The Express. — London, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

Elie eroregiO. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Advertisements intended fur " The Express," London Evening Paper, must be at the Office, 10, &merle-street, by Two o'clock on the day of publication. DRURY LANE THIS Ertign No, FAUsT. Mr. Phelps, Messrs. E. Phelps, W. Harrison. H. Yandenhoff, and J. Johnstone: M. Herman Venn and Miss Poole.—And TILE COMEDY 01 ERBOES. The Brothers Webb. PRINC&RM ..... Tins Wilma, THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.—After which TITS litiGUENOT CAPTAIN. Messrs. J. U. Shore & Honey ; Wises Neilson, Augusta Thomson, and Ilrs. Stirling. HAYSIARIEXT. THIS EVENISO, THE OVERLAND MOUTH Messrs. C. Ma thew; Buckstone, ; Mesdames C. Mathews, Chippend de, Wright. ke. —A Ballet Divertissement. the Mimes CMITIC.—And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. LICECM. Tim Erciria, BRISTL'SAVICaFIAR. Miss Rerrtsde.—Ard THE LONG STRIKE. Mews. D. Buciesult, Emery, Widdloorub, Cowper, de. ; Mrs. D. Roue'molt —Conclodide with TWEEDLE TON% TAIL COAT. Mr. H. Weldleomb.—Comosence at 7. ATKA N D. TWTh ETRIMM, WAITING FOR THE rNDERGROUND —IN THE WRONG BOY.-DKR FRKISCHUTZ OR. A GOOD CAST FOE A PIECE—And BOOTS AT THE SWAN. HOLBORN. TRW EVENING, at 7, LARKIN'S LOVE LETTERS. Mr. Bei ra we and Nils& C. Saunders.—And FLYING SCI'D. Messrs. Neville. Bellmore, Blake, Vallaire, fie. ; Mesdames F. Josephs, C. Saunders, Bessie Foote, Mae', Lennox, Raymond, &e. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) IV 4.. $ A' every purpose, alike of attsEk 04 defence. gge 2 00 , 00 *- er of ' 'ties h is never s battle, scarce 4e a ilifigish, in ' d it mes eredib y when there comes not a period when to save buts ew venue exceeds 100.000,0001., that the army is re minutes in a formation is almost decisive of the sac • dam& to 30,000 man, that no navy is req for the pro _ sass of the movement. To be able in the shortest tection of distant colonies, and that the entire current pessibielspaoe of time to urge an attack against s expenses ot.the goversment at. thus brought walla weak po i n t, t o t a k e a d van t age of an erro r on the "000,0001. It the present rate of reduction be con tinued, the debt of Aunt" would be actually paid off in part of the enemy, or to remedy a blunder that has became apparent on h is own side, gives less than ten years to a general an overwhelming advantage. I It carries into the field of battle that celerity of operation by which, when directing the move nents of his army in the theatre of war, NeroLzow routed the far larger hosts opposed to him. And abroad, long before the needle-gun was taken into account, such considerations have led to the encou ragement of rapidity as an essential element of military drill. We should have found ourselves some time or other beaten through our neglect of it, had not the triumph of the breech-loading principle forced our authorities to think that it might be not only judicious, but inevitable, to allow the occasional acceleration of movements beyond the venerable parade pace ef three miles per hour. For it need scarcely be observed that if rapidity is not practised in the drill ground it cannot be improvised on the field of battle, and that the attempt to do quickly what had been only done slowly before would have produced the worse evil of utter confusion. It is tolerably clear, however, that the modifi cation now sanctioned is only a beginning of changes. 'When soldiers are to be called on to do above half a mile in five minutes in marching order, it is quite certain that the days of stocks, tight jackets, padded breasts, and heavy knap sacks, are drawing to a close. Just possibly, the exercise may be got through in winter without many deaths from apoplexy, though these elements of manly grace are retained. But the first warm days of spring will decimate the troops, if they do not, as is most probable, break out into a wise and wholesome mutiny against the tyranny of tailoring ere the sun gains power. For it is not to be con templated that the Horse Guards will, to save stocks and buttons, restrict "running drill" to the cold months. It is a fact which that este blishment cannot overlook that campaigns are usually prosecuted in summer, and by far most I frequently in latitudes where the summers are much hotter than in England, and that to clothe the soldier in such a garb that he cannot be asked to do in drill what it is essential that he must do in service, is a comedy with too tragical an ending. And, consequently, we may congratulate the British soldier, that, in return for the exercise which will brace his muscles and strengthen his lungs, he will be relieved, by medical urgency, of the present strait waistcoat that binds him said the torture strap that chokes him. The knapsack question also will by the same means be brought into more pressing need for solution. For some years past the Horse Guards have been fully sensible of the call for some change in the way in which the pack is carried, of which nothing more need be said than that a parade with knapsacks is one of the recognised punishments :or minor offences. Several patterns have been issued to different regiments, and favottrab'e reports have been made respecting more than one of the in-- provements under trial. But, in spite of the un nnestionable evil of the present form and un doubted advantages Of tertattt of the alterations proposed, the army is still compelled to carry the old packs in the o'd way—a way which in a short time benumbs the arms and galls the back, even when no pace beyond a walk is attempted. Nor has there been any suggestion for diminishing the weight which is thus to be carried by relieving the soldier from the load oe m Licles which ought to be carried for him in the train, since he cannot have occasion for them during any of the short periods when he is actually on the march. Our military chiefs are sufficiently con versant with the mysteries of hand . capping to know that a pound more or less carried by a horse will make the difference between winning and losing a race, and they ought to remember that an ounce is to a man what a pound is to a horse. "An English Garibaldino" has in fact lately pointed out in the columns of the Daily Neal that the success of the force of which he was a member in penetrating the fastnesses of the Tyrol was made possible only by the lightness of the burdens the men were required to carry. Such occasions arise in regular warfare as often as in irregular, and the power of traversing mountain paths, or the com parative freshness of the men at the end of a long and hot march, have over and over again proved the elements by means of which great generals have won great victories. Let us hope that the Horse Guards, now that they have acknowledged that the soldier must make all the use of his legs which Nature enables him to make, w:11 not over look that he has also lungs, which cannot do the - r part under compression, and s back which ought not to be put to the service of carrying a year's outfit on every day's march. WS; TuTADAY ~ - ich liciaic AUSTRIA. The alleged attempt upon the life of the Emperor of Austria and the appointment of Baron von Bend to the post of Foreign Minister lead our contemporaries to com ment on the troubles in which the empire is placed. In Baron von Banat's appointment the Tinw sees an open defiance hurled at Prussia, and thinks that the Emperor's own subjects are not likely to share his confidence in • man who, whatever may be his abilities, has invariably ruined every cause he took in hand. Baron von Ballot will be looked upon as • stranger even by the German party at whale head he will be placed; but his appearance in the cabinet can hardly fail to be received as a declaration of hostilities by the rival nationalities of Czechs, Magyars, and Sanwa', now so irreconcilably arrayed against the government. The flame of civil discord threatens the empire on every side ; and, as if there were not enough of Magyar and German, &lave and Saxon, and the whole confusion of hostile races, the runaway Jesuits from Venetia have now come for a refuge to the Emperor, and have roused among the people of Vienna and Prague the enmity which that holy militia seldom fails to excite in European coinumnities. It may be questioesd bow long our age will admit of each a state as the Austrian empire. The battle of Barlow& has revealed the existence of another "sick man" in Europe. Sick men, it is true, do not always die at once ; there are chronic and there are even curable infirmities ; but all the symptoms exhibited by the new patient seem to point either to the necesaity of violent remedies or to inevitable &immolation. The Daily Noes finds it difficult to imagine any motive that could impel a mind not wholly bereft of reason to harbour designs against the life of the Emperor Francis Joseph. There is nothing in his personal history or cha racter to make him a mark for vengeance. At no time has the rigor of Austrian rale been intensified by the action of the Emperor, whose prerogative has often been exercised to pardon. The one great fault of the Emperor—and in an Austrian Emperor it is my great indeed—is want of decision of character. In tbe attitude assumed towards the Emperor by the citizens of Frague we are not to see, it is plan, • manifestation of personal feeling, but the sign of the dissolution of a political bond. Although, regarded from • political point of view. there is :gm* folly in the policy, it is clear that the Czechs have regarded the contest between the two C xman powers with supreme indifference. It would seem that among possible political connexions none would be so serviceable as a federal union with Austria, but it is 4 1 Iraqi to reason with strong na tional sentiment, and it may take some time for limited populations of common blood and speech to find out that the separation from foreign oon nexious to which they aspire can in their case lead only to isolation, and thence to dependence and subservience. - willing to the Herald theEuiperoFof Austria has not called Von Benet to his counsels because the ex-Saxon minister is popularly supposed to passionately desire the overthrow of Prussia, bat because, in the dearth of states manlike abilities in Austria, a man of Von Beast's un doubted experience and abilities promises to be • great ac q-u-isitim. The real importance of the appointment will be found in its influence upon the internal policy of Austria, and in this respect the Herald is very much afraid that igi -- imperor will findihis annexation of the Saxon pre mier has proved a mistake. %RITA NNTA. TUN EVlraDmi, TIIE OLI) tiII:REV TREE. Mn. Lana .—Mir E. )tow) ray : Master Geotke Perks; Mr. N.Orlen, " Kind Old Maidy ; " Paul Deulln.—And EDWARD TUE BLACY PRINCE. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOIL TRW DAY —Morning, tal. ohn Afternoon, db. 61m. TO-YOLSOlF—Morninfig, 7h. '25111 Afternoon, BIL lm. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30. SIMULTANEOUSLY with the War-office advertia ment of prizes for breechloaders and revolvers for the future armament of our troops, there has been issued by the Horse Guards an order that the men in our infantry regiments shall be exer cised daily in " running drill." After six weeks of preliminary training, each soldier is to be required to run 1,000 yards a day, at a pace not exceeding the rate of six miles an hour, and on each alternate day carrying his arms and accoutrements during the exer cise. When this stage has been reached, cer tain battalion movements, hitherto usually per formed in ordinary time, are to be executed at the " double." These announcements of the two great departments of our military organization have, it will be readily seen, a connexion with each other more intimate than the accident of being promulgated at the same time. They both grow out of the necessity for recognising rapidity of fire as a new element in tactics. It has become indispensable that our troops shall have weapons which are nut slower or less deadly than those with which foreign troops are armed. But it has be come equally indispensable that our men should not be exposed to so withering a fire a moment longer than can be helped. Within the space of but a few minutes a whole regiment may now be annihilated. To diminish by a half the period during which it is subject to such a chance is equivalent to saving half the men that would have otherwise been killed or disabled. Such is the necessity of the case which has forced the Horse Guards to abandon its traditional " quick time," and to consent to place our men on equal terms with foreign chasseurs and bersaglieri, by accustoming them to execute the chief movements of a field of battle at a speed hitherto reserved almost wholly for the bayonet charge. But while the modification in drill has been compelled by so cogent a reason, it is as well not to overlook that it has been long ago called for by other considerations. The army which can most rapidly manoeuvre is not only that which loses fewest men, but that which is most efficient for I , i j,, I I I 11~ i AT%Tome (AUSTRALIA) PUBLIC LOAN, issued under the authority of the Public Loon Act, rah Victoria, No. en, assented to lab October, oak to be elected by the tame of Debentures to the amount of £860,000. bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, In amounts of E lOO . NMI, and 41,600 each, reared upon the coneolidaMd revenue 0.4.., 1 71ctcria, and redeemable on the la Jemmy, IJOMIMITTIM appoleled by the six aseociakd es Nests in this country of the go vernment of Victoria boob, of Use above Loan. MbRKBY arrs - Nancr., that PU C TENDIigS will be received for the endeire amount of 1366,000, at the London and Westminster Bank, two o clock precisely, on the AFTERN OON o f MONDAY, the Mb November 100X:at i o which Ume sealed tenders wUI be received there from all who may forward the same, addreeeedito the chair man of tisetionunittee, and endorsed " Tenders kr the Ifieteria Lean.' or attend t o pawn therewith. • In case of orceality of Tenders beyond the amount to be hated, they will be subject tea pro-rata diminution. A deposit of flee per cent. on the amount of each tender mut be previously paid to the London and Westminster Bank. The tenders will then be opened in the presence of all ao attending, and read publicly, and the purchase forthwith declared to be those who have offered the pur chasers price not under theminintam previously fixed, and which shall be contained in • sealed parer placed on the table before the tenders are opened. Tenders by the same persons at various prices must be made oat and delivered separately, and parties must be careful not to enclose the deposit in the sealed tender. Tenders at a price including fractions of a shilling other then l will not be accepted i C e ltbentures so contracted for will carry interest ham the led July last, and will be delivered to the subscribers at the London and Westminster Bank on the 30th November next upon p=at of the balance due thereon. pal and Interest payable in London, at the London and Westminster Beak, and at the London Jotat km* Beak. Interest payable on the let January and let July in each year, by coupons. The Act further provides that the Loan shall be applied ea follows: For the completion of the Prate railways £250,000 Towards the works of defence, necessary for the protection of the colony aganst invasion 100,030 Towards the construct io n of works for se= water to various districts in Victoria, liar agritaltural, and pastoral purposes 100.060 isso,ooo The revenues of Victoria exceed three minions per annum, and have always been sufficient for the expenditere, wit Leh in clads* annually a large provision for public works ealoallted to develop the great natural resources of the coleys - The Hallways, fur the completion of which £250,000 are re quired, are already producing 41 , per cent. on the cod of their construction, after paying all the working expenses. which M ende fell provision for maintaining the permeated way and rolling stock In the highest state of efficiency. It is confidently expected that la three years the railways will return, over and above working expenses, the whole amount of the interest of per cent. paid for the Money borrowed for their construction. The sum of £830,000 has been from time to time expended from the onlinary resources of the colony In the creation and maintenance of works of defence. It has been determined by the Legislature that the very large amount of property at stake requires that the harbour defences of Melboerne shall be com pleted, and £lOO,OOO are required towards that object. The climate and soil of N lctorta are fit for the production of all that can be profitably grown in I:bothers Europe, but a re gular supply of water is essential fur the development alike of the agricultural, mining, and pastoral resources of the country, and for this £500,000 are required. The City of Melbourne and its suburbs are supplied with water from a rmervoir constructed for the purpose ; sad al though the work was undertaken at a time when labour was dearest, It returns eight per cent. on the original outlay. For the Bank of New South Wales -D. Lerma. Chair man of Committee. For the Beak of Auatralasla—D. Q. Henriques. For the Union Bank of Australia—H. W. D. Saunders. For the Bank of Victoria—lL L. Taylor. For the London Chartered Bank of Australia—C. G. Bar nett. For the Colonial Bank of Australasia—James A. Douglas. London, Pith October, Idol. N.B. Forms of Tender may be obtained on application at the Loudon and Westminster Bank, and at the office of Metiers. Mullen', Marshall, and Dude:l, 3, Lombard-street SALES of PLANTS and BULBS, EVERY WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY. STEVENS'S AUCTION ROOMS, Se, King-street, lovent•Ea[deo. FULL PARTICULARS lu the CATALOGUES. MAPPLN BROTHERS.—Established D.lBlO. CHESTS of SILVERPLATE for theCOLONIES, CUTLERY and SILVER PLATE for FETRNISIIING. MAPPIN BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE. MAPPIN BROTHERS, 222, REGENT STREET. I ROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR ('sr CULLOM:N . B Mt To obtain extra profit by the ade other kinds ft sometimes offered instead of BROWN and PoLSON'S. "John Brown," "John Poison," is signed i* the makers on each packet. XISCILLANZOCB TOPICS. The Tim ct gives some account of the remarks of a repre sentative of a French government journal, who was sent to Manchester the other day to describe Mr. Bright on the platform. and remarks for its own part that it is a political fanaticism which the member for Birmingham has now taken up. He will find it an amusement—not very dan gerous, perhaps—but nothing more. At the present moment, the Daily News observes, such Is the waste of natural advantages to which Spain is con demned by the worst of governments, that there is scarcely a country in Europe the people of which may not look down upon it in pity. A dark night has settled over the kingdom. Elsewhere states may be seen suffering by the faults or misfortunes of their rulers, but Spain is probably the only country of European Christendom, the government of which does not, however feebly, propose the happiness of the people as its situ. A great country will not see its institutions permanently reduced to s barrack and a monastery, but unhappily it is not so easy to see what is to follow the present misrule. If the last Bourbon reigning in Europe should be de throned, as seems probable, the catastrophe will be rather the consequence of an effort of natural instinct, reacting against that which had become absolutely intolerable, than • of a 'strictly political movement working towards &finite ends by calculated means. %he essurt. BALMORAL, Ocr. 27, The Queen and the Duchess of Roaburghe rode on ponies by Abcrarder to the Slughan, where her Ma jesty met Princess Christian and Princess Louise, with whom the Queen drove home. The Duke of Buckingham had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Islands, Vancouver's Island, New Zealand, and Heligoland. The Earl and Countess of Derby arrived in town last evening from Knowsley. The Bight Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli arrived in town yesterday from the seat of the Earl of Carnarvon, Castle High Clere, Hants. THE QUEEN'S JOURNEY FROM SCOTLAND.—On Thursday her Majesty, accompanied by Prince and Prin cess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Prince Leopold, anik Princesses Louise end Beatrice, will leave Balmoral for Windsor Castle. The Duke of Buckingham will be the minister in attendance on her Majesty. Prince and Prin cess Christian, during their stay at %Indoor, will reside at the Castle till Frogmore House is ready for their recep tion. The Duke of Edinburgh left Clarence House, St. James's, yesterday, on a visit to the Prince and Princesa of Wales at Sandringham. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—The Earl of Derby, accompanied by his countess, arrived in town yesterday from Knowsley. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli arrived at their residence, at Grosvenor gate, yesterday, from their seat in Buckinghamshire. The E irl of Carnarvon will arrive in town to-day from High. clere Castle, near Newbury. Sir John Pakington (the First Lord of the Admiralty) will arrive at his residence in Eaton-square to-day from Westwood, his seat in Worcestershire. Sir Stafford Northeote will arrive in town to-day from The Pynes, near Exeter. The Earl of Malmesbury, the Lord Privy Seal, will arrive in town to-day from Heron Court, near Christchurch, Haute. The Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole arrived in town yesterday from Bri7bton. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Stanley, General Peel, and Viscount Cranborne are among the ministers already assembled in London. The marriage of the Earl of Roeslyn with the Hon. Mrs. Maynard is fixed for the Bth November. The Russian Empress is expected to spend the winter at Nice. Hoe sister-in-law, Grand Duchess Mary of Leuchtenberg, is at present at Florena, raiding at the Villa Mathilde, which Count Demidoff has placed at her disposal. The count, it will be remembered, married Prince's Matbilde, but a legal separation took place a short time after the marriage. The separated pair meet, however, on excellent terms, and some years ago it was reported that the count had proposed a second time for ter perial highness—who, however, having tasted the bliss of independence, respectfully but firmly declined the offer. The announcement of the death of Lady De Hoghton, in the Herald of yesterday, has, we learn, no foundation. Lady Heerlen, who d ied in Park-street, Grosvenor-square. was Harriet Sarah, the second wife of the late Sir Henry }fold-Hoghton, who died in 1862. The announcement should, therefore, have been of the - death of the Dowager Lady Hoghton ; and we exceedingly regret that such a mistake should have occurred. . ^ • ti G, OCTOB TAB ALABAMA CLAIMS. The Tines retm as to the Alabama cane, again urging the reference of the claims which the Americans make to a joint commission. Not merely the democratic pat ty,whose traditional policy is hostility to Great Britain, but the republicans encourage the belief that the United States have suffered a grievous wrong at our hands, and that we have denied through our government a legitimate claim for reparation. This in itself constitutes a strong case for consideration, and, if necessary, for reconsideration. The principle that international obligations are limited by the provisions of municipal legislation, though apparently sanctioned by the high authority of the late Attorney-Gene. ral, is assuredly not above dispute, and if this principle be surrendered we can hardly help recognising the conflicting " equities "of two innocent parties in the Alabama case- But it is not upon this ground alone the Times ventures to urge the course referred to upon the attention of Lord Stanley. If the dictates of justice be doubtful, those of policy are clear. Great Britain has everything to gain by the adoption of a code whereby a weaker maritime power , may be restrained from equipping Alabaman in American porta. Our navy may or may not be the most powerful in the world, but, if it were ten times as powerful as it is, it could not protect our commercial marine against privateers built anywhere and commissioned nowhere. Let us anticipate, then, the violent counsels of a dominant party by conciliatory overtures which would be appreciated by the whole nation. We have a Foreign Secretary who is not only free to do so, without aLy i fioe of personal dignity, but enjoys the rare credit, both at home and abroad, of being superior to national prejudices. Such an opportunity, if lost, may not recur before some fresh dispute arises to confound the merits of that now ' pending, and to make its settlement impossible. The Telegraph is amazed at the commercial and financial prosperity of the United States, which appears fabulous to our old world notions. On the lst day of August, 1865, the debt of the United State, was 551,450,000/. ; on the Ist of August. 1866, 526,300,0001. ; and on the let day of the present month, 514,800,000 C In fourteen months the government has actually paid, not only the interest, but 36,850,0001. of the capital ; the reduction being at the rate of about 2,700,000/. per month for the whole term. During the Later part of .the period it has, indeed, been much more nipi.l, and it amounted for the two months of August and September to nearly INTELLIGENT LATI .t. 4100. THE APPOINTMENT OF BARON VO N BEIIST. - • The Dibuts of to-dey speaks of the appointment ' of Baron Von Benst to the.ofiloe - of Foreign Affairs in Austria in the following terms : The Autry d IL. de Beast into the Aptrian Cabinet, of which there seems no longer any doubt, is generally con sidered as a manifestation of hostility towards Prussia. If this view be correct we must assume that Austria is not resigned to her exclusion from Germany. It is even said that she regards the present state of thinp as transitory and is only holding back in order to recover strength enough to renew the struggle which, in the first in stance, was so fatal to her. We need not say how exag gerated this supposition appears to be to us. It by no means follows that because Austria feels a strong resent ment against Prussia a new war, either proximate or re mote, is inevitable between them. There is always too much of the unforeseen in human affairs to he able to calculate on them with mathematical preci sion. That which it seems should happen does not always happen, and the very opposite sometimes happens. We have not the least doubt of the bitterness entertained by Austria, which Is only too well justified ; but we believe that if Austria muses this feeling, if she does not endeavour to get the better of it, and turn bar attention to other objects, it will only serve to keep up vain illusions and to make her lore precious time. It is not towards Germany that Austria can now direct atten tion with advantage to herself. She bas a difficult pro blem to solve, and it does not appear what benefit she can derive in this respect from the cooperation of XI. de Benet. . E ESTABLISIIEDtifURCH OP ENGLAND AND , THE iIieISCOPAie CHURCH IN SCOTLAND. The following address to the Archbishop of Can lefbury lies for signature at the chief church publishers' : "TO HIS GRACE THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OP CLIFTERBOZT, PRIMATE OF ALL LSOLAXII, AND IIZTROPOLITAN , " We, the undersigned, bishops, clergy, and laity beg to approach your grace with the exprwsion of our deep thankfulnees for the net of year grace in layfar, be foundation stone of the cathedral about to be huilt in the diocese of Moray and Boss. The recant as tute (27 and 23 Piet., cap. 94) had indeed removed the civil disabilities which political causes dons bad impo sed upon the legal inter-ooninuanien of the English and Scotch churches ; but the set of your grace upon this occasion has strengthened the spiritual bond which has always subsisted between the two churches. Moreover, we rejoice that your grace has been fully aware of the danger which arise* to the church out of the charge of non.estholicity so continually preferred against her by the church of Bone. It is by dwelling upon bar isolation from the other churches of Christendom that the Roman church has sucoeeded in seducing from her pale many whom attacks upon her order and doctrine would have failed to shake. Without entering upon the question (at present scarcely ripe for discussion) of our rela tions with the churches of eastern Christendom, but entertaining a deep conviction that, under the bleating of Almighty God, the church will derive from full inter-eoel minion with the church in Scotland, in the United States of North America, and in the dependencies of the British Crown, much strength and comfort in her hour of trig, we beg respectfully to place in your grace's hands this me• morial of our gratitude for this additional proof of your grace's loving care for that portion of the church of Christ over which you have been calla to preside." RUSSIA. The Corriere italic") states that it knows from a sure source that Franoe and England are pre paring an energetic note to be addressed to Russia respecting the maritime armaments of that power in Nicolaieff, which are in entire opposition to the letter and spirit of the treaty of Paris. (aurris's Trarowni.) FRANCE. PARIS, Ocr. 30. A report addressed to the Emperor by Marshal Bandon, Minister of War, has been published to day, nominating the commission which, agreeably to his Majesty's order, is to inquire into the ad visability of modifying the military organisation of the empire. The commission, the chief presidency of which the Emperor reserves to himself, is to seek the means of placing the national forces in a condition to ensure the defence of the territory and maintain the political influence of France. The commission is composed of six ministers and several generals. The Moniteur publishes a report of Minister Behic to the Emperor on the late inundations. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SUEZ, Ocr. 29. The Carnatic arrived at 6 a.m. to-day. OUTWARD MAIL OF OCT. 12-18. The Malta., for Bombay, and the Norna, extra steamer, for Calcutta, left Suez on the evening of the 27th inat. - AMERICA. 13017THAMPTON, Ocr. 30. The North German Lloyd's steamer America, from New York, passed the Needles at 12.5 p.m. to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (allow °tit OWN CORRESPONDLNT.) PARTS, MONDAY EVE'NING. The Emperor goes this evening to the Italian Opera to hear Patti in one of her best characters, Adina in Crispin ela Comore. He is to go out shooting on Thursday at Meudon. M. Thouvenel's successor has not yet been gazetted, but it is now said, on good authority, this lucrative office will be bestowed on M. Ferdinand Barra, who is at present the senator-secretary. Letters from Turin give two pieces of news — one, which appears in several of the papers, re lates to the marriage of the King's second son, Prince Amadeus, to a young lady of very large fortune, the Marquess de La Cisterns. Her mother is a Merode, related to the warlike prelate, M. de Montalembert and the Prince de Croy. The other seems too improbable to be true, but it is not at all impossible, so I give it. M. Kossuth is said to have written a letter to the members of the Hungarian Legion advising them to go to Greece. This seems improbable, because Greece is a poor country, where foreigners without capital have no chance of existing. Of course he cannot contemplate repaying the courageous hospitality extended to hint by Turkey by organising an Hun garian attack on her frontiers. A Vienna newspaper says that the Belgian ca tholic' have presented his Holiness with 2,000 needle-guns, a very useful present, although a strange one to give the Pontiff. But the old me dia val is still true : Accipe, some, cape, Suet verb". plsoeutia Papse. and all is grist that goes to that milL The news from Mexico continues to be most un favourable to the Emperor Maximilian. The Liberte of this evening states that General Castel nau has carried with him instructions to enter into negotiations, in case of the Emperor's abdication, with whoever of the rival presidents may seem to have the best chance, but to treat preferably with a liberal. Having yielded to the United States in the essential question, the Emperor Napoleon gracefully squares his policy to their wishes in minor details. The whole of the French army will be embarked, and will probably have already landed in France when the chambers open. . . Several proposals for laying a cable between America and Frame have been made to the Em peror, and it is said that measures are in prepara tion to insure one of the plans he has examined being carried out. We are at the eve of the settling, and prices are slightly better, but there is no real improvement in the tone of the market. Rents is 69fr. 10c. for cash and account—a rise of 22ic. for account and of 10c. for cash. It is said that the Commission' of the Inundations has nearly completed its task, and that the indemnity which will be granted will amount to 80 or 90 millions. In 1856 they were much heavier—as much as 170 millions. The necessity of providing this sum, and the trans formation of the weapons of the army, seem to make the loan which has been so much spoken of and so often denied, highly probable. Mexican obligations are in request, and are quoted 150 to 1511 x. Italian were also in considerable demand, and, after several fluctuations, closed at 56fr. 90c., an improvement of 50c. The Indipendattoe Beige mentions a report that the health of the Emperor of the French, which appeared to be re-established a few days since, is not quite satisfactory. The correspondent of the Indipendance Beige in Paris reports that the Marquis de Levalette has been tele graphed to at bis seat, near Bergerac, to come to England, where his uncle, the Count de Flahault, is so ill as to give anxiety to his Mends. The Avenir Commercial announces that the num ber which appeared yesterday is the last it will publish. The Avenir was founded about seven years ago for the pur. pose of advocating free-trade doctrines in France. FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER. (From Le Pollet.) Day by day the diminution both in the width And length of dresses may be perceived ; although, up to the present time, only in walking dress. For the evening wear the skirt retains its graceful length. The " empire" make is more and more cut on the bias, and with • short waist, the upper part of the breadths being very narrow and setting close to the figure, whilst at the bottom they are left their full width, and, indeed, have additional gores put in, reaching a short distance up the skirt. Peplums of the same material as the dress are still in favour, particularly for full and evening dress. Materials of a thick and rich texture now make their ap pearance as the colder weather approaches. For visiting dress plain silks will be preferred to those with a pattern , though stripes Sr. still worn ; and this is easily accounted for, the style of wearing a coloured jupon with the short skirt over, frequently of a different colour, necessitating that it should be plain. This same fashion also causes black taffetas to be much in favour. Plaids likely to be much need for trimming, both for dresses, petticoats, and out-of-doors garments, and even bonnets. It is especially suitable as a trimming for black taffetas ; for instance, the dress trimmed with a bias of the same material down the front, with a row of plaid buttons upon it, and a petticoat and small circular of the Name plaid. Speaking of trimmings, we must not omit to mention that jet seems likely to be one of the most fashionable. Cameo buttons also, of Rhenish stone or lava, as well as an endless variety of pamementerie, are much admired. Dresses are also trimmed with biases of satin edged with a piping of another colour ; thus, a nut-brown taffetas, with a bias of satin of the same colour, bordered on each side with a piping of pink velvet. Rouleaux of satin form • pretty trimming. Small bodies of coloured taffetas, with a guimpe of muslin or embroidered jaconet, make a very distingue finish to the toilette and can be wore with diffe rent dresses. These little corselets have very fine imper ceptible steels in them ; they are frequently trimmed with black or white guipure. There are some charming bodies, made of cachemire, quite plain, without plait, and embroidered entirely over with small white or black beads. The Mlle idea has been very tastefully carried out on a morning dress made of sky blue cachemire, the two breadths in the front, opened, being covered with white beads ; the large revers on the sleeves, the epaulettes, and front of the body embroidered to match. ' There is an effort being made in some of our leading houses to make the bonnets more bonnet-like, but at pre- Bent the " Catalaue" and the " Lamballe" are very per ceptibly the favourites. Some are being worn without strings, or very narrow ones tied behind under the chig non, whilst others, on the contrary, have only a very small ornament placed on the summit of the head, with a wide barbs of lace carried across, so as completely to cover it, and tied in a large bow under the chin ; but, doubtless, as the winter sets in a more comfortable coiffure will make its appearance, and, should the real bonnet of former days once more become Is mode, it will be warmly welcomed by some, whilst others, to whom these small headdresses are, we must own, decidedly becoming, will find that our clever modistes will make the new coiffures equally charming. Yesterday the foundation stone of a new build ing about to be erected for the Leeds Church Insti Lute and Sunday School Association was laid with great ceremony. A procession, including the Arch bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Ripon, and the clergy of the archdeaconry, the Dean of Chichester (Dr. Hook), the borough members (Mr. Bee croft and Mr. Baines), the mayor and corporation, magis trates of the borough and of the Riding, &0., was formed at the Town Hall, and, headed by a band of music and the scholars belonging to the Asao ciation, walked to the site of the new building in Albion-place, where the ceremony was performed ty the archbishop. The cost of the proposed building will be about 6,0001., and two-thirds of the amount have already been subscribed. After the foundation stone was laid there was luncheon i n the Stock Exchange, the vicar (Dr. Allay), presiding ; and in the evening the annual soiMe of the institution was held in the Victoria-hall, under the presidency of the Dean of Chichester. At many of the collieries about Manchester, Bury, and Bolton, notice has been given that the colliers' wages will be advanced from the Ist instant. It is said that this increase, added to that which took place a few weeks ago, will raise the pay of miners 20 per cent. higher than it has ever been before. Letters from Chamouniz state that the search for the bodies of the two remaining victims of the late accident at 31^nt Blanc bad remained unsuccessful up to the 18th. On that day the searching party were nearly buried by another avalanche. On the 23rd, however, they discovered the corpse of the porter Tournier, and now hope to recover that of Captain Ark aright. A letter from Rome of the 22nd says :—" The Pope has been following his usual custom of making festival promenades on the Sundays and Thursdays of the month of October. On Thursday last his Holiness visited the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, where he adored the Holy Sacrament and the holy cradle of our Saviour, and the portrait of the Virgin Mary, painted by St. Luke, in the Borghcse Chapel. Then, on foot, he visited the convent of the Agostinian nuns, and afterwards that of the severer order denominated " Vive Sepolte," or Buried Alive. Before returning to his apartments in the Vatican, his Holiness visited the mosaic manufactory in the palace, where he was received by the director and professors of the establishment, and greatly admired the large copy of Raphsers Madonna di Monte Luce,which is to take the place of the Assumption of the Virgin over one of the principal altars of the restored Basilica of St. PauL Delighted with the progress of the work, the Pope resented large gold medals to the three principal mosaic artists engaged on it, Poggessi, Maluaardi, and Bornia." Sot Hone CAIRICE4.—The Solicitors' Journal, re ferring to some speculations that have been published re specting the reasons for which Sir Hugh Cairns accepted a Lord Jueticeship, remarks:—" In the gut place, we happen to know that on Lord Derby's accession to power last June, the woolsack was actually offered to and de clined by Sir Hugh Cairns, and we am further informed, on what we believe to be the best authority, that so long ago as 1859 he stated to one or more of his intimate friends that there was no position connected with his profession which be so much desired to occupy as that which has been placed at his command. The learned Lord Justice is in excellent health, and probably never was at any UAW in his life better fitted (had he so pleased it) to undergo a fresh season of professional labour." PATENT OFFICE MCREUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON. — Number of visitors for the week ending Oot. 27, 1,796 ; total number since the opening of the Museum free daily (12th May, 1838), 1,057,208. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) ootrwr OF BANKRUPTCY. • (Bei IX U . W. ROD . 00er C Virinal"4 , 1 The bankrupt was a oommlasion merchant brok 1-278/.er, geson-clirest, Cheapeide. o of f winch oesurit7 le h e The lenDebts laupt has- whim $o b e g &AM, rammed 'by the freed of an absenedieg Arm, law expenses, ang 1 on shipments and consignments. This was the examination and &charge. Mr. Aldridge appeared for the official sengoet ; a , assignee had been appointed. The bankrupt stated that he bad a ranceisai n • rest in 3,0001. in Consols on the death of hit f a iW it I ' mother • this intend was mortgaged for I,OAN. IN Z A been in partnership with one Collins, and his g l ob ! a ll partnership debts. His partner was in gee 4 1 Hs had endeavoured to carry through a deed la *in offered Mscreditors la. in the pond. Had e r n li t: perty to ies. • If; Adjourned for additional accounts. IN as lUZZO. 1 ' i The bankrupt, a boot and shoemaker, of lhenikk‘ • Ilment-nweet, and elsewhere, applied for a front debts of 1,2391. of which • was is rapt i t former partner. Th ere was no OPpOlOtiOn. I After a short examination o f the inaltrapi ty a. Aldridge, his Honour granted the order. "" IN as GRAHAM /AMITE The haninnipkwas a lieuteoant in the rowa n , :I of Chatham, Woolwich. Sheerness, and pie t y rated on board the ships Cumberland and !mi me. was the fitting for examination and dimi ng& accounts had been filed. The debts are stated at kg Mr. Doyle stated that the bankrupt was saw ea asked for an adjournment. It was his intent* an offer to his creditors out of his pay of II& a 6E 4 ; His Honour adjourned the case WWI die ' prel e gi: ll l be renewed on application by the bankrupt. (Before Mr. Registrar Murray.) • IN RZ R. IIOtiKINS GOUGH. The bankrupt was a solicitor, of Parliameatehiet was the first sitting. The adjudication being as i . 1 1 ditor's petition (that of Mr. Watkins, of ra n, toentidreet), no preliminary statement d ol t hie been filed ; but the liabilities am ;;;, 367scasrt: the accountant. at betrnwt 2 —. 75; and 15,0001. They ar• said to have been imam* great extent, in eonnection with railway eerap ana 1 , 11 1 .1 1 good debts due to the bankrupt are returned as I Mr. Watkins, the petitioning creditor, oft assignee, and a resolution was passed for taking d i ou t o f court, and winding up the estate aides Sed i o inspection. Mr. Terry is the solicitor under A llo w ings ; Mr. Lawranos appeared for the bankrept. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CLERKENWELL 87EEE7 OUTRAGE. William' Steel, aged 25, of 42, Bother&ld-et:set, Is t i t t ton, metropolitan siege conductor, No. 4,302, wow s * with committing a most violent assault on gt o mend, surgeon, he., of 148, Downharn-road, les^ i t the Essex-road. The eoloplaMant stated that last night beer mk . along the Eases-road, between 11 and 12 o'clock, no*. women wooded him, and before be could get seeder ii caught hold of him. He at once pushed then r on which they called out " John" or " Bill," ; prisonce came up and said in a rook now: " What do you want with these women? me el On my wife." He told the prisoner to take the wane an, , as he mold see that he did not want to hate whit% d o with them. Whilst he was speaking me riding. ran off with his hat and stick. He ran after be wl caught her, when he was surrounded by a mob of level men and others, whose intentions he believed meal him, but his mat was fastened tightly and they millet At that moment the prisoner caught hold of his yih throat with such force that the taark wasvisible Alm ing, and with the other hand he pre him a Mingle in the eye and bruised it. The constable at dim* came up and took the prisoner into custody, sad shawl took his MIN) hat from under one of theme' shawls. When the prisoner fi rst went up to kin out a badge and sai d, You can see lam a easier,' and on the way to the police-station he said, "lap 11. for you—it will not hurt me." The prisoner said he did not wish to ask my** as he had been drinking. A gentleman, who confirmed the complainzat'ssisMst said he was walking along the lase:-road jut Wind the prosecutor, when no was accosted by timbals prostitutes. He did not stop, but turned axed, miss the women take hold of the prosecutor's arm Amish the prisoner to opine and help them. The exam the si away, and he saw the prisoner strike the complain' violent blow in the eye. Had the policeman not ens at the time he had no doubt but that the peesse d a WM have been severely hurt. Police-constable Edwards, 446 A, said he saw s seed d persons, and on going up he saw the prime ish hold of the prosecutor b his throat with the Mimi and with the other hit the prosecutor in the efi Th women that were with the prisoner were druskesima totes. The prisoner, he understood, is a condiment' a employ of the London General Omnibus Compaq. Mr. Barker—Did the prisoner strike the prternel very violent blow ? Witness—Yes ; it was very violent. Mr. Barker—And he was squeezing the prcemitli the throat ? Witr.em—Yes ; and the mark of the prisms's hid i quite visible. The prisoner, in defence, said—l do not Wan' doll struck the prosecutor as I was drunk. Mr. Barker said it was a pity the London OserslOss bus Company did not care what sort of a coodatar tM had in their service. Instead of the prisoner liseigll. ll pay, as he surmised on the way to the poitoe 4 ual; would have to pay 21., or it' default to be imperil si kept to hard labour in the House of Correction la • calendar month. The prisoner was locked up in default. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A VIOLENT DRIVER IN REG ENT•rettETT. George Hickey, a carman, of No. 6, IlireshO P Manchester - square, was chaiged before Mr. lye m being drunk and furiously driving a hone &Mika Is van in Regent-street. Mr. W. W' 'n , architect, of Count? Cil ei t Cornhill, said that shan't 5 o'clock yesterday sflos.„! was riding down Regent-street in a cab , soomplool the Rev. W. H. Pritchard, Rector of Chalks, sir cabman drove very close to a van being drives b y eoner, and he believed touched the van shaft , t o a!! vavi4 done so in tr to and °l . ' vehicle. The prisoner directly ying aften „ rards full gallop after them, and drove his _m. l . in front of the cab-horse, and had they (Mr. * d lel! and the Rev. Mr. Pritchard) not jumped out their lives would have been endangered. Not Nel with this, the prisoner struck the ca bman with his prisonerM. The said that the gentleman who wss In" cons plainant yesterday said he would not a bed Dlr. Wiggington said that but for the cholera bad in the district Mr. Prit,:hard would have .:13% Police-constable Masters, 27 C, derd to prisoner driving a van at a furious rate •14 b oi and drive in front of the cab horse and stop it two gentlemen jump out of the cab, he went op, 0 1 ing the prisoner was drunk took him into custody. The pnsoner simply denied being drunk. Mr. Tjrrwhitt mid he oonsidersd the Oscar , 1 17 so wanton and dangerous that he should fine luss month. WESTMINSTER.. ['HEMMED CHARGER, AND FALhE DIPII9OIIIOI Thomas Thomas, a labouring now, was violently assaulting Elizabeth Perry. The polio. handed in • certificate from Si. Hospital, stating that the woman was sa hum! suffering from injuries which confined he r to her In, said that the defendant might not be the mil ,ff' d tlicted them, as there was another penal cheeP afterwards assaulting her. Burlan, B, proved that be was Rent for to cleston-plaoe, and found the woman with blood face. He did not know anything about the oo took the defendant upon her charge. Mr. Arnold—Where is the other man ! The second party, named John Perry, I e looking man, stood forward, and said that II , '" woman's father. Mr. Arnold—How came he in custody! Policeman—After she had charged the bet went back again, and very shortly afterwartla father of of beating her. Thomas said that he had been drinking with tlP ! all the afternoon when she suddenly attacked !it *. after throwing herself about the lace cleariedL l* 4 The father said that learning p the daughter, he went to endeavour to appease was locked up by her without the lewd lusts Evidence was called, and it having the woman bad committed a violent mewl '2O named Ra"t, the magistrate issued a warmatedt and the defendants were discharged upon t h e w Meanest. SOUTHWARK. bar before Fu t:T= 7 tunrec cr amild sL 9f l o a rerer n finntslaCHeiLesulP, await:00400:11i with being concerned with another in stedille g " . the letter box of the Provision Compsol 4 streets Boras 1, the property of the oomparl• I It appeared from the evidence of Robed j detective of the Id division that in cooseqwww.ic bei d n a t to nlithe rs. mßrlri On in uallh esda' i i iale t42.3 f td emin i Pt : l it Yle : i il ter r walb"deted: ;; 4l. opposite the Provision Compeny'c offices, whys pi prisoner and the other children leave the letterbls'