The Express. — London, England, 1867-11-16 00:00:00

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TRT EVENGIO, THE SPANIAIi PAGE.—TIIE MARRIAGE CERTI FIC ATE En & Lam —Mr. J. IMlllceat Mr. and Mn. Langan, Ethh,pisn Autocrats: Mn. V. Phillips; 3latriltoti Le Ontati —With WILD CHARLIE. Mesura It. Howe& Charlton. HIGH WATER. AT LONDON HMOS. Tin DST —Yarning, 4L. 38e..--Atterpooo, sb. la Tolloßiow—Korulai. 16. i7m......ati•tuaow 41 . 64m. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IG. THE King of PRUSSIA met yesterday for the first time a Parliament representing the ➢fonarchy as it has been enlarged by the victories of 1866. Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein, Hesse Cassell, and Frankfort have sent deputies to sit side by side with those of Brandenburg and Pomerania. The KING may be excused for speaking with some pride, as he looked on this reflection of his acquired great ness. And yet, in the very act of congratulating the deputies on the aggrandisement of Prussia, he had to perform an ungracious task ; he had to remind them that if Prussia was greater their im portance was diminished. The members of the Prus sian Parliament are drawn from a wider area than they ever were before, but to transact business of inferior importance to that which has occupied their predecessors. Great departments of income and expenditure, especially those which relate to the defence of the country, have been wholly trans ferred from the Government of Prussia to that of the North German Confederation. Out of Prussia the KING'S speech will be read chiefly for the sake of its references to foreign affairs and the general state of Europe. These topics, however, are passed over very lightly by the KING. The rela tions of Prussia with foreign powers are stated to be altogether of a friendly character. The language in which the recent difference between the French and Italian governments is spoken of is very guarded. The limes Government con siders that the grounds for the anxiety recently felt for the disturbance of peace between those two nations, " both amicably connected with Prussia," have now disappeared. The Conference on the Roman question is not expressly mentioned, but it is referred to, inasmuch as the KING foreshadows a policy on that subject for which he could hardly find a field except in the common discussion of the affairs of Italy by the assembled powers. Prussia will take part in the Conference if ever it meets ; her Government will then show its care for the " dig " nity and independence "of the head of the Roman Catholic Church ; but no promise is made to sustain the Temporal Power. On the other hand, Prussia has to perform " duties which arise " out of the political interests and international " relations of Germany "—words which may mean nothing in particular, but which are likely to be understood at Florence as indicating the KING'S sense of the value of the friendship of Italy. The tone of the Royal speech is conciliatory, and its com position has been governed by a determination to keep unpleasant facts out of sight. If the prospects of Europe are so settled as the Kino's language implies, the Italian Government is needlewdy spending money which it can very ill afford in its vast military preparations. And yet Count MENARREA and his colleagues are cautious and conservative statesmen. Wu° is it that persuades the Christians of Crete to reject every offer of accommodation made by Turkey, and to prepare for the renewal of an unequal war f It is just possible, but highly improbable, that the resolution just notified by the Cretan Commission to the foreign Vice-Consuls at Reraclium, and which is summed up in their motto, "Union with Greece or death," represents merely a blind instinct of patriotism. It is more likely that it rests on the expectation of foreign aid, in the hope of which the miseries and horrors of the last campaign are forgotten. We can admire heroism while regretting its illusions, but the conduct of a government which for its own ends should encourage these brave islanders in a desperate struggle without any intention of aiding them, would be detestable. Four Euro pean Powers—France, Russia, Prussia, and Italy—have just published a declaration, which they have jointly made at Constantinople, and which could not fail to have its influence with the Cretan leaders. In declaring that the Turkish Government had provided no remedy for the abuses which provoked the rising in Crete, and that the protesting governments left the Pour! responsible for the consequences of its acts, they have given the utmost possible encouragement to i the insurgents to reject the conciliatory proposals which the GRAND VIZIER carried to the island. Accordingly, wo hear that both sidos are preparing with augmented resources to renew the struale. The policy of Russia we know ; while Italy and Prussia will only play a secondary, though perhaps an important, part in Eastern affairs. All turns upon the action of France. But France—there is good authority for the statement—while joining in this very strong and almost minatory declaration to the Porte, has given the Ottoman Government to understand that she means nothing serious by it ; that, in fact, she has only done so in order to establish for herself a footing of equality with Russia in the affairs of the East, and that her feeling is not unfriendly. It is to be hoped that a similar explanation was given to the Cretan leaders, and that they have not been left to collect the views of the French Government from its public acts. A knowledge of the real wishes of France could not but have great influence with the intelligent portion of the Cretan chiefs, and it would be a pity if they were added, a few months hence, to the number of those who, like the POPE, the Italian Government, legitimate sove reigns, and revolutionary leaders, have at various times proclaimed themselves the dupes and victims of a policy which is always ambiguous and often equivocal. WE trust it is not true that the old mistake is about to be repeated at Manchester, and that the Liberal party there is to be weakened by divisions in presence of a Ministerial candidate. Alderman BENNETT stands on very intelligible ground ; he is a Conservative, and wants to go to the House of Commons to support the present Government. Mr. JACOB BRIGHT has been accepted as their candidate by the great body of the Liberals of the city. Under these circumstances, we find it some what difficult to understand the position of Mr. MITCHELL HENRY. He announces that the signi ficance of his canditature consists in the opportu nity it gives the constituency to " select its own " member, and not to submit to the dictation " of any association, however powerful and well " organized." This is the usual language of can didates who, unable to command the support of their party, resolve to disregard its interests in order to secure personal support wherever it may be found. It is not too soon to point out, in prospect of a dis solution next year, that if influential gentlemen of the Liberal party are to act thus independently, while the Conservatives remain united, the effec t:ve organized action of the party will become dif ficult, if not impossible. It is these " indepen " dent" candidates who,whileboasting of delivering the constituencies, really hand them over to the enemy. We nevertheless hope better things of Mr. MITCHELL HENRY. We readily admit that he has claims on the Liberal party which only the grossest unfaithfulness on his part could forfeit. We cannot forget the public spirit with which ho contested Woodstock at the last general election, when its Duke was offensively asserting his right to do what he liked with his own. His personal qualifications and standing well entitle him to aspire to a seat in Parliament ; but we must nevertheless sincerely deprecate his present action. If elected in preference to the rival candidates, he could give no Liberal vote which Mr. JACOB BRIGHT would not be certain to give. If he failed at the poll, he might nevertheless so divide the Liberal party as to allow the Conservative to win by a small majority. If his presence induced Mr. BENNET-1. to retire, and he were returned substan tially by Conservative votes, he would only suc ceed to the invidious position which the late Mem ber was so unfortunate as to accept. Having the fullest confidence in Mr. MITCHELL HENRY'S poli tical integrity, we trust we may soon hear that he has reserved himself for some better work than that of aubserving the interests of the Man chester Tories. A CALAMITY as awful u the imagination can ' conceive has just overtaken one of the British islands in the West Indies. Tortola has sunk below the level of the sea, and its 8,600 inhabi ter:a have perished. This is all we are told. No details are given, but the announcement in its naked absoluteness is far more striking and im pressive than any mere accumulation of details could make it. We are left to imagine a destruc tion from which nothing has escaped, as when a noble ship goes down in the open sea. The probability is that the sinking was sudden, the continent with which the West India Islands are geologically connected being liable to similar subsidences. Tortola was the most im portant of the British Virgin Islands, about seven teen miles long by two wide. It was a mountain mass, broken up in every direction, its highest summit being 1,600 feet above the level of the sea. The island had been a British possession for just two hundred years. It was very near to St. Thomas's, where so much damage has just been done by the hurricane, but from this no commu nity of origin between the two disasters is to be inferred. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1867. LATEST INTELLIGENCE:, THE OVERLAND CHINA. THE TYPHOON.-THE LOSS OF THE SINGAPORE. The Over/and China Mail of Sept. 27 has a long account of the typhoon which visited Hong Kong on the Bth and 9th. The chief disasters which oc curred within the range of the harbour master's jurisdiction were : Sank : (exclusive of yachts), one barque, one schooner, two waterboats, ono chop ; wrecked :—one ship, three barques, two schooners and the government junk. Of other damages eight vessels are seriously injured, while an immense number are more or less so. There are no means of accurately estimating the loss of native junks and native life, but, however great it may have been in the harbour and neighbourhood of Hong Hong, there is reason to believe that the number of lives sacrificed at sea is, in proportion, far greater. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Singapore, it will be remembered, on the 20th of August left Yokohama for Hakodadi and, almost within sight of her port, struck on a sunken rock not laid down in the charts, and went down in deep water in a little more than an hour. We now have the details. There were 25 passengers on board, connected chiefly with important mercantile houses in Japan and China, and a crew of 120 officers and men. " The escape of every individual, without a single exception is due," says the Japan Tunes, " under God, to the admirable boat service universal on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ships, to the coolness and steadiness of the crew and passengers, and particularly to the watchful and unremitting care of Captain Wilkinson, his chief mate Mr. Reeves, and his other officers, which had kept the boats in the splendidly serviceable state in which they were found, and the crew under the discipline which did them such credit. Every boat was in the water and all the passengers in the boats within six minutes after the ship had struck !" Hakodadi lies in a bay concealed by a headland from an island known as Low Island, lying about S.E. from it, on the other side of a strait some 14 miles broad. The danger which is now unfor tunately known to us as the Singapore rock, is distant from Low Island about two miles and ahalf, bearing N. by E. it E. from it. It is a square pinnacle about 8 feet broad each way, and the Japanese know it by the name of Ki-ko-ra Iwa (rotten shell Rock). The Singapore ran upon this at full speed, taking it just on the starboardbilge. The naval court was held at her Britannic Majesty's Consulate, Kanagawa, Sept. 9, to inquire into the loss. It was summoned by the Vice-Admiral, the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, K.C.8., commander in-chief. The court finds "that the steamer Sin gapore was !oat on the 20th August by striking upon a sunken rock unknown to European navi gators, in the usual track of vessels making Hako dadi from the eastward, and that no blame attaches to Captain Wilkinson and tho officers of the Singa pore for the loss of the said ship, and the court desires to express its approbation of the celerity with which the boats were cleared away, and of the conduct of the captain, officers, and crew in remaining with the ship until the last moment." JAPAN. THE MURDER OF TWO BRITISH SEAMEN. The murder of two British seamen belonging to H.M.S. Icarus, at Nagasaki, has been warmly taken up by Sir H. Parkes and Sir H. Heppel. The Japan Herald of the 11th September says : The visit of his Excellency Sir Harry Parkes, the British Minister, and Sir Henry Keppel, the British admiral, secured that the matter should be very warmly taken up ; and as the governor of Nagasaki was unable to discover the murderers, who were sailors belonging to the Prince of Tosa, both minister and admiral went to Osaca. Obtaining no definite satis faction there, Sir Harry steamed off in H.M.S. Basilisk to Susaki, a port in the Prince of Toss's territory, accompanied by Mr. Satow, an interpre ter. He had been preceded three days by the Vice- GovernorHlraysu.s and other officers of the government. It was rumoured that if the Basilisk went iu she would be fired upon by the forts, but this did not deter Sir Harry, and if there was any idea of the sort in the minds of Toss's men, it was abandoned. At Sasaki, the officers, passengers, and crew of a Japanese steamer belonging to Tosa, which left Nagasaki soon after the murder, were examined by Mr. Satow in the presence of the Tycoon's and Toss's officers. This steamer has since been sent to Nagasaki, where further investigations are to be con ducted. Mr. Satow, as well as the Tycoon's officers, have have also gone there. It is gratifying to receive the assur ance that the greatest desire is evinced by Tosa'e officers to discover the murderers whoever they may be. The Governor of Nagasaki is to be replaced and the garrison increased. It is understood that the unhappy affair is in good hands, and that Sir Harry Parkes will not let It drop without the most thorough investigation. Whilst Mr. Satow is carry ing on hie inquiries at Nagasaki, Sir Harry Parka has returned in the liaailisk—having been preceded by the admiral about a week—the latter not having gone to Sasaki. The motives for the murders that have led to all this trouble can hardly be doubted. The old feelings of hostility to foreigners are not rooted out in a day. There is no fresh intelligence reapectingthenative Christian■ imprisoned at Nagasaki. It is said by ' the Japanese that they will be executed, but the Japan papers are silent on the subject. Etre Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 15. The Queen, accompanied by Prince/La Beatrice, drove out this morning. The Hon. Emily Cathcart was in attendance. Princess Louise walked in the grounds, attended by the Hon. lioratia Stopford. The Prince of Wales dined with Prince and Princess Christian at Frogtnore on Tuesday evening. Mr. Graves, M.P., and Mews. C. E. Rawlins and P. H. Rathbone, of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, had an interview yesterday with Lord Stanley at the Foreign-office on the subject of the government survey of the route from Rangoon to Western China. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most honour. able Privy Council sat yesterday, at the Privy Council office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were the Lord President and Lord Robert Montagu. A deputation from Liverpool introduced by Mr. S. It. Graves, M.P., and consisting of Mr. Yates and Mr. P. H. Rathbone, members of the town ooancil ; Mr. C. E. Raw- lins, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Mr. and Mr. T. R. Shsllcross, members of the Shipowners' Association; Mr. M'Donald and Mr. Allen, members of the Undenniters' Association ; Mr. Thornely, president of the Law Society ; end the Town Clerk, had an interview with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, at the Home. office, yesterday, with reference to the Court of Passage at Liverpool. The Earl of Derby is said to be fast recovering from his attack of gout, and in all probability will be able to bo present at the opening of parliament on Tuesday. His lordship is still suffering from weakness in bis feet. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs.Oladstoes will arrive in town on Monday next, accom panied by Mr. W. EL Gladstone, Zil.P., from Howarden Castle, Flintsbirs. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle hare arrived at their residence on Carlton-house-terrace from Clamber Park, Notts. Lord and Lady Grosvenor and family hare ar rived nt the Hotel Bristol, Paris, trom Loudon, on their way to the south of France. The Address in the House of Commons, in answer to the speech from the throne, which, as already stated, will to moved by Mr. William Hart Dyke, mem ber for West Kett, will be seconded by Lieutenant- Colonel Hogg, member for Bath. t- , Uit CON TEI% , IPtIItA Ka", (THIS DAY.) The Times, observing that the King of Prussia has now opened or closed five parliaments since his great success on the field of Sadowa, goes on to say that these numerous assemblies can only be looked upon as temporary contrivances suitable to a country in a state of transition, and that as she proceeds her advanced civilisation and habits of temperate but unbounded freedom of opinion will enable Germany to organise herself on principles equally combining the greatest central solidity with the utmost local development.—ln other articles, the Times says of Mr. Ernest Jones that there is scarcely an economic fallacy known in history which ho does not support ; it inter changes tadioage with Mr. Berkeley on the subject of the ballot; and sketches the b►ttle•ground of public and proprietary rights presented in the case of Leicester square. The French alliance, the preparations for the war in Abyssinia, and the King of Prussia's speech are among the topics discussed by the Daily News. On the first bead it is remarked that the Emperor Napoleon will find in our new ambassador a perfect representative of the highest qualities attributed by generous observers to the national character of Englishmen —a serious simplicity, an unfailing conscientiousness, a vigilant sagacity, • resolute frankness and firmness of purpose.—Apropos of the Abyssinian war, it is urged that we require • well-appointed commission, composed of representative officers taken from every branch of the service, to superintend the commissariat purchases and army contracts generally.—The tone of the King of Prussia's speech is described as conciliatory, and as governed by a determination to keep unpleasant facts out of sight. If the prospects of Europe are so settled as the King's language implies, the Italian government is needlessly spending money which it can very ill afford in its vast military preparations. And yet Count Menabrea and his colleagues are cautious and conservative states men. The Post advises the men of influence in the Princi• panties to heal their strifes and stop in a course which may plunge their country once more in anarchy. The Post also attacks the lecture of Mr. Ernest Jones, which it describes as a vehement sermon in favour of socialism. A foommunication which has recently appeared in the Tinto, professing to be written by " a Scottish artisan" at Detroit, and upon which our contemporary has commented, is described by the Star as so extraordinary a statement that only delirium tremens can account for its having been written, unless it is another attempt to hoax the Times. Too Tplegrapk warmly espouses the cause of Mr. Jacob Bright at Manchester. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The conference, so far as the Spectator perceives, can accomplish nothing unless Napoleon is honestly will ing to confine the sway of the Pope within the walls of Rome. If he will do that, pleading a European consensus as his excuse, there may be a temporary truce. So vut will be the gain to Italy in securing complete control of her own ooast, so immense will be the addition to her real strength, that she may be able to accept such a solution for the pre sent with something of cordiality. It will give her time, at all events, to recommence the work of reorganisation, to 'purchase those terrible rifles before which daring and patriotism alike wither away, under which men fall not only shot, but with their heads, as an eye-witness relates in the Post," riddled with balls," their skulls turned into mere tullenders of bone. Treating of the leadership of the liberal party, the Examiner contends that each individual must be left to answer for his dissent to those who primarily and peculiarly are entitled to ask for an account from him. The imputation of unworthy motives to those who differ from us is nearly always wrong— an honest man is but exasperated the more by tbe injus tice ; a conscious traitor is but likely to be inflamed by re• sentment at the exposure of his treason. If the pressure of public opinion, undrogged and eindebauched, cannot keep the party of progress sufficiently together for the at tainment of sound and well-matured measures, ill-temper and ill-talk will not do so. The Examiner trusts that the chaste, generous, and enlightened language of Mr. Glad stone will always be an example to his friends, and that he may bring to the renewal of his arduous task refreshed and reinvigorated powers. The Saturday fierier , ' sees in the recent rioting and in the Fenian alarms a general conspiracy against the middle class by the roughs, who find that to foster suspicion and to keep society disquieted is a better strategy than a large and open outbreak. Those on the scene of these riots trace the local incendiarism to foreigners and stranger. The rural police suspect, or think that they suspect, the influence of alien agents. There is, we all know, a good deal of filibustering loose on the world. Yankee rowdyism takes the form of Fenianism ; mere vagabonds unattached are arraigned in our courts am colonels and generals. All this gives a fictitious importance to ordinary and shabby disaffection. Very likely, if we could get at the bugaboo of the hour, we should only find the old scooped turnip ; but just now we have got the blue light and flaming eyes and the white sheet, and the stalking, gibbering ghost in fall. And we are all frightened accordingly. And unless we take to our cudgels and bear ourselves like men, we richly deserve not only to be frightened, but to get some. thing worse than a fright. The Eastern Question, remarks the Chronicle, is no nearer a solution now than it was before the war in the Crimea. The etftrts then made by England and France simply resulted in postponing a settlement. The views of Englishmen have greatly changed in the interval, and, since Lord Palmerston's death, there is probably no poli tician of any importance who believes that Turkey can ever again be an independent and self-anirtaining power. She has never had but one function in the European system—that of serving as a barrier, accepted in default of a better, against the progress of Russian aggrandisement, and it is no part of true statesmanship to seek to maintain her in a post for which the coarse of events is steadily making her less fit. The Earl Brownlow has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, and Mr. Elliott Lockhart, of Borthwicko Bras, Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire. Mr. Norton's invention for discovering the ex istence of water on arid land is attracting attention in Paris, and experiments are daily made with it. The Em peror has purchased the machine, and personally superin. tmds the experiments going on in the park of St. Cloud. The instrument consists of a long iron tube, terminating in a sharp point, which forced into the ground has never failed within twenty-two minutes to bring water to the surface. On Thursday next the Society of Antiquaries will hold their lint meeting for the ensiling session. _ - The concerts of the Sacred Harmonic Society will be resumed on the 22nd with Ei(jah. Herr Pauer intends shortly to give three piano forte performances of classical music, at the Hanover /ItMare rooms Mr. Ryder will open the Lyceum Theatre, after Mr. Fee:thaw has departed, with Romeo and Juliet. The Government of India are about to appoint a commission to examine and report on the historical buildings in that country, m►ny of which are extremely Interesting and ancient, with • view to the repair and preservation of the latter. Photographs. plans and accu r►te measurements are to be made and published of all remarkable edifices. The Egyptian pleasure boat Dahabii, purchased by Prince Napoleon at the Exhibition, has arrived at Havre, having been towed down the river by the steamer Tatnaris. She has already been visited by a large number of persons, and excites great curiosity from her singular form, which resembles that of the ancient triremes. Captain William King Hall, C. 8., auperinten dent of the Sheerness dockyard, has, we (Army and Nary Oa:elit) understand, received an intimation from the Ad miralty that he will be relieved from the post which he has for some years so worthily held, on the Ist of next April. Captain Hall has served his allotted time, and the Admiralty have no alternative, however reluctantly, but to appoint a successor, who it is rumoured will be Captain the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., at present in command of the steam reserve at Sheerness. The Railways (Ireland) Commissioners met yesterday at 2, Victoria•street, Westminster. Pre sent : Sir Alexander Y. Spearman, Bart.. Mr. John Fow ler, and Mr. C. E. Seymour Clarke. The secretary, W. Nei/son Hanesek, LL.D., was also peessat. INDIA. The principal topic of interest in India continues to be the Abyssinian expedition. The Madras Athemetim of October 12 announces that a " Land Transport Service " Corps is in course of or ganisation in that Presidency, and will be commanded by Captain W. L. Twentyman, of the 18th Hussars, who has received orders to proceed " forthwith" to Bombay to superintend its forma tion. Volunteers for the same have been called for from the European commissioned and Native non-commissioned officers of the native cavalry regiments. UNEASINESS ON THE CONTINENT. The Paris correspondent of the Lidipendance Beige, says : We are uneasy at home, and measures adopted by the Minister of the Interior are not calculated to calm minds. The apprehensions about the future are revived. The number of those who believe in vary grave events neat spring increases day by day. It is true that the activity displayed by the war department is calculated to confirm the alarm of the pessimists. It seems certain that the Duke of Magenta will not remain in Algeria. Ile is expected in a few weeks, and his post will be filled by General Daumas. The appointment of Marshal Bassin. to the important command of Nancy cannot fail to make an impression in Germany. The correspondent of the Liberti in Rome men tions the arrival of French troops in Civita Vecchia on Saturday last, and adds that it is difficult to reconcile these accessions to the expeditionary force with the intention of its proximate return to France. GARIBALDI IN PRISON. An officer writes from Varignano as follows : I ms the general almost every day ; he is s►d and silent. Newspapers are allowed to be sent to him, but he refuses to read them. Up to the present moment be has not written a single line. He oc.ztipus a large room on the zit story towards the sout:i. Orders arrived yesterday from Flonsoce allowing him to walk on the esplanade on condition that he allowed himself to be accompanied by a =pallor officer. Garibaldi refused to avail himself of thin permission. He is not allowed to receive visitors. His sons Menotti and Rialiotti are in Florence. It is mid that Major Canzio, Garibaldi'sson•in. law, will leave in a few days. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 16. Today an imperial decree has been issued, dated the 12th inst., appointing Marshal Bazaine to the command of the third army corps at Nancy. THE PAPAL STATES. ROME, Nov. 15, EVENING. Count de Sartiges has arrived here to resume his functions as French ambassador at this court. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, Nov. IC. The steamer Macgregor Laird, Captain Sarton, from the West Coast of Africa, Teneriffe, and Madeira, arrived in the Mersey this morning. Her dates are Cameroons, Oct. 12; Fernando Po, 11th ; Benin, 18th ; Bonny, 17th ; Lagos, 22nd ; Accra, 24th ; Cape Palmas, 27th ; Sierra Leone, 30th ; Teneriffe, Nov. 7 ; Madeira, 9th. Trade at all the ports was rather dull, but the public health was good. At Benin a war was going on between Gour Jerry and Alluma, in consequence of the former attempting to stop trade. At Lagos a disturbance among the natives had commenced. AUSTRALIA. (BEurza's Exruse.) MELBOURNE, Bert. 28. London telegraphic intelligence to August 10 wu re ceived here, ria Adelaide, on the 9th last, and the mails were delivered on the 11th. The dead lock continues. The Upper House pared shill of supply for 300,000/. to pay malaria. Thesessionclosedand a new session has been commenced, but as yet there are no Cigna of a settlementof the difficulty. The Upper House has declared most positively that it will not pass an Appro priation Bill which contains the proposed vote of 20,0001. to Lady Darling, and there the matter rests. The Assembly is to go into committee of supply next week. Great preparations are being made for the reception of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred. It is proposed to issue a loan for 3,000,0001. for railway purposes. - The crops look well. Our rivers are bank high, large quantities of rain having fallen this month. The pastoral interest is thriving. The increase is so great that steps are being t►ken to recommence boiling down, combining therewith the preservation of the meat. The gold•6elds continue to yield satisfactorily. The new season's wool has commenced to arrive, and the first sale will take place shortly after the arrival of the next English mail. Business geuerally continues quiet, though in a healthy date. Exchange remains firm, at 1 per cent. premium. Discount, and interests show no alteration. Arrivals from England.—Lanarkshire, Australian, J. M. Joshua, Sarah Grine, Lightning, Proteus, Jerusalem, Salamander, Winnifred, Kent, Tornado, John Temper's' , Savelaw. Sailed for England.—tidy Darling, EMI, Angle•ey. SYDNEY, San. 24. The Avoca arrived on the 13th, having left Galle consi derably in advance of contract time, without the late press and commercial telegram', which has caused great incon venience, A fleet of 50 steam vessels, owned in this port, will pro ceed to pea simultaneously to meet H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. Sir John Young goes to England by the No vember mail. The financial statement has been made ; the package duty is to be abolished. The assembly is considering the government proposal to borrow three millions for railway purposes. The new Land Bill has been withdrawn tempor►rily, but will be re-introduced. Hickey won the champion actiller's match. The arrival. from London are the Alexander Duthie, Strathnaven, Dundonald, Martha, Biro's, Compadre, Cape Clear. Departure—Nineveh. La France denies that the Abb6 Bauer is the author of the pamphlet " Napoleon 111. and Europe," and says it is absurd to attribute a political work to this ecclesiastic. " The sentence of the Royal Court of Berlin on Twesten, the Prussian deputy, has," says the Independancr Beige, " produced a most painful impression throughout Germany. It is said that he is going to appeal to the highest tribunal against a judgment which every politician consider, so be an opposition to the letter and spirit of the Prussian constitution. The question will oome on for con. sideration in parliament, and several deputies will move resolutions upon it." M. de Fouvielle, of La Libcrte, gives the follow ing curious statistics:—Walk from the Madeleine to the Place de la Bastille and you will pass 126 cafes, 26 jewellers or clockmakers, 42 furnished hotels, 33 restaa rants, 31 confectioners, 25 tobacco shops, 24 gamer', 7 bakers, 13 theatres, 3 post•o®ces, 2 telegraph offices, and 2 reading-rooms. M. de Fouvielle requests his raiders to draw their own conclusions-126 cafes and 2 reading. rooms—and simply inquires, " Will it always be thus!" . . . . _ - - The rinderpeet has been making great devasta tion among the cattle in the neighbourhood of Oppeln, in Silesia, and still more in the circle of Ratibor, near the Austrian frontier. Many hundred animals have either died of the complaint or have been destroyed on suspicion of their having become infected with it. The report which spread two months ago of a dangerous illness of the Czar arose from ac accident which betel him while staying at Livadia, his Crimean summer residence. His Majesty was entering the dining-room with his family and suite when, at the moment of stepping over the threshold, the ceiling fell down. In another in stant the imperial family must have been crushed in its fall. Herr Gerhard Roifs, the well-known African tra veller, the first who ever went across the interior from the shores of the Mediterranean to Guinea, has been commis sioned by the King of Prussia to accompany the Abyssinian expedition. The Sultan's journey to civilised parts has already had ► result. A school will be shortly opened at Con stantinople for the united instruction of 300 Christian and 300 blussulnian children. A letter from Berlin says :—" The year's con scription is going on in the entire confederacy. To fill up the ranks of the four new corps d'armee created since last year's campaign no lees than 100,000 men have been levied, instead of 90,000 or so, the ordinary quota of the year. With lass year's levy of 112,000 men the new recruits will be sufficient to raise the new regiment. to full war strength. The work of reorganisation oompleted, as it will be two months hence, the pesos footing of the federal army in 1863 may be estimated at nearly 360,000." The parliaments of tho principal European States will have assembled within a abort time from the present. That of Prussia on this day, of France on the 18th, Eng land the 19th, the Italian Chambers towards the end of the month, and Spain on the 77th December. The King of Sweden is about to publish a pamphlet entitled, " Ideas on Modern Tactics." He en deavours to show that a small and good army is preferable to a numerous one imperfectly trained. The product de rived from the sale of this work is to be devoted to the creation of primary schools in Lapland. The Italia of Naples says :—" As the Deputy Assanti Pepe was returning to this city from Satriano some days back, with his nephew and servant, the party were pounced upon by a party of brigands and married off. X. Pepe was, after a while, allowed to go free because be was unable to keep up with his captors, but the other two were kept prisoners, doubtless with the view of serving as a pledge for the ransom of the other." " Among the passengers who have just arrived at SR Narita by the steamer Louisians," says the Union Bretoaat of Nantes, "is Madame Miramon, widow of the Mexican General who was shot with the Emperor Maxi milian at Queretaro. She intends to reside in France with her children." SUBMERSION OF ONE OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS. REPORTED LOSS OF 10,000 LIVES. A telegram received at Mr. Renter's office hit night by Atlantic cable, dated New York, N0v.15, 6 p.m., says :—" The island of Tortola has been submergetl. 10,000 lives were lost." LOSS OF THE ABYSSINIAN TRANSPORT BOSPHORUS. ADMIRALTY, Nov. IS. The Secretary of the Admiralty begs to acquaint the editor of the Express that a telegram has been received from Bombay, dated the 14th inst., stating that the transport Californian had arrived with the intelligence of the total loss of the trans port Bosphorus in Algoa Bay on the 21st of October. The Bosphorus was a screw steamer, commanded by Captain Alexander, which left Liverpool on the 18th Sept., for Bombay, via the Cape de Verdi and Cape of Good Hope. She had stores on board. The Bosphorus belonged to Messrs. W. and H. Dixon, of Liverpool, and was principally insured in Glas gow and London. The insurances will fully cover the loss. The Bosphorus was an old vessel of 1,999 tons register. his not known whether there has been any loss of Ilfe. DESTRUCTION OF THE HUNGERFORD RAIL WAY STATION.-!THIS DAY.) (BY TILIG/LLPH.) READING, SATURDAY. The up-station at Hungerford, on the Berks and Hants branch of the Great Western Railway, was destroyed by tire this morning between 8 and 9 o'clock. The cause is at present unknown. VIE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT CRADLE Y. FOUR MORE DEATHS. The results of the explosion on Monday morning, at Messrs. S. Even and Sons' colliery, at Homer Hill, see becoming daily more serious as death after death ensues. We are sorry to announce that four more deaths have occurred, and it is to be feared that several others will be added to the list. The names of the miners who have died since our last notioe was written, are:—William Att. wood, of Cradley ; Eland Bourubmok, of the Lye ; William Westwood, and William Summers. Westwood leaves a wife and four children. The following, we are informed, are not expected to recover:—John Bolton, Quarry Bank; Solomon Guest, Quarry Bank ; William Gordon, the Lye; William Buttleton, the Lye ; and Daniel Hart, the Lye. Besides these there are ten other men injured, the number being larger than was computed at the time the excite. nient of the accident was fresh. Mr. R. Docker formally opened the inquest on several of the bodies, on Thursday, but the inquiry into the nature of the accident will net take plane till next month.—Binsinghast Post. Mr. E. Mall was entertained last night at banquet in Bradford, by his friends and supporters; followed by an enthusiastic and brilliant meeting in the St. George's Hall, under the presidency of Mr. Holden, M.P. Mr. E. A. Leathern was also present, and reeds. tions were adopted, complimenting Mr. Miall on his honourable and gentlemanly bearing during the contest; and further pointing out the necessity for the liberal party putting forward a clear and definite programme of its objects. THE FENIAN TRIALS IN DUBLIN.—COStRUO wY convicted yesterday, and he will, together with Warren and Halpin, be sentenced to-day. _ _ _ THE DVS!. OF EDINBURGH.—A good deal of gossip has reached this country from the Cape of Good Hope in reference to his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh flying the standard of England on the occasion of his entering Simon's Ray, in the presence of his senior officer, and thus expecting from the latter a salute, which, in fact, was duo from the former. An explanation, we understand, ensued, which led to the ordinary compliment being paid to Captain R. Purees, from the guns of the Galatea, and so the matter was settled ; but, doubtless, the attention of the Admiralty has been called to the subject, AA although the duke is entitled to, and will receive all the honours which are consistently due to a prince of the blood, it must be remembered that be is • captain in the royal navy, and as he is in command of one of her Majesty's ships, it is expected that he will comply with the rules ot the service.—driets 414(i Nary Gazette. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE ENSVING WF.EK.—Monday : Asiatic, at 3, " Abyssinia and Prosier John," Dr. Oppert ; Royal Academy, at "4 ture,"Mr. esttuiroott. Tuesday : Statistical, at 3, `l lll tiC lie Instruction in Turkey," Mr. Hyde Clarke ; Engineers, at 8, " Removal of Organic and Inorganic Substances in Water," Mr. Byrne. Wednesday : Society of Arts, at 8, opening Address, Mr. Hawes ; Geological, at " Supposed Glacial Markings in Valley of the Ere," Mr. Whitley " Glacial Structure of Lincolnshire, &c., " Mr. Wood and Rev. J. L. Rome ; " Disturbance of Level of Land, Youghal," Mr. Wynne ; Literature, at 8 " Knowledge of Abyssinia by the Ancients," Mr. Van:. Thursday : La uren at 8, " Chinese Corylacare, Dr. Hance ; " Loam' Capsularis," Mr. Scott ; Chemical, at 8, " Pyrophosphoria Amides," Dr. Gladstone ; " Results of Analysis and Simi tau Condition of Water, " Mr. Chapman ; Antiquities, at "Shrine of St. M.edoes of Ferns and Box of the Gospels of St. Molaise," Miss Stokes ; Royal, Si,Additions to " Resultants of a System of Two Equations," Professor Cayley ; " klethylio Aldehyde" Dr. Hofmann ; " New Reflecting Telescope for Melbourne," Dr. Robinson.— dfAeturans. _ . _ Baxter thus gives the probable effects of the Reform Act :-1. The county constituencies increased by about 180,000 electors ' or 34 per cent. 2. The borough power in county elections diminished. 3. The voters of the small towns considerably increased. 4. The relative power of the great landowners diminished. i. The power of the small landowners and theirtenante largely increased. 6. The excessive representation of the boroughs over the counties reduced from three times to twice as great. PRIVATE BILLS FUR NEXT SESSION. —The num ber of private bills for nextseadon will be very small. Last year there were 317, and in the previous session more than 600. Next session there will be a great falling olf. By the end of the present month all the plans are to be deposited at the Private Bill-office, Tois Riora me Davoestuaz.—The prisoner' captured in the recent disturbances in Barnstaple and at Buekfaatlelgh hare been taken before the magistrates. Some few have been dealt with summarily ; but the major portion are committed for trial. In the county nape. trates' court, Larum, the prisoners brought up were Samuel Martin, James Shedilick, Thowazin Pasamore, William Tanner, Charles Griffith., and William Black more, and they were charged with participating in the riot at I'laistow Mills on Friday. Tanner was discharged, but the others were committed to the @elisions. At the borough police-court John Merles, 15, William Houle, 13, Thomas Nicholls, 14, and Richard Stanbury, 13, were charged under the 31st bye-law of the borough with wantonly throwing stones at Messrs. ArnoU, Rowe, and Baker's windows on the night of the riot. They were fined 10e., or 14 days' imprisonment. Robert Je ff ery, 20, was fined 40s. and costs, or one month's i mpriiionment, for throwing • stone at Police-constable &meek Henry Locaseinore, James Lemon, and William Scott, char ged with rioting, were committed for trial. At the Tanga Guildhall, Samuel Winter and Nicholas Ferry, jun., were committed for trial on a charge of rioting at Buckfastleigh. There are other prisoners in custody who hove nut yet been disp_osed of. WHITECHAPEL COSTEHMONOERS. The stall keepers and costermongers of Whitechapel and its neigh bourhood have adopted a petition to parliament respecting the terrible amount of want and stiffening which they anticipate will be caused to no fewer than :0,000 of the poor of London if the sixth clause of the New Metropolitan Street Act be carried into full execution. Within the limits of Whitechapel union alone they calculate that 2,000 persons gain • livelihood by selling articles in the streets, representing with their families a total of about 10,000 individuals. Nearly all these are said to be threatened with absolute ruin and starvation by a sum mary deprivation of their sole means of subsistence, and this just as winter is coming on. The petitioners earnestly pray that clause S of the New Metropolitan Street Act may be enforced only where the necessities of the Oaf% absolutely require it. KANGAROOS. —The extent to which kangaroo, increase on rime of the sheep stations, thus occasioting serious nuisance to the sheepowners, is very remarkable. On some of the Itiverina stations the squatters offer 6d. a head for their extermination, and it is said they are so numerous that the work of killing them could be made to pay well. Then it is stated that on some rims in the western pasts of Vie toria these animals are se plentiful as to keep the sheep in low condition, by sating the best of the grass. kanprcer being as numerous as sheep on several of the runs. Hunts on a very large scale, in which these animals are driven 11 by hundreds, and sometimes by thousands, into yardar and there slaughtered, are often undertaken with a view 04 thinning their numbers, but apparently with little effect.— ifelborme dregs. CEVITAL PALACE.—At this afternoon's concert the artistes are Mdme. Sinico, Signor Foli, and Mr. Tom Holder, with solo pianoforte, Miss Amy Coyne (her first appearance). I