The Express. — London, England, 1861-10-16 00:00:00

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A. 151.1. and Ilesau Maws Heraert and Romer, and Mr, A.Wlip.k.—And DIMS lON 11111/TH I.ol4—Commesee at 71. isRITA VI I A. Tn ET10:110, faL DE PIAN7ILLANE.—no OrrlS Varliwy triddiftr Ati llesa.—TUE tilPaY AND TIIE Amon M 4%. Mr. J. Phimpasm Yd Mrs. W. erant..M. —AD.l d d•ISV to V aNsllollll.—Cammasca at lull vabl O. _PION WATR AT LONDON SMOOT. Tao D..r 2 %1;r7i.;: ili:127L:::Allio OIL 4411 l To miumoT —ll,eulag. IL ft.—. itafigaZi. IL Wm LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16. TO OUR RIADIRR. - *- SPORTING DiTELLIODICE. A !ate edition of the &press is published every evennig during the racing season, containing the ranks ol the derv's meIR Wr. have had more than once to remark sa a sign of a telexed and unhealthy state of the public Hanel iii the Free States of the American Union, the eagerness with which every expression of Eng lish opinion is caught up and analysed there. The work to be done is so great, and it is so certain that it must he accomplished by Americans unaided, that their well-wishers here cannot but desire for them a firm moral independence, as a pledge of the energy with which they have devoted them selves to their task. They do not want our ma terial help, and we cannot advise them. Neither can we sign drifts for sympathy in blank. Remo. lotion and energy concentrated upon a good cause have no need to canvass the world for applause, and if our friends across the Atlantic had shown more decisions:el promptitude we should have heard less about the failure of support from this aide. It is not by any means of small importance what our public speakers and writers say of the American cause in this terrible crisis. It matters very much what sympathies are disclosed and what principles avowed ; but it matters chiefly to 'IX. Our repu tation in the eyes of the world, and what is of infinitely more consequence, our character for sin cerity and true liberality is in question. It is the fashion to speak of institutions as Dow on their trial. It would be well to remember that the trial of a defendant is at the same time the trial of the judge and the jury. The morality of English men is being put to the test. As a nation we may be proud of the result, as the Americans, when calmer and better informed, will confess. We have confounded their calumnious prophets of the South, who hastened this wicked conspiracy by per suading their credulous followers that our hatred of Slavery was so much hypocrisy that would disap pear with the first advance of a farthing a pound in cotton. hut on the other hand we have had melancholy revelations of unsuspected baseness. The nation has been publicly counselled to shut its eyes to the right and wrong of the case, and in violation of public law to break the blockade for cotton. More and worse than this, we have mien, end that not in Tory journals, but in newspapers dedicated to a noisy popular liberality, Slavery broadly advocated, and the institution of a great Slave Confederacy bailed by men who could see a triumph of liberty in an enlargement of the brutal license of the oppressor. These are things to make men pause amidst the universal exchange of congratulations upon our unexampled moral and intellectual progress, and ask themselves what hidden leaven is working so to corrupt our society. Earl ItusAet.i. has spoken of American affairs at Newcastle with a freedom which has marked his whole career as a Foreign Minister. The noble lord tells us why be feels at liberty to express his opinions with so little reserve. It is that, independently of the correctness of those particular opinions, the course of the Government is plainly marked out. Neutrality is so clearly our duty, the action of the Government is so plainly forbidden, that a Mi nister may speak without risk of giving occasion to false inference... Earl GRANVII.J.E and Mr.Gtze eyrie e had spoken to the same effect at Liverpool, and Earl or Gem - at Ripon. We suffer, and cannot but suffer, by the troubles in America—they have imposed ou us duties which are attended with great sacrifices. But we shall not seek to escape them by resorting to illegitimate means. Such is the uniform tenor of these Ministerial speeches. We have said that this union of frank speaking with an open and avowed policy is a peculiarity of Earl Ituassix's administratiou of the foreign affairs of the country. To this hour the puzzle-pated admirers of the Earl of Mai lIESSVIIy have never been able to understand the neutrality and non-intervention of the noble lord in Italy, never been able to see that a determination to leave other Governments and peoples to settle their own affairs does not in the least imply, on our part, the surrender of a right to hold and pronounce judgment on their public acts. And yet it must be obvious that for Eng land the rule of non-intervention is only applicable as Earl RURACLI. has understood it. We cannot, then, find fault with the Noble Lord for expressing his concern for the interests of free dom in America as they are affected by this war. No candid American will find in his speech anything but the most kindly feeling and the best wishes for his country. The anxieties which he confesses, have been felt more or less by all friends of Am'rican freedom. Our only regret is that the Noble Lord having said so much did not carry his thoughts farther. We do not object to see this war described as one for empire on the one hand, and for independence on the other, it being under stood that, as everybody knows, empire in this case carries with it the full enjoyment of the freest constitutions in the world, and that independence is identified with the dark, heavy rule of slavery. England has done some service in the cause of the independence of nations, and she hopes to do more ; because independence, although distinct in its nature from the desire of moral and social progress, has, within the pale of European civilization at least, been associated with that progress as its condition and means. It is so wherever men are ingenuous and uncorrupted. Thus we have applauded the efforts of Italy to emancipate herself. be lieving that her people only needed liberty to work out their regeneration. If, however, THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER . 16, 1861. we could conceive the representatives of the na tion as meeting in convention at Milan or Turin, deliberately founding their political and social state in a crime which the conscience of the whole world condemns, and then publishing and glorying in their iniquity, we think we could look on very calmly if BENEOCK, crossing the Po, brought them under apprenticeship to honesty. We ask pardon of the Italian people for eompariag them, evou for a transient purpose, with the semssionists of North America. We hear too much of the claims to independence of a set of turn who never yet respected the independence of others. Earl Itt - simu. indicated an opinion in which most persons will agree, when he described the evils of a reconstruction of the Union with slavery as one of its elements. We believe that to be a grow ing conviction amongst classes in North America, who were but lately the strongest opponents of Abolition. In such an event either the civil war would before long recommence, or the lot of the slaves, and what is more, of the white friends of the slaves, would be rendered intole rable. We should have been glad, however, to hear on what grounds the noble lord, who sees so clearly the evils of every other alternative, thinks that a separation acquiesced in by the North is the way to permanent pthice. This is a point which wo never see discussed by those who most persistently condemn the prosecu tion of the war by the Cabinet of Washington. Does anybody suppose that the South will be less exacting as a powerful and independent State than it was as a Confederate ? Will the South, for instance, be less ready to demand of the North the delivery of its fugitive slaves because it has become a united and powerful nation, and will the North be more able to refuse the de mand of an Extradition Treaty than it could evade a Fugitive Slave Law ? The statesmen of the North know that it would be impossible to live in peace with the imperious successful South, ex cept on terms of perpetual degradation. The cause is in the social constitution of the Slave States. That cause destroyed, there is no reason why the two sections should not again coalesce. But with Slavery rampant, neither as separate republics nor as one confederacy can they live in peace. The curse of Slavery is on both parties, and they must either now, or at no dis tant day, fight out their battle, or consent to sink together into a common degradation. Such is the deliberate opinion of sober and grave men in America. We should have been glad if Earl Russm.i. had taken account of it. The Mille letters express fears on account of the celebration of the Kosciusko anniversary which is to take place on the 15th Oct. MONTENEGRO. RAGUSA, Oce. 15. The Turks entered Montenegro the day before yesterday. They have also attacked Lukovo. The Prince of Montenegro has demanded satis faction from the Porte through the International Commissioners. INDIA. CALCUTTA, SKr?. 14. (by Telegraph to Poiatcle Galls). Grey shirtings active, and prices advancing. Mule twist active, at previous quotations. Raw silk quiet. Indigo, nothing new to report. Copper ac tive. Sheathing as last quoted. Tile 4 annas higher. Sugar firmer. Saltpetre active, but prices unchanged. Linseed 1 anna higher. Jute ad vancing. Shellac active, at former quotations. Rice unchanged. Hides active, and prices ad vancing. Exchange—Baring's Credits, 2a. Old. Government Securities, Four per Cents., 17} dir count ; ditto Five per Cents., 4 discount. Freights dull and declining. BOMBAY, Barr. 14 (by Talevaph to Point de Gas). Cotton dull and declining. Linseed unchanged. Piece goods quiet, but firm. Twist dull. Five per Cent. Government • Securities, 951. Freights declining. CHINA. CANTON, Aucca Grey aliirtinga active, but unchanged ; water twig unchanged ; tea advancing. Total export to date, 18,574,0001 be. Exchange on London, one farthing lower. FOO-CHOW4OO, Amnia 17. l. SHANGHAI. Avoca 18. Tea dull and unchanged. Grey shirtings and tea declining ; silk unchanged ; settlements in the fortnight, 3,600 bales ; export to date, 7,400 bales. Exchange on London, lid. lower ; on India, 4 rupees lower. Freights for tea and silk unchanged. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Ocr. 4. (Per Jura, vi 4 Quebec and Londonderry.) The latest reports received from Lexington, rid Jefferson City, state that General Price had evacu ated the place and gone southward, to join M'Cul loch, intending, after effecting this junction, to give battle to General Fremont. It was thought he would endeavour to place himself between Jefferson City and the Federal forces under the command of Davis and Siegel, thus cutting off the latter, who intended joining General Fremont at Jefferson City. Lexington is now occupied by the Federal troops under Major Sturges. A report from Western Virginia says that ten companies of Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia troops, on a day not specified, attacked and routed the Confederates at ChapinansvWe, killing ten and taking 200 prisoners. From the same unreliable source it is reported that a battle was going on between General Cox and the Confederate Generals Floyd and Wise. Reports are in circulation that the Confederate General 13ackner, with 5,000 troops, threatens an attack on Spottisville, Missouri. The Richmond papers say that 250 Federal pri soner were sent to New Orleans on the 24th ult. The steamer Northern Light has arrived from Aspinwall with mwrly 1,000,000 dole. in specie. Affairs at Washington appear not to be materially changed. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FARTHER POINT. NEW YORK, Ocr. 5. There are unmistakeable indications that a battle will be fought on the Potomac within the next two days. General Sharman supersedes General Anderson in Kentucky. It is reported on good authority that the British steamer Bermuda has run the blockade at Savannah. The Federal chartered gunboat Fanny has been captured inside Hatteras, near Roanoke Island. Several vessels are loading ammunition at Ha vannah for the Confederates. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE NEW YORK, Ocr. 6, Emma. Exchange—Bankers' bills, 107}; money in better demand. Stocks firm. New York Central, 75i. Illinois, I (6O 1). Erie, 28g. Cotton firm. Pro visions quiet. Spices iu active speculative demand. Large sales of pepper and nutmegs. LONDONDERRY, Ocr. 15. The Canadian screw steamer Jura, which arrived here to-day. passed the Norwegian on the 7th, and the North American on the 10th inst. QUEENSTOWN, Ocr. 15. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of New York, from New York on the sth inst., is reported off the harbour. NEW YORK, Om. 4, Emtuto. (Per City of New York, rid Queenstown.) Genera! Wool has arrived at Washington for the purpose of consulting the Federal Cabinet. It is reported that he will proceed on a tour of inspec tion through the Western departneut. The rumours of General Fremont's removal have created great excitement at St. Loris. Mr. Seward has telegraphed to General Fre mont that he is not ordered to Washington, and that no court-martial has been ordered on him. General Reynolds reports to the War Depart ment that he had a successful engagement with the Confederates during a reconnaiasauce at Cheat Mountain. A large number of Confederates were killed, and many horses and cattle were captured by the Federal& It is reported that the Confederates have with drawn behind Manassas. Geueral Buckner is said to he advancing further into Kentucky, and collecting arms on the way. The Richmond hcripitals are reported to contain ovur 12,000 patients. Southern parties confirm this report. _ _ The Confederates have abandoned Ship Nand. General MVlellan has issued an order according to which the penalty of death will be indicted ou all soldiers committing depredations. The Federal government has chartered all the Vanderbilt steamers. They are now being fitted out at New York as transports. LIVERPOOL, Ocr. 16. _ . . The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamship City of Baltimore, which mailed hence to-day for New York, took 56,2001. in The Morintenfo of Genoa aim:want:ea that Father Fames left Rome on the sth. A Vienna journal a few days ago contained an extraordinary account of as alleged Interview at Ve nice between some Italian ladles and Marshal Mager, who was lately in that city. The marshal was represented r having refused to reoeive a bouquet offered him, and as having de. dined to be considered am sympathiaing with the Venetian canes. The Dibatt of to-day, however, contains a letter from the marshal, dated Compi4ne, Monday, in which he gives a complete denial to the whole story. Ifs saw no deputation whatever, refused no bouquet, and pre expres sion to no such sentiments as an attributed to him. SIR WILLIAM CUBIT, F.R.8., k.c. The engineering world has lost another of its notabilities in the person of Sir William Cubitt, who expired on the 13th instant, after an illness which had prevented him fur some years from fol lowing his professional career. He was a very early member of the institution of Civil Engineers, of which he was one of the Presidents. He was an eminently practical man, and had entrusted to him many important and difficult works, which were executed very snccesafuUy. In early life he made some eminently useful inventions in several branches of mechanics, and when the Great Exhi bition of 1851 was projected the supervision of the construction of that novel building was entrusted to bins, and on the successful termination of that work he received the honour of knighthood. The last great works upon which be was engaged were the two large floatuis; lauding stages in the Mersey at Liverpool, and the new iron bridge across the Medway at Rochester, all remarkable works, and worthy terminations of a very active and useful professional career. Stir William Cubitt was very highly esteemed anions his profeeional brethren, and in private life he may be said to bays nose bet warm friends. ebt Court. BALMORAL, OCT. 13. The Queen, accompanied by the Princes* Alice, went out tiding on Saturday afternoon. The Prince Onnort and the Prince of Wales went out Primer; llobsulohe and the Princesses Helena and Louise drove out. OcT. 14. The Queen and the Prince C 01103 04 the Prince of Wiles, Princess Holieslobe, Princess Alice, and Prince Louis at Hems, attended by Ur Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine &orrice in the parish church of Crathie, yesterday. The Her. Mr. M'Duff officiated. There wu no addition to the royal dinner party. Her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhi bition of 1862 held a meetisg at their offices in the Strand yesterday. Despatches were seat yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Lord High Commisnoner of the lonian Islands. PROROOATION or PA/MIAMI/R.—At the COUR at Balmoral, the 11th day of October, ISO. Present, the queee's most excellent Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Connell that the Parliament which stands prorogued to Tuesday. the ?hid day of October instant, be further prorogued to Tuesday, the 17th day of Deessuber next.—Oazette. At the Court at Balmoral, the 11th day of October, lif6L Preseat, t►e Queen's most excedlent Majesty la Cam& Her Majesty io Council was this day plemed, as a reprenestatiou of the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Coined on Education, to ap point the Raw. Arthur Thompson Bonner, M.A., of Lincoln College, la the University of Oafortr. to be one of her Majesty's amistaat impactors of whoa/a—gm:clic • Lord Palmerston will complete hip; 77th year on Sunday next. Hie lordship was born on the 20th of O. tober, 17+14. Her Highness the Princess %Vladimir Berle- Bosky and finally bare arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Hyde. Isle of Wight. Bann) Hannan do Mesnil has arrived at the Cavendish Hotel, Jertnynat►eet, from Paris. Baron H. de Lamy has left the Name hotel fur Belgium. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort will leave Gopaall Hall in a few days for Gibraltar, tabus they intend to pats the autumn. The Earl of Strathmore left town on Monday for Newmarket. Lord and Lally Colchester left Berkeley-square 7eetenl►7 as a visit to Mr. and the Hoe. lira Hamblen at Oaks Han, Tackester, Yorkshire. Lord Crewe comes to town to-day, from his seat, Crew* Hall, assuldrs. Mr. and Lady Mary Craven have left town for Newmarket. The Right Hon. Mr. Justice Ball and Miae Ball have mired at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. A public jneeting will be held in the metropolis in the month of November, at which his Royal Highness the Dnke of Cambridge has consented to preside, for the purpose of taking such steps as will result in a worthy me mcwial to the late Lord Herbert. The gallant 37th Regiment, the heroes of Luck- Dow, pre on klondey night a splendid entertainment to the nobility and gentry of Plymouth and neighbourhood. There is no foundation for the announcement that the consecration d the three bishops will take plies in Westminster Abbey. The Middleton - Hall estate, Sudbury, Las been purchased by J. Bt. George Burke, Esq., of the Anheries, and will be usitual to the Balmer estate, thus extending the property from the Balmer and Etsllingdon Hills to the Wks of the river Stour. The winter session of the Faculty of Arta and taw at the tinivenity of London was °peed yesterday, wilco as addrem as the study of tbs French language waa delivered by Professor Causal to a numerous assemblage, comprising may !adios. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. RI7BBIA. The University of St. Petersburg is closed for an indefinite period, and a brief announcement to that effect appeared on the Bth in the Russian papers. Up to that evening upwards of twenty-five students had been arrested. General rumour spoke of a far larger number, and, moreover, incarcerated half a dozen professors ; but at least twenty-five studenta wore actually in the forties/. News had been received in St. Petersburg of the Universities of Moscow and Kharkoff (Southern Russia) being closed. If so, that of Kieff will not be open very long. A letter of the 9th says :—" There was a meeting of the students to-day iu the courtyard of the University ; a great crowd on the quay. Several officers and pupils of the Military School were arrested. The Finland regiment of the guard, under the command of General Bustrom, was ordered to clear the ground. The students re mained firm, and some of them went forward to meet the troops. At the very last moment a collision was prevented by the general himself. Thu students were repeatedly cheered by the spectators." ROME. ROME, OCT. 8. The Abb4 Simonetti, Assistant Secretary of the Apostolic Office of Church Penitents, and Pro fessor of Philosophy in the College of the Propa ganda, was arrested on Sunday just as he was going to church to say mass. This ecclesiastic was once a Jesuit, but be left the order in 1849. He is now confined in the Diocletian Baths prison,and it humid that papers compromising him very seriously have been found in him house. It seems that he was in correspondence with Father Passi, who was arrested about a month since. A very learned pricet, by name Abbe Parfetti, has; fled from Rome. The Canon Pedemoute, a Piedrnontese, who was arrested some weeks ago, has just been released on condition of giving up his canonry and leaving Rowe. The schism predicted by Father Passaglia as the result of the Pope's obstinacy is already ciakiug rapid progress among the Italian clergy. NAPLES. A letter from Naples of the Bth in the Dchots of to-day says, "On &Willey General Cialdini dined on board the Marlborough, the vessel of the Eug lish Vice-Admiral Martin. During the passage the nine English vessels rendered honours to the Lieu tenant-General. The troops were drawn up on the quarter-deck, the seamen manned the yards, and the bands played the national hymn of King Victor Emmanuel. A salute was fired at the moment General Cialdini went on board. The whole staff of the fleet gave him the moat flattering reception. In the evening, after dinner, Cialdiui was accom panied ashore by all the boats of the fleet, with Bengal fires. The spectacle was magnificent." (asont's nisowts.) PRANCE. PARIS, Ocr. 16. The Moniteur, in its bulletin of to-day, says : "The reports lately current, caused by the publi cation of certain pamphlets, have excited the attention of the government, which will take into consideration the adoption of measures against the publication of anonymous pamphlets." PARIS, Ocr. 15. The Franca Centrale of Bloie has received a first warning. The price of bread in Paris is now reduced to 49 centimes the kilogramme. The Conatitutiounel of this evening, in an article signed by its chief editor, M. Grandguillot, persists in maintaining its assertions that disturbances and assassinations had taken place at Geneva without their having been repressed. The article concludes by expressing interest and sympathy for the independence of the Swiss Re public, and recalls that the French government at the time of the annexation of Savoy strongly ma nifested its wish for the preservation of the auto nomy of Switzerland, absolute and complete. MONTPELLIER, Ocr. 15. The Message? de Montpellier of to-day states that the works for rescuing tho miners buried in the Lille mine are being actively carried on. One of the excavations now being dug had this morning reached a depth of 150 centimetres. Some of the workmen still buried in the mine state, in reply to the questions addressed to them, that they are in a good condition. The rescue of four of the miners still alive is assured. Yesterday a dead body wrut got out from the mine. ITALY. GENOA, Om 16. The Momietesfo, of to-day, states that Garibaldi has never left Caprera, but that he has received a visit from General Mieroalawaki. A letter, written by Garibaldi, in reply to the address sent to him by the French workmen in Italy, has been published. Another letter ad dressed by Mgr. Liverani to Cardinal Mancini, requesting him to bring the Pope to a conciliatory spirit towards Italy, has also been published to day. HUNGARY. PEEITH, Our. 18. It is said that in consequence of the modification of the stamp duty effected by the government in Hungary, the members of the Hungarian ellen cellerie intend to address representations to the Emperor, and to tender their resignations should the government continue to demand the execution of uucoustitutioual decrees. AUSTRIA. MESSINA OCT. 15. According to advices received here from Prevesa, the Empress of Austria had arrived in Albania, where she will stay for some time for the benefit of her health. POLAND. BERLIN, Ocr. 15. Letters received here from Warsaw, of a date antecedent to the proclamation of the state of siege, state that the Polish nobility gave a grand parting banquet in the Hotel de l'Enrope to the peasants who had come to attend the funeral of the Arch bishop of Warsaw. The princes and counts joined with the peasants in drinking the toast of "The Fatherland." The noblemen then rode with the peasants in omnibuses and cabs to the railway station, in the garden opposite to which the noble men finally regaled their guests previous to their departure. More than 10,000 persons were pre sent. The peasants were conveyed home by a special train. Before their departure spirited national songs were sung. An extempore sermon was delivered on the omis sion by the clergyman of the district. The police and gendarmes, who were present, re mained passive spectators of the proceedings. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (Amt ova OWN common:4am) FARM TUESDAY EVOMIG. The letters from Compiilgne are filled with details of the grand stag hunt yesterday. The meet was at the round point in the forest tidied the Cerrefour du puits du Roi, where eight roads converge. For two or three hours before the fixture (1 o'clock) these roads were thronged with horsemen, horsewomen, and carriages. A select troop of gendarmes had a great deal of trouble to keep at a proper distance the crowd assembled, in the hope of getting a peep at the court sportsmen. Nobody nut provided with the imperial hunting " button " was allowed to follow the hounds. The little prince, wearing, for the first time, a green hunting dress, a la Louis XV., just like his father's, Hessian boots, and a long hunting knife, was the observed of all observers. He was mounted on a spirited Sardi nian pony, and his favourite groom, K Becht" who was iu close attendance on him, frequently recommended him to be careful. The King of Holland did not get on horseback, but watched the throw off from a char d Gam, in which he was ac companied by the Countess Walewaka, Madame de Galitiet, and several gentlemen. The Empress and the Imperial Prince were naturally very soon thrown out, but they contrived to get in at the death, or very soon after it, in a carriage. The I run lasted two hours. The little curie, as it is called—namely, the disembowelling of the stag and throwing the entrails to the hounds, took place on the spot. The grand citre , e (euree d froid), when the whole animal is eaten up by his pursuers, came off as usual by torchlight iu the courtyard of the chateau. But where were Prince Napoleon and the Prin cess Clothilde during these festivities t Thereby hangs a tale. They arrived at Compiiigne at half past 11 on Saturday, and, strange to say, at half past 6, just as dinner was about to be put on table, they came away to Paris. This is a dry fact about which there can be no dispute. But the story is that the Empress, in a fit of fanaticism, so in sulted the prince on the subject of Rome that he suddenly took his hat and his wife and went away. He is now in his father's late apartments in the Palais Royal. It was till now thought that the court would pass the coming season at the Elys‘e, but it is to day announced that arrangements are being made in the Tuileries, from which it appears that their Majesties intend to reside there during the winter, notwithstanding the works going on for the recon struction of the Pavillon de Fiore. The Bonne, after many fluctuations awl an animated business, left off with an improvement. Ante fell 15c. and 10c., clueing at Mfr. 95c., both for mall and account. Mobilier rose Ur. 50c. The Italian Loan recovered 251 r. from the immense fall of the last two days. Railways were from 3fr. 75c. to Mr. higher. The Saba Public of Lyons says : If appoints:ea are not deceitful, Lyons is at the present moment inuudated with English manufactures. For some days past, all our shops have been filled with tissues of all kinds, labelled :—" English carpets," "English shawls," " Manchester velvet," " Irish linen," kt. Implicit coot deuce must not, however, be given to all these announce meow of clever traders, who well know how to profit by every circumstance to push their sales. Formerly it was the practice to draw customers by advertising goods as " selling off' at greatly reduced prices. Now the public is stimulated by offering goods as of English origin, though really mauufactured in France. I know a dealer in ready made clothes, who, ever since the Ist instant, has been boldly offering for sale a quantity of his old stock bearing enormous tickets, with the words—" Latest English &shims." What the Snlut Public says of Lyons is quite ap plicable of Paris, where the great advertising shops, some of which pay as much as 401. for a single ad vertisement, are ticketing a vast quantity of old French stock as English goods just imported. We shall get English goods in time, but France is by no means flooded with them as yet. I went this morning into a cutlery shop to ask for an English penknife, and the lady who kept the establishment said to me with charming frankness, "Oh, mon sieur, we have no English merchandise yet, but we have already a great many false English marks." Let me take this opportunity of making public a recommendation very earnestly pressed upon me by a Frenchman, namely, that English tradesmen should open shops in Paris to sell their own goods. Until this is done my friend says the public will never get the benefit of free trade, for Paris shopkeepers are not contented with reasonable profits, but require cent. per cent. I know of one striking instant.* illustrative of this theory. Some little time ago, a London firm, in a large way in the tea trade, opened a branch establishment here, intending merely to sell wholesale. Finding, however, that there was a combination in the trade not to buy of them, they resolved to appeal to the public and sell retail. The simple exhibition of a brass plate in the Rue de Rivoli, with the words "London Teas at London Prices," acted like magic, and produced a. fall of from 2fr. to Mr. per lb. in the finest qualities of teas throughout Paris. The principle upon which this firm acted is capable of great ex tension. I want to see a great many other Loudon articles selling here at "London Prioes." The assize court of the Seine, this morning, went through the ceremony of passing sentence of death upon Charles Jud, the presumed murderer of Judge Peinsot, who was assassinated in a railway carriage ou the Strasburg line, on Dec. 5, 1860. A great many individuals have been arrested in the course of the year on account of an unlucky resemblance to the photographs of Jud, and only a few days ago a telegram from the south of France stated that Jud was caught at last. Tins was, however, false news, and the murderer, of whom the police have lost all trace, has now been tried and condemned in his ab sence. • Private letters from Paris state that the Emperor is about to promulgate a complete and radical change in the system of the naval reserve. The whole of the reserve ships are to be maintained in a condition for active service on the shortest possible notice. A number of the officers and crews are to be kept on board, and to such an extent that a large fleet can be sent to sea in an incredibly abort time. The Charivori publishes a caricature with the inscription of " Wishing to catch two hares at the lame time," in which Austria is represented sa • soldier standing in great embarrassment with both hands stretched out, while two hares, marked " Venice" and " Hungary," are making their escape at full speed, one at each side. A Rouen paper has made an awkward slip. It informed its readers that the appearance of H. Faure in Pierre de Med frie, at the Grand Opera, l'aris,on Friday last, was • veritable triumph; but, nevertheless, hazarded an opinion that time would show that this admirable artist would have done better to have remained at the Opera Comique. It happens, unfortunately for the reporter and prophet., that the piece referred to was not played, and that H. Faure did not make his die:U.__ A Berlin letter says :—" The King of Hanover lass Just been received into the corporation of cobblers, the most ancient in the kingdom. His son has also been re. calved. This custom of great personages getting admitted into trades corporations is not of German origin, but has teen imported from England, and excites much merriment here." THE ISLAND OF SARDINIA. The following letters have been exchanged be tween Mr. Cobden and M. Minghetti, who at the date of Mr. Cobden's letter WM Minister of the Interior for the Italian Kingdom : NR. COBDEN TO M. MARCO MINORCTrt. Midhuret, August 26, 11,61. t My dear Sir, —You may have seen a statement made by Mr. Roebuck that au engagement had been entered into between the governments of France and Italy for the cession of the island of Sardinia as the condition of the evacuation of Rome by the French troops. Would you have any objection to answer the question whether any such arrangement was ever entered into or contemplated on the pert of the government of Turin? At the same time, let me add, that if you prefer not to reply to this letter, I shall consider that you have good public grounds for your silence, and it will not diminish the present esteem with which I regard you. I need hardly assure you with what friendly interest I have witnessed the great services yon have rendered to your country. My sympathies will always accompany you and your fellow-countrymen in your struggle for the independence of Italy.—Believe me, yours ruly, (SWIM) RICHARD CoaDiar. K Marco Minghetti, Minister of the Interior, Turin. M. MARCO lIINWILITI TO MR. COBDEN. Turin, Sept. 2, 1861. . . My dear Sir,—l thank you for your letter of the 'With August, and for its expressions, so courteous towards my. self and so kind for the Italian c►use. After the note inserted in the Moniteur, it were per haps superfluous for me to answer your inquiry. However, truth will always bear repetition. I can then positively assure you that the Italian govern meat never had any agreement, and never entered into any negotiation for the caution of Sardinia or any other part of the national territory. I can affirm this, not only from having myself occupied a post in the government, but also from the intimate confidence I enjoyed with the lamented Count Cavour ; and I am certain he would have spurned any project of the kind if it had been submitted to him.— Accept the assurance of my sincere esteem. (Signed) MARCO MINGHEITI. THE PNEUMATIC RAILWAY. Some interesting experiments were made at Battersea yesterday, for the purpose of showing the action of the pneumatic principle in the conveyance of passengers and parcels. The experiments were witnessed by the Hon. W. Cowper, Chief Commissioner of Works ; Captain Fowke, RE , Mr. Mks, and several of the co mmissioner at the Great Exhibition. The tube provided for the pur pose is a quarter of • mile io length, and in its course lure several very severe gradients, the steepest being equal to that of Holborn-hill, and it has also some remarkably sharp curves. The carriages, however, travel without coy difficulty round the curves and up the steep inclines. For the put. pose of the experiment two carriages only were used, each weighing about one ton, and loaded with ten bags of grave!, each containing oue cwt.. These vehicles were drawn, or rather propelled, through the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere air in rather less than thirty seconds. At another trip a mattress was placed over the hags of gravel in each caniage, and some of the visitors peeled through the tube. The journey was, of course, made in perfect darkness, but beyond this there was no unpleaaant sense. tion whatever. The carriages are fitted with flanged wheels, which run upon rails at the bottom of the tube, but unfortunately there are no springs, and the jolting is somewhat severe, ea it would be in the case of an ordinary railway carriage without springs. It scarcely ueceseary to say that • complete vacuum is not formed in the tube; if it were, the speed at which the pas senger would travel would be little short of that of • cannon bail, and the concussion at the end of the journey would be proportionately severe. The principle upon which the tubs works is precisely similar to that of the atmospheric rail way, with this difference, however, that in the one case • piston only runs through the tubs, the carriages with which it is connected pasting over the outside ; while iu this new arrangement the carriages pass through the tube itself. Mr. Hammen, the inventor, purposes to erect • much larger tube at the Exhibition building, for the pur pose of conveying visitors to the Kensiugton-road, near to where the carriagestand will be provided in Hyde-park. Instead of as iron tube he will erect • brick tunnel of above twelve feet in height, with the broad-guage iron rails in. side, upon which the ordinary railway carnage. would run. Ladies and gentlemen visiting the Exhibition would by this arrangement be taken to the carriages which were is wait. ing for them, instead of having to wait until the vehicles were brought to them. The object of the experiment yes terday wag for the purpose of enabling the Chief Commis. sinner and the officers of the Great Exhibition to see the plan in action, and consider to what extent they would give their unction to the proposed extension. The decision of the commissioners will be communicated in • few days to the inventor. The Siamese ambassadors and their followers continue to attract the attention of the Romans as they drive about the city or scroll by twos and threes into the repositories of cameos, mosaics, and Roman pearls, which seem to present especial temptations to their eyes and purses• A Naples letter of the 9th says :—" Our fleet went out on Monday morning in line in the direction of Ischia, and returned to anchor about sunset, one half in the Bay of Beim and the other half in Naples. They did the same thing yesterday, changing their course towards Capri, and they left port again this morning under steam, under the bluest sky sod the clearest atmosphere, and on • lakelike sea. I cannot describe to you the beauty of the spectacle. Our weather is just like summer, and so it has been since May last, with the exception of a few hours' rain about • month since. The olive harvest is something extraordinary, and many are of opinion that the free ex portation of the oil might be permitted with great advan. toga to proprietors." _ _ To give some notion of the extent to which poli tical studies are cultivated just now in RUSSIA, it is men' tinned by ► St. Petersburg correspondent that the book sellers can afford to sell the Russian translation of Mill's " Political Economy" for two roubles ; and in this country printing and paper cost nearly twice as much as in England. Buckle's second volume was circulating in St. Petersburg the week after its publication in London. His first volume has been criticised, defended, and lauded in every possible tone by the reviews, in which, moreover, translations of entire chapters have appeared. A complete Russian version of the " Introduction to the History of Civilisation" is said to be in the press. THE LATE MAJOR SI !THORP, M. P. --it appears that the deceased had thoroughly recovered from • paralytic attack from which Le suffered some months since. On Wednesday last, however, he left his seat at Canwick, near Lincoln, fora short sojourn in the south, in comparatively good health ; he stayed a few days in London, and on Saturday morning pro. ceeded to the Victoria Hotel, St Leonard's-on-Sea. In the course of the following day be was taken suddenly ill from compression of the brain, and within two hours belied breathed his last. The death of Major Sibthorp causes a vacincy in the representation of Liucolu, which city he has represeuted in the conservative iuterest since the death of his father, the late Colonel Sibtherp, in Isla ; cud be is succeeded in hie extensive estates by his oldest son, Mr. Coningsby Charles Waldo Sibthorp, now fifteen years of age, at present at Eton. Mr. J. Hauck Palmer, • Chancery barrister, and Mr. Charles Seeley, merchant, both former candidates, are again spoken of is the liberal interest. The conservatives are as yet unprepared with a candidate, though it is believed Lieuteriant-Colonel It. Sibthorp, Izother of the late member, will offer himself. DEATH OP HENRY HARRAP, EtN.—nis well known spinal surgeoo, the fame of whose curse extended th roug h ou t the kingdom, died on Saturday morning et his private residence, 49, old Steyue. Brighton, after a career of thirty years' successful practice. Mr. Henry Harrap had attained the age of G 7 ream The deceased putleumn was born at HeWm), in Cornwall. lie had been is a declining state of health for the last these years, and had been con• 611(41 to his house for several rnoutls. - 111KIH;;;TION OF THE BISHOP OF COLOMBO. —The Right Rev. Dr. Chapman, Bishop of Colombo, has returned to England and resigned his see, after having held it during a period of 16 years. He was the first bishop of the dio• ceae, which comprises the whole of the island of Ceylon, and was founded in 1845. It is worth 2,otelf. a year, paid out of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund. Riubop Chapman woo formerly an assistant master in Eton College. As a Fellow of King's, Cambridge, be was presented in IRA to the rectory of Dunton Waylett, Essex, and this benefice he held up to his appointment to the bishopric. No successor has yet been named. The appointment testa with the Duke of Newcastle, Seoretsury of State fur the Colonies. New DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN THE E.tsr. —Ye9- terday evening a new drinking fountain was opened in front of the Roman catholic church in the Commercial road East. The fountain haa been erected by the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountains Association. of which Samuel Gurney, Esq., 11 P., is the chairman, in conjunction with Cardinal Wiseman. It is • mural fountain of polished serpentine marble, and has been erected under the superintendence of Mr. J. Goldsmith Rolls, O.E, surveyor to the association. The ceremony was attended by several of the clergy end gentry of the neighbourhood, and the society was represented by Mr. Rolle, the surveyor, and Mr. Hewitt, the secretary. The Rev. Mr. Higher and the Rev. Mr. Kelly having addressed thole present, the fountain was uncovered, and the frit glass of water was presented to a lady who has taken great interest iu the movement, and that lady having drunk, de clared the water to be good, and the fountain opened to the public. The proceedings thou terminated. i