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A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, _ _ OONTALWINO The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligesee, 111 przuszio EVERY EVENING. P rP LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 72. LIBERTY OF TRE SUBJECT IN FRANCE. WHO the present Emperor of the FRENCH was the "Prisoner of Ham," he was a constant co n- tributor to one of the provincial journals of the anti-dynastic opposition. The articles he wrote in the Progris du Pas d. ratas have since been republished in the edition of his " Works," and are become a monument alike to the merciful indulgence of the constitu tional monarchy and the proverbial humanity of • Lous Puturna, and to the cynicism of a twice. pardoned violator of the laws and the con stitution of the country which he was destined a third time to assault, and to conquer. It was in the sacred name of liberty that the Pri soner of Ham was permitted to indite and to print week after week those incessant libels against the Government which had twice commuted the extreme penalty he had been condemned to suffer. It was in the sacred name of authority, and es a saviour cf society, that the escaped prisoner who when in prison was permitted to excite to hatred and contempt of the Government which had spared his life twice, broke his oath to the constitution which had committed to him the chief magistracy of the Republic, dispersed the National As sembly at the point of the bayonet, shot or banished the representatives of the nation, and rose to absolute power on the ruins of public freedom, under cover of a terror-stricken universal suffrage. All this is history, not the history such as libellers or flatterers write, but the history which neither exaggerates nor extenuates, but which re gisters and records. We are not recalling these antecedents of the Second Empire to denounce or to excuse them. That is the affair of our neigh bours. We do so at this moment simply to enable our readers to understand how it happens that six teen years after the national election by which the See ondEmpirewas established,NaPoLEox than IRD is unwilling, or unable, to bear anydiscuasion of the origin of his power, which is supposed to rest on the suffrages of eight millions of adult Frenchmen. Surely this is a signal misfortune. and a serious disability for any government. Without taking into account the fatal significance of this damn ing blot on the seutcheon of Imperialism, one is at a lose to conceive the infa tuated folly of the courtiers and advisers of the Emperor of the FRENCII, who sedulously blind his eyes and close his ears to all but their own parrot 'dames of adulation and deception, shut from him all access to the thoughts and feelings of the young generation which has sprung up since half the number of those who " alAolved " the cone (rgtat have gone to their graves, and keep him in a fool's paradise of omnipotence disturbed only by the pangs of frequent failures, of hopeless anticipations, of un fulfilled promises, of a reign without a future, of a dynasty in the air. In justice, we say, to the Emperor NAPOLEON, we must take all his past into account, in order to explain some recent incidents of his domestic policy, as it is exhibited in the chronic resuscitation of that law of " public " safety," borrowed from the worst days of the revolutionary reign of terror. In the course of last summer shistoryof the events of December, 'M was published in Paris, and rapidly reached a fourth and fifth edition. It was, no doubt, eagerly bought both by those who were in public life seventeen yearn ago, and by those who were at school or in the nursery when the Second Republic disappeared in a night. Among other well authenticated epi sodes in that history was one in which a member of the National Assembly, M. BAL'DIN, was the principal w:tor. M. lIA emir was IS Republican, and in that character as well as in the capacity of a representative of the people it was his duty to defend the Constitution which the Familiarr of the REruutae had sworn to maintain. Presenting himself on a barricade to address the people in .141 I , EX' the Faubourg St. Antoine, be exhorted Wen nett* throw their lives away rashly in &useless resistance to overwhelming force, but to bide their Ohne. Being taunted by one of the crowd as one of 'those who were paid twenty-five trans a day to servo the Republic, he instantly mounted the barricade, and exclaiming, " See then bow a representative " of the people can die for twenty-five franca a " day ! " was shot through the heart by a volley of musketry from the troops. The record of this heroic death has stirred the hearts of many of BAnnur's countrymen, and they have lately found out the site of his grave. On All Saints' Day this humble patriot's tomb was covered with flowers ; and two liberal journals announced a subscription list for the erection of a monument to BAUM. The thought wee II happy one, no doubt, since it was sure to rally all the moral forces, all ranks and closest and parties of the Liberal opposition. But to the Government it was a ghost of BANQUO, with twenty mortal murders on hie head, and the MINISTIR of the Drrotion seems to have been utterly scared from the com monest prudence and propriety. The offend ing journals were seised three days following ; their editors were summoned before the ex amining magistrate, and are to bo prose cuted in the Correctional Court. Five years ago the matter would have ended here. Now, not only do the prosecuted journals persist in their offence, brit they are followed by forty of the principal independent journals in the capital and in the provinces, and fortified by an authoritative " Opinion " by the leaders of the French Bar. The Government is already morally defeated and yet liberal Europe is invited to believe that the subjects of the Second Empire enjoy a greater degree of personal liberty than their benighted neighbours who still labour under parliamentary government on this side of the Channel. At the opening of the legal year in France it is thecustorn of one of the law officers of the Crown to deliver un address, or more strictly speaking, to read en essay, on some subject not always very closely connected with the study or the adminis tration of the law. Comparative jurisprudence, however, is an apposite and a sufficiently ample theme for these exercitations, and furnishes an ingenious Advocate-General who wishes to attract the favourable attention of the Minister of Justice with opportunities of descanting on the obvious superiority of the French to all other codes, and of the whole legis lative, administrative, and judicial organization of the Empire to that of all other modern States. So long as the orator's thesis is confined to an exposition of the clearness and compactness of that Code which was framed by the Convention and adopted by the First NAPOLEON, the national pride of his audience is flattered without doing violence to truth. But this is not enough for the conscience of a functionary, or for the satisfaction of his patrons. The Im perial Government is not content with friends of the second degree, or with servants who for get for en instant the duty of courtiers. M. DE PEDSIGNY, in undertaking to demonstrate to his brother Senators that the press was far freer in France under the Empire than in England a hundred years ago, was comparatively modest in his assumptions, considering the nature of the assembly he was addressing. No ecclesiastical orator in his pulpit was ever more secure from reply. But his instructions have been bettered by some humbler imitators who have not the same inducements to reserve. On the first day of the present term the Advocate- General, who was charged with the customary inaugural discourse before the Court of Caseation, chose as his thesis (not, it should be understood, as a paradox to sharpen his forensic wits upon) that the liberty of the subject is greater in France than in Great Britain. The mode of demonstration is not so difficult as it seems. The French lawyer picks out all the obsolete English etatutee (re pealed or unrepealed) he can possibly discover, and contrasts them triumphantly with the principles of 'B9, which, as all the world knows, are the foundations on which the liberty of the subject reposes in Imperial France. He passes lightly over the arbitrary preventive arrests by general warrant of the Prefect of Police, the pre ventive imprisonments on charges never brought into court, the impossibility of prosecuting a public functionary for false imprisonment with out permis‘ion of the Council of State, to mention only the ordinary condition of things, and to say nothing of the decrees of public safety which from time to time place whole categories of citizens under suspicion and surveillance, and resider them liable to deportation to a penal settle ment without any form of trial—decrees which have the force of laws, and which, although occa sionally dormant, not even the ceremony of a new decree is needed to revive. Meanwhile the British subject somehow or other manages to move pretty freely under the galling fetters which the Im perial Advocate-General has invented for him, and can neither be arrested on a warrant from the Chief Commissioner of Police, nor put in prison and kept there for weeks on mere suspicion. Nor can any functionary of the British Government, from the highest to the lowest, claim immunity from every subject's right of redress. If, indeed, the French barristers and law students who composed the Advocate-General's audience when be expatiated on his remarkable theme, or the public who read it in the newspapers, are satisfied with its disclosures, doubtless it is not for Englishmen to disturb their complacency, nor is it worth any one's while on this side of the water to dispute the Advocate-General's facts. Next year, we daresay, the same law officer or his successor (for he certainly deserves the reward of his zeal) will take as his text the superior impartiality and purity of the French to the British administration of justice—especially with respect to political offences. prods 01111141111 the e r mkg Ligg..'Unfortunalely, beady it grows _ in netnews companies, for instance, give —witness some of the stations, cress and Grosvenor Hotels--but at the same time they throw frightful bridges over the Thames, and across our leading thoroughfare. It ould seem, indeed, as if the authorities of the metropolis were either weak or indifferent, and the protesta tions of the pnblio are wholly unavailing. It is scarcely too much to say that no other city in Europe would have endured the gross offenoe in flicted upon usnearLondon-bridge and on Ludgate hill by some of the great railway companies, but our citizens are singularly patient, and, so long as they can say what they like, leave the oompanies to do what they will. Just now every one is eagerly asking—What will be done with the Thames Embankment ? Will it prove, as was intended, " a thing of beauty," a place for enjoyment and relaxation? or will it merely serve the part of a spacious thoroughfare from the West-end to the City ? That it will not be as perfect as it might have been, and ought to be, we know already, for the promised railway must inevitably mar the beauty of the place as a promenade. But since we have sacrificed much important river traMo to 'pathetical considerations, it is imperative, as the Spectator truly observes, that all the beauty should be developed of which the Embankment is capable. But what will the Board of Works do for us ? Are we to have trees and seats and a de lightful lounge for summer evenings, or will an unquestionably grand national work be spoilt for the pleasure-loving public by a utilitarian spirit, and by an indifference with regard to details ? That the railway will be an annoyance and will go far to injure the character of the Embankment there can be no question. Let us at least be as sured of such beauty as may yet be possible. The massive granite of this wonderful roadway tells us of vast labour and expense. There is a noble op portunity for the display of taste, a chance which if once lost can never be regained. It would be antisfactory to the public to learn that full advan tage will be taken of it, and that the Thames Em ment will be in every respect worthy of the Metro polis and of the country. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) out thiesaituag. Maser of Was, attended by the Coutes of Masaillol4 drove eat. Peace sad Primes °bristle& of fishleswigalastein dined wit! the Queen .- weals. The Crown Primo of Prowl& sad Christian, at. boded by Majcw.Oessal P. H. Seym our,e est amt. m. Colossi tlui Has. Dudley de Bee bad the honour of ere-saying their royal highasess. The Crown Prins et Pranks afterwards visited Prince and Prisms Militias at Pregnisre-hosee, sad retained to lunatics. The Qua bold a amen to-day at IS e'riodc, at Oda were Tremont the Duke of Marlborough, the Berl at Ma sumbiwy, the Dube of Buellawasa sad Chaska, the Bight Hoc. &sisal aad the Bled Hos. O. B. Adlirley. Lord Augasbui Late& Biz Joseph Napier, and Tar Jams Ferguson arrived at the Coale, sad were swum swam of her Majesty's Most Hosourale Privy Com a, sad tools tisk sate at Use board ariosaingly. IPreviese to the masa the Duke of Marlborough bad ea audience of the Chan. After the coasts Hr. Disraeli bad also an audience of bar Majesty. Hr. Help was Clerk of the Conceit. Lord Raglan and Major-Genera F. Seymour. C. 8., the Lard and Groom in Waitia& were la attendance. Prince Arthur left Pressers-house yesterday for Green wish, attended by Lieutesant-Colonel Liphinstone. At the CO9DCiI held yesterday by the Queen at Winder Castle a proclamation was ordered to be Wetted dissolving the present whammed, and directing the immediate issue of writs for the election of a new House of Commons, the writs to be returnable on Thursday, the 10th of December nest. At the same council a proclamation was ordered to be issued for the election of sixteen representative peers of Scotland, the election to take place on Thursday, the 3rd of December nest. - -. -------... The usual proclamation in relation to the Houses of Convocation was also ordered to be imued. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor-General of Canada. A deputation from the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of Loudon, consisting of Mr. Deputy De Jersey. Mr. Deputy Farrar, Mr. Richard Cox, Mr. Pedler, Mr. Daw, and Mr. Maywood, had an interview yesterday with the Duke of Richmond, at the offioe of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the appointment of Mr. Evans to be one of the Gas ltefereee under the "City of Louden Om Act, 1868." The Duke and Duchene of Northumberland have arrived at Teddealey Park, btaffort6hize. ou a to Lord and Lady Ilatherton. Lord Stanley left town yesterday evening for Lynn. _ _ A marriage is arranged, says the Pod, between Mr. Grenville Baker, eldest son of Mr. Barwicke Baker, of Hardwicko Court, Gloueestershiss, and Kiss Catharine Lamellas, daughter of the Hon. Arthur Lamellas, of Norley, Cheshire. 17p to the time of the assembly of the last par liament it was customary to allow a week to elapse be. tween the formal opening and the delivery of the royal speech. Thus, in 1837, parliament met on April 30, and the swearing in of members was continued until May 7 ; in 1869 both houses assembled on May 31, and the royal speech was delivered on June 7. In 1866, however, the swearing m was conducted more rapidly, and parliament having assembled on Thursday, February 1, was opened by her Majesty on the following Tuesday. The next par• liament is called also on a Thursday, the speech from the throne will in all probability be delivered on Tuesday, December 16, and that night, with those of the Thursday and Fridays following, may decide the fate of the govern. ment. _ . Hot many parliaments in modern times have gene to their rest with the loss of so few eminent men as that which was last night dissolved. Of the 69 peers whose deaths have been recorded during:the period of its existence, the mare of Lord Brougham stands out almost in isolated prominence ; while of the 23 members of the Lower Home who have died, Lord Palmerston's name is the only one which is likely long to be carried in the public remem brance. In the parliament which came to spend in 1865, Lord Chancellor Campbell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Elgin, Earl Canning, and Lord Her bert of Lea were removed from the Lords ; and Mr. Cobden, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir James Graham, and Mr. Robed Stephenson from the Commons. So great was the mortality in that parliament that in six years Lord Palmerston's government lost ten of its members through death—a remarkable contrast to the tenacity of life shown by conservative statesmen, for at this moment, if circum stances required, Lord Derby could, with two exceptions, form again the cabinet which he presented to her Majesty needy seventeen yews ago. An interesting antiquarian discovery has just been made in Hanover. Some soldiers, in digging a trench at Hildesheim, found about ..10 vases, cups, candelabras, and other objects in masers silver and richly chased; they are evidently the work of Greek artists, and apparently date from the time of Augustus. Among them ia a goblet with ornaments in relief representing Hercules strangling two serpents; and a second, with satyrs, bacchantes, and other similar figures. There was a political demonstration in one of the Turin theatres on the 3rd inst. the anniversary of the battle of Modena, but it does not appear to have had much significance. During the acts the orchestra was repeatedly called upon to play Garibaldi's Hymn, but it refused to comply with the request, and there was in con sequence considerable uproar. One of the municipal authorities thereupon came forward and threatened to clear the house if the noise continued; and this, as might have been expected, only made matters worse. At last one of the actors good-humouredly asked the audience if they wished the performance to go on or to stop. The appeal at once had the effect of re-establidd ng order. Mdlle. Theresa is singing with great success at the UsiG in Leonard. The receipts at the theatres, concert-rooms, and places of public amusement in Paris, amounted in October to 1,776,029(r., being an increase of 770,700 fr. on the pre vious month. The Figaro having mentioned a rumour of the approaching publication of Mdlle. Schneider's Memoirs, she writes in reply :•—" I do not find that I have suffi cient talent to compose the story of my life, but I have quite enough not to allow it to be written by any other." M. Barden lately read his new play of the IV role at the Gymnast. It was received with enthusiasm, and is said to be likely to prove one of the great successes of the winter season. Madame Pasco will fill the chief part. Taurberlik has been singing with great mews., in the Afriraiar at Madrid. Madame Gueymard has ap peared there in the Troraloa e, and was well received. A young and beautiful actress, highly admired at St. Louis (Martinique), Madame Regina Zarbini, has committed suicide by taking prosaic acid. She left a note declaring that in consequence of the death of her husband a fortnight before, life no longer had any charm for her. " It is now confirmed," says the Nord, " that the Isthmus of Suez Canal will be opened regularly on the lit October next. The state of the works at the last visit had led to the supposition that the date might be ad vanced, but the board of directors has preferred to adhere to the period already decided on, in order that the prepa rations may be complete." The last census taken at Florence shows that the population has increased eines the removal of the capital there from Turin from 119,800 to 177,284. DEATH OF GENERAL W. H. NoolT.—The (solo nelcy of the 36th (the Herefordshire Regiment of Foot) is vacant by the death of General William Henry Soon, which took place on the Bth inst. at Brighton. The late gallant officer was for ma years in the Soots Fusilier Guards, which distinguishe d regiment he commanded for three years. PNERENTATION TO LADY FIFE AND DINNER TO Lope Marmara.- On Tuesday afternoon the Countess of Fife was presented at Duff House, Banff, with a portrait of her ladyship, painted by Nir Francis Grant, and sub scribed for by the Fife tenautry. The day being Lord Macsluff's (the heir to the Fife estates) nineteenth birth day, the tenantry on the estates in Banffshire. iu re turn for the personal visit he paid them the other week, eutortained the young nobleman, who seems to be a great favourite among his father's tenantry at a public dinner iu St. Andrew's Hall, Bauff. Lally Fife entertained the ts nantry and others to • ball at Pe House in the evening. f NEWS. oallir.) THE ELECTORAL LAW OF SPAIN. The Madrid Owns publishes the new electoral law aanousiord several days back : Every Fpaniard 26 gain of age has a right to vote. The only persons disqualified are the fol lowing :—Convicts not rehabilitated ; men under criminal accusations at the moment of the elec tions ; those deprived of their political rights; individuals against whom a judgment has been given, declaring them incapable of managing their own affairs ; bankrupts ; insolvent traders or manu facturers ; and individuals prosecuted to reco ver payment of their taxes. Soldiers and sailors will vote at the plains in which they are garrisoned, provided that they have a two months' residence. All electors dwelling in the communes and engaged in trade are eligible to municipal functions ; they may also form part of the provincial councils pro vided they do not occupy any Aloe paid by the local government or the State. No government functionary is qualified in the province, district, or commune in which he holds his office. The func tions of deputy are incompatible with any post requiring the holder to reside sway from Madrid, and the acceptation of the former implied the resignation of the latter. The elections for the Cortes will take place by provinces. Those return ing from six to nine deputies will form two cir cumscriptions ; and those of ten and upwards, three. The Balearic and Canary Islands are to be the object of a division in which their par ticular situation will be taken into account. There is to be a deputy for every 45,000 in habitants, and for a fraction above exceeding 22,500. The ballot will last three dap and a special decree will fix the mode of voting in the islands. The electoral lists will be made out from the 15th to the 25th November. The number of deputies is to be 350. (=ROUGE IEUTER . B AGENCY.) FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 11 Tlin Mnsiteser, in its bulletin of this morning, (riticiaci favourably the speech of Mr. Disraeli at the Lord Mayor's banquet, and approves the right honourable gentleman's remarks in reference to the relations of France and Prussia, and ab.o the idea of Lord Stanley undertaking to act as media tor between the two powers. %iimmoommi• , ...„ 1 . , s THURSDAY EVENtitt,NNOVEMBER 1 I t - . -‘ roduse wesiewhies asill lel& ''''( retatirt• k I ft maws& ihs rupees Mr* build= ' r, however; while Leralia grows , e ,- 8 assns . Nov. U. also in ugliness. The railway The Omsk assompanied by. Prisons iSsaildoo. awe, give us splendift aggloes drove at yesiwday alawnosa. Weeded by the Dachas the stations. and the (liming- of 11 "bordb• ; sad her NalistY and Prism , Leslie went -. out telessotabit _ . LONDON ARCHITECTURE ANT) THE THAMES EMBANKMENT. Tna architecture of London is a matter of inte rest not to Londoners only, but to all Englishmen. We are proud of this mighty city with its grand associations, literary and historical, its commer cial activity, its teeming life. The very ugliness which distinguished it in years past was not with out a charm, for did not narrow streets, and hideous warehouses, and sooty wharves remind us that this metropolis was the business mart of the world % It must be owned that within living memory London was sufficiently ugly to satisfy the straightest utilitarian. The Anti old buildings we possessed were concealed by modern piles, and it seemed as if our architects had lost all sense of beauty and proportion. A great change has taken place of lato yours, a change not always wise, but sufficiently signifiand. In the busiest streets of the City, as well as iu the pleasure haunts of the west-end, ar chitecture, which is assuredly one of the noblest of arts, is afherting its rightful place. The taste I evinced may not always be good, but there is at .43.; S OP SIB 11.01171 DRU. PAI.VF.R. Sir Roundel' Palmer is no longer fl candidate for the representation of Oxford University, his com mittee, after a careful calculation of the promises re ceived, having come to the conclusion that he would not be supported by a majority of the electors. The Timm thinks that the friends of the University will deeply regret this issue of the attempt to redeem its reputation. It has, indeed, rejected an opportunity of honour. The preference of Mr. Mowbray to Sir Roundell Palmer shows that this University prefers to support anyone who will promise to fight for exclusive privileges rather than trust a man who takes his stand upon principles of equal jus tice. It is not the first time that Oxford has shown this disposition, and not the first time it has shown it in rain, save to its own dishonour. XL 111110Vree PLAN OP PIPANCILL RIPON. Mr. Bright's proposal that the estimates, instead of being prepared exclusively by the cabinet or the great de partments of state, should be referred to a committee of the House of Commons is, observes the Daily News, borrowed from the practice of the United States, the con gress of which has its finance committee, discharg ing functions akin to those which Mr. Bright describes. But it is relative to a feature of the American government which does not be long to our own ; and each a committee in England, so far from being a link of connection, would be a wall of partition between the executive and the legislative bodies. It would, in fact, diminish ministerial responsibility, without diminishing ministerial power of extravagance, and the direct control of the Howe of Commons over the executive would cease. Mr. Bright's advice, that every item should be made the subject of a special scrutiny. would involve the HOWN of Commons in a pathless jungle of details. But it is well that his proposal should be put forward. A vague declaration of ends to be achieved is easily made. When men begin to canvass means, a sign is given that they are in earnest. If Mr. Bright has not struck on the right path, he has given an example to explorers which they may imitate with more success. PRESIDENT JOHNSON. Whatever else history may have to say about the prod thney of Mr. Johnson, it will, observes the Part, record that it was during his tenure of office that the only re- nraining causes of misundersttanding between the malice country and her vigorous offspring were removed. The President's woret enemies can say no wone of him than that his failings are resolvable into errors of Judgment, while it must be cantered on all hands that his foreign policy has been at once pacific and patriotic. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE How far an alteration of our Poor-law would obviate the necessity for private benevolence, is, says the Tekgroph, a grave question, which provokes rather complicated thoughts. The main principle animating our present law is that, as a rule, a man fighting the battle of existence should be left to himself, but if he falls he should be helped into the workhouse. Ilt is clear, however, that in all eases where help is given to people not in the workhouse, either by Poor-law officials or by charitable volunteers, the aid should as much as possible take the form of helping those who are beat on self-help. NEPOTISM ♦T TUE POOR LAW BOARD. The Bier extremely regrets that so respectable a poli tician as Lord Devon should have signalled his administra tion of the Poor-law Board by an act of nepotism which the meet ingenious tory would find it impossible to justify. That Mr. Reginald Courtenay and Mr. Fleming owe their preferment as poor-law inspectors to the fact that one is the nephew of the president, and the other the nephew of the permanent secretary of the Poor-law Board, is a fact which the Star presumes neither Lord Devon nor Mr. Fleming will deny. The job certainly wean an ugly aspect, and cannot be allowed to pass unchallenged by those who think that responsible dines in the public service should be filled by the most competent am. CONSERVATIVE The Herald says that whatever may he the result of the impending election, it will always be me morable for the remarkable display of conserva tive feeling which it has evoked from the me tropolitan constituencies. Hitherto, except in a few isolated instances, the conservatism of London has re mained not only without a mouthpiece in Parliament, but without an advocate upon the hustings, or a guager at the polling booth. Now, however, from one end of the metropolis to the other, the commencement of a riginw which was to bring in democracy as by a flood tide, has been the signal for vigorous, determined, and by no moans ineffectual efforts to develops the latent forces of conser vatism and to afford the opportunity of making an ap pearance at the poll commensurate with its strength in the constituencies. TIER IRISH CROW'S AOITATION.—Tho lecturers and deputations of the Liberation Society have during the last few days been labouring with increasing activity to mecum the return of candidates pledged to support Mr. Gladstone's Irish church policy. The Rev. J. 0. Rogers has addressed audiences at Worthing and Rugby •, Mr. Cauca Williams, at Newesstle-under-Lyme and Legates; The Rev. T. Device, at Radcliffe; the Rev. C. Williams and the Rev. J. Fletcher, at SouthamptonOhe Rev. N. T. Langridge, at Canterbury t lialden, Hinokley, Tying, and Tunbridge; the 'ter. J. H. Gordon, at Gu ild!' and Garlaston; and Mr. Lawrence thine, at Bride :forth, Sittingbounic, and other mooting, are to follow until tl,o elections have closed. In most instsnees there bevy been very large audiences, and, in all, the mein toms have been carried with great enthusiasm. The ills. tribution of publications on the subject has also been esiried on on a large scale. OUR PARIS LETTER. (mom otra ovrx cot PARIS, WED:MADLY ETENIN4. The insinuation in Mr. Disraeli's Guildhall speech that Lord Stanley might arbitrate successfully be tween France and Prussia is not regarded here as serious. Few journals take any notice of it what ever. The Presse describe, the good intentions of the English Cabinet as " platonic." It must strike everybody that if the famous map issued to prove that no difference existed between the two coun tries was not a bad joke, Mr. Disraeli's suggestion of an arbitration is alarming rather than other wise, because it is an official affirmation that grave causes of quarrel exist. The Slide has followed the example of the Temps in defying the government and announcing a sub scription for the Bandin monument. The insane conduct of the authorities in reviving the law of public safety on this issue has turned the subscrip tion, which, if let alone, would have been forgotten in a few days, into a great political affair, which produces excitement throughout France. It was lately said in the papers that an estate in the Landes which the Emperor had given to the late Count Walewski would " revert to the crown," because his re ict had not the means to keep it up. There was a manifest non sequitur in this statement. The explanation now is that the Emperor has purchased the property from the widow for 60,0001. sterling. At the same time the Countess Walewska has given up to the Emperor all the letters he ever wrote to her husband (which it may be presiuned were not found among the papers of Count Walcwski that were sequestrated—illegally, as the Preset contends), and she is gazetted in to-day's Moniker as one of the Empress's ladies of honour. _ . . A necessary comment on all this history is that Count Walewski was the intimate councillor who thought the future of the Empire could only be assured by a liberal policy, and prompted that letter of January 19, 1867, against which there is now a reactionary movement of which the Pays and the Cassagnacs are the exponents, and the Baudin proeecutiona the incontrovertible and too practical manifestation. The case of M. Annan, the great Bordeaux ship builder and a member of the Corps. Legislatif, made a bankrupt (by a mistake, as he alleges) upon a dishonoured bill for the miserable sum of 1,200 fr., has been brought before the Imperial Court presided over by President Devienne. The creditor, who has been paid, did not appear. Counsel for the official assignee supported this declaration of bankruptcy pronounced by the Paris Tribunal of Commerce. Advocate-General Sevestre said it appeared from documents produced that M. Armen was not merely under a momentary pres sure for money, but in serious difficulties ; never theless ho recommended the court to supersede tht bankruptcy on the ground that M. Amman, being domiciled at Bordeaux, the Paris tribunal had no jurisdiction. The court has taken time to con sider its judgment. Ildlle. Patti (Marquise de Calm) is going to St. Petersburg next month. This was known before ; but a piece of news that has painfull; surprised the Parisian musical public is that she has signed an engagement with the manager of the St. Petersburg Opera, which binds her up tt the year 1871. Rossini is worse. Erysipelas has appeared k the right leg; he has passed a very bad night. and the symptoms are described as " alarming." Baron James do Rothschild is better, and it hoped that ho will soon be much better. Count do Oats is still in a bad state of health, and it is thought he will soon resign the Prussian embassy. The rise at the Bourse, which met with slight check yesterday, is resumed to-day. Real rose 15c. for cash and 30e. for account, closing at 71fr. 70c.. and 71fr. 93c. All other securities were considerably higher. A young Dutch tourist bee just blown out his brains in en hotel at Marne% from having lost consider able sums at the gaming-tables of Wiesbaden. TILE QVNEN klrAtx.—The Queen of Spain held a reception on Monday, a circular having informed all the Spaniards of distinMion at present in Paris of her Majesty • intention. The Princis.sMathildevisited Queen babelba on Tuesday. The King and the Prince of Asturias* went to the staircue to receive her imperial highness. " The Count de I:eyelets," rays the .Ipro, prooomied two days back to Compiegne to oftiesally announce to their Majesties the arrival of the ex-Queen of Spain le Paris. He was received west graciously and retsina he dinner." APIIIRALTY, Nor. 11.—Naval cadets akonAtinged, Henry D,,iscorPou end Wm. C. O. Aethwe, eligible Moven. F. E. Clarke, PatrickAllsa, tontine, and S. M. Saimaa, stedent. -- Shaw and M. H. Alien, of St. Bartholomew' A. J. Horsey, of Kingston. Csnada L and tho pital ; J. B.Diokinn, of Kingston. Canada; of Cambridge and the London W of the Loudon Hospital; W. H. O. E. K. Thorpe'of Sheffield; IL J. A. Howell, - of Bombay ; and Thomas's Hospital. It is stated tha. of the 24 failed to acquit themselv es the Court of Examiners, and were 0 to their anatomical and ph i ssiolclical - period of three month , . A this meeting fleorgu Burk, r.u.s.. the reemitty-eleott vacancy occasioned b.; the reallfo# o4 South, took part in the examiaanella• LONWS altlrgAALOssidssit C - Tragic receip'a for week swaing "E Ptest ilfoaM °DbliratAaguwirlA p emeaLy:P7.vir"acw". l :.......... ual6G ._„'..-:„.:44:L.L.--;°.„..dftk".ll"-(.::::.,:.:7"1":47°71".......72 o'The'aleekt.LaikgddaggigiittujlG;:z)°'".Lznrno 64.0-I‘..srn.:7l°lll,n."g:l:l LONDON AMUSEMENTS. .....- 1 Afterimik .--w--- trommendaism.sww.wicing... LA. T 1 the how ruro aeon.-" e i:::: :: :.;7_, w o' Llsem". eleek. ido : Kan C h a sr;rlicidars . ".. Th el Th eTilaseermadTatnalleadera the : u frail Bouoar eelL" . lMarriage ne. for at inow any .“ Fries... Learetia "-720 ealock amok . ic D.. tt tires Parma ow Wawa -"Ateld!" "floaisty."-raCto'closk. IX the Oracle Doclatime."-e o'clock. Itorai.er.-" AJlthat Mitten is not Odd." "The Moe poet Pall ci lielhard W ." t TA., o w ...kw s RM.,. - 7 0 44 triCl driest. Adel wooer.-"lulu's Boy." "Load Eats and Water am... • of t ullasstllll far Drar."-T deka. fismaa's WaLui.—" Rawdet.”-7.11. font Roves. Artranwawrall, Houses. - Awe& Remo is u,,, The niter Earramna.-" Zoned, the Alchemist." " The Old, Old eon!. -4.411. evareame.-" Nape." " A Metre( Ilaidad."-r o'clock. MISCILLitI2IIIOI3II. T gi, Osimiii's Ham., LANOusii-rt.sCa.—Ms. Mark WWI s. 11 " Faitall."-8 o'clock. the Crmiorr Marmara, Or. linis's Hasa. -4 &ski*. wat Farman /feu., Picotana.r.-Kr. Pkaing.Nottaa's Rat-, teamassit-aceciadt. phe Borst. PoLTIIOIIIIC.—Tha Ilee'xiii OWNS. Ite. indi Mamma Teemines. Ishii s too , ANaL It is ° a 'ke u X t .Fir lso i ri D t e at ikeN ive m l . y maagigu r iarm yin n edig c r n : r i t n urf r o cod. br ahi Fl oraf i o r rt() Ro x a contested f u o n s rd d o. e would 1 IT hea r lec a Palmer ' s justify reasonei n r .' s committee tha ing t this the as ri teep g u h ni t iiv h tn . :. att g it ".: • phi all fall bee tleman has withdrawn his candidature for the Univqr.ity bee • sho committee in their canvass have not met with sa s h su p. lion Mae their regret at ••, hot failure of the efforts which have been made to secar • ,e C the university so eminent a representative. I vol CITY OP LONDON ELECTION wh ---e-- Pr ( PRO(I.A.MATION OF TILE WRIT AT GUILD7T l'• eta AND TUE ROYAL EXCIIANUE.-(THL•4 DAY ) cid This morning, at half-past 9 o'clock, Mr. W. out inn, the Senior Yeoman of the Courts of Law in tic roe. fiat having received the writ for the el.ction of member. Li at serve in the new parliament from Mr. Secondary Pott -, bm proceeded to make public proclamation of the same in t:. eta Guildhall and at the Royal Exchange. Tic pro , ...evliu.:. we were very brief, and at neither place was thore mom th is Nc thi af or persons present. The nomination is fired to tai- One at the Guildhall, at 12 o'clock on Monday next. tal int Et IS MR. GLADSTONE A ROMAN CATHOLIC? re (From the Lirsrpool ihrrury of this day.) th ' Amongst other insulting and slanderous report., which the tones are circulating again-t Mr. W. E. Olaf. be i :gone. is one that the right honourable gentleman is •• to. lu cretly," or "at heart,' a Roman catholic. At Southport. ' where the liberal electors largely predominate, the den. di i derers have been particularly industrious. Feeling Or lic even such a palpably_false report was calculated to opersta w upon timid voters, Mr. J. Parnell, of 17, Hall-street is cu that town, wrote to Mr. Glad-tone on the subject. Ili • Mt following is the indignant and withering reply of "t!... i i best abused man in all England :" as " Hawarden Castle, Nor. 9, I +et th • " Sir,-I sin much obliged by your letter. It ;4rievas th me to learn that the slanders , which have hithcro Men confined to remoter parts, have found their way into our , PI , division, and are circulated, as you state, by souie of the toner of Southport-I trust a very few. Yea tell me 01 they allege 1 am a Roman catholic in my heart; but they CC do not attempt to prove it from my conduct. They 'mow al that my religious profession is that of the church of al • England ; and this being so, to say I am a Roma ti ' catholic is simply to say lam a deliberate liar au I a confirmed hypocrite. It is open to them to insult me 2t in this or any ether manner, but I will not degrade myself, , al ' and the relation between candidates and constitueacios. L ' by making any declaration whatever, believing, as I .I.i , tj that it would only draw forth more incredulity and fresh tj insults. All I wish for them is that they may learn to I d • to others as they would be done by, and may never receive ) the calumnious usage which they mete out to me. On th e t, • subject of the ritualistic question, I shall deelire me ispi. a none on my return to Lancashire, probably at Boyd., la ) the end of this week. c ✓ " Again thanking you for your kindnesa in lettin4 tn. i know what is going on,--1 remain. sir. your faithf-ii ; e 7 servant, •• W. E. tiLIDITONE. t e " Mr. J. Parnell." t e- 1 ✓ CLERICAL SUPPORTERS OF MR. GLADSTON E 1 r —..--- At a lecture on the Irish church, delivered by e the Rev. N. T. Langridge , at Hinckley , on Monday, tic. , '", Rev. J. O. Picton, rector of Desford, presided, and et• e pressed himself unreservedly iu favour of the disestablish• „ meat of the Irish church. At the close of the lecture th 9 Rev. Mr. Fisher, rector of Iligham, spoke, and expressed or general concurrence with the lecturer a views, and a 12.1 p. that even-handed justice would be dealt out towards e; , religious bodies in lreland. There was a large and enth . . - ". mastic audience. o On the 3rd instant the Rev. John Congreve, rector '. . Tooting, delivered a lecture on Mr. teladstoue's leva ie church pelicy, in the Town-hall, Ashton-under-Lee. it Oldham Whittaker, Esq., of Hurst-hall, in the chair. is 4 LONDON AND SOUTH AFRICAN B-INK. .n (THIS IMY.) Al --.--- This day the half-yearly meeting of sharehold , rs was held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannou-street, e,..r 1 - eel HOLLAND in the chair. f. It appeared from the report that although the profits ol the bank during the past am months had been curtailed. a) owing to the continued stagnation in trade, the business rt of I t troo ransa akdede ocfftolvewagdeolasonsotonyininhasdrinrunovechtmaryeesit.: thkr,eorainupgdiscehthaa.trttnehrie,idil insoeutitiihe, r, might have shown a much larger amount of prof. n had the directors sanctioned the acceptance of 111M.1 , of the business offered, but feeling convinced rln tita t hm, i m. n a..in t t ! ' . ' i (.4 existing state of trade in South Africa , a large bauki , ..; a business was simply a large amount of.dangerous liability. i t their aim had been not to show increased pneits st chi cost of undue risk, but by steadily pursuing a coati iii. i. and discriminating policy, to lay the foundation ..‘i A 4.: ; - 7 9 - and profitable business when commerce revives. She :I the advisee of the discovery a gold fields be borne oat h , r, r - facts, the influence on the Caps Colony and Natal w.• , .i. i le be moat beneficial. In antioWion of the yearly dv.. ~,. dead, a distribution of Se. per '.hare was made. ." The Cualknas moved the adoption of the repart. 0 1 * 10 hinting on the topics referred to in it. it- The resolution was adopted. rt. Tut: ELECTION AT lb 11111Sillt A SI. -The Ih. - kit mitnihern Post of this morning says that amording oth „. working of the canvawers-all of them earneet awl hard- ii l ' e, walbeel v ec o t lu ed nteers- by a Itz o rs ii . ty ll o ng' t Bright, l ieast lisem tico . o ' above Mr. Lloyd ; and this after giving the tories all t:u , to "neutral" and " doubtful" voters. ititnt Thigß e g i m ; ni h i :i rny c t. o . l os oi lectlt Fo o tty which o i. f vacai th tou e ka :lt piace l b t y h ( th t on h e e dthee ll ath erv st i h f , i i viN uvt lih ne.. i n .. ;: i A DAY'S OFFERTORIES. -The vicar of st. I..tiy mice, Jewry. thus reports the result of the services at i t e. is - Lawrence on October & The offerime were as follows . At 7.30 am., 31. 4a, 7d.1 1 a.m., IN. Ile. 7d.; at I.li , ill, p.m., VA es. 2d. : and at 6 p.m., 63f. 3e. ed.. at th • ~„ doors, M. 14s. 3d.: and sent subsequently, 8L le. tie. _ - total, :Pitt!. lee. The full particulars of the special . ofi..l bigs will be sent to the Biehop of Capetown's Associatiou It:: wunoithEnseofthoitrinelALoremlwilatotrtice.OgeLLEOutlyeinthisaandeneiwi"btßysie:OtheoglFpaOtriFnpy.niat.L.rit.tinWn.gui,„: joy the C ou r t ;.j o ill Shaw anti me.):jbleialrk. Allen,atri oefksAltlen:Barthß:Eolo.Nine.Dowslb How . tio : ‘,. hint*, and S. Maininers=tedontstnoth.dthenelUtatePir DinstubllaminatL•iii.74n.Jose°°7lligthit.i:t Cr- of i'll oPiAoitaiCtjiat.e;mljlLoberrluddigepoincks°NatHidLuglospthie:7Len7inget;anale:lll:2oll. H Hospi rsteno tal ; n 7 .? o ill f llAnd°al iron W lL . o , l a e'ir r si* : ' ,...' ":l . sin 0. E. K. Thorpe,•of Sheffield; D.E.' OrillithA i egr a. lar,l Ha 3 . A. Hawaii' of iksint ' a y ; 6114 (I =tial ' istlidatiss , r 4 her Thomas's Hospital. It is stated that • . .. ~__ ten of the 24 failed to acquit themselves to the shntnroo e _ . „ on •... -e•A were °mae ray re i j as the Court of Examiners, ...-- swat ., for t h e „„ es, to their anatomical and Ir rie l reo ri rgs °d l o l f lus th k, ree F i l w .S tkg .. tise A recee " tr atilig- o lee l t edof w elamth . e l winer ehe urt ip ) i t ... South, took in the teatime. T ie. " vacan tb 7oreass;o ti o t ed be, tho essii reeignnt" el - Tril Lom se no me N O i ltfl o :AaA for w h t o .ek etrtaus anding Co tio llja e r 91 61.4f . / 1 0,, 1T1 1 1. ';