The Express. — London, England, 1866-07-14 00:00:00

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Mr. Reynolds Mesdames Miles, Ysruold, Macarthy, Iksdh, em.—Joe Lund, Madame Rainsden, Frank Williams, and Muter IL Sander.—And THE DOWNFALL OY PRIDE. HIGH WATMAT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS BAT —Morning, 3b. 17m Afternoon, Sb. 41m. To-Moanow—Morning, 4h. 2m Afternoon, 4h, 22m. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 14. IN proportion as the diplomatic fictions found convenient at the beginning of this war fade away, and as the mere occasions of the outbreak sink to their true value, is it seen that the real ques tion at issue is what Power shall re-organize Germany, and who shall have its leadership for his prize. If this question were but settled beyond dispute, the further prosecution of the war would be so aimless as to be impossible. But surely after what has happened since the beginning of the month the world is entitled to say that that question is settled for all practical purposes in the most conclusive manner, and to ask what stands in the way of the conclusion of peace. The terms on which the Prussians aro willing to make peace are known. As distinguished from those propounded as the conditions of an armistice, they are the exclusion of Austria from the new political organization of Germany ; the concen tration in the hands of Prussia of the sole command of the forces of the Confederation by sea or land, and the exclusive representat'on of Germany towards foreign Powers ; and finally the annexation of the Elbe Duchies, and of a portion of the territory invaded, by Prussia. This last condition does not strictly belong to the re-organiza tion of Germany, but the point is of no conse quence, for between annexing a territory and dis posing of its sea and land forces and speaking in its name abroad, the difference is too trivial to be worth notice. Let us at once admit that these are immense claims to be made by any single State ; that if they had no better basis than the politic:l ambition or military pride of a dynasty, they would deserve to be resisted to the utmost ; that they involve the sacrifice by Austria of objects which its Imperial House has cherished fur hundreds of years. Let us further admit the truth of the worst that has been said and written during the last three months of the rapacity and injustice apparent in the action of the Prussinn Government in its dealings with Austria since the date of the Treaty of Gastein to the present moment. But when we have most severely censured the way in which the Prussian Government has pursued its ends, judged from the point of view of morality, we have still to appreciate the value of those ends as they affect the welfare of Germany. For the sake of simplicity, and in order to be able to consider the question as one between Austria and Prussia, we will assume for the time that on the whole the vast majority of the German people desire national unity, and that, seeing in the resources and character of the Prussian Goveniment the only means of its attainment, they wish success to the Prussian arms. This proposition may be debateable, but we believe it to be strictly true. Between mere tacit acquiescence and enthusiastic support accompanied by personal sacrifice, there are innumerable degrees of approval ; but it is difficult, and for us impossible, to believe that if the people of Germany at large had really regarded the recent acts of Prussia as no better than naked usurpations, they would not have op posed to them a resistance such as at present we have not witnessed. But looking at the question as one between the two great German Powers, as one, moreover, which, by the choice of Austria, was to be decided by the sword, may we not ask whether Austria has any interest in carry ing the armed contest further than it has already done? If any single battle ought to be deemed decisive, that of Sadowa should be so regarded. It was not simply a defeat, or even a disaster; it was, as we observed the day after it was fought, a great overthrow. We take leave to doubt whether there is a soldier or statesman in Europe who believes that it is possible fur Austria, by any success of which the most enthusiastic of her devoted children dreams, to recover the power and prestige which the Empire lost on that day. Let us suppose the Austrians to succeed during the next month, according to their best hopes ; let us suppose them to have freed the soil from the invader. That would, indeed, be a great feat. But would it reinstate Austria in its former position in Germaw, and re store the confidence until late9r, felt in tt.hy the smaller States, which only six 'weeks agQ ;ii;ib so ready to follow its lead Everytme knolls tlaat it would not. In any caas kusesia will 'Acasie,Oht of this war with diminished tsmilory-4 pow* un able to preserve its own pesseinions. If Austria cannot defend that which is, she can do nothing, for she is not one of the initiatory powers of the world. She does not pretend to open new pro spects to those who follow her. Throughout Ger many men feel that the future with its hopes is not fdr her. The political system of Germany best adapted to her pretensions—the one which, after unwisely alighting, she sought two months ago to re-invigorate—the Germanic Confederation —is shattered, never to be restored. Does any Austrian statesman believe that he can build up another in its place ? or if that were possible, would any Austrian statesman desire that his Go- vernment should enter a new Confederacy, where it would have for a rival the presumptuous and energetic Power which for the last hundred years has steadily increased in Germany, while the in fluence of Austria has as steadily diminished ? Germany must be organized, and have a head. The numerous States of which it is composed have never existed in a state of perfect independence. When the Germanic Empire fell the Confederation of the Rhine was formed, and when that fell the Bund extended its authority over all Germany. Austria will not be the head of any Confederation in which Prussia has a place ; neither can she accept an inferior position there. There remains, then, for her nothing but a separation. Is it supposed at Vienna that many of the smaller States will voluntarily ally themselves with he-. after what has happened ? Or do her statesmen hope that she will be able to obtain any territorial compensation for the loss of her prestige ? They cannot hope so. Then for what are they fighting? By concluding a peace now they may secure the integrity of the Empire—save as it has been impaired in the South by the act of the EMPEROR— and be free to devote themselves to the promotion of the real interests of the monarchy. The pro priety of this course will be felt some day in spite of military prejudice, as was the prudence of giving up Venetia. Let us hope that it will not, like that, be acknowledged too late. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY. ) moderate, rather endeavour to bring the other neutral poben into . , only fight in the 1.1 rust, ads/ been gompbted. Zeit al bet he ly will, fit' his presage is' seriously losibjed, but not year—ne till Belgium is l► some way Involved in the L Thb much at lead b dear, that a respond- WO NI great an. ever oppreadad a hiiman baba has been armlet upon him alone. The Saturday Review also discusses the policy of France, coming to the conclusion that France is not prepared to enforce peace at once. She does not say to Cialdini that by advancing on Padua he is violating French territory ; she does not warn the Prussians off Vienna by threatening ' Cologne. As the Prussians and Italians will not leave off fighting, she lets them have their way ; and it is ominous that reports have been set in circulation that the responsibility of the Emperor Napoleon's endeavours to bring about an armistice is now being laid upon Austria. Obviously this is the easiest way for the Emperor to get out of his difficulty. If the Austrians will not listen to reason, no one can blame him for not helping them ; and if they are wilfully bent on war, he may be content to let them have what they wish for. In that case the Emperor of the French will merely have made an honest effort for peace which, through no fault of his, has failed ; and if Prussia and Italy bring Austria to terms, France may still carry out her projects on the Rhine, and the only difference between peace then and peace nowwill be that Italy will then have, not only Venice, but glory, and there will be some scheme set on foot by Prussia for that union of Germany which it is doubtful whether the Emperor Napoleon really wishes to prevent, and which it is certain he cannot prevent except by means of a bloody and costly war that would be highly distasteful to France. The Saturday Review taken it to be perfectly clear that no merely converted weapon is likely to be the best pos sible breech-loader. Hitherto the mistake in this inquiry, LS in the questions of ships' armour and turret-guns, has been the intolerable delay in our experiments. We prove to demonstration the value of heavy guns and revolving turrets long after other nations have introduced and adopted them ; and where the English navy builds one turret-ship with an armament of first-class guns, some of the least important countries in the world manage to acquire whole fleets, built and armed upon the newest pattern. For every ship that Captain Coles has armed for our own Admiralty, he has turned out a score for foreign governments. In the end the model ship and the model cannon, perhaps also the model breech-loader, may b 3 found in the British service, but hitherto our m;litaty and naval administrators have seemed wholly insensible to the value of time. The Examiner says Lord Derby is the most unlucky of men. He is ever seeking to avoid office, yet once every seven years some untoward accident forces it upon him in spite of himself. He deplores this in the most piteous tones. No cross-gartered Maivolio ever had greatness so pitilessly thrust upon him. It seems, in fact, as if he and his party were compelled to undergo a kind of septennial sacrifice for the public benefit ; to avert, as he patheti cally told the House of Lords on Monday, that awful calamity, the breaking up of the great tory party. The constant rule is, by hook or by crook put the govern ment in a minority ; take office ; offer places to your opponents, who either cannot or will not take them ; sing high praises thereon upon your own self-denying, broad bottomed intentions ; beseech forbearance for difficulties of your own creating ; throw over for the time any incon venient old principles, such as anti-free trade in 1852, and anti-parliamentary reform in 1859, and any other pro or ante cry that may suit your purposes in 1887. And finally, when all these histrionic expedients fail, dissolve parliament, make the most of government in fluence, and when beaten in the new parliament, you retire with a diminished majority against you, having in the meanwhile had a year's lease of office, anti having fed your friends and yourselves fat with cabinet, episcopal, and judicial seats, with places, pensions, and honours, and have the same seven years' good chance for the future. This is Lord Derby's stock receipt for keeping his party together. It is now on its trial for the third time. Whether it be con. creative, constitutional, or honourable may be questioned ; but that it bloods the hounds and makes them hunt together is undoubted. The Eeonon , ist believes that as soon as confidence is restored, a large amount of notes wi'l at once flow back to the till of the bankins , department. And it is certain, that as far as domestic confidence is concerned, the reduc ion of the rate is a matter of principal importance. As long as the " danger " signal is kept up, unusual reserves by way of protection will be kept. We are far front say ing, adds our contemporary, that the credit panic is over. On the contrary, a disastrous event, which many of our readers will know when they read these lines, will a little revive it. Still, in the main we hope that it is over — that a reduction of the rate of discount wi:l soon diffuse the confidence which the unpreccdentedly high rate now delays. the Court. OSBORNE, Jur Et. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon with Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Princess Louise. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went (ut driving. Her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning with Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold drove out, attended by Lieutenaat Stirling. Princess Beatrice walked in the grounds. The Prince and Princess of Leiningen dined with the Queen and the royal family yesterday. The Prince of Wales visited the Volunteer Camp at Wimbledon yesterday. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive. In the evening their royal highnesses dined with the Duke and Duchess of Manchester at their residence in Stanhope-street. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Islands. A Cabinet Council was held this day at three o'clock at the official r;sidence of the First Lurd of the Treasuty. Acco I: CH EM ENT OF THE PRINCESS Loris OF HEASE. —I , OIIEIG N-OFF ICE, JULY 12.—Lord Stanley has received a telegram from Sir Alexander Malet, Bart., K.C.8., her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Frankfort, dated the 11th instant, announcing that her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse (Princess Alice of Great Britain) safely gave birth to a Princess at Darmstadt, at two o'clock on that morning. —Ga:rtte. ROYAL VISIT TO COSSET PAWL—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Paincess of Wales will honour Lord and Lady Stafford by their residence at Cossey Park during the musical festival at Norwich in October next. This ancient domain is famed for the beauty of its landscape scenery. The river Wensum flows through a valley bounded by richly-wooded hills, and the mansion itself is especially worthy of admiration. The old and modern buildings are united. The former presents a venerable appearance, the latter, begun in 1527, from designs by Mr. J. C. Buckler, is a stately edifice and a magnificent specimen of ornamental brickwork, not inferior to the best remains of ancient domestic architecture for which the county is justly distin guished. The Earl and Countess of Wilton will leave town shortly for Cowes, Isle of Wight, and after the Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta the noble earl and countess go to Scotland for the shooting season. The marriage of the Earl of Sefton and the Hon. Miss Jolliffe, daughter of the newly-created Lord Hylton, is appointed to take place on the 18th inst. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester had the honour to entertain their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and a distinguished party at their resi dence in Great Stanhope-street last evening. A select company had the honour to meet their royal highnesses at a dance later in the evening. Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe entertained at dinner last evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-square, the Countess of Powys and Lady Harriet Herbert, the Earl of Beauchamp, Lord Lascelles, Lord Llanover, Lord Hubert de Burgh Canning, Lady Geary, Hon. Gilbert and Lady Evelyn Heatbcote, Hon. William Cowper, Mr. and Lady Mary Nisbet Hamilton, Mr. William Harcourt, &c. LORD LYTTON.—The Crece• ffr of last night con tains a notification of Sir Bulwer Lytton's elevation to the pomp by the titio of Boron Lytton, of lEnebwortb. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EyENING, JULY 1 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. • - • - • THE WAR. There is but little news of interest frost) any of the seats of war to-day. By the retrial of the Bavarians, who seem to have fought ia lt e great bravery, to Schweinfurt, the river be come the line of operations for the armies of North and South Germany. The Bth Federal Corps, under Prince Alexander of Hesse, covers its western course at Frankfort, at some/miles south-west of which it flows into the Rhine at Maintz ; its central and eastern section being defended by the Bavarian army. Schweinfurt possesses a population of 14,000. It is fortified, and has an entrenched camp. The approaches to Frankfort are being fortified — the Prussian General Frankenstein threatening it from Fulda. Large bodies of Prussian troops are also reported to be assembled on the frontier of the Bavarian Palatinate on the French side of the Rhine, with the supposed object of occu pying that portion of Bavaria, and turning Frankfort by crossing the Rhine above its confluence with the Main. The latest mili tary news from Italy is important as it discloses an intention on the part of the Italian army to follow the retiring Austrians into Auatrian terri tory. Italy unquestionably owes much to the victories of Prussia, and if both powers keep firm to the alliance which they have concluded Vienna may be caught between the edges of the Italian army moving south of the Danube and of the Prus sian army moving north of that river. General Garibaldi, on preparing to take the offensive in the Italian Tyrol, published the following proclamation : Army of the Italian Volunteers, Bagolino, July 6. To the Italian Sharpshooters,—l am in the midst of the mountains of our Tyrol, where expertness in the use of the rifle is traditional. Here we meet with many friends, but also enemies. Who, it is said, could contend in skill with the latter. I have already tried the valour of the Her saglieri who go with me ; but it is necessary to strengthen their ranks. Let those who wish to complete the ca. tional independence join me. G. GARIBALDI. On the day after the publication of this appeal, 50 Milanese, all excellent shots, inscribed their names as volunteers in the Bersaglieri. It will be seen from tho telegraphic news that Russia is beginning to show symptoms of military action. FURTHER ADVANCE OF THE PRUSSIANS TOWARDS VIENNA. The Temps contains the following telegraphic despatch, dated from Berlin, July 13 :—" The arrival of the Prussian advance guard at Znaim is announced." (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE PROPOSED ARMISTICE. PARIS, JULY 14. RUSSIA AND THE WAR IN EUROPE. MOSCOW, JULY E 3, EvENING. RUSSIAN MILITARY PREPARATIONS. LEMI3ERG, Jus 13, EVENING. "Russian troops are marching from Podolia to Bessarabia." SPAIN. MADRID, JULY 13, EVENING. The government has prohibited until further orders the sale of newspapers in the public streets. (REUTER'S axeßyas.) AMERICA. THE GREAT FIRE IN PORTLAND. IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. LEWISTONVILLE, JOLT 5. Passengers by morning trains report a fire in Portland yesterday. Commenced yesterday p.m. in boat-house near Boston and Maino Railroad depot, and near Gor ham's-corner, and swept up Fore, Con gress, and Middle streets, entirely laying waste everything on those streets as far as India-street, near Grand Trunk Depot, and is now raging in Washington-street or Nigger-hill. Every bank in the city is in ruins. No depot yet burnt. The city buildings entirely destroyed, the dome falling about 2 am. The fire had not gone beyond Cumberland-street in the back part of the city. Every printing office is burnt. Fox Block, Telegraph-office, and Express-offices, burnt in the early part of the night. The post-office, custom-house, and every thing generally in the business part of the city is burnt, Steam fire-engines are arriving from various places, and several from Boston. It is important to know that the Snider principle admits of capping being done away with, and that the converted Enfielda will be loaded with self•igniting cartridges fired by a pin, which having struck the cartridge Is returned by a spring to its position. Znaim is the capital of one of the circles of Mo ravia, and lies at not many miles' distance north west of Vienna. We stated a few days ago the pos sibility of the Prussians anticipating the arrival of the Austrians before Vienna by means of the Iglau-Znaim road, and if the intelligence of the special despatch of the Temps be confirmed what was a possibility a few days back may now be called a reality. A battle was fought at Znaim in 1809 between the Austrians and French, and it was to this town that the former retreated after the battle of Wagram. The 31uniteur of this morning says : " Public opinion is impatient to learn the course of the negotiations for the armistice. The demand which exists everywhere for news forces, so to speak, the journals to manufacture intelligence. We must call attention to the fact that mediation has only been proposed since nine days. Negotia tions cannot take place solely by telegraph, and three days and three nights are required by a courier between Paris and the Prussian head quarters. " What we can say is that the negotiations are progressing, and that the best relations have not ceased to exist between the Emperor Napoleon and the King of Prussia." The Moscow Gazette of to-day publishes an article which concludes as follows :—" Russia does not desire any change in the present state of things in Europe. If Austria and Prussia will render them selves the tools of France, Russia can no longer depend upon them as heretofore. Venetia without Rome would constitute no progress for Italy. The submission of Austria to France is not advantageous, but dangerous to the European equilibrium. The supremacy of Prussia in Northern Germany nar rows Russia in the Baltic. Russia's love for peace does not sanction efforts to attain supreme power. England's interest may make her seek an alliance with France and Austria in the Eastern question, but the dictatorship of France in Italy and Germany cannot meet with her support." The Gazetta Narodinva of this town announces that all soldiers on furlough in Russia have been calle•l in, and says : " Every day military trains start from Warsaw to the frontier of Silesia and Galicia. REM) Rain fell yesterday on the thr•ider is reported from Nairn, winds this morning are light, chi the sky generally Is mote or I falling in Scotland, where tempe terday. 14o0tch and Irish coasts, and 1, Leith, and Scarborough. The iletly southerly and westerly, and lees overcast. Barometers are crature 'au increased since yes- The Prussian authorities at Leipzic have inter dicted the circulation of all journals published in Southern Germsny. Up to this day, the Augsburg Gazette, which, however, defends Austria with much zeal, has alone been excepted. . _ _ " The needle-gun is to the ordinary musket what shorthand is to common writing"--such is the definition given by the Archduke William, commander-in-chief of the Austrian artillery. Letters from Venice state that the Palace Ca- Tani, belonging to the Count de Chambord, in that city, is at present offered for sale. It is one of the finest resi dences in the place. The Emigration Commissioners say, in their report just issued, that the emigration during the year 1865 was 209,801, of whom there were :—English, 61,345 ; Scotch, 12,870 ; Irish, 100,676 ; foreigners, 28,619 ; not distinguished, 6,291. The United Service Gazette regrets to learn that the unfortunate officer, Lieutenant St. John Charles Shawe, D Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, who was so severely wounded by a panther at Cltindwarah, in the Central Provinces of India, has since died. It has been decided (says the Army auel Nary Gazette) that the Channel Squadron about to assemble at Portland, under the orders of Rear-Admiral Yelverton, C. 8., shall consist of the following ships :—Achilles, armour-plated screw-ship, of 26 guns, 6,121 tons, 1,230 horse-power, and 706 officers and men ; Lord Clyde, armour-plated ship, 24 guns, 4,067 tons, 1,000 horse-power, 605 officers and men ; Bellerophon, armour-plated ship, of 14 guns, 4,270 tons, 1,000 horse-power, 550 officers and men ; Pallas, armour-plated ship, of 6 guns, 2,372 tons, 600 horse power, 250 officers and men; Helicon, 2, despatch vessel, 837 tons, 250 horse-power, 65 officers and men. The admiral will have his Bsg on board the Caledonia, armour. plated ship, of 30 guns, 4,125 tons, 1,000 horse-power, and 605 officers and men. Mmerraw. APPOINTMENTS. —Mr. Henry Whit more, M.P. for Bridgnorth, and Sir Graham Montgomery, M.P. for Peeblealure, will be, we understand, Lords of the Trfteury. The Earl of Lomeli& will, we believe, have the vacant Gartar.—Harald. V'UTP Ct/1 2 17 1 W Dr OT AT. A ppillwr_ 111.+ris in ih fnrrrsav MR. DISRAELI . 4 SPEECH. It must be an exacting opponent, says the Times, who will complain of Mr. Disraeli's reticence. It is satis factory as to foreign matters to find him having such strong opinions in favour of British neutrality. While Mr. Disraeli cherishes these peaceful visions, and Lord Stanley's character guarantees us from imprudent decla rations and meddlesome despatches, the most suspicious liberal ought to lay aside for the time his distrust of tory foreign policy. Descending to domestic affairs, Mr. Disraeli is large in promise, even hinting that he has some invaluable remedy which will keep men in Ireland, where they can earn only Is. a day, when their kindred are calling them to another where they can earn a dollar. Parliamentary reform he discusses as if the government had half made up their minds, but they should remem ber whoever raises expectation raises difficulties. If Mr. Disraeli's colleagues can settle the Reform question, no one will rejoice more than the Times ; but if they are not prepared to undertake it, the less they discuss the subject and hold out vague hopes the better. The Dail y.Yrws sees one advantage in Mr. Disraeli's speech over Lord Derby's manifesto—namely, that he does not pretend in taking oflice to have been surprised by the result of his own contrivances. The speech would not of course have been Mr. Disraeli's if it did not propound a handful of paradoxes. The thorny of non-intervention he defends on the ground that England is less a European than an Asiatic lower. In other words, the doctrine is one of the forms of the Asian mystery. An historical paradox is the astonishing assumption—never' heard till yesterday—that the great Reform lull of 1832 was mainly devised by Lord Derby, and was entirely carried by his energy. In parliamentary reform he dis. misses altogether every idea of political justice, and asserts the inalienable prerogatives of the few over the many. His belief that the time has come for the legislature to ameliorate the condition of society, and to extend the blessings of civilisation to every part of the world only means, it seems, some bills as to Cockneys, paupers, and bankrupts. A fatal flaw, in short, mans through the ad dress. He is a conservative minister speaking at a liberal majority in parliament and the country ; and in the effort to accommodate himself to a false position, he has ex pressed neither his own thoughts nor theirs. Hence the alternation of caution and extravagance—of commonplace and bombast—which detracts from the effect of an other wise very rhetorical effort. The only part of Mr. Disraeli's speech which the Peat is disposed to question is that which seems to infer that we can look with indifference on the struggle between the states of Europe for supremacy. The Po.:: would be sorry if it was taken for granted that our interest in the affairs of continental states was of Lo aught a character as to render our intervention, except in vet/ extreme cases, altogether inadvisable. The Tdcgrapit characterises the speech as mere flourish and platitude—all smoke and sound—the mere echo of the Prime Minister's policy-and -water language of Mon. day last. When Mr. Disraeli, the Star thinks, goes on to insist upon England's right and readiness to interfere in Asia " because she is more of an Asiatic than a European power," and in Anstral'a and Africa as well, he only re presents and panegyrises the most pernicious from of the diplomatic delusion which cost England in past years so much of her treasure, her blood, and her reputation. THE WAR. The apprehensions of the Times of an aimed mediation on the part of France are greatly abated. It begins to be tolerably dear that Austria will bow to necessity. me cession of Venice, it was too hastily concluded, would take one of Austria's enemies off her hands. But the Italians, with a chivalrous regard for their promise for which they deserve the highest credit, refused to be seduced even by so noble a bribe, and have not only engaged the attention of a part of the Austrian army about the Quadrilateral, but even threaten to follow it in its retreat across the Alps, and to stretch out a band to the Prussians under the walls of Vienna. Prussia expresses no wish to destroy the position of Austria as a great European power. Her de termination is to attain individual control over Germany, and to bring all the military and diplomatic power of the German nation into her hands. This would, no doubt, place enormous forces at her disposal, and would make her a formidable neighbour to anyone who might provoke her displeasure. But the formation of a great nationality be tween the Rhine and the Vistula, as well as of anothe r between the Alps and the Mediterranean, would not only be no calamity, but it would be an inestimable blessing for Europe, and a security for the preservation of the public peace. The Herald panes some severe criticisms on Marshal Benedek's plan of the campaign. He is not the first of whom it has been written that all would have thought him worthy of command had he not commanded. It is a fortunate circumstance for Austria that the Archduke Albrecht should have been appointed generalissimo, for it is • notorious fact that all troops, in nine cases out of ten, fight better under • royal commander than anyone else. The Telegraph expects the pause of the last fortnight will be succeeded by violent and continuous action, until from the ravines of the Tyrol to the lagunes of Venice th e whole province will be swept by the tempest of war. THE WEEKLY PRESS. Looking to the obvious determination of the Prussians, the danger of consolidating Germany by rousing the national hatred of the foreigner, and the awe felt by the French soldiery of the breech-loader—an awe which the Monitear de l'Artnee vainly endeavours to dissipate— it is not, the Spectator thinks, probable that the Emperor of the French will strike in at once. He will, if Prussia is IMPERIAL CHARITY. At s special meeting of the committee of cha ratable eshibliahments at Lyons, convened to receive a corn- menioation from X. Chevreau, senator, the Prefect of the Ethane, the following letter addressed to him by the Em press was reed : " Tuileries, 9th July. " Monsieur le Senateur,—l have watched with lively interest all the measures adopted by the members of the committee of the charitable establishments in your city to assist the suffering population. The establish ment of a lying-in hospital at Croix-Rouse, the addition of a great number of beds at the charite, and finally the new system of burial—a reform which has particularly interested me—are so many evi dences of the intelligent and devoted seal which the com mittee has always evinced in the performance of its noble task. I know that, thanks to its activity, other improve ments are in course of execution, but, it appears to me, a deficiency still exists. The establishment of a building for convalescents at Vincennes, decreed by the Fan peror in 1855, has shown how useful it is not to allow those that have been ill to peas straight from an hospital to their work. I wish to see that same idea realised at Lyons, and, with that view, I give in full proprietary right to the charitable in stitutions of that city the Chateau of Longehtme and its dependencies, in order that it may be appro priated as an asylum fur convalescents. The in terests of the poor are too well cared for in the hands of the authorities and of the committee for me to make any appeal to their zeal to open this asylum with the least possible delay. I have further to thank you for the promptitude with which you have taken part in this matter. " Believe, Pdotudeur le Senstenr, in the sincerity of my sentiments. " BL:GECUL" The reading of this communication produoed the most vivid impression on the committee, who aeoepted unani mously the gift of her Majesty, and subsequently begged the Prefect to convey to the Empress the grateful thanks of the poor and the sick for her noble generosity. The committee also nominated three of its members, M. Onofrio, its president, and MM. Lyonnet and Galline, to proceed to Paris and present to her Majesty the resolu tions passed at the meeting. This design being made known by telegraph, her Majesty graciously signified her willingness to receive the deputation on their arrival. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) RETURN OF LORD JOHN MANNERS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LEICESTER, SATURDAY MORNING. This morning, Lord John Manners was re-elected at Loughborough for North Leicestershire. The noble lord was not present, and the proceedings were of a formal character. The high sheriff, Mr. Frewen, presided. NORTH DEVON. EXETER, SATURDAY. Sir Stafford Northcote was returned to-day unopposed. He said the ccnservatives would not, financially or com mercially, be restrictive or reactionary. CHOLERA IN LIVERPOOL. About half-past 10 o'clock on Thursday evening, a woman, named Mary Shaw, aged 42,anurse in the found ling ward of the Brownlow-hill Workhouse, Liverpool, was suddenly taken ill, and Mr. M'Cloy, the house surgeon on duty, who at once visited her, pronounced her to be suffering from cholera. She was removed to the cholera ward of the Fever Hospital. Before 11 o'clock four other cases occurred in the same ward. George Thompson, a child of two years ; Elizabeth Sullivan, two years; George Harrison, twelve months ; and Eleanor Lewis, twelve months, being seized in the same way. They were also taken to the cholera ward, having all the symptoms of Asiatic cholera, it is said, about them. The child Harrison died three hours afterwards ; and the nurse, Mary Shaw, died at half-past 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Sullivan and Thompson were in a hopeless con dition last evening, and the fourth child was not likely to recover. All the patients were perfectly well up to the time of Shaw's seizure ; and no explanation can be given of the occurrence. Soule weeks ago, when the German emi grants stricken with cholera, were in the hospital, a nurse told a child in the foundling department were seized, and the nurse died. On Thursday afternoon, a child named Catherine Gordon, five years old, was admitted from Burlington-street, and she died the sante night. This was a malignant case of cholera ; hut there was no com munication whatever between the ward where Gordon was placed and the building in which the woman Shaw and the four foundlings were, which was quite at the opposite end of the workhouse. Although there were many other children in the foundling ward, none of them were affected ; and it is singular that the four who were seized had been under the special charge of Shaw, and that Harrison, who died first, had slept with her. Yesterday the foundling ward was cleared ont, all the bedding, kc., being burnt and the initiates were removed to other parts of the establishment. The drains were flushed, and all possible sanitary measures taken ; and it is understood that a conference between the Cholera Sub committee of the Select Vestry, the mayor, the medical officer of health, and other authorities resulted in an application to the Privy Council for special powers. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SATURDAY, JULY 14, S LAIL 29.90 ' 63 W. - - - 30.0560 S.W. .30.0_'04 O. 30.0000 S.W. X 30.055 0 W.B.W. 30.1268 8.8. W. 130.11 60' 14.8 W. ,30.20641 S.W. 1.9). 20 01 N.W. .30.16 69 1 N. '30.1268' W. 30.20 65 Z. 30.1965 S.S.W. 30.1665 N. N.W. '30.1767 Z. '90.1668 N. \.S. .30.12 65 S.W. '30.1367 N. W. Nairn Aberdeen Leith Antroelan Greencastle Valeutla !:ape Clar 1 Holyhead eenzince Brest Lorieut Rochefort_ : Plymouth Weymouth .. Portsmouth.. London Yarmouth &Il el d x:oue& Shi s fielder l lik S. STOPPAGE OP THE NKING compo. INGRAM. FRIDAY It (night, it has been a rnit gham Ban to-morrovr.l r the accounts c i • ng community of I,' is to give soroott4 s , • f the calamity. • mot enter intoths* iich have led to 46, 44. , t of the lavish sth ise r one individust .• e d in the iron trate om the general *a sp tars of the dins** nt : of the Birminglas s er of the board 41 inful duty to in* y mismanagement, s L ss ai ; rained heavy loom, a s!' as been locked We nnot be realised. t >ur directors bare la bank. Whae exile th the creditors, it say anything mces th m u .) . safe ; but to yc N I it in all probability it s whole of the reserve aid up capital will rest • ith care and °empti l y, t • BIRMINGHAM BAN BIRMII Just now, nearly midni, mined that the Birmingham will not open its doors three-fourths of all ' greatest of the trading district. To say that, is the extent and severity of At this late hour we cann( of the circumstances whi( aster. It has arisen out made a feW years since to . cular, and to many engaged The subjoined letter froi. contains the only particulars we can give at this moment " To the Shareholders of ing Company. " Gentlemen, —By order tors, it becomes my painful that, owing to gross past discovered, they have sustained large amount of capital has br rities that for a time cam these circumstances, yoi compelled to close the ing deep sympathy with not necessary for me to that their claims are perfectly am authorised to say that prove that although the wl is lost a portion of the pai4 if the estate is realised wit_ " I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, "THOS. F. SHAW, Mange,' The amount of the deposits is about 1,800,01 probably the total liabilities are over two mill* The number of shareholders exceeds 800. The company was established in 1821. Its pd up capital at this moment is a little den ( 280,000/. The contingent depreciations and tee; fund at the last report in February was 2100 The original shares are 20/., and a news of 20/., with all paid up, but on the i eni shares no more than 4/. 3s. 4d. has been 4 up. The dividend and bonus of late „ has been 2/. per share annually. than two years since the capital was increas e d v t i the issue of ten thousand new shares (201. psidi . i at 10/. per share premium. At that time the in k, lof the shares was 14 prem. Within the last i, months a gradual decline has taken plaoe, sad*. 1 day week the price was Cl. prem. Yesterday tV"i '. suddenly ran down to 201., and to-day it begu:nii) be talked about that all was over, but very Idt people believed it. The shares were sold at 181.:*. l t the course of the day. ''. The stoppage of Attwood and Spooner's Ps„.;'',„ was as nothing compared with what this mun it .. , There has been a conference amongst the it . .: , bankers in the town to-night, and they are til.U.siv prepared for to-morrow. • 4ii • The following circular has been prepared: .* " Suspension of the Birmingham Banking Ca . 4, pany. The undermentioned banks, desires I . it alleviating as much as possible the effects di 1' stoppage of the Birmingham Banking Compsay,s prepared to afford facilities for supplying thee .:44 , mediate necessities of the depositors and cutter of the bank : " Birmingham Town and District Bank. " Birraingham and Midland Bank. " Birmingham Joint-Stock Bank (Limited) • " Lloyd's Banking Company (Limited). .. " National Provincial Bank of England." ~ (From the Birmingham Ca:ctte of this day.) Yesterday (Friday) a deputation from the ST minuham Banking Company, supported by wive connected with other banks in the town, mune to London and had an interview with some al directors of the Bank of England, with a view teal such assistance as would enable the firm to and a, The application was not successful. There would in* have been no objection to lend money at current mks* . approved security, brit as this was not forthoomik sufficient extent the desired aid was withheld. Tbeisar tation returned to Birmingham last night, and de* that there was no option but to stop payment and els* bank. Aa the liability of the individual shareholders is • limited, except by the value of their property, dunk the slightest reason to suppose that the depositas ultimately lose one penny of their money. The lass,* A ever it may be, will have to be made good by the pup tors. The present staff of directors includes Ur Barrows, Messrs. F. I. Welch, Henry Ven Wart, Payn, Thos. Pemberton, James Watson, John Po*/ Lloyd Foster, W. M. Warden, J. T. Horton, end ; The London bankers are the London and Wertaialt I Bank, and bluer& Glyn and Co. t The bank was established in September, 1829, ea le 1 the first joint-stock bank started in Birrningam. course, was long before the days of limited liability, the adaptation of the joint-stock principle to tankino at first viewed with suspicions surprise by basiso° of the old school. The Birmingham Banking Compel° founded upon the basis of the old private banking iss 4 Milton and James; its font manager was Mr. P. M. J*l It was one of the oldest joint-stock banks in the kiniall and enjoyed a first-rate reputation amongst lists establishments. At the time of stoppage, besides tbedk offices in Birmingham, it had branches at WelAirsi nesbury, Dudley, and Coventry. It had some of beat business in the district, and ranked among it a tuners many of our largest traders and public cm*. as well the corporation of the borough. It would be idle to disguise that this stoppageMmig . sharply on the heels of other recent commercial dirsnaii a great and very serious calamity. It will causes*. burr:moment and suffering for the time, though tbs JR& siting may expect ultimately to be paid _ Many persons who have numbers of nien Mgr upon them for the payment of wages will find log ordinary resources quite cut off, and will be rand venienced in consequence. And besides the Mori+ effects of the failure, there is the loss which maths'* tamed by the individual shareholders, who sal 10_ ts 1 1 make up to depositors, out of their private mass, deficiency between the liabilities and the assets yid"' be realised. THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY. —The Queen's tri• versify Senate met in Dublin Castle on War. day, for the purpose of receiving the new __, 181). plemental charter," but a motion for postpow o r, was carried by a large majority. The (pow' thus remains still open. PLYMOUTH, JULY 13. —The Russian Grand NI Alexis, who arrived here yesterday from Palma* v ia Admirals Possiett and Butakoff, to visit the emit establishments at this port, returned this evesilli °'" mouth.—Renter's Telegram. The plans of the new ministry for the WO I l i , the Royal Academy, National Gallery, and Unirsk_ London will be stated in the House of Commons °BYO" next. Madame Rudersdorff is said to be occupied i n*/ composition of a grand opera. M. Auber is writing another three-set the Opera Comique, to be produced there next Ilesnon. An American contemporary says :—" Alegi* to the present rate of immigration into the UsitedOli s" .....„ shall have a population of 401 millions in 1870, 70 1 8 °" - _, in 1890, and 100 millions at the end of the present 81 0 7.. Dining the last 50 years France hex increased MIS tion 37 per cent., England and Wales 121 per co lt ' the United Stake nearly 500 per cent." :Sok W. k t to I I 9 . tic 1 1 0.14! 1 T A. bouttio Valk it .1 & r i ng a ene we or an r• tikep ee A. CArclii, i a r. W. N. W. S. W.S. W. S.S.W. W.R.W. 8.8. W. W. W. N. W. N. E. B.W. N. W. W.B. W. 8. 8.8. W. 8.8. E. N. W. N.E. 0.03' .0.18 '0.20 10.30 loaded Wien 1 es the tio, eai might I the del Mr. , order II Mr. I rapporl The] that th peteac3 lunatic fairly a juriadic power aaked, el-er, 11( order a Estates The 4,5001. Decr Mel relation in sn a wages. Mr. not yet Ilia be in when a defend The 1* The op choice. IN RI The eurgeol lease Charla whoa. the bat meets tar? co Mr. Tr • mem] on'.. c Mr. 1 the ex no juri Mr. bankr Wins AT, spite ritieg i court i lowing did e" i; The coT