The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER SO. Tin Great Powers have now successively made known in various ways the manner in which they regard the consequences of the battle of &dews. Prussia, by the mouth of the Sovereign and his Minister, has declared that that victo.y must result in the unity of Germany. The plan whieh it is proposed immediately to execute realises that union only in an incomplete form, and Count Maluku:a has accordingly declared that the Enrols Government will pursue its work to the end as opportunity offers. The Emperor of the False!' has signified in the most public manner his acquiescence in the results of Prussian policy and valour. Lastly, the Ens perm of RUSSIA, without entering into those questions of nationality and unity which figure so largely in the Prussian and French w vi festoes,declares that since the settlement of Europe made in 1815 has been completely overturned by the sword, he will hold himself free to act in future as his interests dictate, and consider only what is good for his empire in the crises which may be expected to arise. There is one Power. howeve to which all eyes have been turned of late, that remains silent amidst all these demon strations. Austria makes no sign. Nearly two months have elapsed since the date of the great battle that was destined entirely to change the position and prospects of the Empire, but the course on which the Austrian Government intends to enter is still uncertain and obscure. After the battle of Solferino the same Government acted with promptitude and decision. Seeing its supremacy in Italy overthrown, it rapidly, though mournfully, conformed its conduct to its new po sition, and took measures to recover, in the confi dence of the people, an equivalent for the loss it had sustained in the diminution of its tehi tory and the eclipse of its military renown. An Imperial manifesto was issued to explain the peace ; new advisers were called to the Exrsnoa'a councils, old disabilities affecting Protestant and non- Catholic subjects of the monarchy were abolished, national reforms were promised, and as a guarantee of all, the Reicharath was convoked. If these measures did not realise all the advantages to the Empire that had been expected from them, they at least showed that the Government understood its situation, and the direction in which health and safety were to be sought. Now, however, nothing distinct is said, nothing effectual done. Prussia is consolidating her acquisitions, and pre paring for the next crisis ; and Eustis is looking out to learn by whose dissatisfaction she can profit ; but Austria is still hesitating and unde cided. It is easy enough to perceive the causes of this in action, and only too easy to predict the inevitable result of its continuance. The task before the EMPEROR is ono from which the ablest and most patriotic of his advisers might recoil with doubt and distrust. The monarchy has to be constructed anew from its very foundations. The thread of its historical life has been cut off, and its ancient traditions, no longer applicable, lie heavy on its hands like so much lumber. CAVOUR had not so difficult a problem before him in 1856 as that which the statesmen of Austria are now called to solve ; for the great Italian Minister could see the materials of a magnificent homogeneous State lying around him ready to his hand, and had onlyto over come the obstacles which prevented their union. The Austrian statesman of to-day has no such ad vantage. He has to do with a number of heteroge neous populations, each disposed in the best of times to think more of its own claims than of those of the State, and all now inclined to despair of the fortunes of the Empire. The defeat of the army, which, more than any other institution, represented the union and concentrated the force of the Empire, has diffused discouragement through-. out every Austrian kingdom and province. The public finances are in a state of indescribable con fusion and embarrassment, for the war, although short, has been costly beyond precedent, be cause conducted without provident foresight ; while the heavy looses that have fallen on the provinces invaded and occupied by Prussia must have impaired their ability to aid the public treasury. It may seem strange that under these circum stances the Government does not at once convoke the representatives of the nation, and make an appeal to the public spirit and patriotism of the people. But of what people ? Unhappily there, is no Austrian people, though many peoples. There is no bond of common sentiment effec tively uniting all the populations of the Empire, and disposing them willingly to make sacri fices for the common interest. The Hungarians are the most constitutional people of the monarchy, and would be quite ready to rally to the EMPEROR on terms which would make them, as Count BIS MARCK proposed, the dominant race of the Empire. The Germans have a more sincere and disinterested attachment to the Imperial House, but the EM PEROR has sorely tried their patriotic endurance by signing a treaty which cuts them off from Germany, and the more intelligent of them do not regard their present political relations as permanent. Thus nothing has yet been done to stimulate the public spirit, or develop the force of the country. A month ago it was said that an arrangement was on the point of being concluded with Hungary, for which kingdom a Liberal Ministry was to be nominated. But the result has not answered to the expectation ; and not only Hungary, but the whole Empire remains in a state of political disorganization. This is more than an Austrian, it is a European misfor tune, for the elements which have hitherto con stituted the force of Austria cannot long remain loose and derelict without danger. The EMPEZOK must bestir himself, or ii may happen to him to be regarded as a " sick man," and to live to see his neighbours arranging for the distribution of his estate. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1866. OUR CONTEMPORARIFE. (THIS DAY.) THE 111PERTAL CIIIIIFAIL The name of Great Britain, It is title, ciblierres the Daily News, is absent from a circular dealing with the MAMA' of mattasatel powers, and referring to Astoria' ° 1 43 , by weiry, of illustration; but it is abundantly evident Aar 'greet was very present to the mind of the imperial writ,* when he peened the sentence about the growth of second-class navies in the Baltio and the Mediterranean and the " freedom of the seas"—a formula which M. Emile de Girardin has been in I the habit of employing for many years CHI special reference to the maritime supremacy of Engleni. There is much too for Belgium and Holland to reflect upon in the principle of necessary annexations, and the doctrine of natural agglomerations. But why kok beyond the ques tions of the day? All the imperial manifestoes in the world can never dignify spoliation, or consecrate injustice, or reconcile a free people to arbitrary power, or change the conditions of national greatness, or arrest the forces of civilisation. M. de Lavalette's circular may be its full of lurking menaciee as a casemate of loopholes, but is it desk% able to exercise ingenuity in seeking them out when there is so much in it to command our assent and sympathy' The Pose believes it unquestionable that the Em peror, in announcing a pacific policy, expressea the real wishes of the Frenoh nation. That nation is susceptible, and the military successes of Prussia for the moment wounded its pride. The ext;eme ability wYch the Emperor manifested in restra'n;ng an bnpotient and as. reasoning ardour, and in finally guiding the policy of the state into a safe channel, adds one more to the many proofs afforded during his reign of the Orli end judgment he is capable of displaying under the most ti firg circum stances. The Herald contends that it by no means follows because her minor courts have disappeared, Germany will advance the more rapidly in the arts of peace and civilisation. All wide dominions, not insular, have a tendency to bosoms military. Where have lived the men who have served their country by the cultivation of science and art, and the diffusion of sound opinions and elegant tastes? Not where flow:abed the all-con apttng school of conquest. atter all disturbances heA sewed, three men got 100 bribes before exec-atom If Sir Samuel Baker can either apologise for atrocities of this descriptive, or deltoid the man antler whose rule they were perpetrated, it is dear he is more law for the. sesspanioaship of savage tribes in Africa thearts be tilitsern of s velkirdered community, MEXICAN FINANCE. PARIS, Sm. 20. The Monifeur of this morning contains the fol lowing : " The President of the Mexican Finance Com mittee at Paris informs the holders of Mexican renter and obligations that no remittance having been made to him by the Mexican government for the payment of the arrears and coupons due on the Ist October next, this payment will be deferred.• THE EXTRAORDIN 4 mipICAL PRACTITIONZR, ADJOURNED INQUEST ON THE BODY OP lict aounNo.--inas DAY.) This morning, at 10 o'clock, Dr, i l Coroner for Central Middl esex , an d the jury em 4 4 1; on Thy y, the 13th inst an t. as to the WI k Richard Golding, aged £O, w h ose b ody has been Wis e f rom th e Hi g h ga t e C emetery, and an investigatiostieg listed in consequence of certain allegations meg, reference to his death a n d the making of hie favour of Dr. Put, of the Camden-rred, who iris es ail: in to attend him medically a dayor two before his die t was resumed at the Angel Inn, Highgate. The publication of the previous premedust h creased interest to attach t o the inqtury an ds Irv" room was crowded by a large =mbar of medical Wye pistons] gentlemen, incl u di ng several of the load sigh ties. Dz. Part was protest, aooom t panioi by ki e e a m , Mr. Thomas Beard. Mrs. and Miss Southgat e , th r W' s whose allegations the inquiry had been instituted, ea* declare that the deemed stated before he died thethehd made his will in their throne, were also in attendee s ,. The panel having answered to their names, Miss Frames Julia Southgate was grit readied, ,4 examined by the Coroner—D ecease d to l d me on the we, nudity that be intended to take two pills. I saw m e with pills. There were boor pills in it when I Mil l e it. On the morning he died I saw the same lux, there were then but two pills. I never saw that hea t the pills after the morning he died. Thai pip e from Dr. Part, and there was a bottle of medians them.l saw damped take one dose of the meditita saw the medicine next morning, and he had taken W I one dose. By Kr. Beard—l know the Oh came from NA I concluded they hal u doomed was Wm la care. Deceased told me that they came from his. I t my solemn oath he told me so. A person named residing at my house, who says he is a f riled Beard, has been 'anteing me shamefully shoal kak i caused the inquiry. Mr. Winkworth, a furor, said he was aware thatimal strange proceedings had taken place. Mr. Beard complained that Mr. Winkwortis hid making himself a party in the matter, and requested ths the witness should be reaworn on the points upon risk she was re-examined, which was done. The witness, in crass-examination by Mr. Bent th. continued—There was no name on the pill-hex. Aka taking the pills deceased became drowsy. Whoa g• Gob" ng wee dying Mrs. Part was diwn-etairs, sad I wrath tell her to come up. I did not tell Mn.s Part thettis deceased became better after he had taken the m I told her he bad appeared better that day. As far Mika the 20th February last I sent a letter to Dr. Put I apply through my solicitor for • copy of Mr. Goldiag's will. D sent hint what be called a copy, but it was not a prep, copy. It was not a proper copy, because it did not rtes the amount the will was sworn under. Mr. Beard here read the letter received by Dr. Path* the witness on the 20th of February, in which abs.. plained that the will was not in accordance with the his Kr. holding's will, in which he had intended to lure ke and her soother 7001. each, and him only 601. and hills* She also charged him and his wife with ransacking Mebane and taking away property belonging to her and her us* mid with neglecting the deceased in not providing SIMI as promised. ithe also complained that the ascend lei not been laid out, and the body screwed down withsst and her mother being permitted to see it. Dr. Plete reply to this was also read, in which he charged ths vie uses with (as a professed friend of the demised) pa* neglecting him, and in answer to the charge of nand* declared it to be his right as executor of the demised. The witness said she had also another most hopeful letter, which she wished to Lave read. By Mr. Winkworth —The day before his death ths ceased told me to take some money oat of the drive is pay expenses. The only knowledge deceased had of Dr, Part was that he had met him some twenty yeses bikes at a Mr. Taylor's. . . . By the jury —The deceased often spoke of his dialysed said he should like to have a respectable funeral. The reason the deceased left us to live in Stebbingtoaeind was that the lease of our house was out, and he west hei lodgings temporarily, and he said if we could lad sluff able eight-roomed house he would buy it for ne. Denied never expressed a wish to be buried in his traumas. Wisl person would do so! (A laugh.) By the Coroner—l have been visited by Mr. riokoorik the juryman, since this inquiry was adjourned. Mr. Beard protested against this conduct on the gal a juryman, and hoped his name would be published. Mr. Winkworth said he had no objection, as he had des termined, in spite of Mr. Beard, to elicit the whole In& Professor Rogers was here called upon to give his PS deuce, when he dashed to hear some evidence se tolls character of the deceased's illness immediately prints his death, as all he had heard on the previous oessisa that he was affected with a slight cold. The witness said he had a cold, and she understood BO it was bronchitis. Mrs. Todd, the landlady, was re-called sod maid upon this point, and also said she understood thstic ceased had a cold. The medicine came the same night that Dr. Part first came. Deceased's doer was locked, and wigs he was told it was his medicine he called out to pet It down. I took his breakfast up for him on Cluings , morning. He appeared much better. On the Than* morning after he had taken the medicine be was nee Professor Julian Edward Dishowe Rogers smiled-. I reside at 35, Sussex-place, South Belgravia, IA am professor of chemistry at the Loudon Hospital IA& School. The portion of the body I received wee the stomach, lungs, liver, and heart. I have made as snob nation for various alkalies, each as morphia, sill and other poisons, and have found slight trees of but no traces of strychnine. I have found • li tt s sa ti l lhi ) arsenic is the stomach. In the liver there was noon. Nod • every means of test, and with the greatest care, sad lAN I found the trace of arsenic in the stomach I made a speld examination of the liver for the arsenic, and finding absent, I came to the conclusion that no quent o l arsenic had been taken sulcient to destroy life. Hal that been the case I must have found it in the liver. By the Coroner—l am quite sure I found meek Ist the stomach. I have formed an opinion se to the OWN of death, and there Is nothing to induce me to believe tom the evidence I have heard and my examination the died from any other cause than bronchitis. The throwing up the arms as described by the lib new Miss Southgate would be the natural consequtio of the deemed trying to got air. With aped to where the arsenic came from my imeroo" was that it mast have been admitted in the medicine shoo to the deceased, and that there must have been gore crer in making up that medicine. I do not think there ins any natural arsenic in the body. I have never food arsenic naturally in a body. If there had, however, bar sufficient arsenic to have killed I should have fated it the liver. Had deceased taken any large quanta,' of 15* n.;c there would have been vomiting and purging. The particles of arsenic found in the deemed's Mew was here produced and examined by the coroner teditifj By the foreman—l do not think the small time* arsenic I found in the stomach could be calculated to sew' locate death. There is kpreparation of arsenic sad Mr ash called Fowler's Solution, which is used in medisiee Four or five drops might contain about half a c osi arsenic. There are 480 drops to an ounce. In answer to questions, he said he found much lass etc phia than arsenic. Dr. Part, on being sworn, stated that Mt. log, on sending for him, said he wanted him If be • his executor. The witness read the preseriPtioa UPI him from his day-book. He wrote a sketch of the oal from Mr. Golding's dictation, who said he kol not seen his relations for many years, and did IN care for them. The will was a ft er wards made bl .1 solicitor. He never prescribed for him after that Tbl witiess was proceeding to state that be found Wu Beedo gate meddling with the money which Mr. Goldhlibl i shown him in the drawers, when our report left. It is understood, says the Manchester Emossiotr•le that nest month the Chancellor of the Exchequer vall_e the guest of the Earl of Lonadale at Lowther Om& in anticipation of his visit, the conservative part/ lisle sae arranging for a grand banquet, to Disraeli will be invited. M. Bitroar's V nirr TO IREL AND. —A MIT ,eT ° t sari influential committee of the operatives of Dralle ir now in coarse of formation, for the special porpeK °f N Ain( John Bright, Emil., M.P., to a great reform ditt mention in that town, to be held subsequently to Om UM lin beaquet.—Yreenims. ITALY AND GIZECI. The Times allow. that it seems rather hard that the Italians, after their honourable adherence to engage. meets, should now in the matter of Venetia ha :. acted by France with a prolongation of torture, which we eight feel tempted to set down to a deliberate refinement of cruelty were we not aware that it simply eprings from the wearisome exigencies of official pedant./. Thei- soreness on the ridiculous farce of the plebiscite may he easily un derstood and readily sympathised with, but the prize is of infinite value, and Europe will know how to appreciate their reeignation and self-denial. They ought to reflect that from the 13th of May the mere military expenditure of the kingdom of Italy has exceeded 555,000,000 fr., so that when Venice comes at last into their bands their power to afford her relief will be well-nigh utterly exhausted. The " black and red," priestly-republican movement of Palermo, ought also to warn them of the necessity of concluding the Vienna negotiations, and turning all their attention to the task of setting their house in order. While finding it impossible to avoid sympathising with the Candians, the Telegraph fears that if the insurgents depend solely on the sentimental grievance that their sovereign does not happen to be a Greek, they run little chanee of European interference in their behalf. There is not a substantial grievance which they can allege to exist. Is there anything in the condition of proirots of Grteee to tempt statesmer. of eapeillenee to desire such a fate for Candia as amalgamation with that country? To rdd any furrier possessions to the present territories of King George would only widen the area of the misgovernment which already same his kingdom. The Star thinks that if Turkey had any judicious friends, they would now assuredly counsel her to he generous and renounce her held upon reluctant and an. congenial populations. For whatever may come of the present struggle in Crete, no man can seriously doubt that the conflicting nationalities and religions which she tries to govern are the rocks on which, if she perseveres in her I present course, Turkey is destined before long to go to pieces. TR. MANNING. The attitude of unhesitating oonfidenoe as to the peel. tion of the papacy which Dr. Manning has assumed in his recent addressee is often successful, the Times remarks, in the shadowy domain of the invisible world, but it may be doubted whether it will have an equal effect amid the visible realities of politics. His argument from reason is, no doubt, irrefragable to his own mind, but his argument from fact must be challenged at once. His theology may be left alone, but we must altogether demur to his ecclesiastical and his secular history. The temporal sovereignty, the 'listens of the first few centuries shows, is the consequence, not the cause of the liberty of the church, and his analogies are not less unhappy than his statements. His account of the " independent " position of the Pope rends more like a mockery than a sober statement of a real belief. When was the Pope not more or less in the power of either a French or a German monarch What sort of dignity or independence has the temporal power conferred on the Pope during the last eighteen years? If the temporal power be the only support of the Papal dignity and authority, he is a very insignificant personage indeed. Those who throw themselves unreservedly, like Dr. Manning, into the Roman catholic system appear to live in a kind of cave, in which the events of the outside world are only seen in distorted reflection. They may almost be said to see nothing but themselves, and however their position may be altered, it appears to them always the same. MISCELLANZOUS TOPICS. The Timm narrows the question ------- between the de mocrats and republicans of America to this—that one narty proposes to reconstruct the Union, and the other to Imre it incomplete, justifying this definition by the assumption that although the resolutions just adopted at the Radical Convention provide for the re-admission of the Southern States to Congress, they do so only on conditions which the South will not accept. The doctrine el the radicals, according to the Times, is that the Southern opinions which led to war should be suppressed at present, and ultimately eradicated, by the gradual inoculation of the whole South with Northern principles. Thus, and thus only, they think the true policy of the government can be safely maintained. They may possibly be right, but in this case the Union cannot possibly be restored, nor can America escape the evils of permanent discord and inveterate popular disaffection. The Daily News narrates a case of the deportation from Canada to France of a French subject named Lamirande, nominally under the Extradition Act, and actually under a warrant signed by the Governor-General, Lord Monet. The judge had declared that the prisoner was entitled to his discharge, and ordered the issue of a writ to bring the prisoner before him with that view. The gaoler's return to the writ was that he bad delivered Lamirande to E. J. Melin, a police inspector of Paris, on the prerioua night at 12 o'clock, in obedience to an order signed by H. H. San born, deputy-sheriff, granted upon an instrument signed by his Excellency the Governor-General. This was done although a solemn promise had been given by the counsel for the crown that no surprise should be attempted. The Daily News denounces this case as a gross out rage upon British law and an affront to British justice. If such things are passed over no one will be safe. Immi rande may be guilty or innocent : that is not the ques tion. The guarantees of justice must be maintained init. spective of the assumed character of the accused, or they will fail the innocent in the time of need. The Nerald , apropos of the reform meeting at Man cheater, on Monday, offers to Mr. Bright various con siderations for his attention, and quotes certain authori ties with a view of proving that the working classes are uneducated, ►re devoid of the courtesies and civilities of lif e , are led by At wont kind of demagogues, and regard drunkenness as no dWgraras. The .'War tells Sir S. Baker, who has lately defended the authorities in Jamaica, that the conduct which he de scribes on the part of the negroes is exactly that of the offiesla. If he would turn to the records of the oornmfa sion, and especiallyto the list of executed, submitted by Mr. Sp* to his Sovereign at her command, he will find that manynnfortunate wretches were flogged with tweety, fifty, and ens hundred lashes before being executed. In one day fifteen out of twenty-five were so flogged before execution. On the same day a mother and her eon ware hanged together. On the 27th of October, e fortnight Wire euurt. BALMORAL, Barr; 18: The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Chliatian and Princess Louise, went ant yesterday. Dr. M'Leod had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family het night. Mr. Helps left the Castle yesterday. Despatches were sent yesterday front the Colonial-oMee to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Cey lon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Australian Colonies, and New Zealand. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE LINN OF QUOICH. —The Queen visited the Falls of Quoich last Thursday, driving from Balmoral via Invercauld Rouse and Allan more House. Luncheon was provided at the elegant summer house erected by the Earl of Fife, and tea was also served there in the afternoon. The royal party, after spending some time in the grounds and ►t the Fall, had • ride of some miles up the Vale of the Quoich, ghillies and ponies being in attendance from Balmoral The return to the palace in the evening was made via Braemar.—Dander Advertiser. Ilia Exoellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and the Marchioness of Abereorn, accompanied by the Ladles Georgians, Alberta, and Maud Hamilton, and Lord Cknd 3. Hamilton, M.P., left the Viceregal Lodge, Dublin, oa Tuesday last, for Coonskin, county Wicklow, on a visit the Earl and Countess of Fitzwilliam, where they am ex pected to stay till the 25th Met. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough are entertalaing a select party at Blenheim-park, near Wood deck. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have made great preparations for the approaching visit of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princes• of Wales at Dunrobia Cud., and a distinguished circle will amemble there at the invitation of the duke and dachas to meet the Prince sad Princess. The Earl Cowper and Lady Florence Cowper will leave his lordship's shooting lodge in Inverness-shire early next week for the south. Lord and Lady Alfred Paget have left the Coun ter (Dowager) of Listewera peat in Ireland for their seat in Norfolk. Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Mias Mitford, Sir Thomas Munro, Colonel and Mrs. Campbell, and the AG oonntant-General and Mrs. Russell are among the vette of the Earl and Countess of &afield, at Balmaeaan, N.D. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone, hare returned to town from visiting Mr. F. H. Russell, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth Russell, at Wo burn Abbey, Beds. The delegates from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have left the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, for a few days, on a visit to the Duke and Ducker of Marlborough, at Blenheim. The Baroness de Rothschild and the Misses Rothschild are at present staying at the Invercauld Ams, Braemar.—Dundee Advertiser. On Tuesday the Lord-Lieutenant went on a visit to Earl Fitzvrilliam at Coollattin Park, in the county of Wicklow, accompanied by the Marchioness of Abereorn, the Ladies Hamilton, and Lord Claud Hamilton, A.D.c.;; Lord Straldishia, Commander of the Forces in Ireland, joining them at Bray. As the game at Coollattin is well preserved, and a large number of the best dogs to be had have been brought there specially for the occasion, the viceregal party and the other distinguished visitors in vited to meet them may expect excellent sport. It is said that the Lord-Lieutenant will return to the Viceregal Lodge on the 25th. and will go shortly after to Baron's Court, his seat in the county Tyrone. LETTER FROM MR. J. STUART MILL, M.P., ON THE REMOVAL OF MR. BELLES. The committee of the Beales' Testimonial Fund have received the following letter from Mr. J. Stuart Still, M.P. : " Avignon, Sept. 10, 1866. "Dear Sir,—Your letter of August :oth did not reach me until too late to send a letter which could be read at the meeting in favour of a testimonial to Mr. Beale'. I think it quite right that reformers should make compensation to Mr. Reales for the pecuniary loss to which he has been subjected in conse quence of the prominent part he has taken in urging the claims of the working classes to representation in parlia ment. I see no force in the reasons assigned as a justifi cation of this treatment of Mr. Beaks. Strong politi cal convictions are not considered a disquali fication for much higher judicial offices than that of revising barrister, nor are ever likely to be considered except when the opinions are on the aide opposed to the ruling powers. To exclude from the seat of justice all who are decided politicians, would be to keep out all the fittest men, for who, in the present state of the world, is withon. strong political opinions of some sort except be cause he is wanting either in mental cultivation or in the public spirit requisite for taking due interest in the sub ject? And to say that the opinions shall he an exclusion because they are known and avowed would be still more absurd, since it is precisely when they are known to the world that there is least danger of their exercising an improper bias on the judgment. Besides, even if the reason were good against appointing an active politician for the first time, it cannot hold against retaining him, who, having been appointed, heal bi the acknowledgment of even 'dyer. saries proved his impartiality by his conduct.—l am, &c., " J. S. Mu.L." EtscrioN EXPENSES. —An abstract of the re turns of candidates' expenses and of theehargee of returning officers for every county, city, and borough of the United Kingdom has just been issued. No accounts have been furnished from 31 constituencies, and with regard to 26 the abstracts are incomplete, but as far as the information goes the following results are shown :—Total amount of the costs incurred by candidates for counties in England and Wales, 315,6661. ; for cities and boroughs, 315,9941.13 e. Old.; foroounties in Scothurd,32,244/. 112.11 d.; for cities and boroughs, 19,431/. 13s. sd. ; and for counties in Ireland, 44,801/. 6s. ; and cities and boroughs, 24,610/. 4s. 20., making in all 752,6101. 4e. 20. The charges made by returning officers in counties (England and Wales) are stated at 15,655/. Bs. 3d. ; and cities and boroughs, 26,2751. Ils. 10A. ; counties (Scotland), 9391. 6s. 1)d. ; and cities and boroughs, 1,206/. 12s. 4d. ; and counties (Ireland), 2,2391.55. 84d. ; and cities and boroughs, 1,004!. 4s. 70., making a total of 47,3201. Bs. Ild. The cost incurred by the candidates collectively at Lancaster is returned at 2,529!. 7s. 2d. ; Reigate, 2,636/. 18s. scl. ; Totnes, 7861. 75. Ild. ; and Great Yarmouth,l,63Bl. 114.7 d. ROYAL NAVAL COAST VOLUNTBZIIB ♦ND NAVAL EMERY& —This morning were published returns of the number of men who have annually enrolled themselves in the force of Royal Naval Coast Volunteers from 1863 to 1866, and of the number of men enrolled in the Royal Naval Reserve who failed to present themselves for drill daring the years 1865 and 1866. The number of men who enrolled themselves in the Coast Volunteers was 905 in 1863, 1,209 in 1864, 1,470 in 1865, and 691 in 1866. Of the Royal Naval Reserve, of which the total strength was in 1665 16,936, and in 1866 17,021, there were in the former year 3,660 men, and In the latter 4,050, who failed to present themselves for drill. The Pacific and New Zealand mail packets after lasting New Zealand for Panama only go near the Pitcairn and Wiper's Islands in the Pacific. A coal depot for the packets is to be established on one of the latter islands. Another of the Galapagos is a convict settlement be longing to the republic of Ecuador. This Pacifio nail line having been established, a man can now travel round the world in about 100 days, touching twice at Europe, once at Africa, twice at Asia, four times at Australasia, and four times at America. Thirty years ago a mail packet took forty days to reach America from England ; now a person can travel by sea nearly ten times that dietaries in a little more than twice the time. Tii Houssuras Pooa LAw Aer.—Aocording to an *Maki document just Mimed, there were in 1864 on ly 612 pommel admitted nightly into Poor•law wards ; and thin pot the number nighty has reoehod to 1,263. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FAMINE IN INDIA. We have to-day received advice. from Calcutta to August 20. A telegram of the 20th ult. in the Bombay Times says :—"The total sum collected in Calcutta for the relief of the prevailing famine is 70,000 rs. Accommodation is required for 2,003 ilia' people, 1,000 of whom already fill the hospitals. The native community of Calcutta have agreed to feed 8,003 of the distressed for two months, but funds will have to be provided to proteot the reitt. The committee makes a general appeal to the public ; but is thankful to Bombay for the contributions already there collected." The Bombay Times of August 23, commenting upon the latest accounts, says : . . _ . The alarming proportions assumed by the &Orem in Bengal show how miserably government failed to apprs hood the true state of affairs when, time after time, official intimation was given that the resources at the disposal of the Board of Revenue were amply sufficient to provide for the famine-stricken districts. As early as October last, the parched appearance presented by rice fields and plains which at that season of the year used to smile with ripening grain, excited in various quarters serious appre hensions of an approaching famine. In December it was generally known that the crops in Orissa, usually a grain porting country, were ell but a total failure ; and yet the revenue officials who ought to have been the first to know the actual state of the clistrlct seem not to have realised the extent of the misfortune. Thus the circle was allowed to widen, and now the cry of distress ascends even from Chumparun in the extreme north-west of Bengal as far as Beller,' in Madras. For a time the country districts only suffered, as the ignorance and want of enterprise, characteristic of the rural Hindoo, at fiat led many to lie down in dumb despair ; but now that a chance of relief even at a great distanoe has been offered, and their constitutional apathy overcome, hundreds of gaunt. emaciated human forms are flocking daily into Calcutta ; and few can predict how long the calamity may be limited to famine, or how soon a raging pestilence may follow in its train. In some placer, indeed, cholera has already broken out, and the mortality has been very great. To guard against this Let danger, the stars'ng multitudes are being intercepted as much as possible at suitable localities and centres of relief established in the su ff ering dia., tricta ; yet in spite of this the arrivals in Calcutta are said to amount to as many as 200 a day, while in the city and its suburbs not leas than from twenty to thirty thousand are fed from the hand of charity alone. It is also calcu lated that in Pooree 1,543 persons are at present daily re lieved ; is Outtack, 1,960; Balasore, 16,994 ; Midnapore, 9,667 ; Meunbhoom, 1,900 ; Nuddea, 3,111; Gya, 1,609; Serun, 5,609; and in Tirboot, 6,361. The measures of relief spontaneously adopted by the inhabitants of Cal outta have been most extensive and well considered. Many of the richer Habeas and certain European gentlemen have joined in establishing untioduatros, or almshouses, where hundreds of the destitute ars housed, clothed and fed. The zeal and enthusiasm of the pollee and municipal authorities, too, have been most praise worthy, and the measures organised have been tolerably effective. An influential committee has been form , d, with the commissioner of police at its head, whose plan of relief is, to clothe and house the poor ; to provide work for the ablebodied ; to feed all surplus paupers whose wants may not be met by native amities ; to sup. ply additional accommodation ; and to maintain a found ling hospital for the support of orphans whose parents may be dead or hart iiiiiert:4 there. Subscript;nns to the amount of rs. 20,000 have already ben receive'', end more money is sure to pour in as the relief is extended. I Some ra.10,000 have already been forwarded from Bom. I I bay ; and now that the local government there has ap pointed a committee and made an appeal to the public, this sum will no doubt soon be doubled many times over. In the meantime the fall of rain has been very general throughout Bengal, and the early harvest has begun in Cuttack, Midnapore, Nuddea and other districts, the produce where sufficient seed had been sown being good, and matters looking more bopefuL To induce agricul turists and labourers to return to the famine district', aid is given them on the way, and public works, canals, &a., are being proceeded with so as to eff.,rd employment. His Excellency the Viceroy, in a re solution recently passed, stated that he has no ob jectiou to yet further aid being given at once to push on with vigour the works of the Irrigation Canal which is being executed along the Oolooabarial and Midnapore road, provided the labour of the sufferers from the famine is alone employed. Yet great disappointment is just now felt, because of its being discovered that the twenty 'Abe set aside by the supreme government at the request of Sir Cecil Ileadon is not, as was supposed, to be distributed in public relief, but that sum is merely to be advanced for the purchase of rice that will be sold at cost price in Orissa. It is hoped, however, that in six weeks most of the distress will be over, and then it remains to be seen what steps will be taken to prevent the return of • like visitation. The appointment of a royal commission to inquire into the causes of this famine might prove to be • very useful measure. In the Bombay Gazette we read :—" The govern ment of Bombay has appointed a committee to obtain contributions for the relief of the famine which prevails in some districts on the eastern side of India, and which has driven about 15,000 starving men, women, and children into the city of Calcutta. The position of Bombay, which has formerly distinguished itself in works of public charity, will prevent it from responding with liberality to the appeal of government ; but in other places throughout Western India which have not suffered by the pecuniary misfortunes that have p..ralysed Bombay a handsome contribution ought to be provided. The great and protracted fall in the price of cotton has produced as severe a money famine in Bombay as there is a food famine in Bengal. Trade is, for the time, utterly suspended, and nothing but a rise in the price of that staple on which Bombay has chosen to stake its commercial existence will restore ether confidence to the community, or briskness to trade. Never, perhaps, in the annals of commerce has a trading city been so completely prostrated and stricken with calamity as Bombay. The reason lies on the surface. The presidency has neglected the cultivation of all its general articles of produce which made up its export trade before the cotton era. Bombay resolved to stand or fall by cotton ; it has fallen ; and the fall has been great." ITALY AND AUSTRIA. According to the news from Italy the financial difference which arose during the negotiations for peace are in • fair waz of being speedily adjustzd. The Italian government has agreed to pay a sum of 2,920,0001. to Austria, and on this condition the Austrians will evacuate Venetia. With regard to the territorial adjustment, the Italians will obtain Riva and all the northern shore of the Lake of G trda, but will lose territory on the mountain passes above Bergamo, Brescia, and Vicenza. The Venetian question will therefore be brought to a conclusion so far as the parties directly interested in it are concerned. The conduct of France, based onthe cession of Venetia to the Emperor Napoleon, causes great irritation in Italy, more than even the pretensions and exactions of Austria. (azurint's nusoLute.) DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, 861. T. 19. _ _ _ Admiral Mirknm has been appointed Minister of Marine. The departure of the Princess Dagmar for St. Petersburg has been fixed for Saturday next. A Russo-Danish squadron will accompany the princess. It is rumoured that notes from the French and Russian governments have been delivered in Berlin and Copenhagen in reference to the question of Northern Schleswig. ITALY. PARIS, Scrr. 20. The Mooti!cur of this morning says, in its bulletin, " The revolutionary attempt at Palermo has been made by men belonging to the republican pr ty, cconded by bands of rioters." SPAIN. MADRID, SEPT. 19. The Politick states that the commission ap pointed to draw up a bill of administration and other reforms, to be applied in the island of Cuba, will shortly meet in Madrid. TURKEY AND CANDIA. ATHENS, BKPT. 15. (Debiyed in rim.) The British Legation at Athens has given a denial in the Greek papers to the statement that England had advised Turkey to cede Candia to Greece. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Strr. 18, 10.50 r.w. Oa Tuesday night troops were sent to Prague to quell a 1:ot which had broken out with the Jews.— T;inss, cool ed ition. MILITARY RIOT AT MAYENCE AND FRANKFORT. A correspondent of the Nord, writing from Mayence on Sept. 16, says : Great excitement exists here on account of a little military meeting which commenced here on Saturday, was I continued in Frankfort on Sunday, and ended in the arrest of the pr:ocipal leaders. It appears that the 32rd Infantry Regiment of the line haling come to garrison Mayence, the government directed the reserves and the landwehr, as well as the fourth battalions, to give up their arms, telling them that they were to proceed on foot to Erfurt to be sent home from thence. This order caused much divatisfaction, and one of the landwehr, the father of six children, went to the Prince of Holstein, the governor of the fortress, to explain the state of things to him. He said that for two months and a half his family had been deprived of his supper:, that he had no money haring to subsist on his pay. At the same time he showed the prince his broken shoes and his threadbare clothes, and said that he represented 1,500 of his comrades, who asked to be sent away by rail. The prince gave the m►n the means of returning home, stating that he regretted he could not interfere with the orders emanating from the War-office. The colonel pro. wised the men that as soon as they arrived in Frankfort they would travel by rail. On this promise they commenced their march, arriving in Frankfort on Sunday afternoon. They went to the Mein-Weser Railway station in the expecta• tion that a train would be ready to take them, but they found no preparation made, and the station-master stated that he could not put one on without authority. On this the men became anguand began to abuse their officers, one of whom struck g soldier with bis sabre. This was the occasion of a riot. Stones were thrown, and the ema i mandant, who was on horseback, received a severe wound in the head from* pitcher. A strong detachment of the 31th were sent for. They were ordered to load, but the men declared that they would re fuse to fire. All they would do was to take the men into barracks, some of whom, however, escaped. To-day they were placed in railway trains, in the belief that they were to be taken home, but instead of this they were brought back here, and an investigation has commenced. I give facts without any comment. The men used language of this kind, " When you wanted us you put es into trains, but now that we have sacrificed our means, and exposed our lives, now that you no longer want us you send us back like brutes, and cannot find 5i silvergoschen per roan to enable us to return more speedily to our homes. It is only a matter of 275 thalers for 1,500 men, but you prefer to send us home on foot, and to billet us, when we are exhausted, on the inhabitants. W nen you want us again we shall not stir." This, perhaps, is the reverse side of the landwehr system. TWO SHOCKING SUICIDES. Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry last evening relative to the suicide of a bricklayer named James King, aged 44 years, who expired last Monday in the German Hospital, from the effects of sever►l wounds in hie throat. Eliza King, 99, Pownall-road, Dalton, wife of the de ceased, said that be was a bricklayer. Re used not to drink much, or more than bricklayers usually do who are paid in public-houses ; but he drank a little at times. He antlered latterly great agony from stricture. On last Mon day week he was in excessive pain ; she left the room for a minute or two, and on her return she found bins covered with blood and his throat cut. Ozone Ward said that on the day in question upon his coming home to dinner the deceased's groans were so loud and piteous that his fwitucz's) wife tried to make a noise hustling about the thin7s to drown them. Suddenly he beard last witness scream, and upon running to the room found deceased lying on his back holding the razor to his throat. Witness snatched the razor and flung it away. Dr. Alexander Burger, medical officer at the German Hospital, proved that deceased was brought in on Monday week, with several incisions in the throat. He lingered in a state of great suffering until last Monday when he died The jury returned a verdict "That deceased committed suicide while in a state of unsound mind from pain and agony of body." The sane coroner held an inquest on view of the body of William Barnett, aged 52 years. The deoeaaed was a stone mason living at No. 7, Grace street, Bromley. Ravin; been left a legacy upon the death of his father some six months back he rained some money to go down to Yorkshire to get it, but finding that it would not be paid before next March he became much depressed and vety strange in his manner. Last Wednes day night he returned home the worse for liquor. On Thursday morning be hanged himself with a clothes line to a beam in the kitchen. Mr. Theed Basal proved that death resulted from strangulation. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind. The proposed banquet at Liverpool to the chief people connected with the Atlantic Telegraph should be supplemented, or preceded by one in London. A feeling exists that the Lord Mayor would inaugurate this, and it is stated that several members of the ministry are ready to aid in doing honour to the promoters of and actors in this great enterprise. Though the Gres' Eastern is at Liver pool, the men who devised and perfected the cable are in London, and a demonstration in their favour would be viewed with general favour. At the annual visitation of St. Patrick's Cathe dral on Tueeday the Archbishop of Dublin delivered a comprehensive charge, which embraced the following topics :—The building of new churches, ritualism, and the disturbances in St. Bride's and Grangegorman churches last winter and spring, the Eirenicon of Dr. Pusey, the efforts made to assimilate the church, on the one hand, to the sects around her, and thus make her nothing more than a sect among sects, lad, on the other, to re-entangle her in the errors of the church of Rome, which she bad forsaken and renounced, and especially existed to protest against ; Sir John Gray's motion for the abolition of th e church establishment, and the inconveniences as regards legislation for the Irish branch of the church, resulting from the fact that none of the Irish bishops sat in parlia ment foe two consecutive sessions. The charge concluded with a general exhortation to the clergy. The corporation of Waterford has adopted the following resolution ;—" That as considerable quantitie s of old clothes are imported from London and elsewhere and transmitted to various parts of the country, and as much danger exists that contagious diseases may thereby be propagated, a memorial be presented to the government praying that an Order in Council may be issued prohibiting the importation of such articles during the revamps of cholera." The Prince and Princess Windischgrsts (Mule Taghoni) an apendivi their haws:tom in Paaia. aN' Ctees-ez the poison month. I - • Zlaughter they wen I am sus daughter I believe aware th time livie I never bled fond of do not km threwtenec to his des AillkillA tx him after A gentl 11:tneas w who had c she odd SI DOM TO/14 prosenoe. 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