The Express. — London, England, 1866-08-16 00:00:00

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PRINCEVM THIS IMMO, THE fit 3 G62761 CAPTAIN. Messrs. Vining, and G. Honey: Misses Neilson, Augusta Thomson, and /Jr*. Stirling.—And QUIET LODGINGS. BAIT THIS EvlrsTO, JACICifIRBJ, rue LONDON STREET BOY OR, TRY AGAIN. Mr. Reynolds ; Mrs. Yarnold.— Mr. Y. Evan a Mks Amy Rosalind ; Mr. C. Brown ; Miss Lydia Dittmar ; Muter E. Sanders.—THE JOLLY DOGS OF LONDON. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS Dl!:3lornitiit, 5i 28m oon, sb. 47= TO-MORAOW—Morning, at. em Afternoon, 6h. 24m. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16. THE proceedings of the last few weeks have been as little creditable to the dominant party in Congress as the proceedings of the first weeks of the late session were to the predominant squire archy of the House of Commons. It seemed as though our country gentlemen were determined to begin a session in which Reform was to be dis cussed by the clearest practical demonstration of its necessity—and it has seemed as though the leaders of the Republican party were resolved to close the session of Congress by putting into the hands of the gathering forces of their opponents the only weapons which can give those opponents a chance of victory. The rapid passage through the House of Representatives of a bill to amend the neutrality laws in a sense distinctly hostile to Great Britain may not, perhaps, seriously alter the prospects of political parties in the coming elections ; but it, at least, does not re flect any credit upon American politi cians. It may be pleaded before foreign public opin;on that the only alterations it makes in the law of the United States assimilate that law in all respects to our own. But the American people will be reminded that the men who have thus done what they could to assimilate their own laws to ;,ours are exactly those who have most loudly declared the insufficiency of our regulations, and most persistently demanded that we should give compensation for the damage inflicted upon American commerce by reason of that insufficiency. There was, too, in the debate upon the bill a far too open avowal of the reasons which induced its authors to propose it. Congress has not been dignified in its treatment of the neutrality laws in the interest of Fenianism, and Fenian agitation, and a modification of them with the avowed desire to retaliate upon this coun try for the sad negligence of our own Government only intensifies the contrast which already existed between it and the Administration in this matter. Tha A m,14.2ar. karidatliitik much of English lnion ; and the hearty recognition by the English people of the loyal conduct of the American Government with respect to the miserable Fenian raid was in some degree a source of strength to Mr. JOHNSON and the party of which he is now the head. That conduct expressed the better feeling of the nation, and won its conscience. Beside the Irish and the politicims there were none in the United States who really sympathised with the Fenian raid. Its wickedness was too apparent, and its utter infatuation was too certain, for even those who moat sympathised with the I wrongs of Ireland, and most desired to humiliate Great Britain, to have anything but contempt for it. Yet, most unhappily, Congress has evinced sympathy with eves the raiders upon Canada, and has shown a disposition to pander to the Irish element in American society. Both parties in Congress are guilty in this matter, but the Republican party is most guilty. This arises partly from the bitter antago nism Mr. JOHNSON has provoked, partly from a feeling of bitterness towards England for the conduct of our Government in the affair of the Ala bama, and partly from a desire to catch the large Irish vote at the coining elections. Yet we can hardly believe that either of these reasons will weigh strongly with the great bulk of the Ame rican people. V nalietive and retaliatory legisla tion is only popular in times of great excitement, and the excitement against England has abated. Nor are the American people likely to give their deliberate sanction to a pro-lrish policy. Their feeling is increasingly the other way. A strong feeling against the Irish and their schemes is ra pidly spreading in the United States, and we may soon see that politicians who pander to the Irish gain their vote but lose the elections. And the contrast between the attitude of Congress and that of the PRESIDENT in this mat ter is entirely in the PRESIDENT'S favour. He has treated the Irish agitation exactly as public opinion in America has treated it, and Congress has allowed him to be in this respect on the right aide and on the side of all right feeling men by putting itself persistently in the wrong. Nor is this the only matter in which the Republican leaders have blundered. The discussion on the Tariff Bill will not be soon forgotten. Although the statesmen and people of the United States have the elements of political economy yet to learn, the reckless attempt to enact prohibi tory duties has called attention to the sub ject, and has cast suspicion on the policy of a party which is accused on other and false grounds of being sectional in its sympathies, and of caring more for Northern predominance than for Southern restoration. But the last mis take is, perhaps, the worst. Just when' the FRB • siuryr, in pursuance of the fatal policy of the American Government, is dismissing from office on all hands the opponents of his plans, the Repub lican majority has descended to an act of retaliation which has upon it the stamp of meanness. The refusal of the salary of the Minister at Lisbon, because he had written foolishly in support of Mr. JOHNSON and against Congress, is one of those acts of spite which do more than any legislative mis takes to discredit the political party which com mits them. It shows the excited state of party feeling that such a proceeding as this should have been attempted. But no excitement would have betrayed a party which was wisely led into such a mistake as this. The Republican leaders are very THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1866. honest, earnest, and able ; but they are not I statesmen. A great party surely never had mare unworldly and impracticable leaders. With a' good cause, with the best strength of Northern opinion on its side, with a reconstruction policy which, as represented by the proposed Constitu- tionff Amendment, is both wise and just, and with' an overwhelming majority in Congress, it is in danger of serious defeat. The Confederate victor ries were won by the bad generalship of the earlier commanders of the loyal armies ; and if the Demo cratic party, and those who would support the PRESIDENT in bringing back the South without ! constitutional guarantees, gain a victory in the elections this autumn, it will be due, not to their own inherent strength, but to the bad generalship of the Republican leaders, and the consequent temporary demoralisation of the Republican forces. I It is evident that a serious crisis in the affairs of the Union has come. The political horizon is unquestionably darkening, but we think that the clouds which some of our contemporaries seem so much to dread, and of which our correspondent himself speaks so seriously, will pass away without the predicted storm. American politicians seem now as ready to believe in civil war as they were before the rebellion reluctant to believe in its pos sibility. Then an undoubting faith in the sta bility of the Unionounl an unwavering confidence in the peaceful evolution of its destinies, pos sessed all but a far-seeing few. The war destroyed this faith, and produced a reaction in the other direction. Hence the present talk of civil war. But, looking on from a distance which separates us from the passions which political conflict excites, we see as yet no signs of such a solution of the present difficulty. It is probable that Northern opinion may be seriously divided, and that the distrust the Republican leaders have so needlessly excited may seriously compromise the success of their reconstruction policy. But the worst result to be anticipated from the success of the Philadelphia Convention is the popular endOrsement of Mr. JouNsoN's pro-Southern plans. The South will fight hard to get back into the Union with all its old power intact, but it will not again rush into civil war. Mr. JorrNsoN will do all he can to help it, but he is not likely to resort to force. Little as he understands his Northern countrymen, ho knows at least their tenacity of purpose, and is in some degree aware of their invincible determi nation not to lose the results of the terrible sa crifices they have made to preserve the Union and to emancipate the slave. And there are sonic reasons which suggest, if they do not even justify, the expectation that the wretched general ship of the Republican leaders may not be entirely ruinous to the Republican cause, but that it will be in the electoral campaign as it was in the mili tary struggle that that cause will exhibit a surprising power of recovery because it represents, not the temporary mood of feeling, but the enduring con viction and settled purpose of the Northern People. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) ' menu, has given a hint which even King William, in, the Intoxication of success aad impunity, dares not neglait. The Tao; rag thinks that a European council can alone satidschwily deal with the existing di/Acuities. The pacific and moderate answer of the French Emperor will no doubt (says the Star) stultify these who have been looking sod longing for another war, who regard Napoleon as a kind of malicious ogre ready to dash to earth the hopes of peace just as they were on the point of fruition, and who imagine that he watches the events of Europe with the sole sinister design of aggrandising himself at the ex pense of others and in defiance of right and justice. Whether the Emperor acted wisely in putting forward a demand, even in deference to a certain kind of public opi nion in France, when he was not prepared to go the whole length which such a policy naturally indicated, is another question. Corning so sharply after the abortive cession of Venetia and the disregard of his mediation which both Prussia and Italy openly exhibited, the present result may be damaging to the popularity of the Emperor. Mistakes, like crimes, always conic home to roost. were is the Empress Charlotte of Mexico in Paris—the repre sentative ef one of the greatest failures King or Emperor ever made—a failure which has not only exposed French policy to derision abroad, but wbich seriously com promises the honour of the French army. Napoleon has committed the mistake of building up his dynasty upon the success of his foreign policy. The policy is all right enough so long as it is a BUCCCRA, and Napoleon has been very fortuate both in the causes he has adopted and the allies he has chosen. But when a blunder is made—when the time of retribution comes—it sinks deep into the heart of the people. Drawing a comparison between the British and Prussian armies, the Times observes that it is remarkable how closely the military forces of Prussia appear to resemble in numbers, constitution. and division the military forces of this country. A standing army of 200,000 men, supported by reserves of 3.50,000, would serve for a description of one establishment almost as well as of the other. It is only, however, on paper that this likeness can be traced. Prussia is poor ; she is not thickly peopled ; and her administration is one of the most frugal in the world. Yet from her population of, at most, 19,000,090, and at a cost of leas than 7,000,0007., without encroaching on the claims of industry, or deranging the conditions of social life, she can put into the field at the first call 500,000 soldiers who have not found their equals in one of the most famous armies of Europe. We ought to learn something from such a lesson. We have a population of 30,000,000, instead of 10,000,000 ; we have a revenue of 70,000,000/., instead of 20,000,0001.; and we spend upon our army 14,000,0001., instead of 7,000,0001. Havewe anything like proportionate results to show for these resources? The advantage on the side of Prussia is owing, in the opinion of the Tines, to the superior organisation of her reserve force. principle of a " rectification" would be received, and that if par impossible this demand were listened to, he would only accept the boon by way of instalment. As I have before submitted, the frontiers of 1814 would in no way add to the se curity or power of France, and would not weigh a feather in the scale of the equilibrium which, ac cording to the French argument, should be read justed for the benefit of France in a degree equivalent to its disturbance by the aggrandise ment of Prussia. At the Assize Court of the Aisne on August 11, a priest and schoolmaster, named Abbii Richer, aged 45 years, was tried with closed doors on a charge of having committed a series of assaults upon his pupils of a nature unfortunately not un common of late years. Being found guilty he was sentenced to imprisoment with hard labour fur life. At the same assizes another priest was tried for a similar offence, but the jury, against the strenuous exhortations of the public prosecutor and the summing up of the judge, acquitted him. The weather, though cold and cloudy, is rather better than it has been fur several days ; and some patches of blue sky towards noon seem to promise that the ftc will be spared rain. The doors of the theatres, where gratis performances begin at 1 o'clock, are not besieged by quite such great crowds as I have seen there on former years ; women fear to expose their toilettes to a shower. By the way, I observe that on the promenades winter rather than summer dresses predominate—a striking commentary on this exceptional season. The hulipendance of Brussels notices that since the return from Vichy the seizure of " many" foreign journals has been a leading feature in Paris news. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PRUSSIA AND BAVARIA. MUNICH, AUGUST 16. The official Bavarian Gazette of to-day says : " In reply to the assertions of several journals, we are in a position to state that the negotiations for peace between Bavaria and Prussia are being un interruptedly carried on." PRUSSIA AND RUSSIA. BERLIN, AUGUST 16. The mission of General Manteuffel to the Court of St. Petersburg is stated to have been attended with complete success. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, AUGUST 16. A split is about to take place in the Fortschritt party. A portion of the latter intends forming a separate fraction, whose policy will be more in harmony with that of the centre party. FRANCE AND ITALY. FLORENCE, AuGuar IG. The Nazione of to-day states that Baron de Malaret, French ambassador in this city, has left for the head-quarters of the Italian army with a letter from the Emperor Napoleon to the King of Italy. FRANCE. PARIS, Accicar 16. The Duke de Grammont, French Ambassador at Vienna, has been nominated a Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. Among other nominations are Captain Pigeard, attached to the French Embassy in London, to the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honour. M. Lenglet, French consul at Liverpool, to the rank of officer ; and M. Galignani, director of Galignant's Messenger, to that of chevalier. The Emperor has pardoned or commuted the sentences upon 859 military offenders. The Emperor's fete yesterday passed off very brilliantly. The weather was favourable, and the streets were thronged by immense numbers of people. The Moniteur of this morning publishes news from Tiflis announcing that part of the province of Daghestan had risen in insurrection. Reinforce ments of Russian troops had been sent to the va rious points where the risings had taken place. SPAIN. MADRID, AUOVST 15, Evningc. The Epoca denies that there is any foundation for the rumour that an English house had pro posed to Senor Bazanallana, Minister of Finance, a combination by which the English holders of certificates of the Spanish Debt would exchange them for scrip of the general debt of Spain. CANNIBALISM IN THE PACIFIC. PLYMOUTH, AUGVHT M. Advices received by the Norseman state that a boat's crew belonging to the French war steamer Fulton have been killed, cooked, and eaten by the natives of New Caledonia. The officers and crew of the Fulton, in retaliation, have taken summary vengeance upon the savages, killing every one they could catch in that neighbourhood and setting fire to their villages. Over 150 had been shot and bayoneted, besides those burnt. Dr. Colenso has prohibited clergymen from officiating in Maritzburg Cathedral who have not his license to officiate in the diocese. OVERLAND MAILS. MALTA, Avcrgr J. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN (HEAVY) MAILS. The Nyanza leaves at noon to-day. Sho may be expected at Southampton on the 24th inst. OLTWARD CALCLTTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Ceylon, from Marseilles on the 12th inst., arrived at 8 p.m., yesterday, and leaves at 4 p.m. to-day for Alexandria. MEXICO. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, AUGUST 15. Intelligence received here from Mexico an nounces that the liberals have occupied Tampico, Monterey, and Saltillo. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OUR OWN CORRENPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENINC. August 15 has arrived and the Mostittur makes no demonstration one way or the other about the " rectification of frontiers." Happily, however, signs multiply that the Emperor has renounced all thought of present war on the subject. This week a great many ministers and other official per sonages have been speechifying on the oc casion of the distribution of prizes to various colleges and lyceums, and one and all they seem to have received the mot crordre to preach peace. If war were brewing it is scarcely doubtful that their mission would have been to prepare the public mind for it. I can scarcely deem an exception to the general tenor of these speeches a discourse of M. Toussenel at the Polish school, in which he vaguely held out a hope that, at some indefinite time, the serious events now passing in the world might be providentially over ruled for the emancipation of Poland. Such pro mises, which Poland has been more than sufficiently used to, are cheap and easy and mean little. Marshal Valliant, the Minister of the Emperor's household and of Fine Arts, in distributing the prizes awarded to artists who exhibited this year, told them that the International Exhibition of 1867, which would include works of art executed within the last twelve years, would in no wise in terfere with the usual annual exhibition of French painting and sculpture. He concluded in these words : Prepare yourselves, therefore, for the great solemnity of next year, and be happy and proud that owing to the high influence which your sovereign exercises in the councils of Europe, France is about to celebrate the return of fruitful peace and the general revival of industry. _ _ _ - - This' speech, coming from a Marshal of France, and a Minister who more than any other is constantly near the Emperor's person, cannot but be received as gratifying confirmation of the official assurances that recent purchases of artillery horses and saltpetre mean no offence. Although I firmly believe the French government to have resigned all hope of increase of territory for the moment, it is not surprising that, the question having been mooted, the press should find good vacation provender in it. Pam phlets on the subject abound. One in particular, " Les Frontibres de la France," by M. Thdophile Lavalkie, has rapidly gone through several edi tions. From all that is said and written, it is abundantly clear that if, as generally rumoured, the Emperor has contented himself with asking for the frontiers of 1814, it was merely by way of experiment to see how the assertion of the R EM ARI Barometers in the north have fall ovvreast, with mlat in the soutb.we. coast!. The winds have returnsd to I to inereaie in strength, with rain. len considerably. The sh at and rain on our nortl )uth-west, sad appear likely THE REFORM LEAGLE.—A meeting of the Council of the League was held last evening, Mr. Edmond Beales, president, in the chair. The chairman gave a brief account of what he had witnessed in connection with the reform agitation in the provinces within the past week. He said the reception accorded to himself anti friends at Manchester, Bradford, Blackburn, and other places, was one of unmixed triumph and welcome. That reception had been given him as Presi dent of the Reform League, because the heart of the country was with the league, and its principles had been adopted by the great majority of Eng lishmen. Ho congratulated the council on this state of things, and upon the fact that the events of the last three or four weeks had advanced the cause of reform more than the events of the previous thirty years, and that Lon don was now in her proper position, in the front of the battle and at the head of the struggle for the emancipation of the great body of Englishmen from political serfdom. In conclusion, he impressed on all reformers to organise as rapidly as possible. After the dispo4al of sonic routine business the proceedings terminated. REFORM MEETING AT POPLAR.—Last evening a large meeting was held at the gates of the East India Docks to pass resolutions in favour of parliamentary re form. The chair was announced to be taken at 7 o'clock, and by that time about a thousand people had assembled, but in an hour the number had increased to three thousand. ' The persons present were, with few exception, artisans and , dock labourers, sober, quiet-looking men, who listened with the greatest silence and attention to the speeches which were delivered. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—Tho preparationa for the visit of the association to Nottingham are progres sing favourably. The public buildings of the town have been repainted and decorated. The flower-show, which is ' to be held in the park adjoining the town, will be ono of the meet striking events in connection with the associa tion's visit. More then 20,0001. worth of horticultural and floral productions will be shown. in the course of a few weeks a deputation, headed by the Mayor of Exeter, will formally invite the Council of the British Association to meet in Exeter in 1868 or 1869. A long subscription list shows how substantially the invitation will be backed, THE BRITISH ARCH/EOLOGICAL ANEOCIATION.- The annual gathering of the members and friends of this association will take place at the Castle, Hastings, on Monday next, when the Earl of Chichester, the president of the year, will deliver the inaugural address. Afterwards the company will proceed to an inspection of the castle and the antiquities of the town, under the guidance of Mr. T. H. Cole, Pd.A., and Mr. W. J. Grant. On Tuesday there will be an excursion to Rye, an examination of the church, the Ypres Tower gates, and other antiquities under the guidance of Mr. G. S. Butler, F.S.A. There will also be a visit to Winchilsea, where the church and friary, the gates, and other remains will be described by Mr. It. C. Stileman. On Wednesday the members will visit Hayti= Abbey, by permission of the Marquis Camden, and the Palace of the hbishops of Canterbury at May field, where the antiquities will be explained by Mr. Edward Roberts, F.S.A. On Thursday the members will visit Bodiam Castle, under the guidance of Mr. J. C. Savery, and Roberts-bridge Abbey and Battle Abbey, the seat of the Duke of Cleveland. The church will be commented on and explained by Mr. G. M. Wills. Mr. M. A. Lower, M.A., will give a description of the Battle field. On Friday there will be an excursion to Hurstmon ceux Castle and Church, with explanations by Mr. T. H. Cole, M.A. There will also be a visit to West H.am Church and Pevensey Castle and Church. On Saturday there will be a reception and entertainment at Lewes, by the Sussex Archaeological Society. A HINT FOR MR. WHALLEY.—We ETC somewhat surprised to find prevailing in the " S." district an opinion apparently the counterpart of what we usually regard as one of the most objectionable tenets of the Roman catholic body. Such, at all events, was the spontaneous expres sion of our lips • day or two since, on seeing the walls round the Elephant and Castle ado rned with • placard stating that the Walworth Amateur Horticultural Society will hold its annual show in • few days " under the pa ra n of the tote Viscount Palmerston and the late Sir Joseph Paxt o n." The Italia are those of the writer of this oolumn.—Guartlials. . . THE PRESTON BANKING COMPANY.—Yesterday before the chief clerk of Vice-Chancellor Stuart, there were two summonses in the matter of the Preston Banking Coni dany. There were other summonses manacled with several public companies under the Winding-up Act, and the officer was engaged several hours. During the present month the Idaster of the Rolls will act 'a the " vacation judge" in chancery. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. Referring to the American mission to the Czar of Russia the Past says there are certainly some very obvious points of material resemblance between " the great Empire of the East" and the "great Republic of the West." The ties which bind them together are of such a nature as to ensure their being regarded with Satisfaction by their neighbours, and it is with out the shade of any feeling of jealousy or appre hension that European powers, and England especially, will view the continued existence of a good understanding between the two great and young nations which aro out lying, as it were, to the centres of civilisation ; and with views so liberal as those entertained by the Czar, and ideas S o progressive as those current in the United States re acting one upon the other, the influence of the reppr-oxhc• mint between the two governments may be confidently ex pected to be productive of lasting good to the world. on the suggested annexation of Mysore the Daily .N sea concludes a long article by observing that the petition presented to parliament by Mr. Mill, and the letter of Mr. Culdwin Smith, whose powerful intercession will secure bins the lasting gratitude of all interested in the welfare of India, show that public attention is at last being amused to the Mysore case, and that Lord Cranborne will not want influential support in his resolution to oppose the annexation policy of Calcutta. Commenting on the address of Mr. Eyre on leaving Jamaica the Times observes:—Noliody doubts that the insurrection in Jamaica was vigorously and successfully suppressed, and nobody doubts that the mewls which were taken were such as to lead to that success. The only question is whether those means were all of them legitimate, an I this question Mr. Eyre does not meet. There certainly was a confusion in his mind, and there is a confusion still, between what is effec tive in rittine_; clown an insurrection and wlnt is legal. No amount of sympathy for Mr. Eyre, and no gratitude for the conspicuous benefits in which his energetic course resulted, can mske the Timor forget that some of his steps were serious offences against both law and justice. Cite Court. osnonNE. Arcusr The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with Princess Louise, and walked in the grounds this morning with her royal highness. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice went out also. The Princess of Wales, in addition to the gift of :,Of. to Mrs. Gladstone's Convalescent Home for Children, has sent sev , ral cases of mu-de-cologne and a quantity of flowers for the use of the cholera patients at the London Hospital. The Princess also sent letters expressing her deep sympathy with the sufferers. His Grace the Archbishop of York and family have taken apartments at the Langham Hotel. The Duke of Devonshire has arrived at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, from Holkar Hall, near Milnethorpe. Lancashire. Lord and Lady Frederick Cavend6h have joined the party staying with his grace. The Marquis and Marchioness Townshend have left Italia Park on a visit to tli, Earl and Countess of Fife at Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire. The 'Manlius of Hartington, 'M.P., has arrived at Bolton Atitivy from visiting the Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson at Bishopthorpe, the archiepiscopal residence, near York. The E trl and effintteis of Bcssborough have left town for Huston, Derbyshire, for a few weeks, and then go to Ireland : . . . _ Lord Brabazon arrived in town last evening from Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Morant have been entertaining a select party at Drokenhurst Park, Hants. Signor 13rignoli has left Cataldi's Hotel for Tun bridge Wells. The Garter vacant by the death of the Marquis Camden will (says the Times) be given to the Duke of Rutland. We ( Times) have much pleasure in announcing that her Majesty has been pleased to confer the honour of knighthood upon Mr. Baker, the African traveller, and that of Commander of the Bath upon Captain Grant, of the Bombay army, the companion of Speke in his African expedition. The Dean of Canterbury (Dr. Alford) has con sented to preach at the consecration of the three Bishops of Nelson, Dunedin, and Grafton, on St. Bartho lomew's day. Cardinal Cullen arrived in Dublin yesterday morning, and presided during the day at the religious ceremonies in Marlborough-street cathedral. The Lceb Mernery'announces that the Earl of Shaftesbary has accepted the office of President of the Social Science Association, which has been held since its establishment by Lord Brougham„ Mr. Eyre, ex-gorernor of Jamaica, has accepted an invitation to a banquet at Southampton on Tuesday next. _ _ Yesterday a religious service took place at the Copperas-hill Chapel (the Roman catholic cathedral of Liverpool) on the occasion of the Fete Napoleon. THE STRATHSPEY GATHERING. The annual gathering of the Strathspey Highlanders for athletic sport., under the patronage of the Earl and Countess of Seafield, was held at Castle Grant, on Friday. The mustering of the clans from Cromdale, Inverallen, Aber nethy, and Duthil, took place in the Court-house, Gran town, about noon ; after which a procession was formed, and, headed by a number of pipers, proceeded to Castle Grant, where they were welcomed by Lord and Lady Sea field, Lord Reidhaven, General Sir Patrick Grant, and others. Notwithstanding the unfavourable weather, the several competitions were entered into with great spirit. Putting the stone, throwing the hammer, and leaping were somewhat inferior to former years, which was no doubt to be attributed in a great measure to the bad day. The dancing was excellent. Among the spectators present were the Earl and Countess of Seafield, General Sir Patrick Grant and Miss Grant, Lord Reidhaven, Hon. George Grant of Ekhies, Mr. William Brown, Linkwood ; Mrs. Bryson, Cullen-house ; Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Inver -alien, itc. PRINSIA AND THE FRENCH DEVAND. Tho Emperor Napoleon, observes the Times, has disappointed the lovers of mischief. lie has given the world the welcome assurance that " the good relations between Prussia and France shall in no case be distut bed." The Emperor professes to have put forward his claims merely out of deference to what he looked upon as public opinion in France. He might with greater pro priety have said, out of regard for a restless and exacting opposition. Tho Emperor only wished to put the illiberal theories of the " libend " opposi tion to the test of the popular sense. For his own part, he bad no doubt on the subject. His own real mind was revealed yeaterds.7 and the Times has n o doubt public opinion will ardently support him. There is now no longer any check upon the great career of Count Bis marck. With such a hurricane of good luck as Count Bismarck commands no man ever sailed. Yet at the moment which is to crown the work of years his heart, it seems, Wine what misgives hint. There is a hitch somewhere. The bill for the annexation of the conquered Northern States is not forthcoming. The action of the government is paralysed by the influence of " some illustrious personage at court." In other words, the softer nature of tLe sove reign resists the iron will of the minister. The Time hopes that the golden opportunity may not be suffered to escape ; that the mover of the great enterprise may not shrink back from that craven word " impossible.'' The views of the great statesman of lte;ll should aim at somewhat higher than the mean Kleist-Deutschland policy of the Erfurt Assembly of 1849. It is not the annexation of half Hanover or all Cassel to Prussia that is worth all the bloodshed through which Count Bismarck has waded to his present supremacy. It is the merging of Prussia in Germany, the constitution of a great and strong comma ! pity, the work of a Cavour on an infinitely larger scale. Men who undertake such a task as Count Bistitarck's cannot afford to go back, much less to stop half-way. Had Count Bismarck, says the Daily News, failed in any one of his designs ; had he wasted the blood of his countrymen and the honour of the state for insufficient or unworthy objects, to divert the public mind from his domestic policy or to minister to the restless vanity of a military caste ; had he brought disaster or disgrace upon his country's flag, he could never again, with all his auda city, have faced the representatives of the people. That in the hour of his triumph be has advised the sovereigu to come down to the Lower Hoase and propose an indemnity to the crown for the past, which shall be also a security to the parliament for the future, is, ou the face of it at least, an act not so much of gracious conde scension as of sovereign magnanimity, which only envious rivals will reject. If it was a comedy, it was one of those comedies which are only played in madhouses. The Daily News has too much faith in Count Bismarck's acuteness and foresight to distrust his mean ing when he committed his sovereign to an irrevocable avowal of responsibility ; and it is too well persuaded of the discernment and discretion of the constitutional liberal party in Prussia to doubt that they will meet the King in no paltry or resentful spirit, and will seize gladly this unique opportunity of consolidating free institutions which are stronger national frontiers in the nineteenth century than a line of border fortresses or a mountain chain. The Herald is of opinion that a little persistence on the part of the French Emperor may gain Saarlouis from Prussia, or even Landau from Bavaria and the two frontier towns from Belgium. The Prussian government is said to have declared that it will not yield an inch of German soil to the foreigner. The Herald does not imagine that the Emperor Napoleon will go to war about it, but cannot help thinking that it would be politic on the part of King William to yield this trifling point and avoid future cause of disputes and discontents which may ripen into war. There are Frenchmen who maintain that Saarlouie is not ! German soil but French, that it was French from the time of Lou. XIV. to 1815 ; and the Herald thinks it may be French again without injury to Prussia or loss to the German Fatherland. It is satisfactory to the Telegraph to observe that en affair which at one time appeared to assume formidable dimensions has been settled, and the public mind will thus be relieved from much of the anxiety which not un reasonably affected it. Vagueness and uncertainty are, however, the characteristics of the existing state of affairs throughout Europe, and the peace now promised bears en unpleasant resemblance to those settlements which leave everything more unsettled than they found them. As an instance of the difficulties that may arise at any moment, the Telegraph points to the delay which has arisen in the presenting the bill for annexation to the Prussian chain. ben. This means, the Telegraph supposes, that Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt, who has arrived in Eerlin on a visit to his brother-in-law, the Crown Prince of Prussia, has been pleading for his threatened inheritance in the Grand Duchy, and that the fiat for its absorption is for the present stayed. It may further mean that Russia, who has also something to say about the little principality, and has nearly a million of bayonets to support her us- TILE NEW ORLEANS MASSACRE. The New Yorl.• Tribune, of August 4, publishes the following letter from General Sheridan to General Grant, with the prefatory explanation that General Sheridan was absent from New Orleans wdien the disturbances commenced in that city : New Orleans, August 1, 1.30 p.m. Gen. U. S. Grant, iVaahington, D. C. You are doubtless aware of the ;serious riot which oc curred in this city on the 30th ult. A political body, styl ing itself the Convention of 1864, met on the 30th for, as it is alleged, the porpoise of remodelling the present con stitution of the state. The leaders were political agita tors and revolutionary men, and the action of the con vention was liable to produce breaches of the public peace. I had made up my mind to arrest the head men if the proceedings of the convention were calculated to disturb the tranquillity of the department, but I had no cause for action until they committed the overt act. About forty whites and blacks were killed, and about IGO wounded. Everything is now quiet, but I deem it best to maintain a military supremacy in the city for a few days, until the affair is fully investigated. I be lieve the sentiment of the general community is great regret at this unnecessary cruelty, and that the police could have I made any arrest, if they thought fit, without sacrificing lives. P. H. SHeRIDAN, Major-Gen. Commanding. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 8 B.N. V. Extreme. Sea, B. T. W. iW , W. .11 t to 121 F. D. 9. Nairn Aberdeen Leith 2l 66 63 &W. 1 5 W. or 1 Ardrossan 49.5154 B.W. 8 7 S.W. cr 0.20 0 Crecucastle 29.5951 W. 4 5 W. N. W. rc 0.12 3 Valentin 29.88 88 N. 1I 2 S.W. Sc 2 Cape Clear 29.84 50' N.W. 5I 3 N. W. hm 4 Liverpool Holyhead Penzance 2./.94 591 W. 3 4 N. W. mit 2 Brest Lorlent 29.90 59 S.W. S 4 W. o 2 Rochefort 10.04 Z. 0I 1 N.W. co 2 Plymouth Weymouth 19.86 50' W.S.W. 8I 4 W. co 3 Portsmouth 29.50 65 : S.W. 3, 3 I W.N. W. o Loudon Yarmouth 29.84 57 B.W. 2 3 N. N. W. o —I 1 Scarborough 29.69 85 S.W. 2 1 SE. co 2 Shields 2_9.86:A N.W. 14 ' 2 N. W. c —, 2 Helder - - INQUEST ON A GAROTTER.—(THI3I74;-•.) This forenoon Mr. John Humphr ey' • coroner, held an inquest at the Green l at e , tire to the death of Wm. Symons, aged 51 ye sr ,74. l Eiretenlodfroamftereleocitenimmitntangt' upon garotte being ro c b 6a b ery square. Three persons were oomeerned in th e "a d .... ik mimed and another man whom the pr osect i;;' , o 4 • *se, and a woman named A n she is a butcher's wife, but is behoved t o b e thief : _ _ Elizabeth Symons, Kell-street, Dover-road, „ her husband was a dyer. He left home on Tooft, 4 something. He said that he was going ow* 1 " with a friend. He did not tell her the nam e d e t r i :" l . he never told her unless it was aometlung heard since from a Mrs. Butler, who sal f ro lVil' 8 bury-market, that her husband had got into de died. She knew nothing of the other p ence' Witness had a very bad memory, in oani egft , s 7.4 shock to her nerves. Thomas Hainan, 207 G, said that &bolt 1 o'flo t i Wednesday morning he was on duty in Filiehary.ta, and he was speaking to a brother constabl e , o h,„ heard some one running along. Prese n tl y a rms.—. running, and amrently in a great fright liVi i . 4 7l " Hallo ! What is the matter t' The mss la l4 ja, been stopped by some persons and lobbed." left, up his hand and said " Hush !" for be hunt ', oft °. Then up came two men and a woman. When sight of the police they separated and na avail robbed man said, " That man," pointing to the " is the one that searched my pockets with 'ft ft . Witness thereupon ran down Market - street ah oi - ii7 ceased, and succeeded in overtaking him. Be lom: said, " What do you want with me !" WADI. ' ai m want you for robbing a man." The deemed " Oh, it was not me—l know nothing about it." jft` that moment the other constable came up with 0,,, n 2 in custody, and the prosecutor also came u p. Tft', cuter said, ' " He is tho man. It was he that 'gi ft ''' . and said, Let the have it,' while th e oli o 61 me, and the woman and this nun robbed me 7, deceased seemed to be struck all of a heap , by t i j io ,7! began to pu ff and blow. Witness said, ' Au! wind gone bad It was all right enough just '.% you were running after this lean." Wham tuft" along the City-road towards the station ;on the fth reeled, and ultimately he fell. Witness got less iatt assist him in cal ryinx the deceased to the Wonhigo ft station, where be died immediately on being s o ft & No violence was offered him. Thomas Capes, 89, Mape-street, Bethnal-grem odd just after 1 o'clock on Wednesday morning he mssftftil and robbed in Finsbury-square by two men sad a Wei One of the men held him by the throat from Ishii", other, the deceased, examined his waistcoat poet s ', the woman tore open his trousers pockets, and teat di. from it,. 6d. Witness was then knocked don, o ft lost his senses. When he got nip he ran after theme% and fell in with the police. No violence was due% deceased by either witness or the police. A carter named Hughes also deposgal that DO isiviN inflicted on the deceased. Mr. G. Yarrow, surgeon, said that be was cilledteti station at Worship-street, and found the deemed fat There were no marks of violence apparent. The mortem examination showed that there vas a "Oat a vessel on the brain and that the surface of tie p a was covered with blood ; the lunge were emoted, oAs wise the body was in a healthy state. H e a death to rupture of a vessel on the brain from exeitua Police-constable Hainan said that the deemed seo quite light of the whole affair until the worm se brought up in custody. He then began st axe talk; for breath. _ _ Elizabeth Symons moaned, said that her hushisdhl only once before been in custody, and then only fora* He wax let home the same evening. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a verdict " That deceased died bm effusion of blood on the brain from natural causes elm citement." TiTetieceaseirs male companion has not yet to arrested. He could have been arrested aloud with tie deceased, but that the prosecutor said that he meld id identify him, as he assailed him from behind. Theme no doubt of the guilt of the individual in the deenseh company, however, as when he sighted the policemed a Finsbury Market, he went across the road in two boob, and made off as fast as his legs could carry km ACCIDENT TO A SKIPTON EXCURSION 224 THIRTY PERSONS INJURED. Yesterday morning, shortly before 9 o'clock, excursion train from Skipton to Windermere emu • collision with a number of waggons laden with Ma standing on the down line, about half a mile Iran ti Caruforth Station on the London and North Weste Railway. The Skipton train left Lancaster shoat F. a.m., and on liaising Carnforth Station was proceed*. the rate of ten to twelve miles an hour. At the leide• the north of Carnforth Station a danger signal was oil bited, but the driver of the excursion train did notpenn it, and passed through the station. On nearing the bet where the Wennington and Carnforth Railway amuse London and North-Western the driver saw, akeeth yards before him, a number of waggons laden with is ore. He reversed the engine and applied the hit but before the speed of the train mkt a perceptibly lessened, the passenger train ran into waggons, the engine jumping, as it were, with I fore wheels right on to the hindmost *gnu number of the passengers, at the time of the having hail their attention drawn to the diger by I shrill whistle of the engine, hail their heeds cot el a windows of the carriages, and the consequence ruts several of than receivcd injuries on the head. Is violence of the collision threw the passengers within force against one another, or against the opposite 11Si the compartments of the carriages, and upwards of * persons were more or less 1 ruined ; some with wit knocked out, others with bruises and cur ea the head, and two or three complained of interralbera Medical assistance was immediately obtained, Lei • wounded were conveyed by special train to Lam* where every possible assistance was reudered. Their* ing persons were amongst those more seriously mink- Miss Elizabeth Carradice, Austinwiek, Clapham Hutchinson, Miss Jane Crau, and Mr. Win. Greesset Settle ; Mr. Thos. Fisher, Mr. Perfect, Mrs. and MAW nett, Skipton. Mr. Chris. Baylis, Skiptou,sligbt l 3 tag and shaken. The engine of the passenger tram ball smashed and rendered useless was removed, the OA* broken waggons were quickly cleared away, and stir I delay of a couple of hours those of the exeurekeditren were uninjured were taken on to Winderruena. By eid may almost be considered a miracle, the driver, theeet remained on his engine, escaped with a slight wild; stoker jumped off before the collision occurred. --14* Mercury. ACCIDENT TO LORD LYTTF.LTON.- 011 MO*, evening, about half-past nine o'clock, bud Lyttelteso party were returning to Hagley in his lordship's privateo riage, and when about a hundred yards past Kr. Hemio lodge, between Bewdley and Kidderminster, the PO lion managed to drive the carriage on to the Napa de, was ordered to stop. and some of the partl led l remonstrated with and had the carnage disma into the middle of the road. When all were e, and ready to start, the horses becam e matiee, inn stead of proceeding towards Kidderminster, lacked. in the whole party, carriage, the horses, and all radial! the ditch, breaking the carriage pole, and tuning carriage on its side against the bank and the Itagl on the other side of the ditch. The whole pert ,n ll quickly thrown over, or got over into the hedge OT on the other side of the ditch without receiving any leierf . , except a few scratches. The horses having been ezu a mw from the ditch with some difficulty, lights and a strort. were procured, and plenty of strength being at hand.m. carnage was hauled out of the ditch in to the road ci sP fresh horses were procured, and a carriage polecs ll.l of M the party enin who g,of had spri remained behindng-grove,whenh pro 05 puta lortlahip e r t d o Higley about 11 o'clock. Considering the ds?‘ 1111 nature of the place where the accident occurred, It Re! a , marvellous that all should have escaped without men injuTy ; but the bank and strong hedge peewee's''' . carriage rolling over, and thus doing further ninehtet lordship was proceeding from seen Solara to his wet Bagley-hall—Birmingham Gazette. ALARMING EXPLOSION OP GAS.—Last night cos siderable alarm was caused in the neighbourhood of glee!! bury-square by a loud explosion in the house of St CI; wick, the well-known tragedian, being !Cc 8 ' j og square. It appears that one of the burners of the ohs in the studio or back parlour had been left on, end aka the metre was turned to supply the other portion house, the gas escaped, accumulated in a dense bodlfe; the ceiling, and rapidly descended towards th e There were at the time only two persons in clun e , the building, viz., the cook and her Mee. The icT a ' on going into the room for the purpose of lightisd A chandelier, struck a Weller match ; and the rooreeet_., did so the gas beams fruitful, and exploded with la rt.,; her howa noise, knocking down the cook, scor chin g ing out some windows, forcing down the plastc and scattering about some valuable pictures. Bench, who promptly arrived with the with B°6 2„l'se cape from the Bloomsbury station with lleSt o naged to turn the gas off from the main, sad " damage was done. W A,OVE Ts d PREPARATIONS FOR THE NE Jeunce.—Yeeterday, nearly bflo persons, adtlits_r so k dren, who had resided in Ship-yertli red Pr place, in compliance with notices received from __,„4 leety's Commisedoners of Works and Buildingii. T .74 from their dwellings, which are required for the stela new Courts of Justice. Some of the pereme2ll era received compensation in sums ranging be ll ' • g od the amount depending upon wharther tbek J AI shops or moms. Many cases of poeubl e _inTo occur in the eviction of a clams of hard working _r" are trious persons who rent furnished rooms. cr " n its who reside in lodging-houses. Such person , e xe _ f bac titled to com pensation under the act. The rent o in other places hie bask increased f ully 50 per eept" COM . Ur. Comunsuor s h o o his vacation vas H ono ur will r the Ga the Ist of October w ill be resumed b The business d / as sure of sufficie CENTRA Waller Wisteo , w e dsroday of a r moths Hunt, Ivo Tbe learned juo s i o sod of very e an d but for th. use passed a mu wa s about to infl servitude for the Ihrato Lorenzo, with feloniously murder him. Mr. Daly pr?" The proisCutor If division, and i July he was on d oli&-highway, w other persons eta and making a not to go away, and sad asked him to goner drew a kn the prosecutor s While this was g to the proneentm was about to stal sad at the same his belly. He tl Into cruahalY. worse for layer prisoner said he not know what t lawfully wound lobour. Edward Rirh( assaulting Jolui watch. Mr. Thompsoi the prisoner. This was rath polioe-oonstable appeared that he was in High. saw the prison and appenntly eermd what Int went up to thi polios-oonsteble custody for of he said this game?" and broke it from who ran off wit secure the prim once, struck t bold of him an, with great viol upon the byes so. Fortunate on, another c secured. bir. Griffiths the defence. merely been • that the watot and strongly bility that the be knew to lx The Record' The jury, of time, expresse an hour, and prisoner Guilt Evidence w known thief, felony, and eighteen monk liberty twent; committed. The prism vitude. Thome, & appeared to Society for tl Lim with ill work. Mr. Love, • case of a 1 owners. 01, only fit fur I than lcnacke they attracti tion that tl ultimately could be eve " dodge" wi mrril on than hiring willing enou however, th , posing a per animal Ti circumstanc unfitness o monstrated knew the 1 u it fo tlt 4 he soul would have following di Mr. Cur Frederick the state of aged, and c The deft!' day after tl Mr. Flow COMMITTAL Men Col ocarg_;l ;wi; Mr. Willie the King' St Luke's, John Croft, 16 with Mk house of street; &I r a t About • prisonen mill-stre I follow bfatidox the door they all where t time. before 1 Iry‘l'