The Express. — London, England, 1866-07-23 00:00:00

BENSON, J. W., by SPECIAL APPOINT MENT to &&H. the Mice of WALES. B ENSON, J. W., PRIZE MEDAL, LONDON, Clio 93. BENSON , PRIZE MFDAL, DUBLIN. _ elide IJ._ _ BENSONIEWELLE RY for BRIDAL PRE aws. BENSON'S GOLD JEWELLERY for MOURN ING. BENSON'S DIAMOND .10iELLERY. BENSON, OLD BOND-STREET, and WEST nOURN&GROVE. BENSON'S STEAM FACTORY, Ludgate-hill. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy weight, at realisable value, and the workmanship at wholesale manufacturers' prices. The gold In the chains gua ranteed, sad reparchaaed at the Price charged. " Here's the note, Row much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, The fineness of the gold, and charge for fashion." szkitesraLma Manufactory, it, lieuriotta-strect, Covent-garden. W.C., London. TURTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. Clew, Welt, aid Invalid TURTLII SOUPS always reedy. ST. JAYSSIWIALL. ItEGENT-STILSIT. PLOC.ADILLY. WM. DONALD. Proprietor. LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM foe OEVTLEVEN.—ltemee•ber, we wait Ow you at " EVANS'," after the Covent•garden Open and the Theatre& Ilte enareofs. HAYNIARILZT. Tens Warne, A RuMANTIe ATTACAKENT.—DAVID GARRICK Mews. Sanaa, Bucksione, Clappendale, Boners, Clark. Co. , kr . • "M. ehinpendale. &a —LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR.—And A DAUGIITERTO MARRY. PRINCESS'S. THUG IviNuto, THE 111:01;bNor CAPTAIN. Messrs. Vining, and G. Money Misses Neilson. Augusta Thomson, and Mrs. Stirling.—And QUIET LODGING& MITTANWIA. Eresmin, THE DUSTMAN'S TREASURE: OR, WHO° AND THE BOFFINA.—Mr. Nfart Floyd; Herr Mae/01111; Jae Lund ; &Master IL Sanderu—And THE DARK MOBIL HUM WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Turn DAY —Morning, 104 39m Afternoon. Mh. To-Moitgom—Morning, 114 40m Afternoon, lb. OM LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 23. Tae third collapse of the Bank Charter Act affords ono more proof, if any were needed, of the futility of attempting to legislate for all times and for all situations. It is a moot point whether Sir ROBERT l'elm's currency policy was right, even for the period he lived in, but there is no doubt that in any case it is utterly out of place now. Neither the country law.- commerce has stood still since 1844. With altered circumstances, a cor-1 responding change must take place in the regula tion of the machim-ry by which trade is carried on. It will be the duty of the Commission to ascertain what modifications are not merely de sirable, but absolutely necessary. Above all things, let the inquiry be conducted upon a more extended basis than has been done upon other occasions. Perhaps the Glasgow deputation may have gone too far in advising that the Commission should proceed from town to town to gather evi dence. There is, however, a substratum of truth in their recommendations. It is a patent objection to the result of the parliamentary committees that were appointed after the crises of 1847 and 1857, that their reports were based almost exclu sively upon one or two kinds of testimony. The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England were examin:il, some other bankers, the most eminent of our accountants, and that is nearly all. Little pains were taken to ascertain the views of the great body of the trading, as dis tinguished from the banking, community. No at tempt was ever made to obtain the views of foreign finanoiers. It is to be hoped that this mistake will not be repeated. During the past year an interesting and most important inquiry Has been instituted by the French Government on the working of the Bank of France. Much of the evidence, especially that given by MM. J. and E. Putman, would throw considerable light upon the present question. Unless some course is adopted by which the Commission will be saved from basing their conclusions upon the views of a lucre clique of often interested doctrinaires, it had better not be held at all. What the nation wants is a full and impartial inquiry, leaning neither to one side nor the other, but giving a fair reflex of the general opinion. Should this, as it ought to be, be done, there is no difficulty in foreseeing the verdict. The question may be summed up thus: Are we from a defective legislation to suffer periodically not only the severity of a commercial panic, but also the loss which is every year inflicted from the unnecessary and violent fluctuations in the rate of discount? How is this to go on? Are we to have frequent inquiries leading to no practical result, or is the question to be settled upon a permanent basis? The Commissioners have forthe first time the advan tage, never exemplified before in an equal degree, of appreciating the loss of English credit abroad solely through the working of our monetary system as it stands. They will have made clear to them the reasons why in Paris, notwit uitanding our intimate commercial relations with France, Englishbills of the highest class have been refused, and bullion insisted upon in payment of dibta in stead. They will thus see that the unprece:lented accumulation of gold at the Bank of France is directly due to the distrust occasioned by the bad monetary legislation of this country. SINCE smallpox was first described by the Ara bian physicians, it has slain thousands of innoo nit children ; and it is gratifying to reflect that while an Englishwoman first taught Europe to mitigate its severity by inoculation, an English physicia•i discovered an eCectual remedy for it in vaccine. I tion. Like every other discovery, vaccination has encountered much ignorant opposition, and has sow etimes suffered from the exaggerated preten sions of its proselytes. Only a short time ago the farmers were induced to vaccinate all their cows; and now, in a Bill before Parliament, it is pro posed to register the vaccination of every child in the kingdom at the public expense. There is some force in the objections to it. Instances have been recorded in which the vacci nator, by using bad lymph, has induced other diseases. In a few, very rare, cases owing to some idiosyncrasy it has proved fatal. And many deaths by smallpox happen after apparently sue- cessful vaccination. Again, in unfavourable hygienic conditions, it does happen that the dimi nution of death by smallpox is followed by an increase of the deaths by scarlatina, measles, whooping cough, and other maladies. Within recent years the anrual deaths from smallpox have declined from 10,000 in 1838-41 to 3,302 in the seven years 1855-62 ; but precisely in those years a new disease, diphtheria, has sprung up, and zymotic diseases have grown more fatal. Allow ing for all drawbacks, however, the advan tages of vaccination preponderate so largely that no intelligent parent allows his chil dren to grow up unprotected by the important process which the immortal JINX= disco vered. And in the year 1840-1841 Acts were passed for the gratuitous vaccination of the whole THE Egf*EsSE population. This had an excellent effeitO, akin the year 1853 the practice of vacchaltiidd forced by penalty. The child is helpless in the , first four months of infancy, and the parent who neglects to get it vaccinated in conformity with the Act is subject to a penalty of twenty shillings. This aroused opposition, but it is justifiable. There is this peculiarity about successful vacci nation, that it leaves an indelible scar on the skin, which is of itself evidence of the operation. And the surgeon necessarily keeps a register of every case. No further record is, therefore, neces sary. But through an accident, and in op position to the entention of Lord Pastaza nom, a moat elaborate system of registration by the registrars ;,was set in motion by the Act of 1853. The R eg i s trar-General, we believe, pronounced it impracticable ; but he supplied, as the Act directed, all the registrars with books and the medical men with certificates. The registration was badly contrived, and proved a complete failure ; the medical men rarely or never send cer tificates of successful vaccination to the registrars, who after all their trouble lose all the essential information and their pay. Where the book is kept no use whatever is made of the information. The system has already cost the country several thousands of pounds. And the Bill now before Parliament affords an excellent opportunity of getting rid of the whole preposterous system of public registration of vaccination. Unfortunately the authors of the Bill, instead of abandoning their project in their new Bill, put forward clauses to render it more elaborate, mischievous, and expensive. At present the registrar of births puts in the hands of the informant registering a birth a notice with the address of the public vaccinator of the district. This is a useful measure, and it is quite sight to point out the legal obligation of vaccina tion, but as the notice is addressed to parents, it need not assume the harsh form of a threatening letter ; for the parent, it may be assumed, has the interest of the child at heart. The new Bill not only threatens the parent with " penalties " for disobeying the peremptory order to get the child vaceiateci, but superadds a new penalty of twenty shillings for neglecting to send the registrar by post a certificate of successful vaccination by the family doctor. Conceive the Countess of Croskill summarily convicted of the offence of not preserving a registration form which her maid has used, or if pre served, for not at the proper moment putting it in the doctor's hands, getting his signa ture, and sending it by post to the registrar. And her laundress, who could not read, would be still less likely to comply with this enactment, which by its impracticability is calculated to make legislation ridiculous. Three elaborate forms of certificate (B, C, and D), besides the notice (A), are placed in the parents' hands, to be kept until the i child is vaccinated, or one of them for thirteen years as a defence against prosecution for neg- Ilect of vaccination. At the end of this formidable ! list of schedules the following note is found : " In each case the Vaccination Act of 1866 tun " poses a penalty of 20a. for default." Such is the conciliatory form in which the bless ing of vaccination is to be presented to the people, who in many parts of the country regard the operation with suspicion. By neglecting to send the certificates to the registrars, medical men evince their view of the worthlessness of the record. Why register vacci nation in a public office rather than any other petty surgical operation, such as the extraction of a tooth ? Some fond mothers may choose to enter in family registers the date at which their children first speak, or cut their teeth, or have the measles, or are vaccinated, but there can be no reason for Betting in motion the whole machinery of a public department to record these, any more than the other trivial events in our " little life." The public vaccinators supply the inspectors with their returns of vaccination, and, if it is re quired, it is an easy matter to get returns from private practitioners of the number of children they vaccinate annually. For statistical purposes no more is necessary. The inspectors and public vaccinators have themselves the power of visiting the poor of a parish, and learning whether the children are vaccinated by simple inspection. As a protection against prosecution for neglect the scar on the arm will be a much better defence than a paper certificate, which the parent who neglects vaccination will be tempted to fill up. This useless registration will give parents trouble, will terrify the timid, will confuse the ignorant, will cost 10,0001. a year, and will deter many parents from registering the births of their children. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) f z t a fr i a t till large e hto ens tit the . woris eeripse . the I t . the adds if the Bala= should •. difficulties in the way of peace they will deserrk ly that their two allies, Prussia and France, after consent ing to a settlement which does not comprehend Italy, should leave her alone face to face with Asuriria, to be dealt with at her leisure by a power which she has so wan tonly and pertinaciously defied. THE COBDEN CLUB. The two of our contemporaries which are understood to represent in foreign affairs the views eg. the French go vernment, the Marais° Post and the Daily Telegraph, eansure Lord Russell , for his remarks on our foreign policy at the dinner of the above club. The -Post denies that Lord Stanley in any way ex' presal his approval of the cession of Venetia to France, whileihe Tekgraplt blames his lordship for questioning the wisdom of such settlement. To the Emperor of the French, the Telegraph insists, we owe it that matters have reached the promising stage we now witness. He does not look calmly on with folded arms, and solace himself with the comforting reflection that the throes of agony which convulse a continent are no concern of his. He stands forth in the name of humanity, which is the suf ferer, and adjures the infuriated destroyers of their kind to lower their weapons and cease the strife. But, to ac oomplisb that mission, he avowedly desires the co-opera tion of every neutral state ; so that the weighty utterance of impartial Europe may be brought to bear on the hostile powers in a majestic unison of appeal. It is at least a definite policy, and is certainly a higher order of states manship than that which merely appropriates current popular opinion, and mistakes selfish isolation for dignified neutrality. The Cobden club, remarks the Star, is henceforth an English institution. It helps to consecrate the memory of one who was himself an embodiment of all the finest traits that are peculiar to the English character. Cobden m iy in one sense be regarded hereafter as the highest type; the noblest realised ideal, of the Englishman of his age. 11f1 HYDE-PARK MUTING TO-NIGHT. ...- The Post has reason to believe that though some incon venience may be experienced to-night, the measures re gain(' to preserve order and to protect property leave nothing of a serious nature to be apprehended. The Teleyraph is glad to see that the leaders of the movement so emphatically recognise the importance of taking every precaution against any breach of the peace. Lord Elcho is said to have carefully preserved the atone with which one of his windows was broken ; and well he may, for that stone did far more injury to Refoim than to his lordship's furniture. In the England of Intid a great constitutional battle must be fought with arguments in the legislature and the law courts, not with brickbats and bludgeons in the parka. Let it be clearly understood that ' should the police lay their hands upon the leaders of the meeting they will have to answer for it to-morrow morning ; that illegal assault and false inquicon ment, whether committed by Sir Richard Mayne or by a common constable, are torts for which the law of Eng land provides a remedy. The moment force is employed in the name of that law, resistance must cease, and the case must be carried elsewhere. The men of London have a right to assemble ; if they are refused admission to the park, or if, after being admitted, they are subsequently disturbed, they must submit for the moment in silence, reserving to themselves the right of testing the legality of the official proceedings. The slightest disorder would in flict deep and lasting injury upon the noble cause we have at heart. _ . . • The Standard ridicules the whole subject, applying op probious epithets to those who are iu favour of the meet ing, and predicting a cowardly demeanour ou the part of the crowd. THE CHOLERA. Assuming that the symptoms of cholera in England sie menacing, and such as to demand the utmost vigilance. the Times proceeds to urge some precautions, chiefly founded on the report of the medical officers of the Privy CounciL Wherever cholera appears the utmost vigilance ought to be directed to two points—first to the prompt disinfection of the discharges, clothes, and houses of the sick ; and, secondly, to the condition of the water supply. In some cases it may be desirable to close the wells and pumps altogether, and in all cases the water should be &Irefully examined. But, besides this, the sick should be as far as possible isolated, and the utmost endea vours should be made to treat them in special hospitals. Nor, where such a precaution is feasible, would it be at all an excess of vigilance to isolate their families for a time. We are glad to see that this precaution is being actually adopted at LiverpooL The dep4t at Bankhall has, it appeals, been reserved, not for the sick, but for the families of the sick, who will thus be placed in a sort of quarantine. The Public Health Bill now before parlia ment is designed to furnish additional powers to meet. the impending danger, and we trust that at such a moment it will not be allowed to share the doom which threatens so in my useful measures. Ehr Court. OSBORNE, JULY 21. The Queen drove out yesterday, accompanied by Princess Louise and the Princess of Leiningeu, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice. Prince Leopold drove out yesterday. The Prince and Princess of Leiningen dined with the Queen and the royal family yesterday. Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, Equerry in Waiting, has arrived at Osborne. The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Morton, Lieutenant-General Knollys, and Major Grey, drove to the volunteer camp at Wimbledon on Saturday, where the Princess of Wales presented the prizes to the successful competitors. Their Royal Highnesses were afterwards present at the volunteer review. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Countess of Morton and Major Grey in Waiting, attended divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. The Communion service was read by the Rev. J. C. Haden and the Rev. C. Packe. --- Anthem, " I have surely built thee a house " (Boyce) sung by Messrs. It. Barnby, Cummings, and Lawler. - . /dr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Rev. C. Packs, from Ephesisus, c. 2, v. 19 and folbwing verses. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing street. The ministers present were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Earl of Carnarvon, General Peel, Viscount Cranborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, Lord J. Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas. Sir Victor Moulton, K.C., M.G., of Malta, had an inter. view with the Earl of Carnarron at the Colonial-office on Friday. A deputation from the Chartered Gas Company, consist ing of Mr. S. A. Beck (governor), the Hon. R. H. Browne (dcputy-governor), and Mr. J. 0. Phillips (secretary), had an interview with Lord John Manners, at the office of her Majesty's Works, kr., on Friday. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial , office to the Governors of the North American Provinces. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales are expected to leave Marlborough House to-day for Osborne, on a visit to the Queen and royal family. The Prince and Princess will remain at the Isle of Wight till after the Goodwood races, at which the Prince, with • dis tinguished party, including the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Cambridge, &c., purpose to be present. In the seoond week in the ensuing month the Prince and Princess have made arrangements to go to Scotland, intending to visit the Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson at Bishop thorpe, the Earl and Countess de Grey at Studley Park, &c. During the sojourn of the Prince and Princess in Sootland, in all probability they will visit the Earl and Countess of Dunmore at Harris, and there is a rumour of a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Dunrobin Castle. The Earl Annesley, the Earl of Cork, Viscount Canterbury, Lord and Lady Burghley and Lady Victoria Cecil, Admiral Hon. H. T. and Mrs. Bons, Mr. G. Payne, Mr. Savile, and Mr. Chaplin have been among the visitors at Burghley during the race meeting at Stamford. The party separated on Saturday. The Marquis of Exeter was unable to join the party from Musa. THE WAR. Though it is extremely natural that the Emperor of the French should be sanguine of a speedy termination of the war, the Times thinks it doubtful whether Prussia on the one side will consider her victory so complete, or Austria her position so hopeless, as to accede to the arbi ter's desires. It would be difficult to point out what aggravation of evils even a new and final disaster would inflict upon the Austrians. So far as the Italians are con. earned, it is to be deplored that the suspension of hostili ties was no accepted a few days earlier. The fortuue of war has not betnended them by sea any more than by land. Indeed, their maritime disaster off the island of Lissa—invited through Admiral Persano yielding to the general uproar—is even more decisive than the defeat of their army at Custoua. In the former as in the latter encounter the bitterness of ill-success may be tempered by the consciousness that every man has done his duty, but still the conviction that Italian valour has effected little towards the liberation of the last pro ' vines* of the Peninsula subjected to foreign rule must irresistibly affect the Italian mind. In the meantime Prussia has shown, in everything, every where, and in every way, a national superiority over her , great rival—a superiority proving the higher stamp of character, the loftier policy, the nobler bond of union, the stroager element, and the truest earnest of the future. Considering that the Prussian terms of peace were known to the Austrian government when it agreed to the suspension of hostilities, the Daily News thinks we are warranted in indulging the hope that the Emperor Francis Joseph has already resolved upon a substantial acceptance of those conditions. Reflection, in deed, will fail to diminish the greatness of the eacrifice,but it will at least make its necessity more apparent, and the Daily News hopes that such considerations as that the integrity of his territory is not in question, and that peace °utile Prussian terms would leave the empire stronger in some respects than it was before the war, will prevail with the Emperor ; and that before the beginning of an other week we may be able to congratulate our neigh boars now in arms upon the assured prospect of peace. The naval engagement in the Adriatic is the first serious encounter of iron-clad shwa that has taken place in Euro ' peon waters. There are discrepancies between the official reports which it must be left to fuller and more exact accounts to clear up ; but it is plain that the Italians sus tained the heaviest loss. The battle must have been fought while the truce was being signed, and we trust it may faci litate the work of peace. In the opinion of the Herald the agreement of Austria to an armistice renders it highly probable that she will accept the preliminaries of peace. The Prussian propo sitions are not such as would not involve the humiliation of Austria ; indeed by finally separating Prussia and Austria they would bring with them one great advantage to Europe. The empire of Austria when Venetia has been severed I Ay e ; mgruNG riet to ifront *I; Z 7 liSsent LATEST JULY 23,_ : 23,„ 068. y -~. AMERICA. QUESNSTOWN, JULY 23. The Cunard extra steamship Tripoli, from New York, arrived here at 12.40 a. m., with 142 pas sengers. She land i 6 passengers, and proceeded at 1 o'clock. All well. _ EXPRESS FROM PARIS. LAMES' ASSOCIATION FOR THE RELIEF OF SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS. Inspired by deep compassion for the sufferings which the war raging on the continent has entailed upon thousands, the undersigned ladies, disclaiming all ex pression of political opinion, have associated for the pur pose of soliciting aid for the sick and wounded and pri soners on all sides in Germany and Italy. *The Countess of Shaftesbury, 24, Grosvenor-square, W. Miss Florence Nightingale. Madame Otto Lind-Goldsohmidt, Oakley, Wimbledon Park. S.W. •The Hon. Mrs. William Cowper, 17, Carson-street, Mayfair, W. 'ady Lyell, 53, Harley-street, W. Mrs. Lyell, 42, Regent's-perk-road, N.W. Miss Goldsmid, 26, Chester-terrace. Regent's-park, N.W. 'Mrs. Roberts, 1, Hyde-park-terrace, Kensington, W. Mrs. W. Wilson, 21, Park-square East, Regent's-park, N.W. Apra 15, up Channel, at the Start, on Sa- EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OP A CHILD 42 , fed turdpi• • with 22 rumness, 8,898 ounces of 1 NUNHEAD. ITESmr.Tvi.—(THIS coroner for leg , gold s an 'Cargo of Wag aid sundries. On the 6th June* lat. 8.15 S., lon. 30 W., she passed close This forenoo lN n? to a thied:inasted schooner of foreign build, with Surrey, held an inquiry in the board-room of the C. her decks full of men. There w as no name on her Well . worklimme respecting the death of the nawla mi illegitimate child of • young woman named lime; stern, and she would show no colours. She was B r Itowsing. appalling that the girl Mary Browning „, ..... standing to the southward. at 2 o'clock on Monday, the 9th instant, sitting 1.6. • hedge in a field at Nunhead-green. She rawdasi ---'• there all day until 8 o'clock in the evening, when • paw, constable named Barrett, 1M I', went up to we s a l found her to be very ill. A woman who came tip at the time pulled aside her shawl, andin her arms was dam"' the body of a child quite dead. The police-officer at ass sent far Dr. Stokes, of Peckham-rye, who ,proinpleg s s tended. To him the young woman stated that sw i m given birth to the child at. , 11 o'clock that mom*(* a railway arch in Albertetreet, Peckham. She &Willow its death to want of proper attention at the time d its birth. Dr. Richard Stokes deposed that the body of e m 1 deceased wan that of • well-developed, full-timed fuse s (rum vas own coaasarosonrr.) I child, newly bore. There was a mm-k around the net& mg PARIS, &away EVINITO. I• di ned scoloration t h i elotp fr••k o •a n t o i r:err. rangulati" h" hell Most intense curiosity is felt to know how it will : Lydia, Hewitt, No. 5, Old Goweretreet, Ntinhsafl a be made to appear within the short apace of five young girl , l i:rh sald en . she saw she w t r e en w t w in wg to w the fields to g , Mary et kw, days that the arbiter of Europe has accomplished sitting under a hedge. young o w m a a lked on ear lill ' lss , the Herculean task he has been working at so hard suddenly turning round she sa lap e naked tray of affiti for the last month, in that spider's web of his the L ea n t : ai d «I by her elclk. von Cta ;aid She v otlral " Esis Puei telegraphic cabinet of the Tuileries, to satisfy every- home and told her mother, who at once left the hews body, including himself ; to enable Austria, after i and went in Margaret wasn't A ds. 4, J es-st t, Nunhead, NM having in a desperate fit of low spirits thrown up th a t s h e w as reques ted by a neighbour to take the m ai Venetia as a bribe for aid to maintain her " great woman a cup of tea n wr te Libe w t as seated made :n: 1 1;e grass lair position in Germany," to be turned out of the thet h edge 'wit it m ai n i l peared t ha t she stated lhata seemed she had Germanic Confederation " without loss of taken ill. The young woman was discovered with ea dignity ;" to leave Prussia the results f or cheat 2 re o ee 'cl u oc e lin the afternoon, and at 8 o'clock ea which she undertook the war without P° M rs . Sarah Petlow, No. 8 , Stafford-street, Peak.. the equilibrium of Europe being disturbed , ' riiditihat the oass o wom an for y the last foar Bro wning the. W i tlll s ht Virj:: for the " exclusive benefit of a gre at p ower ;" to her her for several years, and she had allowed her to mania* t n i: h a e l i r f c: e uld e n n o e t get a eittatias show Italy that her unity is accomplished, and at her house until she was able to procure a situation. Oa the same time to satisfy the Pope, who makes con- M ahe wilul v d eek. te to she sa id and tinual claim for the provinces he lost in 1859, that She th en left th e house, mother witness did not y see her age the temporal power is established on a fi rmer basis Witness had frequently charged her with being but she w always sto utly Browning, the fact. than ever, and that Italy, flushed with the 'rumenPresent during ea which she owes to a protestant alliance, will cheer- inquiry, and while Marye witnesses were under examinant fully renounce her claims to have Rome for her sh Dr al) . P a r it t° T b e v ele i d sta sa t ld oftlfantlatthe. gr i e f. accused had UM capital ; and finally to satisfy France that, without him that the mark round the deceased child's neck arm drawing the sword or spending a franc, the heir of f tw rom anenstrherecanse. wag an Su e c x li t a osee t. was e ;so h n l i: e ti d m u es nd know eeti s e the Bonapartea , by the transcendent power of scalp of the child, which had s . been :Led by either aid genius, has destroyed the detested treaties of 1815 or a blow. From certain indications which wham h wl d tn voti ss l c i ed eliev u ri n t hat the a d wst-morte hl " b a etf al li is Ica for the honour and glory and profit of France. On this latter point very serious fears are felt by , alive. The cause of death was compression of la Frenchmen. 1 neck from strangulation. Witness did not believe the the strangulation arose from a natural cause. Prince Richard de Metternich, the Austrian ' I The accused Mary Browning said—l should like to eg ambassador in Paris, whose intimacy at the Tulle- how it occurred. ries, as well as that of his wife, has been such a I sta tem ent Carane . r- 1 y v o e fi ' do aar l tnak]; one you need notke sag ynn m ast h ir frequent subject of remark, is understood to have Your statement will be used in evidence against you. counselled his government for several years past I Co roner I wish t: it te n ll the r ni t i h. —Sw — ble, Baal to confide in the cabinet of the Tuileries, and he near her, and hear a ll that is said. perseveres in this policy. A few days ago the ru - I The gamma was then try fw sworn, d she ile w p a c i ril —I cons mour ran that he was recalled, and the rumour It l'efrZeis t situation, butl r d7 ' d not inten'd to get one, k was V,. was not without foundation. If the warlike cowl. i ing the way I was in. I denied to Mrs. Petlow that I wee eels of Archduke Albert, the conqueror of Custom, . esiireinwoeu. comewg in wp ten ed to d Lordo re n ta a ra nd th l al 'L e tend n ed to . S who is for fighting to the last man , s hall y et p re- her. O n Monday week I felt ill, and went out for a yak vail, it is unlikely that Prince de Metternich will When I came to the railway arch I got ill, and beton Ow child was born I lost my senses. When I came round! remain in Paris. found the child born and dead. I was an hour sitting lain M. Thiers is certainly now entitled to call him- the arch, I then got up and held the child in my arm, ad self a prophet. Events have realised almost to • look for a policeman I w en t f or t ye ' w m a le t : and I told her, and a police I the letter what he predicted in the Corps Legis- I did not like at first to tell what was the matter, but site. latif so lately as May last, when in the course of wards I told several persons. When I was becoming here mble Iheard the child. (The witness then signed her Mr the debate on the address he said : I ment in the presence of the police-constable.) If Prussia shall be successful in the coining war, Ido 1 The Coroner said that the cue was one of a very midi not say that she will at once become mistress of 50 millions , character, but if the accused's statement was correekil of German subjects. Oh, no ! She has but 14 millions ' was peo N i e e rr at u llfe or t u o nes nat"' near tact theshe did not inform i f iom t : e of tie now, and from 14 to 50 is too large a journey to be neoom- ', she was in when she diroovered the child to be dead. Idished without some relays. (Laughter.) But it is I The jury, after an hour's deliberation in private, rektool certain that Premix will annex some of the northern a l verdict " That the deceased child was accideaully German states and will establish her influence over the I kied." The C o roner said that that verdict had been retained others. [Several voices—" That's it — that's it.") S he In cons e icfetence of the statement made by the soma will then have one part of Germany under h er direct - authority and the other part under her indirect authority ; and under the new order of things Austria will be a " protected " power. And then allow me to tell you there will be accomplished a grand phenomenon which events have been tending to for the last century. We shall see the German empire revive—that empire of Charles V., the seat of which was formerly at Vienna, and will now be at Berlin—an empire which will closely hem in our frontiers; and to complete the analogy, this empire of Charles V., instead of being sutported by Spain, as in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, will be sup ported by Italy. [Great sensation.] ,LIGENCE. The acceptance of an armistice between Austria and Prussia, to continue for five days, is confirmed, and the acceptance of the preliminaries of peace , based on the exclusion of Austria from the Ger_ man Confederation, is also stated to be a fact. But it appears that the basis of peace ' proposed by Italy, namely, the possession by Iltaly of the Trentino, which she regards as the key to the country, has not yet been accepted by Austria, and we learn from Italy that 'her armies will advance till they have possession of the Italian Tyrol. The disaster which appears to have been sustained by her fleet idling" will only make the Italian army and people more determined to ad vance until they occupy what they claim to be Italian territory. It is not alone in Italy that the movement of the army is continued. Almost simultaneously with the announcement of the ac ceptance of the armistice, we find that the Prus sians are concentrating their forces in front of Vienna. A despatch from Nioolsburg, dated on Saturday last, says : "The Prussian troops continue to be concentrated onthe Marchfeld—A division has marched through this place in a southerly direction, and more troops were expected on that day." It may be taken for certain that the Austrians will take advantage of the truce to concentrate all the troops they can in and around Vienna, so that should the propositions for peace fail, the battle that is to decide the fate of the empire will only be more extensive and decisive than before. Some of the Vienna journals are disposed to accept the position created by the Prussian victories, and they even go so far as to say that Austria would be all the stronger by her exclusion from the Germanic confederation. But it must be borne in mind that Austria is now a member of the confederation with a population of some 12,000,000 Germans, and that a German confederation with such an amount of the German population excluded would be far from that German unity which is the aspiration of almost every German and which is said to be the real aim and object of Count Bismarck's policy. There are the provinces of Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Austrian Tyrol, as well as the large Ger Irian element in Moravia and Bohemia, and how to reconcile the possession of these provinces and elements by Austria with the unification of Germany will be a difficult problem for diplomatists to settle. Austria, in her present position, would indeed come well out of the war—all her possessions save those in Italy, which were a source of weakness, being left intact. She would have lost prestige and nothing more, and might wait for some favourable opportunity of attemptingto reconquer in Germany that pre-eminence which her traditions will never allow her to resign without a present regret and a future hope. One thing is quite certain that that combination which was meant by the diplomatists of Vienna to be "an eternal league, to be denomi mated the German Confederation," exists no longer, and will never reappear. The Prussians are not only concentrating before Vienna, but they have left Frank fort in a southerly direction, no doubt in search of the Federal and Bavarian armies. At Frankfort they have left reminiscences which the inhabitants will not soon forget. Sena tors and journalists have been imprisoned, journals have been suppressed, notices issued that all the saddle and coach horses in the city should be I assembled for the inspection of the Prus sian Cavalry Inspector any defaulter in this respect to be fined 100 thalcrs, and finally contributions in money ordered which amount to 401. for each of the 60,000 inhabitants of the late Free City, and the seat of the German Diet. There was a report in Berlin that Count Bismarck asked the King of Prussia to have the city of Frankfort placed under his special orders. The accounts from Italy, both with regard to the encounters between the volunteers and the Austrians, and between the hostile fleets in the Adriatic, are so conflicting that the reports of im partial correspondents can alone rectify them. In the naval engagement the Austrians seem to have had the best of it, but the Italians appear to hav e fought their ships with great bravery. THE CAMP AT FLORISDORF. - - - WAR. The camp at Floriadrof is covered by considerable works, but without any revetment, and separated by long intervals, so that the troops can easily debouch in order to attack. On the left is rests on a little affluent of the Danube in front of the village of Jedelsee. It was necessary to bring this first work as near as possible to the Ute de punt in order Ito avoid the extensive prospect downwardsfrom Bis amberg, which is situated some thousands of yards more to the west. It was necessary to give greater prominence to this fort in order the better to protect the ground behind from being enfiladed. From Jedelsee the camp makes a circuit by the village of Jedlersdorf, having outside and in front of it Leopoldau, and Kagran. On its right it rests on the Danube. Communications are established between the numerous isles distributed in the bed of the river, which may serve as a rendezvous for th e defenders of the camp if unsuccessful. It is always a dangerous operation to accept battle with a river behind. Benedek, who fought with the Elbe in his rear, found it to be so. But in the present case Austria has hardly any other choice. To fight a battle in the open field against troops flushed with success would not be prudent, and to abandon Vienna would be to acknowledge that a single disaster had destroyed the power of the empire. To make a last struggle, then, within an entrenched camp was the only alternative that remained. It is the opinion of the Debata that even should the negotiations for peace fail, the Austrians will not fight, but abandon the city. There are now said to be 600,000 men assembled either for the attack or defence of the city. (arrizt's 11111/01•103.) AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. PARIS, JOLT 23. Aust-ia him accepted the preliminaries of peace proposed by Prussia. THE WAR IN ITALY. FLORENCE, JULY 22, EVEWiWO. The conditions placed by Italy to her acceptance of the armistice, and communicated to Prussia and France, particularly with respect to the Tyrol, have not yet been accepted by Austria. According to the Rabe, the commanders of the Italian army have declared that no suspension of hostilities can take place between Austria and Italy before the present military movement has been completed, and the Italian army corps have secured a safe and regular position. The Austrian commanders in Venetia have im posed extraordinary taxes by way of fine upon those localities where public rejoicings took place in celebration of the cession of Venetia by Austria. NEW ZEALAND. PLYMOUTH, JULY 23. The Celaeno, Captain Renant, from Otago on THE PREVENTION OF CHOLERA. To William Ratbbone, Jun., Esq., Honorary Beasley, Nurses' Training Institution, LiverpooL Public O ffi ces, 2, Cornwallis-street Medical °Seers! Health's Department, Liverpool, July 21,1866. My dear sir, —ln compliance with your wish that I should suggest some convenient and safe formula whisk may be administered by nurses and district visitors eh* epidemic cholera, in all cases of premonitory diarrhasisksi it is impossible to obtain the immediate attendance of all* sician, I beg to subjoin the following confecticeopi, 1 ox . ; pulvis confection aromat., 1 or. ; creta: precise* 4 drachms ; pulvis acacise, 4 drachms ; curb. ammo* 2 drachms ; 01. menthar pep., GO drops. The dose d tY powder for an adult is from a teaspoonful to • desist: spoonful, in a little cold water, every four hours, or frequently (every three hours) if the case be urgeat. The dose for children under 15 must be from half is s teaspoonful of the powder every fourth hour. When sis below five years of age the following powder lad better be wed :—Pulvis confection aromat, 1 or. ; merlin. albi, 4 drachma; crime precipitat., 1 oz.: pulv. 4 drachms ; 01. menthar pep., 30 drops. Mix. The hi for children from three to five years of age is a teaspxsfd in a little water every second hour. The dose for infants from one to three years of ego is • saltspoonful, or as much as will lie on a sixpence. Belk these powders can be carried in bottles, and they Ell* for any length of time. In addition to the administration of these powder , ' ea nurse should apply to the stomach and bowels of plow suffering from bowel complaint either flannel rung oat if hot water and sprinkled freely with turpentine, orelsll spread thickly with mustard (themustard to be roiled elk vinegar or water),or hot bran or hot salt put into Lard bags or woollen stockings. When the feet are cold, fr there are cramps, apply to the thighs, calves, and NAM bricks wrapped in flannel. The nurses should make known the following facts:— 1. Cholera generally begins with very slight painless put tug, which, if attended to in time, may be easily sea . . hong *Mrs. Solis Schwabe, 8, Clarges-street, Piccadilly, W. I Therefore, in all eases of bowel complaint. ... The ladies to whose name the •is prefixed will be happy slight, send at once for a doctor, or apply at the . 41. to take charge of any sums or articles that may be for- stay. 2. . Drun h kenness, Th filth, and love.rcrot this d warded to them. Mews. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., munlitlilynngoncldolles c h olera. Th er e fore an er i e l fo c r l e ay ol in e person. shoal. 1, Pall-mall East, have kindly consented to receive money sweep out their rooms daily and wash the floors a low contributions for the sick and wounded, and the sub- twice a week ; should leave the windows of their bake!, be joined fi rms have promised to do the same , and boxes for o p en during the whole day, and when the weather .0 d: :—M the purpose will put in their respective places of buil. Tir onig oT i t il i r l 3 _ Pe e r m i rd it oafllthceliawintirowu:PneeDils the kd nessessra.Trubner and Co., 60, Paternoster-row, E.C.; - thing 'every morning y , and never use them daris4_, ol Mr. John Bumpus, 158, Oxford - street , W. ; Messrs. day. When any of the family , e v en one of the year Parkins and Gotto, 24, Oxford-street, W. ; Mr. J. L. children, has the slightest bowel complaint or Wilk Seaton, 93, Hampstead-road, N.W. ; Mr. E. Stanford, , the chamber utensil of the sick room should airr,r: 6, Charing-cross, S.W. ; Messrs. Pillischer and Co., 88, tam a table spoo nful of chloride of lime , and immediately was emptied after being used. All t uiderdeke New Bond-street, W. The Countess of Shaftesbury and or sheets or napkins which have been dirtied Wald bi d Mrs. Solis Schwabe have consented to act as treasurers, once placed in the washtub in boiling water. --1 dddlo and Miss Roberts as honorary secretary. I my dear air, yours very sincerely, W. TAMA - -- - Under the bill in the United States Congress for I Tan ARCILEOLOOICAL INSTITUTE.—(Tats DOI protecting the growth of forest trees on the public lands, —This morning the members of the historical wile i Ottawa Indian University, in Kansas, bas 200,000 acres of the Arelueological Institute held a meeting at the 1107 4 public land, by paying for the same in plants, cuttings, and Institution, Albemarle-street, under the Fedi:lml°' Si seeds, to be distributed in the West, as Congress shall Very Rev. Dr. Stanley, Dean of Westminster. APO hereafter direct. No title is given until 100 miles of hedge was read by Mr. Cyril C. Graham, on " lteenial l and 10,000 acres of forest are grown by the university. into the Topography of Palestine." The “Port 'li Various sorts of native and exotic trees and herbs are to Captain Wilson on the first expedition ___...01 be tried, and annual reports are to be made of the methods Palestine Exploration Fund was also read, and so la and results of the experiments. i ing discussion on subjects connecetd with it folloned. i It is reported that a marked change in the Horse the course of the mornin g , the photographs, ufwsriii., Shoe Falls at Niagara has occurred. Large portions ef 160 in number, taken b y the ex p edition (many of thei:„.,.."" rock have given way in the centre of shoe, giving the the first time), with detailed maps of the Lake et °..7, fell now more of a triangular appearance, which is said to and other po rtions of the Hol y Land, with plain of low add to its beauty. It has been demonstrated that the ings, interesting sites, ac., were exhibited sod err Falls recede 10 or 12 inches • year. . rented on. . ilaii Pullman's sleeping car, the Omaha, now being ' PRooassa OF INDIA.—This morning was used in America, is 70 feet long, runs on 16 wheels, and b y the India-offloe a " Statement of the Moral sod lb* on the inside is 10 feet wide and 10 feet high, affording nil Progress of India" in the years 1864.5, includinfigisr cool, comfortable, and clean couches for 64 persons. i n narrative of the circumstances which during tbe the interior the wood works of artistically carved black years have affected, directly and indirectly, the eissio7 - - - - - tt e goeersom walnut, and carpeted, the seats all covered with velvet, of the people of India and the efficiency of its. , " • cabinet organ in the centre of the car, fragrant bou. The operas advertised for the current wool: quets suspended from the roof, lighted by night from six Covent-garden (the last of the season) are Cricia sg o . large lamps, and by day through damask-curtained win- Comare, with two acts of II Troratore (to - nilr bt); ,,,„" down ;it certainly has more the appearance of an elegantly Diem& (to-morrow night) ; acts from L'Etde boo" 7„ furnished parlour than the interior of a railroad car." The Perot e Margherira, and Criepien , " tor the cies° proprietors of this line of sleeping can are now building Md ll e. Adelina Patti , who is to play the principa l 20 more of them, at a cost of 20,000 dole. each. in each (Wednesday) ; Bateiere di Siriplio (Tber'n Bourusew OPINION —The Richmond Whig thus and Le Nom di Figaro of Mozart (first time—Mil": speaks of the observance of the Fourth :—" The country, Saturday). According to custom, Mr. Gye annoms" the Fourth of July, and everything else, are given up to " ex t ra nights." the negroes. We are truly • progressive people, but our progress is en joy ? ruin. Who values what the gorilla and the ape equally When bogs are decorated with Th T sa his tre D w c:t ek aio l tu re nn a i " , wftrohMmdt. namt.h4eertitits*._ laces, and oxen with ribanda. decent people will find other the first time, as Donna larks, and Mau& embellishments for themselves. BO when negroes seim B ett i e ', gm time , es &ewe (to.night) ; Ifrjr , e4 a. upon the Fourth of July, take possemion of our public, R o b er , k Diable squares, and of our streets, flaunting t o wearing swords, d the and marching to music, it is time for us to give up them nay ) Der r reirmkOr ( Th urs da y ) ; and (morning performance) on Friday. aste an . W l ekei ' l . Bristow the Lane . Steven borne and Intern Be we, for tl d Mr. She (Meld, az The erg= Only to-day t, The Vice. 'Before the 111111.4 BRIDGE —TSB HU CONYICTII This wee , .0n f eo t Jo n a 1 Sesigned ft Maim was Mated to be Mr. Lloy( Mr. Hawkb I. Corporatioz Mr. Bah paa:lee Mt grante monition two y not la t price ere 15,3241 u net Mr. Lloyi lie profits lime Gould wo years' I Mr. Ruin mined at The ease ut it suddi Counsel was agreed premises, au by the rem( Verdict I Jaws J fellow, wiu of some va the rsilwa: The prof yeller for City-road. $o enter friere•bridi arm, ►y some Immediate low runnil out ' atm one of the them. St The mu fore the p Witneo When he was on Bnwy,ll him, tune railway, I Witness T struggle c and said I hooka fro' came up The lei prisoner showed h picked up The ma r a anted b that be a The pri bery. H (Laughte Cusped future • notorious The mu JoM showed t girl la r The r conoeival in the pa City of I employe( of berm dmilar rest hel COMpftrti three c children 9 u'olool the barn "ant to to wit— limaslf" whal comolaix Burs t ., emloe found y fa it, sad Priamer vela 1 7 ra mmed Poe, am Rs was Yr. 15 Wage al arzeiln ! the fi a t I that dation It wa, nifty i n 11 00• T ap rasa? t a "las( 01 now au bard Nit LAND 11A1 NNIS BAIL Disruse. The bill 111 otlon or th Vrfete Railway Great Nr • way Con the known as entered don to R e east emir the al of the 1 go throe 'on of e core • ed in a to be up hat there el agreeme ent was ac wnersof snu • Hitohin I tland, ani • • ed since aired to odor these on to rostra 'riding the 8 agreetno I , o laintiff of s nd. The learing-hou ttmounts to I ' Sir Round , for and 11 f' if,. eittu, bu.h4:, S sa wl lie g ". I