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TO-11101801F111.171184, ille.....Altansoc" a). 31m. LONDON, SATURDAY, WT. 22. %Nora= of oar eminent self made men has been suddenly taken from us. JOSEPH Loess, who, after Barnet and the tivarnemoss, did more than any other man for the physical civilisa tion of our time, has pared sway t rematurely and unexpectedly. In the prime of life, of mental vigour, and of European reputation, surrounded by all the luxury and enjoyment that hard-earned wealth can give, having the noble consciousness that he had fidlilled his 'lesion as a great assailant and conqueror of natural difficulties, and as one who had devised and executed ways for supplying many great wants of popular industry, he has lain down to rest ; and there is but one sentiment of national regret over his grave. Those who knew him well, and those who never saw him, mingle their expressitins of respect and sorrow. His own profession, by whose unanimous voice he but a few months ago had been saluted facile jo feel that they have lost a chief not seedy to he replaced ; and Parliament, of which for many years he was a member, has lost in him an element of sound practical experience and iris. don, which the recent removal of ROIZAT Sre- PIIII.N4oSi renders all the more severe. To the class of which he was an ornament lie leaves a bright and unitained example of a man without family connexion, inherited fortune, expensive and i refined education, or the venturous disposi- and showy talent of a speculator or empire, attaining great eminence, realizing great wealth, conferring great benefits on his fel low • own, and receiving the grateful homage of their praise, and all this within less than the ordinary spate allotted to human effort. It is highly to the credit of the people whom he served so faith fully and well that the true worth of =eh ama wee appreciated by them as it deserved to be, and that upon every suitable occasion, whether in the public assembly, the Institute of Engineers, or the lmbago, that distinguished worth was recognised in the way it merited. Our country is not un just or ungrateful ; and if the feelings and instincts of the country had the means of making themselves felt as they ought to have, the mise rable injuatice and umulence of mate would not ion.. had it in its power systematically to slight and *nub a man whom the country so delighted to bonen r. So long as JOllOl Lee as lived and laughed and laboured amongst us there were obvious MOM why we should abstain from challenging the ter lent which he experienced in high quartets, and his exclusion from office, Court, and coterie. Wen we think of the rubbish with which lofty places are filled, of the imbeciles and impostors we are annually called on to pay for doing wielded or doing nothing, and who are daily jobbed into every species of public preferment, we cannot feel surprised that the presence of a hard-headed, clear-sighted, independeut-minded man like the late Mr. Loris, should have been deprecated diligently, and carefully avoided. If ports of power and responsibility were once thrown open to middle-elass men who hare proved themselves fit for them, the craft of the Ephtsians would be in danger, and the great imposition would fear to be set at nought. But the sordid prudence which exigently *mks to preserve power and emolument in close monopoly hardly reouires that the im pudent and dishonest rule should be applied as strictly in other matters. Social courtesies and personal marks of distinction convey, indeed, to none but the most ignorant the idea of recognition of public service. A profligate or a fool, if he be only sprung from the right loins, is certain of either or both. Usefulness, perseverance, con sistency, energy, inventiveness, talent, or the uni versal respect of the community, are, we well understand, but dust in the balance where the broad riband of the Bath or the rank of Privy Councillor is in question ; and as for baronetcies, they are professedly given as prizes for the greatest number of hedges and ditches of which the competitors can show themselves to be the owners, great works and great virtues having nothing whatever to do with the matter. Still, if it were only for decency's sake and expediency's sake, one feels disposed to wonder at the manner in which the system is worked, negatively and positively. Not only ate eolonelcies and general ship, embassies and church dignities, conferred on blockheads of quality who it is well known never have earned an.l never will earn a day's wages in their respective callings., but the very declarations and titles of honour which justly belong to the men who have served the state, but whom the state has not the heart to pay with solid recom pense, even these are scrambled for, and clutched and appropriated by the thoroughbreds and half bred' of privilege. For engineering services ►ennlered to France Mr. lower was decorated in that country with the Cross of the Legion of Honour : in England, where he had earned ten tunes the gratitude and reward, the rule of the i;overnment is to spurn and ignore such men. It is all %elry well for peers and fine gentlemen to get up speeches and lectures about the advantages of social science; but we should like to bear a THE little more plain speaking about the and justice of securing to scienek letters something more nearly approaching to its proper social position. An incident experience of the deceased aptly illustrates insufferable insolence of cute towards - his order of merit. For several years Mr. Lode's existence had been apparently forgotten by the proprietor of one of those palatial resi dences at the West-end the =low of which are opened periodically to select mobs of flatterers and hangers-on. On the eve of a critical division in the House of Commons, when votes were at a premium, a card of invitation was condescend ingly flung at the member for Honiton and his family, in the confident expectation that being merely one of the people he might be forgotten and picked up again at will. The expectation, we need hardly say, proved fallacious. The inde pendent vote was not changed by the contu melious attention ; and the circumstance becoming known served only to add ridicule to defeat. We only wish that similar impertinences were always repelled as coolly and contemptuously, and that there were less reason afforded by the cheated and slighted men of the middle class for the deroga tory calculation too often formed of their pliabi lity by those who alternately trample on and trifle with them. For us there must ever remain the strong and ineffaceable sense of shame that a man like the late President of the Institute of Engineers should have passed away from amongst us, not only unrequited by the public authorities of his country, but wholly un recognised by them either socially or politically. We cannot consent to argue the matter as one of mere favour discretionally withheld. We have put it broadly as a case of legitimate right fraudu lently and falsely denied. The rank which in point of intellect, character, and public usefulness ministers and courtiers pretend not to discern, public opinion had long since accorded to him who is now no more. The denial of the fact does not make the fact less clear or certain ; but the denial is an affront and injury, which, as society is constituted, men cannot but feel ; and the slight and wrong, though they have been endured in silence, ought not to be allowed to be mutely buried with him who was their object. gbe Court. OSBORNE, Sur. 21. The Queen and the Prince Consort, Princess Primates Hekeaa, and Prince Arthur rode on horseback yes terday afternoon, attended by Colonel H. Ponsonbv. M. de Voss, Grand Venctir to the Grand Duke of Meck lenburg Strelita, arrived from London yeeterilay, and had as audience of bee Majesty to deliver a letter. H. de Voss was promoted to the queen by Viscount Palmerston, Y.G. Her Majesty a &encr party included the Princess Alice, Lady Caroline Barr‘ngton, Viscount Palmerston, M. de Vase, the Hon. Sir C. mud lady Phipps, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, Captain and Mrs. F. Sayer, and Major Upham stow, R. E. The Queen and the Prince Contort left Osborne at three o'clock yeatembiy afternoon, aceompeeied by the Prinosa Alice, embarked at Osborne-pier in the Fairy royal steam yacht, crossed to Gosport, sad travelled by the Boat& Western Railway to the private statism at Vauxhall. In attendee*, were Lady Churchill, Colonel the Hon. Mr C. B. Phipps, Major-Genial the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel H. Poneonby, and the Nester of the Household. The Queue and Prince proceeded from the railway station. esomied by a detainment at Life Guards, to Buckingham Palace, where t►ey arrived at a quarter before seven o'clock, and were received by Vimoant Sydney, Viscount Bury, Lord Campy*, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C. B. Viscount Palmerston left ()done yesterday morning, and returned to Broadlandv, Hamm. N. cis iron also lett Oebo . ras yesterday. DspaN►s were rot fm this Colonial-office yesterday to the Lad Him Conantinioner at the locum Woods. EVIOPNG. The Atlantic Royal Mail standee Priam Albert, which arrived at Galway last evening, brings advice. that the steamer Lady Elgin was run ;nto by a schooner and sunk in Lake Superior on the Bth inst. Three hundred line are said to be lost. Advises from Honduras state that Walker evacuated Truxillo on the Ist inst., in compliance with orders from the commander of the British man-of-war that bad arrived. News from Japan to the 22nd July announces that the Portuguese commission had arrived to con clude a treaty. An American ship had sailed for Shanghai with a cargo valued at half a million dollars. Advioee from Mexico state that Mintmon, on his return to the capital, resigned the presidency, but was re-elected by the Council of State. The Prince Albert having left Galway for New York on the 28th ult., has made the passage round in 24 days. The Grange difficulty at Lortorgonto (1) had been arranged. The Duke of Newcastle accepted the Idayoi's apology. The Atlantic Royal Mail steamship Prince Albert, from New York on the 11th, and St. John's on the 15th, has arrived. She ha. muse the passage from St. John's in 5 days 18 hours. She brings 100 pail/wagers. The steamers Bohemian, Illinois, America, City of Washington, and City of Manchester, had arrived out. His Royal Highness the Prinoe of Wales left London, in CILLIBAL West, for Niagara, on the 14th inst. The republicans had carried the Maine election. COMMERCIAL INTELLIORNCK NEW YORK, Sin. 14. Stocks have improved. The cotton market is steady. Breadstuff' have slightly declined, Provisions are steady. NEW ORLEANS, Elarr. 13, Cotton has declined 4c. The males to-day amount to 2,000 balm ; middling is quoted 104 to 104. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S RETURN. PARIS, SATCP.DAT. The Moniteur of to-day publishes the follow;ig dated _ _ " PERPIGNAN, Seer. 21 (Evmso). " Their Majesties have just disembarked at this " Their paasage has been protracted by rough weather. " Tlaeir Majesties will arrive to-morrow evening at St. Cloud.' The Moniteur also publishes the text of the speech of the Emperor at Algiers. The Emperor said— " My attention has been solely devoted to forward the interests of Algeria, over which colony Provi dence has called us to diffuse all the benefits of civilisation." The Emperor concluded by saying— " Peace prevailing in Europe will permit Prance to display still more generosity towards her colo nies." The Constitationnel says the Chevalier de Nigra, the Sardinian ambassador, has left Paris. A secre tary will remain to conduct the business of the leption. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SATURDAY. In yesterday's sitting of the Reicharath the com mittee presented its report on the state of the finances, which it declares to be most unfavor able. The committee also pronounces itself against the pira;conversion of interests. c i m Plener, Minister of Finance, stated that the account given by the committee of the state of the finances was exaggerated. The Minister, how ever, acknowledged the necessity for a change hi the system. M. dfaager said that the question of currency could only be solved by the creation of proper inatitutious. Count Rechberg, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, declared that the ministry was not au thorised to follow the discussion on that ground. Count Clam Martine:, the reporter of the com mittee, denied that the ootnmittee had taken too gloomy • view of matters and claimed a change of the system which had been fo"owed up to the present time. The report of the committee was in the end unanimously adopt. d. PRUSSIA. COBLENTZ, SATURDAY. Acoording to reliable information, Baron Yon Schleinita will hare a ocaaerenoe at this place ? on the 9th October, with Lord John Rummell, who rto accompany her Majesty Queen Victoria. EXPRE3B FROM iirsaii ova owi PARIS, PE/DAY EVENING. The teleg.aphic news from Central Italy is pub lished to-day, and it is said—but the truth of the statement is doubted—that the wires are cut. The Opinion Nationek, which sometimes has peculiar means of obtaining information from the seat of war, mentions a rumour that Ancona is already partly taken, owing to the successful fire of Ad miral Pae'an's vessels. It moreover notices rumours that both the Pope and the King of Naples resolved upon flight the moment they heard of Lamoricibre's defeat. As to the King, I think this news more than probable, but with regard to the Pope I have great doubts. He is an obstinate old man, and he has over and over again told his friends that, come what may, he will never leave Rome again. It would be a glonmis thing if he could be induced to go. Although the Official Gazette of Turin of the 20th denied in the lump all news relatiig to pretended letters, either written or received by Kin Victor Emmanuel, and although this contradiction must be understood as applying especially to the state ment that Garibaldi had asked the King to dismiss Count Cavour, the COMfitutionnti of this day pub lishes a Turin letter of the 18th, affirming that Captain Trecchi, one of Garibaldi's officers, had re turned to Naples with the King's answer to that very letter. The correspondent, moreover, pro fames to know the subetance of what the King said, and prelecta about it as follows : This answer—which was e.itten About consulting ministers, since it related to questions personal to them en- I tirely—upholds the dignity of the cross a. Victor Emmanuel 'peaks in the tone of a sovereign justly offended both as a man and a king. He rem' - ids Garibaldi of the firmness with which he has ever roasted the suggestions and in enema of foreign powers, even when they were of a threatening character, and declares that be will certainly not give way to the strange pretensions of a man whose head seems to be turned by success. 1 It is not yet loos., (the letter goes on to say) what effect the royal answer will produce. If Garibaldi persists in his projects, and • he should attack Rome while the Pope and the French are still there, the King's goverrment will resist say such attack at all bwirds. K‘ng Victor F - omanuel he • put himself at the head of the Italian movement to domin ate and prevent the revolution, and not to second it. For my own part I am more inclined to believe the O f ficial Gazette of Turin than this correspond ence in the Constitutiwine/. It is unfortunately true that there are differences between Cavour and Garibaldi, but it is most improbable that the King should have written in the way supposed to a man who has just conquered two kingdoms for him. It is moreover to be remarked that accord ing to a recent report one of the excuses offered by Sardinia for the invasion of the Roman states was that Garibaldi had threatened to march upon Rome, " unless " the Piedmoutese troops would occupy the Marches and Umbria. It would follow from this view of the case that Garibaldi does not at present entertain the intention of attacking Rome. There bas been a very extraordinary rise at the Bourse. The money articles of several of the Paris papas attribute the upward movement of the last three days not to the bond fide iufiuunco of any political events, but to the netmeuvres of sowe heavy speculators who have an jtunteuse interest in keeping up the market, and who are clever enough to get false news accredited. I cannot tell how this may be, but it is cm..ain that there are abun dant rumours to-day of a very problematic charac ter. The invitation of Napoleon 111. to Warsaw— a congress—the flight of the Pope, were all eagerly talked of. A more tangible piece of news is that given by the Mondeur de l'Arnsie, that there is nothing to prevent the usual six months' furloughs from being granted this lit of October. The Rent, rose 500. for cash, and 40c. fur account, closing very strong indeed at 138fr.50c. and 08fr. bbc. Mobilier rose Ilfr. 25c. Railways were all in great request. Orleans rose llfr. 25e. ; Lyons, 10fr. ; and the other lines 21r. or 3fr. The Pays is instructed to say that Count de Rechberg's new circular about the States of the Church is not a "protest," but an explanation of the Austrian views on the subject. Although the departure of M. Nig:a for Tur;-1 ie announced both by the Pays and Patrie, be has not yet actually left Paris. I believe, however, that he will go in order to respond diplomatically to the recall of Baron Talleyraud and leave his em bow in the hands of a charge des affairsa—a step which it appears is indicative of many degrees greater coolness than if it were left with a diary. d'atfaires. The Count of Syracuse has srrrived in Paris. The family of General de Pimodan having asked the Piedmontese government to allow his body to be brought to France for interment the request was at once complied sith, and it is announced that tie remains will arrive at Turin to-morrow, land be sent on to Paris in the charge of a chapla , n of the pontifical army. General de Pimodan was a wag of good family and large fortune. . ... N I PTEM lai r ELT' , 4 Pt: ID ./EgreN PTEM Iteffe ' r TE G Lisbon ezehentles r a cket were quoted and 1" 4;484 .: - ~. tha 17th inst., 011 a ,Mk ; Paris, b2B ; ;-.. statdam, an ; ,48 ; Genoa, b2/8 ; Ren • - pproaehing AMERICA. ' Three per Cents., 47} to ' 471. Coupons, 44; De- ant in the LOSS OF THE STEAMER LADY MAIN ferred, 3511 • Lisbon Bank Shares, 555 nal rein ; drake AND THREE HUNDRED LIVES. the OporkrOontisareial Bank Shares, AO wilreis ; awl 1 la mea of OptOoppeNtil• Balt Shares, 261 untreia. a GALWAY, Imo Evineno. ..‘ mars Mr Hilt MAJESTY'S EMBARKATION AT GRAVESEND. The Mayor and G.rpuration of Gravesend have bees actively employed lo making the necessary arranp ends for the embarkation of her Nejeaty, the Prince Consort, end seq.., at the Term:eider, this afternoon. sheet half-past bye o'clock. followiag outuee vas yesterday lamed by Mr. Gardner, the Mayor: " Her Hut Gracious Majesty and the Prince Consort ►a►ing intimated their intestine to embark from the Royal Terrace.par, Gravesend, on Satunte►, the thid instant— the thoroughfares for camases of all dawriptione will be closed at four o'clock—except to carriages with Talton to the pier, which will be admitted through the harriers until half past four. Persons holding tickets for admission to the pier are requested to arri►e between three end half-pest four o'clock." • Her Majesty. the Prince Conso r t, an d suite will leave the Bricklayers' Arms station of the Mouth Eastern Railway precisely at 4.25, and the royal train will proceed direct to Gravesend, arriving at 5.10. Her Majesty and suite will then proceed through the New•road, King-street. and Harmer street, to the pier, and immediately embark on board the royal yacht, which is moored some distance out in the stream, and a landing brow, placed on a floating founda tion, will connect the remel with the pier —an arrangement rendered secemaii by the want of sufficient water to Beat the vessel near the shore at the time selected for the em barkation. VISIT OF THE PRINCE OP WALES TO DETROIT AND CINCINNATI. The Mayor of Detroit has received the following reply to an iovitstioa ellreesed to the Prince of Wales to visit that city : •• Montreal, August 26, 1860. " —llav:ng submitted to his Royal Highoess the Prince of Weirs your invitation to visit the oily of Detroit, I have now the honour to iuform you that it r the inten tion of his Royal Highurss to par through your city, bat that the limited time at his disposal will may allow him min night to remain then before proof...ding os his journey. —I have the honour to be, &r, your obedient servast, Nswctarts. Th. Prince of Wales sad suits will he ie Cbseisesti tweee Sept. CS and JO. On tee Mb of July, Ifilyer Bieber s Dote to hi. Grace the Duke al Newcastle, *steeling to the Prises of Wes sod suite as invitation to 'lit Cincinnati, and partake of its hospitalities, sad received the following reply : _ . - . . " Montreal, Ausurt 26, 1800. " Bir, —I have 'obviated your letter of the 30th July to his Royal Rightness the Itroce of Ware. I have the plea sure of lamely you that hie Royal Highness will visit Cincinnati an hie way throesh the United ntatea roe tiros of his de* se will probably be between the nth sad the 30th of Ispenisber. I have to thank you fee your offer of shoubut the ?dues is obligati, on account of the t the ti_s et hia disposal, to decline all invita tions, except that of the President ; and be will bike rooms at the betels during his limited stay ia the several cities which be visits.—l as, Sir, your ohedisat servant, R. Y. Biahop, Req., Mayor." " Ntwcarrize. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Primers of Wurtesslarqg and mite hen lift Claridge Hotel for Torquay, oa a visit to his laperial Hickson tie Orsadpidie Michel of Rork. Lady Bowan! de Walden and the Ron. Cluu , loft. Mk lave arrived at Claridp's Hotel from Belgium. Lord Kehomberg Kerr has arrived at Claridge's 1144. Sir Charlea and the Hou. Lady Ruabout have left Upper Brook.street for Sean ,t HMSO. ss Minim' to-the-Marsh. Mr. and Mn.. lkotglaa.Peaaaat have also arrived at Seaineote. to join tilt§ family circle amemblad t►ere. from Peortiya Caatla. Mr. and Mra. Frederick Milbank' have beta entertain* a select circle ►t their shooting lodge, Lech Seeforth, Talmud ol Lewis, lac-lodine Lord sad lady Alfred Paget, Lunt and Lady Burghley, Viscouat Neva Sir Max well Wallace, Sir Roderick Murchisee, Viscount Ilia, 1100. R. Hal. Rok,AV beaks. Lord Llwerd tied, Hr. Thorn; Hr. Roclfurt , ke., ke. The gentlemen Imes enjoyed good opt , rt en the mourn sad forest, as well as no the rivers and ITALY. NAPLES, Seer. 18 (vii Genoa). It is said that Garibaldians have disembarked at the mouth of the Garigliano and intercepted the oommunicatimis of the royal troops, between Capua sad Gaeta. It is expected that Garibaldi on his return will operate against Capin,. He has been to Palermo, and on the 17th instant published a fresh proclamation to the Palermitans, repeating that he will only proclaim at Rome the constitution of the Italian kingdom, and that he will not accomplish the annexation at present. No ministerial change has taken place at Naples. DOUBLE TREACHERY OF THE KING OF NAPLES. TRIEVTR, FIMAT. The Austrian war steamers in the Neapolitan waters have been ordered to return to Trieste, as the Austrian government, on account of the offer made by the King of Naples to Garibaldi to join him with an auxiliary corps against Venetia, can no longer offer hospitality to his Majesty. THE NORTHERN POWERS. VIENNA, FILIDAT. The Prince Regent and the Emperor of Austria will not be accompanied by their minimises on their journey to Warsaw. BLOCKADE OF ANCONA. TURIN, FIUDAT. The official Pietlmontese Gazette says :—" The Sardinia . governmeut has notified the blockade of Anemia to the foreign powers. The principles of maritime law agreed upon at the Cougrese of Paris will be observed." TILE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. The Peninsula: and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, Captain G. L Sabot, with the above mails, in charge of Lieutenant Campbell, R.N., has ar rived. She brings 18 passengers, 8 boxes specie, value 3,3401., and the following cargo :-233 boxes eggs, 62 half-chaste linons, 421 half-boxes grapes, 18 quarter ditto, 650 baskets figs, 50 boxes toma toes, 18 baskets potatoes, and 41 packages sun ries. _ _ _ The Tagus sailed from Lisbon on the 17th, Oporto the 18th, and Vigo the 18th. During the voyage she experienced to Vigo light northerly winds, with very heavy head sea across the Bay of Biscay ; first part strong north-westerly winds and heavy sea, latter part fresh south-westerly winds with thick rain. Up Channel light winds, with smooth sea, followed by fresh south-westerly winds with thick raiz. On the 17th, off the Rock of Lisbon, at noon passed two small paddle steamers towing what appeared to be a dredging machine rigged as a schooner, and steering to the southward. On the 21st, at 10.16 cm., spoke the Peninsular and Oriental Conipeny's steam-ship Ripon, steering to southward and westward. The Royal Mail steam-ship Oneida, with the outward Brazil mails of the oth, arrived at Lisbon o• the 14th at 7 a.m., awl sailed again at 6 P.m. same day for Rio, err hi the harbour at Lisbon were the meal Paolo- I rinse squadron and two French war steamers, L'Eclair and Tisiphune. SPAIN. • Some of the Madrid journals of the 16th state that certain military movements had iu the two or three days preceding been effected in that capital, and it appears from au order of the day of the captain-general that they had been occasiouud by a diminution having, on account of the good spirit of the population, been effected in the garrison. Earl Granville and his travelling companions, Lord F. Cavendish and Count Palen, hail arrived at Madrid. The Espana again Waists that the Spanish government ought to assist the Pope, and it mentions, as a report, that Spain had pro tested against the events in the Two Sicilia , ' in so far as they may affect the rights of succession of the Spanish Bourbons to the throne of that coun try. The Patriarch of the Indies had published a pastoral letter, calling on the faithful to subscribe for the Christians in Syria. The Moorish ambas sadors had left Madrid for Alicaut, to embark for Morocco. They had intended visiting Granada to see the Alhambra, but had abandoned the design. The jouruals publish accounts of the Queen's movements iu the Balearic biles, but they present nothing of interest THZ ENTZROIL AND MCNIcIPAL It is one of the pleasing signs of the times that the E of the French and Prince Napoleon are anxious te j = detailed information respecting the working of our munl , cipal institutions and other local governing bodies—to show bow they are elected, the qualifications of the electors, the powers and duties of the different bodice, the amount*: taxation which they generally mime end expend, how it is applied, and ail other information berries on these subiects. We understand that M. M. Le Play, coimailier d etat, engineer of the mines, in the rnite of Prince Napoleon, hes been specially charged by the Emperor to obtain this infor matiou ; sort that, accompanied by the French consul, he has waited on our townsmen, Mr. lemma IPLaree, to obtain information on all these points, respecting the mot l eis' affairs of Edinburgh. and of the %ace lienighe sale . We understand the meeting listed f o r tw o l imn 'iod i that M. W. Le Play took entices tweet as all the a& jecta, and warmly expressed his thanks for the information with which he had been furnished.—Cakdoisien Mercury. I t r ? '1869; JCY GENI lir , 1 / 4 _611101! A PIIIVATi LAKE OF An Added% has recently occurred at Neruier, a large village in Chablais, on the borders of the Lae Oefeva, which is worthy of attention, as show ing_the degree of importance to be attached to the -suppos of tHicussions which ire ;aid to have amen late een the Swiss and their neigh bours of the recently annexed provinces. It tends also to show the system of provocation that has been adopted by the agents of the French govern ment, with the view of embroiling Switzerland with her powerful neighbour. Four young men had crossed the lake in a boat from Nyon to Nernier. They disembarked, and, while refreshing themselves at the inn, made use of the most violent and coarsely insulting language about the events fast have recently occurred in Savoy. On re e.nbarking, they renewed from the boat their vociferations and gestures of contempt to such an extent that the French douaniers thought fit to interfere. These &winters followed them, and brought them back to Nernier, where they were handed over to the police. Several of the persona present interceded in their behalf, alleging that a good understanding had hitherto always sub sisted betneen the Swiss and the Savoyards. The gendarme, however, into whose cus tody they had been given, declared he would not let them go until he had ascertained their passports to be en rayk, and if they were not, that be should be obliged to hand them over to the police of the nearest town. After some hesitaticri the passports were produced, when, to tho astonish ment of all present, out of the four preterded Swiss three turned out to be Frenchmen, provided with French passports, duly eiaid, which us hardly ever the case with mere excursionists from one bauk of the lake to the other. The last of the party, who had abstained from joining in the provocations of :the others, was discovered to be a Vaudois, who appears to have been totally unaware of the cha racter of his companions. We have not been ..old whether the Frenchmen's passports were accou pulled by certificates denoting the nature of their calling ; but what we do know is, that, on showing their passports to the gendarme, they were im mediately allowed to re-embark without fin Lher molestation. • It is more than probable that without this lucky meeting with the gendarme the incident would have given rise to frosh complaints on the part of the French government about alleged ill-treatment of its new citizens. PRUSSIA AND GERMAN UNITY. The Cologne Gazette publishes a circular, ad dressed by the Prussian government to its repre sentatives at the German courts, explaining the attitude which the Prince Regent's government has assumed with regard to certain important question,' pending in the Federal Diet. The following are the most essential passages : The German Confederation is an association *worthw to international law, the essential object of which, in the eyes of the Prince Regent's government, is to protect the security and the independence of Germany, and of each at its members, in presence of Junin nations. Some of our confederates, however, appear to turn their attention prin cipally to the uniform development of internal political organtmtion, and especially to the constitutional entail tierse of each co.feilemte state, according to a sys:em which, if carried to its extreme consequences, would lead to the establishment of a Anpreme federal authority in teetering with the internal ftzinization of each state. The action of the Federal Diet, as regards the internal orga nization of states, and especially their constitutional institutions, ought to be reduced to the most restricted measure of its „geuerally recognised jurisdiction. In fact, the confederation et a certain number of states differing in extent, iu character, and in power, and yet enjoying equal rights in that confederation, cannot overcome the difficulties irking from such a situatioo, unless the tie which binds its members together touches as little as pos sible their internal independence. The Prince Regent's government is certain in advance to obtain that adhesion when it proclaims its conviction that the first and the highest mission of the confederation, and that which prin cipally led to its eatablishnieut, was nothis more then to protect from all danger and all violence from abroad the independence of each German state separately, and the absolute integrity of the national territory. At no epoch has this mission been more imperative for the German Confederation than in presence of the existing political situation. Hut the spirit which animates the ratioe facilitates the accomplishment of it. Since the fonzdation of the confedemtiou the idea of nationality has beeline stronger and stronger among the Germanic people, and the governments will only anticipate their wishes by zealously joining in giving to the military forma of Ger many the development and the organization calculated to inspire in the nation, on the appearance of a foreign danger, a well-founded hope of the success of the efforts which in that eventuality It would be called on to make. Prussia has quite recently, in order to increase her power and her military forces, ridded new sacrifices to those which she had previously demanded from her populations. Relying on this circumstance, on the fact that, as demon strated by experience, the security of Germany depends chiefly en the efforts of Prussia, and on i.a loyal intentions and the purity of its object, the government of the Prince Regent C3ll confidently hope that its German confederates . will not only respond, the measure of their resources, to the exigencies of the general political situation, but that in the Diet they will zealously support all the measures which the gravity of circumstances and the real diameter of the situation imperatively demand for the defence of the com mon country. ITALY. The account of the capture of Pesaro, in the Adriatic° of Ravenna, gives a fair 'idea of the War now raging in the Papal States. In the morning of the 11th news reached Pesaro that General Cialdini had crossed the Tavullo. Mgr. Bella and Colonel Zappi held a council of war, in which the decision was come to that if the place were attacked it should be defended. At four o'clock in the after noon the Sardirlian army arrived, invested the town, mid summoned it to surrender. On the refusal of the commander of the place, the Pied montese cannonaded the gates of Rimini and St, Christina, and a few discharges knocked them down. The Sardinians rushed into the streets, and the Papal troops, 1,200 in number, retired into the fortress with the delegate. General Cialdini then opened fire on the fortress, and con tinued it during the whole night. The latter returned the fire, but without causing any serious injury to the Sardinian troops, who bivouacked in the town. At half-pest eight in the morning an officer, with a flag of truce, demanded that the fortress might capitulate. He was told that it was too late, and he returned to the citadel amidst the hisses of the people. The Piedmontese renewed their Are, and at nine o'clock the garrison, not being able to respond, surrendered at discretion. A Turin letter of the 18th says : The short .I....pata sent by General Fanti on the taking of Perugia stiite, that the affair was a sanguinary one, and that the popul.itiou fought with great ardour, women, and even cliililron taking part in the combat. The tiiinlinian army had hut few killed, but General Fanti writes—" Our Losses, though not numerous, are sensible," and the number of the Piedinontese wounded was about 100. Among the killed of the latter army is Captain Melon ; and among the killed on the Pontifical side Captain de Maistre, of the family of the odelirated Joseph de Mentz*, author of " Le Pape." The lees of the Pontifical army was very great, as when the main body of it retired into the citadel, and closed the gates, the portions of it which were detached or in honer were cut to piecos. The general accorded the troops in the citadel five bourn to capitidate ; and as they had not done so at the end of that time, IN opened a terrible fire on the place, and kept It sp until, after the lapse of two hours, General tichmidt and his troops surrendered. Captain Style*, one of Craribeldi's aides-de-caanp, vatted Liverpool yesterday to confer with Captain Hamp ton, the oftioer to whom the task of procuring excursionists in Liverpool, Manchester, &c., has been mainly anifkled. Captain Style■ visited lir. roger■ elocational establish ment at New Brighton, where a son of Ganlialdi is being broreght up. Captain Styles would leave for London last evening, and thither the recruits from Liverpool aed Mae ehmter are to follow. B6LoLte FORTIFICATTO:OL —The Belgian Miuieter of War has decided on increasing the number of men oc. copied on the works now in worm of executios, round Antwerp to between 8,000 and tome Arrangements are being made for their accommodation. BOARD or TRAWL, WRITIRALL, San. 20.—The Right Hon. the Lade of the Committee of Privy Council fur Trade and /imitations have received information from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs that the govern ment of Costa Rica Ira recently issued a decree decla ring ~t that the port of Pasta Arenas will cease to be a free ea the leth of January next, but that no attention wi ll be mad* in the duties now levied on shipping and also a decree closing to commerce the port of Mein and the river Barapiqui—lieutte. THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO SHOOT THE JIMPBBOR. A Paris letter in the indipendance gives the fol. losing explanation of the alleged attempt to shoot the Emperor at Touloo, meotionod by ear** foreign journals r "Au ex letter-carrier, named Burle, a crack.bmined fellow, made, more than ten years ago, a frantic props,. tandem '1 favour of Napoleon, both as President and Emperor. Notwithstandwg his meal for his Majesty, the Eost-oltoe authorities dismissed him, bemuse he neglected his duty to occupy himself with politics. He, how. ever obtained relief from the Emperor's privy purse, and, by means of petitions, he succeeded in in. duciug his Majesty to set by procuration as god. father to one of hie children. This man, on the passage of the Emperor at Toulon, attempted to approach his Majesty to attract attention, but not succeeding, he had recourse to the singular expedient of bring a pistol in the air. This was at the moment ►t which the Emperor and Empress were passing before the trades corporations and the deputations of the communes assembled in the aggren. dined pert of Toulon. At first the belief was that an attempt had been made on his Majeety's life ; but when the police recognised the man, whom they immediately arrested, they content:d themselves with giving him a few cuffs and letting Fin go. If they had put him in prison they would have biflicted a cruel punishment on him, for they world have prevented him from seeing the sovereign for whom he enterMm frantic adoration." FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS OF ALBA. The funeral of the Duchess of Alba, sinter of the Empreee, took place on Thursday, at 1 o'clock, at the Made. leine, with all the pomp due to her rank. There were pre. sent at the ceremony all the ministers, several of the grand officers of the households of their Majesties ; members of the Senate, legislative Body, and Council of State; the mem. hers of the Spanish embassy, and several of the representa tives of foreign powers. The church was hung with black drapery, fringed with silver, and having, at intervals, acettcheone with the initials of the deceased. A f.ch catafalque was erected in the middle of the nave. The corl4m started from the Hotel d'Alba, in the Champs Elysiss. The hearse, which wee driwn by n't horses richly caparisoned, was followed by fourteen mooning coaches and by leveret court carriages. The Duke d'Albs was present, and officiated as chief mourner. The cm* of the Madeleine, at tivo head of Ws clergf, received the body at the door of the char**, and preceded it, with the usual ceremonial, to the catafalque, where it WAS depositcd during the service. At the conclusion of the mass the coffin was placed in one of the vaults of the cherch, where it will remain o - ail taken to Spaio. The lifoniteur pays the following tribute to the deceased sister of the &wry= :—" The Duchess d'Alba has pieced away at an early age. Her beauty, grace, and al made her the arbiter of elegance, and the soul of all the Mee at Madrid, where she was called the Queen of the Salons. She made use of her empire to alleviate misfortune, to protect talent, and sometimes to excite noble and patriotic enthusiasm in that portion of the Spanish existomacy in whom luxury had not yet obliterated the chivalrous s irtues at their ancestors. The fatigue entailed on the duchess by the illness of one of her children made the first inroad on her health. She was brought to Paris to have the best medical advice, but the malady bad already gone so far as to defy all the resources of science. The lady, loaded with all the gifts of fortune, a happy mother, an adored daughter, the ✓ider and intimate friend of sovereigns, o.'wed in her last momenta a strength of mind and • resignation worthy of her race. In the midst of the most acute seofer'oags she never lost her serenity nor even that meek sprightl'neu for wb 4 ch she was so remarkable. Her aim appeared to be to animate the hopes or rather the i"usions of her mother, while the latter found the courage to conceal from her daughter the agony of her rneas'less. The duche s expire I with • smi . e on her Fps , 1 the arms of her mother at the moment when the Empress her sister was just approach , ng the capital of the French Afi:can possessions." The Atletturunt remarks : " Mr. Davis, who, for four years past, Iran been employed, by order of the English government, in excavating the remains of Carthage, has returned to this country. The results of his toil, which are of great antiquarian and historical interest, will be i - nme. diatel► published. Mr. Davis has made arrangement*, we understend, with Mr. Bentley for hit work, ' Cartka ! ,,,, an d her Remains: being an Account of the Excavations and Researches on the Site of the Phcenician Metropolis in Africa and other Adjutant Places.' " - - - Though not an author of books, or a painter of pictures (soya the Aihnururn), Joseph Locke claims a parting word of peace and remembrance from tn. As president of the Institution of Civil Engineers his name has been prominent for the hat two or three years in these pages. The creators of the railway system are rapidly pluming away : Stephenson is gone, Bernal is gone, and now Locke is gone. All thew men have gone comparatively green iu years. Locke was only fiftydive. Dying in middle life, these cop. nears have, nevertheless, left the world more changed in appearance—its inhabitants more changed in manners and customs by their individual labour than they have been by all the kings and statesmen during 500 years. This Is the bait monument. The death of Mr. Looks has left the Presidency of the Institution of Civil Engineers vacant. COUNTY COURTIL—A return to an address of the Home of Loris, dated July 30, 1800, gives the following summary of the laminate of these courts in the years 1858 and 1859 :—The number of plaint. entered in 1848 was 738,854 ; in 1889. 714,562 ; the amount of sums sued for in 1858 was 1,908,2191.; in 1859, 1,754,9711.; the number el judgments entered in 1888, for plaintiffs, was 375,852 ; in 424,550 ; the number for defendants, in 1859. was 13,992 ; in 1859, 17,950 ; the amount for which verdicts for plaintiffs were entered in 1858 was 965,533/. • in 1850, 551,7321. ; and the Ruralise of judgments entered for sums above 20/., and not exceeding 60 !. , in 1853 was 4,998; and in 1852, 3,631. THE Nzw ALT ON FORTIFICATIONS.—TIIO act for defraying the expenses conne:ted with the new fortifi cations, and for creating a central arsenal received the royal assent on the day of the prorogation. The sum of two millions is to he raised by annuities to he terminated within thirty year*, and guardians and trustees may sub.cribe for infanta. Contributors may anticipate their payments. The annuities created under this act are to be payable and tuna. friable at the Bank ef England. In the schedule annexed to the act, the manner in which the money is tube expended, between August 1. 18110, and August 1, 1861, is set forth. At Portsmouth 580,00/. is to he expended; 450,00/. at Plymouth, 60,000/. at Pembroke, and a like sum on the Thames. On the Medway 100,0001. is to be ex pende.l.l7o,oool. atChatham, 60,000!. at Dover, and 30,000/. at Cork. On the central arsenal 150,0(10/. is to be spent, making 1,650,000/. ; for works in progresa already MiDen tiOtlo , l by parliament, 3.50,000/., making the total of 4000,C301. 'rho several sums meutioned include the expense of purchase of land and other incidental expenses. The money is to be issued out of the oonsolidated fund, and to apply the mine to making the fortific.itions mentioned do the art and in providing a central arsenal. The Tonality is to fix the terms and amount of anunitiee to be grained under the act for every contribution of 1001. INDIAN PRIZE MONEY.—WO have already stated the determination come to by the commission appointed to settle the question of the Indian prize money, with respect to the distribution of the funds. In round numbers (be. aides the Kirwee and Banda prise money, which sh o uld be by far the largest of all) the sums available for the respective forms will be, for Delhi, 355,0001.,, Liicknow, 148,0001.; Oreatbed's column, 5001.; Maleedm's 1,400/.; Major Emus's, 10,00014 General Roberta's, 17,0001.; Sir Hugh Rose's 77,0001. for Mar, and 60,0001. for Jhansi. —Ana, and Nary Gazette. NATIONAL SCOTCH CHURCH, REOENT-SgrARZ.—. The Gothic pile, which was erected about 30 pees once for the well.known Mr. Irving, from the design of Mr. W. Tito the architect, and which has never yet b e e n a pp ro. plainly fitted or arranged in the interiors , as to accord with the general design, him just undergone au entire renovation sad a aeries of improvements, both externally and internally, by Moen. Alderman Lawrence and Sous of Lambeth, the builders. The galleries have been re.arrau;ed, restated, and strengthened, and the ceiling appropriately &worsted ; and 1.140 sew sunlight style of lighting introduced by Mr. Strode and improved ventilation by Mr. M'Kenoell, and tbesyst.m of hotting by Hayden's process. Ou the bewares% there has bleu no entire reamtiug, consisting of open benches in oak. with most elaborately earned ends, pew . ..leeks, sod horning, executed by Messrs. Lawrence, who have also erected a handsome lecture hell in the rear (having a noble open timber roof), as well as vestry , minister non he. The lamed edifice will be opened for public worship in the course of • few days. LlvitrOoL WOOL Est.za.—The fourth series of oar public sales commenced yesterday, and the catalogues osmerieed-755 sheets English skin, lea. ; 1,876 bags sundry I foreign wools; and 101 East India, and to-day 2,021 ditto. There w as a good attendance of both home and foreign buyers. The English went on the average a little lower than at the last sale in July. For East India there is • fair competition, and prima have opened about on • par with our last sale's rates, except for greys of all kinds. which show an mbranes of frees id. to H. per lb.—From B. W. Ronald and Son's circular. ■ I ' I I