The Express. — London, England, 1864-11-04 00:00:00

M R. w L ed E S' l6.. S TR ( t t ,t h ts e siL 9 , R 'S) 73, BROOK-STREET, HANOVER-sQUARK. where "competition is fairly distanced by Miles." ALFRED WEBB WILK& anTABLISIIHD IS4I. GOLD CHAINS.—JOHN BROGDEN begs to call the attention of the public to the FORM of 1N- Vtilci: which he delivers with Gold (i mud Chains purchased at his monufactory : L a. 41. To workmanship of pattern chain, St inches long To IS) ears& gold., weighing oz dwt. gm, at 43 31. Sid. prr ounce, Mint price Total Upon this system, the QUA LITT. WEIGHT, and VALVE of the gold are actually definer. and guaranty,' to the purelboser John Hrogil'in lookuig for a lair remYllc ration on the workmanship only, which is charge 1 according to the Intricacy or simplicity of the pattern. —J OH iG DEN. Goldsmith.—Manufactory. Id, efiriettalstreet. Co, en t•ciirden, Loudon. F.atabh•hcd A.D. M. N. 13. This establishment is closed at 6 in the evening, and on Saturdays at 1 o'clock. NEGRETTI and ZAbIBRA'S One Guinea and Two Ilnincs FIELD 6L1.59R9 and TELINCOPLY are war ranted as sorb elled for power and brilliancy. ti.. and 42a. In *sae. oorepleto.—l, 1I molly/Arden. LC.; Se. Cornhill, LC.; 122. Resent-strrct. IV.. 1.;3, Fleet-street; and Crystal Palace. REMEMBER' we wait Slipper for you after the Co% ent Garden o,ern. at IS V•NS'. nil not. Zia Orintlsis. CORRESPONDENTS.TI) Advertisements Intended for u The Express ' London Evening Pater, must he at the Oftice. 10, &inverts-street, by Iwo <kW:a on the day of publication. RAYNtAERET. 1115 THE RUN AND TRR WIND.—TITE SIR .INC ER. Messrs llone, Farrel, Chippenl de, Compt n , and . NI. , tames Itcatned and Keeley.—ON TIIE sLY. Mr. Buckstssue.—Ausl (.1:1: MARY AN NlL—Commence at T. PRINCESA S. Tan EVINMO, BORN - To 04MM) LUCK. Mr. D. Murray. And THE STREET, OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher. D. Murray, J. Nelson. H. Forrester, and H. Mellon • Mrs H. Marston, Shwa Isaruoti and Gwynn*. LYCEI'Y. Tnis Emma. NUR , ET CalekiVEED.—And THE KING'S BUY: air LI Mewl, Pechter, Ryder, Widdiromb, Wintery, R.iymorl. Clifford. Collett; Maws C. Leclerctl, DI. Iluirikk, E. Layot, aud B. Lavenu. 11RITAXXIA. THID ITIMMIG. THE CHILD. lire. B. Lane. -Sinclug by %I . Albert Steele and 11,111 e. Du:AL—And 1101%—eLlumeive at a/. ❑iGII wATET. AT LONDON. MUDGE. TrTt DU' ruing. th. .. Afternoon. th. 62m. Moni.vir llorion4, 512. 3712. LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4. AN Archbishop, speaking at a meeting of a Church Institute, is likely to have very decided views on the mischiefs of sensational fiction. It is apt to be a very dangerous rival to the wares which his clients have to dispose of. The many excellent works which are published by the various religious societies have at least one feature which they share in common ; amidst a thousand deno minational distinctions they all agree in being dull. The time indeed has past when useful knowledge was the only thing it was thought worth while to circulate, and the original subscribers to the Penn!, or the Sat" rdoy MaffaZine.t might fairly shudder at the light and trifling literature which now takes the place of those solid and sober serials. But the consciousness of their origin seems to cling around their successors ; and, while we admire and appreciate to the full the admirable objects for which they are published, we cannot feel altogether surprised that a constant and intelligent reader of them is a phenomenon of rare occurrence. Scraps of natural history, and a tale in several chapters which paints, in somewhat imaginary colours, the moral progress of a domestic servant, can hardly stand much chance when pitted against the thrilling excitement of " The " White Witch of the Haunted Glen," or " The " Midnight Orgy and the Secret Vow." But let us at least be impartial in our condemnation. hone of us, it is true, have any desire to read these tremendous narratives. We know before barn all the wild absurdities, all the revolting im probabilities they would be certain to con tain. But assuming that we were shut up in an inn parlour, on a wet day, or a winter's evening, and our choice of intellec tual nutriment lay between these, and " Clara the " Housemaid, or Mother's Last Wish," on which of the two would it fall? Unfortunately there is no doubt on the subject. We should read the " White Witch," and probably utilise the expe rience thus gained in subsequent lamentations over the vitiated taste of the lower classes. But in so doing we should altogether forget the fact that under certain L:it en circumstances our taste had lain in exactly the SAIIIr direction, and that those circum • stances arc in eject those which are always present to the uneducated poor. They have only to choose between two forms of penny literature, the didactic and the sensational, and they choose the latter. We once or twice in our lives have the same alternative presented to us, and then we do the same thing. We are inclined, therefore, to accept the love of exciting fiction, the preva lence of which among the lower classes the Arch bishop of Vol:s has been lamenting as a fact which there is little chance ,of seeing altered. At pre sent the readers in question have little or no opportunity of reading anything better ; and, if they had, they have not had the intellectual cul tivation which would enable them to take pleasure in doing so. Dulness, it must be remembered, is a relative term. The higher class of fiction re quires a certain degree of training, in some in stances a very considerable degree of training, before it can be thoroughly enjoyed. Even among the educate.; classes it is only a limited number of persons who really appreciate Miss AUSTEN, and when that is the case there is little room for wonder that the experiment of reprinting the Waverley Novels in the London J 1 1 ,111111( should have proved a failure. To those who see little hope of a cure it is of great moment that the evil should not be over rated, and from the charge of haviog done this the Archbishop of VoRK can hardly claim exemp tion. The mischiv fa which he attributes to this kind of reading aro perfectly real, but we think he has exa..f4erated their extent. It is quite true that the cheery of social life on which these fiction, are based an iitferly false one. It is a very one .sided view of human life which represents it as entirely made up of crime and mystery, which assumes that every house has its skeleton in the cupboard, and credits every man you pass in the streets with a secret which he is labouring to con ceal. But it is ,01:te possible to accept some such theory as this in the abstract, without applying it to individuals ; and we suspect that this compromise is very largely adopted by the readers of whom we are speaking. They may believe generally that the "swells" whom they see in Hyde-pa, kon a summer evening are tread ing on volcanoes, or sitting beneath suspended swords, but the chalices are that, when they come to apply the theory to A. or 8., it is tacitly abandoned. It does not influence their relations with the perienis with whom they are actually brought in contact as servants or workmen. No doubt a false estimate of a class is always an evil, however vague and undistributed it may happen to be ; but the practical harm of it must depend, in a great measure, upon the extent to which it is applied ; and we do not believe that these wild fancies exercise any appreciable in fluence of this kind upon those who theoretically entertain them. The other great mischief which the Aacii- THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1864. BISHOP lays to the charge of sensational &dims is that they throw a remote interest round crisainal passions. That they have a tendency to do;this is certainly true, but fortunately there are other cir cumstances which neutralise much of the harm which might naturally be expected to follow. Ordinarily speaking great crimes are not the offspring of great passions. For one murder which is com mitted from love, or jealousy, or even deli berate revenge, how many are there which can b. 3 traced to no more romantic motive than petty avarice, or drunken rage ! There is no trace of the influences the ARCH BISHOP depre cates in the history of FRANZ Mutxra. The motives which made him a murderer were of the lowest and most paltry kind, they had no intel lectual character, they would have been equally powerful with an idiot. We shall be mistaking our real enemies if we accept a diseased imagination as the ordinary source of crime. The utter want of imagination is a far more real danger, and the reading of exciting novels, though it may do them harm enough in other ways, will not make them more susceptible to the temptations which spring from this source. It is the materialist aide of crime which usually presents itself to the poor. Irbe court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 3. The Queen drove out this morning accompanied by the Princess Helena, and attended by the Equerry in Waiting. Princess Louise wont out driving, attended by Mao. &tamer. Prince Albert Victor took a carriage airing. Lady Buchanan bad the honour of an interview with the Queen. Her if►jesty continue► to receive f►vourable accounts from Darmstadt of the Princess Louis and the infant Prin.'s'', Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong-Kong, and Labium. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have passed through town from Stratbfieldsaye, for Hugheoden Manor, Bucks, on a visit to the Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli. The Duke of Hamilton has gone to Oxford to complete his studies. The Marquis Couynghain will leave his house is Hamilton-place to-merrow. for Crimston Park, York shire, on a visit to Lord and Lady Londesborough. The Marchioness of Exeter and Lady Victoria Cecil arrived in town on Wednesday evening from visiting the Earl of liarrowby, at Bandon Hall, Staffordshire. The noble marquis had previously arrived in town. _ _ Tue 31archioness of Salisbury will give a grand county ball, at Hatfield House, Hertel, on the 24th lost. The Earl and Counteba Spencer, who arrived at Spencer House, St. James's, in the early part of the week from attending their Royal Highneases the Prince and Princess of Wales on their voyage to Denmark, left town yesterday to join Viscount and Viscountels Clifden at St. Leonards-oo•Sea. The Earl and Countess of Wilton have left town for Heaton Hall, rear Manchester, accompanied by the Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton. Next week the noble earl and countess will go on a •uit to the Earl and Countess of Detby, at Knowsley, after which they will proceed to Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, for the hunt ing season, The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings were presented with a handsome testimonial from their tenantry, on Wahresday last, at Donnington Park, Ashby-de-la•Zoucb. Ou the principal piece of plate, the gift to the marquis and marchioness, comprising three splendid candelabra, was the following inscription:—" Presented to the Most Noble the Marquis of Hastings and the Right Hon. the Lady Flo rence Cecilia Paget, on their marriage, July 16, 1864, by the tenantry on the estates at Ashbyde-la•Zouch and Castle Dannington, and the tradesmen of the family." An address, signed by nearly 150 of the leading tenantry subscribers, " beautifully illuminated," accompanied the testimonial. Mr. Balfe has arrived in .Puris and intends to stay the winter there. The Malta journals announce the return to that bland of the Roght Rev. Dr. Trower, Bishop of Gibraltar, from a visit to Greece and the East. In the new number of the Re sue des deu.e Mondes it is observed :—" France, in retiring from Rome, leave. the papacy I." , c.ei-t,"tc with its subjects. It is for the Holy See henceforward to create for itself in that tOr-d-fefe the con ditions of a sew destiny. Once that the obligations of the 15th September have been fulfilled, neither France nor Italy has to answer for the transformations or the duration of the Popt's temporal power." FOOTBALL. CIVIL SERVICE V. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL —This match wes played in Vincentsquam on Tuesday last, ending in favour of the former by one goal, which was cleverly kicked by Mr. Phillipps. Subjoined is a list of the sides :—Civil Service.—. Messrs, A. E. Bateman, G. Freeth, C. Howell, J. Kirkpstnck, H. C. Malkin, J. L. Pattissoo, R. Phillipps, T. 1). Pigott, C. G. Pym, G. B. Voules, C. G. Wsudby, G. Wawo. Westminster.—Mean. R. Pustoa, T. P. Nicholls, F. Guise, R. Harley, F. Lucas, T. Lucas, T. Taylor, F. Pownall, S. W. Chapman, W. T. Liao°, J.B. 'Lomat, and A. N. laldmen. Tae BlslluP OF LONDON IN EDINBUROH.—The Bishop of Loudon, who is now io Edinburgh for the pur pose of delivering the inaugural address of the Philoso phical loatitution ou Friday evening, was entertained by the Lord Provost at dioner on Wednesday. There were present to meet the bishop end Mrs. Tait—The Marquis of Tweeddale, the Coadjutor Bishop of Edinburgh, the Lord President. the Lord Advocate ' Lord Neaves a n d M rs. Neares, Lord Barcaple, Sir D a v i d and Lady Brewster, the Ueae of Edinburgh, Sheriff Tait, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Lothian. the Bee. Mr. and Mrs. Coventrv, Mr. William Smith, Dr. John Brown, Mr. Campbell 'fast, Mr. Pitman, ETHNOLOGICAL Sect err OF LONDON.—The society will meet on Tuesday at 8 o'clock precisely, when the fol lowing papers will be read:-1. "Report of the Ethnolo. gicel Proceedings in Section E of the British Association at Bath." "An .kccount of mime Rude Tribe., the suppoted Aborigines of Southern India," by Dr. Shortt. 3. •On Fixity of Type," by the Rev. F. W. Farrar. • I'ue ROYAL 311LITAItY Ai ADEMY AT WOoLW1(.11. —A committee of officers specially appointed from th e Hone Guards, consisting of Brevet Colonel Sir A. 11. Hors. ford, K.C.8., president, I teputv•Adjntaat•General to the Faces; Brevet. Colonel GambiSir, C. 8., Deputy.Adjutatit 11,oentl to the Royal Artillery ; Lientenant.Colonel Ho°. H. F. Keene, Royal Engineers ; and Brevet-Colonel Charles Tyrishitt, unattached, aides-de-camp to his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding in Chief, sw.terrlay asseni. 14..1 at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, for the purpose of investigating the circumstances attending some isiregularities which have recently occurred in that esta blishment. It appears that for a an. time past • degree of diasatisfaction has been manifested by the gentlemen cii•lets with regard to the provisions supplied at the meas. The meat, it is mated, has been of an inferior quality, and the beer exceedingly unpalatable. One of the young men had the hardihood to make an official complaint on that score, in which be we. backed by a Large number of his comrades. The complainant was thereupon put under four days arrest for his temerity, as the charge wee con. tittered to be without cause. At night a couple of cadets were found to be absent from their quarters, and dummies were discovered supplying their places in bad. The absentees, when called upon to account for their breach of the regulations, pleaded that they were in the bath-rooms. This was considered to be improbable, and not fully sub. stantiated on the part of both. From a conference held On the following morning by the lieutenant-governor (Major-General Sandham) with his }loyal Highness the Governor at the Horse Guards, it was resolved that one of the accused named should be requested to withdraw from the establishment. lin the succeeding day the order was read at a full parade for that purpose, when a general murmur of disapprolaition and hisses ensued, which were with difficulty quelled. In the evening shortly before 10 o'clock one of the howitzers in the grounds was fired with a charge of powder, and on the sergeant on duty rushing out to the spot they discovered the expelled cadet appa rently endeavouring to avoid their presence. He was immediately pounced upon by the sergeants, seven in number, when a scuttle ensued, and three of the sergeanta were precipitated into the ditch forming the outskirts of the grounds fronting the establishment, awl one was, it is stated, somewhat injured. The cadet, whose name from motives of deference is at present withheld, managed to effect his escape. Having been called upon by the corn. rnittee to attend an examination in their presence, he west down to the AT...lony yesterday, and underwent a rigid questioning, which it appears terminated materially in his favour, insomuch that from what transpired at the COP. cludon of the meeting it was nudenwood that the sentence onlering his withdrawal, equivalent to a dismissal, will be suhatituterl be a rustfeAtioto of, probably, a single term from the Academy, after which he will be readmitted. AMERICA. IMPRESS FROM PARIS. LETTER FROM IL JULES FAVRE. (nom OR OWN oonsaromme.) PARIS, THMISDAT Evimmo. Two or three days since the Prance reproduced from a recent pamphlet by the Italian deputy Boggio, a report of an alleged conversation between himself and M. Jules Favre, which, had it been true, would have been most damaging to the cha racter of the latter. It was represented that M. Jules Favre had admitted that his speeches in the Corps Legislatif, advocating the evacuation of Rome by the French troops, were made only in the hopes of doing harm to the Emperor, and that if he (M. Jules Favre) were minister he would never let the King of Italy have Rome. I abstained from noticing this extraordinary statement at the time because, from my knowledge of M. Jules Favre's character, I felt certain it must be a groundless libel. M. Jules Fevre, who has only just returned to Paris after the long vacation to be present at the opening of the law courts this day, now writes the following letter to the France : On nay rettun from a journey my attention is called to your paper of October 30, in which • pretended conversa tion is cited between me and M. Boggio, and which waveraation, you say, k extracted from • pamphlet entitled "Is Florence Rome !" I know nothing of this pamphlet. Bat I cannot believe that M. Boggio, who presented himself to me as an advocate of the Turin bar, and a deputy of the Italian parliament, can have so far forgotten the most ordinary rules of delicacy as to have published without my consent any report whatever of a conversation which was necessarily confidential, much lees to have dis torted it by inventing • ridiculous fable, which is precisely the contrary of all that I have ever said or ever thought on the subject. But your article, written in an unmistakeable spirit, is there ; and my duty is to give the most complete contradiction to every one of its assertions. I have the better right to do this because only the other day 31. Iloggio having done me the honour to write to me I, in my answer, said that I most strongly advised the Italian opposition to accept the convention of Sept. 15; and that I desired with ell my heart and soul to see the day when Rome, freed from all foreign in fluence, might complete that Italian unity which is and ever has been my sins. These sentiments, which I have constantly expressed both in private and in public, suffice to show the falsehood of the story to which you have given currency. I beg you to correct the error in your next number, and remain, Ste., Jcus FLVILE. The France, in inserting the above letter, throws the responsibility of the misrepresentation upon Deputy Boggio, from whose pamphlet it copied literally the narrative which M. Jules Fevre de clares to be false from beginning to end. M. Corte, the deputy of the Corps Legislatif, who was sent on a special mission (financial and administrative) to Mexico, has come back to Paris. His report to the Emperor would be an interesting document. I do not bear of any successor, probably because of the fiction that the Emperor Maximilian is now solidly established on his throne, and is able of himself to keep his budget in good order. It is to be hoped that the great majority of his loving subjects will not like those which General Castagny had to deal with the other .lay, require the stimulus of six mouths' threatened imprisonment to induce them to accept public office. M. Corte brings back with him as a souvenir of Mexico the Cross and the Order of Our Lady of Guadeloupe, conferred upon him by the Emperor Maximilian. Since writing the above I observe a statement in the htdetpcndanre Bar that " the Emperor Maxi milian has recently written to the Emperor Na poleon, stating that owing to the embarrassed state of the Mexican finances the cabinet required the assistance of an able financier. The French go vernment has consequently recommended M. Gi zetti, inspector-general of the Moseageries-Im p6riales, who was chef du cabinet to M. Duces when Minister of Marine." So that M. Corta, who probably is tired of his mission, has a successor. The Patric says that the Cochin China question will be discussed in the presence of the Emperor at a ministerial council to be held at St. Cloud the day after to-morrow. A project for the extension of the savings banks is under consideration, the basis of which is that every post-office should be authorised to receive deposits, so that facilities for using these institu tions may be brought home to every poor man's door. The necessity of taking a long journey to some central town operates practically as a great bar to the investing in savings' banks. The Bourse, after opening weak, became much better at 2 o'clock, when it became known that the Bank of France had reduced the rate of discount from 8 per cent. to 7 per vent. ➢foney became im mediately easier, and there was a brisk demand for most descriptions of securities. The Rents rose 10c. for cash, and 450 c. fur account, closing at 641 r. 70c. and t4fr. 95c. Mobilier rose 25fr. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FIuDAY, Novn 6, 8 A.Y. b. 7., w, Nutru ...... :30.10 40. S.W. 2I 4 9 . W , c kb/edam I 30.20 46 El. W. 2 3 W.N. W. b Leith A...lmam:l 30.35 49 B.S.E. 4 1 S.W. be Greco... Qs— 90.37 45 W. 3 1 W. fl. W. me Gals ay 30.4642 S.S. W. 2 2 W. N. W. c Valenna 30.4640' 5.4. W. 1 0 Z. bo Cape Clear. 30.1443 N. 3 3 E. Queenstown. 30.3 i 43 N. 2 1 W. ton Liverpool Holyhead Pembroke— 30.4339 26 L 1 2 N. N.E. of Pentanos .. 30 50 41 Z. 0 4 Brest 30.334:. P.. NE. 6 b N.C. 431 C L'onent ochef net Plymouth Weymouth 34.4440 N. N. E. .4 4 E. el) Portsmouth 30.4039 N. E. 2 4 LN.L e Loudon 045 44 Z.. 0 4 N.Y.. et —I - I a.vcr Yarmouth . .cs.thorough 30.41 44 W. 1 2 S . W. bc —I 2 Shields 304043 S.W. 2 2 NW. ev,— 2 ;0.:943 E. N. E. 2 6 W. 70. W. Do 1 1 2 a - • - i - 1 - - - I 2 -1 - 3 PR, 'BA BLS. ATCRDA T. ON Minna/II StNDAT. s.W to N, variable, COASTS. W. N. W. to N.N.W. moderate, floe. and bark, moderate to Rosh. N.E to BE. and W Weeriall. S.W. to N. and haek, variable, moderate, moderate to trash. line. NW. In N.E. and back, SOCTENNW. N. E. to W., moderate, moderate. flue. fine. Varilldr•, light to mo- lungs. As nest above. derate, tine. Northern=Poottand. WasterosTretand, Wales, and ad fateales So. , toern =English Chaim.' mut By of &way. Konen) :Eastward ingland and North Sea A letter from 3i , xico in the Si,'cle mentions a singular kind of lottery which is annually drawn in that capital, and gives a copy of the printed notice which bu been posted up on the subject:—" In the convent of Sao Lorenzo, in this capitol, there is drawn every year. on the eve of the Octave of the Ascension, a lottery of masses, which are said on the following day for the souls of those who hare gained prizes. The number of them is in propor tion to the sum received, and a certain part of the masses are also applied to the souls of those who, having taken part in the lottery, have not gained prizes. Notice of the whole is afterwards given to the public, that is to say, the list of the persona who have gained, and the number of masses ap plied to each of them. Those who wish to put any soul in the lottery may apply at the said convent. The entrance i s half a real for each soul. The money Is received by the porter." In wnsequence of the hurricane at Calcutta and the damage done to the mail steamers there. the Peninsular and Orieetel Company's steamer now on the Al.i. andnso station, has beeo ordered to be tot reedy imme diately bbe mat to hal. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S ISENCLI. . _ f3ittinp in aIOCO. —( Before Lord Chief Justice Cockl,urn, and Justices Crompton, Mellor, and Shee. ) WILD! O. TKZ MANCHESTER, /MEE! TELD, AND LINCOLN-HIEL RAILWAY CONIVANY Mr. Temple, Q.C., snicitliiswa.s:laction for cornpeusi• Lion in damages for injuries received through the negligence of the defendant's servants. trie,l at the last Manchester wises before the Lord Chief Justice, when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, danisg. 'I 1 , 2 - O.Y. Execution was stayed to give the defeatiets fem., to wove. ' to reduce tLe damages, on the ground of their being ecces• sive, on their paying alig. into court within • f... night. That had been done, and he accordingly mored foi l a rule for a new trial, on the ground tb.it damages were excessive. The plaintiff, who is a stone. mum residing at Hyde, in Caeshii e, was a passer: r Lc one of the defendant,' trains on the 28th December Lt. I: being Christmas time the train consisted of a greater non.. her of carriages than usual, and on its drawing up t, ti,.. Newton station it overshot the station, the passengers who were in that part of the. with the plaintiff had to alight iu the dark. "i plaintiff in stepping out of the carriage strode ►cross a handle and received the injuries complained of. The tiff appeared to have suffered great pain, but l. is men gave it as their opinion that he would entirely r,. in the course of eight or twelve months, and as the pi ..iit • could not show that his earnings had ever exceid,d , per annum, the sum of 1,250 f. was much too large. The Lord Chief Justice said he thought the were excessive, and be gave on the trial by the he imposed on the defendants a pretty good idea ..! L., estimate of what the damages should have been. Rule gr►nted. LATIET INTELLIGENCE. JAPAN. FORCING OF THE PASSAGE OF THE SIMONO SAKI STRAITS.—THREE DAYS' FIGHTING. We have this afternoon received the following from the Admiralty : "By telegram from Paris we hear that the Straits of Simone Saki are open, the passage having been forced by 16 vessels of war after three days' fighting. All the batteries have been destroyed. and sixty 24 and 36 pounder bronze guns have been embarked. The loss of life has been small, consi dering the result, and no officers have been killed. The Japanese have asked far peace." RUSSIAN POLICY. The Emperor Alexander arrived on Wednesday at Potsdam, in company with the Grand Duke of Weimar. The royal pair will accompany King William and the court of Prussia to the grand hunts at Letzlingeu, after which the Russian sove reign will set out to-morrow for hiy dominions. He has not time, therefore, to preside at the meeting of all the diplomatic agents of Russia, which, according to a statement originating at Paris, has been summoned at Berlin to receive uniform instructions as to the new direction which the Russian government intends to give to its foreign policy. The Invalicle Ruse, however, declares again, in a form which appears authorised, that Russia has no motive for entering into new alliances, and that she wishes to reserve to herself entire liberty of action. (81171 SICS TELEGRAMS.) THE NATIONAL (ITALIAN) BANK. TuktlN, Nov. 4. The National Bank has reduced its rate of dis count from 9 to 8 per cent. TUE AMERICAN ➢TAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 4. The North-German Lloyd's steam ship Hansa, Captain Van Santen, from New York ou the 22nd, has arrived here. She brings 102 passengers for Bremen, 38 for Southampton and Havre, 500 dots. for Bremen, and 5,000 dole. for France. The Hansa left New York on the 22nd, and on the 27th she spoke the American ship Progress, and on the 30th the English bark Walton, of Liver pooL No tidings have as yet been received of the over due steamer Saxonia. It is supposed that she has broken down, and coming home under canvas has been delayed by the long prevailing easterly winds. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MALTA, Nov. 3. The Ellora and Poonah leave Lere at 8 p.m. to day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 6th, and the latter at Southampton on the 12th instant. THE PEACE WITH DENMARK. (aarrsa's IMPRESS. ) BERLIN, Nov. 1. The following are further details of the contents of the peace treaty : It is quite untrue that the German powers have diminished by 500,000 theism the quota imposed upon Denmark, as compensation for the sum she is forced to pay in lieu of the captured ships. It has been stated that the Duchies would be charged with the payment of pensions to all employia who have been dismissed from their poste by the provisional government. This statement is incorrect. Pensions have been ',signed only to inch functionaries as shall be able to prove their right, before the Sleswig-Holstein tribunals. All who have been ' removed for not having previously studied two years at Kiel University, or for having failed in their duties, will not re ceive pensions. The Danish government is bound to return to the town of Flensburg the Museum of Northern Antiqui ties, which has been carried away to Copenhagen. Such archive' and other document, as Danish functionaries have taken with them beyond the frontier of the Duchies are to be restored to the towns to which they belong. During a certain period after the exchange of the ratifica tions the inhabitant, of the Dacbies who may wish to re move into the Danish portion of Sleswig, and rice rerri, shall be freed from all exit and entry taxes, and from all customs duties upon their effects. The treaty, lastly, con tains a clause according to which no inhabitant of the Duchies or Danish Sleswig is to be prosecuted for his acts duriog the war. Herr von Ablefeld, whom the Duke of Augusten_ burg sent here upon a mission some time ago, has again put in an appearance. He is charged with the care of the duke's interests at the Prussian court. The chances of the Grand Duke of Olden burg to the succession in the Duchies have latterly so greatly diminished that sonic amusement is felt at the announcement that the Emperor Alexander has declared himself ready to exert his influence with the Grand Duke to cause him to renounce his claims provided Prussia and Austria will accept the conditions laid down by the Czar. THE BANK OF FRANCE. (ILICTEIeiI IMPRESS.) PARIS, Nov. a The following is the return of the Batik of France for tho week ending to-day, together with the corresponding figures of the previous account : N.A. 5. Ilet. 2'. DIISToft. Pr e. Fr. c. Capital of the Back Protits iu athlttiou to capital r Art. S. he of June 2, 1.... • 6,107,708 SS 6,087,059 37 Relen, of the ItAtik and ita _ brandies Rescue in landed property 4,utaikuno U 4.ternaino Nob.* iu ..ireul iou . . 74e,664,0%, 0 14, 5 7 0 7,47.5 0 Bank notes t n ~e.tee and eempt.s payable at sight. Trey tary aeLouutt —current ere _ _ ~ —...-- .Itt. , r Current account~ Paris Intt" br.ch hanks Divititn.li pa. able Macont.atlaundry interests 1G.570,1014 2d 15,294,012 45 lit-di4et.uutv.l the List aid up .ohs Sundries tfAq.73.5 IT 2,q1Q.77s IT 1404:.025 44 0,071,0•2 42 1,2:3,614.513 16 1,110.013,507 11 tiny. 3. CRItDrrOR. IFr. a Cash In hand and In branch . . Oul. 27. Fr. .. banks Commercial bills overdue Commercial bills discounted, not yet doe Ditto bnuich hanks Advances on deposits of bullion 24,341,663 03 24.3k,:,:c1 95 Ditto branch banks Advances on French public se entities 18.002,500 0 15,6124,200 0 Ditto branch banks Ails ATICCIS on railway shares and debentures Ditto branch banks Advances ou Credit Fonder Bonds Ditto branch banks .... Advances to the State conven• 17.465,nn0 o t7,rr3.sob 0 19,003.400 0 10.36:.,100 0 510,?.00 0 61%900 0 850,400 0 133,1u0 0 tion 10th June, e1. , 00,000 0 00.0.0,0 0 , 0 IntSerrlf 12.940.7:0 14 1!.11S..:5•1 11 Ditto dispmahle • Itentes immobilisfes fair 11th 91 June, ItlsT. . • 100,000,000 0 100,000,000 0 Hotel and furniture of the hank& tended prop, ty, branches iiinenses of management Sundries 8.457.21/1 0 8,454,400 • .2.01 ,4'o 44 1.W.1.0 .4 23 5,164,206 10 7.000,772 40 1,?8,08. 8 ,t13 78 1 !Plat'-'•Dr It Cerbitod by The Senator-Governor of the Batik of Prance. ituoutiD. QreesrsTowsr, Nov. 3.—The Inman steamship Edinburgh, from Now York on the 22nd ult., arrived hare at 4 p.m. today. She brings 227,30 ii doh.. in specie, and 111 passengers. 13 of wr hnm were leaded at this part. She pro. seeded for Liverpool at 4.5 p.m. All well. Iler ne.s has been fully anticipated. PROPOSAL IN THE SOUTH TO ARM THE SLAVES. The following article, from the Richmond En quirer, received by the last mail, and the letter of the Confederate Governor Allen, of Louisiana, which is appended, are attracting much attention throughout the States : CONSCRIPTDIG THE SLAVES. (From the Richmond Enquirer, Oct. 18.) The proposition to extend the Comeript Law to the slaves of the States•was first formally advanced by the Enquirer in the issue of the Gth Met. Since that time we have re ceived many aseurances of its) popular favour, and none whatever of opposition to it. We learn that the planters in the extreme Southern States favour the proposition, and some have signified their readiness to free five, tea, oc fifteen of their slaves if they will enter the army. The near ap proach of the time when the Congress meets again, requires that expression be given to the sentiment, of the country upon this important measure. We, therefore, earnestly invite its discussion, and open our columns to op ponents as well as friends of the proposition. The result of the late elections is still in doubt, and whether Lincoln or McClellan will be elected, it is yet impossible to deter mine, but there is no uncertainty as to the question of ear. Tying on the war. Whether Lincoln or McClellan be the next President, the voice, and the almost unanimous voice, of that people is for a vigorous prosecution of the war. The duty of preparing to meet that issue will be before the approaching session of the Confederate Congress. That body will have before it, for consideration, the ways and means, as well as of men as of money, for carrying on the war on our part. The war cry of the enemy, "No parley with rebellion in the field—no compromise with slavery in the readjoatment," fully inform our people that, in plain ver nacular, the whites of these states are to be subjugated to daverY, and their slaves reduced to the miserable condition of Yankee free negroes. This is the view of the people, among oar enemies, and this will be the result of the war, whether ended by Lincoln or McClellan, if the people of these States permit themselves to be conquered. The ooescription of negroes should be accompanied with freedom and the privi lege of remaining in the States ; this is no part of aboli tionism, it is the exercise by the master of the unquestion able right of manumission ; it is remunerating those who defend our cause with the privilege of freedom. Nor should this important subject be prejudiced with questions &taint putting the negro on au equality with our friends, brothers and fathers. Many of the soldiers in their childhood were fondled and nursed by faithful negro nurses, and yet no question of equality was ever raised. Many a man has manumitted slaves without ever being subjected to the suspicion of being an abolitiooist. The issues involved in this war are too stetted in their importance and character for us to permit them to be win promised by being degraded to a question of property. The liberty and freedom of ourselves and of our children, the nationality of our country, the right of enjoying any kind of property, the houses over our heads, and the very graves of our children and friends, are involved in the struggle. Failure makes slaves of all, white and black ; robe all of property, real and personal ; divides our lands among our conquerors, who will plough up the very graves of our dead as fertilised ground for making money. We have in our midst a half million of fighting mate rial which is property—shall we use that property for the common cause? Justice and sound policy demand that we make freemen of those who fight for freedom. We con script the master and we impress his horses, cattle, wheat, and every other property except slaves. This very excep tion is an imputation that this war is for slavery and not for freedom. By conscripting the negroes, we show to the world the earnestness that is in our people ; we prove to our enemies that at the moment of our supposed exhaustion, in the fifth year of the war, we shall meet them with limps armies than we have before raised ; and we explode the false accusation that we are fighting for slavery, or a slave-holder's confederacy. There are those who doubt whether sound policy would trust negroes with arms. We are not of those who en kin any fears upon that subject. Drill and discipline make valuable soldiers of Russian serfs, and no negroes in , these States are so ignorant and brutal as those serfs. Be tween service with the Confederacy awl with the Yankees, between living among us, with their strong local attach ments, and going among strangers, who are now openly buying and selling them to recruiting officers, our slaves will I find no difficulty in choosing. And, when once it is under -1 stood that freedom and a home in the South are the privi legal offered by tho Confederate authorities, while the enemy extend the beggarly hospitalities of Yankee philan thropy, not only will desertion from oar ranks be uofrequent, but the drafted negroes of the Yankee armies will exchange services. This subject addresses itself to the consideration of our people, at this particular time, with great force. The prospect of four more years of war are before our people ; ►he enemy will not even " parley" with us without unconditional surrender, the (mite of which would be confiscation of all property, the deportation of whole communities, the degradation of the people, and the domination and tyranny of Yankee masters. There can be no reconstruction which does not embrace • surrender first, which will not per mit confiscation afterwards, which does not in sure enslaving the whites without freeing the blacks. If there are any weak-kneed ►eople who imagine they can save their property by reconstruction, let them study the shibboleth of all parties in the United States—" no parley with rebellion in the held: no compromise with slavery in the adjustment" Unconditional surrender is first de. mended before even a parley. We are to lay down our arms and submit to the kiodnesa of the Butlers, Grants, Sherman., and Sheridan; to the fate of New Orleans, the condition of the Valley, the misery of Atlanta, and, after all that degradation, to give up all our slaves in the adjust. meat. If there are any reasons against extending the con scription to slaves, we should like to h►ve them stated, but we are decidedly of opinion that the whole country will agree to the proposition, and that at an early day the next Congress will be called upon to provide for it by law. THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA AND THE NEGROES. The following M an extract from a despatch from Henry W. Allen. Confederate Governor of Louisiana, to the Secre tary of War : " Executive Office, Shreveport, La , Sept. 26, 1564. "To Hon. James A. `Seddon, Secretary of War, Rich- mood, V&. " My dear Sir,—The time has come for us to put into the army every able-bodied negro man as a soldier. This should be done immediately. Congress should, at the coming season, take action on this most in.portant question. The negro knows that he cannot escape con scription if be goes to the enemy. He must play en important part in the war. He caused the fight, and he will have his portion of the burden to bear. We have learned from dear•bought experienoe that megrims can be taught to fight, and that all who leave us are made to fight against us. I would free all able to bear arms, and put them into the field at once. They will make much better soldier' with us than against us, and swell the now depleted ranks of our armies. I beg you to give this your earnest attention. With assurances of my friendly regards and very high esteem, I remain, very re. spectfully, your obedient servant, "Br-Nut W. ALLEN, Governor of Louisiana." A young lady has inscribed her name at the Faculty of Letters et the Sorbonne for the exencioatious of the beccalaurest this mouth. A C('l DENTS IN THE FLEET.—Several accitlerits occurred in the Fleet during the inspection by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, lately at Malta. We have ahead• unfired the deaths of two seamen on board the Guhra!tar, by falling from aloft. The one said to have taken place on hoard the Revenge, occurred on board the Royal Oak. by falling down the hold. Two otl.ers, one with fatal result, happened to seamen on board the Marlborough, the other man having escaped with a broken leg.—Sfalta Tone; Oct. C. , I CAPTAIN SEMMES AND THE NEW ALAH A M A .— a ' few weeks ego the departure from Liverpool took place of a steamer called the Laurel, with about 100 men on board, In:my of whom bid served with Capt Semmes. It was also hiated that Capt. Semmes was hims.lf on board. A despatch just received io Liverpool from Madeira is to the effect that the Laurel bad been lying in Funchal Bay for several days previous to the 17t1i. and early on the morning of that day she steamed out to ma and met a large serew steamer (un derstood to be the new Alabama), on board of which were transferred the crew of the Laurel and cargo, consisting of guns, ammunition, be. The sore, steamer than made for the &maim el Bermuda. 1. 8. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in Baoco.—(Before Lord Chief Moon Poll , Barons Bramwell, Channel!, and Pigott.) THE QUERN T. BANCEL • This was a prosecution at the metope° of the Ex,iit keeping an illicit still, and it came before the court appeal from the Staffordshire Quarter Sessions• 11, cipal question was whether a previous conviction as a bar to the prosecution. The matter was argu , ago as May last, and the court took time to c0u,..: . decision. The Bolicitor.f;enerel now stated he wu inetru:t, I t., ask for the judgment of the court. The Lord Chief Baron—The court ere not entirely upon the subject. . . . . The SolicitZr.General said he recollected there Ira. . rently some difference of opinion amongst their lordst.ips. The Lord Chief Baron—There was some bolt minds of the court as to whether, after what had the crown would ask for judgment. The Solicitor.tieneral said the crown desired tL^; meet of the court, The Chief B,ron—The officers of the court are, et the beet judges of what their duty to the public io case prescribes, and after the intimation which has ju , t eon made, the judgment of the court will be pronounced at r earliest convenience. _ _ Mr. Baron Bramwell— I never bad any doubt of propriety of the crown asking for judgment. The Lord Chief Baron—The transaction itirolv 1 t' violation of two different clauses of an act of •.i, one of which was more stringent and severe that, ti.s other. The crown bad already prosecuted under th , . n. 11r section and obtained jndgmsut, and I think the dt.fet,lsid. bad suffered in consequence, and there was • notion that, though perfectly legal, it was not t..e ~ rdi. nary course to prosecute under two different sections fur ti.e same transaction. But you have better means of ; I.l.crg what course should be pursued in this case, and we at to give the judgment which the law requires. Cad,te.t..fly, however, there is something in the more than popular notioo that a man ought not to be punished twiuc 1.4 ...L. stantially the same offence. Mr. Baron Bramwell—That is a notion which I don't sympathise with on the present occasion. Mr. Baron Pigott—l sympathise with that notion, lut as at present advised I don't think it applies to this mss. The Lord Chief Baron—The court will give judgment at their earliest convenience. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordioury.) CIIETWYND r.CIILTATND. 11C1.0004 CARE ON , r. worte. At the sitting of the court this moruiog. Sir J. p. Wilde said he had omitted to state yesterday what was the col. swag consequence where a person was pronounced in coo. tempt. Although the fine indicted on Mr. Mulock would be remitted, he must pay the cost of Mrs. Chetwy ap. plication. MOOR! o. WIUTZBOCSZ AND OTBZWL Dr. Spinks for the plaiotiff. This was a suit to obtain probate of the copy of a will which had been destroyed in pursuance of a family lrrange. meat. The testatrix, Maly Whitehouse, who dieil at mingham on the 2nd of Juno last, was the wi.l rd • brassfounder ; and she only left a sum of about which she had bequeathed to her then only unmarried datighte ,r Clara. On Clam's subsequent marriage with the plaintiff, who bad made the will for her mother, some satisfaction was expremed by other nu robes of the fam4, and Mr. Moore, therefore, agreed to destroy the document, and let the property be divided as if there had been Is Intestacy. This step, however, was afterwards found to have introduced such complications into the affairs of the family u they stood Affected by the will of the testatrix's husband, as rendered it necessary to make the present al pli. cation. The cue was postponed in order to allow the production of the copy of the will, which, by some accident, Lad Dot been brought down to the court. LLOYD V. LLOYD. Sarah Williams, • spinster at some unprononeceable place in Montgomeryshire. died in October, 1562. leaving • will dated November, 185.5, She left • number of legacies, one of which wu given to her cousin, Mary Lloyd, daughter of her uncle, Evan Davis, of Gro ; and soother to her collide, Mary Llovd, daughter of her uncle Edward Lloyd. Then she gave the residue of her estate to her era cowry, whom she n .miested as " tlie said Mary 1.1. pi." and "Evan Lloyd, Gm," thehuiband of the other Mary Lloyd. The contention in the cons was which of the two Mary Lloyds was intended to be executrix, sod residuary legatee. Dr. Spiuks appeared for Mary Lloyd, the spinster, and Dr. Tristram for Mary Lloyd, the wife of Evan Lloyd, the other executor. Sir J. P. Wilde had no difficulty in decidiog in favour of Mary Lloyd, the spinster, and granted her prolate, with costa. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commirsiooer Holroyd.) I lIE WILLSDEN.—APPLICATIoN TO RE.`, IND AN OBDER OP IIIsCHA RUE. The bankrupt, a ooro•mercbaut, of East Dereharn, in Norfolk, obtained his order of discharge on the 20;th of May last, from debts of 4,0001. Mr. Metcalfe now moved to rescind the order of discharge on the ground of fraud. The bankrupt, in the forttight before his stoppage, had made purchases to the amount of upwards of 2,0001., 1,011/. of which was unaccounted for; but there being no sufficient evidence of fraud, the court grated the discharge. It had since been discovered that the bankrupt had made a false return of the dente due to him, and had received upwards of .iOl. on hie own account. After an examinatiois of the bankrupt and some other witnesses, His Honour decided that there was sufficient ground for a rebeariog of the case, both as to the last examination aria the order of discharge. (Before Mr. Registrar Winslow, as Commissioner.) IN - RE CHAN. WARBURTON. The bankrupt, a clerk io the Customs, residing in old Keot-road, applied for his di.ehsrge from debts of 2531., all in respect of accommodation hill.. Mr. Aldridge appeared for the officisl assignee ; Mr. Su good opposed fora creditor; and Mr. Broach supported. It appeared that in January last the bankrupt's atteotica bad been attracted br an advertiserigot in one of the peony papers, to the fo lowing terms t —•• Wanted a house• holder to become suety for a gentleman. The surety to be at no risk, and would be perfectly secured from lose by the advertiser." This advertisement emanated from a persou named Johnson, who retirsiseated that be gas carryiog on a first•rate business at Salisbore•street, Strand, and was also land ageot to the Doke of Newcastle. The bankrupt put himself in communicatioo with this per• son, and became surety for ?.(•i/. on having heeded to him s promissory note for 2001. accepted hy one lirmirn, who was said to be powoased of property in lance shire, Wiltshire, and 'eleewherc. When the biil it ems doe, Brown was now Sere to be found, "a proceedings were taken against the bankrupt, which ended in his coming to this court. It was urged against th•lrirk rapt that be blot contracted this debt without trolab'e means of payment, and the bankrupt adwdtcd tbe• he had acted very foolishly. His Honour granted the orrior, rem.litir.nal no the liiok• rapt setting aside 1111. a year from his salary for fire years. THE MACK COURTS (TIEN DAY.) CT.F.IZKENWF:LL. /RD 110U , S. IN soures.rowx. James Fmierty, sgml 47, end Al."?' An,, F o ger.,,, Reel 52, were brought up oil remand, charged with keeins:. s disorderly house at 15, Little Clareudon•street, Soo.r , town. -- Mr. Cooper, solicitor to the perish of St. rooms, attended to prosecute. The house kept by the defendants has for yearn been ft.! , resort of the lowest of prostitutes, sod Inspector Gibson. of the S division, stated that there had been robberies frw quenily committed there. The defendants had been re• pestedly motioned but took no notice. Mr. LYEyneourt committed the prisoners to the Middlese2 &maims for trial, but consented to take bail, four sureties in the sum of 25/. each, and the defendants thelnileiveS in the sum of 504 each. The deKriante ... ;ere Incited up in default. Mary Eia9, aged 47, wn. charged with keeping a dir orderly house at 24, Llttle Cinrendov•ttreet. %MOTS town. Mr. °Doper, the solicitor to the pariah, said that the dr barknt W 6 ste•a, hat e for keephvg Inepecear were of the I thieTM and Wu charts ( ' heeded for h She ba freq irEyv Seastolll fat I spa tWO NUM The deem Charles Sn 4% and ki I , beieg drank Lewis FOlseeeorl offence. sod were roost nc g aunt ooropt i s which the ece that,* The Msg 120 s. and cosi Mr. Hem stitute for la teetion of 1 mom Jnhs D at the bar, be eotering the lime merchai John Brog cutors, mid I sod absence of 11 b u il.past 10 all up secs in the mor slumber, se Be jumped a the stairs he with a coosta sad admitteg Din to the Another ooa premises, wh one of the to tody. On ex toper had at the houses, t doors downst Mr. Wooly , Witness re a table, but t • Police-coos the morning 1 mw Lot with oot for him t in the house. weer apnoea t Pa searching which no sic top of the hot Mr. Wootr Folios. Sergesnt L portion of not keg been libe Mr. Woolf] THE ORLI illiiift.