The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EiriPG, OCTOBER 8, 1864.

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thought, deliberate judgment, sod respansib6
action. The sole end of thisso"extraoillialf,
" manifestations" is to stipulate and, gratify
the emotion of wolder.•• This feat. !is
a strong and pleasurable one, and its legitimate
gratification naturally leads to useful and impor-
tant results. As the appointed stimulus of our
active powers, it tends, when directed towards its
appropriate objects, to augment both our know•
ledge and oar reverence, and thus to strengthen
and develop both the intellect and the moral
nature. But in these sensational &dances the
mere gratification of the emotions is the
only object in view, and it matters little,
therefore, what means are employed for
the purpose. Any device that can suc-
ceed in calling forth the emasculated
feelings of surprise, astonishment, and curiosity
• be eagerly welcomed, and may reckon with
confidence on being raised to the dignity of a spi-
ritual power. But the feelings thus excited lead,
and can lead, to no possible result, the wonder
being wholly barren and the curiosity idle, as
those who resort to such artificial stimulants for
their gratification may easily convince themselves
if they care to examine and reflect under a
due sense of responsibility. The emotions
of wonder, admiration, and reverence are in
such cases merely played with like childish
toys, and those who find a childish delight in the',
pastime appear to imagine that by transferring to
it epithets derived from the most profound and
impressive realities of our morel nature, such an
occupation of time becomes at all events innocent,
if not positively praiseworthy. It is important,
therefore, that the truth should be plainly told.
Such miserable trifling with noble emotions is not
only utterly unworthy of any serious and manly
mind, but must in the nature of the case lead to
most injurionsresulta. To divorce any emotion from
its true objects and ends is to abuse and degrade
it, and to do thus with regard to the emotions that
lead ua beyond the world of sense tends directly to
dry up the most sacredsprings of belief and action.
To designate this ruinous abuse of our intellectual
and moral nature by the name of Spiritualism is
imply to aggravate the outrage thus committed
against the supreme serious interest& of truth and
duty.

!Mt Court.

BALMOR ILL, Oct. 6.

The Queen drove out yesterday morning, accom-
paaied by Princess Helios ; and in the afternoon her
Majesty, aconmpanied by Princess Helena and Prince
Arthur, went to Craig Cloak.

MlNlsraniAL MOVE 3110711. Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston have arrivcd at Cambridge-hone,
Piccadilly, from Browllands ; Earl Russell, accompanied
by the Countess Rowell and the Ladies Rama!, was ex-
pected at Pembroke.loige, Richmond, last evening from
Scotland, having on their way stayed on &visit to the Right
Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood. at Rielletoo-
hall, Yorksh,-e. The Lord Chancellor will give his break-
fast to the fudges and the Queen's counsel at the noble and
learned lord's mansion in Upper Hyde-park-gardens on the
2nd of neat mouth, being the first day of Michaelmas Tern.

Hie Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will
leave Gloucester House, Piccadilly, early in the ensuing
week, for General Hall's seat in Gembriageshire, for a few
days' shooting.

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have ar-
rived at Apebsy Hausa trims the noble duke's shooting
quarters in Invernaes-shirs. The noble duke and duchess
shortly go to Strathiteldsaye.

The Duchess of Bumleach and Lady Victoria
Scott hays been in toms for several days, having axes from
Dramlam* Gads, N.B.

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His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and
the Countess Semites ff and family intend to leave St.
Leonard'sen-Sea at the end of this month for the Prussian
Embassy, on Carlton-hoosoterrane.

The Earl and Countess of Lincoln, immediately
after her ladvehip has recovered from her confinement, pur-
pose to leave Piccadilly, with their youthful family, to pass
a few weeks at Brighton.

The Earl Brow °low and Lady Marian Alford
intend to embark at Liverpool for Madeira on the 12th inst.,
with the purpose of paring the winter at that island.
Count and Countess de Flahault and Hon.
Madlle. Elphinstone de Flahanit are expected to leave Tal-
liallan, N. 8., the countess's seat, for Coventry Howe, Pic-
cadilly, early next week.

The Lord Chancellor will receive the judges and
the Queen's counsel at the noble and learned lord's residence
in Upper Hydepark-gardens, on Wednesday, the 2nd
proximo, being the first day of M•ebselmal Term. The
Lord Mayor elect, with the Recorder and civic authorities,
attend before the judges assemble.

Lord Ebury will return to Moor Park, Herb, on
Monday, from a tour in Scotland.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs.
Disraeli have been receiving • distinguished circle dories
the last fortnight at their insissioe, Hughenden
Beek& The guests included the Marquis of Salisbury, the
Countess Brownie., the Earl Blowlamp, Lord and Lady
Loraine, Lord Henry Lennox, Count Alexander A ppooyi,
Lord Courtenay, Lord Loughborough, ,Crineral and Lady
Mary and Min Hood, the Right Hon. Sir W. H. &Cite
and Mims Jol•Ke, the Right Hon. Sr: E. Lytton, H P., the
Hoe. F. Lygoo, and Mr. Arthor Russell.
Trials are still going on with gun-cotton.

The armour-clad ship RoydAlfred, 4,046 tone,
800 horse power, is to be launched from Portsmouth Dock-
yard on the 15th init.

Mr. Fechter, as at rwesent arranged (says the
London Renee) will open the Lyceum Theatre on Saturday.
Oct. 22. His opming piece will be a version of Panfaa la
Tulips, a drama by iL Paul Maurice, first produced at the
Ambigu-Comique, in Paris, near the close of 1838.

The Londtneßeri:w obierves that the old system
of season-publishing has suffered °attic innovations which
have entirely altered its former character. amoogst the
best customers of the Loodoo publishers are the large
shippers to Cakutta, Bombay. the Cape, Melbourne,
Sydney, sod the teat cities of No..h America. These
merchants, in order to supply distant parte at Christina'
and New Year, require their books soon after Midsummer,
and in Win way has come about much of that early publish-
ing which has marked the recent autumnal literary seasons.
Busks once printed and bound, it is difficult, we suppoes,
for publishers to witbst►nd thfe4r publication io England,
although they may have originally been only pushed on to
suit the requirements of a foreign demand.

Several Continental journals relate the follow-
ing:—" A °Degrees has just met at Brunswrok nos` ems
of princes! No. Of diplomatiste ? No—bat of hotel-
keepers. Grave and interesting questions were examined.
1. The complaint of foreigners at the high price of break-
tuts and dinners. 2. The complaints made against the
smallness of the bottles. 3. The outcry against the high
charge for waxlighte ; and:4. The diecooteet shown at the
bad attendance of the servants. What, think you, was the
decision 00010 to! That waxlighte, dimmers, breakfasts, aad
bottles were all for the beet, and that the only complaint
attended to should be that about the sensate."
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On the 15th inst. there will be published in
Milan the first number of a protestant fortnightly periodi-
cal, under the title of Raceoglitore Erangelko—tbe Ryan-
wheal Okaaer. Its editor is the English minister in that
city, the Rev. Prot, whose sermons in Italian are at-
tended by vast crowds.
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MISS FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE VOW:TN-
TEZ3B.—Miss Florence Nighties*le has written to Sir Harry
Verney. Hart, M.P.. her brother-io-law, intimating that it
is her intentios next sassoo to present the 3rd Bucks (Beek-
ingham sad Winslow) Volunteer Ride Corps with a pleos
of plate, to be competed for upon such terms as they may
arrange. Lady Verney, anxious to roacifest her interest in
the volunteer movement, boa also determioed to offer a
silver imp annually to be shot foe by members of the same
moPe.

THE Dry' Op CAMBRIDGE ♦T DOvER.--Yester-
day a grand re►iew and inepection of all the troops in the
Dover and Sharerliffe gardens' took place epos an extols.
rive plateau known u the Rand Down, midway between
Dover and Folkestone, before his Royal Highness the Com-
mander•in•Chief of the Forms.

LATEgT lirrEALianics.
POLAirD.
Thrilfoseow Gazette of Septenbq 28 publishes
an eighth list of persons who havebesn brought
before the courts-martial in the district of Kiev
and condemned for having participated in the late
Polish insurrection. This list contains the names
of 343 persons whose sentences have been con-
firmed by General Annenkoff. The /nvalide Russe
of the 30th has also a list of 19 condemna-
tions pronounced by the military commission
of Niemirow in Podolia. Amongst the condemned
are Siedroaki, a magistrate, aged 50, who was aen-
tamed to ten years forced labour in Siberia "for
secret participation in insurrectionary projects
against the lawful government." Stankievricz, a
noble, aged 21, is condemned to the like punish-
ment, "for having in his possession Polish books
of a revolutionary character." Stefanowicz,
a noble, aged 27, is condemned to four
years' forced labour in Siberia, "for having been
acquainted with the revolutionary police of Nie-
mirow, and with the intention of Misiewicz to
require from certain persons the revolutionary oath,
although he refused his co-operation when Miaie-
wicz asked him to give it." Touchowicz, aged 32, is
condemned to perpetual exile in Siberia, " for
knowing and not disclosing to the government
what was the nature of brudewicz's office." The
dismissed employe Dobrowaki, aged 33, is
condemned to the deprivation of his rights as a
citizen, and to banishment, "for having in his
house a powder mixed with poison, although he
was not convicted of having it in his posses-
sion with any criminal object." Lobotkiewicz,
noble, aged 44, is condemucxl to confinement within
the government of Penn "for having accepted the
revolutionary office of guardian to the children of
persons compromised for political offences."

(azurn's TELBOILLMIL)
FRANCE.

PLEB, Ocr. 8.

M. Bourree has been appointed French minister
to Lisbon, M. Gobinean to Athens, and M. Bondy
to the cou,t of the Elector of Hesse.

THE SPANISH SQUADRON IN THE
PACIFIC.
MADRID. OCT. 7.

The Noficias of to-day says :—" It it; asserted
that at a Council of Ministers held yesterday, the
recall of Admiral Pinzon was decided upon. Mea-
sures were also adopted for the future com,uand
sad destination of the Pacific squadron.

JAPAN.
(By toloirsph from Boos.)
SHAM:MAE, Anew 22.

According to the latest intelligence received here
from Japan the state of affairs had become more
complicated. There was a prospect of hostilities in
the Straits of Shimonoraki.

An attack on Prince Nagato's fortifications was
expected.

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.
ILELBOURNF, AUGUST 25.

Advices from New Zealand indicate the possi-
bility of peace. The rebels are suffering from want
of food.
No further military movements have taken place.

LOE ADDRESS TO "RI PEOPLE
OE THE UNITED STATES. 3,

Subjoased is a copy of a ladder from Sir
Henry de Hoghkon to the Governor of the State of
New York, and also the copy of an siker
from the people of this country to the people of
the United States, which wee despatched by the mail
steamer of last Saturday. We are informed that the signs,
tares to this address were obtained within three weeks
from the day upon which the first wee appended, and they
embrace every clam of the community. The clergy of all
denominatioes have supported it, esp xially the catholic
priesthood of Irelsud, 'from which orsintry more than
130,000 signatures were obtained. This total comprises
about 3.50,000 names.
16, Ooc.epor.street, London, Sept. 28,1864.
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EVE,—I have been deputed to forward to your excellency
an address from the people of Great Britain and Ireland to
the y oople of the United States of America, • copy of which
I have the brown to enclose. As the Bost to have signed
this addruse in the fervent hope that it might tend to pre-
moto place in America, I accepted the ofSoe, and trust that
you, sir, will take charge of it ss a missive from one great
nation b another, based upon the principles of
towards Christianity,
and of goods win oar fellow-men. Three hundred
thousand names were appended to thisaddress within the short
specie of three weak' from its first appearance and, with suf-
ficient time, I verily believe we might haveobtained those of
oine-tentbs of oar country. They commies mess of all
ranks, classes, religious, and politics, sod emanate from
every part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain acid
Ireland. It is our earnest desire that your exeellericy
would place our address before the people of the United
Ststeo of America in such a way as you may deem expedient
with a view to secure the object of our appeal. The address
will be conveyed to your excellency by the next mail
(leaving Liverpool on the lit October), in the personal
charge of Mr. Joseph Parker, of Manchester, whom I beg
to recommend to your excellency's protectiok —I have the
honour to be, sir, your most obedient sae vent,
HENRY DE HOOHTON, Baronet.
To his Excellency Horatio Seymour,
Governor of the State of New
York, &0., Sce., United States of
Americo.
THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND IRELAND TO THE PEOPLE OF THE vamp (STATEN OF
AXUIOA.

We are of the same race, and many of you are our
brothers. We, therefore, come to you u peacemaker, end
address you in Plain language as friends and as fellow. men.
We ask you—Has there not been enough of strife and blood-
shed, of mistily and suffering ; and is it cot time to came
the cruel war in which you are engaged ? There is not
• Christian man or woman amongst um whose heart does not
reap ood affirmatively to this question. We have admired
your free institutions, and have gladly witnessed your rue
an a people to eminence in wealth and political power.
Yon promised to become one mighty nation, famed for the
liberties of its citizens, the triumphs of pesos, end the con-
quest' of commerce. When this unfortunate war began,
lour hearts were more inclined towards you than towards
your sister States, because we believed with you that
the action of the South was but the work of •
faction. When you smarted that secession was the
work of disappointed ambition, and promised to quell
it within sixty days, we accepted your MIIIT11)061 in good
faith, looking for the speedy restoration of peace, for we did
not wish to see the Amei.esa Unioa broken up. But so
far from this promise Laing fulfilled (sod your efforts to
accomplish it have born unprecedented in the annals of
history), peace and the restoration of the Union axe arcs-
rutly an distant el ever. The event" of the struggle have
convinced on that a more united people never rose up in
defence of their sight' than those of the Southern States.
Surely there must be many now among you who share with
us the conviction that it has become utterly impossible to
entitle the South, or to restore the American Union, as it
existed in the pest days of the republic. Yon have tried
sufficiently, and found the gulf between you and the seceded
Staten to widen with each am t that is made to subdue
them. We believe that it is now time for you to pause,
sod after calmly reviewing all that you have accomplished,
the distance which you have travelled from your well-known
landmarks, and the (3'Mo:titles and dangers that are
certainly before you, to take counsel together
t) the beet means of restoring peace. We
cannot forget that the question of peace or war was
never submitted for your ouraideration before hostilities
had s "Wally commenced ; that they came upon you little
by little ; that both government and people found them-
selves plunged into this fearful contest almost unawares,
and that you have never been permitted u yet an opportu-
nity of consulting together in general convention, for the
purpose of making knos n your opinions and wishes about
the war, or any of the vast issues growing out of it. We
believe that the wet has changed (for the present at least)
the character of your government.. It has swept away your
freedom of speech, your free press, and the inestimable
right of babies corpus. We believe that the Sonthero
people are only following the precepts and example taught
and practised by your fathers and theirs, when they with-
drew their allegiance from the mother country, and that the
declaratioo of independence which you hallow and celebrate
every 4th day of July, asserts as self-evident the right of
the Southera people to set up • government of their owe.
We believe that should you at the and of another three
and • half years' war succeed in subduing the South and
restoring the Union by force of aims, you will find out,
when ills too late, that those pillars upon which feat" your
republican form of government have been violently torn
dose, and that your own liberties have been buried in the
reins. We elk you to compare the course pursued by the
South now and the colonies in 1776, with that adopted by
the North now, and the mother country then, and we
think you will di cover many striking resemblances. It is
is your hands to give peace to the American continent.
The Southern States have appealed to you for pesos, and
to be let alooe. We appeal to you to recognise the duty
which attaches to your high privilege, and to make peace
with the Southern Staten : and we make this appeal in the
name of religion, humanity, civilisation, and common
justice.

THE Two YEARS' Dittar.—Every day of the in-
to. ill will increase the number of its Italian foes, the
schools and the books and the secular thoughts, the new
foams of activity, and the new interests so fatal to priestly
ewer. When all the "transactions" have been transacted.
and the new levies enrolled, and the treasury is filled with
coin, and the city flooded with gendarmes, the fact will
stn, remain that the papacy is in its essence a moral power,
and that ea a moml power time in this century is by no
means its friend. Neither soldiers nor subsidies, guarantees
nor imocordata, can compensate to the papacy for the lows of
stilling reverence which time is slowly producing. Every
day sees some new see aware that the grapes
grow though there be no bishop to bless the
vintage, some new student pus out of college an
implacable foe of the priests, some Roman house-
hold with a new cause for cursing the papal
rule. Every day the Italian layman grows accustomed to
us in the priest a foe, the Italian priest to feel the pros-
perity secular rule develops. Above all, every day accus-
toms the world to the final threat of the Roman court—the
idea that the Pope, if pressed beyond bearing, might yet
fly from Rome—and threats of that kind when they owe
cer.e to startle are apt to loft their fore*. Rome and the
Papacy are not connected by any but moral links, and fami-
liarity with evil do's not, as the Roman court ought to
know, greatly inCTOSIe the disgust evil at first inspires.
No man who knows aught of history will pronounce that
Rome will in the pert few years enjoya secular rule, but
it is safe to say that during a thousand years of disappoint-
ment her citisuis have seen bat one still more alluring
chant:ie.—Spectator.

THE DAVENPORT FRATERNITY. As to the
phenomena themselves, anything so grotesquely absurd sod
stupidly meaningless has not yet been produced even is the
drr zy annals of spiritualism. A well-known professional
conjuror, who give* his name and address, Mr. Tolmaque,
claims to be able to do the same things. and asserts that it
is only a very common trick of charlatanism. Mr. Andernoo,
the Wizard of the North. goes further, and says that the
Brothers Davenport have been brought over " by a specu-
lator, Mr. Palmer, formerly in his employment ;" and the
thing most renmrkable about the whole entertainment seems
to be that the Time. should bare treated it with as much
gravity, if not credulity, as to a Ironies it in this unusual
way. The performances of Houdis, and Frikell, and
Anderson, sod other masters of the art are infinitely more
clever and inexplicable than those of the Davenport fra-
ternity. and are done in broad 'Wight. But who wants
to find out • conjuror! Vo!umur decipi et decimator.
You go to see tricks, not to learn sleight-of-band.
People believed in Osgllostro, who was a very clever fellow ;
and no doubt there are now plenty of people who will,
when the exhibition is open to the public, run to the
Davenport Brother, and gravely wag their heads, and hint
that they folly believe in the ozonezion of these rem-
pageons violins sod antic muffin-bells with the awful
realities of the spirit world. Nothing that we care to say
will disabuse them. Only let them consider this, that if
anything can effectually lower all consoling conceptions of
the great and mysterious world of spirits, and completely
debase, if not destroy, belief, if not in a future state, at
least in the blessed condition of disembodied spirits delivered
from the burden of the flesh—released, as we trust, front
the weaknesses and miseries of this sinful world—it is to
take up with spiritualism. For if we believe in spiritualism,
we must believe that spirits—beings infinitely above us is
intelligence, happiness. aid the fruition of the divine love
and thrive knowledge—have nothing better to do, and no '
holier ministrations to discharge, than to dash cracked ;
violas into people's facia, to pinch their legs in the dark.
to goat round a roan scratching the coffin with • bit of
' charcoal, to write execrably he i grammar and portentous
nations% which they call spirit messages, by fumbling over
• child's toy alphabet, amid, last and worst of all, by iospiring
such • set of American adventurers as Davenport, Fay, and
Co., and Mr. Palmer, the speculator, formerly in the employ. '
meat of the Wizard of the North.—Batsrelsy Review. ,
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DELAY OF TES NORTHEEN MAILIL —Early yes•
terday (Friday) mornimr, s goody train between Crewe sad
Stafford, en the London and North. Western Railway, pot
off the fa Is, or broke down, so as to pot a step to all Odic
arm that part of the lies daring the day. The traits, in-
cluding the mail trails from London for the north, were
sent toned br Shrewsbury, mid thus the delivery of all mails
north of Stafford was delayed several hours.