The Express. — London, England, 1861-09-11 00:00:00

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TO OUR WEARER& SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. A !alp edition of the E7preaa iv published every e re n i h g during the racing season, containing the results of the day's races. Tut: Inquest on the Brighton Railway Accident has terminated with a verdict which will probably satisfy that large section of the public who wanted something a little out of the common, yet noth' - ig extreme, and to whom the perfection of human sagacity consists in always stopping half way on ' the road to absolute truth or justice. This sort of prudence is known by various names in the poli tical, moral, and religious worlds, but it invariably diguities itself with the style and title of "common " sense," and despises all who are not trimmers as fanatics. Perhaps it is a pity that railway direc tors have not in their management more of that useful abhorrence of extreme courses which they are, doubtless, happy to observe in the decision of a jury. There is, however, a savour of wild justice in the Brighton verdict, which just redeems it from vulgarity. A railway guard might speak of it as something between an "ordi " nary " and an " express " verdict ; or, in other words, • "second class" verdict, sparing the first and the third, and striking just between the two. Abstract justice would probably have demanded the heads of the Directors ; a strictly orthodox jury would have drawn and quartered • couple of signalmen. The verdict of manslaughter against an Assistant Station-master is • novel and not unexciting performance of public duty on the part of a British jury, without disturbing the peace of " first-class" families by a Jacobins al severity. We have no doubt the awful tribunal sitting at Hassock's Gate felt that it was an occa sion for Roman virtue ; but that in a liberal conservative age a line must be drawn somewhere. So they drew the lino at a Station-master, and the Directors arc not yet sentenced to travel in the first and last carriages of an excursion train, along sharp curves, at forty miles an hour, with an excursion train clues in front and a regular train close behind them ; with signals imperfect or out of order, and an agitated signalman at one end of a tunnel communicating promiscuously with a confused signalman at the other. We have no hope yet of a penal code for Railway Directors, constructed on the principle of "like cures like." For the present we most be content with the res eeding spirit of moderation, which thinks homicide made venial by accident, when the accident is the result of recklessness al elaborately systematic as the cautions and checks which disgui.e without preventing danger. Now, it is well known and willingly admitted en all sides that the Bri3hton line has been one of the best admisistercd, as it cm;oinly is a line on which the best administration is most urgently required ; yet enough has come out in the conies of this Inquest to prove that tra velling on this well-ordered line on certain d a y s , and subject to such conditions as the I public demand imposed, cr, rather, tempted the Company to accept, was only @cooed, in probabilities of safety, to an aeronautic voyage or to a forlorn hope agaisit a masked battery. The somewhat fussy superfluity of needless informa tion which was so industriously extorted at the Inquest by the respectable gentlemen who we w too well aware that "the public eye " was upon them had a tendency to obscure the central facts of the PICA and to bewilder and 'mislead opinion outside. The mock-beroie scene of the "threat. " ened committal of the Company's Secretary." the Spartan obstinacy of the Company's Solicitor, and the awful effect—at a distance—of the Coroner's nod ; the batch el donuments refused or withheld, which might hove proved that the cats,- hophe was the deßberate act of a secret society of rival shareholders--all these interludes mutt not be suffered to divot t attention from the true causes of all such accidents. The causes are net far to seek. Captain Tvtra, the Government Inspector, in his clear, concise, and search;ng statement, stzuck in a moment the source of ell the mischief. Here are the fac4. The rids is that there is a minimum of five minutes between the departure of two trains. What is the peso. tin f On the morning of this accident there was an interval of three minutes between the first and the second train ; an interval of four minutes be tween the second and the third. " Increase of " traffic," it was avowed in evidence by one of the Company's servants, " had rendered it neomeary "to allow trains to start at shorter intervals" than the rule allowed. And "it generally hap " paned with excursion trains that the rule was " disregarded." After etch a frank confession se this, need we travel over again the con.radhikey jumble of evidence elicited from some contused and shaken pennant.; and from pointsinen endowed with superhuman cant'ess, atac 1 y, and premises of mind? Need we examine in detail what Captain Trtsa aptly described as the " secondary" causes of the accident?—the credibility and conduct of the aignalmen, the discretion ot the engine-drivers, the sufficiency of the distance ~:s nsi a , and so forth! These details were very properly and closely invertigated by the jury. and very ably summed up by the Coroner. The preen, we conceive, has a broader and simpler duty to perform. Here is an Assistant Station master comtritted for " feloniously killing and " slaying " more than twenty human beings, by " want of ordinary caution, in starting three " trains, one at 8.28, one at 8.31, and one at " 8.35, in breach of one of the eaprem rules of " the Company, and of the usual prartice." The public instinct, we dare say, will congratulate the jury on having spared the "secondary " instru ments of this wholesale slaughter, and singled out the chief of the efficient camas of the cala mity for a salutary example. And we believe the public instinct will be right. For the person who started the trains within three and four THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1861. ni;uut.s of each other, was certainly a more re sponsible and a less involuntary agent in the disaster that ensued than the unfortunate men who simply executed the orders they received. But in start ing the trains with this fatd precipitation wax the assistant Station -master acting in breach " of the " usual practice," as he undoubtedly was acting in breach of "the express rules of the " company" I This is a question which the evidence produced at the Inquest certainly loaves undecided even by the verdict of the jury. .',nd, fortunately for the travelling public, it is a question which will have to bo answered categori cally in a Court of Justice. It is difficult under these circumstances, however mercifully-minded one may be, to regret that the verdict of the jury has aimed at least as high as an assistant Station master, in self-defence he must mare known • great deal more of the actual working of one of the best managed of lines than any documents which the Company's Solicitor declined to pro duce to the .1 ury could have disclosed. Captain Tvi.ra suggests that there should be an interval of . pew rather than of time between the departure of trains—A suggestion of vital consequence, and yet as simple as good sense. But the public will look to the trial of this assistant station-master to know whether the "express rule " of the Company h as been rigorously oboerved, or whether the Di- , rectors have connived at its infringement in favour of excursion trains. The counsel for the prisoner will no doubt be able to point the moral of rail way companies carrying "regular" travellers with speed and safety in ordinary trains, but driving excursionists like sheep to the slaughter, and to adorn the tale of a Parliament which refuses to lessen by legislation the responsibility of Railway Directors. gbt Coun. -- 0- - BALMORAL, SEPTIIIREA 9. Tho Q11e..11 and Prince Consort, with the Prin cess of flobenlAe, Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, and Prince Louis of Hesse. attended divine service in the parish church of Crathie yesterday. The Ladles and Gentlemen in Wait ing were in attendance. The Rev. Dr. IPLoad officiated. The itev.l*. ll'Lond had the honour of being invited to dinner. /fr. T. A. Rothmans transacted business at the Foreign. office yesterday on the subject of the cession of Lagos to the Drit'sh crown. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-oaks from the Governors of the settlement. on the West Coast of Africa, and from the Lord High CommixsioDer of the Liaise Islands. Despatches sere sent to the Governen a Ceylon, Honipliong, Liftman, and Malta. The Prince of Wales, it is rumoured, will leave Yuiptown to-moi row (Thro.alsy) for Holyhead, en reek to joie the Queen and the royal family at Balmoral. The tf r der m%il bad will convey hie royal bi‘Thers., and .that privacy arm be observed in eh the arraileinenie for Me ein- Inrkatioo. The Duke of Cambridge is now at the Chateau of Rumpenheim, mar rmakfort, with the members of the family o Home. Sir A. ]filet, the English Minister at the Germanic Diet, pee a greed dieser on the 4th is honour of 11;1 royal lighaaes, and at which the members of the diplomatic body were present. _ . _ Hi; Imperial Highness the Duke Nieolaa of Leochtenberg, aceompanied by General Rebbinder, bike at.ired at Cleridge's Hotel from St. Leonard's-m.Bm The Countess Dowager Lot Clare has arrived at Ovid Betel from Reeding. The Earl and Countess of Arran and the Ladies Gore bare arrived in the File of Wisht from the Poniard Hotel, &name. Vino/tint sod Vineountesa Doneraile have left Penance. Hotel, as a tour of visit; in Norfolk. The Baroness de Clifford has left the Bt. Cmorge's Hotel. Mr. and Lady Catherine Wayland have arrived at the S Georges HoteL Sir John and Mime Palmer have arrived at the St. noorp's Rotel. Sir Charles Tempest has left the St. George's Hotel. A rasesing was held in Dublin on Monday to es tablish ► new aseociatioo to look after the parliamentary, municipal, audpoor-Lw fraiiii'em for the l'bentle. The Dublin public are now enjoying the per hummer. el three celebrated seem—Mr. Paul Briv'ord, Mr. J. L. Toole, and Mr. John Drew. The Ovine of ca.* is Irlietielly (Himont is style, mad sr* has his own is: (wreathes. Nest week the Dallis opera begins, whoa Gin7.4l, litiees, llfadewie Lassies, Mille. Ann* Whitby, &seer Ciampi, and a boat of les.er notorietias will make tbs.:appearance. Mr. Jones, who luveutc(l the famous plates to taigt the At ardrour p,., 1.1, Pant. Mr. Thackerai, who has been some days in Pane, working hard far the re , ders of the CoraAill )(agar left yemberdry far Eelleed. It appears that the South-Eartern Cornpny's sew sinner, the Victoria, bo'lt by Moors lilassod+, with sew by Mews. Piro, hag attaiocd iernerkable sped oa bar SM trip frost Otaventod I o her atutioo at lolkentose, proprotory to hr map% meat is the ootopan)'s da'y ser vices beivess lolkes,ose aid Bouto4sie. The voyage, which is stalked to gift the bi¢ct spi .1 ors. 'Maimed by any viral over a eint'inr dietetics, wen perto.med in Qr.* bout. sod listy-two rr'nutee, (ism (as the total '.Sauce is $4 statute mike) an avers Je speed of 21 statute =lse per hour, equal to about to G lode. Tl , ‘. included the amnia hems mined hoe the tido, eet;triated by the pilot at soder Iwo voiles. The whole of the masons at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Nskasy, Had., about savauty is atualbse, want ow strike ycetwd■y. A Berlin correspondent gives the following emeirat of the tate affray at Heidelberg :—"There were three English gentlemen a:toessiin, the other day, the mid** rotifers:iota of the Ocingren of the National Union of Heidelberg. sad NW:in/ to the stalk i isogon et the hymn of national unity la • pals& prim The three Eaglish gentlemen took to oneampsay this meg by eoldeehr; learn! MI ea soon as a song was ended, and DM* 1. "lain wet punctually sod ' fort:vireo' when list 11.011111 reconinenead their vocal devotions. The latter, miselnes to eermlon further provocation, coned to sing at .1, owl Ml to talkies sad °Devolving round their social Misr rd over their bottles of wine and beer. The three Bey)bh pstlemen, mistaking this for cowardice, and eneminapd in their love of mischief, proceeded to bombard I , the beak of the silemed singers with the oorba of their betties, sad with other missile'. This was felt unanimously kerma eedurance, and the three English gentlemen TIM rat ists the air outside' (as the phrase la for ' kicking I an by active strong some and Isis, in lees than no time. This ceetureme has been, of mutes, investigated by the authorities, when the three gentlemen were found to be short-coming with their complaints. They are said to have appittd to Lord Palmerston or the Foreign.oeltoe for redrew, epesalatias. parbepe, on a es* series of the llfacdonakl ellahr. TIAN et aerie, will be (mite out of the emotion here* Lond complaints are made by the Florentine jouroals of the segligonee of the bead librarian of the Laureation Library, who has, it appears, allowed a most ir• portent collection of unpublished documents, partly original papers of Michael Angelo himself, gully MKS. illustrating the history of his family, to pose into private hands, from not taking the trouble to szamine them when submitted to hislaspeatirio. " Count de Kisseleff," says a Paris letter in the lisdipendonsee, "is s most eseverustiou, observed that Ruin* soteritheisadiug bee repuseanes, would be obliged to pet the beet hoe passible es the mutter, and recognise the kingdom of Italy, as aeon ss the stele of strairs in the Neapolitan previews should saw to supply it with a pre text for dsiaylog it. adhesion." The Diire Esparto! of the 6th complains that in an aconant given by the French Mmoiteur de CA Mil of the expedition to Cochis China, not t►e slightest awoke was made to the ftpanish troops, which the Madrid journal Jr. Caress a proof that Spain is shedding her blood there for no possible advantage. ITALY. (nog tem omit cosalermemorr.) ROucuer 30. The following is Mr. Buchanan's ME, case A , as stated by himself. He is engaged to superintend the erection of an iron bridge or viaduct, made by Messrs. Kennard, of Crumleu, in South Wales, for the line between Frascati and Ceprano, by which Rome is to be put in communication with Naples, if I the works go on well, about the beginning of neat year. Twenty or thirty men, all Italians, were employed under him. Notice bad been duly given to some of them that their wages would be re duced from 80 bajocchi, about 45., to GO bajocchi a I day. Thaw who were not satisfied with this, eight or ten of them, had a week's notice to leave. At the pay table, on Sunday rooming lass, they demanded another week's payment in advance. Mr. Buchanan refused, and one man then, drawing a knife or dagger from his pocket, attempted to stab him in the bre..st, but only wounded his right arm. Mr. Buchanan grappled with the as sassin till some other persons took him away. Mr. Buchanan then went to the French military quar ters, as the nearest place to apply for assistance ; but the French authorities said they had nothing to du with it, and declined to interfere. He then went, accompanied by M. Drouillart, a Frenchman, who is one of the railway contractors, to the office of the Papal gendarmerie, and related what had pissed. The gendarmes there promised to com municate with the chief inspector, and Mr. Bu chanan repaired to his inn. To save him front more lees of blood, one of the rail way staff, who understood something o f surger y, bandaged his wounded arm. This act, however, was reproved by the inspector of police, who soon afterwards came to the hotel, and who said that anyb:xly might get into serious trouble for pre cueing to meddle with such a case before it had been reev larly viewed and attested by CA.+ medical man. With regard to the crime of attempted man slaughter which had bee i committed, the inspector said he would make inquiries, and want away, to return in half an hour. When he came back, instead of telling Mr. Buchanan that the ferocious ruffiun who had almost been 'he death of hint was taken into legal custody, he said to him, " Oh, it appears there was a spirit of discontent amongst your men. It seems you were discharging some of them, and you were dop'iviug these poor men cf their bread." The inspector, having treated Mr. Buchanan to this cool remark, and written down the mane of the man who stabbed him, as well as of theta who saw the deed, went away. Presently, the men came to Mr. Buchanan in a body, and insisted on the week's wages in advance, which he felt oblised to give them, seeing that the police would not save him from their violence. The very man who stabbed him did no. come again to hire in person, but sent a note, an hoe- afterwards, de manding this money. Mr. Buchanan paid it for fees or his life • the assaasio stayed to spend it freely in the town. Next morei•i•-, a- qu etly as he could, Mr. Buchanan left Ye tetai for Rome. Here he was joined on Tuerday eieniug by one of his workmen, a Genoese, whom he knew he could trust. From this one, who bad just come from Velletri, he learnt that the person who wounded him had sworn, with another, to kill him since the first attempt had failed. This in tending murderer, whom the police would not arrest, now sent a message to say that, if Mr. Buchanan would pay him 100 franca he would leave the country and not molest him any more. He had gone among the other men, and by his threats and bluster made them take part with him, so that Mr. Buchanan, hearing this account of the state of things, and being anxious to return in safety to continue the work at Velletri, has thought it better to send the 100 francs there by the hands of the Genoese. His motive for this concession is thus acknowledged : "In consequence of the view the police at Velletri seemed to take of the case, I despaired of getting support from them, and I was in actual fear of my IKe, each step I taok of my door." A letter from his friends at Velletri yesterday states that the storekeeper and others have been menaced by these insurgents, who demand a certain ransom in motley, and who are still headed by the unpunished assassin. Ido not hear that the prelatical delegate or Governor of Velletri has any idea of calling on the gendarmes to do their duty • but ..nch is the Pontiical rule. The ringleader Of these outrages now proves to be an escaped convict from the ill famed and seldom visited hamlet of Campo Morto, where outlaws of the worst description are wont to congregate secure from permit, in an abode shunned by all other people as most deadly for its pestiferous air. Szrr. 2. The general secretary of Salamanca's railway company, who has been ordered to quit Rome, at the instance, it is supposed, of the Bourbon clique, is a Sicilian, named llenturelli, andoousin to the histo rian Michele Amari. Hewes Bleeder in the revolution of 1848, in his native island, bet never meddled with Roman poliiics. The company to which belongs the existicet line from Civita Vembia and the line towards Naples, which should be finished by the end of the year, way be seriously inconvenienced by this wanton interfereroe of the Papal govern ment wish its managing staff. A new sot of regu- 1 latinos for the inspection or traveller's passports at, any railway 1.11t;012 has just been promulgated, but more of thus, perhaps, in my next. The hope'ess inaTiicity or i"diXerence, or some say corruption, of :be provincial gendarmerie was shown last week at Velletri, where the unpunished assassin who bad nearly killed Mr. Buchanan is allowed to walk the streets and instigate his fe'lows to yet bolder acts of violence and robbery. At the oiber extremity of the unhappy Patrimonio, still kept by dint of French bayonets in hateful subject , on to the Pope, twelve desperate convicts have just broken out of the fortress of Civitil Cas tellano., (and betaken themselves to brigandage in the hills near Viterbo, where a lady was assaulted and robbed by them two or three days ago. Re turning to this city, I may observe that the trial of the young man Locatelli, accused of having killed the gendarme in that conflict, which broke out in the Como on the eve of the festival of Saint Peter, is fixed for Friday next. Publicity of criminal procedure is, of course, denied, and you must expect a very scanty report The popular opinion is naturally in favour of the accused, whom many persons declare not to have been the man that struck the fatal blow. They say, however, that the government intends to make a victim on this occasion, and the prosecution is got up in secrecy, Marchetti, the prisoner's advocate, not being permitted to know who are the witnesses against him. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND DE RUDIO. The Paris correspondent of the IsuUltriclastee says :—" It is affirmed that explanations have been demanded by the Imperial government from that of England respecting the lecture recently delivered by Rudio, iu which he publicly de:euded tyranni cide, and that the government of Queen Victoria replied that it would do everything which the con stitution and the law allowed to give satisfaction to the French Emperor." POLAND. The Post- A ntpt OuAt. says :—" We hada singular spectacle hen, yesterday morning. Nearly 200 Polish ladies of the higher and middle classes as sembled in front of the cathedral, and after hearing mane proceeded on their way to the celebrated place of pilgrimage of Ctenstochaii, situated near War saw, at more than sixty leagues from this place, and whither they are gone to implore the Holy Virgin in favour of Poland. Some priests were to have accompanied these ladies in their pilgrimage, but the archbishop would not permit it." Au article, which Count de Hontalember; lately published iu the Correpostlaa on the subject of Poland, is attacked rather sharply by the Ces.ti:s- Simnel, which accuses the noble writer of being in favour of liberty only inasmuch as it squares with his own ideas of the absolute power of the church party. The observations of our contemporary against the count commence in this manner : Coast de Montalembert affects to be an entliusiast'c friend of lrbery. But, uufotturuitely, certain words written or pronounced by him, which throw liTht on the spirit and object of his liberalism, have not been forgotten by or - geueration. There are also still current certain °Larva- Cons and certain gossips ascribed to him. These tbiu7s are old, we admit, and not free from suspicion, but they are not so much in disaccord with the p..vt which the noble count played in the constituent and lejislative asymblies ss to be regarded as absolutely improhable. It seem( 1 at that time to persons who were in a position to be able to see clearly (but no doubt they were mistaken or at least exaggerated) that the distinguished parapbleteer was never the lust in making the most venomous propo• lions of a reactionary tendency ; it seenici t i theca persons that a slight dose of dictatorship would not have displca-ed that impetuous friend of liberty ; however, he impozed one condition—that the dictatorship should be theocratic—that is to say,that France of 1789 should be abandoned to Torque. madas in lay attire—to Count de Monteletabert and Fs hisses. ITALY. SOUTHERN ITALY. The Paris correspondent of the bide , penian says :—" If we were to judge of the disposition of the French government towards Southern Italy by ostain symptoms of the moment, we should bel;eve it to be very favourable to those sovereigns who represent the principle of reaction. Thus, M. de Cadore has given, in the name of the French em tansy, his testimony to the note of Car dinal. Antonelli, which exculpates the Roman government from all pat ticipation in the disturbances of the Neapolitan states. M. de Cadore has also added that the Holy Father, even if he Lad desired to give support to the cause of the fallen king, would not have been - Ile to car ry out his intention, in consequence o: the surveillance exercised by General de Goyon. The representatives of the other powers, even that of Great Britain, have granted the like satisferit to the minister of the Holy See. Again, the word son of the ex-Grand Duke of Tuscany is going to marry, on the 12th inst., a sister of the King of Naples, and the Duke de Grammont, as well as M. de Cadore, will, in con formity with orders from the French government, be present at the ceremony." (RELTER . S TELEGRAMS.) TURIN, Seer. 10. Several battalions of the National Guard have been mobilised, in order to retie the garrisons of various places. The Opiniune of to-day replies to the recent articles in the Cunstitutionnel and the Oiornak di Born, on the allegations of Baron Ricasoli, and promises to publish to-morrow a document proving the organization of a central Bourbon committee at Rome. The Opinione adds that Bavarians, Spaniards, and Irishmen are among the brigands in Naples. The same paper publishes another article, refuting the assertions of the Patrv, in regard to the attitude of France in Italy. It says : " An independent policy is a necessity for France and Italy, ant will be a guarantee of their alliance. Italy wishes to possess Rome, but it is not neees vary to increase the garrison of Rome in order to prevent us from going there. A strong garrison ' can only be necessary to defend the Pope against his own subjects." NAPLES, Serf. 9. The submission of brigand chiefs continues. This evening General Cialdini will give a grand dinner in honour of Admiral Mundy. ROWS. eart. 9. The French poste in the direction of the Tuscan frontier hero been reinforced. SPAIN. MADRID. WT. 9. The Correspondfneia Atetegrafa of to-day says : "Spain, in conjunction with England and France, will intervene in Mexico by sending troops into that country from Cuba." Thu government has decided upon challenging ample discussion in the Cortes on home and foreign questions, and will modify the law on stamped ImPer• THE FRENCH PRIINTHOOD. At the wine court of the Charente Infirieure, monk belonging to the " Brethren of Christian Doctrine," called Brother Catullus, but whose real name is Ph;letnoo Delanrier, has been convicted, with every circumstance of aggravation, of no less then twenty-five criminal waulte upon females of tender age, committed to his care for in. 'traction. He wee sentenced to imprisonment, with hard labour, for life. The following penny in the indictment merits the attention of parents who confide their children to a class of men who, making profession and being bound by vows to lead a life not easily reconcileable s:th the order of nature, are specially prone to secret and treacherous vice : "The of the brethren of the Christian Doctrine at Sainte which was frequented by upwards of 900 rbiltiren, has within the last few years become a school of libertinism. Relying upon the confident* inspired by their sacred uniform, some of the brethren have daily is. dnlged in acts of the most revolting obscenity termini. the children. Long impunity increased the evil to a frightful extent. By a mere accident the doings of the brethren were brought to the eotioe of the jodiend autho• Mire. and a searching inquiry has now bees made. The present indictment is but a shills, page torn from a voluminous book, not yet completed, and which mine many brethren who have abaoonded." A priest named Barbie, vicar of Haute GouWee, In Brittsoy, was tried at Raines oe September 7, on a charge of indecent assaults upon two young erls, whom he tialp in the absence of their parents, under preteece of con. taming them. In this case the jury acquitted the prisoaer, ' but the presiding judge, M. Baudoin, was so little eatielled with the verdict, that be thought himself justified in tell ing him after the trial that he was a disgrace to his cloth, and in calling upon the gendarmes in an Indignant voice to "turn that man out of mart." Fonizon-onnes, Barr. s.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Junes Edwin Grisham as coma at Sydney for his Majesty the nag of Italy.—Garerre. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (IRON OUR ORR CORRESPINDENT.) PARIS, TURADAT EVIDORIG. The I'afri. this evening denies that it has ever ratted upon the Italian question. It still pro fesees—and this cosfessien of faith is worth noting—to be in favour of the unity o: Italy. The affair of Rome, which constitutes the greatest subject of difference between itself and ita adver saries, "is only a question of time." "We would unravel the knot which our adversaries would cut. Italy has not hitherto bad reason to complain of her moderation ; time has served her very well up to this point, and we are persuaded that time will be her firmest auxiliary for the future." This language accords with that of the Italian journals, which still argue with robust faith that Napoleon 111. and Victor Emmanuel have a common object, oily the latter must take the initiative, and the former must continue to have his hand forced. Let us hope that this may be so; but the game is becoming very tedious. The only journal which condescends to notice the assertion of the PaZri; which I noticed yc - - tenlay, as to all the catholic powers having ad mitted the inaccuracy of Baron Ricasoli's accusa tion of the Roman government,is the Temps. After inquiring by what authority the Peri so often disavowed, now usurps the fnuctions of the Moolitcur, this journal remarks that its present assertion, eximessiug an opinion on the acts of the internal administration of the Roman states, is in conflict with an embrangleit parawaph in the Colistiteti ^I, which says that the French government has no voc..tion to mix itself up with any such matters. The Condi httimwel affects to contradict a statement in an English journal that General de Guyon has orders to prevent bands of brigands being sent from the Roman states to Southern Italy,and pretends that, far from interfering with such an act of " internal administration," the general will "cause the neu trality of the Holy See to be respected, by barring the frontier against the passage of any armed band." TLe Temps justly remarks that this form of contradiction is most unfortunate. In fact, it plainly admits the very thing which it purports to deny, and only offers a homage of hollow weals t the Roman government, which will not be allowed to send troops out o; the country any more than troopr of the King of Italy will be allowcl to come into it. The manifesto is indeed substantially addressed altogether against Rome, because no general of Victor Emmanuel dreams of forcing any line de fended by the French fl ag, and it is only by acci dent if here and thore,on an ill defended boundary, a few Piedmonteso soldiers have come scrap. The Pays denies that any note has been sent by Earl Rummell to promise Baron Ricasoli the support of England in case of a difference with France. This denial is, however, weakened by the special plea that " besides, England has at this moment no offi cial representative at Turin, but only a simple agent." The Bourse is duller than ever, and prices have a downward tendeucy. The Bente fell 10c. both for cash and account, closing at (Mfr. 90c. and 68fr. 05c. Mobilier fell 7fr. 50c. In railways there was little amine. A few months ago one Bergeron, a provincial Lovelace of seventy-two, and a rich landholder in the department of the Charente, was convicted of infanticide, and (hard labour never being in flicted on criminals of his age) sentenced to impri sonment for life. At the same time Henrietta' ' Bureau, his servant and mistress, the mother of the murdered child, was condemned to twenty years' imprisonment with hard labour as au accomplice in the crime. By the merest so cident the registrar who drew up the judgment against Bergeron left out a paragraph, and the emission making nonsense of a material part, the Court of Cessation quashed the sentence as far as he was concerned, and ordered a new trial. The girl, who did not appeal within the time allowed, is undergoing her sentence. The new trial took place on September b, before the Assize Court of the Gironde, and the jury, under the influence of an eloquent speech from M. Lachaud, of the Paris bar, found the prisoner not guilty, and he was at once discharged. The evidence was precisely the same as on the former occasion and but for the clerical error above alluded o. no second jury would ever have had an opportu•uity of considering it. The servant girl, Henrietta, who was brought from prison to give evidence, persisted, while ad mitting her own guilt, in her original story that her master stabbed the infant ten times. The reports published in Paris are not full enough to enable the reader to form an opinion upon the merits of this extraordinary case. Oue ingenious argument of M. Lachaud's is worth noticing. In answer to the reproach of the public prosecutor against his client, that he had had many bastard children whom he had sent to the Foundling Hos pital, M. Lachaud retorted that, since he was so familiar with the road to that hospital, it was un likely that he should rerort to murder in his old The Moniker publishes another notice for per sons intending to send productions to the Univer sal Exhibition iu Londoi. It informs artists (archi tects!, painters, sculptors, and engravers) that bul letins of inscription, to be filled up by them, may be had at the Pallas d'lndustrie, and that all do mends for admission into the section of the Beaux Arts must be sent in to the Imperial Com mission before the lst of October next. The notice adds that the applications made by artiste before the printed bulletins were issued, not being in the form prescribed, must be repeated in a more correct manner. The English commissioners have I decided that the exhibition of everything connected with education should be all arranged together. It was at first thought that, by the original arrange ments, French publishers would not be able to take part as a body in the exbibitiou, and they peti tioned on the subject. The question has now been solved in their favour, as they will be able to exhibit works connected with national education. The notice con chides by expressing regret that this decision bad nut been come to sooner, as from the limited space allotted for the production of manufactures, for which the exhibition was specially organised, the French will not be able to send as many works as they would desire. The Gloire sailed from Toulon three evenings back, to make experiments at sea with& new ciumou. The cannon was placed on board in s triple envelope, which was sealed up, and after the experiments it was to be covered in the same way, sad sealed up until • report shall have been seat in giving an amount of the experiments and the value of the gun. Th. Towlemisais says experiments made with the loccesdiery abets have succeeded completely. The Dromaiaire, which was set cm ire with them, has hese burning from end to end for two days, sad now presoak the appearance of an immense floating forma. Sect Med a number of perms. armed with apses Imposed a great bomber of fish of all kind+, which Uhl Wavered by the tight of the fire, came to the mina within a mated, die. tune of the burning ship, and became victims to this sew mode of fishing by torchlight. PASSPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES. The following extract of a despatch from Lord Lyons to Earl Russell, dated Washington, August 19, 1861, is published in yeetersky's London Ga.,ette. "I have the honour to transmit to your lordship herewith a copy of a notice from the State Department, which ha' appeared in the newspapers this morning. It declores that no person will be allowed to so abroad from • port in the United States without a passport from the State De pertmect, or a passport countersigned by the Seers. buy of State; and that no person will be allowed to land in the United States without • pesspor. from • minister or consul of the United States, or (if a forermer) from his own government, countersigned by a United items mini der or *mai This notice hos been issuc d without any yrmkas communication on the part of the Secretary of State, either with me, or, eo far es I know, with any of my league; ace has it es vet bass officially oatmosseloated to on."' "To all whom it may cowers. " Department of State, Washington, An 19. " Until further notice, no person sat be allowed to go abroad from a port of the United States without a pewpart, either from this department or countenigned by the Sem ter, of State ; nor s all sly pinion be 'Sowed to land in the United States without a passport from a minister or ecuind ot the United Slates, or, If a fordSoori from hit own goveroment, countersigned by such minister or wend. This regulation, however, is not to take effect io reprd to persons amiss from &bread until a resnniable time shall have elapsed for it to teems known in the country ham which they my proceed." NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 10. APPOINTMENT:4.—A.- Mist4ot-Surgeon E. T. Ryan, to the Nile (additional). Mulshipruiut H. J. L Turnbull, to the Trafalgar. Naval Cadets W. A. Becklee, C. T. Bewicke, D.I. gliesh, end J. B. Pul , ord, nominated to cadetships. PORTSMOUTH, Seer. In. The Shannon, 51, screw frigate, attsioned out of harbour to-day for trial of her engines. The Dee, 4. steam stare v•iel, Master. Commander T. C. P ' ullen sailed this evroiog for the emetwant. The Plover, 5, screw vessel, Commander A. L Cony, ie expected .roes the eastward ea roue to the Wort Coast of Africa. The Chesapeake, M, screw frigate, Captain R. Maguire, and bearing the Sag of Meer-Admiral Sir L T. Joao:, K.C.D., is also hour ly expected at Spitbead. ROYAL. NAVAL COLLEGE. The following gentlemco, having pared the required examiration, have received them certificates :—For Naval Cadets : W. A. Kinpoote, W. N. Hood, W. Ruch- W. N. Diggle, O. J. Bower, W. A. L. Aclaad, L. 8. Dawson, E. H. Hodskitoson, C. C. Donner, E. A. W. West, O. lead, H. ft Cough, M. S. Squire, S. A. Holt, A. Cook, A. E. WM urdo, J. S. L. Lone, E. J. Pretymen, H. Wilkinson, A. Pipit, A. W. Cox, G. C. Linsley, J. H. loam, A. R. H. M. Maxwell, L. A. Parkinson, H. G. Itateliffe, J. H. Simpkins, T. B. Howard, 0. H. H. Huntley, W. A. Wyoter, J. V. Darkly, K C. F. Bosanque., W. L. H. Drowse, H. C. CUM C. H. Wrilht, W. Gladstone, W. J. Smyth, E. R. F. Ki tson, B. Me *worth, A. F. M. Leaver, F. C. W. C. Bogen, A. M. R. Hamilton, F. Reid, C. R. Craigie. Fo- Master's Assistants :C. M. Dobson, J. S.Saell, H. Mortimer, G. Swanson, F. Rowlett, R. M. &yard, H. C. Owen, J. O. Scott, J. Si Ferlaine, B. F. Hodges, C. E. Drake, J. Henderson, W. Prune, W. Tooker, J. J. Tozer. The rext quarterly envois:dims co: officers on attain will take place on the 11th inst. BRA rs TRACTION lINOINRS. One of this company's engines yesterday re moved a large boiler, weigbiug with track, &a., about :Ai tons, from Messrs. Horton. Son, and Co.'s works, New Park atreet, Southwark, to Messrs. Geared, Whittaker, and Co.'s 1 brewery, Camden-town. This boiler ;.1 one of the largest ever manufactured, and had it bees, re-novcd by horses it must Lave been got out o: the shop by mesas of screw jacks, a price s which would have occupied about two or three hours, but the engine on arrival at the works about nine o'clock, was at mace attached to the load, which it drew out without the slightest difficulty, Mid went on with at orce. The route taken was Gravel-lane, and the New Cut, Southwark, up the Waterloo-road. where • steep incline occurs over the bridsc, through the Strand, St. Martin's lane, St. Giles's, and Tottenharmcourt-ro.td, to Camden town. The journey was accomplisled, including stoppage] for water, &c., in km than two hours, cod may be con sidered as most sdisactory. In the progrets of the en • with its immeme load, which measured over thirty feet long by more than eight feet in diameter, through the Strand and the narrowest thoroughfare] leading up to Oeford--treat, no horses were (tightened nor any alarm whatever created, and this ma, be attributed to the tact that all the working parts of the machine were covered in, tho noise of tho exhaust steam kept down as much as possible, and the atteu..ion of the driver of the engine being directed to the prevention any waste or escape of steam from blowing about. The speed averaged about three miles an hour, and we are ensured that this could have been doubled with ease, but that it is not desirable to draw so heavy s load rapidly through the streets o: London. The engine which par:ortned the work in question is one of re sent coostruc:ase, and is capable of drawing about 50 tons on ordinary roads—as the traction power of the wheel is so great and et the same time so simple—and the effects of the =tor teeth which enable • bite or fp :p to be obtained on mid was scarcely lost at - all perceptible. Many im provements secured to the company hnve been introduced into this engine which are of the greatest value and impor tance. Several foreign gentlemen were preeent sod wit nessed the removal with rruch interest, with the view of introducing this engine into their reepective countries. The expense of the removal was considerably less than half the oast would hive been had homes been employed. MASTERS AND IatiVANTS. (From Pam-h.) The plain English of the matter is that servants are as a class what masters and misnames have made them. It is true, that as one black sheep will scab a flock, so one rogue in livery will taint the whole servants' hall, hut the virus, in nine cases out of ten, comes from up-stairs. Think, my worthy fir Apricius de Tablev—when you are blowing up your stately twelve feet of pnk., white choker, canary cloth, cotton lace, and orange plush. because they turn up their noses at cold mutton, and End eve ) the "plain ji n t s " of the second table monotonous— of the dinner tented up to you day, and the hits you make about it. Think of the position Y. Béchamel, your unequalled she,; holds in your household, your affec:ions, and your wagezmorourit. Think of the conversation, the 1,16118. the "walks and ways" ai your own table, and then honestly ask yourself whether, when master is doing such daily devotmn to Saint Belly, you have any right to scold John Thomas for bowing b:-.70m the same altar, and making his humble offerMg in the se-wants' hall, to the saint whom has master is on hi, knees to, two good hours daily, in the costly rites r: the dining.room? Ard you, Meet Noble Grace o: Fitz-Plantagenet, rho stand aghast at the in. °lent* of that creature--your maid, Ilinnikin ! Can't you guess where she got that trick of car rying her nose so high' Do you suppose her perquisites are confined to your (rice's castoff gowns and laces—that she can wear these without ca !thing, in a serond-hand way, the ailments of the ori7.inal proprietor? If you look on yourself as the Sh a re, of society, whs. right have you to be savage when she emu mee to be its Worcester or best Staff'ord shire stoneware! U she isn't Pm room she has lived too near to the rose not to catch a faint reflection of it. sum fine scent and aristocratic oolorr. You ought to know that sneering is as contagious as mall-poi, and that scornfulness andeself-love can so more be kept to oneself than scald-head. Instead of discharging then- vials of wrath against the servants' hall, suppii.e people set to work diligently to dis infect their dining and drawing-rooms? How, I ask, is James to respect the dignity of labour, when my Lord Lolliogton, behind whose chariot he clings with his twin colossus, shaking awfully as to calves, glories in being the laziest of human beings? When young Cibberwright is groaning over the crumpled raided which that abandoned housemaid has left in his mattrems, hes he any right to lift his eyebrows because young Cibberwright's own man is indig nant at being put into a bed without curtains ? Bo you suppa e theca glorious armies of flunkey' which mamervre round dioner•tabfei can be trained to stop their ears, as easily as they can to keep down their grins and gutiavra—.ha: trey don't hear and ponder what the people whom, plates they are cba-r,inl pram and believe in, and Isuth at, and are interrited about. Remember that master and misses think nodiinl of ben seen en deshabille by the butler or the housekeeper. As mar, and woman too, is an imitative aninal, can we wonder the:, the face should be exasiovally mimicked instead of the mark—the red master or minus instead of the company one' Remember, too, that Mr. Butler or Mrs. Housekeeper is bound to you by no legal tie but sages. If there is to be any other bond between up stairs aad down, it must be one of master's or minus's making. The sum and substance of the matter, in Mr. Pelota's potion, comes to this—Tell me what the marten are, and I will give a shrewd guess at the servants. Show me a pie ture of the drawing-room, and I will tied you a faithful re flection of it in the servants' hall—meatia niviandin.. of course, but with the balance 14 light and shade very, very much the mime. 'When luxuriousneio, show, parade, pro tontion, selfishness, worldliness, and veneer, in all falbions, rule above stairs, what right have we to expect that fru gality, simplicity, diligence , humility, faithfulness. and " the genuine article," should be the staple commodities of the area level? PLYMOUTH ELE , TION.-Mr. Morrison lino issued the following address to the electors : -" To the Flee toes of Plynouth.—Gentlemen,—A vacancy having occurred in the representation of your borough by the elevation of Lord Valletort to the peerage, cons eq uent upon the lamented death of the late Earl of Mount:Edg• combo, I have ventured to offer myself as a candidate for the vacant neat and to solicit your suffrages. By biz sh, by connexion, by conviction. I am proud to reckon myself a sincere member of the great liberal party. As such I would give my hearty support to any practical scheme which :night he submitted to parliament, calculated to reform the anomalies in our present system of representat ion, and which would admit such a proportion of the working clawes to the enjoyment of the franchise as would give a fair and equitable weight to their claims and rights in the councils of state. In order to secure electors from undue pressure being put upon them in the exercise of their high duty and privilege as electors I would vote for the ballot, in the belief that such a measure would afford effectual protection, without nrolucing those, evil consequences which some fear will fol. I.w upon it^ introduction. On the questioned church-rates beios again brought before parliament I would vote for the abolition of the impost. Any meteore which, by promoting the spread of education, by ream .ng COMM of crime, or by effecting improvements in our civil or criminal law, would tend to advance the motol, social, and moto rist progress of the nation should receive my earnest sup port. Pr ogle, as a frestrader, I would a tiniest. no sion in that policy which has opened our porta to 78= ping and mirchaodiee of (mei,' nations, I should consider y rd pro in en •n a s. ot n. La tt i h m k r o ea f h f ru wev ai re ru m els wh ftscu i to ch : o w% r f i r li o re o lie h a v e r i esi it a to rtinis he mun 7 r d t u tobu t nations, for our own shippitrg, some recompense for the advantages freely granfgd to their ships when visiting orr home ports. The evenly baleen( Mat, of pasties at home, as well as the unsettled condition of affairs among for. i3n nations, render it, in my opinion, a matter of esprcirl impoi lance that every effort should be made to retain in power the present liberal folminivtration tinder the guidance of Lord Palmerston. On any miner Val& might affect the stability of the liberal goverment at the present juncture I should con sider it to beedviratis bemire minor considerations in order to IDSODD the 001/011111011 In power of the statesmen who have se walsedy the cause of civil, religioF% std 111111111MIIIN its ty at home and abresd. Expecting eltertly be ban the homer al admen' you more fully in nun, I leg le the hinds to subscribe myself, your most ohedirsit senaet. pangs, 110111 DION. Royal Hotel, Pl) month, ant. 7,1861." A Ir