The Express. — London, England, 1868-06-18 00:00:00

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NOTICE . lidwer ns regwatea to - t Oa k —a their Post-oleos °Merl payable to kr. JOSIAH •aautirox, Post,callos. Pleat-Arlet, NOTIORO of BOUTIN, WAINIUMIIta, and DRATIM in Reeked until U recionk for insertion same mains. Prise ft. Id. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING Ile Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting. and General Intelligence, IS PUDLIBRID EVERY EVENING. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 18. MR. DISRAELI AMONG THE MERCHANT T AY LORS. Me. tonnuatt's irrepressible Protestantism has burst forth anew. He has been addressing the Merchant TaylOrs, who could 'not be more pa triotic and 'constitutional if they were the three tailors of Tooley-atree'. There is a "Vie, the " people of England" tone about the whole of the proceedings which is not a little amusing. It would be absurd to regard Mr. Insaaszt, in his present political position, as the re presentative of a ( &use. The cause is the weapon with which, and not the object for which, the battle is fought. He is an example of the victory which resolute self-will, fertility of resource, and intellectual superiority may gain over the most serious obstacles. In one of that remarkable seriee of novels, which are the fullest re velations of his genius and character, Mr. DrsitAzu makes Sidonia tell how on high business of State be visited St. Petersburg, and found in the Russian THE EXPRESS, ISURSDAY EVENING, TUNE 18, 1868. Minister of Finance, Count °ARNIM. the son of a Lithuanian Jew. From Russia he repaired to Spain, and saw at Madrid, in the Spanish Minister, Senor Mxtrnimeat, the son of a Nuevo Chris tiano, a Jew of Arragon. Fraiii Madrid Rs sped to Paris, and in Marshal Bout?, the President of the Council, he recognised the eon of a French Jew. Thence to Berlin, and when the Prussian Minister entered the Cabinet, lo and behold ! Count ARNIM, a Prussian Jew. To be able to add MR name to the list of the intellectual triumphs of a higher over a lower organisation—of a pure race of the Caucasus over the mongrel breeds of the North—bas been his aspiration through life. In prophetic vision, Mr. DISRAELI doubtless beholds the day when some future historian of his people shall narrate how, in 1868, the PRIME MINISTER of England was Nuevo Chris tiano, the son of a Jewish man of letters; and how, by the force of Eastern suppleness axd keenness, he led the fat and stagnant-wittod squires of England. Wo believe that Mr. DISRAELI'S patriotism is sincere, but it is the patriotism of • Jew rather than an Englishman. The home of his affections is in Palestine. The assumption by him of the political Protestantism of the old English type is a gro- . torque incongruity. Mr. DISRAELI narrates in " Coningsby " how during the persecution of the Jews in Spain, many Hebrews conformed to Roman Catholicism. The Sidonias became Nuevos Chris linnet, ; and their family gave several prelates, an Archbishop of Toledo, and a Grand In quisitor to the Church—all of whom, as Mr. DURUAEu remarks, with evident pride, secretly adhered to the ancient faith and ceremonies of their race--a belief in the unity of Gon of Tetuan, and the rites and observances of the laws of Moses. " No sooner," says the author of " Coningsby," " was Sidonia established, than ho professed " Judaism, which TOIMIIRMADA flattered him " self that he had drained out of the veins of his " family more than throe centuries ago. He sent " over, also, for several of his brethren, who " were as good Catholics in Spain as Fee " DINAND and IsAnELLA could have desired, but who " made an offering in the synagogue for their " safe voyageon their arrival in England." Doubt less, if the Sidonias bad boon English. and not Spanish Jews, they would have been Archbishops of Canterbury and Prime Ministers of the purest Protestant type. The Marrano inn-keeper of " The Spanish Gipsy," the Jew by birth but Catholic by profession, Warranted Christian, else how kocp an inn, Which calling asks true faith? is a proof that there were Crypto-Hebrews in the taverns as well as in the cathedrals and palaces of Spain. It may be an improper scepticism, but we have been unable to read Mr. DISRAELI'S Protestant manifesto to the Merchant Taylors without think ing of the Marrano inn-keeper in Geosos Emox's poem, and of the Sidonias who were Arch bishops of Toledo and Grand Inquisitors. We picture to ourselves some future offering in the Synagogue. Mr. DISRAELI'S protestantism is too protestant. Like the lady in hamlet he protests too much. We feel that it would be as easy for the accomplished actor to use, in appro priate scenery and costume, language which would admirably suit the Archbishop of Toledo or the Grand Inquisitor of Spain if PaoviDzatca had cast that part to Mr. DISRAELI in the drama of history. Regarded in any other light than that of an histrionic display, Mr. Dutaxem's per formance of yesterday evening does not seem to us to deserve the applause which in that view it is certainly entitled. He appears to have absorbed, in his own person, the spirits and character of the late Lord BUTE, the late Lord GEORGE GORDON, and the late Faaaous O'Cortiroa. His speech was pure MURPHYD3II, translated into the language and adapted to the tastes of the upper classes. Mr. GATHORNE HARDY ought to look after the Pro t, scant lecturer of the Merchant Taylors' Hall with as much care as after the Protestant lecturer of B!rmingham and Preston. There is no doubt which of the two is the more dangerous incendiary. The destruction of the Supremacy of the Crown, the abolition of religious liberty, the dis couragement of Protestantism over Europe, the subversion of property, beginning with the pro perty of the Merchant Taylors, for which Mr. Dts %%ELT, should Mr. GLADSTONE take office, would not give more than a year's purchase—these are a few of the calamities which Mr. DISRAEL/ sees pending over the world. Against them there are three safe-guards ! PRovmmes, Mr. DISRAELI, and the residuum. The now constituencies will be required, as their first political act, to decide whether they will subvert or whether they will sustain the constitution of their country—by which Mr. DISRAELI means the Irish Established Church. " I confess (says the PRIME MINISTER) that " I cannot resist recognising the hand of " PRovthntres in this awful dispensation. I " cannot believe that it is through mere chance " and the casual concurrence of every-day affairs " that England, with its increased franchisee, is " called upon to decide whether it will destroy or " uphold its venerable constitution." Well done, VIVIAN GREY t. The Marrano PREMIER exceeds himself in this electioneering outburst of faith in Pnovrroncez and the residuum. Mr. DISRAELI beats Mr. PERCIVAL hollow. Absorbed in admiration, we :have no words left in which to follow Mr. Dmanzu in his eulogy of the administrative ef ficiency of a government which has borrowed its Reform Bills from Mr. Mawr, its finance from Mr. GLADSTONE, and its foreign policy from Mr. COBDEN, and which in short, lives on the leavings of its predecessors. those of the general public' and the poor are those to whose discretion sanitary improvements are left ; that the Metropolitan Board of Works is " e clumsy creation," whose constitution muse be modified ; and that the 4,000 peewee at Omani engaged the locak gostenn i C London, involve It in vssit osponse,. enormous litigation, remained, praotidelp, unoballer.god by the opponents of the B su al. the talk ended as it began, sad was pri useful in eliciting the opinions of members. By " passing the Reform Bin," com menced Mr. MILL, " the House has given • gage " that it will inquire into and revise MI keit MO " tutions ;" and to those eager for sustropsiallan reform, this will seem the most encouraging pas sage in the debate. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) .:**; TATUM BANQUET. lON it almost incredible it even the Xercliant Upton slwia be deceived by asetrtiemt such as lir. Newell made ki them last night. his wtiolly an tru tba eitibbsece of the Irish Chumb,, as an a*ablisbtncnt, mageota authority with We principle of religion ; that WOW legislation will be. made im possible if dieestabliehment be accomplished, and the supremacy of the Crown be destroyed. Mr. think bee onocated imaginary evils and threatens Kind, a And of inoligion on the one hand, and the ca giest of unrestrained religious fanaticism on the other, as the oostemporary results of an act of justice which has bon performed elsewhere without retailing any such eon 41st=be should magnify hie colleagues may be ; but there ate some things which compel our cearrimporary to Mk "oar Catalina" how far he arca abase our pelisses. Mr. Disraeli said last night that Shan Lord MOW' administration seconded to office they found England regarded with suspicion and distrust in every foreign court and eabinet. Now, a it, or is it not, true that when Lord Del* was forming his government he asked Lord Clarendon to retain the seals of the Foreign-office? Lord Derby made some such Aitemeet at the time, and it may be accepted as certain, that the offer was not made without Mr. Disraeli's con- eurrence, yet Mr. Disraeli would now have the *mid ham that Load Atwood= mai* us an object of sus picion and distrusiabroad. Th _is_something in state ments like this as odious bo the Imolai sense as otteasive to weary Principle at Mite and *gement. They are not rarely disrogarded—they emits ressabasat and indi3- asttioo. rat CRUNCH HAIM. The report of the annual meeting of the Church Union shows, says the Deily Newe, that the " noble swelling spirits of this isle," are not all absorbed in the fortunes of Lady Elizabeth and The Earl, end that young liberals and young tories of high degree are disporting themselves in a new field of volunteer ecclesiastical warfare. Nothing can be more innocent or more worthy of respect than this emulation of the clerical party in Prance. It seems, indeed; that "the party of catholic truth" is not quite at unity with itself. The Rev. Dr. Lee objected to a paragraph in the report which repudiated lay politics, and being interrupted in reading it to the mooting, ho iemarked that "if it were after dinnerhe could understand the gentleman's interruption." The speech of Dr. Fumy seems to justify in some degree Dr. Lee's honest objection to the repudiation of all 'political motives by the Church Union, although it dealt with the political question of the Irish Church in characteristic ecclesiastical fashion, as one merely of the disposal of so much surplus revenue. There is nothing in all this that is not as innocuous as a game of clerical croquet. It hurts nobody ; it promotes universal flirtation. And we heartily acknowledge that it is far better that young laymen of distinction shook' amuse their leisure with this dilettante erueading than, like the young French nobles of 1832, in revenging themselves on a liberal age by inventing the cancan. FOREIGN NEWS. (TIIIB DAY.k THB ASIIIASSINATION OF PRINCE • MICHAEL. Tie Newt Free Press of Vienna publishes the fol lowing dr4sils oonnooted with the assassination of Prince lib/had : The attack on the life of the Prinoe degenerated into a complete butchery. Whilst the Prince, struck by throe balls, win; lying lifeless on the ground. one of the assas sins throw himself on the body and plunged a knife into it several times. It was mutilated and hacked, and the nose was literally cut off. The body has three gaping wounds, the arm and leg are pierced, and the artioulations of the hand so injured that the glove which be wore had to be cut from end to end to draw it off. The wounds in the face produced a frightful picture. What gives a more terrible aspect to the murder is the report that the poignards and knives were poisoned. The murderers fired sixteen shots. (ig/OVOU mersz's kozercrr.) PRINCE NAPOLEON IN HUNGARY. PREITH, Jinni IT, Bvserixo. In to-days silting of the Lower House, the bills on indirect taxes were adopted in principle. Prince Napoleon was preeent,at the sitting. The Prince dines to-day with Count Andrew. He leaves on Friday for Mesoe-Hegyes, and from thence proceeds to Constantinople. The recruiting this year talus place on the old syatem. MUNICIPAL REFORM. TUE conversation which last night followed Mr. MILL'S motion for the second reading of the Me tropolitan Municipal Corporation Bill, was in the last degree desultory and undecided. Beyond a ge neral admission that the present mode of governing London is unsatisfactory, in which members of every shade of politics concurred, the House of Commons did little more than spin out the time until the fatal " quarter to six " arrived, and the SPEAKER cut short Sir &Amax) NORTIIOO7II'B compliments to Mr. Ararox by reminding him of the hour. Colonel HOOO spoke as became the champion of St. George's, Hanover-square. Mr. BENTINCX quoted with much apparent relish a proposition to throw a well-known local re unier out of the window of St. Janicas-hall. HAAVZY Lewis, strong in the wisdom of Marylebone, declared boldly that the House of Commons "cared little and know less " about" the management of the metropolis. Mr. AYIITON thought the subject should be dealt with by the Government rather than by Mr. MILL; and Mr. Loom supported Mr. Arwrox while disapproving the principles the latter would have had the House affirm by resolution. Meanwhile, all Mr. Max's statements were lrat unrefuted. That want of full publicity is the evil of parochial administration ; that the people whose interests are most opposedto AMERICAN LECTURERS. LHOrUlt/NO in America seems to be often un profitable to the commercial partner. The lecturer is safe, but the speculator who undertakes him is frequently out of pocket. Even in the West Where the chances aro supposed to be delightful this is becoming the case. Pearls and jewels may drop from the lips of certain popular men, but the committees and associations and enterprising. HAS IMO at wboeeriak the visit is !nada get none of them, on the contrary, are not unseldom poorer. A Chicago contemporary gives the history for a season of a course of lectures in one of the large towns of the North-west, where the rearm was much more successful than in other towns in the same &ate. The lectures, it appears, of Mr. WEwnaiL PHILLIPS, Mr. 001701 T, Miss ANNA DICKINSON. and Mr. SIMMER, paid tolerably well. Mr. PHILLIPS gave a perfectly familiar speech on public afikirs, " a lecture which would " have been universally voted dull and " worthless but for the orator's great name " and fine oratorical manner;" Miss Diem- sou " made a common-place harangue in favour of " female suffrage set off indeed by hor style, not " oratorical, but pretty-young-womanish, and " yet a weak discourse, more suitable on the bps " of a smart school girl than of a public lecturer." Mr. GOUOH " had the attractions of a comic actor, in " large measure it is true." Mr. Suisun alone gave something now, it being his first, tear in the West.. Of the other lecturers, Mr. GREELEY made a speech on public airs, of no interest except that it came from HORACE GREELEY. He failed to draw a paying' audience, and declined to receive more money than the association could pay him without loss. Mr. EssEEsox gave • lecture which delighted and instructed those who went to hear it, but there was a loss which the distingushed essayist divided with the associa tion. A well-known English lecturer left his em ployers 50 dollars the worse. Mr. TILTON made a speech on female suffrage, a topic he had disguised by using the title of " The American Woman," " and carried off some forty dollars more than was " paid to hear him." The sum given him for his lecture was twenty-two pounds, in addition to his travelling expenses. The Chicago Tribune thinks the prices too high, and calls upon the " Asso ciated Lyceums" to tolerate such a state of things no longer. Things, in short, look as though the Western field had been mown very close. TnE Archbishop of DUBLIN has just published " A Household Book of English Poetry," which. is remarkable for the number of fine poems it con tains that are not found in collections, and are. quite unknown to the general public. Mr. PAL HEAVE'S " Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyric." comprises probably within a brief compass the richest selection of lyric poetry in the languUgo, but Archbishop TRENCH has judged truly in thinking that that exquisite little volume does not interfere with the object he had in view, sines "my scheme," he says, "is at once broader and " narrower ; broader in that I limit myself "to no one particular class of poetry " and embrace the living and the dead " alike ; narrower in that I make no attempt to be " exhaustive, or to give more than a very few " samples even of the best and greatest of our " poets." Students of English poetry who are familiar not only with the thoroughfares of song trodden by our great masters, but with the retired bye-ways frequented by the minor poets, will acknowledge, we think, that this volume of Arch bishop Talittn's is the result of comprehensive knowledge and of refined taste. The book will form a companion volume to lir. PALORAVE'B, and the two volumes are a remarkable proof, if indeed proof be needed, of the wealth of our poetic literature. At the same time it must be remembered that the noblest poetry we possess is by its nature excluded from both collections. The works of the old dramatists which Woubsworrru called the garden of English literature cannot be represented here, and Siumarxmix himself, like his stalwart compeer BEN JoNsox, only finds adinis sion as a lyric poet. The Committee of the House of Lords have decided that the Gas Companies outside the city have no toms slemdi to oppose the City Gas Bill, which will now, therefore, pass as an unopposed bill and thus settle, as far as the City Companies are concerned, a matter which has for three sessions occupied the attention of putliament. Colonel Milward, of the Royal Art Wry, who was sent home in charge of despatches and the presents to the Queen by General Sir R. Napier, Commander-in- Chief of the Abyssinian Expedition, arrived at his residence, on Plumstead-common, on Saturday last. Brigadier-General Little, C. 8., commanding the cavalry in Ireland, mad* his inspection of the 14th King's Hussars in the Curragh on Monday. The general a:- premed himself much pleased with the appearance of the regiment, the precision with which it manoeuvred, and the lint-rate condition of the horses. Re afterwards visited the barracks at Newbridge,)usd made tiluOisual inspection of the roomnstables, hospitals, schools, remount horses, recruits, and regimental and trogp.kaoks, the whole of which appeared to give the general eatire gals faction. The annual Volunteer Review by the Lord- Lieutenant of the county of Kent, Viacount Sydney, G.C.8., will be held this year cm this 4th of July, on Woolwich Common. The Secretary of State for War has given hie eanctica to her If ajesey's beeps, takingpart in it, and the whole will be order thegoonusand at Major- Gen. F.. C. Wards, C. 8., the emataadant of the purl goo. There are upwards of keel enlisters hi the county, and it is expected that ► large throe Will ensemble on the occasion. . As is known, a seientifie oommisaion bare been charged by the Minister of RAMC, Instmetiou la ?ranee to proceed to the extreme Beat, to studY the:solar eellpso of the 18th August next. The Ziaiterr imp:maces that the place of - observation selected • bylPianoe in the peninsula of Malacca has been explored and prepared with care, and that the King of Siam his manifeitid the Inten tion of being present at the labours of the common. Independently of this expedition, the Aoadtaity. of tleienees has nominated an astrononser for the earn, peewee to go to Masulipatans to act in concert with others mat from England. The Ent?'lcte states that Crosti, of the Opkra Comique ham been engaged by Mr. Maple*ma, fee Mae Majesty's Theatre. THE Fria CIFIIRCH OF BOOTLAXD ruE essuust.—Enteratsom WzosalDaY.The ABB Thee Church of Scotland Comminion, compete* suirabets of the last General Amestably. resolved yeetee4ey. hp 90 to 34, to petition for the total dieendowaest d Itg *Wen bodies in Ireland. • . . .Jl l.. ?R! ma? erilfDAL. The herald doubts whether the explanations offered by Lord Hastings and Mr. Padwick lend to the case, as left by Admiral Roue, a more agreeable complexion. The plain fact of the matter is, that the breakdown of Lady Elisabeth and the scratching of The Earl are circum &tames which it would be well to have cleared up. The shrewd men of the turf, the professional betting men, the genii of " the ring," have an idea that there has been some uncommonly sharp practice somewhere, and that they have *been victimised. - PotsiMy a frank explanation would set matters right, but in • the present condition of the question there is a conviction growing up that not a few of the distinguished " patrons" of the turf are better ing the instructions winch its:, smartest! votaries once accorded to them as neophytes. • CONSPIVATIVIS DISCIPLIN7H. On Tuesday night, in the house, Mr. Adderiey, replying to Mr. Bright, refirfea to Mr. Disiae — E7 opuuou - tUra" legislature had no power to make sberious change without a new appeal Vojta coustituenta ; anl he added that Mr.- , Gladstone had " vetylustly " denounced the do;trine as' "outrageous add democratic." AN, possibly, very true, rtinarks the 7Wegroph ; but what language from a Tory subordinate to a trey thief. II this conservative dixi pline'r is this muttering—nay, rwearing—in the ranks the trait of discipline under a tory ministry for =se years P Or does Disraeli= in office mean disorganisation all round ; a minority in plane the Trial. church "suspended" after two minutes' debate; the country puviod ; a " protestant " cry from the would-be endowers of the Roman church ; all useful measures delayed ; a general election when we want to keep cool, and a short session in the short days, when the wind and rain be at dark December ? There was a time when members of the administration not only spoke, •but voted against their chief ; possibly Mr. Adderley la content to hberate his soul, and will allow his vote to be whipped up as it may please Colonel Taylor and his aide. THE YLTROPOLITAN FOETEON CATTLE 'Lime? DELL. The Post denies that this bill will effect the object for which it is professedly designed. flo far from being cal culated to prevent the spread of the cattle plague, it is calculated to Increase it beyond anything hitherto known. Thir veterinary authoritiei are all, without exception, agreed upon this point. It has been rhown also that such a step, even if it were likely to be effective; is not necessary ; for the action of the Privy Council, which is founded upon a totally dif ferent and opposite principle, his been so successful that it has rooted the cattle plague out of the country entirely; and it is too absurd that when we have, in the moment of extremity, already tried a plan and found it to answer, we i.hould now, when the extremity is past, be asked to adopt another plan which is by all testimony shown to be utterly unreliable. the Court• WINDSOR OASTIS. Im 17. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, arrived at th4Castle this mantic& at five minutes before 9 o'clock, from Balmoral. The suits Usettendanoe consisted of the Dowager Duchess of Athol*, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lieutenant-Gensral Hon. C. Grey, Colonel H. and the Hon. Mrs. Ponaonloy, the Rey. B. Duckworth, Mr. Bahl, and Dr. Hoff:heist:sr. Prince and Princees Louis of Hesse, and the Princesses Victoria, Elisabeth, end Beni, attended by the Ba'heels Grainy, Baron Von itabenali, add Major Von Hew, arrived at the Cestie - oh Maollisy. Prince Louis of Bessattepaed by Baron von Babenau and Major von Haulm, went out rtdiag this morning. Mimi Naegiefor the Cantle to-day, and re mains on a visit to her Majesty. The Duchess of .Bauburglie has suoceedod the Dowager Duchene of Athol. who Teasing ht the Castle on a visit) as Lady in Wahl The Hon.' East& mad du succeeded the Hoh. Emily. Cathcart se Maid of Monour in Waiting. Lord Begot and Chiloost•the Moa. * Augustus Liddell are the _ _ . _ . Lord and Groom in Waiting. Lord Charles Marcy has aniTed ►t the Cantle as Equerry in Waiting. Yesterday eventag andPHooess of Wass awl the Crown Ethics of Denmark honoured his Fasellaiwy the Danish Minister an/ Madame di Balmw witk flair ccmpany at dinner, at their licassepi Win olsatiwi Prince and Pviatiess ioaa .of Mews, sit/laded y their snit^ dined with Prime and Prisms. Christian, a* nog more, on Tuesday evening: The Lards present, if yesterday's sitting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council win Si; W. Eats, Sir J. W. Colvils, Its I. V. Williams, Lord hunk* Page Wood, and Lord Justin Selwyn: _ A deputation of peoprisbere - of country newspapers bad an interview _with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Postraaater-Cleneral,_in bowning.etreet, yenterdst 1, 0 advocate the peeling of - the Telegraph Bill during the present aimica t A deputation, consisting of members of some of the leading firms in the City of London, had also an intsrtiew with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Postmaiter (Mama' upon the same subject and with the same object. It is understood that the Queen will stay at Windsor for about three weeks, and will them so to Osborne. It is believed to be bar Majesty's attention to make • trip to Germany is the mamma. OUR PARIS LETTER. (rear ova °wit onazarommer.) PARIS, Wznmsaver Evzsnro. In the Senate yesterday M. Merimee presented a report on a petition by a M. Lodelot Rochelle against materialism, and praying that a national prize should be given to the writer who should best prove that man could only be happy by being moral and religious. The reporter stated it to be the unanimous opinion of the committee which he represented that no action should be taken on the petition. As a matter of fact materialism was not taught in the schools. As to doctrines which might be propagated by the press, he would only repeat what had been said in 1864 by President do Royer on the occasion of a similar petition, " Let us blame what is wrong ; but learn to tolerate what the law does not prohibit," and what President Devienne said in 1867, that " faith gained neither power nor consideration by the aid of material force." As to prizes for virtue, there were a good many of them, the Monthyon prize among others. It was open to individuals and societies to create new ones. But the committee thought the state ought not to interfere in any such matter. It was a bad habit in France to look for the initiative of the state on all occasions. In a neighbouring country (England), people who shared the fears of the petitioner put their hands in their pockets for the purpose of propagating sound doctrines. Why did not he follow their example ? M. Merimee proposed that the petition should be shelved by order of the day, which was done nem. con. The Imperial Court of Metz gave judgment yesterday in the case of the Prince of Orange. In accordance with the opinion of Advocate-Osten-al Pierrefitte the court declare, the sale of the Hermitage estate to the Prince null and void, on the ground that it was concocted for a fraudulent 'purpose. The judgment entirely acquits IL Boucher, the notary employed to draw up the deed of sale, of any guilty knowledge. A law was passed in Paris in 1811—what I am now stating must seem to you almost incredible— prohibiting the sale by auction of any but second hand goods, on the ground that it was necessary to " protect" shopkeepers who sold new things. A petition praying for the repeal of this absurd act was lately presented to the Senate, and being favourably received by the government commis sary, M. Gaudin, is was referred to the Minister of Commerce for consideration. Yesterday a young man, after dining with soma friends at a restaurant on the Seine near the Pont de Tournelle, made a bet that he would swim across the river. He stripped and went in. When about half across he was seized with cramp, went down, and was drowned. The person with whom he betted has been arrested for manslaughter. I take upon myself to say there is no clause in the code which can sustain an indictment on such a ground. It is foolish, sicedoubt, and in certain cases it may be wickoa, to tempt a man by a wager to risk his life. Buhl swimming is a risk of life, and as to the particular feat of swimming across the Wine, I have known little boys who have performed it while their fathers looked on. The Bourse closed quietly. with scarcely any change. • —The-Earl and Countries of Yarborough received the Duke and Duchene of St. Albans, the Earl and Conn: tees Vanh, the Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor, the Countess do they, Maria Countess of Lietowel, Lord and Lady Proby, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Lord and Lady Londeobormigh, Lord John Hay, Mr. Henry Chap. lin, &c., at dinner yesterday evening, at their residence in Arlington-street. . The Earl and Countess Beauchamp entertained at dinner yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Northumber land, the Duke and Duchess' of Cleveland and Lady Mary Primrose, the Marquis of Sligo, the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison, Earl and Countess Stanhope, Earl and Countess Somers, the Earl of Cansperdown, Mr. and Lady !Margaret Beaumont, and Mr. Peel. Later in the evening 'her ladyship received a entail and select party. ".Visoowit and Vis Countess Barrington enter tained the following company at dinner last evening, at 'their residence in Caveedieh-square :—The Duke of Graf 'ton, the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath, the Earl and Connie*. of Westmorland, Viaoount Newport, MP., Lord Strathnaiin, Lord Frederick Pawls/44 Hon. Frede rick ind Lady Cosistance Stanley, Hon. Augusta Barring ton, Mr. and Lady Dorothy Nevin, Mr. Douglas, he. Mr. Orel:dell, on Monday, will ask the hon. member for Bute on what grounds he stated, on Friday, June 5, that the petition which he presented praying for en early re-appointment of Mr. Eyre to her Majesty's caned& service was signed by 71 peers, 6 bishops, 20 members of the House of Commons, 40 generals, 26 .admirals, 400 clergymen, and 30,000 other persons, when, in fact, it is only signed by 3 peers, I bishop, 6 members of parliament, 20 generals, 9 admirals, 171 clergymen, and 10,000 other persona brsuLtzteze or FARltirro Etrocz.—Accord fi, to s return published this morning, the total amount of (duty paid into the Inland Revenue oMee for ineuranees oti farming stock against fire, in England, Scotland, and :Itkarnd, was 1,084,0131:17. 3d.; the amount insured being 76,643,401!. The total allowance for collection at 5 per 'ant. was 39,926 L is. 4d. In England there were, in addition, certain !Urges for collection at the rite of 4 per. cent., the total of which was 8,9661. 13a. 2d. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.--Secretary Sir 'Seaford Northaota has received and forwarded to us the :following telegram from Sir Robert Napier : May 30. —I regret to say Mr. Dufton, Intelligence Department, was mortally wounded, the day before yesterday. by Sham robber*, while travelling between Undid Wells and Moro*. He expired here yesterday. Please break the news to his wife." The Irish government have determined to release Mr. Pigott, of the Di e he e s e . The of Richmond Bridewell has received authority from the Lords /imam (acting in the abeame of the Lord Lieutenant) to release him from custody on hie pm - testing the reoognhanaes re by his sentence. This ormiximion amounts to a d commutation of punishment by one-half. Mr. Pigott wee amatenoed to brehe months' imprisonment, anti Itee spent exactly Mx in the bridewelL TIIKATRICAL NOM. The new theatre on the site of Us 3 fitn u , m e‘ Ha is programing vary rapidly, awl , in all win be called the "Gaiety." In onannsion with it • emoted cne of th e largest rates and rostuunuiti in L ne with divans, billiard, and reading-room, and taboos, all onunsseksting with the Wen, T:„ that will i be Rad dawn st and of this o a th /et Mime put of this ethane will includo Mr. lernhinl's th e wand, the original publishing-rm,, or 7, Mirror. This parlodinel, long line* , defun c t, et. th e prin t nipal pioneer of our clump tun, and Str. Lizolird was iti proprietor. Tk. new theatre and refe will be literally sappqrint by five nownPaPorni or newspaper °Mom the Menn e p e ,. the liiiiareeei Timm, the Ike, the /401 d, and the Amy and ..Kery Ceuta, and these Aloes, with a public-his., and a pollee- hop, are the only buildings on the Eit estate that will not ba sucked into the new scheme. Ti m theatre and nift will be opened at Christmas. Mr. F. C. Ilurnand, much to the honor of unl of lb, authors, has burlesqued fbwl Piny, and the trey ,t,,. rd be produced at the Queen's Theatre next Saturday the title of Awl Bay, or Chikkin Hazard. My Chin„, Readies dramatic version of this novel, new brio; formed in the country, and lately produced at differematerially from Mr. Boucicault's version, now 1)1,1 4 perfo►med at the Holborn Theatre. - Opera boalF, or Oprretta bentroa, will try restrike roil iR England after Mdlls. fichneider's short erigagemeid, 14 1 trio St. James's will probably be opened tor this this el entertainment. with M. Offenbach as musical director. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. (THIR DA Y) RIR R. NAPIEWTRH CITY. "AND THE FREEDOM op At a madam of the Court of Common Coen heti this morning, at which the Lord Mayor pre idat, Alderman Cotton proposed the following motion: "r ut the freedom of this City, with a sword of the value of ter guineas, be presented to Major-General Sir Robert Sepia. 0.C.8., 0.f:1/IL, Commander of the Forces in Bombay, in admiration of the fortitude, skill, science, entrgy, and promptitude displayed by him in bringing tho Abyssinia' war to so successful and brilliant a close." The earthy Alderman, in proposing tho motion, adverted to very satisfactory manner in which Sir Hobert Ni,a had conducted the important military operation tl.st was entrusted to him, and said that whon ho ova :stewed the campaign ho was met with nothing ler gloomy forebodings and anticipations of evil, an I 1.., was told that his army would suffer more from utiatte, and sicknoes than from the attacks of the euvouy, notwithstanding all these gloomy forebodings he hid brought the campaign to a most satisfactory and giartalt ccnclusion. (Mean) Ile had conducted au army cus - ai. ing altogether, with camp followers, of 10,000 men, theni arid deserts and dangerous defiles, with tes ra.Wl casualties than would have resulted in toe est:u, number of men who were engaged in their onlinarroeco. 'mations. He had eh.) murt-t1 the country from on , 11 /r• mous expenditure. The total °net of the Abpsause expedition would not be more than three milli whereas if it had lasted longer, it might ht., coat the country eight or ten millions. It gave bun 4T pleasure, he said, to propose the motion, and let I, 1,1 t• would be unanimously wooded to. (Cheer's.) _ _ Mr. J. SiIfOWDA, the Chairmam of the City 1,1u.1, r on mittee, and who 1// by courtesy the find C•minvet .r • • the Court, said he had great pleasure in ou'l u : motion. and after the graphic deicriptiou tint hid . given by the worthy Alderman, he would not attunt:r. weaken the effect of what he had stated by adding rimerks of his own. The 'notice was theu put and camel unattimnr4y Assoc!Army OP TRADE PROTEI,7I•;% 6OCIETIEB.-(TUM .D.l Y.) Tho annual conference of thew. M4ociatAl s•rae tiee conunenoed tLis morning, at II o'clock, at the W.•s. =Mater Palace Hotel, Mr. Roam. WEI.Li. tt..ek Hull (viee-president), in the chair. The following gentlemen wcro preirnt. as .Iproitin,m• Mr. Thomas Blakeman, London Association to the Pr tection of Trade ; Councillor Dawbaru. Mr. A. Harl wick, and Mr. P. L. Martaggart, Liverpool; Mr Batbgata (Edinburgh), Mr. W. Johnson slid Mr. R. lb, ton (Leeds), Mr. John Gresham and Mr. Robert W. (Hu g ll), Mr. W. H. Chamberlain (Leicester), Mr. T Paget, M.P., President of the Leicester Aseociatiou. Mr. Hawkins, and Mr. R. Spencer (Manchester), Mr. J. It Hutehinson, Mr. Robert Mellon (Nottingham), M. A. Adderiey, and Mr. J. Roberts. jun., Leicester; Mr. Jul.a Parsons, Bristol; Mr. T. Angell and Mr. V. Pocock•• London. The report of the committee, which was read by th • SIXILICTAIIT (Mr. Robert Mellon), stated that the SAWA tion consisted of sixteen principal societies, seven! which have numerous bnuachee, with distinct convent...." and agencies. Several new societies are now sinking nllih The associated societies form together a reAw extendingoverthegreatcrpart of Great Britain, and him; solicitors, agents, and correspondent.; in 2,41/U town.. 1 places. In the several societies there are in the agg7... gate 20,300 members. Fur thine, during the last 77,000 status inquiries have been made as the position end respectability of per.oni log, or desiring to trade, with them. .11.741 debts diMeult to obtain have been applied f'r. and 230.0001. has been received. The report contains passing allusion to the various acts of last senian trade. It also makes mention of the hills now le•f.e - e pf lintnent, and expresses the opinions of the eimmitte thereon; and it notices several amendments which th, com mittee consider it desirable to have made in oirnmerri.l law. _ _ • Among the amociatione admitted were SW=lOl Rad South Wales Commercial Protection Aaancintirn• th • Devon and Cornwall Trade Protection A woeiation. Groat Grimsby Merchants* and Traders* Avers:ration. sal the North Lancaahire Merchautd and Tmders' tiOn The vat:ions enbjectx embrared in the report were thAn considered reparately in connexion with the bills relating to them before parliament. The first rffieetiou diacumed ems the bankruptcy LAW. Mr. 1111WITIIOTON moved, and Mr. COUIWiIIOr Dewing" seconded, the following resolution :—" That this me4ing expresses its opinion that the Scottish law of bankrupt , y should form the model for any amendment of the law in Ent land, so far an the mme is practicable, considering the du • ferret laws and mtge. of the two countries. That, whi! • di - appmving of certain clauses in the bill of Uri L.sr I Chancellor, rt approves of that measure generally, and re genie it as an improvement on its predocessore ; its with drawal, therefore, is much to be regretted, and this mov ing dome to impress on members of parliament the very strong desire of the mercantile oorainunity that the prw.' disgraceful state of the law should at the earliest pract. catme be remedied, the question having now boon tie a years before parliament." The resolution was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. R. Baseurarox, seconded by Mr Seancita, the following resolution was also adopted : - " That in view of the unoertaiuty and difficulties atten dant upon an amendment of the present bank ruptcy laws this meeting rturards with pleasure the introduction of Mr. Moffatt a bill designed to meet two of the most glaring evils under the law of ISBl—namely, fraudulent trust deeds, and the practice of debtors peti tihning the court after having got rid of their entire meets; and, believing this small Meager* to he jest, it ear neatly hopes that parliament will pas it during N's present ?anion." On the motion of Mr. Matinee, seconded by Council lor DaweAle, it was resolved: —" That a deputation want to-morrow upon the Attorney-General, and afterward% if necessary, on the Lord Chancellor. to solicit the govorn • meat support of the bill, and that the committee petition the house in its favour." YIN' ART COPY RIGHTS.—The teat prepared by Lord Westbury for connol amending the law of copyright in work' was published this morning. Upwards of 30,000 acres of land hav, born taken up by actual settlers, in one district Minnesota, in the United States. Rain is much wanted in the south for almost everything but wheat. The crop will totally fail for want of rain. The grew taken possession of, and will destroy, thc, they are soon washed away by copious showers. The Levant Herald says :—" The }funkier-I'l'BlmM will be the residence of Prince during his approaching visit to the Turkish cap; handsome little building is being re-decorated wise prepared for the illustrious visitor, travelling nominally ineoprito, will, it is ui cease a full measure of imperial honour di Re will, of wane receive the Oionaniii in U. Bowie runs a fair chance of the MedjicE , The King of Italy has left Turin ..----- GAN b sZ7. 3 gi but writ far I 04 wei of eld( utie bVe t of tho bill by nolidating and his la of Fula Art a 1 nha have recently city district only, in dot tia t of England the op of field inw. the a Inc tilt ./.14 tui kt.rikortm h iee e o can n ce c pk r a i o taiNi i p c , a 'h apo is . un h ine. l l4 o,n i f : ated and other. till who, though understood, reo IL;11 luring hie AO• sal n for Cont, 3 mountains of riot take—not 114) 3 drama, . 111 : 4 it fails simPli eI • whence he will go Valdieri. on the Odignanisays :—" The A bime does zu so Tench from any inherent &feet, in the has been well pat upon the gage, but it from the inefficiency of the actors." , 11. i ` f