The Express. — London, England, 1864-09-09 00:00:00

MOLD CRAINS.—JOLIN BROGDEN NA so call the attontion of the public to the FORM ol ' T VOICE which he delivers with Gold Otani Chains purchased at Ids manufactory To workmanship of pattern chain, 54 Inches long To (14) carat gold, weighing os. Md. gra, at L 3 aa 83d. per mice, Mint price Total Upon this system, the Q ALITY, WEIGHT, and VALUE of the gold are actLally define and guaranteed to the puroheser ; John Brogdea tooling for a talc remuneration en the workmanship only, which to charged according to the intricacy or limPUtttl 61 the pattern —JIGIN BHOGDEN. Goldsmith.-11w ;dietary, 16, Henrietta-street. Covent garden, Loudon. Establi.hed t.ro. 1716. N B. This establishment is closed at 6 to the evening, and on Maturdays at 1 oe ink. THE LOCH MOOR, and MOIJNTAIN Torarn and TRAVELLING WITS, Three (71113:18111, to all the new nt derlate. • Better then ever and more than ever," M ALFRED MFRS MILES, 73, Brookmreet, Hanoveraquare. Removed from Boodetreet. EstebUshed 184 L NEaRETTI and ZAMBRA'S Otte Guinea and Two *ulnae Fl ILLD GUMMI and TELYSCOPE3 ar rant. las unrivalled tor power and brilliancy. Slla. net 42e. la use emnolete Ltatton.garden. LC. ; 50, Curalth LC.; IE2, isentHweet, W. ; 113. ilest4linos ; and erPanl Pained DEAR DOCTOR, what do you advise I I advise Alfred If ellon's Concerts , afterwards to 'VANS', COVENT4AItUNN. hear some charming singing, order one of their expital chops end magaitlceat potatoes, and that is the best Brice I can pee you. Eht erpreofs. f 0 COIL RESPONDiand. A hertisett.enta Intended !or " The Rome Marks lletalas Pm, 'rust be at the °Mee, 10, Doae'ede•Meeeo, by Two o'clock on the day al pabileatket. PRINCI63II. nue Brimina. BOBS lir GOOD LUCK. Mt. D. Ifmnsy. And THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mersa. J. W. Bay, David Ashes. D. llamas. J. Nelson, B. Pommies. and H. MO= . Mra IL Alarawn. Aliases Barnett and Gwynn*. B‘ITAWNIA Time ErEms. mrn NY AT THE RORK - Singing/0 Mr. R. Clifton and Mr. I. H. Stead . Madame Mon. —Kr. 0. W. leder. —Cone:tiding with TRY DRUNKARD'S CHILD&&N. Ht4ll WATZBAT LONDON BEIDOB. r im D►T —. - 44niik;:80: sozzow —llarnth h , 7h. Sim .. Aillenaar. 1111. N. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. BEPORZ the late agricultural meetings in Ire land, some of our manufacturers were becoming anxious to know the effect of the dry season on the flax crop in Ireland. Now we have heard as much as can yet he ascertained. To the friends of Ire land few subjects can be of deeper interest than the prosperity of the flax crop ; for the increase in the growth of the plant, since the cotton famine, and the unparalleled demand for linseed this season in consequence of the failure of cattle food, render flax-growing a resource of the utmost importance to the small farmers whose fortunes had so sadly de clined during the recent rainy years. A dozen years ago there were in Ireland under 100,000 acres under flax cultivation. The growers were then firmly per suaded that the seed could not he saved without spoiling the fibre ; so, while English farmers were growing flax for the seed, the Irish were throwing away the seed for the sake of the fibre, and paying 300,0001. a-year for Riga seed, which would be profusely adulterated with weeds. These weeds exhausted the soil, and spoiled the crop by crowd ing up the lower part of the stalks. These lest ten years have seen a great change. We are told on the authority of the annual returns of the Registrar-General that above 300,000 acres are under flax this year, and the value of the seed alone, per acre, is declared to be from 81. to 101. per acre, or for the whole from 2,400,0001. to 3,000,0001. It is not surprising that a good deal of anxiety should be felt as to the effect of the late drought on the growth and preparation of the crop. At the meeting of the Irish Agricultural Society at Sligo, last week, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, Colonel KNOX Goss, said that one acre of flax would pay the rent of the small farmer, leaving him as free about the rest of his crops as if he were on his own land. Any risk to such • product may well be dreaded ; and travellers in Ulster have been looking about them, whenever the smell of the " retting " hung about the road. The manufacturers, too, have been on the watch, and the recent rains must have been a welcome relief to all parties. The last ten years have introduced a great im provement in the methods of treating the produce, so as to shorten the dangerous season of steeping. to quicken and cheapen the process of separating the fibre, to save the seed without spoiling the lax, and to promote the division of labour which was sure to be adopted sooner or later. San guine people have not been always right in sup posing that the Belgian and other foreign methods had only to be made known in Ireland to secure a success as regular and thorough as in any other country. Not only is the climate different in each country, but the soil, and—a most important ele ment in this case—the water. There has, how ever, been instruction from abroad delivered in Ireland ; and the Agricultural Societies and exhi bitions of machinery and methods have, directly or indirectly, brought much new knowledge within the reach of not only enterprising farmers, but the peasantry themselves. The Irish peasant is acute enough ; and, however wedded he may be to his own and his father's way of getting his flax to market, there must be a point at which he will open his eyes and his mind to the profit of improved method, if he cares nothing about the benefit of science in the case. In Ulster small cultivators who were always finding themselves subject to accidents by the slightest change in the quality of the water, and by perverseness of `weather, which might keep their crop lying about for weeks, instead of being finished off in a few days, could not but see the advantage of having their flax treated in vats with water of the best quality, and by an apparatus which did the work in a fixed and very short time ; and so with the scutching, when their own best flax, beetled and dressed at home, brought one-third less in the market than the sort they had sold to the mill as inferior. Not only in Ulster, but in the West and South, wherever acutching mills have been set up, the people round cannot but perceive the benefit of all bringing their produce there, rather than each trying the slow and imperfect old method at home. As the days of the spinning wheel and the cottage loom are over, and the linen manufacture is expanding to fill up the gap made by the reduction of the cotton, it requires less wit than Irishmen have to understand that they must keep up with the times if they desire to mend their fortunes. If they will listen to what their wisest and kindest neighbours are saying, at public meetings, in lectures, and in print, they will find that a pro spect lies before them fairer than would be a pro mise of half a century of sound and plentiful pota toes, or even of American wages or military bounties. Years ago, before there was any apprehension about cotton supply, they were told that if Irish cultivators would grow 500,000 acres of flax the manufacturers would buy it all, getting only some particular qualities from abroad ; and now, after years of deficient cotton supply, Ireland grows only a little more than 300,000. There is plenty of room for expansion yet—plenty of money to be made by flax and linseed growing. And from year to year the grower may learn how to improve his profits, as now in the case of dis- THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1464. posing of the water in which his imp has been I steeped. He used perhaps to run it into the I nearest stream, where it poisoned the fish. The fishery laws now teach him that he must not do that ; and somebody else teaches him that that I fetid water, applied to the soil of his field, not only immediately loses its foul smell, but marvel lously enriches the land. All this experience, and the immediate interest about the drought, and the stir about agricultural improvement in Ireland, seem to point to brighter days coming. The drawback is the old one—the miserable fact of the insecurity of capital and comfort and safety in that most quarrelsome country. The demand for linen and ita raw ma terial is there ; the manufacture is there ; the agricultural conditions are there ; the good will and services of patriotic gentlemen and a favouring government are there ; the lively Irish mind and the loving domestic Irish heart are there, ambitious for children, if not for self—that they should prosper better than their fathers have done. But there is still something else there, a curse which is too likely to blight the golden harvest of prospe rity which the tillers of Irish soil might enjoy. Belfast riots and agrarian murders stand in the way of the millions of money which would pre sently be created in Ireland by flax and its seed, if only capital and the occupation of land were as secure there as in the other parts of the raided Kingdom. Int Court. BALMOItAL, SOT. 7. The Queen, accompanied by the Duke and Dachas of Saxe Coburg and Prisms Helena, drove yester day to Loch Bulig, from whence they west to leohrory, returning home by Tornahneh and Claim fibeiL My Mosier arrived at the Castle on Monday and had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the Royal Family last eight. Despatches were sent yesterda► from the Colonislafflos to the uovemors of the Falkland Wanda and Canada. Tueir Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar hare left the West Cliff Hotel, Folkestone. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, who are at omen: residing at Motcosabe House, will pro• used to Scotland in a few days, on a visit to Sir Michael and Lady Octavio Shaw Stewart. _ The Marquis and Marchioness of Claaricarde are among the blab& visite= at 13adsa-Badee. The Marquis of Hastings, the Earl and Countess Howe, and Mr. Hastings and Lady Edith Hutinp, were amongst the company putout at the annual meeting of the Sparkenboe Farmers' Club, at Ashby-de-IsZoselto, on Wisdom:lay. et a meeting of the Curators of the Edinburgh University, held on Wednesday, Dr. James Spence, was elected Professor of Surgery, in room of the late Profaner Miller. The Cork Mathew testimonial committee resolved at their last meeting —" That this committee respectfully recommend the trade societies and other association who intend Skies part in the ceremonial of unveiling the statue of Father Mathew on the 10th of October next, to avoid the use of party colours and emblems in their banners and other decorations." A resolution was also adopted expressive of the desire of the committee—" That all wands borne is the proceed= should be tipped with while ribbon, as emblematic of the purity of Father's Mathew's life." The Marquis of Drogheda's fine schooner yacht was io the Golden Horn, Constantinople, on the 31st ult., having the marquis and marchioness and a party of friend' on board. M. Emile de Girardin is at work on a drama in three seta, to be called La Supplice dune Penne. It is expected that it will be brought out at the Vaudeville Theatre, Paris. M. Lejean, French Vice Consul at Maeaaoua, on the Red Sea, has arrived at Marseilles. M. Lejean, who wee imprisoned by the Emperor of Abyssinia, and est at liberty on condition that be should quit the country for ever, left the English consul there in irons, in which he had been placed by order of the Emperor Theodorns, for not having given him a favourable answer to some absurd pro. pod of nrirrisge. The steamer Eldorado, from Alexandria, which arrived three days ago at Toulon, brought a large collection of wild animals presented to the French government by the Kings of Siam, as well as two enormous chests full of valuable seeds and vegetables. Among the beasts are • Thibet bear, • Cardboge monkey, • Mongolian pheasant of extraordinary eke and wonderfully beautiful plumage ; also • miniature doe from Pegs, • magnificent Mekong tiger, a black Siamese panther, remarkable for its eke end ferocity ; a Barman peacock of singular beauty, two hooded pigeons, of which the fecundity is so extraordinary that it is expected to make the fortune of the fancier who may be able to acclimatise them in Europe ; and a black watereerpeat, the bite of which is said to produce the same effect as • violent attack of apoplexy. To the above are to be added two Siamese buffaloes, which in that strange country are trained to run mete, as hones are is England and France. Letters from Biarritz say that the town is pretty full, although the imperial visitors of last year are sot ex pected. The Rassiaus seem to be patronising this halt Spanish wateriarplace, amongst whom are the ?risme, Labasoft de Roystoy, nre Princess Peakevitch ; the Primes Gortchakoff ; Baron Meindorif, charge d'affeires at Rome, &c. His Royal Highneea Prince Humbert is amusing himself by doing the ordinary sight-seeing of Paris and it. environs. The other day he went to the fair of St. Ger main, and dined with his sister and the Priees Napoleon at the Hotel Henry IV. The Havre journals state that Prince Napoleon and Prioce Humbert are to leave that port oil board the yacht der„me•Napoleoo for Cherbourg, whence they will proceed to England. The Italian Theatre at Paris opens on the let of October. Amoopt the lady singers engaged are, Mesdames Adomati, Charton Demeur, De Mirk Lablacbe, Barbara Marchisio, Rorie& Pear° ' Carlotta Marchisio, and Mdlle. Adelins Patti. The m ale Magus announced are, MM. Busgli, Corsi, Franchini, Nand's, Negrini, Dells Sadie, k.c. The names of Mario and Tamberlik do not appear. The Circassian refugees still afford busy work to the Turkish goveroment transports. Several mailing vessels had arrived at Constantinople daring the week ending 31st from Trebizond and Sainsous with an aggregate of 2,200 Circassian, who were at once carried on to the colony form ing at Silivria. The Or/ NZ Pseha had brought a flee body of 80 men, to swell the ranks of the C•rcaaalaiia who have already entered the Turkish army. A correspondent gives the following details from 'brads of a conflagration already mentioned by telegram:— "A terrible conflagration broke out here in a large ware house for crude petroleum on the banks of the Danube about] 2 runes from the town. The establishment belonging to an English comp►ny has been completely destroyed, and the loss is estimated at from 200,00 W. to 240,0001. The endea vours made to arrest the progress of the fire were useless, as it found every minute fresh material accumulated in these warehoaus. Cast-iron tanks, containing from 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of petroleum, burst with a terrific explosion, and their ignited contents flowing on the ground extended the fire in all directions, until it covered a surface of up wards of 30,000 square yards. The bridge, used as a landing dock, and two barges were alio devoured by the flames." It is estimated that 90,000,000 tons of water per hour pare over the Fells of Niagara. The Sandwich Islands are now exporting molasee to C►lifornia. The Dorset and Somerset Railway Company are about to establish a steam-packet communication between Poole and Cherbourg almost immediately. The Cherbourg and Poole authorities hare agreed to exempt the steamers from harbour dam. SPIRITS IN PAsSLNORRS' BAGGAGR.—By a Th ready Limed regulation of the Commissioners of Customs, their otßeers, throughout the United Kingdom, are in structed not to charge with duty any quantity not exceeding a reputed quart bottle of drinkable spirits, of any strength, when totted io the baggage of parasegers &mein,/ from abroad. The great redactioa which has taken place in the rata of duty since the former regulation was promulgated forty four years ago—under which any quantity exce e ding a pint was chargeable—is assigned ma a justificatMa of the relaxed rule. Adriatic, like the Doge of Venice, but the Baltic, and, perhaps, Finland. On her side, as neither France nor England will interfere in her favour, Denmark is forced to look to the north. The Opinion Nationale bewails in a brief and ; forcible manner the termination of the Cohen affair. The court of Rome has replied to the angry remonstrances of M. Dronyn de Lhuys, which were to make the Vatican tremble to its foundation : let. That the infant was a willing agent ; 2nd. That the parents when warned by the authorities did not reclaim the infant. It may be asked if an infant has a right to dispose of himself, and what the catholic clergy would decide if a catholic boy of 11 announced his intention of becoming a pro testant. That the child was not claimed must be a mistake, as the mother of the stolen boy went and complained to General Montebello. " The poo r mother may cry her eyes out, France will do nothing for her. It was, however, formerly de dared that the French army was not sent to Rome to strangle Italian liberty, and that the general who commanded it should not permit, under the shadow of the tricolor, the commission of any act at variance with the character of our intervention. These words are forgotten to-day. The tricolor still fiCION4 over Rome, but it is not liberty that is protected by its shadow. The glorious banner whose folds carried emancipation to all the nations of Europe, and before whose glory crumbled the dungeons of the , inquisition, serves now as the aegis of fanaticism." This writing is strong for a country whose minis- I ters object to the policy of their master being I questioned. The French flag has received another insult, and is paying dearly in honour and money for the protectorate she exercises. Prince Humbert, who is out shooting to-day with the Emperor at Rambouillet, spent a portion of his morning yesterday in the public sewers. For a complete history of these vast underground works, see "Les Mialrables." Whilst Jean Val jean was trying to evade Javart in these nasty but necessary excavations, the " thinker," as Dumas calla him, wrote the history of their rise and prigreee• A new paper is about to be started here ; it is to cost nothing, but to have it for nothing you must subscribe to another journal. This morning the market has been more buoyant, and a fair amount of business done at an improvement. Threes, for the account, are now at 66fr. 80c. Mobilier has advanced to 1,016 fr. Railway market firm, but without much anima , tion. TOTAL LOSS 01 TES BASQUE DEVEBEUL EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN IN THE REGENTS CANAL. --41- INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This forenoon Mr. John Humphreys, Middle. sex coroner, held an inquiry at the Black Horse Talm o , ICinpland-road, respecting the death of Ann Holliday, aged 17 years, who committed suicide under very extreur. dimly arcumstanoes. Richard Arnold, 6, Duncan-street, Loudon-fields, said that about 12 o'clock oo Thursday morning he was on the Hamerstombridge when be saw the demand on the top of the parapet. A girl named Louisa Francis had • hold of her, and kept her up. Francis called out that she could not bold her looger. Witness ran up and saved her. Two policemen came up at the time, and one of them took her ioto custody, bat the other said, "Oh, let her go ; she is afraid to drown herself. She would not have done it if no one w..s has." He let her go, and she went away from the cacti. but witness saw bee turn up another strut. He foliose. ) , her, and saw her rushing up the street towards the Queen's. road bridge. He overtook her. and mid, " You are a very foolish young woman" She said, " You do not know all." A crowd gathered, and she asked the way t o Oambridge-heath bridge.. The people said, "She does not mean to commit suicide." After a short time had elapsed wahine saw her getting over a paling next the toe. log path. Louise. Francis caught hold of her dress, but she struck Francis in the fie, end saying " There is oo use in your trying to stop me, " forced herself clear. Witness jumped the palings but fell, and deceased pins* into the water. There was a dog present, and wit ness sent the animal in, but it was not strong enough to pull her out. A crowd gathered, cud amongst them tire policemen. The drags did not come for a loog time. o k methane said that be would go in after deceased, but he did not like the job, and he was ten 'Mentes taking off his shirt and trowsers. He maid that some one in the crowd stole his shirtpin, and when be went into the water be kept his watch in has hand. He could not swim very well, md he came out again. Coroner —With five policemen standing by, did be think it necessary to carry his watch in his band I Witmer said that the gentleman was very vexed about hie pis being stoles). The police said to him that he could have taken twenty shirts off while he was taking off one ; but they did not offer to go in themselves. Ultimately the drags were nought, and deceased was got out, dead. W i t. Dees could not tell who the rolicenian was that let the dimmed out of his custody in the tint instance. Deceased appeared to be sober. Louisa Franca, 5, Mildmay-svenue, Ball's-pond, said that deceased lived with bee. Oo the Wednesday night she met Charles Nicholson, with whom she lived. I here was a quarrel, he struck her, and she mid she would commit suicide. She was not sober. She tried to commit suicide two yews ago. Charles Nl:Dolmen, • seller of "canaries," or stained sparrows, about the streets, a respectably dressed young man, said that deceased lived with him as his wife. Its mat her on Wednesday in the street, and asked her for the key. She refused it, and threw money and mud in his face. He struck her with his open heed, not with his het, mod pushed her down. He knew she walked the streets, but be gave her money to live upon. She bad takes poison mos. It was said she poisoned her child, and she was arrested for it, but it was a mistake. The child died. She lived with another befonshe lived with witness. The parent; of the deceased said that she lodged three doors from their house in Mildmay-avenue. She never had a child, and she had only beep gives to loose ways for three or four months. Other evideuee, however, was to a very different effect. One witness stated that the deceased, who wee a vary fine girl, had been " gay " to the knosiolgs of tier parents ever since she was • child. She would not have been 17 until May next. The Coroner remarked upon the extraordinary nature of the case. It was a preposterous act for the police to bars let the deceased go free when they bad arrested her in the very act of committing suicide. The state of profligacy (ba cked was a disgrace to all ooncerned. The jury returned &verdict "that the demised onnmitted suicide while is a state of unsound mind from drink and debanehery." The preosediap them terminated. WEATHER REPORT.-(THD3 DAY.) FRIDAY, StPTIEMBEI 9, 8 A.K._ S. ,T. W. Nabs.. 99. &&& Akerdawa It& • • & 16H9 "' Orsowalatla ,29.27 WAR. Galway Valeatill l —l. • Cape Clear 2976 61 W. 29.6 e • &W. re.:6)lr U. 66 67; W.& W. Metylwad 20. 69 I& &S.W. hasbooks & W. imam .. 25.6666, W.& W. AM le. it 10), && W. lOW 66 W.B W. 16616610 rt 2612 11 , &1 Pb — 8 sa; 6 11801 di LW. ea~eub. 16.0108 B.W. landau 29.9699, B.W. Dover 3043451 Tasisolk 6oarboroagb WM 87 B. W. 11■18168 281488 LW, BASSILDAT. M. lx D. 1,10/ESUI. El MOULMEIN _ W.8.11r. W.N.W. W.LW. LW. W.& W. &LW. Lw. W.& W. LW. W./W. W. W.E.W. LW. LW. LW. M.D.W. &w . it 8. 10.27 3 10.47 3 laic 'O6O 3 oc 3 co'— 3 ,0.13 100 ,11.10 4 moo 10.10 • tr lau 4 o L o.o‘ b I or frl 4 r 4.47 i a al, 1 e — i bo • b t W.N.R. to N.N.L. and back. Won& equally. some rain. Weems. W. to S. and back. .11riDAY, S.W. to N. and back Comm plot to fresh, wilk ILL As above. Yt4 . fill in pi - L - &SM. to W.N.W.. loonmaig. 8.0. w W& . to I.i.S W.. strong. spasily to strong to moderate. trash. rain at LIMNS. some Isla. As next above. ISlffiall. As next above. Cautionary Mynah on dl Carta Yds (Friday) morning. ifastbara;c4lsad. litostses= helm& Wain. NW .a .rd England mod Northa facoaaies Bottiberamßoolis m h“ Clisoissi sodas: of Biscay. /aeon mlostw The report of the Liverpool Licensed Victual lers' Institution, presented at the annual meeting yesterday, states that there is a be/enos la favour of the benevolent fund for the year ending Jane 30, 1864. of 3,509/. ; that the balance in favour of the trade fund is 154/. ; end that the total increase in the funds of the associatioe during the pest year has been 1,5801. PROHIBITION or TUB B 18110! or NATAL—Fa some days post there has bees a remote which ken caused considerable excitement is Leicestershire, that Bishop Co lean ha engaged to preach at Lutterwerth, and also at Claybrook, en adjoining village, next Sunday. The Rev. Robert Henry Jchils4, who is the inctimbeet of these livings, ginduated at Oxford in 1802, and may therefore be supposed to be considerably more than 80 years of age. The newly appointed Bishop of Peterborough (Dv. Jens') has written to Mr. Johosoe, expressing a hope that be will not allow Bishop Coleus° to officiate in his church, at the same time intimating that if he dote so the Bishop of Peterborough may feel it his duty to bring the matter under the notice of the ecclesiastical courts. Mnxr Ito op ma BarriiiAMOCIATION. The banquets to be gives by the Mayor of Bata and Mr. Tite, M.P., during the visit of the British Amociation to that oily, will be on • sumptuous seals. The excursionists to Frans, Salami', and the Valli will be entertained at a luncheon in the Valle by Lord Cork, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, and the ezeareitieists to Bristol will he also provided with • hackie= in the Victoria Booms, Clifton. given by the whine of Bristol. In • latter addressed to the Mayor of Bath, Captain Chios, the secretary of the Clifton Sniper irmi-bnrige Company, says he has ben desired by the directors "to supremo their regret that the bridge is not sufficiently forward for opening during the visit of the Associatioe, for nothing would have bee more agreeable to their feeliop and more appropristo than opening that bridge for traffic in the presence of that Association under whose auspices the fires stow was laid ori the Someresiabire side over 30 year sgo." The Bath Floral and Horticultural Society will bold their autumnal floral fffie during the meeting, 'mated it over two days, and admit members of the Association free. Many public buildings and exhibitions will he thrown ogee for inspeetioo, and the local committee and the citizens generally ars doing their utmost to give the arms a hospitable sod cordial reception. The Royal Pump-room will be used as the Iteception•rocan oo sad after Monday morning, sod in it a breech post-ofßos will be established for the 11001301• modatioo of member and amorist e. _ . Tim PLarrrartows. —The hop harvest has °rimmed in all the districts of Kent and Soar, sod picking has become general throughout both Mid sr East Kent. Contrary to previously =terrier opinions, the yield this yrr will by no mere prove so abundant sus ; indeed the belief is now general that the crop will scarcely oar up to that of last year. The late rains, it is true, have effected some slight good, but coming as they did so late, and followed by exceediagly cold and frosty nights, their brat was bet rid*. The reports from may at Um pleatations weir= the fears previously et• reeled, a/ the hops rain her attacked by lice, but it is hoped these have come too late to do seer mischief. Mord, however, ie on the Manama, and it ie eslealsted that as mar as rathird of the =tire plantatior are more or ler effected. la the rear hopgrowieg district around Maidstone it is believed that the mop will be awn, fair one. and some splendid seaseies have bees picked I. Gee coed air, but in the e*hboozhood of Canterbury it is thought the yield will not be so large se sou °dearly believed. the mire hire of hops these know' se JOINIS'S are deemed the beet, and will yield she largest map. wails the usually supers, Geldings an described as Wag iedifferent both is questity sad quality, and altogether below the average of former years. The impel and Ooiaphs promise but s small sup with a sleckeemiL i =i o rlslie this deseripthx , of hops is going off. the erect of land oars hap °Martian at bereft* and 50,000 mere', the yield is likely to be shoat 6 eat. per sere, white would be equiveleat to • duty of usher 150,000 f. at the old rate. In comertteace of the uneatideetory condition of the act). sad the probable de Wow is the yield, the prices of hove ere very high, rid Mid Keats nurgieg frees 1265. to 146" per cwt, aid Weald of Keats wgtag from 106 s. to 132.. per c wt The reonale frees He lisp prelatical are lees satisfactory, and the crop will, it is thought, be far from a large or" LATEST INTELLIGENCE, KING CHRISTIAN AND HIS ADVISERS. : A pamphlet has appeared at Copenhagen attri- ' bated to the brother-in-law of King Christian, con taining amongst other things the following descrip tion of a scene between Christian IX. and M. Moored on the evening of the day on which the ministry resigned : " The King received at daybreak from his Envoy at Paris, Count Moltke, a telegram in the follow ing terms :—' All is lost, the Emperor will do nothing more for us.' There was to be on that day a Cabinet Council at 1 o'clock ; but Chris tian IX. had nut patience to wait to express what he felt, and instantly sent for M. Monrad. The latter, seeing the extreme emotion of the King, turned pale on entering the cabinet ; 'See where you have led us,' said the Prince with suppressed fury, banding to him the telegram ; we are on the brink of an abyss ; your counsels have lost me my last anchor of safety ; all is lost if I do not instantly change my ministry.' Such, also, is my opinion, sire, ' said M. Monad in the calmest tone. 'lt is not I who can conclude the only peace which it may be yet possible to obtain.' And if you had not been at the head of affairs,' cried the aged Count Charles Moltke, who was present at the in terview, 'such a peace had never been possinle.' M. Monrad, without noticing the interruption, bowed his head to the King, saying, Your Ma jesty will do what you deem necessary for the safety of the state, which has been my guide also in all my acts ; we will retire.' At these words the King burst out in a vehement tone, heard even to the antechamber, ' You will retire now, after having consummated the ruin of the kingdom and deprived me of my most beautiful provinces. Your fatal work is accomplished ; the shame falls on me, and you dare to represent yourself yet as a saviour of the state. This is too much.' During this explosion of anger M. Moored preserved an icy impassibility. When it was over he said, ' History will one day judge me ; I have done my duty, and when (looking fixedly at Count Moltke) the conscience is clear, there is nothing to dread.' He then saluted the King and withdrew." Both Monrad and M. Hall believed to the last in foreign assistance. When Alison was taken, it is related, Count ' Moltke hastened to Vichy, but received from the Emperor Napoleon only this reply—" You have rejected all my friendly advice, take now the consequences of your deluded obstinacy. I cannot mix myself up any more with your affairs." (azoTza's nuciux.) FRANCE. PARIS. Siz. 9. General Bazaine bas been appointed Marshal cd France. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. MURDER BY A FATHER AND TWO SONS. (11011 OUR OWN oosissrospurr.) PARIS, Tetra:war Empre. In certain cases France allows the citizen to take the law into his own bands and cheat the tribunals of the lesser crime to indulge them with an investi gation into the greater. A man here, instead of carrying his complaint before Judge Wilde, inflicts punishment according to the force of his passion, and if the wrong-doer dies he takes kis trial for murder, with the conviction that an equitable jury will find in his favour. This system has, 1 presume, been found to work well, for no reform is urged from any quarter. It may be that the check is considered wholesome when a man knows that the breaking of a certain commandment may bring about sharp and speedy vengeance. The absence of • divorce court may also be pleaded in favour of not abolishing this lynch-law. But surely when this justifiable murder is premeditated it should not be tolerated in a land whose laws are supposed to be strong enough to meet all requirements. For two days the assizes of Tarn and Garotne have been occupied with one of these cases, in which a father and his two sons were accused of the murder of a man called Vigid. Vigid had had criminal inter course with the wife of Bdtolihres, and this man and his two sons laid a plan to catch him en flagrant delit ; they admitted to their confidence the son of the murdered man, who was to watch his father's movements and warn the three assassins when he left his house on his guilty errand. The l34tolieres were at home one evening when they heard a horn sound ; this born was blown by young Vigid, to show that his father had started fur their house. Vigid knocked and was admitted, There was a terrible scuffle, the business was soon over, and one of the eons called out to his mother to come and look at the corpse. The youngest Bdtolieres and Vigies son went and told the authorities what had occurred. Justice went to the spot and found the victim, horribly bruised, lying dead, and betide the body was • wooden shoe, which had been broken on hie skull. The penal code was searched, and it was discovered that Articles 296 and 304 applied. The case was sent for trial, and at the trial the prisoners were defended by M. Jules Fevre, and another advo cate less known to fame. Vigies son was charged with complicity. The code may give a man the right of avenging the greatest wrung which can be done to him, but it watild be hard to find an article allowing a man's own son to join in a deliberate plot for his father's assassination. The son is said to have been on bad terms with his father, and so instead of warning him he allowed him to walk to his doom without a word. As an accomplice, he slew his father, because the two were at enmity, whereas the other prisoners assassinated to gratify their vengeance and in strict conformity with the law of the land. M. Jules Fevre, in concluding his address to the jury, declared that his clieats—" sentenced to the lightest punishment would be unhappy. They were provoked. The aggressor came to search his death upon the theatre of his debaucheries. Their three hearts [those of the prisoners, I presume) are in ray hand ; I give them to you ; they would be broken by a condemnation," &c. Of course there were witnesses to speak to character and a doctor to declare that Vigid was dead. Attention is drawn to-day to the Danish marriages, especially the alliance in contemplation ; and the manner in which the peace conferences held at Vienna have slackened speed is attributed to King Christian's family compacts. What is passing in the north of Europe is viewed as more and more serious and mysterious. It is asked what these connexions will do for Denmark I England has done nothing as yet, and Rusgia, though long allied to the family of Holstein Gottorp, has never moved in favour of Denmark. She seems sow inclined not to le this power quite alone for fear of the creation of • Scandinavian kingdom capable of meeting her at sea on equal terms, and shutting out St. Petersburg from Europe. It is supposed, then, that this new alliance which she seeks at Copenhagen is one of deep political importance. She would wed, not the GALLANT SEEM OF TER CREW AND PASSENGER& _ . We have to report the total lose of the barque Demean, an avast which' occurred cm Monday last, ca this =the Irish coast. The ill-fated ship,which belonged to ,and which wagon a voyage from Qaehee todtrangford Lough, had experienced very rough weather in amain the Atlantic. She left Quebec on the 16th of Jaly, and on Wednesday last was about sixty miles from Tory Island, on the coast of Donegal. Oa that day the gale raged furiously and a suocieselon of heavy seas washed over the ship carrying away most of her dick load and filling her with water. For. tunately, the Oarsman was timber-laden, and could not sink, else, no doubt, the vessel would have foundered. Her commander, Capt. Perry, did all be could under the circum stances. The men were kept at the pumps,atideverytbing was done to sue the vessel, but the storm which prevailed rendered their efforts fruitless, sad on Friday, when the mew were attempting to get clear of the remainder of the deck load a sea swept over them, carrying one of the men overboard. Of course be was instantly swallowed up. Next day it became impossible to keep the deck any longer. and the mew or a portion of them took to the rigging, sod went into the maintop. The captain's wife was in the natio . top two days. . . . . Om Satuiday the vessel made Tory Island. The captain at once meolved to run as well as be could for the Korth Channel and make the Dearest port, and he was off Malin Head un Sunday morning. Here the exhausted crew re ceived ,some help from the men in a fishing boat, and Captain Perry sent a message ashore for a tug steamer and for some food, as the vessel's supplies were all gone. They had no water and scarcely any bread. In the meantime a pilot from the station at Enoishowen Head had been put on hoard at some risk, owing to the severe gals that was blowing, and this .nan took charge of the meal, bringing her to an anchor in Clanged Bay, be. twain Malin Head and the entrance to Lough Foyle. Two anchors were put down, and dnriog the whole of Sunday night the captain and his wife, with the crew, as well as a number of fishermen who had got out in a boat with provisions, and whom the violence of the gals prevented from returning, remained on board, although the waves were washing over the ship every moment. Intelligence of the vessel s oddities having remised Mo. villa, two of Captain Coppin's steamers started out or. San day evening in search of her. One of them, the Admiral, could see nothing of the water-logged ship, and returned to port. The other steamer, the Lion, was more fortunate, and made the reseal out at author in Gleugad Bay. The Lion steamed towards her and reached the Dovecot= about 11 o'clock on Sunday night, but, in the fearful state of the weather, no attempt could be made to take her in tow till daylight. The steamer, however, remained a near her as she could during the night, and when the break of day brought light enough, prepared to risk the towing of the vessel into the Foyle. It waa a task of no small difficulty to get the Devereuz in tow at all. During the night, it ap pears,the wind shifted round, so as to blow in upon the el ,and had the ship attempted to raise her anchors to the usual way she would probably have been wrecked on the lee shore. Tbe Devereuz had to slip her chain cables and lose her anchors, while the Lion managed to put a rope aboard and took her in tow. The steamer could make but little way. The wind and the sea were tremendous, anal the ship, totally unmanageable from bons( full of water, would not steer, but rolled about, as helpless as a log. The tow-rope soon broke. It was expe ditiously replaced by another, sod Captain Neal M'Laughlio, of the Lion, gallantly persevered in bringing the vessel on ; but in a short time the immense cable snipped again. Nothing could stand against the dead weight of the ship, tossed about by the furious, sea without any helm to control her, end sometimes actually lying at right angles to the steamer's course. All this time the waves were washing over the vessels now and then, and the position of both was one of un mistakable danger. But the danger was yet to be so creesed. A third cable having beep stretched to the drug gliog vessel, the steamer succeeded in bringing her on to wards the mouth of the lough, but to enter was impossible. The wind blew the two vessels right across the edge of the dangerous sandbank known as the Toro, sod in the direction of the Antrim cost; and the mouth of the Bann, where • terrible surf bests almost unceasingly upoe the strand, woe the point to which the Devonian was now hastening. The beach was not more than a couple of miles away. Those en board the Dever/tux sew that all hops for the vestal was gone. The beech oe which she was about to strike was close at hand, and M.. terly worn out, the crew called to the people in the steamer to come and save them. The rope was cut in the Amiens, so as to cast the Lioa loose, but with a sea such as was then rousing, and with the Toes ea one hand and the Downhill above on the other, it was no easy matter to take off thole in the driftiog ship. The steamer came round under the lee—that is, at the side furthest from the wind—of the vessel, and was by this means a little sheltered, while the fielermom in the Devereuz got into their own boat, which had been towing In their wake, and in a trip or two suoneded in I getting off the captain's wife, the crew, and all the others who were in the ship, including the captain himself. To do this was • work of immense difficulty and of the most imminent danger ; but it was happily and heroically ac oomplishad by Captain and the iiskiermee. The steamer made for Movillm which she reached safely on Monday afternoon. They watched the Daum:: as long as they could weber. Left to herself, the drifting ship, which at first had seemed likely to go ashore at Banninouth, took a turn more to the eastward, passed Portrush, and struck on the Sherries. She got on a jutting point, sad for two hours those who stood on the shore and could see her beating end thumping sgainst the reef, as the seas lifted her up and dashed her down on the bed of rock. The Derwin; it is remarked, most have been • fine ship to have stood so much battering for so long a time While she was oa the Sherries, the Portrush lifeboat went out to her, but found there tae no one oa board. Eventually, the sea bait the wreck of the Sherries and drove it in near the White Rocks.— Derr, Journal. SERIOUS COLLIERY EXPLOSION. Oc Wednesday night, about 11 o'clock, a moat dreadful explosion took place in Saghill nai r ,, about sight miles from Shields. At the time it occurred the night-sift men were in, and is a moment 7 men and lade were swept into eternity. Seghill is a pit with extensive wcwkinp, and that part of it in which the calamity happened is homes as the California bank. The hewers were them working at the "broken." The explosion took place in the hewers' boards, probably at a naked light, but that is a matter of °connote. It came tearing down the main rolley way, bat spent itself somewhat at the way sada sad though the noise of it was heard in all the other parts of the pit none of the mines. in any other part of the mine were hurt except those in California, and they escaped to beak in safety. Of come as soon as it was known at bank that the pit had fired, the news flew about the village like wild fire, cad hundreds of pompons flocked to bank. Mr. Kettering, the head viewer, and Mr. Sandman. the under viewer, were sent for, and the most desperate exertions were made to reach the men and lads buried in the far workings of California. But it was found ,that the pit was very foul, and that the rolley way was choked up with fella from the root. Several of the miners who have been employed to get to the buried men have been brought to bank suffering from the affects of after-damp; others, however, immediately descended to taken their places in the work of clearing away the rubbish. Eleven men and lads have been got out of the pit alive. The following were killed : Richard Butieson, John Nay land, Henry Whitehouse. Thomas Heaps, William Taylor, John Miller, and George Jackson. The bodies hare all bilMq recovered. PETERBOROCOR.—DARINO ATTEMPT To ESCAPE room THE GAOL —Ii will be is the moolleetimi of many of our readers that on the 20th ult. a fellow, who . gave the name of John 'nos. Gibbs, was committed for tr ial at the ensuing quarter sessions on a charge of having stoles a gold watch and tart of a gold chain from the pence of Mr. Thome' Holmes, near the Great Northern Balm* station, on Tuesday the 9th of August (the first day of Huntiogdoe races). On Saturday evening last Gib* was put in the pri me yard to pump son» water for the ass of the prison, and Mr. Higgins, the (rovers«, left him in the yard aloe° for • few minutes while he went to place in safety for the night the articles that had bum in use by the pr wows • during the day. On the governor's return be, to hi great surprise, found that Gibbs was non rat, and • strict march wee immediately made for him, but to no OurPoot; The governor to w thereupon i police o c i eted . w r i i tort de lay to ot pre t amer, and prompt steps were taken to reader his cap lbe ara as much a matter of oirtaisty as potable. During the • 10:411000 of Mr. Wain', his wife, the metros, beard • belie sear one of the chimneys, sad shortly attic was slanted by the fall of several bricks from the top of an adjoining wall. A further search was immediately instituted, but this wu also unsoocessful, and although the governor and . officials now felt satisfied that the man was within the precise* of the gaol they could get so clue to ha where abouts, until in his anxiety to keep out of sight he planed oat of his feet upon a skylight. His capture was thee only the work of a few minutes, and precautions wore at once takes to prevent any further attempt at escape. It seems that the moment Mr. Higgins had left the yard he climbed a chimney running up outside the *moo, and had barely got on the roof when he was mimed. Daring the first search, about 7 p.m., he lay quiet babied this &Im lay, where he could see sums* out or coming into the gaol. aid eousequeetly whoa . weal to the polico4tation he (Gibbs) came down isto the yard, an doubt intending to male two intermediate walls, each 9ft. high, with wend courses of loose bricks on the top ; thee get ou the wart-house, evidently fancying he would thus be nearly at liberty ; but on trying to scale the first wall he alarmed Mrs. Higgins, and bad again to climb this chimney, and whom they searched for ham on 1)110 side he eau oo the other, and it was ie hie harry to play this mime at " hide and seek " that be broke *be skylight and was caught. His final capture took plaits about midnight. The prieoner wu taken before E the sq Rev. W. Strong, the Rev. Sims', . elt sq 7 sad Thome , en Tuesday, and was seutesed 'to tine weekif 1100. finement.—Srawsford Meretny. Tax PORT or Ittawles.—The Commissioners of Customs have just promulgated a general order to the wiser that Harwich has been approved as • port into which to bacco may be imported sod wareboueed. CONFEDERATE CRUISERS AND BLOCKADE RUNNERS. Intelligence has been received at Lloyd's, under date New York. August 27, that two more Confederate cruisers Lad evaded the Federal war steamers and success fully run out of the harbour of Wilmington, and since then bad destroyed no less then 33 Federal merchant. men. The Tallalmasee had eluded all the effort, of the Federal gunboat, to overhaul her since she ran out of the harbour of Halifax, Novia Scotia, and on the 23rd of August destroyed no lea than 25 Federal coasting ships , and vessels on their homeward voyage from Europe, many laden with valuable cargoec All this destruction was effected off the mast of the State of Maine. The Federal mercantile marine, and the coasting trade especially, is completely paralysed by these daring exploits of the Con federate cruisers. The Federal gunboats have hitherto been foiled, as the commanders of the Confederate cruisers will not risk an engagement, their only object being the destruction of property, and not fighting. Advices from Bermuda to the 21st ult., report eleven arrivals of blockade runners. On the 3rd ult. the steamers Lynx, Captain Reed, and Florio, Captain Gilmore, arrival from Wilmington. On the 6th, the steamer Alice, Capt. Grant, arrived from the same port. On thelOth there were three arrivals—via., the Little Hattie, Captain Libby ; the Flamingo, Captain Atkinson ; and the Helen, Captain Wardell. On the 12th the steamer Mary Bowers, Captain Horsey, arrived, having been chased by a Federal gunboat. ithe was obliged to throw overboard upwards of 60 bales of cotton, which were picked op by the Federal gunboat R. Y. Cnyler, end *old at Bermuda. The Old Dominion had also arrived with 1,025 bales of cotton. The other arrivals re - ported were the Let Her Be, Let Her Rip, and the City of Petersburg, all with full cargoes of cotton. The Anne, Captain Taylor, arrived from Naomi on the 3rd alt. It was reported that the steamer Falcon Fisher bad broken down when on her passage to Halifax, being bound to that port for repairs. The fie* ship Storm King. 1,500 tons register, was loading cotton for Bermuda. She had a cargo of 3,000 bake, a large portion of which was on account o f the Confederate government, being part in liquidation of the loan. It was expected that she would leave Bermuda on the 22nd ult. Most of the bales were repacked and pressed for the veinal. The fine steamers Owl sad Wild Rover (bloskede-runners) had arrived from Ragland. The Little Hattie was chased and had to throw overboard upwards of 270 bales of cotton. The departures had also been large. The Buy, Celestia, Old Dominion, Alice, Florio, Chicora, City of Petersburg, and Ella being reported as sailing for blockaded porta. The Annie, the North Heath. the Little Hattie, and the Helen, bad sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia, for, it was supposed, repairs. Late advice report the blockade trade almost suspended, most of the steamers either having been injured, or their officers suffering from fever. Tag BISHOP AND VIZ PAPAL LOAN.—The Bishop of Rode' has issued an address ooastituting his curio agents of the Papal lam, and instructing them to pay the coupons as they become dire out of the funds of the Peter's Pence, or asy other money that may have been given to them for religious or c►aritable purposes. "We know," ha says " how devoted you are to the papacy, the key of the arch of the church and of human society—how you deplore with us the trials which beset the heart of the august Pius IX. is these unhappy days through which the world is pamisg. It is not only, you will understand, an act of secular life, financial act, which is here concerned, but an act possessing a religious and filial character; and the realisation of this lota in the majestic conditions on which it comes to us should be a solemn proclamation of oar faith and of our love to the Pontiff Bing, to whom it has been said, in the person of the Prince of the Apostles, ' Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of bell shall not prevail against it.' " But the bishop does sot rely solely upon religious motives, be has ecosionsirel ones in support of the lose. "To lead," he says, "to the Holy See, is to place you r capital in entire safety, a thing which cannot be dose in numbers of our commercial and industrial enterprises. It is, moreover, to make an advantageous investment; for if oa the one side the loan is at par—that is to say, at the real capital of 100 fr., the guaranteed ieterest is 5 went, and the repayment is likewise to be made at per I. the space of 36 years by way of annual drawing." The Si/de remarks, "Now that the bishops publish financial circulars, we should not be astonished to sea bankers writing par herels." SINGULAR CASE or SAVING Live ET A Yourro LADT.—On Wedsesday moroieg a young lady, on • visit to Bexley-heath, Bent, saved the life of a man under sin. plat circumstances. About 5 o'clock oo that morning the fellow proceeded to the back of some homes in the Mill-road, where there was • well 180 feet deep, with the intention of committing suicide by drowning himself. The water from the well is drawn up by means of a double. I action pulley, which raises Gee bucket wit lowers the other. By this moue he daseseded to the bottom, but the water was cot deep enough to oover him. He therefore coiled himself up to await the water increasing in depth. At 9 o'clock soros young ladies were walking in the garden of one of the houses which WON supplied by thin well, when they observed that the rope was being shakes. Fooling rather curious as to the cause they wont to the well in company with • potleman, and began to draw up • bucket When it was near the top, they were peatly startled by bootleg a groan. The paths:tee, with all the yang ladies ex cept one, immediately let go the handle of the windlass, and fled. The young lady, however, kept hold of the handle, mod waited until other ansisianos arrived, when the man was drawn up, and he presented • most miserable as pect. Bed the young lady referred to let go her bold, like the others, the man must have fallen to the bottom, and been dashed to pieces. It is supposed that the shaking of the rope was canoed by the man himself, whose suicidal in fectious were damped by hie lying four or five hours at the bottom. the so — Barges sad Moo appeared which he month, came. F. she gem lived ia razeel if witom she had I bead call foraestkr There hie Mem The s ewe Weems allow he Mt. D pies ol The pi *Mee. (us s la 47 I Mori4 bobs ot S. foam lie poll< beard so a the h esslies. --- ft P Jswe I ber bee before hi erif le tt John I log at tb raw the brewery. wall, six distil, 'bored lard ihhaZghtt with bra D pat to tt Prison Mr. L Witne Alfred Point, si fibs stop and torn nesioisd I