The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1867.

both worlds, and intriguers of both sexes, who
regard the clergy as one of the bulwarks of arbi-
trary power and of good society. But what
we contend is, that when the EMPEROR broke
ground in Italy, and established claims to the gra-
titude of Italians as the liberator of their
country from foreign oppression and the chain-
pion of national rights, he could no longer, without
the moat obvious inconsistency and impolicy, remain
at Rome as the protector of a government hostile
to Italy, hostile to himself, accepting his services
with contemptuous resignation as those of a
betrayer in disguise. By the Convention of
September, 1864, the Emperor NAPOLEON resolved
to set himself free from this intolerable burden
of inconsistencies and contradictions. But
with that besetting irresolution which history will
mark as the distinguishing characteristic of his
character and his reign—the roseau peint citify
—he contrived with all the overcunning of a
timorous and equivocating nature to desert the
Pore, to deceive Italy, to remain responsible to
the Romans for their separation from Italy, and
to Italy for the sequestration of its natural metro-
polis. Ile made Italy, already on the verge of
insolvency, spend ten millions sterling on trans-
ferring the seat of administration from Turin to
Florence, without obtaining that renunciation of
Rome as capital which the Convention only
simulated by one of its contradictory interpreta-
tions. Italy executed her part of the contract
by making Florence her provisional capital and by
guarding the Roman frontiers against attack. The
EMPEROR withdrew his army of occupation at
the date assigned, but under cover of the third
clause of the Convention, he left behind a French
legion disguised in the Papal uniform, and sub-
ject to the regulations of the French Ministry of
War. Not only did he leave behind this Antibes
legion which General Du mom. harangued
the other day, he caused it to be understood that
though his army of occupation was withdrawn,
France remained invisibly present at the gates of
the Vatican, free to return with all her forces
at the first sign of a rising of the Roman people to
' demand their rights. And thus it happens that
while the Court of Rome declaims against its de-
serter and betrayer, Italy seeks a more decided, if
not a more disinterested, alliance than that of the
Second Empire. The movement which seemed to
be arrested at Sinalunga may have been premature
and unwise, as, on the face of it, it was certainly
unconstitutional and illegal. But history, which has
not the respect for expediency which the politicians
of the hour are obliged to profess, will, we dare-
say, pronounce the great Italian citizen by no
means defective in that larger vision to which
statesmen of the sharp attorney type never attain.
GARIBALDI may be held under surveillance at
Ceprera by seven ships of war ; he may be treated
las an outlaw. But whether at Caprera or on the
mainland, he has set Italy and Rome free from
the trammels of a Convention which was designed
to sacrifice both to the convenience of a foreign
Power ; he has brought the Cabinet of Florence
before the tribunal of the national legislature and
the public opinion of liberal Europe. Signor
RATTAZZI will be held accountable for his acts to
the Parliament of Italy, and the Parliament of
Italy will demand to know whether the Emperor
of the FRENCH still stands between the Roman',
people and the Court of Rome—between Rome
and Italy. At all events, the Convention of
September, 1864, is no more.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

Though the country acquiesces in the Abyssinian
expedition as inevitable by reason of the necessity of main-
taining our prestige in the East, it is in vain to disguise,
the Times thinks, that we are making another leap in the
dark. Every prisoner we release will cost perhaps half a
million, and the probable casualties among our troops can
hardly be estimated at leas than one per cent. Consider-
ing 11
how little we know, the apparent confidence of the
public in those who have planned the expedition, the War
Office and the Indian Office combined, is somewhat re-
markable. The immense popularity of the expedition in
India will no doubt quicken the seal of all concerned in
organising it, but parliament, it is to be hoped, will pre-
vent us from necessarily adopting Indian notions of policy
while we ►vail ourselves of Indian organisation.
In another article the Times questions the suitability of
Mr. Thornton's appointment as ambassador to the United
States. The name of the minister at Washington should
either carry a certain degree of social importance with it,
rank being one of the necessary qualifications, or else it
ought at once to call np to the memory of ordinary readers ,
on both sides of the Atlantic some distinguished services.
Mr. Thornton may be worthy of a much higher station
than he has occupied, but the government ought to have
avoided sending a minister to America whose merits are
only known to the official class, and of whom every one
else in England is obliged to ask—Who is he?
The Daily News suggests that the clause hastily in-
serted in the Reform Act, putting off its actual operation
in elections till January, 1869, may possibly be recon-
sidered during the session of next year. So long a post-
ponement of the time when newly given rights can come
into exercise injurionaly prolongs the period of suspense
which must necessarily intervene between the passing of a
measure of reform and the meeting of a reformed parlia-
ment. The Daily News proceeds to show that the
minority representation clause which was meant by its
'story snuporters to give special advantages to a certain
class, promises through the determination of the working
men to have the third member themselves to put additional
power into the hands of those it was designed to curb. Mr.
Langford, on whom the working men of Birmingham are
said to have fixed, is spoken of by the Daily News as one
who would go to the house with a local reputation already
gained, and with power to make himself felt.
The investigation which is being carried on by the Lanett
into the condition of the country workhouse infirmaries is
the subject of another article in the Daily News.
The Herald looks for the entry of the Italian troops into
the Papal dominions—the city of Rome perhaps excepted—
at no very distant date, and with the consent, coy or churl-
ish, sincere or affected, as it may happen, of the Eldest
Son of the Church. The Standard credits the Emperor
with opposite intentions.

The Post comments upon the fact that the day before
yesterday the North German parliament was engaged in
considering a proposal to abolish the existing limitations on
the rate of interest, and that Count Bismarck declared in
the court* of the debate he had ineffectually endeavoured
for the past five years to force this matter on the atten-
tion of the Prussian parliament. It was • long time be-
fore the English parliament could be brought to recognise
the reasoning that if a lender finds that from the scarcity
of money he can by investment or otherwise make more
than five per cent. of his capital he should not be prevented
from imposing a heavier rate of interest on a borrower who
has only indifferent security to offer, but the principles of
political economy are now so well understood in Germany
that we may hope the existing limitations there will be
abolished without much delay.

unless, as the catholic journals expect, a miracle inter-
venes, the Papacy is reduced to one of two alternatives,—
to resign its remaining provinces to the people, who can
give the Pope no guarantee for his city ; or to summon his
" erring son," Victor Emmanuel,who can. With the Italian
troops in sight of Rome, the problem of the temporal
power, which of all others has most perplexed the liberal
statesmen of the Continent, will be almost resolved, and
protestanta throughout the world will be very near to a
danger greater than any they dread from Dr. Colenso,—
the attraction a truly saintly Papacy, without sword or
purse, or threatening in its mouth, might have for the un-
happy masses of mankind.
In the opinion of the Saturday Reticle the immediate
danger which Italy runs is lest Napoleon 111., in a sudden
impulse of anxiety for the interests of catholicism, should
decide on sacrificing his German to his Italian programme.
It is clear that one or other must go by the board. France
cannot afford to insist, at one and the same moment, on
regulating the affairs of all her neighbours. A final deter-
mination on the part of the Tuileries to surrender all hope
of dividing Germany against itself might, however, be
accompanied by a renewed resolution to maintain at all
costa the temporal power. It is not too much, therefore,
to say that the fate of Italy is being weighed in the
balance. If Italy must act at all, and if she cannot keep
Garibaldi in order without danger to her own throne, she
had better act at once, for to act a month hence might pos-
sibly be too late.
The assembling of parliament in November merely for
the purpose of voting supplies for a war which the govern.
ment could not have honourably avoided, seems to the
Saturday Review an unnecessary act of official humility,
since Mr. Disraeli w;U scarcely resort to a loan for the ex-
penses of an Abysainian war ; and there can be no doubt
that the government would be indemnified for all necessary
advances. If it is thought necessary to ask the House of
Commons for a grant, there ought to be no attempt to
charge on the Indian revenue the cost of punishing an
offence against the dignity of England.
Discaseing the principle of compulsory education, the
Examiner says the fundamental distinction should be kept
clearly in mind between the compulsion applied to the
county, parish, or borough to preside good schools for
the mass of the people, and compulsion applied to the
head of the family, under police inspection and threat of
pecuniary mulct, to keep his children at schooL The one
is a mere adaptation to altered circumstances of existing
principles of our law ; the other would be an innovation
upon established habits and usages, repugnant to national
feeling, unnecessaly to attain the proposed end, and
utterly incapable, we believe, of being generally reduced
to practice.
The Chronicle allows that the feeling that some further
arrangement between France and Italy with regard to the
Roman question is demanded by the change of circum-
stances is daily gaining ground. The September conven-
tion was a compromise entered into for the maintenance of
the existing state of things until a more definite solution
could be arrived at. It has always offended the enemies
of the temporal power by recognising it, continuance, and
its friends by leaving it without adequate support. It is
now shown to be useless, even as a means of keeping things
quiet. And it has consequently ceased to be acceptable to
any party whatever.

the Court.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 10.

The Queen drove out in the morning with Prin-
cess Christian, and her Majesty again drove out in the
afternoon, accompanied by Primus Louise and attended
by Mrs. Gordon.
Prince Christian went out for a drive of deer in Colonel
Farquharson's woods at Invercauld.
Prince Arthur, who is at the Ranger's-house, Greenwich-
park, hu a very mild attack of modified small pox ; and
is progressing satisfactorily.
A cornmittee of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, White-
hall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The Lords
present were—the Lord President, Lord Robert Montagu,
and the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry.
Sir John Thwaites had an interview with the Lord
President of the Council at the Privy Council-office yes-
terday.

A deputation from the parish of St. Dunstan, West
London Union, consisting of Mr. G. Attenborough and
Mr. G. S. Pedlar (churchwardens), Mr. Newton and Mr.
Findlay (overseen), Mr. Adams, Mr. Beckford, Mr. Butter.
worth, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Dwarben, Mr. Daw, Mr. Flint,
Mr. Fowler, Mr. Grosmith, Mr. Preedy, Mr. Reeves, and
Mr. ‘Vinterbotham, had an interview with the Earl of
Devon, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yes-
terday.

Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office, yesterday,
to the Governors of Gibraltar and Malta.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli have
arrived at Grosvenor-gate, from visiting the Duke and
Duchess of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace.

We (Athentettm) are glad to hear that her Ma-
jesty. of her own proper motion, has written to Lord
Derby, suggesting that • fitting pro%ision should be made
for the widow of Professor Faraday. Nothing has yet been
done in the way of fixing the sum to be secured to the
bereaved lady ; but our readers may be sure it will be such
as England should propose to the relict of her foremost
man of science.

The appointment of Sergeant-Surgeon to her
Majesty, vacant by the death of Sir William Lawrene,
has been conferred upon Sir William Personae!), Bart.
At the same time a new post has been created with the
title of " Sergeant-Surgeon Extraordinary to her Ma.
jesty," and this will be held by Mr. James Paget.
The Duke of Rutland has arrived at his residence
at Campden-hill, Kensington, and will shortly go to his
seat near Newmarket.

At the annual conferring of degrees at the Queen's
University, in Dublin Castle, yesterday, the Lord Lieute-
nant addressed the students. In concluding his speech he
said he hoped that their next meeting for a similar purpose
would be held in a new building of the university so long
in perspective, adapted for occasions like that, or that they
would see the program of the works so long in contempla-
tion.

We (Times) are requested to contradict, en au-
thority, the report that Lord Derby intends to retire ho-
mediately from office.
Parliament will meet on the 19th of November
for three weeks, to grant supplies for the Abyssinian ex-
pedition.

The inhabitants of Liamore held a public meeting
on Sunday to express their indignation at the attempt
made a short time since to burn the protestant cathedral
in the town. The meeting was attended by protestants
and Roman catholic/ alike. Archdeacon Power, on the
one hand, and the Rae. Mr. Byrne, I'.P., on the other,
stated their belief that the outrage had no connection with
sectarian animosity. It was decided to offer a reward far
tFe detection and punichme it of the guilty parties, and
persona of both religious denominations contributed to the
fund, the names of the protestant archdeacon and the ca-
tholic pariah priest standing at the head of the list.

- -
THE Queer; IN THE BIOHLANDR—On Monday
but Her Majesty and party drove from Balmoral-castle,
rid Invereauld-house and Allanmore, to the Falls of
Qnoich. Here the royal visitors partook of tea, and after
a short ramble round the falls returned to the Highland
palace in the evening. On Tuesday evening Her Majesty,
who was accompanied by the Princess Christian, Baron
and Baroness an de Weyer, the Belgian Ambassador
and his lady, drove through Braemar and rid Inverey to
the "Black Colonel's Cave" in the distant wilds of Glen-
eye. The day was mild, showery, and somewhat stormy,
and after • brief stay the royal party drove home through
the village to the palace. 13oth in going and returning,
horses were changed at the Invercanld Arms Hotel.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE OCT. 9.—Notice
is hereby given that the state apartments of Windsor
Castle will be closed on and after Monday next, the 14th
instant, until further orders.—Gaxffe.
VISITORS AT BLENHEIM PALACE.—The Duke and
Duchess of Marlborough have during the week exercised
hospitality to a large number of visitors, there being •
daily succession of grand entertainments. Amongst the
guests staying in the palace were : The Earl of Beau-
champ, Vermont Hardinge and the Hon. Emily Hardinge.
the Bishop of Oxford, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of
the Exchequer and Mn. Disraeli, the High Sheriff of Ox-
fordshire and Mn. Hall, the Hon. Frederick Stanley,
M.P., and Lady Constance Stanley ; Lady Emily Villiers,
Colonel Jocelyn, and the Hon. Mrs. Jocelyn ; the War-
den of Merton College, and Lady Anstruther ; Mr. and
Mrs. Mason (of Eynaham Hall) ; Mr. Montagne Stewart,
the Rev. Lionel Dawson Darner, Ltdy Cornelia Churchill,
Lord Randolph Churchill, the Hon. Hamilton Cuffe, Mr.
Montague Corry, and Mr. Scharf, F.S.A. On Thursday
evening the state drawing-rooms were thrown open, the
banquet served in the saloon, and there were present, in
addition to the above : —The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford,
the Rector of Exeter College and Me. Lightfoot. Canon
and Mrs. Hansel, the Public Orator and Mrs. Mitchell,
Profaner Wall, Mr. John M. Davenport, as

144 Th la I N TELLIUEN CE.

THE INSURRECTION IN THE PAPAL
STATES. ,

The intelligence from the Papal States ewers
to be favourable to the insurrection. The insue-i
gent bands continue to increase in numbers, and
to show themselves at many points. They harass
the Papal troops by repeated attacks, and appear
to give way only to return with greater energy.
The details given by the Roman Journal itself
are very significant. Farness, where a strong
insurgent force is stated to be concentrated,
is some 24 miles west from Viterbo ; Bomarzo,
where other bands are placed, is in an opposite
direction, about five miles east of Viterbo.
Monte-Carpignano, where Menotti Garibaldi com-
mands 000 insurgents, is situate in Sabina, much
nearer Rome, in the midst of the mountainous
country bordering the Teverone. The presence of
these bands at spots so distant apart, compels the
Papal troops to disperse themselves, and lessens
the importance of the check which any particular
insurgent band may meet with.
A telegram received from Rome to-day, men-
tions a sudden movement of the garrison out of
the city and its return, probably caused by the
approach of the insurgents. Letters from Rome
say that the Pope will embark at Civita Vecchia
for Spain, if either the insurgents or the Italian
troops reach the capital.
Tho following order of the day had been dis-
tributed to the troops at Rome :—" At the first
15 shots fired from St. Angelo, the troops are to
assemble at once atthe Pincio, the Capitol, Gianicolo
San-Pietro in Montorio, Piazza del Popolo, and
Piazza Colonna." Officers of the foreign legion
I are ordered to abstain from showing themselves in
theatres, Wife, and other public places, lest they
should come into collision with the people.

The circular which Cardinal Antonelli is said to
have addressed to the catholic powers accuses the
Italian government in bitter terms of bad faith, and
calls upon them to intervene on behalf of the
Pontiff.

Upwards of 200 of the Papal troops have been
made prisoners. The city of Albano is said to be
ready for an outbreak.
The alarm which exists amongst the partisans of
the Papal power is shown ;n the communications
from Rome published by the ultramontane journals
at Paris. The Monde, for example, gives a
letter describing the situation as one which
is full of danger to the temporal power on ac-
count of the rapid strides which the insurrectionary
forces are making. A letter written by an officer
of the Papal Zouaves to his brother immediately
after the fight at Bagnorea, pays a high tribute to
the bravery of the insurgents. The latter, says
the officer, astonished the troops by their contempt
of death, and the incredible energy of their charge.
When compelled by the artillery to retreat, the
prisoners that were made were almost all wounded,
and the number of their dead equalled the number
of the prisoners.
The Pope has, it is said, addressed an autograph
letter to the Emperor Napoleon, and entrusted it to
the Archbishop of Thesaalonica, who has just left
for Paris with a mission from the Pope to the
French government.

(RIOTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
ROME, Ocr. 11, Eviariso.

Nearly the whole of the garrison of Rome left
the town yesterday, but have now returned. The
cause of this movement is not known.

Reports are current of encounters in various
localities, but up to the present these have re-
ceived no reliable confirmation.
FLORENCE, ncr. 11, EVENING.

The Official Gazette correcte the news published
in the Riforma, but confirms the statement that
Garibaldi attempted to leave Caprera on the 2nd
inst., but was prevented so doing by the Italian
steamship Sesia.
The telegraph lines between Viterbo and Villetri
were cut by the insurgents, but are now restored.

AMERICA.
(BY ATLANTIC TZLEOIUPH.)
NEW YORK, Ocr. 11, 6 r.w.

Closing prices : Gold, 144 ; sterling exchange
on London, 1091; 5-20 United States Bonds,
112} ; Illinois, 1221; Erie, 70}. Cotton: Middling
Upland, 19. Gold firm. Cotton dull.

PHILADELPHIA, Ocr. 11.
Standard white petroleum, 36.

" The departure of the Emperor from Biarritz
has," says the Patrie," been definitively bud for the 18th
instant. His Majesty has sent Admiral Juries de la
Graviere to Tarbes, to represent him at the obsequies of
the late M. Fould."

The Presse has the following :—" It is not im-
possible, as we are assured, that the Emperor, after his
return to Paris, may go and pass a few hours at Baden,
where, in that case, he would have a conversation with the
King of Prussia. This interview, it is supposed, will have
a decisive influence upon the attitude to be taken by
France respecting German affairs."

The Queen of Holland, accompanied by the
Princess Mathilde, visited the gunny of the Louvre on
Wednesday afternoon, and examined the collection of
paintings very minutely.

_
Prince and Princess George Stirbey have arrived
in Paris from London.

Prince Murat has arrived at Biarritz.

The death of the Baroness Teacher do la Pagerie
is announced. This lady (says Gaiignani) occupied a place
in the first rank of distinguished women of Parisian society,
and her death will cause deep regret.

With regard to the !eve; lately raging in the
Mauritius, and which, according to the l►test accounts,
had subsided, a letter of the principal medical officer at
Port Louis describes it as chiefly malarious and of local
origin, and in no degree contagious. He adds that,
although all ranks, classes, and colours are liable to these
fevers, the mortality is chiefly confined to coloured people
of African origin living on the sea coast, and to the unen-
gaged Indians. The engaged Indians on estates, well
lodged, well fed, and well cared for, have scarcely suffered
at all.

The Era mentions to the credit of one American
Manager at least, that Mr. T. W. Robertson received a
few days ago, from Baltimore, the payment of fees to •
considerable amount for the performance of his comedy
Caffein that city. Such a spontaneous acknowledgment
of an author's claims, which could not be enforced in the
present state of international copyright, deserves to be
recorded.

Tan Nrorrou Fononerrs.—The following letter
has been addressed to the Atheomorn by Sir D. Brewster :
" Allerly, Melrose, Oct. 3, 18117.—You would oblige me by
giving publicity to the following important opinion of Sir
Frederic Madden, who was for more than 40 years assis-
tant.keeper or keeper of the department of manuscripts in
the British Museum. In a letter dated the 72nd of Sop-
tember he says, ' I beg to inform you that I am well
acquainted with the handwriting of Sir Isaac Newton, and,
after having carefully compared the letter in question,
beginning Si on vouloii examiner, and ending le cords de
ransom, and signed Is. Newton, with many undoubted
autograph letters and signatures of Sir Isaac Newton in the
British Museum, I can unhesitatingly pronounce it to be a
claws and paira,ble forgery, both as regards the writing
and the viper.
Tax baIitTOOLZ POE LIFE.—The Norway rat
has completely extirpated the native rat in New Zealand.
The English house Ay is also extirpating the native blue-
bottle, and settlers carry the English house fly in small
boxes, to their settlements, to destroy the native By. The
English weeds crush out of existence the hardiest in-
digenous plants in that colony. The white clover from
England is extirpating the New Zealand flax plant, and
English annuals destroy New Zealand perennials. The
pigs which Captain Cook landed in New Zealand have so
multiplied that landlords offer rewards for killing them.—
fasmessian paper.