The Express. — London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

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Advertisements Intended for The Express" London Evening Paper, m a st be at the Office, 10, Bowerie-itreet, by Two clot ou the day of publication. PRINCE:IB'S. 'nun amine°. BORN T 06006— LUCK. Mr. D. Murray. And THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mews. J. W. Ray, David Fiaher, D. Murray, J. Nelson, B. Forester, and R. Mellon ; Mrs 11. Marston, Misses Barnett and Gainne. BRITANNIA. This LTENntfl. THE HARLOT'S PROGRES3A.— Slnglng by Mr. H. Clifton an.l Mr. J. H. Steed Madame Pleon.—Mr. 0. W. Je.ter.—Concluding with KENILWORTH. HIGnWATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. ..... InteDAY Morning, Oh. 61n. Afternoon, Oh. iism. Tw YORIAiW Steruing, Ih. 3m.. .Alterimot., lh. '27m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEE 14. Now that all prospect of transportation for the future is practically at an end, the question of the disposal of our penal servitude convicts at home has acquired additional interest and import ance. So long as our colonies were willing to re lieve us of a great portion of the burden, it mat tered little, comparatively speaking, what became of the remainder. But, when the whole weight of it has to rest upon our own shoulders, it behoves us to see that every available expedient is used to lighten the pressure. Of course it is evident at first sight that, utilise the labour of our convicts as perfectly as we may, we can never expect to derive from it the same compensating measure of advan tage which it unquestionably conferred, in the earliest stages of their development, upon our Australian colonies. In the struggles of an infant society the value even of untrained labour in supplying the essential conditions of material pro gress appears to outweigh the evil moral influences which the infusion of a large cri minal element into the population must inevitably create. But as these primary wants become gradu ally supplied, and the socialorganizationof the com munity becomes more complete, the material advan tages of convict labour are lessened at the same time that its deleterious moral effects are proportionately intensified. To expect that, in the present advanced condition of English society, the industrial services of our convictacaneverbe so far utilised as to make them a source of ultimate gain to the community, would be obviously absurd. But every well-di rected effort in this direction will, at least, tend to make our penal system self-supporting, and wol at the same time be attended with very beneficial moral effects upon the convicts themselves. What ever objection may be raised against reformatory efforts in general, on the ground of their assumed antagonism with the primary deterrent objects of penal discipline, that objection cannot ex tend to the system which adopts manual labour as one of the chief engines of moral reformation, and accepts industry as the sole test of moral reform. In nine cases out of ten con tinuous labour is in itself the severest punishment; at least it would be so invariably to the hardened criminal whose ordinary life is an alternation of sensual idleness and lawless adventure. On the other hand, habits of industry are not orly the best evidence that can be obtaned of goad intentions on the part of the convict for the time being, but supply the strongest possible antidote to the temp tations which will assail him on his relerse. The last Report of the Directors of Convict Prisons contains some very interesting and encouraging in formation bearing directly upon this questior, and tending to show that convict labour is unquestion ably becoming more remunerative under the pre sent system. Writing of the condition and pro-- pects of the farm connected with the Dartmoor Prison the Governor says :—"The farm bailiff's " labour return represents a sum of 2,177/. 4a. 4d. " for work done and estimated for at a fair " price, and iu excess of the previous year by " 323!. 19a. 11d., notwithstanding the daily ave." rage number of prisoners employed at agri " cultural work is considerably below that of the " year 1862, and is mainly to be accounted for "in the manifestly improved industry of the " convicts." The Reports of the Portsmouth and Chatham prisons, in so far as they bear upon the same subject, are equally satisfactory. From the appended statements of expenditure and of con vict labour in these two establishments it appears that in the latter the total expenditure for the year has been 38,749!., and the estimated value of the labour of the convicts 31,5561., whereas'', the former the amount of work done by the con victs is estimated at 24,637!., against a total ex penditure in the prison of 32,4111. The Governor of Chatham Prison tells us " that every exertion " has been made to have the work executed by the " convicts during the year, as far as parable, " accurately measured and valued, and it is most " satisfactory to find that in every case where " more accurate measurement has been attained, " the value of the work ascertained to have been " performed has exceeded the approximate value " Lion given for similar work during the " preceding year, and, in some instances, the " excess has been found to be very considerable." We are also told that, where the work cannot be accurately measured, the lowest scale of wages given by the Admiralty for the lowest description of work is always taken as the standard of worth, and that the Admiralty are now paying at least half as much again to free men for doing work of a similar character to that upon which the con victs are chiefly employed. Similar testimony to the increasing value of convict labour is borne by Admiral Ettfi,r, the superintendent of the Ports- mouth Dockyard, who has recorded his opinion upon the subject in a letter addressed to the Go vernor of the Prison, and inserted by b; , n in the body of his Report. " I have to state," says the Admiral, " that, taking a general view of the ser " vices of the Guo convicts employed in the dock yard, with the assistance rendered by the direct " ing superintendence of the convict officers "in the execution of work, I consider " that it is a very fair average to claim for the re " munerative labour of these men the same value " tion as it would cost the Government for an equal THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1864. " number of labourers at 2s. 6d. per day." in a subsequent part of his letter the Admiral also ex presses his belief th►t " the convicts are kept more " constantly at work, and that they work harder " than an equal number of labourers." Of course it may be said that the estimates above quoted are, from the very nature of the case, open to grave suspicion of inaccuracy. Where the employer and the employed represent substantially the same interest, it is obviously impossible to obtain • guarantee for perfect accuracy in the statement of account be tween them. The difficulty, in fact, is something of the kind which • man would encounter if he attempted to obtain • precise estimate of the services which his left hand renders to his right. But making all due allowance for the irresponsible character of the calculations upon which these esti mates are based, it is still fair to presume that within certain limits they are substantially correct. If so, they certainly present an encouraging picture of the advantages which may be derived from a judicious employment of convict labour under the present system. So long as the services of the convicta are exclusively confined to Government establish-'' menta, the general public will not, of course, take any great interest in the results of the ex periment. It will be looked upon simply as a question of administrative detail, possessing no attraction for the practical statesman beyond that which it derives from its immediate bearing upon the expenditure of the year. But there ' does not seem any insurmountable obstacle to the employment of convict labour even beyond the limits of her AlsJury's dockyards. There are many public works at the present moment, on which gangs of convicts might be advantageously employed, where no loss of labour would be sustained by concentration, and where the utility of their services could be put to a satisfactory and irrefutable test. That we shall be compelled to resort to some such measure as this in the course of • few years, when the accumulated numbers of our penal servitude convicts have exhausted the avail able resources of the Government establish ments, seems probable enough. With this prospect, it is highly satisfactory to know that the general tendency of our present penal system is not only to make the industry of the convicts more remunerative, but to diminish the dangers and risks which attend the employment of it. In bringing about this latter result the discoveries of modern science have doubtless bad • large share. Photography and the electric telegraph have so enormously multiplied, so to speak, our coercive power, that the chances of successful resistance to authority are now reduced to a most hopeless minimum. But the improvement in active in• dustry, to which the Report bears ample testimony, is a result which we may fairly credit to the direct operation of the present system of penal administration, and to the judicious intro duction of reformatory modification. This portion of the Report, indeed, is reassuring for the put and hopeful for the future, and is well calculated to allay the exaggerated apprehensions to which the abolition of transportation has given rise. CU Qroun. BALMORAL. Sart 12. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena, and attended by the Hon. Mrs. Brace, drove on Saturday to Altna-Cuithaaach, and went to the Dhu Loch. Sir Charles Wood left the Cattle on Saturday. Her Majesty, with the Duchene of Saxe Coburg end Priam' Helena, attended Divine @orrice at the pariah church of Cratbie yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Mr. Stephen, of Renfrew, officiated. The Duke of Hamilton arrived at his mansion in Arlington-street yesterday morning from Baden-Baden. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland and Lord Albert Larsson Gower arrived at Stafford House, S. James's, last evening, from the Continent. The Marquis of Bristol and Lilies HerTey are among the mrivala at Bvien-Baden. The Earl and Counteea of Yarborough, who came to town on Monday lut from Brocklesby, Lino*hake, left yesterday on a continental tour. The Count de Comminges Guitaud, French ambassador at the Belden court, has left the Hotel Mirabeau for Brugge lL Lord Rendleshani has taken the house of the late Mrs. Clifton, in Grosvenor-square, for a term of yea. 3. His lordship takes possession in the course of the month. Lord Napier, British Ambassador at St. Peters burg, and Lady Napier have arrived is London from Rauh'. . . Baroness Adolphe de Rothschild has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from the Continent. The Hon. George Cecil 0. Bridgeman, third son of Viseennt and Wis.:motor Newport, has just entered the Ist Life Guards. Mr. and Mrs. Manners Sutton, with their family, have left Eoglend, en route for Italy, where they "'tend to per the winter. Lord Palmerston will be 80 years old the 20th of next rconth. The funeral of the late Duke of Cleveland took place yesterday at St. Mary's Church, Staindrop, Durham, and, in accordance with the feel , nge of the Duchess of Cleveland. there was as little display as was consistent with the character of the ceremony. The Preacherehip of A rchbishop Tenison'e chapel, Regent-street, has been canto red on the Rev. C. R. Gordon, M. A. The Chaplaincy of the Ironmonger's Company be. been conferred upon the Rev. Henry kfartyn Baker, Theological Auociate of King'aCollegef Loudon, LW curate of Newport, Monmoutbib;,e. A drinking fountain has been erected at Black Gana, at the back of the Isle of Wight, dedicated in an inscription "to the memory of Shakespeare." The fountain hu bees erected by M-. Letts, a gentleman residing at Black Gaog. A number of rams, bull., and stallions were exported • few days ago to the Cape of Good Hope in the mail steamer. A ram worth 5 1 . or 6/. in this count 7, and the freight for which, by the steamer, is about u much, will fetch 50 or 60 guineas at the Cape. Partridges are more plentiful this season than they h►ve been for many years past. Admiral Keppel, of Manor House, Bishopstoke, Hants, through whose garden a small branch of the river Hellen rune, has commeoced an extensive system of breed• log trout. He has already leered some thousands of young trout from spawn. The Ist Battalion of the 10th Regiment, under command of Major Barlow, sail:d on Tuesday morning from Kingstown, on board the Mary Sheppard, for the Cape of Good Hope. The numbers embarked were 11 officers, al•= non-xnnmiesioned officers and rank and file, 15 women, and 17 children. The officers were—Major Bar. low, Captains Lucas, Stammer, Armstrong, and Rudge ; Lieutenants Scott and Armstrong ; Ensigns Palmer, Cotton, Austin, and Hood; and Auistant-Surgeon Dunlop. The Mary Sheppard is a sailing vessel of about 800 tops burden, and, judging from the time she took in coming to Kings town from England, her voyage is not likely to be a rapid one. TUE TAMWORTH CHrRCR -RATE CARE.—The well known church-rate relating to the borough of Tamworth has at length been settled. The rate in dispute was the amount of 1/. 14s. 141. The chcrchwardene, considering that this sum was justly doe by the person upon whom the claim had been made, and the latter refusing payment, entered an action at law for the recovery of the above named amount. Through some legal flaw the defendant gained the day, nevertheless he has to pay 3501. for his ohatiouy. The churchwardens, though thus accidentally losing the suit, have sustained the mum of church-rates. The costs, alto gether, amount to 2,0001. Deducting the amount which bu to be paid by the defendant, it will be perceived that the churchwarden are liable for a large sum. An aimed has been made to churchwardens in ths dioceses of Lichfield and Worcester, and a considerable sum has been raised.— Wotterhawpron Chrunick. LETTER PROM MRS. STOWS. The following letter from Mrs. Stowe has been published : "Northampton (U.S.), August 16, 1864. " Dear Sir, —I have delayed answering your letter of July 9, suclosing a certificate of F.C.E. stook for beton of Freedman's Aid Society, because, being at a watering place, I could not immediately find the address of the treasurer of the Boston Society. I have this morning trans mitted to him an order for the money, requesting him to acknowledge it to yoo, end to forward to you such documents u may show the progress of the society for the year. Never were • pimple more peaceable, more industrious, more hopeful in all !impute, In the army are no truer soldiers, more exact in discipline, more docile to command, more fearless in battle. My brother, Colonel James C. Bomber, commands • regi ment of them, and he speaks in the highest terms of their bravery and docility. The camp is also a school, and spelling-books and testaments take the place in leisure hours that is often given in armies to worse things. Eventually America, England, and the world will be of one mind on these subjects. There has been a great diversity of spirits, throughout the world, in this our controversy, but God will show the right, and when the right is shown all will acknowledge it. So now we keep silence sod wait ; but when a brave heart sees things be fore the times we rejoice in it, and when the hand of aid comes to us from a true Englishman, we bail it as • fore runner of the time when En land and America shall be knit together in one heart and one mind, as they seemed to be before this conflict, only the unioe 'Mall be a true one. The taking away of this accursed thing slavery will bring moral healing and soundness. One great thing that has corrupted the world will have sunk like a millstone never to rise. When I think how this mewled system of fraud and cruel tyranny has sunk and is still sinking, every event of our long and cruel . straggle sending it still lower, I am reconciled to our su ff erings and sorrows, to the shedding of such precious blood and loas of such pre cious lives as we are giving ; and not long are we, I hope, from the time when the amendment of our constitution will finish and perpetuate the work, and make it impos sible to hold a slave on American ground, as now on that of England. " As I have changed my residence, and hope at some . . future time to have pleasure of hearing frac; you again, I inclose my address (Mrs. H. B. Stowe, oars of Dr. C. E. Stows, Hartford, Conn., I.7.S.A.)—Vary truly yours, H. B. STOWS." THE MURDER OF MR. BRIGGS. A large meeting of Germans, members of the German Legal Protection Society, has been held at Seyd's Hotel, Finebary-square, Mr. Laker in the chair, when, after a lengthened and animated discussion, it wee resolved that one of the committee, with Mr. Thomas Beard, of No. 10, Buinghall-street, London, the solicitor to the society, should proceed to Liverpool to meet Muller= hiaarrival et that place, or that they should be at Enstonaquare, as might hereafter be decided upon. It was also determined that eminent legal assistance should be rendered at the trial, in the event of Moller being committed by the magistrate. The services of a leaned serjeaut or Q.C. will be secured, the general feeling being in favour of Mr. Serjesnt Ballantina with whom will most probably be associated Mr. Harding. Giffard and Mr. Orridge. The members of the society, in their zeal that their unfortunate countryman should be properly defended. are only anxious that he should have the means of proving, if possible, his in nocence, and the observations at the meeting of the utter abhorrence entertained of the foul crime and its perpetrator exhibited an anxious wish that should the guilt be clearly brought home justice should have its dae. Mr. Beard is raid to have obtained a great deal of evidence favourable to the accused, bat it has not yet been determined what course will be adopted, as much must of course depend upon the result of the interview which Mr. Beard will have with Muller upon hie arrival in this country, and the information then imparted by Muller as to his whereabouts on the night of the alleged murder, and his explanation of the possession of the articles found io his trunk by the police-oflicer when he took him into cus tody on board the Victoria. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) Wrnli/BDAT, MITTC3IBIB 14, 8 LM. Ii T. Nara. — Leith Avdroew 19.22 57 Greencastle 29 22 54 Galway 29.42 55 Cape Clear Queenstown 29.26 66 Liverpool Holyhead Pembroke 29.45 fa, Pomace Bred 49.90 es; Rochefort Plymouth Weymouth 29.70 601 PorieOnll;.: GT)! Loudon 29.76 59 i9ter 48.84 641 faimocith taarhorontrA 29.60 54 ®ldle 29.48 36, 1106'03* M — 8.8.5 B. W. 8.8. W. W.B.W. 8.8. B. W.N.W. w. W. W.N.W. Z. 8. - i - ' - o I— 3 or 0.2.5 6 ro 0.30 1 c 0.32 2 c 0.20 2 0 0.14 4 or 8.38 4 Cr 036 8 oio to 4 o 0.04 0 rc 0.16 2 co 0.25 6 P 1911•111% TRCRSTAT. ON N 011.11102 FRIDAY. S.B IL to W.s W., gales Comrliii. S.W. to N.W. strong, to strong, with rais. squally, showery. 8. to W. sod N.W., W 11912111. W. to N. and b a ck, pallf to hxah, ;ain at times. As next above. ..strong, moderate, showers. W.S.W. to N.N.W., strong to flesh. some 'bowers. b1f17122. As next above S S.W. to W. \. W., strong, squally, some rain. Northern=Beotiand. Wastsrastridand. Wiles and ad facen:les.,inthern=analisb Channel and Bay of Biscay. Caddell :liastward Ragland and North Sap Cautionary signals drum on all emits this (Wednesday) morphia. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE HUMBERT OF Iretr.--Viscount Palmerston, between 1 and 2 o'clock yesterday, paid a visit to his Royal Highness Prince Humbert at the Italian Minister's residence in Grammar street. Ilia Excellency the Portuguese Minister, and M. Santos, the Marquis de Carlon), the French Charg4 d'Affaires, together with the Viscount de Conte:des, Viscount de Virel, and Count Moutmarin, the Consul- Geoeral of Italy, Mr. J. B. Heath, kn., paid visits to his royal highness. In the afternoon the prince, accompanied by the Marquis d'Areglio and • limited number of his suite, took a drive round the out skirts of the metropolis. The prince first visited the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park. On leaving the darling the Prince and party drove by St. John's-wood, Westbourne-place, and Hyde - park to Grosvenor-piece, through St. James , epark, down the Strand by Wellington. street and Long-acre to Groavenor-street. In the evening his royal highness honoured Viscount end Viscountess Pal. marital with his company at dinner, at Cambridge Hausa, Piccadilly. The royal prince arrived shortly after 8 o'clock, accompanied by the Marquis d'Azaglio, the Italian minister, the whole of the prince's suite, and the personnel of the legation. There were also present to meet his royal high ness the Marquis de Odom Lord Napier, the Right Hon. W. and Mrs. Cowper, dm WINDSOR CASTLE.—During the last fortnight a number of workmen have been engaged in excavating • por tion of the road and footway on the north side of the Castle-bill, near the eastern end of the Royal Tomb-house, or Wolsey Chapel, which is being prepared as a memorial to the late Prince Consort. In this work the men have laid bare a portion of the ancient fouedation of the chapel, which consists of a bed of chalk concrete some feet in thick ness, hard and well laid. Leading from the chapel up the hill near the Lord Chamberlain's-office • deep trench has been cut, and in digging this portions of an ancient build ing have been disoovered two or three feet below the level of the roadway opposite the deanery. These remains consist of what appears to be two stogie jambe forming • small window, which probably lighted • narrow staircase leading underground. Clam by a vault has been discovered and broken into. This vault lies under the garden of the Deanery. It is built of red bricks, which retain their fresh• new of colour, while tram &small opeotog in the roof the water from the surface above would seem to have been constantly trickling, as the vault is exceediagly damp. It is, however, stated that the position st this vault, though not generally known, was accidentally discovered some years back. The floor is paved with red brick, arid on being struck with a h ar d s ubstance gives forth a hollow sound, as if there was yet another vault beneath. The north end, which would sewn to lead beneath the Deanery, is bricked up, and the only present entrance is that in the bottom of the trench. There is also at the north end of the arched roof • small trap-door the wood of which wee rotten with age and damn. MURDER OF A WIFE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF THE MURDERIIR.—PRINTOS, TUBSDAT.—Between 5 and 6 o'clock this morning a dreadful tragedy was perpetrated by a man named William Berry. miller, of 29, Ormskirk•rosd, in this town. Since Whitsuntide the men has been in a despoudiog state. particularly through bulimic affairs and to some extent through certain family matter,. He seems to have been jealous of his wife, although, we believe, he had no reason whatever to suspect her in this respect, On Monday Berry and hie wife took lodgings is Orme- kirk-road, and their children, two in number, were re moved to 10010 of their relatives. Early this morning, Berry's wife was heard screaming, and it was subsequently discovered that she had been stabbed in several places about her breast. and that her throat bad beau cat near the centre. Her windpipe was cot completely through, she bled very profusely, and died shout half an hour after she was found. It seems also that Berry made as attempt upon his life. He was found sittiegon a bed in his lodgings, with his throat cut, and the latest reports are to the effect that he is not likely to survive. He has beau visited by Father De Pietro. He expressed his sorrow to the reverend pe dal= for what he had done, sad said that he knew be had committed a murder. The deceased was expected to he shortly confiner] of a third child. The inquest will take place to-morrow (Wednesday). THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) BOW•STREET. ♦ 81111NGI STORY. Mary Clark, a well-dressed young woman, was charged with stealing three half-crowns from a young gentleman, named A. F. Belt, in Regent-street, on the 6th inst. The case had been remanded from a previous day. The complainant said he was a gas-engineer, residing in John-street, Westmioater. On the evening in question he was walking towards home, when the prisoner came up to him, and striking him in the stomach said, "I know you, we have met somewhere before." She then walked by his side from Regent-street to Waterloo-place, when he missed the money from his pocket, taxed her with stealing it, and gave her into custody in Pall-mall. He had felt the three half-crowns in his pocket only a few minutes before the prisoner spoke to him. When he called the policeman I said he bad lost three half-sovereigns instead of three half. crowns, but he corrected himself afterwards at the police station. I made the mistake in my confusion at the moment. Mr. Lewis, jun., who appeared for the prisoner, said there must be some mistake about the whole matter. His client was a respectable married woman, and her husband was now present. Her husband had lost sight of her for some days, sad was surprised to hear that she was in cos. tody on this charge. It was highly improbable that the prisoner could take the money from the prosecutor's pocket, without his having felt her hands at hie waistcoat. The prosecutor, on being cross-examined, said he had been to a petty io Regent-street, and it was about half-past 11 when the prisoner accosted bin,. A man and woman paused them before he missed the money, and she might have passed it to them. It wee not toned upon her. Mr. Vaughan said it was a case that must go before a jury. The prosecutor said he would rather not have to go to the seado s , sad the prisoner (bursting into tears) begged of the magistrate to dispose of the mat at once, and she would plead guilty. Mr. Vaughan—lf the husband is present, let me speak to him. . . . . A young man then stepped into the box, and said he had been married to the prisoner eight months. He lived iu lodgings at 1, Archer-street. Shoreditch, and was a "corn. mission agent." On being pressed for more explanation, he said he was agent for Delapierre and Co., woollen-dealers, of 1, Rue St. Monorails*, Paris. Mr. Vaughan—lt is a strange story. I commit the pri. sower to three months' imprisonment. CLERK ENWELL. ROBBDIG FURNISH= LODGINGS.-MAGISTERIAL CENSURE Of LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. The Lloyd of Vienna has the following : The question may be asked ea to whether the recognition I of Italy by Austria belongs to the domain of impossibilities. People seem to think so, as they imagine that the kingdom of Italy, bating been bore of the revolution, is enchained to a revolutioaary policy. That view is no longer true since the death of Count Cavour, as the kingdom of Italy has for some , time renounced its compact with the revolution, and dealt it a mortal blow at Aspromonte. The Italian government may have committed an act of ingratitude in so deciding, but we state the fact without comment on it. Since then Italy has fallen more and more into a passive attitude, end to discover any revolutionary tendency in the present eye. tem of the Italian government would be difficult. Count de Rechberg has declared in the Reicherath that Austria renounced all idea of an aggressive war on Italy. The only hindrance to the recognition consists in the desires of the Italians with regard to Venetia, which really exist, although the Italian government is not in a position to satisfy them. The present relations between Austria and Italy are equally wetly to both states, which would each find an advantage in a definitive state of peace. Unfortunately we are persuaded that, in spite of the motives which pleal for the recognition of the kingdom of Italy, it will not take place until after the solution of the Roman question. THE EDUCATIONAL CONFLICT IN BADEN. The Augsburg Gazette contains the following from Bade; on the conflict which has arisen between the government and the clergy : A stranger would give a very mistaken interpretation of I the conflict which has arisen between the government and the Archbishop of Friburg, if he attributed it entirely to the recent law on popular education and the provisions of that law as to the euperintendence of schools. The priests are in fact the principal members of the local school council; and whenever they with it they preside over these schools. The law, therefore, does not in the slightest degree prohibit the clergy from exercising all the influence they possess for the benefit of the schools of the commune, as long as that influence does not overstep the limits of the law, and as long as the clergy do not consider the schools as their exclusive concern, making use of them for purposed alien to the object for which they were est►b lished. Herein lies the real source of the conflict. The clerical faction and its leaders expected by aid of this educational reform, which has conceded to the church much more than was allowed it under the preceding law, to 00 able to role the schools. Hence the motive of their opposition to the r cent law. Thus a catholic chapter decided some days ego that its members would form no part of the school councils, if the clergy were not allowed to be permanently represented in the higher sphere of the department. It would be more conformable to Christian and truly catholic principles that the clergy, as professors of the Christian spirit, should seize every occasion of developing to the utmost extent whatever is good, instead of endeavouring to extend, as their chief aim, their own power. The great majority of the people of Baden are, on this question, on the side of the chambers, and again at the clergy. The recalcitrant party of the clergy are isolated, and their efforts will be without result- MEXICO. A letter from Mexico, 10th August, says The Emperor left this morning to commence a tour through his empire. The first journey, however, will not be a long one, and the expectation is that his Majesty will return to the capital in about a month, after having visited Queretaro, Leon, and Guansjnato. He will oome back to be present at the Kt. of Mexican Independence, which is to be celebrated on the 16th September, when he will lay the first stone of a monument which he his ordered to be erected in the centre of the open space before the palace, in commemoration of that event. His Majesty will, however, soon after undertake fresh excursions, par ticularly to Vera Crux at the commencement of the winter. The Emperor thinks that his presence in the pro vinces may materially contribute to pacify them ; in the first place, because the measures adopted to give security to his journey leaves no point unexplored, and next, because the visit of a sovereign always induces a certain number of malcontents to oome over to him. Moreover, while the military and finance commissions are at work, the presence of the Emperor in the capital is less necessary. During him Majesty's absence the Empress, being named regent, will hold the reins of government. Her Majesty, as is well known, is possessed of great intelligence, maturity of judg ment, and much tact and finances. The following is the text of a letter addressed by the Emperor Maximilian to the Minister of State on the subject of the press in his empi'e : Maxioo, Angast 7. My dear Minister Velazquez de Leon,—M ; bile waiting for the commission, charged to organise the administration of justice, to submit its labours to me, I have thought it opportune to extend the action of the prem. Consequently from the Pth inst.. and until a fresh order, the prolimioary censorship is suppressed. Each journal may freely income its opinions on official acts, and point out the iooonvenienoe of them, but without exciting to disobedience and in ob serCog the respect due to authority. Offensive allusions, recriminations tending to keep up discord, and to irritate party spirit, as well as attacks on private life, will be re pressed conformably to the legislative enactments in force on such clatters, without prejudice to any prosecutions and punishments enacted against the abuses which the tribunals are called on to try. In that respect justice will follow its ordinary course. I strictly recommend the judges to fully respect the law in such matters. as well as in the other affairs submitted to them, reminding those functionaries that justice is the fundamental basis of order, peace, and prosper:ty ; and, in • word, the essential element of all civilised acciety. The editors of the journals are relieved from the warnings they have up to this time received. MAXIMILT 4N. (awstra's TILTVI6II6.) THE ARMISTICE. VIENNA, Sari. 14. The prolongation of the armistice may be con sidered as tacitly accepted by both belligerents. THE BANK OF PORTUGAL. LISBON, Sim'. 13. The Bank of Portugal, authorised by the govern ment, has raised its rate of discount to 7 per cent —an utprecedented measure. The other banks will follow. THE BOMBAY MAILS. MALTA, Strr. 13. The Delhi, with the above mails, will leave Malta at 9 p.m. to-day for Marseilles, where she may be expected on the 16th instant. The Malta brought the wails to Suez, arriving there on the 9th instant. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Massilia, from Southampton on the 4th inst., reached Malta today at 11 a.m., and will leave at 6 p.m. for Alexandria. The French Imperial acrew yacht Prince Jerome, with Prince Napoleon and the Prineeas Clothilde and suite on board, sailed from Sprtbead on Monday evening, and at.ived at Havre yesterday morning. At the conclusion of the visit of the Prince and Prince"' to Portsmouth dockyard on Mon day they honoured the French vionconeul. the Chevalier Van den Bergh, with their presence at luncheon at his re sidence, Holland House, Southsee. After luncheon the Prince and Princess embarked in the Imperial twin screw barge La Monche, paid a short visit to the Ezoellent gun nel y ship, and witnessed some blank practice from her 12- ton guns, and afterwards returned to the Prince Jerome in tdonche. At the Grand-Thiatre of Marseilles, on Saturday evening. during the ballet in the second act of Prou cr Are , Mdlle. Pancaldi , one of the principal dancers, made a Mee , step and fell into the prompter's box. She was not much hurt by the fall, but her drew came in contact with the gas, and was instantly in a blase. She, however, promptly extricated herself, and was running across the stage, when the manager, M. Defaces. caught her in his alms, and succeeded in extinguishing the flames before any fatal injury was done. His own hands were severely burnt. INTOLERANCE CH ECKED. —A few days back A baptised Jew was brought before one of the tribunals of Vienna for judgment for having relapsed and returned to the creed of his forefathers. The tribunal decided that a conversion from one creed to another was not, u spostaey merely, punishable by law. raPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor on ow= PARIS, TUMIDLY EVICIII3O. The treaty which M. Auberet has lately signed at Hui is differently viewed by the journals who write in favour of all government measures and those who do not. In the midst of a rather lively contest the Moniteur has observed a dignified silence with regard to everything except facts. The official journal does not trouble itself with a denial of an assertion made by its opponents that the ratification of the treaty would be an abandon ment of a large portion of the territory conquered by French arms, a conquest which had a nasty effect on the French budget. The Moniteur could of course give all the information required about the negotiations, and would probably do so had it anything agreeable to tell. This colonial question is no small one ; it concerns an immense and fertile possession, and the problematical payment of several millions would be no adequate recom pense for its loss. When government undertook the expedition it had no idea of selling what it seized to pay the expenses of ejection. When the treaty of Saigon was signed three out of the six provinces forming lower Cochin China were given to France, who, directly she got hold of them, began to hesitate about keeping them. French colonies do not pay—for Frenchmen, when they emi grate, emigrate from the government, and statistics show that the small stream which dribbles from these shores makes its way across the Atlantic and in the direction of Canada. Two opinions appear to have divided the counsellors of the crown—one set, sus taining the ideas of which Colbert dreamt, wished to keep Cochin China and turning it into another India. The other party, merely looking at the necessity of establishing an equilibrium iu the budget, insisted that an embarrassing conquest should be abandoned, and the best bargain possible made with the children of Annan). At the last moment it was decided that the pos sessions of Lower Cochin China should be kept, and fresh instructions were sent out to M. Auberet. The result of the new stipulation is this :—France gives back to the Emperor of Annam the three provinces of Saigon, Mytho, and Bien- Hoa, which were ceded to her in June, 1862, only retaining three isolated points, which will be diffi cult of defence, and which will not give commercial advantages equivalent to their cost. In exchange for this sacrifice France obtains the protectorate of the six provinces and an indemnity of 100 million francs. This indemnity will be paid at the rate of two millions a year. The payment of this sum will probably give rise to numerous difficulties, whilst the yearly instalment will be but a drop in the French budget. It is not likely that the treaty of Hui will be better observed than that of Saigon. Those who know the Oriental character say that France, in giving up what she had conquered, will thereby lose her prestige, and if she is determined to enforce the present treaty and stick to her three isolated depots, she will have to fight all her battles over again. As far as equi librium of the budget goes, that should have been taken into consideration before the expedition. France will have as much difficulty in collecting her rents in Mexico and Cochin China as any gentlemen burdened with dirty acres in Tipperary. The market continues without much animation, but prices are well maintained. The Mobiliers have slightly improved, being last called at 1,017 f r. 50c. There has been little variation in the ra'lway quotations. THE EMA.VCIPATION SOCIETY OF NAPLES. The correspondent of the Temps gives the fol lowing account of this society : " There exist, in Naples an organiation called " The Emancipation Society," which is not only stroeg in the south, but has many members in the north end centre of Italy. Padre Prota, a Dominican, of about 36 years of age, is at the head of the society, which holds its meetings in the saloon of the chapter of the Convent of San Domenico Maggiore, under the very nose of the superiors, and to the tenor of the Minerva at Rome. The satiety has two funda mental principles—to remain catholic with the Pope, end to advance to Rome with Italy. It proclaims loudly and energetically its love for unity tinder the shadow of the chair of Peter. "Up with the Pope ;" " Down with the Poor King" are its rallying cries. The idea of these eccle siastics, of these monks, and of Padre Prota especially are very free on questions of discipline. The society has a journal in which they speak of clericistn, priestism, and religious idlers, just as lay journals do, and even more sharply. The abuses of convents are denounced. In • recent number the history of a monastery was kiven in which mention was made of the skeletons of iifwito and of young religieusee and of the recitals of Diderot. All that laid demand for the pacification of Italy, stained by wiper stitioo, the Emancipation Society demands without a shade of difference. Padre Prota and his hands have published articles on all the mixed questions of the day—the sup pression of convents, of the property of the clergy, ha. They speak as the Opinions speaks on these matters. Ou the question of the marriage of priests Padre Pinto in several carious articles, wholastical in form, has shown from natural and theological reason that priests may m►rry, and that in the actual state of Italy they would do well to renounce celibacy. With dogmas they do not interfere, but while asserting • certain independence even in these matters, they my that they will alw►ys remain catholic and Roman, united to a transformed Papacy divested of tem poral power. The government does not give any support to these associations of liberal priests It simply leaves them alone ; and scarcely protects them in their conflicts with the orthodox clergy. They meet with • kind of posral sup port in the city of Naples ; but, with the exception of Cissibaldi, who calls them Gene meriti saeerdoti et monadli the chiefs of parties are indifferent and cold to their work. Amongst the clergy the propaganda of Father Prota has had more success, end he says that every day new members are coming in from the curia, the schools, and even from the chapters of the canons. The union of the society of the south with those of the north and centre is a remarkable fact, and one which may yet lead to important results." The Empress Eugjnie, during her stay at Schwal bsch, bee received vieita from the King of Prussia, the Queen of the Netherlands, the Duke of Name, and Princess William of Hesse. A Baden letter written the day after the late disturbance mentions that the irritation of the previous day had gradually died away. In the evening the public were still excited, and would easily have taken offence, but the croupiers of the bask were extremely polite, and appeared to have rewired orders not to give the slightest pretext for a repetition of the some of the previous day. The official who had given offence was replaced by another, and satisfaction is said to h►ve been offered to the person who was expelled. "The administmtios of the g►ming establishment," says Galignani, "is anything but pleased with the incident, a s it has driven from the tables the most respectable players, just at the moment of the rases, when the number of strangers is largest. In the nice week the bank generally makes a profit of about a million of francs, but that suns will fall far short this year." NEW RAILWAY STATION, KING'S-ROAD, ST. PAN CRAS. —Yesterday extensive operations were commenced by the contractors for the construction of the proposed great railway station for the extension of the Midland Railway from Redford into London, and intended to be used by them for the metropolitan goods traffic, in conjunction with the Great Northern Railway. Upwards of 40C houses—in foot, nearly the whole of whet wan formerly known es Agar. town—have been polled down, and about 800 families removed to make way for the new station, which will extend over several acres, and be upon a system similar to the goods depot of the London said North Western at Camden-tows. A large portion of the goods sheds oe the north seater& side of the Repot's Canal. which rune close by, are already completed, and the works now in hand, on which a large number of workmen are engaged, are ebialy intended for the con, orl, ate, and general reereltandlee stores. W. cm 0.21 5 W.S.W. I re 0.51 • -SI - R.W. W.S. W. S.W. co 002 re 0.07 6 oc or S 'mo THE POLICE. A respectably attired young woman, of the name Rebecca Taylor, was charged before Mr. Barker with It( alinc from her ready furnished lodgings one counterpane, a pair of sheets, a toilet cover, a pair of blankets, a table cover, and other articles, the property of Mrs. Ann Thomu, of Upper-terrace. Islington. Mr. T. Wilding, solicitor, of 17, Titchborneatreet, ware-road, attended to watch the case ou behalf of the hus band. The friends of the parties were well connected, but owing to the dissolute habits of the prisoner a separation had been rendered n , and the husband had nude the prisoner an ample weekly all owance. The prosecutor stated that the prisoner and her child had lodged with her for about twelve months. On the 6th of July the prisoner left the house, and as she did not return she had the room door opened, and then she discovered that the above articles were missed. None of the property has been since recovered. _ _ Police-constable Walker, 361 N, mid be took the pisoner into custody at Highgate, when she gave him stable address in Kentish-town. When he told her the charge, she ad. mitted that she had s tol en th e goo d s be bad mentioned. Mr. Barker—Yon must state ;he exectWo;cl;;heSrid to you. It is for me to say whether they amount to an ad. mission or not. TieCMistde—Sbe admitted that she bad stolen the things, and said she would make it all right. Mr. Bicker—Have I not told you that you most tell me the words she said to you. She did not say she " admitted." The Constable—The prisoner, when I told her she must go with me, said " Oh, all right, I will soon settle this with Mrs. Thomas." Mr. Barker—From what you my I cannot see that she admitted taking the articles with what she now stands charged. Is that all she said You had better be careful what you are about. The Constable—She admitted taking the things. Mr. Barker—You are not to use the word "admit" I tell you von must give me her exact words. The Constable—She said, " All right, I admit taking them," or " I have done it," or words to that e ff ect. Mr. Barker—Yon had better not say anything more. Another time I hope you will never say the prisoner ad mitted a robbery when in this case she has done nothing of the kind. It is an exceedingly improper thing to do, and as it is of very frequent oomurenee I hope that some notice will be taken of it in the proper quarter. The complainant said the prisoner had Ils. with her which she was prepared to take if proper security was given her for the remainder of the balance. Mr. Barter said he could not allow any bargaining of that sort to take place in open court, and sated the prisoner whether ahe pleaded guilty or not guilty to the charge. The prisoner pleaded guilty ; and Mr. Barker sentenced her to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for one calendar month. Mr. Wilding asked if he could take the prisoner's child, as the father was very anxious to get possession of it and bare it properly educated. The prisoner bad acted ex ceedingly ill, and if she bad not she would not have then stood in that depraved position. Mr. Barker said the sister of the prisoner had got poe @grim of the child, and be had little doubt that she would pert with it. MARLBOROUGH•STREET. SERIOCS CHAAGEM AGAINST AN AUCTIONEn. Thomas Godfrey, auctioneer and house-agent, of 13, Maddox-street, Regentetreet, and 3 A, Hyde-perk.plaor, was charged before Mr. Tymbitt with obtaining goods by false pretences from Mr. Henry Mills, adveramith and jeweller, of 171, Oxford-street Mr. Longetsff, of the firm of Dod and Longstaff. Brewer. street, solicitors for the Association for the Protection of Trade, prosecuted ; sod Mr. Lewis, juo., of Ely-plans, de. fended. -- Mr. Wm. Mills, assistant to his father, Mr. Henry Mitts, silversmith and jeweller, of 171, Orford-street, said that on the 3rd Sept. the prisoner called at the shop, being an en tire stranger to him, and purchased twelve silver tea-spoons of the value of 61.. sod paid for thaw with the ebeque pro duced. and took the Bonds sway. The prisoner wrote the cheque in the shop, it being for 61. on the Haien Bank of London. Artylle•plsce branch, and was signed " Godfrey and Co." The cheque was subsequently presented at the bank and returned marked " N.S." (uot sufficient). The cheque bad not been paid since. In answer to Mr. Longstaff, the witness said he would not have parted with the goods but for the cheque which he believed would have been paid, and from the fact that the prisoner at the earns time be etre him the cheque also gave him a card with his name and sidress upon it. Mr. Lewis, jun., said be had only been jun instructed, and as be understood it was the wish of the other side that there would be a remand he had no objection. Mr. Tyrwhitt said be would remand the prisoner, and take two bail for hie appearance. . . . . Sergeant White. 16 LI, who bad charge of the cue, said there were several other charges of a smiler kind against the prisoner. Mr. George Boyce, assistant to Mr. Picket, ailveremith and jeweller, of 265, Oilerslegmut, said the primmer celled at his employer's shop, and purchased some silver torts. and in payment heeded him a cheque which he wrote ILL the time. The cheque, which was for eV. 10a. on the Union Beak, Argyle-place branch, was afterwards returned marked "N. S." At the time prisoner gave him the cheque he also gave him a carl on which was " Messre. Godfrey and Co., auctioneers, /tr., 13, Maddox-street. Resent-street, and 3s, Hyde-park-place." Mr. Lewis said he had a person present to show that he had the money left with him for the last witness, if he had called for it _ _ The prisoner was remanded for • week, Mr. Tyrwhitt stating that as other charges were mentioned he must have two sureties, in the sum of 1001. each, for the prisoner's future appearance. WORSHIP-STREET. • PAB6IO/1•17 8431. Henry Hunter Godfrey, 12 Tears of age, was charged with attemrtioa his life by cattier his throat. The titbit. of the boy mid —I e m a braes finisher io East road, Holton. Last night. at 10 o'clock. I heard his mother trying to get him out of the streets. She had him on the stairs. His general bad conduct has so unnerved me that I could not interfere, buts friend of mine did, sod carried him into my room. He instantly ran to the knife-box, and greening one, was in the act of cutting his throat. Mr. Safford (clerk)—Did be cut it Witness—No, sir, be bed not time; bat be cut his sister who tried to take the knife away. She is not here. As engineer named Bellingham eorrolrorated this nate meat, and explained that but for his catching the weapon at the instant. and noshing the boa's heed backward, he must inevitably have inflicted • most fearful wound. In auswer. to <mations from Mr. Ellison, both witnesses described the prisoner as a most passionate and headstrong lad, sod that on • recent occasion he had endeavoured to cut his father's head open. Mr. Ellison remanded the primeek, who said that he had not any complaints to make of his home, he was well fed sod oared for. If forgiven this time he would behave better. DWITRUCTIVE FIRE AT HACKNEY.—(THIM DAY.) —At an early hoer in the morning a tire broke out on the premises of Mr. H. Novice, a builder and carpenter, ear 1-Ong on business at ladoro-grove, Well-street, Hackney. The whole of the workshops were burned down and the eoutenta including the workmen's tools were coosumed. The origin of the fire is unkoown. Unfortunately the sufferer wee uninsured. INCRN DIARIRM ♦T WOODFORD.—A report op- Wowed yesterday of a Sm. supposed to be the work of come incendiary, is the premiss' knows as Claylmry-hall Farm. the property of Mr. W. Harrison. Another ate broke out is the same premises oo Tuesday afternoon, which destroyed four tone of hay, and severely damaged the roofs of coach houses, stables, and stone. This fire was also mused by some vile ioosadisty. r im MYSTEJ THE d This mornh logairy at th aloes sttendisi ;II cocurred o ;ruing nadir t Wed in the El Tile jury havi lien ley in the The Coroner o gee wog prom Edwin Brewer WO booking (etropolitaw Ra wed WOM&D. satuttlaY nii N apo. The m 11 50 years of 1 1 black felt kird-clais tics ranee , told hie el the but trait • glae of a [ an e hate. Th, said to hi n ame. They e onenbers of t e tickets won! Richard Gidde y came wi Farringil t 14 or 15 iortland-mad. p. After the t la he did not s p believed was edge a man was re did not see 1 toped off his ci Wore he reachee he carriages and i he man Lod did r ttract the atten sines mast hay pagers, all of II Ss woman must r.iam in terg the npard.4reedoo.t u any T r. bi ival of a train, William Clark a was on duty ,gbt, at 12 o'cl bat station, one ad forwards. rem only two pi anutes put 12, DICIO whethe r e 'was going he man naked 1 nd he told him tuck, as the trai ever saw the pa ut could not lay • He did wive, OA he w stairs, and be rhat sort of dree lent notice. TheCoroner— e met a man ani William Ranee led he wee on eyed the 12 s the up plat/ vat over to the loving, as he he liter he got 011 long to see who ound it was afa he line. He he doin up. Ada By a Juror—T Men the sadden Clarke, re-calli be down train Mrs. Jane Wa rid she was at ight. She had third class a oor of the co it and take hots ad said " Come ad when she In he guard drags ass from wide ear the woman ad been anyone hat portion, ' of see any mac The guard (Gi Is never caught The witness ram loader the C DIM, but there , of be shown tlu The Coroner eg for the slaw WitaeliamaTd The ticket 3,6: le said that • ties on Sitar sued at the hick way a gigs t could not hart vs been dalivi LI, and on the Thomas Sow, ortland-read st Gower-atre tle train had air new nothing of ire or six yards porter's dress as If the last awns 'bout 20 yards I The Coroner t oohing for the b *pruned. --- The porkw, w P on his Mr lavas N • .._ tat 1273a — le woman, tle left 1. et large wooed ooPoiite side the kieidios the gi !round would be lore arm oo the died from bream libel:tide/1N so chi ides*. 8114 Poti os say sar-ri that the aid Do 11 little beyced 1 Hasty ttr ee h, e the oe bad a a circulated. Mr. D. E. D e . id deceased i° "" Pest , er clothes. II about fifty 0200 lead pe leer and bd. is Boger. D e 40 7 !maim I mane ed brat. There the shirt there w half - tnOliroing tnnoline made eettiooat, evide t Pore white cott tt the side. Tt kma. The bona eab blue velvs Olt. He might hod, for the pu . Ttsomaa Cross Itation—Tho ti 4 !lon e% sod after ticket Produced been delivered a bone CA d a y. 11 r. Hour, Fi ealmger of th, tlerhs coder hi Ration. The ti. Cl the Edgware_ The inquiry itu IDENTIFICA After the adj., "eh, the body P. C. Pricbar reeceet-a{reeh coPeleed. hlr. Prichard a toe Gallop. F. _.,her. heading, .store was last • ..lare 04 ti n builder, a he death of 'tit 'Ph. -- beassead was lite expeetatia Wax ea iavalid,