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A SECOND EDITION of th• EXPRESS, COZITTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, 18 PUBLI&TIIID EVERY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4. RAILWAY FARES. Tim South London Railway Companies are de termined to show that when they applied to Par liament for power to raise their passenger tariff, it WWI only er majare cauteki. They wished to be authorised to do what they knew themselves to be both able and willing to do without being autho rised. The first of August was a proud day for the railway interest. There was not a direc tor in London who must not on that morning have felt himself a larger man than heretofore. The defeats of the session only made the triumph of the recess more glorious. If the railway com panies seemed to stoop, it was only to conquer in the end. The terror-stricken cry of an enraged but helpless public, the severe scrutiny of the Lords' Committees, the doughty bearing of Lord BEDE'S DALE—what has it all done Thrown out an Amalgamation Bill? No doubt; and with it, perhaps, some stray clause here and there from which the traveller might have derived benefit. Rept the cost of locomotion at its old figure ? Nothing of the kind. Over the table of fares the directors' pencils have wandered at their own sweet wills—adding 20 per cent. in one place and 70 per cent. in another; turning " sixes" into " nines," and " threes" into " sixes" —in short, making all the little changes of figure so familiar to monopolists. No wonder they took their overthrow so calmly two months since. No wonder Mr. WsTiciir wrote as though it was the public and not the railways who were interested in the passage of his various bills, As it turned out he had good reason for what he said. No act of parliament could have put Londoners in a worse position than that in which we find ourselves this present August. We are shut up in a beleaguered city ; and we can't—because we can't afford to— get out. The excuse made for the sudden increase of fares on the London and Brighton and London, Chat ham, and Dover lines has, at first sight, a certain air of plausibility. Railways, it is argued, are a commercial undertaking ; and, late other commer cial undertakings, they must be made to pay. Of course, people whose business is in London and their homes out of it wish to travel to and fro as cheaply as possible ; and if railway companies were charitable institutions instituted only for philanthropic ends there might be good reason why they should carry passengers for nothing. Inasmuch, however, as they are designed in the first instance to bring a fair profit to their pro prietors, and only to benefit the public so far as can be done consistently with this primary object, the directors may safely be left to arrange the fares as they think best. The two seemingly con flicting interests are really identical. The pas senger wants to travel as cheaply as is compatible with moderate speed and reasonable safety. The company wants to increase its traffic as far as it 1' THE EXPRES S , TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1868. can, and will naturally forbear t,. ~.sure a charge which would deter instead of attract pas seng( rs. The proper level can only bearived at by actual experiment ; and, if the proases are dissatisfied with the present state of their tedallee *beet, they are quite justified in making tentative alterations in their fame. A tradesman who finds that his business does not pay him a fair par cent age on his capital is not to be blamed if he tries whether higher prices may not mean larger profits. The fallacies in this argument are so numerous as to make the work of selection extremely diffi cult. That which underlies all the rest is the obstinate refusal to remember that the concession of exceptional privileges implies and demands the maintenance of exceptional control. The ordinary pleas in favour of leaving railways to manage their own concerns might be sound enough if rail ways were subject to the ordinary laws which regulate commercial enterprise. But those who benefit by protection have no right to appeal, when it happens to be convenient to them, to the principles of free trade. If the Legislature had not interfered it is doubtful whether a single railroad of any considerable length could ever have boon constructed. The very groundwork of the whole system is the grant of compulsory powers to buy land. Parliament does not interfere with the rights of property, and force a man to sell ground which he would much rather keep, merely to give railway shareholders good dividends. It confers on them these unusual facilities for carrying out their purpose because that purpose promises to result in a public benefit ; but there is a reserved right vested in the Legislature to see that the under taking for which these facilities have been granted does not insensibly change its character, and become a mere device for filling the pockets of those engaged in it. In the case of metropolitan railways this argument applies with peculiar force, because, in consideration of the ultimate convenience of the community, they have been authorised to inflict great present suffering on individuals. We have let them pull down houses by the hundred with out providing either room or shelter for the in habitants, and we have done this on the faith that their fares would be sufficiently low to enable the dispossessed poor to live a little way out of Lon don without any material increase in their rent. Of course if the railwaycompaniea could honestly come to Parliament and say, " We undertook " to work our line on the temp proposed by " you; but after doing our utmost to make it " pay, we find that the present charges do not " allow of that reasonable profit to secure " which is our only motive for continuing the un " dertaking," the application would be proper enough. But they are not in a position to do any thing of the kind. They have lost money not by carrying passengers too cheaply, but by their own reckless extravagance and mismanagement in other ways. Let us suppose a parallel cane. The proprietor of a ferry wishing to make it useful to the inhabitants on both sides of the river farms it to a ferryman on condition that he shall carry passengers at a penny a head. If it turns out that there is not sufficient intercourse be tween the two banks to make it worth the man's while to work the boat, the owner will only be consulting the general interest in al lowing him to raise the fare. But supposing the ferryman squanders all the money he makes, and then proposes to compensate himself for his losses by charging threepence instead of a penny, the pro prietor will justly answer, If you had been commonly prudent you might have made a fair income out of the present charge, and I shall not mulct the innocent passengers in order to compensate you for your extravagance. This is exactly the state of the case as regards railways. If they had been prudent and economical they could have made their original fares pay; they have failed to do so, not because the fares were too low, but because the management of the funds has been improvident and suicidal. But as the fault has been the Com panies' so ought the loss to be. If they cannot make two ends meet without exorbitant charges, they must share the fate of other insol vent traders, and make way for some one who can work the undertaking with more forethought and self-restraint. Instead, therefore, of there being any occasion for giving the railway companies power to charge higher rates, the true want of the time seems to be a thorough revision by competent authority of the existing tariff. Whatever be the figure at which it can be proved that passengers may be carried, with fair profit to those who undertake to carry them, and with proper regard to comfort and safety—that ought to be the figure prescribed by Parliament to the railway companies. Only in calculating that figure it ought to be assumed that the management is prudent, and that when it is otherwise it is not the public upon whom the con sequent inconvenience must fall. the relentless exigencies of newspaper space. The MILTON topic is at least new, sad in this has an ventage over its time-worn long-lived eonipa doll Letters. PIIVBIOI,I4N TITS Athenorual,, in a paper on the Medial Pro fession, considers it is time a change were effected with regard to fee* ; that a young physician should be permitted to take less than the orthodox guinea, and a physician of esta blished reputation be at liberty to demand morn In _point of fact, however, the soak of payment does vary considerably. There are physicians and consulting surgeons who expect a guinea at each visit ; there are others, with a reputation equally high, who see their patients twice for the same sum. Moreover, if a physician at tends a consultation he makes his own terms,.and the sum expected is intimated to the friends of the patient through the family doctor. To general practitioners still greater freedom is allowed. They charge what they please for medicine and attendanoe, and often in propor tion to the wealth or supposed wealth of their patients. The annual bill is seldom disputed, for who would wish to have an altercation with his doctor ? and it rarely happens that a clever medical man loses practice in consequence of the ex orbitancy of his charges. We shrug our shoul ders, perhaps, and grumble, but are consoled by the thought that if our apothecary, TOVICINEI, charges more for his attendance than Meats. fisrrn and Baows, his superior skill entitles him to a higher remuneration. It is so comfortable to believe that we have made a wiser choice than some of our neighbours, and so reasonable that we should be required to pay something extra for the comfort. After all the fashion adopted in the far Bast has much to recommend it. Better to pay a doctor for keeping us in sound health than for relieving us in sickness. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. Tux time has gone by when the intelligence that the Atlantic Cable has failed arouses consternation among either shareholders or the public. Failure to be ruinous must be permanent, and experience has shown that suspended communication can be restored as well at the bottom of the Atlantic as upon land. The message received from Valenti& by Sir Iticamin 01.&88 yesterday and promptly forwarded by him to the Stock Exchange simply said, " 1868 cable has failed ; will report after testing ;" in other words, communication has been stopped for the time, and the cause has yet to be ascertained. But the exquisite scientific ap pliances in use enable the electricians to pronounce to a nicety the portion of the line which has given way, and probably the next thing hoard by the public will be the exact number of miles from Valentin or Newfoundland, at which the " fault" is situate. This known, the rest is easy. Sir &Lunn. Carmtio or Mr. CLIFFOEU), or both, will be despatched by the Telegraph Maintenance Company, with an efficient staff and an ample supply of picking-up machinery on board ship. These gentlemen will steer straight for the place indicated by the electricians, will fish for the cable, find it, cut out its damaged portion, substitute for it a new piece, and having re-spliced the mended part in such a way that it is as strong as ever, will re-commit the whole line to the deeps. It is all very wonderful, but it has been done too often now fer even the most inexperienced to hare doubts as to the result. Some sub-marine lines are so often broken by the action of the sea upon a rocky bottom that a steamer and a competent staff have to be kept on the spot, and they are picked up and mended as often as broken. The present injury to the Atlantic Cable of 1886 will doubtless be remedied as we have said. Mean while, it is satisfactory to know that the Cable of 1863 remains perfect, and is more than sufficient even for the rapidly increasing messages between England and America. The present accident will have no effect upon the rapidity with which com munications are sent and received. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. ii.-- 114 lb" 401:.3 DAY.) '''..- 1 i ' ,KZ Or PAWN. t alsou -.'. I TIIO C. t ... ing the paten pf ell geese institutions Which,desily rose and de Ike sees of Phigliahrnen four OfitlV• years since, the in t ed the Cour Imperial*, the Tittln remarks, comes lissm be all Who have ever bees induced to take • share in • limited company. The suit was against the directors to compel them to reimburse a subscriber the sums he had paid to increase the capital of the company, on the ground that he bad been induced to assent to it by false and fraudulent repeeeentations. This is what the Cour Imperial. has determined, and having found the facts establishing the deceit the decree lays down the prin ciple that the responsibility of directors for their personal acts is of a higher character than their responsibility for excessive confidence reposed by them in persons or trans actions insufficiently overlooked, and therefore the court condemned the MM. Pereire, M. Salvador, and two others, who were on the direction of both companies, and must have known the whole truth, to repay to the share holder his instalments, but exonerated M. Cheva lier and three others, who bad not this double qualification, of all share in the responsibility. The condemnation of those directors to whom a complete knowledge is brought home to repay the shareholders they deceived will be sufficient to make many Englishmen in quire whether they could not have the same remedy. Some of them may plead that they were shareholders in a ()Wit Mobilier and Foncier ; that there was a separation of functions and a reconstitution of their society ; that as sets represented as valuable have shrivelled up like the magic money of the Eastern tale; and that they have paid calls on the faith of promises which cannot be rea lised, and as those who uttered them ought to have known Oliver could be realised. Could not they get back some of their money P It is no part of our business to advise them, although there are certainly dicta which might be construed favourably to their hopes. ilfE WEBLZYLN BODY. The Daily News describes political churchmen watching the proceedings of the Wesleyan oonferenoe now WM. bbd at Liverpool with a degree of interest which has not been excited for many years by that annual gathering. But there is reason to believe that the speech delivered by the new president represents the opinions of the powerful ►ody of which he is the head. The notion of entering the southern church establishment has not been enter tained for a moment. The Wesleyan are far too much attached to an organisation which they have found admi ably fruited to their wants and to their freedom in the use 01 lay agency to think of that. But this is not all. The pre tentious development of sacramental principles and priestly pretensions within the church during the last ten years has effected a vast change in the Wesleyan body. Any public movement clearly favourable to the Bomish church would unite them to a man; but with the fact in full view that statesmen of all parties from time to time make the invidious privilege and indefensible position of the Irish establishment a reason for giving aids and compensations to the church of Rome, the conference will not take a step to defend that institution in this its hour of trial. FORCE. In the opinion of the Post the War-office circular shows a complete misapprehension of the disaster at Windsor, which occurred, not from a failure on the part of the volunteers to obey their officers, but from the officers themselves being unacquainted with "the usage of the military service," being ignorant of their duties, and abandoning their functions and their posts. The supply of officers is the weak point of the volunteer force; and if it is to prosper, officers must be obtained who know their duties, and who will com mand the respect and obedience of their men. But the first preliminary to the proposed change of system for supplying officers to the volunteers must be the increase of the capitation grant—which the present government so injudiciously refused—for until this be done it will be im possible to select officers for their attainments and qualifi cations instead of for their wealth. For several reasons the Telegraph concludes that for the present the extension of the franchise will be less than was generally anticipated within the first year. We have only just created a new and complicated machinery, and a considerable time is required to get it into full opera tion. It is therefore true only in a limited sense that the appeal is about to be made to the new constituencies. Even if the cumbrous process of the Reform Act should not be simplified and amended hereafter even if the law next year should be just the same es it is now—it is certain that another registration will be more productive than that which is now impending. F 9,11. N 6040 1. NEWS. FL ('ling- DAY.) PEW DJ FFERINCE BETWEF,N EXILE AIPD EMPIRE. Apropos of the dispersal of the meeting of French liberals in Mines, by the police, the dlr , nir National prints the following extract from the Progri's du Pas-de-Calais of Oct. 4, 1843 : Ought we not to blush —we, a free people, or who, at all events, think ourselves so, for we have made many re volutions to make ourselves free—ought we not to blush, ssy, when we find that even Ireland—wretched Ireland— enjoys in oertain aspects greater liberty than Enlace P Here, for example, twenty persons cannot meet without the pre vious sanction of the police, whilst in the country of O'Connell thousands of men assemble, discuss their inte rests, threaten the foundations of the British empire, with out the minister daring to violate the law which protects the right of meeting in England. L 01713 NAPOLZON BONAPLZTZ. (TICIOVOII RETITIfIe I lOSInIT.) FRANCE. N 111 1 123, Atm= 4. The election of a Deputy to the Corps Legislatif for the department of the Gard have terminated. There were 34,093 electors registered ; 22,619 of whom voted. K. Dumas, the govermnent candidate, was elected. by 13,832 votes. The opposition can didates were IL Larcy and IL Cazot, who obtained 2,427 and 4,338 votes respectively. HUNGARY. PESTH, Auotrrr 4. In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet, the draft of an agreement with Croatia was laid before the house by the special commissioners, who had been negotiating with delegates of the Croatian Diet the terms of com promise. They propose to abolish the entire system of border-militia hitherto in force along the whole length of the Turkish frontier. The question whether the district of the free sea port town of Fiume shall belong to Hungary or Croatia has not been settled by the delegates of the two Diets. The general debate on the Army Be-organisation Bill continues to occupy the House. OLD FRIENDS. Tom close of Parliament has brought forward our old-established friends in the newspapers, the autumnal letter-writers. We will not stop to inquire how these eloquent gentlemen employ them selves during the parliamentary session, and when the papers are legitimately full. Perhaps, like the barber of Mims, they whisper their secrets into the earth ; perhaps they adopt the policy ini tiated by Mr. Toors, and indite tremendous phillipics to themselves; perhaps they employ the time in meditation in order that they may turn up with perennial freshness directly the house ad journs. We incline to the latter belief, for it is gratifying to discover no fickle running after change in their choice of topics. The gentleman who complains of the length and dreariness of ser mons, and who asks piteously why sensible people do not leave church at the conclusion of prayers, does so this morning with really marvellous naivete and point, considering that sermons have been railed at in the newspapers every autumn for the last thirty years. We may ask in passing why the people so anxious to leave church early do not follow their bent. There is no law to com pel them to stay save the law which forces them to write letters on a grievance in the autumn. That Lord Coirrsozum had to carry a bag the other day at Waterloo station ; that in the most scorching parts of the Continent there are more provisions against the effects of ex treme heat than in England, where it sel dom occurs ; that ice keeps longer when it does not melt rapidly than when it does ; that Mr. Bxmoxs ADAMS—a name so familiar at the foot of newspaper letters in autumn that the mere sight of it suggests the fall of the leaf—has important possibilities to suggest to the public; that Sinai should have an ordnance survey; and that Professor MORLEY remains staunch in his original belief as to the poem attri buted to MILTON, are among the facts to be gleaned by those who read the letters in this morning's Times. The MILTON poem will be a standing dish for some weeks to come. Each theorist thinks his own suggestion " ought to set this matter finally at rest," and will continue to prose his views until cat short by FOREIGY-01710E AGESCIES. According to a parliamentary paper, issued this morning, there appears to be some difference of opinion between the Foreign-office and the Treasury with respect to the claims of the Foreign-office agents. The Lords of the Treasury did not concur in the views expressed by Lord Stanley, that those agents would have a just claim to compensation if the system of agency were abolished, and therefore it became necessary for his lordship to determine what steps it might be possible to take with a view to the eventual abolition of that system. Lord Stanley, however, is still of opinion that a system which for more than three quarters of a century has, after repeated and full inquiry been sanctioned by sue oeesive secretaries of state, and which was ex plained in the most complete detail to two com mittees of the Rouse of Commons, one of which absolutely refused a proposal for its abolition, while the other did not see occasion to call in question by their re port the propriety of its being maintained, and which, moreover, has been recognised by her Majesty's diplomatic and consular servants, almost without exception, as con ducive to their convenience and advantage, must be held to have acquired such a degree of admitted permanency as to entitle those clerks who have been engaged in carrying it on, to look upon it as a recognised source of emolument, and to expect com pensation if on public grounds it should be decided to put an end to it. Under existing circumstances his lord ship does not seem to be prepared to direct an abso lute and immediate prohibition of the system, but lays down the following rules for its abolition, when the in terests which have grown up under it shall have been ex tinguished. First, that no clerk or other person connected with the Foreign-office, except such as are, at the date of this minute (June 24, 1868), acting as agents, shall hereafter, directly or indirectly, undertake to act as such for any of her Majesty's diplomatic or consular agents ; secondly, that, looking to the possibility of some arrangement being hereafter made for abolishing agencies on a grant of compensation, the emoluments derived by an agent from any person who should enter the service after the date of this minute should not be taken into account in estimating the amount of compen sation to be granted to an agent on a general abolition of the system. Lord Stanley, however, reminds the diplomatic body that there is no obligation on them, if otherwise willing to dispense with such services u are usually rendered to them by their agents, to employ as an agent • clerk in the Foreign-office for any purpose whatever, and, speci fically not for obtaining payment of their salaries or any other allowances. The es-King of Naples, being deprived this summer of the society of his queen and of several mem bers of his family, in consequence of the recent royal marriages, has organised an economical and salubrious rilkggiatura at the village of Rocca di Papa, where he has engaged a small suite of rooms in order to be in the immediate neighbourhood of the camp. His Majesty, with a very limited court, took possession of his rustic residence a week ago, and will remain there till the end of August, during which time his principal amusement and occupation will be to participate in the military manoeuvres of the brigade in camp. Jouasouf Karam, the Maronite Eniir of the Le banon, is enjoying his pension in travelling about Europe, and is taking hie " otium cum dignitate" in the Maronite Convent, near the Colosseum, Rome, while seeing the wonders of the Eternal City. TEE NEW iIIiNCIE LOAN. The Star expects the above loan to be, as a financial operation, a marked success. In France, as in England, the excessive enterprise of 1864-66 has been followed by a period of want of confidence and restricted financial operations. The amount of bullion in the Bank of France has risen to an amount higher than was ever reached by any single banking establishment in the his tory of the world. The sum of 1,260,000,000 of francs is more than double the amount ever held by the Bank of England. During this pause, however, in monetary enterprise, the ordinary industry of the country has not ceased its manifold ope rations. The annual income of France now approaches somewhat more nearly to that of the United Kingdom, so that the frugal and industrious have savings to invest, and the many who have been alarmed by the uncertainty of the past will eagerly rash with their money to the coffers of the government, where they deem it to be safe if not very productive. The price of issue is 691 per hun dred francs, a sum which does not contrast very favour ably, it is true, with English Three per Cents. at 94, and has the look of an operation by a government in distress ; but the ordinary price of French Three per Cents. is far below the range of Consols, and at present is somewhere about 70;. eftt eintrt. OSBORNE, Auover 3. The Queen and Prince and Princess Louis of Heine, Princess Louise, and the Duke of Edinburgh walked in the grounds this morning. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Grey, arrived at Osborne this afternoon from Marlborough-house. Kiss Bond, of Southsea, has had the honour of attend ing at Morn° to colour photographic portraits. The Princess of Wale*, accompanied by Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, and attended by the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge, drove out yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial °face from the Governors of the Settlements on the West Coast of Africa and Malta. Despatches were sent to the Governor-Oeneral of Canada. We (Times) are authorised to announce that Mr. R. W. Dawson, C. 8., now Governor of the Bahamas, West Indies, has been appointed to be Governor-in-Chief of the Windward Islands ; and that Mr. John Scott, for merly Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, is to succeed Mr. Rawson at the Bahama• The Duchess de Tetuan, widow of Marshal O'Donnell, is seriously M at Madrid. A letter from Trouville says :—" The tropical heat is so great that everyone comes to enjoy the sea breeze. Trouville is full of visitors ; the hotels are crowded, private houses are all let, and commodities of every description are excessively dear. Rare all kinds of phmenre are concentrated—every description of attraction which the unusual temperature of the season will permit. tinstreets and promenades are thickly studded with t equipages ; a large number of persons from amongst the highest nobility make this their rendezvous. Large parties continue to arrive every day, attracted both by the bathing and the races at Deauville, for this town rivals Trouville in animation, and the two casinos vie with each other in the gaiety and success of their recrea tions. To-day we have Carlotta Patti, to-morrow the artists of the Palace Boyal present themselves." The Gazzetta del Popo lu of Turin gives an account of a duel between the Marquis Calani, director of the Gawtte in that city, and M. Annaratone, advocate, mana ger of the journal If Fiecanago. The latter of the com batants was wounded in the hand, and the surgeon in attendanoe having declared that M. Annaratone could not pa/sully continue the duel, the seconds pronounced that the eaeouatie was at an end. OUR PARIS LETTER. (nom on on' col PARIS., MONDAY Brwrixo. During the last three years the Patrie has pub lished letters dated from Brussels, and professing to be written by a Belgian, who signs Van Ryck. These letters, which from the beginning expressed discontent with the Belgian government, have latterly preached, without reserve, annexation to France ; and the grievances of Belgian subjects, of which he, the Belgian Can Ryck, stood forward as the redresser and one of the victims, were alleged as reasons why the oppressed Belgians de sired to enjoy the privileges of French subjects. It has just been discovered in Brussels that M. Van Ryck is a Frenchman named Leon Estivan, and the Patrie, not being able to deny the fact, has the hardihood to say it doesn't matter, and that their agent was just as good a representative of Belgian opinion as if he had been a native. He might, no doubt, as the Patrie says, have acquired by long residence—although three years is net long—sufficient knowledge to form a judgment of political opinion in the country. Bat nobody can attach any value to the opinions he professed under false colours. It is one thing to be a a correspondent in a foreign country and to write home opinions which are known to be those of a foreigner; but quite another to wear a mask and pretend to be a native of the place from which the letters are written. The French journals very fre quently countenance the latter course, and publish letters from London signed with the John Bull names of John Wilks or Robert Styles, which are notoriously written by Frenchmen. Viscount de Kerveguen, the deputy whose name was lately very much before the public in con nection with a libel on the Debate and other Paris papers, has just died at Madrid from sunstroke. Madame de Kerveguen, who had been telegraphed for, left for Madrid this morning. The Gauteis says that General Prim, accom panied by a secretary and an aide-de-camp, is at this moment in Paris on his way somewhere else. But of this Spanish general's movements, as of Mazzini's, I must read twenty confirmations be fore I would believe them. The first paper I take up—the Liberte—says it is untrue that Prim is in France or coming to Vichy, and that when he leaves London it will be for Brighton. It is now said that the sale of the Chateau de Beauregard to the King of Hanover has gone off, and that the place is still in the market. M. Magne, who has lost not a moment in bringing out his loan. seem to have made a smart coup. The price of emission, 69fr. 25c., was higher than was expected, and there was a good deal of hesitation at the opening of the Bourse, the first quotation of Rents being only sc. higher than Saturday, and a fall of 21c. taking place a few minutes later. But the phenomenon which M. Magne calculated upon was produced. The price of 69fr. 23e., though differing to the eye so inconsiderably from 70fr., which was the average quotation of last week, is equivalent— the 18 months' delay in the instalment and all other things considered—to 67fr. or thereabouts. This great advantage will, barring political events which are not likely to happen within the eight days that the loan subscription will be open, entice the small fry to come forward with their francs as they have always done on former occasions. At the same time, as M. Magne reserves the power of reducing all subscriptions under the almost in finitely small one of five franca Bente, and will not allow subscribers for more than 100 fr. Rents to pay up their subscriptions in advance, capitalists who had sold out, hoping to benefit by the difference, find that they can calculate upon scarcely having anything, and are therefore now buying in again. It is boasted that this is a "poor man's loan." Such in part is an explana tion of the mystery which, contrary to prosy laws of political' economy, makes the French Renter always rise when they are diluted and show borrowing money to be a sign of prosperity. The last loan was covered fifteen times over. This one, some say, will be covered twenty times, and then " Viva l'Empereur " for August 13. The last quo tations of the Rents to-day were 70fr. 63c. both for cash and account, being a rise of 35c. and 30c. ' Italian fell sc. Other securities were by no means buoyant. Mobilier fell 3fr. 75c. The recent judgment leaves the prospects of the Mobilier more uncertain than ever ; one estimate of the lia bilities of the directors as laid down by the Court of Appeal would leave the shares worth 400 fr. ; another 60fr. The to-day's quotation is 262 fr. 50c. The Count d'Argy, colonel of the Antibes Legion, has returned to Rome, suffering severely from the bite of a Wailful' spider. M. Rattazzi has arrived in Florence from Ger many, and immediately had a prolonged interview with Owaeral La Marmon,. THE EMPEROR Or AUSTRIA AN/I Tux GERMAN RIPENS A Viana letter, of the 314 July mays Not withstanding the violence of the wind, which even New down came trees the Emperor Fratieis-Joetph mid 3 ve wt yesterday to the Schutren Park. His Majeety arrived at about half-past 5. in an open carriage. wearing We us. dress uniform of the regiment which beware his name, %DI accompanied by Count Parr adjutant of the 'Weep Tb, enormous crowd was ranged in two compact 1113134% extending from the principal entrance to the grand h.o . at the door of which stood MM. (liiikra, and Chorinsky. Prince de Lichtenstein, the member, et the committee and some ladies of the aristocracy. Ti,. Emperor, on alighting from his carriage, asked the two presidents and the rice-presidents to accompany him. O a , of these latter is a former chief of the academic legion 1848, was condemned to death by Witithschgtheti ; sa t was even hanged in effigy in 1849. He has a jovial li p . pearance, and looks as if h e did no t mean to leave world for some time yet. The fact of his oceupying present position shows what progress Austria bas made in a liberal path since those events. When the Emperor entered the hall. one of the prendeate presented to him a golden flagon half filled with an Austrian white wine called for the oceaaion echutzeii. weir (shooters' wine), Francis Joseph took the sup, tad. before raising it to his lip said, in a sonorous yoke, winch might be heard by all, ' I drink to the health of all th. riflemen present,' then at one draught he took off the contents. Hie physiognomy began to lose a cannwors septet which it had at find, and I heard him say very du. tinctly to Doctor Kopp, ' I begin to be well pleaeel at having come here.' He then proceeded, is the midst of loud cheers, to the shooting-gallery, where he remained for as hour, and bete ls quitting took up a rifle, and almost without an aim lori tt e4 a ball in the black circle of the target. Let us now g% to the breech-loaders,' he said ; and then, still followed by the crowd, he wont to the shooting stand in the fird angle at the right of the gallery. The Emperor was shows successively the Venzel and iVrendl rides, and then oss made by a Norwegian named Larsen. The inveatut himself fired, and each of the spectators, watch la hand, could count the shots In this. minute, Larsen had dischami 53 bullets, of whirl, 21 struck the target. His Majesty then took the gun, had its mechanism explained to him, and fired himself. In the evening _24. Larsen was sent f or to the Miniatry of War. The Emperor did not leave the gallery until he had seen everything. He then returned to nit ball, which in the meantime had been brilliantly bod e d up. A member of the committee presented to hem a glad. of Vienna beer. ' But I shall get intoxicated,' said hu Majesty, laughing; ' however, as I have begun, I will go on.' He then raised the glass in the German maims to salute the assembly, and drank off the content, at draught. The evening was setting in when the Emperl :' left. This august visit has given the greatest pleasure t the marksmen, those from abroad especially." EBEADFUL DISASTER AT A REHEARSAL or SIEGE OPERATIONS. The rehearsal of the siege operations to tali.. place at Chatham garrison on Wednesday unhappily tor. ininated with a fatal disaster yesterday. The whole of the troops of the garrison were engenad as attackers or defenders, under the command of Major-General Freemen Murray, the commandant of the garrison. The general, accompanied by Major-General Simmons, C. 8., H.R., and many other officere, rode round the trenches. When the men were in position an attack was made on Prince Henry' Baetion, which was escaladed ; but th e besiegers were eventually driven back. A mine was exploded, torpedoes fired in St. Mary's Creek, electric telegraph lines laid, X , . Late in the afternoon a pretended attack was made on stockade near the river, which was supposed to be blowu in with gunpowder, and a force entereer the works at s.. Mary's barrier. Another attack was to be made at ti. • Bedell, where a body of engineers were to put a bridz. , aErose the trench, over which the besiegers were to make an entry. Here the disaster occurred which brough. the mimic display to a tragic ending. During the afternoon a body of engineers, under the command of Lieutenant his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, K.G., bad prepared a framework for the bridge. Th.• supports for the platform of the bridge were formed o; three long poles lashed together by transverse,' pieces. two other poles being attached at the centre to &occur into the ditch and support the platform. Thi s tram , work was carried to the ditch by the men under the command of Prince Arthur, safely put into position, and then boards were laid across to form the roadway. Over this the prince passed with his men. Then large num bers of men pressed forward to enter the fortress, too eagerly, despite of officers urging them nut to load the bridge too much. Unfortunately. as the men were crews. ing, they fixed their bayonets. While this rush of men was going on, the bridge broke, two of the three lougite. dinaipoles mapped on the inner side of the ditch. and some twenty men were hurled a considerable depth into the ditch and from their having their bayonets heed, a. well as from the depth which they fell, the results were most lamentable. Many wounds were inflicted by tho bayonets, many of the men who fell being sadly cut on the face and body. One poor fellow, a marine, we killed either instantly or he died shortly after, w believe from a bayonet wound in the neck or breast. Seven or eight others were badly hurt in various wipe, and had to be carried to hospital. Everything that could be done for the sufferers on the spot was promptly done, and the Prince was active with his brother officers in ren dering aid. The men who fell by the breaking of th." bridge were Royal Engineers or Royal Marines. of course this disaster put an end to any further proceedings at this point of the fortifications. IS o doubt at the inquest a strict investigation will be made in regard to the mate rials used in making the bridge, and the actual cause of this fatal accident.—/bat. The presence of some thousands of soldiers on the summit of the Alban bill, at Rome, does not prevent its base from being infested by brigands. A few daye ago. Signor Santovetti, a landed proprietor of Frascati, was driving by the Molars, five miles on the road to Valmontone, when two brigands summoned him t.) halt. His coachman, however, rushed on, resolret to have a gallop for it, and the brigands, left in the lurch, fired after their intended victims, wounding Signor Santovetti in the shoulder, but not preventing hi, escape. In examining the papers of M. do Cormenia, Councillor of State, reeently deceased, the following note. dated January 1, 1868, wu found:—" 1 desire expressly that nothing which I leave shall be published after my death, as I have made noise enough while alive. Silence" is the epitaph which suits me best.—DE Coitxxxvg." His heirs have, in consequence, abandoned their intntaioll of publishing his correspondence and literary remains. Madame Alexandrine Bris has jit4 passed a brilliant examination before the Faculty of Sciences at Paris and obtained the degree of Bachelor. Her intention is to study medicine with a view of obt.iiilin; a ph).- sician's diploma. TROP DE ZELE.—The Courri , .r a devoted organ of the empire—has been seized for print ing the proclamation of the Central Committee of Action to which the Pays—the journal of the empire pi; —first directed public attention. The proclamation w introduced by some editorial remarks to the effect that 1 . was published with a view of exciting abhorrence of the doctrines professed by the Central Committee of Acti.n. Notwithstanding this, the paper was seized on the grin of containing au article exciting to the overthrow of :}r! imperial government. The Ace..., whether the Commissary of Police who made the seinio will be promoted ; and remarks that the government 1,, sometimes strange agent,. . . ------- MURDER AT BRISTOL—A murder J u ts been committed at Wells. Early on Monday morning a navvy, named Bisgrove, was found in a field kneeling beside the dead body of a companion named Cornish, who bad been killed by blows on the bead. Bei grove raid he went into the field to sleep by the side of Cornish, and that while there a tall navvy came with a large stone and dropped it on Cornish's head, smashity:. his skull, and killing him. A stone covered with blood and hair was found in an adjoining stream. The men were engaged in making the Cheddar Valley Railway. Three others have been apprehended—a navvy named Miller, who had fought with deceased ; and a man name I Sweet, and a proetitute, who had a row with deceased on Sunday night near the scene of the murder. A BEVISED SENTENCE.—Gunner Benjamin Sheldon, of No. 3 battery 22nd brigade. A.A., was tried lately by court-martial at Lucknow, for having murdered one Elijah Wall by shooting him with a carbine, and was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. This sentence of the court was afterwards " revoked," but the "revised sentence" was also to the effect that the un fortunate man should be hanged. The " sea tense" and the revired sentence' are as follow : Sentence—“ The court sentence the prisoner, No. 331. Gunner Benjamin Sheld.m, of the 3 rd battery, 220;1 brigade, Royal Artillery, to suffer death by being henget,. Revised Sentence—" The court, Laying atteutireiy conn derid the observations of the revving officer, and the whole of the proceedings, do now revoke their former sentence, and now sentence the wisoner, No. 334, Gunner Benjamin Sheldon, of the 3rd battery, 22nd brigade, Royal Artillery, to suffer death by being hanged by neck until he be dead." The virtue of the revision teems to be in the words by the neck until he be dead.' The sentence was confirmed by Sir W. R. Mansfield, anal spproeed by the Governor-General in council. The bodies of a man and woman cloeely tied together by the waist have been taken out of the Seine near Auteuil. The two had evidently committed a de termined suicide. Nothing was found on their persons to lead to their identification. rt Pi ; $i