The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-13 00:00:00

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Ross: The Marvellous Martinettos Master R. Sanders. And TIM DRUNLARITS CRIIDRRN. PION WATER AT LONDON INLIDGi. TO DAT —Morning, 4b. 2444 Aftersoob. 4h tea. TO-NotioN—Koming. 4L &Ha AtterbooL lib. 7.lra. LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IS. Reczirr letters from Italy have indicated an extreme susceptibility and irritation of the public mind and temper, and a sort of sullen dissatislao ton at the manner in which the great achieve ments of the German war are turning to the ad- vantage of the allies of Prussia beyond the Alps. This is partly owing, perhaps, to the shortness of the campaign, which has left so much warlike energy unexpended, and so much romantic enthu siasm to burn itself out. When, after years of _ . sickening hope and bitter expectation, a whole nation is hastily summoned to the battle field, the Government becomes responsible for a commotion which it is equally dangerous to baulk and difficult to appease. Italy has won the Vene tian Quadrilateral, after a single unsuccessful battle, and within a few short weeks is entering into tranquil possession of forts and arsenals on which an inveterate enemy had lavished all the resources of the military art and millions of bor rowed capital. Not only is Venice set free without firing a shot, and with Venice the con stellation of slater cities that have shared her subjection, but the mountain frontier, it is reported, is to be marked off so as to leave to Italy the keys of her house, and to shut out the last excuse for animosity between neighbours whose friendship should be an equal benefit to both. And yet, though Austria is said to be con ducting her part in the negotiations for peace in a spirit of courteous goodwill and cordiality, and Prussia is expressing the hope that an all;ance already so fortunate may endure, and the Emperor NAPOLEON is solicitous of the privilege of undoing his uncle's transaction of Campo Formic), and of effacing that stain upon French honour, Italy is dissatisfied, irritated, wounded, and accepts the largessee of fortune with a frowning and averted face. Some dispassionate critics will say that this fretful impatience is scarcely worthy of an rdult people, and that it betrays a want of self-respect and of self-reliance. Others will sympathise with the susceptibilities of a nation perpetually recalled io a sense of its obligations by an overpowering patron who, like the majority of his fel'ow creatures of lower degree, is in the habit of con sulting his own interests a little, while he is gratifying the spontaneous feelings of his heart. Unless that learned spirit in human dealings, that shrewd and subtle sense of exigencies and opportunities, which once made Italians the masters of diplomacy, has deserted the race, we have little doubt that they will soon again learn to take favours as they come, without putting too fine a point upon the perfect disin terestedness of a benefactor. Already, indeed, we perceive a disposition to swallow formulas and to look straight at facts. The Emperor of the FLarteat may be a patronizing, and even an exacting friend, and his representatives may occa sionally be more imperious than their master in their unguarded talk ; but still, on the whole, NAPOLEON is recognised by calmly judging mer, as among all the possible rulers of France, the best, perhaps the only, friend to Italy ; and if in serving Italy he cannot quite afford to forget his own house and people, this is after all more a question of form than of substance, and it cannot be to the advantage of Italy in her present situa tion t alienate the policy of the EMPEROR, or to increase its difficulties. The true interzst of Italian statesmen is rather to meet the EMPEROR half way, to make it easy for him to accommodate his own advantage as the ruler of France to the advantage of Italy, by aiding him to fulfil his pro mise of liberation " from the Alps to the Adriatic," and to place the Roman question beyond the reach of controversy or conspiracy. But we believe it would be an error to attri bute the present vexation of public spirit in Italy solely or principally to external causes. The truth is, the course and conduct of the last campaign has betrayed the most serious vices and infirmities throughout every department of the national administration. In that supreme emergency which, in common with the w:iole country, it had longed for, and for which it had strained the national credit, and mortgaged the property, and taxed the industry and the income, and even the common food of the people year after year, the Government was found wanting. In all the departments of the State was discovered an utter want of preparation for the great ordeal which had been so anxiously anticipated ; neither order, nor organization, nor method, nor consis tency, nor 'unity of direction ; aniontward show of ' resources actually unavailable, and no intelligent adaptation of means to ends. Add to these deficiencies and disorders, favouritism and intrigue in high places, ignorance and incapacity in the public offices, discord and division, jealousy and distrust among the chiefs entrusted with com mands, and the splendid folly of Customs and the heroic sacrifice of Lissa are too easily accounted for. In the army and navy, especially in the navy, the moral disorganization which the war has left behind is even more serious than the material de fects. A sweeping disarmament will perhaps enable some powerful administrator who has yet to appear to recast and reorganize both services from top to bottom, to lop off luxuriant abuses, to stop waste, to enoourage merit and ability, to purge away privileged inefficiency and favoured incompetence. Every consideration of expediency justifies and commands a severe re trenchment, and nothing more is required than a vigilant and discerning economy, a rigorous probity, and preyed aptitude in the heads of the administra tion, teinake the most severe retrenchment perfectly coritpaiiiiiii with all the advantages of an improved morale,. a sounder discipline, a higher instruction, a stricter subordination—all the qualitiss, in fact, which are independent of expenditure, and indis- pensable to success when the hour of trial comes. These qualities have nothing to do with the amount of total effective force ; the smallest army or navy in Europe may be a model to the largest. The Italian army may be satisfied to equal in character and efficiency the Sardinian contingent of the Crimean war, and the Power that occu pies both Venice and Genoa may be content to take a lesson from an Empire as insignificant as regards Europe as Brazil, which at this moment possesses at a tithe of the cost of any European navy, a force of light and handy ships unsurpassed in fighting qualities by any navy in the world. Heaven knows we do not preach to our Italian friends in any Pharisaic spirit on the defects of their naval administration I We should rather congratu late them on having found out so early in their new career what is rotten in the State, and on having the courage and the freedom to avow and expose it without respect of persons and without any false tenderness for the national prestige. Manifold as are their difficulties at the present time, we have unabated confidence in the destiny of a people who are not disposed to shrink from that greatest and noblest of difficulties in the art of government and administration—public liberty, and whose political instinct seems to furnish the State in the roughest times with a certain self righting power of buoyancy and stability. Cavora's loss to the executive and the diplomacy of his country was indeed irreparable, but in laying down liberty as the law of the national life he confessed his faith in the future of Italy ; and that faith is ours. AMONG the signs of the times is the asso ciation formed by the parochial medical officers of London, and the report of their council, an abstract of which was recently published in these columns. Shortly after Mr. Villiers had publicly thanked the Workhouse Infirmary Association for their services, a series of searching questions was sent round to the medical officer of each metropoli- tan union, with a request that they should be an swered in writing, and upon the recipients' per . . sonal experience only. The circular containing these questions was issued from the " Poor-law Board" indue official form, but without, it waa said, having been submitted either to the President or the metropolitan inspector. The seventeen queries, too, were framed in such a way that any theoretical differences of opinion on the vexed subjects of ventilation and nursing might have easily been exaggerated into practical diversity, and the varying answers of parochial medical offi cers been quoted to show the impossibility of effecting any such thorough rem m as had been pronounced necessary. " Judging by your own experience andobaervation only" seemed farcical when problems in ventilation were put which had been repeatedly solved and published by the leading authorities of the day ; and some persons went so far as to condemn the questions as a trap set by the people who resented Mr. Villiers' admissions, and laughed at all suggestions for im provement as impracticable. Whether this assumption was correct or not, the medical officers whose opinions were asked are to be congratulated upon their discretion; for they met together and discussed the queries point by point before sending in statements by which they were content to stand or fall. On the 23rd of May last they assembled for the first time collectively, and carried this resolution with one dissentient :—"That 1,000 cubic feet of air and 80 feet of floor apace should be the minimum recommended to the Poor law Board for each sick inmate of an infirmary ward." Their second resolution ran thus : " That the system of pauper nursing is to be wholly con demned, and that paid nurses ought to be ap pointed, in the proportion of one day nurse, one night nurse, and one helper to each fifty patients." The official circular was accordingly filled up by a large majority of metropolitan medical officers in the spirit of these resolutions', and sent in to the Poor-law Board. The confusion thus avoided, and the unanimity secured, were highly satisfactory to those working for reform, and it was determined to found an Association which should enable parochial medical officers to confer on matters connected with parish discipline, and to act together for the common good. Hence, the Association of Metropolitan Parochial Medical Officers, the council of which has just taken Dr. Edward Smith smartly to task for his inspection of and report on the London workhouses. It is a curious fact that Dr. Smith was appointed a poor-law inspector about a couple of years ago, and was subsequently made " medical adviser to the Poor-law Board," presumably as a concession to the just complaints against hospital inspection being thrust upon gentlemen who had no hospital knowledge ; and that the tenor of his brief official career has called forth more animadversions from the profession than have been visited upon any lay inspector. It is not long since a member of the York board of guardians complained in the newspapers that Dr. Smith re- fused his sanction to the moderate increase of salary the local board wished to give their medical officer ; and other occasions have not been wanting when his conduct has been severely criticised by his brother doctors. It is the bane of the Poor-law Board that its permanent officials are divided into two parties ; and it was freely stated within a few days of Dr. Smith's first inspection in London, that he had allied himself with the obstructive.. Many of the parochial medical officers prognosti cated what would be the character of his report long before it saw light ; and when, in addition to disputing established facta, he was found to censure conduct he had not had an opportunity of testing, they promptly deputed the council of their Asso ciation to criticise their critic. The result is not merely the conclusive report already quoted, but a proof that our London parish doctors are fully cog nisant of existing evils, and eager to adopt a remedy ; and that they condemn guardians and workhouse infirmaries as thoroughly as any of the independent censors whose revelations have so shocked the community. A deputation from the National Reform League waited on Mr. Gladstone yesterday, at his residence in Carlton•house•terrace, for the purpose of ascertaining whether he would not lend the aid of his presence to the great meeting on the 24th instant, in furtherance of the popular movement. The deputation included Mr. Bagley, Mr. Cheetham, M.P., Mr. Whitworth, M.P., Sir Elkanah Armitage, and other gentlemen. The interview lasted for some time, and the question was discussed with the moat friendly frankness, and at the same time in a thoroughly practical spirit. Ultimately, it is stated, the deputation came away fully satisfied with the ground. on vrhioh Mr. Gladstone felt it incumbent on him to decline the invitation to take a direct part in the movement. The committee charged with the management of the intended banquet to Mr. Bright in Dublin mean to in vite, as representatives of the " English Liberals," Messrs. Fawoett, Potter, Osborne, and Tomns, whose "sym. path's, with Ireland," according to the Dublin Freeman's Journal, "am deep and sincere," and who will have in their hands "the forming and the moulding of opinion in the present and in the reformed House of Commons." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (TS® DAY.) THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1866. GiRMANY. The Times remarks that so far as the primes are concerned, Germany presents, after the close of the Anstro- Prussian war, a more inharmonious and disproportionate community than it ever did even in the worst days of the Frankfort Bund ; but the nation itself has made an im mense step in advance. It has found a head and a centre, and Prussia has more than doubled its material power by the improvement in its geographical sod military position, and more than quadrupled it by the renown of its military organisation, by the steadiness of its financial credit, and by the well-tried cohesion between its government and its people. Count Bismarck has given of late no little offence by his measures against the press and other signs of an arbitrary disposition, but it is only right to point to the exceptional and extremely difficult circumstances with which he has to contend. Had the King and his minister applied to the nation for even dictatorial powers until the constitu tion of the new confederation was thoroughly wrought out, they would have asked no more than King Victor Emmanuel and Count Cavour readily obtained from Pied mond and Italy tinder analogous cireumstanoes. Prussia and Germany, like Piedmont and Italy, are " winning their spun" in the battle of constitutionalism and nation ality. It is impossible for us to look upon their struggle without interest, not to invest ourselves with all their hopes and fears, with all their loves and hatreds ; yet we should never forget that our position is that of mere lookers-on. It behoves us to be anxious to observe, slow to judge. THE POSITION OP =GLAND. Returning to the German criticisms u to the alleged decline of England's power, which were noticed yesterday, the Daily New mentions various which it is incumbent upon as to consider, and which are carefully noted by our foreign censors. The Austra colonies, which are oar glory, are not favourites with our goveraing classes, and a wise and honest governor, who has main tained the old principles of the British constitution with respect to taxation, is in disgrace, to the profound dis couragement of as generous and loyal a body of colonists as ever existed. In Jamaica, a governor seizes his chief political opponent, and takes his life without ;ti:al, and indiscriminately slaughters a population r 'ter all pretence of danger has ceased. He is not dismissed, but indirectly withdrawn from his poet. India has become a vast school in which Englishmen forget ' the maxims of constitutional liberty, and from which they return to leaven society with those of despotic government. It is not the " empire" nor our colonial administration that can impress foreigners either with the power or wis dom of Great Britain. Nothing has lowered us more in the eyes of foreigners than our having failed to provide ourselves with a navy. The delusion that money could do everything, and the blind and exaggerated confidence posed in Lord Palmerston during his last period of office, are responsible for this. But that which more than ►ll else impresses our neighbours with our helplessness is the utter disorganisation which they perceive among us. The astounding mistakes of judgment into which our go- verning classes as a body fell during the American war have left a lasting impression abroad, yet a leading con temporary still tells the British public day by day that every nation in the world is waiting for its judgment In our domestic affairs lookers on see nothing but confusion. Our educated classes are setting up the system of a Napo leon or a Bismarck, or even of an Eyre, as superior to the British constitution, for which men of wealth show the'• contempt by bribery in its most shameless forms. Heaven only knows how all this dangerous confusion will en& but at present, with administrative imbecility, untaught by recent misfortunes, with classes on the verge of social war, with a million of paupers, and our people still un educated, we have much to do before we can expct to recover our old power to fascinate mankind. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. Considering the subject of the cholera visitation, the Times assumes that as it would appear that we can do nothing better with the disease than we did with the rinderpest, and that stamping out is the only system of action, there is nothing at all chimerical in the proposal to track the disease to its original source, and there stamp it out before it reaches Europe at all. We should have just as much reason, in short, for maintaining barriers against cholera in Turkey as the Prussians and Austrians have for maintaining barriers against rinderpeat in Russia and Hun gary. Suob cordon', we are told, if notabsolutely effective, are effective for long periods together, and are only excep tionally known to faiL On the prospects of futures . zarity thus opened It is perhaps too early to enlarge, but it would certainly be wrong in us to neglect a most important pre caution brought apparently within our command. The Daily News reminds its readers that while the friend, and opponents of Governor Eyre are disputing whether that gentleman " saved" Jamaica, there is another ex-colonial governor lately arrived among us to whom belongs the merit of saving the colony of Victoria. By this we mean that he averted an insurrection, and the ulterior loss of the colony to the British crown. That and nothing less is the service which Sr Charles Darling has rendered to his country. Without the suspension of any security for personal liberty, without imprisoning • sitr ., ,le man, he has carried Victoria through a crisis which the Colonial-office did its best to aggravate, and for that ser vice he has been disgraced and ruined. Sir Charles Dar ling, it is known, intends to appeal from the injustice of Mr. Cardwell to the House of Commons. The Herald has an article which has a curious effect upon those who remember the policy with which, until comparatively of late, it has been identified. It is an argument against the extension of the suffrage, founded on the fact that Victoria, which is so democratic in its government, adheres to a protectionist tariff I The reasons and arguments used in its favour, it says, are such as might satisfy " the shade of the much-abused Chowler or Sibthorp." The tariff is "as curiously miscellaneous as any tariff in the worst days of protection. It is a model, In fact, of all the worst fiscal errors of the darkest financial age. It revives every fallacy which in England his been exploded, and returns to every abuse which England has corrected." Of Mr. Carlyle the Star asks,—must every true ruler be a usurper'—every true governor the man who traits sole') in his own notion of what is right' For, according to Mr. Carlyle's system, the man fit to govern must show himelf fit to govern by grasping power ; and as it is in the nature of things that few great men have equally great sons, it follows that • succession of good governors is to be secured only by • succession of revolu tions. What became of the protectorate after Cromwell's death' What became of Prussia's vast territories after Frederick's death ? To take • modern instance, who will bolster up the present state of things in France when he who has raised that stately but inoon- groom; edifice is no more? If hero-worship means that there shall be no law in a country but the will of a weak and vacillating, or a violent and unprincipled man, then the less of hero-worship we have the better; and, instead, we would rather be guilty of that " blind and disgraceful act of public injustice" which declare* that an English lawgiver is not beyond the trammels of English la ar. The Telegraph supporta Mr. Gladstone in his abstention from a formal alliance with the National Reform Union. The statesman who is in office, or who has been in office, and is to be there again, cannot become the promoter of political sedation' without sacrificing his public efficiency. A man of strong convictions may with perfect honesty, and without any sacrifice of self-respect, take upon him self the function of missionary preacher in promulgating the doctrines byforce of which he seeks to obtain popular support. But the work of the expounder and teacher Is altogether distinct from that of a practical statesman, and the two characters cannot be combined without injury to both. A minister of the crown is not called on to proselytise. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue acknow ledge the receipt on the 11th instant of the first halves of Bank notes for 951. Mr. O'Donnell, one of the divisional magistrates at Dublin, attended at Mountjoy Prison on Tuesday, and admitted to bail the following prisoners who bad been de tained in custody wider the Suspension Act :—JohnLehey, Thorns@ Lennox, Garret Doyle, Thomas Gallagher, and Patrick Mu!hewn. Her Majesty's ship Esk arrived at Wellington, New Zealand, on the 22nd of July from the north, with the celebrated Waikato chief William Thompson on board who came down, in accordance with his promise to the Governor, to lay before the Assembly what it is the na• tines really want. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE DEATH OF GENERAL.MOURAVIEFF On this subject the Temps of this day comments as follows : General Mouravieff was found dead in his bed in the country. Did he die, as is stated, of apoplexy? There was a time when it was said that men of mark in Russia rarely died a natural death. No one in Europe has forgotten the cynical ferocity with which this blind servant of the Czars spread terror, ruin, and punishment throughout his government of Lithuania. and determined to obliterate in that unhappy country every trace of the Polish element. Mouravieff was recalled from his post, but we know that the imperial favour was bestowed on this gloomy tormentor, and that a letter of the Russian sovereign publicly thanked him for his inappreciable services to his country. He was again brought upon the public scene by the attempt made on the life of the Emperor by Earakaaotf, and was appointed president of the commission charged with the inquiry into that matter. He set himself to work at once, and soon succeeded in making out of what probably was but the crime of an individual an immense conspiracy. A portion of the labours of this commission has been published which reads like a reminiscence of Tacitus. Nobody escaped from suspicion. Owing to the wanderings of imagination, suspicions, and deletions, he succeeded in bringing even a member of the family of his master into complicity with the attempt. But he found!one day that he displayed too much zeal ; he was dismissed from the presidency of the commission, and the commission itself was dissolved. His papers, however, remain, and there are many persons in Russia whom the shade of the sanguinely Mouravieff w:'l haunt for many a day. ROME. According to a correspondence in the &bele the reactionary party are once more triumphant in the Papal Court. Even the Osserratore Romano, which cannot be suspected of liberaliam,only escaped sup pression through the formal opposition of the Pope himself. Monsignor X—, the censor of the paper, has been dismissed and sent into a convent to make a long retreat. Signor Zanelli, the ' chief editor, was sent for by the Secretary of State, and after a severe reprimand was ordered to leave Rome as soon as possible. He has been replaced by Signor Canzoni, a bar rister, who figured at the Congress of Melina, and is completely in the hands of the Jesuits. The Pope is said to be disposed to make concessions, but he is overruled by the Cabal, which is presided over by Cardinal Antonelli, and Signors Berardi Ferrari, &c. STATE OF PEKIN. We extract the following from a Pekin letter of July 1, in the Moniteur: Crimes have never been more frequent in the capital, and amanita on private persons have assumed a moot frightful character. Pekin is at this moment infested by a band of malefactors, who earl/ off children and young women. The Chinese relate that the bandits, to effect their object more easily, use a stupefying powder by means of which they send their victims to sleep. They afterwards transport them be yond the walls of Pekin to haunts unknown to the police, and put them to death if they cannot obtain hisav ransoms from their families. These facts have occurred often enough to spread terror among all classes of the population ; and the court, report says, is much pro-occupied with the subject. The superior magistrate Toeu-kuo bas recently made a report to the Sovereign, in which he demands that the crime of abduc tion shall be assimilated to that of robbery with violence, and punished in the same manner. Unfortunately the central government is just as little capable of re-establish ing security in the capital as of making its authority re spected in the provinces. We find a proof of this in the news we receive from different points of the empire. Womb Tzummats.) THE NEW FRANCO-MEXICAN CONVENTION. PARIS. Sspr. 13. The Moniteur of this morning publishes a con vention, signed at the City of Mexico, on July 30, 1866, by which the Mexican government transfers to the French government one half of the receipts of all the maritime customs in the Empire, in order to serve as payment of the interest and principal of the loans contracted in 1864 and 1865, and of all obligations resulting therefrom ; like wise for the payment of interest at the rate of 3 per cent. on all sums due by Mexico to the French Treasury. The amount of this latter debt, which is approximately valued at 1 350 million francs, will subsequently be defini tively fixed. This convention will enter into force from November 1, 1868. The export duties in the Customs of the Pacific being already mortgaged for three-fourths of the value, the amount to be ceded to the French government will be reduced to the 25 per cent. remaining over. HUNGARY. PESTH, SErr. 10. Baron Sennyey and Count Andrasay have re turned here. The negotiations for the settlement of the Hun garian question are for the moment at a standstill. . The cholera is increasing, and the poet and phi lologist Cmiezor has recently fallen a victim to the epidemic. SPAIN. MADRID, Scar. 13. A royal decree has been published raising to 12 per cent, the import duties on certain articles of trade. The health of the Infanta Eulalia has sensibly improved. THE INSI7RRECTION IN CANDIA. ATHENS, S. 7 (delayed in transmission). The Cretan Assembly General have resolved that the Island of Cando► shall be annexed to Greece. They have communicated their decision to the foreign consuls. ARRIVAL OF THE TEUTONIA. SOUTHAMPTON, Sart 13. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Teutonia, from New York, passed the Needles at 9.25 a.m. to-day. The Prince Imperial, we are informed by La Patric, goes out at 10 every morning, attended by his tutor, M. Monnier, to take his swim at Port-Vieux. He is always received by a crowd of children, with whom he shakes hands and chats for a few minutes. Miss Shaw, his English nurse, however, takes possession of him, and he dis appears into his bathing-box, whence he emerges in short black flannel drawers and a scarlet flannel jacket. His swimming-master watches his proceedings from the beach, and gives him directions. The Empress usually comes down to the beach to see him bathe, and takes a seat under some trees. As soon as the Prince is dressed he plays for an hour on the sands with any children who happen to be there. It is reported from Bucharest that a Frenchman, named Poltin, had arrived in that city to exhibit two elephants, a male and female, the same which were shown 1 n Paris a few years since. These animals have killed their keeper in a singular manner. The male seised him with his trunk and threw him into the air ; the female caught him as be fell and threw him back again, and this game at ball was continued for a quarter of an hour. When as ilitant:4i arrived it was too late ; every bone in the poor fellowb body was brakes. " It is announced," says the Petrie, " that Count de Oohs, the Prussian ambassador, is to leave on Thursday for Biarritz. where he will remaht for some tim e. Metternich, Austrian ambassador, is alio expected there." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MON OM OWN cosaissrosmcrr.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. - The Patrie (a most suspicious authority, because it has long played the part of counsel for the Mexican bondholders) says it is enabled to-day to give authentic particulars of General Castelnau's mission to Mexico, and it proffers the opinion that this information contradicts all the rumours as to Maximilian's intention to abdicate and as to the secret reasons for the Empress Char lotte's visit to France. General Castelnau is to suggest a great many administrative and military reforms, which are to begin in December next. The appointment of General Osmont and M. Friant (both Frenchmen) as Minister at War and Minister of Finance is the " point of depar ture of a new situation." The Mexican army, commanded in great part by French officers, is hereafter not only to do military duty, but to be employed in " directing the various administrative and financial services." The employes in these de partments will be selected from the army. This system, which is intended to last for three or four years, will have the advantage of great economy for the Treasury, because Mexico will have scarcely any other expenses than the maintenance of the army, and it will, at the same time, respond to the most pressing wants of the populations which desire order and economy above all things. The organisation of the new Mexican army, which is the basis of this whole system, was rapidly advanc ing at the date of the last advices ; the number of volunteers was so considerable as to make it prac ticable to suspend the conscription. As soon as the army shall be entirely formed it will take possession of the different services, and it is ' thought that the substitution may be effected be fore the departure of the last contingents of the French expeditionary corps. As soon as General Castelnau shall, in his character of French com missary, settle the different questions in which French adhesion has been deemed necessary he will return to Paris, and it is thought he may be here in the early part of December. Marshal Famine having no longer a command commensu rate with his high rank will leave Mexico about the same time. Such is the scheme, announced with a great flourish of trumpets by the Patric, for propping up Maximilian's falling empire, and I do not hesitate to denounce it as a contemptible essay to throw dust in the eyes of the public, and deceive the un lucky bondholders. The Mexican empire bubble has burst, and the ridiculous scheme of turning soldiers into clerks will not serve the purposes of delusion for many hours. The Bourse was again dull. Rents fell 10c. both for cash and account, closing at 70fr. 10c. and 70fr. 15c. Italian fell 10c. ; Mobilier, 2fr. 50c. ; and Credit Fonder, 10c. MINISTERIAL DINNERS IN BERLIN. A correspondence from Berlin, dated September 9, contains the following: _ " The good understanding which has been esta blished between the government and the Chamber of Deputies is strengthened by ministerial dinners, which are as agreeable as they are an efficacious means of reconcilia tion. Following the dinner given by Herr von der Heydt, the Minister of Finance, a great banquet was given yester day by Herr von Bismarck. There were about 40 persons present, and amongst them were deputies of all shades of opinion. HerrenTwesten,tinruh,Michaelis.Boocum-Dolffs, Simeon, Vincke, and the three presidents. Thepublic are ex tremely rejoiced at these symptoms of harmony which in their opinion augur well fur the interests of Germany, Its grandeur, and its freedom. The dinner oommeneed at 6, and the guests did not retire till 10. Opinions which were supposed to be contradictory were found to be less diver gent on many questions than had been imagined. Count von Bismarck was the moat affable of Ainphytrions. He was charmingly jovial, and expressed himself with a frank ness which astonished diplomatists of the old school, like Baron Werther, Herr von Savigny, and others who were present. He conversed a great deal with Herr von For kenbeck, the president of the Elective Chamber." COLLISION ON THE SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) (zeorza's nizazem.) PLYMOUTH, Sm. 13. A disabled engine belonging to a luggage train ' was run into this morning by the down mail train on the South Devon Railway. The engine and one of the carriages of the train were thrown off the line, but without causing damage to life or limb. The luggage engine was deserted by its driver and stoker, and ran on for five miles into Plymouth station, where it was brought up by crushing through the station buffers into the cloak-room, causing considerable damage, but no persons were hurt. The arrival of the mails was delayed two hours. COURT OF COMMOR COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY. A Court of Common Council was holden this morning, and after the proceedings had been opened, Mr. MEDWIN said he wished to ask the Chairman of the Law and Parliamentary Committee two or three questions in reference to the inquiry th►t bad been submitted relating to the conduct of one of their judges, Mr. Commis sioner Kerr. (Hear, hear.) He said he had heard that the committee intended to ask that the reference might be discharged. (Cries of "Oh, oh," and laughter.) Mr. Cox, on the part of the committee, denied that there was any intention to adopt such a proceeding.(Hear.) Mr. Mantels( then said that he should be glad to be in formed when the court were likely to have a report pm ' canted to them ; also whether a shorthand-writer was employed to take notes ; and, thirdly, whether it was in structed to lay a copy of the shorthand writer's notes before the court, with the report? Mr. Caatterr, the Chairman of the Law sad Parlia mentary Committee, said that in reply to the questions that had been put, all he could say was that the com mittee were proceeding as rapidly as possible—that they were hearing the evidence that was volunteered b 7 any person who was in a position to give the committee infor mation, and the report would be printed as soon as pos sible. The matter then dropped. Viscount Falkland has left the St. George's HoteL We learn from the Melbourne papers that the Duke de Pcnthville and his father the Marquis de Bauvour arrived in Melbourne by the Omar Pacha. The Prince de Joinville, uncle of the Prince de Conde, is also expected shortly. The Channel Fleet, under the command of Rear Admirals Hastings G. Yelverton, C. 8., and Frederick Warden, C. 8., will, according to present arrangements, sail from Portland for the coast of Ireland, in search of rough weather on the 18th inst. The fleet will be absent from the English Channel about six weeks, and Bantry Bay will be made the port of rendezvous and anchorage. The Marquis de Moustier is the twelfth minister appointed to the department of foreign &Haire sines Da_ oember, 1848. His predecessors were :—M. Drouyn de Mays, December 20, 1848 ; M. de Tooqueville, June 2, 1849 ; 11.• Lahitte, November 19, 1849 ; M. Drouyn de Lhuys, January 9, 1851; M. Brenier, January 24, 1831 ; M. Baroche, April 10, 1851; M. Drouyn de flays, July 21, 1852 ; M. Walewski, May 8, 1855 ; M. Thouvenel, January 4, 1861; and IL Drouyn de theys, October 15, 1862. The widow of Ferdinand Flown, one of the members of the provisional government, who died last year in Switzerland a voluntary exile, is living in Paris in straitened circumstances. Some functionary waited upon her a day or two since to tender a pension, prmided she would only ask for it. But it seems this lady has in herited the uncompromising republican spirit of her hus band, for she flatly declined not only to apply for, but to accept the pension even if it were unconditionally offered her. Last session 26 select committees sat on election petitions ; 66 were presented, and 32 withdrawn. T the eaurt. BALMORAL, The Queen, accompani e d by pzinais went out yesterday morning. H er majesty in the afternoon, with Prins sag k„ Christian, and attended by Lady Susan Yelnl a e tees the Linn of Quoick, returning by Old Mar led ia Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar arrived e t 1.10 ~ yesterday, and dined with the Q ueen and iterd last night. i7ll. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty, ' nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at th e N il office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cat* Present—the Lord President and the Pn► Mr. Harrison and Colonel Harness attended e s mittee. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Aldenam Wad ta i man of Local Board), Mr. J. C. Cavell Nwh t Griffin, Mr. Hugh Hamersley, and M r. Oxford ; and Mr. John Hariock (Mayor), I t 4144: Edmunds, Mr. Councillor Flowers, Mr. Mam a pp, Clerk), Mr. Cobb, Mr. W. Cakes, and Mr ' 5imi14614% B a nbury ; accompanied by the Right Hon. J. W.E.L 'LP., Colonel North, M.P., Colonel Fme, XP., riir B. Siunualsou, M.P., had an interview with th President of the Council at the Privy c am/Li ; Whitehall, yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the c a t a m ol from the Governor of Canada. BANK OP ENOLA ND.-{THIS DAY., A general oourt of proprietors was hold s i Bank at noon to-dayfor the purpose of &engin & Mr. Latremor Houser), the governo r , p ro gg s t4 The Goveasoa stated that the net prie s of iket . year ending the 31st of August lastgasuhr 970,0141. 17e. 10d., making the amount of the atm day 3,981,7831. 18s. lid. After providing per cert. the rest would be 3,035,8* lea Ile court of directors therefore proposed thatahargtog dend of interest and profits should be sir 10th of October next, of 61. 10a pa sat,"&" out deduction on account of income re events had occurred since the proms y eassenbled in that room. Great !al placed upon the resources not onlLof ed t a lt rem, hug the whole banking community of ; sad mi l k that house, but the joint-stock hanks sad in Ws N banking-houses of London, had acquitted thumb s ; honourably and creditably during the trying atilt was a peculiar business, depending very meth sp: l 4 and the least breath of suspicion would nese m e i brightest prospects of a harvest. The manna bank ieg-houses of London had stood this dada g g: did not amount to a run) was dawns i praise. That house exerted itself to the 1 6. and most mimes:fully. They were in a semi g healthy a state as any house could be es ihs sag when it co es announced that Owned, Orna, had failed, and the advances they could them her Gs were almost incredible. (Hear, hear.) It wes that some alarm should have been felt, eg e Chancellor of the Exchequer should have bosashis suspend the Bank Charter Act, but Gs Di of England bad to act long before the Crude di' Exchequer could have act ed . They redemptible's% to an unhealthy point certainly, but they seek Mar from their duty of supporting the banking he was not aware that any case of legitimt= met with a refusal. (Cheers.) Mr. HYAN blamed the directors fee not typing sis h for a suspension of the Bank Charter Act. Mr. Joers, on the contrary, was of opinion the et Bank ought to resist every attempt at Mamie{ ii we currency. Mr. Moxoe wanted to know what bad debts lib* I had made, because it bad been currently sari at I doors that they had had at one time between 3,911,16 and 4,000,0001. of bills returned unpaid. (lagettgl • The GOVEENOR said there was no foundries le 6 statement, and he had never been able to time regal The bad debts of the bank were as nothing maril with the millions advanced. Mr. Gernermurso asked what means was him allay the suspicion which during the pude led real on the Continent that the Bank of England imam suspend specie payments, and the effect of whithir he to prevent a large amount of bullion from gerfaitien usual course. Mr. W. Born supported the motion of laegeousa but recommended to the consideration of the drier question of receiving money on deposit. Mr. Alderman BALOMONIS thanked the gonna le 6 testimony he had borne to the conduct of the relit banks in the late panic. The GOVERNOR stated that the question of ern* mosey on deposit had been considered, and it is* opinion of the directors that a more dame' rawer could not be made in the practice of the Mr. Mount suggested that there should berthing. The Govmeroa referred to the past margemeste 6 bank, and expressed the opinion that the spattered ! pad auditors would tend to diminish the steer d directors in the concern. The house dicing' ful railway debenture. (Hear, hear.) asTthh crag would have to be held on Tuesday to decide t h e e* the reais:idlueteidonwweue at by ballot. d ie sti ere , esed aad rate r wa: farm! Mr. Molter moved a resolution to the e ffect thel it le of proprietors of bank stock, and a copy of the egg rules and bye laws, should be printed. Theis propositions were not seconded. • After a vote of thanks to the daisies, Go mi) adjourned. THE FATAL COLLISION OFF TEE WHOM T. i A 1' OFFICIAL INQUIRY.—(THIS DAY.) The inquiry instituted by the Board dbi ' into the circumstances attending the collision bsteesh steamer Bruiser and the steam collier Iftswil, d coast of Suffolk, was resumed this rooming ease with Police-court, before Mr. Train, the local st disselyslet magistrate, and Captains Harris and Buller, r wag eseessors. Mr. Hargrave Hamel again appeared for thasslii Trade; Mr. Arthur Cohen, barrister, for the Steam Navigation Company, the owner+ of the Bnit; and Mr. Cooper, for the owners of the collier, Bing Mr. Bousfield, chief engineer of the gavel' , 11 . 1. mined. He said the engines were god at until within about two or three minutes or the when he got orders to stop and to go full stied stars He caused the engine, to go utern, but the ~ got the whole of her way off. The engines i erne 1 "'" power, and loaded at lelb. to the squire ince. The witness, in reply to Mr. Cohen, gri d had been repaired before the ship left au boJill!thrsnrumbeirrngpsu,tthit carpenter of the Hemwell. lolll 1 examined. He said he lighted the lamps sheet Or, 7 o'clock on the evenlq before the coffin= Be s em that they were in condition, and when be sell Vat 12 o ' clock they were burning WM. remained at the wheel until 9 and after be left he heard the men a look-out report a bright light on the 1: 41 11 1 ' About seven or ten minutes afterwarM,n Smith, who was on the look out, fellow • k light on the port bow, and the mate second , crhu the bridge, replied, " AU right." About fire reiselor i that, and shortly before the collision , he beard I 0 1 . 4 " reported on the port bow. He then heard the r eeello sing out " bard aport,"and he (witness) went eft te sr, the man at the wheel in putting the helm bee 4 The ',hip paid off from N.B. by E. to E. by N. "Me was at the wheel on the starboanl side he ev tr.; light of the Bruiser just clear of the bridge. sad se side. The Bruiser was then about a cable's heel. Haswell, and about two minutes afterwards Us occurred. * 0 In reply to Mr. Cohen, be said when he left ark 2 o'clock they were steering N.E. by half N.; hid • ki fore the order " hard aport ' was giro, going N.E. be E. There was a differeow Wt. wicks of the lamps, one did no t stand so sewn tj."7l Bechar as the other, but he did n ot think that 1111"" difference in the light. In repl to Mr. Traill, be said the sewed &liege of the lamp. He noticed a ;Inbar light after the collision, but he believed it coral seen a mile and a half off. .r.. 0.1.1. Peter Shaw, an able seaman on board the raw- ---- _„ea that after some persons hail come on boa si b hit Tie the Bruiser he heard them say " Your lighLe He noticed that the port light was only sboat,,,T.‘ bright as usual. ffe heard Captain Chase ley ZLe can call this a bad light, I am sure. , He atakd j light could have been seen a mile or • mile Oa i [The inquiry was proceeding when oar desPatchettl LANCASHIZZOPIZATIVIS.—A 17 pr 1 Amalgamated Aseociation Lanosehire Drawers has just been held of at Hoghtsch ige Deputies were present from various disikiet purpose el discussing the present wtste srl' o j the means of improving their peeition in Lancashire. It appeared from the correarn ( "7oei it e the meeting that - the prior* are much lolrsitage triete represented than thaw which 1 " Maachester and South Lancashire oa'„,,eeth the proceedings the best mea ns of seearinkn;elo9 pries for the seam qualities of work throughf 70 9 of the cotton districts was discussed- fik it • pointed out the irregularities in the P 6C ... ra. lag stated that while some districts are perpf, __ Le det per thousand, other districts such as wie s thedo giving 4id. and 3d . for looming ; hide drang" is still greater. It was e :mot e ! w ee adjourn the meeting for a month, in Mo rgei r o io, state of affairs before their various 0 then easemble again at the same place • dli....••••••• Merril Windsor one in Mr. n0n1:177 The pf n% r : d e Last nigl him ho: As goon clothes.' the ball aleleVOT head is I Pin told arose be 4 was take smother Prison Preset • Prison Prose.: Prison Freres A fen sti7l-1 tot • pot I sew th bare heli big, ant aomplet4 sad the] I think stable to Polio. entrix's there wa been stn about th C ° 1 1 ?;:i Ara Mower rrte; PimHoc (arplia Among the lil 46. / Apid r-td eh Mr. applies Appl He (0 house I hb ehil he mho been. Mr. the pe Rowe He and I u mw tho. 4110