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11111••••••• .•••••, THE CREDIT FONCIER AN D MOBILIER OF ENGLAND (Limited), Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of this Company will be held at the London '1 avern, Bishopsgate-street, London, on T UESDAI , the 24th October next, at One o'clock p.m., precisely, for the purpose of remit , ng theDirectors' and Aucht.as' Report and Balance-sheet , and for declaring a Div:dend. The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from Saturday, the 21st, to Saturday, the 2S:h October, both days inclusive. By order of the Court of Directors, _ ALFRED LOWE, Secretary. Nos. 17 and 18, Cornhill, London, Sept. 29, 1865. T HE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBTLTER or ENGLAND (Limited). Capital FOUR MILLIONS, In 200,000 Shares of £2O each. Capital Subscribui 1001.01 Shares (first issue) £2,000,000 Capital paid up thereon £3 per share. 600,000 Reserve Fund 200,000 Dividend Reserve Fund DIRECTORS. The Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, governor. 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Newbon, Evans, and Co., Nicholas•lane, B.C. S EC RETARY Alfred Lowe, Esq Offices, 17 and 18, Cornhill, London. ..I.I I FEBOAT SERVICES.—During the s t orms of the past year the National Lifeboat Institution, by WI Lifeboats and other means, contributed to the savin , ; of 098 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The Insti tution also expended 110,5( oin t he same peri..cl on its lifeboat es tablishmeats, in addition to granting £1,539 as rewards. The Committee of the institution earnestly A i'PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 150 lifeboat establishments. Contributions are received by the London and country bankers ; and by the becretary, Richard Lewis, Itsq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. npIIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.— ..I_ Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with Shakspere's Tragedy of MACBETH. Mr. Phelps; Messrs. T. 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On Thursday, October 12, Mr. Char7es Mathews will re appaar, after a remarkable and meet triumph nt perform ance ot L'Homme Blasé, in Paris, and in the French tongue, making his debut here in the Etiglish version ot the same piece, entitled USED UP, sustaining . his original character of Sir Ch-rles Coldstream. ' Mrs. Charles 3lathews will also appear on the same evening in Planehe's Extravagant ot THE GOLDEN FLEECE, with Mr. Charles liathews. On Friday and Saturday, USED UP, THE GOLDEN FLEECE, and other Entertainments. NOTICI4'.---Mr. Sothern will re-appear at Christmas. The Box•office will be opened on Saturday, Oct. 7, and daily afterwards, from 10 till 5. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr, B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. Mrs Alfred Alelion hnd 31r. Felix Rogers. After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKL E . Ri p (his 26th appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. liillington, 1. Bedford, It Phillips, Itog.rs, Ashley, lit.burne, C. 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Attached to the mansion, situated on a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing prospect, are garden, meanovi, plantation, and recreation grounds. For terms and forms of 0413 11.513/011 addre oB a le proprietor. tijg LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1865. The Fenian Movement in Ireland is now one of the chief topics of interest and importance. Many persons will doubtless be astonished to find the dimensions it has assumed, and certainly the active measures that have been adopted are not any too stringent, and are barely in time to prevent catastrophe. Such is the extent to which people may delude themselves and others that it is often difficult to estimate the consequences that may ensue when misguided individuals come under the influence of deep and designing ones. At the same time much may be done to interfere with the pro gress of affairs, and to offend against the law, without reaching to any criminal degree of design or execution. It appears from the evidence adduced and the discoveries which have been made that this last movement in Ireland was most iniquitous in its intentions, and even murderous in its tendencies. Indeed the revelations furnish most surprising and shocking proposals, which, if carried out, world have created the greatest con sternation, and given rise to much distress and disaster. Those who supposed that in perusing the details of this affair they would only find some notable extravagance, may learn to their horror that a wholesale measure was intended and a com plete overthrow of the existing state of things in contemplation. It was certainly a comprehen sive affair in its outlines, bold in its de sign, and unscrupulous in its character. The aristocracy were doomed first and foremost, and many would have shared the fate of the titled victims. This new Reign of Terror, that was to wake up the lethargy of the present age, was a monstrous scheme of slaughter, and bid fair to rival those scenes of horror which blacken the annals of history, and disgrace the memory of some of the most daring men the world has ever seen. The object that was put before the conspirators was to seize all that was valuable in Ireland and divide it among themselves ; it was the old story of the Chartists, but it went still further, and disclosed more savage qualities in its originators. It is canspicuous among the projects of these exterminators that the Roman Catholic priesthood of Ireland was marked for sacrifice. This was, doubtless, contemplated because the Roman Catholic priests have been very averse to the movement from the outset, and greatly to their credit have inter posed numerous obstacles to its progress. At any rate they were to figure among the victims to this project that the demon of misrule had fashioned, and which it was fondly imagined would hurl destruction far and near. Of course, no one who understands the nature of such a scheme can suppose that it had its origin in Ireland itself, or that it aptly represented the feelings of even the most turbulent malcontents at home. It was from abroad that the danger came, and the mis chievous proposal issued, which found only too many listeners for the credit of the land, though quite powerless in numbers or influence to threaten us with the fulfilment of their designs. At the same time it would have been most unfortuhate if the matter had remained enveloped in mystery until the astounding intelligence reached us that tumult had arisen and disaffection to authority prevailed on the other side of the Irish Channel. It is impos sible to overrate the evils that have arisen from the intimate connection that some of the Irish have formed with the worst natures and most dangerous classes of America. It is beyond the Atlantic that this mischief was concocted, and from thence issued the supplies that were to support and carry on the measure. It is, at least, some gleam of satisfaction amid this melancholy prospect that foreign emis saries were at work and foreign aid was deemed necessary to carry on the stupendous undertaking. Still it is a cause of great vexation and disappoint- ment that any credence at all should be given to such schemes. Absurd as they are in proposition, and impossible in execution, it is still an unhealthy state of things that they should be entertained at all. The late Sir ROBERT PEEL acknowledged that Ireland was his difficulty, and his successors in statesmanship have not had the modesty to own their failures as he did, but they have not been the more successful for that reticence. In the present instance there is nothing for it but to institute the the most vigorous search, and to arraign all the culprits before the offended majesty of the law. Some have considered that too mush fuss has been made about the matter, and that it is, after all, only a trivial affair, which was greatly exaggerated. But, small or great, it will never do to allow such a scheme to be passed over in silence ; and, however little may have been done, we cannot tell what would have been the issue if vigilance had not been used and strong measures resorted to. There is a considerable class of per sons who may be intimidated by the introduction of decisive treatment, who, if left alone, are apt to brood over imaginary wrongs until they assume fearful proportions. In Ireland, especially, it would have been most mischievous as to present and future results if no notice had been taken of the matter in a direct and manifest form. The reckless and unquiet spirits across the Atlantic had better take heed besides ; and this they will not do if they think that they can pursue their career in a reckless fashion, and are to be suffered with impunity to sow the seeds of strife broadcast through the land. Perhaps the originators of the scheme may never be found out, but still an indirect check will be put upon them by the adoption of strong measures against their It is quite time that these movements came to a conclusion, and in the present advanced agents. state of education the common sense of all the better natures among the lower orders in Ame rica and Ireland must be against such dangerous and unseemly modes of redress. The Irish who find a new home in the New World possess among their ranks many disaffected indivi- duals, and these desire to send no gentle reminders to their native shores of the tone of mind that pervades some of her exiled sons. Perhaps ridicule may be the most effectual weapon to employ against such conceited and ignorant men as these arch- conspirators have shown themselves to be, at the same time many take a useful hint from the cir cumstance of the discovery of these Fenian myste ries, and learn that it is both wrong and dangerous to fester th e sp i r i t o f di scon tent, and to en courage those w h o are a l rea dy possessed of a morbid tendency or a passionate nature to count up th e i r grievances and rail against constituted authorities. At any moment, when opportunity occurs, the artful schemer and dangerous adviser finds ready tools in such mal contents, so that, after all, this much-talked of Fenian Conspiracy is not BO much a sudden scheme, but the effect of long years of mismanage ment, inducing the lower orders in Ireland to think themselves ill-used and ill-treAed until they HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 12h. 20m.—Afternoon, 12h.:44m. To-Monnow.-Morning, lh. sm. —Afternoon, lh. 30m. Sun, ~~ fliE SUN, LONDON, TEITESOAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1865, are worked up to consider themselves martyrs, while all the time they are the dupes of their own party, and the victims of the unprincipled schemers. The Ist of October is always an important epoch for the medical profession, and in the present year the condition of the public health has attracted so much attention that the addresses annually deli vered on that occasion excite more than ordinary interest. The hospitals of London are one of its chief boasts, and certainly the ability and straight forward tone of the various speakers show that these noble institutions are under the guidance of able and experienced leaders. The addresses include a wide range of subjects, though all professedly treating of the same subject and directed to the same class. There were two noticeable additions to Monday's orations, the one being the address delivered by Dr. EDMUNDS at the Female Medical College; the other the inauguration of the Albert Veterinary College at Bayswater. Professor GAMGEE delivered the address, and had for his audience a large number of gentlemen who had assembled to inspect the new establishment. The health of cattle has so direct an influence on the health of man by its effect upon his food, that the ablest professors of medical science would be the last to shrink from the association of a veterinary college with the higher institutions with which they are themselves connected. It is indeed much to be regretted that veterinary science has been so long neglected or despised, having been left for many years to mere ignorant quacks, who might sometimes have been successful in their treat ment; but, if so, the success was rather due to acci dent than founded upon science. Now a better view is taken of the subject, and veterinary science is rising to its proper place. The college has no doubt exerted a beneficial influence, and has by de grees brought a better class of men to study this branch of the profession. Unhappily all our pre sent knowledge is in a very imperfect state, as its professors frankly admit, and there will be a great deal of time and property lost before the veterinary surgeon emerges from all the clouds of darkness and error which the human physician or surgeon has had to contend against. The establishment of the Albert College is an important era in the science, and it is to be hoped that the opportunities thus given to students will be turned to such good account that we may not again see our herds decimated without knowing either the means of prevention or of cure. One thing we hope, in the interests of humanity as well as of science, will be strongly impressed upon the students at the new establishment—the duty of not inflicting► needless pain, and of remembering that as in human beings the mind exercises a most powerful influence on the body, so in the lower orders the infliction of severe prolonged pain or terror may nullify a course of really able treat ment. Professor GAMGEE'S view of the cattle plague is not encouraging. He considers that severe cases of it are and always will be incurable, and that it is " more deadly and infectious than any other known disease affecting men or animals." He is in favour of a national system of cattle in surance, which, he thinks, would enable the far mers by degrees to get rid of it and its traces. Whether science may not find some remedy among her stores may, however, very fairly be questioned. It is rumoured that on the Polish frontier some large landowners have contrived to preserve their herds from the all-destroying enemy by the use of chlorine. Very strict watch was also kept to pre vent the passage of beasts of any kind froth the in fected country, and the men and horses who were obliged to cross the frontier were fumigated with chlorine. All these questions offer a wide range for the examination of our scientific men, who have a rare opportunity of turning their knowledge to practical account. There is no fear, indeed, that medical science will not have room to exercise itself. The threatened advent of the cholera, and its actua appearance in one or two isolated cases, is enough to arouse the attention, while, as if to add to our perplexities and anxieties, the yellow fever, a most unwonted and unwelcome guest, has shown ittelf at Swansea. Although there is no reason whatever for general alarm on the latter head, owing to the restricted area of the disease, and its evident im portation, it shows that the present year must be unusually favourable to the development and spread of disease, and that we are, therefore, bound to re double our precautions respecting the public health. In every district there ere some evils to complain of ; in many parts of the suburban districts of London, to the south and east more especially, there are actual nuisances in positive existence. The sewage and refuse of our manufacturing districts is allowed to pollute running waters, and fruitful causes of disease and death abound in most popul ous quarters. Sanitary reform has been preached to us emphatically by all our most eminent medical men, and Dr. JONES, the lecturer at St. Mary's, had good right to take credit to his profession for their earnest and unflinching advocacy of sanitary im- provements. In the various public posts which they occupy the professors of medical science have something to complain of, and their duties, always laborious, are often thankless and discouraging. Still the sense of the importance of their profession is growing rapidly greater, and the opportunities for proclaiming important truths which are afforded them are of themselves encouragements to men of character and intelligence. Mr. MARSHALL, the lecturer at University College Hospital, observed, in his distinction between the science and the art of the medical profession, that medicine and surgery really consisted of the science of pathology and the art of therapeutics and hygiene ; but that besides these the physician and surgeon were called upon to exercise other functions as the scientific expositors on questions of public interest, such as those relat- ing to legal medicine and legislative medicine, in the administration of justice and the art of government. The general tone of the addresses delivered on Mon day encourages hope in the future of the profession. The lecturers one and all spoke from a high ground ; hey did not direct the attention of the young students before them to the attainment of mere worldly position or material wealth ; they did not even seek to animate them with the hope of obtain ing a scientific reputation. They told them that they had a great and onerous public duty to perform; they had great responsibilities entrusted to them. They bade them devote all their powers and their energies resolutely to their profession, to make truth their chief object and nature their chief guide. Such language, while it did honour to the speakers, was calculated to infuse into the hearers that high and noble ambition which does not rest satisfied with mere personal advantage unless it can honestly declare that it has fulfilled its duty towards GOD and man. LIFEBOAT SEMI CE. —Cm ST OR, NORFOLK Mon day Night.—About nine o'clock yesterday evening (reports the Rev. G. W. Steward), while the wind was blowing fresh from the east, and there was a good deal of sea on, a vessel was seen to strike upon the Barber Sand, off this beach. The sea at once broke over her ; the crew threw up signal lights of distress. The Caistor lifeboat of the National Institution was immediately launched, and succeeded in getting the vessel of the Sand and brought her up in the Roads last night, and this morning took her into Yarmouth harbour. The vessel was the Nautilus (brig), of South Shields, in ballast. GLASGOW, September 30.—Cotton. —The cotton market has been brisk during the week, and prices have advanced lid. to 2d. per lb. over the quotations of last week. MONTALEMB.ERT ON LAMORIOIERE. " A Good Man Struggling with Adversity." A noble and affecting eulogiurn upon one of the most heroic warriors of modern times adorns the current number of Le Correspondant. It is a tribute worthy of its theme—the life, the death, the genius, the valour, the heart, the very soul of Leon de Lamoriciere. And it is a tribute worthy, none the less, of the generous hand that has but just now laid it upon this newly-erected tomb of Lamoriciere —the hand of Charles the Count de Montalembert. It is comprised within the compass of no more than two-and-twenty pages of the licraison. It is sub divided into three portions, each of them of very moderate dimensions. It goes directly to the point, in the very first sentence of the very first paragraph—in which the writer, or orator, it might rather be said, laments the sorrowful destiny of those who, while, so to say, surviving their own generation, themselves individually, have occasion at intervals to speak over the graves of those friends, companions, chieftains who have had the happiness of preceding them ! Reduced, he says, to envy the happier lot thus permitted to these their predecessors, they readily yield to the temptation of assuaging their grief by recalling their recollections With this tender but manly utterance, by way of preamble, the Count de Montalembert remarks at once that—already the elite of those men whose lives date from the earlier years of this century have begun to be lamentably decimated by death. And that Death while it has thus been striking them down, one by one, in the very midst of us, with a premature blow, when they were yet in the full possession of the great gifts which God had lavished upon them, has, time and again, been preceded mysteriously by a seeming disgrace or by a retirement from public view so prolonged, that one finds oneself not un naturally coming to look upon them, as having long since passed into the region of history. Their austere and melancholy destiny, aggravated by the inconstancy of their country, at the very least, as he beautifully expresses it, thus serving to remove further back the perspective from which they are submitted to our contemplation ! He then casts a retrospective glance, at once of anguish and of admiration, upon those virginal and splendid years of the parliamentary regime in which Leon de Lamoriciere was first revealed to France and to glory ! Then it was, he exclaims, that a very Pleiad of illustrious men, men of radiant abilities and of resplendent reputation, appeared at the head of all the great de partments of the national intelligence. The broad and comprehensive humanity of M. de Montalembert, at this point, as it appears to us, renders itself very conspicuously apparent. The largeness of his sympathies, the true and literal Catholicism of his impartial judgment, render them selves at this point of his argument more than or dinarily manifest. Not content with recounting the names of statesmen, administrators, and parlia mentary orators as distinguished as those of M. Casimir Perier, Royer-Collard, Mole, Berryer, Guizot, Thiers, Broglie, Cousin, and others— Montalembert's inevitable omission, here, of his own name, in this his own enumeration of his immediate contemporaries, rendering it as doubly and trebly conspicuous by its absence as ever could have done the reported absence of Brutus' bust from the proverbial procession ! Not satisfied with numbering up these famous names as those impart ing to the tribune•and to the government of the country by itself an eclat unsurpassed even in 1789 —Montalembert, with a large and open-handed magnanimity, singles out, with a sort of exultation in the retrospect, the names of Alphonse de La martine, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, as having impressed upon poetry a stamp as new as it was ineffaceable—of Ary Scheffer, Delaroche, Delacroix, Meyerbeer, as having done the like by Art—of Cuvier, Biot, Arago, and others by the Sciences— of Thierry, Michelet, Tocqueville, by History and by Political Philosophy ! While, as if to sum up all in one crowning sentence indicative of the fecundity in genius of that particular epoch, he ob serves that Lacordaire and Ravignau caused then to radiate around the Christian rostrum an aureole of eloquence and of popularity such as it had not known since the days of Bossuet ! Thereupon— having said thus much—having prepared the way by this impressive and persuasive preamble for the mention, befittingly, of the heroic name of Leon de Lamoriciere—M. de Montalembert takes occasion to remark that curiosity at that time was awakened to discover whether in this revivification or rejuvenescence of the moral and intellectual energies of the country any analogous development would become apparent in military life. And that doubt was decided, as he says, by the Army of Africa ! One by one, brave and glorious soldiers began to emerge from the ranks to the world's re cognition ! Year by year, day by day, their num bers were augmented. The illustrious Changarnier alone, now, of all that magnificent phalanx, remains amongst us, still, to receive the homage of our faith ful recollections. Of all his noble companions— some among them such as Damesme, Negrier, Duvivier, Brea, sacrificed their lives in the streets of Paris in 1848, to the end that France might yet be retained within the category of civilised nations— while otheis, and these the more illustrious of the number, prominent amongst them Cavaignac, Bedeau, Lamoriciere, have died, one after another, prematurely, having prior to their deaths been rendered, by an implacable destiny, useless to the country they had saved ! Of all these Preux Chevaliers, the youngest, says Montalembert, the most sympathetic, the most brilliant, the most rapidly popular was this very Lamoriciere who has but just now been snatched from amongst us, while still so full of fire, of light and of life, of force and of faith, of force physical and moral, of faith in God and in the future of France ! Thereupon it is that the voice of Montalembert—alternately trembling into tears, resonant with enthusiasm, thrilling with emotion, poignant with accents of lamentation— sounds forth in tones that will not very readily be hushed, in tones the echoes of which cannot very speedily die out and be forgotten this impassioned elope of Leon de Lanaoriciere. Reading it, simply in its cold printed characters, precisely as it appears here in these pages of Le Correspondant—as the verse of Spencer stirred the heart of Sidney, so does it, too, stir our heart as with the clarion of a trumpet Read what he has written thus of La moriciere, as of one whose name, no less than that of Changarnier, is henceforth inseparable from the most dramatic episode of French African history, the expedition of Constantine! The brush of Horace Vernet (he delights to remind himself) has famili arized every one of us with those prodigious exploits —it has revived or perpetuated for us the indomi table intrepidity of Changarnier, enclosed in the serried battalion which saved the army through the perils of the first retreat ; and with that also the " boiling audacity " of Lamoriciere at the head of his Zouaves, the scarlet fez upon his brow, the white burnous upon his shoulders, precipitating him self the first upon the summit of the breach, the in stant afterwards to disappear there in a cloud of smoke and dust, in the midst of a tremendous ex plosion, among the debris of which he was after wards discovered, his eyes nearly burnt out of his head, his body hidden under a chaotic heap of his soldiers, blackened by gunpowder, the very clothes upon their backs calcined, the very flesh upon their bones scdrched and blasted by the detonation. Better than any further commentary of our own upon it, however, will be the production here of one or two salient passages taken almost at random— and translated as accurately as the idioms of the two languages will permit—from this elevated and exquisite panegyric. Having described Lamoriciere as a warrior on the field of battle, Montalembert thus depicts him—quite as picturesquely—as an orator in the tribune. "Lamoriciere was born with'the gift of eloquence, that gift which is not the first requisite either of the exercise of power or of the love of liberty, but which is rarely inseparable from either in the lands or the times of free discussion. lie combined within himself those three rare qualities which the prince of contempo rary orators, M. Thiers, has told us are essential to men who aspire to govern —a knowledge of the affairs of the country, the ability to expound them, and the character requisite for their defence. Bat, contrary to the general rule, his eloquence was in no way the result of labour. With him the orator did not proceed slowly, as has happened to tho most illustrious, advancing stop by stop on the path leading towards perfection. He revealed himself upon the instant, like a daring and happy impro visator, who, upon a well-chosen platform, had no cause to shrink from any competitor. Ho frankly scoffed at those who assumed to be orators without possessing his spontaneous facility. ' You academicians,' said he, you always require to dress up your words beforehand. You are never ready when one has instant need of you.' As to himself he was always ready upon any emer gency, and it was always a delight to see him, there, bound ing into the tribune as into the saddle, reining up and mas tering his position upon the instant, with the ease of a perfect cavalier ! To see him also, there, taking in hand the most complicated questions, challenging the most redoubtable ad versaries, such even as M. Thiers himself, dominating the tumult, leading on and enchanting the wandering attention of the assembly, instructing and charming those even whom he found it impossible to convince. His oyes sparkling, his head erect, his voice resonant, ho seemed always as though he were sounding the charge while speaking. He martialled arithmetical figures, facts, and arguments, with as much dexterity, force, and genius, as if he were direct ing his Zouaves. Supple and impetuous, bounding like a panther, he moved round his adversary, as if seeking the vulnerable point before leaping upon him to his overthrow. Rarely did he descend from the tribune without having profoundly moved his audience, without having thrown light upon a question, without having dissipated a misapprehension, without having repaired a defeat, with out having either prepared or justified a victory. Never has that famous saying of Cato, about the Gauls, been more fully verified than in the instance of Lamoriciere. Rena militarem ager•e et argute loqui. Under this aspect as under so many others, he was the most French of the Frenchmen of our age." In vivid contrast to the foregoing let us now give one fragmentary passage from a later portion of this remarkable paper upon Lamoriciere, subsequent to M. de Montalembert's scathing description of the deadly influence of the coup d'ltat of the 2nd of December. He is speaking of the griefs, the degra dations, and the ignominies through which Lamo riciere, in common with so many of his illustrious contemporaries, had to pass during several years of intolerable exile and of what must have been to them that yet more intolerable inaction to which they were thereby condemned. He continues :-- "No bitterness was spared him, and I speak here of the bitterness of the heart and of the soul, of all griefs the most poignant and the most incurable! Nothing was wanting to him in the shape of misfortune! And yet after the logs of his position, of his career, of his country, of the life of his only son, of hispower, of his opportunity, there still remained to him one human possession that he might lose—one last plank saved from the shipwreck ! His old popularity among his contemporaries, and his companions in that shipwreck, among his old political .friends, in the bosom of that party which he had not only served and defended, but, beyond all, had honoured and protected by his glory ! This popularity he hazarded all at once inthe service of the cause of all others the most neglected, the most contested, the most reviled. He risked it, and he lost it. A priest whom he had known as a soldier, upon the soil of Africa and under the banners of France, prior to his becoming at once his father and his friend, came to him to offer in the name of Pius IX. the opportunity of running into these new perils with the certainty of being vanquished in a desperate cause. He eagerly accepted it. Immediately a long cry of insult and derision arose from the bosom of all that which calls itself European Democracy. He was dragged through every ignominy, he and that young band of heroes who followed in his footsteps. A hideous clamour, drawn from the depths of human baseness, from the banks of the Thames to those of the Arno, pur sued with its invectives, with its derisions, with its calumnies, that devoted band and its heroic chieftain. And when the final work of subjugation and of spoliation was accomplished, he returned to France to be derided by those who insulted him at his departure." Finally, we must content ourselves with one portion at least of the noble and touching peroration of this funeral eloge upon Lamoriciere. Says the Count de Montalembert : "All this said and done, after having thus sounded the depths of the abyss, the oppressed soul finds consola tion in contemplating the grandeur and the glory of ad versity. Let us recognise the truth and say—Lamori ciere, victorious and successful, marshal of France, con queror at the Alma or at Magenta, followed wheresoever he went by the eager curiosity of the multitude, pam pered and intoxicated by prosperity, would not have emerged from the brilliant crowd of fortunate soldiers, would not have attained any other glory than that military distinction of which France has been always so fond and with which she has been, so to speak, so completely satu rated. His effigy, placed in its proper rank in the galleries of Versailles, in the midst of so many others, could then have awakened in our souls no more► than a passing emotion. But Lamoriciere, betrayed by fortune, disgraced, pro scribed, insulted—Lamoriciere, the conqueror of anarchy and the victim of the Dictatorship—Lamoriciere, con- damned by honour to the ordeal of obscure inaction— Lamoriciere, vanquished at Castelfidardo and cap tive at Ancona Lamoriciere, submitting himself to the ignominy of his lot with a modesty and a gravity perfectly Christian—finally dying, alone, but erect, and with the crucifix in his hand—behold there, indeed, a personage who emerges all at once from the ranks of the vulgar throng of heroes to ascend the grandest summit of human admiration. Behold a glory altogether apart, which rejuvenates the soul, which exalts it while purifying it, and which one would exchange for no other! Behold a spectacle such as history rarely offers to view, and one of which we have now the sorest need, we above all, wa Frenchmen, we Catholics, too docile adorers of Force and of Fortune. Yes, this glory is enviable, and enviable beyond all others. Naturo may rebel, but reason and faith unite in proclaim ing it." Enough—if we now add that the paper to which we have here referred, and from which we have taken the foregoing extracts, should, as a matter of course, for its due appreciation, be read in the original and in its entirety exactly as it appears in the pages of Le Correspondant. Brief though it is, it may take rank at once among the choiCest of the literary masterpieces of the Count de Montalembert. As such, however, it is far more than t, mere work of art simply—it is in its character as a funeral oration, or posthumous tribute of re verence and affection, more than a rhetorical wreath of immortelles—it is, of its kind, a very lachrymatory. It adds yet another to the many enviable titles long since won for himself by Charles de Montalembert ! For, this champion of Liberal Catholicism —this annalist of the Monks of the West—this delineator of St. Elizabeth, with a pen as subtly beautiful in its every tint and touch as, in the employment of actual pigments, was the pencil of Fra Angelico —this advocate of Poland—this Biographer of Lacordaire—has he not now also won our admira- tion anew as the commemorator of all that was pure and heroic in the pure and heroic nature of Leon de Lamoriciere? THE SUNDAY TRAINS IN SCOTLAND.—A deputa tion appointed by a recent public meeting of citizens of Edinburgh opposed to the running of Sabbath trains on the Edinburgh and Glasgow line waited, on Friday, upon the board of directors of the Northßritish Railway, to pre sent the resolutions adopted by the meeting. The deputa tion, who were headed by Mr. John Miller, of Leithen, the chairman of the public meeting, urged on the directors to comply with the request of the resolutions, as the trains in question had not been asked by the public, as they consi dered them unnecessary, and as the running, of them in flicted a grievous hardship on the officers and servants of the company. The chairman replied that the deputation would haue seen, from the proceedings at the interview with the former deputation, that they had resolved to ad here to the resolution of running trains on the Sabbath between Edinburgh and Glasgow, as they were now doing; that although they would receive all such deputations wiih the greatest possible respect, yet they had not seen any reason for retracting their resolution ; and that they had received many letters thanking them for what they were doing. 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BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS. ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 2. The Tanjore left here at 4 p.m. yesterday, and the Syria at 5 a.m. to-day, for Marseilles and Southampton respectively. CALCUTTA AND CHINA. GIBRALTAR, OCT. 2. The Massilia left here at 6 p.m. yesterday. She may be expected at Southampton on the 6th inst. OUT WARD BOMBAY. The Pera, from Southampton, Sept. 27, reached Gibraltar at midnight yesterday, and left at 9 a.m. to-day for Alexandria. All well. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, OCT. 3 The official Wiener Zeitung of to-day publishes the statement already announced of the revenue and expenditure for the first nine months of the current year, and adds, it is to be expected that the final accounts for the financial years 1865-66 will at least be in conformity with the estimates, if they do not show an actual surplus. Baron von Wallerstorif has been appointed Minister of Commerce. SPAIN. MADRID, OCT. 2, The Government have decided upon the suppres sion of the Spanish mission relative to the Holy Places, held, as resident Minister at Rome, by Don Fernando Souza of Portugal. FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 3 The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The French coral fishers on the coasts of Tunis and the Algerians resident in the Regency have lately been subjected to acts of violence implying the respon sibility of the local authorities. " The Government have demanded satisfaction, and the Bey, reeognising the justice of their repre sentations, has hastened to make reparation, ex pressing his desire that such regrettable acts should not occur again." BOURSE, Oct. 2.—Two o'Clock.—Advices from London give a fall in Consuls of 4 per cent., viz., to 89k, attributed to the further advance of per cent. in the rate of discount. The market is wholly occupied with the settlement of French Rente. The report, or rate for carrying over, is cheap on Three per Cents., ranging from 10c. to I2c. This stock is quoted at 68fr. 42ic., showing a decline of 15c. Credit Mobilier Shares are doing at 857 fr. 50c., a decline of 22fr. 50c. These shares are carried over at par. The market is weak. The prix de compen sation is as follows :—Rente Three per Cents., 68fr. 60c; Rente Four-and-a-Half per Cent., i6fr. 50c. ; Treasury Bonds, 457 fr. 50c. Mexican is offered with a decline of 1 per cent. Three o'Clock.—The market has closed on the following quotations:— 4i- per Cents 96 75 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 6B 42f Do. end month 6B 45 Credit Mobilier 865 Do. end mouth B6O Bank Shares 8585 Credit Foncier 1335 lte,lian Loan 65 35 Do. mid month 65 35 Ditto Threes — Roman 74 50 Mexican Loan 514 Do. Bonds 337 40 Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman Amt. - - ... 845 - - - ... 1100 - - - ... 872 50 - - ... 566 25 "--. '''' ••• - - ... 533 '75 - - ... 242 50 - 410 - - ... 457 50 - ... 215 - - - 308 25 '''''' -.. ... - - ... 217 50 The Confederate Loan. LIST OF THE ENGLISH VICTIMS. The New York papers of the 19th September have the following despatch, which we publish as a curiosity : " WASHINGTON, Monday, Sept. 18. " Many of the holders of the Confederate Cot ton Loan in England avoided the recent meeting in London, evidently for fear of an exposure of their individual complicity in the ridiculous transaction. As the London journals therefore seem to be at a loss to know who the happy speculators are, they will be enlightened by the following list of some of the British subjects, who have thus invested, with an estimate of the losses sustained by them respectively : Sir Henry de Hoghton, Bart. £lBo,ooo Isaac Campbell and Co., of No. 71, Jerniyn-street, London, army contractors Thomas Sterling Bigbee, No. 50, Mansion House place, London, shipowner 140,000 The Marquis of Bath 5OOOO James Spence, Liverpocl, correspondent of the Times (under initials) Mr. Beresford Hope 40,000 George Edward Seymour, stockbroker, Throg morton-street, London 40,000 Messrs. Ferule 30,000 Alexander Gallic and partners Fleetwood, Patton, Wilson, L. Schuster, directors of Union Bank, London (together) W. S. Lindsay Sir Coutts Lindsay, Baronet John Laird, M.P., Birkenhead... M. B. Sampson, City editor Times 15,000 John Thaddeus Delane, editor Times Lady Georgiana Fane (sister of Ld."W estmoreland) 15,000 J. S. Gilliat, director of Bank of England D. Forbes Campbell, No. 45, Dover-street, Picca dilly, London 80,000 George Peacocke, M.P 5,000 Lord Wharncliffe 5,000 W. H. Gregory, M.P. W. J. Rideout, proprietor London Morning Post 4,000 Edward Ackroyd, lax 1,500 Lord Campbell Lord Donoughmore l,OOO ... Lord Richard Grosvenor Hon. Evelyn Ashley, son of Lord Shaftesbury, and Private Secretary to Lord Palmerston Right Hon. Win. Ewart Gladstone 500 2,000 Total ................. ...£898,000 AN INFERNAL SCOUNDREL !—A man named George Price, of Islington , says the Spectator, has been N e v r if u e el Fr . anc l e , s he under circumstances poor atrociou is s ty. was su ffering from an internal abscess, and th e charged wit h a of co usin i t n h g e the nlo d s e t a th of h womarn in f orme d him that if it burst it would cause cancer doctor d to must be treated with poultices. The man refused to supply the money, the abscess did burst, and did cause c ancer, but the husband still refused m one y t o b uy m edicines, or even food, and the nurse had to expend her own means. Not content with this re fusal, Price held up money in sight of his hungry wife to torture her, brought up candles "to light her soul to hell," held a Bible over her head that she alight, boing un able to move, endure the agony of expecting its fall on her face, threw a prayer-book at her, and finally ate and drank the food supplied for her use by her brother. The facts were proved by nurses, and the solitary defence seems to be drunkenness. It is a defect in our law, as we have had occasion to point out before, that it does not provide a separate punishment for torture. The man's offence is neither murder, nor manslaughter, nor assault, but tor ture ending in death, —perhaps the absolutely worst crime of which a human being can be guilty. 4 xin r-70. e • • 4 A .1141: The Royal Family in the Highlands. The Queen, influenced by that kindliness of feeling for which her Majesty is so eminently dis tinguished, has more than once visited the post master's son of Crathie, a young man of about 18 years of age, who is at present labouring under a long and severe illness, anxiously inquiring into his circumstances and addressing to him a few words of kindness and sympathy. Edinburgh Evening Courant. On Saturday morning his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, accompanied by his tutor, arrived in Perth by the limited mail from London. The party, after leaving the general station, adjourned to the British Hotel, where they partook of breakfast, after which they drove to Balmoral, via Blairgowrie and the Spittal of Glenshee. On Tuesday night his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales gave a ball at Abergeldie to the tenants and servants on the estates of Balmoral, Abergeldie, and Birkhall. There was a very large company. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and attendants, with the distinguished party from Balmoral, and Colonel Farquharson and party from Invercauld, entered the ball-room about ten o'clock, shortly after which dancing commenced, and was kept up with great spirit until an early hour in the morning. The Prince of Wales and several of the royal party joined heartily in the dance during the evening. After they had retired, about two o'clock, a sumptuous supper was served. ........ Marriage of of Prince Soltykoff and Madlle. Elise De Yacovleff. Yesterday the marriage of Prince Dmitry Solty koff, with Madlle. Elise de Yatovleff, was celebrated at the Russian chapel in Welbeck-street, in accord ance with the rites of the Greek church. • In consequence of the intimation of the marriage many persons sought to be present, and by the time the bridegroom and the wedding friends assembled the chapel was crowded. At a quarter to 12 the bride, accompanied by Mr. Prehn and the Princess Gagarin, entered, and at once took her place in the centre of the chapel. Prince Soltykoff and friends had previously arrived. Among those pre sent to witness the ceremony were Prince and Princess Gagarin, Prince Soltykoff, M. L. de Yacovleff (chamberlain to the Emperor of Russia), Prince Ouroussoff, M. de Sabouroff, Gen. Menkoff, M. de Nord, M. W. de Stremaachoff, &c. His Royal Highness Prince Amadeus of Italy, accompanied by his Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio, is expected in town either to-morrow or the following day from Scotland. Her Highness the Princess Czernicheff and the Princess Leon Czernieheff have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. • The Marquis of Westminster arrived in town at the end of last week from a tour in Scotland. The Mar chioness, and Lady Theodora Grosvenor, and Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., are still at Dunrobin Castle. The Marquis Corio has arrived at the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, from the Continent. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton purpose to receive a large party at Eglinton Castle this week. The Countess of Leicester and the Ladies Coke have arrived at Farrance's Hotel from 1\ orwood. The Oxford hfusic Hall. Opera, Operetta, Comedy (with a dash of the Tragi comic), Burlesque, Extravaganza, Ballet, Pantomime--all he familiar elements of our amusements in the Opera house or the Theatre—enter into the composite entertain ments of the Oxford Music Hall). Very kaleidoscopic, it is true, but just the sort of recreation of which modern audiences do not tire, because, although the amusements aro continual, they are varied by incessant contrast, and a good hearty laugh can be guaranteed any ten minutes of an evening, the classical and the sentimental notwithstanding. The music hall yields a quicker succession of fun than the theatre, except when the presence of some burlesque on the theatrical boards admits of the "passing follies" being engrafted on the text. Last night, we know, we saw two Chinese giants on the Oxford boards. "Chang," the veritable sank into insignificance in comparison with the improvised giants ; and " Chung," the dwarf, was there too, and a lecture, and real Chinese salaams into the bargain. We mention this latest addition to the facetim of the Oxford to show how well the management is posted up in the most recent events of London life. Since Offenbach has reigned supreme at the Oxford, "Laughter" has wisely taken the precaution of holding both his sides. It is not saying too much to aver that by the introduction of the operettas of " Orphee aux Enters" and "66," the taste of the town has been considerably pro moted for comic opera. Both these sparkling operettas heartha ve hadat the a successbrilliant composersvourt e ares, andtak taking of u these i after their more severe lucubrations in the promising us something lively in the way of musical farce clas sical vein. The operatic company now at the Oxford have attained a high point of perfection, Parisian nfa and we should like to see their powers tested in Offenbach's piquant music at a morning concert at the Crystal Palace for the delectation of the season ticket holders. The prin cipal artistes in the latter selection and in the " Traviata" are Miss Russell (the prima donna), Madame Maria, the Misses Tyrrell, Walmsley, Barril, E. Reid, and Fitzhenry; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Husk, W. Williams, Evans, and Signors Tivoli and Spagnoli ; and in b ot h selections the magnificent chorus displays its well - known efficiency. In The Bridal of Beauty," the grand ballet, invented by those favourite danseuses the Misses Sarah and Tessy Gunnis, we seem to have a revival of the old Opera House ballet in its most palmy days. The brilliant prismatic method of lighting was not known in Taglioni's time, and brilliant effects are now accomplished which literally throw the past into the shade. The fascinating young ladies have all the felicitations to thefuselves, however and it is to be regretted if any lingering fears of the Lord Chamberlain prevent the introduction of Perrot in the midst of these amiable sylphs in the person of D'Auban or a Hungarian brother. But there is sure to be a quarrell ing between the sexes in a ballet, and it may be prudent to steer clear of any plots that might be mixed up with these passions, but the result is that the premiere danseuse is left without a lover. The miscel laneous selection included songs by Miss Walmsley, Miss Fitzhenry, and Miss Ellen Reid. The D'Aubans are un approached in their peculiar line of " comic" dancing. A patten dance, introduced by Miss D'Auban, in a pair of pattens,. such as our grandmothers would have worn, is a special little triumph over difficulties of locomotion. "The Hungarians"—the Brother and Sister Karalfi—dance and look well in the national costume. The young lady points to the sky with her foot, in the most vertical manner, and surprises by the extreme lissomeness of her limbs. WINE.—Our readers are sufficiently acquainted with M. Pasteur's researches on the causes to which may be attributed either the deterioration or tho improve ment of wine. According to that distinguished chemist wine gets spoilt through the action of organised ferment; presenting certain definite shapes under the microscope ; good, and especially old wine, has no such ferments. In a paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences, M, Bechamp questions the correctness of some of these argument; and endeavours to prove that the qualities which constitute good wines, such as flavour, bouquet, etc., are equally owing to the presence of organised ferments and also to the vari able nature of the medium in which they live. In the south of Franco they communicate certain properties to wines by subjecting them to a certain artificial temperature, which must not exceed a certain number of degree; by exposing them to the heat of a southern sun. The changes which wine undergoes, especially in growing old, are owing to a fermentation produced by certain organised microzoaria, the successors of the alcholic ferment, properly so called. M. Bechamp states that he has for many years past been examining the best wines he could procure, and has al ways found organised productions therein. They are exceed ingly small and difficult to discover ; in red wines they are very small globular beings, grains moving about with great agility, and requiring a strong magnifying power to be detected. In white wines besides these small globules, there are also minute filiform beings like bacteria, and moving like them ; as also small grains similar to the smallest ferments of vinous fermentation. This M. Bechamp supported by producing a sample of the deposit found in a bottle of St. George's, and another specimen, taken from a bottle of Band°. Hence ho concludes that any wine may contain organised productions, and yet not get spoilt, and that, however paradoxical it may seem, it may be said that wines will grow old and improve through causes similar to those that spoil it. The art of imparting to new wine the properties of old will therefore in future consist in favouring the production of beneficial organisms. —Galignani. • MRS. SURRATr'S COUNSEL.—It has been stated in the New York Herald that during the progress of the conspiracy trial, in Juno last, Mrs. Surratt gave her note for $3,000 for GO days to her counsel, who, after the execution, and several days before the note became due, notified several of the intimate personal friends of Mrs. SUrratt that they would settle the note in question at a heavy dis coma'. The latter subsequently informed the counsel that but $l,OOO could be raised, which sum was accepted in full consideration of the note for $3,000. 'AU. Cash. tiw ara 46 8 Der