The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1858.

that his professional curiosity sie to the 7th Com-
mandment might have been satisfied without ihrther
inquiry. For any admonitiesue exhortative% which
he might think in season, he had grenade enough and
to spars. But he forces his invades upon his enwEling
hewer, sad in the question beginning "Did you
" ever look on a man, he.," rouse a nature,' resist-
sea whisk prompts the women to desalt. He W-
ebb to the Court that he told Mrs. AZNOLD She
" need not be ashamed to confute her sins;" but the
woman had sufficient sense of what was proper to
know better. Afraid to offend him, for she was
Lasting after Mrs. Bicatent's bundle and Sister
ELLEN'S basket, she did just what nine people out
el ten of her character would have done under the
circumstances, practised evasions and told Fee.
He salted me," she said, "if I had committed
"adultery. I told him I did not know."
" What did you mean by that answer r " I meant
* that I was not going to tell him." And so
the priest gets through his little book of questions,
and leaves the woman a worn sinner than she was
before, and quite in a state of mind to misrepresent
him for her own ends to any visitor of the rival
church party who might happen to oome in.
Surely this is not the visitation of the sick as I
prescribed by the Church of England. This is not
the "resorting to the sick person to comfort him in
" his distr..," as enjoined in the Canon. Mr. WEST
rap that his questions had nothing to do with Con-
lienicet ; and, looking at the answers he got, one
peeestree a mews in which he la right. Bat that
they were meant to extort a confusion their yell
nature implies ; and if they differ at all from
the interrogations of the ordinary confessional,
it le only in the fact that they were put to one who
had not presented herself ea a penitent. The Com-
missioners have decided that no offence sga;ust the
ecclesiastical law has been committed here. It may
be that there is no law of the Church to restrain •
clergyman from carrying little books like Mr.
WEST'S into house., and putting gross questions to
the female inmates. So much the worse for the
Church ; because the people of England have no-
tions on this subject as clear as they are decided.
They know whence these tendencies come and
whither they lead. They know that they are
anti-protestant, because they attack the mind in
its moral liberty and self-respect.
This Boyn-hill inquiry, so far from putting an end
to the concern of the public for the suppression of peas-
' boss inimical to religion and society, will immensely
increase it. The people, now fairly warned of their
danger, will surely find a remedy.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

PRUSSIA.

The Jowled, dos DnaOs of tide day oontains s long
article upon Prussian affairs, founded upon intelli-
gence just received from Berlin. The project if an
abdication is stated to have been entirely abandoned,
the Ring having formally pronounced against it
and the propoeal of a co-regency has been similarly
given, up the Prince of Prussia renwing to
accept any such title as " 00-regent." The
solution of the difficulty, according to the Debsto,
ham been found in the system of a regency.
The Xing has decided to give his brother the
Regency of the kingdom, and the Prince of Prude
has accepted it. This arrangement will not prevent
the resumption of fell powers by the Ring, should
his Majesty at any tutu-e time recover his physical
and mental health ; but the Prince of Prussia, in the
mean time, will be altogether nntramelled in the
exercise of his duties as Regent.

The French papers publish the following tele-
gram:

"BERLIN, BATT:WIT.
"The Nowell* Gazette de Preset announces that
the King will make a journey into the Tyrol, perhaps
into Italy, in the mime of October.

"M. de Manteutfel, who left yesterday for We?.
saw, carries with him the signature of the King re-
lative to the definitive regulation of the question of
Regency.
"The Chambers will be convoked for the 19th o
October. The decree of convocation will be pub-
lished on Tuesday next."

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, OVIIIDAT.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Atria, Capt. Shannon.
whisk sailed from New York on the 16th instant,
arrived here about ten o'clock this morning, bringing
66paseengers, and 669,422 dole. in specie.
The steam-ship Vanderbilt, from Southampton, ar-
rived at New York on the 12th inst. ; and the screw-
steamer Bremen, from Bremen, reached the same
port on the 14th.
The Afrioa paired, on the 14th, the steamer Vigo,
bound to New York ; and on the 16th, the steamer
Persia, for same port.
The excitement in regard to the Atlantic cable
had completely died out, but the papers, judging
from their silence, were still ignorant of the senora
difficulty which had arisen.
The steamer Propeller, of the Galway line, ailed
from Boston for Liverpool cue Newfoundland on the
14th Met. A telegram from Boston, announcing the
event, lays the Irish residents of the city chartered
a steamer, and, gaily deoorating it with tags, a
large number went on board, and accompanied the
Propeller down the harbour, firing salutes and in.
dialging in other demonstrations of interest in the
first steamer which ever visited Boston from Ire-
land.

Yellow fever continued to rage with violence at
New Orleans. The deaths from the disease daring
the 30 hours ending at noon on the 14th numbered
98.

All was quiet at the New York Quarantine-
station. The Bth Regiment of New York we+
encamped at the scene of the late riot, and it is said
that the utmost good feeling existed between the
militaly and the " rebels.
A Waahington correspondent of the New York
Herold sa s:—" The revenue is so much improving
that the Treasury department does not anticipate the
necessity of asking for any more loans."
General Harney will sail for the Pacific on the
20th instant. He will have a force of about 8,000
men when all the contingents arrive. He expects
to make short work of the new Indian war.

Information has been received by the government
that Mr. Reed, United States minister in China, had
made a liberal treaty with the Celestial Empire,
similar to that made by France and England. The
United States are to have a minister at Pekin.
The news of this treaty having been made came
overland by way of Russia and Europe.
Sir William Gore Onseley's mission to Central
America is in part to negotiate a treaty with
Nicaragua.
One week's later news from Salt Lake city had
been received. The dates are to the 14th ultimo.
There is little of importance from that quarter. The
Indians were somewhat troublesome, and the murder
of several Mormons was reported. On the arrival
of the judges in the territory, the trials of the Mor-
mon leaders indicted for treason would be com-
menced. It will probably be merely an %vestige-
tion, u the President's proclamation, pardoning the
rebels upon their submission, will be honourably
carried out.

A Post-ofilce agent just arrived at St Louis from
Arizona reports a state of lawleesness prevailing
among the inhabitants of that remote region. The
pistol and bowie-knife were the only recognised
arbitrators of all disputes.
The report repeating the accident on the Steuben-
ville and Indiana Railroad proves to have been
greatly exaggerated. The accident mein red seven-
teen miles west of Steubenville. While the train
was crandng a bridge, a ear and the rear engine
jumped from the track, sensing the bridge to gin
way. The baggage and first peapenger oars went
down, but the others remained on the bridge. One
person was fatally injured, and some twenty others
more or lam hurt.

By the arrival of the steam ship Star of the West
from Aspinwall, at New York, with the Pacific mails
end upwards of a million and a half of dollars in
specie, we have sewn from California to the 20th of
August. With the exception of the movements of the
politicians, the news from. California is not of speeial
interest. The Democracy had decidedly split on the
Leoompton lune ; and the prospect of the success of
the Republicans was quits favourable. Business at
San Frandsoo was rather dull, owing to the markets
being overstocked with merchandise end the oe:•r.-
tion of emigration to Fraser River.
The act Junta from the new gold-diggings at
Fraser River were more encouraging. Mir,ng
operations were going on actively, and pros "sior.
were plentiful end cheap.
Exciting news was expected by the next arrival
from that region.

cable, and pronounced the defect to be 170 miles off.
The cable was accordingly underrun, and cut at a
distance of 30 miles from the shore, when it was
found that the defect was much nearer ; and after a
variety of other experiments had been tried, the
faulty place in the cable was discovered not out to
sea at all, bat actually in the portions of the
cable buried in the beach. The above incident,
which I believe to be substantially oorrect,
should teach the authorities of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company not to pronounce their scheme
a failure until the theoretical experiments (which
are but uncertain guides, no matter how ably con-
ducted) are verified in some measure by practical
teats.

The practical tests cannot be obtained with-
out anderrunning end cutting the: cable some die' -
tans from the coast. The operations will undoubtedly
require fine weather to render them entirely
successful. The usual season of fine weather,
of which there has been very little this year upon
this coast, is now almost over, and people down here
already begin to look out for the commencement of
those violent storms which render these parts of the
Irish coast exciting, if not amusing places of mei-
dance during the winter time. During October,
which here, as well as in other parts of the United
Kingdom, is usually a fine month, much might be
done towards underrunning and repairing at least
some of the damaged portion of the cable. There is
certainly no time to be lost, for every week that
the cable remains at the bottom diminishes the
chance of its being raised from the more consider-
able depths should it be deemed necessary to do so,
The Cork steamer, which arrived here on Wednes-
day last, brought Mr. Henley's gigantic magneto-
electric machines, which, as soon as they were
landed, were put together, and got into operation on
the following day. The machines are a slight modi-
fication of the magneto-electric machines which, in
place of batteries, are used for working on all the
telegraph lines in Ireland, though of coarse
on a gigantic scale, being the largest and most
powerful instruments of the kind yet constructed.
The two permanent magnets from which the electric
induction is obtained are each compared of thirty
horee-shoe steel magnets, two feet and a half long,
and from four to five inches broad. The induction
coils attached to these each contain 6 miles of wire.
Some idea of the power of this instrument may be
gathered from the fact, that a shock from
it, if mimed through the human body, would
be sufficient to destroy life. With the aid
of this instrument Mr. Henley hopes to be
able to work through the cable daring some
part of each {day, even if the fault should prove
irreparable. The smaller instruments of the same
kind which are used by the Magnetic Telegraph
Company have been found to work better over
badly insulated lines than any other description of
instrument. What is undoubtedly true of faulty un-
derground lines may prove so also of the Atlantic
cable ; and certainly as far as the experiments have
already gone, Mr. Henley's instrument seems likely to
work through the line in its present condition if
anything will do it.
A variety of experiments have been tried
lately, both by Professor Thomson and Mr.
Henley, to discover the relative power of differ-
ent electrical currents to pass a fault. For this pur-
pose the wire connected with the cable was
' stripped of its gutta-percha covering in one place,
and the fault immersed in water, and the relative
amount of electricity which passed by the fault into
the cable was scourately measured by a delicate
galvanometer. It was found that a current
of electricity direct from the battery cell. was
hardly perceptibly reduced in quantity after passing
by a break in the insulation an eighth of in inch
long. The reduced current from Mr. Henley's mag-
neto electric machine was slightly intermpted is
passing the same fault, but the high tension in-
duced coil currents, which have been used from the
first in sending messages from both sides of the
ocean, and were found to be almost entirely stopped
by it. These experiments, besides showing the kind
of electricity best adapted for working through
the cable in its present defective state, also
show most conclusively that one defect in the insuir
tion, however great, would not be sufficient to inter-
rupt the communication; there must be several faulty
places in the line. That some, if not the majority,
of these places are close to the land there can be very
little doubt. The soundings from Valenti& for about
60 miles to sea show a rooky and irregular bottom,
which, indeed, the precipitous cliffs which line the
coast and the numerous lofty islands which surround
it in all directions would show without the aid of
the sea lead. Over these submarine hills and valleys
a very strong current sweeps, to resist which it
would require a cable at least three times as thick
as the one now in use. The small piece of the
Atlantic cable which connects Valentin island with
the mein land, a distance of about an
English mile, is repeatedly being cut and
injured by the tide drifting it across the
rocky bottom; and it is quite possible to suppose
that the rapid current outwards from the broad
estuary of Dingle Bay may have the same effect
upon the thin Atlantic cable which rues across its
mouth. It is the unanimous opinion of nearly all
here that the laying of 10 or 12 miles of the thick
shore end of the cable would tend permanently to
obviate a great many of the difficulties with which
the eleotrical department of this undertaking has
been hitherto interrupted.
It appears it is the intention of the government to
fortify Valentin harbour. Several officers of the
Royal Engineers have been down here surveying
the surrounding heights for the purpose of choosing
the most eligible positions for the forts. One bat-
tery is, I believe, to be placed on bowleg Head
mountain, at the right hand extreme of the harbour;
a second on the island of Begimris, which divides the
entrance, and a third on the island of Valenti*, to
command the left hand or lighthouse side; other
redoubts and batteries will no doubt be distributed
among the hills which command the int,rior of the
harbour. The Port ?gages, or third extreme at the
back of the island, will also, doubtless, be properly
protected. While the engineers are down hereexecut-
g these worke, it would be as well for the government
r) turn their attention to the improvement of the
harbour. But a very little labour and outlay would
remove the few obstructions that exist in it and
enable ships of the largest tonnage to sail in and
out with the greatwt ease in any wind or in any
stare of the tide.
Beyond the continuance of the few experiments
which I have alluded to, nothing will be done with the
cable until the preeoncerted experiments at both ter-
mini of the line have been made. The days upon which
they are to take place have been fixed for early in
the mining mouth. The results of these experi-
ments will no doubt show with greater certainty
the nature and position of the results, than could
he shown at one end only. These researches will
also demonstrate the possibility or impossibility of
making the line work in its present defective
condition.

PAUPERISM IN AiNDIST, 1837 AND 18311.—From I
return published this, =Laing _acetates. a °nepenthe
statement of pagodas la Racked sad Wee in Anemic
1837, wad 1558, it spc,sos that ia the drat week of
Aultoot, 184, the tofd Dumber of o. relieved wee
810,306, being 149 lams thee these in 18. Gra week
of last mos. In the second week of Anima. illa;
808,011 were relieved, beteg 213 sae thie b ths CORI••
Pftdialt week this peer. la the third week lire is a de-
crease this ear of 164 ; bet la the berth week the numbers
ans, 11159, MAO; 907,900, Wag an increase this
yew of 1.614.

WPM 4840014T10N FOR MB ADVANCE.
KENT OP 8011 NOB.

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LEEDS, 81TT. 26.
Yesterday was an idle day with the members of
the British Association, for though ell *emotions &rambled
ea anal, artth a good array of butler to dispose of, most of
thaw direattaned sitting after one o'clock. B..turday,
the format days of the Association, wee the acurera day,
end though that neation has been formally broken through
and the excursion day is postponed to the Thursday follow-
ing, yst the old members still remember Saturday an a
holiday. A horticultural show at Bfrkstall Abbey, sad a
public distallmlica of Firm to the saucerful oentlitiates at
the Oxford riddle-eras exam;aatlon, also tended to thin the
seed= rooms, end the many objects of interest thrown open
for inspection in the town required a leisure day. The
weather, which bad previonaly been very unfavourable,
Bleared up yesterday, sad Invited tanagers to look about
thin; 03 that science did not advance far in its program.
_ _ _

There heti been a vety fo'l Mtuadanoe of vigitOis at this
meeting, sod the friends of the association sal, no doubt,
binedt by the visit to Lads. Amongst the names entertd
on the Het, in addition to than alresdy 6:ven, are Professor
Ahoy, Sir Chas. Anderson, the Berl of Bradt:lrd,, Kr. K. 1'
Ba`ots, 81r Charles Batty, Mr. Barley, Sir Benjamin Brodie
the Rev. J. Barlow, Sir David Brewster, Lord Alwyn
Campton, Mr. E. Chadwick, Sir Philip Egerton, Professor
Rekord, is Marquis de Fontanelle, Captain Flahbonnis,
Professor Faraday, Lard GAM* Admiral Grace, Lieu -
Cokeel Goodenough, Rev. Dr. Hook, Professor Harkness,
Mr. J. Heywood, Sir W. Jardiue, Sir Jobn Johasteme, Re,.
J. Kentick, Mr. Monckton MMus, Mr. J. 8. Russell,
Colonel Rawlineon, the Dean of Ripon, Professor Rogan,
Count de Straelecld, the Marquis of Stafford, Mr. Robert
asphalting, Mr. James Yates, fa. The rum received up to
Friday night was 1,7141.

Professor Femurs on Friday evening delivered a lecture
fa the Town Hall on the ironstones of Clevelrud, in York-
shire, and showed the great development which the working
of iron has undergone in that distriot sines 1848, when it was
first undertaken. The want of coal in the immediate neigh-
bourhood delayed the progress for some time, bat the sup-
plies since received by railway from the Durham end York-
shire coal fields have removed that obstamtion to tits dews-
lowest of the works, and namely two million tore of
iron-dare are now ennnally quarried end smelted
there. The bends of iron-stons vary in thickness from
8 to 32 feet, and the quantity of metal amounte la some to
60 per cent. Three bands of ironstone extend over an awl
of 200 square miles.

AOLICULTULIL 80CIETI.

TEI EARL OF SHRZRROURT, LORD ISANDON, AND
RR. ADDRRLIT.
_ _ _ _

At the close of the exhibition of the Staffordshire
Agricultural Society, at Lichfield, on Wednesday, the
ramie' dinner was held in the Guildhall, in that city. The
chair was occupied by Lord RI:MERTON, the Lord Lieu' :-
neat of the county end the President of the model) for the
year.
Viscount BANDON proposed "The Army end !CM:.
mentioning the name of Lord Shrewsbury as counseled sith
the letter service. At the meant time • great deal had bll
' said at caret/ public meeting, at every assembly of that kiad,
at every place where men had met together do' ug the pre-
sent autumn, about the expenditure on the militia/ defense of
the country. He thought the country wee now fr'ly &mks
to the necessity of keeping our shores %slain* hem the
tread of the foot or the mere aspect of the etrrogar Iceman.
He was one of those who was rather
having the honour of being • member of the
Home of Commons he could not help thinkit&s:
rather
money matters—he wasther afraid that now the of
the nation was roused, it might push them
into too great and too general an expenditure for the pmposes
of national Ware. What he felt to be the real necessity
of the ease wee, that they should keep • gallant, a real, lend
en overwhelming Channel fl.et, wtoch would effectually pre-
vent any possible invasion of our coasts. He did not thiA
that they should keep up en immense emy, but that they
should loop up what might be called the skeleton of on army,
which ooald be increased at any moment. Let them keep
up the machinery of the army, so to speak, and its scdwatifio
branches; bat for the good of the country—for the sake of
those who paid the tax-e, which were already sufficiently
heavy, let them not keep up an enormous army, but keep up
an overwhelming Chentiel finer, which wee really the only
mhty of the °wintry. (Applaud.) Money should not t
upended in defending small places; let them defend the-
reat antenna, let them defend their great t Nonmetal port-,
but let not the money of the country be expenda in defend-
' ing every little cre.k sod inlet, but under en plea, whatever
the emergency, whether of commercial mina at home or on
any other ground, let not the count:), allow the diminution
of the Channel fleet.

The Karl of 81.111EMBIIRT, who responded to theton
mid he wee glad to see that at lest themas w a spirit sr
that the main defences of the menu y, the wooden walls of
Old laughed, should not be neglected. (Aliphatic) At the
same time he felt that they should not disregard the salutary
warning of his noble friend. Soros members of the Howe of
Commons, after buttoning up their breeches' pockets for the
teat 60 years, now appeared ready to dip their hands deeply
into them, end to sower their contents with the greatest pro-
fusion. (Leugliter and applause.) There was no Decesedty
for that. He had always advocated a proper, consieteatimanly
expenditure on the eery, and wee never afraid of giving his
vote es a former member of the House of C 011133201111 for what
was necessary to maintain the proper efficiency of both savior.
But be had lately telt afraid from symptom. he bad new of a
danger of too large an expendithre. He went over to Cher-
bourg and saw the magnificent sight which that grist Wren
presented; and be also sew =aka sight-c greet somber
of the members of the Home of Commons-(langlinr)--Ind
from what he sew and what he knew of them he feared there
was a danger of their running into the opposite extreme of
extravagsuce, for some of them seemed so struck with the
number of the ships, the extent of the fortidociona, end the
multitude of ordnance, that they appeared ready to vote
milli* after million for the dehnore of the count/2S.ynch
anexpenditure was not at all semesary. He was to
say that they had now an efficient Channel fleet -• one,
It was tros-but he did int think they need have a Toryism
one. They wanted a standing navy, which they might amplify
at any time when occasion arose. They ought to have it in the
most complete state of ettimency, so that, if need arise, every
ship's oompany could be turned into two or three by mixing
raw hands-voluntaars, who mug, he trusted, if any danger
appeared, flock Into their ships. It meet always be remem-
bered that the real resource he Meimbig the navy Mask the
merchant service, bat when ceimeist wasemr=rd
the ships wets away in China, it
placer, a laagthmod period mmel=lbelese velure ;
and they required a peovidma It Met ea Mint
Olatiliti
thogrhiat
that might arise be the sesandrue, wiled ersold. be tot
rue, always be reedy to come forward ill of their
country. He would not detain them lay hi=
rotoorvatiens on that head. Be did not believe
was anything to be alarmed &boat ; he felt qattelitellibmil
was not ; but if by any chance, in a short and itedily to-
areal, a foe should lead, he doubted not that the yeoman ef
England would give them such a reception that, with a
Channel fleet in their rear, very few of thane would ever
get back again.
"The House of Peers" having teen prepaid tad to
Lord Shrewsbury, the Chairmen prepaid
nadhiettl to
of Oceanian."
The Right Hon. C. B. ADDERLI!T said that tboutillt kri
agricultural meeting be might not be allowed to daft to
politics, be might possibly be permitted to nutty theekaresese
of both ; sad it would be the deep of himself sad Ids Mimi
when they returned to their poste to stand as esteelmenn OP
frighten away that tight of voracious cammerms
of the Wiens! resources-which might be exPloardftli
such a splendid harvest.
i(titnier.) If they eddhierea-
pm the political to the • fisid-ek what world
not agriculture serve to nitrate P-beapeoled br Sties
whether they might not be gretsfal to dells ha the
very neristemory harvest which bad been nsli
the winds and stoma that ushered la the eFslodidirill_ ._.1.1
beta asocesdatt by a serenity of atmosphere ilide„ d,rs
staved to Wag to maturity very important m r crop tAP-
please.) He could mention some of them, and he vs. one
hie hon. friend (Kr. Bass) could section others. (leethitz)
There was was crop which ha was told was quite calla to
appear in rho comes of the nett swim. It WM gee ere 27
mak that we might ensiklettly look for it, witawrir be the
sell, whatever be the weather, whatever be the nature of the
atmosphere, Amor be the edministradve culdraton‘ The
arm usually WA by the name of reform. lie had weft
whatevrw to say respecting it, except that as it wss a wpm-
portant crop be hoped Its treatment would fell lads eds
sad good bands, and if It did ha wirci not whom beedithay
were. It wee inkcrimed izeirm=ilds owe GM, Bora
ago by vemeted
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tom carried to week an extent OM Ow iambs tear oad
become lurpregmood with it, and oho sego dillwrodim•
tree as the atmosphere wee heti 4111,10"111 4
hind, and although thus wow as eitrafibrolo of ray
they we told that they tollill entaikally =MOP'
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Ile. BASS, 11. P., pragesed the health' of the
Manta of the soclaty, which were reeposided _ ._le 1.4=
Bannon and Mr. 0111AWIMS, and shortly answer= the
somputy .spatted.