art—shosld be offered to Miss Burdett Coutte, containing portraits of all the Antwerp Civic Guards whom she so graciously received at her residence. A commission of nine members was appointed, and the execution of this album I. entrusted to M. Bogaerta, the author of the magnificent se“st.,ir left in London by our citizen soldiers." MEXICO. PARIS, Accurr 7. The Mexican mail steamer which arrived at St. Nazaire yesterday, brought a despatch from M. Dano, the French minister in Mexico, dated July 8, which states that Juarez was expected shortly at the capital. Porfirio Diaz, who was in command, seemed personally disposed to show moderation. General Vidaurri, however, was arrested on the morning of July 7, and by order of the comman dant shot the same day. INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, AUGUST 6. The Messageries Impdriales steamer Said, with the above mails, arrived here at 9 p.m. to-day. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AL IN, Auousr 7. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Allemania, from New York on the 27th July, has arrived here with 121 passengers, 38,000 dole. in specie for England, 13,100 dole. for France, and 1,200 dole, for Hamburg, 37 sacks of mails, and 750 tons of cargo. (ET ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Aucusr 6, 6 r.w. The debt of the United States is now 2,511,000,000 dols. The Cunard steamship Russia arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Closing prices : Gold, 140. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1131. Illinois, 118} ; Erie, 71. Cotton : Middling Up land, 29. PHILADELPHIA, Accrsr 6. Standard white Petroleum, 2871. [This telegram arrived in London at 6.5 a.m., August 7.] EXPRESS FROM PARIS. pear OUR OWN CORRJOIPONDEWL) PARIS, TUE.DAY EVENING. I subjoin some of the most salient items of the electoral news of the evening. In the Crewe M. Sallandroure de Lamornaix has been elected a councillor general by 1,700 votes against 580 given to the government candidate. This is a terrible blow to the prefect, who had reported to the Minister of the Interior that " there was no sympathy in the department for M. Sallandronze, junr., and that he had not the least chance of being chosen to succeed his much regretted father." This election is an instructive commentary on the excuse often put forward for the system of govern ment candidatures that the prefect merely desig nates those men who he knows beforehand are popular with the constituency. M. Bernex, the mayor of Marseilles, has not obtained an " abso lute " majority. There must be a second ballot, and it is very probable that a coalition may throw him out next Sunday. None of the elections at Marseilles were definitive. The opposition there is very strong. In the Ille-et-Vilaino an opposition candidate, M. de Kordrel, has been re turned for the first timo ; the minorities through out the department are much larger than they ever were before. At Bordeaux the contest was very severe. There must be several new ballots. One opposition candidate will certainly peas ; the minorities are very large. At Lyons, notwith standing the remodelling of the electoral district* only two days before the election, the opposition is positively triumphant. Out of seven councillors to be elected four opposition candidates are already returned, including M. F. Morin, of the Areuir National. It is certain that the three others will be elected next Sunday. The Pro grel de Lyon says :—" The population is in ecstacies ; everybody is proud of a success which shows that the democracy of Lyons is yet worthy of its old reputation." In the canton of Auzon (Haute Loire) the opposition candi date, M. Charles Lacombe, though he could find no journal and no printer to pub lish his addresses, polled 1,407 votes, and the government candidate was only elected by a majority of 96. These are the "triumphs" of which the Constitationne/ most indiscreetly boasts, forgetting that the Emperor himself, in his letter of January 19, branded the system under which these elections have been conducted as " dis cretionary." At Nimes, the government candidate, General Walsin-Esterhazy, was returned by a majority of only 16 votes out of 2,100 electors. At Perpignan (Pyren6es Orientates), M. Durand THE ENGLISH PRISONERS IN ABYSSINIA. Although the intelligence from lfassows is vague—the telegram merely stating, " captives cut off from the Emperor, both parties being surrounded by the rebels ; no danger of their falling into his hands again"— our contemporaries treat it as satisfactory. The captives are not yet free. They are, probably, in the custody of some of Theodore's lieutenants. lint, at all events, the position of affairs in Abyssinia is changed. The prisoners are relieved from imminent danger, and, being placed beyond the control of the only man whose covetousness or vindictiveness they bad reason to dread, we have better hopes of their deliverance. Many months past the general tenor of the ocaruniudas lions from Abyssinia has been to this effect, that the Em peror has been rapidly losing all hold over the allegiance of his subjects ; that many powerful chiefs have fallen away from him ; th►t his army, from • disciplined and enthusiastic force of 80,000 men, had dwindled into a band of 1!5,000 men, ill-disciplined, badly armed, and disaf fected ; and that nothing bat a sort of superstitious belief in his power prevented a general rising against him. Mr. Itaisam, on a slip of paper, which he had been enabled to forward to Colonel Merewether, says : " It is generally supposed that the refusal of the Em peror to liberate us will be followed by • declaration of war ;if so, the following hints may prove useful. Have nothing to do with the Turks, because alliance with the unbelievers will bring on a religious war. Try and obtain the friendship of Wakahim Golusye, the chief rebel of Last• and Tigre, and Tilllloo Golarye, the chief rebel on the road between Admit" and Gondar. They can be very useful in stopping communication between the coast and his Majesty, and in transporting baggage, Ile. If the bishop's assistance be required I can get him to write to all the rebels to render assistance. There is no respect able man in Abyssinia who approves of his Majesty's con duct, but no one has the pluck to speak plainly to him. He has now scarcely any country left, and yet he brays as if he were Alexander the Great. His power is only now acknowledged wherever he is, and ho is so afraid of his troops deserting that he dare not attack any of the great rebels." Colonel Merewether adds :—" The intelligence now for. waded allows that the King's position is getting daily worse and more desperate. The patience of the country, well nigh exhausted before, was further heavily tried on the occasion of the desecration of the churches at Gondar. It is wonderful the King is still borne with. His health is very bad, his sufferings great from a hopeless disease, and that made worse byexcessive intemperance. Provisions in Begmedar are nearly exhausted, and there is nowhere else to look for more. The army is fast leaving him, and though be is said to have given out that he is going against Tadeba Guialoo, the rebel chief in Godiam, everyone knows he cannot ►ttempt it. First, he has not sufficient troops left with him to ensure success, and next, if he went oat of Begmedar, it would be occupied by the rebels of Lasts and Walkeit, and he would loom his stronghold Magilala. It would be most fortunate for us if he could be induced to make the attempt ; but he is too cunning to risk it. It would seem strange to those unacquainted with the people how these rebels, who have such strong forces at their disposal and who defy his authority, should not close with him and attack him now he is so weakened. But the best informed assure me that as long as there is any chance of Theodora. rising again, such is the dread of him personally, none of the rebels will advance on him or attempt to find him. Were they positively assured his course had come to an end they might then be induced to act, and be found most useful." It seems from the intelligence now received, either that Theodonts has taken the initiative against some of the more powerful of the rebel chiefs, or that the latter, wearied of his cruelty and rapacity, have closed upon him. Mr. Bassani reports that both at the Abyssinian court and at Magdala " there is no lack of friends" to the British, and altogether it appears tolerably certain that a bold move on the part of any one of the Abyssinian chieftains must have raised the country. A petition is nnw being signed by the French exhibitors and the population of Paris to beg that the Palace of the Champs de Mars, as well as the gardens around it, should not be done away with, but preserved as they are. On the other side, the military authorities are most anxious that the Champ de Mars should, at the end of the Exhibition, be restored to its former use—viz., the drilling, reviews, and manoeuvres of the troops garrisoned around Paris. The Italian Opera at Paris is again closed, after a series of repreeentstions of the American Conan. Mr. Sothern has made the character of Lord Dundrearyfamiliar to such foreigners as curiosity invited to witness his per formance. The Emperor appeared to enjoy and under stand the character of Dnedreary thoroughly. More than a hundred thousand people were listening on Monday, in the gardens of Versailles, to the Russian band playing on the tapis-eert. These musicians were repeatedly cheered and applauded by the immense crowd, who **erne I to delight is the Russian airs. A grand dinner wu offered to the.. musicians by the town of Versailles, after which the Build= band returned to Paris. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS. —(TH IS DAY,) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. SIERRA LEONE, Sir J. GRAY asked the Under-Snretary of Stat, for the Colonies whether, having regat d to the fact that iu 4 d e . spateh from the Governor of :Morn' Leone. the _.iced March, 1867, his excellency acknowielg es th e commission of a series of assaults upon mai% ,s of tl, O colony by certain servants of the crown, it is the intention of the Colonial-olhoe to deny the protection of tit" by jury in civil actions to the native population ; acd whether the attention of the government has men mllO4 tocertain judgments recently delivered in the criaami courts of that settlement, in which the pa loam awarded is said to have been in excess of and contrary to law, and which are act forth in a petition sail to ham been addressed to the Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs. Mr. ADDFdILEY replied that the statements referiA to in the question went not "trite correct. Cases of anoint bad been committed by whites upon natives but only is one instance by a government servant, and then under cumstancee of great prevention. The caws had be en fully dealt with by the authorities on the spot, and in maw instances compensation had been awarded. MAURITIUS. In reply to • questioo from Mr. J. A. Swim, Mr. ADDN.ItLEY mid at the date of the last ad sicesof the government from the Mauritius, namely, 2nd of May, th e number of deaths in Port Louis and the district around it was 7,000. There had been an improvement since that time. As regarded relief, there was no precedent t or public assistance in such eases , but l arge private subwrip. lions had been entered into in the island. THE COMMITTEE ON THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACT AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF ACT. Mr. NEWDEGATE asked the Speaker whether it is en. sistent with the intention and practice of the house, that when the house h a s ordered a petition to be referred to a select committee, no officer or clerk of the house should take charge of the petition, and be required to deliver th e petition to the chairman at the next meeting of the emu. mittee, or otherwise to call the attention of the committee to the petition, which has by order of the house been referred to the committee for their consideration, and isfor this purpose in the possession of the officers of this house. The hon. member made a statement to the effect that the clerk to whom a petition of Mr. Lord, asking on behalf of the Protestant Association to be allowed to tender further evidence, had, by his own confession, nezlected to perform his duty. The SPEAKER, in reply, said all petitions went in the first instance to the journal office ; there they were examined by the committee on petition s , an d if they ' were thought of sufficient importance, they were laid before the committee. It was the duty of the clerk to make the committee acquainted with petitions, In this case the petition was presented during the time that a committee had adjourned to consider their report, and the clerk did not inform them that it had been re. calved. The petition was in his presence found among other papers. Mr. NEWDEGATE said he hoped there would be greater regularity in future. UNIFORMITY ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. FawcErr, in moving the third reading of this bill, observed that the principle of the bill having been discussed on the second reading he would not enter into it then; but the object Tern to enable the colleges of ',Oxford and Cambridge to admit persons to the highest honours although they were not members of the Church of England. The ten dency of such legislation was to make the universities truly national institutions. Mr. C. BENTINCK moved that the bill be read a third time that day three months, contending that it wu hostile to the church of England and inconsistent with the right.; of colleges, and accusing Serjeant Gutlee and other members of having displayed Ignorance in their advocacy of the bill. Serjeant GASELEE, in defending himself against the charge of ignorance, complained of such language as Imps! , liamentary, and said the hon. member had better look at home. (Laughter.) The house then divided : For the third reading :4 Against it 4l-7 The bill was accordingly lost. LIBEL BILL. Sir C. O'LOCHLEN moved the third reading of this bill. Mr. AYRTON contended that the effect of passing such a bill, which would make speakers liable for slander instead of newspapers, would probably be that tho press would be placed under similar restrictions to those which existed in foreign countries ; so that the press itself would be injured instead of benefited. The legal distinction between spoken and written language was founded in reason, and no one could have sat in that house for a month without seeing that there should be greater allowance in one case than in the other. If • person chose to take down what ought not to have bees uttered, and to print it, he should be held responsible. Nothing could be better than the footing on which the press was now placed ; and if the law of libel were alio. Fished newspapers would deteriorate in character. The hon. member concluded by moving that the bill be TM' a third time that day three months. Mr. T. CHAMBERS seconded the amendment. Sir C. O'LOQHLEN defended the bill and corn planed of the manner in which the opposition had been conducted, the second reading berme been allowed to pass without • division, and the obstructions reserved for the third reading. The bill had received the sanction of the Newspaper Press Association, which num bered 160 members, and petitions had been presented in favour of it while none had been presented against it. It was not purely a newspaper bill ; many of the chines relating to the law of libel as it bore on people generally. I Left sitting.] THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE REFORM BILL. In compliance with a requisition numerously and respectably signed, the Lord Mayor has convened a public, meeting of the citizens of London at the Guildhall, at one o'clock to-morrow, to petition parliament against the Lords' amendments of the Reform Bill. The movement has been set on foot by the Liberal Registration AISOCiI. tion in the City. The meeting will be held for the pur. pose of passing resolutions and petitioning parlia ment against :—lat. The increase of copyhold md leasehold qualifications from 51. to BY. The use of voting papers. 3. The partial disfrinehisement of electors in the City of London and certnn other boroughs, by neutralising their representation, and de. priving them of one of their votes, under the lame of the representation of minorities.' 4. The requirement of the paymett of a county or borough rate in addition to the poor rate." The following is a copy of the petit ion adopted by the great meeting at hfanchester " To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled,—The petition of the int habitants of the city of Manchester, in public meeting assembled, humbly ahoweth,—That in the opinion of your petitioners the universal custom of the country, which giros to each elector as many votes AS there are members to be returned to parliament for his borough or county, ought not to be departed from in Manchester. That if your iwtitiomrs mtnuot have three votes fur three candidate', they pm,' that this city may be divided into two oonatitueucies, at L Fro• posed in regard to Glasgow ; and should it hapis:m which your petitioners are unwilling to believe, that parliament will refuse to grant either of these requests, they thee pray that the third member may be withdrawn from 110. cheater, and given to some constituency where A wa!oritl of the electors shall have the power to return ham to the Rouse of Commons. Your petitioners also pray that your honourable house will reject the proposal in reference to the use of voting papers, which would, as your p e titionem believe, engender corrupt influence amongst tLe elector* And your petitioners will ever t ray." The meeting to be held at eight o'clock this evening st the Queen's Concert Rooms, to protest against the soon . of the Lords with reference to the three•eotnered tr • tuencies, will, it is expected, be addressed by Mr. 4 ;ache% M.P., Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., Mr. J. Stansfal, Mr. Dixon, M.P., Mr. Wtitworth„ and others. The chairman is Mr. Tureens, M.P., the author of the lodger franchise dame. With reference to the recent statements regard ing the practicability of obtaining meat from Asw trellis, the secretary of the Australian Meat CousFors of which Messrs. John M'Call and Co. are the *bole' sale agents, writes to mention that they have het* steadily at work on the subject for the Pot year, that their sales are gradually increasing, 301 now amount to about 70,00016. per month, and that at the present time they are killing on their establishmen t at Ramornie, Clarence River, New South Wales, *hod fifteen bullocks per day. The beat half of each carcase is, it is said, sent to London as boiled beef, and the otbe half is made into Liebig's extract of meat. Prince do la Tour-d'Auvergno, French Antler sador at London, has left Paris for the waters of Vichy. °am" PALLan.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—Tre ss DAT, Aunter 6.—Adaissions on Perevnt, 2 , 790 ; " by Kam tickets, 839; total viaitott. 3,638. I 4 Hi. 1, handed ,fin, SAIRTIN .....m.. Aberde;W ".eaticasit Valentin.. tivt l hULaCe brat 'orient Inctlefort: lirmouth Iteraouth mlaa, oral Loodon Yannouti: Scasimi.." %olds ..r he r , "MP, 114 TUB L Pig neat 4' equity i F OREII . PUY s'oeral Baide • etberia n Ur. Err Y• ar k. - -04 that, wl i ftraes letro, ;fr .. t wi t raw. "'"Urtit elic ted Gam ? ~kceived Alli wia 00 EXter. "41 , a p u , siE manful ftta ; in 18 T he writer 44 rom. us the real his lord for the larities Mr..] 1 zast Anai. watt:aim watch, i studs, of Mr..l toad. The p who sta very po. there I sontethi the the cash astonish have cat to her, the repl eequent: the said MAII2 throe eke 16:E Your ser . -- Pram 'be has I Mr. 1 probabill noel A reap her anal' ban tak Hr. i he The u is!! 133; kr:l Stage of