The Express. — London, England, 1868-06-15 00:00:00

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EXTI:A MOH PERYORMANCEti. neenzAL JA Titoi - ll; In cytevillienee id the conataut mitt , tho. “t the mormna 1. rtvitildnee., and through the t xpriased de-he et -, tern' fmailie. vr Profe•wor Rides hart de terooied an , feu, t❑..... ming perfurnano, during the re maind, a cif In. in I.vielrin S.,', Monday., AV , Ane - AaY., •Ihm , dry and satordal , , at half-past Twn rielock ; and rvery mght :11 .rettrt‘i at the Box-other from Ten till ~, Mr. Miteliell*, aid Bowl-mart; mud the prineipal 1..i 1 .13rit, Children 1,14'1., i, STRAND. Tno Evmmen, .IQTYRLY sERVIcE.- TM: YIELD OF TILE °WTI! OF MULD.—And MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. .BurrAN-mA:_ THI4 Er IMMO, FRANIFFIrEFIZITORMAN.—TRE WAR IN A ItYKRINIA. Supported by _a Detachment of Soot. Fusilier sleuth.— The Lumens and J. Millicent; Misa=Latimer,--• With Ana, FLINT: OR, THE MISER'S D DTOIC WATER AT LONDON BRIM& To-Dar —Morning,Bm.......Afternotta, %Aft. tv-Itoisaew—Xonalag, 10b. 13m».....itttest000, 1011. 44sob NOM E. a vertiveni Farr rccinni.trvl to make thcir Toot-Aloe order. poyvkle !o Mr. 'OMAR L SRRINo.rf .N, roc-Oftee, Fleet -Rtleet, E.C. V0T1..41 of BUIIMA, M *R111.401,1, and 1)11ATNIR, nri, received until 12 o'clock tor in,cition wine evening. Dice A. tkl. & SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING fhe Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Spotting, and General Intelligence, IS I•UBLISIIED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 15. ELECTIO.VKARING. Till: Reform Act of 1867 is likely to make con verts to Mr. MILL'S doctrines of purity of election. 'I he constituencies which it creates threaten to be so unwieldy as to make bribery a physical impossi bility. It is difficult by a single act of purchase to corrupt 60,000 people. If the electors of England had but one paha, and that an itching one, as, iu the aspirations of the Roman Emperor, the citizens of Rome had but a single neck, it might be practicable to purchase their suffrages. But wholesale dealing is out of the question ; and retail dealing will in volve operations too minute, complex, and nume rous to be practised with success. A corrupt minority might indeed hold out to the last moment with a view of driving a good bargain ; but this minority, if it be on the scale the Act threatens to introduce, will be as great as many whole constituencies hitherto ac counted large. Among the vast number of electors who may be expected to remain unpolled at the close of the election, some of them too honest to be bribed, but not patriotic enough to vote, it will hi hazardous to bribe a comparatively small number; .for the bribe might be thrown away through the honesty or the counter-corruption of a majority of the unpolled residue. Large constituencies have generally been incorrupt, not always from superior morality, but some times from inferior opportunity. The Reform Act of 1867 will not, therefore, in the great towns ;if England, make elections more a matter of par :ills.° or sale than they have heretofore been. This circumstance may seem to be a point in favour of the Government scheme of extending the boundaries of boroughs, without divid- THE EXPRESS, MONDAY ing them into ',tits:lto constituencies. But so far as magnitude and population are st security for parity of election, that guarantee /mists in full forte already in such pities ae Manchester and Birmingham. The evil of the monster constituencies it not that they will in troduce corruption where formerly there wits purity, but that they will 'make purity itself, if it fall short. of absolute asceticitin. 144 istly 11N vice. The legitimate expenses of eleetions us they are now conducted un towns of the size of our great manufacturing and metropolitan boroughs will in future lx• little short of ruitiou4 to men of moderate means, and will seriously hanger fur years, if not for life, the fortunet of 111(11 usually accounted wealthy. It is this well founded apprehension that disturbs the minds of so many reputable members of Parliament, perfectly innocent of unlaw ful designs. An election, though comluetisl with absolute honesty, will soon become a pursuit only for millionaires. A mania for politics will be ranked with a passion for building or for the turf umong those infatuations which lead men to their IU I / 1 . The corrupt practices which it is the object of the Bill now before the House of C 'fatuous, and of the pages of amendments to its clauses which lore upon the notice paper, to prevent, are scarcely a more serious evil than those incorrupt practices of lavish but legitimate expenditure which are ex empt from legal penalties and even from moral disapprobation. The lawful expen diture, indeed, feeds the unlawful. When money is flowiag freely, it is next to im possible to prevent a large escape of it into dirty chiumels. Moreover, expenses which are ' ostensibly legitimate can easily be nuule to shelter lauctices which ale thoroughly corrupt. One of the most accessary reforms of the present day is a revision of the con ception and definition of legitimate electioneering practices. During the third of a century which has elapsed since the passing of the first Reform Act, there have been vast improvements. The candidates no longer strive to drive their votaries, by banners and music, into a state of frenzied ex ultation. The banners are furled, the music is silent. the most objectionable of all party processions are under the ban of law. The present generation really does not know what an election meant in the days when Lord GREY and Lord JOECK Russnu. were counted in cendiaries and revolutionists, and Mr. PICRCEVAL, LORD SIDMOUTH, and Lord CASTLEREAOH were the saviours of society. Elections of the good old times have as completely vanished as May poles; and Morris danoes. Their real character— is it not written in the book of "Pickwick" ? Some progress has been made since the election at Eatanswill was a truthful description of the man ner in which the wisdom of Parliament was manu factured, like some precious jewels, out of the foulest corruption. Much more yet remains to be done. It was observed in a lute debate by one of the members for Glasgow, that that constituency as enlarged by the Scotch Reform Bill could not be success fully contested for less than 20,000/. No man not a millionaire could afford to pay a sum anything like this. No millionaire who was not also a fool or a knave would think of doing so. The man who is ready to pay such a sum as this for the privilege of a seat in Parliament, goes there from some other motive than the desire of dis charging laborious public duties. He is actuated either by a besotted personal vanity, or by some ulterior end, for the attainment of which 20,000!. is a judicious investment. Mr. MILL'S plan and practice of devolving the legitimate expenses of elections upon the constituencies voluntarily Mi stiming them, would scarcely meet a case such as this. The men Are few whose services would be worth securing at an expense of 20,000!. Nor is it by any means certain that the best men would always be those who would raise the enthusiasm which must be evoked before a resource of this kind can be called into operation. There ar” few men who, like Mr. MILL him tell, have earned popularity by the very scull: of popularity, and who have won, by \Noll:9 addressed to the highest thought and culture of the few, the admiration and con fidence of the many. On Mr. MILL'S principle, Orator HUNT would have stood a far better chance of being returned free of cost to Parliament than FRANCIS HORNER or Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH; and FEARGI'S O'CoNNoR than Mr. GROTE or Lord MstsrLsv. The remedy must be looked for not in a transfer of burthens from the shoulders of the candidates to those of the constituencies, but in a diminution of the burthens. How great these are may be in ferred from the fact that in one of our Metro polite' boroughs the mere circulation of a candi date's address through the post cost him not less than 1,400!. Add to these the cost of the conveyance of voters, of the employment of paid canvassers, of messengers, of the use of committee-rooms, of advertisements, and placards, and it is readily conceivable that an honestly-conducted election in a great town may cost the candidate many thousands of pounds. No wonder that a general election is dreaded. It is looked at as a calamitous visitation, like a pestilence or fever. Candidates do not so much fear being sent to their electioneering account as having their electioneering account sent to them. The usages which are so costly are, we believe, purely superstitious. They are maintained by those who profit by them. Election agents and publicans are the priests who stimulate the offerings to the false gods, by which they themselves live. Trrzei, could not hate LUTHER more than they hate the political reformer who dispenses with their mediation and will not purchase their guarantees of safety. But it requires only a few signal acts of courage to break completely with a ruinous and demoralising system. Mr. Tuolus BUGIIES is making • gallant stand against it in Lambeth, refusing to employ paid agents or to hire committee rooms, or to allow these things to be done for him. We wish him success, both for his own sake and for that of a great public in terest. desetibed. It is such deligl.•t to gain a prise that the ignorantly-happy boy carols little what the prise is, and the parent, participating in his ehild'a happiness, cares 215 little how it isobtaned. Relying, we suppose, upon this generous feeling of indifference, some schoolmasters have the auda city to make a charge for the prizes in the bins, KO that the parent who is blessed with a clever son is doomed to pay for the blessing. This contemp tible meanness is not confined to contemptible schoohi, but is committed in some which claim to be, and in all respects save this appear to be, re spectable. This, however, is Is fault perpetrated, we hope, bycomparatively few schoolmasters or school mistresses. There is another fault in connection with these rewards of merit which hi common to the profession. We make no objection to the univemal custom of giving books for prizes : although, perhaps, in some eases a boa of good to( is or a first-rate cricket bat might be subeti toted with advantage, but we object strongly, and we think reasonably, to the kind of books that arc given. It is but rarely, exoept in our public I..cliools, that a good and suitable book, in a good edition, and a good binding, is given fur a prize. Sometimes the volume may deserve the title of an English classic, but then it is either, like the "Night Thoughts," or Burtmfa " Analogy," a terribly heavy book for the young, or it is a wretched edition of a readable volume bound in some glaring attire, which is neither Russian, Moroooo, nor calf. Who is them that does not know these volumes by sight and by smell ? Who vs there that does not know what publisher's name is likely to Spur upon tl ie title-page? The truth is that although there are some highly respectable booksellers in London who act as the purveyors of school prizes, there are others who keep a supply of what it pleases them to call standard works, which means in most instances works that no boy will care to look at, and editions that no gentleman with the least passion for bibliography would admit into his library. Sometimes it happens that modern works are rehabilitated in a prize binding, but the literary discrimination is not always more apparent in these instances than when the schoolmaster presents a merry-hearted jolly English boy with " HERVEY'S Meditations," or Dr. JOHNSON'S " BaSSelaS," or Pouoi's " Course of " Time." We know, indeed, an instance in which a youth was presented with that singularly whole some and simply-constructed tale " Lady Andley's " Secret"! the donor doubtless thinking with Pro fessor D'Aacv THOMPSON that Miss BRADDON is one of the first of living writers, and thinking, too, which perhaps Mr. THOMPSON does not, that her novels are peculiarly adapted for the amusement and instruction of the young. Yet it ia possible that no judgment was exorcised in this case, since it rarely is exercised in the matter of prize-giving, and that the boy who won " Lady Audley's Secret" was just as likely to have re ceived Bitterna's " Essay on Truth," or Meaux coma on Death, minus Mrs. VEAL'S Ghost. SCHOOL PRIZES. PERHAps the happiest being in this world is the schoolboy let loose for the holidays after a half year of very successful work. He carries home the praises of his master, has perhaps more than one gorgeously-bound prize book in his box, and is con scious 4.4 being the envy and admiration of a score of youngsters who will recount his achievements with pardon able exaggeration to their sisters and friends. This is fame, this is victory ! without any of the alley which inevitably dims the lustre of success in manhood. To win school prizes in the face of fifty competitors is like winning a battle, or gaining a name in literature, or discovering a new planet, or charming the world with noble oratory —and it is a greater joy than any of these because the victor is young and has never tasted sorrow. We almost fear that some schoolmasters make capital out of the exultant feeling which we have TILE MISSING DESPATCHES. PEOPLE are almost tired of looking for the official despatches from Abyssinia, and the pro longed delay is the more unaccountable from the ample details furnished from the seat of war by the various newspaper correspondents. The re cognised channels of information have been abso lutely silent, and but for the private enterprise of our public journals the country would be without specific information respecting the most interesting expedition of modern times. We believe the situation to be without parallel in the history of modern war. That the government of a great country should not be informed by its officers of the details of their success, and that the entire realm should at the same time be minutely informed of the army's behaviour and condition is a truly anomalous condition of affairs. " Horseback de " spatches," namely, haatyaooounta of battles scrib bled off almost before their close, were not uncom mon during the Peninsular war; and the Emperor of the FRENen, when on the plains of Solferino, made it his first care that his home-staying subjects should be apprised in detail of the triumph of the national arms. But it is now two months since the attack on Magdala, and several weeks since the un official accounts of it were published. The delay, and the profound official ignorance in which the proper ministers are kept, are due, no doubt, to some perfectly natural and simple causes. Meanwhile all are alike anxious for the despatches, and alike in debted to the special correspondents of the metro politan press. We have heard of military expe ditions in which " newspaper fellows" have been consistently thwarted and annoyed by the autho rities. Ever since Magdala fell, they have been the most valuable public servants in the force. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. WE should be sorry if the Crystal Palace autho rities, misled either by a wish to do honour to ELANDEL, or by a lust for high priori, were to render their charming holyday-place inaccessible to the classes who are its main support. It is an unpleasant thing to be tabooed, and if it be true, as stated by a correspondent of the Times, "that " the middle-class multitude are compelled to " enjoy their Crystal Palace concert at from 200 " to 300 yards distance from the orchestra, under " a blazing sun and a Mindless glass," we fear that in the long run the shareholders will suffer by the mistake. The establishment at Sydenham is the people's palace or nothing. It is tolerably clear, however, that the shilling public are at a discount when expensive oratorios and monster concerts are in progress ; and all that can be asked is that they should not be made to feel their re duced value too painfully. An old complaint against a popular suburban pleasure-garden was that the admission fee as advertised far and wide conferred little more on those paying it than the privilege of being permitted to make further dis bursements. One shilling admitted to the garden, but many shillings were required to explore its amusements or behold its sights. It is noto rious that the Crystal Palace has popu larised its attractions to an extent which its original promoters never contemplated, and that the clever skit upon its esthetic pretensions put forward by the lute ALBERT SMITH has been res. liaed almost literally at its great revels and film It will be a thousand pities, hcnveyer, if its managers extend its assimilation to other specu lative pleasure-places too far, and fall into the error of shelving the general public in favour of those who are willing to pay extra bonuses and fees. THE Mont Cenis Railway is to be opened to passengers to-day. There will be two trains daily each way; one express, and the other ordinary. The duration of the journey, at present ten hours by the Messageries Imperiales, will be reduced to five. From Paris to Turin the journey will occupy only 24 hours. EVENING, JUNE 15, OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (TIM DAY.) ITN 1111 W ANII.IIII.OAK AIIIASI4IIOII. The appointment of Mr. ReveMy Johnson as envoy to ()rest Britain is treated as a subject of congra tulation by the Timm aad the heity News. It if harm says the former, that any minister ennui have been acenslihsl to us whom we should receive with more confi dence an the honoured spokenumn of a great nation. It in a lawyer that Mr. Johnson's reputation waseetatilbdteri. and he corners to sib with the assurunee that in a time of un peralleled ■nimosity he has won the approhati,Al of both the contending parties of the Union. Ills practiasd intellect will he found trained to discuss the questions now pending or which may arise between the United Ntate4 and our'clva, with judicial precision and impartiality; and we do but expnno, the concurrent testimony of all ob-ervers in adding that to dignity of character and bielitlih of learning are allied a peculiar dorm of manner. The I.olvempondent of tho Doily !tires at New York says the nppointment has been regarded every where in the States with satinfartion. A gentleman by character, uttainin its, and bearing, Mr. Johnson is well fitted to represent his country here, and to sustain the high standaid of comparison by which Mr. Adams's successor will nete,sarily be judged. Seventy-two is a somewhat advanee , l age at which to exchange law for diplomlicy; but we have had Pi ime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries eonsidelahly older, and Mr. Itevonly Johnson's legal knowledge may prove of use in the amicablo adjustment of existing controversies. REVENCR OFFICERS AND THEIR VOTEA. The 14,0 ridicules the objection of the Board of Cue. terns that the removal of the electoral disabilities of their officers would lead to the " imputation of political motives" and " introduce political agitation." The es ercire of political power always brings difficulties and suspicions to those connected with its exercise ; but that has never been considered a sufficient reason for with. holding the power; on the contrary. it is often advanced as a reason for giving it, seeing that it forces men to use their wits a little. It may be possible that fresh regula tions may have to be made by the departments to secure the proper and forbearing exercise of the voting power which should mark the government ofilcial, but as to the propriety of giving the right itself there can be no sort of doubt. The Daily Neva refers to the experience of Mr. Monk's bill in the House of Commons as an illus tration of the disorganisation of the present house as an instrument for the transaction of public business. If there WWI no discuseion on the second reading, that was the fault of the government, who were absent when the bill eame on. But it ie not so clear as it ought to be th a t the government did want discussion, for they declined to grant Mr. Monk a morning sitting, or to afford him any facilities for bringing forward the measure. NOW, @COM AND THE COMMEILLTION. Mentioning the fact that Mr. Bright is to call the attention of the House of Commons to-morrow evening to the complaints of the Nova Scotian' as to the Act of Con federation, the Star assumes that already the action upon the interests of Nova Scotia has been proved to be detri mental. We have bad enough of enforced unions. It cannot have been the pturpose of the imperial legislature to make an Ireland close upon the borders of the United States. If we erred in sanctioning confederation against the wishes of the Nova Scotian", we erred in ignorance, and we are ready, it is certain, to redeem our character for justice. IMILWAT CONTI:DT:RATION. The Time , comments upon a letter addressed to it by Mr. Welkin respecting the proposed amalgamation of the three great railways south of the Thames, and concerning which the public have taken so much alarm. The Tunes confesses that to it the letter, which might have said all that it was necessary to say in three lines, is a puzzle. It has been distinctly stated that the companies propose to charge third-clam peumengers three-halfpence a mine; to count as six miles any distance less than six miles ; to levy a special tax upon their customers for the use of the metro politan stations, and to make all pumengen; by "express" trains pay whatever the directors may think fit to demand. It is also strongly suspected that the price of season tickets is to be raised, to the grievous inconvenience of suburban reaidents, and upon none of there points does Mr. Iva kin's letter contain any information or assurance. The Times does not deny the right to amalgamate; but contends that unialgsrontions designed to insure the cunt penke against mutual attacks should not be attended by any inipsitious on their unoffemling customers. TUE FINANCIAL POLICY OF AIISFRIA AND ITALY. The Doily Neff s, discussing the recent financial policy of Austria and Italy in violating their money contracts, Fay!, that whatever the immediate gain may be, faith in the honour of these governments is seriously shaken. Austria and Italy are both making rapid progress, not towards the material prosperity to which their immense, though undeveloped resources en title them, hut towards national bankruptcy. It is, how ever, a good feature that in both countries patriotic statesmen, who look beyond the present, have risen to protest against such dishonourable dealing with the public creditor, and especially with the foreign one, as the excep tional tax on the public dividend. COAT OF THE BOTTA-DART COMMISSION. —Amorist ing to a return published this morning it appears that the fees paid to the &instant boendary commissioners for their services amounted in the aggregate to 7,1e0f. lb. The number of days during which they were occupied varied from thirty-revel, to id:trigs, and the rate of remune ration from three to five raises a day. REGISTRATION AND THE NEW PARLIAMENT.— The text of the government bill to amend the law of registration, so far as it relates to the present year, was published this morning. The bill is divided into two parts, and contains tweedy-three clauses. The ninth clause of this bill provides that where, by reason of the disfranchisement or the alteration of the boundaries of any borough during the present menial of parliament, any person who would not otherwise be so entitled be comes entitled to a meaty rote, the time for making • claim shall in such case this year extend to the 25th instead of the 20th of July. The eleventh clause provides that in the event of • dissolution taking place this year, the first meeting of parliament after the dissolution may take place any time after the lapse of twenty-eight days from the date of the proclamation. INTERNATIONAL COINAGE.—A hill was recently introduced into the Congress of the United States for the p_urpose of assimilating t e gold currency of the American Union to that of the Frm- ch system, in pursuance of the resolutions arrived at by the diplomatic monetary con ference held last yearin P ut the measure met with anniderable opposition. p Ily from the commercial conanamity in the United . tee, inasmuch as it in volved a depreciation of the value of the gold coin age by about 3 per cent., without providing any compm 'teflon for creditors wb&-e interests would be effected by the change. It appears from a telegram just received from New York, that this difficulty has been removed, and that the bill has been amended so as to *scare the adop tion by the United States of the International system of coinage which is already in force over so large a portion of the Eu epwu Continent, without, at the same time, in dicting any injury as the public faith.-IYrota. PailniriceltOtrsw.--13everal large broals of grouse are to be seen this season on the moors in Banffshire. A pheaerd about ten days ago came upon a nest in Olen. mar* on that famed piece of sporting ground called the KeB.BOII Noon, which contained lir young birds newly hatelasa and two eggs, mal l : c l o th e e whole 17. The eggs were both chipped in the she and the two young geay were just about to break from their cells. Tbe ordinary number of eggs in a grouse nest is from 7 to 11 ; it is very seldom that they reach or exceed the latter number. It is to be observed that in general the birds are more prolific this year than ordinary, probably owing to the fine open winter and genial spring, and something, ts due to the operation of the natural law perhaps,an increase of progeny usually follows a period of beery mortality. So far as it has yet gone, the present has been a moat favourable season for hatching, and num bers et by o g iung growls are on the wing, and will be pretty by the 12th of August. But sportsmen would do we to keep two matters in view. One is, that as, owing fo the great number of birds that died through &ewefast year, breeder, are rather scarce, sportsmen slionki net kill too many this year. The other point is to bays the moors carefully watchod during . the night for several weeks before the 12th of August, in order to pre vent the whole ale destruction of the coveys by net., which, we are rorry to state, has of late years been much practised Ly poachers in the upper divtaiets of Banff and Aberdeen sharea.—Beefshire .7evreel. Tiro New Forest races will take place at Lynd hurst on the 29th inst. _ _ A ooin of the Boman Emperor Publilts Lueiniva Gallitano was found in Winchester lad week. It was in good preservation. 1868. . ttoart. • • BALMORAL cmcrim. ATOM 11. 7 gleg e l e rre out in the taunting. ',emu pooh d by Lodge. In the attention her Majesty, attended by the Iblehe.. at Athol. and Me WOregor, drove over to Tilly lbw, where Mr. WPOiladio had the honour of elbowing the () n evi his celebrated bird of palled Abetlovn vfttl... Jump: 12. the Qeern drove out ire VIP morning, armeripanied by Princcvv lwneiae, and in the afternom her hiejr‘ty dory.. to Alt-na-fluithaeach with Mincers honi.e, Beatrice, and Prince Leopold. Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Linty *wan Melville and Lieutenant-Colonel U. Donlon, dine.l with the Ditchers of Invarneen, at Kenaington l'alaue, UM Satter day evening. Lieutenant-General the ltight ILrn. Jonatlvin Peel L•R Ft ogniore on Friday. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official resident* of the Find Lord of the l'rea sury, in Downing -street. The ministers present were :---The Right Hon. R. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmcsbury, the Right Hon. aathonrre Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Clunidos, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. North oote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, and the Earl of Mayo. Ton ItKruoti or THE Quor.x •ro WI oomoit. To-morrow, her Dfa jowly the Queen, accompinied by their Royal Highnesses Prince Leopold and Prinneeses and Beatrice, with thu suite in attendance, will leave Bal moral for Windsor. 11cr Majesty's special train will leave Ballater at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, angler the charge of Mr. W. (awkwcll, general manager of the London and North Westrin line, and will anise at Windsor, 591, miles. at ten minutia to g o'chs•k. Their Royal Highnesses the Prilier and Prins es 3 of Wales awl the Crown Prince of Denntsrk am expected to arrive ut Marlborough-house to-day fnina Titnexii-park. Her Mnjesty'n breakfast, appointed to tuke plane on Monday, the 22nd inst., at Buckingham Palace, will be from half-past 4 to half-past 7 o'clock The Prince and Princess of HMO are expected to arrive at Woolwich early this morning in the govern ment steamer Enchantress. A special train will convey their royal highnesses from the Arsenal station to Windsor tie, the North Kent line and Waterloo, and it is understood that the arrival at Windsor will be about noon. The Duchess of Inverness received their Royni Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian at dinner on Saturday evening at Kensington Palace. The Prince and Princess, attended by Lady Susan Melville and Colonel Gordon, arrived shortly after 8 o'clock. There wore pre sent to meet the illustrious guests—The Duchess of Sutherland, the Marchioness of Winchester, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl Fortescue and Lady Susan Forteecue, the Earl of &Band and Miss Barclay, Viscount and Viscountess Sudley, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount St. Aseph, Viscount Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Churchill, General the Right Ron. J. and Lady Alice Peel, Hon. Greville Howard, M. and Madame Van de Wryer, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton, Miss Sydney, Mr. William Peol, The Earl and Countess of Kimberley entertained the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Earl and COUIII.. tete. de Grey, the Countess of Charlemont, Lord and Lady Lyvcden, the Right Hon. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, Hon. Lyulph Stanley, Hon. Henry Leeson, Sir Anthony and Lady de Rothschild, and a select party at dinner at their residence in Bryanston-square on Saturday. The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart., M.P., and Lady Pakington entertained the Marquia of Bute, Lord and Lady Hylton, Lord and Lady Vivian, Lady Mary Windsor Clive and Miss; Windsor Clive, General the Hon. Sir Edward Cyst, Sir James Pergusson, Bart., M.P., and Lady Edith Forgussion, Colonel Taylor, M.P., and Mra. Taylor, Lieutenant-Colonel Windsor Clive, M. and Madame de Ratty, Mr. and Mrs. Shirley, Mr. James Johnstone, &c., at dinner on Satunlay evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-place. Later in the even ing her ladyship had a small and early party. Lord Lytton entertained at dinner on Saturday hat, at his residence in Orosvenor-square, the Marquis of Claitricanle, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, the Earl aia Connie.. of Carnal-von, Viurcomteon Combo...nolo, Lnrd aad Lady Duferin, Lord Colchester, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel, Colonel nod Lady Rosa Ureville-Nugent, Hon. Mrs. Villiers, and Mr. and Mr+. Bischoffsheitn. NO FA SCOTIA .4 ND THE C.l NA DIAN MNFEDERATION. The objections raised by Nova Scotia against the union with the other British American province," are suc cinctly stated in a aeries of resolutions which have been forwarded by Viscount Monck to the imperial government, and ripples of which, together with other deaputches on the same subject, were published this morning. The chief complaints of the Nova Scotism are that the confederation was accomplished without the province having been properly consulted, and that the results are likely to prejudice some of its special interests. The Provincial House of Assembly, therefore, agreed to an address§ to the crown, praying that, so far as regards that province, the act of parliament effecting the union may be repealed. In acknowledging the receipt of these documents the Duke of Buckingham, in a despatch to Lord Monck, dated June 4, expresses a hope that the objections which have been raised may admit of removal. His lordekip observes, with regard to the effect of the scheme upon the taxation, trade, and fisheries of the province, that it will be equally the wish of the Canadian govern ment and of the parliament of the dominion to relay or modify any arrangements on those subjects which may prejudice the peculiar interests of Nova Scotia, and of the maritime portion of the dominion. No doubt can be entertained that.the parliament of the Dominion will be fully alive to both the justice and the expediency of con suiting all the various interests of the territory over which its jurisdiction extends. Lord Mona is also reminded that on several occasions Nova Scotia has been the first of the provinces to move the project of confederation. With respect to the objection that before the act of union was passed no appeal was made to the people in the provinces, such a course has not been considered necessary in parallel cases, not even when the two Cumuli's were united in 1839, although much difference of opinion then existed. It is true that an appeal to the country was proposed in the assembly of Upper Canada, where there was much clam conflict in the de bate& but the proposal was rejected by a large majority, and a similar proposal was attended with the same result in the more recent debates on confederation. As to the complaint that the union was not made subject to legisla tive ratification by the several legislatures, no such course has been followed in the numerous modifications of colonial constitutions, nd in the separation and onion & various cotes. nies, which have bear effected bythe imperial parliament. But "it does so happen," says the Duke of Buckingham, "that after the present measure had been introduced into the imperial parliament, and its terms made public, it was cordially approved of by both houses of the legislature in Nova Scotia in their addresses to the governor at the opening of the session in 1887." His Grace adds that "the provincial governments and legislatures, after the terms bad been substantially settled, with the knowledge and approval of all, looked to the imperial parliament to accomplish their union. This has been done exactly in the mariner requested ; the neighbour- Mg province of New Brunswick has entered into the union in reliance on having with it the sister province of Nova Scotia, and vast obligations, political and com mercial, have been already contracted on the faith of a measure so long disowned and so solemnly adopted." The Colearial Secretary says it is the belief of her Majesty's government that the measure will not merely conduce to the strength and welfare of the provinces, but that it is also important to the interests of the whole empire ; and his Grace con cludes by Paying : " I trust that the assembly Ind people of Nova Scotia will not be surprised that the Queen's govern ment feel that they would nab* warranted in advising the reversal of a great measure of state, attended by so many extensive consequences already in operation, and adopted with the previous sanction of every one of the legislatures concerned, and with the subsequent approval of the legislatures of Nova Bootie, and New Brunswick." We camerae that the question will be revived in Ms Homo of Comma to-aotroy evening. FOREIGN NEWB. (THIS DAY.) (Tl6ltOl'Oli ISECTER . IS `‘ , 7t SEItViA. BED iItADV, r•••;,/r. Fresh 1411.04.4 koi. Wien pi ice InTe. Ahlr , „ to Ow prervirional govutimut.itt co:rl r:erdlp arriving from all parts of the country. K ; ; .,, 4 the adhesion of the different f., the pmpo4e4l elettion of Prin,:e Milan .4. I{l • •_ c0t...0r of Prim 4. likaUlled. 1110 Brit i, 4 . A sador at Constantionpb. leis expre-ied f provisional government his rrprt it r:, . iussamiti it• 11011ESIIA PitAtO3P, J.:7; Ptimr Napolerm.b y ph, na ty.,, r the town, lima visited the the! , vf Pi*.., in 'Prague. Ile has re. eive'l flit- prirs'f.s: :•'''‘:',. tents, unaung whom v+,•relaky tit: r O W lenders of the national party, mni + tution of tlie Czech Working Mn'i S As+ tl'he Prince n•titni, to AM EI:TCA. 'nut Inman r,y.,1 steutiwr City ••f ftrrivi (I her at I I 24111. to-day. AU v. 1.1 OUR PARIS LETTER. (►RON MK OWN COURI:q.ONDYNT PAWS • SI:N1 , 11 . E's The and COIIOI.IISK • riatol-rs. , to Puri. for the riteem of hit Sunday. cl I prolonged their sojourn for their going about unattended like I)arhy I .I were entertained yesterda3- by tie. I': • Mattihle at a grand dinner at h••r 1,. c: country Louie. Mob • Alleotii, p.. r .,ii, twned to Paris from Italy, and ',mg at a little boir,'e given by Rui,ini at lit. 1 . 11,y Ville. I The Flinn) says that M. Emile 01brier's fr.r., go about saying that the Emperor promi,d last Sunday that he shall be made Minist,r State b.fore the end of July. To say that I .1., believe this news would be a weak expression. 1. is, according to all rational forecast, ridieul.ct. At the Mille time it must not be forgotten t kit th • Emperor did last year flirt with M. Emile Oilivi• . and the deputy for Paris, who was recommend by M. de Monty as an available stepping-st .0 • to:a snore liberal phase of the empire, has pet c upon record under his own hand that he w,, offered a portfolio, but that he could not :we is the conditions. Ido think, as I have lately said, that the Emptror has made up his mind to a pro gressively liberal course. But I cannot, therefor... see any reason why the Emperor should M. Rouher by M. Emile 011ivier. M. Rouher is br far the superior nun of the two, and is not troubbst by any personal opinions which would prevent him from acting to the fullest extent on the Emp , riir's orders. M. Emile 011ivier is a very pretty speaker; a man of considerable, thongli n•it transcendent talent; and I, for one, believe hint to conseivittiotts, although, unfort ornately for his influence as a statesman, all his old po'iti.-i• adherents, with three or four exceptions, do n-, think so. But he has neither the elognence, th• varied resources, the eonsummat. , knowledge, th • physical presence, the power of con ilia' friends and crushing enemies, nor the ! ie.'', u,•ir•- rally, of M. Rouher. What ti, Emperor w in the present crisis is a man capable of shieldu.. : him from responsibility, a great personality, al. can command respect, and faseitiate fit 'a.'., Rouher is sueli a man, and he is as irs• be. M. 011ivier is nut even a party h•ad,r has, possibly because he has 64.11 D 1 1 ,1111.1.1 discredited himself with the liberals, :111 I h • certainly no influence in the country. Dormitchea Were received on Satunlay at th.• I ,!.. office from the Governots of Gibraltar, Malt tnd ft ,••1 the Governor-General of Canada. IN-patch., w r• to the Governor-General of C/1113,13, and to e of Britigh eolnmbia. Yesterday morning the Wv. Dr. M.,ls.ri'y preached the last of his series of 11.impim 't. Mary's Church, Oxford, to a ernw.led 1,11,f1,-.4l'i ill, A large number of strangers being pre,rut. In the the servicisa at the cathedral, Maz.hden, S. John's, and Now College Chapels %Fri, tended. The promenade in the Itros.l.w cliri•t Church, in the evening was at us11:1 an f-iter • of Commemoration Sunday, and the s Isiug de. lightfully tine some thousand+ of p,rsoli, in -Indite; a larg number of visitors to Oxford, heads of colleges :in families, and n great muster of undergovlustes, beautiful walk. Mr. M. A. Sullivan has once more resound hi; "poet of duty in the responsible eonditet of the He was 100 days altogether in Itielimoint lb idrwell, where Mr. Pigott, of the remains in confin-ni..nt for the same breach of the law a, Mr. Sullivan ,uninutt-i —the publication of seditious lite•k. Towaol , the o,—, an address he resumes his boasting vein. '• The eiv•tie o of Ireland (he writes) feel already. and they -hall 1.- m I • to feel more keenly, how vein and how disci-les:. wa their idea of intimidating the peeple's ores, by dqouliul conductors to vengeance. They have not awed this join . nal. Their cowardly attempt to subdue it, tine, to hold. ing me hostage, as it were, fur its contents (even while for bidding me to see them) failed utterly and ignomininisly. As for myself, I am ready to face the same ordeal again in the eame good cause ; feeling in my soul the full r. of my motives, and imperatively impelled by th t... • •,' duty." The Duke of Edinburgh is repertisl to Ivey' antitheticallydeseribed his colonial experions• this'—" A Adelaide they stole my jewels, at MC11)0111:.. or ter, and at Sydney they would have taken vii Th correspondent of the nee , / says:—•• I bay , eras, he think that this phrase boa been tuanufa...,..”l far him: but were it really his, it affords only a ft. .di net inreoi the temptation encountered by those who ..ff e , ‘" contrasts to sacrifice truth for four. It i; top• the lo: jewels were stolen at Adelaide, that hit char u ! , r w.t , ruthlessly maligned at Melbourne, and that la. Mew. , attempted here ; but he would still be the 1.14 rein t, class the people of these colonies as a lot of lu''• - • biters, and amassing in consequence. He has too g rita knowkdge of us; we have too strong a faith in him. The Liberal journals in the north of ir,dend evidently fear the dreaded mouth of July will not nee over quietly. The ..\ - oethtra ff7i‘e complains th it Orangemen in the neighbourhood of Coleraine ha r.• to march about in the evenings, playing and Anvil.. In oars instance, a "lodge' carried an orange and flag. The Marquis of Salamanca has several cantles, and other r....i.lentav, hut one &mon [A is about a quarter of a wile from Madrid. beteisai Potts di Toledo and Carubanchel, aud is o:Mita VA'Alegre. Alegre. Last week fourteen men, armed to the t eeth. en teed the house, tallied off 4,000/. in gold , and. p rob ibly to sanctify their proceedings, walked away with a statue of the Virgin, wearing a crown of geld, Christ% in silver, plateau, candelabra, and previ,m4 st•gie4 set and tweet. A Mute. Gravis, living in the civil hospice of Calais, has just completed her 10Gth year. A great MAP - ber of pen,ons of the town came to i.ee her on the os•a• sion, and else replied to all with great &ululation. ra day aftet the clergy came to conduct her in pnacen , ioa the chapel of the establishment to be present at a solemn man. In the evening, a dinner was given by public sub ectiptien to the old per. one of the hospice, and at the dessert, Mme. Gravis, on her health being drunk. ro"; glass inhaled, and returned thanks in eacelent Lazg'i' 4; for the iaterest shown her. p i fl ,` i . fl~ ppm.. '~;,, ,~ i, i L• ~Lnnl Fy.~•11~' 1 . :1 111.. • ..mpl 1 4 . lily ly t '3.. .%, m ii 1.• 1g; •I (I rlh • .1i 'lt. r tO t 1 , 1 t• It 1,11 p Uh ith tff on .tt.T 'll[ol Ong ro 11:411 ❑tt, ml t 1 ia I. Fun In 1114141 , sliVt t i l lit. pt.. 3itt :v. Dv nft Auld Id ehe I.lltl en kw Make Ili chest Lb stun th. e re a e pu. pas [ii ite;cl had head Wing a!ret havisly tote ti 11 Ined 1 tyrant 1, LA Aft; 111, 110 Mr Jr. ( is ~~ i ~\~: . 11 , 1 t ! b. I,•h.n tl burnt. Ilnitl4 14.1 we it Id, it httl. rt. 1,111 11,•1 oin “rd, t went ken I ; bedel left