The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-06 00:00:00

HO (From the Times' Correspondent) BADEN-BADEN, Sept. 3. It is necessary to come to Baden during the race week to see what the lovers of strong language call " the Queen of all Hells" in full blaze. It is well to protest, however, that if by that royal title we are to understand the greatest of all gambling places the appellation would be misapplied ; for the green table-cloth is by no means the all-in-all to Baden ; play does not assume the great proportions nor exhibit the repulsive features that it displays, for instance, at Homburg ; and the people comme it foot, who are the vast majority here, do not give their countenance to the jingling-rooms at the Con versation-Haus at all. Indeed, as the contract of M. Benazet with the Grand-Duke of Baden is limited to a time which is to expire at the end of two years, and as it is con fidently asserted that no such convention will be entered into again at any future time, people begin to speculate as to what Baden is to become when stripped of what is considered its chief attraction, particularly should the Duke of Nassau be more tolerantof rouge-et-noir at the rival establishments on the skirts of the Thames. There is no doubt, however, that if any bathing-place can exist and thrive without gambling, that place is certainly Baden-Baden. An English friend of mind who came in yesterday had to drive about literally for four hours, from hotel to lodging-house, before he could find shelter of any description. Now, an immense part of this all-invading crowd has been brought hither by the races, and there will most assuredly be plenty of breathing room towards the end of next week, when the last steeplechases are run. The Paris Jockey Club drags the whole elite of the faubourgs along with it. You hear the greatest names, Praslin, La Rochefoucauld, d'Arenberg, &c., bandied about here as if they were mere Browns, Joneses, and Robinsons ; with them the highest Russian, Prussian, Polish, Spanish, Italian, become equally familiar. We have scores of Neapolitan Bourbonist emigre's, the whole diplomacy of Frank fort and Stuttgart, Berne, Berlin, and Vienna. Baden is at this moment a Parisian suburb, some thing like Chantilly at the spring race meeting. 'There is a cosmopolite set of people at Paris who belong to each other, and are not to be seen any where without one another—a cosmopolite set, yet so cast into one mould that all its extraneous ele ments, no matter of what nation, take a uniform French polish ; a French and Parisian polish, if you please, yet which is special, conventional, in France and in Paris itself. It is not altogether the Court polish, nor yet that of the ancien regime. It has an eclectic accommodating character, with great powers of compromise and adoption. It is a world of itself, apart from the political, above all national predilec tion or antipathy—a world of caste. People think a great deal of blood in that set; a great deal of high-sounding names ; a little of money; an immense deal of pleasure. It is prodigious to think of the crop ping up of lofty aristocratic patronymics in French society of late years. There is a gap in mediaeval his tory about the 11th century, beyond which it is hard for the proudest families to trace their descent. There is such another hiatus in French pedigrees brought about by the guillotine, and by the boutiquiere policy of Louis Philippe. Across both these chasms it is given to heralds and genealogists to exercise their inventive powers. The real French nobles are in no way particular as to the intrusion of plausible candidates into their sacred coteries. The mere aspiration to rank is a homage paid to its import ance at an age and in a community in which at tempts have twice been made to drag it into the dust, and for ever to deprive it of its solid advantages. Well, the whole of that Parisian grande monde, with all its variety of tongues, manners, and prin ciples, is here now; for it is either to be seen all together or not at all. Baden is one of its regular yearly haunts. Here are its pied-a-terre, its rendez vous, its organised round of duties and pleasures. There are English Duchesses, Russian Princesses, with ready-made salons in their Qwn permanently occupied villas. There are Countesses of a very old date aspiring to the honour of giving Royalty a ball, and attaining their object. But for the rest, when I speak of the Parisian world as being here, it must be understood that I have by no means said " the world and its wife." The grandes (lames of the French salons do not show here. The men come here, like Romulus's outcasts on the Aventine, lack ing their better hale es. I hear it said that the ab sence of the French ladies of rank was owing to some blunders of the "Administration," which allowed an undue precedence to the Russian ladies at some of the festivities in former years, thereby giving unpardonable offence both to the French ladies and also to some of the touchy gentlemen of other nations, chiefly the English. Possibly the came of this temporary divorce be tween'the sexes among the French may be found in something very different from mere feminine punc tilio. We have here faubourg life in all its nakedness, and want no Devil on Two Sticks to lift the roofs over our neighbours' houses. In very truth I ques tion whether Paris, suburban, can be seen at so ra pid a glance on the banks of the Seine as it is here exhibited before us on the Oos. It is Paris without the roll of the drums, the throng of the Boulevards, the racket of the Champs Elysees, the terror of the Tuileries—Paris of the Empire, but with it Paris of the Restoration, Paris of the Regency. I said the male grand monde is here, likewise the female demi monde. French society hasreached the utmost degree of Athenian refinement. It has attained a peculiar organisation, the main feature of which is absence of all restraint or concealment. We have heard of balls in Paris given by a certain class of young ladies to their intimate acquaintance among a certain class of young gentlemen. Well, I believe the whole set that attended that festivity, guests and hostesses, are all here. An alliance, offensive and defensive, has been got up between them. They acknowledge each other fearlessly, and defy the world. It is the beau-ideal of Athenian civilisation, save, perhaps, that the lletxrm have not, in all instances, the musical, ar tistical, or political accomplishments of so many Aspasias. Some peculiar talents they must have nevertheless, seeing the strong hold they have on their high-bred associates, the grand train they go, the style they live in, their handsome rooms in the hotels, their maisons garnies, their glittering car riages, their gorgeous attire, their blaze of jewels. It is something to see such high homage paid in our 111 times to Athenian taste ; something more to see it Bo publicly, so ostentatiously paid. For do the two sexes, so strangely brought together, only live freely before the world. The whole mass crowd toge ther ; they constitute one community, as it were, one menage. Wehave come as close upon the golden dreams of St. Simonianism as it is possible to con ceive. He who has achieved the conquest of. Beauty does not hide it und er a bushel ; he wears it like a flower in his button-hole. He is anxious for the world to come in for its sha re of its brilliancy and fragrance. 'The possession of such a treasure is too much for any one man. Indeed, it is often clearly stipulated, and more frequently underst oo d , in such connexions that there is to be no monop o l y joint partnership is the rule rather than the excep tion ; and there are Aspasias who have their Mon day Pericles, who come out with their Tuesday Cleon, try their luck at the roulette table with their Wed nesday Alcibiades, and so on through the week. All this is perfectly understood and organised by com- mon agreement. Those who attended in Paris the ball above alluded to bear witness to the perfect order and propriety with which the affair was conducted. We are all equally and most scrupulously respectable here. Indeed, we are more than that. A grand dinner is given during the race week by the gentlemen to the ladies—those gentlemen to those ladies—and mark well, as we are here Legitimists for the most part, and attached to Rome and the Pope, choice is made for the banquet of a Friday, and the dinner is de maig re ; nay, most of the assembled guests attend mass together en mass on the following Sunday. The cry under Louis Philippe was, " Il faut des meeurs." Under the regime of the First Son of the Church the cry is, "Il Ala de la pie'le.." Aspasia burns incense to the gods, and contributes her Peter's pence, There is a good deal of easy abandon, of aristo cratic nonchalance in this hypothesis of lietmrism. There is more of idleness, vanity, and mere custom, perhaps, than of actual corruption in what, painted in more vivid colours than I have put on my palette, might well be entitled to the appellation of Pandemonium. Traits of a better nature, calcu lated to cause us regret for individuals born for higher destinies, occur here now and then, and are retailed with eagerness by men who seem dead to the real meaning of their own anecdotes. A noble Marquis was standing on the racecourse by the side of one of the beauties who astonish the natives here by driving the most stylish and mettlesome pair of dark greys. They were accosted by the boguetibv of the Jockey Club, a well-known girl, who follows the Club wherever it goes, as faithful as a vivandare to her regiment. The Marquis chose a rich rose, and offered it to the fair horsebreaker by her side. " Qu'est ce que vous me dcnnez la, Monsieur ?" said the beauty, with a sneer at his stinginess. " Qu'est que cela vaut ? Quatre francs ? " Non, Madame," answered the Marquis readily, " cela vaut vingt-cinq louis," and he handed a note for the amount to the flower-girl. The Paris grand monde bring all Paris along with them—their operas and concerts, with Patti, Nicolini, Delle Sedie, Viuxtemps, &c.—their French drama, with all its first-rate celebrities. I went to the play last evening, and saw the first performance here of M. Emile de Girardin's world-renowned comedy, Le Supplice d'une Femme. What a play that is, and what a state of society it lays open before us ! What a deep romance of domestic mystification, of long successful duplicity; what complication of plots, what exhibition of human misery ! A wife deceiving her husband for eight years ; a friend be traying his friend; a child " not his father's child ;" a lover jealous of the husband; a woman outliving her guilty passion, unable to free herself from its toils, atoning for it by the ruin of her husband, the loss of her child, and the exposure of her dishonour. Such incidents may occur in many families in all countries ; but one cannot help wondering why it is that such, almost exclusively such, should be the theme of nearly all French dramas and novels, the Alpha and Omega of French literature, whether it be earnest or humorous, deep tragedy or broad farce, broad-, sheet feuilleton or Charivari caricature. The style of composition being admitted, certainly no piece can be better conducted, more highly finished, bet ter written than this of M. de Girardin. It is true to the life—one is afraid, too true. Once in presence of that repulsive group, accustomed as it were to . that tainted atmosphere, schooled to hear vice and crime called by specious names, there is no doubtbut your interest becomes strongly engaged by the hideous exhibition before you. You cannot with hold your sympathy from the writhing features, the agonizing shrieks of that guilty despair. But one must be allowed to question the style and the sub ject very much. The tendency of the play is moral, no doubt, for it shows what the wages of sin are even in the conventional world wherein the scene is laid. But there are sins which cannot bear light— at least not as consummated sins. The struggles of women under temptation have beep often, every where dramatized, and with good effect. But a fallen woman, a woman who has hugged her sins for years, and only abjures it when it turns to ashes in her mouth, cannot without great danger be made an object of our sympathy, even for the sake of visiting her crime with p oe ti ca l j ust i ce, ex hibi t i ng all its un mitigated wretchedness, and bringing it to the direst punishment. You may not take your subject from the Divorce Court any more than from the Old Bailey. The acting, by MM. Reignier and Worms (Du mont and Alvarez), and Mesdames Lia-Felix and Hortense Damain (Mathilde and Madame Larcey), excelled in all that careful study and masterly dili gence which place the French dramatic theatre so vastly above all other European stages. There was, however, to my poor taste, not a little of that conventional, outré, manib-e finish which makes artists of that school sacrifice truth to effect. Madame Lia-Felix, the guilty wife, was hysterical, almost asthmatic, from beginning to end. Fier acting was all of one colour. M. Worms, the lover, was either stiff and ultra-tragic, or else - wild even to frenzy. M. Reignier, the poor husband4alone was perfectly natural, though some of his outbursts were somewhat grotesque and un artistic. Madame Damain, as the gossiping femme du monde, had a brilliant, easy part, and managed it well. But, on the whole, it was " grand acting," too grand for me. There was an afterpiece, "Le Fruit D6fendu," by Camille Doucet, but I had had enough of it for one evening. Game in Brazil. -•- A correspondent of Wilkes' Spirit of the Age (the New York Bell's Life) gives some particulars of the animals of the chase found in Brazil about the latitude of 23 degrees south, and some hundred miles or so from the coast. The entire region is exceedingly broken and mountainous, and contains views of mountain scenery of surpassing beauty. The valleys and portions of the mountain sides are densely wooded, and form the coverts of the game described, which include a small species of deer, lighter coloured than the North American species, with shorter and finer hair, and seldom exceed 601bs. in weight. " They are killed," says the write; "from stands with dogs, as at home. The close ness and density of the cover makes a knife to cut one's way as indispensable as a gun, so that still hunting is out of the question, and without dogs no sport can be hoped for. The same method of hunting is adopted for the paca (a rodent animal—that is, having the prominent gnawing teeth like the rats, squirrels, Lc.), save that a stand is always chosen near some stream of water, as the paca always makes for the narrowest stream when pursued, in which it dives andswims like an otter. This animal weighs from 101 b to 15lb, is of a light brown colour, spotted with dirty white on the back and rump, the hair short and thin, the body closely put together, and the feet partly webbed. They are very fine eating, and when roasted whole resemble very much in looks and taste a sucking pig. The peccary, or wild hog, an ugly customer, hunted the same as the deer; a full grown one weighing close on to 1001bs., of a dark pepper and salt sort of colour, with formidable tusks, and the high shoul ders and drooping hind quarters of the European wild boar. The bristles on the back and spine are longest, giving the animal when enraged the appearance of a very dusty cus tomer, and it behoves the hunter to mind his eye in ap proaching a wounded one, as their tusks cut like bowie knives, as I have had personal experience of. The flesh of the young is very good t but of an old one coarse and strong. Then there is the cotea, another rodent, about the size of our northern hare or white rabbit, but with shorter legs and weighing more ; in colour a reddish brown, with no visible tail. They are shot by making a sera—that is, cut ting away the underbrush in some unfrequented mountain path, and baiting the spot with corn. Tho coteas soon find it, and having once fed there are sure to come again; and the Portuguese sport, ensconcing himself in the bushes at daylight, peppers cotea, when he comes for his breakfast, with his single barrel 30-gauge pop gun, universally used in this country, as a consequence of which game is on the increase. These um) coteas are not bad in a stew, if pro perly skinned : otherwise there is a strong piggy odour. Their skins also make capital shoes. Of the birds that may be classed under the head of game come first the macouk (I am not sure about the spelling, but that is the way it is pronounced)—a fine large bird, weighing from three to five pounds, much resembling in shape the Guinea fowl, save that the bill is longer and more slender, and it lacks the red wattles on the head ; in colour a dark brown, with fine mottling of a lighter colour. These are some times shot at the cotea bating places, or enticed to show themselves in the path by an imitation of their peculiar mellow w hi s tl e, pro d uce d b y bl ow i ng into the shell of a large nut through a small orifice. Next the capuara, so caEallseidi,siparrid resemblin g very much in form, size, and colo ur th e nonogrthoce a b , r o e:s a t h . l lacking, however, th e h orses h oe mar k otin Lare caught f requen tl y i n t raps b y t h e rtholaltingthseouniikse ma vatlloasvofterafr l o av i i a s n u n:r a T s h t e h n e m th a e c r o e u i k s , exceptpiece of cane, and p ro d uces a iet-tihirld than our Wilson's large species of snipe, larger b or English snipe, but marked Tikcien It inhabits open boggy grounds in the vicinity o u f P : 1 1%7 f on t , h and with a good dog much sport could be got out ' o l pointers and setters are not known in Brazil, and them a; but ( o were to bo had, these same snipe aro about all that could be hunted, for the cover inhabited by the roaeouk and capuara are enough to make the most enthusiastic sum mer woodcock shooter's hair stand on end, and prevents the possibility of hunting them with any sort of pleasure. Speaking of the long bills reminds me that I have been told there is a woodcock iii this country, but I have never seen one, and am inclined to think that the snipe before men tioned is meant. This, so far as my personal observation goes, comprises the game of this region. As for the sport of hunting it, the less said about it the better, as to wait on a stand, which is the only chance to get a sight of any of the larger game, subjects the sportsman to the attacks and stings of ants, mosquitoes, wood-ticks, and a dozen name less vermin, which effectually do away with the 'Measure of the thing, and the sportsman coming to this country for shooting wo u ld d o b etter to stay at home and bet on the Jersey Boy against Taylor. The Cattle Disease SPECIAL MEETING OF THE COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a special meeting of the Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall (the Lord Mayor in the chair) for the purpose of taking into consideration the pro priety of voting the sum of £l,OOO towards a fund for com pensatfng the owners of such cattle as may fall with the cattle plague within the metropolitan district, and for the establishment of sanitoriums for the separation and cure of the cattle affected. There was a numerous attend ance on the part of the members. The LORD MAYOR, in opening the proceedings, said the notices which had been issued would have informed the council of the particular purpose for which they had been that day convened. During the last month or two he had received a great number of letters upon the cattle disease, the whole of which he had sent to the markets' committee ; and he might observe that no body of gentlemen could have exerted themselves more energetically or more praise worthily than had the markets' committee. (Hear.) About the middle of last month, when the disease was spreading in all directions and exciting a deal of attention through out the country, he requested the chairman of that com mittee to summon a meeting at the Mansion House in order that not only the members of the committee themselves should assemble there, but that at the same time they should invite to their aid the medical officers of health to attend as well. That meeting had been held, and it was attended by a very great number of gentlemen. A dis cussion of three hours' duration took place, and in the end a committee was appointed, consisting of the markets' committee with the addition of the officers of health, two or three salesmen, and some of the cattle importers. That committee was formed for the purpose of arriving, if pos sible, at some practical resolution on the subject of the disease. They subsequently met again at the Mansion House, and an interview had been had, as might have been seen by the papers, with the authorities at the Home Office, to obtain additional powers beyond those contained in the act of parliament. Those powers had been granted, and now all that was required was that attention should be paid to the carrying of them out. A report would be pre sented to the council that day, in which they were recom mended to contribute the sum of .£l,OOO to the fund for com pensating the owners of such cattle as might fall with the plague, and it would be for the members to take that recom mendation into consideration. He sincerely thanked the markets' committee, and those gentlemen who had remained in town at this season to assist them, for the indefatigable manner in which they had been discharging their duties. There was only one other remark ho had to make, and he made it with some diffidence—that he thought it was not the duty of all the officers of the corporation to be out of town at this period. (Hear, hear.) There was scarcely a single officer of the corporation in London during the past month, and in his opinion that was a state of things which ought not to exist at such a time, when a fearful cattle plague raged in the metropolis and required attention and advice. (Applause.) The Tows CLERK then read a long report from the markets' and cattle plague committees, in which they re capitulated the various meetings they had held, the resolu tions they had arrived at, the interview with Mr. Wadding ton at the Home-office, the Orders in Council, the legal opinion respecting the slaughtering of diseased cattle given by the Common Sergeant, the reasons in favour of the establishment of sanitoriums, and the necessity which existed for raising the compensation fund, In conclusion they recommended the corporation to contribute £l,OOO to the fund out of the City cash. Mr. DAVIS asked what amount of money had as yet been contributed by the public towards the Compensation Fund. The LORD MAYOR said he was not himself aware that any money had been contributed to it except 50 guineas which he had received for it that morning from Mr. John Lowe, of °lepton. Mr. GIBBINS, the chairman of the markets' committee, then moved the following resolution :—" That in conse quence of the vast interest the corporation have at stakeTn the importation and sale of cattle at the Metropolitan Cattle Market, and the prevention of the spread of the cattle dis ease throughout the country, the markets' committee is of opinion that the corporation should contribute the sum of £l,OOO towards a fund for compensating the owners of such cattle as may fall with the disease within the metropolitan district, and for the establishment of sanitoriums for the separation and cure of the cattle affected." He thought the importance of the subject bad justified him in asking the Lord Mayor to call the present meeting. It was a subject which came home to every householder in this great metro polis. The attention of the markets' committee was first called to it by their inspector, who at the time was in com munication with Professor Symonds. It was then referred to a special committee, and shortly after a letter was received from the Lord Mayor stating that cattle disease had mani fested itself amongst the layers at Islington. The commit tee thereupon disinfected the market in every possible way, as recommended by Dr. Letheby. They ordered chloride of limo to be freely used, and directed that the market should bo periodically flooded from the hydrants there. They also empowered their inspectors to employ additional men to prevent cattle in a diseased state from being sold for human food. Their object in doing that was because they had no power to prevent any quantity of diseased cattle from coming into the market. They had no power to stop them, the market being a public one; but when the diseased cattle entered, then they had power to deal with them to a limited extent. That limited power on their part was so described in the acts of Parliament. They found that they could go to a justice of the peace and obtain an order from him to have the diseased cattle entered, but then they were informed that all cattle in the early stages of the disease were fit for human food, and that they could not condemn beasts which were only in those stages. Ho was afraid the disease had been spread all over the country from the Metropolitan Market, for it was the market for the metro. _ _ polis of England and of the whole of Europe. In the first instance he went to the Lord Mayor and endeavoured to allay the alarm in the public mind. The first effect of the disease was shown in a deprivation of the milk of the animal, and then the cows were sent, sometimes to the slaughter-house and sometimes to the Metropolitan Mar ket. A deputation waited on Sir George Grey, who seemed to think that the committee had plenty of power to meet the emergency, for he said that if they reforred to the Nuisances Removal Act, cap. 117, they would find that all the necessary power had been conferred on them. They told him, in reply, that that Act only gave them power in cases where the cattle were unfit for human food ; and hero was the difficulty, for, though a beast might have the dis ease, yet it might be good for human food. Then an Order in Gouncil came out on the 11th of August, but that only gave the committee power to seize and isolate. To seize the diseased beasts in the dairies and to bury them upon the premises was impossible. That was pointed out to Sir G. Grey, who then issued another Order in Council, giving them the power they required, a power that when they found the animals really affected with the disease they could order them to be slaughtered ; and now the in spectors were exercising that power in the best way they could. It now appeared that up to last night, out of 16,000 cows in the metropolitan district as many as 2,000 had been killed in consequence of the disease. That only included cows, as distinguished from beasts. The day before there were 17 fat beasts affected with the disease, and this was its first appearance in the metropolis among the beasts, though it was not its first appearance among them throughout the country. The cost of the 2,000 cows which had been killed was some £30,000 or £40,000. Who was to meet this loss ? During the last two months that disease had been raging, and how to meet it no one seemed to know. None of the professors seemed to be able to sug gest a remedy. Professor Symonds was of opinion that it was the poleaxe and the knife which would get rid of it, but Heaven only knew when or how it would be eradicated. So far as could be understood the following was a true description of it and of its effects :—" The disorder which is at present raging amongst the cattle is said, not only by competent physicians, but also by veterinary surgeons and others, to be a virulent kind of typhus fever, which is so deadly in its effects when once established that it sets all medical aids at defiance, and spreads like wildfire amongst the herds. Those who were in affluence at the beginning of one week may be reduced to a state almost of beggary by the sudden destruction of the animals on which they de pended for their livelihood." A remedy it was thought might be found, and indeed it would be a disgrace if in the year 1865, among the number of scientific men we had in the world, some remedy could not be invented to meet a plague so direful. (Hear.) The cures suggested for the disease were legion, and amongst these were gruel, tar, saline mixtures, and water impregnated with iron, and it was hoped that the latter, which was recommended upon high authority, would be found effectual. At present the cow keepers sent off the infected beasts to the market, or to some slaughter-house where they might be killed. There was believed to be great danger in allowing infected beasts to be driven through the streets. If the good could be separated from the bad animals, and if the latter could be conveyed to sanitoriums, where the medical men could operate upon them, then much benefit would result ; and then, too, if the animals died, they would be buried on the spot. AB the professors were agreed in this—that if a com pensation fund were raised, and the cowkeeper were told that he would be remunerated for his loss, he would at once inform the authorities when the disease made its ap pearance in his cowshed. Shed after shed was now being shut up, and men and women who seemed to be affluent one day were the next reduced to ruin. An illustration of this would suffice. One daylast week a cowkeeper atPim lico had 70 or 80 healthy cows. One Wednesday three of them wore found dead. On Thursday 42 of them were sent to the market. Of those 42 three showed symptoms of the disease, and then the whole of the 42 beasts had to bo slaughtered because of the disease being among the three. The poor fellow was thus ruined. Last Monday he sent nine more cows to the market, and these also had to be slaughtered. At present the man was absolutely out of his- mind. (Rear, hear.) Out of his 70 beasts he had not one left. Some persons were saying that the disease arose from bad water, bad ventilation, and bad cow-sheds, but in the case of Miss Burdett Coutts, who had 40 head of cattle, which were most carefully housed and attended to— particularly from the moment that she heard that thedis ease was amongst them—all were gone with the exception of one cow; so that, whether it was a want of water or a rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER' 6, 1865. want of ventilation which in other cases caused it, that was an instance in which everything had been done that could be done, and yet the plague raged and the mortality ensued. (Hoar, hear.) In his neighbourhood twenty or thirty cows had been lost, and yet in Dulwich none had been affected. The northern part, too, seemed far more affected with the disease than the southern part. Under these circumstances, something should be done ; and the corporation would not misapply their money by contributing £l,OOO towards the Compensation Fund. In every pact of the kingdom some system of compensation had been adopted, and London should not be behind in raising a fund. Besides, if the corporation headed the sub scription list with £l,OOO, the cattle salesmen would sub scribe another £l,OOO, and the public would come forward with their money. It might be said that the sum proposed would not be sufficient to meet the emergency, but at all events let the corporation not stand by and see the poor cowkeepers losing their all, recollecting that, if the dis ease progressed, butchers' meat would rise by-and-bye to such a price as that no poor man could purchase it. He concluded by moving the resolution. Mr. WALTER asked to what extent the disease had af fected the City ? Mr. GIBBINS replied that in the City of London proper, out of 19 cowsheds there was not one in which the disease had made its appearance. In Warwick-lane there were 28 cows, and no disease among them. Ile was happy to say that all the vestries and boards in the metropolis had been communicated with on this subject, and that they had re turned very favourable answers. Mr. BUTCHER asked whether it was contemplated to pay the rich owners of cattle out of the Compensation Fundfor their losses. Mr. GIBBINS replied that the committee were confining their operations to the metropolis, and that no compensa tion would be given to anybody unless he sent a timely intimation that his cattle were affected with the disease. At the market, during the month of August, 175 beasts were seized, of which 25 were condemned and destroyed. In the same month there were seized in the slaughter-house connected with the market 190 beasts, of which 150 were condemned and destroyed. Mr. Deputy FARRAR asked whether it was part of the committee's scheme that persons from all parts of the country should send their beasts to the proposed sani toriums to be experimented upon. Mr. Grunnis replied in the negative. Mr. Deputy BURNELL asked whether it was the object of the committee to confine the remunerations to persons keeping licensed cowhouses, or whether the whole of the cowkeepers were to share in it. Mr. Grimm said these were matters of detail which could only be answered hereafter. All who contributed to the fund would bo entitled to compensation in case of loss. Mr. WHEELER asked whether the cowkeepers were not at present insuring their cattle. Mr. GIBBINS replied that they were not generally doing so, but the fact was one which had not been very accurately ascertained. Mr. WHEELER asked whether there were any unlicensed cowsheds in London. Mr. GIBBINS was sorry to say there were, particularly in the Strand. Mr. WHEELER asked whether any of the unlicensed par ties had made any demand for compensation. Mr. GIBBINS replied in the negative. In reply to Mr. Woodley, Mr. GIBBINS said that correct statements from the owners of the cowsheds were not obtainable, and that the figures sent by them could not be vouched for. Mr. ROWE asked whether the Government would take action in the compensation business. Mr. GIBBINS replied that the subject of the cattle disease had been a matter of great anxiety with the Government. Professor Symonds had called particular attention to it, and it was not improbable that next session a bill of in demity would be brought in. Mr. Alderman PHILLIPS said the visitation was a most serious one, and that the committee were doubtless actu ated with the most benevolent intentions when they now came forward and asked for a subscription of £l,OOO. These questions, however, were deserving of consideration : Who was to give it ; what was the object of it ; if given, who was to have the disposal of it ; and were the rich cowkeepers to share in it ? It now appeared that within a given time something like 2,000 cows had fallen victims to a pestilential disease, and that these would represent £30,000 or £40,000. Let the corporation look the matter fairly in the face, and not deal with ephemeral experiments; but come to facts. Where was this £30,000 to come from, and where was the matter to end ? Was the Government to subscribe, and was the subscription to be taken up by the City and the metropolis at large ? If the principle were right that they should subscribe, then they should know what they were going to subscribe for, and to whom they were going to give the money. His own opinion was that £l,OOO was inadequate. He believed they were all influ enced by the same kindly motives in this matter, and that the discussion of the question would be useful. But, when the great veterinary professors of the day were differing as to the course to be pursued with regard to the disease, ho was free to confess, that with the kindest and the most benevolent intentions, he was utterly at sea as to whether he should do right or wrong in supporting the motion. Mr. Deputy FARRAR read a paragraph from the report of the committee, and said it seemed to him to hold out an in vitation to the whole country to send their cattle to the sanitoriums. Mr. GIBBINS denied that there was any such intention on the part of the committee. Mr. M'GEoncE said he agreed very much with the ex cellent remarks which had fallen from Alderman Phillips. lie thought an application should be made to Government for power to impose a charge on the whole of the cattle sold in the market, for then a fund would be raised adequate to meet the evil. To talk of anything like a subscription of Xl,OOO was preposterous. Even £50,000 raised by the whole of the metropolis would be insufficient to remunerate the unfortunate sufferers. Mr. RUDKIN was sorry that the report seemed not to have been listened to very attentively, because it stated very clearly the mode in which the Compensation Fund was intended to be laid out. It proposed that sanitoriums should be established, that compensation should be brought to bear, that persons who had cows affected with the disease should give timely notice of the same, and that their diseased cattle should be sent in proper conveyances to the sanitoriums, where the medical men would try their hands in effecting a cure. The great principle of the Com pensation Fund was to get at the facts, and to ascertain the localities in which the disease existed. The present in spectors were clothed with full powers to brand on the horns every head of cattle which was infected. These powers, however, were not efficiently carried out, for at the Cattle Market infected cows were arriving from all parts of London without a Government certificate, and without being branded on the horns, and these travelled through the streets and spread the disease. Now it was proposed to carry these beasts by means of conveyances to the sani toriums, to explain to the cowkeepers the advantages de rivable from better ventilation, and to impart to them advice as to the best means of meeting the disease. It was wori by of remark that Professors Symonds and Gamgee, and all the medical men, were in favour of the Compensa tion Fund. The committee believed that a sum of £lO,OOO or £15,000 would be adequate to meet the immediate necessities of the case. They had not as yet received any answer from tho Government respecting their sanction to the establishment of the sanitoriums, but the inhabitants of the metropolis might do, independently of that sanction, what had been done by Edinburgh and Glasgow—they might establish those hospitals for them selves. Mr. LAWLEY was of opinion that in a case so urgent as the present something should be done, and that tho mar kets committee were deserving of the fullest support. He thought tho committee should be armed with full powers to act to the best of their judgments, and that the £l,OOO should at once be placed at their disposal. He was more in favour of establishing hospitals than he was for com pensating cowkeepers, and he thought the corporation ought to form the nucleus of the fund. Mr. PEDLER characterised the cowsheds of London as wretched places, and said the infected cattle in going along the streets breathed a terrible poison into the asmosphere. He believed that the removal of the cows from the cow sheds to the hospitals would only promote the disease, and the medical men would not be more successful in curing the disease in the hospitals than thoy were now in curing them in the cowsheds. He was of opinion that the cow keepers should remove their animals to the country, where they would have better air and water than they could have in London, and from whence they could most easily send their milk to London by railway. He could not believe that the opening of three or four sanitoriums or the sub scription of £l,OOO would over meet the magnitude of the evil. Mr. RowE said that no member of the corporation would raise up his hand against the vote if he thought it would form the nucleus of an adequate fund. He thought it a reproach to the Government that they had allowed the disease to spread so extensively as it had without taking any steps to arm the local boards with powers to meet the emergency. To talk of £l,OOO was ridiculous. In his opinion £200,000 was more likely to be the sum that was necessary to encounter the evil. The vote was nothing but a charitable contribution, exceedingly laudable in its design, but by no means sufficient to check the calamity. He hoped the Government would be moved to some action in the matter. How was it possible that five or six gen tlemen on the committee, who perhaps never saw a cow in their lives—(loud laughter)—could take upon themselves to meet a disease of that magnitude. Mr. BURKE supported the motion, and expressed his belief that there would be a fund of £lOO,OOO raised before the end of the month. After, some observations from Mr. Woodley and Mr. Fricker, Mr. IsAacs suggested that part of the compensation should be given as a premium for an effectual remedy for the disease. He asked what was the use of establishing hospitals when it was admitted that there was no known remedy for th e di sease. Mr. HORRIDGE opposed anything like a "rest and be thankful" policy, and deprecated such a mode of meeting the disease as that recommended by Professor Symonds-- namely, the poleaxe. Mr. DAVIS was of opinion that the Government should- be held responsible for the disgraceful state of the cow sheds of the metropolis. Dr. SAUNDERS entered his protest against the opinion of Professor Symonds that meat was eatable after the cows had been attacked with the disease. It was, in his opinion, a blood disease, which affected the animal to the bones and extremities. Mr. GIBBISS replied, and in doing so expressed his belief that if they went rightly to work, not merely the half, but three-fourths of the infected cattle would be effec tually cured. The motion was then put and carried unanimously ; and, upon the motion of Dr. Saunders, the whole of the reports, &c., upon this subject were ordered to be printed and cir culated among the members. The Court then adjourned. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. GREAT EASTERN. It appears that this company is to commence running coal trains over the Great Northern loop line on Oct. 1. COLNE VALLEY AND HALSTEAD. It appears that the directors have been served with notices on behalf of some of the debenture holders, not to part with any balance available for the payment of interest in favour of the holders of " construction bonds" until the interest falling due on the debentures is paid. The amount of construc tion bonds issued by the company is £76,200, the whole expenditure on capital account to June 30, 1866, had been £262,637. The amount of deben tures issued is £56,714. The profits of the past half year were £1,554, an amount sufficient to dis charge the interest accruing on the debentures. WIVENHOE AND BRIGHTLINGSEA. The permanent way of this line was expected to be completed to Mightlingsea in about a fortnight. The works of the line had made satisfactory pro gress. EUROPEAN CENTRAL (LIMITED). The annual general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Gresham .house, Old Broad-street ; Colonel Sykes in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. On the motion of the Chairman the report was adopted, Mr. D. Allardice, the retiring auditor, was re-elected, and Mr. E. E. Scott was elected the other director. The meeting was then made special, and on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Om manny, the provisional agreement entered into on the 4th of July last for the absorption o f the com pany into, or its amalgamation with, another com pany to be formed by capitalists for the construc tion of an Alpine Pass line, was approved, and the directors were empowered to carry the same into effect, subject to such modifications as they might deem necessary, advisable, or expedient. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS (LIMITED.) The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Finsbury-square ; Mr. F. J. Law in the chair. Mr. Church, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, the report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the proprietors on meeting for the first time in their own premises. The directors had secured those premises, which were found much more convenient for their staff and business opera tions than their former offices. Every shareholder, he presumed, had read the report, and had thus become acquainted with the very prosperous posi tion of the company, which he was glad to say had been so far successful. But while they had been prosperous, they had not had everything in their favour ; they had been obliged to expend for pro vender £lO,OOO more than for the corresponding half of last year. This was a matter which the di rectors could not control ; but they had reduced the expenses in matters they could control to the extent of £3,000, leaving £7,000 as the increased expendi ture. lie thought they would find the state of their finances very satisfactory. They would find on the first page of the balance-sheet debts and liabilities to the amount of £42,200, and on the other side stores in hand and other matters to a greater amount. In the same account they would find investments in Consols toLthe amount of £36,100, against which there was no charge whatever, and since the ac counts had been made up they had increased their reserve in Consols to £51,000, at which amount it now stood. (Hear, hear.) This reserve showed the solidity of the company, and in addition to this they had successfully contended with railway competi tion. The receipts had not only been maintained but increased, by rearranging the service. The question of competition with railways would no doubt require the same attention as other matters, and while a temporary reduction in some instances might take place in the receipts, he looked forward to the natural increase of business the railway s would create to make up on the whole any tempo rary deficiency that might occur. He was very hopeful on that subject, and he thought they need not fear competition with the railways. The only other matter against them was the mileage charge, which was very heavy, and he trusted that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had already seen the justice of their case, and hoped they would soon have a diminution of the present charge of 9 per cent. on their receipts, as against 3 per cent. charged on railways. The company had during the past half-year carried 700,000 more passengers than in the corresponding half of last year ; and in the cur rent half-year they had received £3,000 more than for the corresponding period. The directors had been enabled to continue the 7i per cent. dividend, which showed that their affairs were in a solid and safe condition. (Hear, hear.) M r . S. HERAPATH seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. He must admit that the affairs of the company during the past four years had been conducted with great care and ability. He had had misgivings as to certain matters of detail being managed by a company, but the direc tors had effectually succeeded in overcoming those difficulties, and had placed the undertaking on a solid and sure foundation. As to the reserve fund, ho hoped it would be increased, so that at some future time they might be fully prepared for all con tingencies. (Hear, hear.) The report was then unanimously adopted, and a dividend and bonus equivalent to 7i per cent. per annum were declared for the past half-year, free of income tax, payable by warrant on the 12th inst. The proceedings concluded with a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT READING.-- There is every prospect that this exhibition, which is under the patronage of the Queen, who takes much in terest in the movement, will be attended with a great amount of success. Yesterday the mayor (Mr. Butler) re ceived a letter from Major-General Sir T. M. Biddulph, dated from The Rosenau, stating that the Queen was gra ciously pleased to permit the committee of the Industrial Exhibition to visit Windsor Castle and select articles of interest for the loan exhibition. Accordingly the mayor, with several members of the committee, proceeded to the Castle yesterday afternoon, and selected various objects of great interest, which will be immediately forwarded to Reading. The exhibition will be opened on Wednesday next, the 13th, by the Bishop of Oxford, who, with the municipal authorities of Reading, Newbury, Windsor, and other towns in the county, will assemble at the town clerk's office and walk in procession to the hall. SHOCKING ASSAULT UPON AN INFANT.—Yester day, before the Liverpool borough magistrates, a young woman named Fitzsimmons was charged with hav ing assaulted a child named M'Cullagh. On Monday the child was being carried along the street by its mother, with whom Fitzsimmons had had a quarrel, when the lat ter met her, and with a hammer head struck the head of the child a violent blow, inflicting a contused wound of the scalp, and causing concussion of the brain. The child is in a precarious state. The woman was remanded. 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TIMES.—A very brief telegram which we publish to-day will be generally received as a satisfactory solution of a difficulty which was not the less annoy ing because it arose between ourselves and a bar barous African Power. Mr. Consul Cameron, who has been so long confined by the Emperor of Abyssinia, has been at length released. Mr. Rassam, who was despatched in the first place to Massowah to procure the freedom of the unfortunate captive, has, after almost infinite delays, succeeded in effect ing the purpose of his mission. He has telegraphed to the Foreign-office from Suez a nn o unc i ng hi s arrival there, and the liberation of Captain Cameron from his confinement. This happy result of his labours will be welcomed by all, and by none more than by the persons who were actually on their way or were preparing to depart with the object of seconding Mr. Rassam's negotiations. It is well known that shortly before the rising of Parliament arrangements were made with Mr. Palgrave, the Arabian traveller, to proceed to Abyssinia, and so to work upon the Emperor as to procure the release of Consul Cameron from captivity ; and since the dissolution a new movement has been projected with the same object. Mr. Beke had voluntarily offered to undertake a mission to the Emperor Theodore, relying for success upon his knowledge of the coun try acquired in former visits, and upon his acquaint ance with the character of the Emperor. The suc cess of Mr. Rassam has made it unnecessary that Mr. Palgrave should proceed any further with his Journey, or that Mr. Beke should start upon his enterprise. They deserve, and we hope they will receive,the thanks of the country and of the friends of Consul Cameron for their intentions, although, as the event has turned out, their good offices have not been required. We are still in ignorance of the motives which induced the Emperor Theodore to terminate the long captivity of Captain Cameron, but it fortunately happens with men of his fitful character that an impulse of benevolence must occasionally have weight as a reason of action. The Emperor of Abyssinia is a personage with whom we would much rather have to do in the world of fiction than in actual life. He has the virtues and the faults of Haroun al Raschid. He has vague and wild aspirations, and lofty dreams of empire ; his intentions are on the whole praiseworthy, his abilities fair, and his courage indisputable ; but he has no subjects strong enough to check his errors, no long course of constitutional traditions to re press any wilful outbreak. His own career is more like a page out of the " Arabian Nights" than a veritable history. Although he now claims to be of the blood of the former Emperors of Abyssinia, and to be a descendant of the great Suleyman, he was of humble origin, and, if we remember rightly, was the son of a porter. He managed, however, to in gratiate himself with a former King of Abyssinia, to become his Vizier, and ultimately his successor. When he obtained power he showed that he knew how to use it. One by one he subdued his rivals, until he acquired the sovereignty of nearly the whole of Abyssinia. His rule became nearly coincident with that of the early Christian Emperors of the South, and as his power grew his claims also waxed greater and greater. His ideas extended beyond his own continent, and he sought the friendship of the French Emperor and of our own nation. He sent a letter, accompanied by certain presents, to the Queen, and his subsequent treatment of Consul Cameron has been attributed to the delay in ac knowledging his communication. But in truth there were more solid grounds, if not better rea sons, for his annoyance. Before Captain Cameron had been appointed consul it would seem to have been the practise of our resident agents to engage freely in the domestic troubles of Abyssinia, and to take part in any struggle for empire which might happen. The immediate predecessor of Captain Cameron had gone the length of supplying muskets to a predecessor of Theodore, and had fallen iu a civil war which ensued. When Captain Cameron himself was first appointed he was perhaps not un willing to support the pretensions of the Emperor Theodore, until a despatch from the Foreign-office warned him not to intermeddle with any questions of domestic policy. The Emperor of Abyssinia did not, however, understand the doctrine of non-inter vention, and resented the attitude of neutrality which Captain Cameron maintained in pursuance of the instructions which he had received. The indifference of Consul Cameron to his quarrels, coming on the back of the neglect of his mes sage to England, might have excited his in dignation, when a third cause of offence arose. Some missionaries who had been sent by the Church Missionary Society to Abyssinia had returned for a season, as is not uncommon, nor, to tell the truth, unnatural among missionaries, to England, and, in reporting on the condition of the mission, they spoke of certain acts of the Emperor Theodore in a way which was doubtless just, but could not be flattering to his sensibilities. Their comments on his conduct reached the ears of the Abyssinian Emperor, and when they returned to their work they were charged with treason, and forthwith com mitted to prison. Captain Cameron, in pursuance of his duty, remonstrated on their behalf, and in his zeal for their welfare hurried to the Court from his post at Massowah, to which he had been ordered to confine himself. But he did so only to share the fate of the captives. This last interference with his will proved too much for Theodore, and Captain Cameron was at once put into captivity, from which he is now, as we learn, tardily released. The nego tiations for the release of Consul Cameron have been tedious, and were not unnaturally the cause of some exasperation against the Foreign-office, and some censures on its management. They have now, however, proved successful. Being successful they will probably receive unmerited approbation, just as when they were unsuccessful they received unmerited obloquy. It is too much to expect that those most immediately interested in the captive should preserve a judicial calmness in discussing the means adopted for his release. Dispassionate observers may, however, be asked to consider the difficulties of the position. Here was a semi-bar barous Prince, almost wholly inaccessible to arms, who had got a British agent completely within his power. Negotiating with him for the release of his prisoner was like coaxing a cat to give up a mouse. Any appearance of violence would be fatal, because the victim would be sacrificed before help could arrive. On the other hand, the Emperor Theodore was too well acquainted with the principles of European government to be amenable to vague threats vijiich were not intended to be followed up by action. Nothing was left but to try the effect of remonstrances addressed to his reason by some one sufficiently acquainted with the temper of the East to be able to select the argument most fitted to convince an Eastern potentate. In Mr. Rassam such a person appears to have been found. He was a British subject, and had, in fact, long held office under the Crown ; at the same time his life had been spent between the Nile and the Euphrates, and he knew the character of the man with whom he had to deal by long intercourse with his fellows. We receive the news of his success with unfeigned satisfaction, not the less because the moral to be de rived from his negotiation is the old one of modera tion in criticism. It would be dangerous to remove the Foreign-office from the influence of critics, but their comments would not be less effective were they oftener qualified by an appreciation of the difficul ties to be fought against. We trust it may be no longer necessary for us to maintain Consular agents in the territories of such a person as the Emperor of Abyssinia, for they must be exposed to the vicissi tudes of hia lawless will, and if ever they come within the scope of his anger, tedious and prots acted negotiations must almost inevitably precede their release. POST.---Whether the rumours of a Northern al liance are or are not reliable, they serve to express the feelings of uneasiness and distrust which prevail more or less in every quarter of Europe. The Scan dinavian States may reasonably desire to insure their integrity and independence, and they might be jus tified in making some sacrifices to that end. Den mark has experienced the necessity of such a gua rantee, and the intimate friendship existing between the Courts of Copenhagen and St. Petersburg may admit of a mutually advantageous political under standing. Russia would probably also be disposed to come to an arrangement with Sweden on terms which, under the circumstances, it might be thought expedient to accept. But be this how it may, there can be no doubt that, the title-deeds" of Europe being virtually d es t ro yed, the Powers of the Continent feel called upon to adopt other measures. International law having sunk into a state of abeyance, they are compelled to appeal to the law of self-preservation. " A nation coerced by a superior Power loses that independence which is the plea for its rights, and the guarantee of their maintenance by mankind." This has been, and might be again, the case of Denmark ; and it is by no means clear that it does not in a sense apply to Germany and Austria. The high principle of inter national policy which Lord Palmerston laid do wn as a rule, is, however, equally in abeyance. A. laissez-faire policy is at present fashionable. If there be an understanding between nations, it must not be a cordial understanding. They may be on excellent terms for the moment, but their interests cannot be identical, and all action in common is entirely out of the question. If two countries are compelled to contemplate war, and the co l on i es o f one happen to be bordering on the other, the con terminous dependency must not be defended, but declared neutral ; and so, too, altho ug h it i s proper enough for neighbouring Powers to b e f r i en dl y, ye t if their association be irritating to another Power it is to be deprecated. These are the theories which have superseded the grand practical ideas pro pounded by Chatham and Canning ; hut it natu rally occurs to weak States that, in the absence of a general agreement for maintaining peace, they may become the prey of any strong State that covets their possessions ; and if Denmark and Sweden act upon this suggestion, it is not improbable that their example will be followed. Nor can there be much difficulty in conceiving another more formidable affiance without consulting Germany, or presuming to suppose that the interests of England are com patible with the interests of any other Power. If what has been called the " balance of power" in Europe be lost, it must be recovered in some form, and if not by the common action which is so strenuously objected to, by the patchwork policy which a Scandinavian union would repre sent. It may not be out of place, therefore, to put the latter proposition in a practical light. Three great European alliances are, we will say, possible—the northern, the central, and the western, which, of course, would not include England, nor would Turkey, Greece, or Holland be included either in the northern or the central. There would be that space left for future operations. The ques tion, however, is not whether the peace of Europe could be maintained on such conditions, but for how long war might be averted. Now, it is obvious , that the western and the central powers must immedi ately come into collision on the Adriatic, and no one. could foresee where the conflict there commenced would end. But, for the argument, it may be as sumed that the central alliance would be broken up,. and consequently th a t th e e ffi c i ency o f t h e nort h ern would be neutralised. In effect, then, more than half Europe would be laid at the feet of one power, and that not of its own choice, but simply by the force of circumstances, and because the departure from the principles of international law had led to abnormal coalitions, like that concluded at Gastein, and that of which we hear rumours from Sweden and Denmark. This, we apprehend, is not only a practical but a strictly English statement of the case, and England, it must be observed, has paid dearly to establish the " balance of power," though it was, as we are now asked to believe, only whistle. But without venturing to assume that the result could prove detrimental to English interests, we may perhaps be allowed to advert to the modifi cation of opinion it would require. Once England had 600,000 men in arms, and her navy was manned by 200,000 sailors. A living statesman then declared that the masculine energies of the nation were never more conspicuous, and that the country never at any period of its history stood in so proud and glorious a position. Something of this enthusiasm may still survive, though the England of to-day is expected to submit to the capricious suspicions of other coun tries even in the matter of a naval review. But we do not refer to that. When feeble powers seek pro tection in union with powers that are able to defend them, they must to some extent relinquish their freedom to obtain security ; and, to go no further, if Englishmen do not like to think of Hesse and Coburg as the bond-slaves of Prussia, they may not like to see Denmark made the honoured vassal of Russia. Those who profess to be the only autho rised interpreters of the public opinion of this country do not appear to comprehend the sentiments and the emotions of a free people. Nations and Governments have obligations to fulfil which cannot be avoided, responsibilities which must be met, rights which they dare not surrender. This country may act alone, or act in conjunction with other countries ; but inaction is impossible. Fortunately, it is not easy to drift into a false position when the descent is opposed by facts which speak for them selves, and the English people are perfectly com petent to appraise their interests and to vindicate the national honour. They do not need to be re minded of the German alliance which Canning dis , solved, and they are not to be deceived by philoso phical essays which reveal their Teutonic inspira tion. The way of England is her own way. It was so when she subsidised the bankrupt States of the Continent, and it is so now when her flag is saluted by Powers that are marching with her in the path of civilisation and progress. The way has been marked out by her own sense of truth and justice, and, happily for the peace of the world, a cordial understanding with England is desired by countries that share her aspirations, and would co-operate in compassing their realisation. It is not by segrega tion, but by union, that the complications which hang like a dark cloud over Europe can be satis factorily adjusted. What is desiderated is, not so determinationmany defensive o a o ll b ia s n erv ce e s, in bu te t r a na g ti e o n n e a ral and distinct lla w, and to insist upon its observance. The sophistical expla nations of the Gastein Convention which are tran slated into the English language will mislead nobody. It is not possible to dissemble the meaning or the immorality of the transaction. The money may be paid from one purse or another purse, and the provisorium may be extended until the patience of foreign Powers is exhausted, but by no equivoca tion can it be shown that this compact is other than we have described it—an act politically infamous, and a precedent which cannot be admitted. COUNTRY MARKETS BRISTOL—TUESDAY. At our market to-day old and foreign wheats being held at former prices littl e was d o i ng . A s t o new w h ea ts, their condition makes them unsaleable. The few deliveries made are not fit for Millers' use. Barley, good qualities are firm. Now oats pressed at 6d decline. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was the usual attendance ° f town dealers and of millers from the country. Wheat onl9. met a moderate dema n d ; s p r i ng plalities must be quote ( ' 2d to 3d per cental lower ; white wheat no lower though the demand was by means active. Old oats scarce and es dear; oatmeal dull and lower. Beans unaltered. LEEDS-TUESDAY. The arrivals this week are not large. The wheat trade to-day is very slow, prices down is per qr. for old and full 2s for new, and the business small. Beans and peas quit e as dear. The average prices for the week ending Sept. 4 were Wheat, 47s 14d per qr. ; barley, 32s Od ; and cat° , 32s llid. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—T UESDAY. New white wheat, 43s to 49s ; new red. 40s to 45s per " stone. Barley, fine, 35s ; other kinds, 27s to 30s per (1r• Oats, new, 22s to 248; old, 25s to 28s per qr. Beans, 01d, 40s to 425; new, 34s to 38s per qr. MONMOUTHSHIRE—MoNDAy. Buyers purchased about the average quantity, more especially of old wheat. Foreign is a little more inquired for, and prices are fairly maintained. In barley some spe" culative purchases have been made. The following are the average quotations :—Wheat, 41 lld to 5s 8d per bushel; barley, 3s ld to 3s 9d; oats, 1 1 lld to 2s 7d. - SHEFFIELD —TUESDAY. A large supply of both new and old wheat. The latter in poor condition, and sold slowly at p r i ces var ying front 45s to 548 per qr. Beans scarce, at late rates. Oats were dearer, though the quotations are unaltered. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels 178 Od to 180 03 White do do lBs 6d 208 Oci. New red do do i7s d 188 21 New white do do lBO 6d 20$ ou Beans do do l6s Od 198 O d Peas, Peas, per qr. i 40s Od 425 O d Grinding be ley, per qr 30s Od 32s 0 "_, Malting barley, t o B2B Od 3 58 0. Oats, do 24s Od 280 04 F10ur....1s 7d to 2i Od per 141 b. NEW CAS TLE-UNDER-LYNE-MONDAY. The show of wheat at our corn market was pretty fill there being a sprinkling of old and new sorts. The demo slow, and prices were 2s to 3s per qr. lower for new sorto• Barley not much showing, and sales took place at fully late rates. Oats and beans in dema n d, an d ra th er i x favour , the seller. COUNT EULENBURG.—Young Count Eulonburg , who killed the cook, and was in consequence ordered t 0 keep his room while the inquiry was going on, has been allowed to join his regiment, now manoeuvring in the neighbourhood of Bonn. Births. KENT.—On the 4th inst., at St. John's Parsonage, Port land, the wife of Lieutenant Hunter Kent, R.N., Cool mantling MM. Gun-boat "Hind," of a son. BRADY.—On the 4th inst., atßodenLodge, Barking, Esso 7 Cl the wife of George Brady, Esq., of a daughter. BOURNE.—On tho sth inst., at 2, Albert-place Shooter's'hill-road, Blackheath, the wife of C. W. Bourne, Esq. , ° a daughter. DIXON.—On the 4th inst., atArli ng t on L odge, W a n d s worth common, the wife of Samuel Dixon, Esq., of a son. TURNER.—On the 3d inst., at Hereford, the wife of AnSe l°l Turner, of a son. Marriages if CHAMPAIN—CURRIE.—On th e 2d inst , at Crayford, 403 or f John.U. Champai n , R . E ., to Harriet' Sophia, daughter I s Sir Frederick Cu rr i e , B art., of Manor House, CritYlc't Kent. ENNISKIL LEN — BRODRICIE.—On the sth inst., at St. Ge o r g Hanover - square, William Willoughby, Earl of killen, to the Hon. Mary Emma Brodrick, eldest dello ter of Charles, late Viscount Middleton. Deaths. BUDD.—On the 4th inst., at Peckham-rye, Henry Esq., formerly of Kilmiston and Edgware, aged 74. CHAPMAN.—On the 3d inst., at Ampthill, Bedfordshire' Thomas Chapman, Esq., surgeon, aged 94. DAVS.—On the 4th inst., at H o ll owa y, Mr. J. L. Div rie° ' IE of 5, Milk-street, Cheapside, aged 55. HEAVEN.—On the 4th inst., Cam Gyde Heaven, Esq., of Bristol, aged 69. T. HiscKs.—On the 2d inst., at Breckenborough, Thir s--) C. Hincks, Esq., aged 77. rof HEAD.—On the 3d inst., Mr. George Head, of 7 1/14-- Baker-street, Regent's-park, and of Wadham 'Lodge, Ealing, aged 70. LETTSOM.—On the 3d inst., at 43, Westbourne-parki red dington, Wm. Nanson Lettsom, Esq., aged 70. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREW!: of No. 112, Strand, ninter, at Tru; Sure Office, No. ill Strand, in the Precinct of the Stvoy , in the CountY ° Bliddledex.--Wednesday, September 6, 1866,