The Express. — London, England, 1866-11-16 00:00:00

- 1. 1- "' " - ! vp rce• ° I \ V—; • tl-‘' 1..\: LA'S svApilt ( 4'... 4.: _••••- ----J--, . , \A:7. ("+" .‘••• 1 : i -- - it)*-.%. -4;,4,- , , :4 1r1 . f . ..1/•:' , :, SS:id dXa 4 • vb it 33 rt '"..... - Liii„ J, o w . t. [TWOPENCE 4. LONDON, FRIDAY pG, NOVEMBER 16, 1866. [STAMPED, ld. ADDITION, THE JAMAICA COMMITTEE AND MR. COLERIDGE, Q.C. — No. 6,328.] THE EXHIBITION OF 1867. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (111111121% TILIGIUJUL) OPENING OF THE SAXON CHAMBERS. SPEECH OF THE KING. DRESDEN, Nov. 15. _ .. The Saxon Chambers were opened today by the King. His Majesty, in the speech from the throne, declared his firm resolution to remain faith ful to the North German Confederation under the leadership of Prussia, and to all the obligations which he has entered into. He expressed his in tention of entering honourably into the spirit of the common task, and of the duties imposed by the new ! relations, and also of shunning no sacrifice neces sary for the better formation of Germany. His Majeety further promised that a bill should be introduced for a reorganisation of the army in a manner corresponding with the tried military institutions of Prussia. The treaty of peace, the electoral law for the North German Parliament, and a bill for introducing trial by jury into Saxony, would also be introduced. His Majesty also announced that a constitutional amendment with regard to the Saxon law on elections would: be brought forward as soon as the Northern Confederation is constituted. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 15, Evameni. The semi-official North German Gazette of this evening, commenting upon a communication re cently published by the Spenersche Zeitung relative to the Hungarian Legion formerly in the service of Prussia, says " The amnesty guaranteed to these troops by the Austrian government has been fully carried out, and no complaint of its infringe ment has been officially received here. It ix self evident that the amnesty does not release the mem bers of the Legion from serving their time in the Austrian army ; but, on the other hand, the Aus trian government has treated them with considera tion by drafting them into Hungarian regiments." The North German Gazette also contains the following :—" The Couditutionuet and Indipe pendanee Beige have falsely ascribed a certain article recently published upon Luxemburg to the Pro t vincial Correspondence.' The article in question was published in a lithograph news letter, for ' which the Prussian government is in no way responsible." The semi-official Prussian organ also points out that a statement contained in a recent number of the Ltdipendance Beige relative to the Prussian loan is incorrect, and declares that no use has been made of the loan up to the present. FRANKFORT. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Nov. 15. It has been decided that the military conscription for Frankfort and the environs shall take place on the Gth and 7th of December next. THE BANK OF FRANKFORT. FRANKFORT-ON -THE-MAINE, Nov. 15. The Bank of Frankfort has reduced its rate of discount from 4 to 3i t per cent. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Nov. 16. The Senate has adopted the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne. ANTWERP, Nov. 151 At the assizes held hero to-day Vital Douat, who was charged with forgery and with attempting to set fire to a merchant vessel by shipping a cargo of combustible materials, was found guilty, and con- Led to death. On the evening of the 9th a hall was given in the HAI of St. George and the adjoining suite of state apartments at St. Petersburg, in honour of the marriage of the Cesarewitch. Many generals and military officers of every rank and degree attended, the Emperor's com mission, in accordance with the military traditions of the realm, being a free passport. There were more Cir cassian uniforms noticeable now than in the afternoon, " and, in a crowd of dark-visaged and ferocious -looking strangers," writes the correspondent of the Tines, "Shamyl was pointed out to me by an obliging chamberlain. Once the lion of the Caucasus, he is now a feeble old man, with hollow cheeks and a mild expression on his regular but not very striking features. He was clad in a white tunic, covered with a white caftan, and wore on his head a white turban, with a rim of black sheepskin just skirting his forehead. As lie sat there among his followers—he alone of the whole assembly had been accorded a chair—and listlessly passed the heads of his rosary through his lingers, his person formed an ornament of the feast than which few grander, one would think, can be imagined, even bya Czar of all the Russians. On his left stood a gentleman in Russian diplomatic uniform, whose face denoted him to be of Eastern extraction. He acted as his interpreter, and seemed to be on the most friendly footing with the aged chief. On the right, a son of Shamyl, one of the companions of his honourable captivity, leant on the chair of his father. He was in the well-known Cir cassian dress, with an immense kolpak —a sort of grena dier's cap, only that instead of bearskin it is of white lmb's woul—on is head. Ve much like his father, he has one of those h peculiar country enances wbidi, at once languid and threatening, hear an uncanny resemblance to a slumbering volcano. But he will hardly ever have an opportunity fur the free display of his passions except on a regular battle-field and under the Russian imperia l thought o dard. I roving about, trinjal in band, at the head of his clan. Evi dently. too, he is more civilised than he looks. On his mountaineer's blouse, right over the cartridge folds on his breast, dangled a pair of elegant eyeglasses which every now and then he would handle with the easy grace of an exqui site. His hands, which, had not his father been unfortu nately vanquished, would now be employed in killing infi dels, were encased in the tightest of Paris gloves ; and when an officer of thethiards accosted him in the language I o f the country. he bowed, smiled, and replied in the most unexc eptionable style of social courtesy. A little Circas sian boy of it or 9 years, his head buried in a black kolpak, THE DEPARTURE OF THE POPE FROM ROME.—A . and some other entirely Russianised mountaineers in chain correspondent of the Florence .Na:ione, writing from Rome armour. completed the interesting group. In close prox on the 10th, says :—" Mr. Gladstone and Lord Clarendon ii n nity :e General Grable, who has ut v i z f o u n l his milit l af i y o renown ,se have had another and very long interview with the Pope. imot,hanaCattiecir. usinand the war against the meun- Although nothing has oozed out a bout it, se ssybodystoutlY taineers, formed a striking contrast to them. maintains that these interviews relate to the future see of At lenfgthrom the a pleastsant hall.es not of Pre a d polonaise were St. Peter, which, in any case , i s to be Malta. It appears wafted distant Preceded by mare chaux and chamberlains, the Emperor, leading the Empress decided, according to others, that the Pope will leave by the hand, moved by t o the music. The Cesirewitch even before the French. We shall then see our Europe with his bride, the Prince of Wales. the Crown Prince of in flames. It would seem impossible that the Pope should Prussia. and the Crown Prince of Denmark, dancing with lend himself to this last theatrical escapade, but after princesses of the blood, followed. Shamyl had risen - is Quick relieved relieved fIOUT or RHEUMATISM k hearing hint in the late allocution deny so emphatically from his seat, and, beating his brTuit with his right hand in token of respectful reverence, inclined his head before 1 .-4 and cared In a few days by that aebrated II Heine that he has been an Italian, and affirm that lie blessed "LAMS core and RHEUMATIC PILLS. Obtained thro e' ugli the Czar. Alexander kindly uttered a few syllables, SAY Chemist, at Is. I lit and ta. Ni. per rhos Italy merely to call down upon her the gift of the faith which for &moment lightened up the old man's face with and good conduct, nothing is any longer impossible with a smile of gratitude. Grand Duke Constantine. a prince 120IRNew and Improved Dlitbm. with plate, price 3s. 641., Pius IX. The Romans, who naturally know better than whose countenance shows uncommon intellect and resolve, . It.lM DG F., F. R.C. P. , London , on CON- anybody else what their intentions are towards the Pope, also spoke to him with the familiar manner of an old ac i. sun yr . li IN. '' i n pr.. " anatomy has n ever afforded for whom they now feel only a sentiment of compassion, quaintance, and elicited a similar reply front the l'atriarch. re conclusive evidence in pr.."( of the curability It was evident the t chief had not onl been caught, Wait has of that Id I,ll9l.lmption."—Carswell. of a dim's° laugh more than any one else at this fear, or, as they say, butaso tamed, and, gre j er a haps, converted into y a well - wisher." AsTintA , Its Varieties the name Author, price lOs. ad., at this 'waste', that would dissemble itself under the 1 and Complications To which is an- ........ww... beled a succinct Treatise on the Principal Di' *eases of the Heart. colour of religious zeal and apostolic liberty. But every 1. ----_ London : bingman and Co. . one says it is much better for things to take their course." ! SHORT PASSAGE FROM AmgßlCA.—lntelligence - - CRYSTAL PALACE.—Ye s terda y Mr. Colwell gave that at the nomination for Wesford county yesterday, arrival at New York of the Transatlantic French steamer the thea r e t o o_f t a aeries of three lectures on ballooning in the +sin Duchesne after the unprecedentedly short Mr. Pope Hennessy Johnpose by Mr. Henry Lambert, rereire , CAP-- , , __ . , . . fhe tro de artment• which was filled by a passage of only nine days, from mime, being tne quickest swum i f Moil P' . ' and seconded by Mr. Cullen. Mr. Arthur Kavanagh us and asable audience. Mr. Coxwell showed passage ever made between Europe and America. The models of balloons il ustrating the progress of aerostatic was proposed by Mr. Doyne, and seconded by filr . . rereire was constructed by Messrs. Napier and Sons, Science from its earliest stages to the present time, and Colclough. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Glasgow, who are now building the iron transport Malabar, also e x hibited on e of cylindrical shape, formed like a cigar Pope Hennessy. Tho polling is fixed for Monday next 4,173 tons, 700 - horse power, for the government lou vi th hin th e e w sb•rp end cut off, which he said was the kind of Y AcciDENT • —A very alarming accident &taws . • . The proceedings were quiet. The nomination for Belfast hich should be employed in observations during occurred to the railway train proceeding from Bourn to warfare, as it offered least opposition to the wind, sad tee is fixed for the 19th inst. Essendine on Wednesday night. In passing along the Seated the smallest amount Of surface to the shots of the THE REPRESENTATION OF FALMOUTH. —It is re- sharp curve near the latter place one of the carriages left linlemy. It niay be added that this lecture was delivered ported that Mr. Samuel Gurney will retire from the repre- the metals and turned over. It contained three passengers, connexion with the literary department of the Crystal sentation of Falmouth and Penrhyn next spring, and that via., Mr. Charles Alton, auctioneer, of Stamford, and a lama PaLee , in the several classes of which upwards of 300 Mr. Fowler, who was defeated at the recent election, is were and woman whose names were not ascertained. They I . l re now taking lessons in all the branches of a polite no in the borough preparing for his candidatwe in anti- were removed from their perilous position by means of a ucation. creation of the vacancy. ladder obtained from the station, and escaped with only The CHOLERA.—The official return of deaths We learn by telegraph that at a meeting of the slight bruises. To the slow speed of ths train at the time from cholera and diarrhcea in London, issued. yesterda direct y esterday, Mr. John Beaumont, of }rudders- must be attributed the preservation of the lives of the pas y,OrS Oyes only 3 ,_ from the former and 5 from the latter, as ham- field, was elected chairman of the North British Railway la g Dim registered on Wednesday. Company, mongers, the curve being formed by a high embankment over the valley of the Grwash.--Stainford Mercury. BADEN. CARLSRUIFIE, Nov. t 5. Don ➢fi 6 vel, Duke of BraiaTiz:,Clied last night of a stroke of apoplexy, at Bronnbaeh, near Wertheim. THE BRAZILS. (By Telegraph from Lisbon.) RIO DE JANEIRO, Ocr. 25. Exchange on London, 241 to 25} • on Paris, 3.75 to 3.85. Coffee, good first, 0,••200 to 0,400 rein. Total export since the departure of the last mail, 100,000 bags. Stock, 90,000 bags. BUENOS AYRES, OCT. 14. Exchange on London, ;on Paris, 84. Ounces, 405. MONTE VIDEO, OCT. 17. Exchange on London, 5011 to 51 ; on Paris, 84. PERNAMBUCO, Nov. I. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Rhone ar rived here on the 27th Oct. LISBON, Nov. 15. The Mes.sageries Imperiales steamer Navarre has here. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 15. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day shows the following changes as compared with that of last week : INCREASE. Bills discounted. . . • • Notes Private accounts . • • • DECREASE. 17,000.00 0 8,000,000 9,500,000 nINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.-The medical profession for thirty years have approved of this We solution magnesia no the best remedy for acidity of the 1110Maett, headache, heartburn, gout, and indigestion ; and as a end aperient it is especially adapted for ladles and children. 'MIMI by DlNNElinai and co., Chemists, itc., 172, New load street, London, and sold throughout the world by all rupectahle chemists. Caution—see that " Dlnneford and Co." al each bottle and red label over the cork. Cash in hand Treasury balance . . . Advances stationary. 3,300,000 1,000,000 LililiEßl"S ASTH3IATIC BALSAM, an effectual remedy, nithout confining the bowels or Owing the head, truly etteaciotis and pleasant, Is admitted to be the hest metlieine for imine.liately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed uwes ..t AAIIIII3. Mill int ipient consumption. It fre gaently cures persons whom V.e faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling si Milt provokes frequent coughing. approacLing ils effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleek or even lying down for fear of suffoca tion, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. /Mare(' only and sold by W. LAMBERT, chemist, 8, King Wil- Um-street Charing cross, Lowlnn, and by all dniimists, In bottles. 181.1., and three imantities in ono. 2s. inl. De particular and ask for Lintherts Asthmatic 1:31S1111.1. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. arks* IN 445. 34; 45a 5d.; emand Ise Lea*alma r g !de= Most man— 7 irrftski 5,000 halls, Americo, Mansholt, to 140. ; to llfd. ; A wind La better So. made ham le of 131ba, Hain, 1714 bi 20a; Walla t arose, 20ki End Bead Walla led. aol, 21a. 6d.; ad Dana 28. Taal, Tibk 1.866. 1111. A A 14,857 KO 4,027 cm aos la 31.001 soPs 2,17 200 ; f 4 " 116 In ss4 al 327 4 / 4 1,663 7.257 rre 1,53 s Lie 36.345 wa 39 ,cs sa 71,019 43,940 Ara 1, 1 1 383 10 ,8 1 'sos 970 to 119,480 113,001 2'2,922 21,737 WAN 2. 06 1,481 61,891 4 8 . 8 8,414 8,688 963 3,866 3,082 8, Chatham, aaa per cent. f rint ENT AND success attends e re printed y A invaluable endangers and trifling ek an y case to' o one. 1 " strains the st; s throbbing en. directions _als.e. ar e to be ta."_,:; sy and Itelig.'"" ham, Kent 01. N., the wife cd c, Vialthanst o., strattord, Baal. kith Woe*, th• Hyde-Part, ...A id par hth cbt..l- 00 son o f amerc P tal_ marts. p ig Ai m lona Mr '" i ota of the Lunt-C. 44 ° 9g f. Ice, C0nb(41.4 of LockorbilL_al4. 110. , 101 p r inte ini t it i o • 01 0:80:1CY WIG Ral MO and SONS London) LINE cd emu and P lasaril—For 91MOURNI (Port PEiDtp) Meet 0 1"17 ...,. me Dodo OD Tuesday, November 90 calling at Ply- I — t h. redl oo l n. rj a ll yer ably YONNARlkl in ito tome, ; Wee is the last Dock& 7 01113 'a , &us tor all classes et pamengers ere unarm tr--.A me will curt DD 1 0 ....rwej to ALLPOReinenC.id Xo . 2rrl i r= al fiIOWE DIA BON& 7, 7.w.aet --------------_ ▪ to NEW YORK.—UNITED STATES on lox-REDUCED FLEES.—The spleadid sad o w Weakest Mesmer' of the New York and Havre Stem papa w ace appointed to have tor New York as follows rms. INhaoath. r ow .. .. ................ „,... ...... ov. 21 Wednesday, Dee. 19 Wednesday, Jan. 16 Wednesday, Feb. 13 windy, Nov. IS kundrl. Da l 10 uvula, Jan. 17 kuredaY. rob- 14 •-& - o:--rica ill and 119; mond clam, Mt and t 8 ;few . avey Pe r k : A& A. WOTTON, Wavle • LANZ. aad 00. woanotn• ar H. STLItIt ;ad Co., les Chaaprlde, Landon. oat L1V1312001. OR QUIZNIFFOWN TO NW YORK TWICR A Win. LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and rilarianzirmA STRAM-BRIP COMYANY bilged de .asig U K & full-wrored Clyttatuilt Irealimew Stessaadza, ' joyag dm Cuffed Natal FROM LIY ER= for NNW YORK : KANGAROO, Saturday, Nov. 17. crr OY ISALTIMORI. WedneedAY. Rol. 11. CITY y OF MANCRESTKR, Saturday, Nov. SA And every Wednesday and Seturdfill• alle Prise by tho mail steanan sailing every Reamisigh litrisad Ft guineas, awarding,. to the aoomemodatice. pumps Maeda a MR supply of soaked for Canada and the United States booted e:a s tritataceous ternia—Fse further perticalaes to IA N. pi. Wateratreet. Liverpool ; sad to 0 0111111, Si. King William-street landau. ANGLO-AMERICAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY (Limitej4 7 REDUCTION of T Ce and after Ist November, ism, until farther notice, the wring will be the CHARGES f or d the TRANSMISSION of IMAGES TO and FROM AMERICA. wean any Telegraph Station In Great Britain or Ireland and ir Telegraph Station in America: M of or leas, including the name and ad tem of Sender and Receiver, not exceeding In all ylletters £lo 0 0 Anna additionel Word, not exceeding on the total weep five Lettere each Word a Beluga in Code or Cypher dble the foregoing Rates.— ): MarJO U N . DEANE, Serzetary. Linton: Temporary dame, 72. Cornhill, N.C., Nov. 1, 1906. rpo IMPORTERS, Shippers, Steam Shipping I companies, and Consignees o Foreign Goods, by steamers * ftlierweis into th e Port of London.—Tbe prorietors of POI Trade Wharf, Retail, and Upper Free Trade %bee, Dow . pock, Upper Thameretreet, OFFlift FACILITLYB to e geet—lurtber information may be obtained on application, th by WV Or In person, to li CLAY and Co., wharengers and ware- Wee kilepern—Odices, 83, Upper Tbames-street. HiNDARD ROSPA SPECIMEN CONIFERS, CLIMBING RANTS, FRUIT TREES, LAURELS, DUTCH BULB 9, doAII R. J. C. STEVENS will SELL by AUCTION, at his Great Rooms, 38, King-street, Covent intrden, TO ORROW, November 17, at half-past 12 precisely, an nn wally one collection of SPECIMEN CuNIFEP.S, 40 lots of first. d ie p a ndlinl ro-es, variegated and ornamental climbing plants, Waal dwarf and pyramid fruit trees, • great variety of hardy skate, and an importation from Holland of double and single lye:Whs. tulips, crotuses, narcissus, Whims, ranunculus, and Oa hula &c.-0e view the morning of sale, and catalogues tad KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EX ITIBITION, 1866. TIM celebrated old IRISH WHISKY gained the DUBLIN aim NEDAL.-it is pure. mild, mellow, delleious, and very Mamma Sold In bottles, Se tld. each, at the retW houses in lemma. by the agents In the principal towns In England ; or skylark at p ly reat Windnull-street, London, W. Obeerve the MI red, pink el, and cork branded .• Kinnhan's LL Witleky." lIILOATERS.—TweIve, 28.6 d. ; Twenty-five, 4s. ; JJ Fifty, tis One Ilundred, as. ; Flee Ilundred, 30a. ; One floasint, 50s. No charge for collage to London. Cash on de lver,. Counti orders pahl in advance. Forwarded by FRF.DIL. IaRNBY, ash purveyor, Great Yarmouth. OSBORNE'S STILTON is THE Cheese. SAUCE ` —LE A and SAU PERRIN 13' ORCERSIICE. Tbis delklous condiment. pronounced by " THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE." le prepared solely by LEA and rigaRINS. pablie are repeethally cautioned against armadas' hats. Soca and should see that Lea and Perrino names are on wrapper, Oki, bottle, and stopper. ANK for LEA and PERRINIr SAUCE. Sold wholesale and for export by the Proprietors, Worcester Emma. cgoSsE and BLACK Mews. BARCLAY and lONS, London, &c ., and by grocers and oilmen univenally. OARPETS.—Best Brussels 3s. 6d. per yard 'kJ usual price ss. &I.' Many patterns to select from. Tapes by, Kidderminster, Dutch, felts , blank ets, aheetings, and door dvtlis, equally cheap. Also cli,noo%orth furniture being offered st very reduced prices, to make room fur extensive alterations, it WM. WAINB3, 131 to i fil, Newington Butts, S. THE SHILLING CANDLES of the SEASON. ROCK SPERM, transparent as pandfine. MARBLE SPERM, Rite, bard. and smooth as alabaster. Both names copyright. Sole Manufacturers, .1. C. and J. FIELD. To be had in all sizes, of all dealers, at One Shilling per lb. OVERCOATS fur the present Season. —The NEW WINTER OVERetiATS, ut best materials, are kept hand and male to onkr, at 11Ald I LTDS and KIMPTOICS, Tailors and usercoat Makers, 106, STRAND, opposite RxeterdtalL HARRIS'S CRYSTAL SPECTACLES of welL kuo ii excellence can only be had at 52, Great Russell- Sate., opposite the British Must tun Gates. The very best steel Rime Crystal Spec:b.:les. I:cs unpl lt , s —THOMAS HARRIS and EON CAUTION the "pnblie against 'persons using their name. Ltablished 17:tn. No trio ellcrs or agents. TONIC BITTERS. WATERS' QUININE WINE, The most palatable and wholeumie bitter In existence. AN EFFICIEE'I"roNIC, An unequalled stimuli:hie, and a gentlu stimulant. Ibld by grocers, Italian uarehou6enten, wine merchants, con fectioners, and others, at 30s. a dozen. Nl:tnutacturfU by WATERS and W I LLI !, Martini '-lane, tannon.street, London. Wholesale Agents, E. Lewis and Co., Worcester. LAITUE.—The LETTUCE contains an active principle, the Latncine, which possesses all the soothing rogation of npiutn without its dangers.—Mr. 0. JOZ.F.AU, French aletulst. 49, Haymarket, prepares a Syrup and a Pate of Laltue *lettuce, highly recommended by the Medical Prof esaion for colds asthma, bronchitis, and all clicq affections. Syrup, 2s. tkL; ?se, Is. lid. and 2 Sd. Pate, by post, Is. Sid and is. rol, . ova MOLL 001116POIDINT.) Its is now just possible to form an idea on ap ro/4mq the Exhibition works from th e Pont ot the effect that will be produced to the visitor in April next. The banks of the river to the west and to the east of the bridge are covered with workmen. To the east_ will be all the hydraulic machinery, and hence the water will be supplied to the park ; to the west, a great co vered wooden landing stage approaches completion. On the west of the main entrance, the broad and lofty front of the International Club appears. Topped, with the tricolor, the roof is being rapidly covered in and the outline of the bazaars that are to pe'about the base of the building is now clearly de fined. M. Pierre Petit, the photographer to the Imperial commission, has just photographed the designs of M. E. Chevalier, after which the club is bu il ding. The exterior has a light and hand some appearance, and over the main entrance tlicre is a design that appears to resemble very citieely4he group of France protecting Art and In thrlstry,'which dominates the main entrance to the PalaisdirlndustrieintheChampsElyMes. Thedub adthorities have at length issued a full programme ortheighitentions ; and an explanation of the end tliMilllferial commission had in view, when it Consented to extend its protection over them. The object, we are told, is to bring the manu facturers of all nations together, "in order to faci litate the realisation of that great unity, the foundation of which has been laid by the recent commercial treaty." The vast central hall, or Salle des Pas-perdus, is to be a universal exchange of commercial ideas. Here " the practical men of every country are to discourse on commerce and initiate new branches of trade." On all sides writing desks will be arranged, where agreements will be drawn up, or where suggestions may be put down in black-and-white. Men of business may each have their private letter-boxes. Information of every conceivable description relating to the Exhibition will be kept ready to the member's hands. A private telegraph service held in commu nication with the more important Stock Exchanges of Europe, will keep the members informed on the prices of the day, at the earliest possible hour ; and will enable them to communi cate from their club with the moat dis tant parts of the continent ; nay, from his dub-hall by the banks of the Seine, the Ameri can citizen will be able to speak to his agent at New York. The great club-hall is to be the ex change of the merchandise of the world—a model exchange, where business transactions will be car ried on in sight of the very products which create them." In addition, all the ordinary conveniences of a first-class club are promised. The qualifications for admission are reasonable enough. " All ex hibitors will have the right to be admitted to sub scribe as members of the club ; persons who do not exhibit will also be admitted, provided they are presented by two exhibitors, or by their diplomatic agents, or consuls in Paris." The club executive will act as intermediary agent between members and the Exhibition authorities. The club committee undertake to arrange the stalls of their members and to watch over them. They will buy and sell, and appoint new foreign agents. They undertake to find lodgings for members. They will effect insurances and take out patents. A bank is to be established in the club, where mem bers can open current accounts. These are the more important advantages which the " Interna tional Club of the Champ de Mars" has to offer to foreiThergners. e are dozens of happy enthusiasts who are dreaming that next year will bring them an immense fortune. One man is to reach his Eldorado through the manufacture of glass cases ; while another is to become rich by laying in an ex traordinary store of hams for the millions of foreigners. But not only in Paris does the golden dream prevail. I hear that Mr. Bass is brewing a pale ale that is to be nicely suited to the taste of the foreigner as well as the Englishman, and that is to be called the Exhibition Pale Ale. Every person who has a project in hand, or an idea need ing ventilation, turns to the Champ de Mars. The last development of the mania is a petition from a certain number of Parisian ladies of distinction to the Imperial commissioners, praying for the con cession of apace in the park, where they may hold a permanent bazaar in favour of the victims of the late inundations. The object in view is a worthy one. But is an international exhibition exactly the place for carrying it out? The park is much over-crowded already. Now that the buildings planned about it are mostly in a forward state, there appears to be danger of its becoming mere rows of buildings, with patches of trees and flowers intervening. Some of the buildings are of great extent, the Egyptian temple and dependencies, over which the flag of the Viceroy of Egypt is planted, for example. To the left of the main en trance the great edifice for the exhibition of ecclesiastical ornaments, the highly ornate Impe rial reception rooms, a lofty light-house and loftier c hi m neys, almost fill up the space. The patches of green between are narrow and insignificant. The rise and fall of the land has been managed with great artistic skill, especially where the park dips to the basin on the east ; but still the buildings overwhelm the park, at least in this direction ; and there is certainly no room for a bazaar. The emblazonment of the arms of various na tions and towns and cities on the outer pillars of the Exhibition building gives the gaiety to its appearance which it much wanted. The great hall which is to lead from the main entrance to the central court is now progressing at a rapid rate ; and the fine proportions of this main feature of the Exhibition are now faintly realizable to the spectator's eye. The glazing and flooring are progressing in downright earnest, and broad finished galleries stretch on all aides, ready to the exhibitor's hand. With such rapidity, indeed, is every part of the plan now advancing, that the authorities feel confident of being easily ready for the appointed opening day. The amount of work that has been done during the last two months is extraordinary. The railway station, the river !landing stages, the club, the long eastern gallery I for the exhibition of railway material, and bread making, and the immense remise for carriages, have been run up as if by enchantment. Every day there is perceptible progress. Of the catalogue controversy much has been said and written since I despatched my last letter. But neither the writing nor the speaking has been of a highly satisfactory character. I can get not the least clue to any plans for the preparation of an official English catalogue. The English Royal Commissioners will, of course, be at liberty to publish and distribute within the building a catalogue of the contents of the English section of the building ; but I have reason to believe that only a few days ago the manner of publishing the English catalogue had not been decided upon. It is a heavy speculation, and I am afraid that the price of concessions for official exhibition cats logues has gone down in our market. They have not been found, I suspect, mines of wealth. The mistake has been, in the matter of catalogues, always on the part of exhibition authorities. They have been too grasping. They have im posed conditions and have exacted prices which have not left a fair margin of profit to the con tractors. I am afraid M. De ntu has paid too dearly for his monopoly, but I cannot understand how the recent note in the Mortiteur can serve him. Is it fair to condemn individual enterprise as the note in question condemned it t The mean ing of the words in the lifoniteur has be een not be ene rally misunde rs t oo d. Why s hould ther any number of independent guides to the Exhibition of 1867 1 The Imperial commissioners are lords absolute over all that lies within the Exhibition bounds. The English as well as the French public understand perfectly that only those catalogues or descriptive guides which the com missioners favour can be sold within the build ing or the park. They are not likely to be duped by independent speculators in handbooks, and there is no reason therefo re wh y the y should be asked not to give such independent speculations their support. In 1861, 1855, and lastly in 1862, independent descriptive guides that proved of great use to the mass of visitors were issued. The most notorious instance of the use of private enterprise in supplying the shortcomi n g s of Exhibi tion authorities is that to which I have directed the attention of your readers in a previous letter In 1855, the French authorities issued no English official catalogue whatever. The want of such a catalogue was severely felt. There are thousands of commercial Englishmen who cannot read the French language : there were many more in 1855 than there are now. Certainly a faithful transla tion of the French official catalogue would not have been of very great service, since this catalogue remained a puzzle to most Frenchmen. Late in the Exhibition season some private individuals speculated in an English descriptive guide, which had to be hastily thrown together. Surely, then, it is neither prudent, nor grateful to endeavour to stamp out private enterprise by a wholesale official condemnation of it. We shall ail rejoice and be thankful for a good English catalogue from the hands of M. Dentu next April. We shall be glad, I apprehend, to learn next November that he has made a profitable speculation in Exhibition catalogues. But should his catalogues prove im perfect, and should private independent speculators produce descriptive guides of more value to visitors than his official publications, in spite of the warn ing of the Mottireur the independent writers and compilers will prevail over his. They will not be able to sell within the Exhibition boundary • but the opportunities for sale without the bounda ry will be plentiful enough. It is a pity that this contro versy between official catalogue makers and unoffi cial guide compilers should have been raised, and especially that it should have been embittered by the harsh Moniteur note ; for it cannot possibly serve the interests of the proprietor of the official catalogue on the one hand, nor, on the other, can it influence the judgment of the public in the long run. It is curious to remark the various ways in which the idea of g iving great prizes "in favour of the persons, loc alities, or establishments which, by a special organization or special institutions, have developed a spirit of harmony among all those co operating in the same work, and have provided for the material, moral, and intellectual well-being of the workman "—it is curious, I repeat, to remark the various ways in which this proposition has been received and commented on. Ten prizes of 4001. each, and a grand prize of 4,0001., are tempt ing to utopian designers. The idea has been very generally attributed to the Emperor. His Majesty may be even a competitor, since 1 rind him inscribed as an exhibitor, I think of the 10th group. On the ono hand, the International Congress of Working Men recently held at Geneva is supposed to have " inspired" the idea ; and on the other hand, it is maintained that it is the natural crown of the Exhibition edifice. I am decidedly inclined to the conclusion that this last plan, which has emanated from the Imperial Commissioners' offices, has grown naturally out of that part of the Exhibition plan which gives so large and honourable a place to labour in the forthcoming Exhibition. It has a very Napoleonic look about it. It is bold. It is essentially French. It is in harmony with the imperial policy. It is an ex pression of most sympathetic concern for the well being of the toiling millions. It is just the kind of idea in which the French mind (which has ever a strong bend towards social Utopias, and has made many daring experiments in quest of them) would revel in. While French competitors will dream of brotherhoods, and contrive many forms of amiable social life, free from the care of want and the degradation of vice, the English mind will enter the competition bristling with statistics and almost ashamed of the least sentiment. By accident I have just lit upon the Euri/irdr Mee/emir for November. Touching upon these prizes, the Mechanic says :—" Two things the competition will do—it will enable a great many folks to blow their own trumpets, and it will let in a flood of light on the management of a great many works and partner ships of labour concerning which but very little is now known. And it is in this last aspect of the affair that good will be done." The writer then advises " a general furbishing up of all our gigantic factories, and all our co-operative societies, more particularly such places as the Messrs. Greening's, the United Tailors', &c. ; for they may all enter for the race with their statistics jockeyed by the respective managers ; and who knows but one may win the four thousand pounds for our side of the Channel." The list of schemes for the greatest happiness of the greatest numbers will be an exceedingly curious one. Some good will be done, by putting together in direct contrast the ideas of various races on the subject of labour and wages, and capital, popular education, the maintenance of the poor, savings, systems of trade, &c. Some useful wisdom may be filtered out of the mass of schemes ; and, in any case, the moral effect of such a contest—a contest in quest of Christian kind ness, of the good of the whole family of man—will remain after next year ; and a link will be esta blished among the benevolent minds of many nations. It is no longer a joke. The witlings of the petite preset must cease their banter. There is to be a line of conveyance through the air to the Exhibition. The talk about a chemist de fer aerien is quite serious. It is to stretch from Paris to St. Cloud, dropping travellers, I presume, at the Pont de ]'Alma. The inventor is M. Seguin ; and the engineer who is to realise M. Seguin s invention is M. Giffard, the known inventor of a tubular boiler. Moreover, the plain of Ilillancourt has been rented for the display of balloons, among which M. Nadar'a Gt;aut is to figure. The literary world of France is also to have its i share of the glory of 1867, in the shape of a won derful book on Paris which is preparing un der the auspices of Victor liugo's publishers. The variou features of the capital are to be t r eated by the fore most writers of the day. George Sand, for instance, is said to have undertaken the promenades of Paris ; Hugo is to write the preface, albeit he would hardly know his Paris now. You may judge how tierce the contest for lod ,, ings is becoming already, by the fact th at nearly all the rooms in the Grand Hotel arc retained fur the Exhibition sea son. The Count of nders has hired a wing fur himself and suite. Arakne Houssaye—no inhabi tant of a French Grub-street —has let his little hotel to a Peruvian family, from next April till the close of the season, for 3(1,000 francs. Among the curiosities announced as on their way to the Champ de Mars, are oyster shells, fished in the Indian Ocean, that are one metre in length, and weigh 200 lbs. Mr. Rule, of Maiden-lane, should send his to the competition. THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP ATEATO.—SOUTH- AMPTON, T111:11i1)Alr EVENING.—The Royal Mail steam ship Atrato remains at the MotherbaWiblink. the After the s hip arrived there on Tuesday Dr. n, medi superintendent of quarantine, had the crew, over 50 in num ber, including the convalescents and the doctor of the ship, who had su ff ered fro m an attack of yellow fever, removed to the quarantine hulk Menelaus. A boy named Tiller was taken ill yesterday on boardthe Menelaus, and to-day symp toms of yellow fever have developed themselves. This boy had a slight attack on the 3rd inst., and was certified as cured the course of two or three days. It is impossible to say with any degree of precision what further quarantine restrictions it may now be deemed necessary to impose upon the passengers and crew of the Atrato until the orders of the Lords of the Privy Council are received here. With the exception a b ove -mentioned, all are doing well on board the Menelaus, and the passengers an in the A.trato continue in the best state of health.d others We are requested by the Jamaica Committee to publish the following correspondence which has pared be tween Messrs. Sheen and Broca, their solicitors, and Mr. • Coleridge, with reference to the retainer which was accepted by the latter gentleman from the committee, but objected to by Mr. Bose. The ibst letter was addressed by Mears. Sheen and Roscoe to Mr. Coleridge : 8, Bedford-row, Nov. 2. Dear Sir,—ln reference to the objection which has berm taken by Mr,licsie to the retainer which we have left with you on behalf of the Jamaica Committee, we, of course, _ have no ',Shin take any opinion or decision exceit your own ; and in reference to it we venture to submit that the Jamaica Committee, Si is well known from its advertise. 'neut. and other printed papers, resists of Messrs. J. B. Mill, M.P., P. A. Taylor, M.P., treasurer, F. W. Cholera, hon. secretary, and others ; and that if they are incapable of retaining counsel, it must, of course, be upon grounds , equally applicable to all other voluntary societies. As a matter of fact, such societies have been constantly in the habit of tendering retainers, which have been as r constantly accepted and acted upon by counsel for many years. Some months ago Mr. E. James, Q.C. M.P., and bin Pitsjames Stephen accepted retainers on behalf of the Jamaica Committee. It is, perhaps, not altogether imam terial that in this particular case, after we had left the Wainer at your chambers, a correspondence ensiled in reference to it which resulted in a note from yourself, • intimating that you accepted the retainer. As a matter of reason it is frequently quite as ill3= to a voluntary association to retain the services of • as to a corporate body or an individual. It is nnneosie sary to do more than refer to the litigation which has of late years been becoming more and more frequent and im portant, cannoned with provisional committees for the formation of joint-stock companies. In Chancery', indeed, ' voluntary associations are every day parties to litigation, as they are also as individual members in the courts of common law. We happen at the present moment to be engaged in acme of considerable importance in Chancery, in which the Bishop of Natal is plaintiff, while the detail , dents are the council of the Colonial Bishopric Fund, a voluntary body without any incorporation or legal status to distinguish it from the Jamaica Committee. If the objection is good it is good against all volun tary associations, and this would, in fact, outlaw all societies for the promotion of literature, science, and the • fine arts, and all clubs, and all the numerous societies which are formed for the express purpose .1 enforcing cer tain branches of the law, such as the Society for the Sup pression of Vice, for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal, the Society for the Protection of Women, Am Should you deem it advisable that the question shall be submitted to the Attorney-General, we shall be glad if you will kindly lay before him this letter as what we have to say on the subject.—We are, dear sir, yours faith fully, (Signed) SHACK and Beacon. To this letter Mr. Coleridge replied as follows : Westminster Hall, Nov. 3. Dear Sirs,—l consider your retainer binding, and, for my own part, think there is nothing at all in Mr. Rose's objection. I shall take no steps in the matter, but if I em told by the Attorney-General that I am bound as a, matter of professional rule to act fur Mr. Byre, of course I must do so. I can hardly conceive be will tell me so, and I shall not myself ask him any questions. Why, under the circumstances, it is thought the least worth while on either side to contest the matter I cannot understand ; but that is no concern of mine.— Believe me to be, your faithful servant, (Signed) J. D. COLFRIDGE. On learning the decision of the Attorney-General, Mr. Sheen wrote the following letter to Mr. Coleridge : Nov. 10. Dear Sir,—The Attorney-General has stated it to be hie opinion that the retainer of Mr. 1:ose does, and that the retainer of my firm does not, prevail. 1 took the liberty of requesting the Attanney-Oeueral to let me know the grounds of his opinion, but he declined to do so, saying that such a course was not usual. If you consider yourself bound by this opinion I must of course submit, but I respectfully protest, on behalf of mr clients, that they ought not uon unexplained and team cal grounds, to lose the ben e fi t of a retainer which ha. been given and accepted in good filth. I have always understood that the relations between counsel and client were founded, not upon any law of contract, but upon an honourable understanding, and that the etiquette of the bar, which I presume regulates the practice as to retainers, was designed only to protect counsel from conduct unbecoming gentlemen. If I am right in this, I venture to submit that the retainer which was given in the case by my firm forms an honourable understanding which cannot he upset by the offer of a retainer which is substautially that of another com mittee, who have already requested you in vain to lend I then, the support of your name. If any retainer is to be upset ou account of ally peculiarity in its wording, then in the name of the profession I protest against the in troduction or the maintenance of unpublished technical rules upon is subject in which they are unnecessary and for which they are unfitted. If my retainer is to he upset on the ground that stall a body as the Jamaica Committee is unable in any form to retain counsel, then in the name of the general public I protest absinst a doctrine which rests upon no intelligible grounds, which if enforced universally would practically outlw vast numbers of associations formed to promote the best interests of society, and which is in fact violated by the everyday practice of the leaders of the profession.-1 mu, dear sir, yours faithfully, • (Signed) Mr. Coleridge replied as follows The Atbennum, Nov. 12. Dear Sir,—l regret the decision at which the Attorney- General bas arrived, but you will remember I told you some time ago that, whatever his decision, I should feel myself bound by it, whether I agreed with it or not. I must adhere to that determination. I cannot set myself agair.st the authority of the head of the bar, in a matter as to which be is the recognised judge. I hope you will see, as plainly as I do, that it is rurally of extremely little consequence.—Believe me to be your faithful servant, (Signed) J. D. Cott:name. WILLIAM SHAEN. ?dears. Sham and Roscoe. IRISH MILITIA AND MR. EVRE.--TIIC following is published in the Belfast ;wipers :—" The Eyre IJefence and Aid Fund, London, Nov. le. - Sir,—. In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the Bth inst., giving cover to a cheque for 241. lls. subscribed by the orlicers, Jneiro:nulls stoned officers, and men of the Royal Down Rifle Regiment of Militia to this fund, I am directed by the committee to request that you will be good enough to convey to the regiment its very sincere thanks and sppreciation of the motives which induced them to contribute so handsomely towards the defence of Mr. Erre. Your letter I shall Lave great pleasure in transmitting to him. It will be a source of much comfort to hint in his troubles to find so many noble men rallying round him to protect him from the cowardly and un.Englivb proecedinge of the so-called Jamaica Committee.—lrelieve me very faithfully yours, Wien:roe iit.llE, hon. sitcretary.—Captain G. Conyngham Stuart." GUN ACCIDENT TO MR. PY.ASE, P.—A lament able accident occurred to Mr. J. W. Pease, one of the par lianientai y member% for South Durham, on Tuesday afser noon last. The lion. member, who was on a visit at Whitley Hall, in the West Riding at Yorkshire, the residence of Mr. E. A. Leathern, was out hear h • party of gentlemen shoo tin g in the grounds the hall. Mr. l'ease was a little in advance of the rest of the party when a pheasant rose, at which Mr. Tew (of the hire of Jlessr.. I.euthant, Tew,and Co., banker., Wakefield), when the bird was just getting on the wing, fired, and a considetable portion of the shot with which the gun was charged hit Mr. Pease instead of the bird. The Lou. gentleman was Lit in the thighs, the lower part of the body, and in the left arm. We need hardly add that the sail accident excited great alarm, and prompt means were adopted to render relief to the suf ferer. Mr. Marsden, a surgeon. was immediately ob tained, and Mr. reuse was removed to Whitley liall. The injury which the hon. gentleman Las received appears not to he of a very serious character, auil the report yesterday as to his condition was that he was going on favourably. BEATING A HORSE WITH A Gus.—On Wednes day afternoon last Dr. tiny, the coroner for the Doncaster district of the West Riding, held an inquest at Awkley,avil lage three miles to the south of Doncaster, to inquire into the cause of the death of John Wastned g e, aged 18 years, who met with injuries which resulted in his death from a beating a horse with a loaded gun. Th in his had loaded gun ink is possession a day or two exo, and was close to gimpwood when he noticed a fellow-servant ploughin in a field. lie went up and appears to have as sisted to attach a third hone to tic plough. To starc it he struck it with the sto ck end of the gun, and in doing so the gun went off, and the contents struck his right arm, shattered it very much, and at the same time set fire to his clothes. Firth, the servant who was ploughing, at once rem oved him to the house of his master, Mr. Little. wood, of Hempel°, and subliequently he was removed to his father's house at Awkley, where be died. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased met with his death from injuries caused by a gunshot wound. The Coroner, at the close of the inquiry, made some pertinent remark' upon the fatal cases that have recently occurred in York shire from the incautious use of firearms. CZYWIAL Pure'. Own &mimeo DAY.— TnynaDAT, Nov. 15. —Admissions on payment, 7M ; ditto by meson ticketa,l,2ss. Total visitors, 2,009. denim arrived EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OUR OWN 0011RWONDIST.) PAWL Tamper Evionse. An article of a semi-official character in the Con 'Mahound on the great subject of the reorganisa tion of the army has made some sensation. While professing to make no revelations in the special questions sub judice at Compligne, it takes upon itself to say that the Prussian landwehr system. would not suffice in France. It states frankly that a standing army of 400,000 men is not enough for the necessities of the French empire. It specifies two main points as essential : 1. The number of years which soldiers of the regular army are to peas in the ranks cannot be diminished without depriving " the first element of our military power of its necessary solidity." 2. The minimum time strictly indispensable for drilling the reserves must not be reduced. In short, according to the anistitutionnel, the reforrd of the army cannot possibly mean disarmareento but the contrary. There is to be a great and serious augmentation founded upon the principle thsi success in modern warfare awaits the power whlgi " strikes the first blow." This is an alarming doc trine for the peace of the world, and the more so on account of the following paragraph, which betrays possibly beyond the wish of the inspirers of the article the spirit in which it was written. The Constitidionne/ exclaims : Events have proved in the most undeniable manner the foresight of the King of Prussia and the necessity of the sactifices which he did not hesitate to demand from his people. Now it may be granted that the King of Prussia, who meditated an aggressive war of unsuspected magnitude, could not have succeeded had he not augmented his army. But how is the precedent applicable to France, unless she also meditates aggression? The Censtittitionwrs arguments utterly fail to show that increased armaments are necessary for the defence of France or to maintain her influ ence in the world on the supposition that she will remain content with her present frontiers. The Pays, which, under the direction of the truculent government deputy ,Granier de Cassagnac, is the appointed organ for preaching the annexa tion of Belgium to France, contains this evening the following malevolent paragraph : We do not stand alone in the press in signalising the armaments in Belgium as an indication of hostile dispo sitions towards Prance, and not as called for only by a desire to maintain Belgian neutrality. The Epoque does not believe in the possibility of that neutrality, and con siders the phrase pronounced by the King at the opening of the Brussels session as a mere rhetorical evasion. The France also insinuates, very cleverly, that Belgium, with her armaments, is but the concealed instrument of the King of Prussia, who holds the sword-hilt of which the King of the Belgians wants to show the point. Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, who, as already stated, has been authorised by the Emperor to accept service in the Italian army, is to begin with the rank of general. M. Michel Chevalier, Cobden's great friend, and his most powerful ally in the inauguration of free trade in France, is about to resume the lectures on political economy in the College of France, which have been suspended for 15 years. The Bourse was firm, without any great change. Rento rose 10c. for cash, and 2c. for account, closing at 69fr. 50c. Mobilier rose Gfr. 25c. ; and Credit Foncier, 31r. 76c. TILE CIRCASSIAN VISITORS AT THE RUSSIAN IVEDDING. o 4 1 , hlaid a . F. g. 'lll. _ - 2 .. 1 .. 0 .. 0 - 0 3 14.