The Express. — London, England, 1864-10-20 00:00:00

TWIN DROODEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy gep weight, at realisable wales, and the workreasahip at wholesale manufacturers' prices The gold In the chain► gua ractewl. and ft-purchased M the price charred. •' Here's the Dote, How much your chain weighs to co utmost carat The Boomer Mtge gold, and charge for!ashta„:.. London.Meaufactory, N 0.16, Hi CeVe - ut 7 gar . W.C., Aiwa marls of chains and jewellery sofala. each. MIL T e estannshinent is closed at the evening, and on eltatvkla at . o'clock. 31R. MILKS'S (the ORIGINATOR'S) Werld•faosed I. ?HOMES as ea/y be bad ab TA SAME ATILEIT. BABOVELSQUABE, where ..eompAitiess Is BUM &danced by MAIL" ALMELD WEBB MLR& ESTABLISHED 1811. TROUSERS. —The NEW GOODS are NOW READY. and gentlemen wbo do not naiad paying a fair peke for a good pate of trousers can depend on patterns and materials that cannot be excelled, at HAMILTON and KIMYTON'9, 10S. MILANI/. opposite Saster•hatL NEGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S One Gaines and Two Gaines FIELD WALVIS aad TMEBOOPSS are war ranted as unrivalled for power and brillian sad ele la an) ooniplete. —I, Hattoo-garden, LC. ; W, Oorellil, LC.; 122. Regentatreet, W. ; 163. Iflisetatreat ; and Crystal Palms. REMEMBER! we wait Supper for you after the Covent Garden o,era, at EVANS'. Pail not. Zhe erortCs. TO COItIIIIIIIPONDKNT6. advertisements Intended for " The &press" loadow Eventag Paper, moat be at the Office. 10, noitveriewtreet. by Two cic.o.:lc on the day of publication. BATX&IIIIT. TEN l'rsslzo. BACCHig.ISDAIZAD N7L—MADEMOISELLE DE BELLE ISLE. Maus. Bowe sad Pans; Mesdasies Bourke sad Angel—BCE AND COX Maus. Backsisoe and Compton. .—And OCII MARX ANNX—Comusoce al 7. PRINCEWS. TN BORN TO 000 D LOCK. Mr. D. Murray. AM THE STE ITS OF LONDON. Messrs. Yining, J. W. By, D. fisher. D. Murray, J. Nelson. B. frarreater, and H. Melon; Mrs. H. Marston. Mama Barnett and Gwynn& BIUTANXIA. D Tllll vim's. THE 1107111r3 DYING CHILD. Nye S. Lane. - Singh* by Madame Mem —Dancing by NELL C. Stephan. —And 1111: MILLI& AND 1113 YNN.menee at Oi. MGR wAiya. 47 LONDON-BBIDOZ. __ .......... L. .._--- TVs DATII . O7;6m fa. .Afterstoon. PA !3. TwatcasoW ILL& CA. eilm....Attarnooa. la. U. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. &ream. oases have during the last few days been brought before the Police Courts, which show the mode of working of the fraudulent class of Employment Offices. One in particular, which has its head-quarters in Regent-street, s and announced its business tobetheprocuringof engage ments for ladies, has been so thoroughly exposed that it may be expected to find its business cease for the present to be lucrative, and these premises at least will be abandoned. But there is reason to fear that the system is so common, and has of late so considerably extended its field of opera tions, that it may be useful to glance at the dif ferent cases in which this one establishment con trived to extort money from its dupes. The basis of the operation lies always in the prepayment of a fee by the applicant, the amount of which seems commonly to have been 55., but which realised sometimes the sum of three or even of twenty guineas. In return, the " Office " furnishes the name of an employer who is supposed to be in want of a servant, assistant, or governess. There seem to be three principal methods of man aging this branch of the proceedings. Either a name and address are given which are wholly and absolutely fictitious ; or though these are real, yet the fact of there being any vacancy is fictitious; or though the vacancy has at one time existed, it has already been filled up. Thus one of the earliest victims of the Regent-street Office, being in search' , of a place as lady's maid, was directed to write to "A. 8., Cambridge-street, Hackney-road." No an ewer, of course, was received, but the magistrate was informed by another sufferer, to whom the same address had been given, that she had gone personally to inquire at it, and found it to be a printing-office, where she was told " a person" had requested that letters for " A. B." might be taken in. Failingtbelady's maid's place, the applicant was next sent to Watling-street, where a situation as attendant in a confectioner's shop was promised. The Watling-street address proved to be that of a warehouse, the keeper of which had I no knowledge of the confectionary business. On another day the Secretary of the London Crystal Palace Company, which under that lofty title keeps a bazaar in Oxford street, attended the magistrate to complain that young women were constantly being sent to their establishment by the same office in application for employment in situa tions which were either not vacant, or which had been long ago filled up. In a higher rank of life the operators became still more daring. One lady was called on to deposit 201., in order to secure a place worth only 401. a year. Fortunately she was startled at the magnitude of the demand, and declined the arrangement. Another lady is cer tified by Mr. Saimaa:Jr, a surgeon, of Gower-street, to have spent three guineas in the attempt to get a governess's place for her daughter, finding invariably that the address furnished was either false, or that of a family at present abroad. We may add to these examples of the mode of operating, a case which appears in our columns to-day, in which a lady having aeon an advertisement offering work to be done at home on payment of a deposit, scraped together the sum required only to find that the promise of work was a delusion, and that for a guinea deposited she had not been able to get more than a shilling's worth of employment. In all these cases the police magistrates, though sympathising with the defrauded complainants so far as to send an officer of the court to try to terrify the plunderers into making redress, declared that they had no farther power, and naturally under went the mortification of finding that their impo tence was quite well known to the sharpers, and that the officer of the court was treated with as much contempt as the victims themselves. In these circumstances they could only recommend pro ceedings in the County Court for recovery of the money paid, and express a hope that publicity would abate the nuisance. It is obvious, however, that these remedies are practi cally ineffectual. No one would go to the County Court to recover 55., or even three guineas from a set of cheats. Publicity, though it may make one office too hot for longer sojourn, does not restore the money already stolen by false pretences, nor prevent the imposition from being renewed next day by the same individuals under different names and at a different address. It is plain that some sharper, more immediate, and more personal remedy must be devised. If, indeed, the fraud was one which only took effect on the wilfully reckless or foolishly confiding, we might admit that they must be left to bear the penalty of their folly, for legislations only en tangling and mischievous when it aims to supply the want of common sense. But it cannot be said that a person resorting to an Employment odic.. is necessarily doing a weak and silly act. There are such offices, of high respectability and usefulness. But how is a stranger to discover which of them is honest and which dishonest? Those who want situations are precisely those who have fewest means of making THE' *VAXMESS 4 THIIRSDA.Y such a discovery, for they 'fire generally" without friends, often almost 'AN* acquaint ances, and it is because of this unhappy position that they are forced to resort to strangers. An off* in a respectable street, with the external evi dences of respectability, naturally invitee their no tice, and as the honest equally with the dishonest offices would ridicule the idea of furnishing certi ficates of their own character, no other means of testing it exist. This,' therefore, is a case in which a change in the law, sufficient to bring the matter under the jurisdiction of • criminal magistrate, must be invoked. As we punish retailers of bad meat or cabmen attempting to overcharge, simply because the public has no practical means of re cognising and avoiding such persons beforehand, so we must punish the Employment offices which I assume an honest semblance only to perpetrate roguery. The offence, indeed, is probably already in some instances an indictable one, for it comes extremely close at least to the crime of obtaining money by false pretences. But a poor servant of all work, or a struggling governess, or a widow trying to eke out her livelihood with needlework, I cannot be expected to prosecute. The , cruelty which has been already inflicted on persons so helpless and so indigent cannot be re lieved by imposing on them the burden of vindi cating public justice by indicting the criminals. What is wanted is that the offence of obtaining money on pretence of furnishing the address of a situation, when the party furnishing it does not actually and personally know that the situation is then open, should be made cognisable before a magistrate in • summary form. It will be neces sary to make the Act broad enough to cover, not merely the cases we have referred to, but those in which addresses furnished are really correct, but have been merely cut out of the advertising columns of a newspaper without any authority from the advertisers themselves. Employment agents or officers should in fact be considered strictly as brokers, whose office is to bring together parties who have applied to them, or to whom they can personally apply ; and as any attempt to suggest imaginary parties is really fraudulent, it ought to be made punishable in the speediest possible way. LATIBT INTELLIQXNOE. INDIA. THE BOMBAY MAIL. BHOOTAN TO BE ATTACKED. We have received letters and papers from Bom bay to Sept. 29. Bhootan is to be attacked. After every effort (says the Bombay Times) to Acute the submission of the Bhootaneee, or some amende for their barbarous treatment of the British Mission, has proved abortive, orders have been issued by the govern ment of India for the formation of such a force as will soon bring them to reason. The Bhootan field forte will be as follows : Two regiments of Bend Cavalry, of which the 6th, sow at Julpigonie, is me; five regiments of Native Infantry ; the 11th N. L, from Nagode,the 12th N. L, from Cawspcm, the 18th N. 1., of Julpigoree, the 25th Punjab N. L, from the Presidency, and the 30th Punjab N. 1., from Bemuse. The artillery will be—Cantata Griffin's &teary of Mom. teas -train Artillery, Armstrong B.ponnden of the Pun ish Irregular Form and the Eurasian Mountain train Battery of Cheers Poonjes, the former being now on its march down country, and the latter ready to cross Assam to the Shook"' frontier. Two companies of Sappers and Miners, now ordered down country with all pasible despatch, will accompany the form ; and the corps of segiseees will supply four officers at leant for service is the field. Four commissariat °Skiers will join, the senior bass Capt. A. ki•Kenzie, just relieved from the Bemires chugs by Major Dunbar, and who has been ordered to proceed at ono* to Wayne" and to oollect earrimge for the field-force• The Bhootan field-force will be divided into two °damse— -1 one to be commanded by Brigadier-Cheers! W.E. Mulcaster, now commanding in Aram. and the other by Colonel H. F. Ditesford, C. 8., with the rank of Briga dier-General, lately commanding is the Cossysh Hills sod Amen ; with a general officer, Major. General Showers, C. 8., commanding the Presidency Dl. vision, to command the whole force. It is intended to penetrate the Bhootan country from the frontier at four separate point. ; sod we should think that the above. described form will, if ably directed, be amply sufficient to awry oat all the objects and wishes of the government and put matter with the Bhootanese on a eatiefaetory footing. The Viceroy was to arrive at Lahore on Friday, the 14th October, and leave again on the 19th. The great Durbar was to take place on the 18th, and his excellency will visit Delhi on the 23rd. The government of India had summoned all the members of the Imperial Legislative Council to • full meeting at Calcutta on the 4th November. The Army Head Quarters Camp will form at Umb•lla on the sth November, and march with the Commander-in-Chief, rid Delhi, Meerut, Morada bad, Bareilly, Shabjehanpors, and Seetapore, to Luclmow, where there will be a great camp of exercise. From Lucknow his Excellency will visit Gornapore, Darjeeling, and other stations along the eastern frontier. His excellency will not reach Calcutta before the middle of January. The Ameer of Cabool has played false. Ufzul Khan, and those of his adherents who were within reach, have been made prisoners. It is expected that Übdool Rahman Khan, son of Uzful Kban,will show fight. The Viceroy has conferred the honour of the Star of India upon the Rajah of Kupportolah. The rajah did good service in the mutiny, is • Christian, and a man of considerable ability. He is married to a Christian lady. The Secretary of State for India has sanctioned an increase of 60,000 rupees to the pension, amount ing to five lakhs of rupees a year, formerly granted to H.H. the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh. General G. St. P. Lawrence, when about to leave Rajpootana, was informed that the chiefs wished to present him with a testimonial. He replied, that the discontinuance of the custom by which Europeans were obliged to take off their shoes before entering the native durbars would be the most acceptable. Orders were promptly issued throughout Rajpootana in accordance with the desire thus expressed. Maharajah Jung Bbadoor applied to government for leave to send his two sons to the military schools to be educated as artillery officers. The government of India replied that those schools were only free to those who were qualifying themselves for her Majesty's service. Punjaub coal has been tried in the locomotives of the Punjaub Railway, and found to answer "as well as any English." Its combustion was nearly perfect, leaving but very little clinker. bt Court. BALMORAL, Oar. 17. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, went oat in the morning. In the afternoon her Majesty drove to Glee Ey, accompanied by Princess Helena, and attended by Lady Augusta Stanley. The Hon. Su Frederick Broom lett the Cantle in the moenini. Despatches were seat tics the Oelonial-olEce yesterday to the Governors of Gibraltar, Yalta, the Mauritius, Cey lon, Bong. Kong, Lebrun, and the Australian ooksies. DIPARTURZ Or THE QIIRRN THOM BALMORAL. Her Majesty the Queen, it is now arranged, will leave Balmoral for Windsor on Wednesday the 26th, indeed of Monday the 24th, as has been stated. Her Majesty will leave Balmoral about 12.30, palling, se usual, to Aboyne, which will be reached shortly after two o'clock. A special train will here be in waiting tot the royal party, which will leave Aboyne at 2.30, arriving at the Ferry-hill Jtuictioa, Aberdeen, at 3.32. There will be a stoppage here of five for change of engines, &a., attar which the royal train will proceed by the Scottish North Eastern Railway to Perth, which will be reached at 6.18. At Perth there will be a stoppage of an hour, when the train will proceed by Carlisle, where there will also be a short stoppage. Windsor will be reached at nine o'clock cm Thais:lay morn. ing.—Scdrinan. Queen Marie Amdlio, accompanied by their Royal Highborn. the Duke de Nemours sod the Princess Marguerite d'Orleaaa, and the Duke and Duchess de Chartres, has left Chancellor's Rouse, Tunbridge Wells, where the venerable Queen bee been residing several months, for Claremont, Raney, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the royal household. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have left town for Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire. The Earl and Countess of Cork have arrived in Graf ton•street from Manton Park, for her ladyship's accouchemeot. The Earl and Countess of Portarlington have arrived at Emo Park, their seat in Ireland, from a tom. The Earl of Lincoln left town yesterday morning for Clamber Park, Notts, immediately after the receipt of the telegram (moseying the Dews of the sodden death of hie father, the Doke of Newcastle. The late Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Gladstone owe their education to Eton and Christchurch. Lord Herbert, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Aberdeen were at Har row. Sir James Graham wee educated at Westminster, Mr. Cardwell and Sir Roundel' Palmer at Winchester. Lord Canning was at Eton, and Lord Dalhousie at Harrow. An Edinburgh correspondent writes :—" Mr. T. Spencer Baynes has been appointed to the logic chair in the University of St. Andrew's. Mt. Baynes will be a mitt. rated man the more in Scotland, and a ready pen the lean in London journalism. His appointment hoe given great satisfaction to the men here who knew him well several years ago—when the Guardian wu running its career, when Aytonn wu tarring and feathering Gilfillan in ' Fir milian,' and when the entire spasmodic school—Balder, Life Drama, and Babe Christ/lel—might have been seen walking together any fine annoy forenoon io Princeectreet." The annual meeting of the Newmarket Farmers' Club was held there on Tuesday, and was presided over by the Duke of Rutland. Lord George thenere, Y.P. for the county, and Lord Royston, were also presser. In discus ins the present state and prospects of the farmer his grace the chairman said he feared than were many farmers now who, in mourning the scarcity of food for their tattle re gretted that they bad not urged upon the government the necessity of repealing the malt tax in the spring. His grace, also in strong terms, coodemned the excuse put forth by Lord Burnell and others for not going to war— that our extended commerce would be injured. He gave no opinion about the policy of going to war, but of this he was sure, that the country would never tolerate such a pitiful excuse, which he never expected to hear put forth by English stateemsa. Lunatic asylums are to be established throughout India in almost all the principal towns. A missionary named Clerk, while preaching in the streets of Cashmere, has caused something like a riot there. The Maharajah of Jummoo would have ejected him from the country but for the advice of the resident, Mr. Cowper, who persuaded the rajah to let him alone, promising that he should not give farther cause of offence. THE INCENDIARY FIRES IN RUSSIA. The governments of Orenbourg, Simbirsk, Sara tow, Samara, Kazan, ac., are at the pre sent moment suffering dreadfully from incen diary fires. These governments have been lately selected for the residence of a great number of Poles condemned by the severity of the law in Poland. It appears from an article in the Botechafter of Vienna, that in some towns the fires have been attributed to these unfortunate people. Many have perished as victims of the exasperation of the masses ; and, far from seeking to suppress this outbreak of popu lar passion, some Russian journals, including the Invalids, an official journal, and the Moscow Guzette,the most widely-circulated journal in Russia, echo theme accusations, and add to them insinua tions adapted to excite still further the passions of The British Museum received yesterday the statues from the Farness Palace at Rome, recently pur chased from hie Majesty, the ex-King of Naples. These statues ere nine in number. This acquisition is mainly dm (says the Times) to the friendly intervention of Mr. William Storey, the well-known American sculptor at Rome, whose Cleopatra and African Sybil were so justly admired in the Greet Exhibition, and whose Saul. still in his studio, is a work of eve• greater power. To Mr. Storey the first overtures respecting this purchase were made, and it wee by his untiring zeal and patience that the long and tedious negotiation which ensued was brought to a satisfac tory termination. The Exhibition of Irish Manufactures is still kept open at Dublin, and continues to attract numerous visitors, though the numbers are diminishing as the season advances. It is understood that it will not be closed till near Christmas, the promenade it affords, with the bands and concerts, is found so agreeable. Mr. Greenough, the well-known American sculptor, has just sent from his atelier to Leaden a Inlet of the distinguished actress, Miss Helen Faticit, which, es • work of art, has received the highest commendation frog• the amateurs of /Feria. the multitude. Nothing has transpired thus far to give the least appeszanoe of foundation to these charges, while, on the other hand, numerous facts seem to disprove them in a manner most honourable to the Poles. Thus the Northern Post of the 7th of October states that after the fire at Orenbourg, the Poles living in the government of that name hastened to send to the people deprived of shelter and means of subsistence two carts filled with bread, gruel, and salt. Some days beforr, the head of the police of Orenbourg, Colonel Michel Fedcrow, bore striking testimony in favour of the Poles in the following letter addressed to the Moscow Gazette: The St. Petersburg Gazette publishes the following : " According to the last news from Oranbourg five Pass have bees 'riveted, who are suspected and coavieted d having several times excited the inhabitania of our oeuatry against the government and order. Ose of the Poles arrested was found in posesssion of a considerable sus id mosey ; ►he inquiry commenced will show by what lamas IN accoired it." It is oaly through reading the said _ _ I journal that we people of Oreaboarg have karst Great preparations are ev e ry w h ere making for -- ' the this fact, unheard of &mous us . Th ere are i s the rejoicings that are to take place to celebrate the Jubilee town of orooboorg b 2 polio transported ood placed own or fiftieth anniversary of th e un i on between Sweden and ~ the surveillance of the polio*. AU of AIM conduct them- Nerere7 ' ID thew the Queen Dowager et Bweies • , ''"e ve wave, ry reasimably sad properly ;they live in Na may daughter of the late Eugene B eau h arsa i s . D u k e a Leach peareable and there are no catalists &moue then, te.hug ' take. a Vast iatarasa ' ea her Majesty has alwa y s Moreover meaner, , the Russian Gazet te itself bears taw bean very popular in Norway. and thoroughly understands , the poaitlon and ewtimenta of the people of that country, 1 timony still more direct and positive. This is • which have latterly become much more favourable to the , letter describing the incendiary fires at Kourgan Swedish ooeueriou. and Tnmen, which says : The Mmimento of Genoa announces that twelve 1 The transported Poles are accused of these incendiary of the soldiers condemned for the affair of Aspromanto. sets. In order to churl the absurdity of this arensation it bat pardoned by the rooms royal &OM, have pared is sufficient to tilt* that in the wasfaT Olson they are through that city on the way to rejoin their regime n t s . sq ua lly regarded as the authors of the drought which has ;~~~~ ~ ... EVENING, OCTOBER 10, Mt prevailed this year. ItePPie look upon them as magicians and euelacters. It leftlated that they are in pcmeesion of millions, by mamas of which they bribe the Bunk= themselves, and induce them to barn their towns. Many of the Poles are, however, distinguished by the activity and courage which they have displayed in render. lag einiefenoe in oar fires ; and have even received on this account public thanks on the part of the government. The Poles in general behave with great circumspection, and have a good reputation smog the mini enlightened of the citizens. (azom's Tzlicuita) FRANCE. PARIS. Ocr. 20. The Consfitutionne/ of to-day says We are authorised to deny the rumours current on the Bourse yesterday of a new loan and of a decrease in the bullion in the Bank of France. There is, on the contrary, a slight improvement in the state of the treasury." The Constitutionnel adds that the government will sell the bonds of the last loan, the instalments on which are overdue. not paid up their inatalmenta, and that the Moniteur may very probably, within this day or two, threaten to sell their stock for what it will fetch. If this news be true it would seem that the much-vaunted game of popular loans is pretty well played out. Nevertheless there is a talk of a new loan of 750 millions after Christmas. There are people who say that M. Fonld's reputation as a financier is fast declining. THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF RUSSIA. LYONS, Ocr. 20. The Emperor and Empress of Russia arrived here at 8 o'clock last night, and proceed on their journey to Nice at 11 a.m. to-day. Their Majesties preserve the strictest incognito. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 20. _ . _ - - The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Delhi, Captain Bellock, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 15,0001. in specie, 75 passengers, 1,126 bales of silk, and 127 packages of sundries. Her Majesty's ships Revenge, Resistance, Pro cris, Redpole, and Meanee were at Gibraltar ; and the Orlando, Psyche, Racer, Firefly, and Chanticleer at Malta. The Marlborough was to sail on the 13th inst., and the Enchantress, with the Lords of the Ad miralty on board, on the 16th. Gibraltar—Exchange on London, 50 ; on Paris, sfr. 29c. ; on Marseilles, sfr. 300. MAILS FOR INDIA AND CHINA. MARSIMMIY9, Qom, 19. The Idessageries Imperiales steamer Peluse left this day with 112 passengers, 688 packages of merchandise, and 162,2001. in specie, for India and China ; 99 passengers and 2,0001. in specie for Alexandria. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now ova owx oosaworoltwar.) PARIS. WSDNESDAT EVIINING. A Vienna letter of Oct. 17 in the Temps, which comes, I know, from a diplomatic source, although I should be sorry therefore to affirm that it is re liable, gives a positive contradiction to the news originally circulated by the Prase, and only yester day treated as feasible by the Patric, that Austria, Pruesia, and Russia made a secret treaty in July last, the main object of which was to guarantee the Austrian possessions in Italy and elsewhere. This correspondence regards the canard as but a second edition of the Morning Poses famous Holy Alliance, and says that the story excited great " hilarity " in Vienna. The letter, which purports to be written by an Austrian, contains this remarkable expression : "We know enough of the disposition of the Prussian people to be quite certain that, unfortu nately for the house of Hapsburg, Prussia will never mix herself up in the terrible intestine struggles which threaten us. We shall only be too happy to be assured that she will not take advan tage of our misfortunes." The improbability of the alleged treaty is further inferred from the want of any suggestion as to the inducement which could have been offered to Russia to join in it. "Russia," the writer says, " has as great an interest in the con solidation of Italy as she has in the deterioration of Austria." The letter concludes with the follow ing reflections : Allow me to add some positive information which will justify the contradiction above given. The diversity of intereets between Austria and Prussia is such that they can not agree upon a single question. The disappointed hopes of as understanding, cherished for a time by cert►in mem bers of the cabinet, particularly with reference to the customs, have led to dissensions which threaten a minis terial crisis, 31. de Schroerling, who never seri ously reckoned upon the Prussian alliance, seeks to shelter his responsibility under cover of an attack in the semi-official journals and the A vibes, Gareffe upon the optimist policy of Coast de Rechbetg. The !fac tion of the ministry to which Y. de Schmerling belongs goes farther, and objects to Prussia that far from having entered into new eagagemeata with Austria she does not even fulfil those which she has undertaken. They do not hesitate to say that Prussia, in con senting to negotiale at Prague about a commercial treaty, merely played a ridiculous farce. The concert between Austria and Peoria is regard to Slaswig-Holstein is treated by this correspondence as not in contradiction with the bed fifths( between the two powers. It is not, we are told, an understanding, but only "simultaneous action," necessitated by the fear of Austria to give her rival a preponderance in Germany. M. de Bismarck, who, according to rumour, was to have been in Paris on Monday, is prolonging his stay at Biarritz, and will not leave till the end of the week. The Marquia de Pepoli, after having bad an in terview with the Emperor and Empress of Russia at Darmstadt, came on to Paris, and the France, which states that he has bad an interview with Napoleon 111., insinuates that his object is to explain or apologise for the speech which made such a great sensation, in which he, a negotiator of the conven tion of Sept. 15, affirmed that he would have cut off his right hand rather than have signed it, had he supposed it was incompatible with the desire of Italy to have Rome for its capital. Unfortunately, if the visit to Paris of the Marquis de Pepoli has the importance which the France gives to it, many other Italian statesmen ought for • like reason to bend their steps hitherwards. The papers of this day mention that M. Peruzzi, the late minister, spoke exactly in the same sense as M. de Pepoli, and moreover affirmed that he was tho roughly acquainted with the intentions of the "two" contracting parties. It is no doubt embarrassing to the Emperor, who is obliged to deal gently with the French catholic., tluit Italian statesmen should say so bluntly what they expect to come of the treaty. It would be wise of the Italian parliament to vote for the convention with as little speechification as possible. But I scarcely think that M. de Pepoli, whatever explanation he may give, will make the excuse to the Emperor, which the Pays suggests for Lim, that he only spoke as a private individual, and "attached no importance to his own words." The most carious fall that we have seen for a long time has occurred at the Bourse to-day. Rente fell 50c. for cash, and 455. for account, closing at 64fr. 50c. and 64fr. 650. Credit Fonmer fell 40fr. sod Mobilier 18fr. :sc. Railways were again from sfr. to 10fr. lower. I am told that the main cause of the continued depreciation of all (dames of securities is the bad state of French finances. It is alleged that holders to the extent of sixty or seventy millions of the last loan have /MAY. GU NOUMEA SLISIDAT. N.W. to BW. and 00/M. W. to N., WOOL again to N., homy squally, wttla showers. gales to strong, with rain. &W. to N. and beck. Warta& As above. gales to fresh, rain at times. W.it.W. to N.N. W., hooniXill. North weetarty, Mroog gales to moderate, to Inatome, with squally. squalls. As next above. As mart above. Cautiomary signals on Monday and on Wednesday. Nartlisensalloolisad, ."*. aa -5 mimSward alitand and Melina& Ball •••• 14•4",. Sailors A Munsa CASs IN INDU--A murderous out rage has recently taken Ogee on the East Indian Railway between Ahmoodpore and Bhulpore ; a gentleman travelling is a second-class carriage having been suddenly attacked by • potion travelling in the same carriage and robbed of his watch, and after being beaten severely was thrown out of the window, bet contrived to lay hold of the footstep at the carriage, end by dinging to the buffer held on till the train reached the *Won. The mast who committed the outrage le in custody.—Borabop Gamete, Sept. 28. REPRZOINIATION or Here 17011 —Has roan, will:Awl:UT. —The new candidate for Herstardabire is now kitty before the electors. Lord W. Graham has issued a formal address to the electors, announcing that in consequence of failing health be will be obliged to retire from the representation at the close of the present paella meet. and Bir J. Bailey, of FAM011,401114 Yee been formally pat forth ea his stiocomoe is the croaservative interest. Lest eight hie new candidate made his &but before a body of the agricultural electors, at the annual meeting of the Herefordshire Agricultural Society here, when he announced himself le • candidate for the county at the neat election. Sir Joseph is the son of the late Sir Joseph Braley, who represented the county of Hereford in p•rlianient for many her years, and to whose memory a monument is erected P. in the Shire-hall * Y Cita llom. Although three month, have not elapsed since the prorogation ("aiming', changes of oonsidatable importance hue takes la both houses of the legislature. In the Hoses of at the oommeaoszneat of the Dart arnica, Lord Harry Vase, formerly Y.P. for Hastings, will take his mat as Duke of Cleveland ; Viscount will be entitled to take hi seat as the Earl of Morley , late earl having died en Au god 9b The Eari of Linedla will take his seat as Duke of Newcastle. Vistula OWNS, for several years a member of the Home of Commese, will take his seat as the Earl of Godwin, in the ream of the late earl. who died on the ]loth of September. Lord Rodney diodes the 19th of August, and is succeeded by his son Goons Bridges Harley Domed, who will not be able to take his mat until 1878, when be will he of age. Is the Hues of Commons there at. also some changes. Mr. Divett, Y.P. for Eietar, died on the day alter the prorogation, and his seat has bees Ellen by the election of Lord Courtanay, eldest son of the Pod of Devon. Lord Harry rues acomeion to the dukedom of Cleveland mood a vacancy in the representation of the borough of Hastings, and his seat has been filled by the elation of the 800. George Waldegrave Leslie, • younger brother of the Bishop of Carlisle. *the death of Mr. Morrie • vacancy has been occasioned in the representation of Coniarthes, which will be filled up in the accuse of the mot fortnight. La the representation of Herefordshire a vacancy will shortly be officially declared, in consequence of the retire/neat from podia life of Lord William Graham. VIRIT or CRAILLEN GILTAN Darn TO IRILAND. The following letter has bun published in the Wcrford People 'Melbourne, July. 1864. My dear Fedor Doyle, —I hope to have the demurs of cuing you once again. am, plows God, pia* to Europe in January or February nut. I have busmen in France and F ag g, and will not, I dare say, reach Ireland till Jose oe July, and if you are to be fouled within the four seas I will go see you. My stay is Ireland will be very month or two at most. If I find it practicable, I will go to New Rom to ass my good friends there, to whom I must always feel under obligation. I trust you enjoy your laborious life—l am sure it in laborious, new you have the complete direction of it by being P.P. Father Paris, who is still hen, brought me news of you, sad of such men and alley is the county Wexford as were of interest to me.—Believe me, my dear Father Doyle, always yours,—C. G. Dorm." Tnt CONGREGATIONAL UNION OP ENGLAND AND WALLS.— The autumn sittings of this naive were opened at Hall no Monday. The services coeunsued . hy a devotional muting at Albion Chapel, at which the chairman, the Rev. Hem Allen, delivered the fungoid address. The bet business meeting was held on Tuesday morning at Fish street chapel. There were peewit 400 ministers and dele gates. The meeting was opened with singing sad prayer, after which the chairman (the Rev H. Allem) called apes the Rev. Dr. Smith to read a report from • special com mittee appointed at the last autumnal meeting, on trust deeds. After some diecowies the report was unanimously adopted. The Bev. B. Ashton thee read • report ea the proposed alterations ia the coastitotion of the anion, which woe followed by • brief improvemeoM in the methods of cooduatiag the boluses of NM union. by the Rev. J. G. Rogers, B.A. A statement was then made by the Rev. J. 0. Gallaway, ,A. i s don to congregational chapel extension. Oa Tues day ovu le( a public meeting for the illastratioa end safereemeat of avagregatiosal principles was held in Fiehotreet Chapel, Mr. Handel Oosehare, the Rev. Dr. Vaught's, the Bev. G. S. Pearaill, aid Wien taking pert in the proceedings. Far Wednesday evade, a pudic mediae on behalf of coagrego dual minims wee miaowed ; Mr. Samuel Morley, el Loucks. to preside. For Tbareday the usual sermon to the anion we. easonneed to he by the Bev. W. Alexander, aft, of FAiabw ormaludisis meeting of the union is on Friday atoning, when the lumbers sad friends of the board of eduaties will breakfast t Mr. J. Crdely, of Halifax, the chair. Bach u delegates sad middies dined together and took tea. THE DEATH OF SIR ALEXANDER LAWRENCE. The Dati Gam- tic, in recording the death of Sir Alexander Lawrence, which event was announced by telegram a few days since, says :—" The young gentleman was, it appears, travelling up North by the Ilindoostan and Thibet Trank•road, with his aerie Ceased Lew:vice, the Deputy-Commissioner of Simla. They roads tea or twelve marches in safety and reached Torshoa, the summer residence of the Rajah of Bussabir, on Friday, the 'Nth instant. Oa Saturday morning they started on horseback for the next bungalow at Tamed.. About four miles on the road they bad to cross • bridge which girdled an almost perpeacbcolar cliff ; on nearing this spot, Sir Aleasnder's horse being somewhat restive, he primed his uncle to the front, on riding over the bridge rather hurriedly • large croerbesm gave way, and both rider and horse were preripitrited violently down about three hundred feet of khud, and of course killed on the spot. This shocking and terrible accideat hap pened about oil* hundred and twenty miles from Simla. The corpse was brought into the station on Monday mon ies, and buried on the ermine of the same day. The funeral was attended by the Viceroy and his staff ; the Coin. mender-in-Chief and his staff ; the Members of Council ; Sir H. Edward's ; and all the principal visitors and residents of the place. the procession left Government House at 4 p.m. The chief mourners followed the bier on foot the whole way ; at thegate of the cemetarythe but was rested and bores theme to the grave by the personal staff of the Governor-Goma The funeral warrior was read by the Rey. J. Poysder, and amidst universal tribulation and sorrow the remains of Sir Alexander Lawrenos were lowered into their last resting place. Thus, snatched away am be was in the midst of life and youth and universally beloved, a melancholy gloom will overshadow Simla for the zest of the season. He has left behind him a young widow and a child to mourn his loss. Poor as the consolation may be we feel assured Lady Law rence will have the warmest and deepest sympathy of the community in her sad bereavement." WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TIICLIDAT. OCTOJII TO, I L. B. T. W. . 1 ---1— --o• Naha 21;3 N.N.W. 1 Leith IW. 49 B. Azdromaa :MAD ill W.N.W. u p Greeocastla 29.90 W. Galway ......29.11 W. Valenti& 19.21 W. Cape char W. W. Queaustowit. 12.10 N.W. Uverpool 29.04 !Ai W.11.W. W. Holyhead 1 29.09 &LW. Pembroke— 1911 W. hassaos 19.51 51 A.R. L'thiest '19.49,55 W. Rochefort '29.67,'57 H.W. Plymouth 29.54; W. Weymouth 21? 23 1 W. Portsmouth- 29.10122 W. Loodoe ll9. W. Dover . 110.14 , W. Yarmouth ... 19 Ad W.&W. dearlowougb.:lB.9o' w.s.w. WlaWe 1 6.95 Heligoland 29. 1111 &LW. N.LL Li W.N.W. N. W. N. W.B.W. Law. 8.8. a. 8.8. X B.X sir. S.W. IL N.Z. 8.5.11. RAIL I. ,Z. & Ls 7 re 1.35 re . 1 4.10 or 4.40 • 0.37 er 'O.ll o • oe 0.31 rb 1.10 die '0.74 oe ,0.16 toe 0.11 • I re I els 0.40 ob 0.41 re 'O.ll kb lO.CB - e I 4 oe —,s ob 0.13 6 b • a OFFICIAL ASSIGNEES IN BANSItUPTci. EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS. (From the Times.) In April last the Lord Chancellor, displeast4 with the amounts of the official assignees and messengers of the Court of Bankruptcy for the Leeds district, re. quested Mr. Commissioner Ayrton, mu of the oonithis : amen there, and Mr. Harding, the well-known hoodoo accountant, to institute a rigid eraminatiou and scrutiny of all their books, and to report to him on the subjrct. The result of this investigation turned out to be of so very lamentable a character that his lordship, ha lo , ' diately it was made known to him, followed up his request by issuing an order directing a similar proceeding as to the accounts of every official assignee and mei. mager in all the district courts in the cotintrv, with power also to inquire into the manlier in which the bills of outs were taxed by the registrars of the various courts. That order was dated the 20th of May last, and is u follows : " Lord Chancellor.—ln Bankruptcy. " Friday, May 20, 1564. " Whereas defaults have from time to thus been made I,x several of the official assignees of the Court of Bankruptcy, and serious losses have thereby been occasioned to creditors under bankrapt estates, and it is desirable that each occui• renom should be prevented for the future ; and whereas, from a recent investigation directed by me into the accounti of the official assignees and nraseengers of the Court of Brak• rooky for the Leeds district, it appears to me to be exik. disci that the books and accounts of every official assignee and mesranger of the cart should undergo a similar 6 , 04. Motion ; and whereas I deem it necessity also to inquire into the master in which the taxation of bills of costs by the registrars, both at Leeds and in the other district courts, is conducted. Now, by virtue of the Bankruptcy hot, 1861, and of every authority vested in me, I do hereby give power and authority to William &rope Ayrtoe, Esq., one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy fcr the Leeds district, aid Robert Palmer Harding. of Beak. buildings, Lotbbury, in the City of Loath's, accountant, to make farther inquiry into the matter aforesaid in the Court of Bankruptcy for the Leeds district, sod also to investigate I sod make inquiry into such matters in the Courts of Bank. ' rooky at Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Liverpool, Mar.. chaster, and Newcastle, and to report fully to me thereon, ! with power to them to *ramie' such persons and to Call for the production of such books, papers, and proceedings las they may think fit. W I:B7I3CHT, C." We believe the inquiry under this order has been tom , plated so far as regards the courts at Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool, and the remit is that, besides the discovery of many very grass irregularities, it has been found that large sums of money have been improperly I retained, both by the official assignees sad by the messengers, which ought to have bees paid over to the Chief Registrar's account —sums, we are told, already amounting in the segregate to upwards of 14,ouui. The examinatioes at Lead/ and Birmingham were, we believe, completed io time to be oommeaioatel to the parliamentary committee on bankruptcy, and as the 'widows taken before that committee, and a appendix COL. tabling a variety of documents that wore called for, will be printed in the course of • few days, the public will soon have an opportunity of forming a jadgeseet on the import. awe of the inquiry directed by the Lord Chancellor, and still in coarse of prosecution, and on the diaclosures which have hence come to light. If all we hear be true, we are only afraid that his lordship will very generally be con. sidered to have been but too lenient with the offenders—to have erred on the side of mercy. We believe it la his lord. ship's intention that the inquiry shall be extended to the accounts of the official assignees and messengers acting in London, A 'modal of this kind, intending to several of our beck. ruptcy courts, if not to all, touches our system of bankrupt kw in its most vital point. The official assignee is the life and soul of the proceedings in their most important stages, and may ander certain circumstances retain the whole prat. Boa control of them. It is he who immediately upon sd. jadmation takes possessioci of the iota* attend/ the bet mealier; of creditors, and gives information about meets and debts ; assumes the custody of all books and documents, if' the court should so order ; collects and moven all debte doe to the bankrupt under 101. ; receives and cheeks Use acciosals of the creditors' assignee, if ore should have been appointed, every three months ; assists in almost every subsequent Mee, reappears as sole trustee at ter the discharge of the creditors' asaigues, sad where there is no creditors' waives le the one responsible person from begiaaing to end. The messenger is his agent throughout, and is bound to render bim an account of his owe Meese for fees and disbursements. The oonsequeace is that there in scarcely any limit to the peerdatioo of which such an atom may be guilty, under various pretests, and it was no doubt to mitigate thb tomptatioa that a large fixed salary was assigned to him by the last Bankruptcy Act. By the 31st section of that Mantel it wee, expressly provided that future oesiml assignees is the country distriete should be entitled to no re. !numeration b.yood the 8001. a year thereby as. signed to them, 'motet to Mina of certain neoesemy outgoiop to be allowed by the exert. Examitiee was takes to the clause oa the very ironed that it deprived the credi. tors of a valuable guarantee for the official assignee's seal in their behalf ; but it ought at Lest to have served as a safer fused ageing' malpractices. At the same time it ma strongly urged that the Mikis of messenger should be abolished altogether ; and though tale suggestion was not adopted, their stipends were strictly limited by the act, and by subeequent mend orders they were sompelled to verify the statement of their actual receipts by oath, and to pay over the surplus to the chief registrar's account. The miecionduct, thank.% to which our information pieta meet have bees gram, not to my criminal, Indeed, and mere dissaimsl .may well appear too light a punishment for it. LORD BURY, M.P., AND rim DATISPORT BROTHERS. In the letter respecting Use Davenport Brothers, addremed to the daily papers • week ego by Mr. Boseicanit, was the followias perms :—" At the termiaatios of the inns a general coerenades took plate os the subject of what we heard and wilammeedL Lewd Ban saggorted that the 'costal opinion seemed to be that we eiould mare the Brothers Davenport sad Mr. W. Fay, that after a very stringent trial and arid sentiay of the4proceeding, the gentlemen premed weld arrive at so other Dosclusion than that there was no trace of trickery is ea, form, sod cer tainly there were Didier confederates nor machinery, and that all those who had witnessed the results would freely state in the society is which they moved, that so far as their ineeetigatioaa 'sable them to feral as opinion, the phenomena which had takes place is their prunes were Dot the project of legerdemain. This session was promptly seceded to by al purist." Lord , rather late a the day, bar • latest in this moral s Times, °seeding the foregoing statessest is • very seasotial per. tirsular. Be gars :--•• After the performanoe which Mr. Boasimalt deemibegapapgr was headed round which I and others won asked to sign. It referred the manifestesiosi to some mysterious agency which elsotifio men were earnestly entreated to investigate, sod, it I remember right, gave a sort of certificate to the performers that, after careful invertigatioe, we could And no tram of trickery of any farm. The gentleman who had the paper argued that it would be sizoply fair to the Brothers Davenport if we gave them some inch certificate. lat ease aid that we should only make ourselves ridiculous if we Aped snob • paper, and I for one refused to do so. !added that all the Brothers Davenport mould marmeably gaped from as was that we should state is society the mien* truth, via., that we had failed to detect any widows* of Miami or ealunies. Mr. Bowing' It makes no 'mystics of this paper ; it was with. drawn. I have really loomed no theory whatever on the subject of the performanoe. I west to see • show, and I entirely object to being held a 8 the apologist for the showmen becomes I have failed to damage their mode of operation." Vice-Admiral Henry Prancas Grerille, C. 8., died o• Tuesday lest, steer • long insane, et hie county ass i• Barkelaire, tweed 70. An interesting oeremon7 took place in Glasgow Cathedral on Tuesday—ban the formal preseetatioe to the Board of Works at the series of painted windows with which the cathedral has been decorated. The Eight Hr. W. Cowper, Pint Commisifter of the Board of Watt was anoint. iii aseepties the subeorfbers' eft delivered an interesting adders on the subject of church decoration. THE NORTH LONDON INDUSTRIAL NXIIIBMON. —The hold thaw sehibitiam have apes the waking claire wee tally shown lest night, whale the stiesdasce wee so gnat that at hall-past 8 o'clock all dome were obliged to be eland. Tale were 18,000 porous pried the teneekles. Dering the reales a Band of Hope damasks- Mos took plan leader the sissegereeet d Mr. Hosier. The orabakre eratilled with upward@ at 1,000 eliildres, am bers al the variom temperssee eselikke is North Lemke. who sang a cambia of mild& amiedles sad Dow, mos inwil&Dl with " Welcome,' to Roamosn's muds, aid me• chaise with " God Mom ear Yoathial Band.' The 0" i " 1 WWI admirably rag, ea hied, spikeeiated by ski m• memo sadism% Tbe be eL Pam C o die 4 bin rand R ender of on Priv& Jobs Jo Joesea ; debt, and leaned al L weed be bad declined' lOW Hie Hi CUDD This w hanks* street al Par•d 11 1 MIXDA2II) 12,7164; be paid II 4281. ; 9861. ; di persut di As adj haskrupf lanaer•-• KUM, 14b1.12e. 'slaty of the beak The ba also been ceder of c given up oPPosil panted. The ba Amt. Ca Tb. debt. Mr. Al rapt ea t baala Cadadoldi , dui adj. This In baskrapt perm AZ' R 4 11- e — k;gii eibieh be ve tc irfic boakruy4 The lie Ikat he g spoken of proper la went to • him. He am. say His Ho ohms ce•e Adjour William Ores lads Kr. Tyrw al Imam 'Biala, do rem s. skint, Is b&vt othar 11, Ratios ihisrtials i trs i a WINIIISI Ai Thom. al slit. hi Cleessatro down Ha Knowing alikt. he elm Grose that hs,i way ho No. saisaiso. *Waal, al ma as poi two p Nandi t wig. Ca. =d `.l ai tt rano WY. sad eh She chair lawle a ma el aback, elle did we ar 74111/5, sad ,amireowe - Ter: - / - 3O; Dirty, and 1.0,i Bil V'a row ag the 110. Fi ate of the Canoed Yr. Tyr' 1000 as ahm theheyh Oaaaas i oi Hammitt. Idea want which eerld was fru , The at ap pre %rum* refired, em i Ole 101. Bard& h Borvaat it Mistesi ng Illoramot las• sight 1 now Irtirt witit; ta a roe Perfect Praeszed sad assabed adder It the Hal *Wok rt , whisk G i b one it. Nash the i it Woo to Sh tido of . .