The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-14 00:00:00

QIIRE N' 8 THE ILTR. R, Long-aces. 711 As moss—Mr. W. 8 Lwow THE LANCASHIRE LAM. b Vann J. 11, 1rea• 166 Wee yeeeived heat ite perfortesnes with the ream% mile.' team., by weeded sob ez~ eudiesete. will be mobbed EVERY EVENING. at • quarter to 11, testillahe veheft lll o sill. HE LANCASHIRE LASS, at • quarter to 8. T -The dentonetratlone in favour of 'The Laateeltire We loud 1.11.1 unanhocele."—Thetee. Tim LA.NCASIIIILK LASS, at a quartor to 8. JR- ~T he drama wan widl rcreirwl. nod the author, with the pristaittal actors. was callad on at the oreeissios."—Dnily New,. FEW. LANCASHIRE LASH, at a quarter to 8 . "Thr 130011= 1 . cu teretively sated, and the men. eebehel eaters of the kee p the MAWS,' to a perpetual state et eacaereent."— Landon News. TirLANCASHIRE LABS, at a quarter to 8. 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A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, 18 PDBLIBHXD EVERY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14. MR. DISRAELI'S EXPECTATIONS. Tun PRIME MINISTER is reported by his friends and admirers to be very confident of the results of the General Election. If he does not anticipate a positive reversal of the present numerical strength of parties in the House of Commons, he flatters himself that he will reduce to something like thirty votes the liberal majority which was returned under the auspices of Lord PALMERSTON, and which after various defections and desertions reappeared in almost its original strength in the divisions on Mr. GLaneroue's Irish Church Reso lutions. Of course, like Mercutio's wound, a ma jority of thirty, though " not as wide ae a church " door," will serve the purpose of the Liberal leader. How then, it may be asked, can Mr. DISRAELI contemplate with satisfaction the probability of a working Liberal majority of thirty in the sew House of Commons ? How can he pretend to re gard himself as just entering upon a course of ad ministration which is to prove one of the longest on record in the parliamentary annals of this country No doubt it is one of the first duties of a commander, by his bearing and demeanour in the field, to in spire into his troops that confidence which his own superior knowledge of the chance, of the campaign and the relative forces of the combatants forbids him to feel. If the chief has no outward or viable faith in his cause, and in his success, how can he expect his followers to fight for him ? Something of this assurance of manner and tone, which is not to be mistaken for the calmness of conscious strength, may probably be ascribed to temperament, something to the exi gencies of a Prime Minister's position at the head of a proud and devoted party. But the true secret of Mr. DISRAELI'S somewhat exuberant hopes may, perhaps, be found in his expectation that the Liberal majo rity in the new House, whether thirty or fifty, more or lees, will not be a " working" majority; that it will be fringed with Liberals of by no means" fast" colours and of very doubtful texture, who, having by force of wealth, or local connection, or long services, or other and more questionable arts, evaded or satisfied the ordinary tests which a f ew const i tuents, moreinquiring than the rest, are sometimes apt to impose upon candidates, will be dis posed to give the Tory Premier a trial, as they call it, and to wait upon his policy rather than do honest and faithful service under the :i' .~ ,~ !' THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY onward-utarebing standards alt X.r. GLADirro xi . In short, Mr. Thames* counts tgebe &Cleve soda Mrs room in the antes in tbelastlioaistof 40oiataod; on a Liberal majority divided within itaeli by a minority of nondescripts always ready to swerve, to skulk, or to desert ; without a creed, a prin ciple, a conscience, or an opinion, they can call their own, and only capable of fidelity to the flag they pretend to follow when their consti tuents are ready to fire upon thorn if they run away. It is not in the reinforcement of his own confessed minority so much as in this nondescript element of the Liberal majority that the Pause MINISTER puts his trust. Taking a general sur vey of the constituencies andof the candidates who are calling themselves Liberals, it is impossible to refuse some degree of credit to Mr. Disaiam's calculations. Without at this moment naming names, we would invite the constituents of certain boroughs to re consider a little more closely the parliamentary anteoodents of certain candidates who rely on their " well-known principles" and their past per formances for re-election, and to exact of new candidates a declaration of prinoiplee less elastic and accommodating, more decided and precise than the old constituencies were content to demand. Let the Liberal constituencies insist to begin with on a written as well as a spoken promise of loyalty to the choeon leader of the party in Parliament. Let it not be enough that candidates are prompt to promise Mr. OL•Derroras a general support. By all means let constituencies honour themselves by the choice of representatives of independent per sonal convictions, and not of mere delegates of local prejudice and imwisdom. But let the understanding be as close and as complete as pos sible between the enlightened and independent portion of the liberal constituencies and the candi dates who ask their suffrages, as to the leader under whom their representative means to serve, and the votes ho means to give on large and definite ques tions of policy and legislation. Of electoral ad dresses and speeches, above all manifestations of the human mind and conscience, it may be said that deceit lurks in generalities. meneration, and for the repayment of the exponent they , bays already Mearred. wak l4.ll ^ oast estimate whet tie upon the noir Cable will be if r ase feMegoingillstires are .correct. The imam° eedi4d by the Cabb 'will be 432,000 f., ft:UM whioh an bs &dualist 3 1 1 ( 000 /. working expenses, 100,000 !. for shareholders' first dividends at 10 per cent. upon a million, and 50,000/. for 5 per cent. reserve fund upon the same sum. This leaves 252,000!. per annum, ono-fifth of which, or, to put it roughly, 50,000/. goes to the concessionaires, leaving 200,0001. for the shareholders. These gentlemen have already re ceived the "5,000 fully paid (20!.) shares • • " when the cabid shall have continued to work " satisfaotorily for 30 days'—in other words, 100,0001. of the ordinary stook of the company. We shall now see what is likely to be the actual annual charge upon the cable: To concessionsfres, as 1-56 of 252,0001 £50,000 Ditto, ditto, holding 1-10th of tho million capital, i.e., the 100,0001. givenon com pletion of the cable, 1-10th of the 900,0001. left, or This gives 70,000!. per annum as the sum per- manently duo to the concessionaires besides some ten additional thousands which financiers say will attach as dividends to the 100,0001. stock. We are satisfied there must be some error here, in the assumption that from 70,0001. to 80,0001. are to be paid annually for the barren right of landing cables at the island of St. Pierre. Still, as the question is being put on many sides, and as the figures of the prospectus certainly point to some such conclusion, it would be satisfactory if the directors of the new company would toll us exactly what they consider must be paid to the concessionaires. 'The success of the new venture is a matter of national import, and it would be a thousand pities if it were delayed for lack of a little timely explanation. HANGING IN PRIVATE. Tub private execution of our criminals is a social experiment which it has taken years of agitation to bring about. Before yesterday, no one knew how it would operate, and how far the morbid tastes of the dregs of the populace might continue to be gratified by the display of the black flag and the knowledge that a fellow creature was being legally strangled behind the prison wall. It was imagined that vast crowds might still assemble round the place of execution ; that the trade and traffic of the neighbour hood might be hushed, and that the mere knowledge of the hideous ceremony enacted would have a palpable effect upon the community. The plain truth ill, that, judging by the recorded experiences of yesterday, our murderers might be stifled in their cells without those in the immediate vicinity knowing or caring as to their fate. Maid stone seems to have been unusually gay on the night before the execution ; and to have been wrapped up in its own concerns while the last dread penalty was enforced. Nor is it difficult to trace in the minute personal records of the scene within the walls an unexpressed conviction that " murder by consent " would best convey the eyewitnesses' idea of the pro ceedings. The wretched lad, when he was strap ped up and strangled, was as helplessly at the mercy of the law as his victim had been when he fired the deadly shot. The stern, grave warders, the nonchalant gaol governor, the under-sheriff, and the clergyman, all represented its terrible and, to him, omnipotent strength. Terrified into active submission ; idiotic, exhausted, and worn out by mental anxiety, by remorse, and by the an ticipation of his doom, the miserable creature was sent out of the world by hands which have grown expert and nimble by long practice in the art of killing. Prayers and holy thoughts accompanied him to the last. His death was violent, but not needlessly painful, and the representatives of the law and the public looked decorously and gravely on. But among those who saw this wretched lad's healthy, vigorous figure suddenly and purposely turned to clay, who noted his insignia of honest, useful labour, and who listened to his feeble, quavering voice up to the moment his spirit was driven out, the over powering feeling evidently was that a deed of blood had been formally, regularly, and systema tically performed. All must rejoice that the brutal spectacle afforded by a public hanging is put down. Is it too much to hope that a time may come when the crime of murder shall be also uprooted from the land THE NEW ATLANTIC CABLE. THE statistics of the French Atlantic Telegraph Company are not so clear as might be wished. The figures in the prospectus seem to point to a result which is scarcely probable, and it is due to the public that Mr. ROBERT LowE and his friends should supplementthe original statement by a brief arithmetical note. We are too anxious for the success of the new enterprise to allow any doubt to linger on the minds of investors which can be easily removed; and we shall beet serve the new company by pointing out where and why men are in the dark. The point upon which information is needed most is the extent of liability with which the new Atlantic Cable will start life. Its pro spectus points out a fact to which we called atten tion before its publication, namely, that " the " existing companies have to pay one-third to the Newfoundland Companies, a charge from which " the present company will be free." Let ne see what burdens the new company will lave to bear. Taking all the figures in the pro spectus for granted, we find - The power of trananiagion of the new sable is estimated, wording to the report of the engineers and electricians, M a minion= of twelve words per minute, which, lag fourteen hours a day for waste tine, and conse quently only ten boon a day for aetual work, and taking three hundred working days in the year, gives, at the rate of W. per menage, an annual income of 432,0001. Prac tically, the proportion of days and hours lost would, In all probability, be leas than is assumed in this estimate. The working expenses of the new line may be calculated to amount at the utmost to 30,00 W. per annum. The paid-up capital is to be a m illi on o f money, and— The ooncessionaires, by an agreement dated 3rd August, 1868, and scheduled to the Articles of Association, have agreed to transfer to the company their concession from the Imperial Government of France, together with all their rights under the conceit/ion from the State of New York, and the benefit of the undermentioned agreements, and to defray all expenses up to the registration of the company in consideration of 6,000 fully paid shares, to be allotted to them whenever the cable shall have been suc cessfully laid, and shall have continued to work satisfac torily for thirty days. They will also be entitled to receive one-fifth part of the surplus net profits in each year, after setting aside a reserve fund, equal to 6 per cent. of the net profits, and after payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. to the shareholders. These contingent profits will, for convenience, be attached to a portion of the fully paid shares. It will be seen from this that the coonoessionalres look only to the mow of the Itoderteldni for their re- ANARCHY AND AUTHORITY. CERTAIN of our public instructors, of fastidious taste and temper—notably Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD, who has perhaps enjoyed the honour of an official acquaintance with that model Imperial ist, M. DIMITY, the French Minister of Public Instruction—amuse their cultivated leisure with sighing at the absence of sufficient " authority " in England, and the consequent " anarchy " of public opinion which is just now so unpleasantly stimulated by the electoral agitation. Would they, in their capacity of " converted Philis " tines," prefer to live under such a regime as a Paris contemporary describes ? They have only to cross the Channel to find themselves in a country where the agents of an enlightened ad ministration snatch an offending newspaper out of the hands of the passer-by in the public street; where independent foreign journals which will not consent to accept the favours of the Ministry of the Interior are seized at the Post office ; where no newspaper, home or foreign, can be sold in the streets without the permission of the police; where a Government Commission decides what books shall be offered for sale at the railway stations ; where a student is expelled from his college for cheering one of his schoolfellows who happens to bear a famous republican name ; where a com memorative religious service is forbidden, and visitors to, the tomb of IdArrur are treated as malefactors ; where " for a word, a gesture, an " observation, a citizen is seized and hurried off "to gaol." Three years we believe are now suffi cient to enable a foreigner to obtain letters of naturalization in France, entitling him to all these privileges of a subject of the EMPEROR. For our own part we confess on this point we are as incorrigible Philistinea as VOLTAIRE, who used to say that the least imperfect govern ment is that whose power is least arbitrary ; and we are glad to find that our liberal friends over the water are not so much in love with " authority" as our highly cultivated English functionaries who think in Imperial French and write in a manner to deserve the laurel crown from M. DURTIY. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TUE AFFAIRS OP THE GREAT KAMM RAILWAY. The Timea insists that much is due to the im proved management under the presidency of Lord Salis bury, for the marked improvement which has taken place in the affairs of this company. It is true that the proprie tors are indebted to fortune for six months of unusually successful trade, but they owe a greater debt to those financiers who so applied the profits of this trade as to retrieve the credit and restore the prospects of the concern. OD sae TONNA RULE FETE. THIS POLITICAL 8101 Notwithstanding the disclaimers of the Austrian govern ment, it is impossible, says the Daily News, to doubt that Vienna has recently been the theatre of an important . . political demonstration. Riflemen who went to make " centres " at the target employed their leisure moments in uttering protests against Prussia. By the crowd the most patriotic speakers were more rapturously cheered than the beet shots. The Austrians still smart under the recollections of Sadowa. They have not yet perfectly forgiven the victor s who there gained an indisputable supremacy in the field. Still less have they come to regard with affection than who, in reaping the fruits of that victory, achieved a great diplomatic triumph, and inflicted on them a great national humiliation. It le improbable, however, that there would have been so much excitement at Vienna bad not eo many who were mar-plots on principle flocked thither from every corner of Germany. The loudest denunciation, of existing arrangements were made by strangers. The Post ream to the report of If, Seely's Dockyard Committee, whisk, it says, shows how difficult it is to settle the tiontrovemy between Kr. Seely and the Admi ralty to the intistection of both sides. The pith of Ns. lkiely's charge against*. Admiralty r that they have spent a great demi of money anneessmaily, both in maktag car sbuttive changes in the test, and in other matters of detail which lie duly spesides, But the Poet apprehends that the public. will not take math Interest in charge§ wherein the evidence ie so confiding, and which, after all, relate entirely to the pad, while they offer no guarantee for the future. m. Doily limo, dimming the same subject, says that the Admiralty: stands charged, on the evidence cited in Mr. Seely's report, with waste, and with every conceiva ble form of stupid or careless mismanagement. That portion of the inquiry which dill remains to be completed must be a searching and fearless examination into the sys tem of management by which we have a fleet of worthless broadsides while other nations have fleets of tenfold more formidable turret-ships. For this remit the Daily Mies holds Mr. Reed primarily responsible, and urges that the first duty of those who have thi, honour and safety of the country at heart is to tame out the causes and remove the agencies by which a state of things so discreditable and alarming has bee. brought about. its. ox.Aarross's irsvr atoms Of the propriety and judiciousness of Mr. Gladatoes's choice of South-Wed Laneseldre far his oonstituemcy, the Telegraph thinks there can be little doubt. If he had been actuated by no higher motives than those which guide electioneering agents, if his ambition had been con fined to the task of making his mat as safe as possible, he would undoubtedly bays demanded the suffrages of Man chester and Rochdale, :ethic than of Liverpool and at. Reims. Bed those eonstiteensim he leaves to other osu didatoo, who will do their post is sqf fugue reiokwohre any EVENING, • AUGUST 14, 1868. majority. Meanwhile. by than addr portion of the now divided county in l viranidtbe moat polifr, he kind& emphatic aged grew y it will be =Fogad& Oat theeesho A* to the feeling of the oetiely. • las 1111:BLETAIDS AND THE ONDVIOR OT KNODAND. The Dm., remarks that the letter of the Her. Themes Jackson. on the relationship of the Wesleyan body Is the Church of England. offers one more warning to those who are no* forwarding or permitting the growth of anti-Pro testant opinions in the Church of England. The plain issue which Yr. Jackson =ISM is a question between Protestantism and &maniere. The ritualists have themselves simplified matters by accepting this issue, and pronouncing for Romanian ; bat, owing to the cul pable negligence of tho bishops, and the scandalous pro penes of our ecclesiastics' law, the cardinal doctriees of the Minding have never yet beim brought to a judicial test. The neer seems to think that it is only necessary to tall back upon the articles themselves for a oondeinna tion of the reactionary doctrines now promulgated, and the whole fabrie of ritiudinn would thee fall to the ground. Most of oar oontemporaries refer to the death of Mr. 'Haddam Stevens. The noes describes him as one of the fonsiost men in America. He was fanatical, self willed, and mod bitter in his animosities, but there was neither meanness nor deceit in leis nature. While the in dividuality of men of the younger generation was awed Mr. Stevens preserved hie own opinions sad so[orr{ed his own will, /lading neither to "caucus" nor to "maven ticin " when they violated the laws of his own oosteciesos. The Daily Newe remarks that the principles for which he contended with an almost fanatical energy and reel have been fully established in Amerioan legislation, and the return of nearly all the revolted states to congress under conditions which he did so much to shape, renders his work tolerably complete ; but his death cannot be said to leave any important place unfilled, either in the leadership of his party or in the counsels of the nation.— Mr. Stevens had a bitter tongue. says the Star, but its bitterness was more keen became it was generally used against traitors and evil doom—According to the Tek graph, he was neither good, nor wise, nor generous ; but in his time be did signal service, and, with all his faults, the famous phrase, " that was a man," may be applied to him. With his death it may fairly be expected that wiser counsels will prevail in the republican party. H. HENRI ROCHEFORT AND "LA LANTERNS." The Itadependance Iklge publishes the following letter from M. Henri Rochefort : " Thursday, July 13. "Sir,—The Patric is wrong in denying that an order for my arrest was issued. The fact was evident enough, for two police agents passed Saturday night and the whole of Sunday at the gate of my villa at Nogent-ear-Marne, watching for my return, in order to arrest me. The Pattie is so well acquainted with government secrets that it ought even to know that these two agents offered a largo sum of money to an innkeeper who was supposed to be acquainted with my biding place. With regard to myself, if I have come amongst foreigners, it is to be able to continue the publication of La Lanterne, which by law cannot be suppressed, what ever may be the sentence passed on me. Once in prison it would have been easy to intercept my ' copy' and to ruin, in fact, the journal which could not be killed by law. I shall therefore be infinitely obliged to you if you will announce to your readers that I shall continue to work, and that La Lanterns will appear next Satur day, August 15, simultaneously in Paris and in Belgium." It has been estimated that 60,000 copies of the last num ber of La Lantern., were seized by the government. ZIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) WAR RUMOURS IN BERLIN. A Meer from Berlin, in the Temps, says : In political circles here the greatest importance i attached to the interview between the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia. An offensive and defensive alliance between the two powers is more than ever spoken of. Apparently the political horizon is free from clouds ; there does not seem to be a question in dispute which is lOcely to lead to a conflict, but yet people here belie►e in an explosion in a short time. People here take on myste rious sin, and say that there is " very disrprieting news from France," which reqaires them to be prepared for any contingency, and they add that they are prepared and have nothing to dread. EPISCOPAL CHARITY. Cardinal Mathieu, Bishop of Besancon, in dis tributing the prizes to tho pupils of the College St. Francis Xavier eaid :—" Let God arise, let his enemies be scat tered, and let all those who hate him fly before the face of the Lord. As to those daring men who would fix our regards on earth and prevent us from looking towards Heaven, we bid them an eternal farewelL Far from us that impious band ; let it go to Hell;—it, which has made a compact with the evil one and his demons. We are the children of light. It is not for us to walk in darimees, or to be defiled by the im purities of the age." On this discourse, the Avner National remarks that the Cardinal of Besancon receives a salary of 2,4401. for preaching the religion of pesos. The Chancellor of the Exchoquer aclmowledges the receipt of half notes to the amount of 1.5/. on account of unpaid income tax. The Prince of Wales is to be gazetted to the colonelcy of the Rifle Brigade. Lieutenant-General Sir G. Bell, K.C.8., will be wetted from the 32nd Foot to the First Royale. rd Frederick Paulet will be appointed colonel of the 32nd Foot. Ilia Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Clifton, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, &c., are among the English visitors recently arrived at Homburg. Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, commanding the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, has been placed in command of the infantry brigade at the Curragh until further orders. Tho Bight Hon, Benjamin Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli returned to Rughenden Manor yesterday even ing, from visiting Lord and Lady Chesbans, at Latimer, Bucks. The Rev. George Charles Bell, M.A., has been elected head master of Cluiat's Hospital. Mr. Longfellow has been recently staying at the Peacock Inn, at Rowsley, which is in the heart of some of the most romantic of Derbyshire scenery. The Committee of the Union of German Volun teer Riflemen does not appear to have reached the end of its troubles. Having received a refusal from Leipsie (Saxony), it applied to the city of Nuremberg (Bavaria), which has also declined the honour of giving, in 1871, the fourth file of the National Shooting Matches. A letter from Lucerne states that Queen Vic toria occupies her time in making excursions on the lake and in the gorges of the Bougloch, which the Queen reaches by way of Brien& The steamer Winkerried has been placed at her Majesty's service by the municipal council. X. Boning, the lame of the Gait& has received the Deemery authoriaation from H. Victor Hugo for the performance of Buy Mss. A drama, by M. Paul Maurice, founded on George Sand's " Guile," is said to be in preparation for the reopening of the Theatre St. Martin, Count von Munster', an influential conservative member in the parliament of the North-German Confide- Mica, has puhliehed a pamphlet in which he advocates • rakes cd the ocededwation. He asks that the title of King, or emperor, of Germany should be conferred by the stake and princes of the amhderation on the Sing of Petunia, and than the sovereigns and primes of the date. and the mayors of the three Haaeeatie towns should form a chamber of themselves. Di&m OP TIN DIAN OP RirON.—The Very Rev. Dr. Goods, Dean of Ripon,. was found dead in bed at the Deamarz yesterday morning. No . eigne of illness had b rTiosakr Dean 11= y the dean having attended a rospe l mstiai the for the Propen of the on Monday, a meeting of the Ripon Cathedral Re storation Committee on Tuesday, and. Divine service in the cathedral on Wednesday morning. Mrs. Goode this morning left him in bed, as she thought, sleeping; an boor and a half after she had got up, a servant went into his bedroom and found that he was dead in bed. The deceased was appointed Dean of Ripon in 1860, at which time he was restor of Bt. Margarstrs Lothbury London. He anteceded the Very Rev. Dr. Gamier at Ripon on that rev. velem= being appointed to the deanery of Livonia.Th • decesead was 813 years old. The cause of the death of the deceased is believed to be din's* of the heart. _ _ 1 1 1iONNI1801 MANSION ON CHIIRCH AND STATE.— In • Neter to. the Dahl New the Bev. F. D. Bourke sale;—"BiNpOing with intense horror the erdedestical triany viola may i a .a in—wkich l in—upon us under this was Ebarty, alio with extreme dine the exhinse are creating • roadies in favour of it. Believing • onion at church and date to be implied in the redolence a/ Mak, and to be Deameary biz the paddles at moral freedom, I see equal demos in the dimpedlion al canines t• make the dad powerhl sod denslnsesing dad, and of datum= be ash thodeelde-dieletare in the eltarah. re = Mil tS against one ;.116, COUNT BISMARCK'S HEALTH. A letter from Berlin reports that the state of M. Biamarek's health is not satisfactory. Ho continues to suffer from want of sleep, and is obliged to take opium to procure him some repose. trim:room ascremals Aoseccir.) BELGIUM. BRUSSEL% Atrocrer 14. The Mondelir Beige, of this morning, says : " There is no change in the state of the health of the Prime Royal. The . Ring and Queen are obiiged to abandon their intention of proceeding to-morrow to Spa." ['TIE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN THE BRA ZILS.—DIHSOLUTION OF THE CHAMBER. RIO DE JANEIRO, Ana 24. A ministerial crisis has taken place here, and a conservative government came into power on the 13th, composed as follows : Senhor Ytaborby, premier, and minister of finance ; Senhor Pa ranhos, minister of foreign affairs ; Senhor Mu riliba, minister of war ; Senhor Leao, minister of agriculture ; Senhor Coleaipe, minister of marine ; Benhor Alencar, minister of justice ; and Senhor Charles Lowra, minister of the interior. The Chamber of Deputies having refused the supplies, and carried a vote of want of confidence, the chamber was dissolved upon the 18th. The new chamber is ordered to meet May 3 (?). A BOAT ATTACK ON IRONCLADS. RIO DE JANEIRO, JULY 24. Intelligence from the seat of war announces that the Paraguayans made a boat attack upon upon two of the allied ironclads at Tayi on the 9th, but were defeated with loss. Advice/3 from Buenos Ayres state that Sermiento has been elected President of the Argentine Confederation. A decree has been issued at Monte Video that notes shall be considered legal tender, subject to redemption at the rate of 3 per cent. monthly. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. RIO DE JANEIRO, JOLT 24. Exchange on London, 18. Coffee : good first, 7.500 rein ; sales, 125,000 bags ; shipments since the last mail, 15,146 bags for the Channel ; 6,632 for the north of Europe ; 22,318 for the Medi terranean ; 74,260 for the United States ; and 10,413 for other ports. Stock, 40,000 bags. BUENOS AYRES, .7trix 14. Exchange, 30. Wet salted hides, 39. Total sales, 20,000. Shipments, 292,257. Stock, 1,000. Dry hides for Germany, 48 for 30 ; ditto for America, 44 for 22. Sales, 94,000. Total ship ments, 14,794. Stock, 42,000. Freight to Channel, 35. Wool, 48 to 80. Tallow, 15. Lumber, 45. Cardiff coals, 12. Cadiz salt, 13. OUR PARIS LETTER. (rim OIIS OWN 0011388PONDENT.) PARIS. TILITIMAY EVENING. M. Rochefort, who is said to have netted up wards of 100,000 fr. in a few weeks by his Lan feriae, will very probably take up his residence in Florence, if, as is probable, the French court pronounces a very severe sentence against him for last Saturday's number, which was seized. Mean while his son and daughter have gone to join him at Brussels. M. Bochefort would not think it fair to get the Belgian government into trouble with France, which he assuredly would do if he published the Lanterne permanently in Brussels. The LiberM says, a renewal of the difference be tween France and Tunis, which was thought to have been arranged, is imminent. The French consul is said to have reported that, in spite of his remonstrances, the Bey had levied, for his own use, a part of the tax on olives which he had pledged as a security for his foreign creditors. In the Jura, where the election begins on Sun day, the struggle will be entirely between M. Huot, the government candidate, and M. Gr&y, the Miotinier of the Paris bar, candidate of the democratic opposition. Count de Brossia, a semi clerical, has retired in favour of M. Huot. M. de Villemesaant, of the Figaro, was again in the clutches of Judge Deleaven: yesterday. This time he was only sentenced to a fine of 300 fr. for publishing a report of a civil action for libel brought by M. Bochefort against M. Marche!, alias De Bossy, and Stainer, in which the plaintiff recovered 3,000 fr. damages. It has been hitherto assumed that the imperial laws only prohibited reports of criminal libel cases, but fudge P 910 4- Yalu 1 1 914 that the rtietfictiOta applies squ a lly all civil actions In which the truth is not ad missible as a defence. When I write such things, as of late I am almost daily compelled to do, I am really afraid that the large class which, believes every thing they see in print, must fancy there is some good reason for the Fi-ench law which the judges enforce and extend. Nothing of the kind. The pretext is that reports circulate libels more widely. But the true motive for the legislation is only that the government, founded by the coup d'itat, foresaw that it would be necessary to conceal from the public the argu ments of counsel is political prosecutions, and the enactment was made to include the hole and corner trial of private libels (which, by the way, might affect public men), merely for the sake of uniformity. Count Henry de Suarez d'Aulan, who has just been appointed one of the Emperor's equerries in place of the Marquis de Caux, belongs to an old Faubourg St. Germain family of high lineage and legitimist connexions. The Emperor gladly hailed him as a recruit to the dynasty, and pre ferred him to all other candidates. The Count, who was formerly in the army, lately married the granddaughter of Count de Larderel, a great Tuscan manufacturer, who, for his products at the Exhibition last year, received the rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honour. A handsome young wife was no mean addition to Count d'Aulan's other qualifications, for the Emperor and Empress like to be surrounded by pretty women. The names of the Marquise de Oanisy, the Countess du Bourg, the Baroness du Bour going, Princess Posiiatowski, and the Countess Davilliers are cited as ladies to whose attractions in great measure their husbands owe their places at court. The Count do Chambord is preparing for publi cation a collection of the lettere of his Duchess of Parma. A sad accident happened this mornin g ~t o'clock in the Rue de la Pais. A h ug ,. ~t,,n p,4! pended from the top of a house in cour-ie of ,L in : littoo to ma k e way for the new Rue broke the chain which held it, fell upon ti„.h .. of a workman, and killed him on the spot. This 18 the Wit day of the subscription to tin.l„, which was closed at 5 this afternoon. 0 10 .7 , ' are divided as to the effect it will bare Bourse. One theory is that the greater part is in the hands of apoculators, who will so No. ' seek to realise a profit by selling their there will very soon be no profit to get. ing to another view, capitalist's who hav,. selling out to invest in the loan, findin 4 owing to the multitude of small sub r 1 , , which have a preference, they can 1,,t 1,... nothing, will put their money back 11; t , Bente, and so produce a rise. Thi. during the week in the Bank of Franco from 338 to 408 millions is attributed eniiply paper discounted by bankers, who, as th.ir put off their tenders for the loan till the If it should turn out that those who :1810,1 times as much as they expect to get fin.' selves allotted more than they wanted or pared to pay for, of course sales will pr-vr: . to some time. The money article in the Sii•cle The news from the departments generally coldnews about the loan. In all places where T .,. crowd the subscription offices, the inveetintt aloof. It is certain that the Rents stood h. . at about 68fr. 60c., without the ?obi,. great inclination to put their saving,' into It ‘i they be more enthusiastic now, when th commodity is decreased by a large n. , w much is oertain, that a very large part of I been taken in Mr. corfpwrn, which will le• me. • forced upon the market, and a great died under 100 fr., which cannot fail to follow The Figaro says : The loan hovers over the market. • serious takers Where are throw der:,..,::. ,•, , were to get everything away from the r'',• The fact is that " savings " have not COTIP! f , rem.' for this very good reason—that the raving does lost four milliards within a few years, awl the pretty well extusuated. Bente to-day was much more buoyant thin 1 , has been all the week, and rose 121 c. for rash. 171 c. for account, closing at 70fr. 15c. su.l 7.iff 20c. Other securities were weak. Itakin to 124 c., and Mobilier lfr. 25c. Credit Fortcl,r r T sfr. THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND At (HEAVY) MAILS. (2IIIOUGII sll7/are AGISIKT ) SOUTHAMPTON, A rai The Peninsular and Oriental Couiptin3's , t , t11:1 Poocah, with the above mails, has arrive.ll,...-- brings 12 passengers, including Sir Richard A,r. y, , ,• governor of Gibraltar, 32,000/., in specie, ant :,'••2•31 cargo, including raw ilk valued at 130,000/. Upon the I Ith instant the Poouah spoke Syria, and the Danube on the 12th. GIBRALTAR, A , u:•,r t• 1. Grain is becoming scarce at Tetuan and T ing...e., holders are sending it to Fes, where large vantiti. sr accumulating, in anticipation of another tamwe likr 'ln' of last year. The crops in the eastern portion of hforocoar, but better in the western portion. Cholera is still raging at Seth. Exchange on London, 49} to 9-16. Exchange au 5.22. Exchange on Madrid, Ito 4 dis. THE WRECK OF THE BRIAN BOLROIMII£ The following are the particulars of the wre...: of this vessel, which occurred off Cape Clear. She 1.. r Dublin for Quebec in ballast, her crew comprising alit,: hands. She was out about a week. and MIA 120 milt, the south west of Cape Clear when a heavy gale came and continued all through the day. The ship rolled s. much that she sprung a leak and began to make The pumps were rigged to clear the hold, bet it way f.iiin that the ballast rendered this impossible, for V. sand worked into the timbers and choked the pump. The gale continued the next day, and the ship be ;an sink. A number of the crew launched one of the sh,;, , boats and left the vessel, intending to save themsclve, hr reaching a vessel which had been sighted shortly bci that. The captain, mate, and the greater part of were still on board, and watched the boat for some he,. but long before she could have reached the ve,..el is • captain lost sight of her, and it is probable that 'I.. down, as there was a very heavy sea running at the lose The captain, mate, and the remainder of the crew then out the long boat, and all but the captain, mate. and inz man got into her as she lay alongside the yeas..l. three were about to get in when the vessel gave a and heavy lurch to the side at which the boat was and the latter instantly sank. The men who wen. iu were immediately swallowed up in the warm. a:a drowned before the eyes of those who expecte.] iu s time to meet the same fate. There rcmaiae'l uu hi.rl the sinking ship then only the captain. mite. ss.l one man. In a few hours another ship came ts sight and, a signal of distress being hoisted by those on board the Brian Boiroimhc, appriithid and sent a boat es near to her as was p0,...M1y thought safe under the circumstances. .to the tort re fused to go close enough to take the three men of. wr fear she might be stove in by the yeeeel, which vs. rolling fearfully, the mate and man swam to reach her, leaving the captain on board, he being unable to swam. But the mate, when leaving the vessel, co nes neily took a line with him between his teeth, he whieh posed_, when he swam to the boat, to draw the i:apt.uu iJa board ; but his intention was frustrated by the of the waves, which were so high that they corupellel lets to let the line go before he reached the butt. The hthe et. after it hadpieked the two of them up, returhel tii vessel to which it belonged, and she toe proosslcd course, leaving the unfortunate miptainakitie on a -Tim; ge vessel. In this dreadful situation he remained alt kn hf night, the ship settling down deeper and deeper m flad water every hour, and threatening to give every 111111 4 N that last heavy lurch that precedes the disappearance ?es . math the waves of sinking vessel. BO m?!.'1;:o nom hove in sight. and, perceiving the state of the Brian Boeroimbe and the signals of the captain, sent a boat to her, and rescued his from his dreadful position. On the arrival of the Wallet off the harbour on Tuesday, a pilot schooner boarded her and brought the shipwrecked master into Queenstown. The West India steamer Atrato, which broke down in the Atlantic, is an enormous paddle-wheel steamer. Her break down was complete, and her enormous paddle wheels and other circumstances made hers wretehed sailor under canvas. She could make no headway, arid people on board became alarmed. Her Majesty', ship Terrible met with her Ord, and being very powerful towed the huge packet along at the rate of eight knots an hour. When the Royal Mail steamer Oneida was met the Terrible left, andthe Oneidatowed the Atrato at the rate of sir knots an hour. This disaster to the Atrato will Wen the universal adoption of screw steamers. The fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Company consists of 46 shiph and only six of them have paddle-wheels. The Royal hfail Company now build screw steamers, and all tit , German transatlantic mail ships are of the same kind. A new weekly journal, called La Cloche, comet out to-day in Paris. It is in the same form as Le Lostrom. Its editor calls himself "Ferrague," a pseudonym kw' rowed from one of Balsac's novels. It appears from a publication in the Brno . Deus-No*4a that the cost of the Emperor's stable sash: liniments for 1888 was 38,0001. The salary of the Presi dent of the Republic in 1848 was only 20,000/., and yet there are people who deny that France is tint advancing . propperity.—lndipeitdanes Beige. ITALIAN PA.BBI'ORTB TO FBANCE.—The French government has issued antics to Italians embarking from England that " Italian subjects will not be allowed lots France unless their passports have been r 18.4 by the French consul in England within the year." The Spanish govern m ent has conceded to BC Jape Caceres the privilege of laying down an electric esble Th be t veen winth la Eeuro tt Am er th. pe co et i. un SPanith can try yach will An the til t :an brpinhodithereeacac°atedeoramstfroofumtu*dieNireowti York for Cowes on the 30th ult. It is u nderstood flYt! as will be offered for sale on her arrival in Saguia waters. `*)_ ■