The Express. — London, England, 1858-08-10 00:00:00

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NIGH NATIO!, LT LONDON MIDDX. tam Dar—Wors .l.llSeems. a. ea. Twirisarsims. Vs ..... —..affaresea. Saabs LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUSI 10. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. A SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS," eontaining the results of the day's Races, is pub lished every ',ening daring the Sporting Season, at six o'clock. Tree late rulers of India have selected those of their number who are to form part of the new Council for India. Already we know the names of nearly one-half of those that are to wield the destinies of our Eastern Empire. The language is not too strong. It is true that the routine business of administration will mainly be carried on in India, and that the success with which instant and emerging danger shall hereafter be encountered will depend mainly on the characters of those who are invested with local authority. Much, however, will still depend upon the Home Government- The Home Government will be a permanent Court of Appeal in weighty controversies ; upon the Home Government will devolve the delicate and difficult task of deciding the broad general principles upon which India is to be administered. Regrets for what is past are vain. It is the duty of those who know India, and are interested in its fate, to spare no efforts to keep the new Government in the right path. The permanence of our Indian Empire will depend upon the skill, tact, and energy with which its affairs are managed for the next few years. The choice of the Directors is perhaps as good a one as could have been made. We could have wished to have seen the name of Mr. WILLOUGHBY on the list; but that omission may be supplied by the Crown ; and probably it has been owing to in impression that the Crown will take care of its own, that not one Crown nominee has been returned by the Directors. The responsible Ministers of the Crown will ale° do well to place coos?icuously sad avowedly in office the two men who, unnamed, have been for years, as heads of the Examiner's Ocoee, the real Government of India. If wo were disposed to be critical we might object that some of the gen tlemen elected have attained an age that entitled them to be discharged from further labours. This is a series' consideration. Notwithstanding the prevalent notion that the East is unchangeable, it is notorious that the upset of affair, in India changes with such rapidity, that an Anglo-Indian who has been ten years in retirement finds it no easy matter to understand them. If the majority of the first council for India are of the old school, there will be imminent danger, with life-appointments, of the T - future Home Government for India lagging behind the age. In respect of business talent and informa tion, however, we have no objections to urge against any of the gentlemen on the list we pub lish to-day. Captain EASTWICK is an admirable choice; Mr. SHErHERD--Irell it not that his time is so much engrossed by the Trinity Holm— equally so; and Sir JAMES WEIR Hoc°, though no favourite with the House of Commons, is an able men of business, with a large fund of Indian infor mal ion. The first difficulty with which the new Govern ment for India will have to grapple is a religious agitation. At least Lord STANLEY was pretty unequivocally threatened with something of the kind by t h e deputation whose visit to him was recorded in our yesterday's issue. We entertain the highest respect for the character and intentions of the gentlemen who composed that deputation, and for that section of the public which they represent. But we think that they labour under misapprehensions which may seriously endanger • cause which we have quite as much at heart as they. We believe that laws and precepts are of comparatively little avail to make a people moral. Giv. main nut, for the attainment of so desirable an end, is in the cultivation of true views and a pure and well balanced frame of mind. Firm believers eareedves in the Christian religion, we are anxious to see it disseminated through India. We believe it to be the best—the only efficient counter-agent to the in fluence of false notions of the Divine government, sensual superstition, and the baneful institution of caste. Bat the Christianity upon which we rely is real Christianity ; the Christianity of the spirit ; the Christianity which is the growth of deliberate * fearless inquiry and unbiassed conviction. We shrink from the use of any influence which en. poses us to the risk of having self-seeking, insincere professors of Cl•-istianity, or mere penal. like repeaters of certain formulas, palmed off upon 1111 SS real Christians. We therefore thank Lind Bunter from the bottom of our hearts for the brave stand he has made against urgent solicitations to convert the Government of India into a propaguilielt agency. Had he yielded on this point, be would have gone far to render the Chris tianising of India impossible. Strange that ales who flatter themselves that they are PM* teletexts per ezeelienee—who are secustoesed to repeat by rote, as it were, every day of their lives that CONSTANTINI corrupted Christianity by making it a mere affair of State—should be so eager to imitate his pestilent mistake in India. If Govern meat patrosege is to be thrown into the missionary scale—if Government is even to hint its leaning by an ostentatious assumption of a religious character, the Churches of India will be filled not with sincere (cm erts, but with hypocritical aspirants to wealth and high official position. The Government patron age of religion, which is so urgently called for, would give us • new and animal Ireland writhing under • new and more baneful "Protestant " Ascendancy." If we are to have real Christians in India oar Missionaries must follow the Apostolic example. They mu t candidly tell all who listen to them that worldly prosperity is not the reward for which Christians are to lick. They must wake the martyr spirit—that spirit which can dare and 'lifter everything for the sake of truth—or they will never be able to Christianise India. This ol 1,4 di Qi M IC C le it lii MA 01 8 at al ti U li U K 2 44 is A THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1858. is a slow process, but it is the pro'_ess by which all the too little real Christiaraty which we have in the world his been developed in the course of nearly two thousand years. To the Chris- tian public we appeal to protect Lord STAxurr against the indiscreet and ignorant seal of some of their own number. And whether this appeal be favourably responded to or not, we trust the new Council of India will possess sufficient moral courage to support the Mieister upon this all-important questior. EVEN in the short time that has elapsed since the peat agricultural meeting at Chester incidents have occurred which quicken the desire that the whole agricultural population should benefit by the prac tical knowledge promulgated at such meetings. At some inland markets butter was selling last week at ls. ad. per lb. ; and it was difficult ts obtain it at any price. This was caused by the drought, under which the pastures in the finest of our grazing coun ties were burnt up. Aged persons had never seen the soil more thoroughly perched and pulverised. It was a mortification to lose the pleasures of the flower gardens ; and a privation to have only the mintiest supply of vegetables for the table : but these are small matters in comparison with the perplexity and pain to the farmer of being unable to feed his stock pro perly in the height of summer. Perhaps none but those who happen to have witnessed such a case understand the extent of the evil. The owner of a daily of twelve or twenty cows is really wretched about them, unless he is well up in modern improve ments. Before he rises, after he goes to bed, and all day long, he is cudgelling his brain for resources wherewith to sustain his drooping trine. The case of the small farmer, with his humble dairy, is worse, because he has usually less knowledge of expedients, and his dependence is on a sm►ller number of ani mals. He sees his cows dwindling every day in flesh, and the pail becomes lighter at every milking, though he cats every foot of grass he sees growing, and culls every vegetable scrap that the poor things wal eat. Ile can get no grains at the breweries, fur the brewers' connexions have bespoken thim ell. It is worse than useless to tut.] out the liaa+ts on the commons in the plein country, or on the hit', in the mountain distaieta: for there is scarcely a succulent mouthful to be had, aid the flies are mischievous. It is a sore necessity to resort to the new hay. In short, when butter is le. Bd. per lb. in pastoral districts, the stock are going off fast, and the dairy year is spoiled. Now almost all this train of evils might be spored by a little of such knowledge as the dullest termer might pick up at an agriculture' meeting. Let not the proud critic smile, and a►k how the small frimer, or anybody bat the rich grazier, can in igate to such au extent 1/1 to preclude the mischiefs of drought. While believing that the time is not far distant when the whole landed interest of this country will be enabled, by combined drainage and inigation, to defy drought, as inrndation is now defied by means of the former, over many a broad &le, we ti-e at present thinking of a humbler resoo•ce. Ptiaes have been given by the Royal Apiculture' Society for newly invented food for horses and cattle, by which all pining from hunger may be obviated at all seasons, at a cost so small that the fai,net's loss is confined to that of the germ which will not grow. What a blessing it would be to even; yeomen's the land to know of this resource, end tFrow overboard all fear of famine in the stall ! What an advantage to be able to send Fie butter and cheese to mai ket as usual, be the weather what it may! This beneficent invention, guaranteed by the chemical science sup plied by the Association, is only one of the good things which every farmer and grazier would know if the entire profession could be, by any means, brought face to face with the phenomena of these agricultural meetings. Surely it might be possible to stir up the people in old-fashioned districts by itine rating among them, telling stories of the achieve ments to be witnessed in regard to the common processes, in which every farmer has an interest. Is there no method of familiar lecturing in the less frequented rural districts, by which a few men from each could be induced to go to the nearest meeting, to see for themselves what can be done in these days? IR such places, the plague of the farmer's life is sickness among his stock. It is a rare thing to have • trustworthy cow-doctor within reach. Generally speaking, the owners are helpless in the hands of quacks, in retired districts—having no option between permitting rash experiment, and doing nothing. The amount of gibberish talked about cow-diseasss and the amount of bleeding per petrated are beyond the belief of all who have not seen something of that phase of rural l;re. Would not something be done about this, if agricultural gatherings brought together all the farmers who had ever lost a cow, or dreaded to lose one ? Would it not naturally follow that life-insurance Societies for cattle and horses would be formed everywhere, as soon as it became known what a comfort they an wherever they exist under good management P To others than the owners it would be a gratification to see an end to the begging from house to house, for miles round, when a cottager has lost his cow; and to the melancholy selling-up of the small farmer when dis ease has got among his stock. Many a cow would be saved by the medical aid which such Societies tinselly provide; and many a rural bankruptcy would be intercepted by the precaution of such in surance. The landlord, the tradesman, the neigh bouring gentry would prefer subscribing to support such a plan (though, indeed, it ought to be entirely self-supporting) to giving their dole when the mis chief has happened, and in the form of charity. Some progress is made, we believe, in the diffu sion not only of the knowledge of new agricultural implements but of the use of them. The owners of mowing sod hay-making machines have more ap plications for the nes of them, from year to year. But the grand resource is not yet sufficiently dis cussed, we apprehend, or it would be adopted from end to end of the country—the establishment of depots of agricultural implements for hire, in central positions, whence they might be obtained through a given circumference. It must naturally be some time before the great multitude of farmers will think of laying out heavy sums in new implements, and indeed the extent of their land would not, for the most part, justify it. On the other hand, the circumference must not be too wide, or the customers too many; or there will not be time to serve all. But while it is possible to see, in various parts of the north-country, a single mile or half-mile within which hay making has been going on (or pretendieg to go on) from the middle of June, and is not finished yet, we can hardly object that each implement or ma chine would be wanted by every farmer in the whole circle on the same day. There are always diffe rences of sail, situation, theory, and management which cause the nearest neighbours to go through their processes at different times. A fortnight would do the mowing and haymaking, or the reap ing and harvesting, on many farms within a circuit of fire or ten miles at the rate that such machines work. The saving would be in other things besides money, great as would be the gain of getting in the bay crop in a few sunny hours, instead of after weeks of soaking and drying; or the corn, full in the ear and dry, instead of shaken and plundered by birds, or rotting or sprouting in the wet. But the saving of nerve and temper Is worth consideration too. We have in our mind's eye a meadow where 101. have this year been sank in the hay crop; whereas the use of a mowing and a hay-milting machine might have saved four-fifths of the cost, if they had been within reach, and the yeoman disposed to make use of them. We have in our mind's eye a farm in an opposite quarter, where, flora the expensiveness of the old methods of tillage, the farmer can pay his men only such miserable wages as they and their families cannot live on; and, as a natnyel codse quence, they use their opportunity, at harvest time, when every hour is precious, to put on the screw in their turn, and make their own terms, besides telling a bit of their minds. The remedies for such mis chiefs actually exist : they merely need to be under stood, and made acceskible. In overcrowded districts, wages can go no lower than the Bs. per week of the present year, while the increased production and saving will augment the wages :and. In under handed districts, where the average wages are 105, per week, more hands will be requ4ed for the im proving production faster than they can be thrown oat by shortening the hay-making and harvesting. It is a case in which ell pr-ties must be benefited by the change. How, then, ern the wisdom and the works of oar Agriculture' Associations be beat and soonest con ducted into the most retired rural district.: of the land ? NEW COUNCIL FOR INDIA.-EI ECTIVE MEMBERS. The following gentlemen were yesterday elected by the Court of Directors to be Members of the New Council for India: Charles Mills, Esq. John Shepherd, Esq. Sir James Weir Hogg. Elliot Macnaghten, Esq. Ross Dannelly Mangles, Esq. William Joseph Eastwick, E.q. Henry Thoby Prineep, It app..% from tlfs list that no ne q. of the Crown nominees on the late Board of Directors have been elected. It 4 1 with regret that we tn:la the name of Mr. Willoughby; but we hope to find him among the Government appointments. THE QUEEN'S DEPARTURE FOR GERMANY. (THIS DAY.) In accordance with previous sirangements her Majesty left England this morning, en route for Germany, for the purpose of paying a visit to the Princess Frederick William of Pi oasis, with whom she will probably remain till towards the end of the present month. The Queen went from London by the North Kent Railway to Oravesend, leaving the Bricklayer's Arms station at a quarter to nine and ar riving at the Gravesend station at about half-past nine. A heavy rain commenced shortly before eight, and continued till about nine, when the sky suddenly brightened, and the weather became all that could be de sired. It had been the wish of the municipal authorities of the town, backed by the principal residents, to make the Queen's de parture for the Continent the occasion of a great public demonstration ; but, in deference to the ascer tained desire of her Majesty, they abstained from doing so, and merely made such arrangements as were absolutely called for by the character of the event. Extra trains were announced to run on the Tilbury line from 8 o'clock "in rapid succession," but the rapidity was anything but whst is generally understood by the term, there not being passengers enough at Fenchurch-stn et to induce the superintendent to despatch the first train till after seven o'clock. On the North Kent line the public curiosity was catered for by the running of the first ordinaty tra'n at half-past 7 instead of 8 o'clock. Tho fact ht the hour fixed for the embarkation was too ee-ly for London sight-seers, who appear to have been unwilling to sacrifice their breakfast even to gr►tify their notorious eagerness for public spectacles. On arriving at Gravesend the Queen and the Prince Consort immediately entered one of the royal carriages, and drove through the town to the Royal Terrace-pier, opposite which the royal squadron, con sisting of the Victoria and Albert, the o.bai de, the Princess Alice, the Banshee, and the Vivid, had been lying for three or four days. The Toy& cot tege proceeded along Somerset-street into the New-road, and by King-street, the Nutton-road, end Ha..ner street, to the Terrace-pier. The route thus taken wrs profusely adorned with flags, the decorations being for the most part the same that were used on the memorable occasion of the embarkation of the Prince and Princess Frederick William. The windows of many of the houses rnd the pavements were thronged with spectators, whose number was vastly increased by visitors from London and the districts around Gravesend, who had come in anticipation of the event on the previous day and on several preceding days. In Harmer-street the scene was exceedingly festal and joyous, and her Majesty was repeatedly greeted as she passed along with hearty acclama tions. Iler Majesty, having been escorted from the rail way station by a detachment of the 15th HP - SP.I/. under Captain Trowers and Lieutenants Bell end Mullen', was received at the entrance of the Royal Terrace-pier by a guard of honour, consisting of a detachment of the Royal Ms...nes, under the command of Capta; n Brown. Oo alighting from her carriage, she was also received by the mayor (gr. Troughton) and the cwporation of Gravesend, in their municipal robes. The Town clerk (Mr. Shetland), presented to her Majesty an address, which in accordance with previous arrange ments was not read. It was banded by her Majesty to the Earl of Malmcsbury, and the following is • copy of it : TO TILE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. May it pfrase your Majesty,--We, the rriyor, elder—nem, and councillors of the borough of Gravesend, respect fully tender our thanks to your Majesty for selectt".f this borough u the point of your embarkation. We gladly availed ourselves of the opportunity Winded to us in February last, on the embarkation of her Royal High ness the Pittman Frederick William of Prussia, with her illustrious husband, of evincing our loyally to your Majesty and our attachment to your excellent consort. We trust that your Majesty will on your arrival In Prussia find all your moat ardent expectations for the happiness and comfort of your daughter fully refused, and that in each succeeding year continued proofs of the loyalty sod devot-d attacb-nent of all yore Majesty's subject.' will be afforded to you, and the blearing of herlth IC", under Divine Providence, be vouchsafed to yore Majesty, your Royal Consort, end children. The sides of the pier having been fitted up for the accommodation of the spectators, and covered, together with the floor, with crimson cloth, were partitioned off from the centre, leaving an ample space for the Queen. ' About 1,500 persons, a vast majority of whom were ladies, occupied the eats allotted to them from as early an hour as eight o'clock, and at least double that number would have been present could all the applications for tickets have been granted. Immediately after the foregoing address had been presented, her Majesty, leaning on the arm of the Prince Consort, proceeded along the centre of the pier, under a gay canopy of flags of various descririons, to the place of embarkation, bowing and smiling graciously in recognition of the respectful and loyal greetings of the spectators on either aide. She wag attired in a figured lilac-muslin dress, a Carmelite cloak, and a white bonnet, and carried a striped brown parrot In immediate attendance upon the Queen were, besides the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the Earl of Malmesbury), Lady Macdonald, Lady in Waiting; the Hon. Miss Cavendish, maid of honour ; and Sir C. Phipps. On the platform of the pier were assembled, ex pressly to receive her Majesty on her embarkation, Colonel Eyre, Commandant of Chatham; Colonel Sandham of the Royal Engineers, Colonel Park of the Royal Marines, and Major Evans Gordon, Brigade Major of the Royal Marine". For some time before the Queen's ',nivel the eommander of the Victoria and Albert, Captain the Hon. J. Denman, had been carefully superintending the soundings which were taken for the purpose of ascertaining whether there was 'efficient water to ad mit of the yacht being brought alongside the pier. The scarcity of water was partly obviated by the projection of a long platform and brow, the latter being no less than 20 feet long, constructed under the super intendence of Mr. Harding, of the Woolwich Dock yard. When the Queen arrived everything was happily in readiness ; she therefore at once stepped on board, and as she did so she was greeted with prolonged cheers from the corporation and all in the vicinity, and a salute from Tilbury Fort. The scene presented at the moment of her Majesty's embarkation was extremely beautiful. The weather had become perfectly fine, and the sun was shining cheerfully. A vast number of vessels, with flags flying, were scattered about the river, and a myriad of small boats studded the water. Alongside, and within twenty or thirty yards of the Victoria and Albert, was a Gravesend steamer, with a number of persons on board who could com mand a view of the deck of the royal yacht, including a loyal bugleman, who kept on playing the National Anthem with a force and continuity of breath which went far to give the lie to the Mar quis of Westmeath's declaration that the powers of players on wind-instrument , : are boon exhausted. An incident of considerable interest has yet to be recorded. The Mayor having gone on board, and been specially introduced by the Earl of Malmesbury, had the honour of presenting to her Majesty a souvenir to the Princess Frederick William from the young ladies of Graves end who so gracefully received her Royal Highness on her embarkation for the Continent. This memento consisted of a beautifully-executed true lover's knot, in water-colours, with the names of the fifty eight young ladies referred to, and was enclosed in a RUSSIA leather case, having upon it a suitable inscription, was most graciously ac cepted by her Majesty, who repeatedly opened the case and examined the design, ultimately locking the case sad putting the key into her pocket. The oonveyanoe of the royal luggage occupied a considerable time, and seemed, indeed, almost mter minable, no little amusement being created by the agility with which Jack seized and carried off the long array of portmanteaus, carpet-bags, &c. Among those on board was Prince Leinigen, whom we understood to hold the honorary command of the Victoria and Albert. We also observed Captain Shepherd, the commodore superintendent of the dockyard, who has immediate charge of the Thames under the Masters of the Trinity House. The preparations for starting having been com pleted, the royal yacht commenced musing at three minutes past 10, and within five minutes after she had fairly left the shore, and was steam ing rapidly down the river, against the tide. The spectators cheered enthusiastically as her Majesty commenced her voyage, and the salut-s from Trinity Fort were renewed. Immediately before the vessel staeted Sir Charles Phipps came on shore, and requested Colonel Eyre to telegraph the time of the Queen's departure to the Pr inoess Alice, at Osborne, the Duchess of Kent, at Avergeldie, the Prince of Wales, at Richmond-pr-k, end the Princess Fre derick William. The day was observed as a general holiday, nu merous amusements having been provided, including regattas for various prizes. The first match was a pair oared race in six heats, and a four-oared race was also to take place. A grand concert and ball, in honour of the event, was held at the Assembly Rooms, and the coipo ration engaged Mr. Darby to give a grand dis play of fireworks in the evening, from a lighter moored in the river. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. Vbt Court. The Quten and Prince Consort e-rived at Buck ingham Palace, at six minutes to six o'c'o , s: yesterday after noon, from Osborne. The Prince of Leiningen accompanied the Queen and Prince, and in attendance were the Countess of Desert, the ' Hon. Mary Bulteel, Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Phipi., Colonel the lion. A. N. Hood, and Captain Da Plat. The Queen and Prince leR Osborne at two o'clock, crossed to °overt M the royal yacht Fairy, sad travelled by • special train on the South Western Railway to the private station at Vauxhall, where the royal party entered three of her Majesty's carriages, and, escorted by a detachment of Life Guards, proceeded to Buckingham Palate. Her Majesty and his Royal Highnees were received, on alighting from their carriage, by the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis of Exeter, K. 0., the Earl r.f Sheffield, Colonel the lion. A. Liddell, Major-General Wjlle, and Colonel F. Seymour, C.B. The Marquis of Exeter, K.G., had an audience of the Queen, and presented to her Majesty the report of the House of Lords, thatCecilaPrinocasGivatinla 1 , Marchioness Dowager Brandlni, had established her claim to be Counters of Newburgh, VI/countess Kinnaird, and Baroness Living stone of Pierre*. The Prince of Wales, attended by Viscount Valletort, Mr. Gibbs, and the Rev. Mr. Tamer, arrived at Buckingham Pala, and returned in the evening to White Lodge, Rich mond-park. The Earl of Derby had as audience of the Queen. OSBORNE, Avot:sr 9. her Majesty and the Prince Consort, Prince Alfred, Princess Altos, and Princess liciens, attended divine service at Osborne yesterday morning. The Rev. G. Protbero officiated. 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 Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Saliabuiy, the Earl of Harduicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malinesbury, Sir E. Balwer Lytton, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, Lord Stanley, and Lord John Manners. The Chapinllor of the Eichrytter left town yesterday for Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire. The Marquis of Balisbury left town for his seat, Hatfield, Hero, yesterday. Despatches were revived yesterday at the Colonial-081os from the Governors i f the North American Provinces, and from the Governors of the Settlements on the West Coast of Africa. Deepatches were sent from the Colonial-ofille yesterday to the Governors of Ceylon, Mauritius, Hong Kong, Lehner', and Malta. RETURN OF THE COURT FROM OSBORNE. PORTSMOUTH, Acorn. 9. Her Majesty the Qaeen, his Royal Highness the Prince Comae, and the Royal family, together with the members of the Court, left Osborne at two o'clock this rfter noon, and proceeded to Cowes, where they embarked on board the Fairy, his Serene Highness Commander Prince Lebtingen, and proceeded to the Royal Clarestoe Victualling-yard. Her Majesty received the usual demonstrations on the route, and was received at Clarence-yard by Admiral Sir George Say. mom. and Major General Sir J. Yorke Barlett, with their respective staffs and other offiNes of the port and yard. A guard of honour wee famished by the Royal Marines Light Infantry. The Duke of Leeds has left the Clarendon Hotel for Hereby Castle, sear Catterielt, Yorkshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Headfort have arrived at Ckrklne's Hotel from the Continent The Earl of Easton has taken • residence in Grosvenar•plaoe foe a term of years. The Earl Cowper has arrived at Clanacroc Lodge, Inverness-skimp= Chilllogbass culls , Northumberland. Viscount Melville, arrived in town, yesterday, from Folkestone. Lord Ashbrrton left town yesterday for Lock Lair-hart, Dingwall, N.B. The marriage of Mr. Frederick Tighe to the Lady Kathleen Poeeonby WVA solemnised tn Sc. iILOWA . II Church, Piccadilly, yesterday. The 11 and Ike. Walter Pon earthy, brother of the bride, officiated. A grand national archery competition will take piste at Eglintonn on the ennicarsary of the celebrated tournament, when the pia are intended to be upwards of 1001. In value. The contest is to be extended over two day*. Archers will be present from all puts of England end Scot land. One of the reporters of the Paris press had some visiting cards 'Crook off for au while at Cherbotarir, on which he had Witted " M. --, awn, de la Dare, Rao Chaeeeloap•Laabat, Twee 24, lit 3." . . Marshal Pelissier requested (says Galignans) to be permitted to accompany the Emperor to Brest. He htends to be back at Lon& by the 16th, to celebrate his Mejeet3's rite. A challenge has just been given by some Cam bridge students, who bays gone over to Frame In their own boat, to row against a like number of French gentlemen. The challenge runs that :—" The flvepstlenten cot:Whaling the crew of the four-oared boat, Fairy, end who are now at Caen, slab to makes mat& to row any Ire French amateurs • two or three mile race on the rued of that town en the 16th, 17th, or 18th of this month. This challenge remains open until Friday, the 13th inst. Address to Mr. J. Lyle, Hotel d'Angleterre, Caen." Sir Roderick Murchison, Director-General of the Geological Barrey, bee been actively employed up to the commencement of this week In examining the rocks between Dunnet Heed end Straitly. He Is now prooredlng through the Orkaey Islends end to Zetland, wheuee he will return to Ilse Pharos steamer to the north and welt coast of Sat h er_ laud MESSAGES RECEIVED FEOM NEWFOUND- LAND. Tho following message by been received, tbis day, by the Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company " VALENTIA, TVZSDAY, 6 A.M. " Newfoundland has commenced the use and adjustment of their special instruments for speaking. " Last night, at 11.15 p.m., we received coil cur rents from them at the tate of forty per minute perfectly. They are now setl;ng usual letters for adjustment of instruments, and we have re ceived from them the words, ' Repeat, please,' and Please seta slower for present,' spelt in full. They have also sent the signe's for repeat frequently, proving that the receiving instruments aro not yet adjusted with sufficient accuracy for them to get d 4 stinctly. "I forward by this post tho slip of signals first transmitted and received across the Atlantic by the Company's i,stroments, " The speed at which the letters come up seers faster than those at Keyham, and currents are apparently as strong." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (71011 OUR OWN 0011EBTONDI1T.) PARTS, MONDAY EVENING. The following telegram reached Peril late tb's afternoon : "BaEsr, Aco. 9, 1.20 rad. " The imperial squadron has arrived in sight of Brest. A l l the population is on the quays or the ramparts, waiting the Emperot's arrival in the har bour. The weather is magnificent." It is rumoured to-day that the Emperor has ac cepted an invitation from the Queen to pay her a visit at Osborne towavds the end of the summer. During his stay at Cherbourg, the Emperor gave orders that the barracks and land fortifications should be completed with all speed. If an extraor dinary credit should be necessary, the Corps Legi• latif will be asked for one. The Emperor has given orders for two grand pie ' tures for the Gallery of Versailles, one representing his interview with Queen Victoria, and the o•her the immersion of the new basin at Cherbourg. Seven hundred and sixty iron bedsteads, with pillows and bedding complete, which were brought to Cherbourg by the railway company to lodge their guests in the " camp," will be sold by auction on the spot on Tuesday and the following days this week. The special correspondent of the Sled., M. E. Texier, writing from Cherbourg on Ang. 7, says that the railway service is so completely disorganised in consequence of the multiplicity of trains, that letters from Paris sre not delivered till two or three days after their date. He also doubts the possibility of the company conveying to Paris at once the 60,000 persons who proposed to leave Cherbourg on Sunday night, and thinks that many of them AM not arrive here before Tuesday morning. Count Walewski returned from Cherbourg tbls morning and at 2 o'clock the fourteenth meeting of the Paris Conference was held at the Ministry for . Foreign Affairs. The fifteenth, and, as some say, the lest meeting, so far as regards the final settle ment of the question of the Principalities, will doubtless take place in the course of the week. The upward tendency of the Bourse hes assumed more decided proportions to-day. The Rye rose 20e. botk for cash and account, closing at 68fr. 76c., and 68fr. 80e. Mobilier, which has for a long while been nearly stationary, rose 16fr. 25a. The Lyons and Southern Railways, rose 10fr. each. Orleans, Western and Northern, 7fr. 50c. each, and Eastern, Mr. I'rinoe Napoleon hu written the following letter to the Syndical Chamber of Algiers, in answer to an address : I thank you for the sentiments you swim both in your own name and that of Algerian oommeros. To commit Algeria into a new France by civilisation, educatice, end prosperity, to draw rimer the ties which twits the metro polis to its principal colony, to assure to Algeria in pro portion to its necessities and development the benefits of conantercial freedom—such will be the aim of my omitting efforts; and I thank you for having expreseed *Mee ao completely in accordance with the object of my solloltuda. I have already alluded to the jealousy excited in France by the news that the order of Malta is about to be revived. It is now said that a meeting, at which several influential ecclesiastics will attend, is to be held this week at the mansion of a wealthy inhabitant of the Faubourg St. Germain, to consider what means can be taken to associate Fence with the revival and prevent the order from falling altogether ander Austrian influence. On the occasion of the Emperor's fdte there will be a grand review on Saturday, August 14, in the Champ do Mare, by Marshal Magnus, of the Iva perial Guard and the army of Paris. ITALY. THE CONDEMNED PATRIOTS IN NAPLES. (Fame elm owe oozassrotanurr.) NAPLES, Acores. 8. My last letter contained a report of some of the latest proceedings in connexion with the Salerno political trials. Other details have since then been furnished to me, which will possess much interest for a great number of your readers. In the after noon of the 26th an order arrived by telegraph that on the next morning Nicotera and his companions were to leave for the Vicaria in Naples, en route to their final destination. Thus, no time was given the prisoners to send for their friends for a last terview, or to procure such articles as were necere se-y for the alleviation of their sufferings. On the morning of the 27th the sixteen prisoners who had re. ceived a commutation of punishment were sent for to hear the decree read in presence of the Grand Court. Accompanied by a company of rifles and gendarmes, bound two and two together, they were taken to the courts, and remained so bound, a fact which was contrary to law. The President immediately sent for Niootera, who was unbound and led into the private Council Chamber, accompanied by three gendarmes and an officer. On his ...rival the Pre sident addressed him as follows—and I give the whole conversation, as highly characteristic of the indi viduals, and illustrative of the state of things :-. " Signor Nicotera, I think you must be pleased with the justice and impartiality with which you have been tried, and grateful for the sovereign cle. meney, at which we all rejoice." Niootera replied that they had not acted as judges, but "as vile hirelings of the government, confirming what. ever has been ordered to you from Naples. to give a semblance of mercy, the King has compelled you to condemn seven to death, when strict legality would have obliged you to condemn only myself." The President interrupted him by saying that Berea had been condemned to death, to render the chances of mercy the greater. " Yes," replied Niootera, "you were compelled to sign sentences of death for seven, in order that the world might be deceived by a hypocritical clemency ; but the time not fax tent when you will answer for it before the tribunal of the people, and tremble and turn pale before them, as you did when you signed the sentence, from the reproofs of your own consciences. We were not frightened when the axe hung over our heads, and wo despise alike the Ergastolo end our chides. We have fulfilled a sacred duty, and listened to the cry of humanity and justice. We therefore can support with intrepidity all those Buffetings which tyranny well knows how to inflict, in the firm hope of the triumph of that liberty to which wo now ere surf ficed." " Signor Barone," said the President, " I am old, with one foot in the grave. 1 know net what to reply, nor do I wish to enter into any d 4 i. cussion, fruitless both for yourself and me. It is my duty, as President, to exhort you to be grateful to the King, who has commuted your punishment, and I had called you, therefore, to beg you that if you will not yourself cry Viva it Re,' after the reading of the decree, you will at least persuade your com pauions to do so." Nicotera, who was greatly agitated, replied : " Signor President, I address you now as Dominic° Delia ' not as President, for insult a character you area hireling and a slave of the government. To Dominic° Delia, then, I say, that I cannot and ought not to comply with youe insinuations, and that I would never degrade myself so far as to ask my companions to do so. Like me they have faced every kind of brutality, and death itself; and they would have in the same manner confronted the scaffold as they will bear their chairs and the Ergestolo. I repeat, we cannot do as you insinuate. Were we to cry, Viva it Re!' the echo would be ' Death to liberty r Reserve for yourself such infamy, and leave to us the dig nity of silence." At these words the President, not knowing what next to say, ordered Rico term to be taken out, and to be bound to his companions. In another quarter of an hour the judges assembled, and the prisoners were brought in bound. The chancellor of the court read the decree in presence of the judges and the Atter ney-Genersl, who were all on foot, and the prisoners were then sent back. I must not omit, however, to point out the open violation of the law, which says that " every individual shall present himself freed from every bond before the magistrates or officers of the ordinary police." This slight though shameless illegality, however, amidst so many others, must not awaken surprise ; it was doubtless dictated by fear, and during the whole procedure the judges mani fested an evident anxiety and disquietude. With regard to Nicotera, his greatest enemy must acknow ledge that up to the last he has maintained a sur prising firmness and dignity, resulting from a cons viction that he was engaged in a holy cause whim endeavouring to promote the liberties of his countay. This kingdom has many more such men, and wisdom would conciliate them by justice ere it be too late; for the day must come when this state of things will break up. To follow my story :—ln the after- noon of the 27th the government steamer which was to carry off many of the prisoners arrived, and the inhabitants were soon atter surprised at the sound of chains which were being landed. From the beach they were taken to the prison in three cute, whilst another followed with an anvil and three large hammers. This was done in open day ad without disguise. It was a new and strange epee- Mete for all, yet no one would believe that, eon. trary to law mud the regulations for condemned pri soners, the government would put their chains ca before their arrival in the appointed Ergastolo, sad offer so sad a sight to the city; yet it was too tree. The public executioner and his two assistants were called to iron the condemned; and on their ing themselves they were chained in the foTn:et. iag mode:—The chain which bound them consisted 16 rings, and was 4 mitres (or 13 feet) in length, and 16 kilogrammes (or 361 b.) in weight ;at esth extremity was a large ring or semicisele, which was closed by a large nail 20 centimetres in length, sad having a diameter of 3 entimetres at one extremity with the head, and at the other it was fastened men anvil by a hammer. The right foot of one being this fastened to the left of another prisoner, they caned move except by common agreement ; and so they rat do the necessary offices of life, not even excluding sleep. This scene of " ironing " lasted from la , past 8 to half-peat 7 o'clock in the evening, and the antechamber at the gateway of the prison foe the time wore the appearance of a blacksmith's shop. At this inhuman spectacle assisted some of the officers of the 7th battalion of Rake, the smitten , general of the Intendenra of Provinces, the KM mandante of the prison, and 200 gendarmes besides. and other police agents drawn up in the court of the prison. Four companies of Rifles were under arms in different parts of the city, as thoogh it were in a state of siege. "In strorg comb trait with the agents in the scene just described; said my informant, " was a woman called Poggi, d Lerici, in the gulf of Genoa, and mother of one of the prisoners condemned to twenty-five yes Min irons. Like the mother of Christ, who acoompanled her Son to the cross, this poor woman has followed her son month after month—her devotion might have melted the anvil on which the chsins were riveted, yet her grief was insulted by the Wes c't power. Any one who had the heart of a man meet have been touched at seeing that unhappy Walla clasping to her bosom the son she was abed to lose, perhaps for life, and kiting bis chains, whilst with acute grief she saw that every blow of the hammer was like a dagger in ha heart. Daring the whole of this time the primer! conducted themselves as though they were eniefn a triumph. After they were chained and manacle" and further bound together by a long rope Willa extended through the whole line, they were tab! between two files of soldiers through the cite', on the whole length of the Marina, while all the Woo' bitanta wets horrified and quite panic ara k on by thie barbarous spectacle. I ant to ld that noto , the streets, but that the balconies, terraces, tied ev es _ the roofs of the houses were crowded with Pro na :3 who uttered maledictions against the rarer and that these murmurs of indignation! vengeance were con tinued till 9 a'r2 wheu the vessel sailed away with, r Here, 89 persons thus chained. As they pr on. through the streets, dragging their heary'a rekw ...loti: along the pavement, the clanking lon c 1 4_,.. sight of their feet bleeding with mu *me'?; ; r im still farther awakened public indignation