The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-25 00:00:00

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Ja- The plot is Weeds@ AO4 adoed with highly dramatic Incidents which ewste W000)121.'64 aeleatiete hy excellent sesssery."—Wsekty Timm 7F"tLANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8 . air Dam whew • river steamer appears to that taeltir on the siege. coveted o norm of applause. ' The Lassonidre Ines' will sap, a lengthened run."—llluistrined Sporting News. MBE LANCASHIRS LA$B, at a quarter to 8. "Yr. Byron was recalls& and bowed his selmowlederoento amid sociferons cheers from an oasts of the theatre."--inandard. Prim LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8 . .1 1 - "On Its serene representation wa recelved with even greater afghans then on the evening of readootion. '—Dally Telegraph. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Three PrOll2lllstle Cowart Band of 10. alien at IL 14. 4464.4 arm trmn I I to 4. WILLIAM CHIIRTON and SON, noon= and BHIRTIEARERB. LAMER' UNDERCLOTHING. 91 and H. OXPORIMITREET. 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HIGH WATER AT LONDON_BRMOR To =liorrung -7 , FS: um aft;rsoo;,7A. 260. %mow —Morning, 711. 630. Attasocia, S. :ft. NOTICE. KOTICIN of BIRTVIN, MAIIIII•0211, and D • are received until 12 o'clock for insertion same evening. Pries 28. 6d. A SECOND EDITION of the EIEPRIZS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS lITBLISHZD EVERY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25. THE LATEST HOAX. THE age of chivalry is past. But the age of hoaxes is come. With a feeling of disappointment which we doubt not has come home to the booms and the purses of a large number of people in all parts of the country, we read in this morning's Times the following brief but eloquent paragraph :—" THE CREDIT Formizit OF ENO " LAND.—The Bight Hon. J. STUART WORTLEY " has telegraphed to us, stating that the letter " which appeared in our columns yesterday, par " porting to be signed by him, is a forgery." How many poor widows and half-pay officers and country clergymen and others of that inno cent and confiding class of investors who are to the financing anglers in the City what roach and dace are to the cockney fisherman at Teddington, will read this concise but sufficient contradiction with all the anguish of a TANTALUS! To ourselves/ it is but one more lost illusion ; to many why. during one live-long day had the Right Hoer /Swear WORTIEY'S 18,00 W. dangled before their mouths it must be the torture of a mirage to the maddening thirst of a pilgrim in the desert. For our own part we have no apology to offer for having acoepted the letter which is now declared to be a forgery as a genuine production. Assuredly such an act of restitution was a little startling— off the stage. It was more like the &moil meut of a high flown French senti mental comedy than real life. We should have been justified in feeling, and even in showing, at least a momentary hesitation, if not in waiting twenty-four hours for the silence of the Right Hon. J. STUART WORTLEY. But the letter was dated from Lowestoft, and we have a lively faith in the tonic virtue of sea air. It might be that the wild waves had been saying something to the supposed writer of the letter from " The Royal Hotel, Lowestoft," about those beggared, despairing, and broken-hearted investors in the Credit Foncier of England, who, with that honest faith in a title which is peculiar to the true Englishman, had trusted their money to a company once presided over by a Right Honourable? Does not the Cuarrera.tort of the EXCHEQUER re ceive some thousands of pounds every year from in genuous fanatics who have " kept back" inco me tax, and wh o , h av i ng committed the sin, are stricken, perhaps, with a sudden fear of the fate of Azarnas ; or, shall we say, are suffering from a fatty degeneration of the conscience ? We hear some c a pti ous cynics say—"Ah ! if th e ,‘ letter bad been signed ALBERT GRANT you " would at once have pronounced it -a hoax. " It was the signature of J. STUART WORTLEY " that convinced you." This Is cruel. But we will make a clean breast of it. and confess that had the letter purporting to be written and signed by " J. STUART WORTLEY " professed to be written and signed by " ALBERT GRANT." w 0 should have consigned it instantly to the waste-paper basket, as one of those hoaxes which have not even themerit of probability. We can only now express our regret at having taken Mr. RV:TART WORTLEY'S name in vain. The writer of the letter from the Royal Hotel, Lowestoft, must have followed the right hon. gentleman's movements rather closely, and may possibly have caught some unguarded remark on the morality of public companies. and made it the text for an impertinent mystification. We are not ashamed of having, somewhat precipi tately as it now appears, improved an occasion too rare to be neglected. Yet, much as we regret having done so much unintentional injustice to Mr. STUART WORTLEY, we regret infinitely more having assisted in exciting the false and, alas ! ephemeral hopes of the innumerable victims of the Credit Fonder of England. Public journalists may be excused for not dwelling on the sad truth that there is nothing new under the sun. The letter from Lowestoft might have been written in the Augustan age—of Rome, and a poet might have noted this morning's contradiction in the Populus me sibit, at raihi plaudo Ipse domi, simul ac uummos coutemplor in arch. 110 W SCIENCE FARES IN NORFOLK. WE are sorry to hear that the distinguished men of science who have honoured Norwich with their presence during the last few days have very little reason to congratulate themselves on the choice of that ancient cathedral city for this year's visit of the British Association. In stead of finding themselves the objects of an eager and solicitous hospitality, and of a flattering welcome, the favoured guests of all the country round, as many pleasant reminiscences of other meetings in other places might have taught them to expect, they have been with very few exceptions obliged to depend on that " warmest welcome" which an English poet found at an inn—but not at an inn of the nineteenth century, unless, in our latest dictionaries, a " warm welcome " means a heavy bill—or on the colder, but not less costly, comfort of lodg ings in a small provincial capital. Now, Nor folk is a county abounding in large estates, and in " seats" of wealthy nobles and commoners. At an easy distance from Norwich there are country houses enough to board and lodge in the plea santest manner all those eminent and world famous men of science who have been condemned for several nights to go to bed over the shops of butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. One would suppose that the LORD LIEUTENANT of the county, who entertains royalty, would have set the example to his neighbours of doing honour to men whose genius and labours will be remembered by the grateful posterity whose material civilisation they created, when all the Lord-Lientenants and Deputy-Lieutenants of the period in which the British Association met at Norwich are forgotten even by the heirs to their estates. If great houses do not entertain angels unawares these days, they have the opportunity occasionally of entertaining men whose names and services to humanity will outlive political and territorial aristocracies, whe ther of Whig or of Tory descent. The only expla nation that has reached us of this singular neg ligence on the part of the noblemen and gentlemen of the county of Norfolk to the British Association is that it is due to a jealousy between town and county; that the invitation to the British Association to visit Norwich came from local professional inhabitants of that city without the consent or authority of the great houses in the neighbourhoed, and that these townspeople were in no respect qualified to entertain the distinguishes? guests they had the courage to invite " for the good " of the town," which, being 'interpreted, means, we suppose, for the good of the innkeepers and the lodging-houses. So, between town and county, Science has fared ill at Norwich ; and by way of a further &clumsiest to the British Asso ciation to give Notwich a wide berth in future, a portion of the local press has been engaged during the visit of the Association in levelling the shafts of its light Flemish wit at Science in general, and the President of the year in particulex, and with that peculiar vanity of ignorance which is the true " note of provin " ciality," has been asking its readers " Who is Dr. " Room 1 4 " We believe this is the first visit of the British ,sssociation to Norwich, although the original Sqfretary of the Association, whose ener getic devution to its interests would entitle him to the ranlrfof a founder, was a Norwich man. Unless we are viiistaken the first visit is not unlikely to be the last. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2b; 18. THE POOR IN THE HOT WEATHER. l'irrs is a heading under shelter of which a hydred wise things might be said, but we are not now going to be very wise or very copious. During the weary sweltering days that have been some 7iow got through since May, few of us who have 'had to pass by or along very poor neighbourhoods, such as Tatty boy's Bents, Bleeding-heart-yard, Paradise-row, Mount-pleasant, or the like, can have escaped thoughts of wonder at the way in which the inhabitants bore the heat and did their work. While we, efferainates that we are ! have been threatening revolution because we could not get ice enough, how has Mrs. Nunaris, the laundress down the court, been getting on P As we have passed by, we have seen her put the box iron up to her face just as she did when she pumped KIT about his love affairs, and we have marvelled greatly. Down Paradise-row we have not only seen dirty women, naked almost to the waist, suckling dirtier babies ; we have seen, inside, the mangle going, and the small fry, dusty and dis hevelled, at loggerheads ; with six mule canaries en the wall over a water-coloured print of the Last Supper, and several rabbit-hutches, visible through the back door in the yard. And how these poor human creatures have borne the stifling heat who knows ? Temper it as we might, we our selves have found it irritating; and, really, if the poor were to quarrel more, and drink more, and murder more, in such weather as we had this summer, it would scarcely be surprising. There are usually pumps in these neighbourhoods ; but it must take a good deal of spring water, ever so cold, to quench the thirst induced by the feeding habits of the poor. In the very hottest weather, red herrings and periwinkles—politely called bloaters and winkles—have met an undiminished sale in Bleed ing -heart-yard; and what is thirstier eating than a red herring ? For one thing, we must not forget the teapot, the ever-ready oonsolation of Mrs. NUBBLEB and her friends. But everybody who keeps his eyes open as he goes about the streets must have been struck, especially during the last two years, with the increasing popularisation of claret (of whatever quality) as a drink among the poor. , Threepence • glass for " iced claret" has beau and is a com mon price in very shabby neighbourhood', and 2d. a glans is not uncommon. There is also an enormous increase, if we may judge by the ordinary signs in such matters, in the sale of very light bottled beers, at low prices—we have seen it as low as twopence half-penny the imperial pint. These precise drinks, however, do not roach down to the ques tion of the refreshments of the very poor; except when they have a treat now and then. Have any of our readers ever wondered what is the con sumption of gingerbeer at a stall in a low neigh bourhood F Accident enables us to give a few facto about the consumption of that and other re freshments at a stall attached to a small general shop in such a district. We cannot say whether the facto are typical or not, but such as they are, they may be relied upon :—" How much ginger-pop did " I sell in a day, sir i' I've eold as much as eleven " &Mins' worth. Fourteen shillins of a Sunday. " The beer is eightpenoe a dozen, and there's " thirteen to the dozen. Sometimes they haves " sherbet. Sometimes they haves sherbet " and milk. That's very nice ; you try it " air. They comes into the shop, and says, " Minds, give us a ha'porth of sherbet in a " ' haporth o' milk, and put a little water to it.' " If you mix the sherbet with the milk very thick, " so as the spoon can stand up in it, it's like " hice. You try that, sir, We never had no him " There was hice on the bill in the window, but we " couldn't afford that. Sometimes a F ailor comes " in and bastes (mks) where the hice is, and we " says, down in the collar, of course. Sometimes " they can't afford nothing but water. They " comes in and says, ' Missis, give us a penn'orth " o' bread and a ha'porth o' treacle, and cut " out a piece o' the bread, and lot's have a glass " o' water.' So then they makes me put the " treacle into the hole, and they dips the bit as I " cut out into the treacle. We always gives 'em " the water in a tumbler. Sometimes they has as " much water as they like, and then calls for a " bottle o' ginger-beer to finish up. It makes it " more of a feast, sir." It makes it more of a feast! Little Dorrit'e lover, sitting out among the damp, flapping clothes hung up in the yard, " thinks its groves, " sir." Ye gentlemen of England, who drink Chateau-Yquem at ease, ah ! little do you think upon such luxuries as these. Perhaps you need a glass of Grande-Chartreuse for a " pick-me-up," after hearing of all this revelry—bread and treacle, washed down with water, and a penny bottle of ginger -beer, to make it more of a feast—with the thermometer at 86 in the shade. We do not know that there are any very weighty conclusions to be drawn from all this; if there are, we can only, like JEAN Pain somewhere, " advise you to " draw them." But, knowing, as we all do, what torments heat and thirst are, even when life goes smoothly in other respects, we may be none the worse for giving a thought to the stinted re sources of the hard-working poor in the matter of drinks that should be refreshing and stimulating without being apt to get quickly into the head. THE WESLEYANS AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. AT a time when the feelings of the Wesleyan Methodists with regard to the Church of Eng land are being very generally discussed, an inci dent which lately occurred at Homeastle is not without interest. It appears that a gentleman who had officiated as curate there acquired such respect and esteem among the Dissenting body that he received an invitation from the Wesleyan., in the town and neighbourhood to undertake the ministration of their religion. A stipend of 2001. was offered him, with the additional attrac tion of an increase of 10d, as often as his wife should present him with a child. The naiveté of the last clause will perhaps cause some of our readers to smile. Certainly in this country it has not hitherto been thought necessary to offer a premium on reckless multiplication, nor have the country clergy been generally deemed the class most remiss in this particular. But, passing by this point, we believe that this occurrence is a very fair illustration of the sentiments of the Wesleyan body towards the Church of England. While they justly feel a pride and confidence in their own voluntary principle, for the most part they entertain little or no enmity towards the Esta blished Church. By no sect of nonconformists are the piety and earnestness of an individual clergyman more warmly appreciated. But they may well feel that the utmost goodwill towards the church is a very different thing from allying themselves with the extreme party represented by Dr. PUSHY, a party which has always done its beet to obscure those Protestant principles which are the true link between the English Church and the whole body of Dissenters. It is not intellectual activity, it is sacerdotalisra that is really to be dreaded, not only by the Wesleyan Methodists, but by all denominations of Protestants, and most of all by the Established Church herself. We are glad that this truth is perceived by the Weeleyane ; if the Established Church is to continue, she must learn to perceive it too. A PEER AND A PERSON. Ti' seems that a peer is not a person, whoever else is. A contemporary refers to the catastrophe at Abergele in these terms : " Awful death of " twenty persons and a peer." You do not get at the full flavour of this till you put the con verse, thus : " Awful death of Twenty Peers " and a person." MR. MONK AND THE OW= BERVICH.—A testi monial will shortly be presented to Mr. C. J. Monk, M.P., by the revenue departments of the Civil Service, for his untiring and suooessful exertions to restoring to its MOM• ben the elective franchise. Subscriptions to the testi monial are to be limited to one shilling,a sum not ex oeeding 100 guineas is to be expended, and it will be in the form of an illuminated address" prepared by Mr. Scuds more, assistant secretary to the Pcat.ofEce. - - TECHNICAL EDUCATION, TORQUAy.—On Thurs day the President of the Science and Art School gave an open entertainment to the subscribers and pupils of the science school, in hie own beautiful grounds at Woodfield. At five o'clock • large number of ladies and gentlemen had assembled, and after tea, Mr. E. Vivian, the president, presided at a 1311113iillg, at which very ex cellent addressee were delivered by Mr. Sheppard, Mr. Strong, and Mr. Buckmaster. From the statement of the latter speaker it appears that more than 100 pupils have passed through the science chases in three years, and that one pupil walked nearly 600 miles to attend a class in animal physiology. He obtained a medal from th e S c i ence and Art Deparent at the last May examination. The success of the classes is mainly due to the earnestness of the teacher, who is also the master of the British school, and the co-operation of a very active committee. The classes are held in the evening during the winter months, at the Science and Art School, and are chiefly attended by young men who are engaged in the day time. After the usual votes of thanks the meeting separated. DEATH Or MR. PERCY M. DOVE.—Mr. Percy M. Dove, the founder, manager, and actuary of the Royal Insurance Company, ie=7 morning at his residence, Claughton, near Mrli. after many months of acute suffering from • moat painful internal complaint He was about 63 years of age. The Rev. H. Christopherson, who was formerly a Congregationalist minister, commenced his ministra tions on Sunday morning, as incumbent of Bedford =Bloomsbury, under the ia K from Bellowe Bishop of succeeding Bey. J A G. . OUR OONTEMPORARIES, (THIS DAY.) ' The Second Mowers has, remarks the Ali* News, never pretended to be a free government ; it is nothing if not "strong." Yet, if strength in a government consists in baring the law and a law-abiding community on your side; in the support of such a majority of the people that the minority is imperceptible ; in so complete an identifi cation with the public interests and the public liberties that every faction salutes you with equal respect, and the anger of hostile parties pauses, as you pain, to do you homage: what sort of strong government is that which is so terrified at the epigrams of a weekly satirist that it is obliged to make quite an armed demonstration before a newspaper office on the morning of publication, to poet bodies of police at a printer's Aloe and gendarmes in a quiet street before daylight, to search the private apart meat. of a journalist, in short, to make a reduced copy of a temp etst--all because the thirteenth number of M. Henri Rochefort's Lantern* is about to be published I' "Strong government." of this order are apt to forget that the law is the same for sovereign and subject, and that those who place themselves beyond and above it are liable to 411 victims of their own example. RIR ROUMDELL PALMER. The Time replies to Sir Roundel( Palmer's objec tions to the dieendowment of the Irish Church. His reasoning, it argues, proceeds on an erroneous estimate of the province of statesmanship, of the successes it has to aim at and be content with. No reasonable being pre tends to hope, or to think it possible, to satisfy either the Irish people or the Roman catholic, generally by the pro posal now before the country. No reasonable being can expect to be able to close the long account between us. But, though the account be not closed, yet we shall stand better with the Irish catholics. We shall have done a great act of justice, and shall feel comparatively at ease. Our cause will be stronger, and it will rest with Ireland to appreciate what we have done. If she cannot or will not appreciate it, that will be to her own shame and loss. The rose observes that Sir Roundel! Palmer has by no means an easy task to perform in reconciling his zeal as a religionist and his liberalism as a politician to the exigen cies of the times. He has invented and adopted a scheme for dealing with the Irish Church intended to serve and to save the interests of the churches (for all churches find equal favour in his eyes) ; but then he has, for the sake of bringing himself to that point, had to so lop and chop the principles upon which he bases his opinions, that there is little left in them that will be recognised by their ordi nary and less fettered supporters when they have left his hand.. Sir B. Palmer supports his objection to disendowment, says the Telegraph, by arguing that a church accustomed to dependence on the aid of endowments oonld not so ad vantageously employ the voluntary principle as a church which, in its primitive condition, had adopted that prin ciple. But if endowment breeds a dependence and feeble. ness that incapacitates the Church from maintaining itself by it own inherent strength, why, asks the Telegraph, does Sir Boundsll Palmer insist that the enervating and disabling influence shall be perpetuated? The Herald expremea its high sense of Sir Roundell's honourable and conscientious conduct en this question. That he should have retained enough of his opinions to deprive himself of the honour and the power which other wise would, according to the party calculations, have been his in a few months, proves him a man of rare con- Ecientionimess and integrity. WARRIAGI LAW. The Times comments upon the report of the Royal Commission on the laws of marriage. The principles of the scheme are that marriage is founded on mutual con sent; that it is the duty of the state to ascertain that the consent has bean really interchanged; that the state is not, indeed, to reject otherwise proper machinery tor as certaining the fact because thereby a religious sanction is added to its own civil sanction of the marriage contract, but that its concern is with the civil, and not with the re ligious sanction. Our contemporary urges that reforms by which the marriage law is brought into closer confor mity with these principles ought to be acceptable in Eng land and Ireland whether or not they be ever extended to Scotland. THE BIUTIBH 1101 TABOUILIER. The picture which Canon Girdlestone drew before the British Association of the condition of the West of Eng land labourer, proves him, the Daily News thinks, to be a brave man, if not a wise one. Our contemporary does not hold the present generation of farmers or landlords responsible for that condition. Employer and employed have alike been trained in prejudice against that emigra tion without which there can be no satisfactory adjust ment of the laws of supply and demand, and it is a diffi cult matter to overcome that prejudice. It is in an education which " will prepare the labourer for doing the best kind of work, for seeking good wages wherever they are to be found, and using them to make him bide. pendent of charity," that we must look for a permanent improvement in the social condition of the agricultural servants. the Court. PENSION WAI.T.IB, LIICEB.NE, Auevsr 22. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely, Sir William Janney, and Major-General Sir Thomas Biddulph, has left Lucerne for the F 1 aka, near the St. Gothard Paw, where her Majesty will remain for two or three dap. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office from the Governors of the North American Pro vinces, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Malta, the Straits Settle ments, and lAbuan. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Set - temente on the West Coast of Africa, the Cape of Good Rom Natal, and to the Governor-General of Canada. THE GOVERNOR-GINIRLIABIP OF LNDI.A.—The appointment of Lord Kayo aa Governor-General of India is now, we believe, a settled matter; and it is probable that his lordship will go out even I, o early as October.— Scotsman. THE LATE thlt NICHOLAS CHERNERY.—The Rev. John. Bills, in a letter written from Wyvenhoe Rectory, Essex, August 2 2 , respecting the late Rev. Sir Nicholas Chinnery, who lost his life in the railway accident at Abergele, says :—" Few men ever were so ready for so ter rifically sudden a translation as was this estimable baronet. Only a fortnight ago he visited us here, and preached in my pulpit a most masterly sermon, which none who heard Alvin soon forget. It is doubly embalmed now in our memories as a kind of farewell testimony of the truth which he loved, and as a parting appeal to the men whom he so earnestly sought to awaken into a fresh Christian energy. It re calls vividly the word' which Arnold, on the Sunday pre ceding his scarcely lea abrupt removal, addressed lo his youthful charges at Rugby, when he demanded of each whether he " had yet taken the great step in life—paasi ag out of the kingdom of Satan into the kingdom of Chri st. Sir Nicholas spoke to us of his intended visit to Ireland as the fulfilment of his duty as an Irish landlord, prefer ring to live for a time among the people to a more agree able sojourn abroad. Re was to leave London on the 19th, and, unfortunately breaking the journey at Chester, he entered the fatal train there on the 20th." THE LAST HOl7lttl OP THADDEUS STEMTS.— About ten days ago he became unable to leave hie apart ment, but eat up at short intervals during the past week until Sunday morning, when there were evident signs of a change for the worse, as he then became exceedingly feeble, and showed a marked indisposition to engage in any conversation, as he had previously done. From that time all visits of strangers were prohibited. Yesterday and Monday he scarcely spoke is any one , and lay most of the time with his hands crossed and eves closed as if sal the only signs he gave of consciousness being feeble mut terings and slight motions of the hands. In the after noon of yesterday, however, be revived for a time, and conversed with considerable cheerfulness, and even with animation, on a variety of ordinary topics ; and though he continued to grow feebler during the rest of the day, yet he retained conecimuness and the power of speech up to within a few moments of his dedh, his last words being to ask for a pleas of ioe. Many persons called to see him during the evening, but none were admitted until after about six o'clock, when two coloured clergymen, named Read and Hall, who had some months before explained a desire to pray with him, were sent for at his request, and coming to his bedside In voked the Divine blaming on him. One of these coloured men was at the death-bed of John Quincy Adams. Mr. Stevens seemed somewhat affected at the prayers of these ministers, and at the close thanked them with feeble voice and a of the hand. About ten minutes before his death Sister Loretta asked and obtained consent to baptize him, and the solemn rite was administered in silence, which was rendered more impressive by the still ness of the late hour of the night. At this time his breathing was very mace obstructed, and he maimed to suffer from a violent palpitation of the heart; but this =off, and during Ave - minutes Delos, he breathed his It lay motionless and quiet as it is a galas sloop.— New York lYmiw, August 13. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. It would appear by the following letter from Vienna in the Augsburg Gazette, that the Austrians arc not quite resigned to their exclusion from Germany, and that they look forward to a time when Austria will be placed at the head of a Southern Band: We have no desire to revive by force a connection which has subsisted a thousand years. With our constitutional liberty now becoming developed with more or less force and vitality, our parliamentary life, the intellectual posi tion and activity of our German elements, under the conduct of ministers of tried liberalism, we re main in contact with Germany, in spite of Bismarck and of the national advanced party; we tranquilly await the day when we shall be called spontaneously, when we shal be offered equal rights with Prussia, and when there wil be conferred on us with respect to Southern Germany, to which division we are more closely allied by our inclina tions, with the full assent of her princes and her popula tions, the prerogative which Prussia exercises in the northern half of the common country. "Patience paw Science" is not the motto of the Norfolk family alone. On the other hand, the Silesian Gazette is of opinion that Austria has not been sufficiently abased. It says: In the course of a long struggle by arms, ideas have become modified, new horizons appear. . . The American contest furnishes an example still present in every one's memory. . . Ours with Austria did not last last long enough.. . An astonishing manoeuvre of cabinet policy-- unique in history—the gift of a kingdom (Lombardo- Venetia) to a third power, a stranger to the conflict, enabled diplomacy to conclude peace before the quarrel bad been completely settled by arms. The peace of Prague will endure and bear its fruit so long as it responds to certain national necessities ; but everything introduced into it by cabinet policy will inevitably perish. THE PROJECTED ATTEMPT TO AMAMI. NATE M. DEAL The Hungarian journals give the following details of the projected attempt on the life of M. Desk : The Hon statee that the municipal authority of Pesth had received an anonymous letter announcing that the deputy referred to would be shot within the month. The Pesti Naplo declares that it had for some time past been informed of the conspiracy, but had not thought right to publish the facts. As, however, the affair is made public, it rectified the account given by saying that the anony mous communication was sent to M. Demokos, deputy, and contained the name of the intended assassin. The reeidence of the person indicated having been searched, papers were discovered which led to his arrest. The Naplo adds that the whole affair is without importance, as the accused is a student of heated imagination. THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN OF 186e3. The controversy between the generals respecting the Italian campaign which ended in the dis aster of Customs still continues. General La Marmora has published a despatch which is calcu lated to remove some of the suspicion attaching to him that he was playing into the hands of France. This document is a letter addressed by the latter to M. Nigra on the sth of July, 1866, and it contains the following phrases: I can understand that the Emperor desires to stop Prussia, but that he should do so to the detriment of the honour of Italy is extremely painful. To receive Venetia as a gift from France is to us humiliating, and everyone will believe that we have betrayed Prussia. Endeavour so that we should be spared this hard alternative. (THIIOI7OB asozsa • e AGENCY.) PRUSSIA. THE ACCIDENT TO COUNT BISMARCK. BERLIN, Amin 25. _ Reports from Varzin as to Count Bismarck's health state that he was already able to leave his bed, and was in a fair way of recovery from his accident, with the exception of lingering pains in the muscles. The statement of the physicians that the Minister sustained neither external nor in ternal injuries has leen confirmed. SPAIN. MADRID, Auoust 21. The Officiul Gazette of to-day contains a decree inviting public tenders for leasing the government lead and copper mines at Linares, near Jaen. The general in command of the military forces in the province of Extremadura has been recalled from his post. AMERICA. THREATENED NEGRO DISTURBANCES IN THE SOUTH. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE, The Inman royal mail steamer City of Balti more arrived at Queenstown from New York at 7 a.m. to-day, with 5,0001. in specie. Having landed mails and passengers, she proceeded imme diately for Liverpool. All well. NEW TORE, Avoca 15, Nom The Democratic State Convention has been held at Raleigh, North Carolina. A large num ber of negro democrats attended and were threatened with violence by the radical negroes. The military preserved order. It is reported that the negroes in the interior of South Carolina are incensed at the action of Governor Scott in vetoing certain radical members of the legislature. They are said to be arming, and to threaten violence against the conservative whites and negroes. The funeral service was performed over the body of Mr. Thaddeus Stevens at Washington yesterday. The body was taken to Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, for interment. Encke's comet was visible from Washington Observatory last night. Intelligence from Canada states that conflagra tions are still raging in the northern forests. THE WEST INDIA MAIL. DEFIANT ATTITUDE OF THE NEGROES AT JAMAICA. PLY3fOUTH, Anonsr 23. The Neva's dates are—from Panama and Colon, August 3; Jamaica, Bth ; St. Thonaaa's, 13th. In the States of Central America business of all hinds is reported dull. The alarm caused in Guatemala by rumours, according to which yellow fever had broken out in the capital, and in some other towns of the interior, has abated, the report being contradicted on reliable authority. The rainy season had began in Nicaragua, and the crops of grain which were sufftaing from drought had much improved. Yellow fever had notably decreased at Rivas. Some opposition had been shown to the late decree of the Government of Costa Rica abolish ing the duty on all coffee exported from the re public. News from Chili states that Valparaiso had been visited with torrents of rain. A tremendous fire had occurred at Santiago. An Italian barque from Buenos Ayres, bound for Valparaiso, had been totally lost off the port of Albemarle. The crew were saved, and taken on board ship to Monte Video. The British barque Ines, from Caldera, with a cargo of regulus for England, sprang a leak and was obliged to put back. At Callao yellow fever had entirely disappeared, and was also reported as rapidly diminishing at Lbw& The dB, the mad left was the anniversary of the declaration of the independenc e o f th Peruvian Republics. Congress. was to tu.s4 ly that day. Shortly afterwards the pro...lsolatio n . 0 Colonel Salta, who had been elected Powi.lynt by a large majority, was to come off. I Reports from Jamaica state that n Lift b.,, k Company had been established. The negmes in the parishes of St. Thom ~, East and at Portland had again beeoute tut „, their behaviour towards the phtnterm, quence of sentiments uttered from the H.ll i, I,y Mr. Justice Masheder, the new chntriet said the planters were thi , ..ven and r.,1,1,-1 labourers. TEE IMPERIAL PIRG-EATER.v, The Beilletio tiational, having extraebst the llovilovr de Armee the announcement of the lion of 31. Puyau, who commanded the att. k •,• •• . electoral meeting at Nimes, by which the life of M has been jeopardised, added to the announcer, • they made it " without comment." Lieuteuim. Captain Puyau sent a challenge to M. Pierre Ito .„ the editor of the Bulletin, demanding utiste•th,g; insult or the insertion of a note dictated by 11. • . M. Bangnon offered to insert the following 1:•.• • "In our number of August 29 we comment the promotion of M. Puyau to the e• • tads. M. Puyau informs Ili that ho • this promotion for a long time, and that the o , • 29 had nothing to do with it. We fool bo•a: . this denial, and to confess we did nnt know • • promotions were regulated by a hot which • beginning of each year." This did not satisfy M. Puyau, who in meeting. M. Baragnon on thi , h • told him that the affair at Nimes wa., • legal tribunals and the public ennvcieur.•, vi l not bound in honour to tight. Ili• t 1..; , TILE REPENT lIARMOITTII, NORTH WALI:s. 1• About 3 o'clock this morning a was seen at anchor about seven miles to th,• , this place, and two miles from the shore, with , • • distress flying (says Mr. Jenkins of h , •r Customs). The wind was blowing strong at th.• • ,:: • • • ~,, the north-west. The Ellen lifeboat, of the Nat., I. boat Institution, was promptly launched and the ship which was found to be the Favourit.•. c I : •. wood, bound from Liverpool to New Orh•ant e general cargo. She had been dismasted iu .•.• Saturday last off the Irish coast. The masa:6, •i tti lifeboat informed the master of the vessel of h t. and the boat then returned to the shore with a 11, the assistance of two steam-tugs from l'ortmad.. . the steamers is now alongside the ship. PORTFIDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES, Acs Z • !:. Yesterday, about noon several vessels left Ow. h.( while the wind was blowing a hard gale from the w • south west (states the Rev. J Hughes). Suddenly iu• wind shifted to the north north west, accompani,•.l by heavy !quells ; two schooners and a smack put back. in coming into the bay one of the schooners ran upon ; • Chwslin Rock. As soon as the dangerous position w seen, the Cotton Sheppard lifeboat, belonging to • National Institution, was launched ; but before she coo; I reach the spot the crew had come ashore in their own boat . Shortly afterwanis the vessel shifted to another rock, and soon became a total wreck. She was the Witch, of Holy. head, and was on a voyage from Dieppe to ltuncom, a cargo of flint stone. The lunatic 'Wood, whose eccentricitioi gay.• to the report of a Fenian design to assassinate the tt , 0 , 11, ham, it appears, been sent to England at his own His insanity had nothing to do with Fenianism The Austrian Emperor will stay at Li‘,.:ll - 01 the end of the present month and efa•rwv l, proceed to the camp of Bruck to witness grin.' nJu. mune. there. General Kuhn, General Gablenu, 3:, (14.• Archduke Albert will accompany his Majesty. The Bavarian government has decided th it t 4 • fortress of Wurtaburg shall be immediately rived. The Italie of Florence states that in r .11. , - quence of the damage done to the ]tout-Conti.. 1,1 I II the late rains, many travellers, on their way from It dy to France and England, are going by way of Avoo, th Simplou,and Geneva. The Italian deputy Genero, accused of t otu plicity in an extensive scheme of forgery, has just bo seized in prison by mental alienation. The Inralide Busse says :—" From St. Pet , : burg to Bologov. on the Nicholas Railway, the fort • on fire. The station of Orinda is completely 5un , . , ,, ; by flames. Some troops have arrived there to en , i to circumscribe the conflagration. The wood. 1•10, S, - compass Malovichewka and Gradninsk are ads. ' The cattle disease has broken out in t ili ,!. some of the districts of Brody, Hamierika. awl /I- • *. A sanitary cordon has been establi-lied. The Madrid Gazette says :-" t 1,.• harvest has been for the most part less abundant rl, than usual, the vine-crop promises to be nisgniti,ont. I quantity of this fruit is so great that it disadvantageous to the owners of the viney ~.1 ,se price at which they will be obliged to sell no: - ing them for the cost of cultivation." PLYMOUTH, AVOCST 25.-The steamship N from the West Indies, has arrived here with 121 1,•-:. gen, treasure valued at 488,278 dole. and 83 sad,. •L mails. Eight rassengers and the mails were landed 1,1., the mails being sent on by special train at 2 a.m. r. • Neva proceeded for Southampton. CROOKHAVEN, AUGUIST 25, 2.13 A.M.-Th. , ite , 1111 .. " City of Baltimore, from New York, is now paging Brow head signal station, ea rade for Queenstown. TEE COMET OF ENCEI2.-11r. J. R. ILIA writ ing to the Times from Mr. Bishop's observatory, Ten , len• ham, Pays :-" The next few mornings will afford the and only remaining opportunities of viewing this celebratol body iu these latitudes during its present return to prole:- lion. It is rapidly descending towards the sun'.l,lsoo, though the intensity of its light increases daily. The fol lowing are the comet's positions at 2 o'clock, 3.M , with the times of rising in London and also those of the 199. Right North Polar rent Ascension. Distance. he,‘. Y. N. 5, /I S Aug. 24 55 5 55. 817 ... 8I deg. 90min. ... co 1 26 - ..• 8 rti „ „ - 1 „ 534 ... 84 ~ 301 „ - 4 27 -...841 ... 85 „ so ... 860 eti „ 7 „ 5d ... 22 .- 868 .- 88 „ 65 „ 9 1 80 ... 9 7 „ 46 214 5I I The passage through perihelion will occur on September 16, and the comet will arrive at its least distance trout the earth on the 27th instant." THE COLUMBUS OF TROUVILLE.—M. Alexandre Dumas, son. writes as follows from Trouville: Tr , u• villa has bec ome the fashionable sea bathing 03. e. I' has beaten Dieppe, Havre, Etretat, and Villier, and mil , 4 Biarritz. I ought to be p_roud of this succeed, Ft ths town is my America, and I have this in common sae Columbus, that I have not given my name to my discovery. That event happened in 1831. The tar e w w e a re tar reach s then at the t end of t ; the an d we i r t hl ca, k tiw ' &dimes Aie tandem of the Parisian tourist. One des j commercial traveller appeared there, another dap an artist. Neither history nor legend has p res erved the mime of the former, and the remembrance of the latter is ,aly • due to its owner's celebrity. He was the idealist Psol Hnet, who contends in every exhibition with the malts! Cotc4. I was the third voyager who approached th. , , locality. From the Tronvilleishich I found in 1431 to that of to-day there is the difference between the °tektite of Bougainville and that of Dupetit-Thnen‘ When I first went there the village containet fifteen or twenty fishermen's huts, a dozen thatched c.a. tages, a population of a hundred and fifty souls, st l a single inn, the Auberge de la Plage. At present re el are a thousand houses, 5,000 inhabitants at ordinary times, and 16,000 during the bathing season, people with twenty five hotels; some of them palaces. In 1831 wsle?. l phi about in shirt-sleeves or blouses, sometimes even • less clad. At this moment the rule is to dress three nines a day, and occasionally the actors of the Comadie.Fra n. calse come and perform there. In addition. the" ard aK splendid races, concerts, promenades, picnics, hatis. mficent toilettes; in fact, all the pleasures of the sat side." A YOITNO MURDERER OF SEVEN PERSON.; Binaries as TEM Lan Ifoknwr.-At Tainbeff, Itei mi. south-east of Moscow, a young man named Gorski. pupil in the college, and only 18 years old, who had been convicted of assassinating a whole family of seven Per sona, was lately led out for execution. He was convey si f o o n r a ths cazt' prisoner and guar waf ea to by be a bang mai r-wns eecort irePer The a ibllt -4 the e grea la t wcro.wndehadjudgalamntblhaedvingto beenwitnessresd,theihr.,,actl was clothed in a long white robe, the hood of which was placed over his head ; he was then placed on a high s teel , which was to be withdrawn from under his feet as soon as the tope was adjusted round his neck. But . at th at mosneot an official COMO forward and read an decree oommufinOhe penalty of death into cue of bun labour for life. The criminal was immediately clothed in • convict dress and taken back to prison, whence be " I shortly be sent to Siberia. 1