The Express. — London, England, 1866-08-09 00:00:00

THE tXPREFS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1866. t•YDRiPIft OHOLERA RELIEF FUND, Mansi o n - house. IL/ Ate PHILIMINABY MUTING of Merchants, Bankem. and others, hold at the Mansion-house on MONDAY, at 3 o'clock, The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOlAresiding. a Committee was formed to mime SUBSCBI ONB for the pur pose of relieving the great suffering and disc ess among the poor which has been caused by the present and ot chokes in the metsopolls. The fends collected by this Ceinceittee will be applied towards the relief of the poor yermiss who are *uttering from the preva lence of cholera. Weida in aid will be given as far as possible through the agency of local boards, eommittees, dispensaries, and other in etitutions. 'he fenb-Comealike will meet each day at I o'clock, at the lianden-honse. Donations will be thankfully received by the Weis man, the Lard Mayor, Mansion-loam ; Moors. Barnet. Rams, lianbary, and Co., 62, Lombard-street, RC.; Yews, Barclay, Bevan, and Co., si, Lombardatreet, E. C.. Messrs. Ho lmquist, Pranks, and Co. 79, Lombardctreet, B.C. ; National I si ol Bank of England, Bishopsgatectireet, and Branch ; . Roberts, Lubbock, and Co., Is. Lombard-street, N.C. Roma Moans and Co., 37, Fleatatreat ; Smith, Payne, and Smith, 1, Lookbard-scree!: and sharps, 19, kleet-street. .1081 PH IBBS, Secretary. Manion-home, London, August 7,1866. BENSON, J. W., by Special Appointment to H.R.H. ths ?dna of Wolin. BENSON'S WATCHES. Prize Medal, 1865. Sent safe by post. !ENSON'S ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLET. 2d. BENSON, Old Bond-street and Weatbonrne grove. Steam Factory, Ludgate-MTh Jand G. SAMPSON, Tailors and Outfitters, • 1 and t, Prinaretreet, Leteseteraquare, W., kr* an eaormoas Stock of HOPS CLOTHING ready aids Bora Knickerbocker Ma l4. to lOU. Ston and Dress Snits ll l, to 40a. Sommer Overcoat. l4a to V.. Suitable tar •13 *ma 110 AND SEE THE SHOW tid 112,01181= Or shop window, and soled holofrom, id J. and G. BA Tonors and °Waitron, I and 2, Prhooss Wool s loloootorogoore, W. AFrER WHAT I—After Mellon's Promenade Comerte, SVA.NB' to sort We Mall met Qom Eke enartoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS hvailwateats intended for "The --11" Lando' Eveadag matt be at the Moe, le. &eiweleatreek by Two deloei oa the day at publication. Tres "roma, TinIVOIIENOT CAPTAIN. Mews. Tbilisi, 9dand G. Homey ; Mims Neilson, &wags Theeness, and Mas. .—Asd QUM LODGING& ITANNLL Tao Imams, THE JOLLY DOOR 07 LONDON; OR, TWO ROADS OP LIFE—AMA L.TSIA Latimer, Mr. C. Brown, & Muter Benders.—And THE DUSTMAN'S TREASURE ; OR, WWI AND THE BOFFIN& NIGH WATER AT LONDON BUM. Tall DAS —Morning, OIL 34s Afternoon. IL. fee. 20-11031tOlf—llornisic 11. 31m Attorsoos, lb. 14no. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. A TERRIBLE battle is raging at the present moment in the East-end of London. The dead number upwards of 1,000 weekly ; the statistics of the wounded will never accurately be gathered. As in warfare the number killed in action re presents but a small portion only of those placed hors de combat, so in cholera we must remember that the list of dead, formidable though it be, is far from expressing the sum of loss from the attacks of this fearful enemy. The illness which does not kill, but which Incapacitates the working members of a family for whole weeks, forms a terrible item in the list of losses sustained in the combat. Considering the warning which the pre sence of cholera in England should have given, East London was singularly unprepared to re sist this relentless foe. With a rapidity which has defied all efforts to keep pace with it, cholera has swept through the crowded dwellings of the poor and caused desola tion scarcely, if at all, less severe than would have attended the inroad of a human enemy. Earnest, but late, efforts are being made to stem the torrent, and doubtless the amount of misery already engendered can be much alleviated by the generous sympathy which is now being shown. From the absence of any provision for the re ception of cholera patients the chief brunt of this attack has fallen upon the London Hospital. This admirable institution, under the rough trial to which it has been subjected, has shown a power of expansion and capacityforusefulness which is really marvellous. Notwithstanding the demands upon its space which its position in the centre of a densely crowded and poor population and its proximity to the docks always necessitates, it has managed to receive and provide in the best possible manner for about 400 cases of cholera, which have been received within its walls during the last three weeks. The public owes a very large debt of gratitude to this institution, and there is no reason to fear that a substantial recognition of its thanks will be wanting. But this sudden and exceptionally severe outbreak, overwhelming the local authorities, and pressing much too heavily upon the resources of an institution which is intended for all descrip tions of illness and accident, is so full of warning to the rest of the metropolis, that no delay should occur in taking advantage of the lesson which it conveys. We should be blind to the teaching of all former epidemios if we rested content with sympathy with the sufferers, however liberally shown. A deadly enemy is abroad. In the nature of things we cannot expect that the remainder of the metropolis will altogether avoid its share of the visitation. MID experience of this epidemic has shown, what such a history was not needed to show, that when the actual outbreak of cholera occurs it is too late to make such arrangements as will materially in fluence its fatality. The time for such arrange ments is that which immediately precedes the attack. The sources of danger to which London generally is at the present moment exposed are mainly these. Visitors to the sick in East London return to other parts of town, and are seized shortly afterwards with the disorder. Either directly through them, or through others to whom the disease is communicated by them, surface wells may get polluted owing to faults in the drainage. In this way, as happened in the notorious Broad-street pumps, a vast number of persons may simultaneously acquire the disorder by drinking of the poisoned water. Again, although the sources of the water supply drawn fromthe Thames arehigherthazi they were in 1854 and 1849, yet we still continue to derive the greater part of our water from a river which receives the drainage of a large num ber of towns. It has been proved so satisfactorily that no scientific men are found now to doubt the I fact, that the discharge of sewage infected with cholera poison into a river even so large as the Thames may so influence the whole stream that water derived from it will convey the disease into the dwellings which it supplies. This is a fact the full significance of which the imagination has difficulty in seizing, but it is one which has been proved beyond all reasonable doubt. It is, then, through the accidental contamina tion of houses, clothes, food, &c., that we may ~find scattered cases of cholera arising in the metropolis generally, whose source can be traced to the East of London. Already several such cases have occurred. It is through the poiaoeing of a river like the Thames by cholera dejection+ • finding their way into it above the point whence the water supply is drawn that we may be exposed to just such a sudden, violent, and extensive out- break as that which is now olarwlialming London. We have already, in a previous sr* , adverted to the important aid in the prevention a such evils that may be rendered by a thorough system of house-to-house visitation. There are other measures which it is not less necessary to 'adopt without lama of time. When troops in India are attacked by cholera, the first step taken is to shift the ground of the encampment. By a comparatively recent regula tion permanent cholera camping grounds are ar ranged, to which the men can be immediately transferred on the outbreak of the disease. These are chosen in eligible situations, and no difficulty of season or convenience is allowed to stand in the way of their being instantly utilized. When cholera broke out in the Bombay Presidency last spring the advantage of this arrangement was clearly seen. The affected clamp was immediately removed to thesiteprevioualy selected, and the dis order ceased its ravages. If it were possible to shift the whole population of East London just now, and camp them out in the open, there is no reason to doubt that a similar good result would follow. We cannot do this, but we can effect the nearest approach to it. One grand difficulty in dealing with an outbreak of cholera in poor districts arises from the fact that although we may remove to a hospital the first patient at tacked in a family, the remaining members are still exposed, in the room which they occupy, to the very influences which have already produced the disease. It has been noted in the London Hospital, just as it has been observed on previous occasions, that when a patient is admitted the remainder of the family generally follow in the course of a few hours or days. If it were possible, on the first appearance of cholera in a family, to remove those unaffected to another quarter, there are good grounds for expecting that they would, in a large majority of cases, escape the disorder. The establishment of homes of refuge dates from 1849, when their utility was un deniably proved. In Scotland, especially, the experiment was fully tried. Out of 1,700 persons admitted into houses of refuge in the epi demic of 1849, there were but 33 attacks and 10 deaths by cholera. This is a very striking fact, when it is remembered that these 1,700 persona were taken out of actually infected rooms. The Privy Council, in its instructions to vestries, dated July 21, gives authority, when cholera or choleraic diarrhu3a exists in a dwelling inappro priate for the separation of the sick from the healthy, to provide accommodation for the recep tion of those unaffected. There are considerable difficulties to be overcome in the organization of cholera hospitals, not the least of which lies in the objections which are offered to houses being let for such a purpose. The same difficulty would not arise, at least with equal force, in the procuring of shelter for the healthy members of a family in which cholera has appeared. It is too late to think about such a provision when cholera has already broken out with severity in a district. It is just now that such steps should be taken. There is no reason why every parish should not at once secure accommodation for this purpose. There may be doubts about the advisability of exposing a patient, without absolute necessity, to the dangers inherent in removal from home to a hospital. There can be no such objection properly urged ageing the preparation of rooms into which the as yet unaffected members of a family might be trans ferred, with the reasonable expectation of an amount of good arising equal to that which is found to attend the provision of cholera camping grounds In India. worthy peopl% Mr. Bealli and hi; frient have proved that many d people can be brijit together to lass eptlitkers, or to show their empathy with the cause of reform. So far they have) aohieved some thing in favour of their cause ; but if the League continue its agitation during the autumn, the Times trusts it will profit by the lesson of the last fortnight, and spare us any more monster out-door demonstrations. Immense indoor asasmblages like that in the Agricultural Mall are lees inconvenient, but they are useless for any practical purpose. When the Reform League discusses its principles in a place not beyond the limits of the human lungs, it may make more clear to the world the nature of the measure it demands and the reasoning by which it associates the late ministry with its cause. At present the Times can only see that the League is for universal suffrage and the ballot, while the statesmen whom it calla its leaders in parliament are opposed to both these measures. The Tdegraph deacribea the meeting of last night as full to overflowing. The spirit exhibited was strikingly that of men in earnest. It was emphatically an assembly of working men—their dress, demeanour, speech betokened that; but the men were not such as produce disorder or lawless tumult, as swell the ranks of pauperism or the death-roll of intemperance ; they seemed the due of the steady, sober, industrious artisans of the metro polis, and with whose intelligent and measured enthusiasm it was impossible not to sympathise. The moral to be drawn from the meeting is that the great parties in the state would do well to dismiss their childish tremors as to working-class suffrage, and make their pesos with the great unenfranchised masses by removing the barriers that too absolutely exclude them from the privileges of legislation. . LAEST INTELLIGENCE. TRUCES AND ARMISTICES. The armistice between Italy and Austria which would have expired to-morrow has been prolonged for a further period of twenty-four hours. Al though the suspension of hostilities has only been extended for a few hours, the general impression appears to be that there is no real danger of actual warfare between the two states. On the 3rd of the present month an armistice was signed between Prussia and Baden, one of the principal conditions of which was that the Prussian troops should remain in military occupation of that part of the Grand Duchy which is north of the Necker. There have been so many of these truces, armistices, and suspensions of hostilities that it may be worth while to give them in the order of their date. The first truce took place at noon on Sunday, the 22nd of July, between Austria and Prussia, and was to last till the same hour on Fri day, the 26th. On the 26th preliminaries of peace were signed at the Castle of Nikolsburg, and at the same time an armistice for four weeks was agreed to between both powers. On the 28th of July an armistice of three weeks, to date from the 2nd of August, was agreed to between Prussia and Bavaria. The armistice was afterwards extended to Wurtemburg, Hesse Darmstadt, and other states of south Germany. The first suspension of arms between Austria and Italy took place on the 26th of July, and was to continue till 4 o'clock on the morning of August 2. This truce was after wards extended to the 10th of August, and this has again been further extended for the short space of 24 hours. (aztrmee TrammuxB). AUSTRIA AND ITALY. PADUA, Aoauerr 8. • The suspension of hostilities between Austria and Italy has been prolonged for 24 hours, namely, until 4 a.m., on the 11th inst. ITALY. FLORENCE, Auayer 9. - The King has appointed Count Barrel and General Menabrea plenipotentiaries for Italy at the conference to be held at Prague for the con clusion of peace. The great majority of the communes and pro vinces have already declared their willingness to undertake to raise their proportion of the amount required for the new national loan. A similar course is expected to be taken in the other provinces. The Italian troops in Venetia are being concen trated in defensive positions. The assertions of an Austrian journal in reference to an alleged letter of the Emperor 'Napoleon to the King of Italy are unfounded. A perfect un derstanding exists between Italy and Prance on the question of the cession of Venetia. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Amon 9. The King has had a slight attack of ;arioella, and was, therefore, unable to open yesterday the Bel gian Exhibition of Fine Area. cocHIN CHINA. PARIS, AUGUST 9. According to the latest official intelligence re ceived here from Cochin China, dated June 28, the rebels had been dispersed, their encampment burnt, and their lea ler killed. Order had not been dis turbed in other parts of the colony. MEDITERRANEAN. MARSEILLES, Almon 8, Emus°. The Constantinople packet has been delayed by a hurricane. ThQ bad weather in the Meditei.s- Dean continues. PARIS. (mar OUR owl( ooaassrosnzwr.) PARIS, WIDIOISDAY Bviernio. Although there undoubtedly is an " Italian difficulty," I believe I may safely state that the Emperor's sudden departure from Vichy to St. Cloud was not attributable to that or any other political reason. lam informed that his Majesty is unwell, and that Dr. Reyer having expressed an opinion that the Vichy waters were doing him no good it was thought advisable that he should come to Paris for further advice. It is stated that he performed the journey lying on a mattress —but this may very possibly be a false rumour. The moment he arrived at St. Cloud, Drs. Nels ton and Ricord were sent for to meet his ordinary medical advisers in consultation. It was this news , more than anything political, which produced the further fall at the Bourse, though for obvious reasons the money articles of the even ing papers only allude to it by saying that there were various alarming rumours. No less than ten special messengers gallopped between St. Cloud and Paris to-day. On the subject of Italy the Pays says that the difficulties came first from the Florence cabinet, which preferred unexpected claims ; but that now they come also from the cabinet of Vienna, which shows itself exacting in questions of execution and detail. It thinks, however, although the suspen li sion of hostilities now agreed upon between Austria and Italy expires the day after to-morrow, August 10, there is "no reason at present to attach great importance to these temporary difficulties." The France, while expressing the like hope, observes, however, that both Italy and Austria seem equally obstinate upon the question of an armistice on the basis of the uti possidetis, and that it is not easy to see any practical means of a com- promise. At the Bourse Bente fell 46c. for cash and Vic. for account, closing at 68fr. 55c. and 68fr. 67ic. Italian fell 80c., closing at 51fr. 20c. Mobilier fell Bfr. 76c., and Credit Fonder, 10fr. Dr. Berard, a practising physician, and one of the principal proprietors of the Gazette de Prance, died of cholera on Sunday, almost suddenly, at his country house near Blois. He had taken a run to Paris, where, it is supposed, he must have caught the seeds of the disease. He returned to Blois only on Saturday evening, complained on his arrival of feeling rather unwell, was attacked with unmistakeable cholera symptoms in the night, and was dead in the afternoon of the next day. The Civil Tribunal to-day declared the will of the Duke de Gramont Caderousse in favour of Dr. Watt null and void. The court declined to ex press any opinion upon two points raised in argu ment, whether the will was not void as being made under the influence of " blind resentment," and as containing a secret trust ; and it annulled the will on the single ground that Dr. Diclat, as a medical man who attended the deceased in his last illness, was incapable of being an object of his testamentary bounty. Dr. Weld's suit propounding the will was therefore dismissed with costs. In England the costa would probably have come out of the estate, and that I think would have been more just. No fraud was proved or alleged against Dr. D6clat, and it would seem equitable that if a testator makes a will in favour of an incapacitated person, the judicial inquiry occasioned by his mistake of the law should be at the expense of his assets. ITALY. "The national aspirations," says the Sick, " are so powerful in the Trent district that the com munes of Storo, Darzo, Londrone, Tiarno, Logos, and a great many others, have not hesitated to send addresses to Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi, to thank them for having expelled the foreigner. The citizens of Tione had sent an address to the King and to the chief of the volunteers as far back as the 3rd of July. At that date their town was still occupied by the Austrians." Whilst the settlement of the Italian question is waited for, the Austrian government continues, to the detriment of Venice, the spoliation against which the Italian journals have already protested. The italic of Florence cites amongst the documents carried off a great number of volumes containing the deliberations of the Senate of the ancient Republic ; the collection of reports addressed by ambassadors to the Senate at the expiration of their mission ; the secret archives of the Republic, and in particular all the documents relative to the quarrels of the Venetians with the Court of Rome, the written opinions of Fra Paolo Serpi as to the course of con duct to be pursued with the Vatican and resisting its pretensions ; finally, a great quantity of mis cellaneous manuscripts and chronicles of great value. In publishing this enumeration the italic adds that it is a priest, Moravian by birth, named Bede, who has acted as the instrument of Austria in the matter. It is through his erudition that the Austrian government has been able, at the last hour, to lay its hands on the most precious memorials of the history of Venice, that is to say, on all that has survived the ruin of the great republic. WHY THE AUSTRIANS HAVE FAILED AND THE PRUSSIANS WON. The Opinion Nationale, by the pen of M. Gugroult, its chief editor, explains the success which the Prussians have just obtained in Germany as follows: It is neither to the needle-gun, to the superiority of their discipline, or to the want of skill on the part of the Austrian gene rals'r that the soldiers of King William are indebted for their victory. If the fortune of arms has favoured them—if they have on every occasion repulsed the enemy, it is because, indeed of belonging to the Roman Catholic Church, they profane the religion of Luther, and are protestsuits and not catholic& The nations is which the Papal religion prevails are doomed to an irremediable decay ; with them progress has found no countenance ; the future is for the Reformed Church and the friends of freedom of conscience. What nations, K. Onfroult mks, are at the bead of civilisation? What coon- tries exercise a sovereign influence! The United States, England, and victorious Prussia. Which, on the contrary, drag themselves painfully along in the routine of the past without strength or grandeur! Spain, Rome, and unfortunate Austria. As for France, she is indebted to a particular temperament and to the free spirit of inquiry by which she has been always animated, mot to have fallen to the rank of the fifth or sixth power in Europe. But let her take care (our contemporary adds), the catholicism to which she obstinately remains attached, why is not easy to say—will indubitably in the long run paralyse her forces. A DECORATED FLUTE PLATER. Marshal VaiEast, Minister of the Emperor's Household and of the Fine Arts, yesterday presided at the distribution of prises to the successful pupils of the Conservatoire de Nudges, and delivered an appropriate address, in which he insisted on the necessity of assiduous study in order to become remarkable. H e announced, in terminating, that the Emperor had conferred the cross of the Legion of Honour on N. Donis, professor of the flute, the best pupil of Tulou. The sooond annual meeting of the National Ar tillery Association was brought to a close at Ehoebury. nem yesterday morning by the presentation of Tim ceremony waa performed in the presenee et • large as• eembly by Log Longford, the trader-Secretary of State for War. TRIBE POLICT. Referring to the speech of Lord Kimberley in the House of Lords, the Herold cannot avoid expressing its surprise that the Roman catholic portion of the community should b , represented by their late Lord Lieutenant as traitors to their heart's core who are reedy, notwithstanding their remarkable progress in the acquisition of wealth, to join in a rebellion, batched by Yankee emissaries, should they only perceive the slightest chance of its swoon. It is impossible to avoid remarking the exactitude with which Lord Kimberley adopts the programme of the Irish National Association —fixity of tenure first, and the despoilment of the church after-end it cannot doubt the source from which he drew his inspirations ; but the Herold sincerely trusts that the conservative government will not fall into the fatal error of accepting the unfounded assertions of those who are in some quarters supposed to represent the tenants of Ireland as a true exposition of their real sentiments. The law may require some amendments. Let the right of the tenant to a due remuneration for the improvements made with the consent of his landlord be established ; but this can be easily and safely accomplished without having recourse to what must be considered as nothing short of social revolution. The Daily New concludes an article on the same sub ject as follows :—The landowners of Ireland, like those England, are the tenants of the state, which has both the r:sht and the duty of looking to the conditions which they impose on their tenants. Heretofore the landlords have argued this question in parliament as if the law had conferred on them the same absolute dominion over the land in which they have estates as traders have over their goods. They will have to surrender this fallacy. The law has done much for them that was violent and unjust ; for their sakes it has interfered with pre-existing rights of property, and buttressed their monopoly by legis lation altogether exceptional ; but they still remain its creatures. These are matters which we can calmly argue at present. But if Lord Kiroberley's diagnosis of the Irish diseire be exact we may not long be permitted to do so. Before another opportunity of repairing past omissions returns we may be engaged in suppressing • most formidable and dangerous conspiracy, and it would not be pleasant—it might not be safe—to discover, when blood had flowed, that we had been fighting, not for the dignity of the crown, but for certain theories of landlordism which are held nowhere upon earth but in the United Kingdom. the Court. OSBORNE, A1701:11ff S. The Queen went out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by the Priii6eal Lona, and Princess Beatrice. Prince Leopold also drove out. Her Majesty walked this morning accompanied by Prin ass& Louise. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at s meeting of the Council of his Royal Highness, held at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham-gate, St. James's-park. There were present Sir William John Alexander, Attor ney-General ; Major-General Sir Thomas Myddelton, Sid dulph, Receiver-General; Lieutenant. General Knollys, Comptroller of the Household of his Royal Highness ; and Herbert William Fisher, Esq., Keeper of the Privy Seal. Mr. Bateman, the secretary, attended ea Clerk of the Council. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Cambridge visited the Prime and Princess of Wales at blarlboroui;h house yesterday. Mr. Justice Bell, of the Cape of Good Hope, had an in terview with the Earl of Carnarvon, at the Colonial-office, on Monday, on the subject of the wine duties of that colony. Mr. Laird, ?LP., had an interview with the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing-street, yesterday. A deputation from the Bow and Bromley Health Com mittee of the Poplar Board of Works, appointed under the Order in Council of the 21st July, 1866, consisting of Mr. E. R. Cook, of the Metropolitan Board of Works ; Mr. J. Slott, and Mr. Z. Barth, of the Poplar District Board of Works; the Rev. 0. T. Driffield, rector of Bow ; the Rev. A. G. How, vicar of Bromley ; sad the Rev. R. Parnell, incumbent of St. Stephen's, North Bow ; waited upon the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, at his official residence in Downing-street, yesterday, to call his attention to the expenses entailed upon the district by the order. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the Falkland Wanda. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Saxe Weimar, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, Mrs. Harding., and Major Tees dale, went to the Princess's Theatre last night. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales pre sided at a meeting of the provisional committee of the Central Hall of Arts and Sciences, at Marlborough Mime, yesterday. The following members of the committee were present :—His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Derby, K.G., Earl Granville, General the Hon. C. Grey, Sir S. Morton Pete, Bart., Henry Cole, C. 8.„ Edgar Bowling, C. 8., Messrs. Baring and Thring, and Lieutenant Colonel Scott, KM, secretary. The Duke o! Edinburgh presided at a meeting of the executive committee of the Central Hall of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday Let. The following members of the committee were present :--General the Hon. C. Grey,SirS. Morton Pete, Bart., Henry Cole, C. 8., Edgar Bowing, C. 8., Mr. Thring, andeolonel Scott, secretary. Earl Gren ville also attended the meeting. Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess de Paris have left York House, Twickenham, for Pen. 'arrow, on a visit to Lady Moleeworth. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe and the Marquis of Bowmont are expected to prolong their sojourn in Norway till the second week in the ensuing mouth. The Countess of Rothes and the Hon. George Waldegrave-Leslie, M.P., have left town for Leslie House, Filet/hire, N.B. Count and Lady Cecil De la Feld have left Princess-terrace for Feldensteia, beer Richmond. Count de Clermont-Tonnerre, chef d'escadron &Mat major, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from Puts. The count will succeed Colonel the Marquis d'Au digne as military attache to the French Embassy, the letter having bees appointed to the Comite d'lnfanterie in Paris. Sir Ronndell Palmer, M.P., and Lady lours Palmer and family have left town for Lowestoft. Mr. George and Lady Charlotte Russell intend to Lars town to-day for Floors Castle, Roxburghshirs. Mr. and Mrs. Johnstone have left Farrance's Hotel for Isowle Park, near Sevenoaks, Kent. CZYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DILE.••• WZDNILBDAT, AVOUST B.—Adminsions on payment, 11,589 ; diets by seems tickets, 4,113. Total Oaten, 15,702. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) otumweirrat POLITICS. The policy of men of the stamp of Count Bis marck, says the Times, is not amenable to the common laws of human reasoning. There is no use arguing with • gambler in the public lottery, and proving that the odds me 999 to I. against him. He draws a prize, and there is no more to be said. The Tines should otherwise point eat to the Prussian Minister how wrong he was in omitting all mention of France or Italy in his royal speech. It is impossible to deny that the alliance of the Italian Moues has been of some value to the Prussian Lion ; and had the Emperor Napoleon only held up his little finger at the right moment, the all-powerful needle-gun would not have dared to fire the first shot. The Emperor is now upbraided by the organs of the so-called liberal opposition in Franco with the loss of the proper opportunity. The Times is at • loss to understand why so loud and ea angry an outcry should arias on the part of the French liberals at the constitution of North Ger- many, or even of all Germany into • nation, were it even of 40,000,000 or 45,000,000 souls. Three hundred years of " unification" would not give either Germany or Italy half the compactness which the levelling work of 1710 created in France. For mere defensive purposes France will laws) she strong enough to resist the world. What reason, then, have the liberals of the Thiess and Form& school to oomplain of a combination which would " paralyse them and tie them down in the name of nationality." The formation of a united Germany, or a united Italy, cannot deprive France of such beneficial ascendancy as a superior civilisation gives her over less advanced communities. Henceforth let every man remain quiet in his own house. No other people can better afford to abide by the golden rule, " Live and let live," than France. The Daily Newt admits that it should be doing • griev ous injustice to some of the noblest minds in Europe if it could suppose that the sentiments and ideas which M. E. Pomade has expressed so unreservedly in the bat number the Revue des Deux Motukt on the mutual relations of France and Germany, were common to the whole liberal party in France. It is persuaded that an eminent and not inconsider able minority of the French nation are incapable of profess. ing, even for partypurposea, jealousies and apprehensions at ones so morbid and so puerile, so unworthy of the genius' and the greatness of France, and so offensive to the dig nity and independence of the German people ; but they are few and scarcely audible amidst the drums and trumpets of a soldiery taught to reckon Europe as its prey, and the acolarnations of a crowd who are satisfied with their own servitude if they can only domineer over their neighbours. England may reasonably and fairly desire to see a strong and united Germany, by the side of a strong and united France, rivals in all the arts of peace, and allies against the common foes of civilisation--ignorance and supersti tion. The Doily Newt hopes that Count Bismarck will take • timely lemon from the indiscretion of M. Foreade and be beforehand with that development of a liberal spirit in his domestic policy which will rally all Germany under Prussian auspices better than a more of victorious battles. The Pod recommends the Italians to be content with the cession of Venetia. If they demand more Austria will be at liberty to act against them, and the Pod believes that a blow such as Austria, with her hands free, could deliver, would, if not wanted off, shake the new monarchy to its foundation, if it did not imperil the unity and undermine the independence of the nation. THE RUGBY XILETING AT THE GUILDHALL. It was not to be expected, says the Times, that the Guildhall meeting would muster any imposing array of speakers. The ill meccas of the Islington assemblage in inducing politicians of reputation to attend seems to have been before the eyes of Mr. Berlin and his friends, and they did not attempt to attract the public by announce ments made at hazard. Probably for this reason the quality of the meeting was hardly equal to that ►t the Agricultural Hall. At the latter there was a Urge body of middlcoeless people. At Guildhall last night this element was absent. There was only one class present, and that was the working clue. Yet it was undoubtedly a quiet and well-behaved as sembly, and the promoters appear to have taken care that the majority of those admitted should be trust• AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE ALLEMANNIA. SOUTHAMPTON, Luaus"' 9. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Allenzannis., from New York on the 28th ult., has arrived here with 47 passengers, 64,000 dollars for England, and 2,000 dollars for France. Off Bandy Hook she spoke the Hamburg barque Marinda, and on the Srd instant passed the British ship Eliza bound west. During the voyage the Allemannis encountered very bad weather and strong winds changing all round the compass, high seas, dense fogs, and a deluge of rain ; up Channel westerly winds and wet weather. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA, Auouer 8. The Poonah, from Southampton Jul) , 27, arrived on the sth, and left on the 6th inst. at 4 p.m. for Alexandria. The Delta,from Marseilles on the sth instant, ar rived on the 7th at 4 p.m., and left at 10 p.m. for Alexandria. NEW ZEALAND. PLYMOUTH, Auorwr 9. _ . The Mery Sheppard, with the 40th Regiment, has arrived off this port from Auckland. She has been ordered to proceed to Portamouth. The following telegram has been received by Reuters Telegram Company (Limited), from Mr. R. A. Glass, August 9' VALBNTLL, Acucar 9. Nswrocirmrion, THURSDAY, A.K. Governor Musgrave and party arrived here in her Majesty's steamship Lilly, at 6 p.m. yesterday. The Great Eastern sails as early as possible this morning. Weather fine. The young Prince Antony de Hohenzollern, vat. was severely wounded at the battle of Koniggrats, died of his wounds on the sth. He was mentioned with great honour by the King. General Mutius, whose death has been already mentioned, died of apoplexy. PARIS EXHIBITION Or 1867.—A meeting of the committee appointed for the reproof. lotion of objects relating to the army and navy was held on Tuesday last at the South Kensington Museum. There wore present — The Date of Edinburgh (in the chair), Captain E. Bel field, XX, Rear-Admiral Caffin ' C. 8., Captain M. C. Close, of the Trinity-hoer, Captai n Douglas Calton, C. 8., Bir J. B. Gibson, M.D., K.C.B, Mr. Allan Morrison, Mr. S.John Penn, Sir S. Morton Pet o, Bart., M.P., Mr. E. J. Reed, Mr. J. H. Richie, Mr. John White, and the secre taries to the committee. SUICIDES TROY FINANCIAL ENBABILAAHMINTIL The Courtier de is Vienne, in referring to the bankruptcy of J. de Bouvignv and Co., of Poitiers, rys :—" The Dear had been affixed the day the deelsration of bankruptcy was peonouneed by the Tribunal of Commerce, on the application the Pr.:meow-Imperial, at the moment of the flight of J. de Soevigny became known. The authorities ed to take an inventory of the e ffects, but a sad gc= i t has arisen to complicate this unhappy affair. M. o—, the principal clerk in the house, was a debtor to the beak to the extent of about four the/rand banes, and M. B—, the official &sig net, was also a debtor of ten thousand. Th e da y after the declaration of bankruptcy two entries were made in the books acquitting these two accounts. This fact induced the arrest of M. C and M. R—. On Sunday at sin the morning the warder of the prison entered the cell of X. B—, who we. in bed and asked if be could see the examining magistrate. The goelrr replied that he did not know, and told the prisoner that be would return later and inform him. About a quarter of an hour be again visited the cell and found 11. X— hanging by his neck-tie to a small nail in the well and with life extinct. The ruin of the beak is attributed to unsuccessful speculations on the Bonne." The Droit relates that IL . Fetainead B—, 62 years . of age, centrist is a bones et bannese, blew eat Ids the boons of a brass with a pistol the sight before last at friend in the Rae de itiokeliea, with whom he had dined. The sAlcide is supposed to be attributable to financial em barrassments. T DEPARTURE OF THEIR ROYAL HlORRisim THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OP Way ai i - -.. YORK.- DAY.) •vs This afternoon their Royal Righne eee , Prince and Prins.. d Wales, attended by t i a left Marlborough House en route for the A rd0 22 . 43 % York's seat, at Bishopthorpe, near York. Their royal highnesses drove to the Kiag's. erce of the Great Northern Railway, where ander tt tendence of Mr. Vizor, the station master, bad been prepared far their conveyanc e 1 Dna preparations had been made at for the royal reception ; the platform, space upon which was kept by the compar e being carpeted. A large number of spectators sop at the terminus to witness the royal * meet special train assionspraied by Mr. F. O se i c e sie superintendent of the line, leaving ja w 1 o'clock, wee timed to arrive at th e stations as under ;—Peterborough, 78t Grantham, 1061, 3.19. p.m. ; Dormaster, 4.33 p.m. ; Milford Junction, 178 mils, Church Fenton ,180 miles, b.B p.m. ; and York,l 8.30 p.m. Great care was taken to preserve of the illustrious parsengers, the line being the special, while its course was duly tel point to point. After their Yorkshire trip Princess will go to Abergeldie for the ROYSTON AND HITC AY.) HIN RAE (THIRD The forty-first ordinary general prietors was held to-day, at the office of fil. Graceohurch-street ; Ur. J. C. Consoo, chair. The following resolution was pined :—" after the rate of 8 per oent. per annum, at the rate of 4d. in the pound, and I stock for expenses of management, hi , Royston, Hitchin, and Shepreth consolidated the half-year ending Lt of August, 1886, forthwith." The directors retiring by rotation, • Henry Fordham and Frederick Seshohn, and the c =ings terminated with the anal to the • Thl To&D- 1 Thi Ns* - 11 isair baba Ha Tb bomb NOM vivo Wei JIT was Jo book iinciftingunder'""stotheuseigelr; 111.1":Thlta, stet, a 'welder* at Wm Oka latform se gi g . perm e colnltsars Am, Kin ectoderm expo.' beissiviu 1 &genera ina F. Ceeleheie, th Tb Hileaelat et ths Muhl rolies, wester, ul N i si miles, 6.1 k r Yorklalselaw and preserve the agit) AVM WWI l et keit sfms 4 1 41 1 tcasimpltsd cr for trip the Pair* deemed*" mu % RAILWAY. •al ed eke of Wm swift OBBOLD, :—" That a aitilad wwre num, lees imolai % 13 11 i and ld pre h. t, he &salami ea 111 Jo bask oneolidated 111111. mai rt, 184/6, aad is pi the ion, namely, awe ibs thi f iolm, were roilk4 thedT m ' us:7 27l4 ties D 3 DAY.) meal ght taco* ro ed he mat of the Lad n u stamped the Cannu by the solid* W ion, and Mr. Wear ion, and '25'12 0;0E 4 7 CZ sPi called to roe thm. slesiaTils JAI desc e riptieet for of the 4 dirldred dalbb for 13 years. inspector's ink edenta. the puns= 11 1 011 1 e. cot give miaow del odd. Ho ' haTiog helleA T E be kept lark nib is entitled to kerel, e L.. it, cedir bpi : s z esaiEtion svti:glitt lel he Mama TEE LATE STAMT ROBBEBY AT X Bow-STREET.— (THIS De Charles Butt waa again brought charged with being concerned in the ro , worth o f stamps from the aloe of the Edward Howard, the distributor of stamps -' Manchester. Mr. Jacobs from the office of the Treasury, conducted the prosecution, and jun., defended the prisoner. Mr. Drewitt, a stationer in the two 11. inland bill stamps at the clue house, on the 17th May last, was called stamp now produced was not one of them. the tracing of all the stamps of this the chief office. Thomas Ambrose Potter, Inspector of police-- I have known the prisoner for 13 yee Mr. Wontaer objected to the inspector's evidence as to the prisoner's antecedents. Sir Thomas Henry—Except for the prupen that the name and address are fain. Mr. Wontner—Yes. He could not give ' former conviction. Sir Thomas Henry—Yes, he could. dieted for committing this robbery, having convicted. Mr. Wontner—But that would be kept had been indicted for the simple offence. Sir Thomas Henry—The judge is entitled and the clerk of arraigns must know it, the indictment. The witness continued—The description sonar has given of himself in the affidavit paddle false. His real name, or that which I believe aha real name, is Charles Martin. That wee tks are Is which I knew him 13 years ago. I &farewell beetle Charles Roberts, and afterwards as Chalks 110 I was present at the Old Barley en the 17the1 1863, when be wee tried and comics , ' jewel robbery from a dwelling-house in The jewels were removed by the attic wino, worth some 4001. or 5001. For that he AI 1. three years' imprisonment. I know the he el ticket-of-leave bolder, and that his time will v 13th of this month. Mr. Jacobs applied for the prisoner's asmiffell cheater to take his trial. Mr. Weutnar mid that the prisoner' three times for the convenience of must new ask the worthy mean mend for the prisoner-1 advantage, as establish an alibi so conclusive as enti evidence of Mr. Alton. He should prom that loner was not in Manchester on either of the mentioned. Sir Thomas Henry consented, and the remanded for a week. Thrsolerwos ow nrs DIIK2 Or —lnverary Castle and the vast estates . have this week been given up to sejoicinge in cores* of the coming of age of the Marquis of Lune, the Dan Argyll's heir. The festivities commenced on birthday of the marquis—and have continua vela present time. Public meetings, presentations, Mei end bonfires on the mountains, monster dinnerpefins balls in the town, athletic sports and contests is Bad and rejoicing crowds in all the hamlets sad Aril scene of the features by which the event will knew — TEI2 VACANT COLONIAL BISHOPRIC meats have been made whereby the Archi► able to proceed, with the sanction of ha lisjonyl to consecrate three bishops for theme lonies, via diooeses of Nelson and Dunedin, New TAM of Grafton and Armidale in Australia. oration will be held on St. Bartholomew's Day, doi at Canterbury, sad we doubt not that nag of the church will be present on that MY& appointments are the Rev. A. B. Suter, eneiming the Bishoiof London, elected by the =I SA apEorie e d a4nd the Generk Syn sacod of New 06 6 uen yby the Archbishop of Cant Olt New ; Rev. Mr. Jenner, rector of reswm Canterbury, to Dunedin ; and the Bev. & Baikal Bournemouth, to Grafton. We believe it is tail. of the new o p of Nelson to raise fund for some additional clergy for the dams of NsIIOL increased in pop . ulatgon in twelve manta tem 11, 10 1 60,000. Nelson is • most healthy and risisg SlMS_ in minerals, but wanting more development —Frw• Tun CAMP AT COLCHASTEIL —Bak" JORli• des the Bth depot battalion, has assumed the comma! troops at lendguard Fort, Harwich , v ice I f s t ra d u " l l , who returns to Colchester, Captain WoodiA Regiment, is ordered to join the depot at Celcheist eavening A Lon ßo dortu os h i a w rieshi o be l:i e w S LV t :FC Altow, gi aavw s.-- T ee r s aelll tii_j. e.: ditions :—" Income, from voluntarl e coL ar tnlist isa _M • entirely upon popularity of the sentiments and an earnest rouging style ci dir:4:7IVER. LITEBOAT. —A corTesponatatolo to state that the 2.0001. mentioned past/ 161 f 61 161 j been raised fort lifeboats by the propnetore Of was contributed in eight months, not for 4 originally reported. SMOCKING SUICIDI IN Sr. BARTHCS"...- - 'ITAL.—At an early boor yesterday movoiniselid,,,i. was brought to light in the above hospital. °i' resulted hi the death, by suicide, of one at Se 7:A na deceased, John Wombell, aged 45, 101 =a as leader of the band at the • Bboreditcb, and on the evening of Sh y compelled to relinquish his duties in of intense suffering occasioned by the forms taw buncle at the back of his neck. The usf " ietw..," bad been attended by Dr. Bre wton, of the 211,..7,:iit who finding the carbuncle rapidly increseif approaching the brain suggested hi s remora • 11 ‘ ,.^ - petal, whither he was taken on Monday Wt. Os 1 ' • • is k• Ilion into the institution the surgeons Moo° &dangerous one and at once resorted to sa ne" t i tt ho thew operation, it is stated, wa s performed , , which was evidently very distresving• morning, while the inmates of the It•r•_, be was lying were asleep the twir deeru'',e to have left his bed and proceeded to the ; observed. On one of the attendants thel discovered undressed, with his throat cat 04 hie Mftwely and a penknife was found with w nave committed the act. When discovered t h e was still alive, and every attention was Iwid " oe d it a few hours he ceased to breathe. 'the knife rot 1 , recognised as belonging to the derisaedi • I r_r. taken it from his pocket from under the Deo t , supponed that he put an end to his exintena ono unsound state of mind, brought on by the g al l auff ne: r . BririnOeichana custom of but thttosOrpfroinuMotrwin the Patna h ~/ g L i rr n specimen of what we may Me call oonstitutionok7Zirs men at the South that we are oonstrained to yr.. — or and copy the following from the retaln Agtf ir b ; k week a squad of Yankee soldiers were _ 1 1. 6 0 Milligan, to arrest a young man named F O 7 General Forest) for giving a negro named we deserved whi4ring. It appars th•t m an , to the to wliom she was hired, an who wee a boarder in the house, prow• ? i , the lady by giving this abusive nigger a _e gels malt. She went to her brother Yob on 0 1 report, and instead of giving hen whippisetui:i her back, they gave her every ownieri e d e g t Ron. grant that our poor dovro•troo woe soon btreed from the iron heel of militarf New York Nation, July 26. arlep on the d and eel •di fathoms in ele the attic wiatler, 4r that he vie w I know then Is 1 . at his time will nitwit, V prisoner's amid, prisoner had hem nce of the promeetien ennistzste for a fling°, as he should la re as entirely to vet sits le should prove that is , r on either of the tem od, and the peisasr nn limit or Aunt's vast estates emineelsial p to sejoicinp in owespes ilarquis of Wu, WIWI. I m commenced on Mader) and have contemst WM ings, preseatstieas, Isteli 1 es, monster dimmer flu torts and contests la ilia the hamlets sad, API h the event will he rl AL BISHOPRIO.-11 • 4 hereby the action of ha lll4 for the eolooies, ak—k+ 1 medin, in Nor ZAINO i n Australis. el B ar th o l o mew's Day, AVM loubt not that mei agent on that Wale. r. A. B. Suter, mole toted by the = a t NA New ishop of • of CanWbmi. 6 10 Jenne, rector et rieo, ind the Rev. & peYM We believe it is Waist CM to raise a fund for Z; the diocese dNsho, a twelve months hie OP healthy and riiagWW ll tore development —Not iss anu nst ed — tba Nt osi Zice Irlarwich ' Captain W in the depot at eptsranessillllllll:.'l James's, A1'.4 1 4. 01 ",,..„,„ ant. The fOomm voluntary oontriatime.rii ,~.' ; "MP lir.. lib.