The Express. — London, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

H ARMOSFIUMS-NEW MODRL.- , ...L....4 0, M. adiI.M.IFOIL ge• exams's. TO 001111111POWDINTS. 3wartoweesie Mended kw “ Tlr ks==a Ina en( Paw. mil be el WOdle. lk by 'lw .C ls es 110401 Tins Itywree, GIALLO:M. 35k 601ITIIMID IBLIMMION. !On F311 4 =4 rifere,ll...r . ;i:M 141311 M.-41011 A M ADOB /801714. lift M. aolakeirdl. rtu Tan Itmotse,_TM• WIFE • !ICBM. rod lbs. O. tn.— &at • 1111k1UMMIIII MONT, DZIA11.—Ommon•011. 0011411114. ?um Knows. ?map yD Omar of Obs wdw% Ow— 4_11E9 WWI. XL IL INK—LW TIN MIS 01 Lama .Y. laarthsve. NIGH WATILS AT LONDON 11111 DOW SWUM,. TUESDAY, AUGUST 16. Tea Win et half-yearly meetings el the ewes City Joint-Stock Banks WIN completed on the 4th last by the !meeting of the Landes and County Bask. A brief glance at a few of the points pre. .rated in the half-yearly Reports of the Directors may not be altogether uninteresting. First, as to the amount of deposits and current ansonate :—the figures relating to esch Bank are vabjoincd : L0ed...9 sad Wooteniaoltr 514696,436 I.4edos Joist-Stock v,rztaii Uslms Bask at Lomas 9,661,963 London ayes' Comemoid Sod 979.361 C.ty ark Book of Leedom 14330.66 Tow MAK= Compartd with the returns mode at thongs Deem. bee, 1838, there is an aggregate inwease et 137,0811. or 2 per cent., and cowed with thew at the 30th June, 1858, an lemma of 646,7741, or also about 2 pet cent. On the 30th June, 1839, the Bank of England /111440111111, rate of discount WY 3 per cent.; on the 31st Dec., 1868, 21, and on the 30th June, 1858, 3 per cent. The alteration in the value of money during the period embraced t the ooroparieon has not been of a character to affect the aggregate maim of deposits. _ . A comparison of the amount of deposits and cur test accounts held by each Bank at the three periods mentioned shows the following changes: London and Westminster Bank, an increase of 230,6211. compared with 31st December last, bat a deems* of 747,309/, compared with the 30th June, 18681 Lem I don Jcint-Stock, an nitrous of 334,4901. compared with 31st December, 1838, bat a durum of 386,4111. compared with 30th Jane, 1868 ; Union Bank, a de crease of 484,4024 compared with 31st Dumber, 1858, but an lacrosse of 649,8291. compared with 30th Jane, 1838 ; London and County, an increase et 363,068/. compared with 31st December, 1838, and an increase of 440,909/ compared with 30th June, 1638; Commercial Bank, • durum of 24,3231. com pared with :ilst December, 1838, and a decrease of 68,7211. compared with 30th Jane, 1868; City Bank, an incr.'s* of 136,7861. compared with Stet of December, 1838, and an increase of 634,2821, compared with 30th June, 1868 ; sad hank of Loudon, an Menem of 49,8441. sompared with 31st December, 1838, and an leseresse of 291,1241. compared with 30th June, 1838. The result of this comparisos is that, of the elder Becks, the Lanka sad County are making the most satisfactory progress as regards the extent of guseral banana The Leedom and Westminster and London Joist-bock daring the first six months of 1869 have (sly partially recovered the business lost daring the lest sin scathe of 1811. The Union Bank, on the other bad, bee parted with two thifda of the ems whisk wee added to their bilasoes at the 30th hum 1818. The progress of the young City Beak le r.- teachably rapid ; the increase is the doped% law dam the .nth Jam, 1819, amuses to frilly 30 per mat. The Bonk of Laid= have increased their laleacee by 27 per cant. within the same period. Bash of three two Banks was established in the yser 1666. The paid-up capital in each cue is the mate as that of the Commercial—via., 300,0001. An inquiry into the mesas by which the two young mitahliehments bare already far outstripped the Commercial. fifteen or sixteen years their senior, might be interesting to the shareholders in the !stir. As regards dividends, the principal feature con- Mem in the inability of the London Joint-Stock Bask to make up the rate of dividend (12i per cent per seams) declared at the corresponding period of Met year without resorting to the objectionable plan et trawls' apse the guarantee fund to the extent at 4.7821. At the corresponding period of last year, we may remark, the dividend and bonus top e's*? mete at the rate of 24 per cent. per annum, sad ha the last six months of 1834 at the rate of so less tkus :121 per cent. per annum, making thus 37* per treat. foe the whole year 1838. Time sir- Oaleatance that the profits for the lest xis months are inadequate to • dividend at the rats of I2i per cent., and allow of no beam at all, seems to demand some explanation beyond that assigned by the Director,, vis. : the depreciatiomia the market value of the " Government and other ff afraiishie securities held by the Bank." In any case the serious fluctuation in the dividend impresses the meesseity of adopting a different mode of valuing Ness securities. Bank dividends ought not to be thus elosely dependent irdoe the " ups and downs" of the nuke:. Th. guarantee fund of the establishment. after the deduction of 4,7621., amounts still to 101,1471. ; hut this sum is not large in relation to the sum of 9,722,2121. doe by the Bank to their cum tome*. Most persons hold the opinion that a Bank guarantee fund ought not to be drawn upon in order to make up dividends. The fall which took place in the price of the shares upon the of as directors indicates that a good deal of disappolatuent wan OCCIAiOatd. A mere legitimate mode in which I large accutualations ander the head of guarantee , fund mil be dealt with is that pursued by the UOlOl Baok of London, who have this ball year capitalised 120,0001. of their reserve fund, Terminating 21. per share, whereby the total paid-up capital entitled to dividend is increased from 000,000/. to 720,0001. It mast be remarked, to the credit of the Voice Batik, that they have atoned for former ahortcomiegs by adding, for the last twelve month., the very large sum of 41,0001. to the reserve fund. After the capitalisation of 120,0001., the balance at the credit of this fund consists of 108,1621. Console, worth now upwards of 100 , 000 1 . I Some other Banks that we know of would have announced a large addition to the dividend, though aware that the fa cream would act be permanently maintained, and that it would occasion injurious finetnatioae in the price of the shares. After all, however, the vial criterion of the rela tive degree of security offered to their customers by these establishments rests with the amount—whether In cash, money at call," or Government securities —held immediately available for any emergency, however sudden. Regarded from this point of view THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, ISO. the balance-sheet of the London Joist-Stook Bank is decidedly the legit ertietootory of dry. Pluming their practice of giving es little information sa pos sible, the managers semi that they hold 1,3E17,0381. is " lizatbsquir Bills, India Boods and Debentures, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE ALLEGED REPUBLICAN IN PARMA. " owl Govenewat Stash r bat when we look farther, with a view to asserts& what &want of cash they have likewise available to asset the 9,722,212 L of Count Livati, the Mayor of Parma, who is now in Paris on a mission to the Emperor, hem addressed the following letter to the Petrie : 0 Certain journals have spoken of a republican movement as having broken out in the city of Puna. You all authorised to give the most positive Gonne, diction to this piece of few news. It would be way to trace this malicious statement to its source t we need oaly inquire who are they whose interests are hostile to those of the duchy. Iu the name of the city of Parma, of which I have the honour to be mayor, I request you to declare that the most perfect order has not for a single instant ceased to prevail both in the town and the duchy. The people are too well aware of the importance of a regular and legiti- rs' balances and deposits, we us left to gather such information awe may from this por tentous antry—" By cash, loans, bills discounted, " and other securities, 9,188,4464" The practice of the London Joint-Stock Bank in this respect is dis countenanced by that of every other establishment. The London and Westminster Bank, against 11,696,4361. of deposits, &c., show 1,978,8671. in Government stack, Exchequer Bills, and India "Bends," and 895,2371. " ouh in hand," nuking together 2,874,1041., or equal to 25 per cent. of their liabilities to the public. The Union Bank show "caah in the Book, at the Bank of England, "sad at call, 1,711,7451. ;" also " Government " Stock _ _ mate manifestation of their wishes to quit the path of legality for one moment. Unanimously resolved as they are to re. 1 sist by every means—even by force, if neosseary —any and every idea or attempt to restore the old dynasty, they are organising actively, and their votes will on this very day prove to Europe that their one and only desire, conformably to their moral and material interests, is to be definitively united to Piedmont under the constitutional sceptre of the Hoagie of Savoy. " Receive, Monsieur le Redacteur, the ammoe of my distinguished consideration. COONS PHILIPPE LINATI, Mark` Of PIMA. Fachequer Bills, and City Bonds, " 717,0001." (besides the amount of the guarantee had), making together 2,428,7451., or equal likewise to 23 per cont. of their deposits. The Bank of Lom der have, in " Government securities, India Deb's- " tans and cum in hand and at call," a sum equal to 31 per cent. of their liabilities, and the Commercial a sum equal to 27 Der cent. In the cue of the City Bank, the amount held in " Exchequer Bills, India " Saida, cash in hand, at Bank of England, and at " call," is equal to only 18 or 19 per cent. of the de posit. and current balances. The inference is that the managers consider themselves warranted in re tabling in hand a relatively smaller cull reserve than that held by either of the other Banks. Thal Leadea and County Bank, however, occupy by far the strongest position, and inns the most detailed and most satisfactory balance.shset. They show " By cash on hand, at head office and branches, " 660,9261. ; cash placed at call and at notice, "329,8371.; investments in Government and gala " ranteed stocks, 482,9461.; ditto in other stocks " and securities, 118,0361." These sums maks an aggregate of 1,961,7461., being equal to no lees than fiffty.tien per cent. of their liabilities. a Park, August 14." The provisional governor of Parma hu decreed a voluntary loan of 2,400,000 fr. at 6 per cent., to be called the Parma, lout of 1869. LOMBARDY. MILAN, MONDAY, Avourr 11. To-day a cbyminer was given by the King to Marshal Valliant and 100 superior officers of the French army at the Royal Pekoe. His Majesty proposed the health of his Imperial Majesty Napo leon 111., Prince Carignan that of the Empress and the Imperial Prince, General de la Marmora that of the French army, and Marshal Valiant proposed the health of the King of Sardinia, concluding his speech with these words "To the chief of this fine and powerful army, the standards of which were united on the Black Sea and on the plains of the Po with the French eagle, and which on every occasion showed itself as a noble rival of our army. To the heroic king, who holds the ancient and noble sword of the horse of Savoy, who made it shine with great lustre in the sua at Palestro and Sol ferino." To-day a solemn Ifte was celebrated in honour of Napoleon. In the morning a Ts Drum was Un formed in the cathedral in the presence of the King, Marshal Valliant, and other officers, the magistrates, and the national guard in grand After dinner a grand spectacle took place in the arena, the expenses of which were defrayed by the municipality and the receipts destined for the wounded. gOt Court. OSBORN", atooorr IS. The Queen paned Friday night on board the Rood Yew, at eashat la the Yampa& Rai* tad m ended as &totem amain am k lafilkaos, Jamey, whooshes , Moteeiy, the Priam Cermet, sod the Royal Fatally, Mewled by the t eel Otailemea la Walling, leaded at hell. pet 11 eel**. sad bet wogs Inane as deter pre slated by the Bailiff. Sir G. Cantewall Lew* Solvelary ol State tar the Home Detertattat, leaded with het Meltety. rite Ora sod Royal party them drove through the lowa to the Victoria College. la the animas Irre Itaisety again landed at St. Atabya's Bay. sad drov• mew dm imbed to the break water at St Casa/ma's, adorable Majesty re-anbatkad and returned to the Royal lisehi, wlidoh was aschored off Mont Orgessil. In tha sprodas Calais Canalag, of her Majoety's ship issanaki, W lMbe.aar el balsa iavitsl to dime,. _ _ Os *mew waft I. Bayal Y.cbt promatod to St. Plea, Clowoori. Divine nova; porlanned oa board. Is the afternoon law Majesty, tM Prince Consort, and the Royal Yawn, leaded, sad drove to the Litroteaent-Govereof e Row (Major-Oenerel Blade), and to the Fort, and in the ~tag km Majesty hawitig re-embarked, the Royal Yacht remeded to Alderney, end left again at an early hour this morning far °whims, where her Majesty and the Royal Family landed at 10 o'clock, a.m. Sr 4 0. Cormwall Lewis, who Ma been in attendance as The King, Prince Carignan, Marshal Valliant, and *bent 40,000 people were present. The name of Napoleon was received everywhere with rioclsma dons. SARDINIA. THE FETE OF NAPOLEON AT TURIN.- GENERAL GARIBALDI AT LEGHORN. TURIN, MONDAY, ACGCBT 15. Soastary GI Otte, rattunitd to London in the aftornoon. Last night and this morning the fete of the Em peror was announced by discharges of artillery. In the morning a review of the French troops took place. At 9 o'clock the Te Dem was performed in the church, which was richly decorated. There were prevent the ministers, members of parliament, the French ambassador and the officers of the French army, the Patdmontese National Guard, and a large gathering of the population of the city. This morn ing eight guns, captured by the troops at the battle of Palestra, were exhibited in front of the palace. General Garibaldi has arrived at Leghorn. TURIN, Mornay, Anoint 15. The fete de ■t<it, which took place here, wee magnificent. The Place d'Armes was splendidly illuminated ; a great platform was erected for the performance of military music, where the soldiers danced. The crowd was immense ; the public build inp were illuminated. Many inscriptions were to be seen :—" Long live Napoleon III." ♦ dardmileng boss the ratepayers of the Sitedield Union ansiiilag of 1.7A1/^ll, Kr. Robert Youngs, sad Mr. Y. R. Bid•id. had an interview yesterday with the Right Plea. C. P. Valuer, at the ono of the Poor Law Board, Maar& _ _ _ • . • Olanaittee of the Ittvy Ovoid sat yesterday at the Cowl OSO. preen% the Lad President, the Lewd Chan ober, it Georxe Gm, the Cheateeller et the Exchequer, the Milt Hes. Robert Low, Leed Justice /Leigh& BM', and Ss H. Rpm. _ . .... _,_ Iregarbso wave taserad yastorday at Ur Ward Mos from As Clamming , ' Oasis, the Caps of Good Haps, ad Sark'. Ward. LOMBARDY. (PlOll ova SPEW. COI MILAN, /Moan 9. The dinner given by the citizens of Milan to the members of both houses and the general illumination of the town were the great event, which marked the second day of the Milanese popular festival. Cova Gardens had been magnificently adorned for the reception of the senators and deputies, and the dinner, presided over by Signor Prinetti, the chair man of the committee, went off with all the splen dour for which the town of Milan is so renowned. Four long tables had been constructed under a whits and red silk pavilion for the accommoda tion of two hundred rusts, and two civic bands performed the national airs, end some of the cho ruses of Verdi and Rossini. When the hour for the toasts had arrived, Couut Mamiani, Signors Valeria and Brofferio, Counts Arrivabene, Chulini, • TURKEY THE SULTAN'S CRUISE. BALONICA, LVOUST 2. VISIT OF TEE SULTAN TO BALONICA. For the last few weeks our townspeople have been in a dreadful state of excitemeat on account of the approaching visit of the Sultan to Salonica. The streets had been re-paved, all the housed and shops had been whitewashed or painted outside, whilst all the old buildings that required expensive repairs had been covered by a kind of curtain made of common boards. As the government did not choose to spend a pare towards these preparations, it is easy to understand that this otherwise joyfal event will be remembered by the poor Rayalis as a day of sorrow and suffering. All the peasants from the adjoining villages had been obliged to come into town in the midst of their harvest, and work on the roads for days, without the lout remune ration; whilst three distant about ninety miles from here were obliged to hire men and horses to supply their planes. In the meantime business still continues to be at a stand still, whilst the interior is infested by robbers, whose daring and impudence know no bounds, for during the Sultan's visit they did not hesitate to attack a village only nine or ten miles distant, and murder a whole family. His Imperial Majesty reached thin on the 27th lilt. on board a man-of-war, accompanied by his brother, Azie Effendi, and his three sons, together with the Minister of Marine, Mehemet Ali Pacha, and the Minister of War, Nina Pacha, all of whom had been distributed in the different vessels of the fleet accompanying his Imperial Majesty. The Sultan was received on landing by the Packs Governor, all the Turkish authorities, and the principal inhabitants of the place, and was ac companied by them to the residence of Vasa Pacha, the wealthiest Turk of the province,in whose gardens a kiosk had been prepared for the accommodation of his Imperial guest. On the following morn ing his Majesty expressed a wish to visit the country place of kr. I. N. Abbott, a few miles distant, whither he repaired at an early hour, having been preceded by Axis Effendi. The Sultan and his brother were received some distance from the en trance of the gardens (called Urunsick) by the pro prietor, his brother, and his only son. After visiting everything that was attractive at Uranziok his Majesty desired Rise. Pasha to introduce to him Mr. Abbott, to whom his Majesty was pleased to pay some compliments about the beauty of his re sidence. Extensive prepeiations had been made by order of his Majesty to pass the night at Uranaick, but, the weather being stormy, with thunder and lightning, he was obliged to return to town after staying about four hours in this charming , spot. On the following morning (Friday) the Sultan went in state to the mosque of I St. Sophia, and in the afternoon received in a public audience, in his tent on the sea shore, the Pasha of Salonica, the members of the Modish, the Greek bishops, and the Jewish high priests. On Saturday he embarked on board the steam-frigate, and steamed out of the port in the midst of roars of cannon, and was' said to be bound for Mitylens and Chios. Mr. Brodie had been sent by the embassy at Constantinople to accompany his Imperial Majesty cm hie trip. From this you will perceive that this visit was @efficiently monotonous, and productive of no _good, either to the government or to the people. There was not the least excitement during the Sultan's passage through the streets. A dead silence pre vailed everywhere--no cheering or other such de monstration, no addresses presented to him, no an swers given by the monarch, admonitory or encou raging. The whole was a pantomime from be ginning to end. The only people satisfied must have been Used Pacha and Mr. J. N. Abbott, who had the honour of receiving his Imperial Ma jesty for a guest, although who knows at what expense ? Consult, and others, made eloquent:speeches, which were received with enthusiastic cheering. It was really a splendid spectacle, and one free from all that formality which prevails at our public dinners in England. It was a meeting of friends rather than • gathering of official people, for all were animated by the same feeling of devotion towards their King and country. When the dinner was over Milan was already in a blaze of light. The great illumination had begun, and was one of the most striking spectacles a man could see. The taste of the Milanese people for such popular displays is of ancient date. Curio and other hidorians tell u how the art of illumination was possessed in unrivalled excellence by this ancient city from the times of Olen GalleazzoNisoonti. It seems that its pre-eminence in this teepees has always been preserved, for even fliers has not dis dained to mention in his history the great illumina tion with which the Milanese celebrated the coro nation of the first Napoleon. Gas, which has been generally applied in Europe for such purposes, has not been adopted by the Italians, because gu cannot give the variety of colour which forms one of the most striking peculiarities of such magnificent die- playa The beauty of Italian illumination is dependent on the taste with which the coloured lights are dis posed rather than on correctness and elegance of design. The framework of a crown or a flower is the same, and if there is no gradation of colour when lighted it is but one blaze of dazzling light. This is the cue in Paris and in London with their gee illuminations. In Italy, on the contrary, all the frames of the designs are made of wood, the outline and centre of which are covered with numberless glasses of different colour, in which the oil burns. The effect of such an illumination is, therefore, perfect ; shade is not wanting, and the design of the object appears more striking and distinct. Public edifices, the cathedral , theatres, palaces, private houses, the royarvilla, and the public gardens bad all been illuminated in the same manner. Festoons of lighted flowers had been arranged in a double row in the Corso Orientate, end in the large alleys of the r iblic gardens. The Arco delta Pace and the Dud had been ornamented with the escutcheon of Savoy, sur mounted a royal crown, on each side of which • tricolor by flag was hanging. The effect of thia ornament was indeed superb. At 9 o'clock the illumination began , and I am certain that never before did the town of Milan present a more splendid appear ance, the Corso and pnneipal streets being filled with a dense crowd, rendering it almost impoerible to move. Thousands of carriages were slowly moving on the Corso, which was thronged with people, and the windows, just as on the day before, were occupied by the beauty and fashion of the city and provinces. At half-past nine the royal carriages made their appearance on the Cone, and the King was most enthusiastically cheered by the enormous crowd which was waiting for him. Ibis Majesty re turned these friendly demonstrations in the most gracious manner. Rs was eansibly moved by such spontaneous and fervent expression. I may say that I never saw Victor Emmanuel look so well and so pleased as I did on that evening. His countenance had a remarkably different look from that pensive one which 1 had noticed at Mon , :ambito° on the famous day of the Villafranca con vention. At one o'clock the illumination was over, and the people began to retire. As I told you in my last letter, yesterday evening had been appointed for the great gala at La Scala. I think that never before did the grand theatre present a more ward- Scent appearance. In the boxes were tne nobility and the beauty of the city ; the latter resplendent in diamonds, and radiant with all those charms for which the Milanese ladies are so celebrated in Europe. When Victor Emma nuel made his appearance in the royal box, an unanimous " Viva it Rd," which lasted at least !lye minutes, thundered throughout every part of the theatre. This hearty cheering was now and then repeated during the opera, and did not came till 11 o'clock, when the King left the crowded house. During the opera a rumour was current at the Scala that Victor Emmanuel had said to Count Lodovico Belgiojoso that he hoped in a few days Count Ames would return from Paris with good new*. The royal words were soon spread amongst the people, and greatly contributed to in crease the enthusiastic manifestations of the crowd. It was also reported that Count Marliani had been invited to London from Bologna, in order to furnish exact information about the state of affairs in Central Italy. Count Marliani is an able diplomatist, who has already been on a mission to London, having been sent there by Count Cavour at the beginning of April last. This morning the King is gone to Monza, but he will be back to-morrow, for on Thursday there will be a great spectacle at the Arena. Senators and deputies have alike left this town on a short excursion oa the Lake of Como. Certainly the means of recreation are not wanting here, and never was a King more enthusiastically received by his people. These manifestations sufficiently show how much the Italian people are attached to the gallant warrior of Palestro, who, I forgot to notice before, both at the theatre and in the streets, was more than ones greeted by the appel lation of "Re d'ltalia." English tourists are now numerous in Milan, and they will bear testimony to the imposing manifestation of the last three days. There cannot be a mistake about It; Victor Emma nuel, if not de facto, is virtually the King of the Italian peninsula; for the love and admiration of the people are all with him. Amongst the English tourists arrived of late is Mr. French, the newly. appointed secretary to our legation at Naples. DRAMA. PRINCESS'S. In these final nights of revived revival', the Wee sate drama would appear to prove more attractive than Shakspearisa plays, even though these latter be given with all the gorgeousness and accuracy which will ever be asso ciated in the playgoers' memory with the Kean management. Saturday night last the curtain fell for the last time on the Corsica* Brothers, which, though originally announced only Lc a week, was Oiled for • fortnight, so greatly attractive was it found ; and last night Mr. Lovell's play of the Wile's Secret commenced its final mum of six nights with /0 much swam that we should not be kW rimed were it found nem eery to prolong the expiring agonies in this instance also. With that large public by whom Mr. sad Mrs. Kean are re garded as preeminent in their art, the Wiles Secret was, from its °tights! production at the Haymarket nearly a dozen years ago, • very great favourite, giving, as it does, equal op portunities to each of them eminent artiste, and admirably suited as it ts to their peculiar characteristics. But with the general public—the prolamin, ridges of the pit and gallery who pay their shilliags to be amused—the play has been equally suceessful, mainly for this simple reason, that it provides the required amusement. It is essentially • petty piece, one with a domestic interest strong enough to carry through five long acts of wire-drawn talk, not an original piece moreover (the chief incidents of the story being taken from an Adelphi drama called St. Mary's 800, by Mr. Bayle Bernard), but with a strong sustaining motive power, judi ciously relieved by the introduction of two characters, the page and the waitingmaid, which, though intrinsically but the merest shadows of comedy, yet show birth marvellously ham sous against the sombre background. It is now almost superfluous to comment upon the acting of tither Mr. or Mre. Kean in this play; to the theatrical habitue' it will be sufacient to say that never has either of them played with more spirit, zest, or energy. To the novice the kindest adriee will be to refer him direct to Oxford-street. They are both perfectly suited, end both do their beet—the result may be imagined. Miss Murray dreervee a word of ootuniendation for her rendering of Maud, the waltingmaid, foro.d against her sill into Puritanism. With the »mem• kerne of her predecessor, Mrs. Keeley, Miro Murray bad long odds to contend against, but she threw her entire force Into the part, and her handsome person and general good temter carried her through most successfully with the audience. REPORT OF THE POOR LAW BOARD.—A thick blue-book of 300 pm., co:waists the 11th Annual Report of the Pew Lew Board. In the year ended Lady-day, 1858, the sum of 5,h78,386/. wee expended for the relict of the poor, being • decrees., ~f 20,310/.. compared with the expeediture THE CHASSEURS OF THE ALPS.—The Litioll• 01 of the preoeding yeer, or 0.3 per cent. The rate per heed on Turin putilithee 'be following cornimetcstion from LOVOIII : the pop.ulatlon wee 6e. Old., and the decreased rate (as com " The corps of Chewier, of the Alpe is increesiug everyday. pared with 1858-7) lid. In the Middlesex (esetrepolimn) and A numetecia bend of yonug riflemen, helongicg to respectable the Kent (nestropoliten) districts there was a decrease of 2.0 familia. of Como sad Wiest have peened this place on their sod Ot per oast. respectively ; but in the Surrey (metro way to Tamale. Asether company of young men have also plain) district there was an harems of 1.2 per cent In come dam Remo (We/line): 1883-4, with • population of 14.372,000, the sum of ALLEGED MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.-011 8,317,286/., or Bs. 90. per heed, was exported in relief of Friday night, &boot omen o'clock, the American shit, John the poor; whereas, in 1857, with a population (Epithet and Nyts, Crptain Pemba., arrived off the port of Greenock from Wale.) of nearly 20,000,000, the expenditure wee only New York. Shortly thereafter informetion wee comment- 6,878,5421., or 81. 014. per heed. The average of the 26 cased to the plow autherities that during the voyage a pare, from 1834 to IMB, was 6.. 2d. per head. On the let quarrel had exeswekin which one of the crew had been shot of July, 1868 (in 6W notate), there were 793,606 pewees by the impel*. All that could be ascertained, and that only of all epees Occluding insane end vagrants) in receipt of by vague statement, wee that in the quarrel which took relief, against 769,640 in July. 1937. This is tantamount to piece forward among the crew, on Thursday, August 4, • an themes of Ot per rent. There were 123,638 (out-door) seamen, whose name is not given, but who is said to be a widows and able-belied persons in receipt of relief on the Sootehinen, belonging to Amoebae, on Lochloice, had see let of Jule, 1868. On the let of Jaatiary, 1869, on the sauteed eloNter resoluta, cutting open his heed. The "dicers other hand, there were, in 642 onion., 862. 0 7 8 paupers in of the ship Interfered, end ' were proceeding to place the of- receipt of reller, against9lB,222 in January, 1858 ; eh% shows fender Is iron, *hen be resisted and wit the whole oflierr• • decreer* of 88,144, or 9.1 per cent. The able dolt paupers at detiance, and the °sprain is said to have immediately shot oleo at this time (January 1, I 869) exhibited a decrease d him with a revolver. This took ohms on the 4th, about 11 198 per cent. The decrase In the average number of o'clock, end the wounded man only survived till the evening paupers of all classes to receipt of relief at one time la 1853; of the lame day at eight o'cloek, when he ceased to live, and as compared with 1849, I. 184 per mat.; end as regards wee shortly thereafter consigned to • grave Is the sea. de able-bodied paper*, the decreer* in 1863, VI tompued with won se the information retched the polio., Mr. Blair, the 1849, is 32. d. The metropolis has fully perticipated in the Pruouretor-Fiscal for the county, was oommunioded with, Improved condition of the labouring thaws which hes dis tinct be, along with Captain Newnhatu, of the police, pro- tinguithed the pest year. The lIRIUSI of pauperism show ceded off on the river to go on board the ship to make an that • decrease to the numbers relieved hes, with three tin ts...aeration, but the verse ha l jest left to proceed up the captions, taken 'lace In each week cf the last year Da corn river to Glasgow. A criminal officer wee hornedienly de- pared with the conestoudieg week of the previous one. epatched ou to 03'wgow to put the criminal authorities these 37,868 children of both sexes attended workhonee and die in possession of the informateen.—Aerth Brithlt Daily trios schools daring the ball-year ended Lady-day, 18.58, and Mail. the amount of 30,8581. was paid to boards of guardians in THE LAST TIPPERARY MUIDEIL—C. G. Grey, respect of the teachers of theee schools. The board are doing Ref ~1 P., the agent of the Earl of Decoy In Tipperary, has all in their power to Improve the ethmation of pauper offered a reward of 2001. for the oonvicei. nof the temps an- children, and " the Maneeterueut of the schoole is on a most mod In the asemetherion of Jar.ee Crowe, • tenant on his estiefactoty footing." In the metripolitaa district the I. riehip's estate at DOJIIO. The atrociens deed was per- educative' cenalete of moral, mental, end industrial training; petraird en toe tad tnirent, and there are strong grounds for the beenebee of Plumy wipe include caroestering, apprehending that it was done with the knowledge of many tailoring, the see of the steam-engine, shoemaking, spade residents of the lwelity who cantina* to plead utter irate- husbandry, music (to fft the boys for the pubic panda), ranee of the retries cofteen , rd. The Lud-Lieutenant hex cookies, baking, sewing, dalry.work, laundry and house elm offered a roma of 1001. for such information se shall , work. 231 lemons were wasted to emigrate by the board load to the urea of the sarsodos. let ye ar. tA ASTUILY OF THE QUEEN TO ONEORNZ. PORTSMOUTH, August 16. Her Majesty and the Court returned to Osborne this maratai. The Victoria sad Albert, royal yacht, Cap tam the Ron. J. Dessms, hors is right from the 'westward at Mae Saha, sad at a guns/ to is her Majesty dia. , embarked at Osborn. The eisadela of honour, casaisring d the Eessesid. dl, MOW tripes, Captain A. Cumming ; the Teary, mew Tashi, Cammisder hie Swam Highs's. W Prime Lobbies ; the Daher, steam vessel, Com seendet 2. 0. Han; the Oahu's', Commander O. IL K. Dorm ; end the The Omen, Master Commander F. W. Pug; arrived shortly aftareards, sad sochmed is Cowes raeda. The Earl sad Countess of Darnley am passing dr mama al their oat, Cobham Ball, Hat, whore they tows bow esiertalalai a selat oath far mar Weds psi. Vioooant and Viscountess Combermaso halo left Samoa for Cxabensare Abbey, Cheddar. Viseciitot and Viseountau Palmerston will les,* lanra ita Was sad of the weak f. a Broadlaada, Haste. Lard sad Lady Wenlock are passing the season st ■emiek Park, Yorkshire, where they iateed to receive • oiled tittle. Lady Lofts. Otway has arrived at the Queen's Heesi, User Nonrecd. We hear that Mr. William Donal Christie, who • bees fig MOM per Minister at the Argeatine Confede ration, le appoista a avesil, on the migration of the Has. Fres& Regtestererbes, en-, our readereroay recollect, wee trearlemd so that embeory from Dreedea by the late govern anat. We unieratead that Mr. Forbes does hot rotors to Dreedea. The Ist of August. the anniversary of the British entscipaiion, wee observed in weriona poets of the United Estes. Both coloured people and white people leek part hi the proceedings, and wine of the beet spook* Teri mods by toe tormer, and by women es well as by ma. RiPIiaiNTATION OF HULL. We, Bla pp i x9 Cia:set4, lees with much athiefacticia that Mr. Joseph Knew, the emenent shipowner of Blaakwell, is about to wet the enema* of the thyme of Mull. Mr. SOMAS goes doers this (yeeterday) efts:noon to pecoreate hie CILDT•fe fur that toeough. We seed hardly esy we command him heartily to the electors ea a reatlenum every we, gaaliked to repre sent efficiently in pertleawat a maritime twasticalacy. MEItwICK ELF.CfION.—A compromise, by which Mr. Ralph A. Earle was to rain his mat foe Berwick, le now otfi ;idly known to hays been arranged bower the whip sad tortes as the consideration for the withdrawal of nn electi at petition which might have restated fa awkward &imbrues. The fact thet Mr. Brand, to. Aseretsry es the Tomalley, moved t6r the sew writ on Saturday, whoa, per not woe than 60 . memben w. moat, -re is petty clear proof of th e comp:wiry of the liberal patty la the arras:Le:neat. The conservative election are ANA to play Ulm to their leaders, and have met to organism opposition to the C.XIIIJOIIIIII. Mr. Marjoribanks will not be allowed to with over the course, for blr Richard Hodgson, elteirmaa of the North British Railway, to to be salted to easiest the urnugh in the conservative Interest. The Meade of the I Northern Reform Union, ton, eaeiced by times few in eeproote.t el. eters who see anxious to vetoes their native bororte. fried the stigma which attaches to ft, contemplate starting aam White. Three or font earner are asentioned, bat, we believe, the gentleman hoe not yet been selected.— Iteirearrle CAronsik. . _ • APOTHECARIES' HALL.—At a court of examiners of the Scanty of Apothecaries, held on Thursday, the (*Honing gentlemen, having pared the nemmeary Lions Ls the Kleine and practice of medicine, were admitted Meetings of the society, et:. •—neren. Ebenezer Backlitlt of Bedfor I (M.R CASA April, 1869) ; Wi llsm Free:sea, of Mellon, Ems; Jobe Often, of Cawood; Wiliam Holt, of Horbory, user Wenebld ; Gordon Henry Richard Well/ Smith, of Priamarierraca. Caledosian•rcad ; Henry home Webb, of Citrons, heaffomaire ; R u b n i limy White, ,f Lts.l.l ; and William Thome' Winter, of Bristol. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. f7ZON DOR OWN PARIS, MONDAY ENININO: The Emperor's speech to the generals at the dinner which he gave them at the Tuileries was appropriate to the occasion, and it will probably be the general opinion that it contains nothing menacing to Europe. In stating that • part of the army of Italy is to be released from duty his Biejesty shows that he persiets in the idea of • partial disarmament which he announced in the Nooderr some days ago. The only expression which can possibly give rise to cavil is the follow ing :--" If France has done so much for a friendly power what would she not de for her independence ?" Standing alone and apart from the circum stances of the hear, this phrase would be nothing more than the enunciation of a truism. Bet in the month of a sovereign rather notorious for using words in a sense different from that in which they are understood by ordinary men, it may perhaps be understood to imply, not that France intends to remain at peace except in the altogether unlikely case of her independence being attacked, bat that an alleged infringement of her independence will be put forward as the pretext for the war next coming. The Press., hitting upon the above, which is the only remarkable passage in the speech, comments upon it in the following sentence :—" A conclusion manifestly true, and one which history has many times verified in the course of ages, but one which we hope it will not be necessary to prove over again. Who in Europe can possibly think of threatening the independence of France ?" M. Rambourgi, member of the Legislative Body and assistant judge of the civil tribunal at Troyes, has just been condemned by the Pint Chamber of that court to a fine of 4,000 fr., with costs, for writ ing insulting letters to the Prefect of the Aube on matters connected with the exercise of hie functions as prefect. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. PT BLOOM() TZLZORAPIO (nor ova OWN COWSPONDI SOUTHAMPTON, TvrsDAY. The Parana has arrived with the Wait India mails. Bhe left St. Thomas, August 1. Her specie amounts to upwards of half a million dollars in silver, and nearly a quarter of a million in gold. The Paramatta is still on the Anegada reef. The West India islands are healthy. A revolution had broken out at Carthagena. The liberal party overpowered the guards, and got the tower into their hands. The revolution, however, was soon quelled, but a feeling of meanness pre vailed amongst the foreign residents. The governor had promised the British consul that order should be preserved. There was great excitement at Colon about the gold discoveries in the old Indian burial places, near the Chirigni Laguon. Golden images of the crocodile, and of forms resembling the Egyptian Sphynx have been found there, and brought to Colon for sale. CANADA. • (•T 11.LONITIC Tll.lO/A111.) (7101 M OUR owl tDMXT4 1 7,1 • LIVERPOOL, Trim)Ay.: `The steamship) North Briton, from Quebec, on the 6th instant, passed Port Patrick at half-past 5 this morning and is dos Mrs this afternoon. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. Hie Excellency Sir H. Storks has loaned the following characteristic notification: NOTIFICATION. The Lord High Commissioner has received during the last three months several anonymous Went His Ezaalleacy hopes that it is unneosseary for him to declare hie abhorrvitoe of a practice at once unmanly and isosrardly. HID Excellency mares that this system of moral se eiselastion may cow, and desires it to be distinctly under stood that for the future every anonymous communication will be returned to the postcofllos whence it came, with ins bisections to the postma.er to place it in a conepiouoto pert of the noise, in order that the writer may recxim it, if he thinks:proper to do so. U say person has any charged to bring agalnet fedi. viands, or soy complaints to rusks for the Lord High Coin. zetseleser's consideration, they must be preferred openly end sabsdatisted In person. Hied 'saliency would remind the writers of anonymous lettere that they ere not living under the Venetian republic, sad that the lion's mouth" s not • national institution. By command of his excellency, H. DAVMKOND WOLF", Secretary to the lard High Commissioner. Palace, Cafe, July 29. Stint Sauveur, in the PyrEneee, to which the Emperor end Empress are going, Is a mall village belonging to the commune of Lot, about 32 smiles from Pau, passing by Lourdes and Betharram. It was a plain of fuhlonable resort under the restoration, and amongst Its visitors were the Enchant" trAngoulitue and de berry, but it was afterwards neglected. It is channiogly situated, and is eurrounded with splendid scenery. Burke Dermal thew visited the place. The Opinione of Turin of the 11th suttee ant the National Guard ci Turin bad Intended to offer the Preach officers a banquet on the 11th, but that the latter have hem unable to accept the oomphment in consequence at orders to that effect from Paris. ' • - An attempt is about to be made on a wale of iroportanos to introduce the growth of silk into Holstein as a staple article of commerce. The mulberry trete, shich heve been pleated for some time on the shores of the iteltic near Hellecenheam, hove thriven well, end an abundant supply of memos Ms bus received, to the future produce of which those who see mimed In the enterprise look forward with *address kr s probable result. --- - The Journal et Villains states that after a storm of last week the unusual phenomenon of a lawn rain bow was observed at Rennes. The moon wee at an altitude of shoot 30 degrees, and the rainbow, which stretched from east to west, was visible for nearly an hoar. 111081 C IN PARIS.—The critic of Galignani says : —tt A chance visit to V.ein.bassadriee on Monday night at the Opera Comique, where himille. Cordite made her debut In Henrietta, and bang very charmingly, gave us the un expected plows. of seeing Mies Louisa Pyne, the queen of English vocalats, accompanied by her sister, Mid Save Pyne, also a dialiuguisbeil artiotio. Both wore tiokieg in the most perfect health, the [Groan wearieg in bar pleasant countennnre not 'ha least trace of the fatigues imposed ow her by an 'mount of vocal labour net, we Lade, equalled in the history of the art. The most robust of cur Italian artiste appear only three times a week, villages Miss Erne, fur ens nine months ending in April last, sang in London, with the exceptinn of Sundays, ever! night, and always, be it specially noted, the principal part' How much of this ex trsardinaly result is due to excellent early maiming, and never straining the rasa, and bow much to en excellent conatitutioe, would be well worth studying for the benefit of musical art. These Lidice ware both =wog the warmest applauder. of Mollie. Cordiar, the daub:Pao of the night. Fragments of the sew opera al M. Betlioz on the Siege of Troy were performed on Saturday last, at the Salle Beethoven, before a private auditory composed of the leading musician and amateur. of Paris. The compo.itlon elicited marks of the highest admiration... A !SWINDLING SCHEME IN NEW YORK.— A swindling scheme has been discovered in New York. but not until a COMIWOUII band of the family of the "gulls" had bees luendsouiely bled. It was bared as a pretended loam of 14,000,000 nodes for the Grand Denby of leaden , consigned with &lottery, which wee to Ides its sinning August 31. The 'windbags, who celled themselves Cnnatantine, Pen ner, and Co., profeserd to be the agents for 0. Roth childs end Co., of Frankfort-on-Ilia Mains, which name sae enough like that of Both(s)child: to give It a metallio twang, not to speak of the address. The swindle went ou anecdotally for some time, and was only blown up by the magnitude of the operations to which it gave rim— the number of letters the fake firm received attracting fatten. Son at the post-office. Most of thus lotted came frogs tee mouth and the west, qnsetere of the union that ap p ear to bare ter more than their proper share of the gullibba element of oar population. The lottery will sever Le drown, and the ticked will answer to ISe with Ills.issippl b.nde and sibs: saint dornmees of the same obaracter. TUSCANY. M. Tito Coppi, who has just been nominated president of the National Assembly at Florence, is honorary judge and formally President of the Court of Appeal, and is one of the most eminent magistrates of Tuscany. He took no part in the recent political movements, and consequently the choice of him by the Assembly may be considered a proof of im partiality and prudence. Notwithstanding his ad vanced age, great reliance is placed on his talents and express' nos to maintain calm and dignity is the deliberations. The National Guard of Florence entered upon its duties for the first time on the 7th, having been equipped and organised in a few weeks. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MONDAY, A uousT lb. The Ministerial crisis is not yet over. It is said that a combination with Count Leo Than at the head has met with so many difficulties that its warn is very doubtful. Count Clam Martinets refused to accept the Portfolio of Public Instruction, and in re gard to his acceptance of the Ministry of the Interior be put conditions which wets rejected ; he has there fore returned to his post of Governor of Cracow. I Count Golochociski, chief of the Lemberg Govern ment district, has been summoned hither to join the Imperial Commission. Well-informed persons assert that the Constitution which the commission is about to work out will be characterised by the principle of decentralisation, by the re-establishm , nt of the representation of the pro vinces (Laxdstarside), by great prerogatives given to the aristocrscy of all the provinces, and lastly by a strict catholic spirit. THE CONFERENCE. BERNE, MONDAY, AUOVIIT 15. This whole diplomatic corps, the members of the Federal Council, aid of the Government of the Can tons, and the municipality of the town, were present to-day at the Te Deum in honour of the Fete Napo leon. The French Ambassador, M. de Turgot, sat on the right, and the Austrian Minister on the left of the President, M. Staemptli. To-day at Zurich all the Plenipotentiaries and the deputation of the government of Zurich were present at the Te Demon. ZURICH, MONDAY. ACOVST 15. The Austrian Plenipotentiary, M. de Meyeenburg, hu not left Zurich for Vienna, u bad been stated; his name was substituted by mistake for the name of Baron Menzengeo. The Austrian minister in Swit zerland has returned to his post in Berne. _ . Oa Saturday last two Imperial measeagers (Seer.- Saire• de Celiewt) arrived here from Vistas, and left &pia yesterday. r