The Express. — London, England, 1858-07-27 00:00:00

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Two 11. com. CUIPTOIU OF THU COUNTILT.-1101IN TO up•on AND OUT OF FLACR—AM 11•1111 KT TUB Ila/1031. rl. PM lbw IP. WmIImos...ANINIMPISIII NIGH WATER AT LONDON =IDOL fon Dov—Morolna, S. es ../11Imo% A 1.0% It.fgosamr—ltinatag, M. 36a A/Porinoo. !L Na LONDON, TVEBDAY, JULY 27. SPORTING INTELLIGENCL A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS," eentaining the results of the day's Races, is pub lished every evening during the Sporting Season, at o'closk. these timee of political anxiety we learn to a dear, substantial, unmiagled political er success. Any firm, assured step of progress national welfare, any method by which all gain rhils nobody loses, in either material or moral .spects, is keenly relished at a time when govern ments are anxious, and statesmen perplexed, and parties effete, and nations hardly able to tell friends from foe*. This is no doubt one reason why the) meeting of the lt , ,yal Agricultural Association at Chester has been so mocesefal this year, and so thoroughly enjoyed. Experienced members say that no former meeting could compare with it, for energy, effectiveness, and cheerfulness. At no former meeting . the spectacle hare been Chore remarkable, er suggestive ; and those who know old Chester 'at once see why. Looking down on the green which, enclosed by the river and the city , forms a natural lists, every stranger at ones thinks of the old aristocratic and popular sports— tournament, or the Church festivals and fairs— ehich brought people together in crowds in former notaries; and the contrast between the ancient observances and those of last week is too striking too self-asserting to need to be enlarged upon )or anywhere. That set of suggestions we may pale. is of more practical importance to remember for another parrs* what Chester once was. The Romans had placed it too high up the river to make good port, and before there was a Liverpool to , t it, it had received its doom in a commercial sense sanding up of the Dee. It was valeablechiedy watch-tower over the Marches of Wales. 4 instructive his bean its history ! The elements wool, coal, and water-power were in its neigh bourhood ; and afterwards cotton came in from abroad, and iron from the soil. Manufactures and commerce arose. Far-sighted men foretold the con sequences, as regarded agriculture ; that, as dense popu!ations thronged the great and growing towns, the demand for food most encourage and develop tillage. The multitude (and especially the political majority) were long in seeing this ; and food was led, in order to repress the manufacturing interest, the protective policy could be endured no longer. throwing open of food to free sale and purchase made the fortune of the agricultural interest, in way of material prosperity ; and we now have plainest evidence that it will raise all clue,. of landed interest,"from the peer to the ploughboy, scale of intelligence, social utility, political importance, and style of life altogether. It not many years since the general notion that the manufacturers were the ingenious, knowing, calculating, inventive, and speculative slams, whereas anybody might be a farmer. The farmer had only to learn the old rules, and carry on - old operations with the old implements. The speech of Mr. GLAorroxe, on Thursday last, shows - the cue is changed—how much more resource, and knowledge are needed now to make a successful farmer of a man with 6,0004. of capital,thaa make a octennial shopkeeper or manufacturer of , man with the same capital, and the Mae standing in his own class. The development of - infector's thus elevated agriculture, am soon as progression was allowed to take its natural coarse ; and already we are secure from those alarms ' miseries on account of dearth which were for. as common as bad seasons. We are secure .. of much more than double production —not only double in comparison to former production, bat double by science what we should have got by the old fashioned methods; and what is included lase ear witted a supply of food it ought not ton vassizarry to set forth. The invariable decline of crims, sn! increase of intelligence, and spread of domed, parity and happiness, and elevation of the lower Glasses, which attend on a course of good harvests, . the converse or eration of bad seasons, are suffi _Ay notorious; and thus the prospect of ever increasing production by resources which an Men pendent of climate and sesains is the most chseninr promise which can be disclosed by the avenge et And this la oar prospect now. No one us . it who saw, last week, the control whist Mk obtaining over Nature by means of egrisnllng science and art. Hundreds sad thomemb wen pm . and learning how drought sad geodes can be • harmless, and the soil be mimed a pare bed, and kept so ; how loss may Mewed by the saving of time in critical processes; bow the infallible isdasuy of machinery accomplishes the business of weeks in days, and of days in hours; and not by throwing the labourer out of week, but by raising - to the rank of a skilled workman. this elevation of the labourer, we obtain fresh encouragement of manufactures ; and the extensicia of manufactures, a further pro. ty for agriculture. Judging by the speeches of foreign guests at the Chester baatioet, and of • entertainers, something of the same promos bee . going forward between neighbeeriag nations between different classes of our owe tiontryseen. Ike Duke of bleasiorr says we have improved Preach agriculture; and Mr. Otarerfotte responds, amidst theme, with the remark that, if so, it is be cause the manufacturing skill of the French has stimulated our textile and other productions in the manufacturing lime. In short, all improvement and development la science, art, and industry, is a benefit round' spreading from class to class, and from nation to nation, and perpetually reproducing its ILOCCMI •••7 VV.UII4I sitz o'clock. these limas l i value a akar, subs social success. Any 11 in national welfare, while nobody loses respects, is keenly swots are anxious, parties effete, and ni from foes. This is meeting of Chester has been s thoroughly no former meeting CI effectivSDKS, and the coati the spectacle so suggestive ; and will at once see why level: which, endow wall, forms a nature thinks of the old are the tournament, or t which brought poop centuries ; and the observances and thorn and too self-asserting here or any where. let page. It is of more practi another purpose wl Romaas had placed i a good port, and befi rival it, it had receive by the sanding up of as a watch-tower How instructive has 1 of wool, coal, and v tionrhood ; and afte abroad, and iron from commerce arose. Fa. 1 sequences, as regarde popu!ations thronged the demand for food tillage. The multitu majority) were long i taxed, in order to rep till the protective pol The throwing open o I has made the fortune the way of material the plainest evidence II " the landed interest,' in the scale of intel importance, and a is not many year t, was that the mans knowing, calculatin slam, whereas mute farmer had only to 11 the old operations speech of Mr. °LAN how the case is than Dense, and knewled successful farmer of s to make a successful ' a man with the standing in his ow manufactures thus el the progression wu Imo ; and already anJ miseries on ace =My se common as sow et much more tt &able in compuisc double by science wh fashioned methods; Wit 11 ted a supply of 1 to set forth. The it increase of intellig \ I purity and happine dames, which attend and the convene ore ciently notorious; as increasing production pendest of climate a promise which can time. And this la 0 , doubt it who saw, lu is obtaining over Ns science and art. Hos in; and inning h made harmless, and seed bed, and kept et saving of time in nit iadosuy of machine' weeks in days, and throwing the labour him to the ran With this den obtain fresh ens:atm with the extension a sperity for agrieultni the foreign guests i their entertainer*, K been going forward as between different The Duke of MAU Preach agriculture t amidst cheers, with canes the snapshot etinsalated our texti saanufacturies lime. development in seise all round, spreading nation to nation, at I 'I SE EXPIIPSS, TUESDAY WENING, JULY '47, 1858. • blearing*. We knew this very well when we were striving for the repeal of the corn-laws ; and we find all the world admitting it, now that agriculture is striding forwards to assume its old place at the head of the arts of life. One other suggestion we must recognise, among the lessons of last week. These annual meetings can hardly be judged of till they have been held (in their new vigour) in so many different places as to have drawn to them the whole farming population of the country. Chester and its vicinity, once poor and dreary, we shall henceforth regard as a land flowing with milk and honey. Manufactures flourish so near as to send commerce through the old city in all directions; and the good gifts of the earth are plentifully out into her lap. But, at no great dis tance from her, north, east, south, there is an agri cultural barbarism still prevalent which shows that we have to become much better supplied with food yet, than we are in our latest improved condition. There are grazing districts where it is not unusual to fled the finest young bullocks bogged, and tender heifers exposed to storms, and a diseased beast in fecting a herd, and the dairy vessels never washed, beanie it would be unlucky ; and the pigs in the garden, and the sheep under the snow, and the cows wild with heat and flies. There are farms where the manure is thrown away, because it exhausts the soil or poisons the ground ; and where the hay crop which should have been saved fire weeks ago is at this moment standing rank with weeds which are sending their seeds over all the neighbouring lands, and where wide ditches and narrow streams are choked with whole crops of hay which, mown at great coot, has been left at the mercy of the storms of Bt. Swims, and where, everything being too late, the harvest will be driven off to the short days, and , the oats will grow yellow ia the October nights, after having been laid by the equinoctial storms ; and where the winter will be down on the fields before the seed is got in. Such things are ; and there were many at Cheater who could have bane , witness to it. Moreover, they could have told the almost invariable issue: discouragement, discontent, despair, drink, and dispersion of families through that ruin. Let the more fortunate of the " landed "interest," and their sympathising neighbour, of other callings, take this to heart, and see what can be done for the old yeomanry and peasantry of England who live remote from the high road of agricultural improvement and prosperity. Whether such shows as that of Chester can be carried near to the by-corners of the land, or the primitive farmers ' and graziers of our retired districts can be coaxed over to the shows—let something be done for those who can do so little for themselves. It is pleasant to contrast in imagination the pre sent and a former age of agriculture; but it is not at all agreeable to pus from a meeting of the Royal Agricultural Association to a northern county where the farmer pays sixteen shillings a week to his labourers, and cannot manage to live ; or to a southern one where the wages are eight shillings, and the master finds it almost as hard to live as the man. It is hard to say whether in north or south Man and Nature are most misused. Let a better teaching become universal. CD, Court. OSBORNE, Zvi 26. Her Majesty, the Price° Consort, Prises Alfred, Princess Aline, and Priam, Helena, attended Divine Service at Whippingham Church yesterday morning. The Rev. 0. Prothero officiated. TIM Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company bad an in terview with the Right Hon. Bir E. Bulwer Lytton yester day. Xr. Wyld had also an interview with the right hon. baron' at the Culosial-offloe. Parliament bad an interview ylatarday with the Chancellor of the Barbican at his official residence in Downiog- street, upon tha subject °Mho report tithe select costmines on Mr. Barber's case. The depata. Una emasisted of Mr. Brady, Mr. A. Mills, the Right Hoe. T. M. Gthean. the HOD. E. Take, Mr. Coact, Colonel lri Frank, Major-General Str John Smith, Mr. W. WI limns, Mr. U. lagnan, Mr. Charles Forster, Mr. Collins, Mr. P. M. Calmat. Mr. W. Coninehant, Mr. Adam Black, Mr. H. E. Beteg, Major E. Scott, Mr. M. Sollivaa, Mr. J. Clay, Mr. E. Akroyd, Mr. G. Haihad, Mr. J. C. Cobbolii, Mr. J. Cheatham, Mr. C. J. Butler, Colonel Presetust, Mr. T. E. Headlam, and Mr. Patrick O'Brien. iespate Ise;;;ere receivvi seder:ley at the Colonial-OEllm from the Governors of the North American Provinces and the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Wanda. His Excellency the Duke of Malakoff went to Lard's Cricket Ground yesterday, and was presented by the sehaaribers with a cricket-bat, ball, and stumps as a memorial of h visit. Maria Marchioneu of Ailesbnry hu left Claridge's Hotel for Hamlett's Park, on a visit to Mr. Harcourt and Frances Countess Wald/grave. The Earl and Counter of Clarendon hare left fawn for Nanahas Part, on a visit to Mr. Harcourt and Frozen CouutessWaidatrava. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury have left tows for Bt. Giles's, Doreetshire. The C,onot and Countess de Flahault and Madlle. de Fla!mutt bars arrived In town from Germany. Viscount and Viscountess Co m bermere have arrived at Buxton. Lord Lyons arrived at Arundel Cantle on Friday, as a visit to their Oracle the Doke sad Dearer of Norfolk. Hie lordship doer not appear to be fa the outsmarted of his and excellent health. We trust, however, that the mein betty of the air of Arundel will soon restore the pliant admiral to his wonted health end vigenr.—Ssiseez Erpreaa. This morning the marriage of the Hon. Mr. Massfyide, eldest son of Lord Polthuore, with Wog Sheridan, daughter of Richard Brinaley Sheridan, M.P., wes celebrated at St. George'a, Hanover-equare,ia the promote! a brilliant *de. The marriage was celebrated yesterday, at St. Uses, ?betas-square, of J. F. Baeset. Esq., of Tebidy Park, Carswell, to t►e Hon. Heady Vanier, youngest dingitter of Viscount Govt. The advertised list of staucriptions towards the Dramatic Colisp exceeds LOOM Maws. Rama and Zradas, MINIM. Shepherd and Cruswick, sad Beirjamln Wi*sew, Dm., ham pissed their respective theatres at the disposal of the areamaMes, sad the company of the Olympic lam roared Mir prialtoue aarvices fa a benefit, which will lam plans Dime e• Saturday, Aisamat 21. At a amp mitts* moan ma Sederday, held at the Freemasons Tavern, it was easalmoesly remind, " That the thanks or this core mitts, he gives to the patianan of the press for their zealous aced Ale advocacy al ths mass of skis lastiturioa." A petition to the Hose* of Lords is in come of assegai" wow, the wet Int!woad Leedom arms against *edema intrigued by Mr. Hotel into ths new rearstre ea ceened shoran lesiing bankers front a responsibility in erns alms do arteehig may hare bola ROW es se to is saps istimilts. Ths Archduchess Elizabeth, of Austria, wife of /Jablake Charles Foramd, yr daily delivered at VISIMI at a timaitrar as Ili• !LL The Prince of Orange will attain hie majority on the 4th leek ant, when greed fetes will be given at the Regis The Fibre, sad Prism Frederick of the Nether huge have peetrewel their journey to Germany won after tint pale& Lettere bee Cologne state that the Count tip ahrabord mosivel a alit is that city from the Primes &ppm d Prowls. A another of the French residents else - lark newts to his royal highnees during his May fie. Tlio &widen of the Swim Council of States relative le the reneeiredea k be 'worded to nertabees of the Plachad Nome for Ask eerverem le, Inr. for the liking, lift. per day kr siting as committer, sad 11r. 600. per Ingle kr trevellieg expeneee. TM Cbrriers Ifereantile of Genoa states from RIM that Calla dedil Eroded was &mated there ce the lie, aid trimeersed to tbs politleal pre» of Itaa Meisel& ,111 mom of this step la Sot stated. LATEST INTEI4IIGENCE. FRANCK • (FROM OUR OWN CORUBEIPONDENT.) CHERBOURG, JULY 26. The stranger who arrives at Cherbourg by rail from Paris is struck by the evidences of extraordinary haste to open this important line which meet his eye continually on this aide of Caen. From the latter place to Cherbourg there is at present a single line of rails only. The second will not, in all probability, be laid down for some time to come, unless the go vernment, for strategetical reasons, shall see fit to make a new contract with the Western Company. At present, the company is under no obligation to open a second line until the traffic between Paris and Cherbourg shall produce a sum too large to be realised very soon, although I think that, considered in a commercial point of view only, the value of the channel of communication now established with the extreme north-west point of France will speedily turn out to be greater than has been anticipated. The one line which I have mentioned goes over a good deal of low marshy ground in the Cotentin country, which must, I think, be liable to be flooded in winter. For several miles in this district there are now ponds on either side of the embankment on which the rails are laid. These hollows were made by the company scooping out earth for the purposes of their railway close to the line. It is perhaps to be regretted that at the sacrifice of more time and money they did not cart their earth from a greater distance, for it is certain that the water hereabouts has a tendency to sap the foundations of the railway. A good deal of rain hie fallen in Normandy within the last three days, and the trains are now compelled to proceed so slowly through the Cotentin that it is impossible for them to keep regular time, more especially is, there being but a single line, the up and down trains are fre quently obliged to wait for one another. As you approach Cherbourg most of the stations are unfinished. The " busy hammers" of the carpenters, " closing rivets up " to make all in readiness for the Emperor's passage on the 4th of August, give as noisy, though not so dreadful, a note of preparation, as did those of the " armourers accomplishing the knights " on the morning of the battle of Agincourt. And, by the way, an English man, passing from one end of Normandy to the other in a few hours by steam, cannot help thinking a great deal about these same knights, his ancestors. Normandy is at this day more like England than is any other part of the Continent. The architecture of the village churches, the greensward, the cut of the woods and old pollards, the gates, the stiles, the footpaths, hedgerows and orchards, the shape and size of the fields, the cottages with their thatched roofs, the arrangement of the farm homesteads, and the well tended gardens of the country mansions, all remind an Englishman of his home, and fill his mind with a strange interest at the reflection that these are the undoubted models of that rural life which he has loved from his in fancy, and had always thought to be exclusively English. And then the names of towns, villages, and hamlets, as you whisk by, read like a leaf out of " Domesday Book." There, with but now and then slight differences of spelling, brought about by eight centuries of time, you find the origin of troops of English nobility; the Devereuxe, °royale', Pereys, Beaumont', Bohune, Carteret', Neville', Braces, Pierrepoints, rum mukis alas. To return to the railway : notwithstanding all impediments, what is called the express train does the journey from Paris very comfortably in tlf hours. It will ultimately be done much quicker when arrangements shall be made for trains going at somewhat greater speed end stopping at fewer stations. I have no doubt whatever that this line will be used to a great extent this very summer by English visitors to Paris. The sea voyage from Southampton to Cherbourg is shorter by many miles than that to Havre, and although the railway journey afterwards is somewhat more expensive (the first class fare is 41f.), this will be bat a small consideration for thousands of tourists who have never yet seen William the Conqueror's grave at Caen, or his wife's famous tapestry at Bayeux, both of which inter esting old towns are upon the line, and form con venient halting places. Cherbourg itself, besides its attractions as a great military port, has a great deal to recommend it considered merely as a town. Many of the streets are wide, clean, and well paved. There are good shops well stocked with colonial pro visions, aid it is famous for claret, which it imports direct from Bordeaux. The immediate environs of the town are singularly beautiful. The wood-crowned heights within hail' an hour's walk cannot be matched by anything near Boulogne, Dieppe, or Havre. And now concerning the great question of the approaching fetes. I have seen some of the highest functionaries here, and they all say that with respect to the Queen's proceedings nothing is yet definitively settled. This much is certain, that great efforts are making, and will continue to be made, to induce her Majesty to stay longer than she at first proposed to do. The people of Cherbourg positively refuse to believe that she can come to this port without setting foot on shore. All classes, from the highest to the lowest, entertain the very best feeling towards her, relate anecdotes of her former visit, and express great pleasure at the prospect of seeing her again. The Maritime Prefect, Admiral Bourdon, with whom I have had the honour of an interview, told me that on a former 000111ACKI her Majesty said to him in the kindest manner, " Now that I know the way to Cherbourg, I shall corns again." I know from the best authority that the municipality has sent en invitation to the Queen to the ball which is to be given to the Emperor and Empress after the inauguration of the new basin on Saturday, August 7, and great indeed will be the disappointment if her Majesty'sengagements should be found to be absolutely incompatible with her presence at this entertainment. The exact naval force at this moment lying in the harbour is as follows : first and principally, the Toulon squadron, consisting of the magnificent screw three decker, the Bretagne,l4o guns (Vice-Admiral Romain Desfosse's flag); the Donawerth (Rear-Admiral Lavand's flag); the Napoleon, Ulm, Arcole, Auster litz, and Eylsu, and the frigate Isly. In addition to the above, there is the Saint Louis, towed out of the Bastin o Flot this morning, the frigate Alexan dre from Rochfort, and the school frigate Somme from Brest These eight vessels (osiootaux) and three frigates will, I believe, after all be the extent of the force to be shown to the Queen on her arrival. The Brest squadron will not come, as was reported, and indeed I have relation to believe that it is not ready, and could not be got reedy for the next two months. Now that the Saint Louis has been got out there is no other armed ship of any kind in either of the bides, but there are five or six laid up in ordinary. Now, if the Queen should come with Admiral Lord Lyons and the six ships of the line, six frigates, and seven yachts, which were at first officially announced, she will have a more powerful force than the French. It is, however, currently rumoured here that her a. Majesty will be much less struily escorted ; official people talk of her coming with two ships of the line only and some corvettes and yearns. A sad auddent occurred yesterday on board the S.. Louis as she wu preparing to leave the port. A cLimney fell and struck down two men, one of whom was killed on the spot. I saw the poor fel low, a fins lad of 18 carried away, his head com pletely smashed. The St. Louis was a sailing ves sel, and has been in dock to be transformed into a After the inauguration of the basin, on August 7, two vessels will be launched in the Emperor's pre sence—the new ship, the Ville de Nantes, 90 guns, begun June 20, 1854, and the Bellone, a ship which has been repaired. The equestrian statue of Napoleon 1., about which a great deal has been said, is at this moment being put together on the quay facing the Place d'Armes. While I write, the horse, all but his head and tail, with half of the man upon his back, are upon the pedestal. Judging from the frag ments, this statue, which is the work of a local artist, M. Leveel of Briquebec, appears to have great merit. It has, I believe, been stated that Napoleon would be looking towards the ses, with his hand pointing to the English coast, as if encouraging an invasion. I am happy to be able to contradict this report.. Whatever may have been the original intention, the statue is now placed with the horse's flank, and not his head, towards the north. The Emperor's hand points due west, towards the pert which he appears to indicate as his work. On the pedestal in the following quotation from an expres sion attributed to him at St. Helena:—" J'avais resole de renoaveller 1 Cherbourg les merveillee de l'Egypte." I must conclude this preliminary reconnaissance of the Cherbourg fêtes by a word about the prospects of visitors in search of lodgings. The rapacious ex pectations of the inhabitants exceed the most extra vagant stories of parallel cues that I have ever heard of. Everybody in the town has lodgings to let. Prices are quoted at from 11. sterling to 4!. per night. People, however, will not engage before hand by the night, but for the whole duration of the fetal, which they estimate at four or five days. For 100 f. you can only retain a very miserable bed, indeed such a one as no one not steeped in poverty would like to sleep in. 200 f. is the price asked for a merely commonly decent bed room. Garrets with one window a foot square are offered at the rate of 20f. per night. A landlord who showed me these excused his extortion by saying that he would have to pay sf. per night for the hire of a mattress, and 6f. for bedding. One good old lady who keeps a sausage shop showed me two clean but small rooms in her cottage, for which she asked jest 161. She calculated that six people might peek in these two rooms, and observed that they might save a great deal of money by allowing her to provide their board. This is a good illustration of the de -1 mented state of the population. Is it possible that people riob enough to pay such unheard of prices for crowded sleeping-room would be content to feed in a bed-room on coarse bacon and sausages, and that in holiday time? I have no doubt that the Cherbourg people will outstand their market, and that when the fêtes begin there will be plenty of beds to be had at cheaper rates than they can now be hired at beforehand. There are 'a great many villages with plenty of house room at easy distances from the town. The principal hotels in the place are the Hotels de l'Europe, and the Hotel de Paris, on the Western Quay, the Hotel de France in the Rue de Bassin, and the Hotel du Commerce in the Rae des Fontaines; these are all pretty good, but with a wide margin for improvement. A mag nificent new hotel, called the Hotel de l'Univers, is now finishing in the Rue des Fontaines. It was taken by the railway company for their friends, but they have been obliged to give it up to the Emperor. They are making preparations to accommodate their guests under tents and in railway carriages. (nos °us °wit ookanroximurT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVIKIKO. The Bourse has been dull with very little busi ness doing. The Rente fell 10c. for cash and remained without alteration for account, closing at 68fr. 16c. and 68fr. 25c. Mobilier was without change. Railways were from Ifr. to 2fr. 60c. higher. The indipascleste of Turin says that the Paris Conference will have terminated its labours before the Cherbourg fêtes, and that the pacific restate will be announced by the Emperor in the presence of Queen Victoria and !II? Ambassadors who will meet her at Cherbourg. This the Indiperideltie professes to give from a " certain source." I have heard nothing of the news in any other quarter, nor do the Paris journals give any confirmation of a rumour mentioned' by the Isedependanco Beige that Count Cavour has been to see the Emperor at Plombieres. Mlle. Eveillard, the heroine of Jeddah, has take n up her abode in Paris with M. Cintra, director of archives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, an old friend of her father. AUSTRIAN ITALY. MILAN, JuLT 23. The Archduke, it was well understood, had re solved not to return to Lombardy without obtaining from the Emperor some considerable reforms. Whether he has succeeded to the full extent of his demands is not known, but we learn from a good private source that he has certainly been promised the following ameliorations :—ln the first place, a oommission will be appointed, composed of three members of ea& 'a of the two central Italian congre gations, and of other members chosen by the finance minister, to revise the system of taxation. At pre sent the inhabitants of Lombardy, though forming but a sixth of the population of the Austrian em pire, pay no lees than one-third of the direct taxes. The commission will be instructed to frame a new scheme of taxation, on the principle of perfect equality. Secondly, the contingent of marmite for last year, which was found to press so hardly upon the population that it oonld not be raised, will be dispensed with ; thus liberating many only sons and married men from a liability which had spread desolation in many parts of the country. Thirdly, the Emperor has authorised the Archduke to improve the position of the communal surgeons, called eadotti. Their salaries will be augmented, and retiring pensions will be allowed them Lastly, and out of consideration for the fine arts, which are a necessary of life in Italy, the two academies of Milan and Venice will be united with the two institutes of sciences and letters under one president, and their power will be greatly increased. In a word, the direction of all the artistic parts of public works will be con fided to the Italians. This emancipation from German influence is an acceptable homage to Italian genius. This is all that is at present decided. In a political point of view the concessions are not much ; but it is a great thing to have broken the ice, and it is moreover reported that the decree relative to the above measures states that the Arch duke is specially charged to consider what other changes the country stands in need of, INDIA AND CHINA. THE CALCUTTA MAIL. RECAPTURE OF GWALIOR. We have received advices in anticipation of the Overland Mail, the dates being Calcutta, June 18, Madras, June 26, and Hong Kong, June 7. We find the news of the recapture of Owalior in the Madras iithenaum of June 25, contained in the following telegram, dated Calcutta, 20th June, from the President in Council to the Governor of Madras : " Sir Hugh Rose has taken Gwalior after a gene ral action which lasted five hours and a half. The enemy has evacuated the fort, and our cavalry and artillery, are in pursuit. The Ranee of Jhansi has been killed. Sir Hugh Rose writes this from the Palace of Gwalior on the 19th June (yesterday). " The Governor-General requests that the news may be spread through every part of the Deccan and of Southern and Eastern India, and that the restoration of our brave and faithful ally, Scindia, through British arms, may be lordly proclaimed." " It seems," says the Madras Athenesum, " that u soon as the rebels got possession of the fort they installed a nephew of the Nana Sahib on the guddee. The name of this individual whose dignity has been so short lived is Rao Sahib. Of the action in which he and his subjects were defeated, but few particulars have been received. It lasted five hours and a half and must therefore have been a desperate :engage ment. The rebels managed to escape, but ca valry and artillery were sent in pursuit, and as the general who commanded the troops was the gallant Sir Hugh Rose, we may be sure that he will ' account for' a large number of the insur gents. It is stated in the telegram that the Ranee of Jhansi was killed, but whether she met her fate during the battle or afterwards is not mentioned. Another account states that the Nana Sahib was proclaimed sovereign of °wailer, but it would ap pear that this miscreant was not desirous of per sonally performing the duties of his new dignity, for a Lucknow correspondent of a con temporary mentions that the Nana and the Nawab of Furruckabad have escaped into the Nepaul , hills. 'He must have left the conclave at Mohundee or Bhitowlee, and with seventy-five doe lies, containing his family and doubtless all his tresaure, crossed the Gogra into the district of Khy reegurgh. From thence he will proceed to Bun bunt, and into the Nepaul hills.' The correspon dent is of opinion that the Nana, rather than be taken, will abandon his family and retire to some monastery or temple in Thibet for the remainder of his days." The Calcutta Phoenix dwells with gratifioation upon the fact " that the operations of Sir Colin Campbell at Bareilly and subsequently at Mahom dee have resulted in the pacification of Rohileand. That province may now be said to be almost tran quil, and, what is better, its inhabitants, from the ex perience they have had of Mahomedan rale for the last twelve months, are mot likely to long for its resto ration. Indeed, some of the zemindars have rendered most valuable assistance in the re-organisation of some of the districts. The last that was heard of the main body of the rebels from this province was from Mahomdee, which was taken by Brigadier Jones towards the close of May, the rebels as usual bolting before the British troops could come up with them." In Oude there were several bodies of rebels still in the field, but they are harmless and inactive, if we except the depredations they commit on their own countrymen. " They will not abide a fight, and all attempts to hem them in have hitherto been futile. The important towns and cities are garthoned i by British troops, and re we need not say that there no prospect of the cowardly enemy attempting to dispute such occupation. Their efforts, however, have the effect of retarding the re-establishment of anything like civil administration —or indeed of any anthority but that of the bayonet—through out the country, and will . probably continue to have such an effect until a commissariat capable of keeping up with flying columns at the rate of thirty-five, or forty, or even a greater number of miles per day, Towing had been received from govern ment: Service Menage from O. F. Bdmonstone, Beg., dated Allahabad, June 18. The Maharajah of °wailer left Agra on the 13th June, for the purpose of joining the Central Indian Field Force, now on its way to biwalior. All well at Jaepoor on the 13 , h, Bhurrut pore on the 14th instant. Sir Hogh Rues force reached Soopoolia on the 14th June. The rebel force seemed disin clined for a contest, and there were many desertions. The &spree Brigade wu at Snorjepore on the 10th, and Wei tote at Nahum on the 11th. Several of the rebels are said in have fled from Genitor in the direction of the Hotel' boundary. (Service Message from G. Move's's, Beg., dated Nagpore, 11th Jana.) Yakut Rao, the rebel &minder of Axpelie, in the Cheadah district, has been captured by a party in the pay of Loch meebaee, Zemindarin of Ahem*, • no partMtders received, • that many persons were ki lled and wounded on both @Wm CHINA. CAPTURE OF CHINESE FORTS. The Orerland IRidosor of China, of June 7, has the following summary : " From this part of the world the news is pithy and exciting. We have to tell of two battles—one a vietory, the other not unlike a defeat. The victory consists in the capture of the forts at the month of the Peiho—the other affair, an attack on a camp of braves about a dozen miles north-east of Canton. Our lames in both badness., were severe. Through the explosion of mines rather than by gun shot, the casualties at the Penni exceeded 100. At Canton some 60 were hors de combat from sunstroke, besides about a dozen killed, wounded, or made prisoners. " In resumption of our usual chronicle of the movements of the Earl of Elgin and the other ambassadors, we have now to report as follows. Tan, Governor-General of Chihle, having inti mated his authority to treat on behalf of the Em peror, was requested to obtain letters of similar pur port to those handed by Ilipu and Keying in the negotiations at Nankin in 1842. What was the astonishment of the ambassadors to learn from the lips of Tan that Sir Henry Pottinger was imposed upon, and that Keying forged the Emperor's letters of authorisation of which the Earl of Elgin had sent Tan copies. " It was the American and Russian envoys who were told this ; neither the Earl of Elgin nor Baron Oros have yet seen a Chinese Mandarin in the north. Its understood that on learning what Tan said, the French and English ambassador, intimated to him that only at Peking would they now treat ; and at once demanded a suitable escort. The time allowed for compliance with the request having expired, Admirals Seymour and De °s nootily were requested to see what vfrtne lay in shells; and upon this the forts at the entrance of the river were taken. As the despatch betrays left the Gulf of Pecheli on the 22nd ultimo, the allied squadron of gunboats was proceeding on to Teentsin. " The Russian and American envoys appear to have been very useful as 'go between': Lees panetiliou than the French and English ministers, the American at once declared to Tan what it was his government wanted ; discussed the details of a new treaty. and only broke off negotiations when Tan point blank declared that Peking could be no place of residence for officers of foreign govern- ments. The particular business of the Russian envoy in his conference with Tan (or Tan-tsing-siang) said to have been confined to the question of boon- -we dariea. In reality, however, there is no knowing what the Russ is up to. " With the aid of the French Artillery, Sappers, Marines, and seamen, some six hundred in all, which have just left Hong Kong for the Gulf, it is supposed that, after making a demonstration on Teen-tam, the admirals will simply hold the points captured, and maintain a strict blockade till cool weather sets in, when, with further reinforcements, we can advance on the capital. As for concession from Hienfang, until he is thoroughly punished, and a prisoner perhaps, we may not expect it. Trade has been very dull at Canton for some weeks past ; and the news from Peking appears more than likely to put a atop to it altogether. Far-seeing Chinese say that in a few weeks we shall have a difficulty in obtaining provisions even in Hong Kong—for the Ewes are at work now that they know the Emperor's real senti ments. The government in commission are acting as blindly as ever. A week or two ago they took off the embargo on goods moving from the city. In 12 hours 18,000 packages were carried through the gates. This was alarmiug :so interdic tion again became the order of the day. " The expedition in search of braves appears to have been a most ill-managed affair. Mr. Com missioner Parkes had received information from one of his emissaries that tents were pitched some where under the mountains to the north-east of Canton, and about abreast the Lih-tah barrier, say midway between Whampoa and Canton. Thus information being conveyed to Major-General Van Straubenzec, his Excellency determined on a recon naissance. Off accordingly started Mr. Parkes, the General, the French Commodore, and some others (the Adjutant-General, Colonel Stephenson, is in Hong Kong we see). In course one of the temples on the mend° was reached and there they went to breakfast. Wandering away a little distance from the Refectory, one of the party happened to see below the identical tents they were in search of. " Such is the story as it hasbeen given tons byone not an eye witness. Whether upon this all of them returned to the city (we expect they did)—or, as we were first informed and reported, a detachment went back for reinforcements, we cannot say, but it is a fact that with three days' rations, about sundown, a large body of men left the city, and to support the movement a naval brigade, under Captain Grenfell, of the Amethyst, was organised. At this point we will let each arm of the service speak for itself. A naval friend says : " The (naval) brigade was in two divisions-210 men from the Tribune, Amethyst, and Bittern, and 150 from the Ca. mills, Hornet, and Actrem. The last-mentioned division was under Coville of the Camilla (the only oommander in the brigade), and left Canton at midnight. In due time they fell in with the other division near the Lanz•shire Witch, and a landing was effected in good order. But after that, whew! Where were the roods I' However, on they went till, when within a mile of the braves' camp, Orentell called a halt." "CaptG., I would suggest that we went in a dub," said the plucky Corille—Commander C.'s suggestion pissed un heeded. Again suggested--again dieregarded. One hour, two hours, three mortal hours did that Brigade remain sta tionary, till bye-and-by the sun took its effect and down dropped the men—Welt throughout the day to the number of eighteen were WI floored,none fatally. Another suggestion by Commander Covdle to go in with a dash meets • mimes of "Go to the rear with your men, Sir, and bring up lb. sick." This was simply to get quit of the Importunity. " Now for the letter of a friend in 'tether arm : From all accounts, the first day must have keen an ex ceedingly pleasant one ; the party arriving at the point ia landed before tie heat of the day had fairly set in. The locality fixed upon was exceedingly picturesque, a large though almost deserted joss hones„ in • well wooded and watered valley some few hundred feet beneath the highest peak of the " White clouds." In 'pile of the intense heat of the min, the strength of the brims rendered the atmosphere, especially in the thader: g refreshing to men who had for some five months been oo up inside the walls of Canton. In the course of the forenoon an intreached enoampassat was discovered about five MUM distant, containing about 50 or 60 large ridge tents; this the general at once decided to attack; ai exploit, however, as the result will show, easier in anticipation than in execution. During the afternoon we beard in Canton that Colonel Holloway, with 600 Marines, 60 Artillerymee, and two field pieces, had received orders to advance in • direction about midway between the general's position and the river while the gunboats were to land somewhere between Can ton and Wbampoa, the 70th Native Infantry and 900 men of the Naval Brigade, it being hoped that by this arrangement the Chinese would besurrounded and cut to pieces. Vain hope I Gunboats grounded; the two field-pleess stuck feat, or were kept back by some Impassable obstacle— and the vest majority of the troops lost their way amongst the paddy fields. A strong forte. of French however, the general's party, and • portion of Colonel Holloway's fora got into communi cation at last, sod shortly afterwards the Chinese opened the bell by a eiroultaneous discharge of eight or ten large jtsg from the neighbourhood of a village on the left hand a i ds the line of march, ear men thrown out in ekirroiehing order soon drove the enemy (some 300 the Chinese themselves mid) away. For the time only, u I regret to add that Dr. Turnbull pooling the same way on a pony a short time after , ward. was captured and decapitated, though the trunk wee recovered and received such burial as It was in the power oil our men to give. An orderly with a dooley and four of the I military train coolies litowise disappeared in the same place. Of the fighting during the day there is little to tell. From letters which have been received describing the capture of the forts it appears that, by the explosion, 58 of the French, including four lieutenants were blown into the one of them, first of the Fusee, and eleven men, being among the killed. The English had twenty. five killed and wounded, the only officer among the former being a carpenter (it was supposed of the Fury). Mr. Prickett, Master of the Opossum, was struck by a grape shot, which took away parts of one side and thigh. THE CHRISTIANS IN TURKEY. CANDIA, JuLT 13. Vely Pacha has just left for Constantinople by the Ottoman steamer Poarsoud. Semi Pacha, the new governor, arrived yesterday morning. The first acts of his administration will be anxiously watched. From the warm manner in which he greeted Vely Pacha, and the honours which he caused to be rendered to him, it is to be inferred that the new governor-general does not approve of, and will not follow Ahmed Paches policy. Chefik Effendi, the member of council whir encouraged the populace to drag the body of the Cheek in the streets, has been dismissed. It will be very difficult for Semi Pacha to make any per moment change in the state of things. The Christians are exasperated, and declare they will not lay down their arms till they have obtained serious guarantees for the future, but it is not very clear what they mean by that expression. Mean. while they are fortifying their positions, and thej continually receive contraband supplies of arms and munitions. The number of Christiana in the Isle of Crete who have arras in their hands, is not lees than 10,000. Mavroieni is the chief of this instil'. reotion, which is becoming very serious. CANADA. (IT 311716111 AND IRISH XAONITIC TBLICIILAPIO (saw' ova OWN oosazorturayars.) LIVERPOOL, TV MAT. • The steamer Anglo-Baxoo, from Quebec, 17h hut , was off Donaghadee at 8.30 this morning. tihn is due here to-night. NAVAL AND MILITARY. 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