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MR. GLADSTONE IV SOUTH LANcASIIIRE. Tot: lists are opened, the tournament is pre pared, and the combatants are making ready. Mr. GLADSTONE is the first of the two champions to enter in and to depose, like a true knight, as to the motive of his arrival and the justice of his cause. The old appeal of the Lord Marshal, as SHAKESPEA RE has done it into poetry, might with no more than un ordinary stretch of poetical license, be addressed to the rival champions : In Bon's name and the QuKEN's, say who thou art, And why thou comn't thus knightly clad in arms, Against what man thou coms't and what thy quan el r speak truly, on thy knighthood and thy oath ; And so defend thee 'leaven and thy valour. To a silent challenge, in substance such as this, Mr. OLansToxE in his speech on Wednesday at st. Helen's, has given response clear and full. Presently we shall have Mr. DISRAELI ambling gracefully into the lists in Buckinghamshire, and mock-heroically yielding his reply to a similar in terrogatory. Whatsoever can be done by the arts of chicanery and magic will doubtless be attempted by the false knight. But his suppleness and dexterity and any unlaw ful aids which Eastern sorcery may invoke, will be of little avail against the good cause and the strong arm of his opponent. The issue of the combat before the constituencies will only repeat the victory of the right in the House of Com mons ; and the elder deities of the House of Lords, who watch the fray from their Olym pian heights, and even seek, like the Homeric gods, to mingle in the combats of mortals, and who fight the same battles in their ethereal abode, will be unable to affect the issue. As VENus felt the rough touch of DIOMEDE'S spear, and the bellowing of the wounded MARS filled the air, so the ethereal grace of the youthful Marquis of Bun has not escaped unscathed, and the Duke of PORTLAND'S contortions and cries of pain offend the sense of what is seemly in exalted beings whose veins are filled less with blood than with immortal ichor. In the former contest the Earl of DERBY inter vened, like an elderly VENUS, to carry off the pious Armes, in the modem shape of the pious Disaana, from the field in which he had incurred discomfiture and defeat, and hid him from pur suit in a thick cloud of sophistry. But this supernal aid has accomplished already all that it can effect, and there is no further hope in that quarter. Mr. Gi.aorrosz's speech at St. Helen's, on Wednesday, places the real issue which the con stituencies will have to decide at the polling booths in November, frankly and fairly before them. It is addressed, not merely to the electors of the county of which he is the present represen tive, nor to the voters whose names will soon be on the register, but to the inhabitants of the United Kingdom. The appeal which ho makes to them to do justice to Ireland might well rouse a people less earnest than that which inhabits these realms into one of those moods of noble enthusiasm which constitute the rare heroic moments of nations. If the appeal met no response, it would prove that there were no depths in the mind of England to answer to the deep convictions of her noblest statesmen; that she had become " a fen of stagnant waters;" and that the reel sources of her greatness were dried up. To accept, as her leader, her representative states man, her man of men, the politician who can declare, as Mr. Disaaam has done, that the con- dition of Ireland at this moment is a subject of sincere congratulation, would be a natior.al disgrace. A front of brass NOM needed for the unabashed delivery of such a sentiment, and a heart of stone for its conception ; or, if wo may not think of it and its author so harshly as this, it is a betrayal of political incapacity more signal than has ever proceeded from any man oc cupying the high position to which fortune, intrigue, and audacity have raised the present First Minister of the Crown. We ought, according to Mr. DISRAELI, to be supremely satisfied with the condition of Ireland when rebellion smoulders instead of bursting out into a fierce flame, when sedition instead of noisily raving is sullenly silent, when the sword of arbitrary government is held threateningly over the land and does not actually fall to smite. A statesman occupied with such an ideal of what is satisfactory, and who can sincerely congratulate himself upon the state of things which it denotes, will certainly do nothing to im prove it. The physician who does not recognise the disease is not likely to effect a radical cure. Mr. DISRAELI'S present language with respect to Ireland is simply an apology for doing nothing, until the time shall come to give effect to his suspended but not abandoned scheme for taking the Roman Catholic hierarchy into the counsels of the Government, for placing the education of the people in the hands of a priesthood directed from Rome, and governing the country under the nominal vice royalty of an inoffensive English marquis or duke, but really as a suzerainty of the POPE, admi nistered by Cardinal Cuizzis, or Cardinal Commits successor. All this is the natural and inevitable development of the policy of Mr. DISRAELI and Lord MAYO, of making all churches equal, not by confiscation but elevation, of improving the status of the unondowed clergy, and of the estab lishing and paying an exclusively Roman Catholic University, and an indefinite number of Roman Catholic Colleges. For the sake of giving effect to this precious scheme, tho promoters of which have the boldness to appeal to the Protestantism of England, and even to raise the " No Popery" cry, the constituencies are asked to delay, that is to deny, justice to Ire land, to continue to govern her by the suspension of law, and to refuse to retire from that brink of civil war on which, as Mr. GLADSTONE justly says, the prolonged withdrawal of the guarantees of personal liberty practically places us. To termi nate this evil state of things in the present, and to prevent the weaving of that web of mis chief for the future of which Mr. Distuati has thrown out the first linos, is the prime object of liberal statesmanship. This end can be gained only in one way ; and that is by the immedi ate and complete withdrawal by the State: from all connection, by means of endowment, with the several churches of Ireland, Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Presby terian. This is the policy which Mr. GLADSTONE has declared, which the House of Commons by an overwhelming majority, and the Liberal party with practical unanimity, has accepted ; and which the country will adopt and enforce. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY E. . l'irr.ee briny. Death pheyßeg on a deellatlabr. • liehial him, • poor old woman with a rosary, Follows the wad, and sow totte gsw er diet & Were swifter to oriole him Tin The inscription reads, "Batter is Death them Life." Elrie. Better is Death than Life! Ah, yes! to 'thousands Death plays upon a dulcimer, and sings That song of consolation, till the air Rings with it, and they cannot choose but follow IA hither he leads. And not the old alone, But the young also hear it, and are still. Prince Newry. Yes, in their sadder moments. "Fis the sound Of their own heats they hear, half full of tears, Which are like crystal cups, half filled with water, Responding to the pressure of a With music sweet, and low, and=eholy. Let us go forward, and no longer stay In this great picture gallery of death! I hate it! ay, the very thought of it! Elsie. Why is it hateful to you? Priori* Entry. For the reason That life, and all that speaks of life, is lovely, And death, and all that speaks of death, is hateful. Elsie. The grave itself is but a emend Leading from light to light, through a brie f darks _ _ The - exquisite " Golden I.egend " from which the foregoing extract is taken, will, we may be sure accompany the royal author of the " Diary" in her visits in the vicinity of Lucerne. What traveller fails to recognise this picture: This bridge is called the Devil's Bridge. With a single arch, from ridge to ridge, It leaps across the terrible chasm Yawning beneath us, black and deep, • As if, in some oonvulsive spasm, The summits of the hills had cracked, And made a road for the cataract, That raves and rages down the steep ! Never any bridge but this Could stand across the wild abyss; All the rest, of wood or stone, re to the Devil's band were overthrown. crags from the precipice, Andtid e tfice'er was built by day In the night was swept away ; None could stand bit this alone. Or this of the Pass of St. Omura, : Prince Henry. This is the highest point. Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents. It is pleasant to think of the exquisite scenery being thus allied to the exquisite verse, and the refining, soothing influences of both stealing softly over the heart and mind. It is pleasant to think of our QUEEN and her daughters, freed for the time from the worry and turmoil of state, and pomp, and fuss, gazing upon The Lake of the Four Forest Towns apparelled In light, and lingering, like a village maiden, Rid in the bosom of her native mountains, Then pouring all her life into another's, Changing her name and being! Overhead, Shaking his cloudy tresses loose in air, Rises hiatus, with his windy pines; and then to picture them riding or driving through one of the fairest landscapes in Europe, with its whitewashed cottages glistening in the sun, and the green pendants of the overhanging branches giving shade to the tired wayfarer. In short, the CtrEzze a holiday is full of bright and happy pro mise, and it rests with her faithful subjects travel ling abroad to see that neither curiosity nor mis taken loyalty interfere with its enjoyment. THE Liberal party have every reason to be en couraged by the character of the lists published and posted on the church-doors by the parochial offi cers during the last few days. We learn that these papers not only show a vast increase of voters, but that the additions are mainly on the Liberal side. These lists, moreover, are independent of the lodgers, who have till the 23th to make good their claims. The abundance of candidates of Liberal professions indicates pretty clearly the general expectation of the result. Lodger-voters in the metropolitan districts will be numerous, the City of London showing a considerable proportion. Mr. BzuonT's letter, which we printed yesterday, relative to the policy of electors in the three-cornered constituencies, is much to the point. If the advice there contained is attended to, the minority clause will fail to realise the object of its promoters. LORD STANLEY will be in Paris to-morrow, and in the course of his stay will have an interview with the Marquis DE MOLTSTIER, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Loin) Jonx Max:czas is spoken of as likely to succeed the Earl of MAYO as Chief Secretary of Ireland. SOUTH LANCASHIRE. —lt ie understood that Mr. Henry Yates Thompson will stand as one of the candidates for South-East Lancashire. He is now on his way from India, and may be expected in a few days. For the second seat, a gentleman is now being communi cated with who stands high as • politician and a con sistent liberal and supporter of Mr. Gladstone. His de cision is expected very shortly. THE LIGHT OP THE "LANTERN."—The Liberal Berninas informs it, readers that they must not expect to read any more extracts from La Lanterns in its columns, its manager having been informed by the prefect that if they were continued the sale of his paper in the public streets would be prohibited. IL H. Bochefort is in a sad situation ; for, while the people of Bayonne are shut out by government authority from reading extracts from his Lantern be has just been fined 21. by the celebrated " Sixth Ch amber " of Paris for not immediately inserting • government communique of nineteen columns in its pages. Paul Louis Courier used to say, " L'antortte, messieurs, voila le grand mot en France!" " Between 12 and 1 " is the title of a work by M. Gustave Claudia, in which he shows the moral de pravation which has been wrought in the character of the French people of late years. Mn. C,onar.—We learn that Mr. Corry will be prevented from accompanying his colleagues in the ap proaching visitation to the dockyards, as his medical advisers consider it necessary to the more complete re storation of his health that he should spend some time at one of the Spas in Germany. We understand it is his intention to visit the dockyards privately later in the year. —.Herald, Ma. DIY CAE.—The announcement that Mr. Du Cane has left England for Tasmania is quite errone ous. The report originated in a mistake of an Essex paper. Mr. Du Cane has no intention of darting until the first week in October, when he will be accompanied by Mn. Du Cane and his family. The new governor has determined to go by way of the Cape to Syiy, whither be will proceed in the &brown, the same sailing-clipper that took out Lord Belmore last year to New South Wales. —roar. Da ELLIOTSON.—Tbe mortal remains of this eminent physician ware on Tuesday interred in the family vault at Kensal- green . He was followed to his last rest ing place by a few of his old and attached friends. The funeral, at his own express desire, was conducted in the quietest manner possible. Had any public intimation been given, hundreds of those who had been the recipients of his benevolence and the subj ects of his skill would h ave flocked to pay their last tribute of regard to one so noble, great, and good.—Tisses. Tna linen CHURCH COMMISSION.—" As many incoherent statements have been put into circulation re garding the report of the Irish Church Commission," the Dublin .lioneing Mail thinks it right to say that " there is no likelihood of the document being published sooner than at least a month from this date. The laying of the report upon the table of the House of Com mons was a mere form necessary in order to admit of its being printed and published during the recess. Some of the intimations regarding the contents have a certain foundation, but they are imperfect, and neither the recommendations nor the reasons for them can be understood without an examination of the entire document. Any speculation upon their character or value is. therefore, premature and unadviaable. From the nature of the details, comprising a large amount of figures, which would be valueless unless accurate, the work of printing is necessarily tedious. The commission is still in full work, one of the commissioners attending daily at the Milos to superintend the work." NATIONAL EXHIBITION OP WORKS OP AZT AT Lamm 1868.—Return of IaSIIIIIiOIII Wednesday Au. gust 6.—By season tickets, 786 ; by payment of 2s. 6d. each, 8413. Total, 1,434. THE QUEEN'S HOLIDAI: THE QrzErt is to leave Paris this evening, and by to-morrow morning will be on the banks of Lake Lucerne. That she may heartily enjoy her holiday is the fervent wish of the countless thou sands who are following her in imagination through the most beautiful parts of Switzerland. The one essential to this enjoyment is that her privacy shall be respected by the travelling English. Lucerne is the head-quarters of the conventional Swiss tourist. Its great hotels are English in their manners, customs, and company. The broad walk bordering the lake in their front has at this time of year Englishmen and Englishwomen on each of its shady seats ; and to go up Pilatus or the Righi, to visit Thorwaldsen's lion, or the quaint pointed bridge, is to find yourself inevitably elbowed by compatriots who are " doing " these sights for the• first or the fiftieth time. It is earnestly to be hoped that Her liatEtrrY will not be regarded by any of these as one of the shows of Lucerne, and that her appearance in public will be allowed to pass without observation. We have no fear that any class but the tourist will invade her privacy; and if it be once fully understood that to do so will be to rob a rare holiday of its charm, we are satisfied that good taste and good feeling will prevail, and that the " Countess of HMIT " will be per mitted to enjoy the exquisite scenery in peace. Let it be remembered that the matronly lady and the two fair girls in mourning are to be passed unrecognised, and that cheers, or bows, or crowding round, or noticing, will be acts of positive cruelty. Let it be made a point of honour among English travellers to recog nise the pleasant fiction of an incognito ; and let there be an unwritten but stringent code which shall condemn those who intrude by word, or look, or gesture, as people of ill breeding. Her MAJESTY has shown her con fidence in the respect entertained for her wishes by selecting so crowded a place as Lucerne for her first sojourn in private ; and it should be the pride of its visitors to show her that the royal faith in their sense and judgment is not mis placed. Perfect privacy ensured, and what could be more charming than the experiences about to be tasted by the Qum/ and her daughters ? Readers of the " QUEEN'S Diary" may fancy the party rising early to explore the ancient portions of the old Swiss town, and wandering on its famous covered bridge to pore over the quaint figures in the Dance of Death—probably LONGFELLOW in hand, and comparing their own thoughts and feelings with those of the well-loved well-known Page The Dance of Death. All that go to and fro must look upon it, Mindful of what they shall be, while beneath Among the wooden piles, the turbulent river Rushes, imetuous as the river of life, With dimp ling eddies, ever green and bright Save where the shadow of this bridge falls on it. . . . . The grim musician Leads all men through the mazes of that dance To different sounds in different measures moving ; Sometimes he plays a lute, sometimes a drum, To tempt or terrify. • Skit. What is this pictures Priam Henry. It is a young man singing to a nun, Who kneels at her devotions, but in lmeeling Turns round to look at him ; and Death, meanwhile, Is pu tting out the candles on the altar ! _ _ Elsie. what a pity 'tis that she should listen Unto such songs, when in her orisons She might have heard in heaven the angels singing. Priam Henry. Here he has stolen a jester's cap and bells, And dances with the Queen. Ellie. A foolish jest. Will not a special meaning be found in this ?—., Prixes Seery. And here the heart of the new-wedded wi/e, Coming from church with her beloved lord, He startles with the rattle of his drum. Elan'. Ah, that is sad ! And yet perhaps 'tie beet That she should die with all the sunshine on her, And all the benedictions of the morning, Before this affluence of golden light Shall fade into a cold and clouded gray. Then into darlmess! Privet.* Henry.. Under it is written, " Npthing but death shall separate thee and me !" Dm. And what is this, that follows close upon it ? OUR CONTEMPORMITHIL Mini DAY.) TOY 011.111YANOI OF SWORII. Tho Times reduces the various complaints which reach it respecting sermons to the general state ment that those compositions are now so intolerably dull. 'ibis fact the clergy must take as it stands, and must be •cured that no improvement in mere memories will mend matters. There is nothing more wonderful than the attraction of public speaking, even when it is far distant from oratory. A street preacher, an itinerant lecturer, the rudest Dissenting =infidel., can be sum at any time of an attentive audience by virtue of the simple fact that he proposes to speak. Be has something to my, and people will at least listen to hear what it is. But when an educated man man rises to speak to an educated audience in an Anglican pulpit, this sense of interest seems to disap pear, and he is listened to in mere submission. The fatal def. et, in the opinion of the Tulin, is that the ser mons i■ the church are read from a manuscript, • habit which no other clam of public speakers would venture to adopt. There im no necessity for a spoken sermon to be extempore. Orcat orators have generally prepared their addre a a with the most scrupulous and laborious care. If busy men can find time to prepare thus accurately • speech of two or three hours, could not • clergyman find time, in the six days that intervene between Sunday and Sunday, to prepare • half-hour's sermon with equal com pleteness P If half an hour be too much for the memory and thought of • beginner, by all means let him be con tent to commence with • quarter of an hour. ♦llowing that the pulpit is nut all that it might be, the Daily News remarks that the complaints do not come tinselly from great popular congregations nor from quiet pariah churches, but from fashionable places of worship, /limes in which the sermon can hardly be earnest, for 'ea:wetness is vulgar. If Paterfamilias does not worship the proprieties, why does he go to their shrine? If he longs for intellectual discourse, why does he go to see a 'pageant? If he cannot endure a bad sermon, why does be not go where he ran hear • good one ? Probably poor sermons are the rule everywhere, and good sermons the exception. No doubt the divided condition of modern society on religious questions is a great drawback to preaching. In no other sphere does natural genius lie under such restrictions, for it is driven from the pulpit by our religious divisions; but no insti tution is likely to be abolished in order that • few men may be saved the unpleasant necessity of refusing to conform to it. Sermons are no more likely to be abolished than public worship itself. They may be dull, but ser vices without them would soon come to be duller. The best friends of the Church of England are certiinly not those who are crying out against sermons. Wales was lost to her for lack of preaching ; the English multitudes have been won from her allegiance by the preachers of methodian and independency ; and if she is to retain her national position, it will only be by preaching. THRIZ -001IXENSD 00] The Telegraph argues that the three-cornered plan is especially unfavourable to the individual independence of the electors. The result of the election in the triple con stituencies will entirely depend on elaborate calculations, first-rate management, splendid discipline, and exact obedience to the word of command. There will be no free play for individual choice, as want of discipline may lose the whole battle. Thus everything will tend to fall into the hands of caucuses and committees. If through any blundering, any bad luck, or tory trick at Birming ham Mr. Bright should lose his seat—and everything is possille whin each elector must himself solve the conun drum or vote blind—we shall have the reductio ad absurdum of the minority clause. The three-cornered cocked hat constituencies would then certainly be "smashed fiat." THE TOVOHAL ELECTION. The Star is surprised at the spectacle of the Roman catholic priests at Youghal supporting a small Disraelite like Sir Joseph McKenna, against the liberal candidate, Mr. Weguelin. Evidently the natural shrewdness of the priests has been overcome by an artistic manipulation of their prejudices, or by some other ingenious contrivance which has been more successful than worthy. But if they do not act with the liberals, liberals are not, or ought not, to be scared by them from going their own gate. the !Court. OSBORNE, Ammer 5. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, left Osborne this afternoon for Switzerland. Eler Majesty and their royal highnesses embarked on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain the Prince of Leiningen, 0.C.8., in Osborne-bay soon after 12 o'c'ock, and shortly afterwartbdeft for Cherbourg. The mile in attendance consisted of the Marchioness of Ely, Major-General Sir Thomas and Lady Biddulph, Mdl e. tans C.i!onel Ponsonby, Sir William Jenner, and thl Rte. B. Duckworth. Prirc • sal Prinoeee Louie of Hesse took leave of her liae,ty at Clevorae.pier. The i.,ltte< n will travel and reside on the Continent as Countess of Kent, and will maintain the strictest incog nita during her residence abroad. Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by Baroness Grancy, Major Von Hesse, and Baron Rabenau, intend leaving for Germany 10-morrow. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting of the council of lf s royal highness, held at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham-gate, St. James's-park. Th re were 'resent SirWilliamJohn Alexander, Attorney- General; General Sir William Thomas Knollys, Comp trollsr of the Household of his royal highness ; and Herbert W 'am Fisher, Esq., Keeper of the Privy Seal. Mr. Bateman, the secretary, attended as Clerk of the Council. The Prince of Wales attended yesterday at a meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, of which his royal highness is president for the ensuing year. The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge. Messrs. Vandswall and De Villiers, delegates from the Orange Free State, attended by Philip P. Blyth, Esq., consul-general for that republic, had an interview yester day with Lord Stanley, at the Foreign-office. The Duke of Richmond presided yesterday at the Board of Trade, in the arbitration between the Brighton and Surrey and Sussex Railway Companies, which was re ferred to him by the Brighton Act of last session. His Grace was attended by Mr. Fry, Mr. Samuel Laing, jun., and Mr. Philip Rose on behalf of the Brighton Company.; and by Mr. Venable*, Q.C., Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Faithful on behalf of the Surrey and Sussex Company. Mr. F. S. Reilly, barrister, of Lincoln's-inn, who has been appointed by the duke to act as his assessor, also attended. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor-General of Canada and to the Governor cd Malta. The christening of the infant daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales takes place to-day at Marl borough House. Their royal highnesses have invited • select party to luncheon after the ceremony. The Duke of Edinburgh left Clarence House, St. James's, last evening for Plymouth. _ . The Duke of Cambridge left town on Tuesday evening for Germany. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh paid a farewell visit to his royal highness at the Horse Guards a few hours before his de parture for the Continent. A marriage is arranged to take place between Viscount Andover, M.P., eldest eon of the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, and Miss Eleanor Coventry, fourth daughter of the Hon. Henry Coventry.—A marriage is arranged between Mr. Montgomerie, of Garholdisham, Norfolk, and Mir Eleanor Laseelles, daughter of the Hon. Arthur Lascelles, of Norley, Cheshire. According to late accounts from Plombieres, the health of the Emperor is in a more satisfactory state. After undergoing the thermal treatment he felt some fatigue for two days, but he is now much better, and has resumed his 4psual drives. A ball having been offered to his Majesty and suite, it was declined, with a request that the money to be expended upon it should be diatri. buted amongst the poor. The Emperor lives very quietly, very retired, and is constantly engaged in the business of the state. The court occupies the whole of one wing of the Hotel Napoleon, containing about 80 beds. Two gen darmes are seated at the door of his cabinet guarding the ambiance, and two valets attend immediately upon the Emperor. Very few audiences are given. , AUGUST FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) WAR. The name of M. Odysee-Barot, whose life was so strangely preserved in the recent duel with M. Jeaker, the banker, makes its reappearance in the columns of La Liberte of to-day, under an article appositely entitled "La Quern)." Its tenor may be judged of by the following extract : The now famous sitting of the Italian parliament on July 21 has become the principal concern of the whole of Europe—of governments as well as journals. In Italy, in Germany, in France, and in England, the press is dis closing, criticising, attacking, or defending the conduct of General La Marmon% ; every one perceives that the strange revelations of the Commander-in-Chief at Cus tozza are pregnant with consequences; and that the note of 11. Von Usedom, revealed so enigmatically, and after so long a lave of time, is, perhaps, about to take the place of the match too soon extinguished of Luxembourg. • The article of M. Barot is preceded by one from M. E. de Girardin, which advocates the programme of the " Geographical Unity of France." This, of course, means war also. A LETTER FROM GARIBALDI. The Alnico del Popolo, of Bologna, publishes the following letter from General Garibaldi: • Caprera, July 29. My dear Friends, —I hoped everything from the generous people of August 8, to whom I am bound by love and gratitude, and I have been deeply impressed by the kind reception you have given to Menotti and his wife. This degrading existence, to which a handful of wretches who misgovern it have consigned our poor coun try, afflicts me as it does you. If, last year, the Italians understood me, I should have been able with you to rescue her from her misery and degradation. But unfortunately by the side of the mighty heroes of our time whose blood has been shed in a hundred battle fields— without seeking for any other reward than that of fight ing for Italy—there is always a mass of rabble and doctri naires, who, traitors, under the pretext of principle and punsm,abandoned their companions in the hour of danger. Our people,without abandoning the labour whichpreserves the body,should think of firming their mind, for what kind of liberty is to be expected from a nation which every day falls down at the feet of priests—the pedestals of every tyranny—and the soldiers of the most atrocious of Italy' s tyrants I shall believe that our people mean freedom when I see the shop of St. Peter's turned into an asylum for the indigent, when I see the flask of St. Januarius broken on the tonsured pate of the ludicrous sorcerer. Come what will, I shall die unhappy if, on the day when you fight for Italy's liberty—which I hope will be soon— I cannot follow you at least in an ambulance.—Yours devotedly, my Bolognese friends, G. GARIBALDI. THE 13nr OF AUGUST. " We are assured," says the A resit. Nati. , ,otl, " that the Emperor will be in Paris on the lath, and that on the afternoon of the previous day, after an important council of ministers he will hold a ret i-w of the troop. 111:s fa under existing cinunirtances, would have a certain gratify. But it is add. d that in addition to the review the Emperor will mal • an address to the army. We hope that this latter information is incorrect, for it would be difficult to regard a speech made to soldiers by the Emperor as a manifesto of peace." (TAROUOR REUTER'S AGENCY.) ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND AT PARIS. PARIS, Avauar G. Queen Victoria arrived here this morning at 7.13, and alighted at the English Embassy. OUR PARIS LETTER. QUEEN VICTORIA'S JOURNEY. (rßox oui owN coßasercerrizzrr.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENLY°. The Queen is expected at Cherbourg this even ing. In pursuance of her Majesty's desire the Victoria and Albert yacht will not be saluted as it enters the harbour. No minister or aide-de camp of the Emperor will receive her Majesty. The maritime prefect, Admiral Reynaud, is the only official who will approach the Queen's yacht to take the Queen's orders. Her Majesty, the Princesses, and the Prince will dine on board the yacht. At about 11 in the evening the royal party will step from a boat to the state carriage provided by the Western Company, and which will be in waiting on a quay of the arsenal. Some lines of rails have been laid down on purpose between the Cherbourg station and the arsenal to spare her Majesty the necessity of going about half a mile through the town in a carriage. The state carriage has been comfortably fitted up with beds. One evening paper says the personnel of the British Embassy has gone to Cher bourg. I think this must be a mistake. Lord Lyons will, I believe be in waiting to receive her Majesty at the Paris station in the Rue St. Lazare at seven to-morrow morning. M. Duvergier, the secretary-general of the prefecture of police, and M. Nusse, the head of the municipal police, have orders to be at the station, but not to present themselves officially. The Queen and suite will proceed direct to the British embassy in carriages provided by Lord Lyons. The first floor of the embassy has been prepared for her Majesty's use. Some of the papers say the Queen will only stay in Paris three hours before going on to Switzer land, but I think this must be a mistake. The Empress, I hear in several quarters, means to come from Fontainebleau this evening, and sleep not at the Tuileries but at the Elysee, in order to be quite close to the Queen. One story is that when the Empress pays a visit to the Queen at the embassy, she will beg her not to return the call on account of the fatigue of the long journey she is taking, but that her Britannic Ma jesty will, nevertheless, pay the Empress a visit at the Elysee. It is quite decided, I believe, that there are to be no receptions or presentations of any kind, either at Lord Lyons's or the Elysie. I think it probable that the Queen will leave Paris by the Lyons Railway about seven to-morrow evening. _ _ M. Henri Rochefort was this day sentenced to four months' imprisonment and a fine of 200 fr. for an assault upon M. Rochette, sprinter. M. Roche fort's only reason for striking him was that he had printed a libel upon him, and refused to give up the name of the author. I remember a great many years ago, when Mr. Grantley Berkeley, aided, I think, by his brother, went into a shop in Regent-street, and committed a violent assault upon the publisher of Fraser's Magazine, who would not tell the name of the author of an article subsequently owned by Dr. Maginn —an eminent tory Queen's counsel, who afterwards became a great chancery judge, maintained at his own dinner-table that it was justifiable to break a publisher's head under the circumstances. I did not agree with him then, and I do not agree with him now. In this analo gous case of M. Henri Rochefort I think he acted both lawlessly and foolishly, and deserved punish ment. At the same time, the assault not having been a severe one, and the provocation very gall ing, I am quite sure the publio will be of opinion, and not wrongly, that such a heavy sentence as Joni months' imprisonment, pronounced by M. Delesvaux's tribunal, which is especially dedicated to tl e tri of press offences, would not h awarded but for the fact that M. Rock .tort is a formidable opposition writer. We kW; ev4r7 day far milder punishments iuflictod for far %0r.,4 attacks upon the person. During the trig, m Laurier, the defendant's counsel, was interniptisi by a voice exclaiming, " That is not President Delesvaux said, " Turn that man out court." But when ho was informed that offender was no other than M. Roehefort's lib slur M. Marshal, alias De Bussy, he ordered him escorted home by a military form, to proteq ii life from popular fury. . _ At the Bourse, Rentc remains without chan,?,... but heavy rather than otherwise. Other securiti.,, were lower. Mobilier fell ,fr., and Comps.,;, d'Escompte I 2fr. 50c. DEPARTURE OF MB DUKE OF B1)1%11111;911 (UV TELEOBAIII.) DOVER, TUrItkIDAY MOIINI N The Duke of Edinburgh arrived h ire 1,.. night at 11.40 by South-Eastern train. 11„ It Highness travelled strictly fe^ogei , n, attended e e l, I, y the Hon. Eliot Yorke, and was received and to the Admiralty-pier by Colonel Hamilton, Colonel Cox, Assistant Adjutant-lienerah Colonel and the Mayor of Dover (Mr. J. (1. Churehivird . embarked in a special steamer (the Samphirni, to! (2 ‘• , re route for Far is. A /mall crowd RB9 collected, whi .h ch...r..1 A, .• . steamer Time* (Second Edition). EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT ON BOARD 4 TACET AT WATERFORD. A day or two ago, Mr. George Malcomson, %fr, Ma'comma, and family, left the Tramore Hotel and into Waterford, where they embarked on board the stem yacht Coquet, with a party of friends, to enjoy the CAI r. t Regatta. When the vessel steamer► through Fe bridge, going up the river, there was no delay or imp.•l ment of any kind. The yacht, with her large pa-•y, formed a conspicuous object at the regatta. In returu.3 4 front Carrick. she shot rapidly through Fiddown-brit:., but, unfortunately, a vessel which was then ►yin;; 1.. anchor had carried a hawser to the oprisite side of the n r• •r, and it was stretched right across the arch of the bridge, through which the steamer was passing, about the level the gunwale. The hawser thus completely swept h , •r decks. The slight mast, merely used for ssignalling. snapp•••l like a reed. The funnel was prostrated, with much vio lence, in a moment, and stniek Mr. Michael Roberts a moot violent blow on the head. So great was the sho•k that it laid open his forehead, and killed the unfortunAt • gentleman on the spot. Some of the gentlemen, seee., the rope, gave the alarm, and mo-t of the party themselves upon the deck and so escaped. Mr. Mal, ••• son was, however, unable to do so, :rid was carried the river, whence he was rescued. Some of the jumped into the water, and kept thenwlve-i all, it s. rope was thr•nwrl to them. The ladies also kid 3 narrow escape. SERIOUS FIRE Al' THE RA IL WA F STA TIoN.--1.1111.5 - 1.1.1 This morning shortly after 3 o'.•l , irk a fir. L• out on the Lon,lin. Brighton. and south C .ast I; station at London-bridge. and at one tune • - most disastrous consequences. At tlic tin e • of tle break there were only ;dyd three ps•rson, on duty ~t .. station, and their attention was suddenly attract-.t • the vaults under the platform by seeing an Min: volume of smoke pouring up and enveloping the inter, of the station. The vaults and a shed building over 1.,. were used as oil stores awl lamp rooms, and judging it ..! the rapidity of the the there must have been a 1 . • . able quantity of oil or other combustible matter is i],: place, for in less time than the company's fire en.: , ! could be wheeled over the plait torn, the 0.. changed to huge sheets of flame, which lapp. over three first and one second-class carria• An immense wooden tank on the station, which supplu the company's engine, took fire several times, and tb , . hose had to be directed upon it to save it from destruc tion; but by the exertions of the firemen and the London Salvage CorpK, the fire was eventually arrested in its pro gress, and no further loss of property occurred. De; damage done, however, must be considerable, for although several attempts were made to save some of the many expensive lamps, the heat suit smoke drove the persoi, back, and the whole of the thing♦ in the two vaunt, and the lamp-room were damaged or destroyed. The following is a copy of Captain Shaw's otli , - report of the damage done:—'• London, Brighton. South Coast Railway Caimans.. London-bridge terinui Mr. Allen Sarle, secretly—Tiniber building, used lamp stores, 45 feet by 12, used as cleaning roans • • room, and stores, and 1•i feet of No. 1 arrival plati, le. with water-tank, seriously injured hy tiro•, and dire,• •• • class carriages considerably damaged by tire and w .u• . Insurance unknown. Cause of GREAT FIRE IX EIMEHOUSE. 7} Another fire, attended with a serious d..:truoi.••? of property, commenced this (Thursday) morning at iii•. minutes past 4 o'clock on the premises belonging I. • 1••••-, •. G. Robertson and Sons, ship eh:millers, situate in te. Ann's-place, Limehouse. Not a moment was lost in setting the engine: to w qk, but the flames had previously extended to the id; graphic premises of a Mr. Moore, No. 9, in thii -.sun • street, and they also attacked the warehouses on Itri•- annia-wharf, the property of Mr. Winn, mast and maker. These warehouses were 6.5 feet in length. in I from thence the tire seized the warebousesonCopenlia:• wharf, igniting, in the first instance, 100 feet long and 40 feet deep. copious streams of scat-. were thrown upon the flames, but they -till continued t • spread, and it was with difficulty that the premises of Messrs. Forrest and Sons, the life-boat builder. to tlei National Lifeboat Society, were say.slfrum total •lestrue tion. The damage done is considerable. and is thus returned by Captain Shaw Ands-pliee, Linielinus Messrs. G. Robertson and Sens. chandlrs, a building of three floors, u•ed as stores, 01 feat by 40, burned out and roof off. Insured in the London Fire Office. Counting dant iged. by fire, water, &c. No. 9, H. Moore, photographer 16 feet by 12, destroyed, roof of dark room and glass hors damaged by fire, water, and cutting away. Insuod in the Imperial and Preserver Fire Offices. llritannia-sili irt. It. Winn, building used as workshops. 0.; feet by . 2.. c abut one-third severely damaged by tire and water. Britannia yard, Forrest and Sons, roof of shed and one boat d ranged by fire, water, Ice. Copenhagen-whari. a build ing 100 feet long, and 40 broad, about 1.) feet of ris,i de stroyed. The foundation of a new church at Killarney was laid on Thursday by the Bishop of Limerick, in pre sence of a large and influential concourse. A man died on Thursday near Ncnagh from the effects of sunstroke. Ile bad been reaping. awl, aim eating his dinner, he lay down incautiously in the licit. exposed to the full blaze of the sun. Sixteen fires have recently taken place On Southampton-common, chiefly owing to the drought and the hot weather. The common was on fire the whole of last week. It became alarming, and threatened several residences on Monday last. The flames passed across the main road and stopped the traffic. A monthly steam packet communication between Bremen, Southampton, and New Orleans will be c•!ili lished in October next by the North German Lliyl Company. The fancy for contests of skill and bodily strength in rifle and pigeon shooting, boat rowing. swimming , running, &e., has taken a strange direction in Hemp its, where the bakers have had contests who could bake a number of biscuits quickest, and where the pork butchers have contested who could kill a pig in the shortest time. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. —At a meeting of directors of this company, held yesteniay, it was decided to recommend to the proprietors, at their next meeting, to declare a dividend for the half year at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum, less income-tax. DISGRACEFUL RAPACITY.—About ten days ago two gentlemen, Major Morgan and Mr. Tweedie, were drowned off Milport, Fl of Clyde, by the upsetting of a small boat. Though every effort was made to recover bodies, it was not until Monday evening last that any success attended the dragging. On that evening two fishermen found the body of Mr. Tweedie, which. how ever, they refused to give up unless the dece as ed's father gave them 100/. Mr. Two:sidle, though perfectly willing to give a handsome reward for the recovery of his mi t e body, demurred to such an extortionate demand, the but he fishermen were inexorable, and refused to bring body on shore till their demands were com plied with. Ulti mately the police had to interfere, and on threatening to take the boatmen into custody for unlawfully detaining the body, it was reluctantly given no. Great ' WKS at the conduct of the fi nders, the mom ape ciltayeirter. Tweedie bad offered • munificent reward for the finding of the body. in- r F I" • r :y ': ,~ '.