The Express. — London, England, 1864-10-08 00:00:00

Zit, eVVrtfi• TO ooItRIBPONDEPTS., Advertisements intended for Tlia.7prea" London livening Paper must be at the Mee, 10. Bonverie-strod, by Two *clock on the day of publication. MR. MILES'S (the ORIGINATOR'S) World-teawe lea MOUSSES caapolz be bad at 7s, mourns= ILANOeSQUA.II, where "wwwpetition tak diaasaaad by Sdllasl ALTSILD WEBB s MEM.. _ 181 L JOHN BROGDEN begs to make the following announcement regarding the VALUZ of GOLD, feeling per suaded that the interests of the fair trader and the public will be dike protected by the wide circulation of knowledge on the subject Gold being divided into 24 parte or carats, it follows that gold of IN cants lane, is worth ..SA 111 per ounce. 23 carats_ 4 1 6 II carat' (British standardi 3 17 10; ft carats.. 314 4 20 carats.. 3 10 19 carats_ 3 7 3 Manufactory, 16, If ei N.B. Assays made Ibtablishment is at one o'clock. 19 carata..f.3 61 17 arab.. it 2 16 CAMS.. 2 1 ri 15 carats.. 2 1 1 It carats.. 2 61 11 carats.. 1 0 12 carats.. 2 6f 11 carats.. 116 11 10 carats.. 116 ef nriettsofreet, Covent; of Chains and Jeweils teed at 6 in the even] ant.. LI 11 10 prat.. 1 8 Si carats.. 1 • 9 carats.. 1 1 24 carats . 0 17 8 prate.. 014 2 carats.. 0 10 74 prate.. 0 7 1 carat 0 1 0 W.C. for Is. each. This 4 and on Saturdays ATEGRETTI and ZAMBRAIS One (tables and h. Two Ginnie FIIILD GLARUS and TILIBOOPIaI sre war ranted as ruutvalled for power sod ballnaaty. Itta. aod da. la Hatton-gardae, LC. ; N, Conn% LC.; 112, ca b a :enear.„ R. ; 151, llateetrut aad Crystal Mum. (PRIZE IIZDAL AWARDED.' ALLEN'S PATENT PORTMANTEAUS and TRAVELLING BAGS with square LADIES WARDROBE TRUNKS, DREBSTMOS, with Our DEB li a l a BOXES, WRITING Lod DRESSING CAS/15, and IMO ether articles for booth or coatiaental *gavelling. Illurtratad eallalegath post free. Also Alien's Barrack Furniture Catalogue of Portal. Bed' Maid; Drawers, Easy Chairs, Waskhand.stands, Canteens, do., wet tree. J. W:ALLitN, Manufacturer and Patentee, 37, Want Wand. London. W.C. HA TWA ZEIT. TEN EvicErso.BACCHITEARTMADNE.—MADEMOISELLE DE BELLEISLE. Messrs.Bowe and Barren : Mesdames Beatrice and Angel.—And THE CASTLE Or ANDALUSIA. Meagre Weise, nuckstune, Compton: Mies Keeley and Madame Weir. PILNCIO33. THIN ETIMING. BORN TO 4500 D—. LUCL Mr. D. Warm. And THY annum OF LONDON. Hawn. Vining. I. W. Ply, D. Fisher. D. Murray, J. Nem. H. Forrester, and H. Melba; Mrs. H. Marston, Mum Zama and Gwynn*. LYCZUM. ON NATrIIDAT, Oct. 22, ♦ NEW DRAMA, to which Yr. Pechter will sustain the priacipel chanciest. Blt/TANMA. TIM IMMO. TOM oFirDESSITIL. Miura. Cranford, Drummond . MW 9. Milan - 8 by llama G. Tester, lota. Lindsay, and Delfger ; Madame —And THE THRILL LIAM. Mesdames Yarnold, Cranford, and Boca HIGH WATZR AT LONDON!BRIDO6 Tins DAT Morning, Mi. 14m.....thentoon, 4b. 44w. Tam Show Montag, Th. 11ia....Aftamoon. nu nu. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8. THAT under the prevalent love of novelty and excitement some enterprising speculators should attempt to surround dexterous conjuring tricks with an air of mystery, should seek to invest them with semi-scientific pretensions, and even strive if possible to raise them to the dignity of sp"itual manifestations, is not by any means so veii sur prising. But it is both surprising and deplorable that persona of education and standing should not only countenance but welcome and applaud such efforts, and that influential organs of opinion should be found ready to give them indirect encou ragement, if not positive support. The so-called " manifestations " of the DAVENPORT BEOthell have nothing to distinguish them from the ordi nary feats of manual magic, beyond perhaps the superior skill of the individual performers. Even this, however, from the voluminous accounts that have appeared, was open to some doubt. Their experiments are all of the well-known type—the majority of them, such as the rope tying, bell-ringing, and coat-changing tricks, having been exhibited over and over again by performers who do not condescend to any mystification as to the source and nature of their power. These triumphs of manual dexterity were all successfully exhibited in this country a few years since, and are at this moment being repeated ou the other aide of the Atlantic by public entertainers, who lay claim to the possession of no gifts beyond that of practised sleight of hand. Nor does there appear to be any thing very exceptional in the manner of their per formance by the DAVENPORT Brothers. They have their own apparatus, their chosen confe derates, and the convenient shield of dark ness, to facilitate the execution of their un doubtedly ingenious tricks. It does not appear that they avowedly claim to possess any peculiar spiritual gifts ; but as they profess not to know the source and nature of their power, they of course directly suggest the inference, eagerly drawn by willing dupes, that it must be of supernatural origin. But the question as to the oomparativeor positive straightforwardness of a couple of clever conjurors is far too insignificant to merit any serious or pro longed discussion. It is the kind of social recog nition and excited welcome which these men have received, as the presumed representatives of thau maturgic spiritualism, which alone gives them and their doings any accidental and temporary im portance. It is one more added to a recent series of facts tending to show that there exists among some even of the educated classes a morbid and childish craving for empty marvels, which is among the least satisfactory results of modern fashionable culture, and may well excite the apprehension, if not the dispst, of those who take a reflective interest in the social signs of the times, and are concerned to promote the cause of sound and healthful progress. By a curious and instructive Nemesis, moreover, this spurious spiritualism not unfrequently finds its most eager disciples amongst those who lightly assail the strong foun dations of reve.lcd religion, and seek to undermine the supernatural supports of the Christian faith. Many of the refined and fastidious, who have lost all robust and rational belief in the deeper realities of our moral and spiritual nature, and the Chris tian verities that appeal to them, become the ready victims of any vulgar impostor who succeeds in confusing their perceptions under the plea of possessing peculiar spiritual power. It may, per haps, be said that this burlesque spiritualism is simply a violent and temporary reaction, the ex treme of unreasoning scepticism having very natu rally produced the counter extreme of unreasoning credulity. This is, no doubt, true, to some extent at least; but as each extreme produces the most mischievous results, it is important to look a little more closely into the matter, in order to discover if possible some of the common causes of both. Amongst these must undoubtedly be reckoned the disproportionate place which the gratification of mere sentiment has of late been permitted to as sume in the scheme of individual action, and the arrangements of social life. If mere feeling is allowed to usurp the place of reason, and duty is resolved into a question of per sonal taste, it is not surprising that mountebanks should ne hailed as inspired messenger!, and their clumsy jugglery looked upon as revelations from on high. The excited febrile flutter of blind sympathy and shallow enthusiasm which greets these Baarrux revelations is but another form of the vice which manifests itself in different directions, and has become a characteristic feature of the times—the passion for sensuous and sentimental excitement, divorced from all sober THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EiriPG, OCTOBER 8, 1864. - T s thought, deliberate judgment, sod respansib6 action. The sole end of thisso"extraoillialf, " manifestations" is to stipulate and, gratify the emotion of wolder.•• This feat. !is a strong and pleasurable one, and its legitimate gratification naturally leads to useful and impor tant results. As the appointed stimulus of our active powers, it tends, when directed towards its appropriate objects, to augment both our know• ledge and oar reverence, and thus to strengthen and develop both the intellect and the moral nature. But in these sensational &dances the mere gratification of the emotions is the only object in view, and it matters little, therefore, what means are employed for the purpose. Any device that can suc ceed in calling forth the emasculated feelings of surprise, astonishment, and curiosity • be eagerly welcomed, and may reckon with confidence on being raised to the dignity of a spi ritual power. But the feelings thus excited lead, and can lead, to no possible result, the wonder being wholly barren and the curiosity idle, as those who resort to such artificial stimulants for their gratification may easily convince themselves if they care to examine and reflect under a due sense of responsibility. The emotions of wonder, admiration, and reverence are in such cases merely played with like childish toys, and those who find a childish delight in the ' , pastime appear to imagine that by transferring to it epithets derived from the most profound and impressive realities of our morel nature, such an occupation of time becomes at all events innocent, if not positively praiseworthy. It is important, therefore, that the truth should be plainly told. Such miserable trifling with noble emotions is not only utterly unworthy of any serious and manly mind, but must in the nature of the case lead to most injurionsresulta. To divorce any emotion from its true objects and ends is to abuse and degrade it, and to do thus with regard to the emotions that lead ua beyond the world of sense tends directly to dry up the most sacredsprings of belief and action. To designate this ruinous abuse of our intellectual and moral nature by the name of Spiritualism is imply to aggravate the outrage thus committed against the supreme serious interest& of truth and duty. !Mt Court. BALMOR ILL, Oct. 6. The Queen drove out yesterday morning, accom paaied by Princess Helios ; and in the afternoon her Majesty, aconmpanied by Princess Helena and Prince Arthur, went to Craig Cloak. MlNlsraniAL MOVE 3110711. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have arrivcd at Cambridge-hone, Piccadilly, from Browllands ; Earl Russell, accompanied by the Countess Rowell and the Ladies Rama!, was ex pected at Pembroke.loige, Richmond, last evening from Scotland, having on their way stayed on &visit to the Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood. at Rielletoo hall, Yorksh , -e. The Lord Chancellor will give his break fast to the fudges and the Queen's counsel at the noble and learned lord's mansion in Upper Hyde-park-gardens on the 2nd of neat mouth, being the first day of Michaelmas Tern. Hie Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will leave Gloucester House, Piccadilly, early in the ensuing week, for General Hall's seat in Gembriageshire, for a few days' shooting. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have ar rived at Apebsy Hausa trims the noble duke's shooting quarters in Invernaes-shirs. The noble duke and duchess shortly go to Strathiteldsaye. The Duchess of Bumleach and Lady Victoria Scott hays been in toms for several days, having axes from Dramlam* Gads, N.B. _ . His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Semites ff and family intend to leave St. Leonard'sen-Sea at the end of this month for the Prussian Embassy, on Carlton-hoosoterrane. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln, immediately after her ladvehip has recovered from her confinement, pur pose to leave Piccadilly, with their youthful family, to pass a few weeks at Brighton. The Earl Brow °low and Lady Marian Alford intend to embark at Liverpool for Madeira on the 12th inst., with the purpose of paring the winter at that island. Count and Countess de Flahault and Hon. Madlle. Elphinstone de Flahanit are expected to leave Tal liallan, N. 8., the countess's seat, for Coventry Howe, Pic cadilly, early next week. The Lord Chancellor will receive the judges and the Queen's counsel at the noble and learned lord's residence in Upper Hydepark-gardens, on Wednesday, the 2nd proximo, being the first day of M•ebselmal Term. The Lord Mayor elect, with the Recorder and civic authorities, attend before the judges assemble. Lord Ebury will return to Moor Park, Herb, on Monday, from a tour in Scotland. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs. Disraeli have been receiving • distinguished circle dories the last fortnight at their insissioe, Hughenden Beek& The guests included the Marquis of Salisbury, the Countess Brownie., the Earl Blowlamp, Lord and Lady Loraine, Lord Henry Lennox, Count Alexander A ppooyi, Lord Courtenay, Lord Loughborough, ,Crineral and Lady Mary and Min Hood, the Right Hon. Sir W. H. &Cite and Mims Jol•Ke, the Right Hon. Sr: E. Lytton, H P., the Hoe. F. Lygoo, and Mr. Arthor Russell. Trials are still going on with gun-cotton. The armour-clad ship RoydAlfred, 4,046 tone, 800 horse power, is to be launched from Portsmouth Dock yard on the 15th init. Mr. Fechter, as at rwesent arranged (says the London Renee) will open the Lyceum Theatre on Saturday. Oct. 22. His opming piece will be a version of Panfaa la Tulips, a drama by iL Paul Maurice, first produced at the Ambigu-Comique, in Paris, near the close of 1838. The Londtneßeri:w obierves that the old system of season-publishing has suffered °attic innovations which have entirely altered its former character. amoogst the best customers of the Loodoo publishers are the large shippers to Cakutta, Bombay. the Cape, Melbourne, Sydney, sod the teat cities of No..h America. These merchants, in order to supply distant parte at Christina' and New Year, require their books soon after Midsummer, and in Win way has come about much of that early publish ing which has marked the recent autumnal literary seasons. Busks once printed and bound, it is difficult, we suppoes, for publishers to witbst►nd thfe 4 r publication io England, although they may have originally been only pushed on to suit the requirements of a foreign demand. Several Continental journals relate the follow ing:—" A °Degrees has just met at Brunswrok nos` ems of princes! No. Of diplomatiste ? No—bat of hotel keepers. Grave and interesting questions were examined. 1. The complaint of foreigners at the high price of break tuts and dinners. 2. The complaints made against the smallness of the bottles. 3. The outcry against the high charge for waxlighte ; and:4. The diecooteet shown at the bad attendance of the servants. What, think you, was the decision 00010 to! That waxlighte, dimmers, breakfasts, aad bottles were all for the beet, and that the only complaint attended to should be that about the sensate." _ _ . On the 15th inst. there will be published in Milan the first number of a protestant fortnightly periodi cal, under the title of Raceoglitore Erangelko—tbe Ryan wheal Okaaer. Its editor is the English minister in that city, the Rev. Prot, whose sermons in Italian are at tended by vast crowds. _ _ MISS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE VOW:TN TEZ3B.—Miss Florence Nighties*le has written to Sir Harry Verney. Hart, M.P.. her brother-io-law, intimating that it is her intentios next sassoo to present the 3rd Bucks (Beek ingham sad Winslow) Volunteer Ride Corps with a pleos of plate, to be competed for upon such terms as they may arrange. Lady Verney, anxious to roacifest her interest in the volunteer movement, boa also determioed to offer a silver imp annually to be shot foe by members of the same moPe. THE Dry' Op CAMBRIDGE ♦T DOvER.--Yester day a grand re►iew and inepection of all the troops in the Dover and Sharerliffe gardens' took place epos an extols. rive plateau known u the Rand Down, midway between Dover and Folkestone, before his Royal Highness the Com mander•in•Chief of the Forms. LATEgT lirrEALianics. POLAirD. Thrilfoseow Gazette of Septenbq 28 publishes an eighth list of persons who havebesn brought before the courts-martial in the district of Kiev and condemned for having participated in the late Polish insurrection. This list contains the names of 343 persons whose sentences have been con firmed by General Annenkoff. The /nvalide Russe of the 30th has also a list of 19 condemna tions pronounced by the military commission of Niemirow in Podolia. Amongst the condemned are Siedroaki, a magistrate, aged 50, who was aen tamed to ten years forced labour in Siberia "for secret participation in insurrectionary projects against the lawful government." Stankievricz, a noble, aged 21, is condemned to the like punish ment, "for having in his possession Polish books of a revolutionary character." Stefanowicz, a noble, aged 27, is condemned to four years' forced labour in Siberia, "for having been acquainted with the revolutionary police of Nie mirow, and with the intention of Misiewicz to require from certain persons the revolutionary oath, although he refused his co-operation when Miaie wicz asked him to give it." Touchowicz, aged 32, is condemned to perpetual exile in Siberia, " for knowing and not disclosing to the government what was the nature of brudewicz's office." The dismissed employe Dobrowaki, aged 33, is condemned to the deprivation of his rights as a citizen, and to banishment, "for having in his house a powder mixed with poison, although he was not convicted of having it in his posses sion with any criminal object." Lobotkiewicz, noble, aged 44, is condemucxl to confinement within the government of Penn "for having accepted the revolutionary office of guardian to the children of persons compromised for political offences." (azurn's TELBOILLMIL) FRANCE. PLEB, Ocr. 8. M. Bourree has been appointed French minister to Lisbon, M. Gobinean to Athens, and M. Bondy to the cou , t of the Elector of Hesse. THE SPANISH SQUADRON IN THE PACIFIC. MADRID. OCT. 7. The Noficias of to-day says :—" It it; asserted that at a Council of Ministers held yesterday, the recall of Admiral Pinzon was decided upon. Mea sures were also adopted for the future com , uand sad destination of the Pacific squadron. JAPAN. (By toloirsph from Boos.) SHAM:MAE, Anew 22. According to the latest intelligence received here from Japan the state of affairs had become more complicated. There was a prospect of hostilities in the Straits of Shimonoraki. An attack on Prince Nagato's fortifications was expected. THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. ILELBOURNF, AUGUST 25. Advices from New Zealand indicate the possi bility of peace. The rebels are suffering from want of food. No further military movements have taken place. LOE ADDRESS TO "RI PEOPLE OE THE UNITED STATES. 3, Subjoased is a copy of a ladder from Sir Henry de Hoghkon to the Governor of the State of New York, and also the copy of an siker from the people of this country to the people of the United States, which wee despatched by the mail steamer of last Saturday. We are informed that the signs, tares to this address were obtained within three weeks from the day upon which the first wee appended, and they embrace every clam of the community. The clergy of all denominatioes have supported it, esp xially the catholic priesthood of Irelsud, 'from which orsintry more than 130,000 signatures were obtained. This total comprises about 3.50,000 names. 16, O oc .epor.street, London, Sept. 28,1864. _ _ EVE,—I have been deputed to forward to your excellency an address from the people of Great Britain and Ireland to the y oople of the United States of America, • copy of which I have the brown to enclose. As the Bost to have signed this addrus e in the fervent hope that it might tend to pre moto place in America, I accepted the ofSoe, and trust that you, sir, will take charge of it ss a missive from one great nation b another, based upon the principles of towards Christianity, and of goods win oar fellow-men. Three hundred thousand names were appended to thisaddress within the short specie of three weak' from its first appearance and, with suf ficient time, I verily believe we might haveobtained those of oine-tentbs of oar country. They commies mess of all ranks, classes, religious, and politics, sod emanate from every part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain acid Ireland. It is our earnest desire that your exeellericy would place our address before the people of the United Ststeo of America in such a way as you may deem expedient with a view to secure the object of our appeal. The address will be conveyed to your excellency by the next mail (leaving Liverpool on the lit October), in the personal charge of Mr. Joseph Parker, of Manchester, whom I beg to recommend to your excellency's protectiok —I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient sae vent, HENRY DE HOOHTON, Baronet. To his Excellency Horatio Seymour, Governor of the State of New York, &0., Sce., United States of Americo. THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND TO THE PEOPLE OF THE vamp (STATEN OF AXUIOA. We are of the same race, and many of you are our brothers. We, therefore, come to you u peacemaker, end address you in Plain language as friends and as fellow. men. We ask you—Has there not been enough of strife and blood shed, of mistily and suffering ; and is it cot time to came the cruel war in which you are engaged ? There is not • Christian man or woman amongst um whose heart does not reap ood affirmatively to this question. We have admired your free institutions, and have gladly witnessed your rue an a people to eminence in wealth and political power. Yon promised to become one mighty nation, famed for the liberties of its citizens, the triumphs of pesos, end the con quest' of commerce. When this unfortunate war began, lour hearts were more inclined towards you than towards your sister States, because we believed with you that the action of the South was but the work of • faction. When you smarted that secession was the work of disappointed ambition, and promised to quell it within sixty days, we accepted your MIIIT11)061 in good faith, looking for the speedy restoration of peace, for we did not wish to see the Amei.esa Unioa broken up. But so far from this promise Laing fulfilled (sod your efforts to accomplish it have born unprecedented in the annals of history), peace and the restoration of the Union axe arcs rutly an distant el ever. The event" of the struggle have convinced on that a more united people never rose up in defence of their sight' than those of the Southern States. Surely there must be many now among you who share with us the conviction that it has become utterly impossible to entitle the South, or to restore the American Union, as it existed in the pest days of the republic. Yon have tried sufficiently, and found the gulf between you and the seceded Staten to widen with each am t that is made to subdue them. We believe that it is now time for you to pause, sod after calmly reviewing all that you have accomplished, the distance which you have travelled from your well-known landmarks, and the (3'Mo:titles and dangers that are certainly before you, to take counsel together t) the beet means of restoring peace. We cannot forget that the question of peace or war was never submitted for your ouraideration before hostilities had s "Wally commenced ; that they came upon you little by little ; that both government and people found them selves plunged into this fearful contest almost unawares, and that you have never been permitted u yet an opportu nity of consulting together in general convention, for the purpose of making knos n your opinions and wishes about the war, or any of the vast issues growing out of it. We believe that the wet has changed (for the present at least) the character of your government.. It has swept away your freedom of speech, your free press, and the inestimable right of babies corpus. We believe that the Sonthero people are only following the precepts and example taught and practised by your fathers and theirs, when they with drew their allegiance from the mother country, and that the declaratioo of independence which you hallow and celebrate every 4th day of July, asserts as self-evident the right of the Southera people to set up • government of their owe. We believe that should you at the and of another three and • half years' war succeed in subduing the South and restoring the Union by force of aims, you will find out, when ills too late, that those pillars upon which feat" your republican form of government have been violently torn dose, and that your own liberties have been buried in the reins. We elk you to compare the course pursued by the South now and the colonies in 1776, with that adopted by the North now, and the mother country then, and we think you will di cover many striking resemblances. It is is your hands to give peace to the American continent. The Southern States have appealed to you for pesos, and to be let alooe. We appeal to you to recognise the duty which attaches to your high privilege, and to make peace with the Southern Staten : and we make this appeal in the name of religion, humanity, civilisation, and common justice. THE Two YEARS' Dittar.—Every day of the in to. ill will increase the number of its Italian foes, the schools and the books and the secular thoughts, the new foams of activity, and the new interests so fatal to priestly ewer. When all the "transactions" have been transacted. and the new levies enrolled, and the treasury is filled with coin, and the city flooded with gendarmes, the fact will stn , remain that the papacy is in its essence a moral power, and that ea a moml power time in this century is by no means its friend. Neither soldiers nor subsidies, guarantees nor imocordata, can compensate to the papacy for the lows of stilling reverence which time is slowly producing. Every day sees some new see aware that the grapes grow though there be no bishop to bless the vintage, some new student pus out of college an implacable foe of the priests, some Roman house hold with a new cause for cursing the papal rule. Every day the Italian layman grows accustomed to us in the priest a foe, the Italian priest to feel the pros perity secular rule develops. Above all, every day accus toms the world to the final threat of the Roman court—the idea that the Pope, if pressed beyond bearing, might yet fly from Rome—and threats of that kind when they owe cer.e to startle are apt to loft their fore*. Rome and the Papacy are not connected by any but moral links, and fami liarity with evil do's not, as the Roman court ought to know, greatly inCTOSIe the disgust evil at first inspires. No man who knows aught of history will pronounce that Rome will in the pert few years enjoya secular rule, but it is safe to say that during a thousand years of disappoint ment her citisuis have seen bat one still more alluring chant:ie.—Spectator. THE DAVENPORT FRATERNITY. As to the phenomena themselves, anything so grotesquely absurd sod stupidly meaningless has not yet been produced even is the drr zy annals of spiritualism. A well-known professional conjuror, who give* his name and address, Mr. Tolmaque, claims to be able to do the same things. and asserts that it is only a very common trick of charlatanism. Mr. Andernoo, the Wizard of the North. goes further, and says that the Brothers Davenport have been brought over " by a specu lator, Mr. Palmer, formerly in his employment ;" and the thing most renmrkable about the whole entertainment seems to be that the Time. should bare treated it with as much gravity, if not credulity, as to a Ironies it in this unusual way. The performances of Houdis, and Frikell, and Anderson, sod other masters of the art are infinitely more clever and inexplicable than those of the Davenport fra ternity. and are done in broad 'Wight. But who wants to find out • conjuror! Vo!umur decipi et decimator. You go to see tricks, not to learn sleight-of-band. People believed in Osgllostro, who was a very clever fellow ; and no doubt there are now plenty of people who will, when the exhibition is open to the public, run to the Davenport Brother, and gravely wag their heads, and hint that they folly believe in the ozonezion of these rem pageons violins sod antic muffin-bells with the awful realities of the spirit world. Nothing that we care to say will disabuse them. Only let them consider this, that if anything can effectually lower all consoling conceptions of the great and mysterious world of spirits, and completely debase, if not destroy, belief, if not in a future state, at least in the blessed condition of disembodied spirits delivered from the burden of the flesh—released, as we trust, front the weaknesses and miseries of this sinful world—it is to take up with spiritualism. For if we believe in spiritualism, we must believe that spirits—beings infinitely above us is intelligence, happiness. aid the fruition of the divine love and thrive knowledge—have nothing better to do, and no ' holier ministrations to discharge, than to dash cracked ; violas into people's facia, to pinch their legs in the dark. t o goat round a roan scratching the coffin with • bit of ' charcoal, to write execrably he i grammar and portentous nations% which they call spirit messages, by fumbling over • child's toy alphabet, amid, last and worst of all, by iospiring such • set of American adventurers as Davenport, Fay, and Co., and Mr. Palmer, the speculator, formerly in the employ. ' meat of the Wizard of the North.—Batsrelsy Review. , _ __ DELAY OF TES NORTHEEN MAILIL —Early yes• terday (Friday) mornimr, s goody train between Crewe sad Stafford, en the London and North. Western Railway, pot off the fa Is, or broke down, so as to pot a step to all Odic arm that part of the lies daring the day. The traits, in cluding the mail trails from London for the north, were sent toned br Shrewsbury, mid thus the delivery of all mails north of Stafford was delayed several hours. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MON 0131 OWN 001SMIPONDWNT.) PARIS, FINDAY EVYNING. The despatch to M. Mallaret, the French envoy at Turin, published in the Mortiteur to-day, by no means bears out the insinuation of the Constitu tionnet that it would be found to contain as severe a lecture to the Italian government as that read to the Pope in the despatch to M. de Sss.iges, of which the clerical organs so loudly complain. This new diplomatic document abstains with as much care as the former one from averting that Italy has absolutely and definitively renounced the ides of having Rome for her capital. The slight allusion to the urgency of General Durando on the subject, which gave offence to the Tuileries two years ago, only serves as a relief to the praise awarded to the present cabinet of Turin. The Pays, ominously, as I think, for the temporal power, sums up the result of the official publication of the convention and the accompanying documents by saying that : Muroran be no mistake about it; it now depends entirely upon the court of R 21111) whether or not the con vention of Sept. 15 shall besr its due fruit. . . On the clay when the Pope shall b►ve proved by his Lagoons and his conduct that he accepts the signature of France as • pledge of bis security, that be believe@ and has confidence in it, be may be very sure that be may trait the court of the Tuileries to PAW it to be respectci. The papacy, therefore, holds in its own hand., we will not say its destiny, fee that depends on the will of God, but its repose and secti.:ty, which now depend only on itself. This plainly means that the Pope can only Ikon on the protection of France if he accepts the convention. Now we know that he rejects it, what follows I The departure of the court for Compiegne is again postponed. The Pays announces that the Emperor and Empress will remain at St. Cloud t 1 1 the cud of the month, and will only go to Compiegne at some time between Oct. 25 and Nov. 1. The stay at Compiegne will not be longer than in former years. Prince Humbert arrived at Mar/moles to-day from Paris, and was to embark immediately for Genoa. The Duke de la Rochefoncauld Doudeauville has just died at his ChAteau of Armainvilliers, aged 79. The Bourse, which the last three days has been sognant, experienced a severe fall to-day. Rente declined 35c. for cash, and 20c. for account, closing at 651 r. 30c. and 65fr. 60c. Mobilier and all the railways fell considerably. It is understood that the bullion in the Bank of France has further diminished since the pnblication of the returns. The fall in Consols greatly affected this market. M. Carvalbo intends to bring out Macbeth at the Lyrique, Paris., this season, and M. Verdi's apt:swathing visit to Paris is maid to he connected therewith. La Verve da I/ I phlands, an opera founded on Scott's " Highland Widow." is also in preparation. M. Edmond About is preparing a comedy, to be named La Vieille RoeAe, for the The►tre-Fraapy, The following appears in the Paris &Me :—"A religious theatre is spoken of, in which all the pieces per formed will be dram a from the Old Testament !" The large industrial palaoe building in the Champs Elyeens is now open to the public, who are invited to inspect an exhibition of domestic furniture, broncos, glass, porcelain manufactures, &c. Madlle. Patti appeared at the Italian Opera, Paris, on Wednesday night, in Lo Sonianet/a. The horse was crowded, and greeted her with real enthusiasm. DEATH OF JASMIN, THE TROUBADOUR.— The Preach journals anocamos the death of the celebrated hair dresser sod troubadour of Assn, Jacques Jamie', which took place on the 6th instant. The fame of Amain was very great, not only in the south of Frame, but throughout the whole country. He contained his poetic °steer to 1821 aid received numerous ormeate in the coursed him life from the towns a/Souther° Francs, to which he was invited to recite ! his poetry. He also received local academical wises and the Orom of the Legion of Honour, under the ministry of M. de &handy. His most celebrated work im " Lea Papilatis de Jasmin." He was not only a poet sod perraquier, but a mimic of the giet-clams. The Journal de Log d Garonne has mourning borders for hi. death, THE BELVEDERE CATASTROPHE. YragMeath of the mutilated and mangled retrains of persons who perished in the expiation oe Saturday coo ties, to be picked up among the ruins. Several of these relies, blackened and charred, have been found since the inquest wee mead at Belvedere on Tuesday, and taken to • Med behind the hotel them. They appear to be beyond identification, if, indeed, that were desirable under cirown dames so revolting. It is now certain that eleven penman in all perished is the catastrophe. Of these the bodies of five have been found and identified, and de are miming, namely, the four kergetom, and two men named. York and Wright, laboarere employed about the magazine of Mews. Hall. The death of th: , Joan Italian, Angelo Morandi, who received in injuries in the crowd at the Erith railway station on Sunday night, adds another to the number. The ease of the York's is very lamentable. Father sad son (a boy of 13) were killed in the explosion ; a younger boy of six or eight, now an orphan, lies is a precarious condition at Belvedere ; and the mother and a little girl, the latter of whom is nearly recovered, are in Guy's Hospital. The bodies of George Rayner, the storekeeper, and of the lad Yorke were buried on Thursday in one gram in the little cemetery attached to the parish church of Erith, hard by the scene of the calamity. The considerate kindness of Oaptein M'Killop, of Belvedere, in taking the poor little orphan boy Yorke, suffering from compression of the brain, into his house, and providing him with medical at tendance and all the comforts of a home, is the theme of praise throughout the neighbourhood. Grimes, the muter of a Trinity ballast lighter, who was seriously injured by the explosion, remain, at the Yacht Tavern in Frith in • condition which precludes his removal. He had a narrow Or=He was passing the spot in the lighter at the. time erpkision, with two other men named Bruce and Clarke. He was steering at the moment, sad his two mates were in the hold of the lighter. The effect of the first explosion wee to sweep him clear off the Ulm to • considerable &Mum, ead as he fell in the water fragment, of timber and bricks were hurled upon him from the shore by the second and still more appalling one, some of which struck him upon the hip, inflicting a dangerous wound. The shock prostrated his companions in the bold of the lighter, sad for some naivetes they were unable to reader him any assistance. Being • strong man and an expert swimmer be made for the lighter, disabled though he was, but made vain attempte to catch hold of it, and was on the point of drowning when one James Hams, who had been fishing in a little boat just opposite the megadoes at the time of the explosion, went to his reams, though he himself was hurt, and with the aid of Bruce and Clarke put him on board his own lighter. Williams is the man who had his right whisker blown off. Yesterday again about 101 navvies, in the ser vice of Mr. Webster, the contractor at the out fall sewage works at Crossness-point. were at work backing up the embankment with solid clay at the place where the breech was made by the explosion. The wore so promptly begun by the navvies, and followed up by the Sappers and Miners from the garrison at Wool wich after the catastrophe, has never in the least yielded from the first, and probably when it is finished the break water will be stronger at that particular point than all the rest of the embankment, which has lasted for ages. Had the attempt to repair the beach failed in the firm instance the subjacent country for miles would have been deluged with about seven fest of water, and engineering skill would have been taxed for months in the attempt to recover it. Some amenities have been exchanged between Major-General Wardle, the commandant of the garrison at Woolwich, and Mr. Lewis Moore, an engineer connected with the Theme* embankment, residing at Frith, is reference to the manner in which tbe embank meet was reinstated. Mr. Moore, it will be recollected, was among the Hest who proceeded to the spot after the explosion, and having at once perceived and appreciated the attain from the peril of inundation, he de :•=l7messengers both to the garrison at Woolwich and to Crossness Point, which had the effect of bringing first the navvies, and thin the Sappers and Minas and the Royal Artillery, with General Warde at their head, upon the scene, with what glorious result is now well known. Mr. Moore states, in a letter to the general, that the amistanos rendered by him and by his offi cers and men during the trying crisis had saved from inun dation an immense tract of country extending from Graves end to Battersea. He has ne hesitation, he says, in asserting that, having himself been present from half an hoar after the accident, but for that assistance, with the aid rendered by the 4l) men in the employ of Mr. Webster at the Main Draining Works at DrOgigegg, nothing could have prevented a disinter exceeding in magnitude that of the Dagenham Reach or Middle Level inundation. He took the respoi ribidty himself as an engineer in communicating with the garrison, knowing that one tide flowing through the bre .eh would wash down a great part of the river wall and render it irreparable for years. General Wards writes is reply to the effect that it was very fortunate Mr. Moore was on the spot and capable of realising the very cri tical state of things. He adds that he has forwarded his letter to the Hone Guards, and he thanks him, on the part of the troops, for giving them the sredit they deserved. An inquest has been held by Mr. Serjeant Payne, the coroner for the City of Louden, of the body of Angelo Mo randi, who died at Guy's Hospital from the injuries he re oneed at the Erith station of the North Kent Railway on Sunday evening. The deceased was 24 years of age, and a cabinetmaker by trade. With thousands more, he went to the scene of the explosion on Sunday, and about 8 o'clock in the evening was one of an enormous crowd of people waiting at the Frith statics to be tam back to London. In a rush which was made to a train on its eeriest he fell or was pushed under the wheels. On being taken up he said, " I'm a dead man." He was conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where he arrived half en hour after midnight, having bled profusely in the interim. He was found to have sustained a compound fracture is the right thigh and other injuries; he was cold and almost paladins. He objected to amputation, which would have afro, led the only chance of life, saying he would author die than lose his leg, and he expired is three-quarters of an hour afterwards. His account was that he we, pushed under the train by the crowd. It came out in evidence that from 700 to 1,000 people had anesnibkd on the platform at the time, that the company's servants were wholly unequal to restrain the crowd ; that numbers had got upon the platform over the railings for a quarter of a mile on each ads of she station ; and that many slipped down an embankment 50 feet deep. When the train was coming into the station it became amemery to telegraph to stop it 40 yards down the line, on account of the " who were being pushed upon the rails by the preesure. ? A l : jury returned a verdict that the death was sooideatal. TO TIER ZDITOR 01 TIM ZSPRZBB. SIR, —The explosion of Saturday was heard in the par;shes of North Bar Jingham and Beeconsthorpe 'haggis miles from Cromer, in Norfolk. These places cannot be much lees than 110 =Pee from Belvedere, but the ooecussion was so great that the Osumi. expremed their alarm in their customary manage by crow ing, a fact of which 1 am assured by the isdepsodent testi mony of three ear witnesses!, none of whom kriew anything of the explosion whim they made their stetements.- 1 am, Am, J. A. B. A SOOTCII SYNOD IN ENGLAND. —The second annual meeting of the English Synod of the United Presby terian Cbaroh is to be held at the Moorfields, on Monday neat and three following days. The opening sermon is to be preached on Monday evening by the Rev. Dr. Hugh Cr:ghtoo, of Liverpool, the retiring moderator, after which the synod will be oonalitated. and a moderator for the ensuing year will be elected. Meetings for besieges are to be held in the forename of Tuesday, Wednesday. and Thursday. A public meeting for the exposition of the united Presbyteries priadples will be held on the *wooing of Wednesday. Addrwes will be delivered by Dr. John Cairo., of Berwick-upoo•Tweed ; Dr. Fracas Skinner, of Blackburn ; Dr. John Edmond, of Millbury ; and Mr. Alexander M•Leed, of Birkenhead. The synod till meet at Maryland Point, Stratford, on Thursday, the 13th irst., for the porpoise of laying the foundation-gloms of f. new church there. ENTERTAINMENTS POE THE TROOPS —A general order from the Hone Guards has been promulgated at Chatham garriatio, in which it is announced that by can. mod of the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief arrange ments have been made to provide a regular supply of dia grams and magic -lantern slides to illustrate the lecture* sod entertainment* which may be given to the troops at the various stations in the United Hiogdom daring the approach ing winter mouths. He directs special attention to the rules which have been drawn op for regulating the service, and looks for the cooperation of commanding °Moors towards carrying them out, by is.nnog the circulation of the slides and diagrams with that regularity upon which the swam of the measure will mainly depend, and by the maintenance of order sad decorum during the delivery of the lectures. The text books which lecturers may require for the prepara tion of their lector's will not be supplied at the public ex pense, but will be provided by the garrison library commit tee oat of the library funds. Tsz WINDSOR TRAGEDY.—Yesterday morning, at 9 o'clock, the funeral of the murderer and etticide, John Richard Cook, and the four murdered children, M ar y A D ., Agnes Josephine, Eugenia sad Louisa Eliza both, took piste at Old Windsor. The churchyard is about a mule from the home of Cook, sad was reached about half-put 9, when the body of the murderer was take. through the west door into the body of this church, tits ooffins containing the murdered children being taken round the church to the gnat door on the south aide of the surd building, when the Ray. J. Blunt having previously nut the proomion, commuted reading We banal service, the coffins being also placed in the body of the church while the service was coetinued. On leaving the church the coffin containing the body of Cook was taken to and placed in a grave or hole which lad been dug in an Mature ooroor at the west extremity of the churchyard, mar the wall which separates the graveyard from the rod, and here it we. delimited without any ceremony, wide the four little elm some of the girls were placed in one common grave, over which the remainder of the service was per. formed by the vicar, the relatives and coved standing mend. Fray ACCIDVNT AT DEVONPORT DOCKYARD.— Au e agiewdriver (J. May) was killed et Ike North Smi on Friday zooming, by being drunk by • pert the mackizery. ANOTHER PROPHET. During the week Mean. Honhton and Wright have published • book by the author of "The Comet Struggle," entitled "Two Years Alter and Onwards, or the Approaching War among* the Powers of Europe, and othe r Future Evento n deecribed as foretold in Scripture Prophecy. , The author confesses that the,evente foretold by him ele;e e years ago have not occurred, but he muerte that the erect s which have occurred " have been plainly in the direction indicated ;" and this he thinks • sufficient reply. Alexst every nation in Europe, gave England, is treated mitt morn. " The Dragon, the Beast, and the False Proll-t," he rya, " we conclude to be the Turkish, Austrian, ~t 4 Papal Powers ; and the unclean spirit of evil which ati. males the three is the influence of French policy—fror t being the peculiar emblem of France inscribed on t er banners." Then he says, " Many interpreters of propi. plate Britain among the ten horns, and prognosticate for her • @hue in the doom to which these horns or I , ; ae dome are destined. We unhesitatingly express our :on. viction that Britain is not in this position." But t the events: First. Romeo to be destroyed by • ?ex.*. eruption in 1866, or " a year very near to it ;" the etto:•u t Empire is to be overthrown by Russia, and the Muscovite is to rule in Constantinople ; Austria, Prussia, and are to wags • war, " which even unaided reason sees cc%t be unparalleled by former wars," spinet France. Italt-, and the oppressed Nationalities, end the whole of Ear le. save England, is to be subjugated to the Czar. Britain (having planted a agony of Jews in Palestine in the am t . time) then meets the Russian hordes in the Valley of .Itbo• sbapbat, assisted by America. What ensues the autUor must himself describe "The autocrat with his legions on one side, and the British power with its supporters on the other, are drasu in battle array in the valley of Jehoshaphat, and are elm: is engage in the decisive combat, when to their intense and describable consternation, the trump of the archangel re:yr. berates through the sky, and with the voice of ten thou , ,ad thunders shakes the maintains, and smites every soul awe and terror. The anti.anistian legions, the British host, the Jewish company, shall in dread amazement loci up and behold the Son of Man raring in the clouds heaven with power and great glory? " Antichrist" is then to be crashed, and the Ifilleurim to begin. All this is to take place—within say the next dozen years. LORD LEIGH AND THE STAFFORDSHIRE COLLIERS. Yesterday, about 4,000 miners assembled at a Milli meeting at Oldbury, to bear a statennet from the deputation with whom the Right Hos. Lord Leigh, the Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire, bad been in commu nication relative to the strike. Mr. Griffith/A presided. Xr. Levi Brittain said that when, in reply to the noble lord's telegram, they met him at the hotel, at Dudley, they were treated both coarteoualy, affectionately, and hospitably. They had a little friendly talk together about the gnevances under which the miner was labouring. Lord Leigh then told them that he was an entirely disinterested person, and had no mines himself ; but regretting the adamities to which the strike gave rise, desired to see the termins• ties of so disastrous a struggle. Up to that time Lord Leigh had not, he said, seen the minters ; but after that conversation be would, he said, go and see Mr. Ricluid Smith, the agent of Lord Ward, and the men were to meet him on the following day, in Birmingham. They did so ; and again were treated with every courtesy and kinds... His lordship then wanted the misers to concede something. They offered to go to work far a fort. night at the reduced terms, if after then they could get the old rate of wages. His lordship said he would again ere Mr. Smith, and would meet them in the afternoon atind. ley. Again assembled. Lord Leigh said that Mr. Smith showed that the arrangement of a fortnight would be iliac. variant to the employers; but his lordship added that If the men would cogent to go on till the end of the month, then that Mr. Smith, he thought, would, as one of the employers, comeot after that time to give the rate of wws that the men were making. The deputation deliberated over the matter a cousiderable time, bat, being determined that there should be no obstacle placed by them in the way of the termination of tbe strike, they at length ooueested to further give way. This was the'proporition which on the following day was laid by his lordship before the mast.,,, whets in the Hem and Chickens, in Birmingham, the men assembled in one room and the masters in soother. What might have pared he could not tell, but when Lord Leigh came beck he called Mr. Corbett into a private room and asked him if he could Dot induce the mess to resume work. Corbett replied that he could not, for the men would take their own course. Lord Leigh then sent for Mr. Griffiths, their chairman, and made the same appeal to him, but with. out soccer. They bad heard from their chairman that his lordship then offered him 10!. to do nothing himself to persuade the men not to hear him if he himself should attempt to persuade the men to resume work on the masters' terms. Hen, again, unsuccessful, Lord Leigh then began to call the deputation fools and fanatics and madmen ; said that they were the cause of all the distress, and that but for them the men would probably go to work. Was it so ? (Loud aria of " No.") Lord Leigh then said that be would do all he Gould to deprive them of public sympathy. (Shame.) Bandanas' were thee adopted revolving that no more interviews should take plans between the men and their masters, or mediators or arbitrators of any class or same, bat that the men should remain out till they were sent for sod given " their wages." New drums are to be bought and fresh efforts made to bring again out the men who have resumed. THE AMERICAN WAR.—The effect of these com beta on the fortunes of Lee and Grant has yet to be seen. They tell in favour of Grant. and Lee does not seem to like the responsibility of an onslaught on the Federal lined. No thing had occurred of moment near Petersburg. In the meantime Sherman is mimed in converting Atlanta into a base of operations. Foolish people sneer at him for so doing, but no competent person doubts the wisdom of the step from a military poiot of view. Ronan? has it that Georgia already feels the peewee of victories and his army. and is even now engaged in sego =sties. for readmiesion to the Coke. If wean rightly =- formed, the proposal of Georgia to secede from the Cur federscy was antecedent to or coincident with the fall of Atlanta. At all events, the Richmond papers Sr. alarmed, and are conjuring Georgia by every 000sideratioa not to leave the Confederacy. That there are dark days for the South is plain to all, Nevertheless, there is • sled of fight yet left in the Confederacy which has Jefferson Davis for its statesman and Robert Lee for its geteral.— dray and Neer Gamete. The rare Me. JOHN MACDONALD.—We learn that on hea g, oa _Saturday last. of the alarming Moms of Mr. John ocald,who. from the rogaLuity of his *atom nal visits to the respected minister of Onithitawas doubtless well =sown by personal appearance to the Queen, her Molest, immediately requested her physician. Dr. denser, to wait upon him ; and the same evening, having herd of lie death, the Queen sent a message to the manse to express bow deeply struck and grieved mho was to hoer of the sud den and unlooked-for event, The private telegraph of her Majesty to Balmoral was at noes offered am a means of eon. yoyior tidings to Mr. Macdonald's friends in Edinburgh, and was used several times in the course of the day. Os Tuesday morning her Majesty sent to the manes to Inquire whether any of the relatives of the deceased gentleman had wired, and manifested great anxiety to learn whether any service could be rendered in paying the last duties to hie remains. This case adds another to the many proofs we bays bad bow tenderly her Majesty sympathies* with affiki• Lion in all its forms, and bow kindly an interest she takes is all familiar faces. We may add that the remains of Mr. Macdonald were conveyed from the manse to the railway station at Aboyne on Wednesday morning by a small com pany of relatives and other mourners, sad were demo taken south by railway for Edinburgh. Yesterday they were interred in the Dean Cemetery. -Edinburgh Courant. NARROW ESCAPE OF A PARTY OF VOCALIsTS.— On Friday night last, a party of vocalists, amongst whom were Mies F. Wyss*, Mims Elton, Mr. Infernal'. Mr. F.. Raineford. and Mr. J. Taylor, were returning tGkvgow in a carriage and pair from a come= given at the Vale of Leven. When within ten miles' distance of the city the driver fell from his box, and the horses started off at full speed. Is this dilemma Mr. Taylor opened the door and jumped out, followed by Mr. Informal!, who narrowly escaped being ran over, his hat being caught sod crushed under the wheels. After two or three " rolling' over," Mr. Taylor suooseded is getting on his feet, and started in pursuit of the fugitive horses, who were dr-wring their terrified burden at a terrific speed thoingh the darkness. Afters sharp run of nearly a quarter of a mils, Mr. Taylor succeeded in overtaking the horses, and arresting their further flight. It was then determined that some of the gentlemen should return in search of the driver. They did so. and discovered him lying doubled up sad partially stunned, but in so way injured. On raising him it was found that he was drunk. He was accordingly assisted to the carriage, but, on being required to take a seat at the back, he obstinately refused, insisting on being allowed to resume the reins. Knowing it would be madness to again allow the drunken man charge of the bones. Mr. Taylor undertook to drive the party to town. Arriving at a small bridge over a canal, and being nesequainted with the road. Mr. Taylor pulled op to ascertain whether there might be danger in crossing, when the driver jumped down from his seat behind, declaring be would not allow the our-lege to proceed any farther, nil seised the horses' heads. After a struggle arid alteresnoo. sod Midisg there was so polies station near. it was doter mised to resort to force to get the excited man away. This was does after some difficulty, two or three of the part! dribletsg him by the roadside until the carriage had re' esetted a little distance. They they freed him and overtook the carriage, having no option but to leave him behind. The party at length reached Glasgow in eafety.—Edin burg= Courant. Le Caviar, French ship of war, has passed through Great Yarmouth roads this weak. (Bd< The applie mike bed h basis! The cation the p days• Mr. lioee the K Hill sppli! T II He the B ewer MOM Jai Goon ha t he able I of Lc for n WWI the 1 Th Jim mai dabs ten 1% z :,, child it dc thy the he BI b. a. Pr la