The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 19, 1868.

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the authorities of all but functional les or depend-
ents, " form the national defence of lib Tty, the
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potent and
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find them flocking
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happy like Ceres, she showers plenty and peace around,
and the Continent is at rest in a bright halcyon. Hence
it is that we hope and believe in all sympathy with the
French people, that the enthusiastic cheers with
which the National Guard hailed their EMPEROR and his
son on Friday last were the genuine outbursts of a con-
viction that NAPOLEON and the Napoleonic dynasty are
the avatars of their great and glorious nation. The
ilasrason's
.Pte has the same significance, and France
making merry for such an " idea" is a spectacle which
must call forth the respectful and even affectionate sym-
pathies of Europe. Thefite of the ENPEROE must have
recalled the whole policy of NAPOLEON 111. from first to
last in the memory of every thoughtful Frenchman. And
it is a theme on which he might well reflect with honest
pride and exultation.
And so on, and so on. There is not a single
black spot on the EMPEROR'S policy to the eye of
this indiscreet admirer; everything is for the
best, " not excepting that wretched Mexican
" expedition, or the Papal protection question,"
to use his own choice language.. But the crowning
triumph, of course, is the undeniable fact that
the subscribers to the loan wt're eager to pay into
the Treasury a sum sufficient to pay off the Eng-
lish national debt if M. MAGNE would only have
taken their money. Surely it is to he regretted
that the writer of all this Imperial English is
not allowed as an Englishman to wear the ribbon
of the Legion of Honour at his button hole. Per-
haps, however, the inspirer of thew, strains does wear
it ; this is only, we must remember, an " original
" adaptation " into English. In the face
of the surrounding facts of the poli-
tical situation of Europe, the enormous
ar moments, the universal uneasiness and dis-
trust, the uncertainty of what to-morrow
may bring forth, it may be reasonably asked
whether un apologist who improves upon his
instructions in this excited fashion is not one of
those injudicious friends from whom the Emperor
NAPOLEON should pray to be saved. One ob-
vious defect of such tirades is that, like
the figures of M. MAosu's loan, they
prove too much. It may be easy to presume on
the English reader's ignorance of the compo-
sition of the French National Guard under the
Empire. But the English taxpayer knows by bitter
experience what the restoration of the Napo-
leonic Empire has cost him in war estimates,
and if he has to thank it for the institution of the
Volunteers it can only be in the sense in which he
thanks the dangerous classes of London for the
institution of the police. No intelligent person on
this side of the Channel, however slightly ac-
quainted with the history of the last twenty
years, can hesitate to pronounce which
was most pacific in its policy and its ten-
dencies—the Republic of '4B, or the Second Em-
pire of I R.i2. " When France is contented,
" prosperous, and happy like CEREs," we are told,
" she showers plenty and peace around, and the
" continent is at rest in a bright halcyon." This
is very pretty talk for a boursier, and we would not
for the world be so rude as to whisper " don't
"be flowery, JACOB." Granted the premises,
what is the conclusion ? Does the Second Em-
pire shower peace around, and is the Continent at
rest in a bright halcyon ? To whom does Europe
owe its present ominous disquiet ? Who was it
that encouraged Count BISMARCK to fight Austria
in 1866 ? Who raised the Luxembourg question ?
Has not a decorated semi-official journalist of the
Second Empire informed the world what the loan
means ? " The unparalleled success of the loan,"
says that ingenuous young man, M. PAUL DE
CASSAONAC, " is a warning for the foreign ene-
" miss of France, who now know that she has
" 1,200,000 men in arms ready to take the field,
" and can get as many millions as she likes."
Who are these " foreign enemies" of the Second
Empire, save the enemies of its own making? It was
not an English journal that described the latest
loan as being one to provide for aggressive arma-
ments. It was the Minister of STATE, it was
the Minister of WAR, it was the Minister
of FINANCE, who told the Legislative
Body that the money was wanted to provide for
the cost of the new reorganization of the army
(doubling the effective and the reserve, and putting
every adult in France under arms), for the con-
struction and armament of the fortresses on the
German frontier, and for the general purposes of
warlike preparation. We have never blamed this
policy from the point of view of its
authors ; on the contrary, we have always
admitted that a Napoleonis empire has its exigen-
cies and its fatalities, and among the chief of these
the necessity Qf a military predominance, of em-
ploying an immense standing army, and keeping
it in good temper—of seeking incessant diversions
abroad from discontent at home. But the Napoleonic
point of view is not that of the British taxpayer.
Nor happily is it the point of view of that France
—that liberal, intelligent, and independent
France, which writers in the service
of Imperialism would fain confound with
the Second Empire. And, after all, perhaps the
best answer to the original adapters into English
of M. PAUL CASSAONAC'S rabid diatribes, is simply
to point to the recent election in the Jura, which
has so seasonably followed close upon the review,
the fête, and the loan. " Taken as a symptom of
" the public health of the French nation,"
says one of the Disraelite-Imperialist organs,
" the loan and the manner in which it
" has been subscribed is therefore vastly en-
' " couraging ; and correlated with the expressions
" of popular feeling at the review and at the fete
" the evidence in favour of the conclusion that
" France is contented and happy under NAPO-
" LEON 111., and loyal to his dynasty, is beyond
" question." In a style of equal beauty, and even
greater temerity, the Conatitutionnel assured the
electors in the Jura department a few days since
that the success of the candidate of the Liberal op-
position would be decidedly and distinctly " anti-
" dynastic," and a sign of hostility to the institu-
tions of the Empire. Yet, in the teeth of these
solemn warnings, of the combined pressure of the
Central Administration, of all the authorities, andof
ens:,
for th the whole host of functionaries in the department,
and of the priests, whose
man selected
e candidateby
had
therefir Gedovet4rrimmakz wORITY, the batonnier of the
French bar, the candidate of the Liberal opposition,
who was a Republican Prefect in '4B, who in the
National Assembly proposed a motion that must have
saved the Republic and made the Second Empire
impossible, who has declined for 16 years even to
take the oath indispensable to the qualifica-
tion of a parliamentary candidate, has been elected
by a majority of more than twelve thousand over
the candidate of the Government, by a constitu-
ency officially declared by the Minister of Public
Instruction to be " the beet educated in France,"
and composed almost entirely of that agricultural
population which is supposed to be particularly

devoted to the Nsiroi.toas. Facts like these speak
for themselves with a simple force mere el:muent
than the flowery prose of loan-jobbers. It is be-
came we know this France, this liberal France.
repireented by the intelligent and indepenient
major ity in the Jura to be emphatically the Franco
of the future, the France which at present, by all
its organs in the tribune and the press, demsnds
peace abroad, and liberty at home, that we would
rather be honoured with the abuse of our Impe-
rialist cent euiporarits on either side of the Channel
in company with such men as MONTALENRHUT,
BERRY/ER, JULES SIMON, EDGAR QUIKET, VICTOR
ilium, and others of that mixed but illustrious
company of free minds and souls, than strut in
the borrowed livery of the Pays and the Monitesr.

FOREIGN NEWS•

(THIS DAY.)

THE RETURN OF M. O1t1:V11

The French liberal journals are as delighted a 3
they are surprised at the result of the ele.•tion for
the drpattment of the Jura.
The Sik 1 e Nap; : _ . .

All other news pales before the great and triumphant
announcement from the Jura. All whom hearts beat for
liberty and democracy will share the manly joy with
which we register thin ormapicuousi victory. We had

strong hopes of suooess, but we confess we never reckoned
on such an awakening. Honour to the democracy of the
Jura.

The Tempe write* :

The great fact of the day is the result of the election in
the Jura. Great victory of the opposition. Grevy has
been returned by an i 11216011110 majority. Honour to the
electors of the Jura.

The Avenir National says;

All official news is petty as compared with a great fact
—tho election of M. Orevy. 11. Chevy, who represents
the ideas of 1848 in their highest and most energetic ex-
pression ; M. Chevy, the author of the celebrated amend-
ment which would subject the executive to the legislative;
Orevy; the iirecolscileible adyeesar'y of 'despotism ; M.
Grevy, whose very name is a programme for us militant
radios/a.

Quoting the letter of its correspondent at DOle,
the capital of the depaitment, the Arrnir sap!,
" the town is in an indeecribeble State of joy. It
is felt that the victory Will have an influence
throughout the whole country ;" and it winds up
with a vote of " thanks to the electors of the
Jura."
The Debars says :

The Coestitutionnet can now judge how badly it wa.s in-
spired when it desired that M. Grevy should be considered
an anti-dynastic candidate, and perhaps it will repent of
not haying taken our observations into account. We told
it that it bad no right thus to qualify a candidate who had
taken the oath required by the constitution—that it was
neither legal nor just ; and that by acting thus it gave a
very bad example, as it seemed to imply that the political
oath was a mere form, and of no consequence. But the
more we insisted on the seriousness of thepositlon assumed
by the Oottatittitiotrael, the more did it maintain its thesis
with a most strange blindness. Anti-dynastic ! That was
the suitable phrase as the "tarts lls creme" of Moliere.
What does it think now of the success of its logic I' M.
Orevy bas been declared to be an enemy of the dynasty,
and yet he has been elected by a majority of 12,000. Had
not this unfortunate word been employed, the result of
the election might have been explained away. It might
have been said, for example, that M. Gravy's voters were
not " friends of the first degree," but still they might be
friendsof the seoond degreetorperhaps of the "third." But
now there is no such consolation, for they have been by
this word " auti-dynastic" qualified beforehand as enemies
of the first degree. There is no getting out of it.

(INEorox azursa's AGENCY.)
SPAIN.
MADRID, Atrotray IS.

The Of Gazette of to-day announces that the
resignation/3 of the Prefect of Seville and the mili-
tary governor of Vittoria have been accepted.
A royal decree orders quarantine to be enforced
on arrivals from England.

NASSAU.
SCHWALBACH, Ammer 18, Sylmar°.
The Grand Duchess, Marie Feodorovna (formerly
Princess Dagmar of Denmark) left here at 7 o'clock
this evening for Wiesbaden, whence her imperial
highness will proceed to-morrow to Kissengen.

INDIA.

BOMBAY (Vu Biome* Jinx 28.

Affairs on the borders of the Persian Gulf are
again in a disturbed condition, in consequence
of piratical attacks by the chief of Babreit.
Her Majesty's ship Vigilant has gaffed to enforce
redress.

CALCUTTA, 3CLT 23.

Rain has fallen in the North-western Provinces
and the prospects of the harvest have generally
improved, although the cotton crop has suffered.
The number of officials applying for leave of
absence under the new furlough regulations being
very great, government has been obliged to sus-
pend the privilege in the case of civilians.

The Ilnyliehman reporta that Bhootan is again
in a disturbed state.

News has been received of the further progress
of the Bhamo expedition. Captain ?Baden and
his exploring party had arrived safely at Momeyn,
and met with a cordial reception from the Panthag
and the autho►ities.

CHINA.
HONG KONG, JULT 10.

The reports of the goldfields recently discovered
at Chefoo, in the Province of Shantung, are con-
firmed. A large rush of Chinese bent upon gold-
digging has taken place in that direction.
1,000 chests of damaged tea, ex ship Maitland,
have realised 6,000 taels.
The statement that the Governor of Macao had
been dismissed is contradicted.

The reply given by the Governor of Hong Kong
to the report of the Chamber of Commerce against
the granting of gambling licensee has given much
offence to the mercantile community.

c were resorted to on this oc;!iiiion. The
Prefect, sub-prefect, mayors, gendarmes, a.ii
yorths-rhenipctres, were nut lurking. in their a:-
enstoigrql zeal, and showed it in the a,•ca stoai^d
way. No electoral meetings were allowed. Tn..re
is no opposition journal in the department, tae•
three papera published in it all take their or lers
from the prefecture. Count de Ilrossia, ainin of
some local influence and a favourite with Cl-
priests, was induced to retire in favour of M.
Ifuot, so that the democratic victory is one ob-
tained over the coalesced forces of the govern-
ment and the clergy. Ho complete was the
rout that M. Huot only obtained a majority in a
single commune. In DOle, the capital of the
department, the figures were —Chevy, 1,3'1:1;
Iluot, 321. In the other three principal towns
they were as follow:—Arboia : Grevy, 1, ;
Huot, 103. Poligny: Orevy, 969; Huot, 336.
Mont St. Vaudroy : Orevy, 277 ; Huot, 22. But
although those small towns follow the example
of their more important sisters, Paris, Lyons,
Marseilles, &c., it is material to remark
that the Jura is essentially an al._Trieul-
tural district. The population of Dille is
not more than 12,000, of which there are scaroely
2,000 registered electors. It will be impossible
for the official journals to explain away the defeat
by the respectability of M. Grevy and his per-
sonal popularity in his native department, for
they have denounced him during the last week as
a candidate essentially anti-dynastic, and the
Prefect in a circular made use of the following
language :

Electors, you have before you two great principles
which are distinctly at issue. The one is the conservative
principle of the imperial government ; the other is the
principle of opposition to this government, and the revo-
lutionary idea, which are now beeking to raise their heals
and impose upon you forgetfulnem of all the sets which
constitute your political honour.

The Jura, as appears by the returns of the
Minister of Public Instruction, is the most
educated department in France.
Nothing since the election for Paris of Carnot.
Vidal, and De Flotte, which provoked the law of
May 31, will have created so much sensation
in government circles as the event of yesterday in
the Jura.

General Prim has suddenly left Vichy without
completing his course of waters, and passed
through Paris on his way to London.
The Bourse maintains yesterday's rise : there is
very little change in quotations.

The Count de Paris and family have been staying:
at Shanklin, in the Isle of Wight.

A French journal, in speaking of 31r. Glaibtone,
calls him the Honourable Earl Gladstone.

In consequence of a report made by the Com-
mittee on Fortifications, the Emperor of the French has
raised three forts now in course of construction at Met/ to
the first rank amoug places of war. The forts, which are
detached works, are those of the Carrires, of St. Julien.
and of Quen

The Archbishop of Ghent has been requested by
the King of the Belgians to order public prayers for the
preservation of the life of the Crown Prince. Similar in-
structions have also been given to the clergy in the diocese
of Li4e.

The Emperor of Russia has ordered that in Sep-
tember of 1869 there shall be held at Moscow a general
exhibition of Russian horses of from four to eight years
old. Upwards of 60,000 fr. and a number of medals are to
be allotted as prizes.

The journals mention the death of the Duchess
d'Abrantes, at Paris, after a long and painful illness.
General de Moltke, who is at the head of the
Prussian general staff, accompanied by a numerous suite
of officers, has recently visited the scenes of the several
battles of Uettingen, Hammelburg, and Kissingen.
Among other innovations in the Prussian military orga-
nisation, which have been suggested by the experience of
the campaign of 1866, is the incorporation of the camp
tattlers and vivandieres into a regularly organised
body.
THE " SENILITY" OP THE CORPS LEOISLATIP.
—The Liberti makes a curious calculation as to the ages of
the members of the Corp. Legialatif. It finds Unit the
united ages of the 283 deputies amount to 16,014 years,
which gives an average of 561 years for each deputy. " It
is, therefore." says the Libertei, "the moat senile legis-
lature which has existed in France since 1789." Next in
order comes what is known in French history as the
Chembre introuvable. The average age of the opposition,
though it comprises old men like Berryer, Thiers, and
Marie, is 49.
CELEBRATION OF ST. NAPOLEON'S DAY IN
VIENNA. —A Te Deem was sung at Vienna on the 15th, in
the parochial church of St. Anne, in honour of St. Napo-
leon's Day. The Duke de Uramont, Ambassador of
France, was present with the members of the embassy,
and several Frenchmen of distinction. Among the other
persons who took part in the solemnity were the Marquis
Pepoli and M. de In Torre-Ayllon, ministers for Italy and
Spain, the Chevalier de Friedland, Commissioner for
Austria at the Universal Exhibition, and several Austrian
functionaries decorated with the Legion of Honour, who
bad oome spontaneously to show their sympathy for the
person of the French Eleswor.
PARISLAN RATS.—The collars of the Hales
Centrales swarm with enormous rata, but they have a
formidable enemy in M. Noel, to whom the business of
extirmination is entrusted, and which is effectually ac-
complished by terrier dogs. Two nighta a week these
nocturnal hunts take place, which last two or three hours,
in these vast subterranean arcades; the scene is curious
as well as exciting. On all sides these monstrous rats
flee from their natural enemies, the terriers, who pursue
them with relentless vigour, whose barking adds to their
dimity. These hunts are often attended with much
danger, as the rata, driven to bay, spring upon the men,
who are in many instances badly bitten. The bodies of
the largest of these animals are sold for their skins,
which it is generally believed are made into gloves, but
which the manufacturers deny. M. Noel receives a salary
of I,Boofr. a year.
CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—Yester-
day afternoon Mr. W. Payne, City coroner, held an in-
quest at St. Bartholomew's Hospital touching the death
of a kidlo-aged woman, name unknown. The evidence
prooki that on Sunday night last the deceased enter
nest-class carriage at the Dalston station of the North
London Railway. The train arrived at the Shoreditch
station about 10 minutes to 11 o'clock, and stopped for
passengers to alight. As the train was leaving the station
the deceased opened the door of the carriage she was in,
and was about to get out, when she was thrown with great
violence upon the platform of the station. Several of the
company's servants ran to her, and had her conveyed to
the hospital, where she died in a few minutes after ad-
mission, from fracture of the skull. Every inquiry had
been made in order to find out who the woman was, but
no one appeared to know anything about her. In her
pocket was found a second-class ticket from DaLston to
Shoreditch, some boxes of cigar lights, and 7d. in coppers.
She was respectably dressed, and was about 30 years of
age. The coroner said it was evidently the woman's own
fault, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
death."

FATAL BOAT ACCIDEXT oe t TRAMEB.--Nes•
terday afternoon, about half-past three o'clock, a serious
calamity occurred beneath one of the arches of Black-
friars Bridge, mauling the death of a woman, and en-
dangering the lives of her child and husband. The Wive
Rockford was proceeding from Westminster down the
river for a freight, and was passing underneath one of the
arches of Blackinars-bridge, when a hook attached to one of
the ropes which hung loosely from the rigging over the side
of the barge caught a chain which bound a number of planks
together at the side of the arch, to act le a fender for pre-
venting vowels running foul of the piles of the bridge, or
b entangled amongst them. As the barge pre.
celdmeete rope became tighter, until it caught the back
of a woman who was sitting on the hatch having child
in her arms, when both mother and child were precipitated
into the Thames. The screams of the other four children
who were on board drew the attention of the skipper
(Mr. CharlM Chapman), who was horrified to find his wife
and child ov of the woman, except her
head, being veitirdaer.d The frantic husband (matched the babe
from his wife's arms, living it into the care of one of the
boys on deck, and then umped into the boat in tow of the
barge, with a view of rescuing the mother, but was too
late, as she had sunk to rise no more alive. The wailing,
of the poor fellow, as he hugged the babe to his breast
and stared wildly at the river which had made him a
widower, were piteous in the extreme. The accident
having occurred about an hour after high water, the ebb
tide would carry the body away so rapidly as to make it
difficult to know where to searth. Deceased was only 29
years of age, and resided with her husband and five
children at No. 70, Broadwall, Stamford-street, Ltmbeth.
The husband is 40 years of age, and the children range
Fineetively 16 months, 21, 5,8, and 8 years. The barge
at Redden's Wharf, &rabid*, about an hoar after
accident had occurred.