The Express. — London, England, 1867-09-26 00:00:00

f; I :Wl3 PAPER , • eVe , _ ti l l , / rof r • • _ 4111111 %514 . 1 7-I " • • \ 4 4 saudxa LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, No. 6,506.] 26, 1867. [STAMP , 11. [TWOPENCE FOIAN LIN E.—The LIVERPOOL, NEW foi;s, and PIIILADELP/lIA imuuuamr COMPANY oo d despatching their full powered Clyde-built bon screw w ycanips, carrying the United Matte Malta, calling at Queens- Inland, on the following day, to take on bred p a a se ngers w id ea pmehes, and with liberty to call at an intermediate port: CITY Or LONDON, Wednesday, October 9. ci IN or WAsIIINGTON, Saturday, October 12. CITY tIV PA illS, Wednesday, .oer ld. CITY Or A\ mbar, Wednesday, October And every Wednesday and Saturday. Cabin passage by the mail steamers sailing every Wednesday, is. 21 guinea., according W the accommodation. Forward Includes a full supply of cooked provisioos. Passengers For trusids and the United ioates booked through on very aduan liteo4ll terma—For further particulars apply to WILLIAM I) miN. T. Water-street, Uverpool ; and to iIYLS and MACNY, ni. sing Wllliam-street. Loudon. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. THE TYROL AND SWITZERLAND• been made there. It is also the seat of some cotton manufactures. Judging from the value of money here, there is some scarcity of capital ; for the lowest terms on which good commercial bills can be discounted here is at present not under four per cent., and five per cent. can easily be ob tained on first-rate mortgages of land. Politically Switawiand is tranquil just now ; but the Federal government continues its prepara tions for military emergencies. the Committee of Ways and Means at the time the bonds were issued that they were payable in gold ; but owing to the fact that it is expressly stated on the bond that the interest is payable in gold, some acute lawyers, are trying to persuade the public to interprete the obligation by the aid of the legal rule, erpressio univa , exclusio alterim, and to argue that inasmuch as the payment of the interest in gold is expressly provided for, the payment of the principal in gold would also have been expressly provided for if it had been intended, and that, therefore, there would be no breach of faith now in paying off these bonds in paper cur rency. It is hardly necessary to say that the real reasonwhy the payment of the interest in gold was expressly provided for was that the interest became payable at once, and paper being a legal tender, the public would have had no means of estimating the value of the investment, unless they had been assured that they would get their interest in specie; while the bond not becoming payable for at least five years, and the general opinion being that long before that time we should have returned to specie payments, and the practice of the government having been to pay its "long debts" in gold, it was not thought necessary to make any express stipu lation with regard to the principal. General Butler has written to the papers stoutly denying that he wishes for a fresh lune of greenbacks, as Pendleton does, to pay off the public debt. All he asks for is the issue of a fresh loan, with the pro ceeds of which the bonds are to be paid off, the in terest of the new loan being payable in specie, and thus save " the people " the heavy burden on their industry which the present gold interest creates, and he maintains that he is not seeking to do in justice to the bondholders, inasmnch as, consider ing the low value of the paper currency when they bought the bond., they would all make something, instead of losing anything, by receiving their principal in paper currency now. A large propor tion of the bonds were issued when gold ranged from 200 to 280 ; it now stands at 146. This controversy is one which was sure to come sooner or later. No public debt of any considerable amount has ever yet been fully paid off by any nation; so that,whether any debt will be ever fully and fairly paid off without trick or evasion, we are unable to say. But it is certain that no national debt has ever been run up without attempa being made by ingenious persons tc persuade the debtors that the creditors might fairly, by some process or other, be put off with less than was promised them. The point which General Butler has raised against the creditors here, that they lent their money during a suspension of specie payment, and are, there fore, not entitled to the full nominal amount of their bonds after specie payments have been re stored, was raised against the holders of the Eng lish debt after 1819, and for a long time vehemently argued. The idea has long since died out in England ; but much more easily, I am afraid, than it will die out here, as here there will always be a strong body of persons, both at the North and South, averse from paying the debt at all. GRAND VOLUNTEER BALL AT THE AGRICULTURAL HALL (IIIEIZR . B TILIOEME6) ITALY. FLORENCE, SEPT. 25. (1/000 A 001 BT. GALLEN, flan. 23. The public demonstration which took place last night in consequence of the arrest of General Garibaldi led to some disturbances. Numerous patrols paraded the streets, and made several arrests. It is rumoured that three police officers were wounded by the crowd. Travelling—if one could rely on or work out the statements of guide and hand books—ia re markably cheap in the Tyrol and Vorarlberg. My experience does not concur in these state ments. A good carriage competent for four persons and their baggage cannot be had at say Botzen for less than three napoleons a day, inclusive of renferta, barrier money, and trinkgelt ; for each day of rest you pay a napoleon; nay, from Botzen to Bregenz across the Fin stermunz, some 150 miles, we, four in number, were charged 17 napoleons, the journey occupying five days and a half. The horses, a pair, were strong but slow ; the vehicle itself commodious and weathortight; the voiturier (Franz Weedenhofer, of Botzen) courteous, intelligent, and punctual ; and the renforts five in number. These, with other petty payments which Weedenhofer had to make, wet him, so he assured us, eight napoleons ; but., this was obviously, I calculated, an exaggeration, their actual cost was perhaps nearly five napoleons. But these return engagements are very doubtful ; and for their scarcity you have, of course, to pay. But still it is, in my opinion, a mistake to say that travelling is cheap. Neither can I concur in the opinions expressed as to the inns. You don't, of course, expect good hotels, or the fare of towns, but some of the places you are compelled to rest in and fed in are positively execrable. By much the worst is, un fortunately, that so charmingly situated at nearly the top of the Finstermunz. Everything but the beds there is bad : the meat is uneatable, the bread sour almost beyond sourness, garlick prevails at every meal, and ammoniacal smells make the pas sages and stairs quite dreadful, Nor are the charges very moderate. The beet of these inns are those at St. Anton and Landek—the former quite primitive in its simplicity ; but there at least you can satisfy hunger by bread that is endurable, and at Landek you get something in the shape of dinner and a good bottle of Voslauer. Of course as you get nearer to the Lake of Constance, there is gradually some im provement ; at Feldkerke, in the Hotel d'Angleterre, is good sleeping accommoda tion in spite of fleas, and at Bregenz the Hotel d'Aiitriche notifies your return to civilization. But I strongly recommend travellers through the Tyrol to provide themselves with tea, some potted meats, a flask of good brandy, and, as diarrhoea is pre valent, with a case of sago. The excellence of the trout has been much exaggerated, and it is dear ; the peasantry take it in nets, so that there is little fly fishing, and they can throughout the Tyrol sell it for nearly a florin a pound. The veal, of which so much is written and printed, is the reverse of good, the mutton is vile, and the beef poor and hard. It is, too, a good rule in travelling to fill your pockets with and carry off bread whenever it is eatable, for no reliance can be placed on the next inn. From Botzen to this place we had not one decent dinner ; but at the Hotel du Brochet, at st. Oall, you dine as well as in London or ' Paris. VOTICE to PASSENGERS for BREMEN. 1.1 The North German Lloyd's OCTOW Steamer SCHWAN k dtt.olood, and WILL NOT LEAVE BLACEWALL O 4 ao.rertlsed, tout will be despatched on BATOR to V. the 41th lust.. weather Permitting.—For further parties sto.;v to o'HAYLIN'S l'utversal o otter, Segall-circus, W.; ur to rIIILLIPri, OLATt-i, PHILLIPTS and to., se. Dun st.v, our, moss hum, E.C. FLORENCE, Snr. 25, 10.15 P.M. The National Guard has been called out. Popu lar demonstrations took place to-day before the headquarters of the National Guard and in the Piazza Signoria, but this evening the city is tranquil. AMERICA. (PROM OUR SPECIAL CORBISPOI(1)112(7.) • NEW YORK, SEPT. 14. _ _ WEDEN and BACK in seven days from S London, allowing 56 hours In Sweden.—This he an minor logy that may be embraced by the renowned twin screw gamer MA It% , Captain THOM. LEIGH, appointed to sail on ^AA rcpt , trona the West ladle Dock buoys, for GUTHENDURCI, an d ra a r) alternate Saturday es heretofore (weather permitting). ramtyxr* will likewiee Ind this a most Interesting route to Norway aol Russia, and should make early applications for baths. Cares to Gothenburg, C 3 Si. and g 2 51. ; return. CS lat ad anddeck pply at CHAPLIN'S Office, Regent. circus. w. :or to P H I LLlPrli, GRAVES, rIIILLIPPS sad Co., A Dunstan's-house, Crewels's.. Great Tower-street. FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 25, EVENING. The Monitcwr du Soir in its bulletin, speaking of the arrest of General Garibaldi, says : "All sensible minds will approve the conduct of the Italian government, which is conformable to the stipulations of the September convention, over the maintenance of which France and Italy must watch with equal solicitude in the interest of the good relations existing between the two countries." THE REPRESENTATION of tho PEOPLE ACT, 1867. BOUM DAY Y WM MII3SION. Soncr 18 — Siril — stiOr-Osaeral BAIN LLB:GE, F.. E., and NASSAU J. SENIOR, Esquire, Barrister .t.law, two of the Assistant CoalmlaskaUdia appointed by the peoldary Commissioners for England and lA ales under the provisions of the Representation of the People Act. 1867, *Meilen.' at the Courthouse. Wellelose-equare, on MONDAY, M. lath day of September. 1987, at Eleven o'clock. for the per. p. 14 i,441: I RlNii into the BOUND.% itilth of the Borough of Lae Doh ES HAMLETS, with the view to aimertain whether Use B L indarric. should be enlarged so en to include within the limits of the Borough all premises which ought, due regard beim hrl to sttimtion and other local circumstances, to be included stereo, for the purpose of conferring upon the occupiers thereof the Parbamcntary Franchise for such Borough. The ArhOil4Di COlainini"Derl wUI be prepared breadth, at the thee sod place ebovetueutioned, the statements of any persona ebe may to desirous of giving information as to the Boundaries Or other bw.d di\ umstauces of the Borough. e W. FR 1:11.1 NTLE, Secretary to the Commissioner!. A Old Palace-yard, Westminster, SW., Sept. 15, 164. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, SEPT. 25, EVENING. The Bourse Gazette of this evening says :—" The I exchange of ratifications of the treaty for the withdrawal of Austria from the German Monetary Union took place on the 17th inst." The Provincial Corrc.epondence of this evening, referring to the relations between the Prussian government and the King of Hanover, states that they will now be arranged very shortly. It adds : "The statement that an understanding had already been arrived at is premature, but in any case the course Prussia will adopt will once more afford a proof of the most careful personal consideration for King George." A royal decree has been issued, dated the 22nd , inst., relative to the Provincial Estates Constitu- I tion of Schleswig and Holatein,which are henceforth to be united under the name of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein. NORWICH UNION FIRE OFFICE. The hdt bcnefit of the reduction of duty to la bd. per amt i. O ren to insurers effecting policies with this Company. Sy this reduction and the 1102i141 SYSTRII of the NORWICH UNION. the cost of Insurance is reduced to a minimum amount EXAMPLE:4 Oh PILSMIUMS REDUCED BY BONUS. So. of Polic7. l Sum Insured ---:... 441,411 450.166 484,173 5013.97 S Premlas. i Z a d. 13) 19 2 36 0 0 19 18 8 4 6 4 than theme Owl litithmed Prem. now payable. L L s. 4. 02,540 222 4 4 12.000 U 0 0 4,200 IS 14 0 6.000 7 10 0 RUSSIA AND THE EASTERN QUESTION. ST. PETERSBURG, Sun. 25, EVIININO. The rates of premium are In no ease try the other principal alma giving no boar to their Laserera. Tbs duty paid to troverantant for the year len was 5t14.1112 IL uL ; the annamt insured on farming stock was L 10,103,472. For prospectuses apply at the Society's offices, SO, Tamitietreet, C. : and Surrey.street, Norwich. The Journal de St. Petersboury of this evening contains a semi-official article pointing out that great animosity is displayed by the Austrian press in their statements concerning Russia. The article declares in particular that the version of the alleged conversation between the Czar and Fuad Paola, published by the New Free Press, is framed in different parts with positive malevolence, The Russian organ proceeds thus :—" There has • never been any question whatever of this govern ment coming to an understanding with the Porte to the exclusion of the other powers. Russia was the first to invite the European powers to oome to a joint understanding relative to affairs in the East, 'that being the only pledge of a peaceful and equi table solution. This understanding Russia has succeeded in realising, in a certain measure, and she will persevere for the future in the same path." SCIENTIFIC and MISCELLANEOUS APPARATUS. MR. J. C. STEVENS will BELL by ALICTION, at his Great Booms, 10, King-street, Oases': TIORROW, Sept. 27, at half-past 12 precisely, CAMERAfi gard M IM by Mass, Burr, and Maims; chemicals, negatives, and otherphotographle appirattis, large astronomical telescope by Meg, microscopes and • variety of objects for ditto, @inch theo dolite, unveiled alr-punip and receivers, dissolving view lanterns, musical boxes, • lint-rate largenize concertina, by Chhiley, opera and race glasses, stereoscopes and slides, &L— -OD new this day and morning of sale, anti catalogues bid. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. XXHIBITION, oelebrated old IRISH WHISKY 188. gained the DITBLLN mu MEDAL—It le pure, send, mallow, delicious, sod very wholesome. bold in bottles, he. Bd. each, at the retail houses Is London ; by the agents In the principal towns in England ; cc wholesale at 11, Great Windmill-greet, Lon W. Observe the MM seal, ph* halal, and cart breaded Ylosltan's LL Whisky. ?dILXICO. A BARGAIN.—TWO FIRE and BURGLAR .O.II4. MO, SAVES to be SOLD cheap, nearly Dew, pert of the canted an %mahout. Apply, between to and it, to Mr. MIL MAD, accountant, 42, tlartatrect. Bloornatraryuqoare. BRUSSELS CARPETS, 2s. 1O d. ; best quality, ss. 84d. per yard ; Tapestry ditto, Pa eld. £20.000 worth rumbas. Bedsteads (In brass, Iron, and wood), Bedding, and trbolstery, and a large lot 01 Linen goods at very reduced pi AU goods warranted, end delivered fees Illustrated prime lists gratis A now reduced sue of Turkey carpeta WM WA INC. wholesale and export Upholsterer and General tarnishing Warehouseman, 139 to 139, Newlngton•butta ; facto ries, 46 to 40, Frandsetreet. HER and OLMTNY, OUTFITTERS. d. irriOnstoegabilahroent of be Load" pert doer to Somerset best filme N.B. Lasts =Mei esteem, outfit for every purpose tal gpoinWeut to India, Mink sod the etiolates. vat be for as applirattee. PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE (Pateeted).—The newel* and best toilet soap, wears wall, Owe a rich and fmrant lather, V entirely fres from cocoa nut t h o u mow el allu4 and contains hall its weight el yea's du glycerine _ Sold In 4d. and 6d. tablets. PRICES PATENT CANDLE OOMPANT (Ladled), Belmont Work; BASsessa. &W. and SOI7ND TEETH are indispens- W il ma T e E to personal attractlen, sad to health end longest* /Inn resettcatton of food. 1110111 ANDS ODONTO, or D TIPRICE, compounded of Oriental Ingredients. Is d loathed& vents In and besstityMg the Teeth strengthening the and In ug • pluming &scams to , De breath. It ersates tarter the teeth, removes if recipient decay, and polishes sad preserves the to Mdch it imparts 61. mi-like whiteness. Its. Insolvable lies hare obtained the patroness of rosette sad the eltnrope, sad lt Is unlvenelly In Mak reps/o. Prke IkL pie bet Bold et Datton-garden end by shemiele and pettuisers. Alt ler Itowland's Odunto. TOZEMYS COPAHINE-MEGE.-11. OuDeities. se the seerstery of the comadttee tad by tha Academe; 0 Medicine of Perla to institute te touching the Co. PthineMege, expressed himself at the meeting of the Nth of October, IMO. as follows:—" The tea patients treated with the osmium were cured in four, seven, snd eight days, without tunes, colic, sicknese, or any renew: we.- The Academy re. Grit; ewes to send a letter of thanks to the of the Capable*. Root Loyd . Poland, Le Gros Clark, , and Callaway hews sucenfolly repeated these a:permeate in Mel Bar th *. loom's, St. Thomaa'a, Gaya cad the Royal ►ree owlish. (See The Limn of March 3a, tan . ). —Sold at 4a. Ild. a bottle by all re linetable chemist& General Genet, 49, najmarket, Landoll, at 3. JOZILAVII, the only Yrench ftermisden with the diploma of the Perim School of Pharmacy. _W:SCOTT'S BILIOUS wad LIVER P . II , ZZ sever lalling remedy, prapood without any iieraneot, will be found MinUsable' to all who Wks trona Whom lad liver complaint., initigai win& mama etells= Med ina at the eyes. en For yabitrl moltainom, as • gamily Moot medicine, arid as • Oldies' d 118 Ms" , ths,antrue !modem ; mid In their operation med ato the otonsach, ehhooleappetite, pr•zoo and strewth= the "nous "Mem— toand BM by . lopwt. thomiot, d, Ling L it eu mniolreet. Charlag-erom, and b mad dreerhisg e s bees IL sod t.r roe times the quantity onis fa. N. mre to ma *Dr. Scott's Moos and Liver NHL The liernolho mu th • l ifts m Peen ;wimpy with " Lumbar imoravot as W *u PISS BRAIMOICB NEW ILLUSTRATZD AIAOAZLNI.. BOa Friday, 27th Inst., price ODO Shilling, EL GR A VIA. rr Iron OCTOBER. Desdhes Fruit. CO A or N ov e l . By the Author of "lady Audley's Sean," Re. Illustrated by Lends Huard. Chap. 9. How lhey Parted. to. They. Is always the Skeletos. 11. aim.: a fast quo respire." z Over the Mountains Illustrated by Alfred Thompson. B London Parka By Walter Thornburt 2. Bt. Jamm'rperk— Blde park. 4. Michael Faraday. A Memoir. By J. Seoffern, Y.E. Paris Faxhions. By George Augustus Sale- T. ! L eWilian. Illustrated by Alfred Thompson. Ands of Prey. A Novel. !Months , . holiday. By Mortimer Collins. S• A Lancashire Coast Adventure. ;°, 11 and Auay. Illu s tr a t e d by Louis Huard and R. P. Leitch. lI "wm Gay. A Novel. By the Auth or o f "Bella D onna ,' " Never Forgotten.' Re. Chap. 1 At School. 2. The Two Boy. 3. The Crest Day. 4. The Prima. H Imes Flower-garden. MAIM —1 ti the November number of "Belgravia" will Writ ft uncle entities" TH K CANT OF CRITICISM. 27 Geerie Augnatus Sala. N B. The Third Volume of " Belgravia." elegantly bound In climate cloth bevelled boards. tun It Ado and blebtrZi‘el. !TIM 7a ed., u now ready. Also, Cease for (ILL "440•,01 by Luke Limiter. Oleue : Warelck-bows. Paterneeter•row. . _ TH E OA RA COL LIERT. —The first body was, Ivougla up from the pit shortly before six o'clock last nm& The clothing was completely off and the CU so decomposed that identafmation of the Mores was impossible. It is @apposed to be that of John • volunteer, who went in on the day after the lint ..._ 00 . The poor w oman w h o woo so mock injured by ""gieg into one of the engine -rooms as the °Wiser,' on .._klar week is sinking fast, so that all hope of her re -4 has has been abendoard. THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. The New York journals have been printing the despatches which Lord Stanley issued about three weeks ago. The first of the series—Mr. Seward's first letter of the series—having by the substitu tion of an erroneous date been made to appear to have been written in August, 1867, instead of August, 1866, has been reproduced this week in I London u a new contribution to the discussion, although we gave it correctly in our impression of the 2nd inst. The New lurk Times of the 13th, however, gives Mr. Seward's rejoinder to Lord Stanley's despatch of May 8, and this is new. To make it intelligible we give so much of Lord Stan ley's despatch as is met by the reply : . _ _ Mr. Seward (write' Lord Stanley) ape clearly enough that the government of the United States cannot consent to a special and peculiar limitation of arbitration in regard to the Alabama claims, such as her Majesty's government suggest ; but from his nest observation it might be inferred that the offer, as regards arbitration, snide by her Majesty's government, in my deapatch of the 9th of March, was understood to have applied only to claims mixing out of the proceedings of the Alabama, to the ex. elusion of those arising out of the like proceedings of the Florid►, Shenandoah, and Georgia. It is important to clear up this point, and you will therefore Mate to Mr. Seward that the offer to go to arbitration was not re stricted to the claims arising out of the proceedings of the Alabama, but applied equally to those arising out of the like proceedings of the other vessels that I have named. To this a final rejoinder was made by Mr. Seward on the 12th of August, and is as follows : _ _ The Fresident wanders these terms to be at once com prehensive and sufficiently precise to include all the claims of Amerima cities= for depredations upon their com merce daring the late rebellion, which have been the sub ject of complaint upon the part of this government. But the United States government, in this view, would deem itself at liberty to insist before the arbiter that the actual proceedings and relations of the British government, its officers, agents, and subjects, toward the United States is regard to the rebellion and the rebels, as they occurred during the rebellion, are among the matters which are con nected with the verde whose depredations are complained of, just as in the case of general claims alluded to by Lord Stanley, the actual proceedings and relations of her Majesty's government, its officers, agents, and subjects, is regard to the United States, and in regard to the rebellion and the rebels, are neernarily connected with the trauma time eat of which those general claims arose. The New York Times observes that The progress made toward &settlement of these belligerent claims with the governmset of Great Britain cannot be re garded as unsatisfactory. The sum, then, of the difference between the two governments, so fares reaching a fair basis of oonference and arbitratica is concerned, seems to be reduced to the question whether the policy sa well as the acts of the British government and its agents in relation to the late rebellion shall come under review. The matter thus in dispute—if it is actually in dispute—does not seem material. The policy of the Queen's advisers will inci dentally some under notice in determining the validity of the claims submitted. And we should judge that the principle of arbitrating these claims, if once heartily as seated to on both sides, a settlement which shall prove mutually satisfactory to both governments need not be long deferred. Lzirznn, &C., TOR THE ARYBBINDLN EXPEDT noi.—AII lotions, &0., which may be posted, directed to persons earring in the expedition about to be mat to Abyssinia, will, when not otherwise addressed, be forwarded in the mail for Suez, for transmission thence by such opportunities as may offer. Upon all such letter, feu, the postage, is fm as Suez, most be prepaid at the following ratan:—Vl! Bentlutniptoa : For a letter not exceeding or. in weight, 6d.; for newspapers, Id. each ; for book peals& not exceeding 4 oza., H. VIA Marseilles ; For a letter not exceeding on. in weight, 6d.; for newspapers, 28. each, when not exceeding 4 oss.; for book packets net exceeding 4 oze., 4d.—By commend of the Porotearis- GessaLt.. General Post.oillee. Sept. 25, 1867. The beauty of the route, however, well compen sates all these privations and petty annoyances. The natural scenery is charming, the air most invigo rating, the constant succession of villages pic turesque, the rivers and mountain torrents glo rious, the people kind, simple, and courteous, the churches all in excellent condition, the houses substantial, the soil in the valleys and on the hill aides most fertile, and as you descend through the Vorarlberg to the Lake of Constance the country is studded with cotton mills and manufactories, worked generally by water power, and some of them belonging to Englishmen. The painful features are the dirt of the people, and their ragged, imperfect clothing. Compared with Switzerland, the people are obviously poor ; yet, in many respects, the country is superior. The inferiority is in the government, which has done little or nothing for the development of the natural resources of the land ; whereas in Switzerland there is in all directions evidence of a government rising to the emer gencies and necessities of the situation. Neglect is the rule of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg ; care and attention the rule of Switzerland. Now, however, that the line of railway is complete from Salzburg to Verona, the Austrian government is turning its thoughts to a line from Innsbruck to Bregenz, in which there are no very serious difficulties to encounter ; and that made, there will be an easy I route, across the Lake of Constance, from Frank fort to Italy, developing from Bregenz, a new and fertile country. The construction of this short line is of far more importance to Austria than all its haute politique, and the devotion of the Tyrolese to the House of Hapeburg through all its misfortunes and exigencies richly deserves its speedy con struction. St. Gallen is one of the most flourishing towns in Switzerland. Long ago it became a seat of linen manufacture, brought hither by French and Ita lian refugees. But now tine cotton goods have completely superseded linen fabrics, and the com merce in them is annually increasing. The com mercial treaty with France has not produced all the advantages to St. Gallen that were anticipated ; its fabrics do not quite suit French taste and wants ; but the demand for them in Belgium, Eng land, and the United States is so rapidly augmenting as amply to compensate for this disappointment. In November the town is full of foreign buyers, and again in February. There are, too, considerable iron manufacturies in the neighbourhood, and in both these fabrics St. Gallen can hold its own against external rivalry, thanks to the freedom, the energy, and enterprise of its population. There are already no fewer than five joint stock banks in the town, besides many private bankers, and the canton is about to start a bank of its own. With that view subscriptions were lately opened at BAle for a small five per cent. loan, which were filled in a few hours. But the operation was either premature or ill-advised ; and it led to a change in the cantonal go vernment, much, it is said, for the public good. The people here are among the best specimens of the Swiss : sturdy, active, strong, money-making, and resolute, and restless in their love of freedom. The neighbouring town of Winterthur, though much smaller, is, however, the richer place. It is the centre of the trade and speculation in cotton in Switzerland; in thatrespect, its LiverpoolandHavre • combined. Between those ports and Winterthur the telegraphic communications about cotton wool and ; its fluctuations are incessant ; and the consequence • is that very large fortunes in cotton have of late There has been no change in the situation since I last wrote. The defeat in California and the falling off in Maine seem to have had the effect of inspiring the republicans with caution. The Massachusetts Nominating Convention have just been holding their meeting at Worcester, and they, while expressing in strong terms their ad hesion to the Congressional plan of reconstruction, • ve carefully avoided taking any ground what ever, either with regard to impeachment, or to the prohibitory liquor law, which is now the great bone of contention in State politics, and which, in the opinion of many people, was sure to cause a break up eventually in the republican pact. Impeach ment, although, as I have said, I think the majority of the party now incline to it, is not yet so plainly necessary, that the leaders, even in Massacusetta, like to declare openly for it so long before Congress meets. It may be that Mr. JOhnson's courage or rage will have expended it before the let of December, and he may roar as gently as any sucking dove when the session opens, in which case, in spite of the strong provocation given by the removal of Sheridan and Stanton, the majority may, in consideration of Chant's presence in the War-office, and in the ab sence of any attempt to restore the deposed officials in Louisiana, be willing to let bygones be bygones, and simply form themselves into a corps of obser vation, and watch Johnson till his term of office expires. Therefore the State Convention, while expressing their opinion about Mr. Johnson pretty strongly, will refrain for the present from saying what they think ought to be done with him. What has occurred in Maine renders similar prudence necessary with regard to the liquor law. It is generally admitted by all reasonable men that total prohibition has, in Massachusetts at least, proved a total failure. Perhaps a smaller number of individuals drink now than drank before, but those who do drink drink more than ever. The desire for liquor is in no way abated, and the frauds and tricks resorted to to procure it, or con ceal the possession of it, are generally acknow ledged to be in the highest degree de moralizing. Nevertheless, the prohibitionists make up in zeal for what they want in numbers, and are not by any means abashed and discouraged by their apparent failure, and are so absorbed in their scheme, that they would, it is feared, go to any length, even to the length of splitting the republican party, in order to carry their point. So the question is for the pre senTshelved in the republican councils. The finaacial question is evidently pressing itself more and more on the public attention, and if Mr. Johnson would only keep quiet, he might pro mise himself that he would be forgotten in the uproar about the public debt. The paper cur rency, and the beet mode of getting rid of it, are at this moment the great subjects of discussion in the newspapers. The process of contraction is slowly going on, at the rate of 4,000,000 dollars a month, as provided for by Congress, and the abundant promise of the harvest has thus far prevented its producing any sensible effect on prices. But there is no question that the bulk of the western farmers are opposed to contrac tion, at all events to anything like rapid contraction, while many of them—most of them I hear some people say—though I do not believe it—are in favour of inflatien—that is of a further issue of greenbacks. Some of the bankers here are even greatly alarmed lest, if Mr. M'Cul luch should be dismissed, as it is feared he may be, his place should be taken by an inflationist, and a policy of expansion be once more resorted to, under western pressure. The farmers are not very well versed in the mysteries of finance ; and although one would think it would not require any great amount of penetration to perceive that inas much as expansion of the currency, by affecting all prices equally, would benefit no interest in parti cular, nevertheless it would require more pene tration than the agricultural mind can always boast. The American farmer pays out very little money for anything. Supposing him once pro vided with tools and machinery, his expenses are few and simple. He does not, except in some of the most worn-out districts on the eastern coast, use, or need to use, manure ; he employs little or no labour, most of his work being done by machinery, with his own help and that of his family. He spends but little in clothes, and raises nearly all his own food, so that his mind, in thinking of the volume of the currency, is impressed rather by its effect on what he is likely to receive than what he is likely to have to pay. In other words, you produce more effect on his imagination by talking to him of the prices of his farm produce than of the prices of clothing or implements, so that you do not frighten him from demanding more paper money, as you might frighten the intriguer in the east, by reminding him that the consequent rise in the price would affect commodities equally. He wants more for his corn, and his hogs, and his wheat, and if he is likely to get it, does not trouble himself much about what he will have to pay for ploughs, or rakes, or for his Sunday broadcloth. The shrink ing which has been going on in prices during the summer and spring have afflicted him a good deal, and made him very restive. It must not be left out of sight, too, that the amount of capital in the west is very small ; it is always largely indebted to the east ; and nearly all the western farmers are heavily burdened by having bought more land than they could afford to pay for, and consequently having to struggle with mortgages usually held in eastern cities. Whatever renders the interest on these mortgages easy to meet is, of course, popular with them, as western debtors are all armed with a tolerably stringent usury law. The point most discussed just now is whether the Five-Twenty Bonds are or are not payable in gold. Of course it was understood by the civilised world that they were payable in gold ; it lies been the practice of this government always to pay it►l debts in gold ; it was stated by the Chairman of Advice. datod Matamoros, Sept. 4, state that a proclamation had been promulgated ordering the election of Deputies to Congress, and for president of the Supreme Court, on the 22nd of September. The district elections were to take place on the Gth, 7th, and Bth inst. Congress meets on the 20th of November ; the President takes his seat on the Ist of December, and the Chief Justice on the Lt of June. The brigand troops of Canalea had surrendered themselves to the authorities at Linares. General Esoobedo, with 2,000 troops, reached Monterey on the 28th ult. General Castello was pardoned on the 13th. General Dias retires to private life. MR. Bremer M.P.—Previous to leaving the residence of Mr. baird, at eassencarry, the Prevails of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, and Wigtown, with other gen tlemen, were invited to meet and dine with Mr. Bright. Provost Turner, of Dumfriea, availed himself of that op portunity of presenting to Mr. Bright a requisition bear ing about forty signatures, which had been hurriedly got up in the town, Inviting the hon. member for Birmingham to a soiree, or other public meeting, at smelt a time as might suit his convenience. Mr. Bright declined the invi tation, assigning as his reason his desire for rest after the fatigues of the session.—Dutafries Courier. THE RITUAL COMMISSION. —The Chureh Review is glad to hear that, since the bane of the Ritual Commis- ISon Report thirty This parish owing u prt h es i te havebun to wr: in ths vestmenosd them of their locality. report 's having THE LATh SERVICES AT ST. LAWRENCE JEWRY, LONDON.—The Rev. B. M. Cowie writes to the Guardia* that 350/. were collected at these services. The large* sums wets given when the metropolitans et South Africa and New Zealand preached. The contributions were, with very small ogooptions. in half-crowne,/ca., down to p. Dies. On some occasions every one in the church wee anxious to give something. The congregation always con tained a very large proportion of poor people, who settled to enjwy the chea ts and hymns. Mr. Co w ls iseintow• ledges himself ' indebted to many olarepusen for assistance, chiefly to ishop Tozer, the Rev. R. R. Brie towe, an d the Rev. J. W. (ledge, and to Mews. Back and Harrington, who live in the parish, and without whom the scheme could not have been cents' d out ; to Mr. Turner, the honorary organist, and Mr. Morton Turner, who was precentor. All the choir were volunteers their re verent demeanour and the excellence of the singing were most remarkable. Tee PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD.--Seventy-eight pre lates attended she conference yesterday morning. There Was the usual gathering outside the palace gates of those anxious to catch a sight of the bishops, but the church bells did not ring out a merry peal as on Tuesday. It is believed that the three days originally lied will not snake to conclude the business of the conference. The service on Saturday will take place in St. pariah church, Lambeth. It is rumoured that the Bishop of Montreal, Dr. Folioed, Metropolitan of Canada, will be the preacher. THE WORKING OF THE New ReFoRM BILL.— Considersble agitation has prevailed in Preston with re gard to a move which is being made by oottage property owners for what is @enflamed by the occupiers to be an unfair advance of rent. A meeting of owners has been held, and at it a resolution was passed to the effect that notices should be served upon all compounding tenants, intimating that, upon its expiration, if they remained on the premise.* the rent would be the game, that they would have to pay the poor's-rata themselves, and that the owners would continue to pay the Local Board of Health and water rates. Almost, if not quite, every compounding householder in Preston has since received a notice of this character. The notices railing upon tenants to " quit or deliver up possession" of the houses, ko., they occupy, or else to pay the rents hitherto required, as well as the peor.rates which have been paid by the landlords and in eluded in the rent, will come into absolute operation on Saturday next. On Tuesday evening, a meeting was to be held in the town with reference to cote mate, Ice. THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION. —The Manchester I city council, et a special roasting yesterday, resolved that It is not expedient or derdrabh that the hoste -1 daries of the parliamentary borough of Manchester should be extended, and a deputation was appointed to i support this view before the assistant commisaioners. Lieutenant-Oolonel Ward, B.K, end Mr. J. L. Wharton hem given Bodice of their Wendell to visit Birmingham oq Wednesday next, for the purpose of inquiring into the boundaries of the borough, with the view to ascertain whether the same should be enlarged so as to include within the limits of the boron h all premises which ought, due regard being bad to sitnatsonland other local eircum starter, to be 'Deluded therein, for the purpose of °oder ring upon the occupiers thereof theparliamentary,franchiae for snob borough. ROYAL HOSPITAL TOR DISIASIM or THIS CHEST, Criv-Roan. B.C.—The number of patients under treat ' meet at this hospital during the past week amounted to 77481 which 64 were new Gams. The Grand Volunteer Ball took place last night at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, under dis tinguished patronage ; but, although the arrange ments were complete and excellent, and the ball room, decorated as it was for the great fête given to the Belgians, presented an animated and, indeed, splendid appearance, the attend ance of visitors was not so was as anticipated, and as far as nu la n r irers were concerned the entertainment cannot be re as a success. In numbers only could it, t a o r itler, be looked upon as in any degree a failure. The crystal illuminations which have re tained their places since the Belgian ball shone with undiminished brilliancy ; the numerous ban ners which have waved over the crowded audiences of so many concerts had lost none of their rich . new and variety of colouring; and the restoration to their old positions of the men in armour which were lent by the War-office to do honour to the • Belgians, completed the effect of the varied and tasteful decorations, by which the Messrs. Defries in July last converted a cattle-shed into a ball , room. Fresh flowers and e had been plated on the parterres and banks, and the deep lines of their foliage and the rich tints of their blossoms tended greatly to enhance the beauty of the scene. The prismatic fountains threw their many-coloured dreams into the air at intervals, • and a fairy snow storm cast its delicate flakes upon the banks of flowers by which they were sur rounded. The dais, which was occupied by the Prince of Wales and the royal party upon , the last occasion, was last night appropriated to the ' reception of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and the seats on either side were occupied by ladies and gentlemen. The orchestra was occupied by 150 musicians, under the direction of Mr. Dan Go dfrey ; and on either side of it had been reared lofty banks of flowers and shrubs, upon which the eye, dazzled with the splendour of the illuminations and deco rations, rested with an agreeable sense of relief. The doors of the hall were opened at 8 o'clock, but it was not until some time afterwards that the room was at all well filled. At first thearrivals were . but few and far between, but by-and-bye ladies in rich dresses, and volunteers in their varied uniforms, dropped in in twos and threes, and spread themselves over the floor. Dancing began about 10 o'clock, and started with a spirit which was maintained throughout the evening. After it had continued for about an hour, it was suspended for • short time in order that due honour might be paid to the Lord Mayor and the civic authorities on their ar rival. His lordship, who was accompanied by Lady Gabriel and Miss Gabriel, Alderman and Sheriff Sir S. H. Waterlow and Lady Waterlow, Mr. Under-Sheriff Crossley, Miss Steddall, Miss A. Waterlow, Miss Lutwiche, Miss Law, Mr. P. Waterlow, and Mr. C. Evans, was saluted upon his entrance by a guard of honour furnished by the 29th Middlesex Volunteers, and was received by Ca tain Defries, Hon. Artillery Com pany, chairman ; Captain Williams, vice-chair man ; Lieut. Greene, hon. sec. ; and the other members of the ball committee, who conducted him to the dais. Among those who received the civic party were Major-Gen. Bird,Col. Cruikahank, of the Havelock Rifles, Colonel Wilkinson, and Messrs. Charles White, J. Filcher, and J. Wood home. As the civic party entered the band played the march from the Prophete. The Lord Mayor and hia friends remained seated for only a short tune, after which they descended into the hall, and a quadrille was formed, in which they took Part- About one o'clock supper was served. The Lord Mayor supped in the room occupied on the last occasion by the Prince of Wales. Mr. Defries took the chair at the head of the principal table ; and after supper the health, of the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family, the Army, Navy, and Volunteers, and of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London, were proposed and duly honoured. After supper the dancing was resumed, and continued with great spirit until a late hour. The arrangements for the last three nights of the " season" at the Ag,ricultural hall, which, like the previous performances, are under the direction of Mr. F. Kingsbury, include, this evening, a grand concert, with Madame Lemmens-Shemng ton, Mdlle. Liebhart, Mr. Perren, and Mr. Weiss ; to-morrow a second performance of the Manalt ; and on Saturday a miscellaneous concert. The chief feature of the concert given by the Liverpool Philharmonie Society, on Tuesday night, was Mr. J. F. Basnetr• new cantata, "The Ancient Bleriner," wformed for the fina time at the Birmingham Festival bat month. The Liverpool Mercury says—" The cantata, as a whole, is pleasingly bright and tuneful, and the treat ment at many turns is thoroughly Mendelssobnian. We trust the production of last eveaing will be but the step. ping-stone to further and greater musical works hoes the same composer. He was cordially welcomed on entering to conduct the cantata, loudly cheered at the close, and recalled to receive renewed approbation from the delighted audience. The executants were Miss K. Wynne, Madame Paley-Whytock, Mr. W. H. Cummings, and Mr. J. O. Paley, who performed their artistic work in a highly satis factory manner." FORME -OFFICE, SEPT. 23.—The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs bag received from her Majesty's Consul at Lisbon the notice (Segued by the Portuguese r;government of which the following is a translation : be Boar d'of Health of the kingdom makes known that all arrivals from Malta are considered suspected of cholera."—Gatetta ARROW APE AT ABERDARE.-011 Monday a man named John Randall was engaged in opening a brick grave In the pariah churchyard, far the reception of the corps" of the late Mrs. Mugu. In this grave lay the remains of her buabend, and at his head was a grave stone. Soddenly this stone gave way, and fell into the grave in which Randall was working. Fortunately he was in a stoop ing posture, and a pickaxe was pieced in an upright posi tion. Upon the handle of this instrument the stone alighted, and thus prevented the man from being ernabed to death. He escaped with a few bruises. The stone is estimated to be upwards of five cwt. It covered nearly the whole of the grave, leaving only a narrow aperture at the foot, through which the man escaped from his milking position. SHOCKING FATALITY.—An inquest wan held on Monday, at Flemington, neer Blackburn, on the body of Richard Swindles, aged 49, a stable-helper, in the employ of the Blackburn Sall Hotel Company, who was killed on Friday evening last. Deceased and a man named Webb bad been sent to the icehouse belonging to the hotel, and while the men were preparing the the fur removal the horse (with the conveyance attached) was allowed to graze is the field. In doing so it got down a boggy slope, and while the two men ware trying to liberate the horse it fell upon the deceased, anti in its *buggies to get free fractured his skull with one of its bind feet, inflicting a frightful wound. Assistance was obtained and deceased was libe rated, but he died half an hour afterwards. Verdict, "Accidentally killed." A Gostocous Monrmarr.—An incident attend fog a visit to the cathedral of Wan is related by a wires- ' pendent of the Cleveland Herald, as follows :—A eds. tet.nnean chapel, to which the visitor is admitted by she payment of a few francs, reveals some of the hidden thesauri" of the church. It contain' the tomb of St. Charles, one of their archbishops, whose memory , they perpetuate in silver and gold and precious atoms. The chapel is entl•ely lined with silver, which is finished in various beorelieth, illustrative of events in the life of the mint. The body is embalmed and inclosed in a silver coffin, which was the gift of Philip IV. of Spain. As we stood in front of this shrine, the lir.est in attendance touched some secret spring, by which the outer coffin gradually descended, and revealed through a ease of rock espial the wasted fate and the pontifical robes of him who had for years slept in that gorgeous but gloomy state. A croon of emeralds. diamonds, and t übies was suspended in the coffin, end preciom jewels slithered amid the folds of the rich em. broidered robes. Mass is said for this mint every morning at 9 o'clock, although he died in 1584. DISCOVERY OF A HOT SALT WATER LAKE IN TEI UNIT= STATES TERRIToRT.—The Montana Pont of Aug. 24 says that Dr. James Dunlevy, while exploring the head waters of the Yellowstone, discovered a salt water lake, caverns' about fay acres. The water is always at the bailing temperature ; meat thrown in was boiled in less than forty minutes. The seater contains a large percent age of timal, the crude material from which borax is menu festered.