The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23,

Mobilier has been admittedly faulty. The
funds of the company have been locked up in
securities that it is impossible to realise without
considerable delay, and many investments have
been made which will probably be of value in the
future, but aro now worth comparatively little or
nothing. There must have been both over-specu-
lation and imprudence, especially as regards the
works undertaken in Spain. Still there is some-
thing to be said with regard to the latter country.
Some years ago it seemed as if Spain had fairly
emerged from the old chaos of chronic revolution
mid financial misery into which she has unhappily
again fallen. If better times supervene, the
Credit Mobilier may yet find their Spanish ven-
tures more profitable than even originally antici-
pated. The same may be said of many other of
their securities. If the company have from any
cause parted with their money too readily, they
have at least something to show for it. Houses,
canals, and railways may for the time be unremu•
nerative, but they nevertheless represent a solid
tangible property, the value of which
cannot be extinguished as easily as a dis-
honoured bill. Herein lies the distinction between
the directors of the Credit Mobilier and those of
Overend, Gurney, and Co. The latter took over
as a good asset a quantity of commercial paper
which it was hopeless to expect could ever be
worth anything. They likewise, we regret to say,
concealed the fact from their intending shareholders
—a point upon which it is unnecessary to remark,
since it has received strong condemnation from
the highest judicial authority. The lost capital
of 1,500,0001., without counting the call that is
now being enforced (from which the shareholders
will be fortunate if they get any appreciable return
even at a most distant period), is represented by
'overdue hills, the greater part good for nothing;
the remainder of infinitesimal and problematical
value.

It must be a matter of some surprise that the
commercial classes in France are so little affected
by the difficulties of the Credit Mobilior. As far,
however, as merchants are concerned, the affair
could hardly have happened at a moment when
they were better able to meet it. Their out-
standing engagements are few, money is over-
abundant, and the rates of discount scarcely
higher in Paris than in London. In May, 1866,
levents might have turned out differently, although
even then some adverse rumours'which were afloat,
both in France and on the Continent generally,
created little effect. The reason of this apparent
apathy is that French traders know perfectly well
that the Government will not allow credit to be
imperilled by the stoppage of any establishment,
however large. If by any moans they can assist
trade in critical times, they will not scruple to do
it, no matter what means it may be necessary to
adopt for that purpose. Our Government proceed
more cautiously, and thus, without intending it,
often contrive to sacrifice public interests to a
worthless theory.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

ITALIAN' AITAIR3.-GARIBALI,I AND ROME.

If both M. Itattazzi and Garibaldi are as good as
their word, we may look, the Times reminds us, for some
sorrowful catastrophe before the present month comes to
its close. Garibaldi is pledged to go to Rome on the first
cooling of the weather. For the last three months he has
been possessed by 016 thought, he has given utterance to
but one word—" He must go to Rome." And M. Rattaui
is pledged to prevent him. Garibaldi himself has pro.
claimed that he goes to Rome not hoping to conquer, but
determined to die. Italy, he thinks, can only be redeemed
by sacrifice. It was the martyrdom of the Bendier& and
and Piaacane that brought Garibaldi to Naples as an
avenger. Let Garibaldi's blood flow in its turn, it will
equally work out the deliverance of Rome. His chances
of success can lie only in the defection either of the Papal
or of the royal troops. A word from the Emperor Napoleon
would smooth all the ground before him. Without a
tacit or explicit permission of this kind, the hero of
Marsala has no chance of ousting the Pope ; and it seems
probable that the Emperor is so thoroughly convinced of
the approaching natural death of the papacy that he will
allow nothing to disturb it.
Sketching the acts of the Italian parliament, the Daily
News selects for special remark the bill which is now in
operation for the secularisation and sale of the church
property. By this measure all ecclesiastical corporations
bemire creatures of the state's bounty or sufferance, all
mooastio establishments are dissolved, the monastic
habit forbidden, the regular absorbed into the secular
clergy, and both treated as salaried servants or pensioners
of the Ministry of Public Worship. As a financial °pert,.
tion, the machinery fur the secularisation of the church
lands is being put in motion by Signor Rattaui with
extraordinary success, justifying that minister's confidence
in the capacity of his countrymen to become thepurchasers
of the expropriated lands without the intervention of
foreign capitalists. The competition is as sharp as if the
lots were thousands of English acres, and the purchasers
English millionaires But, after all, even when 20,000,0001.
sterling worth of the church lands have been paid for, Italy
will still be living on her cApind, and not on her income, so
long u her government hesitates or neglects to lay the axe
to the root of a ruinous administration.

The Post says Garibaldi is playing the game of reckless
agitators, and that the stake involves the fortune of
Italy. The way he would take is inaccessible, and in re-
tiring from it he would once more, and most effectively,
serve his country.

The Telegraph thinks that if Garibaldi should perse-
vere his prospect is gloomy in the extreme. Painful as the
tuk of attacking him may be, it believes that even in
Italy public opinion will support the authorities.

THE MANCHESTER COMMISSION ANI, THE URICKMAKING

TRADZ.

The Time+ regards it as now proved, by the evidence
taken by the Manchester Commission, that the whole
trade of the district, in all its details, is subject to the ab-
solute dictation of the unions. The union, and the union
alone, decides by whom the bricks are to be made, how
they are to be made, and even where they are to be used.
The trade is subject to the control of an absolute de-
spotism, the decrees of which are enforced by violence.
Those who wonder at the want of resolution in
the masters should recollect the ferocity and cruelty
by which the unions enforce their laws, which are
even more conspicuous at Manchester than at Sheffield.
The Times asks what working teen generally have to say
to these revelations. The Manchester workmen declare
that the masters shall not sell, nor the public boy, except
just as they choose to dictate. Which side will the work-
ing men in general take in such a dispute—that of freedom,
or that of the despotism of their own class! The issue
before us is daily narrowing, and the unions will soon have
to declare themselves.

Quoting some of the worst cases elicited by the commis-
sion, the Standard says—" The n.en who promote such
conduct should not be sheltered under the euphonious title
of nnioniets. They are sanguinary bandits. We begin to
agree with Mr. Forster. We are sick of confessions wrung
from criminals by promises of pardon. It is too late to
hang Broodhesul and Crooke', but we should much like to
catch some other felon red-handed, and make this wide-
spread community of Thugs comprehend that the public
conscience has nut yet grown too sensitive to swing scoun-
drels out of the world."

• voice in parliament, bat for power over legiel•
tion. To specialise their representation would put
them in the position which the class which is man
afraid of them desires that they should occupy. Bet
if, ou the contrary, the working dames take their place
in the ranks of political parties, they may affect the whole
policy of dose parties, and the whole liberal school may
be placed ►t their service so far as their special require-
ments and opinions harmonise with the universal
welfare. Instead of • voice to plead for them in the pre-
sence of power, they would have a share in that power
Itself. We do not want more class representation, but the
merging of all such distinctions in a national party of pro-
grams'.

Chr Court.

BALMORAL, Sam SO.

The Queen drove out yesterday, accompanied
by Princess Beatrice, and attended by Lady Churchill and
the Hon. Harriett Phipps.
Princess Christian went out driving with M. and Madame
Van de Weyer.
Sir Thomas and the Hon. Lady Biddalphhad the honour
of dining with the Queen and royal family.
Dr. Norman Macleod arrived at the Castle yesterday on
a visit to her Majesty.

SErr. 21.

The Queen went out yesterday morning, accompanied
by Princess Louise, and in the afternoon drove out with
Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold.
PAW* Christian and Prince Arthur went out shooting.
Mr. Cathorne Hardy and Dr. Norman Macleod had the
honour of dining with the Queen and royal family.

Despatches ware received on Saturday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of Bermuda, Prince Edward
Island, and Newfoundland. Despatches were sent to the
Governor of the Bahamas and to the Governor-General of
Canada.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Queensberry
and the Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings closed their
visit to the Duke and Ducheu of Rozburghe at Floors
Castle, on Thursday, to join the company assembled at
Eglinton Castle, at the invitation of the Earl and Countess
of Eglinton, for the western meeting at Ayr.

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The Earl and Countess of Russell and Lady
Agatha Russell have left Beuborcugh House, where they
had been staying several days, for Thomastown Castle, on
a visit to Count sad Countess de Jarnac.

Lady Molesworth is on a tour of visits in Scot-
land. Her Ladyship will pass through town in the middle
of October, en route for Pencsuros, Cornwall.

Mr. W. E. Forster, DL P., left England last week
for a short tour to Constantinople and Asia Minor.
The funeral of ex-Lord Chancellor Blackburn()
was celebrated on Saturday. The remains were removed
from Rathfarnham Castle, and interred in Mount Jerome
Cemetery. A very large cortrge, extending half a mile,
followed the hearse. The chief mourners were Messrs.
William Blackburne, Edward Blackburn, John Black-
burne, and T. R. Henn. In the second coach were Messrs.
Frank Henn, F. Daniels, F. Martley, and Richard Webb.
In the third were Messrs. John Webb, Francis Webb
Thomas Hopkins, and William Martley; and the fourth
coach was occupied by the domestic servants.

Mr. Benjamin Webster reminds his critics that
to have placed Romeo and Juliet on the stage with entire
new sanely and dresses for the three nights in which
Miss Kate Terry appeared in it would have been a dead
loss, which be must have been " brainless" to have in-
curred. The Adelphi is now closed, it seem, for the par.
pose of renovation, and this fact Mr. Webster thinks is an
answer to those who have attacked him, because at the
close of his season, proverbially the longest theatrical
season in London, his benches h►ve become soiled.

Replying in the Times to a letter of Mr. John
Hardy, M.P., Mr. T. Robinson, whose servant was SA-
saulted by Mr. Hardy, flatly denies that he has ever an-
noyed Mr. Hardy or received any complaint whatever from
him. But between 1860 and 18(4, he nays, there was some
difference between Mr. Hardy and Mr. Robinson, see.
" Knowing," writes Mr. Robinson, "as I and others who
have the misfortune to have Mr. Hardy for a neighbour do,
too well his tenacious and quarrelsome disposition on the
subject of game, I have always been moat careful myself
and have given my men the strictest orders to avoid giving
him the slightest cause of offence."

Mr. Alfred Barry challenges Mr. E. W. Pugin
to bring his charges before an impartial tribunal, such as
the Council of the Institute of British Architects. The
Times refuses to insert any more letters on the subject,
The meetings of the Social Science Association
were continued at Belfast on Friday and Saturday. Dr.
Andrews, Vice-President of the Queen's College, Belfast,
delivered an address on the subject of education. He con-
cluded an historical retrospect by expressing his dissent
from the compulsory system of Northern Germany, and
by contending that the National Board had accomplished
a great work in Ireland. The opinion which Lord Duf-
ferin expressed with reference to the expediency of smut-
rating the church from the state in Ireland had, as we
stated on Saturday, the effect of inducing Sir Thomas
Bataan, one of the vice-presidents of the association, to
resign that office. His lordship defended his right to
express his sentiments on the Irish church, and pointed
out that in doing so he compromised no one else. Many
interesting papers on education, international law, and
other importimt subjects were read.

On Saturday, at Kingstown, large government
placard., headed " Wilful Murder," were posted, setting
forth the particulars of the Manchester nature, and the
rewards for the apprehension of the ringleaders.
Concluding a sketch of the career of Sir Robert
Napier, the Times observes :—" Thum each step of pro-
motion to his present place has been well and hardly won.
The popularity with which Sir Robert Napier is regarded
in the army ham steadily increased with his reputation. A
splendid horseman—good horsemanship and great power of
bodily endurance are valuable gifts in a general—he has
won the hearts of the traops under his command by his
love of justice and his kindly sympathy and consideration
for the soldier, while every member who has ever been on
his staff during active service will be ready to offer a tri-
bute of affectionate admiration for his gallantry and AUL
If wise selection of a fit general can insure success, the
Abyssinian expedition will not be a failure."

An account has been received of a melancholy
accident at Killarney, by which an English gentleman has
lost his life and another has been severely injured. They
were driving in a car near kluckroas, when the branch of a
tree which was being cut down fell on the car on which
they sat, killing one of them on the spot and inflicting
serious injury on the other.
Information has been received of the intended
release from prison of Augusta Ann Mitchell. A tempo-
rary home has been provided for her through the kindness
of Mr. E. W. Thomas, the secretary of the London Female
Reformatory Institution.

The Rev. W. Richardson, the clergyman of
Miles Platting, the parish in which Sergeant Brett, the
murdered policeman, lived, asks for contributions for the
widow and children. The rev. gentleman gives the de-
ceased the best of characters. He had frequently been
desired by his friends to retire on his pension (he was 52
years of age and had been about 21 years in the service),
but always refused on the ground of duty. It is to be re-
membered that a sense of duty—his refusal to give up the
keys of the police van—cost the poor fellow his life.

A week or two ago an advertisement appeared in
the Vienna journals announcing that • young lady was de-
sirous of forming a matrimonial alliance with a man of
good fortune. She had, she acknowledged, nothing at
all ; but then she was beautiful, accomplished, and of
cheerful, amiable disposition. Another now appears, in.
imitable in its beautiful simplicity :—" A lady, belonging
to the higher nobility, who has lately become a widow, and
who, since her husband's death, has been deprived by un-
fortunate events and by confiding trust of • fortune once
considerable, wishes to make the acquaintance of • rich
gentleman with whom, when united, she would be enabled
to satisfy those claims on life which she formerly enjoyed."
One of the last official acts of General Sickles
was to name a well known negro, Beverly Nash, to be •
police magistrate in Columbia, South Carolina.

Some of the Paris papers mention a report that
several French officers belonging, or who have belonged,
to the army of Africa are to be attached to the Abyssinian
expedition.

It is announced that Dr. Nelaton has resigned
his profeaaorahip at the Faculty of Medicine oa amount of
bad health.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE ROMAN QUESTION.

The Italian journals speak of a meeting of Geri-
bal(han officers at Florence, at which an insurrec-
tionary movement at Rome was spoken of as certain
immediately the Garibalclians reached the frontier,
and say it was decided that the enterprise on their
part should be entered upon as soon as possible,
the exact date and means being kept at present a
secret. We have also a report of a meeting between
Rattazzi and Garibaldi. The latter told the minis-
ter that as the; Italian government was fettered
by the September Convention the Roman question
must be settled by volunteers. The minister de-
dared to the general that the government were re-
solved to prevent the passage of the frontier at any
cost ; when Garibaldi replied with warmth
that any compromise with Rome was worse than
absurd, that the expedition of which he was the
representative had no object against the flag
saluted by the whole of Italy, and that all that was
desired was to plant that flag in the capitol.
Letters from Bologna speak of great agitation
in the barracks, and of the despatch of fresh sol-
diers to the Pontifical frontiers.
Thu ltaliau Gazette affirms that the Italian
government has received from the representatives
of England and Prussia an assurance of the strong
disapproval which is felt by those powers of any
project against Rome.

(azirna's TELNARAII.)
ITALY.

FLORENCE, Seer. 22, Erzmixo.

Several members of the Left had a meeting this
morning to discuss the present political situation,
and another meeting will be held to-morrow.
The Florence Gazette says that a telegram has
been received stating that the official declaration
published yesterday on tthe Roman question had
everywhere been favourably received.
The Opinione announces that the pontifical
government has retired from the province of
Frosinone. Nearly all the papal troops are con-
centrated at Rome.

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FPNEDOM OF DISCUSSION IN FRANCE.

LETTER FROM GEORGE SAND.
4 Madame George Semi in the preface to a romance
which she is now pu ,ln the Rowe des Deux Monda,
under the title ell.u:Gadio," relates an episode of the days
of the June insurrection, which has created a good deal of
talk at Paris. The passage in question was repro-
duced by some journals and commented upon by
others. Amongst the latter are the Nisi,' Jaunt and
the Soled, and a government prosecution has corn
'fleeced against them. On this subject Madame Sand
writes to the Liberte of to-day as follows:
" I bear with the greatest surprise that some journalists
are threatened with actions for having extracted a
fragment from the preface to the romance of " Csdio,''
of which I am the author. If this passage is
dangerous, which I do not believe, why are those
who have quoted it more blameable than she who
wrote it? Will it be said that in relating an historical fact
hitherto untold, there is any wish to revive slumbering
hatreds? In reading the whole of the preface, and the
whole of the romance of " Cadio," it is easy to see
that the object of the work is diametrically opposed to
inch an intention ; that the author is, as it were.
withdrawn from her work in order to let
history speak, and history proves that the holiest causes
are often lost when men are carried away by the delirium
of vengeance. If horror of cruelty, from whatever side, has
ever pained and troubled a human soul, I may say that the
romance of " Cadio" is rent from that wounded spirit, and
that the author, to preserve her faith, has had to struggle '
against the terrible spectre of the put. It is impossible
to study certain epochs and to visit the spots where certain
atrocious scenes took place, without being tempted to pro-
scribe the spirit of contest and to aspire for peace at
any price. But "peace at any price" is a delusion ; and
what is gained by cowardice is but a ferocious destruction
which refuses even the miserable I enefit of a linger-
' ing death. It is not, then, by the sacrifice of human dignity
that one will ever be enabled to secure rest ; it is by free
discussion, and by that alone, that men can be fitted to en-
gage in social struggles without feeling a horrible wish to
cut each other's throats. Let discussion be really esta-
blished in order that it "may become impartial. Every
stilling of thought, every effort to suppress truth, will raise
storms, and the storms will sooner or later sweepaway those
who provoke them. Shall it be said that we must not
seek in a too-recent past the teachings of history' Where
then, shall we find them better adapted to the need we
have of profiting by them? Is it the Greeks and the
Romans who will reveal to us the dangers and hopes
of our future? Their historic course and the philosophic
idea of their destiny are not applicable to us; and, more-
over, it is always in the experience of hi. own life that
man finds power to conquer himself or to develop himself.
Why should a government that sprung from our most re-
cent struggles, the revolutions of 1789 and 1848, take
part for or against the actors in • drama in two
parts, both of which have been profitable to it?
And then, beware of prosecutions against history ; for in
wishing to hinder what she might do, you would do it
yourselves with a publicity, an idol, and • noise which we
have not ad our command. No one can cherish a
hope of suppressing the put. God himself would
not be able to undo it. What purpose was
served by the desperate prosecutions of the restoration
against you, gentlemen, who are now in power? They did
you the service of making you victims, and leading to you
the liberalism of that epoch. islake,*then, no victims, unless
you wish not to turn us into friends. Leave history to
create itself by means of discussions and teaching.
by polemics and literature ; thus only will she
unfold herself with the calm which you prescribe. Do not
compel her to be unuttered save when supported by her
terrible armoury of proofs. There would be too much of
this, and you would yourselves be terrified at the docu-
ments which the present has placed in reserve for the
future. History would make itself too quickly, and we
are the first to wish that it may come at its own time, like
every serious addition to human knowledge.

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RKMAR%6.

Fresh south-westerly winds have been blowing on our eastern
coasts. and rain has fallen on most part. of the WHIM Islands
since Saturday. This morning the winds In the Channel arc
fresh from the westward. A strong south-westerly wind pre-
calls at Holyhead. The region of greatest barometrical
pressure is on the west coma of France .alatenths of an inch
greater than at Leith', where temperatures are lower than In
England. Fog stkU continues In the hay of Elscay. Weather
generally overcast.

The Roman oOmerratore regards the discomfiture
of the Peace Congress at Geneva as a new glory for the
papacy, and informs its readers that even in London2oo,ooo
catholics rose up at once with the cry of " Viva Pio 1X.,"
and drove away those who sought to insult the head of the
church. " London and Geneva," lays the Roman journal,
" no longer belong to Henry and Calvin. We may now
say, without any exaggeration, that they belong to l'ius
IX., and that oven there the successors of the impure king
and the lewd priest abandon the field to the successors of
the Fisherman of Galilee. Thus the city of Peter, the city
of Henry, and the city of Calvin have bowed at the same
time to the papacy. What triumph could be more splendid
for the church and the papacy ? oi, yes ; let us rejoice
and thank with our whole hearts the Providence of God
who allows us to assist at similar victories of His church
and His vicar on earth."

According to the A remit* Natiouo I, the settlement
of the affsirs of the late BlAcimilian has led to unpleasant
disputes between the Austrian and Belgian royal families,
and even a pron's between them is regarded as probable.
The point chiefly in litigation is whether the Archduchess
Charlotte or the Archduke Francis Charles, uncle of the
deceased, should be named ge eral legatee.

Three of the Spanish refugees write to the
Si; err to deny that the late meeting of their number which
WWI held at Paris was intended to impugn the conduct
of General Prim. All that took place showed once more
" that General Prim is still the courageous and persever-
ing patriot who shrinks from no sacrifice that can contri-
bute to the improvement of his country."
kTII or Mn. F. 0. Tomi.tms. —The intelli-
gence of the decease of this well-known journalist, who,
after a short illness. expired on Saturday night, in his
sixty-third year, will be received in those literary circles
where ho was so widely known and so greatly esteemed
with a profound feeling of regret. Mr. Frederick Guest
Tomlin', who bad for nearly half a century been inti-
mately connected with the newspaper and periodical press,
was a gentlemen of high attainments, especially versed
in the older dramatic literature of this country, and of •
vivacity of temperament that rendered his company
eagerly sought by those who had the privilege of his
acquaintance. He was for many years the secretary of the
Shakspeare Society, and at the time of hie death he held
the clerkship of the Painter-Stainers' Company, Little
Trinity-lane, an office which members of his family had
honourably filled for more than • oenturz._
THE TICK/101M BARONETCY.—The Australian
claimant to the title and estates of the Tichborne
baresetage last week arrived at Alresford, and was re-
ceived with bellringing from the tower of the whit
church. He has Enos been the guest of Mr. W. W. Bub
pett, a county magistrate and Winchester banker, at his
residence at Airesford, and has joined in many shooting
parties wish the neighbouring gentry. He is expected to
remain in th • district for another week or ten days.
Several of the residents who bare not met bins in the field
bars celled upon him.

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