The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-11 00:00:00

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Just as the sus picion which his former policy had created was dying away and the prospect of peaceful tenure of office for the remainder of his term had become clear, he has caused that suspicion to revive, and cloud in some degree not only his own prospects, but those of his country. The assembling of Con gress for a summer session proves how rapid and effectual has been the spread of the new fear for its reconstruction policy which has been suddenly created. Up to the middle of June it was uni versally believed- in the United States that no quorum would be present on the 3rd of July, and that Congress would in consequence stand ad journed to December. It was known that the small party who have been sustaining the project of im peachment, though they had failed to obtain for it the support of the Judiciary Committee, were anxious for a summer session, that the report of the Committee on Impeachment might be re ceived, and the censure they recommended might be discussed. But the satisfactory progress of Southern restoration, combined with the natural reluctance of the Legislature to be in Washington during the slimmer heats, had rendered it probable that all efforts to get them there would fail t Just at this point, however, the ATTORNEY GENERAL CAM out with a second interpretation of tho Reconstruction Acts, which, in the view of the Northern people, explains them entirely away. The recommendations as to their duties which he had previously addressed to the generals had roused opposition by their leniency to the South ; but the Northern people are in clined to be lenient to individuals if Only the great ends of national policy can be secured, and a liberal interpretation of the disfranchising clauses was not, on the whole, dis tasteful to them. But Mr. Sraeszny was not content with this. Some of the generals in com mand at the South, carrying out the acts in the spirit in which Congress enacted them, have re moved some prominent officers of the present Southern Governments, and Mr. STANSEHY has given an official opinion to the Pazsinestr that they have no power to do this. Although the preamble of the Reconstruction Act distinctly states that "no legal State Governments, or " adequate protection for life or property, now " exist in the rebel States," Mr. STANBERY de clares that the Act does not by any moans consti tute the military commanders the legal Govern ment of those States, but that the pre sent Governments are expressly continued in power as provisional Governments, and that the duties of the military commanders are confined to the protection of individuals in their rights of person and property, the suppression of insurrection, disorder, and vio lence, and the punishment of all disturbers of the public peace. Even in the discharge of these ne cessary duties they have no right to supersede the local governments, or to remove any of the local authorities. By a lawyer-like and clever ana lysis of the wording of the Act, Mr. STANBIMY has thus made it to mean nothing that Congress in tended it to mean. The power of the military oommanders,which Congress intended to be nearly absolute, is reduced to insignificance. "It is a " power to preserve, not to abrogate—to sustain " the existing frame of social order and civil rule, " and not a power to introduce military rule in " its place. In effect it is a police power." So far, therefore, from having established, as it in tended, a mild military government in the rebel States, Congress has only succeeded in puttingmore power into the hands of the present governments, only providing that such power shall be used by them in some subordination to the laws of the United States. The military power is their ser vant, rather than their master. "Its proper " function," says the Avroitezv-GENERAL, " is to " preserve the peace, to act promptly when the " peace is broken, and to restore order. When " that is done, and the civil authority may again " safely resume its functions, the military power " becomes again passive —but on guard and " watchful. This, in my judgment, is the whole " scope of the military power conferred by the " Act." This opinion was promulgated in the middle of June, and at once changed the whole aspect of politics. Although Mr. Joussox is in no way bound to act upon it, and had not taken any steps towards such action, and though in every point it contradicted all the arguments of his veto message, and answered all the objec tions he had urged against the measure, it was known that he sympathized with Mr. STANSERY, and might at any moment begin to give effect to his misinterpretations of the inten tions of Congress. Here, therefore, was just the kind of sudden danger to its reconstruction policy against which Congress intended to provide when it gave itself the power of assembling in July. The nation saw its policy suddenly imperilled while it was congratulating itself on the quiet and successful execution of the law, and it was in con sequence not the request of a few leaders, but the call of the people, which brought a quorum of the House of Representatives to the Capitol on Wed nesday last. It will not he at all surprising if, in these cir cumstances, Congress should have met in no very genial mood. Now that it has met, the report of the Judiciary Committee on the question of im- THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 11, 1867. peachment most, of course, be presented, and will very probably be discussed—that report is understood to advise the passing of a vote of cen sure on the PRESIDENT, and he will certainly have to thank his ATTORNEY-GENF:HAL if Congress should be in a mood to listen to the advice. But the important work of the session, which is not likely to be a long one, will be the passing of a declaratory or explanatory Act putting into the Reconstruction Acts the meaning and force which Mr. S star has so carefully taken out of them. In doing this there is, of course, oppor tunity for making them more stringent than be fore, and there is at least some probability that Mr. STANBERY'S liberal interpretation of the dis franchising clauses may go the way of his other readings of the meaning of the Acta. Every hos tile interference with the reconstruction policy which public opinion has so conclusively endorsed has tended to the disadvantage of those whom the Administration so officiously befriends, and if the present attempt to nullify the action of Congress in enforcing that policy is attended with consequences disastrous to the present governments of the South, it will be the fault of the Cabinet. It is a misfortune for the whole nation that the question has been reopened ; but we can only hope, as we believe, that the moderation and self control which Congress has hitherto exhibited in this matter will equally characterise it, now that a sudden emergency has called it together in the oppressive fervours of an American summer, and that it will, as before, reject the counsels of ex tremists of all parties, and content itself with simply preventing the threatened reversal of a policy which has already been conducted to the very threshold of success. Mkt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, JU LY 10. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Ilene and Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon. Princess Beatrice took a drive in an open carriage, and Prince Leopold also drove out, attended by Mr. Legge. Prince Louis of Hesse went to London yesterday, attended by Captain von Westerweller. His Royal High ness returned to Windsor Castle this morning. Her Majesty, Princess Louis of Hesse, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice went out in the grounds this morning. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barring- ton, went to London. The Queen of Prussia left Windsor Castle yestenlay for Paris, not London, as erroneously stated. Mr. A. Melville has bad the honour of submitting to her Majesty his picture of the Prince of Wales receiving the freedom of the City of London. The Prince of Wales, attended by General Sir William Enollya and Captain Ellis, inaugurated the opening of the London College of the International Educational Society, at Spring-grove, near Hounslow, yesterday. The Princess of Wales, accompanied by Princess Louise, took a carriage drive in the afternoon. In the evening the Prince of Wales dined with the Earl of Derby at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation from the Colonial Commissioners to the Paris Exhibition of 1867, consisting of Mr. W. F. De Solis, Mr. G. M. Waterhouse, Mr. W. Walker, Mr. J. Currey, and Mr. W. B. Lewis (secretary), had an inter view with the Lord President of the Council. at the Privy Council offioe, Whitehall, yestenlay, on matters connected with the Paris Exhibition. A deputation from the county of Oxford and borough of Banbury, consisting of Lieutenant-Colonel North, M.P., Mr. B. Samuelson, M.P., Mr. H. Norris, d.P., M. W. B. Harrison (mayor of Banbury), and Mr. F. Day (town clerk's office, Banbury), had an interview with the Lord President of the Council, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, yesterday, upon the subject of licenses for the movement of cattle. A deputation from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, consisting of Mr. C. N. Newdegate, M.P., Mr. W. Field, jun. (the president), Mr. H. M. Wilkinson, Mr. W. J. Goodwin, Professors Spooner, Siminonda, and Yarnell, and Messrs. J. C. Broad, Harpley, Fleming, Gowring, Ernes, Cowie, and Mr. W. H. Coates (the secretary), had an interview with the Lord President of the Council, at the Privy Council office, Whitehall, yesterday, upon the subject of the Veterinary Surgeons Bill and the granting of diplomas. Mr. De Solis, Mr. Waterhouse, Mr. Currey, and Mr. Walker had an interview with the Duke of Bucking. ham, at the Colonial-office, yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial office, from the Covernor•Ceneral of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, and the Straits settlements. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO OSBORNE.—Her Majesty the Queen and royal family are expected to leave Windsor Castle on Saturday afternoon, after lunching with the Sultan. Her Majesty will travel in a special train provided by the South Western Railway Company, which will pro ceed, via Basingstoke and Bishopetoke, to Gosport. The arrangements for the journey will be under the control of Mr. J. Grierson, of the Great Western, and Mr. W. Godson, of the South Western line. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. —Hie Highness the Viceroy of Egypt has signified his intention to honour Her Majesty'. Theatre with a special visit tl'• reyie:: highness will be acesomparda Lis Excellency the Turkish Azz s orasatior, and will be attended by their Excellencies Ragbib Pasha (President of the Egyptian Assembly),Nubar Pasha (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Telsat Pasha (Chief of his Highness's Council), Hassan Pasha, and Ries Pasha. Major-General Francis Seymour, C.B. (Groom-in-Waiting to her Majesty), who is specially attached to his Highness the Viceroy, will also be in attendance, as also Colonel Stanton, C. 8., R.E. (her Majesty's Consul-General for Egypt). THE VICEROY OF EGYPT. —The Earl and Countess of Derby gave a magnificent entertainment to the Viceroy of Egypt last evening, at his lordship's official residence in Downing-street, when the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, the Princess Mary Adelaide, and Prince of Teck were present, The Viceroy was accompanied by Mahar Pacha and Ragib Paeha, and attended by Major- General Seymour (Equerry to the Queen) and Colonel Stanton. There were also present to meet the illustrious guests at dinner—The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Cornelia;Churehill, the Duke and Duchess of Wel lington, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl and Countess of Bradford, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl and Countess of Dudley, Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, Lord Stanley, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche quer and Mrs. Disraeli, Hon. Frederick and Lady Con stance Stanley, Colonel Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot, Lady Cecilia Molyneux, Colonel Clifton (in wait ing on the Duke of Cambridge), and Captain Ellis (in wait ing on the Prince of Wales). The band of the Grenadier Guards, under the direction of Mr. D. Godfrey, performed during dinner. In the evening the Countess of Derby had a reception, at which a numerous and brilliant company were present. The Earl of Bective entertained at dinner, at his residence in Grafton-street, yesterday evening, the Duke end Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquis of Graham, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, the E.ul and Countess of Harewood, the Counter of Scarborough and Lady Algitha Lumley. the Earl Cowper, Lord and Lady Wbarncliffe, Hon. C. Edgcumbe, Sir Rainald Kuightley, Colonel Leslie, Mr. Chaplin, Ac. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury gave his annual dinner yesterday at Lambeth Palace to the stewards of the recent festival of the Sons of the Clergy. The invitations included the Dukes of Grafton and Cleve land, K.G. ; Earl Cadogan, the Bishops of Lichfield and Peterborough, Lords Cranworth and Digby, the Right Hon. Mr. Goechen, M.l'. ; Sir John Rolt, M.P., her Majesty's Attorney-General, the Right Hon.the Lord Mayor, Aldermen Copeland, Finals, Allen and Cotton ; Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Waterlow, Mr. Sheriff Lycett ; Rev. Dr. Thompson, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge ; Rev. Professor Heurtley, D.D. ; Rev. Dr. Vivian, Rev. Canon Hawkins, Revs. George Ainslie. J. W. Conant, C. R. Davy, J. J. Stanton, and J. R. Woodford ; Lieut.- Colonel Gray, M.P. ; Messrs. Walter Hughes, Henry Pownall, Gordon Wyatt Clark, R. W. Kennard, M.P. ; Hunter Rodwell, Q.C. ; Charles John Raker, Elias Chad wick, R. N. Fowler, John Bowder, Charles James Monk, M.P. ; and John Kinaltan and the Master of Merchant Taylors' company. The Countess Cowper's ball is postponed from Tuesday, the IGth, to Monday, the 22nd inst. It is confidently reported in legal circles (says the Herald) that Sir John Holt, the Attorney-General, has been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Lord Justice Turner, and that in view of the large arrears of business, there being upwards of 150 appeals in arreer, besides the ordinary lunacy and bank ruptcy business, he will take his seat almost immediately. The good results of the Compulsory Vaccination Act are strikingly exhibited in the return of deaths regis tered in the Dublin district during the past quarter. The estimated population is 314,409, and the total number of deaths registered during the quarter was 2,173, yet not one of these was from smallpox. It was on Tuesday night that Our American Cousin was represented on the boards of the Italian Opera, Faris. The house was full—pit, bores, and galleries. There were a good many French, and it is no blame to them if they were usable to make out all that was going on. They were a good deal amused at the appearance of Mr. Sothern as his Lordship ; but the hearty laughter which broke out at his best points—the vain effort to count his fingers, and the reading of brother Sam's letter— proved that the majority of the audience were English and Americans. A meeting of the Neutrality Laws Commissioners was held yesterday. Present : Lord Cranworth, Lord Houghton, Lord Cairns, Right Hon. Sir William Erle, Sir George W. W. Bramwell, Sir R. J. Philliinore. Q.C. ; Sir Bounden Palmer, M.P., Q.C. ; Mr. Travers Twits, Q.C. ; Mr. W. V. Vernon Haroourt, Q.C. ; Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P. ; and Mr. W. H. Gregory, M.P. Mr. C. S. A. Abbott, attached to the commission, and Mr. F. P. 001110 W, secretary, were also present. The CI ifden and Stamford Cups, which were submitted to the inspection of the Prince of Wales on Tuesday, are now on view at the manufacturer's, Mr. J. W. Benson, of 25, Old Bond•street. to the journals by his friends denying the fact is a fiction founded upon his desire to be incognito. The Presse this evening, however, maintains that the Havre journal is mistaken. The Bourse was a little firmer, but an attempt to bring up the Rente to 69fr. did not succeed. The closing prices were those of yesterday. Italian rose Inc., and Mobilier. 31r. 50e. Coruptoir d'Escompte fell sfr. A SCENE IN THE FRENCH CORPS LEGISLATIF. The following scene took place in the Corps Legislatif at the close of M. Favre's speech on Tuesday : Jutzs FAVRE—Maximilian has sealed his foolhardy enterprise with his blood ; for all of us he is now a victim whose memory is to held sacred. (Applause.) So long hack as September, 1865, the French government considered Maximilian's position to be untenable, and I, therefore, charge it—entertaining as it did that oonvicticn—with having taken none of the precautions which prudence dictated, and with having prevented that prince from leaving Mexico. (Loud denial.) We are all unanimous in our feeling respecting the sanginary events of which that country has been the theatre ; but the French govern. ment has been wanting in wisdore and in calmness, by publishing in an official journal words which may produce a deplorable effect on the other side of the Atlantic. (Approval from the left.) M. BILMONTZT—It has given expression to the general sentiment of Europe. M. Jt LEN FAVIE—And when it appeals to Divine right I reply that the fate of the humblest child of France, who dies obscurely on a foreign soil in the performance of his duty, is more worthy of sympathy than that of a Prince who perishes in defence of his throne. (Cries of " Order, order.") The PRE•4IDIST—M. JUJU Fayre protests not only against the sentiment of the chamber, but of that of the country and of all Europe. (Loud cries of approval.) If he persists in the expression of such opinions I shall be obliged to call him to order. M. EI;GENE PELLETAN—We esteem a Frenchman more than we do an Austrian archduke. The Duke nn Manama—Let there be no distinction between victims M. JI.LES FAVRE-It is because I repel all distinction that I pronounced the words which have excited the Chamber. No reasons of political necessity can justify the conduct of the government during the latter period of the expedition. Maximilian went on the faith of our pro miles, with our army, and he ought to have been sup ported by it. Yes, I have experienced a feeling of pro found affliction that this unhappy prince was not brought back to Europe with our troops, so that France might have been sheltered from the blood that has been spilt, and which will fall upon her head. (Loud exclamations and cries of " Order, order !" Applause from some benches.) The Paxiiiimer—The latter words of the honourable member may well fall upon his own head, in the eyes of the whole country. (Sensation ; loud applause.) M. Juun FAVRE—No person in this chamber, not even our hon. President, whom I respect, is entitled to bold such language to me—to me, who am one of that minority which, when it was in power, overthrew the scaffold for political crimes, which you have again set up. (Loud ex pressions of dissect.) I have always protested from this place in favour of the inviolability of human life, and if you had taken these protestations into consideration, per haps we should not be now deploring the calamity that has occurred. (Great agitation.) 11 ROUHER-1 will not reply at present to the two speeches which have just been delivered. I shall defer that task until to-morrow, if the chamber will permit me ; but I cannot allow the sitting to close without protesting against the language used a moment since by IC Jules Favre—(hear, hear)—and against the insertions which he has made. The hon. member insists that the responsi bility falls on France. IL Julia FAVIIE—No, no ; on the government. Several Rumens—You said on France. (Great agita tion.) THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN. (REUTER% LLTILZSB.) MADRID, JOLT 7. The Official Gazette of the day comments in the following terms upon the fate of the late Emperor Maximilian : The cruel and in every sense reprehensible deed, which, for some days has kept the general indignation ex cited and all persons of right feeling in a state of alarm, has at length been confirmed. Thus much is revealed by the successive despatches which, in place of calming, have continually increased the public anxiety—Europe, perplexed and amazed, refusing to be lieve what she could hardly conceive possible. The Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, who had been pro claimed such by the free vote of the popula tion, and recognised by all the Powers of Europe, has been inhumanly shot by the Republican forces. Unfortunate cause that, which in order to triumph needs to appal the world with acts of such marked and entirely unexpected cruelty, arrived at nut through victory, not through the forams of war, but by the most infamous treachery which civilised Europe and history will hardly find terms sufficiently adequate to qualify. This cir cumstance alone should have sufficed to guarantee to the ►ugust prisoner his life, it will now for ever take from this monstrous deed the character of alegitimate act of warfare. Yet presently democracies will proclaim humanity a dogma and will condemn the punishment of death in that society which only defends itself ! Let peoples learn ! OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EXTENSION OF EDUCATION.-11R. BRITE . S BILL Acknowledging that the above bill deserves a full and candid coneideration and that few persons are so competent as Mr. Bruce to deal with the subject, the Times contends that scarcely any arguments were alleged yesterday by the supporters of the bill to show that a system of rating for educational purposes would lead to improvement in the quality or the vigour of our educa tional machinery. We have had some experience of bodies elected by ratepayers. Is there any reason to believe that they would take a large view of their obligations, and tax the community to the full extent of the educational requirements of their district The question now raised is nothing more nor less than whether we will abandon the voluntary principle of our present system and substitute a compulsory principle. Now, if the field were clear, there might be a good deal to be said on both sides of this question. But it is a point never to be overlooked that the field is not clear. The voluntary system is in possession of the ground, and the Times believes it can be extended among poorer districts whether in town or country, and that there is no necessity for entering on an entirely unfamiliar path. The Doily Nees has no doubt that the lateness of the period for which the second reading of Mr. Bruce's bill was fixed and the other business before parliament alone saved the government from a somewhat damaging defeat. li ennocarcely be said that the necessity of some new mea sures for increasing the means of education was seriously disputed and the question which occupied the attention of the house was the but mean., of supplying Etch EcLz,a, as might be required. One of the peculiarities of Mr. Bruce's bill is that the existing schools are to be left under their existing management, so that the denomina tional schools in anydistrict will continue denominational, but, if adopted by the School Committee, they will be entitled to share in the local rate. But in all such cases, the school so adopted must admit a conscience clause. It must be admitted that in dealing with the proposed bill the government must have felt considerable embarrassment. Both Lord Stanley and Sir J. Palcington have declared themselves in favour of rates, but then no minister could less afford to be liberal on this subject than the Home Secretary and the member for the University of Oxfonl. It is not, on the whole, surprising that the government should have expressed their determinist hostility to the introduction of any plan which should in the slightest degree tend to interfere with that supremacy which the clergy so dearly prize. The time, however, must come when this supremacy in schools for the poor must be modi fied by the introduction of a conscience clause ; for, as Mr. Gladstone said, unless this point is conceded, the denominational system is inevitably doomed. The Post says the Home Secretary was perhaps justified in excusing the refusal of the government either to take charge of the bill or provide a substitute for it, on the plea that their hands are full of work which they find it impoe. sible to dispose of. It must not, however, be forgotten that the government have now passed a bill which will throw political lower into the hands of large numbers of individuals hitherto believed to be unfitted for the enjoy ment of such a privilege, and it becomes three who have called these masses into political being to take care that they be duly qualified for their new phase of existence. Mr. Hardy admitted that sooner or later the question of national education must be dealt with on a broad and com prehensive basis ; and the Post, for its part, says, the sooner the better. In the opinion of the Herald, Mr. Bruce's "crude inno vations" are as unconstitutional as they are repulsive to English feelings, and uncalled for. Although the bill was talked out of the house, the Star believes the cause of education in this country has ad vanced another step. A scheme—defective, it may be, in some particulars, but as a whole both comprehensive in its scope and well digested in its details—has been laid be. fore parliament, and has been the subject of a debate of which the friends of popular education have no reason to be ashamed. II I tiC ELLANNOUS TOPICS. It appears that the bill for the consolidation of the bankruptcy laws contains no less than 479 sections and is divided into 24 parts. The Times orges that there is scarcely a page in it which it would be safe for the House of Commons to pass with its eyes shut. As for passing them with its eyes open, it is vain so hope for such an effort of patriotism at this period of the session. The Reform Bill is now safe, but whatever energy the house may retain will be required for subjects which, unlike bankruptcy reform, have been already exhausted in argu ment, and me ripe for prompt legislation. If the govern ment have nat the good sense to withdraw it to night, it will be for the House of Commons to insist upon its post ponement. The Post oontends that M. Thies has no right to throw the expedition to Mexico into the scale in discussing the question of constitutional government. If the Legislative Body is virtually elected by Prefets, and if instructed opinion is suppressed and paralysed by an electoral free. chime which is peculiarly liable to be abused, there would seem to be a grievance which might be discusses . ' apart from the Mexican expedition or the German revolution. On Monday Mr. Childers will ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether her Majesty's government have yet arrived at any conclusion on the question of estpb lishing a system of telegraphic communication throughout the kingdom, in connection with the Post-office or other- wise, under public superintendence. Mr. Sandford to-morrow will ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, " whether any representation has been made by her Majesty's government to the govern ment of Portugal respecting the conduct of that govern ment in offering for sale by public auction, and preparing to confiscate the South-Eastern of Portugal Railway, in the construction of which British capitalists have invested upwards of 1,200,000/. ; and, if such communication has been made, what answer has been returned thereto." A meeting of the Schools Inquiry Commission was held yesterday. Present—Lord Taunton (the chair man), Lord Lyttelton, Rev. Dr. Temple, Rev. A. W. Thorold. Mr. Acland, M.P., Mr. Raines, M.P., Mr. Fos ter, M.P., and Dr. Stoner. Mr. Roby, the secretary, attended the meeting. CRYSTAL PALACH.—ONR SHILLING DAY.—WED NEsDAY, JULY 10.—Admismona on payment, 5,306 ; ditto by season tickets, 1,G15 ; total visitors, 6,021. LATEST INTKLLIGENCM. OLLCTER'IS TELEGL&XL) THE SULTAN. VIENNA. JU LY 11. The Sultan, on his way back to Constantinople, will positively pay a visit to the Emperor Francis Joseph at Vienna. The Sultan will also meet the King of Prussia. According to present arrangemehta the meeting will take place at Coblentz. ITALY. FLORENCE, JULY 11. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies Signor Ratazzi laid on the table the correspon dence relating to the last negotiations with Rome, declaring, however, that he considered the publica tion to be unnecessary. In the course of the de bate on the Church Property Bill, Signor Ratazzi said that no difference of opinion existed between the government and the chamber on the principal foreign and home questions, and urged the cham bers to show by deeds its unalterable determina tion to meet the engagements and to organise and e-establish the credit of the country. (Loud ap plause.) Tr RKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 10. The Imperial Ottoman Bank has issued a notice requesting the public to present for payment the coupons of the consolidas due this month. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN guts. SUEZ, JULY 11. The Golconda arrived at 6 a. m. to-day. OUTWARD MAIL OF JUNE 27— JULY 3. SUEZ, JCLT 11. The Delhi will leave for Bombay to-morrow. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE SPEECH OF K PAYEE. (PROM OUR ORR 0011ROPORDIIIT.) PARIS, WRIMSDAT BYRUM. In consequence of the unusually protracted sit ting yesterday—it did not finish till 7 o'clock, a closing hour which, in the eyes of French deputies thinking of spoiled dinner, implies killing hard work—it was impossible to get any full note of M. Jules Favre's speech in time for yesterday's post. Having now read it in the itioniteur, I think it far more " telling" than that of M. Thiers. In the midst of many interruptions from the President, the majority, and ministers, he held his own throughout, and showed by "fact and argument" that the government deliberately and year after year deceived the country as to the real object of the Mexican expedition, and when well aware that it had failed, and there was nut the remotest chance of Maximilian's empire lasting, men daciously represented, week after week and month after month, in the Moniker, that Juarez was crushed and Maximilian every where popular and triumphant. Moreover, that the government had by every art and device, and the example of subordinate functionaries under its influence, encouraged the poor and ignorant to in vest their hard savings in the Mexican loan long after they knew it to be a bubble. He cited dates and documents proving incontrovertibly that when the ministry, pressed by questions from him, de clared that the government knew nothing whatever of any scheme to make the Archduke Maximilian Emperor of Mexico, negotiations with that object to which France was a party had been going on for two years; that the suggestion originally came from Spain with a view to advance the Roman catholic religion, and that it was adopted by Napoleon HI. with a view to support Jefferson Davis and to break up the Great American republic. When told by Presi dent Schneider that it was not parliamentary to impeach the veracity of ministers, M. Jules Favre always returned to the charge and said that how ever desirous to frame his phrases in the most in offensive way possible, the undoubted fact was that in the Mexican business ministers had con stantly told the chamber and the country the reverse of the truth, and it was his right and duty to say so. You may observe from the Moniteur that when M. Rouher, to show that France was not responsible for Maximilian's tragical end, averred that the government had re peatedly pressed him to come home with the troops, he gave not one word of specific reply to M. Jules Favre's incontrovertible allegation that when Maxi milian had got as far as Orizaba with the inten tion of going home on board an Austrian frigate, which was waiting for him at Vera Cruz, a pres sure was put upon him by the French general which forced him to go back to Mexico city. M. Rouher's denial rests upon a wilful confusion of dates. M. Rouher spoke for two hours to-day in a vain attempt to show that the Mexican expedition was a meritorious conception ; that the chamber had been sufficiently consulted about it ; that the failure had not diminished the prestige of France ; that it had not weighed upon her conduct in regard to Germany, and he concluded by taking in vain the much abused name of Providence, which ho was persuaded would yet accomplish the grand and generous ends which the Emperor Napoleon had in view. These are all reckless assertions by a minister at bay before the country, but holding in hand the majority of the chamber, which are not worthy of serious refutation or even examination. The Moniteur announces the dissolution of the Ecole Normale, on account of the congratulatory letter of Student Lallier to Senator Sainte Beuve and the " strike" of all the students with a view to obtain the revocafion of the dismissal of Lanier. A hope was entertained that M. Duruy, who was absent from Paris at the time of the event, would, on his return, devise a means to settle the dispute amicably. The students of the Ecole Normale are not boys. They are young professors, most of them over twenty-one—the Taines, Prevost Para dela, and Weisses of the rising generation. No doubt as long ‘s they are subject to collegiate dis cipline the Minister of Public Instruction cannot tolerate rebellion. But the discretion which provoked the present rebellion may well be doubtol. The sympathy with M. Sainte Beuve of the highly-educated young men composing the Ecole Normal° against the attack upon him by Baron Dupin and a musty set of old senators, fit to be judges of a revived inquisition, was embodied in a private letter, for the publication of which, with out sufficient reflection, M. E. Arago, the bar rister, assumes the solo responsibility. Here was a case in which the minister might well have winked hard, instead of being lynx-eyed. As it is, he will break many a career and convert into implacable enemies of the government many of the most rising young men of the day, who might have been its friends. The Normal School is to be "re organised " on Oct. 15, but if its members are to be made to think in a governmental groove, its old prestige will be no more. The Cuurrier du Havre persists that Victor Hugo ham been in France, and that the cummuniqui sent THS SULTAN'S VISIT. The arrangements connected with the state re ception of the Sultan in London era now rapidly going forward. It was not anticipated that his Majesty would arrive before Saturday, for Friday being the Mahomedan Sabbath, journeys are as much as possible avoided on that day. According to the present programme, however, the Sultan is expected to leave Boulogne soon after 8 o'clock to-morrow morning. The royal yacht will be escorted across the Channel by the steam frigates Liverpool and Plnebe. At Dover his Majesty will remain to breakfast. Great pre parations are being made by the South-Eastern Company to decorate the pier and departure station in a manner fitting the occasion. Soon after 7 o'clock to-morrow morning the Viceroy of Egypt will leave Charing-cross Station in a special train with his Highness's suite and the Turkish am. baseador, to meet his Majesty at Dover. As at. present arranged, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge will leave Charing-cross by the ordinary 7.25 express, which reaches Dover soon after 9. The Pacha of Egypt will return in his own train after that of the Sultan, which is expected to leave Dover soon after 12 o'clock. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cam bridge will accompany his Imperial Majesty in the state saloon. At Charing-cross great preparations arebeing made. All parts of the station will be prettily decorated. A raised gallery has been erected capable of accommodating about 1,200 persons. Admission to this will be by ticket, and, as a rule on these occasions, will be given almost exclu sively to ladies. A guard of honour from the Grenadier Guards, with their full band, will be drawn up in the station. Outside, in the op►n court-yard, will be an escort of the Life Guards. Her Majesty's state carriages will he sent to receive the imperial guest, the members of the royal family, and the chief members of the suite. The procession which there will fonn will pass into the Strand and thence down Parliament-street, through the Horse Guards, and along the Mall to Buckingham Palace. These thoroughfares will be closed for traffic and the line of route kept by patrols of cavalry, just in the same way as is done when her Majesty goes to open parliament in state. The Sultan is expected to arrive at Charing-crow at about half-past 2, and the speed of the Viceroy's train will be so arranged as to reach the same station almost at the same time. NEW BlBllOPS.—The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced to the directors of the Church Missionary Society that he is prepared to proceed with the consecra tion of a bishop for North China and Japan, the consent of the Foreign-office having been obtained. The gentle man who is designated for the post is the Rev. W. A. Russell, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, who has been for some time • missionary at Ningpo. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel have passed a resolution affirming the necessity which exists for the supply of episco pal ministrations in the north of Europe, and recommending to the Colonial Bishoprics Council the appointment of an Anglican Bishopric at Heligoland. A Bishopric of New Westminster, to be taken out of the diocese of British Columbia, is to be formed, and the Rev. John Footle avaite, M.A., of Trhtityrollve, Cambridge, late incum bent of Couthain, near Redcar, ban been nominated the first bishop, but no time has yet been fixed for his conse cration. THE PARIS EXHIBITION. (run ova smut comuntronnsirr.) Although the festivities are at an end, there is much activity in the exhibition and in connection with it, the competitions are endless, tenon', men, and beasts, and flowers—yesterday the rose; competing for sweetness, to-day the orpheomats are singing against each other. Chess platers, rowers, musicians, ploughmen, horses, dogs, have obeyed the emulative spirit of the year. I On Saturday there was a grand competition among the French orpheonists. Bands .4 them were placed in the palm house, in the reserved garden, in the pavilion of music, in the gre at hothouse, &c.; and the jury—among the members of which are Ambroise Thomas, SainWiaeris, Elwart, Delibes, &c.—went from one plac e to an . other to hear each society. The prizes are to b e 1 1 awarded at the Palais de l'lndustrie during this week. It will be the turn of the nightingales sem. At the seventh flower show, which is just over, M. Margottin, from Bourg-la-reine, carried otr th e prize for roses. He certainly deserves the honour, the roses he exhibits are magnificent in form and brilliancy of colour. Turn we now from roses to dogs. There will be a series of dog races at Billancourt during the first fortnight in August. The dogs which will run are to arrive on the Ist and 2nd of the month. The rail. way companies have granted a reduction of 50 per cent. on the ordinary price charged for animals. The Imperial Commission took the initiative in this matter. I believe this will be the first official exhibition of dogs. The poultry show at Billancourt is over, and hiss been replaced by an exhibition of various specimens of the bovine race, especially those destined to become beasts of burden. The show is very cone plete,'and includes some fine specimens of all breeds of cattle. I think one of the reasons why Billaa court is so deserted is that many persons overrate the difficulty of getting there. But nothing is more easy. There is the railway from the Rue St. Lazare, there are innumerable omnibuses, and steamboats which start every half-hour from the Pont-Royal, and reach Billancourt in three-quarters of anhour. Stillthree-quartersof an hour,tobe spent (14 route to any exhibition, are unpalatable to the Parisians. The Billancourt plan (I described it fully to your readers early in the spring) was com prehenaive and picturesque; and it would have drawn crowds had there beendirect communication between the Champ de Mars and the island. There are, as I have said, conveyances enough ; but they start from wrong points. The distribution of prizes showed that the Americans have the genius of progress. The de velopment of the active resources of the national spirit has secured the United States a high place among industrial nations. The proof lies in the results obtained by the American exhibitors—in the machinery department especially—at this great international contest. Among the remarkable objects figuring in the list of rewards is Patterson's locomotive, which has obtained a gold medal. Then comes the sewing machine, which I think demonstrates the /newts sive views of the Americans as a people. This machine saves a considerable amount of time, and economises bodily health ; and of coons will in time ameliorate the physical condi tion of one of the most important sections of the working class. The inventor, Mr. Elias Howe, has been decorated. This is the first notice that has been taken of him as the inventor of this won derful machine. But now, those he exhibits, which are the original, have been so much im proved upon that he is outrun in the race f superiority, and the sewing-machine exhibited by Messrs. Weed, of Hartford (Connecticut), has obtained a silver medal, as the best in the American department. A gold medal has been awarded to the beat button-hole stitching machine. This section of the American part of the Exhibition is very little known, yet I think it cle• serves a larger share of public attention than it commands. There is a great deal in it that serbes scientific men will study and appreciate at its proper value. Our cousins have done well on the Champ-de-Mars, from the delicious iced sodas dispensed at the American bar of Messrs. Dust, Clark, and Vanwinkle, to the courts behind, while the piano of Chickering discourses sweet music. Foreign soldiers are now allowed to enter the Exhibition without paying their franc at the tourniquet. The coming of the Belgian workmen is announced for next month. All the expenses of their visit are to be defrayed by the commission of encouragement. French chroniquintra are still hard at work, hunting-up what they call the abut of the Imperial Commission's arrangements. The last I grievance is one that was started sonic time ago, and left unredressed. Here it is again. The restaurateurs occupy the whole of the covered outside walk, and people who are not sitting at the cafés are obliged to keep outside the magic circle, either in the heat of a July sun or under a heavy fall of rain. This grievance is as old au the Exhibition, and will, I fear, endure to the 31st of October. During the past week the Sultan has been the chief attraction at the Exhibition. He and his son and nephews have visited it constantly, and have had a taste of Paris mobbing. Among the week's visitors have been the Lord Mayor and the aldermen who are with him. They have been at the Exhibition every day, and have "done' it thoroughly. They stayed two hours in the 95th class. This class, in which much manual skill is shown, is the novelty in industrial exhibi tions. For some days after the distribution of prizes the galleries of the Exhibition presented a very gay aspect. Those exhibitors to whom the international jury had awarded prizes decorated their cases with wreaths and bouquets of &wax rejoicing unreservedly in the new honours that had fallen upon them. A few nights ago the Prince of \Vales was at de Chinese Theatre, and was particularly amused a: the performance of the individual who swallewi sword. M. Arnault, the director of the theatre. s very proud of the honour, and has written b. di Paris papers, begging that the Prince's visit muia be made known. This keen neinag,er saw, le. :- over, the market value of the honour—directly royal highness entered, the price was raised (ea franc and a half to two francs, because a prince s , e in the house. Those persons who enteral the theatre before the Prince had arrived only paid t:a customary , franc and a half. M. Arnault is ir.t Chinese director to be caught napping. He i 5 lOTA fortunate than the poor French Theatre, log fkiti he has conjurors instead of composers. thie of t h e Paris papers has announced that the l ii t e rox.:..T . !al Theatre is about to be re-opened ;is a establishment. I need scarcely out that thl: is rwt. correct. It is simply closed until the I% CO ot another company, under a new direction. The new company is in course of formation, and is ex pected to open the fresh season in the c• in's. i 4 ten days or a fortnight. Until then the theatre %sill he used occasionally as a concert room, tie.: but it is an ill-starred speculation. The mourning is not to keep back at least two sovereigns. The King of Portugal is on his wax the Exhibition. He will reach liere with the queen on the 20th, having made a short stay 111 itru,sels. Their Majesties would have been here earlier but for the court mourning. The newspapers arc full of reetifications and omissions apropos of the prizes awarded. .%11 the Paris journals have reported that. on presenting M. de Losseps with the gold medal f-.r remark . able exhibition of the cutting of the Istlonw Of Suez, the Emperor said to him, •• 1 ant pleased to give you this medal, which you nev i ) deserve." The complete list of the exhibitors to wh , rewards were given will be published ai...111 the 12th of July. It will make a large volume of hundred pages, and will be priced at three francs. I have seen some fac-similes in cardboard of the gold and silver medals which have been a warded in the Exhibition. The inventor of these nega tions has provided the rewarded exhibitors with means of having a fee-simile of their mediately, while they are waiting fur those of t . vernment, which are a long time lerthco ne ;it. 4 4 nerally. Their inventor, M. hinged.:, is at Medal-office, 53, Avenue de la Bourdoimap... medals represent Emperor, with a I flying figures ai which is engraved veral modification they were first atr The exhibitors plaints on every awarded to their i Paris Chamber of turers of Lyons a gold medal was g Commerce, instea4 is all along the li international indu The number of Saturday amounte den, in which th place, was visited lancourt had 1,211 Great crowds, aemble round the The objects of sp manufactured for the Palate fact the Empress. Or grey ground, with The other is a br flowers on a black elt spapers are and cried about tt They are to be obi style of the Bout was first enforced moat welcome refts THE I7SIT OF 2 This morning, I General Reception Co bridge for Gravesend fixed for starting was Swift, a fast steam-vex the Middlesex side. Benjamin Phillips (I Lindsay, Lieut.• Col. hon. secretary. The yes and the present camp played several popular the whole of the coral Swift having been d steadily down the rig numerous spectators. arrived yesterday, wei parture. After maki on board other memb needed direct to Grave Several large steam( Belgians up the river, for the reception of t Arrangement' have b the piers between Lon is calculated the latter o'clock. Mr. Strange, of thi band of the establiahm are concerned, includi left the pier at Runge' intending to acoompan from Gravesend. It may be mentions with them printed pn the visitors on their sr THE LIMIT REPORT OF A PA, The select commi the operation of the iddered the matters to t following resolutions, a the house: "That all companies shareholders within fou traticm of company. 'f formed may, by the me panics already formed carry on business on ti thereof may be responi their means, whilst the parry are liable only I them ; such companie called ' Tba have • portion of thei meander not being so p paid up in full, it el if they think fit, to that the shares may That the seller or sham shares into the name of ceptance of those shares law concerning the mod panics by their agents, s clause 41 of 19 and 20 which a petition for win have power to refer the such county court as it c said court. That a petit company, if presented 6; by one or more sherd allottees of shares or wb giater as shareholders, f months. That compani their capital, or to re,lui to reduce both their cap , lowing conditions :—a. gistrar of joint-stock cor by advertisement or eth of Trade may direct ; e. being creditors of the a Bon, be obtained ; d. ( be discharged ; c. Or CI incapacity of creditors, claims be invested in go the Bank of England in conditions to be app That it is highly desire in by the government in the alterations of the Ls DISTRCASING At -ri An inquest was held at Mondity„ before H . ltlagil Mica Hersey, who was n cumstance detailed in Hersey deposed : I . keep deceased w as m y w i fe. she was 25 year. ol d. 0 William Jackson, a labia came into my tap-room. Edward Strudwick, Char were there. Ctadiony with Jackson. He sail ti tun there ; is she loaded not, and thee that it wea to put the gun down. V, be was quite sober. Coo and pointed it across the say then took it from him looked at the lock. I w.i about three yards from close by the aide of me. !tea the barrel of the me. He said, " There • click as if be cockc meat almost the gun of shot passed into my DM just above his kno went off. I am quite a: bins accidentally. Dr. Ti attended my wife up to eu Sunday morning.—Th, evidence would not suj aa•inst either Jackson could only return • verdu coroner addressed both mended them, telling ti liable, the former fur taki at such • time and &Down recklessly and foolishly weapon, and that be and no law whic h would 'swill Wear Stowe? acre tie. RAILWAY AND °VIZI — Yesterday very little c ommittee' on railway I Painted Chamber commit' lordships further procee which have already been ened period :—The Mid Western Railway (o pa B alls. Their further con until this day (Thursday). Of OMINOUS' committees.