The Express. — London, England, 1861-08-14 00:00:00

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Illevaisr.—Commuce at 0616/666 0. text WATIlit AT 10/DON HUM ns flit —lllw elm, Alaisame 11 &la Tv imsnow 31a...•. Mom" Vb. Hs. LONDON, WZDNISDAY, AUGUST 14. TO OUR RILU)ERS. SPORTING INTELLIG F-NC A !Ate edition of the Express published every evening during the racing season, containing the results of the lay's races. H 'grows has been defined as philosophy teaching by example, and the contemporary narrative of events in another country is sometimes of advan• tage to us not inferior to what history yields. With minds sufficiently removed from the scene, and sufficiently unbiassed by the interests in dis pute, we may cull wisdom from the errors of our brethren, as well as from those of our fathers. So there are probably few on whose ears the news of the Northern disaster at Bull's Run did not fall as a warning not inapplicable to ourselves in regard to the reliance due to a Volunteer Army, such as for the last two years we have been so busily en gaged in organising. As the later accounts have given shape and colour to the first hasty outlines, we have seen more distinctly the precise points on which such warning is useful. It has, indeed, been given in the gentlest form. A pitched battle, lasting for a whole day, resulting in the utter rout, not of the vanquished, but of the victors, it has yet not been a decisive battle. The loss has been trifling, and there has been ample time allowed to make it good, to strengthen the defence, and to renew the preparations for attack. Such results must not be usually hoped filer such defeats. They have followed in this instance because both armies were in the main made up of Volunteers. Had General BEA UREA:ASIA forces been the trained veterans of a great military power, it is beyond doubt that the capital would have been in his hands within twelve hours after the first Northern Volunteer turned his back. Had his camp been supplied, as the camp of such a power would be, with the due proportion of each arm of the service ; had he possessed the means of rapid and safe advance which every regular army possesses, it is all but certain that scarce a regiment opposed to him would have escaped. We are, therefore, to take this first great Volunteer battle as no type of the power of Volunteers to withstand the shock of a tho roughly equipped invading army. But while the consequences of Volunteer failings have been in this case infinitely less momentous than in otheir cir cumstances they would be, we may usefully exa mine their nature with a view to discover to what extent our own Volunteers might be liable to fall into like misfortunes. Now, in the first place, we must dismiss en tirely any notion that the flight from Manassas to Washington was • proof of inferiority to our selves in mere courage. The troops which fled had fought as gallantly as any could do under the burning sun of a long summer's day. They were in truth of our own blood, and we cannot afford the confession that beneath another sky we lose our British valour. Nor with the knowledge how French and Irish and Highland regiments fight, can we admit that the infusion of the Celtic ele ment in the American race, while it may contri bute something of braggadocio to their language, takes away aught of reckless daring from their deeds. Behind the Eton of the quick-beating Celtic blood there lies enough of Teutonic stubbornness to make American soldiers equal to those of any land. Nor in the second place must we lay too much stress upon their rawness under arms. The rifle is far more of a national weapon in the States than it has yet become in England. If from the towns came some to whom its use was unfamiliar, they were mixed up with those in whose hands it had been since infancy. So, too, in regard to drill we must remember that the bulk of the forces engaged had been throe months enrolled, and wu must consider whether a steady military life for three months is not more than equal to a couple of years during which one or two hours per week are devoted to instruction. Eliminating then these considerations, let us look what were the real circumstances which led to the defeat of the Northern army. They seem to have been twofold. Firstly, there was the independence of judgment which is characteristic of Volunteer troops. This was notably exemplified in the way in which they dis banded themselves when their three months' enrol ment had expired. We cannot doubt that, had they believed there was a real and pressing need for their services, they would have remained under arms with the same alacrity with which they sprang to arms at the l'itraturres 1113(111110111. But in their judgment there was no reason why they should be under arms at that particular moment, and accordingly they took a furlough. They knew that Washington was safe —they saw no particular danger to be feared from the opposing army—and the event has proved that they wen right. It seemed to them that autumn would be time enough to drive the enemy out of Virginia, and in that opinion it appears th►t the Commander-in-Chief coincided with them. In the meantime they had their homes and their families to see, their harvests to gather, their hasty domestic arrangements to complete. So they departed, severing that in a few weeks they meant to return, and thus it happened that at a critical moment a general found himself without an army. They did exactly what the Highland forces of the Paerstrunt did before Slwriffinuir and Culloden ; exactly what the Gan baldian forces did after the Volturno and before Gaeta. Eking under no obligation to stay, and seeing no mama why they should stay sulkiest to satisfy their judgment that their stay was necessary, they exercised their right to take lean of absence. This and no more is the explanation of their disbanding in presence of the enemy, and it can only be met by the same means which the King of ITALY found it necessary to apply to the gallant :arilmildiana, whose courage and whose patriotism had been put to thorough proof. It is P' THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, a lesson that when Volunteers are called out it must be for a period and under conditions which shall not leave it in their power to go in when they think enough has been done. But the causes of the flight of those troops which did remain to fight, and which did fight bravely and successfully, still remain to seek. In broad daylight, and in the tido of victory, they fell, we are told, into a panic. What first caused the panic we probably shall never learn, nor is it very material to inquire. There never was a battle yet fought in which at some moment and at some point a panic has not seized upon some of the troops engaged. But that in such circum stances it should grow and spread into a complete rout of the whole army is the strange and start ling peculiarity, and of this it happens that the cause has become tolerably clear. The officers, who among regular troops would to the last retain their coolness and their heads, and who by exam ple would extinguish the momentary impulse of fear, were at Bull's Run the leaders in the flight. Instead of re-forming the wavering lines, they broke away under an impulse of terror. The contagion spread more rapidly among them than among the men. They knew not why they ran nor who pur sued. The spectacle is disgraceful enough, yet here again we must remember that those who thus acted were men of our own blood and of probably equal courage with our own officers. But they yielded to the impulse of fear because they were in a place for which they were not qualified, and the more hopelessly yielded because at the last moment the conviction came to themselves that they were incompetent to the situation in which they found themselves. With but a scanty know ledge of elementary drill, with no knowledge of war or of the circumstances of war, unaccustomed to the confusion of battle, and unable to depend on the arrangements for their support or relief being carried out by those whom they knew to be as inefficient as themselves, it is no wonder that a sudden alarm threw them into a confusion from which they could not recover. The essential point for our consideration is, by what means we may raise our Volunteers above the chance of falling from like causes into like but far more irretrievable disgrace. Our Volun teer officers have exactly the same qualifications as the American volunteer officers. They are, as officers, half educated. They include, indeed, many, wbo from a natural aptitude for arms would be found equal to any emergency. But they also include many whose incapacity, known well enough now to their own men, would become conspicuous to the world in a battle-field. With such men defeats originate. Will the Government continue to leave us to the certainty of defeats from such a cause Or will it, by insisting that all who aspire to com mand shall undergo the instruction which is neces sary to render the best fit for command, and which would expose the incapacity of those whom nature has denied the qualifications required, save ns, so far as human forethought can, from so fatal a re sult 1 There are abundance of men in the Volun teer ranks with sufficient capacity and able to de vote sufficient time to the rendering themselves good officers. These are the men whom we ought to have, instead of the " gentlemen of influence" or the loud bluaterers who are now most readily re commended forcommiasions by the Lords-Lieutenant. If the present officers can qualify themselves for their posts by all means let them continue in them, but let it be remembered that upon Govern ment rests the responsibility of ascertaining that, from colonel to corporal, no man shall hold a post for which, in the hour of battle and on the out break of such a panic as that of Manassas, he shall be found unequal. Better far that we had no Volunteers, than Volunteers on whose competent leading, under every circumstance of danger, we cannot confidently rely. In dealing with this source of weakness, Government will have the country with them, and none more earnestly than, with a few exceptions, the Volunteers themselves. SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION. MANCHIIITEL WgDNISDAY MOILVICO. The nomination foe South Lancashire took place this morning. The eandideles proposed were Mr. Charles Turner, conservative; mid Mr. John Cheetham, liberal. The show of hands was in favour el Mr. Turner. A poll was demanded for Mr. Chasidim. The procesdiasp were of a quiet ammeter. SIX Court. OSBORNE, AuGorr 13. Her Majesty awl the Prince Consort, accom panied by the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, Prince's Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, embarked at half•past fire o'clock yesterday afternoon, on board the royal yacht Vic toria and Albert, and steamed to the esetward. The whole of the Ladies and Cent'omen in Waiting were in attendance. At about half.past six o'clock bee Majesty met the Swe dish corvette conveying the King of Sweden and Prince Omar towards Osborne. The Prince Consort immediately west of in the barge, and proceeded on board the corvette, and invited the King to aceon.any him on board her Ma jesty's yacht. A royal salute was fired by the Emerald frigate, which was in attendance on her Majesty. The King of Sweden and Prince Oscar, with their suite, were received by the Queen on the dock of the Victoria and Albert, which immediately returned to Osborne, and arrived about eight o'clock. The King's suite consists of Baron Silferachiuld, Major. General Bildt, and Commodore Haffner. Captain-Lieutenant Afsetius is in attendance on Prince Oscar. Viscount Palmerston, Earl Russell, and Viscount Sydney, arrived in the afternoon, and remain on a visit to her Majesty. Baron Beck-Fria, Secretary to the Swedish Legation in London, also arrived on a visit. Her Majesty's dinner party in the evening included the King of Sweden and Norway, the Crown Prince of Prussia, the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal), Princess Alice, Prince Omer of Sweden and Norway, the Lady in Waiting to the Crown Princess, the Baroness von Dobeneck, the Earl Russell, the Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Syd ney; Baron Beck-Fins (Secretary to the Swedish Legation), Baron Silfenchiiild, Major• General Bildt, and Commodore Haffner, in attendance on the King of Sweden and Norway; Count Furatenatein and Lieutenant-Colonel von Obernits, in attendance on the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia ; Y. Duncker ; Captain Lieutenant Manlius, in attendance on Prince Oscar of Sweden and Norway. Her Majesty's Commi:xionen for the International Exhi tion of 1862 held a meeting at their offices, in the Strand, yesterday. The Building Committee of the Exhibitioti of 1862 held • cresting at South Kensington. It ham hese intimated to her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhibition of 1862 that a joint resolution has peened both houses of the United States Congress, authorising the President to take such measures as shall seem expedient to facilitate • proper representation of the industrial interests of the United States, at the forthcoming Exhibition, and that • sum of 2,000 dollars is appropriated for the incidental espouses. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the West fedi' Islands. SOUTHAMPTON, Ammer 14. The royal yacht Fairy, the Hon. Copt. Denman commander, has just arrived from Osborne with the King of Sweden, the nines Consort, the Crown Prinoe of Prussia, Lord Palmerston, Earl Russell, Lord Sydney, and Major Du Plat on board. The royal party go to Aldershott, and return to Osborne this evening. They were received by Colonel Barlow and Philip Hedger, Esq., oa the part of the dock company ; and by Morn. Godson and Bank on the part of the railway company. Prime Oscar ►as gone from Osborne to Portsmouth. Royal salutes won Arad by the British frigate Donation mad tie Portuguese Bigots Bartholomew Din. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. There was hisued this morning the second report of the select oommittesi of the House of Commies, appointed far the examination from year to year of the audited ammemlie of the public expenditure. With regard to the ac iamb d theolles of Works, the committee my they are glad lesheerre that they are now rendered with greeter regularity Man is former times. " The aooottats of 185940," they add, " were seat into the Audit-office in November, 1860, and though the report of tee Audit Board for that year refine to the want of the information required, they are secured that the documents relating to subsequent accounts have either been or arranEementa are making for furnish leg them to A 't -office." The votes for the great ser viette of the arms and envy, and those for the revenue &Palms* ars, it la remarked, taken " for services whisk will come la course of payment during the year On the 31st March the acc o u n t. o f th e y ear for these services are closed. The balsams ars dr dared by the Audit Board ; any maps., that may rentals Is given up to the exchequer, and is not available %emanate made after the closing of the account If an y awe eased has not been paid and is required, it must be re-voted. The votes for the office of seas and the other civil mewinea, are taken "(or the services of the year." Accordiag to these words, the sum voted is approp r i a t e d t o th e service voted, but there is no limit of time for the payment, and provided the PUT be applied to the proper service, the balance remaining in the &chequer or Pay-office may be carried forward from year to year, and the account remains open for an indefinite time. The public accounts are thus dealt with in a different manner. The great ac counts of the army and navy revenue departments on ow principle, the civil service amounts on another." "The mate of taking the watea," sly the committee, " by which balances are carried se from year to year, interferes with the presentation to peaking of a satisfactory appro priation account. The effisorof the Audit Board who examines the coconuts of the Ofee et Works, stated to the committee that he did nil amelder that the account sow laid before parliament is a sadefeetory appropriation count, or that the Audit Board are at present able to furnish such an account, in consequence of the balances carried over." The committee afterwards call attention to the large ba- Lams oe account of the civil service, retained at the termi nation of the anemia year , which they eansider to be coca mooed mainly by the mode in whkh the votes are taken. For 1860-61, a vote was take, of 44,496 L, and on the 31st December, 1860, there remained fa the Exchequer that very cam of 44,495/. %indrawn, cloudy showing that no part of the vote foe 1860-431 had been lunched up to 31st December, 18110 wed that the services of 1860-61 for two quarters had been paid from the balance of 133940. la 186960 the expenditure ea certain votes enumerated amounted to 619,3:161. "This amount," continues the re port, "includes • sum of 32,600/., composed of balances returned to the Exdiequer, and of a balance transferred to the trustees of the Britoil) Museum; the actual 'speedily», therefore, in the year 188f1.60 was under 5147,000. From the ammo report it appears that the balances on the runs votes at the termination of the year, and carried forward to the next, amounted to 630,064/. ; being more than the whole expenditure of the year—a large sum, beyond whet would appear necessary to meet the liabili ties of the year 185940, and to carry on the service until the votes far 1860 had pined. The report concludes as follows :—" The attention of the Treasure appears to have been called this year to the large amount of them balmier', and they have applied a remedy by directing the Oates of Works to surrender to the Exchequer certain sums from the balsam of 1859.60; and at the same time have deducted from the votes of this year an estimated surplus of the voles of 186041. This course, however it may serve as a temporary expedient, effects no permanent arrangement ; nor can your committee see say way of placing the amounts of the Office of Works on a satisfactory footing. exoept by extending the mode of taking the vases for the navy and army to the services wider the Odic* of Works. 'llia alteration will render necessary other arrange ments for the conduct of the public service, but until your committee have made further progress in their investiga tuns, they &totals from entering upon these questions." HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO IRELAND. _—...-- The following are the arrangements for the accommodation of those who will be fortunate enough to promise tickets of admission on the Carlisle Pier. Kings town, ca the ocesaion of her Majesty's lanolin. The plan was only decided yesterday, and will be carried out forth with. The Commissiooers of Public Works MUNI placing on the raised portion of Carlisle Pier, immediately under the shed, a aeries of seats, six in number, each about two feet wide, and the rimer of each about one foot above the other. They will form a concave on either side of the part left open for the gangway or land ing. Place from the steamer, branching off to the right and left about 150 feet on either side, thus affording ea excellent view to those occupying them. The portion of the railway next the usual landing place will be platformed over to the extent of 75 or SO feet, was to give a greater area for placing the galleries. Then immediately opposite the open space, and on the part of the pier usually employed ae the place for embarking, there will be another gallery erected parallel to the coping of the railway. This will give a full-front view of her Majesty on her leaving the royal yacht, and until she enters the carriage inwaiting. In addi tion, there will be a line of barriers along the railing of the railway, and a cross barrier at the tunnel or bridge similar to those used at the time of the landing of the Prince of Wales.—Preenan's Juanal. ORBORNE Roos , AIIOUNT 9. —Thin day had audience of her Majesty, the Count von Gluts, Envoy Ex traordixary and Minister Plenipotentiary oa au extraordi nary miAsion from his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse, to deliver his credentials ; to which audience he was introduced by the Earl Huron, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. —Gazette. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Prince's at Prussia close their visit to her Majesty to- morrow (Themiday). Their royal highnesses will embark es board the Osborne, Admiralty yacht, for Ostend, on their way to Berlin. The Duke of Hamilton, aooompanied by the Narquis of Douglaa aad Lord Charles Douglas, en reek from Baden, arrived at Folkestone oa Moods) , last by the Reath Eastern Railway Oempeay's steamship the Princess Clementine. His grace proceeded to London by the tidal train. The Duke of Marlborough is in treaty for a reai dame at Seethes& for the seasoe. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester left town ea Monday for Tandenigee. their mat in Ireland. After poising a few week, is Ireland they yo on a tour of visite. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury ar rived is tows last evening from Wilton House, near &dis tally. Viscount and Viscountess De Vesci and Hon. Misses Veiny mane to town yesterday from staying with Lady Herbert and family at Wilton Howe, near Salisbury. The Earl and Countess Spencer are expected home the week after neat, from Spa. Lady Harriet Bentinck has arrived at the Port lead Hotel, Smithies, from her manes in Norfolk•street, Peek-lane. Lady Charles Townahend arrived at Folkestone, ea lisaday, from Loadoa. Bar ladyship has taken a resi dence fa Bosveaie•gasre. Count and Lady Cecilia De La Feld have left Prinee'e.terrace for Germany._ The Bishop of Oilied is now stopping at the Marquis of Londonderry's seat, Mount Stewart, county of Down, having arrived at Belfast on the 9th. His lordship preached last Sunday in Newtownards Church to a crowded 000gregation. We are sorry to hear that Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, X.C.13 , has been suffering for some days past from severe iedispoution. Yesterday the sooonass of his health were more favourable. ' It appears from it passage in the History of Charles V. of Spain, that passports are a Spanish invention sad date from the days of the Inquisition. The first ever gives in France was signed by that monarch when besieging Marseilles in 15.37. Charles, wishing to send two noblemen, officers in his army, on a mission to Madrid, gave them a paper signed by himself, the Pope's legate, the Abbot of Montevideo, then Chancellor of the Inquisition, "in order that they might be allowed to pass freely—receive aid and protection in case of need, and not be harassed in their passage through the King's dominions by the blood. hounds of the Holy Brotherhood, who showed no more eon indention for grandees and nobles than for the hidalgos and muleteers of Catalonia." The Antwerp journals say that the rifle match, which is about to take place in test city, will be attended by 1,3n0 of the Natiooal Guard of Brussels, by the corps of Chummy Wonsan of that eit , sad by detachments of the National Goan' of 8c , Saint•OilLs, Alder lecht, Ghent, Moos, ke. Numerous prise are to be given, the principal beiog a portrait of the wiener, or of some perwin designated by him, to be painted by an eminent artist, N. filingeneyar. AUGUST 14, 1861. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (RUM'S TELEGRAMS) AMERICA. NEW YORK, AuGun 3. (Per North Americas, by tel to Father Past sad via . .) The war uewm is unimportant. Congress has passed the Tariff and Direct Tax Bills, the latter for the sum of 20,000,000 dollars. Bills have also been passed levying • duty of 13c. on tea, 4c. on coffee, 2c. on sugar, and a tax of 3 per cent. on incomes above 800 do ts. A bill ordering the confiscation of property used for insurrectionary purposes has likewise been passed. The Fulton has arrived out. QUEBEC, Acucar 3. The Canadian crops are reported to be in a satisfactory condition. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.) NEW YORK, Avuuer S. Cotton firm. Middling upland, 164 to llc. Breadstuffs advancing, and all articles quoted higher. Provisions quiet. Stocks heavy. Illinois Control, 64 ; New York Central, 764 ; Erie Pre ferred, 442. Exchange ou London, 104 LONDONDERRY, Auover_l3. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer North American has arrived here, and brings 30,800 f. sterling in specie. She passed the steamers Anglo-Saxon, United Kingdom, and Bohemian. The Norwegian, which left Londonderry on the 19th ult., passed Father Point on the evening of the 3rd instant. On the 29th 'ult., during a thick fog, she struck on the Reef Rocks, 36 miles south-east of the north point of Anticosti. The Norwegian threw • large portion of her cargo overboard, and was afloat aft all the time. On the 2nd August the passengers were put on bawd the United Kingdom, and the same night the Norwegian came off undamaged, and proceeded on her voyage. The mails were put on board a schooner on the 31st ult., but owing to light head-winds had not, on the 3rd inst., arrived at Quebec. The United Kingdom was expected at Father Point on the 3rd inst. FRANCPI PAM, AUGUST 14. The Moniteur of this morning gives an account of the inauguration of the Boulevard de Malesherbes yesterday, and says :—" The Emperor, replying to M. Hausmann, expressed his satisfaction with the embellishments of the capital." His Majesty said" Certain interests necessarily suffer by the execution of great works. Itis the duty of the public administration to have as much regard for these interests as possible, to infuse activity into labour, to protect the lees favoured classes, and to oppose an increase in the price of articles of the first necessity." The Emperor also said, " Since the treaty of commerce the exportation of articles of Paris has nearly doubled." The Emperor recommended the munici pality to reduce, as much as the local finances would permit, the town dues on goods of the first necessity. The Moniteur also publishes the following nomi nations to the post of Envoy Extraordinary:—M. Benedetti, to Italy ; M. Reculot, to Bavaria ; and M. Damremont, to Wurtemburg. Numerous promotions in the Marine are like wise announced in the Moniteur. ITALY. ROME,' Auceer 11. Mgr. Merode will remain in the Ministry. His altercation with General Goyon has not inter rupted the good understanding of the Pope with France. The Archbishop of Chambery, the Papal Nuncio at Paris i two Spanish prelates, and Mgrs. Quaglis and Bedmi, will be made Cardinal's in the Cousis tory 4o be held on the 16th of September. Prince Chigi I.as been appointed Papal Nuncio at Paris. Rome is tranquil, and the Neapolitan reaction is diminishing. MARSEIES, muse 13- The Neapolitan journals the N a iona A ls and the Democrazia, received here by to-day's mail, an nounce that General Cialdini had arrested several persona, among others a Frenchman, by name Thomas Dagrout. Letters from Rome state that General Goyon had made a search at the Convent of Casamodi, and at other points of the Roman frontiers. ROME AND NAPLES. Amounts from Rome to the 11th state :—" Car dinal Antonelli has expressed his regrets to General ds Goyon, and admitted the necessity of hencefor ward treating directly with the latter. w y , : police have arrested numerous individuals who un d er surveillance, inconsequence of a fearof die rbanoes, between the 13th to the 15th inst. Letters from Naples of the 10th say that steamers are cruising and detachments of troops are on the watch round the city. Mont Gargano is surrounded by the troops &f General Pinelli. The official bulletins estimate the loss of the reactionists iu the bom bardment of Auletta at 100, and that at Groja at 80. The provinces of Molise., Capitansta, and Benevento have become the head-quarters of the insurrectionists. Troops have marched to Colla, which has been retaken. General Cialdini is about to start for Calabria." POLAND. THORN, Amos? 13. The national fete was celebrated at Warsaw yes terday, notwithstanding the prohibition of the authorities. The Bourse and all the counting-Louses and shops were closed. The churches were tilled by large congregations. In the evening the city was illuminated. Au im posing military force, with artillery, were stationed in the streets. Some arrests have taken place. CRACOW, Acorn 13. Popular feeling at Warsaw is very much excited. The people hope that a national Polish govern ment will soon be established. A newspaper, under the title of Le Phan, has for some tune past been secretly circulating in Warsaw. A circular has been recently distributed, warn ing the judges not to yield to the influence of the government in trying the persons arrested during the late disturbances at Modlin. HUNGARY. PESTR, Avouirr 13, EVINING. The Pestha Lloyd is printed to-day on only half sheet. As an excuse for this, it states that a strike of the printers at all the typographic establishments has taken place. VIENNA, Augur? 13. The Emperor will receive the Presidents of both houses of the Hungarian Diet at 2 o'clock to morrow (Wednesday). DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Amactrr 13. The following official communication has been pub lished, stating the nature of the recent concessions made to Holstein : " Germany had demanded that for the current financirl year the contribution of Holstein front its special revenues to the common budget of the monarchy should be provisionally limited to the quota allotted to Holstein by the normal budget of 1856. Denmark has consented to this demand." The following telegram has been received from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company: CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. Atoua 13. The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 8 a.m. this day. The =BR were to leave for London at 10 sm. The Delta, with the heavy portion of the mails, left Malta on the 12th at 6 p.m., and may therefore be expected at Southampton about the 21st inst. TURKEY. CONNWITINOPLE, AUGUST 7. The fall of the Minister of Finance is expected very shortly.. _ _ _ A change has been ordered in the uniform of the military officers. Important army reforms are in progress. The arrears of the garrison of the capital are about to be paid in caimes. A commission has been named to reconsider the scheme for a general caime circulation. Omer Pacha has been ordered to act against Montenegro. PORTUGAL 118130 N, Almon 13. Disturbances have taken place at Bt. Übea on account of the imposition of fresh taxes and the introduction of new weights and measures. Troops were despatched there this afternoon. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mu oui owl PARIS. TWISDAT EVKNING. The grand local event of the day is the opening or "inauguration" of the new Boulevard Male ' sherbee by the Emperor in person. As in the case of the review the other day, the ceremony takes place at 5 o'clock, p.m., on account of the tremendous heat. This new thoroughfare promises to become one of the meet important in Paris. Commencing at the Madeleine, as a sort of pendant to the bouvelard of that name, it will peas through the renovated Pare de Monceau:, and terminate at the Place de l'Etoile. The ceremony will be pretty much the same as was observed when his Majesty " inaugurated " the celebrated Boulevard de Sebes topoL These peaceful triumphs of tedility, as asso ciated with the grandeur of the second empire, are satisfactory to the pride of this artistic and "ideal" people, and, judiciously administered, may long serve to keep up the amount of stimulus required for state purposes by the present government. The military element is made to enter largely into the affair. As I write, the streets and boulevards leading to the scene of action are alive with troops, both of the line and the national guard, and re-echo to the sound of the drum and the trumpet. The lateness of the hour at which the event comes off will prevent the evening papers from chronicling the same—at least, should do so—for the proba bility is that the whole story has been in type in the different offices for many hours at this present writing (4 o'clock). Of political news there is great dearth. The solution of the Roman question, at a period more or less remote, has already become so much an' , accepted fact that people hardly think it worth while to discuss the modes operandi. In point of fact, the question is rapidly solving itself ; and by the time the Emperor makes a move in it, whatever he does will probably appear to the mass of mankind the only thing he possibly could do. The tone of the ultramontane and reactionary journals is fast becoming that of absolute despair. They are be ginning to throw up the game. The Monde says' that, in spite of the denial by the Constitutionnet as to a mixed garrison of French and Italians being about to succeed the present French garrison, " all its disquietude. continue to exist." It continues : The revolutionary press believed events were rushing as to a consummation, and we had reasons for fearing what the revolutionary press hoped. If there be a slackening in the revolutionary movement, there is no stopping. So long as some energetic measure shall not prove to the revolution that it will no longer be tolerated, the revolution will ocetinue to advance. It now appears that our troops are to remain at Rome longer than was believed a few days ago, but it is also certain that the Piedmontesed Italians (car) continue to hope, and that there is nothing calculated to discourage them. It will very soon beooma impossibl e to prolong this state of uncertainty. There can exist but one of two parties—the revolution with anarchy, or conserva tism with order and true liberty. Among other signs of the times, we find M. Ronland, the minister of public instruction, making the following remarks on the occasion of the dis tribution of prizes in the amphitheatre of the Sor bonne, in allusion to the bowls of despair ejaculated by the organs of ultramontanism : Be not troubled if your studious tranquillity is inter. ranted by the echoes of disturbances from without—be not troubled if you hear that religion is disquieted and threatened—that society is about to disappear, swallowed up in the abyss of the revolutionary spirit—that under the system of modern ideas and institutions the evil exceeds the good—in • word, that, to serve France, we should retrace the furrow which she ever continues to raise before her. These are words well worthy of note, seeing who is the speaker, and the occasion on which they were uttered. The Bourse had an upward tendency, and it is believed that if there were any business of im portance for transaction—which there is not— confidence would gradually return. Route rose 30c. for cash, and 20c. for the account, leaving off at 68fr. 33c. for both ; Mobilier rose 16fr. 25c. cash, and 13fr. 75c. for account. All railways were better. THE RECENT RIOT IN BELFAST. The Northern, Whig, of yesterday, contains, amongst others, the following statements, taken from the lips of some of the persons who were injured at the hands of the local police iu the disturbance which took place in Belfast on Friday last. In every case, the person making the statement has been austral to say nothing which he is not prepared to verify on oath before the conductors of an investigation : William Johnston, painter, of 30, Lagan-street, a young man, was not more lan half an hour home from Stewarta town when he was asked by another young man to take a walk through High-street before be would go home. In an instant a rush of constables owe up, wielding batons, and clearing all before them. He was knocked down, his nose was broken, and he was rendered senselese. He neither dyed squib nor rocket that night, nor had he any intention at doing so. He was proceeding home. Has been attended to by Dr. Cribben and Dr. Corry. Samuel Hamilton. tailor, 20, Stauntoo•strest. was coming down Charch.lane, when he was attacked by a mob of con stables. He got a severe cut on the head with a baton. Was on his way to his cousin's hose in Berry-street when attacked. Was not in a mob at all. Saw a crowd rushing towards him, which afterwards turned out to be constables. Knew nothing more about it as he was knocked down and left there. Some party took him to Dr. Cony's, who attended to him. John Dobbs, grocer, 34, Stanfield-street (who bears the reputation of being a quiet and most inoffensive man), was going up High-street, looking after one of his children. He was knocked down with • policeman's truncheon—com pletely felled to the ground. His skull was laid open, and the blood flowed down his shirt and vest. After falling, he was swirl struck violently with a baton. He was left on the ground senseless, and bleeding profusely. The party who Wedged him rushed out of au entry. lie was injur log nobody, sod had neither squibs nor anything else in his pocket. There were no stones thrown in his eight. The °mutable who knocked him down was a big man, and the one who gave him the second blow was a low-set man. Re members nothing more. Dr. Corry attended him. Severe fracture of the skull. Tau ORDER OP THE SERAPHIM.—The Order of the Seraphim, which the Emperor wore at the review, is the most ancient and venerated of all the Swedish. It is said to have been founded by King Magnus I, in the 12th century • but its primitive constitution has undergone several Modifications, the but of which took place in 1748, in the reign of Frederick I. The King is the Chief and Grand- Muter of the Order, but bas no power to abolish it. The princes of the royal family of Sweden are members by right of birth. The knights form only one class, and their number is fixed at 23 Swedes and eight foreigners, excluaive of sovereigns and their heirs-apparent. No Swede can be admitted to the Order of the Seraphim if he is not already a knight either of the Sword or of the Polar Star ; but ow being received into the Order of the Seraphim he becomes a commander in the order to which he previously belonged. THE BETTING! IN BRIDE-LANN At the Guildhall police-court, yesterday, Thos, Newsome, Philip Powter, Charles Wales, Alfred Scarratt, Joha Valentine and Stanley, were summoned before Sir James Duke, at the instance of the City Solicitor and of the City Police, for obstructing one of the highway s o f th e City of Lo ndon—viz., Bride-lane—and thereby creating a nuiaance. The latter two, Valentine and Stanley, did not answer. Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the defendants. . . Mr. Sleigh said he appeared there that day, instructed by the City Solicitor, to charge the defendants with obstruct. tog one of the highways in the City, thereby ins. peding one of the public thoroughfares, and therefore causing a nuisance. The defendants, in company with many others, were in the habit of assem bling in Bride-lane for the purposo of betting on horse lacing, but the proceedings were not instituted against them for carrying on their occupation as betting men, because this was • free country, and any one had the right to do whatever he pleased providing he did not break the law. The obstruction would have been the same bad the de fondants assembled for the purpose of disseminating useful information on polities, temperance, or religion, there fore the profession of the defendants would not act ea a prejudice against them on the present occasion. The learned geutlumen then cited several cases as pre. cedeeta, and amongst them one by Lord Tenterdeu, who decided that any person collecting together a crowd of persons, to the annoyance of his neigh bour, was guilty of creating a nuisance. Another instance of • prosecution for obstructing the highway was that of a person named Carlyle, in Fleetatreet, in which a conviction took place. He was not instructed to use harsh lan guage because the gentlemen summoned chose to engage in the speculation of hone-raring ; they had • perfect right to enter into any profession they pleased. He would have rejected any instructions to use language prejudicial to the defendant., as persons of respectability ; but the point he had to submit was that the defendants, by causing a great number of persons to assemble in Bride-lane, did create a nuisance. He therefore on the present occasion proposed to call for the binding over of the defendants to meet the charge at the sessions. Constable Trim, 20, said—On the 6th of May last I was appointed to do duty with another constable (Hooper) in Bride-lane. I had done duty there for eight months pre vious. I know the whole of the defendants. I first saw Scarratt in tiride-lane on the 4th of July. On the 6th of May, at noon, I saw Newcome, Powter, and Wales, in Bride-lane. There were a great many persons round each of them. They were all separated from each other. The lane was occupied from about ten yard' from Fleet-street to the bottom by the defendants and persons around them. I have seen as many as twenty persons round each defendant at • time. I have seen as many as 400 persons in the lane, and I should think there was that number present on the day I have mentioned. The defendants were standing there with them betting. Bete were very often made by parties around them. Mr. Metcalfe—You heard them Witness—Yee. Examination continued—They moved on when I told them, but the crowd followed them. They did not stand still in opposition to what I said. As the defendants moved the crowd followed, but they did not leave the lane. When they made their entries in their books I saw them do so sometimes standing and sometimes walking. Mr. Sleigh—Was the public thoroughfare obstructed' Witness—lt was. Mr. Sleigh—So much so as to be difficult for passengers who passed through Witness—Yes. Very much near the steps at the back of the church. The defendants usually remained in the lane from twelve to two. On Tuesday, the 7th of May, I saw Newoome, Pewter, and Wales in the lane. There were others in the lane on that day. I should think on that occasion there were about 500 persons present. The defendant, were making beta and talking to people. From about a quarter to one till half-past the crowd is the greatest, so as to make it very difficult for passengers to peas through at all. On Wednesday, the Bth of May, from about 12 o'clock till 20 minutes past one, there were between 400 and 500 people there as beton& and also ou the 9th and 10th of May. Scarratt had not been there " making a book" until the 4th of July, and was with the other de. fendants then daily acting as before. Mr. Metcalfe objected to Mr. Sleigh going into the new case in which Scarratt was concerned. After a discussion the Alderman decided that the evidence should proceed, and the witness identified the fourdefendants as having been in the lane on several days between the 4th and 12th of July. On the Bth of July the lane was com pletely crammed up. People could not get along the pave meat. 1 have been on duty in the lane up to the present time. and speaking generally I have seen the whole of the defendants there. They were engaged making bets. The lane is exceedingly narrow. There is not room for more than one carnage to pass through. I have had many tend frequent complaints made to me by the inhabitants of the place of the obstruction caused by the crowd. By ?dr. Metcalfe—Mr. Hawke', the builder, has complained two or three times a week. He lives near the bend. Mr. Thomas, the clergyman of St. Bride's (the Rev. Mr. Mar shall), Mr. Jewell, the hot-presser, and Mr. Anderton have also made frequent complaint. I bought the book in which I made the entries about the lane fur that purpose. I was sent there by my inspector upon special duty. I have known the bookmakers when they get too many persons round them run away for a few minutes to get rid of the crowd. Inspector Mitchell MIA not the person who sent me to the lane. I have reported all 1 saw to an attorney. 1 don't know why the summons was not taken out before. Between 12 and 2 I should think 20 persons, independent of betting men, go down the lane. There are 27 houses in the street. I have but very seldom seen the defendants on the pavement. Generally they walk in the road. By Mr. Sleigh—l have seen persons I know not to be betting men incommoded in passing through the lane. Mr. James Anderton—l am one of the Common Council of Farringdon Without. I have often had occasion to go through Bride-lane, and I should pass through it much more frequently if it were not for the betting nem. I always found the lane in a stab that was a disgrace to the City of London. Mr. Metcalfe—This is a summons for obstructing the footway, not for betting, so you will please confine your remarks to that point. By Mr. Sleigh—The lane is quite impassable for females. These o • were instituted by resolution of the vestry of it. Bride's. I have frequently made complaints to the police about the state of the lane. Mr. Sleigh—Can you recognise any of the defendants as those frequenting the place' Mr. Amlerton—No ; they are no friends of mine. (laughter.) By Mr. Metcalfe—l consider it a disgrace to the City to allow the lane to remain in such a crowded state. I don't live is the parish, or you may depend I would not have allowed the evil to go on so long. The Rev. C. Marshall—l am vicar of the p •h of St. Bride. 1 have bad frequent occasion. lately of passing through the lane. I have always found the lane apples. sant to pass through, owing to the number of persons pre sent. I mean unpleasant because it is not pleasant to be jostled. I mean by " jostled" to be pealed first on one shoulder and then on the other—not being able to walk straight. This has happened hundreds of times. I have complained of the obstruction frequently to the police. I have often asked the policeman to make way for me down the lane—the passage being blocked up. I am unacquainted with matters of betting, but I have seen many ',emus there with books in their hands. On the sth May I should think I passed through the lane five or six times. TLe paro chial schools are 311 Bride-lane. About 210 children attend the schools. The building is very near what is called the bend. The children leave at 12 and return at two daily. I have frequently seen the men opposite the school door. By Mr. Metcalfe—no occasional duty of the church generally occupies us until 1 o'olock daily. There are prayers daily in the church, and they conclude about 32. Them is not what is called full service daily. Mr. Robert Hawke", buillsr of Bride-lane said—Sine the 6th of May, excepting Sunday , the place has becu very much crowded. The crowd begins to become inconvenient in the aiming of the year. la the winter nobody coma them. Luring the racing season the lane is crowded by persons betting on horse races, receiving and paying money, making entries in their books, and talking about homes. Mr. Metcake—l suppose Kettledrum would be one of the hones talked about. Witness—l saw some of the defendants present on the occasions I have referred to. Mr. Metcalfe—Yea, paying money. Mr. Sleigh—l did not say they did not. No doubt they are all honourable men. Exaniination continued-1 have had to complain to the police of the crowded state of the lane. I have seen per- sons compelled to struggle through the crowd in order to get to their residences. I have measured the lane, and computing two pereons to the striate yard, I have seen, I should think, between 600 and 00 poisons there in one day daring the present month. _ . By Mr. Meteslfe—l have seen ladies with crinolines there struggling to get through the lane. I have seen what are called " lista" posted in the window of the Sunday Times office. I don't think those lista attract the people : 1 have seen people leave the lane, go and look at those lists, and then return to the lane and recommence betting. Mr. Sleigh said he had a number of other witneeses, but he thought be had made out a case quite strong enough to justify their being sent to a higher tribunal for trial. Mr. Metcalfe said no doubt a great deal of evidence had been offered concerning the crowded state of Bride-lane, but so far as regarded the defendants very little in fact had been said. The Alderman said the evidence of the police-constable wu conclueive. Mr. tUeigh — That ts . all the evidence I shall call. Mr. Metcalfe—Then am I to understand that you have given all the evidence you intend to offer against the defen dants ! It is important that they should know what they have to meet. Mr. Sleigh—l shall only produce corroborative evidence. Mr. Metcalfe—Well, that is what I should like to bear. The Alderman said he thought the evidence of the police. man important, as he spoke to all tho defendants. The case was then adjourned till thin afternoon, at three, for the production of corroborative evidence. The defendants were then liberated on giving their per. sonal promise to attend again thin afternoon. The court during the proceedings was crowded to excess. ,