The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-20 00:00:00

(MY oca own CORMPONDIENT.) 1 The following narrative of a plot which has
PARIS, SUNDAY Evian:ie. , created a profound sensation in the River Plate is
The Situation, the Special advocate of war with drawn up from official sources and personal know-
Prussia, insists, contrary to the impression •I re- ledge.
HEREFORD, Monist
corded yesterday, and which I still maintain, that Oe the 30th of June a German named Wilhelm liana- I The arrangements for the festival, which is to
" the relations between France and Italy were toffee called upon M. Honore, the manager of the foreign commence to-morrow, are now quite complete, and
never so friendly and intimate as at this moment ;" dub in blonte Video, and informed him that he had been , this
an as
tramniii and
as-
but then the Situation was one of tho most conti- asked by a countryman pained Paul Newmayer to assist , Burning pleasant old cathedral city is
pect of excitement and anticipation
dent prophets of a
.liberalmanifesto for August 15, ' himin driving • mine in connection with an engineering such as it rarely wears on any other occasion than
and it yet professes to believe that the great scar- experiment, and offered 200 dollars (about 401.) for one I that of the triennial meeting here of the choirs of
prise has only been put off for a day or two. All night's work, adding, that he would like to earn the its own cathedral, of Worcester, and of Gloucester
this while M. Jules Richard, one of the principal money, but was afraid from the wintery and caution of ' —an event occurring in annual alternation at these
editors of the Situations, and a very few other jour- Newmayer in pledging him to secrecy, and yet not fully ; cities. Although Hereford is by no means a small
=lista, who are aecepted in Denmark as repro- : communicating the object of the work, that there was place and ' has been much increased by recent
sentatives not only of the Paris press, but of the something wrong about the matter. The work was to be suburban additions, its capacity seems likely to be
French nation, are proposing and responding to executed in a house in course of demolition for' tested in an unusual degree on this occasion beds
war toasts in Copenhagen. They tell the Danes rebuilding, situated at the back of the Govern- lat hotels having long since been forestalled by in-
that France will never euffer Denmark to be made ' macts,oam, commonly .called the Fort. By IL tending visitors for the festival week, and private
another Poland, forgetting that the poor Poles Honoree advice, this communication was repeated to lodgings being in such request as to have raised the
trusted to like promises made on much higher the political chief, Colonel Bifstamente, who immediately . tariff in moat instances more than cent. per cent.
authority, and were only hired on by them to took measures to ascertain what was going on. In conse- I beyond the ordinary scale. Accommodation, how-
their destruction. M. de Biamarck,' though not in quence of the information he received, the chief ordered a' ever, will no doubt be found by all in the essen-
Berlin, takes the opportunity, through his semi- sufficient force to be placed in the neighbourhood of the ' tialiof bed and board, although those visitors who
official journal!, to show what account he makes of I fort, and having Newmayer pointed out to him in the 'have delayed securing their festival tickets until
this hectoring. The Zektke Correspondence, a more - theatre, he remained there till the latter left, which he tlid , their arrival may probably find some difficulty in
confidential organ of the cabinet than the North
German Gazette, says that Prussia is now justified let the time he was to meet Hanstoffer. Newmayer went f • admission to same of the performances,
in calling upon France to give positive D, direct to the place of appointment, followed by Colonel 'since, es e statedie bur previous notice, the num-
y
proofs e` ' Bustamente, diaguisectwith an old poncho and a straw hat. 'bared seats for Thursday and Friday mornings
her pacific intentions, told that the on] acceptable
On the chief gi • g a signal preconcerted with the I were d ' of some days since. The general re-
guarantee would be a substantial and immediate • police, 1 hearsal pointed for this morning took place in the
i Newmayer made an attempt at flight, but was immediately
disarmament.at ten o'clock, when the band and chorus
urrounded fcaptured and taken to the cabildo. The police' Ca
As a set-off to this defiant article, the Frenchwere aseembled, with the principal solo singers,
thena entered the house' indicated by Hanstoffer, where in
war journalists, ire learn by telegraph, were re- 1a e
including Madame Lind-Goldechmidt, Mdlle.
mall cellar, newly constructed, they found muse. barrels
ceived by the K ing of Denmark yesterday.Tietjens, Misses Edith Wynne and Julia Elton,
..1 three Iceand Rumford's electric multi-
The fellow-lationrers of these gentlemen in :of gnuP° -es.' sae • a ' Madame Patey-Whytock, Mr. Montem Smith, Mr.
Paris are expending a great deal of eh>: plier, in working order, and capable, according to I
Santley, and Mr. Weiss. The pieces rehearsed
Oldham, of the telegraph.office, of igniting gunpowder a- tirae.
quenee to prove to Austria that it i 3 , were se
from the mss of the morn-
her duty and interest to form a close alliance distance of six miles. These articles were taken to th ,
with France. • Their importunate tone argues a , heed police-office, and guards were placed in the house for ing performances, commencing with portions of
misgiving that Austria is likely to be backward in the night. Newmayer refused to give any information, IHandel's Israel in Egypt, after which Spohr's set-
ting of tilton's version of the 84th Psalm was gone
oomingforward.'"Sinee,"theysay to her, "you can- , alleging that he had bought the house, and had the right through; followed by Dr. Wesley's anthem,
not choose but increase your financial embarrass- ' to use it for any experiments he liked.
' " Ascribe unto the Lord," and portions of Men-
ment by holding yourself in readiness for a war ! Next morning the government ordered an inspection of • delasoc,
's Elijah were rehearsed ; the greater part
which may break out at any time, how much wiser. the house and cellar by the Director-General a
- Public of the ruing, however, being devoted to Mr. Otto
would it be to seize the glorious opportunity now Works, assisted by an eminent builder. These gentlemen Geldschanidt's new sacred pastoral Ruth.
offered you to retrieve your broken fortunes. One ! reSeeted that there existed sufficient Proof of an intent-ha I The 'orchestra consists of 22 violins, 7 violas,
generous effort, and, thanks to the aid of a power- to drive a mine in one direction, and that a hole had been' 8 violoncellos, 8 double basses, with a fall wind
ful, magnanimous, disinterested, and ever trust- , broken through the wall of the cellar in another, probably band, brass and wood, and the usual instruments
worthy ally, who now proffers the right of fellow- for the same purpose. The " mine" had by this time be-'. of percussion, de. The chorus numbers about 180,
ship, you may recover your influence in Germany' come the topic of every conversation, and some English i ma. the general balance of sound seems to be well
and your rank in Europe. Not now to dare were naval officers, who had heard an exaggerated version of maintsened—some imirovement having been
the height of imprudence as well as the lowest depth the story, had their curiosity excited, and Mr. Haven, , made Mince the last Hereford Festival (1864)
of pusillanimity. Wait not till Prussia, mistress of who for the last two years had been director of the in the disposition of voices and instru-
Wurtemberg and Bavaria, comes insolently to offer Scientific Inspection of Public Works, offered to ascertain manta,' the orchestral and choral bodies each
you battle under the walls of Vienna. Now is the .if there were any foundation for the alarming being pow more concentrated than formerly,
accepted time. Delude not yourself with the ' rumours in circulation. From a report subsequently the geweral remit being a body of tone quite
chimerical hope that you will be able to preserve a drawn up by this gentleman, it appears that he examined aderlde to the space of the cathedraL This
neutral position. Assume the offensive ; proclaim the teller, and being made acquainted with the circum- , beau • building oilers a more favourable locality
at once your alliance With -France ; advance and stances already narrated, awns to the conclusion that there for musical performances than some larger edifices
conquer while you 'can unless you would commit , meth be another operator, and that each person must still 'of the kind in which the vibration is sometimes so
suicide." " .' be concealed In the drains. Returning through the fort,lexcemive as somewhat to mar the effect of the per-
The Courtier Preisseeis says it has reason to he- -- ' Mr. Havers communicated his opinion to the Minister of formance of a large number of voices and instru-
lieve that England, Austria, and Italy have agrtied ' Wit., who'askedhim to repeat his reasons for his belief to l, meats. The symmetrical and moderate proportions
to remain neutral in. °Het; to localise the war, the provisional governor, General Flores. Thd result ,of Hereford Cathedral and its freedom from those
should one break out between France and Freesia, . was, that General Flores requested Mr. Haven' projecting interpolated monuments in antagonistic
and that Prussia entirely approves the arrange to
merit. 1 know not what truth there may be in require from Colonel BustamentE the neces. &tyke,* by which such buildings are too frequently
assistance, and to make a strict investiga- I disfigured, render it as favourable for acoustic
story, but I think it leas improbable than an
alliance between Aestrie and France for hostile ' ties. Guards were placed at the mouth of the main sewer, Pia as it is satisfactory to the taste that can
purposes. the streets were cleared, and all parts of the cellar were
• -
carefully examined. The objects found proved that the archit'uture•
appreeiate the noble purity of undisfigured Gothic
Theeezt of the judgment against the Impartial There is enough vibration to
eperaters were not, ordinary labourers, and the hole in the , give resonance to the mass of sound em-
Dauplinwis for " e.,xciting citizens to hatred end.
wall was found to lead into the apparent drains of the I Pic'Yed, without that excess of reverberation
contempt of the government," and for " insulting
sewer,
house. Coiteeiving that the conspirators were either in , which in
the person of the Emperor," is now published. this drain
or the
main larger Gothic buildings too fro-
ths Haven ordered a 1 Tien* produces a blurred and confused effect.
The gravamen of the offence for which the manager, organ of 17 stens, erected specially for the
counter mine to be nk at the calculated junction of the 'An
and two editors of the paper have been sentenced ecc in
two, and, going down himself, ascertained no one was
to fines amounting to 2,500 f. consisted of havingwest
on the south side of the orchestra, at the
in that section of the main sewer, so far as it could be
so quoted an exclametion lately made by M. Juleswest end of the cathedral, close to the chorus,
Favre in the Chambiie—" Wait for your Twain"— seen with a dark lanthorn. He then entered the house
whose support is the principal object of the use of
as to infer that the Emperor's government was drain, which hosald only be done by creeping, on account
thliteinstrument—the cathedral organ, placed far
bringing France to a state as bad as that of the of its small dimensions, and here he found a man who re sway, at the side of the choir of the building, being
worst days of the Roman empire ; and further for treated through the hole in the wall into the cellar, fol- I
of course unavailable for this purpose. The fee-
attributing the Mexican disaster—" that lamentable lowed by Mr. Haven. The cellar being guarded the man
c
history which begins with the Jecker bonds and ends was at once captured, having been already 16 hours in the , tival
when se ommences to-morrow (Tuesday) morning,
rvice will ,
oe performed in the cathedral at
in the ditch at Queretaro "—to the Emperor's drains. Further investigations followed, after welch the half-past eight, with full choral service by the
incapacity and want of foresight. 1 opening% were closed up, guards set, and the search sus- • members of the three choirs of Hereford, Glou-
Official reConimmidistions to the electors are landed. Icester, and Worcester—the sermon to be preached
losing their prestige even in Corsica. At Ajaccio a The prisoner, who was in his skirt sleeves and evidently •b __
1 y the Dean of Hereford. At twelve o'clock the
prince of the Bonaparte family has been elected a much exhausted, gave the name of Louis Newmayer, but , festival itself will open with a performance of
councillor general by a poor majority ; his name refused to snake • any statement until ho learned that iSpohr's overture to his oratorio the Last Judgment
and all the power of the prefect obtained for him Paul Newspaper (no relation) was in custody, when ! (Die Letzten Dirge), the
,same composer's set-
but 1,367 votes against 1,01)3 given to the opposi- he commenced a aonfessioa. Paul Newmayer also lost all i tin of the 84th Psalm, Dr. Wesley's
tion candidate, M. Pomo di Iloilo. , his effrontery on learning that his co-labourer was in eae- I anthem " Ascribe unto the Lord," and Handel's
When the woman Frigard was taken back to tody, and denounced as his principal employer Captain I Israel in Egypt. On Wednesday morning Mendel-
prison after her trial, Madame Ladoux, the gover- Don Eduardo Bertram, an officer who accompanied General saohn's Elijah will be given ;on Thursday morn-
nor's wife, came to tell her she must, in accordance Flores during the revolution, indicating as accomplices ing Mr. Otto Goldschmidt's new composition,
with the regulations, change her dress for a con- several friends of Bertran, and declaring, by way of ex- Ruth (conducted by the composer), and Mozart's
vict's uniform. In delivering this mission Machias. tenuation; that they only intended to destroy General Requiem ; and on Friday morning the Messiah.
Ledoux manifested considerable emotion. The Flow himself. An immediate search was made for Bet- Miocene/mow concerts, with orchestra, will be
prisoner, who perceived it, said with the greatest , sem, but belted already fled. His beam and the office at given in the Shire-hall on the evenings of Tuesday,
coolness and a smiling face, " Pray do not distress which be managed the commiwariat business of the Bra-1 Wednesday, and Thursday, the programme of the
) ourself, madame, I ar quite calm ' • feel my :man Hospital were searched, but nothing was found second concert including Handel a Acts and Galatea
pulse, it does pot beat quicker than it did wkiekZireang light on the conspiracy. A timber mer- —the musical performances terminating on Friday
this morning." In her dormitory was found a chant to Video stated that he met him early on the evening with a concert, exclusively of chamber
bundle of notes which she made during the trial. morninteff the Ist in the suburbs, and that he asked the , music, in the Coll hall ; the festival proceed-
These display extraordinary ingenuity and readi- deponent bet to divulge having seen him. It was soonlings being wound up, as usual, by a ball on the
nese in controverting an argument. While Dr. ascertained, by means of the submarine telegraph, that ' same night.
Bergeron was giving his opinion to the jury that Bertram had gone to Buenos Ayres, and thence, under an The weather, which appeared somewhat doubtful
the murder must have been cumulated by the assumed name, to Roeario, en route for Santa Fe. It also on Saturday, has now apparently settled into
pressure of hands upon the throat, simultaneously
transpired that although the house had been bought in bright sunshine, offering additional inducement to
with that of a knee upon the stomach, adding that —e those festival visitors who have leisure to visit the
is wmayer's name, Bert= was surety for
he had tried an experiment on a dog, and killed itcharming scenery of this beautiful neighbourhood
the purchase money. Independent, therefore, of the con-
in that way, Madame Frigard wrote on her notes : ; Malvern hills, the tour of the Wye, with
f i ' of the p • the —the rtsoners, strongest suspicion rests on
" Madame Mertens had on very well-made stays, other and nearer attractions surrounding the cities
Bertram General Snares, Cosentandantes Mancini and•
with particularly . strong whalebone. Ask theofwhich
of the "three choirs"—valuable details
d Senores Torres and Marques were arrested in
doctor whether much greater strength than I pos- Barirara' la
of .
and placed „ „ , are contained in Murray's recently issued handbook
the course of the evening the en, aim
seas would not be necessary to injure a w0man.....-- —Para— to those cities, as also in the volume, from the
tionfinement.
mortally by pressing upon such stays ; and ask same firm, entitled " The Three Choirs," treating
dMr HOn the 2n . avers resumed his investigation. The
him also whether he put a pair of stays on .the '
main sewer
unfortunate dog before trying his experiment." pavemenopened, I This evening a rehearsal is to be held in the
' steps discovered in it, ascertained to be those of Lows Shire-hall of the principal pieces to be performed
Newmayer, and at 150 feet from the cellar an opening lat the miscellaneous concerts • and this will close
found towards the windows of the saloon in which the the proceedings preparatory i,,,, the commencement
councils of state are bald. From this hole a mine had of the festival to-morrow.
been driven to within six feet of the wall of the saloon,
and in it were found the tools used by the operator. It
appears from the report made by Mr. Haven to the govern-
ment that in six or seven hours, with the assistance of
the other person expected to join in the work, the mine
could have been extended under the door, and charged for
the explosion. It was also proved that the cellar was con-
stituted expressly for the purpose of concealing these ope-
rations, and that the works carried on In the house were
merely a blind to cover the proceedings of the conspi-
rators. From inquiries made at the foreign consulates it
appears that the prisoner Paul Newmayer was formerly a
sub-lieutenant in the Wuitemburg army, was cashiered, and
handed over to the civil tribunals, convicted of forgery,
and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. He offered
his services to both sides during the revolution in various
projects for mining, and for making Orisini bombs and
detonating compounds for destroying human life. Louis
Neumayer is said to have been mate of a slaver. Nothing
having transpired to show that the other persons arrested
had any hand in the iniquitous project, they have been
set at liberty. The extradition of Berman was demanded
of the Argentine government, and immediately conceded,
bat nothing further had been heard of him, and he is sup-
posed to have fled into Chili.
General Flores has issued a manifesto, in which, whilst
renewing his engagement to resign the dictatorship with
which he Is temporarily invested into the hands of the
legislature immediately after the elections to take place
in November, he declares that he will continue to pursue
the course he has hitherto followed, and will never abuse
the power entrusted to him.

CANINE Sao/AT:v.—A very interesting instance
of canine sagacity, and which seems authentic, is reported
at Dayleeford. A boy, four years old, named fipeneely,
wandered from home at Dloctor's Gully on Monday,
and his parents became seriously apprehensive of his safety,
as he oould not be found. However, late at night the little
fellow was brought back, having been discovered at the old
racecourse under the following circumstances:—When the
child left his parents' residence be was accompanied
by his playmate, • little white dog, which fortunately,
though a very unusual circumstance, had been left off
the chain that morning. Where they wandered the child
is of course too young to tell ; but it now appears that,
wet from the rain, and doubtless exhausted by his wander-
ings, he had eat down near the bank of the creek. As it
began to get dark, some Chinamen, who have gardens
close by, beard the occasional barking of a dog. They paid
little attention to the noise at first, but as the
darknem increased the barking of the dog got
more frequent' till it became almost • continuous
howL This led one of the Chinamen to go to
the place. On hie approaching the dog was quiet, but
no sooner did be see the boy and take hold of him, 'than
the dog flew at him and tore his trousers, biting his leg.
John, however, was not to be deterred, and being him-
self unable to understand the boy, thoughtfully conveyed
him some distance to the home where he was found, the
dog at once desisting from annoying the Chinaman, and
showing every symptom of joy, on seeing the boy was not
frightened. The Chinaman said that the boy, though
wet, and, of course, hungry, was not crying, and lid not
seem in the least afraid. Bat for the king of the dog
the boy would probably have bees dead before morning.—
Mdbourm Herald. -

HsTwaitswr Twasraz.—Mr. Buckstone has re-
vived Mr. Tom Taylor's Unequal Match for Miss Amy
, Sedgwick—a play in which she first made a favourable ho.
pression upon Haymarket audiences. By the engagement
' of Mrs. Buckingham White he is able to present it with
nearly the original cast, comprising the "whole strength
of the company."
Mr. T. W. Robertson's comedy of Caste was
produced on the sth instant, at the Broadway Theatre,
New York. The piece was thoroughly succiessful, and is
described by the Tribune as an excellent work of art. Mr.
J. Lester Wallack claims, however, to have purchased the
exclusive right to represent the play in America, and has
accordingly applied for an injunction against the lessees
of the Broadway Theatre.
DR. MORIARTY ON ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES.
Dr. Moriarty, Roman catholic Bishop of Kerry, was one
of the witnemes before the select committee on the Eo-
cleidastical Titles Aet. He concluded by remarking :
—" I would wish to express with the leave of the colli-
mates a conjecture which seems to me to offer sonmexplee I
nation of the strange anomaily presented by tbs passing
• this statute, and the agitation which accompanied it.
It seems to me that' title' is an equivocal word. It may
means designation having from the law or from the crown
• definite heraldic value, giving rank and precedence ; or
• title may merely designate an office or jurisdiction,
and the place within which such office or juris-
diction is exercised. I think it very
,probable
that the English people understood ' titles in the
first sense ; and in that sense we certainly do not assume
them. The Queen is the only fountain of honour within
her realm, and the Pope can no more give me • title con-
ferring rank or precedence in the temporal order than he
can give me an estate in this kingibrn, or a seat inparlia-
ment ; and when I say that I am Bishop of Kerry, I mean
that I bold the office of a bishop, and exercise its functions
within a territory or in a see, which is its head-quarters.
My proper title u ' Bishop of Art:Vert it is by usage that
I have been called ' Bishop of Kerry ' I ow:eider that I
no more assume a title when I all myself Biahop of
Kerry,' than I do when I call myself parish priest of Kil
larney, which I also am ; and I consider that the county
treasurer er the county surveyor of Kerry has a title in the
very same minas in which I have. If things were under-
stood in that way, I should think that it never could be
imagined that there was any interference with the prero-
gative of the crown in assuming titles."
ONTOTAL PALACE. —ONE 31EILLING DAT.
110NDAT. AUGUST l9.—Admissiesie OR papoist, 5,406;
61164 by masa betels, 1,294 ; lota vi 545444. 6,299.

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WORTH KNOWING.--Slate rock is ground to a
finepowder, and mixed with mastic or any bituminous
substance to the consistency of • thick paint, in which
condition it is applied to canvas, cloth, paper, felt, or any
similar substanoe, for roofing and other purposes. This is
doubtless the " elastic slate" of which we have heard from
America. It soon hardens, and by the action of the ele-
ments,or by means of chemical action within itself, be-
comes, it is said, almost as impervious to the action of fire .
or water as slate itself, though considerably less brittle.
It has been applied as cement for cisterns, tanks, cellar-
Boon, leaky hydrants, pipes, and pumps. Inkstands have
been made of it while in a plastic state, which have be-
come as hard as stone. It has also been applied as a cheap
paint to outbuildinp and fences.—Bstikkr.
SOUTH KENSINGTON Mussum.—Visitors during
the week ending August 17, 1867 :—On Monday, Tuesday,
and Saturday Mee), from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m., 9,471 ; on
Wednesday, Thurviday;and Friday iadmiasion 6d.), from
10 a.m. till 6 p.m., 1,134 ; national portrait extpAgn by
payment, 2,319; total, 12,924 ; average of DOTI dine
week in former rears, 11,858 ; total from the o of
the museum, 6,904,133.

FREEDMEN'S AID UNION.—At a recent meeting
of the committee tie following revolution was most cor-
dially adopted:—" That the committee of the National
Freedmen's Aid Union of Great Britain and Ireland,
baying learnt with lively satisfaction that the Rev.
Newman Hall, LL.B.—ever the earnest, out-spoken, and
consistent friend of the anti-slavery cause, and now of the
freedmen—is about to visit the United States, desire for
him much of the Divine guidance and blessing; and
desire, through him, to send their hearty Christian greet-
ings to the freedmen, and all who ere working for their
true elevation, with whom he may come in contact."
On Saturday the village of Clifton, Notts, wag
the scene of much rejoicing, in consequence of the remit
discovery of coal and ironies** ea Sir B. Olittaa'a estate.