The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-01 00:00:00

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Hlnn WATE% kr LIINIsiNI:IIIDGL ..... -.- TRIP DAT —M %ftt r . .“..11, 2h. 5:.m. TO-KOXAOW—ltorning. I , to Afteruuou. •;ta. 41m. LONDON, TH RSDAY, .4 P: ST 1. Mn. WHALLEY, M.P., appear.o yesterday in a new place and in a new character. The place was the Mariborough-street l'elite Court ; and the character was that of a duly instructed counsel discharging ordinary professional duties. But though the Beene and the costume were different, the spirit of the performance was the same as that with which the frequenters of the House of Com mons arc familiar. It was a new phase of Mr. WHALLEY'S great suit against the Pore, a fresh form of his indictment against the Roman Ca tholic religion. A few days ego, as our readers may remember, a mall named REM% was brought before itir. TYEWHIIT on the charge of selling an indecent book, and of causing obstruction in the etreets. On examining the work, the evidence of its indecency was clear to the magistrate ; but believing, as he yesterday explained, that the man was simply a tool in the hands of others, he thought that the ends of justice would be answered by a conviction for the minor offence, and the infliction of little more than a nominal penalty. The man was therefore fined Is, for obstruction, was cautioned, and sent about his business—a more reputable one, it is to be hoped, than that which had brought him into trouble. The Inspector who was on duty at the station to which Rear e had been taken, and where his books were detained, warned bias that, if he persisted in selling them, be would probably find himself in custody again, and might be sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Mr. WHALLEY, with an apparent simplicity, but with a real subtlety which goes far to confirm Mr. NEWDEOATE'S suspicion that the letters " S. J." might be as truthfully affixed to his name as the letters " M.P.," affects to believe that the Inspector was authorised by the Magis trate to issue this warning. Whether Mr. New-De ll/ire be right or wrong, in one thing Mr. WHALLEY is indisputably a Protestant. lie protests against everything that Mr. Trawritrr has said or done, or is going to say or do, in the matter of Ritacit. There was no obstruction ; the man was impro perly fined ; he was improperly warned ; the book, which is called " Thu Confessional Unmasked," and which the Protestant Electoral Union are hawking about, is not an indecent one ; the law is not what Mr. WHALLEY has made up his mind that Mr. Tv ew litre is going to say it is. The infe rence from the whole affair is obvious ; and Mr. WHALLEY, we are sure, has already drawn it. Jesuitism has spread far more widely than even the Marquis of WEST MEATH imagines. It not only fills the reporters' gallery in the House of Lords ; it has amended to the magisterial bench, and penetrated into the police force. Mr. Teawnirr and the Inspector at St. Giles's are evidently Jesuits in disguise, and the Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Rifles, at whose complaint the proceedings ori ginated—to say nothing of Mr. WHALLEY himself, who is giving them additional notoriety—is in col lusion with them. As to the real character of the work which Mr. Teavviurr, from what he saw of it, holds to be " very indecent," and which Mr. WualLer vindicates, we will only ask why is it circulated 1 What are the features of the Confessional which the Protestant Union is unmasking I Are the contents of the book such as by their purity in thought and word are likely to advance the interests of the Church of Rome in England'; On Mr. NERDZOATE'S theory of Mr. We et EY'B character, motives, and tac tics this may be the case. On the other hypothesis, it is just possible that the Protestant Electoral Union may be making that indecent which is not in itself so. We do not affirm the fact ; and should be sorry to possess the knowledge which would enable us to do so. The " Confessional Unmasked," says Mr. TYR tinirr, contains "dirty " and " filthy " passages. But, as Lord PALMERSTON once said, " dirt is " nothing but matter in the wrong place." This is sometimes as true in morals as it is in physics. Works of natural science, of medicine, and of law, as a contemporary has remarked, treat of topics which are necessary and inno cent in their own place, and for the readers for whom they are designed, but which would lose that character if they were strung together, not for the purpose of philosophical discussion, or of professional instruction, but to create a popular sensation. It may be so with the "Confessional " Unmasked." Whether it be so or not, one thing is certain, that the worse and more corrupt ing the book, the more reprehensible is the con duct of the Protestant Union. They snake them selves the partners of all its faults, and the instru ments of diffusing any pollution which it may con tain. Its depravity measures their offence. THE NEW DEAN or CHIXTEIL—The Rev. Dr. HOWIOII. fOrMellY bead master of the Liverpool College. was yesterday formally installed into the deanery of Chester. The Archbishop of York delivered the opening address M the meeting of the Arcbasologicnl Institute nn Tuesday at Hull. In the SWUM of some remarks on tte t l tsg e ortiou of the Holy Land, the archbishop related a u remarkable statement which he said had been made to him by Fowl Pacha, as to Atahometan belief. He said : " A society has been formed for the exploration of Pales tine, and a fortnight moue I pleaded the cause of this society in a loot interview with Fried Puha, the powerful minister of the Sultan. who promised that every aid should be given 1.. our explorers that WAS consistent with public order. 'The Turkivh government; be said, 'is tolerant to all; hnt the danger lies la the fanaticism of Christians against ea -It other. We, too,' he added, ' believe in Christ, the Son of God, the Word of God, born of the virgin, *wended into &riven ; only the eruciaxion we do not be lieve.' That is still 'to Jews a. stuk.Lling.block, to Gen tiles foolishness.'" TIIE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1867. t•U it I 70NTtlai . (THIS DAY.) s.i Ol' THE E4NMENT. "Th.• calmoe: Ile:•1 a meeting p:gterilay, at which t . v.... 0' Ct.: 11 :re of Lords on Tu.. idny nmy be a 5...• ...• . 1:1%, thar natation, and ti.e ram, • :.end. Call L..rc al rive.l at 'omit one tt•aclu;iuu ui• . it. Ti..: Ifoae of 1.4)10 I.:: a eunibinati..n of . • c •-: .2,1 1-1 tic .1 mete ,triking even 4:4 nui.nrical 1.1:.]9n1y, 114 . 4 :tetalltill Lort • • of CO:111111.11111 WOLlia IiaLVO •..01!..• of tte r. inist.y • oLsti ...-two! it. If the te!..i .try give a. the T d• 44 y will. tlry defer t:se b. 41: !m'am y t wou.lll9t improbably be o itvoted of the omcstion in the House of turn. eiy reason so far recommends ~. frank acceptance of t:a . • vote of the Lord*, and also an extension it some way of the scheme of redistribution. A single weak would st: ' cc to make the present temporary plans commensurate e.t . a the enfranchising clauses of the bill ; and the slight incoavenience of another week's delay in the prorogation of r..rliament is as nothing compared with the momentous consequences involvtil in a fresh campaign of agitation. r.e moat a iseoievous of counsellors to any British rr. '.uister. says the lie. cud, is the Tines newspaper! Every there is a new opinion. The course which in one article we ..re assured is absolutely necessary to the salva tion o: the country, in another is deuounced as pernicious to the best interests of too State. What government can attemut to follow a guide so oczentric in its motions and so uncertain of its own steps ? Upon the reform bill, to what a muddle of contradictory conclusion* should we not have come by this them, had we taken the Tim's advice It ❑ow wants the government to obliterate all that has been .Mae and begin over again. Is it possible to believe that it is a friend to reform which gives such a piece of advice pareutly, what the TIM'S wants now is that the consti tution :,hould be put buck again into the crucible, in order that it may come out three-cornered in every part. The Herold trusts the government will refuse to enter tain an idea so perilous to the bill, and so disparaging to the labours of the House of Commons. To revise the whole scheme of redistribution is to let the stone roll again to the bottom of the hill. The T, legropie exhorts all liberal members of the House of Commons to come back to their ;mat at once, if they have quitted it. for the country has been trifled with. A reform bill which admits the pauper householder of four Pounds a year to the suffrage and excludes the artisan paying Its. for his house-room is stamped with condemnation in its very title. As to the principle of representing minorities, the overwhelming argument against it is that it would reduce the return of members to a mere matter of party tactics. It is a plan for referring the choice of the I louse of Commons, not to the people at large, but to seer. • conclaves. If such a form of govern ment could be re... 4 carried out, it would be strictly and literally an oligarchy. Rather than see the ridiculous principle of dethroning majorities introdueed into the constitution of England, the Star weal I allow the whole Reform Bill to go to the logs for this ye , r. When the Lords are prepared to admit the minority of labour represented say by Mr. Potter and Mr. Connolly to th it gilded chamber, the boroughs will, no doubt, be Lodi ed to look with more favour upon the re presentation of sin ritks in the Hotta! of Commis% THE 'AMINE IN INDIA. DESPATCH OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. This m..rning was presented to parliament, by her Majesty's command, the copy of a despatch of the Secretary of State to the Governor-General of India, dated the 25th ult (Thuraday last), relative to the Bengal and Orissa famine. The despatch commences with An allusion to the painful effect which the calamity bus produced on all classes of the people. " Such a visitation," writes Sir S. Nortlicofe, " even if we could console ourselves smith the reflection that every i.vailable means had been used to avert and to mitigate it, must necessarily be felt as a severe misfortune ; and I deeply regret that on the pro a.nt occasion this consolation is denied to me. I am re luctantly brought to the conclusion that, tbouih the melancholy loss of life which the conniseioners' report may be due mainly to natural and inevitable mien, there Las been a most unfortunate want of foresight and of energy on the past of those who were charged with the administration of the province where it occurred ; and that some grave errors of judgment have been com mitted." The Secretary of State does not forget the difficulties and qualifying circumstances, and indeed, he recapitulates them ; but he adds Lis opinion that a sufficient amount of ►ttention to the facts, as they were gradually brought to light, would have shown the authorities, et a comparatively early period, the duty of supplying the necessary food. The blame of the failure does not rest exclusively upon any (articular individual. It is not to be wondered at that in the early period Sir Cecil Beadon, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, should have placed implicit reliance on the Board of Revenue, but the Secretary of State cannot but regret he should have continued that confidence so long. The course of events in lesi:e66 must hate led him to per ceive the necessity for more active personal investigation, and the fact that he found it necessary to visit Orissa proves that it had done so, though even then he seems to have been under the influence of the views he had imbibed from the board. It is unfortunate that the government of India, although their attention appears to have been specially called to the subject, did not exercise their influence in favour of a more vigorous course. At an early period the Governor-General was per sonally of opinion that it might become desirable to import food, which opinion was not shared by members of the council. " The amount of information actually in possession of the government at that time," writes Sir S. Northcote, " was perhaps hardly sufficient to justify so exceptional • measure ; bus it was, I think, enough to have awakened the most serious apprehensions, and to have induced your government to urge the Lieutenant-Governor to undertake an immediate and searching inquiry." Had the govern. meat, as soon as their attention was called to thedeubject, instituted a strict inquiry into the actual condition of the district and made public the result, there can be little doubt the supplies would have speedily been sent. This was not done, and the responsibility for the omission appears to rest chiefly upon the Board of Revenue, whose action upon one or two critical occasions was most unfor tunate. Having given illustrations of their want of perception of the importance of accurate information, and of the tenacity with which the board clung to the belief that there was a sufficiency of food—a belief accepted upon very inadequate evidence—the Secretary of State proceeds to advert to the visit of the Lieutenant-General to Orissa in February, 1866. Are the imperfections of this personal investigation to be attributed to Sir C. Beedon's own fault, or to the fault of others Answering this question, the right hon. gentleman writes : "It appearsto nie, after careful consideration, that they are to be attributed partly to the one and partly to the other. Undoubtedly be had been misled by the represen tations which had reached him through the Board of Revenue, and had come with preconceived views, which he could not readily lay aside. Undoubtedly the information tendered to him, and the opinions ad- vaned by the local officers with whom he came in con tact during his visit, fell very short of the truth, and were calculated rather to confirm, than to dispel his error. Undoubtedly, too, those who accompanied him, and who ought to have been peculiarly well qualified to form a judgment, I refer to Mr. Cockburn and Colonel Nicoll.. shared his belief that matters were in a much better state than unfortunately they really were. Still, after making allowance for all these considerations, I am obliged to say that Sir C. Beadon did not, upon this occasion, show the energy or the sagacity which might have been expected from en offieer of such high distinction and such well deserved reputation. It was to be expected that, having undertaken this visit, he would have made • minute personal inquiry into the real state of the district, and would not have been satisfied with the general statements of the local officers, but would have questioned them closely, de manded explanations of their alarming telegrams and other representations, and would have tested their evi dence both by cross-examination and by comparing it with that of others. Such an examination would pro. bably have startled them from their security, and brought them to a proper appreciation of the facts of the case. it is, therefore, the more lamentable that this, the last chance of amelioration, should thus have been lost." Sir S. Northcote, alluding to the conduct of the officers who were brought into contact with the famine, expresses his surprise to find that Colonel Nicoll', who had such peculiar facilities, should have done so little to enlighten the Lieutenant-Governor. Mr. Barlow's con duct is, upon the whole, very praiseworthy, but the Secretary cannot think that, upon the occasion of the Lieutenant-Governor's visit, he was as fully alive to the real state of affairs as the com missioners apparently consider him to have been. " If I could believe that be was so," continues the Secre tary of State, " and that be withheld his information deliberately, through fear of an official rebuff, I should regard his conduct as highly censurable." The suggestions of the commissioners will have the secretary's serious attention ; and the right boa. gentleman will ►leo take into consideration whether any alterations are desirable in the organisation of the government of Bengal, or in the constitution of the Board of Revenue—points upon which he requests the advice and cooperation of the Indian government. In conveying his thanks to the unefficial persons—Euro peans and natives—whose benevolence and liberality are so warmly acknowledged by the commissioners, the right hon. gentleman adds:—" I particularly desire that the thanks of the government may be forwarded to the Rajah of Parricood, whose conduct was both honourable to him self and well calculated to set a bright example to the native landowners, whose aid it hu always been the desire of the British government to obtain in dealing with the great body of the people." PROTECTION ,WALYST REPORT OF A PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE. This morning was issued the report of the select committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the existing legislative provisions fur the protection of life and property against tires in the Unit. gt kingdom, and as to the best means to be adoptsd fel asocrtainiug the c sews and preventing the frequency of fire.. The committee, after stating the course which they have pursued in making these investigat:ons, anal ng the general character of the evidence they have re_ .ise.l, pro ceed to offer a series of recommendations. They advise a general building act for all towns and places in the United Kingdom governed by municipal corporat , ew, •c., similar to the Metropolitan Buildin.pi Act and to Ills Building Acta of Liverpool, the sugges tions of professional witnesses as to the thick ness of walls and other details being taken :alvautage of in passing such an act. In all buildings composed of shops below and dwelling-houses above, the committee recommend that the floor immediately above the shop should be made fireproof, and that there should be a ready means of escape from the roof ; also that the floors of all large lodging-houses for the poor be made fireproof, and that there should be ample means of escape. It is a somewhat singular fact that the architects, bunglers, and district surveyors who were examined before the committee, deposed that when u fire takes phew in a warehouse, iron is of little use in stopping its progress. Generally speakiug, they prefer wood well plastered for fire-proof purposes to iron, and some of them give a preference to wooden stairs instead of stone, as the latter crumbled with the beat. It seems that bills for the supply of water by companies or local authorities containing clauses providing that the water need not be constantly laid on, have been allowed to pas s without investigation, and the committee recommend that it should be made a standing order of the house thst such bills shall be referred to the referees to inquire whether sufficient reaton exist for such provisions. Where it is proved in an investigation that the fire was caused by culpable carelessness, the person or persons implicated should be deemed guilty of a punishable offence. Other recommendations of the committee relate to the igniting point of mineral oils used for illuminating purposes, which ought not, they think, to be sold with an igniting point under 110 Fahrenheit. All such oils imported ought to be tested in this respect and marked before being stored, and more stringent regulations should he made re garding the storing in warehouses and keeping in shops of turpentine, camphine, and similar spirits. In very few other towns save London and Liverpool is this subject attended to. There remain fires that are wilfully caused. On referring to the evidence the committee find that these are to be traced to several sources, lit, to individuals and organised gangs of men who make a trade of it to de fraud the insurance companies ; 2nd, to parties who have been unfortunate in business, and who cannot meet the claims made upon them ; 3rd to persons in warehouses to conceal theft of goods made by them on the warehouses. 4th, to malice. The wit nesses concur in the belief that an inquiry made into all fires would reduce the gross number of them. The police, or fire brigade, should initiate the inquiry and re port to an authorised officer, whom the committee think should be the coroner, anything that appears in the least suspicious ; the officer should examine witnesses, or, if he thinks proper,imp►nel a jury; and any person shown to be implicated should be prosecuted at the Central Criminal Court. The coroner should be paid partly by fees and partly by salary out of the rates. The committee specially recom mend that no claim should be settled by any insurance company without a certificate from the police or fire brigade, or officer appointed to conduct the investigation into the origin of the fire ; but this certificate should not debar the insurance officers from opposing the claim if they think proper. rite Court. OSBORNE, JILT The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse, walked and dray° yesterday afteinoon, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with her Royal Highness. The other members of the Royal Family also went out. The Countess of Gainaborough has succeeded the Duchess of Roxburgh. as fady-in-W►iting. Mr. Harry Emanuel, of Bond-street, has had the honour of submitting to her Majesty's inspection a silver shield, upon which the live senses are allegorimdly repre sented—this having been designed and executed by Thomas Pierpoint, formerly a student at the South Kensington Museum. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing street. The Ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chanties, Sir John Pakingbon, Sir 8. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Bight Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Lord J. Manners, Lord Naas, and the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty. Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council Office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President and the Right Hon. H. Waddington. A deputation from the Educational Institute of Scot land, the Free Church Teachers' Association, and the Association of Certificated Schoolmasters in Scotland, in troduced by Colonel Sykes, X P., and consisting of Mr. William Kennedy, Mr. John M'Turk, Mr. James Smith, Mr. William Sutherland, Mr. Alexander C. Weir, Mr. James Wylie, and Mr. Thomas Milne, had an interview with the Lord President of the Council, the Vice President of the Council for Education, and the Lord Advocate of Scot land, at the Privy Council-office yesterday. A deputation from the London Shipowners' Society,con listing of Mr. Toiler, chairman, Mr. W. Anderson, Mr. O. Duncan, Mr. W. Strang, and Mr. J. Glover, had en inter view with the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, at the office of the Board of Trade yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor-General of Canada. THE RECENT VISIT OF THE EMPRES3 ErcENIE TO THE Qtwi.—A Pali' correspondent of the Jul,. , ' Pea dance Beige loye:—" It does not appear that QueenVic torts is coming to Paris. It is said that one of the motives of the journey of the Empress to Osborne was to induce the British sovereign to make an excursion to the conti nent. It is also said that the mission of her Majesty, Eugenie, was to communicate to Queen Victori some letters of the Emperor Napoleon 111. and the Emperor kfaximilian, calculated to throw a new light upon the matter so sadly terminated at Queretaro, and to dispel any prejudices Mist may have been entertained in England respecting the pert played by the Imperial government throughout this incident." Sir Augustus Paget, the newly-appointed Mi nister Plenipotentiary from the Court of St. James to Florence, is expected to leave town to-day or to-morrow for Florence, to enter upon his diplomatic functions. The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his sessional dinner to the principal officers and clerks of the House of Commons last evening, when the following gentlemen were present:—Sir Denis Le Murchant, Lord Charles Rus sell, Sir Thomas Erskine May, Mr. H. Ley, Mr. Rickards, Captain Gosset, Mr. Howard, Mr. Frere, Mr. Palgrave, Mr. W. Rose, Mr. Hodgkin, Mr. Charles Pole, Mr. Postle thwaite, Mr. Collins, Mr. Hearn, Mr. H. B. Mayne, Mr. Marriott, Mr. Bull, Mr. Estes, Lieutenant-Colonel Forester, Mr. Broom, Mr. Glyn, Mr. E. Ley, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Con roy, Mr. Stone, Mr. Austin Leigh, Mr. Webber, Mr. Fer guson Ririe, Mr. Milmen, Mr. Molyneux, Mr. Laughton, Rev. Dr. Motivate, chaplain; Mr. Alfred Denison, private secretary. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER R kILWAV.— The select committee appointed by the House of Lords to legislate upon the affairs of this company will meet to day at eleven o'clock. Lord Hylton (Sir William Jolliffe) has been appointed chairman, the other members of the committee being Earl Cadogan, Viscount Hawarden, Lord Foley, and Lord Dunsandle. The bill has been consider ably altered in the Commons to meet the claims of the various petitioners, some of whom appear to be still un satisfied, having presented petitions against the bill in the House of Lords. Amongst the petitioners are the Crest Northern Railway Company, debenture holders, common fund shareholders, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway Company. Some of them, however, perhaps in dread of such a pruning as their lordships have given to a well-known public bill, appear only to protect the cl►uses inserted for their benefit in the House of Commons. LATZST INTCLUGENCE. ROME AND ITALY. 3. 0 . The Gaulle of Y, mice says the follow • resolu tions were come to at a meeting held in that city on the 28th ult.: The people of Venice in public meeting assembled, con sidering that the very life of Italy is involved in the Roman question, whilst exprvaing their sympathy with the insur rectionary movements of the Roman people, demand the immediate execution of the parliamentary vote which pro claimed Rome to be the capital of Italy. The people of Venice congratulate the National Committee of Rome and the Centre of Insurrection on the occasion of their fusion, and it wishes that this example of patriotism and concord may find an echo in every Italian breast. lazuTEL's Tit zaamm) FRANCE. PARIS, Arcusr 1. The Moniteur of to-day publishes an article on General Dumont's mission to Rome, in which it says :—" The journals are discussing the mission to Rome, which had been entrusted to General Dumont, and publish a speech alleged to have been delivered by him. It is necessary to state the exact truth of the affair. The Minister of War has simply requested General Dumont, during his stay in Rome, to inquire into the causes which had led a certain number of deser tions from the Antibes Legion. As regards the speech attributed to General Dumont, suffice it to say it was not spoken. The reports published of it are apocryphal." The Con. la/lotion/id of to-day publishes an article by M. Paulin Limayrac, in which he shows that France had not interfered diplomatic ally in the differences between Prussia and Den mark. Instructions had been sent to the French representative at Berlin from which all idea of in terfering in the negotiations now pending between Berlin and Copenhagen was excluded. The Mouitcur has stated the truth of the situation by declaring that no note has been either presented or read to the Berlin cabinet relative to Schleswig. It was however not stated that the French govern. ment had written no despatches to its chargé d'affaires at Berlin oil the subject. Everyone knows that governments almost daily send off despatches containing instructions or directions on the various pending questions, and frequently their representatives read or communicate confidentially such documents. These are mere acts of courtesy bearing no official character, and in no way affecting the relations existing between the States. The presentation of a note would have been serious, but the existence of several despatches to our agent in Berlin is hardly of a nature to occupy public attention. Rather would the Prussian government itself have been astonished had the French government withheld its opinion on so important a question, and would regard such silence as bad augury, thus creating one of the situations which is seldom produced, but which always creates distrust. Such are not the relations of the two cabinets." . I&it W. 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A petition is printed with the parliamentary votes to-day from " George Septimue Phillips, of No. 5, Earl-street, in the city of Coventry, chemist and olruggist, and John Astley, of No. 4, Broad-gate. in the said city of Coventry, oilman," praying that the late election and return of Mr. Jackson be declared null and void on the ground of bribery, treating, and undue influence. Messrs. Virtue and Co. purpose commencing in October the publication of • new monthly magazine. It will be called The New Metropolitan Magazine, and will be edited by Anthony Trollope. Prince Charles Bonaparte has come forward as a candidate for • seat in the Council General at Ajeoclo. If elected, of which there is little doubt, the young prince will it that manner make his (Abut in political life. The number of immigrants that arrived at New York during the first six months of 18ti7 was 136,82 G, of whom 28,308 came by sailing vessels, and 108,518 by steamers. THE ENGLISH CHURCH AND THE SCANDINAVIAN Books.—Dr. Pusey writes to the Griardims:—" I have been asked by several, both clergy and laity, with whom lam of one mind, to request you to insert a few lines on a subject which, according to our convictions, deeply affects the well-being of our church. An energetic party (looking, as we think, to the mere question whether Sweden retains the Episoopal succession or the Danish body would accept it from us) has for some time been anxious that the church of England should recognise the Scandinavian bodies, and enter into communion with them. We know that any such recognition would be fatal to any hope of re-union with the orthodox eastern church, such as many of your readers pray and long for. For it haacondemnedLutheranisin as heretical. But further we believe that any such implied recognition of the errors of Lutheranism (even in ignorance) would be very injurious to our claim to catholicity, and would now, as it did before in the alliance wish the King of Prussia about the Jerusalem bishopric, unsettle the minds of many in their allegiance to our own church. We therefore implore such persons by the mercies of Christ not to offer violence to our consciences by endeavouring to obtain any such recognition from the bishops to be assembled in Septem ber ; and we hope that • memorial will be presented to those bishops earnestly deprecating any such recognition so long as those bodies adhere to the Lutheran nyuitolical books, which, we believe, contain merely heresy, from which God in His mercy preserved us. I have stated re- oently some of my grounds for disbelieving even the Swedish succession, in en ' Introductory F.-.say on Ile union.' I have alluded to sows, though only a few, of their heresies." LANCASHIRE ♦RD YORKRHIRE RAILWAY. —At a meeting of the directors of this company, held yesterday, it was decided to recommend to the proprietors, at their next meeting, to declare a dividend for the half-year, out of the net earnings of the six months, at the rate of 64 per amt. par banana, Inn incase tax. THE MECOND EXPIRE. Treating M. de Persigny as enjoying an exceptional pos tion as a Bonapartist pure and simple in the councils of the Second Empire, the Daily News examines and criti cises his recent harangue in the Senate, showing that his present doctrine reduces the responsibility of the Emperor to a vain shadow without transferring it to his council of ministers. He is only deluding the Senate and himself if he forgets that the want of control, and the absence of responsibility from which the legislature and the states men of the Second Empire are suffering, is an evil which the most ingenious doctrinal thesis cannot touch. How is a Chamber, containing sours live-and-twenty independent or unofficial members, to act as a check upon the power to which it owes its existence ? How can the Emperor divide his responsibility with his own nominees, or with ministers who have to answer for their acts to a parliamentary majority without a will of its own? Let H. do l'ersigny succeed in giving to France the elementary liberties of public speaking, public writing, public meeting, and the choice of candidates at elections—let him obtain equality before the law between functionaries of the government and private citizens—and France will be in a condition to divide the responsibility for the conduct of her destinies with the sovereign who knows and respects her will. THE STATE OF THE MONET MARKET. Never was there ea much money ; and yet, says the Timm never such a want of it. It is the case of Midas— gold all around, and no power to use it. The plain cause is that the British public, which has always undergone ebbs and flows of confidence, has now lost it altogether. The numerous private classes who ordinarily do not object to a little risk have spent moat of their money or com promised it, and the greater part of the central accumula tion in the Bank and in the City, many millions more than in any former crisis of the kind, belongs, not to the poor dupes ready to fling away their savings on any venture, however out of their own line and past their understand ing, but to those whose experience and opportunities enable them to take a wiser and safer position in such speculations. This, however, they cannot do unless the confiding public will come forward. It Is they that create the harvest for the profesaionsl capitalist. So, NI they will not end cannot lead the way, every thing is at a stand, and we must wait for that fated and almost invariable decennial period which is to restore all our private capitalists, male or female, old or young, to funds and confidence, and to culminate in another fever, another sudden collapse, and another state , of things like that we now see round us. BANNS OT MATRIMONY BlLL.—Horsz OF LORDS. —The Bishop of Gloucester has given notice that he will move the omission of clause I of this bill in committee to. morrow (Friday). The rejection of this clause, which declares the legal time for the publication of banns to be " after the second lesson," would be tantamount to the defeat of the bill. 6LOCCESTERSHIRE ELEcriow.—The official declaration of the poll took place yesterday at Dursley. At the nomination last Thursday the liberals had the show of hands, and the return of the conservative on Mon. day took his supporters as much by surprise as it did the liberals. A large crowd assembled some hours before the declaration of the poll, and throughout the proceedings there was great uproar. Two balconies opposite the hust ings had been erected for the ladies of the respective parties, and on the hustings were Mr. H. Berkeley, M.P. for Bristol, Colonel Kingsoote, the sitting member for West Gloucestershire, the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, formerly member of this division, Sir G. Jeukinson, and Mr. Price, M.P. for Gloucester. The High Sheriff de clared the numbers to be as follow :—Somerset (Con servative), 3,649 ; Berkeley (Liberal), 3.s33—majority for Somerset, 96. The Sheriff declared Colonel Somerset duly elected, and the hon. gentleman returned thanks. The Hon. Grantley Berkeley then came forward on the con servative aide, but the crowd refused to hear him. The Hon. C. Berkeley, the defeated liberal candidate, amidst considerable uproar, made a short speech in which be ex pressed his dumppointment at the result of the poll, not on his own account, but because the cause of the liberals had sustained a defeat. But though defeated they were not disgraced. He thanked his pro. poser and seconder, and the committees &c., who had worked so nobly in the cause, and the 3,&,3 electors who had polled for him. He wished to know how it was that so many who bad signed the requisition to him had forfeited theirpromiset. Until that was satisfactorily explained he could not congratulate their opponents upon their triumph. The Hon. Grantley Berkeley, Sir C. Jeokinson. and Mr. Price, M.P., each endeavoured to obtain a bearing,* but only partially sueceeded, and the proceedings terminated amid great confusion and uproar. THE LATE VOLI*NTLER REVIEW AT WIMBLEDON. —The following official communication has been issued from the Horse Guards :—" Horse Guards, S.W., July 25. Sir,—l have much satisfaction in communicating to you, at the request of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, the grati fication which his Majesty derived at the review of the volunteers at Wimbledon on the 20th instant, as well from their soldierlike appearance as from the manner in which they touched past. I beg to add my entire concur. rence in the favourable oninion thus graciously communi. cated by his Imperial Majesty, and to express my hope that it nay be conveyed to all who took part In the movements of the day.— I am, &c. (Signed) Giotto& The Right Honourable the Secretary of State for War." " War-office, July 27. Sir,—l have the honour to acknow ledge the receipt of your royal highness's letter of the 25th Instant, and in reply to express my satisfaction at the gra tification derived by his Imperial Majesty the Sultan from the review of volunteers at Wimbledon on the 20th inst., and rim at your royal highness's coneurrence in the favour. able opinion which his Imperial Majesty was pleased to express as to the soldierlike appearance of the volunteers on the occasion.—l have, &c. (Signed) J. S. PAILINOTOW. His Foi•al Highness the Field Marshal Commanding-in- Chief."' REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES. LETTER FROM MIL BRIGHT, M.P. The following letter from Mr. Bright, M P., addressed to • leading member of the liberal party in Bir mingham, was received (says the Birmingham Poo) yester day afternoon : " Manchester, July 31, 1867. "My dear air,—You see the vote in the Lords. It partially disfranchises Birmingham. Instead of your having three voices, or two, in a great division on • great principle, you are now to have only one. Your future Tory member will pair with me or with Mr. Dixon, and there will be left only one vote for your great community. Bir mingham is now to he reduced to the position and weight of Arundel or Caine in a great Parliamentary division, and this in the year of Reform and extension of popular power! You will see that certain of the Whig Pevrs have joined this childish or nefarious scheme. It is not the lees dangerous on that account. I hope you will take some steps to counteract this proposition. The great towns should send deputations up to London to urge the go vernment to maintain the integrity of the bill. Ido not think Mr. Disraeli wishes to injure the bill. lie spoke earnestly against this scheme in the house, and I hope he will adhere to his own view on so grave • matter. You should not for • moment dream of consenting to the audacious proposal to destroy the political weight and force of your borough.—l am, sincerely yours, "JOHN BRIGHT." The Birmingham Post understands that. recognising the vital importance of the question to Birmingham, and the necessity for vigorous and prompt action, certiiu members of the Reform Lengue will confer with the chairman and secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Association this morning, with • view to appointing a deputation to wait upon the Chanoellor of the Exchequer. On Saturday last the number of visitors to the Universal Exhibition was only 31,=0, and on Sunday 59,881. To the reserved garden the entries were 2,325, and to the exhibition of Lineman 3,840, being a larger number in the last-mentioned ease than at any preceding period. It will be seen that the visitors to the Exhibition have permanently f►llen off, and those who now visit the Exhibition are of the bumbler classes. HUNGARY. MTH, JULY 31. The Sultan arrived here to-day. To-morrow his Majesty will receive a deputation of Honveds, who will express to him their thanks for the asylum offered by Turkey in 1849 to the Hungarian refugees. ITALY. FLORENCE, JILT 31, Emma. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the bill on the royal civil list was passed, and the amount fixed at 124 millions of lire annually. SPAIN. MADRID. JULY 31. Great preparations are being made at la Granja for the reception of the King of Portugal. The Chihan vessel Abe! Ward and her cargo have been declared lawful prize. WEATHER. REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TIICISDAT, Arm - ST 1, 8 A.X. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-- - - (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Flefore N'ice-Chancellor Sir I. StailUS.) WILICINV.N r. THE ;NEAT E-41TLRN ItAILW ( t , Mr. Cotton and Dlr. Hatton ! oo behalf of Kr., non, a preference shareholder in the company, an injunction to restrain the defendants from ap orb plyi bit : portion of the receipts of the railway, after working expenses and interest upon the mortg a g e Th d bentuce debt. otherwise than to the payment of upoh the preference stock. _ 'Sir R. Palmer represented the company. After some conversation it was arranged that the rib r d, should be postponed till the second motion day of t mae term, when it will be argued upon a mot i on for cree, the company undertaking in the meantime tat % pay away without Doti°. to the any lost % ci the net revenue remaining after the m pmt of • • ser a . expenses and the interest upon them ongage and 414 tare debt. Leave was also given to Mrs. Wai n . ) , tt. in tervene in another suit, in which a receiver km le o pointed over the company. ROLLS CHAMBERS. (Before Mr. Church, Chief Clerk.) THE (I)NTRACT CORPORATION.—AN EXEC:II.IO This nutter came before the Chief Clerk in rait-.. the large claims of the National Discount Company 300,000/. A tart was admitted and a part was divut•i. About 150,010. it was understood was adulated. and complaint was made that there lead been htigatiso dividend paid to the creditors. The Chief Clerk regretted that the claims of the clidi tors had not been going on. He did not think th .1 v bad been much litigation, and at the pneent period, s the long vacation was commencing, be would adii, ty. the official liquidator should pay a dividend on the dvL: admitted, and the other claims could stand over. Mr. Kemp, the official liquidator, expres,(4 his to act on the suggestion. He had done all he could is matter. Mr. Thomas, for the National Discount Column. : „4,. that a dividend might be paid on 1:10,(100/. which mitted or he might be thrown over the long vocstiot. wished such a declaration now to be made it. th 4 roan. The Chief Clerk did not see how Mt. Kemp coal ade such a declaration. He was sure that he w.oid was right in the matter. A summons was directed to be taken out by Mr. K. for a dividend before the long vacation. and the et,if said he would sanction its payment on the admitted hit , the others would stand over. BARNED . B BANK.-APPLICATION FOR FURTHER TI4E. Mr. Willoughby, on the part of Mr. Royce, who va sought to be made ra contributory, and who denial that 4 had been allotted shares., asked for further time. Her was. a awe on the same question before the Lot ds Mr. Handson, for the official liquidators, had no ob,ei tion, if the evidence was considered cloacd. Chief Clerk—Then, it !unit stand over until aka ti long vacation. Both parties agreed, and the matter stood orer asi after the long vacation which would begin in a fee when there would he a little rest for the swami:, of matters. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CUM/UNWELL. VIE LATE DEATH TkiEOUGH ALLEGED FURIOUS DElrly Richard Tonakias, aged 29, a hackney-carriage him badge 16,057, residing at 24, Kirby-street, Hama-on:el, was charged with furiously driving a horse and Lower Roeoinon-street, Clerkenwell, and alm with caw{ the death of Mrs. Ellen Hurley, of 6, Broad-yard, Go!dc, lane, St. Luke's. The facts of this casehave been fully reported,and be recollected that Police-sergeaut Phillips, 10 on night of the 16th ult., stated he saw the defendant drir- 4 • Hansom cab at the rate of nine or ten miles an hon.,' knock down the deosased. She was taken to the lied Free Hospital, where it was found necessary to =puts one of her legs, but she died • few days after admiscon Mr. F. L. Attwood, house-surgeon at the Royal Hospital, stated the dowsed was brought to the ho v.,1 in • state of exhaustion. She had a wound on thnl,N head, and one of her legs had to be amputated. 7a wound on the forehead might have been caused by no footboard of the cab, or by her falling on the stoles. By Mr. Ricketts, solicitor for the defence—Whet tie deceased was admitted she was decidedly intoxicated.ul smelt as if she had been drinking brandy. Mr. Cooke asked if the coroner's jury had yet retinal • verdict. Mr. Ricketts said a verdict of accidental death bas returned, and be thought upon that verdict and Users dense of the surgeon the magistrate would at once ii charge the defendant. The defendant was a steads sher man, and although he bad been a driver for years:ha was the first complaint be bad had made against kreeal this would not have been made had the unfortunate swat been sober. The evidence was very conflicting, ad the defendant was entitled to any doubt the magiatiate u.tght have on his mind. Mr. Cooke said that after the conflictingevidence dui had been given, he did not think that • jury would con , ict. but be did think that the defendant might have gain the unfortunate woman some sympathy hr g...in; back to her assistance, instead of wind, 1• hastened off, and did not check the spec of the horse until he was stopped. Even if the deceased had been drinking that was no ressoe she should be knocked down and killed. The evulen, was contlicting as to the pace at which the defendant driving. and he would, therefore, be discharged. Mr. Ricketts said it was clearly proved at the inject that the defendant was driving at • moderate pace. The defendant then left the court. WESTMINSTER. ROBBKIIT IN A PRIsON. James William Pugh, a man about 40 years of am, va placed at the bar, charged with a robbery in the We'ttuie ster House of Correction, Tothill•Relds. Samuel Gordon, one of the warders of the prison, nil that the prisoner had been employed for the list few dm in some repairs on the roof of the chapel st ti. prison. Last night as ho descended the wnaH thought he looked bulky, and inquired vL; he had got in his pockets. Prisoner replied only *ha:. kerchief, but on witness putting his hand into !Maar' pockets he found a large lump of lead in each jacket pale. Witness reported the circumstance to the principal sore keeper who ordered prisoner to be given into cestol7. Where he had been sitting in the porter's lodge while 1.1 constable was being fetched a further quantity of lest found. Mr. Arnold asked what be said when the lead FL foul in his pockets. The warder replied, " Nothing." Mrs. Whitton, the wife of prisoner's employer. a plunder and painter, in Rochester-row, said that she was nor ducting her husband's business during his al,,cet. Prisoner had been employed by them for soieid.4 years. Up to this time he had borne a very high ratter for honesty, and being set to look after other t. suspected of dishonesty, had been instrumental in ing them to justice. She entreated, for the sake F' wife, that the magistrate would deal leniently with lac. Prisoner was remansleaL Above five and a half million tons of rough st.me have already been used in the work of the Pretend brat• water. Buayr TO DEATH.—An inquest was held mid day by Dr. Lankester, at the University Colleo on the body of Maria Ann Turner, aged Turner, of 14, Dunford-terrace, father of deceaw I. sal that on Sunday night last he, seconding to cutme3, put .11 the lights out. He took the candle from hi. .! ,I, ;!."' S room. She was fully dressed at the time. 11 , 1 vent to bed at 11 o'clock. About half-post 12 he heard the mot frightful screams, and as soon as he had stilted ua in 1 . 4 his daughter rushed into his room in flames. Ile kips out, and seizing her, endeavoured to throw her on tie, ground to put the flames out. She. however. 5tru,;,4 1,1 frantically against him, and clutching bola of the torn door held herself up despite all his effort.. lie had rt• tinguished the fire all but a very small portion, whet the broke away from him and rushed on to the swir. 3 ir'• The fire immediately blazed up all round her. She tan Is ragge this oondition into her own room ' and sat doom oar 0.4 bed near the other children. He d d her out rho room to the landing, where, with the assiitance of a 10.!_er. be succeeded in extinguishing the flames. If die h a d not struggled so frantically, her life could have been s reel, A he bad nearly not the tire out before she was loont When asked afterwards bow she caught fire, she ,he went downstairs to get some wa'er and put her candle on a box. That was the only statement she made. The pa - , returned a verdict of " Accidental death." ASSAULT BY TRADES' UNltiNotTs..—At Sheffiria on Tuesday Thomas Dean and Henry Dean, hrothers. cutters, were charged with having assaulted Tame is Tvn. perley, a file-cutter. The assault are-c ou t of 3 tong. /winding dispute with the union at Messrs. Torten% so/k`• The complainant was accosted, as be alleged, I.y the defen dant* ant another man on the road. lie st th.,t food words they proceeded to violence—tore hi. hail olestrepd his umbrella, and chased him into a house where he took refuge. The bench fined defendants 4os. cede 3,leirt, THE CONDEMNED CONVICT AT CAHOOT. tiff" .{ are being made by the Rev. .1. done., of Dowl others to obtain a reprieve or comnintition of th...entrur . • on the convict Thomas Watkins, now lying at the Cardiff gaol under sentence of death for the trier of rSiuudsrs Henderson, at Dowlais, on the 7th ult. The pity who n3e victed are said to have been asked to sign the mentona• and that they replied they could not comic...lntim/sly an .0. The reason alleged in his behalf is that the let was com mitted in the height of passion, and is therefore no! culpable as a deliberate murder. The condemned cnnanii continues to manifest but little concern restwetinc situation, and clings to the hope that his sentence will commuted. £O. beld 01,9 ei l !F ;1 A w ai mine usual A 1 the ne wife o he was with a leg to 1 to bras after b and ea after s Late w