The Express. — London, England, 1858-07-20 00:00:00

1 WKS DAILY NZWII: LONDON MORNING ~ Ptatz=vr...="...........d as sum sod Was of la amosa@ somo—la las ass= l: am row% sot Is es wad riso lad snonsioal ...ail I. fa. r4.yaws,. oaf nosaan osailo—dik pan lo se I ntrioasee• Imre et aniasup ain, &a fadaflan arty aryl a ady....the :art ***l *ln t r#L4ll9 MIS a WOW. I* ,raVIDZII ALL OITEXIIITI ADTIIIITUIOOOIB. Is% dilate trapna on := A rti Fwaosall Se asoo dna dna Mo .. ' W:414 6 = o b r a e l =iag lainTilsook To to enfant of wsw r . rats lain liagars ;R . ::2.llmilp la la oinalai las =tad look a • Was. aitikbig se. os the mom of am rarea Vara a mai/ Ma alt. ya isonos poill ta odlosan In Ponalin min. labs Oxpreoo. Itimlimmiis Werra tar "Thallipaa;s,*.l;o7l7la Swift pipe, rr ars Is et %he Ilarowlsaireek by Two Alia as dr = Torn gnome. DHSS rot Ta—a ad TKO IM YMt toll Kr. • Mr. O. —Opus M holtvon P II4IIT. Tre ? Fan. TIM VAU l lLTl 7lenpa.—Brew OIRCLI. Nr.isd Kral. Warr —Ora taAL elm 'Warr WtilAad IlltLallD AO IT 'Ad. Barer et Brre B. lbehlr. 0. J. emir. sed Beer. Trllrer. y.-4,terrorie et I. HIGH RATA AT LONDON BRIDON. Teo b. i--wereie le fh. Alerasek K egi. Toesseariellele lee lie Aimee% LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 20. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS," eeetaining the results of the day's Races, is pub. limbed every evening daring the Sporting Season, at aix o'clock. Ovirant notices of the last American mails tell us that there is no particular news. Yet we have rarely known so interesting a set of newspapers and political letters from that quarter u those which arrived last week. They exhibit the rebound Cl the conversations in Parliament and the discussions in our newspapers on the events is the Galt We suspect the surprise in America at the way in which the matter was conducted and ended here will he ri‘ ailed by the surprise in England at the way in which the news was received in the United States. The whole vocabulary of amazement, vexation, per plexity, and indignation seems to be exhausted by the various parties in the Great Republic who were expected to unite in a shout of triumph and delight. We heard something at first of hurrahs and saucy speeches among a few political leaden : the mate rials before us, however, exhibit nothing of the sort, but, on the other hand, every conceivable form of dusiatisfactioo. We direct attention to this, not because we see any necessity, or feel any inclination to spy into the uneasy moods of our neighbours, caused by incidents which are gone by, but because in the diversified forms of the uneasi ness generated by one affair we see more hope than we have eve seen before of obtaining our object. Any thinking lean, experienced in political affairs, who would take the trouble to read what is said by all parties in the United States about the reported collisions in the Cuban waters and their consequences in the respective Cabinets and Parliaments would,we think, declare that there is more prospect at this moment of the retrieval of the American flag, and of the release of the Federal Government from the dishonour of Slavery, than there has been from the day when that institution began obviously to im peril the Union. The Federal Government finds itself charged with the duty of protecting and vindicating the national ' flag ; and in its annoyance at having so embarrass ing a function devolved upon it, without aid, while bound by treaty and by the constitution of the Re public to halal it thoroughly, it is almost inclined to complain of England for leaving it to deal with the difficulty alone. The United States, in the early years of the present century, by statute law declared the Slave-trade piracy ; and every successive admi nistration is, and has held itself, bound to control that piracy by constant vigilance and the strong hand. The present Executive advised and invited us to station our anthers in the Cuban waters. We did so. The American Executive complained of our doing the work for which we were there ; and we have desisted from it. The Executive complained of our presence in the midst of the American mer chant vessels; and we have withdrawn from the Cuban waters, and returned to our African station.. It would be too absurd to complain that, by com plying thus far, we have left the American Execu tive to deal alone with her special embarrassment: bat there is a good deal of murmuring which means this, though fear of ridicule prevents its articulate expression. The journals which represent leading parties and leading statesmen are all asking what the PRESIDENT and General Casa mean to do, and how they propose to do it. "Hundreds of cargoes " of humsn flesh pass in every year under the shelter "of our flag," they assert. Now that the British decline to search, the American authorities mast do so. It is no easy task for any American govern ment at any time ; and never was it so dif ficult as now, when the nation at large is declaring that the best possible assiitance has been driven away in the rudest and most mischievous manner, to serve paltry purposes of political in trigue. Thus, behind the fireworks of triumph, and the illuminations of vanity, we see the Cabinet sitting, grave and mortified, to consider the means of rapprresing the slave-trade in the American ports and on the high seas, where the national honour is pledged to extinguish it. Everywhere else throughout the Republic, " the " newt from Washington, rid London," seems to have awed more depression than excitement. The great puzzle is what to think of the Times newspaper —not how to feel about its recent virtual advocacy of the alave.trade ; for that is obviously regarded with contempt in one section of the Union as much as in the other. Hot what to think of it? Some ask whether the Times is really a popular organ, and whether we, the people of England, have really changed our minds about the slave-trade being " the sum of all villsnies." The division on Mr. HUTT'S motion will answer that question foe *brae who need an answer; but we °beery, that the previous loss of character by the Times operates well in this lest case. In the midst of a hubbub of amazement' and regrets at such a new sort of morality coming from Eng. land, we find admonitions and reminders that the Times is not, and never was, the voice of the Fag liah nation ; and that the fluctuations, levities, ill. humour., self•contradictious, and false prognostica tions put forth by the great journal within this very year, show that it is no organ at all, and therefore not accountable in regard to doctrine till it has parsed through its present critical stage (whatever that may be caused by), and become onoc more the mouthpiece of some authority or other. In America it is pretty clear that a deep sensation of shame has been spreading from mind to mind, from party to party, and from state to state, about the recent bluster, and yet more at tha carelessness and levity on which it ass bawd. The friends of the dema• lommlolow THE EXPRESS, gogues are trying to joke it off; but they are checked in the attempt, They are called firebrands, and are held up u warnings to constituencies. The Northern newspaper press produces more and more evidence, derived from the seafaring population, that Eng land has never abused the Right of Visit, and that but for her the sets would swarm with pirates. Then follow remarks on the duties of great maritime nations in time of peace—questions what better can be done with a navy like that of England than guarding rising industry and commerce on coasts like that of Africa, slid suppressing the marau ders who would destroy the growing civilisation. Scouring the anchor may be good in its way, we are told ; and maritime survey is a noble exercise; bst these done, there is still left a surplus of power, leisure, and moans. Why not employ them against the piracy which is the chief plague of the world? Any power, in either hemisphere, say these Ameri cans, which can make a difficulty of such an employ ment of such means most have some bad reason for its opposition ; and the constituents of that power ought to look to it, and find out what the reason is. Such has been the reception in the United States of the eagerly expected news from England. We might quote a good deal more; but, on the one hand, there is still some bluster like that which we were entertained with six weeks ago ; and on the other, there is some such exceedingly plain speaking about the balance of credit and disgrace that we would rather leave it to work its effect at home than hold it up to public view in England. On the whole, our readers will think that the method and tone of comment are highly creditable to the writers, public and private ; and that we may fairly join them in being "well pleased at a fresh de " parturs." "The chances are always better," they say. It rests with them to make them so; and there will be no failure of sympathy on our side. 7, THERE are still people to be found who believe in ghosts; and his Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUOII a evidently one of them. At particular periods the spectre of OUT FAWKES, of BRADSHAW the regicide, and of Father PETRI& of glorious Revolution times, wen said to walk o' nights, troubling the honest hearts of many elderly senators of both sexes, and disturbing occasionally the quiet of some whose childishness could not be ascribed either to their immaturity or advanced age. At the mere mention of the names of these historic personages, or any allusion to the memorable scenes in which they figured, orthodox politicians of the species we allude to, were wont to go off at score in alternate hymns of fierce party triumph, and anathematintions of all who might in any degree be suspected of compission for them or extenuation of their sins. The ghosts of the gunpowder plotter, of the sainted despot's judge, and of the over-bur dened confessor of silly and vicious King JAMES, were seen by the eyes of modern bigotry in form as palpable as though they lived again and trod the Anglican and Monarchical soil of Britain in flesh and blood once more. To keep up the imposture, solemn though somewhat irreverent and extremely uncharitable prayers were " ordained "to be said in Churches" on certain set days throughout the year ; whereby the young were taught to fear and shudder at the mention of certain obscure names before they could tell or be made to understand why, and the oblivious mercies of for giveness and forgetfulness were periodically exor cised as though they had been evil spirits. The Church, indeed, in its legislative capacity, had never had any part in the imposition of these resentful ceremonies. They were invented and enacted by ruthless and graceless politicians for their own official or electioneering pur poses ; and though the clergy had no choice but to obey theolbdinances enjoined in the name of the SOVISRLION as temporal head of their Church, it is only justice to them as • body to remember that they seldom dwelt upon or pointed to those factious and angry Thanksgivings ; and it is notorious that they were in numberless instances carefully for gotten to be said or sung by the wise and humane. Still they were kept in type by Royal command as sacred extras to the Liturgy ; and every edition of the Book of Common Prayer was sullied by these relentless groans of political gratitude, and ill-disguised insinuations of blood guiltiness and heresy, sedition and schism, against all who did not heartily thank GOD for the restora tion and reign of the profligate and shameless CIIAxuEs IL ; and for all the arts and devices, treacheries and falsehoods, by which the constitu tional rights won during his father's faithless reign, were for a season made away with at the Restoration. Of late it has indeed been found daily more hope less to impose these things upon the laity ; and the bishops and clergy have long been desirous of being relieved from the irksome duty of performing a part which their improved cultivation taught them to despise is unworthy, and the instincts of their profes sion taught them to regard as calculated only to raise awkward questions amongst their intelligent flocks. As the Bishop of LONDON said list night in the House of Lords when the abrogation of these services was unwisely impugned by the Duke of MARLBO- Boman and Lord DUNGANNON—they have been always understood to cast wholesale and indiscrimi nate reproaches by implication on large bodies of persons who dissent from the Established Church, and as such they are highly objectionable. The Catholics are no more deserving of being twitted and taunted with the conspiracy to blow up the Par liament of 1805, than the Nonconformists are worthy of being branded as traitors by impious insinuation, be canes the Long Parliament maw fit to turn Bishops out of the House of Lords or to abolish" the thing called king-craft." A great diversity of opinions among the most learned and accomplished men arc enter tained, moreover, regarding the justifiability of some of the means resorted to by WILLIAM of ORANGI and his aristocratic accomplices in the great revolution of 1688. To make one particular version of their con duct a matter of faith, and to require all true church men to mix up the matter in their prayers to Atmtairry Con, is a proceeding as impolitic as it is revolting. Lord DERBY truly said, that a thanksgiving service for the Reformation would be somewhat more to the purpose, and much less difficult to defend on religious grounds; while the failure of the Spanish Armada would be a far more appropriate theme of grateful reminiscence in a national point of view. But happily there has ceased to be any need to argue the question elabo rately. After wasting an hour-and-a-half yesterday evening in a vain effort to re-open the question in the Upper HOW!, his Grace of MARLBOROUGH CORM get nobody to support him but poor Lord DUNGANNON ; and after the House had actually been cleared fur a the minority, who were ready to side with him, was obviously about to be so small that he con sented to have his motion negatived without going through that formality. OXFORD Palzes.—The Vice-Chancellor announces that the following subjects are wormed for the Chancellor's Prises for the ensuing year. mfr.: Foe Lelia Verse—lndic Oriental's. For an &flub Berg—The ett p F.t ua t:diteed by the gold of America on the greatest's ty For • Latin Rear —Qoatrates bbeiet ai r n Argonanterom corms marithno? The subject of 81, Robert Newthgate'e prize la Lucknow. • gig Court.* • • OSBORNE. Juir.r 19. Her Majesty, the Prince Wand, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, Primer Helena, and Prince Leiningen, at tended divine sank* at Whippingham church yastarday mousing. The Rev. G. Prothero officiated. The Ravi and Countess of Darby, and the Ladies and Gen tlemen in Waiting, were alio prement The Karl wad Countess of Daley arrived in town yester day from a visit to her Majesty, et Osborne, Isle of Wight. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the Australian Colonies and Malta, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islanda, the Governors of the West Inge IMands, Ceylon, the Mauritius, Hong Kong, and Laboan. MB ROYAL VISIT TO CIIIRIIOUBG. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Packet Com pany having been applied to by a committee of the House of Commons appointed to make arrangements for the atten dance of the members of the hones at Cherbourg, on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to that port, have liberally placed a vessel at their disposal without charge. It is there fore proposed that members who wish to be present on the 003111‘0111 shall repair to Southampton on the evening of Tues day, the 3rd of August, sleep on board, and start for Cher bourg at an early hour on the following morning. The trip will probably extend over four days, as the vessel is not to leave Cherbourg on her return until Friday even ing. An intimation baa been sent by the committee to all the members now in town, inviting them to be present, and it is estimated that about 200 of our legislators will avail themaelvea: of the opportunity to visit the Sebastopol of France. Captain Ociael, the Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms, has been instructed to issue a circular to members, of which the fol lowing lea copy " House of Commons, July 17, 1868. " Sir, —The committee for superintending the arrange ments for the visit of members of the House of Commons to Cherbourg have requested me to inform you that a ticket of admission will be issued to you on Wednesday or Thursday wit, on application ►t my room, between twelve and one o'clock, on receipt of a cheque for 64. This amount is con sidered by the committee as probably sufficient to cover all expenses from the time of arriving on board until leaving the ship. Should the expenses incurred not amount to 61. the surplus will be returned to you ; and the committee will con sider themselves claimants for any extra expenses, which, however, are not anticipated. " I► le proposed that the party shall assemble on board at Southampton on the afternoon of Tuesday, the 3rd of August, on which day dinner will be ready at eight o'clock. The party will sleep on board, and the ship will leave early in the morning of the 4th of Awls; remaining at Cherbourg until Friday evening. " Should I not receive your application for a ticket by Thursday next the committee wil► consider themselves at liberty to dispute of ymr place to any other member, the adrolaaion being strictly limited to members of the house. " A few berths will be reserved for servants, and any member desiring to take his servant will be supplied with a ticket at 2!. 10s. each.—Yours very obediently, " R. A. Gotten*, Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms.•' No reference is made in the circular to passports ; but it is 'agitated that hon. members should provide themselves with these necesesry travelling oompatdons, if it be their intention to touch the soil of La Belle Franoe. The above circular was, of course, written on the assump tion that parliament will be prorogued on Monday or Timi dity, the god et 3rd of August, of which there appears to be no doubt. THE ROTAL VISIT TO LIEDe.—We understand that the Mayor has received a communication, stating her Majesty will be accompanied on her visit is Leeds by the Princess Alice Maud Mary, and the Princess Helena Augusta Victoria. We are sure the announcement will be received with general satisfaction.—Leeds Mercury of this day. Hu Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Stnliie, accompanied by his son, the Prism Adolphus, arrived in town yesterday afternoon from Germany, on a visit to the Dechea of Cambridge. Ills Royal High ness, who we regret to learn is labouring under an almost total deprivation of sight, was met at the London-bridge station by his illustrious consort, the Hereditary Greed Ducker of ltleoklenburg-Strelits. _ - Ilia Royal Highness the 'Duke of Cambridge reorived a select circle at dinner last evening, at his apart ments in Bt. James's Palace, in honour of the birthday of hie sister, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg fitrelitz. There were present their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, the Heredi tary Grand Duke and Grand Daohene of Mecklenburg -Btrelitz, and a select party of the mintonsey. _ . . . His Excellency the Venezuelan Minister has taken his departure from the Brunswick Hotel, Ct. James's. The Count d'Alton and Colonel Ouseley (agent to the King of Oude) have strived at the same establishment. . _ The Marchioness (Frances Anne) of Londonderry has left Bolderneeas Hones, Park-lane, for Wynyard Park, near Btockton•on-Tees. After a brief stay at her country mat, the marchioness goes to Genoa Tower, Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland and Lady Rosa Fans left town yesterday to join the circle to se aerobia yesterday at Burghley House, near Stamford, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter during the mess. The Earl and Countess Spencer left Dover yester day for Paris. The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor, who arrived in town at the close of the past week from a tour of the German spas, left town yesterday for Calverley Pear, Cheshire. The Coanteas of Dysart, who has been suffering severely for the lest three weeks with acute bronchitis, is now progroosisg favourably towards COIITILIINCOIZICC. The Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington and the Lords tad Secretary of the Admiralty leave town to-morrow on us official visit to the royal dookyazd at Sheernem. The First Lord and his colleagues at the Admiralty will be engaged until Friday in their official inspection. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFR.—(Tats DaT.)—The marries , of Lady Emily &merest, daughter of the late and sister of the present Duke of Beaufort, with Kr. Arthur Walsh, eldest son of Sir John Walsh, 14. P., and Lady Jabs Walsh, was solemnised thte forenoon at Bt. ararges Church, Hanover-square, in the promos of a distinguished circle of friends. Ths Rev. Robert Leigh, M.A., has been lioensed by the bishop to the district of St. Thomas, Hyde, in the parish of Stockport, to the county of Chester. A letter from Turin of the 17th announces that oat of the thirteen elections which have just taken place in Piedmont, twelve have ended in the return of government candidates. The Marquis Birago, the chief editor of the ultra-clerical organ L'Arwto.ia, hu been thrown out by • majority of only ten. The Paris Union informs us that "Not a day gems without information being received of the conver.ion to catholicism of • young daughter or son of the British aristocracy. These conversions are particularly frequent in littfrew-sremg, that iremasse and magnificent quarter of London, inhabited by lord. end baronets." . . "It is related in diplomatic circles," says the Jouruul du Herr*, " that Fuad Pacba kaa informed Count Walawski and Lord Cowley that the Porte la ready to pay to )tdlle. Erefllard, by way of Indemnity, a sum of 160,000 fr., and a similar snot to the family of Mr. Page, the English VioeCooaal. , • . . The .D bats suggests, in the course of an article on the Jeddah =hawse, that the government of Arabi should be entrusted by the Porte to Abdel Kader. Pellegrini, a singer, whose name was at one time very celebrated In Paris, died at Munich on July 11. Since 1822 he belonged to the Munich opera, and he performed there till within the last three years. The Berate et Gazette des Theatres Days that inquiries set on foot by the committee of dramatic authors, and encouraged by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, have led to the " discovery " of the eon of Mozart, who is living in a poor way at Milan. A remittanoe has bets wads to him of the sum apportioned as the author's share of the profits of some reeent performances of the lVc=t di Figaro. CRICKET.—GENTLEMEN AND PLATERS OF ENG LAND.—TbIa Important event wee commenced at Lord's yesterday, sad will be resumed this morning. A very large and aristocratic company assembled to witturs the play, there being present u r rards of 4,000 spectators. John Lillywhite ....Ig o y, owing to illness. The folkming score will show Mist the profewonals hays much the beet of the game —Players. let innine., . 2nd i” , fogs, 86 (all wickets standing); Gentlemen, lit Wags, 62. EVENING, JULY EXPRESS FROM PARIS. , (PROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) • . PARIS, Mownst 171017110. The Pays gives currency to the following " news" from India, es having been received from London : We learn that Mr. Montgomery--sesing that, instead of oonciliating the inhabitants of Oude, the government con tinued the system of spoliation and severity which wee the origin of the present unhappy state of things, end that the King of Oude who was in prison in Calcutta long before the war broke out, is now to be brought to trial for high treason, and being of opinion that such a proceeding would produce great irritation among the natives—hue resigned the °Mos to which Lord Canning appointed him, of chief of the administration of 0 ude. He accompanied his resignation with a letter, in which he declared his opinion that if tha present system should be acted upon much longer, Onde will be use vocably lost to England. The seine correspondence men tions an important fact which may lead to very serious con sequences. The four principal leaders of the revolt—Nana Sahib, Bahadoor Khan, the Queen of Jhansi, and the Queen of Oude —have made • treaty of ►lliance, offensive sad dakasive. They have very considerable forces at their disposltfea, and have organised native governments which lore regularly Instilled. This new situation may greatly in flumes future operations. It has been stated that efforts would be made to let the water into the new Cherbourg dock during the Queen's visit. I understand, however that the engineers have reported it impossible that this should be done earlier than the day originally fixed, August 7. It is announced that the twelfth meeting of the Paris Conference will be held on Thursday. The Prince Demidoff, who died the other day at Baden, near Vienna., is not the husband of the Princess Mathilde, but her nephew. At the Bonnie the Rents was firm all the day at Saturday'. prices, bat with little business doing. The last prior for account was 68fr. 30c., being a rise of 10c. Mobilier rose lfr. 25c. The railways were heavier than the Rente, notwithstanding a report that the fusion between the Lyons and Dauphine Company is at length settled and that the result of the long pending negotiations between the government and the companies will be declared officially before the end of the month. The Orleans fell 6fr. 25c. ; Northern and Lyons, 3fr. 75e. each ; and Southern sfr. ; Western rose 3fr., and Eastern closed without change. There were remarkably few transactions. 4.41....3 A thunderstorm of extraordinary violence bunt upon Paris about one o'clock this morning. Two houses in the Place de la Maine at Montmartre were struck. A girl was wounded in the wrist by the electric fluid. Another house was injured in the Roe Poissonniere. It is probable that we shall hear of some serious casualties. THE 4 ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH SQUADRON. (IT ILICTRIC TILIGRAPIL) LIVERPOOL, TVINDAY MORNING. - - The United States steam frigate Niagara was off Caps Clear on the 18th inst., at 4 a.m., and her Majesty's steamer Agamemnon was off IC Inside at 11 cm. on the same day, with the Atlantic cable.— Tittle (Second Edition). JIDD4H OR JIDDA. (EXTRACT FROM "SINAI, Tilt MEDJAE, AND SOrDAN," RI HAMILTON.) Jidda is built along the shore in the form of a parallelogram, extending almost due north and south. From the sea it has a poor appearance; only a few minarets rise above the houses, which present a long lice of mean build ings. From the sea there is no entrance except through the shabby irregular courts of the onetom-house, which are littered with lazy employes and bales of coffee and gum. The gate is at the end of a wide street, one side of which is occupied by a palace built by the former Sheriff Oholeb, and I. lined on either aide by a dark row of coffee-booths, which are filled from morning to night with crowds of idlers all smoking the nargileh. The bazaar, principally composed of wooden booths, runs almost at right angles to this street, leaving in the centre only a narrow peerage often obstructed by camels and their loads which they deposit before the entrance of the okela. The okels are all placed in this quarter, rendering it no easy matter to pick one's way through the masses of merchandise around them. The shops are poorly furnished—more than one-half of them retail eatables; the rest of them display coarse china, porcelain, or European earthenware—the venerable willow pattern predominant on the English wares—cottons., coarse abayahs, cornelisn beads and rosaries. Two or three shops sell Indian sad Syrian silks. The crowd which Lille the street forms a roost interesting sight, on account of the num ber of different races whose representatives compose it—Turks, nomad Arabs, Ideocans, Persians, Mistime, Indians, blacks of every shade, with features varying from the Jewish to the Negro type. Behind the bazaar lies the town, composed of tortuous and narrow streets, in which are a few houses with curiously carved lattices and beautiful doors of teak; the pester number, though lofty, ars externally mean, and In their interior confined sad shabby. Of all the towns in the East none has se distinctive a physiognomy es Jidda; it is even more oriental than Da mascus, though u striking for its ugliness as Damsons for its beauty. A single Greek mercantile house, the keeper of • wine shop, and sn Armenian broker, are the only Chrieliaas in the place. A most unpleasing eight to the English eye are the crowds of poor Indians who litter in the streets like dogs. These Indians are pilgrims who have returned hare from Meow, but being destitute of means to continue their journey, live on alma • life of squalid idleness. According to the most probable calculation, the number of houses, large sad small, may be about 4,000, and the population perhaps reaches 20,000. Of the present population (1664) 1,600 are Indians, including many of the wealthiest merchants, nearly the whole trade of Jidda being in the hands of British subjects. NAP AL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, JULY N.—APPOINTMENTS:Cap tains J. Moore, C.B. (1848), of the Hogue, to the Victor Emanuel. 91, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth ; sod W. Crlepin (1862), of the Victoria and Albert, to the Horse, 60, screw steam flag-ship, at Devonport, vies Moore. Commando. his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Lein ingen, to the Victoria end Albert, Royal Yacht, at Ports mouth. Surgeon S. Donnelly (1842), to be Surgeon-Superinten dent of the Rdwin Fox, conrict-ship. Acting-Assistant Surgeon C. P. Wise, to the Victory, 101, nag-ship, at Portsmouth. CORK, JIILY 17. H M.S. Hawk, Captain Wilcox, C. 8., received from the Shannon, to give over, twenty.iseven men for the Channel .padre's. 11.M.5. Eller, Gipsy, and Advice, left Cork on the 15th for the Kinsale regatta; they returned on the 17th. The South Cork Militia Light Infantry were mustered at Bandon on the 15th ; when 280 men and 28 oflioers made their 'pram:ion The regiment marched for Kinsale Bar racks on the 16 , h, for twenty-one days' training. The City Cork Artillery mastered at Eliraherh Fort, to the strength of 180 Inez, under Lient.-Colonel Wood, on the 15th, for twenty-one days training. The West Cork Artillery were sasembl.d at Mallow on the 15th, and marched to Charles Fort, Kinsale, on the 16th, for twenty.oas dayi training. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 19, The Castor, 36, sailing frigate, Captain Henry Lyster, arrived last evening from the Cape of Good Hope sad Wept Coast of Africa. Her data of sailing have been previonaly advised. We lately stated the decision of the Lisbon Chant- Der of Deputies in the case of the two Miguelite members who wished to take the oath under protest, reserving the rights of the Pretender. In the sitting of the 10th, both gentlemen took the oath in the usual manner, that mune hiving been recommended to them at a meeting of the party. M. Victor Considerant, the well-known apostle of the species of socialism railed Fourrisriam who bee made attempts to colonise on Fourrierist principles in America, bat returned to Europe, and announces the failure of all hie Mann. He, nrveribeleaa prowisss to capiiabas of Perim and London to establish a sew Maintain= is Teas, but freed from the ideas tot Fournier. The government Inquiry into the healthireee of the .ite of Natio) , Military If, appal has Cott a tlutmaad pound'. 1858. IISPORT . fiIi nut Leis am. Thin morning wu hued a report of twenty-five Agee, from the select committee, who were appointed in December last to inquire into the operation of the Bank Acts and into the causes of the recent commercial distress, end to investigate how far it had been affected by the laws for regulating the issue of bank notes payable on demand. Glancing at th e c omm ercial history of the ten years which have elapsed since the last oommittee .at under the same order of reference, the report observes that since 1 847 three important circumstances have arisen affecting the question referred to the present com mittee—namely, en unprecedented aztenslun of our foreign trade ; an importation of gold and silver on a scale unknown in history since the period which immediately succeeded the first discovery of America; and a most re markable development of the economy afforded by the practice of banking for the nee and distribution of capital ; but to the close of 1867 the Bank of England had continued under the act of 1844 to conduct its business without diffi culty. In September the first tidings arrived of the bank crisis In America, and in October there were numerous failures here. The report then reviews the chief failures, dwelling especially upon the stoppage of certain banks, and attributing foresight and vigour to the proceedings of the Bank of England, upon which everything depended. Messrs. (Miller and Ball, the accountants, assign what appears to the committee en adequate mum for the crisis. " Availing themselves of their experience in 1847, the affairs of which have now been finally closed, to illustrate the transactions of 1867, which still appear in estimate, and are there fore liable to correction, they ascribe the calamities of both periods to the mime principal muse, viz., the great abuse of credit and consequent overtrading. They notice also this difference between the two periods. Many of the houses which fell in 1847, they say, had once been wealthy, but had long maid to be so. Thom of 1857 had, with few exceptions, never possessed adequate capital, bat carried on extensive transactions by fictitious credit." Of this the oommitteo proceed to give instances, " furnishing an instructive example how readily misfortunes are at the time attributed by the sufferers and others sympathising with them to the operation of the statutory enactments, which miafortunes, upon a full review of all the circumstances attending them, it is obvious that no wisdom of the legislature, no regulation of the currency, could have prevented." The particulars of thirty houses which failed in 1867 show their aggregate liability to he 9,080,0001., of this sum the liabilities which other parties ought, to provide for amount to 5,215,0001., and estimated siesta 2,317,0001. Boddie the failures which arose from the suspension of American remittances, another class of failures is disclosed: " The nature of these transactions was the system of open credits which were granted—that is, by granting to persons abroad liberty to draw upon the house in England to such an extent as had teen agreed upon between them ; throe drafts were then negotiated upon the foreign exchanges, and found their way to England, with the understanding that they were to be provided for by maturity. They were principally provided for, not by staple commodities, but by other bills that were sent to take them up. There was no real ends in the transaction, but the whole affair was a means of ridging a temporary command of capital for the convenience of the individuals concerned, merely a bare com mission hearing upon it ; a banker's commission 'was all that the houses in England got upon those transaction'', with the exception of receiving the consignments probably of goods from certain parties, which brought a merchant's commission upon them; but they formed a very small amount in comparison with the amount of credit, which were granted. One house, at the time of its suspension, was ender obligations to the world to the extent of about 900,0001., its capital at the last time of taking stock was ander 10,0001. Its businees was chiefly the granting of open credits, i. a., the tones permitted itself to be drawn upon by foreign houses without any remittance previously or con temporaneously made, but with an engagement that it should be made before the acceptance arrived at maturity. In these eases the inducement to Rive the acceptance I. a commission, varying from to 1 per cent. The accept ances are rendered available by being discounted, as will appear hereafter, whentheaffairs of the banks which' failed come under our notice. The obvious effect of such • sys tem is first unduly to enhance, and then, whilst it continues, to sustain the price of commodities. In 1857, that fall of prices which, according to Mr. Nesse, far-seeing people had anticipated, actually occurred. Tables have been put in by more than one of the witnesses, exhibiting an average fall of 20 or 30 per cent., in many instances much more, upon the comparison of July, 1857, with January, 1358. It MA/ no argument to prove what effect such a fall must have upon hottest which had accepted bills, on the security of produce consigned, to the extent of one hundred times the amount of their own capital." The Liverpool Borough Bank, the Western Bank of Scot land, the Northumberland and Durham Bank, and two bill braking houses in London which suspended payment a second time in 1857—" these five houses," say the committee, after entering into details, "contributed more than any others to the commercial disaster and discredit of 1857. It is impas sible for your committee to attribute the failure of inch estab lishments to any other cause than to their own inherent un- soundness—thenatural, the Inevitable result of their own misconduct. Thus we have traced a system under which extensive fictitious credits have been created by means of ac commodation bills and open eredits, great facilities for which have been afforded by the practice of foint•stock country hanks discounting such bills and rediscounting them with the bill brokers in the London market upon the credit of the bank alone, without reference to the quality of the bills otherwise. The rediseounter relies on the belief that if the bank suspend and the bills are not met at maturity, he will obtain from the Bank of England such immediate assistance as will save him from the consequence." The evidence which was taken by the committee relative to the North of Europe is then referred to, and por tions are quoted to show that the real origin of the disaster there sustained was the undue expansion of commercial credit, and to confirm the proof that no system of currency Can PeCUSO a commercial COMMllnity against the consequences of its own improvidence. After stating their belief that repeated discussion and increasing know ledge will satisfy the public of a fact so obvious as that, without the interposition of the executive government, the directors of the Bank of Baghdad have no power whatever to exceed in their issues the limit imposed by law—the committee proceed to analyse the evi dence given by the present bank directors, and other eminent witnesses, in favour of maintaining the act of 1844, and to state the chief complaints against that act. They mention that, notwithstanding the greet increase of trade, the whole amount of bank notes has actually diminished since 1844, and under the present law, still continues gra dually to decline. It must be taken, therefore (says the report), that in ordinary times there is no cognisable advan tage to be obtained by the commercial interest from the power of increasing the amount of notes which may he issued without the deposit of bullion. The report eon/anis: It is here neoes.ary for your committee to advert to the question, whether the law should be left, subject only to that power which was contemplated by Sir R. Peel and Mr. Hatkieson, and was atonally exercised by the two govern ments of 1847 and 1857; or whether, on the other hand, provision should be made in advance for such conti and the conditions expressly laid down on which the issue at en increased number of bank notes may in the time of pressure ha allowed. Your committee think that such a provision could not be regarded as any violation of the principle of the act of 1844. To have introduced such an express provision. when the law itself was Bret sdopted by parliament—or even when, as in 1848, it had only been a few years In operation and was comparatively little under stood—was a far more enjoin question of policy and of pru dence than it can In fairness be regarded at the present tune. Yet the interference of government in an extreme came must, in fact, be taken to have been contemplated by the framers of that act. Mr. Cotton stated to the committee of 1847-8, that this subject was considered when the act was under preparation in 1844, and that Sir Robert Peel's opinion was thus cep...reed If it be necessary to maims a grave responsibility, I dare say Mu will be found willing to assume such a responsibility.' It sanely therefore consti tutes, of twit a sufficient ground for bringing this important and difficult 'abject under the review of parliament, and may probably await the decision of the legislature when the other breeches of the subject shall be again dealt with. They would, however, here take occasion to observe, that if new provisions shall at any future time be made by parliament, the great object of securing the maintenance at the time of severest pressure of an adequate supply of bullion should be guarded with the utmost caution. In considering there new provisions, your committee assume that no hazard will be incurred with regard to the foreign exchanges but that the efficient action of the law in that respect will be firmly maintained. The mischief your committee are now conaider tog le the domestic drab, occasiomed by panic, and evidenced by hoarding, which in cases of commercial crisis supervenes upon a foreirn than, end crates an abrupt interference with the circulation, by withdrawing from it for a time, for the retrieve of hoarding, a pert of the ordinary circulating median." Without entering into any question respecting an leriseet ' em dl n•tes on the credit of the Prate, the rommtttee derive it should be understood as their opinion that the subject of the issue of small notes in Scotland and Ireland, and of private Issues generally in the United Kingdom, should be reserved without prejudice for the future consideration of parliament, and the pecuniary arrangements subsisting between the executive government and the Bank might be left to the consideration of a less numerous com mittee. " The appointment of a separate committee may tend to produce the useful conviction that it is not necessary to unsettle the great principles which regulate our monitory stem merely because the pecuniary relations between the Treasury and the Bank may require to be reconsidered." The report concludes in the following terms : •• It appears to your committee that no mischief will re sult from at least a temporary continuum of the present state of things under which the Bank of England holds the powers given by the act of 1844, subject to a notice of twelve months, which may at any time be given by the House of Commons through Mr. Speaker. They agree with the opinion expressed by Mr. Goulburn in 1844. The Bank directors had suggested the propriety of renewing the arrangement for twenty years, with a power of giving notice at the expiration of ten, as hu been done in 1833, Sir Robert Peers government preferred the limit, which was actually sdopted, of ten years; the act, at the expiration of that period, to be terminable at any time upon a notice of twelve months ; but until such notice be given, to continue in force. Mr. Goulburn thus aogionnts for this decision. In making the proposal he says, • The government were mainly influenced by the considera tion that it was not advisable unnecessarily to agitate qua done affecting the banking interest and the currency of the country.' Your committee have stated the reasons by which it is estsblished, to their satisfaction, that the recent com mercial crisis in this country, as well as in America and in the north of Europe, was mainly owing to excessive specula tion and abuse of credit; and also, that in the time of pressure the houses which deserved assistance received it from the Bank of England in • manner in which that eata bliehment would not have been able to give it, except for the bullion retained in their coffers; and your committee are satisfied to leave in the discretion of the executive govern ment, the time end prudent opportunity of giving further effect to those principles by which the convertibility of the Bank of England note has been kept above suspicion." SERIOUS 22.41L1F.dY 4CCIDENT. TWENTY PERSONS INJURED. (From the Leah Mercury of this day.) - - Yesterday (Monday), another of those fearful casualties with which our columns have recently been filled, occurred about one hundred and fifty yards from the Long wood Station, two miles from Huddersfield, on the London end North Western line. The parror train from Leeds, due at Huddersfield at 1.30, was eight minutes late at this station. It contained an engine, break van. one second-classy one first ' close, and three third-class carriages, and in this order ' in the care of John Lutey, an experienced driver, it left for Longwood. Here it should have stopped, and, - .11 the driver had been looking out, on his leaving the cutting, 600 yards from the Longwood station, he would have seen the distance signal, calling 9p him to stop. For, by the points man's box, about 160 yards from the station and 200 yards from the distance signal, stood part of a coal train with its engine, three of the coal waggons having been shouted o ff to the Longwood siding and the rest remaining to be sent on. Most unfortunately, to use no stronger word, the driver of the passenger engine was engaged with the stoker within, looking, so it is raid, at the buffing-boxes below which were making a noise. Under the usual circumstances!, it would have been his duty to have slackened speed to stop at Long wood, and at 150 yards from the station the train should have been ooming up at a very plow rate. Instead of this, It appears to have been going at the ordinary speed, and, without notice, it rushed into the coal train, emaahing the beeakvan of the coal train and a coal waggon to pie. knocking tho chimney of the passenger engine away, and loosening and scattering the seats of the passengers, .who, bruised, shaken and cut, lay stricken unconscious within, or leapt and scrambled out of the carriages as they could—men, women, and children huddled together, and adding to tho confusion all the fearful cries and screams natural to so fearful a shock. at the station were promptly on the spot Mr. Robarts, surgeon, of Goicor, slmost immediately came to aid the sufferers, and Mr. Clark, surgeon, of Hudders field, followed In a very brief space of time. The following is a list of the injured : • - - AT TRE HODDIRISFIELD INFIRMARY. Mrs.!Drunfleld, entering from /MOW internal injuries. AT THE RAILWAY HOTEL, LONOWOOD. O. V. Ryder, Beg , resident manager at Manchester of the Royal Insurance Company—general &hock to the system, internal laceration of the muscles of tho neck and aide, internal injury of ihe bead feared. Thomas Porter about 30 years of age, at Ball's, confeo doter, New-stre et, Hudderefirld, very serious internal in jarit. This is a precarious case. TREATED ET THE EVROZONS, AND DONE TO TIME RESPECTIVE ROMEO. Zane Thorp, 26, tirTgsrls,;;eyellid and contusion of le re. Taylor wife of Mr. Abel Taylor, grocer, Ley-Moor, Golair, contusion of leg. Mime Sykes, Longwood, contusion of face, and very serious contusion of left leg and thigh. Mr. G. Burniaton, silk dyer, Bridge-street, Leeds, two 1 lacerated and knee inju re d. gates Senior, aged 76, once manager at Dranttleld'r, manufacturer, now limo(, retired. He mays his head we sent completely . through the partition of the railway carriage. His hat is entirely smashed to pieces; his neck behind is seriously injured. His 14 gs are swelling fast. Mr. Wood, Wortley, near Leeds, a severe general aback to the system. Mr. Thomas Dickson, shoemaker, Hulingdoa, our York, also seriously shaken, end slightly contused. Mr. Thomas Littlewuod, Huddersfield, foreman with cloth merchant, severe contusicn of both knees, Fenn!Wet Birkburton, laosratei e7e•lia. In addition to the above the names of the following suf, term have reached us : Mr. Jamb Barley, of Batley, injury to the nasal bones, and otherwise cut slx.ut the fate. Mrs. Donbavond, Dewsbury, severe internal shook to the eystem. For some hours scarcely 00111601111. Mr. Ferrand, auctioneer, of Sheffield and Huddersfield, cut about the face and bruised in the back. Mr. John Hawkyard, at Mellor's, New-street, Hudders field, severely shaken; the carriage seat underneath him broken to pieces. Mr. Charles Blake, guard of the passenger engine, wrionaly shakes. Mr. Tom North Swift, cotton manufacturer, Hudders field, lacerated forehead and Borers. Mr. Wm. Duklnfield, of Meltham, Injured in the beck and calf of leg, and much shaken. Mr. Wm. Brook, collector of the water-rate, contusion of knees, and Up cut. The stoker apparently bruised severely. T - Mr. Fitzroy on Thursday will ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, " whether It is true, stated in a daily paper, that at a recent visitation, the Com miardoners !. in Lunacy discovered in a private provincial lunatic asylum, a concealed cell, in which a man, who id stated to be in full possession of his faculties, had been for may yeses maned," On Friday Mr. Dillwyn purposes calling the attention of the Secretary of State for the Rome Department to the prevalence of aggravated assaults upon women and children, and to urge upon his consideration the necessity at making some alteration in the law relating to such offences. Lord James Stuart, M.P., at the close of the pre sent session of parliament, accompanied by Lady James and Mies Stuart, will make a tour on the Continent by Bringer, Hamburg, and the North; and will probably not return till October.—.dyr. Express. I remember on one occasion prodigious excitement in • large camp. A young European lady was to be res cued from the hands of her bt ntal ravishers; and bye rapid night march the place of her concealment was surrounded, and she wee found. But, to the disgust of her catboat's& champions, she proved to be a half-mate girl who declined to have anything to mto them, elected to stay where she ins, and they were o bliged to leave her. At Lnt know, strange to say, many of the Christian drummers went off with the mutineers—Later front Lacks ow, June 5. SEPOY AriOCfyies.—lna letter from Mr. George Campbell, dated Lucknow, June 5, we lead—" With the exception of the two ladies saved at Lucknow by the Berms and native nobles, and a very few insulated instances (I believe not more than three or four in all) of women more or lees allied to themselves in blood and manner., I believe that throughout the mutinies there is not an instant* la which the murderers made any disdnetion whatever between men end women or children. There wu a bestial bloodier, which must, I sincerely think, have been impossible Neon any other race but Htndooe, or perhaps Chinese. Seer times the Europeans were hurried off by well-disposed persona before murder was committed. Bur, °earths week of slaughter was commenced, not one pure European woman was spared, not one chill reserved in any Sepoy mirror% Such a phase of human nature would seem almost I:- credible if it had not occurred in these our days. So meth may, perhaps, be said (if it be thought that a still more dark shade of crime may have bees possible), that I believe there has never been any good ground for believing, or even any reasonable suspicion, that in any care the victims were kept alive for the purpose of torture prior to death. The Sepoys were too much in earnest for that—they killed at mace. And all who have seen anything of Indian murders can well be lieve that they over-killed—hacked their victims lie pieces. As to mutilations, they did not motflitie and leave alive simply because they would not so fez stare; but that it was from no mercy that they did meg mutilate may be judged by their treatment of pine, tower& whom their heliugs are somewhat lee NOW —the natives in our service, or supposed to be Mamas lee% whom they catch beyond the reach of our sues Wile neighbourhood. As regards dishonour, I believe that ea feeling towards mema was not that which leads to sucked& It wee more like the rising of one form of creation alt another, like demons attacking angels, and trying bled them down. They were influenced by feelings too bitter cad a fury too iesane to leave room for the commoner waned humanity. Whatever the cause, I think there can few doubt of the fact. Not only is there no well mended nation et the dishonour of our women, but in tie muse of which we have good information there Is excellent MUM IX believing that it was not to."