The Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser

SUMMARY OF PASSING -EVENTS,I ATTAIKS on the Continent are smoothing down, and a general peace movement appears the policy of the day. We trust that the negotiations will be upon such a permanent basis as to lead to no further conflict. Prussia has come out victorious in every way—she has extended her territory, she has shown herself powerful enough even to oppose the demands of France, and has positively de- clared an independence which marks her as one of the first Powers in Europe. At the same time, the King and his prime minister, Bismarck, who were once unpopular amongst the masses of the people, have been accepted as patriots and their deeds applauded. The incorporation of Hanover, Hesse-Caasel, Nassau, and Frankfort into the Prussian kingdom*'is now arranged, and the further annexation of Schleswig-Holstein, Hesse-Homburg, and North Franconia will soon follow, and Prussia will then be complete from Jutland to the Main, with the exception of Hesse Darmstadt, which, somehow or other, retains her independence. By this new arrange- ment something like thirty petty German States will be amalgamated with the greater Powers, and an entirely new map will be necessary to know which is Germany, which is Italy, and which is Austria. There are many who believe that greater I freedom will be given to the people by unity under one sovereignty than they experienced under petty sovereigns and dukedoms. This, however, remains to be proved; nevertheless, the policy set before us by Prussia appears t. preserve the rights and privileges of the people more than they had been accustomed to receive under their late rulers. IT will be remembered, previous to the war breaking out between Prussia and Austria, that the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, answering to our House of Commons, were at loggerheads with the King and the Senate. The latter asserted a right to additional grants of money; which the former refused to vote. The King and the Senate however insisted upon having it, whether the Deputies consented or not. "VVhat is it for P they asked, and the King refused to tell them. Now, however, having conquered and enlarged his dominions, the King asks the people, Was I not right in concealing from you my motives until the time of action-arrived ?" Flushed with conquest, the people say" Yes," and appear willing to vote as much money as their sovereign requires. Such, at least, one gathers from the address of the 1Clioinber of Deputies to their King, and from his Majesty's reply. ° NAPOLEON'S scheme for the government of Mexico appears to have been quite unsuccessful. It is said that the Empress Charlotte made a journev to Paris, commissioned by her Royal husband Max" ,L&Lbx- imilian, to obtain additional French troops and an additional grant of money to preserve the Empire, but that Napoleon, finding the monarchy is too rotten to hold, has refused any further aid, and it is thought that the possession of Mexico will be abandoned, that the French troops will retire with as much dignity as possible, and that Maximilian will return to Europe and retire quietly on the handsome provision made for him by the late King of the Belgians, whose daughter he married. FOR a vacation period, the past week has been remarkable for political sensations. First, there was the landing of Mr. Eyre, the ex-Governor of Jamaica, at Southampton, and the ovation given I to him by the mayor of the borough and several noblemen of high rank and station. They killed the fatted ca,lf for him; they, cheered not only I Mm bat his wife, his daughters, and his sons, who are at' school at Eton. At the sanue time, even whilst this welcome was given to the ex-Governor, ¡ an indignation meeting was held in the borough, the various speakers designating this greeting as unseemly, reproducing arguments which tended to show that if Mr. Eyre had not been guilty of gross error, he had certainly been guilty of want of forethought, and been misguided by those in authority under Ijim, which, to say the least of it, was no matter for rejoicing. Again, subscriptions are being raised by the one party to set Mr. Eyre on his trial for what they consider gross wrongs committed, and the other party are raising sub- scriptions to defend the ex-Governor, and even to present him with a testimonial of their esteem. THEN we have had the commissions open at Yarmouth, Reigate, and Totness, to inquire into the bribery practised at these elections, and it has opened the public eyes more than ever to the means by which some politicians obtain seats in 1 the House of Commons. The less we say about these things, perhaps, the better, for all parties are to blame-one is as deep in the mud as the other is in the mire, and every well-thinking person has become convinced that there is a vast Augean stable which must be cleansed. THEN the monster Reform meeting at Birming- ham has attracted considerable attention. Mr. Bright was, of course, there, and did his best for the cause of Reform. VVE can never pass a week without recording some railway accident. On Saturday a train on the Great Eastern, which carries passengers at cheap rates from Peterborough to Yarmouth and Lowestoft, was rounding a curve near Ely, when the engine left the rails and ran down the embankment, and the carriages were heaped upon each other in fearful disorder. The driver of the engine was killed, and several of the passengers j much injured. Now, this same engine was known to be an old one, and had not a good reputation at the same time the driver, though a sober, well- conducted man, is said to have been too old for so responsible a duty. Again, too, we would remind those penny-wise and pound-foolish directors that if they would use necessary precautions, such accidents could not occur. For instance, there is Kirman's patent for uncoupling carriages; had this been on, the moment the engine left the line the carriages would have been free, and we should not have had to record the sad calamity. BUT, apropos of this, on Sunday a large meeting was held of half-starved officials engaged in various ways upon railways. Let no one take exception that it was held on that day, for time would not permit them to have it on a week day, I and if those who spoke recorded facts, it is high i time a change should be brought about in railway management. One person said he was a clerk who worked fifteen hours a day, and tried to keep a wife and four children out of his earnings-nine- I teen shillings a week. Others said that they had no day to themselves, week-day or Sunday, for six 'I weeks at a stretch. Then there were engine-drivers who said they worked twenty-two and twenty- three hours together, until they fell asleep on their engines from sheer exhaustion; pointsmen we heard of who were hardly able to crawl out of their boxes when released from duty; a signalman was upon one occasion found asleep after fifteen hours' daty, whilst two trains waited for the signal I to go up. These are a few of the examples given, and if directors are so parsimonious with their employes, we can understand how the lives of the public are placed in jeopardy. It is high time, indeed, for the Government to interfere.. ACCIDENTS in the past week have, however, not been confined to railways. A fatal collision took place at sea between two steamers. The Bruiser, on its way to Hull, came in con- tact with the Has well, from London, bound to Sunderland. Of 130 persons on board the Bruiser, which sunk, 99 were providentially saved by the other vessel, the remainder were drowned. The collision is said to have been caused by negli- gence; in such case we hope the guilty parfciei3 will be punished, as a warning to others. ¡ TURNING to a pleasanter subject, science of various branches is now occupying the attention of the public. The peripatetic philosophers and savans were in full possession of Nottingham lasc week, and each section produced its quota of ab- struse chemical, philosophical, economic, paleonto- logical, mechanical, and other science. The in- augural address of the President, Mr. Grove, Q.C., was a voluminous affair, occupying nearly two entire pages of some of our daily contemporaries. The great feature of this address was the attempt to explain the correlation of forces," or, in other words, the theory that heat, motion, and force are all forma of each other, and that all the changes which are constantly going on in the world could be traceable to their action if we only possessed the requisite knowledge and experience of their mutual action and reaction on each other. This was a subject, we apprehend, rather too deep for many of the audience who assembled there. In the course of the week, however, there were some very interesting lectures, amongst which we should notice the one Sir W. Baker gave in the geogra- phical section of the association, and the account he rendered of his interesting and romantic voyage to the Albert Mvanza, one of the mysterious sources of the Nile, was received with much ap. i pJame. THE science of archaeology had its gala week at Hastings^ and the many antiqui- ties of the neighbourhood, more especially the historic Pevensey, where one of the great suc- cessful invasions of England was achieved by I William the Norman in the days when armour- clad ships, rifled cannon, and needle-guns were un- heard of, have been examined with great interest. If the love of science spreads as it has done of late years, we shall have gatherings every month ia the year, and men and women with crotchets and theories of all kinds will ride their hobby-horses tJ their hearts' content. LOOKING at home and around us, we have much causa for thankfulness. The disease which threatened to exterminate our cattle is rapidly passing away, and the visitation of grim cholera is already losing its terrors in the gradual diminu- tion of the number of deaths in the metropolis and elsewhere; and the facts brought to ligt.it dis- tinctly show that the disease arises to a great ex- tent from the locally preventable causes of want of cleanliness, bad drainage, and impure water, and we are glad to find that the Sanitary Commis- sioners are looking well after these things, hence the result. Again we have to thank Providence far a bounteous harvest wMeh is now being garnered in safety, and the fruits of the earth generally throughout the country promise to repay the husbandman for his labour, and provide a good store for the wants of man and beast.

CAPTURE OF A CHILIAN PRIVATEER. „ MADKID, August 27. A no Omhan privateer TorHadoj said to have heen armed in England, has been captured in Spanish waters and taken to Cadiz by the frigate Gergona.

THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT. HANOVEB, August 26. JrAUSBIA is said to have aQ6cided that the German Parliament shall assemble in this city.

THE PRUSSIAN CHAMBERS. • BERLIN, August 25. At half-past two to-day tha King received the depu- tation appointed by the Chamber of Deputies to pre- sent to his Majesty the address of the House in reply to the speech from the throne. None of the ministers were present, and there was only an aide-de-camp in attendance on the Kin sr. The address was read by Herr von Forkenbeok, the President of the House. His Ma- jesty,inareply in which he touched uponall the points of tne address, stated that he received with joy the address of tae Chamber of Deputies, the almoatunanimoua manner in which it was voted bearing testimony to the unity of tne Prussian people. The Chamber had justly given their J first thanks to the Almighty, without whom successes such as the world had scarcely over witnessed before' would have been impossible; their thanks were also justly duo to the army. For his part, as he had been forced to draw the sword, he thanked the Almighty that, at so advanced an age, he had been chosen to achieve with and for Prussia such important successes. The superiority of the new organisation of the army over the old system would now be recognised. The Government had never disputed the rights of the Chamber with regard to the budget. The indemnity which was now asked had in principle been repeatedly proposed by the Government, but unfortunately, on former occasions, no agreement had ensued. The constitution contained no article applicable to such a, position of affairs. In the event of a recurrence of a similar state of things, he should be under the neces- sity of again acting as he had acted before, in order to .'1 preserve the regular order in the State. But a renewal of the conflict could not take place after the adoption of such an address as that just presented to him. The concluding portion of the deputies' reply contained all he could have wished.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION. T Moscow, August 25. intelligence received here from Irkutsk states that in the possesBion of one of the captured insurgents named Dombrolfski, who had assumed the title of Captain of the Staff of the Siberian Legion, revolu- tionary handbills and letters were discovered showing that the insurgents had organised five squadrons of troops. Of these the principal number were provided with arms, some of them, however, being armed with scythes. On the 5th July 200 Polish prisoners who had been deleated and captured in Transbaikalien were brought to Irkutsk.

SAXONY. AF O MOU: ■, LEII'SIC, August 2G. litLl S 7l w to-day of members of the Juiooral National party from the principal towns of saxony, the following resolution was almost unLS mously adopted:- We hold that the interests of Germany and Saxony will best be served by incorporating Saxony with Prussia, or, should this be impossible, by at least handing over the direction of military and diplomatic affairs^to tnat Power, and the legislation as well as the administration of all commercial interests to the Government of the Confederation."

• SPAIN. r> MADRID, August 26. The Diario Bspagnol of to-day states thai in dealing with persons guilty of spreading alarming reports, the Government intends to avail itself of the powers granted by the suspension of the constitutional guar- I antees. I

THE INSURRECTION IN CANDI4. 'I ATHENS, Augns 16. The agitation in Candia is increasing. The Turks I have commenced hostilities- Several of the foreign consulates, especially those of Holland, Sweden the United States, have sunoreu considerable damage and the consuls have protested. 'fa 5 Intelligence received from Candia states that the'in- surgents, 25,001) strong, occupy important positions. The population ia much incensed against the Turks who are not m sulncien,force to auppreas the revolt.

MEXICO. P NEW YORK, August 16. Advices received here from JMatamoroa to the lOfch mst announce that the liberals occupied Monterey, balfcillo,^ a.»d other towns on the 28th nit. The imperialists retreated to San Luis Potosi. Marshal Slt for the City of Mexico. Juarez rp Z1 0utj for Monterey. The liberals occupied Lampioo ou the 1st met. The American general, lie wis Wallace, had arrived at Matamoros in a steamer irom iNew York with men, arms, and ammunition for the Wallace holds the commission major- general in the liberal army. A French corvette is blockading Matamoros.

THE FETES AT BOULOGNE. The ceremony of consecrating the altars commenced on Friday morning, at the early hour of seven o'clock. The pontifex was the Bishop of Arras, and he was conducted to the throne by Monseigneur Cataldi, master of the pontifical ceremonies, and the rest of the clergy and bishops present. The biahops of AmienS and Arras consecrated the high altar, while the conse* oration of the church was performed by Bishop Clif- ford, of Clifton, and Bishop Moriarty, of Kerry. Until after the ceremony of consecration was concluded, the public were not admitted, except by ticket. The reason for this was, that the clergy had to bless every part of the edifice. When that had been done, the doors were thrown open and high mass chanted. At about ten minutes past seven the archbishops, bishopsp mosseigneurs, &(, came out by the west door, and walked round the outside of the cathedral three times. During the procession round the cathedral the choristers wore scarlet cassocks and lawn sur- plices, and the bishops wore the ordinary purple. At the north and south sides of the altar, fonts were placed, and over them and two adjoining stands, chasubl" and other vestments were spread. On each font stood a bishop's mifcre, a number of napkins, a chalico covered, gilt bason and flagon, and several phials oi consecration oil. Each consecrating bishop was VTOf vided with two mitres, ono the mitre simprax, made of white watered silk, with an emblazoned cross; the other an embroidered mitre, such as id used III ordinary high festivals. After the procession, wblCh was in itself an imposing sight, bad taken three turoS round the cathedral, they were again admitted insid6* The litany was said at the litany desk, which ^aS placed under the arch leading from the nave to the dome, and on either side of this archbishops' throve3 were placed. The Benedictus followed the litany- Ashes were spread over the nave in the form of Greek cross. The Bishop of Arras, who, as chief oI the diocese, fulfilled the functions of pontifex, t»e» traced the letters of the Greek alphabet upon one lim''0 the cross, and the letters of the Roman alphabet upoo tha other. That BO error might occur in this poi"^OIj of the ceremony, letters on paper were placed at distances on the cross marked by the ashes. So the consecration of the church concluded, and th0B followed the consecration of the altars. The BisK of Arras advanced to the west side of the altar, the Bishop of Amiens to the east side, and during whole of the ceremony a bishop's chaplain stood each corner. As the ceremony was proceeding1 Bishop of Arras made a slight mistake, bat bef°r many of the lookers on couid guess that this w»9 s-, he was put right by Monsigneur Cataldi, who !1g come from Rcme for the purpose of conduc 1 ti- the ceremony. At tor another prayer and 8llng phon, said and snng in tha transept, the returned to the altar and changed the robes— and lace —which are used during church cocSeSl0 tion for white copes and the mitra simprax. consecration of the high altar was proceeded with 1» mediately after that of the fonr had been coinP10^ In this part of the ceremony six bishops were engage, at one and the same time. The poatifex {Bisbop_0 Arras) went three times round the church, each altar with holy water aa be came to it. parish of St. Joseph's will in future use the cat edrftl as their parish church, the naves being especially er apart as a place for the parishioners''to worship* St. Joseph a altar is erected in the centre of the transept. The former cathedral, previous to its stmcuon m i/93, also served as parish church, ai>. since *ne restoration of religion in 1801, the oh»pel<* tne convent oi! the Annonoiades has been used as „ place ot worship. On "Friday evening the belonging to St. Joseph's were exhibited with pomp at the chapel just named, and were procession by the pontifex and bishops, and on St. Joseph's altar. About eighty took part in the ceremony, and about the s0„vg number of priests in their ordinary black cass?-^ were present as spectators. When the relies ar.l Ii g, at the door of the cathedral, the bells common00^ solemn peal. A great many people were waiting J and on the doors opening Sewed in, and filled 1 I cathedral immediately. The relicii were carried bier. They were placed in email silver boxaS) across with red ribbon, ihe ends of which were se»ie So soon as the bishops had deposited the r(,,lleal > mason, clad in a suit of black, ad vancecl, to the nIt of and fixed the slab over the sepulchre. The Bishop c Clifton consecrated the small altar on the north eid^.t the traBsepb, the Bishop of Kerry thut on the 801L side, and the -Bishop of x^orthamptoii the altar of Joseph, in the centra of tha transept. The lasted a longer^ time than was expected, and most splendid sig lit. Although the five different <"> secrations were going on at the same time there wa confusion, nor aid one portion of the services carT»*b on in one part of the cathedral seem to clash or interrupt; what was going on else where.

FAST YOUNG MEN DONE In Paris a young widow, titled, fashionably and beautiful—what more could ba desirsdU- drives two or the most splendid steppers and has piosfc elegant little coachey-coachey, was oeset by two animals caile, lions. She we»t } shop—cliez Giroux—gave the reins to her servant npon mounting and taking the reins,, found ebe$ two lions for passengers—two young men who to play her an impudent trick. She turned with a flash of indignation, and said, but messieurs only smiled, and said, Coacheyi engage you by the hour!" The colour fl«d^iroju fair lady's cheeks, and ehe thought, doubtless, *Lsu material are the men of the day in France. "W0 must submit, for sne submitted, arid said, vveu>» j tlemen, whither shall I drive you to ?" Quite ohaf;I at their success, the lions said, To the lake." 0i two hours she drove the lions back again to tfce*»jjj whence she had taken them up, without exchas^ a word to all their importunities to talk. A Gvo^0' course assembles at everything and to aoe fg thing in Paris, and a crowd came at o3cSi witness the splendid turn-out. How madame?" said one_ of the lions, somewhat rassed at the proceedings and seeing the error. :g( '| leuis, messieurs." The crowd laughed. Tssi 10" d but that is very dear; it is as much to the Bhi»0 bank." It is for the poor, messieurs and wjea °^r hires e% grand seigneur, and without f gabion, the PL I meat should be made en, grand seigneur. 1'b held out her hand, and the crowd pressed round* *ea), ing it was a question in which the crowd fair play, and fumbimg in their united pockets, produced the amount, makinw ud the last h>ulS,i' silver. These. 200 francs arc for the poor of *4 '< quarter, wnere 1 ahall xniaaedi&tely leave the03- & name of 'two iasolenta' thronghtho Countess 1. It is **«ciess to explain who had the best of the

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. >N VIENNA, August 27. r T Ansfcro-Prussian treaty of peace has been rati- fied, and has been sent to-day to Prague, where the mutual exchange of the treaty documents will take place. The Presse of this evening states that two protocols are annexed to the treaty, one relating to the evacua- tion of the territory occupied by the Prussians, and another referring to the exchange of prisoners. There are besides other annexes relating to the function- aries appointed by Austria in Holstein, the particular currency in which the war indemnity is to be paid by Austria, and the construction of the Schwadowitz- Wildenschweit Railway. General Menabrea arrived here to-day.

CHINA AND JAPAN. SHANGHAI. July 2;>, The Nyenfei have been successful in the North. Two French bishops and seven priests have been massacred in tha Corea. Intelligence received here from Japan announces that civil war was being carrier on between some of the princes.

AMI'UiiOA. Nllw Yomr, August 18 The Philadelphia Convention has elected Senator Doolittle as chairman* A^r. Vcllandigham has with- drawn from the convention. 7he Massachusetts and South Carolina delegations entered the conven- tion, arm in arm, sneers for President John- son and the 3b loyal Stages. The President tele- graphed that the P0?Plo must be trusted. The country, ha said, ould bG restored, and his faith was unshaken as to their ultimate success Th« convention aejourned to-day, the 16fch, after pass- ing resolutions declaring the Union and the Constitutioni to be.restored, and that neither Con- FeBnvS°pJ Th couid den-V representation bo^ n^r,T f rff.ola^°na urge the people to elect ibe this The right to reserved to ^Vtil0 elective franchise is Union ni-ii- h -l6S' State can withdraw from the s«-»te fiv-t")tt* ?,e^on Congress, exclude another Union. The resolutions further tender sincere support to President Johnson. 'nilT^8, W abatinS in Now York, but is raging fear- Q iy terougJi the west and south-west. The Bavaria nas arrived out, and been placed in quarantine. She boar^ CaBeS o £ ciloiara aacl deaths on NEW YORK, August 18. President Johnson has issued a, proclamation de- claring the decree of Maximilian blockading Mata* ffioros to be in violation of the neutral rights of the United States as defined by the law of nations and existing treaties. The proclamation declares that the decree is null and void, and that any attempt to enforce it against the Government or the citizens of the United States will be disallowed. The Philadelphia Convention has issued a lengthy addceBBj (stating that the constitution is turn just as it .1 was before the war, and that Congress is acting in an- tagonism to the supreme law of the land in withhold* ing full representation from any of the States. The address declares that the Southern people, treated aa they are now, cannot long remain loyal. The Colorado election has resulted in the return of the Johnson candidate to Congress. At a radical meeting held at New York in aid of the victims of the New Orleans riots, a resolution was passed declaring President Johnson responsible for the New Orleans massacre. The Governor of Illinois, Mr. Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and General Logan, have attended a Fenian picnic at Chicago, and addressed those present, urging them to join the Republican party, who would not inter- fere with their movements against Ireland. A Fenian picnic, with military exercises, will take place on the 21st, near Buifalo. Ten thousand per- sons were expected to be present. Rumours are current at Ottawa of another intended Fenian demonstration. The Canadian authorities are making fresh military preparations in case of a surprise from Buffalo. A political revolution has occurred at Matamoras, resulting in the overthrow of the Government of Car- vagal, and his flight to Brownsville. General Wallace was at Carvagal's head-quarters at Brownsville. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YOlm, August 23. President Johnson has abandoned the Fenian prose- cutions.

Rssignatioa of the Canadian 'Jkuziister. We learn by this mail that tie T. Gait has resigned in conseosence of the Fr¡1g t Canadian member, led by Mr. Caucho!), deroar^i tha dropping 0f the Lower Canada School Bill, £ >' tnJ pushing on of the Upper Canada Bill of Mr. Bellj^ passu with it, backed by Government: votes. The Government could not do the .iattej; adopted tha former alternative. Mr. Gait fouiif bi!j self so pledged to the bill, that ha resigned rathe: consent to its abandonment.—Cmadicm News.