The Express. — London, England, 1865-08-24 00:00:00

TEE able importance, that the conjoinol,o*e fleets of France and England is understood those who are in the secret to be ade ' big, and a threat, against some Portr or ea: unknown. Clumsier mistilief-ntkisiatjakinif the tale go so fares to hint that in all oceans and seas, and on all coasts, the flags of France and England will be found united for better and for worse. These ingenious but too zealous advocates of we know not what bad cause too readily forget that because it is beyond all question good for mankind that the French and English flags should fly together in the Channel, it is not therefore equally indispensable to the peace of the world that England should join the EMPEROR of the nitres in regenerating the Mexicans in spite of themselves, or should aid and abet him in con triving the disraption of the American Republic, and arresting the progress of the Anglo-Saxon race. Neither on the seas nor on the shores of the Old World or of the New is it desirable that the friendly meeting of the flags of Francs and England should mean more than this :—that it is well that two such neighbours should be friends. Sbe an n. NEITHER wind nor rain could mar the happy meeting of the fleets at Cherbourg. Indeed, it is pleasant to record that the sun shone bravely forth at last, and that the British Admiral stood out again to sea under an unclouded sky. The cor respondent of the Moniker accept' the double augury of storm and calm as a sign from Heaven of the departing " winter of our dimoott -4' tent, made glorious summer by the sun " of the alliance ; And all the clouds that lowered upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Oar Millie." arms bang up tor monumooto ; Our stern alarm:is Omega to merry msetinp ; Our dreadful marches to delightful madonna. Our gallant neighbours, who, thanks to their ! own greatest poet and his son, hays made SHAKE SPEARE their own, will, we are persuaded, adopt these stirring lines all the more heartily that, as they often remind us, it was SH•IIESPEASE who called France the soldat de Div?. Nothing, indeed, could be better in taste sndfeeling than the conduct of all the proceedings at Cherbourg : no thing more honourable to host and guest than the , interchange of courtesies between our Lords of the Admiralty and the Minister of Marine, between our Admiral from Portsmouth and the Maritime Prefect, between the Commander-in-Chief of our Channel Fleet and the Commander-in-Chief of the Cherbourg Division, between our Surveyor of the ! Navy and the French Chief Constructor—and so', on throughout the naval and dockyard hierarchies on both sides. Our neighbours have splendidly sustained their reputation for the most graceful and , chivalrous hospitality ; they have done the honours of their ports and of their sea service with admirable spontaneity and tact ; their Minister of Marine has toasted her sLt.reery and her MAJESTY'S Navy in • speech which we recommend to' the study of public orators at Portsmouth next week as • model of discretion, cordiality, and sim plicity. The FIL,T LORD of the ADMIRALTY and Admiral DACRES, however, have not been unequal; to the occasion ; the former in doing homage to the great nation and their chosen Sovereign, the latter in bearing witness, with generous ardour, to the noble qualities of the French Navy, the conspicuous daring of its officers in war, their constancy and fidelity as allies, their high professional attainments ; and skill. There was that genuine ring of reci- I procal respect and good fellowship in these ! characteristic speeches which should not peas away from the memories of the hearers as mere idle ! convivial compliments of the hour. Their true ; significance is to be found in the response which the public voice of the two countries gave to them with one accord. The Ministers and , the Admirals spoke in broad and general terms of the cessation of old enmities, and the present and future generous and fruitful rivalry of compeers and I I competitors in all the benefioent and disinterested enterprises of industry and commerce. The union of the two flags is a pledge of peace, and of the tranquil progress of civilization ; for, while the English alliance has been • source of strength to the Imperial dynasty, Liberal France has felt that of all possible alliances the English must be the moat propitious to liberal ideas and to the cause of free institutions. If the friendship of the two Powers has not achieved or prevented I all that enthusiasts might have hoped or expected, it is certain that the interests of European civilize tion have gained or lost in confidence and security in proportion as that friendship has seemed to draw closer or to grow cool. Perhaps the full i value of such a friendship as the union of the two squadrons in the French and English waters ex hibits consists rather in its negative than in its positive quantity and quality. It is the tsegation of such enormous possibilities of ruin and confusion to mankind I It excludes such in finite capabilities of calamity and disaster ! Look ing upon those sombre and sinister monuments of destructive energy and invention—the Achilles and the Magenta—the Black Prince and the Sol ferino—and listening to the thunder of their bat teries, who did not thank Heaven that he lived in an age when "the war drum throbs no longer" be tween two such awful combatants, and when those portentous messengers of death are content to boom greetings of goodwill, and to summon innocent populations to festivals of welcome ? Some future generation, it may be, of Frenchmen and Englishmen, will be able to smile compas sionately at our nineteenth century masqueradings of peace and amity armed to the teeth, and hos tile panoplies wreathed in flowers. But, taking our own age as we find it, we are constrained to doubt whether the proclamation of a mutual dis armament would be half so efficacious in preserv ing peace as this suggestive spectacle of the cost liest and completeat engines of war. But if we might venture to address a word of caution to honest writers on either side of the Channel who desire to improve the occasion of the meeting of the Fleets, we should entreat them to follow the example of the speakers at the Cher bourg banquet, and to stick to general reflections, without attempting to lend a forced and unreal semblance of mystery and profundity to a simple exchange of hospitable good offices and • friendly gathering of comrades and neighbours. There will always be plenty of wiseacres and quidnunc* to see much deeper into • millstone than ordinary mortals, and to assume, for instance, with an air of unfathom- - - THE ROSENAU, COBURG, Ammer 21. Duko Ernest of Wurtemburg (her Majesty's amain) visited the Queen cm Saturday. The Duchess of Saire•Coburg dined with her Majesty in the evening. Her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses Prisons Helena and Priapus Louise 'Weeded divine service yesterday morning. 11se Gime& Superintendent Meyer performed the servlos. Prins Alfred, who had gone to Reinhardtabrann for • few days with the Duke of Goberg, returned yesterday morning, and visited her Majesty is the afternoon. The Prince and Primus" of Wales visited Queen Augusta of Prussia at Coblents thews or four days back. The Duke of Somerset is expected to arrive st hie official residence at the Admiralty, Whitehall, to-mor row or Saturday, from Brest. The Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Georgians Russell have left Pembroke Lodge, Richnsood Park, on a visit to L,rd and Lady Stanley of Alderley, NA Alderley Park, Cheshire. The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland have 'Woad the party visiting Lard and Lady Loodwiborough, at Orisiston Park, near Tadeaster, for the York races The Earl of Sandwich and Ladies Montagu have met Viscount sad Viscosotees Sydney on the Oontiaent. and will, later in the season, go on a tour is Italy. I Count and Countess de Flahault (Baroness Keith and Heinle) and Hon. Miss Elphinstose de Flattault have arrived at their seat in Scotland. Admiral Sir Rodney Mundy has left town to speed a few weeks ia Scotland. An Ostend letter says :—" King Leopold appears to enjoy his sojourn at this place. His !dainty takes Ire. quest drives io a half.open carriage slows the beach at low water. The Duke and Duchess de Brabant, with their child es, are also frequently seen on the beach. The duchess has made several excursions into the country round O►tesd in a carriage drawn by ponies, which she drives herself." NAVY DOCKYARD ACCOUNTS. A return has been issued to-day conaisting of a espy of a report from the Aczoontant•General of the Navy to the Lords Commimieuers of the Admiralty, dated the 27th da► of June, 1865, explanatory of the measures which have been adopted, and the arrangements that have been made, for the improvement of the system of the record and preparation of the accounts of dock and victualling yard expenditure on ships, services, and conversions frum the year 1858-59 to the present time, with appendices. After giving a history of various changes made with a view to improvement, the report concludes as follows : "With the view of comparing the cost of manufactures in her Majesty's dockyards with that of productions in private trade, sad also of investigating the differsooe in the cost of similar produce in the several dockyards, their lordships, by their order of the :Xrth January, 1865. appointed a committee of practical officers to undertake the asesseary inquiries. The report of the committee, with reviled instructions for keeping the conversion amounts, is forwarded herewith. Their lordships, by their order of the 28th March, 1865, in approval of the director of works' submission of the 17th of that month, direct the necessary steps to be taken for the valuation of the plant of the dock and victualling yards oa the Ist April, 1865. It in intended to prevent with the future expense and conversion accounts of the dockyards, the three following balanoevbeets :-1. Plant account, value of land, buildings and premises, additions thereto, interest, repairs, replacements, and 'heretical. 2. Stock valuation account, value of remains of stock of timber and stores on hand, and cf receipts and issues in the year, and depre ciation or enhancement of value of stock. 3. General belanosvheet, or expenditure and production ac count for ships, services, and cinversioes. The re sults of the changes and improvements progressively adopted since the year 1859 may be thus generally indi cted :—L The Controller of the Navy will (000curreutly with the performance of the several services) be kept is ' formed of the outlay incurred thereat both in the expendi ' ture of stores and the employment of lemur at the several dockyards. This information, exhibiting the gr►dual ab. I sorption of the 'parliamentary grants for labour, the relation I which the expense of particular works beers he the esti mates for them, and the connection of their oat with their Progress, secures a most important and necessary check over the whole of the operations as they are carried on. 2. Means of comparison will be afforded of the cost of articles produced at the several yards, with that of similar articles manufactured in the private trade. These means taws been ensured by the measures adopted for the simpli fication and uniformity of the accounts rendered from the dockyards, conducing to the institution of periodical coin perithos of all analogous dockyarl work ; and with respect to productions in the private trade, to comparisons of east as full and precise as similarity of quality and construction may permit. 3. The results of the separate m►nufacture* and of the combined works of the dockyards, will alike be presented In the ordi nsry form of commercial balance sheets. nue, in future, will be shown the extent and value of the works executed, and the amount of the asperses with which they should be charged, in accordance with the principles of account ob served in the commercial world." Qtrzz EMMA AT WINCHMSTER.—This youthful widowed sovereign visited Winchester for a short time on Monday. The bells of the cathedral rear peels of welcome during her stay, and the Marchioness of lintiogr, Lady Franklin, Miss Crayeroft, aid Colonel Wilbraham &nom ponied her. DEVON AND CORNWALL LIFEBOAT BAZAAR.— , This bazaar, which was under blob patronage, sou held a ,fans days ego at Teignmouth. Lady Palk sod other Milne ' tie' ladies in the county took charge of stalls, which were I filled with needlework 11131 ao ezteesive selection of ores mental articles. The proceeds of the two dare sale yielded batmen 5001. and 600/ , including subscriptions sod dons- tiers. The National Lifeboat Institution has expended between 5,0201. sod 0,0001. on its fourteen establishments on the Devon end Cornwall coast, and all the lifeboats on them shores belong to that society. Much credit is due to Mr. Rowell, of Teignmouth, for the zealous end admirable mariner io which he organised this bazaar, which has Fielded such a handsome sum in aid of the funds of the institution. SUBMARINE CABLES.—In Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia there arc 52 submarine cables, which are of the aggregate length of 5,625 miles, and the insulated wires of which menu° 9,783 miles. The longest of these is 1,550 fathoms, and the shortest 1. fathom. There are 95 submarine cables in the United States and British North America which measure 68 miles, and their insulated wires 133 miles. The overland telegraph line between New York and the west coast of Ireland, through British Columbia, Noethern Asia, and Roasts, will be 20.479 miles long, 12,740 miles of which are completed. It has at length been resolved that this lin shall erns from Amilriela to Asia at the nutting point of Norton Boned, oe the American side to St. Lawrence Island, and from Oman to Cape Therleus an the Asiatic continent. Two submarine cabin will be required for this, one 135 miles lensed the other 2:00 miles long. Cape Thadeue is 1,702 miles from the month of the Amon river. ANLTHEIL STRIPE.—On Tuesday some of the men employed by the firms of Mears. George Smith and Taylor —formerly Kelk and Co.--ao4 also of Memos. Trollops sod moss. Amok for an edema°, of engem. Each of these firms employs Dome thonmens of atm. JOHN BROGDENI3 GOLD CHAINS by troy weight, at realisable Taus, and the workmanship at wholesale manufacturers' Oren The gold In the chains rm. eddied, and re-purchased at the prim robvitd. " Hares the note. How much your chain weighs to tie utmost card The MIMI'S of the gold, and charge for fa shio n . finszarnull. aveutriardsa, W.C., Assays made of chains end jewellery for la. owls. N.B. This establishment ts Moiled at 6 In the evening, and on Saturdays et 1 o clock. (VERA and ECA.C.K GLASSY'S, by NICGRITTI ll and ZkIIBILL, tla. and ant, In kath aass. with rook 117151 Mears, or in aluminises, 6 ohms and sperarda So be bad only at then tour establishments, I, Elation-gardas W. occubat ; 121, Ragent.otreet ; and 163,1,1•86-011. M. LONDO N must have a, GENTLEMAN'S SU Mat and MUSIC ItOO3I.—"IVANS." attar Alfred Yolk:4i' Ooacvrts. IT he expreoo. TO 00MISTONDINTI. Advertisements intended tor The barest London liveable , must be at the Ocoee. 10, Boaverieotreet, by Tere fl:k on the day of publication. HAYMARKET. 7.1 W vwwG. TUE BOSE'S FISHWIFE. MIN Howard —YHA LADY OF LYONd. Mr. W. Montormary aad Min tA.—And I XION. Ron. Lewis Wtrallaid. Mr. lonia; Mr. Mimbes ; Missed Maitland. Howard, Cavendish. and Pelham. PRINCESS& RIART-BTRINGS AND ISIDDLZSPRINER .—ALLIGI NA POGUE. Mows. D. SQUAWS. J. Diouthaas. R. Yom. D. fisher. D. Murray, &Was. Mizies : D, leackaali sad Hlll H. OUvor.—Aud Alt AMPLE APOLOGY. SLIT AN NIL. Tins Eviairso, THE CONFXOUATE'S DAUGHTER, Mho B.lll4:sand Miss Butter. - Carl 4.74antrell and Dtpple.-11r. and Mrs.Blated. -The Bleating Family. -And JILLOUT AND BLOOM. lir. Drummond Mn L Yarn°ld. HIGH WAT AT LONDON-111=GL Me DAT Wroth& S. 460 11541110011, 411. 511. 1041011.11011 Mandag. 411. lem Aitionsook LONDON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 24. IPRESS, THURSDAY FA:STRING, AUGUST 44, 1885. .' :PRI the subject, as the present system is based on the rules of the Stock Exchange, which have not force 41 law, but are simply the customs of a trade which has never been legalised. In the present state of Trench commode,' legislation it is impossible to oresee what will be the decision of the judges. THE NAVAL FETES AT BR3IST. (fort ova erscur. LATHS! 0111114101111 CS - • TRVILZEIW/G:HOLSTIIIN QUILSTION. SALZBIIIII, Mauer 24. FROM PARIS. Ma ova ova NIVIIIIIN TlLiGliabUkk The negotiations for the final setlement of the question of the succession to the duchies have not yet led to any results u far as the most important points are concerned. The Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia have agreed that a conference of the ministers of both powers should continue the negotiations. Herr von Bismarck will acoompany the King of Prussia on his journey to Munich. Nairn Aberdeen WWI ..... Ardroesan Gremsenetle Valentin Cope I I verpoul Beet VOriont v ()chattel Plymosth Weymouth Portsmouth f smooth Scarboroupw. Obtains elloolend r . ) PARIS, WZDNIMDA Ethrmrs This morning's Moniteur contains the law on syndicates, or speaks' associations, applioable to the proprietors and contractors for public works, such as embankments, draining of marshes, drain age, irrigation, 4to. M. Paulin Limayrac again heads the Constitution nef in type which seems to say, " Let no dog bark," with an article on coalitions. It is too long for reproduction, and admits of easy condensation, which is a distinguishing merit of M. Limaythe's compositions. The law which permits coalitions is, no one denies, a vain pble reform favourable to the f reedom of labour. If, as is said, it be not complete, he answers that no law in these days of rapid change can be regarded as perfect. This cri ticism he would, therefore, be willing to accept, but the right of meeting is claimed as the corollary to the right of coalition, and he knows too well what that means to accept it at any price. It would only endanger the advance which has been gained. The education of the workman is still too backward to enable him to exercise the right of meeting. The proof of it lies at band in the conduct of the committee of typographers, who refuse the right of labour to women. The punish ment of the so-called delegates of the hackney-' coachmen was inflicted, not because they were delegates, but because they were not really dele gates. The right of appointing delegates has been exercised on a large scale, and its abuse has been punished only in one ease. The law of coalitions is both liberal and just, but it is not yet under stood. This will come with time, and for the present M. Limayrac exhorts his readers to seek, without preconceived notions, the means of facili tating a great experience ; and, as good things can not be repeated too often, the article concludes with a reuewal of the proposal to publish periodically the rates of labour in the different trades. The position of surgeons in our navy has from time immemorial occupied public attention. It may, therefore, interest some of your readers to know what their treatment is in the French navy according to the last regulations. There are in all 492 surgeons of all ranks in the French navy, without counting the apothecaries. The lowest rank is that of aide-medecin (assistant -surgeon), of whom the number is fixed at 120. These places are gained by competitive examination, and the age of entry is fixed between 18 and 23. An assistant-surgeon cannot be in charge of a ship containing more than 150 men, and that only by a special decision of the minister. tip to 180 men a surgeon of the 2nd class is appointed, but above this only those of the Ist class can bare the command-in-chief of the surgery. The rank of 2nd class surgeons is gained by the possession of a diploma of doctor of medicine, and by a certain number of years ef service ; their number is 200. For the let class three years' navi gation is necessary ; these are 125. There are be sides 32 chief surgeons (midecins principaux), 12 professors attached to naval hospitals, 10 midecins en chef, and 5 directors and inspectors. Advance ment is gained both by competition and for services rendered, the justice of which arrangement is self evident, for many of the most deserving and labo rious may be retained for years on distant stations, where no chance of presenting themselves for examination is offered them, but the examina tion is imperative for the rank of assistant-surgeon, 2nd class surgeon, and 2nd class professor. Those of the Ist class will be appointed henceforward one half by competition, the other half for services. The highest pay is 12,000 fr., and this is only given to the inspector-general; the surgeons en chef re ceive 5,000 fr.; the Ist class, 4,000 fr.; the 2nd class, 3,0001 r.; and the assistants only 1,200 fr. Our navy surgeons may have to complain both of their pay and their treatment on board, but so far as pay goes they are certainly better off than those in the service of France. The government has made its annual diatribn tion of works of art to the museums, and of re ligious pictures to the churches of the departments end colonies. These are works bought by the government at the annual exhibitions, or ordered from the artists whom it is wished to patronise. The painters of great historical pictures would in fact have no chance of living but for the market thus opened. With the present architecture in France, where, as Lady Mary Wortley said. an apartment consists of two closets and a cupboard, no one can find room for anything but miniatures and statuettes. Hence the vogue of the Pradiers and Meiesouniers. The Tribunal of Commerce has held its last sitting in the Bourse. After the vacation it will take possession of the splendid palace built for it in the Isle of the City opposite the Conciergerie. The president took leave, in tender language, of the rooms which for 49 years have sheltered the useful labours of the court and been illustrated by the presence of so many eminent men. They were very iuconvenient, but M. Berthier proved himself a man of the world who does not take final leave of an old acquaintance without some civil speeches to hide his joy at getting rid of her. The evening papers announce that the Emperor and Empress slept last night at Meyringeu, and will return to Fontainebleau to-morrow evening. Some of them remark on the silence of the Moni teur regarding his recent movements, as if they grudged him this little " outing." There are also speculations as to the cause of M. de Persigny'e remaining in Paris, when he ought to be pre siding over the Council-General of the Loire. The reason has not been published, but the fact is that he found it impossible to separate himself from his speech, which he was forbidden to take with him, as it is well known that if he had had it in his carpet bag he would have found or made an opportunity of pronouncing it. It bad been rumoured that M. Ponsard, the author of the successful comedy 11014elet4T et Argent, was danger ously ill. This evening it is stated on authority that though he has been slightly indisposed at Vienne, his usual residence, he has never been con fined to his room. The fetes of Cherbourg and Brest, which have created so much interest in England, have occupied comparatively little space in the Paris press. This is natural ; the navy is lees popular in France than the army, and no fetes really excite the interest of the democracy but those at which the Emperor is present. Tess MARCH or ASTILLRRY TROY Maow TO The Bourse has been very dull, although there KIRCHER—This morning a parlimosetary return was limed has been a slight advance on nearly all descriptions of the Glacial oorreepondence relating to the disesteem of securities. Renter have u nprove d 6e. , en d march of a detachment of artillery from Mhow to Kirchee. Credit Mobihe' r 7fr. 50c. The want of activity was PRINTING FOR Mt PUBLIC DEPARTH From a parliamentary return Mimed this morning it sp. ascribed to the fall in Consols and the fear that these pears th at the amount paid fee printing (exeloniee 0 4 will be an advance in the Bank of England rate of paper) for the public departinects In the United Kingdom discount to-morrow. Since the beginning of the and the ooletlia by her MatkoeYY-oilloe in the month there have been about 27,000 Mobilise and year waded 31at December, 1864, was 88.6334 13.. 2d. Tbis 34,000 Nord d'Epagne discounted. This prevents in examinee ef the east of prieting exeented seder the speculative sales. It is said that the legality of this ceders of the two homes of millrace*. and of the coat of tan rep „ tu scd pap er s pfematia to m u m ." b y system of discounting will be brought before the Ispriutiegar Ns swarm& courts of law. There seems to be some doubt on BREST, Tommy Roams% AUGUR 22. The English fleet arrived yesterday, and had splendid weather for its entrance into the harbour. It was sighted at sea as early as 8 o'clock, and at 9 it passed Cape St. Matthew, fifteen miles off; under steam and canvass. The fleet, greatly diminished by the separation from it of the wooden frigates at Cherbourg, now consists of only the following : Edgar, bearing the admiral's flag, Commodore Hornby ; Defence, Captain Phillimore ; Hector, Captain Preedy ; Achilles, Captain Vansittart ; Prince Consort, Captain Willes ; Black Prince, Captain Lord F. Kerr ; the yachts Osborne and Enchantress, and the despatch boats Salamis and Trinculo—in all, one wooden two-decker, five ironclad frigates, two yachts, and two despatch boats. Sir Anthony Perrier, the English consul, in a gunboat bearing the English flag, went out some distance to meet the squadron. It was about 11 o'clock when the Edgar, passing the Porzic lighthouse, left the passage called the Goulet and entered the harbour. The exchange of salutes then began, and the first shot was the signal for a general rush of the inhabitants of Brest to the cliffs. ♦ great many had indeed been there on the look out from an early hour, but after being wearied by repeated postponements the general public did not seem to expect the arrival quite so soon as it took place. The morn ing was an unusually beautiful one for Brest., and seemed made on purpose for the occa sion. Instead of the familiar damp muggy atmos phere, there was a deep blue sky, with light fleecy clouds, and • refreshing summer breeze. The echoes of the cannonading in the rocks, the rushing and shouts of the multitudes, the music of mili tary bands, and the hurrying to and fro of belated naval and civil officers of rank in full uniform, and not knowing exactly where to go, formed a most animated and exciting ensemble. And yet truth compels me to say that, the first thrill of curiosity over, the feeling among the French here is one of disappointment. The Ocean, though, like the other local journal, the A rmoricain, it has been working might and main and almost frantically to make the most of the feta, uses the very word "disappointment." Such tremendous puffs preliminary were circulated long ago, and oon tinually repeated, about the unparalleled and ma jestic "spectacle" that would be seen atßrest, and so many thousand people have come immense distances to see it, that as the time for the fulfilment of the ' programme approached the ancients of the town felt a nervous anxiety lest the whole thing should be voted • failure and a deception. They are now appalled at thinking how far the dazzling promises made have failed of realization. The original idea was that the united English and French squadrons were to come here in company from Cherbourg, join the Mediterranean squadron under Vioe-Admi ral Bouet-Villaumez, and then perform "evolu tions" together. It was even frequently said that Russian, Austrian, Italian, and Spanish ships would be here to take part in a great maritime congress of peace and fraternity. Now, only look at the shortcomings ! The Dauphin seism on which I was a passenger, is the only French ship here from Cherbourg. No foreign ships of war, except the English, are here at all. The Russian navy is represented by an admiral without a ship—Rear- Admiral Gregory Boutakov, whose face is well known in Portsmouth, and who came from Cher bourg in the Edgar, as a guest of Admiral Decree. As to evolutions, there seems to have been the utmost pains taken that there should be none. The grand, the magnificent, the unheard of spectacle consists, after all, in this, that five English iron-dads and one wooden two-decker, accompanied by a couple of despatch boats and a couple of steam yachts, steam into Breit harbour, cast anchor by the side of a French squadron, remain foe four days, and then go away again by themselves. This is certainly not the spectacle that the crowds of strangers here "came out for to see." The official dinners may be very good and very sociable, the ball on the Ville de Lyon, for which 3,000 invitations are issued, will no doubt be very brilliant, and bring together some of the best society in Brittany, as well as French and English naval officers ; but for the million, when once they have seen the little knot of English ships at anchor and visited one or two of them, if they can afford the considerable expense of a boat for the purpose, there is nothing to amuse them but boat races. VOYAGE FROM THIS DMZ OF WIGHT TO NOTTING uax.—Ack extraordinary feat of navigetion hos jest been performed by a young men named Samuel Smith, aged 24, a native of Button-on-the-Wolds, a village distant some seven miles from Nottingham. Mr. Smith was formerly employed by Mr. Plummer, gardener to Mies Preen, Stan dard-bill, and left about three years ago. Mee thee he had been employed in various capacities. He was engaged cook on board a collier from use of the northern porta to the Thames, and with this eruption he bee had no oppor tunity of knowing anything of seamanship. Latterly he was employed sea labourer oe the Isle of Wight fortifica tions ; prudent he saved as much money out of his earnings as sufficed to purchase a boat, sod be employed his leisure hours in fining. This year, feeling desirous of seeing his father and mother, sod being unwilling to spend his money in railway fere, he conceived the notion of making the trip to Nottingham is his fishing boat. Had be hese a more experienced mum* be would have shrunk from the experiment, under any circumstance, perilous and Were, but with the weather be had to encounter, dangerous in the extreme. He had • companion of his voyage, a prudent Sootahmen„ who was serious to see his relatives in Aberdeen. The boat is only 14 feet in the keel l aid 5 feet Jo the beam ; the rig is simply • sprit end mainsail. There is so deck, and the few stores sad change lof clothing which the daring navigators took with them were stowed away in a rough sea-chest which Mr. Smith knocked together from some old boards, and which he placed amidships under the thwarts. Ou the lat of August the start was effected from a marine village sear Stedown, sod, despite the fearful weather that prevailed, Hall wee made oil the 14th of August In many instances Mr. Smith sal his companion kept the open see when sihooners and imn:pies MIT* obliged to rue for shelter. They landed at Dover, Margate, and Lowestoft foe water, and enjoyed themselves at sight-seeing. But their only lodging mime, lea well as afloat, was in the little boat. Them slumbers were not always the most mineable, as the couch war ' the lid of the seasthest or the bottom el the host, and the corselet a piece of canvas. On several roomier a, she. woes oat with fatigue, Mr. Smith hay down le snatch a few hours' rest ; the passing thunder was his lullaby, and on waking be found himself anima Stating ha water. The difficulty of the voyage was enhanced by the abeam* of a comprise. The voyagers steered by the sae is the daytime, and by the polo star et night ; bat when thick weather pre vailed they had to atom by guess-work. Freqnsetly they were in danger of being driven on a les shoes, end they were twirls grounded oe seadbaisks. Throughout all, the stout little craft behaved admirably, Mr. Smith's companion left him at Hall, and from t hat port to Nottingham Mr. Smith pulled his brave little bark up the Trut unaided, save for about 12 miles at this side of Geineborassls, where be was taken In tow by a barge laden with Sour sad timiser. I The boat is named Rover. and is now moored elf Mr. Siva keg's wharf. below the Treat-bridge, where she is ma abject of much interest to mil who ban heard of the soccessfel voyage her owner secemplished In her. The leg of the trip must be a carious desamset, and we expect to be far ' aided with it io a few days—lfotterikaes Guardian. A CArai or GOLD.—la very sploodid oaks of go/d, got from the Prises Alfred Oompany's claim, Vetoes Reef, Bendico, will be exhibited la the window el Mame. Rallis sad Batten's ales, Oelliesotrestmest, dreier the aeon day er two. It weighs ekes as 1,20115 e, mod its value is wady 6,0001.-1 f see PRUSSIA. BERLIN. Amore 24. The Grand Duke of Oldenburg arrived here on the 22nd inst., and left again to-day. The duke is travelling incognito. tßzurries lamas.) THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S VISIT TO SWITZERLAND. BERNE, AUGUST 22. The Emperor and Empress of the French have left the Castle of Areneuberg. They arrived at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, by steamer, in Schaffhausen, wkere they were received by a deputation from the government of the Canton and the authorities of the town. Pre sident Ammann thanked the Emperor for the friendly feeling his Majesty had displayed to w►rds Switzerland, in replying to which the Em peror referred to the protection formerly extended to him by the Confederation. The Shaffhausen cadets formed line at the landing-place of the pier. After the reception the imperial pair drove through the town in an open carriage to the railway sta tion, whence they departed, at half-past 1, by special train to Lucerne. The Emperor only stopped about a quarter of an hour In Zurich. His Majesty is said to have spoken in terms of high ►pproval of the excellent accom modation provided by the railway. The imperial pair will pass the night at Lucerne. It will depend upon the state of the weather whether his Majesty will then traverse the Britnig Pass into the Bemuse Oberland, or return direct, by way of Otten, to France. Upon the 20th instant the Emperor and Empress embarked from Ermaliegen on board the steamer Arenenberg for a abort excursion upon the Bodensee. His Majesty is reported to have been much affected upon finally quitting Arenenberg, and to have left with the authorities a present of 30,000 fr. for the use of the parish. AMERICA. SOU riikIIPTON. Aims? 24. The North German Lloyds' ste.unship New York, from New York, has arrived here with 285 passengers and 20,000 dole. in specie for Bremen. She left New Yurk on the 12th August at 4 p.m., and during her passage spoke the following ships : August 12, steam-ship Kangaroo and Hamburg schooner Elizabeth, arrived at New York. August 13, America ship Orient, iu lat. 40.28 N., long. 69.30 W., bound westward. August 12, at noon, iu lat. 40.30 N., and long. 68.56 W., steam-ship Bremer], bound westward, all well on board. August 18, City of Baltimore, iu lat. 48.10 N., and lung. 46.51 W., bound westward. August 22, iu lat. 49.39 N., and long. 10.56 W., the Eugli2,ll barques Lord Elgin and Miles Standish, bound eastward. THE STEAMBOAT COLLISION ON LAKE HURON.—DETAILS OF THE CATASTROPHE. DETROET, Accuse 11. A collision occurred between the steamboats Pewabic and Meteor, at half-past G o'clock on Wednesday evening, six miles from shore. The Pewabic was struck on the port bow, just aft the pilot house, and sank in three or four minutes. The boats were running at full speed, and struck with such terrible force as to =eh in the entire bow of the Pewabic. At the time the accident occurred it was scarcely dark, and the boats saw each other six miles apart. When approaching, they exchanged signals, and the Pewabic bore off to pass ; but the Meteor, for some unexplained reason, turned in the same direction and struck the Pewabic. A number of the passen gers on board the Pewabic were killed by the crush ing of her timbers. A few jumped on board the Meteor before the Pewabic sunk. Lifeboats were immediately lowered from the Meteor, and picked up those who were not carried down with the wreck. One hundred and seventy-five to two hundred persons were on board the l'ewabie at the time of the disaster. Seventy-five of the passengers and twenty-three of the crew were saved. The loss of life cannot be correctly ascertained as yet, but it must be nearly 100. The Meteor remained near the scene of the dis aster till morning, in the hope of picking up any persons that might be still floating on pieces of wreck, but none were found. The propeller Mohawk paining down, the sur vivors were transferred to her from the Meteor and brought to this city. The Meteor was but slightly injured, and con tinued her trip to Lake Superior. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) THURSDAY. AUGUST SA, SA.X. 20.89531 E.K.E 51. 589 E. 6 11 ,1 29.81 89.85 59 E. N.& 49.68,4 W. 29.761011 K. 89.07,59. ENE. 29.71 Oli 29.80;08 89.80 81. 8. 29.88 68 N.W. . 29.76 84; 13. W. • 29.7384 1 w. . 29.78 81, W. . 12.77 69. W. .2971'62, N. .2973'60 E.N.E. . 0.84'80 N.E. I I). I. It. 8. ;lt \.I:N. r 0 o 010 5 7 3 1.-- N.M. 00 i — 1 3 K. el. 1 Z.N.E. islo 'O.Ol 1 B.s.W. I ro 0.40 1 W. I r 0.74 3 Z.N.K. I re . • 1 EN.E. i or 0.12 3 W. I c 1 2 WA. W. c•— I 0 I W.S W. c I 8 V W. cf '0.04 3 B.W. rb 1.35 3 Z. oe 0.23 3 W.S. W. re • 0.00 2 E 8.8. re 1.23 - &Sal. r.. 0.i.0 4 8.F.. te —i 3 E cl.. I 4 • PROWILL ON .NORIIINIIN SAITRDAY. COABITI. W. to N. and N.f-, fresh to moderate. FRIDAY. N.N.E. W W.N.W., fresh, Really, some showers. N.N. to N.W. Sod W Wisfißlt. W. to N. sod hack, fresh, squally to fresh to moderate. moderate, some rain. W.R.W. to N.N.W., SOL - Mut& Chiefly northwesterly, fresh, squally fresh, generally fine. to N.W., fresh to Masre.as. As next above. moderate. Northern , - - Scelland. Western=ireland. Wales, and adja cencies. flonthern=Bnallsh Channel and Bay of Biscay. Eastern. Eastward Bagland and North Bee. ----., IXTBAORDINABY CASE ER,. OF ALLEGED cal MU 14 A protracted inquiry WM held by m t. j , Humphreys, Middlesex Coroner , last night, at yin, Bear Tavern, Lemsa-street, Whitechapri, 'nee death, by 'unposed wilful niffocitioa, of tlbs , 44 01114 child of Mary Palmer. "ws The eiretuneemose elicited in evidence were o f what singular character, and in the course of the lugs a suspicion arose that another child, aged --"s u had been made away with. tea ; Mahal Altai, 19, Gnat Pear-coast, Wlffeele.d that Mary Palmer was a married woman, pa servant at the weal-end. On Sunday last die railed 1 7 4 house and handed him &brown paper pared. Be rn know what it contained. She aired him to les taker a b o ut burying a child. He said " Ware 7' child!' She answered "I bare given the child ya buried," when witness, to whom she had Om it " You know what the paper parcel cont ains,' Be opened it aped found that it contained the body Of a ( i x and he felt like a man paralysed. Ana Altai mid that Mrs. Palmer warn &eared o h child hi bee bales five years ago. Was it as ef.,,„, months old she took it away, saying that she was phi" send it to bee greed/nether in America. She did B A:. by what ship sae was pie. to send it, or what fam„," l aim to take it. The child might be dead for all knew. Witeees had aver seen it, or heard of it mica . Detective W. Chandler said that, on Tuesday ei g it half-past 11 o'clock, he went to the White Sel i g how, Whitechapel. Ha was informed by My, • the manager of the public-house, that Mrs. Palmer there as cook wider the name of Mary Gram m .. was thee out, but she returned at 1.2 o'clock, sad eib; took her into custody. Mr. Aldridge thee asted to come out of the room, but witness said, "Th. must bear all you have got to say." if:. then said. " You know what those thine us twain man and man ; met we square Ude' nese said, "Certainly not," and conveyed his pip s k the police statical. She wee theses carried to the Raw Infirmary, where she I. a 1 prima in custody, In*, the surgeon's are. While at the police-etatice da, that the child was born in a cab while going to Aim Louse on Sunday morning. Mr. J. S. Watts, licensed victualler, Ladled of a i White Swan, said that it would have bees imam% ► the accused to be absent from his 110111 mlt o'clock on Saturday night, even though his maseger.}. Aldridge, might have connived at it. Waage a l impacted that die was in the family way. She heed in Mr service three years. Mr. Alfred B u dget", surgeon, said that he was calla' Altos's house in Gina Pear-court on Sunday mess I, see a sick woman. The Altos. told him that the e a bad bees given to se undertaker. The same ay is banded a child very neatly and elemly dose ap la a hp paw prod. Even if the mother had euplied heed* brown paper ands Ades, it would have ban Obi possible to have delivered herself in a sub and mad e the child as he saw it. She herself told him that she been delivered at 12 o'clock the previous (Samar) di is Altos's halve in the presence of Mrs. Alas. Dr. J. C. Budgett deposed that the child as s( grown one, and was remarkably healthy. It was a rat child. It had lived ; the lip were livid aid black m I from pressure. Death bad been caused by offficatim. Mr. Budgat, jun., said that be had hem told hy Palmer that she had sent her other child to Iran& rh said nothing about its being in America. The Outcast said that the ease had assumed a vaginas aspect. It was proved that the new-bora child Wei suffocated. Hs should adjourn the inquiry, to Ps a detectives time to discover what had Poems of the die child of the prisoner. The proceedings were then adjourned. THE " HOME OP COMPASSION." At the the Marlborough-street Police-court y Dr. Lankesier, the coroner for the ceutral district,' Ili Mese', attended before Mr. Knox, for the mew if el log attention to en ailvertitemeut which had syserniit the Morning Poet, IPA follows :—" Home of Commie Oskiercreecent, City-road, patron the Earl of DMus* established for the reception of foundling childres mini mothers. —Funds are greatly needed to relieve the mums applications from ell parts. Dr. leak/Mee. the ereasw(eisi w d i e , on the committer), the Morning Post, and Daily Norm* highly of the endeavour to stop the mined I c hild-murder. Any amount eratefully eckso ky the assistant secretary, Mr. Thomas Pam, No. 6, street, Greenwich." He had with him a guile= who was prepared to state that the Home has slid hes bad an existence. He had so kw* of the Home whatever, and had never heard of lira Parry, of Burney-street. He believed the advertiser' was only an attempt to get rii• nay from the man. lh gentleman present, who was connected with an imeleliad a bona fide character, would prove that no Home adad end es hi, (Dr. Laithestert's) same had bees used, 641 it was his duty to emus forward and disclaim all ime of the advertisement. Mr. John Allen ' of No. 8, Little Woodalocketmelme of the St. Joseph' , Society, Marylebose, Meted UM 6 society had an institution for repressing infaMiskie s 6 its charge. Dr. Leakiest . said Mr. Allen was well bums tea. Mr. Allen said he went to Mr. Pony, and mind* I he wee secretary of the Home in Oakleyeameent, Nth said he was. He asked if the Home was is Oskleyesinst and he replied it was. He gave Mr. Perry it 61..1 asked him to give the name of the lady saperier. It Parry maid he did not know, neither could he tell therein of the inmates in the alleged " Home." Hewes dank Parry • list of subscribers, but he would not let Wu he it, as it was the only one, Parry said, he bed, threeslik negligence of the printer. He noticed that Dr. Laden" , same was on the list es one of the committee. Mr. NM promised to seed him a list, but had sot dames. la 6 course of ontiversatioe, Parry said there had Imellsail articles in the Daily Nero and other ioursale advsmil the " Home." After leaving Mr. Parry he made Mgrs. and the result wee that there hod lees some " limn of the kind somewhere, but never io OaklepanceMil that the Home bad already caused to exist. He ash s application to Mr. Maude at the Greenwich rain 4o4 and Mr. Mande told him that had he spoken to his WI of the court be should have said it was a swisdle. HO advertiseirmoth in some of the local papers mood% IN subscriptions might not be sent for the Hoene. Mr. Knox thought Dr. Lsnkseter'e end would le le attainel by the publicity which his statemset of el appeared nothing hem than a fraud would ressimi TEE ALLEGED lIIIRDER AND kiTZYPTID MICE At Bxergaerw.—The investigation into the eireminase of the alleged murder by polio!, of William Ault, as 061 J, aged 5 weeks by . his mother, Mary Aso Aslit Ike herself of the crime and eodaavoured to mu& smelt was lut night resumed and concluded by Mr. W.OO O the coroner for Surrey, at the Wand swor th aniesims Mra. Ann Howell, with whom the wand 100; Y G. B. Shaw, from whose surgery she bought. *WO daughter, a penayworth of laudanam; Yr. G. ilhaw,ehle celled in as a surgeon immediately after the enmeeldsal w tration of poison ;aod Dr. Pettigrew, furies hipmemeist Polios-oustable Stirliog said that Mrs. Ault was stil florsemonger-lane Gaol under remand, charged will' 111 murder of her child, and with attempting to concur rib by bisogirg herself. Shona , seemed to be quite Wiwi The little girl. Mary Ault, whore stated hestbseoMo surprised the coroner on Friday Vat, said tha t father " never told her nothitie sisa. ad lie kW nothing about another world, sod bad never mid a PP or knew the differeece between right and wrist. Ik e donee, therefore, could not be taken. The renew „as that though no doubt the mother intended to kill tiodol by administering laudanum, yet the medical miasma wl conclusive that she had failed in musing death kf meson, and abe oould not be charged with lb* OM Williamry found the following verdict, "That * 66 . Ault, died from natural mute sod set fwe poison." Fattotrrrin SUICIDE ris TIIE Isis 07 NIX -4 inquest wee held at Douglas on Mond a y last, 114 es I M o nslf b iMr i lum ping out of s. °l a wb :toriss ima hisba bilailli Cumberland Tavern, Jaisee's-street, Destogi eight. From the evidence of M r. Quirk, the beillasil *OO brother-in-law of the deemed, A enquired that months pest the deceased bad been rushing Is hiss. and his intellect had become affected. Os SatuVE: he went to the Cumberland T .ver n abut 8 o . after partaking of emu refreshment he retired is room at the top of the house. lo • few mina* oftw7i however, he was seen mooing out into the sweetie dressed state, and he had gone ,one distanen he wee overtaken. Be was persuaded " "l jai bed in the IMMO room, and there drawled he wail left aloes few minutes afterwards be a rose, the mahimssif hal o' person's clothes which were hanging in n (*din to throve' eat el a rogs down which was open, and f ell headiest istw "".r• He died in • few minutes. The deceased uses te sidereble property, about 55 years of sr. wad 7gli Owing to his eareotrie habits during the hit his family had intended to apply to the astisontimi island ow Tuesday for a commission of Meaty to his state of mind would justify big confiammet is 6 asomo rpm. The jury r eturned a verdict t hat the nutted suicide while in • state of usisoned mind- PILCRAZDS.—The Cornish fishermen has nj got fairly to work. and in the week flailed on lfaskf i ri fortune attended the labours of a lar g e MM. The drift boats are much mere m ummer eY ~ te•-., year. and there are two or throe new semis. At 91.! nearly 240 hogsheads of floe pilchard' were taker on while two other wines each took about 200 neP . • Cawesod upwards of 300 borbleds we re tam ' fed e week, and the quality was particularly good. The m .' a n d bemight ashore on Thursday horn 3,003 to ikon; and oe Friday from 3,700 to 4.501 The esteca_WM to Mevergiesey were out ie per on Friday; the atirtri during the week took from 500 to 2,000 per ms ` 7 0 .."1 Monday the obis'. were from 9, 000 down Ives boats have hitherto been oneueegsdni. tb. cratels of say boat being 3,000, and these woe lekes,7" fire league o. Ready sale hal bun feud fir liw o r , shards. and it is said there are soros naususfil V ol 0 nsimioes for the London market. The peat west avenged from la. 6d. to la. U. Wm"' The ban l oom Ns wasioV i g a 1Z a s a a ro IR iliaAadYr a A lob =:1 4 2 . 7 Demobs' A. . . r -- ems A" Ms. Cli Wawa *ad ei ISWIII, W 1 lard dr g , ?E, •ad ilaea ( 11 OS WM on wbat Uvalde tie SON amber pull tb• 'Om Wheats I .101 I has *WI .04 16 hum Hiskes El lie OA I se floyebs Wilk .1 tee. -won who Me mom T. Is• Is ma wits OM ; Roll