The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-01 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Avower 31.
• The Inman steamship City of Washington
arrived here, and the Cunard steamship Tripoli
at Boston, on Sunday. The Allan steamships
Germany and Hibernia arrived here to-day.
Closing Prices :—Gold, 1441. Sterling exchange
on London, 109. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882,
113„ ; ditto, 188.5, 111: ; 10-40 ditto, 108 Z.
Minois, 145 ; Erie, 461. Cotton, middling Up-
land, 30k. Petroleum, standard white, 31. Flour,
extra State, 8 dole. 20c. to 8 dole. 80c. Corn,
old mixed. 1 del. 24e.

JAMES SIETIIENS, 11IE FENIAII.—It is declared
that James Stephens, the bead centre and chief organiser
of Feniani.ni, has returned to Paris, where Le has resumed
his old moftssion as teacher of languages. His brief
career of glory, during which Diahmen at home and
abroad were only too glad to pay tribute to him, ended
with his singular escape from the Dublin prison. Whether
that escape was brought about by the ingenuity of his
Fenian friends, or by the design of the government for
the sake of making a better use of him, it destroyed the
illusion of martyrdom, and was fatal to his influence. lie
did not succeed in winning a very great place even among
Irish heroes, and the sudden collapse of his fortunes
shows how unsubstantial was the support be professed to
have when his reputation watt at the highest.—liosion
ddrerti*er, August 19.
A COITEE-STALL-KEErElell ACTION FOR DA-
MOM.— At the Liverpool assizes yesterday a Mrs. White,
who keeps a coffee-stall in London, sued a local painter,
named Davies, for damages sustained in conaequenoe of
cue of defendant's ladders having fallen upon and
injuring her when she was in Liverpool on a visit. The
jury gave a verdict for 7W.
Lose Or THE BARQUE ck:EANICA.—On Huntley
afternoon, about six titled', when the mail steamer
Mending°, from the West Coast 'of Africa. was off the
Great Ortashead, Captain Lowry fell in with the barque
Oceanica, in a sinking condition. The Oceanica left
Liverpool on Saturday last for Minunichi, and was left
off Holyhead the same night by the "team-tug Tartar.
Although the vessel was leaking when she left the dock
the captain pioceeded on his voyage. By the time she
bad reached the Irish coast the water gained rapidly, and
the master determined on putting back. The Oceanic&
was doing so when she was sighted by the Mending°,
which at once bore up for the distressed vessel.
Cu corning alongside, and whilst in the act of
clearing away a hawser to send on board, the
Oceanic& gave a plunge forward, and went down
instantly, head foremost. By the prompt action of
those on board the Mending° every person belonging
to the ill-fated vessel was saved. the crew were eleven
in number, and saved nothing but what they stood in,
the captain only saving his chronometer. The Goeanica
was owned in Belfast by Messrs. J. Lemon and Co.,
and was commanded by Captain Wright. Had the
Mandingo not hove at sight at the time, or even had
it been dark, it is feared that Captain Wright and his
crew would have shared the fate of their vessel. Great
praise is due to Commander Lowry, his offitarra, sad
crew, for the gallantry displayed in saving the crew of
the Omsurica.

PELIONAL GU VI LX FHANiI. —The
Garikis contains an article from the pen of Edmond
About, in which he passes in review recent French policy,
calls Swtiowa a greater reveres than Waterloo, and compares
the Mexican expedition to the conduct of a man who,
being entitled to 100 franca, claims 1,000, and throws his
debtor out of the window for not paying him. Who
desired this expedition I. be aska. It was neither agricul-
ture, commeris, nor industry. The tax-pavers did not
want expenditure increased, nor their wog hilted. The
nation went to war because, according to the coustitntion.
it cannot exprive its opinion on important affairs. France
is told to love this, detest that, and ober the word of
cyminand. French ((Adkins who fougiii against the
Austrians in Italy. fought for Maximilian in /devices and
whilst engaged there read in papers from Paris
that France was manipulating a Prima-Italian alli-
ance for the utter destructiou of the Home of
Hapslorg. Then came Naomi, and there went
up acry from the Tisilvies that all was lost, as the
ltritestatia hail 'Omit the victory. Jean Bonhomie ex-
claimed, "Ike politician( have been rip' ing it too fine,
and the thread has snapped.'• M. Abort then asks who
was to blame. "N(4 the nation. for it meekly regretted
the constitution which it meekly aisvoted. It allewod
the persons to whom it had entrusted the power of the
State to In what they pleased. It was nest the nation
%Lich played against Count Bisinarek end last. The
ration did nothing, and so eannot be spored of boring
Leen doled if others stipulated for compengatien.. the
mph u hoe t reit tit sot Ain Trite. were a sest(st letter for the
people. Whin you have given your authority to an ad.
'tutu: er who ruins yen, you cannot reproach him with
suilia sale. or purchase. or imprudence. Your only folly
is to have pitched un ench an agent and have invested him
with euthority. The agents of the French people may
have committed many faults, but as for the nation It only
committed one, and that long before &down
_

PALMTIZI2I;IIP Whol4l i‘ •rint Of
forintaint, Will be played this sfteinoon at ö o'clock.
A balloon event will alml take plate.
PATES? OPIPPOK HoTITIE KANIIWOTOV.
—lcaniter of visitors for the week ending Augnat 29,
10,340; total number Anon the opening of he Igitoeura
lies daily (Nay 12, 1&)$), 1,37.1,739.

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-A * itil ALM A rtir FeP lii.-L.APPAHs'Thi mrs.--
.• Capt.'. Henry Hiiivey', to the &Spits vice Moore ; Com-
mander Thee. Harvey Rare, to the Impregnable ; and
• Navigating Lieut. George T. Tomlin, to the Eclipse.
emir D TH OP ANOTHER PENINSULAR OFFICER.—TLS
d a General Alexander Fisher Macintmh, K.H.,
colon I of the Ihird (Sutherland Highlander%) Regiment of
Vont,i took place ou Friday last. The gallant general, who
was ig his 74th year, mitered the army, as cornet in the
3rd aogoon Guardr, in• Intl, and served in the Peninsula
from 'August, 1812, to the end of the war in 1814, in-
cludiU the retreat frog, Madrid to Salamanca, and action
at Alba de Tormes ; retreat of Ciudad Rodrigo and action
at tint Manes ; pans,e of the Tonnes above Salamanca,
and attacks on the trench rearguard under tieneral
Vitiate; action at Hernias& before urges, battle of Vit-
toria, investment of Panipeluna, action at Tarbes, attack
on the French cavalry rearguard at St. (landau, and
battle of Toulouse. Ile had received the war medal with
two deeps for Vittoria and Toulouse.

Yesterday was observed by the Baptists in South
London, according to previous agteement, as • day of
player, to which some added fasting. The centred prayer-
meeting wet held at the chapel in the Walworth-road,
whir* the services began at 7in the morning, and were
continued until oin the evening, when they were con-
cluded in favour of evening meetings in the separate
chapels. People were coining and going all day. Some
remaining ten minutes and some an hour or two.
WErthEYANIeN is Tits Wger Itronro.—A great
gathering of the Yerrkshire and Lancashire Worshiping
took place •at Ilkley, on Saturday, to witness the laying of
the memorial stone of a handsome new chapel that is to
be built there. The ceremony was performed by Mr. E.
Holden, of Bradford, who, with his father and brother, has
contributed 21:001. to the funds. In the course of his speech
be said the new place of worship would not be • chapel of
ease in connection with what was teemed the thumb as
by law established, but it would be a church established
accenting to the law of God. That was the kind of
church that they, as Wesleyan Methodists, wished to °stab-
lish. There was one thing ha very much deprecated in
dennection with this house of prayer, and that was that it
would be builain whiit was called the Gothic, Attie. He
wished to remind his harem- AM they bad now arrived
at a very critical period in their htstory. Up to the
pment time Wesleyan Methodists had kept aloof from
doing thtir duty in showing who should be the men to
make our laws; and he trusted that whatever county
did or did not do its duty as Wesleyan Methodists at the
coming elections, the Wesleyan Methodists of the West
Riding of Yorkshire would try to do their duty, and would
come up like men, and show by the aide they took
their determination as to the men who should make our
laws and rule and govern us. He was • member of the
Wesleyan Methodist Society ; he bad been brought up as
• Wesleyan Methodist, as had his parents before him, and
their parents before them. He had the greatest respect
for all Christian denominations, but he had no respect for
any denomination that was connected with the state.
He had no irepeet for any political church; he had only
respect for God's church—the church that was established
by the law of God.
Meaterisorr SEAMEN.B AsYl.l'st. —A general
half-yearly meeting of the governors of this institution
was held at the London Tavern yesterday, Mr. C. W.
Howell iu the chair. The bushier* of the meeting was to
elect 20 children. 12 boys and 8 gide, to be received into
the asylum at Knare:.brook. The chainnau in opening
the poll, said there were 83 candidates. Thirty-seven
votes bad been sent in blank, and these, according
to custom, would be divided in • er..: tate manner
among those children whose parents had been sub-
rcribers during life. Having warned those t
against trafficking in votes, he declared the poll (emu.
The following are the successful competitors: —Girls.—
Lizzie Annie Wait, 668; Emma Jane Jarman, 464; Mary
Ann Stone, 436; Sarah Lydia Hampton, 403; Catherine
Jane Giant, 402; Agnes Sarah Woodwek, 387' Alice
&DOD 337; Ann Henderson Bishop, 323. Boys.—
Robert diaries Bishop, 705; William T. Blacker Johnsen,
704 ; Walter Janne Howlett, 694; Fredk. James Clare,
689; Job Kelyuack Nicholls, 686; Thomas Winspear
leromen, 683; Charles William Gay, 672; Charles Fredk.
Shaw. 667; Arthur Roberta, 837* John Boiaton, 6t6 ;
Daniel Corneae, 621; James Henry'Stewart, 386. Mr. G.
Ward proposed, and Mr. Griffiths seconded, a cordial vote
of thanks to the chairman, and 'to those gentlemen who
bed given their time that day in counting the votes, and
who always took a lively interest in that excellent insti-
tution. The proposition was carried amidst cheers, and
the chairman having returned thanks, the process:dings ter-
minated.

ROYAL SEA-BATRING INFIRMARY, IifARCIATE.
The annual meeting of the governors of the above insti-
tution was bald yesterday at the Hospital, at Westbrook.
near Margate ' • Mr. S. Temkin* in the chair. The Rev.
Mr. Hodgson, the hon. secretary, read a long and tote-
reefing report of the working of the peat year. The total
number of patients under treatment had been 894, the
greater part being from London and its neighbourhood.
Of the above number more than half were discharged
cured, while the greet majority of the remainder left
materially benefited. The patients were of both
peace, and of all ages. There are 240 beds now in
the hospital, all of which are fully occupied during
the wester part of the year, and more than half the
number during the winter months, the institute now being
kept open for the whole year instead of the summer
months only. The report was adopted, and a vote of
thanks passed to the Rev. Mr. Hodgson for his valuable
Feivices. According to annual custom the hospital was
then thrown open for a public visitation, and a large
number of the visitors to Margate and Ramsgate availed
themselves of the opportunity of inapectiug it. At 3
o'clock in the afternoon a public meeting was held in the
dining ball, for the purpose of explaining the objects and
necklines, of the institution.
A NEW DTSINFECTANT.—The captain of is
foitit.m brig which recently arrived at New York from Rio
Janano was unable to find the bill of health given him by
the Awaken consul at that port. Ile was, however.
pet milted to come up to the city, by giving to the quaran-
tine officials a bag of coffee. The coffee, in such quantity,
prolaubly moved as a disinfectant. Would gold answer as
well in the eyt sof officials Boston Aker, fuer, Augustl9.
A BURGLAR STAIiItED BY A GENTLEMAN.—A
desperate affray with a burglar took place at Lyston. •
village about five miles from Leicester, early no Suuday
morning. A gentleman of independent lIICAUS (Mr.
Jo, oph Cooper Moore) who resides in a house near the
Village-green, was sleeping upon a couch in oie of the
lower rooms, and win awoke early on Mowery by noises
up stairs, and upon going to asrettain the clause he was
sure nod to find a pair of men's boob standiug in the
hall. These he threw into the toren he had just left, and
armed himself with a dagger from the sitting-mom. where
the gas which he bad turned down on retiring fur the
night was now turned on full. In awarding the stairs he
obectinal a man' standing on the lanilin.,•• near the bed-
room door, anued ith n sword (which he hail taken from
our of the bedrooms), and which he held by kii+ side. Mr.
Monte, without a umment's delay, rushed up, stabbed
the fellow through hi+ right ann, knocked hint
done, and again dabbed him wios near the
heart, the dagger penetrating the lungs. The
burglar having been thus disabled. the housekeeper
was aroused, and the wounded man was curried down
stain. The county conebilmilnry were quickly on
the spot, aoconipauied by Mr. Robinson, eleventh The
latter administered restoratives, and at h:df-pa 4 10 o'clock
permitted the removal of the burglar to Leicester. lie
was taken to the county police-office and thence to the
hithmsry, where he wits seen Ly Mr. Csissley soul the
house aUlgtoll. Some denger was at first apprehended,
but yesterday morning he was stated to be going 0„ &mu._
ably'. Some pieta, Bonin of Mr. Moore's wearing apparel,
and n quantity of other valuables were packed up is the
Miss ready for removal. The prisener states that his
wine is John Hoithey, and that he deserted fourteen days
ugo Rem the army. Ile war found to be branded with a
"D." Ile also aces red that he lay in the etinthhety at
the bark of the house until Le heard the policeman pals at
3 o'clock, andjle• n broke a pane of the Lack-room window
by it pi idea hfffT3s with his lingers. He was thus enabled
to unfasten the window, and there being no Annoys his
entrance was effected with the greatest ease.

RIMAITANT.— Irrs's COOOA. —lnvigorating.
FFI abler'. and tArtidortius. rpoplir4 by James If.ppa and Co..
eeea at& ebeinbota, b,Mnn. liar alanply with bolting raw,
or unit rol4I ony Ia labelled packwliir4ll4viiitwisoulf

At a meeting held at Witham on Thursday lad,
the Rem. J(.101 Estamorox the vicar of the parish, spars • '
es fellows :—lt is not, perhaps, a suitable thing for ass to .
be here, and I have to apologise for being here at all. Bat •
I have made up my mine to vote for Sir Thomas Western
•
and An Thome* Ahdy, and I consider it would have been
• COlll/ dly for me to slop away. (( ews.) I have, there- •
foie, come here to propose the only resolution that will be •
militated to this mee , which is an approval of Slr
Ttoreas Western and Sir Abdy at the nest ekes
ton. (Mean) I will tell yoe the reason why I feel it •
my duty to support them on this occasion. 'llse great
question which is now before the country I consider to be
a rely simple one, and it rwhether Mr. Disraeli or
Mr. Gladstone shall be prima minister of this coun-
try.. (Cheers.) That is the great question winch le
to be eiacided at the next election, and for myself I
Lava rho tilfEculty whatever in making my choice. and I
low jib- Thomas Western and Sir Tacoma early will •
1.0 u-thartd for the eonaty. (f'Meara, and • Yaks •--.' No.-• • ' '•
Es
'denbt'about it.") There are oue or two bits upon 7
whit h 1 will town Due,* wire regard to, a and
. itswei3Olitleal subjett;'the ochid is an ecae ' littsw- 'or
4,id rektor be thijulank
__Wilikawmatektg peat,
In op the Reform Bill. x root upon 'kr. thitstuu. OS a
cactism. .muservotive statmm lir (Ciacer .) Imu !li ap-
',mit.. of his Beform.Biil,.and I think the principle upon
whit: he wentwas a sound and true one, namely, to _
have extended the franchise by little and little, to ash! have
emu) ivhended a great umber of new electors at this
time. and after a few years, any ten years hence. to have
inn-educed a further number al they became tithe] for the
staple. of the franchise. Th4t, I oonsider, was the
princillo of Mr. Glaintone's Reform Bill, and that I
ceneids r to be a safe and etateemanhke prooceding.
((bmer..) But what, then, do the other side do l• They
were ready to •do anything without counting the cost or
considering the consequence*, so that they might make a
more decided move than their opponents. Lord Derby,
their great leader, bee himself described their policy so a
leap in the dark. ((.3prers.) I oonfees I think that is a
most unstatesmanlike saealing, and therefore I wish in
every way I can to support Mr. Gladstone, because I
tLiuk he is • tree conservative stateamaa. and I think
that it he is at the head of affairs it will be • great
blessing for this country. (Cheers.) With regard to
the ether point—the question of the future—it may be
thought a strange thing that I, as • clergyman, should
en)port Mr. Oladstone's policy with regard to the .
church of Ireland. But at the same time I
do support that policy, and I will tell you why. •
Perhaps it is • different reason from those i
which influence you, and perhaps it is • reason that you
may not agree web, but still it is a reason which is
sufficiently satisfactory to my mind. There are many
places where you cannot have en established church.
Thee are the colonies. And the reason why it is im- .
possible to have an established church there is, beams
on account of the variety of opinions held by the people
it is impoaible to include them all in any state establish-
ment., And such is the case with the Irish church. It
must be remembered that within the memory of man,
that is, until the Act of Union warn paneled, the Irish
church and the English church were distinct altogether.
They had, indeed, strict communion and fellowship with
each other, and I could heartily wish the different churches
throughout the great empire had more intimate fellow-
ship and communion with each other thin they have.
(Cheers.) But Ido not profess to be a politician, but it
seems to me that they never ought to have been united.
(Cheer*.) There ought never to have been a state church
in Ireland. (Cheers.) That was • mistake which was
made at the oamampacemewt Bat I have not told van the
reasons why I support its diseetablishrosst and diem:low- ..
meet. With regard to the &endowment, I do trust, if
you send our friends to parliament, that they will deal
as generously as possible with the Irish church clergy—
(cheers)--that they will leave them as much revenue as
potable for their support while they preach the gospel in
that
i country. (Cheers.) But with regard. to dMeid
there aiih-
meat, s a great question " looming in the distance,"
for us in England es well as in Ireland : it is whether it is
a good or a bad thing that the churches should be united.
The time will come when that question will be discumed
throughout the length and breadth of the land. (Cheers.)
I am prepared to argue for the advantages of the union of
church and state, but at the same time if I have to argue
the question, the fact of the existence of such au instate-
tion as the Irish church would condemn this principle
altogether. But, on the other band, if there were no
state establishment in Ireland, then I contend that looking
throughout the length and breadth of England, the facts
of the MC will be my etronge4 argument in support of
the principle of union between church and state.
Bolding, a, I do, that this is the great question looming
in the future, I wish to be able to argue the
qi cation on round principles. and not to have it
thrown in my teeth that there is in Ireland such
an establishment as ought never to have existed,
and which i, a moctery of a onion between church and
Ante. (Cheers.) Although I do admit matt lady the
great ability and the consunamute tact of Mr. Disraeli,
•et at the tame time I very tench prefer the round love of
juirtioe, the ti unsparent earnestness—(cheers)—the unim-
riailudile siticerity—:(cheerv)--the unrivalled eh> (Renee—
(eheer)—the financial ability—(cheers)—and above all
the n firkin, convictious of kr. Gladstone. (Lord and
piolonged cheering.) Ile concluded by moving— •• That
this meeting having beard the addressee of Si- T. B.
Western and Sir T. N. Abdy, is of opinion that they are
fit and proper persons to represent this division in parlia-
ment, and pledges itself to ure evury legitimate moans to
recurs their return at the approaching election."

THREE Mmi RtfflED ALIVE IN LAMBETH. —The
Lambeth Waterworks company have lately opened a treneh
at Surbiton for thepurpose of layingdowu a 30-inch service
pipe. Several workmen were engaged, and as they pro-
peened the trench was filled in. The works were carried
on under the contract of Mesas. Aird and Son, and the
superintendence of an engineer of the water company's
Wane'', and an inspector provided by the contractor.
On the '2lst ult. the works had reached Maple-road,
nearly opposite the Antelope Tavern, when there was a
slip of earth, entirely burying a man named Dymond,
and partially covering up two others, one of whom was
embedded to his middle. Dymond was extricated alive,
and taken to the Westminster Hospital, where be
afterwards died. The men at work complained
themselves that the struts and shoring were
rrnitaiumaetut, se it was light earth, the opening hav-
ing been previously made for a similar urpose. They,
however. made no formal complaint. An inque A was
held upon Dymond at the hospital last night, mud the
medical evidence went to show that deceased's first and
seconti ribs on either of the body were broken, and that
one of them had wounded the left lung. The jury found
a verdict of " Accideutal death," but requested Mr. Trot.
man, the manager under the contractor, to act with
greeter care for the future. Mr. Trotman said the re-
quest of the jury was almost unnecessary, for groat care
was taker, hut for the future the shoring awl timber
work should be particularly attended to.
FATAL. FALL. OVER A VIADUCT.—An inquest is
being held in Wolverhampton on the body of a young
man, epparently about 20 years of age, who died in the
hospital there on Saturday morning. but who is uniden-
tified. On Thursday morning he was found lyOg insen-
sible in a meadow at the foot of a viaduct, 63 feet high,
on the north side of the Wolvertuunpton station on the
(Dint Western Railway. His clothes were wet through,
and there is reason to suppose that he had been there all
night. He was taken to the hospital, where he lay rolling
his head and swinging his anus, but 1104301190/0413, and so
he died. On his breast there is a bruise, as from a fin,
and foul play was at first feared, but an e (amine:ion of
the spot led to the conclusion that he had come by his
dent in an effort to evade a railway fare. It is su
that he must have ridden from Shrewsbury, Birketiret
or Liverpool. or one of the intermediate stations, upon a
goods train during the night, and that whilst the train
was shunting he climbed the parapet and the railings
which surmounted it, fancying he was about to descend
upon land only a little distance beneath him. He had the
appearance of a railway stoker cleaned up for the evening.
Ouse before a man was killed at the same place, whilst
serieptitiously alighting from a train.
SEVERN VALLEY HAI LWAY. —Teetertiny the
half-yearly meeting was to have been held at the Pad-
diugfon-rtation, but no proprietor attended except Mr.
J. A. Chowue, a director, who took the chair, and
declared a dividend at the rate of el per cent. per annum.
The warrants would be issued on the ttth inst., and the
money would be payable as soon as it was received from
the Great Western Company.
MAWCHffrrrint, SEEIGO ELI). AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAY.—The total expenses of this company's railways
and tans(', includiug rents, tolls, duty, &c. Dom July 1
to August 28, 1868, amounted to 1'4,34W., as against
81,187 i. for the corresponding period of 1867. The pu-
pation of the South Junction reoeipts awning to this
oompnny from July 1 to August TS amounted to 6,11 a,
as against 8,7371. for the oorresponding period of 1867,
and the expenses to 3,046/., as &gnat 2,9911/. •
THE LATE EXPIA)SION AT TIIB MERSEY STEEL
seen 1 coy Wow.—Patrick English, Si years of age, OM
of the men who was seriously injured by tie resent
explosion of a boiler at these worts, died in the Southern
Hospital. Liverpool. on Sunday. This is the sixth death
in consequence of injuries received from the expiation.
The other sufferers are recovering.
CRYSTAL PALACE.— ORE SHILLING DAT.—
Mosgur. &nom 31.—Admietions by season debits
1,r2; ditto on payment, 3.362 ; total visitors, 4,854.
IDuirnsis and 00., Belfast, are the largest
sages at Wliitlo in On acrid, Than Old Irish
sanded ley the as
nrofotanot le=ll=_
ituppliml in rooks and tow* tot bens use or expansion 104•4111,
Hens no application to Moms. Danville and On; ~liettast• at 4
lituutortloOdiago. Stroud, Lawler,sl.c.—Lesraosamems.l