The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-20 00:00:00

AQUI.IIICB IN FRANCE.

On the 6th inst. six sons of the Thames effected a
landlag at Dieppe, to compete for the different prime offered
at the regatta, which took place on the 7th.
Our countrymen soon became aware that their rivals
were numerous, and determined to offer the strongest per
dble resistance to any English that might present them-
selves. In fact, the Frenchmen felt apprebeneive that the
sane intruders" might again appear who performed so
gloriously a short time ago at the Paris Spring Regatta
held at St. Cloud, at which the English beat the beet
men of France at the very moment they were made ac-
quainted with the victory of Magenta. Our aquaria
viands took the offensive, and on the 7th took up tbeir
position to struggle against the picked crews of Pad" HiNve
Rouen, and Dieppe. Par* indeed, was well represented{
• very spirited French gentleman having for the Met three
months trained six of the best rowers in From to cowet•
for the supremacy, and he bad already challenged Mr. 341
Arthur, of Paris, who has always taken so melee • part in
upholding the honour of English acquatics in Fiance, to
row any Eugliah mew for the championship. Mr. Araer
was too happy to take up the glove, and invited our Lan-
dman to France, not only to Dieppe, but to Rouen and
Paris, also to midst at three grand regatta' given on occasion
of the Emperor's fete.
At Dieppe the races were for four-oared and six-oared
gigs ; and • second four-oared ram as a prize of honour for
the victors of the above ram, a hatidsocue gold cup, given
by the Emperor. Thirteen boats started for the four-oared
prize, • purse of 161., sad r gold medal. The weather was
delightful, the ma quits smooth, the shore lined with all
the elite of Dieppe. At 3 o'clock the signal gun fired to
; • second pop made every man bend the blade of
rOaarre. A few minutes sufficed to show the Union Jack
had a slight advance, but they were not yet disentangled
from two of their advermilee, although It was evident that
the long, quiet stroke of the English craw would last knger
than the over-quirk, energetic style of the French. By de-
grees they increased their distance. and had the pleasure of
showing the others the way over the course. The crew was
composed et Thomas White, A. Chitty, W. Bell, and R.
Balm The same crew were joined by G. Driver and E.
Bell, and soon started for the six.oared race for • prize, a
parse of 201. and • gold medal. The some ruocees, with, a
master advantage, followed. The next day the racefor the
Emperor's Gold Cup took place, and was won by oar
countrymen.
After the above successes our little corps pushed forward
to Rouen. Races for pair', four-oared, eix-oared, and scull-
ing boats were offered. The end event was the pair-wed
rase. The English crew, W. and E. Bell, bad ivory In-
ferior boat, which caused a terrific struggle between them-
selves sad another French new, who had • very superior
and teeter boat, with which they took • considerable lead,
but alter 16 minutes of the hardest pulling In the world,
the English boat rowed by them, winning by 10 boats'
lengths.
Then followed the 4 and 6-oared and /culling races, which
they woo, amounting to about 301. in money, with • geld
medal for each rem.
Elated with their good look, our crew moved on the same
evening to Fade. The following morning they we again
on the bent* of the Seine ; and, owing to the great number
of boats that were entered for the different races, 15 and IS
for 'soh roc*, they had to poll trial matches. The final
beets commenced at 3 o'clock, sad after some of the hottest
room seer palled, the English crew won them all—five is
„.....anatber, and added another 401. and five medals to their
=e bees the Englishmen rowed in were built by 31r.
Wyld, of Lambeth.—Times.

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1110 WATS& AT LONDOU =IDOL

LOSDON. SATUZDA 7. AUGUST 20.

AMOIMER SIMMS caeire has bra °occluded,
Thomas Bnintstrnat, the surgeon of Richmond, has,
attar a Mid at the days, been condemned to death,
Like the Minnow PALMER, the prisoner was of the
medical profusion, and Rho PALnen, too, the crime
with which he was charged was egret poisoning.
It was diffievilt to imagine near ram atrocious than
the murder of COOK, hat it arm that the crime of
SMETHURST is ern more daring end more heartier.
Even now that the jury have pronounced their
verdict, it is difficult to believe that any human
being should be guilty of the charge; although,
after reading the evidence, it is well nigh impossible
to doubt that the verdict is thoroughly justified by
the tare.

The story is full of mystery. This man was no
rely a man of edncation, but he had retired from hie
poterios, and was living with hie wife in furnished
lodgings. Hie wife was certainly an old woman,
above 70, he having married her some thirty years ago;
but, as he himself told the jury after the judge
had stemmed the black cap, "he had taken her
"an excursion to Paris and Heidelberg last year,
" had behaved to her with the utmost kind;
" sem and had brought her back safe to
" England." And it moat be admitted: that no
eagle word or act of unkindness appears ever to
bare escaped from him. No account was gives
of his previous life, except that he had kept a
water-cure establishment in the seighboarhoed of
POZIALIIOI. It is singular that a man of iadepsedest
imam sad of respectable imonexions =mid have
bola Left alone in his difficulties. Not a single
kited came to support him in the dock, or even to
=soh kr his knew respectability.
Sometimes the appearance and manner of a man
tarsi= imiketirms of his character. The murderer
shows it la Ids few. The innocent man sem=
key bee a sales dignity, which inspires reepsoß
Swags= displayed neither of these obene-
touristic& A short, rather thickset man, with brown
bear, and sestewbat bald, his expiate= betrayed
sew of those repakive features which sometimes
mark great criminals. In fact, even the
aster of the poor murdered woman described
him as a " kind and tender none, sad
" with • countenance showing amiability." It is
true that in addreming the court his yoke
somewhat trembled, but at the awful moment after
the verdict of `. guilty " bad bees prowassed, sad
the judge had amused the black cap, the man spoke
with an audacious self-posesseion and a deliberate
fluency of fembeed which confounded those who
beard him.

Towards the aloes of last year Mr. and Msh.
SURTHUIST west to node at the ham of a Mine
Hann, at Bayswater. At this same house Heed
twe ladMy Mies Loom wed Mir lemmata
Briars. Their esamodsos were respectable, and
their psresniary areas, amsanting he sermathiag
shore Kra a year sack, Nailiben
quits indimemiest. Neither of the shim Walt
ream/ Min IILUIRLIA had meshed the spot 44
sad did sot enjoy the lest health. Although tin
was somewhat beyond the age of gawks she seam
to have conceived a liking far Dr. flarninarr, sad
in fact their conduct es ecomialised Miss SMITH that
mbe insisted upon their leaving the house. It is
net quits clear whether Miss BA'ials knew
that Burranarr was a married man, though having
heed I. the Name house with him and his wife It is
diaralt to eadierstand her ignorance of the fact. The
meltability is that armee iner had persuaded Miss
Somas that the old lady above seventy was not his
real wife, sad this conjecture is confirmed by the fact
that the ceremony of marriage between firtarnuarr
gad Miss BARRIS was performed at Battersea
slouch at the beginning of last December.
However that might be, they left Mies litura's,
sad, after staying a short time at a Mra. 011.10W-
sit's, they finally took up their abode at the home
of Mrs. Waitrater, at Alma Villas, Richmond, for
which. they paid 164. a week. According to
Satirrecasr, he had settled the whole matter with
his legitimate wife, and she bad agreed to accept •
certain sum for her lodgings, sad to ask no questions
as to when or how he lived. Hamm= and Mies
Beaus lived on at Mrs. WHlterillYl until the end
et last March, when the lady became very ill
For some time previously she had suffered from
sickness and diarrhea, but the disease was now
anima ; moreover it appeared that the lady
had become pregnant. In fact it was ne-
cessary to call in a doctor, and after sonic
deliberation it was decided to summon Dr.
Juutsv, the leading practitioner in Richmond.
11l as the poor woman was, SMETHURST himself was
the only attendant. A nurse had been suggested by
the landlady, but SMETHURST objected, saying that
he was too poor though at the very time he had a
balance of some 2001. at the Bank. On this affectionate
querihusband, therefore, devolved all the diaagree•
able duties of the sick-room. The food was mixed
sod administered by his own hand; the chamber
utensils were placed outside the bedroom door by his
own bead. Ihiring the day no human being interned
that room bat Smarm:lan ; during the night se
human being sat by the bedside but Sunray's?.
The complaint under which the poor woman
'offered required, &bee. all things, cleanliness and
pare air, and this Samoan as a medical matt
must have well known, and yet during the many
weeks of illness " the bedroom was never thoroughly
cleaned out," though, indeed, the bed was made by
the landlady every day. It was surely astrangs

fancy for a man with more than 2001. at his banker's
to inset upon acting the nurse to a sick woman, sod
performing all the most tender and disgusting carom
It was perhaps stranger still that, of all the militias
of rice, beef tat, blancmanger, meal, came, sad jelly,
that entered that bedroom, not ono scrap—except
mac seer rise.-.seer came oat again. If anything
was mixed with tlis poor woman's food, no human
Warr ever had an opportunity of tasting it. As-
oording to 81d1THITIST, indeed, his tinder regard for
Miss Banana sad his parsimony made him commune
all this rmansats. No is it 'uprising to find that
living upon t his diet, with swelittitigair,and undersuch
anxiety, the afflicted hatband, as Is• told the jury

nillili .
in his parting address, elm* in hOP ie.
some sixteen pounds. s`i :c
- Oa
It was at the 6th of April that Dr. Aferlo first
saw the peer lady, whom he took he the w of
SIERIMOIRT. Having learnt the ~. of
the ear from him, he prescribed certain emedlea.
They pee no relief. They neither seeppd the
vomiting nor the diarrbcoa. Pres the Seh te the 1
18th he went on trying all sorts of preseriptimiar
but without the slightest effect. At length, com-
pletely puzzled, he handed over the patient to his
partner, Dr. Bum. His remedies equally failed.
The disease relaxed not for a moment. Oases
were ransacked by various witnesses from the
annals of medicine, bat amidst all the anemailes
of disssse they searched in vain for a OMB
in which no single symptom was abated a jot.
At length Dr. Jetics came to the conclusion
that some drag was being administered to cows-
tenet the effect of the medicines. Now that dreg
wee, in his opinion, some irritant poison. Dr.
BIRD, after vainly attempting to stay the dame,
came to the same conclusion. And upon comparing
notes it was found that both ?greed. True,
neither Dr. JuLtus nor Dr. Ban had mac
men the poor lady alone. Burritotar was himself
always in the room, and himself explained the symp-
toms. More medical advice wee doisanded, and the
eminent Dr. TODD, of King's College Hospital, won
sent for. He saw the patient, prescribed for hest an
the bad symptoms were unabated. Dr. TODD, Sow
fore, cease to the same conclusion with Dr. lane
end Dr. Bum, that something was adminietand M
counteract the effect of the ordinary medicines, and
that it moat be some irritant poison. In short, if, those,
experienced medical men were to be believed,
this man alone in that wretched room in Alma-villas
was daily and hourly with hie own bands adminis-
tering to the lips of the lonely woman, whose cha-
racter he had destroyed, scientific doges of that
subtle poison which was stealthily sapping her
sisemitli sad drying op the sources of life—and all
Mb maw the very eyes of three medical men, one
of them at least of the highest reputation.
Bat the end was drawing near. Once only had
the sister of poor IRAZILLA BASILE appeared.
She same to see her sister ahem the 19th of April.
But even then she was not permitted to do anything
Per the sick woman—not even to make her some
lancmanger or arrow-root. In spite of her desire to
some again, she was prevented by Smicrouturr ;
and in fact it won only jut before her death, and
when she was spesehlees, that eh* was again per-
mitted to see her. Bat the seine day on which
SMETHURST wrote to Mir BARRIE to say that her
atm was too week to see her, he called on en
albersay for the purpose of getting a will pre-
load by which Mies ISMILLLA BARI= was to
leave him all her property. The poor woman,
forma, could not see her sister, but she could
Na a strange attorney. The attersoy ours on the
&may morning, and the will by which 611111117118 r
obtained the whole property won executed. It is
worthy of remark that in this will Miss Ensue
signs in her maiden name, and Seseweture told the
attorney that he was only living with her for a me-
son. It was in time, for on the Tuesday, the ad
of May, the helpless victim died.

R.

In tie aseanthne arsenic had been found in such
a way as to prove that it had been deposited in the
woman's body, and filt tram= was apprehended.
At first he was releesed on his own recogniessess,
and, strangely enough, when his nursing care wee
withdrawn from the patient, the distressing symp-
tens sensed—her exhausted strength however was
net to be revived. Bat the body was opened, and
in it was discovered a certain quantity of antimony.
Was it then &mixture of arsenic and antimony which
this affectionate husband had been administering
is that lonely bedroom in Richmond ? If
it was, it is difficult to conceive anything more
smelly heartless. Here was a married man inveigling
away a weak woman from her sister and her Mends,
going through the mockery of • marriage to quiet
bar scruples, analysing the weeknesees of her con-
' "antics: until he discovers the best means of putting
bar oat of the way—and then, in that solitary bed-
room at Richmond administering day by day the poi-
soar drupieenek proportions ushould ensaredenth
whilst be warped detention. True, no doubt so loeg
an peer Inusm.La BANN= lived there was the in-
come of 8,0001. Commie; but then, so long as Mrs.
linarauturr lived. there was the danger of an in-
dietnient for bigamy, and, as it seemed, the addi-
tional danger of the birth of a child. What was to
be done As SMETHURST told the jury, his best
plan would have been to have poisoned the old woman,
bat that was probably difficult and dangerous.
Something must be done at ono'. ISSIMLLA SLIMES
was entirely in his hand,. He reasoned with him-
self thus:—" Let her make a will, leaving me
" 1,7001. Then let her dje of poison, which I ass
"administer—doses of arsenic and antimony—
"in such minute qualities that traces will
not be discovered. In *his there is some
chasm of escape. Bat if I remain ea I
" am, the sham marriage at Battersea may be
" &seemed, Immerse Barran may booms a
" mother, and then I may be indicted for bigamy,
" and be obliged to fly the country. It is better
" for me to poison the woman in seeret—thongh if
" the crime be discovered I nest stand the chance of
"an indictment for murder." The stakes were
fearful. SMETHURST played boldly and skilfully,
but happily his prise is Death.

vaaurciss, AII'OrNINENTS, AND PROMO-
TIONS IN Mr CIVIL £R& acs.

Framign Department.—The Has. William Neiman '
J=l.ltas prod his examinatios mpaid attache at
; r. Hugh Preset ham psessel Lies examlnatios
es paid attache at Copenhagen; the Hos. Powus Hoary Le ,
Par Preach ham pawed he emminatios aa unpaid attache
at Paris; Mr. Jobs David Hay Hill hr passed hie meal- '
soaks as corneal at Mersaharo, Brazil ; Mr. Reginald Arthur '
'Ppm beg pared ilia SZIMiDA4O,II tar • clerkship is Um
Forelamodke.
The Admiralty.—The HOD. Hubert Frames Deemer has
pima his esamioation far a cfrokaltip in Whllstall; Meese%
W. IL Hookas, Edgar Beret. nerves Mallard Clark,
Hwy James Dowse, and James Frederick Payton have
pa their onmisaatima for temporal y
Ormeal Peat-dloe.—Mr. David Bray has hien appeated
disk la the never sad accorist=s °Mom, Bt.
Mertionwls•Oread, sad parsed his e
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by the theta of Mr. R. C. Meikla ; Mr. Them= Howard
hr loos peerneked from mooed to elm due dunk is th. Long
Beim, Lomita; Mr. Marla Boyd hem Om promoted from
third to reed
slam clerk la ditto; Mr. James Thorn. has
hems *um Muth to third edam mask to ditto ;
L Rehm boa bees mammed kam OM to fourth
elms clerk M diteo; Mr. J. B. Mama Ms ham promotad
from mead is tent elms toadies surveyor is Loudon ; Mr.
Jolts N. Palmas haa bees premoted tram third to mead
dare lastriag surveyor Is Leaden ; Mr. John Thorpe, dist
elms brass ushar, ham keen prnmood to be third clam
tameless lerwayet is Lambs; Mt. -William Phillips 44 bran
promoted from mead to lost slam lasftig stiletto London ;
Mr. Peter Tasked bee ha promolad from third to mond
clam landing water la IraSa ; Mr. I. P. Le Fume has
bees promoted trem Meth to WM tier lan diag water ia
Loudon; Mr. Chides babe has Isom promoted beta 11th
to fourth elms Inaba value Y brew.
New Zealasid.—Mr. Cluistophor WIHa. Itteknead boa
bias aptoistad *skald trauma sadsammW-ed OW
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TIM LAT& ML C. GeltDeltit
mien will have beard with regret of the death of the abswe
dbeispiseed lIIMPOII. The melascholy earn took pleas
es the 111th teems, at Clifton, where be was Maybes kr
the boat of his health. By Mr. Ocoktie's death the pre-
lim*. bee keg ••• of ita telebtret sebeseeki, red lemelly
at brie • univ,vsal beef/factor. 84ranks him Imo
itterred In the roster, et Chita*.

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The late Admiral Trotter, to high and
general attainments, united a kind generous
heart, and a frank and most urbane manner, which
made him universally beloved, both in the discharge
of public duties as an officer and in private life.
Cut down while yet in the vigour of manhood, and
in the daily exercise of those acts of practical bene-
volence which appeared to be a main object of his
life, he has left behind him an example wall worthy
of imitation by the members of the service which he
adorned.

Having obtained the usual preliminary education
for the naval service at the Royal Naval College,
Portsmouth, out of which he pared in an unusually
short tints, and after serving for a short time on the
North Bea station, Mr. Trotter, as a volunteer of the
Ist class, proceeded in May, 1819, in the Eden,
Captain J. E. Lock, to the East India station, where
he participated in many hazardous boat enterprises
against pirates, by whom the Persian Gulf was at
that time infested. He was present at the destruction
of Ras el Kyma, the headquarters and principal
resort of those desperate freebooters, and assisted in
the burning or sinking of all their vessels by an ex-
pedition under the joint commando, theists Admiral
Bit Francis Collier and Major-General Sir William
Grant Keir.

In 1822 Mr. Trotter was appointed by Sir Henry
Blackwood, commander-in-chief on the station, acting
lieutenant of the Leander; and on his return to
land in the following year his promotion was
by the Admiralty. Lieutenant Trotter
next joined her Majesty's ship Hussar on the West
India elation ; and while in this vessel be was par-
ticularly mentioned by Captain Harris, her com-
mander, in a despatch to Sir Laurence Halsted, the
commander-in-chief, for his gallant conduct in
the capture of a band of pirates at the Isle of Pines.
Obtaining his promotion in 1830, Commander
Trotter was appointed to her Majesty's ship Curlew,
which he commanded for nearly four yeses on the
Cape of Good Hope and West Coast of Africa sta-
tion, and—the admiral being at the Cape he was
left for a considerable period in the responsible
charge of the latter division of the station. His
capture while in the Curlew of the notorious' pirate
ship Panda is perhaps one of the most striking
instances on record of determination and persistent
adherence to duty in a case of this kind. For
fifteen months Commander Trotter was as the
track of this vessel, and he eventually came up
with her in the Bight of Benin, when the piratical
crew took to their boats, and for a time escaped.
The Panda wee at ono* boarded by her captors ;
but they had been but a skort time in poreruon of
their prize when she blew up, causing the immediate
death of two officers, wounding severely many of
the men, and seriously injuring the commander him-
self, who was with difficulty extricated from between
the shattered deck and bulwarks before she sank.
The captain, the chief officer, and five of the crow
of the Panda, were eventfully taken, under circum-
stances of considerable difficulty and danger, and
not without a personal struggle between the com-
mander and the pirate chief. They were sent to
England, and from thence to the United States,
where they were tried and convicted as pirates and
felons for an atrocious piracy committed on a brig
belonging to Salem, United States, in September,
1832. They justly suffered the extreme penalty of
the law.

A letter from Joseph Peabody, and bearing 100
other signatures, ootiveyed to President Jackson the
feeling common throughout the United States re-
garding the perseverance, gallantry, and good
conduct of Commander Trotter on this imernon.
In a similar spirit the Lords of the Admiralty, in
awarding Captain Trotter his promotion, so well
earned, thus addressed him through the secretary :
" My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having
had ander their consideration your exertions while
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in command of the Curlew, in the capture of the
piratical meet Panda and her crew, and the perse-
veranos displayed by you in circumstances of ex-
treme difilculty, and involving you in great personal
responsibility, for which, and the protection thereby
afforded to American commerce, you have received
through his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs the thanks of the President of the United
States, are pleased, as a mark of the sense which my
lords entertain of your conduct, to promote you to
the tank of captain in the royal navy."
With the exception of being for a short period in
the Britannia, 120, as Am captain to Admiral Sir P.
Durham, commander-iniet at Portsmouth in 1838,
Captain Trotter was ashore from 1834 to 1840, when
an enterprise in every way suited to his tastes, and
promising full scope to his long cherished desire to
explore the interior of Africa and ameliorate the
condition of her benighted sons, was unexpectedly
opened to him.
The expedition to the Niger originated in the
noble and philanthropic mind of the late Sir Powell
Buxton, and was espoused by the government of the
day, more especially by Lord John Rumen, then
Secretary of State toe the Colonies. Captain Trotter
was selected by the Admiralty as the man, fitted by
habits, inclination, general acquirement., and know-
ledge of the African coast, to command such au enter-
prise. Throughout his career in the service he
appeared to have been destined to wage constant
war against those enemies of the haman race—
pirates and slave dealers. He was able and active,
in the prime of life, and most enthusiastic in the
object of such a mission. He was accordingly
appointed to her Majesty's ship Albert, in com-
mand of the expedition which left England in May,
1841, and entered the Niger on the 13th of August
of the same year. On the 27th of Myst the
expedition had reached Ibu, 120 miles from the sea,
40 miles below the apex of the Delta; and Ital the
2nd of September it was at Iddah, the capital of
the Eggarah country, where rocks' consisting of
ferruginous sandstone, were foe the first time seen.
Up to this time the expedition had been fortunate'
beyond all expectation. The Delta had been passed,
and the valley of the Niger was about to be entered
under circumstances seemingly most auspicious. The
crews were in the best possible condition, and looked
forward with a buoyancy of feeling to the period
when the vowels were to ascend the river, while
they contemplated with delight the novel and
diversified scenery of the high land before them.
Bat fever of a malignant character broke oat in
the Albert, and almost simultaneously in the other
vessels, and shortly after the expedition reached the
confiueuoe of the Niger and Tchadda, two of the
emote composing it were obliged to return to the
lea.

The Albert, with the commander of the expe-
dition, advanced higher up, as far as Eggs, the
Nag capital. On the 3rd of October all hopes
of penetrating further into the interior of Africa re-
aired a finishing. blow, for Captain Trotter, the
arduous, enterprising, and kind commander, was
now taken with fever; and besides Dr. M'Williani
and Dr. Stanger, only three or tour whites were fit
for duty. "Thor only," observes Dr. MlVilliam,
" who were with Captain Trotter from first to last in
the expedition, and had an opportunity of observing
with what unceasing zeal, what untinog energy, he
devoted himself to its grand objects, can form any
idea of the painful sacrifice stern necessity compelled
him to make when he issued the order to turn the
vessel's head downwarda, and relinquish designs
which he benevolent mind had so tong and so
ardently cherished." The Niger expedition, although
thus repelled by an enemy against which no human
'Soft coed. prevail, and so far unsuccessful in

achieving its. immediate objects, was by no means
fruitless in important results. A very considerable
addition was made to our knowledge of the river,
of the various countries on its banks, and of the
climate, which cannot fail to be useful to future
explorers of this interesting region.
Lord Stanley (now Earl Derby), who bed suc-
ceeded Lord Jonn Rumen at the Colonial-offioe
before the return of the expedition to England, in
conveying through the Under-Secretary of State
his genes of the service, of those employed in the
expedition, expressed his admiration of the zeal and
ability manifested by Captain Trotter and thaw ander
his command "in the attempt to execute the objects
of the expedition under very difficult circumstances,
and at great personal risk to all who wee
in it." At the outbreak of the Russian in
James Graham, then First Lord of the Admiralty,
appointed Captain Trotter as Commodore and Otin-
mender in Chief of the Cape of Good Hope Station.

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platra his 86ih year yeitarday:

Here the iries administrative pours all
active boner were, as elsewhere, Silly dis:
played. Ee tad and liberally contributed be
the Caps Town • on' Home. On his urgent nal
presentation to the Admiralty he was enabled,
through their liberality, to restore • small village
near Simon's Bay, founded many years ago by the
late Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, as an asylum for
eaptared slaves, and which had latterly fallen into
deny.
During his three years' period of command,
although he was ever at some humane work, such as
those to which we have alluded, the micron, varied,
and more strictly professional duties of the station
were conducted with remarkable zeal and moms.
On galling the station Commodore Trotter received
from Governor Sir George Grey the warmest as-
knowledgments, and an earnest recommendation to
the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the ser-
vices he had rendered to the colony and to his corm-
try by his cordial and active co-operation during a
period of great anxiety to South Africa, when
nothing short of firm and decided measures, promptly
taken, Gould have availed to avert another Kaffir war.
On the commodore's arrival in England from the
Cape command, two years ago, be was apparently in
good health ; but those who had the opportunity of
observing him closely could not fail to perceive that
after the Niger expedition he was occasionally sub-
ject to severe hm&cle, and other symptoms indi-
cating that he never got quits rid of the effects of the
fever from which he barely escaped with his life.
The close of Commodore Trotter's life career was
sudden ; but it came upon him while he was em-
ployed in a manner in harmony with his whole life.
He had just been renewing, at the Admiralty, an ap-
plication in behalf of an officer formerly under his
command, who possessed no title to government
favour beyond great professional and other merits,
when he was suddenly snack down with paralysis,
which proved fatal in a few hours.
His remains were followed to their rating-place
in Kensal-green by his bereaved relatives and many
of hie more immediate friends in the naval service
as well as in private life, including two of his old
companions in the Niger expedition.

OSBORNE, Aroma 19.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort drove out
yesterday afternoon, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent,
Princess Adios, Princess Helens, and Princess flobenlohe.
Captain Du Plat was in attendance.
The dinner party in the evening it:clad/4 Princess Alice,
Princess Hohealobe, Lady Augusta Brace, the Earl of Bt.
Germans, the Hen. MIII. T. Y. Biddalpb, and Sir George
Cower.

The Dohs of Newcastle loft town yesterday for Clamber.
Despatches were est from the Colonial-aloe yesterday to
the Governors of Gibrelter, Nate, Ceylon, Hoeg Kong,
Wean, Cesede, sod Newfoundland, end to the Lord High
Commissioner of the loalan Islands.

The Marquis of Lansdowne has nearly recovered
from his recant indisposition. His lordship is now able to
take carriage airings._

The Marquis of Exeter left Groevenor-square
few days Mace to join the marchioness and Lady Mary Cecil
at Romberg. Lord and Lady Burghley are sled sojourning
at Romberg.
_ _

The fiartpaio of Conyngham sad Lady Cecilia
Coayeghate have left the Bt. Genie Hotel._ _ _

The :Marquis and Marehioneaa of Londonderry
have arrived at Mount Stewed. wow Down, [rum Powers-

court Castle, Vikount Powurscourt's mat, In the county
Wicklow.

The Earl of Jersey is recovering from his illness,
and gradually regaining strength. The resharabls peer oom-

Viscount Hamilton, eldest son of the Marquis and
blatchbnewe of Abetworn, will attain his majority on Wed-
malty nut, when the event will be °detested with the
customary metrics. on the sacestrat Mates in the county
Tyree&

Mr. Robert George Wyndham Herbert, Fellow of
All Soule' College, Oxford, and berrleter-at-law of the Inner
Temple, has been sppointed deretary to Ste George Fe:mu-
ds Bawd, H.C.M.G., governor of the colony of Gasses-
lead (Moreton Bey), in Australis. Mr. Herbert, who will
else hold, In the first instance, the CollllllillgOD of Colonial
decieterberae private escretery to Mr.Gladatone when Chan-
cellor of Exchegoer in Lced Aberdeen's administration.
We (Kendal Mercury) understand that the ex-
Qoeen of the French and suite have engaged apartments for
a month at the Waterbed Hotel, Coniston.

The Bishop of London lies appointed Mr. John
Harmed to be his lordship's " Private and Assistant Sem-
tary," in the room of the Ito,. Albert H. Stilwell, H.A.

The annual meeting of the Artists' General
Benevolent Institution will take place on the evtning of
Wedawday.

The British Archwologittal Association will hold
its annul mewling this year at Newbury, from the 12th of
September to the 17th inclusive. The Earl of Cantarvon is
stiodod to preside. . .

The Bt. ismee's Theatre is again to open on the
Ltd Oetober--" this one more time" m e secure burls—
the performances to be devoted to " domestio drama, farm,
burismos, sad pantomime."
Mdlle. Parepa and Mr. Haigh will join the
Covent-garde* Runtish Opera company—possibly, too, •
daughter of Mrs. Wood, who will perform eider the name
of Mir Pillfsg.

The oratorio on which Herr Molique is known to
have been long engaged te now, we (.4theagratm) understand,
all but completed.
The Gazette Musicale annonaces that Madame
Miolan-Carvalho haa been secured by Mr. bye, for next
year*s opera seaman at Covent-garden.
. _ _ . .

Among the tales from El Dorado which tempt the
Old World singer% is that of the enormous sum paid to
Modena* Ouster at the Savannah-600 guineas a week and
a free benefit.

The new iesanpnient of the Prineer's will open
with a annuli by Yr. John Oxenford, the emery painted
by Oriew and Telbin; and an extravaganza by Planate,
with scenery painted by Beverley. Kn. Keeley end Mina
Leal/01[40bl, who are both engaged, have pane in the
iIiTIMMIIIS2II.

Mrs. Alfred Mellon unfortunately hurt her ands
on kit Tuesday evening, while performing in the Plotters of
Lie Amt. Although (says the fiends, Timm) suffering

extreme pain, she bore it with aslimishlig dramas, and not
only went through the part of Lemuel, which She was play-
ing in the drama, het performed afterwards in the burlesque
Me Bass is Me Rood, although she was obliged to any-
part berealf cm a mkt. She has not sines been able to appear
en the stage.

The Literary Gazette says:—.. Who will believe
that Kra Stowe Is now in England ? That the American
mahatmas who, bet a short time ago, mated such a asnaa-

Lion is actually smoupt us without receiving any public
notice at all? The 1.4 however is in this country, and
engaged upon her new tale, a portion of which has already
appeared under the title of " The Minister's Wooing."
This title, it is understood, will be retained foe the complete
work, the publication of which may be expected about
October. Tkob monthly pasts of this work will of course be
issued an heretofore."
The Princes Idenschikoff, father and son, are at
present is Puts.

Oaiipnesei states that the Grand Dake of Tuscany
has Wt Parte Si, Vienne.
TM GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINL—IIia Imperial
Ingham the Greed Duke Creamed's, acoompanled by his
sates, paid • second visit to Portaceouth Dockyard yester-
day. His impartsl highness armed at Portsmouth, from
Hyde, by the it p.m. steam packet, and Winediately em-
tanked on board the bergs al the Osbane, which was wait-
ing his arrival, with Flag Captain A. Farquhar in atten-
dance, and proceeded round to the landing sums at the
north wall of the mann baste, where the party disemberked.
The Grand Duke first proceeded cm board the Beagle, 6,
screw, lying close to the landing place, and having her
foremost boiler taken out. Hie unpaid. higlisem went
over every part of tWe vessel,making *Mriee as to ber ma-
nage, hone-power of engines, their maker's nante,the ramifies
of her fighting Wilms, &o. On finding that she had beau in
costimbeton drain the Itneahn war, he farther Inquired
whether all was ht the Baltic or Black Ites. From the
Beagle the °mad Duke next visited the sterna factory, the
factory-once AA, when he wee tagged for some time.
After ceßiag an the Port Admiral at the Admiralty-home,
the Grand Duke and party re-entbst kali on board the
Othotne's barge and was conveyed to the Videde_pier,
whence hie imperial highness and suite teteraed to Byde
by the 5,30 p.m, steam packet.

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Lou,
,TEST • liiIiELLIGENCE.
VENICE.

Notwithstanding the presence of the numeretue
fortes which Austria maintains in Venetia, the im-
perial authorities appear to have great difficulty in
controlling the public mind. The Gazette de Valise
of the 13th publishes a proclamation of the director
of police, which speaks of a serious agitation. It tells
us that " even now the public continue to give ear
to the lying reports which the party of disorder
labours to spread for a criminal purpose—even
naming the precise day on which the supposed
events will take plaee. The police ardently desire
to prevent the unhappyconsequences of& blind trust,
which would inevitably fall upon the deceivers and
the deceived. They therefore renew the warning that
persona must be on their guard, or otherwise the au-
thorities may find themselves under the disagreeable
necessity of putting into execution the rigorous mea-
sures already prepared, and which will suffice to
maintain order, tranquility, and the safety of the in-
habitants."

NAPLES.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FETE

NAPOLEON.

The Nord of to-day publishes the following :

" Monate from Naples dated the 16th inform us
that daring the celebration of the fête of
the Emperor Napoleon by the French Le-
gation, by a religious service in the church of
St. Joseph, at Chiaja, the government made a
most unseemly demonstration against France.
A certain number of Neapolitans belonging to the
aristocracy were mingled with the French. The
police ranged themselves all round the church.
Four battalions took up position, and patrols of
cavalry kept spectators away from the route which
the cortege followed. A considerable and sympa-
thetic crowd assembled before the gardens of the
; but just as Baron Brenier's carriage
approached, two regiments of cavalry, with twelve
pieces of cannon, roughly dispersed the crowd,
making several arrests. General Filangieri directed
these violent measures in person. The Diplomatic
Corps were represented at the Te Deans by Mr.
Craven, secretary of the English Legation, and by
the Sardinian Legation. The ministers of Russia,
Prussia, Austria, and Spain, and the Nuncio were
absent."

DEFENSIVE LRAOUE BETWEEN THE
STATES OF CENTRAL ITALY.
The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Renter's office :
TURIN, B•rcanar, AUGUIT 20.
"A defensive league has been concluded between
the state, of Central Italy. Prince Hercolani, the
delegate of the government of the Legations, has
signed the act of accession to the league."

MODENA.
THE AUSTRIAN DYNASTY.

MODENA, FittDia, Awns? 19.

To-day a member of the National Assembly, the
Marquis Fontanelli, presented to the chambers a
proposal, declaring the forfeiture (decheance) of the
Austrian dynasty d'Este to the duchy, and the
banishment from the State for ever of every prince
of the House of Hapsburg-Lorraine. The Assembly
unanimously resolved to take the question into con-
sideration, and the proposal of the Marquis Fonts-
nelli wu received with three rounds of applause.

TILE CONFERENCE.

ZURICH, FIIDAT, AINIIIST 19.

Yesterday a conference took place between the
Plenipotentiaries of France and Austria. A messen-
ger of the French cabinet has arrived here, and has
quitted again for Paris. At the banquet given by
Count Colloredo, Mr. Doubs proposed the health of
the Emperor of Austria, and Count Colloredo, in his
toast, the permanence of the friendship between
Austria and Switzerland and the Government
I of Zurich.

In the next sittings of the conference it is supposed
that the question of the boundary of Lombardy, and
her participation in the Austrian debt,will be settled.
To-day there was a confereuoe between M. de
Botn-queney, the French, and M. de Desambrois, the
Sardinian plenipotentiaries.

BERNE, AvorsT 20.

At the banquet given by the Austrian Ambusador
in honour of the birthday of the Emperor Francis
Joseph, Count Collared° said that " the fact of all
the plenipotentiaries being present proves that our
work of peace will be crowned with moons."

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, FAIDLY, AUGUST 19.

The official Wiener Zsitung contains a list of
numerous military promotions and distinctions made
on account of the battle of Solferino. It is stated
that the Minister of the Interior, Baron Bach, will
be appointed ambassador to Rome.
Other changes in the cabinet are still expected.
Count Leo Than has declined to accept the post of
Minister of the Interior. Count Goluohowski is
said to be also opposed to enter into • ministerial
combination. Since the return of the Emperor to
Vienna no council of the ministers still in power has
been held.

There is • report that an Austrian corps &armee
are to be concentrated near Rovigo on the road to
the Legations and to Modena.

RUSSIA.

The Leipzig Gazette says:
Since the stay which the Burton squadron, commended by
the Grand Duke Constantine, made in the Copenhagen road-
stead, we have bean able to estimate the immense change
when has taken plane in the Russian navy since the war to
the I.•sa Formerly, ell the ships et war which visited the
Baltic port, had a dull and constrained look, in spite of the
military bearing of their crows. On boort the vessels we saw
lately the sailors were not forced levies from In-
land provinces; they were mart and active men,
chosen from the maritime population of Finland;
' some crews were composed of sailors who had
formed part of the Black Sea fleet. There WWI no trees of
the old mechanical stiffness, no look of being got up foe
parade. On the contniry, the ofScers as well sa the visa. foe
skill and matnenlike qualities, might stand comparison with
English or Danish sailors. It le the Grand Duke Coestsa-
Wm, who for some tears him brought about such great im-
provements in • comparatively abort space of time. With
his great energy sod really eminent qualities as a sailor, the
Grand Duke will in a short time have maga-
abed the Russian fleet, so that a Russian meal
may sustain a COlittet with any English, Frame, or Danish
vessel of the same strength. All the crews hays • pro-
found and affectionate admiration for their young Imperial
chidThe features of the Finland sailor glow with pride
rhea be speak' of the great admiral.

Over the entrance to the Milan cathedral, where
the Ti Dom wee sang on the occasion of the festivities of
the 16th, the following inscription might be read :—" On
this day, memorable in the annals of the Napoleons, to the
prayers and Ilial4S of all Frame, here repeated by so many
of bee brave children, the Milanese join theirs with elite-
debate gratitude, and implore the Lord of Kings end Nations
to grant that the Emperor Napoleon 111., happy In public
and domestic joys, anciomfol in all his designs, may corn-
mead memos and affection. May the plaint sad hews
gessrattona applaud him as the advocate of every just
awe, and the champion of Italian rep/aeration:"
The Archduke Louis Victor, brother of the
Em-
peter of Austria, travflling under the name of Count de
Laberteck, is now ow a tour in Belgium. Three days ego him
imperial highness sabred at Liege and visited the churches
and public buildings.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROW OUR OWN

P ARO, FRIDAY EVlliatiO.
The opinion which I offered on Thursday—not
without some misgiving—that the amnesty removes
from the category of suspects and pro tan& outlaws
all persons affected by the Espinasse law of public
safety of 1868, is confirmed by the Nord and Inde-
pesidoosee Beige, and also by the Presss of this
evening, which is the only French journal that has
yet treated of this delicate and most important sub-
ject. I must confess that the arguments of the
Press. rather strengthen than remove the doubts
about the matter which pressed upon my mind.
Quoting a work written by M. de Peyronnet,
while a prisoner at Ham, the Pre*" traces
the origin of an amnesty (a law of forget-
fulness) to Thresybulus, who, after he had
expelled the thirty tyrants from Athens, passed a
law ordaining that no citizens should be troubled
for past actions. Various striking distinctions
known to French law are then enumerated. As
amnesty does not admit a penalty; it effaces all
trace of the condemnation. Every amnesty is to be
construed largely in favour of those to whom it
extends. In every cam of doubt the duty of a judge
is to inquire—not who is comprised in, but who is
excluded from, an amnesty. An amnesty, the Court
of Cessation once said, is "the abolition of the past ;
it is to justice what baptism is to Christianity.
If anyone says that an amnesty does not
purify all that it touches, let him be ana-
thema =math& !" A crime or misdemeanour

which has been amnestied can never be brought
forward to charge a prisoner as • recidieiste—
that is to say, to aggravate his punishment as a
convict for a second offence. But in spite of all
these beautiful and practical legal maxims, there is
the text of the terrible law of February 19, 1868,
to be got over, and that law says that any indi-
vidual who "has been" dealt with in a certain
manner in 1848, 1849, 1851, &c., may at any time
be transported without trial, if " new facts indicate
that he is dangerous to public safety." The only
thing that the refugees have to rely upon against
this law is the legal fiction that after
the amnesty it cannot be legally said that the con-
demnations which were " have been." Unfortu-
nately, if a question were to arise it would never
oome before a court of law. The executive in
France is its own interpreter of the law in all that
concerns the liberty of the subject. It is most de-
sirable that the French government should make an
unequivocal declaration of its intentions.

The Daily News, Depress, Morning Herald,
Morning Chronicle, Bs*, and two or three penny
papers were seized to-day. I find by Bullier's Cor-
respondence that they contain a letter from Louis
Blanc, stating that he does not intend to
avail himself of the amnesty. I cannot but
believe that the officials in M. de la Gaerroniere's
office very much mistake the present intentions of
the Emperor when they think it necessary to con-
fiscate the property of subscribers to English journals
living in France, for fear of the impression which
might be made by the remarks which the amnesty
has called forth from &single French refugee. The
main ground for the amnesty, as explained by the
friends of the government, is that the Emperor,
respected abroad and loved and revered at home,
now feels himself strong enough to disregard the
hostility of that insignificant and powerless minority
of Frenchmen whose voices fail to swell the general
chorus of admiration of himself and his system of
rule which now pervades all France. Under such
circumstances it is surely bad policy to confess that
a letter by Louis Blanc, written in English, and
consequently not understood of the multitude, could
possibly be dangerous.
The Petrie humorously remarks that the Grand
Duke of Tuscany (by the grace of his father's ab di-
cation), who has come from Florence to Paris in
search of a throne, took a very roundabout way,
for he passed by tiolferino.
The Pays, which, under the direction of M.
Granier de Camageac, stands forth as the advocate
of all the worst parts of the peace of Villafrantra,
ostentatiously contradicts a statement made by
several Paris journals, that the son of Leopold 11.
oame here " unexpectedly," and asserts that he pre-
viously wrote to the Emperor, soliciting the honour
of an audience, and received a favourable answer
horn hie Majesty.
By way of giving an indirect contradiction to a

sinister rumour to which I alluded yesterday, the
Petrie announces that Marshal Niel bas left Paris
for Toulouse, to preside at the meeting of the
council general, and that Marshal Canrobert will
shortly leave for Cation to take the chair in the
council general of the Lot.
The Roane has been tolerably firm. The Rents
rose 15fr. for cash and account, closing at 69fr. 5c.,
and 69fr. 15c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. Railways
were from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. higher.

A Berlin letter says :—" We have just been in-
formed that the Prince Regent will leave for Ostend on the
19th, LI nothing unforeseen oocum meanwhile. This fact
seems to indicate that the King's life is not in immediate
danger, and that his illness may lsst some considerable
"

The All England cricketers will be at Brighton
on Monday, to meet eighteen gentlemen of Bunn (with
two bowlers); and the United at Walsall, whoa the
twenty-two have two petfeesionals to help them. On the
same day the gentlemen of the Surrey Club and County
will be at Leicester, to confront the gentlemen of the Mid-
land Counties.

Shooting men are banging away in earnest on
the moon, and all the bolas" abd snug quarters are beteg
occupied by ardent sportsman. The accounts, of the birds
from the diffirant district* are generally cheerful, and in
many parts they are mid to be more plentiful, stronger, and
healthier than has ever been known.

TILE USE OF HEAVY SERMONS: It appears to tae
that in these days of hurried life a great and valuable end is
served by a elan of things which all men of late have taken
to shoeing—to wit, the extensive clam of dull, heavy, undi-
tweeting, good, sensible, pious sermons. They afford many
educated men almost their only intervals of eraktog Inman.
You are in a cool, quiet, solemn place; the sermon ie going
' forward; you have a general Impression that you are helm-
lag to may good admen and impotent doctrines, and the
entire remit upon your mind is beneficial ; and at the rime
time time is nothing in the least striking or slanting to
dee,roy the ems. of leisure, or to psintuily arouse the atten-
tion and quicken the pulse. Neither La there • sylleble that
can jar on the most fastidious taste. All points mad corners
of thought are rounded off. The entire composition Is in the
highest degree gentlemanly, scholarly, correct; but you feel
that it ia quits impoesibla to attend to And you do not
attend to it ; but at the same time you do not quite turn your
attention to anything sloe. Now, you remember bow a dying
father, once upon • times besought his prodigal son to spend
an hour daily in solitary thought ; and what a beneficial re-
sult followed. The dull sermon may serve an std Sr de-
sirable. In church you are alone, in the sense of being
tatiletwl from all compenions, or from the poseitelity of hold-
tag boomunkatios with anybody; and the wearisome ser-
mon, tf utterly useless otherwise, is useful in giving a man
time to think, in circumstances which will generally dispose
him to think enionsly. There ha a restful feeling, too, fur
which you ere the better. It te • Bee thing to feel that
church Is • place where, if even for two hours only, you are
quite ties from worldly business and cares. You kbow that
ad these are waiting for you outside; but at least you are
free from their *noel endurance bete. lem persuaded, and
I am happy to ente ruin the persuasion, that men are often
math the better for being present during the preaching of
sermons So which they pay very little attention.—lrarer's
110 f Witt., for August.
CRYSTAL PALACZ.— ONE SHILLING
FRIDAY, Atlol;aT 19.—Admiasiotia on payment, 3,064 ;
dim, by sewn ticker, 340. Total vimitors, 3,424.