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return to Frank Erwood's court, in Bath-street, which, being 
a closed court, is available in all weathers. The third match 
was won off by Mitchell and Young. This victory gave them 
the ascendancy over their competitors, It is but justice to 
the Erwoods, however, to observe that the result of the 
second day’s play was materially affected by the circum- 
stance of an illness on the part of Frank Erwood, which 
altogether incapacitated him from playing in liis usually 
fine manner, and which fine play he needed against two such 
powerful opponents. 
Suicide in A Railway Carriage. — Lincoln, August 21. — 
At the inquest ou view of the body of a gentleman who was 
found dead in a first-class railway carriage, on Thursday 
afternoon, nothing lias been elicited from the numerous in- 
quiries set on foot by the coroner, Mr. Hitchins, tending to 
throw any light oil this extraordinary case. The open razor, 
covered with blood, the plait of female hair, the blood upon 
the clothes of the deceased, together with the fact of there 
not being a single abrasure on any part of his person, sug- 
gests a train of details which have yet to be accounted for. 
The coroner has received the following letter, which he read 
to the jury: — “Sir, — Your correspondent is too ill and 
crushed down to attend the inquest ou the body found in the 
railway carriage at Lincoln, and the exposure would but wound 
a large and respectable circle. Though not legal evidence, the 
grievous facts are simply these : The deceased, against long 
remonstrance, had injured his health and shattered his 
nerves by a habit of excessive reading at night, supported by 
a large use of strong stimulants — coffee, tea, and tobacco — 
to keep off sleep. He was very generous, and rather careless 
and expensive, and thereby in some little degreee embar- 
rassed. He became suddenly nervous, although treated w ith 
tenderneas. He turned very religious. He seems to have 
imbibed a wild notion that he ought not to live any longer. 
A letter sent circuitously came to hand only yesterday, 
stating that he must die, and would, when near Derby, by 
night-train. It was a sudden derangement, for a more 
excellent-hearted man, or more full of information and high 
feeling, could hardly be found. The enclosed £5, with 
whatever lie may have had, will suffice for the last rites. 
Pray let the officiating clergyman be requested to accept 
£1. Is. More money would be sent if it were at hand and 
needed; but what can funeral rites do?" A Bank of Eng- 
land note for £5 was enclosed. The jury returned a verdict 
of “ Found dead in a railway carriage, but by what means 
deceased came to his death there is no evidence to show." 
The body of the unfortunate gentleman was interred at five 
o'clock this evening, in the presence of a great crowd of 
persons. 
SCOTLAND. 
Professor Wilson’s Monument. — We are happy to learn 
that the subscription for the monument to Professor Wilson 
progresses most favourably. Among the names recently 
added to the lists are those of the Dukes of Hamilton. Buc- 
cleuch, Roxburgh, and Argyll ; the Earls of Haddington, 
Stair, Rosebery, Ellesmere ; Viscount Mahon ; Rt. Hon. T B. 
Macaulay, M.P ; Williams Stirling, of Keir, M. P. ; Achibald 
Hastie. M.P. ; William Forbes, of Callender, M.P. ; Colonel 
Mure, of Caldwell, M.P. ; tbe Lord Justice General, the Lord- 
Advocate, Lords Robertson, Wood, Rutherford, Handyside, 
Neaves, the Dean of Faculty, Professors Alison, Blackie, 
M'Dougal, Simpson, and Swinton. The subscriptions already 
exceed £900. The sum required is about £1,400. We hope 
soon to be able to announce that the whole amount required 
for the completion of the monument has been subscribed. — 
Northern Standard. 
IRELAND. 
Accident to tite Lord-Lieutenant — The Lord-Lieute- 
nant met with a slight accident on Saturday last at Baron's- 
court, count}' of Tyrone, the residence of the Marquis of 
Abercorn. While riding with Lord Claude Hamilton, his 
Excellency's horse put his foot into a hole hidden by the 
grass and fell, throwing his rider to the ground, by which 
his thumb was dislocated and his face considerably bruised. 
Happily, however, no serious injury was sustained. Dr. 
Hamilton, of Mountstewart, was in prompt attendance, and 
it is believed that in the course of a few days his Excellency 
will have quite recovered from the effects of the full. 
/orrigu 3ntrlligim 
FRANCE. 
( From our oicn Correspondent.) 
Paris, Thursday, August 24. 
Their Majesties at Biarritz — Rumours of peace — Ravages of 
cholw in the army; ridiculous exaggerations — French 
Ropilblicans at Madrid — The weather — Summer travelling 
— The old diligence versus railway — M. de Foudras. 
Their Imperial Majesties continue to enjoy themselves most 
agreeably in the south. The Empress, happy in the society 
of her family and friends, never appeared more cheerful nor 
in better health. The Emperor is described as in somewhat 
less spirits than at first; doubtless the intelligence of the 
ravages of cholera in the army contributes to render him 
■anxious. But in domestic politics there is nothing to cast 
the shadow of a shade upon his brow ; on tho contrary, 
France never was more prosperous, happy, and couteuted, 
than at this moment. 
There are Hying reports about Paris of a seriouR desire on 
the part of Russia to come to terms, on the basis laid down 
in the notes of M. Drouiu de Lhuys and Lord Clarendon, — 
namely, tho evacuation of the Principalities, &c., &c. Russia 
is so slippery a customer that there is no confidence to be 
placed in what she appears disposed to do. But unquestion- 
ably the announced attack of her stronghold of the Crimea, 
and the ibingerous vicinity of the fleets to St. Petersburg, 
after their late facile success at Bomarsund, may have so far 
shaken the confidence of the Czar as to lead him to lower 
his pretensions. Should an accommodation take place, it 
would inucli disappoint the public, who desire to see tho 
pride of Russia humbled ; but the unhealthy state of the 
rnlied armies, and the insalubrity of the Crimea, which is to 
be the seat of future operations — (here it was that the 
Emperor Alexander caught the fever which carried him off) 
may, it is thought, lead the allies to agree to terms less 
urgent than they would have done had the state of the armies 
been more satisfactory. 
Tho proclamation of the Emperor to the army, in which 
ue darkly alludes to the dreadful visitation of the cholera 
and recommends fortitude to the soldiers, has, on the whole, 
THE FIELD. 
produced a painful impression, os it countenances the sad 
reports of the losses experienced from the pestilence by the 
troops, all mention of which had, by special orders, been 
suppressed iu the accounts published by Government. It is, 
however, consoling to learu that the terrible scourge was 
considerably declining at the latest advices. In tho mean- 
time, this fatal calamity has altogether neutralised the grati- 
fication arising from the success of the allies at Bomarsund. 
The loss of 8,000 brave men, without drawing a sword, is 
naturally most disheartening; but what cau one think of the 
cold-blooded infamy of those who exaggerate this frightful 
mortality to the amount of 7,000 in tho French army alone ? 
Surely the reality was sad and terrible enough without adding 
to the evil, and carrying distress into thousands of families. 
When such mischievous falsehoods are forwarded, is it to be 
wondered at that commanders are averse to the preseuco of 
correspondents in their camp ? Among other infamies of the 
kind sent to France was tho news of the deaths of four 
French generals (Canrobert, Trochu, D’Allouville, and 
Thierry), named in full, as having been among the first 
victims of the epidemic. They are all happily alive, and at 
their duties. The false account of the death of Mr. Hale, of 
rocket celebrity, is another of those fabrications, all of which 
are fraught with agony and affliction to so many. Surely the 
treadmill would be too light a punishment for such offenders. 
It is affirmed that no less than three hundred adventurers, 
known in Paris for their connexion with the revolution of 
1848 and the subsequent street insurrections in France, arc 
at present iu Madrid, and among tho chiefs of the revolu- 
tionary clubs, in which they advise or dictate everything 
that is done iu that city. Hence the sudden skill exhibited 
by the Madrileuos in the erection of barricades, ami hence 
all the difficulties of well-menuiug, honourable Espartero, 
who is far too good and too humane a man to deal with 
or understand such scamps. Pity Narvaez is not of his 
party ! He is like one of themselves, and his unsparing 
mode of doing business would smooth all the difficulties that 
now beset the path of the Duque de la Victoria at one blow. 
Our weather, which has been occasionally shaky, has 
settled down into lovely skies, bright sunshine, ami iu fine 
delicious travelling temps by day or night. The latter by 
the way being rather preferable, seeing that tho provoking 
railways in every part of the world, invariably on arriving 
at any point iu u landscape one is particularly desirous to 
see, bring their passengers deep between two rascally em- 
bankments, from which they only emerge upon some barren 
flat, leaving all that is beautiful or picturesque far behind. 
Rapidity of motion lias certainly been obtained, but at the 
expense of all that gives its chief charm and variety to 
travel. So much has this been felt and complained 
of by a large class of railway travellers, that it is pro- 
posed to give facilities for seeing all celebrated spots, 
by placing public carriages at various stations, and 
to re-arrango the present regulations, so that the voyagers 
may stop whero and when they please without additional ex- 
pense. This will mend a great evil ; for at present you rush 
through the heart of the most beautiful parts of Franco 
without seeing more of it than tantalizing glimpses, which 
make one wish for the rumble of tho old diligence, and its 
not to be re-placed banquette, which, ill-favoured and lumber- 
ing as it looked, afforded means of seeing the surrounding 
country, with a comfort and convenience not to be surpassed. 
Last week’s obituary contains tho name of M. de Foudras, 
a man, the secrets and history of whose life would form a 
chapter in biography which would throw even St. Simon's 
famous memoirs into the shade. In 1810, when M. de Rovigo 
became Minister of Police, M. de Foudras was employed in 
a humble capacity in his office ; but soon the sterling stuff’ of 
his nature made its way and spoke for itself. M. dc Foudras 
was appointed to organise the system by which tho working 
classes are regulated in France, and to him is due the 
establishment of the letret system, by which all workmon, 
artizans, labourers, and man-servants are all registered, and 
receive a license in the shape of their levret (a little book, 
containing an attestation from employers of their conduct 
and character) without which they can find no employment, 
and which, on due cause being bIiowii, may be temporarily sus- 
pended, or altogether withdrawn. Suffice it to say, that one 
of its most important conseq nonces is that it renders strikes 
next to impossible. But revenona d nos moutons. One day, 
in 1810, M. de Kovigo learnt, through one of his spies, that a 
young student living at Frankfort on the Maine had formed 
the design of assassinating tho Emperor, and had started for 
Paris with that object. No further indications were given. 
M. de Kovigo entinsted Foudras with the difficult task of 
finding and arresting him. The next morning the young 
enthusiast was arrested as he was leaving his hotel — pistols 
were found upon his person, and he freely admitted his 
intention of shooting tho Emperor ns ho rode out of 
the court yard at the Tuileriea. The Emperor had 
Young Vnndersolm lodged at Vincennes, where, bating the 
want of liberty, he had all he could wish for; and when he 
was released on the arrival of tho allies, ho expressed his 
regret on being obliged to leave the comfortable quarters he 
had for four years occupied in the Donjon. M. de Foudras 
remained in office under the first restoration and the Hun- 
dred Days ; and when Louis XVIII. re-entered tho capital 
supported by the allies, he was still at his post ; and though 
he freely accepted the now regime, ho never imitated the 
meanness and ingratitude of many Bouapartists who strove 
to win favour with the Legitimist party by bespattering their 
former patron with mud. He remained in office until the 
ministry of M. Thiers, in 1835, when he retired, declaring 
that that giddy, clever, loquacious little minister would 
render another revolution inevitable! How true a prophecy ! 
In 1848 the violence of the popular tempest alarmed him to 
such a degree os to induce him to destroy all his papers and 
correspondence. Many valuable documents for the history 
of the last fifty years have thus been lost to posterity. 
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S PROCLAMATION TO 
THE ARMY OF THE EAST. 
The Monitenr says: — “ The Emperor has just addressed 
the following proclamation to the army of the East 
“Soldiers and Seamen of the Army of the East, — You have 
not i et fought, and already you have obtained a signal 
success. \ our presence and that of the English troops have 
sufficed to constrain the enemy to recross the Danube, and 
the Russian ships remain shamefully in their ports. You 
have not yet fought, and already you have courageouslv 
contended against death. A redoubtable scourge, although 
transitory, has not checked your ardour. France and the 
Sovereign she has given herself do not see, without deep 
emotion, without making every effort to come to your aid, so 
much energy and self-denial. 
“ The First Consul said, in 179?, in a proclamation to his 
army:— ‘The first quality of the soldier is constancy In 
enduring fatigues and privations ; valour is only the second.' 
Tho first you now display ; who cau deny you the second I 
Therefore, our enemies, spread from Finland to tho Caucasus, 
strive anxiously to know how tar France and England will 
deal those blows, which they clearly foresee will bo decisive ; 
for right, justice, and military inspiration are on our side. 
“ Already Bomarsund and two thousand prisoners have 
just fallen into our powor. Soldiers, you will follow tho 
example of the army of Egypt ; tho conquerors of tho 
1 y rounds and of Mount Thabor hail liko you to fight against 
hardy soldiers and with disease ; but, despite tho plague and 
the efforts of three armies, they returned honoured to their 
country. 
“ Soldiers, havo confidence in your General-in-Chief and in 
me. I watch over you, and I hope, with tho assistance of 
t.od, to see your suftbriugs aoon diminish and your glory 
increase, boldiors, (till wo muut again) adieu, 
“ NAroi.BON.’’ 
, '}^^,,uteur publishes the following telegraphic despatch, 
dated Vienna, August IS : — “Tho Austrian corps which ia 
the first destined to enter Wallucliia h is been ordered by 
telegraph to commence its march. It is believed tlmt tlio 
frontier was crossed this very day, at tho Rothen-Thurm 
Pass, by two brigades advancing from Hermauustadt. This 
movement has been combined between General Hess and 
Omar Pasha, comformably to the Auatro-Turki-h treaty." 
A Constantinople Letter states that some of the olfieora 
of tho staff' of Omar Pasha had arrived in that capital to pre- 
sent to the Soraskier a boy only twolvo years old, who 
touglit at Silistiiu by tho side of his father, when the latter 
was killed. Some English olfieora who hud witnessed his 
bravery and filial love took him under their protection, aud 
mentioned him to Omar Pasha, who sent him to the Scroskier, 
aud at the same time recommended him to tho Sultan. 
At the head of the Mohammedan olbboy in Persia 
stands the chief mollah, who is always a descendant of the 
sacred family of Ali, tho son-in-law of Mohammed. Reforo 
the last Persian war, Aga Mir Futali was invested with this 
hereditary dignity, aud resided in Tabreoz. When I'liskie- 
ivitsch appeared before that place Aga Mir Fatah entered 
into negociations for its surrender. Having thus iucurred 
the enmity of the Shall, ho wont to Tiflie, but a few years 
after ho returned to Persia, a now uiustachid having usurped 
his authority. In Ispahan ho was poisoned, from tho effects 
oi which, however, he recovered, lie drove away his enemy, 
and now resides at Tabreoz, the Shah not daring to oppoBo 
him. His eldest son, Hsjji Aga, lives ou his father's ostato 
near Tdlis ; ho has also two younger bous there, with five of 
his wives. He otteu visits his family’ at Tiflis, and receives 
a pension of 20,000 roubles from tho Russian Government. 
Advices from St. PbtersbObo reach to tho 15th inst., 
but they contain nothing new, except that Archangel was 
effectually blockaded on tho 13th inst. As this would bo 
tho 1st inst. according to tho old or Russian stylo, tho delay 
iu establishing the blockade, which oxcitod surprise after it 
had boon notified for tho 1st, seems to bo explained. 
The Aland Islands are no longer under tho Russian 
dominion, but arc placed under their own administration. 
Ou Sunday, the 13th inst., a proclamation, signed by General 
Bamguuy D'Hiliiors, and countersigned by the Crown Baillie 
Ligndl, announcing that the Aland Islands wore indepen- 
dent, and placed under the protection of England and Franco* 
was publicly read in all the parish churches of the islands. 
V\ i: learn FROM Berlin that a sergeant-major and a 
sergeant of tho Guards Artillery have rocoivod the Kiug'a 
permission to proceed to Egypt as instructors to the Egyptian 
artillery. The emineut practical services rendered to this 
special arm by Prussian olfieora in tbe Sultan's service have 
induced tho Viceroy to make application to his Prussian 
Majesty. Tho two uon-coramisxioued officers, both young 
men of groat theoretical and pract ical knowledge, arc engaged 
tor six years, under tho promise of a respectable pension 
should they not re-ongngo. Tho two non-commissioned 
officers will doubtless prove themselves worthy of their 
comrades iu tho Sultan's service, and, liko Colonel Grach, 
obtain for themselves a distinguished and moBt honourable 
name throughout Europe. 
Madrid Advices give tho following as a text of the remark- 
able speech made by r General San Miguel at the dinner given 
to the Ministers by tho press of Madrid : — Gentlemen, — As 
an old journalist myself, end n» the patriarch of journalism, 
unfortunately, by my advanced age, 1 drink to n frou press. 
I drink, gentlemen, to an institution which neither irons, 
nor laws, nor transportation, nor exile can destroy— (bravo, 
bravo !) — [A Voice : Long live General San Miguel"] — be- 
cause thought is an emanation from the divinity, and them 
is no power in the world, there are no laws which cun ex- 
tinguish its powerful voice. Tho press has no other cor- 
rective than itself. (Bravo ! “ True.") Tho press lias no 
other corrective than itself, tho good sense of the public, and 
public education. It is only by this that tbe press is elevated 
and great. This is what we see iu England, tho classic coun- 
try of liberty. A free press D a press that think*, a press 
that administers, a proas that does tho work of diplomacy ; 
it is in a word a great social lover which acts upon the interests 
of the state. Gentlemen, l Hatter myself that the epoch wo 
have all wished to see for the press, has now arrived. (“Yes, yes") 
I hopo the press will bo found worthy of its high mission, 
that journalist s will so exercise their calling that they may 
bo supplicated to continue in tho performance of their 
exalted task. I have been a journalist in times of danger 
and revolt, and to lmvo been a journalist is for me tho 
brightest recollection of my life ; it is tho title ou which 1 
most pride. myself. I drink, then, to a free press, to a noble 
P 1 ' 1 * H . which does not descend to vulgar things, which con- 
descends not to insults and personalities, to the press which 
respects the secrets of families. (Thunders of applause.) I 
drink, finally, to the men who have invited us to this ban- 
quet, which will be famous, because it will inaugurate a new 
era, in which the free and independent press of Europe will 
show to the entire world that there are in Spain journalists 
who know how to write, to think, and to interest themselves 
iu tho public cause. (Immense applause. Several journalists 
approach to embrace the venerable general.) 
Letters from Naples, in tbe Monitors Toscano, of the 
10th, state that two-thirds of the inhabitants of Naples have 
emigrated, on account of tho cholera. Among the victims 
of the epidemic are the Duke of Lieto, General Nuuziunte, 
and the Prince of Aci. 
The California Mails bring us the usual news of fire and 
destruction. San Francisco has been again visited by a con- 
flagration, which has destroyed whole streets. Tho fire 
begnn in the Golden-gate Hotel, and burnt $200,000 worth 
of property. Sacramento city lias met with a still greater 
