The Express. — London, England, 1858-10-22 00:00:00

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LT.-AM its To Insists. 11111111311,11. Ition t _tam two, Sig ,Rin •=AC ar s ramer ib ivaiLArkon Wass. Isom& ;bra ;Or liasue.—Oommee se HlOll W.&Till AT LONDON BUMS. reas t =l= a5 3161 : —. '..«..7&= sit. LONDON. 'FRIDAY. OCT. 72. SPORTING 4 SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS; containing the waits of the day's Rana ia pob lishad ivory wooing daring the Sporting Suwon, at sia o'clock. THZT manage these things better in France--very much better—there can't be a doubt about it. Moe, for Instance, is the French Association which, under the style of the " London Omnibus Company," has for the last year or two been attempting to obtain a monopoly of the cheap passeoger transit in all the thoroughfares of the British metropolis. They have to report to their shareholders that the endeavour to establish a monopoly has failed—that their receipts on the half-year have fallen off—their working en pewee largely iiioressed—and their net profits, in consequence, been very materially reduced. In order to account foe those discouraging results, they entertain their proprietary with a very philosophical disquieition on the constitutional peculiarities of the British nos—and on the unfor tunate influence brought to bear by recent political excitement on the prospects of their enterprise. They have, it seems, been regarded with odium by the citizens of " perfidious Albion" as a " foreign " monopoly," a term of reproach which, we are told, eorresponds in effect with the two most energetic " sentiments which do honour to the English na " Lion, and which are, so to speak, the kinadatiom " of its political otiestittition, and the sentiment of " each individual citizen." If by this superfine phraseology the permits of this French Company merely mesa to convey to their Parisian share holders the information that Englishmen don't like monopolies in any case, and are not the room likely to be impressed in their favour because they're intro duced and worked by foreigners ; there an be ao doubt that their representation is substantially correct. We are very much accustomed here to do things far ourselves ; we are unphilmophical enough to enter tain the conviction that the public is never so well Nerved by monopoly se by ocuepetition—by exclusive trade as by free trade. The surprise experienced by the managers of the French Association at the efikiels of unrestricted omnibus competition in the British metropolis is communicated to their shareholders on the other side of the Chancel with considerable named. They felt sure, the Report informs os, in embarking on their enterprise, that any serious oppo sition to the sew Company was an impossibility. They had bought up all the best linos. The existing ember of omnibuses is the London streets wee already so peat that there esemed physically and literally no room *mem. Fame had apparently bee& reduced be the lowest limit compatible with prodt " Thome " was besides," es they significantly Intimate to their shareholder., "in the large imam at the command " of a company like yours, good reason for believing " that ao me would engage in opposition to it." All them micalstions have, it seems, been faleided by the results. The British Omnibus proprietor was not to be so quietly suppressed. The large profits earned by the Company in the first year of its exist ence tempted, strange to say, other capitalises into the field. There are, unfortunately, no restrictive laws at force in this uncivilised land to interfere with the free employment of capital in any enterprise not inconsistent with public interest or public morality. A rival Company was started ; competition was audaciously and reek imily set en foot by independent reptile tors ; wont of all, an ungrateful British public, forgetful of all the improvements which the Freak Company had been the means of in troducing, had the bad taste and the bed feeling, from the mere wantonness of nationality, and in obedience to those two energetic sentiments of which mention has already been shads, to petronies the rival lines, in spite of their far inferior meow modation. The malt of this blind partiality on the part of the British public has been a very material reduction in the profits of the Association. Cos paring the lest six months with the cormsposidiag half-year of 1867, the receipts have been, la round numbers, 16,6001. less, and the working expenses 6,6001. more. The total net profit on the half-year is but • little over 9,0001. Under these cir cumetanses the Directors have taken their resolution. The Company will still be a monopoly (as far as it can), but it will no longer be a French mere poly. Its management and the place of its meetings will be transferred from Paris to London. Instead of being a ?mesh Recite! en commeadite, it will be, after the 31st of next December, an English Com pany with limited liability. Bach is the plan re sorted to by the managers of the Association, for aratralliag the effect of those two energetic senti ments which do such signal honour to the British nation, he., he. Now then can be no doubt that, am fir MI it goes, I this transfer of the management of the Company to an English directorate, and of its principal place of basins". from Paris to London, will be an improve ment. Then was a manifest want of ion ambit in attempting to tarry on in a far sign capital, tal and by a foreign =sawmills*, an enterprise which as intimately concerned the efflirry-day comfort and convenience of the residents in the British =atropine. The London public, for whose service this Company was profoundly ".tab-, liahod, the people who reeticaUy a:perinea& its de ficiencies and shortcomings, were virtually powerless and unrepresented at the periodical meetings of t a ry. Bat the manager' of this Association an MOO THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2! mach mistaken if they sapposethat the legitimate opposition which Will be neutralised lity or in its waeFresols,but. It was maasged managed in Land forth the opposition the least wish to preen unfairly against the Company. We ere Toile ready to give it all the credit to which it is reasonably entitled. No candid person who bears Is mind what the London omnibus was some two or three years took, and what it is now, will fail to acknowledge that both directly and indirectly the A/mention hie hew of mom service to the London dtizen. The baild of the carriages is improved; the quality of the service is improved. Inside there is some approach to decent cleanliness and due venti lation ; outside it is possible to ascend without danger, sail to it without absolute discomfort. The wet dew nuisance is considerably abated. There is a gispiglible mitigation in the Milani= of the eon dellers. Without having thoroughly moan 4111alsed themselves is "ingenuous arts," they Mee at all events dropped some of the ferocity of .their ancient manners. The mode of communicating the wants and wishes of the interior to this genus bedheiale is Ism primitive and barbarous than it was. People with feeble voices are lam helpless, and spin sters with active umbrellas are less formidable, than ia the unimproved times, when to shout and to poke were the only methods of intimating a desire to be milt down. The heightening of the roofs and the esedilation from above are to be noted as decided =of advance. There are now omnibuses to in which it is possible to escape the miser able alternative of suffocation when the windows are ap, or bronchitis when they are down. Contrivances have been devised by means of which the moot cor palest matron may reach the far interior without crushing the toes or settling down upon the knees of her sawing fellow-creatures. The sow eitivenem of the British female is less exposed to distress, and the corns of the British public are more exempt from torture. For all these improvements the great omnibus public have reason to be duly grate faL Rome of them are unquestionably due to the direct improvements introduced by the new Com pany. Still more, to the indirect influence of that wholesome competition which the Company has done its best to put down. Bat while all fair admission of this kind are cheerfully made,the broad fact is not to be disguised that this Company has sought to effect a monopoly, by the mot open and offensive exertion of the money power. In the pursuit of this object it has re sorted to means, the adoption of which is as dis creditable to the Association, es the failure to suppers them has been disgraceful to the poops of the metropolis. In this very Report the Directors state the belief which actuated thus in starting the Association. They ware fully con vinced that no opposition could be set on foot against a Company " with such large means at its eons " mend." In amounting for the enormous amount of their working expenses—upwards of 282,0001.0 s the half-year, against 191,0001. of receipts—they ' frankly refer to the necessity "of maintaining oar " position against our opponents at any cost." The London public know rutty well how "this opposition "at any oast" has been emanated. Nothing more offensive to public decency, or more hazardous to public safety, has ever been exhibited in the tho ronghfares of a great city. Without the slightest re fannies to public accommodation, but solely with the view of putting down opponents at any met, this Association has employed the large means at its dis ' pont in running a couple of omnibuses, sometimes more, against the single omnibus of any independent competitor. The men employed by the Association have had strict instructions constantly to dodge their competitors—to "nurse them," according to the cur rent slang of the streets, or, u one of the drivers ex plained the process in a police-court, " to keep one " behind and one before, wherever they go." The scandalous consequences that have necessarily fol lowed this overbearing attempt at establishing a monopoly of the road, are notorious to all residents in the metropolis. Our police reports are full of them, our daily walks bear witness to them : it would be absurd to enlarge upon them here. Now then let the managers of the London Omnibus Association be well sawed that this ' is a sort of thing which the British public will not kelente. It offends two very " energetic sentiments" of the Leaden/sr—hie love of order, and his love of fair play. If the Directors of this Company mean to mania their old game of wasting the property of their shareholders in attempting to " put down oppe • sition at any cost"—if they mean to persevere is endeavouring to establish a monopoly by making our streets scandalous, our polies regale:time contemp tible, and our lives insecure—they may just as well shot up shop at once. This kind of thing will never do in England. Unless they mean to abandon this style of proceeding, the Company, instead of transferring their seat of management from Paris to London, had better transfer their sphere of operations from London to Paris. If, at the other hand, without aiming at an odious mane• poly, they are metut with seeking to establish themselves in public favour by the superiority of their earominedatioil, they may rest assured that there nem will be, as there never has been, any unfair holing against them simply on the ground that they were organised in France, and have been partly managed by Frenchmen. BLOAT, THDIUMAT.—A measso hed hese elveribed tam ilde graft et the Tows ben, et width Mr. thbrieleeess W aertethed Ids taroks le Mend mad =obit to all slam theorem he shcialtl „.. = see at the eggeseeklas eleelles. As dr thar ter • mobs, oft elvity earlsthere —.. = ibbeee=l " =ries ware sees et caegregate sw the hell, sad et the tithe he lieldfar the seestema they rushed is sad lo th }rewrite Mite Wither. whoa 11r. Jesse cease beweed tir wither the maggisi • setae et dierreeethl The I awl thatatha sexed, itaheed dreireeke were *arra with ohm seledhs, sal the et the proem pretest tekgg =loot* vonwatl eed col-eak% IR deer b eam of reethelea sad thalbeemat prevailed. Ws cantlased ter • arilderehle thee, red Kr. lathe et Wirth =thia wee beardble te abeam • beettea, hewed sad Tram With esembedi thb reeedarOt saildplied that the sues yeethe war thew the seem et Adams te rmer. mid the ethiselthe lath fit beak dety to weer la • sedidad armeter ipeskil reasiellies le prevent say theireherie et the penis poser Lotto°, AND limns= AIOIIIOIOOICAL fke ctort.—• mellier et Ole wag we hal la Wed= et Beiad, et maim sied CrMe very The eV oared . IYr the Xte;7 " ttetthes ad' the mar Wed fa the WO Ithediser eher ego d'eloek. the Avon d Lad Ara eel .J. K. Heath, who team aloha W foveae' zzratz ta i r he chair wee to by Mr. J. B. decry, it few hdrodeslorp ambito by the sheirmett the Mar. Them: Heiq 1.11./., marred lath MIS bathe of the met embed sadadaheeeraalteadtheuvra sad adailleatheol, Wad fag the shank with W Itheradag reastheer art =verb Woe to the el Lady Tlyteft; the Pekoe, with Its noble says, M Baer, stssshiase welitheirwork, sad are• Were ; a been et eneseeselel ludebrork, sow and se the Whirr dales. die Gramer Raised , Googrloses, the le± . e ... t th e While Wale, a* Mr. TA a a seikaaf, boa with ohm ameeth of the imbue elleote - 7 — 'sechalisaled bereft thseesered at redoes those eighth the Ithdee et the peehl; rod Mr. Jobe NM* TA.A., tankard • streelr et Ultra Orea Ch ret tidied at 1/4•18.. In Catalatlillot the mom ft Set hem*. ealig The_ Pail rubergaistlY pH• vidl Is ad beau described ury• ht Yr. llages paper. A Uttar awe BIM* stalls that operations had tree ceavethad fra i ret7l. by arras et =4 l.4 mm emir" the water the °ethos. saw The erseylete irebbe el pleoe of water, width ewers sa east et 1.000 OCTIIN w1147t is effected, be elided to the epees el eh maths. Irbt Coun. • oil! to Frognoto. WINS AM 33. Como tht ta r., Loimis ot 1421 .110;4 0 vs VT. Ars. royal ohildrei likewise paid The Oentd;r at Oardta boa ancoreded Lady Churchill ea Indy In WOW( le Ws Illerety. Carmel P. Z. Ifeynor and Canter the Hon. D tune, de Rae haw enereded Mejar-Ganeral the Her. C. Grey end Ident.-Oclonsi Panssaby, r Iblarriee in Waiting to the Cram end Prime Onneart The Chews Der et the itsehoper wine In town mtge. day. ha Rea. Mr. Cartier, Noe Inaba, of Canada, wawa raid by bit colleaves, Mr. laapector-Getteral Galt and Mr. Roes, bad a Winker, yeaarday, with tbe Chancellor et the Rzeberverr. llz. Restock M.P., had also an interview with the right hes. Deipishes frees the %versos et Goads we resetved yolmeday, et the Coloalsl-offios. Despetottes tem slim :e -mbed *OM the Governors of Ulnas sad Malta. The Prince Consort and the Prime of Wales, is provision of loads la the comity of Absalom, hove °en laces& each Use ewe of dal, to the fond for ligeddotiog the debt ea tb baddligo of the 17alvecolty sad King's College, with a view Is *sir reatorelfea. His Excelisesy the Sardinian Minister has re tsina to tows from tie Otolloott. The Duke and Dodos of Blanchester have arrived at Knowsley, on a vidt be the last end Monks@ of Derby, from Adding Lord awl Lady MTN Ossalaten, at Chilling- Iwo Coeds, Neednunbarked. The Dachas* of Bowie** has returned to Drum lams* Cast* from 1 - demsbemy Riabaload. The duke haajohod Um defame, Orem Idiaborgh. The Duke and Duchess of Montrone and Lady Adam Graham have arrived st Kama Abbey, Kildare, from 'Omitted the Bari and Ocaudeas of Parteriingtaa, as Emo Park, Qama'a County. The Earl and donated. of Derby have daring the week entaradard a ananolon of vidiars at Knowsley. The anon be. bawled the Ind at Cartana, Lord and Lay John Roane and She Mow Hard!, Lard Horny Scot; the Has. H. T. L. Carry, the Right How. Spasm and Moe. Walpole sad Min Walpole, Bir Robot and Lady Emily Pal, eit Radial* Marennen, &a. Vimeolutsis Diagarvon has left Claridge'. Hotel, for Boodand. Lord and Lady Wensleydale arrived at Hnll on Wedaeeday, by the Athottio sleaverr, after a favourable Punterk_ The Duo of Hamilton. Count Potocki, end Earl Grenville, hare IA the Held Bristol, Park, for London. A matrimonial alliance is arranged to take place between Lady Emma Stewart, mond daughter of the Bari of 04loway, and Yr. Tollamaehe, dart son of Yr. John Tollesasoles, H.P. lar Cbash4e. We (Poet) have learnt with extreme satisfaction that as etexorat that has lone the rotted of the papers, to the girt ami Hewitt Matti bee awed the mreifi ant eaa of 16,110 X for the endowment of • blehopik to HAI& Coltuabis, eubstastfally oxrect. . . We (llsttia4Asin Journal) mach regret to state UM his Orem the Deka of liamaatis haa bees for several dam mat mllsrlag from m Meek of the mall pox at Clamber. life Gram ma ma:hated in early Ilfs, bat It could not have been doss alhottvely. Oar latest aoroonts tram Clamber stets that this Saver appeasd to be ausidleg, sad that the antes r gemsally reepseled slam, wN som be prceromead fa a state et coambeemos. iVe (Wiltshire Isstispendesst) are marry to hoar that the veamobie Nary& d Laanowan who lately ro amed to Bowecol frees a Isar la Bootbsid sad dm North al Boatead, hoe hem for the bet laird& =dad to his room from a sere vibe al goat, previous to will& the adds lad Wild bays ben um almost doily Midas his asoulosord bane surdas Wise away from Boweod, sad looking as Mk sad *emu so he did twenty yams book. _ _ News resehed Eloath;a;pton yesterday of the Arch of Sir Ming Bader et Bess s. &r Edward yes the camaervadhteredisto kr Beelhassistas at the lest p wed shades. The sub-oomeittee of the Bt. Pours Cathedral Fund mat In tbs banding Imbeds', be lbs Apr al test ing scam asperbwmin Midas Is tits warming of the Inter(/' ; and dm molt was so sadabatory that It woe nsolved, vali ant Imm et Ow, Is onspiiir tiM *bob of the crypt warming sammesmuds be dm maim boning. The Lard Mayor elect (Alderman Wire) is to be satertWasd shortly et e public dinaerst Cokbeder t Ws mare tows. The Chamber of COMMIS of Dundee have me auvialleed the Coma of laila Oa the idmhlmeet of pro soft' the lallvalisa alba la deet emery. Some mateples pop la the Paajaab love bin proaottaced of Boa quality, and me es would at an dam, la say trematttles, commend aMO Wee la our serkela. The want of ea orgeakei eye. tea, ea the shames of grewel ieforetalket oa the tabled swag the natives, ire etaellitwei le be the oily tames that pelmet a Imp supply beet Wag *tabs& - The amnia' muting of the Bradford Young Mee/ Christian naasalolian bald its hut mad amass ca Tar dy main kot, lett. Ossans's HA wafer ihs yeasidismay of tbs NM of tilinflohary, who Mb/ad as addass on the awoke. His We* was sappaind an As *aim by the Mayer at 11.P.for tbeborogb, aad by saagisirsiss, ainisaws of Winks at dillasat dead manna wed Maw gattbasso. The Essex Hall Asylum for Idiots is cased, sad the whole of the pepOs hove been removed to the Asylum at Eartswood, Hal Hill, likasey. During the recent range of the King end Qom ei Prue& through Lips* &jewel ear erenelthe netlike et reneldereirie vela*, eel mete very leveeing cerreneedeare, the property of her Meireyorers dein, mad the thistles not yet bee dlecovtred. The position of the few Christians in !foram swan le be aseellealy widest. The fellevetag is ea ulnae treat • istaer received frets Mr. Barrow, the British camel at Baba, hearing tide September 1, 18118 . " Itimalielim is daily end dibly raise grand. Our Meese are sow waned es well as ban, bah', and &weaves OM Mk, &es. Ocanstuireekne between the hooch she =wale sad assreluste wed ray viee-eoesolate its speed, so that 11111111110011111 el Shaw an would cone to asy house, widish h tbs non muse end easily delessied. And to that Mee peen, nom me the amines% vine your luggage was pieced, I due wasted about Mb. el powder—choosing rather, it It be Gore will, that en who ere deer to we &meld Yes pod* than rids the honer el mbar their lives cat away pieeeemel. that. pusses dessasted, end their runner thrown to the dep." The Grand bathes Catherine of Russia and her Onmort Duke Gawp at Meokkrabeas Ikarweria arrived from Oars at Nies ea the 176. Oa estesiat the port a *elate at artlairy wekamsd 1b Orweel Daithem, who, on Lags*, wee rossivott by the prlartgal satheralm Is full uniform Later la the day • &petal/ea tram the ash market presorted the Ovead Dears with haseast. A Niro oonespoadoat obaeves :—" This ends othdarenas to forte theseseres Oil the attendee at *ph; senders, err their oassezioas, is spertlng over sh =rope, sad try bo eoasidorsd as samlwr *humph at French baker& Mat to maatilatioas sad • free prom, this latereded *Hums d tic ash merhs• mast. I should kiwi, reprisal ems at the greirost Irish to which modern rakes are sabjeoraL The hemp* to qualm wee et the she of a out-whest, sad, bier ocaaposod of oinks of dowers of diffalat agar" had the appanage at as seeheey beta" A St. Petersborg letter of Oct. 14 states that the Remise gmmemal, Hama Wrewaki, was haled as Sept. 16, is • chew amide by the Ckaammimato d Aleal-11.1tovi, la the Leeßbrds emestry. The Oascamtmam saw the omaamaad at Mammy' MI bell deb herb high, sad show rest ante getkel .1181 am wail am omenate, Bchaatyl commands In yar ns at Tabeteha•, Lovable, mad Dagaletaa. Stoma somManioarion biteran Stettin and St. l'itsrobart for the present moos Is to be closed from to morrow, the Md. Aa hospital for lepers was inaugurated ou the 18th at esa Bre,aer Nice. The apple pounding is now going on briskly, and tho yield of elder is more abundant then had beam antiorfatod. howeral maven of apples from the Channel lolanda an also armlet.. The prim of eider will net noted IL per bogs bead.--Plipassah Anneal. FROM PA Rib. ... IL • FS , • gruhst ouft "ars ooianspomrDzirt , AAILIB, THURSDAY O. Coligny, belphig M. de Piennee, w 4 the ift latest inetimiltions of the French golifnment liSve to the affair of the Charles Georges, did not reach Lisbon so soon as was expected. It en countered bad weather, and only arrived, as we now learn by telegraph, on the 19th. A telegram from Vigo says that M. de Pairs would not arrive at Lisbon till this evening or to-morrow morning. The Toulon fleet is all in readiness to sail in case it should receive orders by telegraph; bat although nothing certain is known, the confident feeling that the peace will not be broken remain. unshaken. A Lisbon letter of the 16th states that Admiral La vand on his arrival in the Tagus paid a visit to the French Sisters of Charity. The following paragraph, the wording of which requires to be carefully weighed, is order if possible to extract Its true meaning, has been sent to the emni-official journal : Hu am rightly informed, his Extolling the Minister et the Interior, out of his anxiety to fad/hate latereational relations, has given orders to the CM*. mhosrles of polio, of the ports and frontiers, re quiring them Itsooeforth to look upon paorports as eon/erring • title to the protection of the authorities, and not u a came of delay, or a pretext for petty annoyances. The minister is also emseklering the question whether, in order to ea courage travelling, it might not be well to authorise the cub prefect of the land and sea frontiers to issue passports toe fondles countries in the name of the prefect. Both these maseares will, we are certain, be reoelved with the utmost favour. Nothing could be more worthy of the Emperor's government than to respond, by this display of confidants, to the absurd attacks which are menstbstee made upon It. Although I am not sufficiently versed in the art of interpreting official language to offer any rag gestion as to what practical difference in the pin- I port system is promised by this manifestation, I cannot help thinking that M. Delangle's good sense has led him to see that it it altogether useless, and that, en ationsfast, the total abolition which mut come, bier real inten tion is imply to keep up the form for the benefit of the clerk' employed. It is at all events matter for congratulation to see an official declaration that pass ports are not meant to be instruments of oppression or annoyancut a time whena prated ofa souther" depart- monis:luny proposed that the government should refuse passports to every individual ender twenty one yaws of age, in order to stem the tide of emigra tion by die working dames in his district to better their condition. The Council of State met to-day for the fleet time since the vacation, M. Bezoohe in the chair. It is believed that several important bills, and amongst them one for endow log a •ew creation of noble - 4 and another (proposed by the Senate) for establish ing a rural code, will be immediately discussed. It is stated that • difference between Piedmont and Naples, relative to the capture el a Neapolitan vessel in the Sardiniaa water, hes been satisfac torily arranged, thanks to the friendly and un official intervention of the French government. At the Bourse the Bente has sustained the farther coosiderable fall of 16c. for cash sud 26c. for account, the last prices being 73fr. and 73fr. 10c. ; Mobdiar fell 10fr. Railways, in consequence of good news of the receipts, were comparatively firm, but the hut quotations were somewhat lower than yesterday. A protectionist journal of St. Etienne, the Ifesso rial de la Loire, says that the decree allowing foreign iron to be imported free of duty, if after wards exported in a manufactured state, will not be renewed. The Press* doubts the truth of the swertion. Count de la Rochefoncauld, an attache to the French embassy at Rome, has just arrived in Paris, and some think that he has brought despatches on the subject of the abduction of the Jewish child Mortara. A French translation of the Pope's apology for this atrocious act is now printing is Paris, and will shortly appear. ITALY. THE TWO BICILIF.B. Crsoit ors on! On authority which I cannot doubt, it has transpired here that Lord Malmesbury has pro posed to the King of Naples, through the medium of Count Bernstorff, that the pri sonersof Ifontesarehio should be liberated and sent out of the country on the terms of the treaty made with the Argentine Republic two years ago. The King is stated to have replied that it would be in. ?amble to sot on that treaty, as it had expired, and rt was not like that it would be renewed ; more- over, that his Majesty had offered pardon to the pri sewers of Montesarchio repeatedly, provided they would ask the Kings pardon. That liberty has beau premised to those unfora nate men several times as these conditions is undoubtedly true ; bat it is equally true that several did ask perdu, which was never granted, and that several begged to have a new . u they were perbstly innocent of the crime for which they were condemned, and amid not ask p . ardon. I mast content myself at preiwnt with a simple statuseat of frets ; but England will well know bow to to the manner in which Lord Malmeating de ends British honour abroad, and of how little value he considers to be the interests of a people whose only hopes of amelioration depend on foreign moral support, if not foreign int/inseam. A telegraphic despatch ban Malta has arrived ordering the immediate return of the Centaur to England. NAPLRB, Oar. lb. THE PAPAL STATES. (rzo* OM OWN ROILS, Ocr. 16. The Duke of Modena, who has been laboriously lionized about Rome for the lag fortnight, and hos pitably entertained by hist:fa/mos at dinner on two stmeesinve Thursdays, first at the Benedictine con vent of Bt. Paul, and then at the casino in the Vatican gardens, has given a proof of his gratitude towards the Supreme Pontiff by offering him the services of a general renowned for his devotion to the house of Este, Count Guerra, an officer of expe rience, who, it may be recollected, commanded the expedition directed in 1848 against the territory of Fivizzano, which, on the resignation of the Duke of Laces, devolved to Modena according to treaty, but which resisted separation from the then liberal Grand Duchy of Tuscany, until coerced by General Guerra and his Austrian allies. In case of the Pope's accepting this offer, which is said to be already decided upon, the present oom slander of the Papal army, General di Gregorio, a Spaniard by birth, would retire into honourable inac tivity, consoled perhaps by the cross of the Legion of Honour, which was conferred upon him on the morn ' big of the 14th, with a fraternal embrace, by General Count de Ooyon, in the name of the Emperor of the French, and in the presence of the Roman and Swiss troops, amounting to four battalions of in fantry, one battery of artillery, and half a regiment of cavalry at present in garrison in Rome. A similar honour was conferred on the general's aide de.cemp, Major ahead. General Omen Is already in Rome, and will, it is said, cowman erseatiem by re-organizing the Pon tifical artillery I bet ediatbier his exertions will be limited to the eseellemotibe of that corps, or whether be will really be premselletin die supreme command of his Holineas.forese, Ilia engagement in either Quality by the Papal government is "Ahmed to have given great IMMO to General de Goyon, to inti to which each .c liberty to attend them, all other sludents going through their studies in their native towns or provinces under masters approved of by the Sacred Congregation of Stadia. The various universities may - henceforward be at tended by young men from any part of his Holiness's dominions, provided they are furnished with their requisite documents. This is a step to a somewhat more liberal system of study. The material condi tion of the Papal dominions appears to be gradually improving, and the general success of the wine crop this year is a most favourable point for the welfare of the muses. Roman army defective, and Guerra. Gene / the Papal hie depart comer. at clause in the iversitiee of the students u Money appears to be plentiful on the Exchange, and stool is high. Exchange on London, 470. SPAIN. MADRID, Orr. 20. The Gazette of to-day publishes a circular of the Minister of Public Works, in which he reoommends all persons employed in public offioee to abstain from using any influence in the elections. The electoral accounts which have been received are favourable to the government. Letters from Bilboa give en account of the inau guration of the Bilboa and Tadela Railroad works, which have been commenced near that city. As the weather was magnificent an immense crowd assem bled to witnem the ceremony. The chief engineer, Mr.Vignolles,preeented several tools to the chairman of the company, Don Pablo de Epalie, and, after addressing him in English, proposed three cheers for the Bilboa Railway, which were heartily given. Afterwards M. de Epalra threw a few 'hovel full, of earth into a wheelbarrow, and his example was followed by the vice-president, M. Arellano. The English engineer then, taking off his coat and hat, dug a few minutes amidst much cheering, and then addressing himself to the people called down the blessing of Heaven on the railway. The pro ceedings then terminated. OCT. 21. It appears to be decided that General Prim will command the expedition against the Riff pirates. PRUSSIA. Mum ova ow= BERLIN, Ocr. 19. The seizure yesterday of the liberal National Zei rang has disabused the Berlin ,public of precocious hopes. Tee pretended incriminating article was a leader reviewing the programme of the Breslau Con stitutional Committee for securing the return of liberal members at the approaching general elec tions, and recommending it as the basis of other similar associations. But se it naturally contained some strictures on ministerial aware. foe which the whole of the ministers ass tbeihmeible in solid., they would not brook such diseemise. end hence the seizure. It appears, then, that the last days of Herr von Westphalen's regime have returned, and that the old system will be persevered in till the Prince Regent having taken the required oath to respect the constitution, shall be at liberty to reform his cabinet end make the other alterations which he is now diligently preparing. In consequence of this seizure, the election com mittee, which, as I have already informed you, was being formed in this city, has at a meeting held to day resolved to remain quiet for the present, and Cthont absolutely dissolving itself, take no public steps till it is seen what turn affairs will take on the appointment of a new ministry. The Breslau programme, which I sent you the heads is my last letter, is signed by all the leading liberals of Silesia, and includes the names of some well-known members of both houses, such as Prince H.atzfeldt, Count Heim, Baron Richthofen, Count York, Herr von Wartenburg, and Von Flake--all of whom stand very high in the public estimation as unflinching and uncompromising liberals. The pro gramme, though it doss not go so far as could be wished by the moderate democratic party, has been well received by the latter, so that there is no memo to fear a split between the constitutionalists and the democrats, which the 'freer-Z.4meg party antici pated end hoped for. The eventual retirement of General Count Wal derma from the War-office is now considered oer tete, and the liberal•minded General von Bonin— who it will be remembered was Commander-in- Chief of the Schleswig-Holstein Army in 1849 and 1860--is generally expected to be the new Minister of War, bat he will certainly not accept the poet if he is to be associated with the present ministers as his solkeagues. Daring the comparatively short period of exist ence of the reigning dynasty of Prussia' this is the fourth case of the sovereign delegating the regal authority during his lifetime to his natural moossior. The royal steam yacht Grills, lately bearing the Hag of Admiral Prince Adalbert, has arrived from Hamburg at Daneholm, the new Pruesian naval station on the Island of Rhea ' near Stralsund, where preparations are making to dismantle and lay her up for the winter. The works for improving, deepening, and fortifying this new arsenal have been carried on all the summer with great spirit and sad deity on the part of the naval authorities, and with much more smear than at the sister station in the Jande-Buen on the North Sea coast, which it is mach feared will coat so much money in vain, and mast eventually be abandoned. A ocesstitationel committee for conducting the elections has just been formed at Kfaiigsberg, sad they have published their programme, having taken as their model that of the Breslau liberal committee. The Privy Counollo, Chevalier Bunsen, formerly Proemial' Envoy at the mat of St. James, who since ' his recall has retired into private life and been re, aiding quietly at Heidelberg, engaged in literary pursuits, has been summoned from his academic re treat into public life. At the direct invitation of the Prises Regent he is to repair immediately to Berlin to take his seat as member of the Upper House. Since his retirement from the diplomatic career the Chevalier has been ennobled, and now writhe himself Von Bunsen. rhich they have hitherto enconntereth Utilised by any mere change is its lon. 4 WIN national character. It was not use it TN, Qom aid • Connor but bemuse itwu monopolist; not ~..►part aile limning, td th aged in Paris, bnt beeatipe if was mt .,. r 'rsgmslo• XII Wail his B London, that this Ailmeatiligt has eau oloped the PAN and , Lint position which it denounce.. We have not lag en a Tith eh. , .., _ ... ma . ; . 1 ..,.„... ~.. , _ Princess elite and improver royal c 2, 1858. • ma that ragauisation of the lic by ch ettral Vtillant wu defe ; tong Weights by General Gat r, thitilwiss sisamandant of • , will not be p4teed either at nunliisinginterfered will by a new corn ' . IL Holiness ha/ill.; abrogated that eL decree of 1833 on l'sehools and nniversi jore, which prescribed that only such I An natives of the city or provuurs to , , university belonged, should be at libert. WURTEMBERO. The Second Chamber of Wurtamberg in its sitting of the 16th terminated the &scansion on tha= tent chapter of the budget relative to the taxes. Instead of reducing the income-tax, soar& lug to the proposition of the government,frem fl cent. to 3 per cent., the chamber has ont o .it to 4 per cent. As a set-off, however it mod a reduction of 160,000 florins on the laid tax. (sr =sera= TinianArm.) (FIOX 001 OWN 00INNINONDINT.) LIVERPOOL, Farosv. The steamer City of Washington has sr rived; left New York, on the 9th. She brings 308 pamengers, and 891,242 donnas in 'peel& Madame Beset* is am at Bt. Petersburg, and Is wry solhadastleally received by the patrons of the opera. ALLEGED ATTIMPT TO Sir Flu TO • Usurp' ComAtos Irt Baosease.—The Amid is mays : —" At tint-put twelve at the night et Tendt. a Intl explosion was being la the Oates S. 111411. 40 Ilrealines, which in assupied by Iba heti% ant it turned eat to have been eseasionwl by a Arasionleg • lash having been throw' at a agetiew an the bet Ws& Ned bardsig struck the wail jag burs* the riotl mr. By the explosion swot pose d the vialswe oa the drst door sad ea veftke vikadarr Wu* Tiff br,lrt• Be bud WOO the eapteasa Asa all the ass thrown lets great cemeellee. la addle is MY Imam dealt. ono was picked ap which yes wide d ouseseesallair ware, covered with seeisbetrd, sad eesadedes reas' whilst attached so it wee a seal Medial, Am the smell, appears OD base been •1111.1 eridt egbile ides. Public rumor Anse that the *et el as pupa vim threw Ow boob vim is fist Aro to the Wimp." MANCHESTER ATHENAEUM SOIREE. ADDRESS BY LORD JOHN RUSSELL. Last evening a soiree wee given in the Free-trade Hall, by the dinners of the Manchester Atheneum, at which more than 2,000 were present. Lord STANLEY Of AIDDHLEY took the chair amidst loud cheering, °widened as the distinguished guests by whom his lordship was smarted took their seats. Lord Joan RVIIIILL (says the Mattawan Guard* of this day), as he roes, was received with abetting, which con tinued for some minutes, when it had subsided, he said—l am totally hicapable of giving expreerion to the pitiful feel *" which I entertain for the reception which you have now given me. I wish, in the first place, to explain how it is that I own hire, for that it appears is a matter that requires apology. I was asked by some gentlemen who represent you to comply with the repeat of the direetors of the Atheneum that I would preside here sad deliver an address to the members of that society. I declined that honour, thinking myself ill-fitted to give en addrees of the description that would be required, and ad ebbing to Weide myself upon your attention. Bet urn further representation I speed to attend here to =rue my sym way in the ants that are making in the cause of literature and wheation and to wish you well in your propose in those aorta. (Applause.) I should have thought that this. was no great harm in sunk • remedies at ay part. It might give me some little trouble in coming hen. It might give you the pain of beer* a tiresome speech. But beyond that this. sensed nothing very *- were or wrong in that roosted* of miss (Hear.) But I lad that, in a newspaper of peat local drouktion, not only ars you, the within of the Atheneum, attacked, but I linnet am the ailed of blame for ventaring to ems hire to support your Institution. (Cries of Shame.") I can wall understand that if I had come his, to inaugurate a gin palace—(laugMer)—m to *ash sedition against the throne, it would have been a proper subject for 010111/0. But I am somewhat at a in to discover why the heavy tonsure of the gods should fall upon me for my attendance on this occasion. (Laughter and applause). Thin it, at least, this benefit In it—s benefit which, I think, we are appreciating mare end more—that different parts of the °mine', and persons *red in different situation In life—aims polities!, some literary, some industrial—are induced to meet together, and to express good-will sad , fellowship towanla each other. (Applause). We have In this country a great deal of attachment to oar private life. We boast of our affection for our homes very justly. We have not the public life which was coupon In some ancient *ethics, nor that sort of public life which I undithiand new exists in some of the United States of America. And the more we are attacked to private life, to oar homes, the more necessary it appears to me that we should now and then mingle together and suchange good wishes for the parade in which we are happily surged ; and when that is • purntit—ench is that of edema* or literature —fin which all can take en hitteest, the wawer is the sy pithy sad the loon general the cancarrenes of opinion. (Hear, hen) I lint, therefore, now, even though .1 Lao net gone into a very loag dehneeLsad there see other anpunents that I might use—that I stied acquitted in pray eyes of doing anything wrong in presenting myself baize you ("Haar, hear," and applause.) Now let me—elthougth I am unwilling to go over ground which my noble friend it the chair has eo well trodden—let ye consider the rapers , el the inetitutita which we osme here to support. I and the first place that the newspapers ore read, neat that beaks ere taken out very largely from the Hasty and reard by the members. With regard to newspapers, it is quite obvious that there must always be a great interest attached to the matter centeined in newswire Take say occasion in which we feel an interest,—take the war In Idle. Who would not feel • warm interest in the men who were Delhi, in the brays men and heroic women who Luoknow ° (Applause.) Then it you take "gala any great • nodal question —any question °others* m amendment of the law , or a farther progtaas in sanitary improvement would not take an interest in ao either it took plies in Piellarseat, or In or Whim in whiek thew =Won ware diniZesin manner tithe coma* ? Therefore the me* of the asvepepers must always be a tend et gran ream and Internet to any persona who meet together and have the mean of reading them. But I find soma people are • good deal struck with the fact—first, that the xisw an a great ;Ara of attraction, and next, that nee l 's = : works of that deecapdon are very much reed. It has been my fortune to ben the country houses of poesemsd of great fortune, had magnificent whet I have found a patty amenibled in these houses of emit twenty or five and twenty persons, I have shiny* obenved that the first object of attraction was the erre mow, sad that the at eh** of attraction wee a novel; ilia that out of the fire and twenty, if there wee five who looked at other works, who studied history, or ausede to waits of KAMM. It was in meth ea you meld expert. One dais, I believe, is very mach like soother in this respect. And h examining landing libraries, such as there are In this town, I find that the result of the smeary szeraination I her made * that in this society, of about 28,000 books taken oat to read, there were shout 17,000, of nese 18,00 Q, of novels, sad about 10,000 of works of history sad of all ether description. I tee that is a very creditable assent. So far trembling shocked at the quantity of novels that we road, I redly de the wonder that min who have °manatee thist io V s teat deal of ern and anxiety should resort to fictions whicheisally go by the name el that they shrill seek in those pages relaxed= after their kosoadoi si k:o But I think that number of 10,000 is soil So, look ing at ano th er institution, the Eno ef this town, there were shoat 40,000 novels to skeet beaks of other dentitions—a tomewhet similar perrers, ora, as I say again, a proportion which I think don pan Una to , the readers— (" Hear," and applante)—beeauss taw Est ; there is a very fair proportion—upwards of one-third who do read books of that Informing and instructive kind. (Hear, . t. hen.) And now let us consider a little what is the ins* of mine at these books to which they do attend I' A great • portion of them consist of history, and, if there is any - kind isitrutin reading which oonewns en Reglishann, I think it is la know the hist/ ar c: fo r , own country. f (ber, hear.) I was delighted, in that Erse Library to see that there was an excellent col/action of Eagliek histories. Let me here say to thins who with to row English history—to those who wish to know the a pee*, who must be as fainons in the world se tillig of the great Sties of Greece as famous as Rome led --that it is by studying the dem:moue and the partner histeries of .Meg*d Ore the knowledge of the history al thee country is to be acquired. Every day, lam gled to say, an additiou is made to that knowledge. Daly the • •iir day, that most intending portion of our history, the reign of Charles the First, the period In which, In foot, the queen was determined whether this was to be a free or slavish country—that period hes been illustrated by Hr. Faster, by extracts from the journals and deans el Nereid of that day. which had not bees hither, karma to the world. Then, I say again, that any his seem which give hibernation of that description, week hes in its rooms baths et thet theniptise by which • Se amoe and redeye sea nada • of that kind, Is par value he the laironment r kWe g sear dee. sea tbs edarsa d the eriedge that the people of tthe rang onet to have. Now let me say whet I dirk wilt be et tee of these steer that eft making— if ea hinds—hew I with thsy may aU spesdl— sihistileVert of the of Oared end en. ata_ elf ler togged abode. en . lailarkele eat snide st if thoelmet di borers of bands* silk get bet *ler that ft - TM WM Or e m. 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