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The Election Commissions continue their revela- tions, which we can hardly call startling, inasmuch as everybody knows the facts already, and bribery, corruption, and intimidation are openly acknow ledged to be specially "English" virtues, without whose assistance no member of Parliament could be properly elected. But if we cannot profess a strong feeling of surprise at the evidence given very coolly before the Commissioners, we must have a very low standard of political morality if we accept such a system as these disclosures reveal to us as part and parcel of the English constitution. Every year the scandals are bad enough, and this year they have certainly not grown less. A noticeable feature is the matter-of-fact manner in which the witnesses detail their proceed ings, evidently thinking all fair in political as well as actual war. " Honour among thieves" the pro verb tells us, and though neither bribes nor bribed must be classed in such company, they have, it would seem, a standard of their own, and many of the agents appear to think with Lord PAL MERSTON that the man who takes a bribe and does not vote the way he was bribed to vote has committed a breach of trust. One man indeed was troubled by no such scruples, and coolly informed the Commissioners that "he did not care about having received money from the one side when he voted for the other," and added the somewhat super fluous information that " he did not take a bit of interest in the politics of either party ; he took no interest in anything but himself." Then we have a surgeon confessing that he is in the habit of can vassing his patients, and that having promised to take a paralysed patient (since dead) to the poll he found it necessary to bribe him with £l5 to get him to vote on the side he wanted. But all these are contemptible items. Totnes is far more lofty in its views. In that paradise a pig is on occasion valued at £4OO, and gentlemen occa sionally require loans of some hundreds at election times. The manner in which political views change with circumstances is amusing. An organist offi ciates in a locality where " they are all Whigs," and votes for the Whig candidate accordingly. Pre sently he accepts the post of organist under Tory influence, and his votes go over to the other side. It is an expensive amusement to contest an election nowadays. The thousands go fast, and there is the satisfactory knowledge that " more money is spent than the voters get; some sticks by the way." And yet with it all, it is very generally acknowledged that the worst cases never come before the public at all. As in many other instances, the secondary culprits catch the punish ment, and the ringleaders escape unharmed. How many cases are there in which there is an amicable compromise ? How many in which the expense attendant on a commission prevents any inquiry ? how many in which local interests and personal feelings interpose to prevent the exposure ? how many in which both sides are too much involved for the loser to petition ? hnw inanv in which bribery goes on on a smaller intimidation iu all their powers are brought to bear upon the refractory ; in short, - how many of our M. P.'s are returned to serve in Parliament, without the employment on their behalf of some agency which they would be ashamed to acknowledge ? Are we then to consider the case a hopeless one? Are these disgraceful exhibitions a necessary part of our much-vaunted Constitution ? Are English men so devoid of political morality and public spirit that the great majority have no care which way they vote so long as they get enough money ? If the extension of the franchise is to be only an extension of bribery and intimidation, we shall not gain much by Parliamen tary Reform. If in multiplying voters we are to increase the expenses of an election, we shall have the representation of the country entirely confined to the monied class, and no man will venture upon a contested election unless he can afford to throw away his tens of thousands. And, then, when these immaculate representatives of independent con stituencies are actually lauded at St. Stephen's will they be very ready to run the risk of another elec tion ? The threat of dissolution will be all power ful, and rather than drive the Minister to such an alternative the members will sacrifice their strongest convictions, and the Government of the day will become virtually dictators. This is an extreme which could not long be tolerated by the people at large, but it is notorious that the same influences actually are in existence at the present moment. Many of our boroughs are hopelessly out of the reach of a man who is not wealthy, but too inde pendent to accept the interference of paid party agents in his election. The unwillingness to face a dissolution is a fact well known to Ministers on both sides, and made use of frequently enough. Members are not always complaisant enough or subservient enough to do as three or four gentlemen did in Sir ROBERT PEEL'S time, and vote on different sides within a week because the Minister made it a Government question ! But less openly the same thing is done O and over is era g th ai b n e in th t e h c e u c r o e ur o s f e a o l f l e t v h e is rysession v What,over a he entangle ment of evil ? where is the guarantee that English representative institutions shall really represent the people ? that a contested election shall no longer be the picture of all the worthless or unscrupulous idlers of the borough—no longer a gambling speculation which can afford to throw away most money on bribery and treating, which side can display most ingenuity in breaking the law without being found out. Phi losophers who have been long deliberating over some complex question are occasionally surprised to find that all the while they have overlooked the solution from its simplicity, and not unfres truth, quently the wise men refuse to accept the truth as because it is so easy to arrive at. In the same way while every general election increases the scandal, while its evil effects extend more or less through our whole political system, while thousands are spent annually in useless commissions, and Parliament after Parliament has enacted laws and declared penalties in vain, our Conservatives, who are so anxious to preserve the purity of the Constitution, our Liberals, who are so eager to obtain an accurate representation of thepeople, can not bring themselves to adopt the simple and prac tical cure for bribery and intimidation which is offered by the Ballot. There is nothing very particular in the last news from the Continent, but slowly and surely the cause of peace seems to be progressing. The Austrians and Italians have by this time come to a better un derstanding, and the difficulties that at first seemed insuperable are fast vanishing. The battalions of National Gaurds which were mobilised during the sent to th , :, r homes, and war are being gradually THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1866. various other things have occurred which prove that order is being restored. At Florence the ru mour is denied, that negotiations are being entered into between the Italian and the Papal Govern ments, and - the Nazione asserts that " no overtures have been made to Italy for entering into negotia tions." Gen. MENABREA, who is at Vienna now to con duct affairs on the part of VICTOR EMMANUEL, has a difficult task before him ; but he seems, according to all accounts, to be getting on successfully in his arduous undertaking. The Italians are evidently getting the best of the bargain, as they will have the advantage of all the labours of the Austrians during past years, free of cost. Compensation and war indemnities, which enter so largely into the calculations of Prussia, have no mention in the terms now being made in Vienna. It is well that the Emperor of AUSTRIA has resolved to be so liberal in his cession of the important province which has so long been the theme of discussion and con troversy, and the source of so much disquietude and disturbance. It is true that the EMPEROR had come to the conclusion some time ago that the cession of Venetia might be made sooner or later, and therefore he has had ample opportunity for preparing himself ; but still men are not always the better disposed when they have been forewarned of the necessity of a sacrifice. That it is a sacrifice, and a heavy one too, there is no denial, and coming at the same time as the exclusion of Austria from the German Confederation, it is indeed disheartening. had the Government of Vienna been wise enough to give up Venetia some time ago, the treaty between Italy and Prussia would not have been made, and a far larger force would have been at the disposal of the EMPEROR. It seems, from the accounts given by the prisoners just exchanged on both sides, that the conduct of the Austrians and Italians forms a strik ing contrast to that of the Prussians, and that all prisoners were well treated. An applica tion has been made by the General for the iron crown of Lombardy, which was taken away by the Austrians at the period of the battle of Magenta, when they retreated from Lombardy, and the Austrians will show their good sense and good feeling if they give up those relics of the past which can avail them nothing, but which, if with held, would greatly offend the Italians, and the possession of which would otherwise greatly en hance the value of their restored possessions, and realise a completeness to the work of restoration. Perhaps in consequence of the more friendly re lations that seem to have sprung up between the late contending parties a rumour is now afloat to the effect that a " tri-partite alliance" will be entered into between Austria, Prussia, and Italy. The only possible object of such an arrangement would be to make a stand against France, and it is not likely that Austria would care to promote the interests of Prussia. We do not see in the event of this taking place that the friends of peace will have much cause to congratulate themselves, because at any moment a dispute might arise which would speedily derange the plans preconcerted, and leave all again in con fusion and disorder. The unsatisfactory state of foreign affairs prevents the Emperor NAPOLEON leaving for Biarritz, and however the authorities may have settled matters, the French people are by no means satis fied with the result. The pamphlets of M. DE LA ROCHEJAQUELIN seem to make out that a war be tween France and Prussia is inevitable in the long run, and it shows also how much France has been unsettled in various directions. In a European conflict the Marquis believes that France will be alone, and she must therefore be prepared for the fotrEnon tne rmporrante - brudcfsimr, -- ror It — fre SAL the word all France, without any distinction of quality, will be unanimous in his support. Prussia must not be mistress of the world, nor impose her laws upon it. There may be some truth in the declaration here made that France would have a better chance of success if she con fronted the Prussians before the establishment of North Germany was completed, and while Austria was burning with indignation at the injuries she has sustained. The independence of Prance should be the first considei"ation, and lost time can never be recovered. if Count BISMARCK be satisfied at the aspect of affairs in France he will one day find that he is resting on a' false hope, and that his security is quite illusory. There is nothing more sad in the results of the late mortality from the spread of cholera than the condition of those who are left on the "wide, wide world" as destitute orphans. It is indeed deplorable to think of their fate, and to feel how changed their position has been by the sudden visitation of the epidemic. We all know pretty will by this time what is the state of workhouse children, and there fore it is idle to talk of leaving these little ones to the tender mercies of parish officials. As to its being the duty of the parish to look after them is not the question to to be raised just now ; but we should rather think what else can be done to better their state. The proposal of Mrs. GLADSTONE to form a perma nent orphanage seems to offer a very satisfactory solution of the difficulty ; it is bard measure indeed to decree that they must all be sent to the work house, and yet no one can say that anything else can be done for them with very few exceptions. It has been said that there are already many institu tions of a similar character that the public are more or less called upon to support. This is very true, but an exceptional case here presents itself to our notice, and should be treated accordingly. It is quite a mistake to suppose that it will be serving a wise purpose to prevent the completion of this undertaking. On the contrary, it will be not only a benevolent but a most useful labour thus to put these children in a place where they will be sheltered from harm, and taught useful lessons for the future. It should be borne in mind that these orphans have a claim upon us in addition to the pleas which huma nity might urge as to their helpless condition : they have been in a great measure deprived of their natural protectors in consequence of the great n spta woher would u ib l nm e adc itsbat ninliaeati mildest never ndh culpablehave apee eu e . r a r r rc r eAa o s dr r ase s : boi t ft h reoa e a rr antytht encouraging laws, ke y ac e sn t pprevailed in t h a h a n e v d c e h i o t i d loe all n r pau perism and mendicancy such a plan is the one best calculated to prevent these evils. To add to the number of those wretched children w'hoa i r n e stigma tised as " paupers," and rarely succeed from the slough of despond with which misfortune or crime has driven them before they were greatcon- con scious of their position, would be, indeed, a error to make. There arc always plenty of per sons found to take up a work of this kind, if it is once fairly put in execution ; and it is surely a wise and beneficial course to pur sue to rescue these orphans from want and misery, t a o n d G t o o p p a u n t d t 1 n i e l m a n in a t n h d e N o v f a yof e arn l i learning n theirng t o h w e , i n r liv e duties li _ G h O L O A d D i s D T 0 h N O E D , s e S t p y r a o nd ty. j ee s t obwriilel meet t t r h u s t t h e t h at As. lr s which it deserves, and we can confidently assure those whom it concerns, that, in supporting this I effort, they will be rendering an important service to society, and affording to those who are now helpless a chance of independence that once lost to them can never be restored. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening. A private letter from Berlin, dated August 24, alludes to the difficulties in arranging the electoral law for the Parliament of the States of the North of Germany. The law, however, will only be tempo rary. It was under this condition that it obtained the assent of the states in alliance with Prussia. There has been a meeting of the Commission charged to examine the project of law relative to the coun tries of which Prussia proposes to take the Govern ment. Several amendments were proposed, the chief object of which was to point out that the King took upon himself the administration of these terri tories in virtue of Article 2 of the Constitution, which says that the frontiers of the State can only be ex tended by virtue of a law voted by the two Cham bers, and to the exclusion of any system of personal union. M. de . Bisrnarck, who was present, accepted this view in principle. The treaties which consti tute the Zollverein will be maintained between Prussia and the States of the South, but they may be terminated after a notice of six months. The Wurtemberg Chambers are to meet in the course of next month, when the Government will submit for their approbation the Treaty of Peace which was signed at Berlin on the 13th inst. The Paris and provincial papers are to-day much occupied with an idea emanating from the kSiecle, that an easy solution of the question of the limita tion of the frontiers of the Rhine would be the in corporation of the German provinces of the left bank into an autonomic free and neutral State like Bel gium. La Liberte in discussing this propo sition which it opposes, says that the Duke de Persigny, long ago, mooted a proposal of a similar kind. The Sicle denies this, and chal lenges La Liberte to refer to any speech or publica tion of the former Minister in which he promul gated such a mode of overcoming the frontier difficulty. The Nazione, of Florence, referring to the pre paratory negotiations between Italy and Austria for the cession of Venetia, says that " the cession of that territory will be without conditions. No in demnity has been consented to or even asked for, except that Italy should bear her proportion of the public debt for which the Venetian provinces are responsible. The Italian propositions, supported by France and Austria, have been accepted. This arrangement will relieve the finances of Italy to the extent of 200 millions. All our hopes are completely realized. The peace will be concluded on an en tirely honourable footing." A little excitement has been produced in the po litical world by a pamphlet written by the Marquis de la Rochejacquelin, in which he takes a very de sponding view of the turn which events have taken in regard to Germany. The Marquis argues that the present arrangement will lead to eventual war. The Marquis also by implication accuses both Cabinets and the French press with having been bought. I translate rather a remarkable passage— " Elastic consciences known to all the world have been put to the proof, of which various foreign Cabinets, and particularly M. Bismarck, know the price. It would be ridiculous to deny that public feeling in France has been perverted with an ensemble which will hereafter be deplored from the bitter lessons which it will teach." In the course of his pamphlet the Marquis argues that the con duct of the Princes of the present day will hasten the time when European society will be ruled under a new form. I must not omit to state that the great panacea to avert all the lugubrious anticipations of the Marquis is a close alliance with Russia and Austria. A crusade (against all the rest of the world I suppose) is the only thing that can save monarchy in Europe. Such is the remedy of this well-known champion of Legitimacy. The new Pontifical money, coined in pursuance of the recent monetary convention, has just made its appearance at the bankers in Paris. The lira, or franc, is about the size and weight of a Fr ench franc. On one„sjilgis i t fl Dl fl-- , 1864 ;" and round the portrait of Pius the Ninth, surrounded with the legend, " Pius IX. Pont. Max. An. XXI." It is a handsome-looking coin. We have decidedly drifted int o b a d weather again. The morning was very w e t, windy, and miserable, and there was little improvement in the afternoon. It has been like a day late in October. One very interesting feature of the Great Exhi- bition will be a vast edifice devoted to all that ap• pertains to religious art and construction. This building will occupy 875 square metres. It will have three naves. There will be two extensive chapels, and it will be lighted by 40 apertures, the whole forming a splendid exbibition of painted glass of various styles. Indeed, it will comprise speci mens of every ornament and adjunct connected with Roman Catholic worship. Altars, pulpits, statues, confessionals, sacerdotal clothing, organs, mural paintings, stained glass, each of these com ponents requisite to a religious edifice, and many more, will be here exhibited in a building calculated to excite admiration and increase religious venera tion. M. Marechal, the eminent painter upon glass. is charged with the arrangements, and is engaged in carrying them into execution. Rather a malicious trick was played the other day upon the bell-ringer of a commune near Yvetot. He and some friends had been carousing in a cafe, on the evening of the fete of the com . mune, and the proprietor could not get rid of them. lie therefore went to bed, taking the precaution, however, of making the clock advance four hours. Thus at two in the morning the clock struck six. The bell-ringer—albeit a little under the influence of alcohol—jumped up in a great hurry, ran to the church and rang the Angel us peal, as he is accus tomed to do every morning at six. The inhabitants of the commune woke up in alarm, fearing that there was a fire or some calamity. Some went to the church, where the bell-ringer was still pealing away energetically, and he was soon able to ex plain the Kistake, particularly as the proprietor of the cafe volunteered to tell the bell-ringer why he had put on the clock. The most extensive failure which ever took place at Marseilles has just cccurred in that city. It is that of M. Etneseus, the head of the great sugar refinery of St. Louis. The amount involved is at least 13 millions of francs. M. Emeseus has taken flight, but one of his partners was taken into cus tody. He has, however, been liberated on bail. A letter from Cherbourg speaks of the continued animation at that port. The fourteen transports, long in preparation, are ready for sea. They aro the Gavonne, the Girarde, the Durance, the Calva dos, the Nievre, and the Avegnon. It is said they will proceed to Vera Cruiz next month, to bring back the French expeditionary corps from Mexico. There are two Russian vessels in the roads—the frigate Osliaba and the corvette Vitias. The Os liaba carries the flag of Admiral Possicff, and has ,he Czarewitz Alexis on board. These vessels came from the Azores, and made the voyage in seven days. Three other Russian vessels of war were ex pected, and also a Danish frigate. The outline of the building for the great Exhibi tion may be said to be finished. The grand gallery has now a remarkable effect. It is 30 metres wido and 25 metres in length. The machine gallery is supported by 175 iron pillars, 26 metres high, and each weighing 11,700 kilogrammes. If the weight of the brick covering be added the weight of this gal- lery alone will be 2,027,500 kilogrammes of iron. Besides the fairy-like Egyptian palace, various con structions are being proceeded with rapidly iu the Park. They include a church, the Imperial pavi lion, the international club, the building of the society for the succour of the wounded of all nations on the field of battle, a cowhousc in the Brittany style, the horticultural exhibition, an international theatre, and several other buildings. Madame Bestall and her three young girls are the " observed of all observers." They are the object of all sorts of complimentary visitations. Even poetry is made subservient to the ovations to them. Here is a verse written by a poet of the quarter to their honour : "D'uno heureuso feconditC Quills temoignages efficaces ! Quo nous apprend l'autiquite ? V6nus est mere des truis Graces." Decidedly ii a saris family three beads are better than one. To have one child at a time is everywhere only a trifling incident, but a butt on a Cerberus model—three graces, as the above poet says—excites the wonder and admiration of the city. This is an exception, for the rule of three is not yet established in Paris. M. Carmouche, the veteran vaudevilliste, the husband of the once favourite actress Jenny Vestpre, deceased, has just published an agreeable volume of poems under the title of "Mes Broutilles." It is full of tasteful couplets. The Fenians in Canada. TORONTO, CANADA WEST, Aug. 16 The 10th battalion Volunteers have been ordered to leave this city for the Niagara district to-morrow, and they are to be joined there by two other bat talions, a battery of artillery, and a regiment of the line, with a troop of cavalry (the Governor-Genoral's Bodyguard for Upper Canada). The forces are to be camped out about five miles from Fort Erie. Colonel Peaeocke, Acting-General of the district since General Napier left, Colonel M'Kinstray, 17th Regiment, and Colonel Mountain left on Tuesday to view the district. A large number of Fenians are to assemble at Buffalo on the 21st inst. for a picnic, and it is generally believed they have other intentions. The gunboat Heron passed here yesterday for Hamilton, and the Britomart is at Port Dalhousie. These are to pass the Welland Canal, and patrol the Niagara river opposite Buffalo. The general opinion here is that the Fenians intend further mischief. A number of strangers of that class have appeared here and in other towns within the last week as before the last raid. Iludsox's Bay Company. If an individual purchases an estate he won't pay it till he sees that tha title is good, and that the vondor has a right to sell. Such being tho rule in ordinary transactions, we are rather surprised to find that the Government are about purchasing the so-called claims of this company to the rich lands of fertile prairies be tween Canada and British Columbia, as large as France, Germany, and Italy united—districts and territories be longing to the Crown of England as the trustee, or on be half of our American colonies. We do not think this is the work of the present government, but we do think that Lord Carnarvon should pause before sanctioning an ille gality. Let the claims of the; n company be fairly tried be fore a competent tribunal, and let the law alone decide the question, whether the territories in question belong to Canada as a French colony conquered, but her property guaranteed by treaty, or to the Crown for the people of this country. Till this be decided; we would look on any purchase or compromise as illegal, unconstitutional, and unjust. Artemus Ward in London. The following is the first instalment of a series of contributions by Artemus Ward to Punch, or the London Charivari : Mr. Punch—My dear Sir, You prob'ly dinn't meet my uncle Wilyim when ho was on these shores. I jedge so from the fack that his pur soots wasn't litrary. Commerce, which it has been trooly observed by a Statesman, or somebody, is the foundation stone onto which a nation's greatness rests—glorious Com merce, was uncle Wilyim's fort. Ile sold soap. It smelt pretty, and redily commanded two bents a cake. I'm the only litrary man in our fam'ly. It is troo, I once had a dear cuzzun who wrote 22 vorsis onto "A Child who nearly Died of the Measles, 0!" but as he injoodiciously introjuced a chorious at the end of each stanzy, the pa rents didn't like it at all. The father in particler wept afresh, assaulted my cuzzun, and said ne never felt so ridicklus in his hake life. The unhappy resolt was that my cuzzun abandind poetry forever, and went back to shoemakin' a shattered man. My uncle Wilyim disposed of his soap and returned to his nativ land with a very exolted opinyin of the British public. "It is a edycated community," said he; " they're a intellectooal peple. In one small village alone I sold 50 cakes of soap, incloodin barronial halls, where they offered me a ducal coronet, but I said no—give it to the poor." This was the way Uncle Wilyim went on. He told us, how ever, some stories that was rather too much to be easily swallord. In fack, my Uncle Wilyim was not a emblem of trooth. He retired soma years ago on a ha,nsum spa Dav e y Ig l u , djr c .tt j y e t_h i. 7.. insurance-money received while lyin at a wharf one n i g ht , th e cargo havin fortnitiy" been remooved the day afore the disastriss calamty occurd. Uncle Wilyim said it was one of the most sing'ler things he ever heard of ; and, after collectin the insurance-money, he bust into a flood of tears, and retired to his farm in Pennsylvany. Ho was my uncle by marrige only. I do not say that ho wasn't a honest man. I simply say that if you have a uncle, and bitter experunco tells you it is more profitable in a pecoonery pint of view to put pewter spoons instid of silver onto the table when that uncle dines with you in a frenly way—l simply say there is sumthun wrong in- our social skein; which calls loudly for reform. I 'rived on these shores at Liverpool and proceeded at once to London. I stopt at the Washington Hotel in Liver pool, because it was named in honour of a countryman of mine who didn't get his living by makin' mistakes, and whose mem'ry is dear to civilised people all over the world, because he was gentle and good as well as trooly great. We read in Histry of any number of great individooals, but how few of 'em, alars ! should we want to take home to supper with us? Among others, I would call your attention to Alexander the Great, who conkerd the world, and wept because he couldn't do it sum more, and then took to gin -and-seltzer, gettin' tight every day afore dinner with the most disgustin' re g'larity, causin' his parunts to regret they hadn't 'prenticed him in his early youth to a biskit-baker, or some other occupation of a peaceful and quiet character. I say, therefore, to the great men now livin' (you could put 'em all in Hyde-park, by the way, and still leave room for a large and respectable concourse of rioters)—be good. I say to that gifted but bald-heded Prooshun, Bismarck, be good and gentle in your hour of triump. /always am. I admit that our lines is different, Bismarck's and mice ; but the same glo'rus principle is involved. lam a exhibiter of startlin' cutiositys, wax works, snaix, etsetry, (" either of whom," as a American statesman, whose name I ain't at liberty to mention for perlitical resins, as he expecks to bo a candidate for a pronfnent offiss, and hence doesn't wish to excite the rage and jelisy of other show men—" either of whom is wuth double the price of admis sion") ; I say I am a exhibitor of startlin' curiositys, and I also have my hours of triump, but I try to be good in 'em. If you say, " Ah, yes, but also your hours of grief and misfortin ;" I answer, it is troo, and you prob'ly refer to the circumstans of my hirin' a young man of dissypated habits to Ex hisself up as a A real Cannibal from N ew Zeelan, and when I was simply telling the audience that he was the most feroshus Cannibal of his tribe, and that, alone and unassisted, he had et sev'ril of our fellow-countrymen, and that he had even contemplated eating his Uncle Thomas on his mother's side, as well as other near and dear relatives—when I was makin' these simple statements, the mis'blo young man said I was a lyer, and knockt me off the platform. Not quite satisfied with this, he cum and trod hevily on me, and as he was a very muscular person and wore remarkable thick boots, I knew at once that a canary bird wasn't walkin' over me. I admit that my ambition ovelept herself in this instuns, and I've been very careful ever since to deal square with the public. If I was the public I should insist on square ness, tho' I shouldn't do as a portion of my audience did on the occasion jest mentioned; which they was emplyed in sum naberin' coal mines. "As you hain't got no more Canny ball to show us, old man," said one of 'em, who seemed to be a kind of leader among 'em—a tall dis'gree ble skoundril—" as you seem to be out of ()annybals, we'll sorter look round here and fix things. Them wax figgers of yours want washin'. There's Napoleon Bonyparte and Julius Ctesar—they must have a bath," with which coarse and brutal remark ho imitated the shrill war-hoop of the western savige, and, assisted by his infamus coal-heavin' companyins, he throw all my wax-work into the river, and let my wild bears loose to pray on a peaceful and inoffen sive agricultooral community. Leavin Liverpool (I 'in goin' back there, tho—l want to see the Docks, which I heard spoken of at least once while I was there) I cum to London in a Ist class car, passin' the time very agreeable in discussin, with a countrynian of mine, the celebrated Schleswig-Holstein question. We took that int'resting question up and carefully traced it from the time it commenced being so, down to the present day, when my countryman, at the close of a few hours' anny mated debate, said he didn't know anything about it him self, and ho wanted to know if I did. I told him that I did not. Ho 's at Ramsgate now, and lam to write to him when I feel like givin him two days in which to discuss the question of negro slavery in America. But now Ido not feel like it. London at last, and I'm stopping at the Greenlion tavern. I like the lan'lord very much indeed. He had fallen into a few triflin errers in regard to America—ho was under the impression, for instance, that we et hay over there, and had horns gro win out of the back part of our heads—but his chops and beer is ekal to any I ever portook. You must cum and see me, and bring the boys. I'm told that Garrick used to cum here, but I'm growin skeptycal about Garrick's fav'orit taverns. I've had over 500 public-houses pinted out to me where Garrick went. I was indoocod one night, by a seleck comp'ny of Britons, to visit sum 25 public-houses, and they confidentially told me that Garrick used to go to each one of 'em. Also, Dr. Johnson. This won't do, you know. May be I've rambled a bit in this communycation —l'll try and be more collected in my next, and meanwhile, b'lieye me Irooly Yours, Ammvs WARD. LA TEST INTEL LIGENUF. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE TREATY OF PEACE, VIENNA, Aug. 29. The treaty of peace just concluded between Aus tria and Prussia contains an article relative to the question of the Elbe duchies. The article stipulates that Prussia shall continue to pay all pensions granted by Austria to llolstein officials ; that Austria shall hand over to Prussia the amount of 450,000 Danish thalers belonging to the Holstein finances, at present in her keeping ; that no Hol stein official shall be called to account or otherwise molested for reasons connected with past events. THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. PROCLAMATION OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON, WASHINGTON, August 17. The following is the text of President Johnson's proclamation concerning the Emperor Maximilian's decree for the blockade of Matamoros : Whereas, a war is existing in the Republic of Mexico, aggravated by foreign military interven• tion ; and Whereas the United States, in accordance with their settled habits and policy, are a neutral power in regard to the war which thus afflicts the Republic of Mexico ; and Whereas, it has become known that one of the belligerents in the said war, namely, the Prince Maximilian, who asserts himself to be Emperor in Mexico, has issued a decree in regard to the port of Matamoras and other Mexican ports, which are in the occupation and poisession of another of the said belligerents, namely, the United States of Mexico, which decree is in the following words : " The port of Matamoras, and all those of the northern frontier which had withdrawn from their obedience to the Government are closed to foreign and coasting traffic during such time as the empire of the law shall not be therein reinstated. "Art. 2. Merchandise proceeding from said ports, on arriving at any other where the excise of the Empire is collected, shall pay the duties on impor tation, introduction, and consumption ; and on satisfactory proof of contravention shall be irre missibly confiscated. Our Minister of the Treasury is charged with the punctual execution of this decree. ".Given at Mexico the 9th day of July, 1866." And whereas, the decree thus recited by declar ing a belligerent blockade, unsupported by compe tent military or naval force, is in violation of the neutral rights of the United States, as defined by the law of nations, as well as of the treaties existing between the United States of America and the afore said United States of Mexico ; Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare that the aforesaid decree is held by the United States to be absolutely null and void as against the Government and citi zens of the United States ; and that any attempt which shall be made to enforce the same against the Government or citizens of the United States will be disallowed. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, the 17th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1866, and of the independence of the United States of America the 91St. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President, WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. FRANCE. PARIS, Aug. 29.—Two o'clock.—The market opened nearly at the closing prices of yesterday, but very little a ctivity was manifested, and up to the present time but few transactions have taken place, and though but slight alterations have occurred they have all been in an unfavourable sense. Being on the eve of the liquidation, business seems to have relapsed into the hesitation which characterised it uuring the earlier part of the month p—„„i, were done at 69f. 60e., or 21c. lower; Italian Fives at 55f. 25c., or a fall of 40c. ; Mobilier at 667 f. 50c., or a decline of 2f. 50c. ; Credit Foncier and Comp toir d'Escompte at 1,360 f. and 897 f. 50c., a loss of 2f. 50c. The railway market has been very inani mate. Three o'clock.--The market has shown rather more firmness during the last hour, and closed as follows : ci per pants 99 25 Do. end month - 3 per Cents. 69 60 Do. end month 69 65 Bank Shares 3605 Italian Loan 56 55 Do. end month 55 50 Mexican Loan 27 75 Do. Bonds l7O Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred Credit Mobilier ... 665 Do. end month 667 50 Credit Foncier ---1366 Do. end month 1360 For Account. Orleans BBO Northern ll5O Lyons and Mediterranean BBO Southern 533 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman. 537 50 360 - 405 - 122 50 TRADE WITH JAPAN. —ln point of value the trade with Japan showed an immense expansion in the year 1865. The imports brought by British vessels rose from 5,693,617 Mexican dollars in 1864 to 11,560,509 in 1865, and the imports in foreign vessels from 1,157,640 to 2,634,262 dollars. The exports in British vessels rose from 9,941,404 dollars in 1864 to 16,186,823 dollars in 1865, and the exports in foreignoressels from 630,818 to 2,303,407 dollars. But the increase in the value of the exports from Japan was owing chiefly to the enormous rise in the price of Japanese silk ; the quantity shipped in 1865 was rather less than in 1863, although costing nearly a trebled price. As very high prices fail to secure an increased supply; it is thought probable that we obtain as much of the annual production as can be spared for exportation. The tea trade is checked by the impeded preparatiou of the leaf in Japan, and the quality is more suited to the American than the English market. There was an enormous expansion of the import trade with Japan, caused by the increasing demand for foreign manufactures in that country, which, not hav ing (like China) a redundant population, can obtain cloth ing more cheaply from foreigners than from its own cot tage looms. There was in 1864 an extraordinary increase in the demand for cotton manufactures, which might be owing partly, perhaps, to the failure to a great extent of the cotton crop of 1865 in Japan, and also to the high price of raw cotton in 1864 having tended to drain the country of that article. A remarkable feature in the export trade of Japan in 1865. was the shipment of upwards of 1,500,000 sheets of silk ova. Although only recently participating in the trade of the world, Japan is already clothed to a considerable extent by foreign looms ; and if, by helping to make up for the ravages of disease in the European silk worm, she should be the means of reviving this important industry, it will be a signal instance of the advantages of the extension of commercial relations. STATISTICS OF JOKING.—One HierOCLCS, 111 the early Christian days, spent much of his time in researches into this highly momentous subject; being the first author upon it. He left behind him, as the harvest of his labours, Twenty-one Jokes, which we may securely believe were all that to his knowledge existed up and down the world, after as many as five hundred years of its Christian life wore spared, in addition, ;as many people are aware, of a previous four thousand. Twenty-one jokes in four thousand five hundred years! Which is as much as to say that the old world made a joke once in about two hundred and fifty years, and then took breath. What a stale, worn, threadbare thing that first joke must have been when the second joke was made ! The stock of fun was, of course, compa ratively rich then ; there was a glimpse of fertility. What an extraordinary run there must have been upon the little stranger! So we see that for forty:five centuries the world was in the habit of preparing its jokes with a stupen dous degree of deliberation and forethought ; and the in habitants of the universe (who lived, however, snugly, in a tidy corner of it) maintained themselves respectably and comfortably during that period on twenty-one facetito. But a marvellous revolution was impending. The world was meditating (speaking jocularly) a• gigantic and as tounding spring. From twenty-ono jokes, the Hieroclean legacy, to twenty-one millions, was like one step accom plished in a moment; or, in ordinary language, in about thirteen hundred years. Everything is comparative. Those first forty-five centuries joked so slowly that we get somehow into a way of looking at them as if they had been mete chronological atoms. Adding thirteen new centuries to the old forty-five, brings us very nearly down to the age in which we live ; for argument's sake, say quite to it. We stand at twenty-oue million jokes. Are we content ? May twenty-one million jokes be regarded as high-water mark ? The greatest nation in the world ought to rest and be thankful with such an enormous for " All the rear Round." 07 5. v HER MAJESTY. BAL3IOItAL, Aug. 28 . The Qeeen, attended by the Hon. Emily Cath cart, went out yesterday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty, went up Cl a g Cluney with Princess Louise, attended by the Son' Emily Cathcart. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill , rode to Abergeldie in the morning. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. -d MR. J. L. TOOLE'S BENEFIT. The annual benefit of Mr. J. L. Toole took pig! last evening, and, as on former similar occasions/ it was quite an ovation, the house being, as we were informed, the largest ever known at this theatre. Hundreds of persons were turned away before seven o'clock. The performances commenced with the favourite comedy of " Paul Pry, ,, which O s admirably put on the stage, all the characters being well sustained. The mome n t M r . T oo le appear ed as Paul Pry there was along-continued burst of sl 3 : plause. Colonel Hardy was well delineated by Mr. H. Stephenson. The Mrs. Subtle of Mrs. Billington and the Phoebe of Mrs. A. Mellon were charminglY rd presented, and the more subordinate characters wer e very well played. We remember the original Paul I ' l 'l of Liston and the Mrs. Subtle of Mrs. Glover, ell, the highest praise we can awa r d t o M r . Toole an Mrs. Billington is to say that their working out the two characters bears a favourable comparison Nvi tli the performance of those hi g hly- g ift e d ar tists ° f former days. In Mr. Toole's Paul Pry there:: much originality in the conception of a part winch requires much judgment. Mr. Toole's success wa s , a brilliant one. A new farce ( never ac t e d) followe a ' entitled " Keep Your Door Locked," in which 3-11. 1 ; Toole took the chief character. The sto r y turns upon the fact of an old miser inh a biti ng an apartment which, as a rule, he allows no o n e t o en t e r; but t h,. door is a ccidentally left unlocked, an d th e r aiser,w l u ls boasting that he never gives money to anYb °4 : that he returns or destroys all b egg i ng letters fro m : poor relations, is regularly sto rme d by various re t latives, who wheedle him out of £6O under the , 0 extraordinary circumstances. Mr. So w erberri, miser, was most humorously played by Mr. T° ole Matilda (Mrs. Billington), the chief plotter to el • tort money under false pretences from Sowerberri.' deserves much praise ; and the united efforts of P . : Toole and Mrs. Billington kept the house in a c ° , 1 , 1 tinuous roar of laughter. The piece is writteu. Matheson, who has recently gone to Am er ' ` '',,,. c The performances concluded with the grand 13 `1.. lesque opera of Helen ; or, Taken from the O le 13 ', in which Mr. Toole played Menelaus. Up t° close of the evening's entertainment Mr. TOO. - friends repeated their tumultuous applause. Drowning of Four Schoolboys at Bright°l/1 A lamentable accident happened at Brighton 9 e ' S ti ; terday morning, resulting in the drowning young gentlemen, under circumstances peci , ;l painful. They were pupil s a t th e boarding-selll3 of Mr. Frederick Taylor, Staff or d-h ous e, Bnekj ij o i vf! ; ham-place, Brighton. Mr. Taylo r i s a m ember of of Society of Friends, and the fou r b o y s were so n s parents of the same persuasion. Th e b a thing reg ni is h tions in force at Brighton, and in the a djoining P ar ,„ ce of Hove, direct that •no bathing i s to take PA', from the open beach after eight o ' c l oc k in the morns ing, and up to that hour o n ly f rom b a thing Pl a ol , appointed by the authorities. One of those b a t , ing places in Hove is opposite th e Sussex Coin'oli Cricket Ground. It is said that the be tt° there is of a rather dangerous character, liable to . shift and change with the weather, and b avi : 0 0 rocks protruding through th e san d. In cert3,iv conditions of the sea the sand is washed Mart the melcs, leaving holes and gulleys that . 5 ' extremely dangerous to persons who cannot sw ini .; At low water there is a b an k o f san d som e dista:L'_, out, and if persons wade to it during the the . tide they are liable to be overtaken by the W 3t , C h l e so that they cannot return to the shore across T ic intermediate channel without assistance. A b % half-past 7 yesterday morning Mr. Taylor tool l o number of his scholars to this place to bathe. . 0g himself went into the water, and there was ne ti t io to indicate that special caution was required. S e '" - th of the lads.made their way to the bank of sand w ic , l o " turn other bathers, and were there enjoying thenis e :' o r as lads are wont to do, when suddenly an e ll ' e e j was made, and it was discovered that a lad n a L u it s Clark, who was in the water at the eastern 11 ' o f of the bathin g pl ace , was i n i mm i nent danger drowning. M r . T ay l or h a d j ust previouslY era them his lads in from the wa t er , an d most o f th " on the beach. At first he thought that Clark one of the boys he h a d b roug h t d own, an d ran gwi; all the assista nce h e cou ld . Ul t i mately, Clarkl ;95 got out in an in sens ibl e s t a t e, or near l y so, ann-ef taken in a fly to the residence of Dr. at Western-road, Hove, w h ere h e was soon place- oat of danger. Meanwhile, Mr. Taylor had retu ril n a to the part of the beach where his clothes were/ tl h g saw that four of his boys were missing. Some Y ell at were on the beach where Clark had been br ell ' er e ashore, and Mr. Taylor, thi n ki ng hi s boys het amongst them, sent thithe r . F ur th er searc h cl uic •• c l elicited that the four lads, whose clothing wa s o r on the beach, had ne ith er returned to t h e s hore 11 . 0 were afloat in the water. Every -means w l/l at i suggested itself was used to find them, but it Ass not until an hour later that one of the bodi es discovered on the edge of the sand-bank. It is that of William Bottomley, aged 12, whose par7 o ... reside at Bir m i ng h am . I t h a d d r if te d a cenai"ncl. able distan ce t o th e eas t o f t h e bathing gr°llos- It was immediately brought to shore and a fter mined by Dr. Bacon Phillips, yawl sel using, for half- an -h our , p roper means of resi l ter tation, pronounced life to be perfectly extinct. L ' s t. another body was recovered, s till f urt h er to the e ward. It was that of a boy named Samuel p ti whose parents reside at Reigate. He was abe ut il iot years old. An elder b ro th er came d own with f or, to bathe (both bei ng p u pil s a t M r. T a ylor's)' he, too, is one of the drowned. The fourth ti n t 14 tunate boy was named Sa mue l Kidd , aged ilb°uthe years. His friends reside at Bristol. As to o precise circumstan ces un d er w hi ch the poor Y°'be lost their lives nothing is at present known. . o .b. attention of every pe rson i n t h e i mme diate De l tbo bourhood wa s so t a k en up w i t h the d ang er of iit y boy Clark, who was saved, that this shocking fa. t , s t o appears to have been enti re ly uno b ser ved unt il rie s late. Even if the lads shouted for help , their d e must have been lost in the confusion cau se co r- Clark's risk, for no one, so far as can yet be as . 0 - • dire tained, heard a cry or saw a struggle in that,,,no tion. The bodies recovered were taken to the P r o it wick Tavern, Holland-road, Hove, where they a tais .. an inquest. Up to dusk last evening the t vi : bo ats sing bodies had not been recovered, thou,", had been dragging all the afternoon. CHATHAM CONVIC T PRISON. —A spirit of in sub ro; dination having of lat e b een man if es t e d a mong se v , er „ 3 the mere daring of the conv i c t s a t th e St. Mary's 1-I°ic t i Prison, Chatham, co nsequen t on th e rece nt change eer, ecl a o the diet of the prisoners, the dissatisfaction of t h o ° triets found vent, during th e i r di nne r-hour, a daY al r since, in several open act s o f i nsu b or dination, which Mori© time, it was feared, w o uld l ea d t o a re petition o f 01° ti arS tu rbances enacted at th e same conv i c t prison a fe lit '' since, which then resulted in the assistance of them r being called in. On this occasion, however, the g° Vel ,: - 19 (.1 and other officials of the establishment were well li re r,i:o for any contingency of the kind that might arise, 3111-ipg the mutinous spirit developing itself several of th° - fo to leaders were at once seized, placed in irons, and so i r i t ; ; 0- solitary confinement to await instructions from the ' ll ", o e cs tor-General. The whole of the circumstances hav e s v - i c to been investigated, the result being that 12 of the O il : at who were proved to have taken a leading part in tho tle ened disturbances were each ordered to undergo 00°4, punishment, which was inflicted yesterday within the.ac'ea son, in addition to which the convicts flogged will be P l io in separate cells for some time, be reduced to a 10701;00 and forfeit all the privileges they formerly enjoYe d ' s it ber this decisive action on the part of the officials, ne attempt at insubordination has manifested itself. Mon : in tt he n , chol, Who he s , th e other 41,0 taat( au ra, gees ve ry Wit] tE Noy Qi• e Zot er n IN - 0 of tol the the by . (1,, lic)