The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-31 00:00:00

, AUGUST 34_ 1:11,

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VIBE-HOLSTEIN QII •
MUNICH, ADM! 31
The official Bairische Zeitung of to-day declares
the rumour that negotiations bad taken place at
Vienna between Bavaria, Saxony, and Wurtem-
bang, in wroordance with which the minor states
WOW, 011•40 to oppose the polity et the great
Orman powers in the Sleswig-Bolstein question,
to be incorrect. Bavaria, on the contrary, has
since the convention become still more determined
to take further steps in the Federal Diet, and
maintains that the Duke of Angustenburg is alone
entitled to the sovereignty of the Duchies.

Mail

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

VIENNA, loam 31.
The Chancellor of Hungary, Count von May-
lath, has issued a circular in which he desig•
nates, as his first duty, to harmonise the cow
stitutional and historical rights of Hungary
with the position of Austria as one of the
Great Powers, and also to strengthen the Union,
founded by the pragmatic sanction, between Hun-
gary and the other provinces of the Empire by re-
specting mutual rights and interests, and taking
into consideration the present state of things.
The rumours of the reception here of Prussian
declarationa rendering doubtful the execution of the
Gastein convention are unfounded.

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The forgery and :peculation with which Edward
Lateham is charged stood almost aloes in the easels of
meat msreantile crime. The oodles', eh+, site
exhibited in this complicated chain of stapeadona
teensactions prove that their perpetrator had emi-
sent abilities ; hut the facilities of which be seems to
have made the most, suggest inquiry as to whether
we cannot Isentafter protect ourselves move perfectly
from the widespread mischiefs which fraud and breach al
trust, whets proceeding from an eminent position and con-
ducted on a large geele. never fail to being on. Aid first
the punishment of such crimes should be sine, stern, and
severe. The oonfidenoe and cordial esteem is which the
criminals may have lived are aggravations of their guilt,
aid call toe the heaviest palmn of the law. No weak
sentimentalism should be allowed to obscure our vision,
bleat ear moral eserms, or shield the offender from psaieh-

meet.
Secondly, it appears that the ordinary modes of doing
trainees in Wall-street must be very loose if a young mar
of five and tweatyysers can purloin and sell securities worth
several millions of dollars without exciting a moment's ens
picion in the minds of his partaers, onsiomers, and sleeks;
or if he eau forge hundreds of gold cheques parportiag lobe
of greet "aloe, sad borrow on these 'parlour more immure
sums of money from °mem' capitalist* without detection.
One good result of such a fraud should obviously be to
prompt oar business firms to take rigid precautions, and
devise proper shacks against these most easily preiviratad
forms of peculation and crime.
Thirdly, the sale of government bonds and other securities
which have hese embezzled, mid have totally disappeared
without the knowledge of the owners, suggests one of the
&ogees arising oat of the vest oddities' the pub two year
have made to the mess of eessuities whisk are tresateired
from owner to owner, by simple delivery, without any offi-
oial record of the sale. Millions of pieces of paper, repro-
sooting our war debt,have been sown broadcast throughout
the couotry, sod possession of one of the's in good falth
la
held to constitute ownership. Our satimial debt, rerUks
that of England or Fame, is eisiedly repreessted hy "swot
bonds, sad only to e smaller extent by registered bonds.
The ioconvenianoes and dangers of this state ef things will
probably, daring the next five years, cause a preference to
spring up among investors which will bring about a gr.drial
000 version of the coupon bonds into the registered. From
other causes, indeed, this change is to some extent going on
already.
Lastly we have in this sad and infamous affair another
illustration of the injury done to the public morals by the
shoes of paper mousy. The excessive issue of an irredeem-
able currency so disturb% values, as to impart to numerous
branches of Wiliam some of the attributes of gambling.
Rapid upward and downward moveresete is prises erase
large fortunes to be made or lost by bold sea in a day.
Hence the minds of the seterprising and gifted, as well es
al the able and vicious, are inflamed with an insane desire
to grow suddenly rich. The mania for speculation spreads
like a fool corroding nicer over the face of society.
Edward Ketchum is a conspicuous iostanoe of the demo-
ralising effects of an unstable currency. A man manse,
refined in his tastes, blameless in private life, happy la hie
domestic relations, be, like thoomends and teas of thoussads
of our citizens hoe been struck down by the speculative
fever. He was reported to have the coolest bead is the
Baud of Brokers. He gambled in stocks. He Ambled in
gold. His first returns were mocessfaL He woo heavily.
Later he lost mere heavily. Temptations to breech of trait
increased and hurried on their victim to his rain.
Defaloatiora of such prodigious dimensions are usually of
slow growth. How long this system of peculation has bees
carried on we, perhaps, shall never know. Similar defiler
Lions have, however, happened, and may maw. On the
soon of public morality, therefore, as well se for reasons
more strictly financial, we ought to oppose any further in-
ereas• of paper money, and to favour all toned °ones:relive
and judiciors expedients for oontracting its volume.

EXTRAORDINARP OCCURRENCE NEAR
DUBLIN.

HIGHWAY BOBBBRT AND ATTEMPTBD Ie:WM
On Tuesday night, as • Man Dallied Joseph
Commies and him coo were bringing
those,h to Gerristown
their empty carts, after delivering s of hay in
Dublin, a man tame up, seized the bridle of the first
horse, and called upon Cummios to deliver up his money.
The demand mot a refusal, whereapon the man took a
revolver from his breast and fired at Cummins, the shot
taking effect in the left eye. Cummins then jumped off
the east, and as he approached received another shot in the
left thigh, within an inch of the femora artery. Cummins
closed with him and sized him by the cons, whilst his
son, a fine intelligent boy of about 15 years of age, laid
vigorously about his head with the Batt and of a whip,
inflicting severe punishment, under the effects of whisk the
ruffian fell to the ground. During the straggle • third
shot was fired from the revolver, which grazed one of the
fingers of the ansailant's left hand, and passed bundesaly
over the shoulder of young Cummins. The elder Cum-
mins, who is a powerful man, although suffolinfi frog
the wounds is the eye and thigh, massodet in
keeping the man down whilst his son ran to the merest
police station for assistance. On arriving at
ales Constabulary Barracks he reported the occur-
rence; whereupon Constable O'Neill, with Sulsooestabln
Vaughan, Kelly, and Willis at once proceeded to the spot,
Constable O'Neill persist into his aervioe • hackney ear
which he found driving along the road. Whoa the party
reached the place indicated they found Cummins still
keeping the man beneath him. but in such an exhausted
state that only for their timely arrival he would unques
tionably have been obliged to release his hold. The pd.
sorer was very mistily itijured about the head and face.
There was a large wound on the top of the bead and other
wounds. A portion of the head was alao beaten to softness.
The right ear, the eyes, sod the fogehead presented a
shocking spectacle. Oa being questioned he stated that
he was a native of Spiddal in the county of Galway, but
had bees brought to America whet an intact, and that
be had resided there ever since. He had lived la the
Confederate States, be said, and was understood to add
that he had served in the Confederate army.
Informatics of the outrage having been forwarded to the
police-rtations, it was found that two other charges of
highway robbery were to he preferred maims the pri-
to saner.

A paragraph has appeared lately in the French
newspapers to the effect that the cholera bee appeared at
Nioe. Thiractieg Eoglieh wised there eenteadlete the
statement. After a summer of rare begat, Nioe ie le •
perfectly healthy Mate, and so sue of any kind having the
character of cholera has made its aliesarthes-
A writer, speaking of isolated attempts to get
up horse-racing in Preece some fifty year' ago, says
nothing could be more absurd. The jockeys fell. aid the
horses, too, frequently. They were started bye Sourish of
trumpets, and • band played daring the ram What a
cornmeal on each days is the first page a Le' Sport,
August 27,1865 ! Here we get the following list of recta
yet to come off: August: Strasburg, le. ST ; Rados, 27;
Blois, 27, 29 ; Weeyegliem (steeplechase), 99 ; and B tins-
Baden, 31. Septeachar: Cherbourg, 3 ; Pirigentz, 3. 4,
5 ; Berheirieux, 10 ; Como, 10, 11 ; If eatiseen•Der, 10,
11 ; Chantilly, 17 ; Pia-F masa c , 17, 18 ; and Perla, 24.
October: Paris, 1.8; Chantilly, 15 ; Chambery, 15 ; and
Vulcanises, 22, 29. November : 1,3, 5 ; La
Marche, 1, 12 ; and Waists, 12. Nearly ell the harpornam
towns of Prance :have now their rases, and attract, all
classes of people.
Yesterday the regatta of the ancient town and
port el Dover came off under auspices of • favourable cha-
racter. There was • nice breeze from N.N. W., which,
though it at times fell light, enabled the nailing matches
to be concluded is good time, sad within neat of the large
number el spectators that lined the health, threaded the
windows and balconies of the houses oyeadiseles she pie.
tures:ie bay, and clustered in little coigns of vantage abort
the fine old castle and wedeln heights.
UIIIVIMBITT of POS
Onst6.—The syndicate here gives motive that lbws will be
two exerninstione, aonmemosisig on Noedey. Demenber 11.
one for furrier mud one foe moior candidates. They Mete
that they do sat undertake to Deadest se erseriamise at
every plater where there is to he an examiestion for boys,
but reserve t;
and
the right of &siding ie enik per.
Neuter eree ; acid that so application am be rietertedeed
from places where there is so ezeinieatioe far boys, sales
25 fees attire least are guaranteed. Wore say application fee
errenahatioabeapproved,thesyndicatemadbe satisfied se
to the fallowing mints :—L That there is • committee of
ladies who will efficiently eeperisteed the examinatioe. 2.
That this committee will see that suitable acconamodetlea
will be presided fee medidstes who are straegers_ to the
plum, 3. That • reeposibie parson will be at hied ID re-
miss the masslaaboo papers base the load elanthildr• sot
collect the soweers. 4. That the room for the smother
ties' be sattable and separate from that of the bey,. The
✓ebinds el outadeatiso are Foolish nveramer geography,
eriWs, Watery. salitiove knowledge, sod
semis. Deseyeno riblei to asandsatisa will he meal*
to pep a be of 20s.