The Express. — London, England, 1867-09-06 00:00:00

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Coleman and Mr. Brown.— AM THE MLA ; OIL THE OCEAN CHILD. MON WAT!R AT LONDON DRIDOIL TWO DAT —Morub.A. en. Aoun Attentees. Th. Ste. To•MOnnow—Morning. In Um Afternoon, In. S&L LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. kr is impossible not to feel for Conservrtive members of Parliament in the trying ordeal through which they are now called to pass. Week by week we hear of some of them coming face to face with their constituents, and attempting vr:th such excuses as they can frame, and in such lan guage as they can find, to apologise for themselves, their party, and their work. We can well imagine with what intense appreciation they remember that silence is golden, and how they envy the happy few whose tenant constituencies impose on them no necessity fur speech. But custom decrees that most of them must meet their constituents, and when they meet them they must find something to say. In ordinary times this i• rather a trying necessity to country gentlemen, who aro better at following a leader, even over a rough country, than in giving an account of their journey ; but at the present time, when they have ridden pell-mell the wildest steeplechase on record, even gaping rustics are curious to know how they felt, sad behind the crowd of gaping rustics there is the listening, if not admiring world. It would, of course, he an altogether different thing if any credit were to be got out of the affair, but in the present case all that can even be attempted is to avoid discredit as much as possible. A splendid race, well run, and nobly won, might be a thing to boast of ; but • wild goose chase after an erratic loader, ending with " a leap in the " dark," is at the best only to be apologised for and excused. But such is the irony of circumstance that in very self-defence they must accuse their former selves, and in their apologies for their policy they condemn gpd, deny their principles. They resisted _ _ Wt year, but have a'uZ.l. 4 l3 4 elded this. They branded Mr. GLADI4TONZ as a I.:v9 t intienist then for a mild proposal of progressive Refnnr. ; have now to praise Mr. DISIUELI as a Conserva tive statesman for a democratic and, in the view of all their principles, a revolutionary Act. They prophesied the ruin of our freedom, and the . collapse of our institutions, as the result of a small reduction of the borough franchise; they have now to prophesy the strengthening of those institutions and the expansion of that liberty as tho result of its reduction to the ultimate limit of household suffrage. Perhaps it is a little to their credit that they find this work too distasteful and difficult. As men who have prided themselves on their political honesty never were politicians in a more sorry . . . plight. They have had their unprincipled triumph, and now cornea the inevitable exhaustion. Inthe long nights of the session they had their political debauch, and the long days of summer have brought their political penance. The latest penance of this kind was that pub licly perfumed in a tent at Bleeder, on Tuesday last, by the three members for the county of Ox ford. Mr. HENLEY in his addresses to his con stituents has usually said something worth hearing, and his strong common-sense, his class pre judices as a country gentleman, and his long con nexion with bucolic politics have rendered him in many respects a representative man. But his apology for tho great constitutional change in which he has taken so prominent a part only re vealed the existence in himself of the misgivings he was attempting to allay in others. " They had " now hardly anything to talk of but the future. " They had had plenty of the past." But what of the future 7 " All that could be hoped was " that the people would gain what they had for " the last fourteen years been taught they it ou ght to gain." That is a very legitimate hope, and one likely to be fulfilled. But for the last fourteen years it has certainly not been Mr. HENLEY and his party who have taught the people that they ought to gain anything by Reform. Their cry has been, Why do you want Reform ; what do you expect to gam by it and their policy has been persistently to represent that the people had nothing to gain and everything to lose by a measure of constitutional Reform. It is the Liberal party who have taught the people fur the last fourteen years what they ought to gain by Reform, and the Conservative party have always resisted, and will continue to resist, the important measures which the people demand. But though they had had plenty of the past, Mr. HENLEY could not leave it entirely unnoticed. His own personal share in the Reform Act needed some explanation to his constituents, and all that he can say is, that " he was one of " those who fur the last fourteen years having " seen successive Prime Ministers put into the " Quesx's mouth words in which they were " told they ought to have an extension " of the suffrage, chose no longer to play the " humbug, and thought it necessary honestly to " settle the question if it was possible to do so." That would be an excellent excuse if the settle. ment had been made on Conservative principles, or if the moderato measure of a Liberal Govern ment had been accepted. If Mr. HENLEY and his party had let the " little Bill " of last year pass, nothing would have been fitter than that they should say to the country, " We chose no longer " to play the humbug, and as this was an honest " settlement of the question we thought it neces " sary to accept it." But what honesty can there ,f . THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1867. be in rejecting a moderate proposal as too murk, and then to pass a far more extreme measure I Yet this is what the Conservative party did when they " chose no longer to play the "humbug." By his own strong and expressive, if very inelegant, expression, Mr. HENLEY has placed himself and his party on the horns of a dilemma. Either their later action has been dishonest, and has contradicted all their cherished principles, or their opposition to Reform was a pretence. This is the case even on Mr. HENLEY'S showing; but if the whole truth were told we should find that by doing last year what Mr. HENLEY says they chose no longer to do, they put themselves as a party in efficient moral training for that s.icrifice of all their principles which they have this year been I content to make for a transient and uneasy enjoy ment of the rewards of power. Colonels Nolan and Rom are the colleagues of Mr. HENLEY in the representation, and were the sharers of his penance. But there is not much to be gained from their confessions. Colonel FARE, indeed, seemed inclined to throw all the responsibility on Mr. HENLEY, as one bad boy will cast the blame on another. All that he and Colonel NORTH had to say for themselves wax that the question of Reform had been " dangling about " the country," and that when the thing was to be settled it was better that it should not be done by halves. Perhaps this, after all, is the secret of the Tory Reform Bill. The word went forth that Reform must be settled, and that the Tory Go vernment must settle it. But it was not because an opportunity had come for a Conservative settle meat ; but because the wind might all be taken out of the Liberal sails. We have mistaken our countrymen, and misread their history, if any political party has a chance of their approval in this immoral and degrading course. OUR UONTEMPOILARLES. (THIS DAY.) CITE Ciatirt. BALMORAL, Sam 4. The Queen drove to Abergoldie yesterday morn lag, accompanied by Princess Christian. In the afternoon her Majesty drove out, accompanied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice. Prince Christian went out deer striking, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon. I'rincess Christian rode out, attended by Lady Cburcbil'. Despatches were sent yesterday from t e Colonial-office to the Governor-General of Canada and to the Governor of St. Helena. THE LATE VISIT OP THE QUEEN TO THE BORDER. —The following letter has been received by Provost Deans, Jedburgh, from the Home Secretary, in reply to the public address presented to her Majesty on the occasion of the royal visit to the burgh on the 2-3rd alt. —" Whitehall, August A, 1867. Sir,—l have the satisfaction to inform you that the loyal and dutiful address of the provost, magistrates, and town council of the royal burgh of Jed burgh, presented to the Queen on the oc.msion of her Majesty's visit, was very graciously received by her Majesty.—l have the honour to be, sir, your obedient ser vant, GATIIOIINE HARDY. The Provost of Jedburgh." The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Cornelia Churchill and the Earl and Countess Craven have been among the latest guests at Invercauld House, N.B. ' The Earl and Countess of Seafield and Viscount Reidhaven have arrived at Balmacaan House, Inverness shire, from Castle Grant. The Earl and Countess of Sandwich and the Ladies Montagu are visiting Viscount and Viscountess Sydney at their seat, Frognal, in Kent. Viscount Holmesdale and Sir Edmund Filmer have had excellent sport in deer-stalking in the Old Mar Forest since the commencement of the shooting season. Viscount Jocelyn has been making a tour in Germany. His lordship was at Ischia when the last lettere were received in town. The noble viscount may be ex pected home the week after next. Lord Londesborough will receive s select party at Grimrton Park, near Tat:aster, next week for the Don caster races. Lord Kingsdown continues in very indifferent health at his seat in Kent. The Hight Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone and family arrived at Hawarden Castle, Flintshire. on Tuesday last. Sir Francis Graham and Lady Moon have loft Portnan•square for Western House, Brighton. A marriage is arranged and will shortly take plum between Mr. J. C. Campbell, Glendaurel, Argyle shire, and late of Mysore, Southern India, and Miss Helen Somerset, eldest daughter of the Rev. William Somerset, and granddaughter of the late Lord William Somerset. DEATH OF THE LANDORAVE WILLIAM OF HEME. —Yesterday afternoon the Landgrave William of Hesse, father to the Queen of Denmark, breathed his last, at about half-past 4, in Copenhagen, in his 80th year. The deceased was the ann of the Landgrave Frederic, and grandson of William 1., Elector and Landgrave of Here. He was consequently cousin to the reignin.' Elector, Frederic Within', who is also a grandson of William I. The Landgrave William was born on the 24th Dec., 1787, and was formerly • general of infantry in the Hessian army, and finally • general in the Danish army. He mar ried the Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark, daughter of Frederic, the Crown Prince ; and the second daughter of this marriage, the Princess Louise, m u m i ied, in the year 1842, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, now King of Denmark. He was grandfather to the Princess of Wales, the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia (wife to the Czare witch), and to the King of Greece ; so that the courts of England, Russia, Denmark, and Greece will be placed in mourning by his d ecease. VIC:Z.7A ;AURAL JOAN PARK LA.—llia gallant officer died at Eythorne on Monday last, in bis 76th year. He entered the navy as en able seamen May 1, 1805, and served in the boats of the Vesuvius in the attack on the Boulogne flotilla in the same year, and in those of the Glatton, in the cutting out of a Turkish corvette from Port Sign', in which he was wounded. He served also in a gunboat on Lake Meriotis, in co-operation with the army in the expedition to E 7pt, Iv 1807 ; in the Delight, when stranded sad destroye,l in the Faro of Messina ; and in the boats of the Standard, 64, cutting out an aimed schoontr, near Otranto, and spiking the guns of a bath. : at Cape St. Mary's. While mate of the Majestic, 7i, be was wounded in her boats in protecting convoy through the Great Belt ; and, in 1810 ; 'limn in charge of a prize, beat off a TUnial. • privateer. He was engaged in the attack on pirates at Sembes, Borneo, in 1812, and was made lieutenant, Nov. 29, 1814. He next served successively in North America, Plymouth, Sheerness, and South America, and was promoted to commander Feb. 26, 1829. He was second captain of the Southampton, 62, in the East Indies, from March, 1829, to May, 1831. from which date until Jan., 1834, he commanded the Cruiser, 18, on the same station. He next served for three years and nine months in the Hastings, 74, at Lisbon, and was posted June 28, 1838. He commanded the Winchester, 50, on the North America and West India stations, from March, 1839, to Auguvt, 1811, from which date, until the autumn of 1842, he commanded the Vestal, Si,on the same station. He became retired rear-admiral Oct. 2, 1837, and vioeadmiral March 28, 1864. MK. ULADATONE AND TITS LIBERAL PARTY IN PARLIAMMIT.—Prompted by a recent speech of Mr. Dillwyn to his constituents at Swansea, where he de fended his conduct and votes on the Refines Bill, and intimated his opinion that Mr. Gladstone can hardly be regarded as the leader of the liberal party, Lord Lei-'h ha addressed a letter to the Macs in which, while admitting that Mr. Dillwyn is a " good liberal," and that the " tea room " party of which the hon. gentleman is a prominent member, did much to secure the passing of • reform bill by • conservative member, the noble lord declares his conviction that " Mr. Gladstone after he took up the question of reform never once faltered in his efforts to secure • really good measure." After remarking that "it is essential that a great party professing principles which have guided and directed the councils of the nation for many years should have a recognised bead and lewder," and that the exceptional circumstances of the last session are not likely to recur, his lordship concludes as follows : " As • member of the liberal puty, I affirm that the leadership of Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons is indispeniable to the future development of those financial, social, and political principles which ought to form the bond of union in the liberal ranks. Mr. Gladstone, per haps, more than any other statesman ever did, presume the confidence of the country, while his uncommon elo quence, his great success as • financier, and the acknow ledged 'honesty of his declared convictions, most of which are in harmony with the various sections of the party, peculiarly fit him for the leadership of the liberals." WILLI AND BBAXISTB. —The will of Sir Morgan George Crofton, Bart.. of Mohill-house, Leitrim, Ireland, and of Leamington : Warwickshire. formerly in the royal navy, was proved in Dublin, on the Bth ult. The per sonalty in Ireland was estima ted se exceeding 14,0001., and that in England at 41.0001., and was sworn u under 00,0001. in the United Kingdom, the probate duty being 7501. The acting executor is the Rev. Arthur Hyde, of Dromkilla Glebe, Vicar of Mohill, power being reserved to Denis Crofton, Esq., of Mountjoy-equare, Dublin, the son of the test ator. The will is dated in 1859, and two codicils in 1861 ; and the testator died at Lesmington, June 24, 1867, at the age of seventy-nine. He leaves to the widow of his eldest eon, the late Colonel Hugh Denis Crofton, an annuity of 600/. ; and to her two younger children, Arthur and Edward, certain property that was bequeathed to their father. He bequeaths to his grandson, Morgan George Crofton, his late father's sword and rifle, and his (testator's) naval medal, and all his plate, pictures, and furniture and the residue of his property. He bequeaths and appoints to his son, Denis Crofton, sums amounting to upwards of 16,0001., and to each of his executors 2001. The will of Captain Edward William Harris, of her Majesty's Indian Navy, who died July 12, 1867, was proved in the London Court on the 27th ult., and the personalty sworn under 40,0001. On the death of his wafe r be leaves 8,000/. to be divided in equal shares and pro portions, amongst the following charitable institutions— viz., the Notional Lifeboat Institution (Adelphi), Sailors' Orphan Girl s House (Hampsteadl, Institution for Ship wrecked Seamen, the Metropolitan Free Hospital, Ortho medic (Oxfordstreet), Ophthalmic (St. George's, South wark, and Gra)'s-inn-road) St. Mark's Hospital for Fis tula, Hospital for the Pars rsed and Epileptic, Hospital for Stone, Smallpox and Fever Hospitals (Islington), Consumption Hospitals (Brompton and Victoria-park), Cancer Hospital. Lock Hospital, Blind Asylum (Surrey), Blind School (Euston-road), Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Idiot Asylum (Redhill), and Boy's Home (Regent's pirk-road) ; and, after the death of his wife, he bequeaths the residue of his personal estate, to he divided equally between the Bishop of Lon don's Fund generally, the Shipwrecked Seamen's Fund, and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The will of Jane Bowen Harding, formerly of Rusthall, in the parish of Speldburet Kent, and late of Ilfracombe, Devon, has been proved by her executors , Rear-Admiral George Herbert, brother-in-law to the deceased; and Richard Bremridge, Esq., of South Pethertou. After various legacies to her nephew, nieces, and other relatives, she has appointed her sister, the wife of Rear-Admiral George Herbert, her residuary legatee. She has bequeathed the service of plate presented by the Patriotic Fund in 1796 to her uncle, the late Captain Richard Bowen, killed in 1797, whilst in command of the Terpsichore fri gate, at the unsuccessful attack on Teneriffe, under Lord Nelson, to her sister, Mrs. Herbert, for life ; and, at her decease, to her only nephew Captain George F. Herbert, of the 7th Royal Fusiliers . The deceased lady was in her 81st year. —lllustrated Landow News. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. • THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES. OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION FROM THE ACTING CONSUL-GENERAL IN EGYPT. We have this afternoon received the following from the Foreign-office : " Her Majesty's Acting Consul-General in Egypt reports yesterday from Alexandria that nothing is known there respecting the alleged release of the Abyssinian prisoners. The Armenian Patriarch at Jerusalem, who sent the bishops to Abyssinia, is now at Cairo, and has heard nothing of their move ments subsequently to their departure from Souakin for Gondar in June last. " Foreign-office, Sept. 6, 1867,11 a.m." (REUTER'S TELIORAIL ALEXANDRIA, Sxrr. 5. The Armenian patriarch of Jerusalem, who is now staying at Cairo, and who recently sent a bishop to endeavour to effect the liberation of the Abyssinian captives, has no knowledge of their alleged release. VALSITA, SEPT. 5. Her Majesty's steamer Himalaya has just left for Canada with the Ist battalion of the 60th Rifles, which has been relieved by the 14th Regi ment. The Governor of Malta, in consequence of orders from the Secretary of State for India, is buying mules through stable-keepers for the Abyssinian expedition. Three commissariat officers are awaiting final orders before leaving for Taybe (I), Alexandria, and Constantinople. The Hydra, surveying steamer, has been ordend to the Red Sea, but will not be ready to leave before the 20th instant. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. There has been as yet no confirmation of the telegram received on Wednesday respecting the liberation of the Abyssinian prisoners, and though such an event is nut improbable, the absence of official information on the subject damps the hopes which the late news tended to excite. The preparations must, the Times fears, go for ward, and the only matter for the consideration of govern ment is how the expedition may be made most effective for obtaining its only just aim and object—the liberation of the prisoners. The contitmation of the good news from Abyssinia, re marks the Past, should it be received, will be matter of sincere satisfaction. It will settle the urgent claims of humanity, and afford, it is to be hoped, some wholesome instruction. The release of the captives will prove to us not inopportunely in the confusion and enervation of ideas, that now, as in the old time, " the way of duty is the path of honour." Public anxiety as to the fate of the Abyssinian captives has been heightened rather than relieved by the tantalising message flashed from Constantinople on Tuesday, and it increases every hour that the intelligence remains naveri fied. Under these circumstances the Telegraph rejoices that the government ha: not seen fit to relax its prepara tions for the worst, hut is still hurrying them on as if war were to be the certain issue. C 8 TOPICS. Writing on the Welsh Eisteddfod, the Daily News re marks that it would be easy, by ill-natured strictures, to create in the hot-blooded Welsh an anti-Saxon feeling analogous to that which exists in Ireland—weaker, per haps, from the absence of great political grievances, but strong enough to be inconvenient. The fear sometimes expressed of discouraging, by Eisteddfods, the diffusion of the English tongue in the principality is altogether gratuitous and foolish. The English tongue can pro tect itself. It is too useful to be set aside or kept back. The Welsh are shrewd enough, as individuals, to see where their Mt/yes', 16. 7,-„;;„ z ni : z o . h.s its soda and scientific congresses, and Wales has its Eisteddioci, Ireland amuses itself with Orange and Roman catholic de monstrations, illustrated by banners and music, b► pistol shots and bludgeons, by homicides and mutilations, and followed by committals and trials, and by punishment or impunity, according as the polemical theology, very pro perly so called, of the jury, may coincide or conflict with that of the prisoners.6.Thia is one of the consequences of the attempt, protracted over centuries, to make Ireland English, to extirpate its traditions, to ignore its history, and to suppress, with its political, its moral nationality. A Welsh Eisteddfod is surely to be preferred to • party procession of Irish Orangemen. The Parisian public may soon look forward to • new but harmless excitement. The remains of Napoleon 11. are, it is stated, to be removed from their various resting. places at Vienna, and laid in the newly-restored vaults of the Abbey of St. Denis. The deputation on whom will devolve the duty of conveying them has already been ap pointed, and consists of Manhal Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, the Duke of Rossano, M. de Cambroires, and General Henry. Marshal Valliant is busy with the pro gramme of the funeral ceremony. The Times is of opinion that it would be just as well to leave the remains of. the Duke of Reichstailt where they are, and adds, in order to account for their removal, that it seems to be • fixed idea with the Emperor Napoleon that the French people, like the Romans of old, must be supplied with the perpetual stimulus of stirring news, and the arrival of this melan choly cortege will certainly give the Parisians something to think of or to talk about. This may have been his pri macy object, and this may possibly also turn out to have been the main, if not quite the only, practical result of the visit to Snlabtirg. The Herald thinis Lord Russell was certainly in the right in declining to attend at the Working Men'. Reform Banquet at the Crystal Palace. This meeting, if it ever takes place, will be held on false pretences. The anomaly is as glaring as would have been the fact of a beaten gene ral claiming the triumphal procession which the laws of Rome awarded to a conqueror. The ridiculous upshot of this latest of the whig manifestoes is this—that, in Lord Russell's opinion, there are four great changes necesietry for the well-being of the country, which Lord Derby's government are prepared to "resist and suppress," but that, in the case of two of them, the opposition of Lord Russell has up to this year been as strongly pronounced as that of Lord Derby ; and, in respect to the two others, the conservative government have gone far in advance of Lord Russell in the liberality of their propowds. - - It will scarcely be credited, but it is nevertheless a fact, observes the Star, that Pmvoet-Iffarshal Ramsay has either arrived or is about to arrive in England, to demand com pensation from the Colonial Minister for the loss of his office. One of the first acts of Sir Henry Storks after his arrival in Jamaica was to suspend Ramsey, who was an inspector of police. He subsequently ordered his trial for the murder of George Marshall. The grand jury of course refused to find • true bill. Sir John P. Grant, the present Governor of Jamaica, never theless dismissed Hammy from his office of inspector, on the ground that in his reports to the govern ment be had admitted the murder of the unfortunate pri soner. Ramsay, however, believing that the protection which the country justices have extended to Eyre, and the grand jury of London to Nelson and Brand, shows • dispo sition to condone all the offences committed in Jamaica, modestly comes forward to press his own claims to • com plete amnesty, and a comfortable provision for life at the expense of his grateful country, and looking at the manner in which both the present and the late governments have dealt with the officers engaged in the brutal executions there, Ramsay has a very strong case. The Earl of Rilenborough is, it is stated, about at once to commence the restoration of the chapel in Gloucester Cathedral, commonly called St. Paulit Chapel. When completed it will be a beautiful specimen of archi tecture. Mr. Thomas Dixon, boat builder of Exmouth, was, says the WriOrn Morning New, on W ednesday pre sented by Lady Whitlock with a handsome silver goblet as a mark of her thankfulness for the valuable services ren dered by him on Monday in rescuing Sir G. Whitlock from the perilous position in which he had been placed by the collision of big boat with a yacht off Exmouth. Six men who had assisted on the occasion were rewarded with U. each. SPAIN. According to the Lsbert4 the Spanish insurrec tion is far from being suppressed. " The province of Alicante," it says, " is in insurrection, and its capital has risen with the assistance of some artillerymen and an infantry regiment. Large numbers of troops and artillery have been sent from Madrid and Galicia, and insurgent bands continue in Catalonia and Aragon. General Prim is undoubtedly in Spain, and if we are to credit a letter, which has been received from him in Paris, he is preparing a grand and unexpected coup." (an na's mum , re.) MADRID, Berl% U. Senor Manresa, Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice, has tendered his resignation, which has been accepted. A decree has been issued ordering that vessels arriving from the United States and Belgium shall be placed in quarantine. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Barr. 6. It is stated that Chamberlain Von Quaade, the Danish ambassador in Prussia, has been appointed commissioner of Denmark at the special conference for the settlement of the North Schleswig question, to be held at Berlin. This statement is, however, not yet officially confirmed. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. FALSIOUTFI, Sm. 6. The steamship United Service, from the Cape on the 3rd August, has arrived here with the mails, 43 passengers, and a general cargo. She also brings the crew of the Knight of Snowden. AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. NEW YORK, Sm. 5, 6 par. The public debt of the United States amount( d on the ht inst. to 2,500,000,000 dal. The Saint Patrick and the Acadia from Glasgow arrived here to-day. The Allan Company's steamship Damascus has arrived out. Closing Prices :—Gold, 1424. Sterling exchange on London, 109 g. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1144; Illinois, 1204 ; Erie, 704. Cotton—Middling Up land, 27. . , - PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 5. Petroleum, standard white, 32. Wo (Morning Herald) believe the arrangements fo• the Abyssinian expedition are now aesrlycomplete, and Oat the following are the principal commands:—Sir Rob -t Napier will be in supreme command, civil and military. Under him there will be two divisional com manders. The let division will be under Sir Charles Staveley ; the 2nd under Colonel Malcolm. Lieutenant. Colonel Merewether will command the cavalry, with the local rank of colonel. Captain Tryon, R.N., will be at the bead of the transport service, under Comm.-dore Heath, who commands the station; and Colonel Clark Kennedy will have the organisation and charge of the mule•traneport service. A letter from Florence, dated Sept. 3, says that Garibaldi left that morning for Geneva to attend the Pe►ce Congress. He has gone by the longest route, that of SL Gothard, in order to avoid French territory. The journey of the King of Italy to Milan is fixed for the 15th inst. His Majesty will be present at the in iuguntion of the Victor Emmanuel Gallery, and be ac companied byCommander Rattaszi, President of the Coun cil, and the Minister of Public Works. The King will also open the railway from Pavia to Voghera. THE CATHOLIC CONGRESS. —At the second sitting of the Catholic Congress at lifelines, Mgr. Dupsnloup, Bishop of Orleans, Count de Falloux, and Father Hyacinthe were present. The bishop pronounced a few words which were highly applauded. At Rome the prelate had said:— " Elsewhere, people believe in the church ; here they see , it." At Matinee he observed :—" We know that the sacred fire is immortal in the church ; but here the flame is risible." The Journal de Bruxelles states that during the space of an hour IL de Falloux " captivated the as. sembly under the charm of his words, admirable for their delicacy and earneetness," but it does not reveal the sub ject of this " seductive and pathetic improvisation." DEATH OT THE EX-EMPEROR SOCTLOUQUE.—ITILEI - has been received of the decease of Faustin 1., better known as Soulouque, aged 78. He was born in 1789, in the house of a mulatto family, in the south of the Isle of Hayti. Born a slave, he became free by the decree o f 1790, and when but a br;y,. in 1803, took part in the insur rection of the negroes against the French. He served several generals as aide-de-camp, was made a captain in 1820, when he became a favourite of the President Boyer. President Herard promoted him in 1844 to the rank of colonel, and Guerrier made him a general of brigade ; in 1846 he had just been promoted to he • general of division, when the President Roche died, and to his great astonish ment he was chosen president. It would seem that his head was turned by his elevation, for he waged • terrible war against the mulattoes and against the townspeople, and he contrived to have himself chosen emperor, when he assumed the title of Faustin the First. He instituted the Order of St. Fenster, and created no fewer than 400 peers, of whom four were princes and 59 dukes. Ho sent to Paris to have a crown made for him, which was imitated I from that of Napoleon 1., and held a solemn coronation. He bad countless squabbles with his nobles, and tried to conquer the republic of St. Domingo, but was defeated. lie was • great admirer of Napoleon L, whom he endea voured to imitate in every way, even to the Mintitjje of his dress. He was, however, tyrannical, and was at length driven from his throne in 1859, by Gerhard, who was elected president of the restored republic. floolotique was permitted to retire with all his property and that of his family, and took up his residence in Jamaica, where he remained till allowed to return to his native island, when he died at Petit Goyave. Soulouque was fond of display and dress, and had a childish love of tinsel and tawdry finery. However, he led a quiet. retired life in Jamaica, and had eviden , ly made a prudent provision for the wants of his exile. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts are taking measures for the erection of • new bishopric for the north of Europe, the heat of which shall be at Heligoland. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE TRAGEDY IN THE OLD KENT-ROAD. THE SALZBURG INTERVIEW.-CIRCULAR OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. MOW OUR OWN 001 PARIS. THURSDAT EVErING. The Patric and the France publish the text of the French government's confidential diplomatic note to explain the bearing of the Salzburg inter view. You will observe that it is signed by the titular Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Marquis do Moustier, and not, as was strenuously re-asserted only yesterday, by the Marquis do la Valette, who holds his portfolio ad interim. The document is addressed to all French diplomatic agents abroad, and is in the following words : . " in going to Salzburg the Emperor and the Empress were guided by a sentiment which public opinion could not mistake, and I should refrain from writing to you now of the interview between the two Sovereigns, had it not formed the subject of interpretations which tend to distort the character it possessed. " The journey of their Majesties was solely dic tated by tl-e idea of bearing an affectionate testi mony of sympathy to the imperial family of Aus tria so cruelly afflicted by a recent misfortune. Certainly the beads of two great empires could not be together in confiding intimacy for several days without mutually communicating to one another their impressions, and exchanging ideas on ques tions of general interest. But neither the object nor the result of their interviews was the formation of combinations, which there is nothing in the pre sent state of Europe to justify. " You remember the language of the govern ment of the Emperor each time that it has had occasion to explain itself respecting the state of things created by the military events of last sum mer. Our attitude was defined first in the circular of the 16th of September last ; again later by the language of his Majesty the Emperor at the open ing of the senate and legislative body ; and lastly, by the speeches of the Minister of State during the parliamentary debates of last session. We have not ceased to show ourselves in all our actions faithful to the intentions which we have from the first manifested in presence of the changes that have taken place in Germany. At a recent con juncture we have seen the cabinets of Europe do justice to the straightforwardness of our policy, and lend their concurrence to our ideas of pacification. What then occurred is a guarantee for the support which, in case of need, ideas of moderation would again re m:ye from them. The interviews of the Emperor Napoleon with the Emperor Francis Joseph could not, therefore, have the character attributed to them by certain journalists. Long before meeting at Salzburg the two Sovereigns had both attested, by their acts, and by the pacific sentiments which guide them, that their governments, united, could not form any other design than that of persevering in the same line of conduct as hitherto. Their conve-sations upon general affairs were limited to this assurance, which was mutually given. " Thus, far from cons'dering the Salzburg . inter view as a subject for pre-occupation and anxiety to o. er courts, we should ace in it only a fresh motive for confidence in the preservation of peace. " I desire to let you know my opinion upon pub lications of which the object is to create a contrary impression. • You may adopt these considerations in order to correct the erroneous views on the subject which may prevail around yor. (Signed) " MOTIKTIER." The Patrie says that the visit of the Emperor and Empress of Austria to Paris is fixed for Oct. 25, and that M. de Beust and Count d'Andrassy will accompany their Majesties. M. Monnier, the Prince Imperial's tutor, has been dismissed forreasons at present involved in mystery. He writes to the Liberti to complain of " calumny" and " miserable jealousy ;" but gives no facts to enable the public to form an opinion. He speaks of the " liberal ideas " which he inculcated in his young pupil, and possibly, now that the " Arca dians " are so powerful, these ideas may be deerind too liberal. A uew tutor for the heir-apparent is already selected in the person of M. Filon, profes sor of rhetoric in the Grenoble Lyceum. This gentleman is the author of several reviews of book s and plays which have appeared in the Courtier d re. Marshal Canrobert has instructed one of his aides-de-camp to write to the papers that he never recommended the Zouave Jacob as capable of curing diseases, that he never saw him or had anything to do with him, and that he is not in the army under his command. The farce of a trial for duelling was gone through at Versailles on Tuesday. M. de Latouche, of the Pegs, and M. Paul de Cessagnac, of the same journal, appeared at the bar of the Correctional Court to answer a charge of having—the one as principal, the other as second—been concerned in cutting and wounding M. Floquet, the barrister, in a duel. M. Glais Bizoin, deputy, M. Granier de Cassagnac, see., and M. Dreo, advocate, who were indicted as seconds, did not appear. The court settled the affair by inflicting the following nomi nal fines :—M. de Latouche, 25fr. ; M. Paul de Cassagnac, IGfr. ; and MM. Glais Bizoin, Granier do Cassagnac, and Dreo, lOfr. each. The Cassagnac family, as the Counier Francais frequently com plains, enjoys a privileged impunity in respect to duelling, since its members, when sentenced to im prisonment, are excused from going to prison. These trivial fines will, however, probably be paid. The Moniteur tells an amusing story of a mishap which lately befel two Englishmen at Etretat. They had got into the coupe of the diligence, which was preparing to start for the railway station at Beuzeville, but were told by the guard that the coupe had been taken by three ladies and that they must get down. They either did not under stand or pretended not to understand what was said to them, but at any rate remained obstinately in possession. The proprietor of the carriage and the commissary of police came successively to advocate the rightful claims of the three ladies, who were wistfully looking on, but the two English gentlemen would not move. The commissary of police at length determined to fetch the gendarmes to remove them by force ; but the conductor, struck by a sudden idea, said, "Leave mo alone ; I can manage this business without the military." Thereupon ho locked the two Englishmen in the carriage, ran another similar vehicle out of a coach-house, shifted the horses and the luggage, and drove off to the railway train, leaving the two Englishmen prisoners in the street, and exposed to the jeers of a considerable crowd. The story goes that they remained in durance for two hours. When at length released, they waited on the mayor to complain of false imprisonment, but that func tionary told them they were quite in the wrong, and were lucky to get off as easily as they had done. The Bourse was extremely firm. The reiterated assurances that the Arras and Lille speeches meant no harm are received with less incredulity than they were. Rents rose 20c. for cash, and 10c. for for account, closing at '7ofr. and 69fr. 85c. Mobilier rose 20fr., and has recovered the turning point of 300 fr. It waa reported that M. Pereira has had an interview with ;he Emperor. The Southern Rail way, which had suffered greatly through its con nexion with the Mobilier, rose sfr. Italian rose 35c. Comptoir d'Escompte fell sfr. INQUEST.-{THIS DAY.) Thin forenoon Mr. W. Carter, coroner for Nast Surrey, opsneciLan inquiry at the Prises of Wales Tavern, Church-fields, C6iirec-street, Old Kent-read, relative to the death of Mary Anne Snow, aged 33 yeses, who wee murdered, as alleged, on Tuesday morning, by Louis Bour. dier, a Frenchman, with whom she had cohabited. The jury having proceeded to Milted-terrace, the seen of the tragedy, and viewed the body, the following evidence wee given on thir return : Caroline Snow said—l am a widow, and occupy the house No. 3, Milstead-terrace. The deceased was my niece. She was not married. On Tuesday morning at a quarter to six I was in bed with my daughter, Emma Suow, whea the deceased came into my room. I had been awakened by the noise of her footsteps on the stairs. She stood near my bed, dressed only in her chemise, and she appeared as if she was holding her neck with both hands. Blood was flowing from her hands. I said to my daughter, " For God's sake get up and go for the doctor," and she did so. As soon as my daughter had left I laid the deceased on the bed and got some things and placed them to her neck. She never spoke after getting into the bed. The deceased, Louis Bourdier, and their three children occupied two parlours on the ground floor. I had beard no noise before the deceased entered my mom. Louis Bourdier came up. stairs shortly after. He kissed the deceased and said he hoped she would die. He asked if I had sent for a policeman, and I replied that I had and also for the doctor. I asked hint what he did it for, and he said he could not part from her. That is all he said. I knew they were shout to part, because she had told me so, and had given me a week's notice that she should leave him. They lived very un happily, and quarrelled very much at times. I never heard him threaten her. When the policeman arrived, he asked, " Who did it?" and the accused answered " I did." Emma Snow—l am a single woman. The last witness is my mother, with whom I live. The deceased and accused had three children, the oldest being 12 years of age. When I retired to bed on Monday night my cousin and Bourdier were out together. They went out at 8 o'clock in the evening. They had not quarrelled that day. At half-past 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning I heard my mother cry out " For God's sake fetch the doctor." There was nobody in the room except the deceased and my mother. The deceased was holding her neck with both hands. Being partly dressed I went for a doctor, and on my way met a policeman, to whom I told what had happene& When I returned the accused was in my mother's room. He did not speak, and I did not notice anything in his appearance, except that he was dressed in his slippers and drawers. Frederick Barrett, 138 P, said—On Tuesday morning while on duty in the Old Kent-road I was called by the last witness. In consequence of what she told me I went to the residence of Dr. Simpson to secure his attendance. I then accompanied the girl Emma Snow to No. 3, Milstead-terrace. On entering the back bedroom upstaim I found the deceased woman lying on the bed in an in. sensible state. I noticed that there was • large wound in her throat. Louis Bourdier was in the room. His right hand was placed oa her forehead, and his left on her breast. I asked, " Who did this" and he replied, " I did it." I then said, " You consider yourself in my cus tody ;" and he answered, " I am aware of that." He asked, "Shall I have to put on my clothes*. and I said " Yea." We then went downstairs and I asked him with what he had done it. He said " I will show you," and went to a cupboard near the fire place and gave use this knife. (The witness produced a razor-like knife used in cutting leather.) The knife was wet with blood when he gave it to me. He then commenced to dress himself, and when partly dressed be said, " I hope she will die." In a minute or two after some one came downstairs and said the deceased was dead. He then asked me if I would allow him to go up and see her. I said " Yes," and ac companied him upstairs to the room. He leaned over the hued of the bed and kissed the deceased. He afterwards took this letter (produced) from the msotel-piece, and said, " Will you post this to my brother?" I told him I would. He then said, " I have not sealed it, as I thought it might be wanted to be read." He added, that he had written it himself, and that it was written in French. I then took him to the station, where he was charged with the wilful murder of the deceased. He said something in reply, which I don't recollect. George Simpson examined—l am a registered surgeon, and reside at 759, Old Kent-road. Last Tuesday morning I followed the last witness to No. 3, Milatead-terrace, where in a back room upstairs I found the deceased lying on • bed, with • clean incised wound in the throat of from five to six inches in length. The instrument had been used in a slanting direction. The depth of the wound way from one to two inches. Several arteries and veins had been severed at either side and in front. The knife produced was such an instrument as would cause the injury. The deceased was alive and sensible I entered the room. She survived about two minutes. After leaving the room I met the constable and another man. I said, " Who is this, con stable ?" and be (the constable) replied, " This is the man who did it." The accused said, " Yes, I am the man." The accused then asked to be allowed to enter the room where the deceased lay ; -and on getting permission to do so, he went and kissed the deceased. I asked to be shown the instrument with which the wound lied been inflicted. The constable produced the knife, and the ac cused said, " Yes, that is the knife I brought home on Saturday on purpose." He told me he had written to his brother on Sunday, and put me in possession of the con. tents of the letter. The constable produced the letter. Sergeant Foley, 11 L, read the letters written by the deceased, one being addressed to his brother and the other expressing his determination to take away his life, and requesting that • verdict of temporary insanity should not be returned, inasmuch as he was in the full possession of his faculties. The evidence having been concluded the coroner sum med up, and the jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder " against the accused, Louis Bourdier. WEALTHIER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) PRIDAIT, 86P17.11 - BKR 6, 8 Lg. 2 -1 Nairn 19.6663 B.W. Aberdeen 29.6e 56 8.4./5. Leith 20.66 66 O.K. Ardmore 29.63 66 & Greeueastle 29.6365 8.8. W. Valentin 29.4668 W. N.W. Roche's Point 29.51 54 &W. Urerpool 29.45 69 8.8.& poly end 1966 67 8.2. W, Pensare 21..77 69 W.S.W. Brest O.BB a sx. Lorent 29.88 61 NW. Rorhetort 10.04 06 W.&12, PI, mouth 29.7861 &W. Weymouth 29.83 59 13. W. Portsmouth 29.86 63 &W. London 19.84 GO B.W. Termouth 29 8300 B.BW, Searboroosh 29.71 68 8. . 4 111elds 29.66 68 &W. Helder — B. *I W. • S.W. 6 &W. • &W. 1 B.W. W.&W. 4 W. W.S.W. 4 w. 4 S.W. &&W. 4 &W. I ; re 0.10! tr 0.78: o— am OAS, b 0.84' a 0.88 or 0.04 bra 0.10, REMARKS. The stmoapherleal peesanre Is lowest at Greencastle. A gals Is now blowing truss W.N.W. at Valentin. with tome 8 : It ha been westerly. le. Rain has been general except un the east coast, 'Len the weather Is cloudy but due. THE ENGINZZIL OF THE CRIMEA.''. RAILROAD. — A very elegant and remarkable railway bridge has just been constructed at South Esk, Launceston, Tasmania, by Mr. W. J. Doyne civil engineer, Melbourne. Few who who served in the Crimea w:11 forget the railroad and the admirable military road from Italakiava to the front, the Litter now as perfect as the day it was opened; but they may not all remember the indefatigable, zealous, and able superintendent of the Army Works Corps, whose labours rendered such important service to the army, and they may not recognise in him the Melbourne engineer. Although Mr. Doyne has been long suffering from cruel illness, which originated in the Crimea, he has, with characteristic energy, struggled against bodily infirmity of the most painful and disabling character, and has iu the home of his adoption attained the highest piece in his pro tension, SHOCKING OCCURRENCE. —On Wednesday Mr. Morgan, one of the coroners for StaffordslAre, held an in . quest at tie Coton.hill Asylum, Stafford, respecting the death of an inmate of that institution. formerly a major in the army, who hint committed suicide under singular circumstances. The deceased was 34 year's of age.and Was admitted to the asylum on the 14th of last May suffering from chronic mania. He was un.sble to assist himself, and was always dressed and undressed l.y an attendant. He had never shown any suicidal tendency. On Monday evening his attendant left him sitting in his nightclothes in his bedroom, a lighted candle being placed outside the door. In half a minute afterwards the attendant heard the deceased mcream and found l.im with his nightdress es fire. He had Owed the candle on the bed, and covered it over with the clothes, which were smouldering. The de °need was stripped of his night-shirt, and his wounds were dreamed, but he died on Wednesday morning. The jury were of opinion that no blame attached to the officers of the establishment, and returned a verdict that the deceased died from the effects; of burns received while in a state . insanity. 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