The Express. — London, England, 1867-11-20 00:00:00

PARIS ZXBlBrrio! JOHN BROW si carats fins, ts worth ..Li 4 114 year 011111 Ce. 23 carats.. 4 1 6 44 444• (Balkh standard) S 17 144 el carats.. S 14 4 2.0 carats.. 3 10 0 ousts.. I 7 i . lialltalictory, 16, 71ei Eke enartoo. TO CURT ,?ON DENTS. Avertbements Intended for The Express," London Evening =,mast he at the Mee, 10, bow/ale-street, by Two on the dna of publication. DRITRY-LA,TB Tnn Evrci NO, THE DUG r: OP VENICE. Mr. Phelps, Messrs. J. C. Cowper, H. Sinclair, E. Phelps, Barrett. Temple. ac , Mrs. liar uann Vesta, His °rattail, &c.—And THE LADLE& CLUB. Mesdames Ekatris ahirtey and Kate Hartleur. HAYMARKET. RUN Emmy). THE 1V1V.\1517777A/D. Mr. Compton.—OCß AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Sutliern, Chlppen.tale. Rogers, maymeed, Clark. (tor lan, de.: Mes lames Robertson, Dalton, Bette, Ae.—And THE SPECIRS BRIDEGROOM. Mr. Ral..mond. PalNCk24B'B. Tuts Eviwnse, A LITTLEFLIETATIOY—AIter whip h ARRAN NA POGUE Mime Duecicault, Wining, D. Murray, J. U. shorn, O. F. Neville. de.; Miu Hushes and Mra.Boudcault.—Aud NO. ONE, ROUND THZ CORNER. LYCEUM. THIS EVRNIING. PIRFEJTIVN :- . — Wm Maud Shelley.—And ROMEO AND JULIET. Mehra. W. Lacy and Ryder; Ulm Veatvali, Mra. Mantou, and lily Milli Palmer. STRAND. THIII IMMO, NOTHING TO NOME. Ns. Thorne and Miss Ne.ton.—KlND TO A FAULT. Messrs. Parasite. EsHord, and James: Mesdamea Johnstone, Owynne. and Hughes.—And WILLIAM TELL WITH A VENGEANCE. HOLBORN. THI Rvaarnio, FOR LOVE. sleiert. H. J. Montague, Price, Garden, Wind, end U. Whl,Mond,: Wartime, Stephens, lieursde, C. santekns, &a —Awl MARY TURNIAR; OR, TRY WICIOUS WILLIN. Miss Josephs. BIUTAIRCIA. Ting Ertnino,nlSODOE PTCFC POCKET. Mr. J. Iterrinl.l2.—Maallten Le Grand ; Mr. and Mrs. Langan and Mr. J. ; Mr. Mark Ykiyil.—.thd 'SLACK DYED SUSAN. HIGH WAIT& AT LONDON GRIMM rim .—..Afternoon, 9h rum. !o•Yauow—Yoruing, Oh. boa.. „Aitarnoom, 10h. 35m. LONDON, WEDIVESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 THE Cattle Show of the Smithfield Club is appointed to be opened on Monday, the oth of December next. The money prizes alone this year amount to 1,1951., and the total value of all the prizes together will exceed 2,0001. This is by fur the most important exhibition of the year to the farmer, and probably for a long time past nothing has had a better effect upon agricultural affairs than the custom of gathering together the prime stock of the kingdom. It would be difficult also to over-estimate the benefits of the social and commercial meetings among our farmers which have grown with this practice. The minds of men living much in rural districts, and having thus a very limited circle of acquaintance, are apt to contract, and their views, however enlarged and liberal they may have been in early life, when fresh from the wholesome contests of our publ!c schools and colleges, appear to become narrow and sectarian, owing to some inexplicable law of nature. In London we are rapidly beginning to consider travelling backwards and forwards to dis tant places as part of the necessary conditions of molem life. We are ready to proceed at half an hour's notice to places so far off, that our own fathers would have held themselves in duty bound to avoid them till they had arranged their affairs and made their wills. But this is not the case with countryfolk ; to many wealthy and intelligent country gentlemen a journey of any considerable distance still remains a serious enterprise, and ono not to be under taken without due deliberation and precaution. The majority of our prosperous squires and warm farmers are a vast deal too comfortable and re spected at home t 3 think with much pleasure about moving anywhere ; and it must be allowed that even a county magistrate who farms his own land and subscribes to hounds does get a good deal knocked and hustled about on railway plat forms and in monster hotels, where he is looked upon by the waiter as only one of a hundred and fifty numbers, each representing an individual who has contracted, at the (prices fixed by the company's tariff, for precisely the same amount of respect as himself, and who is deter mined not to abate a fraction of it. This is not a state of things to entice a country gentleman, supreme in half a dozen parishes, from a home where he enjoys the respect and loyalty he may have created around him by a long life of blameless and charitable doings. Strange things and strange faces have generally but little attraction for agri cultural celebrities, and the usual course of their lives to accustom themselves very early to the rest and dignity of manner which in cities is sel dom accorded save to advanced age and public honours. Fortunately, however, for themselves, and pro bably still more fortunately for us, the annual London Cattle Show rouses them at least once every year out of their pleasant repose. No coun try gentleman of any weight or consideration at home prefers to remain there when he may com pare, with infinite advantage to himself and his neighbours, the produce of his own county with the best that can be collected from all England. However long the journey to London may be postponed, however reluctantly it would be made under any other circumstances, every country gen tleman not sofa-bound by gout and crutches, struggles into a great coat, usually too tight for him, and comes up to town by a train so early that the sharpest waiters are apt to rub their eyes with wonder when they behold his surpris ingly brisk appearance at so unusual an hour. Few street sights are so refreshing to the Londoner as ho walks towards his occupa tions in the dawn of a metropolitan morning, about ten o'clock, as to observe the numerous rosy-checked, energetic persons already in full activity, and firmly persuaded that it is about the middle of the day. Flushed and happy-looking couples, with flocks of blooming daughters and merry-eyed sons, may be seen trooping sip and down Regent-street, and filling the shops of wondering French folk, who are at last permitted to behold a people of the appearance which tradition has consecrated as the true type of the Anglo-Saxon race—plump, rubicund, indiscreet, liberal, large-hearted. The continental commercial community of Regent-street are not the only London tradesmen who welcome these jovial strangers with enthusiasm, and are loath to see them depart. Most of the goods slightly de teriorated in value by the capricious changes of fashion, or otherwise grown dowdy and unsaleable to habitual customers, are happily cleared off at this festive season ; and it forms an epoch or turn ing point in the affairs of some, very anxiously awaited and profitably employed. It is certain that however important may be the benefits which the visit of the agriculturist con fers upon this capital, they carry home with them to the full as much good se they bring. They learn, even in the brief time they can spare us, to understand not only how mighty a nation we have become, and that we are still growing daily more rich and powerful, but why we have become so. They comprehend that England is the greatest market in the world for other things be sides farm produce ; and that we have gradually risen in this small island to be the great centre of beneficent thought and civilization for the whole universe. It is a grand lesson : one by no means Ito be chuckled over as the old wives' fables of ! former times about our thumping superiority in the stand-up fights of the prize-ring. The primacy which is now accorded to us with more or less re luctance by the rest of mankind rests upon a very' different basis. It reposes upon no foundation, how ever, so wide or so broad as the great fact, impor tant to every living thing, that we have at lastsolved the momentous question of cheap food. We have not indeed yet succeeded entirely in making wheat and other edible cereals as cheap as they ought to be. That is to come, and there are still some difficulties in the way of our final triumph. Never theless, it is wholly beyond dispute that whereas the acreage of our wheat-growing counties has ' notably diminished, while our population has in creased and is being daily augmented by a healthy immigration of energetic men from all quarters of the world, still bread is far cheaper than it was half a century ago, although money is worth less. Before we take leave of the farmers, we de- ' sire to point their attention to a fact which ' should materially add to their rejoicing. We do so in no spirit of self-congratulation, or ungenerous triumph over the fallen cause of pro- I toction. We merely state a great truth ; and here it is fresh and reliable in all its force from the last available source of credit. It has been publicly stated within the last week that ' there lives at this time an agricultu rist—and long may he live and flourish— who is selling bull calves at 500 guineas each as fast as he can breed them. Any other gentleman may do likewise who pos- 1 sesses the true " Duchess " blood ; the enormous price here mentioned being immediately realisable in open market for bull calves of that famous strain. Moreover, a six-year-old cow called " Rosedale," bred by Lady Floor, was purchased at the Duke of MONTROSE'S sale last August for 250 guineas. 200 guineas is becoming quite a l common price for a bull calf of high quality, and the prices lately paid for sheep and horses are so high that mention of some of them could hardly be made here with out giving rise to a feeling of involuntary incredulity. Does not this prove sufficiently that we are again permitted to recognise a truth as old at least as the Roman Conquest ti The mild moist climate of England is fitted for pasturage rather than for corn, and suggests that we nay well afford to purchase cheap foreign , wheat when we can breed and export as many as we please of the finest stock animals in the world. It is surely but perverse to buy cattle (and alas! cattle plague) abroad, while we spoil our best grass land with scanty corn crops, and seem to forget that the gifts of the Almighty Disposer of all things have been equally dispensed among the various members of the great family of mankind, and it would be but impious pride to arrogate to ourselves a single one more than He has given us. A SINGLE glance at the map will show the importance of the new naval position which the United States have acquired in the West Indies. The Danish islands of the Virgin Group have hitherto been of little political consequence in the hands of a distant and :ceble government, but in those of a great maritime Power they must immediately assume importance. Lying at the very gate of the Caribbean Sea, the Power which holds them will bestride the highway from Europe to the Isthmus of Panama, and command its communications with Mexico, Central America, and the whole West Indies. The policyof the Government of the United States since the great civil war has led it to seek territorial aggrandisemen for the purpose of strengthening its political position. It can hardly be doubted that the unexpected manifestation of the desire of Europeans for the dismemberment of t..e Union has done much to stimulate this decision. The purchase of Russian America had its prece dent in that of Louisiana, but did little mere than remove the flag of a European Power from the American continent. It has been understood on both sides of the Atlantic as de noting the intention of the Government to take measures gradually, and as opportunities offered, to obtain complete control of North America, but its material value was very small. On the other hand, the islands just acquired give the United States an admirable naval position, besides enabling the enterprising citiH sena of the Republic to compete with Europeans for the valuable and increasing carrying trade between the island of St. Thomas and the islands and countries west of that purchase. The acquisi tion of an outlying territory not capable of physical incorporation with the Union, is a new thing in the history of the Republic, which has no colonial system, and the islands will probably form a new State. The negotiations for the purchase of the Bay of Samana, which have from timo to time been mentioned as in progress, have probably been abandoned, as being rendered unnecessary by this transaction with Denmark, which, renders less improbable the report that the United States Government is seeking to obtain a naval station in the Pacific. IT will be observed that the Earl of DERBY confirmed last night in Parliament the statement unofficially made in the recess that India is to pay for the maintenance of the troops employed in the Abyssinian expedition. His words were, " That " country (India) will continue to pay the ordinary " charge of the troops as if they were in India." The noble Earl has no doubt satisfied him self that this is a just and equitable arrange ment ; but we strongly distrust the ability of our clever Indian officials to make the QUEEN'S native subjects in that country see its fairness. To charge the people of India for the support of troops "as if they were in India," when they are not there is, on the face of it, very like robbing them. If it can be made to look other wise, the sooner that is done the better. No confidence can be felt in the financial condition of India if the taxes of that country are to be taken to support an army which has been withdrawn from it for the purposes of Imperial policy, and is serving in a distant country. Tan ABYSSINIAN EXPSDITION.—A blue-book of 500 pages was issued yesterday, containing papers relating to this expedition. The contents are of a ' most miscellaneous character, being a mass of executive detail. It is satisfactory to observe, among despatches on the subject of dubbing, puggarees, presbyterian chaplains, and essence of watercress, three lines from Sir John Lawrence, Governor-General of Jodie, expressing his cln viction that " there is every prospect of suc cess if the expedition be well commanded." It appears that the government has bad under its consideration plans submitted by several eminent engineers and contractors for laying down a light railway for the use of the troops in Abyssinia. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING; NO OUR CON TEMPORASIEIt. (THIS DAY.) '" 5 "" .....1 " IrHE OPZNIAG OF THE SESSION. The object ofithe Abyssinian expedition can, after last night's explanations, no longer, observes the Times., be represented as for any other purpose than procinMg the release of the prisoners. But its wisdom and necessity, though too plainly probable, remains to be proved. The action of the House of Commons last night was limited to a recognition of the fact that it is for parliament to enter upon an examination of the question from the beginning. With regard to the expense the Timm cannot think, with Lord Derby, that we are just towards India in taking Inds troops and contenting ourselves with defraying merely their additional expenses. It is impossible to lay down a rule of right in what would be a matter of bargain were the contracting parties equal, but if we assumed the regular pay of the Indian troops employed we should be probably acting with justice. It is again equally impos- Ale to determine beforehand whether all the expense should be provided out of taxation raised in the present year. There can be no reasonable objection, the Times con ceives, to spreading the expense over a limited period —say five years—however improper it would be, as we allow, to add it to our permanent debt. These are, however, ques tions the exact determination of which must necessarily await the full statement of the scope and cost of the expe dition. The Queen's Speech is described by the Daily Ne , B as having the negative merits of caution and reticence, except on one point as to the limits of the Abyssinian ex pedition, where it is re-assuring. The parliament of Eng land is at present absolutely unpledged upon every port of this question, but it is not likely to disown the oblige- I tion of endeavouring, by every practicable means, to secure , the delivery of British envoys held captives in direct violation of the law of nations. As to the cost of it, to tax our Indian subjects in its behalf would be to rob them. Thews: is an accident of blundering and negligent adminis tration, and being an incident of the year its cost should be defrayed out of the taxation of the year. The confusion of ministerial language in reference to the Italian imbroglio, accurately reflects the conflict of living forces and principles with decaying traditions and prece dents, but in declining to enter the conference unless on the basis of a clearly defined plan of settlement, to which the favourable disposition of the Powers shall have been ascertained by preliminary negotiation, the course taken by the government deserves the approval of parliament. The ministerial programme is scanty, but February will possibly supplement the defects of November. The Post sums up its opinion of the speech with a remark that if a programme is really intended to be carried out, the apology with which the speech commences is not inap propriate. If it Is carried out, the nation will have reason to be thankful even for the unhappy chance which has rendered an autumn session a necessity. To the Herald the parliamentary incidents of last evening, their very tameness, and the vagueness of the discussion, seem to presage a brief autumnal session of remarkable quietude and suavity. We may look forward, no doubt, to an exhaustive debate on the Abyssinian blue book, and to the raising of really important questions con nected with the financial aspects of the Abyssinian expe dition. Otherwise few cabinets have ever met a parlia ment—and that a parliament specially convened—with less danger to their credit, or with a more safe assurance that they enjoy the confidence of the country at large. If official or any other feelings render Lord Russell's adherents indulgent to the government on the subject of Abyssinia, then the Star hopes some competent and inde pendent member will take up the challenge of the govern. , meat. Have all diplomatic means been exhausted? Or are we going to fight, not on the main issue whether the prisoners shall be released, but on some punctilio in the unconcluded negotiations for their liberation? This is what must be settled before parliament can with a good oonscience sanction any proceeding in a matter in which it is allowed they are not committed " by anything to any ` thing." M 1.1141831. Referring to the circular purporting to come from the Irish revolutionary government, which was published in yesterday's Daily News, the Times advises that the kw be enforced, and justice be executed upon those who defy it. There will then be an end of this panic, which is the one great triumph of Fenisnism. In short, threats of mur derous reprisals must be met, not by counter threats or by acts of despotic vigour, but simply by disregarding them. They will not influence even for the worse the fate of the infatuated men now under sentence of death, and their I only effect can be to call forth 3 determination in all ranks of society to stand by the government, as the representa tive of that order which is the basis of our liberties. With regard to the deputation to Mr. Hardy, • more disgraceful outrage was never reported. Like those for whom lie pleads, Mr. Finlan would over bear by violence and dictation the responsible authorities of the realm. To threaten vengeance to a Cabicet Minister in the Home-offioe implies the same disrespect for law as the rescue of a prisoner from the charge of a policeman, and it L equally unbearable. There is not a president of a petty republic in the world, the Daily Nees tells Mr. Finlan and his friends, who would tolerate the invasion of the public offices by a set of disorderly persons, and their hostile occupation for apace long enough to hold • public meeting. There is no man with the feelings of an Englishman who does not feel disgusted at seeing the Home Secretary so bullied in his own office. Now that the subject has been thrust upon public attention, it is worth considering whether the ways and manners of deputations to Downing-street do not need reform. Of late years deputations have grown larger and larger, and in some cases we have seen a crowd go down to • Chancellor of the Exchequer or • Secretary of State to overbear him with their numbers and their disorderly cries. Mr. Finlan is not the first person who has held • public meeting in a government office against the wish of the Minister. Now that a return to order has become necessary, it may as well be made complete. Fenianism, says the licrafd, has now so plainly allied itself with other forms of ruffianism and brutality, that the tinsel of patriotic pretence bu been stripped from it for ever. We have now only to deal with these Folio= as we should with other vulgar murderers —to show no more consideration to these American colonels and generals than we should to any other of the miserable gaol-birds who are sent to Portland or Dartmoor. THE RTTIJAL HECTiNG. The Standard sympathises very fully with the objects of yesterday's meetingin St. James's Hall. "We have always," it says, " claimed fair play for this young and active school of churchmen, but they seem so particularly well able to take care of themselves that we have no desire to see them additionally strengthened. To attempt to crush them by an alteration of the Prayer-book was to invoke on their side the co-operation of churchmen of all grades of opinion outside the school of which Lord Shaftesbury is the chief. With great respect for the earnestness and zeal of the Evangelical party, we cannot recognise the de sirability of narrowing the liberties which the Eng lish church allows to her sons. To thousands of them her catholicity and comprehensiveness are among her chiefest recommendations, and we hold it to b e f ar from a venial fault that any attempt should be made to alter her standards of doctrine for the exaltation of one party at the expense of another. It is not enough that the ritualists are to be brusght to book for violating the law as it stands, but an attempt is made to procure the alteration of the law, so that it may be quoted against them upon another point wherein at present they have ample legal warrant. This is the very tyranny of religious partisan ship, and we trust that its result, as shown in the alarmed attitude of the High Church party,may teach Lord Shaftes bury and his friends a lesson of wisdom and charity for the future." The dresses of the ladies at the opening of the Corps Legislatif were of the most elegant description. The Empress wore a dress of white embroidered Patin, trimmed with velvet, a Marie Antoinette mantle of black lace, a broad sash of black velvet, and a velvet bonnet. The Princess Mathilde was dressed in a satin robe, ores. mented with golden buttons and delicate coloured velvet Itrimmings ; and the Princess Murat in a light green satin robe, covered with white lace. The Emperor wore the uniform of a general of division ; and the Prince Imperial WY is a black velvet dress, with red stockings, and having the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour. HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE THROAT, 32, Gomel-weang, W.—During 'the week ending 16th November 346 patients were under treatment, of,whom 33 were new cases. ~`~ ~' LATEST INTELLIGENCE THE HI7RRICANE AT THE ISLAND OF ST. THOMAS. New York papers, with dates up to the 9th inst., have come to hand to-day. By one account from the island of St. Thomas it would appear that 280 persons perished in the Rhone, namely, 132 officers and crew and 148 passengers. Another account says that only 12 passengers are known to be saved, and that most of the crew of the Rhone were lost; and a third account, that 25 passengers were saved. The Hampshire Independent, published this morning, states that the dreadful anxiety at Southampton amongst those who had friends on board the Royal Mail packet increases in intensity. The docks and Royal Mail Company's offices have been besieged by anxious inquirers, chiefly women. The Mayor has called a public meeting of the inhabitants of the town and neigh bourhood to-morrow to aid him in collecting a sub scription for the relief of the widows and fatherless children. Clergymen of tho town arc busy in ascer taining the number of women that are likely to be made widows, and the number of children that will be rendered fatherless by the dreadful calamity. THE CONCORDAT WITH AUSTRIA. The ludependance Beige says : The Austrian government appears to be determined not to allow the Concordat to remain in its present form. The new representative of Austria at Rome. M. Crivelli, has received instructions to obtain a formal answer from Car dinal Antonelli as to whether the Holy See is disposed to agree to a modification of the Concordat in relation to marriage and public schools. If the Secretary of State should reply by a non possumus, M. Crivelli is directed to inform the Papal government that the Austrian cabinet will take steps to modify it in concert with the Reiclismth. It is stated that the Austrian government will support in the Upper Chamber the bills on civil marriage and public instruction as they have left the Second Chamber of the Reichsratb. THE BATTLE OF MENTANA. The Riforina publishes a letter addressed to the editor of tho ()Pint Gazette and signed by General Fabrizi, Alberto Mario, Menotti Garibaldi, Missori, and tho Deputy Guerzoni. The purport of the letter is to give a denial to the following statement in tho Graette :—" Whilst the columns of General Garibaldi were proceeding towards Tivoli, they were attacked and defeated, and he was obliged, after a lamentable loss of blood, to take refuge in Paso Corese, on our territory." ITALY. A telegraphic despatch has already announced that the French officers at Rome were received by the Pope. In answer to an address from General de Failly, his Holiness replied in French as fol lows : I am happy to see the French army again In my state. ; I am especially glad to see it arrive in time under such memorable circumstances. My small but feithful and valiant army had performed, you know, prodi gies of valour but it was exhausted by an un equal struggle. It bas none the less rendered by its courage and constancy a signal service to the Papacy, to France herself in some sort, and much more to Italy, who ought to be thankful to it for having freed her from a heavy burden which could only trouble her tran quillity. Be welcome, then, sons of the most Christian nation. Eternal Father! (here the Pope raised his eyes to heaven) bless France! Bless the head of her government! Bless Italy, yes, even Italy! and lastly, bless the little state which is confided to me ! Bless all them) who have or may come to my aid ! _ _ Then the Holy Father, who was much affected, gavo his apostolic benediction to all present. In a Florence letter in the De bats we read : The condition of things throughout the kingdom has assumed a calmer aspect since the note of General Hem bree. Notwithstanding the moderation of its language the ministry has entered into the great current of the national policy, and the systematic opposition directed against it has had the ground cut away from under it. Besides, the government has certainly remained and in tend.; to keep within the law. As to the congress, Italy is inclined to take part in it, provided that, as is customary, she be informed what is proposed to be done. How ever, everybody is convinoed that it will never meet, and the Pope has certainly declared that he would ri fuse to take pin iin it. Although external tranquillity has been for the moment re-established, sects and secret societies are said to be busy at their underhand work, and are even alleged to have formed a tacit alliance with the retrograde parties. In a word, • work is affirmed to be going on analagous to that which was pursued in France in 1846, in the hope that a similar result may be arrived at. But you must understand that, with respect to these secret plottinge, to know anything with certainty is impossible— one can only repeat what he hears. The Minister of Foreign Affairs in Italy has just addressed the following reply to a letter written on behalf of the families of Garibaldians : Florence, Nov. 12. In answer to the communication by which 31. Curti, deputy for Ceatigbone, recommended to the solicitude of the government the publication of the names of the volun teers, killed, wounded, or prisoners, who took part in the hat expedition to the Pontifical States, the undersigned hastens to inform him that for several days put applica tion has been made to the Legation of France in this city to obtain a list of the wounded or prisoners who may be at Rome, as well as the restoration to liberty of those whose condition permits their removal. As coon as the govern- went shall have received this information the 113111111 e will be communicated to the persons interested. BIEVADRE.t. (RE:TER . S TELEGRAM...) ROME, Nov. 19, The Pope received the French Ambassador, Count de Sartiges, to-day. Tranquillity prevails in the capital and the pro vinces. FLORENCE, Nov. 20. The Italian papers admit the importance of the speech of the Emperor Napoleon. The iVazione says that the Emperor has touched upon the phases of the recent troubles with much delicacy, and adds that it sees with satisfaction that the Emperor has declared that France considers that the convention of the 15th September exists as long as it is not replaced by a new international act. It considers that it is absolutely necessary that the Roman provinces should be left to them selves, and that the intervention should promptly terminate. The Opinimic says that Italy can but be satisfied to see confirmed in the imperial speech the judg ment expressed by the European powers. It re gards the Emperor as the first statesman of France. The Diritto declares that the imperial speech, considered in the point of view of French in terests, is dictated with much delicacy and happi ness of ideas. The Gazetta d' Italia approves the speech. It says that it has produced a favourable impression, and that it skilfully touched upon all questions, both home and foreign. The Italia is of the opinion that there is nothing in the speech to create alarm, and if Italy does not find in it any immediate satisfaction of her hopes she also does not find anything in it to discourage them. Railway communication between Florence, Rome, Naples, via Foligno will be open on the 21st inst. An official decree names the localities which the Minister of War will fix upon for the active divi along of troops which may be mobilised. ~:,:.. IR 20, 1867. THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Nov. W. The Due de Grammont, French ambassador at this court, congratulated the Empress Elizabeth upon her nameday, at Schonbrun, yesterday, by desire of the Emperor and Empress of the French. His excellency at the same time presented her Majesty with a bouquet in the name of the Em press Eugenie. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 19. The new company constituted for the purchase of the Moscow Railway has offered 130 million roubles, in addition to the engagements proposed by the former tenders. The navigation of the Neva has been closed. OVERLAND MAILS. CALCUTTA, CHLNA, AN D (HEAVY) GIBRALTAR, Nov. 17. The Ripon leaves at 1 p.m. to-day. She may be expected at Southampton about the morning of the 22nd inst. IN FIWIT.CLASM DEN"i3 VALUA! 19 carat' ./3 17 carat... 3 111Larats . 2 1 7i 15 carats.. 2 1 1 14 carats.. 1.3 oasts.. 1 0 12 was.. 2 51 II carats :1 111 ll 10 caritas.. 1 12 nietta-street Coventl VER MEDAL, 1867. FION of GOLD. 9 carats .. Z 1 II 10 8 carats.. 1 8 31 7 carats .. 1 4 9 6 carats .. 1 1 21 6 carats .. OIT 4 cants.. 014 2 3 carats .. 0 10 carats.. 0 7 It 1 carat .. 0 II rar4en. Landon, W.C. 01JTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Poonah, from Southampton Nov. 12, ar rived to-day at 3 a.m., and left at 10 a.m. for Alex andria. OUTWARD MAIL OF OCT. 27-NOV. 4. SUEZ, Nov. 13. The Rangoon left for Bombay at 10 p.m. to-day. AMERICA. oN, Nov. 20. The North German Lloyd's steamer Hansa, from New York, has arrived here with 58 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen ; 39 sacks of mails for London, 135,500 dollars for France, and 1,200 dollars for Bremen. On the ith she spoke the Hamburg ship Sir John Lawrence ; Bth, the steamers Atalanta and Hammonia ; 13th, the steamer William Penn ; 15th, the steamer America; 19th, the Bremen barque Precious, and her Majesty's ironclad Viper. THE TORNADO AT ST. THOMAS'S. (REUTER'S EXPRZ9&) NEW YORK, Nov. 9. The following particulars of the late tornado at St. Thomas's have been received here : HAVANA, Nov. 5. An official despatch from the superintendent of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, at St. 1 homes, to the British Consul in this city, says that all the property of the company has been destroyed by a terrible tornado, which took place on the 29th of October. The steamer Rhone was lost on Peter Island, and the Wye, Captain Taylor, on Buck Island. The Conway, ICaptain Cammack, went ashore on Tortola Island, and the Derwent at St. Thomas. The Solent and the Tyne were dismasted. All the officers and engineers of the Rhone and all others on board of her are lost. From the Wye 10 persons were saved, including Captain Taylor and Mr. Hodgeaoo. Over fifty vein's are wrecked. Of the passengers on board the regular steamer for Southampton, which had sailed with 150 passengers, only 12 were saved. The town of St. Thomas is in complete ruins. The loss of life has been very great, amounting to 100, and the de_ struction of property immetse. The tornado has, indeed, been a fearful one. A. French steamer was also damaged by the hurricane at St. Thomas, and the list of other vowels that received injuries, large at first, is increasing. Advice. from St. Thomas represent that the bay is full of wrecks. Five steamers and sixty vessels have been lost in the great hurricane. The docks, coal-yards, and factories atSt. Thomas have been destroyed. The Royal Mail steamer Rhone was sunk. She had 145 passengers on board, of whom only 25 were saved. Most of her crew were lost. Forty of the crew of the Wye, and another steamer, name unknown, were saved. The steamers Conway and Derwent were driven ashore, and the steamers Tyne and Solent were dismasted. The Tara Newman, from New York, was ashore. Nov. 6. Arrived, steamer Eagle from New York. She reports having met the steamer Hendrick Hudson with her machinery disabled, and towed her one night; but in the morning the hawser parted, and the Hendrick Hudson drifted on the coast. Tugs have been sent to her assistance, Her stern is ashore, but the will probably get off. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CON.RISPONDENT.) PARIS, TOZSDAT EVENING. The budget of 1869 will certainly not be pre sented till quite tho end of the year, and I shall be greatly surprised if it comes out so soon. The Ministers of War and Marine do not yet know what they must ask for ; and then M. Magne, fresh in office, has an excellent excuse for taking plenty of time to see what he is about. M. Dumiral, the new Vice-President of the Corps Legislatif (vice Gouin, created a senator), was advocate-general to the court of Nom in Louis Philippe's reign, at a time when M. Rouher was a practising barrister in the same court. He iv • large landowner in the department of the Crouse, where he has founded a model farm. He has been a member of the budget committee ever since 1862, and for the last three sessions was the reporter on the budget. the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 19. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon wont. pealed by Princess Beatrice. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and the Countess of Flanders, drove out ibis morning in a carriage and four. Prince Christian and the Count of Flanders, attended by Major• General F. H. Seymour and Colonel Burnell, went out shooting. The Hon. Leslie Ruthven and Colonel Ferguson of Pit. four bad the honour of accompanying their royal high. newel. Princess Beatrice rode in the Home•park, and Prince Leopold walked in the grounds, attended by Ur. SahL Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-of ao to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Car. lon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Straits Settlements, and the Australian colonies. Yesterday afternoon the Prince of Wales arrived by special train from Sandringham at the Evesham Station of the Great Western Railway, on a visit to their royal highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, at Wood. norton. The Prince was attended by Major Grey, and was met at the station by the Mayor and corporation of Evesham. On the arrival of the train the Mayor presented an address, which his royal highness graciously received, The town was illuminated and gaily decorated, and a large crowd assembled in the vicinity of the railway station, sad enthusiastically greeted the Prince as he alighted. A dis tinguished party is invited to meet his royal highness. THE HEALTH OF MN. DISRAELI.-(THIS DAY.) —The favourable change that became peroeptible last evening continues. This morning the following was issued by the medical gentlemen :—" Nov. 20, 10 o'clock. Mrs. Disraeli has pared a better night, and the weakness is diminished." The inquiry on behalf of her Majesty, hitherto entrusted to General Grey, was forwarded to-day by telegraph, and the reply was despatched by the same mains direct to Windsor. Among the numerous calls this morning may be mentioned those of Earl Russell, Lord John Manners, Lord Feversham, Lord Carington, Lord Ravensworth, the Duke of Richmond, the Duchess of Marlborough, Lady Cadogan, Miss Burdett Coutts, and members of the Rothschild family. THE LATE GALE. PENARTH, SOUTH WALES, Nov. 18. A Prussian brig was observed to be hoisting sig nals of distress during • very heavy gale, and in • very high see, yesterday morn s • g (states the Rev. Chas. Par sons). The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution stationed at this place was thereupon promptly launched, and proceeded to her assistance. Three steam tap and two pilot boats failed to make • communication with the brig, but with extreme difficulty the lifeboat at length succeeded io boarding her. The master and crew of ten men were anxiously waiting the arrival of the boat in order to leave the brig,lier own boat being useless, and even if uninjured it would have been almost impossible to have reached the shore in it in such weather. Owing to the violence of the gale the brig, which was the Made, of Griesswald, bound from Gloucester to Cardiff, in ballast, had lost her best bower anchor and 70 fathoms of cable, and ultimately drove on the Rank Spit, a most dangerous part of the coast. The ahipwrecked men were all landed in safety in the lifeboat, the crew of which performed this very arduous and protracted service in • manner which has elicited great admiration. They were engaged in it about 11 hours, and suffered great exposure in that period. CAISTOB, NORFOLK, Nov. 19. A vessel was seem in the direction of the Cross sand yesterday with a signal of distress flying (says the Rev. G. W. Steward). It was blowing fresh at the time from N.N.E. with heavy swell. The Birmingham No. 2 lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was at once launched, and on reaching the vessel found she was on • shoal— although in about three fathoms water. She was the Norwegian schooner Polydesa, laden with oats for Yar mouth. The assistance of the lifeboat was readily ac °Wert, and three of the lifeboat men being pla.xxl on board the vessel she was got off the shoal, and with her crew of five men, taken to the roads, and afterwards with the assistance of • steam tug, into Yarmouth harbour. SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE, Nov. 18. The Birmingham No. 1 lifeboat, belonging to tho National Lifeboat Institution bad a long and very arduous service yesterday (reports R. Brooks, jun., Esq.) In the afternoon a message came from Chapel, a village on the coast, with the intelligence that a ship was lying off that place with signals of distress flying. As soon as possible the lifeboat was conveyed along the shore on her transporting carriage, but after proceeding for about four miles, she was met by some coastguardmen, who stated that the wand which they had been watching for some Limo had sunk. The masts of the ship were still above the surface of the water at • distance of three or four miles from the land. As it was possible that some of the crew might be clinging to them it was resolved to send out the lifeboat, although on account of the rapid approach of night it was doubtful if the lifeboat could find the vessel, as the hoot must, on account of the violence of the easterly gale, necessarily drift out of a direct course ; she was, however, quickly launched and soon disappeared amidst the breakers, it being now quite dark. After the lapse of about three hours the boat returned, her crew, who were drenched with wet, and were somewhat exhausted, having unhappily been unsucces.ful in finding the ship in the darkness. As morning approached, the lifeboat was again taken afloat, but the ship had broken up during the night, and nothing was discovered but a mass of floating wreck ; the lifebo at therefore returned to the shore. Altogether the men were engaged in this arduous work for about 27 hours. Hopes are entertained that the hands may have been taken off by a vessel that was observed in the vicinity of the wreck: and, at all events, the utmost endeavours were made by the lifeboat to render assistance. On the 26th Sir Roundell Palmer will bring forward a bill to amend the law relating to sales of re versions. Mr. Darby Griffith already appears amongst the " notices of motion." Hie virgin question, addreosed of oourse to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, re lates to a threat of arrest alleged to have been given " to a gentleman named Coventry" by a French policeman for not being provided with a passport, and to a statement that, on the English consul coming to his assistance, "he was told by the policeman that he could arrest thu consul himself on suspiciou, for not having a passport, if be chose." On Friday Mr. Maguire will ask the Chief Secre tary for Ireland what course the government intend to adopt with reference to granting a charter for the catholic University of Ireland. Sir H. Verney intends to move next Tuesday " That it is the opinion of this house that during the tem porary occupation of parts of Abyssinia by the British Er pcditionary Force, advantage should be taken of the opportunity thus afforded to obtain historical, geographi cal, and other scientifio information respecting that country ; that persons competent to such duties be sent out with the expedition ; that they be directed to tar mine ancient monuments and remains, es's-dolly those connected with Christian antiquity, to take measurements, photographs of buildings and inscriptions, and, where necessary, to make excavations ; also to search for Abjs sinian or Ethiopian MSS.: and, that the ancient capital cities of Axoum and Adulis merit particular examination." CARDINAL ANTONELLI'B NOTE.--The Lid;'jm 1- once Iklgr, referring to the note addressed by Capitol Antonelli on the 3rd November to the representatives of the Holy See abroad, protesting against the invasion of the Pontifical territory by the troops of the King of Italy. says that the cardinal displays in his lam:nage a violoicel that is mole temporal than apirituaL It adds: '• Cars dinal Antonelli recapitulates in this document nll the complaints, past, present, and future, which the coal of Rome lays to the charge of the Italian goverennut . lit openly accuses it of complicity in Garitna' The ex Duke of Nassau has at length recalled attempt, and congratulates France upon having ones' a..ce his ambassadors, Count de Mons and Baron Thienen- placed the secular arm at th e service of the Hol y to protect the church anti chaotic) the rebels. Cardinal Alderflycht, from the Hague and Vienna. The intendant Aukmelli's note has merely a retrospective interest L I ; meat in ponession of the magnificent estate of La Platte, disposing the court of Rome to conciliation , h ave rend.: of his property has just been placed by the Prussian govern- but it convincingly proves that recent events, iaste,ll,4 which, with its preserves, has an extent of 2,000 acm of it more intractable than ever. While it parades s uch .1- is to appear in a of its th r. e4 noa ‘ fi A nes o n t o e f w w o ::e p ra lan les te d :r .. „s o i n e. ll . l i o l t , t a n lf t a V n e;:c r i s le " r says midnightthe t " i mdenacts°e it p notnuro likP:lYautoimbenhejendget non, •' rights." eruption of last year ; and a second one half way up the of the 12th, to the right of the two cones formed by the THE REPRESIMTATION Or MA,IrHESTER. —The w inwri t for the return o l f . a member o to represent ai. Pol g a . z . ;l l . rs great cone on the aide towards Bosco Reale. A stream of received r by en tlie m miryor ce yeste! r da . y afternoon. w His wor-:aP lava has flowed out of this latter. Two other smaller is expected to make the usual proclamation this day at openings have been formed in the same direction and at noon, when he will appoint the days for nomination at, lava, and they shoot into the air a great number of small stones. Finally, the great peak the level of last year's )ailing. It is expected be will fix these for Monday st Tuesday next. Saturday being the day fixed for 0 . execution of the Fenian', it will be undesirable at sal has teen cracked in several places by the severe shock rate to have either the nomination or the polling re given to it." that day. The Patric asserts that the cabinet of the Tuile ries is preparing a new circular relative to the pro jected conference, and pretends that all the powers have already adhered " in principle" to the French proposal. It is pretty nearly established in diplo matic language that yea in principle means no in fact. Many recent instances of this construction might be adduced. The obvious difficulties in the way of an effective conference are too great to be overcome by any circular whatever. The press throughout Europe is agreed not to consider the scheme of a conference as serious. It is remarked that the Emperor avoids the use of the words " temporal power " and speaks for the first time of the " unity " of Italy, and the inference drawn in some quarters is that he would be very glad if Europe would help him to abandon the papal cause, which, as matters stand, he is pledged to defend. This hope would be as illusory as the expectation that the "powers" will join him in guaranteeing the temporal power. For nearly 20 years the eldest son of the church has taken upon himself to be exclusively the Pope's guardian, and now that he finds his ward too troublesome his brother sovereigns will not be so unwise as to share the difficulties into which he has brought himself. The Bourse was dull without any change worth notice. Bente only varied 2c. or 3c. from yes terday. I Pam' A n diet bred to de Pf.n: joZ maid il l returns