The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-05 00:00:00

OF TILL NATIONAL =FORM -LEAGUN.

" Dear Sir,—The council and members of the Irish
Reform League desire, eo this, your first visit to Ireland,
to tender you their warmest welcome, and to offer you
their heartiest congratulations on the meccas which las
attended the labours of the National Reform League of Eng-
land, of which you are the esteemed end able president. Much
of that success is due to your wise and prudent counsels, to
your indomitable energy, to your loyalty to principles, and
to your unswerving course of upright conduct. Your know.
ledge of law enabled you to defeat the government in the
Hyde-park proceedings, of world-wide notoriety, when the
government and its officers were obliged to admit that they
were wrong and you were right. Their Parks Bill you were
mainly instrumental in defeating, and the Reform Bill,
giving household and lodger suffrage in English boroughs,
is due almost entirely to you and the bold and manly
course taken by the National Reform League. Mr. Disraeli
bad the sense to understand " the sign of the times," and
drawing the tory coach up-hill, he carried a measure
which a year before it was only through the madness of
yourself and others, it was said, any could be found to de-
mand. Even tory lords state that the Reform Bill is your
work rather than that of the government. We rejoice
with you in the success of your effort.. We feel satisfied
i,oensivwill carry the ballot also ; and the Irish Reform
e, determining to follow the noble example which
you ave set them, are resolved to pursue the same course
of constitutional agitation, until every Irishman living on
Irish soil shall possess the franchise. Thanking you and
your friends for this friendly visit, we beg to offer you our
wannest sympathies and support in the struggle in which
you are so manfully engaged.—Signed on behalf of the
council. " O'Domoomus, President.

" P. J. Ellianar, Secretary."
Mr. Ituute then rose, and thus replied to the address
presented to him : My Lord Mayor and citizens of Dublin
—A striking proof of the veracity and morality of certain
portions of the press is given in the false motives which
have been assigned for my presence here to-night.
I come here at the invitation of your own Reform League,
and for the purpose of proffering to you, on the part of the
English people, the hand of fellowship and brotherhood.
(Cheers.) I have said in my own country and I
am not afraid to repeat it here, that I do not ask
for any right, social, political, or religious, for England
that Ido not also wish to be extended to Ireland. If
I bad any doubt of the fitness of my being here to-
night it would be removed by the cordial reception which
you have given me. (Cheers.) I remember, when at a
critical crisis, when threatened by the tory government of
the country, • noble and distinguished countryman of
yours came forward and stood by me in the hour of peril.
I remember The O'Donogbue was at my right hand in
Hyde-park, when • military force threatened to deprive
the people of the constitutional right to meet in public—
(cheen)—and on that occasion he delivered a speech full
of native Irish eloquence which will not soon be for-
gotten amongst Englishmen. When I think of these
things I feel that I am somewhat at home among you
to-night, and I trust the time is not far distant when
we will be all fellow-countrymen in the true sense of
the word. (Cheers.) If this do not happen, it will not be
my fault. One of the first and most important step, for
obtaining this union amongst us is that Ireland should ob-
' Min an extension of the franchise to at least as great an
extent as England has • and we, the members of the Re-
form League in England, are determined to aid you in
obtaining this, and in makitig the bill satisfactory to you,
in ease it be not so when originally introduced by the
government. (Loud cheers.) We regard the bill brought
in by the present government as almost rendered
useless by the restriction of personal rating. Mr.
Beales then proceeded to criticise the Reform Bill,
and to advocate vote by ballot. He concluded thus—Re-
form in parliament is not the only reform needed by
Ireland. Reform in England and Ireland is only •
stepping-stone to obtaining proper government, wiser,
better, and juster administration of our national affairs—
(cheeis)—less regard for class interests, and more consi-
deration for the rights and privileges of labour, the great
source of all national prosperity and welfare. (Cheers.)
I now take my leave of you, expressing • hope th.t the
time is not far distant when Ireland, instead of being •
source of disgrace and peril to England, will be • glorious,
prosperous, and contented member of the United Kingdom.
(Loud cheers.)

The O'Doxonvirt, M.P., mine forward to move the first
resolution, and was received with loud cheers. He said
he could not forget that they were in the midst of a city
having many of the appurtenances of a great capital, once
the seat of the legislature. Dublin had been the scene
of those memorable events in Irish history which raised
the drooping spirit even in the darkest hour, and filled the
heart with hope that by doing their duty fearlessly, not
allowing their overflowing love of country to get the
better of their prudence, they might yet be enabled to
accomplish what their father■ had struggled for. (Loud
cheers.) The object they sought to obtain was that the

Irish nation should govern itself through a body of repre-
sentatives freely chosen by the people.
A Volol—Wa are no nation. (Loud cries of " Put him
out," followed by the summary ejectment, by a couple of
constables, of the individual who ventured to make the
observation.)

The O'Do;rocntm—Owing to the peenlar circumstances
of the present time that object was eminently practical,
and it was urgently necessary that they should thus
become masters of their destiny, if they were to escape
from the turmoil of a revolution, which would otherwise
be the result of the oligarchical domination which bound
them to the ground. (Here another disturbanoe took
place in the gallery between • coalporter and one of the
audience. after which) The O'Donoghue returned, and said
that the English and Scotch people were prepared to
join with Ireland in the common cause actuated
by • generous desire to make reparation to the
Irish people for the untold wrongs heaped by,
the British government upon them. (Loud cheers.)
Why did ho arrive at that conclusion ? Because
in his intercourse with the English people he
had met with the warmest sympathy for the Irish poli-
tical prieoners—(loud and prolonged cheering)—and be-
cause he found that the masses of the English people
knew that which was as true as that God is in heaven,
that the political prisoner' were enshrined in the hearts
of the country. (Deafening applause, and waving of
hands and bats in all portions of the building, sworn-
ponied by cheers for Burke). He found that the
generous English people had expressed their oonvic•
tion that the political prisoners bad sacrificed their all
upon the altar of patriotism. (Tremendous cheering.)
In blancheste he had beard John B ht—(obsers)—eay,
oreidst the septever•eeelsome et 4644"
would open the prison doors and let the captives free.
(Great cheering.) An individual in the gallery here made
some observations which rendered him obnoxious to the
coalporter!, and, amidst cries of " Put him out," " Throw
him over ' he was ejected from the building.
The TAD XATOIt at length was heard to have called
" Order," and . .

The CVDottoontre again proceeded—He wished the
Irish people to unite with the English. reformers in
their efforts to obtain those political rights which in
believed in his inmost soul those Englishmen who
helped them meant they should use in whatever way
was pleasing to the Irish people—(great cheering)—and
if it were not too presumptuous in him, he would say, on
the part of his countrymen, that that was the sense in
which they accepted their co-operation. (Cheers.) The
present system of representation was the most complete
humbug that hadjever been known. He believed the course
for them to adopt was to co-operate with the English
people, who had given most unmistakeable proofs of their
sincerity. He begged to move—" That the meeting, while
claiming for Ireland an extension of the franchise at least
equal to that conceded to England, expressed its convic-
tion that no suffrage short of residential registered ma.
hood suffrage will, or ought to be permanently satidactory
to Ireland, England, or Scotland." (Loud cheers.)
Mr. O'Donsm.i. seconded the motion.
The Rev. Mr. IdoLimi rose to propose the following re.
solution :—" That this meeting, deeply impressed with
the prudent action of the English Reform League, in view
of the success which has been already obtained, is pre-
mred to unite with that League in agitating for the ballot;
but more especially as the voters in this country impera-
tively require that they should have that protection to
enable them to exercise the franchise with freedom and
independence." He severely commented on the statements
of certain journals as to the motives of reformers, and re.
(erred at length to the evils mused to Ireland by the want
of legislation on the subject al the security of land tenure.
Mr. Mowarr seconded the resolution.

A gentleman in the gallery now and then interrupted
Mr. Mowatt by such observations as " Shut up your
gammon." Attention was drawn by these circumstances
to this gentleman, and on making some other observations
he was estupon by a number of tealportere. Then ensued
a scene of the greatest disorder. The coalporters rose up
and began to beat the unfortunate man unmercifully. A
few of those around him who endeavoured to Warier*
were also attacked. -

then rose to support the resolution—
Citizens of Dublin, I confess I would not a few months ago
have come among you with the *erne feelings of pleasure
as fill my mind at the present moment. If I then, asked
you to exert your energies for the obtaining of parliamen-
tary reform, I might justly have been told that the English
workmen should carry their own projects before encouraging
others to dose. (Hear.) But circumstances have altogether
changed, and the reason is that the army of democracy having
mustered its battalions are pressing forward to victory.
(Loud cheering.) The glorious tricolour has been raised, the
tricolour thatfloated over French soldiersas they marched to
victory through almost every country in Europe. (Cheers.)
Bat we mean to gain our victory not by arms, but by the
force of reason and thought. The men of Lancashire have
sent me to offer Irishmen the hand of friendship. It bad
unfortunately happened that the people of the two coun-
tries had been too much divided to obtain their common
rights, for it had been the principle of the
oppressors to divide and then conquer them. (Cheers.)
[Mr. Jones was here interrupted by • slight disturbance.]
After it had ceased be thus continued—You,
people of Ireland, have trusted whig and tory, and
by both have you been dmeived. You have not
yet trusted the people. They, I warrant you, will not
betray your confidence, but will aid you in obtaining your
rights and liberties. (Cheers.) Mr. Beaks has said that
he is afraid that the bill lately brought in may not give
as much as it pretends, but I care not for what any one
says on this point, the people of England will not bear to
be trilled with, and the aristocracy cannot, dare not, en-
deavour to make the bill a sham and a pretence. (Loud
cheers.) Some gentlemen ask for more and some for
lees than the bill has given us, but still you
must ban mon. (Cheers.) For society la not, cannot
be, stagnant, it must progress or retrograde, and the
feeling in England, in France, in America, and
in Germany, is favourable to program. (Chem.) I have
hail my revenge for my dap of imprisonment and suffer-
ing. I have assisted in wringing from an unwilling parlia-
ment justice to the people. Parliament must act in sc.
cordanee with the wishes of the people. Like mercury, it
must ascend, as the popular element becomes warmer. We
have gradually made parliament rise from a 61. franchise
to a household suffrage, and if we persevere we will make
them arrive at summer heat, which is manhood suffrage.
(Loud and continued cheering.)
Mr. COOK proposed, and Mr. Cusir seconded the
following resolution :
" That this meeting earnestly calls upon the people of
Ireland to unite in supporting the Irish Reform League,
by the formation of local branches, to enable them to join
in action with the Ecglish and 'Scotch Reform Leagues in
the obtainment of popular rights."
After the usual vote of thanks to the chairman the
meeting separated.

MR. BRIGHT, M.P., AND Till AMERICAN
Srauncte.—Tbe following letter is a reply to one sent to
John Bright, the great English radical, accompanying en
afghan which was presented by Mrs. Lincoln to the Na-
tional Fair for Orphans, the proceeds to be divided be-
tween the Soldiers' and Sailors' and Coloured Orphan
Homes of this city. Donations were solicited by the lady
managers of the Coloured Home with the assurance that
when a certain amount was raised the afghan should be
sent to John Bright, as a memorial of the great interest
he bad taken in the cause of freedom:—" Rochdale,
July 8, 1867.—Dear Madam,—l write to thank you and
the ladies associated with you as managers of the National
Association for the Relief of Destitute Coloured
Women and Children, for the very handsome and
valuable present you have forwarded to me. The
afghan is much admired here, but its value is
immensely increased because it once belonged So your
great and good president. I feel much indebted to the
ladies who bad me in their kind remembrance, and who
have sent me this beautiful gift. I have great satisfaction
in reviewing the course I took in reference to your pat
struggle, and often lament that it was not taken by all my
countrymen. If all the influential men of this country
had looked with a generous eye upon your late contest, I
believe the two nations would have been united in • solid
ftiendship which nothing hereafter would have been able
to disturb. I hope good men and women in both
countries will do all they can to wipe out the remembrance
of all that is evil in the pest This is needful for the good'
of the two countries, and for the good of all the world.
With many thanks to yourself, to the ladies who are con-
nected with you, and to all concerned in the purchase of
the gift which you have forwarded to me, and which my
family will always so greatly value, I am, with the highest
respect, very truly yours,—JOHN Bmoar."— Washington
Chronicle, August 21.
OPPOSITION TO THE NEW HIGHWAY ACT. —For
several months • struggle has been going on between the ,
ratepayers and the magistrates of the North Riding with
reference to the adoption of the new Highway Act. The
magistrates, by about 3 to 2, carried the provssiooal order
at the spring quarter sessions. At the midsummer sessions
the confirmation of the provisional order was postponed
until Michaelmas. As this period is near at band it is
deemed requisite to meet the intention of the magistrates '
by a determined opposition. On Saturday afternoon •
meeting of the council of the North Riding Chamber of
Agriculture was held at Melton, to adopt • petition, to be
sent by every parish in the northern division of the
county, against the confirmation of the provisional order.
Mr. Chick, agent to Sir E. Leobmere, Bart., presided, and
thirteen members of the council attended. It was held
to be essential that the ratepayers should earnestly but
respectfully entreat the magistrates to quash the provi-
sional order, instead of making it final, and this they ought ,
to do out of respect for the opinions of the ratepayers, who
are so unanimous on thin important subject. A petition
was unanimously adopted against the act, and • resolution
was passed to send the petition for discussion by each of
the branch chambers, and afterwards to bring it before •
general county meeting, at Melton, before sendieg copies
to every parish for signatures.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE

THE WEL,H NAIIONAL Fzsriret.

ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.

The first meeting of the general committee of
the association wee held yeaterday afternoon ; but the
opening meeting of the association was not held till the
evening, in the large Kinnaird-hall, where the Duke of
Buocleuch, as president of the association, delivered the
inaugural address. The sectional meetings commence
this morning, and will be continued till Tuesday, and the
concluding general meeting of the association will be held
on Wednesday next. Arrangements have been made for
evening meetings, which proudlc to be very attractive
features of the gathering. This evening there .
will be • soiree end conversations in the Volunteer
Hall, at which valuable works of art, geological speci-
mens, and other objects of interest will be exhibited. The
collection of paintings in this hall, which will be ex-
hibited this evening, will be one of the finest
which has been brought together in Scotland, comprising
numerous specimens of the works of the most cele-
brated of the old masters, together with • selection of
many of the choice productions of modern Scotch and
English artists. The noble president of the emaciation, the
Duke of Bin:clench, has placed at the disposal of the com-
mittee • considerable number of valuable paintings,
and his example hail been liberally followed by
numerous noblemen and gentlemen in the district, so that
the exhibition of paintings in the Volunteer-hall will well
=y long and frequent visits by all loven of art. The
bition includes pictures by Velnes' Murillo
Ruben', Vandyek, Rembrandt, and many others the old
masters, while it sontains numerous excellent specimen..of

On Wednesday morning the proceedings in con-
nection with the National Eisteddfod commenced under
the moat favourable auspices at tho ancient town of Car-
marthen. During the previous evening and early during
the morning the town and district were visited by a severe
thunderstorm, and sharp showers of rain continued to
descend at intervals until the Eisteddfod actually com-
menced. Notwithstanding the very serious drawback of
the weather, however, the town WAS thronged by strangers
from all parts of the principality, attired in the most
extraordinary variety of co.tuu.er. The town was taste-
fully demanded; triumphal arches and all possible kinds
of devices being erected at every fifty yards in the prin-
cipal thoroughfares. Congratulatory mottoes in Welsh
and English were distributed through every part of the
town. The actual business of the Eisteddfod commenced
by a meeting of the Social Science Section at the Town-
hall, when papers on questions of social economy, he.,
were read, followed by free discussion' and oonvenuttion. At
eleven the members at the council and general and local
committees, and a number of other gentlemen, followed by
a large portion of the puhlie, together with the members
of the friendly societies of the town and district, 'rum-
bled at the Town-hall, and a procession having been formed
proceeded towards the "Iloreedd," which was opened by the
publication in Welsh and English of the following pro-
clamation :—" The truth against the world.—ln the year
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the sun ap-
t preaching the Autumnal Equinox, at the hour of noon,
on the 3rd day of deptemner, after due proclamation, this
Gorsedd is opened in Carmarthen, with invitation to all
wmho may assemble here, where no wen is unsheathed
tedgeriheer,
works of genius su mated for adju Cation, in the him
of the sun—the eye of light. The truth against the
world."

.xurner, noel room, amuse, anct flotsam ii-x-nuoen.
On Thursday evening, in addition to the soiree and eon-
versa:Moe in the Volunteer-hall for members of the
association, Professor Tyndall is to deliver a lecture on
" Matter and Force" to working men, in the Kinnaird.
hall, which will be densely crowded on the occasion, the
demand for tickets having been far in excess of the capa-
bilities of the ball, though these have been increased by
the erection of temporary side galleries.
On Friday evening, Mr. Archibald Gaikie, director of
the geological survey of Scotland and president of the
geological section, la to deliver a lecture in the Kinnaird-
hall, on "The Geological Origin of the Present Scenery
of Scotland." In the mine place, on Monday evening, Mr.
Alexander Herschel is to deliver a lecture on "The Pre-
sent State of Knowledge regarding Meteors and Me-
teorites." On Tuesday evening the concluding soiree
will take place in the Volunteer-hall ; and on Wed-
nesday evening the corporation are to give a banquet to
the leading members of the association in the Albert In-
stitute, while a concert is to be gives in the Kinnaird.,
hall by the Dundee St. Cecilia sod Philharmonic Society,
who are liberally to place 1,200 tickets at the disposal of
members of the Association.
_

This formality having been gone through, the promote&
reformed, and escorted the president of the day, Mr. D.
Pugh,ll. ,to the pavilion,where he was dalyhostalled in the
*hair. The proceeding, commenced by the band playing
the National Anthem, the whole of the vast assembly
standing. Some preliminaries having been sometimes*,
The PRZBIDENT rose and : It give' me very great
pleasure to meet you here on this occasion, for I entirely
agree with those high authorities which have impaneled
the opinion that the taste—the deeply implanted taste
which actuates thousands of the people of this country to
assemble here and listen to the compositions of their
countrymen—l say I agree with those who say that a taste
of this kind is highly creditable to any nation, and I am
thoroughly convinced that the good common sense which
prevails among my countrymen will prevent them exer-
cising that taste to anything like excess. The taste
to which I allude, common sense will tell you, is
emollient as • recreation, and in any country
can only be followed as a pursuit by • hAllt:
favoured few men who, having great taste, na
turn to that by which such taste may be gratified,'Zii
have made for themselves names that are household
words, and won imperishable renown. That pursuit by
which each man hopes to obtain his livelihood mast
and ought to be made the principal pursuit of his life •
end lam pleased to know that the managers of the Eia:
teddfod, with this object in view, are making the insti-
tution more and more practical every day, for which
they deserve the gratitude of their country. Art is long,
but life is short. They know that if • man would prosper
in the world, be must confine himself to pursuit. If
be does not do this, he becomes Jack of all trades and
master of none, which is not likely to secure for him any-
thing substantially good or substantially great. This con-
centration upon one pursuit is getting more and more
necessary every day, more requisite than ever. Coin-
' petition will be brought to our very doors, and
will in time be more strong and severe than it bee
ever been yet. Ido not wish to flatter my own country-
men, but I venture to say this, that they have always been
distinguished for intelligence. And this is not • discovery
of to-day, or of yesterday. Three hundred years ago is
" Carey's Conquest of the Nominee," I find it stated that
"'he Britons were distinguished for their intelligence."
The people of this country have nothing to fear from com-
petition ; and I am convinced that competition with •
wealthy and powerful country like England will only teed
to the development of their own resources, and will im-
prove their position instead of injuring it. I am one of
them who wish to see first-rate schools and first-class col-
leges in Wales. Schools and colleges not confined to Welsh-
men alone—no I would have them so excellent that the
sons of Englishmen should ask to be admitted into them.
I would wish to see the beauties of Oxford and Cam-
bridge combined in them, and kindred systems intro-
, &nod in other places. Why was Scotland foremost in this
respect, but from the admirable system of schools which
had been established 100 yews? That is the secret of
their superiority ; and Wales, I hope, will soon have all
the same advantages as Sereland now enjoys. Yes, Wales
is treading fast upon the heels of Scotland in this respect
—not by slow march, but in quick, double•quics time.
And this rising is not a policy of isolation—it is one of
infusion and amalgamation. It has been going on for
centuries, and will continue to go on at an accelerated
pace. I hold it to be a great advantage that
we in Carmarthen, for instance, have the great
advantage of being brought into close connexion
with the hives of industry with which the neigh-
' bouring musty of Glamorgan abounds. They buy
their beef and their mutton of us, and we take care that
they pay • good price for both. If it is thus in reference
to 13kmorgan, how much more moat it be to our advan-
I tag. to be connected with the great ports and towns of
England. Efforts are being made to increase the trade 1a
other places, and Wales is following fast in their footsteps.
la this competition we have nothing to fear. Behave like
practical men ; bold fast to your recreations as much as
you can, but use them only as recreations, and stick to
your trade or occupation whatever that may be.
The President resumed his seat, amidst loud and long-
continued cheering.
Llew Llwyvo then sang the national song, " Cambria's
Holiday," which was warmly applauded. The adjudica-
thin of prices was then proceeded with.

One of the most popular features in the programme of
• meeting of the British Association is the list of excur-
sions, end that attraction has not been negleeled on this
mow= by the executive committee. On Saatt y there
will be excursions to Glamis Castle • Romig Priory, the
seat of Lord Kinnaird • St. Andrews, and Falkland
Palace ; while on Thursday, the 12th, there will be excur-
sions to the Den of Airlie, Du Den, and Kilmaron, Bal.
ruddery, Newburgh, and Errol Park, Arbroath, Montrose,
Perth, and Loch Leven. Dunkeld is not named in the
programme, but no doubt many of the visitors will pay a
visit to that beautiful place. In connection with the
meeting of the association, there will be held grand floral
and agricultural shows. The floral show is to open to-
morrow in the Baxter Park, and continue for four days,
the members of the association being privileged
Ito visit it free each morning, between nine and
eleven o'clock. The cattle show is to be held
in the Magdalen-green, en Friday and Satur-
day. In addition to all these attractions, strangers
will have an oportunity of • many of the public
works in Dundee about foirirrcMv kb axe to be thrown
open to the members of the association during the gather-
ing, including flax spinning and weaving works, jute-
n spining works, calendering work., and ironfounding and
engineering establishments.
The committee which has been entrusted with all these
arrangements foe this varied programme have been meet in-
defatigable in their exertions during the past week to have
everything in readiness and there exertions promise to
be rewarded by a aucoeMful meeting ; for, while the total
number of tickets issued last year at Nottingham,
up to the aloes of the meeting, was 2,303, yielding
a revenue of 2,46111. there was issued, up to four o'clock
this (Tuesday) aftenwon, before the meeting has begun, no
fewer than 1,703 tickets, yielding a revenue of 1,830/.
The 1,703 tickets are made up as follows:—Old life mem-
bers, 68 ; new life members, 13 ; old annual members, tot ;
saw annual members, 79 ; associates, 843 ; Wks, 611 ;
foreign, I—total, 1,703. Among the gentlemen who have
already arrived, or who are expected to arrive to-
morrow, to attend the meetings of the association, are
the following:--Sir William Armstrong, Professor
Thomas Anderson (of Glasgow), Professor Anstead,
Professor Allman Sir John Bowring, Sir Edward
Belcher, K.C.B. ; Sir David Brewster ; Sir Samuel Baker
and L 6 Baker, who are to be the guests of Sir John
Ogilvy, Bart., M.P., at Bahromar, where also the Duke of
Buocleuch is to reside during the meetings of the associa-
tion ; the Earl of Enniskillen. who is to be the guest of
Lord Kinneird at Rossi* Priory ; Sir John Lubbock,
Bart. ; Rear-Admiral Ommaney ; Sir Roderick Murchison,
Bert. ; Lord Neaves and Miss Neaves, Edinburgh ; Sir
William Thomson, Glasgow ; Professor Cleland, tNeen'e
College, Galway ; Professor Christison, Edinburgh ; Mr. H.
E. Grant Duff, M.P., who is to be the guest of Mr. W.
E. Baxter, M.P., at Ashcliff ; Mr. James Moncrieff,
H.P. who is to be the guest of Edward Baxter, Esq.
Hazel Hell ; Dr William Fairbeire, of Manchester ; Pro:
lessor Foster, University College, London • Alexander
Herschel, Esq., Brigadier-General Let roy, alonel Sykes,
M.P. ; Professor Sir James Y. Simpson, Edinburgh ; Pro-
fessor Wheatstone, London; Dr. Keiller, Edinburgh ; Pro-
fessor Leone Levi ; Professor Muirbeed, Edinburgh ; Pro-
vost Murrie, Stirling, la.—Seotainen.

THE SHOOTTNO OP CAPTAIN SPEER.—The - ----
,Montana Herald of June 26 gives the following particulars CATTIA PLAQUE.—The weekly return of the re-
ported cases of cattle plague in Great Britain is as follows
of the shooting of Captain Speer :—"We are grieved to be
ocenpacd to record the port...taus of a sad tragedy which —For the week ending the ~Ist August, one fresh outbreak
occurred on board the steamer Octave, on her upward trip hie been reported, via,, at Bermondsey, in the district at
Southwark. Two cases of cattle plague are reported to have
to Fort Benton. We have convened with a number of the
occurred during the week, being an increase of one on the
passengers, and from their accounts we are enabled to re-
port as follows :—An English nobleman of great wealth, previous return. Both the diem," animals were killed.
a nere slaughtered to prevent the
named Wilfred D. Speer, was • passenger on the Octave
spread of the disease. The total number of cattle reported
and got on board at Omaha. Be held the rank of captain ' were ten healthy cattle sl
to have been attacked in Greet Britain since the coin-
in the Seventylainth Royal Guards of Loudon, and was •
ripe scholar and finished gentleman. All who were so for. inencement of the plague is 278,926, and 56,911 healthy
to form his acquaintance cattle have been slaughtered to prevent the spread of the
tunate as held him in high esteem
for his many endearing qualities of mind and heart, and his diaelie•
maddendemise,underseemingly questionablecircumetances, &Ansel' FEvnit.—A paper by Mr. Radcliffe, in
is sincerely mourned by a host of admiring though new- the Transactions of the Epidemiological Society, furnisher,
found friends. There were on board the Octave 90 United some important facts in reference to the prevalence sad
States soldiers, in command of Lieutenant liortigan. distribution of scarlet fever in this country. In twenty-
There were two posts for guards, one near the smoke- one years, from 18:5-42, and 18474 d, the deaths numbered
stack and the other shat the wheel-house. We presume, 310,720, or 14,796 annually. In 1863 the deaths were
however, that the guards were not posted till after dark, 30,475, or 148 per 100,000 population. The districts in
when they were instructed to hail all parties coming on which scarlet fever prevails to an excessive amount are
hoard, or approaching the boat. If there were but one twenty in number, and have been designated "scarlatina
party, and the challenge should be unanswered, the sentry fields," viz. :—The London field, including the metropo.
was to call the sergeant or corporal of the guards ; but if Man districts, the Durham and Newcastle-on-Tyne field,
more than ote, the challenge also unanswered, the guard the Berwiek.on-Tweed field, the Carlisle field, the North
was to fire. This portion of the instructions was entirely Western and West Riding (Yorkshire) field, the Lincoln
=necessary, we are informed, as it was no may matter field, the Stoke-upan-Trent field, the Wolverhampton field,
for parties to get on board from the shore, the boat being the Rfrniingham held, the Bristol field, the Wbestonhurst
' sparred out' while laying to. It seems that the field (Gloucestershire), the St. Amph's field, the Carom-
crowded state of the steamer made it necessary for Cap- von field, the Pembroke field, the Flint field (Holywrill,
Min Speer to occupy a room in the texas, with the pilot, the Abergsvenny field, the Yarmouth field, the Ili idpore
Robert lAbarge. At a late hour on the night of the 7th field, the Plymouth field, and the Liskeerd field. Mr. Rad-
inst., and when about • day's run below Fort cliffe does not profess to suggest any new means of pm-
Buford, Captain spew, in company with Pilot Labarge, vention, and he has no lack of contidence in those already
leaving the cabin, prepared to retire, and ascended the steps in use. What is wanted is a more steady and persevering
leading to the hurrleane for that purpose. The pilot use of these means and a provision for their application
stopped on his way for some reason, and Captain Speer in the great foci of infection—the crowded courts of oar
proceeded in advance, and soon after the pilot heard a great towns.
shot, and rushing up with a lantern, he discovered Speer THE " BLACK DEATH "IN DVELIN. —The cause
lying seamless on the deck,having received a ball through of the mysterious cases of " black death " which occurred
the head, which entered near the nose. He expired almost in Ireland some few weeks ago is thought to have been
immediately. The passengers assembled for the purpose discovered. A good many cattle have been dying recently
of investigating the matter, and the following facts were of a form of blood disease, known ss carbuncular fever ;
elicited : The night having been dark and rainy, the guard and in two or three instances the flesh of there cattle has
left his proper post and took shelter near the term, and been eaten by other animals. In one case, a dog lapped
while Captain Speer was in the act of approaching the door up some of the blood of • diseased bull, and, after suffer-
er his own room he was shot. The pilot testified that he in g from • black eruption, died in a few boors. In an-
was but • abort distance from the place where Captain other, • pig which had eaten of • diseased cow's offal
Speer was killed, and that be heard no challenge by the died under similar circunutancea. The eruption and the
guard. A number of passengers at the time within hear- symptoms are said to have been precisely like those ob-
ing distance testified to the same. The guard, in defence, servable in the human victim of " black death ;" and it is
stated that be did challenge, but received no reply, therefore supposed that the latter disease may have been
and that he was acting in Obedience to orders. It engendered by the eating of meat from anima in a state
was satisfactorily proved, however, that the sentry was of carbuncular fever.
away from his post, where be had no right to be. THE BC/SINUS or Assizes. —The Recorder of
On the arrival of the steamer at Fort Buford, Co- Liverpool has drawn attention to the suggestions which
loud Ranking, commanding the post, ordered the guard have recently been made to transfer • portion of the juris-
to be pieced in irons and returned to St. Louis for trial, diction of judges at assizes to quarter sessions. He ex-
but at the intercession of Lieutenant Horrigan the prisoner
was afterward released ;and here the matter rests for the weaned his opinion that nearly all criminal matters, with
the exception of capital offences, might very properly be
present. The passengers rammed a full statement of
,the transferred, but said that before such an enlargement of
facts in the ease, end gathered such testimony " ooulu be jurisdiction took place, it would be well that the courts
obtained—which is all against the soldier. Their unani- of quarter sessions, both in boroughs and counties, should
moos verdict was wilful murder. This statement has be improved by assimilating thou as much as possible.
been placed in proper bands, and will be forwarded to the He suggested that this could he done in counties by giving
War Department and to the British Minister at Waabingtoa the magistrates at quarter session. legal amistance, and in
for further investigation. Many persons of reliability and boroughs by some of the magistrates sitting with the Re-
standing, apparently cognisant of all the circumstances, corder. He hinirelf bad felt the !want of lay assistance
strongly hinted at jealousy and revenge as being the cause very much, especially in appeal cases on matters of fact.
of the sad affair. Of this, however, we prefer not to say He called attention to the subject, he said, for the purpose
anything at present, in the hope that the whole
may be cleared up by the authorities at Washington.
mystery of making all who took an interest in it, to reflect a little
before legislation was taken, and to make suggestions es
Captain Sneer, we learn, about 40 yowl old, and to how quarter sessions in counties and boroughs could be
has only one relative living, • brother, and was for-
best fitted for such extended jurisdiction.
merly stationed in the West Indies. From an examine. .
tam of his papers it was ascertained that he had an
4.—The National St4wm-
abundance of means, of which 25,000 dole. or 30,000 dole. ""I uumPenY'e steamer Denmark, from New Yeah.
emved off keir at 9 p.m. to-day with 8.5,000 dole. in specie.
was deposited in the various hulks of the United States she tended peorengere, and proceeded tron‘edrately tor
for the purpose &Iceboat defrayieg his travelling expenses." yin

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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
CIVENT GARDEN CONCERTS.
rater the sole diruction of Mr. J. RUSSELL,
EVERY EVENING at 8.
'I he first part cf the Concert THIS EVENING will consist of
the foil. ring works of vir.rrnovgx: The Pastoral Symphony
(Mc enure work . Carotins Adelaide. performed on the Double
Rs,. by signor ibittesini ; Concerto, Violin, M. Wienlawski. aid
tl.yrture Leator.t.
The se, mil part will be mlicellanont. and Include Selection
10 mod . i(.110 by Mwtsnoiaelle sarolta and Mademoiselle
Er !Ile Polkas and Waltzes by Johann Straus, solos by Mr.
J. M Weldl and A. V. Dicer. /tr. de.
Conductor. Signor BOTTLSINI.
For the Dance Musk, Herr JOHANN STRAUSS.
HAMM sv nest Grand selection from Dar Fretschata for Or.
etw.tra and Chonus
limr..lo neat a Mozart night.
11.onenuffe, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre. Ore
Maili ag.
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