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Tim Day.—Morning, 3h. Om.—Afternoon, 3h. 20m. To-Monnow.-Morning, 3h. 44 m. —Afternoon, 3h. 59m. tg.n , r 4II tit ' ‘ v':d°"ll int LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1865. Birmingham is just now quite the centre of at traction. In addition to the meeting of the British Association, which has just been inaugurated there, the formal opening of the Central Free Library has given occasion for some interesting and profitable addresses. Prominent among the speakers was Lord STANLEY, who, from his warm advocacy of all educational movements, and the practical good sense and knowledge of human nature which he brings to bear on social questions, is admirably fitted for being the spokesman on such an occasion. It is easy for a Reformer to sit in his study and consider what are the best means of improving the intellect, and what is the most instructive and profitable course of reading that a man may follow in his leisure hours, but the discrepancy be tween such theories and the actual wants and capa cities of this work-a-day world has been the reason of the failure of so many well-intended establish ments. Lord STANLEY does not content himself with the visions of the philosopher in his easy chair ; he looks out into the crowded streets, the busy workshop, the uncomfortable home, the lonely lodging. Men living in such places, jaded and harassed, oppressed by long hours of toil, and exhausted by incessant 'application, are not likely, he perceives, to sit down to the study of DESCARTES and LAPLACE, to devote their evenings to BACON and NEWTON. Neither can you compel them to restrain their search for recreation and companionship to their own firesides when they know very well that they will find no companion ship there. There is, besides, in human nature an irrepressible cravi ng for change of scene and thought, a wish to escape from the monotony of the daily routine, to lighten the perpetual burden of labour by a little variety of interest and occupa tion. It is not mere idleness which is fascinating even to the busiest man. It is a natural instinct which bids him exercise those faculties, those tastes, those capabilities, which were born with him, but which are left to rust through disuse. Nature is never one-sided. Every man is capable of more than one occupation or enjoyment, but very many spend the greater part of their lives in the study or pursuit of one thing. The mistake or the error, like all infractions of natural laws, brings its own punishment. The man gets narrow-minded, contracted, and one-sided in his views. , The burden always borne in one place grows wearisome and oppressive, and a life which properly varied might have been healthful and enjoyable, becomes a dreary round of mechanical task-work. The best means to avoid this result among our busy classes is to provide them with the means of innocent and pleasurable recreation. Men unaccustomed to hard and abstruse study will not, as a rule, turn to it for refreshment when their day's work is done. No doubt, as Lord STANLEY says, there will always be some whose lore of science and knowledge is deep and sincere, and for them due provision may easily be made, but in no rank of life will such individuals predominate. For the masses we must have exhibitions, museums, concert rooms, lectures, clubs, reaclin .r. g-rooms, and lending libraries with a good supply of wholesome fiction. On this ground Lord STANLEY speaks with his wonted good sense, and boldly declares he shall not be at all disappointed if the report of the Bir mingham library proves that the greatest demand is for works of fiction. This has been the result in most other places where a free library has been in active operation. We are very glad that Lord STANLEY has spoken out clearly on this branch of the question, because it gives an instance of a very common mistake. Men of educated minds and studious habits are apt to expect from the compara tively ignorant and uncultivated the same interest in history, science, and biography that they feel themselves. They are disappointed at the result of opening a free library, and regard it as a failure because works of a solid and standard character are not in daily requisition. But if they take a given number of their own class, and set them down in a varied library for an evening's reading with no particular object but amusement, how many will they find turn to the history or the treatise, and how many to the novel, the magazine, or the newspaper ? We suspect the proportion would not be so very different, and that if our West end libraries were supplied in accordance with the theories that govern some of our Mechanics' Insti tutes, the financial result would be most unsatisfac tory. In spite of the Archbishop fiction will al ways be one of the most attractive of all forms of reading ; and if it be but good, wholesome fiction it is directly profitable. No one wishes to see our rising generation studying romances based on the school of PAUL DE KOCK and EUGENE SUE, but the general tone of our modern English novels, is something widely different. Lessons that are yawned over by the young in the sermon or the essay are taught emphatically in the lives and cha racters of men and women like themselves, and even to those of older growth the moral is the same. It is the old story of example being better than pre cept, and the enlistment of the sympathies, the awakening of the better and deeper feelings of our nature, are actual gains. Immersed in worldly pursuits, unaccustomed to grave reflection, the men and women of the day need strong lights and shadows to impress them forcibly, and poetry, fic tion, and the drama are powerful auxiliaries in the task of awakening and refining when rightly used. The " Song of the Shirt" and " The Christmas Carol" are a mere ballad and story, but they have preached sermons from Christian texts to many thousands of sympathetic readers nevertheless. Even when in the the view of mere amusement, as Lord STANLEY says, we must not quarrel with the tone of fiction. " Don't let us grudge amusement to those who come here for it. Let us be satisfied if it is harm less, as in 999 cases out of 10 00 I believe it is. Life is dull and monotonous to many of us, and with our English climate and our English character, we are all the better far any little additional sunshine, moral or material, that we can obtain." This is the true principle which should guide the origi nators of these institutions, and if the books selected are less solid and instructive than they deem desirable, they must remember that it is a great thing to cultivate and encourage a taste for reading at all, and that the books selected may be improving to the moral nature if not to the mental. Englishmen, as a rule, are not too imaginative, and anything that takes the reader for a time out of his own material surroundings is not to be despised. This is one great good of our industrial exhibitions, and the number of working men and women who have exhibited works entirely foreign to their ordi nary employment shows how great is the need for a variety of interesting or mental diversion. No one would wish a great establishment like the Birmingham Library to be entirely devoted to the lighter branches of literature, and there is no fear that such will be the case, or that the solid and scientific departments will be neglected. We can only hope that more of our great towns will follow the example of Birmingham, and, availing them selves of the act of '55, open free public ligraries, which must prove as beneficial to the intellects as they will be welcome to the tastes of the people: The first meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science took place yesterday at Birmingham. Several interesting subjects were treated of by the President, Professor PHILLIPS, who assumed the office for the first time. His re marks appeared to give the greatest satisfaction to the numerous assemblage present, and the vote of thanks which was proposed by Sir RODERICK MUR CHISON, and seconded by the Mayor, was carried by acclamation. He commenced by an eloquent allu sion to the circumstances which had called them together. Assembled as they were in the " busy centre of industrious England, how pleasant it was," he said, " to hear the accent of science, the friend of art, and the guide of industry." Here, where PRIESTLEY analysed the air, and WATT obtained the mastery over steam, it well becomes the student of nature to gather round the standard which they carried so far into the fields of knowledge." There is nothing in which the present generation is more fortunate, than in the facilities which they possess for combining science and art with the practical affairs of every-day existence. The young life of the British Association has been characterised by great successes in various directions, and achieved a renown that has never yet been surpassed. As the Professor rightly termed it, the " fair alliance of cul tivated thought and practical skill" is indeed a boon to any community, and should always be encou raged to the greatest possible degree. Much may be learned by the perusal of this ela borate and comprehensive discourse, and we appre ciate in its perusal the great advantages which may be derived from dwelling on themes that are treated by a master hand. It is some check to the pride and self-sufficiency of the present day to hear that there are hardly any of the great branches of the study of nature which were not considered in the schools of Athens, as they are now in the details of modern philosophy. Of course, they could not be illustrated by experiment, because the requisite instruments were not then discovered ; measures of " time, space, force, and motion," are of comparatively recent date, yet the individual talent seems to have been the same. It is truly said that the discoveries on which the moderns pride themselves would have long before taken place had these important adjuncts been in existence. Had the "first Galilean, or the small es t N ew t on i an telescope" been in the hands of HiP ran n c o i t iu n s o o: P T OLEMY, their remote successors would be left struggling in doubt as to exact dis tances and relative proportions. The Professor dwelt upon the grand results which are now ob tained by spectral analysis, the powerful instru ment of chemical research, and char w ac i t t e h rip th d e it as the message which " comes to us which springs from the distant stars, upon h and shoots through the depths of space, to fall earth after tens or hundreds of thou sands of years." In his remarks on Geology the Professor delivered some striking truths, and led his hearers to contemplate the: vast scope which such a theme offers for study, research, and contemplation to the thoughtful nd reflective among us. Before the ALMIGHTY placed man upon the earth, there was a long _series of in habitants who rejoiced in the gift of life, and how instructive is their history. The discoveries' of science reveal to us the types and semblances of existence which, as MACAULAY has expressed it, belong to the twilight of fable, " the many succes sive races of plants and animals in seas now dried on sandbanks, now raised into mountains or continents, now sunk beneath the waters." Af ter analysing the several gradations through which this science takes us, the Professor concluded this portion of his address by referring to the comparative shortness of the date of all European antiquities, and those which belong to the remote antiquity of the world's history. Yet tried by the monuments of natural events of the age of man, " the human family is old enough in Western Europe to have been sheltered by caverns in the rocks, while herds of reindeer roamed in Southern France, and bears and hyaenas were denizens of the south of England. More than that, the remains of the rudest human art ever seen are found buried with races who lived contemporaneously with the mammoth and rhinoceros, and experienced the cold of a Gallic or British winter, from which the woolly covering of the wild animals was a fitting pro tection. Geography and hydrography formed interesting subjects for discourse in the Professor's address, and he declared that in reply to the query what share the British Association had in the discoveries and inventions of the last thirty years, they would boldly answer "We had a part in all." In some they took the foremost place, and in others they devoted their strength to support the Royal Society, and other institutions in accomplishing objects they had at heart. It is worthy of notice that many valuable discoveries have been made in consequence of the reports which have appeared in the early volumes of the Transactions of the Association. By this means addi tional knowledge was acquired of the probable depth of the channels of the sea. The great system of magnetic observations has been established by the untiring zeal and the unflagging efforts of the Association, acting in concert with the Royal Society. These efforts have not been fruitless, as has been proved in many an undertaking which hail resulted in the advancement of science and the spread of knowledge ; and whether the agents ex plore the devastations of earthquakes, dredge the sea, catalogue the stars, or experiment in countless directions, they are working out one end and tending to one gaol, the advancement and improvement of science to benefit the great family of mankind. The general purport of the labours of this Association was ably described by the Professor at the conclusion of his admirable address. A higher object could not be placed to incite strenuous exertions, and a nobler goal be set for enterprise and energy to reach. Wherever and by whatever means sound learning and useful knowledge are advanced these to us are friends. Whoever is privileged to step beyond his fellows on the road of scientific discovery will re ceive all applause, and if need be all help. Wel coming and joining in the labour of all, we shall keep our place among those who clear the road, and remove the obstacles from the path of science ; and whatever be our own success in the rich fields which lie before us, however little we may know now, we shall prove that in this our day we know at least the value of knowledge, and join hearts and hands in the endeavour to promote it. The Cattle Disease. THE SUB: LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIAG, SEPTEMBER 7, 1865. ST. PANCRAS. At a meeting of the St. Pancras Vestry yester day the following report from Dr. Hillier was read :—" Sept. s.—Since the last meeting of the committee the disease has spread to a great extent in this parish. Ten fresh cowkeepers have had the disease make its appearance in their sheds, making 23 in all since the commencement of the epidemic. The following are the names and addresses of the parties in whose sheds the disease is known to have made its appearance since this day fortnight, and the numbers sent away by each dairyman :—Mrs. Blyth, North Crescent-mews, 40 cows; Mr. Camp, Argyle street, 80 ; Mr. Tygate, William's-mews, 4 ; Mr. Cusden, Drummond-street, 5 ; Mr. Tucker, Wil liam-street, 7 ; Mr. Pullen, Guildford-street, 36 ; Mr. Kilby, Rochester-mews, 14 ; Mr. Greenaway, College-street, 7 ; Mr. Brown, Kentish-town-road, 26; Mr. Jelly, Highgate-road, doubtful number. In all about 270 cases have been sent away in the fort night ; very many of these have been sent before any manifest signs of disease have shown themselves. It is very possible that other cowkeepers have suf fered, inasmuch as they are anxious to keep the matter secret." The number of cattle removed on account of the disease during the week previous to that referred to in the report was 44. ESSEX. The disease has appeared in the Stratford dis trict, and one co wkeeper has lost 17 cows. Three cows belonging to Mr. Jesse Chalice, of Berner's Roding, in the Ungar district, were attacked ; one was cured, but two died. The disease does not ap pear, however, to be making any very decided pro gress in Essex. SUFFOLK. The disease still prevails with severity in the neigh bourhood of Melford, upwards of 40 beasts having been slaughtered under the direction of Mr. Hutton, local inspector, while a considerable number have died. Lime has been strewed about, and tar has been sprinkled in different places, while tar fires are constantly kept burning. A Mrs. Coe has lost 24 beasts, while several other persons have also been heavy losers. SOUTH WALES. The disease has made its appearance in the neigh bourhood of Caerphilly and other localities, but only a few cases have as yet been reported. LIVERPOOL. The Liverpool Town Council yesterday confirmed the action adopted by the health committee, after visiting the metropolis. The proceedings confirmed were :—First the appointment of two inspectors, one for the cattle landed at the docks, and the other for the cattle market, and of Mr. Heyes, veterinary sur geon, to assist the inspectors where necessary ; secondly, the providing temporary sheds near the docks and markets to receive diseased cattle, there to be slaughtered, and the carcases anointed with carbolic acid to prevent the possibility of their being sold for food ; and, thirdly, the systematic inspection of cowhouses by the heave-lookers and insistance upon extreme cleanliness. LORD PALMERSTON'S VISIT TO BRISTOL.—The mayor (Mr. W. Naish) has received an autograph letter from Lord Palmerston, of which the following is a copy :—" Brocket Hall, 3d Sept., 1865. Sir,—l have many apologies to make to you for not having sooner acknow ledged your obliging invitation for the 19th of this month, your letter having by some unfortunate accident been mislaid; but I shall feel great pleasure in accepting your invitation for that day. —I am, sir, yours faithfully, Palmerston. The mayor of Bristol." His worship renived a telegram from Mr. Berkeley on Saturday night, notifying that his lordship had accepted the invitation. On Monday a trades' deputation waited upon the mayor at the Council house, to inquire whether, on the occasion of Lord Pal merston's visit to Bristol, his worship would recommend the day to be kept as a public holiday. His worship, in reply, said he should act in the same manner as he did at the opening of the Suspension-bridge, viz., solicit his fellow-citizens to make the day a general holiday. lie thought there was no doubt all classes would join together to give a very hearty welcome to such a popular statesman as Lcrd Palmerston. -- --- BISHOP MONRAD.—lntelligence from Copenhagen states that Bishop Monrad, the Premier of the late Ministry, who played so prominent a part in Denmark during the recent war, has quitted his native country, and emigrated, with his wife and family, to New Zealand. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTiR'S TELEGRAMS.) TURKEY. GREAT FIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 6. great fire broke out last evening in Stamboul which has already destroyed 2,500 houses, mosques and public buildings, and is still raging. SEPT. 5. The medical commissioners officially report that the cholera has nearly disappeared. The total num ber of deaths to-day was nine only. The conversion of the internal debt is progres sing. The total amount of all classes of stock con verted up till yesterday is £3,500,000. SPAIN. MADRID, SEPT. 6. The Cortes will not be closed until after the re turn of the Queen to Madrid. SCHLESWIG_HOLSTEIN. FLENSBURG, SEPT. 7. The Norddentsch Zeitung of to-day says :—‘, We believe that Austria and Prussia have resolved to separate the customs' administration of the two Duchies, and to give them a distinct chief manage ment." FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 7. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Prince Im perial, left here yesterday morning for Biarritz. The Minister of Agriculture has addressed a re port to the Emperor upon the English cattle plague, and in consequence of this report an Imperial de cree has been issued, absolutely forbidding, firstly, the introduction into, or the transit through, France of oxen and cows, as well as the fresh hides or other portions of those animals arriving at ports along the coast, from Nantes to Dunkirk, and across the northern frontier, from the sea to the Rhine. Secondly, the introduction or transit of the same animals arriving from England, Belgium, or Hol land, at any ports cr Customs-houses of the Em pire. Thirdly, it is ordered that at other ports or Customs-houses than those specified in Art. Ist, animals of the bovine species not arriving from England, Belgium, or Holland, shall be subjected to an inspection previous to entering the country. The Is'loniteur du Soir publishes the following : " The imperial squadron has returned, in Eng land, the visit paid to France by the British fleet, and has experienced at Portsmouth a reception worthy of that which the English flag had received at Cherbourg and Brest. On both sides of the Channel the fetes have furnished the opportunity of the most sympathetic manifestations. We are happy to notice at once the courtesy of the Queen's Government, the cordiality of the people, and the friendly language of the English press. The Em peror's Government is not the first administration in France which has wished, to keep up relations of confidence and friendship with the Cabinet of Lon don. First the alliance, and subsequently the cor dial agreement, were objects constantly pursued throughout the late reign ; but it was reserved for the Imperial policy to realise that idea, in ren dering it fruitful to the two nations, and to Europe itself. It is this that the English journals have taken pleasure in acknowledging with rare unani mity. " The good relations of France and England are founded upon mutual interests. There exists at all times between them a further tie in the conformity of their principles in matters of public law. Thus, guided by generous emulation, they rivalled one another in disinterestedness to insure the indepen dence of the Ottoman Empire. Thus, also, after having seen France fight for the liberation of Italy, England determined no longer to retain the lonian Islands, and consented that, in accordance with their own wishes, they should be restored to the centre of their nationality." BOURSE, Sept 6.—Two o'clock.—The tone of the market has greatly improved. Threes, for the Ac count, have advanced 10c., and are doing at 69fr. 25c., and Italian Fives at 66fr. 40c., showing an advance of 20c. Credit Mobilier Shares have im proved 10fr., and are now quoted at 816 fr. 25c., and Spanish Mobiliers sfr.—to 511 fr. 25c. The most noticeable feature is the upward movement of Lombard Shares, so repudiated of late, these shares having obtained an advance of 3fr. 75c.—viz., to 455 fr. The demand for them is very great in the cash market, where a great financial house is said to be buying them up. Credit Foncier Shares are offered, owing to heavy realisations. New City Bonds have declined to 471 fr. 25c. Three o'clock. —The market again became weaker towards the end, and closed with the following quotations : 4i per Cents 99 -- Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 121 Do. end month 69 171- Ditto Threes — Mexican Loan 49i Do. Bonds 333 75 Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred Roman Credit Mobiliei Do. end month BO7 50 Bank Shares 3570 Credit Foneier 1320 Italian Loan 66 15 _ _ Do. end month 66 25 RAIL 'AYS. Cash. Acct. Orleans — 850 Northern ... 1085 Lyons and Mediterranean — 877 50 Southern — 565 Western 552 50 Eastern 535 Sardinian . 247 50 Austrian Lombard 456 25 North of Spain 217 50 Saragossa 325 Ditto to Barcelona ... 145 Roman ... 222 50 ITALY. FLORENCE, Sept. 3. The Nazione states that the report upon the reli gious bodies in Italy, which is to precede the bill for theirsuppression, already prepared, will be published next week. The Prefect of Ancona has written to the 58 prefects of Italy, inviting the public charitable esta blishments throughout the provinces to each take charge of an orphan boy and girl whose parents have been carried off by cholera : 14 of these esta blishments have already replied to the appeal, and some even wish to take double the number of children proposed. The Opinione positively contradicts the report that Signor Ferraccia, deputy for Sassari, has been nominated Minister of Public Instruction. PORTUGAL• LISBON, Sept. 1. As the constitutional charter establishes that the King cannot leave the kingdom without the autho risation of Parliament, the Government on the 31st ult. brought in a bill to grant leave to his Majesty to travel, declaring that it was his intention to visit several foreign courts. When this autho rity had been unanimously voted, the President of the Council, the Marquis de Sada Bandeira, rose to announce that the Cabinet had that day tendered its resignation, which the King had ac cepted. The Marquis could not say whom the King would depute to form a new Cabinet. As it was not possible to govern without a sufficient majo• rity, the Ministry were compelled to take this step. " With respect to my colleagues and myself, as well as our political friends," added the Minister, " I now state that we shall raise no obstacle to the Cabinet succeeding us in order that it may carry on the Government in 'the interests of the country." DUBLIN, Sept. 6.—Sir,—The best way to put down Fenianism is to show the power of England to the unfortunate dupes by a visit of the ironclads to Dublin, Belfast, Cork, and Galway Bays. The Fenians of each province would see what they have to cope with. There would be no extra expense to the country, as tho fleet might as well be in Irish waters as lying up in Pores, mouth. Such a visit would increase a desire to serve in the navy among the rising generation.—From a Carre -1 pondent. Death of a Well-known Hindoo- The Hon. Juggonath Sunkersett, the recognised representative of the Hindoo community of Bombay for the last thirty years, died on the 81st of July, and long notices of his character and career appear in the local journals. Seventeen months ago a public meeting of the inhabitants of Bombay was held in the Town-hall, for the purpose of voting him a statue. He showed considerable capacity for public business. He took an active interest in municipal affairs ; and his services in the Legisla tive Council have been valuable to Government. He was almost invariably selected as president of public meetings of his countrymen, and memorably of the great meeting which voted the Victoria and Albert Museum as a memorial of the transfer of India to the Crown, and of the loyalty of the people of Bombay to the person and Government of her Majesty. He was president of the committee elected to carry out the resolution of that meeting, and president also of the Agri-Horticultural Society, the Bombay Association, and of the Board of Trus tees of the Elphinstone funds. He was one of the first members of the Board of Education ; and as one of the founders of the Elphinstone College, and for his labours in promoting education generally in Western India, he will be especially remembered. When he found death was approaching, he ex pressed the desire that matters connected with that event should be conducted according to the Hindoo religion, to which he was personally attached. The Bhagavad Gita was read in his hear ing before he was carried to the lower room, on the earthen floor of which it was desired that he should expire; several cows were presented to him by Brah mins in a ceremonial form, and the wish was ex pressed by him that this donum should be expended on his account to the number of 108. In the last chamber to which he was takenthe Gajendra Moksha (a well known passage of the Bhagavata Purana) was read, and a thousand names of Vishnoo were pronouced before him, while he rested on the bosom of the earth. When the time of his departure ar rived water from Timbak, Benares, and Punderpoor was poured upon his body. The deepest grief was expressed by his family and friends when, about noon, it was seen that he had breathed his last. Among the parties who came early to express their condolence on the occasion was Sir Jamsetjee Je jeebhoy, who, in succession to his father, has been long one of his most attached and faithful friends. The funeral procession left the garden-house of the deceased somewhat after 3 o'clock in the after noon. The only son of Mr. Juggonath, with head and feet uncovered, and the spare garments used by the Hindoos when disposing of their dead,vi alked in front of the body, carrying the fire employed in commencing the cremation. About 500 members of the Sonar caste, to which the deceased belonged, several officiating Brahmins, and a few Banyans walked behind ; while on the whole road to the burning ground at Sonapore multitudes of specta tors were congregated together, and showing not merely curiosity in the case but deep-felt emotion. Among the poor on the road about 500 rs. were dis tributed in small silver pieces. After the usual cere monies the funeral pile was ignited by the chief mourner at half-past 4 p.m. The wood forming the pyre was of sandalwood, the favourite " tulasi" (seen before so many doors of the natives), and the " bilva" (Oratmva religiosa) consecrated to Shiva, Mr. Sunkersett's favourite god. At half-past 8 o'clock the glowing embers of the exhausted pile were quenched with milk, and the procession re turned to the house of mourning. Theparty forming it then went sorrowfully to their houses, after the chief mourner had, in the Hindoo form, performed his first ceremonial ablutions. The funeral rites will be continued for 10 to 12 days, according to Indian custom. The Bombay Saturday Review says of the deceased : " It is the general sentiment on the death of the Hon. Juggonath Sunkersett that we did not fully know his worth until we lost him, while his loss as a,represen tative native is felt equally by thoughtful Europeans and Hindoos. A Hindoo of the Hindoos, and yet sagacious enough loyally to accept accomplished facts, thoroughly independent and yet conciliatory, and possessed of a greater influence than any native of Bombay ever has, or is ever likely to have again, and yet using his power with remarkable unselfish ness, he at once gained the confidence of the Govern ment as a valuable adviser, and the sincere gratitude of his fellow-countrymen. He owed nothing to caste, nothing to wealth, and everything to the native force of character ; in a word, he was a Mahratta, a type of the race of Nana Furnavees and Rajah Pinker Rao. Bombay will never again find so re markable a representative. Even in the accidental accessories of his unique position he was perfect. His complexion was fair as a high caste Brahmin's; that is, it was as fair as an Englisman's or German's, only its secondary hue was as of burnt sienna, and not Indian red, as in Teutonic complexions. It is the sign of higher nobility than Hindoo caste, or English rank can give —the nobility of wholesome, unmixed blood. His eye was large and brilliant, indicating mental power, and lighting up a strongly chiseled face full of character, and which in youth must have been strikingly handsome. He was tall and commanding in appearance, and his manners those of the dignified and thoroughly well-bred Hindoo gentleman. Wherever you met him there was none goodlier than he to look upon, and from his shoulders and upwards he was higher than any of his people." Naval and Military Intelligence. - -0 - MALTA, Sept. I.—The absence of the fleet gives little to notice of naval movements. The Magi cienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, left Malta harbour on the 31st ult., taking with her a quantity of stores and provisions for the ships she expects to meet at Castellamare in the Bay of Naples. The Surprise, 4, Commander G. Tryon, has received her orders for England, and has left Genoa for Portsmouth, to be paid off. The Racer, 11, is here. The following officers have arrived from Marseilles :—Dr. Parke, R.A., from Southampton ; Assist.-Surgeon Nathan, R.N. ; Assist.-Surgeon Ashford, Ensign Atchin, Ensign Jamieson, Ensign Dowins, and Ensign Crumely. From Sicily—Lieut. C. Russell, R.E., with Mrs. Russell. Yesterday Mr. E. J. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy, visited Chatham dockyard, - for the purpose of inspecting the progress made with the iron-clad vessels under construction at that estab lishment, especially the two armour-plated ships Bellerophon and Lord Warden, for the early com pletion of which every effort is now being made. Both vessels lie in adjoining docks, close to the fac tory, where the iron work and other materials used on board are being prepared. After transacting business in the master shipwright's office, Mr. Reed visited the Bellerophon, the most forward of the two ironclads, on which all the available workmen are employed. At the time of Mr. Reed's visit up wards of 1,000 workmen were employed in various parts of the Bellerophon, and under their exertions the frigate is rapidly approaching completion. The whole of the extended armour-plating, as well as the plates forming the bulkhead protecting the gun deck battery, are fixed, the iron decks laid, and the ordinary planking in its place. Between decks all is bustle and activity, and it is here that the princi pal work now remains to be executed. The large 300-pounder smooth-bore gun deposited some weeks since on the main deck for experimental purposes, with Mr. Reed's machinery for training guns of this description, still encumbers the deck, awaiting the inspection of the Lords of the Admiralty, who will then decide as to the adoption of the machinery for each of the otter 300-pounders the Bellerophon will mount. Mr. Reed also visited the ironclad frigate Lord Warden, the fitting of which is being proceeded with, although the work is not being pushed forward so energetically as is the case with the Bellerophon. The 5 inch broad side plates below the water-line of the frigate are already fixed, and the operation of fixing the remainder of the plates is now being proceeded with. The machinery for the Lord Warden is now being fitted on board by Messrs. Maudslay, Son, and Field, the contractors, the principal portion being already fixed in its place. There is still several months' work remaining to be executed on board before this frigate will be out of hand and ready for her first commission. Mr. Reed was occupied in his inspection until late yesterday afternoon, when he returned to the Admiralty. The ships composing the Channel fleet at Spit head, consisting of the Edgar (flag), Achilles, Black Prince, Prince Consort, Hector, Defence, Research, and Trinculo gun-vessel, have filled up with coals, stores, and provisions, and are under orders to sail for Portland and a cruise westward. The Salamis, despatch vessel, requires sundry repairs, which may probably detain her a short time at Spithead after the departure of the fleet. The Austrian screw frigate Fredrich, Capt. Von Wiplingen, sailed from Spithead early yesterday morning on her return to Bremerhaven. The Minotaur iron frigate, 6,621 tons and 1,350- horse power of engines, is nearly ready for commis sion at Portsmouth, and her trials of speed over the measured mile are expected to commence to-morrow or Saturday. Although now nearly ready for com mission, yet, as she has been fitted as a flagship, she may possibly not hoist her pennant of commission until wanted to relieve the flagship of the Com mander-in-Chief on the Mediterranean station. One of Commander Scott's iron carriages for mounting and working 12-ton guns on the broadside is being fitted on the Minotaur's main deck. The Orontes, screw iron troopship, Capt. 11. W. Hire, was undooked at Portsmouth to-day on the completion of her refit for further service. To-day the Warrior, iron frigate, will be placed in the same dock from which the Oruntes has teen removed. We understand that Capt. Oeoffrey Phipps Hornby, at present flag-captain to Rear-Admiral Sir Sydne: C. Dacres, K.C.8., the Commander-in- Chief of the Channel squadron, will hoist his pen nant on board the Bristol, screw frigate, as Com modore on the Cape of Oood Hope and West Coast of Africa station. Mr. G. Love, secretary onboard the Edwar, accompanies Capt. Hornby in the Bris tol as secretary. The depot of the 49th Regiment, at present sta tioned at Mullingar, is under orders to proceed to Colchester, and will, on its arrival at that station, be attached to the 4th depot battalion. At the close of Major-Gen. Stransham's inspec tion of the Woolwich division of Royal Marine Light Infantry, he dined at the mess with Colonel Maxwell, Commandant, and the officers of the divi sion, and in an appropriate speech complimented the gallant Colonel and the officers on the high state of efficiency of the division. The annual athletic sports, races, &c., by the non-commissioned officers and men of the Chatham division rf Royal Marines Light Infantry took place on Chatham Lines yesterday afternoon, by permis sion of Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., and under the patronage of Col.-Commandant J. 0. Travers, C.B. The arrangements were made by a committge of management of officers and non commissioned officers ; Lieut. and Adjt. Way acting as starter, and Lieut. Rodney as judge. The day being beautifully fine, the number of spectators was unusu ally large, the pleasures of the afternoon being en hanced by the playing of the bands of the divi sion. The first prize for the high jump was won by Private M'Mahon, 4ft. 9in. ; wide jump, 14ft. Gin., Private M'Mahon ; flat race, 150 yards, Pri vate Parch ; flat race, quarter of a mile, by non commissioned officers, Colour-Serg. Addyman ; flat race, quarter of a mile, Private Parch ; flat race for drummers, W. Chenies ; flat race, one mile, Pri vate Raney ; hurdle race, half a mile, over eight flights of hurdles, Private Raney ; officers' hurdle race, Lieut. Baldwin first ; Lieut. Kilchoffer second; flat race in couples, arms and legs tied, Privates Hector and Toogood ; hurdle race, 200 yards, double•hurdles, Private Austen; flat race, 300 yards in heats, Private Raney ; flat race, 50 yards back wards, Private Peto. The other sports included a race for drummers under 15 years, a sack race for drummers, a sack race for non-commissioned offi cers and men, and a marching-order race. The whole of the races and games were well contested, and the prizes awarded to the winners, varying from 155., 10s., and 7s. 6d. to the first, down to 7s. 6d., 55., and 2s. 6d. to the second and third. The ground was well kept by clerks of the course selected from the non-commissioned officers of the division. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Capt. Sir J. M'Clintock, to be Captain of the Aboukir and Commodore of the first class, in charge at Jamaica ; Capt. de Homey, to the Aurora, vice Al' Clintock ; Commanders Knowles, Harington, and Kelly, to be Inspecting Comman ders of the Coastguard ; F. 0. Patch, paymaster„ to the Cadmus; Dr. W. Stables, assist.-surg., to the Meeanee ; R. M. Colwell, assist.-paymaster, to the Fisgard as supernumerary ; J. Watts, clerk, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary ; and E. E. Lucas, promoted to first-class assist.-engineer, to the Cock atrice. JOHN STUART MILL'S B I RTHP LA C E.—John Stuart Mill was born in Rodney-street, Pentonville, Lon don, on May 20, 1806. The house in which he first saw the light was that in which his father, James Mill, com menced his famous work on India. Mr. Mill, sen., had greatly distinguished himself at Edinburgh University, and on leaving that place had found his way to London, after having been engaged for some time as tutor in the family of the Marquis of Tweeddale. He had originally been intended for the Established Church of Scotland ; but, abandoning all thought of becoming a clergyman, he joined the ranks of the literary profession, and prepared himself to undergo the ordeal of difficulty and trial, through which so many litexary aspirants have to pass during the earlier portions of their career.—Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper. The latest returns of the cholera in Italy :are Ancona, 2d, 11 cases and 5 deaths; Osimo, 11 cases and no deaths. The Design for the French Exhibition. (From the Building News.) A great deal of feeling has been excited by the assertions, so confidently made in some journals, that the French authorities had plagiarised the idea of Messrs. Maw and Payne with regard to the plan on which the building for the Exhibition of 1867 was to be arranged. We have lately inspected cer tain documents, of the most authentic nature, which convince us that the claims of Messrs. Maw and Payne to the priority of invention cannot be sus tained ; and the publication of the answer to the French Commissioners to the accusation is so conclu sive that we feel bound to record their rejoinder. It appears that Messrs. Maw and Payne inserted, in the pages of a professional contemporary, a design for a national exhibition, in the month of February, 1861, in which they proposed that the various articles should be exposed concentrically in the order of their nature, but radially in the order of their nationality, so that if any person were desirous of studying the productions of a peculiar kind that might be made, or grown, in various localities, he would be able to do so with ease, by following the arrangement round the building ; but if he desired to study the national productions in all their varieties he would only have to follow up the arrange ment that would radiate from the centre. This idea was:very ingenious ; but before the French authorities can be accused of plagiarism on account of their availing themselves of it, it would be necessary to discover to whom the merit of originating the idea was justly due. Now, we find in the report on the French Exhibition in 1855,which was published under the sanction of Prince Napoleon, that the arrange ment in question was detailed in precise terms. It follows therefore that the priority of Frenchmen to the invention of this arrangement cannot admit of a doubt, for they had published, six years before Messrs. Maw and Payne had inserted their project in the columns of our contemporary, .the identical scheme for effecting the same object. The question arises whether Messrs. Maw and Payne may not have had the idea, which they claim to have dis covered, independently of the French authors ; but this would not in any way prevent the latter gentle men from being entitled to make use of their inven tion which had been before the world for so long a time previously. The French had, in fact, made the idea their own by the publication of their report in the year 1855 ; Messrs. Maw and Payne had not published their views upon the matter until 1861, and the simple juxtaposition of dates will be suffi cient to destroy their claims to the merit of having originated the idea. THE CHARGE OF DROWNING AGAINST GLASGOW POLICEMEN.—On Tuesday Robert Sinclair and Roderick M'Lachlan, the two policemen apprehended on a charge of having been concerned in drowning a lad named James Broadfoot in the Forth and Clyde Canal on the 25th ult., Were committed for trial on a charge of murder. k 11$11 IA" (11,ff11111 , eltrtdat THE QUEEN AT COBURG. -- THE ROSENAU, COBURG, Sept. 4. The Duke and Duchess of Coburg and Prince Alfred dined with the Queen on Saturday. Her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Coburg, Princess Helena, and Princess Louise, attended Divine service yesterday morning at the parish church at Oeslau. Return of the Queen from Germany. WOOLWICH, Sept. 6. An official intimation was this day received by the authorities at Woolwich to the effect that her Ma jesty, with the Royal Family and suite, will disem bark at the Royal Arsenal T pier, on Friday after noon next at 2 o'clock, on their return from the Continent ; and it is also directed that the arrange ments shall be' carried out in a strictly pri vate manner. In accordance with this direc tion the public will not be admitted to the Royal Arsenal, as on the occasion of her Majesty's recent embarkation ; and the space near the pier available for the accommodation of visitors will be occupied by a very select party, consisting chiefly of the heads of the several departments and their families. Royal salutes, guard of honour, and military bands will be dispensed with. The pier and its ;approaches are now being fitted up in the usual decorative manner under the direction of Cap tain Gordon, chief military storekeeper; and the disembarkation will be superintended by Commo dore Hugh Dunlop, C. 8., as flag-officer of the port. The royal train will leave the foot of the pier and proceed direct to London by the North Kent line of railway, under the care of the officials of the South- Eastern Railway Company, who have been engaged. during the week in superintending certain altera tions and improvements in the branch line which connects the Royal Arsenal with the Plumstead Station. Relays of workmen are now employed night and day in laying down new sleepers, and re constructing in a safe manner a considerable por tion of the line, which was previously from long disuse and neglect in a very unsatisfactory condition. Her Majesty's Journey to Scotland. The Queen, with the royal princes and prin cesses, attended by the Court, will, as at present arranged, leave Windsor Castle on. Tuesdayevening, the 12th inst., en rou t e f or Balmoral. The royal train, which will include her Majesty's and seve ral single and double saloons, will consist of about fourteen carriages, forming probably the finest and best equipped special train on any line of railway. It will be under the charge of Mr. W. Cawkwell, the general manager of the London and North-Western Railway, by which company the special will be provided. Her Majesty will leave Windsor Castle at a quarter to seven in the evening, and the royal train will start from the railway sta tion at 6.50 p.m. precisely. The usual route will be followed, and the train will arrive at the Aboyne Station, 582 miles from Windsor, at 1.15 on Wed nesday afternoon. From the Aboyne Station the Queen and royal family will post by road to Bal moral, a considerable number of horses being re quired for the conveyance of the Court and royal luggage. Foreign Courts. PARIS, Sept. 5. The Emperor went out shooting yesterday in the forest of St. Germain. Their Majesties have postponed for a day or two their departure for Biarritz. Marshal Randon, Minister of War, has left Paris for the baths of Evian. Count Walewski, President of the Legislative Body, has appointed, as chief of his Cabinet, M. M6rault, first secretary of Embassy, unemployed. The Prince de Musigaste (Joseph Bonaparte), whose death has jtt been announced from Rome, was, through his father, the grandson of Lucien, and the eldest son of the Vice-President of the Ro man Constituent Assembly in 1849, who died in 1857, at the age of 54. Through his mother, Ze naide, he was the grandson of Joseph Bonaparte. He was born in Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1824, .and was therefore 41 years of age. In politics he was an opponent of his father, and was nearly being assassinated at Rome, on Feb. 10, 1850. It was his younger brother, Lucien-Louis-Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, born in Rome, Nov. 15, 1828, who took holy orders in 1853, and who is now private cham berlain to the Pope. PRINCE ALFRED.—We learn from Coburg that Prince Alfred will shortly pay a visit to the King of the Hellenes at Athens, and that his Royal Highness will travel incognito. THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA.—Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia, who has be en staying at the Kranichstein Palace, near Darmstadt, on the way home from Coburg, was expected to arrive at Potsdam yesterday. The Crown Prince had proceeded to Stettin on a tour of inspection. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is expected to arrive at Gloucestel. House, Piccadilly, to morrow or the following day from the Continent. The Duchess of Marlborough and the Ladies Cornelia and Clemantine Churchill are staying on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Portarlington at Emo Park. The Duke of Marlborough, who is yachting in his fine new vessel the Queen Eleanor, is expected to join them. His Excellency the Baron Bentinck has arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. The anniversary of the birthday of the Marquis of Bowmont, elder son of the Duke of Roxburghe, was signalised in Kelso on Tuesday by the customary demon strations of pleasure. The marriage of the Earl of Enniskillen with the Hon. Mary Emma Brodrick, eldest daughter of the late Viscount Midleton, and niece to the Very Rev, the Dean of Exeter, was solemnised at St. George's, Hanover-squaret on Tuesday. _ ____ The marriage of the Hon. Walter Harcourt, of the 7th Hussars, and brother to Lord Suffield, with Atisg Elizabeth Schenley, daughter of Mr. E. W. H. Schenley , M.P., took place on Tuesday, at All Souls' Church, Knightsbridge. Earl Russell, with several members of hi° family, have been staying for some days at North Berwick , where his lordship will remain until! called to join her Majesty on her arrival at Balmoral Castle. The noble ear l and party on Monday visited the Bass Rock. . . . Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at at their residence, Piccadilly, last evening from Brockett Hall, Herts. The Viscountess Dowager Combermere is otAy ing at Kemp Town, Brighton. _ __. Lord and Lady Dufferin have been entertaining a succession of visitors at their seat in Ireland. --- ----- Lord and Lady Edward P. Clinton arrive in town to-day, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Nev' castle at Clumber Park, Notts. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have left Raby Castle for Lowther Castle, on a visit to .01 0 Earl of Lonsdale. tHE MAHARAJAH DHULEEP SINGII.—This dis tinguished Oriental has returned to his seat in Norfolk. The Maharajah has since actively engaged in the sport of partridge shooting. THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPAQ shareholders LIMITED).—The 0f this annualcompa ernygteonokpallacme on n ettg of th e esday, to 5h tara hSuepotuesme, Old ber l ß B6 r s o , a a d t -s t t h re e et c:fa c c o e l s on of ei tshekceommpa.nry.: in chair. chair. The secretary, h av i ng read the n y oti s ce ca lling t'" meeting and the report of the directors, and the balance sheet, with the au dit or ' s report thereon, the cliairiug° moved the adopti on o f th e report and b a l a n ce - s heet. 1-1° same were then taken into consideration by the meeting: and the motion having been duly seconded, the report an' balance-sheet were unanimously approved and adopte% Mr. D. All ar di ce, one o f th e au di tors, h av i ng ex p r essed 111 , willingness to be re-elected, Mr. E. C. Scott, public ann °ll , ll , taut, was proposed as the o the r au dit or , a nd those gc ntlo o men were unanimously appointed and their remunerati.eo, fixed. The meeting was then made special, and the lo w visional agreement entered into on the 4th J uly las t ~,s o the absorption of the company into, or its amalgo,mat.lov_ with, another company, to be formed for the constructi of an Alpine pass line having been read and discussed,:4 was moved by the chairman and seconded by Mr. Orar a ., o ney, that the said agreement be approved, and that tl' or directors be cmpowered to carry out such agreemen t ' to , a th n i y nk mo a d d i v fi i c s a a t b i l o e n , aonrdaltteeramtiaoknet,heexreecouf t a e s , a th n e d d e i n r tn ec r to .o r l a to r° :_, fl such acts and arrangements as t h ey may deem necess.rYt. or expedient for carrying the above objects into 0 11 The above resolution was carried unanimously. The bugle,. ness of the meeting term inated b y a vote of thanks to ti' chairman and directors of the company. I I