The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-03 00:00:00

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Tins /MEMO, THAT RASCAL JACK. germ Rouse and Neville : Mesdames Aherne and Thompeuti. —To conclude with THE °BRAT CITY. Messrs. Co , Wham, Villiers, Irving, ZOJAIS, Illtgames, d Waver: Yeedames Robertson d Le There. HAYMARKET. Tuts EVIVIING, THE LorE cHA.A. Morn. Chippendale. /lows, Rogers, Kendal, Clarke. Weathersby, /Cc Mesdames Bedgwlea, Chippendale Barks, La.—TO YAMS AND LUCK WYK 45.—And TOE 1111 A, AND HOW TO MLR IT. mummy& TRW EVIDMIO. THE DAY An'ER THIS WEDDING -.THE MAN M ELIE. James Harebell. Mr. Herman Yeah'; Meson E. Price, Pnrrester, Gresham, Maclean, and Ellerton Mlssea B. Ulan, Nally Moore, Ac.—And THE CLOCKHAKEIVA HAT. eraA m. TEM EVIIIING, ESTEEMS. Mears. Emery, PaneHe, Rob son. and Swanborough ; Aleadames Ad. Swanhorough and John stone—And THE LATK,IT EDITION OY FBA DIAVOLO. Mn.ess Thorne & James ; llnalantes Hon, Newton, &c. BRITANNIA. TRIM RFENDie, SCARLET DICK • OR, Tilt ROAD AND ITS SIDER'S —Mew , . Wllllem, f rft4 Owen,* Mr t Mze. Y'Hame • the PhArnrion Akaters —And ;ACC & LANTERN OIL Tffl RACECOURSE, AND TIM BLUR moos Of TRH TURF. HIGH AT LONDON MOOG& Tllll DAT —Hamlet, 41i. Es.......Afterooon, 4h. 25re TO-110alioIF—Morning. ed 440—....A11ua100a. SU. 74A. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3. A Votutrrzta meeting, less showy and exciting than that of Wimbledon, but not less really im portant, has been in progress for the last ten days at Shoeburyness, and closed yesterday. It is the competition for prizes by the Artillery Corps, firing heavy guns. Such practice necessarily takes place at a distance from town, and it can be shared in by only a small number of persons compared with the multitudes who can shoulder a rifle. More over, it is the final comparison of a training which is inevitably purely military, since no enthusiast can indulge in private practice with a 32-pounder in his bedroom. Besides, it involves very hard work, since the handling of heavy guns is no child's play, and in the result the credit gained by skill is not personal, but divided among many. Thew considerations account for the smaller numbers who either devote themselves to this description of drill or journey down to the practice ranges to watch an.l ;:ncourage the rival skill of the corn roef!;tors. But the merit of these competitors is the more for pursuing their self-imposed duties with such devotion under such unfavourable cir- cumstances. And the gratitude of the country is not the less duo to those who would, as a conse quence of such practice, be able at a moment's notice to man our coast batteries, and to set free for other service every inland and sea port garrison in the kingdom. We have no design of instituting invidious comparisons between the value to us of the Rifle and the tillery Volunteers. Both are unquestionably doing a service to the country which is beyond price. But, at least, it may be insisted that the artillery corps are in no respect of less advantage than those of the rival branch of the service. This is in fact acknowledged by our authorities, who have given to the artillery corps precedence over the rifles. In a sea-girt island such as ours the defence of the coasts must always be of primary importance, and the progress of science commits this defence more and more to the em ployment of heavy guns. It is to this department, rather than to that of field artillery, that most of our corps devote themselves. And their profi ciency is attested by the testimony of inspecting officers, who declare that they are fit at once to take the regular duties of garrison artillery. These facts being beyond dispute, it is somewhat unsatisfactory to find that Government scarcely gives to the artillery meeting at Slaoeburyness the support it might fairly claim. As its inferior attrac tions to the general and fashionable public deprive it of the contributions which flow so liberally to Wimbledon, it is more dependent for success on the encouragement offered by those who can really appreciate its importance. But unfortunately these are defective in an almost equal ratio. The Quzzx's prize, the great event of the competition, and the only one shot for with Armstrong guns, is merely of the value of 100/. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE'S prize is only 30/. Donors are of course entitled to judge for themselves how much they will give ; but official donors ought not to discriminate between two branches of our service in so marked a manner. But Government itself does worse. During their stay at Shoeburyness the volunteers must inevitably live in camp, for there is no other accommodation in the neighbourhood, and the nearest railway station is five miles distant. Government recognises this fact so far as to supply tents and straw mattresses—but it charges a round sum for the use and even for the carriage of these articles, and for the moderate wear and tear they undergo during a ten days' service. This is carry ing the principle of the self-supporting character of the volunteers to a pedantic and unreasonable extent. Gentlemen who leave their business, and come up from all parts of the kingdom to rough it in camp, in order to make themselves more fit to serve the country, ought not to be charged by a grateful country with the wear and tear of the canvas that shelters then, from rain and storm. But still more objectionably stingy are the Govern ment rules with regard to the supply of ammuni tion. At present each battery of 80 men is only allowed 75 rounds of ammunition for practice during the year. That is to say, Government en courages practice only to the extent of one shot by each man during the whole year, minus five men, who do not get the benefit of firing a shot at all. And by way of encouraging competition, all the THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1867. ammunition supplied at Shoeburyness is deducted from the amount allowed to the corps during the year, so that to send a detachment to Shoebury nem involves the deprivation of practice by the rest of the corps. It would not be easy to find an instance of more absurd or detrimental economy. It is not wonderful that under such discourage ment, the meeting at Shoeburyness is diminishing in attraction to Volunteer Artillerymen. It is too much to expect that men will undergo very hard work and very considerable discomfort for the chance of winning one out of a few comparatively shabby prizes, and at the cost of paying for the privilege of sleeping under a tent, and diminish ing the already scanty amount of practice allowed to their comrades during the year. But the im portance of the matter would justify a little more liberality on the part of the authorities. A few hundreds a year would be granted readily by the House of Commons, and it would make all the difference to the funds of the Association. Re lieved from the charge for tents, they would be able to afford more prizes, and to employ paid markers, so as to expedite the business of the meet ing, and allow it to be concluded in a shorter time. But Government ought, from a regard to the service which the Artillery Volunteers are expected to per form, to be more liberal in certain other departments. It is to require bricks to be made without straw if they expect good shooting without allowing a fair number of gratis rounds for practice during the year. And since the Coast Volunteers would, if called on for duty, have to use other than the antiquated smooth-bores, it is preposterous to supply them with nothing but smooth-bores for practice. Instead of keeping guns in store for the possible exigencies of war, it would be far better to utilize them by distributing them among the volunteer corps for present use. They could be reclaimed in a couple of days, if war at any time found us so unprepared as to make such a step necessary. At present, in consequence of the want of any opportunity for learning the drill of rifled guns, half the time of the men after their arrival at Shoeburyness is taken up in learning the operations necessary to enable them to compete for the QUEEN'S Prize. These are but questions of common sense. The artillerymen have special disadvantages to contend with, and they are there fore entitled to special assistance. There is no danger of such exceptional aid being drawn into a precedent for other cases in which the like diffi culties do not occur. But, above all, common sense demands that we should have efficiency, and that 119 rad•tape economy should forbid the only means by which efficiency can be possibly secured. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Though the Reform Bill has passed through committee in the Lords, the Times cannot disguise its ap prehension that we have only reached the beginning of the end. The reintroduction of voting papers is • fatal mistake. To bribery and intimidation it would supply many facilities. What would be a lodger voting by a voting paper ! He would be nominis umbra, and nothing more. Both this and the rise in the qualification of the lodger franchise should be rejected by the Commons. It is im possible that the artisans of London can acquiesce in their exclusion. It is impossible that the House of Commons can approve the destruction of all real liberty in the choice of representatives. The Daily News sap that, under the pretence of protect ing the physically timid, the use of voting papers is de signed to work upon the moral cowardice of the humbler and dependent classes. Bribery, on this system, would be as easy as intimidation, and voting papers would become a species of paper currency, readily convertible into cash. To this and others of the Lords' amendments the Commons are bound to refuse their assent. No justification can, in the opinion of the Poet, be erect for the etterept tii r.O Lorw 4o dictate to the House of Commons the manner in which members of the letter shall henceforth be elected. It is impossible to suppose that the Lower House will in a matter so directly concerning itself reverse its decision at the bidding of the House of Peers. No fad could be plainer, says the Tdegraph, than the determination of the House of Commons to have nothing to do with voting papers. They are proved by the expe rience of the Poor law Board, and by the evidence given before parliamentary committees, to be the incentive and encouragement of bribery, and to render intimidation an exact science. The decision of the peers last night is in itself so grave, so deliberately in contempt of the House of Commons, so plainly tainted with the wish to keep the residuum as manageable as possible, that the only thing to say is, that it must be reversed. The Standard, on the other hand, cannot doubt that the House of Comm Ons will accept the voting paper clause, and it heartily congratuletes the country on the judgment of the peers. The Star strongly condemns the contrivance of voting papers, which it urges would degrade the suffrage and subject it to the worst acts of the most sinister enemies of truly popular representation. The Times again asks the government whether it cannot give other matters the place of the long discussion which the Parks' Regulation Bill will provoke, and leave that effort of legislation at least to another session. the amendments of the Lords were accepted, it is quite certain that an siltation would begin for the re iteration of the figures originally fixed on by the Com mons, and that this agitation would os sueceesfuL There is no going back from a measure of enfranchisement which the House of Commons has deliber►tely accepted, and the ministry will scarcely like to lose the credit of having carried in its entirety a scheme which, so far as its enfran chising clauses go, is perfectly satisfactory. The principle use of the clause as to minorities is to record in a feeble way the general detestation of the bill which the Lords enter tain. It may also invest it with an additional charm that it happens to be especially annoying to Mr. Bright. The Lords cannot avoid aooepting the very measure of enfran chisement which Mr. Bright has been recommending for years, but they can weight him with a conservative col league. It is at best • poor piece of fun, but it suits the peers, and we must take men as we find them. If it could be shown that the necessary consequence of political meetings in the perks would be faction-fights, • strong case, the Chronicle thinks, would be made out for intervention on the part of the legislature, and such inter vention would be warmly supported by public opinion. At present the presumption is in the other direction, and until it is reversed we ought to bo content with giving the police the fullest power of co-operating with the orderly and industrious classes against their common enemy—the roughs. Timid legislation cannot do away with the neces sity for occasional demonstrations, or repress all expression of opinion by assembled numbers ; and even if such a mea sure as is now before parliament could be enforced without danger to the public peace, the result would be that the processions, shut out from the parks, their natural meet ing.place, would be forced to congregate in and obstruct the streets, to the much greater annoyance and detriment of the general public. 'ARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF LORDS, Aucusr 2. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL. After clause 27. Moved to insert the following clause : Any voter for a county or borough may, in compliance with the provisions hereinafter contained, give his vote by a voting paper instead of personally.—)The Marquis of Salisbury.) On question? Contents, 114 ; Not-Con tents, CONTENTS. LT , . CR A SCELLOR EARLS. EMMERT!. LORDS. Chelmsford Glnsborough Btrathallao Veverskuusi DL KIM Graham Templetmen Foxford Bneldnghnni & Grey Donors. Gage Chaudos lisrrnsrby Carlisle Hartlsmere Cambridge Hillsborough Gloucester and Haiherton Cleveland Leven sad Mel- Ililatol Heytesinny Marlborough vine LORD& Londeslv,rough Wellington. Lovelace Aveland Lord and liol msitquisgu. Malmabury ISsgot land Abercora Mansfield Bolton Lyttelton Bristol Morton Brancepetb bloat Nagle Exeter Mount Edg- Cairns Northwlck Salisbury 'teller' cumbe Charlemont Overstep, Westminster. Nelson Chawort h Penrhyn — iTas. ic;;ria aitinitou — --- Raglan Abergavenny Romney 3elleC Clarina Redondal. Amherst Selkirk Clements Rivers Bathurst Shrewsbury Clinton Balloon Bradford Stanhope Gloomily Sherborne Brooke and tradbroke Colonaay Slichester Warwick Tankervilia Colville of Cul- Sondes Cadogan Verulant MP Southampton Cameroon Wicklow Congleton Stewart of Oar- Cheaterneld VISCOUNT& Crofton lies Dartmouth De Wed Delamere [Brat/maim Derby Eveesley Denman Templemure Devon Exmouth De Rog Vernon Doncaster Hardinge De Saumarez Walsingham Ititingham Hawarden Dlgby Wentworth Eldon Melville Dunsandie and Wharncliffe Ellenborotigh Ridmouth Claneonal Wrottesley Iltzwllliarn Btradford de Egerton Wyniurd. Yortescue Redcllffe NOTCONTENTS. MARQUISES. MARLS. LORD& LORDS. Alicabury Morley Belper Monson Camden Portsmouth Boyle Mostyn EARLS. Russell Cesium Ponsonby Abingdon Spencer Clermont Rnmllly Albemarle xisooeNra. Caanworth Km e and Selo Camerdown Bolingbroke andPoley tteller) &Awn Dc Prey St. John Orenerd Stanley of Granville Halifax Houghton Alderley Kimberley Minster Kenry Stratheden eteller; Sydney. WO Taunton Minto THE SYSTEM OF RETIREMENT FROM THE ARMY. This morning was issued the report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the system of retire ment from the three non-purchase corps of Royal Artil lery, Royal Engineers, and Royal Marines. The following are the recommendations of the committee: "That the present system of retirement on annuities of 6001. or 4001. a year, or on permanent half-pay after 25 years' service, and the practice of purchasing commissions by Mean* of the Arms• Il.ttarve Fund : be dit.rottintteti, That at the age of 60 every colonel of Artillery or Engineers be placed on the reserved list, and while on that list be considered ineligible for ordi nary regimental duties, but eligible for staff or special employments, if selected by the military authorities. That an officer so removed should receive the pay of a majorgeneral, and retain his right of succession to the major-generals' establishment and to the command of a battalion. That every colonel, on removal to the reserved list, should have the option of retiring from the army on 6001. a year, with a step in honorary rank. That every officer, after completing 22 yetis' service, should have the absolute right to retire, with a step of honorary rank, and with an annuity according to the following scale, irrespec tive of pensions for wounds or distinguished service : :Cumber of probable Probable value Years' Annuity. of Berrie*. Ain Annuity. 22 £250 42 £3,270 1" =1: to 25 25 325 46 4,080 28 400 46 4,780 30 450 60 6,050 increasing by Ll 5 annually to 38 565 85 5,400 40 wo so 5,610 Th►t provision be made by parliament to enable an officer to compound (through the agency of the National Debt Office) his annuity for its " present value," regard being bad to his age and the state of his health, and the computation of value being made at 5 per cent. interest. (The fourth column in the above table shows the values of the proposed annuities on the assumption that the life is good, and that the officer obtained his commission at 20 years of age.) That no commutation of pension be allowed except on the retirement of the officer. That no officer be retired on half-pay except wounds or ill-health, and that officers rendered unfit for service by ill-health, be allowed to continue on the half-pay list, what ever their length of eervloe may have been, power being retained to bring them back to their former place in the corps when pronounced fit for duty. Your committee would refer to the evidence given by his Royal Iligbneu the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, with respect to officers placed on temporary half-pay. That it should be in the discretion of the military autbori ties to employ or not any officer who shall have acquired the right to retire on a pension. That retirement from the Marines should be governed by similar regulations, the maximum annuity being (1001., except in the case of an existing colonel commandant, whose annuity may be 700/. • year. It will be necessary, in future arrangement. with the government of India, to provide for tho due propor tion of tho coat of the retirement, of Artillery and Engi neer offioers being defrayed from Indian revenues." It is expected that the Reform Bill will be re turned to the Lower House on Thursday next. The Lords' amendments will then have been printed, and the Monday following may open the discussion in the Commons. The select committee of the Common. on the Ecclesiastical Titles Act held its last meeting yesterday, with closed doors, in order to consider the report. Mr. M'Evoy, the chairman, proposed • report advising the repeal of the act, and Mr. Walpole proposed another in the opposite genie ; the original motion being carried by the casting vote of the chairman. The report was then taken is detail, with a division on each paragraph ; and finally it was affirmed as a whole. On each division the conservatives all voted on one side, the liberals on the other, and in every instance it was the casting vote of the chairman which carried the point. Mr. Chatterton, the Irish Attorney-General, was absent. If he had been pre sent, of course, Mr. Walpole, who was now so steadily defeated, would have been as uniformly victorious. The Army and Nary Gazette states that some of the most eminent shipbuilding firma have during the week sent in tenders for the construction of an armour clad Monitor for Melbourne. She is to he 2,107 tons burthen, twin screws, and, as she is intended solely for coast defence, she should not have any masts, and should be very low in the water. Among those called upon are the Thames Shipbuilding Company, the MillwallCompany, the London Engineering Cowpony. the Liverpool Ship buildiag Company, Mows. Laird Brothers, lac. Etc Erfurt. 4 08BORlill. Auouer 2. The Queen walked in the grounds this morning, accompanied by the Princess Louise and the Princess of Leiningen. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also walked out. The Hon. Emily Cathcart has succeeded the Hon. Harriet Phipps, as Maid of Honour in Waiting. The Hon. Mortimer Saarille West has arrived as Groom in Waiting. A deputation, introduced by Mr. C. S. Read, M.P., accompanied by Lord Eustace Cecil, M.P., Sir M. E. Hicks Beach, Bart., M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel J. Bourne, M.P., Sir Charles Russell, Bart., M.P., Mr. J. A. Blake, M.P., Mr. Neville Grenville, M.P., Colonel Loyd Lindsay, M.P., and Mr. J. F. Maguire, M.P., and consisting of Messrs. George Dickson, George Eve, John Hoyland, Henry Cook, Thomas Walton, jun., J►mes Page, William Eve, Alfred Welch, Frederick Whitbread, Thomas Burrell, and John Weller (Secretary of the Home Cattle Defence Association), had an interview with Lord Robert Montagu, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, yester. day, on the subject of the existing restriction upon the foreign trade in cattle. Adeputation from the Educational Institute of Scotland, the Burgh and Parochial Schoolmasters, the Free Church Teachers' Association, and the Association of Certificated Teachers in Scotland, accompanied by Mr. Robertson, of Ledykik, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, at the Home-office, yesterday. A deputation, consisting of Mr. C. H. Stewart (Stewart, Slandervrick and Co.), Mr. Walter Low (Temple and Co.), and Mr. C. H. Harvey (Harvey and Devitt), had an inter view with the Right Hod. Stephen Cave, at the Office of the Board of Trade, yesterday, in respect to the Merchant Shipping Act, with reference to anti-scorbutic for foreign going ships. His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a levde at one o'clock on Wednesday next, the 7th inst. The Duke of Cambridge arrived at Gloucester House, Park.lane, yesterday evening, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Richmond at Goodwood Park. The Princess Mary Adelaide and the Princede Teck will leave town in the ensuing week for Germany. Mr. Warren, the IrishSolicitor-General, hasagreed to come forward as a candidate for the representation of the University of Dublin in the event of the promotion of Mr. Chatterton to the newly-created office of Vice-Chan cellor of Ireland. To-night is the last of the short but brilliant season of French plays. A Wesleyan missionary, the Rev. W. G. Camp bell, stationed at Athlone, ham been stoned at the village of Gra:mud. QUEEN CAROLINE AND ERR SON-IN-LAW.—In the course of the reminiscences written for the Queen by the late King of the Belgians, and printed in en appendix to the "Early Life of the Prince Consort," the King, in writing of the time when he was "Prince Leo. pold," the period being just after the death of his first wife, the Princess Charlotte, says :—"Queen Caroline's arrival in June threw the whole country into confusion. Prince Leopold's position became nnbearingly distressing between the King and the Queen Caroline. A severe Meese of his mother, the Dowager Ducheu of Cobourg, would have given a colour to his leaving Eng land to keep out of the painful struggle which was going on. It was much wished by the King, who employed Lord Lauderdale in this sad affair ; but bow abandon entirely the mother of Princess Charlotte, who, though she knew her mother well, loved her veer much? The Prince determined not to interfere till the evidence sided the Queen should be closed, en that whatever he might do could not influence the evidence. This decision was evidently the most honest and the most impartial. He waited till the evidence was closed, and then paid a visit to his mother-in-law at Brandenburg House. She received him kindly, looked very strange, and said strange things. The country was in • state of incredible excitement, and this visit was a great card for the Queen. It had an effect on the Lords which it ought not to have had, as it could not change the evidence ; but it is certain that many lords changed, and ministers came to the certainty that the proceedings could not be carried further. They proposed that the measure should be given up. The King, who had been, it must be confessed, much maltreated during this sad trial, was furious, and particularly against Prince Leopold. He Dever forgave it, being very vindictive, though he occa sionally showed kinder sentiments, particularly during lir. Canning's being minister. He, of mane, at first de. dared be would never see the prince again. However, {he Digt, of brk 82TIRLDRI en interview, The Kill could not resist his curiosity, and gost Prince Leonid to sell him bow Queen Caroline was dreamed and all sorts of details." Of the circumstances of Princess Charlotte's death, the King awe :—" November saw the ruin of this balmy home, and the destruction at one blow of every hope and happi ness of Prince Leopold. He has never recovered the feel. ing of happiness which bad blessed his short married life." A note by the Queen, stating that the Princess died in childbed a few hour after the birth of a stillborn son, adds—" Had she been skilfully treated, her life at least would have been saved." BRITISH ARCELEOLOOICAL ASSOCIATION.—Lo D- Low, FmoAT.—The proceeding' of last niAht's meeting for discussion and the reading of papers was e most interee,- ing of the week. Mr. Gordon Wills read a communication which he had just received from Mr. Jackman,of Leint wardine, respecting an important discovery, in an archeological point of view, that had bean made in some fields at Broadwood Hall, Creighton, near Leintwardine. The Rev. W. Perton gave a highly interesting description of a very ancient originally Saxon church at Stottesden, near Cleobury Mortimer, which was illustrated by admir able drawings. Mr. Dillon Croker read a paper on Milton's Masque of Come, which wupsrformed in Ludlow Castle in 1634. Mr. Cocking read some interesting remarks on the remains of the Austin Friary at Ludlow, which was accidentally discovered when digging on the site of the present cattle market in 1861. A few remark/ were offered by the chairman end Mr. Wills, who bad visited the spot when the foundations were laid open. To day the excursion programme was a very lengthened one. The excursionists set out in numerous carriages from Lud low as early as nine o'clock, and would not return before seven or eight. The first object visited was Aston Church, and some ancient tumuli not far off. Lemthall Starke, Church was then passed, and the church described by the Rev. W. Williams. The party next pro ceeded to Wigmore Castle, Abbey, and Grange. This retired and out-of-the-world spot was once, no doubt, a place of some importance. The castle was given to Mortimer, who came from Normandy with the Conqueror. The Priory was founded by one of his heirs about 1179. Only a small portion of the ancient castle remains. Edward 111. was entertained here on his journey into Wales. From Wig. more to Downton Castle, the meat of Mr. A. Boughton Knight, was the next stage. This is a modern residence, built at the close of the last century. The scenery around is very beautiful. Mr. Knight entertained the party to luncheon, after which they were to visit other places on their way back to Ludlow. ST. J AMU'S PARK ON A MAY MORNING. —Two unumbulators only were circling round the Ornamental Water ; the blue-nosed babies scowled at one another as they passed, and the red-wiisted propellers gave each other • glance of eulkysympathy,aa fellow martyrs to mistresses' insanely insolent oppression. A small percentage of the usual sad and seedy occupants of the Park benches sat upon them as usual in sombre silence—the only expression in their lack-lustre, hopeless eyes intimating an intention, apparently, of going on sitting there—poor shabby The seuses—for ever ; upon one, /pair of idiotic lovers hilted and weed with chattering teeth ; but otherwise they were un tenanted, the sparse representatives of the general public foolish enough to frequent the Park on such a day having, for the most pert, nevertheless, sense enough left to keep themselves warm by taking active exercise. The woman in charge of the wire and wooden chairs, artfully arranged to lure the inexperienced into a belief that they are pro vided by a paternal government for the gratuitous accom modation of its lieges, now lurked in corners, and now made sig.:mg dashes like a hurgry spider, in faint hope that some weary fly might fall, or had fallen, into her web. Angrily she shook the courier's bag dangling at her side, which returned no grateful clink of clashing coppers. A smoking bricklayer's labourer, a solemn Guardsman, a tailor on and three small children, hung over the Suspen sion-bridge, stolidly watching a wherry eccentrically pulled by two little bare and bullet-headed Bluecoat boys, with aPernite strokes, two tobbydehoys in two other boats l ply fouling each other without the interchange of a c aylit e ie, and a Cockney canoeman somewhat splashingly playing his paddle and poetically fancying himself—as in deed, so far as climate was concerned. he might have done wi•hout any great stretch of imagination—a Red Indian afloat upon a Canadian lake. The other craft, which on bright days skim the dimpled pond like dragon-flies, were all clustered at the hiring-places, chafing their aides as if to keep themselves warm, and giving one smother spiteful pokes with their sharp converged noses. The black swans sulked as if they wished themselves back in Australia. The other water-fowl tucked up their toes, and bell a " meeting of the unemployed" under the lee of the boom that stretches across the pond. A sour-looking old gentleman in muffetees and a comforter was the only one upon the banks who made a show of crumbs, and he was a deceiver. He beguiled the ducks chore by proffers of biscuit, and then threw it over their beads to the sparrows, who carried it off to the time in triumph, whilst the quack ing waddlers toiled after them in vain. A clammy grey mist hun,g over the water, the flower beds, and the lawns ; slumps of trees, only a few yards off, dipped their branches in an upper lake of vapour which evened half their Mama. 4spasy for August. THE WEEKLY PRESS. Considering what the Lords have done the Examiner says the tones have been trying to take back part of what they professed to have given only the other day. They take infinite pains to breed and train a com petitor for the gold cup of popular confidence, and just at starting they set about maiming and laming their steed, lest by chance he should win. What may happen in the Commons to the new device of limited voting the Examiner does not think it very m►terial to inquire ; but for the large towns the maintenance of the lodger franchise as ori ginally adopted is essential; for the Scotch and many of the English counties the restoration of the copybold quali fication to Si. is all-important ; and for the purity and in dependence of every contested constituency in the United Kingdom the rejection of the pestilent scheme of private voting by papers, instead of public voting by word of mouth, is a point so critical that with many it is already set in the balance as a counter-weight to the worth of household suffrage. The independent liberals secured for the Reform Bill ■ second reading distinctly upon the con dition that compound householding and the occupation of permanent lodgings should not be suffered to disqualify men for its benefits. So far as the abolition of com pound rating is concerned, there has been no departure from the engagement publicly contracted. But what jus tifies or what can justify a breach of the remainder! According to the Spectator it seems to be understood that the change in the copybold franchise will pus un noticed in the Commons. The increased lodger qualifica tion will be rejected and the representation of minorities will give rise to a sharp debate, ending in a vote in which the confusion of parties will be worse confounded. The ex periment, which only affects twelve seats, will, however, in all probability, be tried. The Spectator is not surprised to hear that Mr. Disraeli intends to resist the change in the lodger franchise, or that London is half inclined for a demonstration. Lord Malmesbury is always getting his party into some scrape or other, and this is a serious one. The total rejection of the lodger franchise as including the principle of universal suffrage would bavebeen intelligible, but this change is a mere explosion of caste feeling, as un wise as it is small. To the Saturday Review, it is difficult to understand bow ministers can in the same breath proclaim that the resi- duum is conservative, and yet shrink from fixing the lodger franchise at a figure which will permit the lodger residuum to vote. Rut it is now lef , to the House of Commons to determine what the figure finally chosen shall be, and our contemporary supposes there can be little doubt that the Commons will restore the figures which they had fixed on for ledgers in boroughs and eopyholdera in counties. Even if, from sheer weariness of the whole subject and from the nen-attendance of liberal members, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. lisona's TaLso imu.) THE CANDIAN QUESTION. VIENNA, AUGUST 3. It is stated that the negotiations of Baron von Boust with Fuad Paella with reference to the Candian question have remained without moult. The Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs has, however, consented to lay the proposals for an international inquiry before the Divan and to recommend their adoption. The Divan will meet in a few days at Ruatschuck, whither the Ministers of the Porte have been summoned by the Sultan. Definitive replies to the identical notes of France, Russia, Prussia, and Italy, as well as to the note of Austria, will be forwarded from Rustachuck. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Arcun 3. It is announced to-day on reliable authority that the Emperor Napoleon will not leave Paris until the 16th of August. He will arrive at Salz burg on the 17th, and remain there until the 19th inst. The Emperor Napoleon will not come to Vienna. HUNGARY. PESTI!, AUGUST 3. The delegates elected by the Hungarian Diet to confer with the Austrian delegates on the final settlement of the future relations between Hungary and Austria, leave here for Vienna on the ith instant. Since January of the present year the Pzussian government has purchased 27,000 horses in Hun gary. EGERZEG, Alwyn 1. General Perezel has been elected as deputy for this town to the Hungarian Diet. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Anne? 3. Count Bismarck has arrived here and left again immediately for Ems. SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, Aucumr Y. M. Behic, the French Minister of Commerce has arrived here from Paris, and has been received by the Prince Regent. AMERICA. Artravic ratzmura.) NEW YORK, AUGUST 2, 6 P.Y. The radicals have carried the Tennessee elections. The New York aid Bremen steamer Baltic arrived out yesterday. Closing prices :—Gold, 1401. Sterling exchange on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1121. Illinois, 1181 ; Erie, 7th. Cotton : Middling Up land, 28. PHILADELPHIA, Accesr 2. Petroleum, standard white, 321. DESTRUCTION OF LAMB AND STERRY s PARAFFIN WAX REFINERY. INTIMATED DAMAGE, ElOO,OOO. The moat extensive conflagration that has 00 , curred for some years in the neighbourhoods of Bother hithe and Deptford broke out last night, and was g em ening at the Sure this report was written, vu., In 0.1 4 4 a.m. The premise* whichiad recently b een erected &treat cost, covered ready half an acre of land. They stood at the rear of some private dwellings, and near the Old Jolly Wall Tavern in the Itotherbithe New-road. The vsei oe ; floors were fitted up with powerful machinery, and the stores contained several hundred barrels of is siv u whi'et the warehouses were filled with the !timed wax. About half-past 10 o'clock lain night some pe n " lashed into the Old Jolly Wall and cried out " Tle works are on fire." A sudden panic seemed to seize everyone present, it being well-known that the contents of the pre. miles, besides being of such an ignitable cluic.c:, r , would, if the fire continued, explode with fearful vi n : lenoe, and such ur fortunately was the case. Before the engion an ived huge bodies of flame shot up 50 feet into the ai r . The fire soon reached three newly-built houses, t em p Alexander-cottages, and in a few minutes they were de. strayed. The large skin factory of Mr. Moore, situate be. bind his dwelling-house, was next &necked, and our quickly in a blare. The London Salvage Corps rolled On some hundred barrels of oil and casks of wax, whilst the paraffin, in • complete state of ignition, our running along the other buildings. In the centre If the front houses was • pair of gates, leading to the r.. finery. The firemen went down this gateway ; whij e e they were directing the water into the press-n ew one of the vats exploded, making • fearful noise, esd before they could got away three of them, named Rog ers , Grimsha and Palmer, became surrounded with Mune, and were so seriously injured that th e y b a d to la taken to the hospital. Another and louder explosion t oo t place shortly after, and blew down some of the ma. By 10 o'clock all danger of explosion was over. As is the origin of the disaster, nothing is known. About thirty workmen will be thrown out of employment. The Ices is estimated at 100,000!. SUSPECTED MURDER OP A WOMAN IN MILS. END NEW TCWN. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This forenoon Mr. Humphrey., the Middlesex corms, held an inquest at the Sugar Loaf Tavern, Church-street, Mile-end New To, respecting the death of a women whose name was unknown, aged about 40 years. Police-constable Shepperd 43 H, said that on b i t Wednesday morning at half-past eight o'clock Its found the deceased lying on the pavement in Leman-street, and aa she appeared to be intoxicated he removed her to the Leman-street station. He had ken the same woman an hour before staggering up Leman. street. Police-sergeant Saunders, 17 H, said that when he cues into the station he' found the deceased lying Ce tks floor in the lobby, with a pillow under her head. She hid been placed there to give her air. Ho sent ice the police surgeon, who ordered her removal to the wok. house infirioary. Poliowoonstable Sheppard said that be thought that tbe deceased had been out all night. He knew the woman by sight. Sergeant Sanders said that every effort had been ends to discover who the deceased was, but without snow She was not locked up in a cell. She was speseblees sad insensible, and apparently drunk. She was carried ea stretcher to the 'Whitechapel Workhouse. Mary Jane Griffiths ' nurse at the workhouse infirmary, , said that the deceased was brought into the workhouse at Wilmot 2 o'clock. She was quite unconscious and cm. tinned so up to the time of ber death, which took place half-past 4 o'clock. She bad le. 6d. in her pocket. Ho clothing was clean and comfortable. Dr. E. Richardson said that on Wednesday he was called to see the doomed, and found her in a state of itataii. bility. She had an epileptic convulsion. The pan mortem examination of her body proved that there ens severe bruises and scratches on her arms. Her back lied both legs were also scratched. There was a scratch on the inside part of one of her thighs. Coroner—Could that mark have been caused by a fall! Witneres—l do not think so. 0011111111 r—Do yes think the* was self-infcted! Witness—l do not. There it was a wound li behind the right ear an inch in length, and I do not think that wood could have been caused ley a fall. There was a most sewn wound behind the left ear, and her nose was split up. There was the mark of a blow on the right eye. Upon opening the head I found a large aecumuktien blood under the left hemisphere of the brain. The bnia and all the °rpm; of the deceased's body were healthy. There was no sign about the body that she was a worm' given to drink. The cause of bee death was the effuses on the brain. The wounds on her body could sot have been caused by a fall. A juror said that the deceased might have been blocked stupid by some person before the police came up and MI her staggering along the street. The July, after a short consultation, returned a ver,!iff that the deceased woman expired from the effusion os the brain from injuries to the head, but how or nada what circuuistances she . salee by the said violence ibue was not evidence before the jary - to rove. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SATURDAY, A 00138? 3, 6 Lt. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (7110 X 0171 OWN PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. The Bourse opened with higher quotations than yesterday, but as soon as the transactions con nected with the settlement were completed prices gave way. Rente, quoted at onetime at 69fr. 26c. and 69fr. 100., closed at 69fr. both for cash and account, with a fall of 15c. and 17ic. ; Italian fell 52}c., closing at 48fr. 90c. Other securities were considerably affected by the downward reaction. Mobilier fell l2fr. 50c. ; Credit Fonder, Mr. ; Comptoir d'Escompte, 2fr. 50c. ; and the Northern Railway Mr. The other lines remain without change. The 1 1, 7 1 in Typers inflkl from the vehement u. surances of. the Moniteurs (big and little) that no diplomatic step whatever has been taken by Franoe concerning Schleswig—that the French govern ment, not seeing its way to any forward step, for the moment has "caved in." This is the opinion of that very National Gazette from which the Moniteur yesterday absurdly quoted a garbled paragraph for the purpose of propping up its own falsehoods. The most probable explanation of this imbroglio is that M. Lefevre de Behaine, a young diplomatist who, in the absence of M. Benedetti, is French chargd d'affaire,s at Ber lin, finding that in the course of a diplomatic " con versation" with M. de Thile (M. de Bismarck's locum tenens) he was unfavourably listened to, and being asked whether his language was warranted by his instructions, lost his temper, pulled his in structions out of his pocket, and read part of a despatch which was intended to have been " confi dential." It is this despatch which the French government now thinks it politic publicly to dis avow. The Salzbourg interview is the thing now looked forward to ; but that I doubt will be a deception. I The papers which say according to a mot d'ordr e that there will be nothing political in the mourning interview between Napoleon 111. and the Emperor of Austria at Salzbourg are nevertheless hunting up the history of the place in search of analogies. It was at Salzbourg that an interview took place in 803 between Charlemagne and the ambassi dors of the Emperor Nicephorus I. Other par ticular► about Salzbourg are that it is about 100 miles from Vienna, contains 16,000 inhabitants, was an'independent archbishopric in the 12th cen tury, became secularised in 1803, was immediately erected into an electorate, became part of Bavaria in 1809, and was ceded to Austria in 1814. It was moreover the birth place of Mozart. I was misled the other day when I stated that the blank column and a half in the Cologne Gazette of July 31 was peculiar to a special issue for circulation in France. The censorship which led to the hiatus was exercised by M. de Bis marck's subordinates in Prussia. The article eliminated is said to have advocated the execu tion of the treaty of Prague in the way demanded by France. When ►t Vienna the Sultan ►ppeared much fatigued by his long journey. The Emperor was seldom seen in public with the Sultan, but the latter was often accompanied by one or other of the Archdukes. The Empress is at IschL This, of course, is in consequence of the deep mourning the court is now in, and not from any want of cordiality on the part of the Emperor. The Sultan occupied the same apartments at Sconbrunn as Napoleon occupied in 1810. They were magnificently fitted up for his reception and are extensive and commodious, but the mite of the Sultan complained very much of being over crowded. - -- There are at the present time five steam packet communications from Southampton to Hontlenr, three to St. Melo, five to Havre, and two to Carenton. Large quantities of cattle are imported into England from France by means of these packets. PROGRESS or AVSTRALIA. —ln 1865 the imports into the Australian colonies reached 35,000,000/., and the exports 30,000,0001. Within the last sixteen years New South Wales and Victoria have yielded 1.50,000,0001. worth of gold, and New South Wales has produced 5,000,000 tons of coal. South Australia has also, within the last ten years, exported 5,000,00 W. worth of copper. The tonnage of vessels which arrived at Australasian ports in 1865 was 2,000,000, and a similar amount' of tonnage left those ports during the lams period. Arty Tears ago the number of horses, cattle , sad sheep in Australia was wader 400,000: the umber is now nearly 35,000,000. lUDIARKS. The barometrical which hi now generally inreaeng over the Brain!' Ides, hr eluaged bet little shire yesterday. Winds ore uorthweeterly sad aght, and winither tine. COFRT OF COMMON COUNCIL. —At a meeting , d the Common Council held at Guildhall yestentsy. the Lord Mayor read the subjoined communication, which had been addressed to his lordship by the Earl of Derby, tm• ferr.ng upon him, by command of the Queen, the dignity of a baronet:—" 25, St. James's-square, July 29. My dear Lord,—l am happy to say that I received free the Queen last night her Majesty's sanction to my MO& mendation that the dignity of • baronet of the United Kingdom should be conferred upon your lordship, in cow mensuration of the visits of the two illustrious poteatatas the Sultan and his powerful vassal, the Viceroy el Egypt, whom your lordship has had the distinguishei honour of receiving on behalf of the City in a manse worthy in all respects of this great metropolis. manes Majesty has been further pleased to direct that Si. honour of knighthood should he conferred upon the tin sheriffs who Lave been associated with your looldup epa this occasion. I have much pleasure in offering to you of congratulations upon your weU merited honour ; and ha's the honour to be, my dear lord, yours faithfully, Utast The Hight Hon, the Lord Mayor.' The letter was ordered to be entered en the journals of the court. Mr. Stapelteg moved that it be referred to a committee to ensile whether it would not be advisable to make such weariest alterations in Guildhall as would render it tit torecene the noble and distinguished visitors who were coostaffil being invited to visit the corporation. He said that der* the last sixteen years no less than 50,0011/. had en. pended by the corporation merely for the purpose Been. porary erections when distinguished persons were vited to the City, and he considered it was most olrinfflo that some change should be made. Upon a diciest the motion was carried by a majority of 11-45 number, being, for the motion 54 ; against it. Os The election of a clergyman to fill the appointtuest of rec tor of St. Peter's-upon-Cornhill was peons - dot with' There were five candidates on the list, hut (wily three Po* tented themselves, namely, the Venerable William Earls 8.D., Archdeacon of Ely, and Honorary Chsphis MO* Cambridge University Rifles; the ltev. From is Osbero• Gifford, If A., of St. John's College, Oxford. and Vies: of Hartley Whitney, Hartford-bridge, Hants ; oral she Rev. Richard Whittington, of Trinity College. esmlcidger one of the Masters of Merchant Tayl ors' S c h o ol.. man in charge, and evening lecturer of St Petees.on.Conlill. Between these candidates it had b ee n arranged that • poll should take place to reduce the number to two, and the result of that poll showed the votes to stand ss —For the Rev. Mr. Whittington, 1 :6; ; for the Veturdde Archdeacon Emery, :13 ; and for the Rev. Dlr. :"" On the announcement of the number* Arehdr.con Eu,ry and Mr. Giffard retired from further contest, sosl the R. V. Mr. Whittington was declared to he duly presented by the court to the rectory of St. Peter's, Ccrnhill. that NATIONAL REFORM UNION.—WC paCCITI! the Notional Reform Union will hold a fourth Peet " 4 ' l " meeting on Wednesday eve ning nest, to protest sgs". ll . the so-called amendments of the House of Lords Tsar" u three ing the lodger franchise, voting p the apers. rte p . cornered constituencies. Mr. Mer , Ilagh Torrey,. • ,;( will preside on the occasion, and the following metek_7_,. parliament have promised to attend and address Off °"7. lug : — The Right Hon. G. Joachim Coaches. Mr., Thoww Hughes, Mr. James Stansfeld, and Mr. George tb : newly-elected member for Birmingham. As St. Jitme% Hall is engaged every night next week. the meeting be held in the Queen's Concert-rooms, Hanover-sqmo. 13 o'clock. s. W. I F t . o Extz ,---- 1 --N m e. 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