The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-24 00:00:00

THE MEETING IN THE PARE.

Soon after the crowd entered the park •meeting
was duly convened, and Mr. Baiter Langley called to the
chair. Mr. Luigi addressed the meeting, an and in t
had
shown by their conduct on that day that Bir lUsbard
Mayne, or any official like him, could not deprive them al
the rights for which their fathers bled. He was proud al
the conduct of the people.
Mr. Cinemas moved the following resolution, seconded
by Mr. MILLIR, and passed unanimously : "In the
opinion of this meeting, held in Hyde-park on the Zia
July, 1866, in despite of Sir Richard Mayne's foolish pro.
clamation, the threats of the police, the military, and Mr.
Walpole, the Home Secretary, the conduct of the top
government in trying to prevent this meeting is most
cowardly and dastardly, au insult to the people, and an
outrage upon their rights."
Mr. C. WARION moved and Mr. G. Bloomy seconded
the following resolution :—" That this meeting do protest
against the cunning and treachery by which the twits de-
tested the Reform Bill, and did the people out al their
rights."
This resolution was carried unanimously, and the pro-
coodinp, all slang marked with the greatest decorum, ter-
minated.

MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.

We regret to state that on Saturday evening last
• melancholy accident occurred off the west, near Grooms.
port, ny which • young gentleman named Arthur Reid
Met him life. It appears that about 4 o'clock on flaturdey
evening the deceased, with his brother and father, sooom-
pealed by two boatmen, went out upon the lough on a shoot-
ing excursion, and that, having enjoyed thounelves for some
time, the terrible accident occurred about a mile from
the shore which we have now to announce. The two
brothers, Arthur and Frederick Reid, had been walk-
ing about the shore at Groomsport for some time, when
Arthur, seeing • number of sea fowl flying about, requested
hie father to get a-boat and gun, and have • shot. Roth
boys being anxious to go, their father consented, and when
entering the boat, the father said that the person having
the gun must go forward and fire from the bow. One of
the lads fired four shots, and afterwards said, " Napa,
you may as well have • shot," and Mr. Reid took
the gun sad fired off one of the barrels, and M !ring
off the other barrel the gun burst, having only part
of the stock in bin band. Arthur, his eldest eon,
aged 16 years, was sitting on the seat behind him, and
after the discharge of the gun, the boy, on Mr. Reid
toe:2round, said, " Papa, I am wounded." Mr. Reid
down, thinking nothing anions had happened,
when the lad, Walling his father, and throwing Ids arms
around him, said, "Papa, lam dying," and in • few
neoonds he expired. Mr. Reid escaped unhurt, having
received only a few watches on -his wrist. The de-
ceased was struck on the back, and it is thought that •
portion or splinter of the gun, when it burst, passed
through his body. Mr. Reid, it appears, previous to
the unfortunate occurrence, had borrowed • doable-
barrelled gun from a gentleman in Belfast; and so far as
we can learn, the gun had not been used for a long time
previously. This tragical event caused the utmost
excitement among the people in the neighbourhood of
Bangor. The two fishermen hornediatdy rowed ashore,
and Dr. David Moore, who was called upon. pronounced
the life of the young man to be extinct. The family of
the deceased are well known in Belfast, and the unfor-
tunate circumstance which has taken place will be a
matter of extreme regret among a large circle of the
population.—liortherri Whip.

The potato rot has made its eppearanoo in the
neighbourhood of Dorchester.
Hut his.nrevet SHIP BOSCAWZN.—PosTsidorrif,
MONDAY.—Further reports from this ship we much more
favourable than those at tint received. Marked itnprove-
meet has taken place already in the condition of the sick
since the arrival of the ship off Stoke's Bay from Southamp-
ton Water. Five eases altogether were received at the Royal
Naval Hospital at Hasler from the ship, and of them one,
the boy that diedimmediately after admission, wasa derided
case of cholera. The remaining cases in the hospital are
g favourably towards recovery, as also are said to
Crcites annoyed from the Boseawen to Use Blonde, hos-
pital hulk. The whole of the cases now under treatment on
board the Blonde are understood to be mild, and maybe more
comedy &striated diarrhea' than choler*. A staff
of male aurae from the Naval Hospital at Hasler hams
charge of the aiek on board the Blonde under the superin-
tendence of the surgeons of the Boseaven. With the pre-
sent condition of the sick, sad also considering the im-
provement already effected in their condition eaves the
arrival of the ship in Stoke's Bay, it is believed that the
farther progress of thedisesse has been effectually cbeeked„
sad no fears am entertansed of a fatal terminetioe to any
of the existing cases or of any fresh outbreak. The Mi-
grant ship Queen of the Colonies, flying the house flag of
James Beams, Mackay, and Co", pot into Spit mad this
morning from the Channel for orders," and Mai= at
present, with sails loose. Cholera broke out amaag the
emigrants on board after leaving London, but it is dated
that no fresh ore hos occurred on board ince the 19tk
inst.
Areinumwr, Jutv 23. —ATPOINTIIIINII.—Lien-
Mamie C. H. Wilkinson, to the Cruiser ; W. F. Gerold, to
it. ilffac=ide. Paymaster—R. B. Welber, to the
S. H. Yeas, to the Cruiser ; W. Ws-
= the Better.

QIIKENBLAND LOAN of 1864, 21019,000.
TINDERS for BALANCE, 4tet,36o.—The UNION BANC
Cl AUSTRALIA beteg empowered, aa financial agent. of the
Government of ,eked, to negotiate the sale of the re-
sminder of the hewed under Act of the Colonial
Legieletare, 1B Victoria, No. GI, assented to 13th September,
1864, entitled "An Act to authorise the raising of Loans on the
Security of the Consolidated Revenues of the Colony, for the
ateticia of certeln Public afts, mad lurthat transeelde Sends
der iwwlMOlMon," NOTiCE rs ...ADI CENGiellini Board
el ate prepared to receive up to FRIDAY, the Nth
sg o'clock precbely, roiled ThNithlig, w pp
wbo may forward the same, addreesit.• "Tenders for
-- "-Of Attend In pewee t fee any por-
no of £401,360, being the balance of the shave Loan. Such
benders will then be opened In the pretence of aB too attending,
sad reed publicly, and the perchance be forthwith declared, pro-
vided the price be not under the muumuu Axed, which teal be
placed on the Mole under seal.
Theme Debentures of Zion and 4130 each, with Coepons at
tubed, will become due Ist January, Mk. and bear interest at
the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, from lit July, 1866, said De-
tectives, prhicipal and interest, being made payable In London
or Mebane, at the optics of the holder.
Pant for the amounta that may be allotted ill be required
al fors
Al 6 per £lOO Band, on the purchaser tieing declared,
41115 on 144 h September,
" and the Naomi on 15th October.
'Srn Perm of application are prodded at this °Gee.
By order of the Board,
H. .D. SAUDERS, /tanager.
it, Old /had-street, London, July 17, 1866.

BENSON, J. W., by SPECIAL APPOINTMENT
to MAUI. the Primo at WILLIS.

BENSON, .7. W., PRIZE MEDAL, LONDON,
cum in.

BENSON, J. W., PRIZE MEDAL, DUBLIN,

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 24.

Tas Emperor of AUSTRIA has chosen the better
part. After surveying his position and computing
his resources he has accepted the Prussian Preli-
minaries of Peace, and, as Italy had agreed to
these beforehand, we trust the war may be consi-
dered at an end. We believe that the wisdom of the
EMeraoles resolution will become more apparent
as the condition of the Empire becomes better
known. Not only was there no useful end to be
served by the continuance of the war, but there
was a failure of means. The last ten
days have made this fact palpable. What
a wise Austrian Minister must regret even more
than the defeat of the great Northern Army is the
defaultein the Empire of what the nations of
Western Europe understand by public spirit. In-
stances of heroic self-sacrifice are not rare. Thou-
sands after thousands of men have stood bravely
in line to be mown down by the needle-gun,
or have fallen in murderous hand-to-hand
conflicts, and thousands more are ready to do
the same. And if they have been overpowered
and compelled to retire, that is not the reason
why the Austrian Government, without fighting
another battle, accepts the Prusai-n terms of
peace. If the military power of Austria rested
upon a national basis like that of Prussia, the
battle of Sadowa would no more be held to have
determined the power and status of the Empire
than the battle of Bull Run fixed that of
the Free States of the American Union. Port the
devotion of the Austrian hero is devotion not to a
country or a cause, but to a flag, and that flag has
hitherto represented the splendour of a dynasty
rather than the sentiment of a nation. The A ustrian
Army has often been said to be the Empire, but
the spirit of a nation and the spirit of an [raper:al
army are not the same. The education and
spirit of the Austrian army, far from being
national, have been eminently anti-national. The
Hungarian regiments have been kept in Italy and
the Italian regiments in Hungary, there to learn
that the Empire was a machine in which opposing
forces were artificially maintained in a state of
equilibrium. We know what the worth of this
teaching has been, and what its effect upon the
army, when opposed to another army instinct with
national life. In the present extremity of Austria
we also see what effect the system has had upon
the several peoples. The political life which it
has extinguished might now be the sal-
vation of Austria. The EMPRHOR has addressed
them in terms which have quickened even foreign
lookers on into sympathy ; but upon the people of
the Empire his appeal has produced no sensible effect.
What was before suspected is now known. The
Hungarians, whose pride he flattered by telling
them they were the hope of the Empire, would not
move to help him. It is thepolicy of Drax's party,
and also of the Radicals, to refuse all assist-
ance to Austria until Hungary has a government
in which :'.e wren has confidence, and those two
parties inulude whatever is most influential and
energetic in the kingdom. We cannot wonder,
after all that has happened in Hungary, that the
nation should not show more confidence in the
EMPEROR than the EMPIROR has displayed towards
them. From the German population of Austria we
expected different behaviour. They have hitherto
been gratified with the idea that they formed the

dominant race of

ha■ been directed

uupremscy. But
•umed to express

Government at a moi

oi_Sgrvereign and people are neoeseary to repel the
}evader and restore peace. The Municipal Council
of Vienna has had the boldness to request the
Esrriraos to change his ministers, and a levy en
mane, which was ordered for the country districts
outside Vienna, encountered so much opposition in
the spirit of the people that it could not be car-
ried into effect, and was withdrawn almost as soon
as it was issued. Even loyal and simple Styria
has sent a remonstrance to Vienna, in which the
Eirruaort was asked to choose advisers enjoying
the confidence of the people. The official Gazette
has been employed to admonish these good citi-
sena that " any attempt to interfere with the un-
" assailable rights of the Crown, first among
" which is the right to choose its advisers, will be
" resisted." The Styrians certainly did not wish to
interfere with any rights of the Crown—they will
simply be discouraged ; and the Ear PEROB, losing
their confidence, so far loses the great source of
his power to defend both their rights and his. It
is this process repeated in turn towards every na-
tionality that has done so much to reduce the
Erarsaort to a state of helplessness in the presence
of his overbearing enemy. This failure of public
spirit disclosed itself at a time when the Ell:PRIOR
was painfully made aware that his military re-
sources were coming to an end. Three weeks after
his great defeat he was unable to collect for the de-
fence of the Empire a greater army than that
which fought at Sadowa, and it was known that if
that were beaten he would not be able to get an-
other. For the purposes of this war Venetia,
Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia were as much lost
to him last week as if they belonged to foreign
States. From neither could he get a florin or
a recruit. Hungary and the German provinces
remained both discontented. Only instant and
immediate peace could save the Empire. That
work is once more done ; and now the statesmen
of Austria will have to begin the great task which
should have occupied them for the last fifty years
—that of converting the Empire, if possible, into
a Nation.

An examination of the propositions which Aus-
tria has accepted shows that they have the rudi-
mentary character which distinguishes prelimina-
ries of peace from articles of a treaty. It is ap-
parent that many matters are still reserved for
further negotiation. Although the Emperor of
AUSTRIA had allies in this war, the King of PRUSSIA
does not appear to have dealt with him in a re-
presentative capacity. If South Germany and
Schleswig-Holstein are mentioned, it is simply
with reference to the interest which Austria may
claim to have in them. Austria loses first
her place in the Germanic Confederation. She
went to war to uphold the authority of this body,
and in leas than six weeks after " Federal Execu-
" tion " was decreed at Frankfort (June 14) the
EMPEROR recognises the dissolution of the Bund.
Secondly, Austria loses the rights she acquired in
the Schleswig-Holstein war, conveyed by the
Treaty of Vienna (30th October, 1864), and the
Convention of Gastein (14th August, 1865).
Thirdly, she cedes Venetia. Fourthly, she
engages to pay a sum of money to Prussia. On
the other hand, Austria is not excluded entirely
from Germany. The States of the South are to be
allowed to form an independent union, in which
Austria is free to find her own place. This last
stipulation is worthy of the closest attention, as
opening a new and interesting, but we suspect not
long chapter of German history. North Germany
will enter upon the new era well organized, and
with the prestige of a successful war, and all
the brilliant and commanding qualities which that
success implies. It will be under the strong per-
turbing attraction of that influence that South
Germany will have to constitute itself, without one
of its States having acquired a title to lead or pro-
tect the others. Prussia has more to gain from
this loose state of things than she could hope to
acquire by any direct attempt to prescribe the
future organization of the South.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAY.)

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we had

fondly imagined to belong in this"' enlightened. era
to the less dimmed political civilisation of continental
States. One must go back eynsidembly mere than
• quarter of a century to find .• parallel for the
military preparations with which the Chief Commis-
sioner of Police was prepared to defend Hyde-park
from the public last evening. Three troops of Horse-
Guards advancing at a trot, and two companies of Grans- I
lien preparing to load, while • peaceful, harmless,
good-humoured procession of workingmen, with
banners flying. and bands playing, unconscious of
all these formidable armaments, was wending its
way down Oxford-street through • crowd of lookers-
on—was there ever • more gratuitous invitation
to mischief, a grosser abuse of responsibility
perpetrated by the preservers of the peace? Anxious
to avoid the Last semblance of exaggeration, the
Daily News cannot hesitate to espies the belief that the
authorities deserve the severest censure for their proceed-
ings. What possible harm could that good-humoured
crowd have done? If, on that memorable 10th of April,
in the year of revolutions, the great Duke would not
allow a single soldier to be seen, what would he have said
to these troops of Life Guards advancing at a trot, and
three companies of Foot Guards preparing to load, last
evening?
The Pod thinks Use whole proceedings an unanswerable
argument against the extension of the suffrage. The rowdy
element was everywhere predominant ; all the others
might bo counted on the fingers. Thus Mr. Walpole's
proceedings are amply justified. The Poi trusts that
means may be found of visiting with condign punishment
not only the immediate ringleaders, but also those more
dangerous and infinitely more culpable agitators to whose
conduct the riot is as clearly traceable as if, with more
courage than they ahowed, they had themselves remained
to head the mob they had so recklessly brought together.
The Herald also thinks it is a very great pity that Mr.
Bright cannot be made responsible for his letter. The
police, it thinks, behaved wonderfully well ; but if they
had been stationed outside the gate instead of inside,
much less mischief would have occurred.

The Telegraph holds the Home-office and Sootland-yard
wholly responsible for the provocation to a breach of the
peace. The prohibition to assemble in Hyde-park was a
direct denial of the right of public discussion, for prac-
tically the parks are the only places in London in which
open air speeches can be delivered without causing annoy-
ance and disorder. Everyone knows that the real motives
for the late offensive police edict are hatred of reform
and detestation of all popular manifestations in its favour.
To gratify their malice and resentment against the
liberals, a reactionary government last night set the police
of the metropolis in armed array, and did its utmost to
invite a fearful conflict in the public streets. The issue
involved is more momentous than reform ; for public dis-
cussion is the origin of all possible amelioration of our
laws and government, and the people are not prepared
for a change in their ancient fundamental methods. Such
are the effects of a fortnight's tory rule.
The result of this attack upon popular rights should,
the Star urges, be the downfall of the tory ministry. As
for the right of Englishmen to meet in Hyde-park, that
has been vindicated. The people have met in the park.
A large gathering pawed resolutions condemnatory of the
conduct of the police and the tory government, and all
that the opposition of the police has done has been to pro-
duce such a determination in the minds of the people that
the sooner her Majesty exercises her prerogative to dismiss
the blood-and-steel gentlemen from her service the better.

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