The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-20 00:00:00

I / • e, i , .: ~: 1 . . •_ . . • . • • • • 4 i 5. t 1111 4 1 . , ; 1 4‘ .. , 1 -.• T . ;!I rt 4 4 . . . . 1:4 - de•Ts , ,1 gs / .. ,;N:S•P.A4 -41Irrr7m., aUdX3 [STUMM, is ,U)bth N 0.6,564.3 LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1867. ETWOPMii LINE.—The LIVERPOOL, NEW 01K. and PHILADELPHIA NITAICORIP COMPANY hiked despatching their full.poweired Clyde-heilt Iron screw ste.inishite, carrying the United Stated Maas, calling at Queens. t o wn, Ireland, on the following day, to take on board ~neer' sa d despatches, and with liberty to call at an Intermediate port: CITY OF BOSTON, Wednesday, August 21. Elll N BURGH, Saturday, August 24. CITY OP BALTIMORE, Wednesday, August 213. CITY Olt WASHINGTON, Saturday, August SI. And every Wednesday end Saturday. Cede passage by the mail steamers selling every Wednesday, ys, 17, and 21 guineas, &wording toile accommodation. F or w a rd pugagt• Maud,* a full supply of cooked provisions. Passengers for Carcida and the United ntstes hooked through on very advan• Wools terms—For further particulars split/ to WILLIAM Is m AN, 61, Water-street, Liverpool: and to =VIM and MACEY, 61. King Willianiutreet. Leaden. FRANCE. THE GUNPOWDER PLOT AT MONTE VIDEO. ifluotc. THE BRITISH Assori.moN FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. THE NBA BOBOUGH OF HACINSI. THE HEREFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL cnoii OUR SPECIAL CORREPIPONDEST.) List evening, Mr. John Holmes addressed a well• attended meeting of City gentlemen connected with Back. ney, in the Guildhall Coffee-house, for the purpose Qt ex plaining him political opinions with a view, if poseibil, to his being returned to parliament for the new borough at the next election. Mr. W. A. 000 (of the firm of Prince, Ogg, and Co.) occupied the chair. Mr. Holmes, in • speech of considerable length, placed particular stress on the importance of local government and said that' the existing tendency to centralisation should induce them to be careful in respect to that vital question. Touching the subject of our foreign policy, he held the doctrine of non-interference, on the same principle as in ordinary life people were supposed to look after their own slain, and let others look out for themselves. He was particularly hopeful as to the future of Italy, and gave It as his firm belief that the walls of Rome would crumble by the moral force of protestantism. through the agency of Garibaldi. Coming to the queen= of the Reform Rill, he said it 000tained two blemishes, one being the smallness of the redistribution scheme, and the other the-absence of the ballot. He combated the assertion that the ballot was un-Engliab, adding that it was recognised and adopted by the clubs and other insti tutions, and that he saw no reason why it should nett be extended to elections. He bad paid much attention to the question of education, and although be was in favour of a wide extension of that inestimable boon, be confessed he was not so extreme in his views an to demand the com pulsory system. He believed that by a good ardent of education, heigst: save a large portio• fag What is *petit upite the pauper and criminal deem & His feelings in regard to Ireland were very friendly. and he believed that by a proper adjustment of the ques tions of the church establishment and land tenors that country would be made what it should be, the right hand of England. He would give legal protection to the fends of trades unions, as long as they adhered to the principles upon which they trww-femded. He wee in favour of the equalisation of the poor rate throughout the metropolis, the preservation of the commons and open spar+Lon donlitir tly3 people, and the upholding this of the dstibrislued church. A resolution exp • sa tisfaction of the meeting with on opinions of Mr. olmes, apd, pledging their support to him, was umplmously ahepted. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION 41,11 PAN Y, Incorporated by Ad of Parliament, 71, I..mberdetreet, London. Norio.: In C HI ItEllY GIVEN, that the HALF-YEARLY cE ERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company will he h. 1. 1 at the Company's Offices, 71. Lombard-street, on TIYYJSDAY, the 37th Instant, at Two o'clock precisely, pursuant to the act of Dlarhament, to transact the uaual business aad to declare the Dividend for the half year ending 30th June, 1307. London. August 3. 1t167. MARTIN PRAT'', Secretary. 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De sure to ask fir Dr. Peott's Dillow and Liver PILL me genuine are in a e state green package, with "William Lambert" engraved on the Maim T.ArTUE.—The LETTUCE oontaina an active principle the Landes, which passers' ell the soothlw =el laws without its daugers.—Mr. JOZP.AII, French t i .,..49, I yruarket, prepares • Syrup slid • Pate of Wine far lettuce), highly recommended by the Medical Prsisselon for aids, asthma, bronchitis, sad ell chest olfaction& Syrup, b. Yd.. Pate, le. lid. and M. id. Pate, by post, le. Sid sad M. id. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE, (amnia s Tnzasai(&) THE IMPERIAL MEETING AT SALZBURG. SALZBU&4, foam 19. _ _ _ The Emperor of Austria and the Emperor of the French held a conference this morning, which lasted an hour. Rumours are current that both their Imperial Majesties, being peacefully disposed, no alliance will be concluded, and only possible eventualities were discussed. The Empress of the French and the Empress of Austria will go to Isc.hl, to pay a visit of condolence to the Archduchess Sophie, the mother of the late Emperor Maximilian. The Emperor Napoleon will remain at Salzburg until Thursday or Friday. The Emperor and Empress of the French re ceived to-day the municipal council of Salzburg. Herr von Beast had a private audience to-day with the French Emperor, and he, together with Prince Metternich, who has arrived here, received the order of the Golden Fleece. It is stated that the Bavarian Council of Minis ters have emphatically declared themselves opposed to the King of Bavaria visiting Salzburg. Prince Hohenlohe was decidedly hostile to the step as prejudicial to the interests of Germany. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Atlol3ll/ 19. Their Majesties of Prussia and Sweden exchanged visits to-day, and Count von Bismarck was received by the King of Sweden. The King and Queen of Sweden and the Prince and Princess Frederick of the Netherlands visited the Crown Prince of Prussia. The King of Prussia intends shortly to visit the watering place of Nordeney. The 'Russian Ambassador, M. d'Oubril, has returned to Berlin. The Prussian corvettes Hertha and Medusa, after having received the two iron-clad frigates which are now being constructed in the Thames for the Prusaiangovernment,will not return to Kiel, as was expected, but will proceedto the Piterus, and remain there during the winter. AUSTRIA. 'SIENNA, Anctrur 19. The applications for shares in the Hungarian Credit Bank amounted up to-day to 136 mil lion of florins in Vienna, and in Pesth to eight millions ; and as it is expected that six millions more will there be subscribed for, the total amount of subscriptions will then reach 150 millions of florins. SPAIN. PARIS, Avorecr 19. Several Paris papers regard the position of affairs in Spain as extremely senous. The Epoque says that amongst the persons arrested was Senor Mados, the ex-minter. PERPIGNAN, Aucuer 19. Advices received hero from Barcelona state that martial law has been proclaimed in that town. One battalion of French troops has left Perpignan for the Spanish frontier. THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, Arcirrr 19, 3.30 P.Y. The Bourse remains quiet. Rents' closed at 45.60, or Sc. lower than on Saturday. Tug BOMBAY MAIL. —MARszu.LEs, Auousr 19. .--The Tanjore arrived** 6.15 this morning. Mails leave at 11.30 s. m. SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 20. —The North GIRTH= Lloyd's steamer Bremen, from New York on the Sib inst., arrived here late last night with 76 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 34 sacks of mails for London, but no wreck, During the passage she spoke the British barque Palestine, and the Bremen brig Hydra. Her advice. are =important. REGISTERED LETTERS POE THE BRAZILS.--The Brazilian Post-office having ag►in consented to give receipts for registered letters sent from the United Kingdom by British Mail packets, thus acknowledging the due anival of such lettere at the port of disembarkation, letters ad dressed to Brazil may, in future, be registere•t. A British fee of fourpence must be paid upon every registered letter addressed to Brazil, in addition to the pOatage. ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 19. —APPOINTMENTS. Assistant Surgeons—Dr. George V. Wright, to the Medusa ; Dr. John B. Burke, to the Jason. (MY oca own CORMPONDIENT.) 1 The following narrative of a plot which has PARIS, SUNDAY Evian:ie. , created a profound sensation in the River Plate is The Situation, the Special advocate of war with drawn up from official sources and personal know- Prussia, insists, contrary to the impression •I re- ledge. HEREFORD, Monist corded yesterday, and which I still maintain, that Oe the 30th of June a German named Wilhelm liana- I The arrangements for the festival, which is to " the relations between France and Italy were toffee called upon M. Honore, the manager of the foreign commence to-morrow, are now quite complete, and never so friendly and intimate as at this moment ;" dub in blonte Video, and informed him that he had been , this an as t ramni ii and as but then the Situation was one of tho most conti- as k e d b y a countryman paine d P au l N ewmayer to assist , Burning pleasant old cathedral city is pect of excitement and anticipation dent prophets of a .liberalmanifesto for August 15, ' him in driving • mine in connection with an engineering such as it rarely wears on any other occasion than and it yet professes to believe that the great scar- experiment, and offered 200 dollars (about 401.) for one I that of the triennial meeting here of the choirs of prise has only been put off for a day or two. All night's work, adding, that he would like to earn the its own cathedral, of Worcester, and of Gloucester this while M. Jules Richard, one of the principal money, but was afraid from the wintery and caution of ' —an event occurring in annual alternation at these editors of the Situations, and a very few other jour- Newmayer in pledging him to secrecy, and yet not fully ; cities. Although Hereford is by no means a small =lista, who are aecepted in Denmark as repro- : communicating the object of the work, that there was place and ' ha s b een muc h i ncrease d b y recen t sentatives not only of the Paris press, but of the something wrong about the matter. The work was to be suburban additions, its capacity seems likely to be French nation, are proposing and responding to executed in a house in course of demolition for' tested in an unusual degree on this occasion beds war toasts in Copenhagen. They tell the Danes rebuilding, situated at the back of the Govern- lat hotels having long since been forestalled by in that France will never euffer Denmark to be made ' mac ts, oam , commonly .called the Fort. By IL tending visitors for the festiv a l wee k, and private another Poland, forgetting that the poor Poles Honoree advice, this communication was repeated to lodgings being in such request as to have raised the trusted to like promises made on much higher t h e political chief, Colonel Bifstamente, who immediately . tariff in moat instances more than cent. per cent. authority, and were only hired on by them to took measures to ascertain what was going on. In conse- I beyond the ordinary scale. Accommodation, how their destruction. M. de Biamarck,' though not in quence of the information he received, the chief ordered a' ever, will no doubt be found by all in the essen- Berlin, takes the opportunity, through his semi- sufficient force to be placed in the neighbourhood of the ' tialiof bed and board, although those visitors who official journal!, to show what account he makes of I fort, and having Newmayer pointed out to him in the 'have delayed securing their festival tickets until this hectoring. The Zektke Correspondence, a more - theatre, he remained there till the latter left, which he tlid , their arrival may probably find some difficulty in confidential organ of the cabinet than the North German Gazette , says that Prussia is now justified let the time he was to meet Hanstoffer. Newmayer went f • admission to same of the performances, in calling upon France to give positive D , direct to the place of appointment, followed by Colonel 'since, es e statedie bur previous notice, the num y proofs e ` ' Bustamente, diaguisectwith an old poncho and a straw hat. 'bared seats for Thursday and Friday mornings her paci fi c intentions, told that the on] acceptable On the chief gi • g a signal preconcerted with the I were d ' of some days since. The general re guarantee would be a substantial and immediate • police , 1 hearsal pointed for this morning took place in the i Newma y er made an attempt at fl ight, but was immediately disarmament.at ten o'clock, when the band and chorus urrounded f captured and taken to the cabildo. The po li ce ' Ca As a set-off to this defiant article, the Fren ch were aseembled, with the principal solo singers, then a entered the hous e ' indicated by Hanstoffer , where in war journalists, ire learn by telegraph, were re- 1 a e including Madame Lind-Goldechmidt, Mdlle. mall cellar, new l y constructed, they found m use . barrels ceived by the K ing of Denmark yesterday.Tietjens, Misses Edith Wynne and Julia Elton, ..1 three Icean d Rumford's e l ectric multi- The fellow-lationrers of these gentlemen in : of g nu P ° -es. ' sae • a ' Madame Patey-Whytock, Mr. Montem Smith, Mr. Paris are expending a great deal of eh>: plier, in working order, and capable, according to I Santley, and Mr. Weiss. The pieces rehearsed Oldham, of the telegraph.office, of igniting gunpowder a - t ir a e . quenee to prove to Austria that it i 3 , were se from the mss of the morn her duty and interest to form a close alliance distance of six miles. These articles were taken to th , with France. • Their importunate tone argues a , heed police-office, and guards were placed in the house for ing performances, commencing with portions of misgiving that Austria is likely to be backward in the night. Newmayer refused to give any i nformat ion, I Handel 's Israel in Egypt, after which Spohr's set ting of tilton's version of the 84th Psalm was gone oomingforward.'"Sinee,"theysay to her, "you can - , alleging that he had bought the house, and had the right through; followed by Dr. Wesley's anthem, not choose but increase your financial embarrass- ' to use it for any experiments he liked. ' " Ascribe unto the Lord," and portions of Men ment by holding yourself in readiness for a war ! Next morning the government ordered an inspection of • delasoc, 's Elijah were rehearsed ; the greater part which may break out at any time, how much wiser . the house and cellar by the Director- G eneral a - Public of the ruing, however, being devoted to Mr. Otto would it be to seize the glorious opportunity now Works, assisted by an eminent builder. These gentlemen Geldschanidt's new sacred pastoral Ruth. offered you to retrieve your broken fortunes. One ! reSeeted that there existed sufficient Proof of an intent-ha I The 'orchestra consists of 22 violins, 7 violas, generous effort, and, thanks to the aid of a power- to drive a mine in one direc tion, and that a hole had been ' 8 violoncellos, 8 double basses, with a fall wind ful, magnanimous, disinterested, and ever trust- , broken through the wall of the cellar in another, probably band, brass and wood, and the usual instruments worthy ally, who now proffers the right of fellow- for the same purpose. The " mine" had by this time be-'. of percussion, de. The chorus numbers about 180, ship, you may recover your influence in Germany' come the topic of every conversation, and some English i ma. the general balance of sound seems to be well and your rank in Europe. Not now to dare were naval officers, who had heard an exaggerated version of maintsened—some imirovement having been the height of imprudence as well as the lowest depth the story, had their curiosity excited, and Mr. Haven, , made Mince the last Hereford Festival (1864) of pusillanimity. Wait not till Prussia, mistress of who for the last two years had been director of the in the disposition of voices and instru- Wurtemberg and Bavaria, comes insolently to offer Scientific Inspection of Public Works, offered to ascertain manta,' the orchestral and choral bodies each you battle under the walls of Vienna. Now is the .if there were any foundation for the alarming being pow more concentrated than formerly, accepted time. Delude not yourself with the ' rum ours in circulation. From a report subsequently the geweral remit being a body of tone quite chimerical hope that you will be able to preserve a drawn up by this gentleman, it appears that he examined aderl d e to the space of the cathedraL This neutral position. Assume the offensive ; proclaim the teller, and being made acquainted with the circum- , beau • building oilers a more favourable locality at once your alliance With - France ; advance and stances already narrated, awns to the conclusion that there for musical performances than some larger edifices conquer while you 'can unless you would commit , meth be another operator, and that each person must still 'of the kind in which the vibration is sometimes so suicide." " .' be concealed In the drains. Returning through the fort,lexcemive as somewhat to mar the effect of the per- The Courtier Preisseeis says it has reason to he- -- ' Mr. Havers communicated his opinion to the Minister of formance of a large number of voices and instru lieve that England, Austria, and Italy have agrtied ' Wit., who'askedhim to repeat his reasons for his belief to l, meats. The symmetrical and moderate proportions to remain neutral in. °Het; to localise the war, the provisional governor, General Flores. Thd result ,of Hereford Cathedral and its freedom from those should one break out between France and Freesia, . was, that General Flores requested Mr. Haven' projecting interpolated monuments in antagonistic and that Prussia entirely approves the arrange t o merit. 1 know not what truth there may be in require from Colonel BustamentE the neces. &tyke,* by which such buildings are too frequently assistance, and to make a strict investiga- I disfigured, render it as favourable for acoustic story, but I think it leas improbable than an alliance between Aestrie and France for hostile ' ties. Guards were placed at the mouth of the main sewer, Pia as it is satisfactory to the taste that can purposes. the streets were cleared, and all parts of the cellar were • - carefully examined. The objects found proved that the archit'uture• appreeiate the noble purity of undisfigured Gothic Theeezt of the judgment against the Impartial There is enough vibration to eperaters were not, ordinary labourers, and the hole in the , give resonance to the mass of sound em- Dauplinwis for " e.,xciting citizens to hatred end . wall was found to lead into the apparent drains of the I Pic'Yed, without that excess of reverberation contempt of the government," and for " insulting sewer, house. Coiteeiving that the conspirators were either in , which in the person of the Emperor," is now published. th is drain or the main larger Gothic buildings too fro ths H aven or d ere d a 1 Tien* produces a blurred and confused effect. The gravamen of the offence for which the manager, organ of 17 stens, erected specially for the counter mine to be nk at the calculated junction of the ' An and two editors of the paper have been sentenced ecc in two, and, going down h imself, ascertained no one was to fines amounting to 2,500 f. consisted of havingwest on the south side of the orchestra, at the in that section of the main sewer, so far as it could be so quoted an exclametion lately made by M. Jule s west end of the cathedral, close to the chorus, Favre in the Chambiie—" Wait for your Twain"— seen with a dark lanthorn. He then entered the house whose support is the principal object of the use of as to infer that the Emperor's government was drain, which hosald only be done by creeping, on account thliteinstrument—the cathedral organ, placed far bringing France to a state as bad as that of the of its small dimensions, and here he found a man who re sway, at the side of the choir of the building, being worst days of the Roman empire ; and further for treated through the hole in the wall into the cellar, fol- I of course unavailable for this purpose. The fee attributing the Mexican disaster—" that lamentable lowed by Mr. Haven. The cellar being guarded the man c history which begins with the Jecker bonds and ends was at once captured, having been already 16 hours in the , tival when se ommences to-morrow (Tuesday) morning, rv i ce w i ll , oe performed in the cathedral at in the ditch at Queretaro "—to the Emperor's drains. Further investigations followed, after welch the half-past eight, with full choral service by the incapacity and want of foresight. 1 opening% were closed up, guards set, and the search sus- • mem b ers of the three choirs of Hereford, Glou- Official reConimmidistions to the electors are landed. Icester, and Worcester—the sermon to be preached losing their prestige even in Corsica. At Ajaccio a The prisoner, who was in his skirt sleeves and evidently •b __ 1 y the Dean of Hereford. At twelve o'clock the prince of the Bonaparte family has been elected a much exhausted, gave the name of Louis Newmayer, but , festival itself will open with a performance of councillor general by a poor majority ; his name refused to snake • any statement until ho learned that i Spohr's overture to his oratorio the Last Judgment and all the power of the prefect obtained for him Paul Newspaper (no r el a ti on ) was in custody, when ! (Die Letzten Dirge), the ,same composer's set but 1,367 votes against 1,01)3 given to the opposi- he commenced a aonfessioa. Paul Newmayer also lost all i tin of the 84th Psalm, Dr. Wesley's tion candidate, M. Pomo di Iloilo. , his e ff rontery on learning that his co-labourer was in eae- I ant hem " Ascribe unto the Lord," and Handel's When the woman Frigard was taken back to tody, and denounced as his principal employer Captain I Israel in Egypt. On Wednesday morning Mendel prison after her trial, Ma dam e Ladoux, the gover- Don Eduardo Bertram, an officer who accompanied General saohn's Elijah will be given ;on Thursday morn nor's wife, came to tell her she must, in accordance Flores during the revolution, indicating as accomplices ing Mr. Otto Goldschmidt's new composition, with the regulations, change her dress for a con- several friends of Bertran, and declaring, by way of ex- Ruth (conducted by the composer ), and Mozart's vict's uniform. In delivering this mission Machias. tenuation; that they only intended to destroy General Requiem ; and on Friday morning the Messiah. Ledoux manifested considerable emotion. The Flow himself. An immediate search was made for Bet- Miocene/mow concerts, with orchestra, will be prisoner, who perceived it, said with the greatest , sem, but belted already fled. His beam and the office at given in the Shire-hall on the evenings of Tuesday, coolness and a smiling face, " Pray do not distress which be managed the commiwariat business of the Bra-1 Wednesday, and Thursday, the programme of the ) ourself, madame, I ar quite calm ' • feel my :man Hospital were searched, but nothing was f o und second concert including Handel a Acts and Galatea pulse, it does pot beat quicker th an it did wkiekZir e ang light on the conspiracy. A timber mer- —the musical performances terminating on Friday this morning." In her dormitory was found a c h ant to Video stated that he met him early on the evening with a concert, exclusively of chamber bundle of notes which she made during the trial. morninteff the Ist in the suburbs, and that he asked the , music, in the Coll hall ; the festival proceed- These display extraordinary ingenuity and readi- deponent bet to divulge having seen him. It was soonlings being wound up, as usual, by a ball on the nese in controverting an argument. While Dr. ascertained, by means of the submarine telegraph, that ' same night. Bergeron was giving his opinion to the jury that Bertram had gone to Buenos Ayres, and thence, under an The weather, which appeared somewhat doubtful the murder must have been cumulated by the assumed name, to Roeario, en route for Santa Fe. It also on Saturday, has now apparently settled into pressure of hands upon the throat, simultaneously transpired that although the house had been bought in bright sunshine, offering additional inducement to with that of a knee upon the stomach, adding that — e those festival visitors who have leisure to visit the is wmayer's name, Bert= was suret y f or he had tried an experiment on a dog, and killed it charming scenery of this beautiful neighbourhood the purchase money. Independent, therefore, of the con in that way, Madame Frigard wrote on her notes : ; Malvern hills, the tour of the Wye, with f i ' of the p • the — the rtsoners, strongest suspicion rests on " Madame Mertens had on ve ry well-made stays, other and nearer a ttr ac ti ons surrounding the cities Bertram General Snares, Cosentandantes Mancini and• with particularly . strong whalebone. Ask the o fwhic h of the "th ree c h o i rs " — va l ua bl e details d Senores Torres and Marques were arrested in doctor whether much greater strength than I pos- Bar ir ara ' la of . and place d „ „ , are contained in Murray's recently issued handbook the course of the evening the en, aim seas would not be necessary to injure a w0man.....-- —Para— to those cities, as also in the volume, from the tionfinement. mortally by pressing upon such stays ; and ask same firm, entitled " The Three Choirs," treating dMr HOn the 2n . avers resumed his investigation. The him also whether he put a pair of stays on .the ' main sewer unfortunate dog before trying his experiment." pavemenopened , I This evening a rehearsal is to be held in the ' steps discovered in it, ascertained to be those of Lows Shire-hall of t h e pr i nc i pa l p i eces to b e per f orme d Newmayer, and at 150 feet from the cellar an opening l at the miscellaneous concerts • and this will close found towards the windows of the saloon in which the the proceedings preparatory i,,,, the commencement councils of state are bald. From this hole a mine had o f t h e festival to-morrow. been driven to within six feet of the wall of the saloon, and in it were found the tools used by the operator. It appears from the report made by Mr. Haven to the govern ment that in six or seven hours, with the assistance of the other person expected to join in the work, the mine could have been extended under the door, and charged for the explosion. It was also proved that the cellar was con stituted expressly for the purpose of concealing these ope rations, and that the works carried on In the house were merely a blind to cover the proceedings of the conspi rators. From inquiries made at the foreign consulates it appears that the prisoner Paul Newmayer was formerly a sub-lieutenant in the Wuitemburg army, was cashiered, and handed over to the civil tribunals, convicted of forgery, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. He offered his services to both sides during the revolution in various projects for mining, and for making Orisini bombs and detonating compounds for destroying human life. Louis Neumayer is said to have been mate of a slaver. Nothing having transpired to show that the other persons arrested had any hand in the iniquitous project, they have been set at liberty. The extradition of Berman was demanded of the Argentine government, and immediately conceded, bat nothing further had been heard of him, and he is sup posed to have fled into Chili. General Flores has issued a manifesto, in which, whilst renewing his engagement to resign the dictatorship with which he Is temporarily invested into the hands of the legislature immediately after the elections to take place in November, he declares that he will continue to pursue the course he has hitherto followed, and will never abuse the power entrusted to him. CANINE Sao/AT:v.—A very interesting instance of canine sagacity, and which seems authentic, is reported at Dayleeford. A boy, four years old, named fipeneely, wandered from home at Dloctor's Gully on Monday, and his parents became seriously apprehensive of his safety, as he oould not be found. However, late at night the little fellow was brought back, having been discovered at the old racecourse under the following circumstances:—When the child left his parents' residence be was accompanied by his playmate, • little white dog, which fortunately, though a very unusual circumstance, had been left off the chain that morning. Where they wandered the child is of course too young to tell ; but it now appears that, wet from the rain, and doubtless exhausted by his wander ings, he had eat down near the bank of the creek. As it began to get dark, some Chinamen, who have gardens close by, beard the occasional barking of a dog. They paid little attention to the noise at first, but as the darknem increased the barking of the dog got more frequent' till it became almost • continuous howL This led one of the Chinamen to go to the place. On hie approaching the dog was quiet, but no sooner did be see the boy and take hold of him, 'than the dog flew at him and tore his trousers, biting his leg. John, however, was not to be deterred, and being him self unable to understand the boy, thoughtfully conveyed him some distance to the home where he was found, the dog at once desisting from annoying the Chinaman, and showing every symptom of joy, on seeing the boy was not frightened. The Chinaman said that the boy, though we t , an d, of course, hungry, was not cryin g , and lid not seem in the least afraid . Bat for the king of the dog the boy would probably have bees dead before morning.— Mdbourm Herald. - HsTwaitswr Twasraz.—Mr. Buckstone has re vived Mr. Tom Taylor's Unequal Match for Miss Amy , Sedgwick—a play in which she first made a favourable ho. pression upon Haymarket audiences. By the engagement ' of Mrs. Buckingham White he is able to present it with nearly the original cast, comprising the "whole strength of the company." Mr. T. W. Robertson's comedy of Caste was produced on the sth instant, at the Broadway Theatre, New York. The piece was thoroughly succiessful, and is described by the Tribune as an excellent work of art. Mr. J. Lester Wallack claims, however, to have purchased the exclusive right to represent the play in America, and has accordingly applied for an injunction against the lessees of the Broadway Theatre. DR. MORIARTY ON ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES. Dr. Moriarty, Roman catholic Bishop of Kerry, was one of the witnemes before the select committee on the Eo cleidastical Titles Aet. He concluded by remarking : —" I would wish to express with the leave of the colli mates a conjecture which seems to me to o ff er sonmexplee I nation of the strange anomaily presented by tbs p assing • this statute, and the agitation which accompanied it. It seems to me that' title' is an equivocal word. It may means designation having from the law or from the crown • definite heraldic value, giving rank and precedence ; or • title may merely designate an office or jurisdiction, and the place within which such office or juris diction is exercised. I think it very , probable that the English people understood ' titles in the first sense ; and in that sense we certainly do not assume them. The Queen is the only fountain of honour within her realm, and the Pope can no more give me • title con ferring rank or precedence in the temporal order than he can give me an estate in this kingibrn, or a seat inparlia ment ; and when I say that I am Bishop of Kerry, I mean that I bold the office of a bishop, and exercise its functions within a territory or in a see, which is its head-quarters. My proper title u ' Bishop of Art:Vert it is by usage that I have been called ' Bishop of Kerry ' I ow:eider that I no more assume a title when I all myself Biahop of Kerry,' than I do when I call myself parish priest of Kil larney, which I also am ; and I consider that the county treasurer er the county surveyor of Kerry has a title in the very same minas in which I have. If things were under stood in that way, I should think that it never could be imagined that there was any interference with the prero gative of the crown in assuming titles." ONTOTAL PALACE. —ONE 31EILLING DAT. 110NDAT. AUGUST l9.—Admissiesie OR papoist, 5,406; 61164 by masa betels, 1,294 ; lota vi 545444. 6,299. --- WORTH KNOWING.--Slate rock is ground to a finepowder, and mixed with mastic or any bituminous substance to the consistency of • thick paint, in which condition it is applied to canvas, cloth, paper, felt, or any similar substanoe, for roofing and other purposes. This is doubtless the " elastic slate" of which we have heard from America. It soon hardens, and by the action of the ele- ments,or by means of chemical action within itself, be comes, it is said, almost as impervious to the action of fire . or water as slate itself, though considerably less brittle. It has been applied as cement for cisterns, tanks, cellar- Boon, leaky hydrants, pipes, and pumps. Inkstands have been made of it while in a plastic state, which have be come as hard as stone. It has also been applied as a cheap paint to outbuildinp and fences.—Bstikkr. SOUTH KENSINGTON Mussum.—Visitors during the week ending August 17, 1867 :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday Mee), from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m., 9,471 ; on Wednesday, Thurviday;and Friday iadmiasion 6d.), from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., 1,134 ; national portrait ext p A g n by payment, 2,319; total, 12,924 ; average of DOTI dine week in former rears, 11,858 ; total from the o of the museum, 6,904,133. FREEDMEN'S AID UNION.—At a recent meeting of the committee tie following revolution was most cor dially adopted:—" That the committee of the National Freedmen's Aid Union of Great Britain and Ireland, baying learnt with lively satisfaction that the Rev. Newman Hall, LL.B.—ever the earnest, out-spoken, and consistent friend of the anti-slavery cause, and now of the freedmen—is about to visit the United States, desire for him much of the Divine guidance and blessing; and desire, through him, to send their hearty Christian greet ings to the freedmen, and all who ere working for their true elevation, with whom he may come in contact." On Saturday the village of Clifton, Notts, wag the scene of much rejoicing, in consequence of the remit discovery of coal and ironies** ea Sir B. Olittaa'a estate. The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the British Association will commence on Wednesday, September 4, at Dundee. The official programme has jus t been issued. It furnishes the following details :—The Royal Exchange Reading-room will be open as • reception room on Monday, September 2, at 12 cm., and on the following days as 8 a.m., for the issue of tickets to members, aasociates, and ladies, according tothe subjoined statement, and for sup plying lists and prices of lodgings, and other information, to strangers on their arrival. On and after Monday, September 2, members and persons desirous of becoming members or associates or of obtaining ladies' tickets are requested to make application is this room. In this room there will be an office for supplying information !needing the proceedings of the mating. The " Journal,' contain ing announcements of the arrangements for each day, will be laid on the table on Wednesday, September 4, and the following mornings, at 8 a.m. ' for gratuitous distribution. Lists of members present will be anted as soon as possible after the commencement of the meeting, and will be placed in the same room for distribution. The published volume' of the British Associetiou will be sold in this room, to members and associates only, at the reduced prices appointed by the council. The member's ticket contains a map of Dundee, and particulars as to the rooms appointed for sectional and other meetings. For the con venience of members and associates, • branch post-office (which will be available also for communication between members attending the meeting) will be opened for this occasion is the reception-room. Members and associates mey obtain railway tickets and information of local arraregemenn ap pais tfiest • fie the load eseretaelse at Dundee. The general committee will hold its fine ineefing in Panmiireamset chapel on Wednesday, September 4, at one p.m., for the election of sectional officers, and the despateh of business usdally brought before that body. The general committee will meet again in Parimursetneet chapel on Monday,. September 9, at three p.m., for the purpose of deciding on the place of meeting in 13. The concludlng•-meeting of this committee will also he hold in Pear:lure-street chapel on Wednesday, September 11, at one p.m, when the report of the sem mittee of recommendations will be received. The, first general meeting will be held in the Kinnard hall, on Wednesday, September 4, at eight p.ni. precisel7. when Mr. W. R. Grove, w . f., M.A., P. 8.5., ks., will resign the chair, and his Grace the Duke of Ruceleuch, K. 0., F.R.S., &a., will assume the presidency, and deliver an address. The different sections will assemble in the rooms appointed for them, for the reading and discussion of reports and other communications, on Thursday. Sep- I tember 5 ; Friday, September f • Saturday , September 7 ; Monday, September 9; and Tuesday, September 10 ; at eleven a.m. precisely. The committees of sections will meet in rooms adjacent to the section rooms, at two p.m. on Wednesday, September 4, and at ten a.m. precisely on the other days. Persons desirous of reading eummunica tions in any section are requested to give early notice of their intention, by letter, addressed to the Assistant-Ge neral Secretary. Reports on the progress of science, and of researches intrusted to individuals and committees, are expected to be forwarded in letters addressed to the As sistant-General Secretary, Dundee, previously to the meeting, accompanied by • statement whether the author will be present, and on what day, so that the business of the sections may be satisfactorily arranged. The report/ complete, and concise abstracts of other communications, are to be delivered to the secretaries of the sections before which they are read, previously to the close of the meet ing, for publication in the transactions. The sections are the following : A.—Mathematical sad Physical Science.—ln the High School. President, Professor Sir W. Thomson, D.C.L., F.R.S., &c. Vice-Presidents, Professor Reiland, F.R.S. ; Mr. Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S. Seeretariea, Professor Clifton, M.A. ; Professor Cr. C. Foster, M.A. ; Professor Swan, F. R.B li. B.—Chemical Science.—ln the High School President, Professor Thomas Anderson, M.D., F.R.Via-Pre *ideate, Mr. Maxwell Simpson, F.R.S.; Professor William son, F.R.S. Secretaries, Mr. A. Vernon Harcourt, Sec. ; Professor Liveing, M.A., F.C.S. ; Dr. Russell, F.C.S. C.—Geology.—ln Panmure-street chapel. President, Mr. Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., F.G.S. Vice-Presidents, Sir Philip Egerton, Bart., F.R.B. ; Professor Ramsay, F.R.S. Secretaries, Mr. W. Pengelly, F.H.B. ; Mr. H. Sorby, F.R.S. D.—Biology.—ln the High School. President, Professor Sheepsy, Sec. R.S. Vios-Pregidenta, Professor F.lt 3. ; Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S.. Secretaries, Dr. Spencer Cobbold, F.R.S.; Mr. H. L &Milton, F.R.S.; Rev. H. B. Tristram, ILA., F.L.S. ; Professor W. Turner, M. 8., F.R.S.E.; Mr. E. B. Tylor. E.--Geography and Etlinology.—ln the Albert Institute. President, Sir Samuel Baker, F.R.G.B. Vise-Preeidents, I Mr. John Crawford, ; Sir Roderick Murchison. Bart., F.R.S. Secretaries, Mr. H. W. Bates. Aasittant- Secretar7 Geogra phical _ Society ; Mr. Clements It. Mark ham, F.E.G.S.; Mr. 0. W. Nasti,; Mr. Themes Wright, M.A. F.—Economic Science and Stativtice.—ln Euclid-atreet Chapel. President, Mr. M. F.. Grant Ihiff,M.P., M.A. Vice- Presidenta, Dr. Farr, F.R.S.; Coknel Sykes, M.P., F.B.S. Secretaries, Professor Leoni Levi, F.B.A. ; Mr. Edmund Mac G. Mechanical Science.—ln Watt Hall, Constittition road. President, Professor W. J. Mac worn Rankine, LL.D., F.A.S. Vice-Presidents, Mr. W Fel/bairn, F.R.B. ; General Lefrey, R.A., F.R.S. Secretaries, Mr. P. Le Neve Foster, Nee., The sectional officers will be proposed for election to the general eenswittse on Wednesday, September 4. The following general and evening meetings have been arranged :—On Wednesday evening. Sept. 4, at 8 p.m., in the Kinnaini.hall, the President's Address. On Thursday evening, Sept. 8, at 8 p.m., in theVolunteers'-hall, sair;:o. On Friday evening, Sept. 6, at 8.30 p.m., in the Kinnsird hall, a discourse will be deliveredby Mr. Archbald Gaikie, F.H.8., Director of the Geological Survey of Scotland, on the Geological Origin of the present Scenery of Scotland. ' On Monday evening, Sept 9, at 8.30 p.m., in the Kinnaird. hall, a discourse will be &hewed by Mr. Alexander Herschel, F.R.A.8., on Sisower.liet•ore. On Tuesday evening, Sept. 10 at 8 p.m.. in the Volunteer-drill-ha ll , &Arne. Wednesday, Sept. 11, concluding General Meet ing, at 3 p.m. Excursions on Saturday, Sept. 7, and Thursday, Sept. 12. As Our-Spoxas ParAcHnt.—The following paragraph is " going the rounds" of the country papers : Father Ignatius, like the Marquis of Westmeath, is of opinion that the reporters are a bad set. In his sermon last Sunday he called upon thew, if any were present, to note carefully every word he was about to utter, but he doubted if they would ; it would net pit the Devil to let them do that. Perhaps there were some Christian editors us the church-editors of some dissenting papers—it did not matter ; perhaps aU the better. Let them publish to the world what he was about to say. Mr. Lyre then, in very plain language, attacked the morality of public schoots. Did parents, he asked, know what they were paying SOL 100 f., aye, even 200/. • year for ? Why, of course, it was for the education of their soma Education ! It was nothing of the sort. Our public schools, without exception, were hotbeds of the worst kinds of infamy and vice. They were abodes of horrible sins and filth, and boys were being brought up straight for bell-fire. Young ladies'schools, too, were just as tol. It would n do in this enlightened nineteenth century to attempt to teach religion in our schools, The man woo did so would be laughed at, and put clown as a fool. Schoolmasters advertised the number of pupil, who bad pined fellow.hipa and passed examinations for public o ffi ces, but they love Jesus. Indeed there was no such thing as school-boy religion. Why even in the schools adjoining the church, where a charge of only a penny • week was made, the parents made no end of a noise because they took the children to church on festivals. Now, • festival lid not occur above once • month, but the parents would have it they paid their penny for their children to be taught that two shillings and two shillings made four shil lings, but they would not have any more religion, there was too much of it already ; and this spirit pervaded all classes. Mr. Lyne then referred to the morality of what was termed the fashionable world. He could not express what he felt whenever he was told Mies So-and-So was to be " brought out" the next season. Brought out ! What for? To be prepared for hell. How did ladies go to these ball,? Dressed? No, stripped half naked. And what did Jesus see in these ball-rooms' Filth ! filth ! filth ! Oh, the tales mothers and grandmothers bad toll him of young ladies "coming out." The reporter who sends us these notes does not pretend that he obeyed the preacher's orders, and took down all he said. If he had done so, there would have been no bore of their appearing in print. It is hardly necessary to add that the sermon was listened to with great attention. SOUTH KENSINGTON HOTELCOMPANY (LIMITED). —Yesterday an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders in this company took pbioe at the hotel. Mr. T. V. Morgan, the chairman, in moving the adoption of the audited accounts, said it would remain with the meeting whether the business of the hotel should be car ried on another year or otherwise. The receipts showed a falling off of nearly 3001. on the corresponding period of last ear. If they decided on carrying on the hotel for another ,twelvemonths, the directors would freely give their services, and the rr.anacer bad consented voluntarily to, have his salary reduced by 1001.. end the secretary by 701. (Applause.) On the motion of Dr. Griffith, seconded by Mr. Anderson, it was resolved that the directors be requested to carry on the business of the hotel for another year. To destroy the turnip fly take road-dust, soot, and a small proportion of guano, mix them together, and sow them along the rows in the middle of the day ; in • short time the files will disappear. A little sulphur may be used instead of guano. Some persons prefer applying it is the night when the ground is wet with dew. TR REPRSSENTATION OP STROUD. The nomination of candidates for this borough to supply the vacancy caused by the sudden resignition of Mr. Scrope, took plays yesterday morning in frost of hustings erected at the Victoria Rooms. There was • crowd of from three to four thousand persons, who were somewhat noisy but very good humoured. Mr. R. C. Little, the returning officer, presided. Mr. S. B. Marling, mtundacturer, imposed Mr. IL S. P. Winterbothaet ea a fit and proper person to fill the vacancy. Mr. Samuel Bowly seconded the nomination. Mn C. R. Bayneipro posed Mr. John Edward Dorington, jun., who, he said: was the choice of a new party just forsned, called th e " Con stitutionalist " petty, and which comprised moderate men of the old whig and tioneervative pastries. The nomination woe seconded by Mr. R. Potter, late chairman of the Great Western lizt b ay . Company. Mr. Winterbotham, in the course of his taunted his opponent with either laying no opinions, or else carefully concealing them, and pointed out that he was supported by the entire conservative party, but was trying to catch liberal votes as an " indepen&nt." He accused his opponents of putting on the screw, and said he had the et ideuce in his pocket of many cases of intiudda- Don. While the conservative party had been obliglid to reverse all their traditions and policy, and were left without any definite principles to enunctate, he claimed to be • con sistent member of the liberal party, whose principles were dear sad definite. Having addressed the elector, at various large meetings in the spring, and fully explained his political principles in detail, he declined to go into the same detail now. Mr. Dorington addressed the electors amidst a storm of greens, hiss" and cries of various kinds, which prevented him from being heard at a distance of a yard. He declared himself to be an up bolder of true conseitutional principles, and • representa tive on this occaiion of freedom of election against • oaken., who had hitherto controlled the elections. He announced himself to be in favour of civil and religious liberty', and on the subject of church rates accused the dissenters of always set using the just compromise offered by the church. He denied the charge of intimidation, and expressed his perfect confidence in the result of the poll. The show of heads was then taken, and was shout three to one in favour of Mr. Winterbothaux A pull was demanded for his deponent, which takes place tO-day. The proceNlings concluded with • vete of thanks to the returning °Seer. Mr. Beale', at a meeting of the council of the Reform League, held last evening, announced with regret that the Holborn branch had sem4e4 from the League. SIR MORTON Pilo, M.P., AND THE ELLOTORS OF FINIIIWRY.— Yesterday afternoon a deputation of the electors of the boroulh of Finsbury wilted upon Sirllor ton Peto, Bart., M.F., at 5, Great George-street, West minster, for the purpose of preserting an address, numer ously signed by the electors of Finsbury, in recognition of his services during the time ho represented Finsbury in parliament. Mr. Wallis, who introduced the deputation, said the address had been prepared some time ago, hut from a variety of causes it bad not been presented, tad the present time was thought the best to present it. The address thanked Sir Morton Pete for his general attention to his parliamentary duties while he represented the bo rough ; fee his particular attention to the local interests of Finsbury. his contributions to the local charities, and his liberality in reference to the statue of Sir Hugh Myd delton, at Islington. Sir Morton, in reply, said he was much touched at this =Ark of respect from the electors of Finsbury, and it was with much pleasure that he saw in the list of signatures to the memorial the names of 'many old friends. In the present state of his affairs be thanked them most cordially for the kindness and sympathy they had expressed for him, and which he should always re. member. __ _ -- • TEE NEW REFORM Aur.—Yesterdity moaning, the new Reform Act, which received the royal assent on Thursday, was issued and forwarded to all the members of parliament before it was supplied to the public. It con tains sixty-one sections and a number of schedules, ex tending to nine folio sheets. The title is "An Act further to amend the laws relating to the Representation of the People in England and Visits." The new law is divided into three parts The tint relates to" franchise:" the second to "distribution of seats ;" and the third to " supplemental provisions." As to franchise, every man, "on and after the year 1668," is enti tled to vote in boroughs who, on the hod day of July, and for twelve months, rented and paid the rates. The "lodger franchiae "is a separate holding for twelve months, if let unfurnished for 101. a year or up wards, and " bus claimed to be registered as a voter at the next ensuing registration of voters"—that is, 'in the year 1864, to be on the next registration. In counties the value is 5/. At a contested election for counties and bo roughs represented by three members voter, not to vote for more than two, and in the City of London not for more than three. Totnes, Reigate, and Yarmouth are disfran chum d after the end of the present parliament. After the present pirliament, Manchester. Liverpool, Birmitighatn, and Leehare to return three members, the University of Lout. ais to return one member. The forms to be used are ei , en in the schedules to the act. THE Scoryisu REGISTRAR-GEMMEL% RETURN.— The return just issued records 17,464 deaths registered in Scotland during the second quarter of 1867, being in the annual proportion of 22 . 0 deaths to every 1,000 of the estimated population. This proportion is slightly below the average of the quarter during ten previous years, but shove the death-rate of the corresponding quarter of Eng land, which was 211 per 1,000 of population. By refe rence to the notes of the local registrars it does not appear that any epidemic was prevalent in Scotland ; indeed, fever appears to be hieing its epidemic character and falling to its normal condition, and the ordinary diseases of childhood were not more common than usual. No cases of epidemic cholera had been reported during the quarter. The Registrar-General, however, directs atten tion to the fact that although the general mortality of Scotland was slightly lower than that of the ding quarter of the ten previous years, 7e e t re r mortality of the town districts was higher, the general mortality being kept down by the much lower proportion of deaths which had occurred in the rural districts. Thus of the 17,404 deaths 11,159 occurred in the town and 0.305 in the rural dis tricts ; indicating a proportion of 219 deaths per 1,1100 of population in the town ilistricts, brit only 17'3 dentin, in a like population in the rural districts. The mean tempera ture of the quarter was 701 deg. The niortalit) dimi nished as the weather became warmer and more genial. 30,31t1 births were registered in Scotland in the second quarter of 1867, the annual proportion being :2..•!•3 births per 1,000 of population. This is considendily abeve the average of the quarter. Of the 30.393 births, 27,663 were legitimate, and 2,730 illegitimate, indiciting thee Ni per 1,000 of the births were illegitimate. The natural limresse of the population during the quarter was 12,929, hut after deducting 4,689 Scottish emigrants, the increase is reduced to 8,244. During the quarter ending the 30th of dune, 1867, 5,602 marriages were recorded, being in the annual proportion of 7'o marriages per 1 , 000 of populatioe , • hick is the exact avenge of the season in ten previews years, but greatly below the proportion of the corresponding quarter of 18016. At Greenock trade has been dull, and consequently the number of marriages has been smell. At Dundee mamages have gone on steadily increasing for several years, the result of high wages and consequent prosperity of the working therm L 1