The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-06 00:00:00

THE ELECTION COMMISSIONS.

All the four commissions continue to sit. At
Lancaster, it seems to have been the plan of the electors
to form themselves into gongs or clubs, and, electing •
spokesman, agree to demand so much per for their
votes. This plan was not adopted so largely as usual at
the last election. The captains ofdifferent districts
appear to have bad • very systematic scheme for both
treating and bribing. They invited the voters in their
districts first to one publis-house and then to mother,
end spent each night as merrily as possible. One of the
captains on the liberal side thought the men whom he had
to look after were rather high-minded. The tones offered
them 121., but instead of taking that they sold their votes
to the liberals for 81., thus sacrificing 41. each to principle.
A captain of one district was told on the evening of the
nomination day that there was • " gentleman" in Leonard.
gate who could not take care of himself, and that it would
be well to lookafter him. The captain went and gave the
" gentleman" • cheap trip, spending about 10s. in cab and
other expense.. But his oat got out of the bag" next day,
and voted wrong after all. On the nomination day the tortes
opened fire upon their opponents with eggs, and the
liberal captains returned the fire, spending 7s. 6d. in their
part of the " ovation." The methods of spending money
upon voters were very various. One voter had 91. 10e. in
money, his house newly papered, and a nice new cap
bought for his wife. One captain treated six wives of
voters to " caps and decorations." One elector's wife told
the captain of • district that her husband should vote for
his side if they would give her a chest of drawers. The
drawers were promised, but she jilted them unblushingly,
and said that the other side had given her what would buy
two or three chests of drawers.
Yesterday the commissioners at Great Yarmouth had a
great number of witnesses before them. They were mostly
voters, who had to depose to having received 151. or 201.
for voting on one or the other aide. One or two of them
looked upon the whole thing, the election and the commis-
sion, as • rather good joke. One, • horsedealer, confessed
that he always voted for those who paid him best ; and
another detailed how he received four separate bribes, he
taking care to look after the money himself when be beard
what was stirring at the publichousee. There was one
honest man in his own estimation in Yarmouth. Having
received 151. for his vote for one side, the other party
left a like sum at his house in his absence, and he took care
to return it. One witness, known as a thorough con-
servative, looked upon 15/, as the " standing " price
for his vote, and he was somewhat disgusted
with the agent who paid him for deducting 10s.
from the amount for his " trouble." Several voters
were indignant that they should be supposed to have re-
ceived bribes, but confessed that their wives were not so
high-minded as themselves. Richard Harrod, who de-
scribed himself as a small boat-builder, caused consider-
able amusement by the frequent nods and winks with
which he graced his evidence. From the agent of one
party he got 201., and fave 21. back to the agent for
having got so much for him. He got " something from
the other side, of course he did ; they gave him 201. on
the quiet," and that was given him beret= he was so
mach respected. One witness could not say how be
voted, or what he got for voting, in 1859, because he had

no "
Mr. Bentham, the manager of the Imperial Bank, was
again called, and he stated that he had received further
particulars from London respecting Mr. Brogden's loan
account. It was as follows :—Debtor July 3,186.5, loans,
1,5001. ; July 7,2,500 i. ; July 10, 1,000/. ; July 11, I,OOW. ;
July 19, 1,5001. ; small cheque, 46/. 14s. 6d. • dividend
on 4,000/. Consols, 73/. 15a. ; sale of Comas, 4,371/.
178. 6d. ; draft on Manchester, 2801. 15e. 9d. ; total 12,273!.
2s. 9d. Creditor : July 3, self, 1.000/. ; July 7, ditto,
1,5001. ; July 8, ditto, 1,000!. ; July 10, ditto, 1,000/. ;
July 11, ditto, 1,500/. ; July 24, 1,5001. ; Sept. 30, in-
terest on loan, 461. 14s. 61. ; Deo. 30, ditto, 771.35. 7d. ;
May 31, 1866, loan repaid, 4,500/. ; interest on loan,
1471. se. ; total, 12,273/. 2a. 9d. He did not think of
closing the account sooner, or that it was kept open because
a petition was pending.
At Tonnes very few witnesses were examined. One
stated that Mr. Michelmore (liberal) offered him ICW. for
hie vote, but that being declined, 200/. was offered.
When he refused to accept that, Mr. Michelmore talked
about a situation at • large drapery house in Manchester.
On the evening el the nomination day this witness saw
about half-a-dozen women with baskets on their arms
standing on the stairs of one of the engaged hotel", ready
to take home the moneT, and at the same time about
forty voters were lounging about In the expectation of re-
ceiving bribes. This witness was also told that 15,000/.
was offered for the purpose of compromising the petition.
At one time about one hundred municipal voters were
seen standing in the neighbourhood of a committee room,
in the hope of being employed to watch voters at night.
Another witness, who was active on the conservative side,
was of opinion that there were at least a dozen conserva-
tives in Totaes who would vote conscientiously. He also
believed that many voted for the conservatives because
they disliked the duke. If the duke were to turn tosy,
and go on as he did now, witness himself, conservative as
he wee would go over to the other side.
Each oommisaion adjourned again.

Tax MOONS AND Fonnars. —The sport on the
Crieff moors continues good, and grouse generally are now
large and in fine condition ; but on some moors the birds
are very wild and difficult to get within gunshot of. On
Monday, the Messrs. Moreland bagged, on the Auchingar.
roch moors, brace of grouse and • number of hares.
At Fendoch, Mr. Gunnis and party continue to make good
bags of grouse, besides other game, daily. The deer.
shaken at Dranintond Castle hare been enjoying excellent
sport in the forest; of Glesartney and Tartest. In addi-
tion to what we have already noticed, Mr. W. Ctualiff•
Brooks, on Monday, after a long day, succeeded with
stalk—right and left bullets struck exactly in the same
'on
places • little behind the Inert, and two royal stags lay
died the heather within two hundred yards of ma
othar.—ikatemels.

[TWOPENCE

UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM.

The thief modifications and chanter reeentli
mode in this miverwity are the following. The 'od of
residence required for the degree of B.A. is abli from
three years to two. The period of residence
months to eight. The re-
iniaroihodyeer
is extended from sin
months
for the hams in theology Is two years, each of
which the residence extends over six months. No person
is admitted ea a student in theology until he has attained
the age of twenty years. Plaid examinations are held
Wee in the year, in June sad December. Thus students
in arts and theology, who enter in October or January, nut
custeheir final examination and take their degree or
immediately on the 41%1 their two years of
rename,. Any licentiate in can obtain the
pee of B.A. after residing one anion year of sight
months andp the requlsits examination. Any per-
son who has the final examination for the degree of
B.A. or any higher degree at Durham, Oxford,
Dublin, or any ether university, in which the
is of a similar character to that required at Dmr-
ham, can obtain the license in theology niter residing
one academical year of six months as a student
in theology and peeing the requisite examination.
No sabscaption or test is required of any member of the
university with the follomg exception. No person earl
become a licentiate in tw
ip, or take any deem in
theology, or become a member of senate or 0011VOnbaiell,
unless hs has previously declared in writing that he is a
lead fide member of the church of England and Ireland as
by law established. The church service of the university
is that of the eatheOral church of Durham, but no student
who is not a member of the united thumb of England and
Ireland is obliged to attend the services of that church. A
school of physaml science has been founded, including pure
and applied mathenialies, chemistry, mha, , mining awl-
nearing, and the like. Students in this ssool, after two •
years residence of eight months each, are, on passing the
final examination, admissible to the rank of associates in
physical science. Terms kept by students in this school
may
wtilith the e
degree oft of
tP:hibrat.,ons and prize.
will be established in connection with this school.
Twonew exhibitions hare been founded of KC a year each,
tenable for one year by theologian students in their first
year, and two winner exhibitions tenable by theolog'ical
students in their second year ; also exhibition fund of
501. a year for the assistenee of deserving students of
limited mesas. The other scholarships and exhibitions, as
now arranged, are as follows. The foundation scholarship
are five of 501. and seven of 301. each, tenable for three
'tan ; one university classical and one university maths-
=non scholarship of 301. a year each, and tenable for one
year ; the Durham Oranunaraelmol scholarship of 301. a
year, and tenable for three years. The private foun-
dations are the Van Hilda% the Cubans, the
Lindsay, the two Pembertons, the Ellerton, the
Bury, the Newby, the Theological sholarsbip, the
Thorpe. There are also four medical scholarships. •
The scholarships and exhibitions are open to all conpe-
titan, and are awarded to the best candidates of positive
merit, tested by examination, except in a small number of •s
cases the particular of which are specified in the Ulnas,
sity Calen. There are 12 university fellowships, open
to allandentewho have graduated in arts, of 1201. and lout.
s-year, tenable for eight or ten years. They are awarded
by examination. The average annual expenses of a student
at University College, including those of the univenaosts,
well as the college, are eakulated at 801. to 851.; at
Hatfield's Hall, at 701.10,. to 76/. 16e. for students Marts,
and at 601. 10a. 6d. to 751.164.6 d. for students in theology.
The following scholarship and exhibitions will be filled
up by examination in October next :—One scholarship of
501. per annum, and three scholarships each of 301. per
annum, tenable for three years, open to all students of
the university and candidates for admission. Two Peep
berton scholarships, each of 301. per annum, tenable for
three years, open to students in arts of University
who are members ot the Church of England, and in their
first term of residence. A scholarship of 301. per annum,
tenable for two years, open to candidates for admisaion in
theology. A scholarship of 251. per annum, tenable for
four years, by a student in medicine. Two exhibitions,
each of 301. per annum, tenable fur one year, open to can-
didates for admission in theology. Two exhibitions, each
of 301. per annum, tenable for one year, open to Moots
gical students at the end of their first year. The eztani•
nations will begin on Oct. 9.

A2CHBISHOP MANNING AND THE PAPAL
QUISTION.

The anniversary of the dedication of the pro-
cathedral church at Belmont, near Hereford, was age-
bra.nd yesterday. Two sermons were announced to be
preached by Dr. Manning, the Archbishop of Weetmin-
der, and this ceased a bine congregation to assemble,
boa morning and evening. Pontifical mass was sung in
the morning by Dr. Brown, Bishop of Newport and Mi-
ners. Dr. Miming, in the came of his discourse, spoke
of the temporal power of the Pope. He said be would be
bold to assert that there never was a moment from the be-
ginning until now when the temporal power of the vicar of
Jesus Christ was more clearly understood, more traly
recognised, or Lad more influence upon the tionsetiences et
seen than at this very moment. What was the temporal
power ? Did it mean the possession of wealth,
of fleets, of armies, and of domains like those of the
British empire? No ; none of those things. It consisted
chiefly in the two divine laws ; first, that the vicar of the
incarnate son it God could never be subject to any human
power. He must be independent ;he must be free. The
acts of legislatures, and the mandates of princes had never
been able, end never would be able, to fetter the inde-
pendence of the vicar of Jesus Christ. Free the vicar at
his divine Lord had ever been, and free he must be so lons
as the Christian world exists. Roll the world back main
into heatheaism, and the vicar of Jesus Christ would be
free no more, but martyred. The church of God was the •
divine teacher to which alone on earth the conscience d
man was subject ; then no human power, no prince, no
potentate, no legislature. could make laws for the eon-
sciences of men in the matter of their salvation, and those
laws of salvation were summed up, carried on, and perpe-
tuated in that which was called the freedom and the in-
dependence of the head of the church of God. There wee
also committed to him the supreme guidance and
direction of every soul on earth. He was the
guardian of the faith; and as such be was its interpreter
and its expositor. And these two elements in what was
called his temporal power were not alien to his own
personal freedom. Dr. Manning then went on to
show that the Pops had ever held those two divine
prerogatives, notwithstanding the attempts which had
been made to wrest them from him. Let them, therefore,
confide in the part and look with assured confidence to
the future. In conclusion, Dr. Manning exhorted his
hearers not to be afraid of thebold words of men or the
threatening seed of events, but to take confidence from
the present position of the church, and learn never to
compromise a principle or to attempt to adjust the laws at
God any more than the dogmas of the faith for the cape-
diency of the moment, and the wisdom of men.

BARNET FAlR.—This fair was continued yester
day, but the unfavourable weather precluded any active
Liniment until the afternoon, when the horse sho* was
made up. A good demand prevailed for horses of high
class, which found buyers at prices already stated. There
was an active sale of Irish colts, and man) promising well-
bred young animals realised 40 guineas, and two-year-old
ditto 16 to ZS The Welch ponies continued at.
tractive, and t e dealers disposed of several herds of un-
broken foresters at from 3to 11 guineas. There was the
usual display of " screws." No sheep fair was held, but
several flocks of ewes and lambs, which had Leen held over
from Tuesday's fair were sold at advanced figures, and tha
Scotch shesp-dealeis disposed of Cheviot flocks at previous
offers. The pleasure fair is large, and comprises the nasal
amusements and attractions, and a vast assemblage of
visitors arrived by road and rail. The horse fair will be
chiefly among dealers to-day, and the races will take place
in the afternoon.
THE COLLISION OFF THE SUFFOLK COAST.—
Yesterday Mr. B. L. Gross attended at Lciston, to imitire
into the death of Ada Bell, whose body was washed
ashore a few days ago, she having been one of the pas-
sengers on board the ill-fated steamship Bruiser. Oa
opening the inquiry the coroner stated that he had that
m received a letter from the Home-office, intimating
that a Board of Trade inquiry would be instituted into
the cause of trees ster, and suggesting that he should
further adjou nqusat until that proceeding isknown
as it cannot fail to throw much tight upon the question
whether any criminal liability attaches to any of the
The coroner said it would not be respect-
Frllttir tieNgoile"-offlos if he did not adjourn this inquiry,
and be accordingly adjourned it until that day fortnight,
at one o'clock.
FATAL AOCIDENT ON LOUHLONOND.-011 Tuesday
forenoon a painful occurrence was witnessed at the foot of
Lochlomond, near Padlock Pier. A young man named
John M'Ausland, belonging to Jamestown, Benign, was
ailing in a small boat, accompanied by another young
man. They had with them a gun, and were amusing
themselves with shooting birds on the loch. DW'Aualand
fired and the gun rebounded with such force as nearly to
aspase the boat. The two young men were both thrown
into the water. WA.usland's comps:dee swam to the
shore, and returned again with the view of saving his
friend, but before be got up WAusland sank and perished.
A number it people turned out with boats, and in the
course of two Insure the lifeless body of Ill'Aualand was
recovered near the spot where be went down.
ADMIRALTY, Sirs. b. —Arpournivirm.
asst-General far Forum:se Graham, K.C.8., to be calomel
,of the artillery division, vice Menzies, deceased. Ha
' Gametal Alexander Anderson, to be colonel of the Ply-
mouth division a Royal Marines, vice Graham.
Foams=-OFFICE, Barr. 3. The Queen has
been pleamd to approve of Mr. G. H. Heap as Cooed at
Delimit fee the United States of America.--Gamas.

" by the meritorious exertions cit volintary 11140-
" ciations," can only be removed by a return to
established administrative principles, and by d
due exercise of the legal authority already provided.
der ipaink brought _forcibly forward i:a this
able. Raper is the interested motives animating the
10-cat authorities ; the clerks of the largest unions
having objected to the patronage of the contracts
for supplies being taken away, as without these
they would not be able to induce guardians to
attend in sufficient numbers to make up
courts, or transact the parish business.
But Mr. Cam:mica's statement has special interest
now from its calm, unwavering assertion that the
whole tendency of the law he aided in passing was
to provide the control, for the lack of which the
most horrible abuses have sprung up. Let our
readers compare the following passage with the
defiance and opposition from parish guardians they
have read of, and reconcile the discrepancy be-
tween theory and practice if i.hey can :—" It was
" the policy of the amended law that responsi-
" bility for executive functions should be where
" practically real responsibility can only attach—
" namely, to the paid service of well-appointed
" permanent officers ; for, knowing the increasing
" difficulty of obtaining in busy urban districts
" well qualified and reliable unpaid service, it was
" intended that the functions of the annually
" elected guardians should be mainly of audit and
" supervision of the paid officers, to hear corn-
" plaints, and see fast they did their duty, to be
" eurcised at monthly rather than weekly meet-
" ings." The treatment of casuals at Clerkenwell ;
the insolent obstructiveness of Bermondsey ; the
cruel deaths at Bethnal-green ; the horrible sick
wards of Whitechapel ; the burial-ground and
cramped apace of St. Martin's ; the evasions of the
Holborn Union ; and the shameful disclosures at
Rotherhithe, Paddington, Shoreditch, and the
Strand, make the most fitting commentary on this
passage. The flagrant cases of abuse these
names represent have all come to light within the
last twelve months, and most of them are rampant
now. In the face of these shameful facts and
Mr. ILLIWY'S pledge the present policy of the
Poor-law Board is irritating in the extreme. The
new Inspectors are futilely employed in examining,
criticising, and reporting in official language upon
evils patent to every newspaper reader in the
kingdom ; the Poor-law Board expresses its entire
confidence in the good feeling of the Guardians in
maundering compliments in an officialcircular ; the
paupers rot and starve; and thepublic asks sullenly
what the new and much-professing broom has
done, and how it is all to end.

lithe erpreoll.

MINTS.

Adosettoemento hiteitia foe —flea,* London
Two
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PIMMBn.

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and G. HoneyQ: Woes Neilson, Augusta Thom" 024 Mrs.
Etirling.—And UIET LODGINGS.

REITANNLL
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Latimer Mr. U. Macarthy ; The HarvellousMattiaeUes.—Ahd
THE MUTINY AT THE NOR.E.

RION WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE
TRIO D►Y —Morning. Ills. 611nt Ahonnoon, Oh. Ols.
TO-ROLSON—Morolog, Oh. 94an Afternoon. Oh. fons.

LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6.

Tun discussions which have arisen out of the
lamentable failure in our Poor-law administration
all tend in one direction—that of giving the public
an insight into matters which have been hitherto
imperfectly understood. Intermittent indignation
at isolated cases of hardship is being superseded
by a conviction that improvement, to be effectual,
must be sweeping, and that any attempts at patch-
ing up or glossing over existing defects should be
strenuously opposed by reformers. Just as this
feeling was gaining strength, a strikingly sugges-
tive contribution to the history of the subject has
been made by Mr. Cnenwrca in the pages of
Fraser's Magazine. In this we learn, from the so'e
surviving Commissioner of the great inquiry of
1832, what the framers of the new Poor-law really
designed, and how miserably their intentions have
been defeated.

" It was never contemplated,"writes Mr. CHAD-
WICK, " that the requisite extended combine-
" lions for relief of separate classes in separate
"'houses, and provisions in districts for the proper
" treatment of the sick and the different classes of
4' the destitute poor, should be charged on the re-
presentatives of ratepayers in parishes ; who,
" whatever might be their general intelligence and
" integrity, were as uninformed and as little
" qualified to deal with the administrative grin-
" ciples specially applicable to the chief classes of
" cases as they were to direct or to judge of
" medical treatment or an operation in surgery.
" We could see nothing but failure as consequent
" on confiding extended arrangements to the un-
" informed or ill-informed discretion and nacos-
" sadly divided attention of the representatives of
" the ratepayers in the narrow areas of pariah
" vestries or of boards of guardians."
It is unnecessary to remind our readers that
what " was never contemplated" has been made
the uniform rule throughout the country ; that
upon the " uninformed or ill-informed discretion"
and " divided attention of pariah vestries and
" guardian'," has rested the administration of the
Poor-law ; and that the contingent failure antici-
pated by its authors has been as complete as cor-
ruption, ignorance, cruelty, and neglect could
make it. Indeed, if we were reading the rules of
some Utopia in which failure is unknown, and
where means are invariably adapted to beneficial
ends, the contrast could not be greater than
between the Poor-law as propounded by Mr.
CHADWICK, and the Poor-law we know as
hard, bitter, and shamefully anomalous fact.
Besides showing us the breakdown anticipated
more than thirty years ago, if the course we lure
ever since adopted was pursued, Mr. CHADWICK
explains that his fellow-Commissioners and himself
" proposed to concentrate the responsibility for
" making the requisite extended arrangements
" exclusively in the Commissioners, the permanert
" officers of the general Board, who would have
" the means of obtaining the widest and most
" complete information for the guidance of a
" superior discretion ; for the due exercise of which
" they would be directly responsible, not to the
" lowest representatives of the people, those in ves•
" tries, but to the highest representatives of the
" people in Parliament." The system snadowed
forth here is as advanced as the most
zealous reformer could desire. Mr. ERNEST
Hzar's thoughtfully considered scheme for
providing for the sick poor in workhouses,
by transferring them to State hospitals properly
controlled, is but a proper application of the
above principle to one section of the poor. With
the exercise of common judgment, the enforcement
of direct responsibility, and the establishment of
independent control, our workhouses would have
been duly classified, the sick and aged fairly
tended, and not one of the shameful disclosures
made by independent witnesses would have
been possible. It is for the permanent legal
advisers of the Poor-law Board to say whe-
ther the authority Mr. CHADWICK credits
them with exists, and if it does why it has
not been exercised. It is startling to be
told, in the midst of the puzzlement and indig-
nation caused by recent events, that what we are
all striving for was codified and arranged more
than thirty years ago, and has lain dormant all
the intervening time. Mr. GATHOILTE HARDY'S
accession to office was heralded by a flourish of
trumpets from Lord DERRY, in the course of which
the new President was described, with an im-
plied sneer at his predecessor, as the
fittest man in Great Britain to cope
with the evils then shocking and disgusting the
community. Yet Mr. HARDY, in spite of his
statement that the law was sufficient, and that
the fault lay with those who had not enforced
it, has in no one case lessened the evils de-
scribed as disgusting, and has, oddly enough,
pleaded the shortness of his reign as an excuse
for not doing what the " fittest man," if admi-
nistering a perfect law, might surely hare accom-
plished at once. Mr. CHADWICK says, with
somewhat sweeping charity :—" How, through
" whom, by what acts of nonfeasance or mia-
" feasance, the existing conditions of ignorant
" and cruel treatment intended to be prevented
" have been so long maintained in the metro-
" polis—ostensibly it would appear under the
" excuse of opposition, from the exercise of
" the necessarily inferior discretion of guar-
" diens and vestrymen, whose authority and right
"of consultation in the matter the law ex-
" pressly excludes—are questions upon which it is
" at present unnecessary for me to enter."
It is upon the validity of this " excuse of op-
" position" that the permanent staff of the Poor-
law Board must be content to stand or fall. Mr.
CHADWICK'S words are uncompromising and direct,
and coming as they do from one of the authorities
responsible for the new Poor-law, demand atten-
tion. He insists that the evils, " made manifest

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1866.

'the Legations the Marcho, and Umbria, replacing him
=der Auatriegkaad Boudoir pxoteetioaread carrying GO
hie non-iniareention poi* to ita last imeneiraciage, leaving
the Tope alone to come to each terms with hia people aa
beet he can.

LATEST INTELLIGENCt

Tie Post argues that in the blockade of the Mexican
ports which President Johnson refuses to recognise, every-
thing turns on the question whether the Mexican Emperor
is in troth in a position to maintain an effective blockade
or not, and,, if the former, whether he is prepared to en-
force his rights against American vessels. If, however, he
elects to waive his rights against such vessels, he must
also waive them against all others, and in that case the
only coarse open to him will be to give notice to all neutral
powers that the blockade is at an end.
The addresses presented to the new Lord Lieutenant, on
Monday last, lead the Titres to treat of Irish prospects,
impressing upon Irishmen that the only substitute pro-
posed for the British government is a communist re-
public, that the faults of the British government are
things of the pest—that no people could be more ready to
help another people than Englishmen are to help Irishmen,
and that private capital will Sow in abundant volume
through channels once opened. Even the wildest spots of
Ireland tenanted only by the creatures of nature are so
manyresources of which Englishmen would avail themselves
11 as they do of a Highland forest, a moor, or an unnavigable
stream. Why should a moor in Scotland fetch a fabulous
rent, while moors in Ireland are left without a tenant
If Ulster and Leinster have commercial advantages, the
advantages of natural scenery and attractions belong to
Munster and Connaught. Turn both to account, and the
face of Ireland would soon be changed. Nor is anything
wanted to accelerate this change, except the public tran-
quillity and contentment which all kinds of enterprise
require.

THE IMPERIAL POLICY OF FRANCE.

M. Michel Chevalier, in proposing the toast of
the Emperor, Empress, and Prince Imperial, at a
banquet given on last Saturday by the Council-

,neral of the Huai:lit to the Prefect, said :

I have the honour to propose the toed of "The Emperor.',
In this room that toast is not a common-
place one. In drinking the health of Napoleon
111. you honour less the inheritor of the most popular
name of the age than the able and persevering promoter of
a new policy, which it was necessary to produce from the
womb of our glorious revolution of 1789, and it is
the merit of the Emperor that he has known how to
acoomplish this laborious acoouchement. This policy
consists in employing henceforth the N:tal forces of the
state and of society in promoting the moral, intellectual.
and material prosperity of all classes, and especially of
those who have beenhitherto disinherited of the advantages
of civilisation. For civilised society labour is a kind of
beneficent and tutelary genius which produces l ht and
I gives precious aid to lofty sentiments. Labour is peace,
of which it has been said that it is the greaten biasing
of modern nations. The new policy, therefore, encourages
labour ; it assists it, gives it a share in all dis-
tinctions, accords to it ever increasing privileges,
it utilises labour to change the surface of the earth, to give
to the mind of man a pedestal and to the moral advance-
ment of man a lever. Let us honour, gentlemen,
in Napoleon 111. this new policy which he has
propagated, strengthened, and, more than any other
person, contributed to acclimatise on almost the entire
surface of the continent of Europe. Honour to the Em-
per, the glorious champion of this policy ! Respectful
homage to the Empress, who, under the infiuenoe of the
noblest feelings, has performed acts of courage which his-
tory will be proud to record ! Affection for the young
Prince, whom his august parents are forming to practise
this generous, intelligent, and civilising policy.

THURSDAY,

EXPRESS !FROM PARIS.

(ram oua ows coaassrosolarr.)
PARIS, WEDNZSDAT EVINING.
The Emperor intends to open the shooting
_won at St. Germain to-morrow. The Marquis
de Lavatette, Prince de la Moskowa, the Grand
Veneur, the Marquis de Toulangeon, Prince
Poniatowski, General Fleury, and Count Mono de
Hale are invited to join in his Majesty's battue.
A despatch from Niort of this day's date states
that the mail train yesterday evening at half-past
8 ran off the rails near St. Maizent. Five
carriages fell over an embankment. Six people
were killed and eight injured.
There was a disturbance at Lyons on Sunday at
the fête of the Grand Camp, owing to the high wind
preventing M. Godard from inflating his balloon,
an ascension of which had been announced for that
day. Count de Palikao, the general command-
ing the district, denies in a letter to the local
papers that the troops made a charge. They were
hissed, pressed upon, and even assailed with pro-
jectiles by people, who cried, " Return us our
money ;" but the officer in command said that
there was no serious riot, and would not allow the
troops to attack. It is not true, as stated in some
journals, that there were any killed and wounded. The
only accident was that one unfortunate and inoffen-
sive man received a kick from a trooper's horse,
from the effects of which he died in hospital.
Eight young men who took a prominent part in the
disturbance are arrested.

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A fatal accident at a bull fight a rEspagna oc-
curred in the old Roman Circus at Nimes on Sun-
day last. A torreador, named Mateo Cabrera, was
run through the cheat by one of the bulls, and
killed on the spot.

The Moniteur du Soir gives the following account
of the above catastrophe :
It was evident when the very first bull appeared that
the pretended Spanish torreadors, or at some of them,
either knew nothing of their dangerous Dwane's, or were
in such a state of excitement as to lose their heads. They
irritated the bulls in most unnecessary ways, and their
rashness was only equalled by their awkwardness. At
the beginning of the performance the bulls, which,
though good enough for our amateurs, were tame
creatures indeed when compared with the genuine
furious Spanish animals, knocked over several of the tor-
readers, though without hurting them. With the fourth
bull the unfortunate Cabrera attempted the hoop game.
But instead of watching the bull's movements, and hold-
ing the hoop on one side so as to avoid the rush, he held
it inboth hands exactlybefure his breast,and the bull,after
running his horns through the paper, transfixed the
man. The other torreadors in the circus rushed to their
comrade and picked him up. They opened his waistcoat
to see where he was hurt. Supported by them he walked
two or three steps, then slipped from their hands and fell
heavily. A torrent of blood gushed from his breast and
he was quite dead. The sight of the blood caused great
emotion among the audience, and several women fainted.
It is confirmed that M. Benedetti has gone to
Carlsbad, but it is also said that he will come to
Paris to confer with the Marquis de Moustier as
soon as the latter arrives from Constantinople.
The Bourse was firmer, though not much more

active than yesterday. Relate rose 20c. for cash
and 12lic. for account, closing at 69fr. 95c. and
69fr. 92tc. Italian rose 65c., and Mobilier and
Credit Foncier 2fr. 50c. each.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

8, 8 A.N.