The Express. — London, England, 1861-10-18 00:00:00

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Herbert awl It.ara r, tad Ara A. W 4.t0. —Awl DUNE ON BOTH al Ur..4.—tuniutt. lax at 7j. .111UTA‘IfIA. Tim Itviarsa, Ored Markary Mak. Weds stepisaa.-11111 GIPSY AMU Tlit: .11100 11 V. Mr. .1. Plantrass wed Mrs. W. Cranfortl.—Aa.l TUE fUL.A.SUN UV TIM 1/11•11AMs.--Coramaacs at halt.psat a. HMI WATIA AT LOCO 11111111/L To DAT —nolo, 11 0..... Altone. lb. 6.• w T2-loor —Oslo, AL Da— Allkoos. 11 Y.O. LONDON, FRIDAY, OCT. 18. TO ODR READERS. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. A !ate edition of the Expresx is publishal every evening during the racing season, containing the result* of the day's ram. Ti.. report of the meeting at St. James's Hall has informed our readers that the wasteful, sense less war in the Building Trade is raging as fieredy as ever. Nothing more wanton was ever heard of in the history of industry. There is work in abundance to do, capital in abundance to employ it, workmen wanting employment, and yet through the folly of some of the parties these elements cannot be combined into a fruitful union. The Strike began six months ago, and it seems that now, out of a body of 800 masons who compose that brand, of the trade in London, there are 259 living in voluntary idleness. It was pro posed at the meeting at Ht. James's Hall to raise a fnnd to supply these gentlemen with a pound a week to enable them to walk about the streets and examine the shop-windows. This is what Mr. Porrrs calls " making life sublime ;" and as be told the Metropolitan trades that "it would be a " disgrace to them if the thing was not done," we have no doubt the money will be forthcoming. In the 'course of the two years through which this contest has extended both parties have so put themselves in the wrong, that neither of them can claim the unreserved support of the public. It is important, however, to remember that the men were the avresson. The Secretary of the mason's strike told his audience on Wednesday night that in 1839, until which year the working day had been of ten hours' duration, the men of the Budding Tiede% came to the agreement that the labour of nine hours wan quite sufficient to give as a day's work in return for ss. 6d. How they ascer tained that nine hours was not too much, or eis. W. not too little, we are not told, and it does not in the least matter. Nobody will ever say that the workman is too well rewarded for his toil. It appeared, however, that the money named was sot to be had for nine hours' labour. The ar ticle was liked, but there was no buyer at the price. This fact was ascertained by an elaborate and costly experiment, in the course of which 22,0001. were paid through one organisation alone, that of the Conference, to the unemployed, while another 10,0001. was disbursed in a similar way through the three societies of the Brick layers, Carpenters, and Plasterers. It seen.. a great deal of money to pay for information that might have been had for less than a lawyer's fee. But, at the end of two years, the leaders of the men are no wiser than before, since they still go on talking as in 1859 about what ought to be the value of their labour, instead of looking round and finding out what it is. A tradesman who should do so would soon go unpitied into the Gwette. It is acknowledged that the builders de not work harder or longer than other people who have to get their living. The strike orators, in making this acknowledgment, say they are not bound to submit to onerous conditions because some workmen are under worse terms. Certainly not ; but the advisers of the men are bound to tell them that the value of labour will as surely find its level as will water ; that the artificial enhancement of its price in a particular trade will in a short time draw to it an excessive number of candidates for employment, and that the end will be worse than their beginning. Labourers are as clear-sighted as employers, and will not let any particular trade run away with a preferential dividend from the capital appropriated to the payment of wages. The working builders gained nothing, not even the wisdom of experience, by the strike of 1859. In the spring of 1860 they were once more at work on the old terms, but in March last they renewed the agitation for nine hours, and memo rialised the masters for that concession, with out, however, threatening another strike. A great deal has been said about the in trinsic nature of this demand, and the men have been charged with dishonesty in asking for ten hours' wages for nine hours' work. The charge would never have been made had the men preferred their demand directly in the form of an application for higher wages. When a provision dealer ;morose. in future to raise the price of his bases from 16d. to 20d. per pound, we might say that ire wants toga thirteen ounces at the price of sixteen ; but we don't. The workmen asked for two things—a reduced working day and a higher rate of wages, and since in their representations to the public prominence was given to the former object, the advocates of the employers in their communi cations brought the latter demand into the fore ground. This renewed demand of the workmen bad the effect of driving the masters into a close combination. They resolved to deal with the controversy about the length of the day by introdneing the system of payment by the hour. This would no doubt have had the intended effect had it been sincerely offered and readily accepted. It would have separated the question of the price of labour from that of the shortening of the day. AcoordiNly it was generally approved by the public shill first announced. It was thought that a man accepting these terms would be at liberty to work nine hours or ten, or occasionally eleven, as it should suit him, and be paid accordingly. This, however, it soon appeared, wee not the intention of sonic at least of the masters, who told THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18 1861. their men that no one would be allowed to work less than a ten-hours' day. It is certain that this intimation, which may have been founded in the necessities of trade, changed the whole character of the arrangement. If the men did not get their shorter day, they got nothing by the change. And they lost much. Their old recognised day of ten hours, esta blished by agreement with the masters thirty years ago, was broken down, and there was no longer a recognised day. " Overtime," or the right to be paid 50 per cent. extra for work done after the tenth hour—a right of far less conse quence in its pocuniaiy advantages than as a guarantee against the unnecessary extension of the working day—of course disappeared. The custom of overtime was fair on both sides : it did not exclude the employer from the liberty to call on his men for fut thee exertion after the expiration of the customary day; but it gave him a reason for not doing so, and it compensated the workman for the strain put upon his energies. If ad the dispute between the masters and men begun with the adop tion of this measure, the public, who must needs desire the maintenance of such customs as, with out interfering with individual freedom, tend to guard tho working classes against the lowering influences of excessive labour, would undoubtedly have taken part with the men. As it is, the men are the victims of their own folly. Without counting the cost they commenced systematic hostilities with capital, which is their best friend, and they suffer the fortune of war. A needless attack has been answered with sharp reprisals. And the end is not yet. Marseilles, and Bordeaux have been influenced by the committee at Paris. The law interdicting these kinds of associations has been too long violated." Count Persigny then requests the prefects to authorise these societies, if there be any such in their departments, without delay, according to the legal forms, and to ascertain whether they wish to have a central representation at Paris. The votes of these societies, it is added, are to be forwarded to the Ministry of the Interior, and the Emperor will determine upon the basis and principles of such central representation. " Until then," con cludes the circular, addressing the prefects, "you will prohibit the sittings of any superior central or provincial council, and will order their dissolu tion." The Mouiteur also announces that the Revue des Lake Monde' has received a first warning for its last fortnightly summary of political events, signed by E. Forcade. Nismes, Montpellier, or Toulouse, during any given time, the result would be au amount of causes of complaint about equal to what the Paris journal has attributed to Geneva. On the note of the Monitenr, stating that lues. sures are to be taken against anonymous pamph lets, the Prase says : We will simply remark that the pamphlets which have made the most noise in these latter times, such as "Napo leon 111. et Vitale," and "Le Pape et le Congrin," were not s igned, and yet their official origin bat never been con tested. it would be strange if the following of such an ex ample should lead to new restrictions upon the liberty of writing. DEATH OF HR. SHAR.VAN CRAWFORD. We regret to aunounee the death of William Sharman Crawford, Esq., which occurred at his sat, Crawfordsburn, near Belfast, yesterday afternoon. The demand gentleman sat in parliament at various times for Rochdale and for Dundalk, and was long prominent in Irish affairs, especially as en advocate of truant right. On general questions he voted with the English relics's. From the many placehunting " patriots " with whom during his long career he became politically associated, he was ever distinguished by the un selfishness of his views, and the high integrity of his character. be Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. 16. The Queen, accompanied by Princcsa Alice and Prince Louis of Hesse, drove yesterday to the &Boat Buie woods, mud then rode. Priecess }lotionlobe accompanied her Majesty to the woods and then drove home. The Prince Consort went out deer•stalkiug. Princess Helena went out riding. Viecount Palmerston left London yeaterday for Lis seat Broadlands, Haute. Earl Russell left town on Wednesday, for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. Her Majevty's Commissioners for the International Sabi. hitios of lesi2, have received a communication to the effect that the following gentlemen have Leen appointed • com mission for the Province of Quads: Mir William E. Logan. the Government Geologist, Chairman ; the lion. L. V. Bieotte, President of the Board of Agriculture, Lower Canada ; E. W. Thomson, Eeq., President of the Bused of Agriculture, Upper Canada; J. Beatty, Mar., Fag., M.D., President of the Board of Arta and Manufactures, Upper Canada; J. C. Tube, Fel., M.D., and B. Chamberlain, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Art. and Manufactures, Lower Canada. It hes als, been intimated Wiser Majesty's Commissioners that John Samuel, Faq., Consul-General of Guatemala, will eel, es Landau commissioner for that republic. Demistsben were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, from the governors of New Zealand, Canada, Malta, Lehman, the Australian Colonies, Ceylon, and Hong Kong. Tan Corsr.—The Court will return to Windage from Soothed on Thursday morning out, the 24th Ind. at 8 o'clock, her Majesty haring signified her intention to travel in the night, and will consequeatly leave Edinburgh, with the Prince Comport, royal family, and site, on the previous evening. Prince Arthur, attended by Major !aptitudes., arrived at the Orate en Sandal lest, where he will remain until the snivel of his royal parents. The Court will nimaia et the Castle 'tattle fortnight before Christmas, sad thee proceed to the his of Wight; but at present it is sot determined whether her Majesty will return to the Castle before Mistimes Day or remain at Osborn* watil New Test's Day. Taa Qtriszes LATE VISIT TO IRELAND.—Her Majsety, before leering Ireland, directed, through the Comptroller of her Household, that the milieu' , co open', should send in their bill, and it was paid at the sumo rate that the English comptuses receive when her Itajesty travels—that is, Ts. per mile for the special train, kc., and Stet class lane for her attendants ; usual fires for or. rimee and bones. The whole bill was 4,000/.—Presstaa's Journal. Their Highneames the Prineeerke Vladimir and Anatole Bariatinaky hare left the Clareadoo Hotel for Park. Tim Prince: Czernicheff and the Princess Marie have left Claridge's Hotel for Paris. Hir Excelleucy the Turkish Ambassador arrived at the Embassy, in Bryanston-sqoare, last eveoing, from Brussels. His Excellency the Hanoverian Minister comes to town to day from Herrenbau.en, where his excellency has been staying no a visit to the King of Hanover. His Excellency the Netherlands Minister left town last evening for Itrighks. His Excellency Count Lauskoi has left Clarilge's Hoeg far Paris. The Marquis and Marchioness of Northampton kayo town to-morrow for their seat, Castle Ashby, North azipicershirs. The Viscountess Strangford was yesterday mar ried to ths Has. Charles Hanbary, M.P., brother of Lord Bateau. Lord and Lady Reudlesham have loft the Cla rendon Hotel for Reudieuham-ball, Woodbridge, Suffolk. Lady Brougham leaves town to-day to meet lady Maki at St. Leouard'u•ou-Soa. Sir George Bowles has left towu ou a visit to Menet sedViscomitees Palmerston. at Brostllatals. The Caatlebar correspooddnt of the Irish Times eentsadiete his own report about one gentleman shooting avaibler, and says it was raised "for fuck" by a military gen allEan. To prevent any inconvenience •tieing from the temporary absence of • commissionaire from his station, and to enable persons living at • distoore from any established post to secure the services of • man withcut delay, the wires of the London District Telegraph Company have been extended to the barracks of the corps, and an order left at soy of the company's station. (a list of which le published in the monthly circular of the corps) bill swum the immediate attendance of a commissionaire at any part of London or the suburbs wishout any charge to the ens player for the menage. A corrclpondent of a contemporary writes :—" I have applied for some reserved sesta for the amterio of Film% both at Mr. Mitchell'. and at Mr. fisnis's libraries, eau was told there are none to be had. 0. limitary I moor taised the somewhat amusiog fact that tarp 400 seats have been sacrificed to—crinoline! The hall 11463,000 seated 16 inches each ; but the present fashion requires ltl and reduces the number of sittings by 370 or 375. When Francini produced his Mcwiad for the benefit of • charity io Dublin, the mammy are reported to have re guested the ladies to dispense with hoops for the occasion. Might sot the precedent ho followed on the 22nd, to enable a greater number of pennon to witness the woodrous per sail to add gnarly 403 f. to the charities in aid of which Medium. Lind-Goldisclimidt ham consented once more to leave bar retirement'!" It appears that M. Itattazzi, who arrived at Atria en Wednesday. has had an interview with M. Mier vend, and it is reported that he will shortly have a abase one with the Emperor. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRIGHTFUL MURDER IN ITALY BY AUSTRIAN OFFICERS. "The Austrians," says the Nationalit4s of Turin, " have just committed a revolting act at Monteochio Maggiore. A postmaster, named Finato, lately received orders to take two officers to a neigh bouring village, and he sent his son, a lad of 19, with a carriage to drive them. When the lad got to the place where he was to take up he found five officers who wanted to get into the carriage, and as he had been hired but for two he refused to carry them all. Thereupon one of the offioers, named Count Buri, struck young Finato violently, and the latter returned the blow. The officer then attempted to draw his sword, but Finato, more active than he, pushed the weapon back into the scabbard. Upon this the other four rushed upon the young man ; one of them wounded him mor tally in the neck, another cut off ono of his arms, the third fractured a kneecap, and all four con tinued to cut and thrust at him till he fell lifeless. As many as thirty officers, of all ranks, looked on quietly while this horrible assassination was going nu." FLORENCE. A Florence letter of October 13, in the Corm spooulaltre Bullier, says that .Garibeldi is expected to visit the Exhibition in that city, and that great preparations are making by the Mazziniat party for his reception. The Exhibition, though highly interesting and full of promise :for the future of Italy, has not attracted so many visitors as the inhabitants had hoped to see, and lodgings have fallen 20U per cent, from the extravagant rates at first demanded. AUSTRIAN TROUBLES. The convocation of the Diet of Transylvania has been indefinitely postponed ; the Diet of Hungary is dissolved : the Diet of Croatia has prorogued itself, or has been prorogued ; the Reichsratli has adjourned for the vacation without having voted a sin/le law for securing liberty to citizens. A Vienna journal publishes an analysis of the address which the Croatian Diet issued before separating. "If this analysis is correct, it will probably be a long time," observes the IPbats of to-day, "before Europe sees such another docu ment. The Diet, while keeping for its King the Emperor Francis Joseph, considers that it has nothing in common with the government of the rest of the empire —not even that of foreign affairs ; so that the Emperor Francis Joseph might on the same day sign a treaty of commerce with the Porte as King of Hungary, and declare a war of extermination against him as Kiug of Croatia. What a pleasant situatiorefor a sove reign of a tranquil mind ! But this is only a bagatelle. There is one thing which the Croatian Diet cannot pardon the Emperor—it is the having convoked it. The Diet itself declares its convocation illegal. The King of Croatia, it seems, has not the right to convoke the Diet ; that duty belougsj to the Ban. Consequently, the Emperor Francis Joseph, in bringing the Croatian Diet out of nothingness, has com mitted against that very same,Diet, which would not have existed if he had not convoked it, a.reirre parable outrage. Here there occurs to the mind of an impartial observer an endless series of rea sonings. If the Diet has been illegally convoked, it is illegal ; if it is illegal, it has though it were not ; if it does not exist, why does it discuss ad dresses 1 if it discusses addresses, why proclaim that it has not the right to disown them I" etc. PRUSSIA. KONIGSBERG, WIDIZIDAT Nowa. The Archduke Charles Louis of Austria arrived here at 8 o'clock last night. At 10 o'clock a special train brought the ambassadors and foreign ministers. The Hereditary Granil Duke of Russia arrived in the course of the night. A disastrous tire broke out last night at the Mittelanger. Two warehouses filled with corn and brandy, and also some livery stables, were burnt. (asirrsa's riusossits.) KONIOSBERO, Ocr. 17 , EVZNING. To-day, at the reception of the functionaries, aeputies,taTh — Talier persons.tinvited I to witneTistiLe coronation, the King, addressing the members of the Prussian Diet, said :—" I desired to summon the representatives of the chambers to my presence even before the coronation, and I thank you for having complied with my wish. The rulers of Prussia receive their crown I from God. To-morrow, therefore, I shall take the crown from the Lord's table and place it on mylLead. Thisiis the signification of the expres an,l' King,' by ithelgrace of God,' and therein sanctityof the crown, which is inviolable. I know that you will thus understand the meaning of the act which I have summoned you to witness. The crown has been surrounded by new institu tions, by virtue of which you are destined to afford it the benefit of your:counsel. Won will advise me, and I shall listen to your advice." FRANCE. PAR" Ocr. 1& The Moniteur of to-day publishes • circular, dated 16th instant, addressed by Count Persigny, Minister of the Interior, to the prefects of the departments, explaining the necessity of bringing the charitable societies established without the formal sanction of the government under the operation of the law. Count Persigny acknowledges the benefits diffused by these associations, and then speaks of the free masons, who, he says, are animated by a patriotism which has never failed them in great emergencies, and have not for a long time given the public authorities any serious cause of complaint, unless in reference to their central organisation, whose mode of election, tending to excite rivalry between the different lodges, and to disturb their good harmony, calls fur some modification. "But," Count Peraigny continues,!" it is advantageous to authorise freemasonry, and to recognise its ex istence." He also acknowledges the good done by the local societies of Saint Vincent de Paul, but regrets that the provincial committees, while pretending to afford encouragement to the different charitable societies, deprive them of the right of choosing their dignitaries, thus imposing themselves upon all the societies of a province, as if they wished to make them serve as the tool of an idea foreign, to charity. In reference to the Superior Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, now sitting in Paris, Count Persigny says :—" The government cannot approve of the ertistence of a kind of committee not appointed by the local societies which fills up its ranks by its own sole authority, assumes the right of governing the local societies iu order to form them into a secret association whose ramifica tions extend even beyond France, and collects from the societies a budget respecting the employment of which nothing is known. Such an organisation, in explicable on the sole ground of charity, is useless. The honourable and charitable people of Lyons, SPAIN. MADRID, Ocr. IT. The health of the Infanta Donna Maria Della Concepcion has suffered a relapse. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 12. (ViL Kusteudjie.) The Sultan goes to Ismid, on the Sea of Marmora, on Monday next, to lay the keel of a new steam frigate. It is rumoured at the Porte that his Imperial Majesty will visit Egypt in January next. Rive Paella will proceed to Smyrna to-morrow. The treaty of commerce between Turkey and Belgium was signed yesterday. THE DANUBLUT PRINCIPALTTIEE. BUCHAREST, Oar. 1& The Moldavian ministry, under the presidency of M. Pano, has resigned. A decree of Prince Couza provisionally entrusts the directors of the different ministerial depart ments with the administration of public affairs. GERMANY. HAMBURG, Ocr. 17. The question of the formation of a German fleet was discussed by the Burgerscbaft in its sitting of yesterday evening. It was resolved that the Senate should be again earnestly requested to act iu conformity with the views of Bremen in the negotiations now pending for the protection of the Get man coasts, and to bring forward a proposition to that effect for the consideration of thu citizens as soon as possible. BREMEN, Ocr. 17. The Weser Zeitling publishes the plan submitted by Bremen for the formation of a German fleet, ac cording to which Prussia would undertake to construct a fleet sufficiently strong to guard the coasts against any attack by Denmark, and to pro tect the German flag in Eastern Asia. This fleet would also have to comply with the requisitions of the consular agents of all the German States. The amount to be contributed by the people of the different German governments towards the cost of constructing and maintaining the fleet would be fixed according to the following scale : In tho states in the interior of Germany the people would pay 2 silbergroschen per head ; In the states bordering on the sea, 3 saber groschen per head ; In the Hansa Towns, 12 silbergroscheu per head. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Oor. 17. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Saxon* Captain labors, from New York on the sth inst., has arrived here. She briny; 8 passengen for Southampton, 118 for Hamburg, and 40 for Havre. The Saxonia's news has been anticipated. THE OUTWARD WEST INDIA, PACIFIC, AND PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 17. The Royal Mail Company's steamship La Plata, Captain Weller, sailed hence to-day, at 2.30 p.m., with the fortnightly mails far the British and foreign West Indies, Mexico the Pacific, California, and Central America. She llook out 161 pawners amongst whom are Mr. F. Sey mour, President of Honduras, for Belies ; Captain WA,. weigh and Captain Blyth, for Jamaica • Assistant-Surgeon Ley and Ensign Thomas , for Barbados. The La Plats took on freight English silver coin, 6,6001. ; gold coin, 5001. ; jewellery, 7641. ; French jewellery and watches, 5,0901. ; and a fall cargo of general merchandise. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Alham. bra, Captain Steward, also sailed hence to-day, with the Peninsular mails, 30 passengers, 20,0001. in sovereigns for the Bank of Porta/cal, and a general cargo. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (110/1 OUB 01n1 COBIZIIPONDMIT.) PARK THUIL4DAY Emma. There is little news to-day, but the newspapers are very free in their censure of the two leading domestic events of yesterday—namely, the Grand guillot attack upon Geneva, and the Moniteur's threats against anonymous pamphlets. On the first of the above subjects the Pr esee says : The replies to-elay to the Geneva Council of State. Letting alone the ridiculous solemnity of this defence, we will confine ourselves to the remark that the journal has failed to produce any serious answer to the contradiction inflicted upon it. The Tempo writes The Conditattionmei would have done better to have kept its defence to dealt We know not what effect it may pro duce in Geneva, but wo can hardly think it possible that it will be accepted as serious. Under pretence of fortifying its former assertions, or rather of substituting others for those which the Genovese contradiction has destroyed, it descends to the last degree of old woman's gossip. But what is particularly odd I. that the letter which it cites in support of Be allegation, and which, by the way, is in no sort proved to be authentic, purports to come from an old Frenchman of a quiet disposition named Dubois. How does it happen that this respectable elderly gentleman, who lives upon his property, and therefore is under no necessity to reside in Switzerland, should choose to dwell in n spot where there is no safety for his eettritrytnert,and where any body may be killed for 5 francs ? Even the legitimist journals,which have no great leaning towards republican Switzerland, join in the cry against the outrageous inventions of the Con stitutionnel. The Munde showed its feeling by pub lishing the letter of the Geneva Council of State while the Cionatitutionnel was taking time to CAMIL• eider what it should do. The Union speaks as follows : The Co•stitntio•nel ham • right to enter into discussion with the Geneva Council of State, and we only hope that truth and justice may prevail. But, in our humble opinion, the Constitutionnet is bound. as • preliminary step in the controvers3, to prove the falsity of the words put in the mouth of M. Thouvenel. Bow can the Constittaionnel take upon itself to affirm that it knows what the Minister for Foreign Affairs declares he does not know? This is surely very presumptuous, and the Constitution/se/ had better mind what it is about ; its defence is almost an accu sation of M. Thouveners diplomatic and consular agents. The Sielck, in remarking on the reply of the Con atitutionnel to the letter of the Council of State of Geneva, observes that if a Swiss journal thought fit to enumerate all the crimes and grave offences committed in any large French town, such as The Gazette de France sarcastically observes : We know not what may be the nature of the measures to be taken to check the progress of anonymous writing, but we only hope they will not be retrospective, and that the author or authors of "Le Pape et le Congria," " Napoleon UL et l'Angleterre," &c., will not be molested, and that M. de la Ouerronni4e will enjoy in peace his vacation retirement in the Pyrenees. The Temps, wort: seriously, treats as follows of the same subject : The Moniteur announces that measures are to be taken spinet anonymous pamphlets ; but would it not have been better not to have created the necessity for such measures? The pamphlets lately published are but the wretched tail of other anonymous pamphlets, which produced a justifia ble situation, and led the public to believe that the govern• ment liked to communicate with it by such means. Now some new preventive and repressive measures will probably be devised. Would not liberty be a surer means of parrying the evil complained of ? As we have often said, and as the Sit-fe repeats this morning, " People abroad fully believe that nothing is printed in France without the ap probation and sanction of the government, and it is solely in the existence of this conviction that consists the incon venience of pamphlets. Let the press laws be changed, and Europe may be inundated with pamplileu without their eausitg any anxiety." The Daats says : We confess that, whenever " the attention of govern ment "is called to the state of the press, we experiewo sensations analogous to those of the stag in the fable, when he suddenly sees his master's eye sparkle. Heaven grant that, after having so often censured anonymous pamphlets, we may not be at length /reduced to become thei.• de- fender. As bad been arranged, the Emperor yesterday took the King of Holland to Versailles. After lunch, which was served in the Salle Louis XIII., their Majesties went to shoot in the preserves. Iu the evening their Majesties dined at the Tuileries, after which the Emperor returned to Compiegne, leaving his royal visitor in Paris, where he is to remain until Saturday. His Majesty honoured the Cirque Imp&Ede with his preseuce last evening, to witness the performance of Prise de Pekin, and the night before went to the Italians to see the Barbkre de Sesijlia. The King, during his short incognito visit to Paris, will stay at the Dutch Legation. On Saturday morning his Majesty returns to Compiegne, to take leave of his Imperial host. The King was fully expected at the Grand Opera last night Carpets were laid down on the stair case, and the manager, wax candles in hand, was waiting to receive him. The Rue Lepelletier was lined with spectators, and I myself, as I saw his Ma jesty in one of the Imperial carriages going along the Boulevard des ltaliens, at half-peat 8 in the evening, took it for granted that he was on his way to the Opera. But it appears that his Majesty, who held to his bargain that he was to be incognito in Paris, objected to the preparations made for him, and drove along the Boulevards to the Cirque, where nobody had the least idea of seeing him. "We have reason to know," says the Pays, "that by an exception which rarely occurs, the Kiug and Queen of Prussia will honour with their presence a grand fête which the Duke do Magenta intends giving at Berlin. Their Majesties have, it is said, declined all other invitations." A Paris letter in the France Centrale of Blois states that the Empe ror of the French presented the Duchess de Magenta, before her departure for Komigsberg, with 40,000 fr. of diamonds, and 10,003 fr. for three dresses which she is to wear at three grand fetes to be given by the duke, in his position of Ambassador Extra ordinary of France at the Prussian coronation. The only two exceptions cited to the rule that the King of Prassis does not visit any subjects, are the visite of the late King to the Orleans princes in 1836, and to Prince Napoleon in 1857. Thu Bourse, after an agitated market, leaves off with scarcely any change from yesterday. It is understood that the Bank has not raised its rate of discount to-day. Rumours of a ministerial crisis continue to be current, notwithstanding the telegraphic contradiction of them. The new Turkish Minister at War, Mehemed Ruchdi Pacha, has arrived at Paris, where he proposes to pass a few days. This is his first visit to France. M. Thouvenel gives him a grand diplomatic dinner this evening at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The marriage of Captain Leopold Magnan, son of the Marshal, with Mdlle. 1:141en Heritoff, daughter of the late M. Heritoff, ex-Consul- General of Greece at St. Petersburg, took place yesterday morning, first at the Madeleine and afterwards at the Russian church, in the Faubourg St Honor 4. The bride is said to possess an un usually large fortune. Another wedding was celebrated at the Greek church immediately after the above, that of General Ratrutuioff, a Councillor of State and Chamberlain of the Emperor of Russia, with Mdlle. Wilden, a young pianoforte player, who obtained a first prize at the Conservatoire last year. THE SULTAN AND HIS HOUSEHOLD. A correspondent of the Morning Poet, writing from Constantinople, Oct. 7, says :—" I believe that I re ported at the time, in common with everybody, that the Sultan had, on his accession, struck a heavy blow at poly gamy by declaring his intention to reform his harem bills by keeping only one wife. If so, I regret to have to spoil the excellent impression which so exemplary a piece of news must have produced byf now apprising you that his Majesty has already increased his conjugal stud to four kadins, several ikpals, and a tolerably strong con tingent of guNlis, which, being interpreted, mean, 'the lofty in rank; 'those who have found favour,' sod 'those who please the eye.' The first of these categories may Le increased to seven, and includes the fortunate ladies whose rank is as nearly as possible equivalent to that of ' wives for it is a western fallacy that the Sultan ever marries.' The first scveu of his ladies have, in the order of their accession, wifely rank; but mar riage ceremony, such as loosely binds other true believers, there is in his august case none. Next to these in the haremic hierarchy come the ikpals, for tunate fair mica, from whom the supreme seven are geite rally recruited in awe of death or penal bestowment on a Yacht. Whilst each of the kadins has a suite of about 40 attendants, these secoad-cless heeds hove severally an at- tendance of 'Si or 30. They are themselves either singled out by the imperial taste front amongst the retinue of the kadins, or are special purchases and presents to his Majesty by one of these latter. The gozdis, like the ikpals, are limited to no number, and differ from the latter rather in the degree of their hold on the imperial 'eye' than in original inferiority of rank in the household. But when they have gratified the sublime optic, be it only for once, they cease to belong to the rank and file of the great female brigade, and attain a substan tive status and attendants of their own. With all three of these categ ries of pro-conjugal stock, then, I am assured by no meaner authority than one of the palace physicians th►t his Majesty ■ already well provided, having, es I say, four of the first sod a fair number of both the wood and the third. So much for the highly respectable story of one wife. And not only does what I now report dispose of that ethical fable, bat it plays havoc, too, • regret to say, with half the statements which Lave been made as to palace reform. It was said weeks ago, and locally believed by all Pere, that the whole of the late Sultan's harem had been shipped over to the old seraglio, and there installed on the meagrest of board wages. Indeed, I believe I reported as much myself at the time, end lavished deserved praise on his Majesty for such ex cellent energy and good manse. Well, the informant above referred to now assures me that not ono of Abdul lledjid's whole ' eight hundred' has yet left Dalma-baktche'. Apartments are, indeed, being prepared for them at the old semi, but as yet they remain at the new palace—swelling the total of womankind now within its precincts to nearly thirteen hundred. The Vali& Sultana has a suite of GO female attendants, besides a strong contingent of eunuchs ; each of the kudins, as I have said, has 40, with 'neutrals' to match; and the inferior favourites their double suites iu proportion. Add to these an ' establish ment' for each of the six eons of the late Sultan, and foe even the five-year old eon of the present, for whom a little Omani= girl-playfellow was bought the other day at • oast of 30,0G3p., and you have, with the aggregate of Abdul Yedjki's women, the monstrous total above stated in THE VISIT OP THE PRINCE OP WALES TO CL UMBER. WORKSOP, THORSDAT. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived at the station last night, a few minutes before 7 o'clock, from Crewe, via Manchester, accompanied by Major-General the Hon. B. Bruce and Captain Grey. He was met by the Duke of Newcastle and his son (Lord Lincoln), both of whom his royal highness shook cordially by the hand. The duke then conducted his royal guest across the platform. The vast assemblage present, includ;ng the volunteers under the command of Captain Mason, applauded him heartily, the band of the corps playing the National An them. His royal highness wu then conducted out of the station by the duke to the carriage awaiting to convey him to Clamber. The (lumber troop of Yeomanry Cavalry were drawn up, and escorted the royal party to Clumber. A large number of penance were congregated outside the station, and they cheered loudly as the Prince of Wales was handed into the carriage by the Duke of Newcastle. The cortege, without the least delay, drove away, the people and the volunteers cheering more loudly than before. Gen. Bruce rode in the carriage with his royal highness, the Duke of Newcastle and his eon being on horseback. The following nobility and gentry have accepted the invitation of his grace to meet his royal highness :—The Marquis of Hat Roston, Earl and Countess Heave', Earl of Sefton, Lord and Lady Proby, Lord aml Lady Belper, the Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons and Lady Deoison, Major-General Brune, Mr. and Mrs. Mennen Sutton, Colonel and Mrs. Wright, Lord Edward Clinton, Captain Grey, Mr. Goldwin Smith, and Mr. and Mn. Eoglehoret. We understand that Lady Lincoln is detained by Plows. In addition to the guests named above, the following nobility and gentry will dine with the Prince :—Viscount Galway, M.P., and Viscountess Galway ; Lord and Lady Foley, Worksop Manor; Mr. Foljamlbe and Viscountess Milton, Chberton-hall ; the Ladies Clinton, Ranby-house ; Major and Mrs. Welfit ; Mrs. Bridgeman Simpson, Bab worth-hall ; Mr. and Mrs. Granville Vernon, the Grove Captain and Mrs. Machin ; and the Mayors of Nottingham, Newark, and Retford. . Accompanied by the noblo host and the guests, his royal highness riled down the noble Like to Hardwickm The Prince went over the farm premises there, and also visited the model village) in course of erection there. It is not intended, so far as we can learn, that any ed dies/es shall be made, and this is confirmed by the follow ing letter, which his Grace the Duke of Newcastle has ad• dressed to the Mayes of Sheffield : " (lumber, Oct. 15. "Sir ' —I am sorry to be obliged to decline, on behalf of the Prince of Wales, the presentation of the address which by your letter received this morning it is the wish of the corporation of Sheffield to prepare. In so doing I cannot say that I have his royal highness's direct authority, and there is not time to communicate with him, but I am sure that it is his desire that the visit to Clamber should be considered private, and addresses from public bodies would obviously be inconsistent with that character. You may be assured, however, that the proposition of the corporation shall be duly communicated to his royal highness on his arrival here to-morrow.-1 am, dr, your very obedient servant, " Nrweseenz.* The Prince will leave Clamber for Cambridge about 110011 me Saturday. During that day the park will be thrown open to the public. It has already been stated that the King of Prussia has promised to be present at a magnificent Pte given by the Duke of Magenta. His Majesty, it appears, has also accepted an invitation to • ball which is to be given by the Earl of Clarendon. GOOD LIVING IN A POOR COUNTRY.—The Neu r ellistr Vaudois rye :—" The aerated dinner given by the Swiss Federal panel to the diplomatic body teat place at the Hotel du Amon, at Berne. The price, exclusive of wine, was IC . /fr. a bead, and the total of the bill to be paid by the Confederation amounts to 10,000 fr. It is true that for that pries everything was done in first-ride style, and that the guests withdrew well satisfied with the excellent arrangements made by the authorities for their reception." DEAF AND DUMB MARRIAGE IN LEEDS.—On Wed- ' swam- &young MAO and woman, respectably connected, and both deaf auddumb, were menial at the of of the Superin teudent Registrar, South-parade, Leeds. The bride and bride groom attended, accompoinial by their friends. including • Mother of the latter, who is also suffering from the de privation of the genies of hearing and speaking. The cere mney was conducted by Mr. Geo. Beckwith, the registrar, who wrote down the usual questions, the answers being given by the bride and bridegroom in writing. The mar riage excited considerable interest, • similar ceremony not having occurred in Leeds for some years. THE FORTHCOMING SWIMMING MATCH.—The third deposit of 10/. has been duly posted for the great swimming race on Wednesday evening next, between Deer foot, the champion runner, and Beckwith, the champion swimmer. The distance to be traversed is twenty lengths of the Lambeth bath, Beckwith allowing his opponent fifteen seconds start. The remaining deposit of 20!. will be staked at the bath on the night of the race, the start for which will take place shortly after 8 "'dock. Betting is going on very briskly between the friends of the contending parties, and Beckwith will have to leek well to his laurels, or the start he has given will enable the " tawny son of the prairie" to snatch them from him. NEW USE FOR CRINOLINE.—In a village in Buchan, where pests are more common for fuel than costa, a damsel of 25 was taking home some peata on what is termed a peat-harrow, which is generally about 18 inches broad. Finding this rather narrow for a sufficient load to be built upon, she very coolly took off her crinoline and spread it out on the framework of the harrow, thus extend , iug the foundation fur her load scene four or five feet, and bravely filled the whole with needful fuel. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT TO A RIFLE MARKER, AT AIIRPORD.—Mr. T. P. Delman; the county coroner, has held an inquiry on the body of Sergeant Whorley drill instructor to the 20th Kent Rifle Corp, who was killed 1 while marking at the practice of that corps. The whole of the witoesses exonemted Private Williams, who fired the fatal shot, from all blame, as the . red flag wan not exhibited in sufficient time, when deceased appeared before the butt, to enable Williams to refrain from discharging his rifle. At the conclusion of the evi -1 dente, the coroner summed up. expressing his opinion that the occurrence was purely accidental, and the jury, baying retired for a few minutes, returned their verdict as fel : lows :—" We find that Sergeant Whorley was accidentally shot while marking at the title butt." With this verdict . the jury coupled a recommendation that in future no firing practice should be allowed without the use of the algal* 1 ordered by the Ilythe school of musketry. THE REGENT OUTRAGE ON A lrouNo LADY IN Duattze.—Dusus, THONSDAT.—The further examination of the cabman, Jamee Curran, who stands charged with the felonious assault on a young lady at the Milltown-roal, will be proceeded with to-morrow morning at the bead police-oflioe. Active steps have been and are still heir taken by the police to procure evidence in the case. It ii said that the prisoner will be defended by Mr. J. Curra instructed by Mr. Charles Fitmentld. The crown counsel will attend to prosecute. THE RECENT BURGLARIES IN THE NORTH AND EAST EIDINGN.—It would now appear that the re mainder of the gang of burglars who have of late infested this neighbourhood have, since the committal of Cosgrove, left the locality. One man, at feat, is known to be yet at large. and it is pretty plain that he is not in this district, or he would ere now have recovered the property which has just been found bidden near Scarborough. On Tuesday, a farmer of the name of George Reynolds, whil e enga g e d with his men in thrashing out a stack of corn in a field between Lebberston and Scsrborongh, came upon a quantity of silver plate and two guns that had beta thrust into the stack. The place is proved to belong to Mr. Skelton, of Lebberston, on whose premises, it will be remembered, the last burglary was ere mitted. The spoons and some other articles PM marked with his initials. The guns are also identified as belongieg to Mr. Stubbs, of Reighton from whose house they were felonionsly taken a few nights previous to the robbery at Mr. Skelton's. They were both loaded, when found, with No. 2 shot. It is hoped that this district is new clear Q' the dangerous miscreants who have so long infested it. L_._i