The Express. — London, England, 1868-09-01 00:00:00

QUER N' 8 THEAT R B, Long-acre. II Anaemia—EL W. H. LUTON. TNS LANCASHIRE LAIN W Hoary J. Eyre& boring bows received Wyo.:hoot its parlennowoo with tho grooton slam. by coconbyl and elated andloyera, will ba roprotwl XV?RY TEtfl No. ay a aaaysor to R. eowelodint punotoollY at -•--- - - - HE LANCASHIRE LANS, at s quarter to N . T Tho 41y wowytrations m toms. of 'The Lonosohiro lAto aro loud and Ur1,1••••••••,..-Timm, rintE LA.\ CASII 11LE LASS, at a gitiarter to 8. JR. •• At oth, r times t h e unthugiams slurped up beyond r .ntrol, and bur , . of uf plauou Meets, rout mart at tuuttliferodief., ur voted the sum,. of tLe turn and hangar," —The Nahum from the Ciotti. grnE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8. - Tbp Nees thaourbout tree elbetlealp week sad the ten. saliecal natu .r of the plot keeps the esulketee t • perpetual state of ernitenant."—llluntnkted London Neve. rrnE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to R. On ft* olen,nd mpg...natation was nordhed own groats &prism* than on Ow psvninic n< prodisetinft." — nactr Tanginigh• 91HE.LANCASULILE LAM, at a ? va s r . tor to 8. 0 A 1,,,c rue ma 7 Do oeyelinted tor the sad. when Londe* firs span. it will be Y great •10ea We Oolloon Saws.'" —Daily News. 711H13 LANCAtiIiIRS LAI3B. at a quarter to 8. -8. Alboarther. jodpiaer men tho interest of do pito" tbe eeneeeoe oe lb. ...flag, sad the beauty of the woonary. to my but=.b. larro and nightly-anaemia( audierboat 'The lASI' will form a Douros of attraction for as loac • period as any aroma that hoe latoly besa prodneott "--Stantta L ---- YCEI THEATRE.—Mr. FAIRCLOUGH ld barber masse an eztraordinary moons on hngis Nat nos in Befriend. he the honour of sonsari NVER"FrEhI ING daring the will week have in Hminatr. 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Tens Erzwnro, METIRLY BRIL7IC/L—THE MELD 07 TH7I CLOTH 07 CiOLD.—And MARBIAOI AT ANT PRIM BRITANNIC/. Tors E►na*, THE TERROR OF LONDON. Mames. so t : molds, Charlton, ftwood, Ito.; Mesdames M. Henderson, Ike.— r. H. Ri Orville Parker. Mr. C. Woodman.—The Thud Act of FAZIO.—Amd THE BAY OF SWAY. HIGH WATER AT LONDON_BRIDGZ.. To-Der —Morning, lh. 45m. -Afternoon, 2h. 2m. To-Mearow —Morning, 2h. leen Afternoon, 214 36116 NOTICE. NOTICIN of MIMI, MAZZIAOSII, Iltad DRATIIIN We maned until it o'olsek for insertion woe e►ening. Price ie. Ott LOA - DON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 1. TVINKLE IN THE STUBBLE,!. laritoron the modern system of shooting in iAttries more or lees deprives a bad shot of display ing his powers of missing to advantage, still he occasionally manages to triumph over the difficul ties in his way, and to exhibit his capacity for lodging charges in anything but the birds. A keeper knows a Wiwituit at once. Wiwiruz still retains a belief in the sporting virtues of costume, and his tailoring for the stubblee is perfection it self. His gun is in the nattiest order, and his language is technical to a degree. The keeper, with a prospective eye to his half-crowns, humours him to the top of his bent. He never for a moment is deceived by the knickerbockers, or the terms borrowed from the erudite " Stonehenge," but it is his business to pretend to swallow WINKLE pure and simple. It is wonderful also how Wnex.LE manages to the last minute to escape the keen judgment of the gentleman to whose preserves he has been invited. tip to the moment that he sends a dog or a beater whimpering after a rather dangerous show of awkwardness, he sustains the reputation he has claimed. Of course the im postor is ultimately as completely exposed as the great original in " Pickwick." This day will see many a pretended votary of Sr. PARTRIDGE compelled to surrender the fame he has acquired on his own statements. When the season is a bad one, and the birds weak on the wing —when, in fact, the coveys are so backward as to be composed mostly of choepers, your Wurxr..x is not so easily found out. At such a time you might make a fair bag with a walking stick. But this year the partridges are strong and vigorous. The weather has been favourable for their increase and for their develop ment. Instead of fluttering up weakly and irre gularly from the turnips in such a Style ea to enable our Wriirrma to remember that he has a gun in his hands, they are certain to rise with a loud rattle and whirr which usually deprives the sort of sportsman we refer to of his senses, and makes him see those fireworks which LEECH reprlalanlild as the effect of a pheasant upon the nerves of a Cockney when the bird was flushed under his nose. The feeling of a WIRELR in the partridge field is similar to that overwhelming mood known as stage fright. Here is the very place in which he was wont to brag of his prowess. What if he fails to hit everything ? Under the most fashionable custom of the present day, aa we have observed, he may escape immediate notice. He may even manage to claim several birds which have fallen to his neighbours' guns, and indeed Wiwi - Les have been known to do this while the cartridges remained all the while aa they were in their barrels. But bring Wurxtn into the stubble, turnip, or potato field with another gun, and a brace of dogs. Place him near the hedges for two reasons. Ho cannot so easily pepper the pointers there, and he is more certain to miss completely than if be fired from a more advantageous position. It is quite fair to do this, for in nine cases out of tea where he dot/ ouch a bird he simply wounds it, when it e. to die miserably. To be sure, now and drives the whole ounce and • quarter into I T ridge, and hawks the bird into a pul and feathers, but this is a mere chaitr+ st frequently occurs by the gun going Eff ; own account at least, tbM is, before WINKLE has at all broaght it to Lis shoulder. Yet let us not be unkind to WINKLE, There is no one after all who is so welcome to a day's shooting by himself as he. He may indeed render the birds wild, but be will not thin them appre ciably. He is invariably generous to the keepers, and his stories when the wine is up are not un amusing, from their being so much out of propor tion with the performances you have had the plea sure of witnessing. Then there must be bad shots to show off the amok ones, and WINKLE permits his eye to be wiped with good grace and good humour enough. A sulky WINKLE is an intolera ble nuisance. He tries to pass off his want of skill upon his gun, upon the light, upon having smoked too much the night previously, upon every thing, and he begins to curse and growl. This sort of WINKLE should, if he perseveres in such a style, be as summarily dealt with as his great ancestor, whose gun Mr. ricrerici called upon the shooting party to take .away. You will have no comfort with him until luncheon time, when a jaidolls application of beverages may reduce him to 3 Christian and a sportsman-like frame of mind. It must be said, however, that the type of sulky WINKLE is rare. The fellowship of partridge shooting, and the genial hospitable manner in which it is carried out in England, would render Thalami= temporarily amiable. Then, after dinner, all mon are equal, and WINKLE is allowed to relate his experiences, independent of his little mishaps during the day. No one would be ill-bred or unkind enough to bring up to confront him those outrageous misses which contributed not a little to the fun of the proceedings, and it is a peculiarity in the nature of a true WINKLE that he eves remains utterly unconscious of the opinions which his listeners entertain of his deadly aim. We are surprised that our sporting contempo raries do not attempt to cure the Wiwriats, or to turn them in some manner to account. You never hear of these gentry in the Field or in Land and Water though you may find hundreds of specimens just now preparing to bang away right and left throughout the length and breadth of England. It may be remembered that the Pickwickian thought of reforming his shooting by fastening a stuffed bird to a pole, and then firing at it from gradual distances, but Mr. We:Lt.'s put this idea out of court by relating the precedent of the gentleman who tried the thing but once and never saw as much as a feather of the stuffed bird afterwards. Here, however, was a confession on Mr. Wilma's part and a desire for improvement. Our sporting contem poraries should endeavour to satisfy the require ments of the class. The Wnrimze would not, we imagine, fire so crookedly if they could help it. Since old Haynie ceased to write few attempts have been made to teach shooting as an art. The worst of it is, however, that shooting is almost as bard to teach as poetry, and that may be the reason why the Field does not try it. Besides, it may be on the other hand, that WLYKLE prefers to miss. When ho does hit he enjoys his success treble-fold. To all who shoot in his company, however, this week, we venture to impart one piece of advice: Give him as wide a berth as possible, and never allow him an oppor tunity of favouring you with an uncomfortable prospect which he often tries to display—a sight of the interior of his gun, seen from the muzzle. ia Oaloutta. GENERAL PEEL. THE EXPRESq, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBrR 1, 1868. Ix:General Psim's letters which appeared in the Te,'n of this morning, in defence of the increased army expenditure, there is a concluding sentence which we are sure will be read by men of all . parties and opinions with equal and sincere regret. General Pm announces that he is " not a " eaadidate for a seat in the next Parliament." There aro names and faces which will be missed rather than wanted in the new Parliament; but Liberals and Conservatives alike will mark with a EA. staff et meimato to enpoilto timer hassnlost rooms. Nothing will ever periwido the piano that t a brook- 71W Winn' Übe two waggon-loads of wails &mild tiara Imo left ter a single instant with maim a mM . upon it not break flied. Oae or the other there oagbt to have beta ; and ii it be maintained that railways cannot afford tha, daft of men sunksient for midi precautions, parliamiat will have to interfere and assert the aldose of publicise /ft ' over the predits of private enterprise. If, observes the Pot, a system of government Mime den bad been in tome, in all home probability the tate /aortal dieser", as well as others of a similar kind, would never have oocured; for sorely no government inspector would ham permitted for a moment a "pick up" goods train to run in front of a last express with such a short in terval of time between them. Everything, it thinks, points to the eventual mumpticet by the state of the whole rail way system. As to the causes of the disaster, the evidence of spch railway servants as have yet been examined memo to place it beyond reamnahle doubt, in the opinion of the 7194- graph, that cardamom at the Llandulas siding imme diately led to the catastrophe. Evidently the goods train was so Long that it emboorreseed the men at the siding ; it is not absolutely certain that, even by " squeeing," the whole could. hpve been accommodated there. In any case, ou the very spot where all this olunr.y manouivring of a train 600 feet long was going forward, the Irish mail was due in three minutes. pain the absence of one whose noble and charm ing personal qualities and high-souled political integrity have so well sustained the honour of a name that must ever be dear to England. Liberals who have watched General PERL's career will heartily acknowledge that the new parliament could better spare many a man of more " liberal" opinions. The character of our public men is a more precious possession to the country than their professed political creed, and there are reasons for apprehending that it may become lees difficult to replace a Tory by a Liberal member, than a Tory or a Liberal member by an honest gentleman. NE WS. ALLIANOR ND SPAIN. :iag explanation wau of the (limit from various indi cations, has already boon suspected to be import ant. If this journal may be believed, the mission .911, the' young couple is to induce the Emperor to o&svnt to a treaty of alliance offensive and &- kursive with Spain, which Queen Isabella has already been negotiating. but which wont off upon •oert.fn differences. It was about this proposed ' treatly that the Queen of Spain desired an inter vidwi, with Napoleon 111. The bases of a secret oonvbntion (what an attractive word that is, secret ") wore actually settled between France and /Sputa, inpursuanoe of which Spain undertook to furnish an army of 40,000 men and a naval sonadron to the Pope in case of a war between Franco and any European power. In return for tin Service Spain desired that France should en me, to protect Spain by an armed intervention in her dynasty should be attacked. The Em peror, it is said, was willing to protect r Spain against any attack from without; but hesitated to undertake to guarantee Isabella's dynasty against **tacks from within. It is, the Guidon says, to see whether those difficulties can be got over that the Count and Countess Girgonti have come to Fontainebleau to consult with the Em peror, M. Bouher, M. do Moustier, and M. Mon. It is further stated that the Count is charged with a confidential mission from his cousin Fmneis 11. to the Emperor. (711110001:1 sauna's .110ENCR.) THE BRAZILS. SEVERE FIGHTING AND LOSS OF LIFE. SOUTHAMPTON, Sur. 1. The Royal Mail steamship La Plata, from the Brazils, de., has arrived here with 96 passengers, 33,8871. in specie, and 1,561 packages of cargo, chiefly coffee. The British steamer Newton arrived at Bahia on the 11th August. Her Majesty's ship Falcon, from Australia, arrived at Rio on the sth, and was to leave for England on the 9th. The Gnat left Rio for China on the bth. The Narcissus and Egmont were at Rio when La Plata left. Intelligence from Rio Janeiro is to the Bth. On the 16th, in consequence of information received that the Paraguayans were evacuating Humaita,l2,ooo allies advanced against the works and captured a redoubt, but were compelled to retreat, during which the Paraguayans opened a terrible fire upon them. The Marquis do Caxiaa estimated the loss of the allies at 600, but other officers state that the loss was more. In a second engagement, on the :16th, the allies attempted to expel the Paraguayans from a battery in the Chacos, but were repulsed. A rout ensued, pursued by the Paraguayans. The loss of the allies is officially stated to be 550 men killed and wounded. The Paraguayans evacuated Humaita on the 25th, and unperceived by the allies, crossed over to the Chaco. The allies took possession, and found no food, but a considerable quantity of am munition, and 200 cannon, which had been spiked. Those of the waterside batteries were thrown into the river. In the rear of the River Tebi query General Lopez bad raised defences of a for midable character, extending to the centre of Paraguay, and beyond where ironclada could operate. To a 1 tempt taking these works, and follow Lopez to his arsenals and base of opera tions at Villa Rica, was considered impossible, and would have entailed a greater waste of life and treasure than even hitherto had been the case. The new ministry has postponed the elections for deputies and senators until January next. The United States gunboat Wasp will be allowed to go to Ascension to convey Mr. Washburn and family from Paraguay. The troubles in Corrientes had not terminated. trquiza placed 2,500 men upon the centre of the Rio frontier in observation of the government troops under General Mitre. The Monte Video Banks resumed operations upon the basis of the decree of the 16th ult., suspending specie payments for 20 months, and the issue is to be reduced to double the re mission, and the three per cent. to be called in monthly. The Buenos ityrrs Standard says that both en gagements in Paraguay resulted in favour of the Paraguayans. The attack upon Uumaita ended in a disastrous retreat, owing to the terrible execution of the Paraguayan artillery. The fire was irresis tible at all points, and the Paraguayans rent the air with their shouts as they butchered the unfortunate Brazilians who were hemmed in on all sides. The precise number killed was not known, but the divisions were literally cut to pieces. At Rio transactions of all kinds were limited. Money was abundant. Banks discount 9 per cent., but should the Government issue stock at a low figure the floating capital of the country will be absorbed into policies, and discounts attain a fabulous price. Exchange closed at 18 to 181. At Buenos Ayres trade was dull, and little doing in produce. Exchange, 50j to 31. The A venire of Naples confirms the announoe meut of the visit to that city of Ring Victor Emmanuel and the Prince and Princess of Piedmont in the middle of September. His Majesty is to remain there until the opening of the chambers. If the French functionary of the Second Empire could be regarded as a fair specimen of his countrymen, our neighbours would deserve the appellation which Voltaire bestowed upon them in a moment of disgust—UM potpie yak:. At a recent municipal banquet at Lille, the Prefect, not content with celebrating the virtues of the sovereign who had csownod the edifies after saving France, and calling the Empress "a saint," and the Prince Imperial " that noble child," proceeded in the fol lowing strain :—" Let us bow with devotion and respect before this Alves* 'Knit!, of genius, of hope, and of charity." Mgr. Luigi Pilippi, Bishop of Aquila, has just published a curious work on modern spiritualism. His eminence expounds the doctrine of tho church on the sub ject of good or rebellious angels, and shows that the fees with which people occupy themselves now-a-days have their prototype in the Old Testament as well as in the annals of the church. The King of Prussia ia expected at Kiel in the second week of September, and the necessary preparations are already being made in the chateau. During his stay in Schleswig-Holstein, his Majesty will be present at ma muerte of the 18th divicoa, and will afterwards visit Altona, Rendsburg, Schleswig, Flensburg, Sonderburg, and Oluckeburg. King William was at Coblenta when he heard of Count de Bismarck's accident; and being anxious to testify the sympathy ho feels for the Federal Chancel /Or, he immediately telegraphed to Varzin expressing his condoler°, with the minister, and congratulating him on having escaped re great a danger. Fsperimenta have just been made at La al'peacia, by order of the Italian Minister of Marine, to test the quality of a bed of coal recently discovered in the valley of the Taro by Colonel Leonard. A comparison warn made between this fuel and the best anthracite from Canliff, on board the steamer Anthien, and the result, relative to the speed attained, was quite satisfactory. Coal extracted from the Taro-pita was used to light the town of Sperm* and no perceptible difference was found between the gas produced and that from the combustible mildly employed. tule. The general election will take' place 0 ' .l 'hil'OltAltlES. i N. ~ her. Sir Jona LaiMIMI re- 111 . t .. . • Jan _ t. , meal t i i 1 1 AY.) volie 41 tio - 4 ,, . t 11. ~1 ( t... r '. it *pit . . hirao • ATABMOPIIII . _r.: . •'. the of the . note • i new : P :.. ' .J . • r retitle : 1 -to .. ii . i ... li . .11/ '3 e *ca e near Abe g e comment• to more t .... • t '• - ornalat-Inditt: . r• . ..m ''' e. • to b° . . ills .. . ocatemporarfen . . Timm draws attention - the en ititertating question or the nob]. p i . _ _._. s danger to which railway passengers are daily exposed by fl lends whether the new Tory Viceroy ' l -aou baring a Wag goods train between two (ant ones on the Ca/cetta before his order of mean, or whether the ame raft. Hut It it must be eo, and it racehorses and order of recall will be tha first official maw bruil-4bioeled wigwam sire* rue the same Mtn* an i that Toiio h m hi m f rom Downing-street as hh t Sin as well as they eon with OM another, it is evident arrival is Oaloutta. • .fire mangy ie babe touad in bargee akliiip pad i Igegiq - ' ithlt et servants to await. these hamar*** preetnsa. .......i__ _.., _..__ ................1.. •4 ...Ail. il.• 41.. 1.....1._... ....- • 4 ... le I r ••• N kTIII s i y.) IN _ I : ‘l l • Iti 1111:4 TR OF •• t- •• :. W ANTI • ... t aulots give* a very startlii the vibit to Pontahieblem and Countess dirgenti, which, frog ME. KNOX'S DISCRETION. ON Friday last, a young woman named Zefferey applied to the magistrate at Marlborough-street for assistance under these circumstances :—She was one of the servants at the Café Rkgence, Tichborne-street, having charge of the linen. On Thursday night, about 1 o'clock, she was awakened by finding a man in her bed. She seized the in truder, who was assaulting her with a criminal intent, and her cries succeeded in bringing the mistress of the house and several waiters into her room. Instead of giving her assistance, the waiters did all in their power to enable the man to escape. The man did escape, leaving behind him an umbrella, which had a crest upon it. That umbrella would enable her to identify the person who had assaulted her, but on applying for it she was told she could not have it. What she now wanted was an order from the ma gistrate to have the handle of the umbrella (the umbrella was broken) given up to her. The magistrate decided that he had no power to grant the applicant's request. We must suppose that this decision rests on some legal grounds, but it is desirable that these should be fully known, as the decision really hivolves a point of very considerable importance in our criminal juris prudence. Suppose, for example, that instead of criminal assault it had been a case of robbery, of grievone bodily injury, or even of murder, and that the person robbed or injured, or the friends of the murdered person, bad a fragment of something belonging to the criminal, a torn piece of hat, or handkerchief, a part of a tool or weapon broken in the scuffle, and that the other part had fallen into the hands of people who refused to give it up to the police. Could not a warrant be at once issued for its surrender, as essential to the ends of justice—as part of the evidence helping to identify the criminal, and directly connecting him with the crime ? And would not those who refused to give up such an important piece of evidence be regarded as abetting the criminal ? It seems diffi cult to imagine that there is no adequate legal provision to meet such a case as this. The success or failure of justice might in fact very much depend on securing evidence of this sort at once. In one of the great bank robberies about three years ago, for instance, a chisel belonging to one of the robbers was broken into the lock of a safe. The broken piece was found on examination in the lock, and the criminal was identified by the circumstance that this exactly fitted into a broken chisel found in his pocket. Suppose that in making his escape the robber had been seen to drop a chisel, and the people who picked it up refused to deliver it to the officers of justice. If those who had been robbed applied to a magistrate to assist them in securing it would he be compelled to refuse the application ? LORD MAYO'S DESTINATION. LORD Maim has taken leave of the electors of Cockermouth, and informed them that before the next general election ho shall have accepted the office of Governor-General of India. The CHIEF BRCRETARY Of IRELAND must be tired of a sedentary life, and smitten with a reckless passion for ad venture. It may be easier for him to accept the office of Governor-General of India than it is for the British and the Indian people to appreciate the prudence and propriety of the appointment, and the prospective advantages of his sovereign MR. OL.4DSTONE FOR OXFORD. A OONTIMPORAST mentions a rumour that " some of the loading Liberals of the University of " Oxford are discussing the propriety of putting " Mr. GLADEITONI in nomination at the forth " coining election. " No such miaow has reached us ; we sincerely hope the " leading Liberals" in question will abandon the idea, if they ever enter tained it, of restoring the connection between the chief of the Liberal party and a constituency which, containing, as it undoubtedly does, one of the most enlightened minorities in England, is too deeply and widely penetrated with the spirit of political and ecclesiastical reaction to be fitly represented in Parliament by the head of a Liberal Administration. The time may come when the University of Oxford will send such a statesman as Mr. OrLeDwroxx to the House of Commons ; but when that time comes the University of Oxford will itself represent the intelligent aristocracy of the whole nation. LIBERTY AND PRIVILEGE. Ors of our morning contesnporaries—it would be as injustice to forbear to name the Daily Telegraph —enjoys, we believe, alone of the whole foreign press, the proud distinction of being sold at the kiosques on the Boulevards in Paris. This exclu sive privilege is all the more remarkable, that it bee never been accorded to several independent French newspapers, and from several has been taken away. It would be impertinent to inquire by what process of negotiation, or on what under standing, or for what consideration (of course we mean a moral one) this singular right was conceded to our multitudinous contemporary. But it is no more than consistent with such a privilege that the favoured journal should discourse on French Imperial politics in a manner that would not ill beeeem either the Conetiiutionnel or the Pays, with just so much of that local colour of a journal pub lished in a free country and primarily addressed to a free people as may be necessary to lend dignity and verisimilitude to its foreign criticisms on the public policy of the Second Empire. It seems to us that our contemporary has managed this delicate business very cleverly, and has discussed the Second Empire and the Christian dispensation with an equal freedom from prejudice and an equal in dulgence and condescension. The odd thing is that while the Daily Telegraph is being sold on the Paris Boulevards ewe privikgio, La Lanterns is being hawked in the atreete of London, and find ing eager purchasers without privilege or permis sion of any sort, and without any assistance from the commercial treaty. PHOPLI are asking what could possibly have impelled the Camiauxon of the ExamEouse to write a letter from his shooting quarters, near Inverness, to a Tory candidate in Lancashire, ex plaining and justifying the progressive increase of the national expenditure under two Con servative administrations. The solution of this enigma seems to be that Mx. WAND HURT is so very unlikely to be responsible for next year's Budget, or to make another financial statement in the House of Commons, that he is naturally anxious to contribute a cairn stone to the monu ment of his Liberal predecessor, and to the pedes tal of his Liberal successor. A deputation of the inhabitants of Killarney waited upon Lord Castleroese last Friday and presented him with a copy of the address agreed to at a public meet ing held on the previous day, congratul him upon ating the escape of himself and family from the fate which lately betel so many of his fellow-travellers. The (14 , 4 tation included the Right Rev. Dr. Moriarty, the Sheriff, Lord Headley, Mr. James O'Connell, Mr. . O'Connell, Rev. R. Herbert, Rev. E. Herbert, vicar of Kills= Mr. J. Leahy, Q.C., and • number of other inhabitants of all shades of political opinion. AIN CULLING BARMEN, BART.—The life in terest of this gentleman in the Borough Pen Estates in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire was sold by auction in London last week by Masora. Ruaiworth, Abbott, and Co., and realised (subject to heavy mortgages) the sum of 9,200. THE FAIIIMITNIAN STATUE 07 TEE DUES Op CONUILLND a CATINDUIE-SQVI.II4 which stands upon a stone pedestal in the centre of the enclosure, and which was erected in 1770, has become so dilapidated that it is about to be taken down to be recast, DEATH OP DE. GTOPHE SWITH.—The Wedern Mamie 1 Xmas reeorde the death at Dr. George Smith, of Trevor, which took place at Camborne on Sunda y after , noon, at the age of 68. The deceased gentleman, who was distinguished member of the Wesleyan bud], married, at the age of 28, a daughter of Mr. W. M ae k. ford, inventor of " the see' safety fuse," which after wards came into general use in the mining district, under the joint direction of the inventor and his son-in-law. Nearly 30 years ago Dr. Smith published a lecture on the Chronology of the Book of Genesis, which was followed by an essay on " The Origin and Antiquity of Alpha. Detail Characters." His next efforts were of a more pretentious character—a volume on " The Religion of Ancient Britain Historically Considered." HUI chief literary work, however, was ,"Sacred Annals ; or the History and Religion of Mankind from the Creati on t o the Time of Christ." Several other works, chiefly on theological subjects, have in later . years limed from his pen, tie most popular being his History of Wesleyan Methodism," which is regarded as the standard work of its class. _ _ _ — DEATH - OF Ma. Hum TAYLOR.—The Northern Daily Espnoss records the death of Mr. Hugh Taylor, which event took place on Sunday, at Hendon. Mr. Taylor had reached the ripe old age of 79 years. He has always been considered the father of the coal trade. In October, 1860, the coal owners of Northumberland and Durham entertained Mr. Taylor at a sumptuous dinner in the Assenibl -rooms, Newcastle, in recognition of his valuable servkxe as chairman of the coal trade committee. For many years Mr. Taylor was agent for the Duke of Northumberland, and by an members of that house he wan held in high mud. WI. NONSIUN AND TOM LORDS. Remarking on Kr. Ha man's address t, the electors of Stroud and his letter to the Seetmem, the IMilie Newt says that the constancy which other men display towards their first love the right hon. gentleman exhibits towards the object of his early artesian. He began his political career as an ecclesiastical reformer, and his first step towards a reform of the Lords now is the expulsion of the bishops from the House of Peers; his next, a creation of life peers ; and his third the selection of • saute out of the whole. Mr. Horatian having no satisfactory mode of electing a senate to propose, the Daily News puma it by without comment. The principle of life peers it ap proves of, but it thinks that Mr. Harman should aim at getting rid of the mere stop-gaps, as well as endeavour to elect for life those who would add dignity to the order. The whole question was, however, more fitted for discussion than legislation. The Daily NOWd does not expect that the ecclesiastical grievance of Ireland will be traded with that prudence and wisdom which would make persons indisposed to raise the old question, " What shall be dose with the Lords ? " The Herald asks if it is true, as affirmed by Mr. Hors man, that the idea of an hereditary chamber is oat of harmony with the times, at once dependent and un popular, and it answers in the negative. The objection of Mr. Borman to the style " My Lord Bishop," because he never heard of " My Lord Apostle," is, in the estima tion of the Herald, "language appropriated from the rinks platform." He wishes to make the House of Lords more representative but even he, " with the free audacity that belongs to him," cannot originate a plan. KR RIZOIrr I A.DDILEIS. It will be at the point of million between the Lords and the Commons that the crisis will cause, says the titer, and it is in order to render the situation as little critical as possible that Mr. Bright prepares the mind of the country to grasp fearlessly and hopefully the plough to which it must sooner or later put its hand. He believes it will be well for protertantimon and well for Christianity in thee. kingdoms that the church of the Irish minority should be diasetabliabed. If this conviction spreads and deepens amongst our countrymen, the peers will seek in vain further to delay the tardy but substantial act of justice which is now the first necessity of the British Stato. INITIXIDATION AND TOE BALLOT. Commenting on the case of Wareham, where Mrs. Burton, the proprietress of Bare Regis, has issued a man date to her tenantry to vote for Mr. Drax, one of the con servative candidates for Dorsetahire, the Deity News re commends that all such cases should be carefully watched. end authentic information about them laid up for future use. The excitement of the coming election will probably produce them in unusual number, and when they come to be brought under the consideration of parliament no question will arise as to the magnitude of the evil, and very little doubt as to its remedy. PA/5Z WllOll7ll AND /011517/138. Remarking on the number of cases in which persons have been convicted of using false weights and measure'', the Timer says it is the business of a tradesman to be careful of his weight. and measures, and to excuse himself on the plea of carelessness is something like saying that he had unfortunately forgotten to be honest. At all events, no hardship whatever would be inflicted if it were distinctly understood that the law would be more regularly and more severely enforced for the future. The punishment at present ie for the most pert in the Court. PFNSION WALLA LUCERNE, Ammer 30. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice. and Prince Arthur, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely and Colonel Ponaonby, ascended the Rigi on Thursday. On Saturday her lLijesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, drove to Engleberg. The Queen ►nd the Royal Family, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine Service on Sunday in the house. The Roy. IL Duckworth officiated. LORD MAYO AND THE GOVERNOR GENERAL BLIP or INDIA.—Lord Mayo in an address to the electors of Cockermouth, thanking than for the many tokens of confidence he has received at their hands, aye that before the next general election takes place he shall have accepted the office of Governor General of India. Tim MAD: ails OF GRAIIAIL—The coming of age of the Marquis of Graham, eldest son of the Duke of Montrcee—an event which occurred in June last, while he was abroad—is being celebrated at Buchanan Castle now he has returned. The "rejoicings" on Friday took the form of a banquet given to the marquis by the tenantry on the estate, and quite a gathering of noblmen, mem bers cifymt, county gentry, clergymen, and others, riagled by arham Moir' ereession The Doke of Montrose re sponded to the team. of the Howe of Peers, and Mr. P. B. iknoliat,R.P., for the House of Commons. The health of the Ramon of Graham was received wih eee Teat enthusiasms, and the marquis responded in • of much feehng._ The other touts included " The and Duchess of Mongrees." On Saturday afternoon upwards of one hundred of the workmen on the estate were enter tained at dinner by the duke, and to-night a hall is to be given to the tenantry and their friends. FuNzaaL os LOW) NORRARTON.—Yesterday morning the mortal remains of the late Earl of Normanton were removed from Seymour-place, Carson-rtreet, and conveyed by special train by the Great Western Railway t o g 4srley, Ringwood, Hants, where the body will be de posited in Me family vault. Me earl had his coffin made 26 years ago, and the inscription plags only required to be filled up with the time of . death. The coffin was of tine English oak, Renck pal mated, and ornantasted with gilt nada The plate bore the following inscription :— Welbere Ellis, Earl of Normanton, born 12th November, 1778 ; died 26th August, 1868." Ora Bnalops.—Dr. Langley is the eon of a working barrister, who became • polio* magistrate • Dr. Thomson was the son of a country per at Whitehiven, in Cumberland; Dr. Tait was a younger son of an Edin burgh writer to the signet ; Dr. Philpott was placed at Cambridge at the expense of • small evangelical society for privately sambaing promising young men at the univeratke ; and Dr. Jacob, the Bishop of Chester, was originally edu cated for the nonconformist ministry at the dissenting Smith- ' College et Homert, when Dr. Pye tit...lth was the tutor, and Dr. Binney was his fellow-pupil.—Bword. Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells, has, in consequence of continued ill-health, devolved the work of his diocese upon the Right Rev. Bishop Anderson, vicar of Clifton. TTATI ON;17EXIIIBMON OF WORKS OF ART AT LlAM—Return of adminions august 31, by meson tickets, 834 ; by payment o la. each, 6,319; total, 6,963. OUR PARIS LETTER. (nor 0, OWN PAUL% MONDLY ETIMILKO. Oho result has come by telegraph of the pmts_ cation at Mince of three electors of the Gard who organised the " private" eh'ctor•d meeting which was dissolved by the military , and at which AL Sassier, one of the attendants, was wounded to death. I have not yet Jules Fuvre's speech, but it is plain from the evidence that the pollee had orders to " put down the meeting " without caring whether it was a'private one or not, and that Um only; fact that constituted the publicity of the noticing was that policemen in plain clothes fumed limiq way into the private room in spite of the re.. montdrancee of the stewards, who said that nobody had it right to come in without a letter of invite_ Lion. There is, however, a considerable consola tion - for the liberal party to be derived from the judgment of the court. lt did lay down the la; which the Pays iruiistod upon, that a largo nurahAr of people necessarily made a public meeting. Rot it believed the false witness of five men against the testimony of about eighty citisens that at the meeting in question anybody who presented themselves got in without being asked for letters of invitation. The judg ment is therefore in point of fact a valuable pre cedent, and one which wal probably be made much use of in the three elections to come off in September in the Var, Nievre, and Moselle. The sentence, moreover, showed that the Nimoe court was ashamed of its work. The two principal de fendants, M. Lacey-Onillon and M. Itehot, the promoters of the meeting, were only condemned to fines of rioOfr. each; and M. Breton, the owner of the building let for the purposes of the meeting, was acquitted. M. Dufaure, owing to absence from Paris and the unfortunate miscarriage of various letters and telegrams which were sent to him, having delayed for a long time to accept a requisition offered him to stand for the vacant seat in tho Tar, Pt Philis, the only known opposition candidate, for several days said he would withdraw his preten sions if his illustrious friend and senior at the b ar came forward. M. Dufaure has now ac cepted, and I think his acceptance a mis fortune for the liberal party. As a forensic orator he is in the very first rank but he is an old man, with flute milieu notions, and is not likely easily to adapt himself to the necessities of the time. Moreover, he is a pe,o curante. He thinks he does honour to the depart ment by allowing his name to be put forward, and is unlikely to take any efficient pains to stimulate the liberal constituency to vote for him. He has, moreover, no particular connection with the Vat, where N. Philis is well known. I do not believe that M. Philis, with all the good will in the world, will be able to persuade the mass of his friends to vote for M. Dufaure, and in all probability the government candidate will le. elected. The Patrie says that the departure of the Em peror for the Chalons Camp will be again ad journed, and that the court will not leave Funtaine bleau for Biarritz till September 23. Another most extraordinary paragraph in the Patrie, which looks like a reference to the news in the Gavial's (given in another column), and the possible (I should say certain) failure of the assumed mission of the Bourbons, states that although most of the ministers and high state functionaries have been invited to Fontaine bleau to meet the Count and Countess Girgenti. and there is a talk of grand flea of various kinds, it is also possible that they may leave Fontaine- bleau to-morrow morning. At the Bourne to-day the " options" were •1••- dared at 70fr. 80e.—a figure altogether again:• . the " bears. " The closing quotations of tl: • Bente were 701 r. 80e. for cash, and 70fr. to 72;fr. for account, being but Sc. low•err than Satuni ty. Business generally was dull. DI'EL LETWEEN Y. I4C - L DE CASSAGY.I: AND N. LISS-MIR-IY. This duel was fought on Sunday at Veeinet. C`A:' St. Germain, between M. Paul de Cassagnac, of the I . and M. Lissagaray, editor of a journal called the 4, , published in the (Mrs, which lays itself out to oppose re-election of Y. Granter de Cautagnac for that d,.1 , irt meat. The challenge came from M. Liasagaray, whs two seconds to Paris to call M. Paul de Cassagnac out account of an article in the fop of August 24. A dia.:lo tion between the seconds look place as to which was the offended party, and which had the choirs of arms. A compromise was effected in pursuance of which the duel was fought with foils, the buttons of which were taken off. 31. Lissagaray had said the case was one which in his opinion could only end in the death of one of the parties. It is but too probable that these conditions of the encounter will have been realised to his own extinction. After a quarterot an hour's belt ing conducted with great scharnoserit (that is, a hot desire on both sides to du execution). 31. Paul de Cassagnac ran M. Liseagaray through the lungs. The foil being ex tremely slim left scarcely any perceptible wound. and the flesh closing on the orifice, only allowed a few drops of blood to issue. But 31. Lissagaray fainted away. The surgeons in attendance pronounced the wound so serious that the duel must beat =end, and alai ~;s t i H. I-issagaray made some convulsive efforts to go on 1. , carried off the ground. He now lies in Paris in ax ex tremely dangerous state. His adversary, M. Paul le Cas..aguac, who has been brought up by his Leta t. , the trade of duelling, and is such an accomplished se . man that few men who never in their lives bad a in their bands would stand before him if they L. ~ what a risk they ran, has lately refused to tight d It is only fair in this case to rememt cr that he wa: challenged party. 2HE WOUNDS OF C.MR. At the last meeting of the Aeadonly Medicine, a curious paper was read, on behalf M. Dubois, of Amiens, entitled " Investigations two the Death of Julius Ceesar.•' M. Dubois, ham; looked up the various passage' referring to CIL: , famous historic incident to be found in Diou Cassius. Plutarch, Suetonius, Appian, &c., and comparini: them with one another, has fixed the spots when. the four lint wounds were inflicted, and the names of the conspirators who inflicted them. The first blow, struili by one of the brothers Caeca, produced • &held wound underneath the left clavicle ; the nd, struck by the other Cana, penetrated the walls tithe thorn: towards the right; Cameos inflicted the third wound in the (zee. Deimos Brutus gave the fourth stab in the region of the groin. Contrary to the general opinion, Marcus Brutus, though one of the conspirators, did not strike the Mas er. Alter the first blows Cesar fainted, and then all the conspirators hacked his body. Be was carried by three slaves in • litter to hie home. Anstistim, the phrsi , '" was called in and found 35 wounds, only one of which was in his opinion fatal, that of the second Caeca. We may remark on this curious production of it Dubois that Shakespeare, who seemed to know everything by "" stinct, says : Bee what • rent the ' , aviation...A mode: and though he mentions " the well beloved Brutus stabbing, he seems to have entertained some doubt, for he speaks of Catem's blood as rushing out of doors alter . Brutus withdrew his steel, in order to be resolved it Bnitits so unkindly knocked or no.- Tli Tiv.es states on authority that the Qtleeu of the Netherlands bee not been in Saltier land this year . Her Majesty has resided during the whole summer et the well-known palace Galled the House in the Wood at the Tb4rutk Thi 'aria hat timo lever dri lei li.zero! lat Ch IGENI Get :aims s ome t not hs into Waste COMM ,&11 Iy,ds iKBB3 in 18E the 111 Into I .. P'ron .4 the! -o- -- r ure .pOOl, 4. On F 4" write Wi the of hat* with: I 1,, the 4 y qU I Ai •ided -bun. was a ILAII-11 To01:11. 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