The Express. — London, England, 1858-07-21 00:00:00

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Yr. lianr WlLleaw.-41•01 LIUGLAJI I> AS MOIR II•nok Illasisir. 0. J. Selli. bah. ; = I. Wildirs, lam LAS iells.—ounuere MT. 1101 WATER AT LORDOW BILIDOI. :I T N.gtsoors Da T—ll av—k m 40 L oim UN. U 5 .... --Allmon. 101 A. 7 ombe. ik ZONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21. SPORTDIGI INTRLLIOKNCE. A SPECIAL EDITION of ths " EXPRESS," sestaildsg the results of the day'. Races, is pub- Embed every evening during ths Sporting Sauce, at sex oideek. Ir the Metropolitan Parliament have not attained - to clearer notions than the Imperial Parliament as to the best mode of setting about the purification of -the Thames, the Ratepayers of the Metropolis have •eiertainly a cheerful prospect before them. Qua tot moderato:a : every member had his nostrum, and every member's nostrum differed hem that of every other member. Well might Mr. LOPEZ (of Southwark) exclaim, in the very per plexity of his heart, that, however doubtful it might he, whether sewage admitted of solution, it wee plain the enrage question did not. One or two points, how ever, were elicited in the chaotic discussion of Mon day night which are deserving of attention. One that the Government Bill, as interpreted by its pro motors, leaves the Board of Works free, and does not tie them down to the adoption of any particular scheme. It will be eminently desirable that before the Bill becomes an Act this point should be made too clear for the possibility of doubt. Another point to be borne in naiad is the testimony of ROBERT STE PHENSON. This able and clear-headed person declares that he has carefully sifted every imaginable scheme, and that he finds no possibility of doing without some system of intercepting drainage. There is one other point, and that is that the Board of Works, though they may not number amongst them any first-rate names, have at all events given painful and diligent attention to all the schemes that have been submitted to them, and also that they may rea sonably be expected to take no important step with out further and very anxious investigation, now that the entire responsibility for the great work is, for the first time, imposed upon them. If, indeed, we were driven to conclude that the Board of With, after being invested with plenary powers, would merely fall back, without further investiga tion, on the scheme vetoed by Sir B. HALL, there might be considerable cause for wfill grounded apprehension. But it may reasonably be hoped that this will not be the case. They can hardly, for instance, neglect the consideration of the evidence which has so recently been submitted to the House of Commons' Committee; and they will naturally be anxious, for their own sakes, not to incur the odium of an enormous expenditure in brick and mortar, unless conscientiously convinced that such expenditure is absolcitely essential to the end in view. It may well be doubted, quite irrespective of all questions of cost, whether it would la wise to abandon altogether the system of dram which has now for some years been so peter veringly carried out, with effect,, on the whole, so beneficial to the public health. But if this be so, what remains to be done unless it be the adoption partly of deodorising works, partly of intercepting sewer? We are quite of opinion that the Metropolitan Board of Work', before arriving at a final decision, is bound once more seriously and dispassionately to review the whole question. In order that they may do so, every expression denoting • foregone conclusion, or pledging the Board to a specific plan, such as the phrase " providing outfalls," and the hke, should carefully be eliminated from the Government Bill. No fetter should be left on their discretion. The whole power and the entire respon sibility should be theirs. Under these conditions we are really not aware that anything better can be done than to leave the question of Metropolitan Drainer is , the hands of those to whom is ostensibly entrusted the Local Management of the Metropolis. Somewhere the power must reside, if the thing is to be done at all. If we wait till all the doctors are agreed la their specifics, till the whole fraternity of engineers are of one mind in their recommendations, our fate will be that of the classical rustic ; the river of pollution will roll and welter with ever growing noisomeness while we are disputing on its banks; Willer re Wetter. There is a thing to be done, and thatapeedily. We mast get some one to do it. Whoever undertakes it mast have fall powers. There must be no double government, no redo. Well, thee, where is this depository of power to be found ? Is there any single man so pre-eminently fitted for the function that all voices would unanimously coma/ in his selection ? Th ere ' House of Let the There his selection ? There is sot. Ii the House of Commons adequate to the work ? Let the discussion of Monday night answer. There remains, then, th e M e t ropo li tan Board—men who I have already investigated the subject with con- siderable esaidnity, and may fairly be expected, under the pressure of freshly imposed respon- isibility, to go through a further process of exhaustive inquiry before committing themselves to decisive action. Really, it is difficult to tee what better 'election could, under the circumstances, have been made. If we are to adopt the principle that nothing shall be spent till everybody is agreed, the year 1968 may still find the grandchildren of Tuwarres disputing, in the midst of 'teach to which that of ' last June was fragrance, over plans and sections, with the descendants in the third remove of Mr. F. O. With. Arrta Monday night's debate in the Hones of Linda there may probably be same essfosion in the public mind as to how matters new stand with re- 'peel to Indian appointments. Lerd Denim, in- deed, openly admits that he is not a warm friend of the eompetitive prinsipie, nor most he suppose that his " viondrses tale" about the three competitive sadists at Woolwish is yet forgotten. Notwithstand- ing this, however, it may possibly be inferred from THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 21, UK the Prime Minister's speech of Monday evening that he spoke in favour of eompetition, and defended its introduction into the new India Bill. It may be considered that Lord DIADT spoke as the champion of Coe middle classes when he openly re buked his ?firmer colleague, Lord ELLF.NBOROWIH, for supposisg that the son of a grocer or a cheesemonger is not as fit to bear the QUERN'S commission as the fifteenth cousin of a PLiNTAollllT—possibly " the " accident of an accident." But " the common " fellows" in society want something more than fine speech's. They desire to have the rights which they now enjoy by suferanco confirmed by Act of Parliament. They know enough of the cavalier 1 way in which Memorandums of the Horse Guards anti Orders in Council are met aside or secretly ignored. Ilan underling like Sir RICHALD Maar eau violate with impunity an Order in Council, the same thing may be done ci forgiori by the new Indian Minister. There is no danger of any such thing so long as Lord STANLEY holds the meals of office. He is too honest a man. But it will not do to open or close the Indian ap pointments at the will of the Minister of the day. It mems to be assumed, indeed, that Clauses 32 and 34 of the last Government of India Bill have established the system of competition both for the Civil Service and for the Ordnance Corps. No doubt had the form in which they came up from the Commons been retained, it would have been so. At that time the Indian Secretary of State, with the Civil Service Commissioners, were to frame regula tions for examining all British subjects who derved to enter the Indian Civil Service. And it was spe cially provided that the candidates, certified by the Civil Service Commiasioners,should be recommended for appointment according to the order of their proficiency as shown by such examinations ; - , and only such certified persons were to be ap pointed or admitted to the Indian Civil Service. A similar provision by elause 34 wu made for the officers of Artillery and Engineers, and it was also specially provided that the candidates found entitled under the regulations should be recommended for sadetahips, accordiwg to the order of their profisiency by such examinations. Now, it is clear that these clauses, as originally framed, secured not only an absolutely open compe tition to all British subjects, but gave the successful candidates the right to claim an appointment accord ing to their merit. The right was not made to depend upon a Minister's discretion—an order in Council, or eves a vote of the House of Commons. It gave the middle class candidates—the ambitious sons of every cheasemonger and grocer—throughout the British Empire the security of an Act of Parliament. It prevented for ever, with regard to India at least, that unseemly contest between successive Mau' t am such as illustrated the advent of General PEEL into Lord PANNURI'ii chair. Bat Lord DEESE has put an end to all this. He has got the Lords to strike out that part of the 32nd clause which compels the Minister to adopt an open competitive examination, and which forbids him sending any young man to India who has not passed through the Examiners' hands; moreover, he has induced them, nothing loth, to omit that part of the 34th clause which enables the most successful candidate for the Engineers or Artillery to get the Brat appointment,. In short, if the clause, as it now stands, be carefully considered, it will be found that the open competitive system is substantially abolished as far as the Indian appointments are concerned—that for anything contained in this Act of Parliament the India Minister may establish as low a standard as he Onuses, or even, as it seems to us, appoinf to India without any examination at aU. It is nothing to the purpose to say that at present the system is thoroughly competitive, and that there is no inten tion to alter it. This is not security enough. No Ministry can answer for what may be done by another. Enough has been already done by Ministers to show that in this matter of competition they are not to be trusted. But this is not all. Lord STANLEY dis tinctly pledged the Cabinet that the appointment to India, both in the Civil Berri°e and the Ordnance corps, should be thrown open. That pledge was embodied in the Bill as sent up to the House of Lords, and the pledge must be kept. It has, indeed, been hinted by Lord DERBY that such a provision in an Act of Parliament is unheard of—that it is an in vasion of the prerogative. But such an argument can scarcely be serious. It is surely perfectly competent for the Crown to consent to any regulations touching appointments; and Parliament may pat the Minis ters under any terms with respect to the exercise of their patronage. The immaculate British Constitu tion most be singular indeed if those who enjoy its blessings are not permitted to protect themselves by a law which, whilst it checks corruption, secures the fair distribution of public appointments. In sober truth no Minister can afford to violate a pledge so solemnly given as this was ; and we shall be curious to see how Lord STANLEY will defend this most im portant alteration when the Bill returns to the House of Commons. Nor is the matter much mended when the whole eireanestances of the ewe are fairly considered. If Lord DERBY had any real doubts on the constitu tional question, or on the expediency of the change, he ought to bare insisted upon the objection before the Bill left the Commons. But his own Minister introduced both dame* 32 and 34 of his own free will—they were drawn up under his own direction —the very phraseology is his own. The frankness of his conduct with respect to the Indian patronage, and the completeness of the secu rity nothing leis than an Act of Parliament— disarmed all opposition. No doubt many of those who would have stayed in town to discuss the ques tion, and to secure the fairness of the competition, are now away. Surely under such circumstances it was not well for Lord DERBY to move the omission of one of the most important clausal in the long debated Bill, and to open the doors to a thousand forms of jobbery. Nor is the Prime Minister's case improved by the fact, that not one single tittle of evidence can be produced against the Ismael of the open competitive system and, indeed, men like Sir lons I.Awaturcu have recorded, as strongly as words could convey it, their deliberate opinion in its favour. The only thing that remains is for some member of the Howe of Commons to move that the 32nd and 34th clauses be amended back again into their original form. Doontitto-erszET, JULY 17. The Queen hu bees pleased to appoint Richest Ceraweil Ligb, Esq., to be Auditor-General for the 'stead et Yalta. —Casette. WHITEHALL, JULY 19.—The Qoe.o hoe been Vto present the Rev. Predate Southgate, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Northfleet, to the comity of Etat and diocese of Rochester, void by the death of the Rev. Richard Keats.— Gazette, Yttw GAZDZIII.—One of tho slag beantiltd and phenteenne ahheee In far-famed colleotke etragthig ma lieWe el* and veselleble world le the Norfolk blen d /tae earearrhs eaetlea ; Ma beenelein sad bike bear • most sielldne an and reemehlesee to am Waren ambit& lotbr, a tide allemos, that they do net droop et the NAB Of ipsiNs. The Woe el ma eettlek /Aker eesside la the eitione of the eir s ci si onde, • emit lime et Ave leathers et MI socriptles worth alas This very =land meek' la the men ohe 1? lemPt, Ind en era indobtod to yeal Captain Cook f and o f hoe* Banks ha latiednetka to this ecomatry. It Na m la • law lab ei= . IT toes weight of U. puma inn on ties poll woe the it s rice and beauty main the prtac44l 0re.80 3 lat riagm j Arboretum. tax Court. OSBORNE, JILT 20. The Queen and Prince Consort, Princess Louie*, sad Prince Leiningeu, attended by the Countess of Desert and Captain th e Hon. D. de Ros, drove to Nimrod yesteri ; Captain the Rm. J. Dam= had the honour of dining with r Majesty. H. Halle and M. Joachim led the honour of performing on the pianoforte sad violin before her Majesty sad the royal party is the erring. The Countess of Desert hes seeeseded the Counter of Credos m Lady in Waiting. Her Royal Highness the Duchene of Lint, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Colmar, left Frogmore yesterday for Osborne, on a virt to her Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were : The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, the Earl of Malcassbury, Sir E. Balwer Lytton, General Peel, Sir John Pakingtoo, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. A deputation on the subject of the removal of the West Riding Amite@ had an interview with the Lord President of the Council yeeterday, at the Privy Council•o®oe. The deputation consisted of Aldermen Boated!, of Leeds; Alderman Richard Wilson, of Lads; Comcillor J. M. Barret, of Leeds; Councillor B. Cu,ise of Lode; end Mr. John Arthur Ikin, Town Clerk of Lade. The deputation wm Introduced by the Right Hon. K. T. Baines, M.P., mad Mr. George Ellthrow Beecroft, M.P. A deputation from Leeds, introduced by Mr. Bescroft, M.P., sad otasiating of Mr. Samuel Weston, Mr. Christopher Heaps, and Mr. Charles Naylor, had an Interview yesterday with the Right Hon. T. Sotheron Estcourt, at the °floe of the Poor-law Board. /Uri Helm had an interview with the Earl of Derby yes terday, at hie official residence in Downing-street. There will be a field day at Aldershott this day, at which his Royal Highness the Doke of Cambridge, and a brilliant military staff, will ba present. Their Royal High- USING the Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh, and the Princes Mary, attended by Baron &tanbark, are expected to leave town at an early hour to-day in order to witness the review of the troops. Ili. Excellency the Duke of Malakoff, attended by Colonel Appert, left the French Embassy yesterday morning for Eaton Hall, Cheshire, on a visit to the Marquis and Mar chioness of Westminster, and to attend the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society at Chester. kis Excellency the Count d'Apponyi intends to Ism the Austrian Legation early in the ensuing month, for Vienna, en enrage for • few months. Count Karol,' shortly wetness to Cherubs House, in order to act as chargé d'affaires daring the abeanoe of his excellency. His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer have arrived at Orleans House, Twickenham, es a visit to the Treks sad Duchess d'Aumale, from New Lodge, Windsor Forest. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond will leave town on Saturday for Goodwood Park, Petwoeih, Sasser. The Marqaci and Marchioness of Tweeidale will leave town to-day, for their meat, Yoder Home, Haddington shim for the season. The Earl and Countess of Craven will leave town in a few days, on • visit to Mr. and Lady Mary Craven at Barobtidge Park, near Winchester. The Earl of Aberdeen, whose health of late haq greatly improved, will leave Argyll House soon after the pro rogation of parliament, for Haddo House, Aberdeenshire, accompanied by the Hon. Arthur Gordon. The Hon. Lionel Sackyille Weet will leave town to-morrow for Turin, to enter on his duties as Secretary to the British Ligation, in the place of the Ron. Edward M. Rivkin*. Mr. West was first attaché for some years at the oottrt of Berlin. The Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., and Lady Hall tem leave town early next week for (Germany. Mr. John Bright, M.P., arrived at the Union Hotel, Inverness, on Friday evening. _ _ The Lord Bishop of London has appointed Dr. TRIM./ Twig to the office of Chancellor of the Diocese of Loadon, vataat by the advancement of the Right Hoe. Dr. LaeMagian to the Jegeehip of the Court of Appeal of the Province of Centerbaif. ,• The House of Lords held a sitting this afternoon, at 4 o'clock. The Lords' Committee of Privileges meet on Friday to =eider the question of the Berkeley Peerage. On Friday evening Mr. Chichester Fortesene will oat the siltation of the Howe of Commons t, the present position of the question of the tight of visiting Alps sus pected of slave-trading, and mak what course the rowan meat him takes arm that subject. To-morrow, Mr. Hume is to ask the First Com rufwdoner of Public Works " whether there are any petunia for the tumours that serious decay hal taken place In the nowisdaUce stone of ibis hours, osustog the eL o d ors to give way in several *am" Lord Normanby had a private audience of the Greed Doke sad Greed Meier of Tuscany on the 16th, for fie purpose of prryanting hie lettere of recall. A letter from the Hague of the 17th says :—" The Ring end Queen yeeterds, rare a prirate audience at the Palace of Noordeinde to Gen. Mansouroff, the Russian Minister, who presented to their Majesties General Tottlabels." The Iloniteur de la Flotte announces that an American state corvette, used for the iortr action of the pupi'a at the naval academy, has left the United States to be moment at trio fres of Cherbourg. The "Debt et the King or Pniasim, the Orille, has been fined on to represent the Pruardan navy at the same fate*. We read in the Oat Deutsche Post :—" The Sultan is seriously ill. Letters from Convintinople mentiorlag the feet Mats that the palliation ere deeply moved. The mosque/ are crowded with the faithful, who offer up prayers for hie recovery. Abdul Medjid is more beloved by the people than were say of his ancestors; even the political won of which he Is moused by the old Turkish party are attributed to his goodness of heart. The difilcultim which now surround Turkey cannot but be aggravated by the Saltan'a Innen." At the sitting of the Paris Conference of the 16th, says a Pails letter In the /rodepeoltetter of Brussels— " Coast de Kieseleff read an able paper on the re-organisa tion of the Danubian Provinces, the ideas of the Russian pknipotisitiaiy bring Wad on a prat:4ml knowledge of the Principalities." • Madame Champagneux, the only daughter of the celebrated Madame Roland, her just died at her remideoce, No. 24, Roe de Map" at the ago of 77. Elba was burial yesterday fa the Cemetery of Most Penni% Pith. The Scientific Congress of France will thii year held the twenty-fifth endow at Anaerre. September 21a . limed for the opening day. A COYPLINUT TO ENGLISH TOVILIST9.—The asariperi, by the pen of M. Tai'le Deiced, who has just node a tour In Oartnenty, speaks in the following coaspi seentary grebe of the Influence of English visitors to the Continent :—" It is customer/ In France to speak evil of English tourists. Open no matter what book of train'', and you s re that It beeCns end ends by a matter-of course Wade against the English. It Is time to give up this common-place criticism. Take away the Englishman and the English lady, and the comfort rod poetry of your travelling would evaporate. It is for the English that these wealillerst caravanserais have been bail', width tragsrectie ina of old times, mail of which we Freedmen find Ale annsilb It is es account of the Englishma that rills how aeuttred these habits of civility width they an Mallawaglawst to throw of whin ether Ambers awe in ennenst Gm. The genuine trawl er blesses Nagiend troodat CI of her. Is it set Awe logien& that attaY aes• ' whew,' whom we en, Moo so many fairissou the top of every high rassatsia, in the MINIM of the And Um valleys, ea the bribe of every sea, thes4 end lake In Europe ? Without the Englishwoman the world would be a desert ; the is the wieweary adjunct of way Undo:ape." The of the hearing of the wee of ledia v. dersies, at the Madiardakire Mares, b died for Friday mendag. TIN conned retained for the plaintif f , Mrs. Briar's, are Mr. Kinard', Mr. Gray, Mr. Y•Mahca. aid Mr. Crisp; while Mr. Hata lams, Q.C., sill lead for Catania thrialis, the dahodast, amid 11:11 to mired by Mr. Hoddlietcre, Q.C., amid Mr. Henry Janes. It la ex pected that the tease wal occupy three days ; b there is a resew that it may sok be goes tato dada( the preset arras bat that Kr. Judos Bybee will retina to Orford at a /atm time to try it. The late General Havelock's only brother is at present, we tinderstaad, staying at Blackpool, "rho., be his gone for the benedt of Wm health. escape. He has had all the sentries placed in arrest, and gendarmes have been Isisfly occupied since yesterday morning, when the event took plaoe, in searching for the fugitive, whose own premises have been minutely bat fruitlessly ransacked General de Goyon is to leave Rome almost im mediately, and it is thought that his return is not very certain, on account of the dissatisfaction pro duced in the papal government by the tone of his general orders to the Roman and French armies, on the occasion of the recent quarrels above alluded to. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (710 X OUR OWN PA.8.18, TOISDAT EVINING. The Moniteur contains a very long report of a committee appointed some years ago to frame new rules for the management of the Imperial Library in the Rue Richelieu, better known by its name of world-wide celebrity, the " Bibliotheque Royale." The committee recommends, and a decree of the Minister of Public Instruction adopts a great many ' changes in the personnel of the establishment, upon the principle of centralisation of power and respon sibility, the suppression of useless, and the augmen tation of the salaries of useful officers. But oat of regard to vested interests, the greater part of these changes are only to be made gradually, unless it shall be ultimately determined to grant fall com pensation to discharged servants. The great question whether the library is still to be open to all the world, notwithstanding the complaints that ignorant, idle, and destitute people crowd the library, either for the sake of shelter and warmth, or from morbid or idle curiosity, without any bond fide desire to study—has been resolved in this way : There are to be two reading rooms —one, to be supplied with about 40,000 volumes, comprising all the works likely to be asked for by ordinary readers, will be open as heretofore to all the world. Access to the other is only to be obtained by tickets. Ido not, u at present advised, think that tb;s arrangement is objectionable in principle 1 but of course I assume that no vexatious difficulties will be thrown in the way of granting tickets, and above all that the re served room will not be in practice monopolised by . . . functionaries and their friends. The mere fact of a man taking the trouble to apply for a ticket and to give a reference, ought to go a long way to chew that he has a serious literary object ;ti desiring to be admitted. The Bourse has been better to-day. The Rente rose 15c. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 681 r. 30c. and 68fr. 40c. Mobilier rose 7fr. 50c. All the railways were from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. higher. It was reported that Rothschild of Paris had taken the Turkish loan at 88, payable in a year. _ . _ I am informed that ihe'Dulte of Montebello was lately ordered to represent, civilly, to the court of St. Petersburg that it might perhaps be better, to avoid any misconception, that the Russian squadron about to prooeed to the Mediterranean should so arrange as not to be visible at Cherbourg when the Queen is there. A telegram announces that the squadron of evolu tion which left Toulon a few days ago has strived at Cherbourg this morning. The Patris is of opinion that all the exhortations of the English press to augment the army in India are in vain, because the Queen has already done all that is humanly possible. The grounds for this notion are to be found in the following dogmatic sentence : Victory cannot be commanded without aimies Now, it is only in Franoe that large armirs can be improvised. In all other countries, in England more especially, they can only ba obtained by patient combinaticas and long efforts. The offices of the Minister of State have just been removed to the aputments in the new part of the Louvre which face the Palsis Royal. These hand some rooms were at one time thought to be destined for Prinee Napoleon as Minister of Algeria and the Colonies, but it has been arranged instead that the insufficiency of his wing of the Palais Royal shall be made up by the adjunction of a large house in the Rue Rivoli belonging to the Emperor's " house hold." The Press* says, in its weekly commercial review The Improvement to buainess witch had lately become apparent has not slackened tbot:ng the pest week, and some branches, which bad not before been much benefited by the change, have now begun to feel its effects. Dut ing the last few days commlseica-agents have made considerable pur chases for exportation 4 n jeweller/, bronzes, perfumery, and other goods com 4 ng rider the special denomination of Paris articles, and have also given large orders for future delivery. The improved feeling is more particularly remarkable in regard to tissues, for which large orders have been received both from the United States and the wholesale houses In Paris. The latter had scarcely bought anything for the last six months, and their stocks us now unusually low. The manufacturers at Roubaix, Turcoing, and Lille, have effected considerable sales of their old stocky, end area:muting fresh orders. At Rouen end Mulhouse there is less activity, although in both those toast—at Rouen more especially—symptoms of improvement are decidedly per ceptible. We understand that the Bank of France has dis counted a good many lolls takin the last week ; the satis factory movement shown by the last reit:Pill under the head of "bills discounted" gocs on. The Besucalre fair has opened well. There is more merchandise than there was last year; strangers are arriving, and there are good grounds for hoping that It will turn out better than was expected a month ego; there will, at all events, be an improvement upon last yen. • • • • Hs+veet+ng is now actively going on throughout Frence, end the ferment conthquently have but little time to rug run to market. Prim, however, 110 far from coatiatang to ries, have fe'len tom piece,. The Debate appears to anticipate a heavy fall, at no distant period, in the prices of all agricultural produce. It conceives that the public is thoroughly tired of paying the unprecedented prices which have ruled since 1834 and 1855, and that the main tenance of these rates in the face of generally abun dant crops is now artificial. Consumers, it is averred, are not buying, and prices ere only kept up by speculative houses, five-sixths of whose business consist in time bargains. In regard to silks particu larly the Debars does not believe in the scarcity which holders allege to exist. It concludes :—" There are unmistakable symptoms that the day of expiation for the gamblers who keep up prices is close at hand." ESCAPE FROM THE CASTLE OF SAINT ANGELO. Gaon ora OWN ROME, JOLT 13. A feat d to Benvennto Cellini, not to mayd la Jack Sheppard, has just been performed by aFrenah jeweller and watchmaker, likewise the proprietor of a large mosaic manufactory, long established in , Rome, who was arrested by the French authorities on the evening of the festival of St. Peter, charged with having created a disturbance at the Porta del Popolo, insisting on driving in at that gate just before the girandola, and abusing and threatening the French soldiers stationed there. On account of the quarrelling and conflicts which just then prevailed between French and Romans, the French general's orders were extremely strin gent for the punishment of any such offenders, whether military or civilians, and the jeweller was consequently taken off to the I Castle of St. Angelo to be tried by court-martial, a trial which it was generally inferred could not end ' without a condemnation to prison for a longer or shorter period. Meanwhile the prisoner's wife made every exertion in his behalf, and was upon the point of succeedisg, it is said, in softening the severity of the general-in-chief, when the prisoner himself, disgusted with the monotony of Hadrian's Mole, or apprehen sive of the result of the ooart-martial, or fearful that ' political accusations of anterior date might be re produced against him to aggravate the case, thought proper to abscond from the safe custody of the French, by raising a part of the floor of hie room, dropping into a corridor below, and passing down the winding stairs and out at the castle gate without being challenged by any of the sentries, from which fact it is inferred that he was provided with a mili tary uniform to disarm any suspicion at his appear mos. The French general is extremely angry at his 751 LAND 121.117022' COIFS. This morning was issued the report from the se lect oommittee appointed to inquire Into the justice of the complaint of the officers of the Laud Transport Corps, that they had not received the rate of half-pay which they were entitled to claim. The report is all. in the petitioners' favour, ss the following extract will show: " While your committee are not able to say that under the warrant the officers have a legal claim to the regular rate of half-pay, they recommend that steps should be taken to grant to both climes the regular rates of permanent half pay, according to the rank of their commission. Your com mittee also recommend, that the authorities of the War partmsntDe should consider those cams of the officers of the Transpoet Corp who state that they did rut rendre the proper outfit allowance as cavalry officers. Your committee wish to call your attention to the teetimonieJs given In by these officers, end inserted in the Appendix, as showier( the character of these gentlemen, all of them in the highest terms of commendation ; mo st of these officers served for many years; many of them remind honorary distinctions; many were wounded ; and all exhibited an earnest desire to serve their country in a time of great difficulty and emer gency. Your committee think it right to bring to your no tice the case of some officers by general orders In the Crimea pending her Idysety's pleasure.' The war came to a close ; the promotion has not been confirmed ; and they have not been given the rank which would entitle them to the half-pay of that superior grade. Your committee hope that the case of officers thus situated will be taken into consideration by . the War Deportment. Tour committee, therefore, ensiolialy hope that the claim of the petitioners may be granted, without further delay ; and your committee cannot but express their regret that those requests shonld not have been earlier complied with, and that so deserving a class should not have been more generously meted by. Your committee, in conclusion, beg to all the attention of the house to the fact that many of these officers had not only long but distinguished war service; their expe rience, particularly of those from the cavalry and artillery, wee most valuable; and at a time of pressure, when the effective state of the Land Transport Corp was essential for the ensuing campaign, it was an honorable ambition and hope which induced them to accept commissions ; and if they cannot have full pay employment, it would be a subject of regret to your committee that a reward given in the future interest of the army on satire service should have placed such men in a position of comparative disadvantage ; for there is little doubt that if pensioned as the higher class of non-com missioned officers, they would hays been in a more advan tageous situation as to money and possible employment than when placed under the necessity of keeping up the rank of officers and gentlemen upon their present reduced allowance."' THE MITE 01 THE TIMM. This morning was issued the report of the select Committee of the House of Commons, on the state of the Thames. The committee decline to recommend the adoption of any pat of Mr. Gurney's plan for putifylng the tiver, mentioning in detail their chief objections to it. The decision se to the expediency of applying a system of deadotimation advantegeously to the sewage of the metropolis belongs— they think—rather is the functions of the Metropolitan Board of Works than to those of a committee of the House of Commons, and the Metropolitan Board of Works have ample MOMS of making all necessary inquiries on that subject with out the assistance of a committee of the Howe of Commons. Come of the eminent engineers who have been examined express an opinion in favour of embanking the Thames for the purpose of increasing the near of the stream and pre venting the accumulation of mud. The committee give a decided opinion that no plan ought to be adopted in regard to the sewage of the metropolis which does not provide for one of twothings--either that the sewage shall be carried down to some point in the river sufficleatly far from the metropolis to prevent the sewage frLni being brought back in an offen sive state by the flowing tide, or else that the sewer shall to deodorised, and that only the purified liquid part of it shalt be discharged into the river. " The whole subject," observe the committee, " is one of great and of growing public importance. The metropolis is extending in all direction., and in every part of its circum ference. Every year fresh wastes of buildings sin springing up, whose drains are discharging into the Thames, and streets that had only canpoola are furnished with house drain, leading into the general network of sewers ; thus every year quantity of sewage discharged into the Thames goes on Increasing On the other hand, year by year the quantity of water in the bed of the river, by which this increasing quantity of sewage is to be dilated progressively diminishes. A large portion of the water which is supplied to the metropolis is taken from the Thames above Teddington-lock, and with the yearly Inatome of the metropolis and the improving habits of it. population, the consumpt ion of this water in creases. and a large portion of the diluting current is with drawn from the down stream of the river. An extensive and abundant supply of pure water, and the general substitution of house drains for cesspools, are immense improvements In the arrangements of the metropolis, and contribute most essen tially to the comfort and health of its inhabitants. But throe salutary arrangements must be followed up by others, to protect from pollution the Thames, which ought to be an ornament of this great city, sad which must continue to be the main highway et Its multifarious traffic." THE CONFUSIONAL IN THE PROTESTANT CHURCH. —At the biennial v:sitatiens of the Bishop of Illy at New market on Thursday last, the subjeot of the crowded state of tke dwellings of the poor was introduced at a meeting of the clergy by the bishop, when the Rev. B. Phipps, of Stenefield, trending to • report in the Beery Post, made the following observations:—The rev. gentleman raid he "did not think, speaking generally, that promiscuous immo rality was on the therame in country parishes • but what he viewed with great alarm was, the almost univ ersal prove lance of ante-nuptial fornication among the poor, and this. not only pesetioed, but made light of—held ea no crime or diagram at all. And this would necessatily go on Increas ing, became watts who had been guilty of this do could exercise no restraint over their own daughters, and the miserable result was that, as Mr. O'Coecall vet, truly said long ago, the majority of the English poor were mothers before they were monied. Thus female purity had become the exception instead of the rule, and our national character was disgraced by this too well-founded Imputation on the chastity of our women. He did not, however, believe that this state of things arose from their cottage arrangements, for ft was well known that In Ireland, wham the cottages were infinitely worse than in England, the morality of the peasantry was infinitely higher. Bastardy there was comparatively unknown, and when oe curriag was held as the deepest misfortune and disgrace. Nor could he believe that working together could be held to be the source of this evil, for labour was God's ordinance, and as such could not neoesearily engender sin. For himself he had his opinion on the subject, though be would not seek now to enforce his views—as the time and occasion might not be suitable—but ha could not but remember that Mr. O'Coonell's observation wee male in favour of a count* when an Institution was in full force, which in the opinion of • vast number of the moat intelligent sad anpreindic:d people both in Ireland and in this country wee one g r eat main , nett meat of maintaining the social purity for which that country was so illustrbAre and remarkable. And ho would further observe that this Institution was slap to fact and principle, in exinenro in the church of England, though it had hitherto most culpably and grievously ken abed Is fall into • desuetude from which avi tie, and what he believed ultimately would be a successful effort, was being made to recover it. flu meant the blessed and impor test practice of coolessfon." Tag IRON AND COAL TBADES.—The iron. trade is still inclined to languor, and it is questionable how long It will contuse so. The att-mpt by some parties to reduce price. per its at ti amongst soaa"ar me of the kid hue ". emaid bers o i nt: trade, who have genially considered the pr icy fixed fixed upon at the preliminary mestinga to be final. However, it must be admitted that there an some who will not con fine themselves to the prices fixed upon at these meetings, and although soquisacing apparently with the resolutions of the trade, are the first to "break faith." Pig iron is cheaper than it was a month ago, and good qualities can now be bought at 3'. l2v. ed., and fair samples at Ism For cinder and inferior "makes" no definite_prios can be quoted. Orders have been given out for 80,000 or 90,000 Mee of rails for India; 6,000 tons, it is undemenol, have hem received fa South Btaffordeldre, sad WOO by the New British boa Company, Basks, end mime to a mm it kart eked have km resolved k Ileath Weiss. The dipole karma as colliers coos of Dudley sad their MOM semis weeilied, themes eltiniely the mat mast pielL The aim* es War the ease west of Dasy to give modes kr s nee ef laver day hes slipway (riled, the mos below deakeked. gemeally eyelike', est ee Rix t he up with the &Weft el the cake ea the east side, Mowing es they do that this is not the time to agitate the a rise of week, as thin is ao Indication at pre- alter Inc meevery from she depression while now exists, The tromp of the Ina of Oest ambers, hem Ismailia of Limped, from law la trade mil had 41.100. w maselered by &ear surly to she week. • esmilisos amber el the Iseammeem la tie district ere meeker, hie * saes da greater eissiat than lA. M et OM we Tares sad Coo, end ea the loath of Tates bakes O p a= floaa during the whole of whieh period the reems. mossy was adopted. Oa the Minas, el Mr. Cox, hemmer, aa expulsion wersikabe the Isplares by bile. The liabilities me presseny mated to • ewe seamark* kw* flrr kigUr. The iY hemeasamsceell Me.pisis metabsinrere are Moo mid to be kw* latched •We Mk* sembewco tong after the art* modeese mem unessMer. Wolverhampton CAressiele d lads day. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. lane Eackton and Elizabeth Vining were oharged =du the following circumstances : Mr. T. Guest, shipping agent, said—Between one and two o'clock this morning I met the prisoners, and was caked by them to give them something to drink. I consented, and we went Into the Sussex Tavern, in Leadenhall.street, and had some ale together. When I came out I felt • jerk at my watch made by Eagleton. She separated it from the guard, and immediately I called out to the police, that Imu robbed of my watch. I then heard something fall down an area, and I gave Eagleton in charge to an (Meer, who also took the other priaoner into custody. Ido not myself think that Vining had anything to do with the rob bery, or knew anjthing about it, until I called out to the police. My watch was worth 201. It has been recovered by the officer. A policeman—The prtor un the Sussex Tavern called out to me, osec and u I secured po leaving Ragleton. Vining stood still at the time, and did not attempt to go away or to be aware of the robbery. The Lord Mayor--I do not believe that Vining knew any thing at all about the robbery. Jane Eagleton—She knows nothing at all about it. I plead guilty and hope you'll decide upon the business yourself. The policeman—The prisoner who pleaded guilty said at the station-house that if she had been a little sharper the gentleman should never have had his watch. Vining was than discharged, and Eagleton was committed for total. _ G eoTit filbert Beck, one of the City shoe blacks, we. committed for two months to hard labour in Holloway pri son, for having robbed a brother shoe black of the clothes which had been purchased with the fruit♦ of his industry, WORSHIP-STREET. ♦ NARROW ESCAPE. Harriet Ake, an innocent-looking young woman, was charged with Mailing money from her master, Mr. Thomas Hobbs, • tradesman in the City-road. The offence was committed a week since, when it transpired in evidence, that from enapicion entertained, a marked coin was placi in the pocket of a dress belong to the girl's mistress, which shortly afterwards dime Ls it was manifest that no one else could have taken it, and money to a considerable amount having pre viously been mimed, she was given into custody, but the money was not found upon her. Fortunately, however, her boa was turned out, and in the pocket of one of her can draws the marked piece was found. Still there was a pertinacious denial of guilt, and the magistrate remanded I,ol'. Mr. T. Beard now stated that the short confinement of a week had happily wrought a good effect, for not only had the prisoner confessed the theft, but expressed such contii. Unit for her fault, and exhibited so set oast a desire to reform, that he was instructed by the prosecutor to withdraw the charge, if ft met with the approval of the court, the con tamination ota prison being likely to mar the apparent proper feeling she now professed. The magistrate said, under the circumstances, he would allow the proposed course to be adopted, and he trusted that the narrow maps she bad had might act at a warning %ribs future; ohs ought indeed to be grateful for the leakag ofbe muter. Prisoner ehnngly, and earnestly declared she was IO end left the ooart with her mother. LORD HADDO AND THE WEST RENT RAGGED Scnoots.—Yesterday en interesting treat was given by Lord Haddo in the grounds of his father, the Earl of Aberdeen, ranger of Greenwich-park, to more than 1,000 children be longing to the various ragged schools of Greenwich, Black heath, and Deptford. The spacious grounds, from their opening at three o'clock, were thronged with a numerous and fashionable company, including moot of the influential resi dents of the neighbourhood. The children arrived under the superintendence of their teachers and various members of the committee. Their good behaviour and cleanly appear anoe attracted the admiration of all present. Shortly after four o'clock the entertainment commenced with a bountiful supply of plum-cake and tea, end at intervals the operation of feeding was relieved by the vocal performances of the youthful guests. Alter tea the children proceeded to enjoy themselves in various out-door exercise', with donkey and cricket, whilst the youngest of the party were with suitable enjoyments. The grounds were very lastetally decorated with banners. The evadng's anansements ter minated with a diaplay of fireworks ; the children, previous to leaving for home, signifying in an unmistakeable manner their thankfulness to his lordship for the treat afforded them. Daring the day upwards of 2,000 pinions were admitted by tickets, the proceeds derived from which are to be applied towards the support of the schools. THE ACCIDENT AT CHILI/Ahl.—On Sunday mom ing last, the Rev. S. Langston, perpetual curate of South borough, In the comae of his sermon alluded to the late diem trous accident on the South-Rasa= Railway at Chilham, and more particularly to the lamentable case of the Rev. Mr. Wood • Wesleyan minister, whose death had resulted from injuries sustained in that accident, and who has let s wde endives* family to deplore his lose; and the rev. gen tleman thought this was a most suitable cue for pecuniary assistance, In the evening Mr . Langston informed his con gregation that upon leaving the church in the morning, • sovereign was given him for this object, that upon crossing the common a person, who was a stranger to him, had given hint two sovereigns more, and in the course of the afternoon he had received another one. What he asked for woo that he might have one more sovereign, so se to send the poor widow a 61. note. The consequence of this second appal was that the rev, gentleman was enabled to make up no Les' a stun than 161. 65., which on the following day he placed in the hands of a Wesleyan minister of Tunbridge Wells, accom panied with a letter of Christian condolence, the latter under taking to forward the sum of money to the widow.—Boath BoAters Gazette. ACCIDENT IN REGENT•STREET.—Lut evening, about 7 o'clock,' ihrtiture van belonging to Mr. Caplin, of Great Wind-street, Haymarket, wee standing at UN Spread Eagle oMce, Regent-circus, when suddenly the hone took fright, rushing with tremendous speed put the Gallery of Illustration and acme the road to St. Philip's Church, where it dashed on to the pavement. At this thee a young child named Ann Smith, living in Windmill areal, was walking along in the care of her aster. The wheel of the van caught the poor little child end crushed beragabat the stone pillar in front of the church. She was immediately extricated and conveyed by the kindness of a gentlemen, who was parsing at the time to his menage, to St. George's Kw pital. It was found that the horse had got his hind leg sr tangled in the shafts, and anmedietely efforts were toads Is release the poor animal, but when the same was war platted the carman, John Greenwood, who had hold of the luiree's bead, was struck violently to the grornd by the hone's fore feet, and on being picked op it was found ad he bad both him legs broken, besides other severe itutita Without delay he was conveyed in a cart to Charing-goo Hospital, where he received every attention, but is in • very precarious condition. DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM IN TEE POT- , T BR isis.—A thunderstorm of terrific violence pawed over ilea Potteries and Newcastle-under-Lyme on Sunday afieenten last, between ems and two o'clock. The storm did mike mon then half an hour, but during that time the HOWE( clashed with blinding vividness, the thunder rolled end ab• tied with awful nee, the wind blew •hurrloans, end theta fell to inch a degree as to whiten a large tract of the ww ranting country. The church at Boothe', ISM MAP upon-Trent, was shuck by the lightning, and • lags hole was made in the roof. The organ sedined some Witty, red the walls were fractured le a ee tins extant. The congregation had happily kilt linked about twenty minutest before the accident, es the am. guences might have been fearful. An engine-homiest Ow& green, belonging to Lord Granville, was also Wreck as/ ed on fire. A tall chimney attached to some naphtha went .01 Joiner's-square, Hanley, wee injured by the two houses, in Mollatt-street, in the aims fawn, at the chimneys, and the dinners of the occatlic e dlile before the fire, were moiled by soot. Another also 'Owed in Bucknall-road. At Stoke-apen-Tillil l : hole was knocked in the roof of a house in Knowiselsiet The lightning pawed through the kitchen, in which lewd persons were sitting, but fortunately none of them wise Injured. A chimney was thrown down at the Healey Police-office, either by the wind or a dash of lightning. Three or four buildings were stract at Noweastle-unirri Lyme, but no lives were lost. In various parts of tract the services of several medical gent:emen were In the*cases of persona who had sustained temporar Loin fright and other osuaes. SINGULAR EFFECT OF A WHIRLWIND.-ORIO II. day afternoon, • whirlwind pared over some hsyllidll near Birkstall Abbey, and carried a large haya considerable height above the grountr i° W7Oim l observed by our informant the bay wee totting grate* in the air, above the Abbey, changing its form w i th Toning currents which swept it onward, and it was net tre ill descendedagain that the nature of the as wee discovered. At first it had the amortise' of befog MOO of bhdia, hovering above the Abbey in Mimeos* armitiseL The air below was get* salm.—Lwels %weary. THE MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.—Patrick Witfelkwa who killed James Connolly during an affray in a ill fame at Liverpool, on Saturday morning last, It been examined by the coroner and the stipnaiwi tssde irate. By the former (who is the magistrate a clash for the borough coroner) hilfahou him been ecennilltei fns trial on a charge of manslaughter, while the pan trite has sent him to be tried at the next anises for Render. THI EARL OF SHREWSBURY AND TALBOT O. Sony AND OTIM—We undimmed that the diatints In the dame having obtained an order from XL ll= Wan be • eematesta• to Boos, for Use pew= tte l rest a ssefon e lmilli tt l ierha llja mti rdasim an the pert o seci rtltinehl• 111•11WIt poselsoks of Altos Tarns, &0., 0104 DO sW:7tried at the melt Livered Amiens aid 2ra 01 sane to astil the skeins deer the next ee, when the loose will be Illiddleetz. esuoll gemPludwilj_ winged OD ether aide in the elner Mr. %eft and sex. Mom (of the Home Ci d reul di imikestowl, when the long vacation nes pooled r gape, tin s Imhof on behalf of the I motor Ml* ea flat tie the noble plefatiff. They away about • mantle.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. This al Prinatees on whin gentleman grant five and a pro view of eft the mean PR 07 3EEI Mr. 1 which, • Mr. Betdaa Thick Mr. Owed b donor i hewer The be the sad Cx Beat, Tit; was. p by K, ♦a Tb Aldsm an add of CU th• - 1