The Express. — London, England, 1861-09-04 00:00:00

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IL Manor AIM Mr, E.. larankL—Cuinaismas at LAU *lOO MATER AT LOSOON TIIM On -.Mama & IS. as Allomoom, lb. 44a. SIMMOM.../Aembs& Aiessa& A =no. LONDON, IVIIIiNNWAY, szpr. 4. TO OUR READERS. SPORTING INTIMLIGINCE. A !ate edition et the &press is published every "wee g during the racing aseaosi, containing the results ol the day's mesa IN the days when our American cousins were at peace a topic of conversation among them was " the last explosion." Brisk competition, cheap fares, and smart captains, combined to make the ' , uniting of the boilers a vulgar incident of Mississippi steam navigation. It seems as if from very weariness of peace and safety, from imps tieiwo of humdrum steadiness and tedious pros penty, the old country were beat upon a little murderous excitement at any cost—something, say, of the havoc and horror of civil war brought to our doors. The " dead season" must have its Great Fires, and a rapid succession of railway acci dents, by way of an atrocious interpretation of the phrase. Lists of lilted and wounded, reports front the limpet:as, ambulances, taunts °lithe field these things are an annual "sensation" to thousands of people for whom there is no hunting or shooting season. Is it that a country without earthquakes, insurrections, or pestilences, and in which life is so will looked after, and the increase of popula bon is so regular, is sick of the absence of calamity, and sighs for the excitement of great diameters? Is it that we are even jealous of the loss and blood shed which our kinsmen are suffering on the other side of the Atlantic, and for which Southern Italy has to thank the fitter FATHrR ? However this stay be, our railway Whip/AIWA are striving not unsuccessfully to brace the nerves of a public languid from excess of ease and comfort. They are improving the "dead season" by experiments on large masses of excursionists, whose " vile bodies" are the targets in this new art of war. Within a fortnight of the ope gof their autumn campaign Vie list of casualties is sonic forty killed and amore than a hundred maimed for life. To talk of railway " accidents" is an abuse of language ; railway " actions" is the true de scription of these charges and onsets of opposing trains, rushing upon each other like two regiwento of the nuns army canon to blows in the dark. t►ne might have thought that the catastrophe on the Brightou Line could hardly be surpassed in directness and simplicity. The Inquest, it is true, in a praiseworthy spirit of zeal and curicsity, has already thrown around the plain and central facts of the case such a superfluity of concurrent and contradictory evidence, and such a confusion of irrelevant details, that the causes of the collision are almost submerged in the circumstances. The state of the signalmen and of the signal-gear, and the precise terms of the blundering message that the Curried man at one end of the tunnel sent to the flurried man at the other, fill up columns Ce question and answer, and divert the attention of the public from the primary causes of all such disasters. All this subsidiary evi dence no doubt points in one direction, and strengthens the conclusion which the common instinct drew at once from the simple facts. But the duty of theme who comment upon those " accidents," in the public interest, is to fix attention upon the system which covers all the hurry, and recklessness, and confusion, when it is not on its trial for the donee- The public are partly responsible for the dangers they encounter when they tempt a railway company to tax its resources beyond its powers of safe control. Railway companies pander recklessly to a reckless demand, and trust to ordinary and calculated precautions against extraordinary and incalculable riaka. The moral of the Brighton accident, so far as the public safety is concerned, it needs no Inqu. t to discover, though the blame may be ever so ri gorously and ingeniously distributed among the minor agents. The collision on the Hampstead Junction line is eren more terribly simple than the Brighton " accident." What can be more simple than a passenger train running at full speed into a station on a dark evening, and coming into colli sion with a ballast-train at work across the line ? Surely this is just one of those appalling probabilities which must have visited the dreams of every railway traveller. The collision of an omnibus with one of l'texridat's vans, on a caual bridge, is equally imaginable, and would be scarcely less disattruus in proportion, if we suppose the van deliberately stuck across the bridge, and waiting to be charged by an omnibus full of passengers. Multiply an omnibus full of passengers by thirteen or fourteen railway car riages full, and magnify the van to the dimwit- sions of a ballast train, and wo approximate the casualties of the collision at Kentish-town. The spot was certainly well chosen for such an acci dent. Four hundred yards from a station, close to a signal staff, just at a curve, and on the top of a steep embankment—here wore all the condi tions for a railway accident on the largest scale, or rather for several varieties of " accident " lumped into one. The passenger train on this occasion also was an "excursion" train, though perhaps, nothing is to be said against the principle of excursion trains in this instance, unless the incredible statement should be confirmed, that excursion trains on the Havipstearl Junction and North London hues come and go as they list, in an off-hand, desultory, and promiscuous manner, chit out information of their movements being given or expected along the line. Otherwise, it is evi dent that any ordinary train might have met with such a fate. It appears that the engine driver of the ballast-train saw the passenger train approaching, and then began to shunt, "in the " hope of getting clear" of the up line. It appears, too, that the engine -driver of the excursion-train " supplised," and had reason to suppose, the line all clear. Does the blame, then, lie THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1861. with either of the drivers ? At present, and sub- ' ject to further elucidation, inquiry seems to point to the person in charge of the ballast-train, under whore orders the ballasting was going on at that late hour, even up to the moment when a train was due and actually signalled. It is vain to dwell on the afflicting and appalling conseqiienues of the collision —a scene in a London suburb which may well have made the reporters feel as if they were suddenly transported into the regions of wild and terrible romance. The linea -1 tion we all ask is not so much how did the collision happen, as how should such a collision be prevented from happening! These eilietere lines are of necessity somewhat critically constructed and dangerously situated. Short distances, sharp curves, steep embankments. On such lines the closest vigilance and the most unremitting caution are indispensable to ordnuni safety. But on such lines more than ordinary safety is required, for the trains during the stun nier :re incessant, and almost always crowded. And shill to the regular trains are added excur sion trains impn,ri* , l, where is the working staff sufficient to make the safety of passengers more than possible It may be that the system of excur sion trains on all lines will have to be revised. on the great lines these extra trains are put on because there is little or no provision for the excursionist class in the high priced ordinary trains. It will have to be considered whether, by giving all classes the means of travelling at reasonable fares by ordinary trains, the demand fur excursion trains may not be practically got rid of— to the advantage alike of the public and the com panies. If excursion trains are dangerous on the great lines, on a cincture lino, such as the North 1,01111"11 and Hampstead Junction, they are doubly dangerous and doubly inexcusable. trig Court. BALMORAL, Sznimsza I. The Queen and Prince enusort, accumpenie4l by Princew Alice, Primer; Helent, and Prince Alfred. arrived at Balmoral at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, having travelled direct frow Holyhead, which her Majesty loft at uiuo on Friday evening, only stopping at Perth fur bretkf.v.t. Thu roil suite consisted of Lady Churchill, the Hoe. Vsctoris Stuart Wortley, Culooel the lion. Sir C. Phipps, Lieutenaat•Deoeral the Hoe. C. Grey, and Dr. Jenncr. Tae Right Hon. Sir Charlie Wood joined the royal train at froi Etr, and attended bar Majesty, aa Secretary of State, to Balmoral. The royal dinner party lent night included Sir Charles Wood, hit James Clark, Major Elphinstane, R.E., Dr. Jams,, Dr. Robertson, sod the Ladies and DenUemen in Waiting. SrPTEIIIIER 2. lies , Majesty, the Propos consort, Princess Ala«•, and Prises Alfred, attended divine service in the wish church erathie ymterday. The Ladies and gentlemen in Waiting were in attendance. The Her. Asderson eakiated. These woe no oddities to the royal dinner party last night. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Lord High Oeseadmianer et the lonian Weeds Dematchre were seat to the Governess el Malts, Gibraltar, Coyloe, Hoag Kong, sail Lamm. THE LATE VISIT OP HER MAJETTY TO 111.1 LAND. A monthly tn3eting of tho Town Council of Dublin was bad es Monday for the purpose of receiving the reply from her Majesty and the Pnnee Consort to the addreiees presented to them by the corporation ; the Eight Hoe. the LORD /I A TOS ia the chair. His Luenseir .aid—As this is the first time the council has met cues I had the bosour of presenting the corpora 'lull 0.1.11-es at welcome to Iwo Majesty the Queen, perhaps It may be acceptable to stet* to the house the mode of pro cedure us that mimeos. I was introduced by his Excel leery the Lurd Lieutenant into the tjuseo's presence, and bar Majesty received me most graciously. In attendance on her Majesty were the Earl Granville, one of her Majesty's Seerelarra of State ; Lord Sydney, Loyd High Chamberlain, the floe. Gemmel Grey, and UN ladies in waiting. On pre meting the adds,. I said—" May it please your Majesty, I love the high bower of pecoenting to your Majesty the Impel and dutiful eddreee of welcome from the aldermen. heggemisti cod aliases of your ancient and loyal city of Dublin es your Majesty. visit to this part of your Majesty's deminiame." The Queen thee took the address, sad said— "l feel .niiich gratified at the improved state of Ireland since my last visit." Her Majesty's manner was most gra cious and cordial througbouL I then retired, accompanied as before by the Lord Lieutenant, and also Earl Gruiville and Lord Sydney. The Tows Clerk teed the manes to her Majesty and the Prince Consort. The address to the Prince Consort was as follows : "May it plume your Royal Ilighnem,—We, the Lord Iliyor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the city of Dublin, ap proach your Royal Highness to offer the tribute of our on , dial and must respectful welcome, and to express the heart felt pleasure we experience in having this part of your Alsjesty's dominion honoured by soother visit from our most gracious Queen and your Royal Higbee's. Nut alone as the Consort of our much loved Sovereign are you en titled to our regard, but as the patron of science and a pro- moter of everything calculated to elevate humeuity you have earned and possess the coefideoce and affection of ■ll clams of her Majesty's subjects. We feel deep pleasure in pointing your Royal Ilighnues's attention to the materiel improvement which has taken place in this country since your Royal Highness's visit, and we are assured that her Majesty acid your Royal Highness will join with us in re versed thankfulness to the Meet High for the great bleu. lags vouchsafed to Ireland, and also in fervent prayer, that the moral and physical coediting' of this country may con tinue to advance. We recognise the honour conferred on Ire land by selecting it as the place where his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales may pursue his military education, and we fondly hops that the loyal devotion of the Irish people will so impress hie youthful mind se to induce him Royal Higbeesa frequently to visit our shores. We humbly implore the All-wise Disposer of human events, to endow her most gracious Majesty and your Royal Bighueas with every blessing." The Lord Mayor maid that in reply to the addreque, let ters had Wen received from the chief secretary and Earl trey, which the Town Clerk would rind. The Town Clerk read the following letters : " Duldiu Castle, August 30, 1861. am directed by the Lord Lieutenant to requrat your lordship will convey to the members of the corpors• Lion her Majesty's gracious reception of the loyal and duti. ful address of the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and hurgn,ses of the city of Ilvl.lin uo the OCCAIIiOII of your lordship having in person presented thew address to her Majedy at the Vimnzal Lodge, os the 2:trd inst. -I hare the honour to be, my Lord, your lordship's obedient servant, •' Rooter Pm.. n. Right nue. the Lord If.ayer." •' August 26, 1861. " My Lord,—l am comma's'sd by his Royal Higheese the Prince Carson, to acknowledge the esceipt of the address from the Corporation of Dublin, which was left Ly your lordship for his Royal Highness os Friday last, and to ex press his Royal Highsess's regret that an engagement to visit the Prince of Wales at the Curragh, preveuted his receiviug it personally from your lordship. He wouti have been glad to avail himself of the opportunity of assuring your lordship, and through your lordship, the aldermen and burgesses of Dublin, of his grsteful lease of the kind anal flattering welcome he has fur thu third time met with in this city. It most alway, in most gratifying to his Royal Niglio's. to witness the atfectionste demonstrations of at. tachnient to her Majesity's ',count and family, which every where greet her Majeety in travelling through ell parts of her dominions. Hut it is peculiarly grstifying es an occasion like the present, when his Royal Highness has the further satisfectiuo of hearing from your lordship of the great im provement in material pusperity of the people whose trials ia times happily now pest have commanded her Majesty's most heartfelt sympathy, and in whose welfare ad happi ness she can never cease to take the warmeet and most lively interest. His Royal Highness joins most cordially with our kedship and the meuilsers of the corporation in He poem GM the menl and phydeal condition el thin country may eintioue to improve.- I bare the honour to be, my Lonl, your most obedient, humble 'errant, " To the Lad Mayor of Dublin." " GUY." LORD PALMERSTON AT NHORNCIJIPE CAMP, A N D THE MYTHS' srHOOL OP MITsKETRT. Yesterday Lord Palmerston paid is visit to Shorneltffe Camp, where he reviewed the troop., and to the practice ground of the IFlythe School of Musketry. Ilia lordship posted at en early hour from Weimer Castle to Dover, where he took horse, sod, accompanied by the Hon. W. Cowper, rode along the heights to Folkestone. Here be was met by Captain 1/alzell, Aide-de-Camp to General Dairen, who is in command at Shorucliffe Camp, and ty Lord Mello. The petty passed unrecognieed by Folkestone Harbour, along the road at the lase of the cliffs lot tisodgate, and then striking into the military road, ascended to the camp, where his lordship was received with a salute of 19 guns. Shorneliffe camp is on an e l eva t e d plateau, cornmauding a lengthened view of the Channel, and of the French coast from Calais to Boulogne in floe weather to a considerable distaoce inland. The camp itself cousinta of wood awl metal huts, on three sides of a square, opening to a ravine, through which the main mail winds front risillgate. The troops were drawn up on the ground, ready f. r insjwctior They consisted of a squad ron of the 1 Pith Hussars, under the command of Captain !'erring; four lotteries of Artillery, corn. niandel by Lieut.-Colonel Shakespear ; the Military Train, limbor the vinoi mil of Major de Malin ; Engineers, commanded by Captain Gordon : Ist Battalion 10th Regiment, comnaindoil by Colonel Longdon ; 2nd Bat talion 27itli Regiment (King's Own Borderers), conimawledi by Major Bloomfield ; and the 2nd Battalion 214 Fusileem, commanded by Colonel Lowe. A large concourse of per sons lined one side of the parade-ground, among whom were to be seen the Marquis of Angleses, the Countess of Win t'iehrea, and Lord Maidstone, Sir John Bllgh, Le. General Dalxell, surrounded by his staff, received Lord Palmerston Dear the ilag-staff at the top of the military mad, and escorted his lordship along the lines. The various corps having marched past in slow and quick time, various skirmishing movements were gone through, and the proceedings were brought to a close by a general 'aide. As soon en the review was over, Lord Palmerston rode up to one of the Armstrong guns, and, dismounting, examined for a quarter of an hour, and with much minuteness, the mechanism of the gun and its shell and shot, Captain Purvis explaining the mode in which the gun ir laid and Bred, the construction of the shell and fuses, and the method by which they act. His lordship then rode to the back of the camp, and examined the mend towards the railway, 296 acres of which are desired for the enlargement of the camp. His lordship expressed approval of the en. largement, and also said that he thought stone barracks should be constructed, with a view to permanent occupa. lion. Lord Eleho next drew the attention of Lord Pal merston to the huts of the married, his lordship entering floe that was occupied by six men, six women, and fifteen din deer, and hero, an in everything else, making himself ac. quainted with the mioutire of convenient., examining the Moves, beds, meats of ventilation, dm. The hut in cony pertinenta was inspected ; and his lordship at length rod* off to Gen. Dalzell's to lunch. His lordship afterwards proceeded to Ilythe, where he at once went on to the pectic() ground, accompanied by General Hay, and watched with the name interest lie hnl given to everything during the day the shooting of parties of military et the butt. ; aod after our reporter left the ground his lord ship was to witness experiments with Captain Norton's rifle shells fur exploding tumbrils of gunpowder. His lordship would then ride back to Lover and peat to Widmer Castle. The Duchess of Hamilton arrived at Hamilton Have Irma Paris, sod yesterday left tows to jots the duke sad the Martial of Douglas is Hootlaod. The Duke and Duehese of Buceleuch are enter talidag a select party at Druralsarig Castle, N.B. Thu Duke and Duck.ea of Beaufort have left their east in Wales fur Gothsll non, Leioostcrthire, ou a visit to the Earlsod °mete= Howe. Thu Duke de Muillf has returned to the Baton wick Hotel, Jerrnyu-street, from the Duke of Ham.ltuu'■ sheeting-bet is the lele of Arne. The Earl awl Countenn of Winchilnea harp re tuned to Eastwell Park, near Abliford, from • tour is Germany. The Earl of Carnarvon lia." arrived in town from his Peat, flighelens, Dear Newbury. The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe is seriously indis posed, sod fears are entertained fur his ultimate recovery. Viscount Valletort, M.P., who was on a visit to the Duke awl Ducheen of Duocleuch au Scotland, has been sent for. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield and Lady Evelyn Stanhope have arrived in town from Dretby Park, Derhyshay. Lord aLd Lady Rendlealiain hava arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from Scotland. The marriage of Lady Julis Villiers anti Sir Cl Wombwell, Bart., took piece at St. Peter's Church yester day morning at a quarter before 10 o'clock. The service woe read by the Doan of Worcester, assisted by the rector. An elegant eiljeaner was given by the uncle of the bride, the Right Hon. Mr. Frederick Peel, after which the brick atid bridegroom set off fur Newburrh Park, in North Yorkshire, the magnificent seat of Sir G. Woodmen. The Earl of Coventry was best man on the OCCIIIiiOO. - - --- --- We are sorry to learn that the Counteas (Dowager) Aabbtinsham is autteriog from serious illness as to °oration moth sosiety to bar family. The Dean of Worcester has arrived at Farrance's Hotel, from St. Leonardt-ou-Sea. A large party is now assembled at Acrise I'ark, Kent, the residence of Mr. Mackinnon, M.P. for Rye, con sisting of the Countess of Dundooald, Ladies Lotrisa and Alice Cochrane, Miss IliU, Colonel Freeman, Lord Cochrane, Mr. Christie, Mr. Francis Willes, irAl. The Cumberland Pa-qua eye:—"Keswick is now very full of visitors 012 Wednesday, owing to the sudden and favourable change in the weather, all was bustle and animation. Small parties of excursionists might be seen making their way, as f►ncy led them, by "!load and felt" Skiddaw had more than its meal share of tourists, who might be seen all day. either ascending or returning from it. A but has been lately built about half way up the mountain, which is a convenient resting place for parties wishing to o►erhaul their stock of lemonade, giogerleer, sandwiches, isz., indispensable requisites for ascending the far- famed Skiddaw." The Looghrea Journal says :—" A rumour has reached us that it is in contemplation to entertain at a pub lic kinquet in Galway our gifted rind worthy representative Mr. W. H. Gregory, as a mark of their appreciation, on the part of the gentry of this county, of the valued services rendered by that estimable gentleman in obtaining the re. storatioe of the subsidy to the Galway packet line." A Dublin letter says :—"The we.ither continues to be delightful, sunny and breezy, and the Lament work goes as briskly in all direction.. Except the agricultural labourers and the workers for the press, all the world mans to be enjoying vacation. Tourist. are streaming into Kil. lame; ever since the Queen left. The opening of the Dub• lin and Wicklow Railway, through a picturesque district from the town of Wicklow to Rathdrum, in the Deighbour hood of the Vale of Ovoca and the Seven Churches of Gluodalough, enables, visitors to see the most beautiful scenery iu the county of Wicklow, at much leas cost of time anal money than formerly. The Dublin and Wicklow Coro pour lease the Dublin anal Kingstown line, the most pros- I perms in Ireland, and from this there is a branch which meets the Dubliu and Wicklow a short distance from nay. The Great rtouthern and Western Railway Company have won much praise for the effective manner in which the exi gencies of the public during the Queen'. visit were met without a single accident, which is what might be expected from the *dm:Table managemeot of that line. Equal credit is due to the Wicklow Company, for on the day of the Queen's departure monster trains were run every fifteen minutes, without delay or confusion, or the s:ightest injury being sustained by anybody." General Fleury is to set out on the ith inst. on a tour through Oki* French departments in which the fanners occupy themselves in breeding horses. There are seven of these districts, over which governing inspectors are to be appointed. Breeding studs are to be established in each of these district, at the expense of the state. The Emperor is resolved to encourage the breed of horses in France, in order to release France front the tribute of 15,000,0001 r. which she rays annually to foreigners far horses required for the army. The Hones of Anmembly nt Nassau have appro priated 1,500& towards the carrying out of a contemplated stramparket communication between Naar; Tawas Cops Hold, Turk's Island, Porto Plata, Si, Tbomrs, to EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORANSPONDINT.) PARTS, TUIDIDAY EVENING. The Pays stigmatises as " completely false" the statement of the lieVprialance Beige, that Count de Pereigny had prepared a speech for the Council- General of which he is president, but was prevented from pronouncing it by the disapproval of the Emperor. This contradiction is none the worse for being a little tardy, since we may esteem it to be all the better considered. The paragraph, how ever, throws but little light upon the gloom which envelope the Roman question. If it be a comfort to think that the Emperor has not disapproved of a speech which was reported to be au echo of Baron Ricasoli's circular, it is on the other hand provok ing to be left in doubt whether the draft of such a speech ever existed, and whether it be true that the French prime minister's thirst for the waters of Vichy was the true and only reason for his absence from his Council-General. The new pamphlet on the Italian question grows upon the public mind, and although iu all official quarters its official cha racter is verbally denied, it is very remarkable that neither the ilfonikier nor its satellites should have found a word to say against it. This significant silence coincides with the decided approbation awarded by the Coooditotiminet and Pays to the Bicasoli circular, which, however, strange to say, is positively &Binned to be disapproved of by M. Thouvenel. The Marquis de Lavalette, the newly-appointed ambassador to Rome, has gone to Biarritz to re ceive the Emperor's latest instructions. The Bourse, after being very firm at the opening, experienced a alight reaction, and the Rente closed for cash at 68fr. 15c., with a fall of 5c., and for , account at 09fr. 10c., with a rise of 15c. Mobilier fell 12fr. 50e. The Southern Railway fell Bfr. 75c., Northern sfr., and Eastern 3fr. 75c. English people coining to France will do well to provide themselves with English gold, for the scarcity of small currency in this country is now so great as to be a serious inconvenience to those who set any value upon their time. When you present your draft or letter of credit to a Paris banker, be does not ask you " How will you have it r' but thrusts the amount into your hand " short ;" if you object that a 500 fr. note is not handy money to pay cabs and make email purchases, the only alternative is to load yourself with a heap of sfr. silver pieces wrapped in a bit of coarse sacking ; the banker is not ouly without Napoleons, but he has not so much as a supply of 100 fr. notes. Tradesmen, if they can decently frame an excuse, will not give change even to their best customers. Of course you can always get a large note changed for the minimum notes of 100 fr. by going to the Bank of France, but even there you will find no metal but silver ; a porter who sits in the exchange office proclaims to every comer that there is "no gold." The rapidity with which they change a note at the Bank of France is, how ever, some consolation for the loss of time and the cab hire which it costs you to get there. Bank of France paper is. in the strictest sense of the word, payable to " bearer" ; the clerks demand neither name nor address from the man who presents a note, and hand over the change in an instant, without waiting, as they do at the Bank of Eng land, to peruse a list of stopped numbers. Ahnost all the Bordeaux journals have been visited with a eummatmigui for asserting that the police of that city has of late not been sufficiently active in putting down street rows and nocturnal singing (tapage et chants nocturnes). In answer to this charge, tLe prefect's secretary, whose signature the 'Gironde (perhaps at the risk of another repri mand) pronounces to be illegible, parades trium phantly the figures of 187 convictions for the above offences in July and August. LATEST INTELLIGENCIR AUSTRIA. The Nuol of to-day says :—" The penal dis cussion on the address in the Lower House of the Austrian Reich/math lasted three hours. The ad dress will donbtlesa be adopted by the German majority which follows the lead of M. de &bluer ling ; but the Reicharath, as a representation of thu whole monarchy, will infallibly be reduced to the condition of a rump parliament ; its decisions will be rejected as usurpations by the other nationalities, awl the law of the sabre and of bureaucracy will alone rule in the wide domains of the House of Hapsburg. In the times in which we live it is not difficult to predict for such a rejim , a abort existence, followed by a general con flagration." (us. ascrrits Trisoasys.) Pk:4TH, Syr. 4. The committees of eight comitats, as well as the municipality of Pesti', have been dissolved by order of the government. AORAM, Sam 4. In yesterday's sitting of the Ctuatian Diet, a proposition was made by one of the members that the Diet should enter on the minutes the expression of its regret on account of the dissolution of the ungariau Diet. FRANCE. MONTPELIER, Barr. 4. At the banquet given by the Prefect of the Department of the Horanit, on the occasion of the sitting of the Council-General, M. Michel Chevalier delivered a speech, of which the following is a summary : M. Chevalier said—France is honoured and respected abroad. She is only feared by the enemies of progress awl the adversaries of civilisa tion. France is considered in the world as the principal representative and the principal champion of social and political progress. She inspires admiration and sympathy in the peoples who hope for a happier destiny, and receives marks of the hatred and distrust of the men who still entertain the passions of another age. M. Chevalier also said— I regret that speeches recently delivered oblige me to range on the side of the latter some ministers of a great nation, our nearest ally, and renowned for its love of liberty and progress ; towards which the Emperor has loyally made advances honour able to both parties, and which merit a better wel come and more sympathetic response. ITALY. ENCOUNTERS OF PIEDMONTESE TROOPS WITH PAPAL GENDARMES. ROME, SErr. 3. Yesterday fifty Piedmontese soldiers attacked Epitaffio, on the Neapolitan frontier, but were re pulsod by the Papal gendarmes. A company of French troops has occupied Epitaffio. Au encounter has taken piaoe between some Papal gendarmes and Piedmontese troops, on the road between Orvieto and Banns. The Piedmontese troops suffered no loss. TURIN, Sim 4. The Opinione of to-day publishes a despatch from Naples, announcing that the concession for the railways from Tronto to Foggia, and from Salerno to Eboli, has been granted to a company which, according to the conditions of the contract, will immediately commence the works._ TURIN, Sem 3. The Minister of Finance has authorised Messrs. Rothschild, of Paris, to receive the instalment of the second-tenth of the Italian loan, on presentation of the certificates. MILAN, Barr. 3. The Perseveres:a of to-day says : " Baron Riessoli will retain the portfolio for Foreign Affairs until the solution of the Roman question." The Gazetta di Turino of to-day publishes a des patch from Perugia, stating that the French were actively watching the frontiers, and that several encounter; had taken place between the French troops ant: the brigands, who wished to penetrate into Italian territory. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SEPT. 3. The draught address to the Emperor was passed to-day in the Lower House of the Reicherath. The Polish members abstained from voting. POLAND. At Cracow, on the occasion of a funeral service for therm who fell in the recent disturbances at Wilna, an arbitrary intervention by the police took place, mid the tradespeople were compelled to re open their shops. Many persons were arrested. At a late meeting of the Secieti Libre d'Emula- Sion du Commerce et de l'lndustrio de la Seine Inferieure, at Rouen, Dr. I)umesnil road • paper on the pernicious habit of smoking tobacco, in the course of which lie ob served that the habit of smoking is spreading fearfully —moo much so, that the tobacco-producing countries can searosly supply the demand for that deleterious vegetable. He said that even in America the cousumption is increasing more rapidly than the production. England, which doe not grow tobacco, consumes yearly 15,000,000 kilogrammes, and the consumption has increased one fourth within this last ten years. In Hamburg, which numbers only a population of 150,000, there are 43,000 cigars consumed daily. The average annual con sumption iu Denmark is two kilogrammes a head for the whole population. The consumption is still greater in Holland. Them are 100,000 acres planted with tobacco in Austria. The consumption of tobsooo throughout the world in the year 1854 was 253,000,000 kilogrammes, being nearly 9 ounces for each individual. Dr. Durnomil added, that. calculating tobacco contain on an average 3 per cent. of nicotine, it will appeir that there are 7.500,000 kilo gnomes of that poison annually consumed, a few drops of which cause death. A curious invoutiou for the use of the army has just been experimented on at Paris. It consists of a swimming belt on an entirely new principle. An inverted truocsted cone made of thin metal, fitting closely about the waist, is divided into a number of small impermeable divisions. so that ie case of eccideut to one or more of these the apparatns would still be effective ; the whole does not weigh more than eight pounds. The experiment was made by the ;louder of a swimming school en the Seine, and a noecommissioned officer in the military establishment, and was deemed perfectly satisfactory. The river was crossed and recreates' by what is known to bathers as treading water, cigars were lighted, and the action of using a musket gone through. The swimmers then made an effort to lie down on the river, and even to tyre over, but the apparatus always brought them back to the vertical position. The Jour:tie/ tie Constantinopte says : " The Sultan a few days back deigned to visit the Cadine Effendi of the Sultan Selina llf. This princess is upwards of ninety years of age, and exceptional honours are paid her. Not withstanding her great age, she distinctly remembess all the important events which have occurred in the four reigns she has seen commenced and ended, sad she declares that she shall die happy under the present Sultan, because he will promote the glory of the empire. His Majesty has also visited two other princesses, wires of his illustrious father. These C.sdinee, on learning tat the Sultan we, about to call on them, bed cachemere shawls of great value spread on the Boor, from the door of their palace to the saloon to which his Majesty was to be conducted, such shawls being destined, after be had walked over them, to be given to the female servants of the harem. But the Sultan, having been told of the preparations made, insisted that tbe shawls should be removed; end the Outlines accordingly, though greatly against their wish, received his Majesty with a simplicity hitherto unexampled." A YACHT RUB DOWN OPP HYDE. PORTSMOUTH, Serrnimut 3. A collision occurred last night which resulted in the loos, temporarily at least, of one of the handsomest yachts on this station. The Portsmouth and Ryde United Steam Packet Company's steamer, Prince Consort, Beasley master, left Southsea-pier ►bout twenty minutes put eight o'clock, to proceed on her lest journey for the day to Ryde. On nearing the pier at Hyde, about twentySve or thirty minutes afterwards, she ran foul of the Amazon, cutter yacht, belonging to Smith, Eaq., and the latter sank at her mooring within eight or ten minutes after the collision occurred. On board the yacht were Mrs. Smith and another lady, some children, and the servants and crew, The children were at the time being undressed to be put to bed ; but fortunately all the persons on board had time to take to the boats, and thus escaped from being carried down with the yacht. The Amazon, it is said, had the usual lights hoisted at her inset head, and no blame is therefore at tached to her on the ground of not showing a proper signal. She is about 70 tons burden, splendidly fitted, and was, it is reported, about to proceed on a cruise to the Mediterranean. She sunk in about 18 feet of water, and her mast alone therefore is visible. We understand that a diver went down to-day, but the injuries the yacht has sustained were such as to prevent ber being raised at present. It is said that Captain Beasley was upon the bridge of the 'teenier during the whole of the passage, and It is impossible, with that fact in view, to understand how the accident could have occurred. A full inquiry will, however, doubtless be made. Several steamboats are building at New York, to ply on Brazilian waters. The English postal authorities in the West Indies have given notice that the American steamers plying between Havana and slew York have resumed the service, and that it is anticipated the postal communication by those steamers will net suffer further interruption. The Vienna journals announce the arrival there of M. Richard Wagner, to personally direct the rehearsals of his new opera, Tristan nail leolde. The Duchess of Moutpeusier and Princess Isa bella of Spain, accompanied by the ex-Queen of the French, the Princess Marguerite WC/deans, the Msnmise de Cola, Countess Boniest, General Count Montesquion, Lc.. ho noured BAker's Phessantry. Beaufort street, King's-road, Clielves, with a visit on Friday last, and expressed them selves much pleased with the collection, selecting at the same time various specimens of waterfowl for transmission to Spain. ROYAL INTErtvinwit—The King of Bavaria, who recently had an interview with the King of Pruasia at Ostend, visited, a few days back, the Kiug of the Belgians and the King of Wurtemberg, at Wiesbaden and, on re. turning to his own States, met the Sovereign of Saxony at on the latter's return from Switzerland. KING'S Comnor., LoNnos.—The council havo fixed Tuesday. October 1, for the admission of new students into the department of general literature and Science, in connexion with this college. The department is condu cted by the Archdeacon of }lath, the Rev. Prebendary Hall, the Rev. J. J. Heywood, 31. A., of Trinity College, Cam bridge; the Rev. W. Howse, M.A.. of St. John's College, Cambridge ; the Rev. J. S Brewer, M.A., of Queen's College, Oxford ; r. C. H. 0. Daniel, 8.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, and other gentlemen. The department is inten ded to prepare atudents for the universities, for holy orders, for the bar, and other professions, and for competition in the civil service of her Majwity's government. The tat October has also been appointed for the exemination of candidates fee admission to the department of general instruction in the applied sciences, the principal lecturers Laing the Rev. T. G. Hall, the Key. T. A. Cock, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Rev. W. Howse, Mr. J. C. Maxwell, M.A., Dr. W. A. Miller, Mr. C. L. Blouses, Mr. E. A. Hadow, Mr. J. Tennant, Mr. A. Moseley, Mr. Philip H. de La Motto, F.S. A., Mr. T. Sutton, 8.A., Mr. H. J. Castle, Mr. 0. A. Timme. and Mr. C. P. R. Shelley. The medical department will be inaugurated on the Id of Octo ber by a public lecture from Professor Bentley, P.'s& ' NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALIT, SEPT. 3. -.JAPPOI NTM END+. — Captain J. 0. Jolumon, to the Malacca. Commander P. Brock, to the Pelican. Lieutenant E M. Collier, to the °mates. Messrs. E W. Willuott and M. Squire have been coed mated to naval cadetahipa. THE PROPOSED NEW IRON FRIGATES. At the close of the semion the Admiralty got a vote of 2,500,0001. for new iron frigates, which, in round numbers, is just the price of five of these costly vessels. according to the new scale of dimensions no which they us in future to be built. The authorities issued their plans, and called upon the leading firms for tenders. These tenders were duly sent into Somerset House on Saturday, and yes terday it was notified to Mr. Mare, of 31illwall, Mr. Laird, of Birkenhead, and to the Thames Iron Works, where the Warrior was built, that their offers were accepted, and that they were to commence the construction of three vessels forthwith. It is announced that five or nix months hence orders will be given for the remaining two frigates. In three points the proposed vessels will, it is said, be great improvements. In the first place, each will be built to carry 60 guns ; secondly, they will not only be as fast and handsome as the Warrior, but they also are to be specially built to be used as ii&LIZI rams, having their bows beneath the water projecting far in advance of the apparent bows above ; and, lastly, by the addition of some 700 tons to their sire each will be able to curry a complete coating of armour from end to end, so that every part of the ship will be as invulnerable as masses of iron and Imams of te a k can make it. The length of the new ships is to be 400 feet on the low-water line ; breadth extreme, reft. 4in. ; depth, 21ft. below the gun-deck ; and tonnage, 6,815. The length of the Warrior class is 380 feet, breadth 5d feet, and tonnage 6,170. The breadth of deck, however, in the pro posed frigates will not be greater than the Warrior. THE CHANNEL FLEET IN THE CLYDE. Yesterday forenoon we had an important woe* lion to the ships of war already anchored at the Tail of the Barak, ia the arrival of four additional ships—viz., the Fal. pr, Hero, Trafalgar, and Aboukir. It appears that the Aboukir, having got ashore; somewhere in the north, had sustained some trifling damage to her copper, and had gone to Portsmouth to have this made good. She afterwards rejoined the other three ships at Holyhead, and they all pr seeded to the Clyde. We have thus both divisions of the squadron anchored off the port—namely, Rear. Admiral Smart's starboard division, the Revenge (flag. ship), Conqueror, Aboukir, and Centurion ; and Rear. Admiral Erskine 's port division, the Edgar (flag-ship), Donegal, Hero, and Trafalgar—which, with the ship Hogue, make in all nine large ships of war. It was very gratifying to see five of these immense vessels lying at anchor ; and many thousands travelled long distances to enjoy the sight ; but now having nearly double that number, the scene is one which may not be witnessed here again in a lifetime ; and those who mune to town yesterday to visit these shins must have been agreeably surprised at finding the sudden Increase in the number of vessels, and consequent increase in interest. Yesterday crowds continued to visit the ships equal in number to Saturday, and the weather was better than on Saturday. The ball tonight in honour of the pilau& officers of the Channel Fleet will be, perhaps, the grandest thing of the kind that has taken place in Scotland fur many a day. Ever since it was determined on, the preparations have been gone on with with the greatest spirit. A largo and influential committee was appointed, and various subdivisions of it made, whereby each separate department of the arrange. meets might be efficiently and with certainty attended to. The invitations to the ladies have been iu almost every instance accepted, and applications from aimest every town in the West have been made for tickets for parties intending to be present. Owing to the additional vessels which arrived yester. day, the number of officers likely to be present will not be leas than from 140 to 150 ; and as all will be in full uni. form, what with the gaily dressed youth anti betuty of our town, and the glittering uniforms of the officers, our Town. hall, decorated as it will be, and adapted for a ball room, will, when the dancing is in progress, present one of the meet gorgeous sights that could possibly be imagined. The resolution of the Town Council and the gentlemen of Greenock to have a ball here in honour of the officers of the fleet, instead of • dinner, has met with universal approval ; and as • ball admits of so many more persons taking pargin it than a dinner, it will contrast favourably in this repect with the aldennenic exclusiviani of the dinner oe Friday last at Glasgow, where apparently only a select few were admitted to an entertainment which, from its nature, ought to have been of a general and popular character. We hear that the officers of the fleet are quite delighted at the enthusiastic reception which the Greenock people have given and are yet prepared to give them. But this reception is just what was to be expected from the people of Greouock, who are so well known to be peculiarly attached to the bine jackets. —North British Mail. HEALTH OP LONDON. The return issued by authority of the Registrar. Geoeral states that in the week that coded on Saturday Lest, the deaths of 1,127 persons, of whom 577 were males and 550 females, were registered in London. If the deaths from epidemic cholera in the thirtptiftla week of 1854 are withdrawn from the calculation, it will he found that the average number of deaths in corresponding weeks of ten years (1851.60) was 1,058, and if this result be corrected for increase of population, it becomes 1,164. Consequently the deaths of last week are slightly below the average rate of mortality. At th is season, which the fatal experience of former years invests with more than ordinary iuterest to the London population, it is gratifying to dud that the metropolitan replrte, although they show the existence of the usual mummer cholera, are still free from indications of the more virulent epidemic. Diarrheas was fatal last week in 1S cases, of which 155 occurred to children. Cholera or choleraic diarrhea was also fatal in 14 cases. A carver and gilder, aged be years, died at 33, Great Marelebone-street, " diarrhos (36 hours), cholera (36 hours)." A blacksmith, aged 70 years, died in Lambeth workhouse of " cholera (24 hours)." A female, aged 77 years, died at 7 Wallgrave.terrace, Brompton, of "cholera (4 days), coosocutive fever, one week." A gentleman, aged 76 years, re.aling at 32, Casimir. squere, Bronipton, died from "choleraic duurh.uy coma from suppression of urine." A widow, aged 77 years, died at 32, Percival-street, Clerkenwell, from "choleraic diarrhea (3 days)." Small-pox exhibits a low mortality ; last week the deaths from it were only 5. Scarlatina was fetid in 34 cases, and 16 deaths are recorded from diphtheria. The deaths from measles were 8, and from typhus 41. Of three noeagenarians whose deaths are recorded in the week, the eldest was a weaver who hail attained the age of 99 years, the other persons died at the respective ages of 90 and 91. List week the births of 874 boys and 851 girls, 'in all 1,725 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor responding weeks of the years 1851.60 the average number wu 1,625. SHOCKING ACCIDENT. —An inqucot wa4 held last evening borers llr. Laughers], deputy coroner for West. minster, in Charing-cross Hospital, touching the death of a private in the 2nd battalion Grenadier Guards, stationed at St. George's Buttocks, named Janie* Hutchins. lota Simpson, a private in the same battalion, add that about 10 minutes to one that afternoon he wu. coming out of the barrack-room on the third floor, when lie observed the de ceased quite outside the window, with the exception of the left foot, and before lie could stop him ho bad got quite out and turned to the left of the parapet. He looked out after him, and found that he had fallen. He ran down and saw hint impaled on the railings, the spike entering his stomach nod coming out of hi. back. He hurl seen him only five minutes before, and believed him to be quite sber. The height hole the win dow to where he was picked up was 4:: feet. It alas also stated iu evidence that be bail performed the mime feat before, and said that he considered it worthy of Bleudin. A verdict of':Aecideutal death" WWI 11,11141e11. Timm Max Burlap Auvr..--:1;;:enlay after noon, between four and five o'clock, Ito accident of • frightful character, resulting in the death of ale man and serious injuries to two others, warted at the wharf of Meows. Dimell and Co., coal merchants, adjoining Dept ford-creek. It appears that at the tine. inentioued several men were employed in delivering orals luau • collier lying alongside the wharf, Rod which cads were discharged into a hunker capable of holding nearly :WO iOOll. Adjoining this bunker, which was divided by a partition of timber, there were some carpenters eniplocesl, sod wbeo attest tilt lone of coals bad been discharged the partition gave way, the cowl forcing its way with the partitioning, and boning three of the win kitieu beneath its intencese weight. With out soy loss of thine men were set to work to rescue the poor fellows, which was • work of sonic difficulty, and after the lapse of shout twenty minutes one of then was extricated, seriondy in jured, but still breathing, and having been attended 4) by Mr. l':uk, surgeon , be was conveyed ea board the Dread nought hospital ship. A second man wit shortie afterwards recovered, also alive, and he was likewise a tt en d e d t o by Mr. Pink, and afterwards taken on hoard the Dreadootteht. The search was then continued fur the third man, who had now been buried about half an hour, and on the workmen reaching him, he was found lying on his fare quite deaL pert of the falling partition having evidently struck him on the back as he attempted to matte his escape, kne..k ing him down, and coveting him, and with the weight of oral which fell, his death must have beau inatantaneous. The demoted, whose name was William Nicoll, was • married man with a large family, and what makes the occurrence the more distressing is, that at the time be met his death his eldest moo was lying at home it corpse. Mr. Charles Pearson. the City Solicitor, we are glad to learn, had yoaterday so far recovered front his recent severe ittiliso as to be able to trauma the legal bnsi sess of the Corpora tion and of the Powers ' Commission during the wh of , the day. BRZAIUNG Eleanor breaking op Bavarian Cl of Dr. Edw Joseph th e Beeesna wick-street. the previous there was a to see Dr. f. oe. 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