The Express. — London, England, 1865-08-28 00:00:00

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Ters•id.•-• The Hackie Troops -Gymnsatlea by the Cbantreils-Coulia Voceisel p by M ar AIEERATIVS D./WOW.& Was. bert Steele.—aed THE OONITIC NIGH WATIIt AT LONDON-MD(IK 2 DAT -.• man a& 6d taid....Marseed SIAM. T 041012.011 K. OD. DIM....AIMIM OOO . tlat. Um. LONDON, MONDAY. AUGUST 28. AT this period of the year the question of the harvest is, as usual, of paramount importance. During the whole of the present month financial events have been almost entirely influenced by the constantly changing prospect of a good, a bad, or an average crop. The weather, without being absolutely unfavourable, has been variable enough to warrant all sorts of conjectures, and the pre vailing uncertainty has in consequence materially affected business. This is especially shown by the state of the discount market. Week after week the demand for money has been diminishing, while the available supply has, if anything, increased, but there are hardly any signs of that downward movement in the rate of interest which under these circumstances would ordinarily be expected. As long as the result of the harvest is in suspense it is only natural that extreme caution should be ex ercised. It is well known that nothing affects the money market to a greater extent than a deficient supply of corn, since the purchase and importation of grain from abroad cause more than any other event an immediate efflux of bullion, and a corresponding advance in the rate of interest. Bill discounters and bankers, therefore, refrain as much as possible from doing a large business for the present, preferring to lend their mousy on short loans in the Stock Exchange until the great question is decided one way or the other. Hence the apparently anomalous spectacle is presented of persons being able to borrow money at IjE per cent. to hold securities yielding three. A very short time, however, will put an end to the tem por►ry stagnation in trade that at present exists. Not only has the discount market been affected by considerations respecting the harvest, but the same influence has acted upon the prices of nearly all public securities. During the whole of the month Consols have varied with each change in the weather. At the commencement the price for money was as high as 901 ; after several interme diate fluctuations it went down to 89, re covered to 89 to 1, and is now 89} to It may appear surprising that the reaction has not been greater, but there are several reasons why the public funds are likely to suffer a compa ratively permanent depreciation. Among these may be reckoned the increased cost of living, and the competition which is offered in the shape of new companies, &c., affording much highee rates of interest. The first of these causes is especially to be remarked. People with fixed incomes have found themselves becoming every year relatively poorer, and scarcely able to subsist upon what was formerly comparative affluence. Wb4e the coun try in general has been growing in wealth they have gone back. The gold discoveries of Australia and California, and the exten sion of trade and enterprise have combined to render money of little more than half the ex changeable value it bore some fifteen years back. Hence the small proprietors of Consols have been gradually selling their investments in order to lay out their means at a more profitable rate though with less security than the public funds can give. At the same time that these sales have been taking place, numbers of new companies have been intro duced, which thus exactly met the opportunity produced by the changed state of events. The ex pansion of trade also has enabled bankers and capi talists to find ample employment for their money in discounting, and has, in a great degree, prevented them from adding to the government securities they already held. The result is that the floating supply of stock in the market remains large, and as there are no present signs that it will be cleared off, but will rather increase, prices are necessarily depressed. At this moment also there are ex ceptional reasons for Consols being flat. The cattle disease is certain to cause the high cost of living to be materially augmented by the rise in the price of meat, and hence the change in invest ments already mentioned is likely to continuo on an increasing scale. Secondly, the losses sustained by farmers and graziers must inevitably lead to a diminution in the deposits of the country banks, and possibly to au additional demand upon their resources, with consequent sales of government stocks in London. Happily it does not appear that there is any chance of a calamitous deficiency in the harvest, otherwise the pressure on the country banks might become of greater importance. As regards other securities, they have been com paratively little affected by the doubts respecting the crops. Next to the public funds, the largest investments of capital in England are in railway stocks, and although in exceptional instances prices have given way, particularly in Great Eastern and Metropolitan, in several of the most important descriptions they have actually advanced. Rail way management is not yet as perfect as it may easily be made, but an improvement has so far taken place that the public are looking upon these securities more in the light of a solid investment than as mere channels of speculation. As a matter of course railway profits would be considerably diminished by a deficient harvest, but the growing importance of the pleasure traffic would probably be considered a sufficient compensation. It is at all events satisfactory to find that the English public) are becoming more alive to the value of securities at their own doors, and lees disposed to sink their money in the bottomless pit of foreign finance. At no period, indeed, for many years bas there been Ism disposition to touch the bondai offered to us by Russian, Brazilian, TOrk** or other Governments. The late* losikJewthis that of Mr. lALINO, in 001100Ii011 with the plan of converting the Turkish Internal debt, stands at a hopeless discount, and any fresh operation, from whatever quarter, appears more than likely to end in a similar manner. It is very difficult at all times to obtain sure information respecting the state of the harvest, since the aceounts received must necessarily oome from interested parties. A farmer with a large stock of corn on hand is, consciously or =con sciously, actuated by the desire to make out things worse than they actua ll y are, and hence it is rarely ac k n owledged, except upon extraordinary occaaiona, that the return is equal to the average. The same principle applies everywhere. For example, it has become an slmoat invariable rule for the London correspondents of Greek houses in the fruit trade to receive every autumn the most dis couraging accounts of the blight in currants, damage by rain, and so forth, with the accompany ing moral that prices must rise higher. Whatever may have been the case formerly, the trade care little about there warnings now. In a similar ' degree, anything that may be said about a defi ciency in the harvest must always be considered subject to a possible speculation in Mark-lane. Judging from independent observation, there sp pears good reason to believe that the crops in the southern districts are, on the whole, not unfavour able, and that a few days more of fine weather will suffice to give an equally reassuring report from the North. jSupposing, however, that we should have to im part large supplies of grain from abroad, it is satisfactory to know that the pressure fromthiscause will not be aggravated by any additional demand elsewhere. Our shipments of bullion to the East have again become unimportant, while large sup plies of gold are known to be shortly coming for ward, of which only a small proportion will pro bably be required for export. Although the bul lion at the Bank by the last return was 14,221,129/. against 14,457,6481. on the 2nd of August, still the reserve has increased from 6,461,318/. in the beginning of the month to 7,095,004/. To take this as an illustration, sad it is the best that can be cited, it is evident that ou expense' are steadily increasing, and that if we are called upon to meet a drain of gold for foreign corn, we are, all things considered, in a good position to meet it. AABESS, Ib* ann. THE ROSENAII, COBURG, AUGUR! 24. The Duchess of Holstein Augostenberg, niece to her Majesty, srrived at the Calleaberg on Sendai, on a visit to the Duke sod Duchess of Saxe Coburg, aocompanied by her brother-hi-law, Prince Christian of Holstein. The Duchess and Prince and Christina visite tod the Queen, atwith the Raman, on Monday, remained luncheon her Majesty. The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, as well as the Duchess of Holstein Augustonberg and Prince Christian, dined with her Majesty is the evening. Her Majesty continues to dries out every day. Prises Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstoas, arrived yesterday from England. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Gorernor■ of Malta, the Mauritius, Goyim, Haag Kong, Labrador, the Australian Colonies, the Caps of Good Rope, Natal, Gibraltar, Canada, and the Bahamas. Tao Right Hon. Sir George Grey arrived in town on Friday. THE QUEEN AT COBURG. A letter iu the Times, dated " Coburg, August 23," sod signed " (1," gives a detailed account of the grand esremnoial which was about to take place at Rona• eau, the place of the Prince Consort's birth, about four miles from Coburg, and where her Majesty is residing. A noble statue of the Prince Consort by Mr. Timed having been erected in the centre of the market•place, was, the writer says, to be uncovered on Saturday in the presence of the Queen of England end the whole of her family, and of a numerous assemblage of royal and distinguished visi tors. In is added :—"From the palace io Coburg, by which the royal procession will pus to the market-plans, where the status is erected, the streets will be Hoed with troops and the carriages will proceed at • foot pace. In the inarket-plwo the Quin will be received at the foot of the tribune, which has bean erected frontinj the statue for her Majesty and the other royal parsonages, by the Date of Coburg end Priam Alfred, who has been for some time the duke's guest at the Callenbnrg (the favourite residence of his royal highness, about two Wiles from the city), and who being treated invariably by the duke as the heir to his dukedom, will appear, it is add, on this occasion, in the uniform of a general °Meer of the Sexe , Doborg Gotha troops. In the Tribune the Queen will meet the rest of her chidren, the Priem and Princess of Waled, sod the two elder princesses and their hustende—the Crown Princess of Priusio, such a favourite with us la Bashed as out own Princess Royal, and the Crown Prince ; and Mo sses Louis of Hesse, also mgeotioostely remembered as Princess Alice of England, and her husband Primes Louis. And thus will be assembled, I believe for the first time for very many years, the whole of the children of the Queen and Prince, brought together by the sacred duty of ilumg hoeour with their mother to the memory of their beloved and lamented father. In addition to the Queen's own immediate family, and to the Duke and Duchess of Coburg, there will be a numerous gathering of the relatives of the lamented Prince and of the Queen. Os Islamise her carriage the Queen will receive a military salute from a guard of honour, the band playing the English national anthem. Theo will follow an address from the Burgomaster, the uncovering of the statue, amid hymns song by the members of the Choral Society, the pealing of bells, and the firing of a royal mints from the venerable old Futon', while a number of young ladies from the town sod neighbourhood will lay wreaths at the foot of the statue. The ceremony over, the Queen will return to Amman in the same manner, and in the evening a grand reception will be held at the palace, at which, however, I feu that her Majesty will not herself be present." In a postscript the writer adds :—" I have fast baud that the Queen has this morning been pleased to decorate Major, now Sir John, Cowell with the civil order of S.C.B. You ate aware that he has been for many years goveraor to Prince Alfred, and that his functions as such mewed by the attainment by his royal highness of his 21st year on the 6th of August lest. It Is a grareefol act on the part of the Queen thus to mark her appreciation of the zeal and devo- tion he has shown in the discharge of his duties to her son. Sir John will shortly, it is said, undertake a similar charge over Prince Leopold. Major Elpbinstons, who lies been also for many years equally devoted in his care of Priem Arthur. has revolved from her Majesty at the sum time the third-class of the same order." Viaconnt Palmerston is in excellent health at Brockett Hall, Herts. The noble Viscount and Viscuttateas have a select family circle staying with them, by:dales Viscount and Vieoeuatmo Smiley and the Right Hoe. W. F. Cowper sad Km. Caner. The Duke of Somerset will leave hie official residence at Whitehall to-day foe Port.moutb, accompanied by the whole of the Lords Commissioarm of the Admiralty sod Meer-Admiral Lord Clamp Paget, 0.8., sairetarp where the Board will remain daring the reeeptioe of the French Best. Lord and Lady Londeeborough have entertained a large party It Grierston Park, their seat, near Tedesater, during the are meeting at York. Their guests included the Duelists (Emily) of Beaufort, the Duke of St. Albans, the Marelthmers (Maria) of Ailashery, the Pori and Coaster of Westmorland, Lord Stanhope, the Hos. F. Gahm. 31. P., Sir Heavy sad Lady Sophia Des Vans, Yr. Obeis topher Sykes, Yr. H. Chaplin, ho. 1111•41 r - - .....w,w..... , ' DUX *TENPIN A . UGUST 28, 18652 4 ' - • 44A AT Bb., ----....---• it....A012 NA, war, • ....—..--- Si .. \ . . 1 %;.4geon op irscla. oologirososri.) BREST, Tininarma Evelmo. The lady who did the honours of the ball was the Marchioness de Chasseloup-Lautrat, who held a sort of little court on the quarter-deck, where she and the Maritime Prefect's wife, the Countess de Gueydon, sat on a handsome sofa, which might be considered a throne. Very assiduous court was paid to her, not only on account of her influential position as wife of the Minister of Morino, but also because of her extraordinary beauty and pleasing manners. I believe that universal suffrage would have voted her the handsomest woman at the ball, and that is no slight thing to say, for the beauty of Brittany was in great force. Rarely have I been in an assembly where so many whole rows of pretty women sitting together could be pointed out. Madame de Chasseloup-Laubst, as I have before said, is an American. She does not look more than 25, and is in reality under 30. Her com plexion is dark, so dark that many people call her a Creole, but her akin is beautifully clear, her black eyes extremely expressive, and her face is a perfect Grecian oval. I was going to say she hal abundance of rich black hair, but remembering that in the present state of the fashions and the coiffeur's science it does not matter the least whe ther a woman has fine hair or not, or, indeed, whe ther she has any at all, I refrain. At all events her eyebrows and eyelashes are admirable. In any ball-room whatever she could not fail to be re marked, not only as an extremely handsome wo man, but as one whose beauty was of an uncommon type. Admiral Bonet Villaumez and the Maritime Prefect were talking to her during a great part of the evening, and a great many English officers of rank were presented to pay their respects. Lady Clarence Paget sat with her constantly. There was plenty of room for dancing, and although fully 3,000 people were assembled (for I heard of many supplemental invitations at the last moment), there was at no time inconvenient heat or crowding. Ladies left a handkerchief or a scarf on their seats and returned to them without the least difficulty. The largest salon in any palace is not so high as the canvas roof which covered the deck of the Ville de Lyons and the best ventilated rooms have less air than came in plentifully, but, thanks to very fine weather, not dangerously, from its numerous portholes. I never saw dancing more enjoyed. Everybody looked pleased and excited. The quality of the supper was equal to that Id good dinners. Wine was given without stint — not during an hour or two only, when two thirds of the company were gone, as is the case at many pretentious balls, but for six or seven how s continuously, to upwards of 3,000 people, of whom a large proportion were young men, junior officers and midshipmen, who amidst the excite ment of dancing and running up and down stairs from one deck to another were encouraged to take ias much as they liked. Who bar not seen at crush 1 suppers at private parties the indecent struggles that sometimes take place for a full bottle of champagne, and how the possessor keeps a firm hold of it, helping himself frequently, and sparingly doling oat a glass or two to particular friends 1 There was nothing of the kind on board the Ville de Lyon. "Jolly full bottle" was the universal motto ; and all the even ing long, not merely at the supper table, but at the preliminary buffets, full bottles of champagne were always at hand right and left. It was quite five o'clock when the dancing ceased, and the streets of Brest were thronged with ladies going home as late as six. To-day the public is going in crowds to visit the Ville de Lyon before the decorations of the never-to-be-forgotten ball are disturbed. At I this afternoon, as nearly as possible, Adro'- ral Decree' squadron weighed anchor, and, after firing farewell &dotes, which were duly returned, steamed out of the harbour for Portsmouth. The Edgar led, and was followed by the five frigates in line. The Admiralty yachts did not leave till half an hour afterwards. The wind being contrary, no sails were set. The weather was very fine, with a fresh breeze blowing. I The hotels of Brest are now nearly em p t y , and A the last visitors of the town are going away. for DEATH OP SIR GEORGE BROWN. --4-- Gen. Sir Geo. Brown died at Link wood , near Elgin, yesterday mos nine, after a lengthened illness. To the public the name of the deceued general became familiar as that of the commander of the Light DiViliol3 of the English army in the Crimea. Sir Gawp entered the army as ensign In the 43rd foot, in 1806. woo present at the capture of Copenhagen in the following year. was at the storming of Badajos, sooompanyieg Sir Do L. Evans in the forlorn hope of the siege, and took an active part in the storming of ' the heights of Oilskins., mid in the flame affairs of Sala manca, Sabjeos de moan% Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Hindle, sod Toulouse. He obtained his majority on the 26th of May, 1814, and on the 29th ensuing writ breveted lieutenint-colouel. lie wee afterwards slightly wounded at the battle of Bladensburg in America, and was present at the capture of Washington. In 1851 he became Adjutant-floural of the Forces--an of which he resigned in 185 1. In the Crimean war he played a distinguished part as commander of the Light Division. Ia the battle of the Alma, during the height of the struggle, Sir George suddenly disappeared, his horse haring ben shot under bim. A me. meet afterwards kis troops saw him in front of a Russian battery, enveloped in &cloud of dust, and heard him shoot, " T minty-third, I'm all right ; be sure ru remember you for this dsy." At the battle of Inkermann, where it is believed the Russian soldiers were iostruoted to pick out the English mounted officers, the Light Division was brought to the front of the position on the first attack of the enemy, and Sir George Brows was severely wounded. An eye witness of the battle says, " Sir George Brown was strut by a shot which went through his arm and stanch his aide. I saw with regret his pale and sternly composed feu, as his body was borne by me on a litter, his white hair flattruieg In the Wiese." Fe! hie distinguished ser►ices is the Crimea the gallant officer was in 1856 promoted to the rank of fall general, having previously bees appointed colonel of a battalion of the Bide Si lode. He also received the. Order of the Ideijidie of the F stOla s, end the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. The Duke of Hamilton arrived at Hamilton House, Arliogtoastreet, Piccadilly, from France, on his way to Hamilton Palace and /kaiak Castle, Scotland, for @booting. The Earl Grosvenor and Lady Constance Grosvenor have arrived at Danaohin Castle, •• • visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, from the south. Viscount and Viscountess Sudley have arrived at &oaken Hall, on a visit to Lord and Lady Palmerston. from their raglans' at Kew. Viscountess Jocelyn and lion. Miss Jocelyn have arrived at Tallman Park, county Down, the seat of the Earl of Rodeo. Lord and Lady Farnham have arrived at Claridgee Hotel oa their return from the Continent. The Right Hon. William F. Cowper, IL P., and Mrs. Cowper hove gone on • visit to Viscount and Via countess Palm/atom at Brookett Sall, Herts. The Hon. Frederick A. Stanley, hi P., and Lady Constant* Stanley left /obeyK Park • few day. ago for Sallykistass. Tipperary, t, we undastand, Lord Stanlay, ILP,, has gives isp to his brother. OttYetAl. PLLLOL HALF-A-OB.OW DAT. SAITIDAT, AVOW! IR —Adsisisos oe payment, 1,402; Mao by Nee= tickets, 3,355. Total Alton, 4,757. share was divided into 10 parts at Mfr. each, en• titling the bolder to his proportion of the dividend and to the chance of the share being drawn a prize, The Petit Tonna has an enormous cir culation. .sapecielly among the lower classes, and anything patronised by it was almost snre to sue- AMERICA. (11217121 .11 111.11:56) THE GREAT FORGERIES AT NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Ammer 17. It is ascertained that E. B. Ketchum, of the banking firm of Ketchum, Son, and Co., has forged gold cheques, estimated to amount to upwards of 2,000,000 dole. He has also fraudulently ab strected 2,500,000 dole. worth of securities from the safe of his firm. The total alleged swindling by himself and other parties implicated is estimated at 51,000,000 dols. The Importers a nd Traders' Bank, F o urth Netioeud Bank, and several private firms lose heavily. P. R. Mum ford, a stock gold operator, has been arrested, charged with fraud. The excitement in Wall-street to-day was intense. The trial of Wirtz, of Anderaonville notoriety, has been further postponed. A magazine in Richmond, containing 2,000 rounds of shell and other ammunition, exploded on Tuesday, destroying property valued at 100,000 dole. Only two lives reported lost- The Titus Washington despa t c h says: "Statistics show that during the rebellion the Federal armies ca ptured over 300,00 0 prisoners , besides patrolling about 160,000 more of the final =render." A frightful collision occurred yesterday on the Housitonat Railroad, near Bridgeport, Connecti cut, by which six ladies, one mac, and two boys were killed, and 15 severely wounded. BISHOP OP LONDON'S FUND. The committee have suspended their meetings for general Weimer' until October. The irnWeined rtatemeat shows bow much the fund hex alreedy bees enabled to 00•• t r ibute towards supplying the wants of the diocese. it must be understood, however, that this statement refers only to week done through the laud, and that • hand mareet of church extension is going on in various parishes of this diocese which is not incl uded In it. To the Ltt August, 1865, votes amonalleg to 36,828/. have bees dude for 34 churches. Of OWN 34 churches for which votes have be made, 15 have been commuted, 7 are being built, and the works for the others will be begun as soon as endlerieue foods am need. Twelve of the chinless thus aided have al-eady been endowed by the Ecclesiastial Commissioeers. The other churches tor which votes have been made will have a sufllcreat population attached to them to maga the inctunhent• of them to claim endowment greats from the Ecclesiastical Oornmisaioners as soot as tie churches are completed. The committee ham eoweidered it • special object to assist new districts in getting the perroaesat "hutch built. sad thus enabling them to obtain endowments from the Ecclesiastical Commierimers. They have rot therefore contributed amok directly to en dowments. As as insteps", however, of the way in which ciente from the fund may be su pplemented from other sources, it may be stated that to meet a great of 1,0001. from the Bishop of London's Fund, foe the endowmeat of a new district formed out of St. Luke's, Berwick-strest, and St. James's, Westminster. 2,0001. were raised locally, and another 3,0001. added by the Bedesiestical Commissioems, thus securing se midownseet of 1501. per annulate perpetuity for the district. Votes amountialo 19,0321. have bas tam for 37 wisdom stations. minion elation* as seed for religious/amine, day sad night schools, and other pumas menected with the working of the mission cts. The mission stades is in fact the seeking of the future machinery of the settled midemimeical district. In 32 of these mission districts see of the mis sionary slew afterwards referred to are already at work. The acreage:meta in the other districts an being com pleted. 7,5501. have been voted for sixteen whisk' la addition to the above, grant" amounting to 7,6711. 10s. have been made for 8 sites for churches ; 7,3601 for 9 rites for mission stations ; 5,4891 for 8 sites for retools ; and further sum of 3,0001. has been epprepriated fee sites i n (notelets where the population is rspiMy increasing and the averred is being covered with houses. Seven sites have been given to the fund—either freeho lds in posemeon, or ranee "ions of freehold' in cues of Imes" purchased by the feed. Grants have been made in aid for 9 parsonage houses. Stipends have been voted for 115 clergy, paid either wholly or in part by the fund. Of these it is calculated that more then 100 have been added to the staff of the diocese. These clergy are stationed in the poorer districts of the dioeme, and are mostly employed in carryiog out new work in the mission districts which have bat formed Untie Me origin of the fond. Grants amountiog to 2,500/. per annum have been voted for 52 Scripture reader', and to 440 1 . per annum foe 20 pare child mission women. Them lay agents are mostly employed is the mission districts, sad no new grants are now made by the committee for clergy or lay agent', except in mission dl cte. When the 34 churches are completed 32,500 church gallop in 34 permanent churches will ha ve been provide', of wit - kb about 22,500 will be free ; and 11,100 sittings in 37 Tensaw statists or temporary chtuchee, making a total of 43.600 sittings. Assuming that one clergyman cannot efficiently minister to more than 2,000 people, pastoral superintendenee will have been provided fora population of 200,000 people. It will thus be sees that the fund is mate rially to overtake the arrears in the provision far the religious wants of the diocese, which bad been allowed to aoatimulate. It has also stirred up a large amount et private effort di rectly connected with the work of the lurid, which is not represented in the votes of the committee. There is no doubt also that the fund has helped to fasten public atten tion on the disproportion between the population of the diocese and the provision for its religious wants. The week which the fund has already instituted les& to the bop* that with the hearty sad goisral support of the diocese, the B'ehop of Dodos era the committee may be enabled to carry out the objects before them. WEATHER REPORT. .-(THIS DAY.) iiONDIT, AIXIM S A.IL W. LW. N.& LW. W. &Li &LW. ILL K. &Z. N.W. 50.70 itanl 88.781 80.84 811.81 19.86 89.61 18.88 19.94 IL&E. £N.L 11.N.= SALL 6.1 , 4. W. &&W. LAW. ,j,II4I3LLIGIENCE. sinsosams.) THE SLESWIG-HOLSTE I N QUESTION. VA, Ave= 28. In the negotiations between the Sovereigns of Austria and Prussia for the definitive settlement of the suooession question to the duchies the following points have been agreed to by both powers, as the basis for the future organisation of the government of Sleswig-Holstein: 1. Austria and Prussia reooguiae the Vienna treaty of peace as the only legal basis for the set tlement of the question of the sovereignty of the Duchies. Both powers, therefore, form the only tribunal which, so aeon as they shall have come to an understanding on the subject, shall have the au thority to decide on the future political organisation of the Duchies. 2. The duty of defending the duchies will be undertaken by Prussia, and whatever ultimate settlement of the succession question may be ai rived at, the military resources of Sleswig and Holstein will be placed at her disposal. ITALY. --- RESIGNATION OF THEERIOR MINISTER OF TILE INT. FLORENCE, Avner 28. Signor Lanza, the Minister of the Interior, has given in his resignation, which has been accepted by the Sing. The name of his successor is not yet known. ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMER POONAH. SOUTHAMPTON, Sooner The Peninsular and Oriental Oompany's steamer Poonab, which sailed hence yesterday with the Bombay mails, when off Lymington met with a slight accident to her machinery. Engineers have been sent to effect the repairs, and it is expected the Poonab win be able to resume hee voyage towards evening. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. SUEZ, Aeourr 27. The Massageries Imp6riales steamer Tigre ar rived here to-day with the India and China mails, and 6,080 bales of silt. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (fox 001 OWN PARIS, 81310 At EVIRING. The Monikur publishes a decree for the promul gation of the treaty of commerce and navigation I concluded with Holland. The customs duties in that country being already on the most liberal scale, no duty on any article exceeding 5 per cent., the treaty had for its object to admit Holland to the benefits of the system inaugurated by the treaty with England of 1864. Some diminution has been obtained on the charges on w , ne, which, in addi tion to the duty, is subject to heavy octrois varying in di ff erent towns. By a p ro g ress ive reduction the entire dues on French wines will be lowered to 42fr. 30c., the present ranging from ;sfr. to 80fr. Large concessions have been made to French trade in JavaaudSumatra. Alldifferential tounagedueshave been abolished, and the ports in these colonies are now open to French vessels on the same terms as to those of Holland. Considerable reductions have also been made in the customs. A commission has been named to study the cattle disease now prevalent in England, end to propose the measures which should be taken in case it should make its appearance here. A letter from Bale, speaking of the enormous numbers of foreign cattle imported into England, says that herds some times pass through that town which it takes three hours to water. The Moniteur also publishes a note in answer to the complaints of the Times' correspondent here on the delay in the delivery of the morning poet from London. The answer is simply a statement of the facts which everyone knows—a delay of a quarter of an hour in the arrival of the mail train prevents the distribution of the letters that evening. We all know this, and this is just what is complained of. Why not have the last delivery at 8 o'clock in stead of at 7, the train only being due at 6.30 1 The only internal question seems to be at present the programme of the Nancy decentralisars. It affords matter for comment to all the papers ; but your readers already know the objects of its advo cates, and the heterogeneous opinions which have united iu the attempted crusade enable us to judge of its impracticability. Instead of embarrassing the imperial government as its members intended, it may turn out that they have served it. ouch a coalition reminds us too forcibly of the famous club of the Rue de Poitidrs. Dr. Ndlaton's report of the sufferers at Neuf -41401 is favourable. The Emperor has returned to his work at Fontainebleau, holding cabinet coun cils and entertaining Alxl-el•Kader. I observe in one of the papers an expression witty enough to be worth repeating. The Emir, before returning to Syria, is going to visit Aruboise, "which was his university of Ham." His last appearance in Paris was at a wand fête given by the freemasons of the Grand Orient, the official branch of the order here. The Lisbon Correspondence denies that there was any conflict with the nuncio on the subject of Victor Emmanuel's standing godfather to the young prince. The baptism, according to this authority, has been delayed on account of the sanitary condition of Portugal. This is uo doubt the truth, but the original story was very like a true one ; for if the King of Italy be, as they say, excommunicated by the Pope, and excommunication means anything, be could hardly be accep ted as a godfather. The two children of Prince Napoleon are still un baptieed, if I remember rightly, for the same reason, as his grandfather was to be sponsor for the eldest. The Epoce of Madrid, in contradicting a rumour that the heir of Italy was to marry the Princess Isabella of Spain, insinuates that her baud is intended for the King of Bavaria, whose youngest uncle married a sister of the King's. The Constitutiorerei, referring to the discussions in the German papers on the convention of Salz bourg, says : That which strikes us In this long disunion Is the eau plots silence which the organs of all parties observe as to the real intimate of the duchies, their wants, their wishes, and their sufferings , . Proasian aad Austrian I.berak, members of the Natiocalverein, no one—aboolutely no one— seem* to miderstand that it is a gaieties of populations, conquered, transferred, ceded, like a house or a bale at goods. There is nothing very original in this ; it has been already said by all the liberal press ; and on this subject the press is all liberal, both in England and Franca ; but when the cautious Conatitutionna allows itself such a remark, it may be regarded as an informal caveat, proceeding from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Masse Ryppolyte Milland. the proprietor of • the Petit Journal, is cited before the Sixth Cham ber, along with his chief editor, for opening and advertising an unauthorised lottery. It was an ' ingenious combination by which he sold Mexican / • stock at 350, the price being about 325. Each Nairn Aberdeen Glib . A-drorw~. GreencastAe Valenti& cape ;tear • I iverpool grdebead , Panne Brest. .... L'Or:.ot Wernonib Portsmouth 99.99 99.911 1.." 111.9 1 S.'S 99M, 66 13. 1 63 &W. 164 B.BW, 314 & W. 8. 1 1 61 1 1 1 63 NM. bt I br or 0.10. t !Or 0.04 - as 188 181 i Ts.. awe tat BC&Tb01011er Wadi HeUaotanel - 1;; bo I 1 W.— 2 Pawpaw itrZSOLT. OM NORIWILLII WZDWZIOLT. Masterly and southerly, COMM LE. to B.W. and N.W. I varying, moderate to (Reek palely, wort,- fresh. with ra'a. tied. &X to 8. W., moderato WRITZAS. BW. to N.W., trirk to to !Moog, ra - a at siva*. at times. As nett above. Borman. As nett above. N h. to W. and N.W., ZWITEZN. W. to N.E. and fresh. some rata back to W.. varying, moderate to stroom Northern=Scotland. Wesderm=lraland. Wake. and adja cencies. hotabern=an ltsh Channel and Bay of Away. Eastern-=Eastward and North Br Tin Nrcw Ramos Pitogigtog.—The Rev. R. Payne Smith, M.A., sob-lihnuilmot the Hakim Library, emceed' Dr. Jaeobooo, remedy appointed to the BAT'.le of Chester. as Regina Professor of Divinity at the Univer sity of Oxford. The Pious rays the aew profesoor " was educated is Pembroke College as one of Be Scholars, gra. dusted with secesci-olare bowers is 1841, sad obteised the Bodes (Baserit) and the Pone and PAIos (Hebrew) Unl vanity scholarship% In the discharge Gl_ hie duty an under librarian of the Bodleiaa , lie hes psWahrid, in thick quarto voicing, as elaborate Leila cobilopse mimics" of the Syriac BUM beloogiag to that library. He has edited sad braociated the works of EP. Cyril of Akzaadria, which are octant only is Syriac, from the YI3B. brought to this coartry by Archdeacon Tatum ; aad be has also translated tba parsons scoleihatioal history of John of Edwina, which bad been foetid is the lama eollectioei of M. by Dr. Ooreke. Mr. Salida is at present enraged is Procoriog for the Delegates of the Oxford Press a Syriac lexicon. based oe that of Chstelli ; but the work of Hr. Smith I will be is point M tad, new and marl larger work. If, i as a great authority has asserted. Mr. Sarah pommies a emits akin to the gauss of Herald or Gssanius, • I he mallet fail greatly to aid Batiks& criticism by kis lexison. Ha *was also far an auelloat Arabic whaler ; and. what is of piranicsiet impalas* ia tines whoa the theological I 000dieli is fought over the Old Testamest, be I. a protonad Behratet. How Yr. &pith Ma teach theology sad apply his i ndigos to tbst (rat qamtleas of our avy b. OM in his " Beesimis Interpretation of the Prophecies ad Isaiah." published * 1862. askwill be sots further Mien by a ooriuseetery cm 'greenish which ha has engaged to oontribute to the largo work that is to appear wader rho sus** of the Speaker." THE ROAD MURDER. CONSTANCE KENT'S CONFESSION. We have at length authentic details from the u ps of Coeds. Ca Kent was of the crime of which she eau p o nd Mesa guilty whoa pieced on her trial st &ashe n Let nicuth. Dr. Jobs Moshe Beekeell, of HQ * * Ball, near Rugby, who, with the permission of the l ie d Chancellor, examined the accused for the purpose of wee Minis whether time erne any grounds for supposing that I I she de labour* ester mental disease, has, at thieving Id the criminal beeself, omantunicated the following t hug, ci her crime, which she has reinfieeed to bins sad to g t . I Medway, of Trowbridge, her solicitor, and which she dee* to be made public. fibs says that the TUMID in die sits committed the crime was as follows. A few days before the murder she obtalad p swim a a razor from a green eau in hp Mises wardrobe, sod seented it. This was the sole lawArnment which she used. She also secreted a math with =etches, by placing them is the earner of the closet is eta genies whole the murder wee committed. On the night et the =UAW she undimmed basil' and went to bed, bin gs she expected that her Adam would vitt her nem. Shsbg awake watching until she thought that the household vele all asleep, and soon after midnight she lest her bedroom sad wont down stairs sad opened the drawing-room door sad derby shutters. She then went up into the screwy, withdrew the blanket from between the sheet sad eh eousterpthe, end plated it on the side of the cot. She then took the child from his bed end carried lint Bowe eels through the drawing-room. She bad on her night drop, and in the drawl's-room she put on her goloshes. Having the child la one arm, she raised the drawingeeet window with the other head, went road the home sad imp the closet, lighted the candle, and placed it on the suet the closet, the child being wrapped in the blanket and sa sleeping ; and while the child was in this position she h. Mated the wound in the threat. She ups that she that& the blood would dew come, a killed, nd that the child it sh and she thrust the razor tato its left aide, led * the body with the blanket (round it into the vault. The light burned out. The piece of flannel which she had wilt her was torn from en old Saadi garment plead in themes beg, sod which she had taken some time before, sad ewe it to use in washing herself. She went beck into her bel• room, examined her dress, and found only two 'pots of blood on it. Theme she snaked out is the has)), and threw de water, which debut little diecoloure3, into the footles is which she bad washed hoe feat. She took were of her night-dresess end got into bei. ID Ike maiming her nighttime had beemers dry A ft it had been washed. She folded it up sod pit it ie . ° mks drawer. Her three night-01moms were trade id by*, Foley (the polio. superiateedent, sad she bet Yee she by Mr. Period, the medical attendant of the family. fiss thought the blood stales bad been effectually mod* bat on holding the dress up to the light a day or In, afterwards she found the states were still visible She we meted the dress, mowing it from place to Om, sad is *notedly burned it in her own bedroom, sad pet de saes or tinder into the kitchen grate. It war about be or sic days after the child's death that she hand the nfght-drese. On the Saturday morning, having diesel the reser, she took en opportunity of replacing it, useimeet, is the case in the wardrobe. She abstractel het slid dregs from the clothes-butte when the hominoid melte fetch a glans of water. [This it may be reordered or. tatty donnas the evades of the housemaid, Mrs. Eager (formerly Cox), so given at the examination at Trowbridge( As regards the motive of the crime, says Dr. Sedmil, it seems that although she entertained at *se time a gni regard for the premed Mrs. Kent, yet if a remark vu d any time made which in her opinion was diem :aging te esy member of the lest family, she treasured it up sad dem mined to avenge it. She had no 11l will spied the ills boy, except as one of,the children. Dr. Bucknell adds del a letter had been addressed by Coustanos Kent to Mr. IA way, her solicitor, before the trial on this poise Ws me the ground for the statement made by the misoser's ore* to the effect that she acknowledged that she had resild the greatest kindness from Mr. and Mrs. Kent. Dr.Budrag adds : "She told me when the aurae:mid wee secessditsid fully made up her mind to confess if the nurse led bee convicted, and that she bad felt herself Hader the Weds of the devil before she committed the murder: het the she did not believe, and bad not believed, that the and had more to do with her crime than he had with rep other wicked action. She bad sot said her prayers hr s year before the murder, and not sft mots cued she cam to reside at Brighten. She mid that the &muted& which revived renews feelings in her mind vu Odd* about ressiving the sacrament when confirmed.* As to the whaler's mental caddies, Dr. Busked din "An opinion has been expressed that the peculates synced by Constance Kent between the attired' of he Zed and 17th may be attributed to the thee deities period of her life. Moreover, the fact of her cutting d her hair, dressing herself is bee brother's clothe, red leaving her hold with the ideation of going abroad,ebbk o ccurred when she was only 13 years of an. of I peculiarity of disposition and great determination el es. radar, which foreboded that, for god or evil, haa Wag life would be remarkable. This peculiar dispirited will led her to such singular and violent resolv bar e seemed also to colour and intensify the thoug fed. togs, and magnify into wrongs that were to be meta any little family incidents or occurrence which prated her displeasure. " Although it became my duty to advise her counsel tad she evinced no symptom of Insanity at the time at ef examiestims, sod that so far as it was possible to seer* the date of her mind at so remote a period, there me se evidence of it at the time of the murder, lam yet of opinion that, owing to the peculiarities of her conithatior it is probable that under prolonged solitary contialnwst she would become insane. The validity of this 4001 ' of imported*, now that the sentence of death hes tem commuted to penal servitude for life, for no use did desire that the punishment of this Criminal should beer carried oat as to emus danger of a further sod gate punishment not contemplated by the law," 8. LIB es 10.1 e le.; or 10.4 ow •ii oo 0.06 IT 1 — 7 1 or 050 1 4 THE SUEZ CAELL.-44 letter baa been *darling to the Tina by Mr. Daniel A. Lange, director ad rson mutative of the SEWS Canal Company, which relates teas recent alleged opening of the Suez Canal. After alledisll 004 I gueral impressioo that a misstatement on the part of company was intended by the recent telegram, the want 1 1 mays :—" I request to be allowed to ex chin that the teig pram sent from Ismail* on the 17th i ut. to the N 'pekoe was as follows :—'The floodgates of the Sua l = ahave beat thrown open, sod • vestal lathes with coal mull 4 direct from the liediterrause to the Bed Sea on the 16tb ff inst.' The meaningbeing perfutlyintel fib* *atulato r hie Ifsja for whom the message warn in a cong r o rn, the ? was sent to the company. As is reetc,ll, horn, oax.l is to be an open passage without locks, and thesis* the word floodgates ' Gould only have reference to IS Hain( of the smithery fresh-waerr caul with a will of the mealtime Caul: . As regards the telegrephic aimed* runt to the effect that the Suez Cai was opened co the 13th inst., 11r. Lange °beery's, " I hue not wee el each msotteeemeot, and should it bare camped ma I hal distinctly to state that it has never been made nor 'mho rimed on the part of the Canal Company." Tag LATE SO-CALLED sr-CantcawAsoci or Br. OLgieurr DAZE& —The following letter appear/ IN the risme :—" In the mood of on ioquwt held at 11• 11 0 4 Workkouss, Dr Leekester, ea the body of Mule Dor Smart, it I. stated that the deceased wee to the= 1118 obnrehwsrden of St. Clement Data . I beg le is rt • that no peruse of that name hits held any *lke hi Parish for the last 20 years. and that in the raer wee the eburchwsrden of St. Clement Dues sot sullon• tended the erection of the seats in the c burell)anl foe gem its the late Duke of Wellingtons funeral procession. inquiries I have made I believe the deceased to hue** the moo of an ex-churchwarden and respected islakilelf of • neighbouring parish.—Younl obedieetly, Moat BEAcEDL, Church union of St. Clement Danes islBo3-• 17, AWN% 26. " NARROW ESCAPE OP A RAILWAY TEAST.-.01 Saturday, u Hoary Crowder, • farm labourer near Rol. bridge, Hta, appeared before a beech of magignee sitting at Andover, to answer to a mamma* takes call! r. Thomas Bent, by direction of his stiperior dliers• the Soutb.Weetere Railway, charging him that he ea i t Sith day of July negligently drew • horse sad sort oe se reilwsy near We Stockbridge station, pod left WOO etudieg on the line whale he wee goosipping with efle,, man, to the great deep' o f the Val& oo the lime. eff liam ence, A6BB" and fro ' : his teatimOvnery'itwappit vs°lriedleatl:t rieva elmo 1 1 1 6111 defeadant maw the teals near upon him, be whirriml_..... - a bores and ram him late • ditch. and thu laved tb e lwra . sod vehkde from baba* destractioe, sad bed sot Now t• spare la dohs( so. The chairman observed that them/ wee 1 • very led ON. sod It wee therefore the e qi of the booth the* he deare outwitted ia • ow.. este,anti in ps i vomat ,s sied : or te rsa be., fine, aid be wr dischargd. DOIIATIONA TO THE SOUTH Kimengaras 110133% —Mr. R. oce him lately promoted to the pehlk iv. 14 temarbable objects—one aa ivory °offer, probed? eirso thee sod al the Wadi or heath ceaterrl 0 4 Ulm as unique iselecoosainal club, ecodneled 1 kr • soomartit. rAir coTTRI Pawl, T bb •••••,.tit a bi5 . .!0 6 0 % - mid • bile sill 900 16.4 , 0 ,7 1 6.41.01 woo l haish.c lei 17 -01 WI Sr. P-Illsie.% islwar —A- . gr. Hassisti r _, : le tbeit o s 6 vaisli sr. kr on iben Imam mo or bob ii =lett the MOO VIZ rarg ese watt/A His in tor • =rt. 14 44 , 1 .ffiglitte b• m'''" iiia tbo.o9B°ltil . AtenniPt tL.° the eight Owl° who Obood box, iin d. emeleT Inn *bent Albs. ,y A h XL i in Osswfc Ur. Tardier doe ying plionst-11 Yealrf - ., Appema-4 Mr. radian APP 5Ol °‘ Oar Suede's d APPS idr. 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