The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-18 00:00:00

they extend their ministry. And not only is this so 1
in countries which we call dark, countries where the
dungeon and rack are still reserved for those who
rebel against spiritsel bondage, but amongst ourselves
are thousands whose =donee!" keeping" their brother
in the good and right way (=not be carried out
without the aid of the law and the gaoler. Happily
their numbers and strength aro fading away before
that mighty power which Lord Sn*i'rrsnuay never
Ratters—which he rather seeks to instruct, but to
1 which he never ceases to appeal, because he knows
that it, and it only, is the lever by which society in
England can be moved. His lordship shows us
the highest Christian duty in full and working har-
mony with the truest human liberty. With him, to
keep a brother is to respect and awaken his moral
freedom, to quicken him with social sympathies, to
shed around him a better light and a purer air, and,
in the end, induct him, intelligent and free, into
the great family which worships in spirit a common
Father above. The noble, generous words he has
spoken at Liverpool will live and bear }knit.

which he had not previously said in the newspapers,
to the infinite amuesesiat of the public. He now
thinks all the world is wrong in believing that the
cable is laid ; but he was equally certain three
mouths ego that it mold not be, would not be, and
ought not to be submerged upon any other system
than his. No harm could have been done, certainly
none to the Atlantic Telegraph Company, by allow-
ing him to pursue his course until his application
broke down upon the legal point. Bat the worst thing
that could have been done was to drag in, without
need, the names of eminent capitalists, as if their
credit could be at all concerned in obstructing the
natural course of a legal inquiry. It was this which
envenomed the case, and made it necessary for Alder-
man &Lomita to declare that which ought never to
have been doubtful to the most ignorant person, that
in an English court of justice there is one rule for
a BARING or a mechanic. A little more patience, a
slight sensibility to humour, would have spared the
Guildhall bench an encounter which will not exalt
its judicial reputation.

PRUSSIA.

PORTUGAL.

Wito says that Lieutenant Illnoursoir, R.N.,
shall be put down ? Here we have all been these
three months in town bewailing a hum-drum exist-
ewe and accusing the mortal dulness of life, when, '
no sooner does a man of bold and startling ideas
torn up to promise entertainment than Alderman
BAtonotte wants to snuff him out. It must not be.
Hioninaort is a very " man of the time."
Lieutenant MOGINION has made only one mistake.
He has carried his novelties to the wrong market.
Guildhall has a reputation for missing the point of
• joke. lAA Thursday and Friday this bluff old
sailor went to its court prepared to maintain a
thesis which was sure to draw crowds of listeners.
No matter how, the Lieutenant has persuaded him-
self that the Atlantic Cable is as " unreal mockery."
No connecting wire has ever been laid down, no

communication seat under the SO L, Sir CHARLES
BRIO= is another Flamm, sad the QUEENS mes-
sage to President BUCHANAN was sent over by steamer.
All this he believes with the earnestness of enthn-
damn, and has written down in as affidavit, which
he carries about in his pocket. If originality is a
merit, this gallant and ingeniona officer ought to be
eneoureged.

Alderman tiatomons listened on Thursday to
only a small part of Lieutenant HIGOINSON'S state-
ment, but it was sufficient to fill him with horror.
" What are you, sir ?" he asks with astonishment at
the first hint of a charge against the Atlantic Tele-
graph Company. " I am an officer in the Royal
" Navy, and I have been defrauded by this Com-
" puny," is the prompt and audacious reply. "Re-
" fleet, sir," is the magisterial admonition ; " this
" Company is composed of the greatest capitalists in
" the world—Emma, Rontsatan, and Mon-
" smotv--and has been formed for a east under-
" taking, to connect England and America, and per-
" hope the whole world." " I have been swindled,"
rejoins the Lieutenant, his Telco rising above the
noisy waves of official indignation which begin to
roll in the court. What could the magis-
trate do ? Swindlers—Basuto, ROTHSCHILD,
and Mostamott—Monarson, ROTHSCHILD, and
Benito. Was it calumny P No. Libel ?
No. It was bisephemy—confusion—anarehy. For
an instant every principle of the aldermanio
mind was staggered, every idea shocked. Chaos
was come again. In that fearful moment if the sky
had fallen Alderman SALOYONS would not have hem
a bit surprised. But the principle of authority was
to be re-enthroned by a very humble agent. The eye
of the bewildered potentate rested on • policeman,
and at that sight he remembered that be was an alder-
man. Straightway clothing himself with terrors,
he fell upon the too rash IDOOINSON, who, unsup-
ported and solitary, was carried away in the whirl-
wind of official wrath. "If you persist, sir—" " I
do persist; I will not be browbeaten." " Leave the
court, sir; I will not have the bench treated with
disrespect." "I am not disrespectful to the bench;
the bench is disrespectful to itself." "If you will
not go out, sir, I will have you taken oat." "I am
going, sir." " Officer, lead that person out of court."
" I came here for justice, and I will have it." " Lead
him out, officer." " I am going." "Lead him out,
officer; lead him out." " Lieutenant HIGOINSON
then withdrew," concludes the report, " escorted to
the door by the officer of the court." That night
the City slept in pesos.
Bat Hitiontson, routed and vanquished, was not
disposed of. On Friday morning that well remem-
bered figure caught the troubled eye of the Alder-
man, and prompted an involuntary, " Oh, you are
" here, air." Yes, he was there : the exorcised spirit
had returned. Both sides observed a masterly CAS'
tion. The first interchange of courtesies is por-
batons. Strange inversion—the Magistrate apo-
logises, and the applicant insists on upholding
the dignity of the bench. Everybody sees that
this cannot laat—that underneath all this polite-
ness the Alderman is firm and the Lieutenant
inexorable. So, • little law, and they are at
the old work again. " I cams here for justice," says
the Lieutenant, " and I find my adversaries sitting
"on the bench against me." " Will you cease and
"sit on the bench ?" is the soothing response. "No,
" Sir, I positively decline." More references to law
books, more opinion, pointing plainly to • coning
refusal of the summons. HIOGINSON sees that the
crisis is imminent ; no time is to be lost, so he goes
straight to the point "My object is to show that
" there is no cable down between Valentin and New-
" fottndland, and that there never has been any tele-
" graphic communication between the two countries."
Can be not as well write to the papers
No, be will not—he will read his affidavit ;
and then begins a scene which the reporter alone
can describe :—" ' I, FRANCIS HIOOINSON, do hereby
" make oath and say that I, se well as others of her
MAJESTY'S subjects'—. Alderman SALOMONS :
" The reporters are taking down all you say.—
" Lieutenant HD:MINION (not noticing the internals-
" lion) • Having in divers ways been cheated—.
" Cmar Cutax : This is very irregular. The infer-
" mation has been read.—Lisstanant HIGOINSON
" (reading iu a louder tone amidst great confusion) :
" Asd defrauded of large sums of money—.
" Aldermen Rost : I really must support my brother
" alderman. (Increased noise and confusion.) Officer,
" keep order in the court —Officer : Gentlemen,
" gentlemen, you must keep order.—Lientertant
" Hugunson (who stopped for nothing): By means
" of certain false and fraudulent pretences used by
" sad ea behalf of the—. Alderman Batt:moms : I
am surprised that you do not take the answer you
" have received."

The confusion thickens, strangers to the case inter-
fere, the Alderman appeals to GOD and my coon-
" try," and the inevitable "ROI, the offioer of the
" osert," the Dees ez yearhied of the day before,
is about to intervene a second time, when suddenly
the scene dissolves, and the parties vanish.

This, of course, is very riclicalons, and might easily
have been avoided. If the application of Lieutenant
HIOGINSON was to be discussed and examined
seriously, Alderman SALOMONS, as a partner in the
Company, was not the magistrate to do se. But it
was not necessary to make a grave affair of it. The
gallant officer it is well known has a crotchet about
submarine cables. He said nothing at Guildhall

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1858.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

BERLIN, Su ?MA Y.

•
The Gazette Nationale has been seized to-day for
an article upon the elections. The article recom-
mended the adoption of the programme of the Con-
stitutional Committee of Breelau—ezplaining why
that programme should be taken as the base of their
political action by aU the fractions of the liberal
Party.
The Feuille Popestaire has been seized for an his-
toric .1 article—the sixth of a series—upon democracy
in Prussia.

The anniversary of the king's birthday was cele-
brated at Berlin on Friday with much solemnity.
All the princes at Berlin, the principal functionaries,
and the diplomatic corps were present at a special
service at the cathedral.

LISBON, Ocr. 16.

The Austerlitz and the Donanwerth Continue is
the Tagus. The English man of war Victory, 101
gins, and the Racoon, 22, have arrived. It is mid
that the Portuguese government have proposed the
mediation of a foreign Power to the Marquis de Lisle
de Siry, who insists on the giving up of the Charles-
Georges. The Viscount de Paiva is expected at
Lisbon.

(TROY OITA OWN

SPAIN.

MADRID, Ocr. 13.
The journals publish a letter from a friend of
Imparter°, positively contradicting a report circu-
lated by O'Donnell's supporters, that the Duke of
Victory would be pleased to see his old political
friends voting for the present cabinet. Nothing
is talked of in the political world but the
forthooming elections. The civil governors of the
provinces are very active. They go about can-
vassing energetically for the government candidates,
and write menacing letters to the municipal autho-
rities, summoning them continually to the capital
of the province, under the pretence of administrative
business. This conduct of the government goes far
to excuse the recriminations of the absolutists, who

have always maintained that its impossible to carry
out the representative system in Spain. In many
provinces, candidates utterly unknown are thrust
upon the electors. The military element is likely
to enter largely into the composition of the new
Cortes.

ITALY.

NICE AND VILLAFRANCA.

NICK, Ocr. 13.

As this is the moment when invalids are leaving
England for the south, it may not be out of place to
offer a few remarks on the climate of Nice. A few
years ago the advantages of this climate were exag-
gerated beyond all reason; but lately a reaction
equally unreasonable has set in to the prejudice of
this town. The truth, I believe, is this : Nice is
beneficial to patients who are not too far ad-
vanced in the stage of decline, and who will adhere
strictly to the mode of living required by the pecu-
liarities of the climate. Unfortunately, many in-
valids are sent to the south when all hope of recovery
has been abandoned by the physician at home. List
steamer conveyed a foreigner who was in the last
stage of consumption ; he died while being trans-
ported from the vessel to land. The sunny
.position
of Nice cannot fail to prove advantageous to invalids,
but then the latter have a dangerous enemy in the
cold mistral, in the draught which prevails in the
neighbourhood of the river, and in the dust. The
great merit of the spot is that every comfort may
be obtained within its walls, in addition to excellent
medical attendance and social enjoyments.
The climate of Monaco and Menton is immeasur-
ably superior to that of Nies; bat then those towns
are destitute of the comforts which are essential to
invalids ; moreover, they are steeped in the most
hopeless ennui. In Nice an English family willingly
forgets the uncertainty of climate in the reflection
that an English church, English shops, It nglish
chemists and grocers, are at hand, along with English
newspapers, round hats, red petticoats and goloshes.
Numerous families, however, prefer Menton in spite
of its dulness, and the fortunes of that little town
are rising. Monaco is the most sheltered spot on
the coast, but there the hotels are unsatisfactory,
and the resident may become a victim to starvation,
owing to the fact that this little principality pro-
duces nothing bat oranges, lemons, olives, and bad
coin, and is entirely dependent on Nice or Menton
for sound provisions.
The municipality of Nice does its best to render
the town agreeable to strangers, and the local jour-
nals rapport the efforts of the municipality with praise-
worthy spirit. Three theatres exist here, and are
by no means despicable. The Theatre Royal is de-
voted to grand operas and possesses a very fair
company. It has just opened the season with
Linda di Chamonix, the Linda being represented
by Mdlle. Boccabaclati. The boxes of this theatre,
as is usual in Italy, are disposed of by public auction
at the commencement of the season. The prices ob-
tained by the lessee this year were very high when
compared with the attractions. The best boxes
fetched on an average 781. sterling, while last year
98L was the average prioe. Three years ago the
total sum obtained by the impressario for the lease of
his boxes was sixteen thousand francs; his receipts
for the present season are nearly sixty-five thousand
francs. It may here be remarked that every-
thing has experienced a corresponding rise in value,
and that the expenses of house rent and living are
anything but trifling. This state of things is par-
tially to be attributed to the visit of the Empress
Dowager of Russia, who spent money with a lavish
hand, and was imitated in that respect by the crowd
of Russian aristocrats who followed in her wake.
Nice has nothing to gain by this rise, for one of the
principal attractions of the place up to very recently
was its cheapness.
Alphonse Karr, the French satirist, will not have
been forgotten by all of your readers, in spite of his
long absence from the literary world. An exile
hen, he has devoted much labour and time to the
cultivation of flowers, fruit, and choice vegetables.
His fame as a market gardener almost equals his
literary reputation, and in Paris the produce of his
farm fetches high prices. But it is one thing—as
many an English gentleman can affirm—to grow
magnificent fruit and flowers, and another question
to dispose of the produce at remunerating prices.
M. Karr has not made a fortune by his farm, and he
has consequently again turned his attention to litera-
tare ; he has commenced the publication of a fresh
series of the work which made his reputation in the
days of Louis Philippe and M. Guizot—namely,
"Lea Gu!pes."
The household of the Grand Duchess Catherine of
Russia has just arrived and is preparing the Villa
Greeds for the reception of that Princess and her
consort, the Duke George of Mecklenburg Strelits.
The visit of the Grand Duke Constantine to Nice
and Villafranca is certain, but I do not believe that
the Russian squadron which is to accompany that
Prince from the Baltic will proceed to Villafranca
as announced by the Paris journals ; the Grand
Duke will probably leave the line-of-battle ship and
frigate at Toulon, and will arrive here in a steam
corvette, which will subsequently transport him to
the East.

AUSTRIAN ITALY.

MILAN, OCT. 12.

Bose of the Piedmontate and French journals
have professed to know that a coolness exists buttress the
Archduke llaximffien and the government of Vienna. It
has even been alleged that the Archduke, lading hkeself
amble to effect the rekeves be had projected, was shoat to
throw up his Uretettesey and retire to Belgium. TM truth
is that alms the death el the Archduchess Margaret, which
we a moo unexpected blow to him, the Archduke bee lived
in secludes In hie pretty country house sear Trieste. In
his absence all Madsen has been u it were surpesded, and
people have at led ems to suppose that the lota of the
Archduchess cannot be the sole reason for hie inactivity, sad
that he must meet with impediments at View. At his
last interview with the Emperor the Archduke plainly told
him that public opinion in Lesabudy wee divided between
regret for the loss of the old independence of the provisos
and a hankering after the kingdom of Italy se
it was coastitnted under Napoleon ; and that the
only means to Oleos these recollections and engem-
der a new order of ideas would be to restore to the
Italian province. their administrative liberty without thereby
trenching upon the integrity of the Austrian empire. It woe
thoight at the time that the Archduke had succeeded in im-
pressing his views upon the Court of Vienna, and that he
had returned to the seat of his government with full powers
to carry out his plane. It will be remembered that in a cir-
cular despatch, which wee very much commended, the Arch-
dale depleted that " the period of observation and expect-
lusty was at an end, sad that the time for action bad arrived."
Six months bare sow elapsed since the lame of the futons
circular, and people now very naturally begin to mak whet
hue been done? The answer is, nothing whatever; and, in-
asmuch as the Archduke is very math liked, the supposition
is that his good Intentions are paralyred by the government of
Vienna. To show how barren have hitherto been all the pro-
misee made, It was declared by the Emperor's more proprie
that the ecadenty should no longer exist re a body charged
with public instruction; be fats ie that nodes has been given
for the resumption of all die lectures at the end of the race.
The Archduke commissioned an eminent perecesge to
incorporate the two Indicates of Milan end Vallee fate one.
This was a scheme tending to the =migration of the ad.