The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-21 00:00:00

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" The plot to effective and simple, *end with hljhly dreasetie ineidenta which ciente intenne intereeh heightened by tweeilent acentry."—Weekly Tunes. MBE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter 1117 to 8. ..oa. wee. when • river steamer appears fo Anaf bx the stage. coveted • odor? of •pplanse • The Lancashire Lass will /Won • lercfnen. A ran.' --illustaistad Anorthic New. THE LAIWAr4HIIth LASS, at a QuarWr to S. Mr. Byrom woo roosnril, sal toread samowtoMmomio mold rorflorous ohm's from au . ?KM of the thestm."--11Mumlard. . . FrigtLANCASIIIRE LABB, at a quarter to 8. repeemetatioe was www4ve4 with Wen "rester applause awe co the evening of peottsettos."Delly Telegraph. _ ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Three 11•1144. Pemenade Ociseart. Band of 110. Begirt at S. is Donollee open from II to 4. WILLIAM CHURTON and SON, HOBIISRB aad BHIRMULICIIIB. WARS' UNDEMOLOTHING. In and tot OXFORDB=W. 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Tutu Evinmro, RIETERLY SERVICE.—THE MILD OP MN CLOTH OP GOLD. —And MARRIAGE AT ANY PRIOA BRITANNIA. Tres Warm, THE DEAD o itTaICONTNO 08, PRIFERD TOR THE NAVY. Mews. Reynolds, Pitt, Bigwood, ike.; Miss J. Onvenvy, te.-31iss A. Anderson ; Mr. H. Rielardn—And THOME HEMEL. Min Y. Henderson. HIGH WATER 4T LONDON_BRIDOI To-llar =Morning -7 , 41,7 24m. To-Menem —Yards& alt. 47m Alternate, bb. eat. NOTICE. Notice° Of BIOTIN, MAIZIAOI/1, and DZATIIk MO received until 12 o'clock for ingestion some evening. PllOO go. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, 18 PUBLISH-2D EVERY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUG UST 21 . BARRISTERS IN PARLIAMENT. Tex extraordinary run of legal patronage since the Tories came into power has wonderfully sti mulated public spirit and political oonscioutmess among the middle-aged members of the Inns of Court. The study of the law ought to be the fittest preparation for a politi cal career. Men who have mastered the prin ciples of jurisprudence and the maxims of con stitutional doctrine, who have learnt by study and experience upon what foundations the moral order of the commonwealth is built up, might be supposed to form a perfect body of ready-made legislators. A successful Chancery or common law barrister should be a fluent, perspi cuous, and persuasive speaker, a close reasoner, • man of the world, a man of business, accustomed to range over the whole field of public and private interests, to deal with a vast variety of questions, and with all sorts and conditions of men. The highest offices in the State being open to his ambition in a free and parliamentary country, he should seize the earliest opportunity consistent with the maturity of his faculties and his fame to devote his forensic qualifications to the service of one of the great political parties, and to dedicate to his country some part of the intellect and learning which have won him work and fortune at the hands of his clients. Surely there can be no more legitimate ambition for a sueoessful bar rister than a seat in the House of Commons. That successful barristers are of this way of think ing as to their political qualifications every general election bears ample witness. For almost every self mademillionnaire, merchant, banker, contractor, country gentleman, soldier, or sailor, there are at least two barristers in the field. A reputation on circuit, a large acquaintance among solicitors, a ready tongue, a dauntless assurance, a choice of sides apt to be determined by the ebb and flow of patronage and the balance of party power—such are the common characteristics of legal candidates. They are not, however, always acceptable to constituencies. The manner is, perhaps, a little too forensic, and the personal motive, although perfectly honourable and legitimate, is a little too keenly ap preciated by the 'Rectors. we should hardly say that legal candidates, with a few brilliant exceptions, were preferred by eonstituen- THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY E cies. A great lawyer, who to itis professional reputation and attainments unites a larger know ltdge and a wider sympathy. who is ne t it mere legal specialist but something more and better, possenws unquestionably an advantage over candidates from other professions and ca (sere. But lawyers of that strain and temper are scarce. There is no denying that the com mon run of lawyers, who seek seats in Parlia ment as stepping-stones to promotion, the regular bruisers of the courte, confer very little lustre on their profession, and still less on the House of Commons when they got there. The best that can be said for them is that they learn in that High Court to be silent and modest, and booome sadder and wiser from a sense of insignificance. • Few of them who speak in the House speak even with tolerable fluency or clearness ; few are listened to with pleasure or attention ; few, to say the ugly truth, are not unmitigated " bores," intolerable below the gangway, toler able by necessity only, when they become law officers of the Crown. Great names rise to the memory and to the lips in contradiction of this general remark. But one need not go farther back than the experience of the last session and of the law officers of the present admiiiistration to confirm it. Nor are lawyers—exceptions always excepted—the most useful members of Parliament. If successful in their' Profession, all day laboriously and anxiously en gaged in chambers or the courts, they come down to the House too seldom, or too late and too jaded, to bestow any freshness of mind upon the affairs of the country. They have no leisure to spare thought for the great political, social, and ad ministrative questions which make up the sum of legislative labour. Their minds are apt to work in a sharp but narrow groove, and they have the contempt of all technical and special practitioners for " ideas." Indeed the tendency of the purely legal mind is decidedly conservative if not reactionary. This tendency has received more than ordinary encourage ment of late from the Tory dispensers of patronage. Even Liberal lawyers, however, or as they say in America, lawyers who stand on the liberal " ticket," are' too often owner vatives of something worse when it is a question of law reform.% It is not until they have emerged from the region of briefs and fees that they begin to apply right reason and conscience to questions which concern alike the ends of justice, the emoluments of the profession, and the interests of suitors. Law reforms are regarded by lawyers in Parliament from the strictly Trades Union point of view. It is not too much to say that but for the resistance of the legal interest in the House of Commons many law reforms for which the country has waited for years, and is still waiting, would have been accomplished years ago. On the whole, it would seem that whatever danger there may be of having too many milliormaires in the next Parliament, the danger of having too many barristers is one against which it is well that con stituencies should be warned in time. which the former speaks of the "judicial ,"severity maintained by the ListOpitiverusaceik", illicit, he says, " has /Cndell,iojeinbarrass the " friendly relations betiveen the tvio 'countries and "to protract the point al excite/sent" in tile British provinces. Bnolosed in this &spat& *si the resolution of the House of IfisPrisentati me, requesting the PRKSIDNNT to take tnoasur .t for effecting the release of the prisoners, an 1 such other measures " as will secure their return to our " flag, with such ceremonies as are apprnpriee to " the occasion." A reply to these .00ram *Mei bons was sent from the Foreign-office through Mr. Toonrrrort on the 28th ultimo. Upon the general question of naturalisation Lord STANIAT had- nothing to add to the statement he had already submitted to Mr.lloaarr. As regards the demand forth° release of WARREN and Coerau.o, it is bared on grounds which manifest a total misoon ception of the facts of the case. They were not •imprisoned simply for words spoken and acts done in the United States (although evidence given on theeepoints was strictly in accordance with the rules of law), but were convicted of having come over to Ireland and cruised along the coast with intent to effect a landing of men and arms in that part of the British dominions, in order to raise an insur rection against the Quzzw. Whether the explana tions given by Lord titrazatty are or are not satis factory to the United States government is a secret which may possibly be divulged by the publica tion of the next batch of correspondent*. THE LAST RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Tim half-yearly meeting of the North-Western Railway Company, a report of which we give in another column, has been put to silence by a sud den and terrible calamity. Just as shareholders and directors might have congratulated them selvee upon the comparative scarcity this year of the railway accidents which seem to be inseparable accompaniments of the holiday season, news comes up from Chester of a catastrophe exceeding in horror all previous disasters of the kind. A ship on fire in mid-ocean has been hitherto held to re present the climax of human helplessness and misery ; the awful experience of yesterday shows us that a train on fire is at least equally dreadful. The ghastly line in the telegram— " Twent y-nine coffins have been sent from Chester;" the picture of the swiftly rushing train, laden with happy, busy passengers who, as they chatted, read, or smoked, were being unconsciously hurried to torture and death ; the harmless-look ing trucks, filled with the deadly material which a touch seems to turn into an engine of destruc tion ; the collision, the ignition, the scattered corpses, the liquid flame pouring down the line and devouring carriages and their contents, make up a concentration of horrors upon which it is impossible to dwell. Scientific discovery seems to exact a percentage of human disaster and suffering before the laws restraining it are mas tered or understood ; and the people who were killed yesterday are so many martyrs to our imperfect knowledge. There must be some means of conveying the destructive oil from place to place without the terrific risk to human life which follows it now ; there must be modes of combating its destructiveness which will make such calamities as that of last night im poesible. At present petroleum is a dangerously treacherous servant ; and until it can be mas tered more readily we shall be periodically shocked by the injuries it inflicts. The circumstances under which the carriage containing it became separated from the rest of the train will doubtless be ascertained by a searching inquiry; but the railway collision is one thing and the deaths from burning which rose out of it another ; and it is the latter which have made this last railway acci dent so exceptionally horrible. AMERICAN FENIANS. THE correspondence which has passed between the United States and British Governments re pecting the imprisonment of Mews. WARMLY and COSTELLO on the alleged ground of their complicity with the Fenian brotherhood, was supplemented this morning by the publication of additional de spatches which raise the larger question relating to the laws of naturalisation. From a communi cation addressed by Lord Sra•ttzy to Mr. THORN TON on the 16th June, it appears that, acting upon instructions received from Mr. SEvrann, the United States CHARGE D'AFYAIRES in this country formally inquired of our Foreign Minister whether Her Mamorne 5 Government were prepared at once to enter into a treaty with the United States on the subject of naturalisation. Lord STANLEY'S reply was to the same effect as the statements recently made by him in the House of Commons, viz., that the British Government would willingly entertain in principle the question of the Naturalisation Treaty, and no longer held to the doctrine of indefeasible allegiance; but he added that with every disposition to contribute to the setting at rest of a question calculated to interfere with the good understanding existing between the two countries itwaa inexpedient, not tosayimpossi ble, to proceed hastily with a matter involving as this does so many important legal and other ques tions. It seemed to the FortErox Szeugratly in evitable that legislation on the subject must be da ferred till the meeting of the new parliament, and as the treaty must be made dependent on such legislation it was useless to conclude it at once. The next communication is the letter addressed by Mr. SEWARD to Mr. MORAN .n reference to the im prisonment of Messrs. Wilmot and OosTwo, is REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. According to the report of Mr. STDNET TURNER, the inspector appointed to visit the certified reformatory and industrial schools of Great Britain, the number of juvenile offenders under detention last year increased from 5,335 to 5,880; the boys advancing by 482, and die' girls by 63 ; but of the total number under sen tence of detention on the 31st of December, 588 boys and us girls wore out on li cense, and 101 boys and 14 girls, who had absconded during the three or four previous years, had not been recovered. Mr. MILNER does not concur with those who think that longer detention would result in a more effec tual reformation of young criminals, because after a time discontent and restlessness, indifference and apathy, take the place of a wish to improve, and too long detention hinders rather than helps improvement. He recommends the establishment of two or three more institutions, especially one in Lancashire for Roman catholic boys, and ono in the south of England for Protestant girls. Mr. TURNER reports very favourably of the order and general discipline maintained in the reformatories, and says that anything like an outbreak or serious dis order has been almost unknown. The total expen diture for '67 on an average number of 5340' inmates, amounted to 110,108/. 14s. 4d., or 21f. Bs. sd. per head. The receipts amounted to 117,2871. 14s. 3d., of which sum 11,171/. 2s. Gd. represents industrial profits. The number of cer tified industrial schools was increased during the year from 57 to 63 ; and the whole number of children under inspection duringthe year amounted to 6,572. LONDON ANDNORTFI-WESTERN RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) TEE TERRIBLE ACCIDOIT TO THE IRISH MAIL TRH.' The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was held at noon, at the Euston-station ; Mr. R. MOON in the chair. The report having been taken as read, The CILLIMUIf, on rising, evidently under strong emotion, spoke as follows:—We appear before you, gentlemen, this morning, under very depressing cir cumstances, owing to the accident which occurred on our line yesterday, whereby above twenty of our fellow-creatures have been hurried into eter nity. We have looked with pride upon our Irish mail as the finest service in the world— punctual to a proverb,—and yet this awful catastrophe has overtaken it. All the satisfaction that remains to us is to know that nothing which money, ingenuity, skill, or ability could provide has been left undone for the safety and comfort of our pas sengers. Our line was in splendid order, our engines and rolling stock in the best possible con dition, our signals the most perfect that could be devised. In a word, there was nothing which has been proved to be good or useful that we have not, without hesitation or regard to expense, adopted. We have never for a moment, in good times or in bed timers deviated from our principle that the truest economy is to have our system in the beet possible condition. All this, I know, is but poor consolation to those who have suffered from this calamity, to their relations and friends. With them we can only sympathise ; and I am sure I shall have you all with me when I say with what pain we have witnessed so grievous a calamity—the moat awful that has yet happened in this country-overtake us. Under these mournful circumstances I shall refrain from going into that detailed statement of our position and affairs which on these occasions I have been accustomed to give you ; but you will find in the report and accounta such information as will enable you to form your own conclu sions. I can only once more assure you that everything that could possibly be placed against revenue has, so far as I know, been provided from that source, that our com pany is in a sound condition, and that, under very difficult circumstances, with a bad state of trade in the country generally, we are able to present you with an honest dividend of &I per cent. per annum. With these remarks (added Mr. Moon with great emotion) I trust you will excuse me from doing more than propose that the report and accounts be adopted. . . The chairman's speech was received with sympathiain cheers, and the suggestion it implied was adopted The report was agreed to without any discussion, and the dividend recommended declared. The meeting wee then made special, and resolutions were passed authorising a 'about ••• towards the under taking of the Laneaduire Union hallways Company, not exceeding 70,000 L, in pursuance of "The London an d North Western Railway (New Works and Additional Powers) Act, 1867 ;" a subecription towards the undertaking of the Carnarvon and Llanberis Railway C,ompany, not exceeding 60,0001., =les of "The Carnarvon and Llanberis a l ; Act, 1888," a subscription towards the under. taking of the B ry nmaw r and Riaenavon Railway Coin- Linz,unitia Tort? Western 6, 3 , , , ,, : ay pt ( i e rs d rice tiona r Th e powers) Act, 1888 ;" and authorising the directors to exercise the borrowing powers of the company to the extent authorised by the company's acts of parliament. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the Chairman and his colleague.. On Flunday last their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and Prince John of Glucks burg, uncle of the Princess, with their suite, attended Divine service in the church of Crathie, occupying the Abergeldie pew. His Royal Highnem Prince Arthur and suite were also present, occupying the Balmoral pew. There was a large congregation, made up of the ordinary attendants and a number of strangers. The Rev. Malcolm C. Taylor preached from Psalm xvi., 2 and 3—" omy soul, thou hest said unto the Lord, thou art my Lord ; my goodness extendeth not to thee, but to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight." The Gazette the Midi states that at Marseilles, during the review on the occasion of the Emperor's fite, the populace raised cries of " Liberty for ever ! " Th e press for ever !" " Down with war ! " —- • "We are informed," says the Italia of Naples, " of a horrible massacre perpetrated by three brigands at V 0322314 in the Commune of Castronuovo (Lagonegro). They murdered by poniard stabs Guiseppe Travascio, his brother Fortunato, the wife of th, latter, Eleonora Laurin, with her infant Mattes and Angiola Ciancia, aged 3; Giovanni 'Fravaseio, the son, was grievously wounded." NATIONAL EEMBITION OF WORKS OP ART, AT Laans.—Return of admissions: Thursday, August 20, by season tickle, 829 ; by payment o f i s. each, 3,019; total, 4,148. G, AUGUST 21 w 1141 k. fI:SI!VtG N L , ! , ms DAY.) SPAIN. ". THE PROTEST OF THE DUKE AND DUCHERS OF MONTPENSIER. The following is the text of the protest of tho Duke and Duchess of Montponsior : Madam, —By the immediate intervention of the Captain (Jenard of Andalusia we received your royal decree of July 7, which orders us to leave the peninsula in the, shortest pose ble time, and to -fix our residence outside , Spanish territory. Telegrams eV a later date have pointed out the frigate Ville 4e-Madrid as the mode of effecting our forced journey, leaving to us the choice of the foreign country in which we may desire to pass our exile. We shall not dwell on searching out the first cause of the difilcultim which have assailed us on our lauding in Portugal, when we were threatened with being deprived of the liberty at first accorded to us of selseting the place of our exile; but in the embarrassing situation created for us in sight of Lisboa, as well as in the discourteous reception given In Cadiz to the royal flag borne by the frigate, it is impossible not to recognise the signs of needless persecution. Up to this day we thought it our duty to remain silent as to the manure adopted by your Majesty's government. Now, at the moment of leaving the Villirds Madrid, worthy representative of our dear Spain, . and, standing osi foreign soil, we feel we ought to depart from the reserve imposed on us, for this reserve may be interpreted as arising from an incurable apathy, and as • humble submiasiott to a merited chastisement. We shall be very brief, madam, in addressing your Majesty. As the order of July 7 contains no explicit complaint which it is necessary to point out, we do not deem it opportune to give explanations which we would have developed if we had been openly accused. "The country is agitated; the revolutionists make tun of your name as • flag, and as the rallying point of their machinations "—these are the just conside rations on which you base your extra legal proceeding, one which deeply affects our high rank of which you have made mention intentionally in order to degrade us the more. Allegations of this kind need no discussion. But if we deemed it opportune to defend ourselves against im putations contained under transparent allusions, when we are reminded of the duties of loyalty, with which it was not at all necessary to refresh our memory—we should say to your Majesty :—" If unhappy Spain is now passing through a crisis which we deplore from our heart, we have not produced it. The origin, whatever it may be, of these lamentable agitations which are made the pretext for condemning us, must be eought for else where." Whenever a people are agitated, it is because they are ill at ease ; for no individuals, however high and powerful, can serve as a flag, and draw an entire nation after them. Against this manifest violation of the fundamental law of the State, and of the eternal principles of justice, also by the steps adopted by your Majesty's government, we pro protest energetically, and, in doing this, we invoke neither considerations of our rank nor the ties of family. If the first give a particular r dat to our protest they do not add to the injustice of the violence offered, and the second must be forgotten in the arbitrary conduct which sends us into exile without even an indirect warning. We do not think it would be dignified to invoke them. It is solely in the name of our rights, in our quality of Spaniards, placed under the safeguard of the general laws of the nation, that we come before your Majesty to complain of the violence which separates us from our dear Spain. We expect that the reparation shall be as public and as solemn as the insult was sudden. May God preserve your life for many years. Lisbon, August 3, 1868. MABIA-LI7II3IA.FHENANDA Awromo. The following is from the Liberal Bayonaaia: _ . The clergy wed every effort to bring the rural popula tion to cheer her Majesty on her arrival at St. Sebastian. The Municipal Council ordered that the houses should be decorated and illuminated under the threat of fining those who did not. But not a single cheer greeted her arrival. Indifference or indignation was visible on every counte nance. She was so annoyed at the coldness of the recep tion that she embarked at once on board steamer for Lequeitio. Another infantry battalion arrived yesterday at St. Sebastian. The battalion of eh/assure in garri son at Logrono, where Espartero resides, left three days ago by express train for Aragon. (7112013011 ZEUTEIVII ACMCY.) FRANCE. PARIS, Atraatf, 21. An imperial decree, dated the 18th inst., pro mulgated to-day, appoints M. de Banneville French ambassador at Rome, M. de Corainges minister at Berne, and Viscount de Lagueronniere minister at Brussels. TURKEY. CON STANTINOPLE, Avatar 18, Evismo. The recent investigation made by Midhat Pacha appears to show complicity on the part of some Russian Consul.; and Roumaa frontier authorities in the recent Bulgarian invasion. AMERICA. THE ANTI-UNION OUTRAGES IN THE SOUTH. The royal mail steamship Scotia, from New York on August 11, arrived at Queenstown at 1 a.m. this morning, with 123 cabin passengers. She landed 73 Backe of mails and 27 pawners, and proceeded at 1.13 a.m. for Liverpool. All well. The Scotia performed the passage in eight days five hours. _ ___ NEW TOM, Avower 11, Noon. The Secretary of W&P, in maw to the appeal of Governor Warmouth, has sent instructions to General Buchanan, commander of the forces in Louisiana, to dispose of the troop under his com mand according to his discretion, and to promptly telegraph for special orders from the President if any emergency should arise rendering it necessary to employ the national force for the preservation of order. The Louisiana Legislature has passed a bill making it a penal offence to organise any military force in the state without orders from the governor. The Alabama Legislature has passed a bill in vesting the legislature with the power of casting the electoral vote of the State. Reports from Richmond state that a oonse.-ra tive meeting, held yesterday in that town, was attacked by negroes. A fight ensiled in which pistols were wed, and two negroes killed. NEW TORE, I.verwr 12, Mosanvci. The Governor of Alabama has vetoed the bill empowering the legislature to cast the elective vote of the State. His veto will probably be effectual. General Gillem has issued an order transferring Arkansas to the military department of Louisiana, and assuming the command of the military forces in Mississippi. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens died at Washington last night of general debility. The blockade of Mazatlan by her Majesty's ship Chanticleer was raised on the 30th ult. CANADA. OTTOWA, Atrouer 11. The Canadian Parliament has been prorogued until the 19th of September. It is stated that the Anti-Union Convention at Halifax has passed a resolution strongly deprecating rebellion against the crown or an nexation to the United States, at the same time favouring the use of every consitutional means to withdraw Nova Scotia from the Confe deration, which, they allege, it was forced to enter against the will of the people. . . - Sir John Macdonald and party have loft Halifax for Canada. Their minion to reconcile Nova Scotii to the Confederation is pronounced a failure by the prOvineial prom 'll l l - oAllit u l7 GOOD HOPE. • UMAYPTON, Amen 21. lcThe trPiola etp Company's steamer Colt, speo;o Boynton, from tho Crpc of Good Hope, as arrived here with a full complement of 'misname, 37 F ack.4 of mails, 8291. in specie, and a large cargo, including 2,088 bales of wool. The Celt left Table Bay on the 19th ultimo. On the 21st she spoke the Chip Astroncmer, bound for Liverpool, on the 27th tbo Harp of the Nile and the Golden Dream, on the 28th the brig Enders, bound for Plymouth, and the barque More, from Liverpool, bound for Calcutta, and on the 13th ... 0f August the steamer Norseman, bound for the Cape. The Cambrian arrived at Table Bay on the 16th July. The Cape Parliament continues in session, and the work of legislature progresses satisfactorily. The Government Paper Currency Bill had passed the second reading in the I{ollllo of Assembly, and gone into committee. Little progress had been made with the estimates. The existence of extensive gold fields in the in terior was confirmed. The chief of that portion of the -country where the mines were situated appeared well disposed towards Europeans, and had written to Governor Wodehowie requesting that his subjects might be taken under the protection of her 'Majesty, and ,offering to sell the gold country to the British (government. Several miners were extracting the !ore. The gold is said to exist in veins half an inch broad and the yield to increase in proportion to the depth to which the excavations ere carried. Business at Cape Town had slightly improved, but the trade of the port was limited, and few vessels bad arrived. Copious rains had visited the colony. Farming prospects were good, but the wine trade &praised. The wool clip was ex pected to be large. Tonnage was scarce, and freights were high. Exchange : Treasury bills, 30 days, par ; bank end commercial, i per cent. ; commercial, GO days, 1 ler cent. OUR PARIS LETTER. (FROM OUR OWN CORERRPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The decoration on August 15, by the Emperor's special command, of M. Paul de Cassagnac, a young man of only 25, son of the notorious Granier de Cassagnac, and now (by reason of his father's virtual retirement) principal editor of the Pays, gives to the alarmist manisfestoes of that journal an importance which they would not otherwise have. But for this I should not think the Bobadil paragraphs of the Pays worth any atten tention. We are told, however, only this very day that the Empress has sent her chamber lain, M. Corse-Brossac, to congratulate M. Paul de Cassagnac on the honour conferred upon him. Now, the Pays this evening, referring to current rumours touching the interview between the Czar and the King of Prussia at Sehwalbach, says they " confirm the apprehensions which we have unremittingly manifested while dwelling upon the necessity for France resolutely to make war." It treats that the Emperor will, without loss of time, resort to those " energetic" measures which alone can thwart an offensive and defensive alliance evidently made against France. Now I ask the question, of what use is it for the Constitutionnel and the Pafrii to speak of war rumours as the malicious inventions of foreign correspondents when an organ specially patronised by the French Sovereign, and sup posed, with much show of reason, to be the organ of personal policy different from that professed by the present ministers, can talk in this way ? The Duke de Persigny has telegraphed to the Opinion Nationale that he never received any letter whatever from the Emperor relative to the transit of the Queen of England through Paris. It has, I suppose, been taken for granted that he was the " intimate friend" mentioned by the Gauloie. It has been stated by mistake that Dr. Nelaton is the first medical man made a senator or peer. Dr. Corvisart was a senator under the first em pire, and Dr. Prunelle, an eminent Lyon physician and inspector-general of the Vichy Waters, was called to the peerage by Louis Philippe. Dr. Connean, the Emperor's household physician, has sat for some years in the present Senate; but in his case old private friendship, and not professional standing, was the motive of the nomination. The Evinement says the news circulated by several journals of a fusion between the legitimists and Orleanists, by the adoption by the Count de Chambord of the eon of the Count de Paris, is altogether false. No member of the Orleans family has ever so much as paid a visit to the Count de Chambord, except Queen Amelie, and she went but once. The Duke of Brunswick, who is litigious and seldom fortunate in a court of law, has just lost a snit. He was greatly taken with the " lift " which last year raised people to the top of the Universal Exhibition building, and employed the engineer, Y. Edoux, to make a similar one on a reduced scale to his house, the Hotel Beaujon. 12,000 fr. was the price agreed upon, but the duke claimed to make a reduction of 3,000 fr., because the work was not done within the time stipulated. The court found that the delay was attributable to the duke's own neglect in not preparing the founda tions as he had agreed to do, and gave a verdict against him, with costs. It is stated that Talleyrand's memoirs, which it was thought were coming out soon, will not appear till 1870. An accident at Suresnes, where a groat lock is making on the river, has produced a sudden fall of seven feet in the Seine at Paris, in consequence of which the navigation is quite interrupted. It is announced that Mrs. Lincoln crossed over to France almost immediately after her arrival in England, and that she intends to reside at Nice. There were considerable fluctuations at the Bourse. Bente was 70fr. 65c. at the highest, and 70fr. 43c. at the lowest, and closed with a rise of 10c. for cash, and a fall of 3c. for account, at 70fr. 53c., and 70fr. 474 e. Italian experienced a severe reaction, and fell lfr. Mobilier and Credit Foncier fell 2fr. 60c. each.. A letter from Warsaw says:—" Madame Lehar, a French actress, and a great favourite with the public of this city, has been ordered by the government to leave the country with her husband, the elteproredestre at the Eldorado theatre. The cause assigned for this summary measure is that M. Lehar bad insulted the public.' It appears that one night the lady was cheered rather more loudly than usual, and that some Russians, who happened to be in the theatre at the time, marked their disapproval of the verdict of the Polish majority by loud hisses. This roused the indignation of M. Leber, who, turning round in his seat in the orchestra, exclaimed,: ' Cochons de Busses !' The expavassion was not a choice one, but the 'public' could hardly be said to have been insulted, teeing that the great majority of the audience were not Russians, but Poles." "M. Rochefort," says the Opinion Nationale, "has found a printer for the thirteenth number of the Lanterns; the daring man who undertakes the work is X. Oaittet. However, he liar 'id carried Ilia boldness so far as to reprint in Paris the twelfth number," TERRIBLE RAILWAY Ac(11)E-NT. OItRAT 1,0:48 OP LI PE Telegrams have been receive! awl .1.. , frightful accident to the Ir:sh mail. A from Chaster says A. terrible ambie n t happened to the Irish mail train a' L'an 1.1!, near Abergele, this afternoon. Three carrize got loose from a goods tr a i n , one of Clem lee n ' 4, laden with petroleum. The trucks ran dewn steep gradient, into the advancing mail, raee ing an instantaneous explosion. A frightful les et life has been the result ; 29 coffins have Lee r , from Cheater, and a large body of murgeons, special trains have been despatched. It is ststel that the occupants of four of the carriagNe in th e unfortunate train have been bd'rnt to death." Our Shrewsbury correspondent telograpl s "At half-past I yesterday afternoon the Iri,e mail, from Holyhead for London, ran into noini trucks laden with petroleum . . The engine met th ew on fire. Ten persons wore burnt to death, e e l many more are missing." CHESTER. TaVillOti Niece The most extraordinary. and fatal accident ever ' known on an English railway occurred at mid-day on the Chester and Holyhead line, near Llandule, about one mile and a half from Abergeb e Irish limited mail, leaving London at 7.15, pe eo ,l Abergele (Pensarn station) in safety t h ee one ; a goods train had passed half an hour befere Beyond Llandulas a portion of a goods train te iftilyhead seems to have become detached, and ran back down an incline, meeting the mail train going about 40 miles an hour. The re ii r curve near. The driver of the mail train. Arthur Thompson, of Stafford, saw thg collision was inevitable, and jumped ott escaping slightly hurt. The stoker, Joseph lfelnee. of Stafford, remained. At back of the peel, tria l was a waggon loaded with petroleum oil, and when the collision occurred the petrel... lm o ‘ .. ptodod. The engine, tender, and three tir.teeee carriages wore smashed up together, and buret with petroleum. Twenty-three passengeri for Ire land wore all burnt so badly that none eeubt i. recognised. A watch was found with an inerip tion showing that it belonged to Lord Farnbe e who was supposed to have been aecompeuitei by his two daughters. The Duchess of Abereent rut Lord George Hamilton were in the true, We escaped unhurt. Locomotives, cranes, awl men sent from Chester and Crewe. Line cleared aleee half-past five, wires having been broken preeentel messages for assistance going early. Twenty three bodies have been brought to the Pensara station, placed in coffins by Waite, undertaker, ..: Chester, taken to Abergele and taken to chur , h. A number of passengers hurt are distributed about Pensarn, Abergele, and places near. Tlwir names cannot be ascertained at this late hour. It is feared that some of the bodies will not h, recognizable by friends, being so fearfully charnA. Four doctors from Abergele and Ithyl welting on the sufferers by direction of the company. The stoker's body was picked up under broken Klein-. Thompson, driver, at a cottage near the seen, of accident, and able to give sonic account of wire, he saw. The inquest will probably open to-inor row, and be immediately adjourned. The Duch,- of Abercorn and Lord George Hamilton proc.,l-1 to Ireland. LATEST PARTICULARS.-(TIILS DAY.) The particulars of the frightful catastrophe at tending the Irish limited mail yesterday, and pub lished in this morning's papers, are in the main correct as to the cause of the disaster ; and, in the absence of any details, the authorities at the Euston terminus were unableto furnish further information on application at their offices this morning. The subjoined facts were, however, elicited. Owing to the great speed at which the mail train was travel ling, the force of the collision is said to have been most severely felt by the whole of the passen gers. Thomas Hinton, the rear guard of the mail, was knocked down in his box, and remained some momenta unconscious. On his recovering himself, the sight that presented itself was most appalling, and, notwithstanding that some of the passengers travelling in the after-part of the tram were ready to render him assistance, their joint. efforts to extricate the poor creatures from the burning carriages were utterly futile. They wer ceeded, however, in uncoupling the fourth carriage from the engine, and thereby prevented turtle:: destruction of life and pruperty. When this was done it was impossible to get within 1$ feet of the burning carriages, fur the liquid had spread rapidly, and the flames were travelling up on each side of the carriages, tra velling through the windows and thence to the roof. Death on all sides was inevitable, and, beyond the hissing of the flames and the ejaculations of horror among the sur viving passengers, not a sound could be heard. Indeed, it is stated by Hinton, the rear guard, that he did not hear a scream or a cry after the collision among those in the fore part of the train ; and it is conjectured that the effect of the shock in the first instance rendered the pas sengers these insensible, so that their unhappy death was probably not accompanied by much personal suffering. The death of William Smith, the fore-guard, is attended with the moat melancholy result. The poor fellow W 44 literally burnt to a cinder, only a few inches of his remains being found; and it was by the discovery of his time-piece among the burnt frag ments of his body that he was at all recognised. His wife, we understand, has recently been confined, and she is now left a widow with four young children. The fate of Lord Farnham, his two daughters, and a maid servant, seems cer tain, from the discovery of the watch and the fact that they were all in that part of the train which has been destroyed. With regard to the other victims identification will be next to impossible, as it is said that unless some fragments of onus ments or wearing apparel be found the remaining traces of the deceased will afford but a faint clue. It may be satisfactory to state that none of the pas sengers who booked this side of Chester were in the portion of the train destroyed, and thus a more ready knowledge of the unfortunate sufferers may arrived at. Numerous inquiries have been made during the morning by those whose friends were known to have travelled yesterday, but, as already intimated, the company were unable to furnish the anxiously-looked-for particulars. It is unne cessary to state that among the passengers from London and the intervening stations many have been much shaken and otherwise bruised. Thomas Hinton, the rear guard, has arrived in London with his arm in a sling and the side of his head cut. A searching inquiry will be made by the railway company as to the calamity, for which purpose Mr. Charles Mason and other offi cials have Droceeded to the scene of the accident. We are enabled to relieve in some degree the terrible anxiety which will be felt this morning by all persons having hid friends, travelling from London by the Irish Limited Mail yesterday morn ing, by the announcement that, with the ex. 7 *IT