The Express. — London, England, 1868-04-30 00:00:00

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DAY —Atoning, 711 7c.-k9iti;vw ..Aitcrnoon, 911 NOTIt 'I'S of ft: .11c, MA1:h11 , 1 , ... on,: C 1 kritt. are rtNt• rytnl loth It o'ckh. • Itt: IM art lon AMU., tart:mint • rsce. 38 A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINCtO The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; • Railway, Mining, and other Sharer ; Sporting, and General Intelligence. IS ru DLISHED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, TaURSDAY, APRIL 30. THE 1-3:4b1511 MAY, OLD ... I .NP .NEW. WHEN nl4lllllO. Wik , Merry England, the month of May, on the eve of which we now stand, was the merriest month in the year. The hearts of the people moved sympathetically with the reviving life of Nature; and men, women, and children, in crowded cities pent, were drawn from their close homes and stitlinty dwell ings into the freTli 6elua and the open air. The gammons of Nature Ivan not to be withataw:, at the semon when Daisies pied and violets Liao, Aud ladies'•smocks all slim whitv. And cuckoo-hada of yellow bge, Did paint the meadows with delight. The heathen worship cf the goddesF. FLoi... sur vived innocently and gracefully in Christian Eng land. People went out a-Mating in those days, Both inoete and 10-. e, To fetch the Cowerea Bailie, and bratin4L sad bloom. Peasants and Princes alike did honour w the asssou. 1 /RN RY VIII., whom even Mr. Fnornt will snit champion as ft model of rural innocence and simplicity, rode a-hisying with his weer and Clourt to Shooter's Hill. In ionic parts of the opuntry these innocent and ploaeant celebrations dial survive. The hawthorn if oser.., the " May" pair norAlence, which not only country lads and uses. gather, but which hulking city boys and factory girls issue from the smoi.e and din of 4e streets to pluck and bring h.er,, , or the first of the month, are antic and rtmeinlirencar of more genial rites and sports. In villages, in which something of the old life and mirth of England still continues, wells and fountnins are dressed with flowers. But for the nefst ieert these things belong to the past. We read of them in poets, old or new, in ell /ARMS, in Su Mitros, to TEN N Y30:4, and cultivate a pleasingsentimen tality in tie reminiscence. But the things themselves are gone. In the struggle ter e..isteuee, the rural festivities and "innocent pleasures," for which Madame DE kansi. had so keen a distaste, have heon vanquished. The *lt Maypole which once o'er-Imiked the Strand o'er-looks it no loirf:cr. If is did, it could not have survived Sir Its-osno MAT ma and the Streets Traffic AM. 'nrapb of science over poetry was it was re moved to serve as the support of Sir I,,Ase Nawron'e teleeeope. Jae IC -111 ever now chows his sooty face branches, indicating the escape closely associated than any other and soot, and chimney-pots of great cities into the peewees of fields and woods. The QUEEN of the May survives only in the pages of the Porr arazATc. The moms-dancers have danced into the peat. But May has still its characteristic celebrations. There are the May meetings, which have their favourite home in Exeter-hall, useful and interesting to those who frequent them, but which these secular columns are not the place to characterise. The religious world still goes a Maying after its own fashion. But the lighter amusements of May have not perished. They are merely changed. They are mostly now taking place under roofs of glass or of brick. The flower.showl in which London delights are no longer to be found in woods and meadows, by hedge-rows and streams, but in Horticultural Gardens and Crystal Pal►ces. The people " both moete and leste " go a-Maying now I not to Shooter's-hill, but to Muswell-hill, Ken sington, and Norwood ; and. so far from pluck ing " dowers, both branch and bloom," visitors are very Foperly requested to keep their fingers from them. An attempt to revive the old custom would be speedily avenged by the tayrmidons 6f justice. Trafalgar square is another great place of May-day pil grimage. Instead of rushing abroad to see how Nature has painted the meadows with delight, Society turns, catalogue in hand, into an inconvenient and crowded suite of rooms, to ob serve Mr CRESW)IICS and Mr. LINNELL'S paint ings on canvas. The fruit and flower pieces of art are more interesting now to the greater part of men than those of the field and garden. Nature in oil and water colours possesses attractions for the many which Nature, interpreted only by herself,has failed to exert. For the simple music of rustic festii7als, we have Grand Opera Concerts, Tunic Sol fa Concerts, Concerts of the Philharmonic Society and of the New Philharmonic Society. Instead of rural games there are two Opera Houses. Morris dancers have given way to ballet dancers. The only peasants for whom regard is felt are stage peasants; and they are paid for amusing spectators by the pretence of amusing themselves. This state of things is not to be quarreled with. It must be accepted. If it indicates loss of simplicity, it in dicates also growth of refinement. if cordiality has vanished, some rudeness has gone with it. Artificial as our amusements are, they are yet a relief from the strife and hurry of daily life, the absorption in business cares, the strain of the faculties which make existence a task-work. It is well that people who take little pleasure in the choristers of the grove should Lind amusement in the chorus of the Opera; that those by whom the notes of the nightingale, the thrush, and the blackbird are unheard or unheeded, should be charmed by the notes of TITIEN , , and N1L.440N. and Sims REEVES. It is matter of congratulation that, at Norwood and at Musaell-hill. the country should be brought to those oho cannot go to the country ; and that men to whom Nature, at first hand, is a blank page, should learn to see her beauty through the more discriminating eyes and the interpreting hands of great artists. The com petition of theatres, and opera-houses, and concert rooms, the rivalry of the Royal Academy and the Water Colour Society. of French and Flemish and English artists. and of the exhibition of a single painting or the collected works of a great modern master. such as HOLMAN Ht - vr and GUSTAVE Dot:►:. are signs of a varied interest and a keen sensibility for which it is hard to find food. The May of the 19th century differs essentially from May in the 14th, or even in the 16th. Even the poetry and the example of Lord JOHN Mam- Nee., will not restore May Queens and Maypoles to this degenerate age. But the difference is not all fur the wore if there is loss, there is also gain. J • from Blackwood hive accom panied every political change expected to disturb the privileges of a class. Discussing the Irish Church Establishment, it luxuriates in the talk of the " White " revolution order. Despairing of par liament and of the country, Blevkwood (of May), turns to the Crown in a way half-threatening, half-deferential. The reader is begged to make a special note of the fact that Queen Vicroatt does not reign by right of hereditary possession, but 'by a parliamentary title and nothing more. it is as good, it is not one whit better, than " that by which the purchaser of an " Irish manor in the Encumbered Estates Courts " holds his lands." There are still living princes, it seems, who. " were the hereditary principle " observed, would have a juster title to the ini " perial crown than she." But this is not all. "Queen Vicrortils title to the " British crown is a conditional title. It ceases to " be a good title if the conditions be broken, of " which the most important are deliberately " stated in the coronation oath." The writer goes on to affirm that the principles embodied in the Acts of Settlement and Bill of Rights, which form the basis of the English constitution, deter mine that the bare attempt to disturb the union between Church and State, shall be visited on the highest personage in the realm with forfeiture of the throne. " Nor will anyone," says Blackwood, " pretend to say that these principles apply leas "to Ireland than to England." There is more in the same strain—such as that the bond between the Church and the Sovsaatnx " cannot be broken 1 " except at the cost of individual as well as of " kingly honour;" that the pound of contest " affects the S0%1111E162( in her private sense of " truth, not less than in her sense of public duty," and so forth. But nothing is meant by it, and nobody is alarmed. THE Assists/it-Commissioner who examined the schools of Sussex and Surrey exposes a kind of imposition that is not uncommonly practised upon parents by private schoolmasters. He visited a private school, the master of which gave a very flourishing account of his own qualifications and of the progress made by his pupils. He taught them classics to such perfection, he said, that they had no occasion to go to any university after leaving his .ichool. The Assistant-Commissioner had some dithculty in inducing the master to let him examine the Lop', but the latter was quite willing to show him their work. This " work " was contained in " fair copy-books" garnished with magnificent scrolls frees the pen of the master, and consisted of exercises professing to be done by the owner of each copy-book, in arith metic, mensuration, and translations from Latin, Greek. or French. It appears, however, that this is how the exercises are got up. A boy first works an example ;on his slate, after which it is corrected by the *10140,2 , ', and copied oat into the show copy book. Ten lines of Latin or Greek are translated by the boy, and correcimai by the water before being entered into the book. The collection is thin THE report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the revenues of the Irish Church is likely to appear next week, and the Government expect great things from it. The report is said to show a large ex cess of revenue above the requirements for the maintenance of the Church, but at the same time to hint at such an application of the funds as could be reconciled with the projects of the Government. Lord DERBY'S apeoch on Tuesday night has given great offence in the House of Commons, and doubts are freely expressed u to the possibility of ministers standing their ground as a beaten Government for the next three months. It is arranged that the division on the first of Mr. GLensroites resolutions shall take place to-night. THE local postal arrangements of America seem to be strangely behind the time. Fourteen letters were recently posted in various parts of New York to an address within five minutes walk of the post-office, and the time occupied in delivering them ranged from 14 hours 55 minutes to 18 hours 51 minutes. Other experiments have been i tried. Eleven letters were posted from one of the suburbs of Brooklyn to an address in the E.C. district of that city, and the time of transit ranged from 19 hours to 25 hours 10 minutes. "The " way t How not to do it' is," says the reformer who exposes this abuse, " one of the official secrets "of the New York post-office ;" and instances are adduced of routine and red-tape which would do credit to the worst days of administrative obstruc tiveness hero. " They manage these things " better in England " is actually the cry, and the permanence of the official appointments is put forward in explanation of the difference. In America a system in itself faulty is administered by men who are appointed by each PRESIDENT in turn, and the result is 118 "if the officers of a navy of first-class ships, "from admiral to boatswain, were removed every " four years." Our native authority is bitterly satirical upon "the sluggish American mind," and suggests that it might be well to borrow help even from the "effete nationalities of Europe," and to see if a few smart English clerks could not put the New York post-office arrangements upon a proper footing. A statement from MtERAT'S " Handbook," that a well sealed and carefully directed penny-post letter is the safest and most expeditious London messenger, is quoted, and a contrast drawn between the hourly deliveries from our pillar-boxes and the days of delay there. Altogether, the dwellers in old England may plume themselves upon their superiority to young America in one great essential to advancement and civilisation. SUPPOSING the late Abyssinian captives to have left immediately for home after their liberation, they may be looked for in about a month from the present time. They were set free on the 10th inst., and were then 400 miles from the sea. The mail packets that pass the Abyssinian coast every week reach Southampton in 23 days. gin &flirt. OSBORNE, Arm. 29. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Christian, sad attended by Lady Augusta Stanley, and called on Lady Cowell. Prince Adalbert of Prussia 'hilted her Majesty and remained to luncheon. His royal highness was attended by Captain Von Saint Paul and Captain• Lieutenant Count Francis Waldersee, aides-de-camp to his royal highness. His royal highness was received on landing at Osborne pier by Prince Christian and Major-General F. H. Seymour, Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty. The Queen walked in the grounds this morning, acoom panied by Princess Louise. The other members of the royal family also went out. The Earl of Tankerville (Lord Steward) arrived at Osborne to-day, and presented an address to her Majesty from the House of Lords relative to the late attempt upon the life of the Duke of Edinburgh. The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday. attended by Major Grey. The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Stonor. In the evening their royal highnesses went to the Queen's Theatre. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the Governor-General of Canada, the Governors of the West India Islands, Malta, Bermuda, and New Zealand. Despatches were sent to the Governor-General of Canada. Last evening, on the occasion of Mr. J. L. Toole's benefit at the New Queen's Theatre, their Royal High. news the Prince and Princess of Wales honoured the performances with their presence. Their royal higlineases were received with extraordinary enthusiasm. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured M. and Madame Van de Weyer with his MD. posy at dinner last evening. The following were invited to meet his royal highness:—His Exoellency the French Ambassador, the Duke and Duchene of Cleveland and Hon. Miss Primrose, Lord and Lady Foley, Lord and Lady Eger ton of Tattoo, the Belgian Minister and Baroness Du Jar din, the Right Hon. Galles:erne Hardy and Mrs. G. Hardy, Genera Francis Seymour, Colonel Philip Smith, and Mrs. Ralph Vivian. Ills Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Helmstedt have issued invitations for a party on Saturday next to meet his Royal Highness Prince Adal bed of Proud'. The Earl and Countess of hialmesbury enter tained the Duke and Guam of Marlborough, the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Bath, the Earl of Morley, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Viscount and Via. mutes& Barrington and Hon. Miss Barrington, Colonel Charles Leslie, M.P., Mr. Raillie Cochrane, ?LP., and Mrs. Cochrane, and Miss Gorges at dinner last evening at their residence in Stratford-place. The Archbishop of York and Dirs. Thomson re oeived at dinner, at their residence in Grosvenor-place, on Tuesday evening, the Earl and Counter of Carnarron, the Earl and Countoss Stanhope, Mr. and Lady Bose Weigall, Hon. Edward Stanhope, Mr. W. H. Gladstone, M.P., Captain Lane Pox, and a select party. The marriage of Mr. Charles Allsapp, eldest son of Mr. Henry Allsopp, of Hindlip Ha% Worcester, to Georgians Millicent, eldest daughter of Mr. C. B. Palmer- Morewood, of Alfreton Park, Derby, took place at Alfreton, yesterday, in the presence of a large company of friends of both families. THE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT AND THE ASSAD BINATION or run Hos. Ns. hi'Dsz.—The following despatch has been received by the T:oltod Stites consul in this city :—" Department of State, Washington, April 8, 1888.-11a*Deneral W. W. Amrill, Milted Bioko Oso sol•Goneral, 8.N.A.P., Newereg.-81r,—Yeor telegram, dated the 7th of April, anawassieg the aseasubsatima of the Hon. Thomas D'Arcy IlVios, ILP. has been received. The intelligence of this horrible trot It the °ameba of , =regret here, and it is earnestly that the perpe of that and Wawa* will be brought rpsedily to patios. am, air, your obedient wreak F. W. HERAILIP, fieemtary."—Mostred Dolly News, April H. itIIBSIAIt N N I DAY.) Amoklist to the leealide Rums, Russia is show ing her anxiety for the preservation of peace by her activity in making preparations for war. In its issue of April 24, we find the following : We have before u the repeal of the work done in the amens' et es. Pelembarg tee the year 1867. The activity displayed is four-feld more thee la preesdisg years. In the mimes of 1887 the arsenal has cost 310 41b. Gannon of the new pattern, and shoat 100 of the sib. calibre cannon. It has moreover coaverted 100 old guns of 12Th.. each into tided breech-loader, for the defines of fortresses. This extraordinary emotivity has sot prevented the improvement and conetreetlon of brass guns of large calibre. Besides the artillery arsenal at St. Petersburg timers exists • foundry at Brunk, la which workmen lime been employed night sad day during 1807. II - . ~ ;---.. , • R .., • .If.„ . ---.:' I 3-:he-t 1 . -el4l ` '•• .wi words 'My • POklt among • leaves . t • . Isom,. the his 1 _ .• ts , eof a pracadnismore .ilisistai•Commisstlister mad. to tni ‘ --" . : 1 her with the smoke, late the very pieces thus engrossed in ' show _ I groat cities into the copybook, and although each boy knew the RUSSIAN' A s. The Qt: sax of the English translation by heart, be could aph eon- Aocoittiag to the Lao pages of the POST- 'true it, and knew nothing of the grammar. The big her anxiety for the ceis h ave d ance d into master declined to let the 0001111/111101MIV examine a __ activity is moth dill its characteri s tic the boys in mathematics or arithmetic, alth oug h '''' In ita issue of April 24, May mee t ings , w hich their copybooks were full of excellent specimens we have were u the they, 1 X•zeter-hall. useful of Owes subjecta. aromas ' at t. Pesembera to TURKISH PREPARATIONS. A letter from Nisch, a town in the Servo- Bulgarian frontier, says : The Porte is arernbling ia all haste the aim= and redib, and sending them forward to the Berrien frontier. The heights that command Nis* are beteg armed with cannon. The troops an concentrating in the camp neer Violki, not far from Kangeneta. Fonr powder•wnggona have arrived hare. The Mita my that more troops. are coming from Sophia. it is difficult to my what is the ob;eet of all this, for no danger threatens the Porte on the part of Servia. 11t0T21111 TILIOLI[!.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Aran. 30. • It is asserted that negotiations between the Western Powers and Austria have been renewed, upon the initiative of the French Cabinet, for the purpose of sending a common maritime foroe into Greek waters. The object of this measure would be to put a stop to the communica tion carried on between the Greek harbours and Comas, and thus to cut off further supplies from the insurrection. The appointment of Count Viathum, formerly Saxon Minister at the court of St. James's, as Austrian Minister at Brussels, is confirmed. SPAIN. MADRID, ArArt. 29. The official Gazette of to-day publishes the ap pointment of General Pezuela as Captain-General of Madrid and that of the Marquis de Novalisches to the post of Captain-General of Catalonia. In to-day's sitting of the Cortes the debate on land mortgage banks was continued. In the Senate the Budget came under discussion. FEB SYDENHAM (THIS DAY.) L er ' 1 Y" lig — A - l i g . i Iva - A , • ...Iffirs..---, __ fiIIiORDINAET CONDUCT OF THE CULPRIT. prisoner Richard Bishop, who wee eon listed a* they'll swim of the Osedeal Orimissi Oesrt of the murder of a ease named Alfred Cartwright at Sydarhara, was executed this morning at 12 o'clock in front of the county gaol at Maidstone, the offence having Ma committed is the county of Use., sad the sentence, according to law, was carried out in the same county. The offence of which the culprit was convicted wee committed tinder very aggravated circumstances. The deceased was a married man, who was employed at a public-house called the Prieoe of Wales, at Sydenham. His wife keeps a small shop in the immediate neigh bourhood, and the murdered man was in the habit of going borne to sleep at night. Ile was about to do this on the night in question, being accom panied at the time by his father and mother, but on his reaching borne he found the prisoner Bishop and a number of other disorderly people quarreling outside his house, and the primmer was knocking at his shutters. The deceased requested him to desist, and the prisoner abused him and pushed him. He went for a police man and returned with one, and the prisoner then, in thc presence of the ofileer, struck him. The &yawed gave him into custody, and as they were going along the prisoner went up to ff Cartwright, and asked him whether he intended to press the charge of assault against him. Upon his replying that he did, the prisoner drew a dagger-knife from his pocket, and stabbed the unfortunate man. The knife passed into his heart, and he died almost im mediately afterwards. Instead of exhibiting any sorrow at the dreadful sot he bad committed, the prisoner appeared to have made use of the expression that the deceased had got some thing that he would not get over for some time, and although he himself attempted to make out as an ex cuse for hie conduct that he was drunk at the time, and did not know what he was doing, this was negatived by the evidence for the prosecution, all the witnesses agreeing that although he was a little excited by the drink he had taken, he knew perfectly well what he was about. The l learned judge who tried the prisons i n passing ce senten upon him, said that it was of the most deliberate and aggravated mundett hat be ever remembered in his judicial experience, and it is understood that upon the Secretary of State colkmu. nicating with him, as is always done in cases of con*. tions for murder, in reference to it, the learned judge as . _ he could not find any circumstance of mitigation in the prisoner's conduct, or anything that would justify the remission of the capital sentence. The prisoner was removed to Maidstone gaol imme diately after his conviction at the Central Criminal Court, and there appears no doubt that he anticipated a reprieve. He seems to have conducted himself pretty well until last Friday, when the warrant for his execution was not down to the gaol, and from that time he conducted himself very violently, and is described by those about him as a har dened sinner. In the course of conversations he had with the Rev. Mr. Fraser, chaplain of the prison, he boasted that I be had committed a hundred and fifty burglaries, sod was only detected in two came ; but although ibis may be mere boasting on his part, there is no doubt that he has been guilty of several offences, and has been four times under sent nce in Maidstone gaol, the last time being twelve months' hard labour for a burglary . The chaplain used the utmost exertions is br i ng him to a proper sense of his condition, but they bad very little effect, the culprit frequently stating that he knew every one who was banged must go to hell, and that he thought it would be the best place for him, as he should do better or be happier there than in H . He always seemed rather pleased than otherwise to converse upon the subject of his crime, and he has pre. Waded all along that he did not know what he did at the time, and was even ignorant of the name of the murdered man. This, however, is known to be false, as he was in the habit of purchasing tobacco and similar articles at his shop, and lived not far from him. It was with great difficulty that the chaplain could induce him to write to Mrs. Cartwright, the wife of the murdered man, to ask her forgiveness, but at length he was induced to do so, and she in reply sent him a letter on Wednesday, in which she said that she hoped she was not doing her husband's memory any injus tice by forgiving him, mullahs would pray for him, and hoped. be would pray for forgiveness from God for the great sin that he had committed. The . prisoner's mother saw him on Monday last ; the interview was most extraordinary. The prisoner was very violent, and said be did not want to see her, and he refused to kiss her at parting. The Rev. Mr. Fraser advised her to come again on Tuesday, but the prisoner said he would not see her if she came, end added that he did not want to see her any more. The mother went to see the wretched prisoner again on Tuesday, and although the interview was of • somewhat more becoming character than the previous one, the prisoner did not seem in any way affected, and parted from his unhappy parent without ex. Whiting the el' htest emotion. On Wednesday evening about six o'clock Mr. Fraser parted from the culprit, and told him that if he wished him to remain with him he would do so all night, but Bishop coolly told hint that he did not think it would be of say use, and be need not trouble himself. Mr. Fraser was unwilling to leave him in this condition of mind, and he told him that he would come to see him again at 8 o'clock. He did so, and he found that the prisoner had gone to bed, and was fast asleep, having left a message by the turnkey that he did not , want to be bothered any more. The execution took place at the usual hour. The cul prit mounted the scaffold with considerable firmness, and when the drop fell he appeared to be dead after a very short straggle. Them was a atoll crowd assembled on the emission. The Established Church (Ireland) Commission sat yesterday. The commissioners present were :—Berl Stanhope, Visoount de Vesci, Sir J. Napier, Bart, R Colonel .A. Shaft* Adair, Mr. J. T. Ball, Q.C., LLD., Mr. E. P. Shirley, Mr. G. Clive, M.P., Mr. E. Howes, M.P. The secretary, Mr. J. Faviere Elriagtoo, LLD., was also in attendance. _ _ tinlitisnotr7--dt the meeting of the committee of the London Financial Reform Association, held ou Tuesday night, Mr. Richard Moore in the chair, the fol lowing resolution was unanimously adopted :—" That the committee, while condemning the increased expen diture in every department of the public service which has rendered additional taxation necessary, desires to express its satisfaction that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has not yielded to the suggestions made to divide such taxation between the income tax and the tea duties, but has resorted to direct taxation foe that P C:ND CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION AT CRIDOSIIICII.—LUS evening the emeservatives of Green wich called a meeting in the Lecture Hall, professedly in support of the protestant church in Ireland. Tickets were distributed amongst their own supporters, and all appli cants for tickets were very closely scrutinised. The au dience, amidst many dens of impatience, listened for two hours to three speeches, in which a resolution was moved, seconded and supported, condemning the resolu tions of Mr. Gladstone. As the chairman was about to put the resolution, the Rev. Benjamin Davies, a protestant minister of ten years' standing in the town, went on the platform and asked to be penaitted to move an amendment. The chairman refund his per mission, stating that if he did not agree with the object of the meeting be had no right to be meant. On some I of the audiesee insisting on Mr. Davies being beard, the promoters of the meeting kicked him off the platform, tore his °eat, atruok him OR the head, and hustled hire out of the building. When the rev. gentleman was thus ex pelled • large number of the respectable part of the audi ence rose en incase and left the hall and when he made his appearancein the street, minus his hat and with his coat =L in fatten to his back, they escorted him to his with many axioms:lieu of esteem and respect. ADDRESS BY THE NEENJIABONS TO THE QuINN.— The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Free and Ao. =Masons of England, with the 'mediation of the Hon. the Earl of Zetlasd as Grand Muter for the twenty-fifth time, took place last evening in Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen-street, and was influentially attended. The Earl of Zealand, after returning thanks for his re election, referred to the attempt made on the life of the Duke of Edinburgh, and moved that a loyal sad dutiful address be presented to her Majesty, expressing their ab liserenee at the crime and their earnest bops that his royal highness will be i restored to her in perfect health and safety. The Earl de Grey and Ripon, Deputy Grand Master, .seceded the motion, which was agreed to. It was left to the noblemen above mentioned to early one the *OK THE CONEEILVATIVE LAND SOCIETY AND THE I:l3mrsD Lam) COMPANY_ (Luerrien).— Th ess two under. takings, the former san ded under the Friendly Societies het and the latter ender the Joint Stook Companies Acta, be& hasteg the privilege of limited liability are now being carried en with the same staff as that of the s moiety (now in its sixteenth year), and with the same executive boards, the company receiving the ad& tire of two or three new The shareholders of the el! semi* have lambi lorpel, in the new no m The bosinems el the taws irM ke, endued to *demises end loins on sesnrity ; wines the United Quespony will bay mil every dessription at landed and levee property, tw ee xt=esesiduably **emotion of the Oseiwwwitive Led OPINING OP THE 80171111111;1 211:11ANIJOINL—Op ihnurday sent the members et do Illeirepelidea Beard of weeks will to the roadie el the lienthern KM War le Lasl.lh when they will arrive about o'clookohen the a will be °penal and they will pass along Vie feetwep senhanknond, which will then be formally opined I. the palls. THE RECALL OF SIR CHARLES LLV:. Now that motions are impending in both how l of parliament in reenact. to Sir Charles Datling's ad. ministration of the government of Victoria, and to 1. 4 001111211 1 / 1 114001 With the colonial department since hie recall, he feels that he is no longer called upon to observ e teepee. He has, therefore, addressed a letter to the Dailp Ann, in which he expresses a th eke so submit his conduct to the rigorous inve,tig‘. than of a parliamentary committee. He is per. loaded that such an inquiry would prove that tile cause he pursued was perfectly consistent with his duty and obligations as the governor of the colony; that the statements made in hia despatches to the imperial government were true, and that it was his duty to make them ; and that whether the conclusion us to his intendi.l conduct in a certain contingency, founded upon a despatch which he addressed to the Secretary of State, and up cc which the decision to recall him was principally buss I, was or was not fairly deducible from the language of that , despatch, his subsequent proceedings abundantly dcmca. I etrated that his intention had been misapprehended, WIATHER REPORT. -(T11 IS DAY. NCRbIAT, AFILII. 30. 8 Lit V.l Sierroue rs B. 1 1. W. , W. L to '' _I ll' T. U. O. Naive W. . 7 2 I; 1V ! r,. o Atervielo -. '!6.ser 56 W. , 6 W.. 1 W. N.W.3 j 6 W. , oi radrvia.o 12544,6 r 50 NW. 3 I S.W. ro ; lifeseconUo 110.103 r 4.4 W. N. W. 4 ;10 S . W. nn_ , Voloutio '30.121 .s. 4 , Cope C1car,30.12( 52 W. 217 W. 1,,,t s)miti4ll 60.11 r W. 2 5 W. I ~ Liverpool —40.04 r r 2 W. 7 ' B.W. ' o : RoLytom& 30.04 r 40 W.S W. 6, 6 S.W. c:, _ _ Penzance „W.f.:ft 52 W. 4ti W. 3 Brat :7,4 AV. 4 5 S.W. tr y 4 _ I 52: W.S. W. 3 3 W.S. W . •f o Rochefort 130.43 2 :54. W. 9 4 M.S. W . ;re Plymouth 0021 f 55 W.N.W. 2" 5 W. N. W. Ira O.•V I Woraoal s ,•20.211 54 W. 4, 5 S. S. 'fro Partmonth 1 . 2 0.16155 W.N.W. 6 N.W. London 30.06 57' W. I 7 8 W. b , _ Yannoutb 22).1r..2 f 53 W.N.W, 3 21 W• Sciaboraegla -0.82152: W.N.W. 3 7 W.N.W. Athrlaa 1W.77450 N.W. 8,3 W. . o Skudasurs 19.7.3 1 , 1 Vi.s.W , 6 0/AA . 19.3 52: B.W. 17 I - — , 52 , 6.3. W. , - - p ath 30.27 ,66 1 S.W. 2 - Lyons I3N.W. - - Toulon 1N - • Barometer corrected and reduoed to ss deg. at sea ,es oL tie letters r (rising), I (tailing). a (steady), unllc.te direCU,L, asetioael thmatercary within lea to hours. Thermometer e,,,sed la shade. ' , Jarman torte, rith itadfreettuo durwg tam :4 :,01.44. Z.—call. Weather: b.— blue sky; C. clouds detach.... I. fog: h.—hall; L—llghtnlug• m.—misty (hazy): (doll); r. —rata ; a. —suer; t. —thunder. Buu.;all, soon or hall melted), durlaa Met 4a hours.. Sea alsturimace. - - • REMARKS. -- ma distribnUon and amount of barometrical pre•-ciiies eomewhat from Oro.' of yesterday inerning . there Im lease in scodzief, the Oman:lwo takinz plan e afternoon having been succeeded by a rayri inerenee lc, night. Readings in the booth show a ;ICC:VW. 7he inin o-;,.,: between Kahn and Biarritz is still O.il iu. : anti the 1.--1 in; at Studeares is very low. Temperature in Scotland : ou other coasts it is Ou our nortnern and eastern coat UUrili I . .!ct strong wind from the westward prevailed, inereachi:,r• :,1,:.t several stations. The gale has veered to nosh we-4 aid„ -nil blowing on our eastern coasts, stud at Bruseeis there i• a -.can, westerly gale, (In the Irish coast and in the Channel the fresh from the west, Bog and mist have prevailed in the w, .t and south. Ile sky is now generally cloudy or overcast. Mr. Hardcastle, on the Bth, will move, " That It is expedient that the position and circumstances pt many of the Turnpike Trusts Act now expired, but hitherto annually renewed. sl..uuld be submitted to the consideration of a select committee of this house ; and that, in order to give time for such inquiry, the annual Continuance Act for this year should be introduced as speedily as possible." The Earl and Countess of Dudley (says the Worcestershire Chronicle) have just returned to Witley Court from a visit of a few days' duration in the noble earl's I eautiful property in Merionethshire, on the banks of the Dee. The earl and countess were received at the boundary of the estate by between 60 and 70 of his I. rd. ship's tenantry on horseback. A congratulatory address was presented and duly responded to. Upon their de parture the countess ordered tea for about 400 'chat children, and the earl left substantial gifts to be distri bused among the poor. Mr. Darby Griffith intends to move in com mittee of ways and means, as an amendment to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer's second resolution, to leave out all the words after " authorised to," in oi der to Mart the words "suspend so much of the payment of the termin able annuities created in 1866, till the year as may amount to the difference of the annual payment made on their account, and of the interest of the 21,000,P00/. stuck for which they were exchanged, that is to say, a vain of 1,006,000/." The chair of Biblical Criticism in the University of Edinburgh, vacant by the death of the Re%. Dr. Robert Lee, has been conferred on the Rev. A. H. Ch.krturia, M.A., Glasgow. This morning was published an abstract of the statements of all monies received and expended on account of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of each of the different municipal boroughs, made up to the latest period of audit preceding March 1, 1868. The total receipt' amounted to 3,183,1)62/. Is. Cal. ; and the expenditure to 3,076,539 f. 3s. 100. the Evangelst, posisetehr:rYtwies!nocthrdfcoltmeusahmeyeih,,eperearctl:rhebhy-eroilitopooisfsdstrtox..jdpoeo The cameo u rgoocin o: k , labourers and hilieinersiokat;oreffiithtlet. same clam The district assigned to the new churc ehd h is th s e church will, when completed, afford accommodation for 650 persons. All the sittings will be free. Dean Stanley has consented to preside at the dinner is connection with the annivtraary of Chesbunt College, and the sermon will be preached by the Bev. T. Binney. A SHABBY MANO:UVRE. —The House of Com mons was very near being counted out on Tuteday night in committee at the instance of a tory member. It wss between 12 and 1 o'clock ; the debate was fairly worn out, and the house ought really to have been dividing. It .uits the tory party, however, to protract the speaking, and then, when members have gone home weary and disgusted, to try said bring the debate itself to an absurd and futile termination. If on this occasion there bad been found fewer than forty menu ben in the house, the committee on the Irish Church would have come to an end ; the time spent in Abacus/big the resolutions would have been thrown sway; and parlia mentary government itself would have been made ridicu lous in the eyes of the whole world. The pat Hamada.) , reports of yesterday did not give the name of the lumber who proposed the count out. We believe we are correct in stating that the manoeuvre was executed by Sir Percy Bur rell, Bart., ILP. for Shoreham ; but whether be claims originality for the conception or acknowledges the inspira tion of a more fertile mind, we are unable to state.— /mite News. MS GOVERNMENT AND THE TELBOIAPI/ SYSTEM. —At the monthly meeting of the council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, yesterday, an minuted discionon took place upon the question of the government taking pos. assison of the lines of telegraph in the United Kingdom. Mr. P. H. Rathbone pointed out that many of the railway companies, who were connected u qual-panners with some of the telegraph companies, were preparing to opj'el the government bill, their plea being that it was not for the public good that the government should interfere or enter into commercial enterprises. Mr. R. A. Man said that if the government did obtain possession of the telegraphs they would simply cork them tot the public oonvenienos, and cot for the sake of profit plons. Sir. Muspratt said that the government in their bill proposed I uniform rate of ls. for twenty words. That was far too high as compared with continental rates ; and thsFreoch gore ID. ment, finding by experience that a low tariff of telegraph led always to increased buainess, were now considering the advisability of reducing the cost of telegrams in lino towns to 25 centimes, or 2t.cl. the 20 words. Mr. 11411 . 1i0 1 said that a uniform rate of sd. or half a franc would suit both England and France, and the stamps could be then freel interchanged. Mr. Clarke strongly ab orted to so high a rate as Is., and thought 6d. would be found noel remunerative. The council finally adopted a respolutace that fkl. would be a fitting uniform rate for 20 words, ex clusive of the address. The council next agreed to a re• solution, moved by Mr. Maass sad seconded by Mr. Rawlins, to the effect that the lines of telegraph, if worked by the government. should not be n. used as ,ourrft of profit, bat only for the public advantage. The reiolu bon (which was carried weeon.);l: l =ted that the rates should be redwood as often as Anceirra. 'URAL EXHIBITION SoltrY.—Yester day than was a private view of the designs and drawimp whighwlll form the present year's public exhibition of this la their room in Oosdnet-stieet, Regen•strest. The object of the society, of which Mr. Beresford Hopei ALP., is the chairman, is to illustrate the progress which is being made in the important iprofaesion of architecture, mad meal ci the principal architects of the country have on lbs premt occasion sent be cantaihntiona This is the eighteenth exhibition which has basal lteld and the best proof of its increasin==s c e the fed that them are 450 this year, as compar ea ed thbitcia-Lacklo:awlettei h iL i and 'be en sure pro rior a : o u ns in a Man coisaass. "6l l ll 4 ,lo4l' th. OUR PARIS LETTER. (ram OUR OWN COMILEPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVIDIIN6. The Wats has a carefully written article on the momentous subject of peace or war, signed by its secretary of redaction, which is meant to be under stood as coming from high authority, as it probably does. This authority I take take to be the Minis ter of Mate, M. Rouher, who, indirectly more pro bably than directly, avails himself of the oolumns of the &bats to take the public into his confidence and encourage the public to support his naci6c policy against the warlike tendencies of his col league, Marshal Niel. It strikes me that the arguments on the peace side of the question are much weaker than could be desired. There is no reason able connexion between the substitution of the Chassepot rifle for the old musket and a large augmentation of the army. lam a persistent dis believer in the existence of a war party at court unless by the connivance of the Emperor. If Marshal Niel be really such a terrible propagator of war rumours as the Dibats represents, the Em peror would get some other minister of war, if it were not his pleasure that such rumours should be propagated. The Cormier Francais pretends to know that at Orleans on May 9 the Emperor will openly declare himself for Niel against Rouher, and say that if the Corps Legislatif will not vote the war budget ha will appeal to the people. Ido not believe this, because I believe that the deputies, obedient to positive orders, will vote the war budget demanded. It appears from a contradiction in the Dtbats that the announcement made by the France and several other journals of M. Jules Fevre having been presented to the Emperor on Sunday was premature. Tho presentation must take place as a matter of course, sooner or later, but M. Jules Favre's academical senior, Father Gratry, has not been presented yot. At the Bourse the Rente nearly recovered from the fall of yesterday, closingat 69fr. 421 c. and 69fr. 40c., with a rise of 12}c. and Tic. Italian rose 25c. In other securities there was little change. The firmness of the Rente shows that the news given by the Conrrier Francais of the Mediterranean fleet having been ordered to the Archipelago to cooperate with the Turkish fleet, in the anticipa tion of a Greek movement, cannot be believed. The Australian papers record a sad calamity in the bmb. John Cinema and his wile and little girl lived in the bush on the tipper Darling. They had suffered much from drought. The husband went in search of water, and when be returned he found that his wife had become insane, and had wandered into the bush. The lifeless body of his child was in the deserted tent. A new pariah church has been built at Pokeawoll, near Dorchester, at the expense of Mr. Trenohard, the lard of the mayor. The Dorchester papers state that the marriage of Sir Ivor Quest, Bart., of Cauford House, in that county, with Lady Cornelia Churchill, the daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, is flied to inks place in London in the third week in May. Extensive horse breeding farms have been established in the Cape of Good Hope far the supply of hones to India. The export of borne to Indi► from Aus tralia has been checked la consequence at Australian bones baring become deteriorated. The foundation-atone of a new college in con nuke with the grammar ached at Taunton was laid last week by Lady Taunton. The degrees in medicine granted by the Univer sity of Melbourne, in Australia, are not recognised is New Zealand. The Judgeship of County Courts, Circuit No. 32, meant by the death of Mr. J. T. Birch, has been ma tured on Mr. William Henry Cooke, Q.C. Mr. Cooke, who is the Reoorder of Oxford. was culled to the Bar by the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple in 1837. The correspondent of the Post at Rome writes " A striking instance of a purely religions vocation in its mod austere monastic form is afforded by the withdr•whet from the brilliant existence of a fashionable London life alopted by the Hon. G. Lane Fox, who wow wears the garb and adheres to the strictly penitentiary rides of a Dominken novice fa the monastery of Beats no►ir, voluntarily inflicting upon himself severer pomace area than the rules of the order require of his. I understand that this conscientious cenvert's ultimate istisatioss ere to ashram the strictest rule' of .cowrie life, as presented by the Oarthnidan or Treatise ordass." ROYAL TINYIRNARY 01 EDINBURGH. Heir Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to subscribe 25g. towards the rebullifing of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. 1 ` 1 U+/ ~ _I~