The Express. — London, England, 1864-09-01 00:00:00

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Am International Conference to study how to mitigate the horrors of war might appear to some a mere utopian scheme of the humanitarians--a subject only likely to result in eloquent disserta tions upon the goodness of universal benevolence ready to sacrifice everything, even life, to minis ter a grain of comfort, and ease the pain of the wounded soldier. But we think it will be felt by all who will give themselves the trouble to con sider the resolutions framed by the Conference I lately assembled at Geneva, that the objects proposed are quite within the scope of practical utility ; and assuredly they em brace a purpose as noble and benevolent as any in the whole field of charity. The origin of this As sociation appears to be due to a Society at Geneva formed to promote all objects of public utility, and a committee of this Society having given in vitations to the principal Governments of Europe to send delegates, there assembled a number of military surgeons from the armies of Europe, all of them eminent men of great military expe rience, with other scientific persons well qualified to take part in discussion of the proposed points for consideration. The details of operations by committees and sections we must leave, but the leading questions submitted were—whether it is desirable and practicable to give relief to the wounded in battles by volunteer services in addi tion to the means supplied by the regular organization of armies ; and next, whether neu trality and full military protection shall be asked from all nations in time of war for the wounded, the surgeon', and all persons and things employed for their succour. The organization proposed does not embrace the whole round of hospital wants, but refers chiefly to the wants on the field— the various ambulances and stretchers for convey ing wounded and sick to central hospitals from the field of battle or the encampment, and tem porary relief in the way of what are called medical comforts. As we understand the motives of the Association, it is especially laid down that all volunteer aid of this kind should be rendered as supplementary to that pro vided by the regular organization of the armies, and by no moans so as to supplant the existing system. It is not intended to relieve Govern ments of any of their burdens or responsibilities justly enforced by the claims of the soldier ; this would have been a decided mistake, because it would certainly lead only to divided responsibi lity and the inevitable risk of even more calami tous breakdowns than have ever occurred to armies in a protracted campaign. The volunteer nurses or attendants in the field would be entirely under the command of the military chief, and act in co-operation with the regular hospital staff, The proposal of universal neutrality, under a common flag for all services, and a badgeifor all hos pital stalls, for these volunteers,' and for all people engaged in assisting, and for the wounded themselves, is, we fear, a difficulty. How ever desirable such a plan, it would be impossible to admit the neutrality of all the wounded ; and there are few commanding officers who would be disposed to allow so many chances of spying, and in many other ways interfering with the discipline of troops, which would be inevitable in such a plan. It is scarcely to be expected, also, that an army already fully equipped, with its hospital and transport corps properly officered by men who have been entrusted with highly important and responsible duties, would take kindly to any bands of volunteers who might be placed to work with them, and who might expect to share, or perhaps to claim, all the honours. They naturally believe in themselves and their men, and are jealous of any interference. As Dr. But: pita, of the French service, the deputy sent by the Minister of War to the Conference, told them, these volunteers would be treated as strangers to the army, and their request; though politely received, would be neglected and forgotten in the numberless demands upon the military authorities. This difficulty, however, might be much got rid of in the nursing of men in the lare:e hospital; where volunteers could always do good service in reliev ing a certain number of regular hospital orderlies when the emergencies of the field might require them. Volunteer nurses in hospitals, thanks for ever to FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, have been the salvation of many lives, not to speak of the ines timable blessings they brought to the soldier, whose fate, left to the care of the military system, would have been to languish of fever and wounds, and die in a foreign land. Whether the resolutions come to by the Conference may be all of them cipable of being carried out or not, the discussion has brought before us some very significant points, to which we should do well to take heed. The delegates sent by the different Governments were very properly chosen chiefly from the highest officials of the military medical departments : those gentlemen were evidently op posed to the views of the Geneva Society ; they pointed out the impracticability of mixing any volunteer hospital corps with the regulars ; they claimed for the soldier the honourable task of at tending his comrade, and stated that hospital corps men required to be "militarized as much or more " than any;' while as to affording means of carry- THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1864. ing the wounded, M. DI PRIMAL, sous-intendant 1 of the Imperial Guard of Paris, thought they would have enough to do to transport themsalvea, and would prove an incumbrance to the army. There was also a disposition on the part of these officers to extol the sufficiency of their own eystems ; in none was this more noticeable than in what Dr. RUTHERFORD had to say for the English service, which amounted to this—that we had made great improvements since our Crimean experiences, and had got a most efficient hospital corps, and Miss ThotrriN GALE'S nurses, a full complement of ambulances — though the system by which these are ma naged in the field was not explained—and above all, a department specially charged with providing the wants of the sick—the purveyors. This sys tem, the Conference were told, had perfectly satis fied England, not only theoretically but practi cally, in the war in China, and that it would be for the advantage of other nations to adopt it. The fact of this International Conference evi dently does not indicate that much reliance is felt on the military systems as at present organized, and indeed it was the disastrous condition of the sick and wounded in the French army during the Italian campaign, especially after Solferino, as witnessed by the Secretary of the Association, M. DUNANT, that gave rise to this endeavour to remedy the defects of military organization. That was a teat of the improvements made after Crimean experiences ; and we must confess for our own part it would be a great satisfaction if we could be entirely persuaded that our reformed Purveyor's department and our new Hospital Corps with its Military Train in aid, would not break down under a test like that of Solferino. The American war came upon the nation suddenly, and it was found, as M. Bonnier' well said, easy to improvise soldiers, but impossible to do the same with " hospital " corps." Had it not been for the forethought of some of the American citizens, who, like these good Samaritans of Geneva, wished to provide against a repetition of the Crimean calamities on a gigantic scale, there was nothing else to prevent tenfold horrors of war after all the great battles. The United States Sanitary Commission, which provided every kind of hospital stores and food, by its admirable organization and energetic action in the field, not only proves of what value are the services of volunteers on the side of pure benevolence and humanity, but the continued imperfections of the means of field transport for the sick and wounded with the necessary hospital stores. This uncon querable obstacle to armies in the field has been almost entirely surmounted by a Volunteer Sani tary Association in this case, and on a scale compared with which our experiences are literally nothing. At least, if the great regular armies are not disposed to take advice from civilian philanthropists, they ought to examine the means with which the Sani- tary Commission in America has worked. Taken in connexion with this, the International Confe rence at Geneva has directed attention to a condi tion affecting European armies which no government should overlook—that while the art of war has developed and perfected its terrible weapons, and works with more concentrated fury and destruction than ever, yet no increased means of succour and relief have been provided equal to the awful de struction of life and limb upon the battle-field. DEPARTURE OF THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE DUKE AND PRINCESS MART OF CAMBRIDGE FOR GERMANY. —Their royal highnesses and suite left lan night by the 8.30 p.m. mail train of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, from Victoria station, for Dover, where they em barked immediately for Calais on board the Lowden, Chatham, and Dover Company's special mail packet the Wave. Their royal highnesses were received at Victoria and Dover by the principal officers of the railway company. The train ran for the first day on the Admiralty pier at Dover, alongside the man packet. We undentand that both the morning and evening mail trains of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company will in future land and embark the mails and passengers and their luggage to and from the trains and mail packets at the Admiralty pier, thus entirely superseding the use of small boats, and saving the transit to and from the packet and the railway. This will be a groat boon to travellers on dark and bois terous nights, and save them the expense of cab or omnibus hire, and the well-known exactions of that almost now de fund body of plunderers, the Dover town porters. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess M irie of Russia, his Excellency Count Strogonoff, and the Countess To Igo,' have left Claridge's Hotel for Torquay. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are enter tainieg a select party at Gordon Cutle, S.B. The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings have returned from Scotland to Donnington Park, Leioestershire, where they will receive company during the Derby races. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., 3LP., will remain in attendance, u Secretary of State, on the Queen at Balmoral up to the 12th inst. The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M. P., Secre tary of State for the Colonies, has arrived in town. Sir Fitzroy Kelly has arrived at the Hotel Bristol from Switzerland, on hie way to England. Baron Meyer de Rothaehild his alighted at the same hotel. A manifesto has just been put forth by the Rev. Dr. Pussy on the &abject of the recent decision by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the cast of " Eiaays and Reviews." He rys that, as to Mr. Wilson's case, "the Lord Chancellor did for those who trusted him, and not our Lord or His church, abolish the belief in hell ;" and that, as to Dr. Williams's ear " there was a jubilee of triumph among half-believers, as if all barriers were thrown down, and disbelief might have its free come." By an analogy from French history, he urges that the English Crown may stand in need of the aid of the English Church, and the state may wish that it had cot weakened her. Let churchmen, he says, support no candidate for parliament who will not pledge himself to do what in Win lies to reform the Court of Privy Council, and besiege parliament until it is reformed. It has been suggested that no church should be offered for consecration, no sums given for the building of churches which by consecration would become the pro perty of the present church of England, no sums given for endowment in perpetuity, until the present heresy-legalising court shall be modified. " This will show our rulers that we are in earnest." Such is the substance of this curious document. The English ship General Slade entered the port of Fkuunp on Thursday last, coming from Guernsey, hav ing several of her crew severely wounded in consequence of an accident which occurred during the passage. The crew wen nearly all in the cabin, some sitting round a table and other standing, when one of them, having lighted a match, Caused au explosion of gas which had escaped from the coal bunker. The men who were standing were severely burnt in the hands and arms. THE PRINCE AND PRINCEM OP WALES AT ABER GELDIE.—On Saturday their a toial Highom rs es, accom panied by the Hon. M. Coke Lord Amato*, Major Teesdale, he., drove to Strathdon, to the seat of Si r Charles Forbes, "Bart., of Newe, and viewed several of the places of note in the district returning by the low road from Strath. don, and through Ballater, reaching the castle is the even leg. On Sunday the Prince and Princess, the Hoo. Lady Coke, Ac., with Lord Hamilton, Msjor Teviedals, Mr. Wood, and Dr. Robertson, attended public worship at Crathis Church. The Rev. Dr. Norman M'Leod, from Glasgow (who arrived at the cantle on Saturday afternoon), preached a moat instructive and eloquent sermon from St. Luke, 16th chap., 25th verse. The church has Dot been so full for a long time put. The rev. doctor left .kbergeldis on Monday about 12 a.m. The Hoo. Lady Phipps and the Han. Miss Phipps and *errant. &mired at Abergeklie on Saturday evening.—Dusdre Advertiser. ST. rAET.PB CATHEDRAL.—The following are the ?satiation appointed by the Bishop of London to preach in the cathedral on Sunday mornings in the month of Sep tombs, :—Sanday, September 4. the Rev. John Henry Coward, M.A., of Pembroke College. Cambridge, rector of St. Benet's with St. Peter's, Paul's Wharf. Sunday, Sep tember 11. the Rev. Michael Gibbs, of Goovills and Caine College, Cambridge, vicar of Christ Church, Newpte• street, and Proctor in Convocation for the clergy of the diocese of London. Sunday, September 18, the Rev. Richard Bargees, 8.D., of St. John's College, Cambridge, rector of Upper Chelsea. Sunday, September 25, the Rev. William Gilson HumphrT, 8.D., of Trinity Collage, Cam bridge, vicar of St. Martues-in-the•Fields. It is asserted that active negotiations are going on between Paris and Turin on the subject of the evacuation of Rome. AMERICA. (RZUTZIeII IMMORAL ) SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 31, EVI2II2IG. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Saxonia, from New York on the afternoon of the 20th inst., has arrived here. She brings 37 bags of mails, 109 passengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg, 4,000 dela. in specie for Havre, and 2,800 dole. for Hamburg. (Vii Cape Ramo and Southampton.) NEW YORK, Auoun 22, Emma. On Friday, thel9th inst., the 6th corps of Grant's army took up a position on the Weldon Railroad, where they were surprised by the Confederates, and driven back with the loss of 3,000 men. The Federals were subsequently reinforced, and reco vered lost ground. Fighting continues. Grant's troops have recrossed from the north bank of the James River. AUGOIST 22, Evxwnrc. Early's advance northward is creating much excitement in Maryland. INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Atrauer 22, Nosurtmo. Gold, 2571. The government has anticipated the payment of the November and gold coupons of the loan of 1881-1882 without discount. NEW YORK, Accuerr 22, Emma. , Gold, 2561. Exchange on London, 280. Stocks tending downwards. New York Centrals, 1271 ; Illinois, 1291 ; Erie, 1111 ; United States Bonds, 5-20'e, 111. Cotton, middling Upland, 182. Breadatufla advancing. Petroleum, crude, 54 ; refined, 86 to 88. (From► the Tinter.) NEW YORK, AUGUST 21. Warren occupied the Weldon Railroad at Reams on the 18th. On the following afternoon the Con federates attacked, but failed to dislodge him. The Confederates were repulsed in an attack upon Rid ney, at Deep Bottom, on the 15th. The losses are heavy on both aides. Gold, 257. King Leopold is said to have derived great benefit from the sea air of Ostend, "sod it has been re marked," says a letter from Brussels, •• by the frequenters of the Dive '—the splendid promenade at that watering plaoe— that his Majesty, who was to be seen there ►t almost all hours of the day, walked much more nimbly than either of his sons. The Duke of Brabant, the heir apparent, has an evident weakneas in his limbs, which gives to his royal highness s certain degree of lameness ; while his brother, the Count of Flanders, is very deaf, and has, from being tall, cocaidon to stoop so as to hear what is said by those with whom he is conversing, which makes the contrast be tween him and his royal septuaginarian father the more perceptible." _ . The Kreutz Zeitung, reviewing the late speech of Lord Palmerston, in which the Premise mentioned various mean which would have rendered it difficult to send an expedition for the defence of Denmark, remarks :—" It is interesting to compare them retraepective argument. with the promises which were made to Denmark, and the threats which were offered to Germany. The argumeate, perhaps, were just, but then the threats must have been false. The democrats of the Danish cabinet allowed them selves to be deceived by these Waite and these promises but not so the statesmen of Germany. There le the dif ference. The English army is certainly too feeble to fight alone a great European power,—the Raman war hie proved it; but in Sleswig and Jutland, supported on both coasts by the fleet, it would have been a very respectable enemy, which would have paralysed the movement. of a much greater army than that which the German powers had sent. This no one eau deny ; but the truth is that England did not see that she could gain anything by it. Whoever Lord Palmerston may have deceived, be he not deceived us." The Charirari publishes a wood-cut representing the travelling vehicle of a quack doctor, in which a Jut binder is seated on the chair of operation, an Austrian behind turning a hand-organ, and a Prussian in front ex claiming, " Allman! an extraction likewise in this case ! Grind on there, music! Louder, louder! Be may bawl out as he likes !" Mougieur Thiere, to whom the Duke de Pereigny very distinctly alluded in his last speech at St. Etienne, has determined to publish a pamphlet, in which he will refute all the arguments contained in M. de Persigny's speech, and endeavour to upset his theory of government. A Paris correspondent save :—" There area great number of Americans io Paris who are watching with un usual anxiety just now pining events on the other side of the Atlantic. We have gentlemen from the North as well as gentlemen from the South amongst us, and they may be MD, the Northerners at the Hotel dit Louvre and the Southernen at the Grand Hotel, daily meeting in consider able numbers. These exiles from their native land, gene rally for political reasons, receive letters by every mail, and we get reflected the various phases of political feeling alike at Richmond and Washington." Although shooting is only to commence in France on the 3rd, which is somewhat later than usual, game has already bean sold in Paris, every imaginable expedient being resorted to in order to elude the vigilance of the Custom-house oftloem stationed at the barriers. Their attention was last week attracted by the unusual number of pigeons and fowls brought into the market. On investigating these innoceat-looking birds, they proved to be partridges and pheasants in disguise—" wolves in sheep's clothing." List Friday, at the St. Lame station, the unusual dimensions of a crinoline having created some surprise the fair wearer was politely requested to step into the wsiting•room, when, with the aid of some female employes, no lees than forty partridges were detached from the above-mentioned "cage," as in this instance the lady's garment might with every truth be denominated. The sporting season seems to be in full vigour in other places than the moon. A wolf-bent was organised two days back at Radlly-Saint Loup, Aube, in co•ss geeece of complaints made by the inh►bitants of depreds time committed on their flocks. Twenty-eve permits, well armed, and • dozen dogs, surrounded a wood of about 100 acres, where the wolves were supposed to have taken refuge, and after an active chase of about an hour and a half, they returned home in triumph, followed by a waggon bearing • large he wolf, the dam, and eight cubs, all killed by the party. Count lisisiom, Prussian Minister at Turin, writes to a son of the late Baron Bannon ;—" It is to be re gretted that Baron Bans= did not live to see the year 1864, which has so signally verified his view of the London Treaty. This pragmatic sanction, erected, like the Ice Palace on the Neva, in sontempt of the laws of nature, has melted away before the irresistible faros of things as the► are. The Duchies, delivered at last from their long struggle for existence, will now be permitted to tarn to higher things. To behold such a result would have been a joy of joys to your father." PRINCE HUMEERT.—A correspondent of the Dtbage, writing from Turin on the 28th tilt. says:—" The semi-official papers contradict with some little animation the reports in circulation respecting the marriage of the hereditary prince ; and in order to complete their denials, they speak of rumours which have also been circulated of the marriage of the prince with a Danish princess, whose name, lbalieve, is Maria Deem. The conclusion to be drawn from these contradietioos is that nothing is yet decided. As so the Danish princess, she is outof the question ; she is a protestant, and it le doubtful whether she would consent to abjure. Now upon this point the will of the King is very firm, and Victor Emmanuel is completely in mooed with his government. These samples may appear surprising in the present state of the relations between the kingdom of Italy and the Holy See ; but things are not regarded in the semi manner on both sides of the Alps. This is true in all things, io polities as in religion. The shades of aiii7- ewe which distinguish the two nations do sot at mice Milks the eye. Time is seeded to appreciate them, and after a rather loeg stay in this °wintry I perceive fresh OWN every day. What is certain is that the hereditary prince has arrived at an age at which be ought to marry, and it may be added that the nation which associates the dynasty with the idea of its indepeodenes, ardently wishes the heir to the throne to cheese a eompanion and ensure the perpetu- ation of his nos." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. DKNMARIC AND GIBMANY. The negotiations for peace seem to proceed but slowly. The Danish plenipotentiaries are seeking to obtain guarantees for the preservation of the Danish language in the churches and schools of the northern parts of Sleewig, but these the Ger mans refuse. It is generally believed, both at Vienna and Berlin, that the Berlin cabinet continues to oppose the requirements of the Austrian government re lative to commercial affairs, and that this, for the present, has caused some ill feeling between the two powers. BRIGANDS UNDER PAPAL PROTECTION. A letter from Turin, dated Monday says : "Your readers have heard of the brigand Crocco : his crimes have rendered him only too celebrated. This wretch, tracked everywhere, his band dis persed, has voluntarily made himself a prisoner in the hands of the pontifical authorities at Agnani. Four other brigand chiefs delivered themselves up at the same time. They were despatched the next day to Rome and consigned to the new prisons. The French authorities immediately demanded that these five brigands should be handed over to the Italian military authorities, but up to the present time they have met only with distinct refusals. Is there not something very significant in the fact of these wretches being placed under the protection of the Holy See?" An English gentleman who happened to see these brigands when the train stopped at Albano, says of them : The leader wee shorter than the others, and seemed younger (none of them were over 30). From not knowing Spanish I could not attempt the staff so I applied myself to the chief, but he was extremely reserved, and after answering some of my inquiries by mono syllables, and showing a decided disinclination to converse, I had nothing left me but to sit and admire his beautiful costume. I had never seen a real brigand before : be had a splendid profu sion of rich curly auburn hair, his hat was not the conical one as represented by Eastlake and others, it was ►ow crowned, the narrow brim wee trimmed with gold, and be wore a plume of feathers of various colours. His coat and waistcoat were both embroidered with gold, and across his chest were a profusion of gold chains elaborately festooned. One was attached to a magnificent gold watch, another to a pm-picker, and so on. Over his coat was a massive chain of silver in large links supporting a large powder-bask slang behind his bock. They all wore ear-rings, but those of the chief were half moons dangling ally tronolante, and his fingers were covered with gold and diamond rings. I was somewhat surprised when on stopping at she Ciampino station one or two of them jumped out of the carriage and walked about to stretch themselves, leaving the gendarmes inside until the train was ready to start, when they got in again and took their place.. On arriving at Rome they drove in open carriages to the barracks of the gen darmes in the Piazza dell Popola, where quartets were allotted them, and on asking the impiegata, " who paid their fares from Frosinore by rail," he answered me that they had each been provided with a free military pus, such as the government gives to soldiers. GREECE Letters from Athens announce that negotiations have commenced in that city between the repre sentatives of France, Russia, England, and Greece with a view to the settlement of the debts of 1824 and 1825. (RECTER'S TTLZGRAIL) SPAIN. Ii&DRID, Accrsr 3L The Opposition journals assert that Senores Sal verria and Canvas have resigned. All these rumours are at present, however, unfounded. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom on OWN COILRENPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY Enmmo. But a very small portion of the Paris press be lieves that anything good can come out of the English government. Nearly all papers printed here are imbued with the very French idea that people let alone will go right, but that governments are sor did and without faith. This difference be tween the people and the government is maintained when France talks of nations enjoying the greatest constitutional liberty, and men who are free at any moment to overthrow one cabinet and choose another. The Opinion Natio/tate, the evening democratic organ, has always been one of the heartiest abusers of English ministers, and one of the most ardent admirers of the English people. Now that matters look threatening to the North this journal looks upon it as an unhappy prejudice that people on both sides of the Channel should agree in representing France and England as irre concilable enemies ; that their antagonism is with out remedy, and that one must fall in order that the other may rise. However, no two people are more interested in keeping the peace and marching together. France and England both seek the triumph of liberal ideas, and questions of but secon dary importance separate them. The more closely the respective position is examined the more clearly does it appear that the union of the two nations is a pledge of peace to Europe. When they sulk, when each one retires to his tent, leaving the field open for others to act, they betray themselves and others. It is then that reactionary governments assume importance, and acts are committed which the Western alliance might have prevented. Eng lish statesmen, we are told, have been singularly short-sighted of late. We shall see the reason why. They have been influenced by unjust distrust and a blind fear. They actually were afraid to join France in a European war for fear Napoleon HI. should seize the opportunity of getting back the Prussian and other provinces which were for a time incorporated with this country. Rather than give France this chance the English cabinet said perish Poland ! perish Denmark ! perish Scandinavia! perish all the liberties of Germany ! " Lords Pal merston and Russell, regenerated by the doctrines of 'B9, have passed through the barbarous period of wars and conquests. Do they really believe that unfaithful to our great revolu tionary traditions we dream, like William of Nor mandy,of the conquest of England 1" One can hardly imagine such trash being served out seriously to the public. The Opinion Natwnai, however, gets periodical has of nightmare, and sees Russia direct ing the Holy Alliance against France. The article of which I have given you a alight sketch is meant as au appeal to the English people, who are treated to a list of all the disasters which the rapid avran disement of Russia will inflict upon their com merce. It appears that Latour and Andouy will plead in Cessation. A remark made by the Procnretir-136- n6ral, when alluding to the latter prisoner, has at tracted a good deal of attention. Evidently uncer tain as to Audouy's participation in the crime, Lion Duprti said, " It is certain that this man has had something to do with the murder, either as an eyewitness, as a confident, or an accomplice ; he will not speak ; it is for you, gentlemen of the jury, to make him speak, and you have the means at your disposal." The means, of course, were a ver dict of guilty, which might cause Audony to make revelations. This manner of condemning a man to know if he be guilty is perhaps unique in criminal procedure. OPENING OP A ROMAN CATHOLIC CONGRESS - if ii , i zall i§: The second amnion of the Catholic Congress of Belgium was opened at Hallam on Monday, when about 4,000 persons were present, including the notabilities of the Belgian catholic party, with distinguished persons from various countries in Barone. At 10 in the morning the members of the congress assembled in the Cathedral of St. Bombed, where a mass was celebrated by the Archbishop of Hanes. The members thee proceeded to the Dims= College, where the sittings are held. The proceedings commenced by a speech by the archbishop, after which the bureau was formed, Baron de Gerlach being appointed pre sident, se on the former occasion. The president then de livered a long address on the subject of the general situation of catholicism in Europe, and particularly in Belgium ; and the first day's sitting was brought to • conclusion by a rote of devotedness to the Pope, which was immediately for- warded to Cardinal Antonelli, to be presented to hie Holiness. We observe that amongst the subjects which are to be considered and dimmed by the various sections ale the following :—Religioaa works ; charitable works ; Christian instruction and education ; literature and fine arts from • Christian point of view ; religions music ; religious liberty ; publications, and associations. A fund has been established far the benefit of the clerical journals, and • sum of money is, 11 seems, to be set apart for the organisation of • " cleri c•l telegraphic service." The Bishop of Orleans, Mons. Dupanloup, met with an enthusiastic reception. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TIMILIDAY, SZPITIEBIER 1, 8 L. F. is D. L 1 B. 8.: SHOCKING DEATH OF A LADY PROM DESTITUTION. THE SUFFEBINOS OF A FAMILY. An inquiry was held by Mr. Humphreys, Mid. dices:coroner, at the Furl Vincent Tavern, Philpotatreet Commercial-road, last night, respecting the death, unite; vary painful circumstances, of Miu Lucretia Jeffreys, a, td 24 years, the daughter of a well-known paper manu`..c. . . . . The jury proceeded to No. 5, Stonoratreet, Haricot. Area, to view the body of the deceased. The family ou.nr. pised a small shop (not used as • shop) and • room behind it. Upon entering the shop the sister of the deosessed was seen lying on a parish bed on the floor. She was in a stets (,: great exhaustless, and looked as if else was dying. She said to the coroner, "It is overwork has reduced me t.. this state." The sole furniture in the room consisted of box and • broken chair, which had been lent by a c•:•ic.:. boar. As the jury paused through into the back room whet the dead body of her sister lay, she raised herself a d d looked after them with an expression of agony painful witness. The back room contained • parish coffin, in whirl. lay the emaciated body of the deceased. The place otherwise empty. It was stated that when Mr. Badenhum. the relieving officer, entered the place on Sunday l a ,;• deceased was lying on the floor in the corner of the ha. • room dead, and her sister was dying to all appearance, 0:. piece of oil-cloth in the shop. The first witness called was— Mr. Henry Jeffreys, who said—l now reside at No Eitonorstreet. I was a bleacher and paper manufacturer a large way of business. We came from Misidstr z.e • London. The family 000sisted of my wife, two daugub.r, and two sons. I had studied chemistry in France as • to the arts, eciencsa, and manufactures. Since the cir, stances of the family became altered I contributed to tir•-r support by selling chemical bottles, but it wee necessary f,t my daughters to assist. They worked for • alopselle ii Bedford-square, whose name I have forgotten. They rr• r.. paid 2s. • dozen for making flannel shirts, and for Ida.) .1 white ones they got 2a. fid. • dozen. Lucrethr made four shirts in one day. By working very Lid•l sL made two dozen in • week. My eldest daughter, who it ill, could only earn one-third as much, as she could work so quick. Oct. of my sons got ill, and 1 tried to .!•• his share (in selling bottles) as well as my own , and c. • ill. My other son, who had to take a situation at a wool. stapler's, met with an accident—a bale of wool fell on ha:., and we lost his guinea • week. Both my daughters then 1,. came ill from overwork and anxiety. The altered position the family preyed upon their minds. The earnings of ti. • family for the last eight weeks were nil. We peeped I sold everything to keep body and soul together. Tl:7. claw/man of the parish gave us rls., and I borrowed which was all we did borrow. We determined to apply no one but to draggle through anything, and pass throne. the storm rather than trouble anyone. We felt ctn.', that within • few weeks we should receive • sum of iuJur, sufficient to .apply all our wants. Coroner—Did the deceased die from want of food : Witness—No, I think it was her mind that did it. IV, sold everything to get food. Coroner—But bed she sufficient of a proper kind of fo , l Witness—No, she had not. She refused on W last to allow a doctor to be brought in, saying that al.te not want to be practised no by doctors; but I think her r,:,! reason was that she was afraid to let any gentleman Sty 7.. in the awful state in which we were. She said, " if you bring one, I will make away with myself." I afraid she might do so. as an aunt of hers had, three yea's while ill,secreted a silver spoon in the bed, end choked here... with it in the absence of her friends. I removed all the p.ee a and chemicals out of my daughter's reach. On sunder I saw she was dying, and I went for a pariah doctor. I thoar.t I bad only to go for one and be would come, as the was dying, but I had to go to three places before I could get an order. As it became so late—l was out for several hours—l went back to see how she was getting on. I loud her dead. Since her death the neighbours and the relies-T.. 1 officer have been very kind. We only came into that kase on Friday last. The rent is ta. 64., but I do not know where it is to come from. Before tl.st we were in Pbllpot-street, and the rows sod threats of the landlord about a month's rent that we owed, and his continually saying he would bring in the linters and take all we had got (we bad in fact nothing, for we recta obliged to sell everything for food), had a dreadful elect upon my daughter. Mn. Jaoe Clarke said that the family were in a drewlf al I state of privation. They slept on the bare boards at eight. they bad no bed. Witeess gave them a chair and a bit at oil cloth. Witness lent them 2s. on Friday night. Mr. Stephens said that the condition of the ureic* sister was very serious, but nothing could induce her to go into the workhouse infirmary. Dr. Robinson, parish surgeon, said that he was called to the deuased, and found her dead. The body was much emaciated. Theport mortem examination showc.d that there was effusion into the ventricles of the brain and into the chest. There was only a little &rid in the stomach. She would have required nourishing food, bedding, clothing, aid warmth ; and the want of these necessaries was the accele rating cause of death. Witness was now attending the other daughter, and he could not get her to go into the workhouse. The Coroner, in summing up, said that the cane was the moat distressing one that had ever come before him. It war no doubt to be regretted that Mr. Jeffreys had not earlier applied for medical and other aid . • but the omission t 3 do so was the result of an error of judgment on the part of a gentleman naturally unwilling to succumb to a reverse of fortune. The jury returned the following verdict : " That Lueretia Jeffrey, was found dead on the floor of a certain room from the effects of effusion of serum into the brain and chest, and that her said death was accelerated by fatigue from over work, by absence of stimulant., nourishment, and of clothing, and other neomearies, and the jury expreued their regret that through an error of judgment the father of the deceased should have 'Moved his daughter to be so long without the requisite medical and other assistance, and their hope that hersurviving sister might be induced to eater the Mi .end infirmary with the view of saving her life." The proosedings then terminated. The murder of the solicitor, Mr. BlTrossau, Ly created a most painful sensation in Omagh, when be was highly esteemed. All the shops in the town had then shutters up on Tuesday, and many were entirely closed, to mark their owners' respect and sympathy. Mr. M'Croatati was only 45 yews of age. He leaves a widow and levee children—four boys and three girls—the eldest of whom id only 13 years old. The prisoner M'Lougblin has behaved with stolid indiffeninoe sines the cocurreDoe, even when in. formed of his victim's death. He is a married may, &boat 50 years old. and has hitherto borne a good character. N miaow ESC•PL—An up express train leaving Dudley at 6.10 a.m., met with a rather alarming accident yesterday morning • few miles from Kidder minter. The train paesed through Churchill statist' at the rate of about 35 miles an hour, when suddenly the tire of one of the wheels on the engine broke. Some 300 or 400 yards in front was a wooden viaduct at a considerable height ►bove the raid. and had the broken tire thrown the carriages off the rails, as is generally the see with such the consequences most have been terrible. But ha y the train pawed in safety, and a few hundred yards further was brought to • stand, after • not very severe lurch. The p•scagen were not at all hart, bat owing to the blocking up of the line their transit was much delayed. Ultimately soother train wee obtained, to which p•asgers and luggage were transferred, and the journey was then rswusd. A similar accident befell the same train at Polishero not very long ago, and on that ooze sion with more wines restate, _ MF.I.•24CROLY CASE OF DROWNING.—On Tuesday morning Master J. B. Semen, a lad between 16 and 17 years of age, and the only mon of the 11ev. James Samson, minister of the Congregational Chapel, Alma-road, Sheerness, and another lad weed Bassett Jones, about the same age, went to a place tailed Cheney Rock for the purpose of bathing. Having undressed themselves, Sammie threw his stick into the sea for his dog, which cwompanied them, to fetch. The dog brought it to the shore, and the youth threw it in again. Tins time the dog refused to fetch it. and as the stick was floating away, the deceased, who could swim • little, plunged in to get it himself. Having caught it. he placed it in his mouth, and was returning again to the shore, when he suddenly stopped and called out " Help!" His companion was on the shore, but wee unable to owen. and there wee no other panto'', near. The lad made one or two faint efforts, and then sank about 40 feet from the shore. It appeared from the *widgeon take° at the (wooer's inquest, held at the Napier Tavern yesterday afternoon, that a strong braes. was blowing from the land at the time, tad It is probable that deceased had miscalculated his strength, and, having exhausted himself, was unable to reran the shore. The body was recovered about ea hour and a bait alterwards„yrbeu the tide bad gone down. The jury re. turned • vet dict of " Accidentally drowned." GORED BY • BELL.—OD Saturday last a very serious accident happeoed to a farmer named Britten. residing in Thocabeesh, Nortbamptoushire, and one his farm labourers, the letter being gored almost to death, from the attack of an loft:Mated bull. A cow had been brought to the bull in a field, when from some cause other the huge brat became madly iafuriated and o manageable. It broke from the farming-man who had charge of it, rushed at him, knocked him down, and gored him in • dreadful mauler. Mr. Britten, seeing the (liege hie labourer was in, rushed towards him, and endeavoured to drive the animal off. He succeeded in doing so, hut. unhappily, only to divert the fury of the bout towards himself, for it dashed at him with great violeece knocked him down, fractured one or two of his rite, sod otherwise severely injured him. After having inflicted she frightful injwies on the two unfortunate men the mime' appeared to become completely mad. It tore up the ground with its feet, making • hole large enough to bury itself in, and thee rushed off at • furious pros across the Sell!, breaking setae sad throwing down renege in its end worse. The sufferers were taken up and conveyed to their homes, and medical aid sent for. It wee at first feared that the farming man would not 'arrive the injuries he bed receive& but he has sham rallied, and is now likely to recover. yr. Britten i. also progreselog favourably. Information of what had taken place was at once despatched to the n eigh' bowing village to warn the inhabitants, and search era made for the hull, with the intention of shooting it. Afte r some time it was disnovered in a field among some mom beast', baring quieted down. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo' Wel-atop from the Gov/rear el Chards. 7 . 2 , S.W. 613 1 • W.B.W. • 4 , W.B W. 6 r I W. 6 6' N.W. 3 6 W.S.W. 3 6 W. 6 5 3.8. W. 5 a W. 3 5 N.W. 4. 6 N.N.W. 1 5 P.S.W. 4 . 4 B.w. 2 4 N.W. 4 2 W.N.W. 4 7 8.8. W. 13 . 7 S.P.W. 1 6 S.W. ♦, 6 P.S.W. 3 6 W.B.W. 2 , 2 B.W. bc 2 c .0.25 4 cr 0.45' 4 c 012 4 co 9.17 5 0c a c —. 2 cb 0.01 2 b I 4 be —4 3 I of 0.16 4 I cc 0.09 4 rm 0.04' 2 1 0 - 13 1 re 0.211 3 ,rb 0.1 0 - rm 0, J 1 I ob I rb 3 ico 2 ~T. W. N —afro '2947,54 MOM= ;29.69 6S• Lank Arero.rn... '29.452 W.S.W. Galway ,19.3269 W.S.W. Valeotts 29.93 69 W. &W. Cap Claw 3/96 67 N.W. vrtows '29.87 58 N.W. e e rpool '29.96 98 S.W. Hobbled 5190 97, &W. Pasibrolor 80.0165: W. Noma .. 90.14 59 W. L'Orket 30.16 65 W. Rochefort 30.19 69 N. 30.13 61 W. pSunth 30..200 W.S.W. oath 30.11 58 W. Loam 30.0958 W.O.W. Dover 30.1566 W.B.W. lranaoati Scarborough 2391:65 S.W. Meads 29.79 65 &W. PROZABLZ. 11IDAT. SAITRDAT. S.W. to N.W. and OR NORTllkig W.S.W. to N.N.W., back, fresh tostmng, COAtin. strong to moderate, squally, unsettled. a few showers. As above. WggenS. As above. W.S.W. to N.N.W. BOVTHW. W.S.W. to N., fresh , and back, moderate showers In plac.a• to strong, squally, but generally nue. same showers. B.W. to N. W. sod Lorna. As next above fresh, qua/. showers In p liaa litarthernardeollW. Western=heland, Wake, and ad facendea southern= English Channel and Bay of ktlaca7. llastarn mfretward England and North Ben The camp of CU,loos, it is stated, will be raised between the 7th and 10th of September. Marshal de WMahoe, Duke of Magenta, immediately after giving up his command, is Jobe invested with the imporior govern. meat of Algeria, and will leave almost immediately for that colony. in order to make the necessary arrangements for the campaign which is to open in October against the tribes of the south. MwroN's Horse IN BARBICAN. —This interesting relic of the poet Milker Is now being taken down to make way for the extension of the Metropolitan Railway from the Victorketrest Station to Finsbury-circus, and probably re within the next few days will have altogether disappeared. Of late years such parte of the home as remained intact namely, the study, the schoolroom, and the kitchen—have been need for mercantile purposes, and the part of it which fear Barbican has long been • dyer's shop. It is known as No. 17, in the street, and is situated a few paces from the , meth-east corner of Aideregateetreet on the right hand, I leading towards! Finsbury-square. By an agreeable coin cidence, while the house of the poet of " Paradise Lost " is being deetroyed in • utilitarian age, the venerable church of St. Gibe, Cripplegate, heed by, in which his remains are interred, is undergoing a partial restoration. BREECII-LOADINO RIFLES. —The Secretary of State for W:a is desirous of receiving communications from gunmakere and others on the subject of the beet means of converting the Enfield rifle into a breech-loader, wider the following conditions : L Cost not to exceed 11. per arm. 2, Shooting of the converted atm not to be inferior to that of the unaltered arm. Descriptions of methods proposed, accompanied by specimen arms, should be sent to the Director of Ordnance, War-office, Pall-mall, on or before the 20th of September. These descriptions and specimens will then be considered by the Ordnance Select Committee, who will select such of the plans as appear to them prima facie promising. Six rifles will be delivered for conversion to each of those gentlemen whose plans have been selected on above. They must be returned altered within five weeks of the date upon which they are sent, accompanied by 1,000 rounds of such ammunition (and to be ignited in such man ner) as the competitors think most suitable. A sum of 20f. will be paid to each of the selected competitor', to cover the expense of converting the six rifles and of the supply of ammunition required. A VISIT TO THE Moaner.—A Mildenhall COlTe spoodent writes :—" You approach the chapel through • low doorway which leads into • courtyard, and on the oppo site side stands the chapel, which is about 70ft. loog, Soft. broad, and not more 131 t. high. Upon entering the first object that meets the eye is the large figure of the Madonna surrounded by about • dozen lights—it being within the octave of the Assumption. The High Altar is fitted with tabernacle, creeds, lights, and all the paraphernalia of catholic worship. The congregation was numerate and ap parently devout. At 11 o'clock • prooessioa, heeded by • monk se cross-bearer, entered the chapel, in which was the priest in chasuble, km, accompanied by two demons (mocks) in their dalmatics. The ser vice, after the eta was duly iooensed, com menced at the communion pert of the Prayer Book, and after the Nicene Creed had been sung, Father Ignatius preached a sermon setting forth the doctrine of transub stentiatioa, and mitring his audience that in • few minutes Jesus, the ineffable king, the son of righteousness, the Agnes Dei immaculatua, would be offered on the altar as • propitiation for their sins. After the sermon the service proceeded, the words used being made up of the Anglican with a portion of the Roman ritual, but the ceremonies, in cluding the elevation of the host, belonged entirely to the letter. The evening service was so numerously attended as to fill both chapel and court-yard, and Father Ignite& discoures was remarkable for its fervour, and was listened to with marked attention ."—Bern and Norwich Poet. Ica IN At:Gus - L-1n Yorkshire the weather in very variable. On Tuesday the day was extremely warm (one of the hottest of the season), • sudden change °mut. ring from very cold days, during three of which, last week, ice was found at Malton of the thickness of paper. The dahlias sad other tender plants in low situations were frost bitten. The ground is very dry yet, although some refresh ing showers have fallee. Farman say the ground has never been so hard baked since the great drought of 1826. PARTRIDGE SHOOTING.—There are two principal roma+ why partridges are often less thickly preserved than other kinds of game. The first is, that it is not so essential to theziort of partridge shooting to be perpetually firing and 1 ing, as it is to cover shooting. The second is, para doxical as it may sound, that partridges will up to a certain extent preserve themselves. Thus many men resident in the country, and able to look after the birds in the breeding time, may enjoy moderate sport through the season without the expense of any regular preserving what never. Other game cannot be had at all without strict preserving ; and it is scarcely worth prose,- iog for sporting purposes unless preserved in largequantities. What we mean by partridge shooting being thoroughly en joyable without quite so much execution OA men lo,k for in other kieds of sport, is this, that it comprises many very plea surable elements over and above the mere delight of levelling your gun and bringing down your rights and lefts. The walk and the talk, the scenery, the ever-varying excitement of find. ins, following, and starting your @wit t and crafty qoarry ; the behaviour of the dogs, for we write iota that partridge shoot from which pointers and setters are discarded ; all combine to make up the pleasure of the day. Compare this with deriding by yourself for hours at the corners of successive covers, as silent as the grave, or else you will never gets shot, and often nearly as cold too. Hers it is quite plain that if you don't get lots of shooting you get nothing, and had better be at home playing billiards. The shooting is all in all. You hear but don't see the doge. Yon exercise no sagacity of your own in finding or marking down the game. Yon have, except at intervals, no one to speak to. And therefore we repeat that an abundance of furred and feathered creatures to keep your eye and hand in constant motion is the only coodition on which shooting is a pleasure. Then indeed it is, no doubt, capital fun ; though even then there is a seminar in it corn pared with partridge shooting. Of that, however, we will say nothing. All we say is, that no man coming home to dinner about the time of a November ranee, who has spent the previous six or seven hours shivering at a wood corner, or sauntering along hedge rows es if he were following a funeral, can con scientiously say that he haa meet a pleasant day, if be hasn't had the chance of doing onedernble !needles whereas in partridge shooting on the other hand, so many other faculties are called into play that a small and ya wned bag will often have been productive of oodles amusements and excitement, justifying a man in saying without hypocrisy, as he comes into the drawing-room after dressing, that he has thoroughly enjoyed himsell.— CornAill ilfgaasins for September. Ms Ma The del ander the He wee • Yr. Pbs behalf of t d Pall-tn Barn, deb sal One IN. in the paid down, Kr. 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