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LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 29, 1865. An interesting entertainment took place at Hert ford yesterday, on the occasion of the Herts Agri cultural Society's annual dinner. The members for the county attended, and the affair went off very successfully. The Earl of VERULAM presided, and when he proposed " Success to the Society" he made some very wise observations on the subject of the pestilence now hanging over the cattle throughout the country. There is no doubt -whatever that the wretched manner in which the poor animals were treated had a great deal to do with the cattle plague, and nothing can possibly excuse those who neglect to profit by the warning thus imparted to them. Not only during the period of their transit from one place to another, but also while they are stationary in their several localities do these poor creatures have to endure great evils. As the noble earl stated, the houses in London in which they are placed are often overcrowded, they are badly ventilated, and the animals are thus " doomed to much . sufferina " 0 The practice of keeping them without water when on their passage and after landing is a most bar barous one. ::sir E. B. LTTrON, in responding to the toast of the County Members, made an impressive speech, and dwelt at some length on the difficulties that beset his way in endeavouring to make a speech on such an occasion as the one before him. In the first place, politics are supposed to be directly excluded, and therefore it is very awkward to proceed far on any topic, when constant obstacles present themselves in the shape of 'differences of opinion and so on, which must not be touched upon lest the harmony of the meeting be disturbed. Yet, as the right hon. Bart. plain tively observed, " When you say to a member of Parliament, Mind, not a word of politics,' he is like OTHELLO : his occupation's gone." In conse quence of these prohibitions, there ras nothing left for the speaker but to plunge into agricultural subjects, and make the desperate venture of enter ing into such matters before an assembly chiefly composed of practical farmers. It must be ad mitted that the right hon. baronet acquitted himself very well of his arduous task notwithstanding his de preciatory remarks on the matter. He excited much amusement by declaring that it would be a very good thing if the farmers themselves addressed the meeting, and stated their opinions upon various matters, such as " deep ploughing,' " thin sowing," " deep drainage," &c., and also intimated what ad vantages were derived from the modification of the malt tax. ?To doubt, as the Right Honourable Baronet I sad, there are uses in the recurrence of these scientific meetings and exhibitions, which are not evid en t at first sight to those who read the speeches in the papers, because a great deal is discussed in private, and many are fortunate enough to return home with old prejudices partly shaken and with the germ of new ideas. It would be indeed difficult t o exaggerate the advantages of these societies, as they afford opportunities for the diffusion of thought, and also induce persons to come forward and impart the result of their disco veries, which otherwise they might be slow to d o without incentive. Besides this an impetus is given to the prosecution of the several labours and pur suits from the emulation created by the bestowing of prizes, and the general excitement of the exhibi tions. Sir EDWARD made allusion to the pro posal recently made by Mr. DISRAELI, to the effect that the area of competition should be widened in the Agricultural Society of Buck inghamshire!, which the right hon. baronet described as a great county, " the history of which certainly derived an additional lustre from being represented by a man of so brilliant a genius and so eminent in the position to which that genius had exalted him." SirEDWARD gave it as his opinion that there would be great benefits derived from this plan if it were practicable in improving public spirit and competition. The imperfect state of the rail ways in Hertfordshire would, however, he feared, detract from its likelihood as yet. The great calamity of the cattle plague; Jtts the right hen. baronet aptly designated it, of courge., - engrossed seine portion of his speech ; and indeed, no one can nowadays po‘-cibly discourse upon agri cultural 4 - abject.l without touching upon this inc- lancholy theme. Sir E. IffrroN reminded his hearers of his remarks some three years back, upon the report of Professor SAWYER, the veterinary surgeon, of Edinburgh, as to the increased and increasing progress of disease among our stock, attended with no symptoms of an epidemic nature, " dating from the free importation of foreign cattle." These prophecies have indeed been fulfilled in a very un satisfactory manner, and the best plan to adopt will be to follow the advice here given, and use every possible precaution to guard against the introduc tion of the evils mentioned, and also to remedy their fatal effects when once they are in action. The disease is increased in virulence when it reaches our shores by our very faulty management. In the first place, among the predis posing causes may be mentioned the cruelty and suffering to which they are exposed on board the ships that carry them over ; and next, the bad man ner in which their railway travelling is conducted. A third cause was named by Sir EDWARD as the " pestilential mode in which mulch cows have been huddled together in places reeking with filth by the London cowkeepers." Considering, as the right hon. baronet said, that there is no known means of cure just now despite all the efforts being made by skill and science, it behoves us to lend ready co-operation to the preventionary methods advised by Government, and also to take advantage of that safeguard which insurance presents in individual cases of loss and destruction of property. It appears that in Hertfordshire an insurance society of this nature has already been established, and it is to be hoped that so excellent an example will be followed in other counties, for it must offer great securities to persons whose means of livelihood is rendered doubtful by the uncertain state of their stock through this malady now raging. Certainly Sir E. B. LvTroN could have given his hearers no wiser counsel than to urge them to take advantage of the warnings they had received of. the advent of the plague, and improve all that has hitherto been so much miss in our mode mode of procedure. The right hon. baronet concluded his most interest ing speech by alluding to the peaceful state of our relations with our continental neighbours, of which we have just had so happy an instance in the recent interchange of hospitalities between the navies of France and England. " Yet," said he, "if the hour of peril should indeed arrive, it is in societies like the present, composed chiefly of those who live by the soil, that the soil will find its most enthusiastic patriots, and, if need be, its strongest defenders." This address appeared to give the greatest satisfac tion to all the auditory, and it was warmly received throughout. The threatened visitation of cholera has done us some good service. It has brought into notice old abuses, which havebeen so long left undisturbed that they have. become established customs. It has aroused the vigilance of our reformers, and has given them support and encouragement in making their complaints and representations to the authori ties. There still remains, however, very much to be done, and as is invariably the case, in matters that are everybody's concern and nobody's busi ness, the necessary forms are deferred from day to day, because no one sets them on foot. Whenever there is an alarm of cholera, or any other special epidemic—for with fever in all its forms we have unfortunately grown so familiar as to become indifferent—startling facts are brought li to light, and evidence is given of such great and widespread evils that we can only wonder that such scandalous neglect has not long ago avenged itself tn.". tin; Ivhole popnlotic.m. But when the alarm passes by, the subject drops, the revelations are forgotten, and all goes on as before. Typhus, in some of its forms, goes on quietly mowing down the people, and little notice is taken of the gra dual increase of his victims until a fresh alarm of pestilence rouses the authorities from their lethargic indifference. The sanitary condition of Lanca shire has long been disgraceful. Though one of the most populous of our counties, its drainage, sewarage, paving, &c., have been almost en tirely neglected. The cotton famine which has been productive of so much immediate suffering has effected lasting good, by means of the Public Works Act, and the consequent expenditure of two millions of money on these useful and necessary undertakings. With this large amount of capital and so much unemployed labour, it is no won der that great results have been achieved and that now the tide of business once more begins to flow and to absorb the energies of masters and men, the results of the cotton famine may be considered as decidedly bene ficial. But, unfortunately, in some respects the business is only half done. If the towns are drained into the rivers, and the water of those rivers is used in the mills, it is at once evi dent that very little is gained. Yet such it seems has been the case in some parts. The Irwell and its tributaries are becoming what the Thames was a few years since, and the practice of making the nearest running stream the receptacle of the sewage has been carried out with the most unpleasant and injurious effects. What a pity it is that while the works were being carried on the business was not done effectu ally, and an arrangement made for the utilisation or deodorisation of the sewage. The local boards have been very energetic in pushing forward the works, but they have stopped half way. The description given of the course of the Irwell by a resident of Blackburn is certainly not very inviting. It rises in Rossendale as a small stream, and very soon passes through several factory steam boilers, and a turkey-red dyework, so that at a few miles from its sources its colour has undergone a complete metamorphosis. At Bacup the sewer age operations have been vigorously carried on, and through all the populous valley of Rossendale the Irwell receives tributaries charged with refuse matter containing as vile compounds as itself. Yet it goes on turning the wheels of mills and supplying the water of boilers till it reaches Manchester, having meanwhile passed Bury, Rad cliffe, and other crowded districts, and having been enlarged by the contributions of the Roach and the Croat bearing the sewage and refuse of Rochdale and Bolton. The result of all this in hot weather may easily be guessed. In the mills where the water of the Irwell is employed the local i pe ti ople corn plain of sickness and w an t of appetite, eson and s a ll through the crowded banks the evil odours are remarkable. Yet, instead of anything being done to remedy the evil, it is only made worse and worse. "When the dr a i nage works now being carried on are completed th e waters of East and South Lancashire will be still more unwholesome, still more laden with pestiferous matter. Yet, as Lord PALMERSTON once said, it is only matter in the wrong place. Another element would absorb it with as such profit as health. If the amount of sewage and refuse committed to the water were given to the earth, the result would be as directly beneficial as it is now positively injurious. y Surely, then, this question de serves -some attention, and the local autho rities can hardly exonerate themselves from the charge of neglecting their duties if they do not attempt to remove the evil. With a rumour of cholera approaching us, any inattent..on to sanitary rilE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEIIIII4I 29, IE€F, matters is quite unpardonable, and nothing is more likely to pave the way for the awful visitor than the conjunction of foul smells with impure water. Over and over again has the connection of bad water and disease been proved, and in no case more clearly and more positively than in the spread of cholera. The memorable instance of the Golden-square pump was scarcely needed to show that the drinking of water which had been adulterated with sewage is an effec tual mode of spreading an epidemic in its worst - orms. The long neglect of this important question in an age of sanitary reform is really surprising. Even in Windsor itself the sewerage has until this very time been discharged into the river Thames ; and it was only yesterday that a gentleman attended at the meeting of the Board of Health on be half of the Board of Works to obtain the neces sary consent to the preliminaries for disposing of and utilising the sewage of Windsor. It was justly urged that the present arrangement was detri mental to the public health, especially that of the inhabitants of the metropolis. It seems that the Commissioners of the Thames Navigation have been . making a survey of the river from Oxford, so as to ascertain the effect of the discharge of the sewage of the various towns between Oxford and London. They found that at low water the nuisance is very great, and it is satisfactory to learn that the Windsor Board resolved to render all the facilities in their power for the furtherance of the scheme, and all necessary information was ordered to be given. We hope that this will only be the first of a series of reforms, for very certainly we can never hope for a permanent improvement in the public health until we remove so fruitful a source of disease as impure water. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTF,R'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA. (Via Cr ookhaven.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 19 (Evening.) Mr. Seward has officially informed Mr. Adams that the United States will not be responsible for the Confederate Loan, and will intist on their right to the restoration of the cotton in the Priolean case. Gold, 1431. The official correspondence between Messrs. Seward and Adams in March and August of the present year, in reference to the Confederate loan, and Vice-Chancellor Stuart's decision in the Prio- Lan case has been published. Mr. Seward instructs Mr. Adams that he may, if necessary, inform the British Government in a friendly and courteous manner that the United States never admitted the combination of rebels to be a de facto Government, and will not be respon sible for the rebel debt, and will insist on their claim for the restoration of cotton in the present case. While they are content to receive it through a decree of the British tribunals, they insist on their absolute right to it through the action of the British Government. The United States will hold themselves under no obligation whatever to accept, or to conform their proceedings to, con ditions which the Court of Chancery, or any other municipal court, may prescribe in the pre sent or other litigation. Resolutions have been introduced into the Ala bama Reconstruction Convention, repudiating the rebel State debt, and declaring it the duty of the Convention to restore the State to her proper relations with the ,Federal Govern ment, that it was not expedient to change the State Constitution until next session of the Convention, except to repeal the Secession ordinance and other ordinances consequent upon the same. They also acknowledge the abolition of slavery, and prohibit its restoration, declaring the slaves shall be pro tected and cared for. The resolutions also ratified the State enactments subsequent to secession, not inconsistent with the Federal Constitution. The South Carolina Reconstruction Convention has repealed the Secession Ordinance. The City of Boston and Damascus have arrived out. (POSTSCRIPT.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 20, 6 A.M. General Swayne has nominated the judges and magistrates of Alabama appointed by Governor arsons to settle all questions with negroes con itionally. Negro evidence is received in the courts. The Governor of Vermont has informed Mr. Seward that the St. Albans banks have received from the Canadian authorities the money stolen by the St. Albans raiders. Sir E. B. Lytton, M.P., at Hertford. HERTFORD, Thursday. The annual dinner of the Hefts Agricultural Society took place this afternooon in the Shire-hall. The Earl of Verulam presided, and among the gen tlemen present were the Right Hon. Sir E. B. Lytton, M.P., the Hon. H. Cowper, M.P., Mr. 11. E. Surtees, M.P., Mr. Abel Smith, Mr. G. S. Thornton, Mr. Horace J. Smith, Mr. W. Baker, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Barrington, Mr. J. Gripper (the Mayor), Major Skinner, &c. Sir M. Farquhar, M.P., was prevented from attending by indisposition. The noble CHAIRMAN proposed in succession the healths of " The Queen," "The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Royal Family," which were re ceived with great enthusiasm. The next toast was, " The Army, Navy, Militia, and Volunteers," which was responded to by Major Skinner, Mr. W. Baker, and Mr. Barrington. The Hon. and Rev. L. BARRINGTON responded to the toast of "The Bishop and Clergy of the Diocess." The noble CHAIRMAN then proposed " Success to the Herts Agricultural Society, with thanks to the Committee, Secretary, and Treasurer, for their services." He regretted that they had met under circumstances which were not of the best, for the hand of pestilence was hanging over them. He had been unable to find out where the cattle disease had originated ; but there was no doubt that it did exist, and that it was our duty to endeavour to meet it. He believed that the visitation was in tended by Providence for our good. We had too long neglected the comfort of the animals intended for our food.. The houses in London in which they were placed were overcrowded. They were 'badly ventilated, and the animals were doomed to much suffering. When they were shipped from abroad they were crammed together in a most injurious way. • They suffered materially in their passage, and when they were landed they were placed on trucks without any water and conveyed to London. It might be supposed that on their arrival in London their sufferings would be at an end ; but that was by no means the case. (Hear, hear.) Only last week, at St. Alban's, an animal died, it was supposed from the pestilence ; but on a proper inquiry being instituted the cause of death was found to be ill usage. This was one instance which showed the . necessity of our cattle being better cared for ; and he believed that Providence would relieve us from the pestilence if we relieved the cattle from their torture. (Cheers.) Mr. ABEL SMITH, who was received with loud cheers, responded as chairman of the committee. They had spared no effort to improve the show by giving additional prizes in almost every class. But their efforts had, unfortunately, been rendered futile by the cattle plague. The committee had experi enced great difficulty in deciding whether the show should take place at all, but he trusted the members of the society would feel that they had rightly de termined to exclude the exhibition of horned cattle. (Hear.) If they had not been excluded the show might have been better than on previous occasions. The agriculturists, therefore, had every encourage ment to persevere in their efforts to improve these annual shows. (Cheers.) Mr. W. BAKER then proposed " The Members for the County—the Right Hon. E. B. Lytton, Bart., IMr. 11. Surtees, and the Hon. 11. Cowper." (Loud cheers.) Sir E. B. LYTTON, who was greeted with several rounds of cheers, said,—My Lord and Gentlemen —lt has been so often my good fortune to address you upon these occasions, that I have exhausted all the general topics which are allowable at an agri cultural society ; and, indeed, one soon arrives at that process of exhaustion when the first conside ration for the speaker is to say nothing that may produce a difference of opinion so as to disturb in the slightest degree that perfect harmony and good fellowship which ought to be the most valuable object in a convivial assembly. (Cheers.) But when you say to a member of Parliament, " Mind ! not a word of politics," he is like Othello—his " occupa tion's gone." (Laughter.) And yet he would be a bold man who, not being a practical farmer himself, would enter at any length into agricultural details bore.•. A n assembly composed chiefly of practical farmers. Nay, if he were to do so, I believe he would create as me ny differences of opinion as if he launched into the stormy sea of party politics. (Cheers and laughter.) Now, so far as my expe rience of these exhibitions is concerned, whatever new ideas upon agricultural science they may awaken are discussed in private conversations by those guests who do not publicly address us, and not by those who are called upon to speak—called upon to say something on the express condition that they discuss nothing. (Laughter.) And, no doubt, gentlemen, it would be very much better for scientific purposes if at these meetings all the speaking were left entirely to practical far mers. We might then obtain much valu able information upon agricultural theory and details ; such, for instance, as the alleged advan tage of deep ploughing and thin sowing, and whether the depth of drainage which is required by the Government commissioners for any loan they may grant to the landlords is really adapted to all soils in this country, or is not a condition that might be advantageously relaxed. We should be glad to hear from practical farmers what amount of benefit they have derived from the modification of the malt - tax graciously extended to us by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer ; how far practical farmers concur in the experiments of our distinguished friend, Mr. Lawes, and are of opinion that the most nutri tious article of food for cattle and stock is simple barley, or barley steeped or malted. But then it is not unlikely that the discussion of some of these questions would provoke a lively difference of opinion —nay, they might guide us so closely upon party politics as almost to remind us of what we have re cently discussed upon the hustings, not tending to that coolness and sobriety of judgment which are essential to philosophical discussions. (Cheers.) So that upon the whole, like practical Englishmen, we are contented to relinquish some advantages in order to obtain the greatest advantage of all, and that is to bring the landlords, farmers, and all the trades men who kindly come among us peacefully and amic ably together, whateter variety of opinion they may entertain. (Cheers.) But still, gentlemen, I think that there are uses in these exhibitions and meetings, even in a scientific point of view, which might not be apparent to any one who will read our speeches in the newspapers to-morrow, because much that is not said in public is discussed in private, and many men now present will return home with the germ of new ideas, and what is perhaps more valuable, with old prejudices somewhat shaken. (Cheers.) Now I suppose it is a sense of these advantages that has led to the formation of other agricultural societies in the western part of the county, and of these socie ties the one just established at Watford is a family addition, whose first birthday is to be celebrated this year, and to which we must offer that which is generally a younger brother's portion—namely, plenty of good wishes (cheers and laughter) that it may have health and energy, and add strength and respectability to the family to which it belongs. (Cheers.) I have seen in a recent speech of Mr. Disraeli's that my right hon. friend has dwelt much upon the expediency of endeavouring to widen the area of competition of the agricultural society of that great county, the history of which certainly derives an additional lustre from being represented by a man of so brilliant a genius and so eminent in the position to which that genius had exalted him. (Cheers.) Mr. Disraeli's argument has impressed me so much that I think it would be a great advan tage in our county if it could be so arranged that once perhaps in every three years the various societies of the county should agree to assemble in one central place that might be the most convenient. (Cheers.) It seems to me that upon these occasions we should be sure to have a much larger exhibition of stock and of farm implements, which would call into play a much greater degree of public spirit and competition.' At the same time, I only venture to throw out this hint, leaving it to the consideration of those who can much better judge whether, in the imperfect state of our railway communications in this county, such au idea may ba practicable. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I must say that I think we owe many thanks to my friend, Mr. Abel Smith, for the exer tions which he has made in carrying out our meeting this year. I should have been sorry indeed if the meeting had been postponed or put aside ; and when I look at your exhibition to-day, although there certainly is that remarkable and melancholy fact as to quantity which must be expected, yet, in point of quality, it was most remarkable, and need not in any degree fear competition with any other county. (Cheers.) But, gentlemen, there is one subject con nected with our meeting and with agriculture which at this moment predominates in the consideration of every man present—l mean the great calamity of the cattle plague. (Hear.) Perhaps some of you may remember that three years ago, in addressing one of your meetings, I presumed to take upon myself the unpopular character of a prophet of the future. I then ventured to call your attention to a report by Professor Gamgee, the distinguished veterinary sur geon of Edinburgh, relative to the increased and in creasing progress 'of disease among our stock, at tended with no symptoms of an epidemic character, and dating from the free importation of foreign cattle. Now, Ido not for. a moment hazard an opinion upon the disputed question of the Russian origin of this disease. I only say now what I said three years ago, that it is impossible for us to guard against disease in any foreign country from which cattle are imported, and I am persuaded that Par liament would never sanction the prohibition of that importation. All that we can do, then, is to guard against and correct as far as we can what are called the predisposing causes, by which the progress of this disease is rendered more rapid and more fatal when it visits our shores. (Hear.) Now among these predisposing causes are—first, that which has been briefly and truly touched upon by my noble friend—the cruelty and suffering to which cattle are subjected on board ships and on their arrival. (Hear.) Last week I saw an article on this subject in the Saturday Review, written evidently by an eye witness, and it was sufficient to fill any man of com mon humanity with horror. The second predispos ing cause is the unhealthy manner in which cattle have been transported by railways. (Hear.) But the third and the chief one is the pestilential mode in which mulch cows have been huddled together in places reeking with filth by the London cow keepers. (Hear.) There may be a doubt whether the pest originated or not in Russia, but there is no doubt that the earliest specimens of the disease among ourselves this year were in our own metro polis. (Hear, hear.) Well, under the circumstances, and seeing that we have no known mode of cure at present—although, the medical science of England and of all Europe is being concentrated on a subject which affects the welfare of all the populations of Europe, we cannot but suppose that some available means of cure will soon be suggested—(cheers)--but in the meanwhile, seeing that we have no means of grappling with this affliction brought before us with sufficient authority, I entirely agree with those who have addfessed other agricultural meetings that our best course is to lend a ready co-operation to the precautionary system of the Government, and to avail ourselves of that safeguard against individual loss which insurance companies afford. (Hear.) I am extremely glad to find that an insurance society has been established in this county. I wish my noble friend the Marquis of Salisbury had been present to-day, in order that I might have tendered to him, not as a landowner, but as stock keeper, my thanks for giving at once to that insurance company a character of weight and solidity by placing himself at its head. (Cheers.) There are some gentlemen who think that better means of assisting the stock keeper might have been found than the formation of this society. Ido not for a single moment pre sume to discuss that question with these gentlemen. I do not for a moment dispute the justice of their idea. But then I would respectfully suggest to them that at all events this plan has the merit of being established. (Hear, hear.) There it now is, available for all persons ; and we must take not the best thing that we ourselves individually can im agine, but the best thing that we can practically use. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, one word more upon this great calamity. While we take all possible precau tion do not let us be hurried away into that hope less panic which certain newspaper correspondents would induce us to entertain. It has been stated that a plague in this country once lasted for 12 was we are itr.at.nod with an equal duration of the present pestilence. But the whole history of epidemics shows that the duration is abridged on repetition, and gets weaker and weaker until it gradually subsides altogether, or else it assumes gentler shapes usually amenable to medical treat ment. (Hear.) Let us remember that we are in the hands of that Providence which is always at work in bringing a future good out of a present evil,—so that perhaps by sternly enforcing upon us • the necessity of more healthfully consulting the con dition and the means of transporting and storing our cattle this disease may ultimately become the preventive of many other forms of complaint to which our cattle have been incident. (Cheers.) As one of your representatives it does not become me to say a single word upon politics ; but I may con gratulate you on the fact that the Parliament to which you have sent me appears likely to meet in times which do not threaten any disturbance to the peace and tranquillity of Europe—times, therefore, which are favourable to the development of our national resources, and, let us hope, to the mitiga tion of our ancient differences. We have lately been invaded by the navy of France, but not till our own navy invaded the French shores ; and strange it is that on both these occasions - the invaders were received with open arms by the invaded. (Cheers and laughter.) And the only fear on our side which the most nervojis person entertained was whether our hospitable preparations would equal in elegance and splendour those which had greeted our own ironclads in the harbours of France. (Cheers.) It is gratifying to know that this friendly emula tion exists between two nations that have so long regarded themselves as hereditary foes ; and long may our members of Parliament when they are called upon to address you find that they have little to inflame their eloquence or to arouse our military ardour. (Cheers.) Should the hour of peril indeed arrive, it is in societies like the pre sent, composed chiefly of those who live by the soil, that the soil will find its most enthusiastic patriots, and, if need be, its stoutest defenders. The right hon. gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud cheers. Mr. SURTEES and the Hon. H. COWPER also re sponded to the toast, which was followed by several others. Charles Mathews in Paris. " THE TIMES" AND JULES JANIN. The heat having somewhat diminished, theatre going has become a possible relaxation, although still rather a sultry one, and I have ventured to the Vaudeville to witness the triumphant success, on a French stage, of an old English favourite. After the Deux Soeurs of M. de Girardin, bad enough at a first hearing, but sadly wearisome upon a second, the curtain rose on L'Homme Blase, with Charles Mathews as Sir Cold Cream, the French original of the English Sir Charles Coldstream in Used Up. The exertions of a score of hardhanded with physiognomies - strongly suggestive of an assize court, who had supplied popular enthusiasm during M. de Girardin's drama, became unnecessary during the lively and wittily written vaudeville in which Mr. Mathews, ably supported by his French com rades, kept a full house amused from the first scene to the last. Lest I should be accused of partiality to a countryman, I will substitute, for any opinion of my own, that of Jules Janin, recorded in the weekly theatrical feuilleton of the Journal des Debats. " L'Homme Blasé, acted by Mr. Mathews," says the veteran French critic—who in his day, now growing long, has made and unmade so many reputations,-- • o t h f i t n h g i s g a o n be m come-er e Il o s an become pleasing ' d quite intelligentthanthe dian. All is true, simple, a nd natural to such a degree that a neiv wor k acting it requires a connoisseur to render full justice to so much grace and wit. This ma n is evidently a great artist ; he has all the resources and all the instincts of one. FATAL GUN ACCIDENT. —Mr. Crowther, of Hud dersfield, and a friend, visitors at Scarborough, made an excursion from that watering place on T ues d ay last to shoot sea gulls and other birds at sea. As Mr. Crowther was drawing his double-barrelled gun towards him in the boat in which they were the weapon exploded, and the contents of the two barrels entered his body. He died almost immediately. Prince of Wales's Theatre. Miss Marie Wilton has, commenced her second season at this now very elegant place of amusement with a success which gives promise of being of the most enduring - nature. A very short time ago this theatre was frequented only by the lovers of red fire and broad-sword combats, but on it passing into the hands of the bewitching Marie Wilton it at once became the resort of an entirely different audience. This circumstance was brought about by the peculiarly elegant style of the entertainments given by the fair manageress, and her reign at this theatre, it is to be hoped, will be long and enduring, as, since the days when Madame Vestris was in full sway at the Olympic, we have had nothing that bears the slightest resemblance to her tasteful management of that theatre. Sparkling vaudeville and brilliant burlesque are now given at the Prince of Wales's Theatre with the utmost effect, and, judging by the applause, we must say to the entire satisfaction of the audience. The opening entertainment consisted of Mr. Charles Dance's comedietta, " Naval Engagements," a new burlesque by Mr. 11. J. Byron, en titled " Lucia di Lammermoor ; or, the Laird, the Lady, and the Lover," and Boucicault's farce " A Lover by Proxy." The first-mentioned trifle was given by Mr. W. J. Ray, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Montgomery, Miss Josephs, and Miss Sophie Lar kin, with capital spirit ; but the treat of the even ing was the burlesque. Never has the fascinating Marie Wilton appeared to greater effect than in the part of the despairing lover Edgar of Ravens wood, whose songs and couplets are delivered in a manner that calls forth the most en thusiastic applause. Miss Josephs, in the part of Bucklaw, makes up as a modern swell, and excel lently well does she hit off this peculiar specimen of human nature. Mr. Dewar, as Ashton, the harsh and tyrannical brother of the fair Lucia, delights the audience with a most comical rendering of the character. The heroine, Lucia, is represented by Mr. J. Clarke, and often as he has donned the. silk-embroidered skirt of a lady, we cannot ; no•ka.C.l in 11-2.iah has himself with greater success than in the present instance. The burlesque, of course, is made up of puns, jokes, parodies, and dances, all of which are given with the utmost smartness and piquancy. The whole of the entertainments gave entire satisfaction to a very crowded and brilliant. audience. BANK OF FRANCE. ----, --.4,.--.-.-.--- --- PARTS, SEPT. 28. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Sept. 28. Sept. 21. fr. c. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,300,000 182,300,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank _ _ . _.. _ _. . ......._. ... and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve in law:led pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation ... 834,850,575 841,097,725 Banknotes to order and receipts payable at 7,947,942 28 7,539,669 93 sight Treasury account cur rent creditor Current accounts, Paris 149,468,712 95 166,395,441 09 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 1,411,124 75 1,483,389 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months i• •• 1,427,623 17 1,427,623 17 Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 752,993 36 752,993 36 9,502,599 48 9,489,348 93 Total 1,450,576,557 €7 1,447,774,085 73 =EDITOR. Sept. 23. ' Sept. 21. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over- due Commercial bills dis- 339,873 90 2,805,561 42 ....... ... ..___ counted, not yet due 285,511,991 48 276,347,957 95 Do. branch banks 304,379,301 301,829,300 Advances on deposit of bullion 48,254,931 90 48,147,766 15 Do. branch banks 12,630,300 12,503,300 Do. on French Public Securities 13,996,100 13,951,100 Do. by branch banks 9,273,700 9,277,000 Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks 21,626,275 24798,975 Do. on Credit Fonder Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con- - vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Government Stock re serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes Immobalisees (Law, June 2, 1837) 100,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage ment 1,474,238 48 1,330,487 82 Sundries Total 1,450,576,557 67 1,447,774,085 73 Certified by the Sub-Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) ANDONILLE. THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. —Yesterday the morning mail train from London to Liver pool, which is due in Liverpool at 12.15, and which carries the London morning papers, was delayed three hours at Leighton, in Bedfordshire, in consequence of the engine having left the rails, from what cause is not clear. As the ou i r i is. . e a- —ci r:r that theh e Mr. train also took the West Indian and American letters by the Saxonia, the delay caused some anxiety and uneasiness iu Liverpool. CHAIR OF MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OFEDIN n uuG o election of a professor to fill the chair of music, vacant by the death of the late Professor Donald son, will take place about th e b eg i nn i ng o f N ovem ber. The membersGladstone,s of th e university reeter court, likelya ndteit be mm present at the ele c ti on, as he is the to be in rector, is s Edinburgh at that time, and is to address th e s t u d ents of the univerity, who are his constituents. A n um b er of candidates have started for the vacant chair, and it w ill b e no easy task for the e lectors to decide upon the best man for the place. General Reid; who founded and endowed th e c h a i r, was an enthu siastic cultivator of music, and we beli eve a cop i ous com poser, though musically he is now only known by his cele brated march, " The Garb of Old Gaul ;" and his object in lea\ ing to the university g very large sum of money wee, in the first place, to promote th 9 progress of his favourite science in the capital of his native country ; and secondly, to ben.afit the gena:-.al funds of the university itself.-- ginburga Evening Courant. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy—Gold, 1481. Exchange on Lon don, 158 ; do. on Paris, 3.581. Stocks steady— New York Centrals, 93; ; Illinois, 1271; Erie, 87; Five-Twenty Bonds, 1071. Cotton steady—Mid dling Upland, 45 to 451. Flour dull. Wheat and corn slightly firmer. Provisions, good inquiry. Coffee steady. Sugar steady. Molasses quiet. Petroleum steady—Crude, 361; refined, GO. MEXICO. Advices received in New York from El Paso, to the 15th, state that Juarez designs abandoning Mexico and coming to New York. Before leaving Chihuahua, he issued a protest against the Imperial occupation, asserting his legitimate claims to the PiliPf mazietr•lnv of 41-1.3 oountry. It is asserted. however, that private letters have reached this city from Juarez denying that he intends leaving Mexico. THE BRAZILS. (By telegraph from Lisbon.) BUENOS AYRES, AUG. 27. Exchange on hand on 494 to 50. Wet salted ox hides no demand. Dry hides, American, unchanged. Wool in active demand. Tallow, 141 to 14k. Lumber, more active, 37k. Refined sugar, 19. PAPAL ALLOCUTION. FLORENCE, SEPT. 28. Letters received here from Rome to the 26th inst. announce that at the Secret Consistory held on that day the Pope commented upon sects in general, particularly alluding to Freemasonry. His Holiness censured the Sovereigns who protected them, and in connection with this subject adverted to the obsequies of Marshal Magnan at Paris. After the Consistory the Pope received several Bishops in private audience, among whom was the Archbishop of Westminster. His Holiness ob served that they would still have trials to undergo, but that sooner or later the finger of God would intervene to re-establish peace. SPAIN. MADRID, SEPT. 29. A Royal decree has been published arranging the mode of paying the interest upon the Colonial debt. A letter received here from La Granja, of yester day's date, states that Prince Alfred, of England, is expected shortly at Madrid. The cholera is augmenting in the Balearic Isles. The sanitary condition of Madrid continues to be satisfactory. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 28.—Two o'Clock.—The weekly return of the Bank of France shows an increase in the bullion reserve of 7,230,396 fr. 40c., and an aug mentation in the porte feuille of more than clevea millions. The market is firmer, and quotations generally higher. Credit Mobilier Shares particu larly are inquired for, and have advanced to 841 f. 25c., showing a rise of 7f. 50c. Italian Fives are doing at 65f. 25c. Comptoir d'Escompte Shares have gained 5f., viz., 995 f. New City Bonds are quoted 471 f. 25c. Three o'Clock.—The market hax closed at the following quotations:- 4i per Cents 96 25 Ditto Threes — Do. end month — Roman 75 3 per Cents. 6B 324 Mexican Loan Do. end month 6B 3 5 Do. Bonds 338 75 Credit Dlobilie .-- 842 50 Russian ............... -- Do. end month 8 43 75 Austrian ............ 80 50 Bank Shares — Spanish Threes ... 44 Credit Fonder — Rome Debt ......... 40 Italian Loan 65 20 Deferred Do. end month 65 25 RAIL' WAYS. Cash. Amt. 845 - ~ 1090 - Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian . Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman 873 75 565 -- 550 - - 250 - - 407 50 - 456 25 - 215 --- _ 310 - 220 TIIE GRAND STAND AT ASCOT.—The want of a convenient alighting place for the numerous visitors who yearly flock to the Grand Stand at Ascot for the purpose of witnessing the races has long been felt, more especially in wet weather. In order to remedy this defect a large octa gonal rustic pavilion, with wide wings and covet ed 'way to the front of the stand, is being erected close to the side of the roadway by Messrs. Oades, of E;liam, for the trustees under the direction of Captain Seymour. Carriages will thus be enabled to draw up by the side of the central pavilion, and also at the wings. The new arrangement will allow visitors to alight in comfort, without getting wet, in rainy weather, and to pass under a continuous shelter to the stand. The new pavilion' and ivings . be ornamented with rustic columns facing the public road leading to the P.oyal Ascot Hotel, and when finished will form art attracct tive addition to the stand buildings. diutt,lGM 0, diratTar. HER MAJE S TY. BALMORAL, Sept. 27. The Queen went out driving yesterday morning with Prince Louis of Hesse, and in the afternoon her Majesty went out with Princess Helena and Princess Louise. Lord Napier arrived at the Castle and bad an audience of the Queen. In the evening Lord Napier had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal family. The Marchioness of Ely has succeeded Lady Churchill as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. - The Royal Family in the Highlands. It is rumoured that the stay of the Court at Bal moral will be prolonged till Thursday, 3d November. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will reside at Abergeldie till about the 23d of next month, and then return south, probably paying a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Box burghe at Floors Castle. A few days since a rumour got abroad that the Queen would visit the village of Fettercairn and see the memorial arch lately erected to commemorate the visit of her Majesty and the Prince Consort in 1861. Crowds of people repaired to the village and remained until intelligence was brought that the Queen would not come. By her Majesty's com mand a few plants were taken from the churchyard, as she desired to see something from the place where the prince had spent a little time on the former occasion. It is stated the Earl of Dalhousie and Lady Christian Maule have received an invitation from her Majesty to visit Balmoral Castle and spend a couple of nights in the royal residence. It is ex pected that, should the weather permit, Lord Dal housie and Lady Christian Maule will leave Inver mark Lodge on Thursday, and travel by ponies across the Glen to Balmoral, and return on Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary will shortly leave Bumper heiw, the duchess's chateau, near Frankfort, for Mecklen burgh, to visit their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will enter tain a succession of visitors at Dunrobin Castle, N. 8., during the ensuing month. On the Ist proximo there will be a grand muster of the volunteers. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll are entertaining a select party at lnverary Castle, Argyllshire. The Duke of Montrose has arrived in town from visiting the Earl of Powis, at Powis — Castle, Welshpool, and Lady Emily Foley, at Stoke Edith Park, Hereford shire. The Duchess (Dorager) of Sutherland left the Duke of Devonshire's seat, biker Hall, on Wednesday for Inverary Castle. The Earl of Coventry, Lady Augusta Poulett, Mr. H. W. Schneider, M.P., and Mrs. Schneider, have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square. The Earl Onslow is in improving health. Not withstanding his great age, the venerable peer retains all his mental faculties. The Countess of Ellesmere and the youthful earl have returned to Worsley Hall, Lancashire, from partici pating in the wedding festivities at Holker Hall. The Bishop of London arrived at the Dread nought Hotel, Cal'ander, on Monday last on his way to the Trossachs. It is said that Lady Raglan's state of health is such as to give occasion for great anxiety. Recent symp torns, however, are somewhat less unfavourable. The Wheat Crop of 1865. In a letter to the Times, Mr. J. B. Lawes, of Rothamsted, Herts, says :—" The abundant wheat crops of 1863 and 1864 have been followed by a crop varying much more, according to soil and other local circumstances, than either of its immediate predcessors. The amounts of produce yielded in any particular field, or any particular farm, are, therefore, the less reliable as indications of the character of the harvest generally. 1 think, however, that from the results obtained in my experimental wheatfield, which has just yielded its twenty-second crop in succession, taken together with those obtained in fields on the same farm which have been treated more in accordance with ordinary practice, we may gather that on the heavier soils of the country, if moderately well farmed, the wheat crop of 1865 will turn out to be above an average, at any rate in quan tity, if not in quality also." Mr. Lawes then gives a table, showing the produce per acre and the weight per bushel of the dressed corn, obtained on several of the differently manured plots of the experiment field, in 1863, 1864, and 1865, and also the average produce on the same plots for the 12 years 1852-1864 inclusive, during which time (and in some cases for a longer period) the same description of manure has been applied year after year to the same plot. The land which had received no manure of any kind for more than 22 years gave considerably less produce in 1865 than in either 1864 or 1863, and less also by more than two bushels than the average of the last 13 years. The quality of the grain as indicatedby the weight per bushel, although inferior to that from the same plot in either 1864 or 1863, was, nevertheless, much above the average of the 13 years, the weight being nearly 41b. more. Where 14 tons of farm yard manure were applied every year, little more than 37 bushels of wheat were obtainedper acre in 1865, against 40 bushels in 1864, and 44 bushels in 1863. Still, the produce with the farmyard manure was higher in 1865 than the ave rage of the previous 13 years, which amounted to less than 36 bushels. The produce by the different, artificial ma nures was, in 1865, from five to seven buShels loss than in 1864, and from 11 to 13 bushels less than in 1863; but, on the other hand, it was from three to eight bushels more than the average of the preceding 13 years. " Thus," con tinues Mr. Lawes, " though with each of the very diffe rent conditions of manuring, the produce of 1864 was ma terially less than that of 1865, and in a still greater degree less than that of 1863, it was at the same time in every case (excepting where entirely unmanured) notably higher than the average of the preceding 13 years. The weight per bushel of the dressed corn was also in every case higher in 1865 than the average of the 13 years, though lower than in 1864 or in 1863. Turning from these re sults to those obtained under the ordinary management of the farm, it will be sufficient to state that the produce in four separate fields was, respectively, 38, 48, 48, 51 bushels of wheat per acre, amounts which represent a considerably higher yield than the average of the farm over a series Of years. There can, indeed, be no doubt, that on mail light soils the wheat.crop of the season just passed suf fered both from the frosts of the winter, and from the heat and. draught of the summer, and that the better crops of the heavier lands have in many cases suffered, at any ram in quality and condition, from the unsettled harvest wea ther. At the same time, lam disposed to think that the wheat crop of 1865 will turn out to be, in the aggrega te ' little if any below an average one. And if we would find a period of successive seasons comparable in abundance with that of 1863, 1864, and 1865, we must go back fey about 30 years, when the fairly abundant harvests of 1 833 and 1833, the splendid crap of 1834, and the again abun dant one of 1835, brought down the price of wheat by the end of the last-mentioned year to 365. per quarter, not withstanding the high protective duty then ruling." THE MURDER OF MAJOR DE VERE.—It appear s to be now pretty well understood that the execution of the prisoner John Currie, for the murder of Major De Vere, will take place at the gaol at Maidstone, as usual, and that he will not, as was originally expected, undergo his sentence at Chatham in the presence of the troops. The War Office authorities, by whom the prosecution was conducted, it appears, were very anxious that the execution should have taken place at Chatham, as it was thought that it would have operated as an example to the military stationed there, and some communications took place be twoen the War Office and the agents for the High Sheriff of Kent, Messrs. Palmer and Co., upon the subject. Mr. lodger, the High Sheriff, was anxious to lend all the assist ance in his power to carry out the wishes of the authorities, but it would seem that there were difficulties in the vial of doing so. The prisoner was not tried under what is known as Palmer's Act, but under another act of Parlia ment, passed a few years ago, which is a sort of addition to the Mutiny Act, and which confers a power to take steps, where it may be considered necessary, to have a soldier charged with any offence more speedily brought to justice, and some doubts appeared to be entertained whether, un der this Act of Parliament, the sentence could be carried out anywhere else than at the usual place of execution for the county.. In addition to this it is understood that there would have been very considerable difficulties in the wet of carrying out the sentence in the barrack yard at Chat ham, and therefore it was considered advisable that there should be no interference with the ordinary course of pro ceeding, and the execution will take p lace at 1J ad o t stone, in front of the gaol, on Thursday, t he 12th of ctoher The wretched culprit, who is only 19 y ears of age ears The app to be quite resigned to his fate. CONSTANCE KENT.--W e can state upon autho rity that Sir George Grey, Bart., the Home Secreth; tary of State, has sent an order to the governor of ee prison at Salisbury for th e removal of Emilie Constance Kent, under sentence of p enal servitude for life, to _Ja e : Millbank prisou, Londo n, to which p rison she will De moved as soon as P005iblO• rat( sho: brit dou yesi not cre par Acti Bull Pub Bevl Gov Othi cot Ret 68f, Col Loa 29i Col prei Go , 59 bee furl GrE Sou witl Ca' Ind 8 pe a pe Nev Nev Ani Exe r.; Indi Aus Bra Bue Chi] Col( Cut Dar Equ E Eg3 D r Gre L E ctur E ltal Me: Por Ru 6Pa E vet E I: