The Express. — London, England, 1861-09-23 00:00:00

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IRRAITHERR 4W NlORlVOUY.•Comosoliltei. ,1111011_WATER AT_LONUON BIUDOIL • ai-nkersl6;:4ti 11u.. .. A ti;:;:. a: 4k tip. To MYu V —Moving. al. 40a. .... attanass, 46. 6tlis. toNDoN, MON DA Y, SEPT. 23. TO OUR READER& SPORTING LNTELLIOENCE. A "At? .4htimi of the Exprra, is published every error. ; .luring the racing neasou, containing the results of the day's races. Tor past week has been marked by an extra ordinary degree of excitement in the Liverpool covon market. As the prospect of a dearth of the material of our greatest uuurufacture comes nearer, speculators grow more eager, and the derange• meet of trade becomes more decided. Thu week's sales have been enormous, and on Saturday they rose too the almost unprecedented extent of about 40,10 hales. The fresh and serious rise of gof a puny per lb. in the current qualities within a week proves how much keener the anxiety of the trade is becoming. India's opportunity is evi dently drawing nigh. It has been a feature of the week that Indian cotton has attracted almost as much attention as American. The sales of Surat have tarn of an amount quite without precedent. The difference between the extent of the present stock of cotton and that held at the corresponding period of last year, is becoming more considerable, the computed quantity on Friday being 817,330 bales, against 954,820 in 1860. It is instructive to remark how powerfully speculation is now working to bring about a rise in the price. The quantity taken on speculation this year had in creased on Friday to 670,800 bales, against only 262,140 last year. It is scarcely necessary to re mark that, under present circumstances, to buy cotton, not for rase, but in order to hold it for higher prices, is an operation as purely speculative as any that can be imagined. Fortunes are being even now realized ; many more seem likely to be made ; but the alternative, in the event of the American war coming suddenly to an end, and the American crop of cotton being set free, would probably be wholesale and utter ruin amongst the cotton speculators. The good news would produce such a panic on 'Change at Liverpool as has scarcely ever been witnessed. But the prospect of this event being at present very poor indeed, speculators are pushing their opera Lions with unparalleled boldness. The sudden fall in the rate of interest to a low point contributes to strengthen their position, since it enables them to hold the commodity with facility on borrowed money. The cotton speculator seems just now, indeed, to have the game in his own hands. At the same time, the position which he has taken up has a remedial tendency, for the rise in price is giving an immense stimulus to cotton pro duction in India, and in many other suitable loca lities throughout the world, whilst it causes the existing supply in every market to be attracted here to our relief. It is rather curious to observe the compensating action, as it may be termed, of trade—to see the cotton speculators reaping a rich harvest, whilst the manufacturers' profits and the operatives' wages are falling off—and to reflect, on the other hand, that an event which would produce a general feeling of relief through out this kingdom, would be attended with no small amount of local ruin. We expect that, from this time forward, increasingly frequent references will be found in the public journals to the suspen sion of industry in the cotton districts. Short time is now being extensively resorted to, and it is not pleasant to hear of thousands of operatives being condemned to enforced idleness on the Mon day, Tuesday, and Wednesday in every week. In some localities mills are being closed altogether. The effect of this upon wages, upon the circula tion of money, and upon the consumption of com modities, cannot fail to be severely felt ; aria ilial. is reason to apprehend that the cirANcebboa of the EL;;;Secintell entiCipations regarding the revenue May to Lime extent remain unfulfilled. The con sumption of revenue-yielding articles in those northern hives of industry has always been immense, for the mass of the population there ordinarily live up to the full extent of their means, and have rarely much to fall back upon when trade becomes bad. The decrease in the goods traffic on nearly all the northern railwayc shows clearly enough that the whole industrial machine is working at a reduced speed. There is less of the raw material to be carried to the spot where it is to be used ; less of the manufactured article to be transported from that spot to the scene of con sumption or to the port of shipment ; and less coal to be conveyed to the thousands of furnaces with whose tall chimnies whole provisoes are thickly- studded. It seems to follow certainly that the goods traffic of the railways must fall off as trade becomes dull. The satisfactory manner in which railway trafc generally has hitherto been sustained, as shown in the weekly returns, which are now watched with increased interest, is pro bably due chiefly to the revenue derived from the Dunn:room seekers of pleasure or recreation at this seasou of the year, the weather throughout the summer and autumn having been remarkably beautiful, and the dulness of business not having yet impaired the ability of people to enjoy them selves. Tho past week has been distinguished by a fresh reduction in the rate of discount at the Bank. The great fall in tho value of money is not a subject for unmixed congratulation. Under present circumstances it is a sign that trade is languishing, and that in legitimate commercial channels employment is no longer to be found for the capital afloat. The amount of mercantile bills in existence having considerably diminished, the supply of money becomes relatively superabundant. The alteration is equivalent to • decrease in the rate of profit in course of realization by the nation at large. The capitalist gets a smaller profit because the gains of the trading community with whom he deals have decreased so far that they can no longer afford to pay the old price. Had trade remained as profitable as it was a twelvemonth ego, these would of course have been no falling off in its value. We none of us curtail our transactions as long as they pay well. Thu mere fact, therefore, of a decrease in the amount of trade argues a de crease in its profitableness. It is not a little re markable that the American convulsion, after for some time pressing very heavily upon us, by causing the Americans to draw away every balance they could lay their hands upon, now contributes directly to a glut of money here. In the first place, our trade with America is paralyzed, causing a large mass of money to bo thrown out of employment ; and, in the next place, we are now keeping at home the vast sum which, under ordinary circum stances, America receives from ns for cotton. It is very probable that, were the North and the South to come to an agreement to-morrow, the immediate effect would be a great fall in the Ame rican exchanges, and a renewed drain of gold from this country. We believe that the connexion between the suspension of trade with America and the plethora of money in this country is far closer than is generally imagined. It may really bo said that, just as America is sitting upon her cotton, England is sitting upon millions of bullion, waiting for the signal to ex change it for an article from the working-up of which she extracts every year many millions of profit. Less cotton, leas trade, leas profit, more idle money—these are the salient features at the present moment. The glut in the money market is promoted by the fact that, whilst commercial transactions, pro perly so called, have diminished in number and volume, there has as yet been no revival of enter prise or speculation in fito , ,,c;al quarters. Moneyed people are remarkably dull and querulously in clined at present Perhaps they suffer as much as any class, aims, there is less money-business going forward, and the reduced amount of business is done at • lower rate of profit. Speculation is dor mant. Many of the leaders of the financial world are I away, as usual at this season of the year. It is thus impossible to combine great names satisfactorily for large operations. Consequently, although money is so cheap that it is thought likely ero long to hanker after employment, there is little disposition at present to embark in joint stock enterprises or public loans. The return of the army of influen tial absentees must be waited for, and then, should , the political world remain quiet, and money easy, it is inferred that November, December and Ja• unary, may perhaps be distinguished by • good deal of financial and speculative movement Meanwhile, as an indispensable preliminary to any new awn rities being rendered sufficiently tempting to be readily absorbed, existing securities of a solid character are moving gradually up to a higher I, range of prices, all, save apparently the stocks of the English railways, to the exceptional position of which we have already alluded. It is clear enough that the public will not be dazzled by any new investments un'ess they outshine the old. In considering this question of investments a good deal of interest attaches to the action of the de positors in the joint stock banks. Only six or seven weeks ago II per cent. interest was being allowed on the 41',000,0(101. (lets such proportion as represents current balances lodged in the metropolitan establishments): nom, the allowance is cut down to one-half, or two-and a-hal: per cent. This makes • serious difference. When depositors, whilst retaining the privilege of meaning their money at plea►ure, could obtain from the banks a rate of interest as high as that offered by any safe class of public securities, they did not trouble the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange ; but now that tie position of affairs has alto -ed so greatly, it is natural to infer that good securities, yielding • satisfactory return, will be sought after more eagerly. Indeed, the course of the stock markets has latterly afforded evidence that the fact is so. Just as a high rate of interest attracts an increased amount of deposits to the joint stock banks, • reduced allowance may be expected—we do not say to diminish them, for there are now comparatively few channels for their employment if withdrawn--butoertainly to displace •considerable sum, which will gradually percolate through the Stock Exchange. Cite Court. BALMORAL, Samosa 20. The Queen, accompanied by Princes& liclena and Prince.. Louise, and attended by lady Augusta Bruce, west out riding yesterday afternoon. The hiooritjousort and Prince Louis of Hesse went out deer stalking. Prince Alfred left the castle yesterdiy morning at ten o'clock, attended by Major Cowell, for Liverpool, whence his Royal Highoeu will embark on Saturday on board the Niagara, far the purpose of joining his ship, the St. George, at Halifax. Them was so addition to her Majesty's dinner party. Viscount 1104 Viscountess Palmerston arrived at Cam bridge-Louse, Piccadilly. on Saturday, from Wilmer Castle. THZ QUM( AT MAZ Lonna—On Thursday week her Majesty the Queen, the Prison' Alba, the Pria m, Holmes, and the Prime Louis of Hesse, called on the Counter of Fife at Mar Lodge, accompanied by Lady Churchill and General the Hon. Cherie. Grey. The royal party, after a walk with Lady Fife in the grouoda, returned and drank tea. They stayed aa hour, and left about half past IS o'clock.—Baajaaireierrnof. - MARRIAGE IN luau 1/171.--(THIS DAY.)—This (Yeadsy) morning. the marriage of Visooant alum sad Nies Seymour, daughtar of Lady Augusta Seymour, sad deter of the Counter of Spasm, took place at St. James's amuck Piseadilly. We (Abortion; Herald) understand that the Prince d Wales, new es the Continent, is expected at Balmoral on Wednesday or Thursday next. On Thurnday the Count and Countess de Flahault left Drummed GM* whore they hero been residing during the week, for 'rajallan. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Folkestone from Boulogne on Saintslay, by the South Eastern Railway Company's steam-boat Prince Ernest. Their mums proceeded to London by the tidal train. _ _ The Duke of St. Albans sod Lurtl George Been clerk leave left Baetwood Park for Yiecouut Falkland's seat in Yorkshire. His grace and party killed WO head of dame daring their Hay at Beetwood. The Counties of Jersey left England on Friday for the Contieeek via Folkestone and Boulogne. Baron and Baroness Charles de limthschild and fanny have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley equate, for Paris. Lady Knatchbull and Mina Knatchbull have left Farmace's Hotel for Menham le Hatch, over A s hford. Lady Anthony de ItothAehilil and the Miss; Rothschild have left Thoroas's Hotel, Berkeleyaquare, for Lord Ravensworth, the lion. Mrs. Villiers, the Hon. Gilbert Ileatheote, ld.P., Lord Elphinstooe, and Cap tain Frederick Elphinstone, are at present raiiding at Drummed Outle, the neat of the Right Hon. Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Ereeby. His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle left Hills borough on Friday, after enjoying ►he hospitalities of the Most Noble the Marquis of Dowushire for several days, gad returned to the Viceregal Lode, Dublin. On the night previous to his ezeellearts departure from Hillsborough, a niegotecest via gives he his honour. All the aste of the county was premed, sad abet he arrived at Lisburn, to take train for Dublin, he wee received by a select civic. Mr. If.clward Hornet, Secretary of Legation at Brussels, has been appointed Secretary of bar Majesty 'm Mission at Lisbon. Mr. H. P. J. Burrow will succeed Mr. Harries as Secretary et Lotion as *amok THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING,• SEPTEMBER 23, 1861. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA ON THE AMERICAN WAR. • LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott, from New York on the 11th inst., arrived here last night about 10.30. The following despatch was read by the Baron do Stoeckl, Russian minister at Washington, to President Lincoln, an audience on the 7th of September : St. Petersburg, July 10. Sir,—From the beginning of the conflict which divides the United States of America, you have been desired to make known to the Federal government the deep interest with which our august master WWI observing the develop ment of a crisis which puts in question the prosperity end seem the existence of the union. The Emperor profoundly regrets to see that the hope of a peaceful solution is not realised, and that American citizens, already in arms, are ready to let loose upon their country the most formidable of the scourges of political society —a civil war. For more than the eighty yeas that it has ex isted, the American union owes its independence, its towering rise, and its progress, to the concord of its members, consecrated under the auspices of its illustrious founder by institutions which have been able to reconcile the union with liberty. This union has been faithful. It has exhibited to the world the spectacle of a prosperity without example in the annals of history. It would be de plorable that, after so conclusive an experience, the United Statism should be hurried into a breach of the solemn corn pact, which, up to this time, has made their power. In spite of the diversity of their constitutions, and of their interests—wad, perhaps, even because of their diversity— Providence seems to urge them to draw closer the traditional bond, which is the basis of the very condition of their political existence. In any event, the sacrifices they might impose upon themselves to maintain it are beyond comparison with those which dissolution would bring after it. United, they perfect themselves; isolated, they are paralysed. The struggle which unhappily has just arisen can neither be indefinitely prolonged, nor lead to the total destruction of one of the parties. Sooner or later it will be necessary to come to some settlement, whatsoever it may be, which may cause the divergent interests now actually in conflict to co-exhit. The American nation would then give proof of high political wisdom in seeking in common such a settle ment, before a lacteal effusion of blood, a Innen squander ing of strength and of public riches, and seta of violence end political reprisals shall have come to deepen an abju between the two parties of the confederation, to end, defi nitively. in their mutual exhaustion, and in the ruin, per haps irreparable, of their commercial and political power. Our august master cannot resign himself to admit such deplorable anticipations NY Imperial Majesty still places his confidence in that practical good sense of the citizens of the union who appreciate so judiciously their true interests. His Majesty is happy to believe that the members of the Federal government and the influential men of the two parties will ,seize all ooraxions, and will uuito ell thei r efforts, to calm the effervescence of the passions. There are no interests so divergent that it may not be possible to reconcile them by labouring to that end with zeal and perseverance in • spirit of justice and moderation. If, within the limits of your friendly relations, your lan fume and your counsels may contribute to this result, you will respond, Sir, to the intentions of his Majesty the Em peror in devoting to this the personal influence which you may have been able to acquire during your long residence at Washington, and the consideration which belongs to your character as the representative of a sovereign animated by the most friendly sentiment, towards the American union. This union is not simply in our eyes an element essential to the universal political equilibrium ; it constitutes, be sides, a nation to which our august master and all Russia have pledged the most friendly interests, for the two countries, placed at the extremities of the two worlds, appear called to ■ natural community of interests and sympathies, of which they have already given mutual proofs to each other. I do not wish here to sr preach any of the questions which divide the United States. We are not called upon to express ourselves in this contest. The preceding considerations have no other object than to attest the lively solicitude of the Emperor in the presence of the dangers which menace the American union, and the sincere wishes which his Majesty entertains for the maintenance of that great work so laboriously raised, and which appeared so rich in its future. It is in this sense, Sir, that I desire you to ex press yowsell as well to the members of the general government as to the influential persons whom you may meet, giving them the assurance that in every event the American nation may count on the most cordial sympathy of our august master during the important crisis which it is paring through at the present. Receive, Sir, the expression of my very deep considers. tins. (Signed) Goercitscorr. M. do Stoecki, he., he. The Secretary of State has delivered to Mr. Stoecla the following acknowledgment : Department of State, Washington, Sept. 7, 1861. The Secretary is authorised by the President to expree, to Mr. De Steak], Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Ple nipotentiary of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, his pro found sense of the liberal, friendly, and magnanimous sen timents of his Majesty on the subject of the internal differences which, for a time, have seemed to threaten the American union, as they are corn. municated in the instruction, from Prince Dort chakoff to Mr. de Stoeckl, sad by him read, by hie Majesty's direction; to the President of the United Santee sad the Secretary of State. Mr. De Stoeckl will expreee to him government the satisfaction with which the government regards this DOW guarantee of a friendship between the two countries, which bad its beginning with the national existence of the United States. The Secretary of State offers to Mr. De Stoeckl renewed ansersams of his WI somideration. Mr. Ed. tie Stoecki. Witti.tw H. SEWARD. The Washington corespondent of the New York Tribune writes as follows : Prince Cortchakoff, to give impressive earnestness to the moaning of the Emperor's letter, directed Baron Stoeckl to read it in person to the President. The baron mine ex pressly for this purpose from New York yestenley, and the despatch was read by him to Mr. Lincoln and the Secretary of State, in the blue-room. Prince Gortchakoff further directed the Russian ntiuieter to make the Emperor's friendly letter public to the people of the United States through the newspaper prim. It is reported that ten Confederate regiments have been withdrawn from Virginia for the protec tion of the North Carolina coast. It is also rumoured that an additional expedi tion to the Southern coast will be inaugurated im mediately. The Federal Government has forbidden the transfer agents of the New York Central Railway to transfer or pay dividends on stock to owners iu the South. The Hammonia has arrived out. The Africa was intercepted off Cape Race on the 9th instant. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. _ Provisions slightly firmer. Wheat firm and ad vancing. Flour improving. Corn and sugar good inquiry. Coffee unchanged. MollllBbeB steady. Cotton quiet ; middling Upland, 22c. to 220. Money tighter. Exchange steady, 1071. Ctacks steady : New York Central, 73# ; Erie, 251 ; Illi nois Central, 67g. NEW YORK, Szrr. 11, Nowa. The Baltimore A merican states that &Mississippi regiment at Leesburg had revolted, broken their muskets, and started home. One company of the Naw York Rifle Regiment has attempted to desert. They were fired upon, and two men were killed ; the remainder were arrested. General Polk has proposed to the government of Kentucky that both Confederates and Federals should withdraw from that State and respect its neutrality. The greatest activity prevails in the Federal navy departments. Tho report of the death of President Davis is now totally discredited. The New York Wurbl states that an impression is gaining ground at Washington that the Confede rates will await an attack from the Federals. The North Briton has arrived out. GARIBALDI AND THE UNITED STATES. A Turin letter of September 18, in the Opinion Nationale, says : It is high time to know something definite about the ne gotiations between Garibaldi and the United States. I know not why, but the greatest mystery bangs over this affair. The journals here have scarcely spoken of it. Garibaldi and the United States Minister both maintain the profoundest edema on the subject. I have inquired of almost all Garibaldi's generale, and found that they knew no more than I did. At length, however, with much ado, I have obtained the followiug information. You know that Garibaldi lived fur many years in New York, where he was much beloved. He has a great affection for the country, and his independent character sympathised with the individual liberty which he fond prevailing in it. When the war between the North and the South broke out, all Ili. sympathies were in favour of the union ; he wrote ea much to his friends in America, ani they in reply entreated biro to come out to help them. About two months ago several rich Americans offered to find him a very large capital if be would raise • corps franc for America, and take the command of it. Private individuals could do no more. But such a position, which might have suited Garibaldi well enough in latit, was beneath the dignity of the hero of Marsala and Palermo. While the North Americans wens thus paying court to Garibaldi, those of the South also made attempts to gain him to their came. A deputation from the South represented to him that the merits of the quarrel between the two branches of the great western republic required very close examination, and that the question of slavery put by the North was, in reality, of less importance than the free trade platform upon which the South took its stand. These arguments are said to have made some impression upon Garibaldi. After the defeat of the Federal army, the government of the United States began to think seriously of making to Garibaldi such a propa•l as he could aooept. Mr. Marsh, the United States Minister at Turin, was manifestly not an eligible negotiator iu a matter so deeply involving the interests of Italy, and therefore the American Minister at Brussels, who, it is said, had been a friend of Garibaldi in America, was thought of. He was charged to sound Gari baldi. It is well known that Garibaldi is dying of multi at Caprera. Read the life of this extraordinary man: You find him in New York, California, Peru, Buenos Ayres, China— and at Let the Italian revolution of 1859 found him a captain of • merchantman. His powerful organisation consumes by inaction. For the last mouth he has been con fined to his bed with rheumatic pains which it is known by experience would disappear under the excitement of active life. The United States envoy, therefore, found Garibaldi anxious for a change of life. As to the conditions submitted to him, I eau only speak with all reserve. It seems, however, beyond doubt that he was offered the command-in-chief of the United States army ; but it is also said that he was to take no iniportantatep without the sanction of a council of war nominated by the Washington government. His staff was to be composed mainly of officers of his own choice, but in no case was he to be allowed to put Italian generals into prin cipal commands. The rewards to his officers were to con sist of nominal rank, er in cases of pre-eminent service, territorial allotments. Garibaldi, whose habit is to take counsel of himself alone in difficult cases, did not like the idea of being followed by an itinerant council of war, to which he would be Loma to defer, and he moreover insisted upon a coodition which the American Minister was not pre pared to accede to, namely, that he should be permitted to return to Italy at any moment when his presence might be necessary. On the whole, an unknown theatre of war, foreign generals, a doubtful cause, Italy separated from him' by the Atlantic, and his best and dearest officers ringing in his sirs the word "Roane" and "Venice," made Garibaldi hesitate. The United States envoy returned from Caprera to Genoa without having concluded anything. Many, how ever, pretend that the matter is still open. Let us hope the contrary. The Morimento of Genoa says : Letters from Captors of the Pith state that General Gari baldi has completely recovered from his indisposition, and resumed his ordinary occupations. The arrival of his sons, and iopecially of Ricciotti, the younger, whom he had not seen for a long time, has completed his domestic happiness. Numerous addresses have been sent him from all parts of Italy on the occasion of the anniversary of the 7th Septem ber, and prove that the affection of the Italian people for him has not declined. ITALY AND SPAIN. TURIN, BErr. 18. The Spanish government has not positively re fused to deliver up to M. Tecco (who represents the Italian government at Madrid) the archives of the Neapolitan consulate : but it continues to make evasive answers to all demands. A fresh note has been sent from Turin to M. Calderon Collantes, the minister of foreign affairs at Madrid, and this note is so categorical and pressing that refusal to com ply with it must inevitably lead to a complete di plomatic rupture between the two countries. It will be remembered that the cabinet of Madrid re called the Spanish minister from Turin when the Marches were annexed to Piedmont, but the Italian government, making allowance for the natural sym pathy of the court of Spain for the Bourbons and the Pope, still left M. Two) at Madrid. (REUTIIII TILICOLUIB.) FRANCK PARIS, SM. 23. The Monikur of this morning aunoun cos, in its political bulletin, that the king of Prussia will arrive at Compiegne on the Gth October, and adds : " It appears certain that almost at the same peried there will be another royal visit to France." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Sur. M. The Ost Dcutedie Post and the Press; of to-day give a formal denial to the rumours of a minis terial crisis, which had been circulated by some other Vienna papers, and state that, on the con trary, Baron Schmerling on Saturday last conferred and agreed with Baron Forgach, Aulic Chancellor for Hungary, upon several administrative ques tions. THE HAGUE. THE HAGUE, S. 23 The Minister of Finance has submitted to the Chamber of Deputies the draft of the budget for 1862. The redemption of the public debt is post poned until the proposed junction of the rivers with the sea by means of canals, and the emancipa tion of the slaves in the Dutch colonies has been o,►rried out. PORTUGAL SOUTHAMPTON. Barr. 22. The Portugueee steam-frigate Bartholomew Diaz, Commander the Duke of Oporto, with their Royal High ne 1181:• the Prince and Princess of Hohenzollern Signuu ingen and suite, arrived here to-day from Lisbon. The royal party left at 6 p.m. for London, en route for the Continent. They were met on board the frigate by the Portuguese Ambassador, Count Larradio ; F. J. Van Zeller, Esq., Portuguese Consul-General ; the Prussian Charge d'Affaires and Secretary of Legation, and the Prussian and Portuguese Consuls at this port. The Bartholomew Dias leaves here tomorrow for Dower, where it is expected their royal high nesses will rejoin her about the 24th inst., and proceed to Antwerp. COCHIN CHINA. SAIGON, JULY 31. The neighbourhood of Mitho has been devastated by pirates, who were however afterwards attacked and beaten by Admiral °hamar. Tranquillity baa now been re-established. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (TROY OUR 01,11 CORRieIPONDINT.) PARIS, SATURDAY ETWORG. The news which I announced en bloc at the be- ginning of the week that the Emperor hoped to have a constellation of sovereigns in the month of October, is now being dealt out to the Parisian public in driblets. On Friday and Saturday the King of Holland and the King of the Belgians were talked of, the latter "vaguely." Now the latest news is that apartments are being prepared "in all haste" at Compiegne for the King of Den mark, who is to be there at the same time as the King of Prussia. Said Pacha, the Viceroy of Egypt, ix also said to be expected. A new diplomatic note on the affair of Ville le Grand has just been remitted to the Swiss govern ment by the Marquis de Turgot. A monstrous inquisitorial act of government has been resented with commendable spirit by several departmental journals. The editors of papers at Bordeaux, Marseilles, Nantes, and other places have been called up before a commissary of police, and required to give the names and descriptions of every writer in their journals, the place of his birth, the position of his family, the amount of his salary, what degree he took at the university, what are his antecedents, and what his scientific and literary works and honorary distinctions. Both at Bordeaux and Marseilles the editors have refused to answer such parte of these interrogatories as are foreign to the "civil status," which is no secret to anybody. This affair will make a great noise. The Council-General of Finistere (at the ex tremity of Brittany, not the most civilised part of France) goes in for a Maine liquor law, and calls upon the government to make it penal to drink absinthe—the favourite but pernicious hob-and-nob beverage of the French army. The Bourse continua; firm. Bente rose 5c., both for cash and account, closing at 69fr. 20c. and 69fr. 30c. Mubilier rose 3fr. 75c. Railways were fully from lfr. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. higher. SUNDAY EVKNING. It continues to be said that the King of Prussia will be at Compiegne on October 6, but the Cons& tutionnel repeats the very extraordinary statement that his stay in France will be limited to twenty four hours. The Emperor and Empress remain at Biarritz longer than was contemplated, and, accord ing to present arrangements, will only come to Compiegne on October 5, the eve of the expected arrival of the King of Prussia. The Pays, by way of " Latest News," endorses the report (the truth of which I greatly doubt myself) that General Cialdini will leave Naples at the ent) of the month and be succeeded by General Fanti, M. de Villamarina becoming at the same time civil governor. That M. de Villamarina will shortly go to Naples I believe to be true, for it is well known that Cialdini wishes to be relieved from the civil government, but I cannot think that the repression of brigandage in the Neapolitan states is yet so complete that it would be politic for the King of Italy to part with such a successful and popular commander as Cialdini. I have received from au Italian friend some curious details, which I believe to be thoroughly authentic, of the elaborate machinery set in motion some time ago to induce a belief in Eng land that France was going to pounce upon Sardinia, and by means of which Mr. Roebuck was hoaxed. Count Cavour, shortly before his death, was informed that both Austria and the Italian reactionary party, which, under favour of the French government, has its head-quarters at Rome, had resolved to start the Sanlinian C4l44rti in the hope of creating a preju dice in England against France and Italy. The Austrian councillor Brentano, and a secre tary of Prince Carini, the ex-King of Naples' ambassador at Berlin, were simultaneously sent to London with instructions to propagate the story of the cession. It is not necessary to suppose them to have been willing instruments of a fraud. In all probability they were dupes themselves. But at all events they were furnished with a forged document, purporting to be a copy of a convention between Count Cavour and the French Emperor for the cession of Sar dinia, and which copy, it was given out, had come to the bands of the Austrian government through the treachery of a Foreign-office clerk. This tale was artfully palmed off upon an intimate friend of Mazzini's, who duly reported it the famous triumvir. Notwithstanding, however, all the exertions of the propagandists, the affair took no hold upon the public mind at this time. But after Cavour's death, the visit of the Archduke Maxi milian to England was thought a good opportunity fur renewed efforts. The favour which the arch duke's professions of constitutional principles obtained for him in the eyes of certain members of the English parliament is well known. Encou raged by his reception, the archduke put into the hands of a M.P. (whether Mr. Roebuck himself, Mr. Kinglake, or anybody else is net material) a copy of the terrible convention in question. Accord ing to my information,it was stand in the 4th clause of this forged docu went " that Sardinia cannot be con dered Italian, because its inhabitants are principally of Arabian or Spanish origin," and that it had been agreed to make over the island to France, as a compensation for her services to Italy in obtaining Rome for the capital, and in order the more firmly to consolidate the Franco-Italian alliance. If this statement should be contradicted iu any quarter whatever, I am assured that names and dates will be forthcoming. Thu Echo de l'Aeeyron has received a warning for an article, " odiously insulting to a friendly sovereign recognised by France, calculated to pro voke agitation, prophecying imminent catastrophes, and spreading false alarms, with a malevolent pur pose." I presume, from the tenor of the warning, that the journal must be a clerical one, and that the friendly sovereign alluded to is the King of Italy. A literary journal, called the Gazette de Bayonne, having received a warning, and been intenlicted from selling its numbers at Biarritz, informs its readers that it means to give up the ghost. At the same time it states that it has had several private warnings before, and that existence was not worth having under such harassing circumstances. With a deep regret, which will be shared by all lovers of the drama in Europe, I have to announce the death of that charming actress Madame Rose Cheri, who expired yesterday of a malignant sore throat, called by French physicians artgirie count neuse--disease answering, I believe, to the English diphtheria. It is said she caught the malady by nursing her son, who is now out of danger. Ma dame Rose Cheri was only thirty-seven years old, having been born at Stamper, in 1824. In 1845 she married M. Lemoine-Montigny, the manager of the Gymnase. The French Consul at Cagliari, in a letter ad dreasod to the Gazette' del Popolo of that town, protests spinet an article in which th►t journal had asserted that the employee of the consulate spread report. in favors. sod drinking shop that the island of &Mints is forthwith to be ramie over to France. INDIA. We have received our letters and papers from Bombay to the 27th August. The followin4 general summary of intelligence is from the Bombay lia:ette : The English mail of the 3rd August arrived in Bombay on the 25th August. There has been a heavy fall of rain over the country during the past fortnight. The rivers are swollen to au unusual height. Some damage may be done to the crops. The cholera has been raging in the North-west, and with special virulence and fatality at Delhi, Meerut, and other large towns. It has now abated. The investiture of the Knights of the Exalted Star of India is to be held by the Governor-General at Agra next October. The entire distance from Cal cutta to Agra may now be travelled by railway. TheGoveruor-Geueral in Council, by a resolution dated 9th August, 1861, has oftbred prizes for the production of cotton during the two next year*-_ that is. the current season of 1861-62, and the sub sequent season of 1802-63. Three prizes of ten thousand rupees each will be given in each season, one in each of the three presidencies. The government of Bombay has requested W. R. Cassels, Esq., of Messrs. Peel, Cassels, and Co., to prepare a handbook ou the cotton cul tivation and trade in the Bombay presidency. Mr. Cassels has commenced his important labours. The government of India have authorised an ex penditure of a lakh of rupees for the purchase of articles for the International Exhibition in 1862. The sum has been allotted as follows :—Beitgal and North-West Provinces, Its. 36,000; Madras, Rs. 30,000 ; Bombay, Re. 20,000 ; Punjaub, Be. 15,000. Exploring expeditions are about to penetrate Asia in different directions. This will bring us in contact with the Russians in Central Asia. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1862. Messrs. Truscott, Son, and Simmons, of Suffolk lane, Cannon-street, are, we understand, the suc cessful competitors for both (Shilling) catalogues for the International Exhibition for 1862. The " Industrial Catalogue" will be a list con taining the name and address of each exhibitor, and a very brief description of his goods. It will be in one volume demy Bvo, will be sold for one chil ling in the Exhibition building, and will be produced wholly at the cost of her Majesty's Commissioners. Tho " Fino Arts Catalogue" will be the same am the " Industrial Catalogue" in size of page, print, and price, and will also be produced at the cost of her Majesty's Commissioners. The nuidber required to be printed for the first edition will be 250,000 of each catalogue. THE GREAT EASTERN. The Olotry.r remarks that the breaking of the rudder post, though a piece of metal 12 inches iu diameter, was "a contingency which Captain Harriloo, the tint commander of the ship, had, if not foreseen, at least provided wind. Below the rudder poet, and upon the blade of the rudder itself, he had fixed shackles, to which 14 inch cables were fixed, led up through the quarters of the chip, and trioed ready fur emergency. We have looked iu vain through the accounts which have been published of any resort being had to these chains. On the contrary, it is stated that the cap. fain gave up to an American engineer the tea► of fitting up • temp rary arrangement of cables on to what remained of the rudder post, and that it was to the plan which he adopted that the safety of the vowel was due. If this precautionary arrangement existed when the ship met with the heavy g.de it certainly did not seem to be known to the commander ; for had rt been, he would have had ready to his hand &theses of keep. ing the ship in a state of commual almost as complete as if no accident hail happened to the rudder post. The managers of this great ship seem latterly to have lost sight of the im portant advice which was given to them by the late Mr. Brunel as to the care and caution which ought to be exer cised in the selection of a commander. Since the death of Captain Harrison there has not been a commander who ham had such opportunities as he bad had of making himself acquainted with the vessel. Two days before this last trip an officer was appointed to the command wbo bad no means of acquiring any knowledge of the ship. The directors have very naturally desired to make the ship pay. and they have striven to reduce than enormous working ex. proses to 141 low a figure as possible. Each succeeding con. wander has received a dinduished rate of payment, until, as it is stated, the rate to the present captaiu is but a trifle MOM than rroe•fuurth of that at which the services of 1210, Harrison were engaged. The staff of officers on board his been proportionately reduced. Perhaps no other ship would have lived, as the Great Eastern has done, in such a pod tier' and through such • gale ; and probably no other vessel would have been brought into such a position of danger." FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE SHIP. The Cork Jgreseiner of Saturday supplies the following : —" From some passengers who Tended from the Great Eastern to-day we learn the following particulars with re gard to Thursday eight : —A very few of the passengers were much frightened, but much more no perhaps (mamma of what they had already undergone then from any present cause of alma. One lady, whose nerves seemed to have been completely shattered, was in a state of great terror, and fainted several times. A gentleman who had several children with him, anxious for their safety, secured them all to life preservers. The passengers generally, however, both ladies and gentlemen, were free from any uneasiness, alai were able to enter with great spirit into the amusements that had been got up, two gentlemen who came ashore this morning declariug that it was the jolliest eight they had spent aboard. The passengers with whom we had an opportunity of conversing speak very highly of the way the ship was managed during the night, and state that the good spirits which reigned oa board were in a great degree owing to the confidence felt in the captain. A fatal accident, we regret to say, occurred oa board on Friday morning. Ono of the quartermasters was stationed with others at the wheel on the lower deck, which sometimes, owing to the state of the rudder gear, jerked violently. In one of these jerka one of the handles struck the quartermaster on the head with sods force as to batter in bin skull, carman instant death. No other accident, 1 believe, occurred while she was out. After the anchor bad been let go on Friday morning, the vessel forged a head a little and struck an American barque, the Samuel Baxley—which was lying at anchor near—with • pretty smart shock, damaging her toenails the stern and carrying away her davits and one of her anchors and chains. This occurred about eight or nine o'clock this moan ing. The amount of damage done to the Samuel Mule' has nut yet been ascertained. It is said that the venal wall be brought io a little further, if possible, but owing to the state of her steering apparatus it will be a work of great difficulty, tinkles she has the aid of some powerful steam tugs. She is, however, perfectly enure from danger where she is. One of the directors was expected to arrive at 3 o'clock by the Dublin train." The Maie states that the marriage of General Turr and Mlle. Wyse, at Moodovi, was celebrated by the Vicarfieneral, at the church of 6snta•Frammeuga. Al! the officers of General Tarr's division were prevnt. The bride was accompanied by her mother and two brothers. The General and Mad►me Turr are to proceed from Momlovi to Turin, and thence to Como. _ The Nuouit Europa of Florence publinhen the following letter to the King, signed by the " Roman and Venetian emigration" :—" Sire.—The garlands which we had prepared for the virgins of Venice and Rome are hr ginning to fade. Try to achieve the desired result while there is yet some life in our dowers ; be at length the King of all of us." The Emperor Nitpoloon received at Biarritz three days back M. Donate, senator, and MM. Larabure, Etch*. verry, and O'Quiu, deputies. His Majesty conversed with them for some time on subjects connected with the depart ment of the Buses Pyre/lima, particularly the railway, and also the beet means of increasiag the agricultural produc tions. His Majesty dwelt on the necessity of extending as much u possible the practice of irrigation, and also ex premed a wish that the Landes of Pont•Long should be rendered of some value by draiuiog. His Majesty exprvmed his regret to M. O'Quin, as mayor of Pau, at not having been able to visit that town this year, but promised to do SO next summer. A point of punctilio in connexion with the ap. preaching coronation at Berlin, which has occasioned much discussion, has just been settled. A number of young girls clothed in white are to welcome their Majesties on their entry into Berlin, and the honour of being amongst the number has been eagerly sought for by all the families of the higher classes, including these of the Jewish relilion. In order in some measure to restore peace in the bosoms of these families, the number has been limited to 110. and the number of honourable matrons (Ehrentniitter) to 10. 4 : 4 the latter five of the wives of the magistrates (who hoe an old claim to the honour) will be selected, and the other five will be wives of the city representatives ; and in order to set some limit to the ambition of the parents of the 110 maidens, a decree has gone forth that no brillianu are to be wars by them. ano4 ito a and Prid the th e tritE are i INC