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Admit that the Roman problem is not yet to be solved, that the French army is not yet to be embarked at Civita Vecchia for its return homewards, that Northern and Southern Italy are not yet to be brought together—and there were members of the present Cabinet in Paris who could not but at once tender to the EMPEROR their resignations ! There is the Financial Minis. ter, M. ACHILLES FOULD, for example. There is - 31. DE PERSIGNY, the Minister of the Interior. There is M. THOUVENEL, the Minister for Foreign Affairs. There is M. ROUHER, and there is M. BAROCHE. Which one among these administrators could with anything like consis tency, or for that matter with the maintenance of any shadowy sense of self-respect, continue to hold his portfolio meekly with all the old policy to which they were all respectively more or less decidedly pledged, either set aside altogether, or at any rate postponed indefinitely to some epoch as remote from the view of the present as the Greek Kalends or the Millennium ? It is significant in an extraordinary degree that the first minis terial resignation about which we were first the most confidently assured, about the reality of which there could scarcely remain a moment's doubt, was the resignation of the Foreign Minister I —namely, that of M. DE THOUVENEL. And not only has M. DE THOUVENEL'S resignation, it would appear, been at once accepted, but it is understood that his successor has already been appointed. The new Minister for Foreign Affairs being M. DR "" Lx L'lluvs. T ment is he change in that depart more rike in reverting to the old state of thingl. RODYN DE L'Huys having before held, for several years, the Foreign portfolio in the Emperor's Cabinet. It is not, however, by th any at means the resi gnation o f a solitary Minister just occurre d, or is just now occurring in Paris. Tooth er with M. DE THOU VENEL, there go out AIM. PERSIGNY, and (the most imp ort ,. c'teuE' ROUHER, M. ACHILLE FOUL D . Row con 1 ift p oi e re r th h lw a p it e h o i f , la no 0 ) maintained at the Bours e we shall deu ce will be not h a ve long to wait in order to recognize. Theeplot a baro meter of the Funds will show the result unmistakeable characters. As to the Italian ques tion itself—not the Roman question merely but the whole Italian question in its complete integrity— that may be left with implicit confiienee to the p a _ triotism of a great people newly awakened from the silence and subjection of centuries, nu. der the guardiansbip of Divine Providence. Lie question that, now forces itself more distinctly and imminently upon our consideration—comin g nearer h3rne to us, affecting, directly and profoundly, the political situation throughout Christendom —is the question as to the manner in which the Ministerial transformation .now being witnessed in Paris will influence the loyalty of the French people in regard to the Imperial Government. The EM- ITROR is at last playing a bold and open game, upon which the whole fortunes of his dynasty will be siAked. 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He is declaring by this decision that he will accept his Ministers collective resignation, and forthwith appoint their successors—he is declar ing by this autocratic decision of his against the Unification of Italy, and for a policy of reaction in the Roman Peninsula ! Whether he can blow cold now, as readily as he blew hot when he led his army into Lombardy—France, Italy, Europe will soon enough demonstrate. In any case, the course the French EMPEROR is now adopting must by an almost unavoidable necessity lead to war. Whatever may be done in this matter by the Italian Government, with RATTAZZI as Minister, it is hardly probable that the Italian People will quietly submit to be parcelled out anew at the whim and pleasure of a Gallic Autocrat. The terrible accident at Edinburgh was due to wo things—the use of a single line for the traffic both ways (under the circumstances of repairing the line unavoidable) and the depth and Binding of the cutting being such, as to prevent the engineer of either train from seeing at a distance the train approaching his own, and slackening his speed or reversing the engine. This was at least the essen tial cause of the accident; special care had been taken, however, to prevent this double cause from giving occasion to a collision. The means adopted are thus described by the Scotsman :—"A points man had been stationed at the western extremity of the curve for the purpose of making signals to trains approaching Winchburgh from the west, as to whether the rails were clear for the safe passage of trains along the single line. A pilot-engine has also been permanently stationed there for the purpose of following each train to the point where:the working of the double line of rails is resumed . It would ap. pear that last night a ballast train, composed of en gine, tender, and truck, passed westwards as usual a little after six o'clock, conveying a portion of the men who at that hour ceased their work on that part of the down line which is being relaid. The pointsman at the west end of the single line, whose name is George Newton, seems to have mistaken this short ballast train for the pilot-engine follow ing the six p.m. train from Edinburgh for the North ; and it would appear that, when the train which left Glasgow at five p.m. reached his station, he—under the impression that the passage of the pilot-engine ( for which he had mistaken the ballast train) had denoted that the single line to Winch burgh was clear—allowed the Glasgow train to pass on and meet the Edinburgh train, with the fatal result of which our readers are now aware." There does not appear, therefore, to have been any neglect on the part of any one; and if it shall turn out, on further inquiry, that the pointsman really mistook one engine for another, he cannot even be brought before a jury. It is said, indeed, that he had been placed at his post but half an hour before, and this oversight—though it would hardly be such if the pointsman, though new to that spot, had been in long practice on railways before—seems at present to be the only blame worthy aet in connection with this fearful cala mity. It seems not unlikely that the line being of such a peculiar character, the forthcoming verdict must be that it was due to the pointsman's mistak ing a ballast engine for a pilot engine. What is wanted is some infallible indicator in all such cases. It should be one if possible of a purely mechanical kind, so as not to depend on the possibly wearied, or deceived, or wandering senses of a human agent at all. We want some means by which a train entering a length of single rail should itself, whether pointsmen are asleep or awake, sig. nalise its presence on it till it has left it for its own side on a double line. Failing this, which, perhaps, we may have long to wait for, 'we cannot conceive of a simpler expedient than one adopted on the London and North-Western Railway between Mar ket Harboro' and Rugby for working a single line railway, which might be adopted in every case, whether temporary or permanent, where trains running in opposite directions use the rails. It is al so in use on a part of the North British line. It is thus described in a letter to the Scotsman :—" The plan is a very simple one, and consists in a piece of wood, not unlike a gentleman's baton, being handed to the guard at the beginning of the single line, and which is de livered up by him at the end of the single line. As he dare not enter upon the single line part of the ourney without the baton, it is impossible for a rain to come in the opposite direction till his arrival at the other end, and the delivery of the baton enables the opposite train to proceed on its ournev." This certainly appears like one of those simple arrangements which come as near to mechanical certainty, as anything worked by the hands of human beings Can do. Had this plan been in opera tion at the Clayton Tunnel, on the Brighton line, it hardly seems possible that that accident could have occurred ; there cculd be no doubt whether a train had passed through the tunnel if it had delivered up its baton when it had reached the other side, and none, whether or not one might enter when the last train in the tunnel had left its signal that it was safely through. The collision has been of a kind, we believe, almost unexampled in the history of railways—the ordinary case is one of a stationary train being run into by another in motion. Here we had the two trains both nearly at full speed doubling the usual violence of the shock. It is indeed terrific to con ceive of the force of impact from the combined power of two steam engines, and the momentum of two heavy trains moving at high velocities. Witnesses seem to labour in the attempt to describe what they saw when all was over. The smashing of all the parts of carriages susceptible of breakage, and strewing their fragments like rubbish_the piling up of the monster wheels and huge frames upon one another; heavy cars iages, raised high in the air, having mounted upon others; but, amidst all this wild confusion, there was proof that the brave fellows in charge of the engines had done their part—but moments had been allowed them— yet in those moments the breaks had been brought hard up, and the hand of one held with a death clutch the reversing-rod handle of his engine. Their widows and orphans, if they leave any, pre-eminently deserve the reward due to their husbands' and fathers' presence of mind in such a dreadful moment. A full inquiry will of course be made ; but what seems unaccount able is, that such inquiries iu Scotland are secret. This will hardly satisfy the public in a case like the present one, and some steps will, we trust, be taken by which the whole kingdom will be satisfied acciden iarrirOlvi is hudndgledl7upli,vaensdanthdaat men concerned are all equally t m least an a _ gers a n d dealt with, The sentence pronounced at last upon, the deserters from the Italian army to the Garib aldian insurgents i s something frightful. De ath could hardly be otherwise —in the instance of many.. than preferable. The sentence being, as the tele gram onm of vnt th morning l is In the history of the three menthe' powe r exei- cised over France during the March, April, and May of 1818, by the Provisional Government estab lished at Paris after the February Revolution, there is recorded one act which will secure to that short lived Government an honourable, and grateful, and admiring remembrance. Can anyone doubt for an instant as to what that act was ? Is it not yet held i n vivid recollection throughout not merely all France, but all Christendom ? The act passed at one famous sitting of the Provisional Government in the Hotel de Ville, with the veteran DUPONT DE L'EURE presiding in the chair, but with the poet LAMARTINE at his elbow, as the real Presiding Genius of the conclave —the act immediately after wards read by LAMARTINE to the multitude out side, in the midst of their ringing acclamations —the immortal act declaring the abolition thenceforth in France of the Punishment of Death for Political Offences ! But it may be argued by the sticklers for the in tegrity of the policy of Signor RATTAZZI, backed up by the military rigour insisted upon by General CIALDINI, that the punishment now inflicted upon these "deserters" from the Royal Army of King Vic- TOR EMMANUEL to the insurgent bands of General GARIBALDI, is a punishment inflicted in the name of the maintenance of military discipline. Let Europe answer whether it really is so. Let any dispassionate observer of recent events—those events beginning at Corleone and ending at Aspro monte, starting from Eastern Sicily and ending in Southern Calabria—let any dispassionate observer, we say, cast a momentary glance of retrospect upon these recent and sufficiently well-known occurrences, and say whether the fault, the crime if yob will, for which these unfortunate soldiers are doomed to undergo the awful punishment of perpetual impri sonment was not flagrantly and essentially more of a political than of a military offence. Why the banner borne aloft by GARIBALDI and his followers was the banner not of a revolutionary mob, but of the foremost soldiers of the SOVEREIGN ! And of that SOVEREIGN—in what capacity ? Not as King of SARDINIA, not as King of the PIEDMONTESE, but as —King of ITALY. The cryraised in Sicily and carried across the Straits of Messina, and echoed among the hill tops of Calabria —was, it is true, that of " Rome or Death." But those words were mingled with Evvivas for " VICTOR EMMANUEL," for the " King of ITALY," for the Re Galantuomo! Let any one call them treasonous—but the KING himself! Let any one pronounce GARIBALDI and his men to be traitors, insurgents, revolutionists —any one, saving and excepting only the very Sovereign who is now meting out upon their military companions in the enterprise this cruel and appalling punishment. Why, the fact is that the so-called deserters from the Royal army, so far from being traitors to the KlNG—loved him and his interests (in the name and in the cause certainly of Italian Unity) " not wisely," as events have proved, but—" too well!" The KING and his Ministers—for what reasons the French EMPEROR can best tell—were in reality the traitors : traitors, that is, to the cause that GARI BALDI and his men consistently maintained to the last at the point of their swords—maintained until the Hero was infamously shot down by Italian bullets at Aspromonte ! And when encountered— what was the one reiterated command of the General in the midst of the deadly fusillade of the Bersag lieri ? "Don't fire !" It was his one entreaty from the first moment of the approach towards him of the Bersaglieri under PALLAVICINO ! It was sounded upon every trumpet of the Garibaldian Band while the firing of the Royal troops con tinued. The offence we maintain, so far as it could be regarded as an offence to the KING and his Majesty's Government, was essentially a political offence, and as such ought assuredly not to be punished many weeks afterwards in cold blood by so horrible a penalty as perpetual imprisonment The soldiers who are pronounced deserters were never arrayed in arms against the KING—Who has, nevertheless, now doomed them to life-long incar ceration. So far from that they were ready, in order to complete the KING'S title to the Sovereignty of Italy, one and indivisible, they were perfectly prepared to this end to rush upon what everybody, but themselves and their impassioned associates in the enterprise, looked upon as certain, as absolutely inevitable destruction. Tremendous as the odds were that (in their own view) were arrayed against them, they were yet prepared " to do or die" upon the bare chance of achieving, under the leadership of GARIBALDI, the Unification of Italy in name of King VICTOR EMMANUEL. Call them madmen, if you will—but not traitors to VICTOR EM MANUEL or to his Government! To do so would be nothing less than an absurdity—an outrageous and flagrant contradiction of terms. And yet these are actually the men who —havitig been inhumanely sentenced to death by the military tri bunals before whom they were arrai.,ned—we now learn have had that sentence mercifully commuted(!) to perpetual imprisonment, The decree thus com muting the sentence, we learn, has been signed by the KlNG—evidently quite as an act of grace ! hen on the contrary it is an outrage to public feeling throughout all Christendom. Why, in the presence of the diplomatic circular addressed by the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, General DURAND°, (since Aspromonte!) to the KING'S representatives at all the Courts of Europe—it is a monstrous ini quity to subject these men to any punishment what ever. For the programme sketched out with diplomatic circumlocution by General Du- RAND° is identically the same (in design) as the programme blurted out with soldierly blunt ness, and without any circumlocution, by Gene ral GARIBALDI. Besides—punish the sot-disant deserters in any way whatever, and how are the officers, who threw down their swords rather than carry them bared against the Hero of their Country in Sicily—how are those officers of the Royal army to be dealt with ? It is a notorious fact that thirty or forty officers did positively act in that way before Catania. And to allow them to pass scatheless (beyond the fact of their having been cashiered)—to raise not one finger against them— whileamrao raenhde dealin gd h iinln twhe a so hehtnrarshlywith the daring f e ll ows w h o h i ne fell lin the mountain and p clustered a s s a t Aspromonte, will be (if persistedlyith t i h n e ) m to ost ac g t la m ri o n s g t cruelly, most inhumanly, and and insolent injustice. Signor RATTAZZI almost seem to be bent up on d o i ng possibly can contrive t o d o of late to drag everything the n am h e e , fame, the prestige o f his SOVE the REIGN through the mire. He did so in th e i nstance of the no s::)rious Proclamation blackenin g th e great name of would GARIBALDI with a charge of Treason. H e hat done so now in this instance, if that can be, still more gratuitously, and, therefore, still most mai ns . tifiably, by causing the royal signature to be rt!imprisonment. unfortunat e ent . m affited to so cruel a commutation. The recent am nestysoldiers is aasr nothing,are d d to p erp etual n oome so lo GARIBALDI can now hardly do otherwise than in sist that the prison doors g as these i and unconditionally. should be flung op e n at once of these poor fellows r We confess we begin to hope that there is more ' in the proclamation than we had thought when we see the fury it creates in the South, and how it is denounced by the pro-slavery organs of this country. We almost hope that all the wrath is real, not feigned, and that the South may find that even this timid and procrastinating document is full of just terrors to the guilty buyers and sellers of men—to the.beings—human beings we can hardly call them, who deny that a black man has any rights which a white man is bound to respect. One thing is certain. These furious slaveholders have an easy method of saving themselves from massacre—they can emancipate their slaves themselves. They will not pretend that it is not in their power by this simple act of justice to secure the attachment of the negroes, to retain them as labourers at wages, to lose nothing by it, for free labour would be the cheapest for them, and then, indeed, they might, with the assent and recogni tion of all Europe, defy the North for ever. If they would take this easy, profitable, and righteous step, England must recognise them at once, and would hear no longer of a war of subjugation. THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL.—The com mittee of the Memorial Fund metyesterday at the Mansion house. It appears that the amount already invested is £47,235 158., and the balance in the hands of the bankers is £3,315 6s. 5d., of which sum the committee directed £3,000 to be invested. The total amount paid and promised up to yesterday amounted to £53,089 9s. 10d. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary have left Cambridge Cottage, Kew, for Brighton. Sir Henry Bulwer, English ambassador to the Sultan, has arrived at Vienna, and Baron de Prokesch is expected there. It is reported that the baron is resolved not return to Constantinople, and even intends withdraw ing entirely from political life. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and Madlle. Elphinstone de Flahault come to town to-day, from Tulliallan Castle, Perthshire, The Countess de Flahault returns to town on Saturday. The Duke of 'Wellington is passing the season at his seat in Norfolk. The duchess is staying at Dufferin Lodge, Highgate, on a visit to her brother, the Earl of Gifford. The Duchess (Dowager) of Beaufort and Lady Edith Somerset have returned to Dupplin Castle, Perth shire, from a visit to Floors Castle, Kelso. The Marchioness Conyngham has left town on a visit to her ladyship's sister, the Duchess (Dowager) of Richmond, at Higholiffe, Haws. Tile Earl and Countess of Craven left their resi dence in Charles-street, yesterday, for their seat, Ashdown Park, Berks. two £lOO, two £50,0f ROBBERY OP £3OO IN A PUBLIC-HOUSE.—Yester day morning information was forwarded to the different metropolitan police-stations that Mr. Isaac Worthinaton, of Norwich, who had been to visit the International Exhi biittTihohnte,hheßiardisbbhosoetpn plundered in a public-house in the City of w they have bee o n s : to 136 near him and £25 in gold and silver. The thieves got clear away an i) d ur fi h v a e rn a B an k England notes, Stopped, pTpheed n an um d b a er l s a or large e t the w n a o r t d e s isa offeredr eknowfno r ; as Y more th an Mr. GLADSTONE'S, that of the the a PP rellen si" of the robbe rs, who can b e identified. Another Minister has given US his opinion—not Cabinete—but, simply the opinion of Sir G. C. allow reporters LEAVxs white hedelivered his pri ou facts which lie as much before the whole mary tation charge th e church of St, Mary-le-Bow,' world 4 5 they do before Cabinet Alinietero, So 1 )41 413 r 12 . r w efnsed, on Tuesday, t.o. ' the Secretary of War wishes us distinctly to un derstand. There is a distinct shade of difference between him and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The latter says that Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS has made the South a nation. Sir GEORGE seems to say, " not just yet." The South is, he ' says, a " belligerent," though we have been much blamed by the North for admitting so much ; but it) is not correct to say that the question on which the war was begun has been answered yet. The South has justified us in acknowledging it as a belligerent, for it has been so for a year and a half, and " when we look at the firmness and consistency with which they have combined for the purpose of carrying on the war—when we look at the numbers of armed men they have brought into the field, and the ability of the generals by whom those armies have been com manded—the pertinacity with which the contest on their part has been waged—the extent to which they have threatened even the capital of their enemy—when these things are looked at it surely cannot be denied that they deserve the name of belligerents, and that they have carried on a war against the Northern States. .1 confess it seems to me that an unfounded charge is made against the Government of this country when it is said that they have departed from a strict neutrality by re cognising the belligerency of the Southern States." But Sir GEORGE argumentatively rejects our right to recognise the South at present. He can not of course deny that according to international law we may do so at any time ; but he thinks it would not be fair yet. We may have our opinion as to what will be the result of the contest—the prevalent opinion is that the South will succeed— he will not say that he dissents from that opinion, but he denies that it has yet succeeded. The state of the war must be acknowledged, he thinks, to prove that the South has not yet succeeded in achieving its complete independence, The North has not been induced to recognise it. Until the North has done this, or until it has become so ex hausted as to give up the conflict, the South cannot be said to have gained a de facto independence. With so strong an opinion against recognition in one of the members of the Cabinet, certainly among the most competent to judge, it is, wesuppose, useless to expect anything of the kind from our Government for some time to come. It is singular that we hear nothing from Sir GEORGE on the subject of the proclamation. This is doubtless intentional. The last American advices nform us that it is beginning to arouse the wrath of the South, and there is plenty of what the Ame ricans term " tall talk" in the Congress at Rich mond about it. Of course, it is represented as an incitement to massacre and pillage, and all that kind of thing, and dreadful alarm is professed. Now, we have two remarks to make to the Southerners and their pro-slavery friends here, on this kind of rant, for we believe it to be rant, and those who use it to be aware that it is so. First, we say—if you are afraid of a massacre, then you have told us most shameless falsehoods hitherto on your own good usage of the negroes, and on their attachment to you and to slavery, if the relations between you and your negroes are what you have described them to be, they would, scorn the offer of freed; m, and beg to remain with their beneficent masters, who gave twelve hundred or even two thousand dollars a piece for them, and of course use such treasures most tenderly. If all you Southerners have told us be true, it will never occur to the negroes that they can be worth two thousand dollars each to themselves, and they will laugh at the bribe of liberty, work, and wages. Secondly, we say, if you do not believe the negroes will massacre you, you have not a shadow of com plaint against Mr. LINCOLN. He has done only what is perfectly fair in war. You went to war with him because you said his policy of excluding slavery from the yet free soil would abolish slavery —for slavery, therefore, you have broken up the Union and shed torrents of white men's blood—you wanted independence to propagate slavery —you have used your slaves, too, to support you in war, as well as made them the occasion of the war. Most just is it, therefore, that Mr. LINCOLN should, after giving you three months for repentance, tell you that after that time he will to the extent of his power abolish slavery. This is taking the slaveholders' own ground ; we do not see how they can deny that Mr. LINCOLN if 3 quite right. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT HULL.—On Tuesday John Wilkinson, the ex-policeman, who stands charged with attempting to murder a married woman named Emma Barker, was brought up at the Hull Police court. The prosecutrix, who appeared to be in a very weak state, gave evidence against the prisoner. She said that he had frequently threatened to " do" for her, and that he would some day " swing" for her. On the 4th inst. she left his house, but during the afternoon he dis covered her whereabouts and went to her to ask her to re turn to him, but, as she refused, he stabbed her twice with a large pocket knife. Several witnesses deposed to seeing the prisoner strike the prosecutris on the night in question, and also that he had a knife or some sharp instrument in his hand. Mr. J. Brownridge, the police surgeon, stated that about 10 o'clock on the evening of Saturday, the 4th inst. he was called to attend the prosecutrix, who was then lying at the station-house. He found her suffering from two wounds, one on the back of the neck and the other just under the left breast ; both were an inch in length, and had been caused by a sharp instrument. The blow on the back had struck the spinal column with such violence as to break the point off the blade. The one on the side had penetrated the prosecutrix's stay-bone, and struck on one of the ribs. Had it not been for the stay-bone it roust inevitably have entered the heart. The wound on the spine had caused the loss of much blood, it having divided an important artery, and it was only the prompt measures which had been used that had rievented the most serious symptoms from setting in. Police-constable Connell, who apprehended the prisoner, produced the knife, which was stained with blood, also a pair of stays and chemise very much saturated with blood. On charging the prisoner with stabbing the woman, he said, " I did; I don't deny it," and that if it had not been for the prosecutrix he should have been in the police force yet. On being cau tioned in the usual manner he said he should reserve his defence. He was committed to the York Assizes. PREDICTED INUNDATIONS IN EUROPE.—M. Mathieu (de la Drome) writes to the Siecle to communicate a note which he has addressed to the Acadern7 of Sciences, and according to which all the watercourses in the sou , la east of France, and in the whole south of Europe, will ex perience a very great augmentation from the 28th inst. to the Bth of November. He predicts great inundations in Italy, and still greater ones in countries to the east of Italy. In France only a few departments will be visited by this scourge. The 17th degree of longitude is the region where it will be most severely felt. The overflow of rivers will take place, according to M. Mathieu, throughout a zone of more than 600 leagues, parallel to a line drawn from Cette or Marseiles to a point beyond the Black Sea, grazing the south of the Crimea. The neighbourhood of seas will, it is said, be chiefly affected, and advice is given to the popu lation of the districts indicated to take such precautions as may be in their power before the 28th inst. A WORD ON THE TOAD.—The beautiful eye of the toad is proverbial, redeeming the ungainliness of its general aspect, and having in all probability given rise to the fabled jewel within the head. Bright and richly coloured as is the eye, with its round, bold, fiery chesnut hue, it is without the least vestige of expression, and retains its full brilliancy long after the animal is dead. As to the venem ous powers of the toad, they are not to be found in the mouth, as is popularly imagined, but in two rather large glands on the sides of the head, which project boldly and are plainly visible. If one of these protuberances be squeezed between the fingers, a whitish, creamy-looking liquid will be ejected, and perhaps to some little distance. While per forming this operation, it will be as well to hold the toad I in such a manner that the secretion may not be shot into I the eyes, as in that case it would cause severe pain, and might probably produce violent inflammation. Still, it will not be ejected without the employment o f considerable force, and is never injurious to human beings. Briefly t o sum up the character of the toad ; it is not pretty, is en tirely harmless, extremely useful, easily tamed, and worthy of being cherished by those who prefer deeds to outward seeming ;itis a creature curious and interesting habits, and affords a rich field to any one with time and opportu nity, for clearing up several important but disputed points in physiology.—Once a Week. THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S LAND TRANSFER ACT. --Yesterday the new registry offices in Lincoln's-inn -fields, which have been prepared for the transaction of business in connection with Lord Westbury's Land Transfer Act of last session, was thrown open for business, a considerable amount of which was very soon effected in a highly satis factory manner. The act was fixed to come into operation on the Ist of October, but the opening of the new registry offices wee necessarily postponed ter a few days, in conse quence of the difficulties attendant upon the first establish ment of an important public department, and the necessity of communicati on w i t h other branches of the public service. The offices, which are occupied by the persons who have been engaged to carry out the provisions of the new act, are those of th e o ld Insolvent Deb;o r ' s Court, adapted for purpose. The rules of the office, which have been drawn up by Mr. Follett, Q.C., and which ars conspicuously placed, are 51 i n number, and are of a simple and practical , character. Th e f ees are collected by stamps . e n very warrant for att en d ance before the Registrar a fee of as.is charged; for fili ng every affidavit, 2 s. 6 d . ; and, for . every oath admini s t ered, ls. 6d. For every cav eat beiore regis tration a fee o f £1 is charged. Judging from the amount of business transacted at the new offices yesterday, Lord Wegbiirrfi filefelge pr91:14i4 0 t() be largely 4°4 41411. MORE COTTON FROM INDlA.—Three other vessels of the homeward-bound cotton fleet have arriv'ed at Liver pool— the Broughton Hall (Rennie), with 8,042 bales; the Ann Buckle (Pendleton), with 4,089 bales ; and the Toboah (Morrison), with 5,363 bales. Negotiations for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between France and Holland have been for some going on. The friendly relations which exist between the two Governments allow no doubt that those negotiations will be promptly terminated. About 60,000 hectolitres of foreign corn have been landed at Marseilles within the last few days. These new arrivals,which have increased a stock before very con siderable, has led to a fall which reacts on the markets of all the Southern departments. The General Assembly of Shareholders of the Gaming Establishment of Homburg has decided, by 605 votes to 9, that in future, whether in winter or summer, peasants, workmen, commercial clerks, and apprentices, shall be excluded from the rooms of the company. PROPOSED VISIT OF MR. GLADSTONE TO NORTH WALES.—Wednesday next, the 22d inst., has been fixed for what is called " cutting the first sod" of the Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay Railway, which task Mrs. Glad stone, wife of the Chancellor, has undertaken to perform. In the afternoon of the same day the Chancellor of the Exchequer will preside at a cold collation at the Wynn stay Arms Hotel, in Wrexham, where a large party is expected to assemble. On the morning of the 22d the corporation of Wrexham will present him with an ad dress. The day will be observed as a general holiday in the town. EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—The 16th annual conference of the British Organisation of the Evangelical Alliance was opened by a soil ee and meeting held on Tues day evening at the Freemasons' Hall, the Hon. A. Kinnaird presiding. There were also prevent the Hon. and Rev. Leland Noel, M. Naville (Geneva), Mr. Henderson (Glas gow), Dr. Kalopothakes (Athens), Dr. Barclay (Jerusa lem), and many ministers of several denominations. The chairman, in welcoming the visitors, said that, looking back upon the history of the Alliance, he thanked God for the blessing which had attended its operations. Its princi. pies had been extended in this country, on the Continent, in America, and in other parts of the world. The Rev. Dr. Urwick (of Dublin), the Rev. George Smith (Poplar), M. Neville (of Geneva), the Rev. C. Hebert, the Rev. J. H, Hinton (Baptist), and the Rev. F. Grooves (Wesleyan), having briefly addressed the meeting, the proceedings ter minated. THE GALWAY LINE—The following is a para graph, which we find quoted in the New York .Herald " The St. John (N. 8.) Courier says that it has learned from a reliable source that the Imperial Government have signi ed to the Government of Canada their willingness to allow the Galway line to ply between Galway and Quebec during the summer and Galway and Portland during the winter, till the completion of the intercolonial railway, pay ing a subsidy of £BO,OOO, the Canadian Government paying £20,000; and that when the railroad is completed the Im perial Government will pay the whole subsidy, £100,000." THUNDERSTORM.—A rather severe thunderstorm raged over the western part of Worcestershire yesterday (Wednesday). It commenced about 8 a. m., and continued with some violence for two hours. The discharges of elec tricity were very frequent, but appeared to be at a consider. able altitude above the earth. Rain fell occasionally in torrents. The atmosphere had been extremely close and hot for the season for two days previously, but became sen • eibly cooler after the storm, which was a very unusual one at this season of the year. STEAMBOAT COLLISION AND Loss OF LIFE.— Ycsterday intelligence was received at Lloyd's of a fearfu► collision off the Sunk Light, between a large screw steamer and the Elizabeth, Captain Robertson, on her passage from Shields to London, The steamer struck the Elizabeth on her port bow, cutting her down below the water line. Capt. Robertson got on board the steamer, and had barely done PO when his vessel went down, the crew, five in number, perishing with her. The mate was picked up by a Dutch galliot, which put him ashore at Gravesend. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the past two years the lifeboats of the National Lifeboat Institution have saved 740 shipwrecked persons on the coasts of the United King dom. This valuable society is now earnestly appealing to the public for additional support to meet the very heavy and continued charges on its 123 lifeboat establishments. PRESENTATION--SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.— The chief officers of this railway have, we hear, presented Mr. R. A. Duncan with a handsome silver tankard, on the occasion of his retiring from the service of the company to undertake the management of a branch bank and of landed estates in the north of Ireland. The cup bears an inscrip tion, "To Mr. Duncan, from his brother officers, in testi mony of their regard and esteem." An address, expressing their cordial wishes for his welfare, accompanied the gift, which is intended to serve as a souvenir of the happy and pleasant intercourse with him which existed for many years. Ll pr Li LI Ey d MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 16. resignation has been accepted. Papal party, contemplated a change of Ministry, and the formation of a Cabinet entirely in favour of the temporal power of the Pope, and favourable also to the revival of the Villafranca idea of a federal Italy, which would involve the return of the exiled Sovereigns. I have seen a list of the proposed new Ministry, in which occur the names of Viscount Lagueronniere, th© founder of La France, and M. Drouyn de Lhuys, who returns to the Foreign-office, and who is known to be pro- Papal. Count Walewski would of course remain in the Cabinet, he having long declared for the Villafranca compact, and the restoration of the exiled princes of Italy. The latest reliable intelli gence I could get to-day was, that M. Fould, the Minister of Finance, left this morning for St. Cloud, with a sort of Ministerial ultimatum, in the name of himself and a majority of his colleagues_ Early in the day his excellency returned to Paris, and immediately proceeded to the Ministry of Finance. Shortly after, he was joined there by MM. Persigny, Thouvenel, Baroche, and Rouher. Up to the moment I am writing, these important members of the Imperial Cabinet are in Council, and no one knows what has taken place. I believe that M. Fould is discussing with his colleagues certain propositions made by the Emperor, which, if accepted, they could remain in office. Perhaps they may remain in office for a time, but the Minis try is, I sincerely believe, doomed. The best and most honest advisers of the Crown will, I fear, in evitabiy give way ere long under any circumstances to a Canzarilla intrigue. We shall have the friends of the Papacy, and the enemies of Italy, in power, and the Emperor will lose much of his popularity. M. Fould's retirement will destroy all financial confidence. TURIN, OCT. 15. The Turin journals of this evening announce that the King has signed a' decree commuting the sen tence of death passed by the tribLnals upon the deserters from the royal army into perpetual im prisonment. The 111orment° of today contains a favourable report of Garibaldi's health. The Monarchia Nazionale of to-day says :—" The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia and the Prince of Wales will shortly leave Wein bourg for Italy. The Princess will pass the winter at Ca tania, and on her return home will visit the prin• cipal cities of Italy." It appears that her Royal Highness will be ac companied to Sicily by the Prince of Wales. PARIS, OCT. 15. The Paine of this evening says:— : - " " Rumours of a c h ange in the Ministry having given rise to various conjectures, we can state for certain that the only question agitated in the Cabinet is that of the elections, which the Empe ror has formally declared will only take place at the period fixed by the Constitution." GARIBALDIAN RIOT AT LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. A serious Garibaldian riot occurred last night at Birkenhead, in which the police were worsted, and a number injured. The military were sent down from Chester, but were not called upon to act. The volunteers were sworn in as special con stables, but were not employed. The Irish mob was triumphant. The .31onzteur of this morning publishes a decree appointing M. Drouyn de Lhnys Minister of Foreign Affairs, in place of M. 'l'houvenel, whose (From the Paris Correspondent of the Morning Post.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 6 P.M. This has been a day of agitation, anxiety, and excitement among the members of the Imperial Cabinet and foreign diplomatists. We are in the midst of a Ministerial crisis. I will endeavour to explain the position of the Emperor towards his Ministers. When the Emperor left Paris for Biarritz he assured the leading members of the Cabinet of his intention to withdraw the French army from the States of the Church at the earliest convenient period. M. Thouvenel, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave such assurances to the Italian Government, and wrote despatches to Rome pre paring the French Ambassador to make representa tions to Cardinal Antonelli to that effect. Count de Persigny, as Minister of the Interior, and charged with the responsibility of the politics of the Ministerial press, repeated, in the Constitution nel especially, the assertion that the occupation of Rome was to have a limit, and not to be perma nent, and the statu quo maintained, as the Ultra montane journals constantly and emphatically declared. Meanwhile an intrigue was going on headed by a party at Court devoted to the Empress and the Papacy, to turn out M. de Persigny ; and later occurred a second intrigue to get rid of M. Fould. Both these manoeuvres, however, at the time failed, and the Emperor rene wed his assurances of confidence to the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Finance. M. Thouvenel got per mission to publish the Roman correspondence in the Moniteur, and his Majesty seemed disposed to pro secute pn agreed upon policy towards Rome, which would end in placing a limit to the occupation. The Emperor returned from Biarritz, when —as I under stand the story—his Majesty began to show symp toms of having changed his mi❑d, and reversed his intention once more. The Cabinet communicated with each other, and a majority, amongst whom were MM. Persigny, Fould, Thouvenel, Rouher, and Baroche determined to resign. This move took place, as far as 1 can learn, only two days since. The Emperor did not wish to get rid of the whole of his Cabinet, and sought to calm and conciliate. Of course I am not aware of many details, but it is quite evident the Camarillo, or female Court FRAN CE. BOURSE, October 15.—The market still con tinues very agitated, at a turther reduction in prices. The Railway Share Market is less affrcted than Rente and some other securities, but some few of the lines show a slight decline. The market closed as follows : 11 per Cents. .. 97 80 Bank Shares 3225 Do end month.... Credit 1.. oneier 124.5 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 90 Italian Loan 73 10 New 3 per Cents .. Roman .... — ..... Do. end month.... Austrian .. — Credit Mobilier.... 1175 Spanish Threes — Do, end m0nth....1180 home Debt - RA IL WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO4B 75 .. 1050 New Northern . 1 1 65 0 1467 3 50 0 7 :5 - 0 .. ...... 6.1 1 65 0 126,8 3 :0 2 : 5 : : ditto - • • -... 367 50 .. 367 n Geneva a anct Mediterranean 880 .. 8 81 ` 2 ..' Southern ........ Western •• • Eastern •• • . Sardinian 378 75 '• o'Bo Austrian L o rhard 6 b 2 North of Spain Saragossa 615 ~ . . ' ' 1 5 * Ditt9 to Varcelm II If I 1 347 50 ' 25 • , 348 75 i 1 A T 4 THE BRAZILS. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 16. ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY. Yesterday a meeting of this society was held at he offices, Trafalgar-square, the treasurer, Mr. T. E. Baker, in the chair. The cases submitted by the secretary, Mr. Young, for the consideration of the committee were unusually numerous, and the following is the decision arrived at in those of the most importance :—George Brooks and John Dunn, able seamen of her Majesty's ship Mutine, were re commended to the next general court for the award of the society's silver medal, for attempting to save Joseph Holland, seaman, who was knocked over board at sea on the 27th of June. The bronze medal was given to Mr. George Metters, gunner, Mr. E. Seale, midshipman, and Mark Voysey, ate ward, of her Majesty's ship Pantaloon for saving William Bennett, seaman of her Majesty's ship Orestes, who fell overboard at sea on the 21st of April ; to John Pitcher, seaman, of her Majesty's ship Impregnable, for saving John Fabian, a boy of the same vessel, who fell overboard into the har bour of Devonport on the 13th of August; to An toine Ledousi and Lefebre Alexandre, seamen, of the French Imperial ship Bayard, for saving Peter Driscoll, seaman of her Majesty's ship Ardent, who being intoxicated, fell overboard into the harbour at Rio de Janiero on the sth of August ; to John Higgins, seaman of her Majesty's ship Liffey, for saving Richard Clarke, a boy of the same vessel, who fell into the harbour at Hamoaze on the 6th uit.; to Mr. F A. Johnston, second master of her Majesty's ship Victory, for saving Joseph Taylor, a boy of the same vessel, who fell into the har bour at Portsmouth on the 12th ultimo; to Michael J. Taylor, boatswain's mate of her Mjesty's ship Wellesley, for saving George Waghorn, sea man of the same vessel, who was precipitated from a stage into the river M dway on the 19Th ult.; to . Lieut. C. H. Wilkinson and Michael Munday, sea -1 man, of her Majesty's ship Ajax, for saving Joseph Williams, who fell into the harbour at Kingstown on the sth inst.; to Drum-Major William Martin. and Richard Richards, private in her Majesty's 15th Regiment, for saving Private J. Weedily, who sank while bathing in the river St. John, Frede rickton, on the Bth of August ; to Colour-Sergeant A. Borland, of her Majesty's 30th Regiment, for saving George Baker, who sank while bathing at West Cowes, Isle of Wight, on the 6th of Septem ber; and to J. E. Wanstall and Stephen Crouch, boatmen, for saving W. Wiltshire, whose boat was upset at Broadstairs, on the 22d of September. Thanks on vellum were given to Timothy Sullivan, miner, for saving Thomas de Renzy, who was car ried away by the tide while bathing in the sea of Bonmahon, Ireland, on the 18th of June; to Philip M'Ginn, master of Westport Union, county of Mayo, for saving Patrick Ruddy, who went beyond C T. his depth while b a thi ng at W estport on t h e 9th of August; to Richard H a yd on , f or s aving James Dili on Harbour, , Dublin, on whojumpedthellth u intoit:a and Grand an dtoAlfred Harris, lighterman, for saving Geo. Coles, who fell into the river Thames on the 13th of Sept. Thanks on parchment were given to D'Aavtrzne de St. Croix, Thos. Chawner, Jas. Walker, Ben, I(erridge, John _Rutter, Police-constable John Grant, Corporal J. S. M'Govi n , D. Anderson, M. L. Hilli er, Thos.Wil hiaahe msslijg.h Hodgson, also given in 13 cases. The se cretary reported that aonddgs T. Evans. P ecun i ary rewards were J. C. Wylie, J. Tomlins on , F. n, It a legacy of £lOO New Three per Cents. bad been bequeathed to the society by the late Mr. G. Clay ton. A donation was also reported of £lO 10s. from Mr. Capel Cure. Some further business hay ing been transacted the Court adjourned. __ ________..........._..—..... TEE BIRKENHEAD RIOTS.—BIRKENHEAD, Wed nesday Evening ' —A s expected, large crowds; of people, chibfly from th e l ow Irish quarter of Birkenhead, a s se m bl e d in Price- s t reet, and the streets adjoining Holy Trinity Church and th e scbools, where the Parliamentary Debating Society met. The discussion on the Garibaldi question went on, the app;oaches to the room being strongly guarded , 37 , P0 , 1ice . Frum lour to six hundred special constabl es , ' lle ' u uing many volunteers out of uniform, assisted the Police to check the viols nce of the mob, but in spite of these efforts several persons were St verely injured, many of the mob being armed with bludgeons, old sabres, knives, &c. Women were active in the affray, and one armed with a hatchet attacked a policeman. In order to distract the police and darken the air, the chimneys of many houses in the Irish quarter were find. This fitted the streets with dense smoke, under cover of which many acts of violence, both on persons and property were committed. The windows Of a leather shop and bread shop in Watson street were smashed and the goods thrown into the street—some of these outrages being carried on by women and girls. Three police officers have been taken to the h os pi ta l . The magis trates are sitting, and if the disturbances inc rease th e mili tary, why are in readiuoce, will be Called oat, LISBON, OCT. 15 (Evening). The Missagerie hope males' steamer Gulenne, with the above mail, arrived here this evening. Ric de Janeiro, Sept 2 5.—Exchange on London, 261 to 261 ; on Paris, 369 to 365. Coffee—Good first, 6,800 to 7,000 reis., Shipments of coffee since the departure of the last mail, 75,500 bags, of which 53,000 were for the Channel ; stock, 160,000 bags ; freights, 30s. to 355. At Bahia, exchange on London was quoted 261; on Paris, 365. Sugar—Whites, 2,300 to 2,400 rein ; browns, 1,700 to 1,900 rein; cotton, 16,000 to 17,500 rein. At Pernambuco, exchange on London was quoted 261 to 27. Sugar—Whites, 3,800 to 4,400 reis ; browns, 1,850 to 2,000 reis; cotton, 24,000 to 25,000 reis. The royal mail steamship Magdalena, which left Southampton on the 9th ult., arrived at Pernam buco on the 28th ult. The Hamburg and America Company's steamer Borussia, from New York on the 4th inst., arrived off the Needles at 11.10 a.m. this morning. THE ACCIDEN7 ON IHE EDINBURGH AND GLAS(7OW RAILWAY. LATEST PARTICULARS. EDINBURGH, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. The full extent of this awful calamity as far as regards the injury to the persons in the train is not even yet known, although we are happy to say that there has been up to this time no addition to the loss of 17 lives already announced, many of the suf ferers, however, remain in a very critical condition. The public excitement continues to be very great on the subject here, and all day the police statior, ! infirmary, and the other buildings to which the decd and wounded were conveyed, have been surrounded by crowds of people anxiously awaiting the re moval of their friends. A large number of the per sons who were injured, and who were in the first instance taken to the hospital, have since been re moved to their own homes; but the removal of the dead has not yet commenced. About thirty is the number of those who are seriously injured, but almost every passenger in the train received slight hurt. Although there will be a full inves tigation into the circumstances of the accident, both by the procurator fiscal, assisted by the sheriff substitute, and an inquiry also by the company, yet in accordance with the Scotch law, such exarnina tion will be in the strictest degree private, and will only be pub lisped in an official form after the con clusion of the whole inquiry. A short private in vestigation took place at Linlithgow yesterday, which resulted in the committal of the pointsman Newton, but the general feeling of the public here is, that there should be an open judicial inquiry in stituted by the government into the mode of manag ing the railway on the part of the higher officials. E is alleged that the line has been for months in the most insecure state, and the wonder is that the accident did not occur before. Very little indeed can be added to the copious details given by the Scotch papers, either as respects the incidents of the accident or the causes which led to it. It is under stood that steps are being taken by Mr. Dunlop, the deputy chairman of the line, with a view to in stitute a searching inquiry into the accident. The line was opened again for passengers, though not for goods traffic, last night, and to day the regular trains have been running as if nothing had hap pened. , I