The Express. — London, England, 1866-08-30 00:00:00

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WATIM AT LONDON MUD= Tens DAY —Nonni, Os an Ananias. as MA Taliaisiow—Morung, as. lan Atlas. ft. Um LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30. THE health organizations for the metropolis, strengthened as they have lately been by the Sanitary Act of 1866, embody an amount of exe cutive power such as probably has never been granted for any other purpose connected with the public interest. The Privy Council, admirably advised by some pf the most advwced representa tives of medical science, has much more than re- placed the General Board of Health, which exp'red in 1858. Its acquaintance with the public need, and its power of rapid action, is much greater than that which was possessed by the defunct body. Under the " Nuisances Removal and Diseases " Prevention Acts," and notably by the " Sanitary " Act," the Veetrie3' —now for the first time charged with the care of the healthy and the clispoeition of the Nick—are provided with aimed deapo- tic power in dealing with the necessities of their particular districts. In examining into hygienic conditions, and in aiding the Vestries with scientific information, the able body of medi cal officers of health is daily rendering most im- . portent service. It requ ires no stretch of the imagination to believe that the present lull in the progress of cholera is due to a large extent to the working of this powerful machinery. We have, therefore, good cause to congratulate ourselves upon the sanitary progress of the metropolis, and to look hopefully forward to an ever-increasing amount of protection from preventible disorder. Whilst, however, we recognize these advantages and allow the fullest credit to their source, we are met by a deficiency so startling that we are tempted at first to overlook the benefits, and see only that in some moat important particulars so elaborate a scheme has utterly failed. In the east of London we note that cholera has spread with a rapidity completely overwhelming any local efforts to arrest its progress, and producing an amount of distrait which the whole country is now being called upon to relieve. How is this apparent paradox to he explained? It seems to us that we need not look far for a solution of this question. The organizations for health to which we have referred are complete and ample, so far as the duty of dealing with the more common forms of disease is concerned. The ravages of typhus, scarlatina, smallpox, and corre sponding forms of symotic disorder, whose course, as a rule, is comparatively slow, can be kept in check with tolerable certainty by the arrangements described, if only they be properly carried out. It is when we have to deal with a disease like cholera, which fastens suddenly upon a limited lo cality, and attacks hundreds at the same instant of time, that we find our powers, however great, unequal to the emergency. And it is not difficult to fore see that in the nature of things under the exist- ing system of local self-government this must always be the case. If, when a fire broke out in one portion of our city, the machinery contained in that particular district were alone capable of being employed in an attempt to extinguish it, we should ace that happen daily with regard to conflagrations which has chanced recently in res pect to cholera in East London. In this matter, however, our arrangements are infinitely more appropriate. The outburst of a fire is the signal for the concentration upon the spot, if necessary, of the whole fire brigade of the metropolis. If we were to deal with a fire as we deal with cholera we should send to it the one or two parish engines which happened to be available, and afterwards appeal to the country for help towards alleviating the distress which the timely help of the brigade in general would have abso lutely prevented. Cholera is much too powerful an enemy fur one parish successfully to contend against. To employ another illustration :it would be quite as reasonable, in the event of this country being invaded, to expect the regiment nearest to the spot to repel the enemy, as to look for victory at the hands of a single parish. Those portions of the ne:tropolis which are pe cuniarily the least able to afford the outlay for adequate resistance are precisely those most liable to attacks of cholera. It is the want of money . more than any other cause that has prevented our eastern parishes taking those steps by which alone cholera can be efficiently opposed. In matters of hygiene we require co-operation. Those parts of our city which are happy in escaping an epidemic visitation must help to furnish the means by which their less fortunate neighbours may be protected. The ex posures which have lately taken place in reference I to the treatment of the sick poor in workhouse infirmaries all point to the same necessity. The need, however, is still greater in reference to sani tary provisions. And those who feel inclined to demur to the idea of an uniform rating should remember that in the protection of the weaker parts of the metropolis the question of general safety is involved—immunity for the rich as well as the poor. If the subject be regarded from this point of view, it will be seen to be one, not of abstract sentiment, but directly affecting the secu rity of the public. There is one quarter of London which furnishes a good illustration, on a small scale, of the ad vantages of this kind of co-operation. The parish of St. Giles's is a very poor one. Unaided, it would be able to take but very limited precautions against a cholera outbreak. It is con joined, however, with that of St. George's, Bloomsbury, which, by contrast, is exceedingly opulent. Owing to this conjunction, St. Giles's finds itself at the present time in possession of some of the best concerted organisations to be found in the whole metropolis. It is one of the very few parishes where, without as yet any serious alarm from the presence of cholera, a hospital with 40 . beds is already prepared. The able officer of health, Dr. BoCNANAN, who is also one of the foremost members of the Privy Council staff, has established in St. Giles's a system which may serve THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1866. as a model to many a wealthier quarter. He is provided with an adequate medics/066ff, so that a really serviceable house-to-hails vhetation is con stantly carried on. Arrangements for the nursing and general conduct of the hospital axe all complete, so that St. Gi'es's can look the enemy fairly in the face, and feel that so far as precautions avail it is safe. But St. Giles's could never have done this without the help of St. Gmrge's ; and our poorer parishes generally will never be able to defend themselves unaided by more opulent districts. We repeat that sudden and violent outbreaks of cholera can only be prevented and successfully met by common effort on the part of metropo litan parishes. Disease signifies enormous expense. Liberal arrangements to prevent disorder are in finitely cheaper in the long run than the provision of money to counteract the effects of au outbreak. But liberal arrangements in many parishes are absolutely impos.ib'e under existing circumstances. Thousands of pounds have been nobly contributed, and are now being disbursed by the Mansion house Committee,with the effect of relieving a very small partof the existing diszess. If these resources had been employed a few months ago in judicious precautions against the spread of cholera, London might have been saved the alarm which has pre vailed for weeks past, and the scandal of an utter breakdown in official arrangements might have been prevented. jest of examination and analpde, with a view to substi tuting for it some less objectionable mantras* but ono which would still be equal to the exiguseiss whisk this was trained to meet. Wive Court. BALMORAL, Anoutrr 28. The Queen, attended by the Hon. Emily Cath cart, went out yesterday =rains. In the afternoon her Majesty went up Craig Clumsy, with Primes/ Louise, attended by the Hon. Emily Cath cart. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill, rode to .bergeldie in the morning. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the governors of the West India Islands and Canada. ____ It appears that the Queen and royal family, on arrival at Balmoral, had " stolen a march" upon the whole of the people about the Castle, as no one was present to receive her Majesty and suite. The royal party ease fully an hour earlier than was calculated upon. The time taken in posting her Majesty from Aboyne to Balmoral was only one hour and 32 minutes, which is said to be the shortest time ever taken to do the same journey. Yesterday afternoon Mr. John Jones, mayor of Windsor, accompanied by Mr. Henry Harrill, proceeded to the Castle, and had the honour of presenting to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian a con gratulatory address on their marriage. This afternoon the prince and princess will leave for Scotland to join the royal family at Balmoral, where they will remain until the re turn of her Majesty to Windsor in October. Lord and Lady Arundell have left Brown's Hotel for Wardonr Castle. _ _ . The Hon. Mm. Ramsey has arrived at Broa a's Hotel. Mr. and Mn. Sloane Stanley have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Canada. Mr., Mrs., and Mi4a Moller and Mr. Godwin have left the Clarendon Hotel for Paris. The Post contains the following mysterious an- nouncement :—" There is reason to believe that a marriage is not unlikely to be arranged on the part of the King of the Greeks calculated to add very materially to his posi tion as a European sovereign. It is understood, however, that the arrangement must be dependent upon certain conditions of a nature to promote the position of the Greek government in the eyes of the world." The Rev. Dr. Miller, vicar of Greenwich, has notified to the Bishop of Worcester his desire to resign his honorary canonry at Worcester, to which he was col. Wed by Bishop Pepys, upon the ground that, having left the diocese, he does not think it right to preclude the pre sent bishop from bestowing this dignity upon some one of the many deserving clergymen whom be may desire to reward. The Bishop of Worcester has, in the kinder: terms, accepted Dr. Killer's offer to place the stall at his lordship's dispoesL The honeymoon was passed in travelling, and durin great part of the winter of 1864 and 1866 they lived in Alexia. While there Count Sigismond do Tolna wrote several letters to his mother-in-law oomplaining of the coldness of his wife. She put paint on her face to prevent him from kissing her, and the moment she went to bed fell asleep directly, " without thinking of either God or her husband." On one occasion the husband sent a doctor into his wife's bedr4om to examine her while she was asleep, and he obtained a medical certificate to the effect that the poverty of her blood prevented the expansion of her affections. Nevertheless a child was born of the union at the husband's house at Boulogne sur-Seine in 1865. But quarrels continued, and M. Lachaud alleged that the count not only sys tematically ill-used his wife, but even beat her these grounds he demanded a separation, an alimentary pension of 1,000 fr., and that the mother might have the custody of the child. M. Jules Fevre, for the defence, alleged that the mother and daughter both belonged to the detni monde, and that the too susceptible Austrian cham berlain had been completely taken in by them. He hinted at a snit for separation about to be brought by the husband on very tangible grounds. The court not feeling itself able in the present state of the evidence to decide between the parties, ordered an inquiry, sad in the meantime the hus band is decreed to pay 400 fr. a month alimony, the wife having the custody of the child. THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON MONT BLANC. The Journal de Geneve publishes the following account of the fatal accident, which occurred to one of the Messrs. Young on the occasion of their ascent of Mont Blanc : " Having reached the suramit, where they were seen by telescope from Chamonni, and having rested themselves for a long time the Mews. Young began the descent, which is the moment of greatest danger, about half-past 11. One of them tried to cut some steps in the ice with a view of shortening the descent by going a little to the north. After proceeding some distance he was retureng to his brothers, and told them that the inclination was too steep, and that the descent could not be effected on that side. In coming back his foot slipped, and he fell on the ice, dragging with him his two brothers, who wore attached to him by • rope. " For a time," as he relates himself, " this descent wasrather pleasant than otherwise." They rolled, however, to • precipice 40 feet deep, which they fell down and coca. menced to roll again till they were stopped by • mesh of newly-fallen snow. One of the three brothers was stunned, ►nd when he came to himself he was informed that their youngest brother was not able to speak. The two elder ones raised him; up and eudeavoured to revive him, but it wa s useless, they had before them • corpse. Still they did not wish to leave their young brother behind then, but it was now evening, and a cold and icy night was approaching. They found themselves on the Petits-Mulets. One of the remaining brothers having lost his glasses in the fall was scarcely able to see, and had to be led by the other. The accident had been seen from Cha mouni, and it was feared that all were lust. About 6 o'clock in the evening the two brothers resolved to leave their rocky eminence, and to attempt the descent. To the astonishment of everybody they arrived at the Granda.hinleta at half-past 7. How they got down they are themselves enable to relate. They must have tumbled over rocks and chasms, and it is perfectly miraculous how they were saved. When the accident was witnessed at Chamouni about 1 o'clock in the afternoon help was sent off at once, and great was the joy when it was found that two of the brothers were still alive. The next day one of the Youngs, in spite of the terrible shock which he must have experienced the day before, determined to accompany the six men whom the Mayor of Chamouni placed at his disposal for the recovery of the body of his dead brother. At half-past 3 in the morning the convoy set out and later in the day it could be seen on the Petits-Mulets near the spot where the body lay. Soon after they were lost to sight. In the morning fresh assistance was sent to the Grands•Mulets. Amongst those who distinguished themselves on this occasion were the Commissary of Chamouni, Dr. Deprei, M. Lop*, the painter, and M. Fevre, the two latter being citizens of Geneva, and Baguette the prince of guides in Chamouni. The first convoy not having come back so soon as was expected anxiety was depicted on every countenance. It was known that they were w 'Ab out provisions. The fog and snow must have added greatly to their difficulties. They might have missed their way but Baguette was with them, and that gave them hope: A new convoy of six men was formed, and they started in search of the first, MM. Loppf and Fevre accompanying the guides. As far as the Grand Plateau, and still higher, echo alone responded in these solitudes to the shouts which they necessarily made. At length they perceived the poor fellows on the brink of • frightful cre vasse, which would infallibly have swallowed them all up. A shout warned them of their danger; they happily heard the warning voice and escaped the peril. After immense labour, in which every one bore himself admi rably, they came up to the fist convoy, whom they found with the dead body, and then they de scended together to the Grinds-Motets, where they rested. During the night M. Loppe came to Chamouni in company with the intrepid Young. He declared that he was thoroughly exhausted, but this did not pre vent him from setting out at 7 o'clock to announce the sad news to his mother in London." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) MN woes movawarr. According to the Times Mr. Bright's speech was eloquent and impressive, but it was not logical. One half of it upset the other. His fallacy consists in representing Lord Russell's Franchise Bill as a real reform bill. Pasha- ment was pledged to reform and was prepared for reform, but not for any bill that might be produced. Mr. Bright himself did not like the late bill ; at least he only tolerated it. On the part of the majority of the House of Commons there was no objection to admit • larger number of working men to the franchise, but there was great objection to do this only when so much more re quired to be done, and still more to do it on theconditions which the government had been m'sgelded enough to impose. Even then, so strong was the liberal feel'ng, and No sincere the wish to pass a reform bill that half the house supported the ministers is spite of their errors. Mr. Bright's present anxiety for ' a reform agitation is superfluous. There is not the least fear that the subject will drop or that • new Itefotm Bill w:ll not be produced. Public opinion is fairly in favour of Mr. Blight's own special object—the admission of working men to the fran chise ; but it is also in favour of other reforms. The new Reform Bill must be • fair bill as well as an " honest" bill ; and, above all, it must be a complete bill. To a bill of this description every political party has pledged itself in turn. The Times suspects that many of the working classes are more disposed to conservatism than the small tradesmen, for instance, and more likely to discriminate and take sides of their own. An addition of electors to the register must be, on the face of the measure, an addi tion of strength to the legislature and stability to the con. s titution ; but in the preparation of a new Reform Bill its authors should remember what proved fatal to the hat. In another article, referring to the refusal of the Chief Justice to re-appoint Mr. Beatles as revising barrister, the Tines thinks the public will certainly be of opinion that he has only done his duty. He reminds Mr. reales that the judges are always expected to abstain from mixing in party strife, and they are scrupulously careful to obey the restriction. If such a course is considered fitthlg in a judge who has so rarely to decide eases which involve poli tical questions, it must be infinitely more incumbent on a revising barrister, whose decisions are always of political importance. When Mr. Beales, therefore, urges that some well-founded complaint ought to have preoadod his dismissal, it is sufficient to answer that he has given ample ground for very serious complaint. If Mr. Beales had been a private person, no fault whatever could have been found with him for indulging in any political agita tion he pleased ; but any political agitation is unbecoming in a person holding the office of a judge. It is for this, and this alone, that he has been deprived of his office ; and it is sheer nonsense for him to represent himself, as he does at the close of his letter, as a political mat:. The Daily News reminds those critics who condemn Mr. Bright in rather unmeasured language for having repe nted those who combined to defeat Mr. oladstone's bill as opponents of reform, and described the means they adopted to secure this end as a series of discreditable in. trignes, that none of the amendments by which it was successfully opposed touched in the remotest degree the principle of the bill, and this seems in itself to justify the charge of disingenuous resistance. If the amendments re ferred only to points of machinery and arrangement which might easily have been settled by a friendly conference between the government and their dissatisfied supporters, without in the least affecting the substance of the measure, why were they persisted in to the defeat of the bill I With regard to the charge brought against Mr. Bright of repre senting the opponents of Mr. Gladstone's bill as op. ponents of reform, the Daily News remarks that the facts speak for themselves. The occupants of the cave may be described politically as general lovers, having a kind of platonic attachment to reform hi". general, but pledged against espousing any individual bill, shrinking from the dread alternative of accepting for better or for worse its particular and necessarily imperfect provisions. There is a touch of nairele in this representation that almost obviates the necessity of any formal reply. Mr. Bright's critic described the bill as a " great change," " a new constitution," and justified the resolute opposition it encountered on this ground. Those who resisted were opposed to the change—in other words, were opposed to real reform. No doubt the statement is substantially true. But if so, why should it be indi7,nantly denied when it is simply repeated at Birmingham ? The Herald characterises the whole of Mr. Bright's speech at the Birmingham Town-hall as proceeding upon a policy of deliberate and intentional misrepresentation. The dispute between the advocates and antagonists of the late Reform Bill was not as to the policy of admitting any of the working class to the franchise, but as to the number whom it was safe or desirable to admit at once- Mr. Lowe only expressed forcibly the objections which every one admitted tacitly when he put his celebrated interrogatory about the section in which to look for venality, ignorance, and intemperance. His question only amounted to a warning against fixing a standard too low, and not, as represented by Mr. Bright, to a deliberate declaration of implacable enmity towards the entire order. MLSCILLA'frOUS TOPICS. Referring to the evidence given before the bribery at elections commissions the Times asks what is to be done, and replies that there in but one answer—disfraaehise meet. The large population of Yarmouth raises a doubt in the case of that town whether the summary punishment which the guilty side of that constituency merit would not be purchased at the coat of so numerous an innocent body that the blow would involve a greater proportion of innocent suffering than parliamentary justice sanctions and approves. Yarmouth might be let oft, perhaps, with a seven years' suspension of the franchise. But with respect to Totng, Reigate, and Lancaster the course of justice is clear, and there can be no doubt that one of the tint bills laid on the table of the House of Commons next session ought to be a bill for the total and perpetual disfranchise ment of those three boroughs. Such a measure is due to justice, to respectability, and to decency. Nobody can tell how many accidental obstacles may arise to a general reform bill, and how long it will be before one passes through parliament ; but here, at any rate, in the dis franchisement of these three worthless boroughs, is an instalment of reform. Five mate would thus be placed at t h e disposal of parliament to be given to more respect able and more numerous constituencies. The Post devotes an article to the law between masters and servants, under which the breach of an agreement between employer and employed is as regards the latter punishable criminally instead of being made the subject of a dell action like matters of contract and agreement between employers and employed. This grievanoe is, the Post thinks, a legitimate subject of complaint, and after considering both sides of the question it comes to the ma elusion that a law which seems to have excited the anti pathies of so large &class of the English people is a fair sub• LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (astrrza's latzaaime.) THE TREATY OF PEACE. VIENNA. Ammar 29. The treaty of peace just concluded between Austria and Prussia contains an article relative to the Elbe Duchies. The abide stipulates that Prussia shall continue to pay all pensions granted by Austria to Holstein officials ; that Austria shall band over to Prussia the amount of 450,000 Danish thalers belonging to the Holstein finances, at pre sent in her keeping ; that no Holstein official shall be _ called to account or otherwise molested for rea sons connected with past events. (s:lron's =rms.) CANADA. APPREHENDED FENIAN RAID. (Per New York.) NEW YORK, ACM= 18, Noow. The Canadians are agitated by all manner of rumours concerning meditated hostilities against them by the Fenian,. A great Fenian picnic is to take place on Tuesday next at Clinton Grove, one mile below Fort Erie, on the American side. Ten thousand persons are expected to be present, among them many prominentFenianoflicers. The Canadian -- .. authorities have taken extensive precautionary measures in case of any attempted raid, and will have a large force of military at Fort Erie and ad jacent points. It is believed that the Fenians will avail themselves of the harvest season if they really purpose another raid. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Crams ours owzi commerowurer.) PARIS, WITNINDAT Eva:eter. An interesting chapter on Paris marriages is afforded by the report of a trial this week. M. Lachaud appeared on behalf of the Countess de Tolna, nee deVilna,to ask for a separation d mensa et there from her husband, Count Sigismond Festetits de Tolna, one of the Emperor of Austria's chamber lains. From the statement of counsel it appeared that the parties were married at the mayoralty of the 9th Arrondissement in Paris, on July 30, 1864. The lady was then only 19 years old—the husband 42. She had nothing—he had a large fortune, besides his rank and position at the Austrian court already mentioned. He fell in love with her sud denly at an evening party at which he met her with her mother, Madame Inure Godefroy, some times calling herself Godefroy de Vilna. The cir- cumstanoes of the courtship and subsequent mar- riage are amply explained by the folloiv"ig cor respondence which was read in court. Shortly after the evening party at which he lost his heart the Emperor of Austria's chamberlain wrote to the mother of the young lady the following letter : _ I desire to marry a young virtuous orphan, whose father and mother were of noble birth, whether belonging to the old or new nobility. I should like to know whether she is in good health, and whether she does not object to smoking. What are her ordinary occupations ? Is she too religious! How many relatives has she! Has she any in Paris, and in what position are they ? Does she like pleasure tours? Does she understand housekeeping! Is she gentle, good-tempered, economical, and regardless of frivolous luxury ? I have lost both father and mother ; I have • great many relations, bet my wife will be quite in dependent of my family, whom I only visit in turn every five or six years. My father was of Hungarian orien. My mother, née Countess de Sermage, belonged to a French family which came from Lorraine. I reside at Boulogne. sur-Seine, Rue Neuve d'Aguesseau, No. L On► a separate sheet of paper he enumerated as fo"ows what he called his ordinary occupations Ever since 1847 I have been in the habit of travelling for pleasure and instruction in various parte of the world. lam much occupied with literary pursuits—l am pro prietor and director of • non-political journal (Le Pilerin). I am • good Christian, I give away a great deal in charity, but I never suffer any one to dictate to me what lam to give. Having passed my early youth in the cavalry I fancy I have maintained the tastes of an officer and a gentleman, but I neither drink, play, nor hunt. I never was in debt—l never kept mistresses—l like public amusements better than drawing-room life—l am fond of concerts, theatres, races, excursions and voyages. I play the piano and the organ. I intend to live in Pa.•s or the neighbourhood 'and shall have • good establishment. As to the mansgen.ent of the household, I shall arrange with my wife for our mutual convenience. I shall receive Done but our common friends. I care little for high societyand sumptuous living, although my position as a chamberlain makes it necessary that I should sometimes pay visits to ministers, ambassadors, and great personages. lam altogether devoted to the French Emperor. When I travel I take no servant with me. I smoke a great deal, and I could not give up this habit, which has become a necessity, as it was for my father be fore me, and nobody has ever yet blamed me for it. The greater part of my fortune is lodged in the Bank of France. I owe no man anything. COUNT SIGISIIOAD FE:SMITE DE TOLNA, Chamberlain to the Emperor of Austria. The mamma immediately answered this letter in the following terms : Monsieur le Comte,—lf you have not changed your mind, and desire to become more intimately acquainted with my daughter, you may come to see us either in Paris, or, better still, at Saint Germain, where I have a cottage. But before things go further, it is most essential that you should satisfy me that no obstacle exists to the marriage you propose either on the score of birth or fortune. I be lieve you to be too much a gentleman to desire uselessly to trouble the virgin beast of a young girl. My notes/ must have shown you my letter of the 13th. You will have seen that my daughter has nothing at pre sent, and that I cannot yet tell what expecta tion■ she may have for the future. Her father has hitherto taken care of her, he is a man of honour, and not likely to fail in his duty. As to myself, my means are limited, it is true ; but I am perfectly independent. I have, on the ground of my =STOW' income, lived habitually away from Paris, where masters are very expensive, with out being better than those which I have always contrived to find for my daughter. I have received the number of your newspaper which you were good enough to send me. Allow me to say that I think the philosophy of proverbs remarkably well handled.—Receive, M. le Comte, die., Metz, 20 June, 1864. LEVEE CiODZEZOT. A few days later Mdlle. Lure de Vilna wrote this letter to the candidate for her hand : July 9, 1864. I have long desired to write to you. Mamma now allows me. lam happy to tell you that my views of life are altogether conformable to yours. You like travel, so do I. I should like to go on with my drawing and music, which are my greatest resource. Literature will have great charms for me when I shall be able to follow it more seriously. You smoke ; we will smoke as much as ever you like. lam glad that you will receive our common friends, it would have been very painful to me to give up the people whom I have known from my infancy. I should be very glad to learn how to ride and swim. At present I have but very slight notions of either of those exercises. I like the Emperor as you do ; he posseeses my entire ad miration. As to the management of a household I have little experience indeed, but I have no doubt that with your valuable advice I shall soon be able to do all you could wish ; you are good, and therefore indulgent. I have, alas ! no marriage portion to bring you but the agree. hope of rendering you happy and my youth and beauty. (The latter words, which clash terribly with the assumed character of the timid, blushing maiden, were, M. Lachaud stated parenthetically, in a different hand writing from the rest of the letter, and were added by the mother.] And now that serious matters are disposed of, will you dons the favour to come to dinner on Tuesday! Mamma expecte yea, and I wish you patinas* to come. We shall be moat cishibtad to toe you halve= as at our table. Till then I trust in God an d m- ..; Lama Di Vaasa. The dinner was speedily followed by a marriage. DROWNING OP _ POUR SCHOOLBOYS AT BRIGHTON. A lamentable accident happened at Brighton yesterday morning, resulting in the drowning of four young gentlemen, under circumstances peculiarly painful. They were pupils at the boarding-school of Mr. Frederick Taylor, Stafford-house, Buckingham-place, Brighton. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Society of Primula, and the four boys were sons of parents of the same penult don. The bathing regulations in force at Brighton, and in the adjoining parish of Hove, direct that no bathing is to take place from the open beach after eight o'clock in the morning, and up to that hour only from bathing places ap. pointed by the authorities. One of those bathing places in Hove is opposite the Sussex County Cricket Ground. It is said that the bottom there is of a rather dangerous character, liable to shift and change with the weather, and having rocks protruding through the sand. In certain conditions of the sea the sand is washed away from the rocks, leaving holes and pliers that are extremely dan gerous to persons who cannot swim. At low water there is a bank of sand some distance out, and if persons wade to it during the " turn" of the tide they are liable to be overtaken by the water, so that they cannot return to the shore across the intermediate channel without assistance. About half-past 7 o'clock yesterday morning Mr. Taylor took a number of his scholars to this place to bathe. tie himself went into the water, and there was nothing to in dicate that special caution was required. Some of the lads made their way to the bank of sand with other bathers, and were there enjoying themselves as lad, are wont to do, when suddenly an out. cry was made, and it was discovered that a lad named Clark, who was in the water at the eastern limits of the bathing place, was in imminent danger of drowning. Mr. Taylor had just previously called all his lads in from the water, and most of them were on the beach. At first he thought that Clark was one of the boys he had brought down, and ran to give all the assistance he could. Ulti mately, Clark was got out in an insensible state, or nearly so, and was taken in a fly to the residence of Dr. Halley, Western-road, Hove, where he was soonplaced out of danger. Meanwhile, Mr. Taylor had returned to the part of the beach where his clothes were, and saw that four of his boys were missing. Some youths were on th e beach where Clark had been brought ashore, and Mr Taylor, thinking his boys were amongst them, sent thither. Further search quickly elicited that the four lads, whose clothing was laid on the beach, had neither returned to the shore nor were afloat in the water. Every means which suggested itself was used to find them, but it was not until an hour later that one of the bodies was discovered on the edge of the sandbank. It was that of William Bottomley, aged 12, whose parents reside at Birmingham. It had drifted a considerable distance to the east of the bathing ground. It was immediately brought to shore and eiainined by Dr. Bacon Phillips, who, after using, for half-an-hour, proper means of resusci tation, pronounced life to be perfectly extinct. Later another - body was recovered, still further to the east ward. It was that of a boy named Samuel Dann. whose parents reside at Reigate. He was about 12 years old. An elder brother cause down with him to bathe (both being pupils at Mr. Taylor's), and he, too, is one of the drowned. The fourth unfortunate boy was named Samuel Kidd, aged about 14 years. His friends reside at Bristol. As to the precise circumstances under which the poor youths lost their lives nothing is at present known. The attention of every person in the immediate neighbourhood was so taken up with the danger of the boy Clark, who was saved, that this shocking fatality appears to have been entirely unobserved until too late. Even if the lads shouted fur help their cries must have been lost in the confusion caused by Clark's risk, for no one, so far as can yet be ascertained, heard a cry or saw a &Uvula in that direction. The bodies recovered were taken to the Bruns wick tavern, Holland-road, Hove, where they await an inquest. Up to dusk last evening the two missing bodies had not been recovered, though boats had been dragging all the afternoon. About eighteen months since the Duke of Col n wall was in treaty for the purchase of an estate called Warrington-park, in Devonshire, mime two or three miles to the north of Launceston. After considerable delay the negotiation proved unsucoessfuL Within the last fortnight his royal highness has, however, bought the estate of Hare wood, twelve miles south-east of Launceston. The locality is not favourable for the preservation of pm*. The duke has given 26,0001., the full present value. The vendor is Mr. Reginald Trelawny, second son of Sir William 'rrelawny, who resided there. At a meeting held yesterday in Bloomabnry, foe the purpose of originating a public subscription in aid of the workmen who have been thrown out of employment by the loss of their tools in the recent fire at the premises of Messrs. Holland sad Mennen, builders, Duke-street, Bloomsbury, it was stated that the losses sustained by the workmen amounted to 2,000/. A committee was appointed to collect subscriptions and investi ga te the claims of the workmen. Mr. Spong, Brown Bear, was appointed treasurer of the fund. Mit. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGILLM.—The Vice-Presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce at Birmingham, Mr. J. S. Wright, entertained Mr. Bright at dinner at the Exchange in that town on Tuesday evening. The Mayor sad about twenty other gentlemen were invited to meet the hon. member, who addressed the company for more than ball an hour, the topics selected being India and matters connected with the present system of government and the future of that country ; the question of interne- tionel Maritime Law ; the protectionist duties imposed by the United States and some of our own colonies ; and lastly, in reference to Chambers of Commerce, the useful ness of which he acknowledged if they took an indepen dent course of action. Mr. Bright was listened to with much attention throughout his address. There wets no reporters present Oases or Mn. HINDMARCH, Q.C.—We regret to announce the death of Mr. J. W. Hindrnareh, Q.C., of the Northern Circuit, lute candidate for Leominster, Re- corder of York, and Attorney-General for the county pala tine of Durham. Mr. Mindreareh, who was a native of Sunderland, was sixty-two years of ago. Nnrcoafit Daily Journal. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OP AN INVALID. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This forenoon, Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, held an inquiry at the Prince Regent Tavern, Rast-road, City-road, relative to the death of Samuel Molloy, a man aged 47 years. who committed suicide. Frances Molloy, 9, Walbrook-place, said that deceased was a fancy trimming maker. He had been suffering from consumption for two years and a half. On Thursday last he complained of being worn out by his illness, and ex pressed a wish to die ; but be rid nothing about an inten tion to commit suicide. Witness went out for ten minutes during the afternoon. When she returned she found bis throat cut. Henry J. Molloy, eon of the deceased, said that at half past 2 o'clock on the day in question, the deceased while be lay in bed handed witness a penknife saying " This knife II not sharp enough to cut my nails ,• hand me the razor." Witness gave him the razor, and he began to cut his nails. Witness left the room, and upon his return in a few minutes saw deceased's hand covered with blood. Deceased, in answer to witness, said " I have cut my lager a little." Witness looked close, and saw that be had out his throat, and bad endeavoured to hide the wound by covering it with a cloth. His finger was not cut. Witness called in a neighbour to whom the deceased said, " I have done it because lam tired of lying here." He tried to put up his hands to the wound again, bet they were bold down. Dr. J. Clean Griffiths said that he had attended the deceased for eight months peat for phthisis. His ease was hopeless. On Thursday witness was called to him and found that he had cut his throat ; he was so weak, however, that he was not able to ens it deep. He died next morning from phthisis accelerated by the injuries inflicted on his throat. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a verdict of " Death from consump tion, accelerated by deceased cutting his throat with a razor while of unsound mind." AN IMPORTANT COMMOTION. —Mr. C. A. Rambold has written to the Times to correct a saatmasat of that journal that his fatherkexpenditure during the4o years he represented Great Yarmouth was 72,0001. They would he says, be " overstated at 40,0001." THE STEAM-)OILER EXPLOSION IT MORECAMBE BAT.—A third death has occurred frees the boiler explo sion on board a steamer in Morecambe Bay. It seems th at the cause of the accident was a fealty "plate edge " at the back of the boiler. An inquest on the bodies of the men killed has resulted in a verdict of " Accidental death." A MUSICAL MINISTER. The Rev. H. W. Beecher crawled through a thirty-four feet pipe of his new church-organ the other day, on a challenge of one of his flock. He came out puffing and covered with dust and sweat, and exclaimed, as he touched the floor : " I want no man to tell me anything about this organ. I know all about it. I have been *mash it"— If ro York Messiest Pioneer. GROUSE &warm° ErnumanrsAix.—The Hon. Thos. de Grey, ILP., while shooting on the 27th of An seat, on Blabberlionsai Moor (the property of Lady Frank. land Russell) made a bag of 215 braes, a feat which has not met with its equal en any of the YOTkillifre moors, and we believe not on any other on record, in England or fleot ' land.—Leeds Mercury. THE ELECTION COMMDBB GREAT YARMOUTH. The commissioners resumed their j DV* yig, agefialldhf—uothle"Pablet. otesialui'aiyieelaa:::l4: ed Mr.& J. F. Stafford, a surgeon, depo se d... Kt T , soon, jun., is an sequanitenee of mine, aim 1- 11 / 4 ', , frequent oanvereations with him on politi es ' — "al Shortly after the election I salted him whm& s , u l tlut voters who had been bribed on the liberal side+ g am y° me what paeans I wished to know about It ems di b e f ore the petition. It Mlle in this way :-1,4 4 mine under peat pecuniary obligation s to am vote for Lsoon and Goodson, and he pro ow s.etti Subeecluently he asked me whether I w W --- I give hum 15/. or 20/., as he had been offered auil .1 other side. I distinctly refund. and kdd hie I ea s 'C prised at such • request having he mme d. hit money without security. The voter was Wid wg gr...! shoemaker, of Charlotte-street, Church-An a , 1.._ Hewitt and Joshua Showman, Row 63, to yo u , Le.= a s having been bribed. Shearon& told roe hunsolg wi '7, received W. from the liberal side. I neatirelly fik " 1 that Hewitt should go against us (th e oftsw ,Laift asked young Livingston for • list of tb s " b',7 1 ; 1 7 1. 1 been bribed on the liberal side, and I roared to gieq, U. for his trouble. He said he wool °Midi bare am. but he said he did not require any money. n o wwd - -t baby y obtain such a list from his father--serreatka wit i l t comm. He said to me, "If you pt the ceassneala W I would yon show it to me 1" I replied I would eag ss , ‘ to do so after the election. I have no reeollectiatet eat ing young Burton, who is soy apprentice, to his, /A_ . • list from young Livingston of the /*4Ter. which I now pones. He brought it la and he dictated to me the names. eph o l t hi g h an ded in.) I deny that I had been bribing 7_ man ; that was Mr. &lowans, a sileeremitb, 71 6 7,;,. street. He's dead. (Laughter.) lie we+ a o af i mine. ter.) I promised to take him to tii e 4.. On that he would not vote without money, I pee m a gi!! hmee "she hadhbeYefed.n e o l o g rwa. er. f t aredi t ,ha d 2iti •gran ntwaliet he d . on dii:d nngg os(fliafn;r:minvion.rineertiy.noywneaaPadalet Arriah ly and said, „ \vita o foe the ta hear as w h a t I had say. Ton may tell Billy (111 inn.) that the old shop ought to he emandowl jury." He also said, " I would swear to a dada ~ ha u l more than that to save Billy, because I likehite." Mr. Li n, jun., recalled, admitted fluniddigg t Stafford w ith a list, but denied that he got it b wi i i father. He got it from various parties. Mr, m il swore never to divulge it. Mr. Stafford stated Ass h spent money in bribery, but witness could sstas stad, it was 751. or 1751. With regard to UN A,* I t fi. Aldrwi's, Mr. Stafford said to him, " Isimpt ag of A me put in the witness-box, for God Almighty's edge sea that I never told you so." The inquiry was again adjourned. REIGATE. The inquiry was continued yesterday. Joseph carpenter, voted for Mr. Goon— o i f or money . ( lau ghter.) He received 2/. lee, for Ine time in attending the nomination, and is Misr vim* Dented a:th the election.. David Boscawen, engine -fitter, was on Mr. Noi s y committee, and received 30s. a week for tkus wsk What he did for Mr. Monson might be celled work bath ! did nothing. (laughter.) He took no interest in sap* but himself, and he .00k it into his head atlas I gas that he would vote for Mr. ()owe . He was dimadti with not getting 30e. for the polling morning, and rd. that was the reason he voted for Mr. Gower. _ _ ' - John Andrews, furniture broker, stied oa Sr. Omit committee in the Warwick town district, and eammi the station workmen, but they had pledged themsdusie 30s. a week for Mr. Monson. The payment cease& • 6 Saturday before the polling, and he heard on the ikegg that some of the men were " shaky." Three retied them voted for Mr. Gower. . - . Janne Ede, gardener, canvened for Mr. Gem od received 11. or 8/. for his nrvicts. He lid 00t min Ebeder — Oyiedlibibi.in what ha wanted fee his vote Doke took him by the hand and counted on it witn finger up to five, and then stopped. Did net Wel hand out that he might go on tapping. (leughter.) Some other evidence of a similar character having be taken the commissioners adjourned. Yesterday the examination of Robert Bm was continued, and again occupied the entire dq. Ind Hill wanted 15W., and witness tried to get it halal; No attempt was made to get bun over to the limhtt the List election personally except that by Manic; Some days before the interview with Mr. Peedais 10 shown a canvass book, and against his name vs " Harris to be had for a situation if offered behest,. election." The offioe of postmaster became WARS she the election, and was filled up on the last day late government were in office. Mr. d. Ps* the Whig briber, was appointed. Had Lord DSO government been in he would have had the qt. meat. William Syne voted in 1/S1 for Das, at had notice to quit from the Duke of Somers& Ile YI some fields found him by the conservatives, sad 4 some money. He has alsa as w in the • He voted for us at the last election. Willies offered 15W. at the last election. He voted foe lbs slle party. Mr. James Chamings was offered 4001. ia Lek John Heath, but he voted for the liberals. Hoary LW at the last election brought 3,0001. from the Dorsal Cornwall Bank, in Plymouth. Crawford, who ell carriage, was offered 150/. in 11463. Philip Goody, na,i one of the moat active men on the liberal side. Re ted have told you more than he told you. I have tried sal of the duke's tenants, It is reported that Robert is strong put a lot of money under a carpet at the Irl Sa tion. There are a number of men who have bees 'rind by the duke who always have money sent to them byes a matter of course. There are 100 men on the scaternis side who are sure to vote for the conservatives, bat sps many of them receive a pertain sum of money. They nos about 25/. each. John Webber Chester, it is mid, Itail,lll • year to manage affairs for Mr. Pender. Frieda's. is one of those who was left behind in 1863. He silk I was told, 5001., but he did not WM. I Wine is wanted a " loan," that being the most gentlemanly 'f taking the money. George Cole, one of tbe dslA tenants, was offered by the conservatives 400/. fa 'Oll the last election. (Laughter.) A "convert" mood more than another man, because they got him for as ; cipal and other purposes. The inquiry was adjourned. LANCASTER. Upon the inquiry being resumed, Robert filo& solodging -house keeper of Morecambe, was ennis** me length but his evidence simply corroborated** d Barnes, wh o administered the bribes in Morena* II was known as " Mr. Jenkins." (Laughter.) 50f. at different pnblic•houses. He revivaliltikl. ROL from Mr. Welch, all of which woo bribery. When Mr. Barnes (" Jenkins") uric is Ilse crunbe witness saw him and told him they woskl Ins Y he very cautious. Barnes took one roam sad "Mr_ another. Witness wrote the freemen's mow) new amounts they were to have, on slips of brows WOO paper, after which the slips were taken into the Isl! where Barnes sat with the money. Mr. Henry Welch said —I ant a grocer. At tlw election I interested myself on behalf of Mr. Fee's* Mr. Schneider. I acted as cashier for Mr. Fenn*, Id I previous contest, against Mr. Saunders. Mr. 8, Hill—What do you mean by s a y in g Yon 0" cashier? Witness— I had cash in my poseession which 1 , 1 14 . expended in an Mini manner. The fi rst sum I yes 710 i. I.os. in gold about three wain Was elect on. i Mr. 8. Hill—From whom did you receive it? Witness—l found it. It was left in my e bill leP ta ll counter in my absence. I don't kn ow where it ens nor who brought it. The money was tied up ia a lOW boo paper parcel It was given to me by one of my _,,lfrit tines. I asked whe brought it, and he mid it ow hy . a boy, who said, " Give that to Mr. Welch." isr honed the transaction to Mr. Wright Wesnogogai honed next sum of money I received was MO. left io the same way—in my absence from the shop. D al l about ten days after iho find parcel. The nest as l!a . ceived waa 5001., which I as told to csll for at*. it Etanderson'a, in Groat John-street, about a week befeelw election. Sanderson is a clerk in the Waster lOW Company. The money was in gold, folded uP h t he 1414 and tied up. I received another 500/. in th e wow trol the lame parson on the nomination day. The re at ' I saw I found. (Laughter.) It was tied up ia a paper parcel in a WOW that we occupied at the Olt Mow it came there I don't know. That ow Ana nomination day. 10 M i Mr. H ill-W as it by accident tha t you looked cupboard? vbot Witness—l think so. I felt it, and then km e i was. I took the awn to be 1000/. in gold, Dom ti _de the Imp, but I didn't count it. I or -, ik, parcel the same a ft erno on in the presence 0 Wearing and Mr. Blade. There was no feast a . It ; it was a mere matter of bunners , and the pew only opened when the money was vranttd. On *c om a ° ing_e? the election Mr. Wearing brought a leg °, Wt 1, 000 4 in gold into the room; at the Queen a ;b i g lug contenting LOOM. inrmod, geld was brought io th o . olook on the same morning by Mr. Thos. Rolm ,7, Wearhog's bag was brought in about half an how lwa," I received no more. In point of fact I had well ''i A AI I wanted, and one bag was not touched , 1 2 ... ~. II election. I distributed about I,OON. before the I= - 0 , small sums, varying from It. to 101.. to the 8 ,1 9 Mr at t ners and messengers. About 1,000. was 'Pea t ...gel mittee rooms sad refreehments. About 900 *elm 'Lige money on the liberal side, and 400 co the ....esa side. At least 8,000/. wee spent by the per ms Moreh i s ti tt n r . lll " 7 :4 way. = ner ves than me the witn v olis tere rta ge te t d —ee tue that to the captains for voters and 'WWI. 1, 7000 public-houses, 1,300 f. for general expose , u" ' preliminary canvaseing expenses.. The inquiry was adjourned. Owlet Gordo' spie, ehear sad disn iv a eous i s derl the last th stated &urn tr ho was en anti 1 0444 " 6 " thsg in ky utt & flowed to drunk- They io ft they mwrasethem to en WOO' BAUM train. The pri one et the our resags of fia o . do so that Reid and s to the (Aloe. T one) and took h e o itould Bunn tZtydrank on of 40s. ogles, and u b blot , in the fu The prisoner with aline trio wise than agrt the train, as it the same dine to go away. I a date' C almd fileen an 0 00 (I rtunitZ (bred that he goo d deal was owing constable- I official —if he that—but wk' not know wh• b o g o od, and I for Sr. 'Puginky IninrY Di first in going ' then in trrh was quite ne< men should prisoner had his address w himself of tj He (Mr. Vet 40e The flee ir _srwi!l!Al li"W;riTic with stadia' et Lakes,. plorgte.i 11Mprisor eutor fora • weeks the pr his till, but his bedroom, ter was plea G. Some u and the kid s I rary absen the prima money and taken into v his posse Ist in silver, sr in the prize and other smoount for which woul The pries to be at on The ma owned to t prisoner to The prim application Patrick , with stiali George ale Com asked me paired iI ] rt h rr a. ould I was a en name tim] lUTOII 7091 handkeral took him Punish and maw t handkerel in liquor. lomee drinking , Promos mo tor 1 knowledl Imprint ISTILAOL This m halt, Edg Bodmin, young fi answer I under ail Mr. 1. Treventi the facts evening, Welch A wheeled stood up for a a destroy. of the used the ribs as trembles was alb deem mil lett im back, beadle- (I i \ \ THE aPP•sra several 1 rebfla Di Fins. morni Mr. , road, mata ritsis with • Miss stood ditto