The Express. — London, England, 1867-09-10 00:00:00

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E. courVasas 01011 WATER AT LONDON MUDGE. nun DAT —Mosalag, 11 h. 41m Mtnn..a. Oh. Om. To•bloiliew—lforalni„• oh. I2m Alterugou, oh. as,.. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. A CoN,.ier.ss of Peace has always been a facile and a fertile theme of ridicule for those ready writer, whose cheap cynicism supplies the current wisdom of contemporary society. It is so easy to call a few great and good men vain dreamers, and their followers idle fools. If this is not con clusive, what can be more absurd than to prate about universal peace in the existing state of the civilized world ? Look at the enormous standing armies of the European monarchies, and the in cessant invention and preparation of the most destructive weapons. Consider the four wars— the war in tho Crimea, the war in Italy, the war in Denmark, the war in Bohemia—that have raged in our hemisphere, and the tremendous contest in that new Western world which is popu larly supposed to be a refuge from the rage of monarchs and the miseries of peoples, since the last Congress of Peace was held in Paris. Contrast these evidences of ineradicable human ferocity with the successive international fes tivals of industry which, at intervals of five years, have celebrated the triumphs of inter national concord and beneficent progress, and rebuked the ravages of ambition. And when you have moralized in a mocking strain on these flagrant inconsistencies and contradictions, what can be wanting to satisfy a public who feed on facts and not on aspirations, that a Con gress of Peace is a congregation of harmless cobweb-spinning lunatics ? Conceive the contempt with which " practical men" of all kinds—politi cians, diplomatists, soldiers, and the men of the Bourses, who look on at the ROW:RIGOR and the Cassios, and put money in their purses which ever way the fight turn, must contemplate the gathering of a Congress of Peace at Genova ! Imagine the sovereign pity with which the two great g• decorated " professions, whose proverbial mod•cn a of wisdom governs this world of ours— the diplomatists who discover cases of war under the disguise of treaties of peace, and the military chiefs who flourish by the trade of wholesale homicide—must regard a meeting of undecorated peacemakers mho propose to super sede treaties of alliance, and the industry of camps and arsenals, and all the honours and glories of war, by courts of arbitration and the principles of common-sense and common welfare. Nor, we fear, will the militant and salaried churches bo more sparing of their taunts for those paradoxical enthusiasts who in the year of grace 1867 presume to take the good tidings of the Founder of Christianity in their most literal sense, and to believe that it is possible for man kind to dwell together in goodwill. Priests and soldiers may bo social rivals, but they have a curious respect for each other's business. The Chief of Catholicity, who employs foreign merce naries to keep guard at the tomb of the Apostles, is notoriously not prepared to put up the sword in the sheath. It has recently been the fashion of writers in the service of the old systems of government and society to pretend that democracies are more prone to war than monarchies and aristocracies. What are the instances and examples they cite in favour of this assertion ? The instance of the French Republic in 1792 ; the example of the American Republic in the war for the restoration of the Union. Yet nothing is more indisputable than that the war of 1792 was in its origin an attack by the coalition of monar chies resisted by the French Republicans in self defence. As to the American civil war, it would be impossible for those who accuse the warlike instincts of democracies to select an illustration more fatal to their argument. Where is the an tlogy between the monarchical wars of ambition and conquest which have made all Europe a battle. field, and a war undertaken by a national govern ment for the defence of a free constitution and of the national unity against a rebel lions sectional oligarchy ? That war, like the wars that from time to time have deso lated the Old World, originated in the inordi nate ambition and in the interests of a privi leged class ;it was a victorious democracy that restored peace, and in the very hour of victory disbanded its armies, and sent back to the factory and the field the citizen-soldiers who had saved the republic. To suppose that the great body of any people prefer war to peace is equivalent to supposing that the majority of mankind prefer a violent death to a happy and tranquil life. War has always been the game of governments— peace has always been the interest of nations. The Peace Congress which is about to meet at Geneva can therefore afford to meet ridicule with indif ference. All the great forces of civilization, all the teachings of history, are on its side. Religion, science, industry, art, popular instruc tion, are its allies. Not even its deriders dispute its premises or deny its conclusions, while they treat it as a collection of Utopian philosophers who have no relation to the living world of facts. And yet a Peace Congress is but the synthetical expression of all those tendencies which Associations for the advance ment of physical science, Social Science Con gresses, Statistical Congresses—even Church Con gresses—more or less consciously embody—ten- THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1867. denies towards the moral and intellectual eman cipation and the brotherly unity of the human race. Peace and liberty are the watchwords of a cause which is destined to be crowned with victory, for it belongs to the happier future of the world. THE STOCKWELL ORPHANAGE. Yesterday afternoon the first stones of three of the homes for fatherless Fops, which are about to be erected at Stockwell under the direction of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, were laid in the presence of a large assemblage of the members of his congregation and their friends. It will be remembered that about twelve months ago a bene volent lady, Mrs. Ann Hillyard, whose name was for the . . first time made public yesterday, placed at the disposal of Mr. Spurgeon a sum of 20,0001. to be applied to the main tenance of orphan boys, " with a special view to their godly education," in the hope that they might in future years become ministers and missionaries. In order to carry out her intentions trustees have been appointed, and they have procured a piece of land at Stockwell, about 21 acres in extent, upon which they propose to erect a number of houses, each capable of accommodating from eighteen to twenty boys, as well as a large schoolroom and a dining-room, to be used in common by all the inmates, The sum to be paid for the land is about 3,0001., and the homes will cost from 5001. to GOO/. each. The money given by Mrs. Hillyard is so invested that it cannot at present be realised without loss. The trustees, therefore, propose to retain this sum as the permanent endowment of the Orphanage, adding to it from time to time ; and for the erection of the houses and other necessary buildings they design to rely upon the contributions of their friends and the public. Their first appeal has been so successful that they are already in a position to commence the erection of three houses ; and without waiting their completion they have taken charge of seven boys and placed them under the care of a suitable person in a house hired for the purpose. The Orphanage is intended for the reception of fatherless boys, who will be received into the homes as vacancies occur. It is promised that each case shall be judged upon its own merits, and without reference to any denomina tional views held by the parents of the candidate ; there will be no canvassing for votes, and polling will be done away with altogether. The plan of erecting separate houses, each capable of accommodating about a score of little boys, and each under the superintendence of a nurse, has been adopted because it will " preserve as far as possible in a large institution the idea of a family," and has the additional advantage of enabling the trustees to proceed with the buildings as their funds may permit. The coat of the three houses, of which the first stones were laid yesterday afternoon, has already been provided for; one is the gift of a lady to celebrate her " silver wedding," another is to be paid for by a mer chant of the City of London, and the third will be erected at the charge of the workmen of Mr. Higgs, the builder. The trustees have also received subscriptions which will enable them to provide for furnishing, drainage and other expenses; and have already erected n large shed, which will be available, as it was yesterday, for the holding of meetings on the ground, and may eventually serve as a covered playground for the boys. The proceedings yesterday afternoon commenced with the singing of a hymn, after which Mr. Spurgeon delivered a short address explanatory of the circumstances which had led to the erection of this orphanage, and the present position of the undertaking, He had only uttered two or three sentences when the roof of a slight shed upon which some dozen or two of spectators had taken up their position gave w;.y, and its occupants appeared for a moment in danger of getting an ugly tumble. As soon as it appeared that no injury had been sustained by any one, Mr. Spurgeon informed his audience that no one was hurt, at , ,ling, " Our friends were told not to get up there, they did not comedown of their own will, and therefore Provi dence has arranged it," an assurance that was received with a good deal of laughter. Mr. Spurgeon resuming said that when he received a letter from Mrs. Hillyard containing her munificent offer by way of answer to an article which he had written a year ago in " The Sword and Trowel," his idea was that an 0 or two had been in serted by mistake. He did not know wiry she had not chosen fatherless girls ea recipients of her bounty, but be believed that she had left them for others. The three stones of the three houses were then laid, prayer and a short hymn, so to speak, de eireonatance, being sung be fore each. The proceedings were terminated by a grand tea ; and subscriptions were received on the ground to the amount of 1,500/. This was in addition to MO/. con tributed by the family of the Olneys for the erection of a brume in memory of their mother. Her Imperial Highness the Princess of Olden bourg, the Princess Thirese, the Prinoes George and Con stantine of Oldenbourg, and Count Serge Cher6metieff, attended by Dr. Steidel and a numerous suite, have left Claridge'. Hotel for Paris. The Duke of Leinster left town yesterday for Carton House, near Maynooth. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol are st►ying at the noble marquis's shooting quarters, near Dingwall, Ross-shire. The Earl of Clonmell has left town for Don caster. The Countess of Jersey and Mr. Brandling have gone to Middleton Park, Oxon, from vkiting the Right Hon. Frederick Peel at his neat in Warwickshire. They will le►ve England for the Continent about the middle of next week. His Excellency Lord Lyons left town yesterday for Arundel Castle, Sussex, on a visit to the Duchess of Norfolk. We understand that the noble lord goes to Paris shortly in order to assume his new diplomatic appointmLnt as Ambassador to the Court of France. — Lord Stanley, M.P., has arrived in town from attendance on her Majesty at Balmoral. His lordship at tended to his official duties at the Foreign-office yesterday. Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald arrived at their residence on Carlton-house-terrace yesterday from West Park, near Salisbury. The Hon. Frederick Stanley, 111. P., and Lady Constance Stanley are staying with the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knowsley. Colonel the Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot are visiting the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knowsley before they go to Cannes for the winter. A marriage is arranged between Miss Louisa Milbank, second daughter of Mr. Henry and late Lady Margaret Milbank, and Mr. Francis Arkwright, eldest son of the late Mr. Arkwright, of Sutton Scarsdale. - - The chaplaincy of the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse Volunteers has been conferred upon the Rev. Charles Henry Crosse, M.A., of Gonville and Cahn Col lege, embrace, curate of Winstanton. Lord Kenlis, son of the Earl of Bective, has under taken to defray the entire cost of restoring the parish church of Kirkby Lonwlale. It is estimated that the work will oat more than 6,0001. In acknowledgment of the munificence of Lord 'Emilia the gentry of M estmoreland intend placing a memorial window on the south-east aide of the church. On Friday last the Rev. Edward Henry Loring, clerk, M.A., was instituted to the rectory of Gillingham St. Mary with Gillingham All Saints and Winston and Windall annexed, in Norfolk, on the presentation of Elisabeth Harriet Eden, wife of Mr. Henry Eden, of Gil lingham-hall, in Norfolk. Admiral in the Royal Navy. On the same day, the Rev. Thomas Brookes Wrenford, clerk, was instituted to the vicarage of Watton, in Norfolk, on the presentation of Mr. George Alexander, of Westrop. house, Highworth, in Wilts, On the acme day, the Rev. Rolla Charles Meadows Rouse, clerk, M.A., was licensed to the p. , rpctual curacy of Southwold, in Suffolk, on the nomination of the Rev. Edmund Hollond, of Benhall. lodge, in S u ff o lk , clerk. -.- it is expected that the Convalescent Home erected by public subscription at Bournemouth, in Det estably*, to the memory of the late Lord Herbert, will be ready for the reception of patients by the end of the pre sent month. The home and buildings have been formed upon Miss Nightingale's plan, Mr. T. H. Wyatt bring the architect. The buildings and land forming the Herbert Memorial Convalescent Home have been conveyed by the Memorial Committee to the governors of the Salisbury Infirmary in perpetuity. The Earl of Pembroke, the Hon. William Pleydell Bouverie Mr. Edward W. H am ilt on (eldest son of the Bishop of S alisbury), Viscount Folkestone, Sir Edward Hulse, and Mr. William Pinckney, of Salis bury, the treasurer, have been appointed trustees of the Home, which stands upon a very beautiful 'mot at Bourne mouth, overlooking the sea, with a private road leading down to it. THE LATE MR. WILLIAM WALKER.—We regret to have to announce the death of Mr. William Walker, tho ancient historical engraver, who expired at his residence in Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, on Saturday night. Among the numerous works of excellence executed by the deoeued artist, the most gener►lly known are the en. gravir.gs of the " Passing of the Reform Bill," the " Aber deen Cabinet," and the "Literary Party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's." The last-mentioned work must have pos sessed peculiar interest to Mr. Walker, who had married the daughter of S. W. Reynolds, the engraver of all Rir Joshua's pictures. One of his latest productions. "The Distinguished Men of Science," the engraving of which occupied him during six years, and cost him nearly 5,0001. before bringing any return, is one that must be familiar to our readers as a remarkable arecimen of that branch of art. THE WORKM2I 4 OB 00NOREES AT LAUSANNE. On Saturday the subjectsdiacumed were the part of men and women in society, the education of children, educa tion in general, and freedom of education. On the first point the Congress came to the almost unanimous conclusion that woman ought not to be considered en agent of production, and that for physiological and hygienic reasons as well as on economic and moral grounds, nothing could justify the employment of woman as an in dustrial labourer. On the subject of education, the con gress were of opinion that schools should be at the same time literary and industrial. On the question whether education should be voluntary or obligatory and given by the state there was a difference of opinion. The majority of the French delegates held that the gra tuity of education was an illusion, as the cost was de frayed from the taxes to which the working classes were the great contributors. The following resolution wee adopted : " Considering that the phrase ' gratuitous edu cation ' is nonsense, because the expense is defrayed from the taxes ; but considering that education is indispensa ble, the Congress only admits the right of the State to supersede that of the parent when the latter is unable to give education to his children. Religious instruction should be removed from the programme of study." The last questions discussed were the position and duties of the State. M. Vasseur observed that at present the nation seemed to be made for the government, whereas I the inverse is that which should exist. The government were a board of directors or managers, who had no exis tence apart from society. They should merely execute the will of the people expressed in laws. The tran sport service should not be in the hands of private persons, but in the whole body of the people. and should be carried on at net cost, without a view to profits and dividends. The principal of capital punishment is repudiated. On the subject of property in land, the French and Italian delegates supported tho principle of individual property, the Belgians upheld that of a common property ; the English and Germans took more communistic views. No decision was come to on the subject, which was adjourned till next year. Brussels was fixed on as the mat place of meeting. BOROUOR OP CHELSEA.-THE BOUNDARY COMMISSIONERS' MBETING.-(THIS DAY.) This morning Major-General Bainbrigge and Mr. Nassau Senior, the assistant commissionen appointed by the Boundary Commissioners for England and Wales, under the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, held a court at the Vestry-hall, King's-road, Chelsea, for the purpose of inquiring into the boundaries of the pro posed new borough of Chelsea, including Hammersmith and one or two outlying parishes. When the commissioners commenced their labonrs there were only two or three other gentlemen present, and a conversation was entered upon in connection with a boun dary map which was spread out upon the table. In answer to a question the commissioners stated that they were not instructed to inquire into parochial boundaries, and bad only to deal with the 'imposed borough generally. In the coons of the morning a few gentlemen interested in the matter dropped in and afforded the assistant com missioners such information in local matters as they bad at their disposal, and upon this the assistant commissioners will, in din time, make their report. We understand that tho Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., has accepted an invitation to attend the banquet to be given on the 10th inst. at Barrow, by the directors of the Barrow and Ulverston Railway, on the occasion of the opening of the docks at that place. THE LATE PROFESSOR FARADAY.—At the Last sitting of the Academy of Sciences, M. Dumu announced the death of Professor Faraday in the following tens:— " The labours of that incomparable philosopher are known to the whole world ; but the ineffable kindness, frankn and ingenuousness of his nature could only be appreciated by his intimate friends. It is nearly 50 years ago when I first met Mr. Faraday, and from that time I had frequent intercourse with him. I therefore had an opportunity of watching his glorious upwardprogreu, and saw his natural i and simple modesty increase n the same proportion as the strength of his genius and the splendour of his services. If his disooveries have immortalised him, and if he is re membered as one of the most fruitful mind' of this century, he also leaves, to the honour and dignity of science be it said, the example of a pure life and a noble heart. England will not be alone in mourning his death." LORD EEDESDA LE AND TILE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY BOARD.—Lord Redealale has returned to the question in dispute between himself and the Great Eastern directors. In reply to Mr. Brasesy's letter of the 7th inst., the substance of which appeared in the Expros, his lord ship makes the following pungent remarks :—" The letter from Mr. Maynard, the former solicitor to the company, to Mr. Swift, which is quoted by Mr. Brainy, is a most extraordinary document. Though ' practically he had little to do with the transaction, be is quite sure that no communication was made to Mr. Braseey as to the purport of the act of BIM.' I suppose that means that he, the legal adviser of the directors, did not suggest such a course, and he adds that he ' be- lieves the fact to be that the officers of the company had taken upon themselves to assume that the capital and borrowing powers would cover the expenditure !' This was their mode of dealing with a parliamentary arrange ment relating to the purchase of a railway, and with a settlement with a contractor involving an expenditure of between one and two hundred thousand pens& ; and these are, I believe, for the meet part, the present directors. These disgraceful statements, however, afford no answer to the pouts urged bynie, that the consent of the Dunrnow Company must have been proved in parliament, and that Mr. Ramsey is the Damnow Company ; and, further, that the act of 18155 is the only legal transaction that has taken place between the two companies, and that it is final and conclusive." ---- THE MIGRATION OP AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS. —The Rev. Canon Girdlestone, in reference to this move ment, writes :—" I have now sent away in all no less than ninety labourers from this neighbourhood (Tiverton) to other parte of the country. Of these thirty are married and with families, almost all are doing well, and still in their own vocation of agricultural Labourers aro in their new homes earring —the married men from 12s. to 11. • week, with • cottage and garden rent free, together with in some cases fuel and other privileges ; the single men board, lodging, washing, mending, and from Co. to As. • week. The result of this movement is very encouraging. Among the labourers, up to this time a rather sleepy, nu. travelled, and immovable body, a spirit of inquiry and enterprise has been roused. Many besides those towards whose removal I have been instrumental have of them selves found better wages in distant places. Those who remained have learnt that a removal to better-paid dis tricts is not by any means as difficult a matter at they once np o reed. The farmers in every part of this neighbour have raised wages from is. to its., 9a, and, in some cases, even 10s. a week. They have begun to treat their labourers with more kindness and consideration. And much to their own advantage, as well as ultimately to that of the Labourers, they have begun to make more general use of mowing, reaping, and other machinery. In other parts of the country farmers short of hands have learnt how easy it is by means of the penny post and penny-a-mile trains to enlist the services of those at • distance, and have discovered that it is well worth their while to do this, at the cost of giving part and advancing the remainder of the expense of removal, to be repaid gradually out of wages. Thus the in fl uence for good has been much more exten sive and important than could have been anticipated from the means employed. This success, though on is limited scale, has induced me to invite the cooperation of several influential persons in au attempt to give a more comprehensive and permanent character to m y own hitherto unassisted and consequently partial efforts. We have established at It. Serleants'.inn, London, an institute and of for the registration of the wants of both employers and employed. In connexion with this a circular will be issued monthly, containing a list of the above wants, the price of labour in various districts, and other appropriate information. District agencies, with • liberal commission, are likewise being gradually established in various parts of the country, both to collect and supply information, and make known the wants of all parties concerned." WILL OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER Or NAPLES.— The Volksfremnd of Vienna gives some further particulars concerning the contents of the will left by the Queen Dowager of Naples- That journal says :—" The will of the widow of King Ferdinand the First has been opened at Rome. The Queen has ordered that the bulk of her for tune shall be divided into as many parts as she has children. Many of the persons of the court and officers of her household receive considerable sums. To the Ligourist Fathers (a branch of the Jesuits) of Naples 3,000 crowns are left ; in case of the suppres sion of that community the sum is go to the Ligourists of Sicily. and should these, too, be sup pressed, then it will revert to the House of Hapsburg. The late Queen appoints as tutor to her son and curator of his fortune, her brother, the Archduke Albert, with • provision that the two eons, minors (of whom one is dead), shall be educated by their uncle. The Princesses Maria Pis and Maria Ludovica are to go to Austria and be con fided to one of their aunts. The testatrix also expresses a desire to be laid beside the body of her late husband King Ferdinand. By order of King Francis 11. her remains, as also those of Prince Gennario, have been deposited in the Church of the Jesuit Fathers. She leaves as a souvenir to King Francis • service of porcelain. Besides, before her death, the Queen sent to him by one of her women • casket, with an intimation that it contained precious leasers of the King, his father, and a memoir drawn up by her. This casket, however, is believed to contain much more than these papers" GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN-ROAD, lauNceotr. Number of patients for the week ending Sept. 7,1,023, of whisk 217 were new owe. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE WORKING CLAS4K.4. - ---•- ----- Commenting on the proceedings of tho " National Labour Congress" held last month in Chicago, the Times observes that one is almost tired of hearing America pointed out to us as the place where the working man en joys all the rights belonging to him, and lives in amity with his employer. But when we discard the effects of imaeution and look at the country u its inhabi tants see it every day, there is little in its social state but a faithful reproduction of the evils which were once thought peculiar to the Old World. The ' American workman is no better satisfied than the English, and, indeed, ho is apt to be even more discon tented, because he finds it impossible to realise the vision of perfect equality of conditions. Our chief men do not strive to impress upon the minds of the people the notion that " it was never intended" one man should work while another looked on. That theory is a sad ono for the millions of the human race who are born to a condition in which manual labour is an honourable necessity ; but, de plorable and mischievous as all must consider it, it is the only contribution yet made by America to the solution of the labour question. The time will come when the mis fortunes of the American working classes will cause them to be even more dissatisfied, unless they accommodate themselves to the only usage which has never varied in the human family, and which is certain to endure while the world lasts. The longer the Manchester commissioners pursue their inquiries into the operations of the local trades' unions the more thoroughly, says the Herald, does it be come manifest that the public has been over hasty in the judgment it has passed upon /:roadhead and the Associated Sheffield Saw-grinders. From the first day of the inquiry at Manchester it became evi dent that we were but entering upon a second stage of the same journey along which Messrs. Overend and his colleagues had led us ; that we were but beginning a fresh chapter of the volume wherein the exploits of Crookes and his compeers are inscribed. The modas operandi varies, but the spirit and intent of those who use it arc precisely the same. Rattening changes its form, but is the same in nature, and "acts of intimidation, outrage, and wrong," almost worthy to take rank with the murder of Linley and the blowing up of Fearnehough, are cropping up quite Those who read the evidence before the Manchester commission will, says the Standard, be inclined to con clude that Broadhead was not such a rare monster after all, and that Sheffield can no longer claim any special pre eminence in crime. The organisation of labour takes to-day a shape very far removed from the narrow and selfish exclusiveness which was the first result of the awakening of the classes that live by daily toil to a sense of their own importance in the social scheme—to a belief in their own necessity as an intelligent constituent element in the economy of a modern state. The policy which has been endorsed by the International Congress of Working Men at Lausanne is one which, in the opinion of the Star, must command the sympathy of every true-hearted liberal whatever may be his sectional partialities, whatever may be his class pre judices; even more than the programme of the Peace League at Geneva, because bearing the greater impress of practicability and political thoroughness. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS. We are not going to Abyssinia, remarks the Daily News, to assert any chimerical pretensions, but to fulfil a clear duty to men who have gone thither in the public service. If there were any means of effecting the release of these gentlemen and their companions short of war, the govern ment would be bound to pursue it, for of all "leaps in the dark," an Abyssinian war is perhaps the moat speculative. While the risks aro enormous, the utmost success we can hope to realise is to perform our duty to our captive countrymen at a sacrifice of thousands of lives. The Daily Nws deprecates anything like unnecessary and reckless expenditure, and adds that it is complained, and it believes with reason, by those who know Bombay well, that the manager of this expedition are neglecting enormons resources in coal and shipping, which are there ready at hand, and sending both from Liverpool, at enormous prices, with the certainty that they cannot get get there before the middle of December. In another article, referring to • speech made by M. Guizot over the tooth of his friend, M. de Barents, at Lisieux, the Daily lien observes:that M. Guizot aimed to establish a bourgeois oligarchy to which there was never anything corresponding in England, and which would have been as little endurable here as it proved elsewhere. It was at Lisieux, where M. Guizot has lately deplored his personal solitude and his political isolation, that nearly twenty years ago he delivered another celebrated speech, in which, being then a minister, he replied to the popular demand for the franchise by the words, " Enrichissez-vous done !" The speech to which this phrase has given its name was fatal to the monarchy of July, and practically closed the political career of its author. The revolution followed it. M. Guizot tried to imitate the policy of English toryiam, but even English toryism has been wiser, in spite of much misleading eloquence on both aides of the Channel, than to imitate M. Guizot. The Spanish insurrection is crushed, the Queen's army is triumphant, but the people are hungry, nays the Term, and even cannon and bayonets have in more than ono in stance proved unavailing arguments against empty stomachs. The harvest of 1856 fell one-third below the yearly average ; but that of this present season is declared to be a more decisive failure. Wheat is 50 per cent. above the ordinary price, and meat is sold at Madrid at Is. to Is. &l. a pound. The Times traces the condition of Spain in a great degree to a despotic and rapacious government, but its stolid ignorance is the most fatal evil— ' ignorance and love of ignorance. Out of a population of 15,673,090, according to the last census, no less than 12,000,000 could neither read nor write. The country has been entitled to the proud adjectives of " very Spanish and very catholic" ever since the days of Ferdi nand and Isabella, and it is owing to this alone that such • government as that of Names and Gonzales Bravo, of the Father Confessor and the Bleeding Nun, have become possible. That such a government is to be the doom of Spain for ever it would seem cruel to predict, and the Tines thinks that • military government may fail before a hungry people. If not lion;ensical, it is impertinent, according to the Past, to affirm dogmatically that, in order to reassure Europe, France has only to withdraw her hand from her sword. France cannot, however, lay down her arms, and it is worse than idle to make a demanl to that effect the text of homilies which are both irritating and irrelevant. The difficulty is an exceedingly common one. It is what probably occurs every day in commercial dealings. What ever you may think, it would be insulting a man to ask him if he intended to meet his engagements ; and just so, until the Treaties of Paris and Prague are broken, it must be assumed that they bind all the parties to them, although everybody is morally certain they will be violated whenever an opportunity offers. Garibaldi, if his words ero correctly reported from Geneva, appears resolved upon the overthrow of the tem poral power by insurrectionary means. But the Tglegraph thinks that any violent outrago upon the independence of the Holy See, or upon the person of the Pontiff, would revive the feeling of catholic Europe against Italy, and would in all likelihood lead to the early return of the French army of occupation. Time alone is needed to secure the final consolidation of Italy ; and it would be a great pity if inconsiderate rashness should jeopardise the welfare of the kingdom so recently called into existence. On Saturday Earl Vane returned to his Welsh seat, Piss Edwards. nem Maebynlleth. His lordship, accompanied by Countess Vane and Lord Solberg), arrived by a special train on the Cambrian Railway (of wbichcompauy Ms lord ship is chairman), and at Oswcstry, and other stations, salutes were fired in honour of the event. On the arrival of the train at Machyolleth, his lordship was met by the principal inhabitants of the neighbourhood. The station was decorated with evergreens, flags, Ice., and loud cheers of welcome greeted the Vane family on their return to their Welsh estates. An address was afterwards presented by the rector to his lordship, who made a reply in which he spoke with gratification of his reception in Russia. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (13ZUTZW8 lIILIGILAMS.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN, SEPT. 10. Count Von der Goltz has received instructions to express to the Emperor Napoleon renewed thanks for the cordial reception inParis of the King of Prussia and the members of the royal family. AUSTRIA VIENNA, Seer. 10. The Emperor of Austria lias granted pennisaion to Count Apponyi, the ambassador in London, to accept the Netherlands Order of the Golden Lion of Nassau. BAVARIA. MUNICH, Barr. 9, Eviansc. Herr von Hegnenberg will probably accept the post of envoy to Berlin. The Bavarian Diet has been convolved for the 27th September. HUNGARY. PERTH, S. 10, The Greco-Catholic Bishop, Sterka Sulutz, the head of the Wallachian party in Transylvania, died on the Bth instant, at Hermannstadt. Ho will be buried to-day. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, SEPT. 10. Mr. John Smile Lumley, the new English Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confedera tion, presented his credentials to the President of the Federal Council to-day. SPAIN. MADRID, Slr?. 10. A decree has been published instituting quaran tine on all vessels coining from Malta, on account of the cholera which has broken out in the island. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MARSEILLES, Sur. 10. The Ceylon arrived at 5.30 a.m. to-day. The mails leave for London at 11.30 a.m. Ship and passengers in quarantine. AMERICA. CROOKRAVEN, Siam 10, 10 A.M. The Inman steamer City of Antwerp, from Now York, is now passing Browhead signal station. She will probably arrive at Queenstown at 3 p.m. and letters reach London to-morrow at 6.25 p.m. (BY ATLANTIC TELICHATH.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 9, 6 r.w. The steamers Louisiana, Austrian, Allemania, City of Baltimore, and the Malta have arrived out. Closing prices :—Gold, 1431 1 . Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1141. Illinois, 1201. Erie, 682. Cotton—Mid dling Upland, 26}. PHILADELPHIA, S. 9. Petroleum, standard white, 32. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (11011 01:711 owN ow PARIS, MONDAY Eva lrma. The Emperor of Austria's visit to Paris, though still looked for before the end of October, is spoken of as if it had not been quite decided upon. Their Austrian Majesties leave Vienna next week to stay at their chateau in Hungary " for some time ;" and the France says they will not "in any case" come to Paris till after this visit. Some despatches say that Prim, who escaped from Valencia after the failure of the Spanish insurrection, is in Genoa ; others that he is in Geneva. The France, without being able to say in what precise spot, affirms that he is somewhere in Switzerland. There is a report, probably set about by a wag, that Prim is going to meet Gari baldi at the Geneva " Peace Congress." The Reath of Dr. Veron was prematurely re ported. This evening's Mon;teur says ho is alive, but passed a very bad night, and there was no improvement in his state this morning. They, and their name is legion, who complain of the partiality of the French jurymen in awarding the prizes of the Exhibition in the Champs de Mars, may perhaps find some cons-dation in reading a passage from a speech just made by M. do Forcade La Roquette, the Minister of Commerce, at a dinner given him by the Chamber of Commerce, at Bordeaux. With a view to commend to his hearers the Emperor's free trade policy, which, it must be admitted, the majority of French manu facturers are not yet reconciled to, the minister said :—" Manufactures and trade are no doubt in a difficult position at present ; but I am confident this situation will be but transitory, and I think with you it is quite a mistake to attribute the ex. isting depression to recent reforms of the tariff and commercial treaties. Our industry is placed under new conditions ; but the truly remarkable success obtained by French products at the Universal Ex hibition shows that foreign competition has ceased to be a serious danger, and has now become a useful stimulus." As to commercial confidence generally, it is ridiculous to suppose it can be restored by any measures M. Rouher can take, unless it were a large reduction in the army, which is not upon the cards. The Bourse opened heavily at Saturday's quota tions, but became very firm before the close. Bente rose 20c. for cash and account, closing at 69fr. 950. and 69fr. 90c. All other securities left off with an improvement. Italian rose 40c. ; Credit Fonder, 12fr. 50c. ; Comptoir d'Escompte, 15fr. ; and MO biller, 16fr. 25c. The monthly accounts of the Mobilior, however, show an aggravation of the state of things which has been hitherto accounted bad. There is a considerable augmentation in the " advances to companies" which diminish the available resources of the society, and payments to creditors have required large realisations of securi ties in their portfolio. The following paragraph in the &Nation (a very adventurous paper, by the way), may possibly ac count for the rise at to-day's Bourse of the Credit Mobilier, which to many is a puzzle : We are assured that on Tuesday or Thursday next the heads of three or four of the oldest banking houses, the Syndic and two members of the Chamber of Stock brokers, and the governors of the Bank and Credit Fonder, will meet BL limber at the Ministry of Finance to give their opinion on the present crisis, and as to the best means to restore some activity to trade and "speculation." 11. neither intends to impart to these gentlemen certain measures ad line which seem to him efficacious, and which he is disposed to adopt if approved of by the special com mittee. If anything comes of this extraordinary meeting there is reason to fear it will only bn a short post ponement of a catastrophe which must come, and a further appeal to the gullibility of the public. Nothing is more certain than the rottenness of certain gigantic establishments which germinated in the artificial atraosphere of the early days of the empire. Ex-Governor Eyro is at present staying at Dover, and has been feted by the officers of the 51st Regiment, now quartered in the garrison. TEARFUL ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND - IA -- iiTii . r. SIX PERSONS KILLED. A fatal accident of au extraordinary character occurred yesterday evening, on the Midland line from I Manchester to Derby. About 5 o'clock a rather heavy cattle train passed through New Mills station, drawn by !two engines. It had reached the Peak Forest tunnel, near Chapel-ea-le-Frith, in safety, when it came into coi -1 Haien with a ballast train that was unloading there. Several of the ballast workers were injur.A, and a little girl belonging to one of them, who bad been bringing him a pair of clogs, was killed as she stood with him on one of the waggons. By the shock of the collision the coupling iron which attached the formed cattle-truck to the second of the two engines was broken, sad the whole of the trucks, twenty-three in num. her, were impelled backwards down the incline. It is oonjectured that the engines must have been dis abled, and the line blocked up in the tunnel, or an attempt would have been made to pursue the runaway trucks. Unfortunately also the telegraph wires were out of order, and it is said that the accident at the tunnel was neither known at the nearest station until more than an I hour after it occurred, nor was there any intimation of it received at New Mills, until the detached train of trucks, after rolling down the incline at a high speed, arrived again in sight of that station at 6 o'clock. The pointsman, as soon as he perceived them, is believed to have put up the danger signal to warn an express train coming on the same line from Manchester, and of course going in the opposite direction. The driver of the express, which was going at a slow speed, applied the breaks as aeon as he emerged from the tunnel near the New Mills station, and had succeeded in reversing his train, when its position on the curve at that point enabled him to see the danger impending. The driver, stoker, and guard then jumped off, and their train had already moved some 40 yards back when the trucks overtook it, and a collision even more fatal than the first was the result. The weight of the disaster, however, fell entirely upon the cattle train, on which five drovers were clinging at the time. Whilst the passenger train, deprived of all control, and yielding to the shock from the trucks, was impelled down the incline at a great speed, no portion of it leaving the rails, and sustaining no damage beyond the knocking in of the end of the engine boiler, the cattle 'trucks were scattered sod broken in all directions, and it is believed four of the drovers were killed. Three of them, just before this collision were seen at the sides of the trucks. Two of these tried to jump off, but were after wards found each with a foot cut off. One of these also had a fatal wound in the head, and was found lying in a pool of blood. The second of them, it is hoped. may recover. Their companion sustained, it is supposed, internal in juries by the shaking, for be died soon after his removal from the station. Two other men were in the guards' van of the cattle train. For more than two hours after the collision they remained buried in the wreck. The body of one of them was then extricated, and be appeared to have been simply crushed to death. The body of the fifth man, who is also dead, was doubled up in a re markable posture, his feet on • level with his mouth, and his clothing stripped from his back. Jammed in this position, be still remained at the time when our informant left. It is hoped no other persons were injured at New Mills. The line was completely blocked up by the wreck of the cattle train. Of the ZS trucks all except nine were smashed. Several of the cattle were killed, and there were 50 or 60 sheep scattered about the bank, dead or dying. Five or six of the trucks were rednoed to mere chips.—dfaseheder Examiner. PROFLIGACY, DRINK, AND SUICIDE. A painful inquiry was held by Mr. Richards, the deputy-coroner, last night, at the Black Horse Tavern, High-street, Poplar, touching the suicide of Eli Short, aged 22 years. Rachel Stewart said she was the wife of a carman living in Poplar, and left her husband six months ago to live with the deceased, who was • stone-mason. After she went to live with him he took to drinking, and lost his employment. Lest Saturday afternoon when he had been drinking rum she was with him near the bridge at the west end of the south dock of the West India Docks, and all at once he ran away, crying out, " Go on." Wit ness was sober. John H. Woodland, 1, Upper North.street, Poplar, a postman, said that the last witness was drunk at the time in question and tried to drown herself by leaping into the dock, but he caught hold of her and prevented her doing so. The deceased rushed to the edge of the dock and leaped in. He was drowned. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased was drowned in consequence of throwing himself into the water while suffering from delirium tremens." Mr. Job Smeeton, a tenant of the Hon. F. Villiers, who had notice to quit his farm in consequence of him refusal to pay a church-rate, has rewired an intima tion that he may continue to occupy it in consequence of there having been some irregularity in connexion with the rate. The first prize thoroughbred at the recent agri cultural show at Dublin has been the, described in a news paper :—" He was certainly in the upper story a complete combination of stamina, strength, and motive power, though from the knee downwards rather light-looking; yet this was to a great extent compensated for by his short shins and the large epiphyses! developn.ent of his phaLumeal bones!" PLOUGHING Mann Es. —The first ploughing match of the season came off at Iticester, in Oxfordshire, last week. The champion prim was won by a local man, ' H. Jackman, with • Howard's plough, John Goodwin, another local man, taking the second prize, also with a Bedford plough. Before the commencement of the plough , mg match season Messrs. Howard announced to the various , agricultural societies their intention not to enter their own experts at these competitions in future, but to leave the prizes, so far as their firm is concerned, to local ' ploughmen. RAILWAY STATION EXTENSIONS AT LIVERPOOL. —The Lime-street station at the Liverpool terminus of i the London and North-Western lino is now being greatly enlarged and improved. A portion of the tunnel is being opened np for station purposes and sidings, and several new platforms are being erected which will greatly facili tate the working of the passenger traffic. The lonciabire and Yorkshire Company have also determined upon the widening of their passenger station at Tithe Barmstreet, the proposed absorption of some adjacent streets by the corporation affording • good opportunity for effecting a change which has long been urgently demanded by the public. SEIZURE OF A BASE COIN MANUFACTORY.—A great seizure of base coin implements and materials, to , gether with the apprehension of the smashers, has been cleverly effected by the Bristol detectives. The chief of the police gave information at the central station which caused the despatch of four detectives to the Whestsheaf, I kept by James Harding. On the officers arriving there they ascended the stairs to the second story, where they found a room securely locked and barred inside. Seizing a ladder, the constable succeeded in battering in the door, so that it broke away from its hinges sufficiently for one of the officers to get part of his body inside. He then found that the door had been " shored " up with a long piece of quartering, extending from the top of the door to the wall on the other side of the room ; • smaller piece, which had been jambed against the panel of the door and let into the tloorina, was knocked away with the force which the constables had brought to bear on the door. Seiziag this piece of quartering, a man named Martin who was inside the room, thrust it against the consables mouth, and was about to dash the heavy weapon • second time in his face, when the latter avoided the blow, and his companions succeeded in forcing the door. They then ap. pretended Samuel Martin, a gasfitter, and Charles Jauncey, a labourer, in the act of melting • quantity of base coin. Around them were moulds, ladles (quite hot, and evidently just need), liquids, batteries, and all the requisites for carrying on an extensive business in coining. These were seized, and the officers collected two baskets full of materials. They bad taken nearly ten minutes to burst in the door, and during this time the men had evi dently thrown what base coin they had made into the metal pot or into the fire. The hot metal was ruining down into the ashes when the detectives entered the room. They also found four sheets of kid leather and three ruts —one coloured black, another drab, and the third drab and green striped. These are supposed to have been st,den, together with a valuable silver lever watch, also found in possession of the prisoners. The police also arrested the landlady, who interfered with them while they were en dcavouriukto force open the door. THE HARVEST IN THE SOVTII OF ENGLAND. The weather during the past week has, with some e .cea. Cons. continued remarkably fine tbroushoet, sod l,aa en. abled the closing labours of the harvest field to be actively prosecuted. The harvest may be considered to be, prac tically, completed. Some few acres of barley and 04t3 still reumiu to be carried, but as a rule the grain fields are cleared and the crops are safely housed. N e regret to add that the accounts received from all quarters in this district almost invariably speak of the wheat crop as light and unsatisfactory in the yield, and as from one fifth to one fourth below a fair average. The anticipa tions formed at the commencement of harvest seem to have been generally disappointed with regard to the whests, but, fortunately, farmers speak otherwise as re spects barley, oats, and other crops. The turnips and root crops are very promising, and there is in many dis tricts more feed than is wanted. This fact, coupled with the splendid hay harvest, will doubtless make itself felt in • diminished price of meat during the autumn. Butchers' meat has loug been at most exorbitant prices, and the time seems now to have arrived when a different condition of things ought to prevail. From the hop districts the reports are fairly satisfactory. ricking has now become general ; but sufficient progress has scarcely been made to enable any very reliable opinion to be yet formed as to the character of the . yield. It Is, however, without question that an extraordinary change has taken place since the first week in August, and in many instances • moderate crop will be picked where, at the date, it was not expected that a hop would be grown. Fine weather is now slbimportant in order to give " quality." A wet " picking" would at this juncture be • very serious ' matter.—Sussr.c Advertiser.