The Express. — London, England, 1861-10-26 00:00:00

ALLEN'S: PATENT PORTM.tNTEACB aud TEAY ELLIN° NAOS .111. Lsrdrs . PAIN Iis,rI at' LLMIST.TIIAIIS. wllll Am ally,. 1 . 1 -‘ I. A I. PRIE•ssING CAUES. and 000 other artsh. for hum: or Cl.munutal trayrlllag. Illustrated asharstlamlp.rt Also Alkn's LL.rr.w Purinture ratal•mslo ..f Portable Red. Itss. l % Illimurtn. Ea.) Wa.hb.. o 1.. CalltcrUo. &C., post free. J. W. Alurv. Manufactory'. and /Nitrate,. aad 33. Wash amend. L•11....14, HA It it N I S.-N W MODEL ruvii PM, IMAM a1..1 WIMP, 101, Itegest.street. ght erprtgls. COR G. •44 DENT& • Avertimatents blooded for "no Known" Leedom tomb j loon, st oleo. la. boinorirroitook by 21.9 VOW* am the do, of patilirsitkoh. f!&YMARK KT. Tim ttrclf. i, EITZ+III - 1111: uY E1T7.4111711E MALI-- TOIL % , 110Sto ‘TAI:1:11. %Ir. I'. Wailmr..-lINC rot it ul.l .11C VAIN IVA I. NALL %Ir. NW %Ir.. Mathew. ‘l..t:wro is 01 bate Kurortiblin: L. soy to Hoc sollenegs. IVL.NTll.—Lkstisefroat 7. PIINC TM." &VIM TIIIC YewMr,. It) 1... r. J..nlaq 1%.1kr, . Slimes C. L. ‘lrn b mut WI. JAlttqn. _ Tries rTTNIIMI. A 1102 Y @INTL& Mr. .n.l Mn. Pest 314talirm, - seltAr 1W PAPER. nu". Alfred Whims. A•1...7. awl Irerru. Liars IkThert awl Stumm. and Mr , . Vr —Aml Lai •iN brrhl sII.ILS. — 1 :-worrace at 7i. .SILIT . !1VII lA. Tins Evinn.n, rDILLIP ql All. AND 111% MONKEY. 4 kney. MJUe. Criale Wepban. l'A 7111111tAt1. -.\..1 rub:MI.4Y AND TUC ‘II.ID MAX. Mr. U. 1111.•r4464 Ansi Mrs. W. eratiN44.—Cularrome .1 WON WATS* AT LONDON JUDO& TAN NAT —Wawa & A► AR.... Allersona. I 340. Te•A•Likui—lbwrobasa Ir. Oa. .... Allenom Di lip a. LON DON, NA T 1.: RIM 1, UM 216. TO OCR READERS. SPORTING INTE LLD; F.NCL A !ate minion of the &Thai it publiehed every evetkieg .loring the racing mtaasn, containing the results ut the dad's rate& TH Z United Kingdom Temperance Alliance has just held its annual congress at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, and the anniversary seems to have been in every respect • gratifying and suc cessful 1.111 , . There was an unusually large - ber of influential members at the council meeting in them •g, when the report was read ; and the general meeting in the ev en Mg WM crowded to e zees., note' ithztamling the absence of Lord Iteociaise, who VIM 1 revented from taking the chair by severe indispsootion. Thu annual report seems also to show that the Alliance is in • flourishing and prosperous state, the number of members and amount of subscriptions having increased during the year, while the area of its organization and active crf.rts has been at the same time consi derably extended. We are heartily rejoiced to hear of the activity and growing seem s , of such • motel association. Drunkenness is an enor- MOUS curse to the country, and every legitimate effort to diminish the evil is a national service. The alliance is, we believe, the largest association of the kind in existence, and it is impossible not to sympathise with the philanthropic motives and objects of its members. They wish to do good on the largest scale by attacking and endeavouring to, suppress what thy regard as the greatest national evil. So far they will command the suffrages of all enlightened and patriotic citizens. Per haps, indeed, in their exclusive study of one pocu• liar fon.; of excess, they may, to some extent at least, relatively exaggerate its national area and destructive influence. Fur it most be remembered there are other vices besides drunkenness, and other forms of excess almost equally productive of misery and moral degradation. But wo have no quarrel with the Alliance on that head. Earnest men are naturally absorbed in the one object before them, and drunkenness is an evil of suf ficient magnitude to engage the best energies of the social reformers who devote themselves to its suppression. The only question is as to the means which should be employed for the attainment of this de sirable obje.i. Hero we are obliged to part com pany with the reformers of the United Kingdom I Alliance. They would seek to prevent the abuse of intoxicating liquors by prohibiting their use. Their simple specific against drunkenness is the forcible suppression of drinking. They call for legislative interference to prevent the public sale of spirituous drink., and would have Parliament adopt in a modified form what is commonly known as the Maine Liquor Law. The measure proposed for this purpose is termed a Permissive Law, and, according to its pror'ilions, any town or district would be empowered to pro hibit absolutely the sale of spirituous liquors within its boundaries, provided two-tli;rds, or, according to one of the speakers at the meeting, a majority of the inhabitants were in favour of this course. We must say at once that this appears to us not only an inefficient but a most violent and dangerous remedy, which in its logi cal results might easily prove worse than the disease. The question has been repeatedly dis cussed, and there is really little new to be said on it. The great objection* to suchen extreme course are obvious. It is clear on the face of it that any such law would be a most serious infringement of one of the most sacred and essential rights of citizenship in a free country—personal liberty. The fuudaniental axiom of personal liberty is that every citixim be freely permitted to do whatever is not in itself wrong. But it cannot be pretended for a moment, with any shadow of reason or justice, that the buying and selling of wine, or beer, or other spirituous liquors, is itself immoral. These arti cles are in this respect in exactly the same position as other articles liable to the abuse of immoderate consumption. That the abuse of one article of sale may be more common than that of another does not in the least alfect the essential lawfulness of the traffic, nor can it furnish any ground what ever for legislative interference. If the excess leads to • disturbance of public order, the civa magistrate may of course rightfully take account of the offence, and visit it with appropriate p • It ment. !tut to prohibit the use of an article be cause of its abuse would be an act of the plainest tyranny and intolerance, which no number of suf frage,' could possibly justify. If a whole com munity were unanimous against the traffic in a given article, legislation would of course be unne cessary. Pint if say minority, however small, are in favour of the traffic, to compel then, to forego it would be the most direct and obvious invasion of their rights. And it surely become., those who, in their zeal for a good cause, have been betrayed into the advocacy of such a violent policy, to reflect on what it involves. The arguments urged in favour of the l'armissive Law would justify almost soy kind of intolerance and persecution, would naturally lead, indeed, to the vet,' worst ree relive laws. A large number, probably thA 1.1.,,,•••••e majority, of the people of this country I. here komanism to be a system of deadly. 'rot more destructive to the souls ..f men than excise in eating and drinking can be to heir b: lies. But would this conviction, even f expresred in the form of • vote, justify the forced expulsion of every Catholic from the country ? Take, again, the Liberty of the Press. This is unquestionably liable to abuse, and is actually abused to a vast extent. There is • class of journals, a whole school of low literature indeed, widely diffused through the length and breadth of the land, that teach the worst principles, and infect thousands and tens of thousands of young minds with a moral poison far worse and snore deadly than physical excess. It is a tre mendous evil, which every good citizen would thankfully see abated by any lawful means, and at almost any reasonable cost. Who, however, because of the abuse, would venture to say abolish the liberty of the press I Yet this is precisely the argument of the Alliance in relation to the analogous physical abuse of intoxicating liquors. There are many reasons, too, for believing that such a law as that advocated by the Alliance would be as mischievous in practice as it is unjust and dangerous in principle. The mere prohibition of all traffic in these liquors, instead of in the least diminishing thu passion for them, would but stimulate it to more determined effoiL A thousand illicit schemes for its gratification would be devised and carried into effect. Those know little of human nature who imagine that a national habit can be summarily extinguished by a legal enactment, that excesses can be suppressed by an arbitrary prohibition, or virtue established by the vote of a majority. The Permissive Law would in the end prove a dead letter, amid mean while the attempt to enforce it would excite an amount of ill-feeling, of contempt and evasion of the law, and of general disturbance and disquietude, fraught with the gravest mend evils. Wu cannot, therefore, but believe that the Alliance would be more usefully employed in the work of spreading information on the subject of intoxicating liquors, and in this way influencing public opinion against their excessive use, than in attempting to prohibit them altogether. DEATH OF Till RIGHT HON. SIR JAMES GRAHAM, BART., M.P. Sir 'lames Graham died at Netherby shortly ho fore noon yesterday. For the het 18 months he had been suffering from attacks of acute rain in the heart on the least extra mental or physical exei tioo. On Thursday week, baring dined with his family es usual on the pre vious day, be was seised with pain of more than tuned severity 10 the heat:. Remedies were applied ; the attack yiebbal to their influence, and be gradually improved. last Thursday he was so much better that he toll his medical attendant he thought be should shortly be able to dispense with his services, and after having had dinner in his la.lrooni, ho retired to bed about 6 o'clock, saying he felt all the better for having sat op looser than usual. Soon after that he bad fleecier attack of acute lain, which 841 not > iel.l to the remedies; applied. He expense' a strew; conviction that it yr., melee to try any more remedies, as be was pule sure. from the long continuance of spasms and from his general feeling, that hie cod was at hand. He then gradually sank daring the night, and died at a quarter before 12 yesterday. Has faculties were height and unimpaired to the last, and be diet es preasin; the utmost resifmatioe. The late Sir James Robert George Graham was the eldest ace of Sir James the first baronet by Lady Catherine Stewart, the eldest daughter of the seventh Earl of Gal loway, sad was bora 12th of Jon, 1792, coanquently he was is h Nth year. He married in July, 1819, Fanny Calleoder, youngest daughter of Sir James Campbell, of Anti: miss., by which lady, who died in 1837, he loaves inns Frederick l 'line (married to the eldest daughter of the Duke anal Duchess of Somerset), and several other 00011; and among his daughters two are married, one to the lion. E. Dnisoanbe, M.P., and the other to Colonel Raring. The hon. baronet represented Hull iu parliament from 181 e to WA In April, 1824, he succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father, and two years afterwards he was returned for Carlisle on whig principles. llis abilities soon became apparent after he entered the Howie of Commons, sad be was deemed a great acquisition to the whip. In 800 be 111111 elected representative for the county, and was one of the most strenuous and zealous advocates for the Re form Bill, as has had previously been for the repeal of the Test Act, and for Catholic Emancipation. On the formation of Earl Gre's administration his Minds were so much appreciated, especially in mastering details, that without official experience he was placed at the bead of the Board of Admiralty as first lord, and hail a seat in the cabinet. After the Reform Bill, in 1832, hewn elected for the eastern divine of the county of Cumber land, which he represented up to 1837. In May, 1834, di. sercdoos in Earl Grey's cabinet arose on the Irish church question, which led to the retirement of Sir James Utahans, together with Lord Stanley (new Earl of Derby), the late Duke of Richmond, and the late Earl of Ripon. 00 Sir Robert Peel coming into power Si.. James Graham was sought to join the administration, but he and the other members of the " Derby dilly" declined to join the niinistry, and publicly stated at the busting' that ho had no couthleoce in Sir Robert'', edministiation, which he rube. fluently supported by his votes in parliament. At the general election in 1837 be bad the mo&ication of being rejeetesl by bfs formereonstitueuts, and remained out of the House of Commons tintl the following seniors, when he was elected for Pembroke. In 1841 he was elected for Dorchester. That year, on the late Sir Robert Peel being called upon to form a ministry, Sir James Graham took office under that illustrious statesman as Secretary of State for the Home Department, au office be held until the dis solution of the government in June, 1846. During his tenure of office under Sir Robert Peel he was one of the ablest sup. porters of the repeal of the Corn Laws, and of the new com ment-lel policy which that eminent statesman and his political friends inaugurated. From 1e47 to 1e32 he was represen tative for the borough of Ilipoo, when in the latter year he was elected for Carlisle. which city he has since sat for in the House of COILMODL (In the Earl of Abenleen coming into power as First Lord of the Tr...usury, in December, 1852, Sir James was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. He remained with the Earl's ministry till the vote on Mr. Roebuck's motion, " That a select committee be appointed to inquire into the condition of our army Were Sebastopol, sod into those departments of the prominent whose duty it has been to minister to the wants of that army." From that period he has not sought official employment, although be was offered office on the formation of the present ministry. The late baronet was a D.C.L. of Cambridge, elected in li(G, and was Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1840. He is succeeded in the baronetcy sad estates by his eldest son Frederick, who was born 2nd of April, 1820, and maimed to., in October, 1832, Lady Hennione St. Maur, eldest laughter of the Duke and Duchess of Somerset The present baronet was attached to the embassy at Vienna in 1842, sad subsemently entered the Ist Lilo Guard*. The Duke and Duchene of Somernet, Lord nod Lady Fevereham, Hon. Edward buncombe, the Kirl of I ;Allowny, Colonel Thou,. Baring. the Doke of klerlbormigh, and other pernonages of rank, nro pieced iu mourning by his decease. THE. Ql• T.CM AT Hon' ROOD. —Wo (Srotimmi) ore informed by n correspondent that, is addition to the visit real b. the Queen to the 'tom Botanic (Wilms*, as mem timed iu ereterday's teepee...too, her Majesty again left the Palace a few ndoutea rest four no Wednesday afternoon in &carriage and four, necomponnsl by the Princess Alice, sad attended by nee of the ladies-in.waitiug and • gentleman on horseback. They went rovin.l the west sale of the Queues Drive, when, sisgslarlv eootigh, not a humus beige we. to he seen, till they reached the summit l e v e l, wh ere th e y dienioustod, and, leaving the carriage, netendante awl bones I. the rear, pmersided to walk on the footpath dews the mat side of the drive till they nearly reached Parsoesgromi. At this time her Majesty began to be recognised, sad a crowd, though by nu mesas large, bras together, whew the amble was hailed forward, acid the ladies bawls" got h e it, and the gentleman oo his hone, the whole proceeded at a elliehiug pace en the palace amid • burst of applause. By trimmed of her Majesty one of the royal sermsta tallest no Wednesday morning at the shop of Mr. Shiclair, bookeeller, Prinote.street, and «tamed a Detection of photograph. to be sent to the palace. They were seat at 12 clock. Her Majesty rurclumed a seleetlos of Kr. Nuttier'. photographic souvenirs of Soot hed sod Edialsueb, recently published by him, and a variety of mietellatieous photographic slhles A selection was alma males the course of the day at the shop of Mr. prheesiler, tor the royal family. TIM EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1861. ebe court. WINDSOWCASTLE, Oct 25. The Queen and Prince Consort, accompanied by Princess Alice, rode out on horseback this morning, attended by the 11farchio3ess of Ely, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Colonel Ponsonby, and Colonel Biddrilph. Prince.' Helena drove out in an open carriage with the Princoss of flobenlohe. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yc.tenlay for liawarden Castle, Chester. A nieetiog of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com mission for the Exhibition of l$- 1, was held yester. day at the Privy Council-office. There were present Sir 8. Morton Peto, Bart., M.P., Sir Alex ander Spearman, Bart., Mr. C. W. Milks, and Mr. Edger Bowrin4 (secretary), Mr. H. R. Williams at tended. The Lord Chancellor will receive the judges, Queen counsel, &c., at his lordship's resideoce, in 11clgrave-square on Saturday next, the first day of Michaelmas term, at 12 o'clock. Her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Ex hibition of lrei2 held a meeting at their °thee., in the Strand, yesterday. at which M. Leplay, the Commissioner for France, was present. A deputation from the Horticultural Society, consisting of Mr. Wilson Saunders, Mr. Powuall, and Dr. Lindley, a, companied by M. Murray, secretary, had an interview with her Illajnity's Commissioners yesterday. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Coloniabottieu to the Governors of Canada, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. Her Majesty is expected (eaya the Army and Nara no.7,th )to visit the camp at Aldershot early neat week, when sonic rand reviews and sham fights wall proba bly give a brilliant wind-up to the past drill season. Her Majesty has signified her intention of con ferring the honour of the third clam of the Order of the Bath on Kr. Isaac Watts, the chief constructor of the navy. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Captain Cost, loft Cambridge Cottage, Lew, on Thursday last, for Brighton. Madame Musurum and family return to town to-day from St. Leonard's-on-int, where they have been staying for some weeks past. The Duchess of Argyll, who has been paas;ng several weeks in Paris, joined the duke and family in the early part of the week at Inverary Oastle, N.B. The Dowager Duchess of Buckingham, and. the Ihtke and Duchess of Buckingham, with their children, have (says the 12,144 Adrertimer), much to the delight of the inhabitants of the locality, taken up their residence at Stowe House, their ancestral home, but which, from cireunatauce. which have Oren oft referred to, has been for some y ears stripped of its fittiop and closed. The Marquis and Marchioness of Not.laampton have left tows fur their seat, Castle Ashby, Northampton shire. The Earl and Counteqv of Gainaborough are passing the season at St. Leonard's on,lea. . _ Lonl Llanover arrived iu town yesterday from Lianover, Monmouthshire. Lord and Lady Fevorsham arrived at their re..;- dews in Great Cumberland.placa, on Thursday, from Duo. oombe-park, Yorkshire. Lord aut: Lady Churchill have left the St. George's Hotel. Ljedand Lady Dormer arrived at the;r residence a few days since, from a tour in Scotland. Mr. and Lady Mary Craven came to town yester day from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Barriagton at Beckett House. Berks. Mr. Craven and Lady Mary will leave tows to-day for Newmarket. Lord Napier, the Engßah envoy M the Ituasian court, arrived at Vienna on the 21st, on his way to Meath. Wu are glad to learn that Lord Brougham, although he hay bees exceedingly hAs not Leen dangerously ill. He is now so nearly recovered that his medical ad visers tell Lim he will be able to come to Loudon next week, and he hopes to arrive in town at the end of the mouth. We (Western nmes) regret to mate that Captain Jollitfe, one of the installers for Wells, is now lying den pronely ill, sod with little hope of his recovery. It is thought that the wound which the rillaot captain received in the Crimean war undermined his health, the effects of which be still labours under. We read iu the United Service Gazette :—" As the neat flag promotion will cause Captain Denman to vacate the command of the Victoria and Albert, several 11111111111 for successor,. have been meutioeed. Captaiu the Hon. F• Egerton has been confidently spoken of, but we believe that the mine of another honourable captain will be included in the list of names to he submitted to her Majesty." Yesterday evening, the annual session of the Arehiteetorsl A mociation was inaugurated by a roarrma. :lona, at their rooms in Conduit-street, which was very numerously attended by members, their friends, and general visitors. An important liberal demonstration came off at Maldon—the head-quarters of liberalism in Essex--ou Thursday night. Several member, of parliament were pre sent, and the speeches were of an unusually interesting character. Mr. Western, M.P., in the course of his speech dwelt upon the importance of the late city of London elec tion, and urged that it was desirable to maintain the present government in office, on the ground of their foreign policy. Mr. Wood, the new mem ber for the City, spoke strongly in favour of increased attention on the part of liberals to the registration courts. lie also Inroad them against divisions. " Let them not," he laid, "be ham pered by little questions." Mr. Charles Buxton indulged is s survey of Europe, with an allusion to the events occur ring in America. Ho priitested against the idea that the dis ruption arca/ from the free institutions of the Union. _ _ Mr. Moncktou Mikes attended a civic banquet at Pontefract a night or two ago. He eulogised the amen borough system, and illustrated the advantages of that system by a reference to his own case, arguing that it en abled him to exercise independence of judgment and to free himself from party shackles. Among the crowd of curiosities" which have been proposed to the commissioners of the International Exhibition is a very remarkable one emanating from an in genious Austrian. He proposed to have an album in which all persons who enter the building should be required to enter their names. This monster book, he says, will bo feet in thickness, and be thinks it ought not to be less than 5 feet in width. It would weigh about 5C Ali., and he esti mates the expense at 701 M. As the commissioners have shown themselves too obtuse to perceive the practical value of the enaestion, and have failed to grant him the faci lities which he requires for carrying his novel idea into effect, the gentleman in question demands that his right of property in the suggestion should be reserved to himself ; but otters, in the event of the commissioners taking a more sensible view of the value of the proposal, to sell them the copyright of his idea of preserving the autographs of millions of visitors, for the modest sum of .5001. On pay meat of this amount, the ponderous volume may be set up without any fear of injunctions from the Court of Chan- ' eery, or soy other terrible machinery of the law Wing set in motion to restrain the infringement of this brilliant conception. A Chrinttnan book in announced for publication by Ma'am Newby and Co.. under the title of " Wit and Wisdom," by Mrs. Mathew■, mother of Mr. C. Mathews. We (Aft uttr , ent) m.ty add that the retirement of this gentle man as au actor is also spoken of. It is said that he will slimily commence an entertainment on his own account, resembling, in some rcipecta, the "At Homes" of his father. The singtilar library of criminal literature was void by Southgate and Barrett on Wednesday, and the more scarce and valuable lots (rya the Pt rarated 7 . ; we) real ised high prices. Jonathan Wild's autograph, end the acute print of "Jonathan Unveiled," fetched 71.; a col lection of 300 portrait* of criminal celebrities was knocked down for 13/. Is.; fourteen dying speeches, published at penny each, brought as much es 21. It.. Some con temporary records of notorious malefactors, such RS Mrs. Brownria, who beat her female apprentices to death ; Jonathan Wild, the thieltaker ; John Hall, who murdered he master; Captain Samuel Goodere, who killed his brother, • Elomemotshire baronet, on board chip ; Mis Mandy, who poisoned her father at the instance of her lover, Ceptuun ermartons, ke., fetched $l. Another collection, chiefly re ferring to Jack Sheppard and Jonathan Wild, realised Si. I.is. "The Malefactors' Register," I vole.. witk 160 engravings. mostly insertions, brought 111. ; and Howell*. "Mete Trials," 161. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND M. RATTAZZI. A correspondent of the Indelpendalgee Belge of yesterday evening states that in the interview between the Emperor Napoleon and M. Rattarsi, his Majesty, although showing great sympathy for the Italian cause, gave no hope of an early with drawal of the French troupe. To M. Rattaszi, as to M. de Morny and the Prince Napoleon, the Emperor declared that France could not take this step until the Italian cabinet has made some ar rangement with the Pope. Prince Napoleon, not discouraged by the result of previous attempts, wrote again to the Emperor a few days ago submitting a variety of considerations in favour of prompt action at Rome. The Emperor's reply was affable and cordial towards the Prince, and was couched in friendly terms as respects Italy ; but as to the main point the Emperor maiutailaxl his previous views. The meeting of the Italian Chamber* is now ex pected to take place towards the end of next month, instead of the 10th, as had been expected. MILITARY AFFRAY IN AUSTRIA. The Bresciana of the 20th publishes an account of an extraordinary scene at a sham battle amongst the Austrian troops at Montecchio Pre calcino. The Austrian chasseurs were to take the head of the bridge over the Aside°, which was de fended by two Hungarian companies of the line. At the command " Fire ! " the latter were wounded by a gun discharge of small pebbles. Six of them were wounded, three very seriously. This disgraceful trick so exasperated them that they made a charge at once upon tho chasseurs with their bayonets. The one who led the Hun garians to the attack was a serjeant,who cried out to his com panions in Hungarian," With the bayonet !" The colonel, the major, and the principal officers interfered, but a terrible trzelk ensued ; for the fact flow from mouth to mouth, and other Hungarians rushed to the spot, determined to avenge the insult at any hazard. The Archduke Albert saved himself from danger by flight. While they expected him at Thiene, he had already taken refuge in his apartment at Vicenza. The grand manteuvres were suspended, and the commotion was at last suppressed by the general officers, who separated by force the Hungarians and chasseurs, and led them in different directions. There, at pre sent, the matter rusts. AUSTRIA. Under the head of "Latest Intelligence" La Pattie publishes the following : _ It is asserted that an interview between the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia has been decided upon• It will probably take place on the sth of November, at Breslau, whither the Emperor of Auatris will proceed to be present ►t the inau;uratioo of the statue of King Frederick William 111., father of the present King. (REVTER'S TZLEGRAIIs.) ITALY. TURIN. OCT. 26. The government have authorised Messrs. Roths child, of Paris, to receive the last two-fifths of the National Loan, which, according to a recent decree, may be paid in four monthly instalments of 10 per cent, each. It in said that General Della 3larmora will leave for Naples ou the 28th fret. ROME, OCT. 22 (vie Marseilles). General Goyon will return to Rome in three weeks. Cardinal Andrea has formally denied having par ticipated iu tho publication of tho pamphlets which recently appeared at Florence against the temporal power of the Pope. SPAIN. MADRID, Ocr. 2G. It is believed that the negotiations with the Envoy of Morocco will lead to a satisfactory result. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Ocr. ZS. A funeral service has been celebrated here in honour of the late Count Cavour. The ministry and all the public authorities were present. FRANCE. MONTPELLIER, Ocr. 23. The Mestinfter de Montpellier of to-day publishes a moulage, dated Beasege,'2a.m. to-day, announcing that three miners who bad been buried for fourteen days in the ruins of the Lalle Mine have been dug out alive, and in a satisfactory state. The works for the rescue of the 104 miners who are still buried in the mine are being vigorously proseemetl. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, OCT. Z. A royal decree published to-day convenes the Council of State (Rigeraad) and the Legislative As sembly for Denmark and Schleswig for the 25th January. POLAND. WARSAW, Ocr. tt (VIA BRESLAU). General Lambert, Governor of Poland, is suffer ing from inflammation of the chest. General Gerstenzweig, Military Governor of Poland, in dead. The catholic and protestant churches and the Jewish synagogues still remain cloned, but the negotiations for reopening them continue. The people pray before the doors of the churches. National Songs are no longer sung. RUSSIA. ODESSA, Ocr. 24. The Emperor will return to St. Petersburg on the 28th inst. The Empress will prolong her stay in the Crimea. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oar. 19. (V4EII'I,O(IAG.) The Porte is about to address a note to the Eu ropean powers, explaining the differences which exist between the Turkish and Bervian govern ments. Prince Conzs has addressed a note to the Porte, reiterating his demand for the definitive union of Moldavia and Wallachia. Another conference is expected to be held ahortly ou this subject. Three Franco-Danubian steamers have been lost in the Black Bea. Twenty-four persons were drosned. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Sem Z 3. Shirting', active, but unchanged in price. Mule twist active, at advancing quotations. Raw silk dull and declining. Copper (bah sheathing sad tile), and sugar advancing. Shellac unchanged. Saltpetre, jute, linseed, hides, and rice in active demand, and prices advancing. Exchange on London, 2s. Old. Government Securities, Four per Cents., 17+ discount ; ditto, Five per Cents., 4} discount. Frtighta dull. WIMY, Barr. 90. (By telegraph to Point de (ills.) The cotton market is firm, but inanimate. Piece goods firm. Twist steady. Linseed unchanged. Freights declining. Government Securities, Five per Cents., 96/. CHINA. CANTON, /kn. 12. Grey shirtings and water twist unchanged. Tea tending upwards. Total export to date 21,894,0001 bi. Exchange on London id. higher. FOG-CHOW-FOG, Sxrr. 3. Tea : Prices tending upwards. SHANGHAI, SEPT. 4. Grey shirting, active, but prices declining. Tea: Congou unchanged. Silk active, but unchaegefi in price. Settlements in the fortnight, 8,500 bales. Total export to date, 12,800 bake. Exchange on London, kl. lower. Exchange on India, 2 rupees lower. Freights fur tea and silk dull and declining. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom °us ow, col PARIS, FIUDAT EV=ING. A confereuce on the subject of the joint exp - dition of Franco, England, and Spain against Mexico, was held yesterday at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It is stated that the terms of a definitive convention have been agreed upon, and that the signatures of the plenipotentiaries will be affixed in less than a week. The French fleet is all ready and expects to start within the first fortnight of next month. A French translation of Father Passaglia's famous pamphlet is published to-day at Moliui s. Bullier's Correspondence says that as many as 1,000 copies have already been sold. I may mention, as a very small subject of con solation for the Emperor's inexplicable hanging back with regard to the Roman question, that the Censtitntiomiet, undoubtedly a semi-official journal, warmly approves the doctrine of Passaglia. The Temp. notices with approbation, and the Pattie with deprecation, that the Coustitutionnef has never before spoken so decidedly against the principle of the temporal power. The Patric, whose recent " independence" is coincident with its leanings to Rome, observes that the oms/ill/Gonne/ is not now distinguished even by a shade from the radical opinions of the SiZete and Opinion. Nationale. The legitimist and ultnonontaxist journal, the Union, announces that its principal editor, M. Laurcutie, has received front the Sovereign Pontiff the cress of Commander of the Order of Pius IX., " iu testimony of his attachment to the catholic faith, his love for the Holy See, and the merits and excellence of his writings." The Pope certainly must have credit for pluck when he thus does his utmost to show sympathy for the bitterest enemies of the Emperor, to whose mysterious protection alone he owes the protracted enjoyment of his con demned temporal crown. The Bounty was decidedly better to-day. A little hesitation was apparent in the morning owing to a tuistakeu reading of a telegram, which made out a fall of per cent. in Consols, whereas there was in reality a rise to that extent. The announce ment in the Mouiteur that the instalments of the Italian Loan were put off, as expected, and that the dividends would be paid at Rothschild's, greatly contributed to the improved feeling. Reute rose 25c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at 68fr. 30c. and 68fr. 20c. Mobiliur rose I lfr. 25c., and the Italian Loan 301 r. Railways were only from lfr. to 3fr. higher. The Opinion Nationale has received a letter from the Polish General Mieroelawski, giving a positive contradiction to a statement in a Turin correspond ence of the Dres , 6i ✓onrnnt that he was about to " invade Gallicia by way of Montenegro, Sorvia, and Moldavia, declining all co-operation with the Magyars." The evident object of these perfidious insinuations, says the Opinion, is to sow discord between the Poles and Hungarians. The truth is that the relations between three two patriotic na tions are at this moment excellent, under the aus pices of Garibaldi, Klapka, and Mieroslawaki. A fire broke out three nights ago iu a splendid mansion not long educe built by M. de Carayou- Latour, Deputy of the Legislative Body, on an estate which he has in the commune of Virolade (Gironde), and which, though scarcely finished, was universally admired for its richness and beauty. Nothing now remains of it but the four walls. The tire is said to have broken out in more than one point at once. An alarm was in stantly given, and the firemen from the surround ing commuues were soon on the spot, but all their exertions were in vaiu. The loss is estimated at 1,400,000 fr. LETTER FROM ROSSINI. The Ent, Atte states that Rossini has addressed the following letter to M. Alphonse Royer. director of the Unind Opera :—" Pussy, Oct. ls.—Desr Friend, —ln consequence of an application made by me to the Corn. inittee of the Society of Concerto of the Conservatoire de Musique, I have obtained the favour of having exe cuted a small vocal piece, of my composition, in a concert which is to be given by the said society for the elevation of a monument in honour of the learned and cele brated Cherubini. I have composed my rr.orerait for four base voices in unison. Its title is the Cluing des Tirane, and for the execution I must have four able singers. I ask t'acm from you who are their directors? Their names are Belval, Cazaux, Faure, Obin—a perfetta vincenela (of equal rank). As you will observe, I subscribe them in alphabetical order, to prove to you that I have not forgotten the concenienze teatrali. Will you, my dear Id. Boyer, be kind enough to give me a new mark of your sympathy by requesting them gentlemen, in my name, to lend me their co-operation in the execution of my Chard Jos Titans, in which there will not be in troduced the slightest roulade, or chromatic scale, or trill, or arpeggio. It is a simple chant, of Titanic rhythm, and somewhat out of the common run. A little repetition with mailed! be all that is necessary. If my health permitted, I would willingly (as it is my duty to do) go to those excellent artists and, in person, demand the favour which I desire. But, alai ! my dear friend, my legs shake as much as my heart palpitates ; and that heart in advance testifies to you its warm grati tude—it guides my hand to repeat to you the sentiments of the highest esteem, and the sincere friendship of your affectionate, " G. Resist, Pianist of the Fourth Class." A letter in the indepeiidenee states that the catalogue of the library of the British Museum has been enriched with a new name, that of the Count de Paris, as author of • work entitled, "Duman et Le Lilian." The book, of which only 290 copies huve been struck off for private friends, is said to be remarkable for ita elegance of style. The King and Queen of Prussia, with the Prises and Princess Royal, will visit London next summer on the mansion of the opening of the Great Exhibition. . - Prince Napoleon and the Princes s Clothilde were present the evening before last at the representation of the Colleen Ban% at the Ambign Comique, Paris. The Charioari publiahtm an engraving which re presenta Austria and Venetia quarrelling armaa•kimbo, while Europe,with helmet on head, armed to the teeth, and bokliog a huge rifted cannon under the right ann, shows every ,nark of impatience, and exclaims " Sapristi I try and come to some understanding ! lam quite tired of re. twining armed in this way on account of you both. 1 want to lay aside my rifled cannon, and all this warlike prepara tion which is grinding me to duet !^ The tobacco produced this sewn in the north of France is of greatly superior quality to that of last year, and the cutting of it has been effected ander the most favourable circumstances. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, OCT. 21—PROMOTIONS AND APPOlNT uvrrs.—C.Thic W. F. Barnett, C.R., to the Orpheus. Lieutenant W. T. F. Mudge, to the Orpheus. Chaplain and Navallnstructor the Rev. C. B. Halewood, to the Orpheus. Mate A. E. Kay, promotad to the rank of lieutenant. Second Masters T. Dobbin, to the Doterel ; and W. If. Adlam, to be additional to the Fluent for service in the Investigator. Surgeon Dr. J. M. Troneon, to the Orpheus. Paymaster E. A. Amphlett, to the Orpheus. Assistant Surgeon M. Coates, to the Orpheus. Assistant l'aurter G. V. Gruzelier, to the Indus; and J. Kiddie (in to the Terror. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 25. The ANsurance, 4, /screw vesw•l, Conimatider Charles M. Aynsley, sailed in the night for Plymouth, to pay off. She arrived yesterday from the Meditemmeno. The Bartholomew Line, Portuguese screw corvette, wu taken into dock today for repairs. The Orpheus, 21, screw, was taken into the ship basin to-day. The Warrior, 40, iron screw frigate, Captain the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, got uuderweigli this afternoon for another trial of her speed at the mile in Stokes Bay. LORD CARLISLE AND THE VOLUNTEERS. At the prize contest of the two companies forming the Otitis Howard Corps of Volunteers, held in the early part of the month, Captain Stephens, on behalf of the officers, invited the whole corps, numbering 120 men, to a banquet on the evening of the 23n1, at the Castle Howard Hotel, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland having accepted the invitation for that day. Accordingly, on Wednesday morning, the corps assembled at Castle Howard for their last field day for the season, when they were for the first time formed into sections of sixteen men for file tiring. Each section fired ten rounds at 300 yards, the average number of hits made by each section being 107, hull's eyes and centres being counted as single hits only. After this very creditable practice for the beginning (the corps also numbering about twenty recruits), the men marched to the north front of the Castle, where a series of battalion movements were gone through, after which Capt. .Wiirsley addressed the men in highly laudatory terms, and calling for three cheers for Lord Carlisle, which were given with a willingness which woke the echoes for many a mile. Lord Carlisle briefly replied. Colonel Cranford, Captain Phillips, many of the neighbouring gentry, and many car riages filled with lady occupant', were on the ground, and throughout the day Castle Howard Park wore a very Mg mated appearance. A comedy by lady Dufforin will, it is sai 1 , be shortly produced at the St. James's Theatre. Mr. E. M. Ward's picture, in fresco, to be placed in the Commons corridor of the Houses of Parliament, re. presenting the flight of Charles the Second with JAL., Lane after the battle of Worcester, will shortly be placed in itx proper situation. The meetings of scientific societies for the en• suing week are s—Monday, Entomological. 8. Tuesday, l'hotographic, 8. Wednesday, Geological, 8. Friday, As. tronomical, 8. The legislature of California has o&+red a prize of 2,0001. to the first grower on Californian soil of 50,0001b5. weight of cotton. Messrs. Scott and Co., of Cartwlyke, Greenock, signed a contract on Thursday at Paris for the construe. Lion of throe large iron paddle steamers, hulls ant engines, for the Compagnie Gi , ni"rale Transathititique, of 3,250 tons and 750-horse power each. They are to be completed re spectively in 19, 23, and 27 months. On Thursday night Mr. Morrison, the Liberal candidate for Plymouth, addressed the electors at the Me chanics' Institute, in a speech of considerable length. He complained of the canvassing tactics of his opponents and expressed his wish that that pert of an election might be always dispensed with. He advocated the ballot, not because it would do away with all the evil practices com mon at elections, but. because it would prevent pressure. He condemned the Education Minute. He did not believe that the abolition of the church rate would destroy the church. He re-asserted his belief in the soundness of the principle of the Permissive Bill without committing himself to all its details. He spoke of the present enormous national expenditure, and said it was important that private members of the House of Commons should undertake the somewhat onerous and disagreeable !task of mastering the details of the Estimates, and he desired that the income tax should be re-adjusted. He referred at some length to the shipping question, and to the advantage to that interest which, it was alleged, would result from the return of the conservatives to office. THE REPREAENTATION OF LI rF:RPOOL. The Liverpool Mercury says :—" In nll probability there will be • dissolution of parliament either iu the middle or the latter end of next year. In this town, if we are not mis. informed, the tortes are already preparing, if not prepared, for the anticipated parliamentary election. It is positively stated that Mr. T. B. Mendell intends to retire from the representation of Liverpool at the dissolution of parliament, and to become a candidate fur one of the divisions of War. wickahire; whilst Mr. J. A. Tobin and Mr. S. It. Graves are to be brought forward as the tory candi- dates for the representation of the good old town. Having through the apathy and indif• ferenoe of the burgesses obtained possession of the council chamber, the tories now seek to make that triumph the precursor of another and a more import. ant victory. hey would absorb the entire representation of the borough in parliament., and thus involve Liverpool in the disgrace of carrying back to office i party which has systematically opposed every reform and every change which has contributed to the political elevation or the ma terial well-being of the people. And this ambitious project they will undoubtedly realise if the liberal party does cot wake from its sleep, and tear asunder the flimsy bonds with which cunning conservatism has bound it. At once, there. fore, it is the duty of the liberal party to bestir itself. There must be prompt and united action to mar this plot. Ooe great effort must be made to prove to a small but sc. live party that it will not be permitted to usurp the whole representation of the borough ; and , nix there is now no vol. sildlity for compromise or partition, the cry must lie—" Two liberal representatives of Liverpool." THE SOUTHERN EMBANKMENT OF THE THAME4. —Yesterday evening a meeting of delegates from each of the parishes of South Lowloo was held at the Hem Tavern, Kennington, to decide on the course to be pursued in order to obtain for the southern bunk of the Thames privileges similar to those to be conferred on the northern shore under the Thames Eniunktnetit Bill. The chair being taken by Mr. F. Duulton, several gentlemen pointed out the importance of a southern embihkiitent. A rt,elu• tion was, after a long discussion, cerrial unanimously to the effect that the unitary munition of the districts of London south of the river, and their liability to Bemis, rem dared the protection of an enilstukment necessary, and that the meeting, while anxious to promote this undertaking, had no desire to delay the progress of the nui them env. bankinent. A deputation was appointed to wait upou Lord Palmerston on the subject from each of the parishes in South London. ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL, HATERSTOCK-HILL The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the governors and sub. scribers to this institution took place vestenlay at the Lon dou Tavern, for the election of 4/children out of a list of 9., candidates, orphan children. There being no other busi ness than the election, the treasurer having token the chair, scrutineers were appointed, and the election was pro. ceeded with, commencing it twelve mud closing at three o'clock. The poll having closed, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman and acnitineers. The names of the suc cessful candidates will be advertised iu the used way. POLITICAL ESPIONAOE IN Li% 1.3(P00L. Our Liverpool correspondent writes :—" Fur some time past oae of the principal topics of conversation in Liverpool. both on 'Change mid in private circles, has had relation toe system of political espionage and terrorism which has for some time been exercise.] 111 that town in conuesioa with gentlemen supposed to be directly or indirectly concerted with the Southern or secessionist States of North ,tmerica. We have heard of one gentleman being conotantly dogsvd by private ' detoctivex ' for many mouths past. All visitors to his residence and place of bosiuess have been carefully scrutiniaed. and it is supposed that u witig to ' information receive)' from Liverpool many newer. , friends of the gentleman above alluded to, bare - eep seize' and searched, and in some eases imprisoned, immediately oa their arrival at Boston mud New York. Emplot,'s, it Saila, have also, in some cases, been tampered with, and even the privacy of oorre.pondeace and of business affairs loss been mysteriously violated. We have also heap' of CA. 'S in which t goods' tact from Liverpool for shipment Mil 'ouspectol firms have bees watched from the manufacturing di.triets to the Liverpool dock (playa, and in sonic insuinet.. it is more than hinted that packages have been opened furtively en node, and their contents overhauled and noted. Weds not, at present, feel justified in giving publicity to all the rumours which point to the authors of these poweolieV. foreign to English ideas of everything that u fair, hoover' able. and manly." THE GoLo CoAtrr.—The 11",Nt Afi.; , an says " The palm oil season has been glorious. lo -.toe towns in the eastern districts there is actually monied th. 4l traders can take, and yet enormous prices are given he it. The Drorno sailed for London from AO . lll on the •.!I.lth of July, with a cargo of 45,000 grams of palm oil awl., cos sod a half of gum. On the 21st, Bryn-v-M or. heloogio; to the same firm as the Dromo (F. and A.Sw a nzy), left Accra with another cargo of 45,00 d gallons of palm oil. Oa the 22nd, the Kedar sailed from Accra for Salem, Massie:bused!. Uuited States, with 85,000 gallons of oil. nue, within throe days, three vessels left from one port with gallons of oil, all the produce of the I mid Coast. not hear of much corn or ground-nuts shipped or, rent ra T a , for. Very littl e encouragemeut has been given t o ., t development of the corn and ground-nuts trade of late. DOWNING-trrxzer, Ocr. 24.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thorns, Blanch Stephen. Eat. to _ , deputy collector and landing surveyor for the isla n d of Ceylon.—Ga:cttr. 4!