The Express. — London, England, 1858-10-19 00:00:00

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Kara Wow Variegation, laws r ei k "4 leer !___=lll& a. 1 T00 1.6e. 6•04 - Pitrami ATQtI ass u ser s • . 1•=1117 ; ar I.osses,—Osnasiees se 7. • HIGH Wail/ AT L0111)011 DRIDOIt. o zr i g ... 1 . ):ri5inew5,11&0 1 4 : ...—....-sainose, u t o. LONDON; 271.81111AAT. OCT. 19. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 4 SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS," mataining the results of the day's Races, is pub- limbed every evening during the Sporting Season, at tea o'clock. ------ . Soma of our readers must know Shrewsbury. It ban interesting place to visit ; interesting foe its picturesque half-timber houses, not merely lodges and cottages, but substantial dwellings of the olds time ; interesting for its remnants of ancient walls, and the castle, and the monasteries with their histo- rical associations interesting for its Elizabethan market•hoose, and its churches and bridges, and its half-Welsh character ; and not least for its fine pro- / =etude, " the Quarry," bounded by the red-flowing Severn, and graced by noble avenues of limes, casting their cool shade upon the grass which makes. every townsman the pomeesor of a garden. While! pacing those broad walks, or pawing through the clean and quiet streets, a stranger might suppose this old town to be the abode of dignified tranquillity, and neighbourly peace. But if he should happen toper mar the vestry-door of Bt. Chad's at the time when a meeting was held, he would be convinced—and especially if the meeting was composed of three-parts clergymen--that wrath and wrangle, reproach and recrimination, can wax as mighty there as in any factory town when Dissent runs the Church hard. The eld-fashioned residents have, to be sure, by their own account, kept the Dissenters at arms'- length as long as possible. They do not recognise their presence as citizens; they never me them except in the streets, nor there, if they can look another way : they would never hear of them if it could be avoided : and the eleven or twelve Dis- senting chapels in the town, with their influx and 'Max of population on Sundays, can be overlooked by those who are determined not to perceive such vulgar objects. But there is a fatal necessity which breaks up the ignoring method, and compels the most excessive and complacent of the townsmen to admit that Shrewsbury has Metho- dists among her population, and Independents, and Quakers, and Baptists, and Catholics, and Unita- rians. The occasion is when a Church-rate is wanted, of when some penetrating rumour informs the trembled gentry and the exasperated clergy that Chmelostes are in danger. Such an occasion has anima now. On the 4th instant a meeting of the r clergy and churchwardens was held in the Vestry of St. Chad's, to consult what should be done in the present crisis of peril to Church-rates : and it is to be hoped that the reports of Cm speeches uttered then and there will be preserved as one of the curi- osities of the place. Care must he taken that a genuine report ia selected for preservation ; for corn- , plaints are, we observe, bandied about that liberal clergymen are made to talk blasphemy, sedition, or nonsense in conservative papers; while liberal papers declare themselves ashamed to reproduce the conser- vative speeches at all. It will be worth some little painstaking to secure the best report; and the record should then be put away carefully under the foundation stone of a bridge, to interest and astonish • some remote generation. At a former meeting of the officials of this rand deanery it was resolved that a meeting should be held about this time, that opinions might be ex- pressed by clergymen and churchwardens on the subject of Church-rates, with a view to sending up a petition to Parliament. Thus there had been time for preparation ; time for the lawyers to refresh their law, and for the clergy to revive the history of the dues of the Church. Yet it stems as it a score of persons summoned from their stands on market-' day to talk about Church-rates could scarcely have manifested a more complete ignorance of the history, nature, and incidence of the impost than was exhi- bitted by both clergy and laymen on the °sea- • lion we refer to. We kuow no thi ng o f any person present beyond the representation of the report ; but, judging each speaker out of his own mouth, we must say that, however great may be our 1 ?ceders' familiarity with Church-rate debates, and their enjoyment of Mr. Taottore's novels, they would be considerably astonished at the speeches uttered in St. Chad's vistay on the 4th inst. The proposal being made that not "an isolated " petition" but "a goodly number" from the neigh- buurhood should be sent up, praying the Legislature to preserve the law of Church-rates in its present state, an unfortunate clergyman hazarded an intimation that the law cannot remain as it is; that Government intends to alter it; and that the practical object now is to obtain the beat terms that can be had. A ehurchwardeo, named Motet,, who appears to be of the legal pro- ' fesvion, declared that "he could not sit still and " hear a body of Churchmen called on to make " terms." It seems, Indeed, that this gentleman • cannot sit still to hear anything, for he interrupted the speakers so often, and treated them so rudely, as I to have constituted himself the nuisance of the meeting, though it was pointed out that he was wrong in his law, in treating Church-rates as a charge npou the land, strong in his account of the objections of Dissenters, wrong in his view of the 0 1 history of Church resource'', and in his counsel as to the policy of Chinchuien at the present time. The interesting point ef the ease is, that two or three clergymen spoke in a reasonable way, explaining the nature of the charge, relating what had been bone in Parliament and decided in tho Courts and the Privy Council, and how the case stood in various TEE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER l9, 1858. large tower, and what might now be hoped and attempted ; and that these speakers were in sulted, Neon or less openly, by the general body of their hearers, as well as by the realms Mr. Mows. When they leaked what maid be done when the highest judicial authorities had decided that ;Church-rates are a personal tax, imposed at the pleasure of a majority in vestry, and what ooald be loped when repeated decisions of the House of 01=seeas bad pronounced against the tax, they wee" scolded for " lowering the flag of the Church" is Shrewsbury, and the neighbours who had invited them to come and speak their opinions were, we Oar another, " grieved to hear utterance given to °each sentiments as had been heard that morning." Yet the nearest approach to the radicalism of dissent We a suggestion that. out of consideration for the Dissenters, a method of redemption of Church-rates night be rendered permissive. No Dissenter PIS pressat to give warning—no Churchman eanlbasni to remind the debaters—that the Diallers will not accept any scheme which provides for Church-rata being paid under seas new name or form. The idea of yield ing the old mode of laying a rate in vestry was too mach for the meeting—keenly sensible as they ex =themselves of the annoyance of encountering tees " in that place where peace and concord • slope should dwell, but which was made the scene •et discordant noises and discreditable confusion." To meet these Dissenters or " lower the flog of the " Church" is the dreadful alternative of the day ; end no choice between the two was arrived at St. Chad's Vestry. The Dissenters we= declared to carry their consciences in their breeches' pockets; to defraud the Church and State, deliberately and audaciously ; and to be that sort of people who " hardly know what their religion is for six months O together," but who " run the round of all the " chapels, and then come to church at last"— which, if true, shows Shrewsbury to be a pleat of more activity than is commonly supposed. But, after all, be the Dissenters what they may, there they are—both in Shrewsbury and else where; they have resolved not to pay Church-rates; they have ascertained legal methods of avoiding the payment; and a very large and increasing number of sound Churchmen, including clergymen, are uniting with them to get the support of the churches put on a better footing. These being the undeniable faets of the use, the Shrewsbury speakers vented their grief in lamentation and reproach about the apathy of their neighbours, and of good people is general, which had allowed matters to come to inch a peas. On that ground all could join, foe the stabbed advocates of a practical arrangement were as sorry as those who would not hear of change foe the majorities in the Commons, and the difficulties anticipated in the Lords; but, unfortunately, lamentation and reproach will not bring the Dissenters under the yoke again, nor recall the declarations of Churchmen who desire peace in their parishes, and the cheerful and digni fied support of their churches through voluntary ow -1 nagements, or a recognition of the principles of Christian liberty. It is true they do not conceive, like the Rev. Dr. NIHILL, of Shrewsbury, that so nny is preserved from universal thievery by the °lurch alone, which ought therefore to be sup ported by Dissenters who value their property. Bat the morality of their parishes may turn out to be not the worse, but the better, for the absence of an sonely quarrel among Christian sectaries. All these onsiderations, however, are es commonplace as Pro testantism itself is to the British public. The whole Shrewsbury case is worth notice only as showing the degree of darkness in which some persons and some thine are living who send up petitions to Parlia ment about the subjects of the day. The end of the discussion in St. Chad's vestry was, that a sonsaittee of clergymen and laymen was appsiated, for the purpose of framing pe ados', and agitating and consulting, at bane and abroad, with a view to support the Church and its friends, especially in regard to Church-rates. This is all very well—much better than sitting still in ignorance, or doing much talk and no work. But it is to be hoped that somebody will keep an eye on the Shrewsbury petition, if the Church leaders there arrive at getting one framed. Seeing what their diversity of notions and irritability of temper is now, when they have everything to learn, we shall be curious to see what concurrence they arrive at by the time the session opens ; and how they will reconcile their declared principles and will with ministerial inten tions in regard to Church•rates. The Dissenters of Shrewsbury, too, have received a virtual challenge from their clerical neighbours to prove their rights and powers ; and it is to be supposed that they will not allow these wonderful spokesmen of the vestry to represent all Shrewsbury. If they are not visible in their own streets, they will probably make them selves heard in Parliament. THE LA7II LIEUTENANT B. Ir. DANFERB. Lieutenant R. W. Danvers, who was so unhap pily killed by the accidental discharge of a musket after the taking of Namtow, bee an additional claim to connnentors- don in these columns es the writer of certain letters which, ender the title of the " Leaguer of Lockmw," were perused some months ego with vivid intemet by the readers of t h e lorproso. Mr. Danvers sabered the Bengal Army in 1834, as an en sign of the 70th Bengal Native lofantry. When his roe nest wan dies:mod at Barrackpore, he volunteered as inter peter of this 6th Familiars, than about to march up the iseautry to the wont scenes of the mutiny. In this ospaolty he joined Havelock's column In the relief of L•ckaow; and (se the kitten have shown) shared all the peril, of this opentien and of the subtenant siege After seeing the gal lent regbassit to which be was attached undergo an almost serapisle change of officers from it* losses in action. he IMPIIMIIk while serving under Bir James Outrun at the Alsmingh, what turned out to be • serious wound, which /sally sent him down to Calcutta for his cure. Slowly re covering from his crippled state (and avoiding the appeal for sick leave, whirl-, under such Mrcutostiutcas, no Lucknow sembatent would have made in vain), be anabnaly sought to return to the glorious Campaign ha had unwillingly let. But his regiment havtag Nailed for China, he was obliged to join It then. In that service he met his death. The morn ing after the capture of a fort at Namtow, he formed ore of a group of officers talking together, when suddenly the re port of • gun was heard, and Mr. Danvers, shot through the body by a musket bullet which traversed the liver end heart, became insensible, and died as he wu being coon) ed to the boats. So died, at the warty age of 26. an °Slow for whom those beet gualfded to judge predicted eminence In his profession, and whose iterllng goodness fi eves a greater loss to the service. It will be long before those who knew him forget the culd rated intellect, the true and tender heart, and the deep (though unobtrusive) piety of this brave yowl, soldier. The enantry and the friends of such men may well feel that the time qualities which embitter soften their Ices ; and that England can afford to be thankful for her very dead. MESSRS. ELKIWOTON AND CO Nsw Pricings., tx LiviitrooL.—Yews. Elkingtort sad Co., the well known electroplate, kc., Man awl a revs, yesterday opened their magnificent new premises M Charch-sheer, Liverpool. The principal show-room is 100 feet la length by 40 wide, and 31 feet 10 inches in height. It contains about 60,000/. or 70,0001. worth of property in gold, silver, and ela•tro paled articles. The premises, which are perhaps the meet splendid ever erected in Liverpool by • single firm, are four stories in neigh', sni form a most important addition to the architectural features of the town. gtic €ourt. Her Majesty's journey tram Edinburgh will be ;sawed as follows :—The Qum, Prince Consort, Primes and Primroses, end royal Mite, will leave Edinburgh at ILO a.m. on Wednesday, aretvhsg at Dunbar 8.68, Berwkk (North-Eastern Railway) 9.46, Blinn 10.38, Newcastle 11.27, Darlington 12.34, York (on the Great Northern line) 1.46 p.m., Doncaster 3.11, Newark 4.10, where her Majesty will be received by the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Leicester, and other dignitaries. Here her Majesty will remain, while the engine is replenished with water and fuel, some ten minute.. Thence proceeding on It. course, the royal than will arrive at Peterborough at 6.9; it will next stop at Biggleewede, 358 miles from Edinburgh, at 8.10, when the engine and carriage will be again huipeond ;no stoppage will afterwards take plane until the train arrives et King's-cross at 7.20. Up to this point the train will bounder the management of Mr. Seymour Clarke and the directors of the Great Northern Railway. The secretary of the North London Railway, Mr. H. Chubb, will here take charge of the train with the directors of this section of the journey. Passing the Camden goods statioe,Hilburn, Willesden, Acton, Hew, it will arrive at Kew junction at 7.49, where the train on the South Western system will be under the &realms of Mr. Archibald Scott, the traffic manager, Mr. Beattie, the locomotive superintendent, on the engine, and the directors of the South-Western Railway, passing thence the various intermediate stations, and arriving at Windsor at 8.16; the journey being thus performed In twelve hour*. On arriving at Windsor, her Majesty will be received by Colonel Seymour, Equerry to the Queen, the Mayor and Magistrates of Windsor, Mr. Madigan, the dis trict superintendent and station-master at Windsor. A guard of honour, under the command of Colonel Wynward, °randier Guards, will receive her Majesty at the exit porch of the station, where the royal carriages will be in attend ' anoe to convey theroyal party to the Coatis. On Tuesday (this day) the junior branches of the royal family will arrive at the Castle from Osborne. PEOROGATTON OF PAELLUIENT.--(THIS DAlf.)— Parßamat was this afternoon further prorogued by Royal Commission until Thursday, the 18th of Nov. nest, the significant words, " then to meet for the despatch of divers argent and important affairs," not being included in the communion. The proceeding weal a mere matter of form. Yesterday her Royal Highness the Duchess of Lai, excoriated by their Renee Hielineage' the Prince sad Primus Leiniagee, drove out la the °Telt Park, Wisdom. Her Royal Highness is in the enjoyment of excellent health. Hie Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Conners Bereetorff have bet town on a visit to the Karl end Countess of Derby. The Marchioness of Waterford has left Claridge'. Hotol for Canasta:ion', helium:l. Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond are receiving company at their seat, Cadlands, near Southampton. Amongst the oceapeay last week were Admiral Sir George Seymour in-Chid at Portsmouth) and Lady Seymour, CL um a i d i ty Camoys, Mr. and Lady Rose Lovell, Mrs Lane Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, the Mimes Seymour, Captain H. Seymour, Colonel Powell, &o. The Right Hon. Sir W. G. Hayter, Bart., M.P., and Lady Hayter have left South-bUI Park, for Paris. Mr. James Garth Marshall and the Hon. Mrs. Marshall and Miss Marshall have left the Clar sad= for Paris. On Friday evening her Ornce the Duchess of Northumberland was present at the Richmond Theatre, on the ooession of the benefit of Mrs. W. Sidney. In Newcastle, Lady Don has been performing in the Daughter of gAe Befingegst, giving the liataplan song with great effect. In the play-bills, however, the celebrated sir is called the Rattle-pen song! A meeting of members and friends of the Man chester Mechanics' Inientate was held last evening in the lecture-ball of the institution, for the purpose of the distribution, by the Earl of Carlisle, of the certificatee of merit awarded by the council of the Society of Arta to those students in the dame of the institution who distin guished themselves at the recent examination by the society. There was a good attendance. Mr. Oliver Heywood, the preilden., took the chair; and there were upon the platform the Earl of Carlisle, Pile Mackie, Esq., mayor of Men cheater (whose gnat his lordship is) ; William Harvey, Esq., mayor of Salford ; Aldermen Sir Elkanah Armitage and Sir lomat Watts; ?desire. William Fairbairn, C.E., F.R.S. • Richard Roberta, C.E. ; R. Barnes, W. R. Wood, Thome Barley, William Ross, Leonard limper (factory inspector of the district), Harry Rawson, Joseph Heron (town clerk) ; the Revs. Canon Richton, William Osaka, P. Nicholson, T. W. Marriott, Professor Hewitt, and Professor Hall, and most of the directors of the institution. We (Preston Guardian) are sorry to learn, from a letter remised from Mr. C. P. Grantsll, M.P., that he has been labouring for some time under impaired health. He says:—" I have been prevented visiting Preston this sum mer by a severe and stubborn attack of influenza. I have had it above four months." Lord Dunfermline had a private audience of the King of the Belgians at the Palace of Brame' on Sunday. The Emperor Napoleon is expected to leave for Compiegne on the 24th. 4. Adolphe Heichenheim, a wealthy Jewish merchant, at Berlin, being deelrous to testify the estimation in whirl the character and attainments of Alexander von Humboldt are held by him, made, on the occealot of that eminent man's 89th birthday, a donation of 5,000 tinders to the society cstatdiehad for the purpose of affording aid to poor students of the Jewish persuasion, the oondition being attached to it that the sum so placed at their disposal should be administered as the " Humboldt fund." This, of course, has been readily agreed to, and a graceful acknowledgment from the venerable savant hie landed a gratifying return to the liberal donor. Mr. F. G. Lee, of Dane's-inn Chambers, Strand, complains that at the meeting in St. James's Hall, yester day, he wee prevented by the chairman from proposing the following amendment:—•' That this meeting, taking into oonskteration the feet that confession is obviously amaodoesd by the Book of Common Prayer, refuses to condemn those clargrosn of the established church who only carry out its plain directions by the practice of it." MR. ALBERT SMITH AT HONG KONO.—HO:ret Homo, Avot:er 22.—" Hue we see all safe and sound, among them at lest, surmunded by junks and pigtails, end noble ladies and gentlemen. I have bought the enclosed picture, from a splendid merchant who has come off to the aide of the ship on three planks, by the aid of a broometkk. We left Singapore on the 2 3rd ult. I was immensely delighted with it; it is quite a Chinese plus. The shed shops are such rich places, they sell the mod wooderftd things in them—toys sad gods serl lantegui& sad kins uo parties and quo, crockery. The filth demist in tie eating house* far surpasses that cooked at that old trotters; at Orme. It consists for the most part of rats, bats, snails, bad eggs. and hideous fish, dried in the most frightful atti tudes. Some of the nretstwaiwirs carry their wok/hops about with than on long poles, with the kitchen at one end led the oak 41-esanger at the other. Thee. are celebrated for a soup made, 1 should think, from large caterpillars, boiled in a thin gravy with onion*. The barbers also carry their shops about, end they shave, cut beards, and syringe can right in tits middle of the strut. A Chimes merchant asked me to dinner. I went,' of course, and after dinner we started for the theatre. They played a Chinees opera with about fifty performers; there were lots of devils in the piece, with tumbling sod fighting In every scene. They only had one aerialist end two gongs in the orebeetes, but when then weea situation in the piece one fellow knocked two hollow canes together to show the indium they wore to applaud. The merchant lives in first-rate style and bu a wonderful ..anion. All the fruit trees are very small; then were pines like cabbage', and • quantity of a large creeper willed 'monkey caps,' because down the stalk them ars reinter Filchers and tops filled with water, from whiohJacko refreshes niroself in the woods. There were also among his live stock Cashmere goats, porcupines, kangaroos, Pekin pig., and Brahmin bull. , and in the jangle across the valley tigers and all sorts of novelties. I slept on shore that night, or rather I went to bed, bat I could not sleep, as I 11141101 the noise of the screw arid the creaking of the timbers • and the bed was too steady. The lest night before we got to Hong Kong we had an entertainment ' on board, and I was stare manatee. We made • first-rats room of mile and Nu, and the whole sff,lr went off capitally. There are no hotels at Hong Kong, but a very nice club with bed-rootaa. I wee proposed sad elected as soon as I arrived, so that Is very jolly. To-day they hold a Chinese Ms in honour of their dead reLdirins. They keep firing crackers all day in the streets and burn thus Meg puddles. I don't think they care much about their religion ; they go into the temples to get 0001, or sit down, or go to sleep. The children ere frightened at the g4th, they ars an hideous ; they roar with terror when they are placed in front of them. The people walk about with their hats on, and whistle and smoke, and do what they like • the torrettants selling gilt paper and putties e't round thi ridei. and mistimes they beat a prig to attract caroming. Nothing that I can writs now an give you the least ides of this wonderful place; I on every hou r h ow very hichful Cooks'e descriptions were." It is now arranged that the opening of the Cham bers on the 20th instant will be performed by the Prince of Prussia in penes. The deliberations of the two homes of parliament, united in one by the terms of the oonstitution,will be conducted by Prince Rehenlohe, the President of the Upper Howe. .It is generally understood that the business will be confined to the question of the Regency, and will merely consist in passing a vote rem:lip:using the creation of the Regency as being in strict accord ance with the contents of the Charter, but that if any other business is considered necessary to be transacted, it will be done in separate sittings of the two houses respectively. The negotiations being carried on with Austria relative to a joint energetic conduct in the affair of the Duchies, are nearly brought to a conclusion, and there is every chanoc of their being successful. It ispro posed to give Denmark one chance more in the shape of an ultimatissimum, and then to march in an army of 50,000 men—half Prussians and half AMP. trians—to occupy the Duchies and administer their revenues till Denmark oomes to reason. What will England and France, and, above all, Russia, say to this I' LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE PORTUGUESE DIFFICULTY. The Patti*, in an article on the Portuguese diffi culty, explains that the article in the treaty of Paris recommending that, in cue of a serious difference between States, they should, before resorting to arms, seek the good offices of a friendly Power, is governed by the words "so Was circum stances may admit," and therefore is not at all applicable to the present French quarrel with Portugal. That, it says, relates to a question of dignity and honour requiring reparation, and not leaving any door open for conciliation. It is in structed to say that the French ultimatum comprises three points: the immediate restitution of the Charles Georges ; the enlargement of the captain sentenced to two years' imprisonment in irons by the Court of Mozambique ; and an indemnity, the amount of which is to be ultimately settled. As to the first two points the French government will neither hear of a legal trial delay or good offices. It will accept of nothing but satisfaction. As to the third, it is quite willing to accept the good office of a friendly Power. It is stated that the French government de spatches from Lisbon, which have hitherto been sent through England by way of Southampton, will hereafter come by French packets to St. Nizaire. FRANCE. (7110/I 0011 OWN PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The following telegram received this morning is accepted u conclusive evidence that the story of the usassination of European consuls at Tetouan, which has met with implicit credenoe in France for nearly • week, wu altogether false : . _ M Atom's, OCT. 17. "We have received the following despatch from Oran :—' The Tenger steamer has arrived. De spatches from the Consul-General, dated Oct. 12, make no mention of the supposed events of Tetouan. They must, therefore, be pure invention. There is nothing important from Morocco, which is simply agitated by ordinary troubles in various places.' " The Bourse hes been very heavy, under the influ ence of large deliveries of stock, and the fear that there will be more at the end of the month. The Itente fell 20c. for cash, and 25c. for account, closing at 73fr. and 73fr. 10c. ; Mobilier fell 20c. The rail: ways were much depressed ; Orleans fell llfr. 26c. ; Southern, 16fr. ; and the other lines about ofr. PIEDMONT. The Opinions of Turin, of the 16th, publishes some documents relating to the affair of the Israelite Mortara, including a duly legalised cer tificate from a surgeon who for many years has visited the Mortars family professionally, and it declares that at the time the servant secretly ad ministered baptism to the child it was only • twelvemonth old, and labouring under a worm-fever ; that, consequently, the boy was not, according to the church, of an age at which baptism could be administered without the consent of his parents, and that he was not in •rticulo mortis, another condition required by the church ; so that, even according to Romish doctrine, the baptism was illegally administered. The court of Rome must not be allowed to aide off upon a false issue. The illegality of the baptism question is not disputed even by the Univers. The ground on which it is pretended to justify the rob bery of the child is that the baptism, though illegal, was valid ; and that, therefore, the church cannot permit a member of its body to be educated out of its communion. PRUSSIA. (VROII OCR. Owe COPAIIISrONDIDIT.) BERLIN, Ocr. 16. One of the most satisfactory consequences of the recent dismissal of the late Minister of the Interior is the formation of associations for conducting the approaching parliamentary elections in a constitu tional manner, which are springing up everywhere throughout the Prussian dominions, and which Herr von Westphalen never tolerated. The citizens of Bres lau were the first in the field, and the programme of their principles, with here and there a slight modifica tion, has formed the groundwork of those of the other electoral districts. In their address to the voters they acknowledge themselves firm adherents of the monarchical system, as the most beneficial to the interests of Prussia at home and abroad, and the one under which the kingdom has been raised to its pre sent high position as one of the five Great Powers of Europe. They recognise the existence of the constitu ben as the chief bulwark of its liberty and progress, and whilst they in the most decided manner depre cate an 7 attempt to go backwards, they are fully determined to support the rational development of parliamentary reform, as found to be from time to time required by the practical exigencies of a mode rate spirit of constitutional progress. The chief reforms, required at the present time, are summed up as follows: L A guarantee for the freedom of elections, and perfectimpartiality in conducting them. 2. l'he division of the country into fixed electoral districts by means of a general law on the subject. 3. A remodelling of the duties and attributes of the provinces and circles, u well u a reform of the communal and civic institutions with a view to more liberal self-administration. 4. Abolition of the still existing ancient feudal right of landed proprietors to exercise the powers of the police and civil oottrts on their own estates (Patiimonial-Geriehtsbarkeit). 6. Abolition of the existing exemptions from pay ment of the land tax. 6. The passing of a law relative to the respon sibility of mummers. 7. Revision of the laws relative to the public journals, fur the better protection and liberty of the press. 8. A law for the uniform regulation of public education, in conformity with the words contained in the 20th Article of the Constitution, that " know ledge and the acquirement of it are free." 9. The fulfilment of the promise contained in the 12th Article of the Constitution—" the enjoyment of • civil rights and appointmswts to office are sot atm ted by religious tenets." 10. Revision of the legislative enactments relative to the impartiality ofjustioe, the admission of every ,ione to seek redress for supposed wrongs in the civil tribunals, and, above all, the abolition of the preroga tive of the executive to compel the omission or com mission of an act sanctioned by the courts of justice. A great agitation has already commenced in this city far the purpose of ensuring the return of more liberal members at the approaching general elections than those who represented Berlin in the old parlia ment. A constitutional committee is being formed, and amongst the list of candidates It is proposed to place the advocate Herr Schwark, es unward for his dignified constitutional conduct in resisting so effec tually the execution of the decrees lately levelled against the press, and by which he his justly ob tained some local celebrity. An attempt wu since made to bring him before the Court of Civil Delin quencies fur his daring to resist the authority of the late Minister of the Interior, but the accusation woe quashed by the Minister of Justice, who RIM the Er csuity of turning over a new leaf, and deferring to the public opinion sounequivocally and unanimously expressed b all the organs of the press, with the single exception of the Ifreua-Zeitung, which con tinues to growl over the new situation of affairs in isolated solitude. AUSTRALIA. (MOW OCR OWN COI SYDNEY, hue. 11. For a considerable time past commercial affairs h►ve remained in a state of great depression, in con sequence of the warehouses beinf overstocked with English and American goods. It le quite evident that until a great part of the stock on hand is cleared off the imports continually arriving must, if sold, be disposed of at a price disastrous to the shippers. The evil long complained of—great irregularity in the mail service—has tended to cramp the ordinary ope rations of trade, and efforts are being made to pro cure the adoption of the Paoasa route instead of that by-way of India. The presence of a considerable naval and military force at Port de France, New Caledonia, the French station in the Pacific, has occasioned some uneasiness here, lest the three ships of war, two war steamers, and 1,000 military, should be assembled within a few days sail of Australia, with hostile views. The ad vices just received, contradicting a prevalent rumour of a rupt-re between England and France, has quieted the alarm. . _ A new electoral bill for this colony has for some time past occupied the attention of the House of Assembly. Manhood suffrage and vote by ballot have been affirmed. The effect of this large exten sion of the franchise will be to give a preponderance to the town constituencies over the " squatting " in terest—the pioneers of Australian prosperity. The electric telegraph front Adelaide to Melbourne is in full work. The line northward, from the latter capital to Sydney, is in a state of forwardness, the work being in progress on each aide the border, the junction to be at Albany. When completed the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia will have the benefit of rapid communica tion to the extent of nearly a thousand miles. The new lighthouse at the entrance of Port Jack son being finished, a bright fixed light is nightly exhibited. The lighthouse stands on the edge of the cliff, forming the Inner South Head, at an elevation of 60 feet above the sea level. A new gold-field has been discovered in the north of this oolony, which is said to be the seat of a rich auriferous deposit. It is in the Port Curtis district, about thirty miles from Rockampton and seven from the Fitzroy river. The diggers, who are as yet only " surfacing," are well satisfied with their earnings. What are called the old gold-fields, though so long and diligently worked, exhibit no falling off in the produce. The Yeas mail-oosch was stopped about three weeks ago by two highwaymen with blackened faces, who robbed the passengers of money and valuables to the amount of 2001., and carried off the mail-bags. One of the latter has been found, unopened, and an active search after the thieves has resulted in the capture of a man supposed to be one of them. We have 'lately heard of serious outrages com mitted by the aborigines on the borders of the settled districts, who have murdered some of the whites, and committed felonious assaults on females. For a long time previously the natives had been peaceable towards the settlers. Mr. Roberts, civil engineer of Sydney, who has been for several months engaged in surveying the squatting district of the Barwan, lately fell in with a party of the " hairless savages," whose existence has recently been made known. They comprised • family of six, a man and his wife and four children, all totally destitute of hair. Their oomplexion is of • copper colour, less dark than that of the North American Indians, and partaking more of the Mexican tint. It is supposed that this family is the produce of an intermixture of the Malays and the north-western black tribes of Austraha, driven from the interior by continuous and incessant drought, or that they are the remnant of some ex tinct race. The winter, now on the eve of giving place to our Australian spring, has been unusually severe this year. Snow has fallen in some places, to the vast admiration of many a colonist under twenty years of age; and the creeks in various parts have been covered with numerous flocks of swans, ducks, teal, widgeons, and other wild fowl. Nevertheless, an extensive drought has prevailed in the southern district, causing great destruction among the cattle from the want of food and water. The pnoe of meat is consequently high in the Victoria markets. CANADA. (7710311 ♦ SPACIAL TORONTO.Oc-r. 4. The Exhibition, which the Prince of Wales was invited to attend, is over, and has been a great sue °es.. Lord Napier, the British Minister at Wash ington, was expected to be present, but was detained by the illness of Lady Napier. The show was the annual one of the Provincial Agricultural Association, which also includes manufactures and floe arta ; bat it was rendered more noticeable this year by the building erected for it at Toronto, which may be compared, though on a much smaller scale, to those of the Exhibitions in London, Manchester, Dublin, and New York. The concourse of people was larger than on former occasions, and I wish some of the London editors, who have been lately calling us barbarians because we would not locate our capital in the worst possible place, could have been here to see our Exhibition. A Canadian crowd is not a very well dressed one, but it is remarkably intelligent, and there is always more wealth in the pocket than is displayed on the back. Our sturdy farmers do not wear broad cloth; but they have each the tide deeds of his one, two, or three hundred acres—in his chest at home; most of them have the means of furnishing each son with a " wild lot," and some can do the same for their daughters ; they have schools for their children, churches for their clergy, and freedom for themselves. The Governor-General opened the exhibition building, and it was instructive to see the way in which be was received by the people. A few office-holders and office-seekers got up a cheer at the door, and there were one or two hisses, but the great mass received him with frigid, heavy silence. There were 8,000 people in the building, and when he mounted the date not a sound was heard. Ills Excellency took his reception so much to heart that he did not even pass through the grounds, but drove off as fast as he could. A sentence has jut been passed in default by a council of war at St Petemburgh, upon an ensign of Dragoons, named Sedoveky, who, du , log the war in the Crime*, went over to the Turkish army, and subsequently renounced Christianity f.ir the klahomedan faith. The sen tence daisies him a traitor to his country. His name, ar tacbed to a gibbet, will be exposed in a public place, and be himself, if ever taken, will be openly degraded by the hands of the hangman, who will break his sword upon his bead, &0., after which be will be ant to labour for life in the mines of Siberia, never leaving the depth' of the mine, THE OUTWARD PENINSULAR MAlLS.—'lle steam ship Valetta. Capt. Kell‘xl. kit S..,u , nsnipton yesterday with the above owl., 40 paseaugerv, 40,0001, in speLie for Lisbon, and a toll cargo. its lodges Till .ATLANTIO CABLE. (WWII A MT.) VALBNTIA, Oct. 16. Nothing stirring beyond the fact that the cable between the island and the mainland, which *lure to the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company, again fallal on the 12th, and although the weather was far from lee yesterday, it was =deer* by their agent, Mr. Walker, sag found to have broken or been severed about ten yards nearer the island than the last time. To-day. if fine, it is to be again spliced ; in the meantime, Mr. Walker his vow aeg then to cross over to the mainland, where the iron hut forme an office, to us if there are any messages waiting at nay. On the 12th, Mr. Bartholomew, the superintendent of the Atlantic telegraph here, received • telegraphic message than was posted In Killarney, to the effect that until kale, orders no current WAS to be sent into the cables excep t that generated by Henley's coll.. Yesterday afternoon M r . Keg, w h o wen t out last August in the Niagara, .4 who has only returned within the last fortnight fro t ig,„ rice, arrived for the purples of laying the long-talkeg.# ' shore cable which has been daily expected round from tee. don In a sloop. Mr. Kell says the rejoicings at New Iteet all belief, and he thinks Mr. Cyrus W. Field for the Irthallt a lme will again come over to this country. This dire* e has the reputation of being meet active, although th e chairmen of the oompany Mr. Samuel Gurney, M.P., is Ivy attentive. Here it is said that they ere waiting to obtain th e government guarantee of 4 per cent. for all money laid cm already and that might be required; but whether lee ask the islanders or the telegraph clerks you get Lbr same answer—We have no knowledge what the director, are doing or what they intend to do. If a conclusive prat is required of their uncertain proceedings, I will mention theta 1857 the Niagara paid out 380 miles of cable. 10 of which wee shore cable, although 15 miles were originally intended to iv laid. Shortly after the first failure, the Leipzig steams awe round to take this up; 41 mike of shore cable wee he down, the farthest end out to sea being anchored as it is # present ; 49 miles of the 380 were taken up, and toors, think, might have been, had Sir Charles Bright gene* himself. There Is another half mile of chore cable coned" under the sand on the mainland, so that there is now 'easily at the station five miles of shore cable. When Mr. Whit s . house applied for more shore cable, there was 35 milted it at Plymouth, more taken round to London. Not I understand, after a delay of nearly three months, Ere miles of shore cable is to be sent round from London, which will make 10 miles in all, and would make 10 miles in length if the old shore cable is used. Now it Is not likely that * damage is in the first 10 miles, although, of course, it is pee. "ibis. The directors, one would imagine, would tto lay down afresh, say 50 miles, 20 of shore and 30 of ry ordinate cable. Then Mr. Whitehouse. ideas would be proved, SA it fi still quite possible that the damage may be near shore, not withstanding the contrary opinions of Professor Thomson, Mr. Verley, Mr. Henley, dec. One thing is very at tain, if the new shore end, when laid, does not improve mamma, the season is too far gone to do anything mcre this year, although signals from Newfoundland were evidsul yesterday afternoon. The Atlantic Telegraph staff at pew sent consists of the Superintendent, Mr. Bartholomew, and five clerks or assistant., viz., Meats. Collett, Kiogsford, Catena, Bull and Smith. These latter each daily watch 4 hours and 48 minutes, and the present system is to try and send neessiges from Valentin at the even hours, say 4 to 5, 6 to 7, Itc., and receive at the odd. I believe all the eta here have got notice to leave the company on the 30th November, unless anything favourable turns up. In sff probability Mr. Hell, who has been connected with the Mediterranean Cable will be able to commence operations in about three days, and the general belief is that the shore end will be brought in peat the Lighthouse instead of round between Church Island and the mainland as at present. The wo the Superin o sea. tendent, I know, approves of this idea, le it avoids BLECTION 12171ILLIGENCE. Tai BOROUGH OF RZIGATE.—The writ for the elution has at lenfth been sent down. Yesterday morning It wee proclaimed in due form, and Friday morning has been appointed for the nomination. The only candidates ostensibly in the fi.ld are Mr. Monson and Mr. Wilkinson; but Mr. Edwin James came down yesterday, and wu in communi cation with some of the electors, but it is not known wheel,n he intends to stand. It will be recollected that Mr. Wilkie. eon had retired from the contest shortly after the vacancy id the representation of the borough originally occurred, sad Mr. Ed win James then offered himself to the demote , but Mr. Wilkinson a second time announced his intention to stand for the borough, and claimed the support of those electors who had pledged themselves to roes for him in the first instance. This prooeediag crested • complete schism among the liberal electors, and occasioned • good deal of excitement and personal feeling in the borough, and the result was, that Mr. James expressed his Intention not to divide the liberal interest and declined to stand. It Is rumoured that there is an intention again to put him la nomination on Friday, and which is the canes of his coming down to Reigate yesterday. A great dial of angry feeling and excitement prevails non the subject, and the contest is extroted to be a veey_ close one. BOROUGH OF UUILDFORD.—The returning officer received the writ on Saturday and the nominative is ap pointed for Friday next. The only candidate, in the Held are Mr. Guildford Onslow and Mr. Evelyn. UNITEZSITY INTBLLIGZSC3. CAMBRIDGE, Oar. l& MEDICAL STODIEB.—A meeting of the members of the mutate was held to-day, in the Arts School, for the dis cussion of the proposed regulations of the faculty of medicine. It appeared that since these regulations (mainly drawn op ►y the Board of Medical Studies) were submitted to the senate in June last, the act of parliament passed affecting the peso tice of medicine has rendered various alterations necessary. The report was accordingly referred back to the council of the senate for re-consideration by the members, in conjunce tion with those of the Board of Medical Studies. THB La Bee Petze.—This prize for the best English essay BIM Talltleoo to the hiatory, institutions, and probable destinies and prospects of the Anelo-Indian Empire, has been adjudged to Lumley Smith, 8.A., Fellow of Trinity Hall. FIIN MAITLAND PRlM—This prize for en ONA7 OR some subject connected with the propagation of the gospel, through mietsimaary exertions in India and other parted the heathen world has been adjudged to George Frederick Maclean, of Trinity Collate. Quilts' COLLLOIL—Tbe following promotions and oleo. dons to scholarships in this toddy here been this day de. clared : Stone, to be removed to a scholarship of 601.; Longdmi, ditto, 501. ; Moron, ditto, 3 01. ; Whitley, dine, 251. ; Brent, 4 01 . A gratuity of 201. to be granted to Sone, and gratuities to Lees sad Johnson of 101. each. 801 l sad Marsden elected to scholarships of 161. each. THE AUSTRALIAN DESERT.—SAD FATE OP ML COULTUAND.—Despatalwe haws bean received from Mr. &tabbies, who was still prosecuting his exploration, but hi does not appear to have succeeded In finding any country that can be easily made available. His letter, dated Juno 16, describes the finding of Mr. Conithard's relnoties. The body of the unfortunate man lay under a ecrub bath, and at a short distenoe trout him his canteen sad other bash accou trements. Upon one side of that canteen, offering a convex surface atilt shout 12 inches long end 10 incluse deep, it scratched with a nail or some caber rough-pointed instru ment the following Inscription I never reached water do not know bow long it is sines it is that I left Sadt and Brooke but I think it Monday bleeding pomp to 'sive of Ws blood I took his black horse to look for water and the lot thing I can timber is polio, the paddle off him t letting him go until now is not good I am not tit share bow los( it may be wether 2or 3 days I do not know My Tong is stkig to my month & IHe what I have rota I know it is this is the last time I may have of expressing feeling alive & the feeling inn be lost for want ot water Ditty deeds My wog barn I esa tee no More 005 Help." ?Ardor Warburton has also returned to Adelaide from his exploring our, bat he does Dot seem to have boot more snooessfol.—..thotralisis end New &awed giertts. PRE COMMERCIAL Docic COMPANY.—ThisCOM. piny have trued a report preparatory to their rostra a Friday, giving the full particular* of the late trends of theft eecretary, Mr. H. K. Smithere, jen., and their accountant, Mr. William Om. From an inverigation conduoted by Messrs. Quitter, Ball, sad Co., it appears that the total wan 26,3691., rid that the defalcations have extended over a perod of at least 21 years. Smithere was the pr.rnary offender. but he could not have sucoeeded without collation es the part of the accountant. The greater portion of the embezzlement (18,4201.) was achieved by keeping bank par ments received from the customers of the company, and Id these consequently never appered in the earning* they have not now to be matte up as looter. The ismer of the ban ner have, in feet, been periodically understated. The meted amount that will have to be deducted from the Wince of reserved profit is only 7,9'241. Smithery., it dm appears, contrived a fraudulent transfer of 1,0001. NIA atter the meaner of Robson and Red path, which the ease pang have made good out of • sum of 3,8881. in thole "Jr session. In conclusion, the directors explain that the di system of accounts adopted by the company at its comas* men?, nearly half a century MLA, has, in consequence Of these discoveries, been diet-manned, in order to Winto' a new plan, with thoroughly eflhient checks. &Dithers kr been sentenced to six years' penal servitude. and Col, WED had been mote than thirty yeas in the toompry's 'emir to twelve mouths' impri.mwent. DISMISRALOY THESCFERINTENDENT OFTHE HUD DIRSFIELD POLlCE.—Yeeetday afternoon, • epeeist ore fug of the Huddle...field Improvement Comnareletere ran held, to consider the report of the Watch Contralti's ed to the alleged defalcations of Mr. Supertotendent Bremer It was stated that there wore upwards of sixty petty peculation against him, three or four of =bed been proved ro eatirfactorily to the committee that MIT recommended his dissoissal. Moot of the arose wad rated to have consisted In granting bail in came of drunker net to the extent of 12s. or 14s. end upwards- he havNg no power to grant such boil ; and in neglecting to some' the offenders, or to 11COOtIOt for the money he received asks& His wanner of keeping the books wee likewise erred is characterised by the roster careleamert and irregolartili Id being in the habit of receiving money at any time and is awl place, trusting to memory for its entry. Ur. Beeriest sea is him resignation to the board, but it was refund by ego* ray of 18 to 1; end it was rewired to discharge . has free their service, without proceeding criminally apart Wm.-. Naischister Guardian.