The Express. — London, England, 1858-08-06 00:00:00

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A SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS;' containing the results of the day's Rams, is pub lished every evening daring the Sporting Season, at siz o'clock. TTI E 3th of August will henceforth be celebrated IPA the day on which the Old and New World were brought into instantaneous communication, by the triumph of mind over matter. In an age of marvels the most marvellous work of all has been effected. The wildest imagination of the wildest post never ventured to play with such a wonder u this. The despised men of science, the patient questioners of nature, have found the means of freeing the subtle lightning confined in a few drops of water or a few grains of metaL They have laid a pathway for it to travel through the lowest stillest depths of the Atlantic, far below the influence of wave and storm. The im prisoned spirit, freed from matter by thought, con veys its commands with the rapidity of its liberator. The same subtle 'plait which directed CoLutteus to the shores of the New World now becomes man's messenger to carry his thoughts from one world to the other. The same power which made the needle point to the pole to lead the mariner over the path less ocean, now conveys man's messages below its abyss with a rapidity that mocks even the flight of time. It was nearly two centuries after Marco POLO brought the pole of the magnetic needle for naviga tion from China, before the adventurous Counters, trusting to its guidance, discovered the Indies of the West. Science now marches with more rapid strides. The same generation which witnessed the first steamboat tempt the waters in defiance of wind and tide, saw steam mite the Old and New World in hebdomadal communication. It is hardly 70 years sines Madame GALVANI ob served the convalaione of the frogs she was prepar ing for her husband's soup, when touched by an electrical conductor. Her accidental observations gave birth to thole splendid aeries of dircoveriee which, in leas than a century, have unfolded such strange pre in the Book of Nature, and which the utilising spirit of the age has already so successfully appropriated to the exigencies of the highest degree of civilisation. Lord fi ICON taught as that the best mode of as a knowledge of the seents of Nature was to ask her questions, with a humble, diligent, teachable spirit. Threescore years and ten have been devoted to the inquirise—Why does amber when rubbed draw light feathers to itself? Why does the magnet at tract iron sod point to the poles? Why should a dead frog be apparently brought again to life foe an ;natant, if when one metal touches a nerve and an other a muscle these two metals be united to a third? The answers to these three questions have reduced all three phenomena to the action of one single cause. All lead to the subtle spirit or power we call Electricity. Though es yet we know not what this electricity la we have learnt to tame it. It is the spirit of the storm. We see it in the lightning ; we hear it is the thunder. We make it our VULCAN, to eliminate metals from the earth which swim on water. We cause it to rend rocks asunder. It is the slave of the metallurgist. We make it reduce the works of an age into instantaneous ruin. It has crumbled Russia's proudest engineering triumph into dust, with the resistless power of the thunderbolt; and Dow it is oar MIZCORT, to carry winged messages from the Old World to the New with lightningspeed. The triumph of the Atlantic Cable is all the, greater as previous failures have shown that the work was one of no slight difficulty. When we announced the last failure we did so still sanguine of the ultimate success of the great undertaking. Three hundred and thirty miles of cable had been laid in the lowest depths of the Atlantic. Failure, therefore, presaged success. If three hundred miles mould be laid, why should not three thousand, if necessary ? Perseverance has been rewarded with its natural results. The rendezvous was reached by the two vessels on Wednesday, the 213th of July. The.next morn ing the Niagara's portion of the cable was spliced to the Agamemnon's, on board the latter. By noon the next day, Friday, 265 nautical miles were laid between the two ship.. On Saturday the distance between the Agamemnon and Niagara was increased to 840 miles. On Sunday it was 884, on Tuesday 1,268, and on Wednesday 1,864 miles. At 6 o'clock in the morning of Thursday, the Bth of Anne, the Agiunemnon waa anchored in Valentia Harbour. The Niagara had safely reached Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The two ships were united by 2,02'2 miles of cable, and the Atlantic Telegraph was conveying to both crews the gratifying intelli gence that their anxieties were over, and the work done well, withoat an accident to mar it. As if to increase the triumph of success, the brief Telegram from Valenti& notes that, with the ex emption of the last day of the operations, the weather has been unfavourable. Thus in one week steam power, guided by human skill, has united Great Britain and America in the electrical commu nication of ono second. The extremely ingenious Telegraph of Professor HVGHIIII, which we have lately described in our columns, will now enable the Telegraph Clerk in London to print a letter of the alphabet in London, and the some letter, at an in terval of one second, on a strip of paper, in good Homan type and good printer's ink, at New York. He may then print letter after letter at intervals of half a second. This is now the possible speed of The laying down the cable is not the only triumph. The question is Dow settled that electrical waves can bo sent and made intelligible through more than 2, )00 miles of wire submerged in the lowest depths of the ocean. Wiseacres shook their heads, asd owlish foreboders of failure calculated the pressure of the ocean on a cable two milts under water. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1858. There were ugly phenomena, entitled retardations of submarine currents. Could the electric wave move freely through a wire little thicker, if any, &au a lady's bodkin, without being stopped by such gigantio pressure The was en nazions question. It is now answered by the secossaful ocsamunications between the Agamenui or. in Valenti* Harbour and the Niagara in Trinity Bay, Newfound land. It is not often we sympathise with any traallW tion bearing the semblance of gambling, but we must confess that we could not help wishing that the adventurous individual who is said the other day to have bought an Atlantic Telegraph share at 3001. had bought a score of them. The Imo ems of the Atlantic Telegraph follows im mediately after the announcement of the Red Sea Telegraph becoming a possibility. Surely England, with her great Indian empire and its thousand exigencies, will never rest till she has carried her Indian Telegraph from the Land's End to Gibraltar, from Gibraltar to Malta, from Malta to Alexandria, thence by the lied Sea to Bombay. The next step will be to connect Ceylon or Madras with Singapore and the Australian Colonies by an electric wire. England will thus as nearly as possi ble render herself independent of all foreign inter ference. Deep aea Telegraphy is yet in its infancy, and the Atlantic success is but the birth of a great power, which must speedily bring Great Britain into imme diate communication with all her dependencies. Magma will record that the completion of the first line of Atlantic Telegraph and the inauguration of the Cherbourg Docks occurred almost on the same day. The fetes which the Sovereigns of FRANCE and ENGLAND are now celebrating ought to be viewed in the light of this association. We cannot look into the heart of man ; we cannot say I to what schemes the Prince under whom the Cher bourg Docks were completed intended them to be subservient ; but we know the uses to which the tendencies of civilised society will compel them to be put. Cherbourg, with its capacious ac commodation for shipping—and with the rapid and regular communication which railways will soon establish between it, the great centre of French monetary operations in Paris, the industrial capitals of Lille, Malhausen, and Lyons, and the Mediterra nean depot of Marseilles--is destined to be the seat of a great Atlantic commerce. It is the certainty of this coming event that haunts the dreams of the inhabitants of the district, and of the financiers, manufacturers, and merchants of all France. The demands of the commerce which will find its way to Cherbourg will render the regular, rapid, and frequent intercourse of its merchants with the harbours and manufacturing districts of England of quite as much consequence to it IPA its intercourse with the interior of France. For some time at least the Electric Telegraph be tween England and America will be indispensable to the traders of Cherbourg and their French cor respondents. Cherbourg, instead of being a " stand " ing menace" from France to England, is an addi tional guarantee for the permanence of pacific relations between the two great nations which are undeniably at the head of modern civilisation. This our faith is noway' shaken by the prepon derance of military display in the inauguration of the weeks at Cherbourg. " There's a divinity that " shapes men's endo, rough-hew than how they " will:' Society is now possessed by the spirit of pro- ductive industry and scientific inquiry and experi ment, and the great ones of the earth, willingly or unwillingly, must be contented to move in the same direction as the crowd. Cherbourg Docks may have been constructed for the reception of Men of-War, but Merchantmen will press into them and au them up. Trade has crested the capital which has enabled scientific engineers to construct the Docks at Cherbourg, and to lay the Atlantic Telegraphic Cable. Science has invented the means by which the former were excavated and the latter was buried in the depths of otos'. The intellects sharpened by scientific investigation, and great industrial combinationa,will press on to further victories over material nature. Such enterprises are the passion of the age. Warriors of the sea and land are coming to be re garded in their true light—u the guards who preserve peace, and leave rociety at large free to pursue unmolested the course it is bent upon following. They accept their position. They have caught the contagious enthusiasm of the time. There have been no more distin guished contributors to the progress of science than are to be found among the Aims of the French and English navies. The Polytechnic School has given to France a large proportion of her boldest and most original speculators in political and social science. It is to the comprehensive and pervading phenomena here enumerated that we ought to look, not to the comparatively unimportant personal predilections of princes, if we would read aright the future destinies of society. Great issues for humanity—and good as well as great—are to come of the simultaneous oomph tion of the Cherbourg I)ocka and Railway, and of the first line of Atlantic Electric Telegraph. We do not grudge to soldiers and sailors the honoured place they occupy in the ceremonial at Cherbourg. Without them the three great elements of modern civilisation would be inadequately repre sented. There is something grand in the colossal combinations of the commerce of this age ; but undivided devotion to them is apt to en gender a selfish and a tricky spirit ; man dwindles amid greatness of his own creation. There is something grander still in the achieve ments of modern science; but the exclusive pursuit of science is apt to engender a dreamy, Sybarite spirit, unready to contend with the perils of active life. The pursuits of the soldier— by sea or land tend to de velop qualities which trade and science may pos slbly leave uncultivated. Grandest, perhaps, of all the phenomena of mind, is that self-possessionwhich. amid the storm and mesh of battle, can watch es calmly the progress of events, and meet as readily every possible emergency,ss if no danger threatened. The nations compcsed of industrious and intelligent I manufacturers and traders, observant and far thoughted men of science, and gallant warriors. require only one other influence to complete the discipline of civilisation—that habit of constantly viewing all things in their relations to each other and to their First Came, and that courageous, trust ing sequisseenes in the Divon decrees which, whe ther we call it philosophy, or whether we eall it religion, can alone impart to humanity that character of power in repose which is its nearest approach to perfection. GMAT WISTLIN RAILMAT.--WO are authorised to state that the amounts of the Great Western Rail way for the half-year to the 30th June chow that • dividend of t per cent. per annum could be paid, leaving a small balance over; but the directors will recommend that no dividend be declared, and that tie lsaleame of 37,0001. be carried over to the next hallietar. It is rammed that Mr. P. Talbot, who hu been Last NAV* private wearaary for riven' yaws, aril' pro bably sasswel Ma lots Mr. tla roma as a Cloalsiosor of Coolons.—Moarhater ONO. than. VISIT OF lIBR !WIWI TO PAMNSI.d. WOOLWICH, Mao. 6. Tlag loyal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain the Ham, J. Disown, vrol take up hew moorings off Gravesend Immedlrdelyan ht return from Charbourg, sod It is expected that her Majesty mid his Royal iliablisse the Prince Consort will embark et Gravesend on Tuesday next, on a visit to the Prince and Prison. of Pt anis. On the order Whig **- calved at Woolwich Dockyard to lay dews moorings .6 Gravesend for the royal yacht daring the 'present week, II was ermaidered that her Majesty would dilsombark at Grayer rad oa returning from Cherbourg , tat this Melermat is founded to error. A numerous party et aldpwrlghle, *glee, &e., have left Woolwich for Ontwwwwil, to maw ihotwoomory acreage menu for mooring the vessel, end oometruoting the brow, for the embarkation. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FETES AT CHERBOURG. After the To Daum which was chanted on the arrival of the Emperor and Empress at the Cher bourg station on Wednesday, their Majesties pro .osodsd to the reception-room, where they received the civil, military, and naval authorities. The fol lowing is the text of the speeches addressed to their Majesties by the mayor: 81re,—The inhabitants of Cherbourg have long wished for in opportunity of laying at the feet of your Majesty the homage of its respect, and of personally assuring your Majesty of the gratitude which it fails for all your limedte. It deifies above all things to thank yea ea this occasion for the august kindness with which, to compliance with our humble request, your Majesty In 1862 cawieded the admirable railway which you this day deign to inaugurate. We delight to sae in this a new proof of year constant solioltude both for the welfare of this de partment and of France at large. We feel that in this uniting Cherbourg with Paris your Intontion is to give a stimulus to trade, to confer new life upon our fertile districts which were for a time disinherited, and to render for ever Impregnable . one of the most marvellous bulwarks of the empire. Madame,—The arrival of your Majesty amoupt crowns all our wishes. Here, as everywhere else, you will only meet with heart. grateful for your braelte, and happy in the contemplation of the features of the august mother of the Imutial Pt:uce, the hope of Frame • wo are delighted to salute in you the a:vi cious Image of blinevoissoe repaired yet more attractive by all the splesdour whit* surronads a throne. filre,—Deign to receive the keys of this town. They were presented in 1811 to the immortal founder of your ay =sty ; they belong, by more Utter than one, to the worthy heir of his crown, the glorious manta, of his work ; the somnign to whom Preece owes the re-rauthilshment of order en - cl prosperity at home, and of Its dignity and itlfillllllC4 abroed. "Vies rltrapereni" ! " Vire Hovers trios I" " Vive le Priam Imperial I" The Emperor, in reply, said that he was "happy to oomplete the work commenced by Louis XIV., and to inaugurate in time of peace a port the works of which had so actively progressed during war." Among the crowd which surrounded their Majes ties were a great number of ecclesiastics from all parts of the department. On leaving the station, their Majesties entered an open carriage, in which Marshals Valliant and Baroque) , d'Hilliers also took their places. In other carriages followed Count and Countess Walewski, M. Ronher, Minister of Public Works, General Fleury, and the rest of the imperial suite. During the passage of the cortege to the Prefecture, the acclamations of the crowd were in cessant. Salvos of artillery proceeded at the same time from the forte and vessels of war. On arriving at the Maritime Prefecture, their Majesties received the wives of the principal functionaries and visitors to Cherbourg. Thirty young ladies presented the Empress with a casket of flowers and lace. Her Majesty received the deputation most graciously. By this time the eldest of the young girls, who presented the Empress with a bouquet, addressed her as follows : Madams,—Deign to accept these flowers. They are bat poor emblems of the jny w.th which your august presence agitates ore hearts. Our magistrates desired that with these flowers we should offer you some lees, the prude*, of • manufacte-e formdrd in a spirit of charity. It is on this ground that we lest confident that you will readily accept It. Oar mothers remember with pride that in 1811 the Empress Marie Louise deign d to accept the earliest speci mans of this str ageing industry. Allow us ale', Madame, to hops that your Majesty will not rel Use us the honour of laying lb hnmLle offering at the feet of the Hmprt a. Bogert*. Happy and proud in the samba wedded to us, we beg your Majesty to accept the homage of our love and the respect:o assurance that thin day will ever remain engrave° on our memories as one of the happiest end most glorious of our lives. - Every house was illuminated, and every vessel in the port lighted up. The appearance of the town sad port was moat striking, and an immense and joyous crowd thronged the streets. Meanwhile the Queen of England bad arrived, and the Emperor and Empress immediately paid her a visit, without being accompanied by any escort. The Queen accepted an invitation to a private break fast with their Majesties yesterday. The breakfast was given 4 noon at the Maritime Prefecture; only seven covers were laid. At 2 o'clock tko Queen en tered a carriage with their Majesties, in order to ob tain a view from the height. of the magnificent spectacle presented by the roadstead of Cherbourg dressed with flags, and upon which a brilliant sun was shining. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. espital now intended to be raised to the small sum that being the total to 600,0001, and which is aired for the various stations, 63, that remain to be establ . The colonial eonomelons of the company_ give them en m cleave right for 60 years as regards the Newtoundlend omit and the shores of Labrador and Prince Edward Island, and 26 yaws as regards Breton Island. They have also a privilege for 25 years from the State oil Maine. From the respective goveinments of Great Britain end the United States the terms obtained are a payment of 14,0001. per annum from each for the transmission of their messages for 60 year', until the dividends amount to Bpw cent. on the original repital of 360,0001., after which each government is to pay 10,0001. • year much payment to be dependent on the eSkient working of the line. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. The success of the Atlautio Telegraph was hailed here with the greatest joy, but the cotton and produce mar kets were not sensibly affected. The flags at the Town-ball and Exchange were hoisted in honour of the event, and the stars and stripes were dying at the American consul's. Atlantic Telegraph shares were quoted at 8001. to 1,0001 . , a stale being quoted at 9001. DEATH OP M. 807 IR. We regret to hear of the death of M. Alexis Sayer, the justlynaoweed warm et ea indispensable and most respectable art, whisk he has done more then was ever before done in England to improve and to dignify, as well as to diffuse the benefits of its oonenmmste exercise amongst the middle and poorer claws of the community. N. Boyer, who had suffered from an affection of the Beer ever since his return from oar camp in the Crimes, was at Norwood on Wednesday aught, when a sudden attack of disease obligtd him to return to hie home at St. John's-wood; yesterday morning ha became insensible, end died about ten o'clock last night. [From the " Court Circoler."] • A deptatatinn on the subject of the powers at pre sent surreissd by the pan bed ea inieweiew with Mr. Se cretary Walpole, at the HIEN•4111111 The deputa tion manned of the Ho. Mr. P. O'Brien, M.P., Mr. F. IL Calvet*, M.P., tr Henry Bd wd. Austen, end Mr. W . Are Bmitts. A misting of the Cambridge University Commis sioners erns UN et 6, Adelphi-teases, ea Tuesday, the 3rd hisleae. Th e eotoutiorioiters prsestat wen the Right Ron. M. T. Esanse, M.P., Vies Chancellor Sir W. PM/ Wood, the Very Rev. the Dean of Ely, and the Rev. Dr. Veisihsea. Despatches were received yesterday at the Cole nialrollbos from the Governor of the Falland blends. Do atchwers rent from the Oolonts/-oflke yesterday to the eZore of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and &. Helena. We read in the Gazette de Cologne :—" Her Ma lady Queen Victoria will return, as has been Mated, from Cherbourg to Osborne, whence she will go to Berlin by Rot terdam and Dusseldorf. The Prince of Prussia will receive her Majesty In the latter town, and will accompany her to Babelaberg. The august travellers will dine at Hanover, and will wive at eight o'clock on the 12th at the Chateau of Babeleberg, where all the necessary preparations have been made. The Queen will remain at the charism with the Prince and Primmer Frederick William; the Prises and Primmer of Pruned* will occupy the summer house fa which Priam Frederick William formerly resided. Apertmenta have been made ready at the cbilexu for the Queen's Weidman ; the ladies of the court sad the chamberlains will lodge at the City Palace. Queen Victoria hes expeeeed her desire that she may not be ofllcially received by the authorities. Her Majesty proposes to make exclusions from Babelaberg to Berlin, but eh* will, on every °evasion retain the seine day. Her departure will take place In the latter part of August. Besides the Grand Duke end DdOlitel of Baden, the visit of other distinguished personages la expected at Potadaro." Ilia Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Meck lenburg-Strati,' will leave on his return to Germany on Sunday evening. The Hereditary Grand Decluso and the young Prince Adolphe' will remain a few weeks longer with the Ditches of Cambridge before having for &relit& His Excellency the Duke of Malakoff has issued cards fora grand banquet at the French Embassy on the lith inst., in celebration of the Emperor Napoleates birth day. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose and Lady Agnes Graham left Be'grave-square, yesterday, for Buchanan Castle, Stirlingshire, for the autumn. The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort and Lady Edith Somerset intend to leave town on Monday next for Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, on a viaitato Vinuount and Lady landis Dupplio. _ _ The Marquis of Lansdowne has left toga on a visit to Yr. Henry Drummond, at Alkali Perk, Surrey, for a few days. Visoonnt Palmerston left Cambridge House pester des for Ireland. Her ladyship 101 leave in a few days for Brockatt Hall, Herta. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford and the Hoe. Miss Theaiger corns to town to-day from visiting the Marquis and Marchfonts. of Eiri'sbory at Hatfield ROOK., Herb. Lord Ashburton has returned to Bath House from Southampton. Lord and Lady Harriet Aahley leave town to-day for Brockot Rail on a visit to the Visoonnteol Palnunton. The Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Da136011 hare left Carlton Hoasertainos for Osslngten Park, Notts, where the right boa. gentleman sod her lady ship make a short stay, and them &part oa a tour al grits to Scotland. The Plymouth Journal says of the gentlemen who was elected today for Bauth Dees —" Mr. Simnel Trelumke Kekewich la a Federman who has long wished to enjoy senatorial honours, end they now drop upon him n a Godsend. We well remember how he need to tight sad loge against the late estimable Charles Boiler at Liekaard. The koa. tory has plenty of property them bat aleiseek he is en astable ern, foe a tory, he could soaks me way in that hde pendant borough against Mr. Beller, who lad not, we be lieve, a farthing's worth of property in the place whloh re turned. him to the day of his deth. In 183.5 Kr. Karmic% polled only 64 vote west 114. Again in 1837 he laird bit lack, and was beaten by 113 to 65, and he then gave up Liskeard as a place that waa poisoned by bad °pieties. Since then we hare heard and met with him only as a quiet country gestleman—oceseasally enlightraing his brethren with his bucolic ideas." The Pere, with the members of the House or Commons, must have had a splendid passage to Cherbourg. A gentleman who had masa* to go out to the Sexonia, which lay in Soothing.= Witt* on Tuesday night, returned to the docks Jost after 11 o'clock, and his attention was attracted by the mask of • beentil'al band on board the Para, sad on approaching close he New many of the members of the Boum of Commons apparently usawed by Speaker or Sergerut-st•Anme Nosy members were In the shrouds looking on at others dancing on deck. Some &doh tads and Irish jigs were danced with extraordhaery animation and elegance. When the reels were proposed, time wen loud calls for Scotch names, and Irish an were heard sheeted far when jig tunes were demanded. The splendid and caps dons deck of the Pere, nearly 400 feet long, and propor tionately broad, the calm and beautiful night, the exhilarat ing strains of music, and the satisfying effects of a superb banquet, all seem to have induced the company on board the Psis to thorough enjoyment. Even the aged toemben were sitting on deck pleased to vitae., the enloymeat of their more juvenile companions, and thoughts of Pitt, Pox, Burke, and Sheridan gave way to Apollo and Terpsichore, who mey be considered to have caught the Speaker's eye. A letter from Rome in the Debate says :—NA certain Count Oaddi•Eroolani was some time back airlifted in this city, es 'beady stated, and impriweed. Logi eassents wore made on the subject, but It now appears that it is • religious affair, the count having been guilty of lending to Nome persons the protestant translation of the Scriptures, known I. Italy by the cease of the Brasil Bible. The vicarial as Boom, and the bieleops la the provisoes, appear at this worst to be actuated by ma onuses! St of meal. A wadi' AIM Noel is said to have been =rested at Son Stefano, • petty village to the mountains of the Sabina, for having lent or sold some copies of this same Bible." According to aooounta frost Tempos. of the 2nd, the King of Prussia has within tho last few day. had some symptoms of gout. His medical attendants, it la said, coo. eider tLis u the alga a a favourable ohmage. 41011"I•Rea ArTodh•PEL—lt has been stated width 'be lasi Am days that the delgator• NbaksPeise as; M son at Ur PAW Miser, awed to dr died of a dirt of persbra st a Men ht Blaskfror. ull = 11th of Masse, 1010.16. It wry ha es rill toad& WO lasso is gratsitarely ha ss•• dr W a rro, 0•116•11. Briksposres suresapli. to dotard sever chase of the same pseraso= l lle 1111th 'Meek sheerfar that Ur was silkesd alp am dap Idiom She Mara. Iraßs The aimless is Shaamilimpodsed is the British lt P rast Is " amihm i ernr Nod et porrbaa• at Chtikthsal Ike Oposses ',Om at tali, Wady Williams legib file. liakesprrip dr Midis arum bag put- LANDING EFFECTED AT NEWFOUNDLAND. We have been favoured with a copy of the follow ing message, received this morning, by the directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company : "TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. " TALENTIA. " Electric communication is maint%ined perfectly. In answer to the signals from our coils, they re. turned us this morning, at 8.40, accurately to Greenwich time, as directed, the pre-arranged land ing signal. The complete instruments which were on board the Niagara, for speaking, cannot possibly be adjusted for some days. ,' WHITEIFIOUSE." A telegram from Valentin, dated yesterday, says : From the time the Agamemnon left Queenstown, on the 18th if July, until she joined the rest et the squadron at the rendesvens in mid ocean on the 29th, she experienced a con tinued smowsion of heavy winds. The splice was mous fay made on the afternoon of the 29th, end the ships started towards their several stations. On the evening of the same day a Irma et eintinnity funned in the cable which lasted on. bur end-whaN. The Alp was stopped and the machinery repaired, Swop mot tin hopes of holding on the cable had been altendosed. Daring Friday it blew a hoed pis of wind, spiel which the ship, under her fall steam, could hardly make way, stem with yards and topmasts struck. On Saturday, the 3lst, the wird shifted round to the south west, end during that day, Sunday, Woodsy, and Tuesday, it continued to blow hard, with frequent violent squalls, the sea running tremendously high the whole time, and no ens expected the cable to bold on from one minute to the other. Oa Wednesday the weather moderated, bat the swell was will high. Abut 4 a.m. the clasp from the lower le the upper cable MS anwesafally made, sad during the Amman shallow water was pined. The seoond Arise been the upperi are orlop dale coil wee made shoat SOWN& la Oa emsdn; after which all went well until the dipt smitesed at S a... in Dangles Bay.' The hal Iburialt Ikarimalkal ram from Bt. Jokes, &kW, ley, Is Que• IN, Gs iilll law sae aas Waal • dam k • abide Mass Ikr, 11•••• kkad, alai aaman alai Ike littaldeptelt ldas ass* W Now barealsk lIIIIIIi tk• treat& MOW Waft Ism Is Now Wow Illeitakka atisilmilimalaboat ansoliadaalkail !n • • übealbo Mae W= __ . . . ter.letibiorano Mho* goopolii owl la b lades gt from l'lmeatii =rig& The aid gaseel MOO appeors 1 1 :7= la los la g = =erlglad pai= ce s nl is. O&M* dre wrs, br io uY nised • shirt Ii ms beak a tisi *ANA' tholos having ben mated te beheaded ever is paysseafhalhe sualredie privi leges wrigisk to the Wheat* ea eV into osistal ef Jae . Although tho ewe& la _ ~ the &plod sato* racetiolis Wad tle the ellerfe kr the •~; paselortapiele, sad small ere baker toadiggliadis to thesauri& otstAsy. It is audomeed that =ir ago afithlosal tN. BELGIUM. Oa the meeting of the Belgian Chamber of Repre sentatives, yesterday, two royal decrees were read by the Minister of the Interior—one withdrawing the government project relative to the fortifications of Antwerp, and the other pronouncing the session of 1857-58 to be closed. The Assembly separated immediately. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (111.031 ova owl( PARIS. TISIMSDAT BVININO. The Emperor has decided that all France shall join in a Te Drum at the moment when he and the Empress are prostrate before the shrine of St Anne of Auray on August 16. The imperial commands are promulgated in the following circular, addressed by M. Rouland, the Minister of Public Instruction and Worship, to the archbishops and bishops : Monseignenr,—At the very moment when the solemnity of the 15th August (the Assumption) sal invite the faithful to celebr►te the anniversary of the Emperor's fits, their Ma jesties will invoke the patron saint of France is one of the most venerated sanctusties raised by the faith of our fore fathers. The people, who see with the meet lively grati tude the chief of the state go through our provinces end inquire into their waste, will unite with en iimir hearts in the prayers put up that day is the loambie &mpg, end in returning thanks for the blueing. mimed on our country, they will supplicate Providence to continue to wake with equal solicitude over the life of the Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Imperial. The clergy, who are never forgetful of services mired to TOW& and to the country, will er , aestly unite in then seigiarate of pious gratitude, sod I am therefore, Monselgatrer, certain of re sponding to the wishes of the faithful and of their pastors in begging you to order that a solemn Te Drum of thanksgiving shall be sung on the 15th, after Divine service, In all the churches of your diocese. I request the Praha to °molt with your Eminence the measures to be taken for this reli gious ceremony. Accept, &c., ROll L D. The Presidents of the Consistoriee of the Reformed Church, the President of the Directory of the Church of the Confession of Augsburg, and the members of the Central Jewish Consistoty, have received a similar circular. The Pays has a peace article, in which it says - - - We have never concealed our real sentiments ooncm atig the English 'Manes. We do not consider it is an eventusitty destined t 3 be eclipsed end to come to light again acoording to the necessities a a moment, but u the programme of a line of policy, feroe in benefits for Europe and civilisation. • • • • The fOtes of Cherbourg constitute in every point of view a political e►ent of the highest importance. Cherbourg is the Field of the Cloth of Gold of the empire. But the consequences will be more durable, and it may justly be said, adopting the tide of a pamphlet published this very morning—" Cherbourg is Pane." It is at Brighton, and not at Brest, as some journals have erroneously announced, that Count de Persigny has taken a house for the autumn. Madame Benoit Fould, on the occasion of the death of her husband, has given the munificent sum of 10,000 fr. to the poor of the second arrondissement without any distinction on the ground of religious tenets. The Bourse, which opened with the languor which has prevailed of late, became animated towards the close. The Rente rose 20c. both for cash and account, closing at 68fr. 40c., and 68fr. 5.5 e. Mobilier rose Bfr. 76c. Railways were very firm, and im proved from bfr. to 10fr. THE NEW LINE OF ATLANTIC STEAM• ARRIVAL OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE. GALWAY, Mu a RDAS, The steam-ship Indian Empire, with the American mails and GO first-class passengers, trona New York, arrived in Galway at 1 o'clock this afternoon. She has a fall cargo of flour, Indian oorn, tobacco, and sugars. THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE FULTON. The United States mail steam-packet Felton arrived at Cowes yesterday, with the mails, 58 pas 'engem, and specie for France to the amount of 366,867 dollars. She left New York on the 24th of July. There is little political or general news of any interest or importance from the United States; ex oept the capture at New York of Mr. James Sutton Elliot, late senior military storekeeper at Warden, who was arrested at the St. Nicholas Hotel,at the suit of her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for the War Department, on a charge of having embezaled the sum of 2,2231. belonging to the British govern ment. It appears that .Mr. Elliot arrived in the United Stat a, from England, on the bth of Jane, accompanied by au actress, Miss Sinclair. Mr. Whitaker, a New York lawyer, was authorised to take steps for his arrest and prosecution ; and 'H clever detective officer, named Sowyer, having been I set upon his track ten days after be had landed at Boston, followed him to Albany, Springfield, Nia gara, Buffalo, Syracuse, and other places of fashionable resort, where Mr. Elliot and the lady wider the various names of Mr. and Ce l 7 4 Brooke, Mr. and Mrs. Evans, Eve rett, Edwards, Emerson, and Emile the initial letter E, inscribed by the gentleman in the visitors' books of the different hotels which he patronised, affording the detective officer, by it. peculiar handwriting, an infallible " trail" to direct the pursuit. On the 23rd a motion was made in the Supreme Court to discharge Mr. Elliot from arrest, on the ground that the affidavit upon which the order of arrest had been granted was defective, inasmuch as it was drawn up in the name of Mr. Whitaker, the attorney, and the real party to the suit was Queen Vie tale, the United States law courts having expresly decided that an action could not be maintained in the name of an agent of a foreign country. Other ob jection, were raised to the affidavit—for instance, that it did not specify the particulars of the defen. duet alleged misconduct and freadulent practices in his office at Wooden. These points were argued by counsel on both sides, but the wart adjourned without giving its decision. The New York Herald relates in the following manner the facts of the case: James Button Elliot has been for over thirty-Ave years is the service of the English government, and had acquired so much the conedenoe of the authorities, that something over two years since, on the occorrenoe of a vacancy in the int pot tent military station at Wesdon, which is mainly en army clothing eatablishment, he succeeded in getting the appetite meet in preference to • rival candidate of unimpeachable reputation and proved ability, at • salary of 5501. per annum. He was left unanapected and unmolested until about last September, oh. n, from the disordered state of his sexnantp, which ft was said had not been arranged from tho commencement of his term, an amount was despatched to straighten up the hooka, with the help of ten sclerks. They worked until March last, when t .e. — foros had to be doubled, and still again a little later a commissary general and eight ants were were despatched, and finally Mr. Elliot was transferred to Dublin, and the storekeeper at that point was despatched to Weedon, the former retaining, however, his salary of 8601., and the latter his of only 6601. Yet, during these months of inquiry, it appears that the defalcation was not discovered until recently, when it wu found that the bird had flown, having enjoyed his comfortable sais2 up to the latest moment. 'The investigation &Tab the tacit that there ' , were in the years 1868 and 186 received at Weedon 800,000 pairs of boots for the army, of which 170,000 pairs were toned to have been sold of unlawfully, end only about 20,000 pairs of then could be trend. The bootaoost the government shoat 6s. 6d. per pair, and it was found that a man named Levi had bought them fur 6s. 6d. per pair, and eold them to a militia contractor, who had supplied five regiments with them at 12s. per pear. The "kits" which are supplied to the new reunite, and for which the sum of 31. Is deducted from their pay, were found to be comparatively worthhes, so that lemelludy , had pocketed a nice little sum from this items It was alao shown that, whether fnr vales received or not, several of the contractors for furnishing stores had been is the habit of paying money to the bank account of Superinten dent Elliot, while the system of bribery which pervaded the whole Institution enabled a contractor to pass almost any kind of supplies by hejudicions distribution of regular payments to the underlings. With the same sagacity which bed allowed these depredatame to be carried on under the very nose of the government, the defaulter was allowed to take his departure ennui, sled, and he decamped in the steamer America on the 23rd of May, for Boston, leaving his wife behind, and taking with him a dashing actress of some repute, Warned Miss Sinclair. The affair, of coarse, created the greaten astonishment among those who knew him—he had served so long without suspicion, and had the privilege of retiring st any time on half pay. It was determined to trace him in this country, and it possible compel him to disgorge some of his ill-gotten gains. As upon the criminal charge it was believed that the ac cused could not be taken back to England under the ex tradition treaty, it was decided to have him arrested on a civil suit fur the amount of the alleged embezzlement. After eta weeks' hard chase he ham now been overtaken. Since his arrival he has been travelling about the country, vii different watering places, expending money with a lavish hand, and caning a great swell generally. Mr. Elliott le described u a dee, portly Englishmen, of about 60 years of age, five feet nine in height, with venerable grey hair, in cluding whisker. and moustache, which are nearly white. He has been committed to answer, and an application for hie discharge is yet to be considered by the court. Ile bas em ployed able counsel, who will argue that no civil proceedings of this nature can be held against him. He is said to have admitted spending most of the money, alleging that the go vernment was indebted to him for a larger sum. The tidy who accampanied Mr. Elliot is said to be an actress of some note, named Miss Sinclair, of about 26 summers, petite figure, and very prepossessing in personal appearance, as well as in manner. What disposition will be made of her rather aged lover, and of coarse of herself as participating In his adventures, remains to be seen. Thus ends the first chapter. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF A FREE canal MISSIONARY AT AMSTERDAM. A letter, dated "Amsterdam, August 2, 1888," just received in town from the Rev. Dr. Thomson (II roeghton plane Church), gives the following painful details of an at tempt made on Sabbath last to assassinate the Rev. Mr. Schwartz, Free Church hi issionary to the Jews at Amster dam. Dr. Thomson writes : "I went yesterday morning at 10 o'clock to worehip with Mr. Schwertz's large congregation, and to hear him preach. Being a little late on account of not et OW* finding my way, I was surprised to notice the people standing all round the place of wotahip, and in it, in excited giort when I had expected to find them Pinging their Stet . There was too much reason for the excitement. Judah lad, understood to be the zoo of one of the Jewish rabbis in Amsterdam, bad rushed upon Mr. Schwarts as he ascended the pulpit stair, and with a long open knife had aimed a saw oseston of strokes at his breast. The stair being behind the pulpit, there was more opportunity for striking before the people could get from their seats to defend their minister. Four of the strokes were received by Mr. Schwartz in his arm, but one, I am scary to say, reached hie breast. It is not yet known with certainty how deep the last of these wounds is. Immediately after the fommoon service I hastened to the house of Mr. Schwartz to inquire bow he was. I met Dr. Da Costa there, but I found that even then the extent of the wound in the breast had not been ascertained. It is hoped, however, that it is not so deep as to be vital, or even perhepa serious. Meanwhile, Mr. Schwartz is very judiciously krpt from aU disturbance. An event like this beppening among a quiet people like the Dutch has naturally produced very strong feelings. Attempts at eseassination are not among the national vices of Holland; and as you pass along the create you bear the name of Mr. Schwartz in every mouth. The mediate occasion of this most fanatical act is supposed to have been the imprudent attempt of an Englishman in one of the Jewish synagogues, some fortnight since, to circulate tracts of • con troversial kind among the Jews while they were engaged in their service. This measure, with which Mr. Schwartz has nothing to do (as you know he was in Edin burgh at that period), and which I am sure he would not have recommended, awakened peat displeasure among the Jews at the time, and led to the Englishman hlmsel heMg somewhat roughly handled, and now it has been fanatically and blindly avenged on this zealous servant of God. The young man who attempted the murder is understood to be between fourteen and fifteen years of age; I rempect a year or two older. He was carried of by the police, and is now in custody. Ido hope that Mr. Schwartz will soon be well again, but I anxiously wait, along with my fellow-deputies front Scotland, for the medical report."—Beedresse. APPOINTMENT OF NSW MAGISTRATES AT NOT TINORAX.—Tbs Lord Chancellor, perhaps as a set-off to his tory norainedone to the judicial beach elsewhere, has derived t_wo liberals and one oonaervaym_to the dignity of lect udi erfor l the peace i t n ono bil ur, in the T t be ina g = le" oe respected Royce, L. Heymann. Req., ,ir. Freria-Z e k J. Haddon, and Mr. J. L. Thaokeray. AU these geotlema are more dietlagnithed by the independent and pbi bent of their sentiment/ than fur party Mae, and timer all vestment will meet with general approval.—Al blirghees Arno& A GALLANT FELLOW. The steamship Gipsy Queen, belonging to the West Hartlepool Steam Misalliance Company, has arrived at Hartlepool this week, bevies several shipwrecked armee ea hoard, whose vessels were lost on Sunday morning week. Among the crews were those of the brig Black Boy, which mesa capsized In the gale off Ottesdorf. At the time the mewl repelled the maser had on board his wife, slater, and child. It was with the greatest difficulty that the two ladles were got into • boat while the vessel was on her beam ends, they having been in the water some Use. One of the mm, Georr t 4 u ester, undertook, at considerable personal' risk, the of the child. Be allowed all to feet sa&ly into the first, and then found that kis only chance was to jump with the child into the boat. He hesitated for a better opportunity, bat in the meantime the beat was driven by the fearful gale away from the area, which It was impossible to regain. in this distressing condition the father and mother of the child and the other persona in the boat knocked about in the open sea until midnight, when they got on board a galliot and rode out the gale. In the mean time Neseter had taken to the foretop with his charge carefully folded under his jacket. He re mained in the foretop some time, easefully adjusting • pore than of his clothes round the child, and them protecting bin from the heaviest of the seas, and occasionally putting him to his trout th pacify him, the child not benne ensued from his mother's breast. About 5 in the morning Holster leaked his charge in the rigging, and ventured down into the Cabin, where he succeeded in getting some wine, with which he medatmed the baby's mouth, thus keeping him alive. Ardor break the tether of the child thought he saw some one as the wreck, and at about 9 on Monday muting the paint for and his intent charge were reamed by a boot from the gal' not, be having the satisfaction at handing the Weed to tee motor, elite our wort. FIRE AT BERMONDSEY.—Y, sterday morning, be. tare's the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock, a fins, attended 'Meow Menthe destruction of property, broke out on the saddens MP et manufactariog premises belonging to Mr. W. Marrisos, tanners, Willow-walk, Bermondsey . • Meaning wars not extinguished until the following damage was thee: —The bark, barn, shed., engine -house. ileatades • Mr. I. Chisholm'e chemical weal', destroyed ; 0. and army contras see, carriers' shops destroyed, and warehouse casaiderably damaged R. Hawse athl v E ll leUrnortgers, 160 feet by 30 feet, The lose will fall on the Anchor, Pkom el irs=t MOBIL DESTRUCTION 01' TEN HORSES DT FlllL—Aboat two o'clock on enaday awning, s nest dasinritss broke oat In the ballikw of Proles Tarts, r ihejl: Tarrant Itvelits, now autftnk In the MIL James Arthur Iharra% whisk sesellid the tim tf the stable, WI volatile Woes were 4P. seek till* ware burnt to a ander), a barn, straw homy a threshing neachies. and • emeatity of ertseek much reason to Mame that *is sal 0101M111011 of carelessness by sews elate Meese sent unryla, with them to light their pipes, when alteneed, as In for thence. to sleep to the elablas. The tlsnlewsAr is roughly estimated at 1,2001.; fortmeidelp Me. fissured to that amount Is the flan-sects , —akerierter A REAL "MODEL YACHT."—Mr. Bt. Clair Bjt2er of Birkeahisai, Is the owner sad bander of the liste d 8 tens, bolos*" to the Birksaheall Model Yacht glob. This yacht won the prize at Liverpool this year, soutditile en rota* for Douglas on the night of 31st nit. she reds oat the hurricane in the Channel for nearly five hours. She afterwards won the cup at the Douglas Regatta with the greatest • see and on ?doyley, in spits of • heavy we am strong breeze:, she won the I roontaitere' cep, value 201.. et the Morecambe Bay Regatta, beating her fastest Mid ince larger competitor by four hours. A train appropriated to journalists left Paris on Wednesday morning at half-peat live for Cherbourg. Some artietes of Paris, who were invited at a short nodes by lb! Western Railway Company, who contrived the the at forming a theatre in the railway station, went by the NMI train. Among them were Muss. Dacha and Doptzlet M. Deradder, the Danish dancers, and the best performers at the Theatre Deburau. stia - d — et . eeentrle sod bo parted I other g dry , the at B eg7, Cove high when ii;i; (Flea