The Express. — London, England, 1861-09-27 00:00:00

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TUC Memo. !try molds ord W. I: Craolowl.—Tfir ih.ollll Mnecko —Mill.. rek.ftte MopOall. .IM AND INIVKkTif. -To CllllclUlit . With 1111 TIDAL I:kuf tIELA OF NolllSANDY.—eveunruco at 01. UII4R w 17411 AT LVINILION BRIMS. 'nog IIAI —ll.r.iis.t. 6.1 Slur Aftllllllollll. 112. 5701. Ti. =MU+•—ICA Hint M. tAa Aikerrak a.. IOSIO. LONDON, PRIDE Y, SEPT. 27. TO OUR READERS. • SPORTLXO INTELLIGENCE. A bite edition of the Express it published every eveni.g during the racing 11C44011, containing the results of the day's races. Tue discussion as to the new Education Minute has MAMMA a now phase. It has been announces!, apparently on authority, that it is absolutely suspended until the :;Ist !starch, 1862. According to the resolution of the l'rivy Council, that is certainly the date at which most of the new provisions would take effect ; but according to one clause, it was declared that no new ap prenticeship should be agreed to except upon the term of the revised code ; and as many pupil teachers would certainly have been apprenticed before the 31st March of next year, it is clear that the new code would practically have come into operation before that period. This was probably an oversight, for the practice no doubt has been that Minutes issued by the Privy Council in such matters should be submitted to Parbanuent before they are acted upon. And the practice is obviously both just and convenient. The Education Department dual with an annual Parliamentary grant approaching • million. There is no other government depart ment which possesses • power so extraordinary. There is DO specific appropriation of the money ; but Parliament entrusts it to the administrative discretion of the particular department. That dis cretion, however, must be subject to certain rules; and Parliament is entitled to know what those rules are. They are to be found in the Minutes passed from time to time by the Privy Council, and hitherto, we believe, before any Mi nute has been acted upon it has been laid before bore Houses. There is no doubt an additional reason in this particular case why the old practice should be adhered to. The system of education bas been in vigorous operation for fifteen years, and • very large body of persona are more or less affected by it. The managers of schools are not only iiiterested in its success, but they have involved themselves in pecuniary liabi lities of which they annot at once rid themselves. The teachers have in many owes been induced to join their present profession by the substantial prospect which the Education Department opened to them, and in almost all cues are dependent upon the State for a continuance of the advantages which they now enjoy. It is clear, therefore, that if in any case the proposed Minutes of the Privy Council ought to be laid before the public in order to be canvassed, a new Minute by which the system of administering the grant voted by Par liament is seriously altered, required the utmost deliberation, and the amplest notice should have been given of it. Thee* Minutes, in fact, have the effect of an apprepriation bill ; or, to state the matter differently, they contain the offers upon which the Government is willing to meet the voluntary friends of education, or to assist those who are willing to devote their lives to the duties of • schoolmaster. The largo amount of the annual grant shows the interest felt by Parliament and the country in the subject, and therefore it is only right that the fullest notice should have been given of any proposed alteration before any attempt was made to carry it into effect. It is tolerably clear that Lord GRANVILLE never could have intended to break through the wholesome custom which has hitherto prevailed. The clause as to new apprenticeships was probably inserted inadvertently. This matter is now set at rest, and there will be ample time to discuss calmly the bearings of the proposed changes. Now it seems to be admitted upon all hands that the principle of the new Minute ia correct. It is absurd to say that the essential part of educa tion does not consist in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Without these even religious know ledge is a practical impossibility. And to insist that • boy or girl who cannot read a chapter in the New Testament, spell the days in the week or the months in the year, and write a few words from dictation, is in any sense educated, would require the obstinate audacity of Lord ROBIZT CECIL or Mr. BAILLIZ COCHILA:ir. Now, it is established upon the most conclusive evidence that, although these simple acquirements are possessed by some of the best scholars in the beet schools, they are anything but universaL According to the Report of the Com missioners, there is • tendency to neglect both the elementary education and the younger children; and these children are capable of receiving • far better teaching in reading, writing, and arithmetic than has hitherto been given them. To remedy those defects, after they were pointed out, wee absolutely essential, and no other remedy has been @emitted than that of giving a certain sum of money in proportion to the number of chg. dren who attain a certain proficiency in these elementary subjects. It is easy no doubt to say that the standard of examination fixed by the new Code will tint bring in as much money to the school as the former system. It is, indeed, im possible to predict the precise results, but it is fact within our knowledge that persons of great experience are of opinion that by care and energy • schoolmaster may earn as much, if not more, under the new system as under the old. Objecti,n hill been taken to that part of the Code winch excludes children of above eleven years who have once passed. The meaning, how ever, of this provision is obvious. The National or British School is specially intended for the labouring theses. It is not intended that these in stitutions tiled by the State should furnish educa tion to the_.! who can supply it to themselves. Any boy or girl shove 11 who has been able to pass the examination in reading, writing, and arithmetic proposed by the new Code ought either to be earning his living or placed at a anperior school. At all events, be ought not to be allowed to pass an annual examination before the Inspector for an indefinite number of years, in order to obtain a curtain sum of public money for the school. The test of examination obviously requires smile limit such as that adopted by the new Code, but it has nothing whatever to do with encouraging or discouraging the continuance of children at school. Objection has also of course been taken to the examination being restricted to the three R's, and it has been asserted that this will have the effect of withdrawing attention from religious knowledge. It has been already conclusirdy shown that as the system is denominational, those managers of schools who attach great importance to such knowledge will of COMM, continue to insist upon due attention being paid to it. Nor is it very complimentary to the self-denying zeal which is supposed to animate the promoter of schools to hear it alleged that the grant of money will carry everything before it, and that the real exertion will be not to communicate a knowledge of Scripture, which must be comparatively barren, but a knowledge of such subjects as will obtain a pecuniary return. Happily, however, this objec tion has been set at rest. The Bishop of Licu• EMU. has candidly confessed that the examination need not exclude religion. Seeing that the pupil teachers--the future masters and mistresses—are obliged to study their Bible as part of their pro fessional training, it would have been strange if it had. Aud the same prelate has insured his clergy that the public grant will still depend, so far as the managers desire it, upon proficiency in religious instruction. But setting aside these objections, it is admitted on all hands that the effect of applying the prin ciple of individual examination will have the effect not only of compelling the teachers, but also the Inspectors, to do their duty more efficiently. It is needless to recur to the allegation that the certificate carries with it a money value, for the allegation is the merest fallacy. It is true that a certificated master in charge of a school is entitled to a certain sum of money if he performs Lis duty to the satisfaction of an Inspector. But the Inspector must do his duty, and if the Govern ment finds, as it has found, that neither the mas ters nor the Inspectors bare been performing their duties in • satisfactory manner, is the Govern ment precluded from adopting a test which shall compel those who have failed in their duty to perform it more efficiently T To do this is the precise purpose of the individual examination. The amount of knowledge thus ascertained to be possessed by the children is to be the teat applied by the Inspector in order to estimate the master's work. The revised Code, iu which this principle is adopted, may require modification, but undoubtedly its principle is perfectly just, and ought to be maintained. Tits RUGBY ROMA/MIL—In many of the report" which have been published with this heading, it has been stated that Mrs. Guinness Hill is a granddaughter of the late Sir Francis Burnett. This is incorrect. The lady is a daughter of the late Mr. William Jones Burdett, and be mother, thtrefore, is not Lady Burdett. It is equally un true that Mrs. Hill wiui adopted by Miss Burdett Cout ts. gin Court. BALMORAL, Serums= 25. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of Holtenlobo, Prince., Alice, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, and attended by Lady Churchill, drove to Alt•na (lnitbc.aek yesterday morning, and rode up to the head of Loch Mulch, where, her Majesty lunched. The Quests, Princess Alice, Princess Helena, and Lady Churchill, rode hack to Belsmond in the evening. The Prince Cowart sod Prince Louis of Here, accom puled by Load Stanley of Alderley, went cut deer stalking. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphin.tone, went to Loch tkillater yesterday morning, and returned in the &Somme. The Right Hoe. Jobs Readlam, M.P., the Judge-Advo cate-General, arrived st the Castle yesterday morning, and transacted badness with her Majesty. The royal diaper party includA lord ritenley of Alderley, the Right Hon. John Ileadiam, Baron Westerweller, Dr. Zenner, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-oft3os frees the GOVNIKIV of Yalta. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Mauritius. Ceylon, Hong Kong, Libman, the Australian Colonies, se a Gibraltar. The Queen has forwarded a large ow containing • valuable present from her Majesty to Lord Castleman, to evince her royal appreciation of hie lordship's princely hospitality during her recent visit to Kenmore Hone, Manley. Their Ro)al Highnesses the Prince and Princees Leopold of gobassollemAigmaringen and Pli/1611 Chilies, accompanied by their Royal Haglmams the Duke of Oporto and Prince Doe Jaen, have left Claridge's HeMil for Graves end, to embark cm board the Portuguese stems corvette Bertholane° Diaz, for Antwerp. Their royal highneeses were attended by his Excellency the Count Lavradio, Por tuguese Weider at the court of St. Jansen The Prince de Radsiwill has arrived at Fenton's MAIL Their Highnesses Prince Constantine and Prince Yawl Czartoryski arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn• street, last night, the former from Vienna, and the latter from Paris. The Duke of Newcastle has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, from Balmoral. The Duke of Gramout has arrived at Fenton's Hasa Viscount Monck has arrival at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-squire, from Carriarrille. Lord and LdySearridale have leftthe Burlington Helot for Keddlastest Hall, seer Derby. Lord and Lady Hathecton have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, front Germany. Yesterday afternoon the Earl of Stradbroke, Lord•Lieateeaat of Suffolk, was preceded with his portrait, painted by Mr. Grant, R.A. The presentation, which was made in the cionacil-chamber at the Town-hall, Ipswich, originated with the members of the Suffolk Agricultural Association, of which the noble earl has been president fur Dearly thirty years. The Right Rev. Dr. Turton, Bishop of Ely, has been suffering of late from extreme debility. Duriog his newt confirmations he had to be supported on both sides while 'Meg through the ceremony of laying on of hands on the candidates. Dr. Tartan is one of the oldest of our bishops. He graduated at Cambridge in Ifos, when he was maior wrangler, being then about 22 years of age. He was suoeessively Regina Professor of Divinity at Cimbridge, Dean of Peterborough, and Dean of Westminster, and was raised to the bishopric of Ely in 1845. Wu (Patriot) regret to learn that Dr. Andrew Reed, ie oonsequisece of advancing years and continua indisposition, resulting from a serious fall during the winter of last year, has intimated to his church at Wycliffe Chapel, London, his intention of resigning his paatorate east No. ember. On the 27th of that month, Dr. Read will close • period of fifty years, during which he has had the oversight of the same church, havieg been ordained to the work of the ministry in 1811. Oue of the vemela belonging to the Channel fleet, the Trafalgar, 91, Captain Dickyon, darted from the fleet in &gale of wind off Lough Bwilly, and anchored off Bun crane last Saturday to repair various damages reeeived ; port waist hammock netting washed away, a unantity of water on lower deck, and two men killed. This ship was one of the vessels anchored off Kingstown during her Majesty's visit. AMERICA. [VIA CAPE RACE] NEW YORE, ItErr. Thb Fedond entrenchments at Cheat Mountain have been attacked by General Lee, who was, how ever, repulsed with heavy less. It is reports! that General Roaencranz is ad vancing against the Confederates, and that Generals Floyd and Wise are retreating. The Governor of Kentucky has isaied a procla mation ordering the unconditional withdrawal of the Confederate troops from that state. Active preparations for a fresh naval expedition are still going on. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1861. LATEST INTELLIGENCIL THE POPE AND THE NEAPOLITAN EL ROYAL FAMILY. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. COMMERCIAL LWELLIGEiCE. Exchange on London, bankers' Stocks firmer. New York Ventral, 721; Illinois Central, ; Erie, 2.1 j. Cotton dull, and quotations nominal. Bread. stuffs opened at a slight advance, but closed with a do dining tonarucy. Provisions quiet. SOUTHAMPTON. Sum. 27. The United States steamship Ara 4), Captain Lines, with the mails for France and England, from New York on the 14th inst., has arrived. She brings 24 passengers for England and 73 for France, and 44/0 dole. for Havre. The Angln-S.Axon had arrived out at Quebec!, and the Europa at Halifax. On the 15th the Arngo spoke in lat. 40.40, lou. 70.30, a four-masted steamer steering west, sup posed to be the City of Manchester ; on the 16th, in lat. 42.10, lon. 114.40, observed a bark steamer steering west, supposed to be the New York, from Bremen and Southampton ; and on the 26th, 11 a.m., off Eddystone, exchanged mil ; nals with Hamburg steamer, steering west, sup posed to be the Bavaria, from Southampton. The Nei , York Times of Sept. 13 has the follow ing : We have glorious news from Western Virginia; which fully confirms the correctness of our recent anticipations, that there would be struck the next telling blow against the rebellion. The command of the rebel Floyd, consisting of five thousand men, has been ignominiously muted, leaving behind them all their camp equipage, waggons, horses, large quantities of ammunition, fifty head of cattle—in feet, everything, even to the personal baggage of Floyd and his officers. The rebel army was found by General Bement-rano to be entrenched in a powerful position on the top of a mountain at Omni.: Ferry, near 'fiummerville, on the west side of Carley River, and, after suitable reconnoissances, an engagement com menced at 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. Floyd had six. teen field pieces, sad his rear and both flanks were, from the nature of theground, inaccessible,while his front was masked with heavy forest and • close jungle. Notwithstanding these difficulties, however, the success at our arms was complete, and with a comparatively small loss of life. The enemy's position was first discovered tby four companies from the Ohio Tenth Regiment, acting as scouts, who unex pectedly earns upon a parapet battery, and a long line of palisades for riflemen, when the battle opened with great fierceness, and continued until dark. The Tenth, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Ohio were immediately brought into action, and engaged the batteries with good effect, while M'Mullin's howitzer batteries and two tield•piecea were got into posi tion, and succeeded lin silencing several of the enemy's guns. The battle raged furiously as night ap prroched, and the German brigade, under Colonel McCook , was brought up, soon after which the firing ceased, on ac count of the darkness, and the troops lay in position on their arms, ready to resume operations with the morn ing light. During the night, however, the rebels fled pee'. pately across the river, leaving everything behind them, and destroying the temporary bridge which they hail con stricted, so that pursuit was impossible, the river at that point being deep and turbulent. The national loss is but fifteen killed and about seventy wounded. The loss of the rebels is not known, as they carried their dead and wounded with them. Thegiev.Yurk Times, of September 14, reports a number of arrests iu Baltimore, including Hon. Henry May, Member of Congress, all the members of the legislature ifroml.Baltimore county, Mayor Brown, F. H. Howard,l editor of the E.cchange, hit m r— us Wall, jun., editor of the South, and others. Among the members of the legis lature are :—Roes Winans, Charles H. Pitts, Lawrence Bengston, S. T. Wallis, T. P. Scott, Henry M. Mortit, W. G. Harrison, and Messrs. Dennison, Quinlan, War field, Thomas, Bruce, and Lynch. It is also reported that Benjamin C. Howard, the peace candidate fur governor, is among the number. These arrests were all made lb pursuance of orders from Washington. . . . _ _ _ The legislature of Maryland was called to meet on the following Tuesday, and it was anticipated that a course of legislation hostile to the govern ment would be immediately inaugurated, with perhaps an effort to declare the state out of the union, preparatory to the expected advent of the rebel army on Maryland soil. Advice. from Western Virginia state that the rebel troops under Leo, on the morning of the 12th, oommenoed an advance upon both positions occu pied by the national troops at Elk Water and Uhoatt Mountain Summit. They succeeded in sur rounding the Summit, but were subsequently dis persed by reinforcements sent from Clarksburgh. Their advance on Elk Water was also stopped by shells from Loomis' Battery. During a alight skirmish near Elk Water, two rebel officers--oue of them CoL John A. Washington, late of Mount Vernon—were killed. Governor MagoAin, of Kentucky, has given a dill further proof of his sympathy for the rebel cause, by vetoing the resolutions recently passed by the legislature, requesting him to call out the state troops to repel the rebel inroad. The first manumission of slaves, under the recent proclamation of General Fremont, took place on the 13th, the slaves made free belonging to Thomas L. Smead, of St. Louis. Au important order in reference to the payment of volunteers has been issued by the Secretary of War to Paymaster-General Lamed. Where volunteer regiments have been accepted by the war department without reference to state authorities, pay is to be allowed from the date of the organisa tion of each company with the minimum number of men, satisfactory evidence in each cane being furnished. Volunteers are also to be paid when organised and accepted by the governors of the several states, without regard to the date of mus tering into the service of the national government, provided payment has not already been made by the respective states, in which case the government will eventually become responsible. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Sarr.l4. _ In Wall-street yesterday, another million of dollars was a.klod to the popular subscription to the National Loan at the Sub• Treasury Office. The Stock Exchange was firm on national and state stocks, but dull on the railways. Ex change on London advanced to 104 to 108 i percent. The sales of breadstuff* yesterday were very heavy (28,6(0 his, flour, 467,000 bushels wheat, and 220,02 bushels earn), and prices were generally higher. Large isles of Rio gaffes and Cuba sugars were also reported at advancing rates. Provisions were attracting more attention ; pork was dearer. Cotton was quiet, as were ►lso rice, tobacco, hemp, candles, beeswax, wash, iron, lead, tin, lumber, linseed oil, tar, torpeutine, nada, spices, and whalebone. A fair inquiry prevailed for hay, hops, tea*, mackerel, herrings, ingot sapper, raisins, currants, laths, molasses, ish oils, tallow, wool, sod whisky. Common resin was depressed and de clining. The freight engagements were moderate. A letter from Rome, in the Mats, gives the following u the address of the Pope, at the mar riage, a few days ago, of the brother of the Grand Duke of Tuscany to the sister of Francis the Second At this moment," said his Holiness, "you are compelled to live in a foreign country, and it is not without a purpose that God permits political shocks which have such consequences. God permits them in order that in misfortune and solitude each one may better understand his duties and acquire strength and wisdom to fulfil them. When misfortune shall have purified and strengthened you, Providence will not be lung in bringing you back to the kingdom of your fathers, for it is impossible that the day of justice should not arrive. The time will come foretold by the Holy Spirit, in those words, Writes de terra orta est, et justitia de cwlo prospoxit.' In the meantime, I bless you with all the outpouring of my soul, that you may be happy. With you, Archduke Charles, I bless your aged father and mother ; with you, Marie Clementine, I bless your pious mother, from whom you are now separated." At these words the Queen Mother shed tears. The Princess Clementine, who is 16 years old, was dressed in white, and wore a crown of dowers upon her head. The archduke wore the uniform of the order of Pius, with which he has been recently decorated by the Pope. The Queen, the wife of Francis 11., wore a very elegant rose-coloured dress. The Queen Mother was in black. (aztrni's TZLEGRAIDO NAPLES, SEPT. Z. The Naziosiale of to-day publishes a letter addressed by General Cialdiui to the Provincial Council of Aquila, in which he says :—" When I came hero to assume the Lieutenancy a mis chievous faction had plotted the ruin of the unity of Italy, and it was necessary to repress its move ments by vigorous measures. But now that this faction is vanquished confidence revives, and it becomes poasible to inaugurate an epoch favourable to the free development of the strength of the nation." Tho band of brigands commanded by Cipriano has regained the mountains of Avelia. FRANCE. PARIS, Sm. 27. The Moniteier of to-day says :—" The French military officers who were present at the mancenvres of the Prussian army have returned to Paris pene trated with gratitude for the kind reception which was given them by the King and the royal family, and delighted with' the frank spirit of cordiality which they met with among the Prussian officers. The officers report most favourably of the fine bearing, discipline, and instruction of the Prussian army, qualities which are so justly attributed to it." SPAIN. MADRID. SIFT. 21 The Ihrri of this evening says :—"A rumour in current that Baron Tecco, the Italian minister, is ou the point of breaking oft diplomatic relations with the Spanish government, and leaving Madrid. The Moorish envoy has arrived with a suite of thirty persons." HUNGARY. PESTH, Syr. 26. The custom-house officers having seized some smuggled tobacco, the informer, a woman, was fu riously pursued by the people. The gendarmes and military who afterwards came up were received with hisses and derisive cries. The military made use of their arms, and several people were wounded. MONTENEGRO. RAGIJSA, earn. 26. The Porta has sent fresh instructions to Omer Pacha, ordering him immediately to recommence operations against the Montenegrins. The Porte is about to send a reinforcement of 2,000 men to Omer Paoha. EXECUTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN AT ROME. _e___ A telegram from Florenoe, dated yesterday, says " A Roman emigrant, named Jacques Castuoci, has pro moted himself before the public prosecutor in this city, and confessed that it was he who caused the death of • pontifical gendarme on the 29th of Juue last. He said the object in making this confession was to prevent the execu. Lion of • man named Locatelli, who had been wrongly con victed of the crime. Ibis statement was at once forwarded to Rome, but unfortunately it arrived there too late. Lo. catelli had ahaviy been executed." A letter from Rome, io the Morning Post, dated the 21st, gives as account of the execution that day of the unfortunate Locatelli. The latter had all along denied having caused the gendarme's death. He maintained this point obstiudoly, and " when informed last night that he was to he executed this morning, he merely replied, ' Very well ; I die au inoocent man. I request that no one may be admitted to disturb me.' Nor could any of the priests, Fusionist monks, or official conforiatort, who exert themselves on such counsious to induce criminals to confers and receive the sacrament before sub mitting to death, prevail upon Locatelli to accept of the last consolatory offices of religion. Such is the mis fortune of the connexion, in • criminal's mind, between the ecclesiastical authorities who condemn him and the ecclesi astical ministers who extend towards him the image of our Saviour at the last moment. In order to prevent any pub licity, the prisoner was taken from the prison before day break to the Conforteria, a small chapel adjoining the place at execution, under • Wong escort ; and it would appeer that the authorities apprehended a rescue, to judge by the military force arouud the scaffold, consisting of • battalion of French troops, sod nearly the whole of the disposable poutifiod garrison—that is to say, the Ist battalion of the line, the German amassers, the Roman clamours, a squadron of dragoons, another of mounted gendarmes, and a great posse of police on foot. At half-past 7, half-an-hour's grace having been ineffectually granted for the prisoner to repent in, he was led to the scaffold, the rolling of drums drowning his shouts of " Viva ma. I Viva Vittorio Emanuele !" and similar political rally iag cries. Courageous to the last, Locatelli firm:y as cended the scaffold steps, whence ho would fain have spoken to the crowd had he been permitted, resisted the last efforts to convert him made by • Capuchin monk on one side, and • Paseionist ou the other, averted his head f•vm the crucifix, and resigned himself =tinily to the hands of the veteran headsman, Mastro Titta, who, assisted by two stout adjutants, was so rapid in his office that the gasping exclamations of the spectators, " A lotto.'" seemed rather one of surprise than of horror. Locstelli was • line man, 37 years of age, with • black beard, rendered more conspicuous by his white dress and cap. His social condition was that of a railway porter, and be figured somewhat disadvan tsgeouidy in the Roman police reports. Having got their fill of horrors, and muttered their curses after the three executioners, who slunk off with hats slouched over their eyes, by the temples of Vesta acid Fortuna Virdis, and across the Ponta Rotto to their official residence on the other side of the Tiber, the crowds of spectators dispersed quietly, the troops marched off with drums and trumpets, and the rustics, who had stopped their ox-curb or buffalo waggons, to gaze astounded on the unexpected scene of blood, shut their mouths at last, and, striking their gaols into their ponderous teams, resumed their road towards the Porte San Sebastian and the Appian Way. To do Justice to the humane feelings of the softer sex in Rome, it must be observed that women, although sufficiently fierc e w h en passion stirs the enosetral Wood in their veins, are very rarely to be men amongst the lookers on at such spectacles as 1 have described. The venguince of the ecclesiastical government pennies such criminals as refuse to be reooo - to the church even after their deaths, for their corpses are merely corded up in sacking, and thrown by night in some remote, unconsecrated spot outside the city walls, with a harrowful of lime over them to ensure • rapid de- composition." 1 (rsox ous owl ooassarosuars) PARIS. THURSDAY EVENING. A good deal of attention has been bestowed to day upon au article in the Dibats on the state of Europe generally, and in particular upon the rela tions of Prussia with France, England, and Italy. The Debate professes to know that the King of Prussia is not prepared to recognise the kingdom of Italy ; and it insinuates that M. de Berustortf, the Prussian minister, who has just superseded AI. de Schleinitz, leans rather to the French than the English alliance, without, however, having made up his mind. This feeler—which is signed by M. Caning, the secretary of the Dillats, and, therefore, emanates front the journal in its corporate capa city, and is not an individual production—natu rally provokes inquiry on the eve of the King of Prussia's visit to CompiZ..gue. The Pays notices " with extreme reserve, although given by the Opisiow," the important news that Baron Ricasoli intends to issue a circular on Italian affairs to the European powers, in which he will state that unless France evacuates Rome he will feel constrained to retire from office, and leave the government of Italy in the hands of the advanced liberal party. The Opisios Nationale ought to explain, but does not, Low it happened that in the face of a telegram announcing the execution of Locatelli at Rome, published by itself simultaneously with all the other papers, it stated on its own authority, as " Inter news," that the man had been respited by the Pope. There is no doubt of the death of Lossitelli, and we learn to-day from Florence that one Castrucci, who has given himself up as the real author of the crime for which the Pope's judges sentenced Locatelli to death, made his confession too late. A pantgraph which halt gone the round of the European press, speaking of Meyerbeer as 70 years of age is erroneous in that respect : the great composer was born at Berlin on September 25, 1796, and is consequently only 65 years old. The Bourse, which opened with an uneasy feeling in consequence of the article in the Debate, and rumours unfavourable tothe permanent maintenance of the peace of Europe, became seriously affected when it was known that the Bank of France had raised its discount from sto si per cent. There is now the extraordinary difference of 2 per cent. between the interest of money paid by the Bank of France and the Bank of England. Route fell 15e. for cash, and 20c. for account, closing at 691 r. 10e. and 69fr. 20c. Mobilior fell 13fr. 75e. The Orleans Railway fell 6fr. 25c. Northern and Southern 7fr. 50c. each, Eastern sfr., and Lyons and Western 3fr. 75c. each. Father Lacordaire is dangerously ill at Sorrize. His friends iu Paris expect to hoar of his death every moment ; the malady is called a " decompo sition of the blood." M. de Moutalembort, who was bis schoolfellow, has boon sent for by tele graph to the bedside. A novel and interesting application of the science of photography is now in daily use at the famous Mettray colony, near Tours, which, as you are aware, is a reformatory for young convicts. Every urchin brought to this house of correction has his portrait taken the moment he sets foot in it, and another is made ou the day of his leaving. The first portrait represents the rags, dirt, and misery, the physical and moral degradation, the prematurely careworn features, the scowling, cowering, timid, uneasy, and withal ferocious look of the born thief. The second shows the same individual transformed by the magic of judicious discipline, which includes physical comfort and kind treatment—his dress is now clean and neat, and his countenance is redolent of health, con tentment, self-confidence, benevolence, and energy. Philosophy had never in any age a grander subject for contemplation than two such pictures. The Emperor and Empress on Sunday and Monday attended bull fights at Bayonne. " If our information," says the Echo de Visone, of P6rigneux, "is correct, the Emperor, the Em press, awl the Prince Imperial will leave Biarritz on the 30th instant, will pass the night at Boy denim, and will leave the next day for Nrigueux, wlielice the imperial party will proceed to Bourges, by the Limoges railway." POLAND. A letter from Warsaw of the 19th says : There have again been distarbsnose here. Most of the Jewish shopkeepers are accustomed to keep their establish ments open on Saturday, though that day is their Sabbath, Jnd to close them on Stoutly. last Saturday, a band of ewish boys and vagabonds, pretending to be indignant at this violation of Israelite usages, broke the windows of se ver.il shops. The police did nut interfere, but a number of respectable iubabitauts collected, and dispersed the per turbators. The neat day, placards, declaring that any per sons musing disturbances would be considered traitors to the country, wore posted up. Nevertheless, the windows of a shopkeeper, named Zamorski, were broken because he was suspected of being a police spy ; so likewise WM those of a Gerhian, named Wedel, a ooefectioner, because he had refused to attend a religious service which the persons of his trade had celebrated for the victims of the 114th August. The shop of a baker, named Beets, was sacked on account of a report having been spread that he had ill.trented his son for wearing the P.dish costume, and a crowd assembled before the shop of a soapmaker, with the intention of sucking it also, but were prevented by seve ral respectable citizens. In the fear that other excesses might Ise committed, the authorities at last sent detach. mentos of troops to different parts of the town, and the people were made to disperse. In one street, however, • number of parsons stopped a man suspected of being a secret police agent, and were shout to ill-treat him, but on the ex. bortatiou of • Capuchin monk, who happened to corns up, they let him go. The next day the clergy in the different churches recommended the people to be calm ; and placards, containing similar 0011111101 , were stock up in all the streets and squares. Another letter from Warsaw of the same date says : The hesitation which was manifested in choosing the principal functionary of the municipality has at last ommed, General Lewicski a nomination to the presidency of the city being now a fact. This choice will, it is thought, satisfy public opinion. The general is an estimable man in every respect. As a member of the delegation in these latter times, he tun, in spite of his great age and of the moderation of his character ' displayed much firmness and devotedneadevotedness.A proposition has been made to IL. Michael Lewinski, bro ther of the general, to enter the Commbaion of Internal Affairs as associate of Gerstenzweig, Director-General, but lie has refused to consent, except on these cooditions—the removal of all the military governors, the dismissal of Rua sians from places they occupy in the kingdom of Poland, no one to be imprisoned more than twenty-four hours without being interrogated, and all citizens to be tried according to law. Such conditions as these are not likely to facilitate his appointment to the position offered him ; nevertheless, negotiations are still going on. Sir James Hudson, it is reported, will POOH leave far Tuscany, where he has Leen invited by the King of Italy, to assist at the great wild boar hunts near Piss.. .. F. Lavelle, a student at the Roman Catholic College, Drumcondni, near Dublin, was arrested there at 7 o'clock on Wednesday morning, on • srariant issued by Mr. Moore, the resident magistrate at Ballierobe, in the county of Mayo. He is charged with having been engaged in a riot at Paltry, near his brother's chapel. He was sent on to Ballinrobe by the 4 o'clock train, in custody of head-waste ' ble L•lar, of Clouted. Un Bob in Maschera was performed for the first time on Wednesday evening in Dublin. A crowded audience assembled to bear it. The music was sung by Le mire, Della &del, Ciampi, and Min Whitty. All the leading airs were loudly applauded, and many escorts were demanded. " Tbe Russian navy," says the Pays, "has sus tained a se►ere law on the eau* of Japui—thas.of the Bedlam, liue.or-battle ship, 100 guns and 800 men. All the crew are said to have perished." THE CITY OF LoNno.v nraisrnATPlX. (THIS DAY.) The revising barrister, Alfred lianxou, Esq., re.umeol him duties this moraine, at 11 o'e!oek, in the Court of Common Pleas, Guittl4ll. The Conserrctive Registration Asseei ttion 'woe mpre. seated es before by Mr. NV. Yokes (Nok,:s n 1 CArlinle):md Mr. S. Smith, aml Mr. U. Led e ^rrattendeilun thepart of the Liberal Association. At the sitting of the court Sir James Duke appmred to maintain his milt to be retained on the hot of spectacle. makers. Mr. Nakao said that Sir James Duke was also on the list of the Salters' Company, and it was n question for the con. midi:ration of the court whether a person should be entitled to be on the lists of more than one conipauy. He did not mean to ca,.t any imputation ou Sir James, but it was quite evident that if a name could be on more than one electoral list of liverym en , great facilities would be afforded for personatien. From the information he had received on the point, a parson sir. cumatanc.4 like the worthy baronet was booed to select one company, and have his name on the list of that coin. pany only. tar. Ledger said that the only question to be considered by the court was, whether Sir James Duke was a liveryman of the Specticletuaker: Com. piny ; it was quite immaterial whether lie hap. pened to be also a member of the Salters' or any other emptily. The act of 6th Victoria made ample pro vision for cases of personation. Agent." , wero to attend specifically in referent* to such WWI, awl then) was a see.. tion regulating the duties of returning officers on the point. The Revising Barrister did not think be hail any jurisdic tion in the matter. He was supposed to be revising the list of the Spectacleonakene ronimay, of which be found Sir James Duke was returned as a freeman. So long as he was thus qualified it. did not seem to be within the lower of the court to expunge his name from the register. Mr. Nokes requested the court to withhold its decision until the opinion of Mr. Secondary Potter could be had on the point. The Revising Barrister seceded to the request. Sir J. Duke said that he had been a member of the Spectacle-maker's Company for thirty years. Mr. Nukes had consented to withdraw his objection to his name being retained on the list of that company and take the objection to Lis name being retained on the Sidteis Yr. Sidney Smith said that by the course now suggested a man might lose his vote altogether, as if he were to nuke his choice of one company, through sonic informality or other circumstances, his name might be dropped out of that bd. Court—Was the objection ever made before? fair J. Duke WWI not aware that such au objection had been ever made. Mr. Nokea said that according to the custom of the city of London, a man who proposed to take out a freedom for • sewed centrally would be restrained from doing so. The Revising Barrister—But is it not the fact that gentlemen take out the freedom of different companies? Mr. Nokes said that though this was the fact, by the law it should not be permitted. Mr. Sewell, Clerl to the Chamber, and also clerk of the Lorimer) and Spectacle-makers' Companies, said that it had been decided by former barristers, that a person's name could not appear on the second list. It was hardly ever known that a person was to have his name on more than one list. It was never intended that a man should be a member of more than one craft. Mr. Ledger 5...1 that Mr. Sewell spoke of the custom of the City as be found it, hot it might change with the views of different courts. Mr. Sewell himself had, as clerk to the chamber, admitted Sir James as being member of more than one company. After some further discussion ' it was decided that Sir James's name should be retained on the Spectacle-makers' list, and that the decision of the court should be given on the revision of the Salters' list. We (Critie) hear there is some likelihood that we shell have the third and fourth volumes of Mr. Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great in the course of the winter. The third volume is printed, and the fourth well advanced. Both will be somewhat bulkier than the that and second. M. Guizot's pamphlet on the Church and the Christian World in 1861 is announced by Mr. Bentley. The Rot. H. Montague Butler, head reader of Harrow School, follows Dr. Temple, of Rugby, in printing airolume of sermons preached in the school chapeL The volume will be published by Mawr.. Macmillan and Co. The New Yurk Herall of the 14th announce. the arrival, per steamer Africa, of Prince de Joinville. The prince is accompanied by his son, Pierre Philippe, Due de Penthievre, and his nephews, Comte de Paris, and Due de Chartres, RODS of the late Duke of Orleans ; also by 14 Fauseil, H. Morhaiden, and Dr. Leclerc, who comprise hie suite. The prince has declined anything that might appear like a public reception. He state I that his visit was in accordance with a preconceived resolution—perma nently formed on his last visit—to place his sou at one of the naval academics of America. The prince reverted to the change which had taken place in the affairs of the country since his former visit, and es. pressed his warmest sympathy with the efforts of the go. vsrnment towards the suppression of the rebellion. As soon as the prince ha I completed arran;emente for transferring his son to the naval school, the whole party will visit Washington, and pay their respects to the President and his cabinet. From thence" they will make a tour West, have a peep at the wide-spreading boundless prairies —turn to the North, glance at the busy cities which have sprung up on the shores of the great lakes, pass overto the mighty Niagara, and from thence back here, en route to England." A despatch from Montresl, dated tho 13th, says : " Prime Napoleon remained last night to attend the dinner given by General Williams. He witnessed the review of the garrison yesterday. He laves this ternoon for Quebec." The Count and Countess de Chambord, and the Duchess of Parma, with her children, arrived at Vienna on the Mad. It wee rumoured that the count and countess were about to make an excursion to the Eat, uud that the duchess would in the meantime return to Frohalorf. Some curious machines are being offered to the public at the present exhibition at Metz. Among others is • parachute, invented by M. Jacitiet of Arms, to prevent the accidents to which workmen in mines are subject from the breaking of the ropes during their descent. M. van Guidertachen exhibits • collection of instruments for cool ing beer and other liquors served in public-houses 'luting hot weather. One is • glass pump, which is safe against the attacks of acids, and which ices the liquor according as it Is drawn from the cellar. A machine, invented by M. Genes of the Doabs, manufactures 400 nails in a minute. A machine for corking bottles is moved with the foot like the pedal of a piano. By this instrument, which costa from 30fr. to 36fr., 250 bottle, may be corked in an hour. There are specimens of paper manufactured solely of hay. Letters from Peath speak of harsh measures just taken by the Vienna government with leaped to several captains of the Austrian Lloyd's steamers that ply up and down the Danube, mid who have been ordered to abstain from entering Hungary. Baron Hicasoli has addressed a letter to the Governor-General of Tusosny, informing him that the King of Italy intends visiting certain parts of that province, but that it is his Majesty's special desire nod pleasure that no festivities or expensive preparations be anywhere made to receive him, his mole object being to become acquainted with the general condition of the people. Dots men IN Averata.—The following deplorable affair occurred on the 17th lust. at Enos. On the evening of that day young Count Almasy, lieutenant iu the Volun teer Hussar Regiment, and who was quartered there, en tered the public room of the much frequented inn the Black Eagle, where a great number of guests were assembled. All the sects were occupied, and, in his usual lively manner, he naked the waiter fora chair. Before the man could bring it the count observed a meant chair close to a lieutena nt of the same regiment, whose name is not mentioned, and he fen thwith seized it and pulled it quickly away ; but, as the lieutenant was portly using the chair, its sudden removal caused him to fell upon the ground. The consequence of this was angry discussion betweeu the two otticere, and the lieutenant, who held himself insulted by the tinceree mouious snatching away of the chair, challenged the young count to • duel with sabres. This forthwith took place, and the count received such desperate cuts that he died eight hours afterwards. He was buried vestenlay at Eons with great sole' iiii ity. The position of his adversary. who was slightly wounded, cannot be considered very enviable. The parents of the slain man were forthwith informed of their son's fate by telegraph. —Lircer Ab eß dba c SEAMEN AND ST/1/131 WARNINOS.—NOW that the winter months are approaching, the storm signals which are sent down by the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, through Rear Admiral Fitzroy, when led weather is threatening, are attracting a good deal of attention wow seafaring people in the north of England. On Saturday the drum was hoisted in Shields harbour, denoting that dangerous winds might be expected from nearly opposite quartets successively. On Monday the drum was Kaki hoisted, denoting the same source of danger, and on Tues day, at 4.15 p.m, a telegram was received from Admiral Fitzroy. "Hoist drum, and cone below, point down," in dicating dangerous winds from the south. The result of all this, if acted upon, would have been that the vessels ready for sea would have kept in harbour. But as on Sunday the weather was mild and the sea smooth, and as on Moeda/ and Tuesday it was blowing au "off-shore" wind, vess els ready proceeded on their voyages. On Monday morning, between 2 o'clock and daybreak, a fearful gale, wean!. penied with heavy rain, raged in the North Sea. but, as it blew off shore, vessels off the Durham and Yorkshire coasts escaped. The wind hgving got round to N.E., a fleet of vessels "over-due" were arriving in the Tyne and ether north east pow. from the Baltic and North of Europe on Tuesday and Wednesday. Is ! Y I i I.