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PULL PARTICULAR! in Ms cATAmmUlill. sa • that we were designedly kept in ignorance letter from Chriaotinix, dated the 14th, records
-•— . ProPer_templentant; sad the double imperfe . n fails to
._ THE INSURRECTION IN CRETE. sad accident on Mont Blanc, Captain Arkwright,
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.1.416 ing.ealestrophe at Kthuggra 1 h Labe end the ulster'
• • tk. We were How t e poverty of Ham urers ••The Morsilew da Suit." gives the following news &mend Mabel (Gee of Chamonnix's best lariat"), sod
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17iL subs p;elerc'Z'Worrnkinds. the sernethnal es!Am Crete, which, while not confirming the user-
- ---- • --' . telegramaled to believe that the 'of tenant fanners relate to the issue, the Post is utterlist a lives in the attempt to ascend the mountain.
Joseph and Francois Tournier (porters) having lost their
1 lion that the insurgents have accepted an amnesty, It a that on Friday, the 13th, at 8.30, Captain
John Brown" "ielye, gistia44; nigni4Votiol oilskin on " varioupdefeitir which ulaiiiid in the campaign I Inn to conceive, unless Indeed it be part of the dOll of
each packet clashes ponsiderebly with the other news that the
" were so many victories. We were certainly not I a reformed parliament to redistribute lea d'a prop, and 1y Arkwright and his sister, Simend Miehol *ids). and two
MINSTRELI4,4Pfi' JAKEBIS HALL, " prepared to learn, only a short time after the Ito provide for the equal remuiteritoc of labour. There is , have resources which they mean to use for carrying porters left Chamounia for the Grande Mulcts, at which
CH:110711re OYES mr the ‘6•00$1, every Mpg at clot • undoubtedly a strong and invincible objection to any change 1 on the war for months to come. Place they arrived in the evening at 6 o'clock. At that time
Wodneadays.anei. Saturdays, three and *rbt. on newly -and " firing of the first shot, that all was over " I •
lof a eneculative, experimental, or revolutionary character, The events in Crete seem to be entering on a pacific night had already fallen, and fires were lighted at theGranda
beauliftffir tweevasec : aolaYant Mail, Inerv6666 : I*" mew ' Like a sensible man, M. DE Vsnrretn.is does
hem twardy performers of known excellence and ability, In. and Mr. Bright has intensified the feeling which be pro- phase. In the face of the difficulties which recently arose Mulets, also at the Piece* Pointe°, to signal their friends
cludiag all the original members; everything sow for the new not dwell on unprofitable reflections, but ob- fames. to deprosabe ; but a settlement on constitutional 1 the Emperor's government remained faithful to that policy at Chantounix of their safe arrival, whereupon the cannon
rilerLiceta atFaaAnstiniauils''s offite.;lBB"ll4TiccaditN.—arelleseraa. iiiiioogalire, gallery. is is; serves that the thing to be determined now conditions is generally wished for, and the more so, as it of conservatism and pros..nas which it has constantly fol- at the Hotel Boyd were fired in response. ka Ark'
and Mist, p OPMetera—Hanager. Mr. Frederic Burgess. is what is next to be done. Everything I would now serve to vindicate the independence of lowed in the Hank The Cretans represented their grievanom wright and younger daughter were staying at the Hotel
11110 OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee in South Germany, he observes, is
in
a liPsrilaniellThe Heraldso the Sultan. The French ambassador at Constantinople Royal at the time. The cook and one of the coachmen
says Mr.
N_R.:.! andallanager,
SF. VININGit-77.0 NM SEASON.: state of suspense, "It is possible that - from the Hotel Royal, taking French leave, hastened after
Open halfless furiously at his personal opponents. He has in able oonsideration, and used all hie influence in the foregoing petty to accompany them to the Grands
ING, and dining rweek. a Oemisay in Three A. by John " the idea of national unity will in the end be
charity, and reviles not individuals but clams= The support of the resolution ultimately taken—to send Mulcts, and the following morning the two parties left the
annexe. nee, method THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Characters " realized ;we ought, therefore, to enter at once his a perfect model of •• de ogue's Men. Are • commissioner to Crete, of 'efficient pernonal coati. Mulcts at 5.30, Captain Arkwright, t3imond Michel, and
'''lear lil);r•lrinintiralir. J.
a Miss "Tothlmelnlottetere. Mil
"upon the path of conciliation." M. tE VARNBULER
o'clock, rug HUGUIN CAPTAIN, by Watts eTtrilUipltai, ty does not a t that anything else we to reckon it as one more proof of the political opacity aeration, and tarnished with sufficient powers to mediate the two porters roped together, Silvea Contest (who keeps
is poaaible, of the working classes that they display so keen a delight with effect, while at the same time our consul at Can= the hut at the Grande Mule* also the one at
Prindpal chmacters:—lfts. Stirlen, Mho Weems, Wm A=
Thonspem. Kr. Georg* Homy aid Mr. J. O. Shore not even the prolongation of the status quo. He n hearing themselves flattered by Mr. John Bright f The used language calculated to dispel popular illusions. But the Pierre Pointue, and who is considered one of
Baca et IBobsrakina, ts which Maims tlssetteß alodeclak
Comet% sad Normand, will appear. New fieseer, by my, y, Waft the Minister who, of all the statesmen
of Ger. Herald owns that it finds it hard to refrain from using the impatient and uncompromising spirits who wished to Mont Blanc', beet guides) and the coachman roped
LIOWW. many, indulged in the moat violent language some of the strong language from Mr. Bright's own vo- make the crisis an mosaion for an appeal to arms would by themselves, leaving Miss Arkwright and the cook
towards Preens before the war. Since then he cabuhtry in characterising "the utter baseness and wicked- not wait for the arrival of the Ottoman envoy, and got up at the Grande Mulct' to await their return.
Eke erortoo. has not lent himself with grace to the policy re-
qulred by the intereath of his country, and we Dees of them appeals to the worst passions of the multi- • rising an the day before be landed. Blood flowed, and The grand plateau was craned In safety, and the party
Jude.* the movement—oncertraged by manifestations in the were passing what is termed the Ancien Passage, when a
To sneer, the Tdegraplt remarks, at Mr. Bright's lan- Archipelago and in Greece itself—assumed in the begin- terrible sound was heard by all. Couttet knew whence
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TO CORIUM PONDS NTS learn that, on Saturday last, the Chamber of gongs as a mere parrot-cry, is only to admit the steady ring en alarming character. The new French Minister it came, and shouted to the others to save themselves.
advertisements Intended for "The Express," London Evening
must be at the Mica, 10, Bouverinstreet, by Two
mouth-
Deputies, at Stuttgart, rejected the report of a and constant purpose of the claimants. If he and the of Foreign Alfa"' having been requested by King George Couttet, being a little in advance of the other petty at the
paper
on the day of publication. thee- drawn up in accordance with his views, l'beral party were weak enough to encumber their cense to visit Athens on his way from the Hart did time, dragged the utoniahed °outman do.wn a mow elope
—— - while an address favourable to Prussia was carried with • host of irrelevant issues, they might pin credit all that he could to allay the irritation. Penetrated with and by so doing no doubt saved their lives ; the other
DECRY LANE. from. their. enemies for variety of aim, but they would the benevolent sentiments towards Greece which inspire party scrambled in quite the opposite direction. The
THIS Evsirnro,-)ithanTß. Mr. IL TaMM, Mears. Sinclair on the same day by a majority of 62 to 25 votes.
fail ,n their object, or see it deferred to an indefinite the French government, the Marquis de )(mistier expressed avalanche phased, hurrying with it in • frightful course
Mead, M'lntyrs and MCA Drayton ; Misses Aray Sedgerick and The statement ma le by M. DE Fasntonr, the
Rebecca Isaacs. end Madame Jean] Bauer. —Da conclude vet estenn____, future. The Inierrapt. then proceeds, after •a general his views to the Hellenic cabinet with the most friendly poor Captain Arkwright and his three guides.
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Kr. W. Harrison. Duke of BADEN'S Minister of Foreign &ea of the speech, to question Mr. Bright's facto and frankness. These counsels were accepted with gratitude. Couttet and the coachman, with DO small amount
FLINCEII6II. Affairs, in the Chamber of Deputies, was even less his inference respecting the alleged monopoly of land. The agitation has now last its gravity in the islands and of exertion, managed to extricate themselves from
Tam Irvinnire. THE TEEPLE. ALLIANCE.—After which THE favourable to Austria. M. Di FREIDORF declared Even if it agreed with lum,.it would still object to hie in the Hellenic provinces bordering upon Crete, and the the MUD of small ice they was burled in,
BUOVIEWOT CAPTAIN. Messrs J. G. Shore &0. Honer ; MONO
Nausea, Annan TIN. end link sigsieg,_And gum not only that his Government had been forced into remarks as unnecessarY. , declining to 133'Z up the simple Cretans themselves •appear to be less indisposed than here. and with the exception of Couttet rewiring a rather
LODGINGS. the war by Austria against its will and judg- question of reform with another to which it has no sense tofore to respond to the conciliatory appeal made to them severe bruise on the nose from • piece of ice, they escaped
HAYMARKET /1- en::, but that the Imperial Government had mai-
of relation. by the Porte. The Ottoman government Is moreover at unhurt, to look and to look again for their missing party,
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ms EVEMDte, ME OYERLaND ROUTE Mesas. C. Ma. The Star repeats the arguments of Mr. Bright's address, this moment endeavouring to solve pending questions but no sign of life met their view. All was quiet, and
thews, Buckstone, Chippendale, Re.: Mesdames C. Mathews, eluded with Bavaria a treaty contemplating the
Chippendale Wright. itc. -A Benet Divertissement. the tosser and mentions • rumour that the tory government are con- canoe:ming the interests of the Christians. The they returned sorrowfully to the Grande Mulcts. This
Nealsy.—Elit MITIC.—Lnd MY HIMBANITB Queer. dismemberment of Baden under certain coatis- 'mewing some smart device by which the name of house- affair of the Principalities approaches • settlement, accident happened in precisely the same spot where three
LI MUM. genies. This, however, was merely the Minister's hold suffrage might be combined with the condition of and the election of the foreign prince called upon to guides lost their lives in descending with Dr. Hamel (or
Taft STEM°, BRUTUS AND CESAR. Miss Henrsee.—And constructive inference from the treaty, in which some extravagantly long period of residence and with other govern them A 'II very shortly be confirmed by the Forte. Humboldt) in 1820. A party of 24 guides and two
THE LONG STRIKE, mama D. Beseiessit. Ramey, Widdicomb. Baden not expressly mentioned, although its qualifications, so as practically to reduce is value the re- The French government will thus witness the realisation gendarmes left on the 14th to arty out their painful
Cowpar,de. Mrs. D. Boucicsult.—Concinding with TWEEDLL. presentative while seeming to TON'S TAIL COAT. Mr. H. Widdicomb—Ceammaes at 7. geographical situation indicates its territory as that - body enlarge it. of a oombination which it was the first to suggest in search for the bodies. Miss Arkwright, with Silven
STRAND. from which the compensation promised to Bavaria _ 1855 ; which it subsequently favoured during the nego- Couttet, returned to Chamounix on the evening of the
TES Enna', THE MARRIED BACHELOR.—IN THE nation' in Paris in 1858, and which it again supported in 13th to break the mad and distressing news to her anxious
MISCMLLANEOUS TOTIM
WRONG ispx....put yuysegun , OR, A GOOD emu FOR was to be taken. The Minister further complains
The case of Mr. Snider is told to day the recent conferences at the commencement of the present mother and sister.
A PIRCI—And WAITING YOH THE UNDERGROUND. that Austria having forced Baden into the 3' in the leading
An account in the bourns/ de Geneve stolen that
article columns of the Times, and the treatment which that year.
BRITANNIA. war made peace without consulting its allies, or Couttet and his companion succeeded in discovering one
TRW IMMO, THE OLD CHERRY TREE. Mrs. Lans.—TM gentleman has encountered is described as the very
Wondrous Brothers VldareW ;no Great Vaulting Troupe: The ..—...1.4^^...e, for their interests. As we all know, climax of shabbiness. He has no means of subsistence, (ISUTEA'S MEOW V.) of the guides, named Tournier. His skull was broken
Delavanti ;H. Wotan!; The Louisville Minstrels—And MARY the Austrian Government had no choice in this having neglected everything for this one project. He is AUSTRIA. and he was quite dead. Three widows and nine orphans
QUEEN OP 800111
matter, that of Prussia declining to recognise in bad health. As death does not wait the convenience of VIENNA, Oer. 18. are grieving over this catastrophe.
HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. the Southern alliance, but insisting on negotiating departments, the arrival of the session, or the return of An imperial rescript, dated the 14th inst., has
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T functionaries from the country, it is not unlikely that been published here to-day, convoking for the 19th Tans DAY —Morning, Bh. 12m --Afternoon, fib. n, with etch of its enemies singly. It is further well WEATHER REPORT.—(THIS DAY.)
the sum representing the justice and generosity of a great November all the diets of the empire, with the ex-
Itamellimer—liwning" Ott nu tituu°°°' I°l2' Ml' known that the complaints made at Carlaruhe are
and good nation may sonic day be handed over intact to THCIMIDAT, ucrorsza 18, 8 A.M.
set off at Vienna by counter charges of treachery. °option of that of Hungary.
Mr. Snider's administrators.
LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18. That there was any conscious infidelity to engage-.
The Daily News replies to some letters on Irish Culver- B. T. W. Ito , ' .. W. 11 to
ments on the part of Baden few will believe, but lay Education which have appeared islmi D. 19.
Tax Ministers of the Sovereigns of South in its columns letter to Count Majlath, the Aulic Chancellor of l_
a Government which is forced into a war against with the signature of " Oxoniensis." It is far Hungary, announcing that the convocation of the Nunn.. 20.8 e 51 5.8.E.4 i W. c— 1
Germany have been explaining in their several the dictates of its interests is pretty certain to take from denying that in one respect the Roman catholic@ Hungarian Diet has been deferred for the present, tetra e'...•• 3251 :It : 73 °Yet bt - :
Chambers the part of their respective Governments a view of its duties different from that formed by labour under a real grievance. The unequal terms on on account of the prevalence of cholera. The Ard"Nan• • .19." E. 4 6 EL 0 6.08 4
in the late war. We owe it to the overthrow of its more powerful ally. Nothing is more likely which they are admitted to the University of Dublin give letter further requests Count Majlath to return to velem_ ,tta. .:: es—.4l S.S.W. 4 i Ka. r 0:42 -4
I the cause to which they allied themselves that these them just ground of complaint. If the late government
his post without delay, in order that should a_ cnesneseanot`77:4las ;I B—.K. 11.. -8--. E. om -2
than that the Baden Government sought to dis-
had devoted itself to the abolition of sectarian privileges
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inthe event of victory. Success needs novindication. had foreseen. The present Government of Baden would have contributed to simplify the question of Irish immediately. The Emperor also requests Count beieeelort• --::.•ira.6skat °it At . Z. 00. 5
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takes openly the part of Prussia, which, in the university reform, which it leaves now more complicated Majlath to communicate his sinnere thanks to the Plymouth ...10.06 ST fI.E. 7 j B.E. rCM 6
and shortcomings, while failure, widely din - and difficult than ever. Weymouth .. 29.74'681 ER. 0 1 KEE cr 10 6
opinion of M. DI FREIDORP, has treated the
tributing a burden of responsibility, makes a hum Grand Duchy "with considerable indulgence." The behaviour of the nine iron clads in the Clumnel Hungarian volunteers for then. services to the yenemeeik„ mu im 8.1 4 i
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dred tongues eloquent in self-defence. The state- nlt •
ments made by the Ministers of Baden and Wilr-
temberg are exceedingly interesting. They differ
in this respect, that while at Stu:tort the policy rr moment?'
of the Government durum the war is not," he exclaims, "our allies, but our *1 di
sa squadron in the late experimental cruise in stormy
" enemy we have to thank for the com tively Irmea er may be etlsidered, the Tian" says'
very satisfactory. They can keep the sea, it is found,
"speaking satisfactory state of the country at this as well as our old line-of-battle ships, and the
He takes it as a sign of the " grace in particular, is said to he a match for the smartest frigate or Federal arm
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proofs which they have afforded of sympathy for Heja,...„ ; _I
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A comdderable Increase of temperature has taken place on

/11111 s imaLatastrophe at Kaniggratz. We were
Si is.Aasbi :___ tikliEllaLlaa to believe that the
" vatiousldefeats which ushered in the campaign
" were so many victories. We were certainly not
" prepared to learn, only a short time after the
a filing of the first shot, that all was over."
Llla TI
• a sensible man, M. DE VARNSLER does
not dwell on unprofitable reflections, but ob-
serves that the thing to be determined now
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h what is next to be done. Everything
is South Germany, he observes, is in a
State of suspense. "It is possible that
" the idea of national unity will in the end be
" realized ; we ought, therefore, to enter at once
"upon the path of conciliation." M. DE VARNBULER
does not suggest that anything else is possible,
not even the prolongation of the status quo. He
*the Minister who, of all the statesmen of Ger-
a▪ ny, indulged in the moat violent language
towards Prussia before the war. Since then he
has not lent himself with grace to the policy re-
qu;eed by the interests of his country, and we
learn that, on Saturday last, the Chamber of
Deputies, at Stuttgart, rejected the report of a
committee drawn up in accordance with his views,
while an address favourable to Prussia was carried
on the same day by a majority of 62 to 25 votes.
The statement ma le by M. DE Fasenour, the
Grand Duke of BADEN'S Minister of Foreign
Affairs, in the Chamber of Deputies, was even less
favourable to Austria. M. Di FREIDORE declared
not only that his Government had been forced into
the war by Austria against its will and judg-
Yr en.% but that the Imperial Government had cm:-
eluded with Bavaria a treaty contemplating the
dismemberment of Baden under certain contin-
gencies. This, however, was merely the Minister's
constructive inference from the treaty, in which
Baden was not expressly mentioned, although its
geographical situation indicates its territory as that
from which the compensation promised to Bavaria
was to be taken. The Minister further complains
that Austria having forced Baden into the
war made peace without consulting its allies, or
caring for their interests. As we all know,
the Austrian Government had no choice in this
matter, that of Prussia declining to recognise
the Southern alliance, but insisting on negotiating
with each of its enemies singly. It is further well
known that the complaints made at Carlsruhe are
set off at Vienna by counter charges of treachery.
That there was any conscious infidelity to engage.)
menta on the part of Baden few will believe, but
a Government which is forced into a war against
the dictates of its interests is pretty certain to take
a view of its duties different from that formed by
its more powerful ally. Nothing is more likely
than that the Baden Government sought to dis-
charge its obligations with as little sacrifice as
possible, and with an eye to the issue which it
had foreseen. The present Government of Baden
takes openly the part of Prussia, which, in the
opinion of 31. DI FREIDORE, hap treated the
Grand Duchy " with considerable indulgence."
" It is not," he exclaims, "our allies, but our
" enemy we have to thank for the comparatively
" speaking satisfactory state of the country at this
" moment." He takes it as a sign of the "grace
" of Providence " that victory was given to the
enemy, and not to the ally of Baden, at the battle
of Koniggratz. The terms of peace to which
Baden had to submit are spoken of as the contri-
bution which that State is called to make towards
the realization of German unity, and viewed in
that light they are declared to be easy. Prussia,
in the opinion of the Government of Baden, is the
only State capable of improving the condition of
Germany, and to draw the sword was the only
way to accomplish that object. " Let us candidly
" acknowledge," says M. DE FAEIDOMP, " that if
" Prussia beat us it was for our ultimate advan-
" tags. By power, patriotism, and the great
" sacrifices sho has made, Prussia has already
" united under her auspices a considerable part of
" the nation, and, as far as can be foreseen, the
" rest will follow in due course without any
" further appeal to arms." This, be it remem-
bered, is the language of the Minister of a South
German Government. It is also that of the most
enlightened people in the States south of the
Maine, and as such it is a sufficient answer to
those who are fund of declaring that the present
position of Prussia represents nothing but the
triumph of brute force, and has no right that is
not derived from the sword.

Tax Ministers of the Sovereigns of South
Germany have been explaining in their several
Chambers the part of their respective Governments
in the late war. We owe it to the overthrow of
the cause to which they allied themselves that these
explanations are earlier, fuller, and probably more
true than those which would have been forthcoming
in the event of victory. Success needs no vindicaCon.
It not only speaks for itself, but covers all errors
and shortcomings, while failure, widely dis-
tributing a burden of responsibility, makes a hun-
dred tongues eloquent in self-defence. The state-
ments made by the Ministers of Baden and Witt.-
temborg are exceedingly interesting. They differ
in this respect, that while at Stujgart the policy
of the Government during the war is explained
by those who are personally responsible for it
before the country, at Carlaruho it is stated by
the successors of the Ministers who conducted the
war. It is impossible to read the speeches of the
statesmen of either the duchy or the kingdom
without being struck with the immensity of the
revolution that has taken place in Germany. The
recent history, circumstances, and wishes of Ba-
varia, Baden, and Witrtemberg are very different,
as well as the feeling with which they regard the
past ; but as to what concerns the future, they are
all in practical agreement. None of them looks to
Austria, none of them mentions that Power ex-
cept in the language of disappointment or re-
proach ; and none of them gives the least encou-
ragement to the scheme of a South German Con-
federation to counterbalance that of the North.
Such a project has no friends. Its real-
ization would be impossible, and it is re-
membered only as a diplomatic figment. It is
well known that the Austrian Government on the
one hand, and its South German allies on the
other, were mutually disappointed in the expec-
tations they had severally formed of the assist-
ance to be rendered to one another. At Vienna,
surprise and a certain amount of indignation was
felt at the unpreparedness and inefficiency
of the Bavarian army, and at the tardiness and
hesitation of its leaders. Bavaria had the largest
military force of any of the South German Govern-
ments, and it accomplished nothing, not so much
as a diversion in favour of Austria. It was ob-
served at the time that the Bavarian ambassadors
both at Berlin and Florence lingered in those
capitals long after the representative of Austria
had left Berlin. It now appears that the Bavarian
Government was then intimating to that of
Prussia that it was following Austria under a
species of coercion—a statement of which Count
BISMARCK took note, but which did not materially
lighten the conditions imposed on Bavaria at the
conclusion of peace. M. as Velure: nee, the
Wttrtemberg Minister of Foreign Affairs, states
that hie Government did not go into the war quite
so ignorant as had been supposed. While obey-
ing a necessity of its position it knew
that the war with Prussia was attended
with most serious risks. But he com-
plains of the false show of power with which
Austria beguiled her allies ; he states that the
Wurtemberg Minister at Vienna had warned his
Government that the Austrian army was weaker
by 140,000 men than had been publicly given
out. But then—as if to show how greatly the
strength of Prussia had been underrated—he adds :
—" We had every reason to believe that,
" this deficiency notwithstanding, it (the
" Austrian army) would prove more than a
" match for the Prussians in Bohemia." The
Wiirtemberg Government had further hoped that
while the strength of Prussia was taxed to main-
tain a conflict in that kingdom, the South-Western
Governments would be able to outnumber any
force which the War Minister at Berlin could send
against them. He complains that the Austrian
Government, while less prepared for war than its
allies had been led to believe, precipitated
hostilities by a step—the mobilization of the
Federal army—taken against the advice of
those several allies. If we are to accept
M. DE VARNBULER'S statement, that the Government
of Wttrtemberg seriously urged that of Austria
not to propose the mobilization of the army of
the Bund, and so give Prussia an opportunity for
declaring war, then, since Baden and Bavaria die-
claim. all responsibility for that measure, it follows
that the war was brought on by Austria alone. It
/9 to the rashness of Austria that M. DE YARN-
RULER attributes the misfortunes of the South
German States, for he adds, " Then occurred what
" we had foreseen. Prussia at once took the field,
" and by the rapi'lity of her evolutions disconcerted
" us all." He has another complaint to make.

The behaviour of the nine iron-clads in the Channel
squadron in the late experimental cruise in stormy
weather may be considered, the Times says,
as very satisfactory. They 011 a keep the sea, it is found,
as well as our old line-of-battle ships, and the Bellerophon,
In particular, is said to he a match for the smartest frigate
aficat. Nor should it be forgotten, in estimating our naval
resources, that we could already send to sea two other
squadrons nearly as strong aa this Channel Fleet. On
another most important point an authoritative oontradic-
Mon has been given to au impression recently prevailing.
The Admiralty denies that the service is short of men, or
that any difficulty would be found in manning such ships
as it might be requisite to commission.
The Star explains that the Jamaica Committee do not
' propose to institute prosecutions for things which were
done in the first heat of passion or of panic; but to confine
themselves to acts which were committed in cold blood-
-1 to the deliberate taking of life after Mr. Eyre had put on
record the fact that all resistance to authority had ceased.
Some of the organs of the negro exterminating party have
written of the destruction of a thousand negro huts or
cottages sea rather amusing bonfire. But what says Mr.
Itoundell, the secretary to the Jamaica Commission on
this point ? " The burnings," he said, " meant violent
ejectment from home and shelter end means of subsist-
-1 epee at a time when the tropical rains descended in their
Buy—the ejectment of four or fire thousand human
beings, most of them women and children." As for the
people who can deliberately defend this unprecedented
deed of vengeance, the Star has nothing to say to them. But
1 it is satisfied that there are many persons who, from an
imperfect knowledge of the facts and a thoughtless feeling
of sympathy for a man whom they fancy to have been
wrongfully accused have espoused a bad cause, but who
would blush with shame at the idea of lending actuate-
nance to the atrocities which Mr. Roundell has denounced
with so much strength and yet moderation of invective.

A considerable increase of temperature has taken place on
the west coast of Yawn, and the winds have veered towards
the southward. The sea Is high at West, and considerably
disturbed on our eastern coasts. The barometer continues low
in the west of trout& and the weather la In a very unsettled
state. Cautionary telegrams were sent to the coast ye...erday.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(MOM OUR OWN CORNJUIPONDLNL)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY Evzignm

The corporation of stock-brokers (agents de
change), at a meeting held yesterday, which lasted
till midnight, came to a most important resolution,
the consequences of which it is difficult to antici-
pate. They have repudiated that "solidarity "
or joint and several liability of the whole house
for the good faith of every one of its members in
his dealings with the public. Henceforth the
public is warned than when a sum of money is
entrusted to any Paris stock-broker for invest-
ment the client trusts entirely to the solvency
and honesty of a single individual, and has
no remedy against the rich and powerful
corporation of which ho is a member. This reso-
lution has been come to in consequence of recent
heavy failures by which the " house" has been
bitten to a fearful extent. The syndical chamber
of the agents de change have thought it right to
resign in consequence of this vote, but it is thought
they will all be re-elected at the new election,
which will speedily take place. The event will
give a great impetus to the opinion which has long
prevailed among a large section of operators that
the business should be thrown open. It will
be argued that the very great and valuable privi-
leges of the agents de change arc not counter-
balanced by any coiresponding public advantages
now that the safety of operations is not to be
guaranteed by the whole corporation.
A unnniuniqui to the Avenir National states that
the two French subjects whose extradition from
Switzerland was lately claimed for one offence, and
who were tried at Lyons for another, have been,
out of respect to the conditions of the extradition
treaty, conducted to the Swiss frontier, and set at
liberty.

Sir Hugh Cairns will be the new Lord Justice of
Appeal in Chancery in the place of Sir James Knight
Bruce. In all probability Mr. Bolt, Q.C., M.P. for West
Gloucestershire, will be appointed Solicitor-General.
THE MILITARY PRISONS.—Lieut..-Colonel Hen-
derson, inspector-general of military prisons, in a report
Issued to-day, says that daring the last year a further ad-
vance was effected towards the object of making a mili-
tary prison a place of hard labour. Nine hours and forty-
five minutes each day are now spent in hard labour, of
which three hours are at shot A al, and in ►ddition to this
an hour and a half in the evenings is spent in oakum-
picking, except by theft prisoners who are entitled by
their promotion to the hi-,her classes to attend school.
As to numbers, the prisoners in confinement last year
were 6,390 as against 5,470 in the previous year. The
principal increase is among soldiers whose services were
from seven to fourteen years, of whom 2,166 were sen-
tenced in 1865 against 1,325 in the preceding year ; indeed
it may be remarked that the increase of commitments
among this class of soldiers has been steadily progressive
from 335 in 1859 to 2,166 in 1866. It might, perhaps, be
desirable that some investigation hto this great increase
in a particular class should be made. At Gosport and at
Devonport the system of employing ficat-class prisoners on
out-door work has been pursued as far as possible, but no-
where are there the same facilities as at Aldershott for
this beneficial employment of the prisoners' labour. The
conduct of the prisoners has been good, and the general
state of the m'iitary prisons is satisfactory.
The inspectors of factories, Mr. Alexander Red-
grave and Mr. Robert Baker, in their last half-yearly go-
vernment report, speak very favourably of the continued
and ready observance of the factory regulations in the
various kinds of works now under their inspection. "We
cannot," they say, addressing the Home Secretary, " ex-
press to you too strongly our sense of the vast benefit re-
cently conferred upon the operatives by the Factory Acts
Extension Act of 1864, and our earnest hope that other
employments, of which the evils and hindrances to moral
and social progress have been so ably reported by the
Children's Employment Commissioners, may, as soon as
possible, be brought under the influence of Factory Regu-
lations."

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(T 111,4 DAY.)

the Court.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 16.

The Queen went out in the morning yesterday
with Princess Christian, and drove in the afternoon with
Princess Louise, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe.
Princess Louise rode in the morning, attended by the
Hon. Emily Cathcart.
The Duke and Duchess of Anmale dined with the
Queen and the royal family.

The Queen of Denmark and the Prince and Princess of
Wales dined with the Duchess of Inverness, at Kensington
Palace, yesterday evening.

A deputation, introduced by Mr. Ayrton.M. P., Mr. Bylryn,
M.P., Mr. Alderman Lawrence, M.P., and Mr. W. Lee,
M.P., and consisting of Mr. John Hill and Mr. Stride
(bankers, West Smithfield), Mr. E. Hill (late Master
Butchers' Company), Mr. Redman (chairman, Butchers•
Trade Society), Mr. Lintott and Mr. Sharpe (Brighton),
Mr. Wakefield, Mr. Betts, and Mr. Burkett (Maidstone),
Mr. Fagg and Mr. White (Gravesend), Mr. Mitchell, Mr.
Fowkes, and Mr. Fuller (Dorking), Mr. Moore and
Mr. Bassett (Rochester), Mr. Copland and Mr. Bed-
borough (Windsor), Mr. R. Maley, Mr. E El.
phick, Mr. W. Fagan, Mr. J. Cobb, Mr. J.
Stride, Mr. T. Woodley, Mr. I'. Pukworth, and Mr.
Allen (members of committee of Butchers' Trade Society),
Mr. Crouch (solicitor to the society), and Mr. G. Hicks
(secretary to the society), had an interview with the Lord
President of the Council, the Right Hon. Spencer H.
Walpole, and the Right Hon. H. Corry, at the Council-
office, Whitehall, yesterday, on the subject of the restric-
tions imposed on the trade in cattle in consequence of the
prevalence of the oattle plague. Mr. Helps, Mr. Harrison,
and Colonel Harness were in attendance.

The Bourse was again dull to-day. Rente fell
15c. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at
68fr. 63c. and 68fr. 72ic. In other securities there
was little change.

It appears from a parliamentary return issued
this morning that in Great Britain on the sth of March
last the total number of cattle returned by occupiers of
land and estimated by collecting officers was 4,785,836 ;
the number of sheep returned and estimated, 22,018,281 ;
the number of pigs, 2,477,019.

The Prorires de /Oise states that the French Court
will not arrive at Compiegne before the usual period, that
is, in the first fortnight of November. The preparations
hitherto made are with that prevision only.
The special monomania from which the unfortu-
nate Empress Charlotte is at present suffering at Mir►-
mar is an incessant apprehension that those around her are
seeking to make away with her. She refuses to eat any
food prepared for her, and nour*mhes herself, so it is said.
upon raw chesouts and cold water, nor will she even take
this poor sustenanoe in the presence of any of her attend.
ants. The only person who retains any influence over her
mind ia Count Bombelles, from boyhood upwards the
faithful follower and friend of Ferdinand Max : of him she
appears to entertain no fear.
We read in the Prase of Vienna :—" For some
time past many officers of the Blapka Legion, belonging to
the Hungarian nobility, have remained at Vienna :th a car-
tain amount of uneasiness as to their future lot. Amongst
them are Count Karolyi, M. de Csaky, and Baron Banfy.
There was attached to them an Austrian officer, who
did not quit them for an instant. They were lodged
in an hotel at Vienna, where they could move
about freely, but they were not allowed to go to the
theatre. On Friday afternoon, these officers, who had
previously exchanged their militia., uniforms for civil
attire, were called before the police, who informed them
that tke surveillance exercised over them had ceased, and
that they might remain where they pleased in Austria.
They intend to leave Vienna."

The Herald says that the trials of the Pallas and
the Bellerophon have completely established the value of
the bows introduced by Mr. Reed, in rendering the pitch-
ing motions of those vessels peculiarly easy, and in im-
proving, rather than impeding, their speed under sail.
The railway viaduct, the Times thinks, will be
the death of the new bridge at Blackfriare in an archi-
tectural point of view. This is greatly to be regretted,
for probably no structure of its kind in Europe can be
said to equal it either in design or magnificent solidity of
workmanship. The total length of the bridge from end to
end is to be 922 feet, and this enormous stretch is carried
on only five arches. It is not for some months, and
until the spandril of the arches begin to be bolted to-
gether, that the public will be able to form a good idea
of it. It 14 :11 probably be eighteen months before they
an have an opportunity of forming this judgment.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Mart Honour.
able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber,
Whitehall, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The
Lords present were the Lord President, the Right Hon.
Spencer H. Walpole, and the Right Hon. H. Corry. Mr.
Helps, Mr. Harrison, and Colonel Harness attended the
committee.

Madame Menotti Garibaldi, the daughter-in-law
of the general, has arrived in Paris, the object of her visit
being to consult Dr. NEWen as to an affection of the chest
from which she is suffering.

The political correspondence (in French) of
Massimo d'Azeglio, with an Introduction by M. Engine
Rendu, who was long and intimately connected with the
celebrated Italian patriot, Is just published in Paris.

The Earl of Leicester has arrived at Thomas's
Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Holkham Hall, Norfolk.

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Lord and Lady George Paget have left town on
• visit to Viocoant and Viscountess Sydney, at Frog...al,
their seat in Klink

Mr. Ella, the well known director of the Musical
Union, is making an artistic tour on the Continent, and
will constitute Vienna his headquarters for some little
time.

The Christchurch agricultural dinner was held
on Tuesday. Lord Malmesbury, who was the chief speaker,
denied the statement recently made by Mr. Bright to the
effect that if a reform bill were paused by the Comm me it
would beruretobe rejected by the Lords. Therewaene:iing,
he said, in the past hiatoi y of the House of Peers to justify
Inch an assumption ; and he believed that the members of
that assembly would always be ready to accept the clear
and deliberate judgment of the country whenever itshonld
be manifested through the votes of their representatives in
the other house of parliament.

An analysis has been made of the treasures con-
tained in the gallery of the Louvre. It appear. that there
are 2.000 pictures in the museum. Among those belonging
to the Italian school are 12 Raphaels, 3 Correggioe, 18
Titian', 13 Paul Veronese+, &c. Among the specimens of
the Flemish are no less than 42 Ruben*, 22 van Dykes,
17 Rembrandts, and 11 Gerard Dons. Of the Spanish
g eat master there are 11. littrilles, and 6 by Yampa&
The French school possesses but a single specimen of
Watteau. but, en reranche, has 40 Pousaina, 16 Claude
Lorraine., and 41 Joseph Vernets.

Mdlle. Mertes is ill, and en route to Nice. A
disease of the laifux. caused by the tremendous exertion
of singing in the open air, hu set in, and demands a warm
climate sad rest.

"We are happy," nays the Union Ifedieale,
" to be able to announce that not a single death by shahs
vas registered in Paris on Sunday hat."

The famous chief of the Prussian staff, Genera!
von Moltke, is now one of the visitors enjoying the benefits
of the mineral waters at }legates, Switzerland.