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LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. - "OLD) SAM SMITH," late of "The Mail Coach," Shepherd's Push, now of the White Hart, Acton, Middlesex, heQ-s to inform his friends and neighbours that the LAT h.:ST Ern rION of "TILL SUN" can be seen at his holse as above. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. f HIS DAT. —Morning, Ih. 25m.—Afternoon, lh. 50m. T4-Monnow.-Alorning, 2h. 10m.—Afternoon, 2h. 35m. 0 LONDON, THURSDAY, AUG. 29, 1867. The Austro-French alliance has of late been a conatant subject of discussion, and various com ments and surmises hare been made thereupon. We have already referred to the remarkable article on the topic published by the Neue Fremden Blatt, a semi-official organ of Baron von BECST, and it is certainly worthy of notice, from its extreme force and significant allusions. In the Journal des Debits of Saturday there appeared a still more notable declaration as to the policy between Russia and Prussia. It states that the intelligence that is met with at Vienna is not at all of a reassuring kind, and that, from all that transpires at Berlin, it seems certain that the Prussian Government is continuing war preparations, and is making the excuse that the , other Powers have set the example in that direc tion. The course thus pursued becomes of greater importance when we remember that this was the line adopted by the Berlin Government against Austria last year, and the result is well known. Upon the plea that dangers are apparent in many places Prussia keeps up her preparations in a de termined manner, and by the time it is ascertained that the notion of danger is chimerical then every thing is ready for the start, and the plans are carried out which have been laid with such cunning and dexterity. Exaggeration may no doubt take place in many instances, but the fact remains that war like preparations on the part of Prussia are not relaxed, but carried on with more or less energy through all chances and changes. From what we can gather of affairs, according to the light of French revelations, it would seem as if there was a bad understanding between Vienna and St. Peters burg. Many things have taken place which speak ill for the good faith and good intentions of Russia towards Austria, and there arc no counteracting works to point to. The policy pursued by Russia in the provinces of Turkey also causes great irrita tion and annoyance in Vienna, and the warlike pre' arations made by the Government of St. Peters burg also gives rise to disquietude, if not to appre hension. The state of the Danubian Principalities is again most uncertain, and it is confidently believed that the disastrous result is due to the influence of Russia. Prince CHARLES, it is thought, will have to retire, and all again will become involved and disturbed. "It is one of those things which give great importance to the meeting between the two Emperors," and hence it is that the statesmen and politicians of Austria have spoken out so much of late, and based their remarks and conjectures per haps, but conjectures which are founded on a true state of things. Many subjects would naturally have engaged the attention of the Sovereigns, but the topic of most interest to all just now is that Germany—a most comprehensive theme, in deed—with its past, present, and future policy, so rife with change, and so unsettled under all its aspects. According to the views of the Austrian statesmen it would seem that the Emperor NAPOLEON ought to consider that he is consulting the interests of France by joining with them heart and soul. These elucidators believe that the Treaty of Prague has not really settled many things which were un certain when war began, and that it has vir tually left Germany in a "provisionary state." The best proof of this assertion they show by the fact, that since the time that Treaty took place it has been deemed necessary to make some modifica tions, and Prussia has entered into arrangements with the Southern States, which alone attests to the validity of the statement thus put forth. Hesse- Darmstadt has fallen so completely into her power that she already grasps Mayence, figuratively now, perhaps, but hereafter to be reality. In the Grand Duchy of Baden it may be said that her influence is all potent, and Rastadt may be counted as awaiting the appropriation of Berlin. In Bavaria and Wurtemburg since last year Prussia has lost ground rather than gained it. A great dislike is felt in these countries for the military institutions of Prussia, and also for her civil and political regula tions, " liberal in appearance, but very harsh and very absolute in reality." This is strictly true, for there is no country in Europe which has less real liberty than that of Prussia, with her boasted pro gress and vaunted freedom of institutions. It is said in this commentary that the Prussians have manners which repel rather than attract, and that also is easily to be credited. The Prussian army has always been unpopular wherever it has been, and acts of cruelty and oppression, unworthy of civilised people, have always disgraced the re cords of its campaigns. The same holds good in civil affairs as in military, and whenever Prussia has had paramount sway, there, sure enough, may be seen in her train concealed dislike and unwill ing compliance among those who are forced into ber power. Those States who are the most averse to Prussia will naturally incline towards Austria, and hence it is argued that the Southern States should at once form a distinct Con federation from that of the Northern ones, but that a " close alliance" between the two should be made. It is, of course, doubtful if this could be arranged ; but the programme has been carefully drawn up, and it would be for the interests of Germany if it could by any possibility be carried out, and go a long way to avert the prospects of war. A very important question in respect to our legal administration has been raised by the grand jury who have just completed their labours at Liverpool. The constantly increasing business of the Northern Circuit, including, as it does, so many of our great cities and populous towns, has long been a matter of discussion among legal circles since it has become evident that something must be done to relieve the pressure. The grand jury of Liverpool suggest a very simple means for affording this relief, and it is worthy of notice that a similar presentment was made twelve months ago by a former grand jury. They submit that the lesser cases might with great advantage be confined to the work of the Quarter Sessions, thus giving great relief to the assizes, and obtaining the ends of justice at a greatly reduced cost, without any injury to the public interests. As the Lord Chief Justice stated in his charge, the calendar at the Liverpool Summer Assizes comprised every class and description of offences known to the criminal law, and therefore it is surely possible and desirable to subdivide them. It can hardly require the same legal machinery to try a case for murder and for misdemeanour; yet a vast number of the cases which engross the time of judge and jury at the sessions are nothing more serious than housebreaking after dark, and cases of a like description, which are ordinarily dealt with at a comparatively small cost, and with little delay, at the Courts of Quarter Session. Lord Chief Justice Bogy ILL, having thanked the jury for their presentment, expressed his full concurrence in their opinion; and ho added another argument in favour of the proposed change—the benefit which it would afford to the prisoners, who would be brought to a more speedy trial. Many of the cases in which the Chief Justice himself has given sentence at these very sessions have only called for three or four months' imprisonment. What a heavy addition to their punishment, then, is the waiting for trial at the assizes ! It is curious that the special jury at Leeds, on their discharge, made a very similar representation to the judge, though their desire for an alteration was based upon their sense of personal inconvenience and loss of time. The two suggestions which they made were to the effect that causes in - which the issue is a pecuniary one, the defined amount under £5O, should be confined to the County Courts, and that in towns containing 50,000 persons jurymen should be drawn from within their limits. The jury who made the pre sentment urged with great truth iu support of it, that the inhabitants of the town itself could attend with much less inconvenience and expense than persons from a distance, and that it was a hardship for men to be compelled to leave their own affairs to decide trumpery local dispute.s of which they have no knowledge. The judge, who agreed with the substance of both suggestions, said that the first had been already adopted by the Legislature, iu an act pasr,ed this Session ; and,. with regard to the secon 3, he said that for his own part he never allow •ed the costs unless the circumstances were cf an Ill'gent nature. Tie Grand Jury at Liverpool touched upon another point of great public importance. They could not refrain, said the foreman, from noticing the fact with which they had ben painfully struck, that most of the crimes of violence contained in the calendar had been committed by persons in a state of intoxication. No fewer than eleven in stances of deaths from violence had come under their notice, and the jury were deeply convinced of the evils attending our publichouse and beer house system. The Chief Justice said he believed from his own experience that the cause of nine tenths of the crime that came under investigation was drunkenness. Many of the charges before him were against persons who did not belong to the criminal classes, but had been led by excessive drinking to commit crimes at which, in their sober senses, they would have been as shocked as any of their judges. Chief Justice BoVILL observed that the publicans should feel their own interests at stake by this excessive drunkenness, and the con sequent crime and danger to life, and there is no doubt but that much lies in their power if they choose to exert themselves. Experience proves that we cannot safely trust the public inte rests in their hands, and a stricter supervision might lessen the opportunities for crime. It is melancholy to think of the lives blighted by an hour's frenzy, the consequent disgrace and punishment, and the lasting remorse which must haunt an honest and well-meaning man who has been led by intoxication into the commission of some frightful crime. The great increase of murder cases seems to call for some change in the administration of affairs, and if we begin by a stringent supervision of public-houses and beer-houses, and a resolute effort to check public drunkenness, we shall probably not be far from the right way. The presentment of the Liverpool jury deserves serious attention, for although it is necessary and desirable to hedge round the administration of our criminal law with all due pomp and ceremony, it detracts rather than adds to the dignity of judge and jury to mix up trifling and unimportant cases with grave issues of life and death. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORItIiPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening. There is really nothing from Spain to-day which can be at all relied upon. There are even no Go vernment telegrams, a fact which does not look very favourable for the Royalist cause, as, if they had the smallest defeat of the insurrectionists to record, there would be plenty of them, and the happy restoration of order would be trumpeted forth in all directions. In the absence of letters and papers from Spain, some of the journals indulge their readers with private correspondence, giving all sorts of versions relative to supposed movements, defeats, and successes; but as I happen to know that these flowing descriptions emanate from a news manufactory at Bayonne which has existed for years, I beg the reader who is impatient to learn more of the "things of Spain" to believe that no au thentic fact of importance has reached Paris to-day. The grand fetes at Lille commenced under rather unfavourable auspices on Monday. As early as 12 o'clock in the day an enormous mass of spectators was collected in the streets, which were tastefully and beautifully ornamented. The deputations sent from various corporations of the Department du Nord took the places assigned to them, and the pro cessions were organised. The uniforms and banners of all There were at least tu resci c u o e l o a u s r p s e g c t a ve g to t r h e e a s t ene. beauty and added a pic -150,000 men in lines along the streets where the procession was to pass to the Prefecture. There were bands of music, young girls and ladies in pro fusion. The weather had been fine in the morning but towards five in the afternoon threatening clouds were to be seen. The rain at first fell in slight and insignificant drops, but just at the moment when the cannon announced the arrival of the Emperor and Empress down it came in torrents, and thunder joined with the roar of artillery. It was in the midst of a storm of thunder, lightning, and rain, accompanied by the noise of the cannon and the enthusiastic shouts of the people, thatthe;Emperor and E m p ress ma d e their entrance into the city. The crowd had waited five hours, and they were not to be daunted by a little wet or anything else, so they withstood the " pitiless pelting of the storm" as calmly and as steadily as if it had been the most agreeable weather in the world. The white dresses of tha ladies, and the jaunty white summer bonnets or caps became drenched, the mud was terrific, but they like the men would not be deprived of the spectacle, so they held on heroically just as they did. The procession was opened by the Generals in command of the garrison. Then followed a squadron of Gendarmes, a platoon of Cent-Gardes in full uniform, the Court Equerries, and the Imperial carriages and those containing the suite of their Majesties. The procession was closed by a squadron of Dragoons. In spite of the rain the carriage was not closed, but the Emperor threw a cloak over his General's uni form, taking a similar prevention for the Empress. The Empress smiled very graciously at the con tinuons greetings of the spectators, and the Em peror was equally courteous in acknowledging the tumultuous and cordial acclamations directed to wards him. In the evening their 'Majesties went to the theatre where the same ovation attended them. The air composed for the occasion was often interrupted by enthusiastic bravos and cries of " Long live the Emperor, long live the Empress, long live the Imperial Prince." They left the theatre at half past ten. Yesterday their Majesties went through the city iu the morning in an open carriage without escort. There were great rejoicings in the evening. The first visit made by the Emperor and Emp ress on their arrival on Monday was to the church of St. Maurice, where they were received by the Arch bishop of Cambrai. The crowd filled the metropo litan church, and while the Domine salvum was being, chanted they often burst into overwhelming ap plause. The rain fell very heavily all the way from the Church to the Prefecture. The answers made by the Emperor to the ad dresses presented to the Emperor and Empress on Monday by the Mayors of Arras and Lille (sent by telegraph to The Sun), were, of course, the theme of general discussion in Paris to-day. They have in spired great satisfaction and confidence. Indeed, the probability seems to be that they will dispel the alarming anticipations which have arisen in some quarters from sinister rumours regarding the meet ing of the two Emperors at Salzburg. The Moniteur announces the death of M. Herbet, grand officer of the Legion of Honour, Director of Commercial and Consular business at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Councillor of State, and Minis ter Plenipotentiary of the First Class. He died suddenly, at Caen, of pulmonary congestion. Ile was Vice-President of the General Council of Cal vados. The first locomotive through Mount Cenis, pro jecting a train with 47 travellers, performed the distance from Saint Michael to Susa on Monday. The railway, which crosses the Brenner, and unites Bolzano to Innspruck, thus giving great facilities to the communications between Italy, France, and Germany, has just been opened fur traffic. The village of Schneighausen, in Alsace, has been nearly consumed by fire. Only one death is at present known. There is a report in Paris that the Pope's Nuncio, M. Chigi, is about to be replaced by Monseigneur Franclie, Archbishop of Thessalonia. The weather has beau agreeable to-day, not too hot, but rather cloudy, with a tendency to storm, The Exhibition was very full to-day. Fahrenheit thermometer in the interior was at 75 degrees. The provincial papers mention thunderstorms and heavy rains in various localities. Although there was such heavy rain at Lille on Monday, the wea ther at Dieppe is spoken of as " extremely fine." I am enabled to communicate an interesting fact which will dispel the anxiety prevalent respecting the fate of M. Dano, the representative of France at Mexico. The Government has received a telegram from M. Dano, dated Key West, Florida, August 22, in which he announces that he would be at New York within a few days from that date. I have reason to believe that the French Government is in possession of some alditional information of great importance respecting Mexico. THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1867. The Late Emperor Maximilian. The following hitherto unpublished letter from the late Emperor of Mexico to his Minister, Senor Aguirre, presents a complete defence of the Em peror against the calumniations of his enemies. The letter is dated Queretaro, March 2, 1867 : " My dear Minister,—As my departure for Que retaro, to put myself at the head of the recently formed army, may be falsely interpreted by male volent persons in the country as well as abroad, and as my reasons cannot be known, owing co the many calumnies which our enemies spread about with avidity respecting the conduct of our Government, I think it necessary to make some slight observations which may serve as au explanation and a guide in the present difficult moments. The programme which I adopted in Orizaba, after having heard the frank and loyal opinion of the consultative bodies of the State, has not been in the least changed ; for call a congress—the only a lasting future and a basis solution u dominanty t n which idea can i s form to which may approximate all the parties now causing the ruin of our unfortunate country. I emitted the idea of the congress, which I nurtured ever since my arrival in the country, as soon as I became assured that the representatives of the nation could be united free from all foreign influence. As long as the French had their sway in the central parts of the country, it was impos sible to unite a congress with free power to delibe rate. My journey to Orizaba hastened the march of the troops of the intervention, and thus arrived the key when the idea of a constituent congress could be openly spoken of. That no such step could be taken before was evidently shown by the strenu ous opposition which the extinct French authorities made against the idea I emitted. A congress elected by the nation, as a real expression of the majority, and with full power and liberty, is the only possible means of concluding the civil wars and of putting an end to so much bloodshed. I, as sovereign and chief, called by the nation,with pleasure again sub mitted myself to the expression of its will, having the most ardent desire thus quickly to conclude the desolating struggle. I even did more by personally addressing myself to the different chiefs who say they fight in the name of liberty and the principle of progress, so that they might submit themselves, as I am willing to do, to the vote of the national majority. What has been the result of these negotia tions? That the men who invoke progress would not or dared not submit themselves to such a judgment. They answered me by executing loyal and distin guished citizens, rejecting the paternal hand, and acting as blind partisans who wish exclusively to go vern by thesword. Where, then, is the national will? On which side exists the desire of true libeirt) ? Their only apology is their blindness, sadly demonstrated by the deeds enacted under such a banner, and which clamours loudly to Heaven for chastisement. It is impossible for us to count upon them, and our duty is to act with all energy, so as to restore liberty to the people that they may frankly express their will. This is the reason why lin all haste marched in person to this city, endeavouring in every way to re-establish peace and order, and to save the country a second time from a more noxious foreign influence. The bayonets of the intervention are leaving by the east ; it is therefore necessary to arrive at the longed-for moment so as to avoid the armed influ ence which, directly or indirectly, may menace our independence and the integrity of our country. We are now at the moment when our country is being bartered. It is necessary to search out all possible remedies to put an end to so critical a situa tion, and to liberate Mexico from all oppression from whatever side it may come. Finally, a national congress will settle the destiny of Mexico, as re gards its institutions and form of Government ; and if this assembly should not be convened, because we who demand it fall in the struggle, the judg ment of the country will always admit that we were in the right, and will declare that we were the real defenders of true liberty, that we never sold the territory of the nation, that we endeavoured to save her from a second and oppressive intervention, and that in good faith we had used all our efforts that the principle of the national will might triumph. (Signed) " MAXIMILIANO." IRELAND, DUBLIN, Wednesday Night. The banquet of the Agricultural Society was given at 8 o'clock in the Exhibition Palace, Lord Talbt do Malahide in the chair. The Lord-Lieutenant was received with the warmest demonstrations of respect. In responding to the toast of "The Lord-Lieutenant and prosperity to Ireland," his Excellency quoted statistical returns to show that the prospects of the country are encouraging, and its wealth is increas ing,and that crime is decreasing. Some distress had been occasioned by the exceptional severe wintci, and in February last the number receiving Poor Law relief was 78,000, the average for the preced ing four years having been 72,000. The number is now reduced to 63,000. The stock in the Bank of Ireland at the end of June last was £18,900,000, being upwards of £170,000 more than the return of the whole year 1866. In the Post-office Savings bank deposits there had been an increase in the last half-year of £40,000, a larger amount than the whole eaThis showed the increase o f wealth , a returnland for an n 18 d sposition to apply it, owing pear's i 6 n 6 . i partly to political disturbances. It showed that the insane and unmeaning Fenian outbreak did not diminish the country's wealth, though it stopped the issues of it. There is a decrease of 60,000 acres under crops, and an increase of 500,000 cattle and 1,500,000 sheep. The increase in cattle and the decrease in the means of feeding them was a ques tion for practical men to consider. The export of cattle in 1863 amounted to 345,000 ; last year, to 519,000, giving an incre ase o f £3,000,000 iu value. In the flax crop there had been a total decrease of 10,000 acres, chiefl y i n Ul ster, s howing a return to a healthy state of t ra d e. Th e e migration in the first six month s o f t hi s year compa red with that of last year showed a diminution of 18,000, or, in other words, was nearly one-third less. The number of indictable offences in 1861 was 10,800 ; in 1865, 9,800 ; in 1866, 9,000. His Excellency expressed his satisfaction that no such cold-blooded atrocities had been committed in Ireland as the Sheffield out rages. His speech way cordially applauded. Lord Strathnairn returned thanks for the Army, and the Hon. Baillic Hamilton for the Navy. His Excel lency proposed the health of the President, Lord Talbot de Malahide, who, in responding, stated that no such ill-feeling :13 is represented exits in Ireland between landlords and tenants. He owns estates in both England and Ireland, and said the condition of the Irish tenant is as good as, and in some respects better than, that of the English tenant. Other toasts followed. THE LATE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.--The mortal remains of the late venerable duke were brought to Northumberland House, from Alnwick Castle, last even ing, shortly after nine o'clock, preparatory to interment in the family vault in Westminster Abbey to-morrow after noon. Tha body was conveyed to the metropolis by the Great Northern Railway, and, on the train arriving at King's-cross, was placed in a hoarse, which, followed by two mourning coaches, with the chief members of the domestic household, proceeded direct to Northumberland House. There will bo no lying in state at Northumber land House, and the funeral will be conducted in tho most private manner at the Abbey. The full choral service is to be dispensed with. It is in strict accordance with the wishes of the family that all unnecessary pomp should ho avoid,d. The boll of St. Martin's Church - tolled from sun set till the remains of the late ditk.e were placed in Northumberland House. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 28. Yesterday another Council of Ministers was held, at which the Sultan presided. The question of Turkish reforms, and the result of the mission of Fuad Pacha to the Czar were discussed. General Ignatieff had yesterday an audience of the Sultan. The Viceroy of Egypt gives this evening a grand entertainment to the Sultan, the Ministers, and the diplomatic body. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Aug. 29. The Emperor has granted to Baron von Beust precedence over all Court officials, with the excep tion of the first Grand Chamberlain. Herr von Beeke will shortly lay proposals for the covering of the deficit of 1868 before the Austro- Hungarian Conference. This deficit amounts to 50 millions of florins, and it is proposed to cover it by the projected sales of state domains, for which purpose preliminary arrangements have been made. THE CRETAN INSURRECTION. MARSEILLES, Aug. 29. The steamer from Athens brings accounts from Candia, stating that the Turks attacked the insur gents at Omalos, and fighting continued for three days. Upon the fourth day the Turks entered Omalos The insurgents set the houses on fire and closed the wells, and the Turks were then obliged to leave the town. The insurgents, being reinforced, pursued, and compelled the Turks to descend into the level country. Several . were killed on both sides. Fight ng still continued in Iphakia. Fevers and dysentery prevailed among the Turkish troops. Greek accounts maintain that the Mussulmans continue to massacre women and children. Russian, French, Italian, and Prussian vessels were bringing numbers of women and children into Greece. The blockade runner Union continues her voyage, conveying aid to the insurgents, and bring ing off Cretan refugees. GREECE. ATHENS, Aug. 27. The Greek Chambers have been convoked for the 6th October. ARRIVAL OF THE TEUTONIA. SOUTHAMPTON, August 29th. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Teutonia, from New York, passed the Needles at 10.55 a.m. to-day. PORTUGAL LISBON, Aug. 28. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Shannon has arrived here from Brazil, and will leave at 3 p.m. to-day for Southampton, with 60 passengers, £73,895 in specie, 1,507 bags of coffee, 360 barrels of tapioca, 261 bales of cotton, 529 rolls of tobacco, and 144 packages of sundries. FRANCE. BOURSE, August 28, Two o'clock.—Transactions are rare ; the market is quite neglected, and quota tions have generally fallen. Threes are only worth 69f. 521 e., or 12ic. lower; and Italian Fives, 48f. 49c., 15c. lower. Credit Mobilier shares have de clined Bf. 75c., to 306 f. 25c. ; Credit Foncier, 7f. 50c., to 1,370 f.; Comptoir d'Escompte, 3f. 75c., to 710 f. ; Immobiliere, 12f. 50c., to 132 f. 50c. ; and Gas shares, 7f. 50c., to 1,565 f. Railway shares are quoted either without change or a fraction lower. Three o'Clock.—The market closed as follows : 4 per Cents lOO Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 521 Do. end month 69 bo Credit Mobilier Do. end Month Credit Poi:icier 1372 50 D. end month 1363 75 RAIL' Bank Shares 3300 Italian Loan — Do. end month...— 4B 90 Mexican Loan l2 Do. Bonds lOB 75 Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred - 'AT& Orleans . For Account. 891 25 Northern 1155 Lyons and Mediterranean B9O Southern 552 50 Western 568 75 Eastern 546 25 Sardinian 52 Austrian Lombard 378 75 North of Spain . Saragossa Roman 75 - 82 50 51 TILE INSURRECTION IN CRETE. ATHENS, Aug. 15. The following letter has been addressed by the insurrectionary Government of Crete to the consuls of England, France, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Italy, Greece, Sweden, and the United States of America :-- Askyfo de Sphakia, Aug. 9. Messieurs les Consuls—The generalissimo of Turkey, Omer Pacha, having failed in his last ex pedition in spite of his immense military prepara tions, his numerous army, the strict blockade which he had instituted both by sea and land, and his pro mises to the insurgents, abandoned himself without restraint to the dictates of a ferocious heart. Ho burned all the villages of Sphakia, with the ex ception of Comitato and Prosjals, which were partly destroyed. He cut down the trees and set fire to the bee-hives, searched all the caves in which the inhabitants had hidden their small properties, opened the tombs, and scattered the remains of the persons who had been long interred, while he cut off the heads and limbs of corpses re3ently buried. He surrounded caves where women, children, old men, and sick had taken refuge, and, having induced them to come forth by promises and protestations, caused them to be subjected to the most cruel tor tures, and this at the moment he had assured M. Boutacoff, the Russian consul, that he had treated them with lenity. . . . Omer Pasha also put to death the nun Trajina, blind from her birth, Cali, Papanicola, S. Vergaki, N. Parlaki, and Jean de Trivara, whose bodies ho insulted. In the village of Colocassia he had an old man named Giatnoulakey and a priest slaughtered. During his return to Heraclion on the 28th and 30th of last mouth; Reschid Pacha committed even greater atrocities against the defenceless, to revenge himself for his defeat. This leader ravaged the pro perty of the Christians and burnt the convent of Preveli. At Metampes he massacred an old man named Gianacachi Christophoraki, and a girl, whose bodies he cast into the flames, as well as the monk Gedeon, whose head he impaled upon the cross sur mounting the church. Other persons, whose names we have not been able to learn, also fell victims to his fury. The Cretan Government, while deploring these brutal and ferocious acts, which enlightenment and civilisation condemn, protests in the name of hu manity to your Governments, and implores their aid, that the weak and the defenceless may be saved. We embrace at the same titne this opportunity of denying the false statements, spread by Omer Pasha, concerning the pretended submission of Candia. Far from such being the case, not a child has given in its submission, not a weapon has been delivered up, not a signature has ratified any such proposal ; and let it be well noted that in Sphakia alone he has now been carrying on war against us for an entire month. Omer Pacha has attempted to delude his own Government and to mislead European opi nion, but the Christians of Candia oppose to his mendacious words the rattle of their arms and the report of their muskets, which have not ceased and will not cease to resound from one extremity of the island to the other, until our deliverance and our union with independent Greecc. We beg to lay thid present communication before our Government: (The signature follow.) PRESENTMENTS BY GRAND JURIES. Several presentments have recently been made to judges by juries. At the present Middlesex sessions yesterday, on presenting the last batch of bills, the foreman of the grand jury said he was desired by his brother jurymen to represent to the court that it was their unanimous opinion that grand juries in the metropolitan districts should be abolished, and that many of the trifling cases, such as stealing 6d. and is. 6d., might have been disposed of by the committing magistrates. They were of opinion that there should be an alteration of the law to effect this object. The judge said the magistrate had already power to deal with cases of not more than ss. in value, but in some instances, although the sum stolen was small, the prisoners were old offenders, and the magistrate had no power to pass a sentence of penal servitude, which perhaps the offence deserved. That would account for prisoners being sent for trial, although the offence with which they stood charged might be small in amount. He thanked the jury for their services and they retired. The foreman of the grand jury at the Liverpool assizes recently read, before separating, a present ment to Chief Justice Bovill, in which the jury said that, upon a careful analysis of the cases submitted to them, it was found that a considerable number of the offences charged are not, in fact, of more serious character than those which are ordinarily dealt with at a comparatively small cost, and quite satisfactory to the public, in the courts of quarter session. The grand jury, therefore, respectfully submit that except in cases of murder, aggravated manslaughter, concealment of birth, rape, arson, placing obstructions on railways, robberies with violence, and the forgery of nego tiable instruments, there are no changes in the calendar which, if the law so permitted, might not, without any injury to the public interests, at a greatly reduced cost, and the great relief of the work of the assizes and the judges presiding there, be confined to the quarter sessions. His lordship having received the presentment, begged to thank the grand jury, on behalf of the country, for it. Ile assured them that it should be forwarded to the proper quarter. He expressed his entire con currence with the substance of the presentment, and would only venture to add that, in addition to the saving of expense, time ; and labour bestowed on cases at the assizes, he conceived it to be the great interest of the prisoners themselves that they should be brought to a more speedy trial than they could be if sent to the assizes. This was an important point. In regard to their remarks on the public-houses, he believed from his own expe rience that the cause of nine-tenths of the crime that came under investigation was drunkenness. They in this town had set a good example to others in thus going to the source of the evil and recommend ing that the public-houses should be subjected to a stringent supervision. He trusted that their pre sentment might receive attention. A special jury at Leeds upon being discharged authorised one of their number to make the follow ing remarks to Mr. Baron Pigott :—" Before the special jury separate I crave your permission to make a remark, in which such of the jury as I have had the opportunity of consulting concur. Although in the case of small cities or towns it may be ne cessary to empanel special juries from large areas, no necessity exists in towns containing over say 50,000 people, to go for jurymen beyond their limits, the inhabitants of which can attend with much less inconvenience and expense than can men from a distance. It seems to me that, in the sacred name of justice, great injustice is inflicted upon men who are compelled to leave their homes and their affairs to decide such trumpery squabbles and paltry disputes as those which have taken up so much of the time of your lordship's court during the past fortnight. It may be that legislation alone can remedy either or both of the matters referred to, but as law is the issue of public conviction, not felt merely, but expressed, it appears to me that this is a suitable time for speak ing, and that your lordship is the proper person to whom to express our conviction." The Judge —I quite agree with what you have said. CORN AND MALT DRYING. It was noticed in the report of the recent show at Hartlepool of the Castle Eden District Agricul tural Society that among the " implements" exhi bited was one that had the merits of being new in principle, exhibited for a first time, and the produc tion both of a local inventor and a local artificer. Whatever modifications time may introduce into the details of this design, to adapt it more perfectly to the accomplishment of its work, there can be no doubt whatever as to the necessity for such an invention, nor as to the boldness and originality with which that necessity has been met. Those who are acquainted with the present process of kiln-drying of grain need not be informed of the enormous amount of labour, delay, and inconveni ence with which it is attended. After loading, carting to the kiln, and unloading again, the wheat has to be thrown on a heated floor, while one or more attendants require to constantly turn over the grain until it has been sufficiently dried. if it escapes being scorched, it seldom escapes being affected by the gases escaping from the fires with which the kiln is heated ; and the slowness of the process ref - Adel' it unavoidably expensive. Mr. Williamson's attention appears to have been directed to this subject by the great losses consequent upon a wet season some ten years ago, when his But stitute for the present dilatory method made some progress in his mind ; but the extremely damp autumn of last year stimu lated him to the completion of an undertaking which, step by step, he had, during the intervening years, gradually matured and improved. The kiln which he has invented is a machine so simple in structure that it may be easily supplied to every separate farm in the kingdom, and at a cost which a very short period of use will amply repay. All loss of time by carriage is thus at once secured ; and kilning is made, as it ought to be, one of the ordinary expe ditious processes of farm-labour. On a strong four wheeled frame, in a form at once compact and neat in appearance, and as portable as any wheeled im plement used on field or farm, the whole apparatus occupies but little space. To describe it in detail, without the help of a diagram, is not easy ; but we may mention some principal features. On the framework of the vehicle, which is of iron, lies an arched tube, having a plane bottom, two feet six inches in diameter inside, and some seven feet in length. The bottom is an inclined plane. Sur rounding the whole of this tube is a hot-air cham ber, communicated with from a small furnace which is fed below, and also with a funnel, which carries off the smoke, &c., above. The whole of the heat of this furnace thus passes through the chambered and partitioned enclosing walls of the tube without the slightest possibility of smoke or gas coming near its contents. Through this tube the grain is passed in an atmosphere the temperature of which can be regulated to the greatest nicety, and at a rate of speed that can also be regulated to suit the state of the grain as admitted; a self-act ing apparatus receives it at the other end, and car ries it back in the open air, cooled and ready for the bag, into which the self-acting belts on which it is carried finally deliver it. The process is not only quick, but efficient, and is thoroughly under the control of the operator ; and, as tried on the Hartlepool show-ground, it appeared that, for au expenditure of one hundred-weight of coal, from fifteen to twenty quarters of wheat, of the average humidity of wheat that requires to be kiln dried, could thus be effectually dried in a period of twelve hours.—Mark-lane Express. TRADES' UNION INQUIRY AT A.IANCIIESTER.—Mr. Pickering, Q.C., together with Mr. Barstow and Mr. Chance, have been appointed examiners to inquire into any acts of intimidation, outrage, or wrong alleged to have been promoted, encouraged, or connived at by trades' unions or associations, whether of workmen or employers, in Manchester and the neighbourhood, and as to the causes of such acts and the complicity of such trades' unions or associations. The examiners will hold a public inquiry which will commence at the Assize Court, Manchester, on the 4th of next month. They have . appointed Mr. James heil, barrister, to be their secretary, and any communica tions on the subject of the inqu i ry are to Ue seat, to Lim at 115, Bury New-road : Mauchebter, Tura 't* Or o lar HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Aug. 27. Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The Queen went out accompanied by the Royal family. CHARGES ON THE CONSOLIDA2ED FUND. In the national balance-sheet there appears always an item of above £1,800,000 for ordinary charges on the Consolidated Fund, consisting of payments made by authority of Acts of Parliament, and without being annually discussed and voted in the House of Commons. The recent issue of the yearly finance accounts presents an opportunity for giving some account of this part of the fixed public expenditure. First comes her Majesty's civil list, £385,000, with which is classed the charge of about £22,000 a year for pensions, being (we presume) the pensions granted at the rate of £1,200 a year for meritorious services. Next come the annuities to the Royal family, now £lll,OOO a year. Them follow pensions amounting to £42,360 a year, Pay' able to persons of distinction for naval and military services. In these are included the £4,000 a year payable to the present and next Duke of Welling ton, and seven perpetual pensions, £19,000 a year in all, payable to the present and future Duke of Marlborough, Earls Nelson, Amherst, and Bath, Viscount Exmouth, Lord Rodney, and the heirs of the Duke of Schoenberg. Next come pensions for civil services, £21,372, including the pension of £4,000 a year to the heirs of William Penn for ever. Under this head are included the pensions for ser vice in the high civil departments of the State. Four of the first class of these pensions, at £2,000 a year, are allowed to past Cabinet Ministers, but when the finance accounts were made up in March, only two of these pensions were payable, one to Sir G. Grey and one to Mr. M. Gibson, Mr. Walpole's being marked " suspended," owing to his being in office again. Pensions for judicial services follow, amount ing to £48,200 a year. Among these are four pensions of £5,000 a year each to the four ex" Chancellors, pensions of £3,500 to six ex-judges of the superior courts of law, a pension to a retired Vice-Chancellor, and pensions of £BOO to four retired County Court judges. There are also pen sions, amounting to £34,860 for civil and judicial services in Ireland, including pensions to two ex' Chancellors, to three ex-judges, £4,200 a year to Viscount Avonmore, as late principal registrar of the Court of Chancery, and £2,96 8 to the Earl of Roden, as late Auditor-General of the Exchequer in Ireland. A charge fol lows of £30,523 for miscellaneous pensions, includ ing some still payable to servants of Queen Charlotte to the housemaid of the Irish House of Lords, and _to persons who suffered by the rebellion in 1798. Next comes a very miscellaneous list of salaries and allowances amounting to £143,488. It includes the Speaker's salary of £5,000 a year, that of the Sergeant-at-Arms, £1,200 ; augmentation of sti pends to Scotch clergy, £17,040 a year; the eccle siastical establishment in the West Indies, £20,300; the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, £20,000 ; Ma)" nooth College, £26,300 ; the Queen's colleges , £21,000 ; and a number of other annual payments , great and small, coming down to £B3 a year to the Right lion. W. Beresford, as keeper of the tennis court. Next follows the charge for the diplomatic service, limited by Act of Parliament to £lBO,OO O a year, of which sum £26,898 is applied in pensions, and the rest in salaries and allowances for active , service. But this charge on the consolid a ted luau is aided by a vote in t , su pply " of above £30,0 00 a yerr for extraordinary expenses. Of the charg e on the consolidated fund the embassy in France 5 13- sorbs £13,092 ; those in Turkey Russia, and Au i v tria nearly £ll,OOO each ; Prussia, £9,386 ; ti e United States, £7,044 ; Spain, £6,450 ; £7,150. The next item is a very large on e of £673,828 for judicial salaries and compensationS• acre are included the salaries of the Lord Chancel' lor, the two Lords Justices, the Master of the Rolls, and the three Vice-Chancellors, £39,000 a year la all ; the 15 judges of the superior courts of commel l , law and the judge of the Probate Court, £87,00 0 a year ; the 23 London police magistrates, £28,00 0 3 year; the judges of the English County Courta , £93,000 a year; the Scotch and Irish judges, an d the Irish chairmen of Quarter Sessions, cornpens 3 ; tions payable to proctors and persons filling offic e , now abolished amount to £148,701 a year; there the pension of Lord Elleuborough as chief clerk o f the Court of Queen's Bench, £7,700, and that ()f ~. the Rev. T. Thurlow as keeper and clerk a Hanaper (Chancery), £4,028 a year, besides 111 : £7,352 a year as patentee of bankrupts. Last cora ; some miscellaneous payments, amounting to £158,000, the chief being the liabilities in respe ct of the Russian-Dutch loan and the Greek loan' This completes the list of the payments, togethe . , about £1,850,000, which are the ordinary charg es upon the Consolidated Fund, placed permanently upon this fund by Act of Parliament ; there a re, some which, if dependent upon annual vote, might have a hard time of it. Lifeboat Demonstration at Falmouth• Very extensive preparations are being made f or t the lifeboat demonstration which is to be holden 3 Falmouth to-day. At half-past one there is to 13 : a grand procession formed on the Moor, si te d which the principal streets will be paraded, 101 ultimately the Gloucester lifeboat, which has be e° presented to the town by the citizens of Gloucesterl will be received at the docks by the president and vice-presidents of the local committee, and bi t Richard Lewis, Esq., secretary of the pare institution. The boat will then be launched put through various evolutions, and in order t° show the self-righting principle on which the boat is built she will be capsized with ber crew board. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows 313 the Ancient Order of Foresters will take part in tP ci procession ; no less than nine bands are engag e h ' t and in the evening the demonstration will be brear is to a termination by a banquet at the Falmon'e Hotel. Captain James Tilly, Mr. G. Symons/ til t mayor of the borough, Captain Sherries, and ter gentlemen, have laboured most assiduously wit h t li s , view to make the ;proceedings as attractive as V ) g sible, and it is hoped that everything will pas s °„, satisfactorily. In connexion with the demon str ro tion there will be an additional attraction i n t be presentation of the Albert medal, which will la publicly presented by the mayor to a young v` iii named Theophilus Jones, for gallant conduc t saving life during the late gales at Falmouth' Western Daily Mercury. THE ABYSSINIAN ExPEDITION.—The state—co which have appeared in some of the papers respecting Abyssinian expedition are not quite correct. The °P e ir Con will be organised in India, under the command of 0 Robert Napier, Commander-in-Chief at Bombay ,W „ ll :i t rf to be intrusted with the chief political as well as 0 3 authority. Sir Charles Staveley has been se,lecteu,o second in command. A quantity of steam transport :1,0 been taken up and will start for Bombay immediately soy to be there in the course of November ; but the 13 1 for Government have also provided a quantity of transpor.os themselves. Officers have also been despatched to places to purchase camels and mules. Islassowall probably be selected as the base of operations, b ut w en point is not finally settled Three steamers hav e en d provided, which are being fitted up as hospital ship co rd will be furnished with appropriate stores. Medical ° og 9' will be appointed to them. The whole of the art ' ments are under the direction of the India-office in or to secure unity of action ; but the expense will be ft i of by Imperial funds. Yesterday there was a good cOO9O- stir in the steam shipping trade in Liverpool ill upon quence of the urgent demand made by Governmeeb where the steam shipowners. No less than 15 steame r. % ac e placed under special survey, and five of thes e were.vier accepted. The names of the vessels chartered an of of survey for the carrying of troops are as follow nu eeet Dublin, Bosphorus, City of Manchester, France, The 't yp o, England, Helvetia, Hector, Carolina, Pacifie7toroisn' Peruvian, Golden Fleece, Mauritius , and C 3111" rocto4 These vessels will, after Government aceeptanceqe or. round to one or other of the Admiralty ports far pose of taking supplies on board.