The Express. — London, England, 1861-10-14 00:00:00

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Allred Wigan. *beam Ashley, ad Maass Harlan and twart. and Mrs A. Wham- —Aud E oN WITH MUM —llNwesammo. at 71. I4V' ru. Twee Itirtmeso. 1A Ulm Mal A 111.—Tle Great Marinier. —M.lllr. 'oloBit Ntryllow. -T111:1:1rAY ANY TUF:ISIIoW LA N. J Mas MI awl Uri. W. rraulesnl.—Aerl T 111: RESCUE ow 111 FutPUANA. —42.o4Fausw• a lealf.past e. IJOM WATEIt AT U)NDOW NR!DOL TN, DAT .111.1roolisr. Ob. 66. Attemosa, 11h. :10.rt. to miaow ...Mairatieg. 1: AftilllSSO, oh. Om. LONDON, MONDAY, oCT. 14. TO OUR READER& SPORT' NU LNTELLIG &NM A late edition of the &VMS is published every evenr4g during thu racing season, containing the restate of the dav's room ONCE more France is pruning upon our money market. The signs of • financial storm in that country hare been growing more distinct for some time pant. It was known that the seasons had been unpropitious and the harvest unfavourable, but until recently nothing definite was ascertained as to the extent of the deficiency. It was remarked as singular, however, that, whilst gold was pouring into the Bank of England, and the rate of interest in this country was falling rapidly, the rate of the Bank of France remained at five per cent. The cause of this gradually became apparent. The go veniment, which, from the extent and minuteness of its organization throughout the country, enjoys almost • monopoly, certainly a priority, of information on all points concerning the condi tion of the people, had ascertained the truth as mar& the harvest before the mercantile public had begun to have more than a glimmering of light. Thu Government, accordingly, effected heavy purchases of corn abroad, and its example was then followed by • host of dealers and specu lators. The supply of bills created in England and other countries where the purchases of grain on French account were effected tended to keep the exchanges in our favour, thus preventing the gold imported from passing by the usual channels in transit fieresoh London to Paris. Gradually, pressure arose upon the Bank of France. Gold flowed out in considerable quanti ties to Italy and other parts. The French Bank raised a note of warning by advancing their rate of discount from 5 per cent., at which it had stood for many months, to bi. Many persons here treated this movement of per cent. lightly. Others, knowing that the Bank of France do not disturb their rate of discount on inadequate grounds, saw in it the beginning of a aeries of financial movenienta deserving of watchful attention. This view was subsequently con firmed by the rise in the French rate of discount to 6 per cent., a step which was quite explained by the flow of gold from France to many European points, and—what is not often witnessed—even to England. It is believed that the Bank of England, in the course of the last few mouths, have obtained • consider. able amount of French gold coin. The briskness of the corn market, in London and along the whole of the eastern coast of England, where the influx of French money has for some time past excited the notice, nut to say wonder, of the local journals, throw further light upon the situation. The facts which have since transpired prove in a striking manner the accuracy of the information upon which the French official and non-official corn buyers have acted, and at the same time the completeness of the or ganization--eineutially • French talent—which has been brought to bear upon the matter. It is now computed by the agricultural journals that France will have to import corn and flour to the amount of at least fifteen or twenty millions ster ling during the period between the last and the next harvest ; and when we bear in mind that France is ordinarily • very large exporter instead of importer of grain, the force with which the balance of trade is thrown against her may be imagined. Fier difficulty is the greater, because. (a point which concerns ourselves not • little) the harvest has been bad in many other parts of Europe, including Germany, Spain, Portugal, and, probably, Belgium. The peculiarly adverse character of the session in France is further indicated by the scarcity of food fur cattle, in consequence of which the price of meat has risen to an unusual height. In Paris —waste ful, luxurious Paris—this difficulty is especially felt, the price of the best joints of meat being at present not less than 10d. to I Id. per lb. The 41b. loaf of good quality is sold in most parts of that city at one franc, or 10d. Upon the prin ciple, we suppose, that a despotic government is bound to take paternal action in all sorts of ways, or be held responsible by the ignorant masses even for the effects of tho visita tions of Providence, the price of bread is once more being regulated in the metropolis by direct official interference, which can hardly fail in the long run to eventuate in mischief. The question—what proportion of the aggregate demands upon her has France as yet met I—is a most important one. The materials for framing an answer are, unfortunately, defective. The more general impression is that the drain will go on for some time. It would be absurd to suppose that the deficiency in the harvest has yet been recti fied by foreign purchases, and moreover, a large pro- Portion of those purchases has not yet been liquidated. Who ever heard of the effects of • bad harvest being got over in a couple of months? And the failure of the crops is not the only cause of pressure in France. Her financiers have con. stantly too many irons in the fire. Speculation, like the government expenditure, is always far in advance of the capabilities of the country. At the very time when the Bank of France has been wanly taking in sail, and when the ascertained deficiency in the yield of the crops has been causing such vast purchases of food abroad, French capitalists have been hardy enough to take some nine or ten millions sterling of the New Italian Loan. This they now hold at a diacomit, and will find difficult of retransfer to the Italian markets in any large mains. We knuw as a fact, that at a re- THE EXPRESS, cent settlement on the Paris Bourse, a single own/ .1.../.a..•,., or stockbroker, delivered to ve nom, clients a total of between 1,000,000/. and 1,:,00,000/. sterling of stock of this Loan. This will give some notion of the extent to which it has been absorbed in France. As the instalments fall due, they will probably be transmitted from France to Italy in gold. There are many other transac t ions' of a sinister kind still outstanding, and contributing Ito swell the balance against the former country. For instance, a call of 2/. has just been announced ; on the shares in the Lombardo- Venetian and South Austrian Railway Company ; and though this may see 111 a small matter, the call represents an aggre gate of no less than a million and a half sterling, much of which must be provide(' by France, where the shares are largely held. The dividend just declared by the company forms only a partial set-off against this heavy draught. It may be added that sufficient importance has hardly been attached to the effect of the paralysis of the Ame rican trade in aggravating the pressure upon France at the present difficult juncture. The goods which France exports to America, being chiefly of a luxurious character, are precisely those which the latter country, herself in distress, can most easily dispense with, while the reverse is the case with the commodities which America has to sell. France can no longer dispose of her pro. ductions in America, yet is obliged to take corn to • large amount. The exceedingly one-sided cha racter thus given to her American trade is operat ing strongly upon the exchanges, and has, we MlS pect, much to do with the recent fall in the New York sterliug exchange to 107}. Payment, fur a good deal of the corn bought in America on French account will be arranged through the medium of England. It will be nothing anomalous if, owing to the defi ciency in the French harvest, in conjunction with the operations entered into by the Bank of France, the exchange at New York on London goes still lower, and gold is shipped again from Liverpool In enumerating the causes of the drain upon Franco we ought not entirely to omit the stimulus which, front the commencement of the present month, has been given to the import+ of British goods into that country under the new treaty. The influx will be checked (as observed in • former article) by the bad harvest, and by the financial anxieties of the time, but the general effect is to I call upon France to make increased payments at • moment when she is much straitened. The immediate result of these circumstances is seen in the decline of no less than 34 millions sterling which has occurred in the specie and bullion in the Bank of France during the last month, and in the exceptional arrangements just effected, whereby that establishment obtains • credit of 2,000,0001. on London. It is very well to rail against this step, to denounce it as a mere palliative, and to argue that the French Govern ment and Bank would do better to let the rate of interest run up to the point at which capital would be attracted and an effec tual remedy applied. Similar advice has been given to our Government upon occasions when the Bank Charter Act has come near suspension, end when disinterested capitalists and their advo cates have clamoured that the law should be strictly enforced, and the rate of money allowed to go to twenty-five or fifty per cent., if necessary. The system under which crises are encountered in France has, it must be confessed, more elasticity about it. It is not framed, as ours is, in a cast iron mould. The rate of discount is raised by easy stages, and every expedient is resorted to in order to keep the public mind calm, and to obviate dis turbance in trade. It must be owned that pallia tives are not out of place, when they do not occupy too important a rank in • general scheme of relief. Viewing the recent measures of the Bank of France from the French point of view, it will be admitted that they are rather cleverly framed. Many yearn ago, when the French har vest was • failure, and there was • great drain of gold to Russia, the Bank of France obtained • large credit on St. Petersburg by mortgaging • portion of their government securities. A similar measure of relief has been devised upon the present occasion. As France has bought corn largely in England, and is otherwise indebted to ua, she escapes her liability for the time, through the National Bank obtaining a credit of 2,000,0001. in London. It is very well to argue, and quite true, that the difficulty is only postponed ; but in a crisis delay is of itself • gain. Should the drain upon the Bank of France continue, we shall hope to see the management, in spite of the known repugnance of the Government to the mea sure, raise the rate of discount further. Provided • policy of a sound and conservative order is ad hered to in the main, it may very possibly be found that what we are pleased to call palliatives, and questionable expedients, may facilitate the passage of the country through a period of exceptional trial. Meanwhile, it is necessary for us to watch very narrowly the financial movements in France, for they are sure to affect us closely. In the teeth of all experience, the argument continues to be urged, that unless we owe money to France we cannot be made to pay her anything, or be ir• volved in any of her embarrassments. It seem. to be forgotten that she can make it worth our while to lend her enough to help her through her difficulty. This is precisely what she is doing now, has done on former occasions, and will do again, if need be. Should the pressure continue in France, it will certainly have an effect upon our money market. The consolatory feature is, that our own resources are superabundant. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862.—1 t is under stood that the menial arrangements for the opening of the Exhibition, on the Ist at May next, are as follows :—Four new works will be given, each by a different composer, re presenting the most sansital actions in Europe. Id. Meyer. beer will represent Oermsuty ; M. Anber, Ricans ; Rime Verdi, Rely; and Professor Sterndale Bennett, England. It is said that the words for the English composition will be tarnished by the Poet Laureate. These works will be er. ended with aU the means neceeeary to give them the greatest possible effect. An offer has been made by a poetic Frenchman to arrange the whole of the catalogue of the International Exhibition of 1862 in rhyme. He thinks that in this style it will be mash more attractive to the general reader. The air has beim declined with drake, but the poet conceives himself an injured man, sad, in • subsequent communica tion, has endeavoured to Won the commiseioners to roma elder their decision, sad, like sensible and practical men of brims, to disregard the prosaic tons, and hare a catalogue dzee is poetry. In addition to the names which we (Obsereer)' pOlished last week of the noblemen and gentlemen com paring the suite of the Earl of Clarendon at the coronation of the King of Prussia, we bare now to add that of the Earl of Dudley, who will be present in the same official capacity. Mr. Henry Knight, whose IlalllU has been so familiar to the noblemen and gentlemen of Etoo College for the last half century, first in the household of the late Dr. K este, and subsequently as the boat of the " Chris topher," died at his residence at Eton, on the 4th instant, in the 81st year of his age. At a committee meeting held on Friday in the Edinburgh Vouncibehanabers, the Lord Provost primed*, the pr o p osa l th at t h e volunteers should line the Queen's Park, carrying lighted torches, on the °ceasing al the gesea's departure for the South on Wedoesday evening, was terminably entertained, and will probably be carried out, although the matter is not yet fully determined. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. The British and North American Royal Mail steamship Europa, Anderson commander, arrived at Liverpool yesterday, about noon, with advice" from Beaton to the 2nd, and Halifax to the 3rd instant. She brought eighty passengers. The Europa was intercepted off Cape Race on the sth, and received telegram.. On the night of the Dith it wax discovered that ' the Confederates hail retired from Muuson's Hill. It is stated that General litl`Clellan never had a t bought that such a retreat WWI cuuteuiplatod, anddid not know that it had taken place until several hours after the last Confederate pickets had strolled away ; and, as it appear., not until the main force had been gone for two days. Early on the 29th the pickets from General Smith's division advanced, and mem pied Fella Church. The works of the enemy at the pleas" they had evacuated were in a military view almost worthies'', being nothing more than rifle-pits of very common construction. The peel time, at Munson'', and Murray's Hills afforded the Confederates an unobstructed view of all the forti fications and ether defences. The appearance of the ground deserted by them indicated that they wore deficient in those arrangements which serve to make a camp life comfortable, having no tents, but merely shelters rudely constructed. There were no signs to show that they ever mounted any guns. What bad appeared from the Federal line to he guns turned out to bo pointed logs of wood, and a stove pipe. The advance of General Smith on Falls Church from the chain bridge was accompanied by events of the most de plorable character. Having primed Vauderwerkeu's and Vanderberg's homes on their way to the former place, and when about half-a-mile from it, by some unaccountable blunder Colonel Owen's (Irish) Philadelphia Regiment, in the darkness of the night, mistaking for rebels Captain Mutt's battery, which was in the advance, sustained by General Baker's California Regiment, Baxter's Philadelphia &tierce, and Colonel Friedman's Cavalry, fired a full volley into the troops last mentioned, killing and wound ing a large number. The California regimeut, not knowing whence the firing came, returned it with marked effect. The horses attached to Mutt's bat tery became unmanageable, and the tongues of the caissons were broken owing to the nar rowness of the road. Lieutenant Bryant, having connuaud of the first section, ordered the guns to be loaded with grape and canister, and soon had them iu range to take the supposed enemy, when word was sent to him that he was in the company of friends. All was excitement, and a long time elapsed before the actual condition of affairs was ascertained and confidence ro-established. At Great Falls, on the 30th, the Confederates showed a front of a battery of six pieces of artillery, supported by a few companies of infantry. The artillery threw a few shuts across the river at the Federals with out effect. General M'Call sent an addition of two companies to resist the enemy iu case they attempted a passage of the river, no response being made. The rebels then appeared with eight regiments of infantry to support their artillery. General M'Csll then despatched two guns and a column of infantry to the scene of action. On the appearance of this force the Confederates dispersed, about one half of their force going up the river and the remainder going down. The Federal pickets were extended two miles beyond Mason's Hill, which is situated nearly two miles west of Bailey's Cross Roads, and the picket form was pushed west from Alexandria on the line of the Orange Railroad as far as Esdell's Hill, eight miles distant, the Coufederates retiring before the Federals as they advanced. A company also marched down as far as Mount Vernon, and mixed on the estate of John A. Washington (recently killed in Virginia) eight hundred bushels of wheet, five hundred bushels of oats, and seventy five barrels of fish—all of which were couveyed to Alexandria. A similar success attended the expedition to Edsall's Hill Gen. Franklin's lines extended from the southernmost limit to Mason's Hill. A portion Of Gen. Rich ardaon's command occupied Munson's, and General McDowell's lines extended from Perkins' Hill to Falls Church. The Confederates were throwing up new earthworks on a position com manding Falls Church, and about a mile and a half distant. Up to the Ist, the Confederate troops occupied thelower end of the village of Falls Church on the line of the railroad. Lewisville was unoc cupied by either of the belligerents. The Federal pickets extended out to Langley from Chain-bridge. The Confederate encampment near Springville had been abandoned, and their troops were not visible. The Confederate line, it is stated, extended from Occoquau and Manassas to Fairfax Court-house, amasses evidently being their basis of operations. The inhabitants near Munson's Hill state that the Confederates when there were poorly clad and fed. Onr miscellaneous advice* mention that Captain Coppinger, an English officer, late in the Papal service, had been animism:tuned captain in the volunteer service, ou the recommendation of the Pope. Dr. Magill, of Washington county, Maryland, had been sent to Fort Henry a prisoner. A tlftt of thirteen schooners left Fortress Munroe on the 29th for Hatteras Inlet. The Federal' had thrown up batteries at the mouth of the Mississippi and re-lighted the lighthouses. The blockade of Peu stool& was rigidly enforced. A powerful Federal squadron was blockading Freestone Point and Occoquan Creek, and a number of stouneni were near Again Creek. A Federal boat expedition, on the 14th, destroyed the Confederate steamer Lade Davie (or Judith) in Pensacola harbour. The Federal' lost three men killed and fifteen wounded. There had been no firing from the Confederates on the Potomac slow the 2Gth. The Cherokees had agreed to join the Confede rates ou the condition that their regular annuities should be paid. The Creeks have raised 1,000 men for service in the Confederate army, and the Che rokees have formed a home guard of 1,200 strong. A number of volunteers are said to have left Hamilton, Canada, on the 30th, to join Colonel Rankin's regiment of Lancers in Detroit. It is re ported that a bounty was paid at Toronto, and also fare provided by railway to Detroit. . From Missouri, under date Sept. 30, we learn that General Fremont was actively engaged in or ganiaiug for the approaching engagement. In creasing interest was felt in the approaching battle, as it was supposed it would decide the fate of Missouri. General Price's pickets (Confederate) extended from Lexington to within eight miles of George-town. The main body of General Price's force was still at Lexington. The number of troops wider his command was reported at 35,000, and additions were expected from Hardee of 8,000 to 9,000, and from McCulloch of 10,000, making a total force of about 54,000. Ten thousand troops were said to have crossed the river at Lexington on the 20th with an intention of attacking General Lane. The seal and records of MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1 the state of Mis.ouri fell into Price's hands. It is reported that 10,000 rebels were marching north ward, through Greene County, Mu., and 4,000 through Bates County, on Osceola. A force of 10,000 was threatening St. Joseph, being only four teen miles distant ; only 700 Federal troops were there to defend the city. The Louisville Journal, of the 30th ult., states that General Zolliconer has taken Manchester, Clay county, Ky., with great de struction of property. It was rumoured that an en gagement had occurred between 600 rebels and 500 of the Indiana regiment. The result was unknown. Humphrey Marshall's rebels stand of infantry arms, a large number of sabres, 750 horses, had disbanded and dispensed. General Price, of the Confederate army, had issued his bulletin re specting the capture of Lexington. He states that he captured 3,500 prisoners, including four colonels and a major, five pieces of artillery and two mor tars, 3,300 met, of cavalry equipments, waggons, teams, and ammunition, more than 100,000 worth of commissary stores, and a large amount of other property. In addition he had got possession of the great seal of the state and the public records, and about 900,000 doh. in money, which latter, however, he says, belonged to the banks in Lexing ton, and has been returned to them. This splendid military achievement, General Price says, cost him only twenty-five men killed and seventy-two wounded, General Lane, we learn by a despatch from Leavenworth, after his alleged suocossful engagement with the Confederates at Papinsville, made a forced march on Osceola, and succeeded in capturing a large supply train left there by Generals Rains and Price, together with one hundred thousand dellairs in money. Important points in Kentucky were being rapidly taken possession of by Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois troops, with the full consent of the legislature, the higher branch of which, on the 28th, passed a vote of thanks to them for their promptness in respond ing to the call for aid iu repelling the rebel inva sion. Five hundred Indiana troops had gone up Greene River and taken possession of Locks Nos. 1 and 3 ; a regiment of cavalry from Ohio had gone lute camp near Covington, and Cyuthiana had been occupied by Ohio troops. A report was current in Louisville that a party of Buckner's inen had attacked a place known as Mud River, fifty miles from Bouling Green, which was occupied by a state force, under Colonel Hawkins, and that the Confederates were worsted. The Kentucky Senate, on the 30th, passed a resolution calling upon Breckenridge and Powell to resign their seats in the legislature. The house had met. A despatch from Kentucky states that General Pillow was reported to be making a junction with Tennessee troops to march on Paducah with an army of 40,000 strong. It was stated by way of Cincinnati that General Thomas, at " Camp Dick Robinson," telegraphed to General Anderson, at Louisville, that the rebels were at Louden, about fifty miles southward of him, approaching in force. Anderson telegraphed for reinforcements. Advises from Havana state that the cultivation of cotton had begun to occupy considerably the attention of landowners throughout the island. Old worn out coffee fields which had been used as mere cattle enclosures are eagerly sought after by speculators for the purpose of converting them into cotton plantations, and the prices of those so called waste lands bad suddenly risen to a very high figure. BY TELEGRAPH, rid HALIFAX. NEW YORK, Om. 3. General Wool bad been surprised (t superseded) by General Mansfield at Fortress Monroe. A large naval expedition is being fitted out here. The Fulton has arrived. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE Provisions dull. Cotton erns. Exchange, 1074. Stocks Arm. OestraL 744 ; Illinois, 661 ; Erie, 264. CarTox.—The New York World, of the Ist inst., says : "The market remains unsettled, prices nearly nominal on the basis cf about 21c. for middling Upland. Business, how ever, rather better to-day ; sales, 803 bales. Some of the best Surata recently arrived have been offered at Iftc." The New York Tribune, of the Ist, says :—" It is well known that a large quantity of cotton has arrived here from the 'asters states recently, for shipment to Europe." Fitgo/1114.—Freights are inactive. To Liverpool— Coro, 12d.; flour at 3s. BY TELEGRAPH, rid BOSTON. NEW YORK, Ocr. 1, r.x. Stocks at first board dull and irregular; at the second lower. Reading, 344; Michigan Central, 41; North Carolina Sixes, 59 ; Georgia Sixes, 66 ; Tantalus) Sizes, 42 ; Ohio Sixes, 984 ; Treasury Sixes, 994 ; Chicago and Rock Island, 454 ; Illinois Central Scrip, 6,54 ; Michigan Southern guaracteed, 314 ; New York Central, 734 Hudson, 334; Virginia Sixes, 471; Missouri Sizes, 414; Erie, 25 ; Galena and Chicago, 694 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 224 ; Harlem, 104 ; Pacific Mail, BSj. Cotton steady, sales 600 bales, at 214 c. for middling Up lands. BRZAD6II/11M-Flour : State sod Western dull, super fine state, 5 dole. 20c. to 5 dole. 30c. ; extra ditto, 5 dole. 45c. to 5 dole 35c.; round hoop Ohio, 5 dole. 70c. to sdols 80c.; superfine western, 5 dole. 20c. to 6 dole. 30e. ; extra ditto, 5 dole. 45c. to 5 dole. 700. Southern mixed to good, 5 dole 65c. to 6 dots.; lance and extra, 6 dole. 100. to 8 dads. 750. Canada, superfine, 6 dots. 20e. to 5 dole. 25e. ; extra, 5 dole. 45c. to 6 dole. 50c. Wheat dull-Chicago Spring, 1 dol. 14c. to 1 dol. 180. ; Milwaukee club, 1 dol. 170. to kdol. 200. ; red winter Western, 1 dol. 23c. to 1 dol. 32c. ; choice, 1 dol. 33c. to 1 dol. 3.3 c. ; white Michigan, 1 dol. 33c. to 1 doL 37c.; lowa amber, 1 dol. 20c. to 1 dol. 22e. ; white Kentucky, 1 dol. 400. to 1 dol. 43e. ; red ditto, 1 dol. 29c. Corn-white advanced lc. ; mixed Western, 51c. to 55c. ; white, 60c. . SUNDRIES. —Beef uocbatiged, country mem, 5 dole. to 5 dole. 59c.; prime, 4 dole, to 4 dole. 50c.; repacked Chica go, 9 dole. to 9 dole. 25c. Pork firm, men. 14 dole. 50c. to 14 dole. 75c.; prime, 9 dole. 75e. to 10 doh" Lard firm, 81c. to 91c. Rice firm, at 71c. to Sc. Sugar firm, Muscovado, 71c. to 81c.; Porto Rico, Bc.; Hereto', 7itt. Coffee firm—Lavern', 14c.; Rio, 15,fe.; Marsoeibo, lie. to 17ic. Molars, firm—Porto Rico, 30c. Spirits—tarpeatim firm, at 1 dol. 42ic. to 1 doL 45c, Freigbta to Liverpool dull. SAN FRANCISCO, Sarr. 21. Business is generally unchanged. There hare been tarp quotations in coffee and sugrr, but there is no notablo chugs in prices. SYRIA. A despatch from Beyrout, of the 7th inst., states that the French squadron, under the command of Admiral Lebarbier de Tim, will leave the coast of Syria about the 20th inst., to return to Toulon. The vessels that are cruising on the coast have re ceived orders to rejoin the admiral from the 15th to the 18th. A division of smaller vessels will be left as a protection to the inhabitants, under the orders of Captain Lagrandibre. The same despatch confirms the report that Daoud Padua, the Christian Governor of Lebanon, had nominated the Emir Medjid as Kaimakan or local governor of Kurawan. The appointment, it is stated, has had a good effect on the population. Medjid is a catholic, a descendant of the celebrated Emir Bechir, and a member of the Cheab family. CUBA. The last intelligence from Havannah is to the 16th of September. At that date the preparations for the expedition to Mexico were being carried on with the greatest activity. The state of the nego tiations commenced iu Europe was not kuovhi, but special instructions were daily expected from the L, 1861. Cabinet of Madrid. The Spanish admiral hoped to be able to disembark the troops at Vera Cruz in the course of the month of November, as from that time to the month of February the climate is most favourable to Europeans. The expedition is very popular with all dames in Cuba. HAYTI. A Concordat between the Pope and President Geffranl has been published at Port au Prime. The Concordat creates an Archbishop of Hayti, and four bishops, all to be nominated by the Pope, who, by a special article, is allowed to select for these dignities ecclesiastics of the white race; this, it is remarked, indicates that General Geffrard " in liberal and progressive in his ideas." (azuries's rusoftess.) PORTUGAL. LISBON, Ocr. 13. A royal decree has been homed opening the ports for the :Omission of foreign grain until April, 1862. The King is making a tour through the pro vinces. TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO. TRIESTE, Ocr. 14. Letters from Ragusa announce that the insur gents from Znbri, together with some Montenegrin volunteers, bad attacked Cincevo and Bien), but withdrew after a hard fight of three hours. Two thousand insurgents had attacked Rorie nielin and advanced as far as the suburbs of Bilecia. It is asserted that, notwithstanding pressing orders from Constantinople, Omer Pacha does not venture to attack the Montenegrins, because he has but little confidence in his army. He is also appre hensive of a general insurrection in the surrounding provinces, and mistrusts Sorvia. The whole of Montenegro is in arena, and the country is being fortified. RAOIIBA,Ocr. 13, EVENING. . _ . Continual desertion, caused by insufficient rations and deficiency of billeting accommodation, have reduced the number of the irregular Turkish troops at Gatzko by two-thirds. ITALY. TURIN, Ocr. 13. The rumoured departure of Garibaldi from Caprern has been denied. The King has signed the decrees relative to the administrative organisation of the kingdom. It is assorted that General Cialdini will to-day publish a declaration of his reasons for resigning the lieutenancy of Naples, which are said to be the cessation of brigandage and the re-establishment of public security in the southern provinces. A royal decree has been issued ordering that all Italians who have deserved well of their country shall henceforth be buried under tho Holy Cross of Florence. The Espero of to-day announces that General Dells Mariners has accepted the cerulean(' of the troops in the Southern provinces. ROUE, Oct. 12. The Congregation of the Index has condemned the work of the Abbe Passagli►. The abbe wished to defend his work, but the Congregation would not permit him. NAPLES, Oar. 13. The Chamber of Commerce has presented a sword of honour to General Cialdini for re-establishing public security in the Neapolitan provinces. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Ocr. 12. The semi-official Prussian Gazette of this even ing says :—" The assurance is hardly needed that the letter from the Emperor of the French to the King of Prussia, contained in the pamphlet recently published in Paris, entitled ' L'Empereur et le Roi Guillaume,' is apocryphal." BERLIN, Ocr. 13. The semi-official Prussia* Gazette of to-day, in a leading article on the visit of the King of Prussia to the Emperor Napoleon, says that the cordial meeting of the two Sovereigns affords the country good prospects of an increase of the peaceful and friendly relations existing between Prussia and France, and that the cordial reception of the Royal guest by the French people justifies the supposi tion that France no less than Germany appreciates the value of these friendly relations, and regards them as a valuable token of a satisfactory future. KONIGSBERG, OCT. 13, ArrzaxooN. The town presents a very animated appearance on account of the approaching arrival of the King. The bridges and streets through which the royal cortege will pass are richly decorated with fes toons, wreaths, and the flags of Prussia and Weimar. A triumphal arch in the Roman style has been erected near the Brandenburg gate. The weather is very flue. SPAIN. MADRID, Ocr. 12. The city of Gerona, in the province of Catalonia, has been visited by great inundations, whereby iIIIMCIIBO damage was done to property. SWITZEItLAND. BERNE. Off. 12. The Federal Council maintains the truth of the Geneva version of the affair of Ville-la-Grand, and is said to demand indemnification on ita side also. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, Ocr. 12. The King of Holland left the palace at 2.30 to-day for Franco. His Majesty is expected to return about the 19th inst. AMERICAN MAILS. QUEENSTOWN, Ocr. 14. The Royal Mail steamer Africa arrived here at 12.45 a.m. to clay, embarked mails, passengers, and latest telegrams, and proceeded on, all well. She experienced severe gales with a very high sea on her voyage from Liverpool. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Orien tal Steam Navigation Company, Oct. 14 : HOMEWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Vectis, with the above mails, left Malta for Marseilles on the 12th, at 5 p.m. The Indus, with the heavy portion of the mails, was expected at Malta on the night of the 12th ; she may be looked for at Southampton about the 22nd. The Benares brought the Australian mail to Galls, arriving there on the 16th Sept. (correct date). THE OUTWARD BOMBAY AND MEDITER- RANHAN MAILS. sOUTRAMPTON. 0cr.19. The Peninsular and Orieutal Company's steam ship Entine, Captain Rakell, sailed hence to-d►y at 2p m.. with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Bombay, Ire., together with 55 first and 40 second class passenger, including Lady Walpole and family, Colo nels Jacob and Birdwnod, and Captains Palsied, Clarke, Browne, Stephenson, Bagley, and Woodio. The Kathie took on freight 422 boxes specie, value 135,4961., et which is for Bombay, bar silver 106,4301., sovereigns 13,1001., pearl beads, jewellery, Etc., 3001. ; sad for Alexandria. sove reigns 15,500/., watches, Pte., 1651. The Fuxin also took out a full cargo of general merchandise, principally British EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova ows comarompurr.) PARIS. SC:I3AT EVENIyI; It in worthy of notice that the Moniteire, in an nouncing the arrival at Compiegne of the sovereign commonly known as the King of Holland, styles him the King of the " Low Countries," which con tinues to be his diplomatic title, although he was stripped of Belgium in IMO. It is said that the King insists so much upon this point that letters addressed to the "King of Holland" are nut oisnied at the Hague. The special correspondents who were sent from Paris to Compiilne to see the Kiug of Prussia remained there on duty for this occasion. There are some funny discrepancies in their statements this evening. We read in the Ophiioa Natieriate :—" The ceremony of the recep tion was the same as that observed fur the King of Prussia, only that there was a little less etiquette and more familiarity." The Preset says, on the other hand :—" Contrary to what was the case with the King of Prussia, the reception of the King of Holland is altogether official." This much appears certain—that the sovereigns met in full uniform, instead of in plain clothes. According to the Patrie, the first words of the King on meeting the Emperor were, "It must be said that I am punctual, for I am here five minutes before the time." But the chronicler of the l'rexse says that his Majesty's exclamation was, "Oh ! Sire, I have kept you waiting;" to which remark the Emperor graciously replied, "Not at all, your Majesty. I believe it is scarcely the time." It is to be hoped that history will settle these important differences. The following is the programme of the entertainments provided for the King : roday a visit to Pierrefonds. On Monday a court stag-hunt, at which the Imperial Prince will appear on a pony, and will be dressed like his father, in a hunting snit of the time of Louis XV. On Tuesday the Emperor will accompany the King to Paris, and the two sovereigns will dine at the Tuileries. On Wednesday there is to be a shooting party at Versailles, and a breakfast in the forest. The King will afterwards stay two days in Paris. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde arrived at Compiegne this morning. The French freemasons are now in a very extra ordinary fix. In the spring they turned omit Murat and elected Prince Napoleon fur their grand master. Murat declared the election of his rival void, and the Emperor, corning to his aid, made Prince Napoleon resign, and adjourned the election till the autumn. The other day, as you were informed, Murat summoned a grand lodge for Oct. 14 to pro ceed to the election, and Prince Napoleon's secre tary, iu a published letter, stated that his imperial highness, for the reasons which led to his former resignation, did not wish to be again chosen. But it being fully ascertained that the freemasons will not have the pretender to the throne of Naples at any price, the Emperor at the last moment comes forward again to give him another respite. Only yesterday (two days before the day fixed for the no minatiou) the telegraph was set to work to order the prefects of all the departments to warn freemasons not to come to Paris. The craft is prohibited from meeting to elect a grand master .until May, 1862, and the reason alleged for the prohibition is that the election would " endanger public tranquillity." That is a most miserable pretext. A more peace able body of men than the masters of the different lodges of France cannot be conceived, and the idea of their meeting with their aprons and trowels in the grand lodge of the Rue Cadet being a danger to the public peace is perfectly ridiculous. The article of M. Neiftzer against the idea of any further extension of French territory is thus commented on by the Independaliec Beige : These remarks are based upon good sense and justice. They are true, loyal, and holiest, and we cannot but con gratulate the naps ca its courage in uttering them. If l! right thinking men in Franco were this to oppose, every one to the extent of his means of action, that Houriniute, which, unfortunately for that country and Europe, spill constitutes the sole political creed of a great many French men, peace and harmony among nation, would make rapid progress, and the development of their moral and material resources would proceed amidst mutual confidence. An infernal machine exploded on Wednesday last in a house in the Rue Bonteuil, at Toulon, did great damage to t h e furniture, and occasioned much alarm iu the quarter ; fortunately, although there were fourteen persons in the house, none of them were injured. Nothing is known as to the author of this atten.pted massacre. Thu Monitenr, in its buUetin of to-day, says : " The King of Holland arrived at Compigne at 5.30 p.m. yesterday, and was received by the Emperor at the terminus. The Empress awaited their Majesties at the foot of the grand staircase?' The Moniteur also mays :—" The letter coutaiued in a recent pamphlet, and alleged to have been ad dressed by the Emperor Napoleon to the King of Petunia, is a pure invention." The provincial of the Order of the Jesuits has addressed to Father Palmeri a letter to the foltowing effete —" In the order of Jams you are like a finely-chiselled block in the front of an edifice; by withdrawing from it you leave a disfiguring blank which can, however, be soot filled up. But by doing so you will be disunited from the building, and weak in ieolation become like a stone cast to the earth, where it becomes broken and trodden under foot." Front France an offer has been received by the International Exhibition Committee, front one of that class .1 sanguine and amateur mechanicians who are always on the look-out for the discovery of perpetual motion. The applicant states that he bas really discovered the long sought treasure, and that he will exhibit the machine in motion during the whole time the Exhibition remains open. The same inventor also asks spate to exhibit a flying machine, and this, too he proposes to exhibit in actual motion. Startling, however, as are these novelties in mechanical engineering, they are by no means so important u the proposal which has been made by some practical English engineers of eminence in their pretension to lay down a monster iron tube from the Marble-arch to the Exhibition building, through which passengers will be despatched by the pneumatic process. The difference between this mode of conveyance and that of an atmospheric railway is, that in the one case the passengers are conveyed over an ex hausted tube, and is the other they are shot through it la is a gigantic pea-shooter. Taking their places at the Marblearch, visitors would be delivered at the other end of the tube at Kensington in about two minutes. Tue GREAT EAST/SRL —At • meeting of share holden representing 1,000 shares each, held at the office of the Great Ship Company, on Friday, Mr. Baker, who occupied the chair, after expressing his confidence in Capt. Walker, said the previous serape bad resulted iu profit to the cool• pany, a sum of nearly 10,0001. had been netted by the eon veyaoos of the troops to Qesbee, and it was anticipated that the receipts for passengers and cargo from the present voyage, which had been brought to so unfortunate a close, would have yielded 15,0001. The directors had begun to see their way ahead, and were satisfied that a very rema• restive trade might Piave been opened up between Liver• pool and New York with the great ship. The cost of the repairs would be from eight to tee thousand pounds. The damage done to the interior could be repaired at much lem cost than was originally supposed but the rudder, stern post, and wheels would requite a large amount of expea• diture. The claims on the part of the passengers had been fairly met by the directors, and the majority of them had accepted the terms which had been offered. A return of eighty per cent. of the pawge•money had given satisfaction to almost the whole of the passengers. Thor* were some claims still undecided with reference to the luggage, and there were some questions still unsettled between the directors and the shippers and owners of the cargo. le the present position of these affairs, it would be necessary to raise a further sum of 20,0001. - Hr. 0, [ter si several ui Mr. Or Mrs. D Mr. Le imitation Mr. Be Ater. Mn.D Mr. Le day, end Mr. Ble Mediae' e that they Preferred sa inquir taken. Mr. Le state Mr. Were take - - Mr. Be tutor m a The de each to s Willis Mr• Con cellars of Mr. W " Antign tiOn of which ha being m . builders' Is fa c t, them on few days default o comrade. bad lmel or trine out of t Sawyer, alterstiot shoe& ' , wider In bhoti ke and The •!.tte jprOt port the oUI MI WAN I Hi third thou theta iuc tl prolub . _ Mr. Mr. Francis Mr. Da and fin, Laving includn of the tion MI Press day 100 sultatio result o Mr. E bore? Mr. I my or& Mr. op!lidou Mii.l !hit is • Mr: ivy Mr. SI day mon Mn. 1