The Express. — London, England, 1861-08-08 00:00:00

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T 1 DAT —Monil *. ova.. .... Allemem :th trok. To 1104/hOW-41011111.6. aL MIL ..• • Alalllllll4lll. 41. 31E. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8. TO OUR RRADERS. SPORTING INTELLICIMCE. A !ate edition el the EsprrAssimpubiishecl every erenisg (luring the racing season, contaiuing the results a the day's races. Ir would be difficult to select any . abject which has been more thoroughly investigated than that of Pauper and Destitute Children. During the pre sent Session, besides a chapter in the Report of the Education Commissioners on Destitute Children, this subject has been investigated by a Select Committee of the House of Commons, and their Report now lies before us. The condition of Pauper Children, which was also considered by the Education Commissioners and by the Select Com mittee just mentioned, is still under inquiry by another Select Committee, of which Mr. ensure, VILLIZIM is chairman. If there were any difference of opinion upon those subjects, or any lack of information, such interniinsble inquiries might be defensible. But it is to be observed that every new inquiry only serves to confirm the conclusions which have already been arrived at. The only legislative result which the various inquiries have yet produced is to be found in the Industrial School Bill of the present session. Whether the obstructives of the Poor-law Board will succeed in producing evidence to contradict the unanimous opinion of those who have hitherto considered the question of Pauper Schools in workhouses is extremely doubtful, but it is clear that if the Report of Mr. C. V ILLlELeSCommittee coincide with the opinion of the rest of the world, the time consumed by them will only have served the purpose of delaying a most vital reform. At the present stage of the inquiry it may be convenient to explain the means which at present exist for dealing with Destitute and Pauper Chil dren, and to point out the defects in those means which require a remedy. In discussing this question it is assumed that every child ought to be educated in some efficient school, for it is now admitted that if not educated there it must be educated in tho streets, and be come either a pauper or a criminal, or both. For the independent poor—that is, for every man or woman living by their own earnings —there are the Public, National, and British Schools, to which admission is obtained by the payment of a penny, or Private schools, the admission to which is settled by the proprietors. But, besides the children of the independent poor there are—find, children who have acquired criminal or vagrant habits ; es condly, there are children of out-door paupers, destitute orphans, and deserted children who re ceive out-door relief ; and lastly there are the children within the workhouses. Besides these time classes there is a residue which can only be dealt with in what are called Ragged Schools. Ao- cording to the Report of Sir S. Noierneove's Com mittee and the Report of the Education Commis airmen it is impossible to ascertain the amount of this residue. Assuming, however, that a certain number of such children does oxen it seems to be now finally settled by this Report upon the Desti tute Children, which confirms that of the Edu cation Commissioners, that these children can only be civilized, if at all, by the mis sionary efforts and voluntary subscriptions of charitable persona, unaided by contributions from the public funds. It is, perhaps, to be regretted that some of those who have taken the deepest interest in Ragged Schools should have been led into expense by tho vacillating policy of the Go vernment. But the public resources must be care fully husbanded, and henceforth the promoters of Ragged Schools must be content even with a smaller contribution from the State than they have hitherto obtained, Three claws of children still remain. As to those who have acquired criminal and vag rant habits, they are to be dealt with under the Industrial School Act. Hitherto the parliamentary definition of such children has been too narrow. But under the new Act it has been materially extended ; nor is there much doubt, if the magistrates before whom the children are brought' will construe the terms of the Act with reasonable judgment, that every par peas for which the Act was intended will be accomplished. In order to be made subject to its provisions, the child, if under 12, must be a criminal or an associate of thieves, and if apparently under 14, must be a beggar, or homeless, or without any visible means of subsist ence. Such children may be sent by magistrates to any industrial school the fitness of which has been certified. Whilst the child is in the school the Hoes Sweeney is authorised to pay such sum as he thinks proper towards the child's maintenance, whilst a power is given to the magis trate to make an order upon the parent for pay ment of a certain sum out of his own pocket. It is not to be doubted that this power of imposing a pecuniary obligation upon the parent in conse quence of his neglect will, if judiciously adminis tered, do incalculable good. It may be observed also that the Act specially provides for parents who cannot control their children, by enabling them at their own expense to send the children to an In dustrial School. As to the second clam, consisting of Outdoor Paupers, the Report of the Select Committee, con firming that of the Education Commiaaioners, in sists that their education shall be provided for by the gnardiana being compelled to pay the school pence out of the rates—by making, in fact, Mr. Dasitiox'A Act compulsory, and enforcing the child's being sent to school as a condition of relief. It is a mockery to require parents who cannot keep body and soul together except by parochial aid to pay the school pence for their children. It is not to be tolerated that parents who are THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 'B, INC living on the bounty of the parish should allow their children to grow up in a state of barbarous ignorance. The State is not only bound to insist upon the outdoor pauper children being sent to school, but is also bound to supply the means of sending them there to those who cannot afford it. The only class which remains is that of the indoor paupers. No one has ventured to dispute their claim to be properly cared for. The existing law in the very strongest terms recognises the ne cessity of providing them not only with food and clothing, but with education. These are the human creatures who must be cared for by the State or perish. And bow are they cared for f According to the Report for 1860-1 there were some 28,000 children in workhouse schools. These schools are within the walls of the workhouse ; and the children are within all those contaminating influences which are insepa rable from pauperism and profligacy. Experience has demonstrated the impossibility of preserving children under such circumstances from degradii tion, but it has also demonstrated the possibility of elevating their moral tone and exciting the spirit of self-respect and independence by placing them in schools quite apart from the workhouse and all its associations. This remedy has been pointed out again and again. Nor is there any doubt that if the PRESIDENT of the POOR-LAW BOARD were reasonably energetic he would have no difficulty in passing an Act to compel boards of guardians to create such district or separate schools. .- 1 pon the whole, it seems that with respect to destitute children the Industrial Schools Act will, if properly worked, meet every case of which the State can take cognizance, and that if DENISON'S Act were made compulsory and separate or dis trict schools were erected, the condition both of the out-door and of the in-door pauper children would be made as satisfactory as legislation can make it. EDe Court. OSBORNE, Auctrer 7. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Alice. Princess Helena, Princess Beatrice, Priem William, and Princess Charlotte of Prussia, embarked in the royal yacht Fairy yesterday afternoon, and steamed towards the Needles to meet the Prince Consort and the Crown Prince mad Princess of Prussia, on their return horn Portland, la the Victoria and Albert. Her Ms*ty was attended by the Countess of Dent, the Hon. &striae Byng, and Lientenant•General the Hon. C. Grey. Prison's Charles and Princese Anne of Hesse arrived yes terday evening from the continent, on a visit to her Majesty. Major Da Plat, Equerry to the Prince Consort, went to Demos Monday, and attended the Princesses from thence to Osborne. They are attended by the Baronet. de Scheffer-Bernstein, and the Baron de Rime. Her Majesty's yacht Elfin conveyed the Royal piton from Portunouth. Mr. Barr, Colonel Westruarott, RE., Sir Victor Heaton, mad Colonel HiU had interviews with the Duke of New castle yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Ex hibition of 18G2 have received a communicatioo from the Dinky of Brunswick, that the Director of the Society of Trades hes been appointed Commissioner to represent Use istioreds of exhibitors from that State at the forthcoming Exhibition. Despatches were seat yesterday from tho Colonial-office to the Governor of Cased& SOUTILIYPTON ADOVRT B.—His Royal Highness this Prises Cemsort!, Prises Frederick William, of Prussia, sad the Archduke Maximilian of Austria arrived hare at II a.m. to-day from Osborne, en ramie for Farnborough. The royal party will return this afternoon and embark from the docks at 5 p.m. for Osborne. Pituges Airacp.—By a private letter from Hali fax, Homes:4lN dated July 25, we learn that bie Royal Highness was at Halifax on the 24th, in the eajoymeat of excellent health. Prince Alfred is not a guest on this oc. casual of the governor-general, the Earl of Ma'grave, but he has been a visitor at the Government Hoare.—Brighton Gazette. THK BISHOP or DLRHAM.— Yesterday the fol. lowiag telegram was received in London by the friends of the Bishop of Durham :—" Bishop Auckland, Wednesday morning —The Bishop of Durham has passed • tolerable night, but he in still in a very precarious state." From further information we learn that Dr. Ferguson, who is in ommitant attendance an his lordship, reports that the right rot. prelate's life is still trembling in the balance, but that hides. not dionies hope. In alt the churches of Durham, Neweastle-opon-Tyne,and the principal towns in tbediocese, prayers were offered up last Sunday for his lordship's re covery. The Duke of Cleveland leaves St. Jamee'n-square to-morrow for grouse shooting on Ina moon in Yorkshire mad Durham. The Marquis and Marchioness of Northampton Leave town on Tuesday next for Spa, to paw a few weeks. Lord and Lady Ashburton arrived at Bath House cm Tuesday =sale& from the Orange, Hants They take their departure to-day for Loch Luichart, the noble lord's seat in Sootlaud. Lady Dinorben and the Hon. Miss Hughes have WI town for Llyedelea, bar ladyship's residence iu Aeglesen. Lord Dufferiu left Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, where his lordship has boss among the oasts of the Coun tess Cowper, on Monday, for his meat in Ireland. The Right Hon. Wil liam Hutt, M.P., and Mrs. Hatt have left town for their seat, Gibaida Hall, near Gateshead. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mn. Diemen have pared through town for Hugheinien Manor, from Knebworth Park, when they hare been on a visit to the Right Hon. Sir E. Balmer Lytton. . . The Right Hou. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison have left the right hoe. gentleman's official resi dence in the New Palace at Westminster for Dominion Park, Nolte, whence, after a stay of a few days, the Speaker and her ladyship will go to his boa in the Highlands for grouse shooting. - His Grace the Duke of Montrose and Lady Flora Graham arrived at the Golden Lim Hotel, Stirling. yester day. The duke and her ladyship visited the castle, and left by the afternoon train for Buchanan Castle. The funeral of Lord Herbert, which ix to take place to-morrow, will be as privets as possible. The annual meetioi of the Wiltabire Archeeilogicol Society, which was to be held yesterday, was postponed in consequence of his lordship's death. The Rev. Nicholas Thomas Garry, M. A , kaa been licensed to the perpetual elusey of St. Mark's, Lakeohasi, os the nomination of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. The Prioress Aldobrandini died on the 3rd lost. at Frasesti, two days alter the death of her child. The &messed princess belonged to the sable Belgian family of ♦rembery The indeiwudance Beige says that the departure of the Empress of the French for Luz-Bonn just when the King of Sweden was expected at Paris hag been much remarked upon. The sodden departure of the Empress has been attributed to the fact that the Queen of Sweden, who is at present not very distant from the French frontier, has not socomputied her husband iu hie visit to the imperial court. Prince Murat has sent in his resignation as head of the Mescals Order is Frame. LIBILAILIAN or THI Horns or LORDS. —A vacancy occurs in the once of the chief librarian to the House of Lards by the tiereses of Yr. Leary, who filled the appoint meet for so many years with exemplary ability and urbanity. Dimwits or FHB 8181110 N. —There were nearly 200 diviiime is the House of Commons during the semion. Of these 42 were cm gam into committee of supply, 10 as He Appropeieeks et Bente Bill, Bon the Bankruptcy end =Bill, ea the University Elections Bill, son the 1 ea tie Queen speeti. Year All, 5 as the Bylaws Fisheries Bill, and Ma. MUD; M.P.—The medical offices of the late Civil Hospital at &myna have presented the member fey Leitrim with an elegant silver inkstamd. "se a trifling eeknowledgment of his valuable services is their behalf." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (corn's nuissAms.) FRANCE. PARIB, Amer 8. The Moniteur of to-day says:—"General Williaen has remitted to the Emperor an autograph letter from the King of Prussia. "The King of Sweden has paid a visit to the Princess Mathilde. " The Emperor conducted hie august guests to the Opera." In de bulletin of to-day the Moniteur says : " It appears certain that the visit of the King of Prussia to the camp at Chalons will not take place, but that an interview between the King of Prussia and the Emperor will take place in France in the month of October." EIEPRESS FROM PARIS. (sicu oca owl; oosair.sroirnssr.) ti PARIS, WCDNZISDAT BUM& According to the Preme, a rumour was current in Paris last night that the French government had sent an ultimatum to Borne requiring satisfaction within twenty-four houis. Although this news, judging from the hostile language of the govern ment press, and the logical necessities of the situa ation, is not absolutely destitute of probability, I greatly doubt its truth. In confirmation of these doubts, I find it stated, in the latest news of the Temps, that the depots belonging to regiments in Italy have just received orders to send out all the men who had finished their circumstance which certainly tends to negative the idea of the evacuation of Rome. Any other satisfaction, how ever, would be ludicrously useless. The attitude of the Holy See is daily more violent towards France, and the 'muffed support given by the Pope to De Hero& shows the inan ity of the argument, upon which, to keep up a transparent fiction, the Comaitutionnel continues to insist, that the Pope personally is well disposal The reception that any friendly overtures from Paris are likely to meet with from the Cardinals at the present time, may be judged of by the follow ing extract from the Omereatare Romano, a journal published under the direct influence of the papal cabinet. After expressing a belief that the French garrison will continue to protect Rome, this organ proceeds iu this intimidating strain : The catholic powers are ready, arms in hand, to avenge all outrages and spoliation of the common father. The certainty that the eldest son of the church will continue to act alone restrains them ; but if this certainty should cease, woe to Europe! To the indignation of two hundred mil lions of catholic would be joined the justice of God M. Gamier, a writer in the Gazette de France, and a great catholic authority, by no means share* the confidence in the eldest son of the church affected by the Roman journal, for in a pamphlet, just published, with the title of "Allows h Rome," he laments that all hope in the French govern ment is at an end, and calls upon the remnant of Castelfidardo to gird on the sword. The Prase quietly remarks upon the delusion of the Pope in relying upon his two hundred millions of catholic* that hitherto they have only furnished in answer to his numerous and pressing appeals about five hundred volunteers and a miserable sum of money. It moreover retorts upon the Osserrntore Roma no that France is now not the eldest son of the church, but of the revolution. The Cardinal Archbishop of Naples was put under arrest by Cialdini, although he was sub sequently allowed, or rather forced to leave the country. When the carriage appointed to take him to the frontier was at his door, he clenched his lists and exclaimod " Matedetto I" which cry, beard by the crowd, was responded to by 'acclamations of " Vivo Victor Emmanuel !" " Vive Garibaldi !" " Vive Cialdini !" " Vivo Italy !" A Paris . letter in the Indepeadance of Brussels says : Acoonting to information which I consider u positive, (metal de Goyon has written to the Emperor, complaining of the publicity given in such terms to the scene which took place between bim Lad the pro-Minister of Arms. The General is said to have written in the name sense to the Minister of War. There has been a decided upward movement at the Bourse to-day. The Route rose 200. for cash, and 15c. for account, closing at 681 r. 40c. and 881 r. 50c. Mobilier rose Bfr. 7150. The Lyons Railway rose 161 r. 25c. ; Southern, 12fr. 50c. ; Orleans, Bfr. 75c. ; Eastern and Western, sfr. each ; and Northern, 3fr. 75c. Great alarm was occasioned at the Paris Poet office the evening before last by flames suddenly breaking out near the clock. The firemen, how ever, in the building succeeded in extinguishing the fire before any great damage was done. The conflagration was occasioned in this way :—ln the daytime, in order to prevent the action of the sun on the works of the clock, a blind is drawn over them, and in the evening it is removed. The man charged with the duty to take it away forgot to remove it, and when the gas was lighted the canvas caught fire. An Englishman named Ward, 57 years of age, was, the day before yesterday, tried by the Tri bunal of Correctional Police of Orleans, on the charge of picking pockets. A bookseller named Cottel stated that, on the 2nd of July last, he took a third-class place at the railway station in that city, and that when the door was opened to admit the passengers to the carriages, there was con siderable pushing ; he all at once felt a hand thrust into his pocket, and at the same moment missed his portemonnaie. A person in the crowd remarked that, as the prisoner pushed rudely, it was probable that it was be who had stolen the purse. lie went to the carriage in which the man had placed himself, and on seeing him the latter seemed uneasy, and appeared to drop something. Immediately after a female seated near him cried out, " Here is a portemonnaie ! Who has lost one 7" The portemonnaie was that of the witness, and as there was no doubt that Ward had dropped it, he was at once taken into custody. The pri soner, who did not speak French, protested, through an interpreter, that he wan innocent, and maid that he was a respectable tradesman in Lon don. He declared that his reason for being in France was that he had come to look after his wife, who had run away from him. The Tribunal con demned him to eight months' imprisonment. The Courier du Pas de Calais (an organ of the prefecture) say : " We have received a letter from Fontainebleau, which, we are happy to state, proves to be totally unfounded certain rumours respecting the Emperor's health which have been propagated, and which some per sons seemed inclined to credit, in spite of the con tradictions in the Munikur. The Emperor returned to Fontainebleau from Vichy in the best state of health. His Majesty looks uncommonly well ; he is both active and in good spirits. On the 2nd the Emperor made in the forest a promenade of ten leagues in a carriage and three on foot—the latter up steep paths and among rocks—and did not return to the palace with his suite until half-peat 10 in the evening, his Majesty Loins the least fatigued of the party. A. to the Empress her Majesty walks much, and wears to protect her feet gaiters on the Zouave model. Both their Majesties, in fact, display activity of which it is difficult inform an kith. In corroboration of this account of tho Emperor's exoellent state of health, a person who breakfasted at the imperial table the day after the court re turned to St. Cloud, informs us that no one could possibly look better than his Majesty, and during the whole time the party were at table—about an hour and a half—the Emperor conversed freely and gaily with all those who were present. As a council of ministers had been held just before, the persona at table were 26, and all remarked with great satisfaction the decided improvement which was apparent in his Majesty's looks. HER mvssrra VISIT TO IRT,LAND. The Dublin Even - Mail inakei the following comments on the p of the corporation which we /sported yesterday Tea QUM AND THE ADDRISB OF THE CORPORA. TlON.—From the report of the proceedings of the Corpora tics respecting the address they purpose presenting to the Queen, on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to Ireland, our readers will see that it has been intimated to the Lord Mayor that circumstances will not allow of her Majesty reserriug the municipal body, but that the address may be sent through the Secretary of State in attendance. Hsw Majesty, however, with her wonted courtesy, expresess her willingness, should the Lord Mayor prefer to deliver the address personally and alone, to receive it from his hands. Tbe resaon luisigned for this course, in the communication made to the Lord Mayor, by direction of the Lord Lieutenant, is, that 'the Queen cannot receive it in state on the throne, as, it is understood, an address from the Lord Mayor and Cor poration of Dublin is entitled to be received, because her Majesty's visit on this occasion is strictly private.' The de cision thus arrived at by whose province it is to make the requisite arrangement.' in connexion with her Majesty's movementa, we entirely approve of. If it may have been thought that, under the circnnurtances court etiquette might have unbent • little, and the Queen consented to receive the municipal body in a less informal way than prescribed by strict usage, the proceedings at the meeting of the corpora tion yester day must convince all capable of understanding such things, that such a comae could not be adopted, except at the risk of exposing her Majesty to that ignorant and in solent intrusion, against the recurrence of which, the expe rience of what occurred on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales, ham no doubt warned those in attendance on the Queen to take proper precautions. After the revolution of the corporation for the preparation of an address bad passed, up rose Alderman John Reynolds, and proposed that a paragraph should be inserted in the address, ' pray ins her Majesty to exert her high influence for the re storation of the Galway subsidy ! ' Incredible as this may seem—although, considering the quarter from which the proposition came, it is credible—will it be believed not only that the provision met with • seconder, but was put and adopted? One would have thought that at any .time respect for the wishes of the royal lady—that her visit should be made and enjoyed in privacy—would have forbidden such a proposal as soon as it rose in the mind of any man, even though his nature wend the coarsest ; that it should hare received • seconder is absolutely marvellous. But might not some sympathy with her Majesty in that domestic affliction, whose heavy shade has hardly yet even lightened its gloom, have just now, if at no other time, silenced the voice of even the rudest and moat vulgar who seek the gratification ofJ their petty vanity by such unwarrantable intrusions? Such men there are, how ever, who are deaf to all impulses either of generosity or of good taste; and therefore those in attendance on her Majesty have very properly fallen back on the protection of that ceremony which it is the privilege of royalty to avail itself of on occasions of doubt. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Ammer 7. The official Wiener 7,eitung of this day publishes an autograph letter addressed by the Emperor to the Aulic Chancellery for Transylvania, ordering the necessary proposals in reference to the assem bling of the Transylvanian Diet to be made before the 10th August. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUOUST 6. Fuad Paella will return from Syria immediately. Hall Bey has been appointed Turkish miniater at St. Petersburg. THE CANADIAN MAIL. LIVERPOOL, ACGCST 8. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Bohe mian, which sailed today for Quebec and Montreal, took 27,1001. in specie on freight. THE FRENCH NAVY. The LatUpeudaace Beige says :—" Notwithstand ing the jealousy exhibited on the other side of the Channel, the French government continues to give important development to the organisation of its naval force. Our correspondence, for some days past, has given us intelligence of an augmentation of the maritime cadres. The Patrie, of to-day, announces the creation of a special division of plated vessels in the squadron of evolutions. This division will consist of four or five vessels." THE RUMOURED CESSION OF SARDINIA. The Q. Petersburg Gazette, after setting forth the opinions which have been lately given respect ing the possibility of the cession of Sardinia to France, and the strategical importance of the island, the possession of which would give un questionable preponderance in the Mediterranean to a great maritime power, declares that the recent language of Earl Russell was not required to per suade it that no compromise of the kind between the new kin6dom of Italy and France could take place w; .hoot seriously endangering the of Europe. For this reason the Ga - ette thinks there can be no foundation for the report in question. POLAND. (MOM Ora OWN COZILESPONDICNT.) WARSAW. Amuse 1. Letters from Ali/aria announce the commence ment of religious persecutions, similar to those in Poland, in that most catholic of countries. The following notice has been forwarded bythe% ' Austrian government to the proprietor at S,„ wnica in Gallicia, on whose estates the church i s s it ua t e d : The imperial government has been informed that during •frinersl service which was celebrated at dgesswnics, the hymn of "God Save Poland" was sung. As this hymn is not among the hymns of the church, god the only object with which it is sung must be to provoke a national demon straVon' the instigators of this proceeding bare been brought to justice. It appears that this hymn is sung daily in the local chapel, and that you do not interfere, which it is both your place and your duty to do. You are re quested, therefore, to do all in your power to prevent de monstrations of this kind, as otherwise I shall be under the damageable necessity of instituting judicial procerdinp spinet you, and ordering the church in which these demon strations take place to be closed. (Signed) KALITOWSKI, President of the Circle of Sondem. Saes, July 312,186 L I A few days afterwards the church was actually closed, much to the distress of the inhabitants and 1 numerous visitors to the baths of the place. The moral strength of the agitation in the king dom of Poland has not only not diminished, but is becoming every day more active and extended, and strikingly shows the power and vitality of the national feeling, which has penetrated to all parts of ancient Poland, including the provinces of Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, and Ukraine. The Russian ladies have selected as a medium of communication between them and the ladies of Poland the Russian journal the Bell, published by Hersen in London. " Speak to them , " they write to that par, "of our sentiments nd our convictions • te ll them that we likewise pray to heaven for the most complete liberty and indepen dence of Poland. May our feeble voice mingle with the sonorous sounds of our BcU and after having penetrated the heart and the conscience of all the wives, mothers, and Meters, reach also un happy Poland." SQUEEZABILITY OF THE COURT OF ROME...—The &irk is reference to the late scene at Rome, has the ful. low iasFßAs for those who may think that satisfaction is doe to ce, we will remind them of the affair of M. de Criqui, the French Ambassador, whom a tumultuous band of Coraicao soldiers compelled to leave Rome in 1662. Leak XIV. demanded signal satisfaction. Pope Alexander VII. dela:e b ting it as long as be possibly could, but the yowl( 13or of France insisted so strenuously that M was to yield. The Pope was forced to mile his ewe brother, to send Cardinal Chigi as a legate a larere to give satisfaction to the Ring, to disband the Corsican Guards, and, finally, to erect a pyramid at Rome in 'memory of the offence and its reparation. Cardinal Chigi made his entry into Paris on the 9th of August, 1664; the extraordinary honours done him gave still more impor tance to his mission, so great a novelty in the annals of the Papacy. Nor was flea all, as Louis XIV. compelled the Court of Rome to promise restitution of Castro and Ron ciglione to the Duke of Parma, and to indemnify the Duke of Modena for his claims ou Comma°. It is clear from this fact that the old monarchy was not so very respectful to wards the e. Pope's temporal power as some folks would have us believ" The journals of Naples announce the arrest of Dana* the murderer of M. lisle, nspector of police. This arrest war not effected without cons idera ble difficulty. It appears that three National Guards, gentlemen of good Lmily, had accidentally become acquainted with the hiding-place of this young monster (for be had committed his int murder as early as the age of 13), and also with the watchword belied gives to his secomplicea. The three per sons abovemientioner repaired to the place and knocked at 1 the door, ,saying, "Apes student . (" Open the door. student"), which was the watchword they had learnt. Demme opened aec ar di ng ly, d resse d in his shirt and drawers, and with a cigar in his mouth ; but on finding himself attacked, he seised his revolver, and fired six shots, only one of which, however, produced some effect, slightly wounding one of the aggressors. The others fired also, and wounded Demata in three please— namely, in the neck, abdomen, and leg. Meanwhile, one of his accomplices, who lived in the same room with him, jumped out of the window, sod io so doing received such severe injuries that he is stated to be in a desperate state. Dewitt& was at length mastered, and taken to the police-station, amid cries Death to the assassin," uttered by the multitude that had mumbled. ___ Tag PUBLIC WOMB AT communica tion from Vichy rays :—" The great works ordered here here already been commenced : more than 400 workmen are sow employed in raising the dikes of the Allier, or in executing roads ; the works of the suspensioe bridge (the tolls ea which ceased to be levied on the day before the Em peror's departure) are also being carried on actively ; and lastly, the construction of the Boulevard de Ceinture, which eromes the old Human road, hie been commenced. Hopes are entertained that the works of the latter will lead to the discovery of remains of the Vichy of the Romans. A ocesort was given the other evening at, L'Ardoisiere, in the picturesque valley through which the Sichon flows. Vivier played on the born Mehul's ' A mine au sortir de l'enfence,' lad afterwards executed on the violin and the piano some of his original compositions sod amusing parodies. The inhabitance of Vichy got up by subscription • ball to the Gresediem of the Guard, in return for that given by the latter, end it took place in the camp. It was &Hassled by nearly all the young men and women of the NeighbouMood —the latter in their picturesque costumes. Quadrilles sad the local dime called "verve(' were executed with great spirit. A table 150 yards long, and several smiler Gee& were loaded with refreshments. The Emperor has pry seated Dr. Alva, consulting physician, with • nisemidoest gold snuff-box ornamented with diamonds, and matednieg an autograph letter of thanks. During the Enema?' dal at Vichy politics were neglected ; them was Not • shade al a earn em' or a conference, and his Mejeety Meares* wider mat the course of medical treatment rieranomileito him.* SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 3rd state that the Iberia had been fined 1%000 reels for the publi cation of a seditious article ; that the Chrunica had been again seised ; and that a prosecution of the Disonsion had been commenced. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OP 1862. The following general announcement relative to the catalogues in connexion with the forthcoming Exhibi tion has been officially published :—" Her Majesty's Coin. miss' ioners intend to issue three catalogues ; two relating to the Industrial Sections of the Exhibition, and one to the Fine Arts Section. Advertisements as well from exhibitors as from the general public will be received for all three catalogues. The catalogues which have reference to the industrial section's will be called respectively The Indus trial Catalogue,' and The Illustrated Catalogue ; the third will be ' The Fioe Arts Catalogue.' All matter which is intended for insertion in the body of the catalogue* must be sent in to the secretary of her Majesty's Commissioners, F. R. Sandford, Eeq., 454, West Strand, before the Ist of February, 1862, after which date no alterations or fresh in sertions can be guaranteed. Advertisements will be admitted if received before the Ist of March ; the rate of charge will be doubled between the Ist of March and the lit of Apr il, after which day DO further advertisements' will be received for the first editions. The insertion of all advertisements is subject to the approval oilier Majesty's Commissioners. AU communications relating to the catalogues should be ad dressed to the secretary, and be legibly eodorsed on the outside of the envelope, ' Catalogues." The Industrial Catalogue' will be a list containing the name and addrees of each exhibitor, and a very brief description of his goods. It will be in one volume demy Bvo, will be sold for one shilling (in the Exhibition building), and will be produced wholly at the cost of her Majesty's Commissioners. ' The Fine Arts Catalogue' the same as the Industrial Ostalogue in size of page, 'nt, and price, and will also be produced at the cast of her jest 's Commissioners. ' Ad. vertiesments ' will be inserted in double columns, printed in ruby type, in both these catalogues, of each of which her Majesty's Commissioners guarantee an issue of 250,000 copies. ' The Illustrated Catalogue' will be an extended form of the (Shilling) Industrial Catalogue, containing in addition matter which especially affects the interests of the exhibitors. It will be printed in super-royal Bvo, so that it may range with the catalogues of 1851 and las, and will be published in part* The name, address, and business of every exhibitor will be printed in large type (small pion), with a brief general description of the objects exhibited by each. The printing and paper of this portion will be pro vided at the cost of her Majesty's Commissioners. One or more claws will form a part, and each part will be sold for one shilling (in the building). Editions of 10,000 of each part will be printed off from time to time. The exhibitors may insert any minute descriptions of the articles they exhibit, with prices or otherwise as they may think fit ; also a notice if they have obtained medals at previous exhi bitions, at a fixed tariff of charges. Exhibitors who wish to illustrate their descriptions must provide their own wood cute or engravings, which will be inserted on the conditions that they do not extend beyond the prescribed margins, and are first approved by the commissioners." NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADWIEALTY, Ammer 7.--APPOINIXIXTIL—Com maIodors W. B. Brown, to the Orion ; and E. 0. Mayne, to the Heats, additional for surveying servios. Lieutenant O. T. Morrell, to the Wellaeley. Paymasters W. T. Richards, to the Cadmus ; and It. D. Hire, to be additional to the Cornwallis. YORKSHIRE RIFLE ASSOCIATION PRIZE MEETING. _ . The first prise meetiug under the auspices of the Yorkshire Sine Association commenced on Tuesday morn. lag, on Strensall-eommoo, • level waste of land several hundred acres in exteed some seven miles from the city of York. The association had issued& programme of a liberal and attractive character, upwards of 4001. being offered in money prizes; besides which were added the association prize cup of the value of 50/., the bronze medal of the National 'Rifle Association, and • Whitworth rifle, of the value of 251., contributed by Earl de Grey and Ripon. The number of competitors who had sent in their name was 1,600, comprising representatives of all parte of the county. At an early hour in the morning special trains deposited large bitches of volunteers, in uniform, within a short distance of the common. The weather was beauti fully fine, there being, however, a stiffish breeze blowing down the length of the ranges, nine of which, with a pair of targets to each, had been selected. Eight prizes had been set down for the first day's shooting, at ranges of 200 and 300 yards, and were open to militia and artillery and ride volunteers. The first contest was for prizes given to non.commissioned officers (not on the staff) and privates of any militia regiment in the county. The first prize of 8/. was won by William Evans, of York, who scored 12 points. The second (51 .) was secured by Samuel Blakey, of Halifax, with 11 points ; and the third (2/.) by George . Briggs, of York. The prize for the members of the artillery volunteers, with rids carbine (15/. for the first sad Si. for the second), were won by Thomas Richardson, of Hull, who made 12 point', and Sergeant Green, of Bradford, who made 11 pmts. The next contest lay between volunteers " who hail at tended best at drill," there being 52 entries for prizes of 151. and 51. The match resulted in a tie between J. J. Thorney, of Hull, sad John Carr, of Pickering. There was some good scoring during the match, as will be risen from the following selection from the register: Points. John Carr, Pickeriug J. J. Thorney, Hull l5 Corporal Kirby, Hovingham l4 John Humble, Bedide l3 Seit Mick* Bohai l3 J. Craaswiok, Bridlington Corporal Dove, Scarborough l2 George Glover, Leeds Sergeant Simms, Huddersfield l2 John Westoombe, Leeds l2 L C. Johnson, Northallerton Sergeant Healop, Oarperby Corporal Ibbotson, Guiseley lO Corporal Collier, Halifax Corporal Hanby, Driffleld lO J. W. Hill, Leeds Sergeant Riede, Leeds Captain Alden, Wakefield lO Sergeant Alston, Wakefield William Dove, Scarb The tie was then sho t oft, winning the first taTThe next contest was for Volunteers, at 200 and ards, there being 140 entries for prises of 15/., 101., and Si. W. Stynn, of Leyburn ; W. Wades, of Scar borough ; and Francis Wrightson, of Stokesley, tied, each scoring 16. The shooting off ended in favour of Styan, with Wrightson second, and Waits; third. There were next 147 entries for Mr. Brooke's prizes of 151., 101., and U., the highest scores in which. out of five shots at each of the distances of 200 and 300 yards, were made by Mr. Bainbridge, of York, sod Sergeant Marriott, of Halifax, each of whom marked 20. They arranged for a division of the first and second prizes. Captain Holroyd, of Halifax, scored 19, and consequently secured the third prize. Several other prises remained to be shot for. FRE4H SUCCESSES or SRI Ex- CHAIIPION 131101'. The star of Mr. Edward Rose, of Cambridge University, to be again in the ascendant. At the Montrose appears yesterday. Scotland's Cup, shot for at 700, 800, and 900 yards, five shots at each, was won by that gentleman. He ade eight, seven, and siz point'. Smith, of the Edinburgh Volunteers, won the second prize, with three, eight, and seven points. Major Mote, of Stirling, woo the third prize, after shooting off ties at 15 with two others. The Strangers' Cup was competed for afterwards, there being ten shots at 900 yards and ten at 1,000 yards. ROW made 18 points; Kirkwood, Renfrew, 17 ; and Muir, 16 points. THE BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY BILL. This bill received the royal assent on the day of the prorogation. The following are some of the most en portant changes made in the law :—Non-traders are to be liable to the bankruptcy laws in respect of future debts. The seizure and sale of the goods of • debtor under an coo. cutioe fora debt above 501. will be an act of bankruptcy, and all such sales most be by public auction, duly adver tised. Percentages are no longer to be taken from linkruptie estates, and the official assignees and messengers are to be greatly reduced in num ber, and paid by fixed salaries. At the first meet ing under • bankruptcy, the creditors may remove the proceedings to say county court, or, if they think fit, determine to wind up the estate under a private arrange ment, and also decide whether the bankrupt shall have any and what allowance for support. The official assignee is to collect the debts not extreding 101., and the court is to order in whose custody the books and papers belonging to the estate shall be deposited. The creditors are to de termine whether the estate shall be realised by au official assignee or ass•gneee chosen by themselves, and in the latter case may allow them the assistance of a paid manager. All monies received by the assignees are to be forth. with paid into the Bank of England to the account of the accountant in bankruptcy, and in country districts where there shell be no branch of the Bank of England, then into such other bank as the court shall direct. The creditor' assignee must every three months submit a statement of his accounts, with vouchers, to the official assignee for examination, and after such accounts have been passed the official assignee is to send a printed copy thereof, or a statement showing the nature and result of the transac tions and accounts of the assignee, to every creditor who has proved under the bankruptcy. The proof of debts may be made by sending to the enigma through the general post a statement of such debt and of the account, if any, between the creditor and the bankrupt, together with a declaration signed by the creditor that such statement is a full, true, and com plete statement of account between them. False declara tion is to be a misdemeanour. All statements of account are to be compared with the books and papers of the bank rupt by the aasignees. The clarification of certificates is abolished, and the bankrupt after the patting of his last examination is to be entitled to an order of discharge. Very stringent penal clauses are provided, and for a variety of offences the court may summarily order imprisonment for any period not exceeding one year, or may refuse or suspend the order of discharge, or attach conditions thereto as to future property. For offences made taisdemeisiours under the act bank rupts may be tried in the court, with or without a jury, at the option of the bankrupt, and on couviction may be im. preened for any term not exceeding three years, and be liable to any greater punishment attached to the offence by any existing statute. The court may direct the creditors' assignee, official assignee, or any creditor to act as prosecutor, and the costs of such prosecution will be borne in the same manner as the expenses of prosecu tions for felonies are now borne ; and other costs incurred by such prosecutor not so defrayed are to be paid out of the Accountant-General's Fund. Most important facilities are afforded to enable a debtor and his creditors to effect private arrangements under trust or composition deeds. A majority of creditors is number, including three-fourths in value r may, on execu tion of a deed of arrangement, and registering it in the court, bind a minority, and are to have the use of the court in all came in which they shall require its assistance to de cide questions as to disputed claims, or any difference' that =yams between the parties interested in the debtor's estate. The court is not, however, to interfere in any manner except its aid is invoked by some person having • direct interest in the matter. Every deed of composition must be registered. There an scarcely be a doubt that these alter. ations in the law will not only greatly lessen the expenses attending bankruptcy proceedings, but will be most accept able to the mercantile classes, releasing them from the official trammels with which those proceedings have hitherto been invested. It is believed that a bill will be brought in next session to consolidate the law in one statute. METROPOLITAN LOCAL TAXATION AND Oofiliziiii;ii: The Commons' Select Committee on the Local Taxation and Government of the Metropolis, whose report has just been issued, have bad to deal with an area of 78,029 acres, on which stand 360,Z37 inhabited houses with • population of 2,803,034 souls ; the assessment is 12,450,416/. ; 7,000 persons are employed, entirely or par. tally, in duties connected with the local government of this vast body. Schemes were suggested to the committee for a comprehensive system of municipal government of the whole metropolis under one head, with minor local affairs administered by the authorities of the several wards or dis tricts, and the report as framed by Mr. Ayrton pointed to an enlargement of the city corporation, or "an improvement of the constitution of the Metropolitan Board of Works," but the committee struck out These clauses, and, observing that the question involved imperial as well as local interests of vast magnitude, reported that they conceived the discus. sion of these plans should form the subject of future inquiry, and they therefore wished to express no opinion as to the comparative merits of the schemes suggested in the evidence taken. Of the Board of Works the committee content themselves with saying that the tendency of the evidence leads to the conclusion that though this body, as now con. stituted, is fully competent to discharge the duties imposed upon it, greater authority would attach to its deliberations were its members elected directly by the ratepayers, and not by the vestrymen. The committee, after recalling, among other things, the suggestion made years ago that the rail way termini should be connected with each other by rail way, so as to take all through traffic off the streets, recent. naiad that the Metropolitan Board of Works should be empowered to appear before railway committees when necessary, to watch over metropolitan schemes, and protect the interests of the inhabitants. A clause recommending that the planning and execution of the Thames embank ment be entrusted to this board was rejected on a division. The question of the equalisation of the poorrates is not touched, because another committee was considering the poor laws ; and the coal and wine duties were also regarded as taken out of the hands of the committee by par liament in passing the bill to continue them for ten years and appropriate them to metropolitan improvements. Therefore on the subject of taxation, the committee have only to recommend that so far as the tax on hackney carriages exceeds that of the country, it should be remitted or applied in aid of the rates levied for local purposes (the object for which it was imposed); that the duty on corn ought either to be abolished, or, being levied on all the inhabitants, applied for their general benefit; that, as railways and omnibuses will now compete, the taxation ought to be on the same principle, in both in stances on the miles run, or in both on the gross receipts ; and that the unappropriated part of the duties the city was authorised to raise, now constituting the Loudon-bridge Approaches Fund, ought to be applied for the benefit of the inhabitants of the whole metropolis, whose taxation has redeemed the permanent annuity which the city was to pay in discharge of its own debt. With regard to the administration of justice, the committee think it de serves consideration whether the Central Criminal Court should not sit as often u might be requisite for the trial of minor cams, reserving the more important for the monthly attendance of the judges. They see no reason why the county court system should not extend to the city ; and they think it matter for considera tion whether it would not be advantageous to the inhabitants if arrangements were made for the trial of all metropolitan causes (not ocrgobtable by the County Courts) at • central court of nisi pries, analogous to the Central Criminal Court, instead of some being tried at Guildhall, some at Westminster, sod some at the Surrey and Kest Assizes. The committee advert to the subject of public property in th e metropolis, which is connected with that of local taxation in so far as such property can be justly applied to purposes otherwise to be provided for out of local taxes; but they did not inquire into the varied interests in all the public property belonging to local bodies in the metropolis, as it would involve many complicated questions. They content themselves with observing that it is a subject worthy of the most careful investigation. Naw ACT ON UNIVERSITY ELFA"TIONS.—AII act of parliament, which received the royal anent on Thursday, has been printed, and provides that votes at election's for the universities may be recorded by means of voting papers. The object of the act is to afford miter facilities for voting to the electors at elections for burgesses to serve in parlia ment for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin. It is now lawful for electors to vote by mean of voting papers, in lieu of attending to vote in person : to nominate any other electors of the same university com petent to make the declaration required. The voting papers may be inspected by any person now entitled to object to votes, and such papers are to be filed. A penalty by tine, or imprisonment for a term of one year for a misdemeanour, is to be unposed upon any person falsely signing a voting paper, or otherwise fraudulently acting in any manner respecting the same. The papers are not to be liable to stamp du. EXPORT OF RAILWAY MATERIAL TO INDIA.—The activity which prevailed last year in various branches of the iron trade is to some extent explained by the immense shipments made of sisaVriel to India, on account of the railway works now in progress. It appeirs from as off etal return that last year no less than 234,710 tons of maternar were d esp atched to India of the collective value of 2,140,703/., being the largest consignment made in any rem year mince the works were commented. The proportion of saaarid taken by each company was as follows, omitting fractions :—East India, 66,448 tons, of the value of 580,3871.; Madras, 38,348 tons, of the value of 26.8421.; Great Indian Peninsula, 25,971 tons, of the value of 238,385/. ; Bombay Baroda, and (lutist India, 32,981 tons, of the value of 335,8681. ; &nide, 2,056 tone, of the value of 26,582/.; Po e * jab, 24,107 tons, of the value of 241,211/. ; Indus Steam Flotilla, 1,240 tons, of the value of 17,215/.; Great Southern of lndia, 17,139 tons, of the value of 118,574/. ; Calcutta and South-Eastern, 6,088 tons, of the vales of 74,174/. ; Eastern Bengal, 30,3.0 tons, of the value of 213,686/. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY DIVIDEND.--R is stated that the directors of this company have derided oe recommending to the proprietors a dividend at the rate la 41 per mt. per annum for the put balf.year. T ■