The Express. — London, England, 1868-06-29 00:00:00

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The two hundred and sixty-one clergy- DIM Who have shown that they love justice, not perhaps better than their Church-for between the two there is no conflict but latter than the unfair temporal advantages and ascendancy of their Cliurvli, hots;• displayed no small degree of COUragc, atil h:t•e dm x, them selves proportionate honour by the eouw• which they have taken. The names of some of them were already e TTT i tent by many titles; others which ale less known represent the opening pro ,,f accomplishments, talents, and courage. The first signature to the petition is that of the Dean of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Canter bury. Judged by his literary and thcolog,ieul perfolmances, and mot by his place on the ladder of «elesiastical preferntillt Dean of CANTERBURY holds a higher rank in the Church than his Archbishop, the Primate of All England. A pleasing poet, an agreeable essayist, an ingenious, if not a profound, Philologist, Dean At.ronD has achieved, perhaps, his highest distinction by his commentaries on the Now Testament, in which he has sifted and brought to bear the best contributions of ancient and Infidel -Ft, and esp.( ei ally Germain, scholarship on the illustration of the letter and the spirit, the onu and the substance, of the sacred text. - In presiding, the other day, at the fes tival of the Dissenting College of ekes hunt, Dean At FORD exhibited a charity as ~~ ,-- ti. . THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, ISMS. cothisreheti , iYv Its rho st3v.4• of equity which he hat shown in subscribing a petition for the disestablish ins tit of the Church. Tho name which fol lows is that of Dr. MONTAGU Be-resit, who fills now the of which was filled a generation aim's by the Archbishop Of Corn:it:teas. The steady and well-proved Liberalism of Dean ELLion% of Bristol, has not been wanting to the demand. Mr. CHARLES KINGSLEY has naleemed some re cent mistakes, and has exhibited once nor' the courage and manliness which were habitual before he became a courtier, a court prettelter, and a uni‘ersity Bon, by attaching his mono to the' prnyt r of a petition which excited peers donee:ice as sacrilegious, and which they endeavour to re present as wounding to the GITEEN'S conscience, and to hint at us u forfeituro of the Royal favour. The deep and true moral sense of Mr. Kulosiers master in theology and philosophy has saved Pro fessor MAURICE from the meshes which hit own too subtle morel casuistry is apt sometimes to entangle him, and lo is name appears on the list. Professor Jowrer's prof I appreciation of the ethical side of Christianity, and lois philo sophical superiority to clamour, prejudice, and s'Llispry, mule his signature to the petition 3 undter of course. His friend and ally, Dr. Trsori.u. the head master of Rugby, is by his side. 113. name of the biographer of Rotolo:Nom of Brighton is there also: and Mr. Sroevotto 81333: E displays, not for the first time, a count ge and an eaniestness worthy of that which he reverently and affectionately re cords. The signature of Mr. F. W. FARRAR, who unites in some degree the gifts of the author of " Toni Brown " and the author of the " Science " of Language" follows that of Mr. LLEWELLYN DAVIES, the ablest of the younger represen tatives of the Cambridge School of Theo logy and Philosophy ; and precedes that of the Rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, to whose fearless energy unsectarian middle-class education in London, and other good causes, owe so much. Archdeacon SANDFORD, of Coventry, who has given many proofs that he prefers truth and justice to the supposed interests and real preju dices of his order; Professor PLusrrax, of King's College, the graceful and scholarly interpreter of SOPROCLES, and himself a pure and true poet, and a deep theologian, has given proof that he has learned from the ecclesiastical history which he teaches the lesson of ecclesias tical justice. Mr. FREMANTLE, the chaplain of the Bishop of LONDON, has shown himself wiser and more discerning than his episcopal chef ; the Rector of St. Augustine and St. Faith keeps alive the hereditary repute for liberality and fair ness which belongs to the name of MILMAN while Mr. HorGUTON, the Rector of Preston on the Wild Moors, whose contributions to Dr. Sisrrs's Dictionary have cleared up many dark points with regard to the natural history of the Bible, represents the scientific culture of the clergy. These names, and others scarcely less deserving special comme moration, show that the best intellect of the clergy enters a good appearance in the list of petitioners : theological learning, philosophy, scholarship, science, poetry, and imagina tive literature, have their representatives. Some mortification cannot but be felt by their admirers at the fact that the names of the Dean of WESTMUSFER and the Dean of St. Palm's do not acoompany those of the Dean of CANTERBURY and the Dean of BRISTOL. Conscientiously we do not doubt, but acting, we can as little doubt, under the influence of a conscience misled by ecclesias tical prepossessions. Dr. STANLEY and DR. MILMAN are, for the first time in their lives, actively ten dering or withholding their help from a great work of civil and ecclesiastical justice, and of healing imperial policy. It is little that they stand aloof from their party both in Church and State. They have for the nonce cast aside its principles ; for the question is not now, as to the mode in which equality shall be established in Ireland, but whether equality shall be established or ascendancy shall be preserved. Dean STANLEY is practically supporting Mr. NEWDEGATE, Lord ENNISKILLEN, and the Orange Lodges. Ho pre fers the old mumpainate of a plan which every Liberal politician except Lord GREY has aban doned, and which in Ireland is as obsolete as the custom of tanistry, to the new eumpaimue of dis establishment. Happily, even his great influence and virtues are thrown away in such a cause. The danger he fears forthe Church in England is unreal. The existence within its fold of men to whom simple justice and sound policy are dearer than oligarchical ascendancy and ec clesiastical privilege, is proof of its harmony with the mind of the nation. Of these men, the aignataries of the clerical petition for the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland are but a sample. The sympathies of many are with those with whose names, for various reasons, their own arc not associated. THE SALE OF POISONS. WE have already explained the character of the bill to regulate the sale of poisons and extend the Pharmacy Act of 1862, which has passed the House of Lords, and which is now before the House of Commons. Its promoters seek to protect the lives of the public by improving the qualifications of the druggist. But an attempt was made in the House of Lords to introduce a clause enforcing the use of a bottle of peculiar form for various poisons mentioned in the schedule of the bill, and there is still some agitation in favour of the plan. We think the idea a foolish one. Why should peculiar, say three-sided or triangular, bottles alone be used ? Why not triangular pots, jars, drawers, cupboards, casks, bags, and boxes ? Why not pyramidal opium pills and triangular pestles and mortars ? A man was once killed through swallowing saltpetre in mistake for Epsom salts, an accident which would probably have been prevented had the druggist taken the article from a triangular compartment and wrapped it as a three-cornered parcel ; but is every trades man who deals in saltpetre to be put to endless trouble and inconvenience to avoid the possible con sequences of such a case of carelessness ? Then how shall we define the substances for which these vessels are to lx' employed ? What is a poison ? Powerful poisons are excellent medicines in natal quan tities, and most medicine+ become poisonous when taken in large quantities, therefore poison relates to quantity rather than materiel. The quantity which is poison to a child may be medicine to a man or poison to the same man under different circum stances. So that for the broad purposes of legis lation the compounds for which poison vessels are to be constructed cannot be defined. Nor would a schedule of substances to be deemed poisons for the purposes of theproposed triangular pot-and-bottle clause remove the difficulty. The exigencies of trade require that some of the worst poisons should be omitted from such a schedule. Hence a dangerous lotion would often be placed in the safety-bottle and a harmless medicine in a danger-bottle. The angularity of a vessel would not, moreover, prevent a druggist, his porter, a I servant, a nurse, or a patient, from mistaking a bottle contacting a weak poison from one eontsin ing strong, or a poisonous quantity being swal loe cd itudesd of a proper dose. As a generatrule, We believe that invalids would rather not know that the draughts they arc taking include what is isniventionally termed poison. it is also un do Hirable that every evil-disposed person that may he attached to a household should be re minded by the shape of a bottle that something dangerous to health, if not life, is always at hand. To propose that the shape or surface of a bottle :hunk! preserve us from the consequences of not n tiding a label, is to propose that the sense of thud, should supersede that of sight. To supple mc nt, if not override, common sense and the faculties of observation and reflection by media- Meal contrivances of questionable merit, is a prin ciple at once retrogressive and mischievous. 7'111.1 I:11"ER C.IM Tr. is monotonous r, malt of the great Annual is.aat-tace lets led influential people, intere4el in the lTn:v( may of Cambridge, to examine ',kilo .( phically into the came of its continued defeat.. The River Cana is deelared to be the pr:mipal ofta nder. Toa narrow and too shallow for flicient practice- too full of sharp bends and tunas for the long light boasts now in use—so choked un by foul woods and an obnoxious nand-bank as to make it disagreeable for pulling and dangerous to the health of the town—the Cam seems to have de generated into a useless unpleasant stream, placing those rowing on it at a sure and positive disadvantage with the votaries of the Isis. But the Cambridge local authorities are determined to improve their river, and the meeting hold at St. James's Hall last Saturday showed that their efforts will be handsomely sup ported elsewhere. When a bishop, a judge, members of parliament, scientific authorities, and well known advocates concur in proclaiming the importance of boating and the necessity of en couraging it at Cambridge, we have at least evi dences of a wide-spread public interest in what may be called a national sport. On Saturday it was announced that Mr. HAWILSILAW, the eminent engineer, has offered his services to secure the im provement and purification of the river Cam. Lord Justice SELWYN, Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, Bishop SELWYN, and Mr. GEORGE DENMAN all ex pn.-4sed their sympathy, and promises of assist ance have been received from old Cambridge men in all parts of the country. Lord Justice SELWYN said, in disproof of the alarmists who stigmatise rowing as injurious, that, " although it was 33 " years since his crow had finished at the head of " the river, yet all the members of it were alive ;" and the Bishop insisted upon the moral and spiri tual advantages to be derived from boating practice, declaring that, in his own gib he had been made a more useful man by his Vlulgenee in the healthful sport. From 2,3001. to 3,0001. are said to be required to put the Cambridge river right, and it is proposed to raise this by subscrip tion, in order that Mr. Hawasnaw's recommenda tions, and the public spirited efforts of the local committee, may be promptly carried out. WIIEN Mdlle. SCIENNIDER made her first appear ance in this country, she was advised to tone down some of those startling peculiarities in her acting which had characterised her performances at the Theatre des Varietes and the Chatelot in Paris. As nearly all the crowned and uncrowned heads in England, to say nothing of the female aristo cracy, were present on her opening night, she made love to the loutish soldier with a little more delicacy than usual, and omitted to dance the can-can at the close of the second act. The delicacy of her acting may or may not have been appreciated ; but the omission of the now fashionable improper dance was almost resented by alarge and distinguished portion of the audience. She was called on again, but still refused to dance with more extravagance than any young lady might exhibit with propriety in a ball-room, whereupon a loud cry of discontent arose from the middle of the stalls as the feet of the actress were barely raised above the footlights. These and similar demonstrations have encouraged her to show all her native liveliness at subsequent representations, and have taught her that foreigners in England are very much the same as foreigners at home. IT is expected that the Duke of ARGYLL, who resumes the debate in the House of Lords this evening, will be followed by the Bishop of OXFORD, after whom Earl RUSSELL will probably speak. If the Low) CHANCELLOR replies, the debate may close at once; but another adjourn ment is not impossible. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Kit st deal to lei said against tie iiiiumer, the time, the psr uns, and the circuits:Unties. lint such an argument loads to the perilous conclusion that a multitude of particulars, quite out of the mimeo of a measure, may he urged almitist it from time to titno with fatal efficacy, howiivor :accts./try the sec a=ura may be, and however certain to It, carried eventually. This takes real legislation, or, rather, it liould be said, national history, end the coudaet of LI nation, altogether out of the province of reason and dull betation, and consigns it to the haserd of eircumstancet and the influence of the merest trifles. The functions their lordships are exercising on this occasion is the veto, not the revising and correcting power; and upon this veto the nest step to be taken is by a new body of repm emitatives from a newly created constituency. Surely the wisdom of our hereditary law-givers might hit ou sem third course, not quite eo brusque, peremptory. and defiant. It is quite evident, however, that if the lords tiro to be utterly committed on this question, so also will the saw 1101110 of Commons be. The Post reviews the debate in respect of its legal, ts,litical, and religious bearings. Admitting that it is not easy to draw a lino between the conflicting opinion i held upon those points, our contemporary in riat, that the pc pie have a perfectly legal right to have the full Is or fit of their church propyrty, if it be church property, that it is for the English people, who bold them to the union, to do them justice. Thu principle on winch the Fstablii bed Church in Ireland is being vindicated tern ever be made the afeguard or the bulwark of any public institution. FOREIGN N E W S. (THIS DAY.) THE RUSSIAN VICTORY AT BOK IlAitA. Censith ruble excitement was occa ;toned at. Cal cutta by tbe aunouneeinent that the Ras:bile; it.o defeated the Bokbarians under the walls of the capital. and slain the Anwer. The Esy/islimaii of May 23 usierta that tit^ catastrophe has Iss•ri brought about by the folly of the Ameer himself. Whether moved by the reimeientationi of the Sultan of Turkey, or by the warlike prepl,rition4 of Yahoo') Klioosh Beg,i, or by a feeling tlt.at tli •y bud advanced too quickly and too fur, the Itueiixas had begun to withdraw their forces fr and concentrate them on one of their ea:lie c in quests, Kliodjend, in the Kbanate of 1(111k:tad. 'lbis HAM 'II tent was, however, 111110 tudonitood by t h Amer, who seems to have looked upon the r..t ire ment of the troop.; at Djizak, and otl•rpla :•••; in hi, &minions, as a fair oppirtimity of cover:ii 1.:a• Russian iumm with disgrace, for s •;,:ag away inNuders to whom the Sat.; were 1. , gn to look for protection and cisip!oymPrit. 11 , :ut • 11.• gave enders which led to the preaellitig of a jehld, but mum:mine( d of the Ittuv,iart wealcnes.4, Ii lie 4i tattd for a while to place himself at the heal of the outbreak he bud instigated. Whilst a straggle tnsued in eonmequence between himmdf an d the chiefs of the surrounding tribes, the Russians halted their battalions, faced about, and marched upon Bokhara, convinced that they must either educe the Ameer to a state of vassalage, or find themselves the centre of a seething sea of fanaticism. The slightest mistake, the bare sus picion of misfortune, would have raised against them every tribe from the Ores to Orenburgh. Their course was prompt and decisive, and mot with a successful result. The blow thus delivered will, says the Englishman, "echo through every Mussulman home in Asia." The Friend of India thinks the death of the Amcor will not prove to be of much advantage to the Russians ; but, on the contrary, would not be surprised should they hereafter be subjected to a kind of guerilla warfare. The fall of the Aineer of Bokhara will probably induce a new enemy to take the field ; and Russia may find herself en gaged in active hostilities with Yakoob Koosh Begs. _ _ THE INAUGURATION OF THE LUTHER MONUMENT AT WORMS. The inauguration of the monument which was uncovered on the 25th instant at Worms, to com memorate the great work and to perpetuate the memory of Martin Luther, attracted groat crowds to the town. Two days before tho festival 2,500 ecclesiastics, or official delegates, had arrived. The influx of strangers so far exceeded the anticipations of the council and the accommodation of the city that the neighbouring towns of Frankenthal, Os thofen, Mayence, Spires, and even Mannheim had to be called in to supply the overflow. Wed nesday was occupied with the official reception of deputations. On Thursday the bells commenced to ring at half-past 5; at half-past 8 a procession was formed at the Magnus Kirche ; at 9 there were religious services and sermons ; at a quarter past 11 the procession started from St. Andrew's square to the monument ; and at 2 o'clock the monument was uncovered, in the midst of great joy and salvoes of artillery. In the afternoon there was a dinner of 3,000 persons, sermons, receptions, and a display of Bengal fireworks over the statues. On Friday the Paulus of Men delssohn was given. The funds for the monument have been in course of collection for twelve years, and the sum realised amounts to nearly 13,0001. Amongst the sub scribers are 47 crowned heads. The King of Prussia took the leading part in the ceremony. The King of Wurtemburg, the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar and Hesse, Prince William of Baden, and the Prince Royal of Prussia were also pre sent. THE UNSER XONUZIECT ♦T WOBILS. The Daily News says that if the fellow country men of Luther bad no other title to the everlasting grati tude of mankind, their conflicts and sufferings for religious liberty—the protracted agony not of a few heroic souls, but of whole communities, and of more than one genera tion, of martyrs—are their all-sufficient charter, written ineffaceably in characters of blood and tame. It is well that at a moment when the church and court of Rome are pretending to cast humanity back into the darkness from which Luther delivered it, the catholic world should be made to see how the work of her rude excommunicated monk has grown and prospered. Let the catholic world bear witness to the results of ex communication, and ask itself whether the bettor portion of the world is in the hands of those States and nations which still acknowledge the supremacy of the Pope, or of those which have accepted and developed the doctrines of Luther. A monument to Luther, observes the rases, was uni versally felt to be a monument to German genius, and it was not without reason, perhaps, that its erection was put off for three centuries and a half, till, indeed, Germany had at last become Germany. It was when the harvest was garnered in that justice could best be done to the sower of the seed. The heart of the German nation was, on Wednesday, with Luther, with King William of Prussia, and with the few princes who stood around him. It should have been a day of truce for all local and dynastic antipathies. If the princes bad been wise, they would have treated the uncovering of the Luther monu ment as an event of mere historical interest. Any political significance that party spirit may give it, can only assist that principle of unity which Prussian ascendancy has already so greatly developed. The Star remarks that, although Luther's memory needs DO monument, or formal monument, at all in Germany, it is a grateful and appropriate deed to commemorate the great turning point of his life's history on its very scene of action. The word Protestant, which has lost so much of its significance in our age, and is hardly now under stood at all to mean what it meant at the time of the con ference of Augsburg, exactly represented the nature of Luther's reform, the revelation of which Germany became the scene, and of which Luther was the spirit. His pro test was the protest against hierarchical tyranny and its executioner, the arm of the state, and in days like ouss it may he well to remember this. THE LORDS ON THE TERM CHURCH. Reviewing the debate in the House of Lordi on the Irish church question, the Time* says that the sum total of the line of argument taken in opposition to the Suspensory Bill, and the utmost value of the decision made upon it, on the most favourable estimate, ►.that there is a THE EXPLOSION AT QITENAST. The Indt'pendance Beige of yesterday says : It would be difficult to give an idea of the desolated aspect of the place where the catastrophe occurred. The trees are without a single leaf ; their branches nod trunks torn or split, and the crops to a large extent are covered with the debris of stones, bricks, iron, and wood, which the force of the explosion carried to a great distance. The vast and solid structure by the aide of which the explosion took place was literally pul verised in the space of a second. There is not one whole brick left. Enormous beams have been hashed up, and others have been hurled to an incredible distance. The shop contained working materials and iron machines. Iron was also employed to a large extent in its construction. The whole of it was bent, twisted, and sent flying over the country. We have seen an enormous bolt fixed several inches in the trunk of a poplar tree at a distance of more than 100 metres from the place of the accident; also what was once a tie-beam twisted round the trunk of another poplar like a bracelet. The bodies of two sawyers who had been working at a distance from the shop were found without any clothes. As to the eight persons who were engaged in discharging the nitro-glycerine, not a trace has been found of any one beyond a piece of flesh, a shred of clothes, or a button. A fragment of a skull with long black hair attached to it was picked up and recognised as that of M. Grillot. A five-franc piece, bent and burnt, was also found. The 1,800 kik*. of nitro-glycerine which exploded had an expansive force equivalent to 200,000 kilos. of powder, and was sufficient to blow up the entire city of Brussels. (nrEouow Rzu=les AomrcY.) THE WRECK OF THE BENARES. SHANGHAI, Joys 8. All the treasure and twenty-three bales of silk have been saved from the Benares. The Ellora is still by the wreck. Some hopes are entertained of saving the Benares and the remainder of the cargo. The silk has been much damaged by the salt water. AMERICA. NEW YORK, JUNE 28. The Inman royal mail steamer City of London arrived here at noon to-day. All well. DEATH OF PROFESSOR IiATTEUCCI.—The papers record the death of Professor Matteuoci on Friday morning last at Florence after a short illness. The de ceased was an Italian senator and minister of public in struction, in which capacity he was very active in pro moting the extension of education. But he was better known as a man of science than as a politician or a minister. Ho obtained in 1844 the prizes of the French Academy of Sciences and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society for his investigations in electro-physiology. His " Lectures on Physics," passed through four editions. He published also " A Manual of Telegraphy." " A Treatise on Eleetro-physiological Phenomena," " Elements of Electricity as applied to the Arta," " Lectures on the Physico-chemical Phenomena of Living Bodies; " which has been translated into English and French. Hu was reporter of the bill which conferred the title of King of Italy on Victor Emmanuel, and of that which declared the annexation of the Two Sicilian to the Italian kingdom. He succeeded Mamiani as minister of public instruction in 1862. A meeting of " distinguished Roman catholic ladies," with Cardinal Cullen at their head, has been held in Dublin, to take measures for raising funds for supporting the Papal army. Among the patronesses of this movement are the Lady Mayoress, the Marchioness of Londonderry, the Countess of Portarlington, the Countess of Grauard, Lady Mauch, Lady Bellew, Lady Burke, 10. TIIII lIIIRNIANB IN DOMUARA. Obi , ervlng that the Russians now appear to be master; of Bukhara. as well as of Slimarcand, and that the black and white Sag is advanced beyond the Caspian and Aral Seas to cities which have nothing between them and British India but Afghanistan—the Telegraph proceods to argue that this advance of Rusin is merely an excellent thing for civilisation, and in no wise menacing to British India. We have in Afghanistan a natural barbican or frontier fortress. It defends us against Persia for a religious reason, because the Persians are all Shiites and the Afghans all Soonite Moslem; and, as these bate each other almost as badly as rival Christian sects, Persian intrigue is paralysed beyond Herat. The Afghan always hates the power or the prince in possession ; so that we have merely to keep out of the Khyber Pass to be the popular and desirable name. But, for imperial and military reasons our position is perfect while we do not go beyond the Indus. There we are " at home ;" the Russian when he came to the river would be "in the air." The entire force of our eastern empire can be marshalled at that natural line : for Russia it would be at the extremity of her organisation, and defeat would be catastrophe. JODI'? MCC OMPANLEB—MAREHOLDEZB AND MEMOS& The Daily News observes that shareholders seem at last to have been aroused from the apathy which allowed their property to be brought to the brink of ruin, and have to a large extent abandoned usolese declamation for the more practical purpose of criticising management and looking into accounts. It cannot be denied that directors have in many cases fared ill from this unwelcome scrutiny. Abuses have been laid bare, jobberies prevented, and, worse than all, a spirit of independence has been awakened, productive of both irritation and alarm. On the other hand, as one extreme begets another, there is a strong probability that shareholders will be inclined to push their power too far. Shareholders must not exact too much, and directors must not evade fair inquiry. They are confidential stewards, paid for their services ; but while keeping in prudent reserve their daily mode of busi ness, it must no longer be felt that they are advancing their own interests beyond that of their proprietaries, and creating suspicion by unnecessary mystery or refusals to reply. Cu Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Jost: 27. The Queen went out in the grounds yesterday afternoon, and afterwards went out driving with Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Louise. The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Colonel the Hon. Augustus Liddell and the Hon. Eliot Yorke, arrived at the Castle last night after dinner ; his Royal Highness having arrived at Portsmouth in her Majesty's ship Galatea in the morning. The Queen, accompanied by the Princesses, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, met his Royal Highness at the entrance to the Castle. His Royal High ness arrived in very good health. Prince Louis of Hesse returned from London to Windsor Castle lest evening with the Duke of Edinburgh. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, went out in the grounds this morning. Princess Louis of Hesse went out driving. Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park. The Duke of Edinburgh went to Frogmore, and visited the Prince and Princess Christian. His Royal Highness afterwards went to London, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke. The Duchess of Buccleuch arrived at the Castle yester day, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. AWE 28. The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and Prince Leopold. Princess Louis of Hose and Princess Louise went out driving. Prince Arthur, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle yesterday. The Queen, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince and Princess Christian, Prin cess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. H. P. Liddon preached the sermon. Prince and Princess Christian remained at the Castle to luncheon. The Duke of Richmond arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. ?Jailor-General Simmons, C. 8., has also arrived at tho Castle. The Princess of Wales, attended by Vlsountoss Walden, drove out on Saturday. Mr. Philip Westoott had the honour of submitting some pictures for the inspection of the Prince of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales, and the Crown Prince of Denmark, with Viscountess Walden, General Sir William Knollys, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, and Captain Lund, attended Divine service at Westminster Abbey yesterday. The Duke of Edinburgh arrived at Clarence House on Saturday, from Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness rode out, accompanied by the Prince of Teck ; and in the even ing, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke, went to the St. James's Theatre. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg- Strelitz arrived at St. James's on Friday afternoon from the continent. Lady Caroline Cast, Baron de Lube, and Baron de Both are in attendance upon their Royal High nesses. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Tree- sury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were :—The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandoe, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. North cote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Richmond, and Lord J. Manners. Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal High nesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, is expected to leave Windsor Castle to-morrow week, the 7th July, for Osborne, when the royal circle will be joined by Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. Her Majesty, it is un derstood, contemplates a visit to Germany after leaving Osborne, and will be accompanied by several members of the royal family. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has subscribed fifty guineas to the fund now being raised to purchase an annuity for the widow of the late Mr. Wil liam Dargan. "It is not," says the letter from General Knollys, "the practice of his royal highness to lend his name to public subscriptions in favour of a private indi vidual ; but the special circumstances attending the pre sent case, the Prince feels, are sufficient to warrant the deviation from the rule." ot; it PA Itis LET I•EiL THE MA MLLE. (vLsit owl OWN (:OURFAI•ON 1,%:•/ r ) TIIV FigOrn mtst,tod ye,414.1113,y 4;! 4: 441 priarod tan ,ivening in the M31);11.• 41: 1 . 1114, and ti ut bo did not ini.-ot a sin,e. The vi . norablo and humorous Ilroton II 1 , to 11 , 0 b'iguro s wiry material ~ L., „• thim int.•lligenno in t.l . f dated from tlatt Corp: 11:t. Figaro. so ring in thn romtnani,rtti .a t' , •• " ~, 4 41,10, prints it in the with w r. , 11 r , .111, 1:1.(.11 it I,y goverrm•nt. M. (;:a.....; that luiviii;.; on ti. it•Ly T i • , ttimer party in the A Venn., whinh (hil not tweak up till .t.1:;.,t• " pa < cd tilt. vv iut6 12. (hi hi.. way hom:•. • . .ri•,...t • ,it r itn Lit.:r, to d in :,t 1:(Ai;•11 of 1:114 . .i• 3 4.f .M.llans•niothn.'"l . . :0( (I 4/11., so tar a; M. (.1a ;a4v.llly 18 el /Tivcrzwii. :nrioleysly go to Mal);11.•, Lera of I:mli:um:at, in forunT , times to go, a little (mac sly, p , t and, as they now do, to Cre ))))) I;;, ; wisher to the liberal cause in Fran-, I 1, lamenting that such a doughty elecul, .:..d Blain-Bizoin should waste energy I.y :t.' 1. empire on a point where it is not v ,iu ar able. There is no eonnexity whatever . Ilaussmann's extravagant I`Xplalliall1•• tionB and rebuildinga and the 3lahille gaiden4. It ,„ more extravagant still to say that you wed to Mabille to understand tho full niemliu .Y. Pinard's law, which prohibits absolutely politi, 4 . or religious meetings," and that it was by insti tutions like Mabille that Cenmar August 1.:v..4 the way for Tiberius Nero and Cai-;walla. ThiA wild declamation quite unworthy of a legislator. Mabille is no imperial " It exibted in the time of Louis Philippe ;old oi the Republic of 124124; NV;LS as much frequented 111 those times as it is uow, the charaeter of the coin- pany and of the dancing was essentially th , ' name, and, cetrris paribio, making allowance for the notoriously increased extravagams, of the age, the toilettes of the wh, always frequented the place were just out rageous as now. lam quite sure that if the E lii . peror bad shut up MLabillc with a strum; hind M Glais-Bizoinandhisfriendswouldhac, eriedunuhr another liberty was suppressed, and probahly tle•T would have cited Paul Louis Cuurier'i " Les jounes fines qu'on empechn de (haver." T..• empire has sins enourh to answer for, bu'. it is tei hard to put upon its back manners and . which have existed in Paris from time iintnisire rial, and which, I apprehend, would om ii us ,• t. exist under a republican goveniment to-morrow notwithstanding M. Glais-Bizoin's assumption • puritanical virtue. Statistics of vice, like ...I statistics, require to be closely scrutinised if • • would not be misled by them. I am nut that vice, whatever may be th e curs', present a more brazen face under the empire the. it did twenty years ago. But it is in gar; , . carriages in the Bois de Boulogne, and - tain salons deemed reputable, that the change the worse must bo studied, nut in such an old notorious bastringtie as the Jardin The Queen of Portugal, who arrived in P.r yesterday evening from Italy, has gone to spent few days with her sister, the Princess Clotilde. the Chiteau de Ileuclon. The Earl of Zetlana entertained at (limier •• Saturday evening, at his residence in Arlin ton- : Piccadilly, the Archbishop of Canterbury and M•-• • Icy, the Duke of Devonshire, Viscount and V, Stratford de Redcliffe and Hon. Mis.s Caunin.z, T. •• Lady de Tabley, the Right Hon. the Speiker iind 1. • t m Ladhe er m , y M argoth r. Charlotte Denison, Sir Roundell Palmer, M.l'., awl •• uaoisnanof:Bizrseet.nieL,llLodn:rdLodFun":ll&Liit:4ii • Colonel North, M.P., and Baroness '.North. • • Lat Lo ert rd uainra an edP d al Percy, Lord and Lady Churchill, Lord and Lele T. _ of Oxford, General the Right Hon. J. and Lwlr.• Peel, General the Right Hon. Cecil Weld Foe.nter, e.. the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Lindsay, Sir limes Fergu- General Doyle, Captain Seymour, Me, Bra , e, qtr. T son, &c., at dinner, on Saturday, at tilt Arlington-street, Piccadilly. On Saturday night the Duchess of Mirilr.l , ll: l bad an assembly at the family mansion, in St. Jars , — square. Previously to the reception, the noble L ,o 1 sident of the Council and the duchess entertained the ll :ii of Rutland, the Duchess of Buckingham and Ch eels. Marchioness of Abercorn and Lady Alberti's the Earl of Portarlington, the Earl and COUTII ,I Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Macclesfield. Countess Vane, Viscount Hill, Viscount Newport, M F Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Sir Bainald Knight: Bert., M.P., Mr. Christopher Sykes, MP., ttc., at (tun: Hie Excellency the Councillor de Arias, the Brazilian Minister, hail an interview .1..1 Lord Stanley, at the Foreign-office, on Saturday. Despatches were received on Friday at !: Colonial-office, from the governors of Gibraltar, Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena. Doe -I were sent on Friday to the governors of Gihraltu, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, and the Straits Settlem.••• , and on Saturday, to the Governor-General of Caw-. and to the Governor of British Columbia. The Royal Commission o n Military F,ducation le its first meeting at the Wa r-office on Satunlay. Preseo Earl de Grey and Ripo n (president), Lord Eastace Lord de Bois Lord Northbrook, Sir Cliarb•s Ita • Bart., Lieutenant-General Sir Duncan Cans.ron, (l Lefroy, Colonel Ilaythorne, the Rev. W. C. Lake, and Lieutenant Hozier o A course of experiments on gunpow.l other explosive mixtures is about to comm. le wich under the direction of the Urdu:owe S.l. mittee. Experiments against the Plymouth P•• • Fort at Shoeburyness will probably be day next, when the casemates will be i,ubp • tical are from a 13-inch mortar. Lieutenants Nolan and Chapman, Artillery, the officers specially uttiched Mountain Battery in Abyssiuia, awl n i. • Woolwich a few day s a g o, g ive some int, .. •••• of the effects of the tire from these little ,on. " said to have been most destructive, Boxer shrapnell The Orangemen of Ulster are preparilig f • July anniversaries with m om than usual i.., " grand Orange demonstration" will be h. J' willing," on the Ist of July at LiAbuni. T • increased importance it is announced, ai if an ordinary concession, that the Grand Lodgo of has sanctioned the demonstration. Its objects .in • • to be—l, to petition the Queen ;2, to declare thei r to support and defend the Protestant religions` wl is tions of the country ; and 3, to Pronounce th,tr. Processions Act. All Orangemen and other Pro are invited to attend , and deputations iron _ " and Scotland have promised to take part " • ceedings. Some mortars captured atMagdala ' l3 , Gosport ; also some Abywonian dogs of s curioui The French Ambassador has engaged t hB couieri Villa at Frascati for the summer, where ha 1 0 ' tilled his position against brigands with goo d r d ifi arms for his household, a military garrison of fou so ldiers, and a patrolling parkof Papal 0° 1 ;4 The villa is delightfully situated, and it is t 4 bd _j that the Count de flartiges will enjoy his Shred Pr villeggiatwra. • pEl't TO Th Chuff Arch'. the fi ay cc I rrimr .4 oorgl Oltit .I.arg n 1114 nin th. • Ki M. % who they Sur Wo Eat Cu NCI lh th te: Wi H. AB th,