The Express. — London, England, 1867-10-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1867. A LADY desires to RECOMMEND a But if Austria is in such a state that a great -CIL. GOVERN:EMS, of unusual imalifiratioom who has lived war would be too f a t a l t o h er i n t erests f or any Use yearn Pa her family. and Just completed the educe- , lion of her only dam :titer tw her eittoe la:Wm:thin. I idea of it to be serio The Governess Is perfectly conipetmt t educate with or with. usly entertained, the internal out masters : s p eaks French and German fluently, and alas Vi condition of Russia demands more inipera the orilitiary English routine, Italian. mode. aini singing. iti e 1 that peace should I 3 cautiously preserved. Terms Ll5O per aroma—Address A. K A., Estonian*. y BelgraVe-a q Uare. As to the report that General Besse harargued Pthe Russian troops u n d er his command, perhaps LANTS and BIILBS.—Mr. STEVENS' SALES or in; rem autua. rnoi Roses. and hardy Shruls the least said the betier about the possibiliq or will take place every WEDNESDAY ant sA itliAV. and fee ....vantage of making a speech to men who anenus on Monday, at the Auctionvimmis. as. King-street, Cfvent-garden, Conlon—Catalogues on application. certainly could not understand a word of it. But if any General wished to amuse himself in that way, there could be no harm in his doing so. It is difficult to believe that General BESAiI did it simply because he is one of the most distin guished and highly-educated milita,/ men in Europe. He has been long marktd for Minister of War in Ramis, and the sooner he becomes so the better it will be for the army. General BESAC is one of those able and brave German soldiers whose gallant and generous actions in war are equally balanced by their good sense and admi nistrative capacity in time of peace. For several years past he has held the difficult poit o: Go vernor of Kiev, on the Lontier of Poland, the most disturbed portion of the Empire, and he has held it well and worthily. Few, indeed, are the resident Poli.h families who would not gladly bear grateful testimony to the kindness he has shown them in their affliction, and relate gentle and merciful acts without num ber, made sweeter by the good words which accompanied them. General BESAC belongs to the same honourable band of German officers in the Russian service as LUDERS and TODLELEN and if he is by no means likely to lead Fs troops into Galicia, he is still less likely to indu%e in the silly bombast of telling them so, knowing, as he vety well does, that he would be addressing merely a useful body of nal, ...es, who are now employed with increased pay and rations, to their infinite content, in making the railway between Kiev and Balta. ght erortgas. DRITRY.LA N E. TFIN EVICNINO, MACBETH. Maws. rhelp , ... B. SWIMS, Ryder, ‘l'lntyre, Barrett, J. Johnrtmio, . 1 / 4 c %I‘ . • 1:110i'S matt Venn. It. and A. Conk.—Mel TH I LLEtt AND HIS MEN. lir. E. Phelps Mae Edith:Wart. 11AVIIARKr.T. TII RVIDIFINO, Till WINNING CARD. Mr. Compton.—AN VNE4/CAL MATCH. Messrs. Buck stone, Mims° I de. Rogers, Kendal, Clark. Compton. he.: Vex lames Amy ardgwisk, D. White, 11.1tswiltLuti, Ms.—Amt A KISS IN TMs DARK. "mink's. Tuts Rotuma, POOR PiLLICODDY.—After which ARRAff NA NIECE . Ilessrs. Boni leault,Murry. J. G. snore, G. F. Neville, ,te.. Mine Nimbi:. and WA. Bnicieault. -And NU ONE. ROUND TUK CORNER. STRAN NT" EVIINTNO. ont Dam lOSTICA. D. Means. Paraelle, Thorne, and James; Mesdames Johnstone and Wmtnereby —After which WILLIAM TELL WITH A VENG a:ANL E. deans. James and Thorne ; Maw Ada Swanhorough„ 8;e. —Aml DEAF AS A 11MT. LYCEUM. Tins ErRNTN4, TUE VIAFEEi3 OF THE )TILL.—THE IA DV OF LYONS. nr. Fechter, Mews. Juntan, Emery, Callum. Daltun, Stuart, and Vraurua ; 11 loss Ms .urthy and Carlotta Leclerc% Mn. Ilarstuu. HOLBORN. THIS EVEXEIG. DANDELION S DOIXIER.—And FOR LOVE. Messrs. H. J. mmitasrue. Mee, OaPten, Westland, and H. Wld dicomlo; Mesdames Stephens, Ilenrade, Jenny Willmore, and C. haundera—To conclude with A.P.M. Mr. J. W. Ray. BRITANNIA. Tars Enrstso , BREAK BUT NOT BEND. Mrs. S. Lane The Ainerfran Minatreb Japanese Tommy and Stomp. Orator West and Mho K West, Nigger Delineators. With BELINDA 'it:AI:RAVE. Miss M. Henderson. EflOW WATER At LONDON hItIDOE. Mt DAT —lforalag. Oh. Ds Afternoon. Oh. nint. te-Moasow—Manaim Oh. bosn..- Aftentoon. lb. Ism. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25. A STATEMENT has been published by some of our contemporaries which is calculated to increase the apprehension now beginning to be felt as to the probabilities of a general Eu ropean war. This news is to the effect that, " on the Russian troops leaving Volhynia " for their winter quarters, General BEmac ha " rangued them ; thanked them for the energy " they had displayed in the last Polish revolu " lion ; and exhorted them to show the same " bravery if they were ordered to take Galicia, " that eternal refuge of revolution." If this news be true, it would not only seem to suggest that serious differences have lately arisen between Russia and Austria, but that both Prince GORT- CuAKoF Y and Baron Beu sr have entirely forgotten the real state and resources of the countries they go vern, and have obstinately refused to listen to the opinions of every sensible man in both empires. Wo cannot believe that either supposition repre sents the state of the case. Baron Bsesr certainly owes his present high politicol position, and the success of one of the most singular careers of any modern statesman, almost entirely to his moderate and conciliatory views. No Minister who had not been possessed of great tact, patience, and good humour could have steered Austria through so many and such serious diffi culties in so short a time. But a very little while ago that great Empire was shaken to its founda tions. It had a treasury which had always been impoverished, and was then in a chronic state of collapse. The Estezeoa was, perhaps, the most unpopular Sovereign in the world. He had been defeated in Italy, defeated in Germany. He had himself led his troops, against the advice of his wisest counsellors, to one of the most terrible mili tary disasters which has been witnessed by the present generation. He had seen his capital me naced by an enemy which it had always been the fashion there to despise rather than to hate, and he had been publiclysecn byhis subjects to weep in the bitterness and anguish of his heart. Even the loyal and good humoured Viennese hsdgrown gloomy and discontented under the sceptre of a despotism wielded by hands so feeble and unfortunate. No Sovereign of his house had been so persistently and uniformly unlucky. His nobles—the proudest and most unreasoning aristocracy in the world— were deeply offended. When Prince Fade SCHWASTZENBURO died suddenly, it was said that the heart of the great Minister had been broken by the ingratitude of his Sovereign, and that when the Prince went forth from the last stormy coun cil at which he ever assisted, the EMPEROR had dismissed the only man who was able by the weight and authority of his name to uphold the honour and dignity of the throne. From that time also everything went wrong with the Court. The concessions which began again to be demanded by the people after the short lull which followed the disastrous events of 1848 were never made either gracefully or in time. When made, there fore, they only provoked further demands, coupled with a growing opinion that it was necessary to insist upon better securities than those which had hitherto contented the Liberal party for whatever could be obtained. History seemed about to repeat itself, and the events which oc curred in England during the reigns of the last STUARTS were confidently expected in Austria. A succession of Ministers at once feeble and obstinate in the wrong had plunged everything into confusion ; and the deputies from the provinces used language bolder than had ever been heard by any monarch of the ancient imperial royal-house of Hapsburg. In Hungary it was quite clear that all the acts of the Crown since the accession of FRANCIS Josern must be immediately repealed ; that the EMPEROR must be crowned king with the public consent of thel magnates, and in every respect acco:ding to the ancient Constitution and traditions of the coun try ; or that some other ruler would be elected in his stead, and the fertile provinces of the Lower Danube would throw off all semblance of alle giance to Austria at once and for ever. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) When Italy was gone, and Hungary was gone, and Bohemia was known to be ripe for revolt, it was thought that the chief of the HAPSBCROR might not improbably sink into a petty duke again, permanently kept down by a mighty German empire on the one aide of him, and on the other by a new Kingdom of Hungary which must soon absorb the distracted provinces of European Turkey, and stretch from Presbourg to the Bosphorus. If this state of things appears now to be rapidly progressing towards changes more hopeful than any which could have been ex pected but a short time ago ; if Hungary has been contented, Bohemia pacified, the Concordat revised, liberty of thought and religion, free speech and free writing allowed, and the EMPEROR restored to a popularity which he has never en joyed since the first months of his reign, the honour is greatly due to the wise and prudent administration of Baron De BRUM', and it is im possible for a moment to admit that he would now risk a war which might be a death blow to the Liberal party, and with it to the rising for tunes of the new Constitutional Empire, and which would almost infallibly plunge it into utter and irretrievable ruin. (IRIXERR'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, OM N. The insurrection alleged by the radical journals as having taken place on Tuesday evening in Rome was confined to an attack on the post at Caritali, by a band of 50 armed men, and during the time of their attack another band, leas numerous, attempted to carry a post of &wives at Borgonovo. The assailants were dispersed and several captured. One hour sufficed to re-establish tranquillity, which had not been disturbed up to the morning of the 23rd inst., the date of the last advice.. THE BLOOMSBURY MURDER. EXAMINATION OF MrOGERIDC:E AT ROW STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Samuel Muggeridge, of No. 7, Pulteney -court, Silver-street, Golden-square, storekeeper to a co-operative society, was placed at the bar before Mr. Vaughan, charged upon his own confession a-th shuotiv the bands man, Edwin McDonnell. The case excited considerable interest, r-id the street was touch crowded. BADEN AND PRUSSIA. CARLSRUHE, Ocr. ?A. The Upper House of the Baden Diet has unani mously approved the customs and commercial treaty, the Salt-tax Bill, the bill for Elections to the Customs Parliament, and the Treaty of Alliance with Pi (Haiti. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. OALLE, Ocr. 22. The Delhi, from China, arrived on the 12th inst., and the Geelong, from Australia, to-day, the latter having been detained by bad weather. The Bengal leaves for Suez to-day. She may be expected there about the 7th Nov. OUTWARD MAIL or JULY 20-26. The Avoca reached Melbourne on the 11th, and Sydney on the 13th Sept. OUTWARD MAIL or Aumre 20-26. The Bombay arrived at King George's Sound on the Bth Oct. OUTWARD MAIL or Barr. 4.10. The Golconda reached Gene on the 9th Oct. VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, SEPT. 27. The difficulty in reference to the grant of 20,0001. to Lady Darling continues. The Victoria Parliament was prorogued by the governor, after having voted temporary supplies, but has now re-assembled. The Australian colonies are preparing an enthu siastic reception for his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. The shipments of gold to England during the month amount to 80,000 osa. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Ocr. 91 The royal mail steamship Scotia from New York on the 16th inst., arrived here at 1.45 a.m. to-day, with 139 cabin passengers. She landed 10 passengers and 97 sacks of mails, carrying on those for Liverpool and Scotland, and proceeded immediately. All well. NEW YORK, Orr. 16, 6 A.Y. It. is reported that President Johnson has sour moncd Generals Pope and Ord to Washington. The War Department has refused General Sickles's request for a court of inquiry. Mr. Hunnicut, Judge Underwood, an Irish man, and two negroes, have been nominated dele gates to the Virginia Reconstruction Convention by the Richmond radicals. The white radical candidate at Williamsburg, Virginia, has been mobbed by the adherents of the coloured radical candidate. It is reported that Mr. Thaddeus Stevens has announced that he will urge Congress to pass an impeachment law defining impeachable offences and providing that no officer will be permitted to exercise the functions of office during trial under impeachment, and that he will also present a bill prohibiting any state preventing citizens from voting on account of colour for national officers. A mass meeting of Republicans at Philadelphia took place on Monday, when General Grant was nominated for the presidency. Yellow fever is rapidly abating at New Orleans, Mobile, and Galveston. Galveston was overflowed during a storm on Sunday, when half a million dollars worth of pro perty was destroyed. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Oct'. 24, 6 P.M. The Cunard steamer China arrived out to-day. Closing Prices :—Gold, 142 i. Sterling exchange on London, 1081. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1121 ; ditto, 1885, 104 Illinois, 122; Erie, 71i. Cotton—Middling Upland, 20. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 24. Petroleum, standard white, 35. Erie ellurt. BALMORAL, Oct. 23. The Queen drove out, accompanied by Prince and Princeu Christian and Princess Louise. Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Duckworth, drove to the Burn of the Vat. The Prince and Princess of Wales drove out yesterday afternoon. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to tho Governor-General of Canada. According to present atrangements the Queen will leave lialmond for Windsor on Friday the lit of November. The Prince of Wales and suite honoured the Olympic Theatre with their presence last evening. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Warwick shire was held at Stratfordon•Avon, yesterday, to promote the completion of the restoration of Worcester Cathedral begun many years ago. The lord bishop of the diocese was to have presided, but in his absence the chair was taken by Lord Leigh. Lord Lyttelton, the Right Hon. Sir 3. S. Pakingtoe, Sir R. N. C. Hamilton, &c., were also present. Mr. Chester, who was a member of the commit tee which the Society of Arts appointed last year, under the presidency of Mr. Henry Austin Bruce, M.P., to " inquire and report respecting the Food of the People," advises people to buy the cheapest imported Liebig's extract of beef, and to use it as much as possible, instead of English beef, in soup., broths, and gravies, and to buy largely the Australian stewed beef, free from bone, ready cooked, at 7d. the lb. If they will do this, they may be quite certain that before long Australia and South America, and other distant lands, will find the means of supplying our wants from their superfluities. Mr. H. J. Turner, of Richmond (Yorkshire), says our northern wheat, generally, is an excellent sample. It has all been got in sound ; and more than that, the whole crop is dry enough to grind now. It is bis firm belief that the whole crop of English wheat is this year worth more by several millions sterling than was the crop of last year. The Cosmopolitan of this week perpetrates the following joke :—" We learn from good authority that a minister of King Theodore, charged with plenary power to represent the government of his English-hating Ma jesty hoe gone to Now York for the purpose of issuing ' Letters of Marque' to prey on British Commerce, and that • whole fleet of American Alabama. will soon be let loose upon the ocean. The feeling M the United States is ripe for this sort of retaliatory enterprise, and it is a vety sig nificant fact that Mr. Seward has recently stopped the male of government war vessels. If Abyssinia is a recog nised government and a belligerent power, then the Abys sinian King is competent by the laws of nations to grant letters of marque. The United States, smarting under their losses from Confederate privateers, made and fitted out as they assert in England, are only too eager to play the tit-for•tat game. Insurance at Lloyd's upon English bottoms, we are inclined to think, will advance consider ably within the next sixty days." The prisoner is considerably taller than Groves, and the alleged likeness is very faint indeed. His hair and mous tache are much darker, and he has bushy ',bilkers, wbieb Groves has not. Police•ergeant Henry Wi'liams, 11 City police, deposed —Yesterday afternoon, about 20 minutes to 4 o'clock, the prisoner OWN into the Bishopagate-street police-station, and stated to ins and the inspector that he wished to give himself up for shooting the bandsman. Mr. Vaughan— Was he perfectly sober? Witness—There is no doubt that he bad had something to drink,bnt be was quite sober enough toknow what he was saying. I asked him what was his name. He said it was William Brown. He afterwarks said it was no use telling a story, and that his right name was Samuel Muggeridge, and that he lived at 7, Pulteney court, Silver-street, Golden-square, and was a storekeeper. Afterwards, in answer to the inspec tor, he said he had been to the Holboto Theatre on the night in question, and that on the way from the theatre he Bred a pistol by way of a lark between two men, and accidentally shot one of them. He said it was on the 26th or 27th of September. He was also asked by the inspector if he bad any pistols about him or at home. He mid he bad none about him ; he had two at home, bnt the one he shot the man with he had thrown away into the Thames. Being asked by the inspector if he still adhered to that, he mid " Yes." He was asked if he bad any further state ment to make, and he .aid " No." Before be was brought to Bow atrec t station he was searched at the Bishops gate-street statios, when there were found on him • pocket-book, • pen knife, a key, and a small quantity of powder. He did not mention the name of the man that was shot, or the place where. Mr. Vaughan— You have heard what this witness has said. Do you wish to ask him any questions Prisoner—No, sir. Inspector Brannan, of the F division, said—The last witness brought the prisoner to the station at Bow-street, between half-past 5 and 6. I heard his evidence that he mentioned to me in the prisoner's presence. I Raked the prisoner if what the sergeant said was correct. He maid, " Yes, It was." I told him it would be my duty to charge him on his own confession with hav'ng murdered McDonnell. Re said, "I did not murder him ; but accidentally shot between them. I had been drinking at the time." I told him that I was going to ask him a question, but he need not answer it unless he liked. Whatever he said I should have to repeat to the magis trate. I then asked him when it occurred. He said, "On the 2Gth or 27th September last, but I am not certain about the date." I then asked him where it took place. He said, " I don't know where It took place, it was not far from the Amphitheatre in Holborn, where we had been." I asked him if he was alone? He said " No, I was with a friend of mine. I object to tell you his name. He had no idea I was going to fire a pistol. He tried to atop me when I fired the pistol. But I, not intending to hit one of them, shot one of them and ran away." I asked him where the revolver was. He said " Over London bridge ; I threw it away for that reason ; it ha s been a source of such misfortune to me. That is all I have to say, and it is a volvntaii state ment." IS gen I read it over to him be said, " I have not murdered him, I shot him accident. ally." I ' , lced him where he got the pistol from. He said "I have had it about five years, since I came from Constantinople. I bought it of one of the sailors on board the ship I went out to Constantinople in. It was a six shot revolver. I threw the pistol over about the centre of the bridge on the left hand side, about two yards, as far as I corld guess in the dark." After reading this statement over I asked him if he had any objection to sign it to prevent contradiction. He said he had no objection, and ho signed it. I now produce it. I directed the last witness, Sergeant Williams, to make out a state ment of what the prisoner bad said to him at the Bishops gate-street station. I read it over to the prisoner. He said they were both perfectly true, and he had no objec tion to sign them. Mr. Vaughan—Did he appear to you to be labouring under excitement when he made the statement Witness—He seemed quite calm then, but he had the appearance as if he had been drinking in the earlier part of the day, and bad just recovered. He seemed flushed, and there was an appearance about his eyes am if he bail been drinking. He said he bad been at the docks tasting wine. Mr. Vaughan—Do you wish to ask this witness any question The Hisoner—No, sir. Inspector Brannan—l beg pardon. I have omitted one point. I put the man amongst seventeen others, and Furber thought be identified him. __ _ Mr. Vaughan—We will take that from the man himself. Superintendent Searle said that at 7 o'clock last night he went to the prisoner's lodgings, accompanied by In spector Thompson. He saw there the wife of the prisoner. She showed him into • front room on the first-floor, and in searching the top drawers in a set of drawers in that room two pistols were found. One wasloaded, the other was not. They are ordinary pistols. The charge was drawn. They are smooth barrels. The charge oonststed of • ball. He had the ball that shot McDonnell fitted to the pistol, and it was too small fur it. On returning to the station in Bow-street he saw prisoner, and his wife having said that he was in delicate health witness promised that he should have some clothes. Witness told him he had found the pistols, and he said the shot was not fired from either ; the one the shot was fired from he brought from Constantinople. Witness saw a man named Ripley, who has been assisting a butcher, and inquired of him whether he had been out with the prisoner, and he said one Friday night about three weeks ago but bad not been on this side of Oxford-street on that occasion. Inspector Thompson, Detective Force, Scotland-yard, said that he wu at the Bow-street station yesterday. He heard what the prisoner said to Mr. Searle, and witness asked whether the pistol from Constantinople had six grooves or not, and he said he did not know whether it had live or six or seven. He said he could not say, there were several. He told him what part of the house he occupied in Pulteney -court—shop, kitchen, and first floor. Witness accompanied Mr. Searle. Henry Furber said he was with McDonnell when be was shot on the 28th September. Yesterday he was requested to go into the yard at Bow-street. This was a quarter to 8 o'clock. Inspector Brannan was there. Durkin was not there. There were ► number of men in the yard dif ferently dressed. There were 16 or 17, more or less. It was not very dark at the time. He knew he was going to identify one of the men who was at Vernon-place when McDonnell was shot. He did not see amongst those per• sons anyone be could identify, except that the prisoner was about the right height. The man be saw bad a long fair heard. Ho should think the prisoner at the bar was not one of the two men. Mr. Vaughan—Prisoner, have you consulted with your friends before you made the statement you did make last night! The prisoner—No. I can't imagine what induced me to make such an extraordinary statement. I never was in Holborn, I don't know the locality, and I don't know the particulars of the murder. I have been home from Con stantinople six years, and I was there three years ; so I could not have had it five years. I dare say my friends will be able to prove that I was in the locality—in our own neighbourhood—at the time. Mr. Vaughan said it was a most extraordinazy thing that a man should go to two police stations in an appa. Tautly calm and cool state of mind, and make a statement implicating himself in a charge of so grave a nature. The prisoner said he bad been drinking, and had also been very much worried in business. Superintendent Durkin said prisoner's wife and mother were in court. The mother here came forward and said the prisoner did not live with her. When he came home from Constanti• nople she received his chest, and it did not contain any revolver. He WAS • professor of languages at a college there, and she did not think they were allowed to keep them. The pistols found at his lodgings belonged to his father, and he took them to keep the children from getting them. He had several times suf fered from delusions, and especially after trouble or disappointment. For tho last two months she had not seen him, as his state was such that she dreaded to meet him, it so distressed her. He bad been unsucess tul in business. Nodoubt lthe appearance which led the police to think he had been chinking wee cceasiceed by excitement. The pi esoner said he had been drinking very hard. Mr. Vaughan tepid after that statement he could only conclude that the Prisoner was suffering from an hallacinse tion. He must therefore be discharged, but he, Mr. Vaughan, intuit call on the prisoner's friends for his own protection and that of the public, to place him under proper super e:sion. TEMA/UAL Approving of the refusal of the Home Secretary to postpone the opening of the special commission at Man chester, the Timm argues that if a great excitement is to prevail so long as these men remain untried, which their advocates contend, the sooner they are tried the better. If a violent anti• Fenian prejudice exists at Manchester, it may go to favour a removal of the indictment into the Central Criminal Court ; but the prejudice is not so much local as national; nor will it become weaker be tween this and Christmas if honest men continue to be shot down in the streets with revolvers " drawn " in the American fashion. If it be true that the men are too poor to pay for their own defence, perhaps some of their friends at the Reform League will assist them. At al events, if necessary, a sufficient defence fund ought to be placed at Mr. Roberts' disposal, and the prisoners should be duly informed thereof. The responsibility of appearing without counsel would then rest with themselves and their advisers. The Daily News sees no valid groubds for delaying the coarse of legal inquiry. The lapse of a few months would not change the sentiments with which Fenianism is re. garded, but, as the case of Groves has shown, the English populace are not in a mood to sacrifioe their love of law and justice to their hatred of Fenianism. As to the feeling of the public, if there have been foolish " demonstrations on one side, there have been ebullitions still more foolish on the other. The nonsense talked the other evening at the meeting of the Reform League may be set against the expressions of hostile sentiment to which Messrs. Jones, Cottingbam, and Roberts refer. The aspect of Fenianism which is of the most importance is its intangibility. It haunts society with its spectral presence, but it is evasive and inapprehensible. Attempt to seize and grapple with it, and it is gone. The Irish colonies settled among us practice with the advantage of isolation the art of evading the law which they have learned at home, and the police have little chance of success while the offenders meet with active sympathy amongst their fellow-countrymen. The Herald persists that the assassination of McDonnell bad a political origin. The key to the mystery is the re semblance of Furber to a man supposed to bo employed as a spy upon Fenian conspirators in London. from whom the probability is that we have been in more danger than the public have hitherto dreamed. The Telegraph proclaims that, after the meeting of Wed nesday night, the existing council of the Reform League and English liberalism can have no more dealings with each other. English liberalism has nothing to do with the advocacy of murder and rebellion ; the council of the Reform League has avowed itself the champion of both. Already Mr. Lncraft and Mr. Odgers have rendered them selves liable to a criminal prosecution at the hands of the Attorney-General, and their sentiments are as abhorrent to the working men as to the governing chasm The Star greatly regrets inch demonstrations, were it for nothing but the fact that they will assuredly cause the Reform League to be misunderstood by many, and give an excuse for its being denounced and calumniated by more. All Philistinism with its thousand throats will doubtless open on the League, and moderate men, however sincere and zealotss in the cause of reform, will naturally object to being mixed up in an association some of the leading mem bers of which openly justify and applaud rebellion against our own constitution. Mr. Nein, says the Post, seems to have been treated very ungratefully after all he has done for the League. He has the reputation of having morn than once caused more moderate counsels to prevail than would otherwise have been adopted, and the rejection of the letter now in question shows that he must have had some difficulty in doing so. If he is wise he will henceforth leave the Leaguen to themselves and the police. ITALY. The Times describes the new Italian ministry as having been purpoeely selected by the instinct of order, which is the quality they have essentially in common with their chief. Coercive measures may be necessary, hut there is no fear that the liberties of the country can ever run the slightest danger at the hands of the King, and the up rightness of his intentions is shown by the presence of Cialdini at the head of his cabinet. Meanwhile the most explicit declaration of his Roman policy is due from the Emperor Napoleon to the Italian people. If the Italians may not obtain better terms, if the Romans are not to be allotted the full benefit of non-intervention, it would be infinite gain for them to go back to their former position. The September Convention is now only enforced by a threat. Such a position can suit neither the Italian nor the French government. The Emperor Napoleon must feel this, and on • proper application by en Italian ministry able to assert its mastery over the revolution he may easily feel disposed to grant more equitable terms. The Daily Hews suspects that the project of a confe rence mentioned by the Potpie will have to be talked of very much more than it has been before any definite invi tations on the subject can be addressed to the great power& The case i■ the simplest imaginable. Austria becoming unable by the events of war to support the Pope in governing the Roman territories in disregard of the wishes of the people, France succeeded to the ignoble office, and in withdrawing after 15 years provided the Pope with foreign support while it imposed on the Italian government the obligation of keeping the territory free of volunteer band'. This is not a European difficulty. It has been created by the French E nperor, and it rests with him to put an end to it. A word from him to hie re presentatives in Rome and Florence, and all is done. So far as this question is concerned his policy, and that alone, threatens to derange the European equilibrium. This simple and obvious consideration should be decisive as to the reply to be given by our own government to that of France in the event of its formally proposing the conference referred to. It must be distinctly understood that the people of this country will be no parties to any form of intervention in Italy. The iferabl think, en understanding or agreement might be superadded to the September convention. As protector the King of Italy would have the right of con ferring directly with the Pontiff in all matters relating to hi. temeend government, and the way might gradu ally be paved towards the assumption of a lay vicariate in the Pep.' States. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. GREAT EXCITEMENT. The repot ta from Italy continue to describe that country as being in a state of great and general agitation. The news of the escape of Garibaldi has added to the excitement. Rattazzi, who was an object of popular dist' ust and dislike on account of his arrest of Garibaldi, has now become an object of popular favour, because it is believed that he urged the King not to yield to the injunctions of imperial France. The crowd that broke the windows of his house three weeks ago assembled before it on tho evening of the 22nd with cries of " Viva Rattazzi," " Viva Roma Capitaie"— though some amongst them, with the memory of the past still rankling in their breasts, raised a counter-cry of " Morte a Rattazzi." The " Viva Rattazzi " cry, however, prevailed. In the midst of torrents of rain a deputation of from 400 to 1100 persons waited on the late minister who appeared at the balc o ny an d assured them that Italian honour should not be tar nished. Having obtained this assurance they retired repeating the cries of " Long live Rat tazzi," " Rome the capital of Italy." The minor newspapers appeared in the morning, calling on the people, in large type, to take arms to repel the foreigner, and at 10 o'clock the following bill was posted in the streets of Florence : Italians ! Italy is about to be shamefully disgraced. Freed from Austria, another nation threatens to invade the Peninsula and to dispute our unquestionable light. Pp, Italians ! The government dos not know its duty. The country, with the aid of its valiant army, must save Itself. Viva Italia a Roma Capitals. Florenoe, Oct. 21. THE ITALIAN PATRIOTS. In the caffSs an address was being signed by thousands, calling on the King to have confidence in the patriotism of Italians, and not to yield to the insolent threats of the foreigner. Telegrams were received at noon from Leghorn, Turin, and Naples, announcing that manifestations were being prepared at those places. The committees are actively at work, and are strongly supported by the working classes. In the course of the day 1,2001. was received from the provinces in aid of the patriots. People were at first incredulous about the escape of Garibaldi, but when the news was confirmed and it became known that he had actually been in Florence the excitement was im-1 mense. He is reported to have made a strong appeal to his friends. It is believed that the government did not arrest him again, as they feared it would be the signal for a general insur rection in Venice, Palermo, Naples, and Turin. He was invited to wait, to stop, to disband the volunteers, and he replied by the following procla mation : PROCLAMATION OF CARIRALDI. "FREE ITALIC OR DEATH." Onco more I am amongst you, brave defenders of Italian honour—amongst you to do my duty and to help you iu the moat holy and most glorious work of our resur rection. Italy is persuaded that it cannot live without its bead, without its heart, without its Rome, which some servile men, in contempt of national right and national honour, would sacrifice to the caprices of a despicable tyrant. Forward, then ! and above all things constancy. I don't ask from you courage or valour, for I know you ; but I ask from you constancy. The Americans persisted for fifteen years in a glorious struggle which has made them the most powerful and the freest nation in the world. For us some months of concord will be enough to wash out of Italy the shame that stains her in spite of the tyranny that is seated in the Vatican and those who uphold it. G. GARIBALDI. Most of the Paris liberal journals publish the above proclamation of Garibaldi in full. The Sikle, however, stops short before the passage which alludes to " a despicable tyrant." The Florowe Gazette of the 22nd publishes the following addresses : To his Majesty the King of Italy,—Sire,—The Italian people, in this grave moment, deeply anxious for the fate and dignity of the nation, rely upon the hero of Palestro and San Martino. Sire, rely upon us. We aro ready to give life and fortune to preserve intact the honour of the nation, whose liberty and unity has in you the bravest of its defenders. Sire, have faith in no. We have faith in you—in you we trust. Florence, Oct. 21. The Leghorn address is as follows : Sire,— An entire nation, strong in its right and in the sacredness of its cause, cannot and ought not to tolerate the insult which a foreigner offers to it. Sire, Victor Em manuel should reckon on the Italian people who have elected him King. Your people will sacrifice life and fortune for the honour of the nation and the fulfilment of its destiny. Italy reckons on the hero of Palestro and San Martino; and she Is sure she does not reckon in vain. The Italian joimuds publish also the following bulletin : THZ ROMAN INMURRECITON,-OEIERAL AID COMMITMT. The arrival of General Garibaldi on the continent has modified the plans which were in the course of execution both in the city of ROHM and with respect to the movements of the insurrectionary troops. This halt is merely temporary, and will only contribute to the success of the work for which Italy is so passion- ately anxious. We have confidence, therefore, that it will not be long before the effects of a situation which, in relation to the action of the inhabitants of Rome ought not to disturb the mind of the people of Italy, are seen. The nation should not be discouraged, Garibaldi is with us. THE COMMITTEE. The R;frma says : We can affirm that French steamers are every day bring ing new reinforcements to the mercenary pontifical troops. Whole detachments of the Chasscurs de Vincennes have arrived. At Civita Vecchia they put on the papal uniform. It is a military intervention which doe s not care any longer even to save appearances. These men bring with them large sums from French catbolics, and even from the French government. The pontifical army has been reinforced to the extent of at least one-third by men who have come from Marseilles to Civita Vecchia. The correspondent of the Liberee in Florence says : During Garibaldi's stay in Florence the negotiations between him and the ministry were carried on through the intervention of CI ispi. 'What a singular man is this Garibaldi, escaping limping and feeble from his 80 sen tinels, and the look out of seven vessels of the royal navy ! About 4 o'clock in the morning of the 15th he threw him self into a boat with Basso, his secretary. Garibaldi with his hair thrown back under the red cap of a coast fisherman. and muffled in a thick coot of green cloth, rowed boldly into the midst of the squadron, pulling the oars himself. When challenged by the commander of the Prince Humbert, he replied in Genoese patuia that be was going to fish on the coast. "Away then," cried the officer. A few hours later Garibaldi reached the Sardinian coast and thence pet sail for the Continent. No one dare arrest this man now ; he treats with the govern. ment ; (or, at this moment, be has Italy in his hands. THE BATTLE OF NEROLA. A correspondent from Nerola, quoted by the clerical papers, brings details of the affair that took place there. Commandant Cirlot, of the Antibes Legion, and Commandant Troussures, of the Zouaves, led the two columns of attack on the ChLteau. The Legion marched onwards with cries of " Live Pius IX. !" " Live France !" The Zonaves and Swiss Carbineers applauded the Legion. Ten of its members were wounded, one being a lieutenant Colonel Cherette had his hone killed. The Garibaldians were led by Count Valentin, a Neapolitan, who surrendered with 134 men. He declared that he was fighting for a republic. r TEE ARNIANS. THE FORTHCOMING ASSIZES AT MANCHESTER. The special commission for the trial of the twenty. six prisoners charged with being concerned in the murder of Sergeant Brett, on the 18th September, will be opened to-morrow (Saturday). The Biel will commence on Mon day morning, at 10 o'clock, before Mr. Justice Blackburn and Mr. Justice Mellor, the senior puiane judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, who will sit togethtr. The pro secution will be conducted by the Attorney-General (Sir J. B. Kerslake), with whom will be Mr. W. H. Higgin s , the deputy-recorder of Manchester, wbo conducted the ease for the crown on the preliminary magisterial inquiry. With regard to the defence, Mr. W. P. Roberts, who has renewed his request to the Home Secretary for the postponement of the trial, states in his second application that "no counsel are retained." Mr. Roberts also says, "My impression is that the men will elect not to be defended at all." The Manchiskr Guardian says it is arranged that Mr. Ernest Jones and Mr. Cottingliam (who memorialised the Home Secretary as "counsel for the prisoners," Stc.) are to hold briefs as juniors. The nese. tiations with regard to • leader are not yet concluded. The prisoners will be guarded by a strong force of the county police sinned with revolvers, and other armed constables, to the number of • hundred altogether, will be stationed in the building. A military force will also be accommodated in the locality. The prisoners will be taken to and fro daily, between the New Bailey and the Assize Courts, under a strong military escort. FAILURE OP TEE WHALE FISHING. Yesterday morning the whaling vessels Erik of London and Esquimaux of Dundee, arrived in the latter port from the whale fishing, at which, unfortunately they have been most unsuccessful. The Erik comes ho:ne clean, and the Eaquirnaux brings the produce of a single fish— some ten or twelve tons of oil. The firm to which the Erik belongs—Messrs. Antony Gibbs and Son, London, have a fishing settlement at Exeter Sound, but during the Last twelve months it has been most un productive. A number of sea horse and bears were captured, but these of course w;11 not yield any ye,/ large sum. Three men and one woman died at the settle ment. Although the whaling vessel Diana, of Hull, was very near the settlement, those resident there remained totally ignorant of her condition. This is accounted for by the fact that the winter was an exceedingly thick one- The masters of the vessel report that the ship Tay, of Dundee, was beset in the lee near Coutta's Inlet towards the end of August. The vessel has not bees seen since, and it is feared that the crew will have to en dure all the horrors of a winter in these cold and inhospi table regions. Some of the other ships are expected soon, but a part of the fleet it is believed have gone to Cumber land Gulf, in order to still further prosecute the fishing. So far as known at present only two whales have been caught by the whole fleet, and should there be no improve. ment at the close of the season the fishing will be the most unremunerative the Dundee Companies have yet expe rienced. THE NEW MEMBER FOR BRADFORD. Mr. Thompson, the newly-elected member for Bradford, met his constituents for the Suit time last night at St. George's Hall. After thanking the electors for re. turning him in his absence, the bon. gentleman proceeded to express his opinions on the impoi tent questions of the future. He expressed himself in favour of direct taxa. ton, and a further extension of free trade, of the ballot, of a total abolition of church rates, and of secular educa tion. . . In reply to several questions put to him at the close of his address, Mr. Thompson raid:—The first question is with reference to the right of meeting iu Hyde-park. I ray that the government ought to allow the people of London to meat in Hyde-park, under plopzr restrictions. (Hear, hear.) They could not prevent them from meeting there, and they may pass what act of parliament they like, but no amount of police force will ever keep the Temple out of Hyde-park if they wish to go there. It is the worst possible policy to bringthe police force into collision with the people. (Hear, bear.) Will you trivets) the funds of trades unions and societies the same protection you give to other societies ? lam speaking now without very much evidence, but my impression is that the reason they have not bad the same protection before is that the object for which these trades unions were established did not come within the law. In any legislation that may take place, such and such things may he defined to be legal, and such and such things defined to be illegal—of sours. I shall be inclined to give the utmost possible secu rity to funds for legal outvotes. (Applause.) With reference to the Italian question, I am in favour of non intervention so far as this country is concerned, either morally or by arms—non-intervention for me altogether. (Loud applause.) With reference to the Prince of Wales I will say nothing now. I do not know under what cir eumstxnees any application may be made to parliament I do not know what the amount may be, and I will pledle myself to nothing. (Loud applause) When I em in London I go to the Royal Botanical Secietyi Gardens,pretty nearly every Sunday, because I like and because I am a member, and I will vote in favour letting others go to the Crystal Paitce, the National Gallery, or any other nlace of the kind. (Cheers.) I the not like law to set the example of taking a men's life, End I am therefore in favour of the abolition of capital punishment. (Loud applause.) As to the assimilation of the marriage laws, I do net know what the different)* is, but when the question comes before preliernent I will give it the best consideration I can. As to the transfer of real property, if I mistake not Lord Chancellor Westbury introduced a bill for that purpose, and there is an office established in London. but I do not think it has been need to the extent which it deserves. Ido not think we can cet a better eyatern than we have now in existence if people chose to avail themselves of it. lam asked whether I will support Lord Derby or Mr. Gladstone. (Laughter end applause.) I will just support whichever of them brings in the best measures. Tlie Earl of Pembroke, acting under the advice of his medical attendant., Ica left Wilton with the in. tention of visiting South Australia far the benefit of the sea voyage. His lordship is accompanied by his mother, Lady Herbert of Lea, who will proceed with him as far as the West Indies, whence she will proceed to England. We (Binatioigham Poat) regret to hear that the Ilighop of Worcester is confined to his own room by somewhat severe ►ttack of bronchitis. Professor Leone Levi recently had a private audience with the Pope, and also with Cardinal Antonelli- In the course of the conversation his Holiness observed, ``This is an homeopathic State, and reforms must be intro- duped in an homeopathic manner." The Prince of Monaco has met with an untoward incident. A carpenter who had repaired • carriage of some kind belonging to his highness sent in his account. which amounted to 3Mr. ; but the prinoe, whose civil list was possibly in arrear, could not, or at least did not. pay the hill. The carpenter sued before the Jugs de Paix of Nice, and got judgment in hit favour, but without effect, The hardihood of the mechanic in asking for payment was punished by his expulsion from the Monaco territory. A deputation of working men of Paris have sent in the draught of a petition to the office of the Si.le news. piper, to which they invite signaturvi. It runs thus : "Since 17R9 democracy has demanded from the world freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state. To-day the reactionists are making • desperate effort to engage France in a fatal intervention which would be at once • violation of liberty against the Romans, and would precipitate our country into a European war for the defence of • principle which we repudiate. As eons of the French revolution, our duty is to protcA ener getically against all intervention for the protection of the Pope-King." A Canadian paper states that there are 56 Irish officers in the United States navy. MYTHOLOCIY AND EPISCOPAIIANISM. —The Phan delphia Erening Bulletin is taking exceptions to the gene• ral adoption of the Greek term Pan. There is Pan-Slaristn in the Slavic conntiies Pan-lielleniam now being at, tempted in Greece ; Pan-Iberia is the dream of the Italian, and Pan-Anglicanism expresses the idea of a united English Church. The god Pan in Greek rnytholozy represented the same idea that is conveyed by our war 1 nunre. The material world was under his control. and the name of the "groat Pan" was one of the greatest in their Tai-theon. 'I 1