The Express. — London, England, 1868-07-23 00:00:00

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A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, 18 PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. LONDO.Y, THURSDAY, JULY 23. THE WHITEBAIT DINNER. THE school-feast precedes the breaking-up. The Whitebait Dinner is a sign of the approaching prorogation. Mr. DISRAELI with forty-four col leagues partook yesterday of that mysterious fish, whose genealogy has puzzled naturalists, and which though it contributes to the pleasures of the table, declines to minister to the advancement of knowledge. What is Whitebait ? Is it the young of the herring, or the young of the shad ? These doubts and difficulties have their counterpart in the political world. The forty-five gentlemen who dined together at Green wich would probably find as great a difficulty in giving an account of themselves, as a whitebait of a metaphysical turn of mind would encounter in endeavouring to answer the question, " What, and whence am I?" Their place in the classification of politics is a problem scarcely more easy of solution than the place of the small fish in the animal world. Are they Tories or Radicals, or Tory Radicals ? Revolutionists or Conservatives ? The spawn of WILLLAII Coaazrr or of WiLLual PITT? Do their natural affinities connect them with Joan BRIGHT or with Lord DERBY 1" The great question, What is a Disraelite ? is as baffling as the question, What is a whitebait ? At the dinner yesterday, the animals eating were as nondescript an order as the animals eaten. The Asian mystery is a clear and self-evident truth compared with the whitebait mystery or the Duncan= mys tery. The Foreign Minister, to whom White- Lail office has probably far stronger attractions than whitebait, and a correspondence with our representatives abroad in technical education is more exhilarating than revelry, 'was prevented by other engagement' from meeting his political Mends. Mr. DISRAELI, like Mzcseern on another festive occasion, would have probably felt " his " country's honour roofed," had the greed person of his Burnam been present. Whether that By stamen, like BA/IRV°, was to be challenged for, =kindness, or pitied for mischance, we are unable to say. Lord Forarrt.er in the body would have been a very agreeable presence compared with some shadowy guests whom Mr. Disasra.lmay have seen with his mind's eye in the ,SHE * EXPRESS, THURSDAY empty chair and before the unliftod tithe. Thel politie*l glinete of Lord SALLSBURY,..OAIt- NARVOtt. and General PEEL, whom Mr. DISSAIItt made away with, in order to O&M way to the beat on which he now uncomfortably sits, may have succeeded each other in the empty ohair, and and glared at him with reproachful eyes. On the whole, the entertainment cannot have been a very happy. ono. The whitebait dinner yesterday must have borne a certain resemblance to a condemned criminal's. last meal. Pleasant in itself, it doubtless was ; but then what was to come after it P There was doubtless a certain elaborate avoidance of a topic common to the thoughts of all the guests, a tacit reference to a doom dreaded yet dwelt upon, a foreboding of that execution of the aentenoo of the oountry which is to out short the politioal existence of ministers. Mr. Duiaasu and his colleagues pro bably see in imagination the hustings being erected with feelings resembling that with which a convict in Nowgate hears the sound of the hammer, which tells of the building of the scaffold on which ho is to make his last appearance. If this comparison offends anyone, we may compare the meeting of the forty-five Ministers to the final gathering of a bogy of exiles, who know that they will never meet again in the same place and under similar circumstances, and who are parting from all that is most dear to them. " Tears to human " suffering ero duo ; and mortal hopes departed " and o'erthrown are mourned by man." The vicissitudes of party touch all politicians. Doubt less it was with the view of counteracting the melancholy influences under which Mr. DISRAELI and his colleagues mot that Lord HoYsros was placed in the chair. The innocent gambols and lively chatter of the Controller of the House hold may have done something to cheer the hearts of Ministers, weighed down not so much by the cares of office as by the fear of losing it. The Abbot of Unreason is a more suitable host on certain occasions than more dignified or decorous personages would be. After all, Mr. DISRAELI and his friends, though their festivities must have somewhat resembled the recklessness of Irish convicts in former times, who gambled and caroused, sitting on the coffins which they were to fill in the morn ing, anticipate only the common fate of Ministries. Every Cabinet, during the last century or century and a half, has eaten its last whitebait dinner. The gossips of history dispute whether this annual meal dates from the time of the elder or from that of the younger PITT. It is cer tain that Dagenham, in Essex, was the first place of meeting, and that Greenwich has suooeeded to honours, and the landlord of the Trafalgar to profits which did not originally belong to either. One narrative says that in 1721, when Captain PERRY was engaged in repairing Dagen ham Beach, the Parliamentary Commissioners who superintended his labours sought refreshment from their own by winding up the proceedings of each year by a fish dinner at the Reach House, to which on one occasion the elder Prrr was in vited. Another acoount, which, if we recollect rightly, is favoured by Lord STAIMOPE, dates the origin of the dinner td the private hospitalities offered by Sir ROBERT PRESTON, the member for Dover, to Sir GEORGE ROSE, at his Cottage on the banks of Dagenham Reach, hospitalities which the younger PITT condescended to share, and which were gradually extended till they included all the Ministers of the Crown, and limited till they excluded all but Ministers of the Crown. Which ever of these accounts be correct, the whitebait banquet illustrates two things,—first, the gradual and imperceptible way in which English institutions grow up, and the obscurity which overshadows their origin ; and secondly, the absolute impossi bility of conducting any public business in England without the solemn rite of dinner. ‘ lat /1 " - be. ho mslll Ale woun ~.......e...., o e &lel " tore were *ill e Hear " " They must kelt in • ihat t seldom c. d ilL e A t. . .., NC' A more remarkable code of commercial mbralitY was never promulgated by a public man. There has always been a deoent veil kept up oonoerning the proceedings and motives of boards of directors, and even where theory and practice have sadly clashed, credit hes been given for good intentions . on the shareholders' behalf. It now scorns that a cynical disbelief in human honour is the creed. The directors have been blamable, but the share bolder' would have been quite as bad if they had had the ohanoe. A self-seeking greed before which all other considerations meet bow is the motive- power attributed to the Oredit Fonder board by , its apologist. Surely this is candour carried too far. GARDRY PARTIES. LADY HOLLAND'S garden party yesterday was the last flicker of gaiety of the departing season. All that is left in town of rank, beauty, or fashion was present, and, notwithstanding the terrible heat, contrived to infuse a degree of life into the proceedings highly creditable to their vitality. For a garden-party has, with many advantages, the signal drawback of interfering with one's meals. The middle-aged people who are too fat for flirting, and to whom croquet presents no charms, but who attend these pleasept afternoon gatherings with the rest, are to be laded when their regular dinner-hour arrives. Fruit and cream' pales. sillabahs, sweet cakes, and trifles, make up but a poor sub stitute for the wholesome nourishing roast or boiled which pilgrims who hays diacorwed 'hair digestions, are advised to affect. A garden party either means no dinner at all, or a dinner spoilt and cloyed by " cups " and condiments only fit for ladies and children. But even with these grave gastronomic drawbacks, it is a de lightful form of entertainment. The groups upon the soft silken grass—brown now, but of a fresh bright green at the earlier parties of the year—the gay dresses, tho light chat, and the trifling element of sport ensured by the innocent amusements sanctioned by society, combine to make the time pass pleasantly. Such weather as we are groaning under acts too as a powerful deterrent to the use of cosmetiques for dayligi,f, gatherings. What face-colour can be guaranteed from running with the thermometer as it stands now ? Yester day if no one at Lady HOLLAND'S quoted the lines— All-conquering heat, oh, intermit thy wrath! And on my throbbing temples potent thus Beam not so tierce! it was not because the sentiment was not uni versally felt, but because the poet, their author, is too little read. But it is some compensation for much suffering if fictitiously red and white faces are rendered less common, and caloric in this instance may be a more effective moral agent than either sermons or sarcasm. While on the subject of garden parties, it is worth remarking their share in establishing croquet as a national game. When Lawn's sketch of, " And croqueted he certainly was," was originally published, thousands of the readers of Punch heard of the sport 'for the first time. But the balls and hoops and mallets, and, above all, the players as depicted by our great pictorial humourist, looked promising ; and it is admitted that this one picture did more to popularise croquet than all the adver tisements of all the dealers in its tools. But garden parties do not necessarily depend upon Amusements for their success, as most of the faahionables seen yesterday could testify. To see and be seen, to talk and be talked to, and to play as Pendennis and Manche kaniry did, with town feeling, town tastes, and town asigra: - tions asserting themselves at every turn, are the motives governing the best of these gather ings. The sanction given by her hiAir.srr and the present tenor of fashionable taste point to their increasing popularity ; but in the interest of the people who like to eat comfortably once a day, we ask,—Cannot the hours be modified, or the character of their refreshments be improved ? WE gather from a statement in the New York Nation that the late decision of the House of Lords in regard to copyright is beginning to affect the dealings of English publishers with American houses and American authors. Two London firms have recently made offers which would not have been thought of if the Lords had not decided that books published in Groat Britain before publication elsewhere are exclusively the property of the author or his representatives, whether written and owned by British subjects or by foreigners. One offer to a New York firm, which does a large publishing business, covers the whole list of their publications. The other is made to a lady of New York, who has written a successful book for children, and who is asked to write another. The Nation thinks that probably the lady in question will not write the worse be cause she knows that her book will be sold on both sides of the Atlantic, and will not be stolen on either side. Wx are not sorry to see that prompted pro bably by the animadversions which were freely passed upon their last gathering at Carmar then, the promoters of the Welsh National Fes tival, the Eisteddfod, to be held next month at Euthin, promise not merely a better programme, but greater care in carrying it out. While the Germans keep their kirme., and the Italians their feria, our English country festivals have dwindled down into the gathering together of half a dozen drinking booths, a few swings, and a leg-of -mut ton-crowned greasy pole to be climbed by half drunken boors. In Ireland a fair means plenty of potheen and a sufficiency of ahillelaghs. In Scot land and in Wales the old traditions still exist at " gatherings ;" in the former cabers are tossed and stones are " put," and strathspeys are danced by competitors clad in the garb of old Gaul, while at the Welsh Eisteddfods harpers tune their old fashioned instruments, and bards, scorning all knowledge of English, chant, in their wild Zan /Page tal CA that deal with knights, Half legend, half historic, counts and kings, Who lard about them at their wills and died. Modem requirements, however, demand some thing more than this. So we are glad to see that at the ooming Eisteddfod there will be social science meetings under the presidency of Sir Bunn OWEN, exhibitions of art-treasures and of the natural products of Wales, and a performanoe of the Messiah under the skilled direction of Mr. Humeri. IT 18 unsafe in Massachusetts lawyers to bleed their clients too freely. just de cided in Boston is in proof. A oaf the bar has been put on trial on a o I exacting money from certain clients without Igiving any .G, JULY 23, ;••iceeseesiliii rfinnil p n o t t oe. After a full ina- i lition of the cue, the found that a egi oeu mrici ed for the of th after the ellempt of the su to' have been peed. and that there was not the cases at that particular time which rendered such payments reasonable. Having found that all the charges were true and sustained by the proofs, the court gave order and judgment " that JOHN D. " Howe be. and he hereby is. removed from his " office of attorney-at-law." Ofeamehusetts is determined to sustain her fame as the model state. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. tI'HIS DAY.) Tall 1011101 OLTTLI ICAlltaT BILL .The Times taxes the opponents of the above measure with unsernpulous tactics, and with objecting to a partial restriction, while at the same time they maintain a total restriction. The bill la in fact, • purely adminis. trative measure, prepared in neenrdance with the most skilful advice, for the purposed encountering a sputa danger, and to treat it u • party meuure and to raise factious cries against it is a policy whioh will recoil on those who adopt it. It probably rests with the govern-: ment to carry the bill. It is evident that • steady. Ma jority in the House of Ocennions is prepared to support it, and the government have only to be firm in order to in. sure success. In the opinion of the Post, the bill shows utter dis regard and contempt for the Privy Council, for it pro poses to enact as a pkraanent law for times of safety that which the council has not thought necessary even as • temporary regulation in times of danger. If a separate market is required at all times, why has not the Privy Council insisted upon establishing one before; if it is not necemary, why is it proposed to establisis it now? There is no escape from this dilemma, that either the council has °IMO 4 1=t r t ir al ralitlamillortoo lax to be sate, or else that le ispreposing regalstions more onerous than are necessary. If the liberal members generally, says the Star, are going to allow the bill to pass, let them at once abjure their cent about free trade; for the profession of free trade can be only a cant in the months of men who tolerate the principle of this measure. If we are to mark the close of this unreformed parliament by a reactionary movement which recala the memory of the time when every great section fought openly in the house to secure some pecuniary benefit for itself—if we are going to do this, let us at least call by their right names the persons who permit, as well as those who promote, the move ment. Let us hear no more talk about their benevolent anxiety to give food to the people from members of par liament who tolerate this measure. The people do not live by bread alone ; and the whig who, somewhat reluc tantly, perhaps, if the truth were known, helped the Anti- Corn-Law League to bring bread to its natural price some twenty years ago i is get o that account to think he can escape tonaembetkle 0 he meant to allow the protection party to put an unnatural price on rcrat tri-da7. MB. ALBERT GRANT, M.P. Arms= instance of fallen greatness ! Alas for the instability of fame, alas for the bitter truth of the old heathen saying, " Call no man happy " till he dies." It seems but the other day that the magnificent operations of the English Credit Fonder Company were the admiration of the in vesting world. The great city houses, the Rome- CRILDB and the BARINGS, were becoming old fashioned it was said; and the dash, energy, and prescience of the men at the head of the now company were quoted with the kind of reverential respect financial success commands. Mr. ALBERT GRANT was the central figure upon whom the popular plaudits fell. His appearance at a shareholders' meeting was the signal for loud and prolonged applause. He was a man of the 'time, a wise spirit sent to bless mankind, a magi cian whose wondrous touch turned all to gold. Had such a meeting as that of yesterday been foretold to the Credit Foncier shareholders a year or two ago, they would have answered the ill omened prophesy with a confident and pitying smile. Had anyone then ventured to hint that the tower of strength formed by the popularity of Mr. ALBERT Churn would so soon totter at its founda tions, the smile of pity would have culminated in the laugh of scorn. Yet Mr. Orsier's final resigna tion of his directorship of the Credit Fonder only elicited yesterday uncomplimentary cries; and his absence from the meeting was openly attributed to his unwillingness to meeting the shareholders. " Where is GRANT?" was the question which opened the proceedings ; and what the reports call " rather strong language" respecting that gentleman marked their close. But some curious information respecting the system upon which the company had been conducted came from the chairman. In addition to a salary of 3,0001. a year, the managing director, Mr. GRANT, had re ceived 72,3921. as commission ; and " a like sum " had found its way into the pockets of the direr " tors." The justification of the late board was given with much frankness, and appeared to rest, not upon their justice or honour, but upon their inability to resist temptation. " There was inducement enough to overpower the " coolest Chancellor of the Exchequer that ever " lived. They were offered 366,8001. to float a " company. (' Hear, hear,' and 'Oh !') That " was certainly very tempting. The managing " director was entitled to a commission beyond his " salary on the profits made above 10 per cent. " That left him a very nice sum. Well, how was " this 366,8001. paid ? It was paid with what he " must call 'stuff.' They were paid 120,800/. " in debentures at par, and 240,0001. in bills, " acceptances, and promises to pay; out of this " sum they werepaid about 21,0001. of acceptances " at their value, and of the remaining amount " they got 6,0001. (' Oh, oh !') The next trans " action was that with the London, Chatham, and " Dover Company. Messrs. Prro and Brno came " to them and offered a commission of 266,7871. " for floating their A stock of 607,700/. Upon • " tjais sum the managing director and the other " dik , ctors were entitled to 10 per cent. on the " profits after the shareholders received 10 per " epnt. It did not follow that they were culpable ". for vomiting this offer. He thought tho share " holders were right in blaming the directors ; . ..., IRE COSIETET PRACTICES BILL. The Daily News hopes it is not even yet Pao late to save, Mr. Fawcett's clause and the consistency of the house which has twice affirmed it. The determination of the government to apply the bill to Ireland and Scotland merits all praise. Their anxiety to make the bill com plete and efficient as far as it goes condones their opposition to some important amendments yesterday. Mr. Schreiber's proposal to put off the municipal elections in England until after the general elections was treated the worst of all the amendments, although it was the most important of them. Unscrupulous men will bribe profusely on the first of November, with the cer tainty that their liberality will be remembered in their favour at a later and more important time. Mr. Disraeli expressed a hope yesterday that this bill would put a stop to corruption. By refusing Mr. Schreibes clause he gave bribery one more opportunity, and put his own bill at the worst possible disadvantage on its very first trial. The Telegraph does not regard the loss of Mr. Faw cett's clause as of v:tal importance, from the fact that it is sure the reformed house will hasten to re-adopt and ex pand the proposed enactment. the Court. OSBORN - E t JULT 22. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ae eungsmied by the Duchess of Coburg, and her Majesty and the royal family walked in the grounds this morning. Prince Christian returned from London yesterday Mr. Benson, of Old Bond-stench had the honour of submitting the Clifden Cup manufactured by him to the Prince of Wales. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, Malta, Gibraltar, the Australian Colonies, and from the Governor- General of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governor- General of Canada. Tax LONDON ARTILLERY VOLUNTEER CORPS. — The Court of Lieutenancy recently appointed his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, honorary colonel of the First London Artillery Volunteer Corps, and Lord Napier of Magdala honorary colonel of the Third Lon don Rifle Volunteeer Corps; and the Queen's approval of those appointments having been received, the court yes terday signed the commissions of his royal highness and of Lord Napier. The Earl and Countess of Derby left their residence in St. James's-square, on Tuesday, for Knowaley. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have left town for The Grove, near Watford, for the season. Lord and Lady Foley were honoured by the presence of their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz at dinner yes terday evening at the family residence in Grosvenor square. We (Herald) have reason to believe that Lord Feversham will shortly be raised to the dignity of Earl of Feversham. Mr. Headlam to-morrow will move " That, in the opinion of this house, it is expedient that ample powers should be vested in the Privy Council, as well to prevent the importation of foreign cattle from places where there is reason to suppose that the cattle plague exists, as also to isolate places in this country where it prevails ; but that, subject to the exercise of these powers, there should be perfectly free importation of foreign cattle, and free cir culation from all home markets." THE Ptrmie &moms BILL.—The Duke of Marl borough has given notice of his intention to move a series of amendments in committee on this bill. They relate chiefly to the property of Weetzninaler School, and the last of these amendments provides that, in the event of the school being removed beyond the city of Westminster, all the property and income desired from the ecclesiastical commissioners, or the dean and chapter of Westminster, or their estates, shall revert to and become vested in the ecclesiastical oominknionere. The Ring and Claeen of Sweden and her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa, leaving the Palace of Be kaskog, pealed through Berlin on the 18th of July to go to Muchlau, in Silesia, on a visit to the Prince and Princes Frederick of the Netherland& The King of Sweden will return to Stockholm about the end of the present month. The Prince Royal of Denmark has also quitted Bekaakog to rejoin the Ring, his father, at the Danish camp in Jutland. - - - THE UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR.—Mr. Re verdy Johnson has taken farewell of the Senate, and will leave for England after a visit to his home in Maryland. In the course of his farewell remarks he aid:—" In the new office of public duty which I am about to enter I may find subjects of controversy that for a time, as they have done already, may more or less distract the friendly relations between the governments of Great Britain and our own. But that this disturbance will be tem porary Ido not doubt. The interests of both nations are so firmly dependent upon a mutual and friendly understanding that the people of each cannot tail to see the duty of having it observed • and I believe that this can be accomplished by the manifestation of reciproce_tr! will. As our government is actuated by such • all the complications of the present time, I am sat . . 1 . 11 will soon be removed ; and whatever part, under instruc tions of the President, I may take in the negotiations pre liminary to such a result, I shall be influenced by a sin cere wish to secure to both governments an adjustment honourable to each, and I have every reason to think I shall be met in the same spirit by the British Government in all that I may do." Miktr - TO2OE4AIe, MENSES 0/ CANDIDATES. Logd-Advocaika bud night, brought up a dew making asassary arrangements for including I gicollind in the Election Petitions Bill, and, as originally Wieurri, by one paragraph of it them payments were rNrART DIVISIONS. thrown there alsoon the ;atm. The Lord-Advocate, how ever, proposed to withdraw this paragraph, but Mr. M 'Laren objected, and forced a division, in which the PrilloiPhSwam asadssased by 84 to 71. The division was as follows : ATE. Adams, W. P. thatise. ilerjeaat MM. J. 8. Asthenia,. That. Mama T. M. Mdts, J. IL AaOsvllarr. Mr H. WON 0. Miss, rot. Upton. A. 8. Obdsbras. W. R. Moore, R. J. Artows, R. 8. 01 1 11 , 0 G. Ilhorebv K. D. Pardsg. T. Ooktswild. it P. H. Mai*, .d. Berawront, R. P. Ocildmid. J. Ogilvy, Mr I. W. B. tskt a llr J o. B a., J. A. Jaffe EWA", A. D. J. I. ilsadlara, T. IL M asao, Men A. t 0 . , 11. Pollard -Urquhart, W. Potter, B. Jimmy, J. Resrdsa, D. J. Balm. O. 8. • li. &ay, 0. J. =H. C. ' p, J. Mama. Bir J. A. W. Bmith, J. A. Per. J. boll-Huger Bytes, 001. Cilates, Lard P. P. sea, R. Taylor, P. A. Owen, J. H. Thospien , K. W. DPM., eir U. Lri lA rtril. Warming. T. K. MaN fr eir w !. Leeman, O. WhAte. J. Wow% 0. J. last. IL 11. Lusk, A. T 111.1411111. F ond " H. atltta, 0. 0. O'Logklen Oar 0. Fer, W. B. J.P. Wl.Aran, b. Fost.tacee, D. F. WV. ---- NOES. AsebelaB, Capt. Hay Mr J. D. Northrote, Si, 8. H. Annan, B. Henley . , J. W. Parker, Muir Barrington, Vim*. Harbert, Oen. Powell, F. 11. Bateman, Sir T. Haynie, W. U. Pugh, D. Bea* Sir M. H. Hildyard, T. B. Bead, 0. 8. Beat, W. Hon, lient.-CoL ilciater.Booth, 0. Berk ,H. F. liam, Lord Seoareeld, J. H. Booth, ' 8.. 0. Howie, B. Seymour, 0. H. Power* B. P. Hunt, G. W. Merritt, A. C. Brett, Sir W. B. Kerslake flir J. B. Simonda W. B. Surveil, Sir P. I:=lik, A. liu ta nterset, Col. Cuter, 8. . N. Sommeet, IL A. Care, 8. Knight, F. W. 800le, _NI. Mee, Lt,-Col. Langton, W. 0. Stanley, Lord Conrtenay,. Viect. Lennox, Lord 0. 0. &saki, F. Lennox, Lard H. G. Start, Lieut.CoL . S MC. Liddell, H. 0. ftextera, C. F. = l ir °, IL Indsay, Oot. C. Taylor, Cal. Lowther, 1. , A. 0. Porton. Z. C Mammese, Lord J. 'lma Mr J. Fame, CoL Turner C. Adam J. L i a lltia kri47l . WMia L B. H. Fetnewon, Mr J. to i ..,. • w ,J am . C. 1. Warns. I. R. Gooch, 1). Montagu, LordC. Gordon, E. S. Maaticsosey flir 0. Wrass, W. B. Owe, J. B. M arra. M4Ol 111111118. Greene, B. MoVtwsy, J. 11. Noel, 0. J. Hardy, 0. NeviDe-Orenrille, R. Whitmore, IL CONVEYANCE OF VOTERS. Another clause (Payment of expenses for conveying voters in counties and certain boroughs illegal) Mr. Labouchere)—brought up, and read the first time:— Motion made, and question put, " That the said clause be now read a second time : "—The house divided ; ayes 82, noes 124. AYES. -- - -- Adam, W. P. Forster, W. R. CeLoghlen, Sir C. Amberiey, Visit. Gaselse, Petit. Pony, I'. Angruther, Sir R. Gibson, T. M. Philips, R. N. Arrtoe, A. 8. Gilpin, C. Potter. E. Alum, R. 8. Goat:heti, O. J. Pugh, D. BARR, M. T. l a ra d l eid Bir J. Ramsay, .1. Barley, T. , G. Bearden, D. J. Beaumont, W. B. Hardeastle, J. A. St. Aubyn, J. Berkeln, H. P. Hayter, A. l). Matto, B. D. Biddolph, M. Headlam, T. E. Sherriff, A. C. i",•, , saharn-Carter, J. Hodgson K. I). Stamen, Sir J. Brigi.!',- . 7 . Holden I. , Smith, J. Briscoe, .i. I. iive, A. B. Smith, J. A. Buller, Sir A. W. P. P. J. Stone, W. H. Buller, Sir B. Kin gl ake, A. W. Taylor, P. A. Butler, C. 8. Kinglike, J. A. Thompeon, M. W. Candlish, J. Layard, A. H. Tite, W. Carrington, W. H. Lawrence, W. Villiers, C. P. Carter, 8. Lemma, O. Vivian, Capt. Childers, H. C. Levis. X. Watkin, Clay, J. Leak, /.., Weguelin, T. M. Clinton, Lord E. LTO.dtak C. 0. White. J. Cowen. J. Ml.Aren, D. Whitworth, B. Davie, Bit H. Melly G. N. Wrvill Tl ' 1.%111. Dilke, Sir W. Mill, ,i. 8. Duff, Mount. Elms. Moak, C. J. Erskine, Vice.-Adm. Note, R. J. Labouebere, IL Erskine,, H. Neste, C. Beaumont, H. Mee, J. Ogilvy. Oar 7. - - NOEB. Adderley, C. B. Raney, R. B. Newdegate, C. N. Annealey, Col. Hay Sir J. D. Northcutt, Sir 8. Arehdall, Capt. Henley, J. W. Osborne, R. B. Assheton, R. Herbert, Gen. Fart, R. H. Barrington, Vint. Hmate, W. Ti. onrton, Sir I. Barron, Sir H. W. HiMyard, T. B. Parker, Mayor Barttelot, Col. Hogg, Lieut.-Col. Patten, CoL Bateson, Sir T. Ham, Lord Pemberton, E. L. Beach, W. W. Howes, E. Pollard-Urquhart, Beecroft, 0. 8. Hunt, 0. W. W. Booth, Sir R. Hutt Sir W. Powell, F. 8. Brett, Sir W. Kanlake Sir J. B. Read, C. 8. Brooks, R. Ka a =t, A. Robertnin, P. F. Burrell, Sir P. IC R. W. Royston, Viact, Capper, C. Knatchbull -Huger- Schreiber, C. Cave. S. _a r m, E. Better -Booth, 0. Clive, Lient.-Col. Knight, F. W. Soourfield, J. R. C,orrance, F. 8. Rnighdey. Sir R. Selwin-Ibbenen, H. Cooper, E. H. Knox, Cot B. Seymour, G. H. Curiae, Vint. Laird, J. Sinionds,W. B. Dalkeith, Earl cd Langton, W. 0. Smith, 8. 0. Dimidale, B. Lechmere, Sir E. Stanley, lord Disraeli, B. Lefroy, A. Stanley F. Dodson, J. 0. Lord H. Stopforil it B. 0. Du Cane , C. Tern:. Lord P. Stuart, .-Col. W. Dunne, Gen Liddell, H. G. Sinters, C. F. Dyke, W. H . Lindsay, Col. C. Taylor, Cot Eaton, W. H. Lowther, J. Thompson, A. G. Edwards, H. Maguire, J. F. Thorold, Sir J. Egerton, E. C. Manners, Lord J. Tumor, E. &monde, J. Mannera i Lord 0. Vance, J. Pane, Col. W. Walpole 8. H. Feilden, J. Ma yo , liain ks,A of Walsh, I. Fergusson, Sir J. Melia, Col. Waring, C. Floyer, J. Mitchell, T. A. Warren, R. R. Galway, Vint. Montagu, Lord R. Wise R. C. Gooch, Sir D. Montgomery, Sir 0, Wyndham, P. Gordon. E. 8. Moore, C. Wynn, C. W. Gore, J. R. Morgan, 0. Wynne, W. R. Gore, W. R. Morgan, Major Greene, E. Moribray".T. R. TELLIMA. illllolfitne, I. T. Murphy, N. D. Noel, 0. J. Hardy, 0. Nk.-Orenville, R. Whitmore, H. EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN. A voluminous blue-book, containing the annual report of the Committee of Council on Education for the year 1867-8, was published for the information of parlia ment this morning. From this document it ap pears that during the year to which the report refers there had been an increase on the return of the year previously in the number of schools, or departments of schools, actually inspected, amount ing to 1,006, and in the number of children amount ing to 103,496. There was also an increase of 742 certificated teachers, 163 assistant teachers, and 664 pupil teachers. A great divergence is pointed out between the provision made for normal training and the employment of it, and this is said to be a question of the utmost gravity. It does not arise from want of funds, but from want of suitable candidates ; and the commissioners do not seem to be inclined to relax the stringent regulations which are felt to be necessary. The inspectors report almost uniformly ill of the scholars visited for simple inspection. The average attendance of day scholars at schools in England and Wales actually inspected, and aided with grants for their maintenance during the past year, was 911,681, which is only 4 . 2 per cent of the popu lation, roughly estimated ; and it thus appears, that of every 11 children of the labouring classes at school, the average number of those attending in the past yeas was about four. A further examination shows that oat of every 100 children present daily, 221 are disqualified, either by age or the number of attendances, lor individual examination ; that of the remaining 77.7, the number actually presented for exami nation was 661, and of those who passed without failure in any one of the subjects, 421. If, moreover, attention be confined to the scholars over ten years of age, and therefore approaching the end of their school time, it appears that out of every 100 of those scholars examined, only 62.4pamedwithout failure,although 46 were examined in the three lower standards, and those who passed without failure in the three higher standards were only 311 out of the 100. The commissioners remark that these nn- satisfactory results lie occasionally with the schools them selves, especially in the suburbs and other quarters of large towns where the poor are congregated under a clergyman struggling single-handed; but in an over whelmingly greater proportion it lies in the irregularity of attendance. The oommissioners report what, we pre. some, cannot be regarded as a very common fault—viz., the unnecessary multiplication of schools in some districts. When, however, this is the case, the means of efficient education are ciseipated, and proper control of the scholars is sacrificed in the competition for them. Appended to the report are tabulated statements giving a variety of statistics, and the reports of her Majesty's in spectors of schools in England. Wake, and Scotland. DEATH OF MR. RICHARD 8111T11.—Mr. Richard Smith, of Berry-hill, Lichfield, lately chief agent to the Earl of Dudley, expired at his residence Yesterday (Tuesday), after a painful illness. The deceased gentle man was well-known throughout the whale of the coal and iron district, and generally respected for his honesty and sleight character.—Worcestershirs Ohroniole. (rum °us oww oogassromnr.tsr. 1 PARIS, WILDNIOMAY KI , ;•••IN • The Figaro mentions as rumours curn.ial 1., 1, in the parliamentary lobbies that the will certainly take place in October and that previously the Sila, !,. ordered to make a change in the , stitution by abolishing the see, n o I , d. ,t now necessary when no candid:it,. 01/: C,. the absolute majority of the votes polled th.• tiro time. This change would amount to A eitat. The government has obv•rv...l at the second ballot parties of Ala - abodes—say republican and Orleanist, or • 1. Oill and elerical—ooaleace against the goveroto.:... candidate. This coalition is but a very insoili-i• compensation for the want of political free which would enable the constituencies- to together beforehand. If such a Sottitoi , . is really to be passed, it will be universally .1 nounced as an audacious robbery the people's rights. The Empress is coming to Paris on Satin,' iy preside at a ministerial council. The Marquis de la Valetto has not yet. a e reported, left Paris for his country-hole, vid the reason for his prolonged stay is said to ti,:. he hopes to oust the Marquis du Muu:stier ir , :a the:Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is reported that General Print h at Li,i, n and that the Portuguese government, whit %%.• learn by telegraph has consented to give vii asylum to the Duke and Duchess de Mont pensier, favours the idea of a revolution is Spain. The Spanish government alarmed, and thinks of proclaiming a vt.ite siege. The vintage, which in average years d.w.; take place till the middle or end of Octobcr, is expected to begin on September I. flourishing anticipations are formed of the win.. ”f 1868 ; the price of casks is daily rising. A rise of in Consols, and a rumour :0111Ch questioned, however) that the loan will aft.i ilt not come out till October, encouraged the upwm.l movement manifested at the end of the Bourse y terday, and Bente again rose 10c. both for v:1,11 and account, closing in each case at 70fr. Italian rose 45c., the tobacco news from Florem.! being still considered good. Credit Fancier fell I lfr. 75e., but all other securities were firmer. • FORIAGN NE NV 8 (THIS DAY.> (mamma nest's sensor.) MANCH. GREAT FIER AT SOI7EN. ROUEN, Jert.r A range of warehouses, in whpicAhn:. quantity juu2: f dl spirits was stored, caught fi re here last night. The flames spread to the Post-o ffi ce. The amount fa of damage is estimated at upwards of one mi llio n franc's. The osee of M. de Boubeyran against the MA". national (a French newspaper published in lon. don) was heard yesterday. M. do fieuheyran tool to the international on amount of two articles wh i ph it had appeared in that journ a l. I n the Sett case, M. David, the prepriotor, * A , found guilty of having published a libel. and . w,, sentenced to three months' imprisonment an fine of 2,000 francs. In the second caw, jts,l4n, was passed upon him for ono month's meat and a fine of 1,000 francs. OUR PARIS LETTER. (non oua OWN oogassromar.tsr. PARIS, WILDNIINDAY THE PRINCE OF WALES ON AMERICAN POLITICS. A correspondent of tho New rurk Ileral4l of th 16th, writes : am authorised to state that the Prince of Wales mil some very important semi-official declarations (previnn4 t the levee which he held at St. James's Palaee . yesterday by command of the Queen) in regard to the American policy •.f the British government. The occasion was au intercrir granted by the Prince to Bierstadt, the American N air. r, at which Colonel Sanderson, late of the United flat , army, was also present. In the inspection and Comm ii dation of Mr. Bierstadt's new pictures the Prince of W.ik4 was . joined by the Princess Louise,who hippo c.. 1 to visit Marlborough House while the ilit..rvfrw in progress. Reierring to the accounts of the pt•eior4- bons for another Fenian invasion of Canadia, fished in the New York Herald, the Prince of Wales I : I hope that the United States government will sincere enough to persevere in its former poliiv in reg tr. to those Fenian who attempt to invade Caimila. W • know that the American Presidental ileet ions e imminent, and it is said by some perms.: that th.: politicians will be greatly influenced by tlie fre.li votes. We hope, however, that the instinct, of internation .1 justice will be sufficient to override mere 1...Mt.:al con siderations, and that such an outrageon' violation iit tb, comity of nations as a permitted incursion of atta,11,11,•14 into Canada will be prevented by the L'nie.t ante authorities, who have always shown thetaselses most prompt in their observances of treaty obli4ations; A war between England and Am.riLa: In‘ highness added, would be abhorrent to every Fan. ciple of Christianity and humanity, and 1 may agy such a war can never occur in the ordinary r. off, .4 events. But while such claims as those in regard ti Alabama are pending it would, of course, bean art ir.oy to allow such breaches of treaty as an invasion of Cluala, since, on the score of damages alone, the British govern• anent would be able to snake reclamatiuns would more than counterbalance even the Alabwii claims. The United States and England arc united hy too many bonds to make war possible; but for nipelf I am anxious to have every point in dispute amicably settled, and the two countries may then .beetaue nue policy, as they already are, I firmly believe, in sentiment and origin." The Prince of Wales spoke with the great.... possible earnestness, and with much animation awl eyeu eloquence." The performance of the Belle-HA..., has been 'resumed at the Varietal, Paris, with Millie. Tautin iu Mdlle. Schneider's part. Rossini had a reception on Sunday, at Passy. Alboni was present, and sang. The Journal du Havre, in guarded language. gives currency to a report that a letter from the Emperor to M. de Moustier and a proclamation to the French people are in preparation for publication in September. " If they see the light," it adds, " they will produce muels excitement in Germany." Professor Max Muller has written a note to an American Arm disposing of a report to the effect that ho intended going to the United Stater to deliver lectures. "I have received," he says, "several invitations to lecture in the United States. I suppose some mistake has oc curred. A colleague of mine, Proftesor Golds - in Smith, intends to visit the United States. My prole...4omi' work at Oxford makes it impossible for me to ateent myself from England long enough to give a course of lectures in the United States. Perhaps a short notice in the American Merl w" la save trouble to the presidents or secretaries of the colleges or institutes who are writing to me on the sub ject. Much as I should like to visit the Milted States. I should feel that, as a lecturer on language and relePou• was carrying coals to Newcastle, considering how fussy excellent lecturers on those subjects you pet was in America." Some very curious ichthyological phenontru have been noticed in Southampton Water this season. A short time since the fishermen there were surprised by the appearance of vast multitudes of small whiting. Within the last few days myriads of mullet fry have appeared- They literally cover the surface of the water at some places, and extend to some depth beneath. They nu' about an inch long. On any object approaching theta they recede from it in a body, just as if they formed cloud. Numbers of pipe fish and large quantities of other fish that frequent Southampton Water have been sten there. The fishermen anticipate extensive catches of whiting and mullet in the winter.