The Express. — London, England, 1867-11-04 00:00:00

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GOUT and RHEUMATISM.—The excruciating pain of pont or rheumatism is quickly relieved and cured a few days b y that celebrated medicine, MAIWit GOUT and EiIIirILITIC They require no restraint of diet or confinement during their me, and are certain to prevent the disease attacking any vital part ,old by all medicine vendors at la lid. and 2a. ISL par bug or obtained through any chemist - - DEPARTURE OF MR. DIRRARLI PION ERIN- Mituii.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mt% Disraeli left Edinburgh on Friday morning for London, travelling by the Waverley and Feet Coast routes. Shortly after 10 o'clock, Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli, accompanied by the Loral Advocate and the Misses Gordon, arrived in a carriage and pair at the Waverley-bridge termi nus, where they were received by Lord Provost Cham bers and Major-General Hamilton, C. 8., Commander of the Forces in Scotland. Inside the station, a crowd, numbering from 9910 to 300. had assembled to wit aces the departure of the distinguished visitors. The presence of two policemen and several railway officials, was insufficient to repress the curiosity manifested by the assemblage to see " the leader of the Tory party." \Mile the Chancellor of the Exchequer stood on the platform talking familiarly with the ladies and gentlemen above mentioned, the crowd, continually receiving fresh accessions, somewhat rudely surged to sad fro, hemming the party In on every side so closely that the private conversation was distinctly overheard by many not unwilling listeners. On entering the saloon carriage along with Mrs. Disraeli and Mr. Corry, his private secretary, Mr. Disraeli was he ar tily cheered, and when the train moved off at 10.20, a @nailer compliment was paid him, which be ecenteously ac knowledged. Our Dunbar correspondent writes :—" As It was known from the morning (Friday) papers that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would pass this way in the forenoon, a large number of the townsfolk., Including Provost Purvis and other ladies and gentle men, awaited the arrival of the train at the station. When the train entered it was seen that the right hon. gentleman was in the saloon , which was im mediately surrounded by the crowd, an sonic. one having proposed three cheers for her blajesty's ministers, Mr. Disraeli let down the window of the carriage, and thanked them kindly for the complim en t. Mr. Knox, bookseller, stepped forward and said, " Dunbar supports Disraeli " I'll mind that," replied the right hon. gentleman, and he afterwards put several questions regarding the wishes of the people with respect to the proposed amalgamation of the Haddington burghs with the border towns. Mr. Croton, painter, said they desired to be let alone, a n d was enured by the right hon. gentleman that "he would do his beat for them." After chatting freely and laughing at some of the remarks, just as the train was moving off, be called out, " Any more hints, gentlemen ?" No more, of eourse, were tendered, but three ringing cheer. were sent after the right bon. gentleman as the train moved out of the station. —Seutemon. Tux 1111..Lstuntin-i. 6 MEETING. —The Northam Whig writes of this demonstration :—'• The Numbers at the Hillsborough Meeting.—We anticipated yesterday that there would be ' the greatest exaggeration' of the numbers attending the late meeting at Hillsborough, but we must admit that we had no conception of the ludicrous extent to which the exaggeration would run. Our esti mate at 6,000 to 7,000 persons we believe to be the most accurate that has been made by anyone. Of the fact that at no time during the day were there more than three thousand persons in the front of the platform we are quite satisfied, for the means taken to count the numbers were sufficient to ensure a very close approximation to the real ;lumber. We adhere to our statement that the total attendance was between six and seven thousand, and was nearer the former figure than the latter. We are bound, in justice to the conservative jour nal'', to say that only one, and that one, of course, in Belfast, has attempted such a monstrous mis-statement, The Irish Tones states its impression of the numbers as 15,000, The Daily Express goes the length of 26,000. The Saunders's NempLetler says there were 5,000 to 6,000 on sad around the platform.' The Ere/ring Mai/ follows the Deiie Erprees. The liberal papers do not agree, and yet do not vary very widely from our estimate. It will be Interesting and amusing to tabulate the opinions of our camemporariaa :—Our own estimate is 6,000 to 7,000 ; the Denser of Lister, 5,000 to 8,000; the Ulster Olverrer, 5.000 ; Saunders 's l'f.,a-Letter, 5,000 to 6.000 ; the Pm sass's lemma, 5,000 ; the Erening Post, 4,000; the Irish TIM% 15,000 ; the Doily Egress, 20,000; the Remits!, Mail, 20,000; the &Out Arles-Letter, 40,000! This is tIJ or what everyone would ex p ec t, an d nee d no further TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. I (REUTER'S ITIAGRISISO THE CRISIS IN ITALY. FLORENCE, Nov. 3. Athices received here from Neami state that Garibaldi is still entrenching at Monte Rotondo. Nevertheless negotiations continue to be carried on, with the object of inducing him to withdraw from the Pontifical States. The Diritto asserts that France has addressed a fresh note to the Italian government declaring that the acceptance by Italy of a plebiacitum of the Romans in favour of incorporation with the Italian kingdom would be considered by France as a cams Intelligence from Rome announces that as soon as the French had entered that city the greater portion of the Pontifical troops left to operate ag dust Garibaldi at Monte Rotondo. It is believed that the French have occupied Viterbo, and that one French column will march to Villetri. Advice* from the provinces state that the circular of General Menabrea has been well received. Many arrests of persona compromised in the late demonstrations continue to be made at Genoa, Turin, and Naples. A rumour is current that all military classes at present on furlough will shortly be called in. PARIS, Nov. 2, EVINING. The ministers held a council to-day at St. Cloud. The following official despatch from General Failly, dated Civita Vecchia, the 30th ult., to the Minister of War, has been published here : " General Dumont has entered Rome with the Polhes brigade. The inhabitants received the troops with enthusiasm. The Garibaldians are still in the neighbourhood of Rome. The Du plessis brigade has arrived at Civita Vecchia." PARIS, Nov. 3. The Moniteur in its bulletin of to-day announces that a demonstration took place at Naples on the evening of the 26th. 2,000 persona led, it says, by intriguers, traversed the Toledo, uttering revolu tionary cries. The assemblage dispersed sponta neously. Similar demonstrations have taken place at Turin, Genoa, and Leghorn,without.leading to any disturbances. General Della Marmara was received this morn ing by the Emperor Napoleon, and subsequently by the Marquis de Moustier, with whom he had a long conference. A despatch from Toulon announces fresh de. partnres of vessels for Civita Vecchia. The Emperor Napoleon breakfasted thiwnorning at the Ely'4e with the Emperor of Austria. The court left at noon for Compiegne. The Emperor Francis Joseph will leave to-morrow evening on his return to Austria. TOULON, Nov. 2. The embarkation of troops and horses continues incessantly. The iron-clad fleet have arrived here. The Canada has left with General Bataille. Troops, horses, and guns are being embarked. Ten vessels leave this evening for Civita 'Vecchia. PRUSSIA AND ITALY. AUGSBURG, Nov. 1. The Augsburg Gazette reproduces, in a corre spondence from South Germany, the text of the confidential despatches sent quite recently by Count von Bismarck to Count von Usedom, Prue , siert Minister at Florence. According to this cor respondence, Count von Bisnuirck recalls Use un expected resignation of Baron Ricasoli, and the rumours of an alliance against Prussia to which that resignation gave birth—rumours which were only allayed by the wise and pacific policy of the French Emperor. Moreover, Count von Bismarck announced that Prussia had received notice of secret negotiations between France and Italy relative to a revision of the September Convention, but that he had asked for no explanations on the subject either from Flo rence or Paris. He points out the fact that he had declared to some persons who sought to sound him on the Roman expedition, that he regarded the Italian government as a friendly government, and that therefore he could not enter into negotiations on Italian affairs without its knowledge. Nevertheless Count von Bismarck showed that Prussia, despite her sympathies with Italy, could not intervene in the question until the mutual relations existing between France and Italy had been made clear. So far as concerned the religious aspect of the question Count von Bismarck said that equal regard was due to the catholic as to the evangelical population of Germany ; consequently the probable condition of any action by Prussia in the matter would be above all the positive solution of the following question :—" Is the Papacy, in the idea of France, or in that of Italy, to preserve a position worthy of its future mission I" BAVARIA. MUNICH, Nov. t The Minister of Public Worship has, by the King's order, refused the request of the Bavarian bishops to abstain from laying the proposed Schools Bill before the Chambers, on the ground of the necessity for a reform of the/national schools system. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 3. It is stated that a treaty has been signed by the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs and the American minister at this court, for the sale of the Danish West Indian Islands to the United States for 14,000,000 rigsdalers, provided that such treaty be approved by the Rigsdag. The transfer of the islands to America will shortly take place, for which reason the president of the West Indian Islands, Herr Rothe, has received orders to return. It is not yet known whether a plebiscitum of the islands is also a condition of their transfer. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 3. An ordinance has been issued, in accordance with which all persons who have been conveyed out of the country for political offences are set at liberty, in view of the state of tranquillity which prevails throughout the provinces of the kingdom. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2. The Journal de St. Petersbourg publishes the text of the declaration delivered to the Sublime Porte by the ambassadors of Russia, France, Prussia, and Italy. In this declaration the powers named throw off all responsibility for the future course of even in consequence of the Porte LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1867. refusing to accept their advice on the Cretan ques tion. They declare that they leave the Sublime Porte to the consequences of this refusal, and withdraw from Turkey all their moral support. The declaration is accompanied by an explana tory circular of the Russian government, showing the course pursued by it in order to prevent an insurrectionary outbreak in Turkey, and the efforts h has made to circumscribe the consequences of the refusal of Turkey to follow the advice proffered —efforts which have been based upon the principle of non-intervention, which Russia will adhere to so long as it is respected by the other powers. The Russian government in this circular also declares that it will not adopt an isolated course of action, but that it is resolved to accomplish its duties to humanity. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Nor. 2. The Crocodile has sailed for Portsmouth with the heventh (?) Hussars, the 2nd battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and detachments. The passage of troops through Egypt was effected in fifteen hours. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Nov. 2. A cyclone occurred here during last night, doing considerable damage to the shipping in the harbour, but no vessel was totally wrecked. Many buildings were damaged. AMERICA. (By ATLANTIC TT.LLORAPH.) NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 6 r.u. The steamers leaving to-day for Europe tale out 500,000 dollars in specie. The steamers Hermann, Virginia, and Atalanta have arrived out. The Manhattan did not arrive out yesterday as reported. COMMERCIAL LYTELLIGENCL Closing prices :—Gold, 144 ; Sterling exchange on London, loot ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 106} ; Illinois, 125 ; Erie, 72. Cotton : Middling Up land, 19. . - PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2. Petroleum, standard white, 30. PROCLAMATION BY MAZZINI. The following proclamation has been addineeed by Maz&ini to the Italians : To be, or not to be' Such is the question now put before you by the foreigner. French soldiers garrison Civita Vecchia ; Brennan is at the gates of Rome. Will you answer them, as your fathers answered, by the sword, or will you, cowardly and degenerate sons, bow your necks to the outrage' Will you declare to Europe, Mexico is a nation ; we are not ; we are but a multitude, lost to all sense of freedom and right, submissive to any one who dares to declare himself our muter ; or will you, by uprising throughout the length and breadth of our land, !insert your rights, liberty, and honour in the present, and your determina tion to be great in the future' Whatever be your answer, it is final. To be, or not to be? The present hour decides your fate! The man who sends those soldiers to tell you " Remo is not Italy's, she is mine," is he who was stained with the blood of your worthieet, shed in defence of the sacred city eighteen years ago ; is he who tore from you Nice and your fastnesses on the Alps; he who baa twioe degraded you in the eyes of Europe, by stamping the sign of vassalage upon the brow of Italy; he, whose eight long years' mastery of your government has forced you to economic ruin, moral anarchy, and the shame of Cuatozza and Lisaa, and wrought the utmost danger to your unity. And now, because you have suffered all this in silence, he despises you, and it is for this that he who shrank before the arms of Juarez and the scornful words of Bis marck insult. and assails you. If there be any among you who do not resent these outrages, who speak of pru dence and patience, who bid you put your trust in aught other than the living strength of your country, who sug gest the protests of the weak, or the petitions of the cre dulous, where what is needed is action and war—they are either stultified by fear or seeking to betray you. In the face of the noble and manly efforts by which Rome has invoked your aid, of the heroic deaths of your brothers at Monte Rotondo and Ports del Popolo, of Garibaldi in hourly peril at the vanguard of the nation, e very delay is dishonour and ruin. You have but one sole means by which to be—to insist upon the government's declaring war to the foreign invader, or to rush to the barricades. To the barricades in order to enable you yourselves to make the declaration of war which others either will not or dare not make ; to possess yourselves of the indispensable means of war, of your arsenals, of the arms purchased with your gold, of the army, composed of the flower of the nation. You cannot, without guilt, any longer allow the best and most devoted of our Italian youth to die fur Rome armed with pistols only. You are bound to conquer. Immediate war, or barricades. No longer submit— eternally deceived— to accept any other alternative. Even if your rulers should send the army across the Papal frontier it will be to bid it halt—believe one who has never deceived you—st the gates of Rome to frame some cowardly compact with the foreigner. If you would not be wilfully deceived it behoves you to compel them—bid them draw the sword and throw away the scabbard. War or barricades ; if the government accept the first, watch over and support it in arms ; if it refuses and seeks to stifle the cry of Italy, overthrow it. It is then no longer a government but the instrument of shame and death to Italy. God inspire you to your duty. Oct. 28. These lines were written before reading the royal procla mation. I cannot alter a syllable. They point outto the Italians their duty as it is understood by the party to which lam proud to belong. If there be one horn on Italian soil who forgets or denies that duty—the worse for him : it but increases the necessity that the nation should fulfil it against whomsoever it be. I pointed out a choice between two alternatives ; the royal proclamation anti. cipates the answer and reduces them to one. If the Ita lians do not resolutely choose that one, let them renounce alike the name and life of a nation. They are but a herd of slaves, and it matters not which master they serve. The following is the circular sent by Mazzini to the various centres of the Party of Action in the different towns of Italy : Brothers,—The royal proclamation, issued while the Roman territory is invaded by the soldiers of a foreign despot, is an insult to our country, a menace to our liberties, an act of cowardice intolerable to all who possess a spark of Italian pride, of treason towards those now fighting and dying to give Rome to Italy, and of scornful defiance to the noblest and worthiest instincts of the national heart. Either the King who signed that proclamation is a fallen King, or the nation la a fallen nation. Ask no instructions from me ; they are all summed up in one. Arias, wheresoever you are able. Citizen barricades are the only answer worthy of a people that is resolved to live. Let the nation save the nation. Let the people make themselves masters of their own territory, break in pieces the blind tools of France, and substitute in their place local provisional anthoritiea and one central authority. the representative in the eyes of the insolent foreigner of • whole people in arms. . . To Rome ! To Rome ! with no traitors in the camp. To Rome, with a banner uncontaminated by servitude, falsehood, and dishonour. Let the era of the nation begin, and let the national pact be dictated by Rome. Oot. 29,1881. Joura Manna. THE BOMBAY MAIL DEPARTURE OF THE ADVANCED GUARD OF THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. By the arrival of the above mail we have advice. from Bombay to October 14, and from Calcutta to October S. The advanced guard of the Abyssinian expedition left Bombay harbour on Monday and Tuesday, October 7th and Bth. The Times of India says that the arrangements I for the despatch of the troops were so complete that, in spite of the haste which the advance of the season rendered necessary, not a single mishap or hitch of any kind occurred. "It was, indeed, never expected for a moment, in India at least, that any hitch would occur." It adds, "The effi ciency, the zeal, and foresight of the various de partments, and, above all, the complete harmony which exists—and under a chief like Sir Robert Napier, must always exist—between the,depart manta, rendered this unlikely in the extreme. At the same time this total absence of anything ap proaching the nature of a mishap is deserving of mention, as some of our readers may be able to contrast it with the bungling that is always looked fenrand the results of which are often apparent when preparations of even a more limited nature have to be hurriedly made by corresponding de partments in Pall-mall. Everything that has been done hitherto in connexion with the expedition shows 'conclusively the wisdom displayed by the home government in entrusting Sir Robert Napier with the organisation and equipment or tforce. Tie meddling already attempted by the govdnment of India, but which Sir Robert firmly Protested against and would not brook, would to'a certainty have been carried to excess and been produc tive of much harm and delay, had they' potatesed the shadow of a right to interfere. And this, we believe, the Viceroy and the other members of the supreme government themselves now quite under stand • for, since fi nding that Sir Robert had carte blanche from the Foreign-office at home, they have joined heartily in aiding him in whatever way they could. Though the final arrangements for the de spatch of the advance brigade were left by Sir Ro bert to Brigadier-General Russell, commanding the Bombay garrison, his excellency was in Bombay during the greater part of the past fortnight, when he inspected all the ships then chartered as trans ports, and reviewed the arrangements made for embarkation." An order having been issued by the native government of Baroda compelling all widows to shave their heads, the government of India, to whose not ice this barbarous regulation was brought, has interfered, and notified to the Baroda govern ment that no such measure must be carried out in that State. A great flood has inundated the districts on either side of the Ganges from Rajsbaye to within forty miles of Calcutta. Vast damage has been done, but the silt will, it is said, fertilise lied' seldom or never enriched by manure. T)e Bassoon General Hospital at Poona, founded by the late Mr. David Bassoon, was opened on the 7th Oct. by his Excellency the Right Hon. the Governor. Mr. Bassoon contributed over 21,0001. towards the cost of the hospital. . . • . . . . Cholera, of the most virulent type, is reported to have broken out at Teheran. In three days 150 deaths took place, and the cases averaged 80 per diem. DESPATCH OF THE FRENCH GOVERN- MENT. PARIS, Nov. 3. The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow ing despatch, which has been addressed to the French Charge d'Affaires at Florence by the Marquis de Moustier, French Minister for Foreign Affairs : "Paris, Nov. 1. "By energetically enjoining upon all citizens respect for international engagements, and by declaring himself ready to repress disturbances and to maintain the authority of the government and the inviolability of the laws, King Victor Emmanuel had led us to hope that the new ministry, proceeding firmly in the course that hsd been traced out for them, would have been able by efficacious measures to discourage all revolutionary intrigues, and to re-establish moral and material order. Such a policy carried out unhesitatingly and without imprudent concessions to the passions of parties whom one had undertaken to combat %%wild at once have allayed the dangerous crisis through which Italy is passing, and would have placed us towards her in a position conformable to our intimate sentiments, and thus have facilitated ' the reciprocal task of the two governments. It is not without painful surprise, therefore, that we learn the resolution of the I talian Ministers to oc cupy certain points of the Papal territory. We do not wish to discuss to-day the reasons by which endeavour is made to justify an act so con trary to international law, but wo desire to manifest without delay the impressions which the determination of the Florence cabinet has caused us to experience. However re stricted Italian intervention in the States of the Holy See may be, however soon it may cease, or however circumspectly it may be conducted, the French government, which as an adviser has always blamed such a step, could not now in any way invest it with its approval. If the government of the King of Italy believes that it may expect from us even a tacit adhesion, such a belief is an illusion which we must not hesitate to dispel, and you will testify with what lively and sincere regret we see it deviate from the line of conduct which, according to our view, is the only one in conformity with the interests of Italy. MOUSTIEB.." WORKING OF THR METROPOLIS STEAMS ACT.— The clause in the new Streets Act relating to the exposure of goods on the footway in front of shops promises to create a greater public obstruction and evil than that it was intended to remove. In most of the numerous roads and thoroughfares leading from the heart of London to the suburban districts the right of using a portion of the foot way in front of their shops, that portion varying in depth from four to twelve feet, is vested in the occupier of the premises, and tradesmen and shopkeepers whose goods are rendered more saleable by a public exposure have gene rally exercised their right of using this portion of the footway by placing their goods thereon. By the new act, however, the right of using this portion of the footway is prohibited unless it is permanently enclosed. The conse quence has been that all along the roads and leading thoroughfares above-mentioned there have been erected rows of unsightly wooden poles, heardinp, or palings, pre senting the appearance of lines of temporary booths, or as if the whole of the shops were under repair. But thisis not the worst of the evil. A large number of the shopkeepers, desiring their enclosures to be as neat as possible, have erected au iron bar and lost at each side of their shop, and extending the full length of the footway over which they have control. The public obstruction, there fore, which occurred during business hours in the day is now continued throughout the day and night, by the erec tion of these iron barriers and hoardings. These iron bars and posts, however, are more than an obstruction—they are vary dangerous to the foot passenger hurrying along after dark, or walking with an umbrella up on a rainy night, intaniuch as they are not to be seen until the pedestrian i gets close to them. Several persons were seriously injured on Saturday night, by coming in contact with these iron ' harriers in the Blackfriars-road and New-cut, where they have already obtained the name of " Mantraps." If these erections are to remain it will become necessary to compel those who put them up to place lights there also, or some serious accidents will, in all probability, occur during the coining dark winter nights. CRYSTAL PALACE. HALF-A-CROWN DAY.— SATURDAY, Nov. 2. Admissions on payment, 838 ; ditto by season tickets, 5,482 ; total visitors, 6,320. GRZAT NORTHRRN HOSPITAL, CALIDONIAN-ROAD, N. Number of patients for the week ending Nov. 2, 1,024, of which 296 • were sew awes. METROPOLITAN FRKR HOSPITAL, DEVONSWIRE. sarAos, CITT.—The aggrecate number of patients relieved during the week ending Nov. 2 was—Medical, 872 ; mr. aka, 647 ; total, 1,519 ; of which 683 wore sow owl. [STAMPED, U. TRADE AND FINANCE. (From the Dairy Neu.). However much the various classes of bankers may differ in opinion, it has always been admitted, at least in words, that the one paramount considera tion is that of safety. The great problem has been to combine safety with profit. Its solution was thought to have been found in OVEREND, Guano', and Co. The banks deposited their moneys at call with this company, leaving the latter to undertake all the risk of employing it, while the former got the greater part of the profit. As long as times were favourable the transaction was harmless enough, although, in some measure, unprofitable, since the banks might just as well have used the money on their own account. They found out their mistake when OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co. stopped pay ment, but hitherto have only half used the know ledge they then gained. One effect, nevertheless, has been produced by the stoppage of OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co., which, according to the temper of the observer, will be considered rod . ce or had. ! Whateverer Fatly be the faults of this on pre- eminent compeny in the monetary world, it had at least the merit, which few capitalists possess, of courage. Its managers had no objection to run risks, provided the object was such as to make it worth their while to undertake them. Success seems to have disturbed or perverted their calcula tions, and at last the ruin came. Still a void has been left. Bankers complain that the only paper offered them to discount are the ordinary trade bills for inland commerce, and those of less amount than in average years. The foreign demand is, for all practical purposes, null. The late ship ments of gold have produced no appreciable effect. If a million or two more were to be withdrawn from the Bank, bankers would find it as impossible as now to raise the current tale of discount above 11 per cent. The crisis of 1866 is, as before, producing a state of transition in the monetary world. The I beaks have lost• a certain aid upon which they re lied, in the stoppage of OVEREND, GURNEY, and Co. It was useful enough to do perhaps hazardous business, which, however, was made perfectly secure by the sanction of a good name. The in termediary gone, there is much perplexity and trouble. Discounting capitalists, whether bankers or private individuals, have now to judge for themselves. Hence the timidity with which all but first class paper is looked at. Houses of established reputation can obtain as much as they please, but merchants and shipowners in the lower rank find it nu easy matter to obtain ordinary accommodation. Partly from the remaining dis trust, and partly from the dislocation of the general machinery of commerce, caused by the events of 1866, trade is checked, and is likely to be so for some time to come. It is difficult to propose a remedy, but one at least may be suggested. The collapse of OVEREND and GURNEY have left the banks masters of the financial position, but they hesitate to take the advantage. The qualities required are not crest— * little boldness and a little trust. Care not to lock up too much money—an old banking axiom —and what is of more importance, care not to press upon clients, but to afford every indulgence. Also, though hardly any have the courage to do to be liberal when everybody is drawing in, to discount freely s hen no one else will do so, to lend money dear, and to care leas for the rates of interest than to give each borrower the regular advance that his position warrants. In monetary affairs it is almost impossible to give advice while that fossil institution the Bank Act weighs upon modern progress. Every one appears to dread a material change in the Bank reserve. If it is an increase, the universal opinion is that trade is languishing ; if a de crease, then a rise in the rate of discount and general distrust. In these days we have no fixed rule to guide us. According to our present legis lation opposite effects proceed from opposite causes. It is to be hoped that the next session will produce a change. FAREWELL BANQUET TO Mg CHARLES DkIISIVS. On Saturday evening last a complimentary dinner was given to Mr. Charles Dickens at the Free masons' Hall, previous to his departure for America ; and the company assembled upon the occasion was remarkable for the number of distinguished names which it included, the peerage, the House of Commons, the bench and the bar, literature, science, and art, being all eminently re presented. There were close upon 450 persons present, and many who were desirous of obtaining admission were excluded by the incapacity of the hall to accommodate a larger number. The hall was specially de.sorated for the occasion, and a suggestion of Mr. C. Kent, the hoe. secretary, carried out with the ai lof Mr. E. C. Robins, added a feature singu larly pleasing and appropriate. The walls are divided into twenty large panels, and in the arched, top of each was in. scribed in lettere of gold the title of one of Mr. Dickens's best known works. Behind the chair the royal standard was creased with the stars and stripes, above which was a wreath enclosing the &miller monogram of the guest of the evening, and a scroll with the inscription, " All the Year Round,' the whole being surmounted with the name of " Pickwick." Lord Lyrro:l occupied the chair, and Mr. Charles Dickens sat on his right, and the Lord Chief Justice on his left. Sir Charles Russell, ALP., returned thanks for the army, Captain Honiton Stewart for the navy, and Mr. Tom Taylor for the volunteers. . . . The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the even• ing, said—l cannot but think that wherever our American kinsfolk welcome that presence and bang spell bound on that voice, they will irresistibly feel bow much there is of fellowship and unison between the hearts of America and England. (Cheers.) So that when our countryman quits their shores he will leave behind him many a new friend to that old fatherland which greets them so cordially, through him, in the accents of the mother tongue. (Cheers.) And in those accents what a sense of priceless obligations to himself, and therefore to the land he represents, must steal over his American listeners? How many hours in which pain and sickness hove changed into cheerfulness and mirth beneath the wand of that en chanter! How many a hardy combatant beaten down in the battle of life—and nowhere on this earth is the battle of life sharper than in the commonwealth of America—has taken hope, and courage, and force from the manly lessons of that .rnobtrusive teacher ! (Cheers.) No wonder the rising generation of those who have learned to feel and to think in oar language should eagerly desire to see, face to face, the ma to whose genius their very childhood turned for warmth and light as instinctively as young plants turn to the sun. (Cheers.) But I must not forget that it is not I whom you have come to hear ; and all that I would say, had Ito vindicate the fame of our guest from disparagement or cavil, would be tedious and commonplace to those who know that his career has passed beyond the ordeal of contemporaneous criticism, and has found in the applause of foreign countries a foretaste of the judgment of posterity. I feel, indeed, as if I bad already too long delayed your impatience for the toast that I I now propose—" A prosperous voyage, health, and long life to our illustrious guest and countryman, Charles Diekalle." The toast was received with enthusiastic cheers. Mr. CHARLIB DICREN , , when the cheers with which be was greeted on rising hal subsided, said—No thanks that I an offer you can express nay sense of ray reception by [TWOPENCE this great assemblage, or can in the least suggest to eou how deeply the glowing words of my friend the chair. man, and your acceptance of them, have sunk into my hem t—(cheers)—but both combined have so greatly shaken the compost re which I am used to command before an audience, that I hope you may ob•erve in me some tram of an eloquence more expremive• than the richest words. (Loud and continued cheering). To say that lam fervently grateful to you is to say nothing. To say that I can never forget this beautiful sight is to soy nothing. To say that it brings upon me a rush of emotions, not only in the present, but in the thought, of its remembrance in the future by those who are dearest to me, is to say nctiiing. But to feel all this for the mo ment, even almost to pain, is very much indeed. Mer cutio says of the wound in his breast dealt by the hand of a foe :—" 'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; lut 'tie enough—'twill serve." I may say of the wound in my breast, newly dealt to me by the hands of my friends, that it is deeper than the soundless moment leanuher.) almost And stricken l ke ma n sea, end wider than the whole catholic church. (Cheers an y m sd e delumy add I th:ti u t id has be for m t o h re e than human—and I assure you I am very human indeed— (cheen)—if I could look around upon this brilliant repre sentative company and not feel greatly thrilled and stirred by the presence of so many brother artists, not only in litenetnre, but also in the sister arte—espesiellp paint ieg—amongst whose professors, living, and unhappily, dead, are many of my oldest and best friends. I hope that I may without presumption regard this thronging of my brothers around me as a testimony on their part that they believe that the cause of art generally has been safe in my keeping—(loud cheers)—and that they think it has never been falsely dealt with by me—(continued cheering.) Your resounding cheers just now would have been but so many cruel reproaches to me if I could not here declare that from the earliest days of my career down to this proud night I have always striven to be true to my calling. (Great cheering.) Never unduly to assert it on the one hand, and never on any pretence er consideration to permit it to be patronised in my person on the other, has been the steady endeavour of my life— (cheers)—and I have occasionally been vain enough to hope that I may leave its social position in England better than I found it, (Loud cheers.) Similarly, and equally I hope without pre sumption, I trust that I may take this general representa tion of the public here, through so many orders, pursuits, and degrees, as a token that the public believe that, with a host of imperfections and shortcomings on my head, I have as a writer, in my soul and conscience, striven to be as true to them as they have ever been to be. (Loud cheers.) And here, in reference to the inner circle of the arts and the outer circle of the public, I feel it • duty to night to offer two remarks. I have in my day, at odd times, beard a great deal about literary sesta and cliques, and coteries and barriers, and about keeping this man up and keeping that man down, and about sworn disciples end sworn unbelim ers, and mutual admiration societies— (laughter)—and I know not what other dragons in the upward path. I began to tread it when I was very young, without influence, without money, without companion, introducer, or adviser ; and I am bound to put in evidence in this piece that I never lighted upon those dragons yet. (Loud cheers). So have I heard in my day, at divots other odd times, much gene_ rally to the effect that the English people have little or no love of art for its awn sake, and that they do not greatly care to acknowledge or do honour to the artist. My own experience has been uniformly exactly the reverse. (Loud cheers.) I can say that of my countrymen, though I can not say that of my country. (Cheers.) And now, gentle men, passing to the immediate occasion of your doing me this great honour, the story of any going again to America is very easily and briefly told. Since I was there before a vast and entirely new generation has arisen in the United Staten. Since I was there before mast of the best known of my books have been written and published. The new generation and the books have come to- gether and have kept together, until at length numbers of those who have so widely and constantly read me, naturally desiring a little variety in the relations be tween or, have expressed a strong wish that I ebould read myself. (A laugh.) This wish, at first conveyed to me through public channels and business channels, has gra dually become enforced by an immense accumulation of letters from individuals and associations of individuals, all expressing in the Caine hearty, homely, cordial, unaffected way, a kind of penminil interest in me—l had almost said a kind of personal affection for me—(loud cheer.)—which am sure you will agree with me it would be dull insensi bility on my part nut to prize. (Cheers.) Little by little this pressure has became so great that, although, as Charles Lamb says, " My household gods strike a terribly deep root," I have torn them from their places, and this day week, at this hour, shall be upon the sea. You will readily conceive that I an. inspired besides by a natural desire to see for myself the astonishing change and progress of a quarter of a century over there—to grasp the hands of many faithful Molds whom I left there--to see the faces of the multitude of new friends upon whom I have never looked—and, last not least, to use my best endeavours to lay down a third cable—Peed cheerst—of intercommunica tion and alliance between the old world and the new. Twelve years ego, when, Heaven knows, I little thought I should ever be bound upon the voyage which new lies before me, I wrote in that form of my writings which obtains by far the most extensive circulation, these words about the American nation :—" I know full well that whatever little motes my Leanly eyes may have descried in theirs, they are a kind, large hearted, generous, and greet people." (Cheers.) In that faith I am going to see them again. In that faith I shell, please God, return from them in the spring, in that rime faith to live and to die. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) My lords, ladies, and gentlemen, I told you in the begin ning that I could out thank you enough, soil Heaven knows I have most thoroughly Lept my wont. If I may quote one other short sentence from myself, let it imply all that I have left unsaid . and yet must deeply feel ; let it. potting a girdle round shout the earth. comprehend I oth sides of the Atlantic at once in this eminent, and, sea Tiny Tim observed, ! "God bless us every one. Mr. Dickens resumed his seat amidst hearty cheering, which was sustained for several minutes. Sir C. WENTWORTH DILKE proposed "The Corpo ration of the City of London ," on whose behalf the Lo Mayor responded, end the "Fine Arts" given by Mr. Leveed, wee acknowledged by Sir F. Grant. " Literature " was proposed by Mr. OTwAT, and Mr. ANTIIONY TWiLLoPE, in returning thanks, said that the literature of England was at the present moment in prosperous and healthy condition, in spite of the prospects of the Falls of Niespini, which hail lately been brought beers us, and of those wails of woe from the housetop which had recently been heard. They all loved the great prophet who had predicted these melancholy things, be cause he bad passed a hem life of truth and honesty among them, and had done touch g..0..1 and useful work. Mr. Carlyle bad, however, allowed himself to be carried away by melancholy forebodings till be had forgot that there was still a God among us ; and to say of fiction," Oh, my friends, you will have to think bow clove is the corn aMonship to it with lying." Was Colonel Newcombe, or Sane Eyre or the tale of Eugene Aram —( cheep ) — or the walk whis k Sykes took with his dog sifter the murder a lie? (Chrens.) On the contrary, his belief was that ho and others who wrote fiction had taught purity of life, nobility of action, *elf denial, and hail taught these la tuna with allurements both to young and old which no other preacher of the present .lay could reach, and with a success which would attend the teaching of no prophet. (Cheers.) Sir EDWIN LmilisEEß, in the absence of Sir Emerson Tennent, next gave "The Drama," and Mr. B. Webster responded. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE proposed the health of the chairman. The CHAIRMAN briefly acknowledged the eempliment, and gave the " Ladies," for whom Mr. BI:l'AST4i.e :tidied. The bend of the Coldstream Guards, conducted by Mr. Dan Coate. y performed at intervals during the e e t ete g . and vocal music, under the din chino of Mr. M'iuu, smart hUted to the entertainment of the guest.. .. Mr. C. Dickens, on leaving the hail, was loudly cheered, and as many of Lis friends as could %•preach sofficiaotly near shook him warmly by tl e head. ( hirable the build ing a crowd had collected, who gave Mr. Dickens as hearty a farewell as he bad received in the dining -loom. GREAT EASTERN RAILWAT.—This company has curtailed its train service this month, and has oitirely suspended Sunday trains oa some of the amid! country brarchea— the Lynn and Hunatantoe, the Tendring Hundred, &c. Mr. 0. Joseelyn and Major Jervis, M.l'., two of the directors, have published letters dissenting from the course taken by other member of the board in mom mending the appointment of Mr. Makin, M.l'., to the chairmanship. The ground of objection taken by Mr. Jomelyn and Major Jervis is that from the great pressen, of Mr. Watkin's other engagements as chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield, mud Lincolnshire, tl e South Eastern, and the Grand Trunk of Canada, it woul.lle im possible for him, if be became chairman ..f th e G ree t Eastern, to give due attentiou to the all Air, of the under taking.