The Express. — London, England, 1868-09-07 00:00:00

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FINIIE I.ANC.ISII.IItE LASS, at a quart e r to S. -IL "On its A. , . 41 reprvsentatitin was reeeivoil with evon "roster arrlFinsr •I th..,erinc n 1 prrulitfttinn Feln•rennh LANC.IsIIII{E LASS. at a quarter to M. - A I tat rin rvnr tor pregbetirl fir the piuce, 'shalt ton.lon a spn. it will lx as great • hit a. the • Colleen Halm' -f Drily News. THE LASCASIII 1.A8.4, at a g lop to 8. •• Altogether. itelglng front the interted of the .. the ex rellteute of tho eeting. end the beauty of the *emery. to say ntdhing of the Lame and nightly-incregeing autliatuwa, 'That lor rechfre lose' form a acturee of attraction for a. love • / ..r ,1•1 so ary drams that hoe lately been produoed."--Stantlard. ROYAL ALHAMBRA YALACK—Thres - Ballets PrOSIVVIIVIP Coneett. Band of N. Saila at IL 18. 110,0eine Or,. from Il to 4. CHITRTON and SON, LADIEft UNDSRCLOTHINO. el and ft OXFORDSTRZET. - - - - JOHN BROODER'S CLASSIC JEWELRY. pARIS FIR:NT-CLASS SILVER MEDAL, 1867. a 011.1 i BLOUDLICS Is-carat GOLD CliAl JOHN BROGDEN'S BRACELETS. JOHN BROODER'S BROOCHES. - OEN BEOGDEN'S OEM and WEDDING R MIR JOHN BROODEN'S NECKLACES. JOHN BROGDEN'S EARRINGS. I RIOUCAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY. NO. 16, HENRIETTA-STREET, Covent °mien. D AIL Y N B W S. PRICE ONE PE.NNT. OF CYLLROES FOR ADDER' Pa Laze.* a. d. a. d. rßasrscrrsEs of NEW COMPANIES, REPORTS of mEsnso , s and ELEC. 1 7 lines 10 0 atter. „ m i. 1 6 TIONS LEGAL NOTICES lO do. 10 0 do. 1 0 PUBLIC COMPANITS tEetablialudl, to 4 do. 4 0 do. 1 0 Ditto, ditto, Leader Page 4 do. 6 0 do. 1 6 AL - VTIONS, TRADES, AMUSEMENTS, BOORS, CHARITIES, 11ISCILLA.) 5 do. 5 4 do. 0 6 NBOUB Ditto, ditto, Leader Pegs 5 do. 1 0 do. 1 0 PARAGRAPH ADVERTISEMENTS BIRTHS. MARRLkGEB. and DEATHS 5 do. 2 6 do. 0 6 Doicseric SERVANTS Wanting Places 4 do. 1 0 do. 0 3 • Tea yardman) • line; a single letter or Sore musts as a word. NOTICE TO OENER►L ADVERTISES& The DAILY Nowt," se an aelmoviedged authority upon Cam• inertial and Monetary question& enjoy a high Pention. and iY extensive and rapidly Unceasing etioulatioa *noon& reduation to pnoe to On• Penny renders it an invaluable medium to &II klub et *droning& Post-cdlioe Orders for Advertisemeate should be made pagabie to JOIKLE HAZILTNOTOS, Poet-Ake, Port-street paetege Stan** received for amounto up to PU. 13, BOUTeltil4tZeOt. Meet-amt. HC.. London. gitt earpreoll. PBMCEB,B. Tlitx Errszso. A CIZEM.ING PAIL—AFTER DARR: A TALE OF LONDON LIFE. Mr. Vining, Mews. Wanda. lAtay, D.uankl Hurray, Mmtague. Elba*, ; Mire. Mazdada sod L.A ;a.m.—And MASTER JONES% BIRTHDAY. WI EN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRS. , Mr. W. E. Liston. Tam EVRTIYO, Mt ' l, TOMKLVS TROUBLES. Mr. L. Rmageb ; Mire Montaorue.—And TER LANCASHTRB LASS. Merers Irving.. L. &meth, Stephens, Wyndham, Clayton, and 8 Emery; Mesdames Hodson, Montague, sad Naliy MOM& STRAND. Tare Err tn. SDITERLY SERVICE.—THE FIELD OP TEI CLOTH 01 , ' GULD.—And MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. BRITANNIA. TWIN Immo, WEDDED AND LOST; OR. THE PIRATE }DEF. Wears. Wpm°lda, Charlton, Plitt, Bell, Ike.; Bk.- e. Renderaon, Booth, ke.—Mr . H. Rickattla ; Mr. C Wue,draan.—And THE TERROR OF LONDON. HIGH WATER AT LONDOE_BRIDGE. TO-DAT =3ionung —s ' , 4117 10m. Tu-M• 'mow —Moaning. .b. tfsa. iftentoca. fb. ides. NOTICE. FUTIf t § of BIETIS. MA1114014, and DIATII, are seesived until 12 o'clock for insertion same evening. Rios gs. ed. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 7. CAB MASTERS AND CABDRIVERS. Wu= cabmasters and cabdrivers are making a silence in the streets, and enjoying, man and horse, the luxury of a strike, which often falls so hard on the poor wife and family, let us endeavour to look at the case from their own point of view, or rather from the point of view of their real in terests, as they appear to a dispassionate inquirer. It is tolerably obvious. from the frequent strikes and incessant agitation in the cab trade, that there is something amiss with it besides what the public sees. Within the last few months we have bad a strike against the introduction of lamps and another against the exclusion of certain cabs from certain railway stations. We had besides, meetings to denounce the hackney carriage duty, and a meeting, consisting solely of cabmen, to protest against the masters levying from them an extra shilling per diem on pretence of tho abolition of sixpenny fares by the Act of last session. This last occasion was the only symptom of any divergence of interest between the masters and nien, and it was speedily bushed up, we know not on what terms. At all the other meetings the two parties have been, to all appearance, quite unanimous, and have agreed on common measures against the conunon enemy, whether that enemy was the Government or the Railway Companies. We do not stop now to point out that in all cases the public has been the victim, and that extreme public inconvenience has been the weapon with which the cab interest has sought to enforce its ends. Our purpose just now is rather to inquire what the cab interest really is, and what is the secret taint in ita constitution which breaks out thus incessantly into monster meetings and strikes. The whole trade may for the most part be divided into the two classes of cabowners and cab drivers. A few owners drive their own cabs, but many even of those who do have other cabs which are let out to be driven by other men. in this system of letting there lies the general system of the trade. A eabowner hires out, to a driver certi ficated by the police as competent, the use of a cab and two horses per diem. For this he receives a daily rent, averaging, we believe, according to the season, from 14e. to 16s. for a four-wheeler, and from 15s. to 18s. for a Hansom. The driverbecomes bound to pay this amount whether he earns it or not, and all he earns beyond it forms his own wages or profit. It is of course a lottery. He has the chance of making a good deal more, particularly if the weather be wet, or if there be any great public pees, or if he b e lucky in getting liberal or ignorant fares. This hope buoys Win up, even when he has fallen back in his payment's, and has arrears to make up to his master. But it is for the most part a delusive one. It leads him to offer more for the lave of the cub and horses than THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1868. they •tre fairly worth. It is certain that thus, in stigstod by the spirit of gambling, the cabman cuts down hie average wages to an amount below tlu average of corresponding trades. the y over, there are few worse paid men thin the London cabmen. Yet under the pri..ent system it is impossible to mend their lot. Any oiei. tweet filing higher fares would merely t'.l.ln, competing against each other, to fh r higher rent to the masters, and their own pi ofits AS oull remain as small and as doubtful as ever. On the public, again, this system acts almost as badly. It forms a powerful inducement to the cabman to cheat and extort, for hatever be thus gains is his own, and he needs it sorely. It renders the masters indifferent as to the character of the men, as to tho good con dition.of the cabs,. as to the quality of the horses, for if they get their fixed sum a day it covers all losses and is all they need to care for. And the returns are immense on the capital employed. Fifteen shillings a day, even excluding Sundays, amounts to about 2307. a year. The keep of two horses will certainly not exceed 601., and with shoeing, physic, and duty added, the whole ex penses will fall within 1001. It has been stated lately by cab-owners themselves, that the value of a cab and two horses is only 501. But this was stated with a view to allow that the duty was ex cresive, and therefore it is probably much below the truth. We may safely, perhaps, double it. Here then is a nett return of 1301. per annum on a capital of 1007. If our figures can be shown by any cab-owner to be erroneous we shall be happy to give his correction. But we believe they will he found to be substantially correct, and if so we must say we do not think the cab-owners have any ground for complaint, in so far as their money returns are concerned. But we do not doubt that the system operates badly oven as against them. There must be a considerable loss from drivers bolting without pay ing all that is duo. The horses are often over driven, and must wear out fast. Lameness and sickness will lay them up at times for considerable periods. Now it is pretty clear that all these disadvantages are the product mainly of the system of hiring out the cabs. A police certificate or badge is no sufficient testimony of good character or conduct in the men entrusted with this property. None of us would take a servant on merely such a nega tive recommendation. The cab owners say they cannot help themselves, that they could not find honest men to work for wages, and bring in their full earnings; that London is so large, and dis tances so great, that they could not exercise a per sonal superintendence, as masters in other towns do, over drivers paid by wage.; ; and that, conse quently, no other plan is available than the hiring system. It may be so. At least it cannot be asserted positively unless the experiment is tried. Is it really impossible for a cab proprie tor to find men of good character if be offered them good wages ? And would it not be better for himself as much as for the public, to be con tented with a lower rate of profit in consideration of greater security, of freedom from bodies by damage, of enhanced respectability, and of being looked on as the benefactor instead of the enemy of the public To the drivers and the public cer tainly the gain would be immense. The former would have a certain fixed wage on which they could live and bring up their families in respect ability, instead of a fluctuating chance—sometimes bringing in a windfall, most rely to be spent in drink, often leaving them in debt, and generally reducing thorn to the point of starvation. The men at present do not see that all agitation for higher fares or freedom from restrictions would, while they compete against each other, merely add to the master's profits. and thus they are always ready to join the masters in agitating. The masters when any pinch of slack time comes look round to see whom or what they can lay the bhuue ou except themselves. But if the public understood the case it would perhaps deem the system at fault rather than the tariff of fares or the rules of the railway companies. And certainly if it becomes thus con vinced it has a perfect right to compel a change of system. It has the power of refusing permission to ply in the streets unless on such terms as it des ms best for its own interests and those of the pieties who serve it. where opinion is controlled. Duelling went out of fashion in England in proportion as the utterance of opinion became more and flier., tinancipntod from arbitrary . control. It la liberty, not despotism, that puts an end to duelling, as it will, sooner or later, put an end to standing mini. ft and to international wars. We beg pardon of tho Timer' for pointing out ono or two slight errors in its account of the particular effair bich occasioned its remarks. "As to the real prim.ds of the dispute," it says, " wo aro left " wholly in the dark." Now the grounds of tho yueircl betwecn M. PAUL DR CARRAONAO wore fully detailN3 in the Pays and the Aernir of Auch. Tlicy were pertly political, juid partly personal. " The two combatants had probably never seen " each other." They wore cousins, and it was Anted by M. LISAAPAHAY that M. PAUL DI MA MMA° bad been supported for many years by his klaseAnAnAv'e) uncle. On the face of the docu ments which form so to spook the pilces jusfUlea tibes of the quarrel, there can be no doubt that M. PAUL nu CAMAONAO had given the first offence, and that gentleman has proved himself on more than one 000ssion a worthy son of his father both with pen and rapier. It would be satisfactory to learn that on this occasion all the parties to the duel, principals and agents, are to be prosecuted, if we could forget that M. PAUL DR CAA/MONA() has been in a similar serape be fore, and has received a free pardon from the PEROR ; equality before the law being a prin ciple more honoured in ita breach than in its ob servance under the Imperial regime. OUlt CONTEMPORARIES. art IS DAY.) FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) (Tmcoouu ssurent's •ormcr.) ITALY. FLORFNCE. At pr. 7. klignor Caderna, the Minister of Interior, has resigned on account of ill-health, and his resigna tion has been accepted by the King. Count Cantelli, tho Minister of Public Works, will assume tho vacant ministry, ati interim. The company formed for working the tobacco monopoly have paid to the government the deposit of 18,000,000 lire, required as guarsbntoe for the carrying out of the undertaking. FEES TO RAILWAY PORTERS: OF course it is a very wrong thing to fee railway porters. Don't we all allow the fault even while we commit it ? No doubt this sort of bribery is demoralising both to giver and receiver, but what remedy is there for the evil ? A sensitive man does not like to be thought lees generous than his neighbours. He may resist the temptation at a station where he is unknown, but he has not nerve enough to resist it at a station or terminus where his face and name are familiar. Nothing, indeed, will be said by the servant who has obliged him by carrying a portmanteau or hamper to the carriage, but there is a language in the looks, and even a railway porter can send a gentleman to Coventry. It is evident the porters will not, under the present arrangement, decline receiving a fee, and that they laugh to scorn the risk of detection, and the staring notice of " instant " dieinissal." Indeed, we suspect that there is little risk in the case. But what if the passenger who gave money to a guard or porter were to be fined for so doing ? Even the significant looks of an unrequited porter might be preferable to a fine of 40e. Take another suggestion. Passengers who break any laws of a railway company are liable to have theirmisdeeds postedup atetations. The same system might be pursued with advantage in the case of official delinquents. If a few porters, de tected in the act, were dismissed for receiving money, and the fact were officially announced, the effect upon the consciences of railway servante might be highly beneficial. TO POINT A MORAL. Ora acute and thoughtful contemporary, the Spectator, has. we think, somewhat misinterpreted the moral of that story (which we have every rea son to believe authentic) of the counter-orders to General DE FAILLY two hours before the battle of Montana. It appears to us to show that the chief of a great military empire, when he does not hap pen to be himself a born or a trained soldier, is liable in emergencies to become not so much the master as the servant of the legions which have set up and sustained his throne. We l.•]ieve as heartily and sincerely as any of his ad mirers that Loris NAPOLEON desires to be a man of peace. His personal recollections of the battle fields of golferino and Magenta can hardly be such as to urge him to n peat the experience. But may not the time arrive when an army of six hundred thousand men, commanded by active and ambi tious generals, thoroughly equipped with the Chassepot, sick of camps and barracks, and pant ing for adventure and glory, will have to be hurled across the frontier, lest it burst like a shell in its ma-ter's hand SEASIDE ENGLISH. 1 tiAi general looseness of attire—that perfect freedom from all restraint which, in the opinion of many persons, forms the chief charm of life at the seaside—appears to have extended itself to the " Qrßia.se 8 English," if we are to judge from the following notice which is hung up in nearly all the apartments of une of the principal Brighton hotels : C'AuTron.— ottserve from the numerous incidental circumstances of Are, which almost daily occur, the pro prietor of this hotel, in order to guard against a matter so Seriously alarming, not only for the security of his own property, but also for the protection of his lodgers, earnestly and respectfully request. that no lady or gentle. man will on retiring to bed leave their candle to burn out, Or on any account whatever to attempt the unwise habit of reading In bed, which has caused the loss of so many lives, and the proprietor will be extremely grateful by visitors using their endeavours to assist him in carrying out so Important a regulation. This is a very excellent and necessary notice, but would it be impossible to put it into a sentence not quite so involved—even without the aid of a country schoolmaster: the Court. 11INSION WALLIS, LI7CERNB, 9m. $. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prime Arthur, ascended Yount Pilate on Mondry, and her Majesty and the Royal Family have lakes their usual drives daring the past week. Princess Louise, attended by Sir Thomas and lady Bidandph and Sir William Jenne; went to Schaffhausen, and visited the tall. of the Blaine. Prince Arthur, attended by Landenant-Oolonel ElpLno steaq has kft Lucerne for the &MON Oberland. Despatches wens sent on Saturday from the Colonist- Mike to the Governor-General of Canada, and to the Governor, of Haire, British Honduras, and British Columbia. Tito Duke of Edinburgh and suite will arrive at Dover to-day it 3.30, and leave by 4.16 a.m. mail train for Charing-cross. Prince and Princess Christian will arrive at Dover on Wednesday, and will leave by 3.43 p.m. mail train for Windsor. Their Royal Highntesee Prince and Priam's() Christian are expected to return from Waltersdorff to Frogmore House, Windsor-port, about Thursday next. Lord Stanley, accompanied by Mr. Sanderson, his private secretary, arrived at the Earl of Derby's resi dence in St. Jameb's-aquare yesterday evening, from Lucent°, where his loniship has tam secretary of state iu attendance on the Queen. The John Bull states that the Rev. J. Knapp, of St. John's, l'ortnea, who ',reecho(' at the opening of the new Nonconformist Church ut Brighton, of which 1)r. Winslow is the minister, bus been inhibited, in imirte queers of that art, by the Bishop of ellichoeter from again oftieiuting in his diocese till he shall bare purged himself " of this offence." bI'ELLIVI IN FRJN(J. THE Tiinta of this morning has an article on duelling in France, apropos of the recent encounter between PAUL us CASBAONAC and M. LISSM•ARAY. With the general tenor of our contemporary's remarks all English readers will be disposed to agree. Even our neighbours—with whom these •' affairs of honour " are AA common as they were in England fifty years ago, and who can hardly write a play without a collision of foils or pistols between the principal characters, usually the husband and lover of the heroine—are in their calmer and lee. dramatic momenta as capable as the coolest Englishman of philosophising on the folly and absurdity of seek ing satisfaction for an insult by standing with your back to a dead wall to be shot at, or making a pincushion of your thorax for an unbuttoned foil. But French nature is not English nature, and what is bar barous on one side of the Straits of Dover is still chivalrous on the other. Civilisation, which has softened the natural fierceness of mankind, has not ye•t killed by law, or by ridicule, or by change of manners, the appeal to arms in private quarrels in any country on the continent of Europe. There are probably more Frenchmen at the present time who are prepared to put an end to standing armies and abolish war—not to speak of capital punishment for murder—than to do away with the rapier and the pistol in private quarrels. Duelling is, in fact, a relic of the ancien regime, and as very much of the ancien rOgietre still exists in France under other names, the only modification of the practice of duelling which eighty years of revolution have effected is that whereas before 1759 a nobleman would not fight a roturier, but simply smack his face, and, if he resisted, have him trounced by a couple of stout lacquer), our neighbours are now in possession of complete equality in this respect, and one French man's honour is as good as anther's. Since the restoration of the Empire duelling has increased in proportion as public and private liberty has diminished. In a countrydivided against itself, into functionaries and courtiers on one side and prescripts and malcontent, on the other, duel ling is, on the part of the Imperialists, a sort of pri vate and personal application of the rule of the sabre, while on the part of the malcontents it is one of the few vents or safety-valves of a bursting in dignation and contempt. If these considerations, which we believe to be indisputable, had been present to our contemporary, we are inclined to think that he would have fOreberno to wtito the following sentence :—" Well may the Etn '' 1;4.1 OT NAPOLEON hehitatc hefon he allows " the French i.eoplc tincolitrulled utterance "of opinion." These miserable duels, of which we hear too much, are taking 'darr in a country TIM UMR=[l• OP TIM °ADMEN. The Daily News ohrerveo that, whatever Le the its of the quarrel between the cab propreetars and the railway cominniewe, the attack made on the public by the former in the strike they have instigated is as unprovoked to it is cruel and unjust ; and it thinks that in the end the Asiko will defeat itself. While there can be no sympathy with the strike, there in, however, and will be, a good deal of sympathy with the cab-drivers, many of whom are as much tho victims of it as the public. If cabby is not exactly _ _ . as yet a popular favourite, ho certainly has very few enemies and many warm friends, His hard life of continuous toil and exposure, his deprivation of ordinary comforts, pleasures, and recreations, instinctively appeal to sensitive minds, and make them oonsparatively tolerant of his *mo tional infirmities of temper. The present movement is really in the interest of the masters, and not of the mess. At present we have a parliamentary limit to the fares which a driver can charge, but no limit to the rate of hiring which a proprietor may demand, no minimum of wages secured to a driver. If we are to restrict the action of free competition for one, why not far another ? It is als. aunt td talk of free trade in cake. The trade is not free, but regulated, and if the service is to be radically im proved, it may as well be regulated all trend. The news, whilst gi►ing credit to the mimes on strike for their peaceable demeanour towards their . 4 privileged" brethrZin, regrets that they have pawed themselves completely and hopelessly in the wrong. A more erniselem and more unjeut strike than that which they have commenced the IVI*BII does not remember to have ever met with, though the Watery of shrikes in this country is tolerably rich in instances of both &Place and folly. That the cabana have hardships to endure is very likely, but the oilstones of the privileged cabs is not the muse of their sufferings. If the railway companies gave the privilege on unfair or unbecoming grounds it might be objeationsble; but they give it on the best ground, for they give it to a man of good character and who bas a good horse and cab. The Dews trusts the public wit stand by the railway companies, and steadily refuse to visit upon them the effects ci the cab men's misconduct. If they do, the strike cannot last The Yenning Ito+ rya, it is not the cabmen who are striking against the railway companies, but the street masters who are striking against the railway masters. It is evident that the railway cabmen must gain the day, and it hopes it will be a lesson to the rent to choose next time a better grievance, and to adopt also a better way of getting it remedied. The TelerapA obserres that the men are striking ageing the public, though the roil offenders are the railway com panies. They are injuring their best Mends, who have every desire that justice should be done. There is a wide spread opinion that the entire cab-system needs revision. And it must be dealt with at any early period next session. It would assist legislation if it were previously deter mined Ty a oourt of law whether the yard of a railway station was public or private ground. THANCT.. It is reported, according to the iStsmeisa, that the Em peror is by no means pleased with the behaviour of his subordinates—that he is vexed at their relentless persecu tions of the newspaper prom, and at the arbitrary exercise of power of some of the prefects of the provinces. It is thought that he is prepnring, by new and large conces sions to popular feeling, to convert into a reality those liberal reform' of the laws regulating the freedom of the press and the right of public meeting which were heralded last year with such a flourish of trumpets, but ended so feebly in enactments almost as severe as those which preceded them. The &masa thinks that in doing this Napoleon 111. will act wisely. The nmes, referring to the reoest political duels in France, is of opinion that the Emperor cannot allow the French nation uncontrolled freedom of opinion. For fifteen years (says the &dr) the government had as cultivated the affection of the French workmen, ha▪ d flattered them, had endeavoured to bribe them with 'abiding and indnlgencies, and for a time Napoleon M. was succesduL But, as the true character of the empire was revealed, the workmen grew oddly hostile. In 1882 and 1884 they carried the elections in Paris in favour of the opposition ; and, unless the Star is mistaken, the coming elections will show that the imperial policy is justly appreciated by the French working men. TUE CUTLERS' YEAH! AT erIIMIFIELD. After commenting on the admirable beginning of Mr. Iteverdy Johnson's diplomatic mission to this country, the hility New. remarks that Mr. Roebuck's speech has been described as outrageously indecent. insensate. narrow, spiteful, and violent. It is all true, but what then' asks the Daily Yew,. A man must be him self, and if Mr. Roebuck is nut these he is nothing. It is idle to blame Mr. Roebuck: it would be as reasonable to blame an earthquake or the plague. If any explanation is due, it is from the Master Cutler to Mr. Johnson. That the American minister should at some time become acquainted with the qualities of Mr. Roebuck was inevitable, but that the introduction should take place on Mr. Johnson's very first appearance in England and on a festive oeca&on was by no means necessary. THE RELATIONS OF LANDLORDS AND TENANT , rx INKLAND.—TIio L..terpool .44iod publishes a corre spondence between the Duke of Manchester and a gentle man who wrote to his grace on the subpxt of the relation of landlords and tenants in Ireland. The correspondence appears to have had special reference to the question of leases, and the recent quarrel between Mr. W. &ally and his tenants. In one letter the duke says all good kind lords universally condemn the conduct of Mr. W. Scully. In another his grace remarks :--•• I donot advocate the ex tension of the Ulster tenant right, for it is very disadvan tageous to the tenant. It necessitates his sinking a large portion of his capital (never lees than 51. per acre, and generally more) in the farm, in • way that can never bring any profit. The only person it can benefit is the landlord, for it secures him from any danger of loss in ar rears of rent. It often prevents a tenant from increasing the extent of his holding, which a landlord is always anxious to enable a good tenant to do, and makes It im poesible in most cases for farmers to stock their farms suf ficiently with cattle and horses, in consequence of which the land is likely not to be sufficiently mauured, and the crops cannot be carried at the most favourable opportu nity." THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CoNoratats.—on Friday afternoon a public meeting, convened by the Mayor of Birmingham, was held in the Council Chamber, to make concluding arrangements for the reception of thu National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at its approaching Congress, to be held in that town. The report of the local committee stated that the various arrangements were being actively carried out. The local cost of receiving the association was estimated at 1,0001., but it was intended to raise a further guarantee fund of 1,000/., and up to the present time the sum of 1,7(01. ea had been subscribed. On the motion of the mayor, seconded by Archdeacon Sandford, the report was unani mously adopted. The mayor subsequently read a letter that had been seceived from the Rev. Canon Melville, on behalf of the Earl of Dudley, inviting the arsoniation to an excursion to his lordship's ands at Dudley. The Congress commences at on Wednesday, the 30th inst., when the opening sermon will be preached in St. Philip's Church by - the Bishop of Worcester, and the inaugural address will be delivered in the Town-hall in the evening by the Earl of Carnarvon. MuxiFics.vr Ciirr.—An additional donation of 5001. has been presented to St. Mary's Hospital, Pudding. ton, by Mr. Samuel Scott, in answer to the special appeal which has been recently issued by the governors of that institution. . . . Tlial.—OM the 13th of August a singular tidal phenomenon occurred off San Pedro, Southern California. A series of waves commenced flow ing upon the coast, causing the tide to rim 63 or 64 feet above the ordinary high-water mark, which was followed by the falling of the tide an aqua/ distance below the tutusl low-water mark. The rise and tall occurred regularly every half hour for several hours, causing town alarm among the inhabitants along the mast in that vici nity. The phenomenon is attributed to some suburtrinu disturbance. THE SEIZURE of A BEITIaII 8111 P TN SPAIN.— The Spanish papers, as might have boon expected, attempt to explain away the account of the ill-treatment of the master and crew of the schooner Fanny, at Carthamim OA reported by us on the 7th inst. They call our state ment esawrerated end overstrained. We must beg to deny the imputation. tlur format ion was Abu's] from the best sources, 111.1 is corroborated be the depositions tilude hereby the mastersni unite of the Plumy before the Captain of Ow Port. Mot eorri., we have rea,on to know that the MP, ass ApeelA HS reported etnnt by the Consul at artliagenti, end at pie..ent remain , in the hands of h e r Ma jeMy'si Miuislcr at Madrid. i Geed lo,• le, August 24. The Greet Eastern (soya the Liverpool Albimi), it is expected, will shortly kayo Liverpool for Sheerness. PORTUGAL. LISBON, 83“. 6. A hoisting and graving dock for repairing ships his been Lunched in the Tagus to-day. The King and the Court assisted at the ceremony. OUR PARIS LETTER. (Taos ors owl' 001 PARIS, 81711MaT BVILIFING. In the weekly Tribune M. Eugene Pelletal' re plies to the letter addressed to him a few days ago by Prefect Paatourenn. He gives the fullest credit to the Prefect'. alibi, but observes that it is irrele vant as far as the Tribune is concerned. M. Pelle t= never affirmed that M. Pastoureau personally had shot the " insurgent" Martin Bidaure twioe over—an insurgent guilty of rising in 1851 against the constitution of 1852. But what he did say was that in any case M. Pastoureau was very wrong in prosecuting the Figero for defa mation, because the act which he now shrinks from with holy horror was certainly performed by one of his colleagues—if not General Levaillant, as he almost suggests, then by somebody else. And, moreover, the act, so far from being one to be ashamed of by any agent of the coup d'etat, was altogether in accordance with the spirit of the time and the instructions M. Pastoureau's superior, M. de Moray, which were in substance : —" Above all, gentlemen, ne quarter ; shoot every man you take." M. Pelletan mentions the name of another Prefect, who, by his own confession re corded in the Monifeur, shot three prisoners, and wanted to shoot six more, but could not get the troops to do the latter job. The prosecution of the Figaro for a mistaken allusion to M. Pas toureau was obviously an indirect attack upon his colleagues, and consequently most indiscreet. M. Pelletan follows up this article by a cita tion from M. Tenot's recent history of the coup d eta which he recommends to the perusal of General Levaillant wherever he may be enjoy ing his green old age. The page in question states that when a column of troops ordered to put down the insurgents in the Var reached Salernes, there were eighty prisoners chained in the rear. At Salerno° the officer in command resolved to exe cute a prisoner, a weaver, named Giraud, and also another man from Vernon, called Anthoine N—, who seems to have been selected for death for no better reason than that he waa acci dentally coupled with Giraud. The column marched on towards Lorgues, leaving those two prisoners behind at the mayoralty. Shortly after wards they were brought out into the high road near the Saint Clair chapel. A gendarme belong ing to the Luc brigade had received orders to shoot them both with his own hand. This gen darme knew Giraud intimately. He came up to him pistol in hand, and said, " Giraud, you will forgive what I am obliged to do but lam a soldier, and must obey orders." Giraud replied, " I do forgive you ; but mak haste, and let me not suffer." They exchanged a few more words, and even kissed each other. The gendarme then put the muzzle of the pistol to Girand's ear. and pulled the trigger. Girau.l fell. A seeoul later his companion. Antoine N--. was shot. and fal also. The gcmlarme and the anal under bit order. , then got on hor:eback and gallopped after the column. It turned . . . neither. of the men left for dead was mortally injured. Giraud, who was wounded in the back of the mek, had strength enough to get back ou foot to Luc, where his wife secretly nur-ed while publicly she went into mourning, and said masses for his soul. As soon as he recovered he took refuge in Piedmont, and the part which he took in the insurrection was so insignificant that at the end of a year he came back without ques tion under an amnesty. Antoine N— also re covered, but was stone deaf for the rest of his life. and he died some year , ago. Liiraud is mow a baker at Arcs. and it is from his lips that the his torian learned the above particulars. M. Tenot goes on to recount the execution of four other men near Draguignan, of whom one. a lad of 17, named Gayol, was shot by mistake. Retrospective anecdotes of this kind, which lei years were left almost exclusively to Mr. King lake, are now not only eagerly read in Franco, but there is a disposition to sift them thoroughly and hunt out the evidence upon which they depend. M. Tenet's book is in great demand. M. Claretie, the author of the paragraph in the Figaro. which was prosecuted by M. Pastourcau. writes to M. Pelletan that he shall shortly be able to inform the public who was the somebody in authority, the On of M. Tenot, who shot M. BidauK. Prince Napol.' 9 unexpectedly pa sow(' through Paris on his way to Priligins. Ho denied to some of his friends last Friday that he had any mission whatever to the Hanseatic towns, whither he says he went to escape from foul weather. The Princess eh/tilde and her children are staying in the Pyrenees. The ,not on the Boulevards is that her imperial highness has only too great cause to give her husband the title of Prince //e'en ,sort (Consort; —the prince who is always being sent abroad. M. Henry Rochefort is proseeuted at Brab.utt, on the requisition of the French Minister. fur " insulting a foreign sovereign. - The Luiite riu did not appeal' in Paris yesterday, as no prints , ' c , ouhl be found to brave a certain prosecution. Tun WIUTMGB OF NAPOLEON 111. mount's= lbw.—Theear lnePpernien.e B.lge publishes the fol lowing letter from IL Henri Rochefort :—" I had pre pared for circulation in Paris on Saturday, Sept 5, a number of the lonterne, wholly and solely composed from the first to the last line of extracts from the political weeks of Prince Louis Napoleon, now Napoleon 111. The number appeared so revolutionary to the many printers whom I Deka) to print it, that not one of them would dare to run the risk of doing w. Thu fifteenth number will, the:elute, like the fourteenth be publiahel abroad." 801 l DAT MAIL.— AI.EXANDItIA. SEr v. 6. —The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamships Ripon:ma Pungidore left at 9 a.m. to-day. The former may be .•:- peeled at Marseillee on the 12th and the Litter :It about the 19th inst. OUTWAIIII MAILS iit . 22No _'S - tit At'iit'sr.—. S -11ie 1 4 .111.14 i, for I'alept to, :ri l l the Curti/air, fou Bombay, at 7 p.m. 1.--1 o:%, rh• :ring oft' all cargo. INDIA AND CHIN% NIO .11 - Nlltl I N MAIT..— lIINNAt.TAS SETT. 6. - The N)anza leave.. at .1 p.m. to-day. All well. She may he expected at South ampton on the 11th inst. Al UPS! C. THE (ITA)UOMTNIt MUSICAL 101.1sTIVA1,. C.I,OriCE` PER SAT , •!!!, 1. T. q i c.•lebration, whili is to comntein•e on Tu.s4- day next, will be the L4..th un.etiog of the (:,oirto of Ilerefurd, Worcoster, and (ilouee.iter. A preliminary ruin ax.al was held in L 411 1 ,0.1, ie. St 6••0rg ,, ',4 -hall, on Friday morning his._ sa•l fin +I awl general rehearsal ia to take plae. ) in the cell:Aral) on Monday morning; after %%hi •!, all will I* in readiness for the commeneein-At o f the festival, which will open ou Tuesday witl. first of the four morning performances of ant.r..l mini , to ho given in the cathedral ; to be foll.• Ar,,l in the evening by the first of the three ous concerts, to take place in the Shire-hall. All the arrangemerits inside the cathedral ser : completed this Vtaturalfay) night, in readini, f.„ the rehearsal on Monday morning. The orele.itra, instead of being erected, ;as at the last feitir4 (in 1ii6.5) against the w-st window, will Lo placed before the organ screen, ill naive, as formerly. heats will be pros 1 , 1:4 for between two and three thousand visitors, an I will, according to all present prospects, occupied, the hale of tickets having, op to this time, ix:en unusually rapid and extensive, with Monday's and subsequent demands stall') I,: espplied. The cathedral organ not being available for of this special occasion, owing to its being tsu-4 considerably below the modern concert pitch, so instrument hes been erected for the ten:tier:my purpose, possessing the recently-applied aeee r ,.. action. This important improvement in mechanism of the organ is the invention of oar ingenious countryman Mr. Charles Barker 4%1 is an advance on the same gentleman's elev.:. trivanoe of the " pneumatic; action." The orchestra consists of between sixty suj seventy instrumentalists, comprising most of the best performers of our opera bands. The tire, violins are led by Messrs. tlainton and H. Bins, the second violins by Mr. Willy, the viola: by Mr. R. Blagrove, the violoncellos by Mr. Collin;, and the double-basses by Mr. Howell. The wi i pt. band is also headed, in each department, by artists of high repute and acknowledges' positi on , the first flute being Mr. Radcliff ; first oboe, Mr. Crosier; first clarinet, Mr. Lazarus ; first bassoon. Mr. Hutchins: first horn. Mr. C. HarpislT first . trumpet, Mr. T. Harper, £c. ;d1 4:efficiently 4tlp ported by the subordinate artists in each division. The chorus (250 in number;, besidrs the mem b er , of the " three choirs," comprises choristers tiI,AKA.A. from the best chorus-singers of Lundou, Bir mingham, Bradford, Norwich, Exeter, &c. I'h list of solo singers includes the runes .• Mdlle. Miens, Mdlle. iiebhart, Wynne, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mdlle. Saudr.,, , Mdlle. Dresdil, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr, Veen- , Itigby, Mr. Lewis Thomas, and Mr. SAW, The performances will be conducted by b- Wesley, organist of the cathedral of this .•:•, : f Mr. 0. Townsend Smith, organist of 11Pr.f.,- ! Cathedral, presiding at the organ ; and Mr. D organist of Worcester Cathedral, at the piauo. The city is now filling fast, and Mon.l,:y w.:' doubtless bring a large accession of fost:r. visitors. Should the weather continue eq.: t; • . that of the past week, the clearest sky sill 4: • brightest sunshine will add a genial the ether attractions of the occasion. DRAMA. SURREY THEATRE. Thin popular theatre opened for the Saturday night under the well-tried management .if St- Creewick and Mr. Shepherd, the special novelty pr, • t on the octai.ion being a new drama, in four arti. by M• Watts Phillips, with the telling title of Le- 4 El', Water .Rate. Mr. Phillips states on the play ',::1 r. hi piece is entirely original with the exception at JilA I:1-i dent suggested by en American play." The es.7l.tian may at once be stated is an important one, for white , - success the work may obtain at the Surrey Theatri eurceoe will assuredly be due in great part to the which the author so candidly acknowledges he has b-orr•iis • • from another work. Unfortunately Mr. Watts Phillip. • not the first comer in the field. Mr. Dion Boucicault already introduci d u' in to the startling scene in whieh a p-rson jail a.r'a.- a railway line, order that lie mac be by an on-c.im • . [pre +e train. i , I.y .1 w.tt,:hfil ft. ' 111,1 at the erry mete, wi.••ii !lain i• • . t 4 it Ls tl.e Let.! et the piece : tld.4 perilnui• In I.e. -• • tLe 3.1L41 in this t.l..ing., \VAT- • shown k.. a.. r drainat:i t ti. el M. We have hal 11..2 -s• thc (r ea( fJn. ATI.i : • w“rk, the ,;(.Lety ha. tl i the same with Lo, Tit , : • tit,° L.: +. I.itttca the tir-t the 311th thought ..t. I. Eol'• • •••• '- r E,.46 . _...:~ J ' ill other w...rks nanu , l, it i• niche, 1.. • •. which are dclir.cateci l v Ile Th•••.• . 2. • piep•ent w.,rk a view et t',,vent ( 1 1.1 !•. bridge. et Leaden 1.1 night. and et the F.•-ex M•-• with Lendcu in the dist.ance. tainted by r W. Grieve: while Mr. A. Ca!,:,,tt supplica view .7 street ir, Illacktriars, the Thames at Frith. cud a -. } . ...t.eN-1213.1')1. , All of with rot:ail:o,lc p,wcr. - , :me ,•i the •c-ile• brur I. =ni•hrd to -•.•• tri;, , pus tie toning and fidelity. • the acting we cannel !peak with unqualified Mr. l'icewiek had a part certainly nuworthy of pewit-, and played it with a tamcnc-s wh,•h seemed :laugh Le hans.cit tlaiiiiiht it unworthy. M t• hvtd ci.ll,.:ged I.i. v_ tic di•giii•es like taco gi ti at uoue Lie chainet.n.t..a. had any MI. Wattel• Crosby. a add•ea , .t, as the young tali:der. seemed to 1.. under the init,reasion that he wa , playing In high tragedy. and talked throughout the piece on the very 10c.. , lodh , Yuun.ricrt ixtukte,l h•l• usual energy ail strong dramatic pc , wc - ,•. but Mr. whY is en ex tellcnt comedian. crude brd p..‘, - r sh..w the haughty Mr. Mat F.11,-,•-n 111.. , •it s r 7.1, .70,14,1'.11W0 the Sun , y Theatre. and oil •, with a tin-, rem:: :haunter. 'which it wa, —,1.1e !., till out shat•e. In the tarve ••: T t. which p: .epoch kt 1.1111.1. ),I. N.•• far to• advantage. anu he will ...can Saircy ia‘our it. M. work , 1 upon the st Mcssrs. t: 4 6,11,. - 1 , 1 and Cre•wk - k aah the iitino-t 111,..i.. ••. and v itlytlung ban tsian dene by them which they do to ensure its stifles., It e. Mr. l'hAlir• hinrrli cc' au-wet - able for - the shert,cnntizs pwee. an.l the auth , •: et T'- 7• twtit 1 WI II! 111:10 N 1 ,.. - I government has received tram lit LOS al pateh, dated Caeerta, announcing that towards a few days tack. the let batalhou of the - 2.:th nfantry attacked the baud of brigands oonitnar.bo. the famous tinerra. near Moute-Morrotto. In the the two leaden of the maranders. Guerra an.l . • the brigand Ord de Latino, and the mistress of the' ' - named chief, were killed. The troops were : remainder. A DISGRACE TO HIS Sleet:ll:S.—At a bench. held at truikiford, ou Saturday. before II r Chandler awl Mr. D. Macdonald. Freaeriole lhoia-t; .--'• labourer, of Blackheath, Wouersla, w a s meaulting Jamm tplukl, of Chilwetth. tent to disfigure him. Mr. R. P.ye, solicitor. oi .t: shot, appeared for the prosecution : and Mr. R. E. ,;. of Guildford, for the prisoner. The complainant t• manager of Mr. Shama powder-mills at Chilsvelh. a. Guildford. On Saturant, the 29th alt. a t was played between the Tillages of Btoiwath worth, "and the complainant presided at aautto connection with the event. which was Volunteer beerbouse at 'Blackheath. The war present, and, apparently owing the pleinant some grudge., several flutes sought a .1••• with him, and challenged him to fight. turbonce of the dinner party also oecurred.tireWolk thrown into the room, and sand upou the LAW. ho advice of the landlord the complainant and the eol‘ll'"• c proceeded to another room. when , they inaa.rinea v should be uniliAurbed ; but the pri:. , orter -•'•,- arpealanee, :cited the eom plainmit ....Mir. an •• p ming a thumb in one of hi.. eve: attempt' I t.. tort' from it , socket. ' rid,. al atlelltpl 11 •• by the tiMelV iuterferenre Oi ,'r..111 r e r;,,o, The then pa.• - ed hi, head in front conirtc:muit. his i het Well, 10. terth. and la•aii to a wild ba,i,t. It COlll .1 that 11111110 , !, ".":"."" VA. bets.no he ...tali 11,1111,' h. 11.1:1N. lu> 1101t1 11.14 0.1111.1.,It•!1 hi len .1 11.1 y th lobe of the ear. (In being nniondiate.l with, he sot " I hate bilten a piece of Ilie ear off. awl I will cut tr• throat if I have a chance. - pri•aairt• 1441 for trial at the ucit quarter **ion.. llNimiim• 11 , at( 1 3 Mr ,tail an toy' Mr o th ui lust fr a foal ft c :1•1 tatica Tb sm.? I.ve eta i Iv it, Bird the 11 mOn4 wbic detal Wok laaei gaid r. , 111 Dez ;tem A.! rent pain the 4 AIM duti She udil with trot Nags Neo tz= orc roui i 1 ar. •:t he • SU ilnc twa Lim Dm told Dill will for 'rot one lorr 1 Tyi Nlt.i. Ito tile. got cut in. , You Jou