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Not the least interesting of the many splendid entertainments which have been given this season at the Mansion-house took place last evening, when a brilliant company was invited to meet the Ministers of the Crown as the guests of the Lord Mayor. There were not present, it is true, any of those dis tinguished foreign visitors, whose presence alone rendered some previous occasions remarkable ; but the events of the Session and the circumstances of the time made this, the last great banquet of the season, not an unimportant one. The Earl of DERBY, happily recovered from his recent illness, was present to receive the congratulations of his friends on having so nearly attained that great end for which all the successive statesmen of the last few years have been vainly striving. Instead of re treating from the Parliamentary campaign with baffled hopes and disappointed forces, he is able to point triumphantly to substantial victories won— to difficulties surmounted and differences reconciled —to foes converted into friends, or at least into neutrals, and to the wants of the great body of the people relieved and gratified. His lieutenant general has equal, or perhaps even greater, right to look back with satisfaction on the events of the year which opened with anything but hopeful auspices for the Conservatives. As Lord DERBY happily said last evening, the political barometer at the beginning of the session pointed to a "storm ;" but although he could not say that all clouds had passed from the horizon, he thought he might safely affirm that if we have not arrived at " set fair," at all events the barometer points more to " fair" than to " change." Of the peat ques tion of the year Lord DERBY spoke with a frank ness and straightforwardness which were eminently characteristic of him. Personally he said he would have shrunk from the labour and responsi bility of his position, but he felt it an imperative duty. " I felt," said the noble Earl, " that there was a great work to be done, and I felt that, how ever unworthy I might be to be the instrument of doing that work, there was no other person who possessed the means of carrying to its successful issue that great work which I saw to be necessary for the wellbeing of the community." His patriotic convictions have brought their due reward in the unexpected success which has attended the efforts and the sacrifices of the leading Ministers. In attaining their great end, Lord DERBY said they had made sacrifices and endured taunts, but that he believed every loyal Englishman must share in the hope which he confidently expressed— that the liberal franchise which had been extended to the people of this country may find the people worthy of its exercise, and that in extending the rights and liberties of the people they had also extended the strength and security of the institu tions of the country. The cheers which greeted the noble earl throughout this part of his speech must have given him the assurance that his hopes were not ill founded, but that, in exerting himself to fulfil the just and reasonable demands of the people, he had, so far from weakening daly constituted authority, or encouraging sedition, strengthened the reins of Government and avoided an insidious and increasing danger. Lord DERBY, in reviewing the proceedings of the session, expressed his satisfaction that, not withstanding the engrossing nature of the Reform question, other matters of great importance had not been overlooked. Prominent among these were the union of our North American Provinces and the measure for the relief of the metropolitan poor ; questions very dissimilar in their character, though not in their consequences, since both will ultimately affect the well-being of millions of our fellow - subjects. Iu referring to the illustrious guests whom the City of London has lately so warmly welcomed, Lord DERBY commented upon the courage which the SULTAN had shown in breaking through all the tics of prejudice and fanaticism, and determining to see with his own eyes the civilisation of the West. He has returned deeply impressed, not only with the power, but with the happiness of this country—deeply impressed with the beneficial re suits of our free institutions, and, " above all," says Lord DERBY, " impressed with the spectacle he has seen here of the perfect union and harmony among all the various classes differing in religion and every other particular under the influence of a beneficent and liberal Government." The toasts of the evening would certainly have been very incomplete without a special compliment to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,whose acknow ledgment of it was listened to with the more interest, as, in returning thanks for the Ilouse of Commons, he naturally entered at once upon the prospective changes in its constitution. But the desire for those changes has not, ashe justly observed, been exhibited by a want of confidence in the House of Commons, but from a desire in the country to participate in the exercise of political power. The community generally, says Mr. DISRAELI, have considered this great question with a spirit of candour and calm ness almost unparalleled ; and when we look back not only to the earlier Reform Bill, but to any other great political controversy in which large interests were involved, and on which great differences of opinion existed, we shall acknowledge that he speaks advisedly. With his usual shrewd and pene trating sarcasm, Mr. DISRAELI observed that we could not expect to disturb a monopoly without some tumult, and that we had recently been termi nating the monopoly of Liberalism. In a similar spirit to his chief, the leader of the House of Com mons, expressed his conviction—a conviction which he has held in the face of all possible difficulty and discouragement—that in enlarging the privi leges of the people the Tory party had really done nothing but strengthen those institutions which they have always professed to uphold—institutions " the essence of whose force is that they represent the interests and guard the rights of the people." One feels puzzled whether to be most indignant or disappointed at the course pursued by Mr. BIUGIIT on the subject of Reform. He has long shown himself most inconsistent, but he really now has out-lleroded HEROD. It is difficult to under stand how he can reconcile to himself the great difference which he makes in his speeches in the House of Commons and upon the occasion of his appearing at public meetings. He must be san guine, indeed, if he does not think that others will find it out, and make their comments upon it. We expect the secret of his recent hostility to the mea sure introduced by her MAJESTY'S Ministers has arisen from the disappointment he feels at finding that eclat of his provincial tours will be considerably diminished, if not altogether done with. He shrinks from figuring as OTHELLO, with his occupa tion gone, and hence he becomes quite beside him self with rage and mortification. It is really sad to see a man of his ability thus waste his powers of oratory in the utterance of unmeaning censures, and substitute abuse for argument in dealing with his political opponents. It is a very singular course which Mr. BRIGHT has thought fit to take of late, and there is no justification for his adopting it. If, however, he sees reason, or imagines that he does so, for finding fault with anything going on in the political world, he rushes about the country and sets to work in sledge-hammer fashion to demolish his foes. The House of Commons is the proper place in which to discuss the nature and meaning of the measures brought forward, and ample opportunities have been afforded to the hon. member for Birming ham for so doing; but no, he choos3i to have his say and to communicate his meaning in language not exactly fitting for the ears polite of that assem bly, and so Manchester is chosen to have the honour of his explanations. A meeting was held at the Free-Trade Hall, on Tuesday, to protest against the changes made by the House of Lords in the Reform Bill, and Mr. BRIGHT was of course in full feather. The folly of the meeting was shown in the first resolution, which denounced the system of voting papers as leading to " bribery and intimidation," and urged its rejection by the House of Commons. How any one can possibly connect voting-papers with bribery seems almost incomprehensible ; but there is nothing to which people will not agree when they are resolved to object. It is easy to summarise Mr. BRIGHT'S speech by saying that it was full of bitterness, and replete with that unfairness of which he is so great an exponent. He found himself obliged to say something in favour of the bill, and therefore he mixed up his approval of the measure with abuse of those who had brought it forward. The public will know how to appreciate this for themselves, however, and will easily distinguish the real from the unreal part of the affair. His strictures upon the House of Lords are quite ridiculous, and even when he has to allude to the final decision which left the lodger franchise in statu quo, he now needs qualify it by saying that they reconsidered the question with " excuses such as earnest men seldom make," and so on. Mr. BRIGHT is quite furious at the very notion of voting papers being adopted, and there fore he devoted a considerable part of his speech to that topic. He said that he believed the main ob ject to be to enable rich men " who possess, or who may obtain possession of, property in many counties, to vote in all these coun ties without leaving the house in which they are living." This is a most ridiculous explana tion of the affair, and it shows that there are no very good reasons against the proposition if he is forced to fall back upon one like this. The in fluence of public opinion, which Mr. BRIGHT so much relies upon, has not worked so successfully hitherto in many places, for it is a well-known fact that many, stay away altogether, and do not record their votes on account of the confusion and rioting that prevail at the polling-booth. It was, however, in the consideration of the other amendment that Mr. BRIGHT came out most forcibly, and made himself most absurd. He in dulged in abuse of the most vehement kind and character, and confounded his friends with his foes in his sweeping censure. The arrogance 'of this sort of thing is really unendurable, and in all pro bability Mr. BRIGHT has done great damage to the cause he wishes to serve by his unwise advocacy of it. People do not care to be told that they are knaves and fools, if not some thing worse, because they do not say ditto to Mr. BRIGHT in all he thinks and approves of. We are not to be forced into conviction against our better judgment, and we have yet to learn that the height of freedom is to be deprived of the liberty of judg ing for ourselves. Let us listen, however, to what the oracle said at Manchester on this subject of the representation of minorities. It is a proposition " which has been aimed with a deadly malice at the political power of the great cctstituencies of the kingdom. I ask m y countrymen to reject this new and worst device of their opponents, because it has within it a principle as, I believe, disastrous and fatal to every thing which we mini rehend, and which our fore fathers comprehended. Of the true principle of popular representation, I regard it—l say it here without fear of whomsoever it may strike--I re gard it as the offspring and the spawn of feeble minds." This last thrust is evidently intended for the benefit of his friends as well as for that of his foes. It will be seen that Mr. MILL is in favour of this hated principle, and many others who share this opinion are found in the Liberal ranks. Any man who adopts this scheme must, according to Mr. BRIGHT, necessarily " shake the faith and lose the confidence of every true friend of Reform and of freedom." Can anything be more unfair than this sort of reasoning ? and can there be a more inconsis tent thing for one in Mr. BRIGHT'S position to do than go about prejudging matters under the considera tion of Parliament. By his intemperate language and arbitrary demeanour he himself shakes faith and loses confidence—and heicertainly shows us very plainly that ho is not so much the friend of Reform as he is the enemy of fair-play. No cause can certandy prosper which is advocated in the abusive manner in which Mr. BRIGHT delights ; and in this speech at Manchester he seems to have gone back to many of his old errors, and to have exerted himself to display as much bitterness of spirit as he possibly could. He said himself at last that some would think he had used " needlessly strong words," and they will not be very far from the truth in coming to that conclusion, but those whose opinions are worth influencing cannot possibly be misled by such extravagant language, for it cer tainly defeats itself by its intolerance and want of meaning. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. -~ (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Wednesday Evening. The Moniteur quotes the following from the Gazette of Northern Germany : " The speech made by the Emperor of the French on receiving the address of the foreign Commis sioners of the Universal Exhibition is calculated to dissipate at last every trace of mistrust of French policy. At all events we have no right to entertain any doubt of the sincerity of the pacific manifesta tions of the French Government. Besides, we see that for some days past the French press has resumed a tone of precise and conciliatory tendency, and the anxious desire to maintain amicable relations between Germany and France." The Emperor will leave Paris to-morrow for the camp at Chalons. A squadron of the Cent Gudes have already left for that destination to form the body guard of his Majesty. The King of Sweden occupies the Hotel of the Rue de l'Elysee, No. 4in that street. This hotel, which belongs to the Empress, is the habitual resi dence of the Countess de Montijo, her Majesty's mother, when she stays in Paris. Should the King of Sweden desire to renounce his incognito and appear in State, the Emperor has placed the Palace of the Elysee at his disposal. The departure of the King and Queen of Portugal from Paris is at present fixed for Sunday next, at nine T)'clock in the evening. Their very faithful Majesties will stay at Bordeaux on Tuesday, and then leave for Lisbon by way of Madrid. The Government candidates for the departmental municipal elections or general councils have been very successful. The opposition journals admit the fact with some reluctance, but console themselves with the idea that there is a " considerable relative success" for the opposition candidates as compared with the results of the same elections for 1861 and 1864. The simple fact is that the policy of the Emperor and his Government becomes every day more popular, so that in local as well as in political matters the people are convinced that the best way to advance their own true interests is to give the Government their hearty support, and to repudiate the abettors of revolutionary and democratic changes. The Siecle says :—" Our letters from Austria announce a very pronounced movement in Hungary and Gallicia against Russian propagandism. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LAN E. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chattertua. THIS EVENING. THAT RASCAL JACK. kier..3rs. J. Pause, J. Neville, C. Warner; Mesdames B. Aleyne, C. Thompson. To conclude with T QE GREAT CITY. Messrs. C.Warner, F. Morton, J. Fitzjames, F. Villiers, J. C. Cowrer, IAT. .Thlntyre, J. Rouse, J. Irving. J. B . Johnstone; Mesdames M. Robertson, R. G. Le Thiere, C. Thompson. Commence at Seven. 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Magyars and Poles equally feel the necessity of writing energetically to oppose the menacing and dangerous manoeuvres of Muscovite despotism. We are happy to record the existence of this feel ing, but we are desirous that it should be accom panied, pardcularly on the part of the Magyar s, with the firm resolution to adopt a lib er al an d equitable policyequally:in regard to th e S e l avon i ans , ,reqris, Croatians, and Servians, as we ll as i n hee reference to the Itouinains. To satisfy the just de mand 3 of those populations would be the best thing to shield Hungary and Austria from the machina- tions of Russia." A very strange suicide has taken place at a furnished hotel in the quarter St. Martin. For some time a young gentleman, named Adolphe G-, from the provinces, had lodged there, and he dined regularly at the table d'hote. Two morn ing ago, as he did not come down to breakfast as usual, a servant knocked at his bed-room door. As he did not answer the door was broken open, and he was lying almost dead upon the bed, covered with blood. A doctor was sent for, who perceived that the young man had thrust about fifty large pins into his chest, the wounds from which bled very copiously. lle was not quite dead, but life was extinct in a few minutes. On his table there was a letter, in which he stated he wished to be in terred decently, and that there was enough money in e his paythat for the exp ense o f t h e funeral. The a e g athe life of th e wr it er h a d staffed of sufferin g , pa i n, and sorrow, formed hl eptturrls long sut to d and that according to the proverb fatality had killed him gradually, as with the point of a pin. Taking advantage of the idea, he had determined to kill himself in a manner never perhaps adopted before. llis life he said was not worth the pin which he employed to take it away, but he found it very piquant to die in such an extraordinary manner. Lastly, the writer expressly recommended that his body should be wrapped, not in a sheet, but in velvet, fastened with pins. The Brazil section of the Exhibition is curious and interesting. That great empire, which occupies a space equal to a fifteenth part of the terrestrial globe, is not remarkable for the extent of its indus trial products, and those sent to the Exhibition prove rather the richness of the soil than progress in manual art and labour. Among the extraordinary products of the Brazilian soil is the palm tree (palmier canzubu), the varieties of which are in im mense number. From this tree there are many products exhibited, the most important of which is wax. The tree attains a great height, and the fruit of it, which rambles a nut, is ground into powd a resembli ng coffee, which, mixed with milk, forms a wholesome and nutritive beverage. The candles made from the wax of the tree, which are to be seen at the Exhibition, are not very white, but have a green tinge, betraying their vegetable origin. By way of compensation, however, they exhale an agreeabl e o d our w hil e b urn i ng , an d as they last a long time they are very economical. Rope may be made from the fibres of the tree, and indeed they are put to an infinite variety of uses. The Marquis d'llervey de St. Denys, Com missioner for China to the Exhibition, has contra dicted a round-about story which has appeared in some of the papers, to the effect that one of the Chinese is a Frenchman, and that a creditor who saw through the disguise recovered a sum of money which was due to him by threatening exposure. The Chinese to be seen in this department are real natives of China. Neither the Imperial Com mission nor the Chinese Commission would allow any deception to be practised upon the public. A book is announced for immediate publication with the title of " The Court of Rome and the Emperor Maximilian," which, according to the re port prevalent in literary circles, will throw a light upon some of the causes which have led to the terrible fate of that Emperor, and the convulsed and insurrectionary position of Mexico. I shall not fail to inform you whether the work is calcu lated to justify the excitement which prevails re- spccting it. The French Academy has awarded the prize for poetry, for 1867, to the verses sent by M. Edouard Garnier. There were many competitors. It is not in Italy and Spain only that brigands _ . practise their vocation. Some daring cases of high way robbery have recently taken place in France. The diligence from Marseilles to Digne was stopped near Aix. The brigands waited for it, and sum moned the driver to stop. lnstead of doing so, however, he whipped the horses into full gallop. the i but nobody was hurt. soon afterwards Another fired at diligence thediligence, was stopped near the sa me s p ot. The captain of the lr. robbers brigands fired at the postillion. The ball grazed his cap, and struck a traveller in the chest, who died almost instantly. The postillion put the horses at full speed. The robbers fired a second discharge at the diligence, which was pierced with balls in several places. It is almost incredible that th ere should be such acts in these times in France, where in general such care is taken of person and property ; but the fact is undoubted. The autho rities have sent of al notice of these acts of bri gandage to the Prefect of the department, and the diligence which conveys the mails is now escorted by gendarmes. Aix is a very pleasant residence in the south of France, where in general there are plenty of English. While alluding to this subject of violence, it will be appropriate t o mention that, although the arrangements of the Paris police are excellent, the cases of violence and robbery in the lonely suburbs of the city at night are very much on the increase. Almost every day accounts of daring personal robberies appear in the papers. Last evening, between six and seven, there was a regular deluge o f rain, which made sad havoc with the dresses o f hundreds of ladies who had been to the Exhibition. To-day the weather has been lowering and unsettled, with occasional rain and a general menacing aspect of the meteorological elements. Should it please the clerk of the weather to give us a fine day on the 15th the Emperor's fete will be very magnifi cen t, for the preparations are on an unprecedentedly grand scale. There has been a Cabinet Council this afternoon at the Tuileries, under the presidency of the Em peror. The Empress was present. The distribution of prizes for the general com petitions of the Lyceums and Colleges of Paris and Versailles took place to-day at the Sorbonne. The Imperial Prince was present. M. Duruy, the Minister of Public Instruction, made an appropriate speech to the pupils, in cordial and affectionate terms, in which ho pointed out the pleasures and advantages arising from education and general knowledge. lle proved to the pupils that " a little learning is not a dangerous . thing o " After the speech prizes were distributed to the pupils who had displayed the greatestproficiency in the various branches of instruction. THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS. —The Marian Moore, from Calcutta which came up the river on , Tuesday, has on b oar d a valuable collectio n of livin g animals for the Zo o l og i cal Society of L on don, under the care of Mr. Claren ce Bartlett the Society's a g ent, who went out some months ago to Calcutta to bring them home. The collection embraces two of the large wild Indian cattle called " Gayals," a Panolia deer, two fine India n p elicans, four demoiselle cran es, a Himalayan badger, two black Tibetan wolves, and other animals altogether upwards of 20 in number. Most of these are Presents to the Society from its different corresponding members in India. NOVEL SALMON FISIIING.—The magistrates of the Llansautffraid (Montgomeryshire) petty sessions had a somewhat curious case of illegal salmon fishing brought before them at the instance of the Board of Conservators of the Severn fishery district the other day. An old woman of the not uncommon Welsh name of Elizabeth Jones was summoned for using a certain dam on the river Viameir (a tributary of the Severn) for facilitating the catching of salmon. This was a very unusual case, but the defendant did not appear to the summons, which was h eard in her absence. The facts wore these': —For some years p ast she has rented a fishery a t t h e a b ove p l a ce, w here she has adopted a nov e l m o d e o f captur i ng sa l m on. At this spot there is a natural f a ll o f water, which is heightene d and fitted for her purp ose, and for the pur pose of diverting water to a mill, by m eans of t i m b er. Here, perc'aed on a jutting rock, the old lady holds in her hand a pole, on which is suspended a net, which is held just at a point where the salmon make their leap to got over the fall. As they loop they drop into the net and so are captured. This being an illegal mode of fishing, under the Salmon Fisheries Act, 1861, section 12, tho magistrates were una nimous in convicting her, and the conservators only ask ing for a nominal fine to show the illegality of the act, the defendant was fined £l, including costs. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 6 p.m. The National Steam Navigation Company's steamer Queen and the Allen steamer St. George arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold, 140 f. Sterling exchange on London, 109 i. Five-Twenty United States' Bonds, 113. i. Illinois, 119; Erie, 71k. Cotton—middling upland, 281 c. PAILADELPIIIA, Aug. 7. Petroleum—standard white, 29e. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 8. The National Steam Navigation Company's steamship Virginia, from New York, arrived off Queenstown at midnight, with $325,000 in specie. She landed passengers and proceeded for Liverpool. BREST, Aug. 7. The Transatlantic Company's steamer Europe, from New York on the 27th ult., arrived here this evening with 111 passengers and $532,000 in specie. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Aug. 8. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce will shortly leave on a tour of inspection through Schleswig-Holstein, probably first visiting some of the Western Islands belonging to these duchies. ITALY. FLORENCE, Aug. 8. The Italie announces that Baron de Malaret, the French Minister at this Court, is about to leave Florence, and will probably not return. Cavallier di Nigra, however, will continue to represent Italy at the Court of the Tuileries. Ile returns to Paris shortly. lIUN GARY AND AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Aug. 8. The deputations elected by the Hungarian Diet and the Austrian Reichsrath met to-day to com mence deliberations upon the final settlement of affairs common to Hungary and Austria. The public will be excluded from the sittings while the debates are being carried on. THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CON- VENTION. PAras, Aug. 8. The Greek and Roman Governments have offi cially notified their adhesion to the International Monetary Convention. FRANCE. PARIS, Aug. 8. The Constitutionnel of this morning denies a current report that preparations are being made for fetes at Salzburg, and says :—" The proposed visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French to the Emperor Francis Joseph is an act of affectionate courtesy and private sympathy. As such it is viewed by both Sovereigns, and as such will be interpreted by all serious minds. The latest Norwegian census shows that there are in that country 18 persons above 100 years of age, one of whom, an unmarried woman, living at Mo, in the Nordland district, is 107. There are besides 30 persons of 100 years old, of whom 11 live in the same district. The Russian Government has ordered the con struction at Kertch of important fortifications, the earth-works alone of which will cost 1,728,000 f. King Victor Emmanuel, with the object of en couraging the breed of horses in Italy, has founded a prize of 40,000 f. to be run for in 1871 at Florence. For the races of next year his Majesty has given a prize of 15,000 f. The King's horses may run, but in the event of one of them winning the stakes will be given to the second. The young man arrested at Marseilles for firing at an officer in the street is named Descour. He had formerly been a soldier in the 43.1 Regiment, and appears to be mentally deranged. He neither knew the officer nor had ever seen him before. He gives no reason for the act with which he is charged. M. de IVeliens, director-general of the Joint- Stock Company of the Baths of Wiesbaden and Ems, died suddenly at the latter town on Monday from apoplexy. The Civil Tribunal of Rouen has just tried a case in which damages were claimed from a railway company for accidental injury. M. Descamps, a watchmaker of that place, was en tering a carriage at the Elbeuf station ; he had one foot inside and the other on the step, when the porter, Verrieres, forcibly slammed the door, pushing M. Descamps forward. To save himself from falling he seized the side of the doorway, and his right thumb was caught and crushed. As the train was not to start for four or five minutes there was no excuse whatever for the haste and want of attention on the part of the porter. The Court therefore held him and the Western Company con jointly liable, and sentenced them to pay the com plainant a sum of 2,000 fr. c, The woman Frigard," says the Nouvelliste de " who is charged with the murder of Mme. Mertens at Fontainebleau, and with forgery and robbery, was brought on S a t ur d ay to the House of Detention in this town. She is of slight stature and somewhat crooked, which caused her to be known at Fontainebleau, during the time following the dis covery of the body, by the name of The hunchback.' She i s s imply attired, and not without some degree of elegance. She persists in her denials, and seems to await impatiently the day of trial." A n imperial decree in the Moniteur declares the construction of a railway from Gisorsto Vernonnet, in the department of Eure, to be a work of public utility. A public meeting of 2,000 persons took place three days back in the theatre at Treviso, when motions declaring Rome to be the capital of Italy, an d approving of the bill on ecclesiastical property, voted by the Chamber of Deputies, were carried by large majorities. The speakers showed great mode ration, and the business passed off in good order, terminating by loud cheers for the King and for Garibaldi. The Giornale di Napoli of the 2d announces that the cholera has appeared at Palermo ; there being on the first day 25 cases, of which five were fatal. The inhabitants are described as greatly alarmed. The municipality, which exhibits much zeal, ex pends considerable sums daily in disinfecting, isola ting, &c. The epidemic is raging in the interior of the island, and the province of Girgenti, above all, continues to bo desolated. BOURSE, August 7, Two o'clock.—The market continues to improve, and the following quotations are obtained :—Threes, 69f. 30c., with an advance of sc. ; Italian Fives, 49f. 20c., with a similar ad vauco. Credit Mobilier very firm, with a rise of 5f., 325 f. ; Spanish Mobilier 3f. 75c., at 215 f. ; Credit Foncier 2f. 50c., at 1,377 f. 50c. ; Comptoir d'Escompte 3f. 753., at 720 f. ; Immobiliere 2f. 50c., at 156 f. 253. ; and Suez Canal lf. 25e., at 300 f. A fair advance is also to be noticed in railway shares. Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :-- Bank Shame 3325 Italian Loan 49 10 Do. end month 49 25 Moxican Loan l3 Do. Bonds lO6 25 Spanish Threes 34 Homo Debt — Deferred ti per Cents lOO Do. end month — per Cents. 69 45 Do. end month 'A 37} Credit Mobilior 323 75 Do. end month 327 50 Credit Foneier 1380 Do. end month 1377 50 RAIL' For Account. Orleans Northern 1145 Lyons and Mdditerranean BBO Southern 551 75 Westoru — -- Eastern Sardinian — Austrian Lombard North of Spain 75 Saragossa 9O Roman ClfUrt HER MAJESTY, &c• OSBORNE, Aug. 7. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and the Princess of Leiningen, drove out yesterday afternoon. Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold walked out. The Prince of \Vales, attended by Captain Ellis, arrived in the evening on a visit to her Majesty. THE QUEEN'S HIGHLAND VISIT.—The Crathie correspondent of the Edinburgh Courant writes that it is now definitely settled, according to present arrangements, that her Majesty the Queen and Court will arrive at Bal moral Castle for the autumn sojourn on Saturday, the 24th August. Ills Royal highness the Duke of Cambridge, as Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee yester day afternoon at the Horse Guards. The attendance was rather numerous, upwards of 150 officers being present. The Duke of Devonshire has left Devonshire House, Piccadilly, for Holkar Hall, near Milnethorpe. The Duchess de Coigney has left the St. George's Hotel. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury left town yesterday for Tottenham Park, near Marlborough, Wilts. The Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope have left town for Chevening Park, Kent. The Earl and Countess of Harrington and family have left Harrington House, Craig's Court, for Elvaston Castle, Detby. , .. The Earl of Clarendon has gone to Wiesbaden. The Countess and Lady Eniily Villiers are at The Grove near Watford The British Captives in Abyssinia. The interest which would, in ordinary circum stances, have been excited by the publication of additional papers relating to the Abyssinian affair, which have been printed in return to the address of the House of Commons on the subject, will be vastly increased by the tidings just received of the escape of the prisoners out of the hands of the Emperor Theodorus. The correspondence now added to the already voluminous documents before the public extends to the number of 160 letters, besides en closures; and the dates range from November 9, 1865, to July 27 in this year. The more recent of the communications are those addressed to Lord Stanley by persons of enterprise, having a know ledge of the country in which the missionaries are or were held captive, together with his lordship's replies. The suggestions and offers of personal service made by Captain W. Parker Snow are the most striking points of these later documents. Cap tain Snow relies in a great degree on his power of disguising himself, ...nd proposes to enter Abyssinia from the east as an Arab. Adverting to his many extraordinary dealings with " the most savage races of mankind," he says : " It may appear absurd to relate how —sometimes as an acrobat, then a medicine man, next a grave ruler of the stars, or a laughing merry-andrew, but always kind and gentle as well as firm—l have got on. Playing with the chil dren, admiring the women (no matter how ugly), and humouring the men (who are often but big babies), I have passed scatheless through wild people who, before and afterwards (most remarkably in two cases, Australia and Tierra del Fuego), mur dered the white men visiting them. A bold, fierce dash, with no shadow of timidity, is, however, ne cessary, and they respect it." It is impossible to give, within the space allowed by the other requirements of a newspaper, an ab stract that shall convey any thorough and vivididea of the strange story involved in these letters. The Emperor Theodorus contributes some of the most wonderful epistles ever printed to this varied and interesting mass. They are written in the Amharic, and of course translated into English ; and they in variably begin with a mixture of religion and courtly compliment, in this fashion : "In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, one God, amen. From the servant of our Lord and His created Being, the son of David, the son of Solomon, the King of Kings (of Ethiopia), Theodorus, to her whom God has exalted above all sovereigns and glorified above all princes and peoples, and made the defender of the Christian faith, and the succour of the poor and oppressed, Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." On the 29th of January, 1866, the Emperor thus delivers himself : " Had the illustrious Hormuzd Rassam, whom your Majesty has mentioned to us in your letter, not been sent to us about the matter of Cameron and others, but the lowest of your servants, he would have been received graciously by us. We now send, with Hormuzd Rassam, Cameron and all the other Europeans about whom your Majesty has written. Your Majesty can learn from those who fear the Lord the ill-treatment and abuse which we have received at the hands of the above-men tioned Europeans and the Copt who called himself Metropolitan, the Aboona Salama. In my humble position I am not worthy to address your Majesty, but illustrious princes and the deep ocean can bear everything. I, being an ignorant Ethiopian, hope that your Majesty will overlook my shortcomings and pardon my faults. The people whom we have imprisoned for their reviling and defaming us did so because the Gallas had proved victorious over the Royal children of Israel and had humbled them ; but God has empowered me, the son of one of the humble women of Israel, to regain that which had been lost by my forefathers. Doubtless your Ma jesty has learnt how ignorant and blind the people of Ethiopia are ; wherefore I beg of your Majesty not to take amiss the mistakes I may make in my correspondence with you. Counsel me, but do not blame me, 0 Queen, whose majesty God has glori fied, and to whom He has given abundance of wisdom." The promise so submissively made in the forego ing letter was immediately afterwards broken, with an additional flagrant violation of faith, Mr. Ras sam himself—" the illustrious Ilormuzd Rassam," as he is called by the Emperor Theodorus—being, together with his companions, made fellow-prisoners with Mr. Cameron and the rest. Mr. Flad, the German missionary, writing to the Earl of Clarendon, points to certain evidence that the Emperor had formed an intention of keeping Mr. Rassam as well as the others in order to get a " kassa," or ransom, from the Queen of England. It was his wish to have skilled artisans sent out to him, " to open his eyes," as he repeatedly said. In a letter to one of his officers, Detaty Tadla, com manding the detention of the Europeans, his Ma jesty says :—" By the power of God, I, the King of Kings, Thordorus, am well. We have been angry with our friends and with those Europeans who say we go to our country, and we are not yet recon ciled. Until we consult what we are going to do take hold of them, but do not make them uncom fortable or afraid, and do not hurt them." After wards they had an interview, thus narrated by Mr. Flad : —" As soon as we had approached near his Majesty and received his salutation, we fell down to the ground, asking his Majesty to forgive and to pardon us. We were ordered to get up, and to come nearer. We bad the honour to take a seat on a carpet. The King brought forth the petition of the relations of the English prisoners, which had been sent from Massowah by Dr. Belie. Captain Cameron was asked to read it. After that the King said,' It is the devil who made me angry with you, and who tempted me to de stroy the friendly feelings existing since the late Mr. Plowden, between myself and England. From my childhood I like the Europeans, especially thy English ; and God knows that, from morning till evening, I bad no other desire than to get in alli ance with the English nation. It is true that, by the power of God, I will fight the Turks ; but there never arose a thought in my mind to fight with tht English. What I wish is, that they shall love me and be my friends. Mr. Stern,' said he, you are quite innocent ; it is not you who abused me, it is that Copt, who calls himself a monk and a bishop. He made me angry with you, and he abused me. And Mr. Flad, God knows I never bad any bad feelings against him. He never committed any thing which could make me angry with him. And Mr. Rassam, you are the best man I ever saw in m life, and you did nothing which could make me angry with you The other day, it is true, m y sus picion arose, but it was the devil ; and now we will make peace, forgetting everything past, and by actions of love we will renew our friendship. Nor, I pray you all forgive rue.' The King immediately fell down to the ground before us. We asked that his Majesty might arise and forgive us, but ho refused ; so we said, according to the custom of the country, For God's sake we forgive you.' And immediately we kneeled down before him, begging him to for give us, on which he answered, For God's sake I forgive you.' After this ceremony we had to Sib down. Then the King said that each of us should write a letter to his relations, and give them the news that his Majesty, by the power of God, and for the friendship's sake of the Queen of England, had par doned and released us, and that we hope to see and meet them soon. After this we were dismissed. Th e King now told Mr. Rassam that he wished him to stay with him until the Queen of England would send him a ' kasa,' existing in artists, machines, and tools, &c., for which purpose ho should now write letters, and send one of the Europeans, who would come back and bring back the ' kasa.' " Mr. Flad was chosen to be the emissary to Eng land from the Emperor and his captives. He urged on his Majesty the advice to send Mr. Rassaal but Theodorus was obstinate, and would have no other messenger than the one he had at first selected. Letters from the Rev. H. A. Stern to his wife, and other correspondence full of personal narra tive, help to fill this blue-book, and to make it as interesting as any work of modern fiction. While the prisoners were in chains, or shortly after they had been thus secured, they con tinued to receive letters full of compliments from the Emperor, one of these missives being as follows :—" In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, one God. From God's slave and His created being, the son of David, the son of Solomon, the King of Kings, Theodorus. To my friend and counsellor, the servant of the Queen of England, Hormuzd Rassam, Esq.—My desire i 8 that you should send to her Majesty the Queen and obtain for me a m..n who can make cannons and muskets, and one who can smelt iron, and an in structor of artillery. I want these people to come here with their instruments and everything necessary for their work, and then they shall teach us and re turn. By the power of God forward this our re quest to England." Dr. Blane, staff assistant-surgeon of her Majesty's Bombay Army, who was attached to the Abyssinian mission, and is one of the prisoners, gives a history of the Emperor's career. As Lij Cassai, a young man of good family, nephew to the celebrated Dijas Comfou, if not, as he asserts, a descendant of the Ethiopic kings, he followed the very common ex ample of Abyssinian feudatory chiefs by throwing off his allegiance to his sovereign. Having finally conquered Abyssinia by subduing the powerful Tigre chief, Dijas Oubie, he was crowned Emperor by the name of Theodorus. His treachery is thus described by Dr. Blane :—" I could adduce hundreds of ill' stauCes to illustrate the utter worthlessness of his most sacred oaths, if a few were not sufficient to show how vain it is to believe anything he says. In his cunning he always endeavours to cover his treachery by some paltry excuse. He plun dered Dembea because the inhabitants were too friendly towards the Europeans, Gon dar because one of our messengers had been betrayed by the inhabitants of that city. He likes to shelve the odium of his cruelties on the Europeans or priest whenever it is possible. He destroyed Zagi, a large and populous city, because, he said, a priest had been rude to him. No person is sacred in his eye, however faithful he may have proved. A few months ago he cast into chains his adopted father, Cantil- 33 Hallo, who, by protecting him at the beginning of his career, was greatly instrumental in his rise. Tesemma Engedda, the hereditary Chief of Gahinte, last year, with the peasantry of his district, utterly destroyed a large invading body of rebels. Ile was first cajoled and made a grandee, but soon after made to feel the evil of too well serving his master ; he now lingers in chains, and is occasionally tortured to extort money from him. A few days ago the chief of the Amba, one of the oldest and most faith ful servants, has been chained, and all his property confiscated. His brother, Ras Walde Marian], also one of his first and most trusty followers , is, with almost all the Begemeder chiefs, in chains." The latest direct news from the prisoners, given - - in their own words, is down to the end of April or beginning of May. One of them says—" Abyssi nians laugh at us. Speak to any of them of the power and greatness of England, they sneeringly answer, Why, then, do you pay us tribute? Is it not now on the road ? Has not Flad gone to fetch it ?' may seem ungrateful, after all, and mistake the rea l motive of all these delays. I believe I have guessed it. They will all be killed should troops land,' i 5 probably the common song when warlike measures are proposed, and the tune of those ignorant writers on the subject who may mean well, but neverthe less are the cause of much of our misery. Well, let him kill us ; we can die but once. In their iglu ) " rance Abyssinians may feel contempt of our power, but we shall certainly not give them the chance to sneer at English courage. Wo fear not death, but the very thought of his cruelties fills us with awe ; to evade them we will run any risk ; long ago Iv° made up our minds on the matter. All our friends are fully aware of our entire willingness to take our chance. We have begged and prayed for that mo ment which will either restore us to our country or end our miserable fate." With the last letter received by Mrs. Stern from her husband we close this abstract : " Magdala, May 2, 1867. "My dear Charlotte—l just add a line to InY letter of yesterday, as it is doubtful whether the opportunity for writing will not, before many date have elapsed, become exceedingly difficult, if not utterly impossible. The return of Mr. Flad, the disappointment of the King in not obtaining the requested accession to his white victims, and the consciousness that neither intrigue nor cunning will avail him to extort fresh concessions from the British Government or the generosity of British Christian s —all, I believe, combine to bring, ere long, ou r melancholy and doleful history to a crisis. Every day, nay, every hour, we expect to be trans f er red to the common prison, and to get hand-chains agal u • Only a week ago upwards of 200 prisoners, among whom are persons of high rank, were ordered to b 3 executed. This indiscriminate massacre, which 1133 probably been prompted by the want of w ords, indicates no improvement in the tyrant's temper; We fear that wilful, wicked misrepresentations, a nd cruel, unpardonable selfishness, united in concealing' the true state of our position, and the well-know n designs of the King. God, in his infinite mercy' may interpose and deliver us ; and if not, our sel?a: ration will only be for a short period, and our onion in glory for ever and ever. God bless you, m y Wirt and the darling children ; and that we may both 1 1, 1. ceive strength according to our need , is the prg e of your ever-affectionate husband, (Signed) " HENRY A. STERN*" THE OAKS COLLIERY.—As the prospect of clear ing the No. 1 shaft, which was sealed up shortly after tb° explosion, proceeds, more than usual interest is taken i° the proceedings by those having relatives in the wo rkings' 3' In the course of a few days, however, it is expecte d that decision will be come to as to the searching for the b odies ; Ou Tuesday evening the engineer in charge expected the drift would be reached by Thursday night, as there AO/ then not more than 24 yards of stuff to get out altogether. Some interruption to tho work has been caused by t lamago done to the con d uc t ors , b u t the indications are 5 1 0 , far satisfactory as to l ea d t o th e ex p e ctation that in a wr°° o f r so the shaft will b e c l eare d , so that the openi n g out - ft the workings will proceed without delay. The pit slI3 t in which the men aro at work continues tree fro m ga'4, bu u p tha t as usual a considerable quantity con tinues to come a-inch pipe, the pressure on the water-gauge being a l)° , three inches. In anticipation of the shaft being entire.) cleared out it is expected that a meeting of mining eng i t noers will take place next week, when a decision will Tu°6 likely be come to as to the course to be pursued in clearing the workings and recovering the bodies. t f 110 TIIE. CAB TRAFFIC IN LIVERPOOL. ---L'" v . meeting of the Liverpool Town Council yeste rda y a u°:,. code of bye-laws for the regulation of the hackney-co') a legal scale of fares will be enforced, but every. driver_ 1.! bound to have stated prominently on the coAside of vehicle the scale of fares which ho charges. traffic in Liverpo o l was agre ed to. By this new cod