The Express. — London, England, 1868-05-26 00:00:00

On and after JUNE I, the trice of i THE I).tt'lLY NE WS, wm be • ONE PENNY. The proprietors of the "DAILY NEWS" have treat satisfac• Ilion in announcing a step which they believe will be accepted b the public as its own justification. for it only advances In the li y ne of its natural development when it adjusts IN publishing arrangements t) • state of thl i F which for two-and twenty years it has labOured tint uusucce Ily to promote. - In preparital for title [rand.. ration one thought has awe. dominated in the solicitude of the pteprietnrs. Their aim has been to maks "THE DAILY YIEWA" uoirenulty acce•stble, not to alter its elect at ter : and they would consider their labour worse than lost were they to consent to ihanges which would lower lit tone it - in tiny way impa'r its title to hold its accus tomed yi.tee lit ;midi, fat our. THE POLITICAL AND LITERARY Isrection of the Journal will rrins:u Uticliange.l. AND BE SUPPoRTED I:Y AN ACCESSION OF EMINENT WRITERS. 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HENRY 13RETT anal Co.'s "u, I). V.' . PURE N p• 1 galloo and 3 & per doi., recommended by the medical 1.... oottoo Inn case for the comilly, JJe., thclusite of railway aniutte --ifolhortyltars. hYtt 3u, Regent btrect ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. - Mallets—Cr.rnenade Concert. Rend of or. 1 e 4in at S. One Shilling. Box-office open from 11 to 4 F INETTE, every night, at 10. LEOTARD, every night, at 11. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. HORSE SHOW, Agricultural-hall, London, OPENS the DA .111 ER the OAKS, SATURDA I*, May 34. UltWiston, halt-a.cro%o. HORSE SHOW. A gricult mai-hall, London. s.vrt I:DA Y, U. MONDAY, let June, nod fuur lot luu log ola)s. HORSE SHOW Agricultural.hall, London. , l:o3.nstrr hooters .in four • , pure bred Arahs, Park Ilacks, uright cal r)iug Col" Cloar_ter., Phaeton lioise pale. 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Botbern, liuckstone, Compton, Chippers Roger., & ('lark; Mesdames Robertson, lone Burke,Chippen .ale, ritzwilltam, Laws, &c. —And A CO.OPERATIVE, MOVt.NIENT. ROTA!. IXCEEM THEATRE JAPANISIt ntill , PE IMPERIAL, in their msrvellons per formances, consisting of 141am:inv., op •spinn i tag. Tumbling, the Butterfly, and great Ladder Feats.—Eerily EVENISO at Eight, terminating at halt-past Ten and Weiluerwla3s and saturilays at bat/Twit Tw•o. Children limier 10 half-prier. Places u-coral at the Bun Mice by Mr. Nugent from Tni till Five at Mr. Mitchell's, Uhl Bond-street , and at the principal Libraries. STRAND. Tnts E% EKING, SISTERLY sEItVICE.—THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. -Aml MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE, BRITANNIA TR'S EVRNINO. JACK () LANTERN; 014 THE !ILI E RID DON Or 111 K TCRK Mears. CraufnraL Pitt. h•.: Ilesdanses (*.dint:nay. Routh, r. and Mrs. Langan ; Dlr. J. NI illkent.— THE DARK SIDE OE THE UEFA ( METROPOLIS. tn. LIMO. 9109 WATII AT LONDON 'tarpon. Tug DST —Kornis'. 4h. 40m_ —Attansona, 3111. TO-XOiIIOIT —Morning. 512. 27m......A1ken000, 63=. OUCER of BIRTHO, Mammies, and DEATIR. are received unilll2 o'clock for insertion same evening. Pries 2s. dI. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS POBLIIIBID EVERY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 2C. RAILWAY FARES AND AMALGAMA- TIONS. ENULISHIMN dislike monopolies as heartily as coalitions. They have a firm belief in the ad vantages of fair competition. This faith has heretofore been displayed in legislation for railways. Parliament has been laudably jealous of a single great company becoming an autocrat in the matter of locomotion, and acting the part of a modern Roa Roy by levying black mail on all whose business or pleasure consists in journeying from place to place. The sanction which the House of Commons has already given to a scheme which em powers several companies to consult their own in terests rather than thoconvenience of the public, has Attracted the greater notice, and merits the severer speed in miles per Fides per hour. Ist l•I' 2.nd tis. From London to d. 207 .. 1 . 3:: 31,n,heater, via London and North D esteem 325 .. I'o6 Vii Ala meat Northern. it 2Gi . 21 Bri#l,tott• via Laialon and Brighton. 272 .. 'O4 Ho , et, cis South F.:talent. :3 307.. 2 3 Dover, via Chatham and Dover. These figures show that at kresent on the Brighton Company a halfpenny a mile is charged for the fast trains in excess of that charged by the London and North Western, and nearly four tenths of a penny more than what the Great Northern charges for a train service almost iden tical. For slower trains the clutige in the South Eastern is nearly three farthings a mile greater than that of the North Western, and a halfpenny greater than on the Great Northern. Thu Chatham and Dover can take credit for ex- ceeling all other lines in the imperfection of the service and the exorbitancy of the charge, which is one penny a mile or 50 per cent. higher than that of the London and North Western. We should add that the Great Northern and London and North Western Com- panics have abolished Express fares, whereas they not only exist on the other lines, but it is proposed to obtain the permission of Parliament to impose them without restriction as to a maximum. It is worthy of note that the shares of the N. till London Railway, on which the fares are lower than on any other metropolitan line, are quoted at the highest price in the list of the Stock Exchange. The lines in the above table which render the best service for the smallest charge are far more remunerative to their proprie tors than those which are endeavouring to per suade Parliament to permit them to mulct the public. This policy is both foolish and blame worthy. It is foolish because unnecessary ;it is blameworthy because it amounts to making the public replenish coffers which bad management has emptied. The moral of the whole is that railway directors diminish working expenses to the mini mum, and offer the public efficient service at reasonable rates, and they will assuredly be able to present their shareholders with handsome dividends. Let them, on the other hand, supply indifferent accommodation at a high rate, and they will always be in pecuniary difficulties. We think it alike inexpedient and unjust that Parliament should interpose and re move at the expense of railway travellers the dif ficulties which have their origin in the mismanage ment of railway directors. To the South Eastern, London and Brighton, and Chatham and Dover Companies it should be said that monopolies are not to be countenanced in these days of commercial freedom, and that, if they would earn good divi dends, let them cease from litigation, run fast trains, and charge low fares. —. 'r - limmiiii 4 ;$ is condemnation, because it is both a revetsid of the gales that Preen 't - I ... Ake r 1 old and generally approved policy, 'OW t/so tos weal the tell of I t Ifiltteolt , art Innovation of the most dangerouaJdna. If tbe at play, haring the Itotigoe4 i 11, 4. a sea et 1 Brighton, South Eastern, and Matins sad Devise. vapour lad .blerring eye the nisi 'se vith•gat lines should be amalgamated in the mann& now smudge of i knife blade. With whaj wenderfid proposed, a double injury will be inflicted upon a constancy and regularity carri the sera* what an of the large section of the community. A precedent diligence. has Nen ed on, by wenttll be set which may be invoked here- incessant conflict of man's ruder impede math after in support of other schemes equally all the powers of the air, let all travellers obnoxious, and the public would be con- cheerfully alti gratefully acknowledge now. demned to pay without hope of redress Who has not known and pitied the larger stuns for travelling than is either hard life of those diligence conductors, for ever just or necessary. Had it not been that the on the track from St. Michel to Susa, with their management of these lines has been disgracefully hard, anxious, weather-beaten faces, grown too reckless, it would be superfluous now to come for- familiar with danger to fear it for themselves, or ward and say on their behalf that the expenses to let the passengers committed to their charge sus are in excess of the profits. If each had refrained pect it I Who has not admired the easy skill from a litigious and ruinous course of policy, all of thole Llouse-clad drivers with their of them might now be prosperous. Unfortunately, huge gnarled hands and mighty whips that they have been managed on the principle that the a coachman of London or Paris could scarcely hold 7 more damage done to a neighbour's traffic, the Who has not felt an affection for the stout, coin greater the satisfaction felt by the respective pact, sagacious, surefooted horses, and those boards of directors. Having discovered at last careful and long-sudbring mules that rush round that the game of beggar my neighbour is one at the sharp corners as on a pivot, with the precision which a railway company cannot play without of a machine 1 Who among the travellers over that danger of bankruptcy, an attempt is now being roa d h as not said to himself, " If that animal made to force the public to render compere- maker a false step we are done for 1" The philosopher who, comparing a railway and a coach sation for losses which mig ht have been accident, said, " If the coach upset, there you are ; avoided had ordinary prudence been dis played. Not only is it sought to =alga- if the train smashes where are you 7" had probably never realised the possibility of being upset mate these companies by act of parliament, but also to obtain a parliamentary sanction to an in a diligence between, say Bard and La increase in their fares. The plea urged is that the Grande Croix on the Italian side of the Mont present fares are miremunerative. The fact is Collis. Yet now that it is past and [ indisputable that the unfortunate shareholders in gone let us avow that this mode of travelling, , Ithem either receive no dividends, or dividends of in spite of its slowness, its obvious discomfort a paltry character. It is probable, however, that and its awkward chances, had charms of its own ; I this is attributable, in a great measure, to the (in fair weather), and was organised to such a largeness of the fares. At any rate, other lines degree of safety and certainty that no traveller have proved remunerative speculations on which after a single experience could flatter himself that the fares are much lower than those which are lie had encountered any risks or suffered any now in financial difficulties. Let ua compare the hardships to speak of. In truth it is • rates charged by leading companies on the South not for having saved them much risk or and the North of London. The following table, hardship that Mr. Feu. deserves the cordial when analysed, may prove fraught with instruc- congratulations and thanks of the travelling public tion : so much as for having saved them the tedium and delay of a nine or ten hours' imprisonment in a stuffy wagon full of cramped and weary fellow creatures, and the dull alternative of a slow freezing or a slow stewing of unwashed hunia iiity. Mr. FELL, like all other initiators, has had to contend with other and less endurable dis couragements than those of the earth and air—other difficulties than mechanical and material. He has had to struggle against a prolonged crisis in the money markets and a consequent paralysis of credit and confidence even in the most substantial and trustworthy schemes. Impatience and timidity have combined to thwart and obstruct the progress of his great campaign, and there have not been wanting kindly prophets to predict that the tunnel through the Alps would be completed before the railroad over the Alps had begun to work. Whether the tunnel under Mont Cenia will be in working order five yearn hence remains to be seen ; it depends in part on the formatimus through which the tunnel must make its way. In any case Mr. FELL has plenty of time, and to spare, before him to reap the abundant harvest he has earned. And even when the tunnel is completed there will be many passengers, we dare say, who will pre fer the open to the subterranean road. It is possible that the underground train will perform the distance horn St. Michel to Susa in a shorter time than Mr. FELL's ; though, all things considered, that result is somewhat problematical. Many passengers, we fancy, will consider a four or five hours' journey fast enough when to the novel sensation of passing over mountain peaks by steam is added the enjoyment of contem plating securely and comfortably those precipices and abysses which Mr. FELL has overcome. YESTERDAY the Royal Geographical Society held its anniversary meeting, which, according to ortho dox precedent, was supplemented by a dinner. It is stated in the report of the council that a building for the use of the Society will be built facing the Thames Embankment, the site having been promised by the Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands. Everyone who has been jammed and jostled, stifled and leg-wearied in the hall at Burlington-house will be glad to know that the time will come, and that shortly, when it will be possible to attend a meeting of the Society without any severe tax upon one's patience and good temper. It is satisfactory also to learn that the finances of the Society are in a highly flourishing condition, and that the Council have resolved to encourage the study of geography by offering prizes for competition in the various public schools. There is hope then for the coming generation ; and the time may arrive, in some far off period, when a knowledge of the earth's sur face and of political geography will be even more esteemed than the construction of Latin verses. ST. GEORGE'S Vestry, the Metropolitan Board, and Lord JOHN MANNERS appear to have made their differences up. Yesterday morning, at 7 o'clock, a long string of sand and gravel laden carts appeared in Park-lane. The cruilly rough Macadam having been bestrewn with the contenta, the much desiderated steam roller appeand a few hours later, and pro ceeded to Found the roadway into a smooth and level mass. The effect was magical. By afternoon the coarse boulders and rough shingle bad been welded into a capital road ; and a thoroughfare which was death or at least lameness to horses in the early morning was an excellent road at dinner time. Months of locomotion from cabs and carriages would not have done what the giant mo.shing machine's pondrous rotation effected immeattely. It is still in the Lane, and is continuing the work it so auspiciously commenced. From Piccadilly to far beyond South-street was rendered not merely passable but convenient. This morning more sand was thrown ; and the process of amalgamation and pounding proceeded with. This is satis factory as far as it goes, but what has been done so easily should have been done long before. The Svuthampten Times states that Sir George Grey will preside at the ceremonies to be observed at the inauguration of the statue of Lord Palmerston at Romney, in Hants. Two new monster mail packets have arrived at Southampton—the Travancore, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company ; and the Neva, belonging to the Royal Mail Company. A remarkable kind of publication has just been started at Orleans, entitled " Le Ohartrier Fraticaim" Its object is to publish the pretensions to nobility which their correspondents may forward to them, on tbe re ceipt of what the editors may cansidew satlisient proofs. The journal is madueted by 30 gentlemen learned in heraldry, of whom the Marquis de Carbonnel is one of the moat active. Baron de Beast, accompanied by his family, has just left Vitae• for • few days t• quietly coltbrato his •flees acclaim' (25 years' marriage) is the °sentry. . FOREIGN! NEWS. (THU* DAY.) f 07 THE IND) BILL. REPRNSFTA ' ~ (SC( 8$ tom; Ores, XOBDAT, Considered id Oiininittee :—Clause 8 :—Lissigliint in psi* 3. line 20, after the word "Parliaaseit. posedi insert the words " the City of Glaegow shell he di vided into two divides, in tie suns' spelled is schedule ( ) hereto annexed, and sub division shall return two members • the City of Bdisburgh shall re turn three toembere ; ind the town of Dundee, the City of Aberdeen, aid the Counties of Lanark, Ayr, and Aberdeen shall each return two members to•serve in Parliament :"-111r. Baxter :)—Amendment proposed to the said proposed Anaandioent,by boring out the words " be divided into two divisions in the manner specified in schedule ( ) hereto annexed," in order to insert the words " return three members to serve in Parliament :" —ollr. Secretary Gatherer) Hardy o—Question put, " Tbat the words proposed to be left out stand part of the said proposed Amendment :"—The Committee divided ; Ayes, 222, Noes, 261. ATF2. Aeland, T. D. Evans, T. W. 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Young, G. Eliot, Lord Matheron, A. Young, R. Ellice, E. Matheson, Sir J. Entleid, Vinci. Melly, G. Erskine, Vice-Adm. Merry, J. Ennioude, 1. Milbank, F. A. NOES. Goddard, A. L. 'Montagu, Lord R. Goldney, G. Montguoitiy, Sir G• Gordon, E. S. 31ordaunt, Sire. Gore, J. R. Morgan, O. Gore, W. It. Moreau. Major Goat. J. E. Mowbray, J. R. Graves, S. E. Neeld, Sir J. Greenall, G. Neville-Grenville,R. Grey. T. de Newdegate. C. N. Griffith, C. D. Neisport, Vise. Grosvenor, Earl North. tot. Gurney, R. Northeote, sir S. Gwyn. H. irNeM. E.. Hamilton, 14. Claud Paget, R. H. Hamilton. Ld. C. J. Pakington, sir 3. Hamilton. Vied. Palk, Sir L. Hankey, T. Parker, Major Hardy. G. Patter , . Col. W. Hardy, J. Paull, H. Hartley, J. Pemberton, E. 1. Hartopp, E. B. Pennant, G. D. Beni y, R. B. Pim, .1. Haney, It. J. Powell. F. S. Hervey. Lord A. Price, W. P. Hay, sir J. C. Pugh, D. Hasler. A. D. Read, C. S. Henniker-Major, J. Bearden, D. J. Herbert, Gen. Robertson, P. F. Heygate, Sir F. W. Royston, Visct. Hild)ard, T. B. Russell, Si, C. hloge. Lieut• Col. Salomon', Mr. Al& olford, R. S. Sandford, G. Si. Hood, Sir A. A. Schreiber, C. Hope, A. B. Sciater-booth, C. Ronan , . W. H. Scott, Lord H. }foretell, T. B. Scourtleld, 3. lf. Ilinhani, lord Selwin-Ibbetson,H.J Howard. lord Severne, J. E. Howes, E. Seymour, G. If. Iluddlestone, J. W. Simonds, W. H. Hunt, G. W. Smith, A. Ingestre, Vint. Smith, S. O. Jardine, R. l O Somerset, Col. Jolliffe, H. H. Somerset, E. A. .Tones, D. Stanhope..l. 1;. Kerslake, Sir J. 11. stanley, Lord Kerslake, E. K. stabler. F. Kavanagh, A. Stirlini-Maxwell,Sir Kekewieh, S. 'l'. W. Kok, J. Stopford, S. G. Kennon]. R. W. Stuart, Lt.-Col. W. Keown, W. Stucley, Sir G. King, J. K. Start, H. G. King. J. G. Sturt, Lieut.-Col. Kn.ght, F. W. Surteea, C. F. Kiwi, Col. B. Talbot, C. R Knox, Col. S. Thompson, A. G. Laird, J. Thompson, M. W. Langton, W. G. Thyroid, Sir J. I.aii)on, Sir C. Ihynne, Lord 11. P. Larcener, E. G. Torollne, G. Lechmere, Sir X. A. Tottenham, Lt.-Col. leek Major 'rreelry, J. W. Lefroy, A. Trevor, Lord A. E. Lennox, Lord O. Turinr, C. Lennox, Lord H. Tumor, E. Lddell, 11. G. Vance, J. Lindsay, Col. C. Vends tour, Co!. Lindsay, CoL It. Verner, K W. Long, R. P. Verr.er,Sir W. Lopes, H. C. Walker, Mader Lopes, Sir 11. Walpole, 8. B. Lowther, W. Walmnd, J. W. Lowther, J. Walsh, A. 31• Kenna, Sir J. Warren. R. R. Mackinnon, Capt. Waterhouse, S. Mackinnon. W. A. Welty, W. E. M'Lagan. P. Williams, F. Y. Mahon, Met. Wise, 11. C. Miduwating, T. Woodd B. T. Malcolm, J. W. Wyld, J. Manner", Lord J. W) nabs's, H. Martin, P. W. Wynn, Sir W. W. Mayo, Earl of %Vynne, W. R. Mellor, Col. Wyvill, M. Mlles, J. W. Yorke, J. R. Miller, W. TELLERS. Moffatt. G. Taylor, Cod. Monk, C. J. Noel G. J. Adderley, C. B. Akroyd, K Anne.ley, Col. A ntrobus, E. Arkieright, It. Bagge, Sir W. Bagnall, C. Bailey, Sir J. R. Baring, H. B. Baring, T. Barnett, If. Barrington Visct. Barttelot.ldol. Baleen'', Sir T. Bathurst, A. A. Bench, Sir M. H. Beach, W. W. Bertive, Earl of Beceroft, 0. S. Bentinek. G. C. ilenyon, R. Berestord, Capt. Bernard, Col. Bingham, lord Bourne, Col. Brett, Sir W. Brooks, If. Brown, J. Browne, Lord J. Bruce, Lord E. Bruce, Major Bruen, H. Buckley, B. Butiteley, Sir Burke, Vlset. BurreU, Sir P. Butler-Johnatort,, H. A. Capper, C. Carington, W. H. Cartwright, Col. Cavc, S. Cave. T. Cecil, Lord E. H. Clive, Lieut.-Col. Cobbold, .1. C. Cole, 11. Cole, J. L. f'onolly, T. Corranve, F. S. Corry, H. L Cooper, E. H. Cox, W. T. Cuhitt, G. Dalkelth, Earl of Davenport, W. B. Dawson, R. P. Dickson, Major Mondale, R. Disraeli, B. Doulton. F. Dowdeswell, W. E. Du Cane, C. Duncombe, Adm. Duaoombe, Col. Mime, Oen. Du Pre. C. O. Dyke, W. H. Djott, CoL Eaton, H. W. Edwards, Sir H. Egerton, Sir P. Egerton, A. F. Egerton, E. C. Eleho, Lord Fans, Col. 'elides, J. Fellowes, E. Finch, G. H. Fitzwillians, C. W. Floyer, J. Forde, Col. Fordyce, W. D. Forester, lien. French, Col. FrePhfield, C. K. Galway. Met. Garth. R. Gaskell, J. M. TELLERS. }:outer, W. E, ;I“.hatni, W. THE MINISTERIAL MALCONTENTS. The 13ilcia says " that the Ohaseepot rifles having been manufactured in sufficient number for the Fie. ch arsenals, the War department has tuned ord, rs for the immediate manufacture of rifled cannon." The following membeis compose the minority of 96 who voted lest night for Sir Lawrence Palk's proviso that nothing in the Scotch Reform Bill shall reduce the representation of England and Ireland : Annexley, Col. Gore, W. R. }forum, Major Arkwrhht, B. Gong, J. E. Nevillwriren ville,R. bage, Mr W. Greenall, G. Paget, R. H. Baum% C. Grey, Palter, Major Bailey, Blr J. R. arillith, C. D. Pemberton, E. L Barttelot, Cu!. Gwyn, H. Percy, Major-Geo. Batcaoo. &DT. Hamilton, Lord C. Pugh, D. Beach, W. W. Hamilton, Viact. Read, C. & Beaumont, U. E. Hardy, J. Ruisoll, Hr C. Bentinek, G. C. Hartley, J. Sandford, 0. M. Bourne, Col. Harvey, R. B. Seltrieber, C. Breen, H. Harvey, R. J. Scourgold, J. H. Burrell, Sir P. Hayter, A. D. Severn., J. E. Cartwright, Col. Henniker-Major, J. Smith, S. G. Clive, Lieut.-Col. Herbert, Gen. Stanley, F. Cottony, T. 1111dyard, T. B. Stocky, itir G. Cooper, B. If. Hogg, Lt.-Col. Suttees, C. F. Davenport, W. B. Holford, R. 8. Thorold, Sir J. Bimodal.), R. Howard, Lord E. Thynne, Lord H. Dowdeswell, W. E. Howes, E. Treeby, J. W. Dunne, Gen. fugeatre, Vint. Tumor, E. Du Pre, C. G. Boom', W. Vaodefour, Col. Dyott. Col.l Knight, T. W. Walrond, J. W. Bolos. H. W. Knox, Col. B. Welsh, A. Edwards, Sir H. Knox, CoL 8. Waterhouse, 8. Egerton, Sir P. Langton, W. G. Willfully, F. M. Eellowes, E. laulyon, Sir C. Who, H. C. Finch G. H. Laseelles, E. W. Woodd, B. T. Fords, Col. IMO, Maier Yorke, J. R. Fonder, Gin. Lindsay, Col. L. Ordway. Vise!. Lap's, H. C. Goddard, A. L. Lopes, 81r M. Dote, B. G. Mahon, Vied. TELLERS. Lowther, J. Hope, J. & . . - It will be men that, with two or three exegetical's, the above are ordinary supporters of the government. In the majority (262) were Mr. Adderley, Mr. S. Cave, Mr. Dia mph, Mr J. Formurese, Mr. G. Hardy, Sir J. Hay, Mr. Haat, the Attorney•Geseral, Lord H. Lennox, Lord Manners, the _ . . - _ . _ _ MORI WAR PREPARATIONS. rl of Mayo, Sir J. iakhurtos, Colonel Patten, Laid iitaa r, sad a few other members of the government, but the lk of the members are of the liberal party. The same journal reports "that the Pope has received a supply of the Remington rifles from America which he expects will do wonders. The Pontifical troops are being exercised every day in the use of these blessed weapons. The Bourbon committees in Rome which are inconstant communi cation with those in Malta are increasing in activity. The marriage of Count Girgenti with the Infanta Isabella and the nomination of the Count Caserta as general of the pontifical army encourage the hopes of a party whose chance of success is daily d iminishing." 'CRYSTAL PALACZ. -FITE SHILLING D AY , M ON - D Y, MAY W.—Admission by swop tickets, 10,242 ; sehnitsiso se payment, 4,079 ; tots! visitors, 14,321. • THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY a 1..-0404 STEAM OVER THE ALPS. EN CLAN lAN; added one more triumph to the long scroll of her peaceful and civilising conquests over time, and space, and matter, and the elements. Genius and energy allied to capi al and enterprise have solved one more of those beneficent eii4ma3 of Nature which test from time to time the patience and perseverance of the human will, and the courage and resource of human brains and hands. The steam engine has passed over the Alps, scaled the toilsome and perilous heights with firm and even grip, and glided down like a wreath of cloud into the valley of Piedmont. While FtaLC3 oc cupies Savoy in payment of blood, and Rome as a pledge of Italian dipendenc3, it is well that so disinterestel a Mend of Italy as England should carry her pioneerin; forces over the mountains that divide the Penin-ula from the north and west of Europe, and effect a pas sage more memorable and more worthy of re membrance than that of the legions of the Gene ' rid of the French Republic who came to divide and despoil a welcoming nation in the sacred name of liberty. The opening of the railway over Mont Cenis deserves to be recorded as an historical event. Five years ago the feat which has now been quietly accomplished with perfect ease and safety would have been pronounced impracticable, even by many who had ascended and descended the zigzags of the Sommering by the express train from the Austrian capital to the Adriatic. Engineers never pronounce any scheme impracticable—have we not lately been amused with the ten-bridges railway across the Straits of Dover i—if only the self-sacrifice of share- I holders is equal to th 3 task. But there were inevitable natural difficulties to be en countered by a railway across the Mont Cenis, even after the engines had been con structed capable of turning a train upon its heel, and describing all the figures of the Skating Club at an elevation of 12,000 feet, along the edge of dizzy precipices, across the skirts of ever lasting snow. Those who have gone over the Mont Cenis by the lumbering diligence in summer, or by sledge in winter, remember the driving icy p, MAY 26, 1166€1,' POLAND. General Potapoff, Hetman of the Cossacks, on assuming command of the province of Lithuania, addressed, says the North Eastern Correspondence, a confidential communication to his subordi nates as to the methods which they were to employ to purge the country of the " Polish element—that unwholesome element which has been so pernicious." The for mation of lists of suspected persona in which are to be incribed not only the names of persons compromised in the last insurrection but likewise the names of those who are " sus pected of sympathising with the so-called Polish cause, or who affect to remain estranged from the authorities ;" the surveillance of the suspected parsons, especially by the peasants and Jews, " who are to be rewarded, not only with money, but by honours," for their spying ; the employ ment in any post office of an agent of surveillance —such are the methods recommended by (leneral Potapoff " to carry out the formally expressed, will of his august master to extirpate from the country the country this hostile element." MALTA. The Libcrti in its latest news has the following : We le .rn by telegraph from Malta that great agitation exists in the island inconsequence of some unconstitutional pr. oes lino of the Governor-General. The Maltese desire to shake off the domination of England. The movement, which was commenced under the auspices of the Nati nal Legislative Assembly, is every day assuming more important proportions. (REO7IOI TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAY 2ti. The Emperor received yesterday at a private audience the Anglian exhibitors who had obtained prizes at the late Paris Exhibition. In reply to an address of the exhibitors, the Em peror spoke in terms of high praise of the merits of the Austrian manufactures, and stated his firm resolution henceforth, as hitherto, to persevere un falteringly in the course upon which he had entered for the solution of the high mission entrusted to his charge. The Vienna papers state that the government has authorised the Creditanatadt to redeem shares to the amount of ten million florins, or to reduce its capital permanently to forty millions. M. Emile de Oirardin t he LJ The Kiss of Prussia's pent i is like the dark , heav y cloud which reeedes a sto.m. It d oss not eoo yin single woad i ntu iti ng to F rance, and yet every word is : threat. Teinpa says : The Conatitutioand is singularly optimist whi n it pia this speech s confirmation of the t r e a t y o f Prague. The Gazette de France think; it obvious that he work of German pity has made great progress within the last few months, and that the crowning of the *Mee is at hand. The A eni, Nat'onal says Is not the Xing of Prussia's speech significant enough? It would be puerile to cherish any more illusions as to the designs of that prince. It is continued that the mar.st ro Verdi has re. fused to accept the new order of the crown of Italy which was offered to him. He states this himself, but without giving any reasons, in a letter dated May 15, addressed to his friend, Signor Mariani, the conductor. The Bourse was extremely firm, and more active than it has been for some time. Renton for account rose 12ic., closing at 69fr. 671 c. Italian rose 22 . .. e., closing at Mr. 35c. ; Mobilier ruse sfr. ; Credit Fonder fell 2fr. 50c. M. Marie hsa presented an amendment t,, the budget, propo: jog that the amount of compensation to be given to the holders of Mexican bonds shall be increased train 3,01,0,000 fr. Rente to AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF ANTWERP. The Inman royal mail steamer City of Antwerp from New York arrived at Queenstown at 12.30 a.m. to-day (May 26) with 249,500 dola. in specie. She landed mails and passengers and proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All well. (V.& Queenstown.) NEW YORK, MAY 16, NooN. Radical meetings have been held at Philadelphia, St. Louis, and other cities, in favour of Mr. John son's impeachment, at which resolutions were adopts I strongly denouncing the Republican senators who opposed the conviction of the President. Senator Henderson has addressed a letter to the Missouri delegation in the House of Representa tives, stating that he will neither resign nor shrink from the obligation of his oath to do im• partial justice to Mr. Johnson. It is reported that the impeachment managers in the House of Representatives are proscribing an investigation to prove if possible that certain Senators had been bribed to vote the acquittal of Mr. Johnson. Mr. Woodward, a Democrat, has offered a reso lution to the house calling for an investigation into the conduct of the Missouri delegation in en deavouring to cause Mr. Henderson to vote for the conviction of the President. Mr. Garfield and other Republicans objected, and Mr. Woodward's resolution was not received. The bill admitting the Southern States was, pre vious to its passage by the house, amended so as to prohibit the nullification of debts due to loyal citizens of Georgia before June, 1865. It is rumoured that the Cacos rebels had cap tured Gonaives. OUR PARIS LETTER. (FROM OOR OWN CORRENPONDENT.) PARIS, MOND►Y EVENING. Eke Court. BA LM ORAL CASTLE, 51%1 The Queen drove out in the morning, iork !Idea by the Duchess of Athol° ; aLd her Majesty Ir, : N y e out in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Lou: , The Prince of W.lei and l'.inci Arthur wt./. fishing, attended by Major Teesdale. The Crown Prince of Denmark, attended by t Apt,j4 Lund, arrived at Marlborough-house yettercLy 4tr!,,,c0, on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales. The Princess of Wales, acc,,itip.tnied Prince of Di nmark, afterwards drove out. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Janux Puma, M'Laurie, 31r. J. Bounontl, Mr. A. F. Styling, 3'r, Clerk, and Mr. J. W. Richardson. had an into rvirw aith the Earl of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law I:L.ra, Whitehall, yesterday. The Prince and Princess Christian, and his ~, :ono Highness nine,: and ha Royal Highness Print MI C-ry of Trek, honoured the Lord President oft e t solaced d tie Duchess of Maihorough by their pr ~ e nce bta .fitst yesterday, on the cot:cam:on of the Lady Cornelia Iluithille marriage with Sir Ivor Guest, Bart. Last night the Lord Mayor and Lady 31.1% , ress entertained her Majesty's. judges to a gravel ut in the Egyptian-Lel! of the Mansion-house. DR. LITTLEDALE AND THE REFuRMI-.1.. TO THE EDITOR OP THE EYPRF>a. SIR,—I hare just read with interest %. , :r re marks upon my views of the character of the lt. r. • . My positirn in the matter is that the common 1.:i• give a perfectly untruthful account of them, .1.1 :: neglected documents cont.in the facts. I ass to republish my lecture with notes, proving all I ha‘r Meanwhile I may po'nt out in proof of the very 11.1••:•Kt knowledge posressed by even educated persona coi.,,ra- Mg the Tudor era that in your own criticism of u.r sou say that it is itsttling to read " that Henry the }.:11t13 sent an old and barren wife to the block, in order ti he might marry a young and comely girl solely for the pur pose of serving his country." I agree with you it is startling to read it. list no , •se ever read it anywhere except in the Exprrso of .M. ,y if Gil. The two wives whom Hoary beheaded were young women, whom he thought only too likely to be mothers by others than he. His one aged wife, the excellent Katharine of Aragon, lived and died honoured and es teemed, even by him, at Kinibolton Castle. Now, may you not be as much astray about Latimer as about Henry :'—l am, &c., R. F. LITTLEDALE. 10, Beredord•terrace, W., May 25. (If Dr. Littledale reads history with as little care .1 be maul the article iu the Express, from which lie quotes. ne wonder he has come to regard the Reformers as :cis. creants." The them) , affecting Henry VIII. was pat ea the same level with Nero's tenderheartedness, Tile chastity, and Dr. Littledale'a estimate of the Reform. is.— ' Ediwr of Express.] LEOTARD'S FALL. TO THE EIHTOH OF THE EXPRE,,,. The news that the Emperor, who is to be at Rouen on the 31st of May, was going to Havre the next day, to open the Fishermen's Exhibition, is contradicted. A fashionable organ, the Gazette des Efrangers, says his Majesty will not visit Havre before August ; but this evening's Presse announces that he has accepted an invitation from the Havre Chamber of Commerce to a banquet towards the end of June. At Rouen it is thought that the Emperor will make no political speech, but will simply say a few complimentary words to the Archbishop, Cardinal de Bonnechose, who will receive him on the steps of the cathedral. The optimists give out, however, that at Havre, some three weeks later, he will say something tending to restore commercial confidence. Such rumours constitute a frail reed to lean upon. The protectionists mean to bring forward a new set of interpellations confined principally to the subject of acquits a caution (raw material admitted free of duty on condition of being subsequently exported in a manufactured state), and this thus' they intend to insist on a nominal division; so that those who support the government free trade tendencies may not be able to conceal their names from their constituents. It was stated yesterday at the Cercle Imperial that Prince Napoleon has had a long interview with the Emperor, and that it has been finally de termined to send his imperial highness to Con stantinople forthwith. It is even said that he is packing up at the Palaia Royal this evening. The Princess Clotilde and her children will stay at Hendon during his absence. According to a pro gramme current, the Prince will en route visit the courts of Munich and Ettnttgard and pass two days with the Austrian imperial family at the Schoen brunn. Slit,—l was present at the Alhambra lin Fr day evening last, and was certainly as much hoax, .1 your repot ter appears to have been by leotard's pretend,•. In common with all who were near me I applaud. d anat. I took to be the performer's pluck and self•osse,,i.o in so speedily recovering from the shock of it terrific or. Had I known that the man was only playing at a,. ors it is much more likely that I should have expressed d- ;rat than approbation. If it is not presumption On lin to suggest anything to so exalted a gentleman a. t I.• lest Duman, I would humbly pivoile that in future termination which he assures us is the usual one. n• what it cannot be denied is on the whole a graceful 'WI fur n..,nce, be omitted ; the effect of which will be that tin 'Ali, of the audience and the internal economy of M. Leot.l.l will alike be saved a severe shaking. I enclose my name, and am, &c.. ONE OF THE ALDIENd E. Mr. Charles S. A. Abbott, of the Foreign , has been appointed Secretary to the Conunissi.n 01, the Laws of Naturalisation and Allegiance. A bill has been brought into parliament be Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. }fumy Vivian, and Mr. Denman, to..able the Secretary of State to alter days for holding fairs, upon representation being made to him that such, ci. oge would be for the convenience and advantage of the In I.lic. A bill has been brought in by Mr. Clive, Mr. Goldney, Mr. Noate, and Mr. Wyld, to make kikr pro- vision for facilitating and regulating the supply of pure water in cities, towns, and districts throughout the I *nited Kingdom of theist Britain and Indeed. On Friday, Mr. Lamont, a Scotch member and a whig, will move that in the opinion of this house it is the duty of her Majesty's government to defray the whole of the expenses to which Governor Ere may be put by the prosecution against him. In the navy estimates, Captain 3lackinnon in• tends to call the attention of the house to certain faults and defects in the Invincible class of ships and the Minotaur. , On the motion for going into committee (at the Public Schools Bill, Mr. Neste will move that the bill te referred back to the select committee, in order that clauses may be inserted in it giving power to the Dew governing bodies and the commissioners to be appooted by the bill to deal with the constitution and revenues of Eton and Winchester Colleges. Mr. Disraeli will move this afternoon that the hones at its rising adjourn till Thursday, over tie Dab, day. The select committee on Boundaries of Doroughs ware to take into consideration today the cases of the boroughs of Nottingham, Lambeth, Marylebone, and Chelsea. THE FACTORY Acts.—The reports of the in spectors of factories for the half-year ending on the 31st October heat were published this morning. The inspectors , Mr. Alexander Redgravo and Mr. Robert Beier, ohi serve that the extension of the factory system of education to all kinds of manual labour exercised by way of trade, is the nearest approach to s compulsory system of education ; and, looking to the success which has attended the factory halftime system for so many years, the inspectors believe that the Factory Acts Extension Act, 1887, wad the Workshops Regulation Act, 1867, will, when folly in operation, be IP cepted as a national code. During the half year the number of accidents reported to the ir.spectors ma having arisen from machinery was 2,201; and of accidents not arising from machinery, 2,394. The number of informations for breaches of the Factory Act, during the same period, **l 292, and the convictions, 213. The total amount of 6ses teetotal was 3171. 55., end the costs 1443?. es. 6d. him list Tli BCI