The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-15 00:00:00

F 7 WM • QUEE N' 8 TIT E ATE E, Long-awe. MAMAGNII—M r. W. H. UPTON. 21114 wo4cABunts Laza. by Halal J. DM& 16 "imd blaa received tarousrbout its performance with Ye greeirea @Maw masa. by ("waded and excited embraces. mill be repeated gYarlY NVICNINII. at • quarter tot °embarks, paseinally et ll. HE LANCASHIRE LASS. at a quarter to 8. T -The druousetrations in favour al ' The Lancashire Laos' aro laud ..d unanhaots,"—Times MID; LANCAKIIIIR LAM. "At other Wass the sithethease se an beyond cordso4 and bangle of thorn, r he, re, and we of handkerchiefs reseed the theo of the hero and heroine. —Ms* Moth tem LANCASHIRE [ASS, at a quarter to 8 . TH•l:g The *sea throughout was effectively acted. and the mu. eakisgsd asters of the plot or kps the audience as a per state ci exattemeht."—lllustrated London News. 71ELANCASHIRE LASS, at :s hi t y rter to 8. ' The plot to affective , ands hwas sniped with dramatic) inaideats which Mate Intense Wisest. hatch onooliont isesearr."—Weekly Times. LA NCASHIRE LASS, at a qua tar to 8 . T H ose seam when a river stoessor swears to Loaf nodal/ on tae created a notorir of applause . 'Ma Lancashire Law ' will rajOy • telidAtlted row "—lllustrated Sporting News. quiz LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. -0- "Mr. Byron was renalkd and bowed Ms Atawowlerignwotta vociferwat chews how all sort' of the thastaw"--Btandard. _ MHE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. A. . 0e u s emend representation MIS reosived rata even 'rester anlative than on the treeing of prodedian."—Dally Telegraph. OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACH—Three .M.lo Ballet& Promenade Cowart. Band aft Baths at L Hamodlee open from 11 to 4. - 7 -- R O YAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Royal amaudavo Losebardetreet. London. and LiverpooL EPITOME of ANNUAL REPORT for 1067. The ROYAL hae never b EI ad • larger bodp_of Oonstltuente than now. RE . Premium. in 1667 . BRANUM it 61,511 WIN; • lancer revenue than in any preeedint Taw Loewe M' Fire in 1f67 W.J115 Net Prottte, after payin . g . •lllmt , ntr•Penw• ,E56,373 r4F*' BRAT! Annual average of new businen in 11Mi41 Ce01.000) Ditto during previous QuintManna= Elite.ooo Amount added to Life Rewires in HST £128,583 D .O Life Prop:wale now effected will ciliate in the increased share of pronto. recently remonded to pot -bidders. PERCY H. HO Reneger and Actuary. JOHN B. JOH N N, Secretary in London, August. 111*. ATTENTION IS INVITED to the Report of the Sixth Septennial v ~e. Inventination of the SCOTTISH AMI CABLE LIFE ASEURANCE SOCIETY, and to the Special Pam =explaining its economical and popular system of " Minimum tuna" Conies free on apipaion. LONDON O FFI CES . No. ELDNEEDLEETRENE S.O. WRIER MEDAL AWARDED.) ALLEN'S PATENT PORTMANTEAUS and TRAYELLIN/i BACK with mows egessaga. 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THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE eitis as an organisation of Special and Exclusive Correap embracing the entire WorIL THE CITY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS Is. aa brretotore, Full, Early. and Impartial. In a ward, Its arrangement have undergone no other modification than such as wee neemearr to a more thorough and diligent repreeentation sad disomakm of the ownwrenoes, intererla, end opinions of the day. PUBLISHING AND ADVEZTDISKENT OFFICE, BOL^TERIEZTILEET, FLEETZTRIXT. Elte ensroo. PRINCESS'S. TI4I/4 Evamaa, POOR PILLICODDY.—AFTER DARR : A ALE OF LONDON LIFE. Mr. Vining, W. Walter Laey, Doourkick Murray, Montaeue. Shore, te.4 Mires ILar,tonasd Leelerrq.—And ROUND THE CORNER. QUEEN'S THEATRE. LONG-A.CRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. Tam EVRIMIO, at 7, HE'S A LUNATIC. At 7.45, THE LANCASHIRE LABS. Madera B. Emery, H. Irving, Clayton, W. H. Stephens, C. Wyndham, W. H. Montgomery, L. Enough, ad H. Mellon; Mesdames H. Hodson, Montague, and N. Moore. STRAND. THIS Enuriso, SISTERLY SERVICE—TEE WELD OP TH3I MYTH OP UOLD.—And lIARRIAOI AT ANY PRICE. BILITANIfLi. enormous, the number on the xegister being now 48.000 against •-16.000 amerly. the class of oountry towns Via augmen tation appears very considerable. Here ford reports a rise from 1,880 to 2,477, Stroud from 1,380 to above 6,0110, Windsor from 630 to 1,667, Bury St. Edmunds from 720 to 1,1146, Colchester from 1,012, to 2,823, Lincoln from 1,738 to 4,040, Stamford from 301 to 1,083, New ark from 680 to 1,770. From counties we have as yet seen returns from two only. In South-West Leineasliire, in which the former constituency was about 10,000, the overseers have now added 6,000 occupiers, while claims on both sides are expected to reach about 3,000 more. In Olamorganshire it is also believed that the constituency will be nearly doubled. - - • TIM Evsma, THE DEAD Iaii3CONINO ; OR, PREMED POE THE NAVY. Messrs. Reynolds, Pitt, Rignrood, to; Miss M. Henderson, tc.—American Minstrels and Ss Tommy; DIM A. Anderson.—And LADY ANNE'S NIGH WATKa AT LONDON samos. To-DAr —Morning, Ob. Sul. .erg, lib. 4ltris. To-N•now —Morning, Oh. Om. .Afternoon, Oh. am. — rom --- F such data as these instances, selected at random, furnish, it would seem probable that the now constituencies will be, in boroughs, scarcely less than double the old. The result is very different from what Mr. DISALSLI annoimoed as his estimated effect of his bill, when ho brought it in. He then stated the total occupiers in boroughs in England at 1,387,000, of whom 644,000 were already voters. He expected to enfranchise directly 237,000, leaving 486,000 in the class of compound householders, with a possibility of enfranchisement. Subsequent events, however, carried on the education of his party faster than he expected, and oomPounding was abolished in so far as it might operate as a restriction on regis tration. The measure is, doubtless, still imper fect; but we can see in the returns already ob tained how very material the amendment has been. Instead of having only Mr. Diss.sura's total of 700,000 borough voters, we seem much more likely to have considerably above a million. In counties he estimated the increase at 300,000 ; if anything like the ratio of South Lancashire and Olamorganshire should prevail, NOTICI. it is evident it will be much more. We readily thank bin for being thus better than his word, or rather, shall we not say, for doubling the total effect of his Reform Bill in order to meet gracefully the views of Mr. HODOKINSON, to whom we are really in debted for its extension by abolition of the com pounder. But the curious notion which is still left to per vade the measure, of enforcing payment of parish rates by the penalty of loss of the national fran chise, is producing in various places some startling effects. In Liverpool, we learn, it has been attended with a marvellous success. The rate payers, under this stimulus, have paid up arrears with unprecedented punctuality, and on one day alone upwards of 12,000 persons thus proved their fitness for exercising the highest rights of citizenship. In Glasgow, again, the effect was different. No less than 23,000 who would have been otherwise qualified are deprived of the franchise this year because of not paying their rates in time. Glasgow happens to be one of those towns in Scotland in which everyone is rated, and therefore it may be inferred that the 23,000 who have not paid are the poorest, while the 40,000 who have, are the wealthiest. There may, however, be another reason. The whole Scottish members protested against Mr. DISRAELI'S rating freaks as utterly inapplicable to their country, and declared that it was preposterous that the owing a few pence to the rate collector should disfranchise, when owing 201. to the butcher did not. Scotland is logical, and it may be that she has carried out her logic into action. It may be also that as it is certain that Glasgow will return three Liberals the con stituency has not cared to register. Whore, as in Liverpool the contest will be keen and the issue doubtful no voter has neglected to qualify. The difference in system shows sufficiently, however, the absurdity of the test which operates so variously and capriciously, and when we recall further that in the attempt to enforce it there has been everywhere produced extreme suffering among the poorest of the community, and that some districts of the metropolis have been almost driven into insurrection, we must hope that one of the first acts of the new Parliament will be to abolish utterly Mr. Dirotazta's sole surviving principle." Last session and that preceding it were sessions of compromise with every sort of absurdity. The great aim of ildvertisev. are reAnested to mate their Post-ollee orders male to kr. JOlllAil KA1111.01 . 011, Post-olftee, Meet-street, NOTWILII of BIATHP. MAMMIES, and DIATILII, WO received until 12 o'clock for insertion same evening. Price 9.. ed. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, EVERY EVENING. the Liberal party was to screw out of the Tory party as much concession as could be got, certain, that whatsoever was thu.s gained we uld lighten the work of the future. With this ob ject in view anything was yielded rather than force the Ministry to resign. It was always a question what would have this effect, and Mr. DISRAELI often yielded when his opponents feared he would stand firm. But on the other hand he was often obstinate at precisely the points in which there was least justification for obstinacy. These points form now the blots on the Reform Act which must be first removed. With a new parliament all reason for compromise will have passed away. The Liberal party will be in power, and able to carry its own measures. The elections will have demonstrated the faults in the electoral system, to which it must first ad dress itself. With this duty before it, there is a double interest attaching to the circumstances in which that election will take place. It has both to place in power the men who will remove the inconveniences of the present system, and it has to demonstrate clearly what those inconveniences are. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, THE NEW CONSTITUENCIES. IT will probably be some little time before we can receive any complete returns of the new con-. atituesicy, as it appears in the lists now exhibited on the church doors. The lists are, besides, at present imperfect, for they contain none of that indefinitely large class who will claim under the lodger qualification, and even as to the names which they do include, they are subject to all the corrections which will be introduced either in con sequence of new claims, or of objections to the overseers' entries. It has also to be kept in view, in oomparing the neer figures with the old, that in many boroughs the boundaries have been en larged. But making allowance for all these cor rections, some of which will, doubtless, tend to compensate each other, the returns, as the country papers begin to furnish them, are of great interest. They show, in a rough way, how striking is ;the en largement of the electoral body under the new Reform Act. Thus in Birmingham, the consti tuency of which was formerly 14,000, the new constituency will be 42,000. In Liverpool the old figures were under 23,000, now they are 37,730. In Birkenhead there is an increase of only one thousand, the figures being 5,000 now, but there trade has been bad and the population has fallen off by 7,000. In Southampton again the increase is still more trifling, being but a hundred or two. But in Glasgow the augmentation is THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1868. " Creed," s course which. would " admit to the V. privileges and the fellewshipe of the University:' Baptists, Indepenipit4 Wesslejalius; asflello Die- , ",enters who have net lapsed into Bocinianisnx." or that new solleges should be founded out of the revenues of the old ones, in which members of " each creed should teach according ta - their belief " until Gob bring us to one mind." These propo sitions, startling as they are when we consider the quarter from whence they come, were re ceived but coldly by the Conference. It was urged that the plan proposed would give up some thing to Remanism as well as to Protestant dis sent ; that it would subject young Wesleyan ministers to the influence of " canonizing agents " in disguise ; " and that the body ought not to be " caught by the golden bait " offered by Dr. PLUMY. Finally, it was resolved to simply acknowledge the letter —in other words, to silently decline the proposals. But when the former attitude and policy of the school of which Dr. PUSZY is the heed are re called, the changes wrought by the force of public opinion during the last thirty years seem very marked. To retain a theological bast, how ever dwarfed, Dr. PUREY would now consent to endow even a Socinian College, and would place most dissenting bodies on a level with the Established Church. But the essence of the . argument against tests is that theological opinions shall not exclude the best mon from the University chairs. Dr. Posse would enforce the principle while giving up what to the majority of his school makes the principle dear. He would have a test, however small, forgetting that in morals and logic a thing hateful in itself is not less hateful when its dimensions are reduced. The old plea that "it is only a very little ono" is never valid; and we cannot be surprised that the Wesleyan should content themselves with simply acknowledging Dr. PUSEY'II remarkable letter. &i l l 18 DAY.) JrnISMOr from Ike manner in wilt& We deer French keen was hien up, the nese says it is clear Vat the mak of the amiss is such that the kirk though amounting he eighteen saillioos 'telling; had no effeet in damping the confidence of capitalists. Whether the drolaration that France is tranquil " to-day " did or did not mean that it would probably be excited ti-morrow seems to have troubled the creditors of the nation very slightly. They were equally careless to ascertain whether the true inteiprelation of the declaration "Dies pretty, IVeeee" was that Divine Providence would preserve the empire through imminent wars, or whether, as ap pears more likely when we remember that it was the old motto shuck on the edge of the five-franc pieces of our youth, it simply proclaimed the inviolability of French Isom and the perfect security of Bente& Referring to the Paris Pee, the Deily Neter remarks that the Second Empire, which is nothing if not thea trical, understands to perfection the art of sustaining public curiosity by a continual expectation of something new and strange. It revels in the mystery of the Un foreseen. It delights to hear the whole world of peer moocher asking what the great day will bring forth ? Chronic uncertainty and anxiety contributes not a little to the prestige and authority of the government which elan so dictate the destinies of Europe. Commerce and in du►try, all the mercantile and material interests of the community, cannot but rejoice in the protection of a Sovereign who, whether lie is silent or whether he speaks, can turn an annual file into an annual financial crisis., and cause so much healthy commotion in all the money markets at the mere approach of the anniversary of his vatron saint. The Telegraph observes that while there is no reason to believe that W. year's fele will be leas brilliant than usual, it has certainly been ushered in by no appropriate manifeetations of national feeling, an uneasiness prevail ing in Paris with regard both to home and foreign poli tics. -• The Star mays that however the Tories may be, as they profess, gaining ground in the country-in the metropoli tan district, at all events, three is no sign of that Conser vative reaction on which Mr. Disraeli bases hie hopes of an unlimited and uncontrolled tenure of power. The me tropolitan boroughs may be regarded, one and all, as se cure seats for staunch liberate, and in the counties round London a sterling radical temper ban also manifested itself. IGN NEWS. (THIS DAYJ TIM HIPUDENTB' DEMONOTRATION IN PARIS. The manifestations which took place in honour of the eon of General Cavaignac at the College of Charlemagne were renewed at the distribution of prizes in the College Sainte-Barbe, where M. do Corcellos, a personal friend of General Ca vaignac, pronounced a warm eulogy on the former chief of the Executive under the Republic of 1848. The applause of the students continued for full twenty minutes. " The government is reported to be very anxious," says the I nth:petulance Bar, " with regard to the excited state of feeling amongst the student classes in Paris." A CHRONICLE OF THE LAST FORTNIGHT IN FRANCE. Tho Temps gives the following chronicle of events from the Ist to the 14th of August : August 1 : Condemnation of Duportsl, editor, and M. Favy, printer, of L'Evimeipetion, for outraging a creed recognised by the State. August 5 : Condemnation of Henri Rochefort to four months' imprisonment, and W. fine, for striking the je.nter of a libel. Ditto : Fine of 21. on Rochefort for non-ine,rtion of a cosi mnivie. Ditto : Action of M. Parent against Police man Andre for assault, &Anis' &ed. Ditto: Thi fclitor of the Messcger da Sati-(hart, fined 8/. ; and the manager of the same journal, fined 40/. Angled 6: M. Dubei*oo, printer of the .Rereil, fined 2W. for an article exciting to contempt of government. August 9 : The Eleetear, summoned or the came charge. August 10: The Eclipse, prohibited from being sold in the streets. August 12: The Figaro, fined 201. for publishing the report of the case of Roche fort r. Marchal and Stamir. August 14 : Condemnation of M. Rochefort to one year's imprisonment and 400/. fine ; of M. Dubuisson, printer, to three months' imprisonment and 80/. fine. Ditto: Public sale of the IneMpeadeat de lionlargis and of the Journal de Manor prohibited. Ditto: Prosecution of the Liberal tie &iee el Oise. August 15 : Public rejoicings in honour of Saint Napoleon. DR. PUSEY AND THE WESLEYAN METHODISTS. TEAT Dr. PIISEY should attempt a coalition with the Wesleyan Methodists is an interesting sign of the times. The bearings of Mr. OOLX RDMV 8 bill tend, according to the High Church leader, to a contest between atheism or pantheism, and the old creeds of the Church. We were under the impression that the Bill was simply designed to secure the best men, irrespective of religious creed, for the highest instruction in the country, and to make the Universities national institutions. But, writes Dr. Pussy, " The body whose " interests it would advance would be those " whose indistinct belief is ever being precipitated " downwards, who hardly know what they them " selves believe, and who, under the name of " progress, are ever retrograding to the hopeless " scepticism before our Lord came. It is true that " this (although a diminishing party among " our young men) does exist among us ; some " have gone far further than this—to the denial " of Christianity itself, of their own free agency, " and of GOD. But they are of course in a false " position in an University which has any test or " any common faith at all. The effect of Mr. " CoxErsinox's Bill would be to legitimise their " position and acknowledge them among the " teachers of our Christian youth." The result of this will be, Dr. PUBEY thinks, to drive our future clergy to seek their education in France; and to obviate this he counsels the Wesleyan Methodists to advocate with him one of two things—first, to insist upon " an aelmowledg " meat of the faith according to the Nioeue THE DUKE OF BRABANT. The Brussels correspondent of the Arenir National writes : The reports as to the health of the Prince Royal are more and more alarming. After a temporary change for the better he has become worse than ever. Dropsy of the heart has exhibited itself in a form which leaves Little hope of cure. His mother returned from Spa yesterday evening in all haste, and in spite of the en treaties of her physicians. She had not seen her eon for some time previously, and the interview b'tween them was moat affecting. The health of the Queen is by no means strong, and it is feared that grief for her son may have • further prejudicial effect upon it. The King has written to his brother, the Count do Flandre, who is travelling with his wife in Bohemia, begging of him to re turn to Belgium. In the event of the Duke of Brabant's death, the Count de Flandre would become presumptive heir to the Belgium crown. The count has been married two years and has no child. (ramotron zwanoes AGENCY.) FRANCE. PARIS, Amon 1.5. M. Magne, the Minister of Finance, has ad dressed a report to the Emperor touching the success of the loan just issued. The report states the number of subscribers to the loan at 781,292, and the aggregate of their subscriptions at 660 millions of rente, being equal to a capital of 13 milliards francs, or little short of 34 times the amount called for. The subscriptions received at Paris and in the depart ments, being not subject to reduction, amount to 3,141,170 francs rente. The monies deposited to ensure an allotment exceed the sum of GOO mil lion francs. The Moniteur of to-day publishes a list of per sons who have been decorated on the occasion of the fetes Napoleon. Amongst those are M. Schneider, President of the Corps Legislatif, and M. Forcade de la Rouquette, who have received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and M. Pinard, who is appointed commander. In giving an account of the military review held yesterday the same paper states that the crowd of spectators joined the soldiers of the National Guard in greeting the Emperor with enthusiastic cheers. The latter has authorised Marshal Can robert to express to the troops his satisfaction at their splendid appearance and discipline. TITRIC EY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ammer 13. Mailed nicht' is expected to return to-day from his successful mission to the late seat of insurrectionary disturbances on the Bulgarian shore of the Danube. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE HON. RETERDY JOHNSON. IN, Atrotrar 13. The North German Lloyd steamer City of Balti more, from Baltimore, has arrived here with 24 passengers for this port and Havre, including the Honourable Reverdy Johnson, the United States Minister to Great Britain. On the Bth the City of Baltimore spoke the British ship Jane Pringle; on the 9th, the American brig Erie; on the 14th, the Bremen barque Gazelle; and at ,7) p.m., off Portland she exchanged colours with at Briish squadron of eight ironclads !steam ing down Channel. OUR PARIS LETTER. (nox ova OWN PARIS, FRIDAY Evainvo. The review, which was doubtful up to the last moment, has come off, and so far As I can learn without any particular incident. It is remarked that it was only announced in the Moniteur of this morning, and that under the date of August 14 the official journal says, " The Emperor will pass in review, ikc., to-morrow." This mistake is a confirmation of the rumours that differences of opinion on the subject existed up to the very last moment, and quite accounts for the repeated assertions of several evening papers that it had been countermanded. The day was extremely fine and not oppressively hot. The mile en seine was precisely a repetition of the review, without manoeuvres, which the Sultan saw last year. The only difference is that the National Guard was on the ground—and here it is necessary to remind readers that the National Guard now is only such in name, just as the Municipal Council of Paris is a nominal title, which does not describe what it really is. The National Guard might more pro perly be called the imperial militia. The men are all chosen from people known, or at least supposed to be, staunch imperialists, and the officers, instead of being elected, are chosen by the Emperor. It was, therefore, d priori most unlikely that such a National Guard would have made (as it was re ported they would make) a demonstration in favour of peace, or, indeed, any demon stration at all that was not ordered. As far as I can learn they were altogether unde monstrative. The regular troops of course cried, " Five l'Empereur !" The Emperor has gone back to Fontainebleau, and will not, I am informed, return for his fete. THE WEEKLY PRESS. Without wishing to sneer at, or ridicule, the enthusiasts who expected that the Reform Bill wouldoom mence a new era of change, and that the main charac- teristic of the reformed parliament would be an aptitude for conceiving and carrying out wheaten of a large and novel kind, the Saturday Serino observes that, to all appearance, tho chief characteristic of that parliament will be eminently common-place ; and it does not appear at all likely to fulfil the expec tations that have been formed concerning it. There is a complete absence of thought in the addresses of can didates on both sides. Of course there are exceptions. The addresses of Sir Bounden Palmer and Sir John Acton supply plenty of materials for reflection. But men like these do not make up a Rouse of Commons ; and the vast body of candidates issue addresses in which there is no trace of any feeling that those who framed them either long for or dread great changes in the immediate future. What the candidates, and especially the liberal candi dates, especially promise, is tbat their constituents shall have no reason to be displeased with them. If they aim at a sort of independence, they take care to represent their independence as a harmless personal freak, like wearing a wideawake in Regent-street, which will have no real bearing on their manner of life. Independence is only the ornamental part of them ; the substantial part is their entire willingness to please their constituents and to stick to their party ; and it is impassible not to see that this opens the door to any amount of change. It appears to the London Reek' , that the liberal party never bad an easier game to play, if they go about it properly, than they have at this moment in Ireland. The history of the past session shows so plainly that on Irish topics the government were never sincere or honest, that capable allusions to the debates ought to win general sup port for Mr. Gladstone and his followers. No glamour or finesse ought to shut out from the liberals in Ireland that their only chance of attaining many reasonable reforms lies in contributing to strengthen the liberal party here. So great is the vital power of that party that it has com pelled its opponents to do its own work, and it gains ground every day. Referring to the uneasiness expressed in Paris as to the affairs of the empire, the Spectator says there is nothing which suggests immediate danger except the internal condition of Prance. Recent incidents no doubt indicate a temper which at the fitting hour will display itself in the streets; and doubtless also the Emperor is astute enough to anticipate that fitting hour by a declaration of war on any or no satisfactory pretext. But the fitting hour in Paris is the hour when the army is irritated, the flag drooping, or the provinces discontented; and that hour is no more visibly upon us than it was twelve months ago. Neyertheleas the Spectator does not believe in the empire, and does believe that sooner or later Prance will re sist by force the German aspiration for unity ; because, if fulfilled, it would reduce her to the position of a second rate power; but of evidence that war is imminent there is none, except, as General Menebrea says, a great deal too much talk about the necessity of peace. The Ezanziner is glad to °beery; the stress laid by Mr. Gladstone, in his speech at St. Helen's, on the neceseity of seriously setting about the bulginess of retrenchment in the national expenditure. He may well look back with pride and satisfaction on the reduction of taxation effected by him while Chancellor of the Exchequer. He does not boast of the fact ; but it is only just to recall it to remem brance that, while reducing the number of taxes payable on the necessaries and comforts of life, he laboured hard to keep down the tendency to lavish expenditure on the part of his colleagues, even tinder the not particularly frugal recites of Lord Palmerston. Mr. Gladstone's speech implies a promise of retrenchment on his return to office, and the main point for the tax-paying community is to be able to look forward to the fulfilment of that promise. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of the remaining half notes for 13/. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 14.—The Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty arrived here to-night in tho Enchantress, on their annual tour of inspection. _ • Sir George Bartholomew Pocock died on Wed nesday at Ms residence in Portman-square, in his 90th year. He was knighted as standard-bearer to the corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms at tie coronation of George IV. Among the minors in the peerage who attain their majority during the autumn are the Marquis of Bute and the Earl of lichester, both in September; and the Duke of Norfolk, who attains his majority on the 27th of December. . . THE TER-ROIIBE..—The project for widen ing Wilderness-row from Doswell-street to St. John street, involving the use of land appertaining to the Muter-house estate, is about to be carried out. To corn pieta the enlargement of the thoroughfare a further con cession is required which will necessitate the demolition of the infirmary and other buildings and offices, the dis figurement and contraction of a pleasure ground called the " Master's Garden," and the invasion of the cemetery, with the destruction of numerous memorial tablets to pen sioners and officials long since deceased. On the south side of Charterhouse-equare other important alterations, . . ' connected incl ' the extinction' of objects of interest . with the - locality, are contemplated. THE WILBLEYANS AND THE CHURCH OF ENO WM.—The writer of "Conference Sketches " in the Methodist Recorder says of the Rev. Thomas Jackson's letter:—"l cannot help noticing the hearty response which the sentiments of this letter elicited. Some few did not appear to like this strong expression from the lips of the sunny old conservative, but they were only nits in comparison to hundreds. The church of England, in the of many of her sons, insults us constantly by ineo relfr : m enials of our ecclesiastical claims, or by proposals for absorption ; but until she cleanses herself from the bastard Popery and skulking infidelity which now disgrace her she cannot hope or ask for our support, and she ought to thank us if we do not lift our hands to strike her. Strict political neutrality we are all agreed to observe, but an active moral support of the church of England, in her present condition, it would be impossible to secure from the conference, and it would be improper to give." CITY CHURCHES.—By one of the lest acts of parliament passed the tower of St. Mary Somerset, in the City of London, is to be preserved, and, with part of the burial-ground, to vest in the corporation. A. portion of the churchyard may be appropriated to the widening of Upper Thames-street. NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART, AT Law, 11168.—Return of admissions :—Friday, August 14.—8 y season tickets, 962 ; by payment of lb. Id. eaok 791. Told, 1,776. IS NOBODY TO BE WHIPPED FOR THIS 1 Corm once proposed that there should be yearly festivals of honour for CAlsaa., BT. PAUL, and Cmsaisitiorre ; and that there should also be a solemn annual reprobation of JULIAN and BONA rains as enemies of human progress. On re consideration, says his editor with some uncon scious humour, Corn saw fit to withdraw this latter proposal. It certainly does seem as if it would not be quite easy to carry out decorously festivals of public execration. At all events, the fact that we now hang our murderers in private, and that the Oex FAWMIS rites are left to little boys of fervid pro testantprinciples, indicates the tendency of the age. Yet we have our ways of attempting to bring the moral sense of the public to bear upon pdblic offenders. One of the magistrates concerned in a recent case of rural justice is reported to have said, " Why, we shall have all the papers in the country down upon us !" There was a public man, or a writer, we forget which, who once had all the papers in the country down upon him ; but the curious part of the matter is that it seemed to make no difference to him. He found his dog behaved just as usual, and, when he went out the next morning for a walk, he had no particular adventure. Nobody chivied him ; nobody said, " There goes the cove " S 8 is been cut up in all the papers ; " and he discovered that he was still able to sit under his own vine and fig-tree, none daring to make him afraid. Then, one might ask, what is the good of coming down upon a public offender in all the papers ? Everybody, in fact, must have been struck with what seems the comparative ineffectiveness of public opinion in dealing with abuses, or wrongs which do not immediately af fect the obvious interests of multitudes. An effect it has; often a direct, positive effect, in alleviating the evil consequences of wrongs that cannot be undone ; and always an effect (when the public opinion expressed is right) in raising the tone of general sentiment in the com munity. But it is impossible not to wish occa sionally that there were some way of consolidating and making permanently available those outbreaks of indignantly righteous feeling which, being pro voked by preposterous public wrong-doing, so often die away with no greater result than that of putting somebody in all the papers. Within a week we have had ,two or three cases of unpaid justice which have excited general disgust. A poor woman has been fined for a little gleaning ; a boy for falling asleep in a cart ; and two other boys for bathing, under circumstances which, it was said, were "invidious." Now the papers have been down upon the Justices in these cases, and every month, or thereabouts, they are down upon other Justices for their abnormal justice. But what comes of it P The Justices go on justicing ; they are—not to make a bad pun—just the same as ever. And what remedy? Social science does not at present enable us to predict the occasion upon which a given Justice, in a given place, will be more quaintly just than usual ; and there is no coup d'etat short of abolishing the Justices that will meet the case. And if you do away with the Justices, why where are you ? Especially in times like these, when the Throne, the Church, and the Constitution totter to their respective bases or to their common base, which ever it is. Still, we do not like to give up the problem of consolidating and permanently symbolising the verdicts from time to time given by public opinion on Justices' justice. We must try to invent some execratory measures. In a burlesque of the story of William Tell, the patriot chalks " Gessler is " a bass " on the castle door, in order, as he said, to make the tyrant tr-remble. But this sort of thing would violate public order, and might, perhaps, prove ineffective even if continued for a long series of weeks. Yet we might establish Home Affairs Committees—like those inscrutable Foreign Affairs Committees up in the north somewhere— who would take cognisance of these matters. Such committees might note the cases, pass votes of execration, and record them by adver tisement and otherwise. They might also have Chambers of Horror, in which likenesses of the offending Justices, with reports of the cases, should be exhibite d for the study of the public. We are not quite clear that there is any act of parliament which forbids you to " exhibit" a man's carte-do visite anywhere whatever, for any purpose what ever, if you can only get it. It would, we pre sume, be libellous to write under a photograph of a Justice " JONES is a bass" ; and we are not sure you could publicly use a photographic likeness surreptitiously obtained, as many of these portaits wouldhave to be obtained. However, it is clear that somebody ought to be whipped in these cases, and perhaps the difficulty of the subject will excuse the crudeness of our suggestions. Lord Napier of )(seals reached Paris this morning from England, and proceeded at once to the British Embassy. As his lordship will remain only four. and-twenty hours in the French capital, the probability is that he has come over to see the Preach troops under arms.--0414eisei. Thu reported reception of the Corps Diplomatipis will not therefore take place, an . 1 theft will be nu interpretation of the oracular Troyes speech. To-day the prosecution of last Suttiplay't 'erne was brought to a hearing before the. gable Judge Delesvaus. M. Itoehefurt, ill 1111 absence, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and a fine of 10,0001 r. M. Dttlmison, the print.q r , was sentenced to three months impnsonw,• n t and a fine of 2,000 fr. It is unlikely that M. Ito.:Leturt will surrender to undergo his imprisonment. 11, will probably say to the Emperor, in we.ll-kuown historical words, "Sire, j'attendrai." M. Emile de Girardin publishes, as applii•slily to the present time, the following letter, wheal, he says was found among the papers of his istlier, Count Alexandre de Girardin, who was firsiii Veneur at the time it was written : THE EXPEROR XICHOLAH I. TO NINO CHAIII.I4I November, Is!" My Brother • This is not a letter from seven,,.,, to sovereign, but from one great people to another. y oo have no frontiers, and you are no longer a ivtir, of the first order. 'rake the limits of the Icon% tho Alps, and the Pyrenees, and thee I nln & will be constituted. As to me - tho population of amounts to HO millions—;. e., 50 million& of Norif, - u:t t millions of freemen. It is impossible f,r me to o f•0r.0., what may be the state of Russia a quarter of ,t fser, if I judge by tho difficultios I meet isql, day. I must go to Constantinople in order to I. ire three necessary elements of wealth—agrieultue., tures, and commerce. At present lam deprive.l „ 1 two last. Make a treaty offensive and defeiiiic- ,„1 will sign it directly. well persuaded that )-.,,, r will be my friends, and your enemies my are the conditions of this treaty. M. de Girardin sap; the original of t;:., mud be in the archive a, and that .11t would do well to look for it. At the Bourse the Rent.. 1 ,, 70fr. 50c., under tho influence of rev at, e 1%, loan has been covered 11 time,, but It .; o -.t weaker, at 70fr. 30c. for (ash, an I 70:r. f or account, with a rise of 12e. and 17;e. SEIZURE OF A BEITIsH SHIP ON THE (.VAST. The flibraltar Chronicle of August 7 • .0. iini the following:—" It will be remembered that ~ 1 1 th • lith of June last a British schooner. the Fanny, tea, boarded by a Spanish guaradeo,bl off Eump The Fanny returned to Gibraltar, and finally h•r• th. port under the convoy of her Majesty's ship Sky!ark f ir her destination—Oran. She reached Oran on the ?;v dirchargcd her cargo, and again sailed on the I!4th of [sly. hound to Carthagena, with a cargo of harky 117 pi,. sengers on bard. The curgo wus in part owned of the paasengers, flatlet% of Carthagena. Her so 6- 1 ; adveuturea and treatment at the hands of th.• authorities are of such an extraordins ry character that siderable indignation must be cauaed by their The Fanny arrived on the Spanish enact on 111, !2!:1 When five miles off the coast of Carthagena. at ..,t 1. pest four that morning, a Spanish revenue fain. h •:. Amalia, came alongside, and hailing the Funny. t. 1,•: where she came from. The master myth , ' t.,t •‘.; schooner came from Oran and was destined for :.1 ri 11 with passengers and a cargo of barley; at the. Nun , tse. he hoisted the English ensign. It was then annalin•ol board the revenue boat that the Fanny wre. ;. prise, and orders were given to get the gun rely t in view, we suppose, of meeting any opposition. After this, the captain of the Ai,: ordered the Fanny to follow, and the thus escorted was taken to the quarantine styli,. age at Carthagena. On arrival at the gnu inns. gruond four seamen from the Amalia were oil hurl the Fanny, to remain there until the expiratisi .ii V. • three days' quarantine imposed on all arrivals I:•rta Orin. During the performance of these three days' v•iti•in the captain of tho port came alongside the Fantly ind said he suspected the vessel to be a pirate; and at th • expiration of the quarantine the English crew were tat. to the Port-office to give evidence. Although the ma.tq of the Fanny declares that the ship's pap r• were perfectly correct the port authorities pro• feseed to be dissutisfiel with them, and sent th• whole of the crew at once to gaol. They were kept h. close confinement in the prison for 30 hours, at the cal of which time they were set at liberty, the Span local officials informing the sailors that they had eau, t be thankful to the Queen of Spain for her lenity tow.: I. them. The Funny was, however, detained at Carth tg• n until the certificates of baptism of every mats in tlii• had been obtained from Gibraltar. Eventually •!. • schooner was allowed to leave the port of Cartbsg• i,i. and arrived at Gibraltar this morning. As 'night ,!.- rally have been expected, the British consul at earths:: has protested most strongly against these outragrutt , ,• mailings. To treat in this high-handed, arbitrary ms:::. a harmless trader, on a peaceful voyage between .r • foreign port and another, carrying the flag of Eu4l L with papers all correct, and nu shadow of against her, calls for more than reclamation. preaches an insult to the British flag, and tvluitt , • plete and ample explanation." THE RAMBLES OF SOVEREIONS.—Them sent a very active movement amongst see..ral of ft- European sovereigns. The King of Prussia has 1..1, 1:: motion along the banks of the Rhine, from Ern. ' • Schwalbach, Sehwalbach to Cobleni, trot Wiesbaden, and from Wiesbaden to Disiel.lorf. Tf.• Emperor of Russia, who arrived in Kissmigoi f•-‘ days back, went to Schwalbach to -4, the Kin.: " Prussia, and has now returned to Kiwueen from Sehwal bachthe CcaTil•leanliidnEalmpores.if Bavaria his au fa d vo W n ‘ r i i rt re c h m.,b ;h 7a lL vsl . ' ' 'Utl".le Bavarian King has now gone to Stmith..t.; Emperor Francis Joseph who has gee t., st,it th, Em• press, his wife, at Pooeuhofeu. The SWcatAl au I Dix::: royal families have been visiting and retu I lung vest; tat one another lately, and the latter, with the e xol•pt: , 11 the Prince Royal, who has remained at home as r. embarked three days ago to pay a visit to the ituletl ,l family of St. Petersburg. Queen Victoria is cujoyu4 tl; scenery of Switzerland. The sale of paper lanterns is prohibited in Piri7. and of cigarettes of a red colour with a design ot lantern upon them. An American paper states that tho last wintm• in the Polar Seas was the mildest known for 25 ye,srs, sal that the natives of those seas lost all their winter supp4Y of meat, which is usually preserved by being frozen. It is likely that the whalers, through the mildness of la , t winter, will be able to penetrate during this summer erea farther than they did last year into the Polar Sea. At the beginning of this year there were in Europe 102,061 miles of railway, and throughout the world 162,600 miles. A project is on foot in California to estab lish a telegraph line from thence to China and Japan. It would be a land line through British Columbia to Alaska. A series of short ocean cables would connect the Aleutian peninsula with Kamschatka, which is only .100 miles f t r . lnt Japan, and from the latter country Shanghai i s only a or hundred miles. Letters now reach San Francisco front South hampton in 26 days by the German mail steamer New York, and by the Pacific Railway to California . THE GREAT VOLCANO IN TIIE SAlcuuT.i vvolcano( l et arins.—A San Francisco paper sa y s :—" The which proved t• be a ' nine days' wonder, has entirely eaabaided, and furnishes nothing for travellers to w eld but the ruins and desolatio n which it left. The sudden ness of its cessation is a perfect contrast to the prolonged exhibitions of ioniser years." THE PARTICLE "DE " AGAIN.—An action .was onsl brought yesterday before the Court of Correct' dPeorezedbyLoCoui.untxldle. bßeetze,oregrathendsoßenyool against M. Legny, publisher. of a " Kistory of FnMee by Ile. Laurentie, to compel him to . rectify . the sPelhnlf °P,`, his ancestor's name, which appears vol.. of that worn as Deserts that is to say without the particle being rPr" ted from the main word. The plaintiff, before instituting f ut th io e ns ad ry v°" Triti nawh l .." the suit, had o ff ered to pay N. Lagny .50c. for esSII correc ti o n on the stereotype plates, but th e latter had sl: lowed the error complained of to remain. N. Isignyrdp! not deny that the name was improperly.spelt. bet to was waiting for the issue of a new edition of the boor make the rectification. The court now ordered.N. Lager to make the change immediately on the conditions tir_ posed by Count de Sam, but eharged the hitt. , r Inth payment of the costa of the suit.