The Express. — London, England, 1867-09-30 00:00:00

COVENT GARDEN PROMENADE OOETS. COVENT GARDEN TH EATRE EVERY EVENING at Eight. Under the sole directional Mr. JOHN RUSSELL. Thursday nights, a Selection of Chaska! Husk other nights Miscellaneous. The Programme is van,' every evening. Conductor—Signor BOITEsINI, and for ti o Dance Music Herr JOHANN sram.m.—Admiasion, Otte Shilling. PARIS FJCHIRITIUY FIRST-CLASS SILVER MED 147 JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS by t ro y weight, at realisable value, and the workmanship at wholesale manufacturers prices The gold In the -Chains gua ranteed, and repurchased al the prise charged. • Here's the note, How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, The fineness of the gold, and charge for :ashioe." SH•IMIRARK. puvitiatory, lf, Ifauldtedirest, Coventgarden, London. Vie engtOO• TO CORRESPONDENTS. Avertiremeate intended for " The aroma," London Evening :7: aunt unt be at the Mot, 10, Bouvariouttiok by Two k on the day of publication. DRITET LANZ. Tuts Evirmo, FAUST. Mr. Phelps, Maori Edmund Phelps, Harcourt. Warner, Webb, Temple, Rc. , Mesdames Herman Venn, Vandenboe, Re.—And THE MILLER AND HIS M.K.N. Mears. Ryder and E. Phelps ; Miss Edith StuarL HAYMARKET. Tam Ertnitnn, ROMEO AND JULIET. Meters. Othltmenrlale. Bowe, Rogers. Kendal, Clark Compton, de. ; Mee lames Scott Sid dons. Chippendale, de..--TO PARIS AND BACK POI AS Mr. Buckatoue —And SHOCKING SVKKTS. POOR s. Tim Immo. POOR PILLICODDY. Mama Dominick Murray & Graham : Min Polly Manila& —ARRAN NA POI; I/E. Mr. ct• Mrs. Boucicaul& Messrs. Vining, D. Murray. M'lmmi, Ac.; Min Hughes—And NO. ONE, ROUND THE CORNER. LYCEUM. Ten Emma, THE MISTREAS OF THE MILL.—THE LADY OF LYONS. Mr. Pechter, Means. Jordan. Addison, Ca!harm, Mellon. Dalton. Staart, and Prawn ; thaisa lie worthP and Carlotta Incl.:req, Mrs. Manton. STRAND Truinartio. ORR DOM VATIC:4.. Messrs. Parana, Thorne, sad James; Mesdames Johnstone t Wastberthy —THE LATEST ZDITION OF KENILWORTH. Messrs. James & Tborn• : Mes dames Ada Swalaborough, Holt, &e.—Aad DEAF As A 1.06 T. BIUTANICIA. Tyr!. "MIMS, TEE MAID or MEXICO.—THE TWO ORE .:MAIM—The American Minstrels and Japanese Tommy the wondrous Gymnasts, MM. Coutellier and Elllca—And ALONE 124 THE PLEATEB LAIR Mr. Reynolds; Miss Oovonry. HIGH WA7NIL AT LONDON BRIDOL no DAY —Mornlair. lb. Dm.... -Afternoon, Th. Sire. To-Koasow—Moratni. a Stia..-..Afternooa, 411. MA. LONDON, MONDAK, SEPTEMBER 30. THE last quarter of the year opens with little promise of being better than the three which close to-day. Everywhere complaints are rife of the sluggishness of trade, of the diffi culty of maintaining only so, much business as will prevent the breaking up of existing establishments, and of tho impossibility of re awakening even a moderate feeling of confidence. Outwardly commercial affairs may seem tolerably prosperous. The Board of Trade returns of our exports in the first eight months of 1867 show but a small falling off compared with 1866, and an actual increase of more than 18 per cent. over 1865. The public revenue is also well maintained. Evidence of this description is usually deemed conclusive. It is nevertheless the fact that for many years past trading profits have rarely been lower than they are now. Many even of the highest mercantile firma, of first-class standing and long established repute, are, as it were, living from hand to mouth. They just maintain their connection, and nothing further. Houses in the second rank suffer in proportion considerably more. The rate of discount at the Bank is only 2 per cent., and money is so abundant in the open market that transactions have taken place at only 11, or it is said even less, but still it is no easy matter for the small trader to get the accommodation that is freely afforded in ordinary times. Again, the accounts from the manufacturing districts are generally discouraging. Mills working short time and a decreasing demand for goods constitute, as for many previous months, the general features. Hence, if our foreign exports are maintained on nearly their previous scale, the interchange of commodities between home producers and pur chasers is decidedly slow. In a great measure the may be traced to the serious loss of income which has been brought upon thousands of middle-class families by the great joint-stock failures of the past year. Retrenchment has not merely become advisable, but in too many instances compulsory. It is impossible for one portion of the community to suffer losses without affecting thereby the wel fare of the nation at large. New commercial pur suits, the employment of surplus caeitel in fresh industrial enterprises, both at home and &brood, would effectually serve to rep'ace the void caused by the disasters of Overend, Gurney, and Co., and other similar companies. If I the famlies already ruincd could not recover their forme- posit - on, at least others would become prosperous eroagh to take their place. At pre- 1 sent, however, this is not to be. Capitalists,' wl ether millionaires or the possessors of a few hundred pounds, show a firm disposition, not al to ge+lier unaccountable under the circumstances, to keep their money lying idle in the banks. It is safe there, and that forms the paramount cons'- deration. No inducement will prevail upon them to utilize their capital for their own benefit, even where there is hardly the remotest chance of lees. When once the public give themselves up unre servedly to a feeling of this kird, it is hardly worth while to reason against Argument is practically thrown away. It would be as easy to stop a run upon a b..nk, or to counteract a specu lative mania by simple persuasion, as to convince people of the folly of excessive mistrust. Besides, the course of events :v not favourable. The im pending liquidation of the French Credit Mooilier must necessarily have produced some effect here, even if it had come at a different time and under different circumstances. Unfortunate', it has happened precisely at the moment when some I alight symptoms of a return to confidence were manifested. It was generally believed that at length we had come to the end of the disastrous financial disclosures which have been the special characteristic of 1866, and that the commercial atmosphere being now cleared, nothing further could or need be ap prehended. The turning point had apparently arrived when consternation would be substi-uted by trust, but the practical fall of the Credit Mo biller threw everything back. The commercial relations between England and France since the conclusion of Mr. COBDEN'S Treaty are of such importance that a calamity of this kind affects us in a material, if only secondary degree. In any case the collapse of one of the largest, if not the largest, financial institution o! the Continent, with a capital of 4,800,0001., or considerably more than half that of the Bank of France, must necessarily have been a matter of grave conse quence. Thus, at least, is has been judged. Again the old question recurs, so of en asked during now nearly two years where sod in nbom can we put trust I In well-in:ormed titles is is true that there have been misgiving.) with re spect to the position of the great compary for some time bacL, but well-informed persons are only a small minority, and, as a rule, scrupulously reticent. The public knew little beyond perhaps hearing casually some adverse rumour of the same kind as might have been afloat some eight or ten THE EXPRESS, MONDAY XVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, I years hack, and, being used to these remarks, paid them no great attention ; hew* the news that the Credit Mobilier were in urgent want of assistance, and that their difficulties were the theme of daily comment in the newspapers, pro duced more than ordinary sensation. It is worth remarking the difference between a purely mercantile crisis and one affecting those classes who may be said to be out of the ordinary range of large commercial affairs. The contrast in this respect as regards 1857 and 1866 ;1 com plete. Ten years ago there were many failures, but apart from one or two tottering country banks mercantile firms alone suffered. Day after day, three, four, or five additional suspensions were announced. It might have been justly thought that credit would not revive for many years. Yet in the course of a few months business was on the same footing as before. In 1866 we had scarcely any mercanti'e failures ; but, on the other band, a few large companies collapsed for individually enormous amounts. In 1857 the loss fell chiefly unon merchants and other traders ; is 1866 upon that vast section of the middle classes sem know nothing of business, and measure the value of a security solely by the dividends paid, whether earned or not. It consequently happened that after the crisis of 1857 confidence was easily revived. A merchant is always pre pared to hear of a failure ; he knows perfectly well that, even with the greatest caution, it is impos sible to arcane bad dents—to provide against them is one of the ordinary expenses of his business. But he also knows equally well that fur one corre spondent who stops payment twenty-nine are per :ectly safe. He does not, on 'mount of the stop page of the one, deprive all the others of credit. The exceptional failure is, in fact, to be accepted as an unavoidable casualty in the general way of business. It is different, however, with persons unacquainted with business. They hear that a company has failed, and at once come to the con clusion that all companies are good for nothing. Again, a notoriously insolvent railway is unable to pay its debentures ; straightway railway deben tures are pronounced to be valueless though issued by some leviathan undertaking whose credit is as good as that of any concern in the king dom. The merchant also, as we have said, takes the misfortune of a loss as a matter of course. He has laid up against it, and says no more about the matter than he can help. On the other hand, when a clergyman or a widow loses the savings of years in a discount or other company—and they often put the wnole of their money into one concern—the news spreads among fifty families ; there are pitiful, often too truly pitiful, accounts of distress ; perhaps a subscription, and with it, as a corollary, a fixed determination among every sub scriber to have nothing to do with any mercantile or financial undertaking, whether public or private, speculative or substantial. This sort of feeling wears off in time, but on this occasion it promises to last longer than usual. At present the date fixed for the likelihood of a revival in trade and confidence is the release of the dividends in the middle of October. Money will certairly be then more abundant than has been ever known, but whether commerce, parti cularly at home, will be increased by this unusual plethora is an open question. Judging from the past, the indications do not appear over favourable. OUR OONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) perhaps in the shape of fresh reckleseness and boundless expectations, to be followed once men by panic, repent• ewe, and elayastion. TOPICS. The Times ridicules the late Fenian vvngress at Cleve land, representing all the leaden as knaves and the rest as dupes. The one object of the managers is to make their fortunes. Eventually, it may be hoped, the conspiracy will perish by the roguery of the chief conspirators ; but Irish susceptibility and credulity have no determin►ble bounds, and the Irish people, at home and abroad, may not grow tired of paying blackms , l drung the present gen • ration. The Mould treats the method in the me strain, except that it sees mischief in Fenianism from its American mu nition. If England is discomforted, it is not because of Fenians, but of those who use Feniarr.—who speak of Irish republics in their fin communications, and take credit to themselves for friendly dispositions in protecting us from designs which only exist upon the- sufferance. The late violent anti-American article hi the Standard is followed to-day by one of a different character, which commences in the following terms:—" We have much pleasure in offering an apology to Mr. Seward. We have unintentionally done him a gross injustice. An error of dates, for which the New York press is responsible, has led us to put an erroneous interpretation on his policy, and we make haste to remove the wrong impression that our com ments may have created." The Standard then goes on to urge that even if the effect of the decision in the American snit should be mienst us, and cost us one or two millions sterling, it might ultimately be a great gain to us, as the practice of sending out cruisers to belligerent powers from neutral porta would tell particularly spinet us. As the Pon interprets the new instructions issued to vo lunteers, the civil authorities may require volunteer in case of serious disturbances, or having for their object the commission of felonious acts, or the subversion of the go vernmert, to use weapons which have confessedly been entrusted to their bands solely to be used against a foreign foe. The Post vex/ much questions the soundness of this decision. The frightful scenes in Calabria dating the lete visit of the cholera, where men suspected by the fanatical and ignorant populace of miming the plague by poison were mutilated and backed to pieces, are described by the Times, which observes that with a people of such temper the ruler's task is no one. It is but little that the Italian government can be expected to achieve with the present race, but the responsibility of the rising genera tion lies with it alone. The chief moons of the horrors referred to is the little town of Ardore. Commenting on the opposing news of insanity which appeared in the trial of the Frenchman Bordier last week, the Daily Pass corns@ to the conclusion that though the convict was under the influence of benighted judgment, there is not the slightest reason to think that be was the victim of any hallucination, or that the will was in abeyanoe. It was simply misdirected by false theones. He was satisfied with what he had done, thinking as he did about the future. But be knew that society and the law condemned and punished as wrong what be had con opted himself into thinking right ; and in violating their injunctions he justly incurred the penalties they assign. It is the object of laws to prevent evil/ man from doing any and every wickedness which a false tiew of vie may make right in his eyes. He who set.' them, and the common convictions and feelings of human nature, at nought, courts the punishment of which they have forewarned him. Examining the discussion in which Mr. Lytton, our secretary of legation at Lisbon, has taken an active part relative to the manufacture of port wine, the Times comes to the conclusion that the wine exported from Portugal to this country through a long coons of years, has had arti ficial additions made to Be natural qualities simply to con sult the English taste. The British importers, again, were guided by the demands of their customers, and both sown to have been practically in accord with the Portugt.ese authorities. It was the old story—the people desired dr • lusion, and it had to be deluded. Cite Court. BALMORLL, Sr.a 28. The Queen, accompanied by Prinoees Lonnie, and attended by Lady Churchill and Major-General Sir Thomas Biddulph, returned yesterday afternoon from GlenAddich-lodge. Prince and Princess Christian and Prince Arthur went out driving. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colorial offioe from the Governors of the West Indian lolanda, New Zealand, and Heligoland. Despatches were ant to the Governors of the North American Provinces aid Bermuda. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Pruabia, accompanied by their youthful family, ars expected to arrive in London, on their way to Windsor Castle, about the 16th of the ensuing month. In all probability their arrival will be some d►ys later, but their royal highnesses are expected to be at Windsor a few days before the Queen'. return from Scotland. The Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Cornelis Churchill, after a tour of visits in Ssotland, will arrive at Blenheim early in the present week. The duke is still waking in his yacht, and will arrive at Blenheim towards the end of the present month. Viscount and Viscountess Amberley intend to prolong their tour in America till the second week in January. The last letters received in town from his lord ship announced that they wen enjoying their American tour, and were in good health. The Bishop of London entertained at dinner on Friday evening last at 8 o'clock, at Fulham Palace, the Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Chester and Mrs. Jacobson, the Bishop of Ohio and Miss ienTain., the Bishop of New York and Miss Potter, the Bishop of Rhode Island, the Bishop of North Carolina and Mrs. Atkinson, the Bishop of Argyle and the Isles, the Bishop of lowa, the Bishop of Indiana, the Bishop of Arkansas, Bishop Bedell (of Ohio) and Mn. Bedell, the United States Missionary Bishop of China, the Bishop of Texas, the Bishop of Maseachusetts, the Bishop of Illinois, the Rev. E. Fisher, and several other Mends. Covers were laid for 42. This was the last of the five " great &noses" of the week in honour of the American bishops. Lord Stanley and Lord H. Gordon Lennox left town on Saturday for Knowsley, in order to join the party graying with the Earl and Countess of Derby during the visit of the Queen of the Netherlands. His lordship returns to town on Wednesday next. - - Lady Herbert (of Lea) and Lady Mary HerbeTt are staying on a visit with Lewd and Lady Lindsay at Echt, their seat in Aberdeenshire. Admiral and Mn. Parragut, accompanied by Lieutenant• Commander J. Crittenden Watson, Dr. J. M. Folts, Mr. de Linsey Kane, and a numerous party, have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Copenhagen. Mr. Da Cane, M.P., has hs:t tou n for his seat in Eases for a few weeks. Earl Vane has met with • warm reception at Cernlough, in the north of Ireland, after his return from Bt. Petersburg, where be bad been on a special mission appointed to twofer the illustrious order of the garter on the Emperor of Russia. Archbishop Manning preached yesterday at St. Mary's catholic church, Bayswater. In the course of his sermon he referred to the Pan-Anglican Synod and the crisis in Rome. With respect to the Pan-Anglican Synod, Archbishop Manning looked upon such an assembly, and the desire of its promoters, as indicatious of England Ai siring to have bestowed upon it that truth and unity which be declared was only to be found in the church of God." He thought it might reasonably be believed that if these things continued, posterity would see " the church of God once more spread over England." Some recent regulations in Russia on the subject of smoking are calculated to interfere considerably with the enjoyment of lovers of the weed. The object of the ukase is to diminish the risk of fire at railway stations and warehouses, and to promote the comfort of ladies and other non-smoking travellers. Any one smoking in the refreshment-room, while travellers are there, in the lug gage or custom-house aloes, or on the platforms, is now liable to ► fine act exmoding tea rouble. ; and any person smoking in aka or mooed clam cordage, not set apart for the purpose, is liable to a fine of one nimble. A copy of these rules—which apply to every railway in the empire— is to be put sp in every station. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. GARIBALDI AS A PRISONER. The continental papers publish a variety of de tails respecting the arrest of Garibaldi, and sub sequent proceedings. As the Debate observes, the recital is unique : The general wishes to conquer Rome ; the soldiers who arrest him and their chiefs are no more friendly to the temporal power than he is. The people who see the prisoner pass ; the employes on the railway by which he travels ; the guardians of the fortress to which he is taken —all think exactly as he does, and lavish upon him proofs of their respect and sympathy. The captive, instead of trying to escape, to struggle, or even to protest, allows himself to be conducted to prison as though ho were being taken to a banquet over which he was to preside. At Pistola there was a crowd of men devoted to him. He had only, says the Florence Gazette, to lift his hand to be set free ; he did not do it. At Alesaandria the soldiers who filled the court of the citadel cried with enthusiasm, " Viva Garibaldi !" Three of Garibaldi's friends, MM. Liberio, Bot tero, and Pugno, who obtained permission to see him at Alesaandria, have published in the Turin Gazette an account of their interview. They found him reading the " Decade "of Livy. The narra tive says : Not a word of anger escaped him against the authors of the arrest. During the two hours we were with him the conversation turned upon the Roman question, history, and literature. "They talk," said he, "of getting to Rome by moral means. Do you believe that such means will ever cut the Gordian knot r " No," we answered, " Well," said he, " tell Italy by every means in your power, that the Roman question will be settled by Italian steel, and not by the moral paths of any ministry what ever. Above all, let it be known that the Roman question is not solved by my arrest. Tell Turin that she knows what she has to do ; she has given proofs of it many times." Then, turring to Major Chien, he said, " Tell Milan that I h►ve never ceased tabs with her, and that now I hops much from the Milanese. Believe me, despite the effort, of go►ernments, and un friendly and perfidious plots abroad, Italy will be the first nation in the world, were it only through its noble past. Stand on the Place of St. Peter; question with the look and mind those eloquent souve nirs; carry yourself back to the time of the Brutnses and the Cami"as, and say to yourself with pride, I too, am an Italian. 0 what a noble republic. was that Roman republic ! What men it contained ! Think of the time when poor Rome, the battle lost, sent its legions to Spain, and on the same day put up to public auction the Roman territory, occupied by Hannibal, and there were great citizens who bought it at the highest pries. We, on the contrary, hesitate to approach the Eternal City, where we are defied by feeble and con temptible enemies. 0, I assure you, my friends, that when the day comes on which we put the foot upon the Vatican that day will be the most beautiful of my life, and then I shall be willing to die." The General at this moment seemed inspired and his fans to be transfigured by his enthusiasm. The French liberal jouvaals continue to write in very strong terms against any intervention on behalf of the papal power. COUNT BISMARCK AND HESSE DARM STA DT. It will be remembered that only a poi tion of the Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt is at present united to the Northern Confederation. Some months ago the local chamber voted the annexation of the entire state. The Grand Duke sought to obtain from the Upper Chamber a contrary vote, and to secure it, his confidential minister, M. de Dalwick, declared that the Prussian government would view any proposition of annexation with the greatest displeasure. This assertion Count Bismarck allowed to pass uncontra dieted, but last week he affirmed, in answer to a question in the Prussian Chamber, that M. de Dal wick was completely mistaken as to the intentiors of the Prussian government. "M. de Bis marck," says the Avenir National, "in ready, then, to receive any Southern State which desires to enter the Confederation. He hesitated,—he hesitates no longer." SPAIN. THE PAN-ANGLICAN ENCYCLICAL. The first thing in the above paper which the Daily News notices is the abeenoe of any statement of the collective capacity in which the bishops bad assembled. The assembly lacked the warrant of • lawful synod, and their address carries simply the authority of " the under sigusd bishops." The address is on the whole far too in definite and characterless to make a strong impression on ►nybdy. Its real significance is probably to be found in the allocation of the names of its signitaries. The assumed authority of • conference of English, Scottish, colonial, and American bishops is a novelty. Very likely it will succeed in establishing itself, at any rate we may be sure that this is not the last meeting of the kind that we shall have. It is maintained that the " Church of South Africa" is in communion with the Church of England, but not in • position to be bound by the judgments of the Privy Coun cil in ecclesiastical causes. The conference, recognising the organisation of the South African church, acknow ledges the competency of the court which the Bishop of Capetown appointed to try Dr. Coleus°. What effect this will have in the colony remains to be seen. The Dai'd News also observes that it is at least remarkable that the first resolution of this synod of which the public has any knowledge is one of which two bishops who were principal parties to it can give opposite accounts, the Bishop of Capetown assessing that it endorses the recommendation of convocation to send oat a new Bishop of Natal, and the Bishop of London challenging the statement. The Times also says that the conference must begin to see the inconvenience of sitting with closed doors. One prelate nays one thing, another another, and no one can tell what was really said or done till the " authorised" report is permitted to see the light. A correspondent of the same paper wares the bishops that they are proposing to violate the law, there being already in Natal a branch of the church of England with a bishop, appointed, like all other bishop, of oor church, by the Queen, the lay head of the church, and confirmed in his position by decisions of competent courts both in England and Natal. The Star cannot help thinking that the attendance of the colonial bishops was perhaps the most irritating part of an entirely offensive proceeding. That the episcopate of the church of England, in defiance of all precedent and all reason. should assume to itself a power of legislating, however informally, for the entire body of the church without consulting the will of the inferior clergy or the laity wain itself a sufficiently Indiscreet and condemnable proceeding; but that a number of clergymen, chosen for missionary or other puiposes by the Propagation Society without the intervention of any popular or even ministerial choice, should assume the airs of episcopal authority, and ►rrogate to themselves any right to legislate for the church of England is not to be endured. Till STAGNATION OP The present anumulation of unemployedcapital is said 'by the Tosser to be beyond all example or belief. The possessors of money, not choosing to buy stock either for a permanency or for the occasion: and not yet reassured as to the safety of other investments, simply keep their (nods in band, and are ready to advance millions at one per cent on short data and approved security. The demand, how ever, on these circumscribed terms is unequal to the sup ply, and so the money remains without employment at all. While public confidence was unshaken speculation knew no henna ; anybody could get • million or so for any thing, and employment was given to innumerable oper•- tine at wages never known before. Of course there must be an end to the present state of things sooner or late•. People must know, notwithstanding all their mistrust, th►t a large proportion of the enterprises quoted in the share list are essentially sound. Indeed, it is only too probable that when confidence once returns money will rush out in • flood. The wont effect of the panic is due to the fact that investors forgot that their liability was not limited by the amount of their investment but by I the amount of their shares. This liability certain com panies are now endeavouring to curtail by reducing the amounts of their shares ; but the midorhunis that unpaid capital, though so dangerous to shareholders, is more or less indispensable to the commercial credit of the underta king. Those who trust • bank or • finance company with their money wish to know that they have nosething to fall back upon in ease of disaster, and that something can e..ly be furnished by • liability of shareholders in some shape or other. However, this difficulty will doubtless be surmounted in time, and we shall see confidence revive— OF GENERAL PRIM. The Paris Liberte of to-day publishes a manifesto of General Prim, dated Geneva, the 25th, setting forth at considerable length his views in reference to the situation of Spanish affairs. He says the enemies of liberty need not expect to see him pur sue a different course from that which he followed even at the moment when his hopes were destroyed. His firmness will not give way before calumnies, and some day the Spanish nation and the world will see that his conduct and that of his small band of friends was inspired by generous sentiments. After expressing his admiration for the brave men who ha7e made such heroic efforts to secure liberty for their country, and his profound regret that he could not take part in the recent struggle, he ex plains howit wasthat he ands small body of friends who accompanied him found it impossible to effect a junction with the insurgents of Barcelona and Tarragona, on account of the great distance which separated them ; and he adds that they did not consent to lose sight of their count/ until their numbers had become so dimi nished that it was impossible to effect the combine nation and to resist the forces which were sent against them. In conclusion, he says he will not consent to abandon his revolutionary efforts for one day, until governments in Spain have ceased to be the executioners of their country and the scandal of civilised Europe. (num'. nr.zazara.) PRUSSIA AND FRANKFORT-ON-THE- MAINE. BERLIN, Sm. 30. A royal decree, dated the 25th inst., has just appeared, defending tho bases upon which the property appertaining to the city of Frankfort-on the-Maine is to be settled. Among other points the decree orders that the loan effected by that city to meet the costs of the late war is to be con sidered and treated as a debt incumbent upon Frankfort-on-the-Maine. NORTH GERMANY. MERLIN SEPT 30 Evmsc. . . In to-day's sitting the North German parliament voted chapter 4 of the budget, and also the clause relating to the expenses in connexion with the office of chancellor of the confederation. NORTH SCHLESWIG. HADKRSLEBEN, Scrr. 29, SYR/MM. Herr Jeuen has been summoned to Bertin to present the Minister of Foreign Affairs with a re port upon the relative numerical proportion of the two nationalities in Northern Schleswig. THE BRAZILS. PARIS SLIT. 30. Telegrams received here from South America announce that the Brazilians having established themselves in a strong position to the left of Mama* the allied squadron bombarded the forts of Humaita and Curupaiti. The accounts of the result are conflicting. BUENOS Acoorr 26. (Via Lisbon.) Exchange, 472 to 48; ox hides, 45 for 231bs, ; lumber, 40 to 45 ; Chili= flour, 15 ; sugar, 18i. 1867. CALCUTTA AND CHINA (HEAVY) MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Birr. 29. The Syria leaves at 7 p.m to-day. All well. She may be expected at Southampton on the 4th Oeteber. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE HERMANN. SOUTHAMPTON, Sam 30. The North German Lloyd's steamship Hermann, from New York, arrived here to-day with 66 passengers for this poet and Bremen, and 6,220 do's. for Bremen. On the 20th she spoke the Hamburg ship John Bertram (all well) ; on the 22nd the American ship Constellation, bound west ; on the 23rd the English brig Iris ; and on the 26th the ship Mayflower and the barque Oregon, steering east. NEW YORK, Szrr. 19, Mos=No. The new Constitution has been adopted in Maryland by a democratic majority of nearly 20,000. General Hancock has arrived at Washington. General Sheridan is also expected there. The Presidential party returned to Washington from Antietam yesterday. General Canby's administration of affairs in the second military district is reported to be highly popular. A negro judge presided yesterday at the Re corder's Court of New Orleans. The yellow fever is epread'ng to the interior of Louisiana. Intelligence published here from Mexico says it was reported that the residence of Baron Magnus, the Prussian Minister, had been broken into by order of Juarez, in order to secure some important documents supposed to be in his possession. The documents were not found. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (7110 X MR ORS PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. Count de Keratry's new article on the fall of Maximilian (to appear in to-morrow's number of the Revue Contempuraine) covers the period between General Caatelnau's arrival in Mexico city on Oct. 21, 1866, and the hot disputes which occurred in the early part of January, 1867, between Maxi milian's government and the French authorities relative to the strict enforcement by the latter of their claim to sequestrate the Mexican customs duties under the convention of July 30, 1866. An ably drawn petition to the Emperor from the 7th and 15th arrondissements of Paris (being those adjoining the Champs de Mars) is now in course of signature, praying that the threat of the imperial commission to destroy the Exhibition Palace and the wondrous park in which it stands, in November next, may not be carried into effect. The peti tioners allege that to restore the Champs de Mars to its primitive state—namely, that of a dusty desert in slimmer and a muddy quagmire in winter —would be to ruin the neighbourhood. Mili tary exercises and cavalry charges kicking up clouds of dust will prevent the proprie tors of the adjoining ground from building habitations, and will destroy the prospects of what now promises to be one of the best quarters of Paris. The petition affirms that plenty of eligible drilling ground may be had elsewhere, and dwells upon the fact that the preservation of the pro perty now menaced with wanton destruction would be far less costly than any other contemplated improvement of Paris. The Journal lUurtre publishes a striking portrait of Consul Cameron, engraved from a sketch made at Cairo in 1861, by aM. de Hem. The artist or amateur, who made Mr. Cameron's personal acquaintance on that occasion, describes him as a remarkably fine, powerful man, with a thick, flowing beard, and rather a Calmuck style of countenance, and he has so depicted him. M. de Hem tells a story of Mr. :ameron, which he would scarcely have had the bad taste to invent under the circumstances, and which, assuming it to be true, is curious. One evening, after dinner, they were sitting smoking together in Cairo, when Mr. Cameron's servant entered the room. Ou a sign from his master the man took off his livery coat, waistcoat, and trowsers, and appeared in the complete costume of a Drury-lane down, with a red tuft, white collar, baggy breeches, &c. He at once sat down upon the floor and went through a number of extraordinary " comic oontoraions," going through, I suppose the movement of eating " hot codling." Then he got up and quietly put on his livery over the clown's dress, which he always wore by way of under clothing. A few days later the domestic clown favoured Mr. Cameron's friends with a spectacle far more comic. He got four geese (descendants, I suppose, of Rossini's Goose of Cairo), put a kind of harness upon their legs, and bridles in their mouths, and took them down to the Nile. When there he stripped off his livery, and producing from his pocket an indiarubber basin, which he blew out to a size just large enough to hold himself in his clown's costume, he harnessed the geese to it, and made them swim across the Nils with him, to the great astonishment of the Arabs. M. de Hem suggests that Consul Cameron counted a good deal upon this servant for the success of his mission to Abyssinia, thinking that his tricks would make a great impression upon the natives. Before leaving Cairo for his perilous post the consul hired a serpent charmer, a sabre swallower, and other conjurors. The master, "vigorous, intelligent, and full of animal spirits," was the very man M. de Hem thinks to be as jolly as possible during his lung and terrible captivity, but he doubts the forti_ tude of the poor clown, who was a miserable looking fellow. The Paris correspondent of the Post says that since 1848 the Jesuits have numerically very much in creased in France, sod the priests have now much more influence over the people, or rather what is called the edu cated classes. The s:reets of Paris and the environs of the city show that a change has taken place in the reli. gious sentiment of the people. " There was a time when you seldom met with priests in a oonspicnous robe, and never with the members of monastic orders. They may now be met with Teonstantly on the Boule vards, in the railways, and in society—Capucines, Jesuits of miens degree., priests with three-cornered hats, seek as are warn at Rome, and oonspicaously robed. Eccle siastics are not timid, reserved, ►nd unobtrusive, as they were before the foundation of the empire. They now thread society • :th the confidence of Austrian or Spanish churchmen. The churches are more attended than of old, and Rome has once more crept into the schools of France. Now, all tbis means that the church isgaining more worldly and political influence, and can surely effect the election of the elected of the people, as well as deputies. This gives the papacy strength and influence in France, and just she power Rome covets." _ The American Generals Hooker and M'Clellan ire now in Paria. The birth of an heir to the Itfuckross estates, Killarney, hu been celebrated with untumal festivities, in which the tenantry on the extensive estates of Herbert sad the gentry of the neighbourhood shared. Upwards of 400 at down to dinner on Thursday sussing. Amongst the cargoes of the Allemannia which arrived at Cowes last weak from New Irish were &V eases of sewing machines. THE SUPPOSED FENIAN OUTRAGE IN BLOOMSBURY. EXCITING SCENE IN BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) The announcement that the man Groves,." with having fired at andwounded Edwin arDosuld, of the 2nd Life Guards band, would be placed before the magi. trate at Bowatresit this afternoon, brought an sensa t e . nary number of persons to the vicinity of the court The crowd began to mumble before 9 o'clock, and by 10 a pu t of Bow-street wu full. The police authorities did not anticipate an absolute attack, bat in cue any " rough handling" should be resorted to a large body of men were present and others kept in reserve. It was not generally known that the prisoner was safely lodged in the station, and at half-put 10, on the approach of the prison van, a cry was raised, " Here he is," and a general rush was made in the direction of the court entrance. The only eseupant, however, of the dark vehicle wu a m an brought up on remand. From that time till 12 o'clock th e number of poisons had greatly increased : and it may be Observed that many thinking the prisoner was in custody at George-street (E Division), where he was at Best taken and the charge against him entered, went there, but were of souse doomed to disappointment. Shortly after 12 &general bun ran through the crowd, and at • given signal the police farmed a passage from the station to the court, and through this the prisoner MY removed, preoeded by several police. um, and having one on either side of him, with a number in the rear. The removal was quickly effected, but the pressure of the crowd and the hooting and yelling as the plum passed acres the road was extraordinary. Shortly afterwards another man, charged with the unlawful use et firearm', was also conveyed to the court in the same meaner ; and this proceeding also resulted in a volley of biases and yells. The entry en the polka charge-sheet was as foliose:— " John Groves, 29, Gilbert-street, Grosvenor-square, derk charged on suspicion of shooting and wounding M'Donald, with intent to murder him, in Vernon-place, Saint George's, Bloomsbury, on the 28th September ; taken into custody by Inspector Thompson, detective foroe, and Investor Griffith, E. Division." No counsel or solicitor appeared either for the crown or for the defence. About half•past 12 o'clock the police announced that they were ready to proceed with the case. _ . _ John Groves was then placed at the bar. He is a yonog man, of middle height, fair complexion, slight moustache, hair cropped close, well dressed, and of gentleman appesninoa. Henry Furbse—l lin at No. 12, William-street, Albany. street, Regent's-park. I rum a musician in the 2nd Life Guards. On Friday night, after I had done business it the Royal Amphitheatre, Holborn, where I had ben playing, I went about five or ten minutes past 11 to the Bull and Anchor, in Holborn. There were two or three bandsmen there. ll'Dcaald, who is in the same bead • :th me, and is a non-commissioned officer, came over about 12 o'clock. We had 'glass to drink, and our friend Hitching', who had been playing at the Lyceum, joined us about h►lf-past 12, but I did not see him have anything to drink. He wee sitting on • form. When we went oat, about 5 minutes to 1, he came with us. We walked along to Southampton-row, turned that street, and when we get se fez as the Turk's Head Hitching' said, " Let us go in and have something to drink." I said, " I don't are about anything to drink." Hitching. said, "I have had nothing to drink, and I should like some beer." We weal into the bar. Mtohings eddied for • pint of " *Apar.* The barmaid refused to serve it ; she said it was put the time, I said, " Oh, let us have some beer ; we will not be five minutes." She said she would ask her mistress, and did so ; but the mistress also said it was too late, so we left We went out one by one ; Hitching. find, and myself a little before M'Donald. When we got out 11I'Dorald sad I walked on together, and the other in advance. We walked on to Vernon-place, where McDonald said to me, " Hany, did you bear those two gentlemen behind' They made a now with their mouth, and called us pigs." I laid I did not hear. I turned round to look, and then I h►d a shove on the head. My head went back, and my hat fell off in the road. It was more a shove that a blow. It did not hurt me much. I moved a little fa one side. I then heard the report of a pistol, which was fired off by my side. I saw the man who fired it—a Wl man, with • .very long fair beard. I could not see Ids features, only his beard, and that his hair was cut short He bad a dark coat on. There was another man there, a shorter man, but I did not see his face, and should not know him. They ran away, across the road toward. Bloomsbury-square. Sl'Donald said " I am shot." WDonald ran about 16 yards to Bloomsbury-square, sad then fell. I ran after the two men, and thought I saw two objects turn to the left into • street oppwite Sou* ampton-row. I saw • cabman, and asked if he had seen two gentlemen running ; he said " no." I returned to my friends. I should say the man with the beard woe taller than the prisoner. I could not say that the prisoner is like him except that he was fair. The shorter one was about the prisoner's height. I did not see that he had any beard, nor did I see his features. He was thinner end shorter. The prisoner said he oould call witnesses to prove he wee not near the place, but he woold reserve himself until he had conned. -- --- Inspector Thompson—About 1 o'clock yesterday morning (Sunday), I was at the police-station in Clark's-bnildinge when the prisoner was brought in charged with violently assaulting two persons named King and Buzzer. Buzzer was smother with blood. The prisoner askei, whether he might have bail, and named two persons ; in auto:mace of which I directed that he should be marched. Mr. Flowers—Do you mean of the names? Witness—Yes; the dagger produced was taken from him. It is quite new. He was afterwards assa by Corrigan and identified as the man who had followed and threatened him a fortnight age. Afterwards I saw the prisoner, in company wi.h Inspector Garford, of the E division, and mid to him. I find it necessary to ask you one question, but pause well before you answer, as the matter may become very series, for you. Don't answer at all yet." He said, " What is it ? and I said, " I wish to know where you was shortly after one o'clock yesterday morning." He replied, " I was on my way home to Gilbert-street." I said, " Where from?" He answered, "From Southampton-row." I said, " Where had you been in Southampton.row r Ha said, "At Mrs. Byron's till the house closed, and then I left and went home." I took the prisoner to the University Hospital to the bedside of the injured man, lli'Donald. Several persons were standing round the prisoner. I asked 31'Donald if there was any one there that he had seen on the night he was shot. He looked tho prisoner up sad down, and after nodding at him 141, " That man is hire him in the face, but I think he was bigger than him." I went to the address be had given, and was shown to a room said to be occupied by Groves, where I found several papers oonnecting the prisoner with Fenianism. Mr. Flowers—Are they bore ? Mr. Garford—One is here, but the commissioners did not think it necessary to send them all. Mr. Flowers—l don't like that evidence about being Fenian papers, but you may say you suspect so. Witness' contined—ln a drawer I found a five chambered revolver, nearly new—it may have been used once or twice. All the chambers were loaded with powder, ball, and shot. I took the pistol to the station where the bullet produced was compared and found to fit the chambers. The prisoner when charged with shooting at and wounding Edwin M'Donald with intent to murder him, said, " You have made a great mistake." lie seemed greatly excited and trznibled from head to foot. The Prisoner—l did not say I was at Mrs. Byron's till the house was closed. He cross-questioned me, and I had no sleep the night before. Mr. Flowers suggested that as the case roust be re. mended, the prisoner had better metre his defence till be could consult his legal adviser. The prisoner —Yes, sir, but I can swear before my God that I never fired a revolve.. in Lyndon in my life, and never saw the prosecutor till I was taken to the hospital, or anybody that I saw at the hospital before. On the application of Mr. Superintendent Sale, of the E division, the prisoner was then remanded for • week on AL sharp. A railroad has been projected between Newport, in the Lie of Wight, and Sandmen, where it will join the Ryas and Vomstaar line. This will effect a continuous rail• way oommunication between Ride and Cowes, along the back of the eastern end and through the centre of the island. The new line will be needy nine miles long, and ►ts total soft is estimated at nearly 60,0001. Then priaonez Witco mast ha top win. 'mimes i Wert tl Polite on fiatm Ems's he for Meal remand oracles. 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