The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-24 00:00:00

OUR EN'S THE AT 88, Long-acre. Nuaties—mr. W. R. liffrOPl. Talt LANCAAIIIIIII Lift hr Mew I. Bina. Menke Mon received threughout Its performance with the greatest embo dies. W crowded and matted atehentee. will be repeated HYMNS WEN IND, eta quarter to cenelelhig peeetaellr et IL MAE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. " The demonstrations In favour of • Vise Lancashire Law are loud and unanimous."—Tiresa FPE LANCASHIRE LASS. .At other times the enthusiasm Wird op beyond oontrol. and borate of applimar, sheers. and mamas of handkendtiefs the sumer of the hero &ad hemine."—Tbe Echoed from welt. THE LANCABHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. "The pave =it was erred rely aoted. and the sen sational netarnot the keeps the makes. in • perpetual Wate of exciteuwnt.' • —M London News. ----- VitLANCASHIRE LAB3B, at a quarter to 8. e plot la edertive sad dmialib. mama with highly dramatic deats which create inti, !amid. baskiddied by dadalleat seaserr."—Weekly Thom TiIBLANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8 . One some, when • river of oar appears to float fret* on the Adige. created • .form of applauge 'The leneashire Loa' will enjoy • lengthened ran.' —Stagnated Sporting Menu - - THE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. Byres; wee reeelle4 sod bowed his edmowledgmente said vookwoue °beer. how ail wane at tire theidae."—dtandard. LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8 . T i . [E 40. fie second repreeentation woe received with even greater s pplanee then on the evening of twodneilon." — DellY Tolonvenh. TIPOYAL ALHAMBR B o n goLACß.—Three .11A. Ballt& PrOCAPD•4O ()mood. Kt Begin at Bonollee open hem 11 to 6. WILLI CIIIITON and SON, SATS and arn R wricumea lADIEW UNDERCLOTHING. al and 11. OEFORDETRZILT. - 'OEN BROODEN'S CLABI3IC JEWELRY• _ pAutis XIRST-ClAtiti SLUNK 1131 _ JOHN DROGDEN'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROODER'S BRACELETS• *OIIN BROODER'S BROOCHES. .OHN BROGDEN'S G OB. EM sad WEDDING RIN JOHN BROODEN'S NECKLAC] JOHN BROGDENS EARRINGS. itaINAL GOLD CHAIN MANITIPACTORY. NO. 16, HFSIMIITA-STREBT, Covent- Auden. NEWTON WILSON and Co.'s SEWING MACHINES. PARIS EXHIBITION TWO PRIZE KILDA'S. NEW HAND MACHINES. QUEEN MAB. CLEOPATRA, HAND LOCK DORRAIIk AND PENELOPE. The only handerving thee that Wive prise medal& The Amerman button-hole, eyelst.hole, overeeaming machine. tor the dna time the complete combination of a genies and buttorehole machine. WAN 1N buttes-holes per hoar. and &sore in a inmate to plain sewing. Illoetrated 01114100101 tree.-IM. High Welborn : 144. Chaspeide sea Redentetreet. D AIL Y N E W S. PRICE ONE PENNY. SCALE OF CHARGES FOS AD' PEOBPECTCBEB of NEW coml./arra. 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A CRAIITII4D PAIR.—AFTER DARR: A ALB OF LONDON LIFE. Mr. Vining, Mesas. Walter Limy, Dooxioark Murray. Montarue, Mot*, kc. ; Misses ILarstonaad Leclercq.—And DIABTER JoNk;Sli BIRTHDAY. QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-A1:23. Manager, Mr. W. H. Luton. Tam Evemwo, at 7, IM '8 A LUNATIC. At 7.4a . T t /I . E , LANCASHIRE LASS. Masora B. Emery, H. Irwmg, , W. H. Stephens, C. Wyndham W. H. Montgomery, L. }hough, aad H. Mellon; Mesdames H. Hodson, Montague, and N. Ware. STRAND. Tios Evaxtwo, PIPTERLY SKEVICE.-7113 MILD OP 7E3 MOTE OP GOLD.—And MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. BRITANNIA. Tots Eviirtwo, THE TERROR OF LONDON. Mews. Wy fluids, Climittm.:Bigwood, Ste.; Meleclames M. Hesaanon, Annt &c.— r. H. Rickards; Niel Orville Parker. —And THE DEAD RECKONING , . Pitt, Bell, &e.; Covetter. MOB WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. To-D4v —Morning, rb. 14m Afternoon, Cb. 37m. Tu-bl.naow —Morning, 76. Om -Afternoon, 7h. -`73m. NOTIM Nonce of MITER, MAIIMAOIII, Mid DIATOM. Sae received until If o'clock for kokitios woo maim Rico fa Id. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 24. ELECTION ADDRESSES. ELECTION addresses are not a very lively species of periodical literature at any time. Just now a good many of the old clap-traps have necessarily disappeared from the professions of faith of the candidates. They have served their time ; a new parliamentary era demands a new set of catch-words promising everything and signifying nothing. On both sides a lack of precision may be noted in the addresses ; yet on the whole there ie a welcome freehness in the announcement of questions ripe for legislation. Among these, education and the abolition of sectarian testa at the Universities are deservedly prominent. In many of the addresses, however, these questions are approached in a vague, obscure, and tentative manner, as if the candidate had no opinions of his own beyond the embryonic stage. This is par ticularly observable with regard to the question of primary education. All candidates, Conserva tive and Liberal alike, protest their anxiety to abolish intellectual pauperism, but by what central or local machinery, and whether by assisting voluntary efforts, or by superseding them, remains to most of them a problem. All, or nearly all, the Liberal candidates, have made up their minds that the rate-paying clauses of the last Reform Act must be abolished. Here and there a candidate talks of " modifying" them, while he urges that the grossest ano malies in the distribution of electoral power have yet to be removed. It is perhaps by his declara tions on the subject of the ratepaying and redis tribution clauses of the last reform Act that the quality of a candidate calling himself Liberal can be most easily ascertained. There is, however, the Leger and still more decisive test of hii decla rations regarding the Irish Church. Liberal-Con servatives--as candidates who have not the courage to be the one or the other describe themeelves--are quite ready to admit the necessity for large reforms in the Irish Church, and to act upon the advice of the -Royal • Ceinassion. whose report is not yet published. The Liberal, pure and simple, declares rasolutely for dieestablish nt and disendowment, with due considera tion of coarse of vested intimate, and' for' the equal diseauk)wment of all recognised forms of religious faith in Ireland. With a viow to carry this policy into offset, such a candidate promises emphatically and distinctly to follow the acknowledged leader of the Liberal party—Mr. GLADSTONE. It is not altogether estisfitFterithat the m'edantiala9 l a Liberal oandi dkte afibuld dopehd on bit o*Saal allegiance to a particular leader. .Brincipla!, not ,per- Ow; dais true 1, Al 44 doctrine. •At last general.. election . this . -dOctrine was thrust aside to clear the way for Lord ratantuarairc-and steady thrLtherkl party has expiated the folly of swearing by the ame of a man. Had Lord PaucaparON, in ritope name the - igeotion was 'fottghi .Qy Liberal party. liied to lead a Howie of personal followers, the party Anight•have remained In power, but whore ' would be the cause? The coming election will re semble the last iii being fouglit by the Liberals is the liaMe - df Otte mm. But the contrast betweqe the two occasions will be fai more striking than . the.aalogy. It wee beoawie Load PALMERSTON represented no principle, but rather the absence or the abeyanceblrprinciple, that ho rallied a majo rity liberal in name only, and doomed to fall to pieces at his disappearance from the scene. It is because Mr. CiLanscrottz personifies great prin ciples and .a clear policy of action, that if the con stituencies are true to themselves his name will rally a majority of Liberals whose fidelity and firmness he can count upon in strict party con - testa. Independent members who claim to serve no master and to follow no loader, may be harm less, if not valnale, whilst the party to which they pretend to belong is without a real policy or a real canoe. But when the ranks are closed and the battle is in earnest such independence is more properly called desertion, and deserves the dear.: ter's punishment at the hustings. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1868. A CAPITAL EXAMPLE. Ix the retrospect of the commercial disasters of the last two or three years it has often boon re marked that their history affords a painful de cadence of commercial honour ; and foreign newspapers have occasionally written as though the high character for probity, long the boast of mercantile England, had been irrevocably lost. That this was an exaggerated view of the matter could never be doubted by those who were well acquainted with their countrymen. The fine gold might appear dimmed, but the metal was still genuine. A pleasing illustration of this fact is now afforded in a letter from Mr. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, which will be found in another column. During part of the speculative period which culminated in such terrible mercantile losses Mr. STUART WORTLEY held the post of Governor of what appeared for a time one of the most pros perous comraercialundertakingseverlaimched. The Credit Foncier Company was not merely rich in itself, but, according to its Managing Director and his colleagues, it had found the philosopher's atone, by means of which multitudes were to reap boundless wealth. One curious and vicious blot in the arrangements for this purpose was, that the Directors and their chief, Mr. ALBERT GRANT, in whom his colleagues placed unlimited confidence, should be paid by commissions as well aa salaries ; and immense sums were divided by them in consequence. At length the truth was revealed, and it was dis covered that monstrous " profits" are not to be bad without corresponding risks. The whole fabric toppled down and left multitudes in the dust of financial ruin. Under these circumstances, an appeal was lately made by a contemporary to the directors to disgorge commissions which had not been fairly earned, and Mr. JAMES STUART WORTLEY has responded to this appeal by announcing his intention to make restitution to the full extent of his commissions, viz., 18,0001. With such a fact in view, who shall say that commercial morality is extinct % ANARCHY' IN LONDON. IT seems to be a growing fashion in London to waylay and rob chance passengers in broad day light and in the open street. The number of thieves captured bears such a small propor tion to the number of robberies committed that the prospect of punishment ceases to be an appreciable element in the aggregate of chances. Nor are we at all sanguine as to the probability of the metropolitan police system undergoing that thorough reorganisation which can alone make it adequate to the demands which the size of London and the character of the population now make on it. As long as Londoners go on complaining of every separate inconvenience they have to suffer, instead of concentrating their exertions on the one radical evil from which all the others spring there is no chance of things being better. Why are the citi zens of Manchester or Liverpool better cared for than we are Simply because they have a govern ment, and we have none. The citizens of London, using the term in its true sense, not in that conventional application which restricts the name to the inhabitants of a small district east of Temple-bar, have only Parliament to turn to in their troubles. Now Parliament only sits for half the year, and while it is sitting it has the business of the whole empire to see to. Is it likely that each a body will have either time or thought to spare during the session for the woes of a man who fell among thieves during the recess ? It cannot and ought not to have anything of the kind, and it is quite justified in concluding that, so long as Londoners do not demand self-government they cannot be seriously dissatisfied with their posi tion. If the people who keep up a constant stream of lettere complaining now of being robbed, now of being cheated, now of being poisoned, now of suffering some other inconvenience in pocket or person, would combine to agitate for a muni cipal organisation which shall embrace the whole of London and take under its charge all the multiform objects now imperfectly provided for by all kinds of subordinate bodies, we should have some hope of London becoming the healthy, hand some, and generally habitable city which nature designed it to be. Till people learn this lesson we are cruel enough to hope that not one of the vagaries they now complain of will be in the least abated. REGISTER LISTS. Twit law which requires that the list of persons eligible as voters should be affixed to church doors was made, there can be no question, for purposes of publicity. But the very object of the regula tion is nullified by the stupid habit which prevails either of locking churchyard gates or the outer gate opening into the church porch. The list, no doubt, is duly posted on the doors, but as during six days out of seven no one can approach near enough to read it, it can scarcely be said that the object of the law is attained. Indeed, we have little doubt that an action brought against the churchwiidens of a parish would prove be; yond dispute the illegality of the praotioM I It has been suggested by correspondents that the register lists should ozbibiSsi at Ogg police vtictitioa, - and the' proposal: appearc-imolotiable enough, but it is not reasonable that voters and parishioners should submit to ssesseless obstruc tion caused by pariah officials. Nrbynot lose the Hata at the police-station and on the ()lurch door also P At present our churches arc for the most part useless during the greater portion of each week instead of. .being *brown open is dlt wha : ' wish to enter them, whether for rest, for worship, 9r for 02904; kit v.:s lsvc,A, lead right of &cosi Co our &hurok tlikorii, and this right it mily be as well to maintain. OUR CONVIMPOR4RIXEL - • (HIB. DAY.) • MOMS TAX kIifT7UXIL The Times remarks upon the discrepancies in the income tax Marna just published, which. are Referred in Raturdayls Expreu, but attributes the great falling off in the higher classes of incomes to the disastrous com mercial crises of last year. Altogether, however, the re turns are assuring, as indicative that the great pyramid !mined by the classes who pay direct taxes to the state is ever widening its base, and from its increasing extent and solidity will be better able in the future than 'set it has been in the past to hear the shocks of those financial crises to which, of necessity, it ia, and always will remain liable. TIIE CATASTROPHE AT ♦BERGILB. The Daily News remarks, that although the special ag gravation of this calamity Mee out of conditions beyond the control of the company and its servants, it seems no t improbable that the immediate cause of the accid ent may be found to lie within the ordinary rules of railway ma nagement. The chief, if not the only point, requiring tobe cleared up is how the detached trucks came to be on the down lino in the immediate path of the Irish mail Upon thislpoint the statements vary, but the latest is that at the moment when the trucks were detached the guard was not in hie van, having left it to assist in shunting the train. Before leaving the rear van for this purpose he had unhappily, however, according to this account, neglected to screw down the break ; and hence the acci dent. To prevent the recurrence of accidents of this kind, the Daily News recommends the adoption of the block system," used on some of the metropolitan lines, by which no train is allowed to pass a station until the master of the next station in front has signalled that the way between them is Clear. The Times observes that the circumstances, as far as they have been narrated, would raise a presumption of carelessness in the case even of an ordinary goods train ; but it is incomprehensible at present that trucks contain ing casks of petroleum should have been left without a guard at the top of an incline. Whether it proves that the accident is due to the carelessness of one man, or partly to that and partly to bed arrangements, the public will, the Times thinks, demand from the railway com panies 110010 distinct guarantees against similar dangers in the future. wa. inenerotez's nuen armor POLICY. The unanimity of the liberal party upon the issue raised by Mr. Gladstone's policy in the case of the Irish church has (says the Star) been one of the moat remarkable of the signs that have indicated beforehand the advent of a more popular form of government than that middle-class rule under which we have lived for six and thirty years. The policy of Sir Roundell Palmer, however, exhibits a notable exception to this unanimity, but the arguments by which the hon. right gentleman justified his secession from the liberal party and his own political allies, on what is emphatically the test question of the day, appear to the Star singularly thin and feeble. THE 110113 EMPPLY OF WIIF.J.IVI FOOD. The.Da ity News says wheat growers have done well this sea son, and they can send their produce to market so rapiclly, that we may look for a maintenance of home supplies until a price is reached which will induoe farmers to hold rather than to realise. The price at which this may be expected is about 60s. for the descriptions named ; and this price, now that the drought has passed away, will not im probably be seen by the middle of September. While it will ensure bread to consumers at reasonable and compa ratively low rates, it will, for the most part, satisfy the ex pectations of farmers ; and when these two classes are content with their position, it may safely be inferred that there will be a greater demand for manufactured commo dities and raw materials generally. According to the esti mate of the Daily News a sum of more than four millions sterling will be available among our own population for buying other articles. The general dispersion of such a sum out of the pockets of consumers must have some effect upon our domestic trade; and it is quite as certain that the excellence of the harvest in all the principal counties that we trade with will enable their several peoples to buy more of our exports. Writ Court. PENSION WALLIS, LUCERNE, Arou 19. Yesterday, the Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, crossed the lake by steamer to Brunnen, and drove home by Goldau. Her Majesty has felt a good deal fatigued by the heat. The royal family are well. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial Office from the Governor-General of Canada and from the Governor of British Columbia. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and British Honduras. Prince Arthur arrived on Saturday afternoon at the British Embassy in Paris, and after dining left again in the evening to join Queen Victoria in Switzer land. Lord and Lady Napier of Magdala will pay a visit to-day to the Prime Minister and Mn.* Disraeli, at their seat at Hughenden Manor. The Emperor and Empress bave received letters from the Queen of England notifying to their maje s ti es the birth of a princes., daughter of the Prince and Prin ces. of Wales. A communication from Homburg, of the 20th says;_" The King of Prussia, after remaining four days at this watering-place, left to-day for Frankfort, attended by General Moltke and a large suite. He is expected to be at Hannan on the 24th instant, to review some 60,000 troops to be assembled there. The race meeting of Frank fort commences on the 22nd, and continues on the next two days, under the direction of Prince Nicholas of Nassau, Baron Von Brewbacb, Baron Alex. Von Beth man, itc. The Frankfort Home Show is to open on the 24th, and last the two following days. Over 40,0001. will be distributed in prizes by lottery of valuable homes and carriages." THE HON. J. 8. WORTLEY AND THE COMMIS SIONS OF ma DIRECTORS OF ma CREDIT FORM= COX. PMTS.—The Times having recently contained an editorial article on the position of the Credit Foncier Company, in the course of which it was contended that, the profits having proved illusory, the managers and directors were bound, as honest men, to return the commissions which they bad received on the assumption that the profits were valid, Mr. J. S. Wortley, who for a long period held the position of governor of the company, has addressed to our contemporary the following important letter :—" Sir,—l have read your article and the letter and statement of Mr. A. Grant, and, without going into the causes which in duced me to resign the governorship and my seat at the board :of direction, I cannot but express my regret that I was ever connected with the company in any shape or way, and feeling that there is great justice in your re marks, and that the principle upon which myself and others appropriated a vey large sum of money was not a fair one towards our shareholders, I intend to make resti tution ; and shall, as soon as my pecuniary arrangements can be made for such a purpose, pay into the hands of the company's bankers to an account which I shall open as A Restitution Fund Account,' the sum I consider I have vrrong fully received on account of imaginary or unrealised profits. I think the amount will be something over 18,0001.—1 am, sir, your obedient servant, J. S. WORTLEY. —Royal Hotel, Lowestoft, August 21." - • KING 9 8 Comtcia.—Dr. Barry, the new principal of this institution, will enter upon his duties in September nest. rWIGN NEW $1 (THIS DAY.): THE WAR CRY. . Prom ad parts of Europe (says the Afzenir Naliessi of to-day), we reoeire rumours of war. The German journals are full of reports of the inspection of fortresses by the officers of the Prussian staff. The Vienna journals comment on the znestiltg*Mhfr. de Orangazont and Benedotti, with the Emperor of the French, at Biarritz, and one of•therts teadutiona of great im portance " will 'be &maned between there. • The f4eraeontinuee ita war-dry as follows : • awe:,:heiliik6s fa; p&oe of the old fitunpeen @genii:chin.. Hew long eau this state of thitip *Sahli@ r ROW - long will Fraaoe wawa* to Kg?. main on the INN 'We with 900,000 uses in - arm% and 62,000,0001..0f-ssoney in the vaults of the Rue de In Viilliet4 CONSPIRACY TO. ASSASSINATE M. DRAB. The Wanderer of Poona dates theta coonspirscy to murder M. Desk has been discovered at Peeth. The parson who wee to commit the deed has been arrested .and confined in the Hotel de Ville. A list of the conspirators was found upon him, the plan of execution, and a revolver. There does not appear to be much, however, in the reported conspiracy. .the oldest of the con spirators being only 15 yew of agek M.'Deak himself, when ho heard of it, laughingly said, " If it were true, I suppose I should haste to buy of my tailor a safety shirt and inside waistcoat d la Bismarck.• (THIMON 1.1117110111 1010101 r.) FRANCE. PARIS. Acrour 24. The Minister of Finance has addressed a report to the Emperor concerning the final result of the subscription to the new loan. Ho states that the calculations put forth in his previous report have not only been confirmed, but even surpassed. The total amount subscribed represents a capital of more than 15 milliards of francs. The subscrip tion not exceeding the minimum of five francs of relates, reach the sum of 3,360,000 francs in renter, more ; than throe-fourths of which were forthcoming a from the provinces. The total amount of money received by the Imperial Treasury in the shape of deposits is ascertained to have been 665,009,725 frs. The basis of allotment will be fixed at 2 franca 37 centimes for every handfed of francs in rentee subscribed for. The whole amount of renter which, according to the provisions of the loan, could be discounted, is but 4,619,785 francs. The minister proposes to increase this amount to 4,880,615, by adding to it 260,830 fr. of rentes. This decision would have the advantage of treat ing all scrip of a smaller figure than one hundred francs on an equal footing, and would render the task of liquidation more expeditious. The Minister concludes by pointing to the above results as telling evidence of the financial power of the country, and says :—" These results do not prove our re sources to be inexhaustible; but they testify to their immense expansiveness. Every good citizen in - - should rejoice to see this state of things the most effectual means of guaranteeing the main tenance of peace and of rendering it a source of prosperity." OUR PARIS LETTER. (TROY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SI7NDAT EWnNG. The Presse, whose loyalty to the dynasty is un questioned, laments that the government, instead of profiting by the lesson in the Jura, is about to provoke another defeat in the Nievre. In that de partment the candidate of the opposition will be M. Gambon, a member of the Constituent Assembly of 1848, who is a man of large property there, and is extremely popular. Common foresight and common sense would dictate to government that if it must have an official candidate to contest the seat with such an opponent, some staunch adherent of the empire should be selected who is known to the constituency and has extensive local influence. But the announced intention is to put up M. de Bourgoing, one of the Emperor's equerries—a young man who has the double disadvantage of being a total stranger in the district, and holding an office at court, which very many people, including even several members of the majority of the present Corps LEgialatif, think ought to be a disqualification. In the present temper of the country the Prase thinks it the worst possible policy to give the opposition a plausible excuse for saying that the government candidate is one who cannot possibly give an inde pendent vote. It is, moreover, exposing the Emperor personally to a check such as his agents have just met with in the Jura. The Marquis de la Rochejacquelin, who is attempting to canvass the Deux Sevres with a view to the next general elections, writes to a local paper that not only the Prefect and his satellites, but the sitting member and hie son, go about threatening mayors, postmasters, tax-gatherers, and everybody in any way employed by the a with dismissal and all sorts of ven geance if they in any way whatever coun tenance him. Such threats, he avers, have been made in several instances against people guilty only of having received his visit or pronounced his name. It seems that the Prefect of the Jura is to be punished for his failure by translation to a less important department. be fact, which has been denied, of M. Oviedo, General Prim's private secretary, having been forced to leave Paris is repeated with details. It was on Wednesday last, at seven in the evening, that police agents went to the Hotel Canter bury, Rue de la Pain, where Id. Oviedo was staying, and gave him an order to quit France. Several eminent Spaniards have lately gone away, and among them MM. Olozaga, Zorrilla, an ez deputy ; Sagasta, editor of the Iberia ; Colonel Campos, an aide-de-camp to General Prim ; and an intimate friend of the Marquis de Salamanca, in whose house he was staying ; and Castelar, formerly editor of the Democracia, one of the most eloquent men in Spain. M. de Villemessant, the editor of the Figaro, who only returned on Friday evening from a trip to Germany, writes that at an early hour yester day morning his domicile in the Rue Rosaini was invaded by a commissary of police and several police agents, who said they had come to look for numbers of the Lanterne. He took the opportunity of telling them that he had read the No. 12, which had been published in Brussels, and was circu lating in great numbers in all the German states bordering on the French frontier ; but that as to No. 13, it was not yet out, and he had not in his possession so much as a proof. The police ac cepted M. de Villemessant's offer of his keys to make a search, but they did not find what they wanted. Two high functionaries of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Finances. M. M.eurand, Director of Consulates and Commercial Affairs, and Y. Barbier, Director-general of Customs, leave gone to the Hague,.where an international conference is to be held to-morrow for the purpose aruing the tree construction of certain articles of a treaty on sugars concluded on November 8,1864, between France, Belgium, England, and Holland. Before the oonvcntion was acted upon, several conferences were held in London, at which certain typos or standards were agreed upon, and experi ments in refining, in order to ascertain the nett yield of the various hinds of raw sugars, were made on neutral ground, at Cologne, under the inspection of agents -from the four contracting powers. On August 1, 1864, the convention began to be executed by the four powers. But recently the cabinet of London has raised difficulties in, regard to several articles, which if alleges are interpreted by France in such a way as to give an undue advantage to French trade. This disagreement having been notified to the Belgian and Mitch governments, it has been decided to submit the points in dispute to the decision of a conference. There is some expecta tion that Prussia will adhere to the convention ; it is announced that two oommissionors from Berlin have been instructed to attend the Hague conference. The Assize Court of Limoges has just con victed a shoemaker's wife named, Baudinand of ; the murder al her husband. After a quarrel, which did not greatly disconcert the husband, as be went to bed at ten o'clock leaving his wife sitting up, she resolved to be rid of him. She got a rope, put it round his neck, and strangled him with it, and then with a carving knife began to cut him to pieces. For four days suc cosaively she went out into the woods and lanes about Limoges scattering little bits of her husband's body in various directions far and wide. Every night she returned to her house and lay down to sleep by the side of what was left of the carcase. Six days after the murder she put on her beat gown and danced at a villege fete. It was some time before suspicion fell upon hor. Fragments of the mangled remains were found from time to time by various per sons, and taken to the police, who could find nothing in them to establish the identity of the deceased. At length part of a callous hand was found on which the mark of a tool used by shoemakers was discovered. The cobbler Baudivand being missing, his wife was arrested, and she confessed her crime with all the horrible circumstances above narrated. The jury giving her the benefit of " extenuating circumstances," she was sentenced to penal servitude for life. The departure of the Emperor and Prince Im perial for the Camp of Chalons is said to be postponed un til the 30th August, in consequence of the heavy rain having softened the ground so much as to render it not very suitable for the grand manoeuvres proposed. On his Majesty's return from Champagne, the imperial family are to proceed to Biarritz, where they propose re maining until the middle of October. A communication from Brussels, in the Courrier deyEteaut, says :—" The news which reaches me from the camp at Beverloo is not very favourable to our im proved military armament ; the new muskets are certainly loaded at the breech, which is all very well, but some of them also discharge themselves at the same place, which is not precisely advantageous for the soldier, who thus receives the projectile which he wished to send to the enemy." The Prussian musket factories are actively en gaged in completing the armament of the Northern Federal troops who are not yet provided with the needle gun. The whole of the landwehr of the kingdom has been supplied with this weapon since December last. Ads ices from Dresden state that the grand mili tary manoeuvres in the vicinity of Chemnitz have begun. Several Prussian officers have arrived to take part in them. King William is said to have been several times invited by the Sovereign of Saxony to be present, but was unable to accept, being obliged to visit those that are to take place near Warsaw, at which he had promised the Czar to attend. A communication from Naples states that Vesuvius is again showing disquieting symptoms; for some days past eruptions have taken place at the upper cone. Deep rumbling sounds are followed by jets of incandescent matter, thrown to a great height. The lava frequently appears at the brink of the crater and then stops. About three in the morning of the 17th the spectacle became imposing. Columns of thick smoke rose high in the air, followed by burning stone. After shining a moment they fell and rolled, still red hot, down the side of the mountain. This eruption lasted so long as the darkness permitted it to be seen, as at daybreak the Are paled. The smoke was, however, still thick, and stowed that, even alter sunrise, the same volcanic phenomenon continued. Stene-fruit is wonderfully abundant this year at Lyons. Apricots have been given away, so to speak, at Mr. the 100 kilogrammes (each 21b.), and peaches are sow falling to as low a price. The Court of Assizes of the Bouches-du-Rhino has just tried a postman accused of having stolen eight hundred and seventy-six letters, many of them containing securities, postage stamps, &c. Being found guilty, he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. A considerable portion of the land surrounding Cheese', in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, is on fire. In the excessively high temperature the peat ignited spon taneously, and has been burning for more than a week. The heat is intense, and nothing less than twenty-four hours' rain seems likely to prevent a serious disaster, as all means of stopping the conflagration, such as cutting trenches, &c., have been tried without avail. MAKING THE MOST OP ROYALTY.—A Bale paper states that the keeper of the buffet at the railway station charged Queen Victoria and a suite of thirty per sons 700 francs for a breakfast of coffee, eggs, and cold meat, being at the rate of 23 francs a head. The Me people are very indignant at this extortion, but the restaurateur would probably justify himself as the Eng lish innkeeper did who presented George M. with a bill of one guinea for a slice of bread and one egg. The king, while paying the money, observed that eggs must be very scarce in that part of the country. "No, your Majesty," was the reply, "eggs are plentiful enough, but king's visits are rare." HALF A TowN DESTROYED BY FIRE.—A letter from Preran, chief town of the district of that name in Moravia, states that half the place has been reduced to ashes :—" At 9in the morning,' it says, " tire broke out suddenly in the suburb, and spread rapidly under the in fluence of a high wind, so that the entare of the lung line of the street which opens on the square was in a few minutes in flames ; the finest buildings, as well as the two towers of the church, fell with great noise. The hand somest quarter of Prerau, which was really an ornament to the town—namely, the High-street, presented at 2 o'clock no more than a heap of ruins. The firemen did not arrive from Olmutz until about 4 o'clock. Abiut 150 houses were destroyed. The origin of the disaster is not known. --- A MURDERER DISCOVERED BY A Doo. —A murder has just been committed under extraordinary circum stances at St. Germain, a village near Coulommiers (Seine-et-Marne). An innkeeper had summoned a wheel wright to obtain payment of a small debt, and the latter to be revenged, waylaid the daughter of his creditor, a young woman ag ed 18, and cut her throat. The body having been discovered, a dog was brought to the spot, and followed the scent of the murderer to a pool in which the wheelwright had just thrown himself with the in tention, as he acknowledged, of committing suicide. Ho was taken out of the water and did not attempt to deny his guilt. He wu of course lodged in prison. •• • • WILD BEASTS IN IM)U.—It appears that in the year 1867 the rewards given for the destruction of wildbeasta in the four divisions of the Central Provinces amounted to upwards of forty-one thousand rupees. This outlay represents the slaughter of nearly 3,000 beasts of prey—viz., 902 leopards and panthers, 635 bears, 627 tigers, 475hywnas, and 467 wolves. The greatest amount by far was paid fa the Bangor 7,136 rupees ; end much more than half this sum (4,520 rupees) was for the destruction of wolves (333). The item next in im portance is one of 4.250 rupees for the spoils of 86 tigers in the district of Raepore fn the Chutteeegliurh Five of the.. Raepore tigers are said been mea nders, as were three in the Nwpor Mention is also made of of a man fole=death a reward of 100 rupees was KEPI:ORION OF FIRE !Mill' OP. - 7 - j(7 ------ 1 NAIL STEAMER A P 80UTRAII7T9F Mumma nsmns's anarm.. fIOUTHAMFTON. Atreus, 21. An expansion from Are damp has juet 00eur,.,1 on board the Union &sem Oompany's mail ,t Briton, which was to sail to-day for the Ca... of Hope. The explosion took place the after 1, 44. way amongst some patent fuel. Th e fl un up half-mast high,. and it was that thought the ship was on fire: Several engines were iT diately on the spot, but fortanatety wore not rop„, 4 The explosion smashed the saloon table, tore ventilators, fittings, skylight, ship'sbi nnae l m e, and and burnt socuilinen. • Fortunately two men only injured, and they, it is supposed, but dightly. Thoy 11 4 ,. been removed to the infirmary. The patent fuel bar a removed from the hold, and the company hope t o q..t r 4. ship ready foram mails, which can be vial) , efie.i.4 . , that Slow ship can sail to oontract time, if the will allow the made to be anbarlual hen A,l Plymouth. THE MURDER 11l NORTON-FoLO.I Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Stone, accortp 'lli .1 by the ordinary of Newgate, the Rev. My governor, and Mr. Under-Sheriff Davidson, th,. went to the cell of the condemned prism..r, Ah.„, Arthur Mackay, for the purpose ni sqn 14, to him that the sentence passed 'upon li.:n w be carried into effect on Tuesday morale; September,• at 9 o'cloelr. The pri only in hia nineteenth year, heard the the greatest composure. and it did not app.., , „• slightest effect upon him. This will be th., tion that has takon place since the panning .• parliament for carrying out executions , within the walls of the prisons, and all th.: rangementa have been made for carrying n.r ,• in :conformity with the law. 'The place in one of the yards of the goal of cell where the culprit is confuted, andthe a level with the pavement, and the (Ir.!, w,,l 1. excavated underneath. The jury. it will ls.• •.,.1 recommended the culprit to mercy, and .. I. tion will, of course, be forwarded to ,r State, but, having regard to the artgrseite.l the crime and the opinion entertained by M issb .• Lush respecting it, it is not believed that th.• dation to mercy will have any effect. It hit stated that the prisoner was apprebend.•l Med. stone gaol, where he had been r•inem!bst two months to hard labour for s•r., . offence, and that his apprehension arose teem us b, warders fancying he observed his resemblatve t I 14,4. tograph that bad been sent to the prison. It however, that the detection mainly arose insu .b.., meats made by the prisoner to some of hit ...saps:eau. in the prison, and that he confided to elle 'tom the dreadful secret that he was the MIL Escaped after murdering his mistress gate. It will be recollected that the pn,uu at large for a very considerable period commission of the offence, and the polio tali c..l ?hit It,. had succeeded in getting on board a vessel, ;ILI that h • had left the country ; and but for the communvit, RI r•. ferred to, it appears to be very probable that b.• s have succeeded in eluding detection. The pri.,w•r some relations in Loudon, and his father is stir.; e 4 a very respectable position; but he had nut by any of his friends since his conviction. THRILARQCISox HAMILTON 1 7 1 , 0 x 77U. L . l ri, ldii WA V iiisliiiii The Marquis of Hamilton, one of di. , in the late accident at Abergele, has written the letter to the Times:—as Sir,—An account of the i• t: tal accident which befell the Irish mail yesterday teen who was a passenger in the ill-fated train and a wits •-• of the catastrophe spay not be uninteresting. Wt• h left Abergele about a mile and a half, and were about th same distance from the Llanddulas station. when w • were startled by a collision and shuck white though not very severe, were sufficient to thr ist every one against his opposite neighbour. I tat. methxtely jumped out of the carriage, when a fe ful sight met my view. Already the whole of three passenger carnages in front of ours, the cans, na the engine, were enveloped in dense sheets of flame a: smoke, fully 20 feet high, and spreading out in every di. rection ; it was the work of an instant. No words ca• convey the instantaneous nature of the explioiou and flagration. I had actually got out almost before the sh • s of the collision was over, and this was the speetaele wit already presented itself . Not a sound, not is scream, 1. struggle to escape, or &movement of auy sort WA, app , • a• in the doomed carnaHges. It was as though an elect, had at once paralysed and strickeu everyone of thetr .• pants. So complete was the absence of any •• living or struggling life in them that, as soon a- th. , to • sengers from the other parts of the train w,r in - • degree recovered from their first shod- and con.cesc ot. •.. it was imagined that the burning carriages were .1 , •••::: .• of passengers; a hope Noon changed auto f slum horror when their contents of charred :eel eue date I , - mains were discovered about an hour att. rwark. F:-..., the extent, however, of the flame-, ti , • . 1 sine of the conflagration, and the alien •,, : civ power to extricate themselves. no hunts • I w.c.! , have been of any assistance to the all probability, were instantaneously sat}' •.• taw block and tetid smoke peculiar to paraffin. wit'..' I in volumes about and around the spreading thine•. I soon as I had in some degree realised the situation c. placed my family in safety, I ran with all possible sp. for a considerable distance on the down tine to stop Irish mail, which was expected on the up hoe lc.. found that this had already been done. I belles- Llanddulas station, where, possibly, they had ii.ll PW:•• I.; • of the escape of the waggons which eaused rho t'.- mity. On my return I found some of the female pa -air. collected in a neighbouring field, out of re..!. ~t th • dreaded explosion of the engine boilers, from is a. ever,the engine-driverhadhadthe prosenee ofttut, I off the steam before be jumped off it. The niece psoett gers were assisting in every possible way: Sear e•• being princilally directed to saving the mails and 1..• ing carriages from the burning mass., and it was :AI ...I• paring notes with each other that the fearful esise lore of life was realised, and that the task of r ira:a the blackened and charred remains from the burn:,.; riagee began. I saw 11 bodies, if such they could be . removed and carefully wrapped up sheets. Itey the knowledge that poor Lord and Lady snit Ili were in these carriages, there was nothing t....le..gitize them individually, except a watch with Lord I and. on • crest and coronet. Various other watch.-+. hll [l." , rings, and jewellery were picked up and • •. 11 of by the police. ppolice. eountrlr kind Pei sufferers by the collision. Meet of the wean' , happy to say, were but slight, chiefly tenth:lieu, an I et , • about the head. After a delay of six hours the mat! tr.. very7l th ie' eir w a h t ° t, j IY large num bers, again started ou its journey to Holyhead, thegtvoi.: figures and remnants of what so few hoursls:tor..l,.l been our fellow-passengers still remaining in stir r" and temporary boxes where the accident We:M.,: The accident happened from carelessness, which .nr the highest degree of culpability upon these conceal- it. Some waggons, at the extreme end of whit one or more laden with paraffin oil in casks, It ..• allowed to esca down the line at the rate e t tiie. miles an hour on the same line of rails up which Irish mail was proceeding at about an equal p collision which ensued, arid which was quite ut, iv... able by the engine -driver, threw the engine of the train off the rails, and no doubt the escape of the titri• from the broken barrel's, and its contaet Wit:: •.• tires of the engine, as well as the c. • itself, formed the continuous stream e: which enveloped the whole fore part of the r: That an engine of mischief so potent as paraffin be placed without any exceptional protection at the t o! luggage train subject to any shock or collision wh ich m befall it, and which alone of itself might cause its esiil o:•:1• is culpable remissness in itself ; but that by carele...te the waggons should be allowed to detach thenasele-ot.t an incline, and carry death to every living thing . oleat ing them, is a most serious aggravation of the evil. some powerful restrictions are put upon the po,tbilr t . . , 1 such contingencies, travellers by railway will hate i th rm u ta re n th ta em neos. tothemselves dreaofth a inevitable the , to which the cc i Ire perils of a collision by comparison appear mild tar ".!, important.—l have the honour to be, sir. plur . eel rant, •• lisn :• " Viceregal Lodge, August 21." danger Captain Edwards, one of the pas.engor4 together with his son lost his life in the late riiiirsr catastrophe, was a brother of Sir Henry Edward+, N. P Sir Henry went on Saturday to the scene of the c olli,g•Ni and identified the remains of the bodies of his brother nephew by the rings and other jewellery they wer.• westing. THE OrARD OF TUE FATED IRISH 111 tn. Taanr.—Yesterday, the Rev. C. Phillips. incumbent of St. Matthew's, Oakley-square, Camden-town, in th , courre of his sermon, alluded to the late terrible milwir catastrophe, ands poke in most feeling terms of the death of the guard Smith, who, with his wife and eight vino. children, had lived in the neighbourhood. The rev gentleman spoke of the deceased as having 'wen a tes. respectable and exemplary man, and a regular moinbe: of his congregation, haring been present amongst Om. the Sunday preceding the accident. So enlisted wer" ~s ta shed tat, !Ind one at ;11:etheetkupatteispierdu:0 s t lg h tae loma t , of t h em shed ZS gmaa. tears. _