The Express. — London, England, 1864-09-06 00:00:00

TILE =PRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER. 6, 'IS 64. How many of such dreadful inpaces tei bar. barons cruelty exist in &O land taco can The Deputy Commissioner telk us ant only 1 in 15 of the insane in private dwellings are under super vision ; the rest of the 3,628, or about half the i insane in Scotland, are at the mercy of cruel rale tives or guardians, who laugh at the Sheriff, while Parochial Boards hug themselves upon getting out of the expense. The Commissioners "can only " regret these abuses, not in their power to cor " rect ; the cases do not come under the power "of the Board of Lunacy until they " have obtained the order of the Sheriff. " Yet no means have been provided for " bringing the existence of such cases to " his knowledge. The obtaining of his order " involves trouble, expense, and publicity." The only sort of protection, miserable as it is, in operation in Scotland, appears to be that a lunatic requiring coercion and restraint must not be kept more than a year without being reported to the Board of Lunacy. Imagine the iniquity that might be perpetrated on some troublesome in heritor, or wife of incompatible temperament, in • year ! Scotch law is, we suppose, about as abstruse and crab-like in its ways as it is pos sible to conoeive ; but we might ask, at leant, to have something like sure legislation upon matters like these, where not only mere humanity is con cerned, but which cannot but involve crime and immorality of every degree. There is no peculi arity in Scotch lunacy that we know of, and no reason, except it be in the national aversion to "expense," why Scotch lunatics should be allowed to beltept for a year without any reporting to the Commissioners, while in England heavy penalties are incurred for keeping a lunatic four teen days without a license. if this stringent law was necessary in the interests of humanity and justice for England, it is equally so for Scotland, and surely the expense should be considered an obstacle not altogether insurmountable. THE LAST HOURS OF PRINCE ALBERT. There has reached us (Northern Whig) from abroad a most interesting extract from a letter which was written by a member of the Queen's household, shortly after the death of Prince Albert. The extremely confidential position which the writer held at the time not only gives the assu rance of perfect reliability, but invests the following lines with a very special interest After describ ing the grief and fears of the whole household for the Queen, the writer speaks of the personal loss sustained in the death of Prince Albert: How I shall miss his conversation shout the children He seed often to come into the school-room to speak about the education of the children, and he left me without my feeling that he had strengthened my hands, and raised the standard I was aiming at. Nothing mean or frivo lous could exist in the atmosphere that surrounded him ; the conversation could not be trifling if he was in the room. I dread the return of spring for my dear Lady. It was his favourite time of the year —the (inning leave*, the early flowers, and fresh grain were such a delight to him; and he so loved to point oat their beauties to hie children, that it will be ter rible to see them without him. The children kept hi table supplied with primroses, which he especially loved, The last Sunday he passed on earth was a vary blessed one for the Primus Alice to look beck ape. He was very ill and very weak, and she spent the afternoon aloes with him, whilst the citron were in church. He begged to have his sofa drawn to the window, that he might see the sky sad the clouds sailing past. He then asked her to play to him, and she went through several of his favourite hymns and chorale. After she had played some time, she looked round and Now him lying back, his hands folded aa if in prayer, and his eyes shut. He lay so long without moving that she thought be had fallen asleep. Presently, he looked up and smiled. She said, " Were you asleep, dear papa!" "Oh no," he answered ; "only I have such sweet thoughts." During his illness, his hands were often folded in prayer ; and, when he did not speak, his serene face showed that the " happy thoughts " were with him to the sad. The Princess Alice's fortitude has amazed us aIL She saw from the first that both her father sad mother's firm ness depended on bar firmons, and she set herself to the duty. He loved to speak openly of his condition, and had many wishes to express. He loved to bear hymns and prayers. He could not speak to the Queen of himself, for she could not bear to listen, and shut her eyes to the danger. His daughter saw that she must act differently, and she never let her voice falter, or shed a single tear in his presence. She sat by him—listened to all he said—re peated hymns ; sad then, when she could bear it no longer, would walk calmly to the door, and thee rush away to her room, returning soon with the same calm and pale face, without any appearance of the agitation she bad gone through. 1 have had several interview' with the poor Queen state. The Ent time she said, " Yon can feel for me, for you have gone through this trial." Another time she said bow strange it seemed, when she looked back, to see bow much for the last six months the Prince's mind had dwelt upon death and the future state ; their conversation had so often turned upon these subject', and they had read together a , book called " Heaven our Home," which had interested I him very much. He once said to her, "We don't know in what 'tat* we shall meet again; but that we shall recognise each other and be together in eternity I am perfectly certain." It seemed as if it had been iatended to prepare her mind and comfort her—though, of course, it did not strike her then. She said she was a wonder to herself, and she was sure it was in answer to the prayers of her people that she was so sus. twined. She feared it would not last and that times of agony were before her. She said, " There's not the bitterness in this trial that I felt when I lost my mother ; I was so rebellious then ; but tow I can see the mercy and love that are mixed in my trial." Her whole thought is now to walk worthy of him, and her greatest comfort to think that his spirit is always near her, and knows all that she is doing. The Earl and Countess of Egmont left town within the last few days con a ►isit to the family estates in Inland. The Earl and Counteee of ahafteebury and Ladies Ashley are M present residing in Switzerland. Viscountess Jocelyn and don. Misses Jocelyn will leave Switzerland next week on a tour in Italy. Front Switzerland her ladyship and daughters go to Turin. The Hon. Captain and Lady Constance Stanley will leave the Earl of Derby's residence, in St. James's square, for Saadgate, about the middle of the month, and will stay there whilst the gallant captain's regiment is stationed at Shorncliffe. His Royal Highness Prince Humbert of Italy is expected to arrive is England oa the 11th met. Daring his stay he will reside with the Marquis d'iseglio, the Italian minister in London, who arrived • few days ago from Spa in order to receive his royal highnesa. The next examination for direct commissions will commence on the 7th November, 1864. The Chairman and Committee of the Licensed Victuellers' Protection Society announce that Charles Booth, Esq., the well-known distiller, has commuted to take the chair at the next aneiversary dinner, which will take place in November. Captain C. W. Eborall, general manager of the South Eastern Railway, bas been created a utterance of the Order of Leopold of Belgium, for many courtesies rendered by him to his Majesty and royal family ea their visits to England. The marriage is announced ai about to take place of M. d'Erlanger, banker aed consul-general for Greece at Frankfort, with Mime Slidell. youngest daughter of the re presentative at Paris of the Confederate States of America. The King of the Belgians and family have re turned from °stood to Lasko.. A Geneva letter in the Temps says :—" The socialist agitator M. Lamella has just lint his rib a dust with a Moldo-Wallachiae. lie was oely 40 years of age. The adversaries fought with pistols at fifteen pow, Lod had the pwer of firing while the signal, one, two, three, was being pronounced. Limane was an excellent marks- man, but the Moldo-Wallachiao fired at the word oar, &a his hall traveroed the intestines of the other." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. GERMANY AND AND THE DUCHIES. The commission appointed to settle the boun dary line between Jutland and Sleswig will pro ceed to the scene of their labours in a few days. Austria will be represented by Lieutenant-Colonel Schonfeld, Prussia by Colonel von Thile, and Den mark by Colonel Kauffman. The latter officer is at present at Vienna, acting as negotiator for Den mark in the arrangements for the settlement of the terms of peace. GREECE • THE LATE INSULTING LETTER TO THE KING. The following is the text of the insulting letter sent to the King of Greece, and lately mentioned by telegram. It is addressed to his Majesty by a member of the National Assembly : Atlasos, Ausmt 23. Bite,—To expel Otho, • sovereign, who as an fedividnal, we acknowledged to be • worthy man, we Helen as did sot hesitate to stake the fate of our country, because the royalty under Otho had become a centre of intrigue. Sire, the whole of the capital of the kingdom is con vinoed, and within two days all Greece will be so llkowioto that your oourt has de wended in • LOMB into the political area, and made nee of your name in a scandalous manner an the occasion of the election for President of the National Assembly. Sire, the object of the outset far the presi dewy war evidsatly the correction of your court, which bee for some time past bees conspirir4 against the oath made by the omatitutioaal King towards the nation —a court which • great national majority is en deavouring by peaceful measures to replace in its proper sphere. Corruption has, however, pined the day, and the victory of the courtiers la both prejudicial to the King and • misfortune to the lobo' a. Sire, the policy now pursued alienates the King from the love of the people —a love on which you have based your strength and your authority. Greece cannot possibly tolerate such • course, and myself, the meet bumble of your subjects, moved by the grief which I feel, from my attachwent to my King and to my country, supplicate your Majesty to sue from further embarramment the land in which you have declared you wish to live and die as • Helene. Your Majesty's very sincere asel very obedient subject. _ Etrrenao Pr mas.% Representative of Lopata°. The sitting of the National Assembly of the 27th ult., at which the above letter was discussed, was of a very stormy character. The ministry demanded a vote of censure against the deputy Pia/dere*. The colleagues of the latter, who belong to the Bulgarian party, demanded that M. Plaster's should be sent before the tribunals, reckoning on a certain acquittal in the present state of the public mind in Greece. The opposition has naturally profited by this occasion to define and develop the accusations which were only vaguely indicated in the letter of the incriminated deputy, and which were directed especially against Count Sponnek and M. Dietaxes, aides-de-camp of the King. It will be conceived what violence this war of per sonalities gave to the discussion. Upon some of the benches some of the members almost got to fisticuffs. The opposition at length withdrew, and at the close of the sitting there was not a sufficient number present to admit of a vote. The Assembly adjourned till the following Monday, when, as the telegraph has already informed us, the vote pro posed by the government was carried. The National Assembly, in revising the consti tution, has voted a series of articles, the second of which decrees " that the bishops and priests of the catholic church must be Greek citizens," and the fifth " that titles of nobility and distinction shall neither be recognised nor conferred." AUSTRIAN-ITALY. THE LATE ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. "We begin to get some light," bays the Incl - pencianee Belge, " upon the conspiracy which the Austrian police has discovered in the Italian Tyrol and Venetia. It appears that the party of action in Italy had in reality planned, some months ago, a general rising in arms. It had its arms and its soldiers all ready, and its ramifications and projects extended beyond the frontiers of Italy. The first blows were to be struck in the Austrian possessions. This plan was postponed or abandoned during the stay of Garibaldi at Ischia ; but the plans and the depots of arms existed, and the Austrian police, put on their track, has begun to arrest the persons moat compromised. After arrests upon arrests, it has proceeded to make a complete razz* not only among the adherents of the party of action, but even in the ranks of the moderate party, which naturally desires the reunion of the country to Italy, but without looking to conspiracies for the realisa tion of its hopes. A crowd of young men of the best families, who can only be accused of holding patriotic opinions, have been taken beyond the Alps to the fortress of Innapruck, where there awaits them a monstrous trial, the result of which, what ever it may be, will add nothing to the moral force or the security of the Austrian government." NEW ZEALAND. DEFEAT OF THE MAORIS. (B) Tgegraph Iran Baez) MELBOURNE, JULY IL The Maories were attacked and defeated by the British troops on the 25th ult. The enemy lost 900 men. The chief wbo commanded the Maories at Ga tepa was among the killed. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SUEZ, SM. & The Rangoon, with the above mails, reached Sues at 1 a.m. this day. AMERICA. (asurzes TZLIGA4II. ) ARREST OF MULLER MR. BRIGGS'S HAT AND WATCH IN HIS POSSESSION. NEW YORK, Auourr 26. The Victoria has arrived at New York, and Muller has been arrested. The hat and watch of Mr. Briggs were found in his possession. Muller protested his innocence, and the legal proceedings in reference to his extradition are progressing. ITALY AND MEXICO. The organs of the Austrian cabinet seem greatly annoyed at the despatch of a special ambassador to the Italian court by the Emperor of Mexico. The Oat-Deutsche Post thus expresses itself : The Emperor of Mexico, who if an archduke of Austria. and has been the Emperor's lieutenant at Milan, has saluted the King of Italy by a special ambassador, on the occuion of hie soorsion, no doubt. The Emperor of Mexico has no European traditions. The Archduke Maximilian having renounced, or almost renounced, his &goalie rights in order to devote himself entirely to his new minion, it is natural be should make Mexican interests the prime object of his policy. It is likely enough that the Italians, who count Romulus, Augustus, and Jastinian among their ancestors, will not feel very highly flattered to see themselves repre sented as of the same race as the Indians of Montezuma and the mongrels their descendants. On the other hand, the loyal Altus, who are described as the most zealous outlaw's of the new empire, will not be a little utoniahed to learn that King Victor Emmanuel evidently took into account only the race domieant in Mexico, and entirely overlooked the primitive inhabitants of the country. For our parts we will merely supreme the wish that his Majesty the Emperor of Mexico, while accomplishing hw new duties, may not contribute to increase the embarrass mute of his mother-ociontry, and may not too often propound the theory of universal suffrage in his diplo matic acts. The Wanderer remarks on the game subject : At Rome the recognition of the Hiog of Italy must hays beet viewed with displeasure. Great surprise will them be felt to see the liberty of a country mentioned in the cere monial of receiving an ambassador, and if this principle of the national will should continue to pin ground, the Holy Father, who has lost the Marches, might soon find himself restricted to the sacred walls of the Vatican. (atom's TZLZGIA7I3.) PRUSSIA. VIENNA, Sm. & The Oesterreiehiache Zeitung characterises as entirely unfounded the news published by some journals that a Prussian proposition for Federal reform was to be made at a congress of princes, to meet shortly at Berlin. SPAIN. MADRID, Scrr. 5, Erna. 3L Mon has left for La Gra*. VIGO, fiery. 5, Errarnta. The steamer Paris arrived here from Cuba to day, having made the passage in 18 days. 1 EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mom ous owx )11:3T. i PARIS, MONDAY Emma. Perhaps the paragraph is not scions, but we are told here this evening by the Pays that M. Bis marck, having in a despatch to our foreign minister thanked Lord Russell for the great moderation he showed during the Dano-German conflict, has re ceived from the English diplomatist a sharp and biting reply. The same paper thinks the visit of the Prince of Wales to Copenhagen inopportune, and has doubte as to the reception. The liberal press writes bitterly this evening on the contem plated meeting between the Emperor and Frederic William, as there is no apparent motive for the in terview, England and Prance having decided on re maining neutral in respect to the duchies. That the two sovereigns are to meet at all is denied in some quarters, but the rumour of the last few days could not be allowed to pass without another exhi bition of angry feeling being evinced towards Prussia. The Temps asks what mysterious question cauld lead the conquerors of &Marino to shake hands with the conquerors of DuppeL Each time that a notable criminal is about to be executed the question of maintaining the punish ment of death is re-argued. In general it is the philanthropic party which makes an appeal to pro gress, civilisation, and humanity, and which shows that as crime does not decrease, so the moral effect of the guillotine must be loot on minds predisposed to assaasiustion. In the present instance it is M. Alphonse Karr, whose opinion on the matter ever since he wrote the memorable phrase, " Que messieurs is. assassins commencent," has been well known, who conies before the public. The philanthropist says that society should not commit a crime for which it condemns a criminal. M. Karr says society must defend itself, but he applauds the great modification which the criminal code has undergone. Torture has been abolished, the stake, the wheel, &c. The pain of death has been done away with in cases of sacrilege, blasphemy, poach ing, highway robbery, and housebreaking ; it has also been suppressed for political misdemeanours, and wisely so, for in politics the vanquished were always judged by their enemies. The combat has continued, but with this difference, that one side was armed, the other disarmed. The pain of death has been abolished even for assassination where premeditation cannot be proved, and what with the pusillanimity of juries, and the many motives which they find for bringing in a verdict of extenuating circum stances, capital punishment has been so abolished that it can hardly be said to exist. No matter bow diabolical the crime, one can never be sure that the last sentence of the law will be applied. About a month ago Jean Baptiste Perrin and his sister appeared before the criminal court at Ardennes. Perrin had two sisters, and the charge against him was that of incest and murder. One sister took refuge in a convent ; the other was tried with her brother. A child had been born, and was shown to have been cut in pieces by Perrin, who forced Leonie Perrin to make • path of it for the pigs. Lennie Perrin was declared innocent—Perrin guilty with extenuating circumstances, because the pieces were so small. An account of this trial may be found in the Prase of the Ist August. You will not have forgotten the crime of Colmar, in which three prisoners were placed at the bar, charged with premeditated parricide, accomplished with revolting barbarity ; not a single circumstance was adduced tending to alter the revolting cha racter of the crime, and yet the jury found extenu ating circumstances. M Kan would see capital punishment more often inflicted. It is not pro bable that the government will abolish it altogether, as one of the latest acts of the Senate was to decide in favour of its maintenance after a discussion on several petitions for and against abolition. In the Nouvelle Revue de Paris M. Edmond About has made the following remarks with regard to the Labaatide affair : This Latour that they judged at Fein has all the air of a scamp, but what energy, what a head ! Supposing he had beam put w collep and then mat to study law, then . . . . No matter what. My idea is, in two words, that if 2J,0000. (800/.) had beers laid out upon him he would not only bare made an honest man but a superb attorney-general. Society, they will tell me, had not 20,000(r. to spare. Bat add up the cost of the trial, the money stolen from Bellbird, and the life of two men and two women, and you will see that it would be exmomical to take are of the education of such customers. Of course another 20,000 fr. would have been required for Hercules, and the authorities are still of opinion that three or four more persons were implicated in the crime of which M. About speaks. About 200 of the streets of Paris are undergoing a change of name. For a long time this will cause great inconvenience, especially to postmen. The new names are all historical. Four streets in the 3rd arrondissement are re-bap tised, and assume the names of historians, Trois sard Commines, Dames Galante°, Brant Alms, and the lyrical poet Beranger. The Rue Voltaire be comes Rue Casimir Delavigne ; the Avenue de Chapelle takes the name of the encyclopedist D'Alembert ; for Rue Bayard is substituted Rue Roche ; and for Rue St. Fiacre, dear to cabmen, the name of Mullis, the general who brought the Pope to France for the first Emperor. Amongst the new names are those of soldiers, churchmen, painters, players, astronomers, sailors, architects, &c., &a., such as Cambronne, Affre, David, Talma, Copernicus, Lalatie, Vitrnviva. There is no lack of versifiers in Paris. The sown offered a short while ago a prize for 40 lines fit to be set to music. Two thousand five hundred rivals entered the lists. The market has not shown much animation to day. The Mobiliers have slightly declined. Rail way market quiet. M. 136hic, the French Minister of the Interior, has Wined a circular addameed to railway authorities, call. ins upon them to West oa seeming the regulations against smoking in railway carriages, a practice so dangerous in these fearful days of crinoline, if ladies are nem, and often an snaoyanes. The ironworks in Paris are unusually busy. One ' pest honas has more orders at its books than it can eke ' out* within two yean. Several machines are being coo , struoted for the canals in the north of Frasea The Bra. allies government has seal large orders to Frame for metal work. The necessity for executing some iron bridges obliges Use =a in one factory to work extra loan. (Via Gressock.) NEW YORK, Amon 26, Evunto. General Grant maintains his position on the Weldon Railroad. A semi-official denial has been given to the ru mour that Mr. Lincoln has despatched peace coin miasioners to Richmond. The Confederates have sunk a steamer in Mobile Channel, rendering all access to the city impossible until removed. COMMERCIAL ENTELLIOENCE. NEW YORK, Ammer 26, Evwaa. Gold 253/ ; rachan g e on London :—Bankers' bills, 274. Stocks dulL New York Centrals, 129} ; Illinois Central, 128} ; Erie, 110 ; Five Twenty United States Bonds, 112 k ; middling Upland, 188 e. Breadstuff' quiet and unchanged. Petroleum---crude, 531 ; refined, 871 c. NEW YORK. AUGUST V, MORNING. Gold 2501. The decline has been caused by the probability of M'Clellan's nomination at Chicago. LIVER.P.3OI., SErr. & The steamer City of Dublin, hence on the 3rd inst. for New York, has put back here with her machinery damaged. NAVAL AND MILITARY. A DMIRALTY, Spr. s.—Apron Ogidet (Dominated)—Williala C. Reid. —Naval CHATHAM, Seer. 5. DISTRIBL-TION OF MEDALS TO THZ HOAHL MUM incana.—A peers! parade of the Royal Engineers has been held at Brampton-barracks for the interesting ceremony of decorating • large number of the non-commissioned °Moors and men of the corps with the silver medals, which tore then with certain gratuities had been awarded them by his Ral Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in- Chief for long service and good conduct. The following non commissioned officers each received a diver medal and 151. --Quartermaster Sergeant G. Drawls; Colour-Sergeants B. Godfrey, B. Castledme, J. Porteous, and G. Coleman ; • silver me &l andkratuity of 101. each were awarded to the following non-rommiusioned allows :—Colour-Sergeants A. Croat, J. Lockwood, and T. Cooper, aad flergeanra D. Mitchell, E. &trail', J. Tonkin, E. Heaney, J. Finch, and L. A. Rittinann. The following received • silver medial and the sum of 5/. each :—Corporals J. L. Jarrett end W. Byford, and Sappers T. Misards, E. Paton, J. Stillwell, and J. Stephens. Silver medals without gratuities were also awarded to the following: Bu,tle-Major J. Dawsoe, Ser geants J. Adams, R. Waller, D. Mason, R. Lewis, R. Quin, A. Gardner. and J. Murphy, and Corporals W. Thom, W. Adams, D. Macpherson, and H. Greenslade. At the close of the distributioa, Colossi Harness addressed the division, and expressed tine pleseure it afforded hint to have been the medium of prorating these rewards. PORTSMOUTH SEPT. 5. The Rosamond, 6, steam sloop, is ordered to be docked to-morrow, to be broken up. The Sidoo, 22, peddle frigate, lumina been sold out of the service, was towed out of harbour on Saturday sad proceeded eastward. The Sparrowhawk, 5, screw vessel, was removed into the steam basin today, and is to be brought forward for com mission. The Pearl, 21, screw corvette, was placed ia the slip basin to-day to be docked for repaint. The Mersey, 40, werewtrigate, was rereorediato the steam basin this lambing for repel's. NAVAL RefiERVIL —The following appointment ham been made :—To be hooorary lieuteaant, the Marquis Conyeiham, LP., C.C.S., P.C., &c. Tan ARMIN—The next examination for direct 000113116301 will anatomies on the 7th of November. _ Hags MAJIRTr; gAVYItT - lissKßtiZaccOrding to the latest published Admiralty Nary List there are at the present time 359 vessels belougnig to her Majesty's navy, steam and sailing, lying at their moorings in the crowded harbours of our government ports, representing an enormous amouut of sunken capital that absorbs an almost unknown sum to maintain red preserve it, while, at the very lowest computation, 75 par cent. of the whole can never ' coder any circumstaaees, so k /' loo` • it remains the property of the crown, be made to yield any return what ever for the interest of the capital origioslly invested. This vast war material, three-fourths of which can Dever again be utilised for the purposes of war, oompriess—two iron frigates, three frescoed frigates, and three turret ships, which below to the precast period ; five MOW three. deckers, 38 screw t wo-deckers, 18 screw frigates, eight screw corvettes, seven paddle frigates, 25 paddle sloops, 2.2 screw sloops, two floating factories, four mortar ships, six Booties batteries, ace screw store vessel (iron), one screw iron yacht —the Fairy, one screw iron troopship, one doable screw tug, 58 screw gunboats, eight gaffing two-deckers, 30 sailing frigates, nine sailing corvettes, 15 sailing brigs, one sailing hospital two-decker, one Arctic discovery 'hip, and one I cutter. Here is a long array of vansela, which has • sufficiently formidable appearance upon paper, but if Iwe take the ironclad. at tbe . head of the lid from them there remains then but little that could be deemed I available for strengthening our iron-clad fleet should the country dad itself suddenly embroiled in • European war. I For years have our harbours been crowded with useless ships of war—nay, ships that have beet' worse than useless, far, in addition to their forced unproductiveness from the transitionary phases through which the awry has daring the past twenty years, they also, as we have a= stated, entail an immense annual expenditure to keep them in their inefficient state and occupy epees in our harbour that should be kept for the service of sea-going ships re quiriag repairs or refit at the hands of the authorities of the dockyards. T incr. WRECK OF A RUSSIAR WAR STEAMER. LOSS OF TWENTY-THREB LIVES. Yesterday morning intelligence was recoived at Lloyd's of the total loss of the Russian steam frigate fled. Moth, Admiral Cyraloff, off the coast of Uande. Three officers aed 20 mom were drowned ; the rest of the mew were eared with difficulty. The frigate is a total wrest. ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT. BIRMINGiIAIK, MONDAY, 10 r.m. An accident, nearly attended with very serious consequences, has occurred in the Loudon and North Western Company's station in this town tonight. The 6 o'clock express from London, due here at 9 p.m.. arrived punctually. The engine ►ad posed through the tunnel ea to the lies in the station. At this point the eosins, tender, sod guard's van, with one passenger carriage, passed on all right, but the second and third carriages were thrown off the rats, and the fourth carriage was overturned. Fortunately there were in it only two passengers, who almost by a miracle escaped without being much hurt. They were extricated through the windows on the upper aids The remaining portion of the train, consisting of three or four first and second-class carriages, with the last guard's van, remained on the rails. The train having been brought to • stood, the carriage thrown its side was dragged aloe, a few yards, and ultimately the end of it came is canted with a portion of the platform, which it tore up. A portion of one large flagstone, three feet in length, was forced into the carriage which had been thrown over. The passengers, it is hoped, have sustained no vary serious injuries. Mr. Oliver Pemberton, the company's surgeon, was, In a few minutes, on the spot ready to theist those in the train, many of whom were in a state of great excitement. Mr. Roberta, the general agent, was also immediately at the ethos, and every effort was made to clear the lies, which is just sow much thronged. Thin was done as speedily as possible. Major Dixon, of the Lt Royals, was standing on the plat form when the solidest mound. Hs was knocked down and much shaken. Two canon have been assigned for the accident. One is that the turn table over which the train bad Whams, bad been left improperly fastened ; the other is, that than was something wrong I. oceusexioa with the point. (lAN DLlgt3.-PR1Z11; MEDAL. PARAProx—Adopted ter Itairstte Ooveramentior the military stations. J. C. sad J. VIEW the aztginal mandlacturere and holders of the inn Prue Medal, caution the public against any opurioos Imitations. Their label b oa all packets and bones. Brla of all &den throughout the =. Wholesale and Mr ezportttlon at the Works, lIPPRIt LAMilifTli, LONDON. S., where albs Oa, be obtained their eeleteatted United Service Soap Tablets. NSORICTTI and ZAMBRA'S One Gaines and Two Guinea rIELD 'ALAMO and TRABOOTIOI are war ranted u unrivalled for power and brilliatioy. Ws. and 42a. in sae complete.-1, Hatton...aides, AC.: _Canallill LC.; 121, iesentAttreet, W.: 14 t-s , itsetrest; and Crests! Palled. THE LOCH, MOOR, and MOUNTAIN 701/11152 and TILINKLLING SUM, Mei Gaines; In all this new neatartaln Batter than ever and more than aver," at ALFRED WIBB MILO', 73. Brook-street, Hanoveraqnsre. amend ten Doodatrart. lisiabliehed JOHN BROGDZN'S PARIS FIRST CLASS and LONDON PRIZE 110EDAI4.—Manntactory, 11. Hen ilagaannoat, Coreninarden, London, W.C. This catabllabment is closed aa 0, and on Siturdays ail o'clock. DEAR DOCTOR, what do you advise I I advise Alfred Mellon's Concerts . afterwards to EVANS', a/DV/MT-GARDEN. bear some charming staging, order one at their capital chops and masallicenl potatoes, and hat In the best advice I can Mee you. Eke erprefixs. TO 001118PONDANTS. A beetiterente tmtesded for " tondos Itteetus Pgsect be et the Once, 10, Boueertontreet, by l'Wo .‘ sect on the day of publication. PRINCESS'S. TIM swim" BORN TO GOOD VICE Mr. D. Murray. AM THI STILZITS OF LONDON. Messrs. J. W. Raj, David Ilsber, D. Murray, J. Nelson, R. Forrester, sad H. Mellon: Mrs. H. Manion, Mims Barnett sad Gwynn► sitTrAinrLk. 1•1311118. MTTITNY AT THE NOR.E...Kbaglag by Hr. H . Clifton =4 Mr. J. H. Eked : Madame noon. —Mr. G. W. Neter. —Concluding with THE DEUKEALLYS MUDPACK. MOH WAIZI AT LONDON BILITML TIII3 DAT Man o& 4L 43e.....Alisemes. 41t. MIL Toyouow Maniac AL .... .Mower. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. ONLY the other day all England was horrified at the story of a wretched lunatic in Cornwall who had been hidden away so many years, and kept like a pig in a stye. It was pronounced almost incredible that the "local authorities" could have overlooked a case so gross. Yet this, which was generally admitted to be a not very rare instance in those distant counties of the West, was absolutely humane compared with hundreds permit ted to exist in Scotland under the disgraceful evasion of the law for the protection of lunatics and for guarding society from fearful opportunities of crime and vice of the most loathsome and degrading kind. The Scotch lunacy law is said to provide broadly for the care and treatment of the insane. This is the description given by Dr. 3frrcaxxx, ' Deputy Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland, and it is decidedly a true one, by the account he gives of the way the insane are treated under this law, or rather under the evasion which actually results ; for so broad is the application of the law, that it may be a question whether it is not worse than no law. Certainly, it permits a state of things horrible to contemplate. The report of the Commissioners tells of many naked idiots, men, women,and younggirls,living amongst theirrelatives, , often chained to a stake or kept in a cage or a ken nel, some grovelling in filth, others crouching in heaps I .of cinders near the fireplace. One of these cases had I been treated in this cruel way for seventeen years, and others for long periods, while it seems to be not uncommon for idiots to be what are called " wan derens," roving naked like savages about the , moors for weeks together, whenever they can elude the care of their so-called guardians. It would I be salty to give the details of these cases from the ' official report before us, if this were desirable ; but our object is rather to point out the fact, not leas horrible to think of, that the law can be, and is, completely thwarted in any attempt to , force the unwilling guardians of these poor wretches • to treat them more humanely. "Thu require " merit of the law (says Dr. MITCHELL) has been "so extensively evaded as to be practically a dead "letter." Here is a case, for example, of a poor woman who was actually submitted to the most horrible torture, when in the end she was, after being twice released at intervals of two years, found by the Commissioners to be a rational being. Dr. '3ltrear.m. says, in relating this case : " I " found her in a strait jacket, the arms of which " were laced with a rope to the sides of the bed, " the shoulders and back were laced to the bed " also. To the lower border of the jacket • long " apron of strong canvas was attached, also laced "to the bed at the foot. She had been ten years " insane, and for several years without intermis " sion the subject of this inhuman treatment. " Before entering the house I heard her cries, and " while I was beside her she was struggling to " escape her bonds, trying to sit up, howling, " swearing, singing, and laughing. It was a case "of chronic mania, aggr►vated and kept up by " the treatment pursued. In my opinion it would " have expiated her crime had she been the most " foul-hearted murderess that ever breathed." This wretched woman had a family, some of whom became insane ; her husband was a jobbing car penter, and the house was his own—his castle of despair—where he defied the Sheriff and the Com missioners, under the law that by giving up his wife to be cared for by the pariah he became a pauper and must give up all he possessed. For two years the law was tried, and failed, even on appeal to the Sheriff principal ; and at the next visit of the Commissioner, in the summer of 1860, she was found in the same fearful condition of torture. He requested she might be released, and she made not the least at tempt at violence. The case was once more brought before the Sheriff, but it was argued that there were no grounds for depriving her family of her, custody, that they were unable to bear the expense of her maintenance in an asylum, and that there were no grounds for subjecting the parochial board to the expense. The Board of Lunacy ap peal against this extraordinary finding of the law ; their appeal is dismissed, and another two years pass, when the Commissioner goes through the same farce of calling to see this wretched victim of sordid parochial meanness and brutal inhumanity. The report he makes closes this most painful his tory in the strangest and most touching account of the poor creature, now in the tenth year of her torture. She was in too loathsome a condition to be released at the time, but the next morning she was washed and dressed, sitting up ; "Sur "rounding objects interested her. She ex " mined my watch with care, tried to make " out the hour, said it was gold and pretty. " She asked me where I came from, and said " over and over again that she would go away " with me. She shook hands with me twice or " thrice, and seemed pleased with my visit, and " said she would like me to bring her sweetmeats " when I returned." The sequel is almost too horrible to believe, but here are the words of the Deputy Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland : " After the departure of the Visiting Commis " aioner this frail, crippled, and exhausted woman, " sixty-seven years old, was cruelly bound down " again to her filthy bed, where she remained till " she died last autumn." DRAMA. NEW ROYALTY. This little theatre was re-opened last night for the winter season, under the management of the Mire* Pelham. Mr. Burnand's very popular and clever cloeuta burlesque, Izion, was revived, and is was preceded by Ilr pisi,ao, one-act comedy, Faint Heart mercy won in,; Lady, and a rather weak, straggling fame called Hy bra, Boots, written by Mr. T. J. Williams. The characters La this farce aro—is waiter, an: erciteable old gentleman, rising tenor vocalist, an old woman, her daughter, and a waiting-maid, and they are thrown into positions which era productive of more noise than fun. The company has been strengthened by the engsgeruest of Mr. J. G. Sham Miss Fancy Clifford, Hiss Neily ton, ands lion of Mr. Ryder. Mr. BEIIIIIII4 is understood to be the new stage director at this boots, aed be intends, u soon as possible, to tom it Into a theatre resembliog the Boar's Pertness. A se e petite comedy by Mr. Ozenford is somewhat prernatiusly announced, together with a new romanticeornedietta by Il i . John Brougham, and a new extravaganza by Mr. Bursted PROFESSOR ANDERSON AT ST. JAMES'S HALL. After being absent from London for seven ye a r,, performing nearly everywhere, from China to Peru, p, O . lessor Anderson returned last night to St. James's Hal, and commenced what promises to be a very successfol w. son of conjuring. Daring Mr. Anderson's abscace we hive had Herr Friekell and Herr Hermann—professors who de. pended more upon dexterity of hand than upon elaborsie apparatus : but Mr. Anderson still adheres to his old plan of appearing surrounded by glittering mechanical c"rittivarioes. His tricks were always ingenious and complicated, and they still retain these qualities ; some of them are so involved that it requires an extraordinary memory to follow ta eoi . The most striking feat is one in which a 'vital; lady Lod goose are brought out of an apparently fiat and empty p or t. folio ; sad the one which excited the most enthusiasm and opposition was an exposure of table-rapping. The professor appeared to provoke diacuasion by an open attack apoo Mr. Home, and several gentlemen amongst the audience stood up as the defenders of the great "medium." Everything that could be done, by borrowing watches, rings, handkerchiefs, hate, gloves, &c., and conveying them, unseen, from boxes to cans, from cans to trays, or even to the bottoms of chairs, was done by Mr. Anderson, and he performed his old and pap a . Inc gm trick, which he first introduced about twenty Tivai ago at the Adalphi Theatre. H. failed in nothing, std though not such a lively actor as Herr Hermann, his mod e of addressing the audience is not deficient in a certain quiet humour. Yr. Anderson is now &sided by two daughters —ore, the young girl who is dragged out of the portfolio, and the other a very clever young lady, with very plesaing manners, who certainly seems to poasees a remediable memory. A variety of articles of the most mixed kind—a five-franc piece, a locket, a bit of cloth, the card of • Parses visitor, slips of paper, on which sentences were written by the audience rings with inscriptions, and other articles, twanty•seren number—Wlllo collected in • box, and to all ap pearance secured. fdiss Anderson was then brought upon the stage and blindfolded, and ther , without the slightest e ff ort, sod without being eked soy questions which might suggest answers, she gave a minute and correct descriptloo of every article. There was no falter. log and no mistake, and this part of the entertainment was certainly the mast striking. By way of testing her memory still further, words, like " idiosyncrasy," and other orra. meets of our language, were suggested to her, and she inane. diately spelt them forwards and backwards withthe greatest rapidity, and without the slightest sign of mental labour. The great hall has been most gorgeously fitted up, the musical arrangements are good, the dull Quadrant is tarred into • Math of glory, and the professor evidently means to succeed. The hall was crowded is every part. THE LATE RIOTS IN BELPAST.-DEPUTATION TO THE GOVEILDIMENT. A deputation from the magistrates of Belfast waited yesterday at Dublin, by a►pointm+o. upon Major. Garieral Sir Teamse Lama, ljader-Serrebory for Irelsol, sad the Eight Hon. the Attorney-General, to make a repre sentation to them, u the repreutativen of the Irish govern. meat, upon the state of affairs in that town. The driputatios consisted of the Mayor (Mr. Lytle), Mr. Wm. Danville, J. P. ; Dr. Murney, J.P. ; Mr. W. T. B. Lyons, J.P. ; sod Mr. David Taylor, J.P. Th. preosedingiererecoodueted in privets, but we believe we are correct in stating that, on behalf of the general body of magistrates who bad held meetings daring the pen fortnight, they commonioated a resolution arrived at recom • mending areconatruction of the system of local police, bo:h In its constitution and command, with a view to provide such a fresh orpaimation as may be adequate to preserve the peace of the town in the future. The deputation, we believe, also pressed for an aug mentation of the force to the number of 400, the exec¢• tire function to be vested la the person of a distinct corn• miagorier of police, and the expense to be borne joiney by the town and by the government, as is Dublin. Al a further recommendation, the deputation submitted the re• establishment of Belfast sa the headquarters of military diatrict. - - -- • The interview lasted for nearly an hoar and a half, an: at its clam, Sir TUOILAS LAIICON stated that the recommendations which had been made would receive the beet attestios of the Irish premier& _ _ . Tito dep;tittioa Naa witbdtvw.—D Win "Wiling Mc'. ARCHDEACON DENISON AND THE DEAN Or BRISTOL. The Dean of Bristol has addressed the following letter to the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol : "Bristol, Sept. 3. "My dear Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol,- 1 have may this day core to know, by casually reading a copy of it IS a news per, that on the 211th of August Archdeacoo Den. ire addressed to you lordship a letter referring to the Bristol Church Congrw. I should much regret that soy cause which I could remove should debar the archderoo, and any who may entertain the like scruples, from &rood are at its sittings. I therefore very cheerfully resign not only my place among its vice.prasidents, but that further confirm with the congress as an official member al its committer, which I accepted reluctantly, and only after repeated insistence that I should do so. I trust that three who so honoured me with their confidante, end would. I have no doubt, have accorded me their support if I had de cided otherwise than I haws, will excuse my taking a steep which has been dictated spiel by the desire not to allow the to be ant by an imputation and COD . Unties W hichw might in any degree have marred its useful sees. "I must, however, add my earnest request that the step sow take shall not be construed into the slightest admit• sion on my part of the validity of the archdeacon's scruolet• or of hesitatiom if seed were, to vindicate my conduc: the matter to which he adverts. " Behove me, my door lord, very taithlally yours. "(Mama aura." The ex-Grand Duke of Tuscany has just bets re-elected Mayor of Soh'whi:monk in Bohemia. The ez• soy/nig° is philosophically content to act u mayor of ha village. A curious autograph of Tau° was sold in Paris the °thee day which gives an insight into the poet's ear:r struggles :—" I, the undersigned, acknowledge to bare rev mired from Abraham Levy 25 limes, for which ram I hes pledged a sword of my father's, six shirts, and two Elver spoons." The document taus the date of Muth 2, 1:.70, at which time Two was twenty-six. The city of Paris is just about to undertale a gigantic work, the supplying the city with pun web:. To this end a reservoir, capable of supplying 40,000 cub.: fest of water every twenty-four hear, Is now being COn. stroeted at Ifesilmootant, at an expense of 40,080. 01 . 0 frame. The water is to be brought from the Marini, BO will, at least, less an improvement on the impure element which the portion d'emt bring us every day st hours, making as pay howdy therefor. This will emploY• too, a large number of workmen, and reduce the list of la habitants of Paris now receiving alma. New Rows, CATHOLIC CHVICHIS. New churches is come Mos with the Roman catholic faith are 'priming up in various directions. Oaadedicated to St. lore of the Angels, has beets erected in the Cresont-ros. l, Worthing, sod is to be solemnly opened on Thursday two by Dr. Grant, Bishop o; Southwark. The new charch of " Oar lady sad All Sainte at Stoarbriclge, is to be opened os Wsdasndsy, September 14. There is to be Muth" high Rasa with • HMO, by Dr. Amherst, Bishop . of Nsethealptsa. In th e evening them in to be " Bomb , ' tics," with a amnion by Dr. Ullatborm, of Birtuhleb"'• Oa the mate dathe mw catholic church in Marinetom. Shasraan, is to . solemnly opened by Dr. Grant, Buhl of Sontliwark ; the Vary Bev. Dr. Mansise, Provost of A at" walrw. will preach as the soossisa. Tuxes. 1 i ) ~