The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-06 00:00:00

in truth, they represent only midelifii.iustiotal 1i
.
tide of which the mein direcitigs *such 096
iit
the reverse of that in which4hiliifilisangell
This will be seen when we arm rr view a Lew
years backward. Thus, minim/ Mg the potabo
crop in 1865 with that of 1859, we find a decrease
of acreage to the extent of 135,000. On the other
hand the flax crop during the same period has
very decidedly inareaaed ; the acreage which in
1859 was 136,282 having become, in 1865,
251,534, showing an increase of 115,252 scree.
On the whole, these are the most satisfactory re-
turns which have been presented from Ireland for
many years.

- -
THE rise in the Bank rate of discount yesterday
had not been generally expected, and proved
somewhat of a shock to the commercial community.
Throughout the day the policy of the Bank was
freely discussed, and much anxiety was evinced
to learn the nature of the changes in the weekly
return. The figures analysed in our City article
show that the Bank has been severely pressed
upon during the week. The private deposits
are nearly stationary, but the Bank has
lost 438,100/. of government deposits, owing to
the Treasury disbursements at the close of the
quarter, and, as the commercial demand for money
has at the same time occasioned an increase of
1,647,9641. in the amount lent by the Bank on pri-
vate securities, the decline in the reserve is
very serious, reaching 2,002,4971. The total
amount of the reserve (notes and coin) is now
reduced to 5,105,6771. During the week
the result of import and export movements was an
addition of a few thousand pounds to the stook of
bullion in the Bank, and, as tho total of the pre-
cious metals now presents a decrease of 776,9821.,
we have further evidence of an important internal
drain. For the causes of this we must look partly
to the increased activity of trade, and to the large
demand for 016 circulating medium arising from
domestic and foreign travel, but it is believed that
a still greater effect has been produced by the tern-
', porary absorption of coin in Irelaml--an absorption
1 which goes on up to the present hour. To what ex-
tent it is attributable to the feeling of distrust en-
en-
gendered amongst the lower classes by the reo
movements of sedition, it is impossible to say.
Meanwhile, under our existing inadequate currency
system, the duty is imposed upon the Bank direc-
tors of combating this domestic demand by pre-
cisely the same measures which they would
adopt in the case of an exportation of gold to
foreign parts. It is said that the Bank directors
have become alarmed at the smallness of the re-
serve, and the sharpness of their action now cer-
' tainly indicates that they were imprudently inert
before, and that a corrective movement has been
too long delayed. Between the 15th of June, when
the Bank rate was fixed at 3 per cent., and the 3rd
of August, when a rise to 4 per cent. was announced,
the reserve fell from 9,966,2741. to 6,461,318L—a
difference of no leas than 3,504,9561. The directors
having allowed their reserve to slip away from them
to this important extent, and having met the
movement with an increase of only 1 per
cent. in their rate of discount, are now
endeavouring, by a series of jerks which operate
very prejudicially upon commerce, to make
up for their past tardiness. No doubt they are, at
the same time, mindful of the indications presented
by the renewed speculation in cotton, the conse-
quent remittances of gold to new cotton countries,
and the numerous threatenings in the shape of
foreign loans. At this moment, as noticed elsewhere,
there is a prospect of a further large withdrawal of
gold for Brazil, but this will be more than compen-
sated by the influx to the Batik of the half million
or upwards of newly imported bullion which is now
awaiting sale. It will also be remembered, as
favourable features, that exports of silver to the
East are being once more checked by the state
money market, and that there is a prospect of ex-
tensive arrivals of gold from the United States.

Citt Court.

BALMORAL, OCT. 3.

Tho Queen, accompanied by I'riueeee Louis of
Heise, Prisms Helena. and Bezonese de Schenck, drove to
Lleh Clanger.
Prises Arthur and Primes' Louise went out Tiding with
Lieutenent-Geeerel the Hoe. C., Mn. sod Miss Grey.
Prise Leopold went out driving, attended by Mr. Buli.

Despatches were received ymterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of Canada and Vancouver's
Waal

PRINCE ALFRED.

firma% rnsawr.)
BRUSSELS. Ocr. S.
Prince Alfred is expected here on hie return from
Egypt. Hie royal highness will slily at the Royal Palace.

~ OCTOBER I% 1840:

EX' RESS FROM PARIS. moor BT LORD MILTON, N.P.
,--
Last night a ban vet,
under the auspices of the
(non on own oolassronnwer.l Mirfield Liberal wooeturn to Mad is the Brwribeepe
"shoo to Waste the r earliest/at of
PARIS. Tnollolli VINE... Viscount Mr. H. F. Besumost for the maim
Some deaths from cholera, chiefly in the quieter dislike of the wt Ithilug. The chair was ample& by
Mr Alderman DAY of Dewsbury.
already mentioned, oontinue to be reported in! Lord ifitros, who met with stoat iiithugutio weer
Paris. The Union Medical!. says there is nothing Doe, said it mos with gnat pleasure he rose to return
of a general epidemic character about them auffi- ilialtkbl.l.foroftttik3itiosm!!balt been received. twirlte of " Tttl
tient to cause any alarm. In the south of France, ; that ter. oduagus. Mr. Beesimas, was sot pressatoie that
although there is a decided improvement, many gentleman would have given th
could em an slimmest
lee
fatal oases occur daily. A battery of artillery 13rInforplapuceth. .Rienwf:t,°:errYALeme Wl:l4rd
said, apesk-
newly marched into Toulon lost 16 men in a few ise was not ow 'of his fortes. (Laughter and cheers.)
days. When he was railed upon to come for ea Wulf of
the liberal interact, he told his supporthre tenthly that be
The Gazette de France calla M. HAUBSIWIIIII'S we. opt fit for she ploos, He mad to thews that he had
attention to the fact that the streets of Paris have that the laid f
eroes or fire years
tolfaihtlo isonfeellgrd, sae
not for a long time been so dirty and ill watered as timitehteprei =tic: efed°°6lsso. him, however,
within the last few days. I repeat this because it tbst unless be came forweld sapreb of the psis.
confirms an observation made by my own nose in (41161p,t'disl.hpisr 011.841"ise oldba;lothr,lP: 67bmilnaigldin.wod
the course of a long walk to-day. in the Southern !Miaow, and on reconaideriag the
Most of the evening papers remark as an impor matter
sta resolve . l tot
he could
.dothisribtitinlebeertl2:
tent fact that the great Monittur reproduces the ,Putidan.er, politic, required j'be tossawa bk• every.
note of the little Lifuniteur about the evacuation Wog eles, and ha was,baltd en
iterag upoitiehtlaapja=
of Rome, which I noticed yesterday. "It is little satroe; be on'uldhs:irsi speak, wot;l)d fight their battle to
matter after this," say the Opinion Nationale and the backbone. (Omits.) They bed Laduthstiethas hatteL,
the Temps (for both speak to the same effect) " that !
. (tcoluhdeel:reesers.) Aye so licetentiott7o dila,* upon politics.
the Pays takes the trouble to split hairs, and to He had corns there for the purpose of thanking them for
make the unintelligible assertion that France the support they hod th trusted at hit th° jeme:cal
does not evacuate Rome in order to execute the ile.,rel;d
convention towards Italy, bat because Italy ere- thank them personally,. as he begged now to do, for the
nduhlese toyed to healtb,st colleague.l be able to
proud pwitioa in which the electors had placed them.
cuter the convention." (Load cheers.)
The only sensible reatton—even in an ultramon- Ths CliagllAN dm proposed "Her Majesty's Mild..
tane point of view—that I have been able to din- tegs'" "
Lord Irtthrient" fru." ofirrgat=fLor" the Hones of Dom.
cover for the childish tirade of the Pope against mew. b,', was ye 4 an inexperienced member.
freemasonry is that it was meant as a rebuke to Whets parliament met be would endeavour to do ius d
her
uty
the Archbishop of Paris, for having attended the t 0
00ndsetth wb"otd meatd br approval 1/Bpor to
trusted
funeral of that very excellent catholic Marshal (Rear and cheers.) He would oily refer to one question
Magnan. who was appointed by the super-excellent thst
mast":lll:l.lW...7::yate,hz,:tnuoity .1. Dely
catholic Napoleon 111. to reign over the freemasons. He be-
ihrewl that with enormous majority which Lord Palmer-
The Archbishop of Paris is in very bad odour at sion 001/ pal/geed, he wou
Liberal ld be able to by,rritlesy mess=
of
Rome, and that is not astonishing, because be was l'ehich ateoms Ridp:ohteeefee mem,.'ire
selected for the poet as being the nearest approach reform would be introduced by the preroment, which
to • schismatic that could be found in the French would meet with approval from both houses of parliament.
(Loud cheers.)
episcopacy. It is pointed out that at the beginning tumid other bests were proposed.
of this century the charities of Nancy were founded
by Freemasons, and in spite of the bulls of Clement
XIV., two priests and a grand vicar were members
of masonic lodges.
The 'louden,. du Soir mentions the death at
Criticise, near Tarbes, of an old artillery soldier
named Pierre Gaubert, at the age of 113. He was
in most of the battles of the republic and the
empire, and fired 'Dia last cannon shot at the battle
of Toulouse.
K Rogeard, the exile of Belgium, has gone to
Prague, where a German translation of his " Pro-
pos de Labieuus," and other works, is now being
published.
The French vice-consul at Bile, M. Guyot, com-
mitted suicide on Monday last by blowing his brains
out with a pistol. The cause, according to the
Europe of Frankfort, was a deficit in his accounts.
One hundred and forty•two failures were declared
by the Tribunal of Commerce during the month of
September. I presume this is considerably more
than the average, because the Gazette de France, in a
hostile spirit, says the figure does not "prevent
M. Vetu from declaring in the Conetitutionne/ that
the state of trade was never more flourishing."
The Gazette de France offers the opinion that the
" revelation " of the list of Englishmen who sub-
scribed to the Confederate loan is not calculated
to improve the relations between the French
and American governments. Now, as far
as that goes, it is within my certain know-
ledge that the " list " was in the hands of
the cabinet of Washington two mouths ago, and
yet, if there is any difference, the two governments
are more friendly now than they were then. I per-
ceive from the English papers that a great many
names are already scratched out of the list, and I
eltall be surprised if so many more contradictions
do not flock in as to reduce the whole affair to the
rank of a canard.
The rise of the discount at the Bank of France
stimulated the downward tendency of the Bourse.
Reno fell 10c. for cash, and Lic. for account,
closing at 68fr. 20c. and liflfr. 25c. Mexican fell
; Mobilier, 3fr. 25c.; and Comptoir d'Escompte,
7fr. 50c.

TEM CONMERATE LOAN.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT THE TOWER
HAMLETS VOLUNTEER QUARTZES.

AN ENGINEER KILLED BY ExPLosos.
Between 8 and 9 o'clock last night a shock-
ing &widest took place o'clock the drill Sio.fasidthe Ist
Tower Hamlets Volunteer Eughwer in Victoria
park, by which /torrent William , of
the Royal Regimes's, Chatham, drill isstroetor
to the volnoteer regiment, lost his life. The
ground in question se on the north side of the
park nearly facing the new French Hospital in
th two South
Hackney. It has a battery erected on it, armed wi
68-pounders and some earthworks. protected by madams, ,
ICC, which have been thrown up by the ca
rpsi . under
the ths
,
Matruction of Mr. Britadsfield. It was a drill nght fo
regiment last awash*, bat the muster wee very few, set
more thee 29,Captein Coffee barter the commend. The mode
of forcing a stockade was the subject for drill, ea seggast
Brant:Meld anuounced his inteution of illustratiog it wee
forcibly by firing • charge of gunpowder egaisetthe ebstrws
Mon that had bees made for that lewlicm- Itteetthaffit
prepared a charge of five or six pounds in a beg, aoe
placed it with the fuse attached in • cavity
in the grouod. at the same time giving particu-
lar instructions to the corps immisrubled that the
moment they saw him light the fuse they were to throw
themselves on the grousd to escape the effects of the es-
plosion. He delayed firing it till nearly 9 o'clock in maw
that there might be but few people about. and
peered to take every possible precaution to prevent
an accident, but notwithstanding several ladies
toned their way on she ground to whore the
eiperimeot. Everything being ready, Breadellekl gave the
word be was reedy, and proceeded to light the lose, but
almost in an instant, before be could recover from his
stooping position, the charge ignited with a loud report.
blowing up the earth where the powder was placed, and
hurled Brandsfield on his back. Seeing that he did
not move, one of the corps ran up to hint sad
him when, to his
got hold of his neck to raise
horror, the poor man's head came away from hie boiy
into his baud. It had been literally blown off by the so-
plosion. The discovery, as may be supposed. caused the
mast palatal sessation amoog those assembled. Several
Death
oat gentlemen were sent for, but their sid was hopeless.
had evidently been Metentaiwous. The ornateusfoman's
remains were picked up, placed on • hurdle, veY
to the Qllooll'll Hotel, fronting Gawoigne-road, Victoria-
park. where they will remain till the result of the ocatowar's
Inquest is knows. Sergeant Bra ndafield was 'boat 36 years
of age, and hes left a widow to deplore his lose. He WY
mach esteem, din the neighbourhood of South Hackney,
where be
gin rded, and bore an (moodiest character in the
Royal Eners, as a steady, careful, awl intelligent man.
The inquest isre,
to be held towtorrow.

THE FATAL OCCURRENCE IN THE WEST INDIA
DOCKS.

This morning the following lettere appear :
dir,—As there is now going tbs round of the Ir:sh papers,
copied from the flew York Tribune, a list of supd
holders of the Confederate Loan, among whom my name
appears as a bolder of it to the amount of 5,0 C 31., I request
that you will have the goodness to allow me to say that
the above statement, as far as I am orrocerned. is totally
and utterly false. I never held a shilling of the Confederate
Loan ; I do not bold a shilling( of the Couiederate Loan ,
and I need scarcely add that I have not the smallest Wen.
Con of doing so. I have the honour to be your very obedi-
ent servant, GEORGII WARRIN Pi/wooer.
Cisme Castle, near Delvin, Out. 4.
Sir,—A. list has been published in some of the American
newspapers, and copied very generally tab the newspapers
in this country, purporting to be an authentic list, from uffi-
trial sources, of toe holders of the Coofederate Costae Loan
Bonds, sad in that list my name is pat down as holder of
20,0001. of that security. The statement, so far as lam
cosoarned, is untrue, as I am not now, and never hays been,
directly or indirectly, a holder of or interested to any of
that stock. Kequestiag the favour of your insectisg this
letter.—l em, air, your obedient servant,
Birkenhead, Oct. 4. Jose Lenin.
Sir,—ln the assumed list of holders of the °oaf/dents
Cotton Loan, sent over from the United States by the
Scotia, appears my name as an estimated Weer of 1,5001.
May I be permitted, through your columns, to correct the
error, and to say that I have never invested any sues what-
above[ in this stock'.-1 am, sir, your obedient te
EDWABD AKROID.