The Express. — London, England, 1867-06-03 00:00:00

\ JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CFLtINS by troy weight, at realisable value, and the workmanship at wholesale manufactureni prices The gold in the chants gua ranteed, and mut . , based at the price charged. " Here's the note, How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, The lineups of the gold, and charge for fashion." naaaseruat Manufactory, If, fletuiettaatreet, Covent-garden, London. _ B REARFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. BROWN and potsoys CORN FLOUR for clianawrs DIET. To obtain extra profit by the male other Mode are sometimes °Creed Instead of BROWN sad TOLSON& "John grown," "John Poison," le dyed by the maskers on sch packet. Ehe erprefso. TO CORRMPON DENTS. advertisements intended for " The Express," London Evening Taper, must be at the Oaks, 10, houverie-street, by Two ("stock on the day of publication. DRURY LANK Tins EmMina, TNAf ItINVArTAT.:K. Messrs. Rouse and NerWa: Mesdames Alleyne and Thompson.—To conclude vrith THE (MEAT CITY. Messrs. Warner, Morton, Fitsjarnes, Rouse, lrring, Mc.: Mesdames Robertson, Le Tidere, and Thompson. HAYMARK LT. Tflm Eviornoo. Kendal end Miss Burke. —A WILD OLOOSIL Marrs. liotbeen, Suasion. Howe, gagers, Gordon. de.: Mesdames Kuril. Chippendale, , Wright. dte. —And DEAF AS A IOST. Mr. Compton, de. rientcwira Timm Emma, AITONIf thibClllo PATRA Antony, Mr. A. lzralue. Knoberhus, fir. C. Verner: ellarmiAn. Mk/ Page. sod ilisa LYCEUM. Evr.atcn. BAMSTalitTio: Mr. Prim and Miss Rate Bishop. -viz DUKES mono. Mr. Yachter, Messrs. Xmary, iddlcomh, Jordan, Price, etc. ; Mises lUsworthy, li on. rade, Grattan, and Carlotta laeleraq. WWFD. Twig EVENINO, WAITISHI , OIITHE rsDEROZOUND.—TUS LITTLE SA V AGE.—PYOMALION ; Ink THS STATUS FMK Mean. Thwiae, lams, Re. : Madames Swanborongit, R:wrihani, liarland,Jobustooe, Bolt —And THE YIENCII LEH I Itt I'ION. HOLBORN. rill trams, NY TURN NEXT. Mr. Illebactre: Mines roots and Lennox. —And FLYING SCUD. Messrs. tisvfils, Del. room asks, VoUsire, . liss4sessa Josephs. C. &wads" Bessie loots. Addis, Limo; /avowed. ie.. sarmannA. THI PmMo. THE GIPSY SHOWMAN. Means Dram m...i and !apron& Mu 8. MOus—THE SHAMROCK OF IRELAND. mrs. & lana—Aad THU CLOCA. ON Till STAILI. HIGH WAWA AT LONDONIIIIIDOZ. TIM DAT —Monibm, Ili. 666:::::1beniemr. 2h. ?nua. To-llowww—Monolag. 521. 63m....—After000n, 3h. 16m. LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 3. Tae past week has been the moat important as regards monetary affairs since the troubled period, less than thirteen months ago, when the entire commerce of the country was thrown into confusion by the failure of OVERKND, Clumsy, and Co. The course of events has been ana logous, although happily in a contrary direction. While at that time the latent distrust which had long been gathering at once culminated in panic, now the revival of confidence, slowly and timidly manifested for some weeks past, has made a sudden and marked advance. It frequently happens in financial affairs that the public in ad verse times are quick to take fright, but it is rare to find a rapid and complete return to confidence such as we have witnessed during the last few days. Several causes have combined to produce this un expected result. The political atmosphere is com paratively clear. No one apprehends a Continental war now that the Luxemburg difficulty is settled, and as regards home affairs, there is no ground for uneasiness, since the satisfactory progress of the Reform Bill in committee. The financial prospect is also good. Continued arrivals of specie are reported from the United States, in direct contravention of the law of exchanges, which shows that these importations can only be =Ade at a loss. The accumulation of bullion at the Banks of England and of France is proceed ing upon an almost unprecedented scale, and the money market both here and abroad is conse quently very easy. The public have been partially appreciating these facts, but the final impulse was given by the reduction in the rate of discount last Thursday from three to two-and-a-half per cent. All kinds of securities have since been in increas ing demand. Consols in one week have risen about three per cent., a circumstance absolutely unknown, except in periods of great political im portance, such as the unforeseen close of a war. Railway stocks, foreign bonds, and miscellaneous shares, which for various reasons have long been discredited, have likewise participated in the advance. The reaction that invariably follows a finan cial crisis has now fairly set in. The con vulsion of 1866 differed in some important points from those during the previous thirty years. In the first place, it lasted very much longer, and although more destructive to credit, still trade was in so sound a position that scarcely any mercantile failures were reported. Secondly, the recovery has been unusually slow. On this occasion it has taken a year to remove the distrust which in 1847 and 1857 was accomplished in the space of two or three months. The customary phenomena have been witnessed of a sudden and apparently unaccountable scarcity of capital, an universal calling in of supplies from abroad, a cur tailment of general commerce, and a strong disin clination to embark in foreign loans or any kind of joint-stock enterprise. A heavy depreciation in the value of existing securities is likewise an invariable accompaniment, but the pressure once passed the rally has been hitherto immediate. The crisis of 1866 has in this respect been an exception to the general rule. Although the rate for money has long been at a very low rate, it is only within the last week that a decided advance has taken place on the Stock Ex change. Consuls, it is true, had been previously rising, but the improvement was comparatively moderate. It seems that the public have almost instantaneously arrived at the conviction that they had a large amount of capital lying idle—hoarded in the first instance to meet the necessities of a financial pressure of which the probability had long passed away, and then kept back owing to the general distrust of nearly all kinds of investments. The ordinary reaction has at length occurred, but, instead of being spread over months, as in former periods, it has been compressed within a few days. At the time when the prolonged maintenance of the Bank rate for three months at 10 per cent. caused the London Joint Stock Bankers to send a deputation to the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER on the subject, a favourite hypothesis was enter tained in some quarters that the then existing monetary pressure was duo less to a deficiency of currency than of capital. Hence it was argued, if the capital be non-existent, it would be worse than useless to adopt measures for its freer circu lation. Mr. DIMRAELI especially adopted that view. Unluckily for his financial reputation, it was conclusively disproved immediately after wards. The moment the Bank lowered their rate the supply of money rapidly augmented. Week after week a fresh reduction took place, and on each occasion there were indications of increasing abundance. It can hardly be said that the capital of the nation received any considerable additions in the short period that elapsed from the rate being 10 to only 5 per cent. The propounders of this ingenious theory were in fact wise enough to see the erroneousness of their own conclusions, and quietly let it drop. The simple fact at that time was, that, owing to the distrust created by 10 per cent., capital was hoarded. The cause once removed, this capital was brought at once into use. A like event has occurred now. Investors were thoroughly alarmed by the events of the past year, and refused to purchase anything however good, consequently it would have appeared at first sight that capital was scarce. The upward movement in the stock markets, however, has shown that the one thing required was a return of confidence. That has come, and there is consequently an influx of purchasers, prices are rising, with hardly a temporary check, and there appears every pro- bability that under present circumstances they will rise still more. It is especially satisfactory to note the increase of public confidence in railway property. We have more than once had occasion to point out, that because in some important instances serious irregularities had occurred, that was no reason for throwing indiscriminate discredit upon all the railway lines of the kingdom. The wrong-doers, if we may so call them, were at least but a small minority. They have, nevertheless, done this good : they have awakened shareholders to the necessity of effectually guarding their own inte rests. The time is past for a placid acquiescence in any proposal that a board of directors may choose to make. Everything now must be tho roughly explained, not in the conventional manner hitherto adopted, but so as to afford the proprie tors the fullest information. The financial crisis of 1866, like all other misfortunes, has at least brought with it one benefit. For many years railway management has been a szaled book to every one who, however deeply interested, did not occupy some official position in the company. The case is reversed now. Shareholders, instead of being complacently domineered over, are asked for their advice and assistance. A committee of investigation, if pressed for, is granted as a matter of course. It is only fair to admit that, whatever mistakes may have been heretofore com mitted by directors, they are acting wisely in the present conjuncture. The whole system of railway management has, in fact, come to the deadlock that was predicted in the press as far back as twenty years ago; but it is creditable to know that no hesi tation is shown in adopting the proper remedy. Both directors and shareholders have been brought to see that their interests are common, and that mutual co-operation and concessions are far better than overbearing defiance on the one side and unreasonable distrust on the other. The public have not been slow to note this altered position of affairs. There is nothing that has so much weight in England as openness and plain speaking. As regards railways this has been the exception rather than the rule until the last year. There can be no doubt that the public have been lately induced to invest in these securities simply be cause they can at last tell what they are buying, and are not embarking in an uncertain and per haps hazardous speculation. The cheapness of money is pretty lure to bring forward the usual crop of new loans. Spain is about to effect an arrangement with her Passive and Certificate creditors, but an indispensable ac companiment it may safely be predicted will be raining more money in some way or other. It is not improbable that Greece will try the same sort of plan. As regards other likely borrowers, if they see any chance of getting the money, we should include two-thirds of the countries on the globe. It is to be hoped that English investors will exercise rather more caution than they have hitherto done, and look less to high interest than good security. lf, however, the lesson taught by Venezuela has no effect, nothing can be done but to leave the public to lose their money in the way that beat pleases them. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1867. principles on which those colleges were founded, but, then these principles struck at the root of Romanians as con templated by the Romish clergy. The Queen's University operated to the coercion of the Roman catholic' by im posing upon them non-denominational education as the condition of an academical degree. The idea was that just as the people of Ulster have made the college at Bel fast almost a presbyterian college, so the people of Cork and Galway might make their colleges almost Roman ca tholic colleges. But the priests would have no such com promise. They would not allow the Roman catholic youth to go to any but a genuine Roman catholic college, with direct Roman catholic teaching, and they have so far pre vailed that the majority of their congregations—that is to say, four-fifths of the nation—are excluded from uni versity education altogether. Mr. Lowe would still ex clude them in order to bring them to better views, but even if it were good to teach toleration by intolerance, and promote religious freedom by religious disabilities, the opposition which has been hitherto maintained might be too strong for us in the end. The Herald says there can be no doubt that the success of the enemies of mixed education in this instance, would be but a prelude to an attack on the existing system of national education which has been attended with such eminent success in Ireland. The Star fears it must be granted that the catholic, will not accept the scheme of mixed education, and must be educated apart or not at all. The scheme in its original shape has failed, and the business of a statesman is to remodel it. The government of last year made a fair and statesmanlike attempt in that direction, and it only regrets that any circumstances should have allowed it to seem suspicious or caused obstacles to be thrown in its way. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) RCDISTRIBUTIt N tIeHEYER. The Times returns to its defence of the cumulative vote—the proposal that each elector shall be enabled either to accumulate or distribute the votes at his com mand. This scheme it prefers to Mr. Dillwyn's amend ment, which would prevent the electors in all boroughs re turning more than one member, from voting for more than one man, and limit him to one vote. The cumulative vote, the Times urges, will give a large mass of voters the direct representation they are at present deprived of, and confer onthemactualelectondinfinence. Itwould Nave the wealthy liberals, in Manchester, for example, supposing it had three members, from being reduced to political insignificance by the liberalism of the operatives ; and it would give similar power in other cases to the conservative minority. By destroying the power of a few voters to turn the scale on one aide or the other, the cumulative vote would free members from a tyranny under which they now fall, and, instead of increasing, would directly diminish the power of the holders of mere crotchets to force their way into parliament. To Captain Heyter's amendment that the boroughs having a population under 10000, which have been deprived of one member on Mr. Laing's motion, shall have their boundaries extended, so that with • the ad dition of neighbouring district, or towns they shall hence forth contain a population of at least 10,000, the Times is at present adverse, thinking that by so enlarging the small boroughs we should be only attzmpting to disguise the insignificant amount of town life they profess to re present. The Deily News is in favour of an amalgamation of the rival schemes of Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Laing, the government grafting upon their own plan of redistribution the provisions suggested by the hon. member for Wick for increasing the representation of large borough constituencies. By this means the government plan giving the 12 seats to 12 un represented towns and one to the University of London, with 15 new members to subdivisions of counties, would remain; while the 15 seats set free by the vote of Friday would be distributed by Mr. Laing's method of augmenting the representation of populous towns north and south of the Tweed. For instance, Mr. Laing would give a third member to Birmin3bain, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow, Dublin, and Edinburgh, and a second to Salford, Merthyr Tydvil, Swansea, Birkenhead, Dundee, and Aberdeen. The hon. member further proposes to associate fifteen small English boroughs now separately represented into seven groups, thus setting free seven seats, in addition to the forty-five already taken account of. It is questionable whether this portion of his plan will receive parliamentary sanction ; though the only fault which can be alleged against it is that it does not go far enough. If adopted it would afford the means of meeting more fully the recognised claims of Scotland to increased representation ; and would leave a balance of three or four members to be distributed among English constituencies. Several of the metro politan constituencies are as well entitled to one as the Tower Hamlets to two additional members. Kensington and Chel.ex, which have been often promised enfranchise ment, might be gratified. The Star exhorts all parties to concur in increasing the fund for redistribution, and especially cautions those who are interested for the counties, that unless they now aid in exterminating the very small boroughs, they will have the mortification hereafter of seeing that salutary revolu tion accomplished without any assistance from them, and without any extension to the counties of that additional rep esentation which on fair terms and in a really large measure of redistribution no one would object to grant. THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY IX IRELAND. The Timts appears to lean to the aide of the late go vernment rather than to that of Mr. Lowe in its view of the admission of a denominational college in Ireland to an equality with the non-denominational colleges in the Queen's University. No doubt this is striking a blow at the Cite Court. BALMORAL, MAT 31. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, rode out on ponies yesterday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty drove, accompanied by Princess Christian. Her Majesty gave a dance to the tenants and servants of Balmoral in a tent near the Castle. Her Majesty, accom panied by the royal family, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, was present during the afternoon, and again after the supper in the evening. JUNE 1. The Queen went out driving yesterday morning, accom panied by Princess Christian. In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, rode on ponies up to the Shell in Glen Gelder. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinatone, left the Castle yesterday for Blackheath. The Prince of Wales stood sponsor to the infant son of Viscount and Viscountess Royston, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, on Saturday. The Prince of Wales, attended divine service yesterday morning at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Communion Service was read by the Rev. the Sub dean, and the Very ltev. the Dean of Chichester. Anthem, " God is gone up."—Croft. Sung by Masters Carmichael and Coward, Messrs. R. Barnby, Foster, Benson, and Lawler. Mr. Goss presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Very Rev. the Dean of Chichester, from Malachi, c. iv., v. 2. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmeabury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Rich mond, Lord J. Manners, and Lord Naas. A deputation from the British Medical Association, consisting of Dr. Coles, Mr. C. H. Rogers Harrison, F.R.C.S., Dr. Royles, Mr. George Bottomley, F.R.C.S.K, Dr. W. Camps, Dr. Gibbon, Dr. Merriman, Mr. W. Martin, F.ILC.S., Mr. J. N. Gibson, F.R.C.S., Mr. Robert Denny, F.ILC.S., Mr. T. Heckstall Smith, F.R.C.S., Dr. J. H. Paul, and Mr. J. B. Curgenven, transacted business with Lord Robert Montagu, 11. P., at the Privy Council office on Saturday, on the subject of the Vaccination Bill, which is now under the consideration of parliament. The following members of parliament, representing Irish constituencies, had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street, on Saturday : —Major-General Dunne, Sir F. Heygate, Sir Henry Bruce, Colonel Hon. H. A. Cole, Hon. J. L. Cole, Mr. Torrens, Mr. R. P. Dawson, Mr. W. F. Dick, Mr. Innsby Gore, Mr. Vance, Sir J. Strange, Mr. Lanyon, Mr. S. G. Getty, Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Stewart Knox, Lord Claud J. Hamilton, Mr. E. W. Verner, Mr. lon Hamilton, Lieut.- Colonel Fords, Lieut.-Colonel Taylor, and Lieut.-Colonel Tottenham. Lord nuts, M.P., Chief Secretary for Ire land, was present at the interview. A deputation from the Metropolitan Water Supply As sociation, consisting of Mr. J. M. Matthews (chairman), Mr. Parker (secretary), Mr. Stanley, and Mr. Hepburn, introduced by Mr. B. Whalley, M.P., had an interview with the Duke of Richmond and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, at the office of the Board of Trade, on Saturday. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, the Mauritius, and Natal. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Honduras, British Columbia, the Australian colonies, the Bahamas, and to the Governor-General of Canada. The Earl and Countess of Derby entertained at dinner on Saturday evening their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Edward of Sane Weimar, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl and Countess of Brad ford, the Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl and Coun tess of Dalkeith, the Earl of Morley, the Earl Annesley, Lord Stanley, Lord and Lady Churchill, Colonel the Hon. W. P. and Lady Emma Talbot, and the Hon. Frederick and Lady Constance Stanley. After dinner the countess had a very brilliant assembly. The Duke and Duchess d'Aurnale honoured Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue with their presence at dinner on Saturday evening, at their residence in Carlton-gardens. The following had the honour to meet the royal guests : —The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Viscount and Viscountess Amberley, Lord and Lady Honeys, Lady Georgians Grey, Lady Niolesworth, Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir Henry Storks, G.C.8., Mr. Gregory, M.P., Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P., Mr. Hayward, Am The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart., M.P., and Lady Pakington entertained his Excellency the Netherlands Minister, his Excellency the Swedish Minister and Baroness Hochschild, Earl Beauchamp, the Earl of Abingdon, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford and Hon. Miu Thesigcr, Hon. Wilbraham Egerton, ALP., and Lady Mary Egerton. Barone*. North and Colonel North, M.P., Hon. Lady Pakonham, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Cochrane and Lady Cochrane, &c., at dinner on Saturday evening, at the Admiralty. . - _ The Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, M.P., and Mrs. Hardy received the following compiny at dinner on Saturday evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-crescent: —His Excellency the Italian Minister, the Ear I and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope, the Eai 1 Cadogan and Lady Mary Cadogan, the Earl of Eldon, Lady Elizabeth Cornwallis, Colonel and Lady Jane Taylor, Hon. Mr. and Miss Liddell, Mr. and Mrs. Arkwright, Mr. Ridley, ate. Later in the evening Mn. Hardy had a mall and early party. On Friday a meeting of the Masonic Order of Ireland was held in Dublin for the purpose of considering a proposal for the establishment of a school for the educa tion and maintenance of the sons of deceased and deserv ing members of the order. A subscription list for that purpose was opened, and contributions exoeeding 500/. have been announced. It is intended to establish a school under the immediate control and wanseement of the order for 24 orphans. To do this effectually It will be neoeseary, according to the calculations of the hononry secretary, to raise a sum of 10,000 L in the first instance, with the pros pect of a revenue of 500/. or 6001. a year. It is rumoured that Dr. Lyon Plarfair, C. 8., professor of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, intends to offer himself ss a candidate for the parlia mentary representation of his own university and that of St. Andrew's should the prospective reform bill grant them a member. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (MUTER'S TILZGR.AWS.) SCHLESWIG. KIEL, JUNI 3. A royal decree has been published to-day de finitively dismissing without pension the 26 clergy men of Northern Schleswig, who had refused to take the oath of allegiance to the King of Priuu;is. It is asserted that the seats of the chief com mands of the three military divisions of Schleswig and Holstein will be tranferred in August next from Kiel, two to Hamburg and one to Lubeck. AMERICA. IN, Jt'NE 3. The North German Lloyd's steamer New York, from New York on the 23rd, has arrived here with 190 passengers for this port, Has-re, and Bremen, 30 sacks of mails for London, and 22,000 dole. in specie for Bremen. The Bremen bark Columbus and the Hamburg barque Brono arrived at New York on the 23rd. On the 27th the New York spoke tha Norway barque Caroline, on the 2nd, off the Lizard, a Bremen barque, Number 294. NEW YORK, MAY 23. General Pope hu deposed the Mayor and the Chief of the Police at Mobile, and appointed a suc cour. The order deposing the police force at Mobile has been revoked. General Sickles has prohibited the distillation from grain in his district on account of the scarcity of food. It is reported that a plot has been discovered among the negroes at Fredericksburg to overpower the national gani son and burn and pillage the town. Surrat's trial commences on Monday next. Mr. Jefferson Davis arrived at Montreal yesterday with his family. There was no public reception. He travelled from New York incognito. The Union League Club are about to arraign Mr. Horace Greeley for becoming security for Mr. Davis. The steamship Santiago de Cuba, from Greytown, was ashore on the coast of Jersey. Five lives were lost. The steamer Wisconain has been burned at St. Lawrence River. Twenty lives were lost. The Fenian/ are active throughout the country. Numerous and large enthusiastic meetings have been held. It is reported that a large force is being organised to invade Canada. Stores are being accumulated for that purpose. Advice, from St. Alban's, Orizaba, to the 3rd inst., state that Corona had ordered that no quarter should be shown to the imperial officers, and that the Emperor Maximilian, Miramo, and Marquez were to be shot if cap tured. The of the capital commenced on the 3rd. Queretaro was still be►ieged. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE GRAND PARIS PRIZE. (MOM 0011 OWN 0011E1VONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. I have attended every race for the grand Paris prize since its foundation but never saw anything like the crowd to-day. I should think there must have been present at least ten times more people than on any former occasion. The 20fr. entrance fee to the weighing ground and the promenade in front of ti the grand stand, which in former years operated as a prohibition against even the genteel million, reemed to be no bar to-day. For fully two hours before the Emperors arrived, the space , opposite the imperial tribune, where you could last year promenade freely and gaze at leisure upon the features of royalty, was com pletely blocked up by chairs, on which were seated ladies in rich summer toilettes. After 1 o'clock not a chair was to be got for love or money. The weather was intensely hot—far hotter than on any former grand prize day. Owing to the we t weather which has prevailed throughout the spring, until within the last few days, the turf was un usually long, and the course certainly heavier than hitherto. The various lines of route through the Bois de Boulogne, unusually beautiful to-day under the influence of a bright sun following a wet season, were thronged with carriages as 1 have never seen them before. I think I never saw so many car riages in my life, not even in England on a Derby Day, and the fineness of the weather tempted thousands of foot people—of the better middle class generally—to take up positions on the line of march to see the procession to the races, and in many places they formed pic-nic parties under the trees, and danced and sang to amuse themselves between the going and coming of the great, the extravagant, or the sporting world. The appearance of the reserved space in front of the grand stand—or rather grand stands, for there are several pavilions —reminded me painfully of what I remember of Ascot, when its once delightful exclusiveness was spoiled by the railway. The mob got in somehow. They had to pay Mr.; but on this occasion did not mind it. All the great and fashionable world was there, but so out-numbered by plebeians of all countries, that the crowd was quite a vulgar one. I was never in a worse crowd than when just before the Grand Prize was about to be run for. The heavens betokened a thunderstorm rapidly coming. A panic arose among the ladies, whoexpected (and it was almost a miracle that their expectations were not fulfilled) to get wet through in five minutes. There was a general tendency to rush to get shelter, counteracted by an unwillingness to lose the places from which a view of the imperial tribune might be obtained. The crushing and fighting to moms one way or another was something terrible. Big round drops fell before the sovereigns arrived, the clouds gathered together with ominous blackness, and the heat was stifling. Everyone sought to be weather wise, and acted according to his or her opinion. The majority stood their ground, and these turned out to be the wisest, for the quantity of rain that actually fell was scarcely enough to spoil a bonnet, and few owners of bonnets were without parasols to defend them. But a great many—the sheltered pavilions being quite full from an early hour—took refuge in some rooms like caverns in the rear from which nothing of the races was to be seen. The King and Queen of the Belgians were the first to arrive in the imperial tribune. Next came the Prince Royal of Prussia, who had a long talk with the King of the Belgians before the other great dons arrived. The Princess of Prussia, being also an English princess, did not come, because it was Sunday. The Grand Duchess Marie of Leuch tenberg and her daughter appeared next. Then came the Emperor Napoleon, who, al though he brought the Czar with him, was seen by the public in the tribune some minutes before his guest. His Majesty shook hands with the Queen and King of the Belgians, and motioned them to seats. There were shouts of " Vire I'Empereur," in many parts of the pavi lions and the spaces before them. The appearance of the Czar was not, so far as I could observe, greeted by any manifestation. The Czar was ac companied by his two sons. They want the tall stature of their father and uncle. They are evidently German in build and physiognomy. As usual, nobody paid the least attention to the preliminary races. Ten horses started for the Grand Paris Prize. Thunder rolled heavily as the starting bell rang, but the rain, which fell heavily in Paris, did not come down on the race-course, and the weather cleared up and became beautiful. M. Delamarre's Patricien and M. de Montgomery's Fervacques ran a dead heat. Mr. Saville 's D'Estournel, the only English horse, who looked splendid, and was much admired in the weighing ground, was marked third. There was tremen dous excitement when the dead heat was an nounced ; and great satisfaction among Frenchmen that the prize this year is secured to a French horse. This is the fifth year of the prize, which has been won twice by English and twice by French horses. The French have now gained the turn. I saw the Czar descend from the tribune to look closely at Patricien and Fervaolues--bathed in sweat and panting heavily, while the grooms were preparing them for a second contest. The result of this I must leave the telegram to tell you. I came away, otherwise I could not have written these few lines in time for post.--(In the second trial Fervacques was the winner.] GREAT INCREASE OP RAILWAY PARES. The London and North festern, Great Western, Midland, and other great railway companies, have simul taneously (says the Birmingham Post) made a great increase in the railway fares of first and second class passengers taking return tickets. The increase dates from Saturday last, June 1, and amounts to about one-sixth of ► single fare, or one-ninth of the sum hitherto charged for the double journey. Thus the fares between Birmingham and London, both by the London and North Western and the Great Western, were, up to Saturday last, 20a. first class and lie. second, for the single journey ; 30s. and 23. 6d. for the return ticket. Henceforth the charge will be 335. 6d. first class and 255. second, for a double journey ; the cost of the single ticket remaining unaltered. Thus, also-to take an example from the Midland Railway-the fares between Birmingham and Derby have hitherto been 7s. 6d. first class, and Ss 6d. second, for single journey ; Ils. 3d. first, and Ba. 3d. I second, for return ticket. The charge henceforward will be 12s. 6d. first, and 9s. 3d. ascend, for the double journey ; the single fare remaining, as before, un touched. The companies have at the same time greatly increased their charges for nionthly tourists' tickets. They will require for the future the full return fare, and not only that, but some shillings in addition. To take a few examples-the ordinary return fares between New-street Station and Rhyl are - first class, 26a. ; second, 225. The ticket available fee • month will wet 325. first class, and 25e. second. On the Midland line, the double journey between Birmingham and Buxton ordinarily costa 21s. first class, and ltis. second. The charge for the monthly tourists' tickets this year will be 245. 6d. first, and 17a. 6d. second class Tickets available for • month for the double journey between Dublin and Birmingham were issued last year for 30s. first class, and 26e. second-a few shillings more than a single fare ; this year the charge will be 465. 9d. first, and 375. 6d. second class-the ordinary charge for the return ticket being only 425. first, and 345. second. The fares to Scotland and the L►ke district are increased in the same way. The tourist ticket to Keswick from Birmingham will cost GL. first class, 445. second ; to Edinburgh, 945. and 675. 6d. Third class travelling would enable poor people to evade these charges if the companies did not think it their interest to do everything they can to discourage third-class travelling. Thus, while the charge for a tourist ticket available for a month to and from Edinburgh is 67e. 6d., the double journey-if it could be tolerably done-third-class, would cast only 49.. 6d. DREADFUL MURDER AT BEDFORD LEIGH. On Saturday night a young man named Henry Farrington, whose residence is sear Bedford Leigh railway station, de liberately murdered his wife. They have only been married about 18 months. On Monday last the de ceased woman separated from him, and went to reside with an uncle named Peers Stirrup, putting her youngest child, about a year old, out to nurse. On Thursday he carried sway the child from the nurse, whilst his wife was at her work, and in the evening she went to his house for it, when he locked ber in, and pro duced • pistol with which he threatened to shoot her if she dared to leave the house again. She succeeded in escaping, but did not secure the child. On Saturday night, about half-past 10 o'clock, he went to the house of • person named Riley, in High-street, Bedford, and sent Mrs. Riley for his wife, when he demanded that she should return to her home. The deceased refused and wished to take her child with her. He said he would not let her have the child, be would swing for it first, and he followed her to the door, pulled the pistol out of his pocket, and shot her in the head. She fell on the doorstep quite dead. The murderer had the infant on his left arm when he com mitted the fatal deed, and ran with the child down High street towards the brook. He dropped the pistol on the ground. A bystander named Paul Stones picked up the pistol, followed Farrington, seised him, and took him to the police-station, Townhall, Leigh, where he was locked up on the charge of murdering his wife. The prisoner is 25" years of age, and is a collier, in the employ of Messrs. John Fletcher and others, Volunteer Pit, Atherton. The pri soner gave • clock and 3s. for the pistol to a watchmaker named Cheetham, at Leigh, on Thursday last, and made the bullet himself. Deceased was about 26 years of age, mid was employed as a silk weaver. She bad two children, the eldest born some time before her marriage with the prisoner. When apprehended, the murderer stated that he did not regret the deed he had perpetrated. An inquest will probably be held to-day. ANOTHER SHOCKING COLLIERY ACCIDENT. NINE LIVES LOST. An accident very similar in character to that which recently occurred at Walbottle, produced on Friday evening a deal of great sorrow and uneasiness at Washing. ton. Between 6 and 7 o'clock eight men and one boy were drawn up the shaft in • double-decked cage, the breaksman having charge of the machinery at the top, called Taylor, being a man of ex perience. Owing to some cause or other a stoppage was not effected at the proper place, and the omission was no sooner perceived than the poor fellows who were exposed to death in consequence shouted and screamed, and one of their number, named Brigp, made a desperate attempt to escape by leaping out of the cage. He, how ever, fell backwards, and down the dreadful abyss from which he had just risen. His companions were not so fortunate as those who remained in their plates when there was the same calamity at Walbottle, for no sooner did the iron carriage reach the chocks near the pulleys than the wire rope, which no doubt was severely tested, broke, and the entire party of men was precipitated down the shaft. The miners fell headlong in one confused group into what is known as the " sump," at the bottom, and were mutilated and killed. A portion of a pair of trousers, which seemed to have belonged to the boy, were found hanging to the framework, as they had been torn from the body. The brakeman, Taylor, through nervousness or a man et responsibility, decamped, and had not been beard of or seen up to • late hour the same night. One of the sufferers is John Smith, known es the Cumberland hero in wrestling ; and a second is named Todd. As soon as the disaster became known to the people in the neighbourhood there was a scene of lamentation and woe round the pit mouth. Many of the men were married, and have left families.— Neromadc Cluvmdr. It is now announced that Millie. Christine Nilsson, from whom such great things are expecsed, will make her Med at Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday next, in the part of Violetta in the Troviata. The members of tho Royal Academy will shortly be ea/led upon to fill up the vacancies caused by the deaths of John Phillip and Clarkson Stanfield. The license fur the opening of the cattle market at Wareham, in Dorsetahire, haa been suspended for the present by the government. In the neighbourhood of Glastonbury, in Somer setshire, land has oonsiderably increased in value. Pieces of inferior land about a mile from the town have just fetched from 100/. to 140/. an acre. The proprietors of the Mauritius Commercial Onatte have sent a special correspondent to Madagascar. He writes from Tamatave that the first martyr church has been opened for public Christian worship in Madagascar, and that the foundation stone of a Roman catholic church has been laid in the island. The Malagasy new year has been celebrated. The native governor gave a banquet on the occasion, at which 30 Europeans were present. Toasts were drunk, and the banquet is described as containing an abundant supply of viands and an ample supply of wines. Very rich and extensive gold fields have been recently discovered in Chihuahua, one of the largest and most important of the Mexican States, lying immediately south of the Texas frontier, and between Sonora and Cobahuila. Armed parties of Americans, from Texas and other parts of the United States, have recently pssaed over the frontier and entered upon thin mining region, and preparations are being made for a still greater emigration of the same character. THE HOLBORN VALLEY VLIDUCT. LAYING THE CHIEF CORNER STONE. (THIS DAY.) ve a P has re ey Para thistee t n i d on t :h w a ceremony of laying the tint st one of th e e pr o ject e d l n dcentreyiit,viaduct Throughout auoc t : t h t e .ch mor n i ng ° a r n o w i H olbornikC a cti ve the provid e d for the occasion stands the huge block of gra n i te, and the powerful scaffolding on which the " traveller' placed for the purpose of lowering the stone has been covered with scarlet cloth and white. Some display 'n al been made on the exterior by the use of a number of dig s of various devices. The inscription on the stone is as fol. lows :—" This chief stone of the Holborn Valley Viaduct was laid the 3rd day of June, 1867, by Thomas Henry Fry, Esq., deputy-chairman of the Improvement Com. puttee of the Corporation of the City of London. Th e Right Hon. Thomas Gabriel, Lord Mayor ; W. Haywo o d , engineer ; Messrs. Hill and %vide% contractors." With the exception of the members comprising the committee, but few persona are expected to attend the ceremony, and; is even doubtful whether the Lord Mayor will be present. Th e proceedings are not likely to be marked by the preseuce a( ladies, tickets of invitation having only, it is said, been sent to gentlemen. The coins to be deposited in the vto te will consist of a sovereign and a half sovereign is gold, a crown and a half crown, a florin, a shilling, a sixpence, a fourpenny piece, a threepenny piece, • twopenny piece, and a penny piece, in silver, and a peony, a halfpenny, and a farthing, in bronze. A copy of the act of parliament and of the Times newspaper will also be placed in the lower part of the vase. The engineer will seal up the glass vase, which will be deposited by the chairman in the well of the atone prepared for its reception ; after which the engineer will present the chairman with the silver trowel. After ad droning the company, the chairman will s p rea d the mortar with the trowel, and the stone will be lowered into its place. Mr. James Medwin and Mr. William Lawley, the members of the committee bearing the mallet and level, will present the sane to the chairman, when he will adjust and set the stone, which, being done, be will strike the stone three times with the mallet ; and the stone being declared duly laid, the ceremony will conclude with* prayer by the rector of the parish of St. Andrew. The following is the copy of the paper to be read by Mr. Haywood, the engineer: "The Holborn Valley Improvement consists of a viaduct, supporting a roadway between Hatton-garden soul the western end of Newgate-street, and two side streets con necting the upper with the lower or Farringdonitnet level. The line of roadway on the viaduct will be iro feet in width, and will commence et the western end of Newgate-street from that point it will be carried in • straight line to the western side of Farringdom lend, occupying newly the whole of the space which now or recently formed Skinner-street, as well as a Lime portion of the sites of the houses on that line of thoroughfare, it will include also a portion of the churchyard of St. Sepulchre. From Farringdon-street westward it will be carried by a gentle curve to the end of Hatton-garden, occupying the sites of the homes which formerly stood on the southern side of Holborn hill, and the largest portion of the present roadway at that spot; it will also occupy part of the churchyard of St. Andrew's, Holborn. From Newgate-street to the entrance to St. Sepulchre's Church the gradient will be about lis 696, and at this point the eastern approach street from Farringdon.road will join the viaduct on its northern side; from St. Sepulchre's church to Farringdon-street tbs gradient will be lin 153, and from Farnngduo-street to Hatton.garden 1 in 143 • for all the purpopes if traffic, therefore, the vi a duct may be said to level, The viaduct in its formation will include vaultage band each footway, for the accommodetior, of the future hems on either side of the roadway; outside these truths nl be • subway for the gas and water pipes, and hotness each subway, and forming the centre of the visible, the roadway will be carried on a series of arch,. The footway vaults at the point next to Farringia. street will be three tiers in height on each sis of the road, and they will gradually diminish, both eastward and westwards, until at Hatton-ga01,., and at Newgate-street, they will be but one tier in height. The general height of the subways will be abort 11 feet 6 inches, and their width 7 feet ; they sill be constructed of brickwork, excepting where they .re carried over the London, Chatham, and Dover Fail. way, and at that point they will be altered in loan and be constructed of iron ; the tops of the subways will be but • small depth beneath the footway pave ment, and at larringdon-street and Shoe-lane vertical shafts will be formed, to enable connections to be made between the pipes in the subways and those in the streets named. In each subway provision is made for water , gas, and telegraph pipes, all of which will be so placed that their joints can be inspected, and repair rued.) without difficulty • the subways will be well ventilated, and tubes will 'be left between the sub-ways sal the vaults of the houses, for the introductim of tie service pipes to the various premise.. At each end of the sub-ways, as well as beneath the bridges at Farringdree street and Shoe-lane, there will be entrances forthepurpore of admitting work-people, and taking in any materials tilt maybe needed. Immediately beneath the subways are seem; drains from every alternate house vault will be con structed to these sewers at the time that the viaduct is built, and the mode of construction of sewers, drains, and street gullies is such, that it is believed it will never be necessary to break nei the surface of the viaduct, when it is once formed, to repair or dense than. The central vaults beneath the carriage way. will be formed by arches springing from cast to west; they will be ventilated into the carriage-way ; the level of their flooring will be such as to enable carts and truck. to be easily drawn along them ; they will be commolins, dry, and have a uniform temperature, and, itis anticipated, will be valuable for many purposes of trade and commerce. The entrance to these vaults will be in the ahutments of the bridges over Shoe-lane and Farringdon-street. On the top of the footway vaults and the subways the footway pavements will be laid, and the carrriageevray will be principally laid over the large central vaults. FM** don-street will be crossed by a cast iron bridge of as orna mental character ; it will be in three spans, supported by piers, one row being on the outer edge of each footway these piers, as well as the outer abutment piers, are to be formed of polished granite ; the height of the bridge mit to the kerbstones will bell 6 feet, and in the centre the mini mum height will be 21 feet, which isconsiderably more than sufficient for the traffic. At each corner of this bridge tligiits of steps will be constructed, to enable pedestrians to par, be- tween the upper and thelower levels ; these will be enclosed in stone structures, amplefight and ventilation being gitere to them : these structures will be aimed up some stories above the level of the viaduct; beneath the w :lloos space will be appropriated as shops or ws, and above the steps the floors will be elieihis for offices, or for general commercial purposes. Shorten', which at its northern end is now but 14 feet wide at cot spot, is to be made 30 feet wide ; the viaduct will be car mad over it by a girder bridge. This lane is to be contituei northwards with a 30 feet width to is junction with tla new street, which is to be formed from the corner of HAWe• garden to Farringdon-road, and which will presently be d"' scribed. The western approach street will start hysjuncio with the Viaduct at Hatten.ganlen, and be carried in a vitt easterly direction to Farringdon-road ; opposite to it new street leading to Smithfield Market will comrocee, the two streets will therefore together form one etraigh line of thoroughfare, 60 feet in width, giving direct eri• to the market and to the north-east of London. T-a eastern approach street will begin at Farringdoe -11.4 about 130 feet north of the point where that thoroughfare will be crossed by the viaduct ; it will be carried neat parallel to the viaduct for some distance eestwarde will join on to it with • gentle curve by the aid e of . 4. Sepulchre's church ; this street will form junction with King-street, and will therefore P" another line of acmes to the new market ; tha lower end of this street will take the place of ths,.. thoroughfare which is now known as Snow hil l ' whole of which will be absorbed by its firm"" tion, or by the buildings te side of it. Farringdonotreet or road, at a short distiece southward of the bridge, will have its levels altered. us will be carried with • gredhase of li n as be as to West-street, and from that point northwards with a vit7, slight inclination, until it again falls into the present I of the road ; this alteration in gradient will enable tb , e streets to be formed with gradients of about 1 i In the approach street sewers will rim throughout 5t hew entire length, and above the ?ewer in the western trs . , a Rahway is to be constructed, which will connect !.a . the subways on the viaduct. In the year 1963, the ( . ° T poration of the City of London pretiortil and depes.:vo . .ti p•rliament plans for this improvement, and in 1v4.4 the • are t.oe imbed. t be erected on either was passed authorising the works whichi the lint'^'sad under the superintendence of Mr. William Ila j awe. ni th e i n s t pa co per m. . it T tl e o y f e t re he be empon ing carritket exi rom t btyhe deilvli Messrs. Hill and Keddell are the contractors." A quantity of sprats, mullet, and mackerel 4013 ' caught on the Doreetshire coast last week. OPHNING OF A Naw CHURCH IN Cantu:N- I ' o ' 4 ' i ' —A new free Christian church was opened totenisy Camilen•town, the inaugural service being ionductedbf the Rev. J. J. Tayler, RA., principal of Manchester. Noe College. The church is a temporary iron building ?" th St. Paul's-road, on a strip of land adjoining the Ma Railway, and has about two hundrel ~ittings. At a ie. t ine of the congregation, held after the service, Able:Tad Waterlow presiding, it was determined that the o lfertorf, system should be introduced, and that all the scats 51n.,14 Le free. Musznexprr Bronurr.—The late Mr. Wootton, of the Brewery, St. Clement s, Ovfoni, has. we underi stand, among other bequests, left the munificent Sam o 10,0001., the interest of which is to be appropriated f ever among a certain number of poor penons o'6 l ' and at Launton, near Bicester, where lie had used W rr side, so that each may receive a sum of 14s. per week. Mid Cle. Mr. !ref der Mr. Red , Th nrop lulan