The Express. — London, England, 1858-09-14 00:00:00

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SA A W 11 "••• IJI—TIII DA . IIOIITIA Or Tall ;Haar% rens X..—A WICTILID WIVIC. KW Bop • A IN TES DARK. • Orsoce al 7. Too Irellrmo, lllTitoltui Vim% Er. J4msa Mum ; Yin ilF•kr, lb= uguo.-As4 TOO KU= rat GOOD GATORS. Mon. mod J. Mein ; law IL thosa.—Osneire &O. MIMI WILMS AT LONDON_BEIDI3I. ..T-0..i... ..a.....—.. M: ___.4llflossese. 1111. Su. MMus% lk. Ms. LONDON, IVIBDAY, SEPT. 14. SP()RTING TNTELLIOMCE. A SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS," ventaining the results of the day's Races, is pub liahrd every evening during the Sporting Season, at UK o'clock. P %RN ia nearly as empty at this time of you as London. Political people and people of fashion are either absent or take care to be thought so. Health, partridge shooting, and twenty other incidental rea son& are ever reedy for compliance with the 'stab liaised custom. Now and then a solitary notable may be seen taking the metropolitan air in the Clumps Stress; and the necessities of public business com pel a certain number of the higher officials to tarry in town. 13ut of those who are not actually so bound, few are accustomed to spend August or September In Paris ; and, though the Earnaoa has been lately staying at the suburban Palace of St. Cloud, few of his courtiers have been seen to pass his gates. Their absence has, however, been eanpeneated for by the frequent visits of two distinguished ex-Slinistere— kf. DE Passion and Laid P.►uteaarotc. The Count and the Viscount are singularly different men. In their antecedents, their tempera ment, and their entourage, no two men can be more dissimilar; yet they are maid to be very good friends ; they are known to pull very well together, and they have certainly proved themselves to be the two most loyal and efficient partisans of the Fnipire. M. Fi %LIN, the son of a physician in moderate practice, and the possessor of but a limited fortune for many years before the revolution of 1858, unexpectedly opened Louis NAPOLEON' , way to the throne, devoted himself to what was deemed by all others a desperate came, and adhered to that came through disaster, ridicule, and lack of resources, not only with fidelity, but with enthusiasm. The time has not come for inquiring how far the steadfastness of the follower's faith contributed to keep alive the confidence of his chief; but enough is known to place beyond all doubt the unfaltering fidelity with which the former adhered through every vicissitude to the fortunes of the latter; and few persona ars ignorant that while M. Fotuii was diligently making money as a loyal banker under the stock-jobbing recgine of Loris PIIILIPPE, and M. DE MORNT war basking in the sunshine of the Orleanist family, M. PSALM was sharing the exile of Loris NAPOLEON, plotting with him in poverty in London, or bearing with him the barthen of captivity at Ham. The 2nd December, 1861, came at last, and reali se d a ll hi s d reams , if not for himself, at least for his muter. Row deeply this untiring conspirator in favour of Bonapartism was engaged in that most memorable of plots none need to be told. As M. to Comte de PIRSIONT, we find bim figuring in various capacities in the:restored Empire, and reesatly we saw him occupying the high post of Ambassador in London. It is not necessary tamale in detail to the capital error into which his Government was led at the commencement of the present year in demanding formally from this country a change in its law of asylum. We were amongst the foremost in denouncing that demand. and we are proud to recollect that we contributed not inconsiderably to secure its rejection. • But throughout the controversy we ever maintained that the blame of misleading the Cabinet of the Tuileries lay at Lord PALMERSTON'S door rather than at that of M. DE Pannionv. It was his special boast that he knew the feelings of the country ; and it was his special business to advise his Imperial Ally truly in the matter. The error of a foreign Ambanador accredited from a despotic Court, and bound to earry out its over reaching schemes, was trivial in comparison with that of the First Minister of a free people, when ha undertook, in compliance with a despot's demand, to wheedle their representatives into a fundamental alteration of their laws. Yet this was what Lord P \LMERBTON'A friendship for Loris NAPOLEON, and his overweining estimate of the Woe of his good humour, caused him to do. Is his own way Lord PALMER-11'0N has proved himself no half-hearted ally of the present ruler of Prase*. Twice within the last seven years has he risked and lost the possession of power by the un reserve of his devotion to his Imperial friend. Hs was Foreign Secretary at the time of the coup Arita ; and if not beforehand made a confidant in the details of the design, he certainly did his beet to earn the depicter of an accomplice after the fact, by the baste with whisk be proffered his congratulations cm the oreasioa. More than one of his colleagues confessedly eatertained very different sentimi•nts re garding the resuscitation of hereditary absolutism in the family of BONAPARTE ; and some of them did not hesitate to give utterance to strong and un courtly language in public on the subject. It was not pretended either that the Court preferred the prospect of a Napoleonic dynasty to that of eemetitutionalism under the Home of OnLrerig. But Lord PAL itartsroN was too much elated with the events of the 2nd December ro consult either the feelings of the Cabinet or those of the Court, and u far as in Lm lay be at once committed the Government of gait, wintry not merely to acquiescence in all that had been done for the overthrow of liberty in Francis, b-t in approval of it. All this was said openly at ti.o time, and not denied. Sooner than hazard a raptor, between the two countries, Lad Yeeman noses colleagues in the administration left unre tracted what Le had written and said; but before the month was out, the offence he wee bet rayed in to giving, by the omission of the nasal observances of his station, proved too much for the exhausted patience of his associates, and he was summarily superseded in the office he had so long filled. We all remember bow IMIM THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1858. little was a xplained by the nominal explanation that took place in Parliament, and how current was the belief that the whole of the story wu not told. We said then, and we say now, that had Lord PALMER (Prom acted difierently regarding the coup &Etat, he would not have been expelled from office immedi ately after with the approval of the Court, the una nimous assent of his colleagues, and the mute ao quiewence of Parliament and the people. Seven years rolled by, and again we have seen this selfsame statesman recklessly putting in jeopardy his position u a minister in his seal for the retrograde policy of N‘rotcon 111. The Conspiracy Bill wu the natural and logical consequence of the manner in which the coup d'ltat had been saluted u a triumph by the English Minister. The Encino's knew his man, and scrupled not to us him. We know the result. Bat the most curious feature of the curious story is that, untaught and nnwarned by experience, Lord PALMERSTON is still ostentatiously bent on showing his attachment to Bonapartist policy; and that while all other English politicians are enjoying re pose in their own country or seeking recreation in foreign travel, Lord PALMERSTON takes care the world shall know that he and his friend M. DE Paz sioNY are in confidential attendance on his Majesty NAPOLEON the THIRD. PRINCE ALFRED AT HAMBURG. HAMBURG, Barr.ll. The royal yacht, Osborne, arrived in the Elbe a . . • --- Thursday afternoon and anchored for the night off Cu:- haven, se owing to the ebb tide and a southerly wind there was not water enough in the river to proceed up to this city At tive o'clock yesterday morning (Friday) the Osborne weighed anchor and steamed op the river to Gliickstadt, bo the north bank of the Elbe and in Holstein territory, where the Prince and hie suite landed and came up to Alton* by the railroad, arriving in this city a little before noon, tad driving up very usupecesdly to the Hotel de l'Europe, on the Jung , farnatieg, overlooking the beautiful sheet of water known as the " Inner-Alstet." The Prince was accompanied by his tutor, Lieutenant Cowell, R.E., and Lieutenant Anderson, , re also by Master-Commander Bower, R.N. (the commander of the Osborne, which was left at anchor at Oluckatadt), sad Dr. Elliot, R.N., the surgeon of the riiyal yacht, the two latter gentlemen wearing their naval uniform, whilst the Prince and the other two gentlemen were in plain clothes. After some refreshment the party left the hotel on foot to inspect some of the "lions" of the city of Hamburg. After witnessing the usual hunt sad bustle of the Bonne during the busy hour of 'Change, from the strangers' gallery, they paid • visit to the collection of pictures belonging to the city, attached to which is the permanent exhibition of palatine by living artists, sent there for inepection and sale. It woo noticed with some surprise that the Prince was not accompanied by Colonel Hodges, C. 8., the British chargi: d'affairee andoonsul-general to the Hansa Town., but the gallant colonel's absence we. afterwards satisfactorily ex plained. It appears that be was duly informed some days ago of the Prinm's expected snivel, in consequence of which he eng.ged a suite of apartments for hire at Streit's Hotel (Aso on the Jungfernstieg), and as soon as Le had learned by the telegraph that the Oaborne had left Cuxhaven to proceed up the river, he drove down to the landing place to await the Prince. It was therefore with feelings of considerable annoyance that, sitar waiting in vain for some hours at the stairs, he le•rat that the party had landed at Oluckstadt, and come cep from thence by the railway. On the colonel'. arrival at the Hotel de rEurope, he found that the Prince had Wand ft was not WI after the lapse of • considerable period that the party re la raid, and Colonel Hodges bod en opportunity of paying Ith respects to the yoathfol traveller. At ten o'clock lot night the Priem, accompanied by Lieu tenant Cowell, left Hamburg by the mail train on the Harlin and Hamburg Reilway,for Berlin, tin rode for Potedem and the Castle of Beibeisheirg, where they will have arrived thin morning at eight o'clock. The Osborne did not arrive in the Elbe till Thwiday evening, although the weather daring the whole voyage was most delightful. The maim was that she went some die tanoe out of her course Po. the Prima) to pay a visit to the island of Heligoland, where hie Royal Highness loaded sad waa received by the Lieutenant-Governor, Captain Pettis eon, w►o coarketed him over the island, and showed him the bathing selabliahment, tho grottoes, and the other natu ral and artificial cortheitiee of the place, whilst the nume rous bathing saute turned oat in great umbers to welcome the fret make of the Royal family who hid ever landed at that plotaroogre little Weed. THE QUEEN AND TEE C.4.2IADIANS. Yesterday Mr. J. 0. Narria, the gentleman who arrived recently la this usy keen Toronto, charged with • petition to her Majesty keel • Mitedimiald• number of the principal inhebitanta of that city god tow n In the two ro pvinces, received the answer , through Sir Edward Bolwer Lytton, the Iteleeemy et for the Colo nise. The petition of which Mr. Norris was the bearer stated that a Crystal Palace eimi u in design, but of 'moiler dimensions, to those of London and Paris, for an exhibition of the prod uct. of Cannella:l industry end slut, is in mane of erec ting in Toronto, end wi.l be completed about the let of October; and that as her Majesty had been gracioemly pleased to honour the inauguration of similar undertakings in England and eltewhare with her royal presence, the memorialists prayed that she would confer a mark of favour and diatinction on her subjecte in Canada by giving authority to his Royal Highnese the Prince of Wales or some other member of the royal family to proceed to Toronto to represent her on the opening of • crystal palace in the most important de pendency of her empire. To this document, though Fes pared only some ten days before Mr. Norris left with it for England, 152 signatures were appended, including them of the lion. N. T. Bann, speaker of the legislative coun cil, and 2.5 members of that body, the Hon. Henry Smith, speaker of the legislative eseembly, the heads of the two loading pditic parties in the assembly and their sever.l ad herents, the judicial staff of Toronto, heeded by the Chancellor, both the protestant epd Roman catholic bi.hops of that city, the mayor and corporation, the mayor and corporation of Hamilton, several of the military authorities, Sir Allen M'Nab, and the President of the Board of Trade. As the Crystal Palace was to be opened on the lot of October, It wee important that Mr. Norris, with whom the petition origi nated, and who bad determined to be the bearer of it to Eng land, should km no time in setting out on hi. mission. He had men Sir Edmund Head, the governor, tori", on the sub ject. There wee, however, • ministerial otitis pending at that time, and with that his Excellency's time wee much occupied. Mr. Norris was besides unacquainted with the etiquette whlc'u dictates that petitions to the Sovereign shall be remitted through her representative In the colony, end he started by the first steamer, the Pelvis, for England. He arrived in the metropolis on the 28th of August, and has , since had Interviews with Sir Edward Balwer Lytton, the Secretary of State, and Lord Carnervon, the under-secretary for the admire, who are said to have entered warmly into the feeling. which prompted this graceful compliment to the' Queen on the pert of the Canadian people. It is understood that the letter which Mr. Norris ham just received from Sir Edward Lytton is to the effect that sae the lime in which the petition should receive an answer would not permit of his combing the local government as the subject of it—there baring been • departure from wage ht the mode of its trammiseion—and baring regard to the number and importance of the signatures attached to it, be had cionsiiersd it his duty to present It to her Majesty, who had been pleased to receive It gracionaly. Head& that while tinder the setesaity of &dieing the request of the peti tioner., tRe Q•teen appreciates the loyalty to the crown and the attachment to her person and family which prompted the wishes of the potitiosers ; and he concludes with an expres sion of hope on the part of her Majesty that the foothcouting exhibition at Toronto will produce important and useful reeultalo Canada. THE PRINCE Of WALE, AT EDINBTROH.-011 Saturday morning, his ftoyal Highness the Prince of Wales, accomputed by Major Teesdale and Kr. Gibbs, pi through Edinburgh by railway, err rows to Balmoral. Hu royal hightusa travailed Ly the night (armee train from London, tie the Great Northern ft :Away, which wu due in Edinburgh at 7.50. As it was about twenty minutes behind time, however. • telegram was despatched from Berwick to keep the north mail train, which starts from Edinburgh by the Soot- Ugh Central at eight o'clock; and when the (sprees train arrived the saloon carriage containhog the royal punster wee attached to the maul train, which started fr the North at about a ginner past eight o'clock. TM Prince pegged through the audio pate privately, very few being aware of hi. coming. The mail train would reach Perryton' Joanna about half past two, from whams a epeeist train would many the Prince to Basohory. The remainder of the journey to Bel morel, which would probably be reached by save o'clock, would be performed by posUng.—Birlirsbarryle tonne. Sunni KENBINOTOS MUSLCM.—During the week ending 11th fleptember, the visitors ham been se follows : On hfisd a y, Tuarday, gad Saturday, fans days, 4,079; on Monday an d Tuesday, Ins erasing., 6,733. On the three student: days (avlstiarion to the public 6d.). 760; or» stu dent: evening, Wednesday, 135. Total, 10,707. From the opuurag of the blureson, 602,147. EXPRESS FROM PARIb. 011.01 i ova owx . PARIS, Mon) At ETU's°. .~ A few days ago the cry of the Aaglophobee was that in the Chinese treaty we had, as usual, taken good care of ourselves, overlooking French claims to be dealt with equally. There was the usual corollary that we had entered the vineyard in the cool of the evening, while the French had toiled through the heat of the day, and the inference was that they had not even received the equal penny with ourselves. Now that the heads of the treaty are officially announced here, these systematic mal contents discover that, as usual, we alone shall profit by the opening of this extraordinary country, and that France would be just as well off without any treaty at all. The (Takers, however, will not allow us to enjoy our ill-gotten booty in puce and quiet ness. This morning it shakes in our face a Russian bugbear, at the same time unfolding a page of political economy, which will amuse Michel Cheva lier : The Emperor of China has just concluded a peace with Ruda, France, and England. It is worthy of observation that Russia has received no pecuniary indemnity. She baa had the river Amour adjudged to her as • limit, by the erasion of a territory as large ea all France. This is on a grand seals the gelation of the comparative value of real and funded property. The Emperor of Russia clearly under stands political econon.y. Bel and all doubt it was the coali tion botween France and England which determined China to obtein, at this price, the protection of her hugs neighbour. Henceforth all the commerce of Asia will peas through the hand, of Russia. Her pretensions are made manifest by the ardour with which she is devoting herself to the con struction of railways sad the preparation of commercial outlets. The land transport will again become the most convenient, the simplest, and the cheapest. Steamships can not compete with railway carriages I It It manifest, therefore, that in spite of herself England will descend from the com mercial supremacy which assures her the domination of the omen. The revolution which diminishes distances tends to deprive the sea of a great part of its utility, And not only ' will the commerce of Asia, bat that of America, also take the overland route to reach Europe. It is greatly to be feared that Russia, the Let comer among modern nations, will be the only one to profit by the movement which Is about to stir Asia. In • few years she will assure to herself what is called civillaation—that is to say, commerce, Industry, cos chinery, 4m., and then what will resist her? France will extend her protecting hand over catholicism in China—that is her only mission. The exportation of our produce to China is reduced almost to nothing; and there is no reason to believe that it can be much increased. A journal coun selled France to exchange her wines against the silks of China. This would be a pretty sort of trade indeed I It is not enough for the French people to be imbued whit the principled of 1789—they must have another drink! What do the economists went?—that France should exchange wines because she has wines? On the contrary, let France drink wines because she has them. By what Inversion of ideas should the French cover themselves with silk while they abandon their wines to the Chines? That would be art for the love of art ; and the lint quality of commerce is its utility. We are not consumers of meat, and bread forms our chief nourishment. Deprive us of our wine, and we shall be literally a bread and water people. In pity's asks let not progress reach that point! The Portuguese know port wine but by name since the Methuen treaty gave the Englieh a monopoly of the vineyards of the country. We are told that excellent growths of French wines are in the hands of English companies, which of comae send the pro duce to their own country. That Is what is called commer cial freedom; and nothing can more clearly demonstrate the absurdity of a system in which the rich aro always right. When It is the rich native, well and good the wealth re mains In France. When the foreigner takes advantage of us it is another matter, and it is time for the legislature to interfere in the national interests. The result of commercial struggles ins, always be foreseen, as It is may to appreciate the industrial strength of each country. Let us never lose sight of We grand principle, that there is seldom equality in exchanges. All depends on the utility of the (biota. The value of en object consist. of two elements, material and labour. If you exchsage a great deal of material and • little labour against • great deal of labour and a little material, you impoverish youretlf. In other words, the advantage of the exchange consists in giving manufactured tirades in manes* for raw material, or for articles of the first neoeroiry. Ey exchanging your labour against material, you become rich. Oar old laws favoured the Importation of raw material, and the exportation •of manufactured goods . The object was, by the exchange, to obtain eithe r raw material which might stimulate native industry or money, which attained the same end. It wee not considered one and the same thing to surrender your taw material and your money. It is certain that all to silk in China will not Wog us a grain more of wealth, we shall be neither bettor lodged nor better fed by it. Clothh g alone will have gained in brilliancy. Statesmen who know what they are about value things but for their utility. And as nothing is more indispensable than food, they attribute the greatest value to objects which supply us with food; meat, bread, wine, solid wealth, which you have no right to ex change unless you have too much of it. If four millions o f Chinese take to wine thinking, it is certain that all our wines will go to China. Now, with us wine& u substitute' for solid food. It economises bread. That is . al matter of daily experience. Ask the workmen either of the cities or the country. Provisions have risen in prim to France; facility of transport has rendered them more accessible to the grind centres of consumption ; consequently the producing countries have been deprived of their benefits; the team of consumers who are not owners of the soil is sacrdiced. All bail hers given way before this error, that circulation is pro duction, and that railways are productive capital. Russia, on the contrary, Is vivified by railways; else enters into communication with herself, and esquires that unity and force of expansion which has hitherto been denied her. The emancipation of the serfs arms the Cm with a new and incontestable furce. RUllei:Ul action is directed towards the East, and the south, towards fertile countries. Rotate exported • great quantity of wheat. It was one raceme in times aware:Ky. What caloulations have been made to prove to us that wheat of the Black flea will always arrive in our poets Now the Russian provinces uscom. bend with wheat will be able to supply those which have it not, and can we impose that the policy of the Cur will permit wheat to be exported, which he can pour into pro. vines that require It I' There will bo no wore accumula tions of wheat, and Francs will only come after the eighty zeitlione of Russians have been satisfied. An economical revolution is taking place in Ruda concomitantly with the social movement which we see there, and the treaty con. chided by General Nonracial inaugurates this new policy. It is not we but the English who have to dread Russian competition is China. When the European Ambassadors are established in Pekin, the Chinese will learn to diatin gnish the d.ffereace between the Christian policy of France and the mercantile policy of Eagland, and far from re garding us as enemies, they will, perhaps, come to regard to Si • support. The Siicie, in an article upon the session of the Councils-General, observes, with some regret, that economical questions alone have occupied the atten tion of these bodies. It says :—" The days are no more when the Councils-General, mingling in the political struggle, distinguished themselves by their interference in behalf of this or that opinion. Whether it be that they have now nothing to wish for in point of political matters, or whether they have adopted a new mode of considering these rights, we find them only discussing economical questions. Nevertheless, the opportunity we. a good one for them to distinguish themselves; and because, in our opinion, contrary to the spirit of their institutions, the Councils-General of 1830-61 and 1852, interfered directly in active politics, a great question discussed at this moment might occupy the attention of those of 1858." The question of the liberty of tho press is, doubt less, here alluded to, the silence upon winch the writer ett3s appears to him "significant, since if the councils bad been of the opinion of M. de Per sigoy they would not have failed to express such opinion by votes in favour of the existing legis lotion." In the Dlbats M. Bt. Marc Girardin replies to the argument that the liberty of the press is all very well for a cold-blooded tuition like the English, but would not be well at all in France, where men are " GO impetuous, and have such violent passions, and such a quick temperament," by the following I neat little apropos anecdote : I was once talking in France, to an Arab, upon the mole- Mon of woman in the East; which custom he defended by arguments both good and bad. Among others he need this. " In the West," he said, " there to no danger of your teiely seeing and conversing with women, because you have such owl/roll. Bat it is a dtfferent affair with um in the East," and the gesture of vanity with which he said this was delightful to behold. Hereupon I asked him bow he managed to get through the difficulty here in the West.—" Oh," said he t " very well ; I have become need to It." Now might not we in like manner, despite the vivacity of our temperament, sad our warm passions, become accustomed to the liberty of the press? This phrase—" liberty of the press,"—is certainly more on ieople's lips now than it used to be. But in France people are wont to talk a good deal about a thing before they adopt any practical means of securing its realisation. The weekly journal Ls Revell, which in spite of its sonorous name is supposed in general to have a somewhat soporific tendency, comes out this week against literary Anglomania. After mysteriously re marking that " men of high intellect and profound observation have proved the immense evils which it (Anglomania) has produced in the political world (of France) "—and that "recent facts and decisive experiments sufficiently protest against attempts at imitation made by short-sighted architects—(of policy, not house.) - whose edifices, built on an unstable sand, have yielded to the first blast of the storm," the writer continues: It is sot only in governmental spheres that Anglomania baa resulted in such cruel deceptions. :n en 'Mane and Maury point of view it has had melancholy result.. Un doubtedly Shakspeare, Byron, and Walter Scott, are worthy of our admiration. But we have erred in carrying that admiration to servility. We have copied their fantastic secentrkities, and trying to be novel, we have stifled among us all original inspiration. The number of British expres sions which circulate in our books and newspapers is incalculable. Some have insinuated themselves into ordi nary language, although, for the moat part, they are used without their moaning being in the least understood. To the assertion made in this last sentence the English reader will probably assent, and we may venture to observe, moreover, that foreign words never intrude themselves into a language. They come like SPALN. The Madrid journals of the 9th state that General Prim, who in addition to the military experience gained in the civil wars took part in Omer Pacha's campaign on the Danube, is to be appointed com mander of the expedition against the Riff. They add that the expedition is extremely popular throughout the country, the atrocities of the pirates baring long excited ,the indignation of the people, and even been made the subject of songs, plays, and novel... The Espana, whilst thanking the French Emperor for having approved of the expedition, ex , presses the hope that Spanish troops will be alone engaged in it. Ooe of the journals says that the Queen desired that the name of O'Donnell should be given to the ship of the line launched at Ferrol, but that the President of the Council declined the honour. " Spirits from the vsety deep," when they are "called for." The fact of their fee quence proves their value ; they would not be there unless they were wanted. And then, to soothe the irritation of French susceptibility, the name English reader cheerfully takes off his hat, bows, and warmly thanks the French l►nguage for many, very many, words and expressions borrowed by perfidious Albion, and for ever incorporated with English phraseology. But to return to the Rived and its lucubration.. The writer select, as his illustration the word "humour " which, " as l'humour, has obtained the right of citzenship in France." Adopting the defi nition of M. Philarete Charles, he accepts it but under one form—the form which by the way ex cludes Dickens and Thackeray from the claim to be considered as English humourists. He says Hamlet, who turns the world into bitter pleasantries— Yorick, whose skull serves as the text of such melancholy theories—poor Jacques, who morales& at once so charmingly and so childishly nu the death of a stag--and the entire book of Bterne,are int luded among the most curionsprodnets of the British imagination. The English, in losing Lamb, lost the last gem of their humorimio erown. This exotic style w ill never be successfully acclimatised with us. He then proceeds to exalt Rabelais, Racine, and Labroyere (whom, however, he cannot poasibly elevate higher than English °titian= has placed them) in whose works, he goes on to say, . You will never fod that railturs of high-flown muff men tains and vul,g.tr buffoonery of which Stetn and Swift have given such singular specimens. This intellectual shameless ness (diroyondap) is not in harmony with the habits and genius of a nation which appreciates above all things pre cision of form. Let us, then, remain faithful to the tradi tions of the French intellect, and let us not sacrifloe to vain caprices the serious qualities which have obtained for our literature, a lasting milluenmi and popularity in every pert of the civilised world. Here is evidently a writer who will not take um brage at being styled a literary Anglophobe. According to the commercial report of the Presse the state of affairs has not altered sensibly during the last week. Business continues to in crease slowly. Orders are coming in both from the provinces and from abroad, but credit revives slowly. Business in general is dons for cash. Merchants for the most part realised their capital during the crisis, and they now save the discount by paying fm goods at once. This accounts for the small quantity of commercial paper in circu lation, although on the whole there is an increase of transactions. Manufacturers complain of the scarcity of labour= they 'have been obliged to refuse orders owing to the difficulty of finding workmen. This is equally the ease in Lyons and other manufacturing towns, as in Perim. During the commercial crisis many workmen le ft the town, and took to agricul tural labour. Operations at Lyons are described as being active. Articles of luxury are now in demand such as jewellery, broilers, cabinet-work, and lace. The prices of taw materials are firm, with an upward tendency. Speculattirs ars purchasing silks, woollens, and cottons. Cotton-wools in particular maintri•ii a price that leaves but a small margin for the manu facturer. The importance of encouraging the pro duction of cotton in Algeria, with a view to compe tition with America, is dwelt upon. Calmness pre vails in cereal* and wines. The fine harvest weather has occasioned the getting in of the corn in such good condition that it was thrashed and brought to market very early, so the quantity at market has been abundant. Tne wins trade is always dull just before the vintage ; but as a great vintage is anticipated, the Burgundian proprietors are selling their wines in order to get cellar-room. The departure of Prince Napoleoa to Algiers, which has been cap .ken of as if it were fixed fur the 25th of this month, will not take plate, as we ars now told, before tho end of October. - A paragraph in the Indipertdanre Beige, according to which the Prince Minister had succeeded in persuading the imptrial government to open all the Algerian harbours as declared free ports, is met by the Padres with a qualified sort of acceptance; the ministerial journal " believes, for its own part, that it is not very improbable that the government may really adopt a decision to that effect before long. ' On the other hand, the rumour of a French expe dition to Madsgatoar is contradicted in the same quarter. What the Pattie say. of it is this : We believe we know from a very certain source a In formation that there is absolutely no foundation for the rumours which have been circulated by several journals w.th respect to an expedition alleged to he projected by France, and to be undertakeu shortly against Madagascar. Ti Is possible that such an expedition may have been talked about at the minteries a few days ago, because u Francs has never renounced her indent claims upon that island the new' of the departure of a detachment of English troops from the Muritius to Madagascar has naturally recalled everybod)'s attention to this question. But on the one hand t b. English operation referred to is nut yet offictally confirmed, and, on the other hand, we are assured that the Emperor's govern., went has not pronounced an intention lately to send any force whatever against the Malgaches. _ . _ _ _ The Bourse has been quiet to-day, and the Rents sustained a slight reaction, closing at 72 fr. 75 e., although a disposition to seek investments is still perceptible. Railway shins were in the same position, and (hose of the Northern and the Geneva lines especially remained Ann. Many purchases were made in the Spanish funds, Credit Mobilier gate way in the first half-hour, but recorered some what, and fell again to 930 fr. INSTALLATION OF A CANON or YORK.-013 Saturday, the Rev. John Jarrett, M A., of St. John'. Col l/la, Cambridge, VINO of Northcave, near Brongb WILP in atathrd into th e canonry of Bole, In York Cathedral, Tell dared vacant by lb. prefortnent of the Hon. and Rev. A. Danouraby, M.A., to the Dummy. TURKEY. The Turkish government has just nominated a commission charged to inspect the fortified places of the Itusso-Tarkish frontier, and to !superintend their repair. The commission consists of nine dis tinguished officers, and is presided over by Scrim Pasha, General of Division, Governor of the En gineering School. It is principally to visit the following places :—Bai-Bout, or Baibourdi, to the north-west of Erzeroum, near width are the copper mines of Maaden, belonging to the — lmperial Can non Foundry ; Ersindjan, on the Euphrates, an important strategetical point ; Kars, celebrated for its defence in 1828 and 1855, a position of great importance ; Bayarid, which commands the road to Teherana, and the inhabitants of which carry on extensive bnainess with Georgia and Persia; Van, defended by a crenelated wall and by a strong citadel on a steep rock, and one of the most curious towns of all Armenia; and lastly, Ani, on the Arpertchai, which fell into the hands of the Greeks in 1045, and was captured from them by the Turks in 1071. GREECE. A telegraphic despatch from Athens announces the death of M. Marrocordato, who played an im portant political part in Greece, and was at one time Minister. MADAGASCAR. A letter in the Nord contains some particulars respecting Madagascar, which, at this present moment, when the French have just made it one of their naval stations, and when there has been much talk of both French and English projected expedi tions thither, are not without interest. The French writer soya: The station of the eastern oust of Africa will form the seventh of our naval stations; the others being the western coast of Africa, India and China, the Pacific Ocean, the western coast of America, the Antilles, Newfoundland, and Iceland. I will commence by speaking of the _poaseesiona we actually occupy on the east coast of Africa. Besides the floe Wend of Reunion (formerly the le's of Prance), 1;0 leagues from Madagascar, we peewees on theahores of this great Wand, the Woof Mario, Nose-Be, and Mayot.e, the last being the bead steam of this little goverment. The island tf St. Marie, called by the people of Madagascar Nceei-Ibra him, is situate towards the eastern point of Madagascar, from which it is separated by a channel five kilometres wide ; it is 48 kilometres in length, from 8 to 12 in width. An arm of the sea treverees its southern portion, dividing it into two parts. It is surrounded in a great measure by resfa, but to the north there Is pretty good anchoring ground, and Port Louis, the capital of the island, is an exoellent port. In the middle of this port is • little island, called Madame, strongly defended, and on which are the barracks, storehouses, and dockyard. Not far off, on a mountain, are the ruins of a monument mantling the first occupation; it Is pyramid, from the middle of whieh a great tree eprings, and on whose sides are carved the arms of Palace and of the East India Company. The cession of the Island was made on the 30th July, 1760, by Beti, daughter of the last Prinoe of Foulepointe, to Louts XV., represented by M. Came, a naval officer. The only compensation for the cession wee " • certain quantity of goods proper and suitable fur her." It was abandoned at the time of the Revolution, btu Count Mold again caused possession to be taken on the 16th Oct. 1818, by B iron Marken , and the French agents were well reoeived by the natives. Next year a garrison of 60 mut was placed there. In 1821 the Preach government, desirous to develops agriculture in our colonies, sent men and money to St. Marie. The first attempts were unfortunate ,• they were badly directed, diseases afflicted the colonists, and the result era. • total failure. Just thee, February, 1822, an English corvette arrived at. Port Louis, and its dbm minder, Mr. Moresby, demanded by what right the French were establahed there, and what they proposed doing at Made . M. Bylvain Roux, commandant of the island. rep lid that he acted in virtue of orders from the king, and that Madagascar was French. An animated discussion ensued between the Governor of Bourbon and the Governor of the Mauritius, who declared Madagascar an independent island. It was subsequently that Radom& ebbed to seise the povereig i nZ of the isl a nd, and to mush tbo numerous chiefs who recognised our auseraimetd. Radices, however, never contested our right of property in Sr. Mode. They continued to fortify the port, which in 11 326 had 76 white men and 182 blacks in the service of the colony, and 100 more on the pmpet ties of some colonists. Two man-of•wer ware stationed there; but the conduct of Radama brought things to that point, that in 1828 it was necessary to think of forming an expidttion, and to station 300 men of black troops at Port Louis.% The expedition undertaken in 1829 failed. One of the first acts of Louis Philippe's government was to traumata St. Merle, but occupation was soon resumed. In 1840 our government felt the importance of increasing OUT naval power in those latitude., and acquired in July the island of Nosel-Be and Nomi- Cumba ; in 1841, the island of Nose- Mitsiou and surrounding Wet., and the island of Negri-Felt ; the Sultan of Mayotte ceded his island on the 26th of April, 1841. All these cessions were obtained from tribes friendly to Prime, end who felt themselves unable to bold their own again. Ire Novas. Thenceforward we had an important pontion in the Mozambique Channel ; all these islands are ritual" between Madagascar end the continent. Idaritte alone, one of the Comers Islands, is 60 or 70 league, from the shore; the others are in sit notions analogous to that of Si Maris. Mayotte end Nossi-Be were at once ocengied, and sines then have annually increased in importance. Msyotte,'espeeially, is on the way to become en Important colony ; it is 21 miles long, and has an area of 30,000 hectares. A sham of mountain crone. it from north to south, The Preach establehment is at Point Choi, when the land is very fertile. The Wand is w has excellent water, pasturage, and some anchoring places. Nossi-BE has • smiling and fertile as aspect ; the centre oecupli d by mountains, has 30,000 hectare& of wood. The establishment la on the banks of a little river, and his received the name of Hell Ville, fens Admiral Heil, o.vanor of Bourbon, when pomession wee taken. Of the other islands belonging to us, Noarti-Cambia, not a league from Novi-BE, is very populate, and has magnificent vegeta bon. Nord-Pali, eight miles from Nord-BE, is rich fn Tie, grounds. According to the West documents that have reacted the /dietary of Marine end the Colonies, the ' population of Mayotte and its dependencies is as follows: Mayotte, 6,829 inhabitants, of which 3,748 were men; , Noel-Bed, 16,178 7,790 m e n; St. Ma ri e, 6,560, 2,489 men. ' To these are to be added 600 or 000 floating population, 62 functionaries and employee, 200 menet European troops, sod 250 black truope. At St. Marie, the gmwth of sugar is at taining a great development ; in 1854, 339.121 kilogrammes of sugar were exported thence to France. In this situation Prance his inUttary establishments easy of development on the two masts of Madagascar; and, moreover, Mayotte gives her an excellent position. With mina to Muscat and Einziger, points towards which French trade begins to direct itself, the opening of the great reed by the Red Sea (Suez) will augment the • tmyoetanoe of this colony, which will thus find Ite f con siderably nearer to the mother country, and will be the ad vanced poet of our eolonial power in these latitudes. I will hereafter trace the history of our rights to Madagascar, end it will be seen that M. Sylvan Roux, cepteene de Plialtal4 and commandent at Si. Marie, was completely right when he replied to Captain Moresby, of the British corvette Menai, " that all the bland belonged to France, and that he pro tested, by anticipation, against any infringement on her right of Moriarty.' The last news received from Madagascar is to the effect that Ranavalo, Queen of that island, was very seriously ill. iler decease would, it is said, have a great ii,tluence en the future affairs of that country. The Marquis of Dalhousie, accompanied by Lady 3aiah Rarasay sad Colons! Ramsay, has arrived at Dal housie Cools, his seat hi Scotland, fro. Malvern wens. The Canterbury Oa:ette says :—" Sir William Somerville, veto 6106 the Thing of parliament has been on a continental tour, 101 l a visit yesterday (Monday) to his constituents end friend, in this coy, by whom he was re ceived with hearty congratalailuna. The honourable baronet does not appear near so lusty as he need to be. Illness brought Lim down, and the carts of a political life have kept him so." WORKING OF RESPONSIBLEGOVERNMENT IN CANADA. (1101 t OVI OWN Imo.) TORONTO, Avotst 30. The events of the last month in Canada o ug h t ..... to excite some interest in England, affecting as they do the whole relations of the colony with the mother. country. The Macdonald Ministry were defeated on the "seat of government question" in the Assembly by a majority of fourteen, and the next morni ng sent in their resignations to the Governor-General. This occurred on Thursday, Jaly 28. Mr. Brown, the leader of the Upper Canada opposition, was at once sent for, and received from his Excellency the fullest assurances that he would be supported by the head of the government in forming a Mi nistry. Mr. Brown asked time to consult his friends, and called Mr. Dorion, the Lower Canada leader of the opposition, into his counsels. Neither of these gentlemen, and only one or two of their party, had ever been in office before, and some time was neces sary to arrange the details of the new ministry ; but, still further, the two leaders went to work deter. mined to find some basis of policy upon the quo. i tions which divide the two provinces, which, with. out involving a sacrifice of principle on their part. might serve as a compromise between the contend.. ing faction,. This took some time to accomplish, 1 and it was not till Saturday afternoon that Mr. Brown informed his Excellency that he was ready to accept office. In the meantime, the supporters of the late goverment met, and resolved that they would stand by their late leaders, and show the now ministry no mercy. In these meetings it was freely stated that the Governor-General was personally opposed to the incoming ministry, that he would grant neither a prorogation nor a dissolu tion, and that it the majority which supported Mso. donald (except on the seat of government question) only adhered to each other, the new ministry coda not carry on. The attitude thus assumed by a ma lority of the House, and the difficulties which existed Ito reference to the policy of the new government, made the majority of people believe that it would fail; and it is said that the Governor started with surprise when he was informed that its arrange. mente were nearly completed. Some doubts still existed as to the final settlement of the offices is Lower Canada, but it was known on Sunday that the Government had been finally formed, and that some of the most infitientiel Lower Canadians, who had been politically opposed to Mr. Brown and Mr. Dorion, had joined it, and were likely to add considerable strength to the combination. On Sunday night everything was going smoothly, and it was supposed that the new government would be able to overcome all its diffi culties, when the Governor-General's secretary de livered to Mr. Brown the following memorandum: His Excellency the Governor-General wishes Mr. Brown to consider this memorandum, and to communicate it to the gentlemen whose names he proposes to submit to his Excel lency as members of the new government. The Governor-General gives no pledge or promiar, express or implied, with reference to dissolving parliament. When advice Is tendered to his Excellency on this subject, he eM make up his mind according to the circumstances then exist. ing, and the reasons then Lid before him. The Governor-General has no objection to prorogue the parliament without the members of the new administration taking their sesta In the present session. But, if he does so, it ought, his Excellency thinks, to be on an express under 'tattling that parliament shall meet again as soon as possible —pay in November or December. Until the new ministers meet parliament, his Excellency has no aseurance that they possess the confidence of the majority of the house. The business transacted in the interval ought, in hisopi nion, to be confined to matters necessary for the ordinary administrution of the government of the province. If parliament is prorogued, hie Exoellency would think It very desirable that the bill for the registration of voters, and that containing the prohibition of fraudulent assignments end gifts by traders, should be proceeded with and biome law—subject, of court*, to such moitlicatiens as the wisdom of either house may suggest. Beddesthis, airy item of sup ply absolutely necessary should be provided for by a voted credit, and the money for repairs of the canals, which cannot be postponed, should be voted. His Excellency can hardly prorogue until these necessary steps are taken. If parliament merely adjourns, until sus the re-election of the members of the government, the arm Is different, and the rerponsibility is on the house itself. • prorogation is the act of Ma Excellency, and in this porti• outer caae such act would be performed without the ablest/ ministers. who had already received the confidence of mike ment. Ws Excellency's own opinion would be in favour d proroguing, If the conditions above specified can be talks!, and if Mr. Brown and his colleagues see so objection. (Signed) Enwene HILLD. Government House, Toronto, July 31, 1858. If the Queen had forwarded such a missive to Lord Derby immediately after the formation of his government, and before it had been sworn in, I imagine that it would be considered a stretch of authority beyond what the prerogative justifies, end I assure you that in Canada it is not thought lese improper on the part of the Governor-General. His Excellency took it upon himself' to prescribe what measures should be passed during tho session and what should bo laid aside, when parliament should meet, and when it should be prorogued. He declined to say whether he would grant a dissolution before be was asked, and in fact arranged everything just as it he were responsible to the people, and not a mere nominee of Downing-street. The new ministry at once saw that they were about to come into antagonism with the Governor, and earnestly considered what they should do. To abandon the field to their opponents would be to declare their inability to carry on the affairs of the country, and that they would not do. lf, indeed, the Governor had positively refused to grant a dissolution, they might have done so, for they were ready to admit that in the present House it would be difficalt to obtain a majority without the power of dissolution in their hand's; but Sir Edmund Head was too cun ning for that. It will be observed that he declined either to promise or refuse until the question arose. They resolved to adopt what they considered the strictly oonatitutional course, one which would place them rightly before their constituents nod the country. Mr. Brown addressed the following letter to his Excellency : Mr. Brown hes the honour to acknowledge receipt of his Excellency the Governor-General's note of lest sight. with scoompanying memorandum. Before receiving hitiEnctl7.. kncy's note Mr. Brown had successfully fulfilled the gar matured to him by the Governer•General, and ell to yr pared, at the appointed hour this morning, to Adana hil 1s Excellency's approval the names of the gentlemen what se proposes to be associated with hinvellAn the maw meet. Mr. Brown respectfully submits that, until till/ mourned the functions of oonsUtettiocal advisers of the he and his proposed colleagues will not be in • position to . cuss the important maaaurea and questions of public POW ?tittered to in his Excellency's memorandum. 'f he Governor-General accepted the rebuke, sad the ministry was sworn in on Monday morning. Oa the afternoon of that day, when the house met, the formation of the new government was annonoced. The house was requested to go on with the loonies until after the elections, and the writs were IlleVell for. The first writ was that for Montreal, and tbs. opposition then took the extraordinary course St moving an amendment granting the issue, bet es pressing their want of confidenps in the new govern: meat. The opposition had made a full mustet s! their forces, while the government, not expecting sus a step, were weak in numbers, and ten minister were absent from the house. The oonsequenes wee the amendment to the writ was carried by 10'07 In a majority. Previous to the honor meeting, the minienel asked his Excellency fora prorogation, and it IT positively refused. On the following morning tie council met and formally demanded a diasolutica 6 the Assembly. It was refused, and the government resigned. Mr. Gilt, a gentleman without a #lO. follower in the House of Assembly, and of co MI?: mice in the country, waseent tor, but declined tie ' attempt the task of forming a government , a id i Cartier, the French leader of the Macdonald into was called in. The result was the re-inetatemeat , the old set, with th e Exception of Messrs. Cayley Ins Loranger, whose planes were supplied by Maio!. Galt and Sherwood. When this was across.sk!az Messrs. Brown and Dorion and their supportell,lr that the resignation:, the calling in of th emsel n and the refusal of a dissolution, wore all part!ll. plot to secure to the Macdonald - Carti er cosh? II new lease •of office, and the greates t in _,.... nation was displayed in the house t 7 Conduct of the Governor-General. Worse, bow