The Express. — London, England, 1861-07-10 00:00:00

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Newham m — M t ICING or Tat A4....t.ii4lNl.—Abd TIM lIILICTO.II &AM. RUM WATER AT TAMPON MUDS& TWO DAT —llloesin& 3 Ws—. Allaniseti *. am Taaseauw—Runicm a. eiL..— AA...., M. Um LONDON, WIDNISDAY, JULY 10. TO OUR READERS. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. A late edition of the Express is published every evening during the racing season, containing the results of the day's rams. Tne rue at Corroes Wharf will not have raged a fortnight in vain if it haves behind some more durable record of the havoc and fury of its resist less course than a pile of stately buildings, erected ' with startling rapidity over a yawning ruin on the river's side, and constructed with all the appliances and means that commercial enterprise can suggest, for converting at the shortest notice a fire proof aorehouse into a waterproof furnace. Nor will the loss—compared with which two millions of property are as dust in the balance—of such a chief as Mr. Baatnwoon prove absolutely irrepa rable, if it impresses on the minds of his innu merable mourners the reality of the remonstrances and warnings which were so easily forgotten or die- I regarded while that lamented public servant lived and worked. Fires are so frequent in a vast city, ' so common as street incidents, so trivial as sights, , and the system of insurance is so much a matter of course, that it is only when the rush of an engine through the empty street surprises the last loiterers of fashion or the last stragglers of misery in the dead waste of night, that anybody in this huge hico of human creatures stops for a moment to reflect how soon the most indispensable of all the servants that minister to life becomes the most deadly and destructive of masters, if not arrested and put down by the organized activity and trained skill of a service officered and manned by private enterprise. It is no doubt i consistent with all our ideas and arrangements that the preservation of life and property from the most ordinary of accidents should be as inde pendent as possible of State assistance and respon sibility. The State has more than enough to occupy it. attention and its estimates in organizing the means and materials of destruction to the lives and properties of national enemies, without sparing time and money for the preservation of the lives and properties of its own subjects. This may be very well conceded : and yet the question arises, whether the safety of the population is sufficiently provided for by the combined voluntary efforts of a certain number of Insurance Cowponies f What ever may be the answer to this question, it is un fortunately beyond all doubt that the existence of London—the market and entrepiit of the world— is at the mercy of the wind and weather whenever one of those " tremendous conflagrations" occurs, whose periodical recurrence is a statistical common place. No one who has ever assisted, as our neighbours say, at the most ordinary of Fires, even as a spectator, can have failed to Doti°e the poor figure the fire-engines make, however sealously worked against a burning house. The quantity of water brought actually to bear on the fire seems always miserably short and insufficient. How im manent in such a cue as this at Corrow's Whirl is strikingly suggested by the simple fact that a line of wharves on the water's edge was not only net saved from burning by the Thames, but almost literally et the Thames on fire On these points, an able professional contemporary is explicit and precise, pointing out the ridiculous inadequacy of the fire-engines which are called into operation in these extreme emergencies. "The London Brigade " fire-engine," according to the Engineer, "throws " about 90 gallons of water per minute, of which " discharge a portion only can be counted upon as " effective when projected at a distance of several " feet upon a burningbuilding." A Parisian journal, moved by a spirit of generous commiseration for a national calamity which illustrates the superiority of a people of raissinistres, explains the wholesale con flagration in Tooley-Streetasthe inevitable result of a want of buckets. The philosopher who argued that the Deluge might have spared the human race had the science of boat-building been more advanced among the contemporaries of Noon, was not a shrewder or a bolder commentator than our sympathising friend on the banks of the Seine. Our contemporary whom we have already quoted considers it " demonstrable by experiment and " maculation that a file of stout fishwomen could, " in a given time, have handed up nearly " the same quantity of water in pails," as any one of the " hydraulic canal " vanees " which were engaged in pumping on Curren's Wharf. These " Brigade engine.," in fact, even when the supply of water is abundant, are absurdly inadequate to make the slightest im pression on acres of flames fed fat by lofts and cellars full of oil and tallow, and by all the condi ments that lend strength and fierceness to com bustion. Whether they manage them things much better in France, in all that relates to water supply and fire-engines, we are not exactly informed. We know that the Posipiers are • very effective and complete body of firemen ; and though, like the British policeman, their costume and title are a cause of wit among their mocking fellow-citizens, their services are not the lees sincerely respected. But that whatever apparatus exists for the extinc tion of fire in France is thoroughly " adminia "tend," is beyond all doubt. In putting down fires, as in putting down parliaments and constitutions, our neighbours have certainly what they would, perhaps, admit to be la gush* ik lertra difa.tts, just as we inlanders ham lea &yowls de aris richt& A Tools" Street coolaps tion in Paris would have been put down by the' State. The army of Paris would have "suppressed" it like an insurrection with battalions of buckets. A Marshal of France would have conducted the operations and blown up half the sap, If near eery to the success of the camp►ign, and to his own glory. Regiments would have dashed up to the deadly breach of the crumbling walls as gaily as to the Malakoff, and faced the death of a Baansmoon as calmly and joyously as death on the field of battle. The Eatreamt himself would probably have cheered the legions with his presence. In this ungoverned country of ours, where we like to be let alone, and not to be put down by anybody even for our own advan tage, we leave to Insurance companies the care and duty of looking after their own interests, and though we cheerfully lend a hand at a fire we scarcely know what commission Mr. BILAIDWOOD held or in whose service he died. People are sur prised to hoar that any public building not insured, though it were the Royal Palace or the British Museum, must be saved from fire by borrowed engines and volunteer brigades. Nor is it reassur ing to learn on reliable authority that all the associated enterprise of the companies who in this dense and huddled capital have millions of pro perty always at the mercy of carelessness or accident, is provided with engines hardly superior in power to " a file of stout fishwomen ;" and that the London water supply, which might enable us to dispense with fire-engines altogether, is inferior to that of some provincial towns. Our Ame rican kinsmen, proverbial se they are for foolhardi ness, are far in advance of the staid old mother country in the means of preserving life and property from fire. Not only are their firemen a model service for discipline, equipment, and effi ciency, but they " have had steam fire-engines in " regular and extensive use for the last nine " years." The largest of these are self-pro pelling, and capable of discharging 880 imperial gallons of water per minute. The value of the pro perty lost by the last great fire would, according to the Engince.r, have " paid for more than two " thousand steam fire-engines of the largest class, 46 and hal; •a-dozen inch mach loos would alone throw ' " more water than all the brigade, pariah, and pri " vete tire-engines in London." These are cer tainly startling statistics. And it is a poor sign of our boasted civilization th►t, while we lavish millions on all the arts and instrument, of aggressive and defensive warfare, we have neither the wit nor the care, with all the water of the Thames at our doors, to save all London from burning, if the wind will have it so. We are requested to state that the hour for the commencement of the review at Wimbledon on the 13th instant is altered to b p.m. AA, however, it is possible that some of the corps cannot be on ihe ground at that hour, H.R.H. the Commander-in- Chief has been pleased to intimate that such bat talions as may not be present at 5 p.m. may be brought into line as they arrive upon the ground. if Dt Court. 0580R277.. Jun 9. The Queen, Prince Consort, the Crown Prince sad Princess of Prussia, Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louise, drove to Carubrook yesterday alteration. The Countess of Gainsborougb, Lady A. Bruce, Countess Beal. Baroness von Dobeseck, Count Furstenatein, and Lieu aniantCokesel von Obernita were in attendance. Colonel the Hoe. A. Hirdinge also attended on borseback. Captain the Hon. 5. Denman bad the honour of dining with her Majesty. A deputation on the subject of the horse ride in Ken sington Gardens had en interview with Lord Palmerston yesterday. ()overact Wodehouae had an interview with the Duke of Newcistle yesterday, at the Colonial-oaks. Her Baja My's CAAeffluent/Dere for the International Ex hibition of 1062, held a meeting at South Kensington Museum yesterday. The Building Committee held • meeting at South Ken sis=yesterday. tcheo were scut yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian IMands. The Kerry Pod understands that Lord Castle man has written to Killarney, ply* directions to have Kamm House fitted up in all loge foe the reception of her Ila Piety, who may be expected to arrive on the 26th prokinso. The corporation of Belfast Laving resolved to present so whims to the Prince of Wales, the townclerk wrote " to the aide•de-camp ia waiting oa his royal high esse," inquiring whether he would be pleased to receive a depot ties to present the Alms. The following answer we returned :—"any, the Oarragh, July 4. Sir, reply to your letter of the 3rd inst., I sin directed to state that the Priem of Weiss is lima 'Mined by the wish whisk me .:peer ea behalf ef the esemoolies of Belfast ; bet, that as his royal higher* le privately penning his millsry studies at this place, be has declined to metre say addreress except the. of lb. municipal mitlitelthe of Kingstown sad Dublin en the seemioa of his peesteg through One towns.—l have the bower to be, Mr, your mast ebsdiset servant, R. Bums, Major•GmeraL—Jaress Oethrk, Km., Town Clerk, he." An unusual stillness pervaded the camp at the Cerigb, on Monday, broken only by the ordinary morning parade sad drill exercise of the troops and the exams. plus mese of camp duty. To • etreerer vilifier the Cough there is sothing that would sweet le dee aid the pewees of his Royal 10gbasan the Prises of Wales ia that Iscalia, there being so display of soy kW, or sap Wag Ems Asa is to be seers or had of in defer phew. Os Monday forearms the troops were paraded for drill, his Taal highs= Asia ditty with hie own regiment, the Chumiller Owe. His royal Weems in the eves* eauped is a pawl of cricket, and afterwards is a pure of croquet, with Wesel Koppel and a nuniber of allows of the Over& Their Royal Righseases the Duda= of Cam bridge sad the Primers limy hoesered the Dowager lady Irmo with liar soya y at diem het evades et bee hdyeliVe reideme ia retemegeari. A whet peaty wee bribed to meet the royal suede. Thar Royal Rieman the Duchess of Cam bap sad the Primer Mary will leave town early next week far Germuly. His Grace the Duke and her Grace the Duchess et Northumberland have het the Hated Maurice, Paris, ter Boulogne on their return to London. The Duchess of luveruees entertained a select sire's at dinner, teat evening, at bee apartments in Kensing ton Palos. The Marquis of Lansdowne will give a omelet at lan/dowse Roam ea Ifenday next, w►ea their Royal Eighaseees the Dachas of Cambridge and the Princess Miry will ►aaoar his lordship with their perinea The Marchioness of Drogheda left town on &tar dy for Moore Abbey, meaty Kildare, in order to MOWN, ►is Royal Highsen the Prince of Wales, who is expected to visit the marquis end marchimmes at the abbey to-day. . - . The Martinis and Marehionesa of Headfort have Wt thigh. Camp's Hotel foe Readied Howe, Intend. The Marquis and Marchioness' of Miss., with the lady lull Kennedy, have left the Burlingtoo Hotel for Colman Castle, Amide., N.B. Lord and Lady Herbert propose to leave in a few dims for the Oentinent with the view to the improvement of hie lordship's Minh, which, we are sorry to ley, is sot estidectory. It is his lordship's inteutioo to Dolours a meeth at Lord And Lady Frederick Gordon Hallybarten have left Kensingtoe Palace for Soothed. Sir John Rameden leaven town to-day for his mat In Yorkshire. Lady Egerton of Tattoo's ball is postponed from Ms 11th to Mayday, the 15th toot. The Laid Mayor, in deference to • requisition, lee eeseened a pedals ametias to be bold at tie Gaildiall to (Tharedav), at I elicit, to *seeder the soviet, depth• the NW. Movies Aid of Use • Loads•. LAI INTALLI ' GMCIII. ITALY. ~ . THE POPE'S HEALTH. A letter from Rome of June 29, in the Senfinefla Brraciana, says : The Fope is going fast ; he is dying in sleep. The phial elan Francesco Saul, who was lately sent for, could not understand his strange milady. The following, among other symptoms, show the utter falsity of the assertions made by the French journals that his Holiness has reco vered :—A persistent state of somnolence; continual pain is the epigastric region ; a sort of paralytic trembling all over the body, but particularly in the bands ; cold shivering fits so severe that be is obliged to be mapped up in blankets ; groat depression of spirits, and such a want of appetite that hem swallow nothing but ices. A telegram from Turin, dated Monday, states that the syndic of that city has received from London a list of the English subscriptions towards the monument to Count Cavour. Amongst the subscribers are said to be Lord Palmerston, Lord John Russell, and other ministers, several members of the nobility, clergy, and House of Commons, the. It is stated in the indipesdasce of yesterday evening that the new minister of France at Turin will be M. Benedetti. Of all the members of the official world in France, this gentleman is said to have the strongest sympathies with the Italian cause. L0r;:l Dltruuton, orandMuter of the OraDeo us of the meaty Antrim, bee pail/abed as address eajeia bug the brethren ant to have nay deroonstratioos as the appeaddar 12th of July ; god the Belfast Namibia", the Mad* emu of the body, has Do doubt that "both Ia that aranty end throughout Meter, the protestaat aaalvenary trill pre ever ia pesos mad hannotay." " i tty. rtr i; . • • .;,• c • • THIP. 'EXPRESS, WEDNIISPAV E JUL r :'lO, 11.861. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom °us ows PARIS, TI7IISDAT EVIIIIIM.,. The Pays, is announcing that M. Thouvenel is going to his country house for a holiday, says, quite contrary to the declaration of the Patric last night, that the name of the new French minister at Turin will not be known till his return. K Grandguillot, congratulating K de la Guer ronniere in the Constitutionne/ on his elevation to the Soweto, says of hisi :—" He is a new man, who belongs entirely to the present rdgime, and has gained in its service the celebrity which he enjoys." This is altogether a mistake. M. de la Guar ronniere was an ardent republican as long as the republic lasted, and (barring two or three official pamphlets) the writings to which he owes his reps• Cation were articles written in the (then) republican journals the Pays and Prase, when he was the political associate of M. de Lamartine and M. Emile de Girardin. The Bourse, after opening heavily, became firmer at the close. Rente rose 100., both for cash and account, leaving off at 67fr. 600. and 67fr. 66c. Mobilier rose 31r. 75c. The Lyons Railway rose 6fr. 25c., and Orleans 3fr. 75c. ; in the other lines there was Little change. At length the progress of the Mirk trial has pro duced au incident which goes to confirm the gene ral suspicion that there were scandals in the back ground. But the chary revelation made serves only to whet public curiosity—not to gratify it. One of the charges was that the Minn Caisse had lent large sums of money without security to insolvent persons. M. Ldon Duval, replying to this charge, OD behalf of Count Simeon, said :—" K Mires owed ' six millions ; be has paid five, and his house in the Rue Neuve des Math urine is a good security for the other. M. Salamanca has paid off all he owed. As to the other debtors to the Caine I am not going to mention their names ; but their high position, which prevents me from mentioning their names, is for me a certain assurance that they will not long leave their debts unpaid." It is a pity that the public should not know who the high personages are, because the belief is that money was advanced to them as • bribe for their political influence. In consequence of the continually increasing complaints of the high rate of house rent, the municipality of Marseilles have resolved to build • number of houses divided into apartments suitable fur the working classes—the price of s lodging for a family to be not more than 160 fr. or 175 fr. • year. It is said that a proposition will be brought forward at the next meeting of the Municipal Council of Paris to follow this example. It is stated that a concession has been granted for a new theatre to be built at the corner of the Faubourg St. Denis, on the Boulevards, in which English and French plays will be performed alter nately. In February last I ventured to express an opinion that the civil chamber of the Court of Caseation had, to meet a hard case, unjustifiably strained the code by holding that a woman who had married • liberated convict, not knowing the fact of his conviction, was entitled to set aside the marriage on the ground of a mistake as to the "identity of the person." The Imperial Court of Orleans, to which the case was remitted by the Court of Caseation, has confirmed my view and decreed the marriage a good one. The point must now come before the three Chambers of the Court of Caseation united, for decision in the last resort. A priest, named Lhimeau, vicar of Availles, in the department of the Vienne, was lately sentenced by the provincial correctional tribunal to two years' imprisonment for insulting the Emperor in the pulpit—the gravamen of his offence being a sermon which was a paraphrase of the Bishop of Poitiers' charge. Last week the case was brought by appeal before the Imperial Court of Poitiers, and the priest took an exception to the jurisdic tion. The court gave judgment against him on the exception, but allowed him time to appeal to the Court of Caseation before trying the case on the merits. The address; in which M. Dapples, the President, opened the session of the National Council, on the let inst., was of a somewhat alarmist character. After reminding the Council that at the conclusion of the last session they expected to be convoked much sooner than had been the case, he said that if the dangers that then threatened Europe were suspended, they were still imminent. None of the questions which then agitated Europe had been settled, and he urged vigorous preparations for the defence of Swiss neutrality. M. Dapples then said : My wards may seen to you alannist. War has been so long spokes of, and yet Switesrland is still at pesos. Gentlemen, there is also a dieser. The men are now few who took part in the struggles of the beginning of this century ; we have almost all lived in an era of uninterrupted peace, and we find it difficult to imagine it disturbed. We are thus liable to go to sleep in • dangerous security, and to shut our eyes in order not to see what we do not wish to be- I here. It is against this false security that we ought above everything to be on our guard, for no sacrifice will be too great when our liberty is at stake. Thirty years ago, Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, (less Switzerland advice full of sagacity respecting her military organisation, wrote The Emperor Napoleon is speaking of the taxes which it was necessary to levy in times of difficulty, "It is better to pay taxes to oneself when the safety of one's country is menaced than to pay them to the Russians or the Austrians." There is none of us who on that point does nut perfectly agree with the il lustrious warrior. Payment for payment, it is better to employ our mosey la preparing for our defence than to sea it node use of far great adventures, and if our blood most be shed, there is more homer and more profit in shedding it oa oar own soil Ora as foreign battle fields. YREELABOUR IN TM FRENCH COLONIES. Yesterday's Moniteur publishes the following letter from the Emperor to the Minister of the Marine and the Colonic*: Footainebleau, July 1, 1861._ Monsieur le Ministre,--Since the emancipation of the slaves our colonies have sought to procure labourers en the come of Africa by way of repurchase, and by means of contracts assuring to the negroes • salary for the work which they execute. These engagements are made for five or seven years, after which the labourers are sent back to their country gratuitously, unless they prefer to settle in the .olony ; and, in that case, are permitted to reside there on the moms terms as the other inhabitants. This mode of recruitment, it must be admitted, differs completely from the slave trade ; in fact, while the latter had for its origin and object slavery, the former on the con trary leads to liberty. The negro slave as soon as he is engaged as • labourer is free, and is not under an, other obligations than those which result from his contract. Nevertheless doubts Lave been raised as to the come . queeces which these engagements may have on the African populations. It has been asked whether the price of re purchase did not constitute a premium on slavery. As far back as 18W I ordered the cessation of all recruit ment on the eastern coast of Africa, where it had caused inconveniences; since then I have preecribed the restriction of operations of this sort on the Western coast. Lastly, I have desired that the questions raised by African emigra tion should be most carefully examined. Today I sign a thaty with the Queen of Great Britain, by which her Britannic Majesty consents to authorise in the provinces of India submitted to her crown the engagement of labourers for our colonies on the same terms as those observed for the English colonies. We ought then to find in India, in the French possessions in Africa, and in the countries in which slavery is prescribed, all the free labourers we have need of. In such chem. stances I desire that the African recruitment, by way of repurchase, be campLetaly abandoned by French commerce from the day when the treaty concluded with her Britannic Melody shall begin to receive its execution sod through its whole duration. If that treaty should cease to exist, it could only be in virtue at an express authorication to this recruitment, and if it was recognised as indispensable and without inconveniences, could be resumed. ... You will be good enough, then, to take the necesenry meaautwi for giving effect to this deciaiou from July 1, 1862, and for prohibiting in our colonies the introduction of Negroes recruited on the coast el Africa subsequently to that epoch. M. LEVEREJER ON THE COMET. In Monday'. Bitting of the French Academy o Sciences, M. Leverrier expressed himself as follows :—" We do not know this comet ; it is the first time it visits us, and I those who have endeavoured to predict its course, determine He distance from the earth, and measure ite tail, have either deceived themselves or the public. Three elements are necessary to calculate the orbit of a comet : first, the exact position of the star; then, its velocity ; and lastly, the vari ation of velocity produced by the mass of the sun. I caused the comet to be observed on the 30th of June, and then on the night of the Ist, and morning of the 2nd inst., in order to determine the variation of velocity. These three observations would have followed too closely upon each other for the calculation to be attempted, were it not that the comet moves very rapidly. On the 3rd, at 10 a.m., M. Levy brought me the result of his calculations, and we then obtained an insight into the orbit of the comet. Mr. Hind has since sent me the orbit calculated by the English astmoomers, which perfectly agrees in all but two mioutes with our results. It is now pantie() that this is not Charles the Fifth's comet ; and, moreover, it rem- Woo none of those already observed. This circumstance will contribute not • little to throw confusion upon the little we know of these erratic bodies. I cannot yet say whether this comet is periodical or not; its orbit has up to this day been too cursorily determiued to enable us to pronounce it elliptical, paraboli cal, or even hyperbolical. At any rate appearsooss sr* against its return, for the orbit is nearly perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, while those of periodical comets usually form ► very small angle with that plane. It is only now we can determine the distance of the comet from the earth, and the length of its tail. On the 30th of June, the line joining the centre of the sun with that of the comet made an angle of four degrees with that joining the centres of the sun and earth, the length of which is known. The angle which this line formed with the visual ray, drawn from the eye of tho observer to the centre of comet, was 24 degrees. The triangle thus formed may, therefore, be calcted, and it gives us the distance of comet from the earth, amounting to between six and seven millions of leagues (about seventeen millions of miles Eng. lath). The length of the tail might be similarly calculated. The comet is rapidly moving away from us, and it is, then fore, not surprising that its brilliancy has diminished. On the 10th it will be equally distant from the sun and earth ; we shall soon lose eight of -it, sad notrooosboro only will be able to follow it for about • month longer. It pre• seats a singular peculiarity. M. Chacoruac has studied the nucleus with one of M. Foucault's telescopes of • diameter of 40 centimetres ; iostead of it. being hollow like the half of an egg-shell, like most of the comets already observed, it present. the appearance of • sun composed of fireworks, the bent rays of which burn in the same sense. Moreover, the comet has not drawn Dearer to the sun. These are all cir cumstances calculated to introduce great complications into the theory of amen." The Rev. Wm. Annesley, A.M., has been pre ferred by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the vicarage of Abbots Leigh, near the city of Bristol, vacant by the death of the Rev. Canon Morgan. The Volunteer Ball announced for Friday next at Covent•garden has been postponed sine die. The reason for thin is owing to various causes, the chief one being that the volunteer officers in the country are just now so busy pre paring for their autumnal inspections and county gatherings, that they cannot come up to town for a mere ball. The review at Wimbledon on Saturday even fails to interest them, or, indeed, any corps save those immediately in and around the metropolis. The last letters from Halifax state that the Nova Scotia gold discoveries continued to attract attention. In addition to the deposits at Tangier, others have been found at Margaret's Bay, to the westward of Halifax, and at • place called Musquodobit, in the interior. Several speci mens were about to be forwarded to England, which are believed to be above the standard. Some of the quarts at Tangier is alleged to have yielded 20 ounces to the ton, but the various statements made are without corroboration from any one passaging scientific knowledge. We regret to learn of the death on the 27th of May, at Calcutta, of Richard Trench, the eldest surviving son of the Dean of Westminster, aged 25. Duna or Bin F. PAtott.tvz.—A vacancy has occurred in the office of Deputy-Keeper of her Majesty's Records by the death, on Saturday art, at an advanced age, of Sir Freesia Palgrave. The deceased was beet, in London in 1788, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1827, and was one of the Municipal Corporation Commissioners. In 188'2 he received the honour of knight hood for his general services and attention to constitutional and parliamentary literature. PRIESTLY WILL-Da.twiwo.—Two more cues have come before the Court of Probate in Dublin, in which priesio, la consequence of taking upon themselves the office properly belonging to the legal profession, have bred 'Riga tics and suspicion. In the first case the same priest had made no lees than four wills for the one person, rod= the second trial the following facts came out :—lt a from the evidence that the will was drawn three days before Paul Carr died, by the Rev. Mr. Roche, CC.. since deceased, in the presence of the sick men's medical attendant, Dr. Morgau. The latter was examined, and admitted that the will was altogether Rug ilby the priest, who said he did not care for the y of the matter, and was only anxious to prevent litigation by making a fair distribution of the pro perty ; that the deceased was all but insensible, and the will was read to him only as a matter of form. His hand was raised, a pen put into it, and a mark made to the will. He was not capable of doing any business at the time. One of the witnesses stated that the priest mentioned the pro visions of the will to the deceased before they were written down, and that he muttered something which might have been assent, end was declared to be so at the moment. It is time that the will. making propensities of the Romish clergy were restricted. There is hardly a will made by them that is not contested, either on account of the sub stantial benefits conferred through their agency on the "Church," or from the discontent of the relatives of the deceased with the disposal of the propertj.—Post. SIII COIRCIAL TREATY WITH FRANCE—BOARD OF TRADE WMITIIIALL, Jinx 6.—The Right Honourablethe Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have re ceived, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, copy of a despatch from the French ambassador at this court, announcing, with reference to the provisions of the Pod article of the supplementary convention of the 12th October last between this country and France, that the French government have authorised the French consular agents in the United Kingdom to affix their vies to arid- Ca ted i ly a th ori e g l i ti n ig iu h Cl us oltrt by of th Ch e Chancery to mn adminieter mimkumn ar il" fa B the Charioery. —Gazette. Tax Fawn's CREDITORS OF SPAlN.—Hams' Lit ' Shed hoe the following :—" The a ff air of the Frees mediate of Spain is at length settled. France re trainees to claim the interest, which has been Wig running, and which , being capitalised, had considerably augmented the debt. At the present time the negotiators are stipu. Wag the periods of payment, which will be made to extend ever several years. Whilst K. Barret has returned to Paris to come to a definitive widerstanding with the French government, IL Moe, the Spanish ambassador, has been summoned to Madrid to twelve the instructions of his cabinet. His absence will be but short. France had de manded that the payment should take place ia four years. The debt amounta to about 100 millions." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF OOXIIONEI.-CYHD3 DAY.) The BFIAKn took the chair et 12 o'clock. Fle . /TKIOII . B BAYTNOB BANKS BILL On the order for the committee, Sir F. T. BARLNG explained the object d the bill. Every cos knew that savings banks had been most useful institutions, but recently several parties had opened banks which they called savings banks, but which were really without anj of the safeguards or rules of these institutions. The object of the present bill was to prevent establishments such as those to which he alluded being called savings banks. He did not wish to interfere with their business, but merely to prevent them using • nanie which was calculated to mislead depositors. To his certain knowledge many work ing people were depositing their money in these so-called savings banks, under the impression that they had all the safeguards and protection of the government institutions. Mr. W. E. FORSTER opposed the bill, and said that there were in his district several institutions which would be injuriously affected by this bill, but which were found to be exceedingly valuable to the working classes. He snorkel to the penny savings banks which bad been introduced , by Mr . Sykes, and which were found to be most beneficial. Savings banks" was their legitimate name, and it war casting • slur on them which they did not deserve to compel them to alter their title. Neither did he think the bill of the right honourable hero. net justifiable on public grounds. True it was founded on a resolution of the committee ; but there were many other resolutions—among others, one re commending a government guarantee for the savings backs, which guarantee did not in reality at present exist. If they now made it penal for any other institution to take the name of a government savings-bank, they would be only fostering the geeeral delusion that these latter had a government guarantee. He bad only lately been made aware that trustees of sa ving s-lads were not liable, an act having been paved in 1844, giving them special exemption even from the oonsequenoss of wilful neglect. The right hon. baronet had mentioned instances of poor people suffering through the defalcations of so-called savings banks; but he (lir. Forster) could match his cease with much worse ones in government savings banks. There was the lamentable Rochdale OW, for instance, where the actuary had purloined 60,0001., and the depositors were the sufferers, • special act of parliament having been passed to protect the trustees. Besides there were many savings banks not connected with the government, which were much more secure than the latter. There was the Kent Savings Bank amongst others, where the directors for the time being were responsible for the deposits. Al they were solvent to the extent of half a million, he as serted that their security was much better than a delusive oonnexion with the government. He thought that the best wanunld be to postpone the bill until they were prepared to *paste on the whole question, and therefore moved that the bill be committed that day three months. Mr. BAINES seconded the amendment, principally on the ground that the bill would interfere with the penny saving banks which were rapidly spreading all over the country. These penny banks were connected with the Sunday schools, and they should remember that there were 26,000 of the latter scattered all over the country. Mr. HENLEY also supported the amendment, and on similar grounds, namely, - that in general effect the bill was calculated to tread on the penny banks. [Left sitting.] AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. On Monday afternoon the /Emperor Fraacia Joseph received the deputies from the Hungarian Diet, Count Apponyi and M. Kuloman Myer", in the presence of the Chauoellor of Hungary, Baron Vay, the Viae-Chanoellor, M. Zsedenyi, the the Minister, Count lizeosen, and the first Aide-de- Camp OeneraL His Majesty replied in the Hun garian language to the address of the deputation, and told them that he would send his official answer to the Hungarian Diet. POLAND. A letter from Warsaw of the 4th says :—" Yes terday evening we narrowly escaped another mas sacre. The religious service which has been held in front of the churches has for some time past con cluded with patriotic hymns. Yesterday evening a prodigious crowd was assembled in the Rue Lessuo. They had scarcely begun the first hymn when troops arrived, under the command of a gene ral, and the assembly was ordered to disperse. All representations to the general were fruitless ; he continued to threaten to fire. Already some fanatics had cried out, ' Well, then, fire ; while the majority were on their knees ; when, hap pily, some influential citizens succeeded in inducing the crowd to disperse. In the cities of the pro vinces there is militant agitation. Troops continue to leave for the Austro-Prussian frontiers. In a conversation with the Grand Rabbi, General Suchosanett has threatened to close all churches and synagogues where patriotic hymns continue to be sung." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the sth Mate that when the Queen's troops entered Loja, as announced by telegraph, the principal inhabitants waited on the general in command to express their satisfaction at their arrival, and that in the evening the town was illuminated. They add that many of the persons who were with the insurgents had been made to join them by force, and that the chief, a shoeing smith, named Perez, was one of the very first who ran away on the approach of the troops. Military courts had been instituted to try the insurgents who were captured. (amaries BERNE, Juts 10. The Federal Assembly has elected M. liampfii, present vice-president, as President of the Swiss Confederation for 1862. Dr. Furor, FederslCouncillor, has been elected Floe-President of the 81/ill Confederation. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Joys 28 (Per Jam ti► Londonderry). There is no news of importance. Skirmishes daily occur between the outpoets the oontending armies, but no serious movement has yet taken place. QUEBEC, Jaws 29. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred arrived at Montreal yesterday, and met with a hearty recep tion. He will leave to-day for this city. The election returns continue to be favourable to the government. The Postmaster-General, how ever, has been defeated in his own county. The weather continues beneficial to the crops. (LATEST BY TELF.GRAPR TO FATHER POINT.) NEW YORK, JUNK 20, EVI3UIO. . . Political again have undergone no important change. The steamships City of Baltimore and Bavaria sailed to-day for Europe. Exchange— Bankers' bills, 108. • Stocks firm. Erie, 22} ; New York Central, 73i ; Illinois, 1371. Cotton chimed firm, with an advancing tendency. Mid dling Upland, 141 c. to 15c. Wheat and flour de clining. Chicago, 80c. to 90c. per bushel ; super. fine State flour, 4 dols. 10c. Corn steady. Provi sions quiet. _ _ _ LIVERPOOL, JuLy 10. The Liverpool and New York and Philadelphia Company's steamer Glasgow, which sailed to-day for New York, took 189,7611. in specie. Advices from Lisbon ' in announcing the arrival of Prince Napotem and the Prisons Clothade in that city, state that thew intpedel higlnatinee will proceed to the United Buttes shoat the 16th in the Prince Jerome yacht. The Siamese ambassadors on Sunday viaited the palace and of Villein.e sad the Trianon. . _ M. Thouveoel on Monday gave a grand dinner of 80 coven to the Siamese asabemsdors, at which the minis tem sad a great number al piteous of distinction were Presort. _ _ The Reggio &Italia of Milan announces that, in eatieipatioet of the death of Ms IL, the chiefs of the Miressontene party, in order to avoid as such as pomade ea iatarnignom, have organised a committee, charged to said a new pontiff. The inssalsws et t►is °enclave an saki to laws selected Cardinal Silvestri, Cl Rovigo, whose &- validness to Austrian policy is wall known. This prelate is liftpaise years of age. TM ex-Grand Doke of Tuscany has arrived at Veda'. The King of Greece is expected at Trieste on the 10th, on hie way to visit his family ha Bavaria. A letter from Rome in the Journal des Dads gives some particulars of the way in which signatures were obtained for the petitions to the Emperor Napoleon and Elm Victor Emmanuel, in spite of the extreme vigilance of the police. Though a vast number of comes for signa ture were circulating, and though the authorities offered a reward of 300 crowns for one, they could not get hold of one. Tin EMPEROR AT VICEIY.—The Monsieur says : —" O. Sunday Vichy presented a spaded, as pie bir as sosecartented„ Its habitual men won lost amulet t the people that NMI down from the neeteetaine of Form and the Auvergne. More than 10,000 peempla with their vine lad slab= led taken pommies el hed if encamped time, outmoding the illi ta g W. dome is enter le Use day.ees soh. gra the Ilespesor during the ea Neje* west tie Aura, end, lathe, at the duo of He oallesely want, the inememe mend pawed MIR eking his we% bin with the waseaset agelematiees. the EmP l, aaWattalettergiftsScennit Mo cetheed cat: ° shield be admitted. Use glk_rwablisi eta NIL sight of their severelia, ileMed befotreVE ssfy to cries, a thousand tiewe vepsated. of ' Vivo Y. Fewer' vire l'lmpfratrioe ! vivo le Prince Iniphith Eesry deb the Emperor makes some encomium in the neigh. ho.choodof Vichy." FRENCH lIIMIWARINII IN CHINA. The Side hu the following :—" We hove rooeived No. SO of Vol. XIIII. of the Anna** tie la Sainte Snfonce. The association by which this wait is published has for its object the salvation of youthful Chinese, and from not more that 25 dioceses it obtained in the year 1860 the sum of 487,110 f. Hem e iz e szecimen of the manner in which young Chinese are ha • without the knowledge of their pa rental :-11111111 , one of the persons who *dims for me, was am day on the look-out for a favourable opportunity of exercising his office. A pagan perceiving him said, ' You are a physician—come quickly, my child is dying l' Manuel hastened to the house indicated ; a child whams body was much swollen was shown to him. He examined the child and put his hand on its forehead. "There,' said he, 'is the seat of the malady. The forehead is much baited, _and mut be refresissd. Bring a little water !" He touched the forehead 'gab. • Yes,' said he, ' • little water is required,' sod be the child without any one buena' what be woo 'The head of the child is very feveriala; be said ahonsords ; • the malady is grave, I will Moons to-morrow.' The sett day he went tithe house, but the little angel was almody in beaus. Feather on we read:—'_A of bleialwes atteudlog oar wheel@ bad a child who loused awn peewee, taad beaed gook of the Vidal fit wi t h MIL 0•11 deg iho o b ar ben* awnothieg the mike hi bud. tbe &lid wads weary air the as on howl on ainoweineleu hu mme task --so oVentudie =b treatly utilise the child's unidinee that minable On another se au* when hi Ads Woke, seed t few yearn had an attach of four, be resolved to ewe her air he bad daft Ide fakir Ho auerdieely took her to a um,. wade bar el i tionsf, rooks the Paler and the Are, bro Aga .of the lONS, awl Ow little girl was eenedr Is it not to be lesented that Mies= whither auharbed or nut, eliould phi& web - tale la that war bee , _olladanairewing the eaormeent of baptise whisk b loi,/lf AU me au inatineenta el was. eleatod by newer of • taw mg an Anal • wham Is keep alive lgoorune and ligunlitlent Wo appeal to ovenadma to judge." , ‘0it••.._•...—.., wr..r....?!..0wee.... .._ • The Indipendance Bacot Mislay nor* states that rood of the colliers in the Iliefeese had returned to work, on some concession beim .1111111.114 VIM. A dozen or two were apprehended for rioting sad VIOIMIOS. RICHMOND ILECTION. Mr. Roundel' Palmer, the new Solicitor-General, was returned without opposition as member for Richmond yesterday (Tuesday) in place of Mr. Rich, who accepts the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. Palmer was escorted to the Town. hall, where the election prooesdiegs took place, by a num ber of gentlemen connected with the borough. The Mayor (G. Smurthwaite, jun., Seq.iacted am return. ing eller. Mfr. L. 0001( nominated, and Mr. G. BIWIITHWAITE, seta., seconded, Mr. Roundel! Palmer as a fit and proper person to succeed Mr. Rich, the cause of whose retirement—" an affection of the eyes"—both took occasion to regret. There being no other candidate forthcoming, Mr. Palmer was declared to be duly elected. XT. PALM= returned the electors his moat hearty and sincere thanks for the great honour bestowed upon him. He felt very strongly the responsibility as well as the honour and privilege of the position in which they had placed him, for it was no light thing, he could assure them, to take part in the legislation of • country such as this. No saifioe of time or labour of any kind could be too much in behalf of such a people ; and he should be wholly unworthy of their confidence if be entered into parliament or the dis oharge of the duties of the office he had been called by his Queen to fulfil, with any views simply of his own personal scr grandieetnemt or to the satisfaction of any motives of ambition which he might entertain. His wish was to serve his God first and his country next—(applause)—and as loos as he continued faithful to that profession he hope that he should be enabled in some slight mea sure to do some service to his country. It was that sense of responsibility of the seriousness of the duty that he had undertaken which made him anxious rather to perform than to promise much. lie wished to understand what be was going to do before undertaking to do it ; and to see the effects and consequences of the course of policy on which he might enter before he pledged himself to that policy. He wished also to move with that judgment and caution which =Wit give a removable hope that the feeling and opinion and support of the country might go with the policy undertaken; and for these reasons be had always a desire, and still desired, not to encourage expectations of more than he might be able to perform. At the some time, they would believe that he was anxious in all things to follow • wise and liberal pa Rey, and to promote the constant progress of those improve. made, without which it was impossibLe that our interests could keep pace with the advancing wants of society. He bad accepted office, of course, with every confidence in those under whom he should serve. Many of them were his own political aseociates and personal trisects. Others he had long watched, and he was convinced that they were actuated by motives high, pure, and patriotic, and that they entertained principles the country bad reason to ap. prove ; and therefore he had not felt one moment's India. tion in accepting the opportunity of allying himself closely and cordially with them. (Applause.) As long as be had the honour to fill the office of riolicitor-Geoeral it would be his duty, as it was that of all subordinates, generally to sup port the measures the government introduced. In some things of course he must waive his own opinion, but not in matters of principle. He then referred to the particular branch of improvement connected with the office of Solicitor-General. They were all aware that the present Lord Chancellor, under whom be would serve,' was a man of the most brilliant powers—in the prime of life—a zealous and sincere reformer, who bad done much while holding the office of Attorney-General for the improvement of the law. Under him he (Rt. Palmer) should do his best to support his great ends. (Applause.) Although Fa kinds of reform had more brilliancy and glitter than reforms, he was fully persuaded that there were none more real and practical importance to the welfare of the people of this country. (Hear, hear.) It was invidious to compare one reform to another,• hut he might safely say, that of all the reforms introduced in our times none were more important or extensively useful than the institution of the county courts, which had brought justice to the doors of all people. In the same direction he hoped they should still move for ward, and that the criminal law, the commercial law, and the law with respect to real property mad the transfer of land—all law, in fact, would undergo a careful, vigorous, and consistent revision with regard to the purposes of re form. (Applause.) lie fully believed that the office of Lord Chancellor was never in hands more promising than in Sir R. Bothell's. It should not be his (Mr. Palmer's) fault, at all events, so far as will was concerned, if the *forte of that high officer of state were not duly seconded. From him personally not much would be required by the government in any other de partment, yet he would not omit to my that the policy of his friend the present Chancellor of the Ex chequer, following as he did in the track pointed out before hand by the successful triumphs of free trade, had his warm and cordial approbation. Of course on particular measures of finance different opinions would oink but as be +m sot the Chancellor of the Exchequer, be did not pretend to say that this tax and that tax WWI always the best to be taken off or put on. Such questions appeared to him not to be of that great importance which sonic people attributed to them, in comparison with the general character and tendency of the finaucial policy pursued in this country. The present character and ten dopey of that policy tons to remove us far as may be a the remaining fetters of trade ; and he was quite sure it would succeed. It filled the Exchequer ; it relieved the people; and he was convinced that while the present government continued in office it would be rigidly followed, LI indeed it was last year, and is this year and as far as they could at present judge with signal success, notwithstanding • very acrimonious oppositioe. (Applause.) Reprdiag foreign poll , / be believed that in the hands of Lord Palmerton and John Russell we might safely trust ourselves, and he enter tained no doubt that it would continue to be conducive to the peace and security and honour of this country, and as far as our interest went, to the liberty and independence of foreign nations. And he thought, if there were no other reasons for supporting the government, this would be enough. As long as that government lasted be should doubtless be in a subordinate position, and therefore would have to act in due subordination. But ea regarded the question of reform sod improvement, he should prefer that policy which was liberal, provided also it was rational, port, and safe. In answer to questiese put to him, he repeated that es he held office under govern. meat, he should be guided by the amine they took in respect to reform ; also, that he was opposed to the tin. conditional abolition of charelrrates. CIOWIN-OFTICE, JuLYo.—Minisz9a RETURNED To SERVE IN THE PILISBLIIS PAIIILLUIENT. —Lieutenant-Colonel Luke White, of the (Smogs, in the county et Dalin, foe . the county of Loeiford, in the room of Colonel Henry White, who has amepted the office of steward of her Ma jesty's manor of Northstead. JULY 9.—fllr William Atha* ton, Knight, of Westbourne-terrace, Flydesark, fa the county of Middlesex, her Majesty's Attorney-General, foe , the city of Durham. —Ge:ctfe. r 1 P Tb diet Tb actio Th hi th Ha Snit, video broui tame Jas ci Ti Mr the p lii the pi dren, awl 1 alway at the the at on be: that alaugl probe with Tb( him t upon doubt mimic The No r; prison The pond Pre Ling a murd( TLe Went When for tl attain *a dieted vow ebe re The death the ex 'emit Wpin TatWe he t o . The CI