The Express. — London, England, 1866-10-13 00:00:00

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P. DAVIES and SON'S, 63, St. Martin's-lane, W.C. - - B ROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DIET. To obtain extra profit by the sale other kinds are sometimes offered instead of BROWN and COLSON'S. " John Brown," " John Poison," Is signed by the makers on each packet. gitt ezrpregm TO CORRESPONDENTS . dverlisemmits intended for "The Express," Loudon Evenbig Par, most be at the Office, 10, Bouverlestreet, by Two o'clock on the day of publication. DRURY LANS VIM EVENING. MACBETH. Wawa H. Talbot, Sinclair. Mead, M'lntyre, and Henri Drayton Misses Amy dedmvick and Rebecca Isaacs, and Madame Jenny Bauer.—To conclude with THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Mr. W. Harrison. PRINCEWS. Tian Erwin's, THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE —Atter which THE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN. Messrs. J. G. Shore es G. Honey; Misses Neilson, Augusta Thomson, and Mrs, fitArling.—And QOM' LODOLNGS. HAY MARKIRT. Trui Eviaixo, THE OVEiiiliiiitOtlTE. mews. C. Ma thews, Liteltstone, Chippendale, Ac.: We.d.ames C. Mathews, Chippendale, Wright. &e. Mallet Divertissement. - the Slibata Healey.—THE CRITIC—And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. LI L'EUIL Tins EViNrwri, BRITTUSAVDFMAR. Iris+ Henrsde.—And THE LONG sTELKE. Nissen D. Bowie:lnit. Emery, Widrikornb, Cowper. ; Mrs. D. BouricaulL—Concludlng with TWEEDLE TON'd TAIL COAT. Mr. H. Widdicornb. —Commence at 7. STRAND. Tuts svmmio, THE MATRIESBACHELOR.—Atter which WAITING FOR THE UNDERGROUND—DER MIL SCHUTZ OR, A GOOD CAST FOR A PIECE—And JACK'S DELIGHT. BRITANNIA. TRH EvrittaG, THE OLD CHERRY TREE. Mrs. lane.—The Wondrous Brothers Yieterelli ; The Great Vaulting Troupe; The Delavanti ; IL Wafting; The Louisville Minstrels.—And MARY RDMO:SSTONE. man WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE ....___ TIM DAT —Morning, 4h. 25m_.___ Afivrnnon, 4h. 411. TO-310anoM—Morning, 4h. 50m Afternoon, sb. NM. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13. we cannot say it is enlivened, by sketches of some of the leading politicians in the Houie of Com mon'. We are afraid that Mr. R. H. Burrow's " Studies in Parliament" are responsible for Mr. GRANT DUFF'S efforts at political portraiture ; but the rare gifts of observation and insight, and the instinctive delicacy of feeling which have carried his accomplished prototype successfully through a delicate task, are not traceable in Mr. GRANT DUFF'S delineations. Performances of this sort place their author in a somewhat false relation towards the objects of his study. The altitude of the loftiest mountain or tower may be taken, and its magnitude in every direction computed by a creature physically insignificant at its base. But moral and intellectual altitudes cannot be calcu lated, nor mental capacity gauged, by an observer altogether out of proportion with the objects of his study. When Mr. GRA= Durr talks of getting "an amusing glimpse " into the state of Mr. GLADSTONE'S mind, the amusement which his hearers or readers share with him is not likely to be at Mr. GLarerortes expense. Mr. Gwatia DUFF'S merriment is raised by his discovery in Mr. GLADSTONE of a " concentrated malignity of " hatred" against those Liberal principles, of which he is the unwilling captive, and which he obscurely sees are destined to gain further con quests over him. A petty rancour at the fact that time is on the aide of the doctrines for which Mr. GLADSTONE has deserted Toryism, and of the politicians who are now his colleagues, is attributed to the late Chancellor of the Exchequer. If Mr. Gas= Dore does not see that, in imputing these motives to Mr. GLAD now; he is talking downright nonsense as well as gratuitously thinking evil, no one can enlighten him. It is quite true that Mr. GLADSTONE is on a few questions imperfectly liberal. In matters of academic and of eccle siastic politics he has not yet come up to the position of his party. The cause is creditable, though the consequence is to be deplored. Mr. GLADSTONE'S convictions on all subjects are some thing more than intellectual conclusions. They take deep hold of his moral nature. They are not, therefore, cagily abandoned. On topics con nected with religion, in respect to which early associations are naturally strongest, conversion is naturally slowest. The obvious pain and reluc tance with which, in homage to truth, Mr. GLAD STONE has disengaged himself one by one from the articles of his Tory creed, are grounds for sympathy and respect. Mr. GRANT DUFF'S imputations on the Liberal leader cease to be unintelligible, though they do not cease to be unbecoming, when we become aware of his extraordinary admiration for Mr. LOWE. No two men could be more unlike. Mr. Lowe's incessant and rapid changes of opinion, and the mastery of logical fence with which he maintains the position of tho moment, belong to a temperament on which association and feeling have apparently little or no hold. The moral nature opposes no resistance to the versa tility of caprice. Of Mr. MILL, Mr. GRANT DUFF speaks in a tone half gratified, half disap pointed, wholly patronising. He wishes that the member for Westminster would reserve himself in the House of Commons for the composition and delivery of philosophical essays, instead of joining in the skirmish of general debate. He refers with disapprobation to his impulsive utterances on the Bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, and on the Hyde-park Riots. No doubt many of Mr. 3IILL's really well-meaning Me. GRANT DUFF is what our ancestors would have called a " painful" politician. He spares himself no trouble in his efforts to apprehend and bottom the great problems of statesmanship, and he has enabled the public to profit by his con scientious studies of the condition of some of the nations of Europe with which our connexion is very close, and of which our knowledge is very loose and slight. He is assiduous in his collection of materials, and if sometimes overpowered by them, he often succeeds in grouping and penetrating them by a genuinely interpretative idea. In home questions he is honourably associated with the movement which has partially opened the great English Universities to the nation ; and though last session he gracefully yielded the post of ho nour to a moro dexterous parliamentary advocate, still no secondary place in the conflict belongs to him. Mr. GRANT DUFF is a good typo of the really " thoughtful Liberal." As with some chemical combinations, the political compound so designated ordinarily retains no trace of either of the ingredients which, we aro assured, enter into it. Water, as analysis discovers, is rondo up of oxygen and hydrogen ; but the result is a third substance, which has the properties of neither of its elements. In like rammer, in many " thoughtful Liberals " both the thought and the liberality have been merged in some thing as different from either as the spirit of Toryism itself. Mr. GRANT DUFF, as his speech to sus constituents of the Elgln Boroughs shows, Is unequivocally Liberal on most of tho great ques tions of the age ; and he is Liberal nut by instinct but by reflection, and by a deliberate recognition of the tendencies of modern society. tin the question of Reform, while criticising the procedure of the Government, he frankly admits the neces sity of making a real, though moderate, concession to the democratic principle. He puts his linger upon one of the most corrupting elements of poli tical life when he attributes the larger part of the resi-Liberal opposition which defeated the mea sure of the Government not to conviction, but to fashion. " The social influences were not pro " pitious." Mr. GRANT DUFF, while supporting an enlargement of the franchise, in our view, under rates the beneficial social changes which may be expected from representative reform now as com pared with those which followed on the measure of 1832. if it leads to the adoption of a com prehensive scheme of popular education—and this is one of its most probable consequences—it will do a service to England not inferior to any of which the Reform Act was the instrument. Mr. GRANT DUFF, who has realised as thoroughly as most men, all that is implied in the words " an educated " people," and who perceives the widely radiating social and political effects of popular ignorance, is inconsistent with himself in maintaining that Reform is less necessary now as a means to great social ends than it was in 1832. We do friends desire to see him economising his re- putation, and courting those " social influences " which Mr. GRANT DUFF himself declares to be per. viciously potent in Parliament. But Mr. MILL would not be Mr. MILL if he did so. The chivalry which leads him to espouse an unpopular side—unpopular, that is, with the public which he addresses—is as apparent in his writings as it has been in his Parliamentary conduct. A man who thought about economising his reputation would not have been the defender, when English calunmy was most wanton, of the French Revolutionists of 1848, nor the advocate, amid an unbelieving generation, of the political claims of women. In his Lilliputian criticisms on Parliamentary Brubden gagians, Mr. GRANT DUFF does not, perhaps, go beyond the usual limits of public comment. But when he allows himself to speak in re ference to a common charge against the late Cn N ettoß of the EXCHEQUER, of " the " well-known peculiarities of Mr. GLADSTONE'S " disposition," he is guilty of what must be called personal rudeness. On a former occasion Mr. GRANT DUFF dilated in the presence of Lord HALIFAX (then Sir CHARLES Wu9D) on the physical defects which impeded that Minister's utterance. If this sort of thing is pushed much further, we may have again in Parliament allusions like that of CANNINI: to the " revered and rup " turgid OGPEN," and of GuarrA.N to the imputed infirmities of Lord CANTLEREAGH. 1311 t CANNING and GRATTAN had excuses in the wider license of their times, and in the vivacious temperament of genius, which cannot be urged in palliation of Mr. Gassr DCFF'S indiscretions. not understand his tactics. To disparage the worth of the prize is ill-calculated to animate the combatants to the conflict. On other questions of the time—on the essential elements of a sound and healing policy in Ireland, on the defects of political training and of administration which ace enpany, but are not, perhaps, necessarily inherent in our system of government by party, and on the lamentable inadequacy of the higher education, as it is pursued in England, to form statesmen, Mr. 0 saxr DUFT speaks with dis crimination and force. On his own favourite theme of foreign politics, there is much to ap prove, if there are also some things to dissent from, in his criticisms. Mr. GRANT DUFF has the credit of having foreseen and foretold the victory of Prussia when more conspicuous politicians pronounced that she was rushing on her ruin. But his sym pathies with Berlin, as the headquarters of Geist, the capital of tho Intelliyenz Stoat, make him bear too hardly upon Florence. Is it just, or generous, or politic, to describe the Italians as having gained Venetia simply by crying for it ? Had the struggles and the final defeat of 1848 and 1849 nothing to do with the success of 1866 ? To narrow the question still further, was the diver sion in Venetia unconnected with the victories in Bohemia ? If there had been no Cuatozza there would have been no Sadowa. varied, OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Regarding the long struggle between the Presi dent and the republican party in the United States as constitutionally terminated by the elections which have just taken place, the TiMU thinks that Mr. Johnson will do wisely to oppose no longer the demand of the republicans that the Southern members shall be in proportion to the voting population. The principle is in itself not unjust, and it is plainly upheld by the majority of the people. If the clause in the constitutional amend ment disqualifying for office all who have hal any share in tho rebellion were expunged, the amendment might be accepted by the South without much ado. The belief which some people entertain that the President and the Congress are about to come to open war, the Times dia. misses as contrary to American ways. The politicians of the United States are shrewd, and know how to bear a defeat as well as to employ a victory. The Jamaica Committee inviting the aid of the public in the prosecution of Mr. Eyre, the Times submits some considerations which it thinks should prevent assistance from being given. It is disposed to accept as nakedly true, since they are virtually confirmed by the report of the royal commission, the allegations that the lives of several British subjects were taken illegally by a military tribunal which had no right to try them, upon evi dence which ought not to have been received and did not establish their guilt, under colour of a paramount necessity which did not exist ; but were Mr. Eyre convicted, and dealt with according to law, the capital sentence would certainly be commuted, and probably annulled, by a pardon, with the hearty con currence of all reasonable men, who believe that Mr. Eyr e did what he conceived to be his duty with undue severity and too little discrimination, bet without private malice- The trial will probably fail upon a point of law in its earliest stage ; it will certainly fail in its ulterior purpose of enforcing a moral lesson by a terrible example. The Dash, News is disposed to think that General Cadmus , at Palermo is rash in his conclusion that because monks and nuns were engaged in tho late insurrection they acted under instigation from Rome. There is reason to believe that large numbers of the Sicilian clergy are ready to hail any power which will protect their endowments, and are in a state of permanent disobedience to tho church• The Italian government will be doing u much for mai' THE it. EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1866. ion s.-for economies progress and public prosperity. when eseentes the reap* enacted..law and .disperses these disorderly oommtnaides. In justice to the Registrar-General, the Daffy News thinks it should be known by those who have complained of the discontinuance of the daily cholera returns, that the staff of the General Register Office has had all the extra labour involved in preparation and publication, without a farthing of additional cost to the country; and it is not unreasonable, it says, to suppose that the suspension is due to the exigencies of the department. On being made acquainted with the importance of the matter, the Registrar-General at once agreed to resume the publication ; but the government should bear this in mind, and not fail to supply him with any additional assistance that may he necessary to prevent his department from being overtaxed by the present pressure upon it. The Daily News points out that reasons of state and convictions of duty go together in the congressional policy of reconstruction in the United States. The great masa of the freeholders support the constitutional amendment be cause they have resolved that justice shall be done to the liberated slaves ; and the politicians, who have never made a conscience of protecting the negro, are interested in its success by their concern for the balance of power, and the predominance of the preponderating wealth and popula tion of the North and West. The South knows well enough how easy tho conditions offered it really are ; and as soon as it is convinced that it can never return without conditions, it will accept them, and make the best use of them. Discussing the Church Congress, the Post says it will be well for the ritualists if they can gather up some frag ments of wisdom from it and receive an impetus in the direction of moderation from the good sense which per vades the majority, and if they will be induced to for bear pushing their practices to an extent which is pretty certain to bring down such an interference of parliament in the affairs of the church as would probably lay the foundation of a very serious and most undesirable rupture between the spiritual and the civil power. To the Herald the remarkable feature of the London, Chatham, and Dover meeting yesterday was the compara tive resignation with which the majority of those present submitted to their fate, and accepted the situation with all its desagremens. Our contemporary allows that Sir Morton Peto's explanation disposes of some of the most sweeping of the censures upon him, but cannot accept it as an answer to the charges brought against him by the debenture holders. They said, and their argument was unanswered and unanswerable, that they bad advanced their 4,000,0001., trusting in the obligation, legislatively imposed upon the borrowers, that when lending that sum they should have the security of 12,000,0001. of ordinary i capital actually paid up, and it was no answer at all to tell . them they were safe becau...e just half as much had been really paid. the faurt. 'BeImoRAL, OCT. 11. The Queen went out in the morning, accom panied by Princely' Christian, and drove in the afternoon' accompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Louise. Baron von ITechtritz has arrived on a minion from the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, to announce the accession of Duke George. Major Elphinstone, C. 8., has arrived at the Castle. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince Albert Victor, and Prince George, and attended by the Hon. Mrs. E. Coke, and General Knollys, arrived at Marlborough house yesterday morning from Scotland. RETURN OF THE QUEEN TO WINDSOR. Her Majesty and the royal family, attended by the suite, are expected to leave Balmoral and return to Windsor Castle about the 3rd of November. The Queen has been graciously pleased to become the patroness of the College for Educating the Daughters of Ministers of the Church of Scotland, and of Professors in the Scottish Universities. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and other gentlemen, honoared the Strand Theatre with their presence last evening. The Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole leaves town to-day for Brighton. The Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Hastings, • Viscount Falkland, and Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Wyndham have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. • The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde have left town for Portman& Castle, county Galway. The Earl of Dalhousie has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Brechin Castk, N.B. The Count and Countess de Flahault and Hon. --- - Ephinstone dc Flahault arrived at Edinburgh yesterday, from Tuliallan Castle, Perthshire, on their way to London. The Bishop of Illinois and family have arrived st 37, Queen's•gardens, W. Tho Marquis of Lansdowne has resumed his studies at Balliol College, Oxford. Yesterday a deputation of the legal profession waited upon the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley, to urge upon his lordship the desirability of having a special assize for the county of Lancaster. Lord Derby promised to lay the matter before the government. The official list of the export of sherry wine from Cadiz for the nine months ending the 30th of September shows a total of 46,055 butts. The principal exporters from Xeres were:—Gonzales and Byass, 3,613; Garvey, 2,579 ; Miss, 2,257; P. Domacq, 2,194 ; Mackenzie, 1,800 ; Pemartin, 1,479; Wisdom and Warter, 1,124. From Puerto—Duff Gordon, 2,373 ; Tosar, 1,506 ; Lasaaletta and Co., 1,294 ; Mom, 1,121 ; Vergers, 1,106; Campbell, 1,104 ; Yaasi and Co. (Jerez, 840 ;Puerto, 241), 1,061 ; and Cosens and Co. (Jerez, 1,701; Puerto, 1,342), 3,043. TILE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.--GOL SPIE, THUR.SDAT.—The royal visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, which has extended over no less than 16 days, was brought to a close this morning, when their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess, accom panied by the infant princes, and attended by General Knollys and the Hon. Mrs. Coke, left the castle on their way to Bonar-bridge, the northern terminus of the High land Railway, whence they were to proceed by special train by way of Inverness to Perth. At - Perth they would over take the mail train for London, and after only an hour's delay proceed direct to Marlborough House. Their noble host and hostess accompanied their illustrious guests to Bonar-bridge, and the Earl and Countess Spencer and Lord Clans/Mien' took advantage of the royal train on their journey southwards. At a later hour the Duchess of St. Albans, Lady Diana Beauclerk, and Lord Henry Lennox sailed in the Duke of Sutherland's yacht Undine for Inver nets. The royal party have been favoured almost through out their visit by magnificent weather and have been enabled to explore the many beauties of the neighbourhood and to appreciate the almost unexampled facilities the Sutherland estate presents for every variety of sport. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh have each tilled several tine stags in the forest, and on one day no less than 16 varieties of game, including red and roe deer, salmon, turbot, sea trout, black game woodcocks, &c., were killed. The Castle wall illuminated la st night, and the band of the Sutherland Volunteers, which had been in constant attendance performed several national airs in the presence of the royaiguests and a large concourse of spectators. At the conclusion, " Auld Lang Syne " was sung, the guests taking part in the chorus, and loud cheers were given for the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. The guard of honour this morning was supplied by the Golspie company of Volunteers. The Duke of Edinburgh still remains at the castle. DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM FISHER HORRS.—WC regret to have to record the death of Mr. William Fisher Hobbs, of Boated Lodge, in this county, which took place yesterday (Thursday). Until within the last few years, when declining health compelled him to relinquish an active and often really laborious life, Mr. Hobbs was one of the most prominent agriculturists in England, and in many respects an admirable representative of his class. He was a highly successful breeder of stock; farmed largely and well ; and combined both scientific knowledge and practical experience in that rare degree of balance, that, while both were thoroughly studied, and as thoroughly applied, neither was allowed to assert any preponderance over the other. Mr. Fisher Hobbs was, we believe, one of the founders of the Royal Agricultural Society of England ; for very many years be had been one of the society's council ; and there were few of its more important committees which were not indebted to his indefatigable labour and keen powers of investigation. In the smaller sphere of his own county Mr. Hobbs was equally active and useful. Every county agricultural society formed during the last thirty years was more or less indebted to his assistance in its formation and management ; and of the less pretentious labourers' friend societies lie was the founder of two at least (Coggea hall and Earl's Colne), and the promoter of several others. The anti-malt-tax movement also loses one of its most earnest and persevering advocates. Mr. Hobbs was never married. He has dirt at the :,ge of 57. In early life be enjoyed uninterrupted good health, and had apparently a strong constitution ; but the rupture of a blood-vessel brought on increasing debility of frame, upon which fol lowed partial debility of mind ; and his death, as already stated, took pl tee yesterday after:ann.—Essex Standar/. THE QuEEN'a UNIVERSITY.—The convocation of the Queen's University met yesterday in St. Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle, the members of the convocation and reporters being only admitted. After Mr. Ross had been elected senator, in room of Lord Monteagle, Sir ltobt. Kane, after a long speech, in which he stated his reasous for so d.:ing. moved —" That in the opinion of convocation the acceptance of the supplemental cheater of 1 , 66 is inex client.- Mr. Porter seconded the motion. Mr. 31`Cauley proposed. and Dr. Davys seconded, the following amend ment, " That we approve of that portion of the charter which recognises the affiliation of properly organised col leges, but object to tLe principle of admitting to degrees persons not educated in some such institutions." Mr. O'Donnell subsequently made use of some remarks for which the chairman did not think it necessary to call him to order, and as he would not retract, the mover and seconder of the amendment, with a number of graduates, left the halt The original resolution was unanimously adopted, condemning the acceptance of the supplementary charter. Tug Kist; or BCRGI:NDIES.—Champagne can be made of rhubarb, allies. turnips, and other trash ; port can he made of logwood and brandy, and, as some chemists tell us, of the refuse of gas-works. Fortunately, you can't make burgundy of anything but of Burgundian grapes; and not always of these, for the grape is coy and uncertain, and the vintage of one proprietor may be good and super excellent, while that of his next-door neighbour, whose gripes are of the came quality, whose vineyard may have the ssme exposure. aml the soil of whose " terre " may to all appearance be identical, may yield n very inferior tin. Grapes are a mystery. No one knows their secret. We know, however, that wine is good, in moderation, as all heaven's choicest blessings are • and may be content to remain in ignorance of all the little crotehetty idiosyn cracies of the grape which produces it. And if you want any further praise of burgundy, find it in Erasmus, who says it restored youth, and made him feel younger at forty than he was at twenty. Napoleon I. always took a supply of Chamberlin with him when he travelled, or entered upon a campaign. Pope Gregory XVI., in the year 1371 —for Clos Vougeot was even then celebrated all over Europe—made the abbot of the monas tery a cardinal to show how grateful he was for a present of his best old wine, which the good abbot bad sent him. It is declared in the neighbourhood that Clos Vougeot has never been so good as it used to be when the monks had the estate, and cultivated the grape de near, for their own consumption. The worthy fellows were dispossessed in 1794 by decree of the National Con vention, and the domain sold as national property for 1,140.000 francs, or 46,5007. The old and last superin tendent of the tau, the chief mock vintager, named Dom Gobelet (a singularly appropriate one), carved off secretly, by some mesas or other, a hundred dozen or more of his very best and oldest wine, and took it with him to Dijon. He lived for nineteen years afterwards, tea green andhearty old age, nourishing his failing energies by the excellent old Clog Vougeot, which he had helped to make, and of which, better than any man living, he knew the virtues. He was very poor, but he would never sell a bottle of his " Clos." After the battle of Marengo, Napoleon, who had heard of the worthy monk'streasure, sent to ask him for slew bottles, in order that he might make a present to some one wh om he especially delighted to honour. No," said , Dorn Gobelet ; I have Clos fit for the god', and forty years old. If Napoleon en remit boire, qu'il tense. If he wants to drink with me let him come and be welcome; but out of my house my wine shall never go, either for love or for money."—Rackwoocre Magazine for October. LATET ' °. [GENCE. (sEuvia's Tzurazate.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Om. 13. General Menabrea dined yesterday with the Emperor. It is believed that he will be appointed Italian ambassador at the Austrian court. The patents convoking the provincial diets are expected. to appear on the 24th inst. The Hun garian Diet will be opened on the 15th November. The intelligence received from Miramar relative to the health of the Empress Charlotte is not sale- Ifactory. ,R1;8. THE ENGLISH VOLUNTEERS AT BRUNE& (nom ♦ 00l =VEVA oar. 11. The preparations making in this city, b o th for the celebration of the national fetes sad the teeep Lion of the &Wish valuators, are upon an extemio sole. Nor is it alone to English volunteers that honour is to be accorded, for • telegram furnishes the w et . oration that about 300 French riflemen are on thdy way from Paris vid Valenciennes, to take peer hi the Tir National, open to all comers, and the Ew ei Liengelle, Rue Royale, has been taken se their Ow. quarters. The headquarters of the English volua. leers and of the executive are at the Belle Vue Beal, where Lieutenant-Colonel Loyd Lindsay, th e ma. ia =indent of the force, Viscount Bony, djateat a command, and his staff, have already arrived. The se *owlet of Lieutenant Purley, 29 th Kent, • Major; Colonel McGregor, Ist Midlothian Arany, * C. P. Hunter, lit Berke Battalion. ideseirCaup.... Mr. K C. Simeon, Ist Surrey Rifles, Quartermaster, see Captain and Adjutant Burge,ss A notioe is posted at the entrance to the headq that instead of the assembly for the torekdigee procession being, as originally arranged, at the "M ee d e , Nations," near the "Station du Nord," it is to take pla te at 6 p.m. at the "Place du Masse." The Belgian colours, intermixed with those of England and France, ate epee' from all the public edifice' ; every train brings in hop [numbers of people from the country, and the whole city appears to be in a state of bustle. The English volunteers, in every variety of uniform, are parading the thorovp. f ar es in groups, and are not the least of the %Mae tions. It is not in Brussels alone that the Eng% volunteers are receiving a most cordial welcome by the Belgian people. At Ostend and Antwerp, the pone el debarkation, and at every town along the lines of rents by railway, the stations are crowded, and shouts of se. proval greet the volunteer trains as they arrive and depart, The first contingent in anything like numbers made their entry into Brussels last night. These emitted of about 250 volunteers, who left London by the 6.30 down train from Charing-arose for Dover in the snorting, se e were conveyed across from Dover to Ostend by the Bel e ian government mall packet Rubies. The whole town $9. peered to have poured out its inhabitants to give the English volunteers ahearty welcome, with the Bargemarter and municipality and military authorities at their head, with other officers of high distinction ; and as the vend [ drew alongside the quay, the band struck up " God save the Queen," amidst the mingled and enthusiastic cheering [of the thousands of Belgians who lined the shore, and the English volunteers on board. The latter were represented by Lieutenant-Colonel Mayne, formerly adjutant of the Queen's Westminster, but now of the third administrative battalion of Aberdesenahhe Bides I by Captains Scrivener and Styan, of the Queen'. ; Cspteia and Adjutant Burgess, of the 9th Lancashire; Lieutenant Greene, of the North Middlesex ; and other office's. The Burgomaster came on board, and having briefly expressed his welcome, begged the acceptance of the invitation to partake of the rim d'honneur from the municipality of ostend. This cordial invitation was accepted by Coked Blayne on the part of the English volunteers, who at cues obeyed the order to fall in and form fours, in which fume tion, headed by the band and guard of honcur of the Garde Civique, the march took place through the densely. crowded thoroughfares, to the Place des Arm., sad Hotel de Ville, where the tin deurouteur was pre I seated and accepted. The glasses being charged, the Burgomaster addressed the English volunteers seen I bled, and complimented them upon their arrival on the shores of Belgium, as be looked upon it as being the mesas of still further cementing the good feeling which niece I between the two countries. He could not help remarking on such an occasion as that on the origin of ti e present constitution of the Belgian kingdom, which bad taken place in 1832, and which was based upon that of England. They had watched the liberty which the English nation enjoyed, and they had endeavoared to emulate them in their freedom of the press and of speech, and in carrying out a system of constitution government. He was unable to express all he could wish to say in English, but he would say on the part of the people of Ostend, and, he believed he might add, on the part of the whole Belgian people, they were most happy to welcome them to their shores. He then proposed to them " The Health of Queen Victoria rind the British Volunteers." The toast was drank by the whole comply amidst loud cheering. Colonel Mayne, on behalf of the Eng lish volunteers, reciprocated the KAUAI:We which had been so ably expressed by the Burgomaster of Ostend, end the gratification which every one must feel at the cordiality of their reception. lie concluded by pro. posing "The Health of the King of the Belgians,' which was most enthusiastically responded to, the three hearty rounds of Euglish harms being taken up outside by the thousands assembled. The march ern then resumed to the railway station, where the luggage had already been conveyed, and at 6 p.m. the eerie started for Brussels, where it arrived shortly before 10 o'clock. At Bruges and Ghent many hundreds of persons were sr sembled, and loudly cheered the visitors, and at the rail way station the large crowd in the Plece des Nations put the volunteers a similar welcome. As time wears on, the numbers of volunteers rs. pidly increased. This afternoon those who started ref Harwich and Antwerp were discharged from the s wine( the Che.nin de Fer du Nord, and they would have been here ce: lier, but for the adverse winds and tide which met tl.e vessels in coming across the German Ocean, end up the Scheldt. A very large and um sleeted number of both volunteers and visitors accepted the a dvents„-es offered by this route of coming through places of deep hiss torical interest to our countrymen. The Great Ere= Railway Company had made ample provision for some three or four hundred volunteers and visitors, and, as way be imagined, no small difficulty was presented to then when passengers to about double these numbers appeared at the pigeon-holes at Bishopsgate a few minutes &fee the time announced for the speciel train to start, sal asked for " Return tickets for Antwerp," just as Noll as if they were demanding tickets for Stratford. The re, pany's difficulties were heightened by an unforeseen 0.11. [ aster. The new and commodious 'steamer As don, width they had announced should be fitted with 300 beds, wastes into on Wednesday morning in making her return rural ' from the Scheldt, and was not inn fit state to carry so hop a number. The company, however, was not wantine if promptitude, and there were two large and well fitted boats ready for the traveller: ; but the cepaedy of the vessels could not be stretched to give all beds, and, might be imagined, there was at first some grulabliag among those who had not taken their tickets early, as tine might have done, and so have given the company time to prepare for their reception. The train ran down Eros Bishopsgato in less than two and a half hours, and as the volunteers entered the station the Harwich volunteers had turned out to welcome them with voice and band: The travellers quickly embarked on board the vein Ls, the Zealous and the Pacific, and while the latter was 101 comfortably filled, the other was crowded to excess. 1 10 [ morning's light found the sea voyage over, fuel the vse sews passing up the Scheldt, and midday fouultlng [ landing at the picturesque city of Antwerp. On W l O 4 to take tickets for Brussels they were told that no tickets would be issued, for they would be carried free ; and d turned out to be the case, for a train, composed only [ first class carriages, carried on the volunteers to Brune! , and no one in uniform was asked for a ticket. At ell!! stations the train passed the travellers were received ffiti every manifestation of welcome and respect. The reception appointed to take place this evening ni lI I _ [ certainly a very grand affair, but a detailed amount " _ must be deferred for another letter. It may, however, stated that there was a very full muster of the volunteeee he wholmel l and that the streets were thronged with Poop k cheered our volunteers. The men fe ll in at 6 o'clocor the evening, and Lad to stand for three ho urs before thing whatever was done. This partly arose frooL P anxiety of the officers in charge to ho early, and so caw, late, the Ostend boat having been delayed at sea be _ a too early muster, and partly from the volunteers .be is g fol. But when they did come, and the long line of voluntesmies four deep, marched down the broad street/Orb h ce ,, lighted by hundreds of flaring torches borne by fie_ escorted by the Civic Guards and the troops. Old CA by the tens of thousands of spectators, they fell patience had then its reward. The wine.s are light and variable, but still chiefly easterly over France and the southern portion of the British isles, and chiefly from the westward on our northern coasts. In the north baro meters have fallen about two.tenths of an inch, with rain. Tem. peraturea have fallen several de..grecs in must planes. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 6th says : A large hunting party assembled at Tsarskolo Slovanka on Tuesday, composed of the imperial family and some of the most distinguished members of the aristocracy. The Princess I)sgmar and the Princess Eugenie de Lenchten berg joined the hunt, and excited the admiration of the gentlemen by their bold and graceful riding. It was a fine afternoon, and the grand full-dress livery of the impe rial huntsmen, some green and some red, all laced with gold, had a very pretty effect. The Crown Prince of Den mark left on the following day for Copenhagen." TOTAL Loss OF A FRENCH FRIGATE AND 150 Lrves.—lntelligenoe was received in Liverpool yesterday of the total loss of the French frigate Niobe, off the coast of Newfoundland, on the 22nd ult. 150 dead bodies were washed ashore, with the word "Mobs" on their dress. Nothing else has been heard of the vessel, or her people; but great quantities of wreck were being washed ashore. the oft sloe PI ta&l gni l be f l all mall f psWe understand that Mr. Coleridge, Q.C.9 has been specially retained by the Jamaica Committee connexion with the prosecutions which that body Ms decided to institute against Mr. Eyre and others. WI ab► ant dot ma hai tea Ha lib cao thi ha am wi V k al w ti v I Mr. GRANT DUFF'S political surrey 1 • - - THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Spectator says the church congress at York has not been very fortunate in obtaining good reports of its proceedings. The Archbishop of York's opening ad dress was too much of a glorification of talk to be of great interest. The Bishop of Ripon succeeded with a paper on the Sabbath, maintaining that the Fourth Commandment determines the proportion of time to be devoted to religious rest, but not the special day—a remark which the Rev. James Bandinel afterwards ap plied by inferring that any twenty-four hours would do, and that iu point of fact the day kept varies with the longitude. The bishop held the Sabbath still abso lutely as binding on us as upon the Jews, " works of ne cessity" only being permitted in both instances. The Congress appeared to agree so completely on the subject that it seems pretty certain the Laymen of the church were vary feebly represented. Archdeacon Denison understood that the Sabbath was not properly observed "in the very . . highest quarters," which means, we suppose, by the Queen, though the archdeacon himself appeared, ou the late Mr. Keble's authority, to approve of moderate "cricket" on Sunday as no breach of the Sabbath. Dees the Queen do anything worse than play cricket on a Sun- day, or is it rather that the archdeacon does not approve of her chaplains - - Tho Spectator argues that it Is only by a junction of the liberal mid conservative forces that a wide scheme of redis tribution can be carried, and thosowho hold such a measure indispensable to thorough reform ought to long for a tory proposal, Instead of refusing it by anticipation. Suppose the tortes, for example, to propose a bill next session com p icing household suifta,go for the boroughs, a franchise of 21)7. for the counties, the disfranchisement of the sixty smallest seats, and the grant of those seats to the great towns as third seats on the minority principle, would not England be better, infinitely better, represented than at present ? Mr. Bright is doing good service when he makes redistribution a cardinal point in his advocacy of reform, when he asks the mai*es to cry for that as well as for their own rights ; but Mr. Forster takes the broader view when he argues that the tories may yet bring in a great bill, and that if they do, it is our duty to seo it pasted. The Saturday Becky) continues to urgo that the object of the present reform movement is to intimidate rather than to convince. Mr. Lowe is Mr. Bright's intellectual equal, but in a time of tlisturbanco he might be utterly unable to cope with Mr. Bright's infuriated rabble. It is a seriousgcause of regret that Mr. Forster should have countenanced the Leeds meeting, unless, indeed, he approval of Mr. Bright's incendiary language and of his menaces of insurrection. Mr. Disraeli must watch these meetings with complacmit approval, as no other combination of circumstances could have provided him with co fair a chance of proposing 'and carrying a Re form Bill of his own. Conservative obstinacy maybe pliable under the menace of revolutionary disturbance, and the great body of the liberal party will be less ready than in 1559 to vindicate Lord Russeil's claim to a copyright or patent monopoly of reform. Mr. Bright's furious hostility to Lord Derby and his party will go far to reconcile the lfouse of Coaunons to the ministry, if only Mr. Disraeli can induce his colleagues to conform to the necessities of the time. The Social Science Congress is twitted by the Saturday R. , rale with encouraging mere gossip and fruitless sugges tions. It furnishes a home for destitute letter-writers who have been refused admittance to the grievance cJltr.ns of the Timrs, and a spacious airing-ground for hobby-horses. Our great towns in succession form a site for the erection of many Crochet Castles ; RTA if they did not debase science, and discourage real and patient inquiry, they would only be amusing. As it is, they are amusing ; but there are amusements which are mischievous. A desperate attempt, says the Exam ihrr, is made to discount the value of the multitudinous meetings recorded every week in favour of reform by muttering inquiries as to why Lord Trimmer or Sir John Flunkey was not there. Who wants them ? We do not want anyone to prove to us how little the baronet (Jr the earl cares about the goes. tion. They had their opportunity for settling it pretty much as they pleased, and they let the opportunity slip never to be recalled. They have proved themselves to be incorrigibly stupid and in capable in the affair. They have let the settle mint of the question slip out of their hands ; and the best thing they can do is to sit quietly at home and let the world forget their folly. But as to expecting or wish ing to see them politically totter up the steps of a platform, or to hear them politically stammer out sham professions of zeal for the cause, with which nobody credits them, we hope we may be spared the infliction. The one thing to be done this autumn is now doing, and doing thoroughly wJI. The people are making proof of the fact in the case which must decide the issue. Already the few men of sagmcity whom the tones number in their ranks begin to see that the sole chance of deferring their expulsion from office lies in bringing forward a larger and Letter bill than that of last session. Observing that the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail. way furnishes a parallel to the case of Overend, Gurney, and Co., that the law has been systematically evaded,and that published accounts have been wholly misleading, the Economist proceeds to infer from the facts that have be come known that the railway ought at once to be sold. It cannot pay its way, and its credit is at an end. A new proprietary with a simple constitution, who bought at a fair price, might under new directors still make much of a line so near to London and with oppor tunities so many. After what has passed an audit of the debenture accounts will be a necessity. The board of trade ought to see that the capital required to be paid up before debentures are issued is, in fact, paid up before a single debenture is issued, and it ought to stamp all the debentures, and so assure everyone that only the permitted • issue is made. BAXONY. LEIPZIC, Oar• 13. A numerously-attended meetingof the inhabitants of this city was held here yesterday in the Central Hall, in which a resolution was unanimously adopted protesting against the resources of the country being any longer employed in maintaining the Saxon army in a foreign country, on the ground that the object for which the supplies had been voted ceased to exist with the termination of the war. A mo tion was introduced proposing the establishment of a legal representation of the people, in order to fa cilitate the conclusion of peace. _ . The debate on this motion was adjourned. SPAIN AND CHILI. MADRID, Ocr. 13. The Politica publishes an article on the Chili= question, in which it declares that Spain must ob tain satisfaction from Chili by force, and advocates the retention of the Chiuchas Islands. MALTA. MALTA, Ocr. 12. The transport Pennsylvania has just arrived with the 24th Regiment from Belfast. The Malta and Alexandria submarine telegraph cable has been repaired by the steamer Hawk. Communication will be resumed to-morrow. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE JAVA. The Royal Mail steamship Java, from New York on tho 3rd inst., arrived at Queenstown at 4.50 a.m. to-day (Oct. 13), with 98 passengers and 92,158 dole in specie. She landed 25 passengers and all the mails, consisting of 116 sacks, and proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All welL (Via Roche's Point.) NEW YORK, Oor. 3. Mr. Sumner has delivered an address at Boston on " The One Man in Power s. Congress." In his discourse ho animadverted at length upon Presi dent Johnson's conduct of the government, accus ing him of having assumed tho legislative func tions, and declared that the present state govern ment in the South was not of republican form. The congressional and constitutional amendment must, he said, be adopted, and the universal suffrage demanded and secured by the North could not be left to be granted to the negroes by the Southern States themselves. Ho concluded by declaring that all negroes who held to their alle giance were entitled to citizenship. The district attorney has announced that no courts will be held at Richmond at present. Mr. Secretary Chase will not preside at the November term. It is believed that Mr. Davis's counsel will demand a writ of Habeas Corpus to bring Mr. Davis before the state courts. If not the bar of Richmond will take the matter in hand. ..... The September statement of the public debt will show a decrease of 15,000,000 dollars in the in debtedness of the United States, as well as a large increase of specie. The government has entered a n'lk pruscqui in the ease of the Fenian president Roberts. Advices received here from Toronto state that the Fenian prisoners there will be tried next week. At a meeting which had been held at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, Mr. Macelure announced that it was the intention of the government to introduce a resolution petitioning the home government for a responsible government in Vancouver's Island, and for a reciprocity treaty with the United States, and that in case this failed the Queen would be solicited to arrange for the annexation of the colony to the United States. MEXICO. NEW YORK, OCT. 3. The New York Herald publishes advices from Mexico which state that Santa Anna has negotiated a loan of 3,000,000 dots. with three New York banking-houses. Ile had purchased six steamers at New York for the liberals, and had despatched an expedition of 2,000 men to land at some point on the Mexican coast. Mr. Seward had used his diplomacy to bring about a league between Santa Anna and the Fenians. _ _ . It is reported, via San Francisco, that tho Emperor Maximilian had countermanded the evacuation of Sonora, but that the French com mander having embarked his troops had refused to land them again. CHILI. Advices received here from Panama, dated 23rd ult., state that the Chiflans aro determined not to make peace with Spain. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SATCDAT, UCTLTISEEL 13, 8 A..x. , IP. ; Extreme. . I Sea, H. T. W. Ito •,..—...,-_--.,: W. E. 1 u . , I 12 , F.' D. 1 19. i a l b a e r r n deer 7. :2 21 34. . 7 7t :61 W . N.W.i. I 1 1 I ‘ 3,ti.Z . 'ti c ; :1 1 5 1 Leith N.N.W. W. 12 1 1 3. W. ICr , 1 Ardrouan . ~Z 4.85 511 7 , .. 7.. 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