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This is unfortunate, as he was one of the first to jump out of the car riages when the train came to a stand by the colli sion. After a caution conveyed to them by the Asassor, the station -master at Llandullas and the two breaksmen of the goods train said that they did not wish to give evidence, but they will be able to do so to-day if they deem it advisable. It would certainly be more in accordance with the wishes of the public that all those immediately connected with the occurrence of that day should present themselves, and throw what light they can upon the tragic affair. One of the most important pieces of intelligence was given by EATON, the station master's son, a lad of thirteen. Ile has been in the company's service for three months, and he said that once before he was thus employed he saw trucks runuing Sown the incline till they were near to the place of the accident, and they were brought baek by an engine. This looks as if the carelessness which occasioned the catastrophe was no unusual tb;ng, and indeed the evidence of "SARA," the driver of the goods train, shows that the system employed was faulty in shunting the waggons so near the time when the mail train was expected. In the first place, a rule of the company states that goods trains must be shunted ten minutes before a passenger train is due. To add to the confusion wcrse confounded of the whole affair, it seems that there was not sufficient space on the Llanddulas siding to shunt a train like that which occasioned the disaster. It was thus necessary to divide the train, the fatal consequences of which we have now to deplore. Some time was lost in making prepa rations for the change necessary, and the driver says that he saw at once that the siding would not hold the entire of the train. The train was a long one, and it was obliged to be divided, so as to put some waggons on one set of rails and some on another. The sooner some change is made in these arrangements the better for the general safety of passengers, and it seems surprising that there should not have been more accidents the way things are carried on. It is no use making arbitrary rules and not allowing for any chances or accidents that may occur from the first train in question being a little too late, or the second too soon, and no space being left on the sidings, and so on. Another very desirable change will be to give up the habit of locking the carriage doors, for it is a most pernicious one. It is said that some of the doors on the platform side were locked, but that does not agree with the account given by those who passed the keys to passengers to let themselves out. At any rate let the rule now be that doors are not locked at all ; it will be far the wisest. The experience of the accident at Abergele has shown the public very plainly that there are worse evils to be apprehended than can arise from a stray passenger here or there jumping out of the carriages too soon. The general safety and con venience of the passengers must be considered be fore the claims of those who run risks by their foolhardiness, and before the prejudices and fancies of those who like to make arbitrary rules. Let not the unfortunate affair of the other day be in vain, but let it be a mark for the changes that are rendered necessary by the requirements of the passengers, and the experience which each day's travelling affords those who are willing to learn. The Railway Com panies may rest assured that public opinion will not tolerate any addition to rules and regulations that have been shown to be fatal, and that in future they must endeavour to carry out those plans which most readily insure safety, and not follow those more convenient ones, which may be all right, yet which are liable to fail, and to produce the most se rious consequences. Mr. F. PEEL has issued an address to the elec tors of South-east Lancashire, and declares that he will support Mr. GLADSTONE'S Irish policy, and seems to be very desirous of promoting education by all available means. He entertains the most lively hope that the result of the elections now at hand will be to replace the existing administration by one presided over by Mr. GLADSTONE, which is sure to possess the confidence of the majority of the people. Why he does not explain very clearly, but lays great stress on the importance of retrench ment, which seems to have become a sort of mania among the Liberals lately. Doubtless they are taking the cue from their leader's famous address at St. Helen's on the subject. Mr. IluuliEs has addressed at some length a meeting at Kenning ton Hall, yesterday. In contesting this election, the hon. member assured his hearers, that he should not have recourse to any of the " venal electioneer ing machinery" that was in vogue, and truly added that it was degrading alike to the constituencies and tie candidates to do so. He made some at tempt to defend the Sunday Trading Bill, and de clared that the measure he had introduced into Parliament was intended to render the law " efficient and satisfactory." He certainly has the best right to speak of its intentions, but it is also very true that the measure in question did not fulfil them, and would have caused great dissatis faction had it done so. It is quite idle to draw the line too tight in this respect, and all the recent efforts made to legislate upon the matter gave rise to invidious comparisons as to the relative advan tages of the rich and t 1) (' Doors w hi,l2 ara w 2 gray , a to be deprecated, as they produce angry feelings and can do no good to any one. The intelligence from the seat of war in South America turns out, on further information, to be less disastrous to the Paraguayans than was at first represented. There is no reason to doubt that Ilunaaita has been evacuated by the Paraguayans, or that the Allies are naturally much elated by the almost unlooked-for success. The fortress which has withstood a siege for more than two years is at their mercy, and the fall of the Chaco and Tirnbo are eagerly looked for. The defenders abandoned Humaita on the night of the 24th, crossing to the Chaco under cover of the darkness, and leaving behind them, we are told by the Bra zilian accounts, two hundred guns and a quantity of ammunition. As it turns out that these guns were spiked by the Paraguayans, before they left their post, the possession of them is not calculated to add much strength to the Allies. Without doubt the desertion of Humaita is a gain for the Allies, but it is by no means certain that it is so great a gain as they now represent it to be. LOPEZ is a man not only of great determination of charac ter, but of great resource. He has all the versati lity as well as the energy of a practised general, and we may be sure his deliberate movements are carried out in accordance with carefully matured plans. There is good reason for believing that the Paraguayan General has availed himself of the time afforded by the long siege of Humaita to raise new defences at the mouth of the Teciquary—a river which communicates with Villa Rica and the centre of Paraguay. Villa Rica contains the arsenals and is LOPEZ'S base of operations ; and here again are strong positions, upon which the army may fall back. It must be remembered that the Paraguayan entrenchments are really something formidable. A siege of two years and a half has failed to captureHumaita until the besieged chose to evacuate it themselves, and if at every further point in their advance into the interior the invaders are to be metby fresh obstacles, the already exhausted patience of the Brazilian people and the Argentine Confe deration will scarcely hold out. The loss of the Allies during the recent encounters has been very severe. The accounts vary—the official returns making, of course, light of the matter, but the re ports of various independent correspondents put the losses of both Brazilians and Argentines at a very high figure. One writer, who gives a full account of the attack made by General Asonto upon part of the works of Ilumaita before the evacuation, declares the loss to have been terrible ASORIO captatred the redoubt at which he aimed, but, from some unexplained reason, the Marquis de CAXIAS ordered him to re treat from the position so hardly gained. The retreat occasioned the greatest confusion among the Brazilians, and two battalions were nearly destroyed iu effecting it. We thus perceive, on examining the several versions of the story, that it will not do to put entire confidence in the reports which reach us through the medium of Brazil. More than once in the course of the war we have been told decisively that all hope for the Para guayans was over, but the war is not yet ended. LOPEZ has clao_en his own time for retreat, ar.d doubtless his plans are well laid. Meanwhile there is no sign of the Paraguayan people being willing to abandon a struggle of which their enemies are heartily tired. The Democrats continue to make progress in such elections as have already taken place in the United States. The great State eeleetions have not _ascannli THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1868. yet taken place. One occurs to-day, another a week hence, others, again, not till October ; but as straws show which way the wind blows, so may we learn from these minor contests the prevailing temper and sentiments of the American people. The Democrats, so we learn by the City of Boston from New York on the 22d ult., have carried the elections in the territory of Idaho, returning their candidate as delegate to Congress. In the New England States Mr. PENDLETON is busy canvassing for Mr. SEYMOUR and General BLAIR,and has met in some quarters with an enthusiastic reception. : If the New England States give in their adhesion to the Democratic candidates they will have a good chance of success. It will be a singular, though, under present circumstances, not an improbable thing, if the Northern electors should vote for the Demo crats, and the Southern electors for the Radicals. The fact is that the common sense of the Northerners sees that the real interests of the country are being sacrificed by the Radicals, who have raised the taxation to an enormous height by their lavish and reckless expenditure at a time when the finances were exhausted by a protracted and costly war, and the greatest prudence and watchfulness was needed. The Radicals of Congress voted large bounties to the soldiers for the sake of securing the military interest in favour of their party ; they voted large sums for themselves on pretence of travelling expenses; they kept up a costly system of military rule in the South, and used every effort to keep those great producing States impoverished and desolate. The Protective interest, too, is very strong in the present Congress, and that has helped to keep back the progress of trade and the development of com merce. The Reciprocity Treaty with Canada has never been renewed, as it has been part of the Radical programme to threaten war with Eng land. Then the perpetual quarrels between PRE SIDENT and Congress has kept up a state of public feeling most undesirable and unprofitable. The price of gold under the Radical auspices is evi dence sufficient that they have completely failed to inspire that public confidence and security without which no nation can flourish. If the De mocrats had been able to exercise a more decided influence on political affairs, :and to oppose the progress of the Radicals, the fall of the latter might have been less speedy and less complete. As it is, they have had every advantage. No one can pretend that their views or policy have been inter fered with. Even the PRESIDENT himself has been powerless to check them. They have had at least two years to experiment on, and what is the result ? It is no great wonder that the shrewd politicians of New England begin to repent of their bargain, and are inclined to try whether the altered side of poli tics cannot produce a more satisfactory state of affairs ? LATEST INTELL MENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. The National Company's steamship France arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Closing prices :—Gold, 145. Sterling exchange on London, 109+. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 113+ ; ditto, 1885, 111+ ; 10-40 Bonds, 105+ ex coupon. Illinois, 145 ; Erie, 464. Cot ton, middling upland, 301. Petroleum, standard white, 311. Flour, extra state, $8 100. to $8 70c. Corn, old mixed, $1 24c. PIIILADELPHIA, Sept, 2, 1 a.m. The Republicans have carried the election in Vermont. Their majority is 27,000—a Republican gain of 7,000. An In(lian massacre is reported in Colorado. Nine persons have been United States troops are being sent to the western border. An Indian war is impending. The Canadians have appointed an agent to nego tiate a new Reciprocity Treaty. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS, (FROM OIJR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) k PARIS. TUESDAY, September I. The question of Ministerial modifications is treated in detail by several of the journals here. The Ministry of State is to be suppressed, says one report, and M. Rouher is to be made Minister of Finance and President of the Council. M. Pinard, at present Minister of the Interior, is to be replaced by M. Ernest Leroy, Prefect of Rouen. This scheme takes no account of M. Magne, who would be supplanted by M. Rouher in the Finance Department. Another combination, published in the Figaro, gives the portfolio of the Interior to M. Buffet, deputy ; the War Ministry to General Trochu ; preserves M. Magne as Finance Minister; and does not change the functions of the statesman, M, Rouher. The Gaulois solves the problem of the day—the visit of the Count and Countess de Girgenti to Fontainebleau. The solution of the Gaulois is not very novel—and, alas ! there are no means of determining whether it be the correct solution but it bears the appearance of probability. An alliance, offensive and defensive, between France and Spain, is the key to the mystery. It was to conclude this alliance that the Queen of Spain desired an interview with the Emperor of the French—a request which was not conceded. The Emperor probably wished to avoid the public excitement which invariably follows these royal interviews ; and it is just possible that the visit of the Count and Countess de Girgenti was planned as a substitute. According to the Gautois the terms of a secret convention have been settled, and the Count and Countess are come to arrange the details. The stipulations were that Spain should supply 40,000 men and a naval force for the defence of the Pope in case of war between France and any other European power. In return France was to protect Spain from attacks both without and within. This is the diffi culty. The Emperor is willing to lend assistance to Spain in case of a foreign attack, but hesitates to guarantee the Unstable throne of Queen Isabella against revolution. The Mexican affair is too terrible a warning to be readily for- gotten. No foreign enemy is likely to strive for the barren honour of conquering Spain, but the prospect of the dynasty being overturned from within is imminent. The Emperor may well recoil from the task of putting down Spanish insurrections by French bayonets. Another journal in the hands of the authorities ! The Correctional Tribunal of Nantes has condemned one of the contributors and the proprietor of the Esperance du Peuple in fines of £io and £4O respectively. The final acceptation by M. Dufaure of the Opposition candidature in the Var department is considered to afford a great chance of success to the Democrats. The election of M. Grbvy in the Jura has revived the hopes of the party, and the acquisition of so excellent a candidate as M. Dufaure, who, if returned, would doubtless rank as one of the best debaters of the Corps Legislatif, renders them confident. The official journals, I see, speak of the election in a very angry tone. The success of M. Dufaure would produce an effect anything but agree able at the Tuileries. M. de Montalembert is recovering, though somewhat slowly, from the effects of his accident. M. Neaton has not deemed it necessary to continue his attentions. A poisoning case has just been decided in the Assize Court of the Seine. The poisoner was found guilty, with extenuating circumstances, and condemned to imprison. ment for life. From the following brief details your readers will be able to judge how far the plea of extenuat ing circumstances has become a legal fiction to prevent the punishment of death. The poisoner, Ringard by name, was married to his cousin, and had seven children. He was a bad husband and a bad father. His cruelty was incessant, and his infidelities numerous ; lie formed an illicit connection with his niece, and persecuted his sister-in-law with his assiduities. Five of his chil dren died—one at least, it is believed, from want of proper treatment. His wife left him on one occasion, but was induced to return, an indulgence which was duly rewarded by frequent threats of poisoning, which were ultimately put into execution by means of cyanide of potassium. Madame Ringard and her son were both poisoned ; but the child recovered, whilst the mother died. The wretched poisoner when told that his wife was dying manifested the utmost indifference, and would not even go and see her. If these are extenuating circumstances, when is a murderer wholly and unjustifiably guilty ? The North-East Correspondence contradicts the report of the intention of the Russian Government to propose a European Congress, with the view of a general disarma ment. The Cabinet of Berlin questioned Prince Gortscha koff on the subject, thinking it possible that the Con ference which is to meet at St. Petersburg to determine the use of explosive bullets in war fare might undertake still more important questions. The reply of the Russian statesman was in the negative. On the other hand, the evidence of constant diplomats communications het' ~, : z ranee Co.tscilakoff and Lord Stanley, during the stay of the latter at Lucerne, is not to be despised ; though it does not at all follow that this interchange of despatches relates to a Congress. The Baden journals consider the ircorporation of the Grand Duchy with Prussia to be merely a question of time. The Minister of War is a Prussian, and the mili tary system is so completely identical with that of Prussia that the entrance of Baden into the Confederation of the North could be effected without the slightest difficulty. These facts and the speech of the Minister Beyer at the " jubilee " banquet, to which we recently alluded, point to further conclusions. They strengthen the presumption that the terms of any military union amongst the States of the South in which Baden may form part will in great measure be dictated by Prussia. The news from Japan contains some wild rumours respecting the defeat of 20,000 men by 1,500, besides other terrible battles, and an infinity of executions. In the acceptation of these statements it will be well to " reserve all rights." But it seems certain that the native Christians have been very hardly treated under the rule of the Mikado, and that two more battles have been fought in which the partisans of the Tycoon have gained the advantage over Satsouma, who rules in the name of the Mikado. The Government of the latter has been discredited by the persecutions against the native Christians. Fearing final defeat, the party of Satsouma has offered to refer all differences to the arbitration of England, France, and the United States. It must not be forgotten that the Tycoon takes no active part in these struggles. According to all accounts he is content to do the ruling, but leaves the fighting to his subordinates, shutting himself up and awaiting the issue of affairs with the most enviable equanimity. An attorney, named Moreton, has been applying for a license for a public-house. The Liverpool magistrates, who heard the application, refused it. The application for licenses at Liverpool causes no little excitement. A solicitor charged the bench with " audacity," one of the magistrates having voted without hearing a case. The solicitor said, " man's sins should not always be visited upon him, for if they were their worships'—and more especially one or two he saw on the bench—would not escape condemna tion." The bench called him to order. They could not have done much less. An able and powerful lawyer is sometimes too much for the peace of mind of provincial magistrates, but this sort of thing is rather undignified. A matter:of some importance is broached in the Times by " A Railway Director." He denounces in no measured terms the practice of feeing guards and porters. It is absurd to pay a man for doing what the passenger should have done for nothing, and it is questionable morality to pay a man for doing what he ought not to do at all. To wink at smoking, bringing a cigar, and locking a door so that no one may enter a carriage, may be small sins, but they tend to give the servants thus tempted a disregard for rules and laws. " I will not," says the correspondent, "pretend to measure the exact extent to which the moral sense of a man hourly in the receipt of bribes of any sort must be blunted, nor the contempt for all rule and law which must be engendered by the hourly breach of those which he knows it is his special duty to obey, nor the con- tinued deceit which he is obliged to keep up to avoid detection. But what possible right has one to expect that an uneducated porter should feel it his duty to dis- criminate between the laws he is taught and paid by passengers to disregard and those which he may break or neglect for his own convenience or comfort? How much may the accidents which arise from breach of duty be attributable to selfish disregard of right and wrong on the part of passengers ? " The usual charitable appeals which, as a rule, commence In November, have started early indeed this year. Ere September has really commenced, and while yet the wealthy are on their holidays, "Mary Stanley" writes to the Times, suggesting that just now coals and provisions are cheaper than they are late in the season. If, there fore, she had money now, she could lay up a store for the poor about one-third of what it would cost at Christmas. There is much of reason in this appeal. But is it advisable that such stores should exist ? Would they not tacitly sanction a want of economy amongst the poor? A great deal of the distress existing in the winter is caused by a want cf economy and frugality when work is plentiful and food is cheap. It is only the fable of the "Grasshopper and the Ant " over again. What is really wanted is, that the practice of living from hand to mouth should be dis couraged. If the suggestion of Miss Stanley were carried out, would it not be rather encouraged ? APPEAL DAY AT MILE-END. —A petty sessions for the hearing of appeals against the parochial rates has been held at Mile-end Old Town. About 6,000 summonses had been issued, or an addition of about 5,000 on the number served in 1867, previous to the abolition of the compound ing system. There were between 500 and 600 appeals, the majority from persons occupying a humble position, and tbo titkeikdkitreaß were hurowinz in the extreme. DISQUAIF.I7.4p,,,CANDIDATES, , CA 'conte m p ora ry says ' The candidature of any 'o'4 • , who has bed convicted on a former occasion of tampering with electoral virtue i s i n it se lf an insult to a respectable constituency, and should be at once resented by a refusal even to listen to any proposals from such a quarter. It is not without some astonishment that we find such men as Mr. John Pender and Sir Edmund Lacon seeking to be returned to Parliament, but we can only presume that it is in ignorance or forgetfulness of their antecedents that the electors of Linlithgowshire and North Norfolk afford them the slightest countenance. It may be as well, therefore, to recall some passages in the reports of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the existence of corrupt practices in the now disfranchised boroughs of Totnes and Great Yar mouth. If the Parliamentary Elections Act had become law three years earlier, Mr. Pender would have been incapable until 1874, not only of being elected to, or sitting in, the House of Commons, but of being registered as a voter, of being appointed or acting as a justice of the peace, and of holding any judicial or muni• cipal office whatever. The accident of time has saved him from these just consequences of his conduct. But though an Act of Parliament ought not to be retro spective, the action of a constituency may and ought to be so. Bribery was as much an offence against public policy and positive law before the recent measure was passed as it is now ; and as decency has not availed to prevent a man whose acts, if committed since the 31st of July, 1868, would condemn him to seven years' disfranchisement from offering him self as a candidate, we can only hope that decency will prevent the electors of Linlithgowshire from returning him as their member. Sir Edmund Lacon's position may not be such an open outrage upon political morality as Mr. Pender's, but we believe that such men as he are at least equally responsible for the corruption by which they have profited. If no candidates presented themselves to notoriously corrupt constituencies but such as made no secret of their readiness to bribe when required, it would at least help to ticket these electoral plague spots more unmistakably. GREECE. ATHENS, Sept. 1. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of M. Counioundouros, late President of the Cabinet, and now chief of the Opposition, together with four others, for their conduct during the recent elections. FRANCE. PARIS, Sept. 2. The Moniteur of this morning reprints the peace ful speech delivered by M. Magne, Minister of Finance, at a banquet at Perigneux on the 26th ult. The commission for fixing the indemnity to be granted to the Mexican bondholders has completed its labours. Every bondholder entitled to indemni fication will, as a first instalment, receive 30 per cert. of the amount of his share of the capital appro priated for the liquidation of the claims. BOURSE, Sept. I.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month... Ital , an Loan 3 per Cent End of month 7O 821 Mexican Loan ... 23 50 Credit Mobilier End of month... 277 75 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier ...1435 Home Debt — End of month... Deferred — —• RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans ... 906 Northern ll7B Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 5Bl Western 587 Eastern .. 565 Sardinian Austrian 541 Lombard 415 North of Spain 5l Saragogaa Roman 35 Mr. Provost Paradol in the Debats exposes the disadvantages of personal government. lle writes : —4 4 If the interests of France were not at stake one could afford to laugh at the squabbling be tween the semi-official journals, but what is really ridiculous is that any journal should presume to inform us of what is about to happen. We have often had occasion to remark that few Frenchmen as yet understand the principle of the Constitution under which we have lived for the last sixteen years. One reason is that several terms used under the parliamentary regime have survived the ruin of that regime, and lead citizens astray. The word minister, for example, has a far different significa tion now from what it meant formerly, and pro duces constant confusion. Even well-informed journals are deceived by the appellation. The France spoke a short while ago of an interview be tween Lord Stanley and M. de Moustier, and an ticipated the gravest consequences from this meet ing between the real an-I effective master of the foreign policy of England and the distinguished functionary who, under our Constitution, is simply charged to carry out the orders of the Sovereign." M. Paradol then points out that if, when the Mexican expedition had been determined on, M. Billault made certain promises which were not ob served, people were wrong to blame him for break. ing his word, as he was only the mouthpiece of the Government, and not a real Minister. M. Paradol does not go so far as to say that under the present system a Minister's word has no authority ; he knows what has taken place, but not what will take place. It is for this reason that the semi official journals who seek their inspiration from different Ministers take opposite views of the posi tion of affairs. Ministers are as much divided in opinion as the public as to what is going to hap pen. - FRACAS IN A CHURCH. The South-Eastern Gazette, in its Rochester and Chatham column, tells the following story :—" Just before the commencement of divine service at St. Margaret's church on Sunday morning, some surprise was caused among the congregation who witnessed the occurrence at a fracas between the clerk and sexton of the parish and the pew-opener at the church. It would appear that a lengthened course of legal proceedings have been for some time past in progress between Kingsford, who now holds the offices of clerk and sexton of the parish, against P. Weller, the former clerk and sexton, to deprive him of those offices, which he had held for a great number of years. The result of the proceedings has terminated in Kingsford taking the clerkship and sextonship of the parish, while Weller, the former holder, has been deprived not only of his means of livelihood, but has been actually driven to bankruptcy. A considerable amount of sympathy and indignation against Kingsford is accordingly felt in the parish, the church committee still employing the late clerk and sexton as pew-opener and for other purposes connected with the church, and refusing to recognise his successor. On Sunday Weller was in the act of escorting the officiating clergyman to the reading desk, when Kings ford attempted to prevent his doing so, on which Weller either struck or pushed him down the steps leading to the reading-desk. The occurrence, just before the commence ment of divine service, has given much pain to those who witnessed it. One of the congregation has, we are informed, since laid the circumstance before the bishop of the diocese, in order that he might interfere to prevent such an unseemly occurrence again." THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. Extreme Sea Wednesday, 1 Sep ta T. ber 2, B. T 1 .4 W. Ito F. D. W It. to m. I;t 1 12 9 Nairn Aberdeen J Leith Shields Scarborough 30'29r. 59 56 W. I 2 4 W.N.W. c.b. 2 Yarmouth 3o'32r. 59 56 IV.N.W. 2 3 N.W. c.b. 2 Helder Cuxhaven — Skudesines 30'06 53 W.N.W. 2 W.N.W. 0. 2 Ardrossan 30•26 r. 59 57 S. 2 3 N.W. C. o'ol 1 Greencastle 30 22r. 57 55 W. '.W. 1 4 W. 0.0. Holyhead Liverpool Valet' tia ci r OCl,Vs — Pt. iiT5l g: 1 _ Penzance 30•31 f. 58 /54 Z. 0 3 W.N.W. c.b. 2 Plymouth Weymo uth 1 30'33r . 59 68 N.W. 2 3 W. Ib. Portsmouth 30'32r. 58 56 N.W. 1 3 W.N.W.'b 1 London l.. 30'::3r. 55 154 Z. 0 4 W. b.f. C'peGris Nez 34.119 r. 63 !61 Z. 0 7 W. b. 1 Brest .... 1 L'Orie t . . 30'26f. (9 57 E N.E. 4 3 W. c.b. 2 Roche fort Biarritz .. 30'18f. 642 66 N. 4 b. 3 Cormin a Brussels Paris Strasbourg — Lyons Toulon Heart's Con tent (6 a.m. local time) IXPLANATION. Duo ter corrected and reduced to 32 deg. a sea level. The letter r., rising; f., falling; s., steady—indicate direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather : 11—blue sky ; e.—clouds. detached ; f.—fog ; h.—hail; I.—lightnin g in.—misty, hazy : o. —overcast, dull; r. —rain; e. —snow; I.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail (melted) during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. Atmospherical pressure is generally uniform and high, an increase since yesterday having taken place at all stations except at Valencia. In the N. the difference shewn in the last twenty-four hours is three tenths of an inch, but the change in southern districts has been of less extent. Since last evening a slight fall has occurred at stations in the S.W. Temperature has fallen in the S. and E. of our islands, but has risen in the N. and W. Moderate westerly winds generally prevailed yesterday. On our southern and western coasts the wind is now very light and southerly, and calms are reported at places. In the N. the wind continues westerly. The weather is cloudy in the W., but it isilne on the other coasts. Fog and mist are reported in places. Lord Arthur P. Clinton, M.P. for Newark, has been performing at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, for Frederic Maccabe's farewell benefit. As all interests should have a representative in the House of Commons, the gallant Adullamite, if he be returned to the next Parliament, can take theatrical matters under his special protection. The present state of the law upon the performance of stage plays and the powers of the Lord Chamberlain are a Gordian knot which it will take an ingenious man to untwist. All Cardiff is en flee. In a few days the Lord of Cardiff will come of age. The Scotch proprietor of this Welsh town already has a history. His father, the second mar quis—grandson of the well-known Tory Minister whom the subjects of George 111. so cordially detested—was a far-seeing man. Being proprietor of all the land on which the present town of Cardiff is built and all the adjacent property, with its inexhaustible stores of mineral wealth, he saw that these stores would never be of service to him unless he rendered them more accessible. So he con structed docks and laid down railways, and the result is that whereas in 1814 Cardiff was a poor town of 2,500 in habitants, it now contains 60,000 persons, and is the fourth port in the United Kingdom. The late Marquis married first Lady Maria North, who died twenty-three years later without issue, and it was supposed that his brother, Lord James Stuart, would inherit his vast wealth. But the Marquis took it into his head to marry again, and his second wife, the daughter of the first Marquis of Hastings, gave him a son two and a-half years later. This son, the present marquis, had rather tragical surroundings. His uncle, the heir-expectant, died of disappointment ; and his father died suddenly of apoplexy in the midst of the rejoicing which celebrated the birth of the heir. Some years later the child marquis became the subjeCt of severe litigation in Chancery ; for his mother having died in 1851 his relatives quarrelled as to who should bring ur , the young Crcesus. Of late years he has been at Oxford ; where has given rise to much gossip through his wstlietic coquettings with ecclesiastics and ecclesiologists of a very advanced school. His secession to Rome has heel, several times announced and denied. He has been fre quently seen at the Roman chapel in Oxford, and has, we believe, always given out that he has never joined the Church of England. But whether he has actually left flu Presbyterian faith, in which lie has been brought up, fom the Roman, is still a mystery which will probably be very soon unfolded. The politics of the young peer are just now as much a matter of speculation as hie religion. Hitherto the Bute influence has been used in favour of the Liberals, but it is now understood that it will be thrown into the opposite scale, and Radical news papers, which saw without emotion the exercise of " territorial tyranny " so long as it was used in their behalf, are denouncing it now that it is used against them. As the 60,000 inhabitants of Cardiff are all ;tenants of the Marquis, they will,—though, like all the _Welsh, strongly Liberal—probably elect a Tory. It is said that the income Df the peer who is just attaining his majority will be not less than £300,000. Besides this he comes into possession of an amount that has accumulated during his minority which must be reckoned by millions. What this young nobleman will do with his wealth becomes therefore a matter of almost national importance. If it be true that we learn from „other men more in the way of warning than example, there is_.a rfil i ttyp of 114 Apoosixon ii4.w ll do wall to etuds. THE WAR IN BRAZIL. RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 7. The Anglo-Brazilian Times contains the following remarks on the fall of Humaita After a siege of almost two years and a half duration, and the expenditure of tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of thousands of contos of reis, the primary object of the Allied Powers engaged in the Paraguayan war has been attained in the abandonment of Humaita to them by its starving garrison. The importance of the event is great in a military as well as in a political point of view. A secure basis has been obtained by the Allies for their further operations, and 40,000 men and 30 armed vessels have been released to carry on the war, it may be, through the length and breadth of Para guay. But can or will the Paraguayans resist to such a stretch of desperation as to require the operations of such a costly force for another term of undefinable duration ? We confess the difficulties which arise when the attempt is made to estimate the extent of the re sources of the Paraguayans, or their temper for enduring the terrible sacrifices of such a war. They have hitherto shown the blindest devotion to their ruler, the self-abnegation of fanatics, but will they continue to manifest the same spirit of resignation and obedience now that the lots of their great fortress has, admirably and long as it had been defended, shown their weakness in power of num bers to contend with the nations he provoked by his aggressions ? In ordinary cases the failure to preserve such an important stronghold as Hu maita would be accepted as decisive, but fanatics and fanaticism cannot be judged by ordinary rules, and it may be that to forcibly subdue a resistance which has called even Paraguayan women under arms may yet consume more tens of thousands of lives and more hundreds of thousands of contos in many months of a dangerous internal warfare. Let us consider what the Allies may have in such a case to do. With Ilumaita in their possession, Timbo and the Chaco in general must be abandoned by the Paraguayans, and, as far as is now known, no other point upon the River Paraguay is fortified to such an extent as to close the river to the passage of armed vessels—above all ironclads—the only serious obstacle being a battery just above the Teciquary. But, in the rear of the river Tecio nary, a river im portant as a defence and for its communication with Villa Rica and the centre of Paraguay, works have been found stretching from its mouth, and all accounts agree that, beyond where the ironclads could co-operate with the Allied army in attacking, Lopez has ably availed himself of the leisure afforded him by the long siege of Hu maita to raise new defences of a most formidable character, and that even if these were forced he has other strong positions to retire upon in the direction of his arsenals and base at Villa Rica. Of the difficulty of expelling the Paraguayans from strongholds in their unknown wilds and savannahs there have been three years' experience. To follow them up and attack them in their inner wilds, far away from fleet and base, must prove, it cannot be denied, still more difficult, still more wasteful of life, treasure, and time. But is it neces sary that the allies should undertake to carry on ouch a disadvantageous and costly war to them selves ? We have seen how many months Humaita, iso lated and weakly garrisoned, held at bay all the forces of the allies. Now it has become theirs with all its cannon, and its defences virtually uninjured. With that possession of the rivers which the iron clads give, 4,000 men would render it impregnable. If then the allies were to abandon further offensive operations, were to confine themselves to the pos session of that important post to clearing Matto Grosso of its invaders, to holding the rivers, and in viting the Paraguayans to come to terms of peace, a single corps of the Allied army and half a dozen ironclads and gunboats would suffice for all the exigencies of such defensive tactics,which, throwing all the difficulties of the initiative upon the Para guayans, would weary and exhaust them the mere. twat they would ne no longer spurred by the thought that they were defending their own lares from attack. With the quiet of reaction would come reflection and longings for peace, which would Allow the influence of reason to convince them that in fighting against the aggression of the ruler the Allies were animated by no feeling of hostility to the people, and entertained no design against its independence and liberties. We believe that his Excellency the Visconde le Staborahy, previous at least to his accept ance of the chief executive power of the em pire, favoured views in regard to the war analogous to those which we have just traced; and we appeal to him, to him who must well know how impossible it will be for the Brazilian nation to longer bear the depleting expenditure of blood and treasure in the Paraguayan war as heretofore it was waged to carry out a policy which will avoid the ruin of the nation and of those many important interests so in timately bound up with its prosperity. He must be also aware that the phase which the struggle has bedn threatening of late to assume is such that public opinion must force the Go vernments of Europe and North America to interfere to prevent its wearing the characteristics of a war of extermination, in which the Paraguayan women will be involved, thereby outraging hu manity and disgracing the civilisation of the pre sent era. The honour of the Brazilian nation has now been vindicated by the fall of that fortress, which formed the boast and reliance of the enemy, and which he pronounced invincible. Let Brazil then rest con tent with a triumph which restores the lustre of her honour, and let her avoid unpledging her reputation in seeking further material triumphs. Let her pause and rejoice in what she has achieved at so great a cost, averting by a wise moderation the in crease of her internal difficulties and the creation of outer complications, imminent, it is evident, in view of the state of public opinion abroad upon the arraying of Allied battalions against combatants of the weaker sex. THE IRISH NATIONALISTS. A difference of opinion exists between John Mitchel and John Martin as to the propriety of the latter accepting a seat in Parliament, and some con troversy on the subject has occurred between them. Mr. Mitchel utterly repudiates the idea that the national cause can be served by parliamentary action, and declares that the sole aim of the Irish patriot should be separation from England by the instrumentality of the sword. The presence of an Irish patriot like John Martin in the British House of Commons could only, according to Mr. Mitchel's view, compromise the personal character and influence of the man, and injure the cause he represents by its seeming acquiescence in the ex isting state of things. Mr. Martin takes quite a different view of the matter, and states his opinions in a letter to the Nation. He urges that, as a member of the House of Com mons, he could still speak and act as an Irishman, advocating legislative independence, and that "ap pearing in the London Parliament purely as a representative of his country's desire and deter mination" to get rid of that Parliament's usurped authority, he could make his position, with the additional influence it gave him, sub servient to the attainment of the national will. Remarking that a fundamental difference of opi nion exists between himself and Mr. Mitchel as to the means by which the independence of Ireland is to be achieved, Mr. Martin observes : "It is my opinion that the Irish at home and abroad, if they will consent to co-operate for such an object, have means within their reach for co ercing England into a peaceful restitution of our ❑ational rights. And it is also my opinion that, to some extent, I could aid my countrymen in labour ing for that great end if an Irish constituency were to give me the position of its parliamentary repre sentative."— Cork Examiner. Accounts have been received of an alarming shock of earthquake at Jaszbereny, in Hungary, on the 28th ult. HER MAJESTY. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, and attended by the Marchioness of Ely, Colonel PonsonLy, 80.1 is expected, according to the most recent arrange ments, to return from Switzerland to Windsor Castle about the 10th or 12th inst. Her Majesty will remain for three days at Wind sor Castle, and will then proceed to Scotland. The horses of the Royal stud, for the use of the Queen and the Royal Family in the Highlands, will be embarked at London, and forwarded by sea to the north of Scotland about the 12th inst. A Trintit Caen. IHE REJI_4INS OF WILLIA,II RUFUS. It is well known that the body of the Red-haired King, defiled with dust and dirt, was rather unce remoniously conveyed to Winchester, and buried in the centre of the cathedral choir, after the fatal shot of Walter Tyrrell, in the New Fores, now just 768 years ago, "many persons looking on," says William of Malmesbury, " but few grieving." The bones :were, it is conjectured, afterwards entombed by his nephew, Bishop de Blois, and at a subsequent period, the date of which does not appear to be accurately known, they were removed to the spot which has now been occupied by the sarcophagus for many long years, near the altar, between the north and south doors of the choir. During the great Revolution many of the tombs of illustrious persons were violated by Cromwell's fanatic sol diery, who, it is recorded, used the bones of the defunct as missiles to demolish the painted win dows of the church. They were consequently scattered about, and many of them lost. Such as were recovered at the time of the Restora tion were collected by the cathedral authorities, and placed iu six mortuary chests. These chests are ranged three on either side of the partition walls which stand on each side of the altar, and among the bones deposited in them were supposed to be those of William Rufus, as set forth by the follow ing inscriptions, now nearly illegible :—" In hac et altera a regione cista reliquias cunt Cauti et Rua Regum, Emma Regina, Winne et Alwini Episcopo rum ;" and on the opposite side :—" Hac in cista, A.D. 1661, promiscue recondita sunt ossa Principum et Pra3latorum sacrilega barbarie dispersa, A.D. 1642." The sarcophagus was opened on Thursday last to ascertain whether it contained any remains. The sarcophagus itself is of Bath stone, one block hol lowed out, about two feet deep from the raised lid, which is of grey or Purbeck marble. The shape is commonly called dos d'eine. The inside length was found to be Eft. Bin., outside about 7ft. Gill' When the covering was removed, and the dust had been sifted, the almost perfect skele ton of a man was discovered by the surgeons wile had been called in to assist at the examination . There were fragments of the skull, the vertebras al' most complete, parts of the pelvis and sacrum, the bones of the arms, jawbones, the femoral bones, and the two tibias, the two lastnamed being nearly per' feet. there was also part of the right orbit, the two temporal bones, with the retros and mastoid portions complete, but there were no collar bones, and only aid ribs could be found. Nine teeth, remarkably soun d and perfect, were discovered. In addition to these human remains' several curiosities were found -- namely, a number of distinct joints of wood, possi bly a rude ensign of authority ; a turquoise sto le which had apparently been set in a ring ; a ve r y small bead of an animal, probably fabulous, beau tifully carved in ivory, but dulled with age; som e pieces of cloth with gold embroidery ; and el small quantity of lead, not sufficient, bel l : ever, to give the idea that a leaden coffin ha' been used, unless the great mass had been previ ously removed. It crumbled with pressure. Among the sifted dust, however, there were evidently con siderable portions of pulverized lead, as shown by its weignr. - vv au the view of ascertaining th e height of the individual when alive several por tions of the body were measured. It was found that the tibias (leg bones) were IG,fin. long' which would give, including the cartilages, at least 17in. in the living body ; the femurs (thigh bones) measured 19in., thus making to the hil! 3ft. 2in. The spine was 26in. long., and w it '', the general appearances of the other parts °` the body would lead to the conclusion that th e skeleton was that of a man Oft. Bin. or 5f t. gin. in height. The ankle bones were found in the centr e of the sarcophagus, thus showing a positive die placement at some former period. The examina tion conclusively established the fact that the re mains were those of one individual only—the bo nes of a man, and fully believed to be those of Rufus. By the direction of the authorities the r e ' lies were carefully replaced in the sarcophagus, of ter a detailed account had been ordered to be dra w„ ; up, and the ashes of the King will no doubt ag all remain undisturbed for many generations to com a —The Times. FRANCE AND PRUSSIA. • •11 The Spectator has an article comparing the ni l : tary and naval strength of France and Prus sia ; Germany north of the Maine, when reckoned up a generals reckon up states, is not yet the strong e e power of the two. Her area is less by a fiftb ,t t st figures being 7,538 German square miles ar e l , 9,850, her population by seven millions, or 0 031. 4 a million and a half of arms-bearing men. of true that in very great wars area is 11 ° - go much importance, and that Berlin is 2,619 miles from the French frontier, while pa res 10 ,0 0 only 130 miles from that of Prussia. It i s 11 1 true that population in Prussia augments at " tie rate of 21 per cent. per annum, doubling in more than forty years, while that of France is st et tionary ; but we are speaking not of the future , b io the present. And, finally, it is true that, exceP t i 3 O a war like that between the North and South a t' Union, the ultimate resources in men are never er hausted, and a difference even of millions 1 1 0 therefore, never count ; but, on the other hand, t ar Hohenzollerns have not above 300,000 reg r i troops in garrison or reserve—in the strict raill o , sense of thoso words—while France has 60 ° 1° nail When mobilised the two powers are tolerably ec t o ot but it may be doubted if the - Hohenzollerns, witu th e utterly disorganising society, could suniceolli, 900,000 men whom Napoleon, withou t alt er pating conscriptions, has the legal power to 0 , pend. At sea the comparison is even re°re l ets favourable to North Germany. She ha s a s pree did merchant service, comprising, when tb e oB 0 00 Towns are added, 1,150,000 tons against I,l:Vara tons belonging to France, and, owing to tli f,f re fore ter of her trade, her ships are bigger, and tu" o nly better fitted for transport. But she bit s D ead 549 guns at sea altogether, and only three ir ° b ti do o frigates, and it would take months t° ted, any large new supply. Doubtless, if the war!bitoSogli she could obtain more, for North GerrnanY7 och her administration is expensive, is only half as ug h taxed as France. But this advantage, t h° ,. o rice• enormous one in the long run, Pruss ia ' re aG France might be exhausted before for France, as M. Magne has shown, can w a rs °` sent obtain any money she wants, and the.wilieh to-day are rarely carried up to the point st t o f a ll national exhaustion begins to be felt, 105,5 deed wars for reputation and territory. It 'flay that Prussia has no reservoir of energy lik e will not tell at ------ - ------- ---- so dangerous in peace,sL - )v:Litliale in w --- --- ar. ---- 0 THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. —hue e nor h ot crowded liis audience assembled within thee.) -walls t ° - ue s Batoman's " Leah." That* fact, tog-ether vrithfre enthusiasm displayed, is strong confirmation ef `the oat quently expressed conviction that her perfortnauce °.0500 character is ono of the most extraordinary day. m At first the hypercritically inclined would ion" ake people believe that the charm of the renderieg - a aP sisted in ' its perfect novelty. The brilliant 10 0— to s' plauded her as warmly as over which was a precoll4oritf of the P' foja timony to her ability, for it was manifest that their or og were familiar with the performance. The curtaitoo, raised after every act, in compliance with the PP, T e , and three times was she called before the curtain. ---'I pool Daily Post.