The Express. — London, England, 1858-10-08 00:00:00

VaHI DAILY NEWS: LONDON KORNING u:r.. r tra= " l7r.:4:27Attima. a m of IMO OSUMI Mi 'MO of No Noma um-ft as of 110 lA. mom oaf la Or NMI Noloollo Nod moNiaol NI dr offs.fillysLANINNLOW awn m. lw TripoitlON SIMI (0 .1 W: AND VIR A . orom.do ...47 Moor' a No Obi Indio Olos a r lA jlOL U.Sroc oorl Is I. " ""1.6 a ONLY DAILY 111111141 UMW " %ram ALL NM AMIN "IMI C L opoo Imo it b Ml* Vildialicilalr.ol trw ow arneAret "Ne im aiira. • =sir sod mot lad NIL= ow Vro of NON of aloomom la Um liolfsa; of r.bo ollok le. ILL LI lio isAlololoo NOOO Or olooNB pool ol a memo odook Or p hoololi Nis mom ai ems NM" mob= iILT o.M.r.a/t. ilia IS 411•11••• by Powilloordor. ebe exarefio. Advertimodate . tilsiled 67 ' 11: Ty Itsprer," Landes =resins piper, Emit be as the Offlok 1 1 ,1 Boaverie-sirest, by Two c.'taa d•y .740U:sail is. DRCII44)IA. Tom warm. ?MI 10‘11 OP CLILIFTW.II4j . emre. W. giniKla. OhPM AA. Emmy. mid L sad M. Pp.. ZOaskosr. Wifts•—•=l l% l2Wll./11 D MIMS. Mao. . liked* Ydrierag.ard Prnaile.—Our. i 0..1g hsig."47. This ZUNTI/0. TRIO : M CI, R iAlla i. How <ark isa C S:= ll3. lits,l= o irandiSseil Pegeltis.- .pan g. Bier. -TIM 11111 ANT MILT Ilia —Oarsman YT. Tv. tvartee,DTlNO P PO I T I T 811. OF VONIOM.- Woman elif. Vik-1Y _RCM 11 M. 7 1111 110101. aa•ra . Om& Wary Toeing% ftegl. sal hos Rase 114 U l istVe• loa i.ars • g yas RIND= The Srr familik-Oeurress T. KIM WATIA • r LONDON =IDOL VaZzt al IL 10 L Ilamkft, . 16. LONDON. IMIDAT, OCT. 8. SPORTIN 0 INTMLIORNCR. ♦ SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS," containing the rot tilts of the day's Resin is pub lished ',pry eseni, ig during the Sporting Season, .t viz o'eleek. Tin last Ben mi of the Encumbered Estates Cart is rapidly &mil( to a close. On the lit November hest its place in the Judicial system will be taken by the Leaded Estates Court—a tribunal whose reaction itaill be to net in the proprietors of all estates, whether eacumbered or not, those (militia of transfer which the Court now about to expire con ferred on the owoess of property which was at once too strictly tied up in the fetters of entail to be the sa►ject of conveyance, and too hopelessly bir dseed with debt to be of any benefit to its owner, err any utdity to the public. English Lew re formerewill watch with great interest the operations of the new tribunal. Its establishment is the most vigorous and comprehensive measure of improvement yet attempted is the antiquated system of our real property law. It doss not, indeed, quite carry out the views advocated by those whose aim it is to render the transfer of land as simple, as rapid, and u inex pensive as the treader of stock. But in many respects it makes a near approach to this eminently deeleible end; nor is it possible to axone that when the beneficial results of its operation shall have been witnessed in Ireland, the landholders on this side of St. George's Cbmaael will long coesest to forego the great advents/pm which it holds lerth, in securing at a very medente cost the advantage of • parliamentary title, a cheap treader, ands ready market. It is not dna that the directly beneficial effects of legislation are so signally and so rapidly manifested is they have been in the ease of the Encumbered Estates Court. When the Act establishing that tribunal first came into operation, the miseries of Ireland, sufficiently deplorable from the action of other canoes, were fear tally aggravated by the laws regulating the tenure and transfer of real property. The gripe of feudal ism was heavy ea the land. The spendthrift owner whose whole nasal means were swallowed up is judgments sod mortgage, was unable to shake him self loose fram the clinging burden of a ruinous pro perty. The &meow Aecredstee was fast riveted rend hie neck by the parchment bonds of settle ments and entails ; where the mountain of debt had aceamelated to a hopeless height, the Court of Chan cery stepped in, not to sever the unnatural link that emulated a rained owner to a ruined estate, but to take every shilling of the proeseds of that estate by the hands of a receiver, and hand them over for dietributirm among the creditors, still retaining the inheritanee as • heir-loom of degradation and in solently for the beggared issue of the beggared pro prietor. Under these gloomy circumstances setting of coins was ever spent on the estate : there was se capital, there were no improvements : every thing was waste and desolation, from the eon acre peasantry who starved in rage sad wretehednem over the surface of the half cultivated soil. to the seedy absentee who skulked through life under the bards. of his democrats ownership among the purlieus of Soho or the eatuninets of theQuertur Latin. Fertnately in those days we had a states man among as--a leader who had the eye to me what wee to Ds done and the will to do it. To make Irish land marketable—to divorce the bankrupt owner from the mortgaged soil—to strike off the feudal bondage under which the whole social system groaned—this wee the thing to do, and this thing Sir Roam. Pm. did. The Legislative machinery by which he effected his papas was the Balsam bend Estates Act—the Act which, having done its prescribed work, is now about to give plan to an other law, destined to apply the same principles to a wider field of operations. How well the expiring law has accomplished its purpose—how thoroughly it has moceedad in its main object of bringing a flood of new capital upon the land of Ireland—of transferring Irish estates from the moneyless to the monied--of taking that great means of wealth and happiness, the soil, oat of the feeble hands that could makvnothing of it, and placing it in the strong hands under whose management it has become a living source of national affluence and national pros perity—how all these wise and beneficent ends have been wrought oat by the agency of the Encumbered Estates Act, is abundantly shown by the ninth and concluding Report of its operations, recently issued by Mr. 011ISIPT. From this document it appears that in the coarse of the nine years (from 1849 to 1868) during which the Court has been in existence, the total amount of purchase-money received by the Commissions= Lae exceeded 2 3,160,0001. To the extent of this enoraions sum the land of Ireland has been relieved from the destructive blight of ever-growing debt, insolvent proprietors, and undeveloped resources- It is one of the most gratifying circumstances cou nted with this great and beneficent change that if has been principally accomplished by the efforts and the resources of Irishmen themselves. It is Irish industry and Irish enterprise that has been the main instrument in this noble work of Irish reggae ration. of the 23,160,0001. of parchase-money, very little more th an 3,160,0001. has been paid by English, Scotch, and foreign capitalists. All the residue, s which may be taken in round umbels at 20,000,1 is the capital of Irishmen. the number of perchmen; is 8,238, that of all other nations 324. Nothing can be more satisfactory than such statistics as these. It is impossible to conceive a stronger or 'mere gratifying proof of the vast good that may be amonspliehed by that which to shallow observers appears to be a mere measure of legal reform, but is in reality the working out of a great social change. Those who have studied with any degree of intel ligent attention the evolutions of history, or the existing state of the civilised world, must be deeply convinced of the vast influence exercised upon the welfare of nations and the status of the individual citizen by the laws regulating the tenure, the trans mission, and the divisibility of land. To those who may still be sceptical on the point we would simply my, Compare the social state of Ireland in 1868 with the social mate of Ireland in 1849 ; try to gain something like an adequate conception of the real meaning of the fact that in the course of those nine years upwards of 20,000,0001. of capital has bee, freely invested in land ; compare the land as owned and cultivated now with the land as owned and cultivated then ; and after having gone threagh this proems candidly and carefully, deny if you can that a relbrm in the laws affecting property in land has in this instance, at all events, proved to be of the highest moment in its beans% upon the wealth, the happiness, and the social progress of a nation. Let this consideration be borne in mind when the time arrives for further discussion on the improvement and simplification of oar English system of land transfer. It is time that our legislators should be convinced that a question like this is no mere measure of Legal Reform, to be fought out by the Law Amendment Society on the one side and the country solicitors on the other. It is a great and momentous change, deeply affecting the productiveness of the soil, the welfare of the landowners, and the prosperity of the State. MIIIIIIIINER V: bc Court. BLLMORAL, OCT. 4. The Queen drove out. The Prince Consort and the Count of Flanders went out deer-etalldng. Prime Alfred also want one deer-stalking. Lord sad Led, Cranworth sad air James sad Lady Clark bed the honour of receiving invitations to Mame la the evening. OcT. 6. Tha Qom dross oat with the Prisons Louisa asd Prince Anita, Marled by the Has. Was Okapis* The Rim Cared want oat daar-stalking. Ths Coast at Flaskara mat oat ther-stalkiag. Mr. Robed 1117Lerrell, Major-Garai Treteenhesee, Elir Carla Fen, Mr. 1w Marne, end Mr. Josiah Milldams, bad ea iweervbw with the Right Han. the liscretary of Stab for the Wake yeeterdity, upon the inhfeet of railways in the Metwition Mr. Joseph Hinders and Mr. James H. Hayes, of Liver pool, had as interview with iiir Edward Slaws, Lytaaa yes terday. Bar J. Brooks sad Mr. H. H. Liadasy had alic so Inter view with the Right Hon. Secretary at the Colonial-oars • deputation on behalf of the Atlead° Royal Mill &seam Airlocks Compsay, cremating of Viscount Hazy, ILP., Reabeek, M.P., BM P. Hookah Pleetweod, Bert, Mr. Jahn Onell Lest, the Hoe. Charlie Fes (ft. Jobe'. NlMP klaihad), Mr. G. P. Leamuldl, Mr.& Whr, Yr. H. Meeterwan, Mr. Venom, mid several other Fathoms, bed sa rearview WM Mr. Hatalltoe, the Beembey le the TRIM My. yulitedep, apse the subject of petal enholdhe kw the sell survisee hawses Galway, Nuribeadhal, end Lambs. The ispuledea was mry favourably nesived, end Mr. Haman& ASA that the gamma* viewed with coadde ruble Siena the am Bus of meamem beeves. Galway end am RAI* Her& Americou Colman arbilldhad by Mr. Lew, and the bivalence they attached to being able to tomminieele between London and Washiness la siv days. The Hoe. Mr. Dickey (Nova Scotia), Dr. Topper, the proving's' IfifinOary, Mt. Childers, Captain W. Driscoll (Royal Inglasers), Mr. Cunard, Cassia Gamest, sad Mr. H. H. Berme, had ma atavism with tkii Right Rao. Mr E. B. Lystaa, errerdey, at the Colosial-ofike. Lady Katherine Hamilton, third daughter of the Nam& sad Marottioaces of Aberoora, is to be mania oa the Mb lea be Visoocult Valletort, oldest ma of the Yeti of Nerme-Bilgewaha. The Geist d'Alton She, and party have returned to the Ilassintfek Hotel from showing excursion. The Baron sod Drammen von L.nclou keys taken thedr &parlors from the am, aniblisinkent. lir John Potter, M.P., and the Mayor of Manches ter have mind at Peasee's Hot e l, f rom Lanotalatre. - - The Lard Chancellor ha - a - appointed Mr. J. B. DUNK et the No&lk Masao* the Jedgeddp d the Nartbeasberload Canty Coact, vacated by the daub of Yr. Look. Lord Bloomfield, 0.C.8., Der Majesty's Minister at dr Court al Berl* is visiting Lord Cionbrock, at Clots brook, near Belltnaeloe, where hls lordship will remain during the fair of that town; he will also visit laks Niselleacy the Lod Lieutenant. The oolonelcy of the 20th Regiment, vacant by Ms death of Liestessat Gemini Thome% will, It Is said, be onakond ea Majorolaseral Marone Bersaford, an °Moor of keg Indian service, who last year commanded the troops in the Mama prosidenoy daring the abase* of Bir Patrick Great. Colossi Yea, C. 8., late of the Ist Dragoons, and Wrest D.ukesy, C. 8., of the 66th Regiment, here been appolated taspeotors of clothing. The Coont de Paris, the Duke of Wartemburg, the Minion of Beaming, and Capt. Bans von Gatteaberg, paid a prolong*, that to Davenport Dockyard ors Wedassday. Capt. D'Eynoourt, of the Orion, son of the Right Rea. C. TrEproart, of Beyon'a Manor, Is ahead to lead to the alter the Aster tithe Deice of Narseede. _ _ _ Mr. *Coma, the Iriehrail . nay cootractor, has bleu declared eastranor for the new do*. at Blrkenhaed, at • sun exceed* • million sod a kW nudism Echlin Moirleaux, Esq., Qaasa's aoaaael, is ap plaud to the chairmanship of county Meath, vioa the Has. Mr.Planket, redirsed. Oa Wednesday evening Mr. C. Dickens coca weasel • aeries et midge la the City Hal, Mangos. The Rowed Eugenie wee present o n Wednesday lowan et the theatre of the Aublca-Comique, Perla, t o witness the pedeneracre at Lie Avitifs. On Monday the Emperor Napoleon will quit the imp al Chiltern, aoodepaated by Marshal Canrobert ea few se Shim, where hie Monet, will pew the night. The inflow wal evolve at Rtielan la Ur a/Wawa, sad ester hag present et a lb Deem to the Cathedral, will died at the arelltdeltsp's paled, where he wlll peel the sight. In the medic thee win be a ball at the Hoed de vale, aid the wad Fassaiag the Esperor will leave for Perla. Modal Pelletier, says Ordigssei, is badly es gaged la peperlag for Ws MArtillga He le hartsg hi. betel la the Armee des Clamp- Elystrie &tot up sad ftweiatird La eplendli Myk la the goad drawing -fees the chain ere gilt. mad the enreeehe are to he,. seibredared on Wee la grad the hdtiele M (Itaidoid) and P (Pealega). At Aix two Fres& pried.' have recently caused a ennelien b celebreties DMus service, as la Maar eseems. Ose d Ikea, the AMA Party, after • weds. is sewed pen hi the provisos of Long Zenon, la Chime, bee reams! to Frown on banana 'canard wild the stria. On the owning of the 29th ult. ►er Serene High ness Prisms Catherine Hoheaaoltera eigmeringsn. barn Primers of Erthealohe, took the veil at Roma, Is the ancient asesney et tit. Ambrose, beloaging to the Tranetatea ea war distiegniahed toe poverty sad strioleass eiplion The Pope's Titer, Cardinal Pateirl , and Cardinal Ram* Imbrued the osrenomy, whke was attended by =my ficromos of mak, amongst whom was the Priamee's come, Monsignor Rohanlohr, the Pope's simmer. The Beim dr Pea if Calasi Mates that the mis tresses of the Wire' whouls at Arms ham Just mute to an understanding PI prohibit their pupils from wearing trine- 401% . •MAILlb. (MOM OVA OWN 0011/NIPOWD/h16.) PARIS, THCLIMAT 11 4 Y A spends of M. Troplon g's, pronounoed at an agricultural meeting at Cormeillee (Eure), in which he made • glowing panegyric of the principle of centralisation, " which, like the action of the heart, imparts life from the centre to the extrentitiaa" has been represented as an official answer to a recent discourse of M. de Morny, from which it was in ferred at the time that measures of decentralisation were brewing. It is of counts possible that M. Troplong, who had a great hand in drawing up the constitution by which Franoe is now governed, may have received some imperial hints on the question at lone. But, generally speak*, it would be emi_ newly unsafe to predicate • oscine of policy founded upon what any courtier may say. The most favoured of them are seldom permitted to know what is going is be dose, and aooordingly they are for the most part wise enough to restrain their eloquent's within the bounds of entha sisatio laudation of " whatever is," and to eschew the o:praline of any prophetic opinions. Now and then, however, men like De Morny, Troploag, and De Penigay, who think the empire owes them something, assume to themselves a liberty not allowed to other citizens, and say something in public of their own heads. On snob occasions they me not rebuked at once. They are, in fact, as they know, men too considerable to be treated with open contumely ; but the members of a cabinet which has no homogeneity, which consists (as it was expressly said is the days of the coup d'itat) of " clerks," are naturally jealous of any assertion of individual im portance, and in the very nature of things are moved to countermine any doctrines thus ventilated in public by • stolen march upon the ordi nary principles upon which the present government is conducted. Constrained as they are habitually to act only in their respective departments, and in pursuance of indisputable orders, they can only enjoy the esprit de corps, and the pursuit of a common object, by using the little in fluence they possess against any man who pretends to be pester than themselves. The public, there fore, is always liable to be misled if it attaches importance to the provincial speeches of the few great men attached to the present dynasty. None of them know what their master may mean to do to-morrow. For instance, M. Rosner, the Minister of Commerce, had no notioa till he was ordered to countersign the decree that the slid ing scale wee to be suspended for another. year. On the contrary, he had flattered' himself that protection had gained the day, and bad made every preparation for collecting the duties which, as you are already aware, were actually re ceived during twelve hours. M. Troplong, how ever, is a man of great talent if not of remarkable independence of character, and the genuine conclu- 1 aions of his own mind upon any subject whatever are worthy of respectful consideration. In the same speech he controverts the insertions of the Univers and the legitimist journals that the subdivision of property consequent upon the abolition of the law of primogeniture, and of other provisions of the Code Napoleon, securing to every child a portion of the parent's inheritance, is a social evil. Instead of the present law tending perpetually to cut up property into subdivisions as infinite as grains of sand, he asserts that there is in it • principle of reaction, working by economy and mar riage, which has bees already proved by experience to have the effect of keeping together parcels of laud in a sufficient degree of agglomeration. To the argument that France, in consequence of the emigra tion of the peasantry from the country to the towns, is fast fulfilling the fate of the Lower umpire, he sarcastically observes that there is no justice in the comparison except in this respect, that there were sophists in Byzantium. M. Troplong admits that the rural population has not lately increased, and that many peasants have in fact quitted the country in the feverish hope of finding better wages for leas work in the cities. But he argues that only the physically weak and the morally depraved have given way to this seductioa, and that the existing rural population is all the better for their absence. How far this view may be correct I cannot say. I should doubt, however, whether the emigration from the country can have been so discriminating. But hav ing lately seen a great deal of Normandy I can con firm what M. Troplong says of the actual state of the rural districts in that province. In the coarse of a walk of a hundred miles from the Cherbourg branch of the Western rail way to that of Rennes, I was particularly struck with the excellence of the roads, and the well fed and contented appearance of the peasantry. I saw nothing like misery even in the most remote villages. The general cleanliness and good condi tion of their clothing was remarkable, and I saw with reel pleasure that on a Sunday a haunch of =anon or • ponderous joint of beef was roasted at almost every village ion, to which the working men sat down by subscription. The Bonne has been weak, and the Rent, has sus tained a further decline of -oc. both for cash and account, the last prim being 731 r. 600. and 73fr. 7150. Mobilier fell 7fr. 600. The railways were from 2fr. Mc. to Mr. lower. SPAIN. MADRID, Ocr. 7. A decree published in the Gazette authorises the government to offer the transatlantic packet service between the Peninsula and the Antilles to public competition on February S. OIZAT STORM OTV TIER PILNINSOLAR Coot.—A dreadful storm visited the Peehealer meet cm the 11th alt. It came as with • math-east gals. In Gambit sway houses were isundeled. In Omaha Bay, where there le matiosed • deamiumat af the 211•11 Regiment, the soldiers were washed out of their quarters. Large quantities of sand and stone rolled dawn We rook daring the night, and ab stracted comaimaleschm with the village. A Frame brig, aimed Blemaa, grounded off Campo. The Fannie brig Hippslike was soak hs • whirl wank sad the 'gash was drowned. lila Wahl dog clung to him to ewe Me, so the he could not mart himself, and both perished. The bats of the heath eraapt-war Redealehie saved the mew at the Hippolite. The lad al darifips, to Ids allsem-yeada Almelo* pliantly timed the Itaioatable's basks beak to solely, ghee they had sewed the arra. The hal m m elt yeshet Was, bawd to the met, arrived et Mesita, os the kith nit., god lest • hest and port of • peddle-wheel in the MOM The brig Dins, of Earilipaai, wee lost in the Mom; the few waved. TO* Mammies Polmoretca.—Yastarday a hoooka tam Maaaheatar, araeleciag of the hilawlas sertlimea : &r Jabs Pease, M.P., the Mater of Kea. wirer Jobs Cheatham, Req., M.P., .1. P. Omen Whit t N. PhMlp IN., Yew M'Clang, Req., Berea Ogles, Maw, aril les H. Mischa', Req., seceethei, woad ups the TestaseberChaerslon the subject of e life he he per paw/ ow Polallo• is that city. The dipalado ir mimed to Ilk P ,fteer M.P. The lbw el km diallo sopa epos hi LOW, the arkosha et the do o the tradee TOON he the w propmel woks. TIAN sakel t wisaa way the aphis .41 tag ffel p ~ o W slo er la abbi was reso let OON•lor el Oulaspis, r is hi** his Wooed hpostlia ha Ito P•••••••• saursaio hal do* pumind • she la Smia Dahuretrot. Ind Woo alsolor any oho Y weaM troaNamey to Ala% lainealloa be Je rald le Oh t incurred I be=l,l=tale lia ll i gtt lay It erit the Theory. *Ale* , OCTO' 13ER FRILNai aavaoacamorre (111 LOX OVA OWN ROME, Ocr. 2. General Count de Goyon arrived in Rome on Thareday evening, and held a grand reception at the Rnspoli palace on the following morning, attended by the officers of both armies in grand uniform, and enlivened by the strains of the 40th regimental band in the courtyard. The General returns with the prestige of an addition to the mili tary force under his command, in the shape of the 20th Battalion of Chalmers ; .hat he has not deemed it requisite to await their arrival at Civita Vecchia before coming on to pay his respects once more to the Supreme Pontiff and the Cardinal Secretary of State. This increase to tie French garrison has been already interpreted in various modes. The General, it is stated, found the troops under his canunand reduced almost to a brigade, a force whose onamand was incompatible with the dignity of an officer of his standing. The safety of the FNMA troops is stated by others to have been com promised of late by their quarrels with the soldiers of his Holiness, and to have, therefore, absolutely required reinforcements to render the French nu merically superior to the indigenous garrison. A third account brings forward the political jealousies of France and Austria to explain the strengthening of the French division in Rome at the precise period when it was expected that the oft-repeated rumours of the joint withdrawal of the two armies of occu pation from the States of the Church wan about to be realised. And a fourth solution of the enigma is given by the declaration that the Chaseeurs are re quired at Rome merely to relieve one of the batta lions of the line, which is about to march to Civita Vecchia to be employed in the enlargement of the fortifications of that town, which are now being executed at the expense of the Papal government, but under the direction of French military en gineers. Whichever of these motives may be the real one, or perhaps all of them combined, it appears certain that the inorease of the French garrison has not been a measure productive of satisfaction to the Roman government, and it is moreover affirmed that General de on would have succeeded in ob taining from the Emperor the additional eclat of a few squadrons of lancers in order that the division might not be entirely with out cavalry, and the per son of the Commander-in-Chief dependent upon his few French gendarmes for a bone escort, if the go vernment of his Holiness had not especially re quested to be spared the expense contingent upon the unrequited presence of a regiment of French cavalry. Meanwhile no more military brawls have occurred to confirm the statement of the French garrison being in danger from the combined assault of the Roman soldiery and populace. As a preventive unease-e, on Wednesday, being the festival of St. Michael the Arehanpl, the French troops were in spected on the Pinson Hill in the morning, and in the afternoon the Papal general, Gregorio, re viewed on the same spot the Swiss and Roman infantry and dragoons, so that, the whole of the garrison being ender arms, there war lees danger of a collision than when the soldiers are off duty and carousing in the wine-shops and cafés, as is their usual custom in the Eternal City on Sundays and festivals. The unfortunate Roman dragoon who had hi., head split open by the four French soldiers of the 40th R eg iment, on the 12th ult., before the cafe of St. Andrea della Valle, is dead; and the Frenchman accused of having given the fatal blow is in the Castle of St. Angelo, still awaiting his trial. Nine Roman dragoons, who exercised reprisals the same evening upon all the French soldiers who MUM across their path, are also under trial ; but one of them, either from over excitement, mental aberration, or horror at the idea of spending the rest of his life in the galleys, cat his throat shortly attar his arrest, and is now in the hospital in imminent danger. A supplementary line of steamers having been re cently put on this part of the Mediterranean by the French Messageries lmperiales, the double cradle has oommenoed ander an ill omen by the collision of the Hermes, coming from Leghorn to Civita Vecchia. and the Aventine, proceeding in a contrary direction, in the strait of Piombino, on the night of the 29th ult. The Aventine was so much damaged as to Oak soon after, but the passengers were saved on board the Hermes, which was able to return to Leghorn. THE WEST INDIES. (ay laser= C7lOll ova owN I 80' Nati ON, FAIDAY. The steamer Thames has arrived from the West Indies for repairs. She left St. Thomas' September 19, and spoke the American ship Rowell and English ship Continent. The La Plata, with outward mails, arrived at St. Thomas' September 16. Island healthy. THE UNITED STATES. 11./TI/II LYD MAN MAGNETIC (nom ova cows oozaaarein LIVERPOOL, Fanny. The Persia, from New York, 29th tilt, has passed Holyhead, and will be here this afternoon. A medical correspondent of the Times, animad verting upon the meat deaths from chloroform, suggests that anieethetica should be employed only in the most painful operations, that other should in all owes be administered in lieu of ohloroform—that the poloist's mind should be fere from ell epprebseslos before inhaling it—and, lastly, that ha should low the choice oldie anittethatto to be used, " It being eupladsed te Ida diet ablerehrek sossethass produces death, • . • igesBe 7,IBTNINSTAFPALACI BILLS. •T The four quarter belle of the cloak tower at Westminster Palace are now in their place', end only await the ascent of their ponderous chief to commence eerie* dam. It was intended to oommen ceraiaing the great bell yeeteleie but it wee found imposeible to get the complicated paifmf• turns all completed, and therefore the railing optaalthee math be postponed until the beginning of next week. Ma, however, hes been done in the interval which bee elapsed its our last visit. The great bell has left Its temporary bani, end now presents its huge mouth sorter-wits the entrance at the tower. loathed of a diegeasi, it blab= placed in a perfectly horizontal graellies, the theeloig of which without injury to the meld was ea operatioa of great delicacy and difficulty, requiring two whole days for its completion. The bell had to be nag bodily from tie solid perch, and its position changed from the vertical to the horisontal in the most ominous and gradual ettartor, as a eudden knock or fell would have cracked the metal end ren dered it miceesary to begin all the work over again. It now stands upon the strong cradle which is to ascend the tower along with it, and u it stands with about half its length within the entraaoe, it presents the exact &mar itime of a huge piece of ordnance, seven feet six Inches in length, and nine feet climates at the month. It is expected that all will be reedy for hoisting on Monday morning next, and that some time on the following morning it will have been placed in its permanent position. .••;• FORMATION OF A RAILWAY COMPANIES' _ASSOCIATION. At a meeting of directors and other represents fives of railway oompanies, held yesterday, at the Parka Hotel, H. S. Troursorr, Esq. (Chairman of the North Eastern Railway Company), in the chair; the following companies were thus represented London end North Western : The Marquis of Chendos, chairman ; Admiral Moorman, deputy-chairman ; Mr. Tooted ; Mr. Stewart. Midland : Mr. Beale, chairman ; Mr. Hutehinsos, deputy-chairman; Mr. Etna; Mr. North Eastern: Mr. Thompson, chairman; Mr. Leernsn, deputy-chairman. Lanclshue' and Yorkshire: Mr. Wick-, ham, chairman; the Mayor of Liverpool ; Mr. Wilson; Mr. Reweave. Great Western : The Rea. F. Ponsonby, chair man; Mr. Williams. East Lanciashire : Mr. Desdaht, chairman; Mr. Riley, deputy-chairman • Mr. Blaoklook. Manchester, Sheffield, and Linodashire : Mr. Gambia; Mr. Lees; Mr. Watkin ; Mr. Hatton. North British: Mr. Hodgson, chairman ; Mr. Rowbotham. Lancaster and Carlisle : Mr. H. Howard, depatpohairman ; Colonel Mao lean. Glasgow end South Western: Sir Andrew Orr, chairman. Orford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton: Mr. Fenton, chairman. Stockton and Darlington: Mr. Mer sell, chairman. Shrewsbury and Hereford : Mr. Willirtna. Birkenhead Mr. Salisbury, M.P., &airman ; Mr. Towns end; Mr. Petitjaan ; Mr. Mason. Carlisle and &Roth : Mr. Irving. Rest Hartlepool : Mr. R. W. Season, chair man. Warriagton and Stockport : Mr. Fosberry. Edin burgh, Perth, end Dundee : Mr. H. lane. Port Carlisle Mr. Heysham. Ediaburgh end Glasgow: Mr. Ewing. After a lengthened dieonasion, It was unalimoully re solved " L That it is desirable to give a more permanent organi sation to the present °entertain of delegates, and that ea association be now formed, to be celled the' Railway Com panies' Aaeociation,' " " 2. That a committee be now appointed to draw up mks and regulations and define the objects of the essookatkm, via..—The Marquis of Chandos, Sir Andrew Ocr, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Beal., Mr. Ponsonby, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Leeman, Mr. Watkin." " 3. That the first meeting of the association be held at the Railway Clearing House, on Thursday morning, the 4th of November, at half pest 10 o'clock." "4. That the thinks of the meeting be given to the chairman." THE OATASTAOPHI TO THE JUST LA 817141111. The fate of the unfortunate passengers on board the Austria steam-ship, which le reported to hare taken fire on the 13th of last month, en bar passage to New York, still lingers in considerable doubt. It is is known theta par sons from the ill-feted 'hip had been picked np by a French bingos; but the Manes an board, stated to be n= of 500, remain tusacconated far. Some further in was realised at Lloyd's yesterday. The ship Bliley, Cepa: Jepson, which arrived in the Downs from Jamaica in the 'entree of the morning, reported having seen, on the 15th of September, in lat. 46 N., long. 41 W. some 1,400 milts from the Lizard, • large vessel, apparently a steamer, which appeared to have been burnt Owing to a strong wind from the N.N.W., and a heavy sea that was running, the Elery did not approach the steamer nearer than live or six miles. She was about 12 feet out of the water, and no one could be perceived on board. The American ship Daniel Webster, which arrived in the river yesterday from New Ycek, also furnishes some brief intelligence. Captain Spencer, the com• mender, reports that on Sept. 20, in tat. 43.30, end long. 42.57, passed a number of dead bodies, and two of them were distinguished as women, their clothing being perfect. HAT3LUIXICT.--On Monday next, Mr. Ckarles Mathews will nabs his ant appearance aims his return from ANNI4OI. MIL Charles Mathew, will also make her dllat In this country. OLungo.—A newdrama, of which great expecta tions ate antatainsa, by Mr. Wilkie Collins, is announced be prod.:dos at this hones on Monday next. It would, lowerer, seam doubtful whether it will not be postponed for a few days. ASTLST'S ROYAL Am PRIME/attn.—This favourite theatre will reopen for the ammon, after a short recess, on Meeday neat. Daring the interregnum Mr. William Cooke, the lessee, hie elided • ramifies trwformation of the We tter. Beery pert of the Mew hen been re-embellished, and the taut sfsemble now presents a mop elegant emanates. A new drama Mina from the works of Sir Walter Scott, and en titled " The Covenantal ; or the Battle of Bothwell Brig," le to be prefaced. The Rose of Castile will be performed to night M Drury Lane Theatre, (or the hundredth time. Id. Jullien's twentieth aeries of concerts will cow aware at the Lyceum Theatre on the let of November. cad will be given as "M. Julliea's Farewell 'Meow:arta d'Adlea, before Ma departure for his universal musical tour through every city end capital of Europe, America, Australia, the coheir, sad civilised towns of Asia and Africa." bit that New sever don." SINGULAR RRGISTRATION CASE.—At the Glas- In a debate on a motion introduced by the Duke Sow Circuit Court, a lady -like young woman, named Mar of Lovell, pleaded guilty to fraud on a Nee- Maribm"ga Lord Derby la "P" lsd 4° have mid that . as tree, mad sentenced to six moothe' imprisonment. As the Command had adopted in en address to the Crown • th . did not go to trial, the partiouhre were not brought prayer with winner to the Mate services identical with oa t, bd. se me h a pp e n to be aormalated with them, they may that which had ben Freeway mewed by the Lath, be stated as follows —ln February last, a female, who give her Majesty would be advised to revoke the Fathead= bar Boos ase_itre Smith , wetted We wa an Yr. Thalww: She under the authceity of which those nevi= an sew and , i r rer birth 7 A aide. the nacre Ja m ae No sack rwroneakm has yet =peered, sod the 6th of & mat ed.. , a th e lawful sat of rake Wilms, November is oar st hood. a seaman be the merchant seri= and of Margaret Mae The Rev. IL A. Gent, whose differences with his his win. *host maiden ores we. ' Bowies. The weema Smith repreented herself as the aniet, sod she said Lent i°°°°tbet°k :..f t ,.,,L it°° ”______,' Dr. Wilal° ' boreal that It had hoe the he the district. In dos awes 'one year, en +overlent ler • temporary awry th e hhite reached the =rens to the effect that the woman Scilly lake. Wihmo, or Barnet, or Limed, lad not bee married at all; The Mersey Doak Board, during the visit of the and this Maas haying bah list held of, she Wadded the fa= and wen before Seed Stasis, fa we= pre menten wf die Seed Schnee Comanicia, late= to give eau da , &add wad cad that ter fie d miry &ilk for an inspeotion of the observatory, dock e a. .h e wee the mother, we illegitimate ; eg i d works, ka ; • steamboat being placed at the disposal of rods= was altered accordingly—a proms +hi= can the seem The men employed by the trust and many only be effected by authoLi . t y of the eherid. hot!, ether begs employers will to di:ahead early on Thursday more light that tee" upon woman wen n ' at an fe g b ina t abar inf ' to the °mill, to " 4 " be able to afemi weadalif at the d the child at all. and that no =oh peso et she merchant seem= Ateptddisairo. existed. Bee= or Lovell no apprehended, wed Sadly It is stated that out of the fund of 20,0001. which winkled barn the wart th at the Walla ails was ai It apron that the nothetumate ware bad the Lad "' Mil.kmdf f B°°l° " °° P telt t° min f° "" din g i rai m t P et u l re. nto a vile enism in with a hue MIA el bdili *Moe en 10 =NM salnicoaries to ladle, 13,0001. ham already i n to. aity, bat m 1 . b . imaim Aim ediseted. of coolness, orb cooosivai fist 11 lie etai6 p= The following is one or a number of paragraphs to hi. • AN as his own, ohs valid hen * hold upon bb hole= She acessdbay wag 111thellergh of • similar dearaeler, from various districts, now appearing and nannsanand operaticsat main* ahem is the those pap en Rots:ear —WiSTSILN Baton.— w Wh i t e a& a bobs — dice ms sm . Words we lordly depict the panto with which the town was although a mole child weal la Ws. TM superb yeelenley em the arrival of the lam, and the distil- tendset did see deli. home Mask mod rotholed de net butt= of the letters and owe opera. A faint ray of hire with do•dditleasiMolb By-and-hyra bow over, Bennet there was a peer hope bed bogus to gild the eseriery of this wretched sitar, woman in the Idle bed the very acrid. she sod dm impereethed shareholders were buoyed up wi t h the wan in want of, V i le did ed well know what to do expeotniaa that the warn wen pest, and that they would be with It. A. the on wee mcdwas Is get rid of an What, and bin M sums ad. pew. o f . remnant In sec h is k,..4 the other equally anxious to Amin we, a bargain wee drat 'scarily. It wee hoping agulsat hops. The 1004 call *di an d for the sum of fi'• saffillt.g h end. wen M i 2114010 1 tO the poreheeer from Oleigww. *ln per hos rain • goodly number of enethat oltiens." ha. Sp red twice in the Ikeethi t the NOP RIGHT or Fan CHURCH MINISTERS TO BE ox trar. It is WM is awe of 111111411! pmemord berth, Iva Bizcrout Nora.. —Sheriff Cook of Rose-shire having and oeledy bows *lsm Mark flab b the deeded that the hoe dome ministers Wen not entitled to be brief ayes sod &sae ssmisemg elm bat otholosl cm Me resift dila= as hfs- right tenant' and occupiers owe.— Akar= Hortail. - at theft sap* were taken, and the point was FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—OR Tosoday evening same Wes Ile lon Appeal Court for the northern ' a marr i e d aa, monad Philip Hughes, employed on the assodom glib set so Friday and Saturday last. Sheriff Hamilton and Strathaven Railway. met Ws death on the =led fille7c• bola that the etelm of the free railway at Blantyre. He had left Glees* by the 7 p.m. meld= was a good one, while Sheriff Cook adhered train. and on coming out at Blantyre, to hie witelsos ilmilsiem, which was reversed. by the gate to the public road, had in eon bte The hinted* states that a lady residing at La manner, taken the opposite direction, ma Ow Woe fits Petite Valet* near Bordeaux, has just been palely delivered line of railway. where is body was &furores bolt he 4- 'of three girls, who, with their mother, are doing well. The mangled condition, the 7.10 p.m. goods train from Hallam lady has now eighteen children. having passed over him. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) MUSIC AND DANCING LICINBIIB. THZ AZOTLL ZOOM. The application for a leaner km made and dancing, for the Argyll Rooms, Windmill-street, Haymarket, wee pro ceeded with this morning. There wee a very fall attendance of magietrates, yin. Mr. Powsell (chairmen), Mr. Kerneltesk Mews. Antrobua, Robinson, Cottrell, Gould, Tubbs, Johnston, Alderman Roae, Shcwall, Faulooner, adman, A/metros& Colonel Ekey, W. P. Bodkin. D. J. Thomson, Huggins, Bari of Orkney, Mr. Ea-Sheriff Hill, Turaley, Simpson, Ex-Sheriff Cottrell, Stacey, P. N. Laurie, Arden, Bind, Danford, Boothe= Sir J. 8. Lillie, Mitchinson, Dannington, Pletcher, Antobaa, and Alderman Copeland. Yr. Bodkin, Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. Poland appeercd in sup port of the application ; Mr. Serjeant Salentine, Mr. Met calfe, and Mr. D. Keane, were counsel in opposition. Mr. Bodkin opened the ass in a speech of considerable length, in which he est forth the clams for the Hennas, which Is contended Irma rammed last year by a very smell number at magistrates, under the feeling which had been aroused by the dimwits al the great question which had arisen, and was called n the great social evil." Mr. Signal had expended a vary large capital tainaking the Argyll Rooms the magm. Scant establislunent it was; he had provided musical enter , tatrionint of the highest order, and the only ground upon which it was suggested that the license should not be granted was that women of light character congregated there, and after the entertainment, were, as the opposing petition stated, thrown upon the streets. That objection, if allowed to prevail in this case, yes equally applicable to every public establishment in the metropolis—the theatres, Cremona gardens, Highbury-bun, the Holborn Casino. The pro prietor of an establishment of that description wag only iespowible for the preservation of order and decorum on hi; premise, he was not answerable for what took place miter they left, say more than a tavern-keeper was accountable for what padre= did after they had dined at his house, and indulged in a little too much wine. There had of late yore bra a great improvement in the public taste for musical enter-. Warned., which aria far better in every view than an faddim in besotting propensities. The entertainment given at the Argyll Rooms was rational and ought to be aseouraged rather then retarded. Street prostituticat in the neighbourhood of Windmill-street had actually incresed, tweed of depressed, linos these rooms had bees retard the liar* sad not less than 285 tradesmen. Inhabitants of the HAYMOW, Piccadilly, and the surrounding neighbourhood had signed Mr. Biguell's petition for the lioense to be restored. Mao. the license we refused but year, Mr. Bignell had curie on the entertainment at the Adelaide Gallery, under the rogation of the license of that court, which, on Thurs day, the Math renewal without a single murmur of objec tion. This was not a court of morals ;it was Minuted with judicial gnome which should be administered fairly, justly, sad impartially; aad why should this petitioner be ruined sod boggend, as it were, by having hie license denied him, when others were granted unconditionally, and without quad= ? Impactor Itiohirdion-1 am an inspector in the polio, foray and have been in the force sixteen years. In 18,56 and 1866 it was my duty to attend the Argyll Rooms. The attendance in my opinion might be in the proportion of three or four min to one woman. I never witnessed any disturb.. &ace or indecorum is the rooms. The band osesed about half-put 11 end the rooms cleared by 12 o'clock. There was nothing in the conduct of the women to Indicate that they were Improper characters. Sint t the rooms had beta dosed I have observed no alteration In the state of the streets. Crose-ezaniln:l by Mr. Berjeant Bellentine—l don't know that the women who attended ;he rooms were proeti. Ogee ; they were reputed prostitutes, the whole of them, as Ler ea I know. The women generally went sway in oohs. some aooompankd by men, others not. Them ere • good many small plains of entertainment in theEneighbourhood of the Haymarket, but any few of the female %WWII to the rooms frequented theme pines. By Mr. Keaue—l belong to the A div:mion ' and it wee by dlrecUon of my auverlntendent that I attended the rooms. I did not remain after t.elve o'clock. Reeremiued—The tercets appear to be as crowded now Si they were before, I have b: on on duty at the Opera House, and have seen reputed prostitutes leave it as fre quently ea the rooms. Edward Coat* a errant of police in the A division, rid-1 have been 17 or 18 years in the fora. Fromr d4 4ll 1867, I was on dirty at the rooms. The average atte wee about 60D a night, and I confidently state that the ro =wan at least five men to one women. I have se many as 1,000 an the rooms, and as low as 160. 1 I never witnessed any disorder in the rooms, or I should bine reported it. My road home on leaving the rooms was down the Unpin:kW, but I saw generally very few of the female frequenters of the rooms on the streets. They were not el that clue—to judge by their dress they were a better claw. Cross.exanoned by Mr. Keens—My position was at the setreace. The duty of going there I divided with three others. I bad retreehrenui occasionally, but telly at my owe expense. Richard Tanner—l am a sergeant in the detective depart.. rent of the police, Bed have been In the force eight years. I was on dirty at the Amyl' Room@ shout 160 nights. The avenge attoodassos on these nights was between 400 end 600. The proportion was about four or five males to one female. I never witnessed any indecorum or impropriety°a the part of the visitors. Persons were frequently refused; borroa:.d young females were always refused admission. examined by Mr. esedsaat Rallactfne—l acted under Inspector Lester. I cannot say what was the voca tion of the female vieitors. Toe bead caned at a quarter to twelve, and the gee was put oat at twelve o'clock. lierexambsid-1 have seen respectable people at the room, both stale and female. Some of them were members of the !aristocracy. att=st Heard—l am sergeant in the A division. I a the rooms from 1861 to the end of 1856. In that time then were two cases of disorderly conduct. The parties were bra Into custody tad convicted. I have attended mbar pieces, bet never observed rote order thee wan pr eened at the Argyll Rooms. Several other constables gave similar evidence. One of thee said he sever saw any one in the rooms who would have been retard edmiesion to any other piece of serums rest. He bad frequently seen females present whom he knew to be respectable. He bad seen police inspectors with their wives there; but be should prefer not to mention their mama. He had seen residents in the neighbourhood premise with female friends there. - . em a baker, and reside in Windmilt-street, where the Argyll Rome are situated. I have never experienced any aenoyence from the rooms bat since they have been ()Weed the state of the Haymarket et night has been worm than it wee before. Crone-examined by Mr. Serjenet Baßastille—My shop le eppoete the Argyll Rooms. I kept it open until the recess were clotted, but tt wee to admit my workmen. There le a rate as the corner of the street; it to open all night, and I comeider it a great wesance. More females go there new than when the room were open. Mr Thome Clarkson—l as a furniture printer and rem nesontrer, and my plasm of banner is in Windmill-street. I ham never anodised my mavens* *on the room. I have been to the roma frequently, bat Nam saw anything bnpropw !them I have ems* the teemed serjeum there. Mr. Berjeent Ballantine—lsdeed you hem not, end year remark Is quite noodled for. It is impernmen Mr. Baskin—Batay horned friend keemeited the mans. Mr. % k Oren Be tent yea permaded me ease to . V) S Kr.odk —I did. We went with a party of gentlemen, ambers of the House of Commits, sad we saw nothiles bat the decorum which has been spoken to by them wk- Mr. Clarkson, in continuation, said Mr. Ann reeled ems stables of him, for which be pen KIM • nee. Yr. Moseley, a meddler, in Wiedialtenient, deind that eines the rue VIM dead she aightamehmell bed berme se bad that ha me sem esenesited ee min ant af h. Hi nfreq•esdly. Men !rine to no ream, Mk std, lw Hr. Penn% baker of Jortoya-Marest. gave It se opinion that the Meng of the rooms bed brought aOW oleos of fesmissisee the Ha °nonwhite% la •serest, HoPothoit teedenty. They Mind tho l li: strew were just as erewdal am as knee the d of the: rooms but the dander of she Omen% wee lame in wain Mr. Purdy, a teacher of men ming Kesm= , deposed that he bad frequently takes Ms will at ths Rama, but he never am my iwinegnoy amsegat —" ali: visitors. Mr. &Oran Balleatine—What did your wile rimy the Imam she sew Mr. Pardy—fine thought they ware exceedingly well inadected, and she told me that heed she not been tole whet they IMO. she never maid have amprotad it. (A laugh.) Kr. Stray, tailor, of the Haymarket, end on of the Mgr or the parka of Si. Imes's, said that the pee*. of 5 ~. meg man% keener Mated that It wee hymn* Mem se prelim sodas VS/ ghee at it. Ann% arm the the "sash,. " non ib i l l s adl 4 lll6l7 Poteseed missed the nem het , thought dun MIN g the traell apron tha year ben, but it had had Jost the enemy anat. ThlV hamme.2, men shoes hod increased la the migidscrerbeed, the t meinet of the women in the sines wen wane. This I.aa&c;reiort he paTittToM7 forioant Ballostiso dos sikhemal Ihs boa kaput shin to the homes, mean Ilia hi umiNrsi • of the pariah of fk. James's. H. imahts. that as aid had been made oat to alter the &aka of lest rift He declined to doers the woks whether it wee dew to Homes wok a ions as die. Bs void Eat disport that vispoialis hauls. bad 141114 It; bat let at.: the amps et tha lams ha aimederatsed; ism It asa to ihgaboad. It was e how In Iddet woo. of loom doresise collected to moot tha Mhos ma wawa' dam Why Ina ass Mr. Woad made 1 1 1• 101111 hose Mss dm bast poem he avow *et allrgedldif • fentele Is the body of the coart here exclaims., " WltY dm% you call him to prove it this ?"