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» —— NEXT WEEK We shall have pleasure in presenting our readers with the First Chapter of LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF A WORKING MAN, Which will be continued for several succeeding weeks.

Expulsion OF M. rogeard from BELGIUM. M. Rogeard, author of the Propos do Labienns," having been sentenced to be expelled from Belgium, published the following declaration" I have de- fended liberty of conscience in France, I have del- fended it in Belgium, I shall defend it everywhere, and to the end, to the extent of my power. I received this morning a UNYAL decree, deliberated upon by the council of ministers, by which I am arbitrarily expelled from Belgium. I declare that I shall remain in Belgium, in my dwelling. I declare that I shall pro- test against this arbitrary conduct by all the means which shall be at my command, and that I shall await the employment of public force, and that I shall not leave save at my own time, and that I shall only yield to violence. I consider that I have a duty to fulfil towards the Belgian people, and I shall fulfil it. 1 have a debt of gratitude to discharge towards Bel- gian public opinion. I desire to declare this publicly, and if I cannot hope to pay it, I wish at least not to be considered ungrateful. I shall, therefore, do what I ought for the cause of liberty in all countries, and what I owe to hospitality in Belgium. I sball resist arbitrary proceedings, and shall protest in all forIIl and shall not leave until I am arrested." In conse- quence oi this declaration the order of expulsion WAS put in force on the 17th. M. Rogeard was conducted by the police at 5 a.m. to the Northern Railway station, and sent on to Germany. A numerous and excited meet- ing was held the previous evening at the Nouvelle Cour de Bruxelles, to protest against the decree issued by th ministry. The three following resolutions werepassea almost unanimously:—" The meeting protests againS" the decree of expulsion. 2. An address of sympathy shall be forwarded to M. Rogeard. 3. An IMME* diate manifestation shall be made in front of his residence." The meeting consequently adjourned e-m masse to the Rile des Sals, where a manifestation of the most sympathising kind was made. M. Eogeard replied in terms of the warmest acknow- ledgment. The expulsion appears to hava been caused by the publication of a satire entitled Pauvre France," of which M. Rogeard is the author, and which the Belgian Ministry considered insulting both to the Government of the country, and to a neighbour- ing friendly nation. — ♦

T O ~W 1ST TALK. BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. I -+- j Our readers will understand that we do not hold owrseZues respon- sible/or our able Correspondent's opinions. THE weather does not seem to affect you much," said a fat friend, whom I met near St. Clement's Church, and whom I greeted with that buoyancy of spirit which all my acquaintances envy and admire so much. I know," he continued, with a deep sigh, "I find it very oppressive." And so would you, my friend, if you were here. Lo! as the traveller in the desert longs for the oasis, and the tall palm, and the refreshing spring, so longs the jaded flag-and-glass-scorched Londoner to stretch his limbs beneath the green arbutus, or sit near the cool-sounding stream-nor would veteris gocula Massici be all unwelcome. I ASKED my frien clwhat he thought of IVTI," Crosse's marriage. He thought, as everybody thinks, that it was the best thing that could have been done under the circumstances; did not see why they should not be happy if the young man will educate himself, and the friends of the young lady will ponder the advice of the Doge of Venice, and "Take up this mangled matter at the best; yet, being of a thoughtful and somewhat sceptical turn, he added that he should like to know what both will think of the matter six mols cpres des nceiids si doziz have been tied. As I write this I have received letters from Ire- land, which I learn that arrests of Fenians are still being made; and that while the proceed- ings of the Government in seizing the paper called the Irish People, and arresting so many of the "brethren" have given satisfaction to the middle- classes, the mass of the people sympathise, to a considerable extent, with these foolish men. Here the conduct of the Government is strongly ap- proved of, as calculated to kill in the seed that which could only develop itself to the injury of Ireland and the ruin of those who fostered it. One of the Fenian songs is a parody on a well-known Southern song. The chorus runs- We're a band of brothers, We're natives of the soil, We're fighting for our liberties— For Irish rights, hurrah!" Even now it would be unreasonable to speak too strongly of Irish discontent, the turbulence of that people, and so forth. We must remember that it is only within about half a century that Ireland has had fair play. A nation cannot spring out of old prejudices as a man springs out of his pantaloons. Fifty years is a comparatively short time in a country's history. Ireland is becoming every year more enlightened, more prosperous, and more loyal; and Fenianism will be regarded in its true light if treated as the enultimate or antepenultimate eruption of a disease which generous and liberal treatment is crushing out of the constitution of the Irish people. How the shade of Chatterton must rejoice at the disappointment of the people of Bristol. The gout, Lord Palmerston's old and growing enemy, has prevented him from going to open the exhi- bition. Mr. Gladstone was applied to, and refused. So was Lord Stanley and the Duke of Argyll, but with no more success. The health of the Premier is known not to be very robust. Indeed, during last Session it was seen by every one that the head of her Majesty's Government, whether in his place in the House of Commons, or walking home after the House had risen, as was his wont, no longer possessed that buoyancy and elasticity, that jaunty youthfulness, that delightful lonhomie, which has contributed not a little to create and maintain his popularity. He rallied at Tiverton, and men thought he was going to take a new lease of youth. But even ministers .are mortal, and that "decay which has come like a gentle moonlight o'er him and found him gouty still and gay," must ultimately do its work. Those who are best informed seem to think that the noble Viscount's health will not serve him in such stead as to enable him to com- mence, let alone go through, another Session. Who then will be Premier? Gladstone, cry a hundred voices. Few and faint are those which say that Earl Granville will be Prime Minister, and Mr. Gladstone leader in the House of Commons. The reader is aware that the Queen did send at one time for Earl Gran- ville to form an administration. Others say that in the event of Lord Palmerston's resignation or death the string would be cut which keeps the beads together, and that there would be a regular breaking up of the Liberal party as at pre- sent constituted; a breaking up which would pro- bably result in the return of the Conservatives to office. However, the most wide-spread opinion is that when the reins drop out of Lord Palmerston's hands Mr. Gladstone will become the Automedon of the State. I have found even strong Conserva- tives of this opinion. OUR ideal of women has, on the whole, a basis in fact. The character of any one woman, how- ever good she may be, would not, in all proba- bility, yield all those excellencies which are concentrated in that high conception; but it would, in most cases, yield a fair proportion. One must be very deficient in observation if he has failed to notice the healthy and ennobling influ- ence of this ideal, especially on very young men its power, as Tennyson writes, Not only to keep down the base in man, But to teach high thoughts and amiable words, And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man." Anything, therefore, that has a tendency to im- pair this must be regarded, apart from all other considerations, with solicitude and something more, by those who have the interests of society at heart. Now, infanticide is, ab»ve all other things, calculated to shatter and destroy this. It is, therefore, no wonder that it should be discussed with growing interest. Some days since a meet- irg was held at the Gray's-inn Hotel, for the purpose of considerin g this subject. People discuss it in public and private, but, I regret to have to add, with no satisfactory result. Hasty thinkers, who are not aware of the difficulty of finding out the cause of any social disease, are ready with their remedies. Suggestions of changes-I cannot, I confess, call them reforms—come from every side. The subject is hedged round with difficulties; no proposal is, as yet, without grave objections. Englishmen would never agree—and wisely-to the registration of pregnancy; the proposal to have a London Hospital open night and day but points to a local cure for a wide-spread disease. To the course of making affiliation compulsory, and increasing the pecuniary responsibilities of the father, I have heard three objections made. It assumes that the man is always better off than the woman, which is by no means the case. It would hold out a temptation to immorality and to false charges of paternity. And it would make it the interest of two people, instead of one, to com- mit infanticide. The facts are all against Found- ling^Hospitals. In France, wherever they were established, illegitimate births rose from one- thirteenth to one-third. In less than half a century after their establishment in St. Peters- burg such births increased from three hundred to three thousand, and, notwithstanding all this, infanticide was practised as much as before. Some are of opinion that in the discussion of this ques- tion great natural facts have been, with mistaken prudery, more or less ignored; and that too much has been said of a kind calculated to lift the guilt from the woman's shoulders. If due weight, it is said, had been given to the former, the need of higher education would have been made more prominent; and if the true character of the latter were appreciated, the necessity for such a legal reform as would prevent the murderess of her children from slipping through the fingers of justice with a few months' imprisonment, could not fail to have been seen. SOMETHING will probably be soon done to make locomotion more easy in the City. The Town Council have been talking about the matter, and it is written about and discussed on all sides. Permanent relief can only come from Hauss- manisation "-a word which we owe to the discussion, and which is of itself enough to block up a tolerably wide thoroughfare. Meanwhile, the police, which it is contemplated to embody for attending exclusively to the traffic, would be most useful in dealing with reckless and drunken drivers. It is a common thing to see Omnibus-drivers race, their outside fares holding on as best they may. I can state it advisedly that there are cabmen here with a stroEger sense of humour than of humanity, who think it great fua. to run down" old parties." A day or so ago, near Kew-bridge, a fellow gallopped his omnibus lite- rally smash up against the gate. Nobody was killed, but some were bruised, and all were frightened. Such carelessness or drunkenness as this could be dealt with well by a police force. The reader will understand the necessity that exists for something being done when he learns that it is computed that five times as many are killed in the streets of London as on all the railways in the United Kingdom put to- gether. Z.

SUMMARY UF PASSING EVEN,TS. u e THE American news brought by the late mails relates chiefly to the work of re-organisation, whilst the determination of the United States Govern- ment to meet their national debt honourably has raised them in the estimation of other nations. One statement, if true, will be read with universal regret, viz., that the Southerners failing in what they paraded as their holy cause, are now reveng- ing themselves upon the innocent negroes, and are massacring the black population wherever the Federal protecting troops have been with- drawn. The new state of things is, however, hard to be understood by the negroes themselves, who at first believed freedom to be coupled with a cessa- tion of labour, and that the wants of nature would be provided for them without exertion on their part. In Virginia, more especially, the black population have a belief that their freedom entitles them to possession of lands, &e., and that the original pro- prietorship of such property had ceased. The United States Government have, therefore, thought it needful to issue a proclamation to the effect that if the negro does not work neither can he expect to eat, that his labour is equally in the market as the white man's, but that he has an opportunity of working upon his own terms, giving an honest day's labour for fair wages. It will take time before the poor negro understands his absolute position, but when education becomes general amongst the black population they will appreciate the altered aspects of affairs. GREAT dissatisfaction exists in Europe as to the final settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein question. Prussia, it appears, is to do as she pleases; not satisfied with appropriating the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, she has taken possession of Lauenburg, and assumed the title of that Duchy. Now, if the present King of Denmark had a title to the throne he occupies, he had a far greater one to that of Lauenburg, to which he was the direct heir; but the despotic Powers of Prussia and Austria appear to do what they please, and the un- fortunate Schleswig-Holsteiners, who complained of the tyranny of Denmark, feel now that they have exchanged King Stork for King Log. Per- haps the Danish rule might not have been of a conciliatory character in the Duchies, but, as com- pared with the despotism of Prussia, it was light and easy to be borne. These Duchies have no longer a representation, an army, or a voice even in their own Government, and substantially they are reduced to the condition of serfs to the Prussian Government. THE members for Oxfordshire have been ad- dressing local audiences, and Messrs. Henley and Newdegate have each spoken upon the cattle pestilence, and avoided politics altogether. Mr. Henley advises that the measures propounded by the Government should be acted upon, and hopes that the splendid root crop will do something towards mitigating the losses sustained through the prevalence of the cattle disease; and Mr. Newdegate considered great praise was due to the Government for the prompt and vigorous measures they had carried out on this momentous occasion, and he thought farmers who did not insure were acting much against their own interests. THE cholera in Marseilles appears to be spreading. On the 12th inst. there were fifty- seven fatal cases there. The authorities have been very active, however, and measures have been taken to enable a certain number of medical men to remain up during the whole night to attend any patients that should be so afflicted, medicine being given to the poorer classes gratis. A FORM of prayer, having reference to the cattle plague and cholera, has been issued by the Bishop of Oxford, for use in schools and families in England. The prayer contains petitions for de- liverance "from plague and pestilence on man and beast; from straitness in our borders, and hunger in our homes; from the wasted ear and from the empty bag; from murrain in our cattle and from sickness in our folds; from excess in abundance; from grudging in our gifts; from unthankfulness for mercies; and from harshness under judgments." AN extraordinary meeting of the Atlantic Tele- graph Company was held last week, and a proposal for raising new capitalo-as submitted. Subscribers to the new loan are to have a preference dividend of twelve per cent., and a further share in the profits after the existing share capital gets eight per cent. a,nd the first original capital four per cent. A WORKING Man's Industrial Exhibition was opened at Reading a few days ago, under the immediate patronage of the Queen, who lent several subjects of interest to enhance its attrac- tions. It was fondly hoped that the Sovereign or some of the royal family would be present; but they were all away to their highland homes. In the absence of royalty the Bishop of Oxford officia- ted at the inauguration, and the following sentence may be said to contain the germinal sentiment of the whole address :—I believe that by spreading these works throughout the country we call forth the faculties of men by familiarising them with I the highest works of genius; and I think we can see in it another good-it reveals man to man. A master who has under him in his manufactory one of those individuals in whom sleeps the seeds of genius, discovers through the medium of such an exhibition as this the hidden powers of humanity in his workma.n, and feels that a work has been done which he himself could never have com- passed immediately he looks upon this brother as indeed' a brother, in a manner which he had never before appreciated, he sees in him, instead of a mere performer of some drudgery or some work for which he has to be paid, one in whom God has sown the seed of true humanity, and he begins to honour that humanity so that the servant receives his due from his master, and the master himself is raised in the scale of creation by his acknow- ledgment of the gifts of Heaven in the man whom he employs." THE romance of the clergyman's daughter eloping with her father's late groom was taken out of the hands of the law by a legal marriage. The lady's father, the Rev. Mr. Crosse, acting on second thoughts, gave his consent to the union, and the young couple were accordingly united at All Saints' Church, Wandsworth. An immense concourse of people assembled around the church, and cheered the bridal party most lustily whilst street songs, prepared for the occasion, had a rapid sale. The bridegroom, who is described as looking extremely happy, on reaching his temporary home was called upon to address the crowd, which he did in a short speech, expressive of his thankful- ness for their sympathy. Thus the romance is ended, and it remains to be seen whether an ill- assorted match can be made a happy one. BUT the subject which has caused the most attention within the last few days has been- Fenianism. Numerous arrests have been made in Dublin, Cork, and elsewhere* of persons who have openly advocated the principles of rebellion against the British Government. The first seizure I was made in Dublin, at the office of a paper called the Irish People, the alleged organ of the Fenians, on Friday night, by a body of police who had to break open the door. Here ten persons were ar- rested, including an "American citizen," who said he would bring the fact of his being illegally arrested under the attention of Mr. Seward. The formal charge against all the prisoners is that of having feloniously and treason- ably conspired with divers other evil disposed persons belonging to a secret society called the Fenian Brotherhood, having for their object the levying of war in Ireland against the Queen, and separating it from the United Kingdom." The prisoners went quietly with the officers, and there was not the slightest attempt to rescue them. In Dublin twenty two persons were taken into custody, but not the slightest disturbance has followed. The majority of persons in Ireland, as well as in England, are peaceably disposed and contented with the Government of the country; it is only the few black sheep who attempt to in- jure a whole flock, and the sooner they are sepa- rated the better.

ANOTHER ESOAPE FROM THE DBBBY LOCK- UP. It will be remembered that some time ago three prisoners made their escape from the Derby new lock- up, in a very ingenious manner, by unscrewing the locks of the door leading into the cells yard, and get- ting through the window of the head constable's offices. Two ox the prisoners who thus made their escape were named George and William Holmes, aged twenty and eighteen, and at the time they managed to get away were under remand for hqjrse-stealing. Nothing was heard of them until September 5th, when Mr. Hilton, head constable of Derby, received a telegram from Mr. Superintendent Sharpe, of the Lincolnshire constabulary, stating that George Holmes had been captured at Grantham. Mr. Hilton went over to that town, brought his bird to Derby, and on Thursday, the 7th of September, he was brought before the Derby bench of magistrates, and remanded for a week. On Thursday he was again brought up at the Derby Police-court, but owing to the illness of the constable who apprehended him he was again remanded. On Saturday morning he and r four other prisoners were in the lock-up cells yard at about ten minutes to eight o'clock, and at a few minutes after eight it was discovered that Holmes had again taken farewell of the place; but, singular to re- late, none of the other four prisoners saw him take his departure. It appears, however, that he picked the look of the gate upstairs leading to the cells, but, on second thoughts, he obtained a footing on the gas pipe, pushed out a pane of glass in the roof, squeezed his body through the hole, and succeeded in getting upon the top of the new covered market now in course of erection, and then by a ladder into the street. This makes eight prisoners that have made their escape from this newly-erected lock-up; and on Tuesday, the 5th September, four prisoners had cleared all the l°oks and bars, and were making their way directly to the door leading into New-market, when they were per- ceived by Police-constable Grattidge and turned back. At the Derby Police-court, on Saturday last, wiien a prisoner was ordered by the Bench to be remanded for a week, Mr, Hilton asked that the accused.might.be sent to gaol instead of to the lock-up, a he could not be responsible for the security of the prisoners at the latter place. The locks were patent, and made at Birmingham, but they could be unfastened by people's y ra thumb nails. Holmes has certainly immortalised him. self as a modern Jack Sheppard. ♦-

Liberty.-A Frenchman one day saw a gentleman walk up to an open snuff-box in the hands of another, and take a pinch of snuff, having prefaced the act with the words, May I take the liberty p On the next day the Frenchman went into a tobacco-shop and asked for half an ounce of liberty. Mr. Bright on -Reform.—Mr. Bright has written to Glasgow declining to address a Reform meeting there. He says if he speaks in one place he must speak -in others, and he is unable to undergo the fatigues of a great agitation. He expresses faith in the triumph of reform, but says it should be postponed till the close of the official life of Lord Palmerston, the only man connected with the Liberal party able and willing to betray it. One sentence from him, he says, would have passed the bill of 1860, but he re- u sed to utter it

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AMERICA NEW YORK, SEPT. 3. Almost the only news relate to the trial of Mr. Davis. On this subject the Washington correspondent of the New York Times says The President and Secretary of War are decidedly in favour of a trial by civil courts at the earliest practicable moment of Jeff. Davis. The chief difficulty has been to find a proper tribunal. The President looks with favour upon Knoxville, Tennessee, where Davis committed the overt act of treason by inciting insurrection in a speech to his army. In case it is to be tried before Chief Justice Chase, Norfolk, Virginia, will be selected. This is what Davis's friends desire. The statement that the grand jury of this district found a bill against Davis for treason does injustice to the intelligence of that jury and the legal mind that drew the bill. The indictment was for the overt act. It may be said that whenever and wherever the trial does take place, General Butler, in conjunction with the Attorney-General, will take a prominent part as public prosecutor. The whole matter has been under consideration at a recent Cabinet meeting, where the question of mode and place was so far decided as to render the trial an event near at hand." A Fortress Monroe dispatch in the Herald states there is no change concerning Davis, Clay, and Mitchell. Each occupies the cell awarded him, takes his food regularly, reads daily the newspapers and other publi- cations, smokes his pipe, and enjoys his hours. The impression that Davis is permitted the freedom of writing letters is erroneous. The letter to Mr. Gillett, one of his counsel, is the only one he has been allowed to write. f M, „ RR NEW YOEK, SEPT. 9, The New York Tvmes says that in consequence of President Johnson having receivednurnerousreporta from the South of apprehensions of an uprising of freedmen, General Howard has recommended the citizens to institute a police patrol system under the control of the departmental commander in counties where there are no agents of the Freednaen's Bureau. It is reported that a very excited state of feeling exists at Chattanooga between the whites and blacks. The clerk of the Circuit Court at Knoxville, Ten- I nessee, has been killed by a former rebel soldier, who was afterwards lynched by the citizens. President Johnson has written a letter to Governor Sharkey, approving the formation of militia companies throughout Mississippi. He considers the movement a proper one, and that the people must be trusted with their own government. The President has pardoned ex-Governor Brown of Georgia. The Minnesota Republican State Convention has passed resolutions demanding that the Government should compel the withdrawal of Maximilian. It re- jected a resolution approving President Johnson's military and civil course of policy. The grand jury have found eleven indictments for forgery in the third degree, and one for grand larceny, against Ketchum. The New York Chamber of Commerce have ap- pointed a committee to invite Mr. John Bright to visit America. The Louisiana and Texas cotton crops are stated to be seriously injured by the army worm. It is reported via Cairo that the cotton trade at Mobile is almost entirely suspended in consequence of an order forbidding the sending of cotton from the interior to Mobile. Middling had risen to 40 cents per pound. The Courier des Etas TJnis states that a Cabinet Council has been held at Washington on the Mexican question. All the ministers except Mr. "Hanlan favoured the stata quo. Mr. Seward stated it was not dignified to assist Juarez indirectly, nor advisable to support him in an open manner. President John- son declared that he would not decide concerning the renewal of relations with'Mexico until Congress meets, and would reserve for his message the announcement of the policy which seemed to him best.

Fatal Fall over the Cliff at Folkestone. ON Saturday morning, about five o'clock, some men employed in constructing Earl Eadnor's new sea walh between Sandgate and Folkestone, found the body OT a man lying some distance down the cliff on his face; with his head caught between two sharp pieces 0 rock. He was quite dead and stiff, and had EVIDENTLY been lying there for six or seven hours. Information was given to the police, and as they were REMOVING the body on a stretcher it was identified by a Folke stone fishermen, named Philpst, as that of his so$< aged twenty, for whom he was searching, as he not been home all night, and was last seen going in TH0 direction of Sandgate. An inquest was held on the body at the Town-hall, before the borough coron0*? the same afternoon, when a verdict of Death was returned. Extraordinary Railway Accident.—The Ply- mouth midnight express train was delayed twohOtL: on Friday night by an accident which occurred to I about two miles from Totnes. It arrived and passe through the Dainton tunnel about the usual tin10. which it was due, but, on coming down the inch*1, from the tunnel near Coomfishacre Mills, the axletree of a second- class carriage that was next TH engine parted close by a wheel. The pair of WH00^ were thus thrown off the rails inwards, and under the carriage. The train ran on for ABOUT 0 quarter of a mile, the wheels bumping over sleepers. Through the friction that was caused BY Y accident the compartment over the displaced G> took fire. Fortunately, however, by the lady, who was the sole occupant of the seconded by those of some of the other who had discovered the accident, the attention driver and guards was called to the state of the and it was promptly brought to a standstill- engine then went on to Totnes to report the &OC FYE? and from thence returned to Newton, where AN^.GBT train of carriages was promptly made up and BRO' G. on the Scene of the accident, and the passengersI ferred to this second train aiid brought on T° mouth, where they arrived shortly after TWO Fortunately there was no injury done to any ON6» THE PEARL SEMOULE,-Tijis very choice-andpure ART £ JEFC>R Diet is muchpxized for the Diss KR-TABLE, and ilvallla S &c. INVALIDS, CHILDREN, and INFANTS. Sold by erocer6, J. FISON, MAHUFACTUKER, IXSWICH.