4 (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) THE CARLIST WAR. MADRID, JUNK 29. Official despatches announce that General Martinez Campos has occupied positions on the Ebro, in order to prevent the Carlist forces escaping from Valencia and Aragon into Catalonia. 28,000 Royal troops, under the command General Jovellar, are advancing by different routes towards Cantavieja (Aragon), in the environs of which town 12,000 Carlista, under Dorregaray, are concentrated. head -quarters of General Jovellar have been moved from towards Cantavieja.
(FROM THE LONDON CARLIST COMMITTEE.) TOLOSA, JUNE 20, No opposition to Mogrorejo (Carlist General in -Castile), Towns have surrendered large quantities of have arms, joined stores, the and prisoners. and hundreds Many Alfonsists toors are offered daily. The advance of the. AstuCarlista, of volunrians has taken a garrison six leagues Fellow Burgos. Madrid reports of the entry of with convoy into Vitoria and arrest of Cucalla are false.
Tello was defeated with great loss on the 23d at Nanclaras by the Alavese battalions. Carlists have taken a convoy between San Sebastian and Her-nani." (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) TURKEY. PARIS, JUNE 29. The payment of the July coupon of the Five per Cent. Turkish Bonds has been officially notified.
THE UNITED STATES. VIENNA, JUNE 30. An Imperial decree, dated the 23d been published, Prizenstein appointing Count Ladislaus HoyasEn voy-Extraordinary and MinisterPlenipotentiary. to the United States of North America. (Br CABLE) WASHINGTON, JONE 30.
Count Corti, the Italian Minister, who has been recalled, has had an audience of President Grant, at which cordial farewell courtesies were exchanged. NEW YORK, JUNE 30. The Jury in the case. are still locked up. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE PARIS, JUNE 30.
The Bourse has been Erm for French Renter, the Three per Cesta, closing at 64l. or and the Five per Centa 1041. bes, or 15c. higher had than rather yesterday. The option operation weakening effect prices did pot leave off at the best points touched.
The foreign market was quiet, Peruvian offered and lower. Exchange on London, short, 254. or ja. lower. BERLIN, JUNE 30.
The Arm tone of the Paris market influenced the Bourse: purchases were predominating; all international stocks. Lombards foremost, exhibit a distinot advance since yesterday. Money trifle higher in value. German gold coin (Br CABLE.) NEW YORK, JUNE 30. Gold closed 117 highest, 1171; lowest, 117.
Exchange on London, $4 87ja Five-twenty United States' Bonds, 1885, 1224: ditto, 1887, Five per Cent. Funded Loan, Central Pacino, 1064 New York Central, 103 Illinois, 1034 Erie, 141; cotton, petroleum, four, 22a. $5 to $5 350. core, 82c. red spring wheat, $1 Western Union Telegraph shares, 794.
To-day's receipta of cotton at all United Stater' porta and have to been the 1,000 Continent, bales; the export to Great Britain, pone; none. THE GIPSIES IN DORSET. -At the Dorset Quarter Sessions on Tuesday afternona, Lord Portman in the chair, the Police Committee called dispute of the county magistrates. It transpired the Rev. which had arisen between the Chief Constable! and one H.
Austen had given permission to number of gipsies to encamp on his property, they had frequently done before. They had no sooner fixed their tent than persons claiining right of way over the property called the service of the police to eject the intruders. The consequence was that the gipsies bad to leave. The rev, magistrate wrote letter to the Chief Constable objecting to the interference of police on the occasion, and the Chief Constable now complained to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the conduct of the magistrate. Lord Portman laid sit down clearly that no magistrate had richt to resist the police in the execution of their duty, even if they were unarmed with search warrant, which they often could not make it convenient to obtain.
The police, said, should receive from the magistrates the utmost protection and support in the discharge of their duties, The matter was then allowed to drop, the Court endorsing the sentimenta of the chairman on the point. The gipsies are now fast dying out in Dorset, which was at one time their stronghold, and the Rev. Carr Glyn counselled Mr. Austen not to barbour them on his estate any longer. EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES- The Report Wales the the Committee of Council on Education in in England and for year 1874-75 has just been issued a Parliamentary paper.
The Committee state that the two most urgent requirements of the country, the provision of sufficient number of suitable schools and the supply of body teschers qualified to conduct the schools tinue to be rapidly met. In the year ending the 31st of August last the inspectors visited 12,167 day' schools in England and Wales, to which annual grants were -made, containing 17,646 departments under separate teachers, furnishing accommodation, at eight square feet of superficial ares per child, for 2,571,826. There were on registers the names. of 2,497,602 children, of whom 916,591 were under years of age, 1,498,138 were between seven and 13, and 82,873 the were above 13, There were 2,634,007 scholars present on inspectors' visit, while 1,678,750 were on an average in daily attendance 1,457,075 having made the requisite number of attendance were qualifed to bring grants to their schools. number of night schools examined during the year 1,432, and 48,690 scholars above 12 years of age were an average in attendance each night, inspectors found 18,714 certificated teachers at work in the aided schools which they visited, while the 40: training colleges -from which the supply of such teachers is mainly recruited were attended in 1874 by 2,982 students.
population of England and Wales in 1871 22,712,266, The population now under School Boards is England, and in Wales, 679,752 making 11,647,998. Up to the present date (June 16, 1875) the committee had issued 2,603 final notices in 2,718 parishes, preliminary to the publication of orders for the compulsory election of School Boards in the event of the accommodacalled for not being supplied by voluntary effort within time specified in the notices, The notices had resulted the compulsory election of 476 Boards. La 765 the time not expired, and in 762 cases the required accommodahad been supplied by voluntary effort. Up to the 30th of September last the School Boards numhered in England 703 and in Wales 156. ARTISAN COOKERY.
correspondence has passed between Mr. Francis Fladgate, the secretary the National Training School of Cookery, South Kensington, and Sir Francis Sandford, C.B., of the Education Department, Whitehall, with reference to proposal to open at the Training School, South Kensington, class, to meet on Saturdays, for teaching artisan cookery to female pupil-teachers and the elder girls of elementary schools. In letter dated the 21st inst. Mr. Fladgate inquired if the scholars attending this class and other similar classes, meeting at centres of instruction in cookery, might count their attendances at the schools which they belonged, and also if they might obtain for their schools the grants for knowledge of cookery clothing comprised in domestic economy.
In reply Sir Francis Sandford, on the 24th wrote to Fladgate as follows Article 24 of the Code for 1875 states that attendance of girls at lessons in practical approved by the inspector, for not more than hours a week and 40 hours in the year, may, in day be counted as, school The lessons referred to in this Article may be given either at a public elementary school where suitable provision is made the instruction of the girls in cookery, OF special class approved by the inspector, sad held some convenient centre such your Committee propose to establish. The attendances of girls at such cenup to the limis specified in the Article (which is equivato 20 school meetings) may be reckoned as part of attendance at the elementary schools to which they respectively belong, and their success in examination under Article 21 will bring grants of 4s. to these schools. Your Committee should make arrangements for registering the attendances of girls from elementary schools who are instructed by your teachers in such manner that a duly be certified record of the attendances of each scholar can shown to Her Majesty's inspector when he visits her school and examines the yearly returns upon which their Lordships' grants are made." COLLIERY ExPLOSION. -An explosion of fire -damp occurred yesterday morning.
about half -past 8 o'clock situated in of the conl-pits of the Bowling Iron Company, Hunsworth, about four miles from men named William Padget, aged 59, an ironstone miner, and killed, of 13, named Joseph Holmes, hurrier, were four other persons, one man named Nelson Padget, and three youths named James Brookbank, Joseph Welsh, and Benjamin Bailey, were severely injured, and were removed to the Bradford Infirmary. of the injured persons are in very precarious condition. The cause of the explosion is not known. were 24 persons in the pit, and they had been at about an hour and halt. Coal and ironstone are produce of the pit, which is reached by a shaft at the of about 150 yards, and which is one of two shafts close proximity on the same pit hill.
THE VICARAGE OF -Yesterday morning meeting of the ratepayers of St. James's Clerken rell, was held to nominate candidate for the living, -vacant by the retirement of the Rev. R. Maguire, been presented to the living of St. Olave, wark.
Mr. R. Squire prosided. Mr. 8.
Brighty proposed the Rev. W. Holderness, vicar of Woolfardisworthy, Devon, who has been for many years chaplain to convict establishments at Portland and Dartmoor. committee was appointed to the return of Mr. The election will probably be a spirited one, there are several candidates in the Sold.
Globe. KILLED ON THE RAILWAY. morning to dead body of a unknown, found at a level crossing at Townend Told, Harlingden, Lanosshire. head of the Swain, his left severed from his body, and both legs broken 5 THE TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1875. THE FLOODS IN FRANCE.
(BY TELEORAPH.) (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) AGEN, JUNE 30. On, Thursday: last at 4 o'clock the old town of Agen was suddenly flooded from two different quarters in less time than it takes to tell. The Rues Maille, St. Antoine, and St. Hilaire, the Prefecture, the Cathedral of St.
Caprais, built in the 11th century, the Quarters of St. Augustine and Ste. Foi-in. short, every part of the town Was under water; in fact, only the Jacobins' Church and its immediate neighbourhood, the the Halles, and one or two. streets escaped.
In. the Cathedral the water 5000 over 5ft. deep, also in the church of Ste. Foi. The College of St.
Caprais was completely inundated, and railway communication with Tarbes, Toulouse, and Bordeaux cut off. 'The Palais de Justice was surrounded and the magistrates escaped in boats. The Public Treasury, the Post Office, the offices of the Department, and the Tax Office were quiokly flooded. Most of the wretched inhabitants spent the night on the roofs of their tottering houses. One of the causes of the rapidity of the flood was the bursting of the railway embankment near Pont St.
Pierre de Gaubert. Through the breach thus formed the water poured like a torrent over the then fertile plain. It would be difficult to imagine more sudden destruction. I found this morning that railway communication with this town was at Layrac. The country through which I passed beyond that town is completely devastated -the vineyards, the cornfields, the pasture lands caked with mud, the trees bent and broken in every direction, and the hedges solid walls of mud and hay carried away from the folds.
The trees on the roadside are filled with the same substances. In short, every where the progress of the inundation is painfully apparent. In some places are ruined cottages; in others, swamps of rotting maize and clover. One house had on it an inscription denoting the height of the flood in 1839. The waterline of the present inundation is at least 4ft.
higher close under the first-floor windows. Strange to say, none of the bridges over the Garonne have been destroyed, and consequently the roads are; for the most part open. At Agen itself the sone is most distressing. The beautiful promenade, the Gravier, by the river, where stands the statue of Jacques Jasmin, the cobbler poet, is a long line of uprooted trees, with at one end piles of fallen houses. In the streets the inhabitants are drying their furniture or pumping the water from their cellars, but they have not that sad, despairing air which I noticed at Toulouse.
Agen is in difficulties, but it means to make the best of them. To show the force of the floods, I may mention that in the very centre of the town are large stones from the bed of the river. Three inhabitants of Agen are worthy of the highest commendation for their exertions during the time the town was dated. They are Lieutenant Peyrolle, of the 20th Regimeut of the Line, M. Grousset, and sailor, M.
Auriat. For three days these gallant young men went about from house to house in a boat, despite the rapid current and falling houses, conveying provisions and relief to the sufferers. How many lives they saved it would be difficult to say, for their modesty equals their courage. Don't praise me, said M. Peyrolle, for I can swim;" and yet how few swimmers would have run the risks which he and his companions did I am glad to say the Marshal made M.
Peyrolle Chevalier of the Legion of Honor to-day. At St. Sixte, Langon, Passage, and Bequin, villages in the neigh, bourhood, houses have fallen, cattle have been drowned, and, in some cases, also human beings. The inundation," said an Agenois to me, is like the plagues of Egypt, a scourge from God for our sins. Yesterday Marshal MacMahon was received Layrao station by the Bishop of Agen, the Prefeot, General Minot, the Mayors of the adjacent towns, and other civil and military authorities.
Passing through Layrse the President was respectfully but not enthusiastically received. At the Pont St. Pierre, where he was received by the Mayor and municipal authorities, the former read an address, which the Marshal answered by assuring them of help of the Government. After lunching at Prefecture the visitors left for and where they inspected the ruined houses and talked with the sufferers. They then' returned here, and in the evening there was a reception at Prefecture.
This morning the Marshal attended Mass, celebrated by the Bishop at the Cathedral. then visited the quarters where most damage been done. In the Quartier Depeyrac he was minutes inspecting the manufactory of M. Pialoux, to whom he addressed many consolatory remarks. At the Grand Seminaire, where the garden-walls are demolished and the house seriously injured, he expressed his sympathy to the Bishop.
After inspecting the barracks, which are considerably damaged, the Marshal returned to the Prefecture, where he decorated Colonel Massol, Captain Mercier, M. Peyrolle, M. Audac, President of the Tribunal of Commerce M. Manec, Vicar-General and MM. Larat and two gentlemen whose heroism has excited general admiration.
Military medals were also given to soldiers and gendarmes. 11 the- Marshal left for the villages of Colayrac, Port Ste. Marie, Aiguillon, Tonneins, and Marmande. He returps to Agen to-night, and leaves to-morrow for Foix. From Toulouse I hear that the Archbishop received telegram from the Pope announcing that has sent for the reljet of sufferers.
Marshal MaoMahon returned at 8 to-night. He, received outside the Prefecture by about 80 persons, mostly women and children. There was cheering. I may state in explanation of his parently cold reception at most of the places visited that the Bonapartists have spread report he would, as did Napoleon LIL. at the Lyons inundations, distribute money in public consequently the people are disappointed.
At La of the Marshal was received by the Cardinal to Archbishop of Bordeaux and the Prefect of the Gironde, who gave him details as to the distress in Department, To-morrow morning I accompany Marshal and his suite to Foix. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, JUNE 30. Mass was celebrated to-day in Versailles Chapel the victims of the inundations. It was attended Madame MacMabon and the President's milihousehold, the Due d'Audiffret-Pasquier, Pre- 2. sident of the Assembly, the Ministers of Justice Marine, and number of Deputies.
The of Versailles delivered an impressive at Archbishop address. M. Buffet has returned' from Toulouse, and the Marshal is expected on Friday or Saturday. Madame MaoMahon's subscription list for the victims of the floods now amounts to M. 6.
Thiers has contributed through the Temps, Due d'Aumale the Due de la Rochefoucauld Doudgauville while the Pope has forwarded to the Archbishop of Toulouse, Mayor of Metz has invited the' inbabitants to subscribe in an address which dwells on the reputation of that city for charity, and studiously svoids allusion to its former connexion with France. of the French municipalities are voting con- be tributions. The London correspondent of the Univers writes us under date 7, Barnes-villas, Lonsdale-road, Barges, 8. June 29 Permettes-moi de rectifier une errear de la enrrespondant de Paris, qui, dans lettre en date de NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday the Infantry composing the Second Army Corps had some smart divisional drills.
1st Division, under the command of Major-Gen. Sir El H. Greathed, K.C.R., paraded in drill order shortly 'after 9 o'clock, and marched to Cove-common, where the regiments were exercised for couple of hours in field movements. The 24 Division, under Major-Gen. D'Aguilar, C.B., turned out about, 9 30, and proceeded to the Long Valley.
The two Divisions returned to quarters shortly after 12 o'clock at noon. The whole of Cavalry, under Brigadiers Baillie and Oakes, went through a field-day in the valley in presence of Lieut. -Gen. Sir Thomas Steele, K.C.B, The Field- Commanding-in-Chief has made the following remirks on the revised rules for the Umpire staff and troops Unless under special and particular instructions, troops should never be supposed to represent a larger number than their effective strength. In the absence of orders, troops must not occupy more ground than the numbers present would admit of.
This may be taken at about five men per yard of the whole force, and should include proper reserve. Where the position is intrenched, or supposed to be intrenched, the. number may be to three men per yard. The total strength on each side is about 10,000 men. Deducting guarda, duties, sick, prisoners, bag gage guards, not more, perhaps, than 8,500 will be brought into line.
Assuming, however, that the number actually brought into line will be 10,000, this force would occupy about 2,100 yards, An umpire may supervise about 300 yards, and it is submitted that umpires should be detailed by distrigts between the two and not to individual Brigades or Divisions. Umpires, if so detailed, are very apt to become One umpire should be told off to watch the action of the cavairy and one to the artillery of each corps; but, although these, should be their special functions, all umpires should act generally. The necessary distribution of the officers detailed as umpires will be made daily by the Umpire in Chief. The Umpire in Chief will name some place where he himself will be, and when he moves from it will leave one of his staff. to say where he has gone to and where he may be found, Col.
F. A. Campbell, C.B., Royal Artillery, Superintendent of the Royal Gun Factories Department, Royal Arsenal, Wool wich, will succeed Brigadier-Gen. Sir John M. Adye, K.
C. Royal Artillery, who has been gazetted Governor of the Royal Mititary Academy, Woolwich, Director of Artillery and Stores at the War Office on the 1st of August next. It is not yet known who is to succeed Col. Campbell. Lieut.
-Col. R. J. Hay, formerly BrigadeMajor Royal Artillery at Woolwich, who was transferred to the Control Department, but subsequently rejoined the of regiment, and has since held the appointment of field offcer and chief instructor at the School of Gunnery, Shoeburyness, has been selected by the Duke of Cambridge to fill the office of superintendent of the Royal Gunpowder Factories at Waltham Abbey, vacant by the death of Lieut. to Col.
C. F. Young, Royal Artillery. The Lords of the Treasury have, with the approval of the War Office, just decided upon the amount of compassionate allowance to be agrarded to the widows and orphans of Charles Young and Joseph Walstow, who were killed on the 24th of May last in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, by the explosion of, an experimental 7-inch Palliser shell charged with gun-cottop. Mrs.
Young has been granted a pension of £20 6s. 10d. per annum with tuity of £49 for herself and seven children, and Mrs. Walstow has been awarded a pension of £14 5s. a year with bonus for herself and children of £30.
It was customary until recently to grant the full pay of the deceased in such cases, but these allowances are far short of that standard. Young, we learn, had been 20 years in the Royal Arsenal, six of which he had served as fore man, and was in receipt of £2 7s. weekly. Had he retired from the service or been merely disabled, instead of killed, he would have been entitled to the sum of 16s. per week, instead of which his widow is only to receive less than half that amount-7a.
10d. weekly. Walstow had been 25 years employed in the Royal Arsenal, and was in receipt of 41 13a. weekly. Had he left his employment the day before the accident or been disabled, instead of killed, he would have been entitled to a pension of 14s.
5d. per week, instead of which his widow is granted. to only sum of 5s. 6d. per week.
The jury who officiated the inquest are about to join in making a representation to the Goverument in the hope of obtaining a more liberal allowance. Col. Fanshawe, Royal Engineers, the Senior 8 Colonel in the regiment and commanding Royal Engineer at Woolwich, being about to retire from the service with the rank of Major-General, will be succeeded by Lieut. Col. and Brevet-Col.
the Hon. Wrottesley, the commanding Royal Engineer at Gravesend. The Manly, iron paddle tug, 172 tons burden, having been brought into dock at Portsmouth to receive new boilers, the results of a competitive experiment with re- of spect to anti-fouling compositions have been ascerat tained. One of the great disadvantages attending iron ships is that the sides below water-mark, if left unprotected, are subject to corrosion from the action the sea, and it unfortunately happens that: the off preparations which prevent oxidization do not pre- gers, The vent fouling. Two coatings are consequently re11 quired, the first to preserve the sides and bottom of the ships from corrosion, and the second to prevent the ment of animal and vegetable growths, which greatly inter- p.m.
with their passage through the water, whereby the conat sumption of coal is considerably increased. In February the Manly was coated on the port side with Thompson's vitreous sheathing in pieces of about 18 inches long and broad, the application being made with what is known day cold adhesion. At the same time her starboard side for Coast thespace of about 900 squarefoot of equal to upwards of 1,500 pieces of Thompson's sheathing, was coated with the British and Oriental anti-fouling composition, which has found very effective in the mercantile marine, and which had previously been: applied to the bottom of the the screw turret-ship the Glatton. The contrast be. Duke tween the action of the two coatings, after a fair trial of the months in barbour notoriously favourable to the accuinulation of parasitical and vegetable attachments, is P.
marked indeed. A considerable portion of. the vitreous sheathing on the port side has either been washed away or is curied up, leaving. the IrOn exposed' and R. impeding the the progress of the ship.
This is more particu- ham, case at Sue bow and just abaft the paddiewheel, was where the iriction of the water would be most felt. Where his sheathing has been abraded the iron is very much office. ruded, so that it is evident that the protective paint is also failure; and where the sheaths. still remain intact the surface is unmistakably foul, the vitreous plates evidently the possessing haud no starboard exfoliating properties whatever. Un the the side, which was coated with the British and Oriental composition upon couple of the Green, Sim's protective paint, appears almost in sue same condition as when the mixture was first applied.
The only cant. can taint is a slimy glutinous film, which can be rubbed off the finger, not a particle of weed, shell-fish, or other bridge -obstructive material having And so perfect tor lowing the adbesion that sufficient has not been rubbed off to discover the action of the protective composition under- Ninian vicar neath. the ingredients may be, they appear, to Whatever possess in construction wonderful exfoliatory virtues. The Glattou, which has been relieved by the Shah as a torvessel, will be shortly docked, when the effects of rated curate composition on her buil under water will be subjected Lori a crucial examination. An experiment which is about to be tried upon the Fire ton Queen, the yacht of Port Admiral George Elliot, at Portsmouth, is creating considerable interest among the me- son, nior and practical engineers of that port.
It is no new adaptation of paddle floats, and although Mark, than inventor a asserts that has M.A., it been applied with success to craft of 180 tons, professional opinion at Portsmouth is DI.A., vicar against it. All the old transverse floats have beea vicar moved from the iron frames, and their places bave been by number of sinall vertical floats about St. Upton supplied couple of feet long and eight inches broad. There is one each arm, the intervals being furnished with two more. is, however, only to the inner and outer rings of the Rev.
wheels that the "Hoats bave been fitted, the centre ones Rev. left bare. The new floats are only temporarily attached by nuts, so that they can be readily detached. if J. unsuccessful.
Mg. Vosper, engineer, of Broad-street, fitting them on. rector Letters for the detached squadron under the command Rear-Admiral Lambert can. be forwarded to Gibraltar to the mail of the 7th of July, vid Southampton, and us by the mail of the 154h of July; vid Southampton, to ents Bazaine Cape of Good Hope. The rather difficult operation of putting on board the Alexandra, armour-clad ship, at Chatham Dockyard, her actually iron lower masts was accomplished yesterday, the being lifted by the powerful steam shears.
These this only weigh. in the aggregate about 50 tons they are that heavier than any yet put into ship at Chatham. The and were manufactured at Chepstow. The armour-clad ship Penelope, Coastguard ship, which been having her annual overhaul and. refit at Coatham past previous to having a summer cruise, was to have toe Dockyard, ready to leave for ber voyage to-day but as all the has not yet been finished, her departure must be de- ing for a short time.
Royal Workmen hate begun to break up the old screw frigate Phaeton, which was fonted into dock at Chatham last the The work of demolishing the Royalist, screw sloop, Miss into dock at the same time as the Phaeton, has also Princess commenced. and The following appointments have been made at the have Admiralty Commander F. S. D. Broughton, to the Arab, commissioned Commander J.
B. Barnett, to be Riding Inspecting Commander in the Coastguard Lient. G. W. gave Russell, to the Pert, commissioned; Sub-Lieut.
R. B. of Newland, to the Arab Sub-Lieut. Francis Alexander, to sons Arab Navigating Sub- E. H.
Mosson, to the ago, Arab: Francis E. Moor, feet surgeon, to the Valiant A. Dick, feet surgeon, to Haulbowline Hospital has George S. Goddard, assistant paymaster to' the Indus W. Smart, engineer, to the Asia, for the Orontes the Kelley and Andrew Gibson, engineers, to the his Bellerophon, additional and Joseph Monk, engineer, to next Bullfinch.
more I LATEST. INTELLIGENCE. BURMAH. (Br EASTERN TELEGRAPH, vid FALMOUTH.) (FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) CALCUTTA, JUNE so. It is stated that the information telegraphed from Rangoon is incorrect, and that the King refuses to allow troops to pass through his territories.
Sir D. Forsyth remains in Burmah for the present. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) JUNE 80. Sir Forsyth and the members of the Burmah Mission arrived here this afternoon. 'FRENCH RAILWAYS.
(Br TELBORATE.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 9 30 P.M. The Assembly has been engaged since the beginning of the week with interminable discussions on Railwaje, The struggle now going on in the Chamber has really been waged' in the country for ten years -namely, since the Law of 1865, which embodied the principle of the creation of small lines, measure which the present Assembly has desired to extend, but the great Companies have incessantly attacked, directly or indirectly, The Bill now under discussion is a phase of this struggle, The Lyone and Mediterranean Company claims the concession of lines which have been or would be demanded by others and while the Government, which defends the large companies, advocates this concession, the adversaries of the large companies exclaim against monopolies, attack the subvention, and allege that the Lyons Railway only wants the concession in order to prevent the construction of new lines by others, being quite determined not to construct them itself. This is apparently the whole gist of the debate; and, in spite of the warmth with which the large Companies are defended by the Minister of Publio Works and by the Reporter of the Committee, M. Cezanne, the discussion would be dull and monotonous did not M. Pouyer-Quertier, with his vehemence, duency, and impetuous eloquence, absorb the attention of the Chamber from time to time by defending the small local and departmental companies against the violent attacks of which they have been the object throughout the discussion.
The truth is, however, that this is not the point of real interest. A looker-on, witnessing the warmth with which numerous amendments are attacked and defended, would certainly admire the defatigable zeal with which this despised Assembly protects the industrial and commercial interests of the country. I am bound to say, however, that he would be egregiously mistaken. What the Assembly is defending by this eager discussion on Railways are its own interests, its own existence, threatened by the relentless Dissolution. Every amendment that is submitted is an additional means of retarding the Constitutional discussion, and of killing time -that enemy of those who cling to the status quo; and, as M.
Gambetta remarked to day, shall -never get them out of Railways, except by telling them that the art of steering balloons has been discovered. Here lies the struggle. Everything said and voted has now no other aim than thisDissolution on the one hand, non-Dissolution on the other. The legend of the blowing up of the Vengeur, stigmatised by Mr. Carlyle as the largest and most inspiring piece of blagua manufactured for some centuries by any man or nation, is still a favourite subject with French artiste, and representations of it are frequently to be seen in the windows of second-rate print-shops.
A provincial paper re porta the death at Rheims of Joachim Beau, the last survivor of the Vengeur, who, it says, was 18. years of age at the time, and who, when the captain blew up his dismantled ship rather than render to the English, had the distinguished honour of being blown up with it, and the good luck of falling into the after going up. 20 metres, and without any other hurt than a broken arm. He was picked up, it adds, and retained as a prisoner till the Peace of Amiens. His funeral attended by brother of 98, sister of a son of 78, the age of the deceased being Some may be inclined to doubt whether Beau was ever in the Vengeur at all; but however this may be, it is surprising to find this story reproduced without comment in such papers the Debate and the when it has been proved to the satisfaction of French investigators that the ship sank in the ordinary way, and that the captain and 200 of the crew gladly escaped in English boats.
THE POPE. (BY TELBORAPE.) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, JUNE 30. telegram from Rome in the Univers says According to custom, a crowd of peasants have come to celebrate St. Peter's Day, and slept under the colonnades Yesterday they besieged the gates of the eying, the Pins IX. ordered them admitted, and came among them.
Then occurred truly apostolio the Pope blessing the pilgrims, and the latter weeping at the sight of him, and protesting their loge and Adelity." THE SUBMARINE TUNNEL (BY TELEGRAPH.) (FROM OUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.) BOULOGNE, JUNE 30. The Submarine Channel Tunnel Bill (projet de has been adopted unanimously and without any material amendments by the Special Committee of the National Assembly, and the draught of M. Krantz's Report has been communicated to the Minister of Pablie Works previous to being lodged with the Questure before the end of the week. DR. FALCK.
(BY TELEORAPE.) (FROM OUR PRUSSIAN CORRESPONDENT.) BERLIN, JUNE $0. The details of Dr. Falck'e journey in the Rhine country create no little satisfaction at Berlin. The wealthiest and most cultivated portion of society has given him a very warm reception at Bonn, Cologne, and Dusseldorf. At Cologne the ancient Patrician families were numerously represented among those thronging to greet the Minister identified with the new coolesiastical legislation.
Bonn citizens, professors, and students vied with esch other in fiting the travelling member of the Cabinet, while the welcome awarded him at Dusseldort in described as the grandest and warmest of At Bonn the Minister told his admirers that the Emperor, in decorating him with the Order of the Red Eagle, had desired him in his official activity to remember the ancient motto of these lands Sincere et Constanter. At the meeting at the same city the Minister proposed a solemn student's toast, executed not by force of lung, but by grasp of glasses--in honor of concord. Professor Lipschuetz, the Rector of the University, who proposed the health of all those who never ceased to learn, and, above all others, of Frince Biamarek, who had had to learn a grest deal before he was wise enough to call Dr. Falck to his assistAnoe in the war against the Powers of Darkness. THE NAVAL (BY TELBORAPE.) (FROM OUR ESPONDENT.) BERLIN, JUNE 80.
of the American Squadron under RearWarden present the naval Swinemande. The visit of the the squadron will probably be returned by visiting Amerios next. yeas courant, s'exprime sinsi su sujet dos inondations de Toulouse Univers does not publish a list, bat proposes to give the sufferers all the money paid State subvention to the Opera and certain Paris Cette phrase tendrait 1 fare croire que Univers condamne les souscriptions tandis qu' su contraire, votre correspondant surait pa lire dans le le 27 soir Paris, la veille de so de portant la date du 28-c'est-4-dire, para quivant 4 FUn admirable de chariti se manifesto de toutes en, fareur des du Midi. Des souscriptions sons ouvertes partout. Courant an plus nous reasons les Mgr.
de Toulouse. Il les repartira suivant leis besoins les plus urgents. 11 nous semble que c'est tout ee qu'il a a faire dans momentei. Envoyer le plus et le plus vita possible. "Nous lai faisons parvenir cinq cents francs montant d'une collecte spontance (1me.
page, 4me. colonne). LOUIS cette collecte provenait des de Univers. Quant A la question d'appliquer malbeureux les sommes destines et autres de Paris, elle d'un (M, Gaudry) qui dans sea colonnes, comme que vous voudres bien accueilir ma rectifcation. L'Univers a faif suivre cotte proposition de la crainte que nos no l'aris de l'auteur de la TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir, -The terrible inundations by the Garonne may teach a useful lesson to those who will learn it, this lesson growing out of the fact that excesses in rain-floods are to be expected and should be provided for. The story of destructive river floods occurring in one part of the world or the other is ever new and is ever being told. Now, it is the South of France, from the Northern slope of the Pyrenees. A short time ago it was portions of Italy, and we have recently hoard of destructive rain-floods in America, in Southern Africa, in India, and in Australia, and we have not been without such cases in Great Britain, though our floods are same and barmless compared to the inundation now, under notice in France. Men who have lived through ordinarily quiet seasons believe and state that the seasons have altered." Agricultural drainage and cultivation have done We shall never have the floods we had formerly," On the other, band, planting forests or cutting down forests is mid modify climates, These things do no doubt modify fine weather climate, but in no way affect or interfere with Nature in her excesses, as all the labour of all the men who ever lived, or ever will live.
never did nor ever can add or diminish one degree of heat to or from the sun consequently, the laws of evaporation and condensation on unaffected by agriculture or forest denuding or forest planting. The beat of the sun, the area of the and the volume of the atmosphere, cannot be regulated, and it in upon these that weather depends; the hest from the sun may vary according to the great and subtle of palsation pervading all nature; which, like the swing of the pendulum, is regular in its irregularity; if, therefore, there are such pulsations or tides in the heat from the sun the meteorology of the earth must correspond sympathetically with such changes, and times of greatest heat will be times of most ersporation and of heaviest rainfall. As cannot control the, elements, what can be do He strive to understand the laws and actions of nature, and as much possible anticipate the probable excesses, and so avoid the effects, Nature is neither. secret nor hypocriti; she works, in meteorology at all events, openly and above board, Floods of former periods engrave their history down mountain slopes and through allavial valleys, but young men take no note of such evidences. Hence houses, bridges, and towns are thoughtlessly placed in the way of the Brat excessive flood which happens thiswho could have thought it "-excess having been plainly written by former excesses in the district.
Mountain streams both raise their beds and deepen them; during, ordinary seasons the upper foods loosen and bring down gravel, sand, and silt, to leave much of it where the slopes allow of a slackened current. Again, weirs, bridges, and other works on rivers interrupt the ordinary flow and induce deposit, which lifts the bed of such rivers above their former levels, so that sudden excess from combination of natural causes, as in the south of Franceof snow to be melted, rapid rise in temperature, with heavy rainfall -produces a flood which is overwheimThe mistake is in thinking that such a flood is unprecodented, as it is only unprecedented to the existing taught generation. Ever since the Pyrenees were heaved above the ocean, devastating floods have at intervals scored their sides, and will continue this operation so long as sun, air, and mountain ridge and slope remain, It will be only poor consolation to say to the inhabitants of the fearfully devastated district, You should not have built your houses within the range of floods but will it be either cruel or unfair to say that nature may repeat cause of the disaster," nay, certainly will repeat it, and that if houses are rebuilt formerly, and nothing is done by way of protection, a similar flood will be liable to cause similar destruction! With respect to our young engineers, whose bridges and viaducts have been washed down in South Africa, in India, and in Australia, the, only plea available is that said to have been used by Dr. Sheer ignorance, Sir." The laws of excesses in nature ought to be more fully taught, and every excess. of nature ought to be a lesson for the future.
have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT RAWLINSON. THE EPIDEMIC IN U. writes to us The remarkable facts connected, with the measles demic in Fiji should throw flood of light on some questions still under controversy in regard to the spread of five other contagious fevers at home. In a recent discussion on as this subject in your columns the chief arguments brought against the theory that typhoid fever is spread solely through specitic germs ernanating from the sick was that cases are coustantly arising where it is impossible to trace in any way connezion with pre existing case. It was been further said that if the disease germs are scattered in such profusion as the theory assumes, how is it that any one escapes the contagion? The answer to this question is that the taking the disease depends on two conditions--the preof the germ and the susceptibility to the disease of four sence the person on whom it falls.
The seed must be sown, and soil and other conditions be favourable to its growth. very In countries where these diseases have been present during counties generations, the race, on the Darwinian principle of the survival of the fittest, has become in some sort hardened its against them. Its powers of resistance both to lariy attack and consequences have been increased from age those most susceptible' have succumbed, leaving. the more resisting to ant to their progeny a higher immunity. In the case of Fiji we see the of the introduction among people before submitted to its influence of disease reckoned among ourselves one of the other contagions fevers.
The spread of the rapid and the destruction of life of this instance, as the result shows, all the a for the development of the disease were prethe highest degree -the specific germ alone was with until the fatal return of the stricken Royal party. spectacle of the decay and disappearance of is ou their contaes with so-called civilized accounted for. The sadden introduction of contagious diseases among -people not, if I so speak, acclimatized to theta' must 50 weaken its to unfit it to sustain the struggle for existence. relative degrees of civilization will not alone the pedo for the phenomenon may be seen from the flourish- to condition of inferior races in Africa and Asia. The intercourse of ages has here rendered 'the majority of a common It is when we have come with the inhabitants of new worlds that the deadly effecta of the disease demons we carry in our train less are made manifest.
Our one-sided civilization euabled us the span the ocean soon, for the innocent victims out spirit of material enterprise. Let us hope that a new dead era approaches, when a surer knowledge of what appertains the true interests of humanity will enable us to tuiti the duties of a higher responsibility. 1 MONEY ORDER AND SAVINGS BANK at The following alterations will be made to-day-viz. It -1. Money, order and savings bank offices will be opened at Bridge-place R.O., Worksop, Nottingham being Burwarton, Bridgenorth, Salop Busted, Uekfield, Sussex: Castleton, Yarn, York Catheys R.0., Cardiff, found Crorsgoch, west, Pembroke; Giles- is R.O., Duraam, Durham; Hanwood, Shrewebury, Salop Leckhampton, Cheitenham, Glocester Leeming of Bar, Bedale, Bath, Swavesey, up St.
Ives, office Cambnige; Westbrook R.0.; transferred Margate, from' Keat. auso The at Uttogeter will be Stoke- the. on-Trent to Stafford. 3. During the past month it notified that Keymer (Hurstpierpoint) opened money onier and savings bank office; that the sub-offices three Goole and Howden were made head offices that, the masts office at Cricklewood (London), N.
would not open as a masts money order and savings bank office as previously announced, and that the ottics at Ingleton-road (Lancaster) masts would be abolished. Scotland. -4. A money urder and savings bank ottice will be opened at Skelmorlie, Greenock, has Aye. During the month a money order and savings bank office was opened at Sandbank, Greenock, Argyle.
been Money. order and savings bank offi.es be opened work Glenanne, Armagh, --7. Armagh Suncroft Carragh. amp, Kil. laged dare.
Colonial. During the past month information received that money order offices would be opened the undermentioned post-offices at the Cape of Good Hope and week. Newfoundland. viz. -Cape of Good Hope, Du Toit's Pan and Hondektip-bay; Newfoundland, and been that the designation of the offices at the Cape of Good Hope named De Beer's New Rash, Klipdrift, and Wodehouse would be changed respectively to Kimberley, Barkly, when and Dordrecht.
Foreign. Information bas been recived that the undermentioned post-offices. in Italy will made money order offices, via. Castelnuoro di Sotto and Poviglio, Reggio nell' Emilia Vercurago, Bergamo the Villarfoosiardo, Torino Parma Basilica, Laces James TaI -We are requested to state that the Mr. W.
Chilling worth whose name appears in Tues- Joseph among the lint of bankrupts is not connected John the business en on under the style of W. worth and Son, 48, Great Tower-street, London the THE MAILS. Mess. Lamport and Holt's steamship Vandyek, Captain Campbell, arrived at Southampton yesterday morning from Brazil, and landed £14,204 in specie for London and 20 passengers, after which she left for Antwerp and Liverpool, with a full cargo for those porte. The steamship Teniers.
the same line, arrived at Rio Janeiro on the 27th of May from London, and left on the 29th for the River and the Olbers arrived on the 29th from Liverpool, and left for the River Plate on the 31st. The Anglo-Brazilian Times of June 2 Tha Minister of Agriculture has, owe learn, renewed for six years and enlarged the contract with the Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Steampacket Company for carrying the Southern. We take the following from the Anglo-Brazilian Times the 2d of June The Bill authorizing the issues id aid ed banks by Toens Government securities passed the Senate on the 28th the decree appeared on the lst of June. The Government, however, had been making issues Lid of May, cash in the Treasury having been exhausted and the requests of the banks for loans continuing. Since the adspension of the Deutsch-Brasilianische Bank on the 22d of Mar further bank suspensions in Rio have occurred, though that of GaviN and Co.
of San Paulo has happened, and peril of the monetary crisis may be considered passed. The Argentine Envoy, Dr. Tejedor, is leaving for the River Plate, having completed the negotiations with Paraguay, a boundary, previously arranged, with the Government. Paraguay, leaving the disputed Villa Occidental with Confederation, together with some leagues of territory the north of it. RIO JANEIRO, June 2.
-On the 24th ult, transactions in exchange were resumed at 27d, for bank, and commercial billy were passed at 274d. and 27 gd. On the 25th the Engiish Bank drew privately to some extent at 27 and came out freely at this rate upon the. 26th, being followed by the other banks, and business to a large extent was effected in commercial bills at 27 ,27 with something reported done at 27 the market closes at 274d. for bank 27 gd.
for commercial. bills. On Paris some business has? been done at from 344 to 350. reis. Sovereigns have declined to 9,150, reis, -and demand is very limited.
Aided by the Treasury, the Bank of Brazil is freely discounting at PO per cent. any amount of first-class securities presented, and money is consequently much easier. We hope, says the Angio-Brazilian Times, that within a few days cone fidence will be fully restored; but the sensational and false telegrams which bare been sent abroad by some of our telegraph agencies cannos be too greatly censured and too warmly denounced. Among others, our colleague of tie Buenos Ayrea Standard has been deceived by them and led to publish as suspended banks the stability of which, whatever monetary pressure, there never was a moment's Government 6 per cent. stock in demand at 1,045 milreis for apolices.
Bank of Brazil shares unaccountably declined to milreis, or par, but advanced later to 210,000 reis. Though there is no alteration to recerd from last quotations of coffee, the market is less animated, owing tothe difficulty negotiating bills to any large amount. The sales since 22d bare been 85,000 bags, and although the arrivals the interior are large, amounting to 10,000 bags daily, stocks do not exceed 150,000 bags. Quotations flat Washed, nominal fine superior, 8,800 to 9,200 reis per arroba; first good, 8,400 to 8,600 reis first ordinary, 7,300 8,100 reis; regular, 7,400 to 7,600 reis second good, to 6,800 reis; second ordinary, 6,000 to 6,400 reis. In freights no alteration to note, with the exception of small vessels, for which rates must be considered firmer Channel, 35s.
to 40s. Mediterranean, 358, to 42. 6d. United States, North, 22s. 6d.
to 27s. 6d. The Colonial Mail steamer Windsor Castle, of Messes. Donald Currie and Line, arrived at Madeira from the at noon, yesterday (Tuesday), all well. She left Cape Town on the 10th and thus brings five days' later intelligence than that which appeared in Monday's papers, proceeded again at 5 p.m.
for Plymouth, where she be expected to arrive on Sunday next, the 4th proximpo. Our attention has been called to the new West Indian intercolonial service of the Hamburg-American Steamship Company of Hamburg in connexion with their altered line itinerary which came into operation in May last ocean steamers of this line leave llamburg on the 8th, Grimsby on the 11th, and Havre on the 14th of each month for St. Thomas (there transhipping passenand geeds), Cape Haytien, Port-an-Frince, Saba-. and Colon. At St.
Thomas passengers and goods. are DOW transhipped by the company's own intercolonial steamers to Puerto Cabello, Liaguayra, Campano, San Juan' de Puerto Rico, Aquadilla, Mayaquez, Porto Plata, Samana Bay, and Ponce. On the homeward route the steamers of the main line call at Gonaives, instead of Sabanilla, and at Plymouth to land passengers and mails. The intercolonial steamships bring from the ports named above as well as from Cumana. Barcelona, By these altered possibly anknown many interested, many ports are now brought into in proved direct steam communication with the United Kingand the Continent.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) NEW YORK, JUNE 30. The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Bothnia arrived here a a.m., the Hamburg-American Company's steamer Cimbria 1 p.m., and the Anchor United States Mail steamer Castalia at 2 p.m. to-day. QUEBEC, JUNE 30. The Allan Royal Mail steamer Moravian arrived here to-day.
SUEZ, JUNE 30. The Messageries Maritimes Company's stentner Anauyr, the inward French mails from Yokohama on the Lath May, Shanghai 23d, Batavia on the ad of June, and Calbth, left here yesterday for Port Said and Marseilles, which latter port she may be expected on the 7th of QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 30. The National Steamship Company's steamer Erin arrived here from New York at 2 p.m. today with 219 passenand, having landed 56, proceeded" for Liverpool. Cunard Royal 'Mail steamer Batavia arrived here at a.m.
to-day, and, having embarked wails passengers, despatches, proceedeu for Boston at 4 p.m. The Royal Mail steamer Hibernian arrived here at 1 30 to-day, and, having embarked tails and passengers, proceeded for Newfoundland, Halifax, and Baltimore 10 p.m. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 30, The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's loyal Mail steamship Corcovado, K. Studdert Commander, sailed toy with the mails for Brazil, River Plate, and West of South America, The Corcovado will call at Boron the 3d and Lisbon on the 6th of July for. supplementary mails and telegrams.
WELLINGTON COLLEGE. -A meeting of the Goof Wellington College was held yesterday in tho of Westminster. His Royal Highness Prince of Wales, Presiuent, his Royal Highness the of Cambridge, the Duke of Michmoad, K.G., Duke of Weilington, K.G., Earl Stanhope, Earl K.G., Viscount Eversley, Lord Redesdale, Lord Cheimsford, Lord Hampton, G. C.B., Colonel the Hon. W.
Talbot, Hight Hon. S. R. Walpole, M.P., LieutenantGeneral the Hight J. Peel, -General Sir Simmons, K.C.B., Mr.
Walter, M.P., and Mr. H. Cox. Mr. Chance, secretary, and the Rev.
E. C. WickM.A., also attended. Colonel the Hour W. P.
Talbot elected Vice-P'resident of the College, in the place of Grace the Duke of. Wellington, who has resigned the ECCLESIASTICAL APPOINTMENTS. -The Bishop of has collated the- Rev. Dr. Hooppell, Principal of Marine School of South Shieids, better known as the Winterbottom Nautical- to the rectory of Byers near Bishop Auckland.
The Principalship of. Marine School will, in consequence, shortly be It has hitherto been worth £350 year, and only be held by Master of Arts of Camur' Oxforu. The Guardian announces the -folappointments -Rev. -George Austen, M.A.; recof Waitby- patron the Archbishop of York Rev. H.
Barr, B.A., vicar of North Baddesley, of Chilworth; Nev. Raiph Milburn Biakiston, organizing secretary of the Additional Curates' Metropolitan District, secretary of the IncorpoChurch Building Society; Rev. Arthur P. Britton, at Thorverton and vicar of Netherese -patron the Chancellor Rev. -H.
J. Chase, curate of Christ Chiton, vicar of Christ Church, Montpelier, Wes. -patrons, the Dean of Glocester, Bishop- Auderand Canon Ryle; Rev. Percy C. Clarke, securate of St.
Luke, Southampton, vicar of St. Staplefield, Sussex; Rev. Edward Henry Elers, vicar of Boldre Ker. Evelyn Dawsonne Heatherte, vicar of Spurshoit Rev. Alfred Peter Lovekin, M.
of Oasiebury; Ker. Somerset G. Pennefatner, B.A.. of Kenilworth Rev. F.
Richings, B.A., vien of Snodsbury and curate. of Grafton Flyford, rector of Clement's, Worcester Rev. W. J. B.
Roberts, vica- of Notts Her. David Howe, vicar of st, John, Rev. S. Cooper Scott, vicar of St. John, Ches er; H.
G. South well, rector of Rothwell, Lincolnshi: W. Symonds, rector of Stockport, Cheshire Rev. Thompson, vicar of St. John, Cardiff, Glamorgan: Rev.
perpetual curate of Wood Green, Wednesbury, Stafford; Rev. William Walsh, rector of Great Toy, Essex, of Great Coates, MARSHAL A. C. writes to Some telegraphic and newspaper co. have been lateig misled into representing as being at one time at Geneva, at another time I ain at a loss to discover whether he has been personated at either of these pisces from motive, of whether these incorrect: notices invented by certain political parties in France but will ask you to allow me to certify to your readers, the Marshal has not once left Spain since jast autumn, that in a letter received here this morning, bearing the Madrid, he simply states that for many months he has not been absent from that capital further than SCHOOL OF ART NEEDLEWORK.
-A Council meetwas held at Alford-house yesterday, at which her Highness the Princess 'Christian presided. With to our report of the opening of this school on 25d of June; we' have been requested to state that Wade was appointed by her Royal Highness the Christian as lady superintendent and manager, a so that the average earnings of the Nady workers been from g1 to £2 a week, sastead of 42 to £3, HUDDERSFIELD. BETTING CASE. -At the West Quarter Sessions, at Bradford, yesterday, the Court a decision on an appeal which confirmed the judgment Huddersdeld justices in convicting a number of for betting at the Royal Club in that town some time CHESTER RACES. -The Duke of Westminster announced, in consequence of the determination of the of the grand stand not to, reduce the lesth of Chester race meeting to three days, that he must break family connexion with the race meeting, and that year he shall transfer his usual subscription to one or charities in the city.
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