The Express. — London, England, 1868-05-20 00:00:00

AGIFT to the UNINSU RED. THIRTY SHORT REM= to THIRTY EMI MON OW ACTIONS. WV% HANNAY. astbor PI Handbook to Holiest Referees,-Ae Swat post trios es application to Kr. K A KRIS, Agent dunks Firs and Provident Llte Office, 67, Strand. W.C. _ _ GALLERY of BRONZES d'ART, GARNI TURFS do CARR IN Elt, CLOCRA. YAW. CAN D EL A BRA, •e.--lote Depot tor ti etelebrated pladUCtiolllol V. Berbedleose hod 00. Ilia, the sane e* iu Parts, with per cent. added for 'openers. CAW wire, with rnanttnal illostrAllose, Pent tree Or- by pad —JACROON and GRAHAM , 99, U, 34, 34 3 7, and 33, Bordatreet. - • -• puiLLirs and PEARCE, Artists in GLIM and China to the Q2Olll. nepeetoully aolkit an inspection of Stick NOVZL and ISAUTIIVL Ingihi,ll4 They are original. moderate In prim, marten an form. workmanship. In aerial. and manufacture. air. D. Pearce (for 1$ lean at 19. M. Jamaisetnet) has Ilbe glace department under Ins direetion. 1915 New Tendetreet, and 35.1 and 3.19 Orford.street, Louder. FIRST-CLASS CARPETS, DAMASKS, &A, IMWK,7 PkICIES. raitterna eau be torwausted to tbe Oooottv T. VENABLES SONB, LONDON, Z. --- - FIRST-CLASS SILKS and FANCY DRESSES. LOWEST PRIM. Patterns sent SO the Oesietry Tees. T. VENABLICI6 & 80148. LONDON. F IRST-CLASS DRAPERY, MANTLES, &c. ILOWNST Mao. (Arriedge Free. Felelollfd)el swirly ball A Century. FIRST CLASS MOURNING. lowan MOW Patterns meat to the Couoh7 Free. T. VF.N A BLF.S & SONS, LONDON, L FIRST CLASS FURNITURE, BEDDING, &e. Lowest. PRIM. Au Illustrated Price List Post Free. VE.NABLI% k hONA, 103. 104, and 105, Whltachapel, sod °, 4. 0, and 6, Oonnnerclal-street, London. WILLIAM CHURTON and BON, DOWERS wA SHIRTMAKELS, W And Pt, OXTORD•STRZET. LADIYar UNUIRCLOTUINU. .11 URN BROODEN'S CLASSIC JEWELRY. PARIS FIRST-CLASS SILVER MEDAL,IB67. J OLIN BROGDXN'S 18-carat, GOLD CHAINS. J OBE BROGDEN'S BRACELETS. J OHS BROODEN'S BROOCHES. JOR N BROGDEN'S GEM and WEDDING LINOS. JOHN - fiftoO - 15iITS NECKLACES. J OEN BROGDEN'S EARRINGS. ORIOINALGOLDCHAIN MANUFACTORY. No. 16, HRNRI ETTA-STREET, Covent- "BAUD.—CAUTION. —Order BRYANT and MAri PATENT SAIVer.TY MATCHES, trade mark an Art, and insist upon baying them, a imitations are sometimes aired that Ae sot *Ertl PINTDCTION PlOll PIRG STILL HOCK, or Moselle, an excellent dinner wine, with good body. and Ire* frnm acidity only !At per dorm —The CADIZ NINE COVPANY, M, SC Jamie- Amok London. Z.,toblAltedllo. HENRY BRETT and Co.'. "0. D. V." T URI: BRANDY, I. per geDou sod Nis. per dos., Norm *mods/ by the medical profession. Inn case for the country 391., Inclusive of railway corriago.—Holbotu-bers, and 3), Regootot. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High Holborn.—Tbs most Panama and brtillantly-dacorated ballroom, and Out best hand In tondos. OPEN for CONCERT sad OANPINO EVY,KT EVENING. Musical direct. , r, Mr. W. Z. Packer. Op= at ball.:ud 8, clues at 18 Admission, Is. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. - Three Belleta—rmneliade Concert. Band of tiO. begin at 8. illw feillimz 11.4.ottlee open from 11 to 4. 111NETTE, every night, at 10. LEOTARD, every night, at 11. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre.— MARL' JoNla. at 7. POOR NOBLEMAN at a quarter to DElitha THAN Lin. at half past o —Sin ALFRED WIGAN, lo leglit, in Iserurigdnal character of Madame Bonbon be the MOH NOBLEMAN. Mr. ALFRED WIGAN, to-alight, b f.k nri.thaal character of the Miranda de Helleterre, in the POOR NOBLEMAN. Mr. J. L TOOLE, torlifht. SA Blahaot In Mar POOR NOBLEMAN. DEARER THAN LIVE for a limited asunberof Nights only. Michael Garner Mr. J. L. TOOLE the erprelso. HA VII ARX WT. V.ritowo, THE LADIES* CH A NIPIOS.—A HERO Of SOMANOS Messer. Bothern, Eluckstoce. Comptos, Chippon :=ALLlrrk ; Mesdames lobertann. lone Isarke.Chtypso . Lrws, —.tad A (.13-OPEXATIV MU VLMENT. ROYAL. LYCKI:NI TIMM 111•ANESE IMPERIAL, in Hair inar.elhota 1,,r- Illarmanue,, consisting of Balancing, Topepluoing, Tumbling, the Butt •rfly. a.:d great Lslder F•—Ttrrar EVI:NING at Etit, Serminatin; at half•past Ten ; and Wednesdays and Maur ye at balt•past Two. Children under 10 half-price. Places secured at the Lot wifice by Mr. Nugent from Tax till Five: at Mr. ra".har., Old lauidetreet ; and at the principal Libman MAIM 1 MA MI thine. heiTERLY SKI WICK VT13.11191P THY LLOTII OF GOLD. lIAICULWE AT ANY PRICE. BILITANNIA. Twts Itrennio, THIS Dili Is1611:11 , THE RT.A T 11STRO POLI3. Ncaara hayuolds, Clutritnn, Bit:mood, and Kltan : %int. Itans.lloll4lAmet Itendeson,Cnveney,lldwinAc.—With Tii E CON. NFOYRATIN DA UG II l'Elt 11...nr5, Pitt, Cranford. Ladle, &c. II lON ',ATVS AT UINDON BILIDOL 111111 Da• —Morning, OA 9sm....7..Alblninotr, 1111. 50T TO-INlNUlOw—Morislag. lb. tlm---Aftamoso, lb. Um. liiiiter+ et 1111711 M. MARRIAOVI, and DEATIIg, recelyed lentil le o'clock (or insertion ewe evening. Pr:ce 6,1 A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, OONTAIXIXO Tbs West Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and Cessna Latelligenoe, 18 TOBLIBRID EVERY EVENING. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20. HYDE-PARK. " llvJ,a PARR impassable every evening until " further notice," might be written up with perfect truth at Apelerhouse-gate. Capricious Fashion has pitched upon the moat inconvenient and least intrinsically attractive portion of the park for its nightly sacrifices, and its slave, Society, is the fillfiel'Pr. When the carriages foolishly migrated from the Serpentine, a year or two ago, regular par'.- i reluenters pro, hecied what has since come to pass. As Mr. Lsitoerne.mx has pointed out in a letter to a contempo rary, the nightly drive is a nightly block, strui neither equipages nor occupants can see each other or be seen. The policemen are painstaking and ehicient; and, but for their 'instant exer tions, accidents would be inevitable. But until these useftil fuurtionaries carry in.kricianW wands instead of staves, they will be unable to reduce chaos into order, or to protect erist hag fashionable arrangements iron the cense- . quences of their folly. Thy bold pedestrian who Essays to visit Ihe Drive, clone so at the rise of his life. Arriving, we will say, at mt. George's Hospital at fi p.m. as a starting p dnt he has every chance of qualifying as an in , - ,,atieet in a. few minutes' time. To cross the r.•acl and find himself in a well-dressed, quendone selfish mob, every member of which is irate ani indignant at only hiving a few square in - :,o , of pave:- meet to himself ; to behold carriages hemmed in together apparently inextri:ahle confusion to see small detachmenta of his fell w timbal:nen con -IFL'i id by policemen phaetc.in" iinelbarouehee, and under the stouvvih% ..1 ("WAS : arc to hear constant altercations between the diens of law and order and superb menials in powdered hair and cauliflower wige--form blot portions of his experience. If so happy as to effect a crossing, and nothing but the almost superhuman efforts of the A Division have enabled him to do this, he - is received at the compendiously converging corner by an ! other well dressed mob, who have all the un pleasant qualities of the first. But this last crowd ' stands in comparatiie ease, and in serenely super cilious in its regards. Romans safely watching 'gladiatorial struggles ; Luvairries and the storm tossed mariner ; malicious spirits exulting in human trepidation and discomfiture—are all suggested by this second batch of idlers, who appear to be languidly amused at the troubles of their kind. But further trials are in store for the explorer. Formerly, when the first great crossing had been mastered, he could stroll the entire length of the Drive without fear of molest glen. Having escaped the dangerous icebergs of the South-east Passage, he had plain sailing and smooth water till he left the Park. Up the long, straight road and put the Serpentine as far as liensington-gardens bridge, stretched the brilliant throng of car riages, all proceeding in decorous order and re gular line, the interest being sufficiently diffused to make walking easy and a seat practicable. But now the placid ease of the corner is a mere inter regnum, useful, perhaps, to brace the nerves for I further perils, but disappointing to the hapless 1 panting inno ce nts who think their troubles over. The old drive is left to the perambulators and an i occasional family mach. The real sight is to the I left, and is framed in by Knightsbridge back doors. Between those interesting objects and the brilliant enclosed garden-ground—which never looked brighter and fresher than now—are the carriages of our aristocracy, and between you and the footpath near them is an animated slice of Rotten-row. The delights of a clown in • circus ring are experienced next. Horses, some skittish, some well behaved, some properly ridden, some mounted by fast boys and by "horsebreakers" unacquainted with the rudiments of their sup posed profession, but all curvetting in close prox imity and all to be dexterously avoided—form 1 the next trial, and when this is passed you find that from the helpless confusion and besuuddlement there is little to be seen. Half an hour may be spent ,it a given spot without the carriages opposite it moving a dozen yards. People stand three, four, and five deep by the railirga between the footpath and what is ironically spoken of as the Drive. Those who sit down (and as the chairs are always full it needs patience, as well as interest with their purveyors to secure thisn privilege) have their feet trodden on and their view restricted. Now and then, when the strolling, lounging, flirting crowd breaks for a moment, the whole of a carriage may be keen, but such opportunities are rare and insist not be counted on in a single sitting. In short, our aristocracy having de liberately chosen the least agreeable spot in the whole Park for display, the first ob ject of their drive or promenade is defeated, 1 for theyare invisible. Mr. Wina.sa once explained on a memorable occasion, that if his visual organs had been " a pair o' patent double million " magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextrs power, " p'raps he might be able to see through a flight o' " stairs and a deal door ;" but " bein' only eyes, " you see, my wision's limited ;" and Park fre quenters might aptly echo his words. Men arrayed in the exaggerated costumes of the , fashion books—in broad brimmed, curly, low crowned, shiny hats, coats so shortwaisted as to seem all back, spotless linen, and low bright shoes ; and ladies in the hideous colour known as Bismarck mulct*, in bronze, in olives, in the colours of carriage-varnish, in short dresses and long dresses, in gay petticoats and in the straight, stiff, short robes, which make their wearers the exact facsimiles of the wooden Mrs. Swim, Mrs. HAM, and Mrs. JAPIIST of our youthful ark --are at least as difficult to see through as Mr. liVina.ex'il obstructive stairs and door. The seated visitor may amuse himself by speculating on the undecided shirt collars, half-rigid, half-limp, he sees ; or may wonder as to the motives impelling human beings to place thick black poultices of black silk round their healthy necks ; but he will look in vein for the rank and fashion of the Drive. But it is infinitely worse for the people in the carriages. In vain do mounted policemen argue, entreat, and threaten ; the line is as much a figment of the brain as the visible equator pointed out to credulous passengers by the sailors crossing it. From Apsley-house to Albert-gate the scene re sembles the enclostre at Ascot. There is little more prospect of locomotion than when at the com mencement of a June day a good place has been secured opposite the Grand Stand, and all eyes are strained to see the procession of red coats from Windsor. To stand blocked, and dusty, and with the heads of your neighbours' horses close to your own ; to move a few paces interjectionally, and as if by machinery half run down ; to be in constant dread of having your panels smashed or your steeds injured ; to share a town atmosphere with a street on one side and a dense phalanx of human beings on the other, is the fashionable mode of taking the air. To attain this acme of social delight you :lust have got into line some where about the Marble-arch an hour and a half ago. Marshalled by policemen, you have moved at a snail's pace, and with frequent stop pages, to the Apsley-house entrance ; where you have undergone tedious delay. The foot passengers waiting to cross have to be got rid of in detach ments, and your horses are seized by other police men on foot with whom your coachman altercates in vain. Bit by hit you pass by uplifted arms which look, in the garb of authority, like so many blue cloth sausages, to enter that holy of holies —the sacred quarter of a mile constituting the Drive. Four-in-hands, well-appointed and dexterously kept in order ; smart little phae tons, with grooms whose cockades imply commercial rather than military service ; heavy ' open carriages in which titled dowagers and the season's neophytes recline ; and the broughams of LAIR, PHIVINZ, sad AIiPAMA, make up the mob. Through it the fairest Princess in Europe has to force her way. That there is a royal road to everything but learning is proved by her highness's carriage getting through. The vast ' crowd is hushed for a moment, the mounted police Leanne unusually excited, and hats are off and bonnets moving as the bright and delicate young ' face is seen. But is there no means of making ' the Drive, constantly greed by the presence of • our future Queen, less unattractik o, and of I ,o saving n, ny excellent people loss of temper, , and disapl s Hyde-park is as large as • ever, and its most leautif vl portions are compara tively deserted. Will no fashionable genius be I daring enough to attempt an innovation ? Let a dozen duchesses frequent the Serpentine banks • or the road by Kensington-gardens for a week, , and the difficulty is salved. In existing arrange ments the greatest inconvenience for tie :greatest number has been fairly reached, for the disaatis- UV% WEDNESDO faction of thii 'many is pabazotaditittM diaconifdri I t the taw. THE RAILWAYS AND THE PITBLIC. RAILWAY fares cann9t hope to escape supervi• sion. The country must not be left talhe tender mercies of railway boards in the matter of its loco motion, and all are interested from the peer to the artizan in having the conditions of their travelling placed upon an equitable basis. Lord SkLIBILTRY, fresh from his studies of Great Eastern finance, comforts us with the assuranoe that " the con " stant tendency of railway fares in this country " is to become lower and lower," and substituting " has been " for " is," we believe him to be right. But with shareholders smarting from heavy losses, with boards appointed to effect im provements, and eager to prove their efficiency as new brooms, and with formidable coalitions cementing on every side, there is much reason to fear that the interests of the out ' side public may be overlooked. Not but that a substantial case can be made out fur the comp►nies. Apart from ruinous rivalries, insane extensions, and fatuous extravagance, the various boards have had to yield to a form of public pres sure difficult to withstand. A trunk line runs through a series of fairly populated counties, and is paying a moderate dividend ;'when an agitation is started to increase its usefulness. Meetings are called, the county demi-gods speak on plat forms, strings are pulled secretly by wealthy con tractors and astute professional people, the plot ting' of a rival company are darkly exposed, until shareholders are so worked upon that the directors have little choice but to consent to the proposed branch. It is constructed, and, as a matter of course, does not pay. The platform statistics and the eloquent harangues go for nothing on dividend day, and the company is saddled with a permanent loss. Such is the history of many an unprofitable line. But the difficulties arising from this condition of things must not be visited merci lessly on the travelling public. Even the metro politan stations and extensions cannot be paid for by increasing the price of passenger tickets. There is every disposition to give money for money's worth ; but the augmented power of taxation given by amalgamation must not be stretched too far. Already there is a complaint that the union of in terests between the London and Brighton and the London, Chatham, and Dover has resulted in au increase of 60 per cent. on the third class fares between London and New-cross ; and if such cases multiply, the railways will find their first object defeated in the long run. The railway traveller is willing to pay fairly for being carried expeditiously and well ; but he will kick vigorously against past losses being re-couped out of his pocket alone. Reduced litigation and improved management will do more for the companies than any arbitrary alteration in fares. SPIRITUALISM r. SCIENCE. Tire intercourse of Mr. Holt; the medium, with the spirits may be inexplicable, but if sure of his ground he is the last man who ought to shirk scientific inquiry. It is evident from the recent trial that these spirits were ready enough to come forward when they could do their master a good pecuniary turn, and it is difficult to believe that they will be lees subservient now. The late Professor FrairDAY, it will be remembered, agreed on certain defined terms to test Mr. Home's pre tensions. The terms were perhaps severe, for the Professorhad tried the spirits before and found them wanting, but they were such as a man of science was entitled to make, and we may be quite sure that, howe►er opposed he might have been to spiritualism, he would have readily yielded to evi dence had it been forthcoming. Mr. Hoses, how ever, declined to convince a man who had declared himself an unbeliever. Then came a proposal from the editors of the Spectator, that Mr. Home should hold a aiance at their office, on the understanding that every manifestation should be faithfully re corded in the columns of their journal. This was in 1863, but the Medium's weak health pre vented his accepting the offer then or at a later period, although, as we learn from the recent trial the spirits did not forsake him on ac count of his infirmity, but even "attended him " without intermission in the cab in which he " went with Mrs. Lrom down to the City when " she was about to transfer stock into his name." Once more an offer is made to Mr. Home by an eminent man of science to tart the phenomena produced through his agency, and again the Medium throws difficulties in the way, and post pones the investigation to a future period. We confess that this has an ugly look. Dr. TYNDALL is an utter sceptic, it is true, but what has his state of mind to do with these manifestations ? Dr. TYNDALL will not resist sufficient evidence ; and this, whether a believer or unbeliever, he is fairly entitled to demand. Mr. Lxwes makes, we think, a very fair sug gestion when he proposes that the spirits should be asked to declare whether they would manifest themselves on • certain day and hour, and to the company named. " The presence of the spirits " once guaranteed, I will answer," he says, " for " the presence of men of science." Unfortunately, however, the spirits seem to have an instinctive aversion to scientific investigation, and Mr. Hosts can, and probably will, fall back upon the expla nation that he has no power over their movements. Be it so ; but it is strange, to say the least, that they should be ashamed to reveal themselves upon fitting occasions when the character of their friends is at stake, and not at all ashamed to render service of another kind to the same friends at every convenient opportunity. LORD CHAMBIRLAIN'S OFFICE MAY 14.--Notice is hereby even, that the state apartments of Windsor Castle will be open to the public on and after Thursday nest the 21st init. WHITEHALL, MAY 18.—The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Christopher Knipe to the vimmge of St. Clement's, Terrington, in the county of Norfoßt and diocese of Norwich, void by the death of the Rev. Thomas Tborogood Upwood.—Gasette. The First Lord of the Admiralty held a levee yesterday at the Admiralty, Whitehall, when the follow ing officers attended :—Vice-Admiral W. Ramsay, Rear- Admiral E. Ommaney, Captain D. Waddtlove, Captain J. N. T. Sul., Captain the Hon. M. K. Nelson, Captain E. R. Fremantle, Captain G. Parker, Captain J. W. Pike, Captain K H. blemish, Commander W. Swinburne, Commander J. Liddell, Commander C. D. Saunders, Com mander A. R. Blane, Commander R. King, Commander W. G. England, Commander W. Hensley (retired), Com mander W. N. Hippisley, Commander R. A. Newman (re tired), Commander G. T. Cousin, Commander J. T. Phillips, Commander the Hon. A. D. S. DenbioiStaff. Commander R. Studied], Lieutenant C. R. M Lieutenant J. Ward, Lieutenant R. J. Stotherd, Sa. Surgeon Wm. Loney, Surgeon Dr. G. W. Moore, and Mr. J. Tbompoos, R.N. (retired). ROYAL HORTICULTURAL Socirry.—At the fort► nightly meeting of this society held yesterday at South Kensington. theobjects that call for especial remarks were some new fancy pelargoniums from Mr. Turner, a calls°. flu of pyrethra from Mr. Salter, and a most interesting orchid amehnanthc renscifera from Mr. Willisms. pelargonium was sent by t h e Rev. A. Rawson, on which orobanohe eserules was parasitic. Another species of orobanche has been observed on pelargoniums by Mr. Bully. Mr. Russell Reeves, F.R.A., presided, and the following sindid-tes were elected fellows of the society : Mrs. F. Barrow. Mrs. J. L. Bell, Sidney Riddell, 11. A., Mrs Burne, Colonel Arthur Herbert, Dowkier Countess of Lancsboraugh, eharlee Meeking, JUL. Kim K. A. Neal, Mona. Le Chevalier De Roam (advocate of the curt of Paris), Mies Williams, Ac. • G, 4 OD • • Irtsql : 7. DAY.) .1e*1:-.. Y - TEE EXP. TIM Mumma. 101111.10 M. Having depicted the Prime Minister'• plight as pitiable, and after describing him as altering his tactics from moment to moment, the Daily News proceeds to say that while he cannot make up his mind what to do with respect to Mr. Bouverie's eurosedul amendment on the Scotch Reform Bill, he has apparently altered his mind with respect to Mr. Gladatone's Irish Church Suspensory Bill. The Suspensory Bill, which he said last night be would firmly oppose, is but a oorollary from the resolutions on which he declined to divide. His tact and temper are foiling him, and he is throwing himself upon the fanatical section of the Conservative party, of whom Colonel Stuart Knox is a fair type. Possibly he may seek in another overwhelming defeat • pretext for the exersiee of that power of dissuly ing which, he says, has been entrusted, in certain contin• gondol', to his discretion. Unless be has lost all calmness of judgment, he will be wary of venturing upon this rash expedient. The Times expecte to learn that the government will I bring on the Scotch Reform Bill again on Monday, and ' will ask for a vote in a full committee upon the principle attacked by Mr. Bouverie's amendment. Upon that vote, if taken, the future roust depend. It is clear that the government cannot accept Mr. Bouverie's amendment, and its success would necessitate their resignation. Were Mr. Disraeli to dissolve now he would be guilty of some thing little short of high treason to the con stitution. An appeal upon last year'. act might be made to the country before October is over. But the plain and manifest truth is that, unless it be proved by its deliberate reversal that the vote of Mondry was a surprise, the ministry must resign. " They can no longer retain power with honour to themeelves or advan tage to the country." It may even become • question whether the House of Commons should not use the means it possesses of preventing a dissolution. if it should seem that there is any danger of recourse being had to so des-' perste an expedient. Parliament cannot be dissolved with out the previous grant of supplies sufficient to carry on the services of the country until a new parliament may be called together, and the House of Commons, by withholding further supplies, may compel • minister bent on trusting all things to hazard to consult rather the welfare of the country than the prolongation of his ministerial existence. The Post counsels the government, if they still value their own dignity, much less the future of their party, to at once resign and leave to the opposition what is now the bitter legacy of power. The Herald erirys it is a signal mistake to suppose that Mr. Disraeli will resign without dissolving; and if the opposition persevere he will unhesitatingly invite the judgment of the existing constituencies. If he appeals to the old constituencies rather than the new, it will be bemiree he is forced to do so, and the responsibility will rest upon those, who have left him no other alternative. If, on the other 1 1 hand, the liberal party, after mature deliberation, should think it desirable to admit that the division on Mr. Bou verie's amendment was an unfair one and taken by sur prise, matters will revert to the original status quo, and the government will proceed with the Scotch bill as if nothing had happened. lint any arrangement short of this will render an almost immediate dissolution inevit able. The Telegraph advises Mr. Disraeli to look over the division list of Monday night and see how much he miscal- culated the feeling of Scotl►nd when he placed the rating clause in his bill. No fewer than thirty-five Scotch liberal members voted with the opposition, while only five Scotch tory members arrayed themselves on the other side. These are significant facts, and it is for the government to consider their full import before announcing the course which it means to follow. THE POOR RATE IN EICOTLAND. The Daily Nears points out that the basis of the rating principle is not available in the northern part of Scotland because there are many poor parishes which prefer to sup port their poor by voluntary subscription rather than by the machinery of a rate. The government has already been obliged to meet these eases with a clause of dispensation where there is no poor-rate, but the remedy only introduces new inequalities. The Scottish Poor-law allows occupiers under 4/. rental to be excused en masse from rates where they are levied. ' Therefore the mere imposition of a poor rate might, in the option of the parish rulers, be made the means of disfran chising many voters who had exercised the suffrage before the rate was laid on. Such are the reasons why the libe ral members for Scotland unanimously resist the introduc tion of the novelty, and why the conservative independent members, with but two exceptions, cannot be got to vote for It. In the face of these facts, it is impossible for the government either to resign or dissolve on thie question, but very easy for them to acknowledge and remejy a blun der which their local officials should have saved them from falling into. THE QUEEN AT BALMORAL. The Times says it was an act of culpable neglect on the part of Mr. Disraeli not to inform the Queen that the political prospects of her government were so doubtful as to dem end her presence at or near the seat of the legisla ture. The Queen has always shown herself ready to fulfil her constitutional duties, and no one can doubt that, had the case been fully laid before her, she would williagly have remained at Windsor at a period of such paramount importance. An interview similar to that which Mr. Disraeli described with so much unction a fortnight since cannot be held. It is enough for a statesman to take a trip to Osborne when he has to wait on the Queen, and many of our readers will remember how Lord Palmerston, in his old age, had to spend the greater part of a winter afternoon on the Solent when he was bidden to the pre• acne of his Sovereign. Balmoral, however, is quite out of the question. Mr. Disraeli is 63 years of age, and, though mentally energetic, it would be too much to ask him to rush to the Highlands at limited mail speed and return within forty-eight hours. So her Majesty must be communicated with by messenger, U at all ; and, however the communication is made, there must be an inconvenient lapse of time before the answer is received. THE LORD WATOIL Referring to the part taken by the Lord Mayor ►t the civic meeting in defence of the Irish Church, the Star sty' his lordship has ►ltogether forgotten the nature of his position. The truth is, politic form no part of his business. There is a difference between a bishop and a lord mayor, and what may be natural and not out of place for one to do, m►y not suit either the capacities or character of the other to assume. Mr. Allen is chief magistrate of London. The Star no more wants to have him agitating on the subject of the church and state than it wants the bishops, to whom be modestly compared him. self, to preside at the hospitalities of the M►nsion•honse. DEATH OF BIZ BENJAMIN Las Gularisiss, M.P. —We regret to announce the death of this estimable and benevolent gentleman, whisk took place last night at his residenoe, Norfolk-street, Park-lane. Sir Benjamin Guin ness was in his 7lat year.—ddrertiser. THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—EDINBURGII, MONDAY.—A meeting of the members of the University who supported the election of Lord Brougham as Chancel lor of the University was held in Edinburgh to-day ; Sir J. Simpson in the chair. It was unanimously resolved to propose Mr. Gladstone, M.P., se Lord Brougham', succes sor. UNDERGRADUATE OPINION ON THE ADMISSION OF NON-CouSGIATI MIUDINTS TO THE iTxtvssarrv. —The propriety of the admission of non-oollegiate students to the universities was the subject of debate at the Union Society at Cambridge on Tuesday (lest)eveninc ; Mr. Moul ton (St. John's), the president, was in the chair. The sub ject was opened, in the affirmative, by Mr. A. S. Wilkins, of St. John's College, who proposed " That this house approves of the proposal to admit to the university students who are not connected with any college." To this Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, of Christ's College, moved as an amendment, " That thin house, though willing that Mr. Ewart's ache= should receive a fair trial is of opinion that university reform would be bet ter effected by a thorough and sweeping measure than by perennial inlation." The speakers in fawner of the mo tion were — Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Fitzgerald, Christ's (the amendment having been lost by 13 mesas against 1:1 ayes), Mr. N. E. Hartog, Trinity ; Frank Watson, St. John's ; J. H. Slakes/ay, King's ; S. Tleackrah. Trinity. The opposi tion was led by Mr. J. E. Symes,Downiug, sal there spike in ..idition against the motion—Mr. H. A. Rigg, Trinity ; N. Moen, St. Catherine's, and T. Maxwell, King's. On a division the original motion was lost, the numbers being— Ayes, 21; noes, 35. Majority against the motion, 14. CoNvocaTtoN.—The Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday morning formally adjourned the convocation of his growing* until Tuesday. the 30th of June. Is the announoment nothing was said abrint " The despatch of business." Almost half the Lower Holm expires with the House of Commons. 20,.186 PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. The following questions will be caked in the koise of Ooensona to-monow : Mr. Herbert—To ask the flocretaryor Slate for War whether it is tie case that the brigade of guards have very lately beau obliged to abandon the usual annual nfle prac tice at Aldershot ou aocount of some serious defects in the ammunition, which it is said caused some of the rifles to burst, and others to be so damaged as to be useless ; and whether be will state to the house the cause of such serious defects ; whether any casualties happened to the men on account of them ; how many rifles wore damaged, and, what steps will be taken to remedy these evils for the future. Lord John Hay—To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the attention of government has been called to the reported sale of ironclad, by the government of the United States to South American governments who are now in a state of war; if this be true, whether such an act is consistent with the principles of neutrality laid down by this country and by the United States; and whether he will lay upon the table of the house any papers oonneeted with the reported sale of such vessels. Mr. Long—To ask the Chief Secretary for Ire land whether his attention has been drawn to the follow ing statement of facts, sir., that • elergymaa of the United Church of Bngland and Ireland, the Reverend M. A. C. Collis, has been threateada with assassination by • person Galling himself " a good Catholic," unless he, Dr. Collis, would undertake to claw the Bible depot et Queenstown within four day.; whether the above state. ment is correct; and, if so, whether the government have deemed it their duty to take any steps to discover and to prosecute the person who subscribed the above-mentioned document. On Friday Mr. Monsen. will ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the report of the commissioners upon Irish railways has been considered by her Majesty's government, and whether they propose to submit to those commissioners for report the proposals on the Irish rail way system drawn up last year by a committee of Irish peers and members of parliament ; and, if not, what steps it is proposed by the government to take with re gard to the Irish railways. _ - Next Tuesday Sir C. O'Loghlen proposes to call attention to the practice of requiring naval and military Knights of Windsor to attend Divine Service in St. George's Chapel, Windsor; and to move an address to her Majesty humbly representing that, in the opinion of this house, it should not be obligatory on any naval or military Knight of Windsor not being a member of the United Church of England and Ireland to attend Divine Service In St. George'. Chapel, Windsor, daily or at all, and praying that her Majesty may be graciously pleased to direct such alterations to be made in the statutes regulating theWaval and military Knights of Windsor as shall exempt from attending Divine &Moe in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, all naval and military Knights of Windsor who shall not be members of the united church of England and Ireland. On Friday week Mr. Beall. Cochrane will call the attention of the house to the site of the New Law Courts, and move that it is not expedient to commence the new buildings until this house has expressed a more distinct opinion as to the most desirable site. On the 16th of next month Mr. Bright will call the attention of the hones to the petition/ from Nora Scotia. presented 15th May. Mr. Henniker-Major on an early day win call the attention of the house "to the danger that arises to life and property from the careless use of limiter matches." In committee on Representation of the People (Scotland) Bill Yr. Baxter will move to add to claim 43, words disqualifying persons from being registered ea voters who were exempted from payment of poor's rates on the ground of poverty. Colonel French will move that no county having less than 1,000 electors be entitled to send a representative to parliament. Sir Colman O'Laghlen in committee on Promis sory Oaths Bill intends to move the following clause :- 1 " (Sovereigns of Great Britain and Ireland, after the passing of this act, shall not be required to take the de• claratlon againss transubstantiation at their coronation or at any other time.► Alter the passing of this act no sovereign of Great Britain and Ireland shall be required Ito take, make, or subscribe at their coronation, or on the first day of their first parliament, whichever shall first happen, or any otter time, the declaration commonly called the declaration against transubstantiation and the invocation of saints and the s►crifice of the mass as prac tised in the church of Rome, anything in the Bill of Rights or Act of Settlement to the contrary in anywise notwith standing." Vitt !Court. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield. A deputation from Herne Bay, introduced by Sir E. Bering, M.P., and Mr. Leigh Pemberton, M.P., and con sisting of Mr. Sloman, Mr. Topper, Mr. E. Collard, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Cray, had an interview with the Right Hon. Stephen Cave at the offioe of the Board of Trade yes terday, to urge the removal of the pier at Herne Bay. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmea bury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Curry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Man ners, and the Earl of Mayo. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND. —The royal train arrived at Perth yesterdayatB.4B a.m., being 18 minutes behind time. Her Majesty, on alighting from the saloon, was reeeived by the Duchess of Athol., whom her Majesty cordially saluted. A stoppage was made of about an hour, during which the royal party partook of breakfast in rooms specially prepared at the station. The royal train left the station amid the cheers of a large mem blage. The Queen and suite reached the Ferryh ill station at Aberdeen at tan minutes past 12, noon. After a short stay, during which her Majesty and the other members of the royal family graciously acknowledged the salutations of the assembled company, the train left by the Deeside 1 1 line for Ballater. From Ba ll ater her Majesty drove by loarriage to Balmoral Castle, arriving at the Highland home shortly after 2 o'clock. Weather bright and warm. POSTPONEMENT OP THE VOLUNTEER FIELD DAY IN WINDSOR PARE.—It is understood that, at the desire of the Queen, the volunteer field day, which was announced to take place in Windsor Great-park on Whit Monday, bas been postponed till the return of her Majesty from Scot land, which event will take place in about a month. ' His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge home town to-day for Aldershot, to review the several regiments of militia previously to their quitting the camp. Last evening Lady Alfred Paget had an evening party at her residence in Queen Anne-street, Cavendish square. Previously to the reception Lord and Lady Alfred Paget entertained the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, Lady Suffield, Lord John Hay, M.P., Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Mr. W. B. Beaumont, M.P., and Lady Margaret Beaumont, Miss Paget, SA., at dinner. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, who have been staying for the last few days with Lord and Lady Hatkerion, at Teddealey Park, Staffordshire, are expeeted to leave to-day for Alnwick Oestls, where his grace for several weeks will do duty with his regiment, the Northumberland Militia. A marriage (says the Owl) is arranged between Mies Edith Pease and Mr. Join Bateson, brother of Sir Thomas Bateaon, Bart. ; and between the Rev. Orb? Shipley, M.A., and Miss Wilson, daughter of the late Right Hon. J. Wilson. It is stated that from the let July next great re ductions will take plane in the price of continental tele graphy. The Submarine Telegraph Omaparry have com bined s lowered tariff with the French government. Tele grams to Italy and Malta will be redacted by about OW half. ?he telee of a telegram to Paris will be rednoed by .;:; per cent.. and one to Marseilles by 66 per cent. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) (artrTzra ru.waA[•.) A 1713TRLi. VIIiNNA, Kay 19, &ism. A Cabinet Council was held to-day under the presidency i f the Emperor, when the imperial sanction was g:ven to the law eletive to the po s i_ tion of the different religious denominations in Austria. Baron hleysenbug will leave for Rome on Sat ur . day evening at the latest. ITALY. FLORENCE, MAY 19, EvEs•ts.:. A numerously attended meeting of members f/ the Right was held this evening. The Minister of Finance, who was present, delivered a speech representing the vital importance to Italian cry du of passing the Grist Tax Bill and the other faun. cial measures which would yield a total estimate,' benefit to the revenue of 110 millions. Th e Minister said that he had almost terminated th negotiations for a financial operation to Covt.l th, deficit of the present year, but the capits!e ts would withdraw if the above measures r,.,. rejected by the Chamber. If, on the c,,ntrarc. they were accepted, no fresh issue of paper would be necessary. In conclusion, the Minister urged a num, r. attendance in Parliament to secure the adoptpa l the measures. SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, MAY 19, Es vs The King leaves the capital on Friday n,• t . f.,. Schonen, but is expected to return before 11 hit.. el tide. Herr Carl Johan Rooth has been appwit, I consul for Sweden at Kiel. OUR PARIS LETTER. (now OIIR OWN CORIUMPONDFNT.) PARTS, TUESDAY EVYN!‘... The A reetir Nat iwial gives the following t nation of the rumours frequently repeated, arid ai often contradicted, that the Emperor and Eoil•rt.4 were about to visit Berlin : The King of Prussia. when be came to the I Exhibition, naturally invited the Emperor and bri to return his visit. The invitation having been 4. ~ • the question presented itself this year when ell.. visit would come off. The Frenoh ambassador at received instructions to take soundings baf r• sz, time was fixed. Now we learn from a sure so•a.c• that the result of M. Benedetti's inquiries led him to r•cos,. mend that an excuse should be sent, lfe caste t , . the conclusion that the reception by the population of It. would not be satisfactory to their Majesties. WI„• ^ rightly or wrongly, it is believed in Berlin that :. Cabinet of the Tuileries seeks to prevent German and in consequence of M. Benedetti's report the projeckvl visit is given up. Two of the leading protectionists in the Corp, Legialatif have backed up their doctrines by heavy and eccentric wager, which, according t .1 paper circulating in the lobbies to-day, is thus worded : We, the undersigned, pledge our honour to lodge Ira!: the Empress the atm of one hundred thousand francs, to be distributed among a hundred poor families, to selected by her Majesty, if, aft, r an inquiry by four cc,. patent jurors with the President of the Corps Lsgiidst:i in the chair, it is not proved that " Table No. I of tie United Imports and Exports," page 31 of the g,nerd table of the commerce of France, published I, the customs ►uthorities for 1866, does not compro: in the sum of 2,152,000,000 fr. remaining after the deduction of the 5,974,000,000 fr. under the Leal of " special commerce," from the 8,126,000,000 h. forroth; the total of the " general commerce of imports and es Ire united," an immense majority of articles reckoned twice over in the sum of 2.1'i2,000,000fr., namely, once too their entry and once for their exit. We repeat that or undertake to pay the above sum of one hundred tboustal francs if our opponents, who pretend that the ,lothle reckoning which we point out does not mist. lodge • like sum in the hands of her M.yity. to be applied as aforesaid, in case the jary should decide against them. The jury is to be chosen ball by ourselves and half by our opponents, and the Presidett of the Corps Legialatif to have a casting vote. Done at Paris, May 16, 1866. JULIUS BRAME. A. POUTIII•QUERTIF it. • to T h h a is v e is a n a y :very g r c toducl. o w u i s t h doc a b u e m t e o n f t t i h o e r Ro l e r g t i to sign. Of course the Empress cannot be advised Auguste fi ttingf o r Cothfheev aaChevalier legislative gmi jurisdiction laetniv eo to t : f la assembly. is than o m re th . the speakerThe Presae, however, alleges that M. Roulier and le ai the wager. From all I have heard the challenge is a mare's nest. It is true enough that many parcels of goods are counted twice over, but only in pur suance of very old routine habits, and althouzh the system might be ameliorated the figures woe perfectly well for the purposes of comparing tho movement of trade with former years, and it is only in that view that the government uses them. The government has sustained a severe electoral defeat in tho Tarn. M. Gorsse, the opposition candi. date, was returned by 19,845 votes against 12,598 given to the prefect's nominee, M. Gaugirau. The opposition in the Tarn took courage from their strength, as evidenced by the first trial a fortnight ago. Not only did the 6,639 electors who in the first ballot voted for M. Decazes follow his recommeudatiou to vote for M. Gorsse, but upwards of 1,000 abstained before came forward to swell M. Gorsei majority. On the other hand, the official candi date, in spite of circulars from the Prefect, declar. ing that M. Gorses was an enemy of the govern ment, polled 1,376 fewer votes than he did before. This is the moat important defeat of an official candidate that has ever occurred in a country district. But what shall be said of the childish interference of the Minister of Interior in keeping back for twenty-four hours news which must necessarily come out 1 Yesterday the govern ment journals triumphed in the victory the government candidate in the Aviege, although he had upwards of 1,000 votes less than in 1863, and for a miserable country district. Only yesterds.Y the Conatitutionne/ and Petrie sang lo po about the government victory in the Arii,ge, although the minority there was upwards of 1,0 00 strong er than in 1863. M. Pinard, these journals said compile cently, has had the satisfaction of see in g unirerssl suffrage confirm his choice ever since he has been in office. The result of the Tarn e l ec tion is a heav y blow. The Moniteur du Soir sneakingly g ives the figures, while omitting to say that M. Osu g iran. the defeated man, was the official candidate, od shrinks from the usual announcement, " M. Gorge was elected." It leaves its readers to draw that inference from the figures, justly confident that many of them will not be at so much intellectua l trouble. It seems that the complaint of the Diboes that the telegrams with the result of the Tarn elections were kept back by government is not well founded. Elections generally take place on Saturday and Sunday, but that of the Tarn was fixed for Sunday and Monday, so that the result could not 111 .. t: been telegraphed in time for last night ' s @venal. Para. The Bourse presented no remarkable featu re. Bente fell sc. In other securities th e re was very little change. L