The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1868.

Generate coldness, than to aaoribea it to any
experience which may have had former rialto
of citizens of the 14taites.

" THE PONT'S CORNER."

EV10(1110111( who has heard the Roy. J. C. M.
lixr i.r.w reed poetry will allow his rare skill as an
elocutionist; his merits as an editor and critic aro
na so obvious. Mr. BaLLaw has published a
manual for students in English poetry, under the
attractive title of the " Poet's Corner." It is a
bulky volume, containing upwards of 900 pages,
and has, no doubt, been a work of great labour,
for the editor informs us that in its compilation
he bail read through the whole" Corpus Pootarum."
We cannot think the result is commensurate
with the toil. Mr. Bawls,' follows in the wake of
compilers who have done the work as well, if not
butter. It is difficult to estimate highly the oriti-
cal sagacity of a writer who avers that Porn pos-
se *Ad all the necessary qualifiestions for a poet,
and that BYRON was " unquestionably the greatest
" poetical genius of the present century." More-
esl r, it scarcely adds to our stook of knowledge to
be told that COWPRIL'a poems " may be safely put
" into the hands of youth," or that the works of
WuRDe•WORTH are "a great acquisition to the
" literature of his country," or that Beaus
" was osisentially one of Nature's poets."
Platitudes such as these seem to show that
the compiler is gravelled for lack of matter, and
assuredly they are of no value to the student for
whom the volume is principally intended. In
all Selections" there is room for great diversity
of opinion, and Mr. lini.Lew says truly, that
" he who undertakes to select what ;other people
" shall read vaults on to the judgment seat. and
must expect his judgment to be judged." In
the - Poet's Corner " the editor seems often to
eharenge criticism by what looks at least like an
amusing eceentricity of taste. Mturcia is a master
of the sonnet, and has written three or four
of surpassing power and beauty, but he
wrote also one sonnet on HUDSON, the
University carrier, which is a lumbering
attempt ax humour, and wholly unworthy of his
genius.ltThis grotesque trifle will be found in Mr.
BKLLRW'S Manual, while the grandest sonnet
even MILTON ever wrote is omitted. This is a
strong but by no means a rare instance of Mr.
BELLxw's method of selection. Indeed it would
seem as if his Anthology were specially compiled
for the purpose of reversing the general decision
of the public. Of course the editor may reply that
the public, like the critics, are very often mis-
taken, and that his judgment may be as good
as theirs. Whether this be true or not, it
must be allowed that he has exercised it with
entire independence. If the " Poet's Corner" has
the good fortune to reach a second edition there
will be several misprints and a few blunders to be
corrected. What does Mr. Biu.i.xw mean by
saying that " SOUTHEY was buried in the church-
- yard of Grasmere, whore the remains of Wouus-
.. WORTH now repose in an adjoining grave ?"
Serum( was buried in Croaithwaite churchyard,
at no great distance from the home in which he
spent the happiest and the saddest portion of hie
life.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

(THIS DAT.)

Tall MAMMA MAZZO.

Tho Times credits the report that the question
of the Alabease &eines Is at length in the way of speedy
end 'AUL fectory settlement, and proceeds to argue that
there never was in the ca. e itself any wee diflisulty
would hare precluded a settlement if the Americans bad
wished it. The reel question between the two countries
was not a question of damages or compensation, but of
off' new given and resentment expressed. That resent-
ment, Ito 7) Ines admits, was natural, but its expression
has been eufficiently protracted. If Mr. Reverdy
Johnson is empowered to bring the affair to an end, all
bygones being put adrift, the thing is as good as done.
If ell that the negotiators now desire is to measure fairly
by a reasonable standard the liabilities incurred by Eng-
land in the matter of the Alabama, and to amass those
liabilities honestly in pounds, shillings, and pones, the
problem will be the easiest possible, and Americans and
Englishmen may enter upon new relations of amity and
brotherhood, all the more solid and enduring from this
insight into cach other's dispositions.

FOREIGN NEWS.
(Tins DAY.)

THE WAIL IN PARAGUAY.
The following tolognun has been received froi►
Liii1)011 by the Argentine Legation

"LISBON, SEPT. It

" The garrison, whioh had fled to tho Chaco,
surrendered on tho 3th of August, with 12 guns,
seven standards, and many arras of all sotto.
" Tho squadron oommandod the riror as far up
as Mitt* Orosao, and the ironolads were bombard-
ing the camp of Lopes at Tabiouary.
" Tho shooting of Borges and Carrera ii oon-
firmed.

" Wo are demolishing the fortifications of Ile-
maita.

" The wholo army is marching on Tebieuary."

FRENCH LIBERTY.

The Librete has the following:

What has become during the last six weeks of the two-
fold liberty of the preen and of public meeting which was
given to ua, though in a much mutilated condition, three
months ago, and which was kept dangling before our
eyes sinoe January 19, 1867 P Where is the liberty of the
prase, where is the liberty of public meriting? The events
of Nimes and of Alain, the prosecution and condemnation
of Id. de Larry, and of M. Lacy-Guinea, the
blood of the unfortunate Sanity, priv►te meetings
even made impossible, the domicile no longer inviolable,
the (immobile hearth at the mercy of the polioe—these are
the seem of the sight of meeting for the month of August.
As to the prose, at no period—not even on the eve of 18311
or 1818 way there midi a martyrology. Twenty-five
journals have been kruck in the past month—almost a
journal per day. Some years of imprisonment, and fines
amountaig to 1,3161., or more than 421. per day—such is
the monthly balance of the first and most precious of all
libertine, of that in the name of which we made three re-
volutions, tore eleven constitution% and expelled thirteen
governments• _ _

ITALY.

A letter from FlorenoeMthe Debata says:

People are beginning to look seriously on Mairinian
veheinse—the more so as what is done in the dark
always produces more or lees fear. From time to time
there appear proclamations placards—the statutes of •
secret society—and people imagine that they are walking
on ground mined by unknown enemies. But it is certain
that the working men of Liguria, assembled at Genoa,
Mr.', adopted the Dorece—a Massinian paper, as their
organ ; and resolved to pay a monthly contribution, to be
at the disposal of Mazzini, for the purpose of delivering
Rome. The ministry will be forced to take some steps
oa the Roman question. As long as there are breign troop,
in Italy the government will be m • false position,
and will find it difficult to resist a movement. This ought
to be taken into account at Paris. Here all persons bo-
hell. in war, and it is in view of the complication., that
may arise that all parties are organising themselves.

The Persevf-ranza publishes an appeal to the
nation from the Central Committee in the Southern
Provinces of the 'Universal Republican Alliance,
from which we take the following extract
No nation has so much both the right and duty of
taking the republican initiative in Europe and of showing
that the blood of our ancestors still flows in our veins.
Italy has the oldest republican traditions of any nation in
Europe. Before the flag of 1788 floated in the world
those of Florence, Pisa, Genoa, Venice, and Amalfi kindled
the enthusiasm of the most distant nations. Our
glories are all republican. Dante, Michael Angelo,
Ferruccio, Galileo, Savaniarola, A Itieri, Giordano
Bruno, Foecolo, Arnaldo de Brescia, were the
soldiers of this grand idea. And when all the other states
of Europe were sleeping the sleep of slaves, our com-
munes—isolated detachments of a great army—sus-
tained a Titanic contest against slavery, and
marked by the Lombard League the republican
future of the nation. Are we not the eldest
born of the Latin race ? And beneath the sha-
dow of the republican flag what nation can show grander
figures than those of Garibaldi and Mazzini When the
hour shall have arrived, wo must only look to our flag and
our guns. Lta this way only can we avenge in an outburst
of heroism eu many years of slavery, liberty, fraternity,
equality, labour.

TURKEY.

A NEW INVASION IN PREPARATION.

•• Never perhaps," says a letter from Constanti-
nople in the Nurth Eastern Correspondence, " was
the situation of the Ottoman Empire so grave. A
fresh invasion far more serious than the last is in
preparation. Along the left bank of the Danube
front Galatz to Belgrade the formation of new bands
is going on openly. Volunteers are arriving in num-
bers, and arms are being sent across the Russi:ui
frontier and Roumania in abundance. Russian
officers arts directing the movement. The whole of
European Turkey is covered with a network of
intrigues and conspiracies of which the Russian
coipads are the promoters."

(7710114111 2111:11111e £5 CT.)
THE BRAZIL MAIL.
BUENOS AYRES, At...t.,T I I.
(Ili Lisboa.)
Exchange on London, 492. Salted hides. 39.
Sales since the last mail, 7,000; shipments, 35,6,14 ;
stock, 6,000; dry hides for Germany, 4$ for 301bs ;
for America, 44 for 23Ibs. Sales since lust mail,
45,000; shipments, 7,960 ; stocks, 73,000.
Freight to the Channel, Nil. wool, 4$ to 80 ;
tallow, 15 ; lumber, 45; Cardiff coals, 12 ; Cadiz
soft, dull.

It is stated in some of the journals that Count
voila runnarck will resume his functions towards the middle
of the present month ; others fix the date at the beginning
of October.

For many years past nothing approaching the
present abundance of fruit has been seen in the Paris
markets and shop windows of dealers. Grapes of the
finest quality, large sized, full ripe table grapes, equal to
those produced in England in hothouses, are selling for
10 sous, or per lb. The finest quality of pears, such as
lu deehaar, may be bought for 3 sous, or lid. Stone
fruit abounds and sells at 2d. per lb. Peaches are hawked
about in tarts, and sold for I sou and 2 sous, or id. anti
Id. Even the famous Alontreuil peach can this year be
purchased for
The National Apicultural Society of France,
founded and organised mainly by his Excellency M.
Drouyn de Lhuys, bus already received the names of some
of the more conspicuous members of the Royal Agricul-
tural Society of England. The relations of the two agri-
cultural bodice is likely to produce favourable results to
both countries.

The area of land under cultivation in the
Australasian colonies, according to the last returns, is
2,400,000 acres, and the live stock consists of 600,000
horses, 4,000,000 cattle, 38,600,000 sheep, and 400,000
Digs, giving a total of more 43,000,000 head of stock.

The South Australian papers rooord the death of
ex-Chief-Justice Bouthby.

The Isle of Wight papers record the death of
Captain Crozier, R.N.

ROMAN BRIOANDIS.- The Giormi/e Rousa says :
—"Beneath Verdi, a pontifical town, built like an eagle's
nest on the summit of a sterile mountain, extends the
estate, admirably cultivated, of a Roman noble. The
proprietor, having been summoned by the brigands to
send 4,000 scudi (20,000 fr.) to a certain spot, applied
for the protection of the gendarmery. Au arrange-
ment woe made that a vice-brigadier, dressed
as a peasant. should proceed to the plaoe indi-
cated, provided with a revolver and 400 scudi, and
followed at a distance by a patrol of his men. On his
arrival he found the chief and lieutenant of the baud.
' My master can only send you,' be said, • this sum at pre-
sent. Money is not easy to timid. In a few days you shall
have the rest. In the meantime. fur my discharge, count
what there is.' While the two robbers were stooping
down to comply with the request, the other drew out hi..
rea4a and shot them both dead. 'l'huir companions, who
were posted in a neighbouring thicket, seeing them fall,
rushed out to take nweuge, but the gendarmes also Ikea-
ti ued up, and after a short resistance put to flight the
malefactor". who left three wounded and two dead on the
ground. The non-commissioned !Aker wise men!' eti in
UlO onler of the day, made is brigadier, and decorated by
the rope with the lare.od Modal."

ARTHQUAKE IN PERU
D ECUADOR.

(sir wmarrio cuaut, rersovour wirsa's SOIRICIL)

NEW YORK. Sam 12, Mow.
Aueerdint9 ftdvimegpoeived here from Osatral
America, qpieMited is the New talk paptisfi
Arica, Arequipa, Islay, Iquique, Paseo. Juan-
Cavelica, Ibarra, and numerous other towns of
Peru and Ecuador, were totally destroyed by a
succession of earthquakes, whioh limited from the
13th to the 16th of August. The loss of life in
Peru is estimated at 2,000, and in Ecuador at
20,000. Most of the inhabitants of the Peruvian
seaport town of Arica, and of Arequipa, chief town
of the Peruvian littoral prelims) of Arequipa,
escaped with their lives. The loss of property is
estimated at 300 million dollars. Great damage
was also done to shipping on the coast and the
Chinas Islands. Mr. Billinghurst, the British
consul at Iquique, and his family, have perished.
The following telegram has been received by
Messrs. Pope, Bee, and M'Lean, per Atlantic
cable :

" NEW YORK, fitpr. 13.

" Intelligence has been received bore of a fearful
calamity in Peru, South America. Arica,
Arequipa, Chala, and other cities in the province
of Arequipa, were destroyed by earthquake on the
13th of August. From thirty to sixty thousand
persons are reported to have perished. Property
estimated at three hundred million dollars had
been destroyed, and many ships, with their crows,
sore lost in the tidal waves. A serious conflagra-
tion occurred at Callao on the 14th of August."

The correspondent of the Tiny+ telegraphy from
Philadelphia :

" Fearful carthquakts happened in Pent and
Ecuador on the 13th of August, Twenty-five to
30,000 lives were lost, and property destroyed to
the amount of 60,000,0001. The cities of Are-
quipa, Iquique, Moquehna, Pince, Arica, Tacunga,
Marra, Tacna, and many others were destroyed.
The huge tidal waves which followed wrecked
many vessels, and among others the American
steamers Frenonia and Waterer, the Peruvian ship
America, and the British ship Chancellor. The
Waterer was carried half a mile inland. There
was great suffering among the survivors."

The havoc, it is estimated, must at any rate have
stretched over a distance of 1,200 mile*, from Ibarra,
a town of Ecuador, 30 miles to the north-north-
west of Quito, the capital of that republic, and
within lens than a degree of the equatorial line,
down to Iquique, a seaport and island in the
southern provinces of Peru, in the 20th degree of
south latitude. It is in this latter locality that
Mr. Billinghurst and his family are reported to
have perished. That gentleman has been erro-
neously designated as " the British Consul." But
the only representative of her Majesty's govern-
ment at Iquique is Mr. Peter Nugent, an unpaid
Vice-consul. Mr. William Billinghurst discharged
the ..ume functions for the Argentine Republic.
The Timra remarks :

Like Iquique, the towns of Tacna, Arica, and Islay
are un the sea. But Marra, Pasco, Moquehna, and
Arequipa are inland cities, and they stand high among
the clutters of those peaks of the double Cordillera, not
a few of which are numbered among the most active
volcanoes of this earth. Arequipa, the capital of
the maritime Peruvian province of the same name
is commanded by the volcano of Misti, a mountain
said to exceed the summit of Mont Blanc by 4,000
feet. Pasco, or Cerro de Pasco, the most elevated
city of the globe, rise* above immense ravines
to a height of from 13,000 to 14,000 feet—that
is to a level with the tops of the Jungfra and
the Matterhorn. Iharra, like her neighbour Quito, is en-
compassed all round by the snow•apped giants of both
Sierras, and lies at the foot of the lmbaburu. a bunting
mountain, by which, as Naples by Vesuvius. it is by turn.,
fertilised and laid waste. There is hardly one of those
places that has not its long record of eruptions and earth-
quakes, hartUy one that has out its experience of
~lowers of fire, floods of lava, clouds of it.hes ; of
to king moutita'ns and heaving plains, of lataslips
railing about men's oars, and chasms yawning before
men's feet.

Arica, the Daily News observes. has often bees
devastated by earthquakes; Arequipa, which is
built on the slope of a volcano, has a similar
history; Lima and Callao, which. as not 'wing
mentioned now. have probably eNcaped. but
which lie near the line of thy ••
vulsion. were once destroyed together. wh,n
114,000 persons were buried in their ruin.

It is inevitable that we should contemplate 411. Ii a
eatostroihe through the medium of o.ir ow❑
familiar ideas, and Humboldt ha+ told us what it
is for an European to feel his faith shaken uh
that immobility of the earth which is part of our oxpeii-
enee and almost of our religion. But to the natives at
Peru or Ecuador the phenomenon which seems so
ing to us must appear legs temble. It doe. not apparently
distress them to hold by a tenure unusually procariou, an
existence of which they have hitherto not been able to
make much. For all that, they are our follow-men. with
feelings like our own, and we cannot think without awe
and sympathy of • catastrophe which involve• icu- or
thousands of them in a swift destruction.

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(MON On ORS COILREPONDILTT.)
PARIS, SvxDAY Evezmo

A Brussels letter of September 11 give a har-
rowing description of the state of the young
Belgian Crown Prince. All that the doctors have
been able to do within the hist day or two has
been to alleviate his sufferings a little ; but there
is not the slightest chance of saving hint. After
the administration, by the Archbishop of Moline'
yesterday. of the viaticum. which was at the
same time the poor child's first etnnutnion,
the abdominal region was so frightfully
swollen, that it was resolved to have recourse
to puncturation. A large quantity of serous liquid
was withdrawn by this operation. and the conse-
quence was that the patient, though weaker dim
ever, felt less oppressed and breathed more heel).
Before the puncturing the child's legs were a mass
of deformity. and looked like pantaloons of blad-
der blown out to the fullest extent. The King
is a° afflicted by the sight of his son. that
he cannot bear to remain long in his
room, but wanders, half distractesl, among the
apartments and corridors of the chateau, return-
ing to the Pick chamber frequently. The Queen
scarcely quite the bed-side except for necessary
repose and refreshment, and if she leave's the
chateau for an hour, it is only to make a pil-
grimage to our lady of Seheut.
The Figaro is resolved to exhaust all the degrees
jurisdiction to try the question whether reports of
civil action,' for libel, and of criminal libel cases in
which a public functionary is the prosecutor. may
not be published. To-day it given a report of M.
Laehaud's speech in the Pastourean case, though
well knowing that it will incur a third prosecution.
The Advocate-General Chevrier sultuitted that the
legal points raised were of considerable diffi-
culty and importance, but gave his own opinion
against the right of publiea►tion. M. Luhaud
argued the questions, which defend on the con-
struction of eonflicting clauses in varieties statutes,
at great length, and said, in eonclitaion, that in
pleading M. de Villemeasant's muse he could not
be suspected of party views, for although

ho had hitherto stood aloof from politica it elm
well known that all his sympathies were with the
Imperial Oovernaest, whose prestige and greatness
be desired to seesugmented. But he honmtly
thought that the fullest publioity in every caw, or
charge brought against a functionary, w.ie ad.
smitial in tho interest of the administration
The correctional tribunal did not think eo, an!
fined M. de Villeinessant 60fr. on each indictiuout
It will no doubt fine him again for his publicatigo
of to-day.

M. Lohard's declaration is important ita N Rid
of the times. In England an advooate's persons;
opinion in favour of the client for whom 11- is
pleading is of no weight ; the English barrie.er
takes any case brought to him, and does his bed for
it. But the leaders of the French bar pick an 1
choo‘o their cases to a considerable extent, an I
very rarely indeed sustain a political cause „e.
trary to their own convictions.

The following queries are asked by the 149,,,
Lit true that M. Rouher, in private ceuvervation, .
not speak se if he were ablolutely oppoeed to wet

_ .
la it true that, at the Chalons Camp, the Raper-it all,
a present of • revolver to all the colonel; and ti 11 100 •
died officers besides, and that the trove cried, ••
Rhin 'r"

Is is true that Marshal Niul is to be crested .
and that the Mobile Guard will be called out ;e h. .
~r
and a camp established at Poitiers?

Li it tree that a military,Me is to bo (given t 9 th • 1
p,roe at the 1,1111116171041111 Camp on Supt. I,;. •

_ .
A Pruiaian military journal lat,•ly i• ,
oompariaon between the needle gut,
Chas,epot, and concluded that, no

their merits and demerits wore about ,qe J- „
French weapon was admitted lighter r•
fartL r and truer; but it had the disad•,:u •
tuiasing fire very often. The Aar,
upon the latter point, and affirms that ti. - „
of repent experiments at Chilons, Iszt••u.tist
and Vincennes, proves that the Cha,-; .
fire love than any other rifle kncwn