The Express. — London, England, 1868-06-25 00:00:00

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THE issue which the country will have to decide at the coming election is in part one of principles; but those principles are embodied in persons. It will have to choose between Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. DISRAELI. These two statesmen are the re presentative men of contemporary English poli tics. With many points of difference, they have a few points in common. They represent, perhaps, in an equal degree, the ascendancy of intellectual force in the House of Commons. It is creditable to that amenibly, and to the country, that its two ablest men are its two foremost men. Each party is repreaented by its last mind. The brains are where, politically, they sometimes are not— in the head. The day of arch-medi ocrities is over. The democracy of society Las preceded the democracy of government. In the equal strife of Parliamentary life, the victory is to the swift, and the battle to the strong. The moral qualities which have given their character and supplied momentum to TIIE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, lB6B . the purely intellectual gifts of the rival leaders are in strongly marked contrast. The scrupulous hesitation with which Mr. OLanfrromt approaches any difficult question, and the nicely-balanced con siderations by which he judges it, seem to have little in common with the passionate fervour and strenuous conviction of his later attitude. The hair-splitting dialectician and the subtle casuist is scarcely to be recognised in the eager political dogmatist and impetuous Parliamentary orator. But these two sides of Mr. GLADSTONE'S character have the same root, lying deep in conscience. Careful and even sceptical inquiry is the basis of genuine conviction. Hence Mr. GLADSTONE, in the begin nings of great controversy seems often a doubtful friend ; towards the close he is for colder tem peraments a too daring ally. Mr. Datum has neither the strength nor the weakness of this type of character. Unburthtmed with deep con victions of any kind, be moves lightly and grace fully. Ile never hesitates, and ho is never ob stinate. He sticks at nothing, and he adheres to nothing a moment longer than the convenience of his party requires. Equally gifted in point of intellect, or approaching near enough to equality to make the contest a fair one, the issues of victory lie between Mr. GLAneroree's strength and Mr. DisitAELes suppleness and agility. The training of the two men has contirnied the natural bent of their characters. Destined to political life while yet a lad in the playing fields of Eton, and a de bater in the Oxford Union, Mr. GLADSTONE was a member of Parliament almost as soon as he came of age, and in office before he was five-and-twenty. While he was doing the work of a legislator and admi nistrator, in office or in opposition, as the member either of a triumphant majority, or of a compact and united minority, Mr. DISRAELI was working his way in a very different sphere. Mr. GLAnerosz was laying the foundations of scholarly acquirements among the towers and glades of Eton when Mr. DISRAELI was serving an apprenticeship to life in the office of a city attorney. The leader of the Opposition was a sixth form boy, when the PRI3IE MINISTER was writing " Vivian " Grey," persuading MURRAY the publisher into unfortunate newspaper speculation, composing a radical satire on English institutions in " Captain " Popanilla," and airing his familiarity with the great world in the " Young Duke." In short, Mr. DISRAELI was studying and turning to account the weaknesses of society, while Mr. Geinsrose was engaged in scholarly labours, and in the business of administration. The one has become a scholar and a man of business ; the other a man of the world and of society ; the one has learned to administer affairs ; the other how to manage men. The one has become a consum mate statesman ; the other a masterly tactician. The division of parties, the temper of the House of Commons, the gravity of the occasion, will deter mine the ascendancy of Mr. GLAnsTora or Mr. DISRAELI; and their relative position has varied according as there was real work to be done or the prejudices of persons and of cliques to be humoured and played with. Between these two men the people will have to choose at the general election. The arts which amuse the House of Commons will not be a very powerful recommend ation to the million who have not the entrege of that place of entertainment; nor are they likely to be vexed at the earnestness, and made uneasy by the tacit reproaches which Mr. GLADSTONE'S strong conviction administers to poco-turantciam. The two statesmen will be judged by their past. Mr. GLADSTOIo•E, educated in all the prejudices of Toryism, has renounced the service of an oligarchic class for the service of the people. Mr. DISRAELI, abandoning the liberal professions of his early youth, has put on the livery of an order which distrusts him, but cannot do without him, and which he sways only as the roguish slave or valet of TERMTE or MommeE sways the testy but dull master, whom he at once humours and laughs at. Mr. GLAD STONE was one of the instruments of removing the tax which starved the people, for the sake of swelling the, landlords' rents. Mr. DISRAELI did his best to maintain it. Mr. GLADSTONE has lightened the burthens, and stimulated the industry, and afforded safe vehicles for the savings, and brought knowledge to the doors of the humblest classes. Mr. DISRAELI has hindered most and helped none of these changes. Mr. GLADSTONE now appeals to the nation to pacify Ire land by justice ; Mr. DISRAELI asks them to maintain the vicious ascendancy of class and creed to which all her sufferings, and many of our troubles are due. Shall the work of material, moral, and intellectual progress go on ? Or shall it be interrupted and thrown back ? If public life is a comedy, Mr. DISRAELI has unquestionably a claim to play the principal part in it. If it is a serious business requiring high capacity, large knowledge, and conscientious purpose, Mr. GLAD STONE is the man for whom the hour calls. asserted during the last nineteen yean, all tending to the enforcement of this view. Where gardens abut on to the Heath a nominal fee has been exacted for propping their hedge from the Heath side; laundresses have been called upon to pay a few pence for sticking their drying poles into the soil ; donkey owners and showmen have been mulct of nominal sums. These things have been enforced gradually, and have been too petty in their character for a fight; but the fatal bricks and mortar are only another develop ment of the principle that has been laid down. Sir Thrones WILSON says the Heath is his, and, so far as we understand the matter, his opponents dispute his right in foto, and are averse to pur chasing, as the Board of Works talked of doing, rights which they maintain to be imaginary. Tho metropolis has a deep interest in the dispute, for to be deprived of Hampstead-heath as a breathing ground would be little short of a public calamity. THE METROPOLITAN FOREIGN CATTLE MARKET BILL. THE Metropolitan Foreign Cattle Market Bill, which is to come on for discussion to-morrow, will be opposed on the ground that it would practically exclude foreign meat from the home markets, and make animal food an unattainable luxury to the very poor. The plea that its provisions are wan sary to prevent the recurrence of rinderpest is de clared to be unsound. Professor SPOONER, of the Veterinary College, M. BOSLEY, the veterinary adviser of the French Government, and Mr. PEMMICAN, the official cattle inspector of tho largest metropolitan district, have pronounced against them. All foreign countries aro to be tabooed, while Spain, Portugal, France, Olden burg, Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark, and Sweden have never had rinderpeat at all ; and Holland, Belgium, Prussia, and Austria are not only free from it now, but have adopted the most stringent measures against the admission of infected animals into their several domains. At present, the homo and foreign meat sold at the Islington Cattle Market brings together 5,000 retail butchers to compete for it. But if, an will undoubtedly be the case if the bill under discussion becomes law, foreign animals aro excluded from the central market, and slaughtered and disposed of at a special market near their landing place at Barking Creek, only the large carcase butchers would find it worth while to traverse the ten miles between it and Islington, and the competition would be thus reduced from 5,000 bidders to 100. The loss of time, the cartage of dead meat, and the depreciation of offal, would amount to from 30s. to 40s. per beast, causing, in fact, a prohibitory duty of from 10 to 12 per cent. ; as is the case at Liver pool, where the experiment of a separate market for foreign cattle has been tried. This is the more serious if it be remembered that half the meat of London is at first supplied by the foreign cattle trade, and that the poor of the east of London would be in practice deprived of the offal which is now one of their staple articles of cheap animal food. Lord ROBERT MONTAGU, who will advo cate the bill to-morrow, is rather ingeniously quoted against himself by its opponents. When speaking of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Bill, in 1807, his lordship said :—" The honourable " member for the Tower Hamlets wished to have " a separate market in London for foreign cattle, " but that would be a most expensive measure, " as it would be necessary to purchase land, and " to erect buildings for the accommodation of not " less than 5,000 cattle a week, as well "as slaughter-houses for all these beasts. " Besides, if they were to have two mar " kets, one for English and the other for " foreign cattle, they would divide the buyers and " destroy competition. The proposal is therefore " a gigantic system of protection lt is " not upon joints, but offal, that the poorest feed, " and offal will never be brought to London if the " animals are killed at the place of landing." Lord ROBERT MONTAGU seems to have summed up very neatly the arguments against the measure he is now expected to advocate. the order for emocution to the Kura. General RENARD insists that if the man is not guillotined all discipline in the army will be destroyed. M. BABA dote not think the argument of the general satisfactory. But whilst the doctors differ Fr ZRON keeps his head. _._____ 'his debate which begins this evening in the Houma Lords on the Established Church (Ireland) Bill, is not expected to last more than two sittings, though there is, of course, some uncertainty on this head. The Bishop of OXFORD, we believe, will move the adjournment of the debate to-night. The majority is variously estimated st from 50 to 70. There can be no doubt that the rejection of the measure by their lordships will greatly stimu late the efforts of the Liberals. THE Registration Bill was settled yesterday, in Conunittao. Wo understand that the recommen dations to be returned to the House will admit of the elections taking place early enough to allow of the meeting of Parliament at the beginning of Deeember. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION. The Hiirk of to-day, remarking on the Papal denunciation of the recent confessional laws passed in Austria, says : Here is pious and catholic Austria, the ancient rampart of the faith, exposed to the ban of the catholic world by Pins IX. The laws voted by the Austrian parliament are characterised as " reprehensible," " abominable" as " contrary to the rights of the church and its doc trines," /cc. The laws thus spoken of are laws which established the freedom of the pram, liberty of conscience, civil marriages, and the withdrawal of schools from the predominant control of the clergy. Once more "the infallible oracle "—to use the expression of M. Veuillot—has anathematised those princinles which aro the banes of those modern communities which desire to live and to progress in liberty. In what miserable equivocations will those members of the French clergy who pretend to he at once submissive children of the church and citizens attached to civil freedom, new take refuge Y What wretched casuistry will they invoke? By what new outrage on common sense will they maintain that a man can be at the same time a faithful believer, condemning, with Pius IX., liberty of the press, liberty of conscience, and liberty of education, and a political citizen demanding in the name of justice those same liberties? All distinctions in this case are but the subtleties of sophists driven to the wall. One must choose. One mud he either catholic and absolutist, or rationalist and liberal. ! There is no medium. The Popo has taken it upon him self to point to the faithful that this is the case. We know nothing so sad as the contradictions and capitulations of conscience to which the impossible task of reconciling the doctrines of the church with the principles of a free and democratic people condemn those who persist in making the attempt. A FRENCH BISHOP'S IDEA OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. The prefect of the Dordogne, desirous of estab lishing a society for the extension of primary edu cation in his department, inserted the names of the Bishop of Perigueux and some of the leading eccle siastics of the diocese as members. The bishop at once wrote to the prefect, requesting to have his name removed, on the ground that he could not " countenance a society founded on conditions which are incompatible with the inalienable rights of the church :" Whatever, says the bishop, may he the claims and endeavours of which we are the saddened spectators in these days, let us remain firmly attached to the idea of the church on the subject of the education of the rising generation. Jesus Christ is the master of truth. Ile recognised the temporal power—he paid homage to it—but to the church and the church only, he gave the right and imposed the duty of teaching mankind. It is not that the laity are prohibited from receiving education, especially when science and literature are its object. We put forth no such claim. The church accepts, encourages, and blesses devotion of every kind; but that which is true, and what we must loudly proclaim, is that every person engaged in teaching ix bound in conscience to amept the superinten dence and control of the church. This right of the church is imperative. HAMPSTEAD HEATH. THE case of " atrRIVEY HOARE and Others " v. Sir THOMAS MARYON WILSON," which com menced in the Rolls Court yesterday, will, it is to be hoped, definitively settle the fate of Hampstead-heath. The plaintiffs have already de layed, if they have not altogether prevented, its de struction. No one can visit the Heath, by way of Jack Straw's Castle, without being struck by the appearance and situation of an unfinished house close by. In front of the famous flag-staff, and so placed that if ever completed it will obscure the exquisite view over the fields to Harrow, this house seems to have been commenced for the ex press purpose of trying the question of right in the most irritating way. Its foundations once laid, it appeared to grow with abnormal speed, and but for the action of the in habitants near would have long since been finished and occupied—a substantial wit ness to Sir THOMAS WILSON'S absolute powers over the remainder of the Heath. But Mr. GUR NEY HOARE, whose family traditions and here ditary residence naturally impel him to take a leading part in all pertaining to the privileges of Hampstead, sought, as it is said, counsel from the Commons Preservation Society, who recommended the formation of a local association for preserving the Heath—advice which was promptly and satis factorily followed. An ad interim injunction was obtained against the house then building by the flag-staff, and the whole question will now be settled by our courts of law. As some totally erroneous impressions are abroad respecting the extent of Sir THOMAS WILSON's claim, it may be well to state that it embraces the entire Heath itself, and not merely outlying portions like the fields by the Finchley-road, The Lord of the Manor declares the breezy waste, which has been regarded as the common property of smoke-dried Londoners from time immemorial to be his private freehold, to be cut up in building lots, or covered with cottages, if he so please, to-morrow. Various minor proprietorial rights have been quietly .NITRO-OLYCERINE. By telegram from Stockholm, says the Chemical Irs, we learn that NOBEL'S nitro-glycerine manufactory was blown up on the afternoon of the 10th inst. Fifteen persons were killed and several severely injured, while great destruction was caused in the neighbourhood of the works. The same journal reprints the report of a board appointed to inquire into the origin and causes of an explosion of nitro-glycerine at Sydney, on the 4th of March, the conclusion arrived at being that the cause lay within the oil itself—in other words, that it exploded spontaneously. There is reason to suspect that an explosion of nitro glycerine which occurred last November in West phalia was spontaneous, or without external agency. The explosions of nitro-glycerine which destroyed the European at Colon, caused con siderable damage some two years ago at the Wyoming Hotel, New York, and, in December last, produced such disastrous results at New castle, were also stated, though not proved, to originate in spontaneous combustion. Be the cause what it may, it is quite certain that nitro glycerine gives rise to accidents whose number is above all excusable proportion to the extent to which this agent is employed. We should be sorry to hope, with the Sydney experts, that these acci dents will have the effect of altogether stopping importations ; for the value of this liquid as a blasting agent is considerable, enabling, as it does, the hardest rocks to be tunnelled with greater rapidity, and stone and slate to be quarried more easily and cheaply, than by gunpowder. But it is not too much to expect that before the manufacture is recommenced some steps will be taken to discover means whereby nitro-glycerine shall be effectually prevented from prematurely exploding. We already know that its solution in spirit is inexplosivo, and that the spirit can be easily removed when necessary, leaving the nitro glycerine in an unaltered condition—indeed the makers profess to sell only this diluted article ; but there is reason to believe that the amount of spirit employed is insufficient for complete protection ; added to which there is this objection to spirit— that it rapidly evaporate, whenever leakage, die., occurs, the nitro-glycerine itself being loft behind as explosive as ever. WREN Sir THowas Mons's life was in danger he objected to have his hair cut till it was de cided whether the Knee would have his head or not. We know the result in that case. At present there is a dispute between General BENARD, the Belgian Minister of War, and M. BABA, the Belgian Minister of Justice, not, indeed, about the decapitation of one of their own heads, but about the execution of a sergeant named FLEBON. This person has been condemned both by the military and civil tribunals for the assassination of Captain WEREHOPP, but M. BABA, who is strongly op posed to the penalty of death, will not present Eta Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Ju 24. The Queen and Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice went out raderday afternoon. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, arrived at the Castle yesterday afternoon from Bucking ham Palace. 'Ler Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, drove in the grounds this morning. " ' ' Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by Baroness Chancy, Major von Hesse, and Baron von Rahman, arrivod at the Castle this morning from Buck ingham Palace. Prince and Princess Christian dined with tho Queen yesterda The J udge Advocate-General had an audience of the Queen to-day. The Prince of Walee presided yesterday morning at a meeting of the Governors of the Wellington College, at the New Palace, Westminster. His royal highness afterwards rode out attended by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel. The Princess of Wales drove out, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark. Prince Christian, attended by Liout.-Colonal 0. G. Gordon, went to the anniversary dinner of the Royal Caledonian Asylum yesterday evening at the Freemason's Hall. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were eent to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St. Helena, and to the Governor-General of Canada. A meeting of the Governors of Wellington College was held yesterday in the Fine Arts' Commission-room at the Palace of Westminster. Present—his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (president), the Earl of Derby (vice president), his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Earl Stanhope, the Earl of Clarendon, Viscount Eversley, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord Chelmsford, the Right Hon. S. iL Walpole, Sir J. Weir Hogg, Bart., Mr. John Walter, Mr. Henry Cox, Rev. G. R. Gleig, Colonel the Hon. W. P. Talbot (hon. secretary), Mr. George Chance (secretary). The Rev. Dr. Benson, master of the college, was in attendance. The Governors met at eleven, and sat until half-past one. A deputation had an interview with Lord Stanley, at the Foreign-office yesterday, relative to the establishing of law courts in Egypt. A meeting of the Judicature Commission was held yes terday at the Westminster Palace Hotel. Present—Lord Justice Wood, Mr. Justice Blackburn, Mr. Justice Mon tagu Smith, the Attorney-General, Mr. W. M. James, Mr. Quail', Mr. Rothery, Mr. Childers, Mr. Hollams, and Mr. Bradshaw, the secretary. Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess de Paris honoured the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon with their presence at dinner yesterday evening at his lordship's residence in Grosvenor-street The count and countess, attended by Mdlle. Boerio, arrived at 8 o'clock. There were present to meet the illustrious guests, the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans, the Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol, the Earl and Countess Somers, the Earl Cow per, Lord Courtmuty, Lady Molosworth, the Bishop of Oxford, Mr. and Mrs. Rolfonl, Mr. Delane, ste. The Countess of Carnarvon invited a select party to assemble after dinner. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cairns enter tained at dinner last evening at their residence, 5 Crom well-houses, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl and Coun tess Cowley, the Earl and Countess Beauchamp, Lord and Lady Hylton, Viscount Mahon, M.P., General Peel, M.P. and Lady Mice Peel, Colonel and Lady Jane Dundas, Mr. and Lady Augusta Fremantle, Lady Rachel Scott, Mr. Severne, M.P., and Mrs. Severna, Mrs. Augustine Barton, Mr. Charles Gathorne Hardy and Miss Emily Hardy, Captain M'Neill, and Mrs. Taylor. Lieutenant-Colonel Miller, V.C., Captain C. B. Brackenbury, Captain Branker, and Lieutenant Geary, of the Royal Artillery, have arrived in Paris, and are about to proceed on a professional mission to Italy and Austria. Lieutenant Nolan, 8.A., who went with a de tachment of royal artillery from Woolwich to Join the Abyssinian expedition as instructors in the use of artillery in mountainous countries with the modern system of carrying small mortars and howitzers on pack saddles on the backs of mules, sad the method of loading and nu. loading them when required, and which did good service at the battle before Magdala on Good Friday, arrived at the Royal Artillery barracks yesterday morning and mot with a most cordial welcome. In committee on Bank Holidays and Bills of Exchange (re-committed) Bill, Mr. Lusk will move the following clause:—" (The day after Cluistanas-day to be a bank holiday.) The day after Christmas-day, and the Monday after Christmas-day when Christmas-day shall fall on a Saturday, shall be kept as a close holiday in all banks in the United Kingdom." Mrs. Cobden and her daughters have accepted the invitation of the committee to be present at the inau guration of the Cobden memorial statue on Saturday afternoon next at Camden-town. The centenary celebration of General Hoche was to have tat* place to-day in Versailles. The autho rities would not allow speeches as being useless ; a dinner, as being too tedious; a representation of Ponsard's Lion Amoureux (in which Ileche is introduced), as too revolu tionary ; nor Marie-Joseph Chenior's verses to be recited, as too glowing. "This," says the Sikle, " is ono mode of celebrating the hundredth birthday of one of the purest heroes of the French republic." The Bing of Bavaria superintended the rehear sals of Wagner's new opera, The Singing Matters of Nu remberg. The piece has just been performed with success in Munich. It lasted from 5 o'clock to 11. The composer was called for repeatedly, and received in the box of hie royal patron, and by his Majesty's side, the applause of the audience. A bazaar, under the patronage of her Majesty the Queen, the Princess of Wales, the Princess Christian, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary Adelaide, was opened yesterday in the riding-school of the Knights bridge Barracks, in aid of the National Central Ofiloe, Park-street, Grosvenor-square. The object of the National Central (Moe is to form a centre of union and intercom munication for institutions for girls and young women of good character, conducted upon "scriptural and Protestant principles," and there are now sixty-eight institutions on Use list. The bazaar, which win very well attended, will be continued to-day. ROYAL Cizoolurnic..a. SoontrY.—At the meet ing of this society on Monday evening, Sir R. I. Murchi son, Bart., president, in the chair, the following gentle men were elected fellows:—George Harvey, W. Minim: G. Roos, and Rev. I. 8. 8. Robertarm. T e BM paper read was " A Journey between E rserum an d Diabekr," by Mr. J. G. Taylor, her Majesty's consul at Diabekr. A paper was also read by the Bishop of Honolulu on "The Geography of Hawaii, and the Recent Volcanic Erup bens." A third paper was "On the Physical Geography of Cape York Pminmla, Australia," Dr. A. Rattray, R.N., surgeon to her Majesty's ship BahmaMer, which was engaged during three and a half years in tending the new settlement of Somerset at Caps York. A fourth paper was also read by Professor Jams Taman, "Oa the Geographical Distribution of the Diamond," in which the author gem en momat of the recent diserwery ot moods near the Orange River, Calso of Good= Thi• sheetiag tenniastes the preessit seldom et the • SERVIA. A letter from Scullin, in the Nartli Eastern Cor respondence, says : The trial of Captain Marraillo proved the existence of a conspiracy. all the threads of which are at present in the hands of the authorities. However, the revolutionary party does not seem to have abandoned all hope of success. Every day we have here and in the neighbouring town of Pancsova domiciliary searches at the houses of the known minters of the Omladina (a literary association of the Servian youth). The fact is certain that, as long ago as the middle of May, sinister rumours were in circulation at Pancsova, announcing a catastrophe in Sonia, and Prince Michael bad been warned of it. A letter from Ragusa states that as soon as it became known in Montenegro that the Prince of Servia was murdered, the inhabitants assembled under the command of Pardcklia and commenced to lay waste the Turkish farms. Orders were at once sent to Malunoud Pacha to afford the protection of his troops to the Turks. A RUSSIAN CIVIL GOVERNOR. A letter from Lithuania, in the ...Vorth-Eastei.a. Correspondence, says : The new Governor-General, Potapoff, i. becoming a regular apostle of Russian orthodoxy. Not content with closing churches and dispersing the clergy, he seems anxiou-, to found a new faith by a fusion of the Greek schism with the Roman catholic religion. There is only one remaining catholic bishop in the whole province, Mgr. Woloncecwski, of Kowno, and ho cannot leave his epis copal residence without a special authorisation. All at once ho received, unexpectedly, permission to go to Wilna for the Witsuntale fetes Hardly had he arrived in that city than he was summoned before the Governor-General, who immediately commenced a theological discussion. He pointed out to the venerable prelate that the two creeds at bottom form only ono re ligion, separated solely by differences of pure form; and how desirable a thing it would be to reunite them, giving, be it well understood, the precedence to the most ancient —the orthodox. As a means of realising this object, the general proposed to commence by introducing the com munions into the catholic church, and requesting the bishop to initiate the innovation, promising the support of the military. The prelate's astonishment may be imagined. Hs protested and tried to reason with the general, but all to no use. The latter, getting irritated, exclaimed, " I have begged you to in troduce this reform ; what will you do if I, Governor- General, order you to do so 'r" "In that case," replied Mgr. Wolonczewski, " I should see myself forced to dis obey you." The general flew into a passion. The bishop, in order to calm him, added, " I could only obey such an order in case it should be given me by the Pope." The Holy Father's name drove him frantic; he so far forgot himself as to replace his theological arguments by a frightful series of oaths, in which the Russian language is especially rich, and he finished by driving the prelate from his presence, ordering him to quit Wilna instantly, and return to Kowno. Madame Cabel, the prima donna of the Opira- Comique, sprained her foot three nights back in alighting from the carriage which carried her home after the per formance. Her part in the Premier Jour de Bonhew has since been played by Mdlle. Cico. The celebrated cantatrice Pauline Lucca (Ba roness Randen) has just passed through Paris on her way to Switzerland for a short period of repose, necessitated by the state of her health. The Courtier de Lyon was played two nights past in Paris for the 500th time, and with as great effect as ever. The Kursaal of Wiesbaden, taking advantage of the visit of Mme. Carvalho at Baden for the concerti of the month of July, has just engaged her for a series of representations. A Naples paper hears that an action is about to be brought against the Italian government by a gentleman who, having been captured by brigands and compelled to pay a large sum for his ransom, considers that he has a right to be indemnified by the State, since it was unable to protect in his person the safety of the public. Should the tribunals decide in his favour, the paper exclaims, it is all up with the finances of Italy. The Chinese Embassy, on the 9th of June, visited the hallo/ the House of Representatives at Washington, in response to an invitation by that body. After complimen tary speeches by Speaker Colfax and Mr. Burlingame, the Celeetials, eight in number, were introduced to the mem bers, and a general hand-shaking occurred, during which the younger members of the embassy kept up a vigorous fanning. no attire of the Celestials gave • " fancy dress " appearanos to the scene, and their visit agreeably enlivened the proceedings. On retiring, they were con ducted through the capitol buildings, and shown what ever was interesting there. In the evening they ►ttended a state dinner given by the President Aecordingto the Russian Correspondence, the ens appearance of the crops has caused the price of grain to tall to nearly all the market& In exerteguenoe, own dogma WM ban Mr *mks at Mad Nubia pied law. OUR PARIS LETTER. (TROY OUR OWN cor.nrshisbr s r.) I'AItIB, WI.I.NI.'•:I AV ;I . ;1 The Emperor, aecompanied Iy the l:Jap r „ camp to Paris from Fontainebleau this in, t premide at a ministerial council at t h e At 3 o'clock his Majesty left by the EA.!. 111 It l way for the Chalons Camp. The Einpr, him off at the station, and then returned t., taincblogu. Here is a paragraph in the w i,:,. h. firming as it does much that w.• have Ii ard ~ f ma•nt activity of the prefects in souoilin g stituencies, strongly presaAn.s a ;n•u. ral , • for this year : We lately nnnoutieed that all graxtion. r. I cial candidatures were ad jounced till aft.•r 11.. .1 councils of revimon. But we have How that the prefects. will :•u• moody, ly corn, t I . . . put of July to ri.poit to gove:intient i• , fixling among the impulatiotoi in r•-•.; ii.l ,• t, 111111 on all :on, Whiting to ti . w t! lure. This h. wiihh I havi , bilk I oil,• conflicts ly with :twilit,. giviti Iy thi• /'Fr: , iu th. whertiti it :z.5,...rt,•,1 that the , 11118 011( 1 6411 .10114 op., ' the question of the eloclioo. • last rix months, If tint in the authority which summons:ol :!: Paris for the exprot pu!posi, of ^i c;;, n ve io ry ns c a u b: o u us t a if business of secondary importme essiy the question of the general elect one of pri mary importance. It seems I. h.• phau that the o9icial scribe of the signs what is set down for him, g.it. news after the Emperor pa...eied thnev 4 h morning, and did not perceive, as eel-h, it was not his business to do, that it , another paragraph already in type. The Patrir, renewing rumours of changes which have been for sone• tiar• cur, says there was a great talk in the : Corps Ligislutif to-day of the Duke .I.• being sent as ambassador to St. P,1, 1 .,)„„. z. Count NV:dew:sl6 to ltoine. In the Senate yesterday M. Delanzl.• a report on a petition relative to thy• oath t by members of the Corps will. h said was couched in terms so gr 0.,.. illegal that be thought it for thy• .li.zoity Senate that the name of the petitioner , 11.01)1 • be mentioned. He, therefore, while i.; rejection of the petition by the asked that the petitioner should be i notoriety which would be a feather in t 0•.... the eyes of the factious and malevolent. M. :• langle's proposition was unanimously :clop:- the &nate. M. Regniard, the manager (Atilt. Bedf,e II • and the tuidwife Hely, charged with the eri!, of procuring abortion, were both acquitted. The.: was no direct evidence against then but t! dying dedurution of the unfortincoe girl. M RoseCaclou. Tit publ ie prosecutor ro!•-. : that the words of a person, howeverdeprav, . spoken with a conseiousness of approaeldiez d. • must be taken to he true, but M. Lieh.ol.l. defended Regniard, denied this ppposition. instanced many cases of persons who inn! mid durations on their dying beds which w. n• doubtedly false. The midwife had a very character from neighbours who hail known II,: • fifteen years. The jury adopted the theory counsel for the defence, and I do not think - public differs from them. It is stated that within the last three flup4 • Duchess Sophia of Bavaria has lssat alums Prince Ferdinand of Orleans, Duke of • the second son of the Duke of Nemours. l! rumoured not long ago that fl.. Do h. about to be married to King Louis of P... . M. Aurelien Scholl, a well-known joie! the dronignac class, was married this r, • a very young English lady, Miss Perkin,. The Bourse was more Me iyant t Rentes rose 33e. for cash, and 12!,(.. closing at 7 1 fr. 5c., and 71 fr. 17 !,e. I: 65e., closing at 55fr. 55e.; and Credit Mobilier was without change. The remains of an ancient Sjni , have just been discovered at Cussaro I . rounding wall was 2,000 metres in ciroio. thickness. The researches made show th it Ili. • • divided into several quarters. In one of them tin r of a fine temple have been found. Baron Kusserow, of the Prussian Washington, has been recalled, in compliance with Seward's request, for having fought a duel feu- u • ago. Kueserow, however, is promoted to be fir•t • tary of the Prussian Legation in London, i 1.1.! Lothun, his second, takes him place tempintrily at l% ington. The present telegraph to India s-tart, from r stantinople, and passes through Sivas, Ihwanveh, M Bagdad, Bushire, and Kurrachee to baits - . telegraph line will start from Odessa, and pls.+ al4nz' shores of the Black Sea, then by the lower ra:.,,.+- mowitains, and through Teheran, Bushire, au 16urrar to Bombay. The new line will, therefore, observe ar. easterly route than the present one. libtead of pi- :.: through Asia Minor and Arabia, a, the eat .!' - line does, the new one will piss through •• cassia, Georgia, and Persni, and ai T; o, altogether. The imperfections of the previa line partly from the want of control of Turkey over r. Bedouin Arabs and the scanty population of parts of Minor and Arabia. The new line will pats through ti heart of Persia, touching at Teheran, the capital. awl s. Bushire, the chief southern entreis , t of this: kmfz.irsn. new line will bo more muter the man I , ,.rement ot -.L.' • men, and its passing through Itu , da and rsi , , iu '• of Turkey, will be a great improvement. Vieuxtemps, the well-known v , btu d, Ire lost his wife. She was an Austrian by bit Ili. Edens, and originally came before the w orld 14 3 1' c . ' . and as 'tech obtained great favour in the princip ,l .." of Germany. She afterwanis went on the ,tag' singer and performed with applause earl m: buts uv: , - for a contralto voice; in 1845 she married Vnruit.rini , • then retired into private life. The deceased lady Na years of age. ROYAL TREASURES FROM AIIYSSINI.t. — W . ' derstand that the spoils recently sent home nom by Sir Robert Napier will almost immediately Is r: bited to the public, by her Majesty's command..'' South Kensington Museum. The most important almost worthy of the title of spolia opens. are tip. T crown, and slippers of King Theodore. These all beautiful specimens of filagree oniamentatiffli in • very much resembling that which is known to couc seurs as Maltese work. The robe is maim , with pieces of stamped silver, and both the robe the crown have silver balls attached to them with bark silver pendants. There is also amowg the tw in' another crown, but it is a very poor crimson velvet, with a gilt ornament on the top, ee gilt thread freize or spiked border round it ; and not to be compared with the other crown as a work f. There is also a second robe, apparently of Indian manship, the warp being of gilt thread, the rest of and embroidered with silk silver thread in patter° . flowers. The ground is yellow, and the fashieu of curious in the extreme ; it may have been, and bebly was, the Queen's morning robe. There sie three seals, one large gilt one, made many yeaos ,v s . Messrs. Strongitharm, of Waterloo-place and Pall.a, with a jasper handle ; it has on it a monstrously hon., and round it runs a legend in Arabic ehsreT,.., "'Theodore, King of Abyssinia and Ethiopia : the _lel of Kings, Theodore." A second silver Seal, et gllc.l size, has on it in Arabic, a similar inscription. The 88 4 largerin size, and also of silver, bears a Copetv . scri i = in the centre ; the first words of ae'_v f t ~ 44 Metropolites." • Round it runs as InsT o , in Arabia, enclosing the sacred monograms with the Greek letter P before it,—Dews. ■