The Express. — London, England, 1861-08-13 00:00:00

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Maw Oviedo Staphaa-1111 NirLl NILER:4 —And TUX 11.11 OMAN& MEL t lionner.—eumnteuce at hall4stat 6. WIER WATER AT LONDON 11117(11. Two DAT —Worming. fat Ass EIL Mala. To miaow—Mammy, To. tam .. • • AERmosm 7k U. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13. TO OUR 'MADER& SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. A !ate edition of the Express is publisbeil every evening duriug the racing season, containing the results of the dad's races. PARLIAMENT has of late years devoted a good deal of attention to questions connected with the professional education and status of attornies. Nor can it bo said that these are matters unde serving of the care of the Legislature. Although attornies are not, like the bar, able to defend themselves against • claim of damages for impro perly conducting a case, by the mere fact that they are admitted members of the profession, yet the interests committed to their care are so immense and multifarious that we may well be anxious to secure the highest qualifications for the performance of their duties. But such qualifica tions cannot bo restricted to the acquisi tion of mere legal knowledge. An attor ney is of necessity a confidential adviser in more matters than those of law. He is, besides, in many cues, an indispensable adviser. We may, if we are indifferent or self reliant, set little store by the ghostly counsels of the clergyman ; and if we are cautious and pru dent we may pass through life with little need to resort to the physician ; but we are not our own masters in the questions that drive us to the attorney's chambers. No man can prevent a law suit from being brought against him ; no man, in the complications of trade, or even of social inter course, can hinder the faults of others from plung ing him into difficulties from which only his legal adviser can extricate him. Unhappily the profession on which we are thus depen dent is of • singularly mixed composition. It embraces men of the highest honour, in whose ability and integrity we every day confide with unlimited trust. But it also includes men of character so low that the whole profession suffers from the stigma which they bring upon it, and the very name of attorney provokes such sneers as that famous one of Dr. Jonsson, "Sir, I " would not willingly speak ill of • man behind " his back, but I believe the individual in ques " tion is an attorney." To raise the reputation of the whole body above the liability to such sarcasm has been one of the objects which Parliament has had in view. For this purpose it has deemed, and we think wisely, that the best methods that could be adopted were to offer inducements to men of liberal education to enter it, and to require in all its members the possession of such knowledge am might reasonably be expected in gentlemen. With the former view the period of probation as " articled clerk" which the young attorney must pass before he proceeds to his examination in law was, • few years sines, shortened, in the case of members of a University, from five years to three. With the latter view, in an act passed in the Session before last, a clause was inserted directing that the chiefs of the three superior Common Law Courts and the Mssraft of the Row should draw up regulations for the " examination in general knowledge" of all candi dates not possessing a University degree. After • year of consideration these eminent au thorities have framed their regulations, and we laid them before our readers the other day. They are of such a nature as Mr. HAULER other( would probably deem • very proper model for the Civil Service Examination of Clerks in the Foreign office, but it may be doubted whether they give hopes of much advance in the raising the standard of education among attornies. The first part of the examination is to comprise the following sub ject. :-1. Reading aloud • passage from some English author. 2. Writing from dictation. 3. English Grammar. 4. Writing • short Eng lish composition. 5. Arithmetic--• competent knowledge of the first four rules, simple and compound. 6. Geography of Europe and of the British Isles. 7. History, Questions on English History. 8. Latin, Elementary Knowledge of Latin. The second part is to consist of an exami nation in any of the following languages, in the option of the candidate :—Latin; Greek, modern or ancient ; French ; German ; Spanish; Italian. This second branch of the examination may be left out of view, as the knowledge of • single language —Latin without Greek ; French without Latin ; Spanish, or Italian, or Modern Greek without any other—is a special qualification, of no value as an indication of general knowledge, and which will be of use to the possessor only in exceptional cases. But the "general knowledge " demanded in the first part will, we think, be regarded by the public as scarcely of that character which was in tended to raise the standard of the profession. We can scarcely suppose that any attorney now enters the arena of practice who is ignorant of reading and writing, of the first four roles of arith metic, of the geography of the British Isles and of Europe, and of an elementary knowledge of Latin. The mere preparation of a bill of costs requires more than half the qualifications of general know ledge prescribed by the heads of our Law Courts. The use of the law Latin still preserved in the names of writs and in maxims of practice almost demands the elementary knowledge of that language which is here required. History, which is restricted to English history, is the only subject that can be regarded as going beyond the existing routine of a purely legal education. We question whether this exception will be regarded as sufficient to redeem the regulation from the charge of being a mockery of the Act of Parlia ment which directed it, and an insult to the pro fession which it concerns. No doubt the framers of the regulation may allege in their defence the extreme difficulty of P THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AITGUS' drawing up rules which shall be applicable with equal benefit to the village attorney and to the chiefs of our great metropolitan firms. We admit in advance the force of the plea, but we must in sist that if • compromise was to be made it should not have been all on one side. We cannot sec the hardship of requiring evidence that even a village attorney shall have been sent to some good school, and shall have profited by his tuition there. It cannot be maintained that a man should be al lowed to practise so responsible an art, even in the humblest sphere, who has advanced no further in education than the first four rules of arithmetic and some single foreign language. Good educa tion is now cheap enough and accessible enough to be a fair subject of demand from every one whose work is not of the hands but of the head. But if it should be granted that we must not look higher than the dame school, with the addition of six months devoted in the next market town to the acquisition of some one or other of the seven suggested languages, for the nursery of our future country attorneys, the question will still remain, why no higher grade or mark of distinction should be placed within the reach of those whose attainments fit them for a higher place f It may be, indeed, that this is the question which we must ultimately face, and in the solution of which will be found the best security for the advance of the profession. If the village lawyers demand that the standard shall be kept down to the point which suits themselves, they must not be sur prised if those to whom the suggestion of such a standard is an affront shall demand that for them something more worthy shall be ap pointed, and that some distinctive desig- nation shall indicate the line of demarcation between the educated and those who profess only the first four rules of arithmetic. The strides which the profession has lately made in nearly every department of business which they occupy in common with the bar, may strengthen their claim in the eyes of the public, to • distinction founded on differences so material. Attornies now absorb most of the business in the County Courts, and iu the Bankruptcy Courts; they have superseded the bar in many departments in the preparation of causes both at common law and in equity. En couraged in functions of such growing importance, the public will gladly aid them in any scheme which they can devise which offers reasonable hopes of elevating the intellectual and moral status of the bulk of the profession. We (Globe) are authorised to state that there is an foundation for a statement which has been circulated, to the effect that Admiral Milne had reported the blockade of the Southern porta to be ineffective. No general report so the subject has been officially received. Amoug the eighty Indian " writers" who have bees selected by the Civil Service Commissioners at the recent examination, held is Linden, and lasting from the Id to the 'Llrd of July, we (Northern Whi9) are glad to observe that Trinity College still maintains her high charac ter far sending out men of talent and ability, for no less than twenty-oos out of the above-named eighty are alumni of the Dublin University. THE LATE LORD HERBERT AND THE EDINBURGH Tizz-Orte.—The cilium of Edinburgh (asys the Scotsman) nee perhaps not generally aware that they were very much indebted to the late Secretary of State for War for carryitig out Mr. Hewat's mooed for the audible tiane.signal ; for though th e Lords of her Majesty's Treseury had granted their permission, and eauctiossed the me of the galvanic appendus in connexion with the time-ball at the Observe tery still the whole completing of the arrangement de pended entirely on the War-office. One of our city member (the Lord Advocate, being the personal friend of Lord Herbert) communicated with his lordship on the sabre, which gave additional weight to the memorial hem the Chamber of COCIRMOII • and having thus a " friesd at mot," the Secretary Commerce; a great interest in the natter, and, by his lordship's exerhoos, the inhabitants of the city received a gift of one of the Castle gum. THE VACANT BIRHOPRIC.-A report is in circula tion is dried aides that Dr. Jackson, Bishop of Lincoln, is likely to be tionfeeved to the bishopric of Durham, ren dered vacant by the death of the Moo. mod Right Rev. Dr. Villiers, sad that Dr. Jackson will be succeeded in the bishopric of Lined. by the Rev. Yardley Wilmot, M.A., Rector of All Sods' Churrh, St. Maryleboo, an intimate triad of Sir Rousdell Palmer, the new Solicitor-General. The rev. southern enemoded Dr. Villiers in the victrage of Issilworth. Another report mentions the Dean of West ✓ioter as likely to be raised to the episcopal beach in con sequence of the preset mercy. In the event of a clew eau being appointed directly to the bishopric of Durham, Mersa of the trasslation of a bishop taking place, there will be no differsom made Is the spiritual peerage, as the sew bishop will be entitled to Mks his seat at once as Bishop of Durham, seder the Manchester Bishopric Act. Should, however, say bishop be promoted to the richer re of Durham, as will is all prubabWty be the ease, Dr. Phil pott, the recently coossersted Bishop of Worcester, will be entitled to Sue his seat in the House of Lords at the men nemeamed of the seat emirs, and will have to perform dwindle af *dor blimp, tow discharged by the Bishop ef °Anus or Diass.—To the Registrar-General's Isms is appended, as weak se instructive paper by Dr. W. Far en the causes of &lath in England. The year now re an-18f9—is the first in which diphtheria has ob aloof • distinct lies is the tables ; it had previously bail confounded with eyelash*, and what the two are put together the rapid progress of this pest epidemic becomes evident ; the donee a 1856 were 385 ; is 1856, 603 ; le 1857, 1,583 ;in MK 6,606; Is 1850, 10,184. Epidemi c s of diphtheria are dearly described is the 17th century by Italian and figamish writers, and its frequent association with searlatina *Wise the infamies that the, diphtheriee, tla materise morbl, i NM Medifiastioa of eraratinine. Of the whole deaths at the year ea fourth were referred to =diseases. Smallpox destroyed 3,848 persona, ebiedy who bad sot been vaccinated. an instance, as Dr. Farr remarks, of the rigour with which the infringement of sanitary laws is visited ; for the children perish sad the I parents lose their offspring by the neglect of a premutioe of the simplest kind. A fatal outbreak of ar)sipelas at the Winchester Infirmary was booed to a ixaspool. Of the I parasitic diseases it is remarked that the ova of worms must be derived generally from impure river waters, into which the refuse of tows is poured. We have but an imperfect =tof the number of deaths from excessive drinking; ore directly ascribed to intern and 54.5 to delirium treamas. 800ia all from the two orate of alcoholism. Peaks( seat to esestitational diseases, another regiment of his Gamin that deg sag stops, we Sad gout described as swirl statioeary ; it is eciemidered that. t&walm to the sore • t system of dialog which the wealthier chime, wearied of this reside, dimes*, will probably introdook we may hope to see geed rapidly decline. The deaths from tuberculous disease lave decreased since 18.53 ; those from becachitis have tartmerd very greatly of late yeses. Among local dhows we led affections of the three vital organs—the brain, the heart, and the longs—cansing nearly • third of all the deaths of the year. Fright was the cause of seven deaths (not all children), grief of eight (seven women), rage of live (four infants), anxiety of one, a man ; mental shock of nee, a woman ; melancholy, a the deaths of 21 men and 26 women. Above 25,000, chiefly infants, died of convulsiossa—a striking end distressing symptom, bat probably only part of the disease, which is the result o f organic Wises and local irritation that are never die covered. 27,104 deaths am referred to the decay of old age without any disuse —" the weary wheel of life at length stood still. 14,649 persons were killed, a sad confession, says Dr. Farr, for • tuition humane, civilised, and skilled in all the arts, to have to mak e . Annually 75 persons in 100,000 thus die a violent death. 13,056 of these deaths in 18.19 are ascribed to accident or negligence ; among them were 279 by poison. 1,968 deaths were declared by coro ner's juries to be suicides ; Mirt murder or manslaughter. 18 penes were killed by lightning, nearly all persons or outdoor occupations ; the house is safer than the field. It is hoped that the arrangement for paying coroners by salary will triog better information on the subject of violent sod sudden deaths, and throw new light on their causes. HYTHE SCHOOL OF Mt sKrraY.—The eighth elms of kills Valuation have just brought their target practioe to a close. Tho present dame of 72 tamed out 28 marks men ; the last class of 95 turned out 30. —South Eastern Gurette. Ax " Aigetaire VOLUNTZER. —During a shooting match between lame volunteers on the ground at Blacklev, as Saturlity, an obi man, 76 years of sire, named Edward Whitehead, a oaths of the village, made Ms appearance, and claimed the bberty of shooting with the others on the ground that he was one of the " Old Volunteers." His request caused oci little merriment, which was quickly changed into iamb aatooishmest at the masterly maoner is which he handled the rills; out of ten shots at 2t math be mark 13 poiots, ranking eseend shot oit the ground, lisieg beaten Captain Porteous, who scored 14 puns to. —Mare cesskribmataiser. CAI FLOGOr/C6 IN BELlAllt BAlL istAcas.—We (Northern Whig) have been informed that, as amaralat, at half-past five o'clock, a private of the I elmd itegiosset, to the local dot was subjected to the Wilipunishment of the kr& in the rear of the UM titastry Barracks. The man reeeived 50 lashes, and Is to nodsrgo 84 days' imprisonment after leaving the hos. phaL Bds offisse; we are informed, was desertion. trDe sow. OSBORNE, Amnia 12. The Queen, Prince Consort, and Royal Family walked in the grounds this morning. The King of Sweden and Norway is expected to arrive at Osborne, to-day on a •isit to the Queen, accompanied by Prince Oscar of Sweden. Earl Russell, Viscount Palmerston, and Baron de Beck. Fries, Secretary to the Swedish Legation in London, have had the honour of being invited. Viscount Palmerston loft London yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty at Osborne, Isle of Wight. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Oovernors of Malta, the settlement. on the West Coast of Africa, Canada, and the Mauritius. THE VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO IRELAND. We ( Freeman's Journal) are now in a position to state that the Queen, the Prince Consort, and four other members of the royal family will arrive at the Warrington Junction of the London and North Western Railway about soon on Thursday, the 22nd instant, where they will be received by the chairman and other officials of the company. Her Majesty and suite will then proceed by special train to Holyhead, where the royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, will be in waiting to convey the royal party to Ireland, and it is anticipated that they will arrive at Kingstown on the even ing of the same day, and will proceed by special train to town, and thence to the Viceregal Lodge, where a grand banquet will be served fur the illustrious guests. The suite. of apartments intended for her Majesty and the royal per sonages are now all but complete, and may be regarded as tine specimens of splendour, combined with comfort. The stud of horses, numbering 28, belonging to her Majesty, will arrive on the 2Cth or 21st instaot, and the luggage of the royal party will be entrusted to Mr.Fiehbotuse for delivery at its destination. Her Majesty will remain in town until Fri day, the 23rd inst. ; awl on Saturday she will proceed by spe cial train to the Curragh, to be present at the grand review. On this occasion she will be accompanied; by the Prince Consort, the royal prise es and princesses, the Lord Lieutenant, Earl Granville, and the lords and ladies in waiting. After the review, which we have reason to believe will be on • splendid scale, the royal party will lunch at the quarters of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and return to town by special train. It is stated that her Majesty will attend divine service in the Chapel Royal on Sunday, the 24th instant, and that she will leave Dublin for Killarney, by special train, at twelve o'clock on Monday, the 25th instant. It is also stated that her Majesty has expressed her wish that the rate of speed shall not erased forty miles an hour, sod it is expected that the distinguished party will arrive at Killarney at about half-peat five o'clock. The locomotive which will draw the train is perfectly new, and is a splendid specimen of mechanical art. It has been tried for some days along the line, and works admirably. It will be driven on the trip to and from Killarney by Mr. Miller, engineer•in<hief. The royal state carriage is a model of good taste and elegance. It has been newly painted, furnished, and upholstered, and the herald painting on the panels has excited general admi ration from all who have seen it. The other carriages which form part of the royal train have been beautifully furnished internally, and on the outside. A hugesection of the Lake Hotel ban bees taken by LoWastlerosse fortheaccommoda ties of members of her Majesty's suite, and the grand state barge, purchased in London by his lordship, for the purpose is:conveying her Majesty and the royal party through the unrivalled scenery of the Lakes, arrived safe by ►rain at its destination on Saturday. Her Majesty will return to Dublin, as it has been already stated, on Wednesday, the 28th instant; and on the evening following she will leave Kingstown for Holyhead, and proceed by a night train to the Warrington Jnoction, and from thence to Edinburgh, where it is expected she will arrive on Friday evening. She will remain at Holyrood Saturday and Sunday, and will go on for Balmoral on Monday, the Zed September. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (amines yusizAms.) ITALY. TURIN, Annear 12. The /taiie of to-day publishes letters from Rome, stating that notwithstanding the arrest of Giorgi, the bandit chief, by General Goyon, the enrolment of brigands continued in Rome, and that the action of the French gendarmerie was paralysed by the Pontifical government, who maintained that the French police had encroached upon the authority of the Pope. THE PRINCE OF WALE& After lunch, on Saturday, his Royal Highness the Prince of Ntales, attended by General Bruce, proceeded to pay a visit to Lady Forbes. The prince returned to his quarters in the evening, and attended Divine service yesterday in the church of the camp. During Saturday and Sunday troops from several parts of the country were arriving at the encampment, and getting under canvas with as little delay as possible. Great prepara tions are being made for the grand review to be held to-day, in presence of his Royal Highness the Com- mustler-in-Chief and the Prisms of Wales. Should the weather prove favourable a special train will leave the King's-bridge terminus for the Currsgh siding at a quer• ter past nine o'clock, and return to town at half-past five The Duke of Cambridge will remain at the quarters of the Prime of Wales up to Wednesday evening, when he wil return to Dublin, and be the guest of General Sir George Brown, at the!Royal HospitaL The Commander-in-Chief, the Commander . of the Fonms, and a brilliant staff: will proceed to the Curragh Camp this day by the special Male. VISIT OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE TO IRELAND. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, so souipsaied by Major-Crowd Sir Richard Airey and Colo. eel Chateris,alde-de-camp, left Loadoo oe Saturdarevealag, and arrived in Kingstown at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning. Hie Royal Highness left Dublin yesterday for the Dumyat, to be preeent at the grand review. His Royal Highness the Duke of Oporto, at teals(' by Manuel da Camera, Lard Chamberlain to the King of Portugal, and Antonio Sergu de Souza and Antonio de Sampais Vine, officers of the Portuguese corvette Bar tholom6 Dias, arrived at Claridge Hotel on Sunday even ing, from Southampton. The Duchess of Inverness has left Kensington Pa/ace for the Castle Hotel, Itlcluaoad, fora few weeks. The Marquis sud Marchioness of Clanricarde bare arrived io Paris front tows, on their way to limber& where they purpose passing several weeks. Lord Minkel- ILP., has gone to Harrogate. The Earl and Countese of Rosebery and Lady Louisa Primrose left Warranwood, Herb, yesterday, for Debussy Park, near Edinburgh, fur the seam. Frances Countess of Albemarle and Colonel the Hon. P. Coat are staying at Belton House, Grantham, not at Astridge Park, u stated in error yesterday. The ceremony of metalling Lord Palmerston as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is appointed to take place ea Friday. Major-General Sir Richard Airey left town last fistardsy to accompany his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge as a tour of inspection in Ireland. The HOG. Lady Alley and family leave Grosvenor-place on the 15th inst. for Germany. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and suite, and the Duke of Hamilton and the Marquis of Dinka and suite, have arrived (says Oalimselei) at the Hotel Bristol. The Earl of Wiachilsea and Nottingham has left for Frankfort. The decree which has promoted M. Auber to the rank of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour baa been hailed with the most lively satisfaction in the French world of literature and the art'. It is the And time that so high a distinction has been accorded to artiatical merit, and the nomination of M. Auber constitutes a derogation valuable by way of preadult from the custom which ex clusively attributes to political and military men the high grades in the Order of the Legion of Honour. The following reply his been given by Queen Maris of Naples to an address sent to her by the ladies of Insteuck :—" Ladies,—Accept my warmest thanks for the sable expressions which you have addressed to me. The loyalty of the town of Inspruck is so well proved that I am truly proud of having merited, if not your praises, at least the sympathy which you testify in my misfortunes. For tune has not favoured our good right, but God will again soaks it prevail. Whatever may be the fate that awaits me, be assured that the marks of interest and esteem which you manifest is such a noble manner will never be effaced from my heart. —Mane." A letter from Baden, of the 10th, says :—"The King of Prussia is really indisposed, and the cause is easily explained. His Majesty, following the prescriptions of his physicians, is drinking the water of the Ragoegy spring, of Kissing's, which porous very irritating qualities. The late attempt cm his life and the numberless deputations which helms had to receive in easesquessoe, were not precisely of a miters to leave his Majesty the calmness and repose whisk are absolutely necessary for the treatment to produce a good effect." POLAND. THORN. Auoverr 12. The Governor of Warsaw caused placards to be posted up in the city yesterday, warning the public to abstain from making any demonstrations to-day, and prohibiting under severe penalties all festivities and the closing of shops. THORN, Acorn 12, Evurvixo. A proclamation issued by the Chief of the Po lice at Warsaw declares the statement that one man had been killed in the late disturbances to be totally unfounded, and says that one person only had teen slightly wounded. The proclamation adds, " The recent disturbances have compel led the authorities to take precautionary measures against the disloyalty created by turbu lent people." It is said that M. Lambert's appointment as Go vernor of Poland will be cancelled, and that M. de Kisseleff will be appointed in his stead. DENMARK. FRANKFORT-ON-THE.MAINE, ArGWIT 12. The Federal Diet held an extraordinary sitting to-day, in which the last communication from the Danish government was discussed. The committee on the Schleswig Holstein ques tion declared that iu consequence of this communi cation there was no reason for proposing further measures in reference to the execution of the Federal resolution of the 7th February last. FRANCS. PARS, Arcusr 12. The hearing of M. Mires' appeal has been post poned until the 19th inst. The Patric of this evening says :—" The state ment that the Emperor will accompany the Kink of Prussia into Germany is without foundation." The King of Sweden left Paris this morning. AUGCRT 13. tinder the head of "Latest Intelligence," La Pram publishes the following : "The Marquis de Banneville, French Minister at Munich, has arrived at Paris, and has assumed the direction of foreign affairs. The King of Sweden and Prince Oscar have paid a visit to Cher bourg, where a breakfast was offered to them by the authorities." INDIA. CALCUTTA, JULY 8 (vu, Tanen). A deficit in the revenue is apprehended in conse quence of the fall in the price of opium. Mr. Denison has returned from the district of the Godavery. It is reported that the supreme government has ordered the Godavery works to be proceeded with immediately. CALCUTTA, JULT 15 (DT TELKGRAPH TO POINT Di GALIN). The condition of the indigo plantations in the Tirhoot district is worse, in consequence of the exoessive fall of rain. The indigo produce in Bengal is bad. CHINA. SHANGHAI, Jou 19 (VIA TRIESTE). A good understanding prevails between the foreign representatives and the Chinese at Pekin. The river Yangtse has risen above Nankin. The country about Hankow is under water, and the inhabitants are becoming alarmed. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, Jun 23 (vu Tsars). The following are the departures of gold ships sines the last mail :—The Kohinoor, with 118 oz. ; the Orwell, with 38,759 oz. ; the Water Nymph, with 50,768 oz.-89,645 oz. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Attorwr 13. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Atrato, with the West India and Pacific Mails arrived here this morning. She brings 141 useengers, and 637,404 dollars in specie, and 1,480 packages of cargo. Antigua dates are to the 27th ult. There is no confirma tion of the news of an earthquake having taken place there. Her Majesty's frigate Mersey arrived at Aspinwall on the 18th ult., bound for Jamaica. Business inChili continued depressed and several failures bad occurred. The great reduction of freights wee expected to result beneficially for the miners. I The country remained tranquil in the midst of the presi dential election. It was expected that Senor Jose Joan quimperes would be elected. News from the silver and copper mines are unfavourable. Coasideralde excitement had been created in Lima owing to ' the election of the second vice-president. At Walpueiso exchange on London, at 90 days' sight, was quoted 44f. Bar silver, per mare, 10•644 dole. Bar cop per, per quintal, l 7 dole. The weather at Demerara was wet and unhealthy. The canes on many estates bad teen injured by continued rain. Business was seriously checked. Importations of all descrip tions were in excess, and prices had generally receded. Produce was scarce, and prices nominal. Tonnap was abundant. At Barbados the weather bad much improved, the rids having abated. The crop was nearly all neighed, but the yield was very indifferent and scarcely worth reaping. The market was well supplied with all descriptions of imports. Exchange on London, 30 days' sight, wan quoted 4110 doles; private bills, at 90 days, 490 doh'. The cotton question still engaged attention at Jamaica. Applications for immigrants were on the increase among the plasters. The market remained in an unsettled condition, and there was a felling off in business to the lowest &mead. Amounts from the agricultural district' were more Wis . bre m was warm. Mountain sold in tierces at 47e. . • pimento, 12s. Gd . per 1001 be. ; rum, 2s. Gd. in bond, 161. for proof. finger, 14a. to Us. Exchange on London, 90 demo, i per cent. ; GO days, 1 per cent. premium. PRUSSIA. The King has addressed to the Minister of War and of the Marine the following order :—" I have learnt by your report that in many places gratuitous presents have been collected for the construction of ships for my navy, and that the product of these collections has been placed at your disposal. In expressing my satisfaction respecting this gratify. ing testimony of patriotic sentiment, I authorise you to accept the gifts which you shall receive and to apply theta to their destined purpose. Wnzum. " Baden-Baden, July 23, 186 L" AUSTRIA: The Cologne Gazette announces that Austria has consented to withdraw from the federal fortresses, till the end of the year, her non-German troops and to replace them by Germat. regiments. Already the Italian regiment, which was at Rasta, has been replaced by a German regiment, and the same will quickly be done with the Italian regiment forming part of the garrison of Mayenee. THE GERMAN NATIONAL. lINION.—The following are the subjects to be discussed at the general meeting of the National German Union, which is to take place et Heidelberg on the 23rd inst. :—Administrative report; report on the political action of the union during the past year, and on the political situation of Germany, conjointly with a proposition of the committee touching the question of the German constitution ; the Federal military eoustitm tion and the armament of the German nation ; the ques. tion of Schleswig and Holstein, conjointly with the ques tion of the feet ; the affair of Electoral Hesse ; the exposi tion of the productions of German industry at the forth coming Industrial Exhibition at London. "It had been proposed," says a letter from Pistil, of the Bth, " that a greed torchlight serenade should this evening be given to N. Desk ; but he declined the hewer, and the people ocasemseetly contented themselves with singing popular songs under his window." A letter from Peeth states that on the sth inst. the wi low of Count Battliyani, who was executed in 1849, arrived at Path from her estate of Mks, where she has long resided. The representatives went in • body to visit her. IS, 1861. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MX OM OWN PARIS, MONDALE EVENING. The following lithographed correspondence,which will be Rent from Paris this evening to the offices of all the provincial journals, goee to confirm the important news which I was enabled to send you on Friday last : Although M. de ]tirade is still minister, I have reason to know that the cabinets of Paris and Turin are unceasingly pursuing negotiations with the pontifical government far • solution of the Roman question. It is even affirmed to-day that the solution has been found, and as this good news reaches me from a very sure source, I think myself war ranted in seodiug it to you. It is believed that the papacy will be °unlined to the Leonine city ; that the Pope will have a noble guard, and a flag with the pontifical arms ; a considerable budget, the right to send as heretofore ►pos tolic nuncios to the courts of the great powers, and that his spiritual authority and independence will be guaranteed in the most complete manner. On these conditions it is ex pected that the French army will be recalled from Roma towards the end of September. I need not nay that I give these rumours under all reserve. The Presse observes upon a denial of the Condi ttstionnel that there is to be a mixed French and Italian garrison in Rome :—" This is of no impor tance ; public opinion cares little about the means ; what it wants is the end." A Turin letter of the 9th confirms the report that Father Passaglia has come thither to take soundings with a view to a compromiee, and says that this jesuit, seeing that St. Peter's bark must go down, is trying at least to save the oars. Great importance is attached to the rejection by the Court of Cessation of the appeal of the Abbe Lhemeau. The Supreme Court decides that a priest may be prosecuted for words spoken in the "exorcise of his functions" without the permission of the Council of State. This judgment, says the Pays, will teach a certain class of priests that they must not convert the pulpit into a political tribune and spout newspaper articles in the guise of ser mons. For several weeks past the legitimist and clerical journals—the terms are now synonymous—the Monde, Union, and Ga:xtle de France, have resorted to a system of " eaormons lying," for the purpose of inducing the belief that at least nine-tenths of the population of the late kingdom of Naples are dying of love for Francis 11., and that all the chivalry, loyalty, and honesty of the country is up in arms against the " Piedmontese invaders." It is a significant symptom of the present temper of the French government, that the Pays—quantum I mutates since the recent time when Grainer de Cassagnac defended the Pope, sneered at Italy, and cursed "the revolution" in its columns—contains an elaborated article intended to discredit all these fables. The Pays says : To what category belong individuals who plunder travel lers, break into houses. and lay hands upon whatever they think worth carrying away ? What name is to be given to men who stop carriages on the highway, rob the midi, murder couriers, and levy forced contributions upon pew. able inhabitants! Such achievements as these usually bring their authors to the bar of a criminal court. The law calls these acts murder, brigandage, and highway rob bery, and the people who commit them bandits or brigands. That is ordinary language—that is the language of the penal code. Now, what are the exploits of the men who, at this moment, infest the Abruzzi, the Calabria, and the &idling., and are bunted by carabineen and national guards? What appellation can be given to this agglomera tion of malefactors, escaped from prisons and bulls--Swim and Bavarian soldiers, whose antecedents prevent them from going home—deserters run away from courts-martial, and adventurers who have nothing to lose! The Monde treats them as heroes ; they are " the defenders of the throne and the altar," a "faithful and religious population rising in arms to put down revolutionary crimes." These brigands, who are now endeavouring to turn to account the disorder inseparable from a change of govern ment, were prescriptively in possession of the highway. during the reign of the Bourbons. It is a characteristic of unpopular governments that they employ the public force in oppressing good citizens and repressing opinion, while the real euemies of order meet with impunity. The Bourbons of Naples had plenty of gendarmes to arrest citizens accused of liberalism, but they had none to spare to protect life sad property on the public read. Just in the same way the Bourbons of France, at a certain epoch, had soldiers to exe cute the judgment of the prevotal courts, but either could could not or would not find any to check the career of a Trestaillon. The brigandage which now devastates a part of the kingdom of Naples, and which the Italian govern. ment will soon get the better of, is • legacy from the Bourbon dynasty. The heroes which the Monde trandorm into defenders of the throne and the altar care as little for Francis 11. as they do for Victor Emmanuel. They rob for the sake of robbery, and they murder in order the easier to rob. Since the organisation of these bands they have not performed a single feat of war. Their acts are acts of brigandage, and nothing more. Nut a town, not a village, has pronounced in their favour. They consist of flying columns without root or sympathy is the population. They do mischief as they pea ; but as soon as they are gone tranquillity is restored, and the re membrance of their crime leaves no contagion. The noblest and most just cause would be disgraced by such defenders. The Monde, however, claims them as partisans of Sour bonist legitimacy—a melancholy muse, which, seeing the miserable expedients it has recourse to we should regard as desperate, even if we did not know that through its unpopularity it has long since received its death blow. The Bourse was buoyant. Bente, after some fluctuations, closed with a fall of sc. for cash and a rise of 10c. for account, at 68fr. 25c. and 68fr. 35c. ; Mobilier rose 22fr. 50c. The Orleans Rail way rose Mr. ; Northern, 2fr. 50c. ; Lyons, 6fr. 25c. ; Southern, 6fr. 25c. ; and Eastern, 2fr. 50c. Western was without change. The Charivari makes some critical remarks worthy of notice upon Count Walewaki's theatrical circular, the scope of which I reported yesterday. The minister's object appears to be to prevent "confusion " between different kinds of dramatic entertainments and to arrest the "decline of the drains." In the first place, the Charirari does not see the evil of the mixture of genre, which is so much dreaded, and by way of illustration submits that if Racine's Plaideurs, or Moliere's Pre cituses Ridicules were read, for the first time, in the green-room of the Thiatre Francais at the present day, they would assuredly be rejected as not belonging to the " legitimate drama." It is no answer to say that those pieces are chefs-cPreurre, that argument would only prove that the species of drama is a matter of indifference, and the talent of the author every thing. Then, again, the reading committee of the " Francais" is enjoined to reject a piece written " with a view to the Vaudeville or the Gymnase." How is the committee to know the fact 7 Is it to be guided by internal or external evidence 7 It is further inquired what justification can be alleged for compelling the minor theatres to interlard their pieces with siuging,—with " couplets," as the cir cular says. These couplets have gone out of fashion, and to reimpose them by decree is as un reasonable as to pass a sumptuary law enacting that all the world should wear the costume of our grandfathers. Many theatres, such as the Gymnaae and the Vaudeville, have greatly raised the cha racter of their plays of late years. What public object can be served by introducing into dramatic regulations the novelty of coupletswritten and sung by order 1 Although it may be possible by authority to degrade the minor theatres, does it logically follow that there will be more wit and imagination and better style at the Francais. and the Odeon 1 The Char;rari takes leave to doubt it. The Court of Caseation has rejected an appLAI of Messrs. Havaaßullier, against a judgment of the Imperial Court of Bordeaux, which had de• cided that the reproduction by a journal of tele graphic despatches published by another journal which subscribes to that agency,does not cunstitute any attack on the rights of the latter. This deci sion now establishes definitively the point that a despatch falls into the public domain the moment it has been published. A correspondent from Eaux-Bonney writes on the 9th : The Empress arrived here two evenings tack at five, and waa received with enthusiastic cheer.. Tweety-four mountaineers, in their costumes, went to meet her Majesty, and though the rain fell in torrents at the time great numbers of people were out to witness her arrival. The prefect of the Buses-Pyrenees, who was paring through the town on his way home from a conference of prefects ►t Bordeaux, dined with her majesty in the evening. As on previous occasions, her majesty lives in strict incognito. Mme. de Lourmel and the Marquise de Lagrange compose her whole suite. The Empress was happy to and at Fiat. Bonne* the children of her lamented sister the Duchess d'Albe, a son and two danghters,who peas part of every day with her. Faux-Bonne, has assumed quite another aspect since last year. The bare grass plota and stunted trees of the English Garden have been replaced by verdant lawns and evergreens ; while seats have been placed in all the walks. At the entrance of the garden a plaster model of a monumental column, to be hereafter executed in marble, has been erected, bearing one side the inscription—" The English Garden restored by order of the Empress," and the other, " The grateful town of Eaux-Boons." " There has been question for some time past," says the Cons f ifutionnd , " of certain changes in the diplomatic corps. We are now able to announce them with certainty. General de Montebello is going to Constantinople to compliment the Sultan in the name of the Emperor. The Marquis de Banneville is named political director at the minis try of foreign affairs. M. Benedetti is appointed minister plenipotentiary at Turin. Count de Re culot will replace the Marquis de Banneville at Munich. M. de Damrimont is to replace Count de Recnlot at Stuttgardt." THE NAVAL DEFENCES OF FRANCE. The Paris correspondent of the Nord says that the coast defences of France are to be actively pro secuted this year, and that 20,000,000 fr., which re mained over from the previous year, are to be devoted to this object. The construction of a coast line of railway is also spoken of, which would naturally commence with the Channel coast. The government is always adding te its naval materiel, and the dockyards are better supplied than is generally supposed. ITALY. TURIN, AUGUR? 9. The Marquis Treocbi, ex-orderly officer to the King, and now a colonel in the southern army, is going to Caprera next week. It has been observed that on all grand occasions Colonel Trecchi is the medium of communication between the King and Garibaldi. It was Trecchi who took the letter to Sicily which the King wrote to beg Garibaldi not to cross the Straits. It is naturally supposed, therefore, that Trecchi must have some important mission now. A Naples letter, of August 6, in the Debate, has the following details, showing the success of the authorities in putting down the brigands in the Neapolitan provinces : A despatch having announced last night that 200 Papal Zonaves had embarked at Civita Vecchia on bowl a Spanish ship of war, Cialdini gave orders that the steamers in the roads, viz., the Garibaldi, Fulminante, Morambano, and Rondiai, should get up steam. The Fulminante set out last night in the direction of Gaeta, and returned this morning, after having ascertained that the Spanish vend had re turned to Civita Vecchia. During the whole night mea sures of precantiou have been taken in the town and environs. _ _ _ Four other French legitimists, the chief engineer of the fortifications of Ancona, and three Papal Zonaves, have been expelled from Naples. They are MM. Le Brun, Gaston de Boorepos, lilt, Baron de Canon, and Alphonse Marie Demignes Suviguy. The same step was about to be taken with regard to M. Dumas, an engineer ; but as M. Amilhand became security for him, and the French consul claimed him, he was allowed to remain. On Sunday, Cialdint reviewed five other battalions of the national guard ; the whole of Naples was present, and re. newed the ovation of last Sunday. Five hundred brigands of Arai have surrendered, and were yesterday embarked at Briodisi for Naples on board the Cavonr. Bruno Lucent. and Saverio Ammirati, chiefs of the Calabrian bands, yesterday gave themselves up to the authorities of Nicastro. An attempt to land at Reggio was the day before yesterday repulsed by the national inard. A variety of reports from the interior, con tained in the /111111 b letter, confirm the statement that brigandage was getting the worst of it, as well as the accounts of the brutality of the brigands. San Polo, a commune of 1,300 inhabitants in the province of Campobasso, had been invaded by the u and the archpriest, the captain of the na tional guard, and the Syndic, put to death. Many houses of rich proprietors were burnt on this occa sion, and the communal archives were destroyed. Chiavone, at the last accounts, had quarrelled with his followers, and was left with a band of about 200 men only on the frontier of Sora. SPAIN. Some of the Madrid journals of the Bth contain the following paragraph : The protestant., not content with spreading their im moral and impure publications among the simple popula tions, in order to corrupt their hearts and their customs, have also attempted to invade those asylums of virtue the convents of the virgins consecrated to the Lord: Accordingly the Bishop of Cordova has issued a circular in which, after anathematising such acts, he recommends that at the doors of convents no printed papers or hooka shall be received, except they are sent by known persons, his object being to prevent the introduction by surprise into those sacred places of publications which attack reli gion and morality. The military tribunal at Loja had condemned another batch of meu concerned in the insurrec tion in that place—a chief of the name of Camacho to bard labour in the galleys for life, another man to twenty years of the same punishment,i and four others to four years each. HUNGARY. The following are the concluding passages of the Hungarian address to the Emperor of Austria : The nation cannot legally accept the point of view taken by the diploma of Oct. 20, or of the patent of Feb. 28. The Diet consequently cannot wend despatches to the Reichsrath ; and if, notwithstanding, elections to the Reichsrath were to take place in the country and the deputies accepted the charge, the Diet declares that this would be a violation of the constitation t . The Dist will never recognise such de• .. puties to the Iteiclurrath ea the Utica; of Hungary. nor any burdens, loans, or sales of the national domains m Hungary, voted by the Reichsnith, as binding on the nation. The Diet demands the legal right, which it has always exercised, of voting taxes and the military contingent ; its legal right of making laws in concert with the King; of interpreting these laws, of modif,ing them, of abrogatieg them—in a word, the entire re-establishment of the laws of 1848. It is to be regretted that the royal rescript did not proceed on the basis of the Hungarian constitution instead of onan arbitrary patent, for by not doing so it has rendered say understanding, which could only be effected on the basis of the constitutioe ' impossible. The Diet considers that the threa d of parliamen• Lary negotiation is broken. It is pmb:ible that sorrowful days await our country, hut the people will know how to suffer is order that their le.,,itimate right to liberty and constitutional life may descend to posterity ; for chat power and force extract fro' ro a nation may be restored to it coder favourable circumstances, but what is voluotarili abandoned is lost for ever. According to intelligence received at Berlin the Crown Prince will return to Potsdam on the 20th instant, when the Crown Primes' will plowed to Coblentz to visit the Queen, end will remain there until the end of the month. The British Charg4 d'Affaires at Hamburg, Mr. Ward, arrived at Berlin a few days sines. According to the Hamburg Correspondent, Mr. Ward charged by the rag limb government to carry on the negotiations respecting the commercial relations between England and the Zollverein. yea and incl gout 21,0 sear