The Express. — London, England, 1864-08-02 00:00:00

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LONDON. &, where Sillo may be obtained their celebrated United genic* Soap WAAL NICTtRETTI and ZAMBRA'S One Gaines and ro Guinea FIELD GLASSER and TELESCOPE.; an war ranted so ttnrtralled for power and OrtilLney. 9.1 a end l2a. la .ane complete. Halloo -garden, LC. ; 60. Cambia LC.; S; Legeolatreet, W. ; 163. Flearaetreet : and Crying Palace. DEAR DOCTOR, what do you advise? I advise Alfred Mellon's Concerts afterwards to EVANS', COVENT GARDEN , bear some charming singing, order one of their capital chops and magnificent potatoes, and dud is the best advice 1 can give you. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of the Army has reported to the SECRETARY for WAR, as the COM mander-in-Chief of the Volunteer force, his opinion upon the performance of these troops at the Wim bledon Review. The judgment passed on them is satisfactory, and not the less so because extravagance of laudation is avoided. Owing to the critical state of the wounded guardsman who still lies on the field, that part of ordinary reviews which is most showy and least useful, the expenditure of blank car tridge, was avoided, and the General Command ing was able to devote the whole period to an ex amination of the drill and discipline of the respec tive corps. Of these matters his Royal High ness is a competent judge, and the occasion afforded a salutary means of checking the reports which the local inspecting officers have forwarded to head-quarters. Everyone who has attended a Volunteer inspection must have observed that these gentlemen, in their natural desire to give all the encourage ment they can, are apt to use comparative rather than positive terms, and to commend the regiment which they address in somewhat vague generalities, as having a good place among the other unnamed corps of the same service. Posaibly the effect of inspecting Volunteers only may be that • standard of excellence becomes insensibly planted in the inspector's mind a good deal lower than that which he would apply to regular troops. But the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, who sees the Volunteers in • body only once a year, looks at them with the eye of a general who has to oonsider what such forces can do. This is complimentary to them in the best sense. And they will not, therefore, take it ill that he tells them they have still much to learn. They must, he urges, practise still more in the company and battalion move meats, which are the foundation of every more extended formation or manoeuvre. It would seem it is not so much knowledge that they are deficient in, as readiness, quickness, and accuracy. These qualities of expertness can only be gained by dili gent practice, and on practice he therefore insists. It is, however, unfortunate that the Duke of CAMBRIDGE has in this recommendation assumed that it will be understood by the Volunteers in the same sense as it would be understood if addressed to a regular brigade. The implied censure would in that case be telt to fall upon the officers alone, for it would be recognised by all that they were responsible for any slackness in the men. But Volunteer officers claim immunity from such a test, on the ground that they cannot compel their men to work. That, no doubt, is perfectly true. Bat the excuse covers more than the facts warrant. They cannot compel the men to practise ; but, on the other hand, the men have practised more in proportion than most of them have themselves. All that a mere soldier needs to do is quickly and easily learned, and easily retained. When he can march with steadi ness, wheel without jostling, face, and turn to the right, left, and about, and "form fours," he has actually learned everything which is required of him in close order. Eight men in each company must know a little more, as they are the " first " men " of sections, but • single drill will teach it them. Such are the whole duties the privates have to perform, and their extreme simplicity is such that the Volunteer Commission, comprising several officers of the army, recom mended that attendance on 30 drills should be held sufficient to make • recruit an effective, and that 15 drills • year afterwards should be sufficient to keep him so. But the work of the officers and non-commissioned officers is very different. On them devolves the execution of the really compli cated movements. They take np the positions which the ikAdier is to be moved into, and they give the proper words by which he is marched I or wheeled into the positions ordered. So their education only begins where that of the privates ends. But everything that the privates can do depends on the correctuess of what their sergeants and officers must first do. One of these in a wrong place disorders and delays a com pany, a battalion, perhaps a brigade. One of them even doubtful or tardy confuses the men under him, and those whose movements de pend on his. Nor are these duties such as can be lightly learned. In the little red book which forms the whole duty of man with the drill instruc tor the drill of the men occupies but fifty pages, the drill of officers and non-commissioned officers of a regiment occupies 150 more. It is obvious then, at the roughest computation, that the latter should drill three times as much as the privates, if they are to be equally expert with them in their re spective reeks. They might do so, for there is what is called skeleton drill, in which a few men may represent a battalion, and go through all the movements as effectively as if 600 men were on parade. Therefore there is both the need and the possibility of practice among those on whom the efficiency of a corps de pends to an extent commensurate with their higher responsibilities. And therefore, though they can- THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1864. not compel the men to attend, there is no reason why the want of quiclmees and arsooreey at • Volunteer review should not be charged upon the officers and offionni as con- elusively u it would be in a review of a divisioiti of troops of the line. At least they are open II this charge unless they can prove, what we fear few can do, that they have worked at drill to the extent in the rough proportion we have assumed, of at least three times aa much as the men in the ranks. This view of the subject has an application to the second as well as to the first part of the Cox- YANDER-18-CHIEF'B letter. In it he complains of the small attendance at Wimbledon, and suggests that if there were fewer public reviews it might be more easy to obtain the requisite time for attending them. The result of the arrangement, his Royal Highness suggests, might very probably be a larger tarn out on any given day. But it would probably also diminish the aggregate attendance during the year, for it would cut oft from those who oould not attend on the few great days the opportunity of attending on a minor day. Bat the surer means of increasing the numbers of the Volunteers on all occasions is to increase the efficiency of their leaders. They will not come up to be the vile bodies on which inefficient officers make their experiments. They grow sick of repeating the same movements for the sake of driving the correct word and posi tion into the head of some negligent captain or sergeant. And when the habit of absence from drill commences it destroys the spirit, the energy, the pride in the service, the esprit do corps, which are the effectual recruiting sergeants of the Volun teer force. We commend, then, to the Duke of CAMBRIDGE'S appreciation two questions. The first is, whether the troops he handled at Wimbledon would not have seemed made of very different ma terial if they had been officered on the spot by sergeants of the Guards ? The seconds, whether he has not recognised that the Volunteer regiments which turn out on all occasions the strongest are evidently those which are most efficiently officered t A candid reflection on these two ques tions will aid him and the public in coming to a just conclusion as to what can best be done to maintain and increase Volunteer numbers and efficiency. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. fumes rigamwe.) THE PILCH NEGOTIATIONS. 81D11.124, Aims? 2. ♦ telegram received hen from Vines of yester day's date says : "An armistice has been concluded for three months, terminable at six weeks' notice from either party. Tke levy of contributions in Jutland to be suspended. Goods that have been seized but which are still unsold shall be returned. The cession of the Duchies has notby any means been unreservedly decided upon in the preliminaries, but merely laid down in principle." SPAIN. MADRID, Auouerr ?. The ex-Duke of Parma is expected at Valladolid. M. Mon will visit their Majesties at La Granja before the departure of the King for France. I Paris. Here was a regularly drilled oorpe of vaga -1 bonds, who, having deserted the paternal roof, were found existing on plunder and sleeping with , snob bedfellows as rata. The chief of these "free and easy sparrows" was a lad of 9; the other gentlemen of the "troupe" averaged 6 years of age. Having effected a good stroke of business, they went to a public bath, and afterwards in dulged in hot wine, and demanded then stronger stimulants. The suspicions of the master of the baths was aroused ; he gave information, and, as the youths could not amount for the money in their possession, they were taken before a magistrate. For six months this band had been living on what it could steal. Louis Jourdan not only calls on the government to afford greater facilities to the poor to obtain instruction, but desires that instruction should be forced on them. The last imperial speech showed that 600,000 infants remain without even elementary instruction. " Instruction," says the writer, "should be thrown amongst the people as buckets of water are dashed over a burning house. It is more econo mical to make good subjects, honest working men, and peaceable citizens, than to have to repress marauders." lam not aware that any objection would be raised to the good people of Paris esta blishing schools without waiting for the action of a paternal government. The man in the " Vicar of Wakefield" who was always bewailing the state of the census was quietly told that be would do much better to take a wire and have children. The " Franca Moinoaux" had been preceded by another band called the " Swallows of the Bridge of Arcola," who for a long time had roosted under a bridge which M. Heinemann, Prefect of the Seine, can see from his bedroom windows at the Hotel de Ville. MEMORIAL TO THE CRIMEAN MEDICAL OFFICERS AT NETLEY. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of a memcsial cross to those medical officers of the army who lost their lives during the war in the Crimea. The military officers who fell in that campaign are honoured by mornimmits erected in those localities with which they were in their lifetime sssociated by education or by residence, and in London the Guards Memorial sod the Monument to the Westminster Scholars mark, in conspicuous position', the loss which the country sustained in the Russian war. The army medical department, whose exertions were never more called for, and whose aid was never more serviceable than during the earlydimatersof that struggle, in now to have a record of its heroic members whose lives were secrisced in ministering to the ease of others. Upon the high ground in front of the Royal Victoria Hospital at Batley, a conspicuous object by land, and to be seen for miles from the Southampton-water, a cross is to be erected in the style of the early part of the 13th dietary, rising from the foundation, which is circular, and near about six feet above the level of the surrounding ground, to a height of 56 feet. The design is by Mr. T. H. Lewis. The lower part consists of a series of arches forming an octagonal arcade, supported by coupled columns of Derby shire marble. The other parts of the cross will be of Port land stone. Under the arcade there will be tablets marble, stating the object of the memorial and the names of the medical officers who fell in the Crimea. 'Above this will be smaller arcades of similar octagonal form, taperieg up gradually so the large eras which will form the summit. Her Majesty's government have provided the foundation. The cross itself, which will be erected by Messrs. Myers, who built the noble hospital, is the result of the joint sub seriptions of the army medical department, officers of the army, and of many A guard of honour of the 26th Regiment (Cameronians), from Portsmouth, was drawn up to receive the Prince. Amongst the distinguished visitors were Major-General Lord William Paulet, C. 8., and staff, Major-General Lieut.-General Dye*, Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, Colonel Shadwell, Admiral Tinling, Capt. J. B. Dickson, the Mayor of Southampton. G. S. Brinton, Esq. ; the late mayor, Alderman F. Perkin; Colonel Wilbraham, C. 8., Commandant of the Hospital ; Major Phillips Ravenhill, ; Dr. A. Anderson, Inspector-General of Hospitals ; Dr. J. B. Gibson, Director•Geeeral of the Army Medical Department ; Dr. Graham Balfour, F.B.S. ; and Surgeon- Major Wyatt, Coldstream Guards. The raised mound on which the cross is to be erected was surrounded by a species of evergreen pavilion, of scaffold poles twined with laurels and flowers. In the centre was a pole the height of the intended cross, on the top of which the crest of the Prince, in gilt, wee displayed. The ceremony was announced to take place at half-past 12 o'clock, and a few minutes before that time, the royal yacht Fairy steamed rapidly up Southampton-water, and rounded to off the pier belonging to the hospital. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Louis of Hesse and Gramm' Keollys, disembarked in the Fair's gig, and was received on landing by Lord William Pettlet, Camel Wilbraham, and the remainder of the offirers present, the guard presenting arms, and the bead play ing "God save the Qtteeo." Proceeding to the main ou tran*, of the hospital, a procession was formed of the candi dates for medical appointments who are studying at the hos. pital, the medical officers of the eatablishmeet, the nurses and the lad► superintendent (Min Steward), the chaplain (the Rev. Mr. Rollands), and the body of officers of both ea viola who were present, the Mayor of Southampton, and the other officers of the corporation who ware present. On reaching the foundation-stone the guard of honour ai sin presented arms, and their band played the Natit nal Anthem. Dr. J. B. GIBSON, the chairman of the memorial m antle°, then read the address to the Prince of Wales. His ROYAL HIGHNLS. said—lt gi►es me great pleasure to repaid to your request to inaugurate this well-deserved tribute to the memory of those medical officers who lost their lives in the performance of their onerous and impor tant duties io her Majesty' service through the war in the Crimes. It IN also particularly agreeable to me to assist in the lot:iodation of your memorial sear this building, connected as it is with this =gni& cent hospital, in the mastics of which my beloved and lamented father took so deep an interest, and in the maintenance of which the Queen also feels a like interest. The site chosen seems to be peculiarly appropriate, as, although the main object of the establishment of this BOIL, hospital was for the sick and wounded of the army return ing from the colonies, there is connected lei% it a pert. ct medical school for the special instruction of young medical officers who are to have the future care of our army in all climates and in all parts of the world wherein our troops may be called upon to serve. The names of those medical officers inscribed on the memorial will be inseparably con nected with our great Military Hospital and Army Medical School. The Prince signed • parchment copy of the address, which, together with copies of newspapers and the current coins of the realm, was deposited in • bottle and placed in the cavity of the lower stone that bad been prepared for the purpose. The Prince, tekiog • silver trowel from the h►nds of the architect, spread the mortar in a business-like manner, and the stooe wee lowered into its place. The band played the National Anthem. The architect, Mr. T. Hayti,' Lewis, presented the Prime with • photograph copy of a drawing of the memorial CMS. Ilia royal higher/is then accompanied Colonel Wilbraham to the staff-officeremeas room. and partook of luncheon. Although it was sot positively made known until yester day morning that the Prince of Wales bad consented to perform the ceremony. a great number of persons hod col- lected about the hospital grounds loog before the hour at which the event took pleas, sad the top of the hill which the building surmounts was crowded with vehicles of every description. His royal highness was escorted by the medical officers to the Fairy's gig shortly before three o'clock, sod left the 'bore amidst enthusiastic cheers renewed again and again until the royal yacht was fairly as her way steaming for Osborne. ACCIDLNTR tH Musa.—ln the year 1863 there were 907 deaths mend by snidest@ is and about the coal mime of Great Britain, 228 less thee is the year 1862. 163 of the deaths were caused by explosions of firedamp, 407 by falls in mines, 147 by so sob is shafts, 134 by miscel llamas noderground socideuta. sod 66 by &oddest. at the surface. There were also in 1863 91 deaths mused by sad dest. in sod about the inspected irmarteme mime of Great Britain, 14 leis than in 1862 ; nim of Mese we,. from ex plosions of Are damp, 39 from falls is mines, 27 from ami d/ate is shafts, 9 from miscellaseom widest. undergroued, and 7 from accidents on the surface. In Routh Wales me life was loft to 4.07 45.390 tons of coals raised, and that W bees about the average of the last sight years ; in Boot Os astir ire so low as al per 1,000,000 toms nad. Inc Conn. OSBORNE, Aceust 1. The Queen and Princess Louise attended evening service at Whippinghson Church yesterday. The Dean of Westminster preached the sermon. The Prince and Prinoms of Wales attended the morning service. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chanoellor, Earl Granville, Earl Russell, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-aloe from the Govereons of the North American Province*, Ber muda, and St. Hakes. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Wert India Weeds sad British Columbia. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador left Carlton-house-Serener cm Saturday for St. Leonard; near Hastings. The Countess Berastotff left town yesterday to join his excellency. life excellency will in a few days leers St. Leonard& for Germany. The Marquis and Marchioness of Northampton left town oa Saturday for Great Malvern foe a few weeks. The Marquis of Aragon has left Catakii's Hotel, Doveratrest, far Purls. The Earl and Countess of Dartmouth and family left town on Saturday Let for Sandwell Park, near Birming ham. The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, the Earl of Glasgow, and Mr., Mrs., and Miu O'Neill haws left the St. George's HoteL The Earl and Countess of Warwick have left Far man's Hotel for their town residence in Stable-yard, St. James's. The Earl of Puwis leaves town to-day for Powis Cush), Wales. The Countess (Dowager) of Dunmore and Lady A. Murray left Oarltoe-houns-terrace yesterday for Dun more Park, fitirliagshin, for the semon. Lord Broughton will leave Berkeleysquare to day for Totworth. Lord and Lady Foley left town yesterday on a visit to the Duchess of Norfolk at Armada! Culls, Sussex, and will leave to-day oo a tour of visits. The Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison Iwo town to-day for Bootaemonth for a few weeks. Lady Mary Vyner left town on Saturday last for Newby Hall, war Ripon, for the neanon. The Dean of Worcester left Roehampton yester day for the Deeziery, Worcester. Colonel and Messrs. Learmonth have left town for Sootlord. The marriage of Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. Crichton-Stuart, M.P., eldest son sad heir of the late Lord Jams Stuart.. with Miss Gertrude Seymour, second daughter of Sir HuaiHoe and the Hoe. Lady Seymour, was solemnised at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, on Thursday Wt. The ceremony woe attended by a numerous party of the relatives and friends of both families, amongst whom we noticed his GlllOO the Archbishop of Csaterbury, the Marquis of Bute, the Marquis Toirsehend, the Coun ties Gleiclaeo, the Earl of Harrowby, Visooont and Lady Mary Session, the Earl and Countess of Dueie, the Earl and Counter of Morley and Lady Katherina Parkes, the Furl of St. Germans, Sc. The Right Hon. Lord Palmerston honoured the London Stereoscopic Company this day with sittings for a series of carte de Melte portraits. Tue Dree or NewcasrLe.—The announcement of the relapse of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle has caused widespread grief not only in Nottinghamshire but throughout the midland counties generally. The 10th was the date fixed for his graces departure from London ter his seat, Clumber-park, Notts, but the visit is now indefi nitely postponed. As erroneous statements are in circu lation respecting his grace's malady we may state that it i is simply gout, and that the &Hanka, though fugitive, are frequent, and exceedingly painful during their continuance. —Nottingham Daily Guardian. PRINENTATION OF A BIBLE TO THE PRINCEBB OF WALLS.—Among the many pleasing tokens of loyalty and affection pressoted to the Prioress of Wales was a Bible subscribed for by the women of the United Kingdom. A deputation consistineof Lady Wriothealey Russell, Lady Itadstock, the Hon. Mrs. Lefroy, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur } Kinnaird, the Hoe. Mrs. Warburton, the Hoe. Mrs. Locke King, Lady Peto, Ledy Havelock, kc., waited upon her royal highness at Marlborough-borne, on Tuesday, the 12th of Jely, with a copy of Bageter's Paragraph Bil-le, in six volumes, bound in white moreono. Os the sides, embossed in gold, are the cypher and coronet - and in the corners the Tudor rose. The edges of the 'leaves are most beautifully illominated by James West, each volume bearing in the centre the Dumpish Clues, and in scribed on scrolls a blessing from our Lord's Bermes on the Mount. The first volume has an illniniaated dedi cation page. The casket to contain the volumes is of carved ebony, designed by G. R. Clark ; in the panels are so , mailed medallions bearing the cross, an initial A. and corooet, supported by richly carved and tastefully groe pad flowers. The production of the whole was entrusted to Messrs. Samuel Bs ter and Sone, the publishers. of Pater noster-row. The Princess in acknowledging the gift said: I accept with sincere gratification this offering which you make to me in behalf of the women of the United King dom. lam deeply sensible of the motives which have actuated you in promeoting me with this copy of the sacred volume, which I, is the fullest sympathy with yourselves, most highly prize. I offer you my heartfelt thanks for this valuable gift, and also for your kind niches." RZPRIBENTATION or Irßwfi•H.—Mr. J. Kelk, of Bentley Priory, Staamore, Middlesex, has commented to contest Ipswich, in the cooserrative interest, at the resning ' general electicio, in reejinictims with Mr. J. C. Cobbold, M.P.. sad in opposition to Mr. H. E. Adair, M.P. (liberal). Mr. Kelk's name is known in conoection with the Inter- I national Exhibition bundle( of 1862, for which he was joint matter:kr with Mesas. Luso Brother., THE SUEZ CANAL. PARIS. AuoulT 1. The decision of the Emperor with reference to the Suez Canal has been published. The total in demnity to be allowed to the company for surren dering the stipulations of the 20th July, 1856, and for relinquishing certain territories, is fixed at 54 millions of franc.. IMPRESS FROM PARIS. (rzox on ows PARIS. MOYDAT EVLYING. The principal interest of the moment is of course attached to such negotiations as are likely to be carried on during the few days' respite given to Denmark. The political needle vibrates between Copenhagen and Vienna, for all minor questions may be said to depend on the greater question— peaoe or war. The daring acts of Prussia, and the manner in which that power is trying to humiliate at the same time Austria and the Diet, draw down on King William and his minister whole newspaper columns thickly studded with invective. The great legitimist sheet is specially sarcastic in its remarks. When the reconstruction of the holy alliance was mooted, that paper, in an able article, showed that an intimate union between Russia, Prussia, and Austria was at the least an improbability. The three powers might, without any great difficulty, seize on weaker provinces, but they would be sure to fall out over a division of the spoil. The im pression here is that the gulf between Berlin and Vienna gapes wider each day, and that when the question of the duchies shall be definitively settled there will be hot dispute between the two rival German houses. However, a Nuremberg journal whose lucubrations h.sve found certain favour here writes, in connexion with the Reads berg affair, that the appetite increases with eating ; that when the Duchies have been properly digested Prussia will snap at Hanover, and Austria at Bava ria and the fine country which stretches along the Rhine. These ambitious dreams are described as having been in the brain of M. de Rechberg, not that of M. de Bismark. The Nuremberg writer sees Austria getting a firmer grip of Venice, and even recovering Lombardy with the assistance of Prussian troops. It is clear that many of the small powers imagine Prussia and Austria quite agreed as to what course is to be ultimately pursued. A Vienna journalist, and an ardent advocate of a united Germany, was thus congratulated the other ' day—" You have long demanded that Germany should be ruled from Vienna.. Well, since the arrival of M. de Bismark your wishes have been realised." The Prase is modest this evening, and will not state for certain, but only affirm the possibility of, the creation of a Scandinavian kingdom, Denmark amalgamating with Sweden and Norway. Amal gamation, either forced or voluntary, is the order of the day. The Moniteur du Soir publishes a letter from the Emperor, on the subject of the new Opera and the new Hotel Dieu. The first building was commenced some time ago, and his Majesty, writing from Vichy, and under the influence of its beneficial waters, directs that both constructions shall be finished at the s►me time. Sickness is not to be sacrificed to song. The reception given to the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico, the future prospects of that country, and the approaching withdrawal of the French forces, form topics for comment to several papers, who are glad to see what they hope may be the end of that unpopular expedition. The Merwsoried Diplomatique contains some inte resting statistics concerning Italy. The first gene ral census of that kingdom has just been taken, and the following figures elicited. The population of Italy amounts to 21,777,334 souls, and thus, if judged according to the number of its inhabitants, it is the fifth European power ; superior to Spain, whose territory is twice as large as bees, and to Prussia, whose territory is of about the same ex tent. It is in Sardinia and the south that the population is the thickest, and in Emilia and the Marches that it is the most scattered. On an average there are in Italy 84 inhabitants per square mile—a figure superior to that of France and Prussia, but inferior to that of England, of Hol land, and of Belgium. Lombardy and Sicily are the two provinces whill in point of population have of late made the most rapid increase. Sar dinia and the Neapolitan provinces come next. In Piedmont the progress, owing to the wars of 1849 and 1859, has been slower. The possibility of establishing a military club in Paris has received a solution, and already a spot has been fixed upon for the building. It has been calculated that each year, since certain facilities hare been afforded to officers wishing to visit the capital, 6,000 members of the service, between the grades of sub-lieutenant and general of division, arrive here to pass the whole or a portion of their furloughs. The French officer is seldom a man of fortune, and his pay obliges him to observe the strictest economy ; a club would enable him to enjoy many luxuries at present quite beyond his reach. A semi-official journal remarks that the French army, or at least a part of it. has borrowed the "mess" from England, and as military clubs answer in London there is no reason one should not succ,ed here. In many parts of Africa there are clubs, notably at Letif and Batna, in the province of Constantine, and when camps were established in the north round Boulogne in 1854 and 1856, several military clubs were formed without any injury befog done to discipline. With a standing army of 500,000 men, it will be curious should the Paris club not prove a success. Two things, however, will militate against it. The French officer may be said to be always on duty, and the French half-pay is but a miserable pittance. Louis Jourdan, in the Siick, turns his attention to juvenile crime in this city. About a week ago a band of young thieves, denominated "Francs Moineaux," fell into the clutches of the authori ties, and revealed a state of society which could never have been supposed to exist in imperial THE ODD FELLOW" PETE AT THE CRYSTAL =F2; i s-im-y7)- There are two apsoial days in the month of August even year wine the _people hold high festival at Octal Palace. Thine ietriflttet days are thole an ebieh the Odd Irelleime (lhoeheeter Unity) and the Tweeters' fetes take Owe, as each of which an imams, esecoures of visitors throat the palace sod grounds, the oundisr co the Foresters' day generally being over 70.000, and the Odd Fellows' day stout 50,000. Them annual de zneastrations of the two groat handl societies of the work ing -clams are made on behalf the widow and orphan funds connected with the respective orders, and usually omit is adding from 1,0001. to 1,5001. to their fonds clear of all expenses. This is of wane an important addition to the i 0031210 of these toads, and far several yams past has enabled the committees to extend the nap of their benefits. To-da formed no exception to preesdnig ocoinloas, either an numbers or the spirit with which the fete was carried out. From an early hour the stations at Loudon bridge, Victoria, Black[ and the Elephant and Castle were besieged by crowds of Odd Fellows and their families anxious to arrive early at the scene of festivity and have a long day out. Large numbers also went by the road; in rum and omnibuses, gaily decorated with flags, cod worn pealed by the irresistible '• compeer& player," who ever mid anon saluted the ears of thepasseage? and pedestrians with his eliminate efforts to nag out Cod bless the Print* of Wales. - 13;12 o'clock upwards of 20,000 persons had entered the palace, and the trains both from London and the country kept arriving in rapid succession, every carriage filled to overflowing. At 1 o'clock the great bulk of the brethren having by that time arrived, a grand procession was formed on the upper terrace, and proceeded round the full extent of the pounds ; presenting a very picturesque and pleasing appointees, several thou mad members taking' part in it, dreamed in the full regalia of the order. The bands of the London Irish Rifles, the 25th Kest Volunteers, and several other bands accompanied the on. This portion of the programme of the day having been concluded, the visitors generally betook themselves to the refreshment rooms to fortify themselves for going through the extensive amuse meats that were to follow. Amongst these was a grand concert, in which Madame Parepa, Miss Poole, Mr. Mouton Smith. Mr. L. Thomas, Mr. J. L. Hatton, and the Orpheus Glee Union, were to take part, a mod assault of arms by some eminent prof neon, dancing on the lawn, and all the rartons boating and gymnastic recreations attached to the palace. At the time our report left visitors were rapidly pouring into the palaos, and the day promised to be one of the most suoceedul yet held by the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TVISDAY, AOOBBB 2, 8 8.11. B. i T. THE DESTRUCTIVE FIRS AT PADDINGTON. APPREHENSION AND EXAMINATION OF THE SIII.PO3ED INCENDIARY.-(THIS DAY.) . _ • This morning, at Marylebone Police Court, James Bothell, an elderly man, a labourer, was brought up la the custody of Inspector Egerton, of the D divition, and placed in the dock before Mr. Yardley, charged on su s . pillion of having sot fire to the Arnim Saw•mills, at Pad diara. Herapsou, solicitor, of Connaught-terrace, ap. peered to prosecute ; and Mr. W. Swanton appeared to watch the case on behalf of the Fire Brigade. Mr. William Hyde, who was greatly affected at his Ices, said—l wee proprietor of what once were the Artesian Saw Mille, in Talbot-road, Paddington. They had been on are last Tuesday and Wednesday, but the fire was then put out. On the ard amain the floe was in the hay-loft, on the snood it was is the body of the TRW, on the floor. Afterwards I bad a fireman kept to watch the premises night sod day. He was discharged on Saturday last, at ball-past 8 o'clock, at half-past 12 I won round the mill and premise and found all safe and no sign s of fire. I secured the premises. No porno but the prisoner had wens to them after that time. He is one of my carmen, and it wee his duty to be at the mills by half. past bin the morning to look after the horses. lie had a latch-key to let himself in with. On Sunday morning I was awake between 6 sod 7, sod got up and examined the place, and then found that it was safe. After this I got into bed again, and dosed off. About half an hour after that my children awoke, and they disturbed me. I sent my boy to tall the unapt to get up. 1 thee had another slumber, after which I heard the servant laying out the brenlif.ist things. My wife thee got up, and in about ten minutes after the servant came running io, and said, "Oh ! master, the pleas is on fire." I jumped up, and on looking out towards the mills, saw smoke lamina from two chim neys in C 011011.11012 with the moulding loft. I said to my wife, " Mother, it is all over now—we are done for !" I went dominant to enure my ticket-book, which was on a desk in the body of the mill, but I could not get now it, as the place was in flame'. I bad to cross a yard to get to the mill, but the yard is covered in. There was also a separate fire in the roof of the moulding loft, which was just Wet 'Doming out by the gutter plate. There were tbeu two distinct fires in the mill—ooe in the roof and the other in the body of the mill. The fire in the body of the mill was amongst the shavings. Tbe stable door is about 12 feet before you come to the desk where the book wee. I had to pass the stable-door to get to the book. Cates enclose my house as well u the mill and stables. The shavings were burning when I got to the mill, and I should say that they had not been on fire more than five minutes. They are so light that they are more like feathers than shavings. There was no connexion with the fire below and that in the roof. Finding that 1 could not get the horns out of the stable-door through the flame and smoke, I took some iron crowbars, and with my friends went to the back of the stables in a field with a view to pull down the wall to liberate the five bones. I got up sod looked through the airhole. and I found the hayloft in one mass of flames, sal I believe the horses were dead then. I said, "It is all Douse." (Witoeas was here so oversews that several minutes elapsed before he could continue his evidence.) lam 'Unified that my place was on lire in three places. I saw one on the ground, one in the hayloft, and one in the loft of the mill. One of the fires last week was in the hayloft. I heard the enamor come in on Sunday morning with the latch key. The prisoner has been in my service for six weeks. Have had no differenne with my workmen. Shortly after the primmer had been in my employ he took a holiday to go and receive his pen. don. On the following Saturday night I did not leave him his guinea but left him a day's pay short. When I got home my ;rife said he complained abut it, and I said he ought not, es he had left my hones standing still. On Son. day he spoke to me, and I said be ought to make armee routs about his pension. The prisoner appeared sullen for some time after, sod but week thinking that he had come roiled, and in order to smooth away all differences. I told him to take my horse and the four. wheeler, and take his family to Hampton-court, which be did. I employ six moo sod one boy, and they have been with me going on for 12 years. I an, only insured to one-third the amount. The hors, wen sot insured, Prisoner—l °sly said when mistress brought me • day's pay short that I Mal think master would stop it. Anne Cooper, the servant girl. deposed to being called by her master's son, after which she went into the mill to fetch coals and wood to light the kitchen Sr.. She saw the pristher there then and the place was all safe. When ■he wont down the first time the primmer said to her, " There is not a drop of water." She said, "There is a tab fall," and he said, " There are five horses and they take • pailful each." He also said if there was to be a fire there what • flare ay there would be, and not • drop of water. Shortly after this she heard • cracking noise, and discovered the place on fire. The prisoner had than left. Samuel Emptiest, inspector, D divis.oa, said—The prisoner was removing some baulks of Umber from the rains when I said I should take him on suspicion of setting fire to his master's mills. He said he would go with me anywhere, that be was isnoesut, and did not set them oo fire. He said, " I arrived at my work a little attar 7on Sunday morning, and let myself in with the latelt key, and found no water in the tap. I maw the girl come down and told ber so, and she said, ' There is plenty for yon.' She then tame in for some coals. and I left and went home. I was reading the newspaper when I was told that the mill was on tire. I went out and saw the pleas io &now" He was thee taken to the station house. After I cautioned him he said, "On last Tue . sti evening, little before 8, 1 was in the mill with a mate n Evans. We were in the lofts after cutting chaff ; we left together, and went into a publichouss and had a pot of beer. Whilst drinking of it we were told the premises ware on firs. I went back and sedated to put it out, and got my hones out. Oo Wedeeeday I was in the stable between 8 and 9 doing my own work, and Triodle and Evans wore in the mill. We all left together. I believe I left first. I am innooent of setting fire to the place?' That is all the evidence that I am prepared with at precool Mr. Yardley—Yon want a remand. Inspector Egerton- Yes, sir. Mr. Yardley—The prisoner is remanded till this day week, and It would be as well if we had a plan of the premises here upon the next eansion. ANOTHER FATAL BATHING ACCIDENT IN VICTORIA PARK. CORONER'S INQUEST.-SPECIAL VERDICT. Last evening Mr. James George Richards, the deputy•coroaer for Middlesex, held an inquiry respeetiog the death of Mr. Henry Hera, aged 30 years, who lost his life by drowniag on Saturday last. The prides°m went to prove that the deceased was bathing in the ornamental water of Victoria-park, at 5 when there were about 500 persons present. The d was io about 6 feet of water, nod was men to be "[testis;' on his hack. Owe of his compasimus was close to him when deceased suddenly began strugghag and calling for help, but before assistance could be rendered be dis appeared. There was a boat, which was private pro,mrty, close by, bat the sculls had been taken away. James Began, the assistant ',trimming-master, aid another pmroo dived alter the deemed several times, when they brought him to the surface of the water, but he had been immersed about ten minutes. Dr. Brentoe, of Old Ford road, was celled, bat all efforts to restore animation were melees. Jams Reps laid that the demand had beep suffering from • swollen throat, and bad complained of the water getting into his throat, which might hare produced suffeca tioe and caused deceased to sisik. He bad restored bodies after being in the water seven or eight minutes. Witness was of °pinkie that the life of the deceased might bare been saved if a boat wadi constantly kept in readiness with Molds always at bead. Dr. Bruceton said that as the deceased gamed from • dimmed throat, the results of submersion would be more rapid on a porno° in such • condition. Accident. were constantly occurring at this season of the year. The Deputy Coroner remarked on themes, when The jury retuned the following special verdict :—" That the deceased died from drowning while bathing 'u ic loria.park, and they (the jury) earnestly request the deputy coroner to write to her Majesty's Commissioners calling their attention to the urgent seasmity of keeping • boat with proper apparatus in readiness." SZILIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE BEINTOL AND EXAM RAILWAT.—The express train which left Inks at belt. pest five ow Saturday leveeing ran off the nth at the Cowley bridge junction of the North Devoe with the Bristol sad Exeter Railway, which is about • rail* north of the Exeter Stains. The train had attained • speed of 30 miles as hoar. wits* the euxine suddenly left the rails,and instead edoontinn- Mg towards Bristol made far the North Devon route. At this junction the North Devon lies crosses the River En, ' sad it appeared as if the miens wee rushing towards the river, but cm coming in sonnet with the iron parapet of the bridge it was kept on the line, grazing the parapet the whole length of the bridge, and was kept from falling ism the river. At the mad of the bridge the front Imam of the engine, which is plated with iron bailee inch thick, come is contact with the framework, arid a piece of the iron beam at the corner about six 'ocher square was out out as clean as if it had pared under a punching machine. By this blow the engine appears to have beau turned mod aed stopped at right Anglia with the railway. The Ent and third cannon; of the train gut off the rails, and is creasing the bridge the wheels broke through the plankieg. and were dragged over the iron transoms with aan which created - din appreheronons in the minds of the pemeogers. The policeman in charge of the signals at the earth end of the bridge, cm seeing the train wandering so impetuously on the wrong line, was doubtful when it was coming, and to ensure hie owe asfety he rushed across the river, nod did not feel safe mail he was oe the opposite side of the water. After An boor's delay • train arrived from Exeter to take op the passenger*. oone of when were in- Deed, beyond the fright wbieh they sustained. The North Dvoe line was blocked npfor several boars. The same MOM/ No. 4, got off the line at the ease place three years ago, whew Mr. Mean, the station master at Exeter, wbo was riling es the engine, had • narrow snipe, as the engine tamed over es that accasioo, ad Mr. Year was fixed under it.—Western Morning News. Nails um' sal w.w.w. &birdies — 1 19.93'69 W. Leith 129.9E14 11 W. Ardroeme KM lie N.N.W. Oreeiteartie 10.12 66 W.N.W. Galway 10.26 61 W. VsMoils N.W. Caps Chat 30.27 60 W. Q• 114011401111 30.14 el 64 W.N.V. Liverpool 30.13 W. ileiyhea4 80.13 W.N.W. Pembroke— 'KM 67 N.N.W. Poesium• 4026 09 N.N.W. L'Orleat 30.20 69 N. Zoobefort 30.74 93 N. Plymouth 10.16 00 W.N.W. Weymouth IX 24 901 N.W. Potmsoath 30.18 67 N. Lemke '10.14 49' N.W. Dover 10.1410 N.N.W. rased —10.06 M W.N.W. leertiorough. 29.99 69, N.W. Melds SO. 0: 58 N.W. H• 4 40 1444 29.88 50 W.9.W. /1.. 1 & ‘,31- ac — 2 l l cb I re 0.1 c— e c c F 0.00 ~'- I2OIIABII WIDNISDAT. at Naarm INI7WIDAY. W. to N., moderate to 001RIL N. to W., moderate to freak generally lee. shwas, some showers In Blame. As above. WI/MC As above. W. to N. and to N.E., 80t7THWIll. N.N.E. to WN. W., In places moderate fresh, floe generally. to fresh, generally floe. As nest above. Thgena. As nest above. Northern=Bootland. Warawn=lreland, Wale., and ad laceoclea Southern= hagfish Chanel and Nay of &way. Eastern =Eastward Ingtsnd and North Bea Govtit. , 43tzwr AnNurnss.-1n the act passed on the 14th ult., to grant additional facilities for the purchase of small government annuities. and for =siring payments of money cm death, it is recited that in the act 16th and 17th of Victoria, esp. 45, del erred annuities of small amounts can only ns granted upon the =edition that the full amount required to purchase such annuities be paid in one sum or by annual payments during • course of years fixed at the time of purc ha se. It also recites that under the same act *Detracts for payment of a sum of money on death can not be entered into except on the 000dition that the patty cootrecting for such payment on death at the time purchase • deferred annuity on his life. The law is now altered. and it is enacted that deferred annuities may be granted on the condition to be fixed at the time of par chme, and that the sum required to purchase the annuity be payable in 'mailer instalments and at shorter Norio& than before. By the former act 30/. was the limit of the annuities, but they may now extend to 501. The section re. quilling a deferred annuity to be purchased of the National Debt Commissioners is now repealed in pert. No contract fora payment on death is to be entered into by or op be half of any person under the age of 16 or over 60. Fresh tables are to be constructed, and until the tables made in pursuance of this act can be legally acted on it is not to come into force so far ea to enable any grant to be made of an insurance or any grant of an annuity the consideration money for which is paid by instal meets more frequent than mould instalments. By this act it is provided that on • life policy, after the payments of the premiums for five years, a person on surrendering the same is not to receive lees than one-third of the payments made, or may have granted to him a paid-up polity es such an immediate or deferred life annuity. Jurisdiction is given to the county courts on the Commiasioesra of the National Debt refusing payment. Contracts may be assigned. The National Debt Commissioners are to regu late the payments by instalments, and they are at no time to be less in amount than le. The Postmaster-Cenral, with the oonseet of the Treasury, may authorise his ofdcer; to receive money nodes this act, and regulations may be made by the Post-odios to carry out the provisions. The accounts under this act are to be submitted to the Public Audit Commissioners. REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL4. —Mr. Sydney Turner's seventh anneal report states that at the clogs of the year 1863 there were in the 64 reformatories io Great Britain, nominally, 3,677 boys and 1,400 girls ; but in fact 227 boys and 36 girls were out on license, 9 boys and 4 girls were in promo, and 85 boys and 14 girls had absconded end were not yet recovered, leaving actually in the schools 3,356 boys and 946 girls, of whom 618 boys and 263 girls were in catholic reformatories. The total is not very much larger than in 1862, and there appeals no reason to appre head any material addition to the charges which the re formatory 'school system entails. The ads:dodoes in the year fell from 1,338 in 1862 to 1,209 in 1863, • diminution attributable chiefly to increased canticle and more careful inquiry into the circomstsnose of each owe ou the pieta the committing magistrates. There are no ..T he any serious mowers I. the amount of juvenile aims. committals of juvenile °Reedere diminished in Soatland in the year 1863, and in England increased only at about the same rata as the increase of population, and at less than half the rate of increase of 'dolt eomiuittals. With regard le the sue. oer of reformatory schools Mr. Turner is able to report, in relation to England, that of the 1,423 protestant boys dis charged in the three years 1860-62, 916 sae known to be doing well, 114 are of doubtful or indifferent character, 181 have been convicted of crime, 33 have died, the remain ing 179 are unknown, and probably half of them may be added to the number convicted, making that number 270, or one in every five discharged and still alive. Of the catholic boys • much larger proportion are unknown ' • the re-oonvictioos, on the same calculation as above, most have been above 38 per met. THE WOUNDED UARDOM AN. --ThOIDES Cooper, the Guardsmen, who was wounded while acting as • marker at Wimbledon, still remains in • precarious date. He is visited daily by Surgeon-))ajar Wyatt, who still entertains sanguine hopes of his recovery, provided his eocistitutional powers are suffictieat to bear up against what is still to be expected. me cue has beet compli cated somewhat by the bullet slipping beck into the cavity of the chest, from the intercostal space where it was sup. posed by the volunteer surgeons, at the time of the acci dent, to be firmly impacted. ACCIDENT ON THE CORNWALL RAILWAY.—AD accident occurred on Saturday Dimming epos the Cornwall Railway, which narrowly escaped leading to very serious results. The 4.45 a.m. trait from Falmouth was ruining from Lastwithiel to Par, when the massive iron eaaneeting rod between two of the engine wheels suddenly broke. The earth was thrown up by the loose ends of the rod, and there was great risk Viet the engine would be forced off the line or overturned. Several persons jumped out of the carriages, but no one was injured. Retaliated, the tilde was earn brought to • stead, the broken portions of the rod were unscrewed, and the train was enabled to proceed to the next station. The alarm caused by the accident was much increased by the fact that the train could not be stopped until the engine sad one or two carriages were upon one of the high viaducts with which the line abounds. A woman would have flung herself over the viaduct in her bliod endeavour to spnag from the train had not the guard caught bold of her as she leaped from the carriage end , forced her back. The train was delayed for about • quarter of au hour.— Waters Morning Neva. STAMP Dorms —Under the new act (27 and 28 Vio., e. 56), probate and letters of administration are exempted from stamp duty whore the effects do sot exceed I 1001. is value. An act has also been printed to amend en act of the late session en stamp duties. No letter or power of attorney for the sale, ko., of 'wormiest steak is to be chargeable with • further stamp duty, by reason of it cos- Waling an authority for the receipt of dividends. In order to remove doubts it is declared that so letters or writings to pay the interests or dividends on steak to • nominee are to be eimuyeible with stamp duty as a power et attorney. W.N.W. W.A.W. As• ro" melba • qui ...thros. re to ins a w :11 1. : 6.8 tl:is `W ira . band • B ah.dirsiC miffor is wki priever hod w g is verb. her Too hay' erSid4 to do you hay will tors to jogs Tuns sod . Ns VW " turr B b t pooorsod ; D om Mot WI s od Ton are luTPizaw• " Nom al Props tw r•P•••liew hive bosisou " You will savior win or. 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William P door bat on the last wits upstairs a When the presented its was silting i hail not etre When the e said, "Dot lb not take wee &seas was very a I PTimi drunk, bin beastlydram wu saw a cho were marks dry. I sew The pries Polies-cot gi•ea corral Mr. D'Ey the stets th Witness— roman had Polioaeot atchet t►e wish I hai The prise ILARMII BRIDI :.,.. An nozi railway bri hill, by whi instance it resale that a mom to boar 5 ring the ell up to I sodden jerk girder, wei having rear the time enacted i the bill, three of th Lo . was so uoPoock the momiD !the trade] Tax I week of . 1 sneh as is f a very as falls. I ..t . - ;;;;i1 o the weal bled in • 'Mnnut, 13a • $ll /PM suns `ruin, ta d lo the long sill bring Iron' cliff int . Pretty d good Partie f the or, ee4 - , Flt the 11120. m. , eft. as , t k and if Um RO right. early.--841 o e D - orler eland The mot gate the c early, ca Lie shock meat; lee rapt of ni lave been )132e Bxin le want