The Express. — London, England, 1867-10-12 00:00:00

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WM. diewub: 4 tePhenll, 11011111.110 , Jenny Wil imure, and C. Saunders.—T.,,,uclude will A.R.S. Mr. J. W. Ray. _saminirta. TUN EVENtga. BREAK BUT NOT BEND. Mrs. S. Lane The American Minstrels and Japanese Tommy; MM. Conte! Ger and Ellice, astounding Gymnasts—With LION LIMB, KING OF 111 E SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. HIGH WATER At LONDON MUM TIM DAY —llornfrig. IL fas....,—Aftasoon, Ih. itra. TO•YOitow—Hornln(. Ih. 421o..—...ibilesca. Ih. l LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12. WHATEVER may be the immediate issue of the insurrection in the Roman States, it seems tole rably clear that the Convention of September 15, 1864, is doomed to die, let us hope, a natural, and not a violent death. It is impossible to peruse that concise but comprehensive instrument without per ceiving that it was designed in the interests and for the convenience of the French Government, rather than for the liberation of the Romans or the satis faction of the aspirations of Italy. It enabled the Emperor NAPOLEON to put an end with a good grace to an occupation prolonged through seventeen weary years, at a cost altogether disproportionate to its advantages, and to emancipate himself from a false position, condemned alike by his Italian policy and by his own repeated declarations, whe ther those of his memorable letter to Colonel Nay just after the return of the POPE to his capital, or those of his lamented Minister, M. THOUVENEL. As PRINCE PRESIDENT of the Republic he had publicly recorded that the French army was not at Rome to impose a form of government upon the population of that city, and had expressly stated the minimum of reforms which he considered indis pensable to the continuance of the temporal power of the Pontificate. These reforms included a ge• neral amnesty, a secular administration, • civil code, and some sort of representative institutions. There may have been from time to time partial amnesties ; but ten thousand of the most ener getic Roman citizens are in exile. For the rest it would be as reasonable to ask the Ethiopian to change his skin as the Court of Rome to secularize its administration, accept the Code Napoleon, and admit laymen to executive or legislative functions, or to electoral rights. Pins IX., in the first flush of his popularity, made a show of conformity I to the political civilization of the age ; but in the hour of trial, as soon as it became a question of a national policy, he proved the essential incompa tibility of a theocratic with a liberal system of go vernment, and on his return to the Vatican at the heels of a foreign army relapsed into all the in curable traditions of his predecessors. For seventeen years a French garrison stood by, and a French Ambassador looked on, while to all remonstrances, and warnings, and entreaties from its protector, the Court of the Vatican replied with monotonous emphasis, " We can do nothing." The EMPEROR tried the effect of satirical pamphlets and diplomatic admonitions, and the Court of Rome stood still and smiled disdainfully, or if it replied at all, replied by an Allocution or an En cyclical Letter, in which Italy figured as SATAN, and the EMPEROR as JUDAS, and modern civiliza tion as " the gates of hell." Then came the Italian war of independence, in which France was the champion of Italy, and the annexation to Italy of the Marches and the Legations, at which the Emperor NAPOLEON worked hard, and the Court of Rome, out of the lips of French bishops, fulmi nated anathemas, with mysterious allusions to the enemy that sowed tares by night. And as the years went on the occupation of Rome by the Liberator of Italy struck all men's minds as a more and more glaring inconsistency. Then the conquest of the kingdom of the Sicilies by GARIBALDI reduced the remnant of a Papal State to the condition of an annals-, and the catastrophe of Aspromonte proved at least that, sooner or later, Rome must belong to the Romans or Italy cease to belong to the Italians, and so the greatest work of the Second Empire be undone. We are not disposed to under-estimate the pressure of the Catholics or priestly party in France upon the policy of the Second Empire. No doubt among the rural populations the influence of the spiritual agents of the Court of Rome is very great, and the roaring lions of the episcopate aro not without an echo. As to the Catholic party in the great cities, it is composed for the most part of infirm Voltairian penitents, elegant d4rotut, who combine the romance of the ekore with the romance of the confessional, and would fain make the . best of THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1867. both worlds, and intriguers of both sexes, who regard the clergy as one of the bulwarks of arbi trary power and of good society. But what we contend is, that when the EMPEROR broke ground in Italy, and established claims to the gra titude of Italians as the liberator of their country from foreign oppression and the chain pion of national rights, he could no longer, without the moat obvious inconsistency and impolicy, remain at Rome as the protector of a government hostile to Italy, hostile to himself, accepting his services with contemptuous resignation as those of a betrayer in disguise. By the Convention of September, 1864, the Emperor NAPOLEON resolved to set himself free from this intolerable burden of inconsistencies and contradictions. But with that besetting irresolution which history will mark as the distinguishing characteristic of his character and his reign—the roseau peint citify —he contrived with all the overcunning of a timorous and equivocating nature to desert the Pore, to deceive Italy, to remain responsible to the Romans for their separation from Italy, and to Italy for the sequestration of its natural metro polis. Ile made Italy, already on the verge of insolvency, spend ten millions sterling on trans ferring the seat of administration from Turin to Florence, without obtaining that renunciation of Rome as capital which the Convention only simulated by one of its contradictory interpreta tions. Italy executed her part of the contract by making Florence her provisional capital and by guarding the Roman frontiers against attack. The EMPEROR withdrew his army of occupation at the date assigned, but under cover of the third clause of the Convention, he left behind a French legion disguised in the Papal uniform, and sub ject to the regulations of the French Ministry of War. Not only did he leave behind this Antibes legion which General Du mom. harangued the other day, he caused it to be understood that though his army of occupation was withdrawn, France remained invisibly present at the gates of the Vatican, free to return with all her forces at the first sign of a rising of the Roman people to ' demand their rights. And thus it happens that while the Court of Rome declaims against its de serter and betrayer, Italy seeks a more decided, if not a more disinterested, alliance than that of the Second Empire. The movement which seemed to be arrested at Sinalunga may have been premature and unwise, as, on the face of it, it was certainly unconstitutional and illegal. But history, which has not the respect for expediency which the politicians of the hour are obliged to profess, will, we dare say, pronounce the great Italian citizen by no means defective in that larger vision to which statesmen of the sharp attorney type never attain. GARIBALDI may be held under surveillance at Ceprera by seven ships of war ; he may be treated las an outlaw. But whether at Caprera or on the mainland, he has set Italy and Rome free from the trammels of a Convention which was designed to sacrifice both to the convenience of a foreign Power ; he has brought the Cabinet of Florence before the tribunal of the national legislature and the public opinion of liberal Europe. Signor RATTAZZI will be held accountable for his acts to the Parliament of Italy, and the Parliament of Italy will demand to know whether the Emperor of the FRENCH still stands between the Roman' , people and the Court of Rome—between Rome and Italy. At all events, the Convention of September, 1864, is no more. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Though the country acquiesces in the Abyssinian expedition as inevitable by reason of the necessity of main taining our prestige in the East, it is in vain to disguise, the Times thinks, that we are making another leap in the dark. Every prisoner we release will cost perhaps half a million, and the probable casualties among our troops can hardly be estimated at leas than one per cent. Consider ing 11 how little we know, the apparent confidence of the public in those who have planned the expedition, the War Office and the Indian Office combined, is somewhat re markable. The immense popularity of the expedition in India will no doubt quicken the seal of all concerned in organising it, but parliament, it is to be hoped, will pre vent us from necessarily adopting Indian notions of policy while we ►vail ourselves of Indian organisation. In another article the Times questions the suitability of Mr. Thornton's appointment as ambassador to the United States. The name of the minister at Washington should either carry a certain degree of social importance with it, rank being one of the necessary qualifications, or else it ought at once to call np to the memory of ordinary readers , on both sides of the Atlantic some distinguished services. Mr. Thornton may be worthy of a much higher station than he has occupied, but the government ought to have avoided sending a minister to America whose merits are only known to the official class, and of whom every one else in England is obliged to ask—Who is he? The Daily News suggests that the clause hastily in serted in the Reform Act, putting off its actual operation in elections till January, 1869, may possibly be recon sidered during the session of next year. So long a post ponement of the time when newly given rights can come into exercise injurionaly prolongs the period of suspense which must necessarily intervene between the passing of a measure of reform and the meeting of a reformed parlia ment. The Daily News proceeds to show that the minority representation clause which was meant by its ' s tory snuporters to give special advantages to a certain class, promises through the determination of the working men to have the third member themselves to put additional power into the hands of those it was designed to curb. Mr. Langford, on whom the working men of Birmingham are said to have fixed, is spoken of by the Daily News as one who would go to the house with a local reputation already gained, and with power to make himself felt. The investigation which is being carried on by the Lanett into the condition of the country workhouse infirmaries is the subject of another article in the Daily News. The Herald looks for the entry of the Italian troops into the Papal dominions—the city of Rome perhaps excepted— at no very distant date, and with the consent, coy or churl ish, sincere or affected, as it may happen, of the Eldest Son of the Church. The Standard credits the Emperor with opposite intentions. The Post comments upon the fact that the day before yesterday the North German parliament was engaged in considering a proposal to abolish the existing limitations on the rate of interest, and that Count Bismarck declared in the court* of the debate he had ineffectually endeavoured for the past five years to force this matter on the atten tion of the Prussian parliament. It was • long time be fore the English parliament could be brought to recognise the reasoning that if a lender finds that from the scarcity of money he can by investment or otherwise make more than five per cent. of his capital he should not be prevented from imposing a heavier rate of interest on a borrower who has only indifferent security to offer, but the principles of political economy are now so well understood in Germany that we may hope the existing limitations there will be abolished without much delay. unless, as the catholic journals expect, a miracle inter venes, the Papacy is reduced to one of two alternatives, — to resign its remaining provinces to the people, who can give the Pope no guarantee for his city ; or to summon his " erring son," Victor Emmanuel,who can. With the Italian troops in sight of Rome, the problem of the temporal power, which of all others has most perplexed the liberal statesmen of the Continent, will be almost resolved, and protestanta throughout the world will be very near to a danger greater than any they dread from Dr. Colenso,— the attraction a truly saintly Papacy, without sword or purse, or threatening in its mouth, might have for the un happy masses of mankind. In the opinion of the Saturday Reticle the immediate danger which Italy runs is lest Napoleon 111., in a sudden impulse of anxiety for the interests of catholicism, should decide on sacrificing his German to his Italian programme. It is clear that one or other must go by the board. France cannot afford to insist, at one and the same moment, on regulating the affairs of all her neighbours. A final deter mination on the part of the Tuileries to surrender all hope of dividing Germany against itself might, however, be accompanied by a renewed resolution to maintain at all costa the temporal power. It is not too much, therefore, to say that the fate of Italy is being weighed in the balance. If Italy must act at all, and if she cannot keep Garibaldi in order without danger to her own throne, she had better act at once, for to act a month hence might pos sibly be too late. The assembling of parliament in November merely for the purpose of voting supplies for a war which the govern. ment could not have honourably avoided, seems to the Saturday Review an unnecessary act of official humility, since Mr. Disraeli w;U scarcely resort to a loan for the ex penses of an Abysainian war ; and there can be no doubt that the government would be indemnified for all necessary advances. If it is thought necessary to ask the House of Commons for a grant, there ought to be no attempt to charge on the Indian revenue the cost of punishing an offence against the dignity of England. Discaseing the principle of compulsory education, the Examiner says the fundamental distinction should be kept clearly in mind between the compulsion applied to the county, parish, or borough to preside good schools for the mass of the people, and compulsion applied to the head of the family, under police inspection and threat of pecuniary mulct, to keep his children at schooL The one is a mere adaptation to altered circumstances of existing principles of our law ; the other would be an innovation upon established habits and usages, repugnant to national feeling, unnecessaly to attain the proposed end, and utterly incapable, we believe, of being generally reduced to practice. The Chronicle allows that the feeling that some further arrangement between France and Italy with regard to the Roman question is demanded by the change of circum stances is daily gaining ground. The September conven tion was a compromise entered into for the maintenance of the existing state of things until a more definite solution could be arrived at. It has always offended the enemies of the temporal power by recognising it, continuance, and its friends by leaving it without adequate support. It is now shown to be useless, even as a means of keeping things quiet. And it has consequently ceased to be acceptable to any party whatever. the Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. 10. The Queen drove out in the morning with Prin cess Christian, and her Majesty again drove out in the afternoon, accompanied by Primus Louise and attended by Mrs. Gordon. Prince Christian went out for a drive of deer in Colonel Farquharson's woods at Invercauld. Prince Arthur, who is at the Ranger's-house, Greenwich park, hu a very mild attack of modified small pox ; and is progressing satisfactorily. A cornmittee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, White hall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The Lords present were—the Lord President, Lord Robert Montagu, and the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry. Sir John Thwaites had an interview with the Lord President of the Council at the Privy Council-office yes terday. A deputation from the parish of St. Dunstan, West London Union, consisting of Mr. G. Attenborough and Mr. G. S. Pedlar (churchwardens), Mr. Newton and Mr. Findlay (overseen), Mr. Adams, Mr. Beckford, Mr. Butter. worth, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Dwarben, Mr. Daw, Mr. Flint, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Grosmith, Mr. Preedy, Mr. Reeves, and Mr. ‘Vinterbotham, had an interview with the Earl of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yes terday. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office, yesterday, to the Governors of Gibraltar and Malta. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli have arrived at Grosvenor-gate, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace. We (Athentettm) are glad to hear that her Ma jesty. of her own proper motion, has written to Lord Derby, suggesting that • fitting pro%ision should be made for the widow of Professor Faraday. Nothing has yet been done in the way of fixing the sum to be secured to the bereaved lady ; but our readers may be sure it will be such as England should propose to the relict of her foremost man of science. The appointment of Sergeant-Surgeon to her Majesty, vacant by the death of Sir William Lawrene, has been conferred upon Sir William Personae!), Bart. At the same time a new post has been created with the title of " Sergeant-Surgeon Extraordinary to her Ma. jesty," and this will be held by Mr. James Paget. The Duke of Rutland has arrived at his residence at Campden-hill, Kensington, and will shortly go to his seat near Newmarket. At the annual conferring of degrees at the Queen's University, in Dublin Castle, yesterday, the Lord Lieute nant addressed the students. In concluding his speech he said he hoped that their next meeting for a similar purpose would be held in a new building of the university so long in perspective, adapted for occasions like that, or that they would see the program of the works so long in contempla tion. We (Times) are requested to contradict, en au thority, the report that Lord Derby intends to retire ho mediately from office. Parliament will meet on the 19th of November for three weeks, to grant supplies for the Abyssinian ex pedition. The inhabitants of Liamore held a public meeting on Sunday to express their indignation at the attempt made a short time since to burn the protestant cathedral in the town. The meeting was attended by protestants and Roman catholic/ alike. Archdeacon Power, on the one hand, and the Rae. Mr. Byrne, I'.P., on the other, stated their belief that the outrage had no connection with sectarian animosity. It was decided to offer a reward far tFe detection and punichme it of the guilty parties, and persona of both religious denominations contributed to the fund, the names of the protestant archdeacon and the ca tholic pariah priest standing at the head of the list. - - THE Queer; IN THE BIOHLANDR—On Monday but Her Majesty and party drove from Balmoral-castle, rid Invereauld-house and Allanmore, to the Falls of Qnoich. Here the royal visitors partook of tea, and after a short ramble round the falls returned to the Highland palace in the evening. On Tuesday evening Her Majesty, who was accompanied by the Princess Christian, Baron and Baroness an de Weyer, the Belgian Ambassador and his lady, drove through Braemar and rid Inverey to the "Black Colonel's Cave" in the distant wilds of Glen eye. The day was mild, showery, and somewhat stormy, and after • brief stay the royal party drove home through the village to the palace. 13oth in going and returning, horses were changed at the Invercanld Arms Hotel. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE OCT. 9.—Notice is hereby given that the state apartments of Windsor Castle will be closed on and after Monday next, the 14th instant, until further orders.—Gaxffe. VISITORS AT BLENHEIM PALACE.—The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough have during the week exercised hospitality to a large number of visitors, there being • daily succession of grand entertainments. Amongst the guests staying in the palace were : The Earl of Beau champ, Vermont Hardinge and the Hon. Emily Hardinge. the Bishop of Oxford, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mn. Disraeli, the High Sheri ff of Ox fordshire and Mn . Hall, the Hon. Frederick Stanley, M.P., and Lady Constance Stanley ; Lady Emily Villiers, Colonel Jocelyn, and the Hon. Mrs. Jocelyn ; the War den of Merton College, and Lady Anstruther ; Mr. and Mrs. Mason (of Eynaham Hall) ; Mr. Montagne Stewart, the Rev. Lionel Dawson Darner, Ltdy Cornelia Churchill, Lord Randolph Churchill, the Hon. Hamilton Cuffe, Mr. Montague Corry, and Mr. Scharf, F.S.A. On Thursday evening the state drawing-rooms were thrown open, the banquet served in the saloon, and there were present, in addition to the above : —The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, the Rector of Exeter College and Me. Lightfoot. Canon and Mrs. Hansel, the Public Orator and Mrs. Mitchell, Profaner Wall, Mr. John M. Davenport, as 144 Th la I N TELLIUEN CE. THE INSURRECTION IN THE PAPAL STATES. , The intelligence from the Papal States ewers to be favourable to the insurrection. The insue-i gent bands continue to increase in numbers, and to show themselves at many points. They harass the Papal troops by repeated attacks, and appear to give way only to return with greater energy. The details given by the Roman Journal itself are very significant. Farness, where a strong insurgent force is stated to be concentrated, is some 24 miles west from Viterbo ; Bomarzo, where other bands are placed, is in an opposite direction, about five miles east of Viterbo. Monte-Carpignano, where Menotti Garibaldi com mands 000 insurgents, is situate in Sabina, much nearer Rome, in the midst of the mountainous country bordering the Teverone. The presence of these bands at spots so distant apart, compels the Papal troops to disperse themselves, and lessens the importance of the check which any particular insurgent band may meet with. A telegram received from Rome to-day, men tions a sudden movement of the garrison out of the city and its return, probably caused by the approach of the insurgents. Letters from Rome say that the Pope will embark at Civita Vecchia for Spain, if either the insurgents or the Italian troops reach the capital. Tho following order of the day had been dis tributed to the troops at Rome :—" At the first 15 shots fired from St. Angelo, the troops are to assemble at once atthe Pincio, the Capitol, Gianicolo San-Pietro in Montorio, Piazza del Popolo, and Piazza Colonna." Officers of the foreign legion I are ordered to abstain from showing themselves in theatres, Wife, and other public places, lest they should come into collision with the people. The circular which Cardinal Antonelli is said to have addressed to the catholic powers accuses the Italian government in bitter terms of bad faith, and calls upon them to intervene on behalf of the Pontiff. Upwards of 200 of the Papal troops have been made prisoners. The city of Albano is said to be ready for an outbreak. The alarm which exists amongst the partisans of the Papal power is shown ;n the communications from Rome published by the ultramontane journals at Paris. The Monde, for example, gives a letter describing the situation as one which is full of danger to the temporal power on ac count of the rapid strides which the insurrectionary forces are making. A letter written by an officer of the Papal Zouaves to his brother immediately after the fight at Bagnorea, pays a high tribute to the bravery of the insurgents. The latter, says the officer, astonished the troops by their contempt of death, and the incredible energy of their charge. When compelled by the artillery to retreat, the prisoners that were made were almost all wounded, and the number of their dead equalled the number of the prisoners. The Pope has, it is said, addressed an autograph letter to the Emperor Napoleon, and entrusted it to the Archbishop of Thesaalonica, who has just left for Paris with a mission from the Pope to the French government. (RIOTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ROME, Ocr. 11, Eviariso. Nearly the whole of the garrison of Rome left the town yesterday, but have now returned. The cause of this movement is not known. Reports are current of encounters in various localities, but up to the present these have re ceived no reliable confirmation. FLORENCE, ncr. 11, EVENING. The Official Gazette correcte the news published in the Riforma, but confirms the statement that Garibaldi attempted to leave Caprera on the 2nd inst., but was prevented so doing by the Italian steamship Sesia. The telegraph lines between Viterbo and Villetri were cut by the insurgents, but are now restored. AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TZLEOIUPH.) NEW YORK, Ocr. 11, 6 r.w. Closing prices : Gold, 144 ; sterling exchange on London, 1091; 5-20 United States Bonds, 112} ; Illinois, 1221; Erie, 70}. Cotton: Middling Upland, 19. Gold firm. Cotton dull. PHILADELPHIA, Ocr. 11. Standard white petroleum, 36. " The departure of the Emperor from Biarritz has," says the Patrie," been definitively bud for the 18th instant. His Majesty has sent Admiral Juries de la Graviere to Tarbes, to represent him at the obsequies of the late M. Fould." The Presse has the following :—" It is not im possible, as we are assured, that the Emperor, after his return to Paris, may go and pass a few hours at Baden, where, in that case, he would have a conversation with the King of Prussia. This interview, it is supposed, will have a decisive influence upon the attitude to be taken by France respecting German affairs." The Queen of Holland, accompanied by the Princess Mathilde, visited the gunny of the Louvre on Wednesday afternoon, and examined the collection of paintings very minutely. _ Prince and Princess George Stirbey have arrived in Paris from London. Prince Murat has arrived at Biarritz. The death of the Baroness Teacher do la Pagerie is announced. This lady (says Gaiignani) occupied a place in the first rank of distinguished women of Parisian society, and her death will cause deep regret. With regard to the !eve; lately raging in the Mauritius, and which, according to the l►test accounts, had subsided, a letter of the principal medical officer at Port Louis describes it as chiefly malarious and of local origin, and in no degree contagious. He adds that, although all ranks, classes, and colours are liable to these fevers, the mortality is chiefly confined to coloured people of African origin living on the sea coast, and to the unen gaged Indians. The engaged Indians on estates, well lodged, well fed, and well cared for, have scarcely suffered at all. The Era mentions to the credit of one American Manager at least, that Mr. T. W. Robertson received a few days ago, from Baltimore, the payment of fees to • considerable amount for the performance of his comedy Caffein that city. Such a spontaneous acknowledgment of an author's claims, which could not be enforced in the present state of international copyright, deserves to be recorded. Tan Nrorrou Fononerrs.—The following letter has been addressed to the Atheomorn by Sir D. Brewster : " Allerly, Melrose, Oct. 3, 18117.—You would oblige me by giving publicity to the following important opinion of Sir Frederic Madden, who was for more than 40 years assis tant.keeper or keeper of the department of manuscripts in the British Museum. In a letter dated the 72nd of Sop tember he says, ' I beg to inform you that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of Sir Isaac Newton, and, after having carefully compared the letter in question, beginning Si on vouloii examiner, and ending le cords de ransom, and signed Is. Newton, with many undoubted autograph letters and signatures of Sir Isaac Newton in the British Museum , I can unhesitatingly pronounce it to be a claws and paira , ble forgery, both as regards the writing and the viper. Tax baIitTOOLZ POE LIFE.—The Norway rat has completely extirpated the native rat in New Zealand. The English house Ay is also extirpating the native blue bottle, and settlers carry the English house fly in small boxes, to their settlements, to destroy the native By. The English weeds crush out of existence the hardiest in digenous plants in that colony. The white clover from England is extirpating the New Zealand flax plant, and English annuals destroy New Zealand perennials. The pigs which Captain Cook landed in New Zealand have so multiplied that landlords offer rewards for killing them.— fasmessian paper. THE WEEKLY PRESS. Affairs look badly,in France, says the Spectator. The middle classes and the lower sections of the army are bitterly annoyed with the failures in foreign policy ; the Parisian Gourgeoisie bold Mexican coupons which they thought guaranteed, but which have turned out worthless ; the peasantry have been worried by the Army Beeman's tion Bill ; the skilled artisans are thrown out of work by the cessation of speculation ; and the labourers complain of the price of bread, wine, and lodging. Already govern ment is paying the bakers to keep bread down, and the terrible placard "Bread or Death" has appeared in three cities, and, we are assured, in the Faubourg Bt. Antoine. All this bodes ill for the tranquillity of France, and there fore, in a less degree, for the maintenance of peace. . _ The intuition in Rome is each, the Spada.; Wake, that EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (sum ova owx FEIDAV EVENING. The rumour of a modification of the ministry is twain current in political circles. It is said that the office of Minister of State is to be suppressed, and that M. Rouher will be charged with the Ministry of the Interior, M. do Lavalette assuming the direction of Foreign Affairs. It is probable that the opening of the legislative session will not be delayed beyond the 15th of November. Some of the journals state that the Emperor will return to Paris to-morrow. The whole of the ministry assembled in council yes terday at the official residence of the Minister of State. There is no doubt that active preparations are making for the ensuing parliamentary campaign, which will neither be a short nor unimportant one. Questions of foreign and domestis policy will doubt less encounter a very animated discussion ; the Roman and Mexican questions being scarcely ex ceeded in public interest by the anticipated internal measures of reform—such as the liberty of the press* right of public meeting, reduction of taxes, &c.,—a pretty considerable instalment of which exemp tions, rights, and privileges, is just now looked for by the French people with unusual anxiety. There is a strong impression, very generally felt, that the Emperor will go far to redeem his promises of Janu ary, and I have no doubt that this feeling has a kind of tranquillising effect upon certain sections of so ciety, which might otherwise manifest somewhat turbulent dispositions. The constant migration of country people to Paris, there to seek employment and take up their residence—there to cast their lot, if possible, for the remainder of their lives—has often been re marked upon as an occurrence to be deplored. The interests of agriculture, it is known, have suffered by these allurements of the city; and in many in stances the immigrants themselves have had only too much reason to complain of the ill success and disastrous results of various kinds which have at_ tended the abandonment of a pursuit and mode of life for which they were fitted. This evil, for it is one, is spreading, and the rush to the large cities 'is producing consequences which have at length at tracted the notice of statesmen and philanthro pists. At a meeting of an agricultural assembly at Cormeilles the other day no less dis tinguished a man than M. Troplong, President of the Senate, commented in strong terms upon this mania for a city life which has seized upon the agricultural populations. Curiously enough he partly admitted and partly denied the extent to which this exodus has been carried, but made no attempt to conceal the untoward consequences flowing from it. He conceded that the displace ment of the populations within certain limits could not be denied, and accompanied the acknowledg ment of the fact with expressions of regret. Tho truth is that agriculture is neglected, and be ginning to be looked upon as a sort of unworthy occupation ; the prosperity of rural pursuits de clines ; and the gradual disappearance from the fields of the lusty arms which render them prolific is telling seriously upon one of the greatest and most important branches of industry. But whatever may be the attraction of the cities and the prospect of higher wages, which beyond all doubt exercise considerable influence upon provincial ambition, we must not lose sight of the large standing armies which carry off from the country the most vigorous among the popula tions, and to which the drain of young men must be in a great measure attributed. It suited 11f• Troplong to pass over this notable fact in silence. Assuredly it is not the bill on the reorganisation of the army, with the 800,000 men whom he desires to put under arms, that will heal the wound which is inflicted, and making itself felt to a serious extent. Rapidity of printing has just been carried in France to a degree far exceeding, I believe, any thing which has yet been accomplished in machine_ work, and outstripping the famous American machines, which were supposed to have realised everything attainable in the way of speed. M. Marinoni has just put up in the new printing offices of the Petit Journal (a halfpenny daily paper) 61, Rue La Fayette, a machine of his in vention, which prints 600 copies a minute. Four of these powerful machines turn out 144,000 copies an hour, the whole impression being 446,000 daily. A French paper states that the revenues derived by the late King of Hanover, from his estates in England, amounting to 600,0001. sterling, are to be transferred to the King of Prussia, since the treaty 1714, concluded on the accession of the Elector of Hanover to the throne of England, stipulates that this revenue shall hereafter belong to him who shall wear the crown of Hanover. The Bourse has been steady to-day, the attitude of the Italian government, with regard to Rome, being approved by speculators, and which is looked upon as dispensing with the intervention of France. The Rento was firm, closing at an ad vance of 10 centimes. Italian Fives are at 45fr. 80c., the closing price yesterday being 45fr. 95c. Quotations of railway shares remain about the same, generally maintaining the improvement of yesterday. M. Victor Hugo left Brussels on Thursday, where be has been staying for the last three months, for Ostend, on his way to Guernsey. We(Era)regret to say that Mrs. Frank Matthews had a serious fall last week, which dislocated her shoulder. She is recovering as favourably as can be expected, but is unable to leave her room. MR. MONCREIFF, M.P., AT EDINBURGH. —Mr. Moncreiff, M.P., addressed his constituents last night. His topics were the Reform Bill, trades' unions, the land question, and Ireland. Regarding the Reform Bill, his opinion was that if they were to have household suffrage I they ought to have had household suffrage pure and simple. He held that the ratepaying principle would open a wide door to corruption. He expressed his gratification that the tones had abandoned their fears I of the people, but he felt that they had carried their bill at the price of party honour. He believed that Mr. Disraeli had always been willing to concede • wide extension of the suffrage, but be thought his part would have been more honourable bad be carried his party round to the bill of the liberal government. He trusted the reception of Mr. Disraeli in Edinburgh would be worthy of the reputation of the city. Redistribution must be carried further. He wanted more members for Scotland by taking them from England, and not by increasing the number in the house. Respecting trades' unions, he admitted the abstract right of any num ber of men to combine for a certain rate of wages, but de nounced any attempt on their part to influence those who disagreed from them. With regard to Ireland, he said it was plain that to maintain the Irish established church for the amount of work it did was enough to bring reli gious establishments into contempt, and he would be pre pared to support some strong measure for dealing with the Irish church, but be believed the cause of the evils in Ire land lay deeper than either the Irish church or tenant right. The meeting closed with a unanimous vote of thanks to Mr. Moncreiff. THE MARYLEHONE Visritr.—The master of Marylebone Workhouse yesterday presented to the guar dians of that parish his half-yearly report on the casual wands. It will be remembered that three weeks ago two new wards were formally opened ; but the report deals with only a very small portion of that time. It appears that in the summer half-year 10,621 potions were relieved with lodging and food, at an average coat of 20. each. Only one use of destruction of clothing took place in the half-year, although as many 64 cases bad coeurred in a pre vious term of six months. There is a decrease in the total number of admissions on the whole year of no fewer than 7,630 persons. COLLISION ON THE GREAT WESTERN XAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.) (117 TELEGRAPH.) SHREWSBURY, SAITRDAY. A collision has taken place on the Great Western Railway. As the 1 o'clock morning coal train was shunt ing at Roasett, a goods train came up, and ran in at fall speed. Owing to the dense fog the driver could not see the signals. The main line was blocked and all trains were delayed. DESTRUCTIVE ma £3OOOO. AT BOLTON.-DAMAGB - - SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. A destructive fire occurred yesterday at the mill of Messrs. John Madam and Co., Bolton. The fire en e discovered about 1 o'clock, when the workpeople had just left the mill for dinner. So rapid was the destruction that within an hour the south wall fell into the lodge; the flames burst through into the bottom story, the floor above which gave way at ten minutes past two; and th e contents were blazing with such intensity as to threaten an extension of the fire to the offices fronting west. The firemen, therefore, at once directed their attention to the saving, if possible, of the cotton and snatching room., rtaircaise, the engine-room, and boiler-house. It was evident shortly after half-past 2 that the staircase, the engine-room, cotton and scuttling rooms above named would be s►ved; as at that time the boiler pipes were broken and the steam rushed into the mill, driving the fire, which had become somewhat subdued, towards the east side. At 25 minutes to 3 o'clock the greater part of the east end wall fell with a tremendous crash into C. len's-lane. The roof of the 'Askew caught fire, but the flames had not extended further in that direction at a quarter to 3, at which time a large number of workpeople and willing helpers were engaged in clearing out the cot ton-rooms and throwing their contents into the yard in skips. The mill was erected in 1860, and contained about 30,000 spindles. The value of the property destroyed will be not less than 30,0001.; but it is understood that the loss is fully covered by insurance. At the first alarm a camber of the hands jumped from the windows of the mill, and were more or less injured. The two first sufferers brought to the infirmary were William Kay, • piecer, aged 15, sad Catherine Lee, piecer. The lad was severely scalded, principally about the face, by pawing through a room filled with steam. His injuries were quickly dreamed, and no serious results are anticipated. Tho young woman (Lee) states that on finding the mill on fire she got out at the window and hung by her hands on the sill for 15 cc 20 minutes, until a ladder was procured, and she was taken from her 'perilous position. She had received a very severe gash on her right arm, just below the elbow, caused by the broken glass she came in contact sith in her haste to make her escape. Three other of the employes were shortly after brought in :—Ellen Waterworth, piecer, cut and wounded in her right hand by breaking the windows ; John Henry }field, self-acting minder, appa rently suffering from internal injuries, and also from bruises on his knee ; Samuel Shipley, self-acting minder, severely out on the left arm and hand by breaking the windows for those inside to get out. At a conference of congregationalist", held in Manchester yesterday, a long and interesting discussion took place on the question of popular education. The chairman, Mr. E. Baiaes, M.P., said be thought it would be right to maintain the existing ger. liamentary system, but to liberalise and extend it, by admitting secular schools to receive grants, and by so modifying the conditions of assistance as to enable the smaller and poorer parishes to obtain help. Similar views were expressed by Mr. S. Morley. Dr. Vaughan said be should not be afraid of a system of edit. cation based on local rating ; and Dr. Campbell, the pre. sident of the union, could not see that, by availing them. selves of the state grant, nonconformists would compromise their principles. On the other hand, Dr. Mamie, Dr. Parker, Dr. Halley, and other speakers, appeared to oppose any modification of the voluntary system. Tho ancient parish church of St. Bartholomew, at Winchester, is about to be rebuilt and made a resting place for the remains of Alfred the Great and his QUBEI Alawitha. The remains are to be enclosed in two mot. hunt chests, with felt crowns and suitable inscriptions. Last week 140,000 mackerel were caught off the Sussex coast. Nearly 100 tons weight of them were sect to London. THE CHAMPIONBHIP.—MACE AND BALDWIN. Bell's Life of today says:—" We have received the whole of the money, 4001., for this encounter, which takes place during the ensuing week in the Metropolitan dis. trict. Notwithstanding the supposed falling off in the P.R., as the time approaches old ring-goers are to be discovered attempting to glean the latest information respecting the combatants, their whereabouts, and their condition. We are justified in stating that arrange ments have been made so satisfactory that all who are anxious will have a chance of witnessing the mill if early enough at the rendezvous, which will not be known until very late the night before fighting. The final deposit of 151. a aide was duly posted on Thursday at Ike Hall's, the Sportsman Inn, Boundary.street, Shore. ditch, in the presence of a full house, and not only's' that hoetelrie crowded, bus all the drums in the neighbourhood were also crammed. The betting there was 5t04 on Jam Mace, with no response. Both men are as well as possible, Mace being about 12st., and Baldwin last. 1:11b. _ _ AFTEMPTILD 111.71tD1/1. OF ♦ POLlCEMAN.—Yes terday morning the inhabitants of the quiet Buckingham. shire village of Loudwater were thrown into a state of considerable excitement bye dastardly attempt at murder. A police-constable, named Deacon, keeper of the lock-up at Wycombe, in pursuit of a man, left the latter place by the 8.5 a.m. train, and arrived at the Loudwater station of the Aylesbury branch of the Great Western Railway at 8.12 a.m. The constable was in plain clothes, and while the train was stopping at the station, chancing to look out of the earrings window, lie saw the man he was in quest of walking upon the platform. Mr. }times, the station-master, had just issued a Victoria-station ticket to the man in question, who, on being recognised by the constable, turned to leave, and was accompanied the latter. As the man went out of the wicket he gave up his Victoria ticket to George Rime", the son of the station master. When the two got outside into the station-yard the man ran away, but was overtaken near a long wall attached to the village post-office, in the occupation of Mr. Saunders, who was sitting at breakfast with his wife. While looking through the window he saw two men, aa he thought, wrestling with each other. Presently he saw one of them 'raw a knife and stab the other, and on going to the door to render assistance both men ran past him. Is seems that when the constable etteinpted to arrest the man upon his overt& king him the latterstahhed him several times, wounding him on the arm and on various ii.vts of the body, Weakened by the extreme hiemoirhage, the constable was easily thrown, sad then his assailant made off as quickly as possible. Deacon lies in a moat dangerous condition. In the meantime, William Partridge, a boy of about IS, mounted a pony, and went after the miscreant and gave information to the police at Wooburn.green and Beacons field. As the boy on his return came nut of Beaconsfield he met the man who bad attempted to murder the con stable, and who regarded him somewhat curiously. Re disappeared soon afterwards over some railing., and the boy went and told the Beaconsfield police of the circum stance. The man was eventually run down and captured in the morning, and taken first to Wycombe, and in the evening to Aylesbury. MUSI.EIt Is IRELAND. —A brutal murder wan perpetrated a few dap; ago near Ew.nlinlmr, county Caren. The mord.rer is a man 1111111P1i Owen Dolan, and the victim was hie mother-in-law, Mary Gllleeoe, an old woman between sixty and seventy ye.rs of age. She lived with her daughter and son-in-law, but wan on had terms with the latter. In one of their domestic dispute* Doha knocked the old woman down wiih a stool, which stunned her, and then, seizing the fire.toliga, be.t her to death with it by repeated blows on the head. The daughter was witness to the savage murder of her mother, but whether as a paralysed spectator who dared not interfere, or a guilty participator in the crime, remains to be ascertained. She has been arrested. Polon tied im mediately after the commission of the deed, but was arrested on Wednesday by the constabulary, concealed in the house of a relative some miles distant from where he WEVIIILL FAlR.—This fair was resumed yester day for the show and sale of horses, of which there was a large supply, and in addition to long strings of high.class riding and harness horses there were large droves of loose and unbroken cart colts. There was a steady huriness at the following average figures —Cart horses of superior class, suitable for London purposes, 41 to 11 g u ineas, and seasoned ditto, for farming work, ka, 21 to 30 guineas I handson.e three•year-old cart colts, 40 guineas, and two year-old ditto, 25 to 32 guineas ; riding horses, of good stamp, 30 to 40 guineas ; steady cobs, 20 to 9,11 guineas, and horses of high blood and first-class saddle nags. 50 to 70 guineas • horses suitable for broughams and single and double harness purposes, 50 to GO guineas and upwards ; and horses, strong and sound, for vans, railway carriers, town carts, dm. 40 to 50 guineas ; and seasoned ditto , for omnibus and ha ckney work, 23 to 30 guineas ; and Irish colts, out of the droves, 18 to 25 guineas. ROYAL HOSPITAL TOE DISICASES OP T/12 OUST, CITY•ROAD, K.C. —The number of patients under treat• went at this hospital during the past weak amounted to 718, of which 58 were new cases. I t