The Express. — London, England, 1867-10-02 00:00:00

PARIS EXEIRITDIVFIR4T•CLAS.4 SILVER MEDAL, 1 1 067. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy weight. at realisable value. and the workmanship at wholesale manulactarere prima The gold in the anima gos ratiteed, and repurchased at the price charged. Here's the note, How much your chain weighs to the utmost card, The fineness of the gold, and charge for fashion." :intumesce& Lantos. lffsaidedev7, 1e Ho COVENT GARDEN PROMENADE COYCHRTS. COVENT GARDEN THKATaIt. KVNRY EVANINO at Eight. Under the sole direction of Mr. JOHN RUSSELL Thursday nights, a :lelection of Clanks! Music: other nights Miscellaneous. The Programme is varied every evening. Conductor—Signor 1101TESI NI, and for the Dance Music Hen JOHANN silltAl:BB.—Admission, One Shilling. Elie erortsSo. TO 4301111111PONDENTS. Averthwaseet• Intended for The Uprise" London Leming Taper. most be at the Mee, 10, Bouvertwetreet, by Two Oink on the der of pelgiostioa. DRURY LANK Tnis EVENING, EM7I. Mr. Phelps, Messrs. Edmond Phelps, Harcourt, Warner, Webb, Temple, etc Mesdames Herman Vacua, Vandonhud &c.—And THE MILLER AND lUS MEN. Messrs. Ryder sad E. Phelps , Mims YAllth Stuart. .11A . 71IMIKEr. Tem /MEMO, RONEUTNI JUL TIT. Maim Cllppeadak. 1101VC. AotA.rs, Kendal, Clark Compton, te. ; 9Cutt Sithloas, ChippeActsk, &e.-1V PAWS AND MACK AWL CA. AIL &Kb/mac —And SHOCKING EVENTS. lILINCINIBIL 'Mtn E no , POOR PILLICOUDY.I Wawa Dominick Murray ,t Gresham Mir Polly Marshall —ARRAY( NA POULTE. Mr. et Mrs. Doucicault, Mows. Vining, D. Murray. M•Lenn, tc. ; Miss liughes.—And NO. ONE, BOUND THE COI/NEIL LYCEUM. Tun EVIVITNO TUE MISTftE. Or THE RILL.-THE LADY OF LYONS. Mr. Pechter, Mean. Jordan, Addison, Callings, Mellon. Dalton, Stuart, and Franca; Mines Ms worthy sad Carlotta Leelercy, Mrs. Manton. lITZAND. Tim Lemma, OUR DOMMTICS. Mews. Pantile. Thorne. and James Meolameslohnstone Wasthersby.—THE LATEST EDITION op IC aNILWORTH. Mesas. James* Thorne . Mes dames Ada awanborough. lull , *c.—And DEAF AS A POST. .141T . p1111,1. Tins Eviourora, BREAK B - UT Fici BEND. Ms. S.!w.— The American Minstrels and Japanese Tommy, MX Coate!. tier and Eltiee.—With THE MuLica AND MIS MEN, THE ZOBSEIB OF BOHEMIA. NIGH WATS.* AT LONDON BRADS& fill DAT —Morning. •h. 29•4..--Attarnoon, 411. 4dm. fisitenow—llorulng. 6h. 45........A1humea. bh. 21. - - -- LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2. To that large portion of the people of London whose misfortune it is to be obliged to dine away from home on six days out of seven the question discussed at the London Tavern on Monday night is an exceedingly important one. There is no difficulty in any of the business parts of the metro polis in answering the question, where shall we dine ? But there is great difficulty, and to very many persons, as that meeting showed, there is a practical impossibility in the way of dining satisfactorily. We English know far better how to earn a dinner than how to cook it ; but we can even cook it better than we can serve it. A good dinner can, of course, be got in London, but we must pay extravagantly for it ; and a cheap dinner is sure to deserve the other epithet which is so often associated with cheapness. That combina tion of economy and good taste which characterises some of the French dining places seems to be one which our inaptitude for cookery renders impossible to us, and as economy is the first consideration for most of those who dine during business hours, they are obliged to dis pense with thrt neatness and finish in its presen tation which are so essential to the full enjoyment of a meal. Even the best of the ordinary City dining-rooms are far from attractive. Noise and bustle characterise them almost necessarily, and an atmosphere laden with the exhalations of innumerable dinners is one of their inevitable accompaniments. But in the places where cheaper dinners are to be got there is usually added to these annoyances a pervading untidiness and squalor. The common earthenware, the coarse or crumpled table-cloth, the badly cleaned knives, the German silver forks and spoons, and the damaged cruets, all have their separate and in the aggregate destructive effect upon a City appetite. Only custom renders it possible to a person of ordinary refinement even to eat a dinner with such surroundings, and not even habit itself can enable such a person to enjoy it. Yet even such dinners are comparatively dear, and dinners with more endurable surroundings are excessively dear. Alderman COTTON'S shilling dinners of thirty years ago, which were so comfortable that he looks back upon them with more gusto than upon any which he has since had, may probably derive some of their enchantment from distance ; but nothing like comfort—if comfort is associated with quiet, as the Alderman suggested—can be had now for double the price. But to the many thousands who dine daily in the City it is of the first importance that they should enjoy their dinner without being obliged to pay dearly for it. They are mostly persons of moderate means, many of them are per sons of small means, who are nevertheless accus tomed to the neatness, cleanliness, and comfort of middle-class homes. The daily dinner sway from home is a considerable item in their personal expenditure, and their absence from the meal at home does not proportionately diminish the cost of housekeeping. Of course, they do not expect home com forts in a public meal. They are willing to put up with inevitable inconvenierces, but they have a right to expect a meal decently and respec tably served at even less than it would cost them at home. They could get quite as much as they require, and of a tolerably good quality, for little more than half the price they are now paying, but not in places to which persona accustomed to a cleanly home could possibly go, and they very justly complain that for the tolerable decency of the places they frequent they should pay double, or at least half as much again, for their food. Hence the movement which produced Monday night's meeting. Mr. G. W. SHARP, and those whom he represents, have made out a complete case for the reform of the London dining-rooms, and they will do an important service to a large and most useful class if they succeed in effecting it. The proposal to establish a Clerks' Dining-room Company, on the principle of limited liability, is the most obvious, and perhaps the most direct means of accomplishing this desirable object. Perhaps the principle of co-operation, involving as it would do a return of bonus to customers as well as the dividend to shareholders, and the charging the same price to all, would work better in practice than the proposed plan of charging the shareholders lower prices than those charged to the public ; but the co-operative principle is not yet understood among the middle classes of London. But, however the scheme is carried out, it evidently rests upon sound calculations. In Glasgow, Leicester, Nottingham, and other places, working men are supplied with a good dinner for 4}d. or Lid., and, as a general rule, the food is found to be excellent in quality and sufficient in quantity to satisfy an ordinary appe tite. But if this can be done without loss— and of course it is not done with any idea of profit—surely the demand of the London clerks that they shall be supplied with a meal nicely cooked and neatly served at double that price must be a reasonable one. The danger which threatens such an attempt to satisfy it as is now proposed is that which was foreseen at the nteet ing—that the association should become a mere trading company, operating not with a view to the convenience of the members, but with an eye to dividends. The application of the co-operative principle, were it found to be practicable, would effectually prevent this result, and would place the association beyond the danger of injury by the competition it will certainly excite. The present dining-rooms might successfully compete with a joint-stock association ; they could not compete wi.•h a co-operative society, because the very principle of co-operation is that of giving to the customers a share of the profits. The working men of the great manufacturing towns have suc ceeded in applying this principle to the supply of most of their household needs, and there seems to be no reason except their imperfect acquaintance with it, why the London clerks should not suc cessfully apply the same principle to the supply of that prime necessity of their health and comfort —a cheap, wholesome, and well-served dinner. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) A reluctance to triumph over the honour of a great political party, the Daily Newt suggests, may have kept some away from the Crystal Palace fete, and others may have felt that the rioter/ was incomplete ; but the ' conservatives are not so sensitive, and est the leek with an affected appetite and relish. Mr. Gladstone's presence war not to be desired, for the mood of festivity is not that which is appropriate to the tasks to be performed. Nevertheless, the present is a time at which statesmen should show themselves among the party who support them, and give a distinct manifesto of policy. There is little or nothing that the strongest radical or democrat could desire that the present administration would not concede for the purpose of retaining office. But it is not well that England should be governed by a aeries of half revolutionary coops d'Etat, and a few years of Mr. Disraeli would debauch the nation. Even Mr. Ayrton, despite his tendency to political criticism and scepticism, nee that the immediate future of parliamen tary reform and of liberal government in England depends upon the loyalty of the liberal party to Mr. Gladstone, and he did good service on Monday by frankly saying as much. Nevertheless, Mr. Gladstone must lead if he is to be followed. Reformers mast find their bond of union and principle of co-operation in a definite scheme—a policy clearly avowed, steadfastly adhered to, and deliberately pursued. The Post explains the fete by the reoollection that it is absolutely nectmear ,r for agitators like Mr. Potter and his friends to keep themselves before the eyes of their own peculiar public, and to feed the appetite they have created with the windy food it loves. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 186?: LATEST INTELLLUENCL PRIJESIA AND FRANCE. The Kreutz Zeitung, of September 90, contained an article against the French press. The article insists that now the officious press itself launches forth unanimously in menaces against Prussia. The Gazette maintains, moreover, that the French government is incessantly increasing its armaments. It solemnly protests against any intervention, ex presses a hope that France will be more circum spect than those bellicose journals, and ends by declaring that if it be otherwise Prussia is ready for any event. On Monday the Czarewitch had a long interview with Count Bismarck. TEXIANIBII. Two dangers new to our experience, obser►e' the Daily News, beset her Majesty's lieges : one—the slightest—is the chance of being mistaken for a Fenian, and the other is to bear likeness, real or imaginary, to an informer. The Holborn case is but one of several. We are threatened with a Fenian reign of terror. It is as dangerous, in some quarters of London and other large towns, to express audible disapproval of the Fenian movement, as it would have been some years ago to denounce slavery in Charleston or New Orleans. The insurrection threatens to be con verted from a war against the English government in Ireland to a war against English society wherever it is found. If this animosity should spread and deepen, the condition of Manchester and Liverpool and London will be assimilated to that of Belfast. That Ecglishmen may be secure in the streets and in their houses, it is necessary that Ireland should be made a country in which Irishmen can live and thrive. The Post selects the Irish American as the author of the mischief which Fenianism has created, and calls for swift and decided retributive punishment. The Star urges that the carrying of firearms should be prevented by the law. The Fenian conspiracy has pro- bably brought to England an unusual number of Irish- Americans, and their habits may be spreading ; but fire arms are seldom carried without the knowledge of com panions end friends, and all 'well-disposed persons are bound to discourage and put a stop to that most rowdy practice. It is in this direction—not in that of political conspiracy —that the real danger lies. The worst tendency of the Fenian outrages, the Standard says, is to familiarise our dangerous classes with deeds of murderous ferocity from which they would otherwise shrink. It trusts, therefore, that the fellows who h►ve been spilling English blood in Manchester and London will speedily be brought to justice, and that no ill-advised ten derness will save them from the fate they so richly de serve. The Standard also hints that the stipendiary magistrate at Manchester is wanting in a sense of the dignity of his office. )011 TOPICS. The subjects treated of by the Times are the apparent anomaly presented by the simultaneous collapse of credit and the uniform prosperity of trade; the virtual settle ment of the controversy respecting the Newton-Chad,. letters ; the late Dr. Venn, and the experiments with the American gun at Shoeburyness. We stated yesterday the facts discovered by Mr. Hurst relative to the disputed letters. It will be remembered that three out of the five alleged specimens of Newton's hand writing were found at Burlington Honso to be verbatim copies of isolated passages occurring in the French trans lation of three letters originally written by Newton in English. The fourth document alleged to be in Newton's handwriting is neither more nor less than • slightly garbled transcript from • French translation of two sen tences in Dr. Samuel Clarke's works. The theory that the letters were genuine, moreover, involved the incredible assumption that Newton had written on the " Infini tesimal Calculus" and the " Equilibrium of Liquids" at the age of eleven, besides minor absurdities. The Times thinks it not • little discreditable to the credulity of scientific jealousy that, in the absence of any direct evi dence to the effect, the genuineness of these pseudo- Newtonian letters should have boot accepted in France. WILL OF THE LATE LORD HENRY SEYMOUR.— The will of Lord Henry Seymour, who spent the greeter portion of Ida life in Pans, has again come before the Civil Tribunal of the Seine for further directions an to the administration of the estate. Lord Henry, it may be remembered, made • holograph will, dated June 22, 1858, leaving his enormous fortune, am oun ti ng t o severa l millions of francs, to the hoapitelal of Paris and London, subject to the payment of several legacies, amongst others, an annuity to Mademoiselle Sophie Ch enan , and to th e cost of keeping his favourite horses. Lord Henry died in Paris on August 16, 18.19. He executed several codicil.; and reduced Mademoiselle Chenan's annuity from 10,000fr.ito 2,400 fr., with the condition that she was not to marry. At slater period, by another codicil, he revoked all he had done in her favour. With regard to the horses, Lord Henry, whose greatest pleasures during life had been derived from them, took especial care that the dispo'itions of his will in their favour should be strictly carried out. M. Despret, a notary, charged with that duty by the tribunal, proceeded to divide the money left by Lord Henry Seymour between the hospitals of Paris and London. He was, however, opposed on behalf of both the French and English hoepitals, on the point as to whether the legacies left were to be divided in parts equal to the number of hospitals in each capital, or to be given in two equal shares to each town. It must be re membered that in Paris all the hospitals are under one central administration, whilst in London each h os pit a l has • separate and dietinet existence ; and the alleged number in London of these institutions was about 200. As regards the proviaice made for the horses, it was argued that there was no reason existing to raise a sum of money to pay for these old favourites, as most of them were dead, and very soon not one would be alive. The tribunal held, in effect that the property should be divided into two equal shares, one half to go to the London, the other half to the Paris hospitals—these beneficiaries to burden equally the cost of maintaining the favourite horses, and of the pensions and legacies to the old servants of Lord Henry and of the Marithioasas of Hertford.—Gioligitana Foaeran-ornes SEPT. 26.—The Queen has been graciously pleasedi to appoint William Lowther, Bag., now secretary to her Majesty's embassy at Berlin, to be her Majesty's minister plenipotentiary to the Argen. tine Republic.—Ocuette. lioarrui nal nazis= or nu Cairr, Vzorozu- PAM —Th• number of patients relieved it this iaffititutica during list week was 1,106, of which 278 were sow sum Efts friaurt. BALMOB.AL, Bar. 28. The Queea went out in the morning, accompanied by Princess Christian, and in the afternoon drove out with Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northoote arrived at the Castle, as the Minister In attendanoe on her Majesty. SEPT. 29. The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, attended Divine service in the morning at the pariah church of Crathie. The Rev. M. Taylor, Minister of Craithie, offi. Mated. The Hon. Hrs. Gordon, Sir Stafford Northeote, and the Rev. M. Taylor, had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor-General of Can►da. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia, and Bermuda. DEPARTURE OF THE QUEEN Or HOLLAND.— SOUTHAEPTON, TUESDAY NIGHT.—The Queen of Hol land arrived here at half-peat *even this evening from Liverpool. Her Majesty was in • royal car riage, which was drawn into the docks. As soon as the Queen arrived alongside the Dutch royal yacht torches were lit upon the dock quay by Dutch sailors, and the drums began slowly to beat on board the yacht. The dock, custom-house, Aand dmiralty authorities, and Chevalier Vandenberg, the Dutch consul, were present in the dock to receive her Majesty. Baron Hyland, a mem ber of the Dutch royal suite, escorted her on board the yacht, where a guard of honour presented arms. The yacht will leave here at about midnight for Cherbourg, where her Majesty will land, and proceed to Paris. Mr. Beach, the Southampton station-master, received the Queen at the station, and he was thanked for his atten tion. A number of persons were present to see the Queen embark. As soon as she went on board a letter was placed in her hand, which she opened and read by the light of the torches. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia, who are expected to mite in this country within the next few days, will, it is under. stood, take up their residence at Buckingham Palace, where they will probably remain till the return of the Queen from Scotland. His Excellency the Prussian ambassador and Connie= Bernstorff do not return to the Prussian embassy before the end of the month. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose have been entertaining during the last week, at Buchanan Castle, near Glasgow, the Marquis of Graham, Viscount and Viscountess Ingestre, Mr. and Lady Georgians Balfour, Lord Somerville, Captain S. Muirhead, MMus Balfour, Mr. Clements, Mr. Stirling Cranford, Mr. T. Price, Ire. The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans have left Bestwood Park on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland at Itchy Castle, Durham. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster have left town for Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The Earl of Bective has arrived at the Hotel Bristol, Paris, from Geneva. Sir Robert Peel is at the same hotel. A telegram from Stockholm says that on Mon day the King of Sweden underwent suomesfully an opera tion for fistula. His Majesty's condition la satisfactory. THIS LORD-LIZUTIMANT Or IRELAND AT BELFAST. —The Lord•Lientenant, yesterday, received an enthu siastic reception at Belfast, where his visit will be marked by a round of festivities. The streets were dressed with flags, and the people cheered his excel lency enthusiastically. Placarda were posted in the town yesterday morning, stating that Earl Bunn would arrive, as was expected, atthe same time as the Lord-Lien tenant, denouncing him as the enemy of protestantism, and calling on the people not to cheer him. He did arrive with his excellency, but waited in the railway station until the vice-regal cortige had left, and then proceeded quietly. to his hotel. EARL RUSSELL AND THE IRISH REFORM LEAGUE. —ln pursuance of • resolution passed by the council of the Irish Reform League, a request was sent to Earl ' Burnell that previous to his leaving Ireland be would receive • deputation from that body. In reply, his lord- 1 ship writes to the secretary :—" Carton, Maynooth, Sept. 26, 1867.—Sir,—I am sorry that my time in Ireland will not permit of my conferring with a deputation of the Irish Reform League. I should have liked to have heard their views respecting the extension of the franchise oonsistent with the privileges of the constitution. With regard to the other point you mention —namely, equality—l consider that equality of franchise between England and Ireland sal be contended for by all liberals. An Irishman ought to be admitted to the franchise on the same qualification and with the same oonditions as an Englishman.—l remain, your obedient servant, RuasiLt." THE DEATH OF SIR FREDERICK BRUCE.—A despatch, dated Boston, Sept. 19, published in the New York papers of the 20th, gives the following particulars of the death of Sir Frederick Bruce :—" Sir Frederick Bruce, the British Minister at Washington, died early this morning at the Tremont•housa, in this city. He had been ill for several days with • throat complaint, at Narragansett beach, where he was staying. He left that place yesterday noon fox Boston, accompanied by a friend and his servant. He arrived at the Tremont-house soon after nine in the evening, in an exhausted and apparently moribund condition. Medical aid was immediately called, and he was attended by Doctors J. and H. J. Bigelow and Doctor Hodges. He remained in • state of collapse, without being able to speak, and died at two o'clock a.m. Senator Charles Sumner and some other friends continued with him until the time of his decease. ' From the time of the senator's arrival, at 11 o'clock, until the death of Sir Frederick, he was able to utter but a single articulate sentence, and that was in recognition of Mr. Sumner an hour and • half after his arrival. He was able to get up, but the nature of the disease prevented him from speaking. Semler Sumner made every possible exertion to understand the utterance of the dying man, and to get his last messages for the British Legation at Washington, and for his family ; but in vain. The voice refused to discharge its wonted office, and nothing could be gleaned of the last thoughts that crowded upon his mind. He was only able tr give monosyllabic answers to questions in regard to his condition, and to utter, with a great effort, • brief greetin7 when he recognisedd Mr. Sumner. Information of his death was at once telegraphed to the British Legation at Washington and to Secretary Seward, by Mr. Sumner, and a retura , t r e er ram from 'secre tary Seward announces that Mr. Ho , of the British Legation, would at once leave Washington for Boston tote oeife the remains. Immediately after the death of Sir Frederick the remains were packed in ice, and, under the charge of his servant, remained in room No. 14 of the Tro mont-house, until 8 o'clock this evening, when they were taken in charge by an undertaker and embalmed. A representative of the British Legation will arrive here from Washington to-morrow afternoon, and arrange for the forwarding home of the remains by the first steamer." • THE COURT AT DALMORAL.-0 11 Sunday morning her Majesty attended Divine service in the perish church of Crathie. She was accompanied by the Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold. In her Majesty'. suite present were the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, Bert., bee Majesty's minister in attendance , Sir Thomas Biddulph, Lady Churchill, General Hood, Mrs. General Gordon, Mia.• Madame Mr. Bahl, &c. From Abergeldie, there were c Van de Weyer and family. The day was fine, but there as strong wind blowing. As usual, there was a pretty large influx of visitor, to the church from Braemar and Balloter. The Rev. Malcolm C. Taylor, minister of the pariah, officiated. SRRIOUS AOCIDZNT TO THE MAYOR Or DONCASTER. —A fatal accident occurred to the Mayor of Doncaster (Mr. Henry Woodmansey) early on the morning of yester day. A bazaar had been given during the preceding week in aid of the new infirmary in that town, and the very handsome sum of 1,2501. had been realised. As a termi nation of the proceedings an evening party was given at the Mansion House on Monday evening to the ladies and their friends who bad assisted at the stalls during the previous week. All had passed off well until between 1 and 2 o'clock, and the party was about to be brought to a close when the Mayor, on peeing down the grand staircase to his own parlour, slipped, and fell heavily to the bottom of the flight of stone steps. Mr. Cmwshaw had hold of the Mayor's arm at the time and was dragged along with him, but unstained comparatively little injury. Not so, how ever, the Mayor, who was taken up insensible, having sus tained a severe scalp wound on the side of the head and injured some blood vessel, as he bled very profusely. He was immediately removed to his own room in the Mansion house, and had the best medical advice the town could afford, but never nailed. He died at 5 o'clock. The sad event has east a deep gloom over the inhabitants, among whom the Mayor was universally respected. TURKEY AND CRETE. A letter from Constantinople says that the Grand Vizier is preparing to set out very shortly for Crete, to preside in person over the establish ment of the new administrative organisation with which it is the intention of the Sultan to endow the island. Ash Pacha is likewise said to have been directed to ascertain the wishes and wants of the Cretans, and he would be assisted by Cabauli Pacha, Reauf Pacha, and three Greek functionaries in the labours of this political inquiry. (111711t11'8 TILZGRAIM) INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENT IN THE PAPAL STATES. ROME, Ocr. 1. The Giornal.e di Roma says :—" New bands of the insurgents have crossed the papal frontier at Aquapendente and other points in the province of Viterbo, and have exacted money and food from the inhabitants. At Canino an armed band was discovered by the inhabitant., early in the morning and put tc flight. In other localities several of the insurgent* have fallen into the hands of the troops, some of their number being killed. The town and entire province of Viterbo are tranquil." FLORENCE, Ocr. 2. The Opinion publishes intelligence from the Pontifical frontier, confirming the statement that several armed bands had made their appearance in the province of Viterbo. One band of 80 insur gents recently surrounded Aquapendente, in the barracks of which town 40 gendarmes had taken refuge. Great agitation prevailed throughout Viterbo. BERNE, Ocr. 2. President Fornerod has returned from the Swiss federal council, and is about to undertake the post of chairman of the Swiss Credit Mobilier at Geneva. INDIA. BOMBAY, Sin. 9. (Via Trieste.) Her Majesty's frigate Octavil has left for the Persian Gulf in consequence of reported distur bances at Muscat. The new steam transport Euphrates arrived at Bombay on the 27th August, and leaves for Suez on the 12th inst. with stores and tents for the troops on their arrival in Egypt. A collision has taken place between a runaway locomotive and a passenger train on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, resulting in the death of one passenger, the guard, and a native fireman. Two large bridges over an unopened portion o the same railway, between Rundwah and Hurtlah have given way. A crack has been been discovered in the largest viaduct at Thull Ghent; and three other viaduct* over the same ghaut are in such a dangerous state that passengers have to leave the trains and walk across. Seventeen other bridges over unopened portions of the Nagpore extension of the Great India Peninsula Railway have been condemned by the company's engineers. The cholera is still prostrating the armies in Affghanistan. Afzul Khan, the Ameer of Cabul, is reported to be one of its victims. The report, however, requires confirmation. ARRIVAL OF THE MALTA. QUEENSTOWN, Ocr. 2. The Cunard extra steamship Malta, from New York, arrived here at 6.15 a.m. to-day with 88 pas sengers. She landed 22 passengers and despatches and proceeded for Liverpool at 6.30 a.m. All well. The United States screw steam frigate Franklin Flag-Admiral Farragut, now lying in the Thames, was on Monday inspected by Commodore lidmonetone, C. 8., aide. de-camp to the Queen, who went down from Woolwich, accompanied by his Flag-Commander Jackson, and paid a eomrlimantary visit to the pliant admiral by previous ex rangement. The frigate is accompanied by the steam tender Trobe. Admiral Farragut is expected to visit Wool wich and inspect the dockyard, and probably the depart ments of the arsenal, Ina few days. Some of the weekly Roman catholic prints in Ireland appe►r to be in a state of ecstasy consequent on the defeat of Garibaldi's scheme. No language is too low to be applied to him. He is an " infamous character, who fears neither heaven nor hell," a " vile beast," and a " des perado," a "scoundrel, and the head of a gang of plun derers." It is expected that the submarine telegraph from Cape Schanck, Victoria, to Tamar Heads, Tasmania, will be laid by January next ; it is estimated the outlay will be 100,000/. The Court of Accounts in the kingdom of Italy Ins discovered that the frauds oommitted by the govern ment treasurers in the different provinces in 1866 amounted to 1,318,706 fr. It appears that in Convocation the Archbishop of Canterbury last year declared himself in the strongest manner against advocating the appointment of a new Bishop of Natal. His words were—" I could never vote for a resolution th►t would be conadved into a recommen dation to the church in South Africa to consecrate • bishop. Ido not view the resolution in that sense. lam glad that the resolution has passed, but I should not have voted for it bad I interpreted it to be a recom mendation to elect another bishop." A correspondent of the Times asks, " If anyone is presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury for consecration, con the archbishop per. form such an act without a license from the crown? If any one is presented to the Bishop of Capetown for consecra tion, is ' the church of South Africa' so separated from the mother church that such consecrationcan be performed without the royal license r The medical schools in connexion with the prin cipal hospitals of the metropolis were opened yesterday with addresses, in each case from one of the professors. The lecturer at Sc. Bartholomew's was Dr. Odling, F.R.S. ; at Charing-cross. Mr. B. Canton ; at Guy's, Mr. Arthur E. Durham ; at St. George's, Mr. Holmes ; at King's Col. lege, Dr. Miller ; at London, Dr. Lethsby ; at Middlesex, Dr. Cobbold, F.R.S. ; at St. Mary's, Dr. Broadbent ;at St. Thomas's, Mr. Scilly ; at University, Professor Graily Hewitt ; and at Westminster, Mr. W. F. Trevan. ANOTHER TRAGEDY IN THE FOREST op FON unrasur.Au.—A. fresh incident has revived the emotion caused at Fontainebleau by the murder of Madame Mer tens. Another dead body was discovered in the forest a few days back. It was lying in a ravine neer the Rooker de Bonvigny, and almost entirely cionssused by vermin ; but the deceased has been recognised by his clothes to have been an inhabitant of the town who disa some weeks sines. His puree and some jewellery t i ir wove were gone when the body was found; but whether a murder has been omnalitted or not is as yet uncertain. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor ous OWN PARIS, TUESDAY EVINTIIO. Owing to an apprehended scarcity of wheat in France, the imports from the Ist to the 10th of September exceeded the exports by more than 18 millions of kilogrammes ; but this has had little or no influence upon the price of bread. M. Castel, a printer at Rennes, has been fined 1,000 francs for publishing a manuscript before making the deposit prescribed by Article 14 of the law of October 21, 1814. The Phare de la Loire is bold enough to condemn this decision, and calls for a revision of the law, declaring that such an offence ought not to be more severely punished than the tradesman who poisons his customers with adul terated products, or cheats them by false weights. The appeal of the Impartial Dauphinoia against the judgment which recently condemned M. Maisonville the elder to a fine of 1,500 fr., and M. Maisonville the younger to 500 fr., was prose cuted the day before yesterday at Grenoble, by M. Ernest Picard. 1 am sorry to say that the imperial tribunal confirmed the judgment of the court below. A case of shameful treatment on the part of the proprietor of a furnished house, in the Boulevard des Italiens, towards a young American lady, was brought before the Correctional Tribunal of the Seine on August 31. You may remember that the lady, Madame Truefield, with her little girl, on going out, were forcibly detained by the portreas (a very unpopular class in Paris), when the noise occa sioned by her resistance and remonstrances drew Lemoine upon the; scene, who, with great fort*. detached her fingers, one after the other, from an iron railing to which she clung. The court con demned Lemoine to one month's imprisonment and lOOfr. fine, and the portreas to six days' incar ceration. From this decision these two worthies appealed last week, when the court confirmed in every particular the previous judgment. It is hoped that this decision will be a warning against personal violence, at all events, if it have little effect in the way of inducing ordinary politeness or decent civility towards foreigners especially. No small commotion was occasioned on Wednes day last in the commune of Saint-Ouen, in the vicinity of Paris, where preparations for the vintage were being peaceably carried on. A large body of individuals of all ages, numbering from 150 to 200, came from Paris to offer their services on the occa sion. With the exception of about 50 or 60, tem porary employment was given to all. Those who had failed in their application bivouacked in the open air during the night. After the gendarmes, who had had their eye upon them, retired to their barracks, this outlying band tore down a portion of the fencing of the park of the Princess de Craon, and made large fires, by which they warmed them selves and cooked their victuals. At an early hour in the morning they attacked a baker's cart going from Clichy to St. Ouen, and carried off by main force several loaves of bread, having previously dug up and consumed a large quantity of potatoes growing in the vicinity of their encampment. News of these depredations having been despatched to the gendarmerie the plunderers took to flight, when they were pursued by the police, joined by eighty men in the employ of a manufacturer in the neighbourhood, whose property had been damaged by them. A sort of running fight was kept up be tween the pursuers and the mauraders as far as Paris, where some succeeded in escaping, while others, to the number of twenty, were captured. may mention this event in connexion with the other instances of want, depravity, and disorder to which I have already referred, all of which, , taken together, do not offer to the contemplation a remarkably assuring prospect of a prosperous' and quiet state of things in France in the coming winter. General Prim left Geneva on the 26th ult. for Brussels, where he hoped to find the same hospi tality which he enjoyed for several months before he undertook the expedition which so miserably failed. The Countess de Reuss, who lives in Paris with her children, was in hourly expectation of receiving a despatch from Brussels announcing that her husband was there in safety, and that she might rejoin him. But, according to the informa tion of the Prune the general received notice on his arrival in Brussels that he would be required to leave the city in forty-eight hours. The Bourse has been again agitated to-day, and &further fall in the Rent. has taken place. The Italian Loan was very much affected, and the Credit Mobilier also further declined. Other credit institutions showed increased weakness, and railway shares are down. Loss OF A STEAMER ON THE EDDYSTONE PLYMOUTH, Ocr. I.—The new iron steamship Hiogo, Captain Bainton, built and owned by Mr. Laing, of Sun derland, was run on the Eddystone, off Plymouth, this morning (Tuesday), and went down in deep water. The Hiogo was bound out for Japan, and named after one of the new Japanese ports that will be opened to the English traders in January next according to treaty, and to that port she was proceeding. She was 550toneregister, and had • valuable cargo on board. She was also chartered to carry passengers and goods for the Diamond Steam Navigation Company from London and Falmouth for Madeira and the Cape of Good Hope. She left London on Saturday after noon for Falmouth with the Rev. Mr. Smith, lady, and two sons, for Madeira ; and Mr. Morison and a German gentle. man. for the Cape, on board. Several more paasengern were to have joined at Falmouth. At twenty minutes to 3 o'clock this morning (Tuesday) she was most unaccount ably inside and close on the Eddystone, and ran ashore on the Sugar-loaf rock, at the N.E. end of the reef, about • cable's length from the lighthouse, with the light shining down strongly on her deck, the night being clear star light, the wind light. She filled her fore part, and as the tide rose slid off and went down on her starboard broed• side indeep water, the top of herportgunwele justshowing. The Plymouth pilot boat No. 7, came to her assistance, and the passengers and crew, 33 in all, were, with the assistance of the pilot boat, landed in the ship's boat at Plymouth this morning. The bullion, chronometers, and plate, were brought onshore. A telegram from Plymouth this morning says :—" The merchant steamship Hiogo, which was run on the Eddystone Rock yesterday, will become • wreck. The tug Wellington returned this morning with some cases of goods that had been washed out of the fore bold of the Hiogo. The tug will go out again, and two pilot boats are now alongside the wrecked vessel. The specie saved yesterday consisted of two boxes, the contents of which were 10,0001. in value." A Corrvics SHIP.—The hired convict ship Huguemont, which has been taken up by the government for the conveyance of • numerous party of convicts to Fremantle. Western Australia, left the Nore yesterday, and proceeded down Channel, after receiving on board about 150 convicts from the establishments at Chatham and Milbank. The convicts from the Chatham establishment at St. Mary's embarked from the dockyard on board the pad dle-wheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. J. Blakey, and were in charge of a numerous party of convict guards and wardens, all heavily armed. Among the eonvicts shipped yes terday were a party of 15 Fenian, who were engaged in the late conspiracy in Ireland, togetbef with the officers and crew convicted of scuttling the ship Severn, and some others who have achieved notoriety from their crimes. The Fenian con% :cts, like the remainder of the prisoners, were chained together in gangs, but it was observed that they were kept apart from the other con victs in a portion of the vessel by themselves. The steamer Petrel also brought down a number of convicts from the establishment at Millbank, for shipment on board the Huguemont, in charge of • strong escort and couvictguard. The Huguemont will call in at Portsmouth and Portland to receive • number of convicts from each of these esta blishments, the number she is fitted up to take out to Australia being 500. The convicts will be in charge of a military guard, who will afterwards settle in the colony. Unifiers:o4) Exteiltgenrc. CAMBRIDGE, fk-r. I, At a congregation this day, being the tint day of term, the Vice-Chaisselicw the Rev. Dr. Cantwell, master e grendinL if of Christ's College, , th e Rev. Willian, H em Whitting, KA., fow of 'a College, and the R ev . Tholes+ Hewitt, M.A., fellow o Emmanuel College, were elected proctors for the ensuing academical yea r . Th e degree of H.A. wu conferred upon Henry Thomas La of St. John's College. na, Cabal intt Intittarg. CHATHAM, Ocr, 1. This morning the Hugnemont, which has been taken up by the government for the conveyance of several hundred convicts to Australia, mailed from the Non for Freemantle, Western Australia, having on board party of 150 convicts from the establishments at MUNI* end Chatham. The convicts from this prison were con. veyed out to the Huguemont at the Tore by the govern. meat paddle-wheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. J. Bt . ' : command, the whole in charge of • number of all heavily armed. The Huguemont will also inks en board several hundred convents from the establishments at Portland and Portsmouth. Among the convicts re. calved on board the Huguemont were several meetly convicted in Ireland of being concerned in the Fenian am spiracy. ADMIRALTY, OCT. 1. —APPOINTMENTS.—Lieuto. nant Robert Rom, to the Aboukir ; Paymaster Thome Pooombe, to the Rosario ; Clerk Chas. G. Johmto n , to th e Rosario ; Engineers Jose ph Walsh and Thorny F. Right, to the Rearm ; Thomas lVite, to the Rattlesnake; an d First,elus Assistant-Engineer Hugh Thomson, to U. Rosario. WRECKS OR THE YORKSHIRE COAST. WHITBY, TUESDAY. The schooner Commot, of Whitby, bound from Lowestoft to Seaham, in ballast (reports G. W. Swaim, Y.sq.), was riding at anchor in Landsend Roads early this morning, when the wind suddenly changed from NW, t o N. by K, causing the vessel to part from one anchor. The master fearing his vowel would drive on to the rocks (nth gale slipped the other cable and bore away for Whitby Sands. As soon as she was observed there the Whitby lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution (the Limy) was launched in a heavy sea, and fortunately succeeds:l rescuing the vessel's crew and four persons who woo landed in safety. SCARBOROUGH, MOUDAT. During a N.N.R. gale and in a heavy sea on Sudsy evening (states William Fowler lbsi.), the brigantias Sybil, of Yarmouth, which was riding these roads, vie run into by a schooner supposed to the Mischief, if R)e. Her mainmast was carried away, and considerable other damage done, causing the vessel to make a good deel of water. The crew made signals of distress and • eAls went off, but on account of the heavy sea that was roe. ning she could not venture alongside. The lifeboat below. ing to the National Lifeboat Institution was thereapce launched and took out the mew of four men at Moat midnight. CITY OF LONDON REGISTR4TION. (THIS DAY.) This morning, at 11 o'clock, Mr. Spencer Perce vat, the barrister appointed to revise the lots of voters for members of parliament for the City of London, bald his first sitting in the Court of Common Pleas, at Guikihall, and proceeded with the revision. Mr. Sidney Smith and Mr. George Ledger the Liberal Registration Association ; and Mr= attended on behalf of the committee of the Comensfive Club for Mr. Bailey, the hon. secretary. The proceedings commenced in the usual DISOWN by Mr. Secondary Potter receiving from the overseers sad Torsi clerks of the numerous parishes comprising the various wards in the City the lista of householders, when the num • bet of claims and objections wee announced, showing that, as compared with former years, they were not very heal f. The whole of the lists having been handed in, The Revising Barrister Mad that as the business would be comparatively light this year he hoped the clerks et companies and parishes would be in attendance for the convenience of all parties. The court then proceeded with the revision of the lisle of the various livery companies ; and Mr. Ledger proved the postage of the notices and service on the overseers. In the list of the Broderers' Company the names ci Charles Barnard, of 4, Hurley-road, Lower Kennington. lane, was objected to by the liberals on the ground of nos. residence. Mr. Barnard—l consider this opposition to my seas Is be most vexations—bringing me up here every time I change my address, when I have been a liveryman of the City of London for more than 60 years. Mr. Ledger said that Mr. Barnard had removed, sad tira notice had been returned, and for a similar reams It Barnard 's name was expunged last year. In answer to the Re • ~. sing Barrister Mr. Barnard said that his present address was 56, York-road, and had bees so for twelve mouths. It was an erroneous address Pea by some one for the purpose of annoying him. Ile had also a house in Blandfordequare, and the lodgings in York road were retained for him when he went out of tows. Of course he went out of town very frequently, u he had no business to keep him in town. (Laughter.) Mr. Ledger—l am only asking you for the sake of gettisg the facts. Mr. Barnard (warmly)—But why, in the name of God, should you bring a man here like this ! Mr. Hesledon—Did you leave any address at the Hurley-road for your letters to be forwarded! Mr. Barnard—No. I don't want any letters wheal= away on pleasure. (I*ugbter.) Mr. Hasladon—But you should have done so. The Revising Barrister—lt seems to be that you have proved your residence, and the name will be retained. Mr. Healedan—Your vote is retained. Mr. Barnard—Thank yen, good morning ; and, bowing, he left the court. WZATMER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WZDVIZSDAT, OCTOBER 2, II L.S. B. frd w. Narre Aberdeen Leith Ardruman hl.l Greencastle 19.1 Valenti& Roche's Point Uverpool.. te.l uoty head Brest Lenient Rochefort.— .1 Ptymooth 30.1 Weymouth Portsmouth .l Leedom Yarmouth AO ioarburough JIB .l l yat Balder I .434 W./I.W. w. iti.E4l3 N. W.N.W. 4.7 4 W.N.W. A 1.17 N.W. e.w. iss.ssasi w.s.w, wi.t51.3 W.N.W. 1 so.n , N. N. N. 10.24 I.N.E. N. 2448 KN.'. .24 , W. N. W. .21,64 W. .wst W.N.W. .14'49 W. 0347 W.B.W. el'al W. .66, N.W. h tit 1. D. S.W. W. N.N W. 8 11.14. W.N.W. N.N.W. N.W. N.W. 11.11111AitEli. The rapid Increase tn the baronsetrleal pressure noticed yesterday has been succeeded by a greater diminution The greatest decrease has taken place In the north of Scotland more than eight-tenths of en inch at Aberdeen, awl this morn ing pressures over oar islands are everywhere tilling. A ytle from the northwestward has occwred at the northern stations, and now fresh westerly winds prevail In the uurth and went: but In the Channel they are moderate. Temperatures are unequal: they are still low on the west coast of Frani*, L'Orknt being 10 deg. lower than Valenti& Bain has fallen only on the north and west meats. AN ILL-ONENISD DIIITRICT.—There is a tract of country, some hundreds of miles in length and way more in breadth, which stretches away from the giest backbone of central India down to the shores of the Bay et Bengal : a territory wild and savage to a degree, possessing few roads, other than the mere stony, rugged tracts which for centuries have been the only means of communicating between the coast and the interior ; a country whom rivets are not bridged, are not navigable, and, for months of each year, are impassable—which is clothed on all aides by dense, almost primeval jungle, so dense that in many putt it in a difficult thing for its denizens themselves to toms their way through the thick undergrowth and the closely planted trees. Its population is but scanty, considering the vast area of the country ; sad the villages scattered here and there in the little openings of the jungle, an small, miserably poor, and about as wretched specimens of the habitations of man an can well be supposed. And thii country is, moreover, girt about and traversed by great chains of hills, in which dwell races of people as ignorant, as superstitious, and as poor, though even more savage and bloodthirsty, than their brethren of the plains. And all these people are mere animals in their ways of life; beyond the mere gratitimtion of their appetites, they possess scarcely an idea ; their religion, if they have any, is vogue and gloomy —e religion of fear and blood. Bet then they know nothing better, for, century after century, they have lived and died in their remote wilderness, and it is only now that the first rays of light are beginning to shine in upon the thick darkness which has PO long hung like a heavy cloud over the length and brvadth of the land. fio it happens that superstition has established her head-quarters in this country, and has thrown out such hideous offshoots as sometimes to appal her very votarce themselves. Of course, in such an atmosphere as this a belief in all the horrors of witchcraft reigns paramount ; it is an established article of faith, and leads the way to out. rages and atrocities which have rendered the district notorious in other parts of India, as one inhabited by witches and devils. It Is a fact, that to this day the lower classes of other provinces entertain the greatest fear of even passing through this region, lest they should in some mysterious way be tainted by the malignant }Nene° supposed to be abroad.—Cornhill Hop-rat for October. • This The bs pm ibed viouslY The • the t Itutehi baokee of Will eonside 9.0001. Comp& wets; stated _ Mr. a COW amouir vestig, opm Comic: his rel , His benkru The Him 1 given, 1 the eiM Thom whose c since of Manche police-a meat is hurt the con The the ca 11 PP , ;i' and tlii mild tl formal Or e To I — Prix had az skapir from a Ho • John before Peru This but ati from ti Heel • form at the Will wee pl wilful! brtlge Cattle k Dunn would Prism The how I never Tll ninch exam. fn tb WAS Sor libert this i TES Ai will 1 Th on Fi &lac *Attic 11 A. form left i it we Dem tonic if th, pmi - t du;il