The Express. — London, England, 1861-10-05 00:00:00

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A late edition of the Express is published every eventag during the racing season, containing the results of the day's now Ter world, it is said, knows nothing of its greatest men ; and it seems that the county of Middlesex is likely to remain in comparative igno• ranee of its most self-denying and laborious ben.- factor. We refer to the generous individual who has undertaken to purge the electoral list of all voters sloes qualifications are in any degree doubtful or obscure. The name and local habi tation of this disinterested patriot are, indeed, vaguely known, or have been hypothetically assumed in order to facilitate the progress of his great work. He is said to be known amongst mortals as JOHN ANTHONY COATIS, and his mun dane residence is described by his legal represen tative as being in " the parish of Tottenham, in " the Enfield district." But, after all, these trivial particulars, though perhaps technically necessary to meet the exigencies of a prosaic oourt, are far below the true dignity of the sub ices. It not to toot a gut norse Ht the mouth, surely, when a superior power graciously interposes in our behalf, we need not be exacting* such impertinent particulars as the name and addrom And when we consider Cosves' labours, it is per fectly clear that ho must be a second Heacutes, a hero or demigod at least. If he appears for a moment in Mr. :4341T11 . 31 office as an ordinary man engaged in a stupendous feat of penmanship, the mythical hero is sour recognised as the mighty task proceeds. Mr. SMITH, speaking perhaps a little loosely, describes the cloud-compelling GOATrs as coming .sp to town at his request, but in strict accuracy it is clear he ought rather to have been represented as coming down to this dim and smoky region. What he did there may soon be told. Joint ANTHONY COATI.' commenced his labours on the 20th of August, and concluded them on the afternoon of the 24th. In that short interval be formally objected to upwards of four thousand electors for the county of Middlesex, and as each protest required four signatures, he signed his name iu full more than 10,000 times. If we attempt to realise the work as that of an ordinary man, what a noble picture does it present ! This devoted apo stle of electoral purity writing for dear life, day after day, from dawn to noon, from noon to dewy eve, till the mighty list was exhausted ! The op posing attorney might be excused for doubting whether mere human nerve and mum* were equal to the effort- Many, no doubt, will share the natural scepticism, sod be ready to assert that none but a Itemises could have possibly accom plished the task. Some indeed use. profane enough * doubt the very existence of COATI& It was perfectly natural, therefore, that everybody into. Tasted in the matter should be most anxious to see the great Objector-Oeneral. The opposing attor ney demanded his presence in court. The Revis ing Barrister ordered him to be produced, while the crowd outside clamoured for his appearance. The excited electors and those who sympathised with them were most noxious to express their sense of the services COATS' had rendered them, and had he appeared, there can be little doubt they would have done so in a rather demonstrative way. But the patriotism of the great objector was only equalled by his modesty. He shrank from encountering the peculiar and significant welcome that awaited him. Having done good on so large a scale by stealth, he blushed to find it fain*, and resolutely declined to recognise it hiniesU or receive any appropriate acknowledgment from others. Fortunately, all the wholesale objectors are not equally mythical or equally retiring. Two of the great Conservative objectors -general have ap peared, and we must say their appearance has rather rudely dissipated the halo of constitutional zeal and civic patriotism that surrounded them. When actually produced in court, they sank to very small proportions indeed. According to their own confession, they are simply the ignorant and mercenary tools of partisan attorneys. In this City Court, yesterday, one of these great ob jectors, Mr. MOLTON, frankly acknowledged that he had signed all the notices in blank, without knowing what was going to be done with them. The evidence of this ingenuous gentleman is ma curious and in structive, and throws so much light on the general policy of his employers that it is worth quoting in detail : " Mr. Morrow further stated " that, having signed the notices, be left them on " the desk in charge of a gentleman (Mr. NOILIIIe " clerk), but did not authorise him to do any " thing with them. The gentleman (Mr. NONW " clerk) had asked hint to sign • few objection " papers, and said he would give him ös. for doing " so. (Laughter.) He signed a whole heap of "them, and having received the Gs. he went " away. (Renewed laughte.ir.) He did not know " what was going to be done with them, nor did "he give any directions as to their disposal." In the Marylebone Court Mr. MARTIN, ano ther great objector-general, made substantially the same confession. He stated before the Re vising Barrister that "he had signed a great " number of these objections, several hundred; at " the instigation of Mr. HENRY Sarre, but that " the parties against whom he had objected were " totally unknown to him." No one will be sur prised that Mr. Trafteki., the Revising Barrister, should have strongly condemned such an unprin cipled proceeding as a flagrant abuse of the law. "It seemed to him," Mr. TERRELL said, " a " monstrous evil that any person should without " consideration put hundreds of the electors to "serious inconvenience and trouble in attending " these courts. He certainly would do all in his " power to carry out the Act of Parliament, and " protect the voter against this unwarrantable " system of annoyance." He accordingly decided that in futnre cases, though the objector might not appear, yet on the receipt of the notice being proved by the parties, ho would award the full amount of costs against the objector, " as having " made or attempted to sustain a groundless or " frivolous and vexatious objection." The ground of this decision obviously is, that as MARTIN, on his own cltifeesion, knew nothing of the electors against whom he protested, he was not a bormifide objector—had, in short, no real grounds of ob jection at all. The example thus set by Mr. TERRILL was virtually followed in the City Court yesterday by Mr. H o NwrN, the Revising Barrister. Mr. Hsrosoe decided that in future " he would " require strict proof respecting the signature and " services of the notices of objection before he " would consent to strike out the names of absent " parties." As it subsequently appeared that Motrox, the objector, had signed all the notices blank, Mr. HANSON decided that they were not legal notices at all, but merely pieces of paper. Thus in the Marylebone and City Registration Courts the Conservative objections have not only fallen to the ground, but the ob jectors have exposed themselves to heavy penalties in the shape of costs. This result, naturally looked upon with dismay by the defeated party, cannot but exercise the most salutary influence. It is high time that something were done to arrest the growth of this monstrous abuse. And whether the course thus pursued by these Revising Bar risters in the Metropolitan Courts is the best way of meeting the evil, or could be made generally available for its abatement, it will at least ope rate as a local and temporary check. The abuse of wholesale and reckless objections has of late increased to a degree that is fast becoming in tolerable. The real nature and extent of the evil were pointed out by the late Revising Barrister for Middlesex in words which, until something effectual is done to amend it, cannot be too often repeated : A state of thing' has now sprang up which was not con templated by the legislature, and which promises to make the register a curse to the country. The legislature intended that every voter who is possessed of a substantial qualifica tion should be at liberty to object to those whom he believes to be pos•essed of no qualifiation ; and if such objections, and such only, were made, some good might result, sod little or no harm. But no such tqing appears in practise. The objector is usually a man of straw, and possessed of a qualification which seems to have been purchased for bins with the view not so much of enabling hint to vote as of enabling him to object to other votes, and b• lends big name to s never. whose tool he is, for the purpose of indiscriminate and almost universal annoy►nce. He objects by wholesale to the names of persons of whom he knows nothing, who have been on the register for years, and whose qualification is undoubted, hoping either to weeneed in his objection by non•sttendance of the voter, or at least to escape from the payment of costa by persuading the court to make some little ►lteration in the register. This the revising barrister is made to administer actual injustice under the form of law. The honest voter, wbo wishes only to enjoy his own franchise and to annoy no one, must either lose his vote, or leave his place of business or pleasure and wait for hours at a most inconvenient place, in order to dr feed himself against the attack of a man to whom be has gives no offence, of whom he knows nothing, who holds so position in society, and whose only employment Is the anneyeace of mankind. These proceedings in the Metropolitan Courts not only confirm the truth of this statement, but must direct general attention to the present un satisfactory system of revision, and stimulate dis cussion as to the best me►ns of rendering it more effectual for the aocomplishwent of its true objects. (170111 LAST manta GAUTTI). IPOILIZON-01/1C; Ocr. 2.—The Queen hail been dto appoint the roui dK.O. and ener Majosata anabasandoe estraordioary to the King of hena, an the ossaise of his Malsety's eontnatice. Worrarneu., Ocr. i The Queen has been pleased to appoint Dal 4 Hector. Frt., advocate, to be sheriff of the seise or dterilfdote of W' and Yirlsond bright, au the rocs of Dahlia Douglea de ceased. I.IOA KO OF THAD; WHITEHALL, OCT. 2. —The Right Roo. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received from the Ssaretszy al State far Forme Affsin a copy of so edict issued by the Putt verumset, suthurisiag the free importatioe late the States of corn, maims, sod mesl of the same, sad alive oils. sad prohibiting the exportation of olive oil, as she of pron. elms of all kinds, except lupins, the ex puristic, of alma is permitted fres of duty. BOARD Or TRADE, WHITRHALL, OCT. S.—The Right Honourable the Lards of the Committee of Privy Omen fee Trade have received from the Secretary of State fee Fend. Affairs a copy of a Parterres deter, published le the Metal Galatea, authorising. aril the sod of rat Apnl. the importation of foreign wheat, rye, barley sad ern. sad elf brad rade of wheat at rye, tee s the lased dries sad rarer at Portugal, at the sere dry r satiosol gra* when shared fen aoasumption. BOARD Or MAD; WHITEHALL, OCT. 9.—The Bight Has, the Lards of the Committee of Privy Connail far Trade have nerved tress the Secretary of Star far rarely Attire espies of ernes herd by the Limbos Board of Health retests( that the sere; el Denetwera is em erald Wired with yellow fever; that the ports r Rio de Jambe. Bahia, and St. Nasaire, are seep reed el heir Wired. and that the port of Nantes is fres from infection. BOARD or TRADE, WHITEHALL, OCT. 4. —The Right Rae. the Lords of the Committee al Privy Council Per Testis her received from the Secretary of State for Tonnes Affair • at a MAW addressed by the Spanish Miaister fee ToreigeAttaha to her Matiety's Minister at the Court of Madrid, Mating that the Mester of Finance has 'treaded the privilege of exporting Spanish lead, hitherto enjoyed by Freak steamers only, to Owners of all nations; sad that On privileges wjoyed by vessels trading to the larger ports rail be granted to those visiting the port of Dort and the Bey of Javen, via., of loading the fruits of re country in Mere for thriftier', if the) are composed exclusively of articles which are allowed to be imported directly from abroad. BOARD OT TELADII, WITITZHALL, OCT. 4.—Th. sill Hon. the Lords of the Orommittes of Privy Connell ler Trade glee maim, that the lionitenr of the hid lest. issadales • lama imperial demos the port. of ilsearßbes. Beedruut, Nantes, Roue., no, flume, Beabgem CeWs, sad Buskirk. and the cuatoes-heasei - of , Reelids, LIB% Vahociennes, Mallummes, sad el mites and imam parae menufacture. The follow itgetbak Belgian articles as oily imparted ths Wend end import custom-homea open M (I). MI goods psying a duty of rwor• thesesTlP Buis per 100 kilog. ; arriages. * yin suds ehisarv, roasted or ground ; cutlery ; maim man. Ilasamas M all kiade ; manufactures of hone or cow hair, pan is akised ; elemicas ordinary "V" mad arid warm white aid cola: end ; window eau, coioand Shol_alathaa ar ongrsved glen ; ' , Biassed apnea gloms, mad an Mho Or ware sot =miaowed J 5 thaw eateiredsa 111). Nalidaes sad machinery ; maieleg halls of seayalai noel; river craft. (3). Yarns 0 1 .16 :4 lama, vicuna, and camel's hair. Yarns and times of yam of wool, Open!, lama, and vicuna, as well se yams a miners hair, eau oulv be imported sillier by ma or load !roamer in lockage.' containieg one dem:optima and clam af tame or yen). ja 3, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1861. EDt elan. BALMORAL, Oct. 3. The Queen, accompanied by Princes. Alice and Prince Louis of Hesse, and atieoded by Lady Churchill, drove yesterday to Alt-aa.Uuithesack, where ponies were in waiting, and her bliale.ty rode to Clover, returning borne the same way in the evening. The Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales went out deer-stalking. The Princess lichenlohs and Princesese Helena and Louisa dross out. Sir Charles od Miss Phipps had the honour of joiniog the royal dinner party. Mr. Itrackenbury, her Majesty's consul at Madrid, tram actud business yesterday at the F,,reign•office. ; Her Majesty • Comnaisaiouera for the International ;chi. bitioo of 1562 held a meeting at their office in the &mad yesterday. Devstehes were sent yesterday from the Colonisl•oflice to the Goveruurs of the North American provinces and Ber. muds, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. DEATH OF THE EARL OF EGLINTON, K.T. It iA with deep regret that we announce the death of the Earl of F4linton. He died yesterday morning at Mr. Whyte Melville's seat, St. Midtown, Fifeshire. It appears, front information rewired by our informant from an authentic source, that the late earl was engaged during the afternoon of Tuesday last in playing at golf, and was apparently in robust health. He dined with Mr. Melville in the evening, and exhibited his usual cheerfuluees ; but before the party separated he was seized with a fit of ape piety, which at once rendered him unconscious. In that lemeatable state be continued until his demise yesterday sensing. On Wednesday morning Lord Montgomerie and Viscount Itigestre, M.P., left fur Scathed, and sub..- queetly, on Thursday morning, Lord Rendlesham, the Mfr. sou-in-law, and the Hoe. Captain North, also de parted for the north. - The late Right Hon. Archibald William Montgoinerie, Earl of Eglinton and Lard Muntgomerie in the peerage of Scotland, and Baron Ardrussae in the United Kingdom, was the only son of Archibald Lord Motagornerie, eldest son of Hugh, 12th Earl of Eglinton, by Lady Mary, daughter and heir of Archibald, 11th Earl of Mara. He was born 2915 September, 1812, so that be had only reesetly completed his 49th year. The lamented earl was, served as heir male general of George, 4th Earl of Winton, in December, 1840, George. the sth earl, who was attainted in 1716, having left no issue. His lordship's mother afterwards married, in January, 1815, the late Sir Charles Montolieu Burgess lamb, Bart., and Knight Marshal. On the death of his grandfather, Hugh, the 12th earl, December 14, 1819, he succeeded to the honoun of the family and extensive an cestral domains in Scotland, being, as may be gathered from the above, on his accession to the title only in his eighth year. For a long series of years the Earl of Eglinton was an honourable supporter of the turf, and had at one period one of the largest and best racing studs in the country. Hi. success on the turf was considerable. In 1842 be won the St. Leger with Blue Bonnet, and in 1847 with Van Tromp, and again in 1849 with the Flying Dutch man. The Derby of 1849 was won by his lordship's last named horse, and Van Tromp won the Goodwood Cup in 1148. Shortly after the Earl of Eglinton won the cele brated match for 1,000 guineas at the York Spring Meeting, by his celebrated Flying Dutchman defeating the Earl of Zetland's Voltigeur, his lordship gave up the turf, and very seldom after attended the thief raos meetings, of which he had been formerly so distinguished a supporter. The Earl of Eglinton's name will be in after ages asso ciated with the pageant he held in August, 1839, at his castle in Ayrshire, and familiarly known as the Eglinton Tournament, at which the present Emperor of the French was one of the knights, and at which the Duchess of Somer set, then Lady Seymour, had the d i stinction to take the part of "The queen of Beauty." The late earl married, got, 17th February, 1841, Theresa, widow of Captain Richard Howe CoekereU, KN., and slaughter of Mr. Charles Newcomen, by whom he leaves surviving issue, Archibald Wm. Lord Xontgomerie, lady Egida,born 17th December, 1843,and married a few mouths tack to Lord Rendlesbam ; the Hon. Seton Montelise, born in May, 1846 ; and the Hoo. George A. Montgoinerle, born in February, 184& His lordship married, secondly, in 1888 (hie grit countess dying in I)seemlser, 185 A), Lady Adele Camel, only daughter of the Earl and Countess of Essex, who died soddenly in Edinburgh on the 31st of last De cember. The Pod of Winton was a firm supporter of the conserva tive party. The late Sir Robert Peel, on the death of the Bari of Glasgow, appointed him Lord• Lieutenant of Ayr shire; and in 18.'12 the Earl of Derby selected him to 411 the high post of Lord-Lieutenant of Ire• land, a situation in which he won much popularity. In the early part of the Earl of Aberdeen's ministry that eminent statesman presented him with the Order of the Thistle. He was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University in November, 1852, and was Colonel of the Ayrshire Militia from 1836 to 1852, when be resigned. The lamented peer is succeeded in the earldom by hie eldest son Lord Moutgomerie, born 3rd December, 1841. His lordship has been some few years in the Royal Navy as midshipman, but we believe has rehuquished the idea of adopting it u a profession. The families of Viammet sad Vimmunreas Ingmar*, the Hon. Captain sad Mrs. North, Sir Charles and Lady Lamb, Lord and Lady Rendleshans. and several others of rank are placed in mourning by the demise of his lordship. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary return to St. Jame. Palace on the 10th init. from Germany. Thier Highnesses the 1 3 rinoes Constantine and Marcel ezartoryeki base left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn street, on their return to Puts and Vienna His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Counter de Flehault and Mir Elphinetone de Ilehanlt return to Coventry Howe on or about the 10th inst. frown Talliallan, Scotland, when they have been receiving coin. Plum _ _ The Marquis of Clanricarde has taken a resi dence in Strattonetreek Piooadilly, for a term of years. The Marchioness of Westminster and Lady Theodora Grosvenor, from Alswick Castle, and Lord Richard Granrecor and the Has. Mr. Stuart Wortley, from Strom tin, Any Maim arrived at Greenock on Tuesday, and preeseded to Ardgowan OD a Vila to Sir Minimal and Ladr (Mavis Shaw Stewart. Lord Enfield passed through Greenock lut Wed doodah oa his way from Ardgowaa to the south. The Kul and Counted; of Erroll are expected at t►eir meanion N Grafton-street in a few days from Slalom halls, Aberdeenshire. nil Countess of Yarborough and Lady Sophia Mom have arrived at 'baby Hall, Liacolushire, from • tsar ma the Coati•eat. Viscountess Jocelyn leaves Weimer Castle to-day as a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston at Broadlands. Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont are enter- Wale' a select party at their seat, Bretton HA Northumberland. Sir Charles Eastlake was at Rome for two days lad week as route from Naples to Florence. Upwards at 100 of our countrymen hams pared throuah Reese dm* the present month. Mr. Buchanan has returned to Volletri, to re sume the railway works, and to complete the stupendous viaduct at the entry to that town. He trusts to be 'Alai ently guaranteed against the stilettoes of assaa■inetiog workmen by the tutelary instiactioes of Y. Matteotti to the gendarme. in Rome and at Velletri, who have orders to exercise due surveillance over all iedividuals following or hying wait for Mr. Buchanan, and to give him warning is WM of danger. Major O'Reilly announces that be has got the full number of medals from Rome for the Irish volunteers, and that he is ready to mead them to the proper parties. Among the on dits current during the week is No which we (Army sad Nary anette) think worth while publishing. It bas been stated that the Emperor of the French, with that vast amount of sagacity which so distin guishes him, has made overtures for the purchase of the Great Eastern. The counting meetiuge for next week are-- s co rton (0), Ashdown Park Champion, and Tredegar Park Club on Tuesday, kc. ; and Audlem on Thursday. Mr. Bake calls the attention of the coursing judges to the uew mkt: "After so undecided or no course, and the dogs Were being taken up get on another or the ame bare, the judge must follow and decide in favour of one if be con siders that sufficient work has been done to justify him in goisi ikt" EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (►aoM ooa OWN PARIS, FRIDAT EVYJrLNO. Whether—as the Berlin journals have lately asserted, with much emphasis—the visit of the King of Prussia to Compiegne is of au "essentially private character," or whether great political results may be expected from it, is a question now, on the eve of that visit, discussed with intense interest. M. Grandguillot's article, written for the purpose of enhancing the importance of the event, deals too much in generalities to be a safe guide. If it be true, as the Con stitution/lel would have it believed, that the two sovereigns are about to treat of great "social and economical" questions, it is very ex traordinary that the King of Prussia, not by any means an active man of business himself, should not be accompanied by a single one of his ministers. The positive statement thatCouut de Bernstorti, the only minister lately expected, is after all not to come, remains unoontradicted to this hour. The Patrie in its "latest news" says that Count Pourtalits, the Prussian Envoy accredited to Paris, who is now in Germany, will accompany the King, but it makes no mention of any cabinet minister. The King will arrive in France by the Belgian frontier, and the members of the Prussian Lega tion. Prince de Reuss, Count de Hatzfeldt, and M. de Stein, will leave Paris to-morrow evening to meet his Majesty at the Jeumont station. Marshal Valliant is commissioned by the Emperor to meet the King at the frontier. The following extract from Bullier's Correspon dance of this evening will show you the latest tone of political gossip in France on the topic of the day: The interview of Comp:dgne is the theme of every con versation. Nothing can be more natural, for never was a more splendid occasion offered to newamongers—never was a wider horizoo opened to conjecture. Are we to see in this meeting merely a private visit! Or is it an occasion for treating of the great political questions of the day betweea the two sovereigns Kte-d-elte. Will any resolutions of a nature to trouble the pace of Europe result from the inter view! Borne fear there will, while others desire it ; and all are anxious at the subject. This is all that can be said to day with respect to the visit to Compi4ne. The monstrous assertion of the Constitutiortnel that there was no security for life and property at Geneva, has excited the attention of the Federal Council, and it is probable that a formal application will be made diplomatically to have that journal prosecuted for a libel on the Swiss government. It is stated that the Belgiaa cabinet, having fully considered thequestion,in the presence of the King, whether Belgium should now recognise the new king dom of Italy,has decided in the negative,snd on this special ground—that the Belgian kingdom having been, at its creation, placed under the guarantee of the great powers, ought not to pronounce upon such a point until all those powers have made up their minds. I have reason to think that this answer has been officially oommunicated to the French government. The panic at the Bourse has resumed its course to-day. There were rumours of a further rise in the rate of discount, and it was fully believed that the time allowed for bills to run would be reduced to 40 days. There was a talk of a forced paper currency, but this is regarded as an absurd rumour. Rente fell 250. for cash, and 10c. for account, closing at 68fr. and 68fr. 20c. Mubilier fell Mr. The Orleans Railway fell 10fr. ; in the other lines little alteration. M. Lamartine writes to the Paris newspapers to nay that his detention at Macon is caused by his having found it neueusry to superintend the vintage on his pro perty there, as well as to remain in the country while working with redoubled ardour at the new edition of his works. M. Lamartiue now rises at 2 o'clock in the morn ing to his desk, and without interruption remains at it till about S. He then takes a slight repast previous to going out and superintending some agricultural improvements taking place on the property still remaining in his bands. After the second dljcdncr he again resumes his pen, and writes till coming up to dinner-tine. He makes it a rule, sad has generally done so, not to write after nightfall. A splendid aquarium has been inaugurated in the Jardin d'Aoclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne. The building is a long gallery, terminated at each end by pavi lion-formed vestibules, painted in fresco, after the Aquaria of Herculaneum. The gallery is 150 feet long, the glass cases forniiog one side of it, and the other being left in ob scurity. Salt and fresh water fish, crustacea, and other natives of the set and the river, are here in profiodoo, swimming around the rocks, or attaching thenrielyes to the bottom or to aquatic plants. Thu sinking of the artesian well at Nagy has oc cupied six years, at boost of 40,0031. The result is, how. ever, beyond all previous calculation. lostead of the 12,000, no lens than 75,000 cubic feet spring up every twenty-four hours—the well at Grenelle giving only 3,000 at the utmost, now reduced to 2,203 cubic feet. The Pray bore is 30 inches in diameter, and quite a river of pure water flows from it, equal in quantity to one-thirty.bfth of the average flow of the Seine ! With a few such wells all Paris could be supplied, and at a trifling cost compared with that of the gigantic schemes for bringing water from Champagne and other quarters. The temperature is high -80 degrees—and in this state it can be made very useful for many purposes, though for drinking it must be cooled. . _ . . _ Thu Constifutiona/ of Madrid says that a project has been submitted to the Queen for selling all tho royal domains, except the palaces in which her Majesty resides, and to invest the proceeds in government stock, tLe reve- nues from which to belong to the civil list. By this plan it is believed a large addition to the royal income would be obtained. No decision on the plan had, however, been come to. The Journal de Gee Poe publishes a letter from Berne, which rye :—'• The Swiss charge d'affaires at Turin has made known to the Federal Council that the Italian government has suppressed all the regulations which impeded the free export of wheat, and that generally speak ing the commerce in grain is free." We (Athenaeum) have to record a handsome con cession on the part of the Spanish government—the opening up of the great archives at Simancas to the deputise of our ,Master of the Bolls. The interest of the papers at Siman ens cannot be overstated. They are the documentary history of Spain, and of all the countries which have had political relations with Spain. From the reign of Henry the Eighth to the time of Cromwell they are of vast im portance for our own history, and every student working in recent history upon those periods, has turned wistfully but unavailingly towards Simancsa for the light which it, and it only, could afford. The priestly influence was against all search. At length the embargo has been taken off. Mr. Brewer, of the Rolls, Las just returned from &mamas, where it bar been arranged that Mr. Bergenroth, • most competent English and Spanish scholar, shall calen dar and abstract the documents relating to our history. The approaching coronation of King William of Prussia (says the Illustrated London News) will remind all students of Thomas Carlyle of the account given of the coronation of Friedrich 1., the first Prussian King, in the great historian's life of Frederick the Great. Who does not remember the sparkling sanative of the processions to Konigsberg I—the tapestries, the banners, the fountains tannin wine—the two bishops created for the Hoot('—the King's " souff•ooloured or purple coat," with diamond buttons on it worth fifteen hundred pounds a piece, as bessemed such an "expensive Herr" as Friedrich was— and, finally, the bizarre incident of the Queen Charlotte, who be tog much bored during the sermon, was at last "d i stinctly seen to smuggle out her snuffbox, being addicted to that rakish practice, and fairly solaoe herself with a delicate little pinch of snug" Her royal husband was horrified at this solecism against etiquette. and " hurled back a look of dim fulminancy " at her Majesty. An Austrian nobleman, Baron de Silberatein,who bas just died at Vienna, has by will bequeathed 200,000 florins to each of the univendies of Vienna and Prague, to be employed in assisting poor student•, and 40,000 florins to a Ydile. Zollner, an actreas. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. A Turin letter , of Oct. 2, says : Thanks must be given to Father Pramlia for having " belled the eat," as all the timid mea will now follow his example. In a few days Ilaeuera, of Flormsee, is to publish revisal pamphlets on the subject of the temporal power of the Pope, and one of them is mid to be written by a cardinal. Mgr. Liverani and Canon Raeli are also, each in his own way, to give solutions of the Roman question. It appears besides that Father Passaglia will not anima himself with only one work. He has left for Roane with the manuscripts of two pamphlets in his pocket ; the first treating of excommunication in general, the second in sisting on the necessity of the Pope continuing to reside at Rome, although that city should be declared the capital of Italy. Finally, Father Belli, chief of the Benedictines at Florence, la also about to raiso the voice iu favour of the abolition of temporal power . (agoTn'm Trixotuma.) TURIN, OCT. 5. The report of the resignation of the Governor of Milan, published by some Turin journals, is unfounded. It is asserted that Francis 11. has appointed Prince Statella to represent him at Konigsberg. TURIN, Ocr. 4. The Opiaheie of to-day saga :—" It is not true that the pamphlet published in Paris on the gua rantetat to be offered to the Pope by the Italian government in the event of the suppression of the temporal power emanated from .the Italian government." . NAPLES, Oct. 4. An aide-de-camp of Borges has been arrested. He was discovered to be the bearer of important documents, among which were letters signed by General Bosco and General Lamorici4e. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. PESTiI, Oct S. It is affirmed that a pamphlet is being prepared at Vieuua, by order of the government, stating its beneficent intentions, and setting forth its reasons for dissolving the Hungarian Diet. This pamphlet is to be distributed among the Roumains, Servians, Sciavonians, and Ruthens of Hungary. The rumour of preparations for a descent of Italian volunteers in Albania and the Herzegovina acquires consistence. VIENNA. Ocr. 4. The nesterreichisehe Zeitung of to-day announces that the Austro-Italian regiments will to-day be reduced from 100 to 60 men per company, and that further changes are contemplated. TURKEY AND MONTENEGRO. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ocr. 4, Enigma. Montenegro has rejected the conditions under which the Porte lias consented to raise the blockade. The blockade will therefore be rigor ously maintained. The Porte has submitted a proposal to the Euro pean commission, to the effect that the former should issue a tirman, acceding to the union of the Principalities during the life of Prince Couza. SPECIE FOR THE EAST. )N. OCT. 5. The Union Company's screw steamship Athena, sailing hence to-day for the Cape of Good Hope, takes out 2,0001. in jewellery ; and on account of the government, in gold and silver ooin, 60,0001. CHINA. A letter published iu the Russian journal, the Amour, states that, on the 13th of June, a caravan of Russian merchants bad arrived at Tiagne-Tzine. It had left a town called Toune-Tjoou, about 20 vents from Pekin, embarking in three boats under the Russian flag. The Muscovite traders appear to have found that some English specu lators had anticipated them. The Russian report describes the town of Tiagne-Tzine as populous, and the inhabitants actively engaged in traffic with English merchants. The latter had opened about a dozen establishments, well supplied with European goods, but at very high prices. The Chinese shops aro principally stocked with English cotton stuffs, manufactured to suit the Chinese market. The Russians were waiting for the arrival of Chinese goods, of which the town contained but • small quantity, and had consequently done a very limited amount of business. SHANGHAI, Amon 7 (via Bombay). Opium dull. Exchange on London, 8., 2d. HONG BONG, Auoufrr 17. Opium : Patna, 745 ; Malwa, 785, in demand. Exchange on London, 4a. sd. INDIA. BOMBAY, Bin. 12. Largo speculative inquiry for shirtings, and prices are advancing. Twist active, and micas advancing, Cotton dull : Broach, 170. Copper active, and ad vancing. Sheathing, 57r. to 58r. Money plen tiful : discount unaltered. Exchange on London, 2s. Odd.: advancing. Freights declining. Cotton, 45a. to 50s. Government socurities :—Fours, 828 ; Fives, 951 ; Five-and-a-Half, Icel. CALCUTTA, SEPT. 10 (by Telegraph to Bombay). Shirting' and 40's mule twist, advancing. Raw silk, quiet. Copper sheathing and tile, 4 aunas higher. The indigo crop has been severely damaged by floods. Exchange on London, 2s. Oed. ; govern ment securities : Fours, 81} to 812 ; Five-and-a- Half, 102 to 1021. Freights, 45a. to 475. Gd. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Or►ental Steam Navigation Company : MARSEILLES, Ocr. 4. The Manilla with the above mails arrived here at 9.16 p.m. to-day. The mails left for London at 10 p.m. THE OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAMA.— SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 4.—The Peninsular and Oriental em ploy's steamship Pens, Captain Jamieson, sailed hence to. day at 2 p.m. with the mails for.Gibnltar, the Meditens- N un, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India (ecoept Bombay), and China, together with 95 first and 40 seeped cleat passengers, amongst whom are the Bishop of Victoria, Lieut.-Colonel Moody, ILE., Dr. L. A. de Silva, Colonel Gordon, Limit. Phillips, Dr. A. Crewe, Rev. J. Cave, Captain Lean, Rev. W. H. Shackell, Dr. Veen, Captain Briggs, Lieut. Caulfield, Ensign Fortescue, Colonel Cautley, Lieut. Gray, bent. Higginson, Rev. A. Aloock, Captain Smith, and the Rev. A. Pearson. The Pere took on freight 239 holm sped* value 69,423/. 4s. 10.1., for the following poets—via, Madras : gold thread, watches, &c., 1,0091. ; gold coin, 6001. Calcutta : bar silver, 10,2601. ; jewellery, gold leaf, &c., 2,1761. Singapore : gold watches, kc., 22.31. Hong Kong: bur silver, 3,0001.; dollars, 3,9411.; watches, jewellery, 1,315/. Poo-chow : dollars, 4901. Sharighae : bar silver, 15,0001.; dollars, 21,4551.; watches, jewellery, At., 3461. 4s. 10d. ; and for Alexandria: sovereigns, 9,5001.; watches, Ste., 1601. The Para also took a full cargo of general mot chendise. The Journal de Francfurt says :—" Tbe oorpora- Lion of hatters, which will agar* In the procession on the solemn entry of the King of Pram& into Berlin. will be preceded, not by s standard bearer, but by a bag-beam The bet displayed will be of immense site, and beneath it will be as many little hats as there are states in Germany, each being of the colours of the different states." METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. The weekly meeting wan held yesterday at the office in Spring -gardens ; lir. J. THWAITIDS in the chair. The finanoild statement wag presented, which geve the following cash balances in the hands of the treasurer : Current accounts, 28,3041. 16s. 11d. ; deposit ac,out.ta. 110,50 W. ; total, 138,8041. 16s. 11d. Cloverainent becori. ties, New Three per Cent. Annuities, 27,4121. 7i. 7d. ; cheques ordered but not presented—issued, 2,5721. la ; not ;rued, 10,7541. Os. 2d. ; total, =,330/. ls. td. KLECTION OF !KOPEC - I'OlW OP GAB NITIMS. A report was brought up from a committee of the whole board, stating that they had oonsidered tLe qualifications of the several candidates for appointment as inspectors of gas meters, and that they had selected the undernieotioned persons, whom they deemed to be best qualified for the office, sod from whom three inspectors were to be appointed, via., Were. Airey, Minos, Curley, Davey, Dethridge, Gomme, Land, La Roche, Mills, Pearson, Tauotoo, and Ward. The board then proceeded to the election, and their choice fell upon Messrs. Airey, Dethridge, and Mills. THI 11A1N DRAINAGE WORKM. A report was presented by Mr. Bazalgette, the chief en gineer, on the progress of the main &unlace works. The middle level sewer, which extends from hensal-greeu to Old Ford, Bow, and varies in size from 4 feet to 9 feet in diameter, is now in course of construction. It is being tun nelled under Oxford-street, and arnuigernents are being made to prevent inconvenience to the thoroughfares during the season for the Exhibition next year. The value of the work executed under the contract is Gl,OOOl. The RaneLigh sewer was nearly completed, and the value of the work executed is 22,0001. The southern high level sewers from Clapham to New crass and Dulwich to New-cross, ere in a forward state, and between six and seven miles are completed, at au expendi ture of 118,00 W. A section of the southern low level sewer under the Surrey Consumers' Gas Works had been con structed under great difficulties. The southern outfall sewer to by a deep tunnel one mile long underneath Woolwich to Erith Mambos. Of this work five miles, fl j feet in dia meter, are completed, at an expenditure of 206,0000.. and in a manner redacting much credit on Mr. Webster, the con tractor. The works at the Deptfonl pumpiug station have made good progress. The Northern high level sewers extend from Hampstead to the River Lea, at Bow, and • large part of this work is now completed. The Northern 131'00 sewer, which extends from the River Lea to Barking Reach, receives the united streams of the high and middle level sewers at Old Ford. Up to the present time very , nearly a million sterling has been expended upon the works, purchase of land, and incidentals. Coesidering the strike and the wet summer of lost season, the progress which has been made may be regarded on the whole as satilfactory„ It is expected that the main intercepting scheme will be completed in about two years from the present time. The report was received and ordered to be printed, and sonic formal business having been disposed of the board ad journed. The Duke of Manchester, we (At/tee/aunt) hear, is engaged in preparing from his family papers a couple of volumes for the press illustrative of the history of English society from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Anne. The work is expected for the coming season. The late Duke of Buckingham left behind him a private diary, which diary is to be immediately published. _ . Mr. Charles Darwin has prepared for publica tion a small work. cooteiniag his experience "On the Fertilisation of British Orchids by means of Bisects." It will form • sort of sequel to his work, the " Origin et Species." Mr. H. F. Chorley has in the press a book of personal gossip, called, " Twenty•five Years c( Musical Recollections?' Mr. Alfred Wigan will re-open the St. ..Tanica's Theatre on Monday, the 14th inst. The Midsummer Night's Dream will shortly be revived at fladler's Wells. Mr. G. V. Brooke appears at Drury-lane Theatre on the 28th inst. as Othello, when Mr. E. T. Smith will, it is hoped, inaugurate a most successful se.uien of IsBl-62. Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Harrison will com mence their season of English Opera on the 21st of October at the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden. We (Era) regret to state that Mr. Robson is again prevented by severe illness from appearing on the stage. The new farce, by Mr. Oseuford, called A Leial Impediment, which was to have been produced on Monday nest, has been compelled to be postponed in consequence. Father Passaglia is by no means afraid of braving the consequences of his work at head-quarters. The learned father made his Gutty into Rome on the day fol lowing the appearance of his book at Florence, and has since been residing at the Palazzo Spada, with Mrs. Fol jambe, an English catholic lady, in whose establishment he has for some time held the situation of chaplain. It re mains to be seen whether Father Passagli.i's doctrines will be considered by the Congregation of the Index as " de moved and damnable," and whether Cardinal Altieri, the new prefect of that body, will be more compliant with sovereign suggestions then the ex-prefect, Cardinal d'Andrsa, proved, when he refused to conduno Monsigoore Liverani's work. The Emperor of Austria seems occasionally to have a busy day of it. The Vienna jcwroals mention that lately his Majesty gave audience to no fewer than 77 per• seas in succession, and state that among them were M. Pau. mann, ex-director of the police of Cracow, Count liarnield and Count Ingellieim, Austrian tninisters at Hanover and Darmstadt. DEATH OF MKS. THOMAS GELDART.—Wu learn with regret that the band of death has arrested a pen that has beeu the gifted and happy medium .1 oniveying to the hearts and minds of the young both instruction and health. ful moral teaching. Wo refer to the decease of Mrs. Thomas Geldart, who was formerly well known as an inhabitant of Norwich, being the daughter of the eminent booker Simon Martio, of the firm of Messrs. Gurneys stud Co. Her " Hist orical Tales of England and her Forty Counties," of "Scotland," of "Ireland," "Glimpses of our Island Home," he. ha, give, in elegant and attractive diction, some result" of her literary power and research. Among the tales she wrote are " Emilie the Peacemaker , " Truth is Everythine," " Love a Reality, not • Romance," he., which, for the graceful, winning style in which they depict pure and noble principles for the guidance of youth. have few equals. Mrs. Geldart was also the compiler of the " Life of the late Samuel Gurney ;" and be: "Sunday Thou;lits," as well as her pleasiag contributions to many religion.. periodicals, are valued and welcomed in many a household. Perhaps her most touchingly beautiful work is " Strength in Weakness," • memorial of her son. She has also sent her noble teach ing and most attractive style of narrative into tens of thou sands of homes among the poorer dames of our hind in three of the "Household 'Tracts," which are from her pee, viz., " Cottage Homes," " The Mother's Trials and Triumphs," and "Daughters from Home"— Norfolk Nem:. MRS. GVINNFAS Hui..—The Freeman's Jounial publishes the following pedigree of this lady :—" Mr. Wil liam Bunlett, third 'ono( Mr. Fremis Burdett (who wee eldest eon of Mr. Robert Burdett), married in 1811, Sarah, daughter of Mr. Timothy Brent, and had issue :—First-- Francis, Major and Brevet Lieutenaut-Colonel of 17* Lancers, married Miss Sharp, of Perthshire. lie is heir to the baronetcy, but has no male issue. Second—William, married Miss Heyeoe. Third—. Charles Sedley, Lieutenant- Colonel in the C,olddream Guards, married Miss Ames. Fourth—Robert. Fifth --Sarah, married Mr. J. G. Rams den. Sixth—Frances, married first the Rev. W. J. P. Burrell, grandson of Peter, Lord Gwydir, and second W, Gray Pitt, Berl. Seventh—Sophia, married Mr. Cunning- I ham. Eighth—Emily, married Mr. William Birt. Ninth— , Amy Georgina, married Mr. R. Guinness Hill, whose mother was slater to the late Mr. Richard Samuel Guinness, at one time member for Kinsale, and afterwards for Barnstaple he married Mies Jenkieson, daughter of Sir Charlie; Jeokinson. Mrs. G. Hill is first cousin to Miss Burdett Coons." THE UORONEESHIP OF TIIE WESTERN DIVISION Of MIDDLENRX.—We have received a communication front Mr. Brent, deputy coroner for Middlesex, questioning the accuracy of the statement which appeared in a paragra ph in the Daily Telegraph yesterday, to the e ff ect that Mr. Wakley, the coroner, " has been linable, from the state of his health, to attend to the duties of the western division of the county for nearly two years." Mr. Brent states that "he (Mr. W.) regularly held hit inquest, until December last, and has held a few even within the peat two mouth.o." The writer further adds that Mr. Wahley has not yet de- parted for Madeira, "although he purposes to go on Tues day next, being assured by hie physicians that there ix every prospect of his returning to Middlesex with sullicient strength to enable him to discharge his public duties." — Daily Telegraph. , - - THE SUMP-AS OF THE POST-OFFICE SAVING" BANK". —The Post•oMce Savings Bank system, we hove been is fonned, continues to progress in a highly satisfactory man• ner. Considerable extensions are, it is reported, about to be effected, alike in the London district and throughout the country. Memorials praying for the establishment of post office banks cow lune to be received by the authorities St. Martio's•lc•Grand. In particulir it may be stated that a memorial is being prepared in Cheshain. Buckinghamshire, desiring the institutioo of a bank in that town, and that it has been signed by the managers and trustees of the existing savings Lank. An exactly similar memorial has either been despatched from Ituthlin, in Flintshire, or is in course of preparation. The brewers, distillers, and extensive employer, of labour in Mile-end have applied to have a bank established in that district of the metropolis - and the managers of the principal railways the termini of which is at King's,ross are, in conjunction with the cud mer chants, he., about to memorialise the authorities in favour of inaututing a hank in the neighbourhood of the station. Though the interest allowed by the Poet-office bank is not so high as that paid by the old savings banks, vet transfer, are daily taking piste of the deposits of the latter to the former. -.. ~. I