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LONDON, SATURDAY, WT. 22.

%Nora= of oar eminent self made men has
been suddenly taken from us. JOSEPH Loess, who,
after Barnet and the tivarnemoss, did more
than any other man for the physical civilisa-
tion of our time, has pared sway t rematurely
and unexpectedly. In the prime of life, of mental
vigour, and of European reputation, surrounded
by all the luxury and enjoyment that hard-earned
wealth can give, having the noble consciousness

that he had fidlilled his 'lesion as a great assailant
and conqueror of natural difficulties, and as one
who had devised and executed ways for supplying
many great wants of popular industry, he has lain
down to rest ; and there is but one sentiment of
national regret over his grave. Those who knew
him well, and those who never saw him,
mingle their expressitins of respect and sorrow.
His own profession, by whose unanimous voice he
but a few months ago had been saluted facile
jo feel that they have lost a chief not seedy
to he replaced ; and Parliament, of which for
many years he was a member, has lost in him an
element of sound practical experience and iris.
don, which the recent removal of ROIZAT Sre-
PIIII.N4oSi renders all the more severe. To the class
of which he was an ornament lie leaves a bright
and unitained example of a man without family
connexion, inherited fortune, expensive and i
refined education, or the venturous disposi-
and showy talent of a speculator
or empire, attaining great eminence, realizing
great wealth, conferring great benefits on his fel-
low • own, and receiving the grateful homage of their
praise, and all this within less than the ordinary
spate allotted to human effort. It is highly to
the credit of the people whom he served so faith-
fully and well that the true worth of =eh ama
wee appreciated by them as it deserved to be, and
that upon every suitable occasion, whether in the
public assembly, the Institute of Engineers, or the
lmbago, that distinguished worth was recognised
in the way it merited. Our country is not un-
just or ungrateful ; and if the feelings and
instincts of the country had the means of making
themselves felt as they ought to have, the mise-
rable injuatice and umulence of mate would not
ion.. had it in its power systematically to slight
and *nub a man whom the country so delighted to
bonen r.

So long as JOllOl Lee as lived and laughed and
laboured amongst us there were obvious MOM
why we should abstain from challenging the ter
lent which he experienced in high quartets, and
his exclusion from office, Court, and coterie.
Wen we think of the rubbish with which lofty
places are filled, of the imbeciles and impostors
we are annually called on to pay for doing wielded
or doing nothing, and who are daily jobbed
into every species of public preferment, we cannot
feel surprised that the presence of a hard-headed,
clear-sighted, independeut-minded man like the
late Mr. Loris, should have been deprecated
diligently, and carefully avoided. If ports of
power and responsibility were once thrown open
to middle-elass men who hare proved themselves
fit for them, the craft of the Ephtsians would be
in danger, and the great imposition would fear to
be set at nought. But the sordid prudence which
exigently *mks to preserve power and emolument
in close monopoly hardly reouires that the im-
pudent and dishonest rule should be applied as
strictly in other matters. Social courtesies and
personal marks of distinction convey, indeed, to
none but the most ignorant the idea of recognition
of public service. A profligate or a fool, if he be
only sprung from the right loins, is certain of
either or both. Usefulness, perseverance, con-
sistency, energy, inventiveness, talent, or the uni-
versal respect of the community, are, we well
understand, but dust in the balance where the
broad riband of the Bath or the rank of Privy
Councillor is in question ; and as for baronetcies,
they are professedly given as prizes for the
greatest number of hedges and ditches of which
the competitors can show themselves to be the
owners, great works and great virtues having
nothing whatever to do with the matter. Still, if
it were only for decency's sake and expediency's
sake, one feels disposed to wonder at the manner
in which the system is worked, negatively and
positively. Not only ate eolonelcies and general-
ship, embassies and church dignities, conferred on
blockheads of quality who it is well known never
have earned an.l never will earn a day's wages in
their respective callings., but the very declarations
and titles of honour which justly belong to the
men who have served the state, but whom the
state has not the heart to pay with solid recom-
pense, even these are scrambled for, and clutched
and appropriated by the thoroughbreds and half-
bred' of privilege. For engineering services
►ennlered to France Mr. lower was decorated in
that country with the Cross of the Legion of
Honour : in England, where he had earned ten
tunes the gratitude and reward, the rule of the
i;overnment is to spurn and ignore such men. It
is all %elry well for peers and fine gentlemen to get
up speeches and lectures about the advantages of
social science; but we should like to bear a

THE

little more plain speaking about the
and justice of securing to scienek
letters something more nearly approaching
to its proper social position. An incident
experience of the deceased aptly illustrates
insufferable insolence of cute towards -

his order of merit. For several years Mr.
Lode's existence had been apparently forgotten
by the proprietor of one of those palatial resi-
dences at the West-end the =low of which are
opened periodically to select mobs of flatterers and
hangers-on. On the eve of a critical division in
the House of Commons, when votes were at a
premium, a card of invitation was condescend-
ingly flung at the member for Honiton and his
family, in the confident expectation that being
merely one of the people he might be forgotten and
picked up again at will. The expectation, we
need hardly say, proved fallacious. The inde-
pendent vote was not changed by the contu-
melious attention ; and the circumstance becoming
known served only to add ridicule to defeat. We
only wish that similar impertinences were always
repelled as coolly and contemptuously, and that
there were less reason afforded by the cheated and
slighted men of the middle class for the deroga-
tory calculation too often formed of their pliabi-
lity by those who alternately trample on and
trifle with them. For us there must ever
remain the strong and ineffaceable sense of
shame that a man like the late President of the
Institute of Engineers should have passed away
from amongst us, not only unrequited by the
public authorities of his country, but wholly un-
recognised by them either socially or politically.
We cannot consent to argue the matter as one of
mere favour discretionally withheld. We have
put it broadly as a case of legitimate right fraudu-
lently and falsely denied. The rank which in
point of intellect, character, and public usefulness
ministers and courtiers pretend not to discern,
public opinion had long since accorded to him
who is now no more. The denial of the fact does
not make the fact less clear or certain ; but the
denial is an affront and injury, which, as society
is constituted, men cannot but feel ; and the
slight and wrong, though they have been endured
in silence, ought not to be allowed to be mutely
buried with him who was their object.

gbe Court.

OSBORNE, Sur. 21.

The Queen and the Prince Consort, Princess
Primates Hekeaa, and Prince Arthur rode on horseback yes-
terday afternoon, attended by Colonel H. Ponsonbv.

M. de Voss, Grand Venctir to the Grand Duke of Meck-
lenburg Strelita, arrived from London yeeterilay, and had
as audience of bee Majesty to deliver a letter. H. de Voss
was promoted to the queen by Viscount Palmerston, Y.G.
Her Majesty a &encr party included the Princess Alice,
Lady Caroline Barr‘ngton, Viscount Palmerston, M. de
Vase, the Hon. Sir C. mud lady Phipps, the Hon. Mrs.
Grey, Captain and Mrs. F. Sayer, and Major Upham-
stow, R. E.
The Queen and the Prince Contort left Osborne at three
o'clock yeatembiy afternoon, aceompeeied by the Prinosa
Alice, embarked at Osborne-pier in the Fairy royal steam-
yacht, crossed to Gosport, sad travelled by the Boat&
Western Railway to the private statism at Vauxhall. In
attendee*, were Lady Churchill, Colonel the Hon. Mr C.
B. Phipps, Major-Genial the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel H.
Poneonby, and the Nester of the Household. The Queue
and Prince proceeded from the railway station. esomied by
a detainment at Life Guards, to Buckingham Palace,
where t►ey arrived at a quarter before seven o'clock, and
were received by Vimoant Sydney, Viscount Bury, Lord
Campy*, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C. B.
Viscount Palmerston left ()done yesterday morning,
and returned to Broadlandv, Hamm.

N. cis iron also lett Oebo.ras yesterday.
DspaN►s were rot fm this Colonial-office yesterday
to the Lad Him Conantinioner at the locum Woods.

EVIOPNG.

The Atlantic Royal Mail standee Priam Albert,
which arrived at Galway last evening, brings
advice. that the steamer Lady Elgin was run ;nto
by a schooner and sunk in Lake Superior on the
Bth inst. Three hundred line are said to be lost.
Advises from Honduras state that Walker
evacuated Truxillo on the Ist inst., in compliance
with orders from the commander of the British
man-of-war that bad arrived.

News from Japan to the 22nd July announces
that the Portuguese commission had arrived to con-
clude a treaty. An American ship had sailed for
Shanghai with a cargo valued at half a million
dollars.

Advioee from Mexico state that Mintmon, on his
return to the capital, resigned the presidency, but
was re-elected by the Council of State.
The Prince Albert having left Galway for New
York on the 28th ult., has made the passage round
in 24 days.
The Grange difficulty at Lortorgonto (1) had been
arranged. The Duke of Newcastle accepted the
Idayoi's apology.
The Atlantic Royal Mail steamship Prince
Albert, from New York on the 11th, and St.
John's on the 15th, has arrived. She ha. muse
the passage from St. John's in 5 days 18 hours.
She brings 100 pail/wagers.
The steamers Bohemian, Illinois, America, City
of Washington, and City of Manchester, had
arrived out.

His Royal Highness the Prinoe of Wales left
London, in CILLIBAL West, for Niagara, on the
14th inst.

The republicans had carried the Maine election.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIORNCK
NEW YORK, Sin. 14.
Stocks have improved. The cotton market is steady.
Breadstuff' have slightly declined, Provisions are steady.
NEW ORLEANS, Elarr. 13,
Cotton has declined 4c. The males to-day amount to
2,000 balm ; middling is quoted 104 to 104.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S RETURN.
PARIS, SATCP.DAT.
The Moniteur of to-day publishes the follow;ig
dated _ _

" PERPIGNAN, Seer. 21 (Evmso).
" Their Majesties have just disembarked at this

" Their paasage has been protracted by rough
weather.

" Tlaeir Majesties will arrive to-morrow evening
at St. Cloud.'

The Moniteur also publishes the text of the speech
of the Emperor at Algiers. The Emperor said—
" My attention has been solely devoted to forward
the interests of Algeria, over which colony Provi-
dence has called us to diffuse all the benefits of
civilisation." The Emperor concluded by saying—
" Peace prevailing in Europe will permit Prance
to display still more generosity towards her colo-
nies."

The Constitationnel says the Chevalier de Nigra,
the Sardinian ambassador, has left Paris. A secre-
tary will remain to conduct the business of the
leption.

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, SATURDAY.
In yesterday's sitting of the Reicharath the com-
mittee presented its report on the state of the
finances, which it declares to be most unfavor-
able.

The committee also pronounces itself against the
pira;conversion of interests.
cim Plener, Minister of Finance, stated that
the account given by the committee of the state of
the finances was exaggerated. The Minister, how-
ever, acknowledged the necessity for a change hi
the system.
M. dfaager said that the question of currency
could only be solved by the creation of proper
inatitutious.

Count Rechberg, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, declared that the ministry was not au-
thorised to follow the discussion on that ground.
Count Clam Martine:, the reporter of the com-
mittee, denied that the ootnmittee had taken too
gloomy • view of matters and claimed a change
of the system which had been fo"owed up to the
present time.
The report of the committee was in the end
unanimously adopt. d.

PRUSSIA.
COBLENTZ, SATURDAY.
Acoording to reliable information, Baron Yon
Schleinita will hare a ocaaerenoe at this place? on
the 9th October, with Lord John Rummell, who rto
accompany her Majesty Queen Victoria.

EXPRE3B FROM

iirsaii ova owi

PARIS, PE/DAY EVENING.

The teleg.aphic news from Central Italy is pub-
lished to-day, and it is said—but the truth of the
statement is doubted—that the wires are cut. The
Opinion Nationek, which sometimes has peculiar
means of obtaining information from the seat of
war, mentions a rumour that Ancona is already
partly taken, owing to the successful fire of Ad-
miral Pae'an's vessels. It moreover notices
rumours that both the Pope and the King of
Naples resolved upon flight the moment they heard
of Lamoricibre's defeat. As to the King, I think
this news more than probable, but with regard to
the Pope I have great doubts. He is an obstinate
old man, and he has over and over again told his
friends that, come what may, he will never leave
Rome again. It would be a glonmis thing if he
could be induced to go.
Although the Official Gazette of Turin of the 20th
denied in the lump all news relatiig to pretended
letters, either written or received by Kin Victor
Emmanuel, and although this contradiction must
be understood as applying especially to the state-
ment that Garibaldi had asked the King to dismiss
Count Cavour, the COMfitutionnti of this day pub-
lishes a Turin letter of the 18th, affirming that
Captain Trecchi, one of Garibaldi's officers, had re-
turned to Naples with the King's answer to that
very letter. The correspondent, moreover, pro-
fames to know the subetance of what the King said,
and prelecta about it as follows :
This answer—which was e.itten About consulting
ministers, since it related to questions personal to them en-
I tirely—upholds the dignity of the cross a. Victor Emmanuel
'peaks in the tone of a sovereign justly offended both as a
man and a king. He rem'-ids Garibaldi of the firmness
with which he has ever roasted the suggestions and in-
enema of foreign powers, even when they were of a
threatening character, and declares that be will certainly
not give way to the strange pretensions of a man whose
head seems to be turned by success.
1 It is not yet loos., (the letter goes on to say) what effect
the royal answer will produce. If Garibaldi persists in his
projects, and • he should attack Rome while the Pope and
the French are still there, the King's goverrment will resist
say such attack at all bwirds. K‘ng Victor F-omanuel he •
put himself at the head of the Italian movement to domin-
ate and prevent the revolution, and not to second it.
For my own part I am more inclined to believe
the Official Gazette of Turin than this correspond-
ence in the Constitutiwine/. It is unfortunately
true that there are differences between Cavour
and Garibaldi, but it is most improbable that the
King should have written in the way supposed to
a man who has just conquered two kingdoms for
him. It is moreover to be remarked that accord-
ing to a recent report one of the excuses offered
by Sardinia for the invasion of the Roman states
was that Garibaldi had threatened to march upon
Rome, " unless " the Piedmoutese troops would
occupy the Marches and Umbria. It would follow
from this view of the case that Garibaldi does not
at present entertain the intention of attacking
Rome.

There bas been a very extraordinary rise at the
Bourse. The money articles of several of the Paris
papas attribute the upward movement of the last
three days not to the bond fide iufiuunco of any
political events, but to the netmeuvres of sowe
heavy speculators who have an jtunteuse interest in
keeping up the market, and who are clever enough
to get false news accredited. I cannot tell how
this may be, but it is cm..ain that there are abun-
dant rumours to-day of a very problematic charac-
ter. The invitation of Napoleon 111. to Warsaw—
a congress—the flight of the Pope, were all eagerly
talked of. A more tangible piece of news is that
given by the Mondeur de l'Arnsie, that there is
nothing to prevent the usual six months' furloughs
from being granted this lit of October. The
Rent, rose 500. for cash, and 40c. fur account,
closing very strong indeed at 138fr.50c. and 08fr. bbc.
Mobilier rose Ilfr. 25c. Railways were all in
great request. Orleans rose llfr. 25e. ; Lyons,
10fr. ; and the other lines 21r. or 3fr.
The Pays is instructed to say that Count de
Rechberg's new circular about the States of the
Church is not a "protest," but an explanation of
the Austrian views on the subject.
Although the departure of M. Nig:a for Tur;-1 ie
announced both by the Pays and Patrie, be has
not yet actually left Paris. I believe, however,
that he will go in order to respond diplomatically
to the recall of Baron Talleyraud and leave his em-
bow in the hands of a charge des affairsa—a step
which it appears is indicative of many degrees
greater coolness than if it were left with a diary.
d'atfaires.
The Count of Syracuse has srrrived in Paris.
The family of General de Pimodan having asked
the Piedmontese government to allow his body to
be brought to France for interment the request
was at once complied sith, and it is announced
that tie remains will arrive at Turin to-morrow,
land be sent on to Paris in the charge of a chapla,n
of the pontifical army. General de Pimodan was
a wag of good family and large fortune.

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