The Express. — London, England, 1864-08-22 00:00:00

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Biewiebmetrook by Two .'look oa Vie day ot pabilostlem. PRINCRIM & TRW BVIIMIO. BORN TO 0000 LUCK Mr. D. Murray. And THE BTKRETS OF LONDON. Messrs. LW. Bay, David Fisher. D. Murray, J. Nelson. B. Forrester, and H. Mellon ; Mrs. H. Marston, Mime Barnett and Gwynn.. BRITANNIA. TRIO EMMA THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN.— Matt SY Nr. H. Baku, Mr. H . Da Braman sad Ma J. H. Stead.— .G. W. Radar.—Coacladlag wttk THR SWISS CHURCH. !MR WATIM AT 110XDOI BILIDOIL This DAY Morally. sb. .AlMemift. 4 Etni. To-NO=ow —Monis& I LMB. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 22. THERE is a common proverb which tells us to give a dog an ill name and hang him. We have complied with one partof the request, but not with the other. We have given the dog one of the most terrible of names—that of hydrophobia—but we have not exterminated him. Liverpool lately made itself ridiculously notorious by the massacre of some six hundred dogs, but its example has for tunately not been followed by any other impor tant city. The dog, in spite of the fearful impu tation which hangs over him and the panic-stricken brutality of the Liverpool police, still holds his place as the most cherished companion of man. He is suspected by police authorities, and muzzled by Act of Parliament in England and France with different degrees of ingenious cruelty, but he is still the chosen friend of old and young. The children find in him a toy which perpetually re news its freshness ; and mothers, as Doctor JOHN BROWN truthfully puts it, find in him a perpetual infant. He is not allowed to work —also by Act of Parliament—but be relieves his restless idleness by becoming the guardian of property. He has even survived a tax—also im posed by Act of Parliament—which is not, how ever, collected with very severe regularity, if he is wise enough not to bark at the tax-gatherer. With so many excellent institutions, some of them founded for his special benefit—with a So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and a Home for Lost and Starving Dogs, which has lived through all the false ridicule showered on its birth, it seems a pity that some authoritative inquiry has not been instituted before this as to the reality of what is called hydrophobic. No disease to which doctors ever gave a name has been surrounded by so many vulgar errors, and the belief in it which exists in the popular mind may be placed on the same level as a belief in witch craft. One by one, nearly all the supposed characteristics of the disease have been given up by medical men, and yet they are still articles of faith with the majority of the publ. , c. Nearly every week, during the occasionally hot months of summer, we are called upon to report "another " cue of hydrophobia." Though the name of the disease implies a horror of water, and a horror of water is now known not to be a distinctive s'•a of hydrophobia, the name is still retained. Though people really suffering from this affliction — call it by what name we will—are known not to foam at the mouth, not to go on all fours like an animal, not to bark, not to fly from drink, not to be relieved if the dog recovers or is brained, as usual, by a ready butcher, all these signs are duly recorded. Whether such records are the result of • distempered imagination, • foregone con clusion, exaggerated hearsay, or careless observe . tion, it is impossible to tell, and where so much doubt exists we may be pardoned for trusting only to science. Science tells us that a so-called mad dog does not foam at the mouth, that he is generally afflicted with a burning thirst, that his ferocity is only shown in an inclination to bite dogs, and that he is exceptionally kind to his human companions. We have even been warned to beware of excessive affection as one of the recognised signs of his ap proaching madness. The question of dog-madness— or rabies, as it is technically called—being caused by thirst in hot weather has been put to the test of experiment. Dogs have repeatedly been tied np in the so-called dog-days, and kept without water, but though they have died under this priva tion they have shown no signs of rabies. Their mar tyrdom was cruel, but it has not benefited their species. The "distemper "—a common disease with dogs, which is easily cured by • few hours oonfiner.ent in the dark—is nearly always con founded with madness. If a dog walks with his tongue out in July and August, orruns with moderate speed in a straight line, or turns round, or does almost anything except keep out of sight, he is at once proclaimed mad by the popular vol.*, and his brains are dashed out in a frenzy of excitement. This is not cruelty—for the dog hes no kinder friends, a little dog fighting excepted, than the lower classes—but gross, honest ignorance. July and August are the two months of peril for the dog, because the public and the police authorities have so willed it ; though it ought to be known that April, November, and December can show three cases of so-called dog-madness for one in the hottest months. While this disease is so obsti nately associated in England with hot weather, it is curious that South America, the East Indies, Egypt, and Equatorial Africa should be free from hydrophobia. We leave professional medical writers to explain this evident contradiction. It strikes ns, as it must strike any impartial observer, that the dog has been far from fairly treated in this matter. There is undoubtedly a disease which attacks human beings, and which shows itself in rnch signs as inflammation of the windpipe, gullet, or stomach, accompanied by a ,aIA tits cartainiy choking sensation, to relieve will* coughs, perhaps somewhat peculiarly, and desperately. This cough has been magnified into a bark, not, we are afraid, without early medical sanction ; and a French writer on the subject has even tried, not very successfully, to convey a notion of it by musical notation. The attempt to connect the dog with this painful and sometimes fatal dimes is too often made by qaestions which lead up to a foregone conclusion. If not recently bitten by a dog, be is asked if he was ever so bitten, and there are few people who could not fancy they had received such • bite at one time or another. A question like this will naturally act upon the imagination, the commonest faculty possessed by mankind, and then the hydrophobiac symptoms will probably begin. A case is reoorded of a maid servant who is said to have died of the disease merely from seeing her mistress vomit while labouring under hydrophobie, and another in which a dying young man recovered when the dog which bit him was brought into the room and shown to be perfectly sane. Such cases will show what imagination may do for the growth of hydrophobia; but why should the dog be alone saddled with the responsibility of this terrible disease? If medical works are to be relied upon, a cat, a pig, a cock, • rat, a duck, and a badger can all propa gate hydrophobia ; and horses, apes, camels, bul locks, bears, and monkeys are held, when rabid, to possess the same dreadful power. The know ledge of this ought to relieve the dog from some share of odium, though we should be sorry to see the other animals condemned without better evi dence. The horse is comparatively safe, because he costa more money than the dog, but even he has been accused of giving his master the glanders. This question of hydrophobia always turns up at least once a year, to be discussed with more or less doubt and prejudice. Some little time ago Blackwood's Magazine promised a series of articles on this subject. The first, evidently written to support the old foregone conclusion, was published, but the rest never appeared, being stopped, we presume, by an exhaustive reply from Mr. MOY THOMAS,. It would have been well if the series had been continued, for the more discussion we have the better. Here is a disease of some kind which has been popularly fathered upon the dog, though nearly every creature can produce it, so we are told, except canaries and infanta. We have something like authentic records to tell us that it has been caused by the bite of a man, and that it may be produced by eating beech-nuts. If beechnuts will play us false like this, what shall we think of truffles? When no bite of any animal can be had, and beech-nuts are out of reach, there is what is called spontaneous hydrophobia, spoken of by Mr. Samar. COOPER in his "First " Laws of the Practice of Surgery." Dr. Wsrsore, who had a long and extensive practice both in private and in the hospitals, never met with more than four cases of hydrophobia, one of which arose from the bite of a cat, and another ,rom the slightest bite of • sane terrier. Mr. Youarr, the well-known writer on dogs, certainly believes ;" hydrophobia, but his experience hardly sustain+ the popular opinion as to the fatal and communi cative character of rabies. He says :—" My hand% " have been repeatedly covered with the foam of " rabid doge, and I have been bitten by them "much oftener than I liked." I .~..~.. . - ~i f. MOrD • OSBORN F., Amin SO. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louis o Hama, drove oat yrierdsy atieracce. Amer 21. The Queen and Prince= Louis of Herne dime out yeater day aftanoon, attendeddby Lady Porto= and LieuteCoL Du Plat. _ . . When au animal so faithful and necessary to mar as the dog is found labouring under a murderous imputation, which is bawd' upon such very gender and conflicting evidence, it is surely only just and humane to call for a calm and scientific inquiry. We have left off burning witches, but we have still a vut capacity for supenititior, and perhaps nis belief in dog-madness and its consequences may be equally degrading. THE REPRESENTATION OF CARDIOANSHIRE.—We have the authority of Sir Thomu Davies Lloyd, Bert, of Broawydd, for stating that, in the of Colonel Powell resigning the representation of this county, it is his infla tion to come forward as an independent supporter of Lord Palmerston. He declares himself a moderate men, and would support good measures from whatever quarter they emanated, and would o:fer no factious opposition to the oontervatives.—Carmai Uses Journal. THE BISHOP or OXFORD'S EXPLANATION.—he following letter has been addressed by the Bishop of Ox. ford to a clergymen of his lordship's diocese, is reference to I the late clerical cooferemos at Oxford :—" August 17, 18G.'. Many Meeks for your very kind letter. I had not nen either of the newspaper extracts yea read me ; but if 1 had I should not have answered them. It is a hot elm endeavour to ee. oneself right by answering asythteg, and if you reply to one you must to all. I therefore leave matters to right themselves. It is quite a different matter replying to you, and I do it with the greatest pleasure. I said nothing of the sort attri buted to me in these extracts. Perhaps the subject was too abstruse to be treated so briefly, and has led to Lissa- ' prehension. In brief my belief is this :—The whole Bible come. to es as ' the Word of God,' under the sanction of God the Holy Ghost. We cannot pick end chime amidst its contents. All is God's Word to us, But as I believe that this, which I hold as the only orthodox view, is eocompar.ed with many difficulties by what is called the theory of • Verbal inspiration; I desired to show how, in my judgment, a careful scrutiny of the Bible revealed the Divine meaner.' in which the Holy Ghost speaks. I. Sometimes by the mere mr:lianical use of the humus agent who conveyed the message: as when (1) God wrote words on the first tables or (2) dictated them for the second, or (3) committe d them to prophets simply to repeat, or t 4) spoke through the prophets. 11. Sometimes by pones - log the human lash cinent with a complete knowledge of that be has to speak, and leaving him to express it under the mere souestions and guardian ship of his own special preemice according to the natural me of the human facilities, I dealer d, I say, to show how this would greatly letup thaw difficulties, and enable men to realise the essential difference between holy Scripture and any other books—namely, that, as all truth comes from God, other books may be in a sense said to be inspired because they are true, but holy Scripture alone can be affirmed to he true hams° it is inspired. lon are quite free to make any us of this you see Bt,—l am ever yours root truly, _ . . " a OXON." .... .... Naimoli/ Zecars—Ou Friday evening, about 6 o'clock, the Rev. J. P. Leoslay, Ifni. Lanky, Mrs. Ades, and Miss Iliffa, of Oloey, Buckinghamshire, ware in a boat, reels, on the river Ouee. They had proceeded about a wile from Olney, where the river is narrow and 'allow, so that it is very difficult to tot past without lightemeg the load in the boat. The three ladies left the boat and walked Lbws the river back until they could again enter it. On getting into the Weston water, which is both wide and deep, Mrs. Langley waa the first to get into the boat. She seated herself at the rudder. Mrs. Allen also got in and held out her hand to waist Miss Huffs, when all three ladies wet. thrown over into the river. Their minolinas fortunately misted to buoy them up, but Mr. Lanky was unable to aid them bejood so placing the best aa to get thorn as near the bank as he could. and two than held by the boat, and one by the bank, their feet partly resting on the shelving bank. Mr. Thomas York, of Embertoe, who was in his meadow, and Mr. William France, of the Emberton turnpike gate, who was fishiog near, beard their cries for help. sod hastened to their aasi.tonee,Ood, not without much difficulty. succeeded in rescuing them from their perilous position. They were thus mast provideotially saved from being drowsed, as they could on , here remained mull longer above water, AN EAR.THQUAKR AT Lawea—A correspondent of the Truce. entiog yesterday from Lewes. sea:—" Our i0111:1 WY visited this morning with a severe shock of all earthquake. I was awakened by a vary lend report, re eembling so explosion, and the oscillation of my home, together with my bed and ell Betide. is my room, which were kept in a state of vibration for quite a unaute after the shock. I immediately jumped out of bed. turned oat my p., sod by my clock the time was 1.27. I looked out of me window, sad all was still, See, sad starlMht. The same effect is described by other* sleeping is my house. I bars beard today from many person. of their alarm—several of them gents, up to discover what was the matter, all being very much frighteaed. One woman is High-ogee' opened ben whitlow sad shouted • Police !' thinking robbers were io the hones. Since 8 o'clock today we have had thunder, aid a seantity of rain li falls'. It is mow quite ma" Nv,s FOR nit Granooisys.—As the navigators wo king on the Llanolly sad Swamis& Extensioe Railway were exesvallag at Postardulais, for the purpose of forming scared, and when at the depth of 10 test, a large birch i.e., a basal tree with pianos it, and (extraordinary as it may appear) a large lweinfull of note. were picked up. All these article, were in excelleot preservetioo, although they must hare been there thousands of years. The Lord Chance Poi arrived at Osborne, sad had the honour ct dining with the Queen sod royal family. Divine service wee performed at Osborne this morning by the Rev. G. Prettier*, before her Majesty, their Royal Hlglinenece Primus Louis of Her, Primus Helena, Prin ce= Louise, and Prince Leopold. The (Layne of Birmingham and Mr. Councillor Graham (the chairman of the General Purpose. Committee) trans acted buriness with Mr. Waddington, at the Home-onlos, on Saturday, on the subject of anatituting Birmingham an maize town. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Oolonial. aloe from the Governors of the Australian colonies, Moog Kong, Ceyloe, Malta, and Gibraltar. Despatches were sent to the governors of the North American provinces. Tan PRINCI AND PILINCIED OF WALIN AT ABU: GILDR —Toe Prince and hexer of Wales and suite arrived at Abergeldie Gage at five minutes pest seven o'clock on Friday evening. The tenantry weeded their we) from all quarters to meet at the Castle, to receive their royal highnesses with a hearty Highland cheer, but were a little too late. On Saturday the Prince, accompanied by Lord Harailtoo, Major Teesdale, and Dr. Robertson, went to the Chernabeil Moors, and made excellent begs. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Princess Mary of Cambridge arrived at the Castle in the mein& attended by Colonel Curzon, aide-de-camp to the Duke. On Sabbath their royal highoesam, with the Duke and the Princess Mary, at teoded divine worship in the parish eleirelt, the Rev. Wm. Atiderson officiatiog. The church was well idled, many of those present being strangles. In the afteraooa the royal party had • pie-sin a little below the Corbyhall Gar, den, at the river side. On Monday, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Hamilton, Gal. Corson, and Major Teesdale, went the moors, and made good bags. The Prince shot 25 braise ; the Duke of Cambridge, 33; and Lord Hamilton and Colonel Curiae, who shot in company, begged 68 Imam, 2 soaps and 1 hare. On Tuesday morning, the Duke of Cambridge and Colonel Carson left for Stickle Coatis, and the Prices end Printer of Wales, Prince. Mary of Cambridge, and the other ladies and gentlemen of the suite, went to Lochmuick to the Saltine returning in the evening by Birkall. The Princess enjoys bar usual walks and drives. A grand ball was to be given by their royal higheemel at the Castle on Friday evening. We hear that the Be,. Sir Henry Monerieff is to preach in ti. Pres Church, Crab* on Sabbath. The stay of the Prince and Nooses will only extend over three weeks, at the end of which period they are to leave for Denmark. —Dundee Advertiser. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hans will take leave of her Majesty on Saturday afteraoon on their return to Germany. Their royal high names will embark either at Woolwich or Gravesead. The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh and the Maha ranee are exploded to arrive at his highness's estate, Elveden, near Thetford, Norfolk, is the worse of next month. His Excellency Count von Bernetorff is residing at Carlsbad, where he will ramie some weeks for the lusiefit of the waters. During his exoelleocy's abeam from Loodon the Imitate of the embassy will be conducted by M. Katt*, the Bret waretary. His Excellency Prince de Latour d'Auvergne is still residing at Vichy, where he will remain until the Bth September, when he will propped to the department of Vienne, and preside at the council-general. The Duke and Duchess of Btu:clench left their !widest* in Solvers-square on Saturday Let for Delkeith Palace, near Edinburgh, on their way to Dremalanrig. The Ladies Victoria and Margaret Stott had previously left town for &Aland. The Duchess of Hamilton ig residing at Haden ironer, a small watering-place on the Upper Rides. Her grace was honoured by a visit from the Queen of Prussia on Wednesday last. . - It is stated that the Earl of Coventry is about to be married to Lady Blanche Craves, third &ugh! of the Earl sad Counter Craven. Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses Jocelyn have left town for the Oontieent. Count and Countess Gutowski de Wczele have left Eatonagnare for Scotland. Lord Aveland and the Hon. Miss Heathcote have arrived at the Portland Hotel, Booths," from Bel- ITILVe-eqUare. - The Hon. Henry Cowper and the Ladies Cowper left Wrest Path, Bedfordshire, on Saturday, for Earl Cow pox's shooting-box in !overuses-shire. The noble earl, who has been paying a series of chats on his way to the north, will strive at Cluny, Inverness-shire, b-day. The Countess Cowper, who remains at Wrest Park during the absence of Wagon, recently gave an entertainment to more than 8C.3 school children on the family estates in Bedfixdshiro. Colonel the Hon. Douglas Pennant, hi P., and Tidy Louisa Pennant and family will leave Molt:Met House, Halkin-street, today, far Pearhyn Gentle, in Weise. I The boo. and gallant colonel mad family have been detained in tow* by the illness of Captain Douglas. The Hon. bin+. Henry Ashley and the Hisses Ashley have left 12, Upper Grosvenor-street, for Wraokle ford Home, Dorchester. Major-General Shirley has arrived in town from the Portland Hotel, South's. The eminent surgeon, Mr. Stone, expired yes ! terday at his house in Grosverimstrset. He had been ill I only a week, so that his death will be a surprise to many distant friends. He was • man of remarkable talent, and was universally respected by the members of his profession. PRINCE NAPOLZON.—Hia Imperial Highness Prince Nrpoleoa left Edinburgh co Friday morning by the 9.15 train for Greenock. The Primeness Clotilde and Ma and the Imperial mint left by the 10 a.m. ex for Loudon. Priam Napoleon paid • second visit to Glasgow oe his way. As on the former occasion, hie ha. pedal Highness was Welded by the French consuL In the coarse of the day . the Prince visited the works of Messrs. Robert Napier and Son, in Govan, and inspected the three, (riper boildirl there for the Turkish government. lie afterwanis chum through the city. The Priors left the city by the 2 o'clock train for Greenock, from which he was to mil for France no board his yacht, after • few boors' stay at Arran.—Srolnarte. Detail( or LORD RODNEY.—On Friday evening, at ab3ol half-past 6 o'clock, Lod Rodney expired at his conetry mansion at Rerriogton. near Leominster. The deceased sobleman ' owing to his failing health, but seldom appeared in medic, choosing rather to minister to the wants of those is the immediate neighbourhood of his family residence than eater into the busy world of political life. His last appearanee in public, we believe, was on the occasion of the annual gathering of the Leominster Agricultural Asso ciation, of which society his lordship eras • warm supporter. His lordship leaves three children—two boys and • girl— the eldest of whom monied' to the title and estates, and is now io his seventh year. Lord Itrdeey was great grandma to the oiliest vice.admiral of that name, whose successes are so familiar to all reader of English history, and who, after the capture of St Eustatia in 1781, with an immeess booty, was appointed vice-admiral of Great Britain, sad es the 12th of Mar. 1782, advanced to the peerage, THE LATE MR. DOWSE.—In the evidence given at the inquest oo the late Mr. Dome, it was reported that '" he bud been a commissions, of kiss late Insolvent Debtors' Court" TM. is an error ; he was a barrister-at-law who had practised in the late Insolvent Debtors' Court, sad was deputy commie:timer during the illcess of the late Kr. Commissioner Murphy. It was added that after the abo lition of the Insolvent Debtors' Court his practice con. siderahly diminished. Mr. W. F. WINDHAIL—This singular individual is now working a coach with great regolaritv between Nor. wioh, North Wolohan', and Cromer. Mr. Windham is no longs. poopristor of the coach, but discharges his duties as " coaches —looking after the way•bill, kc.—in an exemplary manner. He has become minutely fat, and bas • very folly appearance. His coach is threatened, however, with Oman-powerful opposition of the locomotive, the East Norfolk Railway Company being about to commence the mestroetion of • line between Norwich and North Wal. sham. A Crystal Palace has been opened at Amsterdam with great wilenicity, and is the promos of inhabitasta from all parts of Hellsmd. The model of Sir Jos-pit Psi tee's rtrneture of 1851 has hoes adopted with much success, sad the strsetura offers a remarkable contrast to most of the public and private bendier io the capita The project woe started as loon ado as 1863. The piton of the wider (akin, Prince Frederick, mole of the King, peeeided at the aerememv, and replied In a most edifying manner to as address from the projector, Dr. &rata'. wheal the Prince de en , eta with the Order of the Liao of the Netherleade. M SIROPOLJTAN Fans 'HOSPITAL, DIVONIMIRt -841 IJA RE, Cur.—The aggregate somber of palest* relieved Curios the week ending August 20 was—Medical, 961 ; 'withal, 634 ; total, 1,693, et wheat 683 were sew owes. * 4OO . - 4 i ,t 4a k„,aoo 4 " \ I I • vrgc24 , lac i EVZNIN 1511 &UGUST 13, 1 • LATIGST 111PriLLIGENCE. (nose'. imuniame.) THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PLYMOUTH, Amur 22. . The screw steamer Indiana put in here this morn ing to land passengers and to coal. She left Cal cutta May 19, Madras June 2, Cape of Good Hope July 13, and crossed the Equator July 28. The Indiana has 100 passengers and 90 military invalids and time-expired men from India, with 10 pas sengers and a mail from the Cspe. She has also a ,full general cargo, principally saltpetre, seeds, cotton, silk, and sugar. Her news from the Cape is three weeks later than that brought by the last mail steamer arrived. Trade at the Cape was dull. The alarm raised on the frontier of an intention on the part of the Krebs to cross the Bashes was proved to have been ground less. Efforts were being made to discover the author of the rumour. Traders and travellers passing through the Canda country represented the country along the whole coast line to be in a disturbed state. The tribes are said to be more insolent than usual, and several councils had been held amongst the chiefs. A war amongst the natives in that locality was expected. Sir Walter Currie had returned to Graham's Town from the Transkei. The embodiment of the irregular horse had been abandoned, and the conditions upon which grants of Transkeian territory were to be made were found to be too high, and were to be modified if the scheme was continued ; but it was considered doubtful whether the territory would be given out for occupation. Parliament was to be prorogued the day the In diana sailed. Its removal to Graham's Town was considered unneoesaary, and it was doubted that the experiment would be repeated. The proposal of the Diamond Company to establish mail steam communication with Port Elisabeth was agreed to without • division, but only on its containing • condition to call at Table or Simon's Bay also. The proposal of the Union Company to extend mail communication to the Mauritius was rejected. Her Majesty's ship Hornet left on the 11th July, for Portsmouth. The Indian mail has been landed and forwarded from here by to-day's mall train. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nos ous owl col PLEilk ScarpAi Symms. The news from Germany to-day is of • quieting character, and M. de Beast and his secondary States are relapsing into lethargy in presence of their formidable opponents. The Prussians are making such dispositions in the Duchies as lead to the almost certainty that they have no idea of letting go what has cost them, if not much military e=pense and glory, a great deal of what remained of reputation. With regard to Lauenburg, Han over explains to Prussia, whose susceptibilities, we are told, have been amply satisfied. Since the days of Louis XIV. no more splendid fate has been witnessed at Versailles than that which took place last night. When Paris bad done work and got through its dinner many an anxious glance was cast to windward, where dark banks of cloud were seen steadily coming up. The rain began to fall as darkness set in, but erny sow and then the weather cleared, as if endeavouring to respect the tapis sere and its admirers. All day and all the evening the roads leading to that deadly lively town of Versailles were thronged with pleasure-seekers, who were thither conveyed by a couple of railways, by steamboat, American omnibus, and other public and private convey ances. The Emperor, Empress, King of Spain, and their suites reached Trianon at 11 a.m., and partook of a private breakfast, and then both Triateons and dependeocias were visited. At about 4 p.m. the royal party entered the park of Ver sailles by the canal gate, and the Emperor con_ ' ductod his guest through the saloons and galleries of the château, which are strewed with such wealth and so many works of art. All of these the King, of course, admired. A little before 6 o'clock the waterworks began to play, and at 7 a party of forty eat down to dinner. At 9 the troupe of the French theatre played Psyche in the private theatre. The spectacle was magnificent, and the eye was quite dazzled with light, diamonds, and gold. The Em peror wore the uniform of a lieutenant-general, with the order of the golden fleece ; her Majesty was in court robes, wearing a diadem glittering with diamonds in her head. The King of Spain had on the dress of a captain-general and the grand cordon of the legion of honour. Nothing we, to be seen but brilliant uniforms and gor geous costumes. The imperial box was facing the stage, and behind the royal party were seated the different princes and princesses, and then on benches rich with gold and velvet, the ladies and gentlemen of the court. After the performance at the theatre, and when majesty bad duly expressed its satisfaction with the comedians, the fireworks were witnessed. At first there were to have beer. certain restrictions placed on the entry to the park, but so great was the number of applications for ad mission that his Majesty decided that the people should be admitted withoot distinction. The topic serf and terraces immediately in front of the château were alone kept inviolate. It was over this large space that the illuminations had been disposed ; there were coloured lanterns in profusion hanging from the branches of the trees, and strings of white lamps surrounding basin and flower bed in one, two, and sometimes three ranks. Electric lights in the shape of five suns shed their pale gleams over the tapir vest, further illuminated by Bengal lights of different odours, and vases of stone which seemed to vomit flames like so many children of Vesuvius. These varied lights, these suns with their dazzling rays, these flames that flickered in the breeze, these ribbons of lamps which designed the form of facade and basin, and whose reflection was caught up by the artificial waters, produced a magic effect, of which it would be difficult to give a just descrip. lion. The fireworks were as fireworks usually are, ' but on a grander scale than most exhibitions. The principal one represessnted an immense bundle of standards surmounted by an imperial crown. When this fate of tire was over, and three millions of franca duly expended, there was • supper, to ' which 200 guests sat down. The King of Spain ' will leave this evening for Madrid, and the next royal guest will be Prince Humbert, who will arrive in a few days, and no doubt Prince Napoleon will be back from Scotland to bid him welcome. The trial of the two men accused of having murdered the four inmates of the Chateau Baillard continues. It would be useless to trouble you with an examination carried on in an irregular and undignified manner. The crime for which Latour and Audouy are being judged is one of the most fearful on record, and yet at each moment, if we are to credit the newspaper reports, judge, counsel, court, and prisoners, indulge in facetious remarks and hilarity. At the trial of the " thirteen," it (' .~- _ was ■maakld tried '" . that is leglaniall the lawyers who juchAe accused "Mad have held the highest positions whilst in France judges lacked both the talent and the dignity required to make themselves respected. ' Nothing has served to give such interest to the Courrier du Dinianche as the pains and penalties to which from time to time it has been subjected. It is a wonder that this journal still survives, and the gentlemen who contribute to its columns must feel that they write on the verge of ruin. Never theless it is the only one of the papers in which the acts of the government and the condition of the country are freely criticised. Its articles, which are as stinging as if no censorship of the prase ex isted, are anxiously awaited once a week, and greedy contemporaries with lees nerve and talent eagerly seize on and insert them. In to-day's impression our old friend M. Aesolant ventures to treat the imperial government with a flippancy which must assuredly alarm the responsible editors for the safety of their property. M. Assolant begins by assuring his readers that the present is a great reign ; that the tricolour has been planted at the four corners of the world, that French victories may be counted by dozens, that the half of Sebastopol has been taken, and the whole of Kinburn and Puebla, that infidel Turks have been delivered from the hands of schismatic Russians, and an empire founded in Mexico which it is hoped will be as durable as that established in France. Then the Pope is maintained at Rome in spite of himself, in spite of the Cardinals, and in spite of Italy ; a cathedral is built at Pekin for the little Chinamen, who are some day or another to be baptised—in fact France has put her foot everywhere, considering it a glory to meddle with the affairs of her neighbours. It is true that all this has cost some blood and treasure. More than 200,000 Frenchmen are dead on the field of battle or in the hospitals, and many millions have been expended, but happily France is too rich to pay any attention to such paltry affairs. M. Assolant declares that he thinks with nine million electors that the French government has only to lift up its finger to be obeyed ; that nothing is done in Europe without consulting it, and that M. de Bismark and M. de Rechberg receive all their instructions from the Tuileries. The writer then goes on in a sketch, which would take up too much of your space, to contrast the present govern ment, and its influence abroad and at home, with the governments which have preceded it. His opinion is that the real hey-day of French glory was when France was under parliamentary govern ment : To-day we receive the visit of the ambassadors of the Tycoon and of the King of Siam ; all that is wealthy in Europe repairs to Paris to taste the cookery of the Grand Hotel and admire the pelKilloll with which the Boulevard Malesherbee is constructed. Frankly, I am not proud of the reputation which we have pined during these last 15 years. Our army has won great victories, it is *roc; but what bare we gained but Nioe and Chambery ? Surely it is sot the sympathy of our neighbours—for, thanks to the mystery which envelopes our prelate, each of these un happy beings is afraid of being swallowed up before he eau look round. The Belgian fortifies Antwerp ; the Italian fears for Sardinia and regrets Nice; Baden and Ba varia tremble on the Rhine ; and though Prussia Minidisks, its sabre and shouts for battle, she would like to be re-assured that all was peace. The Eegliahman, mimosa and padieekei in his Weed, walks aloag the shore with a musket in his head, and declares that he is on his pardand net to be alarmed. Of what nee is the role we are paying' Lust year did we snatch Poland from Russia! lam aware that it was an enterprise too difficult for us to undertake alone, but why could we find no ally' This vest what have we dons for Denmark, serasinated la the midst of pees! fibs wee a ewer neighbour than Poland, more easy to help both by land and see, and the prey of an enemy lass formidable. Erse Eng land, is spite of her egotism, would perhaps have joined us, and the threat of our intervention would have been sufii ant Bat no! nothing was said, nothing doge, and we allowed a free and friendly people to be usahed. Why are we distrusted in Europe' It is because we are only awe of what is Wag done when all is terminated. Ah we are far fleas those happy days of 1792 when all the Rhine towns desired to be sneezed and to share the liberty of Frown ! But if we have lost the enthusiasm of those days, at least we do not cease to demand freedom. Being free, Freon will be always powerful, happy, sad glorious enough to satisfy the desires of her Miran M. Assolant has evidently neglected to read cer tain despatches written by Lord Russell to the French Foreign-office, but no doubt he will receive ' 1 a communique from the Home-office here which will set right all slips of the pen, if no more severe notice be taken of his lucubrations. After the manner in which we have been lately apprised that France recently sought to renew her alliance with us, it is rather bard to find the Memorial Diplomatique warning France not to listen to any proposals coming from England. The Memorial accuses England of having added fuel, either diplomatically or more directly, in every European war. The present government is made responsible for the conduct of ministers during the thirty years' war, the seven years' war, the war of succession, and those of the republic, the empire, Spain, Greece, the Crimea, India, China, Italy, and Denmark. Everywhere the hands of England are either stained with blood or filled with gold, and everywhere her gloomy diplomacy is intriguing in the name of liberty, civilisation, religion, and political and national independence. From these grave accusations one turns with a feeling of relax to the next paragraph, which, after the character given by M. Assolant to his government, may be accepted as truth. his not (so writes Le Chevalier D. A. E. Wollheim de Fonseca) that English states men and Englishmen themselves are men apart, and more wicked than other people. On the con trary, no persons are more estimable than the English as far as frankness, firmness of character, good faith, and sincerity in their social intercourse. It is impossible to speak too highly of our interior policy, our commercial activity and industry, but as to our foreign relations, we have always had, and still have, the fatal propensity of encouraging war that our commerce may prosper. The present in dictment launched against us is that we desire hoe- Widen with Germany in concert with France, in order that the latter country may be driven to ob tain all she requires in British markets. In another part of the Memorial England and France are represented as about to send to America officers to follow the military operations going on there. Advises have been given both to Washing ton and Richmond of this intention on the part of the two European governments. The principal object of this military commission will be to report on the prospects of the campaigns to attain the end for which they are undertaken—if it be probable that Grant should capture Richmond, or if Lee and his generals are still in a state to resist all Northern attack. Upon these reports it will de pend whether offers of mediation shall be made by the eastern to the western hemisphere. The Vigie de 07iereasouriuri se wee an amount of a terabits ant which at exhibition el &a wed" at that town on 16th lest. A greed Pan d'arkllce onexpeetedly teak in, sad dyl. saisapst tie crowd, struck fear plisse% A woos had part el bar load carried away, and was kidiad as ti. net Ths steward of a transport was also grievously wounial as the hued, awl was conveyed to the Marine Hospital, whew he lios in a despond* condition. A sailor sad • alisid wars slightly Wined. FRANCE AND ITALY. The independence Beige, in announcing the pro jected marriage of Prince Humbert, the heir appa rent of the throne of 'tidy, with Princess Anna Murat, lays : lam enabled to state that the head of the Princes. has been officially solicited by the Marquis Poen, who is him self a son of a Priam' Moist. This marriage will strengthen the booda which already exit between Italy sad the only great power from whisk she may baps the final develop• meat of her unity. PORTUGAL. (=rises zuzzaa.) LISBON, Aucosi' 15. Don Eusebius Page, and Don Innoceucio Bold= have arrived in Lisbon to treat on the part of the Spanish government respecting the frontier points, where junctions should be made between the Portuguese and Spanish railways. The Marquis de Tagliacarne has presented his credentials as representative of the King of Italy ; the present charge d 'affaires, the Count de la Tour, will soon quit this capital. The rumours industriously spread by the oppo sition papers that Senor Mendez Leal, the Minister of Marine, will surrender his portfolio, are con i sidered to be unfounded. . -.- The Federal frigate Niagara is in the Tagu... It is said her mission is to intercept a steamer bought at Liverpool, ostensibly for the navigation between Lisbon and the Portuguese possessions, but iii reality for a Confederate cruiser. The Portuguese papers further assert that the steamer will not sail as the intentions of the Federate have transpired. . . The reclamation of the Spanish government respecting the capture of the shipVirgen del Refugio is not likely to cause any serious difficulty (since announced by telegraph to have been settled). It appears that this vessel was a slaver, and the proofs of her delinquencies were overwhelming, and she was captured within the Portuguese waters, a point on which no doubt exists. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) YolinLy, AVOWS! !J. S Lt. ~._..; ,B. T. W. F. in , 11. 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W. to N. and N.E , mo derate to treat. stow showers. N.K to N.W. and W., Wirtnitt. N. to W. an., S.W , mu moderate to tresb, demist to strong,sonse showers to place,. rain to place.. N.K.to N. W.. moderate Sorrniaa. N. h. W. to W.S.W , to fresh, doe gene. treat, showers to rally, but rata in places. Aslaces. next above. Limns. As next above . Nartherimdio3tJand. Wootornoiroland. Wotan. and ad. lacenles. Boatbern=impllsb Channel and Pay of Blew. Nodes odlasivard land and North Soo !IOLA& Oa NOMILILII Wll 00Affe. N. to W. rally a USDA V. fresh, gene. THE ATTEMPTED MIMED= AT TICKENHALL.—The minas Sarah Adams, who made such • demos:ate attempt as the life of her husband last Wednesday, by shooting him with the contents of two p• s heavily loaded with abet, was brought up at Derel before Mr. W. T. Co., • ou Saturday morning last. The wider, of the husband, who appeared with his bead besieged up and fare badly swollen from the effects of the injuries he had received, went to show that be went home end fell asleep, duties which time his wife discharged a pietal at him. He awoke, and maw his wife going into a beck hitches. Ile followed her, and when she returned she discharged • second pistol, which inflicted wounds on the right rade of his face. Jealousy appears to have been the muse for the commital of the offence, as the prisooer had previously told her husband that " he must have something against bar or he world ant go on so." It was stated that she bo ug ht one of the pistols from Messrs. bon', shop, Ashby-de-le- Zouch, on the Monday previous, and that she bad exhibited symptoms of as unsoand need for some time past. After the depoeitione of the whams had been taken, the pri soner was folly committed to take her trial at the next seam The man is in • fair way for recovery. ACTION AGAINNT A LADY FOR BREACH OF PRO misz.-013 Saturday the ass of "Lister v. Wray' was heard before Mr. Justice Blechhers at Loeb. The pllsiatiff is 58 years old, and the defeadist, Mrs. Penes. Wray, who is 69 years of age, bas bens already married three times. She has • jointure of 7001. *year. Mr. Dishy Seymour, in opening the case, stated that the preliminaries with reaped 'to the rearriage had been so far weaned that the wedding beetakfeet was ordered, and the Rev. Mr. Hudewell was the gentleman selected to perform the sierenniey. On the day before that arranged for the osinnony • neaten mins from tie lady that she had cheated her mind. Plaintiff had • carps beg at the bonsai thedefeadantat the time, contain ing his wedding snit, and when he went to accompany her, as he thought, to the altar, the door was shimmed in his face. There was no material disparity is point of years between the parties. Plaintiff had lost • wife, and • benefit ad solace which he sought in his declining years, and he had also lost the advantage of her handsome Scams of 6081. or 7001. per year. This woe innately • case is which the lady had promised to marry and had not Willed that contract, and the question must consequently go to the jury as to the amount of damages. Mr. Sedgwick, clerk in the Superinteodent Right:see Ofgoe, Bast-parade, Leeds, stated that in February the *Stiff and defen dant cams Into the Milos together. They seemed very happy. Mr. Lbter asked for a notice of home. sad the ladr waited until it was filled up. Witness asked plain- tiff's name and his residers, sod whom be was going to marry. The answer was ' Patience Wrev," sad a fee of two nines was paid by the plaintiff. The age given by the lady was 69, sad the "youthful bridegroom stated that he wen 68 years of age. The lady looked freak sad sprightly for her yearn. The jury decided in favour of the plaintiff and gave him me farthing damsels A LADY PREACHER AND THE POLICE—Mott of our raiders ;says the Carmarthen Journal) bare doubtless heard of Mrs. Colossi Bail, • lady who in (perhaps somewhat indiscreetly) minutiae from tows to town throughout the Principality for the Fuson of prambieg and ailing oppose of the Scriptures. Whether Its. Ball menders Swansea more depraved than other towns we kiss not, bather Idly hers has now been prolonged for several moatha, sad the. way in which she fulfils her missies has repeatedly brought her into antagonism with the polio*. Some few weeks ago Mrs. Bell woe summoned before the beach foe musing ob. 'mebas in the streets, sad the cam being proved she was ordered to pay 6s. 6d. costa. Oa Monday lest Mrs. 801 l was again samnimed for • similar offence, and as this occasion Mr. Robert Sotherlsed, the town minims', was also sammosed. The ems was proved by S.C. Sr who swore that an Sunday evening both defendants were preaching in Castle-square, that a very large crowd of per sons cocigregatsd around them, sad the thoroughfare was consequently obstructed. Tee defendants brought forward three or four respectable civilians, who dossed that they were present during the whole of the Sunday main ser vice, aid that there Ina no olstructioa—pedmtriens mimed and masted on either side of the street. The magistrate% however, believed the case proved, and hoed each of the defied/into 205., or 14 days' imprisonment. The defendants refused to pay, statist they had no momy, and Mrs. Ball adding that the apostles went to gaol for the cause of Christ in days of old, and she would fellow their example. Ulti mately, however, • gentleman in court paid the money for both the defendants, who wars then liberated. Mn. Bell left • Bible with the head constable as a gift to the officer who bad proved the ease against her. DEATH rams LOciJAW.—On Friday an inquest was held at the Royal lalinnuy, Bristol, by Mr. J. B. Oriadeo, city wooer, upon the body of Hoary L•ga. aged 43. It appeared from the evidence that on Friday, the Sib lost., cleansed was at work OS some baildiogs for Mr. Thom, builder, Cliftoc, sad while he was engaged in clearing away some rubbish alder a wall a dear fell upon him, and he sustained • cut on his head, sear the temple, and some other bruises. The cut on the bead was an inch and s half in length, and it healed op, apparently very well, hut as be coothasid to suffer from the effects of his injuries he was reismed to the iairmary on Monday last. Mr. Cooper, house surgeon, stated that the deceased was suffering from beams, or lockjaw, when be was Sought in on Monday, mid continued to leak until Friday afterooon, whoa be died from exbanstim. The jury returned • verdict of " Died from loakjaw." Fated. Gus Aontnzirr.—A distreasing accident osounsd as Pride afeensecon to Charles CrsAsek, axed VT. sea of Mr. l , of Risluneed-road, Shepherd's-bosh. He was in the act of drawing oat arm from • place where it was wally kept, with this eaumS awards his. Uofor I SeeetwlY the pleas woe Warted, sad sonistbiss catching the Winer, it mot off, and the esatepts lodged in his bcKII• Medical aid was promptly obtained; but afar lingering in great agony for some time, death put an end to his suffer ings. L IX The biakii m ala bit 11 bib! - kr. Cattail In the lb. as Tama This was IT reOCT Wbk . 4 GilliamTwij Lrtillery, of 4241.. las" A re-vatic Tbil kazoo f several ma I'W AuglN Lorain s , tr. 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