The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-25 00:00:00

MAPPLN BROTHERS.—Established ♦. D.lBlO. CHESTS of SILVERPLATE for the COLONIES, g fitERY and SlLVE mansamo. R PLATE fee mAirni BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE. MAPPIN BROI'gERS, 222, REGENT- ONE of the institutions of London is EVANS'S. and a charming MUSICAL ILSTIERTAINMINT ITIZT au ingfING. After the *Weft aad liethaa's Cascaras le me le see there TLOYALPRENCESBI3 THEATRE.---SoleLessee mid Manner, Mr. IFININO.-8111068 epos at half-peat performances na mence at 8 o'alook preshrty. EVEBY N T co TAPHNG daring Gm week, • new and Drama, In Three Acts 1m Watts PhiMpe, Ug., entitled TUSOOU CAPTAIN. TrMdpal charactere:—kJa MM. Mis Naftali, Mims Anemia Thommeoa, Mr. George Homo, ami Mr. trta xiw Oread Beler Bohemians, in which Messieurs =1147 0011 till. mad Norman& will eltPrar. Now Y. Lund& (Me eli:Preoo* • TO 00PABIPONDONTIS hietetteements Intended for "Tbe lazyrees," London inning nest le et the Moe, 10, houveris4treek b 7 Two co the stag et pettOostioe. PZINCIESIL Inonsee, THE HUGMUIPT CLPTAIN. Mem Vista. las es. laws Neesom. Agpsta 71zoresoo, wad Oiro. Zfei.=Aid 4=T LOIXillidEL BITTANNLt. Tun IMMO, THE LADY OF LYONS.—The Brothers Vle teseDl; The OreaS Vaulting Troupe : H. Wardisi The Dela wale And OIINPOWDBIL TOM; OS, TIM GIPSY NOVELS AND KIR BALLOB SON. ETON WATIW AT LONDON BRIDOL • Tim DAT —llassiag. Th. 13• A Aftwaoon. lli. Oa To.leasow—Ncealeg. Ili. alls.. Allaisosa, fh. MA. LONDON, TUESDAY, ,SEPTEMBER 2b. Dissirnin Ku with the conduct, if not abso lutely with the results of the war, the Italians, with that clear perception of exigencies which never deserts them, have made up their minds _ _ _ that peace as now the order of the day, and that if the war has somewhat disappointed their aspira tions the peace shall make amends. They are ate and all resolved that the peace shall be a real and fruitful one, and not an armed peace, which means a peace without the honour or the profit, but with all the coat of war ; an exciuse for incspa- slily and favouritism to run riot in public offices, and for the indulgence of inefficiency and prodi gality in all the branches of the administration. Administrative reform, we all know too well, is a •ery usual cry after a war ; let our own war departments bear witness how long that cry lasts, and how little it hurts. We trust our Italian friends will be resolute and persistent in their determina tion to secure the fruits of peace in the form of diminished taxation, and in a searching investiga tion of the whole machinery of government. The task is perhaps more difficult in Italy than in some other countries, by reason of the rapid and almost sudden creation of a national unity out of many States which, though naturally belonging to one and the same country, were scrupulously kept apart by their petty tyrants, and prevented from uniting even their commercial interests and for tunes in some sort of general bond, because when separate they were more easily misgoverned and oppressed. Hence it happened that when the war of independence brought union, and union brought unity, the central government of the new kingdom found itself encumbered and enchained with $ mul- litudinous and famished host of functionaries of the dispossessed Governments and the absorbed States, who must either be pensioned off or other wise provided for. Here we see one sufficient cause of the ruinous expenditure of the Italian Govern ment since 1859. Another cause was of course the maintenance of the army and navy on a war footing, and the continual preparation for an in evitable war. Another demand for expenditure has arisen out of the brigandage in the Neapolitan provinces. Then came the transfer of the capital to Florence; an affair of some two millions sterling. To these items must be added the cost of consolidating the various provincial admi nistrations, and the heavy charges of debt with which the liberated provinces were themselves burdened. When all these difficulties and ember- easements are fairly estimated, with no doubt a further due allowance for incompetence in the chiefs, and carelessness in the subordinate officials of the departments, we shall find full explanation of the origin of the financial crisis through which the country is at present passing. But, unhappily, to understand the cause does not in this instance suggest the means of remedy. Some of the burdens are permanent, and only on some can retrenchment be practised. And the problem is bow to adapt, and how far to push economy in these departments, so as to diminish the load without increasing the discontent, or impairing the effective organization of the public service. The new Parliament, in which Venetian depu ties will take their places, and we hope will exhibit something of the political genius of their illustrious ancestors, will, if we are to judge by the present aspect of public opinion throughout the 'country, demand a severe and sweeping revision and reform of all the branches of public expendi ture. The difficulties are immense, and to grapple with them will require a stronger-headed statesman than has yet been found since the death of CAvoun. Will such a man appear when he is called for by the whole nation f Well-meaning, honest political labourers are happily not wanting in Italy ; but statesmen who are indifferent to popularity, and who poetpone the interests of their parliamentary constituents, preferring the duty to their country, these are the prodigies to be sought for, and not easily to be discovered. One of the first measures of such a thorough administrative reform as the true interests of Italy demand would be to send home some 150,000 useless and unproductive employs—an army of lazy and incompetent martyrs. Such a measure would, no [doubt, provoke a tempest of remon strance. But surely if 300,000 men who have been enrolled to venture their lives on the battle field for their country are to be disbanded (as they ought to be), it will not be deemed unreason able to insist that men who have risked nothing shall be sent home to earn an honest livelihood is the fields, in counting-houses, in merchant 'ships, and railways, instead of standing idle in the service of the State, and burden ing the unfortunate and helpless taxpayers f This, however, we must confess, is more easily said than done. Before 1859 a thorough edema wistrative reform and retrenchment were in con- Aleinplation. Count CAvoua, who sometimes held Miree and four departments at once, spoke of it as an urgent necessity ; and yet year after year, .eamaparatively trifling as would have been that re .fiersn with the Aegean operation now demanded in :the southern provinces, that courageous, power- Minister, who flinched from nothing that 'became a responsible Minister, felt himself 'retaccemtered and arrested by difficulties which dew from him, when the subject was mentioned le him in private, audible groans. And now CAVOUR'S successes will have to encounter, in the Southern provinces aloe which the administratioi of economy and efficiency. of administrative esspioyis, by each successive Ministry, that must be dealt with, as only second to the brigandage in the South in mischief to the country. Brigandage is the legacy of the Rol:won, and so is the degrad ing and unmanly mendicity which claims to be idle in public offices. Better to pension thousands of these idlers off and, so to speak, capitalise their cost, than permit so pernicious an example to impoverish the morality even more than the treasury of the State. It is not only the central administration that must be cut down : it is the growth of fanctionerisva which, after the manner of Franoe, whose institutions Italian states men have been too prone to oopy, infects every pro vince and every commune. We do trust that out of the new Parliament a new race and order of statesmen may spring who will enable Italy to become as rich and prosperous as a country so endowed by nature, so happily situated, peopled by so intelligent a race, was certainly destined to become when its unity was accomplished. Report speaks highly of the present Finance Minister, Signor SCIALOJA, who's attainments and reputa tion are favourably known to all economists. As soon as peace is signed with Austria and full pos session of Venice is secured, Italy will undoubtedly disarm, and we hear that the Minister of Finance will lose no time in proposing decisive measures for balancing national expenditure and income without recourse to great loans or increased taxa tion, and for developing progressively the unimpaired national resources of the Peninsula. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. cmis DAY.) of t life of au it • is simply bugbear. it away giald be a piece I of wickedness andfolly, which ought to be left to reckless visionaries like Yr. Bright. Returning to the clandestine abduction of IL Lemirande from Canada, under the light of new facts which have become known, the Day News represents the ease to stand now as follows :—A French subject is a refugee in Canada ; a French detective presents himself to require hi. , extradition ; the English governor and English judges Fr. I coed to decide and act in the matter according to law, when a French Canadian attorney-general sad a French Canadian head-constable conspire to take the prisoner out of British jurisdiction, and the refugee is now in France inditing memorials to the British ambassador from a French prison. The Daily New regrets to say that the farts have bees laid before our Colocial.offiee, within the oognisance of which they mere immediately fall, but that the Earl d . Carnarvon has declined to promise to bike any steps in tha matter. Such a decision, however, cannot be regarded is , finsL Our ministers must see that it is impassible fat them to keep two weights and two meseares—one for Eng. land and another for the colonies. What cannot be done here must on no account be allowed in Canada, and it is superfluous to remark that j,tbe public opinion of this country would soon put an end to extradition treaties altogether if such proceedings se these took place in Eng land. The Prince dui Princess of Wake, with the young Princes, &pompom/0d by their suite, left Abergeldie Castle yesterday Morning, to pay a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Satberland at Dunrobin Castle.. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have entertained a *elect circle of visitors at Hatfield during the past week. including Lord and Lady Flury and Hiss Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Gilbert Kennedy, Lady Bulwer, Earl of Cadogan, Earl of Clanwilliam, Lord Stanley, Lord Ashley, and ill.. Verdon. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford and --- --- the Hon. Mile Meeker, who have been staying at Peas atone, hnve lett that watering-plaes on a;vieit to Sir P. A. Dyke, at his seat near Maidstone. A marriage will shortly take plaoe between Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart., M.P. for South Warwickshire, and Miss Harriett Moncreiffe, fourth daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Louisa ?donereiffe. Mr. H. E. Chatterton has addressed a circular to the electors of the University of Dublin, in anticipa . --- . tion of the vseeney which is expected to occur through the promotion of the Attorney-Gemeral to the office of Master _ _ _ of the BAIL. Extensive building additions are in progress in connexion with the Queen's College, Belfast. In cones' quence of the increasing importance of the medical class the buildings intended for the anatomical school have been entirely remodelled at • cost of about 3,0001. A very spacious museum has been added, which, with the professors' rooms, lecture-rooms, km, will be fitted up to meet all the requirements of the medical faculty, and make this one of the most complete departments of the col lage. A college library is also in progress, at a cost of about 6,0001., and the design of the building promises to be as attractive as its internal arrangements will be con venient. _ . The present opera session in Dublin has, so far, been extremely snooessfuL The theatre has been crowded every night, and the artistes have every reams to be gratified with their reception. The company oomprises Tietjens, Signor Mario, Madame de Maio Lablache, Mr. Santley, Signor Bassi, and several others. A letter from Vienna says :—" The Emperor's reception of the Prussian Minister a few days ago was of • formal character, but it is said his Majesty let fall words which Baron Werther could not take amiss. His Majesty must have many painful ordeals to go through. On Thurs day he held an audienoe at yid& some 300 carers, many of them maimed or wounded, were present, and in the midst of the throng there glided a lady in deep mourning, followed by six daughters all draped in black. The poorest subject who has a petition to make has only to write his or her name in the book beforehand to have a personal inter view with the Emperor of Austria, and mad must be the tales and woeful the petitions whioh are poured into the 411171 of that grave and careworn man." The French Post-office authorities have recently authorised the issue of two new postage-stamps, one of 30 centimes and the other of Mr. The colour of the first will be chestnut, and the second violet. The Mayor of Lille has published an order by which the inhabitants of that city are forbidden under penalty to keeps pigs, pigeons, rabbits, geese, ducks, hens' or guinea pip, his worship having discovered the effluvia which arises from the said animals and birds to be in. jurious to public health. Any person who desires to keep such pets must apply to him for special permission, and prove that they have proper accommodation for them. No foreign dogs, it is said, are allowed to palm the Prussian frontier. A passport from the Prussian Ambassador in London will not avail to gain admittance into Prussia to the smallest and most inoffensive lap dog. Pap, as more ferocious, are instantly seised and gibbeted. A sad affliction has fallen on the family of the great surgeon, M. Makin. M. de Booneville, whose mar. riage contract with M. Nekton's daughter was signed last January by the Emperor, was standing in his farm-yard giving orders to his steward, behind a cart to which three horses were hammed. M. de Baaneville happened to be leaning against a wall when the horses suddenly backed. M. de Baaneville instantly stooped and tried to get under the body of the cart. In the attempt, his head was caught and literally crushed by one of the huge back wheels with such frightful violence that part of the brain and hair were found adhering to the wheel. M. de Basneville had just entered his thirtieth year, and leaves his yoeng wife enceinte. snow has made its appearance on some of the higher peaks of the Pyrenees. A letter from Douarnenez (Finiaterre) states that the sardine fishery continues to be unusually productive. On one day two boats captured respectively 37,200 and 35,800 of those fish, and several others from 20,000 to 24,000 each. The direction of the Poet-office at Hanover announces that from the Ist of October next the Hano verian stamps will be replaced by Prussian. Prince Napoleon is said to have abandoned his journey to Havre and his projected excursion to the *oast of England. He has gone to visit Count Waleweld, at his chalet near Evian. There is one young Bohemian nobleman of whom nothing has been heard sines the 3rd of July, although ' every effort has been made and great sums offered to se- certain his fate. His fortune to which be has come in 1 was enormous, and the whole property is locked up, for 1 there is no proof of his death, although it is beyond doubt that his remains he under the dank field of Koniggrats or 1 at the bottom of the Elbe. M. Alexander Dumas, sen., is reported to be going to publish a continuation of his novel of " Monte Christo." The world will thus be informed of what has become of Edmund Dante.. According to letters from Japan some of the Japanese Dein:ice permit Europeans to shoot over their estates. The Japanese gentlemen are getting fond of European 'ports, such as horse•racing. They are also very partial to the music of the bands on board the European ships of war. A letter from Stuttgard, speaking of the King of Bavaria, says :—" Rumour says that, instead of occupying himself with public affairs, he gives himself up to strange eccentricities. Dressed as Lohengrin, he moves about upon his lake in a boat, which is made in the form of a swan, like the hero of Wagner's opera. He is so much enamoured of moonlight that be has set up in his sleeping ch►mber an ►pparatus borrowed from the theatre which enables him to bask in the chaste rays of the moon at all times and in all gessoes. Of all the follies t►at a king may be led to OM mit ithese are certainly the meet innocent. They will draw teals from none, but will, en the contrary, excite the laughter of his subjects." THE LIONS or ran PRESIDENT'S Excinterow.— At Niagara a committee from a meld/ere' and sailors' asso ciation waited on General Grant, and requested permission for the organisation to visit him. We quote from the detailed account :—" 'ls it a political organisation 7' brusquely inquired the general. ' Not at all.' 'Then I should he glad to receive them. lam always happy to see our soldiers and saailo►s, but I don't want anything to do with political organisations. I don't want them brought to me.'" At Detroit Admiral Farragut again found ocoadoa to state quietly "that he hadaoaompanied the party by particular request," and that he was " • sailor, and not a speaker."—Bosion Advertiser. ..,4 tr:ii . .s. }ill til SPA b . now h ' on the al r t of I i k i Me, b ilk +. .. 4. ii , . i the threes too . ~ a „ a ' 0'" ... . 0 Galata the Irish cisteel LcY• tis' "' • ". .. .' . grievance ; its evibi are all imaginary, ' lO O l l Placemen appoin ted a sentimental bugbear. To put it away PAILIAMINTLZY nscriowa. Mr. Bright's speech last night was received in London at too late an hour to admit of comment upon it in the ordinary leading article columns. The Times, in some degree, anticipates it, however, by a brief essay on the vocation of the platform generally, and its province as distinct from that of parliament and the press. The substance of our contemporary's remarks is that the 1 battles of the Constitution are in parliament. and, that compared with them, all the public meetings in the country, though good in their way, and with their use, are but holiday-making, mere parades, scenes on a prepared stage. The relations of the prase must be much more with the legislature than with any such system of one-aided demonstrations. What they claim is only the one-aided utterance and recognition of sentiments and facts occupying either very debateable ground, or cumbering the mere approach to the grand argu ment before us. The election practical at 'retool' and elsewhere are dwelt upon by thiaTinits, Herald, and Telegraph—the Times confining itself more particularly to those at Tots's. for the benefit of which place every known species of im proper influence must have been worked into a compound; Electioneering was the staple of the borough ; there wa s no other trade there, bet this particular business wa► carried on with singular success. The extent to which the electors obtained money from their own sides, or from their adversaries, or from both, is beyond all belief, and what is extraordinary is that the increase of the constitu ency, which in thirty years had doubled the number of voters, produced no diminution in the price of votes. Altogether Totnes is supposed to have received, since the year 1839, a good hundred thousand pounds as the product of its electoral privileges. The Herald has an apology for bribery in the abstract. It is absurd to consider people who give and take bribes as corrupt. In most cases the offence of the briberin particular has really no other source than a cynical indifference to the purity of others. He is not necessarily corrupt himself, nor does he acquire by the practice of corruption any such taint RI to make him personally less disposed to morality than be was before. The corruption of the electors is not, in the view of the Herald, necessarily a sign of the deterioration of the body elected, and though a man may have purchased his seat, his character is in no way affected• Granted, that manhood suffrage and the ballot would give us a more incorruptible body of electors, who is able to assure us that they would give us a more honest body of representatives ? And looking to the end rather than the means of government, is it not of more consequence that we should have a pure House of Oommons than pure con stituencies! The choice, according to the Herald, is be tween a oornipt constituency and a corrupt assembly, and the Herald prefers what it terms the independence of the representative to the purity of the elector. 7111 QUIINI3 OOLLIGSS. The Daily News denies that the decline in the number of students at the Queen's College' on the admission of ether bodies to competition with them in training for the Queen's University, is any proof that these colleges are unsuited to the purpose for which they were estab lished. The fact is explained by the waiving of the condition that the candidate for the degrees of the Queen's University shall undergo three years of systematic instruction in the college. Is it strange that numbers should prefer to avail themselves of such means of instruction aa are to be found in their own neighbourhood at ones the easiest and cheapest Those who state that withdrawals from the Queen's Col leges are mainly due to the superior attractive ness of the Catholic University, should enlighten us ma to the attendance at that institution ; but as the • falling off has been considerably greater in the protestant students than amongst the Roman catholic', the popularity of the Catholic University would scarcely be held to explain the decline. Doubtless the impression which has prevailed since the late government announced its change of policy that the Queen's Colleges were destined to come under the control of the Cullenite party, explains the reason _ _ why it is in the protestant ranks that the principal defec tion has oectirred. No one can now doubt the tendency of the policy inaugurated in the name of " freedom of educa tion." Happily that policy is not yet definitive. We have had the singular good fortune of an experiment in politics before we have been actually committed to the line in which the experiment lay. LOCAL ZIAMINATIONS. The riffle* thinks there can be no doubt that the above i examinations have bad a good effect in raising the standard of a large class of schools throughout the country. They have supplied the one stimulus that waa wanted both to the boys and to the masters. Other kind of ad vertisements are very poor, and valueless compared with this. The measnre has given a great blow to the puffing system which had Rua a hold of education, t o every new experimentiser in this line, every bankrupt who because ha was fit for nothing else turned schoolmaster, vaunting his new method with shameless audacity in the advertising columns of the press, and setting forth the enormous quantity he could teach in an incredibly short time, together with the infallible plan he bad for making the information be cot veyed cleave to the memory and mould the understanding. The practical advertisement column of the local examina tion supplants these vulgar puffing arty, and substitutes • short and solid test of school efficiency In their stead. The public, who are interested on account of their families in the merits of private schools of the class now referred to, can see with their own eyes what schools succeed in getting • place in this list. This is a great assistance to their Judgment in the work of selection, and a great safe guard against imposture. The Times is unable to see what Saxony tan gain by delay in her nvotiations with Prussia. The people are weary of nuoutaisty, and it would be no wonder in the end if they ware to envy even the let of the Manors:fans— if they thought annexation preferable to divided alle giance, and if they found out, after all, that a dynasty is hardly worth the sacrifice it costs, that their dynasty especially is something apart from the people—% Roman setholie dynasty in the midst of an almost exclusive TA. therm community—a dynasty, too, that only two years ago was threatened with extinction, and whoae suomesion gPTEMIVER 25, 1864 LAT 1 * 'INTELLIGENO* , r _ff THE ICATION OF THE DOSE SAXE-MEININGEN. ------ - The following is the proolaanation by whioh the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen has announced his abdica tion to his subjects : The iron destiny lof our epoch has struck ns. I to-day give up power, after having governed the country during forty-five • years with affection and loyalty. I do so with sentiments of painful emotion. I had hoped to be able to remain your duke to the end of my days, and I should not resign but to pre. serve yen from heavy sacrifices which I have not been able to divert in any other manner from you and the country. The government passes to my son, the hereditary !rinse, who may God watch over and assist in the painful road which opens before him. He enters in full vigour on the new era to which he will know how to conform himself . better than I should have done. Give to him your swill ' denoe and your affection ; he will respond by the same sentiments. May God protect my dose country. BIHNHAED Sawn Mont. lifeiningen, Sept. 20. In the evening 8,000 Prussians occupied the capital of the Duchy to force the Duke to publish his abdication, which had been notified at Berlin on the 7th. The new Duke has addressed his subjects in the following proclamation : Dear Inhabitants of Meiningen.—l enter on my high 'functions deeply pained that the inexorable events of this year should have determined my dear father to take the generous resolution to renounce a government which has given to the wants"' nearly 50 years of prosperity. I implore God that He may give me the strength and enlightenment neoeesary for me to be able to wield the sceptre with the fidelity and the devotion which have made my dear father a brilliant model for all princes. I oome to you with affection sad confidence. Sustain me in my difficult vocation by your confidence. Meiningen, Sept. 21. Glossms. Eteiperor but the Elf paid visits to his dying Habefl. H Ma l t% day after her visit, con ferred upon favour said to be altogether without precedent. She sent, with • desire that ti might be hung at the heaket his,bed-as long as he was ill, a rdiquaire described a. " the most precious jewel in the crown of France." This is a rich casket manufactured by Froment Minnie.; and containing a piece of Jesus Christ's lines, a piece of a veil belonging to the Virgin Mary, a remnant of John the Baptist's grave clothes, the talisman of Charlemagne, which the magistrates of Aix-la-Chapelle gave to Napoleon 1., and a &fig ment of Charlemagne's right arm. The tallsdien contains two pieces of the true cross. The value of these relics is enormously int hanced- by the fact that they were all in the Empress's bedroom when the Prince Imperial was born. Count Baciocchi has been in bad health for many years. He had a nervous disease, which kept him from sleeping at nights. Often he walked about for thirty hours together, and he was wont to compare himself to the Wandering Jew. The Emperiir had a corridor softly carpeted on purposli for him to walk upon at night. So long ago as 1860 Di. Marchal de Calvi told him that he musk never expect to be cured, but that with care and attention to diet he might live twenty years. He instanced Marshal Sebastiani as a man who had the same sort of malady, and yet lived a longtime. But Count Baciocchi, beings bad patient, and refusing to follow prescriptions, Dr. Marched de Calvi threw np the case. He remained a friend, and in the count's last sickness was one of the seven physi cians who held a consultation round the death bed. The nearest relation of the deceased who was with him when he died is M. John Stephanopoli, who claims to be a descendant of Comnenus. Although Count Itaciocchi is said to have possessed so many state secrets, it is to be presumed that his discre tion preventing him from committing any of them to writing, for the Emperor has dispensed the right, generally exercised with regard to ministers and courtiers, of putting seals upon his papers. The Patrie has a cock-and-bull article insinuating that England and the interests opposed to the for mation of the Isthmus of Suez Canal are at the bottom of the disturbance in Crete and Sicily, and suggesting a coalition of France, Italy, Austria, and Spain to protect their interests in the Mediter ranean. I look on this as mere nonsense. The Bourse was dull. Rente closed with no other change than a fall of lc. for account. Italian fell 16c., Mobilier lir. 25c., and Credit Foncier 2fr. 50c. THE EMPERORENCH AND B E PRESS OF THE FR AT . - - The Emperor, almost immediately on his arrival at Biarritz, took a walk on the terraos overhanging the sea, accompanied by the Prince Imperial and General Fleury. At night the whole town was illuminated ; and about 9 o'clock his Majesty and the Empress walked for some time in the midst of the crowd, and were everywhere re ceived with the greatest cordiality and respect. The day after the Empror paid a visit to the prorks in progress for forming a port of refuge. A letter from Biarritz gives some details !of the Em press's excursion to the grotto of flare " Her Majesty, the Prince Imperial, and a suite of about 30 persons, arrived at Sere at 1 o'olock. The journey was made in breakidrown by horses from the imperial stables. The travellers alighted at the house of ald. Michel Dihur subehere, where they stopped about two hours, waiting till the weather, which had become rainy, should clear up, as they intended to go on, after seeing the grotto of Sere, to that of Zugarromurdy,in Spain. The Empress, the Prince, and many of the suite mounted on horseback s while moat of the ladies and General Fleury's children took their places in pack-saddles on the backs of mules, thus reviving that ancient mode of travelling formerly so well known in the Pyrenees, and now almost forgotten. Nothing could be more curious than this caravan, which was guided by a troop of young men of the neighbourhood, who, by their height and the elasticity of their frames, es well as their bold free bearing, brought to mind that proud nation of Cantabrian from whom they are de scended. The party, furnished with torches, went through the grotto of Bare, and afterwards visited that of Zugar ramurdy, which is open at both ends, and in which flows • large rivulet, which all the party forded. Here the tra vellers requested the guides to sing some of their country songs, and instantly a number of fine voices aroused the echoes of the spot. The Empress and the Prince Imperial, on their return, again rested at the house of M. Dihun subehere, so well known to the imperial court under the simple name of M. MicheL The imperial party arrived at Villa Eugenie at about 10 at night." The Empress, three days back, visited the hospital of Saint Leon, at Tors, near Biondi:. Her Majesty was as. compaaied by M. d'Auribean, Prefect of the Department, and remained about an hour conversing with the superior and committee of management on subjects connected with the institution. Another letter from Biarritz states that Count de Bis• mark has engaged for the end of the present month an apartment in one el the principal hotels of that watering due. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TIMID" BIifISIIBMIZ ts, 8 A.X. W. lislvema Ms. l2 T. W. no .. 1 '. D. 9. N W. R. Ito 11 -.--- -.. Na 8.W. -, Nairn ...... UK 66 W. 3 4 8.8. W. Do 1 Aberdeen ..29.74152 8. 1 4 8. e— 4 Leith Ardroesan Greesoutie .60155 & 4 6 8.8. W. Me —I 3 e Yalontia .. - Ilveryool NI 50 8.8. E. 3 8.8.1. — 2 Holyhead Penzance .87158 &&W. 0 N.W. c 4 Brat .. 29.9 .66 &W. 6 11.8. W. e 6 Lorleut 10.0060 1 R. 2 W. b 3 Rochefort.. Plymouth 29.9158 8.8.1. 6 W. b 0.03 2 Weymouth Portsmouth 30.02 63 1 , 8.2 W. 4 B.W. re 0.03 3 London - Yarmouth 30.08 611 W. 1 1 8.8.1. cb —, 1 ' Scarborough 29.06 48 &W. 2 , &W. I a 0.17 2 Shields .... . 2910 41' B.W. 2 . N.W. re 0.62 2 1=43.1[8. A considerable increase of barometric pressure has occurred to the southward et this ommiry, while barometers on oar west ern coasts are again felling, with a daddy sky and apparently increasing southerly sad .oath-weeterly winds. The relent oscillations of barometric pressure. and the return of the winds to the south-west render a coatirmace of the fine weather of to day improbable. FRIENDLY Eiocrmiss.—This morning was issued the report for the year 1866 of Mr. John Tidd Pratt, the registrar of friendly societies in England. During the year the registry bee examined and certified the rules of 1,076 friendly societies, and also the alteration of the rules of 1,248 societies, making • total of 2,324 oeititioates. 44 friendly societies have deposited their rules with the registrar, under the 18th and Loth Vie., c. 63. Notices of dissolution have been received from 143 friendly societies, of which number 88 were advertised in the London Gazette. The sum of 2,2381. in the Bank of England has been trans tarred by the registrar into the names of trustees appointed by friendly societies in the places of often rsenoved, absent, to la an appendix to the report Mr. Tidd Pratt offers valuable suggestions for the establishment of friendly societies on sound principles. In his opinion the only paid officers should be the secretary and auditors . where the meetings are held at public-houses, there should be a stipulation that no beer, &c., should be brought into the room until all business is concluded, and attend ance at annual feasts should be strictly voluntary. Re says that in a society formed on the principles had down in the document "every member will have topay only such oontributions as may be required by the rules and tables for the benefit he wishes to receive, and there will be no compulsory charges for beer, feasts, melees paraphernalia, ee other extras." A railway is projected between Newport and Ityde, in the Isle of Wight. It will be about five miles long. It will connect by rail Cowes sad the shied tern with the back of the Isle of Wight. SWEDVS. Advices from Stockholm state that the new poli tical organisation in Sweden will soon commence working. The Four Orders of the States-General are, it may be remembered, now entirely abolished, said the parliament will henceforth consist only of an Upper and a Lower Chamber. (sou Tines Timmons.) INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE. PARIS, Szrr. 24. Inundations have taken place in the departments of Allier, Haute-Loire, Cate d'Or, and Lozere. The railway communication between Moulins and /fevers is interrupted. ITALY. FLORILICE, Barr. 21, Evsurso. Garibaldi has arrived in this city. The volunteers are concentrated at Lecco, appa rently for the purpose of being disbanded. AUSTRALIA. (By Overland Telegraph from Gala./ MELBOURNE, Auouss Mr. Manners Sutton, the New Governor of Vie toria, has arrived, and been well received. Parliament has been prorogued until the 2nd of October. _ A new Queensland ministry has been formed. A petition is being signed in that colony for the re call of the governor. Advice. from New Zealand state that discontent exists among the natives in Taranaki. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom oua OWN CONIN6POND/24t.) PARIS, MONDAY Eywawa. Count Baciocchi died yesterday evening. The last visit paid by the Emperor before his depar ture to Biarritz was to hie bedside. The deceased, a relation of the Emperor, one of his most inti mate friends, and for many years the chief com panion of his private life, was a Corsican, born at Ajaccio in 1803. He was the son of Count Francis Baoiocchi, a colonel of the noble guard of the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Eliza Bonaparte, who married his cousin, Prince Baciocchi. Prince IBaciocchi created a fief (or inajorat) worth 8,0001. a year in favour of Prince Louis Bonaparte (now Napoleon III.), with remainders to Prince Napo_ loon and Count Baciocchi, but on condition that the owner of the fief should take the name of Prince Baciocchi. As it did not suit either the Emperor or his cousin, Prince Napoleon, to comply with these conditions, Count Baciocchi would have had the estate but for the I unfortunate circumstance that it is situated in Romagna, and Romagna at the time of the death of Prince Bacioochi belonged to the kingdom of Italy, in which fiefs are abolished. The late count, therefore, never claimed his inheritance, and as ho had a considerable private fortune, and largely enjoyed the Emperor's bounty, he did not greatly feel the loss. Count Baciocchi passed his early as well as his latter years in the atmosphere of a court. At the age of eight he was a page of his aunt, the Grand Duchess. In 1814, when 11 years 1 old, he returned to Corsica, and was afterwards sent for his education to Pisa and Aix. Italian was his native language, and his friends say that he never spoke with per fect ease in French. A friendly biographer, alluding to his intimacy with the Emperor, says of him :—" He scrupulously kept, without ap pearing to feel their weight, the most important secrets. The tendency of his nature was to conceal things which others would have divulged from vanity. His knife and fork was always laid at the Sovereign's table, and he was admitted to the pre- Bence at all hours." From 1836 to 1848 he was employed as a secret emissary of the Bonaparte family to various courts. The King of Wurtem -1 berg took a great liking to him, and conferred upon I him several decorations. He was wont to tell a story how, when on a mission to St. Petersburg in 1836, he was set down to a gaming table where stakes were played which, if he had had three lad Bards, would have stripped him of all the funds for his travelling expenses. He was arrested after the affair of Boulogne, but released for want of ! sufficient evidence to establish his complicity with Louis Napoleon. In 1848 he was appointed colonel' of the National Guard of Ajaocio, but he left ; Corsica the moment Louis Napoleon was elected President of the Republic, and ever since remained attached to his person. He entered the Elysde as an orderly officer of the President. After the coop' d'itat he was sent on a mission to Egypt, Tunis, and Constantinople. ♦s soon as the Emperor formed an imperial household he was created first chamberlain, superintendent of court entertain ments, court music, and the court chapel, and in 1883 he was appointed to the post of superintendent general of theatres. But in addition to his osten sible functions he was in reality a minister and often a more important minister than any with a recog nised portfolio. Every day after breakfast he laid before the Emperor a report upon a great variety of matters, and no man about the court was so per manently influential. He was the most decorated Rua in Europe, unless, perhaps, M. Rioord, the Specialists doctor, and Dr. Evans, the American dentist. He, however, surpassed them in the quality, if not the number, of his decorations, for he had eighteen grand cordons. Not only the MUTUAL TONTIR (WIMITMIZINITit BERS) ASSOCIATION (LlMlTED).—irjus The sixth sixth ha-yearly general meetin g this afternoon at the mikes of the demostios, Lbws, Vietoriaittreet, Mr. id . & g ams The Mowing report was taken u read : " The articles of association . provide ha. Maack in ma th year. The mee t ing on this Ista t i oth z fore is mot for the presentation of amount% bet the declaration of such interim dividend II the may feel warranted in recommendieg *n or the ealistastion to announce that tye up. song at the last meeting, with reglad to the Men revenue, have thus far been they are enaidasi, by en estimate ol ec t il i Zt o port half -yak, to propose a distribnlbm far to of at the irate of 61. per met, per annum." The CRAIIMAI, in momag its adoptioa, reminded, *shiers that when they last met Its stated *Moths every reason to believe the dividends would aersr*,_ than six pm. cent. At that time etvelhke fair in lie cesemerehd and financial sow ,g 6 1 : 4 1 directors took the presaatioe of In//a4 guarded estimate, and the course of events Ba te ,mtti never eonid they sh r au to: iwi cau s tio n t i s ke in matt ott expected oon provided Notwartanding tho of the p eel s& the directors wore recommend an interim dividend at the rate sent per anawn, and lease quite morphs to make them sure ri boviag a little than a little less to divide on the sent occasion el ha moved the adoption of the report The motion was amnia unanimously, lad thanks to the chakema and diadem eondeded wading& 141: -- a,:k riut a. m. (ran Nil 4 inii was )yid .. . Wks,. . I.lrek. 2 4: " ounov i b• # ' % or • aZ ai di t hi 1 ni . ea 1b• 11 .... : 1 the. nagi l"— emalee le "tit (edit of lb. ea ie . • gar Ml' flemed, ' , h‘ill ni : e malts a t Mr ' lor that pmh /fi WWI DSO lea 0 1 6 • . retbiadod 4 that _ app 42l;nbi - •1 ; • • ilia Baji g l i n t iSk.3 the "triAll e ft Din wadi ; ,b i g,,i mare be allallg ~ i ,67 4 .banhruFt' e aw e w i g, * .atitate. •' The . . 111'14=4 vane* 9, ig • the ;but spelt : nb ie wens 01 6 pa .• gomeese Ho IWO IN N idh , : and lookh • maim k ea load hr he enema m i gik ' : *bastion, m i i ii • able time d 7, bad 11 Wie4.4 Ih ", The ban - • , . Debt' a .. lam, assn On h • 41 hontea I sa his having wi c k ;. I. i t • in-lase wh .aeon of eamailimun 1 bate had 14 .. i ar et. t °s4l " * •L o Lam • 34 . London f Loan Soo S ee lliße % Society, a Ilegent 0 . ePremea te eat . T r i,„ Curb" o f — Lri 1,71 ; 61 = . 1 :Vt i ct x4 e autumn mei g : ,otZ • &antifeminist' ' • Sammy ' " dem° had hal • 71. sa. ; been aunu al d . 1 w ow gr. Feud& saigh .the ' I "lebralla ‘ mow held I and him* • ' l The • ;dooms ‘ anind's. I m e auslea llidi t lof 1,9101. Med Gat MAIM a• • end, On saes ea tbe BSI • bed hid t*lf Ilse* fa 010 , -be MIK • raw Awe e4i l t t . Sect aitt • hotel, lint g Leal meselsat, .' The • • rare. abed& ,s a ius. MCC sac ederin e &in, t I ht. la the , for se alma at lt*ted at let him has math •• had tried Is de. Sea :MP ". Beams gl a Mr. tDisiin, 1 - a ecunallm wti tt "" malty. wan saidtUE ioa Bast p ea was is ght, w wah name as wads aloe Wm and Asa lie ' lama A hire lea nt l .. 1111 "" 111. t be lira . placed ale him better, alling-looleta► D a : t e t e d r s several Kr. Nicker, as7rtheirg ; •Xr. En flamer. horraron aarirg . I g, told his own d a . .. I . . ht him. He . get . • .7 . 7 . „ lamb' has bid ' .r m . 11111 . . '•' ' 6 : • . Stoke 6 rs, fa cash lige to the amit ! sad he Sunday in a NM K am . Marshall sal be • J. W. ;it the property it . Illteena effect of the fail • asee,_ . hhi meet • ue'' l9° F. S. I HON. Amts makers, hooting rabbits ala , far 51. , her 1 Pellami d ardi Bob. sentries' r .-, • meelved t hand. Be if Feb le g b un g gaga* B. F. e fora need Is ta :,,,vi mete . and band, a lad ' ell he rut its top, waive , B. ha. ! um hu Ma salad Kr. • Brighten, who I. sash •. . Mr. Pellas's 0 prison. KS Adrertiser. - July, t —About 15 mouth I dal? en 7 ton arlisl f" propoo a s the on eaTeaelliods lii r meeting lealiallk . ' • we ta 'l l anm io cii :. t o Tbe ibeed7t f h i i he araw ailli : imp. i rr i t r: s a mo. ... desirous el ant? t fitting mermaid ~! a .aili r •c haved h i ::: cli b ot oc u t i if : the ta :: e h t. this' thei to 4 .1 p . r I a, e f b . a ti nmia 0 1 r , . '. ic alle ast : trir7 , 2 . : : :;. . • w e tsii m b edinsl oivit 441101. • . =ue I ,inciii i..., - )etcher. la Labelle ' E di tion ad as follow—DO • bt .• ay's, Sir lawnueral -; anrall.F.Lalit lee Itr s c . .W. Ogis ; Um. , , vie not Ulster, Dr. nit • Mere . 'a, Dr. Bub , ; es-- • By M s, Mr. Halos " I. . the tat ints at ome_ Olt,l 'arms, School of M0,.. 0 _,T„ .Itamona dr. Reginald L ll/1 ". ; . sh" - ' Samuel Hey, Rai eery a • David Heave k l o s • aged In Beige of Ifeiltallt ..... . and the the Univeratf a w i ; &tales rill be distill:o 4 h Geo s as p I ordination ha d ' *la • • i t , on /Medal . Ise,* Which • 1 i n to boa cedc ..• 'barge. of KreP,,,,,__• 6 4 . •° 4,r° ' 94. • • mrifonsmlrefigeGßlirtyn:lC°cordorie,umwitleirelummeo:bnage;Aak:umuyirtboele,lred,...4.i...„l34:oo6,..i. , ' aireettagicatermeen:wi f' ...: ville and Calm , The the babel' Maw • Rev. Geone % la sinagh . •• .. pm Barnett, tt ... . 0 1, legate% W um. • :r .- no LIM" Or Lt 7 on Sandal-at..r e . two • Natirea,Ago them a m i 1 i ,......1 , MB if . Bkitsrd wills% •44,:i h. will riot thj j oh •li m , , 11 d e liver ,_.,. * , ' P s tinted h 1 ° IP ; , _.,.abaillel it moms .."--- It rooket, ) fousasia o.l. 10 „Ike p d r tee ,htle I reached r t oid e4L oarSl i i g his eh o nddealAS r-- e d ter the 1 - "eait; ....- Li7 t o rs t r e ed' es t " .ll. * m to l ikwi r al . I C ir =l i i: s livael , ti 1,.., A ge i ill he ee ireger3 at of Mel . , a has In v3ea oaf . .. he Deli° 4 54614. 00 101 t o i ballet ot 1.1 011 . nt ooi :s 9l if NO, d yeate r°ll g the Oalle_i.a. , i. eft 76 7 ib Ates , l6 ; i p . . . to the a of Africa , ~ ELECTION COMMISSIONS. It was exp•ated that Mr. Amick a. Soh:udder would be examined Were the eimakeim om Lancaster yesterd Both gentlemen bed be.. by letter that the co ay. mmiseionen were of %Mika ft," part they had taken in the recent election team' within the provhaens of the act of pail= were invited to make any statement necessary, but on the distinct t = ers b ac ki4 suck statement should not be held to sodas to a oertillsatie of indemnity. They append t yesterday, bat Mr. Schneider declined to mt. unless he was summoned in the regular fora, • Fenwiok, who said he was prepared to contradist the evidence bearing upon his own case, desired to his statement until the whole of the evidence taken. Mr. Lawrence has, U airmen, been ror a witness in the usual weg, sad Mr. Fear complained of the distinction whisk the a had drawn between the cases of himself and and that of their conservative opponent. At the meeting of the Totals encosoimicems ys„_ few witnesses of cane importance were examinsa. Holman, in answer to questions put, stated the know that meetings of lament's' side had been held at the Seymour Hotel s miasioners began their sitting, to &terms, sir should be given. He had been to the hot* b no such meetings. Mr. Bowden, a general nit happy to say . that laa did not live in Totem. had a More in the town. He bad twice Ponder es s candidate. He offered 51. being let off last time ; but Mr. Pander meld of it. He knew Mr. Sonde, and bad let h" to the amount of 501. Mr. Swale bad neutral in polities, tut it would not de. trying he lost the custom of a Mr. qrs.., wanted him to vote for him as a comnalk lm it that Mr. Sonde put aside his neutrality. election was being hotly contested. it vas Dent, conservative, who had a notion r possessed a majority of seven or eight, give five voters 5001. or even 1,0001. each rai the election. Hearing that, whams west named Tucker, who was very ill in bed, at doctor had forbidden to vote, and told him stood. The irk man declared that be we that to have • fist in the fight had made him.. spoke. Witness took Tucker to the polling-hootic and as they passed the Seven Stars several e-- who were there caught a glimpse of Tucker, of biro brought an expression of honor tenoning. The Rev. W. H. James told his the money which Mr. Pander had lent him. consider it a bribe, and believed that he should it back. A destructive fire, causing damage of about 40,0001., broke out on Sunday mill belonging to Mesas. Jas. Marshall at Dialey, near Stockport. Amongst the strayed are 51,000 spindles; and one effect be to throw 250 hands out of employment. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO TEE HO Pnome.—Oß Saturday last, while shooting r 0... Downs near &Deemer, the lion. Arthur Pelham,. son of the Earl of Chichester, met with a WWII mask k which he has lost a portion of his right hand. ' a mini was occasioned in loading, by the charged ham consequence, it is supposed, of the force down a wad in the other, or right-hand i• the loading rod remained, but without ii blown off by the explosion. Mr. Pelham by Mews. Taylor and Furner, of Bright favourably a the wound, and of Mr. 7 state of health up to Monday.—Sasser At THE LATE EARL OP CARLISLE.—At ago a movement was started in Melton for \ permanent memorial of the Earl of Carlisle t the Castle Howard 'skate. The Melton prog sequently merged in that of a county meeting 1 at which Lord Houghton propoosd and carried, of an art memorial--a Corinthian column, • founded on Bulmer near Mahon. of the late earl being par excellence that 4 thropist, many of his frieeds were desirous what they deemed to be a more fitting r benevolent nobleman ; and now that the is obtained for the county pillar the Archbishop those associated with his grace have set s 5001. to erect • Carlisle Chapel at the Castle forinalory School, four miles from Melton. was the president and greatest friend of the. which hitherto has no chapel accommodation. donors have already subscribed one-half quired. THE MEDICAL &Room. —The medical connexion with the great metropolitan hospi' with those of many of the large provincial opened on Monday next, the lit of October. inaugural addresses will be delivered as Coll elge, Sir Wawa Ferguson ; Guy's, Si dent) : Charing-eras, Mr. R. Harwell , on, Dr. Head ; St. George's. Dr. J. W. Of to Professor Ringer, M.D. ; Westminster, R Middlesex, Mr. Hulks ; St. Thomas's, Dr. tholomew's, Mr. Savory ; St. Mary's, Mr. The following are the arrangements ' vincial schools :—Maachester Royal Sabi. . Browne ; Liverpool Royal School, Mr. Sarnul Leeds School of Medicine, Mr. Samuel Hee Queen's College, Birmingham, Mr. David IV School of Me dici ne, Dr. A.veling; Colleen ceatleen-Tyne, in connexion with e ham, Dr. C. J. Gibb. The prizes bs Rev. Canon Whitley, F.R.S. OIUMNATIONS.—At a general ordination in the cathedral church of Norwich, on following persons were admitted Deacons : Ellice Keppel, Associate - don ; Andrew Foster Mentor, 8.A., New Robert Washington, 8.A., Trinity College. The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol hi nation in the cathedral church of Glouectu , last, when the following gentlemen were holy orders. viz.:—Deacons : George Ai Edmund's Hall, Oxford ; Henry Martin Galardi@ and Oaks College, ()unbridle Lawrence 8.A., Magdalen College, dimiseory'from the Bishop of Hereford) k* Mor, B. A. St. Peter's College, Carol George Martin WHeon, BA., Gurrille Cambadge. After the ordination the ' following to muscles, viz. :—Tbe Rev. _ Prestbury ; the Rev. Harry Martin Barnet, Kings ; the Rev. Henry Powell' MogridA Marton. THE LONDON SUNDAY-SCHOOLS • formal presentation of the London Sunk boat, the ' Robert Raikes," to the Nat Whitton will take place this evening Islington. Mr. Alderman It r i tit ; 4 the ehair on ths omai of the Lifeboat on, and InstitutMn, waive' behalf s of the committee, and will deter the lifeboat and its work, illustrated grams. kc. It will be remembered that some the Bishop of Oxford laid the foun4istk.. a "Sisters' none at St. Giles's, Oxford. at once proceeded with, and had reecho when the works were suddenly stos has caused much surprise at Oxford, ass the public has been raised to a considerable rocs reasons having been suggest e d m:r dooent of the reject. It has m,'"d 01 Kiss Hughes, the lady who his men.,l t taring b e building emoted, refuses t° Collage, from whom the ground is laud, ogle enpervisian over it when it shall be oorapt meter is likely to form the subject of legal for a jel The Mayor of Southampton boa In'lltea s oi Goldsborough and the officers of the United no el r • ths lYkli veas i ts lam of timm war to P r;be w r atir shou t t 11 0 baal : gt tki Deb patches were received yeetot u ., lll whet Colonial-Aloe from the Governors of thr lime. Natal, SR Haler., the North Anuri n c 6A ;/ and Bermuda. Despatches were lest to the the settlements on the West Coast of Africa i 1 . 1~~