The Express. — London, England, 1861-09-03 00:00:00

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But there ie no department of business in which we have not to wonder at the thoughtlessness, or stupidity, or perverseness of persons who ought to know better; and this Post-office grievance is only a very striking and niinehievous instance of the way in which the transactions of the more sensible part of society are hampered by the fully of the other part. Every year we are told that the thefts which take place in the Post-office are prodigious in number, though every check that can be devised is in use in the establishment itself. The eye of the police is on ev.l7 apartment in the central office ; and a keen ei;,ilance is exercieed over every provincial office ; yet the amount of theft le enormous ; and the grist majority of the thefts go undiscovered. Of those which are discovered, not nearly all are made public. For instance, expert Post office thieves commit many thefts after having succeeded in one ; and when their day of retribution comes, and they stand at the bar of justice, they are condemned on one or two cases, when the prose cutors may hold evidence of ten or twenty more. Thu sad stories which those prosecutions bring out, and which the reader turns from as familiar and yet too painful to be willingly read, are a mere sample of the miseries always going on an.ong people connected with the Post-office. lu every case we find that the offender ha.l borne a good character, and had a safe and respectable career before him, if be • uld have kept his hands from picking and steal ire:. We always hear this, because the Postoffice officials are now a picked body of men, who could not have obtained their posts without a good cha racter ; and all the world knows, or may know, what their earnings are, and that they are what other men of the same rank in life live on in com fort and respectability. Yet, in all courts of jus tice some specimens of the class are sure to be brought up, from time to time—men who have been living under a sense of guilt for months or years, daily expecting discovery ; men who have supported parents or sisters, or who have good Viva' at home, and children to whom their disgrace will be • lifelong calamity ; men who have perhaps been tempted in the first in stance, at some moment of pressure for money, by a letter carelesely sent, with money almost dropping out, or a whole banknote almost visible through a flimsy envelope. It aprears that a suc cessful first attempt is always followed by more thefts. Moat crimes fascinate the sinner, so that while he is always assuming to himself that he shall stop, and bu a respectable man henceforth, be in fact never does stop. In this case, the eaai ness the act, and a sort of charm about the cheating process, while the sufferer is somebody out of sight, whew trouble at the loss will never be seen, and whose anger will never be beard of, stimulate the thief to new attempts, till at last the fated tram letter ensnares him, and he and his are ruined. He goes to prison, and comes out without character or prospect Has family never lift up their heels again ; and all the world wonders bow any man eau run such risks for anything that he can gain by the offence. The world eery well wonder. All who are clear of any particular sin wonder at the folly of those who commit it ; and in this case the disproportion between the loss and gain of failure and success is so great that any degree of surprise is warranted. But there stands the fact. That is what we have to do with. Philosophers and moralists may analyse the case, and tell us of all it' attributes and liabilities what concerns us is the way in which the fact is to be practically met. The phi leeopher may tell us, truly enough, that some per sons have propensities for theft, not exclusively of a moral nature, like that which makes lady• shoplifters, and now and then causes some poli tician, or scholar, or duchess to be notorious for carrying off silver spoons from an evening party, or penknife or parse from a friend's desk. The moralist may show us how the touch or sight of some forbidden good, works upon a mind ever so little infirm in its integrity. We may all agree that in so large a body of men as the staff of the Post-office there must be specimens of every kind of liability and every stamp of character. The question remains—What is to be done to stop the thefts in the Post-office? The rulers of the office say that the great mischief is the perverse carelessness of corre spondents, who almost invite the office to rob them. Nobody denies the fact ; but we MOM to be taken up with wondering at it. ►►n a general survey, it does appear very strange that, when the money order system is proved a complete success in the matter of transmitting sums of money with safety and convenience, so many hundreds of persons should go on slipping gold and silver loose into their letter or sticking it into a piece of card,—sa if anybody could touch the letter without holing it. But it is equally strange that there should be above 11,000 letters posted in a year without being directed, and many more misdirected and left unsealed. It is only when one conies to particular cases that the fact seems so very strange. Which of ua has not, THE EXPRESS , TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1861. some time in his life, heard • friend remark on his luck in his seal being known at the Post-office, as it had canned a letter to be returned to him which he had forgotten to address? Which of us may not have laid out an unaddressed or unfastened letter to go to the Post, so that it would have gone in, but for its having caught somebody's eye? Klettn thousand persons may be conceived to have done the same thing in the course of twelve months, even if no absent man had played the same trick several times over. In the same way, is there any one of us who has never known any hasty, or inexperienced, or silly person clap • banknote entire into a letter, without taking any particular pains about folding it, or seeing that the envelope was securely fastened! Hero, an in dolent woman, for whom everything has always been made to go right, sends off • banknote entire, without troubling herself to read the number or date, or to give notice, or ask an acknowledgment from her correspondent. Weeks afterwards she discov. is that the letter was never received. She can give 110 particulars ; and nothing can be done. A 4ain, a hardworking governess saves and saves, till she can spare 51. to some struggling brother or sister. She sends off• her bank note in the same way ; and finds she might as well have put it into the lire. Have we not heard of birthday gifts of rings and brooches announced in letters which have arrived with a hole in the envelope—an envelope so flimsy as to debar complaint ? Have we not seen packets arrive, of taco or other valuable things, bursting open, or tied and secured with Post-office twine and red wax t If each of us has known one such case, where is the wonder at the annual amount? As for the continuanc, of the mischief, do we not all know that the careless senders of valuables are inexhaustible in their objections to preidutiou ? Theis is no use in taking the number of a banknote, because somebody once failed to recover one. There is no use in sending I half-notes, because somebody once got odd ones, and had much trouble in setting the matter straight. There is no use in registering •valuable letter, be cause the Post-office is not legally bound to make up the loss. This these a iseacres reject prudent methods which they fancy may have failed once in ten thousand time, and use an impru dent one, which is more likely to fail than not. It is hard for them to find reasons for evading the money-order plan ; but, when reasons are want- Mg, whims must serve the turn. Do we not, some of us, know persons who say they never could fancy that way of sending money ? They don't understand it or they don't believe in it ; or it is more troublesome than thrusting your note or sovereign into your letter. So people go on ;so they talk ; and while they do, the sore evil of these Post-office thefts will 4o on. We must remember how difficult it is to induce a considerable mass of society to take any inte• rest whatever in public events, or social arrange ments on • large scale. The same people who pride themselves on " knowing nothing of poll " tics " are exactly those who aro vain of their innocence about the Post-office system. There were families, people who thought themselves superior and literary, who had not discovered, at the end of two years, that the red and blue stamps wore not of the same value. When asked why they supposed there were red and blue for the same purpose, they said they had never thought about it. Others of the sane sort wondered at their neighbours for troubling them selves about the weight of their letters, saying it was the business of the Post-office to look to all that. Others, to save themselves the trouble of providing the stamps, dropped as many pennies as letters into the slit at the Post-office, and called it a cheat when their correspondents were charged two-pence per letter. Plenty of such people are still resisting the request to set up • letter box on their door, and to put on their London letters the initials of the districts. They have no notion of doing any of the work of the Post-office ; and so forth. All this is very silly and very ignorant. But there are, and always will be, such people ; and the question is how they can be made least mischievous. The sin of sending money and valuables care lardy by poet is so especially injurious to society, that every one of us should feel called upon to do what he can to check it. A very large proportion of the instances may arise from the ignorance of uneducated persons. Cannot we look to that, and each of us make some of our poor neighbours understand ? Every head of a household can prevent the mischief under his own roof. Perhaps we can make some of our acquaintance ashamed of their indifference and ignorance. If anything can have that effect it must be the information of the number of men —sons, husbands, and fathers —who are every year disgraced and ruined, be cause some besetting weakness, or some ill-timed temptation conquered them, through the wilful carelessness of those who should have known their social duty better. LO& oF LIFE ON THE NORTH-LONDON RAILWAY. Before the inquiry into the accident on the Brighton Railway is concluded, we are called to record another fearful casualty, resulting in the beis of ten lives, and in much personal injury, on one of our most familiar metropolitan lines. It will be seen by the detailed report iu soo ther column that the North-London Railway has been the scene of a frightful collision. Again it is an excursion train that carrier the unhappy passengers to death, and again it is the engine-driver's want of information of the state of the road which permits him to speed his train on to destruction. The circumstances of the collision, oc curring, as it did , on the top of an embankment, and resulting in the overthrow of several carriages, are very dreadful. It would he premature to offer opinions in the present 'date of our information, and on the eve of the coroner's inquest. Mean while, we may be thankful that the train into which this one ran carried ballast instead of passengers. SEUREE FOREETza's FETE AT THE CITETAL PALACE.—YestErky a grand demonstration of the FOreetefs Coots In the South London district., in aid of the widow sad orphan's fund, took place at the Crystal Palace, and set with extraordinary suoora. The weather being fine the grounds filled rapidly. The outdoor amuse ments consisted of archery, ride practice, • pair oared boat race, and other matches on the lake. a tub race, and duck bunt, cricket, quoits, Sc. At 1 o'clock a grand promotion was formed of the members belonging to 2.305 Courts of the South Loudon District, with banners, regalia, sod decorations, the whole preceded by the Forster' band, immediately followed by the Foresters' Rifts Corps, moat of the brotherhood wearing the recognised cottons of the order. The accounts from the wine producing districts are satidactory. In many vineyards the vines afford a pros pact of an abundant vintage. Should the weather contisue to favour t►eir maturity the quality of the wine of this year will be first.rate. Amounts from Nuts state that the wo rse. of the vines to maturity is most mtisfactory. Should the lamest fine weather coati num tbe vintage will commence there from the 10th to the 15th of September. In other districts the owners of vineyards complain that the produce will be dimini.bed from a quarter to a fifth by the iirewive hest. A rise has, consequently, t►ken place in the price of wine. gtot erourt. BALMORAL, AUGUST 31. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert arrived in Holyhead Harbour at half-past eight o'clock yesterday morning. Lieutenant-General Sir G. Wethersll, K.C.S., condo:rod: in; the Northern District, sad Hear-Admiral Erskine, paid their respects to her Majesty. The Hoe. Owen Stanley likewise came on board of the Victoria and Albert to place his carriage and horses at her Majesty's diapinwl. The Prance Consort and Prince Alfred, with Earl f:ntn• rill; and t'olooel the Hon. Sir C. Phipps, K.C.8., went at eleven o'clock by special train to CArnarvon, and Aided the ancient cantle. From thence their royal highnesses drove to lieddgelert, returning to the yacht by a quArter past six o'clock. In the &Remote' the (piece, with the Prim:muses Alice and Helena, attendod by Lady Churchill, the Hon. Victoria Stuart Wortley, Vinount Sydney, Lieutenant-Creams! the Hoe. C. Grey, Dr. deeper, and the Hon. 0. Stanley, drove to the Stack Lighthouse. In the eveaing Earl Granville, Viscount Sydney, Rear. Admiral Enkine, Lieuteuant.Geceral Sir O. Wetherell, K.C.B, the Hon. 0. Stanley, Captain the H0n..1. Ikenen, and Captain Christian, together with the Ladies and Can. Hereon of the Household, had the honour of joining the Royal dinner party. At nine o'clock, her Majesty and the Prince Consort, the Princes Alice, Priecem Ilekna, and Prince Alfred, attended by Lady Churchill, the Hon. Victoria. Stuart Wortley, Miss Hildyanl, Lieutenant-General Chu lion. C they, Colonel the Hoc. Sir C. Phipps., and Dr. dormer, landed front the yacht., and entered the railway rarriagra A Haan( of Honour of t►e let Royals was drawn up upon the Pier at Holyhead. The train mintediately started rot rout. for Abnyne, from which place her Majosty continued the journey in carriages 1, Balmoral, where bar Majesty arrived at three o'clock. The Prince of Wales, having nearly completed Lie course of military instruction at the camp at the Curragh, will shortly proceed to the Coetinent, to be present at the Prussian reviews on the Rhine, and after paying a short visit to the Crown Princess of Prussia, he will join his royal parrots for a few days at Balmoral. previous to his return ing to Cambridge. Her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Ex hibition of Pea have rooently received official notification of the appointment of the following gentlemen to act an C 01311111. 1 .1000 1 ,1 is Louden for the several oulonies named— New South Wales, Edward Hamilton, Faq. ; Queeushiedi M. H. Marsh, Faq., M.P.„%lfred lknison, Esq.,and Arthur Redraw, Faq. ; South Australia, G.S. Walters, Esq., agent general, and Alex. Laing Elder, Esq. ; Western Australia, Alex. Aedrews, Earl. ; Tasmania, Fred. A. Du Crux, Faq., Joseph Milligan, Faq., and James A. Youl, Esq. ; Ceylon, ltawdon Puwis, Eaq. ; British Guiana, Joseph T. Gil. hart, Faq., aml Sir W. H. Holmes; St. Helena, N. Solomon, ; Hong-Kong, Patrick Campbell, Faq. For mince!. lemons foreign countries :—Hawaiian Islands, Manley Hop kins, Eq. ; Liberia, Gerard Ralston, Faq. Her Majesty's Commisaiouer+ for the International Milli. bitios of letti2 have received a notification from the Wur temburg Camnissioners to the effect that Professor Leon; Levi, of 10, Fenn-buildings, Temple, 8.C., has been appointed their agent in London. Despatches were received yesterday at the Culoniabuffice from the Governor+ of the North American Provinces, the Falkland Islands, Vancouver's bland, Ceylon, and Hong. Kong. to. A guard of honour, under Captain Bond, was also in attendance. Carriages being in readiness, the royal party drove off without delay, slight rain falling at the time. Ere Renate: was reached, however, the weather cleared up, and her Ma• jesty was pleased to throw the carriage open and acknow ledge the cheers of the residents, native and imported, of this favourite watering and summer holidaying village. The royal journey terminated at ten minutes to three, 13ahnoral Caatlo being reached at that hour. Her Majesty was received at the Highland Palace by Dr. Robertson, of Indego, who, with other gentlemen, was in waiting. The upper strath of Doe was n.•ver looking better. The crops are plentiful, and falling fast under the sickle of the I.ns. bandmim. In the immediate vicinity of the Castle lir! Irene it particularly 'pleasing, and everything betokens a satisfactory holiday for the court. HER MAJESTY'S PROGRESS TO BALMORAL. (From the Scotsmen.) The Queen, the Prince Consort, the Princesses Alice and Helens, and Prince Alfred, and numerous suite, arrived at the general station, Perth, on Saturday morning last at 7.51 a.m., a minute before the arrangements in the programme. The royal party, notwithstanding having travelled the previous night., appeared to be in the enjoy meat of excellent health and spirits. Her Majesty, on land ing at the station, was received by the Earl of Mansfield, the sheriff of the county (Mr. E. S. Gonlon), and the Lord Provost arid magistrates of Perth, and ea the platform were Mr. Stirling of Kippendav ie, Colonel Campbell, Mr. Skidded of Balleudreck, Sir. M'Ltan, procuratordiscal of the county ; Mr. Archibald Reid, county sherifrelerk, Only a limited number of ladies and gentlemen were ad mitted to the station, awl those present did not exceed 600 persons, who gave her Majesty a moat enthusiastic wel -1 come. A detachment of the Scots Greys on foot, commanded by Lieutenant Browning, formed a guard of honour to her Majesty, and the utmost order was maintained on the plat form by the city constables and a party of police under the direction of Superintendent Welch. The Earl of Mena field conducted the royal party to the hreakfast-room, which had been elegantly furnished for the occsaion by the joint committee of the general station. The arrangements for the reception of the royal party made by the station committee were most com plete, and reflect the highest credit on the parties under whose superintendence they were got up. The ac commodation provided for her Majesty, the royal family, mod suite were a portion of the buildings recently erected, and • portion of those occupied by the Scottish North-Eastern Railway Company. Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the royal children breakfasted slam The servants had breakfast supplied them in the first-clue refreshment room. Exactly at half-past eight o'clock her Majesty and suite astered the royal train, and in three minutes after it' started, amid the plaudits of the assembled spectators, which her Majesty graciously acknowledged.• Her Ma jesty expressed her high satisfaction with the whole ar tenements for her reception. In the various rooms, it may be added, there were beautiful bouquets of Sowers, which were supplied by Mr. Msxtone, of Cultoquhey, Mr. Gray, of Bowerman, sad Mr. Turnbull, of Bellwood. At twenty-eight minutes put nine, the royal train, with ►er Majesty, the Prince Consort, the Princesses Alice and Helena, sod Prince Alfred, arrived at Forfar, accompanied by General Grey and other members of the suite. The station was gaily decked with dowers and flags, the red rampant lion of Scotland being the moat prondaeot figure in the bunting. The refreshment room was covered with beautiful blooming heather, adorned with down's, and seemed like a fairy bower. On the summit were venue game birds and wild animals, and in the centre above the arched doorway was a stag's head, a " royal," with within of ten tines. The decoration did great credit to the taste of Mr. Duff, the station•nwater. Her Majesty was met by Lord Dalhousie and Sir Charles Wood, the latter of whom took his seat in the train, and proceeded northwanl along with the other members of the suite. Lord Delltousie went up to the royal carriage, and her Majesty 14:14i the Prince Consort conversed freely with his lordship during the brief stay of the train. Her Majesty seemed in excellent spirits. The Forfar Volunteers, under the command of Colonel Kinloch and Captain Forsyth, and Captain Fothringhant of Fothriugham, formed a guard of bestow during the time the train remained, and gave a royal salute on the arrival awl departure of the train. Ferryhill Station, Aterdeen, was reached at the posted time, 11.1:1. To this point her Majesty was accompanied by Mr. Stirling, of Kippendavie • Mr. Porteous, of Liurie.ton ; Mr. Keith, Mr. Bind°, and Dr. Matthews, directors of the Scottish North•Faatern Railway, which here terminates. At Ferryhill a consider. able crowd had aasenibled, amongst whom it was pleasing to hear the remark passing that her Majesty, in all her journeys north, never looked in better spirits. A military guard of honour, under Major Rice, 72nd Highlanders, was in waiting, and on the platform to receive the royal party were the Lord Provost (Anderson), Sheriff Watson, the Convener of the County (Mr. Thomson), with whom the Prince Consort entered into conversation. (It may be re inemberal that the Conveoer had the honour of having his Royal Highness for hie guest at Banchory during the sit ting of the British Association two years ego at Aberdeen.) After a stay of five minutes, the carriages having mean ' while been changed on to the Deeside Railway, the royal train departed for the Highlands, the following directors of the line being in attendance—Mr. John Duncan, chairman . Mr. Whyte, Aberdeen ; Mr. Smith, of Glenmillan ; Mr: Gordon, of Craigmill ; with Mr. Ferguson, secretary. Owing to some unforeseen failure of steam power in one of ' the engines, the journey was not so expeditiously performed as usual, " • slow" taking place on a portion of the line, This delay was happily, however, compensated for in some degree by time and opportunity being afforded to the royal visitors to view with better leisure the fine sesorry along the route of the Dee. Aboyoe, ktlio I:armies. Hon of the railway, was made at a quarter pant one. In waiting here, amongst others, were the Marquis of Meetly, Lord-Lieutenant of Abenleenshire, and the Marchioness of Hardly, whom her Majesty graciously recognised and spoke IVTERNATIO►NAL COURTESY. Yesterday an excursion party, conahsting of up wards of :CO persous, left Calais for Dover, and afterwards visited Cant. chew by the London, Chatham, and Dover Hallway, shortly after 11 o'clock a.m. The excursiouists were accompanied by the excellent 'flunkies' band, eorniste hog of fifty-two performers under the talented direction of M. L Tourneur, 4.1 d° la kturigoe nivaieipele de Caw & On the arrival et the excursionists the band proceeded to the Dane doles and played severed airs, after which they ailitheol themselves by viewing the cathedral and other objects of historical interest in coonexion with this city. The director, in order to pay a eompliment to the Worshipful the Mayor, applied (thr.ingh the interpreter, M. Delpierre, who was the moms of the party visiting our city) for permission to play before his worship's house, which was inns: courteously granted. Our French neigh bour, assembled in front of the Town•hall by the call of the bugle, and, forming in procession, proceeded to the residents, of the mayor, the heed playing a martial On its arrival the hand formed in a circle, and played two favourite sure, which were listened to by a large 'lumber of ourcitireus with delight. The Meyer, Mrs. Holttum, Jobe Brest, Esq., W. Plummer, Eau., Mr. Charles Holttuin, cud several other ladies and gentlemen appeared highly delighted with the excelleut music. The mayor then came forward, and addressing the director (through Mona. Haze), said he was exceedingly sorry ho could not speak the French lan guage, and more so, that he had not been made previously aware of their intended visit to the city, 112 be should have felt great pleasure iu providing fee their comfort during their short stay. He was very much gratified by the corn- plinient paid him by M. Tourocur and the bawl playing before his residence. Ile was happy to see the kind and friendly relatioes existing between Eugland and France, and he trusted those relations would ever contiuue. He (the mayor) also legged to tender his kind respect , ' to M. Tourneurand to the members of his band for the excel lent music that he and his friends had just listened to; but he would ask, u • favour to the mayoress, if he would oblige her by playing the French National Air. The mayor also kindly invited the director and menibers of the baud to partake of sums refreelinient, which was declined, the stay of the laud of necessity being so very limited. M. Toureeur made* ' suitable reply, and the band immediately struck up " tied Save the Queen," following it up with the French National Air, which was most enthusiastically received by the atten. five listeners. On the departure of the interesting visitors from the mayor's residence, three hearty cheers were given to them in true English style. The excursionists then to the railw.ty station, highly gratified with the proceededill reception they had met with, several of them re marking that if the season had not been so fir advanced they would have paid it another visit this year. and Celt they would not forget the old city next year. 'The train started from the station amid hearty cheers both from English sad Froask—kathisk Gazette. The followiug originates with the Dublin Erening afaf :—"lt used to be sestioned as a characteristic of 'the Georges' that they never forgot old acquaintances, and es Thursday evening (tame Victoria proved her true blood hi a worthy instance. No sooner bad she set foot within the terminus at Weitland.row, than she sioglirl out Mr. Dargan from among the group of gentlemen awaiting her arrival, and kindly greeted him, expressing a hope that all went well with him and his. In this graceful recognition her Majesty was followed by the Prince Consort, who warmly expressed to Mr. Dugan bis admiration of the scenery of Killarrmy, and the gratification his excursion had afforded him." The Dowager Marchioness of Conynghani has been suffering from were iodispolkition at Bifrous. Hie Excellency George Motley, the Minister of the United States to ViItZUM, hoe arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Washington. The Countess of ClonmeU and the lAdies Scott have arrived at Farranee's Hotel from Tunbridge Welk. The Dowager Lady Kilmaine has left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for town. Lord Clyde, accompanied by Major-General Eyre and Major Alison, left town yesterday morning for Berlin. Lord and Lady Mouck and family have wiled at Thomas Hotel from Inland. - - Lord Wert has arrival at the family mansion in Groavemeetreet. from Homburg sad Bide& The Right Hoo. Charles Viliera, M.P., has left town for Germany. The Hon. F. Villiers has arrived at Thomas's Hotel from tiolby HAL Mr. and Lwly Charlotte Lyater have loft Thomas's Hold for Rolston Castle, liluswsbury. Mr. and Mrs. A. Bulkley have arrivtal at Long ford Castle, Wilts, from Dieppe, on a via to Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone. Mr. Baring has arrived in town from Scotland. The Archbishop 1)f Cauterbuu has cougented to preside at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Diocesan Board of Education, which is to be bold at Maidetaie early in October. Among the speakers will be the Earl of Rom ney, Mr. ( - fathoms Hardy, M.P., Sir Brook Budges, Bart., M.P., Mr. Betesford Hope, and Mr. Henry Hoare. Kentish tattle. The Bishop of Oxford, who has been in Dublin for some days, preached on Sunday in the Castle chapel. A large number of persons, anxious to hear the bishop, took up their position at the principal entrance to the chapel a coesiderable time before the hour fined for opening the doors, and soon after they were opened every portion of the building was filled. Several ladies were obliged to steed during the service, all the efforts of the vergers to provide accommodation for one•fourth of the applicants for sitting room being q uite fa vain. _ . _ _ Captain Walker, late of the Galway line, has been appointed to the command of the Great Eastern.. . It ix computed that 12,000 persons visited the Botanic Gardens, Dublin, on Sunday, between the hours of nod 7. They went through the greenhomes in reguLar order, and everything passed off with propriety. A joint circular has been issued by the City gas oompanies, notifying that, in consequence of the recent act for regulating the supply of gas to the metropolis requiring, under heavy penal►ics, • greatly increased standanl of illuminating power and purity, winch will neeemarily in volve cm increased cost of production, the companies sup plying the city of Loudon will iu future charge 4s. W. per 1,000 feet for the onliusry coal gok. The Amnion Gatefte says : —"The Count do Ilandre, w•ho is devoting his attention to military studies, has visited several of our military establishments, and among them Spandau. Several English artillery officers are here for the same purpose, mod have attended the exer cises of the brigade of artillery of the guard." The annual meeting of the German judges, now beiog held at Dresden, has bans this year distiuguisbed by a manifestation of political sentiment which the public was certainly nut prepared to witness. By a large majority the meeting has resolved that the system of common legislation for Germany would be best attained by the in-titution of a common parliament; and that, pending the non-existence of legislative unity, the labours of the learned assembly for the same end must be very unsatisfactory, and capable only of being crowned with partial success. The assembly consist. of WO members, including all the supreme judges of the variou ,, countries, besides twenty ministers of justice. The Swiss papers record another accident to Alpine tourist■. The victim on this occasion is Mdme. Fanny Gamier, of Paris, who was travelling with her hue band in the Bernese Oberland, and fell into a torrent called the Lutechine, at Grundewald, where she was drowned, in spite of all efforta to saws her. A Constantiuople letter says :—" To the savings before effected in the expenses of the palace. I may now add she suppression of the pensions granted to the ex. chamberlains. The Sultan struck them out with his own hand from the registers of the palace, laying that, thank■ to the ruhantages they bad derived from their situations, they were beyond the reach of want, and there was no good raison why they should any longer remain a burden to the treasury.•• LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (Mr REUTFIIie TIELIGILAXIS.) HUNGARY. PEST% Sr.s 3. The Comitat of Minkel= has paired areeolution concurring iu the protest of the Comitat of Perth against the dissolution of the Huuarian Diet. It is expected that similar resolutions will also be passed by the other Cumitata of Hungary. ITALY. ROME, AUCUst 31. The Duku de Urammout is expected here, in order to present to the Pope his letters of recall, he being replaced by the Marquis de Lavalett(' in the poet of French ambaasador. TURIN, Sept. 2. The Offirial Ga....He of to-day announces the ac ceptance of Signor Minghotti's resignation, and the nomination of Baron Riess°li as Minister of the Interior, with the charge, ad interim, of the Minis try for Foreign Affairs. The (;e:tvttn di Tw in of today publishes news from Perugia, stating that a patrol of Italian Bersaglieri had inadvertently entered Pontifical territory near San Lorenzo. The alarm WM immediately spread among the French troops. After explanations had panned between the officers the patrol re-cutered Italian territory. News from Naples states that part of the English fleet had left Naples and bad proceeded to Civita Vecchia. TURIN, Bgrr. 2. The Turin journals of to-day announce that the ministerial modification which Lave recently taken place will nut came any change in the policy of the cabinet. NAPLES, Sm. 2. Several conflicta have taken place between the troops and the brigands. The latter have been re pulsed at many points. SPAIN. MADRID, Seer. 2. The Coirvapoodemcia A /dog ra fa of to-day says: —"The Cortes will open on the 25th October. The speech from the throne will announce con stitutional reforms in accordance with the political views of the liberal union party." DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, &Fr. 2. (kneral Solaroli, of the Italian army, is expected to arrive here to-morrow. Hu is the bearer of the insignia of the Other of tho innunsiata to the Kiug of Denmark. The Danish Diet is convoked for the sth October next. MONTENEGRO. RAGUSA, Sem 2. Omer Pacha has notified to the Turkish govern ment that he commenced operations yesterday against the insurgents, in dealing with whom be promised that the greatest possible leniency would be used. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (TROY OUR OWN OORRIATONDLNL) PARIS, MONDAY EVENUO. There is a general belief that the brochure men tioned by the Times—" The Emperor, Rome, and the King of Italy"—is innocent of official handling. It is too clumsy an affair for such suspicion to rest upon it for a moment. Fancy such a phrase, for inatanee, as this :—" Italy without Venetia is like France without Belgium." Authorised writers may think such things, but nut utter them. Talk ing of annexation, I do not find well-informed men agreeing with that writer in the Examiner who has not the slightest doubt as to France getting Sar dinia when Italy gets Rome. The opinion of such persons is that the logic of events will so neee.s narily bring about a solution of the Roman question, that Italy need not even discuss the question of such a sacrifice of Italian soil. Besides, the annexation of Sardinia must nacos ' sarily, after all that has been said and written in England, cause something very like a political con vulsion, and whatever is to be the ultimate fate of the relations of France and England, there is nothing to indicate that we are even at approaching a crisis. The pamphleteer above alluded to had contrived, it appears, to have the trumpet blown beforehand in Italy. A letter from Turin, pub lished iu the Presse, thus alludes to it: Two days ago it was announced that an opdsculus on the Roman question, by M. de la Guerrooniere, was ►bout to appear. Judge what was the general excitement. "He should know a good deal on the subject," said a politician to me, "to Judie from the Or of authority with which he addressed his eouncil•Getienil." On the appearance .4 the brochure, no more was said about if. de is GuCrroniiii . lre. It is read simply because it treats of Rome. But the fact is, it proves to embody an old idea of Garibaldi's pot into respectable French. The writer then goes on to relate what had once passed between himself and Garibaldi on the sub ject, and states that the great liberator had raid to him : Do you suppose I ever dreamt of giving battle to the French troops occupying Rome? None but men of had faith mold ever have put such statements into the jour nals. When I was about to embark for Sicily nearly an the Pontifauil territory except Rome itself was guarded by papal troops. My idea wee, with a few hundred of my followers, to have dispersed these pasteboard soldiers, and then to have knocked at the gates of Rome. Then T should have invited the entire population to come out into the wide Oungrigna which witnesses the misery of the inha bitants of the city, and there in tho open air, unarmed and free, the Romans should have been called upon to decide whether or not they would have Victor Emmanuel for their king, and Italy for their country. "And what next. general Y' said the writer. " What next !” said Garibaldi, .• you want to know better than Ido ; and I have never thought about it. There is no • what next' possible in thin question." This writer thinks the end of the Italian diffi culty is near at hand. Ho says the general opinion is that—as was suggested in the Opinions—WlMP Italian general (probably Cialdini himself) will one fine day follow some of the brigands across the Roman frontier, being careful to select a part gnarded by papal troops: alone. The Italian sol diers once in, will the French troops, or will they not, interfere to drive them out The hopes of the reactionary party are thug alluded to by the writer of a letter from Umbria to the Neiora-Earopa of Florence : . . . The insolence of the clericals increases daily. Those who at the onthreak of the revolution were stricken by a terror arixing from a consciousness of their crimes towards the people, now dream of a return to the same iniquities of which they scarcely hoped the forgiveness. They triumph, and openly threaten to outdo themselves for the future when these provinces shall be restored to the yoke of the pontiff-king. Thu excitement produced by the unjust condem nation of M. Fabiani in Corsica is described as being " immense." The Bulletin de Paris sent down to the provin cial papers says that the return of the English fleet from Naples to Malta has been officially an nounced, adding, "Their retreat took place, it is said, at the express demand of several powers, among others of France, Austria, and Ruasia." This was settling day at the Bourse. Prices had an upward tendency, though the effect upon the market was trifling. Bente left off be. better, closing prices being 69fr. for cash, and 68fr. 95e. for the account. Mobilier rose Bfr. 75c. for cash, and 6fr. 25c. for the account, last prices being re spectively 775 fr. and 772 fr. 50c. All French rail ways better. TIN TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE .NORTII LONDON RAILWA Y. LATEST PARTICULARS.-(THIS DAY.) (nom am owl' atromism) It is impossible to exaggerate the excitement which prevailed this morning at Camden-town and Kentish town, iu connexion with thin sad calamity. Thousands and tens of thousands of people have been thronging the streets which lead to the spot where it occurred since break. fast time, and iu fact during the whole night the neighbour. hood wore an aspect of unwonted activity. Up to 12 o'clock the open meadow-land which the line here clears was covered with passing crowds, and for some hours the concourse of people was so large, and so greet was the olitli culty of keeping them from encroaching upon the embank ment that the workmen employed to clear away the wreck of the carriages were seriously impeded in their proceedings. It was 4 o'clock before the detris was cleared from off the line itself, and even since that hour the labourers have been employed in completely breaking up the carriages which were precipitate I over the side parapet of the viaduct or bridge, and which it was found could be removed in no other way. The en„ine still lies at the bottom of the embankment upon its side, with its dome casing scrolled up like parch ment, but with its funnel still apparently perfect, and probably will so remain until it has b.seu viewed by the coroner's jury. Workmen are also engaged, and have been all the morning, in Lying new rails in the place of those which were torn up, and one of which is com pletely cut through, as if by a pair of shears, one of the ends being pressed down and buried in the earth. The cause of the accident, as is always the (sae, until the inquest elicits the truth, is involved in some obscurity. It is, however, a remarkable fact that the collision °wilt red exactlyat • point where there is a semaphore signal post, which ought to have bay a safeguard to the spot. It is assorted by some of the officials connected with the railway that the signal was in its proper position to protect the ballast train, which was at work on the .pot in reballasting the line, and that the signalmen, either from some misconception with re gard to the speed at which the excursion train was travel ling, or from a total misunderstanding its to the position of the ballast train, as soon as he saw the excursion train approachiug, reversed the signal, so as to intimate that it might come on, when he ought to have kept it longer, as only by doing so could he hope to avert a collision between the two trains. Thi, seems almost incredible, but such is the only explanation at present given as to the canoe of the catastrophe. With regard to the collision itself, the facts appear to be substantially the elms as those given in the morning papers. The engioe.driver of the belled train, when he saw the ex , cursiou train approaching, commenced to ehunt, iu the hope of getting on to the down line of rail before that train could come up, but the engine of the excursion train struck his train exactly in the middle, part being on ass line and part ou the other, hurling five or six carriages over the embankment on the down silo of the line, where they now lie a wreck and confusion, while that half of the ballast train attached to the engine kept on the rails and proceeded on its way. At the same moment the engine of the ex cursion train jumped off the rail, ploughed ulong the edge of the embankment for a few yards, mapped the coupling iron short off, and then, toppling over and over, rolled down the aide, till it reached the level ground below. Three of the carriages which followed ran some twenty yards further, gradually inclining down wards till they reached the bridge, the brickwork of which they broke down as they fell below some 24 feet to she ground, where one rested on its roof with another above it, and a third standing on its end suspended over the brick work. A fourth carriage was partially suspended and sense of those which followed were broken, but did not actually leave the ourbeakment. It should be stated that although this hue is the property of the North Western Compuny they have no traffic of their own over it., but work the traffic of the North London ; and that officials of both lines were beady engaged during the night in superintending the removal of the debris, and the operations of the work men generally, as well as in the evening, in stipule tending the removal of the died and wounded. Mewl these may be mentioned Mr. Stevenson, goods manager to the North• Western Company, and who also has charge of the C.iiinden.statiou ; Mr. Henderson, loco- motive foreman to the North• Western ; Mr. Harley, from the secretary's office, and dlr. Hartley, Mr. Fleetwood, and Mr. Coulter, also belonging to the Name company. Mr. Chubb, of the North London `...omprity, with other officers, likewise rendered themselves active in conducting the dif ferent operations. It appears that the excursion train was but one of a series which had run in the matuieg to Kew, iu .id of the Strat ford Library, and only one of which had preceded it on its return. The passengers by the other train were delayed far some hours in consequence of the accident, but they were ultimately passed over the scene of the catastrophe mid conveyed to Bow. The up line of rails has, however, been blocked since, and the traffic is now confined to the down line, which serves for the passage of trains in both directions, is pilot engine being kept on the spot for the purpose of conducting each tilde as it crosses over this portion of the line ; surd as the driver of this pilot engine receives a written order for each to pass, no further accident can happen here, except under cir cumstances of the most unpenlonable neglect. The number of the dead was stated in the papers of this ' morning to be twelve, but it appears to be only eleven although it is extremely probable that other deaths will occur. LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. From inquires nude at the several hospitals, this day, WO are enabled to furnish, with the exception of one case, that of a child unknown, who was brought into the house dead, the names of the whole of the personas killed and wounded. Thev are OS follow : METROPOLITAN I , REZ HOSPITAL. Mr. Hill, the Louse surgeon, is unremitting in his atten tion to the patienta taken to this establishment. There is here one of the deceased pardons, namely, Emma English, aged 41, the wife of James English, bolsterer, 24, St. John.street, Clerkenwell. The hus band is also in the hospital. He has received sew.ral scalp wounds and contusions There is also an iufsnt of the above, six months old, who hay received contusions of the forehead. Sarah Cox, 1, Irelaud•rad, Ohl Ford-road, Row, is also at this hospital ; her iujuries are fracture of the rila, scalp wounds, and fracture of the left collar boos. UNIVEMITI COLLEGE HOSPITAL. The list of killed and wounded at this heepital aro! Dead.—Mary trills, aged 28; Emma Bowley, Ohl Fold : Miss Eva Stacey, aged 10 or 11 years ; Richard Haunters (died this morning); Edward Hills, Portland•house, Port land-street, Gummenial-road ; John Yeomans, 5, Bristow place, Poplar. Wounded.—Wand 1. George Henry Bolton, Old Foul, Bow; Geo. Woodley, h, Iceland-read, Bow; Wm.Woodley, brother of the above ; Barry Johnson ; Edward Ewes, Stratford New Town ; laic Cosall, Old Ford, Eieei Charles Cox, Bow. Ward 2.—J. W. Hewitt ; Wm. Stewart. Leighton ; Joseph Bridges, 2, Raymend-terracr Camlrell-rowl, Bow; Benj. Itushbrook,illuck's-court, Poplar. Ward b.—Alice Hewitt, Mir Drake, Mrs. Clements, Mrs. Aunie Ward, 91, Upper-street, Islingtou ; Mrs. Jane Greenwood, Mary Woodley,Miss Holt, Trinityatreet,Pepiat New Town ; female child, nukuown, about 10 years of .eze. Ward 9.—Charles Albert Hewitt. Ward 7.—Mrs. Dram. 1, A Ifred-terrace, Stepaey. Ward 8. —Mr. H. Stacey, Birdie. Hand, West India.yard, Bow ; John Stacey, same address ; Elizabeth Ward, 91, Uppor-street, Islington ; Sarah Ewer, Mr. Matthews, John Bayley, Joseph Car, George Hewitt• We are informed that in several of the above 1.10:4 the is . juries received were of the most frighttui character, and it was impo.sible to say whether the list of those killed would not be added to. NIDDLLISEX HOSPITAL. We were informed ►t this hospital that Dr. William Willis, the house surgeon, had been constant in Lis attend ance upon the two sufferers under his care here. Three persons were brought into the house dead, namely, Charles Standing, aged IS, Breon►o•rwrd, Old Ford East; and the two brothers Gioenwuod, referred to above. The wounded persons are—George Terry, dislocr.ted shoulder. This poor fellow hall. during the whole of the time since his confinement, been in the most restless coali tion, the nurse stating that at times he becomes raving mad• Ann Philpott, aged 66 —legs fractured, nose broken and fractured, and several other serious injuries. The engine driver of the ballast train described to the reporter the facts in reference to the adli,ion to the following affect said that he was driving ao engine with 19 trucks and the tweak vans laden with ballast, and he was procre,liug along safely for the purpose of crossing tho up to the down line, when he I i I 1