The Express. — London, England, 1867-09-16 00:00:00

COVENT GARDEN PROMENADE CONCERTS, CoVENT OARD }: N THEATRE. Under the sole direction of Mr. JOHN RUSSELL limit of 100 performers FIRST APPEARANCE of Madame J VITT TREFFZ. The Programme this Evening will include Grand Orchestral Selection from DER FREVSCII UTZ. A Selection of Classical Musk. New Quadrille PotiPourri : Nachfelter Conned's Meditation : Stenniale bennett's Overture, The Naladm, Re. Soofta by Madame Jetty Treffa and Mr. Wilford Noreen. Solos by Mr. J. M. Webb, Mr. Lazarus, Herr A. Vas BMus rte. Conductors—Signor itorrtmxi: and for the Dunce Musk, Herr JuillAN N SlR.ll'sS. Wednesday nest, Sept. IS :for the first time in Englanik, an Orchestral and Choral raise by Johann Strauss, entitled ON THE BEAUTIFUL DANUBE, fur hill Orchestra and Chorus of Male Voices. Thursday nett, Sept. 19, a SPOHR night. The Power of Sound Symphony, Overture to JOI•ollth. cc. Commence at tight. Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre, One Shilling. PARIS FAHTRTTION FIRST-CLAUS SILVER MEDAL, 1567. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy weight, at realisable value, and the workmanship at wholesale manufacturers' prima The gold in the c LAW gear sauteed, and repurchased at the price charged. " Here's the note, How much your chain weighs to the uproot carat, The fineness of the gold, and charge for fashion." BRILLISPLARIL Manufactory, 16, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. London. B ROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIET. To obtain extra profit by the mkt other kinds are sometimes °Eared Instead of ititOWN and POL.9OW& " John brown," "John Poison," Is signed by the makers on mach packet. the OnneefSo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Idveriteements Intended for " The Express," London Evening =a must be at the Moe. 10, Bourerientreet, by Two on the day of publication. DRURY LANI. Oa SAITIDAY, SEPT. 21. FAUST. Mr. Phelps, Mears. F. Phelps, Harcourt, Warner, Webb, Temple. Ace.; Meedamee Herman Vella, Yaretenhoff, &c.—And THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Beene. Ryder and E. Phelps: Ills. Edith Stuart. HAYS' ARK ET. Tine NeWrite. ROMFA.I AND JULIET. Memo Chippendale. Howe, &Were Kendal, nark, Weatheribi, do.: lie. fame. goat& Siddone, Wet o.leman, dc.—TO PARIS AND RACK NOR 45. Mr. Beekstone.—And PKAFECTION, Mae Burke. PAINCEIFIL Tarn Reiman, POOR PILLICODDY. Mean. Dominick Murray k Greeks= : Mins Polly Marsha/I. —And TR R F.TREETS OY UINDII9. Mr. Vining, Mews. M•Leaa, D. Murray, ; Madames danger, Barnett, and Addle. LYCM THIS EVINIIM, THE MIST RESS OF THE MILL—THE LADY OF LYONS. Mr. Feebter, Messrs. Jordan, Addison, (Wham, Mellon. Dalton, Stuart, and Frances; Mlases Eli warily and Carlotta l&cleres, Mrs. Marston. BRITANNIA. Tits iyinttso. THE YORANT OX BONDY. Mr. W. C'rau feed.-1111. Conteßier and Mike, the French ()mauls. The Amerlean Minstrels and Japanese Tommy.—With THE GRAY LADY E. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. I MAT —Months& 3h. 21m.. —Afternoon, 3b. 37m. to-blotaoly—ltoraing, 36 65m.._...lttarnoce, 4h. 11m. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. Asxmus times appear to be impending over the financial world of Paris. The difficulties of the great society of the Credit Mobilier, long whis pered among well-informed commercial men, have at length come to a climax. The MINISTKR of FINANCS has, it is likewise said, been taking coun sel with eminent mercantile authorities how to re move the present depression in trade. Their opi nion might easily be guessed. As long as there was a dread of war it was impossible to expect any approach to renewed activity in commerce. The problem to be solved was how to get rid of this chronic apprehension, and at present little or nothing has been done. We have not got beyond the stage of vague assurances, in words which con trast strongly with the military preparations con stantly in progress. The harvest also has proved deficient, and the price of bread is rising —a matter of serious import. Lastly, the subscribers to cer tain foreign loans introduced under Imperial pa tronage are naturally uneasy at not getting their dividends. The Mexican bondholders have made more than ono remonstrance, and the Tunisian have gone so far as to bring a formal action against the Bey of TUNIS in a French court of law. The suit was, of course, decided against the claimants, the tribunal having no jurisdiction over a foreign ruler ; but it may, perhaps, have the intended effect of inducing the French Government to inter fere more actively in their behalf. Altogether the aspect of affairs is by no means promising. The most important point to be considered is the position of the Credit Mobilier. This famous society is an especial type of Imperial finance. Founded soon after the establishment of the Empire, it long enjoyed the marked favour of the Government, which, however, of late years has been in some degree withdrawn. Like all institutions which combine both novelty and success it has had several imitators, and been exposed to the attacks of many enemies. There have existed, no doubt, many weak points in the management. It has been especially open to the charge of fostering undue speculation, and of caring less for the inherent soundness of new enterprises than for the probability of their being quoted at a high premium on theßourse. Stock-job bing operations in general, for the rise or the fall in the Rentes and other public securities, are alleged, with more or less truth, to have been largely undertaken. Again, the company has been, as a rule, too subservient to the Government. Indeed, its present difficulties are attributed to the large advances to the Compagnie Immobiliere, for the reconstruction of Paris after the fashion pre scribed by the Imperial authorities. On the other hand, it cannot be denied that the Credit Mobilier has been the prime agent in awakening the spirit of commercial enterprise which forms the chief characteristic of modern France. Twenty or five-and-twenty years ago the great French railways were constructed by English capital, and in a great degree by English labour. Their roll ing stock was made here ; even their engine drivers were drawn from this country. A signifi cant change has taken place since that period. French industrial works are carried out now by French capital. It would be as great an anomaly to solicit subscriptions for a new railway in France on the London market as to offer a similar project in England to the capitalists of Paris. More than that, many other continental countries have been taught to regard Paris as their financial and commercial centre. The chief credit for this social revolution is due to the Credit Mobilier. Not content with restricting their undertakings to their own country, the directors of the great com pany have established numbers of railways, public works, affiliated banking and financial institutions, and the like, in Spain, Italy, Belgium, and even Germany. The example once set was speedily followed. Frenchmen, though timid, like nearly all foreign capitalists, in monetary affairs, were acute enough to perceive the advantages to be gained by the exercise of a little boldness. The consequence has been a development of industrial and commercial activity in France which few would have been prepared for in the days cf the old regime. Already our neighbours not only compete with us successfully in many parts of the world, but in some have even gained the advan tage. It is no easy matter to break through old prejudices, especially in business, where precedent is perhaps more strictly followed than in any other affairs of life. When this object has been at tained, the result has usually followed of exces sive caution giving way to excessive confidence. The Credit Mobilier has apparently fallen into this error. A long career of almost =chequered success has suddenly been brought to a stop. Unprepared for disaster, the only resource has been an appeal for help to the Bank of France. The advance asked for was very large —three millions sterling, it is reported—but one important point should not be overlooked, viz., that the directors, who comprise some of the ablest and wealthiest capitalists of France, have sufficient confidence in the ultimate career of the concern to offer their individual guarantee for half the amount. There are very strong grounds in favour of granting this assist ance. In a public sense the liquidation of the Credit Mobilier can hardly fail to be a serious misfortune to the nation. Considering the wide ramifications of its business, and the lead it has taken in all kinds of enterprise, the injury done must be incalculable. Trade is sufficiently dull now, and the MINISTER of FINANCE might spare himself the trouble of consulting experienced au thorities on the revival of commerce, since, in the face of this calamity, their advice could be of no particular good. As regards the Bank of France the proposed loan seems both simple and profita ble. According to the last return, the specie in band was 38,810,0001., and it was steadily increas ing week by week. The rate of discount in the open market is so far below the charge at the Bank of France that the discount business of the latter establishment diminishes daily. No better employment for these superabundant resources could be found than in aiding with perfect se curity the greatest financial establishment of the country at a period of unexpected pressure. If we concede that the Credit Mobilier has, in the true Imperialist vein, striven to do too much, at least it has effected many benefits, and the result of a collapse means simply that a series of further joint stock company failures will take place, and that trade and industry will be even more para lysed than they aro at present. The good and the bad must be accepted together. The difficulties arising out of the bad harvest admit of no easy solution. The Government may stifle discontent in the cities by buying corn at high rates abroad, and selling cheap at home, but this would not be to the taste of the rural classes, who would lose the compensating advan tage of a high price for an inferior yield. Neither would it be fair to the rest of the community, although that point has probably been little con sidered. Reference has already been made to the little likelihood of a revival of trade. Without peace an extension of commerce is impossible, and no calculating man of business can believe in peace when he sees his own and foreign nations arming to the teeth. Protestations weigh little against acts. In other parts of the Continent commercial affairs are quiet, perhaps too quiet. The never ending fear of war contributes there to atop in dustry equally as in France and England. Money is consequently in little demand, and at Ham burg, Frankfort., Amsterdam, Berlin, and Vienna the rates range from only 11 to 4 per cent. Everywhere the same uneasy feeling appears to prevail that some unexpected outbreak may occur at any moment. Under these circumstances trade must inevitably languish. There is no emp`oy ment for money, comparatively few pumhases goods, and manufacturers are content to work only to supply daily wants. Political complications are no doubt the primary reason of this stagna tion, although the position of financial affairs in FrAnce may cause some slight additional appre hension. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1867. CHURCH AMPLIRR. Apart from anything which it may accomplish, the Conference at Lambeth Palace will be remarkable, the Daily News observes, if only for its composition. No account is made of the civil and legal status of the bishops, and many are, in fact, as much officers of voluntary bodies as the president ofd the Wealeyan Conference. Examining their programme for this change in the usage of the church, we find, despite the sorrow expressed at the divisions of the church, there is no word of sympathy in any of the resolutions which can be taken to refer unequivocally to non-episcopal churches. It is rather in a vast extension of episcopal authority that the means of attaining their object appears to them to be. For the rest, it is sufficiently clear that the managers of this conference contemplate the in troduction of a more stringent system of government by bishops than any which Englishmen have borne for gene rations. It remains to be seen whether the episcopal polity can bear the very great strain which it is thus proposed to put upon it. Commenting upon the circumstances which have led to the cloning of the archiepiscopal library at Lem betb, the Times censures the conduct of the Arch bishop of Canterbury. One fustification of the large income of 15,0001. a year was originally found in the fact that Lambeth,with its library and its historical associations, would be kept up. But, one after another, the later archbishops have attempted to relieve themselves of all the incidental burdens of the office, and to the present arch bishop, the Times believes, in personally due the transfer from himself and his secession to the Ecclesiastical Com mission of the burden of maintaining the towers of Lam beth. The commissioners, being charged to draw up a scheme for the maintenance of the library if they shall so think fit, have very properly taken time to consider what should be done. Meanwhile the Times suggests that the library be taken from Lambeth altogether, and be tram ferret' bodily to the British Museum, where the books would be consulted ten times as often as at present. It is true that the next step might be to find a cheaper site for the archbishop's own residence ; and thus it might happen that, though the economy of the archbishop would be temporarily successful, it would bring upon the polity of which the archbishops are the chief officers irreverent treatment from irreverent men. I 8 TOPICS. The Time: again refers to the Genevan Congress and the various theories which the orators propounded. Nothing but a world-wide war suggested itself as a certain means to prevent war. Just one good, thorough, wholesale slaughter of everybody who might happen to be obnoxious to anybody else, and then the Millenium would set in. The assembly was like an orchestra in which every man was tuning hie own instrument, attending to it alone, and making himself as deaf as possible to the jarring din ►round. It was a melancholy and ignoble charirari, and enough to make the very name of "peace" a byword among men. The Herald says that peace may have been promoted by the congress, but it will be only by the exposure of the extremely martial proclivities of those who took part in it. The Standard assures us that the authorities in India and at home have gathered masses of information relative to Abyssinia from the most trustworthy sources, are in possession of reliable itineraries and maps,thave schemed their commissariat and carriage arrangements under com- petent advice, and have not taken a single step in the dark. They have tried all in the interests of peace, and if it must come to the arbitrament of war, they will bear in mind the counsel of one great soldier to another, frappet site et f►appe_ fort. The Tdettrayli finds it impossible to say whether the failure or the success of Garibaldi's proposed invasion of the Papal Staten would be most dangerous to Italy. If Garabildi should succeed, a crusade undertaken, in his own words, " for the destruction of Popery, the most perni cious of sects," would probably lead to the interference of catholic Europe in the affairs of the Peninsula, and would certainly create a most bitter and unhappy dissension in Italy itself. If Garibaldi should fail, the result would simply be to give the Papacy a new lease of life. The formal approval given by the British Aasociation to the desire that the storm signals of the Board of Trade should be again transmitted to our ports, and exhibited for the information of mariners, will compel the wholo subject, the Daily Newt says, to be now reoonsidwed. It will not do to deny to our seamen and shipowners informs- Yon which, as practical men, they say they have found of value for the saving of life and property, merely because sonic very learned persona in London say that such infor mation cannot yet be given with absolute a amity. Ana it is quite useless to prove to practical men that the infor- mation is unreliable, when they retort will ithe answer that they have found it valuable. fht Court. BALMORAL, SEPT. 13. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, went out yesterday morning, and in the afternoon drove out with Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill. Mr. and Lady Frances Baillie had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family. Seri. 14. The Queen and Royal Family went out as usual yes terday. Prince Christian went deer stalking. The Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy arrived at the Castle yesterday, as the minister in attendance on her Majesty. Mr. Hardy had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal Family. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governor-General of Canada, and from the Governors of the West India Islands. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the North American provinces. His Excellency Marechal Duo de Saldanha and the Drichease de Saldanha have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. Viscount and Viscountess Halifax have been entertaining a select party during the past week for the Doncaster race meeting. Among the friends staying at Hickleton Hall have been the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, the Earl of Durham, Sir John J. V. and Ledy Johnstone, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Meynell Ingram, Miss Grey, &c. Prince Teck and the Princess Mary Adelaide (Princess Teck) are expected to leave Kensington Palace in a few days for the Continent. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle entertained the following company, at Clumber Park, Worksop, during the Doncaster races :—Maris, Marchioness of Aibssbury, the Merel•ioness of Hastings, Viscount Andover, M.P., Lord Courtensy, M.P., Lady Susan Vane Tempest,Colonel Ouseley Hi•.gins, Major Stackpole, Captain Bastard, Cap tain Hawbaley, Captain Brabazon, Miss Henesge, Mr. Fleming, kc. A magnificent military trophy in silver, consist ing of a testimonial cup and plateau, or centre piece, has just been completed for her Majesty's 48th Regiment, at Aldershot. The plateau on which the superstructura stands represents bastions, curtains, and lines of fortifica tion generally, and is inscribed with the names of the great battles ta which the 48th took part—Toulouse, Douro, Talavera, Albuhera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Orthes, Pyrenees, Nivello, Sebastopol, dm. A serious accident happened to Major Holland, Musketry Instructor to the Portsmouth Division of Royal Marines, on Friday morning. On returning, on horse back, from duty at Browndown, the major's horse shjed at something in crossing thuilar-bridge, and the gallant officer was thrown violently against a wall, sustaining very serious injuries to the head, side, and one arm ; but, ac cording to the latest accounts, he was going on favourably. Lord Redeadale now writes to the Times:— "My first letter to you was written in reply to that of Mr. Baxter charging me with baying made an unfounded attack on the Great Eastern directors in parliament. I have continued it with Mr. Smiley because I know no other course so likely to open the eyes of the shareholders to the ways in which their concerns are too often managed. I have called wrong acts by their right names because it has become too common to treat such acts in railway con cerns as pardonable, and if I had used milder terms I might, under the circumstances, be held also to condone them. Those who have read this -orrespondence will judge how far they are deserved." Mr. Agar-Ellis, M.P. (an "Adullamite"), writes to the Times on the subject of the Irish church.. His remedy is to make the tithe rent charge throughout the country payable to the state, and then to let the state pay the church ; he would also pay the clergy of the Roman catholic church. He takes up his pen with fear that the present government may cajole a sufficient number of mem bers of parliament next session to enable them to abolish the establishment altogether, which he would deprecate as certain to end in the foundation of a self-supporting, un compromisingly-sectarian, and proselytizing institution, backed up by a large portion of the wealth of the country. Mr. Grove publishes a report, which he has just received from Lieutenant Warren, R.E., whole conducting the explorations in Jerusalem for the Palestine Explora tion Fund. At the Dead Sea he found with some diffi culty the Ordnance Survey Bench Mark, wbieh is in good preservation, but is covered up. The level of the sea is within a foot of what it was when Captain Wilson levelled there, but during the spring months it must have been 51t. Gin. higher. Lieutenant Warren has surveyed on the other side of Jordan about 400 square miles, which, with 600 to S.W. of Jerusalem, and 250 in Jordan Valley, will make in all 1,250 square miles. _ _ The Rev. F. C. Cook, who undertook the duties of general editor of what u called " The Speaker's Com mentary on the Bible," states that the delay in the pub lication has been caused by the illness of some contributors, and by the advancement of others to positions involving duties which made it impossible for them to corn plate their several portions within the time originally contemplated. This remark applies especially to the Pentateuch. The object is to present the most im portant results bearing upon the interpretation of Holy Scripture which have been up to the present time elicited by discussions and inquiry whether in England or on the Continent. "The work is, however, sufficiently advanced," writes Mr. Cook, " for me to be able to state that it will also comprise no small amount of independent research." There is a gentleman at St. Hehers, Jersey, who, with the merest protection of glass, and without the aid of fire, sends large quantities of good grapes to the London market at this time of the year, and is reported to make a very large Income from this source, an acre or an acre onl a half of ground being entirely covered with glass, and devoted exclusively to grape-growing, the market for this produce being principally London. It is contended that grapes could be grown with equal com. mertial advantage in the neighbourhood of London—say from 10 to 20 miles from the metropolis. A young [man, who gave his name as Thomas Doyle, surrendered himself at Dublin on Saturday, and stated that it was he who shot Police-constable O'Neill, in Charles-street, last year. He said that he was under the influence of drink at the time, and did not know what he was doing. The crime bad weighed heavily on his mind ever since, and he could no longer bear it without giving himself up. He was remanded until Friday next. He also accused himself as the murderer of George Clarke, who was shot en the banks of the canal last year. The inquest on Mrs. Knowles was held at Dublin on Saturday evening, and a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned, with an expression of opinion that the wreck could not have happened if Skullmartin Hock had been properly lighted. The other bailies have not been found. General Hussein, the Turkish Secretary of War, arrived at Toronto on the 29th of August, and, with his suite, will make a visit of about three weeks in the British provinces, after which they intend making an extended tour through the United States. The New York Board of Officers for the exami nation of breech-loading small arms announoe that they will begin their final session on September 17, to continue Ave days, after which they will report upon the merits of 1 1 the various breeeh-loeders submitted, and seloot the one thought best for the use of the New York State troops. Now that the telegraph is extended to Cuba it will not be long, it is expected, thought it will reach the Isthmus of Panama, by which the Old World will be wPhin two days of Central America, Lima within seven, Valparaiso within 15, and New Zealand within 27 days. The San Yrancisco Voters' Register now contains the names of 3,579 naturalised Irishmen, 2,056 Germans and Swim, 770 Engli.h and Scotch, 170 Scandinavian" and Danes, 152 British American colonists, 136 Rumians and Poles, 28 Australians, 21 Italian', 17 Dutch, 17 Spanish Americans, 14 Portuguese, 11 Belgians, 10 West Indians, 7 Hungarians, 6 East Indian", 3 Greek', SI Sandwich Islanders, 2 Chinese, and I Mexican. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (iturn's na.r.oluts.) FRANCE. NANTES, Barr. 15. The unveiling of the statue of M. Billault took place to-day. The ceremony was of a very brilliant character. M. Rouher, the Minister of State, arrived at 2.30 p.m., and was recei lid with great applause. The first speech was delivered 'by the Deputy Mayor. He was followed by M. Rouher, who traced in appropriate terms the career of M. Billault. The ceremony terminated at half-past 3. This evening a banquet is to take place in the theatre, and there will be a display of fireworks. ITALY. MILAN, 3'1.1%15. To-day the King opened in person the new Victor Emmanuel Gallery. A large crowd was present, and the King was loudly cheered. Hia .Majesty has now left for Turin. MALTA. VALETTA, szrr The Commissariat officers for Tyre, Trebizond, and Alexandria left for the latter poi;, on the 10th in the steamtug Prompt. The Hydra, surveying steamer, leaves for Bom bay this evening to sovrid up to Aden for laying the Anglo-Indian cable. The 14th Regiment, after losing nine men in eight days from cholera, was removed yesterday to Gozo. The Bth Regiment has been placed under tents at Floriana. The fever was subsiding. One or two cases only of cholera occur daily among the civil population. Foul bills of health continue to be issued. The Malta victualling yard has orders to forward to Bastia 600 tons or 60 days provisions for the entire squadron under Admiral Paget, who, owing to tho quarantine, contemplates wintering away from Malta. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. MON OIIN OWN PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. The Libert4 gives a description of the Emperor Theodorus, his kingdom, and his army far leas discouraging for the British expedition (which by the way it thinks most just and necessary) than that of Count du Biaaon. The Abyssinians, or the Amhara as they call themselves (for the Abyssinian word Habechi is Arab) are very well preserved specimens of the pure Abyssinian race. They have nothing of the negro about them, but at the same time very little of the white. Branches of the race extend to Nubia in the north, and to the south as far as the Indian Ocean, in cluding the Somalia country. The Nubian do meatics called in Egypt barabrah are closely allied with the Abyssinians. The nomade and warlike tribes which are established or wander about between the Nubian Nile and the first ranges of the Abyssinian and Red Sea mountains (Bichari and Chaghie) are themselves Abyminiane, slightly crossed with the Arab race. The Galls, or Mussul men, in the plains south of Abyssinia, are pure Abyssinians, converted to Islamism. The Emperor Theodorus, or Tedros, as pronounced by his ene mies the Bichari, though in his youth enamoured of the theory of grand agglomerations, has only endeavoured to unite under his sceptre the Amhara Christians of the European rite. The English will only have to fight the Christians on the high plateaux, and will find useful auxiliaries in numerous Mahometan tribes, all enemies of the Amhara of the mountains. Even the latter are not very warm partisans of Tedros, who, though he has fabricated a genealogy making himself descended from David and Solomon, is a man of low origin. Ho never had a regular army, only chance adventurers, attracted by the hope of a razzia. It is the opinion of the Libert4 that the Sikhs and a couple of European regiments would give a good account of the King of Kings, Tedros, in a very short time. The Journal du Havre says that the number of Mexicans shot in cold blood pursuant to Maxi milian's decree of sth October, 1865, is, according to the Mexican papers, 9,244, but still, enormous as tkis figure must seem, it is believed to be below the truth. The Paris papers are now giving much attention to a confidential circular of Marshal Bazaine (published by the Liberti as a novelty, but which I am pretty sure I have read before), dated Oct. 11, 1866, and desiring all French officers, in pursuance of Maximilian's decree (which it is known the marshal prompted) to give no quarter and to refuse all exchanges of prisoners. The French marshal said savagely he would not hear of any prisoners being made. Every man found with arms in his hand was to be put to death. French officers were to understand that it was a war of civilization against barbarism, and that all they had to do was to kill or be killed. There has long been a growing feeling in France against Marshal Bazaine's conduct in Mexico, and the prominence now given to this despatch of his, which is certainly authentic, will increase it. His strange notions of civilisation anger Frenchmen, who are not unjustly proud of their civilisation in warfare. If M. Rouher branded Juarez as an assassin for ex ecuting Maximilian, who issued the decree which was so ferociously acted upon, what shall be said of the marshal of France who, not content with reprisals for particular acts, ordered that " all" Mexican soldiers taken were to be shot 1 M. de Keratry, who has undertaken the defence of Mar shal Bazaine in the Revue Cuntemporaine, will find it difficult to deal with this circular. The Pays' defence of Marshal Razaine's horrible circular is that, as it was " confidential" [addressed to all the officers of the French army in Mexico, for their guidance], it could only have been made public by a breach of confidenoe. The Pays' great anxiety is that, for the honour of the French army, M. de Girardin should inform against his military informant ; and it concludes with this fine senti ment :—" The best way to testify our gratitude to those who hold the sword of France is to show our selves jealous of their honour." The Patric says the letter lately published in some English papers by Mr. Hugh Scott, secretary of the Religious Association of English and Ameri can Protestants, incorrectly represents that the Prefect of the Seine had granted a piece of ground for the building of a new protestant church. The ground alluded in the Avenue Rapp was only let to the association for the period of the Exhibition, and must be given up in November. The theatrical journals state that the Marquis of Hertford, on whose property stands the little theatre the Fantaisies Parisiennes, is about to pull it down, and build a larger house with a facade on the Boulevards. The Pays, in repeating this an nouncement, is at the pains to inform its readers that the Marquis of Hertford's name is spelt Her fort, and not Hartfort. Try again, Monsieur Pays! THE POET LAUREATE. —Mr. Alfred Tennyson, post laureate, is on a tour through North Devon. THE GENEVAN CONGRESS. It appears not to have been true, u reported by telegraph both to Paris and London, that the Peace Con gress of Geneva wss broken up by any act of violence. There were great dissensions between the Swiss and French members, and the whole thing turned out a muddle, but the room was not " cleared." According to the letters of numerous French correspondents the greatest suooess of the congress (not even excepting the speech of M. Simon, of Troves) was obtained by a lady, Madame Steyr, whose literary name is Fanny Lewald. The following ingenious set of articles read on her behalf by • M. Vogt were greeted with applause " and approving laughter :" " 1. To decide a difference by fisticuffs or the stick is by common consent an unworthy and ignoble proceeding. "2. That which is unworthy and ignoble for one man must be unworthy and ignoble for a hundred, • thousand, ten thousand, or a hundred thousand. "3. If it be admitted that it is unworthy and ignoble to decide one's own quarrels by pugilism, it must be worse to fight under the orders of • third party and for his benefit, and to kill men who never did you any har.n. "4. Two men who fight in the street are blamed by all reasonable and civilised people, and it never, occurs to any body to glorify the conqueror. " 5. Why should we glorify the conqueror in a combat fought by hundreds of thousands of men for an object which, if attained, is scarcely ever of any advantage to them ? "C. When two men come to blows in the street, it never comes into their head to invoke the aid of the Deity or to suppose that God takes a special interest in the issue of their fight. The same may be said of a fight of ten men on a side. "7. If two men who fight dared to talk of the God of pugilists, and call on him to help them in their unreason able and disgraceful scuffle they would justly be set down as fools and blasphemers. " 8. And in like manner 10 or 20 men who should fight in the streets and appeal to the God of pugilism, would be called fools and blasphemers. "9. What then is the exact number of combatants re quisite to justify the invocation to take a side in the fight of that God whom you call the God of love ? " 10. Do you really believe that the number and quan tity can make any impression upon God—upon a being whose essence is infinite? Do you not therefore think that to talk of a God of battles is just as blasphemous as to talk of a God of pugilists ?" The Peace Congress Committee, in their farewell address, declare the principles which they assembled to proclaim to be these :—Democracy ; political, economical, and philoso- phical liberty ; the abolition of standing armies ; and sympathy with oppressed nationalities. They also publish a final resolution, declaring that the great government* of Europe have proved themselves incapable of preserving peace and developing the moral and material forms of modern society ; they, therefore, found a cosmopolitan federation with a permanent central committee at Berne, and they will publish a Franco-German journal, called The United Stater of Europe, at Bale. The next Congress will be held at Mannheim. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The chaplain to Bishop Gobat explains the cir cumstances under which the German artisans now in Abyssinia first visited the country. It appears that several years ago the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem received a communication from Theodore, whom he knew as a boy when he lived in Abyssinia, informing him of his succes sion to the throne and of his desire to improve the condition of his country and people by instructing them in vations handicrafts, and asking the bishop to supply bim with workmen for this purpose. The bishop con sented on the condition that the men be sent should be allowed to distribute the Scriptures, and, as oppor tunity occurred, instruct the people. This was accepted, and six men trained in the Missionary College at Crischona were cent, Mr. Fled being one of them. These men have been now in the country seven or eight years, and have always been, and still are, in high favour with the King. One of them only is • gutunaker, and the others are em ployed in other ways, carpentering, engineering, road makMg. Ike. It is to these men that the captives, as Mr. Siren has acknowledged, owe much of the allevistion of emir sufferings, and, in one instance, their lives. They have made use of their favourable position with the King by several efforts to induce him to liberate the captives, but without avaiL It is evidently to the interest of our unfor tunate fellow-countrymen that these men should not, by refusal to act under Theodore's commands, forfeit his favour. Bishop Gobat has been summoned to the India office and coctributed some little information regarding Abyssinia, where he was resident upwards of five years. Mr. Percival, who had • commercial depot on the island of Massowa in 1858, 1859, and 1860, and who states that he made himself thoroughly acquainted with the different routes from the shores of the Rod Sea to the interior of Abyssinia, gives • striking account of the difficulties the expedition would encounter did it proceed further towards Magdala than the plains of Cootoofalassee. In some parts of the Abyssinian woods, he says, he could after the rains destroy a whole army with • box of matches. He fear' it will be too late to march to the interior when all the preparations now on hand are completed. The smaller the army the more certain we are of being success ful ; the scarcity of pros . ..dons and water being more diffi cult to contend against than the sharpshooters of Theo dore. Mr. Percival strongly urvs an alliance with the Tigreans and other tribes now willing to join and aid us. WRECKS ON THE IRISH COAST.-OALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVICE& ARKLOW, Barr. 12. We were visited yesterday (says Dr. Halpin), with one of the fiercest gales for its duration, that bas ever been experienced on this coast. About 9 o'clock in the evening the services of the Arundel Venables lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution on this station were called into requisition. The smack Kate and Mary, of this port, was riding at anchor in the bay, where a rely heavy sea was running. She bad but one boy on board as the rest of the crew were ashore. The lifeboat proceeded out but she had only got a shoi t distance outaide the pier head when she was regularly filled, took stem away, and got broadside on the north pier beat The men stood by the boat greatly stunned; at this juncture Captain Edward Kearon jumped off the pier into the boat and by his judicious and elvveling advice the boat got clear and a secoud time attempted to get through the broken water, but was again driven back and would have been forced against the pier had not a cross sea took her and canted her away. With Captain Kearon's persuasion the men made a third gallant trial, and this time succeeded in getting through the surf and in reaching the smack, when one of the lifeboat men was placed on board, and the boat in returning was beached. as it was not considered safe to run between the pier heads. Subsequently the smack's anchor was slipped, and she got out of the roadstead. The lifeboat behaved admirably, and I must also add my testimony to the gallantry and perseverance of the crew of the boat. HOWTH, DUBLIN BAY, SEPT. 12. During a strong gale with heavy sea this morning (re ports Staff-Commander H. D. Burney, R.N.), a schooner was seen making for the harbour in a disabled state with her mainsail blown to pieces. The Howth lifeboat belong. ing to the National Lifeboat Institution was at once launched to her assistance. The vessel had by this time anchored near the ltaldoyle Sands, but drifted. The life boat took off the captain, and also brought the schooner safely into Howth Harbour, and moored her alongside the West I'ier. The crew of the lifeboat deserve groat praise for the gallant manner in which they boarded the vessel, and saved her at the very great risk of their lives. She was the schooner Splendid, of Dublin, bound from Liverpool to that port with a cargo of coal'. The Lirerpoo/ Albion hears that Mrs. Forbes Yelverton has recently inherited a considerable fortune, and is living with her husband on an estate in the south of France, which she has purchased. The venerable Auber, ten years older than Rossini, has a new opera in rehearsal, which, he says, will be hie last. It is to be called Un Jour de &adorer. A young artiste, hitherto only heard at concerts, Madame Cremieux, will be entrusted with the prima donna's part. Auber, who, according to an inscription on the fa , :aele of the new opera, was born in 1782, and is consequently 85 yeah old, gets up at 5 in the morning to work at his com position ; and every afternoon be may be seen holding the ribbons behind a pair of particularly high spirited horses, bowling along at the rate of 12 miles an hour in the Bois de Boulogne. FOOLHARDTWESB is THE ZOOLOOTCAL GAREN& On the afternoon of Friday hat an accident °mired in the Zoological Gardens, which would have proved most serious except for the vigilant and energetic interference of one of the keepers named Cocksedge. A foolhardy man, about 50 years of age, who seemed fresh from the sea, went under the iron guard is front of the bear-pit, adjoining the dens of the lions and tigers, and began teasing a brown bear. The result was thatßruin caught the right arm of the man in his jaws, after having Arst taken a piece out of the shoulder of is coat, and was beginning to operate with his teeth. when a my warn raised, and Cocksedge immediately ran to the spot, and by vigorously jobbing the animal's jaws with a stick, caused it to release its foolish victim. Had the keeper not been at bend, the incautious fellow, who seemed to be in liquor, might have lost his arm ; but he =lunged to escape with comparatively little punishment beyond the damage to his coat. ______---. THE FATAL COLLISION ON THE THAMES. ADJOURNED I:IITQURST.—(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. Humphreys, coroner for th e eastern division of the county of Middlesex, resumed sik inquiry into the ciroumstances attending the death If Richard Barry, a sergeant in the metropolitan polite, sots was one of the four persona who lost their lives by to collision which took place on the Themes on Friday ws t i t between the Woolwich and Waterman's Company'sstease Metis and the screw collier Wentworth. Mr. Fry, solicitor, appeared for the Woolwich UNI Waterman's Company ; and Mr. 11. T. Stokes, proctor ot the Admiralty, for the owners of the Wentworth ; Mr Charles Wilson (solicitor) for the widow of the deceased and Inspector Allison for the police. The Coroner, h►ving formally opened the proceedin gs, Mr. Stokes said that before the inquiry proceeded le thought it was his duty on bahalf of the owners of the Wentworth to state that he withdrew the imputatio i , which had been cast upon the sobriety of the captain ti theyetio at the time of the collision. Mr. Wilson said that no doubt the opinion formed by Mrs. Barry the unhappy widow of the deceased, could not, owing to the excitement under which she laboured, b e looked upon with any degree of confidence. Henry Spenoely examined-1 was captain of the Hai on Friday, the 6th of September. I have been 26 years a the acmes of the Woolwich and Waterman's Company, and have acted es master during 18 years of that peri o d. I left Gravesend on the evening of the collision at half. put 5. I only took • glass of stout between the time of rm departure and our arrival at Gallion's Reach at ten Wilma to 7. We came the usual course followed when the tide is running down—the south or Kentish shore. Th e Wentworth was opening Margaratness Point, and I me close in shore under the point. The Wentworth by • lofty forehead, and was very much above us. She mt. denly ported her helm, and came towards the south shore. She was well on my starboard bow. She was nearly in the middle of the stream. When her helm was poet her bead was brought towards my starboard aide. I Ins close to the shore, and when she ported I she hoarded my helm to get still nearer to he shore. I sang out to ease the engines, but Idleg I NM tier coming on us I ordered them to be put on spa, I did that in order to get clear of the Wentworth. fibs struck us abaft the paddle-box on the starboard side. fas hail no room between us and the shore. We were petty well on the bank when she sti uck us. After we wen struck we were about • dozen yards from the shore. Ths concussion knocked me off the bridge, and my arm wee broken in two places. I saw no one on the forecastle of the Wentworth, but I saw • man on the bridge, on the port side just as she sti ask us. Two children, ore of whom was my own daughter, were with me on the bridge • quarter of an hour before the collision. They were below when the collision occurred. Mr. Fry said he had asked the question with regard to the children because the fact of their having been with Captain Spenoely on the bridge was mentioned on a form e occasion, possibly with the N iew of showing that he Ins not attending to his duty. The witness in continuation said the Metis was 59 tons burthen, and the Wentwoo th 340. By Mr. Stokes—The Yetis is about 135 feet long. After starting we stopped at Rashes villa and Erith, not above three or four minutes at each place. On the 6th of Sep tember, the day of the incident, high water at London. bridge was at Zi minutes past 7 o'clock. I kept to the south shore because the tide was cunning down, and vs always do so in running against the tide. When first I see the Wentworth we were keeping straight up the reach, and she was then, I should say, a bo ut SOO yards f rem the Kentish shore. If both vessels were then about mid-channel, sad kept in the amuse they took, there would have beats danger of a collision. The course I was steering is what is known as cheating the tide. The Wentworth, when she opened the point, was on my port bow, and she crossed the bow at the distanoe of about 200 yards. If I had ported my helm, and gone into mid stream, instead of starboarding, we should both have met. I know there is a law regulating the meeting of steamers. The law forbids the porting of a helm when a collision is imminent. I don't believe there is any law as to how vessels on the Thames are to pass one another. lam not aware that such a law existed up to 1862. lam aware that there is a law requiring the slack. ening of speed when there is danger of • collision. When I first saw the Wentworth port her helm she was abut 90 or 190 yards from us. She must not of necessity have ported her helm to have got round the point. [The inquiry was proceeding when our report left] WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) MONDAY. BIPTIMBIR 16. 8 LIS. 30.1160Ne1m Aberdeen 30.1319 N.N.W. Leith 30.1764 N. Ardrossan 10.2666 N. (...veneaatle 414.111 55 N.N.W. Valeatla 30.41 60 N.E. Itoche's Point 30 24 63 N. W. Liverpool 30. M 56 N.W. Holyhead 30.72 65' N.W. Permmee 30.3366 N.N.Z. Breit 30.73 67 21. Lotion/ lochodurL 30.1066 N.E. Plymouth Weymouth 30.7866 N.W. Peemenosth 30.1666 N. London Yarmouth 30.0663 N.N.W. Pcsrborough 30.1063 N.N.W. shields 30.1666 N.W. Helder — Istrwas. 11. ELI W. Ito is 7. D. 1. 4'x.W. ore 0.1 1 6 , B.r. W. be 0. 4 B. W. 0 0.014 5 ICS. W. b 6 • N.Y.W. re at - b a 6 W. b 4 &W. a 'll 6 6 B.W. 0 0. - N.N.W. Ca O. 6 _S.W. cd I SAW 4 I ; 1 N.W. eb b B.W. rb ;0.17 6 W. rcb 0.14 • W.O.W. 0.10 1 • :LW obc 0.03 - 6 B.S.W. b • 8 cb 0.363 • N.W. cb REMARKS. The barometrical pressure 1; generally high : since Saturday the highest pressure has shifted to the west —being anal ln. st Valenta, sad the lowest presmx Is In the rut. Winds are now mostly northwesterly ami moderate temperatures are lower, and weather is floe. Hain has fallen over the British Isles dna last report Colonel the Right Hon. J. Wilson-Patten is to be entertained at a public banquet at Warrington, Oa Thursday evening, the 26th inst., in celebration of his sp pointment to the office of Chancellor of the Ducby of Len caster. It is expected that ono or two members of the Cabinet will be present on the occasion. THZ PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD.—SPECIAL SWIM ✓ats DAY.—This morning, the fifth of the special swiss in connection with the great Pan-Anglican Synod was held in the palish church of St. Lawrence, Jewry. Thera was a tole r ably large congregation, the greater portion of those present being men, and the service con. menced at the early hour of 7 o'clock. At that time the first notes of the organ were heard, and a procession entered consisting of between 30 and 40 sir pliced choristers, singing the process;orial hymn, "We kw the place, 0 Lord ;" the Re.. Morgan Cowie, 8.D., rector of St. Lawrence Jewry ; the Rev. Henry Rik" M.A., rector of St. AntholM, Watling•street ; and tln Right Rev. Dr. A. N. Bethuue, Bishop of Niagara, tht bishop coadjutor to the Bishop of Toronto. The ante-ccee minion service having been read, the bishop took his plus in front of the communion rail', and delivered a brill address. SOCIAL SCIENCE AemocearioN.—The arrange. meats for the meetiap of the Soc Lit Science Association is Belfast are now comireted, and every ling gives promise of a successful meeting. A good number of members sal associates' tickets have already been issued, and vs may remind those who have so got tickets that they are requested to send their names and se dresses in full, with the number of their tickets, to the reception-office, Museum, that they may obtain the programme of arrangements issued daily during the Congress. It would eke facilitate the arrangements 01 the secretaries if the inhabitants of the town would tab out their tickets on Monday and Tuesday, so that Wel tiesilsy may be reserved for strangers. The Rev. S. I. Steinthal, Secretary of the Economy seal Trade Berm* ment, has attired in Belfast ' • and Mr. Bodine's. tbs General Secretary, is expected to arrive on Monday, who the various committees meet for the arrangement of the order of business—the Law Committee et 1-30 ; &Medics at i ; Health, at 3; and Trade, at 4 o'clock. —S6rrier" Whig. SHOCKING DCATH.—A shocking accident is re ported from Torquay. An old woman. 72 years of a Ze. named Elisabeth Leaman, was setting into bed when Ins clothes were set on fire by a lighted candle placed by t h e bedside. Her husband. en infirm obi man, rendered ttf hest assistance to extinguish the flames, but the Pece woman was fear'ully btu at. She unlocked the door led went to the top of the stairs screaming " Eire." 710 neighbours flocked in, but too late ; the skin and fled came away from the poor woman in large pieces, and ef tg suffering much peony she died at the Torbay Infirrisal• where art inquest was held on Thursday, and a 'enlist of "Accidental death" returned. THE " CEREMONY " OF DRCH KING Orr.—The 52nd Regiment of Light Infantif paraded yesterday ereee; irtz at Richmond Barracks to hear the sentence of a general court-martial read sad carried out on Private Kelly he striking his superior officer, Colour-Sergeant Power. is I.;s quarters. He was sentorned to two years' imprimis. ment. marked with the letters B C, and to be drummed out of his regiment, which was carried into effect. Tito facings and buttons were cut from his tunic. and theses . her of his regiment removed from his carp. This is, we be' Here, the third man drummed out of this regiment date its arrival in Dublin.—DuNia EVellill , l Neil. BRITISH COLUMBIA.—It is calculated that British Columbia rintrins about 280,0C3 square miles. ee 179,200,000 acres, of which. up toOctober, I.lm, only allot/ ao,oon acres were settled ny white men. The colony ft considerably more than double the size of the United Kingdom. The irregular character of the country, hrekes up as it is by high sod rugged mountain ranges, makes ft very difficult of exploration ; but it has been sucertsite l that besides the valley of the Frazer there is much lad available for pasturage on the high plateaus, an d at the foot of the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains, Chia form the eastern boundary of the colony.—Panassa San LAW COURT C IM ki 1 The bankrupt, a men pilaw, bad been ears .tots of the Intern . atioo whom he is liable in th, He is also liable to the Hotel Company, the au for his release from Cu' Mr. DOti& opposed th of the official Liquidate, had applied for the shat l ow ny, 244, Strand, pa b e ing that he was only the celebrated advertisi The bankrupt, exam whether be was a broth Strand, but being told a nswer, said that he ti the shares he was in th, 0 (200/. a year. He his the present demand . or debts beyond his h calls been made a h t a t ln he be made, he should ha , Mr. Dobbs supported His Honour said t bankrupt having his rel Order tovoraßSlY• _ The bankrupt, damn r eading at Peckham, His only debt is 591. 151 of Divorce as alimony. Mr. Dobie stated Vial had taken place, and n. Mr. Gresham °ppm absconded with his set e at against him ; 50/. • pendente lite, but not the bankrupt 1 Devonshire, in the nam perty on the female wh time hie wife bad bea he bad been arrested taste at Worship-streel chargeable to the parisl Mr. Dobie said that Court of Chancery for t out of which thealimot ~.... Him Honour said whe enough to entertain the wee not one in which tl the reissue until the col the bankruptcy. w—. THE PC citrento T Japan GilAs, aged 36 carman, was charged be death of a Maq name c van over him in Pratt-4 On Saturday afternoe moving some Saturday in at a very steady pace al appeared to bathe worm he was quite drunk) road. The defendant to pull up, but before van went over him a was at once Tendert man was picked up he the witnesses deposed t not to blame In the m sober. _ _ The defendant said h death, but he could not Mr. Cooke remanded allowed him to go at lat cognisance* in the sum A BATCH Or CASUAL dAirlOii3r:e4/;7l,itT, 18, CAaries Clark, 17, A 18, sad JoM Tsveedie, 2 home, were charged wit casual ward of St. Peso The defendant. were breakfasts, and in reps. the whole of their cloth that the clothing was r Mr. Cooke sentenced month's bard labour In MARIBC WM. Goodditiol, a yo a►ker, was charged bef hi tie enclosed and of 1(r. 12harles Mille, Oxfc Polioe-oonstable Ear at Somerset House, Pa the prisoner in the yap asking what he did th there, that he was a gei The prisoner then requ on his asking him how said that a policeman le know who let him in. did not let him out be ing that be should take wall and was taken into Robert Bentley, po never let the Invent he (witness) had tbs locked. Pollee-constable Pert the prisoner into oust he first said that he earl, and afterwards th prisoner had been drinl Inspector Bowers sal seven feet. Pobee-constable Dm rookies, and found t able man, living in His prisoner was in ompb town and got drinking. The prisoner's fathe was: pprentioed to a for gentleman at Wil had been drinking. Mr. Tyrwhitt remani his father's bail. INDICES? BATHING Mr. Nelson, !nation the North•lient and court to' support the preferred against gro Be stated that not sight of passengers bathers wander on to eaves the metals, foci enrine-drivers complai The prisoners, respe4 not aware that they w Mr. Mande, after lee tee oomplained of mul had rendered thenutel% mons. This, however, had been brou g ht t o t bag to appear that da mine upon what puni, FATAL MACHIN E happened on Saturdi Cclver 6 9, who was F. Steiner and Co . Accuinittcm. There on t e lt:l e / forams up, d forams lug it. As it was wrapper round his ne lag. running lengthwa the rate of SO or PO re must have caught thi teamed was dissoirerec wu stopped as apeedi he done both the le gs below th e k nees, and was dead when eitrics atROCKINO Ot,CU i WEsTERN RAI coroner for East Cunt! inquiry at Southwaite 144 caster, of the firm who bad met '.° l 7 circumstances eeel lic7. On Friday ,_ cfortsman ' and c±! eipal part tartiale, left that ci L"..' the Purpoaa of havi . 44 2. In the evenit Southwaite station to at 6 minutes past 14 W as found quite dead /mat platform, his I and his leg, IN the d ogs waa found Yards north of him rat sitting watching " b supposed that th !ut to the station, ha, hue, and that he was waa returning from clautaneous Th • death_s e l ea suggesting th, amid not teni.er linos clued with this trugg