The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-14 00:00:00

TIE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 14, 1867.

the Hank extended the margin of its loins on stock
and shares. It may have had renew to believe that
this concession would be little acted on, and it is
certain that the increase of the advances on
those securities was but of trifling amount.
It is nevertheless certain that money has for some
time past been less and less abundant in France,
notwithstanding the excellent accounts received of
the wine and grain crops in general. The traffic on
the railways has diminished, and although the com-
mercial returns published by the Government are, on
the whole, very swisfactit7, there is undoubtedly
a state of things existing which causes eerious
ansiety.
It wet one of the weaknesses of NAPOLEON 1., as
it has been that of his nephew, to believe that by
administrative action, by edicts and orders in
council, prosperity might be maintained in • 1
country unhampered by parliamentary bodies se • '
free press. The quotations of the funds mkt
the uncle, and of the Bourn securities in general
under the nephew, were regarded, and are still
regsrded,u exponents, not only of the national pros-
perity, but of the individual skill and popularity of
the 80YEREIC.N. Every measure, therefore, however
wise, tending to diminish the activity of Bourse
tiperations—those, at least, which are admitted to be
legitimate ones—has been viewed with disfavour, as
evidently tending to produce a 114.1 in quotations.
On the other hand, measures of troationable pru-
dence and propriety have been initiated or winked
at by the ruler, when they promised to give at least
an appearance of reviving prosperity and confidence.
The visit of the President of the Credit Mobilier to
Chilons, and the rally in prices which followed it,
were at the least singular coincidences ; but although
very active measures have been taken by those who
are supposed to be somewhat overloaded with shares,
the Paris Bourse has only been galvanised, and the
reaction is not healthy. So long as those measures
told only on the operations of those who sold what
they did not possess, they were to a certain
extent successful, but a new element has been intro-
duced. Our advice* inform us that bonJ fide sales
are continuing and increasing, as a consequence
of the general extension of the demand for money.
Within the last few weeks several failures have
taken place among bankers, and more than
one firm of high standing formerly is indebted
to the assistance of the great capitalists connected
with it for extrication from its most pressing dif-
ficulties. It is impossible to disguise the fact—
France is suffering under a weight of floating
securities, representing undertakings rashly entered
upon, and of which the other monetary centres of
Europe are unfortunately unable to relieve her.
We look upon France, financially, es eminently

an example of " unstable equilibrium," and we dread
every event which may throw the balance on the
wrong side. We deprecate it, not only from the
inevitable reaction which it would cause in other parts
of Europe, but from the check that would be
given to the rapidly increasing prosperity of a
country with which we have been so intimately
allied, and whose wellbeing is of such general in-
tenet to us. We wait, therefore, with great anxiety
the effects of this commercial catastrophe in America
upon the manufacturers of the South of France more
especially, of whom the United States were noto- '
riously the largest customers, as they were to a
numerous class of the producers in Paris. The
Lyon. houses are beginning already to feel severely
the fall in silk generally, and the difficulty of
finding purchasers foe goods manufactured from
raw material at an excessively high price increases
from day to day. It is only by the facilities that
exist for obtaining credit that they are enabled
to pass through this difficulty, aggravated to an ex-
tent as yet unknown by the failures in the United
States ; and we sincerely hope that the sort of crises
through which we are passing may not produce moat
disastrous effects in France.

Cbt Court.

BALMORAL, Ocy. 12.

The Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Princess
Royal were pretest M Divine fiervks yeetewley, M the
parish church of Cratbie. In attendance were Lolly Churchill
the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Msior-Oesetal the Ilea C.
Orey, and Colonel the Hoe. C. Phipps.
The service use performed by the Rev. Dr. R. Iwo.

Mr. Ex-President Roberta, of Liberia, and Mr. G. Rale-
ton, o:maul-General of Liberia, bad an interview with the
Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the Foreign.ofllos.
Kr. Galloway bad an interview with Mr. Se:rotary 1.4,
Wuhan yesterday, at the Colonia4o6m

The !Juke or Newcastle and Lady Susan Pelham
Clinton an on their way to Climber Park, from a visiting
tour in Scotland A dialler:ashen circle of Melton will
shortly namable at Clumber.

The Dowager 'Melina of Hamilton mired at her
mansion la Fortnum-square, a few days since, from Bestow
Perk, Suffolk.

The Duke of Wellington left town yesterday for
Busehfielderye, Hama. The Duchess remaius al Apeley
House.

The Marchioness Dowager of Queensberry has
arrived at Farranos's Hotel, Belgravia, from

The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde leave
lows to-day for Portman& Castle, county Galway.
Frances Countess Widdegrave and Mr. G. V
Harcourt, M.P., are at Strawberry HA Twickenham, ear-
rounded by a 'elect circle of Maeda.
The Earl and Counter of Durham came to town
to-day from Copeland Castle Ini.harn.

The Earl and Counter of Beverley and family
feria to town to-morrow from Orwell Perk, Seffulk.

. _
Lord and Lady Ilargherah joined the family circle
at Apthorpe, • few days Mac*, from • tour of 'Mita. The
Roble lord sod bar ladystop ere •sported in toad to-morrow.

Lord Itokeby left Montague House yesterday for
Brightot. His lordship will natio tO WSJ iv a few dart.
. . - .

Lord and Lady Farnham have left Claridge's
Hotel for Famham, county Cana.

The EdinburyA Courant nye :—" Prince Duleep
Singh, in Scotland, has commenced to hawk ; and, with the
meistszow of isi.nse magnificent falcons, considerable moms
has followed his +wad upon the veined game."'
_

Major-General Lord Itokebi, commanding the
&Asks of the Guards, •ill hapset the 2nd Battalion of the
Omagh' Oneida to-mono., and on Iridity the Major.
Ger& •M make an inspectire of the let Battalion of the
Coldstream Guards. Both battalions are quartered at the
Wellingtes 134urackn.

The Prince de Joinrille left Constantinople
ths 10th alt., on his es, to ths Crime, to: Wass.

The Prince of Orange has arrived in Naples, from
relernao, sad has been reeivef by the king at Gest&
The Sunday evening services at Exeter Hall will
he resumed nett month. It is mid that the bet of the melee
of twelve sermons Will be preached by the Bishop of London.
The King of Denmark, on the 6th, received at
the palace at Gluck/Own deptitatese to cougratalate him on
the mini 'weary of be birthday. At nightfall the town wee
and • grand swear& given so lb♦ King. His
Majesty intended in a few days to set oat on an manes in
Schleswig, bet had determined not to visit Holstein.

A letter from Rome states that the Pope was to
hem ea the 12th to Civil,' Veeditia, where he weld total at
halt Ire day..

A letter from SuLinz states that the movement of
martian= Ins not ben very eminderable this year in the
Danube. Tan is attributed to the sinadance of the crops
la Western Europe. Up to this done not move then a
thousand vowels hate entered the Ann Among them bore
only been 14 French, of Iron 200 to 300 tons each. They
bare ewe bon Manoilles, Aide, and Narbonne, ani loaded
with wool sad colons be Frain, or with can for England.

THE CALOUTTA [AIL.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company have re-
ceived the following despatch :
" The steam-ship Valetta arrived at Marseilles,
with the Calcutta mails, at 6 o'clock this morning
(14th inst.)... . - - . _ _

" The mails left ?or London at 10 a.m.
" The Bomlny and Mauritius mails, coming by
the French racket, have not arrived."

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

(IT NLICTIJC TILZOIAPIL)

I, Ow; T.Y.

The steam-ship Alhambra, with the Peninsula
Yids, has just entered the Solent

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, ()cc. 12.
The bulletin published yesterday evening ran as
follows:

In hie Majesty', state of health no material changte have
taken place during the day.
Oct. 11, 8 o'clock p.m.

The bulletin of this morning skid :
. . . _ . _ .

HL lifsjeaty slept the first half of the night somewhat
totealiy, hot after midnight his sleep was sounder. From
time to time there appear symptoms of congestion, but they
are of short duration.
Oct. 12, 8 a.m.

The latest intelligence of the health of the King
of Prussia, received by telegraph, is as follows :

" BERLIN, Oct 13.

" The King had sleep at intervals during the day;
the sleep was short, but tranquil. The attacks of
congestion of the brain have not re-occurred this
morning."

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(mom ova owx

FARM, TIMID AT BIIII7INO.

Although it was foreseen in financial circles that
the Bank of France would feel compelled to follow
the example of the Bank of England, and raiao its
rate of discount, the measure has come upon the
general public by surprise. It is only by virtue of
a law passed last session, that the Bank of Prance
is enabled to take more, in any case, than the legal
interest of 6 per cent., and this is the first tints that
it has made use of the new privilege. It now

charges 61 per cent, which is within }Per cent. as
much as ia taken by the Bank of Engknd
Although the novelty of 61 per cent. is naturally
not very favourably received by French tradesmen,
it seems to be the general opinion that an increase
of interest is practically a lees severe measure than
a shortening of the time to run for discounted bills
would be.

At the Bourse the Rente fell 10c, for cadi, and
20e. for account. There was a doubt whether the
second telegraphic despatch with the price d Con-
sols was accurate, and some people affirmed that the
price, instead of being 871, as quoted, was only 86j
to j. Under the influence of this discussion the
Beane closed very heavily at the above prices.
Nfobilier fell 12fr. 60c. But little business was

done in railways. Western and Southern fell 10fr.
each, and the other principal lines from 2fr, 60c.
to Ur.

A rumour is afloat to-day that Marshal Canrobert
is to be appointed French ambassador at Madrid'
instead of the Marquis de Turgot. The French go-
vernment, it is said, is quite at one with Lord Pal-
merston on the subject of Spanish affairs, and the
possible contingencies that may arise out of them.

- The Prase of Vienna, the Trieste anette, and a
political correspondence, all concur in affirming that
on Oct. 2 Lord Stratford de Redctiffs and Baron de
Prokesch addrtssed to the Divan a protest against the
last elections in Moldavia and Wallachia. This
news is denied in official circles in Paris. At all events
it is positively asserted that no despatches in any
way confirming the statement have been received
from M. Thouvenal. The Vienna Journal, however,
stater that M. de Thouvenel was very uneasy on
account of a note sent by Lord de Redcliffe to Aali
Pacha, that he had made several ineffectual efforts
to obtain from the Turkish Minister of Foreign
Affairs a communication of the contents, and that,

although he wss not quite certain about the mat-
ter, he had on the evening of the 2nd forwarded
despatches to his government. The Prase
(of Vienna) observes that if it be really true that
England and Austria call for the annulment of the
last elections, a serious conflict on the question of
the Principalities will arise, notwithstanding all that
was done at Osborne House, but in the same breath
it says that, after the conciliatory meetings of
Stnttgardt and Weimar, it is impossible to doubt
that the difference will be amicably settled.

Letters from India received in Paris state, that
on the 7th of July a treaty of commerce and friend-
ship was signed at Bangkok between the United
States and the King of Siam. This treaty, which is
in all respects similar to the treaties already con-
cluded with France and England, was negotiated by
Mr. Bradley, who came from New York on board the
American war corvette Portsmouth. The same cor-
respondence says a Russian ship of war was hourly
expected at Bangkok with a diplomatist charged to
negotiate a treaty with the court of Siam.
The Slide calls attention to the impudent frauds
which speculators in the credulity of the public are
emboldened to commit by the encouragement given
by the Roman-catholic priests to the manufacture of
miracles. The water of the spring which the church
pretends burst forth some ten years ago on the spot
where the lying shepherd boys say they saw the
virgin, is commonly sold at five francs the quart
bottle. A sanctimonious adventurer ham now issued a

circular to "all pious children of Mary," soliciting
subscriptions to enable him to make a pilgrimage to
the Salette, and he kindly and considerately pro-
mises that as many people cannot afford to bay a
whole bottle of the water at the regular price, he
will let them have half or a quarter the quantity,
or even a fifth part, at a proportionate charge, but in
that case "in their own jogs!" Moreover, by way
of premium, he undertakes to procure muses to be
said for all subscriber, at the church of Notre Dame
de la Salette, Notre Dame de Fouvieres at Lyons,
and Notre Dame des Vietoires in Paris. This
pious bagman furthermore undertakes to ex-
ecute orders for medals, images, chaplets,
wax candles, fix., the money being in all cases duly
paid to him befofb he starts on his journey. An-
other appeal to the pockets of the faithful has just
been printed at Valence, and contains the following
canticle on behalf of souls in purgatory, set to the
air of " J. n'irai plus i l'Opbra :"
nuke dire des moues
De nos Mau &Wenn
Beagea dans Yoe richeseee
Ann peewee Impasses.

•
• •
°Ee' des ..mere.
Poor noes tirer d'ici ;
Recites des each,
Et dee prime easel;
Qoelques De Anissulis,
Dits de oon neer'
None =gent en pansits.
Ah t qwl baaboar I

SPAIN.

The Dories, which yesterday summed up the news
of the ministerial crisis in this sentence, " We know
that we know nothing," now goes a step further in
the way of negation, for it says, with Quevedo
"Verily, we know nothing, and yet we cannot be
even sure of that, for if we were we should at least
know that much."
The Iberia of the Bth was seised for the sixth
time since the Ist of the month. Three other Ma.
drid papers, the Clamor, Estado, and Epoca, have
also been seized.

Mr QUAKER TIEW 07 TIM INDLAN MUTINY.

An influential meeting wee held at Darlington on
Mendey, Is pursuance of a requisition to the chief bailiff, to
concert measures for assisting the sufferers by the Indian
mutiny. Mr. F. Mewet ix, IVN., presided, and the meet-
ing included Mr. It. H. Allan, a near relative of General
Havelock, together with gentlemen of all creeds.
Mr. H. PEASE, M.P., moved the first resolution
"That this meeting of the inhabitants of Darlington and
Its aslghbourhood expresses the deepest sympathy in the
anarlags of their fellow countrymen and countrywomen in
India, and detestation of the revolting and barbarous out-
rages of which thby have been the victims."
He was sure that the meeting had become toe painfully
acquainted with the circumstances which had brought
gentlemen together to render it necessary for him to dwell
on eases which could only harrow up their deepest feelings
of indignation and of sorrow, and which were of an &trod!,
almoat unheard of in history. (Hear, hear.) They had
met there to prove that they felt a sympathizing wow and
• desire aa tar se possible to mitigate -the diode's of thou
who had been the victims of so dire a gate of things in
India. When the English public was really amend by sor-
row and distrens, it for the most pert only needed Oat dm
channel through which assistsnos ndght be rendered awed
be made known and be each es elialanos coaldbeencaced ;
and so long as this matter of dispensing the scold_
the
nation was committed to the care of gentlemenArkin,
each as seemed certain Eddy to meet the cases to be, sedated,
he had no doubt the confidence of the English public was
unlimited; but, if it should hereafter be resolved upon to
place the money raised by subscription in the hands of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, he took it that that confidence
would be greatly mitigated. (Applause.) He did not may
this as in the slightest degree reflecting on the Chancellor
himself—a gentleman whom he apprehended they all re-
spected in his position; but he thought they would agree in
this—that, when money was raised by the British public
for the purpose of promoting and assisting any benevolent
objt, it wen always much more certain to be brought
directly to its destination if transmitted through channels
having a feeling in unison with that of the senders, than if
dispensed according to the rules of government officials, and
through channels ordained as a mere matter of government
policy. (Hear, hear.) In moving a resolution with the
contents of which be thoroughly agreed, though strongly
tempted to animadvert upon the past, he would only expetas
his opinion that the time could not be far distant when the
Bo :tiah public would no longer submit to have so fair and
vast a region governed es India had been, in such a manner
as to implicate our character, whether as statesmen, as mer-
chants, as philanthropists, or as Christians. That subject
must at no distant day, come before parliament in all its
and breadth, and he felt deeply anxious that the British
pletrlici should assert their right to have the subjest so oon-
ddered se that we should not again hear of famines and other
horror., but of a country governed me it should be while
under British role—prosperous in its mercantile relatloos,
and its raters having an eye to the spreading of that religion
which could alone effectually bless that vast region. (Ap-
?suss).
The Rey. J. O. PEARSON seconded the resolution. He
congratulated the county of Durham on having teen
leged to send forth a man (General Havelock) whom God
seemed to have appointed as the champion of the distressed,
a man who wee not only admired as a general, bat whose
character as a Christian stood above reproach. (Applause.)
We might be sure that not only would our soldiers be led to
victory by the brave and gallant Havelock, but that victory
in his heads would not be disgraced by outrages, or our sol-
diers imitate the atrocities of those against whom they
fought. (Hear, hear.) Let not this admiration, or the sym-
pathy which all would readily express, be that of the lip
only, for our soldiers would fight better and more nobly If
they felt assured that the nation would care for those whom
they held most dear. (Applause.)
The resolution wee carried arm eon.
Mr. H. K. SPARK moved—
" That in order to make the meeting's expression of sym-
pathy material, each Individual in the town and neighbour-
hood should do hie or her utmost to raise • subscription for
relieving the wants of the bereaved, and for stimulating our
brave soldiers by the assurance of sympathy at home."
The Hey. It. J. Stapoox seconded the motion, which,

together with others of a formal nature, was passed unar-ri:
mouel
Idr. y.
JOSEPH PRASE (late M.P.), in moving a vote of
thanks to the chairman, vote at some length on Indian
affair,. As an Englishman, he took shame to himself for
the way in which we had abused our power over 150,000,000
of Mimeo beings. It bad been his lot to sit for many years
in the House of Commons, and say he felt shame as
an Englishman that while the small.st and meet trivial per-
sonal dispute would bring houses of from 300 to 600 mem-
ber!, and while senators would sit patiently to hear the
cavilling, and personal piques and prejudices of individual;
Lord Gleneig and other. whom he had himself assisted
found it the most difficult thing in the world to keep forty
members together on a subject affecting the interests of mil-
lions. But the time was coming when England would say
to her representatives and her government that if ebe was
to have the shame and disgrace of misrule she would at
any rate inquire into the cause. (Applanas.) He most
sincerely hoped no gentleman would pus from that
meeting under the impression that he had only to
relieve his distressed fellow-countrymen and to say to the
men whose profession it was to brave death in every pr
-
sable shape, •We pity and sympathies with you:
that was not the end. (Hear, bear.) The agriculture of
India ought long ago to have made us independent of that
cotton supply with which the United States vauntingly
flouted us in the fare when we spoke ageing her abominable
traffic in homes flesh and blood, end of the sugar supply
from all the slave labour in the world. But Indian agricul-
ture had been shamefully overlooked. In religious matters
it had been worse, and the state of things was such as no
government could long maintain provided a Christian
people knew how to do its duty. He had no desire to
coerce, but if the native Indian wanted to burn widows or
murder children in the name of religiou he would certainly
prevent hire. (Applause.) And then as to our general
policy. The telegraph had just brought bhn the news that
the Bank of England would henceforth exert 7 per cent.
from our manufacturers and trader, and this was another
result of misrule in India. A bias-book informed him
that 1,000 millions sterling bad been drawn from India with-
out any return on earth that he could ascertain, and it was
still true, he feared, that if our rule term to-morrow,
there would be no monument of that rule remaining which
could turn to our credit. India was universally pointed at as
a proof of our incapacity to govern ; but let not the widow
and orphan suffer for that. (Applause.)
A subscription was commenced in the room. The vene-
rable Edward Pease (father of railways) sent a donation of
151. in a letter In which he requested its application to the
relief of the widows and orphans of civilians. He sympa-
thized with those belonging to the military rank, but in
choosing their profession they knew what was before them,
and he could not in any way countenance an employment
forbidden by the Saviour.
After the reading of this letter the meeting broke up.