The Express. — London, England, 1864-08-27 00:00:00

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L.OIINGING, TRAVELLING, and SEASIDE -ILet WITS. oe various materials, In Menai ralataree mod qualities, made to order In the latest styla at HAMILTON sod ipmrrorl, 106, — f7TILAND, oppoidte Zaskr-iall THZ LOCH MOOR, and MOUNTAIN TOURIST and TRAVELLING BUM, Three Guineas, to W the new material; • Better than ever and more than ever," at ALFRED WEBB MILES, 7/L Brooketreet, Hanover-square. Removed from Boodetrest bitabbehed BBL ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, 14 HENREITTA4TILIZT, COVZNT-GAN.DIN. TWIN BROODEN, of 16, HamirrrA-oreffer, Commr-oaahrti, Goldman', b&ag male of his eashienen hue been led to think the Bushier was remonsd, respectfully informs them THAT Tine 111 NOT TH CANS, he Urft PUR CHASED the GOODWILL, the whole of the minable STOCK, and that all the Workmen remain at the Old Premises. He takes this opportunity of rotunda. his warmed Meeks and acknowledgments for tie kind patronise and =wort bedewed en the late Inn 16, liii4ILIETTA4ITESIT, ODTEPT-GARDIN. Ehe Orpreoo. TO . opIp.POPONDIMITIL Mt tellareemln beiLied ter " iiirlaiie . e . e leaden /tvesifieg Paper. roust be al the Gem IS, Betteente•etreet, by ?we o'clock on the day a pablketles. ?RIMINI a THIS Emma, DORN TO GOOD LUCIL Mr. D. Murray. Aad THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mews. J. W. lay, David Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson. H. Forrester, and H. Yrs. H. Marston, Muss Base sad owning,. RRITANNIA. TRW RTERINI, THE DRUNKARD'S CHILDREN. - SWeng by Yr. H. Baker. Mr. H De Brenner, and Mr. J. H. med.—Mr. G. W. Rader . —Conclading with THE SWISS CHURCH. MOH WALTZ AT LONDON RILLOON. TED DAT - 7 - 10;n1ai 10h. 60.:17:10erasos. TX Us. To-Xoliaow Morals& 11h. 23m.....Aginie6s. 11h. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27. Jr ought to be satisfactory to the most unmiti gated speecbifyers on the face of the earth to find that they have not all the speechifying to them selves. While Parliament is sitting the Great Briton who peruses his morning broadsheet takes comfort in the thought that no other people under heaven can be so long-winded, or represented by mach • power of tongue, as the people whose deputies fill vast spaces of paper with the transcript of their conversations in the Palace of Westminster. There have been periods of dreadful stillness throughout Europe when a word uttered, even by • Cox of Finsbury, resounded like the echo of • trumpet in the hollow of the hills, and when the inquiring voice of • DARBY-Garman seemed to shake • listening universe. Latterly, however, continental Europe has recovered the use of its lungs, and not only in Brussels and Turin, but even in Paris a parliamentary Opposition begins to claim once more the right of articulate and audible remonstrance. Even authority, armed with reason and argument, condescends to offer explanations, and to justify its ways and works. Our public men are thus delivered from the painful glory of monopoliting the attention of civilised mankind whenever they open their lips. A knot of independent members of the Corps L.. , gialatif have had the courege to prove that parliamentary speaking is not a lost art in France, and that the language of Miassuu is more than a tradition. Nor is it dining the par liamentary season only that our brilliant friends over the water are, we rejoice to find, rivalling us again in the practiced and pursuits which are apt to be associated with free institu tions. However widely the constitutional frame work of the Second Empire may differ from our own—however earnestly the ablest adherents of the Napoleonic system may discredit the accli matization of English liberty, it is evident that a: the bottom of their hearts lurks a disposition to imitate, under safe restrictions, some of the modes and fashions of that liberty. NAPOLEON HI., we know, has more than a lurking V indiums for the land of his refuge ; and no sovereign of France has ever known England more intimately, though many have known it as familiarly. His dearest friends and comrades, though more Imperialist than the EMPEROR himself, are almost as English in certain of their tastes and sympathies, and in the very act of protesting against the folly of imitation they imitate with all the grace and goodwill imaginable our convivial orations and our "loyal toasts." Thus it happens that while our own everlasting jeuris Pereira is talking turfy politic at Tiverton, and his Under Secretaries— old gentlemen of five and twenty—are mimicking the tone and attitude of their leader, on the other side L.! the water the Duc DE PERSIGNY is ban quetting the members of the Council-General of the Loire, and taking advantage of the liberties of the social board and of the good diges tion of his guests to toast the Emperor NAPOLEON as nothing more or leas than " the "founder of liberty in France." This is not the first time, u oar readers remember, that M. DE PERSIGNY has gra tified himself and a loyal audience with an elaborate theory of the Second Empire evolved out of the depths of his moral conscious ness, as carefully constructed and furnished in all its parts, as wholly unanswerable and un deniable, as the wildest specification that ever qua lified an inventor for a certificate of lunacy. No doubt this dexterity in constructing a theory of perfect wisdom out of one's favourite folly, in systematizing one's aberrations, is a form of self delusion as old as human nature itself. But there is no need to suspect M. DE Prisluxy of this com mon weakness. It is at least excusable in this faithful comrade of conspiracy and exile, this friend of evil as of good fortune, that he should believe with all his heart and soul in the " extra " ordinary destiny, so manifestly marked by the " finger of Providence," which has made M. DE PERSIGNT a senator, a statesman, a landowner, a duke, and provided him with a dinner-table large enough for the loyalty of the whole Council- General of the Loire. No one can for a moment doubt the perfect sincerityof this noble duke when he rises to propose a toast to the EMPEROR as the founder—not of credit, of ducal fortunes, of a new Paris, or of a Mexican Empire, but of liberty "in France," and liberty sans phroms, not liberty of theatres or of bakers ; not even of industry and trade ; but of liberty pure and simple ; liberty of thought, of speech, of writing, of meeting, of as sociation ; of all that we in England call liberty. If. DE PERMS; perhaps, measures the liberty of his fellow countrymen by his own ; and certainly it would be difficult for the greediest lover of free speech to desire greater liberty of speaking without being contradicted than M. Pammarty enjoys at his own table when he toasts his " founder of liberty in France." By way of pre face it may be interesting to English readers to learn bow it comes to peas that IrgRRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1864. M. DE PERSIGNY makes a, • • speech at a private banquet , to Council-General of the Loire, and that the spas* is given to the world through tbs'Broeitenr. It should be known that these Councils-General are not political bodies, and are not permitted to talk politics. Indeed, they are far more usefully em ployed in attending to tke public business of their several departments, somewhat after the manner of our county magistrates. In the last speech from the throne the EMPEROR announced that the powers of the Council-General would be enlarged in so cordance with the principle of decentralization ; and M. ROrlirE has lately confirmed this promise to the members of the Council over which he pre sides. Somehow or other the Ministers of the EMPEROR manage to evade the wholesome restraint upon the discussions of the Councils-General when ever they find it convenient to tell politics on their own account ; but the Duc DE PERSIONY, by way of setting an example of legality, asked his Council to dinner, and expounded the Imperial Constitution according to his latest theory, over the wine. His theory in a few words is, that it is the existence of a territorial aristocracy that enables liberty and authority to co-exist in England ; but to co-exist in the exclusive possession of • select and privi leged class ; and that in France, where there is no territorial aristocracy, but only an immense administrative hierarchy and the people, the liberty which is possible in England would be chaos. In France liberty is represented by universal suf frage ; authority by a power responsible to the people as • father of a family to his children, and thus liberty and authority are at once inde pendent of each other and complete in themselves. As to the liberty of the press, the pre sent regime is in its nature transitory and susceptible of ameliorations ; when the moral condition of the country is improved by the gradual disappearanxt of the survivors of old parties and of • series of revolutions ; on the arri val of a " young, vigorous, and independent gene " ration born and bred under the Second Empire, " the liberty of the Press" may be o: real benefit. It cannot but afford some comfort to Liberal France to find M. DE PERSIONY paying this sort of involuntary homage to prin ciples of which he denies the application. When it is remembered that M. DE PERSION; instead of disarming hostile parties by granting all, and more than all, they demand, and proving the strength and sincerity of the national will. almost destroyed the few independent journals that remained, and organised universal suffrage in such a manner that every candidate not absolutely devoted to the Government was treated as a public enemy, we shall arrive at a tolerably correct estimate of M. DE PEZEIGNY'S idea of liberty in France. It is noticeable by the bye that the me taphor is changed ; instead of the crowning of the edifice, liberty is now a foundation to be laid. And 31. DE PEILBIONY. we fear, will have deluded only his guests of the Council-General into the belief that, when week after week, some news paper is suspended, and when the leaders of the French bar appear as misdemeanants in a police court on the charge of forming au unauthorized' electoral committee in a private drawing-room, liberty is likely to be founded in France. There is one mode, however, of founding liberty in France which we would humbly recommend to the notice of so profound a student of English institu tions as the Duc DE PERSIGNT. In our old-fashioned and feudal country, as he knows, there exist cer tain hereditary offices of State. The Second Empire has revived the passion for titles in France. Why should not M. Di PERSIGNY be appointed the " Hereditary Grand Freeman" of the Empire, to represent in his own proper person and in the persons of his heirs from generation to generation, that liberty which the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. founded and the first Duo DE FLERIONY toasted. THOSE who are fond of seeking for facts on which to found disheartening generalizations, might °sail, find them, to all appearance, in the cheap dreri of the day. Of course we are not alluding to the dress of the ladies. That has attained a degree of luxury which makes matrimony one of the !Argent financial undertakings in the market. We are speaking only of the humble dress of the male sex, which seems almost to have reached the verge of workhouse cheapness. While the ladies are flaunting in costumes which are denounced from the pulpits of unfashionable churches, the men have descended, step by step, through every degree of cheapness, until they have altogether deserted the old-fashioned five-guinea coat for suite which look passing well at half the money. They cannot be strictly said to have clothed themselves in sackcloth and ashes, but they cer tainly go as near the penitential style, in some of their tourist garments, as decency will allow. The daysof "guid braid claith"—as ROBERT Fzaouasow, the poetical progenitor of Brawn, puts it—are as much things of the past, as the days of hair powder, patches, and satin breeches. Materials which at one time would have been considered only fit for hearth-rugs now form the favourite walking-dress in the moat refined cities. Such a radical change in the foundations of dress was sure, sooner or later, to affect the minor articles of clothing, and we can hardly, there'ore, feel surprised at the rise and popularity of paper collars. There is nothing like a shrinking modesty about these articles, and those who sell them. Paper collars are boldly exposed in the shop windows, in every variety of shape and colour, side by side with false cuffs, sometimes made of the same material, and waistcoats which are all front and no back. To those who remem ber the decent reserve which was always main tained, both by buyer and seller, about an old piece of harmless deception, popularly known as a " dickey," there must be something almost reck lessly brazen in tbis new mode of dealing. The " dickey," or false shirt-front, was • thing gene rally purchased in the dusk of evening, with a variety o' excuses made by the purchaser about a pressing appointment. The shopLeeper, on the other hand, was usually ready with a few assuring remarks about the convenience of the garment as a makeshift, and the impossibility of always being prepared for everything. The purchase and sale were generally conducted in a private part of the shop, with as mach ceremony as often accompanies a transfer of contraband articles. Paper collars, pacer cuffs, " Agsthon vests," butterfly neck-ties, constructed to show every atom of their surface, and neither to go round the neck, nor to dip down the chest, though all as deceptive as the old " d;ckey," are evidently not ashamed of their character. The way in which they are bought and worn doubtless gives them this confi dence. Their slinking predecessor was the make shift of the few, while they are the favourite adornment of the many. We have seen • noble duke in a paper collar, and a barrister of some position putting on a pair of cuffs in • railway carriage, on his way to Brighton to dine ; but these were probably exceptions. The great con sumption of these articles evidently rests with " Young England," and Young England seems rather proud than otharwise of its taste in clothing. ! The inflames of small articles of dress on the ortheir wearers is • subject which la s haver repaired its proper share of attestion. The fag-end of a newspaper article is hardly the place in which to discuss it as it ought to be discussed. We should like to take a young man of fair average moral qualities and test him with purple and fine paper, and then with purple and fine linen. It would be curious to see how far his self-respect would be increased when he knew he bad nothing upon him which professed to be what it was not, and bow far that self-respect would be lowered when he felt that his adornment was more showy than solid. There may be natures so wanting in sensibility, or so philosophical, that they feel no more pride when their cravats go all round their neck, instead of merely sticking on their chesta, and no more self satisfaction when their white shirt-cuffs really re present a white shirt, instead of false gauntlets to a dingy woollen covering. With people so disposed we, of course, can have little sympathy, because, while multitudes of men are compelled to herd together, the art and morals of dressing are worthy of a little study. If old Hower, prayed in very dissolute times, se he tells us he did, when put ting on a clean shirt, we may rest assured that there is something more in a clean shirt than meets the eye. We have known people to be singularly affected by some ornament or new article of clothing, worn under the dress ; and we have seen a man's appearance of respectability surprisingly increased by dressing him in a pair of drab gaiters. These are facts which ought not to be despised by any inquirer into the springs of human action. A man may dress himself in a variety of make-believe articles without any moral degra dation, or his nature may become subdued to what he appears in. It all depends upon whether he uses these articles as convenierces or deceptions ; and the frank, open way in which they are bought and sold would seem to point to the first course rather than to the second. As long as all these coati vances are constructed more for utility than dis play there is perhaps some guarantee that cheap dress good and wholesome thing—will be used more than it is abused. trbt Coun. WINDSOR CASTLE, ACM: MT 26. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louis of Rana drove in the grounds this morning. Prince's Helms sad Prince. Louise also accompanied her Majesty. Prises Louie of Hesse and Prince Mime of Oldenburg took a carriage drive. Priam Leopold and Princess Beatrice took a carriage skim. The Craod Duchess Marie of Birds visited the Queen and Prime. Louis of Hems to-day. Prince Bernet of Oldenburg arrived at the Castle yester day evening, and left it to-day. Viscount Torrington and Captain Sir W. Hosts arrived at the Castle last evening, as Lord and Groom-in-Waiting. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helens. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Daman, the Australian Colonies, and Gibraltar. THE PRINCE ♦ND PRINCEM OF WARM AT ABER GELDER CASTLIL—Oo Monday the Prince and Princess of Wales, with the ladies and gentlemen of the suite, bad a picnic on Lochnagar. Although the day was rough and wed, the party enjoyed themselves very mach. On Tuesday the Prince and party went to the Glen of Gelder, where the Prince was Encomia' in bringing down three beautiful step, one of which weighed 15 stones 71bs. clean. On Wednesday evening a grand ball was given at the castle to the tenantry of Abergeldie and BirkbalL—Dundee Adver tiser. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hems, with their infant daughter, will leave Windsor Castle this afternoon, after • protracted visit to her Majesty, on their way to Germaay. Their royal high nesses and retinue go by railway to the place of embarka tion, either Woolwich or Grevemod. The Vittoria and Albert royal yacht, ccannauded by tisphain his Serene High. nem the Prins of Leiniagen, will convey their royal high seems and suite to Antwerp. It ie expected that the Darner of Sue-Coburg will meth Windsor this morning from the Continent, and will take leave of the prince's before her departure. Her Imperial Highnees the Grand Duchess Marie d ROWS honoured the Baron end &room Brunnow with her company at dinner at Chasham House on Thursday kat A salon party was invited to meet her imperial higher,. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge kites& to leave Oambridg• Cottage, Hew, towards the dose of the miming week, to pass a few weeks at flearboroagh. The Doke of Somerset will leave his official resi des*, at the Admiralty to-day, to ahead the Privy Conseil to be held by her Majesty at Wisdom Castle this aftei ems. The Duchess of Swimsuit sad Lady °madonna. St. Year as to-day to %tetrad* Park, Busks, when the duke will meet them after the mime His Excellency the Turkish 'Ambassador will leave the Tarlush Embaloy is a taw days for Scotland. Madams Mazur= and datgliten, aid Mr. E. Mamas Ism this morning for Paris, on their way to Baden-Bass. His Excellency the Hon. C. F. Adams, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of America, who is et present= a tour through North Weiss, arrived at the Parade Hotel. Ethyl, on the 24th inst. The Countess de Grey will, we understand, ae eorepaey her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales as lady in wailing during the forthcoming visit to the royal family of Denmark at Copenhagen. Viscount Palmerston returuedlEto Cambridge House yesterday afternoon freer visiting his coestitesets at 71rertoe. Lord Clarence Paget, M.P., has left the Admi ralty to join bar ladyship at their seat iaWako. Rear-Admiral the Hoc Jamas R. Dramaced, C.&, is oat of tows, 'Balm Yr. Midas, M.P. We (Army and Nary Gazette) regret to say that we have received intalligeaoe of the eeriona illness of Vino Admiral Hoary F. °royale, C. 8., ou reserved halt-pay, in reoeipt of a mei-vice pumices. The Right Hon. T. Milner Gibeon, }LP., has arrived off Cowes from the coast of Spain. In the course of the autumn will be published Mr. Silas " Diary of his Rasideaos in the United States." L'lllustration give.; currency to a rumour that M. de Lamartine is engaged on a play destined for the Theatre Fflustais. Goldsmith's Green-arbour-court (says the Adienceam) will soon belong only to nesinory. and pilgrims will look in vain for the old ° Breaknock stops" by which the court wee gained oa the woo side ✓ and which marked a portion of the steep face of Old London Wall. •-- . The Otth have been reprinted and issued in a painted cover, to form an "Oelbuce," with index ands plate of the " Owls in Cluncil.• When parliament reltmernhles " the Owls will revisit the glimpses of the moon." They say, " We thee most also Mara to town, and again appear, to wars, Instruct, sod /nide." - - - The Educational Society of Lyons offers s gold medal, worth 400 franca, for the beet away (i• whatever language written) which shall effectively describe the "grave imonvenienose" which result from a want of respect is c►ildren end young people for their parents, and which shall point to the man and suggest • eacoemenl remedy. Captain Burton has latterly been spending three mouths with the Bing of Dahomey, and the result al ►is experience will be s►ortly made public I. • twe•volme work to be published by 'Tinsley Brother,. A good many householders at Belfast who received alwesiesieg *otos. s &laying as is their hawse, as their appeshassions have berm allayed by the action of the megistrates. Others, with Urals experience before their eyes, will sot be induced to disobey mob orders, and speak aesieensly of the coming dark night& The repairing of wieskel hoes has bele emsoweeed with cossiderabhi Apar. The rebook, which were almost downed. ass Sow nearly all Minded by the usmil number of J.:Jahn. LATEST INTELLIOENCL • AMERICA. (astrma's ver.saaAm.) ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTER. REPORTED CAPTURE OF MOBILE. QUEENSTOWN, Amur! 27. The Inman steamer City of Manchester, from New York on the 13th inst. , arrived here at 7.60 a.m. to-day. She brings 126,015 do's., and 1,120!. in specie, and 68 passengers. She landed 12 pas sengers, 9 sacks of mails, and proceeded for Liver pool at 8 a.m. ; all well. NEW YORK, Amer 13, Moasum. Mr. Stanton announces that Confederate deserters report the capture of Mobile. The privateer steamer Tallahassee his burned 6 vessels 60 miles south-east of Sandy Hook. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Auousr 13, MORNING. Money easy. Gold, 2651. Exchange on London, 2744. Stocks steady. New York Central, 131. Illinois, 1291. Erie, 112 j. Five-twenty United States Bonds, 1091. Cotton quiet. Middling upland, 173. Flour steady. Wheat, good demand for export. Coro dull. Provisions advancing. Coffee slightly firmer. Sugar very firm. Molasses quiet. Petroleum, crude, 63 ; refined, 85. QUEENSTOWN, Auoosr The National Steam Navigation Company's steamer Virginia, from New York on the 13th inst., arrived here at 7.30 a.m. to-day. She landed 29 passengers and the latest telegrams, and proceeded for Liverpool at 8 a.m. All well. (Telegram of the Times' correspondent.) NEW YORK, ACOUBT 13, 11 A.M. Despatches from New Orleans to the 6th cor roborate the Confederate accounts of Admiral Farragut's operation at Mobile. On the sth the Federal land forces under Federal General Granger had effected a lodgment on Dauphin Island. The Confederate despatches from Atlanta re port that General Sherman assaulted the Confede rate left on the sth, gaining a temporary advan tage, but was ultimately repulsed. General Early evacuated Winchester yesterday morning, retiring towards Strasbourg. There has been frequent skirmishing between Early's and Sheridan's forces, but no engagement of consequence. It is thought the Confederates will make a stand at Strasbourg. The investigation of the late Petersburg disaster was commenced on the 9th. General Hancock pre sides. The Confederate privateer steamer Tallahassee has commenced operations off New York Harbour. Within the past few days she has captured upwards of nine vessels ; one of them, the pilot boat James Finch, was taken on the 10th, within 60 miles of Sandy Hook. The crews of some of the vesrels have arrived in this city. Several Federal war steamers are ordered in pursuit of the privateer. Secretary Stanton has declined to appoint a com mission to investigate the exoessive quotas assigned to the cities of New York and Brooklyn, proposed by Governor Seymour, on the ground that it would operate to postpone the draught, and perhaps fatally delay the strengthening of the armies in the field. some hundreds of leagues, passing through all abodes of districts, and had only heard of one mender, committed on the person of an of who bad seduced an Arab's wife. However, this is not the opinion here, and Marshal Itlllahon will leave to assume his governor-generalship on the 20th of next month. COMILERCUL aTTRILIGENCE. Gold, 2551. Atlantic anti Great Western, Ohio First Mort- gage, Bonds, 3 to 5 premium. The City of Manchester takes 131,414 lola. in specie. lazurn's TUZGRLII3.) TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO. PAIUS, AUGUST 27, Molt:rms. The difficulties whicb had arisen between Turkey and Montenegro in reference to the frontier, have been satisfactorily arranged by a mixed commission. SPAIN. MADRID, Atouu 26, EvEretc. Senor Frazio, the representstive of the Emperor of Mexico, has arrived here and left for La Graaja. He is the bearer of letters announcing to her Spanish Majesty the accession of the Emperor Maximilian to the Mexican throne. GREAT FIRE NEAR PALERMO. TURIN, Amon. 27. A great fire has taken plane in the forest of Picuzza, a crown domain near Palermo. The people assembled and hastened to the spot in order to arrest the progress of the conflagration. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Euxine with the above mails arrived at Mar seilles at 7.90 am. this day. The mail were to leave at 11.30 a.m. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE RIGHT OF PRIESTS TO MARRY. (nom oug owl cogazaroggawr.) PARIS, FIAT Evzinto. A short while ago a priest, disputing the autho rity of his church in such matters, went to his mayor for permission to marry. The mayor refused the application, and the priest then appealed to a higher court for • writ to force the civil authority to grant him his request. This matter made considerable stir at the time, and M. Jules Fevre, who pleaded in favour of the priest, and other lawyers of talent enhanced the interest of the affair. Judgment has just been delivered in the case. The substitute of the Procnreur Imperial, in reviewing the matter before the court gave its decision, thought that the Concordat granted by Napoleon I. had settled the state of the priesthood; the opinion he thought supported by M. Thiers. " Seeing that the catholic church as it is now or ganised proclaims and imposes as a part of its discipline the celibacy of priests : "Seeing by consequence that the citizen whofreely enters the priesthood engages, and knows that he engages himself not to marry : "Seeing that it is upon the faith of this engage ment that the church authorises him to exercise his ministry and receive confidences which he might abuse, if, on the threshold of the temple, be had not left behind him all hope of returning to the world. " The read the j udgment is much in the strain of the foregoing, deciding that the concordat placed the priest in the same position and under the same obligations as those by which he was governed before the revolution. The court decided that the mayor was right in refusing the request of Char iodation, and condemned the latter to costa. Prince Humbert is expected here to-morrow, and he will go to the camp of Chidons with the Emperor. The young prince, who has watched with interest the organisation of the new Italian army, may be able to pick up some useful informa tion. A gentleman just from Algeria assures me that the rumour of the country being still in an undisturbed and revolutionary stain is erroneous, as it is perfectly trasquiL fle kali lately travelled THE LONDON THEATRES. Drury-lane Theatre will reopen for the season early next month. In October Coml.,:line will be revived ; Mies Helen nitwit will meet (mosso, whilst lbws Phelps and Creowick will respectively fill the parts of Post humous and lactimo. Afactont will afterwards be repro. diked with Locke's made. Mks Fault and Mr. Phelps will sustain the principal characters. A new romantic play by Mr. Theodore Martin (husband of Mies Fancit) is also announced for production. Mr. F. C. %mend, the popular burlesque writer, and constant contributor to Pinch, will (mys the London Review) be the new stage director of the Royalty Theatre. The season ►t this house will commence early next month. The St. James's Theatre will re-open on the 12th of next month with Mr. Sketchley's comedy, How will They get Out of It I supported by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews and Mrs. Stirling. Mr. Benjamin Webster's tenancy will expire at Christmas, and unless he renews it, the house will either fall into the hands of Miu Herbert and her friends, Of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan and a joint-stock oompany. Mr. Wigan has given up his project for converting the mat Alhainlisa into a comedy theatre. Mr. Henderson, of the Prince of Wales's Theatre ►t Liver pool, who is spoken of as the probable lessee of the DOW theatre now being built by a limited liability eompany in that town, has been surveying the premises in Leicester. square, long known as the home el Mr. Burford's pano ramas, with a view of converting them into a vaudeville theatre. The Dew scenic drama—The &reds of Loretors—at the Princess's Theatre, ii e groat financial sumer. The holm is crowded every night. Mr. Fechter will re-open the Lyceum on the 15th of October with a new romantic drama called The Rosary. There will be many changes in his company. The Surrey Theatre will open for the winter on the 3rd of next month. Music AL Goesir.—Harclly are the echoes of our own Italian operas out of our saes, before we most Be to take sot* of what is to owns to paw elsewhere. M. is, appereatly, busy enough at Paris, with a view to makuig bit rear a brilliant one ; bet his list of artier is not inviting, healed , as it is, by Madame Peace. For tenors he announces Signori Hardin, Fraschird, sad Negrini. The Sisters Marchisio, as might have beam predicted, coast for little in any theatre that wants something beyead the two dnette is SeseraniSie. They area ' starring' it in German towns, where unfinished Italian vocalicatice pares current. Will no manager on this side of the Alps give a chance to Signora Leonilde Hoschatti, of whom we hear on every side ? The rumour turns up aia that good Uir Verdi (who loves what is unwholesome and ferocious) is at work on the abominable story of " Salammbo." This however, is probably destined for the Grand Opera of Paris. Another rumour mentions the possibility of Mr. !burley singing during the winter, with Signor Mario, at Barcelona. Should this prove true, the loss to England is a great not to be replaced for the present.—Athoscrusi. HER =TT'S JOVENMT TO BALMORAL—Her Majesty the Queen, scoompried by the Primmer Helena, Louisa, and Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and the Duke and Donbas of Oohing, and attended by Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State ; Gerona the Hon. C. Grey, Sir C. Phipps, General Hood, Dr. Jasper, Lady El Mrs. Brno., &a., will leave Windsor by the Great Western Railway at 6.50 on Monday evening next. Travelling by Br/Atm Juaction, Laporter, and Carlisle, the royal train—which will an usual be fitted up for ing during the night—will reach Perth at si Zt on Tuesday morning. Here a s top page of two hours will be made for refreshment and to enable tie ue to attend the inauguration of the Prince Consort's statue in that city. Starting from the Fair City at 10.40, Bridge of Dune will is reached 'at 12.4 and a stay of five miners made ; and Ferryhill janctioe at 1.16, where a similar stay will take place. At this station the public will be admitted by ticket. The journey by Deride will follow, and be accomplished at 2.37, aod Balmoral by polars two hours afterwards. busts of her Majesty th e Queen end the late Priam i sm Wi t, which are to be presented by the Lord Provost to the city, amid are to be placed in niches in the Council Chambers, have arrived hi Edinburgh. The bars are executed in white marble, and will prove a great ornament to the chamber for which they have been designed. The bust of the Queen has been executed by Noble, end that of Prier Albert by Theed, and both have been copied from statues selected by her Majesty. Brackets for their receptioe have been pre pared under the superietendence of Mr. Cousin, and it is expected that they will soon be put in the places which the/ are permanently to occupy. ENCOURAGEMENT OF HIGHLAND SPORTS. —HL Royal Mishear the Prince of Wales has Ossified his inten tion of giving five pounds as a prize to the best dancer of Ghillie Gillum, the sword dance, et the Brener Highland games on Thursday next. The Countess of Fife is to give a like sum to the best strathspey sad reel dancer, sad Lieu tenant-Colonel Farquharson, of Invercanld, is to presser 51. to the best rinser of a helf.mile rens. —Dundee 4docrtiver. L_ R D _ ALMIESTOTr" __RD S IRISE ESTATE.—In his speech at 'Tiverton Lord Palmerston mentioned incidentally an interesting fact concerning hie Irish estate. He had, he maid. 1,000 aerie of blowing mad there, " where no bled* of gram grew." and " now, in oonsequeses of having amide. toady plastid that sand with bent, which diem away after it has come to a ordain growth, and WI followed by gram. I have suomeded is Gomm% the whole of that barren spot with gnus." Lord Palmerston may well, like Tennyson's Nertbers Fanner of the Old Style, claim a rivalry in bona. some even with the clergy themselves. " A rends worm gamin a monk ; aa' I 'a stubb'd Thornaby waiste."— Spectator. MR. COLERIDGE, Q.C. AND THE ELECTORS or Elem.—The bee. and learned reatheasa spent Woodsy and Tuesday in visiting his supporters in the higher part of the city. He was mast cordially received. Os Wednesday important business in London called him away, bat on Monday and Tuesday next the honourable gentle man intends to return and mutinous his visite to those numerous friends who rallied round him so ardently daring the late contest. His reception has been most hearty h sod cordial • the expression of regret at the split has been universal, and he left fully assured that in the met contest, with the Iselin Dow manifested, he must be the winning ma didate.—Wedera Tuna. ELscrioX IrrrEtaloinvos.—The conservatives, it a mid, hive resolved to coolest the county of Middlesex at the next general election. Lord Bingham, a eon of Lord Lucas, is spoken of as a caodidate in that interest Liberal voters should carefully watch the lists at the aosoing regis tration. A church inetituti ,00 of which Mr. Hoare and Lord Shaftesbury ere the Isadore, has resolved to (=tint almost every liberal constitasoey. A now oandid•to is W ing his way for Finsbury in the person of Lord Edward St. Maar, a son of the Duke of Somerset. a yeast gentlemen 27 years of age, mid who has been copied in diplomatic donee. Meanwhile. Aldermen Laak, Mr. Tomas, and Mr. Phillips are actively Eroescutiof their cenverms. THE LATE MlBB SOUTHEY 8 BOOKS AND MSS. On Tuesday sod Wednesday the property of the late Mies Kate Soathey was sold by maim on the lawn at Lairbeck Cottage, by Mr. John Minato. From this picturesque auction-martin Underskiddaw might be seen the lakes of Derwoot water sad BassoolDwafte, and numerous mountain tope. Collectors and visitors from all parts were attracted oo the cession. The first day's mho was carfiesd to furni ture, but it wee noticeable that whomever any &Me.* win stated to ham come from Greta Hall, the poet's random, the price 'uvula' bly went up. On the second day the books and manuscripts were sold. T 0,.. were not many lots of books, and them which oxitaieed no antopaph scarcely elicited • mooed biddies. PITNOI7TH TO LONDON AND Back IN ONS DAT.—The GM of the proved AVM lip *VMS *RIM will start from Plymouth at 8. in the morniag sad will reach Loedoo at 3. One of the three duwo express train" will leave Leedom at 4.50 sad arrive at Plymouth at 11.55 at bight Thus is orie day, by this admintble travelling, • pence will be 'cabled to go from Plymouth to London at beck, but we should my, smooth though the broad E. travelling is, be would be not a little fatigued to biomass a journey. From Plymouth to Leedom I. t 250 miles—up sod dams 500 miles, which does in a day, with time for liusinein W... ML la without doubt a great feat.—Nerepath. MUNDIAL 01 • NON-00111MIKIONICD OTTICIOI MALTA. ACOMIT 17.—The perigee et Naha was horrified to bear, yesterday afternooe, that another dreadful murder 1 of a cos-oommistioned officer by a private soldier had jest taken place in the barman of the lot battalion ?god Regiment. The victim in this instance was a remarkably fine young man, of only two yean' earvioe, but whose good eoedoet and intelligent* daring that time had comma him to be raised to the reek of sergeant. The tragedy took place to the barrack-room at Floriaea in the afternoon, when all the men in the room were asleep, except the murderer sod two other soldiers, who were at welt a die taries that they wore curly just in time to mine him after the commission of the crime. The sergeant wee Iris( ash's, and the shot took effect in his seek, wain through that part of his body, sod also through his right arm, which was under him at the time. He never awoke is this world. Naturally the greatest indigeatico is felt by t h e whole of this eznalleat regiment at the &tractions deed, the only motley for which is found in the fact that the doomed was one of the witnesses in the orderly ream as the previous day against the prisoner for a trifling breech of discipline, for which be was awarded two days' ociefleetnent to banrooke by the oommanding officer. The prisoner, oo belay appre hended, gloried in his crime, and, as seeing another ser geant, smarmed his regret at sot having his able " to do for him also." IMINIMIIIIIII7II •i* SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN MILE•EJVD • NEW TOWN. SUSPECTED MURDER OF TWO SISTERS BY POISON. Lut night information was received by Police-ser. giant Bailey, IH, that a crowd of several hundred person.' hat congregated in the immediate neighbourhood of the house, Ne.2l, Albert Cottages, near the Metropolitan Chambers, March-street, Mile-end New Town. Upon proceeding to the spot he was informed that the parlour-door of the boom in qmetioc had been broken open by several persons, in consequence of a suspicion that some. thing wrong had taken place. It was then between It and 11 o'clock at night. Upon the front patiour big entered • woman, between 30 and 40 years of age. wa. discovered kneeling at a couch. Her heed was buried her hands. She wee dead. Lying at full length on the floor was seen the body of another woman, also dead. A portion of her body lay in the back parlour. Upon proceeding to the adjoining apartment the pencil, entering were horrified to discover the partly naked body of a man lying at full length on the floor. He lAA not dead. but he looked at those who entered with an idiotic stare. Dr. Champasys, the surgeon to the workhouse, was instantly sent for, and his emistant arrival without delay. Upon making an examination of the bodies of the two women who were discovered ix the front parlour, he pronounced life to have been extinct for some hours. He could not, of course, state the precise cause of death without • post mortem examination. Eat it was understood to be that gentleman's opinion that the lives of the deceased had been sacrificed by poison. Upon interrogating the man it was found impossible to obtain from him any statement as to how the deceased women bad lon their lives. It has since been ascertained that the deceased women were Satan, and that one of there was the wife of the man who was found in the back parlour. The family were ocitividered respectable. The house in which they lived they held under a public company. Th e name of the married woman is Frames Buckingham, and her age is 41 years. Her Miter's name is Mary Gribbin, and he t op is stated to be 31 years. The husband of Mrs. Backing ham has for several years past been unable to attend to any business in consequence of his having been considered insane. The coroner's officer has locked up the bone. 'Ft man, being completely imbecile, has not been arrested by the police ; he was last night removed from the home to the residence of a relative, who is stated to hold a good position in the district. A post•mortem examination Las been ordered, and, until that takes place, the nature of their deaths or the poison need cannot be discovered. The cottage in which the tragedy occurred is one of a long terrace of houses with large gardens in front. A few days ago Sir Chas. Loco& pawed throurl. Vienna on his way to the Prussian capital, where he wu expected by the Princess of Prude, who is said to be near her confinement. A young married lady was placed in a critical position two days back while bathing at Douanienez (Finis. tire). She bad entered a 'mall grotto on the shore, and having remained too long admiring the natural beauties of tba cavern, found, when she attempted to retire, that the tide bad risen and prevented all egress. The water still motioning to rise, she was at length obliged to cling to the projections of the rocks to keep from drowning, and re mained in this precarious situatUre, hell-submerged, for four hours, when the ebbing of the tide brought welcome release. The Hampshire papers record the death, at lath. la Germany, of Eyre Ocoee, EN., of Weak Park, sear Pordingbridge, et the ass of 34. HZALTHOF Sia JOHN Rarct.trr.—We greatly regret to state that Sir John Rateliff now lies at his house, th=ddringtons, so deagerously ill that his life is de s of. Sir John has been sinology ill for the last three weeks from diabetes ; but at find some hope was enter. Mined. On Thursday night, however, the symptoms be rme extremely alarming. and though the patient was a little better yesterday, Dr. Evens now holds out little or so hope of his reoovery.—Birmisighant Daily Post. DIATH OF Mn. J. UNDKHWOOD.—Mr. J. Under. wood (of the firm of Hills sad Underwood), died yesterday at Norwich. Mr. Underwood was prime Imam of the Fishmonger. Company siear or two slam Su DOM Dakra.—Mr. Henry T. T. Palmer, Mayor of Woodstock, expired under very sudden circum• stances on Sunday morning last. Mr. Palmer, who was much respected as chief magistrate and as • member of the medical profession, attended church as laud, appearing in his usual health, s ad occupied the mayor's seat in the cur. pmation gallery. During the readier of the wood lesson he suddenly fell back, as if in a fit, and though medical as sistance was immediately procured and restoratives promptly administered, it was found that life was extinct. The con gregation was abruptly . dismieted as soon as the melan:holy mat was known. No inquest could be held, as, Woodstock being a borough having ao separate quarter 1111•11i003, the mayor is ex-officio coroner, sad on his death hi deputy's functions ceased. Tee ZAN! OF ENGLAND BANK.—The tuveocy of the mos will, we trust, justify es in appealing to the public on behalf of those of the East of Itegland Bank shareholders who will be reduced to absolute poverty and want by the meet &flare. There are many, particularly widows and loos women, who are now deprived of every resource, sod are quite unprepared and lamb's to earn their own livelihood. We commend th e consideration with ell possible earnestness to t►e pros perms people of this district. It would be easy for the many to help the few ; and mire the rich amongst us stirred as they ought to be by the sympathy which such a ens should call forth, a fund might be retied which would plea all the unfortunates above Wind distitatioe. We write only on behalf of those who have lost their all, and who ham no personal friends able to help them mid no power to help theanselveti—Norfolk News. ANUTIIEN ACCIDENT ow THZ GAELS Wsirrithlt NAILWAT.—A• &oddest, happily zutatteadwi with loss of life, but resulting in the destruction of mach railway pro perty, occurred et the Haodborough .Tanctioe of the Great Western Railway, about eight miles north of Oxford. As far se is &trimmest known, the London goods tide, on its arrival at the junction, came into collision with a goads trait from Woreester. One of the engines wit greatly damaged, sod several trucks with their contents were der strayed. The asmante of the company in charge of the trains fortunately rayed their lives. • THE Emouningam DitomireD Ay DIEPPE.—A telegram was received ia Newcastle on Thursday, by J. Sabbage, Fag., chief constable, from the British ward at Dieppe, conveying the sad intelligence that Mr. Ralph Young, a chemist, belooging to Newcastle upon-Tyes, had been accidentally drowned it that port on Wedoseday, and that the body would be interred on Friday. Mr. &Mir at ones commanicated with Maim Gilpin and Co., Cal. - mists, of Pilgrimatreet, is whose sank* the damaged bed been for a number of years, having served his appreetior obi; with that Arm, and latterly acted in the capacity of assistant leformation wee also immediately forwuded to the deceased's sister, who resides at Bs istoe. Kr. Young was twenty y-*ht years of age, an orphan, and a son of the late Rev. am Young, of Sierra lease, Africa. He had been spending his animal holiday trip, having left New castle about a fortnight ago for Paris, and wee retandod berme, via Neap% when the deplorable 'widget betel him arida terminated Me ezhlmema —overeat le Joarvel. Tax PRACK PAINT IN AMIRICA.—And here let us declare oar belief that the existimos of • pesos party mythical. We on told of 100,000 people amain to sup port General 11•Ciellaa. Does anyone believe a military president who has hese beaters is the field by Coefsderate generals is going to proclaim peace at the head of to. armies? Certainly if he does, ft will only be the signal for danger to the neighbours of the North and of the South. As long as there is a ray of hope to light it ow, the North will march through the storm sad darkroom towards It. sod —empire—Army end Navy Oazdte. PERILOUS DESCENT FROM • BALLOON.--011 MCC• day last Mr. &memos, of Chipperflald, Harts, made es ascent from a field in Luton. The voyage was made by the aeronaut aloes at about 6 o'clock, the wind being straw at the time of departs" and was witaemied by • large ma course of people. Raving weed directly over Dundalk" to Eddlesboro'. Mr. Simmons begaa his dreosek but on erring% about 30 feet from the groins& • sudden jud of wind mused the balloon to whirl rapidly ron and Ito was throws out, sad fo il to the earth in • stubbl e Said near the Shepherd's Rest public-house at Eddlesboto% Fortunately, 14. Simmons was not seriously hurt, and at as.. sent memengers to look oat for his balloon. which. however, bad gobs in a di/forest direotioa, and demanded at 11 o'clock at night, in the farmyard of Kr. Sbergold. at Cl anon, sear Ritchie. We hear Kr. Siamese 'Oen& NUM, to make another assist from this towa.—Hertford Mercury. _ _ . AIIINT TO PARLIAMENT MEN.—We would ray a word in 011•1100 to members of both houses who are weeder log in search of rearewed health sad strength over their own broad serer, or travelling by steamships or by rail to dreamt climes ; sepacially, however, to those who are majoyieg their i.e. at home Let them remember that then is great work to be does is rural districts. The game preserves bore interest, ad so have the garde.' and the woods ; brat it would be well to look at the hamlets and villages when the working men amd women live ; to inquire in the villages how the mature of all kis& cam be removed, so that it may be beneficial to the lead sod mot injurious to hem= life ; to study if villages could be supplied with good water at a cheap rate Noah good might dose in this way to ma. •fil well as bowie. There le alas a cpreotity of haloes gams la the rural dist/leer to be bunted up, sad the menet of la bour eseemary for this purpose would be well repaid b 1 914 results. Schools, therefore, arid other imatitutioes of as lit* movie, nature, should be watched by parliament mew aer ie, tie nem ; should hawahousee sad the gaged draws of the kvd bs vagketed.— B I