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

irIEIOLERA. RELIEF FUND, Mansion-howie.— V At • Preliminary Meeting of Merchants, Bankers, and ethers, held at the Mansion-haw yesterday. at Three o'clock— thamtrit Hon. the LORD MAYOR presidlog--• Committee was raleeto subscriptions for the purpose of relieving the owt gaming and distress among the poor which has been caused by the present outbreak of cholera in the metropolis. The funds collected by this eusamitiee will be *wiled towards the relief of the poor persons who are suffering from the preva lence at cholera. prams in aid will be given as far as porible through the agency of local boards, committees, clisswourie.„ sad other Institutions. The Sub-(kommittee • ill meet each day at One o'clock. at the Mansion-house. Donations will be thankfully received by The Bight lion. the Lord Maor, Mansion-house Mews. Barnet, Hoare*, Banbury, and C y a., 62. Lombard-street, &C. Maseru Bardsy, Berea, and Co., 54, Lombard-street, ; Mews. Boom suet hub, and Co ., 73. 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IT is often said that the English character never appears to better advantage than when some calamity, overtaking a class or a population, calls out the generous sympathy of the public in effort and sacrifice for its relief. The present outbreak of cholera has already been the occa- sion for an outpouring of liberality, and been marked by instances of individual heroism, especially in connection with the immediate care of the sick, which do honour to our age and country. But there is another aide of the same national character which at a time like this it is not proper to overlook. If we are, as we love to repeat, a practical people, it must be admitted that we show it more by the energy and promptitude with which we meet emergencies, than by the wis dom and foresight which might anticipate and prevent them. The present visitation of cholera comes to remind us of some serious omissions in this respect. Our local organisations, it must be acknowledged, are somewhat better adapted to deal with the disease than on any former occasion, but in other respects we are chargeable with serious neglect. The epidemic has broken out under circumstances which have compelled attention to the fact that the field which it first occupied, and in which it has committed - . . the severest ravages, is a crowded and poor popu lation, with an intermittent water supply drawn from an open river. Again and again has the connection between polluted water supply and cholera been folioed upon public notice, and as often has the duty of providing against the evil been evaded. One of the first impulses of the authorities in many districts threatened by cholera has been to take off the handles of the public pumps, a measure very likely to prevent the people from being poisoned by drinking water contaminated by the specific cholera poison which finds its way from house drainage to wells, but one which, at the same time, deprives the poor of the means of washing themselves, their clothes, their uten sils, and their houses, at a time when cleanli ness is all-important. It is a hard case, and a lamentable illustration of public improvidence, wl en the choice thus lies between privation and poison. We have been like the Indian who was advised to mend the hole in the roof of his hut. How could he do it when it rained 1 And what need was there to do it when the weather was fine ? After all the warnings we have had, we ought by this time to be in the enjoymentof an abundant and constant supply of pure water brought from distant mountains, ful filling every requirement of health and refreshment. Seventeen years ago, when a day of humiliation and prayer was publicly appointed on account of the cholera, the late Dean &TOLLAND declared in Westminster Abbey that this was the great religious lesson taught by the calamity ; and pre dicted that until we honestly assumed the duty of making adequate provision for a full supply of pure, fresh water, accessible to the poorest and most numerous classes of the people, we should be repeatedly visited by the scourge. His words have been fulfilled. The population of London is half as large again as it was in his day. We are getting from the exist ing companies an average daily quantity of 100,000,000 gallons of water, of which about 50,000,000 are taken from the Thames, and the other half from the original sources of the New River Company, from the River Lea, and from deep wells on the easterly and northerly aides of London, and from the river Ravensbourne on the south. Upon the present gross popu lation the average supply is about thirty gallons per head daily. Suppose this average allowance to be thought sufficient, and the population of London to continue to increase at its present rate, in 1886 we shall want 150,000,000 gallons. The present companies cannot be charged with not seeking to increase their means of meet ing public requirements. Within the last fourteen years they have expended 4,000,0001. upon ex tensions, and are still anxiously looking out for new sources of supply, while the residents on the banks of the Thames are loudly complaining of the diminution of the stream. But it is not by each company seeking to be the first to appro priate the scanty local sources which remain that a great wantlike this is to be met ; the came must be looked at from a higher point of view than any which a commercial company can reasonably be expected to take. The water supply of the metro polis is a matter which, in the very highest degree, eoncerns the public health, and in whatever hands it is placed security should be taken for having it dealt with in a large and liberal spirit. Glasgow and Manchester bare settled this THE 4XPI ESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1866. •7 question for themselves, and SEO SOW Sl3lol4olith water derived from mountain II istricti, riheie the largest quantity of Mn falls, *here thus is lsttle or no population, where minumd land' scarCely exists, and where copious springs are constantly discharging the purest and softest water. Last year Mr. J. F. BATEMAN sketched a plan by which an abundant supply-200,000,000 gallons--of water daily, might be obtained from the district lying on the flanks of Ceder Idris and Plynlim mon, in North Wales, forming the upper basin of the main tributaries of the Severn. The district affords sites for magnificent reservoirs, which may be constructed with perfect safety and facility, having the lowest of their discharge pipes at an elevation of 450 feet above the level of Trinity high-water mark. Mr. BATEMAN calculated that the reservoirs, aqueducts, and all other works requisite for bringing the water to London, might be completed for 8,600,0001.; an amount which looks large upon paper, but which is not larger in proportion to the quantity of water to be ob tained or the ability of the consumer to pay for it than has been expended in Glasgow, Manches ter, Liverpool, and other towns. We mention Mr. BATSMAN'S scheme ea an illustration of the resources at command, and without prejudice to others that may be brought forward ; but certainly it is in this direction that public energy should be put forth. It is announced that the Government intend to propose a day of humiliation; but it will be in vain to besiege. Heaven with our cries while we persistently neglect its moat obvious laws, and leave our crowded population to an uncertain and scanty supply of the means of health, and in s ome districts, it is to be feared, give them water which is nothing less than a vehicle of disease. If, not withstanding the warnings we have received, we omit to take the most obvious precautions, we may pray, but we shall most likely have occasion to ponder an explanation given on high authority to some who long since wondered that their prayers were not answered—" Ye have not, be : " cause ye ask amiss." ite Most likely mower to all M. do Forcade's criticisms on the policy of the Emperor is that Napoleon 111. would bite prevented t)s unity off Gomm had he been able to *Mont it, but 'tiding that it weld be carried out in spite of him, thought it best to submit with the best grace he could. It is not the least of the inconveniences of the system of government which now prevails in France that the heed of the State is thus made personally secountable for the untowird events which it is supposed his govern ment might, by some means or other, have prevented. It would, says the Pose, be insanity in Italy to inaugu rate a bellicose policy for the mere thirrt of glory. Austria would fight hard for the Tyrol, and the armistice with Prussia and tho command of railway communication would enable her to place a formidable force in the field. It might be wiser for Austria to come to an arrangement with the Italians, and, by recognising the principle of na tionality, to remove the remaining cause of quarrel ; but then, Italy has nothing to offer in exchange for territory she has not conquered. In renewing the war on their own account the Italians might lose in a few weeks everything they have acquired through the Prussian alliance. Prussia is bound to look to her own interests, and it is very evident that they point in the direction of peace. the Court. OSBORNE, AUGUST 7. The Queen drove out yeeterday afternoon with Princess Louise, and walked in the grounds this morning. The Duke of Cambridge arrived yesterday afternoon, attended by Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald. The Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Cam bridge, and the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, dined with her Majesty in the evening. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting bad the honour of joining the royal family in the drawing-room after dinner. Colonel the Hon. Augustus Liddell had also the honour of being invited. The Duke of Edinburgh went to London this morning, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke. The Duke of Cambridge returned to London in the after. noon, attended by Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Albert Victor, and Prince George arrived at Marlborough-house yesterday afternoon from Osborne, attended by the Hon- Mrs. Hardinge and Major Toted*le. A deputation of Venezuelan bondholders, consisting of Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. George H. White, Mr. J. Gerstenberg, Mr. F. Campion, Mr. T. Key, Mr. H. Schirges, Mr. E. Jeggins, Mr. J. Rutherford, Mr. K Mocatta, and Colonel R. H. B. Beaumont, had an inter view with Lord Stanley at the Foreign-office on Monday last. Despatches were reesived yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors o Yalta and the Mauriiina. The prorogation of parliament will, mays the Times, take place by commission on Friday next. Her Majesty, we believe, comes to Windsor to-day, and the council at which the royal message will be settled will be held on Thursday. Their Rnyal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, Countess and Count of Gliehen, and suite, attended the performances at the Adelphi Theatre last evening. The loyal citizens of York are actively engaged preparing for the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales, which commences to-morrow (Thursday), and will not terminate until Monday next. Triumphal arches and ornamental devices are springing up in all the thorough fares along which the royal visitors are to pass, and the city will present a scene of gaiety and festivity such as has never been excelled on any previous occasion. Their . . • Royal Highnesses we to be the guests of the Archbishop of York. --- The Duke and Duchess of Manchester arrived in town yesterday from visiting Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, at Molecomb, and subsequently Brighton. The Duchess (Eleanor) of Northumberland has left town for Worthing. The late Marquis Camden is believed to have died from an affection of the heart. All the family were -..-.- t .. Bayham Abbey, with the exception of the Earl and l ,ountese of Brecknock and Lord George Piatt,who were telegraphed for, but were unable to arrive in time to see their father alive. It wail Lady Clementine Churchill, not " Cornelia " Churchill, as inadvertently stated, ho was married kat month to the Earl of Brecknock. W • The Earl and Countess de Grey left their resi dence in Carlton•gardens on Monday, for Studley Park, near Ripon, for the season. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales is expected to arrive on a visit to the earl and countess towards the end of the week and will stay at Studley till the Prince and Princess to go to Scot land. _ _ _ The Earl and Countess Spencer left Spencer House, St. James's, yesterday, for Althorpe Hall, North- amptonsbirs. The Marquis of Aberoorn left Chesterfield House yesterday to join the marchioness and Ladies Hamilton at Eastbourne. We understand the noble marquis and marchioness and family go to Dublin on Monday week. The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford have left their residence in Charles-street, St. James's, for Curraghmore, county Waterford. The Earl of Tyrone, M.P., remains in town. The Earl and Countess Delawarr intend to leave Knowle Park, near Sevenoaks, at the end of this or early in the ensuing week, to pass a few weeks at Eastbourne. The Earl and Countess of Wilton, after the re gatta week at Cowes, will go to the noble earl's shooting box in Scotland. . _ ______ The Earl of Lonsdale has left his residence on Carlton-house-terrace for Lowther Castle, Westmoreland, for the season. The Countess Cowper received last week at Wrest Park, Beds, the Marquis and Marchioness of Cianricarde, the Earl and Countess of Beseborough, the Earl of Clan william, the Countess (Dowager) Spencer and Lady Sarah Spencer, Viscount and Visoountess Stratford de Radcliffe and Hon. Miss Canning, Hon. Lionel and Lady Victoria Ashley, Lord Eliot, Lord Gifford, Hos. Frederick Leveson Gower, Mr. Trevelysn, and Mr. R. Doyle. Lady De Lisle and Dudley has left the St. George'. Hotel. Sir Henry and Lady Blake have arrived at Far ranee's Hotel from Ashfield Lodge, Bury St. Edmunds. The Hon. Edward and Mrs. Russell have left tows for Scotland. Mr. Bearden has given notice that he will, next session, introduce a bill for the repeal of the Act of Legis lative Union between Great Britain and Ireland, and to restore the constitution of 1782 ; also for the permanent appointment, or during the pleasure of the crown, of one of the royal princes of England to the vice-royalty of Ire land, at a suitable income, to be paid out of the revenue of Ireland. Mr. J. S. Mill will on Friday ask the Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any fur }.her information baa been received as to the apprehensions which he stated to be entertained by the authorities in Jamaica of a new outbreak in the colony : and, whether he has any objection to state more particularly to the house the information which had previously been received on that subject. Mr. M'Cullagh Torrena bag given notice next session to move for leave to bring in a bill toprovide better dwellings for artisans and labourers. COU4AoB.—This morning was issued, upon the order of the House of Commons, " a report to the Camp troller-Genend of the Exchequer upon the trial of the pyre, and the coinage subjected to this public trial, dated the 10th February, 1866, by Mr. H. W. Chisholm, Chief Clerk of the Exchequer." The report states that the practical use of the trial is to give an assurance to the public of the justness of the coins issued from the Mint, and to dis- charge from his liabilities the Master of the Mint, who is bound in a sum of 20,000/. duly to execute his duties. It suggests that there should be more frequent trials of the pyx ; that the verdict should specify the variation from the standard in fineness, as well as weight ; that greater publicity should be given to the trial and verdict; that the Exchequer balances and standard weights should be used by the pyx jury ; that the standard trial plates should be treader:lid to the custody of the Treasury ; and that the locked pew box, with the imperial standards, should be deposited with the Board of Trade. WHITLICALL, AUGUST 4. —The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Bight Honourable Jebn Robert Mowbray to be second church estates commissioner, in the room of the Bight Honourable Henry Austin Bruce, re signed.--Geseas. LATEST INTELLIGCNI • TRW' .OPENING OF TFAV PARLIAMENT. The Berlin correspondent of the Tani% under date of Berlin 5, describes the scene at the opening of the Prussian parliament as follows : In the first carriage wasHerrvorißismarck, the hero of the day,in his Cuirassier's uniform, hie helmet glittering intim sun'srays. He WM received with frenzied hurraho,and people foroed their way to his carriage to shake him by the band. What a curious thing is the applause of the people. Von Bismarck himself said two years ago, on the let of Sep , Umber, 1864, " Before two years I shall be the most popular man in Prussia." The King was in a large carriage with his eon. The Queen, accompanied by the charming wife of Prince Frederick Charles, fol lowed. Other coaches followed in the order of rank. I counted 62 of them. In the white chamber, so rich in recollections, the scene was magnificent. It is im possible to give an idea of the splendour and variety of the uniforms. Black was at a discount, although most of the liberal deputies were present. The diplo 'natio box was full. In the front were M. Benedetti, the French ambassador ; Count de Barrel, the Italian minister ; and M. D'Oubril, the ambassador of Russia, See. At 12 o'clock the Queen, accompanied by the Prinomses Charles and Frederick Charles, and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg, entered her box. She was dressed in black and white, and was loudly cheered. The large front doors were soon after opened, and the Grand Marshal Herr von Puchlex announced "the King." His Majesty entered in full uniform of a ,general of infantry, bareheaded, helmet in hand, being preceded by Count Bismarck and followed by his son and the other princes of the royal family. The President of the Upper Chamber, Count Eberhard von Statham, cried out in a stentorian voice, " Long live our victorious King and water," to which the Assembly replied three times, " Long live the King." The King bowed right and left, proceeded to the throne, and put on his helmet. Count Bismarck then presented him the royal speech, which the King read ins loud and clear voice, which could be heard in all parte of the Chamber. Early this morning the Crown Prince went to Potsdam to visit the grave of his young eon, Siegmund, who died about a month ago on the eve of the battle of Koniggrats, He was back by 10 o'clock. He will leave this evening for Heringsdorf, a sea-bathing place near Stettin, where the Princess and her children reside at present. It is said that be intends to take her with him to his headquarters in Moravia. I have also heard some details of what took place when the King arrived yesterday evening. On alighting from the train he was received by the ministers, who complimented him on hie happy return. His Majesty replied, " When Heaven aids us, as It has done, we always return well." The Prince Royal was greatly cheered, and also Count Bismarck, who left at once with his family. The King was all joy. He said to the Mayor of Berlin, "My entry this evening is nothing. I will myself show my brave soldiers to the people of Berlin ; I hope peace will soon be concluded. Prepare, then, to receive my soldiers as they deserve." After the enthusiastic reception given to the King daring the passage from the station to the palace ha again called to his presence the Mayor and the Chief of Police, in order to express to them his joy and satisfaction. " Yon will see," he said to the Mayor, " that all will be well, and the people of Berlin will soon understand that they have been wrong in electing persons hostile to my government." OUR CONTEMPORLRIES. (THIS DAY.) THZ !TATS 07 IRIJAND. Referring to the debate in the House of Lords on the motion for the continuance of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, and especially to the state ments made by Lord Kimberley, the Times remarks that though there may be few active Fenian in Ireland, there is a large class of society there who are ready to take advantage of any reverse that may befal British rule. Arguing from the supposition that the Irish population would gladly see the political connexion between the two countries at an end, the Times proceeds to consider what is to be done with • people who are so unfriendly to us. There are only two modes of maintaining the political connexion—coercion or concilia tion. It is a thoughtless and unscrupulous assertion to say that British policy has exclusively resorted to the former means. The removal of all the grievances which were urged by the orators of the last generation is a sufficient answer to such an assertion. The wish of men of all parties in England—the Tana intentionally excepts Irish tories—is to do justice to every class and creed in Ireland, and to remove every real cause of dis content. The difficulty is to find the cause of the admitted disorder. Putting aside trilling questions, there is a large agreement of opinion to the effect that the reform of the Irish church, and some legislation on the tenure of land which shall protect the more defenceless tenants, would conciliate the Irish people. On the merits of the Irish establishment the Times presumes there cannot be two opinions among impartial men. The church of 700,000 people, established amid a population of 5,500,000, is an anomaly which no one on this side of St. Oeorge's Channel attempts to defend. The land question Is more difficult, and the Times doubts whether any legis lation will effect • solution which will be just both for landlord and tenant, but it is one which deserves all the consideration parliament can give it. We are bound as a nation to do all that may be justly and reasonably done to content the Irish people ; if they then still continue hostile, we shall know that their antipathy is beyond any legisla tive remedy. The Telegraph thinks too much attention has been given hitherto to the ludicrous side of Fenianism. We have now the warrant of Lord Kimberley that the conspiracy was widely spread throughout the land, and that even Fenissnism did not exhaust all the existing elements o disaffection. The organisation still survives, the feeling of the peasantry is hostile to the goveiament, and the con spiracy will probably be further developed by what is taking place in the United States. England, no doubt, would be able to crush any attempt at insurrection, but she must not be satisfied with measures of repression alone. She must remove the causes of discontent. This a tory ministry will not be able to do. They are pledged, one and all, to the great landlords and the pro- testant parsons ; and so long as a tory government admi nisters the imperial affairs we shall hold our own in Ire land merely on the barbarous tenure of superior force, wielded by orangemen and tempered only by occasional corruption. Bribery and bayonets—in those two words you have the Irish policy of the Derby administration. In the opinion of the Mar, Lord Kimberley's speech In the House of Lords was more full of importance, more full of warning, more full of lessons which it would be positively criminal to neglect, than any speech de livered this session in the same assembly. He tells England that the Fenian insurrection was by far the most wide-spread, deep-seated, and formidable which had threatened English rule since 1798; that, had any organised rebellion actually broken out in Ireland, the whole mass of the tenant farmers of the south and west of Ireland would have joined it, and that the artisan and small tradesmen class in towns, and of course the peasant class, were with the movement. It is something that the counsel which he gave—the set tlement of the land tenure question and the removal of the anomaly of the established church—was listened to without demur by Lord Derby and the House of Lords, and if England, the Sear remarks, neglects the warning so emphatically given by Lord Kimberley and so eloquently illustrated by passing events, she will have her own apathy or blindness to blame for any misfortunes which her con nexion with Ireland may yet produce. CONTINZSTAL POLITICS. The Daily News finds fault with the attitude (lammed by some of the French liberal party as represented by M. Forcade, in regard to the extension of the power of Prussia and the unification of Germany. The doctrine of this school of French liberals is that no Continental state or nation (they are kind enough to tolerate Great Britain) has the right to possess itself is independence and unity, except only Frans. They are amazed at the audacity of Prussia in waging a victorious war and concluding a triumphant peace in Germany without consulting French Wends sad rewarding French disinterestedness, as Italy rewarded it, by the cession of a province or two. The Daily News regrets this spiteful temper of a certain French liberalism, because it justifies the government under which it anguishes and chafes, and should be amongst the first to deplore the recent suppression of • liberal journal to which many most estimable and able writers contributed their wisdom and their wit, if it could forget that the Courrier du Disienche was as illiberal abroad as it was Moral at home. The Herold describes Prussia as standing beside France, sentryble, with cocked rifle in hand, watching for the next development of French ambition, the very idea of which is enough to make Frenchmen chafe with vexation. X. de Forcade in the Revise des Deus Mond's describes France as stupefied by the suddenness of the change which has taken place. "We wake," mays M. de Forcade, "as from a dream to find Prussia mistress of Ger many, and a state of things which would have increased a hundredfold our misfortunes and our despair if anirtlibsg like it had happened in 1815." The writer evidently thinks the Emperor is to blame for this great disaster, though he does not say so in express team. The Herald Inds in this article a very plain spokes anumiation of that extraordinary pretence, not uncut en with French men, of no musky in Europe has ing a right to • gain in which Frame does not participate in some manner or other. RUSSIA. The Journal du Howe has the following : " News comes from different quarters that Russia is making great concentrations of troops on the frontiers of Germany ; and this military mani festation appears designed to exercise a pressure upon Prussia. The Russian journals hold a lan guage tending to confirm the authenticity of the intelligence in question. The Moscow Gazette, the journal of M. Katkoff, devotes to this question an article, in which he says : Nobody in Russia, for the moment at least, fear s Prussia, even with her needle-guns ; but if that Power places itself at the head of all Germany, the Russian govern ment will find it impossible not to some to a reckoning with a State become so considerable. The sound policy of states' men in Russia can never wait for a combination in which Prussia might become a dangerous neighbour. No ! the policy of conquest peculiar to Count de Bismarck does not yet terrify us ; but the augmentation of the power of a neighbouring State, and above all the conditions of European equilibrium which are incessantly varying, imposes on us the necessity of demanding compensations proportioned to the situation of Prussia in Europe. M. Katkoff advises the Russians to profit by the occasion to seize on the Grand-Duchy of Posen." (azum's rsisosams). PRUSSIA. BERLIN, AUGURS 8. It is stated by some of the Berlin journals that the King, accompanied by the royal Princes and the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, will proceed for a few days to the army of the Main. AMERICA. (Arrival of the Hermann.) SOUTHAMPTON, Arore? 8. The North German Lloyd's steamer Hermann, from New York on the 28th ult., has arrived here with 69 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, and 33,300 dole. for Bremen. On the 30th ult., off Sandy Hook, she spoke the steamers Hansa and City of New York, the English barque Grasmere, for London, the English ship Corcyba, and the Bremen barque Union, and on the 4th inst. the English barque Agletha. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA MAILS. LIVERPOOL, Auouirr 8. The African Company's steamer Minding* arrived here this morning after a very rapid passage from the west coast of Africa, Teneriffe, and Madeira. She brings 4,948 sovereigns, 1,518 ounces of gold dust, 1,440 dollars, and 5,020 franca in specie, a large cargo, and 43 passengers. Her dates are Benin, June 24 ; Fernando Po, July 3 ; Cameroon, June 30 ; Old Calabar, July 2 ; Brass River, 6th ; Bonny, 6th ; New Calabar, 6th ; Lagos, 10th ; Accra, 12th ; Cape Coast Castle, 14th ; Cape Palmas, 1 bth ; Sierra Leone, 20th ; Bathurst, 24th ; Teneriffe, 29th ; and Madeira, 31st. Fever was prevalent at Bonny. The disputes with the &glees had been adjusted. Detachments of the 4th West India Regiment had defeated the Mariboos near Bathurst. No news from Madeira, on account of the strict quarantine. - - - " According to letters from Berlin," says the Patric, "the project of the government relative to the con vocation of a German parliament takes for beak the elec toral law of 1849, recognising universal suffrage. Every citizen of the North of Germany, twenty-five years of age, will be an elector. The Cabinet of Berlin intends to apply the electoral law throughout the whole extent of the Prussian monarchy and all the puts actually occupied by the Prussian troops. Al to the allied States, they will be invited to proceed immediately to the elections by the application of the same measure, liberty being left to the sovereigns either to promulgate it directly or in ooneert with their chambers." A Frankfort letter of the 4th says :—" During the last few days considerable numbers of Prussian sol diers, wounded in Bavaria, have pamed through this town to the Main sad Weser Railway, by which they are conveyed to Giessen, Wetalar, Coblents, and Co- logne. Several boats filled with soldiers from the arabslanees also reached this place yesterday, but as the civil and military hospitals, the orphan asylum, and other buildings planed at the disposal of the surgical corps are all full, those men bad to be sent on to the north. That long line of camp beds and litters ranged along the railway Motion, and hearing men with sunburnt faces, but with a death-like aspect, formed a terrible ight. I saw a philanthropist distributing a thaler (Mr. 75c.) to each of them. Most of the soldiers received it with tears in their 'yea* EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (i*o 001 owl 001 PARIS, TI:118DAT EVI:11010. The Emperor's sudden return from Vichy is looked upon ass symptom of political difficulties, and perhaps the forerunner of important and unex pected events. The quietude with which (setting aside the suppression of the Courrier du DistericA4 he has for several days endured the comments not only of the European press in general, but of Paris journals devoted to his dynasty, upon the appa rent defeat of his policy, has astonished every body, and now it is fancied that he must have pre pared some theatrical hit more suo. The Bourse was alarmed by rumours of " bad news" from Italy, by which phrase is meant that Italy cannot be got to agree to the preliminaries of peace, and that there is a fear of the temporary armistice coming to an end. I cannot believe this. Italy would only be courting her own ruin by persisting obsti nately in the war. Prussia has now no interest in helping her, and France would only be too glad to see her get another thrashing from the Austrians. The danger cannot lie there. So far from Garibaldi having any such wild project as going on with the war on his own hook, the Opinion Nationale says he is impatient to get back to Caprera. That is clearly the best thing for him to do under the circumstances. But while discrediting anything seriously sombre from Italy, I think the Emperor's return must bode something extraordi nary. It is stated that his visit to the Chiffons Camp for August 15 will take place as previously announced. An appeal to the Council of State against the two warnings to the Prase, which caused M. Emile de Girardin and M. Clement Duvernois to with draw from that journal, was argued on Saturday. M. Augog, a Master of Requests, commissioned to act as Judge Advocate on the occasion, opposed the appeal in a very few words, declining to go into any of the questions raised by his opponent, M. Gigot, and taking the only solid ground he had to stand upon, namely, that in the matter of warnings the spirit of the legislation of 1852 was to give the government an absolute discretion. The council took time to consider its judgment. Not the least remarkable among the many signs of the irrepressible revival of public spirit in France is the tendency to pick legal holes in the Draoonic legislation of 1852, which for many years was blindly submitted to. Only a few months ago the Council of State was forced to declare that a suspension of two months of the Courrier du Dimanche was illegal. The government, by the way, when it suppressed this unfortunate print last Saturday had the effrontery to mention the illegal suspension in the catalogue of its many offences. The Bourse was very heavy indeed. Rode fell 10c. for cash and 30c. for account, closing at 69fr. and 68fr. 35c. Italian fell 85c., dosing at 52fr. Mobilier fell 6fr. 25c. The Icierti mentions as reasons for the fall rumours of the Emperor's return from Vichy (not certainly known at the Bourse), the probable offer of the crown of Emperor of Ger many to the King of Prussia, and the attitude of Russia as an impediment to the conclusion of peace between Vienna and Berlin. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WZMIZIDAN, MAIM 8, 8 A.M. . D. O IL IT. W. 11 I to ir iztaegne. W.l IL rt --!- ---I 1 Nedra 53.21 63 W.N.W 2 4 N.W. 10. 1 Aberdeen - 211.21 54 N.W. 1 4 8. ree IL 1 Leith Ardroman 29.42 66 LW. 3 2 N.W. ele 0. 5 Greeocastle 32.35 63 8.8. W. 2 8 N.N.W. ro .0.5 2 Valentla. Ilverpool 19.61 67 S.W. 2 0 W.N.W. g 0 . 1 3 Holyhead 19.54 66 8.8. W. 2 8 8.8. W. se 0. 3 Peneames 129.79 60 W.S.W. 6 9 W.N.W. e 0.95 4 Brest .. 20.8861 W.S.W. 6 7 W. to 4 Locked 123.88 61 S.W. 2 6 W. So 3 Rochefort ..29.96 la 8. 2 2 &W. e 2 Plymouth _119.79 62 W.S.W. 2 8 W.S.W. oe , 0.02 4 Weymouth - 29.77 681 W. 4 9 B.W. so .0.01! 4 Portamouth 19.77 59 S.W. 4 .10 B.W. o 1 4 London !28.7666, W.S.W. 41 8 W.S.W. rbc 0 . 16 - Yarmouth A 9.70 MI W.N.W. 6 10 W.S.W. eh I 2 Scarborough. 29.6666 W. 21 6 S.W. c 0.08 2 Shield, 26.60 65 N.W. 4 8 N.W. oc .0.06. 6 Helder ! - - 1-1 I - REBURIES. Sign• of more settled weather are not yet apparent. Tempos, tures have not changed much Barometers In the west of Ire land have again begun to fall, and the Mods have again backed to south-wset Cautionary signals have been repeated on the western and southern coasts. Pints EXHIBITION OF 1867.—Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Paris Exhibition of 1867, at their meeting, held at the South Kensington Museum on the 28th July, 1868, appointed as members of the commission the following noblemen and gentlemen, who have ceased to be commissioners ex officio :— The Earl of Clarendon, K.G., the Earl de Grey and Ripon, Right Hon. E. Card well, M.P., Right Hon. W. F. Cowjper, M.P., Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, H.P., and Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P. The Right Hon. H. F. Lowry Corry, M.P., Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, or the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education for the time being, was elected a commisaioner. —Gazette. 10, WHITEHALL-PLACE, ALTGIIST 4.—The Arch bishop of Canterbury has, under the authority of the act of the 13th and 14th years of her Majesty, chapter $ 4 , ap pointed Mr. Edward Howes, of Morningthor, in the county of Norfolk, a member of the United Church of England and Ireland, and a member of the Commons House of Parliament, to be a church estates commis sioner, in the place of the Right Honourable Spencer Ho ratio Walpole, resigned.—Gazette. PALMERSTON MEMORIAL TABLET IN WILST MINSTER ABBIT.—A slab to the memory of the late Lord Palmerston has just bean placed in the " Statesman's corner " of Westminster Abbey, directly over the grave. It is of beautifully polished granite, neatly and effectively ornamented round the borders with flower-work. It is about 8 feet long by 3 wide, and in the centre a large cross has been cut into the slab. The only inscription on it, which is recorded on the left border of the memorial, is, "Henry John, Viscount Palmerston, Oct. 18 1865." No preparation has yet been made in the abbey for the statue which is to be erected to the memory of Lord Palmerston, but it is expected that it will be placed there in the latter end of this or the early part of next year. ORFORD RiPORM LEAGIII. —At a meeting of the members and friends of the Oxford Reform League, after an address by the President (Professor Rogers), giv ing an account of his visit to the National Reform League, London, as delegate of the society ; his views on the pre sent aspect of the reform movement ; a humorous refe rence to the return of a " repentant Adullamite " (Sir E. Bering), and other matters, the following resolution was proposed, seconded, and supported by rations mem bers of the League, and unanimously adopted by the meet ing :—" That in the opinion of this meeting it is dedr•ble to enter into negotastions with the National Reform League, on the beets reported by the delegate from the Ox ford Le ague, vie., household and lodger suffrage and the ballot, and to invite co-operation and general agitation of the reform question." There was • general expression of feeling, that while for purpose, of cooperation the above platform should be adopted, the society should still maintain intact the brut principles on which it was formed, viz., manhood suffrage, end redistri bution of seats, the ballot, and payment of election ex penses out of the local rates. The second resolution was, That in cue the funds of the Oxford Reform League are sufficient for the purpose, the committee are empowered to make such grant to the National Reform League as may seem expedient, on the condition that they report such grant at the earliest meeting of the League after such course has been adopted." It was then resolved to raise a fund by subscription to aid is mae:outing the cause of the people (in cases of undue vio and severity by the police) in the superior courts, ruck money to be received by Mr. 11. A. A. Matthews, the escretary, and forwarded to the council of the London Reform League. ekes bscrip lion was accordingly ecemneweed at the of the meeting. MIL BATZMAN'S 1117111 CAL TOIIII n as UNITED STATEIL—Mr. Bateman line }cud concluded to for en approaching tour throagh the pets cities of America, with the following artiste:—Madam. Parepa, giver Ferranti, Mr. Levy (the eornet4-pistou 'player), Herr Rees, to Fortuna, and Signor Brignoli. Mr. J. L. Rattan is to be • amber of the party. Osmas Paaaos. -ORE SZILUYO DAT.- Ammer 7.—Atimindono on payassat, 4,498 ; ditto by mom Melools, 1,062. Total viistets. 11,550. -----.. THE LAW WITH BER EEO v AID ANT. TO Edna uz 1 This morning was issued the rep ort of Select Committee of the Roue of Comm ou . " to inquire into the state of the law u rem& of service between master and servant, and sa to ta r ix p e diency of amending the urne." The commit tee to the following resolutions :—" 1. That the le e to muter and servant, se it now exists, i s o b. . 2. That all cares arising under the law of router and rant, should be publicly tried, in England oo i 4, before two or more magistrates, or a stiput el , gate, and in Scotland, before two or mon _ trades or the sheriff. 3 That procedure be by summons in England and Ireland, led warrant to cite in Scotland, and failing the app defendant in answer to summons or chat* should have power to grant warrant to That punishment should be by fine, and h by distress or imprisonment. 5. That the have power, where such a course is . order the defendant to fulfil contract. to compel him to find security -4 h e do so. 8. That in aggravated cases of • tract, ceasing injury to person or limp e t, the gates er sheriff should have the power of are anent by imprisonment instead of fine. 7. '.. of wages in Scotland in payment of flue s abolished. 8. That a suggestion having be t a committee, yin : That in all cases of breath,. between master and servant, it should be eompotex examine the parties to the action u in civil eu sg ,o o the offence be punishable on summary oravietiss,', mittee are not prepared themselves to recesenuj adoption of snoh a principle, involving sa it d oe from the law of evidence in such cuss, as now, DEATH OP THE BEY. J. M. NEAT The Rev. J. M. Neale, Warden of San% College, But Chimaera, died on Monday a t the early age, oonsidering the extent d literary labours, of 48. The reversed - obtained the Newtonian prize at Cambridge (for , sacred poem) no fewer than nine times, betimes, 1861. His chief works are a " Hist Eastern Church," sad a " History of the Alexandria" (1860). He has published all edition of Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Program" ad thereon gave rise to mods controversy. For eh schools he has written • " Church History," from Church History " (four series)," Hymns," of Greece and Portugal," " Stories from the and the Heathen Mythology," and " Tales Heroism,'Among his or productions sa y de Tracey," " Duchenier, or, the Revolt ef L " Herbert 'Freshman," " Alton Priory , and Manor," " Mediaeval Hymns," the Aged," " The Primitive Laws** " History ci the Jansenist Church al A series of hymns on the " Joys of Pam' lated from the rhythm of St. Herren', of ik ring, " Brief life is here our portion," " Ja Golden," "For thee 0 dear, dear country,* their way into nearly every modem or' reverend gentleman is, however, probably his connexion with the Bart Grinsteed of Anglican nuns, whose labours in nursingthe been widely re cognised. For many yens Hs tions with them exposed him to great ohlo=iii m e i occasion he was mobbed at Lewes while b obsequies of Miss &obeli, a sister who had dir t fever aught in her attendance upon a le the first stone of the permanent with great pomp. Mr. Neale ham not lima le r` completion of the building. METROPOLITAN AND ST. JOHNSNOCO WAY COMPANY.--(THIS DAT.) The half-yearly meeting was held at tali morning at the dams in Old Pslate-yard, Mr. Arms the cheer. The following report war presond to th shareholders. Since the last half-yearly meeting the vie et II original capital km been subecebed for, sad in Mon duly paid thereon. The attention et the has been specially devoted to the= uisifiss ci required for the works, and very • m now been made in effecting settlements folio ma works have been let to Mews. Lucas Bronco Messrs. Aird and Sons, whose names will lea guarantee for the prompt execution ef the The act for extending the line to Haseptesi obtained with but little opposition, sad this portent source of traffic secured to the The directors bays made an t with ft politest Company, in virtue of wh' that ecemay to allow to this company a rebate of l2j per cat gross amount received for through the whole Metropolitan system, until the' St Joha dividend shall have reached 6 per cent., minim to selves the power to lam the line in past cent., at any time within five year, ben the spoil the railwa for trale." In mov ing the adoption of the report Mr. AVITIP served that though the state of the moan interposed some delay, the directors DadV the fins would be completed, at all ev th Cottage, by next spring. The motion was agreed to, and ths bovines pad with the usual complimentary vote. rwv p[ LProoritee ind Ireland, l i d I failing the spy*,,,,, ins or citaticw, th e rtitT&llt to {prelim& r fine, and fs 5. That the rem ea is deemed of hi mitk arson, and ales if . unity that he et Ad cases of bread, o f in or property, th e e power of Swam • of fine. 7. That s o ayment of IMO **I I on having bah 'Went oases of breached it should be sonpee * on as in civil aura, tut o , ummary ocavielisoe st , mselves to rewerneal over bed is itches** cells, as neeteddl a ts VV. J. M. NEAT le, Warden of Ihdt, died on Moodily t i o 4 ng the ward d The remind p i % it Cambridge (fir in ho t nine times, betweeelleld e a " History of * I N istary of the Paklllard a published sa wpm n's Propose,* end ho ar groversy. For Mint Church History," fr io series), " Hymns,' "Ed o , Stories from the Oft erft4" and " Tales hao, productions ill 4 1s, r, the Revolt of la ek rton Priory sad /aft nitiva Laws*" ad mist Chun* d dbl.; " Joys of Parailbs* It. Bernard, of Illorlau,l t , or portion." " Jl l l l lltl dear country," beer bad 'cry modem h rover, probably Wilms* Grinstead isterbsed,ser f hours in etusiogtheille For many yews Ye * A deputation from the British HorebOi stints, introduced by Mr. T. M. Tonal . 2 ail Alderman Lusk, ILP., Mr. Valentine Esigat, rot had an interview with Sir S. Northoote, at the led Trade, yesterday afternoon, to impress ea the the necessity of removing the Astra-tam Ire facture of watches occasioned by the pearl me meets at the Goldsmiths' Hall for assayug sating 'rata eases. There were present JISSRL.T. Jeer president), Jackson, Mylne, Bickley. Storer, Nein tichoof, Evans, Browning, Leaver, Beck, sad IWO (secretary). An association has been formed, under ibt" sidency of Lord Ebury, for the purpose of a: 6I W! and statistics in relation to the prese nt load grew of the metropo li s, and for diffusing the infonsint" collected. THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY. -116610 cessions to this movement in the ) retail trades i tt e tropolis took place on Saturday ast. At tier • number of the jewellers' establishments ,_, closing at two o ' clock ; and in the C it y , seas d th_,"' 1 lug houses in the India - rubber trade doe' h our . Arrangements approximating to adopted by the silk-mercers and drapers at ntir le were commenoed in other parte of Lee,l . lkh .3 l :l Islington closing in most cases at ire o'el •••,... 4 Victoria - road, Pimlico, at six o'clock. Ver i es t the upholstery and drapery trades in the SOO ~ closed at six o'clock, in place of a touch later Atet,.; the east of London, a large reduction of tie br e ; recently taken place, the leading draper, fi n" b'''' 4 mercial-mad now closing their establishment. et 0 seven on the Saturday. Kurinmurr Dorarror ro To 10 11 / 4 1 Cuaarrni.—The sum of 30,000/. is bequestast, of the late Mr. J. Hamilton, of Ventnor Mk ._7; the Liverpool Corporation, to be applied to the e., the local charities. The bequest is subject to shit"' rest in the ProPerty on th e patio' Min li sin ilks; MO of the deceased wti, o is 60 years of sE. THE CHANCERY VACATION.—TDS Chlettfg: tion will begin en Friday, and end on the Mg el Via-Chancellor Stuart is the vacation judge al' 1 " Ds. Sorrow." —Yesterday , at it chambers, in the cams of " Sargent v. Imhof,' 1 1 ,1,_,. Lion was made to stay the execution spine she 7, It appeared that the plaintiff and " Dr. Sot. now undergoing a senten of twelve nrett a i r i j ()antral Criminal Court for an offence %t i l , ~ii AM. Mr. Oppenheim, as counsel fm the to bring the action before th e Court of StilleSeep: term, as since the trial the con viction bed 10 10 4 Kr. C. V. Lewis resisted the application. at " from the court. Mr. Baron Bramwell refused* Moo. FLouonsa or ColMers. —Three 8 1 lbfi ee sentenced at the recent senses at Mmobi*.A,.." terms of penal servitude, and to remise. punishment of flogging with a cat-o'-idne"T!,,e the latter part of their sentence' at the ller= o , day afternoon. Michael John Flahortl- telm"'",.. years' penal servitude for robbery with !Wee. Fr 18 lashes ; end Peter Kelly sad %saw l ig l i sentenced to five years' penal 'arriva is fee Im r o strangle a man with intent to ru b es r aen7, lft lashes. The punishment ma a go manner to that a dopted as a f orm er ocesee" j elusion of the last maims, and which was dler" . . • Guardia% at that time. The three remannl io d for this punishment will be dogged "11'7, Guardian. So ° REPRIEVE OF THE CONVICT BANES.-- 4 John Banks, convicted at the lenceshin 1 01 :1 wilful murder of Ann Gilligan, at Pre"la c ten• June, has been reprieved by the Home ,_ ig t ,l decision has been received w ith some surnt... op Karlin, in pawing sentence, dorlos d tiier' 4 d bad toned the prisoner guilty upon nide" . gad sa it would have been ingelable for them to verdict ;" and, further 'if from MOP 'r iii,, 4 ' they had found him ty of any odor 0 to , with which he was , they would I .t i . imp guilty of an offence treat from that 172: • committed. There never was • clortl.M is v proved." In face of this e xptdoci•• — i o _,_ 0 . generally expected that the; ineneariel prelt" , would be lansesably entertained. Hi • ' .