The Express. — London, England, 1868-07-29 00:00:00

U E EN'S THEAT R B, Long-soro. mAsAnEa—Mr. W. H. LWOW THIN WINING (Tuesday% Juba the LANOASEMIZ LIR& an original Drama of strong denosoUo and meledrarnatio interne. In four 'abloom and a graben& vrilbigi by Hoary J.Byron inithar of " Dammam. Lint" tn. eta be gredaeseL LANCAII4IIII4E LAM, at a quarter to Eight. A Pare 7 M , o." mane of Johnson. Nu d Knorr. T ,ANCAltilit lib LAPIS, at a quarter to Eight. ir.oNiv. Rwibarn. Mr. H. Trying. -ILA LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to Eight. en.tty. Mr. Lime' Brawl -- LANCASHIRE LAss, at a gnarter to Eight. 24 . Yd Clayton. Nr. 0. ]JNCASHIIU LABB, •t a quarter to Mr. 0--...r50mr01.. Mr. JOIl• Olaytes. EiLNCASHiIt.• LAritl, at • quarter to Eight. aterant Hoorn. Wr. H. W. Mastgessary. L ANCASE Itik. LASS, at a quarter to Bight. Hodson. L ANCASEtIttr., LAM. at a quarter to Eight. NitsNeilsoore. Beth Kirby. Neils Moore. _ _ - LANCASII Mr; LASH. at s quarter to Eight. Johnpn.... lwantiral Minim, sad Meta Q _ EEN'S LA I RE. THIS EVENING, I:T st fUrrn. HE'ri A LUNATIC. At nquarter to Eight. the LANCAAMINN hAelt. by IL J. Hymn Mews. 8. Emery, H. Irving. Clayton. W. H. Stephen.. C. Wyndham. W. H. Mont . L. Womb. end H. Mellon • , )(vellum,. H. Modem. to e. and Nrlly Moore To moolude, FOWL PLAY; J. L ARTHUR A LLt, II) S BENEFIT TO-NIGHT, at the LONDON PAVILION. THIN EVENING (Weehseadar d ille. Mt N..11V ENTPATAIN ARTHIIR LLu r o'S BENEFIT TO-NIGHT, WEDNESDAY. Jul? N. at tbeLONDON PAVILION. Tb• (Aral connque in all his N A NIGHT b , ORSV:RVED by EVERVIATT. A =HUE I.IAADE BENEFIT TO-NIGHT, WEDNESPAY_, July SR, __at th e LONDON PAVILION. UN PREMDENTED AIRS ACTION. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE Three Ballet. Promenade Concert. Band at M. Barbs at & la. Daz-oflos oyes from 11 to 4. WILLIAM CHI7RTON and SON, HOSIERS and SHIRTHAKERB. WADY UNDERCLOTHING. el and TL OX7ORDRTREET• JOHN BROODEN'B CLASSIC JEWELRY. pato FIRST-CLASS SILVER MEDAL, 1867. JOHN BROGDEN'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROODER'S BRACELETS. 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NOTICE._ advertisers are requested toindieaAi' Post-oMee orders payable to kr. Joaimi Heasisoros, Post-cam, Fleet-greet, LG. Boraces of Burma, Ifeasison, and Duras, are received until 12 o'clock for imertion same evening. Price its. ed. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, Is PUBLISH:ED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, WEDNESDA Y, JULY 29. HOLIDAY-MAKING. THE holiday-season has begun ; and with the exception of Cabinet Ministers, a few Peers, and members of Parliament, Judges, Barristers, News paper Editors, and other hard-working people, London is dispersing itself over the country and the Continent. The town is out of town. Those who still remain are eager to get away. Their thoughts are holiday-making as pleasantly perhaps, as they themselves will be a weak, a fortnight, or a month hence. To lay out the plan of a holiday bears something of the same rela tion to taking the holiday that flirtation does to marriage. There is a pleasant sense of freedom about it. You daily with the idea, and dwell on the charms of various places, and yet are tied to none. As the child with hie casual halfpenny runs over in his mind the various things which may be bought with it, and, inasmuch as it will purchase any, feels much aa if it gave him command of all ; so the barrister or clerk or journalist, with his month to spend, persuades himself that he has boundless wealth of weeks to dispose of. He rune over all the places which he might possibly visit. In thought he goes to them all. At home or abroad ? by the sea-side or inland ? a stationary holiday or a roaming one ? all these alternatives become vital problems of thrilling interest, by which it is almost pleasanter to be baffled than to solve them. Another problem is generally associated with these. Shall the holiday be a cheap or a comparatively dear one' Is a rigid economy to be practised or a little innocent extravagance allowed, on the tempting plea that the opportunity occurs but once a year, and that pleasure is worth Intyitig All these momentous questions happily receive di verse answers. If all the world of England were agreed that any one place was the most delightful L. THE =MESS, YirEIRTXSDA.Y . \iiii*NG, spot for a holiday, all the world of England would flock thither; and the place would become simply unendurable. It is well thatBmithead should bereft* pilgrims as well as Torquay, and that Herne Bay should not be wholly left in the lurch because the Isle of Wight has its charms. The only places which are absolutely unendurable are those to which some people go because other people go there. When a place in its history reaches this stage, it deserves to have its name expunged from all honest guide-books, or retained there simply as a warning. It ought to be visited exolusively by the landlords of hotels and lodging-house keepers, waiters, and fashionable watering-place shop keepers, themselves taking hol day. By the way, it would be curious to know how these people disport themselves. Do they over unbend P or are they always in pursuit of some prey, ravening like the shark, or importunate as the daughter of the horse-leech, Drying still, "Give, give" P Does a Margate tradesman or hotel-keeper, or letter of apartments, enter into the spirit of the thing when be visits Llan dudno or Tenby, and yield himself up ohoor fully to the extortioner, applauding the audacity of the plunder, though he himself is its victim P Does ho feel that the pleasuro is as groat, of being cheated as to cheat P A consummate master in the art which Mr. FAOLN taught his pupils would probably entertain rather admiration than anger towards the dexterous practitioner who might relieve him of his watch or purse, without consult ing his wishee on tho subject. Possibly there is, however, a freemasonry of the craft. Wolves do not prey on wolves, nor vultures upon vultures. In the extremity of hunger they leave each other alone. In like manner lodging-house harpy probably respects lodging-house harpy, landlord may refrain from charging brother landlord with imaginary wax candles, and waiter may accept without indignation the copper coin of this realm from a follow waiter. Returning from this curious speculation, which we commend to tho further research of inquirers into the habits of predatory animals—the great question of the British holiday and how to take it has, happily, as many answers as there are minds, temperaments, and purses, and even fluctuations in the same mind, temper, and purse. To most working people the holiday is a time of rest. But rest can be had in two ways, by varying exer tion, or by abstaining from it altogether. According as a man is moved by an active desire of change or an indolent wish for repose, and feels like one of TBNICTSON'S lotus eaters or like a member of the Alpine Club, he will choose a stationary or a moving holiday. The scenery by which he surrounds himself will be une,on la:lonely chosen with reference to his mood, or he will feel a sense of having made a temporary mistake in life. Jagged and pointed peaks will fatigue the eye as it follows their angles and con tortions—the noises of the sea, as it bellows in the cams, or beats against the cliffs, will oppress the ear—the scenery, in short, which strains the senses, is ill-adapted to the holiday-maker who wants not stimulus, but rest. Such a one needs a wide horizon, with rounded and undulating forms of hill and vale. The curved lines and gentle sounds are the medicine for him. He can rest, and absorb the influences of quiet scenery. He is not perpetually im pelled by the sight of rocky cliffs to ascend them, or tantalised by an interposing barrier mountain as to the beauty which lies beyond it. For a mind needing repose, though the delights of lying on the beach and throwing stones into the ocean are not to be exaggerated, perhaps lake scenery is better than the sea-side. Getting beyond this stage, and arriving at that in which some motion is impossible, the area over which it shall extend is a question of temperament. To the minute at tention which can fasten on the smallest details, and can feed on diminutive beauties till it knows them by heart, a month in the Channel Islands, or in one of them, would be full of variety. Men who are impressed only by the rapid changes and considerable objects would exhaust half Europe in the same period. On the answer to the same question, whether rest or stimulus is what is needed will depend the choice between a home or a foreign holiday ; and whether the holiday shall be taken on the highways of cockney tourists, or in the by-ways which are still partially unexplored. There are still places on the Continent which Mr. Coos and those whom he drags in his train over half Europe do not penetrate. Particular places can never, however, with safety be recommended. What every meditating holiday maker has to do is by self-scrutiny to find out the secret of the change which he desires or ought to have, and to choose accordingly the place of his holiday and the man ner of it, rambling or stationary, by sea or by lake, in quiet or wild scenery, in town or country, at home or abroad. General principles may be laid down; in their particular application the patient must minister to himself. • iniq An •or goodf brissfelarted Joust Better to fight than **tray tilust. than to shrink from the assert of great pirinciples, Asia to forget in the desire for gain the love of °Oasts,. There may be glory in war when it is sanotionod by a noble cause, but there is nothing glorious, nothing chivaltoua, in an armed peace whioh ad ministers to the vanity of nionaruhu but retards national progress. Is it Utopian to hope that a remedy may yet be discovered fur the prodigious burdens—financial, moral, and social—which the growth of armies inflicts upon tho States of Europe, or rather it is not strange considering the amount of suffering inflicted that the remedy has been delayed ao long P JU dents 4 n havirather abrup that hibleii are uded to-day winch' t found a plea week. Thus is • *p the writers. "Marriage or Cohlinoy r. quite as absorbing a question to tho now as it was three weeks ago, and we do treat that this morning's shortcomings are ex ceptional, and that to-morrow will give us the usual supply. Eh, Court- 08BOlital. Jinx U. The Queen, acoompanied by Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon, lady Augusta Stanley being in attendance ; and her Majesty and the royal family walked in the grounds this morning. The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke, arrived at Osborne yesterday. Mr. Joseph Wynn has bad the honour of submitting to her Majesty models of the modal about to be struck to commemorate the Confederation of the Dominion of Canada. The Prisms • f Weiss. accompsaied by the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg &refits, drove out yesterday. The Queea will bolds Opened et °Morns to-morrow (Thursday). A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official reeidenoe of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing street. The Ministers present were the Bight Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Maimed bury, the Bight Hon. Oraporno Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buokingham and Chandos, Sir J. Pakington, Sir Stafford Northoote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord John Manners, and the Earl of Mayo. Deeyritehm were reoeived yesterday at the Colonial- Office from the Governors of Newfoundland, Bermuda, Prince Edward Inland, and Malta. The Princess of Wales was " chnrched" on Mon day, at the Chapel Boys], St. James's. The Bishop of London officiated. The Prince and Prince's attended almost alone, and the 'orrice was cos of extreme simplicity. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Misses Longley have left Addington Park for the Continent. Lord and Lady Dufferin, on leaving the Coun tess Cowper's seat, Wrest Park, went to Byrum, York. shire, to visit Sir John and Lady Owendoline Ramadan, on their way to Clandeboye, Ireland. The funeral of the late Lord Cranworth takes place on Friday next at Keaton Church, Kent . _ _ The Right Hon. Edward /foreman, M.P., and Ws. Horan have been staying with Sir John and Lady Owendoline liamedon at Byrum since they left town on their way to Scotland. IL lirouyn de Lhnys has returned to Paris from Lie visit to England. Yesterday the marriage of Lady Catharine Acheson, youngest daughter of the Earl of Gosport, to Captain Duncombe, son of Admiral Duncombe, was celebrated at St. George's, Hanover-square. At the con clusion of the ceremony the wedding party proceeded to the residence of the Earl of Gosport, Groevenor-street. In the afternoon the newly married couple left for the Continent, (MX LAS! MONT'S oAzerrs.) FORZION-0511C3, JuLY 18.—The Queen has been gradousii plowed to appoint the Hon. William Nassau Jocelyn, now a seco secretary in her Majesty's diplo matic service, to be secretary to ha Majesty s legation at Stockholm. Foluracor-onws, :VET 23.—The Queen bag been pleased to approve of Mr. Ernst Louis linchols as consul at Aud.fr - New Zealand ; of Mr. Siegfried Franck as consul at ; of Mr. Armand Theodore Banniger as consul at Brie e; of Mr. Carlos Kramer-Walter as mum] at Newcastle, New South Wales ; and of Mr. John IL Kail as consul at King George's Sound, for the North German Confederation. Win JULY 23.—The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Thomas Scott, Y.A., to the YleS7l4lll West Hasa, in the county of Ram, and diocese of Rochester, void by the resignation of the Rev. Abel John Ram. Dowymo-rnuarr, Juvr 27.—The Queen hag been pleased to appoint Frederick Shabael Pianism Esq., to be Colonial Surveyor for her Majesty's settlement of Sierra Laone , on the Western Coast of Africa. CLARENCE-HOWL, ST. JAMES'S, Jut 23.—The Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has been pleased to appoint Oscar Clayton, Esq., MD., to be Surgeon in Ordinary to his Royal Highness. THE CASE or Ms. SAHEB PRZZLING WILKIN 1031.—Amongst the parliamentary papers issued this morn ing is the copy of a petition to the Hones of Commons, presented by Mt. J. It Wilkinson, late of the Joint Stock Diseount Company, praying for further inquiry into his case with a view to granting him relief. After recount ing his own early history Mr. Wilkinson proem& to give an account of the history and progress of the company referred to, and of the circumstances which led to his trial and conviction on the charge of having fraudulently ap plied money belonging to the company to his own nee and benefit. He then refers to the proceedings taken against certain creditors of the company, and to the facts there upon disclosed, which led to his liberation from custody after an imprisonment of eighteen months ; bat the effect of his confinement and degradation is, he says, that he has been totally ruined, and so reduced in circumstances as to be dependent upon the casual aid of his family and strangers for the means of existence, and he is without remedy of any kind against anybody for compensation. Under these circumstances he expresses a hope that the Hone of Commons will take into consideration the suffer ings he has endured, and afford him such relief as it may think fit and proper. _ _ _ Tili WE4Tlll3l.—Yesterday in London the weather was nearly as hot as on any of its predecessors, and until the evening a change seemed as far distant as ever. Between 7 and 8 o'clock, however, black clouds rolled up from the south-west, and about 11 a heavy shower fell. The rain then ceased until shortly atter one this morning, when it again came down steadily for some time, and after another interval of some hours began to fall again, shortly before noon. The reports from the north-western districts of New South Wales, dated June 1, respecting the dis astrous effects of the drought are of a very distressing nature. The unparalleled long continuance of dry weather had caused great lase to the settlers. Essig ARaugoLooicAL BoarrY.—Yesterday the annual general meeting of the members and Mends of this society was held at Brentwood, and a very attractive programme was presented. _ _ _ - - Yesterday evening a large number of the officers who were engaged in the recent expedition in Abyssinia dined together at Willis's Roman ffing-street, fit James's. Lieut.-General Lord Napier of Magdala, 121.C.8., de. M; and there ware pressmt—Major-Genend Si; l id :s d Eltavelq, K.C.8., Colonel Priam, V.C., Colonel the Hon. Frederick Thong's Colonel Milward, RA., Captain Holland, Captain Watts, Lieutenant Hosier, de. The North British Daily Mail is informed that Mr. John Bright, M.P., will shortly pare visit to Soot land, to the seat of Mr.T. B. Potter, Pitnacree, and is sorry to learn that Mr. Bright is suffering so considerably from the (*cats of his arduous parliamentary duties that he will require an uninterrupted course of relaxation and quietness to renovate his health. Br. PAtres CIIIIRCIITARD.—We bear there is a project on foot for decorating the external area gra te Paul's Churchyard. At present we see a heap of ve stones here and there, some poor scraggy turf struggling for existence, and some unsightly, moss-grown paving stones. It is proposed to plant and cultivate thegrave yard portions; to place a drinking fountain of an exhausted, old fashioned pariah pump ; to erect an archi tectural memorial where Paul's Cross once stood; and to ornament the western approach with statuary. A per manent committee has, we understand, been formed for carrying out the 'project, consisting of the rector and churchwardens of St. Faith's pan with several inhabi tants of St. Paul's Church ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—The Bishop of London has appointed the following gentlemen to be the preachers at SL Paul's Cathedral on Sunday mornings during the month of August, 1868:—Sunday, August 2, the Rev. JosephTlarriman Hamilton, M.A., of Trinity College, Cam bridge, incumbent of St. Michael's Church, Chester-square; Sunday, August 9, the Rev. Robert George Daker, M. A. ,of Trinity College, Cambridge, vicar of All Saints, Fulham; Sunday, August 16, and Sunday, August 23, the Rev. William Sparrow Simpson, M.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, rector of St. Mathews's, Friday-street; Sun day, August 30, the Rev. Thomas Griffith, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, incumbent of Ram's Chapel, Homerton. CIVILISATION AND WARFARE. Lofty Md.1.512881.TRY stated the other day that a Military Commission of an international character would be shortly convened at St. Petersburg, to consider what are and what are not legitimate materials of warfare. A horrible projectile has been invented which would explode after it had entered the body, and inflict such wounds as would render recovery im possible. This invention the Earl placed on a par with the poisoned arrows employed by savages, and assuredly he was justified in so doing. The communication received by her Itusirrx's Government on the subject reflected, he added, the highest honour upon Russia, and this, too, we may readily admit; but, in the face of this and similar discussions, the old question recurs to thoughtful men. Why, if the great military States can arbitrate on the weapons with which civilised men may honourably destroy each other in battle, can they not go a step further, and substitute the cheap and serviceable power of arbitration for the dreadful chances of the battle field ? " War is a game," said COW7ZR, " which, were their subjects wise, Rings would " not play at ; " and since his day it is a game which, if less deadly, has become tenfold more expensive. Peace in these days costs more money than war did in Cowan's, because it is a peace which apparently can only be maintained by the most elaborate and extravagant pre parations for warfare. Every year produces some novel invention, which is doomed to be super seded by one of more stupendous power and cost. This is the lowest and most ignoble of the arguments that can be advanced against the warlike mania of the day—not because it is a mean argument in itself, but because civilisa tion and religion alike denounce a spirit so little in harmony with them. War, no doubt, is in many cases imperative ; as, for instance, were a civilised nation has to deal with a half barbarous people, who understand no other logic. War, agnin, We may admit, is by no means the greatest evil to a nation, any more than death is to be accounted the highest cala- THE BOATMEN OF DEAL. Ilixne has been gloom on the shores of Deal to-day. The morning's papers brought down startling news. Weetherbeaten mariners have assembled in little knots upon the beach to listen to the stern fate which has befallen their trusty comrades, WILLIAM MIDDLISTON and WILLIAM &RAWL who, with GM011.4:11 BAKER, pilot, wore sentenced to six months' hard labour ' at Maidstone yesterday. Deal boatmen and bravery, Deal boatmen and hardihood, Deal boatmen and nautical skill pushed to the verge of recklessness, Deal boatmon and humanity, have long been synonymous terms. A more courageous and, in their way, a more uaeful set of follows do not exist. But unhappily tho legitimate rewards of their perilous calling are occasionally—their detractors say frequently—eked out by proceedings which savour of the Cornish wreckers. They worship a fetish called Salvage, and are prone to sacrifice honour, honesty, and the golden rule in its behalf. Thinking little of risk ing their own lives to save a vessel in distress, they think less of pressing an exorbitant claim upon its owners after she him been brought to shore. Sometimes, it is stated, the danger from which the vessel is said to have been saved has existed only in the fictitious statements of those claiming to be the preservers. Such has boon proved to be the case in tho trial which closed so disastrously for the boatmen implicated yesterday. An anchor was, at their instigation, reported " slipped," which had really broken, and a false escape from collision was recorded with full circumstantiality in the log. A claim was afterwards made for 4261. from LLores' Salvage Association, which was allowed by Captain BUREITALL, the agent for Lumps at Deal, and divided in due course between the six teen men who were in the lugger which was sup posed to have saved the ship. A portion of the money had to be devoted to the purchase of a new anchor and cable, but the result was, according to Mr. Justice Wm.xs, that 2901. was procured by "making a "false and unfounded claim for salvage services "which they had never performed." The two leaders in the conspiracy are sentenced, as we have said, to six months' hard labour ; but what of their fourteen companions ? What of the maritime population of Deal generally ? That which its local public opinion has long considered pardonable, is suddenly declared by the law of England to be a punishable offence. There are uneasy consciences and perturbed thoughts beneath the pea-jackets and among the sturdy forms on the Deal beach to-day ; and it would be satisfactory if we could know that the bond services of these men are properly rewarded. It seems incredible that they should exhibit the truest courage at one mo ment and the meanest instinct at the next. A DEFENCE OF ALCOHOL. lii the appendix to the tenth report of Dr. SIMON, medical officer of the Privy Council, pub lished yesterday, is an elaborate treatise in which Dr. Twrexant gives an account of some researches which have been recently made to promote an improved chemical identification of diseases. One of the subjects discussed in this treatise is " Alcohol in Relation to the Chemistry of the " Human Body." Dr. Twunictrx explains the modes operandi of the tests applied, and gives the results of several experiments made upon healthy subjects, upon drunkards, and upon patients suf fering from typhus fever. With regard to the last-named class of cases, and judging from his own experience, he has not the slightest doubt that to give to typhus patients considerable quan tities of wines and alcoholic drinks, " not con " centrated but refreshing, stimulating, good, well " tasting drink., is one of the most beneficial " things that can be done." With regard to the general use of alcohol, Dr. 'Permerrst says there is no doubt that, by the English practice of drinking it in large quanti ties, particularly what are called raw spirits, many diseases are engendered ; and, in London more especially, a vast amount of the disease which shows itself in the hospitals is caused by the enormous consumption of porter on the part of the labouring classes. " The habit of drinking " large quantities of spirits and beer is," says Dr. TUUDICI7II, "to be deprecated "as highly dangerous and objectionable. " But when from this the conclusion is " drawn that alcohol ought altogether to be aban " doned, and that we all ought to do without any " alcohol, I must say that that is one of the " most overstrained propositions that could be " made. Alcohol, when we have worked and are " fatigued, is a great restorative, and stimulant, " and food, and one of the greatest necessities of " human life. Perhaps there has been no time and " no nation in which some kind of alcohol has not " been need, and mostly in the largest number of " cases beneficially." This statement will, at any rate, act as a stimu lant to the alcoholic controversy. A Daum contemporary has suddenly reduced its size, or rather has restored its original limits, and the letters on " Marriage or Celibacy" tip lees than a column in its issue of this morning. That the public interest should ebb and flow with such methodic regularity as to enable our contemporary to change its proportions at pleasure is not the least singular feature in the discuseion with which we have been favoured. That with twelve pages of print, the number of letters to the Telegraph editor upon holy matri mony, single blessedness, and emigration, all too valuable to be suppressed, should extend over from eight to twelve columns ; and that with eight pages of print but three letters on the same subject are sufficiently well written to appear, is puzzling. It has not yet been settled how much we may marry on, or whether we should marry at all. Erratic bachelors and girls of the period are still unreclaimed ; clergymen with a leaning to emigration are left in the midst of their bucolic dreams ; married couples of many years standing have valuable experience untold. In the interest of all those, as well as of the general public, will not our contemporary be merciful us it is strong ? We cannot but think that the standard of literary excellence in its corrospon- Y 2911 1868. FOREIGN NEWS. "HIS DAY.) THE RIFLEMEN'S FETE AT VIENNA. Tho Indipendante Beige haa the following The national rifle Mooting oompetitMn, which has just opened at Vicuna, is creating great excitement throughout Germany. Notwithstanding the effendi of the Austrian etreenoment and the directing committee to deprive this ceremony of all character of a political manifestation, there is little doubt that it will produce some violent scenes, in which bold feelings of resentment or aspirations will be displayed. A Great Germany, Germany with Austria, and Germany freely constituted in a general federation without the pre dominance of Prussia; such will probably be the theme reproduced interminably in all the toasts and speeches to be delivered on the occasion. Prussia, as may be expected, will watch with great attention all the phase.' of this manifestation, which moat be more disagreeable to hoe than the pamphlets of the dethroned princes, and the King of Ilanover's dreams of restoration. The Austrian journals represent tho foto as a decidedly political one, and as a national manifes tation. The Morgen Poet, an important journal of tho Austrian capital, thus expresses its opinion on the subject : A festival of this kind celebrated here may be considered as an historical fact of great rarity. We Austrians during the last ten years have had few coos ions to hold rejoicings. In Italy the national ides triumphed ; Turin, Naples, and the other great cities were the theatres of bril liant displays, of which we bad to pay the cost Paris and Berlin had victories to commemorate ; Faith has had the coronation solemnity and still at our expense. But to-day the question is a national fits, and we may justly be proud of it. We can boldly raise our heads after the defeats of our generals and statesmen. Austria, re generated, confiding in the spirit of liberty, is of more value than a whole collection of captured guns. Let no one attempt to undervalue the importance of this event. Never was a similar circum stance celebrated under conditions so extraordinary. What Power could prevail against a nation whose aspirations towards unity have undergone such trials? Let no looks of disdain be cast on the few thousands of marksmen who come to us from the countries of Germany. They do not form a large number compared with the immense figure of the armies, but they are the representatives of the German middle class ; they are the delegates of the whole race ; they salute us in the name of the majority of Father land. (THROUGH mural's AOLtCT.) RUSSIA. BT. PETERSBURG, AMY 28. - - Prince Oortchakoff has sent a circular to the Russian representatives abroad, dated the 17th inst., in which he says:—Russia having assented to the proposal of the Berlin cabinet, that commis sioners and experts from the different governments should meet at St. Petersburg to draw up a pro tocol excluding the use of explosive missiles in future warfare, these commissioners will be able to assemble on the 13th October next. An official message from Orenburg dated July 13 confirms the news of the termination of all hostilities with Bokhara, and states that peace has been concluded with the Emir. INDIA. (Yid Brindisi.) BOMBAY, JULY 7. The railway over the Bhore Ohant was re opened on the Ist instant. The strength of the line was tested by seven locomotives with satis factory results. Authentic news bite been received from Affgba nistan, but is unimportant. &ere Ali is still at Herat. The Madras and Bengal Banks have declared a dividend for the half-year at the rate of Li and 41 per cent. respectively. General Merewether has loft to assume his ap pointment as commissioner of Scinde, and General the Hon. Alexander Gordon has been appointed provisional commander-in-chief of the Bombay army. The Bombay Bank Commission is sitting daily, and a searching examination of the former direc tors has commenced. Colonel Herbert has left for Bagdad as Consul- General in Turkish Arabia. CALCUTTA, JOLT 2. The subject of the construction of a bridge over the Mooglily at Calcutta is engaging much atten tion and the municipality recommend the recon struction of the floating bridge. It is stated that the King of Burmah desires to extend the system of Indian telegraphs to his capital. In the ease of the Port Canning Directors v. Schiller, after four days' preliminary investigation, Justice Markly decided on the most important issues in favour of Mr. Schiller, viz., that the deed of the 13th February was not fraudulent. The case stands over till November, to await the return of the commission sent to England. The steamer bringing the above despatches has made the passage from Alexandria to Brindisi in 75 hours. THE BRAZIL MAILS. LISBON, JULY 28. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Seine arrived here at 1 p.m. to-day from the Brazils, and will leave for Southampton at 6 p.m., with 54 passengers, 3,665/. specie, 1,000 bales of cotton, 2,006 bags of coffee, and 200 rolls of tobacco. The La Plata, with the outward mails of the 9th inst., was at St. Vincent (Cape de Verde a) on the 20th inst. AMERICA. HALIFAX, JULY 28. The Inman royal mail steamer City of New York arrived here at 4 p.m. to-day. All well. GREENCASTLE, ATLI 29. The Allan steamship Nova Scotian, from Quebec on the 19th, arrived in Lough Foyle at 11.30 p.m. last night, with 119 passengers. The London mails were not landed, and she proceeded for Liverpool. NEW TONI, JI7LT 18. The Senate has passed a bill authorising the issue of 26,000,000 dole. in Three per Cent. Cur rency Loan Certificates, for the redemption of out standing compound interest notes. The Senate bee also passed a bill extending the United States territorial Laws to Alaska. Messrs. Poole and Abbot, from North Carolina, and Messrs. Kellogg and Harris, from Louisiana, all republicans, have been admitted to seats in the Senate. A riot has occurred at Millican, Texas, between whites and negroes, consequent upon an attempt of the latter to lynch a white man. It is reported that fifty negroes and several whites were killed. The military restored order. Intelligence from Hayti states that Saluave has declared himself Emperor. A few evenings back, in the commune of La Thuile (Savoie), a fire broke out in a stable, and in an astonishingly short time the flames had extended to 31 houses and as many barns. Nothing could be saved. The number of persons burnt out is 144. The body of a man was found half consumed in the ruins, and a great number of domestic animals have perished. The loss is estimated at 160,000 fr., about one-third of which is insured. OUR PARIS LETTER. (nor oua OWN oomataroffneur.) PARIS. TUMADAT M. ItOrryoT, who is known to be a steso.,‘ catholic. act will as a legitimi,t. has wrift., letter to a friend in the ;Tura strongly ',c om. mending the electors to vote for M. Or , vy, man who will zealously serve the cause, not only of civil and polities]. but " religion , " Religious liberty is an expression which . French catholic mouths, has acquired a pe., 11 1„, signification. J us t' as in America " democrat' came to mean " pro-slavery," religious lihoe l means, in the Univers and other cl-ric4 prints, the domination of the Pop.. II Orevy will no doubt get many e;stiv.:,.. votes in consequence of M. Berryer's and I hope the patronage may not lose Lila support of any iumnbens of the liberal party. y Berryer's catholicism, I must observe, is o ,t the most refined ultramontane stamp. It Wo o , to the nuance represented by the (leceg : e ther than that of the I;ni,Per s or the !mien.three classes of opinion now among as to the course which should b e ta k en at th• general elections. The Uniners reeomruenth all things to vote fora good catholic, but whe n n. candidate ooming up to its standard can be four; will support the government rather than the Beans. The Union is equally anxious to find god catholic., but in default of them rounqols &bites. tion rather than voting for government. Th. Gazette de France, while sighing for catholic. wherever they can bo got, thinks "political liberty' the first thing needful as a step to everything else, and in a dilemma will support a &tow:retie and revolutionary candidate against &government one. M. Berryer'a letter classes him with th. party of the Gazette de France. Judging from y. Grevy's antecedents I doubt greatly whetter h. is a partisan of " religiow; liberty " in the a. which his friend AL Berryer means. The Corps Legislatif yesterday unanimoi h l y repealed, without discussion, the article 1;s1 of the Code Napoleon, which enacts that in all snit. between master and servant the master's wont shall be taken as conclusive, no evidence Lein.; admissible against it. This monstrous inequality had till quite lately many defenders, even among persons eallinethemselves liberal, who had masons plenty as blackberries to show that the article we. necessary for the maintenance of social order. At the Assize Court of the AM a murder ewe •,1 extraordinary atrocity has just been tried. In picturesque chateau called Conzieu, near Belli, where Lamartine went to school and wrote ill first poems, there lived for many years a highly respectable couple in the rank of gentry, n,t wealthy, but in easy circumstances —M. anl Madame Ferrand. M. Ferrand was by pmfossion an advocate ; he wrote several legal works which have a good reputation, and moreover hecomposel the libretto for Berlioz's opera, The Troyent. wife in a small way was the Lady Bountiful of tb neighbourhood. The marriage was an extremely happy one, except that it was not fruitful. Madame Ferrand longed for a child, and having none she, with her husband's consent, adopted, thirty years ago, a boy named Joanny Blanc bon net, who had been taken to a foundling hospital by his mother, a poor woman who had been de serted by her husband. The child was brought up tenderly, and the greatest pains were taken with his education. But bad instincts developed themselves early in him. He was expelled Iran several schools and faded to take any degree. At the time of the Crimean war be enlisted in the 49th Regiment, His military character was ex tremely bad. Three times in succession he was convicted of robbery, and on the last occasion sen tenced to ten years' imprisonment. Owing to the influence of his adopted parents a pardon obtained and he was taken to live with them a. the Chateau de Conzieu. He led a life of de bauchery and extravagance, and frequently made threatening demands for money which Madam , Ferrand had not the means of satisfying. He Se duced a maid servant in the house, and wanted ti marry her. Madame Ferrand would have sanc tioned the marriage, but the parents of the girl would not consent to it. He then said he would remain at Conzien no longer, but would go to Geneva to try to get a situation. Madame Fer rand got him some introductions to Geneva, and gave him money for the journey. A few days later he came to the house in t h e night time, got in at a window, mur dered his adopted mother in bed, stole Lex caket of When arrested andsteevenht:ock,:firi,7loffhibserdcad finger. crime. The jury turned a deaf ear to the plea of his ad vocate for extenuating circumstalo es, mid the monster is sentenced to be executed at Bourges. At the Bourse, Rents for cash closed at yoqter day'a price, 69fr. 90c., but spec_ .1 ti3.on took 3 de cidedly gloomy view, and then. w:4.+ a 01 for account of 174 c., the last quotation bringi4ifr. ssv. Italian fell 40c. Credit Mobilier ro.• sir. 7:3!. THE WIDOW OF DON CARLO9.—The Count..si Molina has left Trieste for Drat; where she intettO.4 pass some time with her daughter-in-law, the An h• Duchess Maria Beatrice. and her grand&ildren Dun Car , and his consort the Princess Marguerite, uow ncu la. confinement. . . . Advices from Spain state that there is more tress throughout the country than at any previous • during the last half century. From Ohl Castdle, ah, regarded as the granary of Spain, thousands, it is 5..!. are flocking to the adjoining provinces in search of and food, awl the streets of the chief central cities wit even of the capital itself are crowded with an influx oi people imploring aid for themselves and their A general opinion seems prevalent that affairs cannot re main in their present condition. "Hunger," it is re marked, "is the most powerful ally of revolutionists, and the people, overburdened with taxis; they cannot pay, out pressed by sheer want, will be readily induced to ascribe their sufferings to the present government. The Hamburg and Bremen mail steamers t ) New York sense the spending of about 60,000/. a y.sir in krighuid by touching there. They will muster ,burin(; this year a Beet of twenty steamers, and before long they will establish not only a bi-weekly communication with New York, but a fortnightly communication with Baltinoro and New Orleans. The steamers are built in Englalla, but they are officered and manned exclusively by Hewn... The officers are skilful, and the men are capital 6dilor'• They are well cared for by the owners. When the tlea is completed they will, it is expected, carry to the VainA States nearly 2.50,000 persons annually. SCUM IN A ROMAN CATHOLIC Cn.tea. --03 Sunday, during the celebration of mass at Queeretos a Chapel, a most extraordinary scene took place. A m 35 named Cotter (who, we understand, is a coal rushed from the body of the church , springing over fly' railings, and seized the priest around the body. Inc greatest consternation prevailed in the chapel for wino time, the congregation being unable to see any cause b.r so extraordinary a proceeding,. An alarm of tire w.t: given, many ladies fainted, and the greater portion of tho congregation rushed to the doors, while some persons went on to the altar and seized Cotter, who appaired to labouring under the most intense excitement. In the 3). Sellee of any e xlanation from C o tter indigtion ran very high agains p t him, and only for his arrest by Coll stable Ryan he would have been roughly handled. Mass was for a few moments interrupted, but the ma n bein g removed, tranquillity was restored. It trial-am! .:iutrs quently that the unusual freak arose from a delusion which Cotter was labouring wider that some avrtal ded a mity was about happening him, and if lie ,iiecee cai touching the priest at a particular pita of the Ti)os all danger would be avoided. The Rev. Mr. lfenirliy not wishing to prefer any charge against l'otte: - . he was dis charged from custody.—Ccrk Extinahri. upon re:+olvu i l after all inqui trate++ decided the defendant The nishi )1 is at present vi y bsterduy the c nu addles., sig ratuluting hip. CIJAVEL . zentlemi li hat i toYal, St. Jam. August 2, the I !..ullege, 0)(1+,1. In the absence c 'Hew. Morgan, M.A.; Ittuidolph, 1 , 4:A Mach and Litt}, day, Aic+l,,t Gord+4 l A T TR 1.: This , it Patti a it the Witt The pros trice was in the to not till t Paris 1.4 tt te // lighten pmitfizc°PshlilwblaratorinTt.deemedmtiv.sheet.ll4eltyte:cfni.l.l:ti.',!ii° 1. gloom. :1. were ,t. 1.... these inei She eel -t attract..l wore dr.,- the ht...il, babies. ' pane d I. the liven.. st Ivor., a veil whi.lt orange LI brations. hardly Lc very pal. She at . prepared The bri.lei., pearantc. middle 1 Meetly g lanieei 1. rince de 1 cheater, Mr than prose and three • signor Cos• and sever houses. Iddlle. Zas The Ma Church tt more tint • mutes. It ' : tongue lik 11bon th ' i with all the gold from the . , , registers • . by the rid throe throe of d'Auvergn. , Pure. Vibe 1 marriege . Cr b l e g fo t r. : husband, 1 r home, 1)(7 11 . The Deli . also of tho kett eon • by the It ( mass occult . It was th Catholic (. nuptial b tem. After nu the church, • conpatitlat . The Mani her dough his friends. Theb u ri.h eere , 4tB eretele sl ceremony lIM The newly plaudit , : of t. 1114 1:( ; At the til William Uuw ironfounder, and omasialin estate. The r where the duf prominent (Psys the .Me actions not c.. .4 which he become a b . ...1 Trumwell that concern as he alleged, the owner of Mr. W. H. : him l and .. estimated by on the 3rd of itankrup bankrupt. His amounting to purutively tot mainly consi,t . by the bankre before the ... in his balaii. Mr. W. J. I.:.1 752/., and hL 'lend, he had 24/. from 1.'..1v, for it. The amount and a alleged that t viegleet and a• with having person named same winds.' third charge hud fraudint bill of each.. domed to I The defendant' that tho bill, a upon it, beton was filed at opportunity that the li: Were 160,0001 was some tioul. Valueless; but assignees of th 101., the sum After a long plant for trial ]tiding annum, At Bahia. Manufacturer. ass. Mr. Firt trate' of the to 3301 , for obtained and however, was k