The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 20.

THERE are so many people in this world who are
wedded to what they call " their paper," end who
think, speak. and in some cases even act, iialy as
"their paper" may advise or dictate, that. we 'appose
we shall be startling the neryca of a large propsetion
of the readers of " the full-priced," if we renters to
hint that the Times is occasionally, a meet dAngeraus
public instructor.
Did it not prove itself so on the corn oneltioe?
For months and years after the League bad ~:omn-
n minced its agitation, the Times, treating Oat
fen midable organisation with contemptuous indilf-
fereoce, wrote upon that all-important subject as
if it were an impracticable theory, only har-
boured in the miads of a few of those whom it is
soeustom,vAlto style "over-speculating manufacturers."
From time to time " these people " (u it styled them)
were denounced as actuated solely by motives of
personal aggrandisement. From time to time the
Times told those who depended upon its information,
and consulted it as an oracle, that the agitation was
merely a " Manchester movement," originating in
Imanufacturing distress, and certain to subside when
employment increased. So the Times wrote week
after week, we repeat, for years. It was in
1837 that this " movement" commenced; it was
only in 1844 that the Times found out that the
" movement" was " a fact." The Times at that
period (whatever it may be now) was the paper
most consulted in the City. Whilst the rest of -Eng-
land was in a blaze—whilst open air meetings were
being held in every county—whilst every district of
every town was sending up its petitions—whilst
thousands ware crowding to listen to the lecturers
and thousands more were eagerly reading the hun-
dred and one editions of the anti-corn-law tracts—the
i City of London alone was unmoved ! The Times had
not yet discovered that the agitation was " a fact !"
So much for the public instruction of the " well.
informed" journal on the greatest question of the day.
Has it profited by the lesson "the great fact" might
have brought home to it ? Do its editors see
more clearly through their political spectacles than
before they wiped them to discover that " a fact" ex-
isted ? Are they less prone to describe that as a
. local agitation " which is in reality a great national
movement ? Are they more cautious in attributing to
selfish motives that legitimate effort which springs
from pure patriotic principles and anxiety for the
elucidation of • truth ? Are they milder in their
judgment, or less severe in their denunciations of
others, because themselves obliged to denounce that
which they doubtless contributed to foster and en-
Wireage ?
Not in the last! Still ill-informed as to facts—
still blind to the progress of powerful opinions, the
Times denounces the agitators for currency reform
just as it denounced the agitation for corn-law repeal.
Substitute " Birmingham" for "Manchester," "Iron"

' for " cotton." " currency" for " corn," and you have in
the Times of Saturday an article on the great subject
to which men's minds are now directed word for word
with the articles on the food question, which were to
be found in its columns in 1840 and 1811. " Iron
forgers" are denounced now, as " cotton spinners "
were denounced then. Tbey are told that they are
" interested" in reducing all the fixed payments of
the country, in order that they may " profit by each
unblushing knavery." Mr. SPOON ER and Mr. Al t; STZ
are told, as Mr. COBDEN and the league were told, that
they are " interested in robbing the government, the
national defences, the civil establishment, the pen-
, sioner, the landholder, the mortgagee, the aged rela-
tive, the orphan, and the widow, in order that they
may squander the spoil in earthworks and rails—a
course of conduct entirely in conformity with their
own interest, while it is utterly unaccountable by any
other rule." In fact, according to the Tim, e, Bir-
mingham is agitating for a repeal of the currency with
a view to keep up the railway mania, in order that
they, the Birmingham people, may profit by the sale
of iron rails

Now, whether right or wrong, the Birmingham
agitation on the currency question commenced before
the first railway in England was opened.
Secondly, there are probably not ten men con-
nected with the movement in that town who derive
profit by the sale of iron mile.
The Birmingham agitation on the currency is as
old as the passing of the act of 1819, and though it
may have diminished or increased in force under
differing circumstances, the repeal of the statute has
been the one great consummation which the Birming-
ham people have looked to in every agitation in
which they have assisted. With them, the Reform
Bill was looked to mainly as the means to an end,
sad Mr. T. Arrwoon, as the leader of the great
agitation in Birmingham on that question, never con-
cealed that fact. At the period of the corn-law
agitation the people of Birmingham were unusually
backward; and it will be found on record, in the
Times itself, that whenever public meetings were
called in the town to consider the core question,
amendments to resolutions were carried affirming the
principle that a currency reform was the one great
thing needful. The currency question is, and has
been for years past, almost the one sole exciting topic
of public deliberation in the great manufacturing city.
And now, as to the grand motive assigned for the
Birmingham movement, viz., the furnishing of
rails, it happens that iron rails do not come from
Birmingham at aIL Guns and pistols are made there.
and light hardware goods and tin ware, and the steel
pens with which silly articles are indited, and
a thousand other manufactures of iron and other
metals, of which any merchant in the town will fur-
nish a catalogue. But iron rails come from the great
works in Staffordshire and elsewhere, and the majo-
rity of the Birmingham manufacturers have as little to
do with them, are pecuniarily as little interested in
their sale, as they evidently have to do with the
management of the Times, or are interested in its sale.
The staffordshire ironmasters, moreover, have never
yet been active parties in the Birmingham currency
movement, whatever they may be henceforward. Your
FOSTERS, BARKERS, THORNEYCROFTS, and others,
did take part in the corn-law agitation ; but it would
be difficult to find an iron-master who, up to this date,
ever made a speech on the currency qutstion at all.
And here, although we desire to impute no bad
motive to the Times—nothing beyond the indiscretion
of writing without information—we must take leave
to observe that if it had desired, at the present cri-
tical moment, to inflict injury upon the iron trade, it
could have taken no step better calculated to effect
that object than to represent it in the light of a trade
fictitiously bolstered up by railway or other speculations.
'fo show the utter groundlessness of the charge thus
wantonly made in the most serious manner by the
Times, we quote a paragraph from our commercial
news of Oct. 14. In a review of the state of the iron

trade therein given, it is said :
Oa reviewing the continued flourishing condition of the
iron trade, it is proper that the fact rhould be properly un-
derstood, that this is not produced so much by the demand
for rails, as for that amount of the commodity which is re-
quired for the general purposes of railways, and which
would suffer no diminution were the railway works gene-
rally for a season stopped. We mention this for the purpose
of correcting an erroneous impression which is afloat, that
the price of iron is kept up solely in consequence of the sup-
ply required for the new railways.
Is it not a little strange that the interests of one of
our greatest manufactures should be so egregiously
mistaken and misrepresented by the erroneous assump-
tions of our contemporary ?

WE are glad to learn that there is at length sone
prospect of the national records being placed in safety.
The Sixth Report of the Metropolitan Improvement
Commissioners contains their sanction of the plans
prepared by their surveyor for securing this and other
desirable objects.
The Spectator observes that it is just two centuries
since the idea of erecting a general repository of the
public records was first enunciated—" a very fair
allowance of time for official deliberation." Not too
long, it might be suggested, in a matter on which public
opinion has not yet turned its "bull's eye," or bid official
apathy " move on." We have no SYMONDS D'Ewes
in the Commons House of Vicrom %. The same dis-
creditable indifference which exposed the most valu-
able series of historical documents possessed by any
nation to the washerwomen's floes in the Chapter-

house, at Westminster, or the gunpowder vaults
under the White Tower, or the lees sudden, but more
destructive, operation of damp in the Carlton-ride,
allowed the discontinuance of the publications of the
Record Commission. The latter fact furnishes the
best explanatory comments on the former. England
feels little concern about her national records, having
less knowledge of them than any other civilised
nation of Europe. For centuries, the rats had a
monopoly of these venerable parchment.. It is only
in our own times that they have been disturbed from
their indigestible meal by antiquaries as omnivorous.
We would fain hope that, with the removal of the
records to a place of general deposit, will come an
arrangement of the enormous collection, which may
render it as accessible to students as it has hitherto
been to the rod. 'dia.
Why should it be less within their reach than the
contents of the British Museum? Only we woidd
supplicate, in the name of our modern SELDENS and
BALBS, that they be spared such a catalogue as Signor
PANIZZI is slowly dispensing—a yard per year—to
the frequenters of the national library. There is no
nation that has such just sround for pride in its
archkes, as our own. Alike in the rolls of the
courts and of the palace, the inquirer may con-
template the noble picture of law slowly ac-
quiring dominance over violence and abso-
lutism. The footsteps of English liberty are inde-
libly
imprinted on her records. No revolution
&Ns served to stay that liberty waits progress, or to
sev,,r the continuity of the chain which links our
Math ration of to-day with those of Witttur the
Norrus.n. This is a boast which England alone can
make. l'et England has shown herself behind France
or Austria in her appreciation of this proud and peer-
less legacy historical treasure.
The same rs 'port which announces the approaching
end of the diem% ditable mekeshifts to which the want
of a general office has driven the keepers of these
inestimable papers, proposes also the formation of a
new central thorough fare from east to west. 1.. AV...-
street and Holborn are obe relieved of their plethora
of passengers. The fre,2aent indispositions of the
former will no longer set ve to produce apoplectic
stoppage of the circulation in the latter. True, this
blessing will have its drawbac.lte Omnibus driven
will lose all opportunity for indulging that
adventurous spirit which came out so brilliantly in
the perilous allies of Clare-market, and be driven
to volunteer for the next exploring party that starts
in search of a north-west passer. But, with this set-
off, the new thoroughfare will be a great boon to
London, and will give much required facility to
traffic.

The two topics of a new street and a new Record
office are not so remote but that they may suggest
analogies. Oar carelessness of national records
might be compared with our carelessness of those
important elements of national riches and hap-
piness, the working classes of our great cities.
The records will not be turned out of their

present quarters until better are found to re-
ceive them. The poor are routed out along the
line of new thoroughfare, and no question is asked
when or how they are to find shelter. As little heed
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modation for LOH: pars in unfit reoeptacles, and
to stow away paupers in over-crowded workhouses.
We are on the point of abandoning our penny-wisdom
in the one ease—we are still suffering from our pound-
foolishness in the other.

We see no provision for housing the displaced poor
suggested in the commissioner's report, which sets
out the line of the new rreet : yet it is to
pass, for much of its distance, through a poor
and densely-peopled part of London, between
Carey-street on the west, and Paternoster-row on
the east. A mass of unhappy families will
assuredly be routed out between these limits.
They must seek a refuge in other districts,
already over-crowded with immigrants from like
causes. The quarter will be improved, but the life that
peopled it will pay the penalty. We sacrifice an old
population for the houses that are to shelter a new
one. We offer up a holocaust of human victims, not
like the Mexicans on a stone altar, but on one of
bricks and mortar.
We have already directed attention to this unques-
tionable and increasing mischief of recent street
improvements. It is one not inevitable. A portion
of the ground opened by the destruction of old houses
should be set aside for buildings to receive displaced
inmates. The experience of the benevolent proprietor
of the different model lodging-houses shows that this
may be done in such a way as to furnish the poor
with decent and healthy dwellings, which shall return
a good per centsge to the capitalist. We be-
lieve that if such a portion of ground
were set apart whenever new streets are
carried through poor quarters, and if the fact of such
appropriation were duly made public, we should find
benevolence uniting with self-interest to cover the
area with houses suited for the poor, and yet not un-
worthy of the most spacious and stately street in
London. The model-house in George street, Blooms-
bury, shows how completely these two conditions are
compatible with each other.
While, therefore, we congratulate the commis-
sioners on behalf of the lucky records, we beg to urge
upon them, for consideration, the case of the less for-
tunate poor on the line of their proposed thorough-
fare from Cheapside to Long-acre.

WE have lately called attention to the melancholy
loss of life amongst the members of the medical pro-
fession, arising from their attendance upon those
afflicted with the prevailing fever. This fatality is
not confined to Ireland, but is spreading rapidly
amongst the medical men of our own towns. The
last number of the Prorincial Medical and Surgical
Journal records the deaths of eight medical men
from fever caught during the performance of their
duties in fever hospitals and union workhouses.
Most of them are young men in the prime of life, and
many have left behind them widows and large
families. In ore instance,that of Mr. ROBERT STORES,
of Doncaster, a gentleman well known for his profes-
sional ability and contributions to the literature of
medicine, death occurred from attending the poor in
the union workhouse, and he has left a widow and
twelve children to lament his premature decease. in
nine cases out of ten, medical men leave no means be-
hind them to support their families; and although
occupying public positions of danger, the government
has never thought fit to interfere in their behalf.
That men educated as gentlemen by the requirements
of the law of the land, and placed in public posts of as
much danger as the soldier in battle, should have to
complain of the paltry pittance that is doled out to them
for the performance of their duties, is, we think, a
national disgrace. We have, on former occasions,
spoken of the absurdly low payments made
to the medical officers of poor-law unions, some-
times not amounting to more than twopence I
per head for every patient prescribed for; and '
yet for this sum men with wives and children
are expected daily to expose their lives to the
infection of fever and other deadly diseases.
As proof of our assertion we may appeal to the corre-
spondence which has appeared from time to time in
our columns; and a letter from Mr. GARLICK, of
Halifax, of last Tuesday, affords abundant evidence of
the miserable pay and severe labours of the poor-law
medical officers. We believe, however, that Mr.
GARLICK'S case, in which six hundred and eighty-five
visits were paid, and medicine supplied to every
patient for the sum of 201., is not at all an exceptional
one, but that he is better paid than hundreds
of his brethren. We have previously shown how
such a niggardly system must act on medical
men. In many instances the more competent men
will not take upon themselves such duties for so low a
sum, and the office is given to sonic aspirant for prac-
tice who takes every opportunity of relieving himself
of the services required of him. It is becoming noto-
rious that poor-law medical officers refuse to attend
every case in which they have the appearance of an
excuse, and lives are frequently, we believe, thus
sacrificed. On Tuesday last we reported a case of a
poor woman who was allowed to die of the effects of
an overdose of laudanum without any medical assist-
ance. The parish, it appears, was applied to in this
instance, and on the coroner inquiring of the con-
stable, " la not your surgeon bound to at-
tend in a case of this sort ?" the constable
replied, " Not unless an order bad been obtained,
but be would in a case of emergency." Upon which
a juror observed: "The last jury I was on he would
not, and the woman was dying." Such then is the
result of the present system. The medical officer is
paid so low that he has every inducement to neglect
his duty, and the poor suffer; or, if he faithfully per-
forms his duty, he is liable to fall a victim to the
diseases with which he is brought in contact. On
both grounds—the welfare of the poor and the proper
remuneration of the faithful medical man—we dunk
the salaries should be increased.

We are glad to find that medical men are them-
selves taking np this question, and that a meeting is
fixed to take place in London during the next week, at
the Hanover-square Rooms, for the purpose of taking
steps to bring the subject before the present govern-
ment.

The advice. brought by the Madrid mail of the
13th are in accordance with the intelligence of a still
more recent date understood to have been received by
telegraph at Paris. General Narvaez, accompanied
by M. Brunelli, the papal nuncio, proceeded on the
13th, with the Queen's consent, to the Pardo, for the
purpose of waiting on the King Consort, and attend-
ing his Majesty to the royal palace at Madrid, where
he was expected the same evening, and where his
arrival, as well as that of the Queen Dowager, has
been already reported by the telegraph. The streets
through which the King was to pass on coming to the
palace were lined with troops at the departure of the
mails. The captain-general, the military governor,
and the political chief of Madrid were to meet his
Majesty at the barrier, and to escort him to the
palace.
Further details will be found in the letter of our
correspondent, which we give below.

Our Path despatches of 'NI onday have arrived, but
their contents are unimportant.

There is every reason to believe that the account of
the victory of the liberals in the canton of St. Gall is
correct. The Frankfort German Journal states that,
after three days' lively debate, the liberals have gained
the victory. It was certain that the Grisons had
voted against the Sonderbund. The resolution which
passed was thus worded :—" If pacific means are
found to be fruitless, the deputation is authorised to
vote for the employment of force for dissolving the
Sonderbund." This resolution was adopted by a ma-
jority of 38 against 17. The grand council of Coble,
after a lively debate, also resolved, on the 11th inst.,
by a majority of 27 to 2 (according to the eatholies,
3), to empower their deputy to the diet to vote for
the adoption of coercive measures for the purpose of
breaking up the separate alliance, in case the seven
cantons should adhere to it, after federal econmis-
Wooers had been sent to them, and after other mild
measures, such' as the issuing of a proclamation to
the inhabitants of those cantons, had been taken on
tae part of the federal diet. A motion in favour of
submitting those instructions to the landsgcmeinde
was rejected by a majority of 36 to 28.
The result of the votes of St. Gall was unknown in
Berne on the 14th, but was anxiously expected. A
letter from that capital of the above date says there
are more than 1,000 persons waiting for the arrival
of the mail from Zurich and St. Gall.
The display of military in the mixed carton of
Neufchatel continues. Every point on the shores of
the lake is guarded by detachments of armed men
against invasion from the troops of Vaud. At least
this is the pretext set up in order to excite the
exasperation of the faithful. The steam-boat will
probably continue its mission until the meeting of
the diet.

Gen. de Waal, governor for the King of Prussia of
the canton and principality of Neufchatel, and com-
manding the 7th corps of the Prussian army, has re-
' ceived orders to combine his political mission with
that of Id. de Sydow, minister of Berlin at Zurich.
It is not true that Gen. de Pfuel was to assume a mili-
tary initiative, if necessary, in OM of a war against
the Sonderbund.

Berne daily assumes more and more the aspect of
a town ander military government. In order that all
the militia of the canton may be at liberty to move in
any direction without compromising the safety of the
capital in which are to be found elements of hostility
to the present order of things among the ranks of the
patriciate, as well as among the adherents to the late
government, a civic guard has been formed, composed
of volunteers belonging neither to the Mb, nor to the
reserve. The numbers inscribed amount to 500, and
are organised into four companies.—The government
of Friburg has addressed a letter to the %orort, com-
plaining in strong terms of the Canton of Vaud for
sending out an armed cruiser on the lake of Neuf-
chatel, and which assumes the right of searching all
boats that appear off the shore of Friburg.
iOn the 14th nst. seven chests of ammunition, which
were brought by a mail waggon from Bale, were re-
moved from Rheinfeld and conveyed to Zurich city.
The triple council of Zug assembled on the 12th,
in order to draw up farther instructions for their
deputy to the diet. A motion, proposed by the
liberals, to the effect that the Sonderbund and the
Jesuits should be denounced, was negatived by a ma-
jority of 116 to 20. On the other hand, a motion for
the dissolution of the separate alliance was unani-
mously adopted, but with the condition that the ques-
tion of the Jesuits should be allowed to drop, and that
the civil and religious rights of the catholic. should
be guaranteed.
The following petition has been circulated for signa-
tures in the catholic parishes of the canton of Geneva:
To the president and deputies of the federal diet,—At
the moment when the federal diet is about to be called on to
decide on peace or war, we the undersigned, catholic citi-
zens of the canton of Geneva, come forward to pray the diet
not to consent to measures which would render the evils of
the country irremediable. Honour and religion dictate to
us this grave and serious step. Our consciences would not
permit us to take part in a war against our dear federal con-
freres of primitite Switzerland. They have declared that
they never would be aggressors, and that they would always
faithfully fulfil their federal duty. They founded Swiss
liberty, they. often shed their blood to defend the country
against foreign invasion. Let us place faith in their honour,
which has never failed, and let us respect their rights. We
do not think it necessary to address you at present relative
to the other questions which divide the confederation ; but
we cannot accept the eventuality of a war which is invin-
cibly rejected by the interest of the common country, na-
tional independence, religion, and our consciences. May the
federal diet assume the only measures capable of healing the
wounds of our country, by re-assuring the catholic. as to the
existence of their rights as citizens, and u to the entire liberty
of their religious institutions.
The Frankfort Journal, under the date of Con-
stance, Oct. 9, states that the representatives of foreign
powers have been ordered to quit Switzerland in case
a civil war should break out, and fix their residence
for a time in a German town on the frontier. Con-
stance is designated as the place where they are most
likely to come, in case it becomes necessary.

MADRID, Oct 13.
It seems that on Monday night, while the un-
suspecting citizens of Madrid lay fast asleep, in
comfortable security, Gen. Narvaez, ever watchful for
the public safety, was galloping up and down the
streets in company with Itoncali, the captain-general,
botk'accoutreed as for battle, visiting the barracks,
ordering the troops to assemble under arms, posting
detachments at the mouths of the principal streets,
with muskets ready charged, sending about patrols,
I and, in short, taking all the military precautions ne-
cessary to defend the capital against some sudden sur- 1
prise. Having made his rounds, Narvaez remained with
Roncali in the midst of three battalions of infantry
and a squadron of cavalry till two or three in the
morning. The same alarming precautions were re-
newed last night. The garrison was ordered to
remain under arms; and directions were issued to
the commanders of corps to obey no orders that were
not personally communicated by the minister of state
or the captain-general. It was also said that officers
were warned not to leave their houses for their re-
-1 spective quarters, without being summoned by two
soldiers of their companies. However, what has sur-
prised people most, is the former notice, which, if
true, implies an absurd affront to the Minister of War.
Of what use in the world is General Cordova if
Narvaez is to usurp his functions, or what precedent
is there for the minister of state maintaining imme-
diate communication with the troops, like a general
in full campaign? But what, in the first place, is
the meaning of all these midnight alarms ? What
enemies menace the government ? What plot is
brewing ? Nobody can tell. People shrug their
shoulders, laugh, and say, " Narvaez is minister;'
" It is a jure got up to serve as a pretext for perse-
cuting the liberals.' Others affirm that the persons
suspected by the Duke of Valencia are rivals in his
own party. Anyhow, few believe that there existed suffi-
cient ground for making these warlike demonstrations;
which are looked upon u pusillanimous symptoms of
overstrained suspicions, or ominous preludes to the in-
auguration of a system of terror.
One of the measures of the government, which is
viewed with apprehension, is the appointment of a
special/meal to deal with offences of the press, by a
decree inserted in the Gazette of Monday. This officer
is to enjoy a salary of 20,000 reels. He has opened
his career with denouncing an article in the E.rpecta-
dor of the 6th, the consequence of which attack seems
to have been the infusion of a fresh vein of bitterness
into that uncompromising organ of the opposition.
The Heraldo contradicts the reports that have cir-
culated with regard to the entrance of Gonzales Bravo
into the ministry, and the appointment of General
Chacon as military governor of Madrid. A ministe-
rial council was held late last night. I). Juan Jose
Bonel y Orbe having been elected archbishop of
Toledo, the grand chancellorship of the orders of
Charles 111. and Isabel the Catholic, which ho held,
has been bestowed upon D. Antonio Posadas Rubin
de Celia, the Queen's chaplain and almoner, and
Patriarch of the Indies.
The notices from Catalonia are not important. It
seems to move some little surprise that Concha's ex-
pedition should have been as yet attended with too little
result. Parties of rebels were continually presenting 1
themselves almost within gunshot. At Castel-follit,
near Olot, the Carlists had established a custom-house,
raising duties upon wine, charcoal, &c. It is re-
marked by the Eco, with some displeasure, that the
only three generals in Madrid who represent the
centraliatas, Iriarte, Ruiz, and Santa Cruz, were net
invited to the Queen's ball. The singular agility
displayed by the septuagenarian ex-minister, Cortazar,
in various quadrilles, affords a subject of lively com-
ment to the Oacetillas. .

If we may believe the Expeclador, Narvaez is not
in particularly good odour at the palace, having been
kept waiting yesterday two or three hours by the
Queen in expectation of an aadience which he bad
demanded.

FRANCE.—ToutoN, Ocr. 13.—The Toulonnaio
says that the squadron under the command of the Prince de
Joinville, which was off the islands of Hyeres, was to stand
out to sea on the evening of the 14th, or the day after to-
morrow. The Sociversin, the Friedland, and the Ocean had
orders to steer for Spezzia ; the Jupiter for Leghorn or the
island of Elba, and the Jena for Genoa. Several steamers
were attached to the squadron.
The Leonidas, which had arrived in Marseilles from
Malta, which is under quarantine, had also been placed under
quarantine at Marseilles, but by a singular inconsistency the
officers who landed with the letters were permitted to go to
the poet-office in free pratique, and then to return to their
vessel. Thus, if there really was any necessity for the appli-
cation of the quarantine laws to the Leonidas, the city of
Marsi Mrs itself ought to be now under quarantine, some of
the persons who arrived in that vessel having been permitted
to land without any precaution being taken.
ETAPLES.—TILE BOULOGNE AND ABBEVILLE RAIL-
AVAT.—The railway bridge of Etaples has slightly given
way, and three of its arches will have to be rebuilt. The
works to be done will, however, be completed before the 15th
lof Novern.,er, when the railway is to be opened. The
damage will cost 30,000 francs to repair.
EARTHQUAKE.—A rather sharp shock of earth-
-1 quake was felt at Chltesurons and its environs in the even-
ing of the 9th inst. Several persons were, it is said, thrown
out of their beds. _ _ —.— .

HOLLAND.—Twe HAGUE, Ocr. 15.—Prince..
Wilhelmina Frederica, daughter of the King of Holland,
against whom her consort, Prince Albert, brother of the
King of Prussia, has instituted a suit foe a divorce before
the royal court of Berlin, arrived on the 13th at the Hague
with the intention of remaiaiag with her royal parents until
the suit is terminated. It is mid that the prince.. is equally
desirous of the mparation, and therefore has determined to
suffer judgment to go by default. She has left her three
child,en at Berlin.
SARDINIA.—TterN, Oct 7.—The news received
from all hands relative to the march of the netotiatione be-
tween Vienna and Rome, with respect to Ferrara, leave
little doubt of the tut that some complications have