The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-13 00:00:00

THE PEACE CONGRESS AT GENEVA.

The second meeting of the Peaoe Congress, on
Tuesday, was a very crowded and tumultuous one, and
did not break up till half-past five. M. Jolissaint, the
president of the day, opened the meeting with •
speech in which he invited the speakers to moderation.
M. Fousserandot read • strong protest signed by MM. Pail-
lotot, Molinari, Schmiedlin, D•meth, Hornum, Giraud-
Tenlon, AG., against the address of the Working Men'sCon-
geese, which they characterised as a proclamation of war
between capital and labour. The statement that society
was divided into two classes of exploiteurs and exploit's
the signers of the protest declared to be as dangerous as
untrue ; that it was false to affirm that society presented
the odious spectacle of two hostile camps, and that such
sentiments were calculated to spread distauirt and hatred.
These declarations were received with strong marks of
I saint and dissent, which prevented the remainder of the
protest from being heard. It concluded with the following
quotation from Franklin :—" If anyone tells you that a
workman can become rich otherwise than by labour and
saving, do not listen to him : he is a poisoner." After this
preliminary scene, M. E. Quinet addressed the Congress on
the two first questions of the programme, and lamented
the death of the human conscience under the heel of
despotism. The world, he said, will not be redeemed till
the people become conscious of their fall—till the new God
appears—but between this time and then whattears will be
shed! " Let the soldiers of right and liberty," he concluded,
" spring from the earth to follow the hero whom I see at
your bead—Garibaldi." M. Borkheim spoke against the
tendency to unity in Germany, and said that the Fede-
ralists were cowed by the sabre. This speaker raised •
new storm by alluding to M. Schulze Delitaseh as the com-
mercial traveller of a bourgeois political economy. M.
Simon, of Troves, said that peace could only be pre-
served by liberty and self-government. H. Bakonnine, •
Russian, spoke in the same sense, and declared that
there was no harmony between the wishes of liberal Rua.
sians and those of the government, and that the defeats of
the government gave the only chance of infusing life into
the people. The temper of the congress was once more
aroused by M. Dupont, •delegate from • society of workmen,
"who were proscribed by the bourgeois republic of 1848,"
who asked for the abolition of all sects with their per-
manent armies of priests, and the destruction
of all churches as wall as of all barracks ;
and Baron de rennet, who said that in Christianity there
were two contending moralities—one which was pagan and
good ; the other, peculiarly Christian, which brought war
and not peace among nations and families. He estimated
at 100,000 the number of men who fell a yearly a sacrifice
since 1791 in ware which had their foundation in
religions principles. The sitting was brought to •
o inclusion by M. Carteret who made • speech in
favour of peace and moderation. They must have public
opinion on their side before they could succeed, not the
opinion of a few or even thousand., but the opinion of
millions. He invited the congress to confine Itself to the
last article of the programme, and to shout forth with
unanimous voice to all parts of Rurope—" Anathema to
war."

The Convalescent Home erected by public sub-
scription ►t Bournemouth, in Hants, to the memory of the
late Lord Herbert of Lea, will, it is expected, be opened
the latter end of this month. The building hu cost 5,0001.
At the September fair just held at Bridgewater
there were 3,000 sheep penned. The ruling prism wes bid.
per lb.

Some cottages are advertised for sale at Taunton,
and in the advertisement it is stated that "each of these
houses will give the franchise to the occupier under the
new Reform Bill."

A nunnery is about to be built at Taunton, in

The Bristol papers record the death of an old
woman named Gerrish, at the age of N. She was with
hie husband, who fought under Wellington, in the Penin-
sula and at Waterloo.

Tams ♦r ♦ BIRTH.—Mrs. Carrington, of 7,
Wyford-terrace, Lechmere-road, was yesterday eddy de-
livered by Dr. D. Leslie, of three female children. All are
doing well. The wife of a butler named George Frederick
Williams, living at Newbury, presented ber husband with
three sons at a birth, about three weeks ago, and her
Majesty the Queen has just sent through the Mayor of
Newbury, a gift of M. for the mother, who, with her throe
infants are doing well.