The Express. — London, England, 1868-06-08 00:00:00

lOC RNITURE fond DECORATION. • JACK - t-itlti and GRAHAM Invite tamiltel shout to furnitth to In sport the venom, department. of their eatablodiment tthe Isrmat •ol mart complete of Its londl and their manufactory adjoluma In winch, with the aid of steam power 116041 machinery. all meat. o, e, ;mut:Using root to the product:on of tirtt.cht-..* furniture ere em ployed. The .bow-rooms contain every description end style of turniturt• from that adapted to the requirements of thaw who de soy to rumba at tbe moat etionomicel rate conviatent with good taito mot bound tr....kit...1m to that in witted. sit tuduatry to the I. employed. Every artkle u otarted in plain figures iteit —tf. 34. M. 3.1. 37, mei 30, narealetreet. I P Sand PEARCE,' • Artiste in 01• w. and China to the Went, a:quity solicit an inopertion, of tkeir NOVEL and BEAU. I. DESIGNS. Th. 7 an• onsinal. moderate in price, perfect OM. workmanship. material, and manufacture r. D. Pearce Ltor In years at 19. 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Isiomagfil out immeameseeitally W promote. _ _ in preparing tor Me transtormstion one thought has redoes!. nsted is the solicitude oft proprietors. Their Met low been to eeahe "THE DAILY NEWc" tutivernelly iteo.eible, not to alter it, character: and they would consider their labour wcesa than lest were they to consent to changes which would lower ita tons or in any way inmate its title to hold its accustomed place in publlo tweet. THE POLITICAL AND LITERARY Meeting et Cho Joenud will wawa thwtwitiod. AND BE SUPPORTED BY AN ACCESSION OP EMINENT WRITERS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE will met oa so orpugartir of °prima sed !!zilyive Oocrispca dC4ioe, iateseins-tie entire World. THE CITY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS yin br, sa heretoforo, Puf. Early, and Impartial. In • word, whit: all the present feature. of the paper will be maintained. It- arrangements will undergo 00 other modification than smolt aw fa Deurnana to • more thorough and egleient representation area of the uoutirrtemaa intaresta, and opinions of the Aar, BLDWITNG AND AD , 130VVERLEAMil RTTSEW(T OFFICE. r. FLNET.:,THEET. Eire eVaireOL HATNAREVT. Mug its - mnso, TICE LiiHEIF ciliitrum.-A HERO OF ROM AMIC. MOONVO. Not/tern. Beekstone, Compton, Chippendale, Roma, lk (lark: Madames Bobmtaan, loan Burke, Chippendale. • ',minima, Lama, arc —And A 00-OPERATIVE 1101rindENT. 11/JYAI. LYt:MUJI THItATKE. eolsor reipkVilei3Xiaiiiii3l7l4iiiPEßlAL.l3 their maws farewell pertannazioe of Balancing, Topeplenies, the Ainerny, sad great Ladder Pmts.—Event liven at Kinht, Wedge depend datardaye half-peat Two. Children , ar 10 halt.price. Places neenred at the Boz.ollee from Ten IWO.: at Mr. pia Boa./-alwwl ; principal firm STRAND. Ts P. ETVAVO. SISTERLY MIRTH:E.—THE FIELD OF THE mom OF GOLD. And MARRIAGE AT ANY PRIM BRITANNIA. Tin. Evaviao,THE VardirifißSlNlA. Supported by a lataohmeat of Hoots ?Hillier 01111fdi.— Yr. and Mph P. I Mnlionit; Kim Lydia Ladner.'-Cosatudiag with HE CHIMES; OR, THE BROKEN HEART. lIIONyATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TO-04r 3KGI;;:. To-N(omm Morning, 4h. Mo.. ..ifteasoc;l7, 4b. So. Memos, th. 4310. NIY111:144 of RSItTILIS, M• 11111 4 ,111141 ■nd D , &TO res , eived until 12 o'clock for insertion rime evening. Price fa. 6d. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING I oteot Foreign Telegram+ ; the Latest City; llailway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligenne, IS PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, MONDA Y, JUNE 8. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE AND THE NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND. Iv is not uncommon to And Royal and Imperial personages manifesting a very vivid interest in the newspaper press. But their solicitude gene rally takes the form of prosecutions, warnings, and -..ipressions. It is usually left for exile to develop more friendly regard. While the EMPEROR the French was only yet in his mind's eye the upsnt of the Tuileries, and occupied in material I t respectable lodgings in Sing-stre e t, fit. mess-sq uare, his affection for the right of tin- eased printing was without limit. EMILE OIRARDIN, PREVOST PARADOL, or Count MONTA LEERS= could not be more zealously attached to it. The " man in black " was a functionary not then dreamed of. The press was to Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON as instrument of warfare ; and there is, from his own point of view, no inconsistency that he who who used the weapon itself with effect should spike the gun if it threatens to fall into the hands of the enemy. More than one of the accom plished sons of the Royal House of ORLEANS, and its youthful head, wield the journalist's pen with a skill which professional writers cannot look down on. and to which, with a strange inversion of the ordinary relations of litera ture and royalty, they need not feel ashamed to give the sanction and protection of their names. The Due D'EIJKALE and the Comte de PARIS are fain to seek the friendly pa.. tronege of M. XAvrEn RAYMOND and M. BtrLoz. In England journalism does not peas from the arctic regions of Imperial or Royal disfavour and prosecution to the torrid sone of Imperial and Royal confraternity. Its relations with the reigning powers are more constant, if less close. They have the steadiness of friendship rather than the feverish affection of a stronger passion, or the bitterness of that jealousy which is its shadow. The Emperor NAPOLEON, doubtless, chastens the pre is because he loves it ; and cannot bear to see it %rowing itself into the arms of his rivals, or even ocently coquetting with them. go have gone through all this in England. The %spaper press has been in succession, thromr,h .) centuries and a half, despised, persecuted, crated, abused, hated, feared, bribed, courted, ....petted; and in this last stage, which it has THE - 7 7 painfully attained, u e trust it wikrearain. Ia asking the Duke of CAMBRIDOR to preside at the annual festival of the Newspaper Pans !and in succession to wen toupee in statesmanship and In letters, the managers of the hind have exhibited a catholic regard for every sort . and condition of eminence. Lord BROUGHAM. in one of his bitter moods, spoke of a royal member of the House of Peers as, "by courtesy en Illustrious Duke." The sneer was ill-natured. It is unbecoming to scoff at men who by the mere fact that they an‘ born great, are debarred from achieving greatness, and must submit to having it thrust on them. Th(iDuke of CAMBRIDGE isnot merelya Royal Duke. If he is not a WELLINGTON, or a Count MOLTKE, a great conqueror, or a great organiser of victory. he fills the post of head of the English army with zeal, industry, and efficiency. His °Said position gives his appearance at this festival a value which will perhaps be better appreciated on the Continent of Europe than in England itself. Our French friends will doubtless see much to ad mire in the fact of the COMMANDER-IN-CRIKr of the British army presiding at a newspaper dinner, and will find in it many sharp and stinging points with which to barb the shafts which the winged words of their satire carry over the world. Even in England many persons will learn with some sur prise,but more satisfaction, that Captain SwoßD(to Use the symbolism of one of LEIGH HUl'T*9 forgotten poems) has so hearty an appreciation of the services of Captain PEN as that which the head of the English army avowed on Saturday for the chief of British newspaper correspondents. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE expressed, in the name of the army, the debt which it, in common which all he world, owed to the gentlemen" who have from " time to time so impartially and graphically de " lineated for us the great events of military and " naval warfare." His ROYAL Hionsrass referred in particular to Dr. W. H. Russets., and " those who have competed with him in the " diffic.ult and not always agreeable course which " he has el oxen for himself." It is sometimes sup posed that the course of Dr. Ruasstt and his competitors might on seseral occaaiona have been leas difficult and more agreeable if the appreciation of their services which the Duke of CAMBRIDGE expressed in Wuzia's Rooms were avowed and acted upon in the camp, on the march, or in the field of battle. The sentiment which his Royal Highness expressed to journalists afterdinner and over their wine, we are slue he will maintain in conference with military men. Henceforth the life of a newspaper correspondent with the army may be something better than that of a suspected spy from the enemy, or of a partridge hunted on the mountains. In another sense the presidency of the Duke of CAIIERIDGE was remarkable. It is possible to imaginethe PrinceNseoLson (Jnnoire), who is also a soldier, and who too saw service in the Crimea. dining with a society of French journalists. But be would do so as a leader of the family Opposi tion, and the head of the democratic Bonapart ists. The rivalry, real or simulated, between the Tuileries and the Palais Royal, has hap pily had no counterpart in the domestic politics of Royalty since the late Prince of WALES intrigued with Fox and SHERIDAN. The spectacle of the grandson of GEORGE 111. presiding over a dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund is enough to stir the bones of that monarch and of Join WILKES in their graves, and to flutter the leaves of the North Britoa No. 45, in the British Museuui. The change marks improvement on both sides. Even since the time when Coßarrr was prosecuted for calling Lord HARDWICKE " a very eminent sheep " feeder from Cambridge, with a wooden head," and Lord BEDESDALE "an able and strong " built Chancery pleader from Lincoln's-inn," there has been some progress in sense and manners on both sides. Unhappily, in avoiding coarse abuse there has been, perhaps, on the part of greet people, a tendency to flat tery a little too indiscriminate. We doubt whether any reporter could be gratified by being told that he is the " historian of politico, " the historian of jurisprudence, the histo " rian of art, the historian of literature," or ill other words that he is Habbui, Savioxy, Isaac DISRAELI. and VARAZI rolled into one. This is what Lord HOI7ONTON said. On the same principle it might be contended that to take shorthand notes of Mr. GLAD STONE'S speeches and of Mr. Disaanu's is to possess their powers of oratory. Mr. WIND HAM'S slander half a century ago was better than this flattery. Reporters, qud reporters, are as little historians as they are " bank - flirts, lottery-office keepers, footmen, and " decayed tradesmen." They are for the greater part gentlemen of education and character, dis charging skilfully a most useful office. They, more than anyone else, have a right to feel insulted by the suspicion that they could take pleasure in gross and ridiculous adulation. CHIEF JUSTICE COCKBURN ON EX GOVERNOR EYRE. TUE LORD Curse Jusricz of England has this day done that for which it would be difficult to find a precedent, but for which it is not necessary to make any apology. He has formally repudiated the most important of the legal statements made by Mr. Justice BLACKBURN, when charging the Grand Jury concerning ex- Governor EYRE. It was then said that martial law might be legally proclaimed in Jamaica, because certain local statutes empowered the Governor to do this. If this were so then the case of the Jamaica Committee would be weakened. We now have it on the authority of the Lord Curie JUSTICE, that this is so doubtful as to be a fair sub ject for legal argument. Moreover, it has been reiterated by him that the removal of Goa- Dols and the prolongation of the executions after the suppression of the outbreak were, in the opinion of the majority of the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, " legally unjustifiable." He expressed regret that the question was not left in such a way as to make it clear to the grand jury that a trial ought to take place. If that had occurred, it would have been in the power of the jury to consider whether there were extenuating circum stances, or whether the claims of " justice and " humanity " were openly violated. The result is that whatever gratification the friends of Ex-Governor EYRE have derived from the exposition of the law of Mr. Justice BLACKBURN must now be converted into annoyance. They now find the legal opinions of that judge re pudiated by authorities fur greater than he. It will henceforth be impossible to allege that the law of England, as hitherto expounded, sanctions acts to which the appellation of " saving " Jamaica" has been applied. Lord Chief Justice COCKBURN expressed a hope that the question of the illegality of martial law might never again come before en English court of justice. He untieiputcs that the proceedings in the present wise may be fraught with a salutary lesson, even though t 113 nut i..ned in the punishment of the is nig/..s M..reiner, he thought that the opinion expressed by him on behalf of the majority of the court would be a valuable precedent here- EXPRESS MO'iDAY after, should it unhappily be needful to mote l pleotsienta in a shah, ease. Tt, Is' anti*. nate that theinisunderstanding ihould,have aria*. and that a judge whose ishilitilw are great and whose reputation is weliiiinsimk skald Atsant in differ from his brethren on an impo t point of Lett. Yet it is Nell that the LORD CARP Juane* should have bad thecourage to step ontof the path of routine. and in the interest of a great Constittt tional principle vindicate the supremacy of the law of Englund over a figment to which the nano of martial law has been applied. THE TILIMES EMBANKMENT. TEAT the Thames Embankment will oust five milli ms instead of two millions and a half, vett burprim- no one acquainted with estimates for public works or familiar with what has been done on our river-side. There is not a finer bit of masonry in the kingdom we had almost written in the world—than the stone wall and balustrade *bleb keeps out the water from the land reclaimed. It is far handsomer than any of the quays of the Seine. The extreme finish of the massive blocks is carried below the water-line, and a few professional critics object that needless expense, has been incurred, and that some more rough and ready work might have been introduced into the embankment. A few years' washing from the river, and contact with London smoke will terribly mar its present beauty. The lion's head rings will chain Roman galleys to the whore ; the fine and delicate stone work will enjoy no immunity from the least considerate climate in tlie world. But the public are well pleased that the work has been so far well done, and are only anxious for its completion. Souse weeks ago, we pointed out that the sanguine views of a contemporary as to the immediate opening of the embankment were certainly premature, and it closed roadway remains practically in the same condition as when we wrote. The Board of Works want money, and the Ciptlecrzunt of the EXCHEQUER proposed on Friday night, that a Treasury guarantee should be given to enable that body to raise 1,830,000/. Unfortunately the Rouse of CGiunions was seized with a languid it at the time of the proposal, and a count out ensued. But the security offered by the Board is ample; the work is urgent and useful, and we trust no eon siderations of exceeded estimates will cause the loan to be delayed. IT was not to be expected that the Report of tho Committee on the Boundary Bill would give uni versal satisfaction. It has been rumoured to-day that the Conservatives intend reeistanoti; but we doubt if they will succeed in getting a full muster on the question, as there are several cases in which they aro benefltted individually. The in stance which chiefly moves their ire is the reversal of the recommendations of the Boundary Com missioners reelecting Bhminghau►. They dis like the prospect of two great urban districts ad joining the borough being left for the oounty, and will probably take a division upon the matter. The Government certainly implied that they would stand by the decision of the Committee to which these cases were last referred. The original instruc tions to the Boundary Commission have not yet been produced, but the idea abroad—a deduction pro bably from the course pursued—is that the in structions in effect required that the town popu lations should as much as possible be abstracted from the counties. Tux conditions under which the Daily News ap peared this morning bear testimony to the in creaain,g demand for newspaper literature. What it has been at threepence, the Daily News will be at a penny, save in certain added features of a popular kind. It possesses a character and traditions which it would not readily forego, and its aim, so far as we understand it, is to increase the number of newspaper readers rather than to divide those already existing with its con temporaries. With a population of three millions and a half in London alone ; with thousands upon thousands of enfranchised citizens standing upon the threshold of political life ; with Liberal princi ple.; entering upon fresh era and a new develop ment ; with a call which is almost without parallel for thoughtful comment upon contemporary his tory ; with all these witnesses crying Mond in tho streets—it is but natural that the Daily News should seek to meet the demand it has largely assisted to create. WHEN the railroad across the continent of America is completed, there will be constant con veyances by means of railways and mail packets for passengers desiring to travel round the world. This grand tour will be 22,000 miles in length, will cost about 3001., and will be accomplished in about 80 days. The English tourist will be able to visit Am erica, Japan, China, Ceylon, and Egypt. He walla:roes the Atlantic, North Pacific, and Indian Oceans, tho RedandMediterranean Seat the continent of Ame rica, and theDeltaof Egypt. Ho will be abletoleave England, say the beginning of May, and to arrive home again about the middle of July. Steam packets leave England for New York almost daily. Daily trains will start from New York for San Francisco. Mail steamers leave San Francisco for Hong-Kong monthly ; and Hong-Kong for South ampton fortnightly. This morning another report (the eighth) of the Trades Union Commissioners was Maned. It consists of the evidence given at the meetings on the 6th and 12th of last month. The witnesses were Mr. Richard, the agent for the Wigan District Association of Lancashire miners, Mr. ltionnaniiel, Secretary to the South Yorkshire Miners' Association ; Mr. A. Macdonald, Mr. William Brown, miners agent ; Mr. A. Hewlett, Mr. W. Eley, and Mr. A. Higginscm, the latter being Honorary Secretary of the Coal Owners' Association of Leicestershire aad South Derbyshire. INCRBABZ OF PArPERISX. According to a return publiabed this morning, it appears that the average number of paupers receiving relief in England and Wales during 1867 was 931,646, of which number 24,379 were lunatics confined in asylums or licensed houses. The total average shows an increase on that of the year 1868, but a decrease on the previous three years, the numbers in 1863-64 being considerably over a million. The total sum expended for the relief of the poor only was 6,969,8401., which wus in excess of the expenditure of the ten years over which these returns extend. la the metropolis alone there was last year a very marked in crease of pauperism, having risen from 104,4901. in 1886 to 122,454/. in 1867, and the expenditure shows a propor tionate increase, baying risen from 978,2621. to 1,176,3631. DUffi of DNIVIRSITII.—It appears from a return published this morning that the total number of persons qualified to form a parliamentary constituency in the Uni versity of Dublin, if the franchise he founded on the degree of KA., or any higher degree, is 3,366, and of those who have taken the B.A. degree, 7,715. - • - ROYAL VISIT TO ASCOT RACRB.—The gathering on Ascot Heath this week will be honoured with the pre sence of their Royal Anew' the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince and Christian of Schleswig.. Holstein, and other members of the Royal Family. The Prince and Princess of Wales have taken Thome-park for the week, and Prince and Princess; Christian will entertain a large party at F ore, and will accompany the Prince and Pruteess of Wales on Tuesday and Thursday, when their royal highnesses will proceed in "Asoat ii.te" to the course. The Queen's Stand, the Jockey Club Stand, and the Grand Stand have been repainted and decorated, and to the Grand Stand a new lead roof lout been added. The couve is in capital order, notwithstanding the want of rain. The go:d cup, made by Mr. °arrant of the Hay market, is of the value of DOW., instead of :lOW. ai here tofore. .. . T ' .- TEMPORARips. •t-. - .. 4 DAY.) k .1 1 4i, i• -.__. Cod, question what dia /alias 410 do with - ilifti s *ispen.ory Bill, the Ting , + appeals to fo , _ __ 'G, JUNE 8, good won. of that largo section of the Upper Howe whiff L fres front aoclatiesticel primpossessiess or the trammels of party. If the hill were rejected, the Lords would ap pear before tha t tribunal' to winik an appeals to be so sow male, out merely as the antagonists of the popular house, but also u the champions of privilege agaiturt Joanne. It is sad them should be any danger that the House of Lords will piedge ibarlf to maintain mash a system dreamed, as it has bean, by stitillMlS of every generation, and thus at once put itself at issue with a vast mass of its country men hitherto uneatreookiesit. In other article* the newe points out that the dillicul ties of the Sultan's government arise from the MOM of the new Greek kingdom and of the Serena and Rou manian Principalities, and from the belief of the Eastern Christian. that theirs is the cause of Christsndom, and that Christendom will work out their triumph. The Chris tian no longer quarrel. about the character of Turidatt rule. Good, bad, or indifferent, where he has any hope of shaking it of be will have none of it. Mentioning the immense some which have been col lected for the Bishop of Louden'. l'und, the Time pro ceeds to examine be distribution, oqrselally- oludienging the expenditure of large sums on what are rolled new and permanent churches for the poorer districts. Tracing the history of a church of this kind, oar contemporary repreoents that in many came a church is imply provided . for those who might have found mom elsewhere, and the poor are not a whit the better of. If some of the money ' now spent on building and sites were invested as a enema of income for maintaining clergy in " minim district-," the committee might look forward to the future without anxiety. The Deily News IE4 its opening leader refers e re duction of its price, and seta forth the conditions and sig nificance of the change. It also enters upon a retro spect of the 22 years of its history. The trade and finance article depicts some of our rail way companies ea making use of the same clever, inventive, ever-ready but most costly gentleman who in sporting circles is known a. the sporting nobleman's Con fidential Adviser. This personage will often pretend to take the symptoms for the dinner itself ; he will be satis fied If lie gets rid of them oven at the expense of the suf ferer's constitution; and wide displaying a fumy acti vity for the patient's recovery, ha will indulge the vary weakness which has undermined his health. The Laming of debenture stock I. an illustration of the meaner in which, in order to obtain dividends, railway shareholders consent to permanent additional burdens. Every act of extravagance, and every rockier expedient resorted to to palliate its consequences, brings nearer the time when the State will be forced to wander the pro priety of taking the railways of the country into its own hands—a time which it is the intend of shareholders to delay as long se posade. The Pea expresses a hope that the present parliament, although ' moribund," may have sufficient vitality and vigour to grapple with the great question of depart. mental reorganisation, and to take care that true ad ministrative and financial principles are embodied in the regulations for the constitution and guidance of the new " Control Department " of the War-ollice. The re/wingut counsels both political parties to carry on the contest upon the Irish church fairly and honourably, and without shameful aspersions, and that low rhetoric) which brings an imperial crisis down from dignity and privity to the level of a disturbance in the market- Place- The Telegraph holds the appointment of Mr. Street as architect of the new law minis to be sztremely gratifying, and says it is well that Mr. Street should now have the opportunity of establishing an enduring celebrity for him self, and of endowing the metropolis with an edifice of witch the nation may be reasonably proud. If the public were polled to wlect the bold Gothic architect of the day, their decision must inevitably fall on either Scott or Street. Mr. Gilbert Scott has enough, and almost too much, to do. The Star insist that the committee on the Boundary was a fair and an authoritati►e one, and that its wise decisions must be supported. The Star also oosiamatu upon the Ulster presbyterians and their desire to bolster up the State churvh in order to maintain their dole from the Con solidated Fund. THEATRICAL NOTES, The friends of Madame Schneider make no secret of the fact that she is to receive 801. a night during her engagement at the St. James's Theatre, and we hare therefore little hesitation in making it public. After allow ing for the discount that may be always taken off thea trical salaries, this leaves i very regal amount—far more than any "grind duchess" of any German principality e►er dreamed of in her wildest dreams. She will get as mush in one night as her composer, M. Offenbach, de manded for one week's services ae musical director of the theatre. Thera is no truth in the report that "the eminent dra• mails author," Mr. &Judeanlt, will be the lessee of the new theatre now building on the site of the Strand Music. hall. Mr. Fechter will return to the Adalphi in the autumn, and appear in an English version of Monte Christ's. Herr Bandmann's next ♦enture at the Lyceum will be SAykek. Miss Bateman will return to the Loudon stage in the autumn, and appear at the Haymarket. Mr. Bouticaules new drama. the .Nifki Side of Lend" . will not be peedseed at **Priam/ids instil the autumn, and before this an "honourable" amateur, who performs under the name of Angleton. win maks hi s Appetit:onm at this house as Hamlet, and as Romeo, with Mies Neilson as Juliet. Drury-lane will open after the opera season with a new drama by Mr. Halliday, in Which Mr. Phelps wal +ppar. ify. Watts Phillips is preparing a new play for the Queen's Theatre, and Mr. Byron's Logrefuhire LeS4 has also been accepted by the Dame management TO TO ZOITOZ of TO Elie. me to direct jour attention to the fact that the statements put forward in the article published in your edition of Thursday, and headed "Safe Petroleum," are totally at variance with the truth, and that Dr. Letheby, and even Dr. Atilleld, who wrote the other day to the Timm on this subject, will readily declare that the American refined petroleum imported into and sold in this country requires its temperature to be raised to about 100 degrees Fahrenheit and more in order to set it " blaring " with a lighted match, although some of it may produoe an inflammable vapour at • few degrees un 100. Perhaps you are not aware that the - English coal oil trade has suffered severely since American petroleums has been imported into this country, and has brought the prices of mineral oils down from shout par gallon to about Is. 3d. per gallon, bauslltiChs. Almosta conferred on our poorerall the Boot& and Welsh coal oil refineries have been closed because they could no longer compete, and it is in conesquenoe of this state of things that a few deeply interested parties have used all the influence they could marshal in order to obtain protection through an act of parlia ment in direct violation of the principle of free trade. Petroleum as at present exported from America is not a dangerous article, but safe for an practical purposes, and whatever alterations of the old act of parliament the scientific referees will suggest to the government, it is already quite certain that the standard 141 not be raised to 110 deg. first flash as proposed in the new tell. I hope that for the sake of veracity you will kindly publish this letter in the columns of your valuable paper.—l am, ke., Z. (7, confirms our statements indeed of proving them to be at variance with truth. He says petroleum must to warmed to " about 100 deg. F." before • match-flame will ignite it ; the temperature we mentioned, namely, that of blood, or one's band (98), is also "about 100 deg."—En.) ADMIRALTY, duns 6.—AwPonnintlwrit.--fittr geon William to the Favourite. Acting-aseistant Surgeon, Dr. ony Gorham, Patrick 0. C. D'Ogle, and Jas. Robertson, to the Riftlesnaka, all additional for disposal. Amistant-Surgeons Dr. J'&n Walsh, to the Pioneer; and Th ee. H. Atkisson, to the Lee. Tim BintnrvArry.—The names of Mr. Alder man Cotton and Mr. Charles Hutton, of Newgate-street, have been well received in the City, and in all probability there will be no contest. The successor to Alderman Allen in the mayoralty is Mr. Alderman James Clarke Lawrence, and the year of his °Hoe will be aignalieed by the occurrence of three events in the City proper, viz., the opming of Blockfriars-bridge, the completion of the Smithfield Cattle Market, and the opening of the Holborn_ valley Viaduct. DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DISEASES, 66, GREAT lifaatnomorou-wear, Iticolorr-vrakrr, W.-141 patients were relieved at this dispensary during the week ending June 6. 1 1 864t4:, jr )141471 4N NEWS. (T.'S DAY.) 4 • t " 4 ° - A SCENE IN THE CORPS LEGIML!tTIFF. During the sitting on Saturday of the Corps Legit;latif, X. Emile 011ivier made use of the phrase that " there was M the Ministry of the Interior a minister- of parade, who was watched by a minister of action, modestly sheltered under the name of a direetor-general." President tiesnounns—You have made uao of an es. preesion which you did not intend. 1 beg of you to correct it. IL E. Ormerma—The expression was meditated, M. le President. It represents my idea, and I adhere to it. M. ecioacomaLarou &odd not adhere to such ass ea. Franke, and, as for ale, I cannot allow it to pare with out energetic pretest. Boirsz—The language of Y. Olbrier obliges the to ley that his dimension is a discussion of parade. (Cheers msd counter cheers.) Y. Demos— Supposing that my discussion is One of parade, permit me to reply that you have been my master in that art. (Noise, and various exclamations.) Y. SentruDE2—We are not here to listen to personal attacks, and I require that there should be no direct inter pellations. (mmen.) In a anbooquent part of the debate, • M. Bonnie said—Peendt me to tell you what facts are oontinuelly showing; the friendship and solidarity of the empire and of liberty are now manifested to alt impartial person. ("True, true.") Yes! the work of the empire may be seamed up in two words—the preservation of order first, and next the separation of the liberal from the revolutionary nag; and the former we shall hold high and ann. (" Very good," and applause.) M. Lamm DIIMOULIN—The Minister of State, as is his wont, has teminated his speech by an appeal to con. servative as cmstra-distinguished from revolutionary passions. (Noise.) But the revolutionary passions of whom ? We are here discussing the case of a conservative, of the son of General Gonne, that is to say the ma of a man profoundly attached to the empire, and yet the Minister of State Mahe, to mislead public opinion by an equivotple whist' I do not cars to charm twin. (Noise.) DL Bousm-C 6 •r•cteriso it •s you Mu. X. Luna Mamoru! --Tho word cquiroque Li • suf• Saud qu,SAr.tion (astrraz's 1111.1101W11.) ABYSSINIA. (By Malta and Alexandria Telegraph.) ALEXANDRIA. Jura 7. Colonel Milward Fraser, with Sir Robert Napier's despatches and King Theodore's crown, &A yesterday for England, via Marseilles. The 33rd Regiment have arrived at Suez. THE NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION. SCHWE►EIN, Jams 8. Herr von Below, Minister of State of New Btrelita, has been appointed Minister Plenipoten tiary of the two Mecklenburgs et Berlin, and will represent both Grand Duchies in the Federal Council. THE GRAND PRIX DE PARIS. (vain s. anuunroxparr.) PARIS, 81:INDAT Emmet. The greatest fete for French sporting men and for the Parisian world in general is unquestionably the day on which the Grand Prix de Paris is run for in the Bois de Bonlogne. On the Saturday night preceding the race, between the hours of 9 and 12, the English bookmakers, who have crossed the Channel to turn over a " cool " thousand or two, make up their books at the Salon des Courses; shopmen and clerks invest their five-franc pima; at the " Sporting Office " on the Boulevard dos Italiens, in much the same manner as an English man, ignoring the French language, would order his dinner from the bill of fare at a restaurant where none of the waiters speak Eng lish ; and grooms and coachmen quarrel over their pots of beer, and give their opinion about " that 'ere hoes," in some low publiehouse in the neigh bourhood of the Champs Elyst-es. On Sunday about mid-day cabriolets, stanhopcs, and drags may be aeon to draw up at the principal hotels and clubs ; spicy little coupes and victories, with natty little coachmen in blue and gold, white buckskin breeches and top boots, with bouquets of roses fastened in the front of their coats, dash out of the Cliaussee d'Antin and the Rue Leffitte, and follow the Boulevards in the direction of the "Bois." From the Faubourg St. Germain, over the Pont de la Conoorde, comes the heavy pair horse baronche, and the old-fashioned brougham, whilst down the Rue Royale from the Boulevard Malesherbes, and out of thc streets rtm thug into the Champs Elysees, the belles of the season are borne along in C-spring berouches said victories d is demi-Daumont. Up the Champ. Elyek.e, down the aristo cratic Avenue de l'lmperatriee, and along the shady avenues of the " Bois," gol the drags, barouches, landaus, and stanhopes of the grand monde intermixed with the victories and coupes of the demi. The voiture a huit rmorts of some duchess who inhabits an hotel in the Champs Elysees, follows the little coupe of the demi mondaine, who lives on an retread in the Chaussee d'Antin or the Rue Blanche ; the shopman, out for a holiday, canters along on his livery-stable hack, by the side of a little viscount who never pays lees than 5,000 francs a piece for his horses, and who trace. his descent in a direct line from some Nor man baron of the 11th century. In the midst of this mass of carriages is the bourgeois, with his wife and family, all crammed into a single horse cab, drawn by one of those remarkably lean grey horses so common on the Parisian macadam. His skin seems to have become so hard that the lash, which is continually coming down upon his book, I appears to make no impression on him whatever, unless it is that he nervously switches his tail from right to left, as if to drive away a By that is tormenting him. Along the Allis de Longchampe, and across the Avenue de la Reine Marguerite, and in a few minutes they will arrive at the cascade. The bourgeois and the dead-rnondaine drive on to the ground and take up their positions in the midst of the " Paige.," the " Sporting offices " and the vehicles of the Browns and the bonnie. " from London," which come down in swarms on a day like this ; while the exquisite. drive round to the back of the tribunes and block up the adjoining avenues with their carriages. Here are long trains trailing in the dust and bonnets hardly larger than a penny bun, which dainty little angers have been working at all night ; anfures die Marie Antoinette, executed by the Empress's hair-dresser, and wigs in the fashionable oolour, which Bgadsaie's femme de chambre requested should be sent home not later than 10 o'clock this morn ing, In order that this capricious beauty, might be seen at the roses with twenty or thirty pounds' worth of flaxen ringlets hang ing down her back. There, too, one recog nise. the work of the great Dusantoy, who, be sides being tailor to his Majesty Napoleon HI. and claiming to be " cost builder " to half the crowned heads in Europe, was but a short time since the proprietor of a daily political newspaper. Had he been es successful in journalism as he is in tailoring he world probably have continued by giving a political cut to the various articles of clothing that left his e•tablislunent ; thus we should have the legitimist by the cut of hi. Bonapartist by the fit of his tr.)vt.o-ri. arid tl j i shape of the coat and the number of its butt„„ would have denoted the stawith swarm of dandies Milt at h.itigelinnqi, they had just come out of so ninny imn.14,,E.: with the skirts of their cots :in inch ishort- r • they were a fortnight ago at Chantilly, and i:„ lower portion of their face concealed by midable stand-up collar. while at raising bootmalcer has supplied Home of them with lavender kid hoots tipped with 1,1,4 Cupidon, tho pet of the Jockey Club, w.i 4 6ri grass in a pair-hors brougham ; she wa; .1 in a black silk dress trimmed with white su I was playing with a very fine black pug !biz, lit. first three rat es excited little intereat. ur IL', P r i t d'Armononville, Neothenno, belon gin t t h.. • Bethune-Sully, was first. In the Prix Pavilions, Perette. belonging to M. M first. The Prix de la Ville de Paris ws, w , , ll L T the Duke of TTaniilton'fl Crhital f ,pi race. The Emperor, the Prince Inipenal. th • PrincemMuthildo occupied the imperi.d , t . tended by a number of ladies and R..1161,1..11. amongst whom were the General Fleury and ti, • Baron Ifausinnann. Seven horses startvd Grand Prix de Paris. When The Earl appearance he WIN saluted as a earthor... ,;,.. ignorant spectators. Little did they think th .t could win in a canter. Just before two little incidents afforded considerable meat; the ono consisted of a little fight opposite the imperial stand, and the otii,t •, the breaking of the cord at the buttoin hill, and the consequent covering of the 4'9%7, i n the crowd. At last the bell rang, and made their appearance. The betting on the course on the Grand Paris was : 6 to 4 on The Ear! 10 to 1 Art 141APA4in 4 tot Vale Hopi 4 to 1 Dirilusko 60 to 1 Sedan 3to 1 - Suzerain 60 to 1 Sanianapalo. They all got off together the finis. tim, "Nian taking the lead, followed clovly by Nc!.1;1). akin, and The Earl. They occupied the 91::: • ;Iv on passing tho windmill, but at the ih, boy in yellow came to the inlnt tend t..sk the lead until they had pesied th,. On coming down the hill, and on turning tie , ie. corner, they were all dose together. Fiore N,•::.1.;!;) wee called upon, and for a few moment.: an.nr.•::3 to the call, but The Earl, separating. hiukkili fro m the others, came to the front and won by a h. ng th with the most perfect easP. At 9 f.'W tect from winning-post, Neluako Iraq lie .ten by gluon:tin. who was second by about a Week, and Sedan cam , in fourth, and a disappointod ea, heard to remark :—" Tu reimport" encore, oe parade Albion Seer -r-r-r :" iffrt Court. BALMORAL. CASTLFI, dire The Queen drove out both in the morning n! afternoon. The Queen went out in the morning,, accompanied by Primer Louise, and her Memoir drove out in the an,. 110014 attended by the Duette.* of Athole, the Hen. 1 4.. Cathcart, and the Duke of Marlborough. The Duke of Marlborough had tho honour of 1.a.a., with the Queen and the Royal leannly. The Prince and Primer of Wales drove out on Sata: day. In the evening their Royal Highn-isim, neeninlioeyyl by the Crown Prince of Denmark, went to Her Majesty Opera, Drury-lane. The Prince and Princess of Wales, and the Com Prince of Denmark, with the Countess of Mace.lcati:l4, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel. and CeptainLand in wsina; attended divine service at the Chapel Rey!, R. Jsmo,',. yesterday. The ocaninnnion service wee rood by the Rev . Tsrrut Reknore and the Rev. O. M. Arnold. Anthem—" Come let us worship," Mendeliaohn. Sol+ —Mr. Cummings. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon waa premheil by the Rev. Timms &boom from 11. Cor., eh. 1, T. 2. Prince Christian, attended by Lient.-CoVed dined on Saturday evening at the annivervirr diana oi the " Newapoper Pres* Fulel" at Wilkie Room. A Cabinet Council was held on &bal.) at t:u official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-stroct. Tho ministers Prim: were :—The Rig - ht Hon. B. Disraeli, the LA Chanoellor, the Earl of Malumoslatuy, the RsuilL Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley. the Duke of Buckinfhani and Chandos, Sir John Pakingtou. Sir S. horthoote, the Chauutaur of the Sola quer, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners and the Earl of Mayo. Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, Royal Engineer hai interview with Lord Stanley at the Foreign-saes in Saturday on his return from Constantinople. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Cokaisl. °Sloe from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Gibral tar, and Malta. Despatches were sent to the Uoverava of the North American Provinces, Bermuda, Bntist Columbia, British Honduras, the Bahama.. 201 tb 4 Mauritius. Her Majesty the Queen, with the royal family attended by the ladies and gentlemen of th e cosset according to the most recent arrangements, t:u" fns Scotland about Wednesday, the 17th tad. Mrs. W. H. Gladstone had an evening P a " on Saturday at the family residence on Carlton liouse-ter race. Previously to the reception the Right Eon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone entertained st: dinner—Tho Earl and Counted@ el Clarendoe, the u l of Zstland, the Earl of Beseborough, the }Berl o f CB2/lIN down, the Earl of Morley and Lady Catherine Porter, Lord Harris, the Bishop of London and M rs. Tait. Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley, As Right Hon. Sir John and lady Young , th e Right /In Frederick Peel, Sir Bounden and Lady Palmer, V- The Count and Countess de Paris entertained this following company at dinner on Saturday even in g et 1.°4 Hostas, Twiclkenhain :—Frassoes C oun t e ss WeldersTe , wg the Bight Hoe. Chichester Fortesene, 11. P., the Eight ..... %"" Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., and the Right. 11° ' Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs. Cardwell, the Hera. Stanley, Mr. John Bright,,l.P., Mr. and Mrs. Beery R.*" and Wen Reeve, M. de Rimumt, the Marquis an d the , lLst• guise de Beauvoir, the Comte de Beauvoir, M. and Islas" Laugel, Mine Weston, M. Begun, and Mr. and 3IN. Dw e l* The operas announced for the current week at. , Covent-garden are the Hwontees (to.night); La de. Beggisiesthi t with Madlle. Adelina Patti as Maris—" tr 4 time these three years"—to morrow; L'AlrioiThc time this season (Thursday) ; La Sommeheiala (may , . and Le Ferorite (Saturday). The operas announced for the present week st Drin74ane are Lama di Lammermoor (to-mnrrow night). If Berlina eh Biriglie (Tluireday) ; and Ls Sou s Figswo—second time (Saturday). A grand choral festival will be held at Lynd hurst in the New Forest on the 18th instant. According to a Board of Trade return just pub - Hated, the importation of wheat into France during l e first quarter of the present year was throe times as gran' as in the corresponding period of last year. In Bellow° it was about 2:i per cent. more than in 1867. The value G i the cotton imported into France during the first gustier o f the present year was 2.446,0001. in excess of the total for the mine quarter of 1887. and, looking at this fret, sa d the enormous sums paid for foreign wheat, the moons. lotion of 48 millions of gold at the llank of Flatted WOO" more than ever remarkable. ' ti • it eit lei ha/ all pee seri 131111 • deb in I and tin law bee in the 1 elOe but ant] the