The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-25 00:00:00

THE EXPIiESq, SATURNY EVENING, AUGUST 25, -1366.

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GOLD CHAINS.—JOHN BROODEN boss
to call the attention of the gab& to the POEM of 114-
VOICE which he delivers wild odd Chains pezobaaed at his
manufactory : s.
64 Maas long
To workmanship of pattern chain,
To (IS) carat gold, weighing or. dwt pa, at
43 3s. aid per ounce. Mint price

Total L
• Upon Ws wins, the QUALITY, WEIGHT, and VALUE of
the grid are actually defined, and guaranteed to the purelmoar
•has Breeden looking for a fair remuneration on the workman-
ship only, which is charged according to the intakes* or simpli-
city of the pattern.—Manufactory, lf, Henrlettawtreet, Covent-
garden, Lembo*.

Jand G. SAMPSON, Tailors and Outfitters,
. 1 and 2, Prtncesatreer, Leicester-square, W., keep an
enonnoes Mock ot BOY'S CLOTHING ready sat
Bons Belekerboeker Buns
Eton and Ores. Bolts St lo 40s.
Sumer Overcoats let to Vs.
Iltdtable for .11 times

CtO AND SEE THE SHOW
NJ' of 12s. ed TB.OUSIELS in the shop window, and select
therefrom, at J. and O. SAMTISON'9, Tailors awl Ontettere,
I sad; Princes street, Leloseteregeare,

(PRIZE MEDAL AWARDED.
ALLEN'S PATENT PORTsqopardngs. US and
TRAVELLING BAGS with uare
LADIES' WARDROBE TRUNKS, DRESSING BAG., with
rinser fittings
DESPATCPI BOXES, WRITING and DRESSING CASES, and
111* other articles for borne or continental travelling. Illestrated
catalogues post tree.
Also Allen's Barrack Furniture Ca4bgae al Portable Bed-
steeds, Dramas, Easy Chars, Washband stands, Cantons, de.,
J.J. W. ALLEN, Manufacturer and Patentee. $7. West Strand,
London. W. C.

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the needle-gun to carry the Prussian
agree
through that wood at Chlum, swept by ern-
and upto within twohumbed yards el the Amillog
before they could bring their weapon into play.
There was ample courage on both aides, but the
Prussian military system brought the weight of
superior intelligence and morale which, combined
with discipline, never fail to tell. Here again the
system is in strong contrast to our own, as well as
other European military organizations ; it has
neither the defects nor the oppression of the con-
scription, nor the failings and vices of our recruit-
ing by so-called volunteers. While we take the
scum of the large towns and the needy field labour-
ers, both for our regulars and militia, the Prussians
take the whole mass leavened as it is naturally,
the good with the bad. They get a steady army free
comparatively from the crime and desertion which
thin our ranks regularly by at least 10 per cent.,
and add enormously to the cost of the service,
and while the country is thus ably and efficiently
served the social and physical condition of the
people is raised, and the national spirit maintained.
Compulsory cervioe even in this very modified and
least objectionable form does not sound agreeable
to our ears, but it is a question whether our
120,000 militia might not be converted into a more
military body that would enable us to relieve our
regular army from some part of their long foreign
service, and reduce their term of enlistment with-
out curtailing their claims, thus making the service
attractive to a better class of men. The militia
are now hardly worth their salt, but if they were
regularly embodied, by a few regiments at a
time, for three years, according to a roster of
service, they might be made more like the German
Landwehr, and turned to good account for garrison
duty at home, and perhaps in the Channel
Islands. We doubt also whether such a
force would not as readily accept foreign
service as the regular troops always do now.
This would be an improvement upon the annual
month's training, which really amounts to an an-
nual disturbance of the county town, and only con-
tributes to make the most idle more dissolute and
disorderly. When the militia regiments were last
embodied we remember how it was considered a
great grievance that they were dismissed to their
homes, and how it was found that they furnished
many good recruits to the line—men who preferred
the soldier's life, after thus trying it against the
civilian's. The present army of volunteers would
no doubt willingly yield many good men to a
force thus raised into equality with the regulars,
whose noble traditions they would be ambitious
some day to share. We can see no such dire-
rence between Germans and Englishmen that
this kind of compulsory service, which would be
so only as all honourable contracts are compulaory,
should not be found acceptable enough, especially
as the Volunteer movement has shown that we
are not quite so unmilitary a people as was once
supposed.

THE WEEKLY PRESS.

How is the Emperor satisfied? asks the Examiner,

in an article on " The Result of the French Emperor's
Plettings." Are we to look at the cards on the table, or to
reckon on those which may be under the table? Probably
there is a court card under the table ; it may be that the
little passage of bad play gone through with ostentation of
good humour by the French gambler, as against his Prus-
sian confederate, is only a delusive prelude to the plucking
of some now unoonsdous pigeon. That this may be so the
Examiner has some reason for thinking. But if it be
not so, if we are to look only at the game aboveboard,
to see what tricks have been made, and what lost, and
how the open game has gone, the French Emperor
has played a losing game, and been put out in all his cal.
oulations. The engineer is hoist into the air with his
own petard. Amongst the curiosities of history must be
placed his modest demand upon victorious Prussia for a
slice of her territory. The answer was tantamount to
"come and take it if you can." The Emperor knew better
than to insist, and said quietly—Let us be Mends.
He is praised for changing his mind ; but, if the
demand was serious, he should have changed his
mind sooner, with the change of events and
I fortune. He should have abandoned his scheme of com•

penestion when he found the power and prowess of
Prussia so much beyond hie calculation, and that she was
not less able to hold what was her own than to take
largely what was not her own. The demand in such case
was the blunder which the great French diplomatist con-
demned as worse than crime, and a rebuff was the con-
sequence. The wonder is that the Emperor uid not
rectify his policy sooner. He might soon and easily
have learnt that Prussia would not part with an inch of
the soil which she is thoroughly well able to protect.
Can be win by the card under the table ? He may not
even dare to play it. His policy in other directions is
coming to a bad end. Mexico is punishing his unprin-
cipled interference. He cannot sliced to waste more blood
and treasure on the puppet be has set up, and whether he
perseveres or withdraws, the result must be a signal and
disastrous failure. Napoleon 111. believes in his star, and
are there not signs of its waning? The Examiner is not
without hopes of seeing political justice deal out the re-
tributions of poetical justice.
In a second article, headed "TheSouthamptonScandal,"
the Exlmiaer contrasts the reception given by the people
of Southampton to Kossuth with that given to Mr. Eyre.
In the former case Englishmen went forth to welcome tho
fearless though unfortunate man who bad risked and lost
livelihood, home, and all that makes life sweet, in the
effort to snatch the dripping lash and the hangman's cord
from Austria's hands. Now we have peers without influ-
ence and sycophantic municipals crawling roundawretehed
maladministrator, with whose name will never cease to be
associated the implements of lawless and ruthless torture.
Then Southampton shouted as one man. Thank God there
are now two voices, and the predominant voice, that of
nine men out of every ten, has been one of loathing and
execration.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

Looking around him from his nest at the Vatican, Pio
None sees himself deserted, says the Saturday Review.
His old allies are gone, and gone for ever. A liberal
European power has crept np on every side of him, almost
to the walls of Rome, and the wave of Austrian
influence has receded in proportion. The Pope

therefore Is alone, except so far u he can rely
on the precarious piety of the Emperor Napoleon.
Send! medic.* defames is hates. There are but two

courses open to him besides the ignominious alternative of
flight. He may either throw himself on the menhir arm
of France, or make his peace with the Italian government ;
and both courses are naturally distasteful to an old man
who has a childish terror of the growth of democratic
opinions which he observes on all sides. To him the
French Emperor is only the first French Revolution
with a pious face and with ostentatiously decor-
ous manna& And the progress of Italian politics
threatens too immediately the status of the Catholic
hierarchy in Italy to make it agreeable for Pio Nam to
accept the future mapped out for him and for his clergy
by the Italian Chambers. It is difficult for him to know
what to decide, and meantime, if accounts from Rome are
veracious, he hesitates daily between two paths, and
is inclined at one hour to call the French Emperor,
and at another the King of Italy, to his arms.
We may, the Saturday Retitle thinks, expect that the
efforts of Napoleon 111. will be exerted to bring about
some reasonable compromise between Pio Nono and the
Italian government ; and though Pio Nono is obstinate,
and the Italian Chambers are not conciliatory, a compro-
mise of the sort, as a consequence of the Peace of Prague,
cannot be considered impossible.
In an article headed, " Mr. Charles Kingsley's New
Creed," the Sperlatur remarks :—" Mr. Eyre is so noble,
brave, and chivalric a man, so undaunted a servant of the
Crown, so illustrious as an explorer in Australis and a
saviour of society in the West Indies, that peers, actually
peers—my soul sinks with awe as I repeat peers—mem-
bers of the `sacred' order, which represents chivalry,
which adopts intoita ranks all genius, all talent, all virtue,
and all beauty, condescend, not indeed to give him a
dinner—that would be too much—but to dine in the same
room with him." Only imagine Charles Kingsley, apostle
of muscularShriatianity, author of " Yeast," of " Alton
Locke," of the only song ever likely to be used as an
agricultural Marseillaise,saying a speech which will condense
into that at a public dinner, with reporters present. So
odd is the exploaion of dunkeyism, so utterly out of accord
with the whole character of the man, yet so evidently
genuine that it is almost impossible to discuss it seriously,
or animadvert on it with the scorn it so thoroughly
deserves. Such a speech is one of those surprises
which provoke only • faintly amused laughter; it
is like a bad pun, mirthful only because of an absurd
incongruity. That Mr. Kingsley should admire and
defend Mr. Eyre we can understand, can, we think, ex-
plain as a natural development of his mind, but that he
should go down on his knees to the peerage, declare the
Red Book " sacred"—he, the Christian socialist--an insti.
tntion " second in sacredness to that most sacred of insti-
tutions, monarchy," and consequently more sacred than the
church. Was there ever a funnier little window opened
in a man's mind?

W. *naiad by one d his aideede-cemp, Captain Swat
Jervis. Is the end Certain Jervis wee acieused d yawls.
dans waa &Waded befog, his bonbar sid•erai and planed I SPERM OF THE BING OF 7.318814.
rinderearest. Then • general oont-enatial was Aratreli,, I
The Merit Gazette publishes the following imply
and, thus beset, Captain Jerrie brought 4 an action against
Sir William Mansfield for 1,40 D rupees, alleged to be due of the King of Prussia to an address Prawn" to
on a building account, and another action for defamation him by the thunithFal authorities Of Brandenburg :
of character, in which he lays the damages at • Ise of lam delighted tkat you are mime be express your ern-
rupees-10,000t. The court-martial was sitting at Simla pithy with me. Your address contains the whole truth.
when the last mail left, and additional charges of Yon are right in saYlriff that great things have been
misappropriating wine, giving Parties at ear 'William accomplished, and I return thanks to God that I
Mansfield's expense, and otherwise making free with am in the position I occupy —I, who have
victuals and drink were brought against Captain Jervis, aided in obtaining this mighty success. lam personally
So far as Captain Jervis's defence has been beard it seems convinced of the immense calamities and sufferings which
to the Times that he has fully exonerated himself. The wet inflicts on nations and peoples, and lam grateful to
accused shows great determination, and if he perseveres in God that these disastershavebeen spared to myown people.
in his two actions at law this scandal will be the first and Bat we owe theeesaceesses to our army, exceedingly valiant
last lesson Sir William Mansfield will ever need to take in and incomparable, as you say in your address. I have
farming. Great mistakes in farming hive been made before seen it accomplish, on different °cessions, heroic exploits
now, but the Timm remembers Done at once so oomplete which history will insert in its =Debit and I haws °and-
and so ludicrous as this of Sir William Mansfield's. He dance that its success will contribute to the safety of
has handled the sword so much to his honour that it is a Prussia and of Germany. Much still remains to be done.
pity he should ever have meddled with the crook and the Our arms have been blessed : blamings will not be
sheep pen. wanting to the pen. The frontiers of Prussia will be
enlarged. The address says very properly that the Prus-
sian kings will never lose the confidence of their people-
For myself I can say I never lost that confidence, although
an attempt was made to alienate my people from me by •
inveigle against an institution which is exactly what has
procured for us these brilliant results. The dope-
ties,—yours too, gentlemen,--made my life very un-
comfortable during the last four years. But this is
now pardoned, though I never can forget it. It is a bitter
experience which I shall bequeath to my son. However,
gentlemen, as I have said, let us turn our looks from the
past to the present and the future, and let us have °Galt-
dense. Once more, I thank you for your address, which
the strict tt ath.

LATEST INTELLII

ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.
QIIEF.NSTOWN, AVOUNT 25.
The Royal Mail steam-ship China arrived here at
5.45 this morning, with 117 passengers, and 25,215
dollars in specie. She landed a portion of the
mails, consisting of 111 sacks, and proceeded for
Liverpool at 6 s.m. All well.
She was detained twelve hams at Halifax by fog.
NEW YORK. Ave= 16, EVIIFUnk
The Philadelphia Convention has elected Senator
Doolittle as chairman. Mr. Vallandigham has
withdrawn from the convention. The Massachu-
setts and South Carolina delegations entered the ,
convention arm in arm amidst cheers for President
Johnson and the 36 loyal states. The President
telegraphed that the people must be trusted. The
country, he said, would be restored, and his faith
was unshaken as to their ultimate success.
The convention adjourned to-day, the 16th,
after passing resolutions declaring the Union and
the Constitution to be restored, and that neither
Congress nor government could deny representation
to any state. The resolutions urge the people to
elect none but men admitting this principle.
The right to prescribe qualification for the elective
franchise is reserved to states. No state can with-
draw from the Union, nor, by its action in Con-
gress, exclude another state from the Union. The
resolutions further tender sincere support to Presi-
dent Johnson. _ .

—.....
Cholera is abating in New York, but is raging
fearfully through the west and south-west.
The Bavaria has arrived out, and been placed in
quarantine. She has had eight cases of cholera and
three deaths on board.

(By ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, stover 23.
President Johnson has abandoned the Fenian
prosecutions.

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, AUGUST 16, Evarnrcl

Adrices received here from Matamoros to the
10th inst. announce that the liberals occupied
Monterey, Saltillo, and other towns on the 28th
ult. The imperialists retreated to Sans Luis
Potosi. Marshal Bazaine had set out for the City
of Mexico. Juarez was en route for Monterey.

The liberals occupied Tampico on the let inst.
The American general, Lewin Wallace, had arrived
at Matamoros in a steamer from New York with
men, arms, and ammunition for the liberals.
Wallace holds the commission of major-general in
the liberal army.
A French corvette is blockading Matamoros.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(mom OUR owle CORRZOTORDENT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY EVZJThO.

A Paris letter in the Independence Beige says
that before it was decided to insert the paragraph
in the Afoniteur denying that the Emperor had
written an autograph letter to the King of the
Belgians, a long discussion took place on the sub-
ject between the Emperor and his ministers, many
of whom thought it most unnecessary to contra-
dict the story of one Sovereign having written to
another to protest that he did not mean to filch the
whole or a part of his dominions. "It is supposed,"
continues the Inel•lpendattet, " that the motive
which finally determined the insertion of
the note was a desire to imply that the considera-
tion which the French government professed for
the rights of neutral powers did not extend to
others, and in particular was not obligatory in
regard to those nations which might make an
abusive use of armed intervention."

A considerable crowd passed the night in the
Place de la Roquette in the hope of seeing the
murderer Collignon executed. The news has
transpired this morning that the Emperor has com-
muted the sentence to imprisonment with hard
labour for life. This is the wretch who, as the
agent of his sister, threw her husband's daughter, a
child ten years old, into the Seine. The only
ground for the commutation must be that the
brutality of the action, coupled with the absence
of any selfish motive, is deemed to imply weakness
of intellect.

The Avenir National says letters dated Breslau,
August 21, have been received by several Germans
in Paris informing them that the Prussian govern-
ment has ordered the mobilisation of the last re-
serve (ersatz reserve) of the landwehr, which at the
beginning of the month it had been resolved not to
call out. Ido not find this news confirmed, and
doubt its truth.

The King of Prussia has put a distringaa upon a
quantity of choice Rhenish wine, which the Duke
of Nassau, in the beginning of July last, had re-
moved from his cellars, and deposited for safe
custody in the Strasbourg Custom-house. Prussian
agents now swear that great part of this wine came
from "domanial" vineyards, of which the duke was
not the absolute owner, and that the state of Nassau

now belonging to Prussia, has a lien upon them. I
presume that nothing but a lawsuit can decide this
weighty question.
A very old lady, who passed for being the
largest landed proprietor in France, the Marquise
de Pommereu, died on Tuesday last at her hand-
some mansion in the Faubourg St. Germain,
which she had inhabited for more than half a
century. She was the daughter of the Marquis
d'Aligre, a peer of France and the descendant of
two Chancellors of that name. In the time
of the first empire she married the Marquis
de Pommereu, a member of the council general
of the Seine Inf4rieure, and the representative of
one of the oldest and wealthiest families in Nor-
mandy. She leaves three sons to inherit an im-
mense fortune both in real and personal property.
The pri%ilege of selling the catalogue at the

Universal Exhibition, put up to public competition

by sealed tender, has been awarded to M. Dentin
the Palais Royal publisher, who made the enor-
mous bidding of 503,000 fr. (20,1201.)
A Florence letter says that Admiral Persano is
preparing his defence in a royal chAteau, the Vigils
della Regina, near Turin, where he is leading a
retired life with his wife, his son, Lieutenant Per-
nano, and a relative, General Cicala. He occa-
sionally receives despatches from the Bing, who
appears to take great interest in his case, and some
little time since, when the admiral was at Ancona,
sent his aide-de-camp, Count Litta, on a confiden-
tial mission to him.

The Italian journal the Movimento says that the
letters of Deputy Boggio said to have been fished
out of the sea after the battle of Lissa are forgeries
concocted by the Persano party. It must be ad-
mitted that these letters turned up with a suspicious
apropos. _ . .

The Bourse was firmer, but business continues to
be extremely restricted. Rent* rose 20c. for cash,
and lbc. for account, closing at 69fr. 25c. in each
ease. Italian rose 46c., closing at 69fr. 250. Mo-
biller and Credit Foncier rose Mr. each.
The Memorial of Amiens gumminess that M.
Perillier, agent de change of that place, has just
been declared a bankrupt by the Tribunal of Com-
merce. The liabilities are supposed to be heavy.

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gIOLD CH A INS. —JOHN BROODEN begs the needle-gun to carry the Prussian edam •W. Mlandlehl by one of his aidesde-cessp, Caplet& Beset
VI to call the attention of the pshito to mof e roam through thit wood at cm t h •
Nib' • Jervis. Is the end Ceistain Jarvis wee sensed of pawls-
VOICE which he delivers with Gold Chains pedibseed at his Univ IMF y etY. tins, ~„..
manufactory K 1 & and upto within twohuncleed yards of the Amalie= --alresa.d balms
his
blialur
*lbws'
sad pissed
BPI
To workmanship of pattern chain, 54 inches long
before they could bring &sir weapon into undersexed. Then • general ocent-emetial was ;tit, 1 The
To (18) carat gold, weighing oa. dwt pa, at PIG,'" and, thus beset, Captain Jervis brought 4an satins against 4).
£3 Se Std par ounce, Mint prim
-- Sir William Mansfield for 1,400 rupees, alleged to be due of-',_
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Total E Primed= military system brought the weight of on a building account, and another action for defamation him
1)3
• Vete Ws imam, the QUALITY. WEIGHT, and VALUE of
, . she geld see actually denied, and guaranteed to the purchaser; superior intelligence anti inorale which, combined of character, in which he lays the damages at •kw of lan
Jos
/Seem looking for a fair eemtherathe en the weekthen- with discipline, never fail to tell. Here • the rapees-10,000t. The court-martial was sitting at Simla PsthY '
ship may, which is charged according to the intrierey or simpli-
city of the pattern.—Masufsztory, 16, Henriettestreet, Covent- system is in strong contrast to our own, as well as when the last mail left, and additional charges of You sA
garden. Webs• mesa propriating wine, giving parties at Big 'William soooluY
other European military organizations ; it has •
Mansfield's expense, and otherwise making free with am 1.
4 J and G. SAMPSON, Tailors and Outfitters, neither the defects nor the oppression of the coa-
-1 e I and L Princesatreet, Leloesterequare, W., keep an victuals and drink were brought against Captain Jervis. aided i
scription, nor the failings and vices of our recruit- se far as Captain Jervis's defence has been heard it seems convinc
1 snormons Stock of BOY'S CLOTHING ready made.
Boys Knickerbocker Sults
Eton and Ones Snits Ms. to 40s. SCA= of the large towns and the needy field labour- accused shows great determination, and if he perseveres in God till
; summer overcoats . to
Suitable for ell times in his two actions at law this scandal will be the float and But we
• ~. its Ala
era, both for our regulars and militia, the Prussians
lagt leseon Sir Wam Mansfield will ever need to take in and lc
take the whole leavened as it is naturally,
G 0., 14.' N ttoulleats
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thenit
good
with the bad. They get a steady
.army free.
comparatively from the crime and desertion which now, but the Times remembers none
.at once so complete which 1
sad so ludicrous as this of Sir William Mansfield's. He dance
! !.' (PRIZE MEDAL AWARDED. thin our ranks regularly by at least 10 per cent., has handled the sword so much to his honour that it is a Friuisii
ALLEN'S PATENT PORT US and and add enormously to the cost of the service, pity he should ever have meddled with the crook and the , 04• T 11
TRAVELLING BAGS with squarmesimadatee and while the country is thus ably and efficiently sheep Pen- wantin
LADIES' WARDROBE TRUNKS, D enlargt
, • diver fittings. G ' with served the social and physical condition of the eases ki
DESPATCH BOXES, WRITING and DRESSING CASES, and people is raised, and the national spirit maintained. THE WEEKLY PRESS.
Ste other articles for home or continental travelling. Illestrated For in]
catalogues post tree. Compulsory corvine even in this very modified and --•-- an att4
Also Allen's Barrack Furniture Ca d ratable Red- least objectionable form does not sound agreeable How is the Emperor satisfied ? asks the Examiner,
eteeAs, Drawees, Easy Chairs, Washhan=s, Cantons, As., strut&
. post free. to our ears, but it is a question whether our in an article on " The Result of the French Mai,peroes Pee=
J. W. ALLEY, Manufacturer and Patentee. FL West strand, 120 000 militia might not be converted into a more Elottin s." Are we to look at the cards on the table, or to eics,—,
Landon. W. C. i gr ,
%. military body that would enable us to relieve our reckon on those which may be under the table? Probably i condom
1 regular army from some part of their long foreign there is a court card under the table ; it may be that the now pt
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itite erpreoo. service, and reduce their term of enlistment with- little passage of bad play gone through with ostentation of : expo
re
good humour by the French gambler, as against his Prue_ I gentle'
I I - out curtailing their claims, thus making the service put to
sum' confederate, is only a delusive prelude to the plucking
0 TO CORRESPONDENT& attractive to a better class of men. The militia of some now unconscious pigeon. That this may be so the dawn
Ateerellenenee intended for "The laiowN4" imd°lllirening are now hardly worth their salt, but if they were Examiner has some reason for thinking. But if it be Vinare
o=must be at the Odic, 10, souverlestrest, by Two
ic on the day of publication. regularly embodied, by a few regiments at a not so, if we are to look only at the game aboveboard, pRo4
--- -- time, for three years, according to a roster of to see what tricks have been made, and what lost, and
t I PRINCESS'S. service, they might be made more like the German how the open game bas gone, the French Emperor Th 4
1 1 Tim imams, THE HUGUENOT CAPTATN. Messrs. Vining,
end G. Honey; Misses Neilson, Augusta Thermos, end am Landwehr, and turned to good account for garrison
atirling.—And QULET LODGING& duty at home, and perhaps in the Channel has played a losing game, ann put out in all his cal.
outs • The enpn* eer is bout into the air with his ProciE
own petard. Amongst the curiosities of history must be Naha