The Express. — London, England, 1861-07-12 00:00:00

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A NolthisTUD ItTOnT —And iiAutEr. V. are reehar. Itleter. Aare, Meerut Vett* Lianhans, ha/ he . Ulm Monteath/ and Mir neat!. IgNITANVIA. TIM [MM. nIC .11“4:11AVII. Vey V. amid awl Mai A. Itavialag —And 4611091ta liA INELL—eumnsaal at bal4paat d. NIGH MAT= AT 1103,1801 lIR/DOIL TIMA Div —Mont.:. as Vim Afirewem. Mi. Mis. 11.moineW-41.nitag. Mt. Um— alwrata. M. 47a. LOMION, FRIDAY, JULY 12. TO OUR RRADERB. xPORTINi; INTELLIOIL\CE. A late editi.si of the gri.frad is published every ereuisg daring the racing maws, containing the results of the day's rms. Ir is not at all surprising that a number of intt Iligunt and public•spirited men connected with the first centre of mercantile activity in the world should be eery anxious, both for the credit of the City and f .r the sake of its inhabitants, to see a Free Publi: Library established in London. The wonder rather is Viia such a natur4 and laudable wish shout' not already have been carried into effect. stands almost alone amongst the great towns of the Empire in being destitute of such a popular and uspful institution. To say nothing of other phlox, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester have Free Public Libraries which are freiiiiented by crowds of diligent readers, and may justly be considered as amongst the most effective instruments of popular education. No doubt it may be said, as it has been said over and over again, that London is an exceptional case, the mass of its population being not only widely scattered, but without any moral centre, any common tie, any official or civic bond of union. This is to a certain extent true. In the City there is no large elm ' clam of workmen. tile the artisans and operate of great manufacturing towns, for whose special benefit a Free Library might be primarily designed. But the class of intelligent readers of limited means, who would thankfully welcome and diligently use the advantages of such an insti tution, ia, of course, quite as large, if not quite so homogeneous in London, as in any town of the Empire. Besides household and out-door servants, artisans, and mechanics, there are multitudes of small tradesmen and shopkeepers, and a whole army of clerks and tradesmen's assistants. There can be no question that to the more reflecting and intelligent of all these cleans, a well-appointed Free Library, like that at .4anchester for example, where they could at once obtain any standard or popular work they might wish to study, would be au enor mous boon How or how hest can such an institution be obtained ? That is the practical question, mooted in the City more than once before, which was re discussed yesterday afternoon at the public meet ing held in the Guildhall, under the presidency of the Luau Maraca. It can scarcely be said, how ever, that the object of this meeting was to discuss the best means for securing • Free Library, as it was expressly summoned to decide on a parti cular solution of this problem. The conveners of the meeting and leaden of the present movement are most anxious to introduce the Public Libra ries and Museums Act into the City; and a resolu tion to this effect was moved yesterday by Mr. C. Reru, who has already honourably distinguished himself by previous efforts to accomplish in other ways the same desirable object The effect of the resolution, if carried, would be to levy • library rate throughout the City. This proposal created a very divided state of feeling in the meeting, the majority having evidently the very strongest objection to any needless increase of the burdens already borne by the "overtaxed " ratepayer.' The feeling of these dissentients is perfectly natural, and we must say that to some extent we sympathise with their objections to the new scheme. They did not, as we understand them, disapprove the object in view, but simply of the means proposed for securing it. And, while we earnestly desire to see • Free Library worthy of the City established in Leiden, we are by no means convinced that • rate is the best or most appropriate machinery to employ for the purpose. If it were quite certain that the Library pro ject could not be realised in any other way, that would be a different question ; but &) long as other means remain untried, we share the common objection against applying to the ratepayers. To say that the sum is small is no valid answer. However small, it is an addition to the compulsory rates of the poor ratepayers as well se the rich, end no such addition ought to be made except on the clearest and most urgent ne cessity. A rate is in every case the last resort, the It 0. Mac Aim., which, instead of being dragged in at every tom, ought not to be Leto> duced till every other expedient has failed. It cannot be maintan.e.l f..r a moment that the Free Public Library scheme is reduced to this extre mity. That Loudon, the richest and most richly endowed capital in the world, should be obliged to fall back upon • tax to effect what Manchester and Liverpool hare easily done by voluntary effort is simply incredible. In Liverpool the Corporation subscribe.' 12,000/., and • single individual sub seTiently doubled that subscription. lu Man cheater I 0,000!. wee easily raised for a Free Library, the greater part of the sum le mg at 01110 U contributed by a few merchants and milloweers. And it would be a libel on the City to *meat that the hankers, merchants, warehouse awe, awl CorporatUdi of London are less geuerous, and leas ready to cositribute towards an object of great and recognised public utility, than the mer chants and corporations of the Northern towns. If there ant W. other means of establishing a Free Pe - olic Library, this ought to be done effectively, awl at erne, by voluntary effort. A very mode rate contritsitien f the leading merchants and principal trading firms in the City would be suffi cient. And moody the Corpnretion is not too poor or tort penespirited to volunteer a handsome eon iritadwas for Neeti an nbject. lint apart from this new and volnn!ary emit* of supply, why may nut the existing resources of the City be utilised for this most needful and popular purpose? There are already a number of public Libraries in London, Dr. WILLIANN% Sion College, and the Guildhall, and most of these, especially the last, the Corporation Library, must have funds devoted to their support. Why may not these funds, and the accumulated stores of learning now practically lying kilo, be turned to public account? Take the Guildhall Library for example. It is no doubt quite true that the existing stock of books are unfit for the purpose of a lending library ; but they would be invaluable for reference. And they might thus be made the nucleus or founda tion of a noble Free Library worthy of the City. The funds already available for the Library, augmented by voluntary subscription, would soon add to the ponderous learningof the existing shelves those popular scientific and historical works which must constitute the bulk of a useful lending library at the present day. Surely in this way, or in some such way as this, the needed work might be done without the aid of the taxgatherer. The City is, we are convinced, generous and public spirited enough to do for itself what other large towns have dune, without resorting to the unpopular and desperate expedient of ir rate. VW enn. ~_ 0611011.1 1 11, JOLT IL Tln• Queen anti Prince Consort, the Crown Prin..• and Ptineess of Pruasie, Princess Aliee, and Prisons Helena, dims to St. Clare, near fty.le, yesterday afternoon. The Connie,. of Gaiesborough, L.4y A. Bruce, Countess Muhl, Ittmoess Too Dobenecit, Count Furstenstein, and Lieutenant-Colonel Voo I kberuitz, were iu attendance. Lon' A. P.igct attended on bon.eback. Her Majenty'A rommeiiieoers for the loternatimial Exhi bition of Isis bare received a communicatioe front the Norwegian government, iatimating that the following patienra hid been aimoieted to nun tent the intereata of exhibitors from that country :—Capton Lieutenant Steen. Arno. Chairman ; liana H. Waded Jarl.herg, M. H.Schow, N. 0. l ibl, H. !ichubeler, and H. H. Christie, Secretary. Hr. E. Tniernand, of the Royal Department for the Interior, will be ..at to London as eutniniwioner. A cosnaiuoicatiwo h.a Leen rewired from the Duchy of Nanso, .tatie• that the Central Authority for the Admiois trati.w of the interior will act as a onerientssioti. It bo, al.n been intimated to her Majesty'sConimisaioners that Monvieur A. .tuthoine, of NO. 2, langhamplace, Lon ,loo. Isa.l liven appointed the medium of communication for tie .late of 11.1ifiA nod that a conunisaioci had been ap pointed at Mindy Video, of which Dr. Don Manuel Herrera y U e. w.ui the President, aad Don Xavier Alvarez, the stet-Mary. A;ba Mebili, chief of the merchant., has been instructed by the Pero., gnvernment to commuuiusto with the intend- In: exhibitors (nab thatcountry. The Judicial C.onm:ttee of the Privy Council eat yester day. Au appeal from Use High Court of Admiralty, the Anises and Black Prince was heard. The Lords present were Lord Kingedown, Sir Edwanl Rv.in, and Mir J.Caleridge. Sir J. Emma Teuseet has left town for Ireland. Despatches were met yesterday from the Coloaial-odlos to the novenae, of Gibraltar and Malta. The l'rince Cousurt and the Crown Prince of Pramia landed at Southampton Lanka this morning at 10.20 a.m, from I hdrorne, sad proceeded by railway to the Wel lington Cullen. We believe we are correct in Mating that it is not the present intention of his Royal Highness the Prince of Weiss to visit the 80.-Al Agricultural Show of Ireland, to be 1,111 this year in Belfast on the ith, Bth, and 9th of August. Hie blzotillency the Lord. Lieutenant of Ireland will be present at the public dinner and ball on the lest two days, and will stay at BrAvnlow-house, the seat of Lonl MI Lady Larsen. The Duke and Duchess d'Espert and family have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn.street, far the Isle of Wight. The Marthionesa of Sligo Lae issued cards fur dame for Mooday, the 220tl inst. The Earl of ilornington has left the Clarendon Hotel for Droycott Howe, Chippoohem. . . The Earl of Dalhoueie and Lady C. Maule have We Claridge 's Hotel for Scotland. I*dy Emily Fuley has left the Clarendon Hotel for Mahan. Sir Thomas and Lady Arabella Hesketlt have left Claridge'. Hotel for Raiford House, Omekirk. Lady Llauorer has had three afternoon aasem blies and dancing parties during the past and present week at ber mans 1•11 in Great Staahope-street, Mayfair. Lieut.-Cu:onel Hicks has made a special appeal to employers t.. obtain for all volunteer. employed in com mercial mid official pursuits, lc., permission to leave their place• of !Amoco to-morrow at such an hour as will enable them to atteud the review. Tlo 11e, ah *ape :—" We understand that an active preliminary canvass is being nude on behalf of Sir Stafford Northoote, among the electors of the Uni versity of Oxford, on the success of which depends his resignation of his mat for Stamford, which he naturally will Dot relinquish unless ho is scoured of success for Oxford. That asourance the conservative electors of Oxford should at mice afford him. The acceptance of olSoe by Mr. Roundel' Palmer has completely altered the state of affairs. Previously to his joining the government Sir Stafford Northooto had retailed to allow his name to be brought forward in competition with en old friend profess ingeonservative prat:nate., but now the question is one of cos fideoce or so coofidence in Lord P•lmerstou'n govern snerat." " While Behrpravian matrons," hays the Critic, "are pouring forth their laments in the columns of the Times, that eligilde suitors do not offer themselves in greeter tiambers for their daughter., it nay be some con• solatiou to mach-makers, whether dowager or not, to learn that the 0011110 of matrimony is progressing slowly but surely on the bouts of the Csrn. There are now not less thau three colleges at Caiiihrillp, where it has been decided by a majority of the fellows that soy one of their nuniber may marry on the condition of vacating his fellowship at the mil of ten years from the tune of his induction. This decision also, we helloes, renders it im• perative, at the three colleges in question, that every siewlymiaile fellow should vacate his fellowship, whether he marry Ur not, at the end of ten years. The Names of the innovating colleges are Clare, Trinity Hall, and quisee'.." The mercantile community of Ilarro are endea vouring toget establritic.l a doily mail coin own inztioo between that port and Southampton by means of the South Western Oarapaey's streams for the purpose of facilitation the hunch limas to and from the West holies, the Basile, and Ibis limited States. The French government bare offered to exempt the company from harbour awl other dues, which would amouot 4r upward. of 5,000 f. a year, provided such daily elnorkinot,4tion is eetoldishod. At present the com munication only triweekly. Adviecii from Egypt state that Mr. Lange, the English 'gent of the Sues Canal Company, reached Alex andria ou the 104th of June, and that 11. de Loweps left the next day for France. Mr. bingo wan about to .tart fur Port Staid, and then to traverse the track along which the canal works are going on. The Viceroy had granted his steamer, and Mr. C.ilquhoun, the British Consul. General, with Mr. Saunders, having agreed to join in the expedition, it was now definitively arranged that they should all leave on the 211th. The necessary instructions bad been sent to prepare camels, horses, Ac., to meet them, and Mr. Lange hail full powers to inspect the book. and everything con nected with the project. According to last reports there were_tt,ooo men at work. _ WIIPOTKINRITA PALAtir. —From parliamentary ra tans Mined this morning it appears that the met of ps in lighting the Houses of Parliament in the year ended March la last was 3,1521. ss. 2.1. ; the cost of oil, 2.376 f. ts. 1 ; and of was, 3781. 10s. 11. The cost of the clock and bell:, subsequently to t pril, 1859, has been 1,687/. lels. 6d. The whole sum expended iu the building, flannelling, lighting, and ventilating the new palace at Westminster since December :11, 187..9, is 35,769/. 154. ld. ; east this amount does not include the cost of &malice of the building with fresco paintings and statuary, the ex penditure for maintenance and repairs of the buildings and furniture, nor the current expenses of lighting and se:Al ba/nig. LATEST INTELLIGENFILt - AME RICA. • - ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIMORE. LIVERPOOL, limo►r. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's screw-steamer City of Baltimore, Cap tain Jeffrey, which left New York on the 29th ultimo, arrived in the Mersey about midtiight: The following details of the position of affairs are taken from the Neat , risk Herald, of the 28th and 29th of June : The moat important events that have occurred aim* oar last have been the arrest of Marshal !Line, of Baltimore, by General Banks, and the proclamation and establishing of a virtual martial low in that city. The Secretary of the Treasury is busily engaged in pro. paring his report for the next Congress. Plans are pro posed therein for the rni.ing of money to carry on the war. The amount to be asked fur will not exceed two hundred and fifty millions of dollars, and it is believed now that sum can be reduced twenty-five millions. Several regi meets of General Patterson's command, under Colonel Thomas, United States army, have moved down the banks of the Potomac towards Falling Waters. The progress of the Union forces through Missouri ap pears, from what meagre information we me obtain, to be favourable to the government and disastrous to the rebels. The eying flotilla on the Putomse,which has done so mach service in keeping that important water highway open, for the government, has had another skirmish with a rebel ambuscade at Aqua Creek, and, we egret to say, with the kw of as experienced sad valiant odieer, Captain Ward, of the gunboat Freeborn, who commanded the flotilla. SOUTHAMPTON. JULY 12. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Bavaria, from New York on the 29th ult., has ar rived. She brings 62 passengers for Havre and England, and 143 for Hamburg. On the 30th ult. she mpoko the Etna, standing west, and on the same day panted a steamer sup posed to be the Hantinonia. On the 6th inst. she spoke the British barque Indiana, from London for Quebec, and on the 11th off Scilly Wanda the steamer New York, bound for New York. News anticipated. THE EXPRISS, IPEIDA.I• EVENING, JULY 12, 1861. PRUSSIA. Letters from Berlin (says Le Tempi) state that it is almost decided that his Majority the King of Prussia will pay a visit in the course of the sum mer to the Emperor of the French at the Camp of Chalons. A similar visit is also spoken of on the part of the King of the Belgians. ITALY. In the sitting of the Bth of the Italian Chamber of Deputies the following letter from Baron Riess°li was read, addressed to the President, Al. Ratarai : Bir —The cities of Florence and Turin have honoured me with their suffrages, by electing me to represent them in parliament. Being thus placed under the necessity of choosing between them, I cannot make up my mind, sines I feel equal affection end gratitude for both these two noble cities. Florence, my native town, honours me for the third time with its suffrage, after the infinite proofs it liaa given me of magnanimous Italian sentiments, and extraordinary kindness towards me when it became my lot to govern Tuarany during the latecritical events. Turin, which to Count Cavour has lost its greatest citizen, as Italy hss lost in him the mind that conoeived her new destiny, elects me in his stead, unworthy as lam of the honour. The two illustrious cities will pardon me if I cannot decide under such circumstances, and I beg of you, air, to Ist chance decide.—l am, RICASOLI. The President accordingly caused the question to be decided by lot, and Florence being drawn first, the college of Turin has become vacant. (IZUTZLI . B ITLIGIAMB.) FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND. BERNE, JULY LI. The Federal Council has received another note from the French government, in which the latter reassert& the right& of sovereignty of France over the Valley of the Dappen, but declines to enter into any further discussion of the question. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PAKIS, FRIDAY MORNING. The Moniteur of to-day publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results as compared with the Juno account : hicar.ssz. Bills discounted, nut yet duo 45 1.3 millions. Bank notes l7 2-3 „ Current accounts Advances Duman. Cash in hand Treasury balance -6 „ THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 12. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Alhambra, Captain Steward, with the above mails, in charge of Lieut. Meunier, ILN., has arrived. Shi brings 11 passengers, & packages specie, value 1,195 f.; also 272 boxes lemons, 243 boxeseggs, 20 hampers onions, 30 boxes apples, 13 boxes apricots, and 7 packages sundries. The Alhambra spoke the follosiing ships :—On tho 4th inst., at 4 p.m., the British schooner Pride of tho Isles ; en the same date, at G ;Loa., the Britialt barque Kiegudown ; 10th, at S p.m., lat. 47.52 N., long. 6.9 W., posed a steamer, supposed to be the Ila,gdalena, with the outward Brazil mail ; and on the 11th, at noon, the steamer Iberia, bound from Landon to Oporto. The steamship Vasco de Gam sailed from Lisbon for Marv+ ou the 4th inst. The French screw yacht. Reins Hortense and Prince Jerome arrived at Lisbon ou the 4th inst. LISBON, JULY 7. The Cortes Ire eugsgal in tliscuss:ng the reply to speech. There is, however, no news of political haportaaec. The Chamber of Peers are disetusiog the decree of the government, aboli%hiug the order of Sisters of Chanty, and oonliscating their goods. The tine daces) has not spread so widely as was antici pated, especially in the port wino di.tricts. The Prince Napoleon has been visaed by the Kin; on Imanl his yacht. The Duc de Bellune has entertained the prince at luncheon. The prince and hie wife, Princess Clothilde, will leave for New York as the Bth. The highly respectable firm of Garland. Laidley, and Co., bads stopped payment. Esekingeo; London, at three mouths, 531; Paris, 530 ; Hamburg, 48 ; Aiusterdato, 424 ; Genoa., 533 ; Relates, Tinge per Cunt., 47 ; Coupons, 47 ; Deferred, 40 ; Lisbon Bank, ; Oporto Commercial Bank, 258 ; and Oporto Mercentile Bank, 258. HAYTI AND HAN DOMINGO. The Haytians at present in Paris, who consider themselves well informed as to what is passing in their country, have addressed the following letter to the Debate : It is not t se stated in the telegraphic despatch of the 6th inst. from that the llaytiaus have invaded the Dominican terrines'?. The Welt true intelligence from Hayti is that the Damintean Generals Otbral, Sanchez, Valentine, Bayer, and ethers. not long since nail e d from firiato-Dorniugo by Santana, all ardent partisans of Domini. am independence, had succeeded in joining the diaaffected populations A eerious and extensive insurrection had taken place under their directive ; the towns of lomotte, Newts; Cerra, sod San Juan, had raised the Dominican flag and energetically protested against the Spanish occupation. They declared that, if annexation were inevitable, and they Must Name to be independent, they would prefer to be in corporated with the Haytian re public . _ In presence of thaw grave manifestations. the Haytian government, at the departure of the last mail. wan maintaining an attitude of observation. The few Hartnin troops which, as • measure of prudent precaution, hail been ststioried sear the frontiers, had nut advanced a step beyond them. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom otrz owx r.) ' PARIS, THIMSCIAT EVI2MIO. The text of the judgment against Mires is too long to be inserted in the evening papers, which only give the result shortly. The severity of the sentence—five years' imprisonment—which is the maximum that the court had power to inflict, ex cites astonishment in many quarters, though, it being once admitted that the deeds of Mires and Solar were frauds in the eye of the law, the magni tude of them might well steel the hearts of the judges to mercy. Mires and Solar are convicted of " abuse of confidence," " swindling," " knowingly issuing false inventories," and " knowingly distri buting fictitious dividends." The judges adopted almost all the heads of the accusation against them insisted on by the public prosecutor. The charge respecting the Santander and Pampeluca Railway is held to be not sufficiently proved. Count Simeon, as president of the Council of Surveillance, is declared to have known that the inventory of 1860 was not regular and correct, and is ac cordingly held civilly responsible. The effect of this decision, if not reversed on appeal, must be to ruin Count Simeon, and in all like lihood to lead to his resignation of the rank of Senator. The other members of the Council of Surveillance, although guilty of "regrettable negligence," are acquitted of any guilty knowledge. likes, when he heard his sentence, gesticulated violently and raised his hands iu despair. M. Emile 011ivier has published in the form of a pamphlet the speeches which he made during the last session on the Liberty of the Press," the "Equilibrium of the Budget," and the "Revolu tion." In the title-page there is this motto from Dante : Liborts vo serous& ch'S si elm The Bourse continued to be brisk to-day, but the Rente left off with no other change than a fall of sc. for account. Mohilier was without change. Railways were lower ; Orleans fell Mr. The Bank of France has for several days past ceased to pay in gold, and gives out silver five franc pieces, which had almost disappeared from circulation. It will be recollected that Canon Mallet, of Douai, some time since convicted of the abduction of a young Jewess, named Louisa Bluth, was, in consequence of au informality, sent before another court, for the sole purpose of adjudicating upon the punishment to be awarded. The /wire Court of the Somme has now sentenced this priest to five years' imprisonment. Count Charles Arrivabeue arrived in Paris to day from Naples, on his way to Loudon. THE FEENCH PREFECT SYSTEM. The Minister of the Interior has addromod the following circular to the Prefects : Paris, June 27. M. le Prflet,—Many of your colleagues have called my at tention to the advantages that would erase from persomd and oral communications amongst the prefects of the different departments that are connected with one another by Simi- Laity of interests and customs. Them conferences, which would be periodical And of a purely administrative character, would have a twofold object ; they would permit the pre. feats to study in common, mid to prepare in accordance with their collective view. the measures of public) utility whose execution equally concerns their respective departments. Again, they would constitute a 'wit of examina- tion, which would serve to make the govern ment acquainted with the milectivo needs of every region, and would so aid in the realisation of the great ideas of the Emperor with regard to everything relating to the national wealth and activity. These matters have seemed to me worth taking into cousideration, and I have decided that several thrice every year, and especially before the sitting of the general councils, the prefects of the neigh- Louring department* should be summoned to meet. I have also ordered that the observations exchanged among theni shall be recorded in reports, a copy of which will have to be addressed to the Minister of the Interior. You will bu hereafter informed of the epoch of these conferences, and of the towns in which they will take place. F. DE PERSICA Y. The town of Loja, in Spain, which has just at tracted public attention in such an unexpected manner, is situated on the Xenil, about 27 miles to the west of Granada. It stands on the stomata of a hill at the foot of very high mountains. It contains from 13,000 to 13,000 inhabitants, and has important manufactories of woollen goods, printed callous, and paper. - - ST. PETEIt'fl PENCE.—The Monde publinhen the following observations on a decision lately come to in Bel gium relative to the legality of collecting offerinp for the Pope :—" The Belgian Court of Cessation has just pro. nouuced *memorable judgment relative to the collection of Peter's pence. The Belgian kw officeni had disputed the legality of such an act, on the ground that every collection for charitable objects required to be authorised. The judg. meet is perfectly juatitied by the reasons which are set forth. What determined the court was the consideration that Peter's pence are not merely alma, but an act of faith in the mind of those who contribute. More or lees serious mo tives may Imre rendered it necemery to ovulate onlinary col. lections from house to house, but Peter's pence belongs to another category, being intended to aid the universal church. It is the moat voluntary sod moat imperious tribute of the catholic conscience, and it was ludicrous to think of applyiug the laws against meodicity to the supremo bead of the church, the vicar of our Lord Jesus Christ. In France there are plenty of peopk who would like to see the collection of Peter's peace interdicted ; but the autho rities, with greeter wisdom, and also is conformity with right, leave the collection free amending to the very just remark in the judgment alluded to : the preliminary autho rization, if required for St. Peter's pence, would attribute to the state the right of pronouncing for or against such or such a religion, which evidently is not included in its constitu tional attributes.* New YORK THUNDLII. —The Neto York !Prat(' of dune 27 ways :—" What occurs to us is the folly of North and South making war upon each other while the cummou enemies of both sections are preparing to join in the fr.iy. Instead of shedding the blood of our fellow-men, let us, North and South, unite to resent this threatened interference on the part of England, and to withdraw Mt. IMrningo from the greedy grasp of Spain. Let half of the northern auil half of the southern army join handl, in • common cause, and proceed' directly to &Pre the British power out of Canada, and after that to drive the Nsanish power out of Ht. Domingo. Wo have the strength to do it, and why should we n o t have the will What would ...nee p romo t e the reconciliation of North and South, and make loyal the rebellious reeks? Let us, iu view of foreign war and pres• taro, settle our differences and vindicate our national honour. We admit that, if we invade Canada, we shall have to fight the British fleet, but as that seems to he inc. vitable iu any ease, we might as well he ou the ag4retaive as the ash:mire aide. Why should we waste oar strength and imperil our greatness by domestic strife, which septet.' us to all the dangers that now menace us! Let us combine against the common enemy and dispute the supremacy of the Mistress of the Seas. We have had enough of British treachery, and we arc, indeed, a suicidal people if we remain so divided among ourselves as to become the prey of a power that would gladly hail , our utter dismemberment and ruin." In the /*raid of the following day we read.:—The speeches of Secretary of State Howard, previous to the election to the Presidency of Mr. Lincoln, showed clearly that the plan had long been entertained, not only of addiir , to the United Stat e s th e Ili lush poeseesions in America, but also the north-western portion of the hemisphere owned b Russia. With Hayti. Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica , ayti. Central America, and the northern part of South America in our possession on the south, either republic would be stronger than any foreign power. The effect upon Europe of such • change in the direction of American arms would be tremendous. AU the previous revolutions combined of the last five centuries would scarcely compare with the one terrible convul sion, which a war with England and Spain would wow produce. It would react everywhere. The suspension of commerce alone would excite the English to revolt, and, before the lapse of three years Greet Britain would be liberated; Austria would be destroyed, and Ger many would rise united upon her ruins • Italy would he settled ; and the example of freedom and enterprise dia. plated to the world would demonstrate what men can do under the influence of a sound and sublime inspiration." _ _ Tim FALL OF A RAILWAY TIIIINIIIL IA DER CY /MOM—The ad' inquest on the bodies of the five men who were led by the falling in of a railway tunnel DOW in course of formation, near to Haddon-hall, Derby shire, on Tuesday week, was resumed yesterday, at Bake well, before Mr. Cormier Bennett Mr. Barlow, consultiog engineer, London, gave evidence, after which the jury re turned the following open verdict :—" That the demand tunic to their deaths hy the falling of the arab, but from what cause there was no evidence to show." EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT MURDER BY d FORME NOBLEMAN. • The public mind ham hardly recovered from the excitement occasioned by the great fire in the metropolis when it is likely to be agitated by the promulgation of one of the moat fearful incidents that have occurred in this country for many years past—au attempt not merely at murder, but the murder of • son by a father, • man of rank, of distinguished manners and position, moving in the beat society. Nor is this crime one of darkness or of secrecy ; it VMS perpetrated, if accounts be true, and, unfortunately, there in no reason to doubt them—in broad daylight, within a few paces of a frequented high road, in a populous neigh bourhood, and not many yards away from a palace which the perpetrator of the crime watt apparently on his way to visit, after calling and being received as a welcome guest at another residence of the same royal family. The story about to be told is unparalleled in the annals of crime, in the romance of private life, or in them stories of domestic tragedy familiar to every English fire-side. For some years past there has moved in London society an individual commonly known as the Baron de Vidil. In manners polished, in address insinuating; tall, graceful, elegant, and accomplished ; of brown complexion, in ripened manhood, with hair still black and cut short, as of one who remembered his campaign in Algeria, and bow very much that hair had been in the way when an Arab seized it in close contest; with whiskers just powdered by time ; reputed wealthy ; coming into society under the respectable name of the Or leans family, with the romantic reputation of fidelity to a fallen dynasty, no wonder that the Baron Alfred Louis Pons de Vidil readily found his way, under such auspices, into the heart and centre of London society. Such a man came, saw, and conquered. In 1833 be married Hiss Susannah Jackma, co-heiress to • wealthy Hertfordshire gentleman, sod found his associa tions with English society strengthened by his "family" ties with the brother of his wife, a gentleman of ancient family and property. Hence he aeon became • member of the Travellers' Club. When the premature death of his wife had freed him from the constaiiut of domestic tie!, he lived • bachelor at the Clarendon, and when the attractions of the London season were over, he was lost eight of by the gay world for • time. This foreign nobleman of pleasant manner*, reputed wealth, and matured experience, had • mu, the heir of a large portion of his mother's fortune (to descend to his father if he died without heirs). This son, having graduated at Cambridge, was now 'Ai years of age, and was in a position to claim his fortune. The father had not permitted the pieties of fashionable life to make him forget the plea sures of • parent, anal thus it happened that on Friday, June 28—that is just a fortnight ago—the baron sent to his eon's chambers in Jermyn-street, inviting him to come to breakfast with him at the Clarendon, and go with him to make • all on the ex-Queer of France, at Clare mont. They left the Clarendon together at 12 o'clock, and proceeded to Waterloo Station, where they took the 12.4 train to Twickenham, and there alighted. It will be remembered that there is an inn close by the Twicken ham station, and thither, at the Baron de Vidil's suggestion, his son Alfred John de Vidil went with bins, and the baron having selected two horses, it was settled they should ride on to Claremont, about six or seven miles distant. The barite handed his sou a light lady's riding whip, and asked for one for himself, but started without it. On nearing Claremont the baron at first wished to put op at an inn and take some refreshment, but afterwards went forward • short distance to see whether any of the Orleans family wens at the palace. Hering ascertained the presence of the Ducd'Orleans, they returned to the inn, put up their horses, and walked to Claremont Horne. The Due d'Orleana received the Baron de 1. idil as an honoured guest, and chatted with him in a friendly manner on various subjects for nearly an hour. The father and son then returned to gether to the inn, remounted their horses, and proceeded gently at • walking pace homewards. It was at this time his son became impressed with • strangeness in his father's manner, a singular absorption on his part, which led him, from some unknown impulse, to pay particular attention to his father's every action. He noticed that his father, who was a fine horseman, made his horse passage and curvet, and occasionally rear, but this had not the effect of making his son's home even fidgety, for it was a dull beast. They kept on at a walk until they had reached Hampton, where the baron proposed they should rest and take refreshment ; but his eon declined, being anxious to get rid of his horse and finish the journey, during the whole of which lie bad felt depressed as if by the consciousness of some coming misfortune. He therefore rode on, but his father soon overtook him, and on coming up asked bim to dine at Hampton, which, fern a similar feeling, the young Alfred again declined. • As they passed out through the gates of Bushey Park the baron gave his aon's horse • sly cut with the whip ho had taken from him ; but the horse was so tame is epirit,or so used to such touching up — the usual portion of hired hacks—that it took no notice of it, and the baron returned his son the whip. Trivial as these matters may appear, the enumeration and character of them tends to deductions of impel tance to relation to subsequent events. It must be observed that the Baron de Vidil carried no whip, stick, or MOILIIO.I with him, and that if he had any about him they must lave been concealed. They now weut along at a slightly bendier pace by the high read towards Twickenham, and when they had reached a public-house on the roadside, just where a lane branches off, that baron checked his horse and inquired of his son which way was best. The young gentleman made answer that the road they were on was the way they had come, and that they had better keep to it. The father made no reply ; but at the same moment turned his horse simile and wont up a lane to the left, leading off the road. The lane was a lonely one ; there was no one about, nor impute visible wheu they entered it, and the sun, who hail all along felt a peculiar dread, said to his father that he could not understand why they had gone up into that lane. The barest made some reply about feeling unwell, and asked his sou to hold Isis horse while he got off. The son did so, end inquired whether he should ride on and fetch some brandy, but the baron declined this with some haste, and said Its would go and pay a visit to the Dun d'Aumale, and thou hal the way down a lane to the right of Orleans House. litre they met • woman, who informed theta they were going in a wrong direction. They retraced their steps, and again his father led the wily down another lane and then another, which brought them to the tack of °deem+ House by the stables. The eon wondered, but expected tilers must be some reason for this. They did not cuter the house, but again turned on one bide, which led the young gentleman to suppose his father was going up to the entrance. They got up this lane, to where it turned almost ut a right angle facing a shady nook. The lane weut on for a short distance, and then made another turn at a similar short angle. When the harm reached this spot he halted his horse at the corner, and gave • scrutinising look both ways. No one was to be seen. The young Alfred had ridden oat, but his father's voice soon brought him back, as he toll him they were all wrong, and must come back. The youth was then on his father's left hand, and had only returned a few paces when he felt a violent blow, RO.l on looking round to see whence it had proceeded, saw the baron advancing upon him with his hand uplifted, Mid somethiog in it, preparing to strike him. The blow fella second time on the alarmed youth ; nod the father was about to complete his disholiml purpose by anothe s r and a finishing blow. The youth's hat had fallen off. There was nothing to save him. The tour derer's blood was up. The pour boy's forehead, cut and battered, was streaming with gore. Impale, made him pre= on his horse, and as the horse rose to the spur, it caught the blow on is head. That moment saved the youth's life, for he saw coating round the corner a man and a woman. Without en instant's delay ho slipped or fell from Ids horse, rushed towards the woman, sod, in an agony of terror, poor youth! eluug to her knees, saying, " Olt ! protect me—save me !" The man was John Riven., a labourer, and as he was coming from Sion.row, down Orleausquad, he had seen Si. twogentlemen riding up from the Thames towards him. To his great bewilderment he saw the elder gentleman strike suddenly at the younger one, hit him on the forehead with a whip (as he thought), the handle of which was bright at the end that struck the poor youth's face. He saw the yaws fellow's hat &Mug off, and heard him cry out, "Oh ! dean, pray don't ;" but the eldest advanced upon the yotes;er, sad when the young man slipped off his hone mid ran forward, the alder gentleman ma forward too, coding out, " Hoy, boy ! here is your hat," and h o h a d itan s but the latter ran, and fell at the almostwoi ' a ught (felt, theyouth, imploring aid, his forehead streaming with bleed. At this moment they had reached • spot where was stand ing another man, John Evans, a bargeman. He saw the Jollug Alfred's face covered with blood, and that he crone crouching like some hunted and terrified beast all abed dering for its life, cowering down as he cried out "Help me ; protect me ; save me !" He saw, too, the Baron de Vidil (who wore a white hat, ►nd had a riding•whip in his hand) come, or rather run up, and ask in an agitated man ner—" What is it?—what has happened? and the baron made a rush at a gate by the roadside leading to a field down to the Thamce, and tried to get over it, though John Evans told him there was nothing on the other sale ; but, though he shook very much, he still persisted, arid in his haste and tremulousness slipped as he got over and tore his bands with the hook sails that were on the top of the gate, and went on two or three paces to behind some shrubs. The young de Vidil was bleeding profusely, and John Evans supporting him. " Oh, I em so glad you are here," said the poor young mau, "do not, du not leave me." "No, I'll not leave you," replied John Evans; " but how did it happen r The youth opened his mouth to speak, but his eyes fixed with a terrified stare as he saw his father's eye steadily gazing on him, and he heard him murmur something about a wall and a fall. And so they proceeded, supporting him bleeding, to the nearest public- house on the road " Why did you get over the gate?" inquired John Evans of the baron. "To fetch assistance," was the ready reply. "How did it happen?' inquired John Everett, another labourer, who came up as he saw the group and the bleeding man. "How did it happen? Oh, the young gentleman stood up in his saddle to look over the wall," was the father's reply, '•and his bone reared, and so he fell ;" but to John Evans he said the horse shied and threw the boy against the wall. They washed and bathed young Alfred's wounds, and, to his terror, his father wished to assist in the operation, but he became alarmed and clung to Job n Evans sad begged not to bo left. Then a surgeon came, awl to him he communi cated his desire that that gentleman's assistant should accompany him to town, for he dreaded a lonely journey and a solitary night with that fearful man. The surgeon, Dr. Clarke, of Twickenham, who imagined something was not as it should be, consented to the proposal and saw it carried out. He examined the wounds, which he con. eiders to have been produced by some weapon like a life preserver, and dechres that no fall from a horse or other wise could have produced the soma wounds sea are on the bead and forehead of the young Alfred John de The two hones meantime had been caught, and blood was seen on the mane of one horse and on the saddle. The baron accompanied his son to town, and stayed with him, greatly to his terror, until 12 o'clock at night ; but the young man would not part with the assistant, nor could any cleverness on the part of the baron induce that trusty assistant to quit the side of his charge. Early next morn ing, convinced that his father's intention had been to mur der him, and conscious that his life stood in dangerous interposition between his father and the eujoyment by that person of his mother's fortune, the youth with drew in alarm from so dangerous a vicinity, and went, almost with the morniug's light, to his uucle's house in one of the home counties. But even there his father seemed to follow him, for a letter came to Lis uncle informing him of thu accident, and how young Alfred bad fallen from his horse. But the young man told his own story, and inquiry began to be made. The baron, meanwhile, lived at the Clarendon, and last Friday dined at the Travellers' Club in company with several members of the Foreign-office. On Monday afternoon he was au outcast, branded with the accusation of murder, flying for his life, the detectives on his track. Inspector Thornton, of the detective force, has had the case in hand, and has ably picked up the chain of evidence and supplied the missing links. A party of detectives are now in Paris, but up to the present time no tidings have been received of the capture of the delinquent baron. It would appear that there is a flaw somewhere in the law for the extradition of criminals between the two countries. A Frenchman committing a crime in England, and escaping to France cannot, it is said, be claimed by the country in which the crime was committed ; but an Englishman com mitting any crime is given up, b- cause the laws he has offended are times of his own country. It remains, how ever, to be seen whether this difficulty will prevent M. de Vidil from being placed at the bar of a criminal court in this country.—lforning Put. Our Paris correspondent, writing last evening, mentions the following rumour:—"A member of the Jockey Club was arrested this morning on a charge of having committed a murderous smith upon Lis wife's son by a former marriage, with the object of securing his fortune. The young man, only 20, was found in the envisous of Paris mortally wounded, but with sufficient strength loft to denounce his murderer. This horrible affair is not yet generally known." ATTEMPTED DOUBLE 3111IIDER AND SUICIDE IN Fiume. —A fearful tragedy has just thrown into conator. nation the village of Charmes-eu-l'Aigle (Haute-Marne). Two days back,about 6 o'clock, M. Lebnima clerk in a mann. factory there belonging to M. Suarlon, went to his office, accompanied by a young Man named Detbarres, also em ployed in the establishment Some minutes afterwards Dmharres struck M. Lebrun a violent blow on the head with au iron bar, and then ran off into the neighbouring fields. M. Lebrun was found lileediug and insensible, and as, when he came to himself, he coukt give no account of what hail happen.!, his injury was thought to be accidental. After a while Desbarres returned and conversed with the persons whom the occurrence had collected. Among thee, was 11. Legend, the land steward of M. Bourlon. While M. Legrand was talking with llesbarree ' the former was told that M. Boutlon wished to see him. He started at once, hastily followed by Dei.barres, who caught np • heavy wood cleaver lying near the gate, and before M. Le grand hail advanced tea steps into the park felled him to the ground, and by a second blow almost severed his head into two parte. Liesbstives then returued to the establishment ; and there met Madame I.ehrun, who, seeing him greatly agitated, offered him a glass ot sugar and water. While he was drinking this, the dead body of M. Legrand was dis covered, and everybody battened to the spot, leaving him in the room with Madame Lebrun and her husband, who was lying un the bed llesberres took advantage to repeat his attack on M. Lebrun, and aimed a blow at him with • meat-chopper. Re was preparing to repeat it when Madame Lebrun seized his arm, and by her energetic efforts forced him todrup the weapon. He then rushed out of the room and jumped into a mill-dam, but was rescued end taken to the lock-up at Waspy. The Er/u. de 1' Ed, which relates this fearful story, gives no explanation as to the murderer's motives for committing this double crime. THREE CHILDREN MURDERED or THEII: MOTHER. —A dreadful murder was perpetrated at Westwoodside, • village in the Isle of Arbolt.e. s e ar Epworth, Lin c olnshire, on Tuesday, a woman named 'Wilson having killed her tines children inn very shocking manner. The woman, it appeals, had got up in the night, and taking the three sleeping little ones from their bed, had forced them through the mambo's into the cistern. She then calmly looked on. with their death cries ringing in her ears, until life in each case wee extinct. The husband was away from home on beanie's when the tad occurrence took place, and hie wife seas the first to communicate the distressing intelligence to him. She had, it seems, before the commi.sion of the deed had become known, left the hoie.e nut made her way to Wheat,. ley, iu Nottinghamshire, where her husband was, and in reply to a question from him us sisal as she made her ap pearance, as to how she hard got the e and what she had dune with the children, she add "they were safe in heaven." Alarmed at her language and manner, he asked her what she meant, and, after 3 little hesitition, she am teased that with her own hands Inel put them to death. The husband, heart-broker, hs.teued home only to find his wife's tragic tale too true. The uidortunme woman is now iu custody. It is believed she has for tome time past gives evidence of insanity. THE ACCIDENT NEAR THE AIARBLE Moore, the unfoetnnate man who won so dreadfully wounded by falling upon the spikes.. the tailing of General Sir de Lacy Evans s house, elks" yestenhiy. Ilia two anus still our. vive, but small hope is entertidued of the ultimate recovery of either. An inquest is to ho held on the body of the de ceased this evening at St. Georgu'e Iliepitah FIRE AT CAMDEN-ToWN.—Y....%terdmy afternoon the inhabitants of C a sid..u-town were alarm.' by the out break of a fire ou the minim* occupied jointly by Mr. Stubbs, a pianoforte inseufacturer, and Mr. Dune., a green grocer. The workshops of the first-named ran into Gloucesteretreet, awl partially under those of Mr. 'man's, in Stanhope-street. The tire be,-au in the workshops, a long range of building., aid owing to the inflammable nature of the stock on the premises, aud that standing in the open yani, the flames spre.il with great vigour and quickie pear tested the house of Mr. Dunn. With such rapidity did the fire progress that in leis than a quarter of an boar the two per-ens premises were enveloped in a sheet of flame, and at one time the adjoining houses, especially that belonging to Mr. Harwood, No. 27, Stanhopu.street, were Linemen.' with destrnetion. The engine of the perish and six belonging to the London 111 igndo woo in attendance after tonic time, but not a inn, of tenter could be procured from the plugs in the distrietc wing to no turncock being in attendance. one of the Greiner, however, managed to draw the plug. and turn on the water from the main, cod then the firemen set their engines to work under the direction of M r , staples. superintendent of the C district, but in spite of their esertioas the flames could not be got under until the premises of both persons were entirely destroyed, and the stock of pianos, the furnitiire, w i t h nt h, effect., 0011/1110W11. 1110 loss is very coeddemble, and falls ripen the Sun end Guardian Fire-offices. Mr. C. White, of the County, and Mr. Langliata of the Royal Fire-office, were early at the WC" tut it is feared they will have very little salvage to take charge of. The origin of the fire yr un known. ANtoTHER GREAT FlRE.—Letters from Trebizond tendert the occurrence of R great bre at Ordon, near the former port, on the Itetle ult. One hundred and four houses and shops, seven bakere,, one school, masa khan, the governor's house, and the c., , tann.Lowee, were destroyed by the flames. ~' 1 1 1 f 1 a 1 a O al t( tl C, tl; w. TI wi ni of so til ar he re tti Ca te , T 1 en E u N ha T 1 arl wl fo, hi H. oa, Dli nu( cla no ho 314 ele •