The Express. — London, England, 1866-09-17 00:00:00

the broad fact be sure to sup limn. 1 f~~ N • • ATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Ilk High ntagnlBoent and favourite selablisimment OPEN Et EWA' t.V.ENINti. The grand band, under the direction Pacl.r, perfortni nightly an entirely new selection of operatie and dance mule. Open at half-paid 8 : doss e 8 • re. Admission. L. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. —SoleLessee and Manager, Mr. VIYING.—SUMMER BEASON.— Doors open at balf.paat performances commence at 8 o'clock precisely ; EVENyi? daring tki? . yeeV new and . ditlad original Urania, la Three Acta, by Watta Phillips, THE Ht'utrF,NOT CAPTAIN. Medial obaracters:—Mrs. Btir Lug, Miss haiLon, Miss Augusta Thocpoa. Mr. George Hooey, and Mr. Vining. Greed ballet of Bohemians, in which Messieurs riageolet eiedeche. Com'ete, and Normand.) will appear. New Bowery by Mr. F. Lloyds. on their reserves and to decline operatic.' would under other circumstances have been both safe and profitable, the Bank of England was under no such obligation. The Government letter provided en inexhaustible reserve if it should be wanted, and hence the Directors could see with perfect equanimity that on the 30th of May the statutory amount had fallen to 860,0001. Cer tainly the proprietors of Bank stock have no reason to complain. Voluntarily or involunta rily, the Court of Directo-s have adopted the very best course for screwing out the largest amount of profit from the difficulties of the time. Two points remain to be considered. A rumour has been current that the Bank has suffered largely from bad debts. The statement was absurd on the face of it, since commercial failures have been sin gularly few, and trade lussnever been on a sounder basis than now. If it had not been, we should have had the same daily record of disasters that charao terised the worst part of 1857. Again, as the Governor remarked, " the Directors were not " such fools as to advance money without " ample security." Of course not, and yet the defenders of the Act of 1844 and of the policy of the Bank Court assume that they would be such fools if they had the power. We commend one fact to these uncomplimentary advo cates : if the Directors having the power to in crease their issues, are sure to abuse it by flinging away their money to assist all sorts of doubtful ventures, how is it that they have not done so in the last three months I The answer is simply because they are not such fools, nor would they be if the Bank Act were got rid of altogether. ' The second is that of allowing interest on de posits. According to all principles of sound bank ing, this system should be adopted very charily, if at all. Upon this question the Governor con curs with what has long ago been advocated in these columns. He says :—" It was to the prac " tice of holding large sums on interest as de " posits, repayable at call, that the fall of OvEREND, " GURNEY, and Co., and other great financial " houses, was owing. Having the money in " hand, and being obliged to pay interest upon it, " they were tempted to put it out at a little more, " and a little more risk, in order to make a " profit, until a crash came, and then the whole " thing collapsed." Nothing can be more true, and our joint stock banks will do well to lay this lesson to heart It has already been brought home to them by the practical experience of the crisis. No plan can be devised more conducive to overtrading than that of an indiscriminate allowance of interest on de posits, or in critical periods more destructive to banking credit. We hope that the day is far distant for the Bank of England to adopt so hazardous a practice, and in refusing to do so, the Directors may count upon a full measure of public support, however much their other proceedings may be justly open to Criticism. --- helpless as any wooden corvette against a certain gun which every British ship ought to carry; and we are mistaken if a short advance from this point of departure will not conduct us to some very satisfactory conclusions. Presuming ironclad' and wooden ships to be thus placed upon an equality of hopelessness before modern artillery may we not reconsider our opinions about the worthless ness of oar old wooden DIA y ? That navy comprises vessels by the score which, if wood is ea good se iron, are still the most magnificent ships in the world, and is not wood as good as iron if one material is just as strong, or as weak, as the other? (mErrza's nr.samix.) IMPORTANT FRENCH CIRCULAR NOTE. PARIS. Sim 17._ The Marquis de Lavalette has addressed to the French diplomatic agents In foreign parts a circular dated the 16th, which is very pacific in tone. After showing that the recent changes in Europe are favourable to France, the circular proceeds : The coalition of the three northern courts is broken up. The new principle ruling in Europe is the liberty of alli ances. Aggrandised Prussia secures the independence of Germany. France will not feel disposed to oppose or to regret the work of assimilation which has just been ac. oomplished, and to subordinate to feelings of jealousy the principles of nationalities which represent and profess re. gard for the peoples. By imitating France, Germany has taken a step which draws her nearer to us. Notwithstand ing unreflecting susceptibilities, Italy has equally drawn nearer to us in ideas, principles. and interests. The Sep tember Convention which secures the pontifical interests will be loyally carried out. Second due naval forces are arising in the Baltic and the Mediterranean which assure the liberty of those seas. Austria, relieved of her Italian and German leanings, and no longer employing her forces in barren rivalries, but concentrating them upon the east of Europe, still represents 35 million souls, whom no hos• tile interests separate from France. By what singular reac tion of the past upon the future shall public opinion see, not the all , es. but the enemies of France, In nations liberated from a past that was hostile to us, and now called to enter upon a new existent* guided by principles which are our own, anti animated by the sentiments of progress which form the pacific link of society. An Europe more strongly constituted, and more homo geneous by better defined territorial divisions is a guarantee for the peace of the continent, and is neither a peril nor an injury to our nation. The circular proceeds to demonstrate that the Emperor was right in accepting the part of media tor. On the contrary, he would have disregarded his high responsibility if, violating the neutrality promised and proclaimed, he had suddenly plunged into the risks of a great war—one of those wars which arouse the hatred of race and in which whole nations meet in conflict. "The government," continues the circular, " comprehends annexations dictated by the absolute necessity of uniting to a country populations having the same manners and the same national spirit. It can only desire those territorial aggrandisements which would not affect its powerful cohesion, but must always labour for its moral and political aggrandise ment, using its influence on behalf of the great interests of civilisation. Nevertheless, the results of the late war teach an important lesson, and show the necessity which exists for the defence of our territory, and for perfecting without delay our military organisation. The nation will not fail in this duty, which cannot be regarded as a threat by any." In conclusion, the circular considers the political horizon to be free front any threatening contingencies, and expresses belief in a lasting peace. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. AN EARTHQUAKE. (fliox OUR OWN oosalaposoarr.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. Anecdotes of the earthquake are coming in from very many parts of France. They are singularly monotonous. Bell ringing, door banging, and rattling of porcelain appear to have been the principal phenomena everywhere. It has been a most harmless and delicate earthquake. The only approach to a serious accident of which I have heard was at Blois, where the commotion ni set some bundles of lucifer matches in a grocer's shop. A fire ensued, which was not got under till the mili tary and the fire brigade came to the assistance of the neighbours, but it did not extend beyond the grocer's. The schoolmaster of Forges lea Bains (Seine et Oise) told me that the curd who lives in an isolated house on a knoll near tho church dis tinctly felt the earthquake ; but it was not perceived by any one else in the village. At Bourdon, in the same department, the church bells rang spontaneously at five in the morning. There the curd, not suspecting an earthquake, un hesitatingly attributed the phenomenon to evil spirits, and proceeded forthwith to the belfry with bell,book, and candle to exorcise them. The oscil latory motion of the earthquake as already men tioned was from north-east to south-west. It followed very closely the Western, Central, and South Western railway lines. News of it comes from Blois, Saumur, Angers, and Nantes ; from Bourges and Limoges ; and from Poitiers, Mort, and Angoulgme. At Mort there was a shock about a fortnight ago which was little noticed at the time. I believe there is no instance on record of a previous earthquake in any of these districts. A great many people thought the end of the world was come. A singular event has occurred in connexion with the funeral of M. Leon Gozlan. He was of Jewish parentage, bore in his lineaments the unmistake able stamp of the Jewish race, and was all his life supposed to be a member of the Jewish persuasion. Every preparation was made for his interment ac cording to the Jewish rites, and two rabbi's sat up all night watching the corpse, and repeating Jewish prayers. But at the last moment his son in-law discovered in a bundle of papers an extract from the register of baptisms of the parish of Saint Mary Major at Marseilles proving that Leon Gozlan born on September Ist, 1803 (not 1806 as has been stated), was there baptised on July 14, 1805, or 25 Messidor, Year Xlll. His father, a Jew, was not present at the ceremony, but his mother, whose name was Estelle Pro venzal (whether a Jewess or not does not appear), had taken him to the font of the Cathedral Church privately. The consequence of this dis covery was the countermand of the Jewish obse quies, and a catholic funeral service was performed over Leon Gozlan's coffin this morning at the Church of St. Eugbne. The Marquis de Boisay, who was reported better after his recent serious illness, has had a relapse, anti on Friday received extreme unction. Count Bow:leech', the Emperor's Chamberlain and Superintendent of Theatres, is in a desperate state, and has received extreme unction from M. I Deguerry, the curd of the Madeleine. The Andeslien advice' mention that large sup plies of dour continued to arrive from Chili and Cali forsda. In the latter Gauntry the yield this year has been extraordinarily great, and the eldpreenis theme will tor sustained. )ENT JOHNSON AND HLS YELLING COMPANIONS. The following description of the personal sp pearTio of President Johanna and the principal members of his -travelling party is taken from the New York Tri bune :—" The personal appearance of the principal MOM berg of the Presidential party is generally familiar. When they arrived in New York, yesterday afternoon, all ocked dusty, and, to a certain extent, travel worn. The Presi dent, dressed throughout in plain black, smoothly shaven, more anxious apparently than gratified, listened to the ad dress of Mr. Stewart with his head thrown somewhat for ward, evidently in deep thought. His hair is sprinkled with grey, but there is the semblance at least of fire in his eyes and vigour in his body. There is persistence in his face, obstinacy perhaps ; a look of that immitigable and power ful perseverance which grows by residence ; some kindli ness ; evidently • man easily managed by those who praise liberally, but utterly intractable when criticised. He smiled when the address was completed, evidently pleased. Willisib H. Seward stood by the side of the President, apparently unconscious of what had been uttered. The contrast between the two mm was great. One large, and dark, and fresh ; the other small, and pale, end wan ; the one anxious, the other careless, as to what was wain, ; but both evidently pon dering, in • different way, the same subject. The deep, heal j scar received at the time Johnson was made Pre sident, is still plainly visible. The Secretary stood beside his chief, and seemed lost to the present, with his eyes turned inward, rather than upon outward objects " General Grant, with his imperturbable manner, was yesterday precisely as we have often seen him' with one exception. He was not smoking. Dressed in his usual style, a regulation hat, minas the decorations authorised in army regulations ; • military coat, bearing on the shoulders the insignia of his rank, and dark panta loons, there was little in his appearance to attract attention. His beard cut short, lips compressed, despite the agreeable smile that rippled over his almost expressionless face, a manner utterly and permanently quiet, a countenance far beyond the reach of agitation, he looked as if he would not be disturbed if the world crumbled at his feet. Secretary Welles is tall and wears a long grey beard, which harmonises with the colour of his hair, and adds somewhat to the peculiar owlishness of his great I spectacled eyes. He is a picture of conservatism. Admiral Farragut is tall, slender, and looks every inch a man. There is somewhat Learlike in his face, and his eyes show the intrepidity and the undaunted courage that made him the hero he is. He wore a cap and coat, bearing the mark of his rank in the navy, and stood among his companions above them all. Farragut would attract attention in a crowded thoroughfare ; but his face would never say that be loved war, though it is one that an enemy might fear when anger flushed it, or kindled into a flame the latent fire of the eyes which give it an expression so kindly and so genial." WEATHER REPORT. -{THIS DAY.) MONDAY. wirreit ail 17. 8 A.M. R. I Extreme. Sea. B. T. W. W. B. Ito 12 7.1 D. 9. Nairn .29.511—1 W. • 2 4 S.W. c 0.C3 1 Aberdeen 29.40 40, N.W. 4 2 SW. b 0.09 3 Leith Ardrossan 29.68 55 1 N. 3 5 W. b ,0.32 3 Greencastle 29.67'62' W.N.W. 2 4 W.S.W. re .047 Valentia 29.84 58. N.N. W. 4 8 N.W. rc 1' 3 Cape Clear 29.31 52 N.W. 6 6 N.W. i• 5 Liverpool 29.63 55: N.W. 3 4 W.B.W. c 0?" 2 Holyhead Penzance 29.82 54' N.N.W. 3 9 W. 00 • 0.00 1 S Bred .. 29.846 7, N.W. 5 7 S.S.W. ire '0.36 1 6 Lorient .. 7 29.76 52! W. S 9 S.W. oc 0.83 4 Itocheort 29 88 67; W. 6• 7 W. tr 0.40' 7 Plymouth 20.75 55, W. 2 9 W. re 0.72 1 4 Weymouth Portsmouth 29.6053 N.N.W. S 9 8.8. W. ic 0.60 London 29.01 60, W.N.W. 6 9 8. crii 0.25 - Yarmouth 29.48 53; N.W. 6 - W. rc 1.10 - Scarborough. 29.65 51! N. 7 4 E.B.E. ro 0.2) 2 Shields 29.64 50; N.W. 613 N.W. Ic I 2 Holder — - I - . . I 1 I i 1866, • 2 THE EXPR ESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, • ; ----- BEN -- El ON' s WATCH E B, on the 31st August it was 3,981,7841. In the th e *deli Vox wonted for sea service mu be carried LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRESIDE 58 and 80, Ludgate-hill; 25, Old Bond-street. first ten weeks of the half-year the Bank had, 'say tu broadside. We might almost say, the • TILL' • I --e.-- I J OHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy therefore, gained about 226,0001 ., and in the re- as a weight, at realisable value, and the worirunwohiP at maming six' teen weeks 744,0001. This ahowsprettiy absurd • manufacturers' prices T hegold In the chaln‘gas- Times holism, that the value of •s ire .clad fighting vessel bas vanished. as the EXECUTION OF ICARAXASO . armour' will no longer render • ship impregnable. ANCES AT S T. PETERSBURG . FF—DIS TURD- The followit pearepia of Presio i ranteed, and repurchased at the prim chrlod- conclusively, evenafter making allowance for certain When we read that the sides of the Warrior are simply The Avenir National mentions that it has re- of his -travelling . i ik " th a r li ntio n dt cant adinstmenas of the account at the close of the six me vulnerable as so much basket work it seems impossible oeived a telegram from its private correspondent at bane :—" The pc Bo 'Kb seer chain wellits c r lat ii for fuhka .” T curse or the golkl, ama months Opi advantage that the Bank has derived to regard the Warrior as more of a man-of .war than • • SHAILISPALIM Berlin, stati • , • isansitsetom lit. llenriettmstreet, coven ~ ~ "Black stout old frigate. This, of course, would be an extreme ng that on the occasion of the execn- bars of the Pre"' lion of ICarakaso ff on Saturday hut for attempting t he y arrived in N t - 'v a the Beek virtually monopolised the di e . oundusion. The Warrior ' s armour would protect her up dusty, and, to • t • ONE of the institutions of London is EVANS'S. &Wert and a charming M VBICAL ENTERTAINMENT Friday , '' count business of the country. While the private and EVERY EVENING. Alter the theatres and mellows concerts joint stock banks were forced to keep a close eye to a certain point, and insure her a proportionate sups• the li fe of the Czar, popular demonstrations took dent, dressed the riority, nor is it • slight advantage for • ship to be invul. place rot onsequence of which charges of cavalrY more anxious app notable except under peculiar conditions of attack. Still were ;made. Several persons were wounded and dress of Mr. Stew he aura to sue there. n " " Ai ' "1"v" and to decline operations that the broad feet remains that an iron-clad is as numerous arrests effected. ward, evidently -.to. ~-..._ hut th Etc erpreoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS Advertisement" Wooded lot The Lewes'," London Waling Paw, must be at the °dice, 10, bouverieetreet, by Two o'clock on the day of publication. PIUS(UM. Tana Evemea, THI3 CIPTAIIL M. Thing, and G. Honey; Mims Neilson. Augusta Thomas), and lira. Blirllng.—And (Inn LODGINGS. BRITANNIA. Tins EMU S°, GUN POWDER TOM OR, THI GIPSY YOTGER A sON.—Mr. W. G. Rose; The Brother+ Vlctorelli And THE CASTAWAY; OR, THR HUI ki-DORN t;nBAN D. MOH WATIOt AT LONDON BRIDGI. Tan DAT —Mornht, 6K 47m Afternoon. 7b. 12414. ID-340AROW—Itominff, 7h. 42m Afternooa. NA 17m. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER VT. IT was not to be expected that the half-yearly general meeting of the Bank of England would pass by without prominent allusion to the late crisis, but little, if any, additional light was thrown upon the sub;:cct. The principal reason was, doubtless, that the whole facts of the case are so thoroughly known that nothing more remains to be said. We arc all aware that the panic was in the strictest terms a panic—au universal withdrawal of credit because two or three large companies had from sheer mismanagement or worse been obliged to stop payment. In times like the past the public never stop to discriminate, but condemn good and bad alike. Bence, as the Governor of the Bank observed, there Ivas a general drain upon the banking housus of London the day after the sus pension of OvKi:END, GURNEY, and Co. The manner in ichi i this sudden pressure was met with ono exception reflected the highest credit upon the 'rinks, both private and joint stock, and furnishes the most complete answer to the charge that they had locked up their funds in speculative and hazardous business. The Governor takes some credit for the assistance the Lank of England afforded at this crisis, a duty, ho said, which the Directors could not shrink from, and, it may be added, the only policy which ensure the safety of the Bank • ro, complex machinery of credit fact, been elaborated to that degree that no esta blishment in England can escape injury from the misfortunes of its neighbours. It is difficult to gather from the speeches of the Governor whether the Directors were in favour of the issue of the Government letter or not. At one period he almost intimates that the Bank had acted in anticipation of the letter, and we suppose there fore that it had their approval. Against this, how ever, may be set the letter of the Governor and Deputy, Governor of the 11th May, in which, after detailing the enormous amount of advances made that day, and the consequent reduction of the reserve to 3,000,0(00/., they state that "unless " the money taken from the Bank is withdrawn " from cireuhtion, there is no reason to suppose " that the reierve is insuflicient." If the Govern ment letter had not been issued, the Directors would have quickly found out that this reserve was inanffieieht. There appears no doubt that in the event of the Goveniment doing nothing there would have been such a drain on the other deposits that the Bank would have been reduced to the necessity of stopping all loans and discounts to prevent stoppiiiv pa) inent altogether. Even in Cie early part of " Black Friday" evening Mr. GLADSTONE stated in the House of Commons, with reference to the suspension of the Bank Charter Act, " I have not the least reason to suppose " that any request from that quarter (the Bank " Court) is likely to reach the Government." It may be assumed, therefore, that the Directors of the Bank, either from motives of delicacy, or from a want of sufficient appreciation of the difficulties of the time, were rather against the suspension than otherwise, although in the latter case they doubtless soon modified their opinions. With reference to the management of the Bank since the issue of the Government letter, a rather awkward question was put, viz., " What means " were taken to allay the suspicion which during " the panic had prevailed on the Continent " that the Bank of England was about to " suspend specie payments I" If the ques tion had been, " What means were taken "to keep alive the suspicion 1 " the answer is easy. "We maintained the rate of discount at " 10 per cent. long after it was shown to be unne " emery." Those who know well the immense damage to English credit by the Bank rate being kept at 10 per cent. for more than three months will understand the significance of this suppositious reply. Looking at the subject in a national point of view there is, unfortunately, no room for doubt that the management of the Bank since the crisis has been disastrously timid. We have a right to expect from the Directors of the greatest monetary establishment in the world something better than a blind adherence to more routine—that quality, at all events, can be found in the smallest of traders or government clerks. It must seem incompre hensible that a body of men, selected from the most successful, and therefore by implication the ablest, merchants of the day, should prove in capable of taking a broader view of financial affairs than a petty shopkeeper. The most extraordinary part is, that they failed to see the injury inflicted not only on the national credit by the unnecessary maintenance of 10 per cent., but also the bar that it effectually opposed to the increase in the re sources of the Bank. If 10 per cent., however, has damaged the nation, it has at any rate benefited the proprietors of Bank stock. It was long ago surmised that the Bank was making an uncommonly good thing out of the crisis, and the opinion is now shown to be perfectly right. It is sixty years since so high a dividend as 6i per cent. was proposed, and by far the greater part of the profit was made in the period since the failure of Orzaann, GMAT; and Co. On tho 28th February, after providing for the dividend declared for the half-year then end ing, the Rest stood at 3,011,7611. On the 9th May it had increased to 3,237,6871., and wt. irunnm's ISPILOCII. Accepting Mr. Henley u one who sees readily the various aspects of any important question, the Times dig. cusses his remarks on the subject of labourers' cottages, maintaining that, notwithstanding Mr. Henley's statistics, the labourer and his family are not so healthy and strong, or so long-lived, as they ought to be at the present rate of wages and the present abundance of employment. The reason lies in the state of the cottage, and that im a matter of the greatest difficulty. It is in the hands of the country gentlemen, and if some of these would apply their minds to it, in all its bearings, they would do more good than by any amount of learning or invention in ecclesiastical architecture. Let ns have the cottage, the materials, the cost, the sitting-rooms, the bedrooms, the offices, the capa city, the proper aspect, the water supply, the drvn, the garden where posidble, all discussed in a bzurinese-like way. so as really to help those who have both the means and the wilL -- The Post treats of Mr. Henley's opinions on reform, and his declaration that in his opinion the question wall con tinue to wreck governments until some administration is found wise and prudent enough to settle it. " " ' It is quite time, the Hernia thinks, that the fallacy that onlyone party inthe State is competent to dealwith reform should be abolished. Tho history of the late bill which was rejected by liberals is sufficient evidence upon the point. The conservative party is the most competent of any for the purpose, though it would be premature to assert that Lord Derby's administration is bound to pro duce a measure. The autumn clamour which was pro phesied has turned out a very tame and unmeaning " demonstration," terribly weakened by the silliness of its promoters, and it is certain that parliament in its present humour will not be hectored into enacting inthedarkanew constitution for England. The alternative seems to be, then, that any government which happens to be in power would render a service to the nation by removing this sub ject from the public view, not as a method of excitement, but as a means of restoring, so to speak, a balance between the claims of the two great political parties, and putting out of sight a bugbear. So far, we concur with Mr. Henley in believing that the question must be settled some day ; but next year is not our property yet, and a hundred events intervening may determine the course in this, es in every other respect, of the administration. The Tdegraph tells Mr. Henley he must not delude himself into the belief that a patchwork conglomerate, a hasty omnium gatherum of selections and siftings from the unrepresented mass, such as the bill of 1859 proposed, will either calm or modify the public resolution. But by all means let Mr. Henley induce his friends in the present cabinet to introduce some measure or other. He has done something, if it is only to strike the key-note from which other conservative members may, during the re. cess, play with variations on that fruitful theme. Reform ' is emphatically a problem that must be solved, and one I that can now be solved only in one way. Witt Court. BALMORAL, SEPT. 14. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended by Lady Churchill, drove yesterday to the Lynn of Dee. Princess Louise, attended by Miss Grey, went out driving. The Right Honourable J. R. Mowbray; Judge Advocate General bad an audience of the Queen, and left the Castle yesterday. Mr. Helps arrived at the Castle. Mr. Walpole had the honour of dining with her ;Majesty and the royal family last night. BErr. 15. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out yesterday morning, and also in the afternoon with Princess Christian and Princess Louise. _ _ . —.— Her Majesty, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, went at hall-past six to Abergeldie, where the Prince and Princess of Wales gave a Dillies' Ball, which the Queen honoured. Her Majesty and the royal family dined with the I'rinoe and Princess of Wales, and went again after dinner for a short time to the ball. -- --- The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were in atten dance. The Queen held a Council yesterday morning, which was attended by the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edin burgh, and the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole. Mr. Helps, Clerk of the Council, attended, and has re nained on a visit at the Castle. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar left the Castle yester day. Despatches wero received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governors of New Zealand, South Aus tralia, Tasmania, and Queensland. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the North American Pros inoes, the West India Islands, British Columbia. and Vancouver's Island. THE PRINCE OF WALES AT ABERDEEN. ABERDEEN, SeNDAT. The Prinoe of Walee has consented to preside at the inauguration of the statue of the Queen, his mother, at Aberdeen, on Thursday next. The statue is of marble, and has been executed through public subscription as a companion work to the statue of the Prince Consort, un veiled by her Majesty here two years ago. It is expected that the Princess of Wales and others of the illustrious ' party now on Deeside will be present at the ceremony of Thursday. A communication, written by command of the Queen, was received on SaturdaybytbeMayor of Liverpool, in reply to the invitation sent by the corporation to her Majesty, requesting that she would honour the town by presiding at the inauguration of the noble equestrian statue of the Prince Cowart which has been placed in front of St. Georges Hall. We understand her Majesty " regrets that she is unable" to accept the invitation. A local paper states that the Lord-Lieutenant, the Earl of Sefton, will be asked to inaugurate the statue, but this is contradicted. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador left Bryanston-square on Saturday for St. Leonard'. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort will shortly entertain a party of friends at Llangattook, after which they go to Troy House, Monmouthshire, to receive cora- Pull% The Earl and Countess of Scarborough have entertained a select party during the put week at San beck, Yorkshire. Among the guests have been the Earl of Zetland, the Earl and Countess of Bradford, Viscount Canterbury, Colonel Hon. H. Forester, Colonel Hon. James and Mrs. Macdonald, Mr. and Lady Augusta Stuart, Mr. J. Lumley, Mr. H. Chaplin, Mr. H. &vile, &o. _ _ _ Mr. John Bright, M.P., telegraphed on Satur day night from Scotland that he will be present at the Northern Reform Demonstration at Manchester en Monday, the 24th inst. The expense of the Hampshire sr d Lie of Wight Loan Exhibition, held at Southampton, is gagman:a at 2,1201. The receipts up to the present time amount to 1,5301. It is expected that the exhibition will remain open about a mouth longer. The Duke of Edinburgh has been solicited to preside at the ceremony of closing the exhibi . tion'. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TURKEY AND OREM. Observing that the revolt of the Greek popula tion in the largest of the islands and in some of the con tinental provinces of the Ottoman empire begins to bear all the appearance of a preconcei:ecl national movement, the Times connects it with the final success of the struggle for independence in Italy and the rapid development of the principle of nationality in Germany. The peace of Prague cut short the diversion in the Levant by which the attack of Italy upon Austria was to have been aided, and seems to have launched the Greeks into an ente.,nise of which they have neither well defined the object nor calcu lated the issue. Having noticed the appearance of America in the East as a cordial ally of Russia the Times proceeds to remark that how ever soon the ruling Ottoman race may be driven from its European possessions, it is difficult to conceive how its place can be filled by a nation numerically so weak as the Greeks, and by its restless and discordant instincts so little intended to rule itself or others. That Turkey should be compelled to conjure the present storm by giving up Candle, if its subjugation were to cost her too vast an amount of bloodshed, may not be altogether impossible ; but if out of the Cretan insurrection, or out of the movements in Epirus or Thessaly, anything like a general European complication were to arise, we shall con clude that there are under those apparently local attempts secret agencies at work, of which we as yet know nothing, but which have far other objects in view than the further ance of the interests of Greek nationality, and from which Greece in the end will gain but little of what Turkey may forfeit. That the sick man at Constantinople should have survived the sick man at Vienna is a fact, says the Daily News, which no one a few years back would have foreseen. But the fate of the Kaiser only prefigures that of the Sultan. None but those who believe that diplomacy is stronger than the ties of blood and religion can have fancied that the Themaliens, the Epirota, and the Can diens, who bore their full share in the war of indepen dence in 1821, would consent permanently to be excluded from its benefits. The appeal of the Candians to the President of the United States betrays a singular igno rance of the policy and of the influence in Europe of the American republic, but it may be explained by the recent demonstrations of friendship between Russia and America and by the despair which the Candians feel in the sym pathy of the three protecting powers. In Candle, at the present moment, the Christians are more than twice the number of the Mahousetans. The land is pas►ing entirely into their hands, and the monde of the population exhibits a corresponding improvement. The condition of the Grecian monarchy with which they seek to be united is not satis factory ; but nations, like individuals, must get into many scrapes and undergo no little suffering in passing from childhood to manhood. Distracted by troubles in the Lebanon, the Sultan is believed to be on the point of handing over Candice to Egypt, but a general revolt of the Christian subjects of Turkey is too likely to follow the adoption of this course. Already the King of Greece has declared that be is king not of Greece only hut of all the Greeks ; and that he cannot and will not prevent his sub jects from aiding their suffering brethren. Lord Stanley may presently have an excellent opportunity of justifying his appointment to the Foreign-office, and of showing what he means by non-intervention. The Star thinks a struggle between the conflicting ele ments of the Turkish empire must come sooner or later, and if the Turks are defeated, and the Christian popula tions attain their just rights, the result must be beneficial to the world. All we can wish for is that the struggle, when it does come, may at once assume such proportions as to make the war as brief and as bloodless as its nature will permit. One di.ty only is ours in such an emergency, to cease to afford by advice or otherwise the smallest en . mairagement to the Turkish rule. GIINS V. SHIPS. The Tines regards the essential question between ships and guns so settled by the results of the remarkable ex periments just reported from Shosburynser, in which the new Woolwich gun sent a nine-inch Palliser shell through a target about two feet three inches in thioknem made of hard teak and solid iron. The armour of any fighting ship at present known might be ecespletely demolished by a 2501nunder gun. We shall be no longer under the near sity of building turret ships, for as far as we ass now see REMARKS. On Saturday night and on Sunday 1 creased over the British Isles, and on 41 coasts the weather was wry squall] Mowers fell generally on our other coast ing aremoderate to fresh, from Wisest meters generally are rising. barometric pressure dc air western and southern r with heavy rain ; and a. the winds this morn- N.W. tow., sad baro- Among the late surivala at New York are Sir Henry Holland, the physician, and Mr. Junius L. Morgan, of the banking-house of George Peabody and Co. . . Mr. Oliphant M.P., arrived at Boston, United States, a fortnight ago, accompanied by two young Japanese gentlemen of high rank, who were sent to Eng land to obtain an education. They propose to pass their autumn vacation in a tour through America, The Irish Attorney-General has consented to grant a writ of error in the case of " The Queen against Mulcahy," convicted of Fenianism. The proceedings on the writ of error will take place in the November sittings. The accounts from the various distant branches of the Agra and Masterman's Bank as to the prospects of liquidation had thus far been uniformly satisfactory, and those of the New South Wales branch, just brought by the Australian mail, are of a similar character. . . At Glasgow an interdict has been granted against • printer and lithographer, for supplying labels resembling, sufficiently to deceive the public, those used by Bass and Co. for their East India pale ale. The defender was also condemned in costs. . During the last eleven years the quantity of silver exported from Southampton amounted to 94,204,818/. The revenue produced by the railways of the United Kingdom is nearly 50,000,0001. a year. The yearly revenue of the London General Omnibus Com_ pany is about 500,0001. The American newspapers contain numerous anecdotes of Mr. Dean Richmond, who is just dead. He was an eccentric and distinguished citizen of New York, was president of the New York Central Railroad, and chair. man of the New York Democratic State Committee. His handwriting, except that of his signature, was scarcely ever legible. He once abruptly dismissed a railway official who had offended him, by writing on a card, " Your ser vices can be dispensed with on receipt of this. Dean Rich mond." The dismissed official used the card as a family free pass over the railway for 12 months afterwards, the ticket collectors being satisfied with the sight of the well. known signature without attempting to read the docu ment. The operative cloth dressers of Leeds, number ing about 1,000, struck work on Saturday morning for an advance of 15 per cent. on their present rate of wages. Six of the employers have complied with the request, but in four of the mills the men decline to enforce their de. mend by leaving work. A strike of colliers at the Thorncliffe collieries, near Barnsley, has terminated, after lasting twelve months. The demands of the men have been conceded in every case. The strike is said to have cost the trades• union 5,000/. DEATH OF ALDERMAN DILLON, M.P.—Alder man Dillon, member for Tipperary, died on Saturday even ing from the etfecta of an attack of diarrhoea. Yesterday week he took part at a public meeting, and on Monday Le complained, but, it is stated, endeavoured to struggle against the malady until Thursday, when be was confined to his room. On Friday the symptoms assumed an alarm ing character, terminating fatally at half-past 7on Saturday evening, at his country seat, Druid Lodge, Killiny. In 1848 Mr. Dillon (then practising as a barrister in Dublin, and for same time previous one of the proprietors of the Nation newspaper) attached himself to the political for tunes of the late Smith O'Brien. He succeeded in escap ing to France, and from thence to the United States, where he lived for many years. A few years ago he re turned to Ireland, and soon became distinguished as a leader of what was called the National Party. DEATH OF MR. CHARLES BALLIDAY.—We sin cerely regret, says the .Freessaa's Journal, to announce the death of Mr. Charles Holiday. The melancholy event took place rather suddenly on Friday, at his residence, Monks town-park. He was seized on Thursday evening with a virulent attack of diarrhea, which, notwithstanding the most skilful medical aid, we are sorry to say, terminated fatally. I THE BISHOP or LONDON.—The Bishop of London was called from town at the clime of last week to attend the funeral of his nephew, the late Sir Archibald J. Campbell, near Glasgow. The bishop Is expecned to per form the funeral berries. The deceased baronet had been ' married by his lordship in St. George's Church, Hanover equare,.to the Lady Agnes Grosvenor, a daughter of the pensentidmquis of Westminster, so recently as the let of July, 1259, or a little more than sorsa_ years ago. FEMALE MEDICAL SOCIETY.-241. C. J. B. Aldis, M.D., A.M. Y.R.C.P., medical akar of health for St. George's, H a nover-square, has been elected lectures on hygiene and preventive medicine, to the Ladies' Medical • Coe in Fiteroy-square. The third session of this new I college' will commence with an introductory address by Dr. Edratunle, at the Hanovinsequare Rooms, on Geiger 1, at three o'clock. THE CHARGE OF INHUMANITY AGAINST Tini HACKNEY WORKHOUSE OFFICIALS. THE ADJOURNED INQURST.—(TME DA Y.) At 10 o'clock this morning Mr. John Hunt i, Middlesex coroner ? resumed, at the Town-hall, the inquiry touching the death of Thomas Nichols, a d i 7 years. 'Kr. Merriman (firm of Merriman and appeared for the relatives of the deeemed u J . L iba A* r epresented the sanitary committee of • Mr Daniels watched the proceedings for the master of the Workhouse ; and Mr . Stanton, clerk to h e board of guardians, and Mr. Turner, chairman, ad d l e ' on the part of that body. The Town-hall was crowded with members of the vi d e . and board of guardians desirous of healing the iddiefdi e l es :dence. Sarah Hitchcock, head nurse at the Hackie, Unita, was called to-day, an she said that at about a quarter MI 10 o'clock last Monday night she saw the deceased bog e s the gateway. The matron was there, sad witness NM is her that the child was very bad and ought to be nand into the Iron-house. The matron said, s a way , the Getman HospitaL" Witness said that the child was not in a fit state to be removed. The matron answered. "I am the matron and I know what I am about.* Mr. Oxley into , who was present, said, " Then, you are aot tori r 4 take him the Iron house." Mrs. Driscoll • " Certainly not," and he went for Dr. SIIIMITZ. Tke child vomited twice, and got rapidly worse, and witneee told the matron so, for it was a grievous thing t o see sk, child gruffer. Dr. Summers Caine and said that the du was very ill, and asked to look at Mr. Vinall's order. Tbe matron 'bowed it to him and said, "It is not yet ad m itt e d . " Witness believed the order was that the child should admitted to the workhouse or the German Hospital. Dr, Summers asked for pen and ink, and wrote out an ash for the child's immediate admission. Mrs. Driscoll took it and placed it on the form, saying that she would give is s e the master, who would do as he pleased, but he had &lead been master and would continue to be. The child hd getting worse ; finally the master came and sent him dim the fly. By the Coroner—There were six male and five female beds vacant in the Iron-house at the time. The chid waa fully half an hour at the gateway. No medicine was gidg, but was of course necessary. A juror—Then you as nurse ought to have admirdtheef some ? Witness—But I did not think I was allowed toad till the child was admitted. The child wsuit;al warmth, if i ss was admitted he would have bud blankets, he. Mr. Daniels—Then it was your place to put one on. The witness said that when the doctor was preheat, id could not act without his order. By Mr. Stanton—Witness did not consider himeif entitled to administer medicine (diarrheas mixture) mill the patient had been formally admitted. By Mr. Merriman—lf the child Lad been admitted late the Iron-house she would, in the absence of a doctor, have treated him. Sometimes half an hour would dads before the doctor could be called for to attend saw. There was nu medical officer resident in the Haehd workhouse. By the Coroner—Dr. Miller was the medical officer d the workhouse. It would take three-quarters of an how to summon him. Mr. Summers was his deputy, and laid nearer. Mr. Oxley was assistant to Mr. Miller, and he be( been there, off and on, for five weeks. Witness had seal for him on the Monday evening to see a patient in lie ward, and she believed that he then prescribed. By Mr. Daniels—The first thing witness gave to clam patients on admission was brandy. Witness did not re member a case in which a cholera patieut died wish e d being seen by a medical men at all. A man named Ca was ill and died ; it was not three hours after his death before a medical man came. She could not say that ides a general thing for the medical men not to come for tee or three hour. after they were sent for. She bad no Oh feeling toward the matron. By the Coroner—Cole was one of the first of the Mehra patients. He was an inmate of ward No. 10, and be did there. [The inquest was proceeding when our report left) A letter from Mantua Bays :—" English visite!, h anapf late major Is ha ltresi l t ea ll ea l inat uri ;j 2 7. f harma. t ca y F in Aro::: :: :in.e: Th d ritot t eis hi H ree zbe, seri:neor yfor e t hs De gluo4r or.k_tod aminbnelyseo:m :fisoiFp : ih g Q o t Il al m o s tet Queen h e l m lit hem cial Commhas rederick Itde,Bsq,, ATTENDANCE AT THE JUDGES' CRANIUM.- A new regulation has been made as to the attendance d judges at chambers. During the present week and natal further notice the attendance will be on Tuesday sad Friday, and the Chief Baron will bo relieved by 114 Justice Lush. THE NEW LAW ON NAVAL DISCIPLINE.-Ose the hurt acts of the late session was to amend the hew dating to the discipline of the navy. It is a rely keg ast, extending to 101 sections, and &siding the subjoin WO seven parts. The preamble declares that it is expedian es ( amend the', law relating to the government of the ry, " whereon under the good providence of God the was* safety, and strength of the kingdom c hie fl y de p end." INTENDED REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT Luns.— The Reform Manhood Suffrage Association of Lena making arrangements to hold a West Riding Reform Da monstration on Woodhouse-moor, Leeds, early in the suin month of October. At a meeting of the associalies on Friday left letters were read from several inembend parliament approving the demonstration. Among Asa was Mr. E. Baines, who, while approving the intended meeting, declined to be present, as he did not go so fares manhood suffrage. Resolutions were passed in of d inviting • great number of the leaders of the extreme liberal party, members of the House of Commons, and others, to be present at the demonstration, and of Wing various special means to insure the demonstration. bong numerously attended. REFORM MEETING AT WOLVERTON. --On Saturday afternoon the men engaged at the rail w ay works at A S. ?erten held a great reform meeting. The Wolverim and Stantonbury branch of the National Reform= were the promoters of the meeting, which w as by Mr. E. Betides and Mr. J. Baxter Langley as a &pals tion from the London circuit of the league. Proceeds. from Stantonbury and Stratford moved to Wolvenes, in the market ball of which town the meeting was held. From 3,000 to 4,000 men assembled, and the proceeding' were throughout of an enthusiastic character. no lowing resolutions were carried :—" That the working ass and others composing this meeting pledge themselves le support the objects and principles of the Reform Liegm by enrolling their names as members, and by all other be gitituate means." 2. "That the present government bee ing rejected the moderate measure of reform the late government, this meeting pledges it s elf to agitate for, and use all legitimate menus to ob tain, residential manhood suffrage as the basis of represented'', protected by the ballot." A meeting was also held Mtn Large mom of the Science and Art batitutiom Wolaendleo... at which several addresses were delivered, and at as the same unanimity and enthusiasm in favour of rakes was manifested. INDUCTION OF A JEW PM MINIS -01 Saturday the ceremony of inducting a mini4er wer Po" formed at the West London Synagogue of British Jolt, in Maynard-street, Portlandmlace. The officiating orris' ten were the Rev. Professor Marks, of London Emm/ College, and the Rev. Mr. Lowry; and the niinisterant was the Rev. l'hilip Marcus, B.A. and R.C.L. of 17ninent1 College. After the usual morning service hid bees PI through, the minister elect was escorted into the gogue by the following elders : Julian Goldsmi d, M.P.. A.Q. Henriques, Esq. A. Moans, Esq. , D. Henriques, Esq., and J. L. Elkin, Esq. M ANCHESTER DOCK-OUTS. 011 SatUrdAY lock-out of the Manchester tailors was taminet4 A conference of master and men hue met some five times, and have so arranged matters that all the re! about 700 in number, returned to work on Saturday. "tr. lockout of the carpenters still continues. Of &hair' in Manchester at least 1 ,7 00 have been locked oat ow weeks. It seems that GO of the smaller emplorenheee given the advance of 2s. per week, and 450 WA Are 2 7 working upon those terms. The large firms still held!!! and about 1,000 are still locked ant, who have apttn: time been paid a weekly dividend amounting to T, over half wages. The men in work at the advelsof; paying a weekly levy of 4e. per man towards the OFF" of their locked-out brethren. fys MR. CARLYLE AND GOVERNOR EYRE.-- is the authentic outcome of hero worship. it justifies. In' from other grounds, the distrust with which that Dee ne: gion is regarded—a religion which dethrones law in n om of capeice, and thrusts an usurping penmen' into the seat of justice. The English nation nn ) d " love order and the prompt s uppression of maniocs, we are not aware that the nation holds in revetenl; names of Jeffreys and Kirke,er worships the and:on: o massacre of Glencoe, or thinks those persona the of their species who charged with the eO Peterloo. The English nation applauds the, rs - 7... suppreadon of sedition., but up to this time Mar:: apPlauded the Perpetration of unnecessary crueltnie!: process, and it has guarded, or sought to golog_2lgi thousand ways, against slaying cm suspinen , end IT:Li the slaying of a political opponent. Mr. Culyiee 7 0 - 0, of Mr. Eyre means, if it means anything,. „tha t " o gis rovoroo be sYseern of goveroraent by law, nent_" Age as may be en principles of junto*, sweeP 0 11 artfeguardsof personal liberty, and set ap ".4. of one man, who may be an Aristides, but wito. l be an Eyre. We say this would be a step hnw,:,"g towards beebaniane—nay, it would be barbarrem,;,7o. would carry us back to the strife of the etroq_,wiseig strong, sad whether strength and junior were anon be mere accident —Economist. tons loo W reepe e :t o d e n tsbar eritand ble Ar t ar i d un te t } io t iliss l n famili nnut a es:li ad e 1, Atlam-str= Adelpld, London. —mesa Dean 8 ey has given his sanction to It for heating Westminster Abbey daring the i 'o. preparations are now being .actively ca rried nit • reception of the hot-water apparatus. 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