The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-08 00:00:00

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To-Nassow —ll44slag, 6h. Ka Attonsoad bin 4fird 2 1 10TICIL I to kr. 'omit ECAsaosoro s. Post-onoo, litot•otifest. !forum of Burro, 11Aaat0000, DUATiIh folthed Wit o'oloek for inoorlits mom MEW. Pries 11. A SECOND EDITION of fko EXPRESS, coirranrixo The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, EVERY EVENING. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8. CHURCH SERVICES AND SERMONS. Tian was a time when the preacher wielded a great power in England. He was an earnest man speaking to earnest men. He had a message to deliver, and believed in himself as the appointed messenger. Rough, plain-spoken, impetuous, often fanatical, he spoke home to his audience in burning words, and kept them spell bound at his feet. Sermons have exerted much influence in the Romish Church ; but they have been the back-bone of Protestantism, and especially of Protestant dissent. It is unneces sary to go back several centuries to the " grey " fathers" of the Reformation, or to record the feats of men who, like JOHN HOWE, in Caort wax's time, would preach for hours consecu tively to • mighty throng of hearers. What the press does for us now the pulpit did then ; but in more recent days the influence exerted by such men as Wasurr and WIIITTIMLD, CRALNEss and IRWIN°, ROBERT HALL, and ROBERTSON of Brighton, has been almost wholly pulpit influence. And there are men amongst us now— few indeed in number—whose eloquence is equally persuasive, and whose sermons can be listened to with interest beyond the conventional hall-hour. In allowing, therefore, that church-goers who grumble about sermons have a legitimate ground of complaint, we do not think it necessary to follow their conclusions, and to abolish preach ing altogether. We believe that a reform is necessary, not a revolution. In the Church of England too many gifts are expected from one man. There is scarcely any clergyman who can preach well upon the Sunday if, to quote the words of TIIAOIXILAT, " he has been busy all the " week, at schools and sick beds. with watchful " teaching, gentle counsel, a n d s il en t a l ms ." Th e ditties of the pastor and preacher, at least in large parishes, are incompatible, and what the clergy man gives his people in one direction they must iadritably lose in another. The Times thinks the whole grimace resolves itself iato the fact that Me. Rarnazt Bnimuott has published a pam phlet entitled, " Railways and the Public," which 1 has the merit of novelty, and contains some curious statistics. He argues that the great highways of a country should be placed under national autho rity; he shows, or attempts to show, why the present railway system has proved so unremune rative ; he points out with considerable force the inconvenience caused to the public by rival lines, and he proposes that Govern ment should take up the railways, and that each shareholder should receive, in return for his shares, Government railway stock, bearing inte rest at 4 2-tithe per cent., guaranteed by the State. This is not all. Mr. BRANDON is ambitious of effecting as great a revolution in our railway system as Sir ROWLAND Hus. has accomplished in the Post-office. He suggests that a universal fare of threepence should be charged for any dis tance for each person travelling by third class, sixpence for second class, and one shilling by first class ; and he calculates that, in consequence of this reduction, six times the number of people would travel, and that there would be an excess of the present receipts by upwards of twenty million. To simplify matters and diminish ex penditure, Mr. BRANDON proposes the issue of railway tickets in the form of stamps, which he considers would cause a considerable saving in the salaries of clerks ; he suggests too that all luggage should be paid for, though he apparently hesi tates to fix the rate of payment. " Many " readers of this pamphlet," says Mr. ,BR.ANDON, " will at once say that the " idea of carrying a passenger from London " to Edinburgh for threepence is preposterous; " but we must remember that it was not until Sir " ROWLAND HILL had shown its feasibility that " any one thought it reasonable to take a letter " from London to Edinburgh for the same charge "as from London to Richmond. It may be said " that the analogy does not exist; that the half " ounce of a letter is nothing, but that &passenger " is really heavy, and makes some difference in the " cost of running a train. In reply, I say that " the delivery of a letter is the most expensive " part of its cost to the Post-office, whereas a " passenger takes himself away ; that the " average of trains run, could each carry six " times as many passengers as are now conveyed " by them, and, though the expenses might be " slightly increased, the increase would be ex , " tremely small, while the receipts, as I show, " would be enormously augmented." There is nothing more deceptive than figures based upon hypothesis, and very probably Mr. BRANDON'S argument might fail if brought to a practical test. Nevertheless there is much in the pamphlet worthy of attention; for there can be no question that the present state of our railway system is as unsatisfactory to the public as it is to shareholders. e.2111 , Pt•-#.„ V q mesons are dell, nod that the remade for +his de. Prot would be to give up the habit or neadink flow numnsoript. But ciergynseo wise have' nothing to say. which unfortunately is the ease in many iristanoeqi, are quite as Lie, to be dell if they speak extempore or repeat their sermon by rote as they are when reading it, and in the ease of extempore preaching there is the additional risk of volubility and diffuseness. A preacher without a manuscript rarely knows where to ond, and often spoils an effective sermon by dawdling at the oonclusion. It is a grievous disadvantage to the Church of England clergyman that his morning sermon fol lows an exhaustive service •of an hour and a half, and that after the severest mental exercise In which people can engage--supposing, of course, that they do engage in it—a fresh tax should be made upon their attention. Human nature in them modern day, is singularly trail, and the strain imposed upon it on Sundays is sometimes more than it can bear. If the Church service were shorter, as it was intended to be, and ought to be, complaint, with regard to the sermon would be fewer and less reasonable. As it is, children are utterly wearied, and grown up people, instead of leaving church in a better frame of mind than they entered it, are apt to " Let their angry " passions rise," which Dr. WATTS Bari is a very naughty thing to do. MIS QUOTATIONS. nand of tbit wowldjfKidfor. *kindly . 0 to 4 1 iMt from month to mon zubstoutfitions tp found in magasines ; but nowimid *sin they ore particularly amusing. 'This mesa a peputat , novelist, whb has se broad abash Oa% hip can beer a little joke at his expense. interims us in opening a new story, that " Hugh, Earl " of Nithsdale, held Pore to be the very chief of " English poets, simply for having penned the "words, " pod made the country, but men made the teem." The substitution here of " but" for " and " is nothing ; but that this " hackneyed line," as the author goes on to call it, should be hackneyed till POPE gets credit for what COWPIE wrote is not without significance. The next oonspionous offender this month has not so broad a back ; but has some reputation as a novelist. Here is the misquotation: " I heard his voles reading " within, and he read those lines of Mwrotr at the " conclusion of the Masque of °emus' : " Mode& that would happy be, " Love Virtue ; she alone is free , " Bhe will kook you how to chub " Higher than the aphery clime , " Or if virtue feeble were " Heaven itself would stoop to her. " I withdrew unobserved, but the linos went " ringing like a long-forgotten melody through " my busy brain; and the next morning I lifted " up my voioo, and sang mechanically, and the " words I chanted almost unwittingly to myself " were those Tel sea." It is surely a pity after all this fuss about them, that " those verses " should be so grotesquely wrong that MILTON, in the Elysian fields, may fancy, if he gets hold of the magazine, that our opinion, yea or no, about the disinterred epitaph is not of much consequenoe. There is one more conspicuous misquotation this month, and by a writer of semsibility and good taste, who is usually quite accurate. Notice this : I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost ranks of time. The mistake here is very small, but is it not curious that the alliteration of the original— " foremost files"—did not keep the line accurately in the author's memory ? OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EXPRESS; SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, their ocashiati interest arainot that troladeal too street V Übe paella isiragis,, ilia lelgtkitail their nuaiblise7will ttiaterially leaned. wonditioek leer made /I*4 the buildup wit► Wigele other ~owe mirk! returned, ss will fetter ill dater, skies. • Vitt Court. PA ItlB, AtkilltlT (i. The Queen, travelling as Countess of Kent, acomnpanied by Princess Louise, Princess Bestrioes and Prince Leopold, arrived at the Station St. Lasare, at Paris, by railroad, from Cherbourg, at seven o'clock this morning. Sis Eseellesoy Lord Lyons rewired the Queen at tie station, and monomania her Majesty to the Embassy, where her Majesty remained quietly all day, being muoh fatigued. The !hiked Edinburgh arrived at Paris this morning, and visited the Queen. Princess Louise, Princess Basin**, and Prism Leopold drove out. The Emprem of the French visited the Queen et the Embassy. Her Majesty drove to the station in the evening, ac companied by Lord Lyons. end left Paris for Lucerne. The Lord Mayor, attended by the City officers of state, and accompanied by Mr. Sheriff McArthur, the Town Clerk, the Common Serjeant, Mr. Alderman Carter, Mr. Alderlhan Owden, and thirty-five commoners of the Core mop c ounc il, w ith Mr. Hadland (the keeper of the Guild hall), arrived at Marlborough-house shortly after one o'clock yesterday, and preeented to the Prince and Princess of Wales an address of oongratulation from the Corpora tionof the City of London upon the birth of a Princess. A deputation from the Court of Lieutenancy of the City of London, headed by Mr. Thomas Parker, F.S.A., and consisting of Mr. J. M. Hey, Mr. Alderman Owden, Mr. Deputy Obbard, Mr. J. E. Johnson, Mr. M. B. Sampson, Mr. W. Vivian, and Mr. G. Smith (clerk), arrived at Marlborough-house at the same hour, and also presented an addrea; of congratulation to their Royal Higbnesses upon the birth of the Princess, The Hon. Mrs. Harding% Lord Harris, Viaoount Hamil ton, General Sir William Knollis, the Hon. A. T. Pita malaise, and Major Grey were in attendance upon the Prince and Princess of Wales during the presentation of the addressee. The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Hon. 11.11. Harding.. A RAILWAY REFORMER. TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.-A WARNING. Wu° are the first persons to profit by any new demand that springs up ? The deliberate quacks, who seek to impose upon you, and the ill-qualified presumptuous, who impose upon you with out seeking to do it. These people obtain a hear ing for what they have to say, and a market for what they have to offer, simply because the majority of those to whom they appeal are either too little instructed, or are too careless. That those to whom the appeal is made should be too little on their guard is especially likely to be the case in matters in relation to which a long-continued and at last overmastering cry has created one of those half-feverish, half sheep-like kinds of demand which it is hard not to call by the name of panic. That Education should be conver sant in things more, and, if that were a necessary consequence, in words less (the antithesis between wordk and things is not perfect, but it will serve), is an idea which can quote high authority for very many years back. Recently, schoolmasters here and there have not neglected to work it. At last, the injury which our manufacturing interests are said to suffer, or to be about to suffer, from want of skill is applying science to common processes and common material, makes itself heard as a fresh and alarming topic among our middle classes. And there are signs that whatever else may happen in consequence of the new outcry, one thing will not fail us ; that, namely, which we briefly indicated in the first sentence or two. We express no opinion here upon the general question of science education for the young, or the methods of providing it. Much lees do we, as Musixtre did in one of his improving conversations with Bonus, denounce with but little affectation of reserve one schoolmaster in particular as " that " infernal quack ;" and why iattnems has never been sued at law for a libel is beyond our under standing. But we shall not be performing a useless task if we warn parents and guardians against all professed teachers whose pretensions in the direction of science instruction have any air of cottoning to an educational panic. We say, scrutinise all credentials, and especially all quota tions in school-prospectuses. Make yourself ac quainted with the considerable, however insuffi cient, means which already exist, at least, in London, for communicating scientific knowledge. And do not—by hurriedly taking up with quacks, or half-quacks, eager to trade upon a new cry and • raw demand—accomplish what in you lies to discourage the less eager, but sincere and thorough endeavours of competent persons to All up' the gaps of which ihry do not exaggerate the size, having been honestly at the pains to take their immure: The Times comments upon the elevation of the Marquis of Abereorn to a dukedom. Hitherto there have been two qualifications fora dukedom, and the only two —prodigious merit or overwhelming power. If a man beats the French we snake him a duke; so much the more if he beats the English by bringing the minister to his knees. The latter has been the more fre quent claim ; but how stands Lord Abereorn's CAM in respect to these two modes of acquiring the rank ? If the deed be at all questionable, is it fully guaran teed and authenticated by the greatness of the doer ? That is the turn which thought will take, and will ponder well the spectacle of Mr. Disraeli making dukes. We can almost hear people saying, " Let him make as many as he pleases ; it matters not." But that, in the opinion of the Times, is about the most unfavourable opinion that could be pronounced on the matter. The Daily News speculates on the probable composition of the new parliament. The money-bags are not likely to be more numerous than before ; and as to local nota bilities, men familiar with local questions can scarcely be dispensed with in the House of Commons. It will be the fault of the constituencies if a new element of youth ful earnestness, of carefully-acquired political knowledge, and of trained political thought, does not find its place in the House of Commons in such strength as to form an appreciable ingredient in it. The Post hopes Mr. Gladstone's expectation that the Lords will give way on the subject of the Irish Church to the ascertained wishes of the country, may prove correctt for, if the attempt now making to reform the least defen sible of establishments should fall, the ground of attack may be shifted, and all establishments together may end themselves exposed to attacks of a very different kind and force. The Telegraph: maintains that in no single instance has legislation been the sole cause of any railway disaster— that no case can be given in which any injury thus occa sioned could not have been easily neutralised by prudent management on the part of the railway company itself. What reduced the Brighton line from prosperity to the brink of bankruptcy ? Not a rival main line, but a number of paltry astensiorm involving an enormous and unprofit able outlay—branches promoted by tha company itself, or by speculative persons whose rights the company bought. The Star ' referring to the election contests at Dundalk, points out that for three years past Sir George Bowyer, retaining the name and position of a liberal member, has helped lir. Disraeli to climb to power and to stay there, by votes as steadily tory as, for trample, those of Sir Joseph Neale N'lCenna. II these sins against the prin. ciples which he was pledged at his election to support do not justify the liberals of Dundalk m ejecting Sir George Bowyer from the representation of the borough, the Star is at a loss to know what amount of defalcation will be sufficient to reuse the anger and overcome the patience of an earnestly liberal constituency. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday Review contends that although the embarrassment which temporarily disturbs the re lations of Prussia and Italy is secabed to the influence of Prance, its immediately, and perhaps exclusively, caused by the indiscretion of General La Marmara. That officer has always been • loyal. Italian, inclined, when he was in office, to the Preach alliance; and it is possible that, irrespectively of the present quarrel, he may be biassed against Prussia. In vindicating him self be has improperly published documents which show that the Prussian government had contemplated, as a possible result of the war, the destruction as well as the humiliation of the Austrian empire; and the secret has transpired at • moment when French diplomacy is occu pied in impeding the re-establishment of friendly relations between tie two great German powers. In existing cir munstances, the Italian government will neither break with France nor resume a more intimate alliance. The Italian government wants nothing from Frame but non interference, or from Press* except contingent protection against the exigencies of France, and the absurd figment of en alliance between Count Bissaarek and the revolu tionary party in Spain is not caleulated to disturb the tranquillity of Italian statesmen. The Spectator thinks it hes become passible for Great Britain be have a middle-elme asinistry--e eabisistinwhich the majority of mensbire holding sabstentive case shall he men with no elaim lint their own ability and the eel& deuce of the nation. That is perhaps the graded, *oasts it has been one of the least noticed, of the changes intro demi er completed by the legislation of the last two years, supplemented as they have been by the extraordinary de crease in the peestige of the House of Peers. • middle clue ministry has at any rata passed oat of the region of dreams. Our contemporary, however, does not say that we shall get ene, for old traditions may prove too strong for that, and the selection is affected by many influences, past service and age among them, other than the popular choice ; nor does it wish to see ene, for it still hopes to see the whig chiefs abandon their ill advised reticence and an nounce their acceptance of results they cannot prevent. But the Spectator does say that a ministry in which Mr. Gladstone should be Premier, Mr. Childers Home Secre tary, Mr. Cardwell Secretary at War, Mi. Lowe Secre tary for the Colonies, Mr. °archon Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Mr. Stanafeld head of the Admiralty, Mr. Austin Brace Minister of Education, Mr. Forster Secretary for India, and Mr. Bright, whom health warmly admits of the departmental work the position to which he is entitled would involve, Secretary for Ireland, is a ministry which would be approved by the liberals of Great Britain, at least by those outside the pale and influence of the clubs. The Ifeareimr looks to the new parliament to provide a remedy for :away exaction. Ninety-nine men oat of every hundred have a direct interest in putting down and keep ing down the attempt to raise railway fares, for the benefit of ramp onmenageen speealAtore, and jobbers. La the 10i. pediment that hoe now Mee to an end, it was sato: dm that We dew of worthies was a pod deed too The favourite physician has (says the reviewer) a hard time of it with these ladies ; and the more popular he is the harder his work. It is well for his generation when he is a man of honour and integrity, and knows how to add self-respect and moral power to the qualities which have made him the getters! favourite. For his influence over that idle woman is for the time almost =limited— like nothing so much as that of the handsome abbe and the facinatuag director of catholic countries ; and if he chooses to abuse it, and to turn it to evil issues he can. Even the clergyman does not escape, and then she coquets with religious exercises in preference to drugs. As to the " fashionable woman's " love, we are told that she has always some love *flair on band, more or less Platonic, according to her own temperament, or the bold ness of the man A love affair in which the least ingredient is love in any real or wholesome sense • a love a ff air which is vanity, idkness, a &notate imasiination, and contempt of each prosaic things as mor ale ; a love affair not even to be excrused by the Ingle frenzy of earnest passion, and which may be guilty and yet not true. Then we have a description of the inner life of the " fashionable woman " Dress, dissipafion, and flirting make up the questionable Um which enclose the life of the fashionable woman ii :ti u d which enclose nothing useful, nothing toodi so deep, or true, or holy. Her idety Is • pastime • bee g the poorest pretence; h er pleasure oonsiets only; a ny and excitement, alternating with debasing sloth, in heart less coquetry, or in butler indulgenoe, as notary' made her mom man or more sensual. As • wife she fultUsuo wifely duty in any grand or loving NM% for the most part regarding her husband only as • bantam or an adjunct, according to the terms of her marriage settle ment ,• as a mother she is • stranger to her children. to whom nurse and commas supply her place, and give each ppoooorr makeshift for maternal love as they are enabled or iaotiaed. In no dorm& minden is she of the gaudiest value, and of none in any social circumstance beside the mere adorning of • room—it she is re—and the 3 7 i tt i ia lm gives to trade through her riles to She lima Che palit end Ira . nature at last becomes as ' as ler laMk. As years go on, and she -*haws her the acknowledged bells ta the fermis 'emir, she goes through • petted of frantic endeavour to retain her youth; and even when time has clutched her with too Arm • hand to be Aiken ad, and she begins to feel the infirmities which she still pets out all her strength to conceal, even then she pee at th e departing shadow, and fresh daubs the mum rain, in the belief that the world's eyes are dim, and demo may pass for marble another year or two longer. Or she becomes • Bel gisvian mother, with daughtas to sell to the highest bidder; and then the Win of her life is to secure the purchaser. - Many we are told that — Once the name of Englishwoman carried with it a grave and noble echo as the mime of women known for thew gentlobearing and their blameless honour—newsmen who loved their husbands, and brought up about their own knees the children tbey_were not reluctant to bear and net ashamed to love. Row, it too often means • girl of the period, • frisky matron, • fashionable woman—a thing of paints and pada, consorting with dealers of no doubtful calling for the purchase of what she grimly calls "hosnO." making pleasure her only good, and the world her highest god • rt too often means a woman who is not ashamed to supplem ent le her husbandwith a lover, bat who is unwilling to the honest mother of that husband's children ; it too often means a hybrid creature, =tad out of the natural way altogether, affecting the but ignorant of the of a man; alike as girl stren wiz or woman valueless for her • natural duties, and talking largely of liberty while at army torn bow much she Ma in that 00-essential of tberty—knowledge how to use it. The reviewer might have concluded with the tender question which Claude Molnotte asked of Pauline, " Dost thou like the picture F" ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH.— We learn that the Bishop of Peterborough, who is dy ing at Whitby, has been taken seriously ill, and the latest accounts indicate that he is in a very precarious state. Tha HIALTH OF Till Quasar Majesty bas undertaken her journey to Switzerland, where she intends to stay for about a month, on the recommendation of Sr W. leaser. We stated some months since that the Z:z osb ha4l been subject to tainting tits, accompanied by attacks of &knees. Though these to a great ardent have abated, she has tett very much the hot weather of We prevalent, and this, with the unusual fatigue she has have produced a degree of weak nessiestritrdrilsuen change it is expend will remove. Oa karrstant lindiserisad th•Qtreen will spend IMO One at Ilakarmal— Loma. Crazovoz asvzsa's AovaicT. FRANCE AND COCHIN CHINA. MASSACRE OF FRENCH SOLDIERS IN COCHIN CHINA. PARIS, Avousr 8. Official intelligence received from Cochin China states that a French outpost of twenty-five sol diers at Rach-gia had been surprised by a roving party of one thousand Anamits robbers on the 16th of June last.. Only one of the soldiers escaped with his life. When this news reached the garrison, five days afterwards, an expeditionary force, increased by bodies of native militia, who volunteered their services, was sent out to pursue the perpetrators of the massacre, upon whom they inflicted severe loss. SERVIA. BELGRADE, Auousr 7. The British Consul-General has communicated to the Serviaa government a despatch from Lord Stanley congratulating Servia on the recent triumph of law and order. On receiving from the Servian agent at Bucharest the notification of Prince Milan's accession to the throne, Prince Charles of Roumania said he desired to promote the con tinuance of the friendly relations which had always hitherto existed between Roumania and Servia. HUNGARY. PESTH, Atroverr 7, Evr:rme. The Army Reorganisation Bill passed the second reading yesterday after a discussion of the different articles of the bill lasting three days. To-morrow the bill will be read a third time and its definitive adoption iv considered certain. AMERICA. NEW YORE, Aueorr 7. Closing Pricee :—Gold, 1471. Sterling exchange on London. 114. 3-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1141 ; ditto, 1883, 1121; 10-40 ditto, 109*. Illinois, 149 ; Erie, 381. Cotton, middling Upland, 29. Petroleum, standard white, 341. Flour, entre State, 9 dole. 20c. to 9 dole. 80c. Corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 20c. THE CAPE MAIL. • PLYMOUTH, Aeoesv The Union Company's steamer Briton, with the above mails, is just reported off here. LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—ARILLOW, IRELAND, Auou Sr 6.—Duringloggy weather last night imports Dr. Halpin) information was received here that a large ship was aground on the south end of Arklow Bank. The Arundel Venable" lifeboat, bed • to the National Lifeboat Institution, and sta • at this place, was immediately despatched to the assistance of the crew. On arriving alongside the master sent one of the crew ashore by the lifeboat for the services of steamers and barges, to lighten the vessel in the hope that she might then be got off the sand. The lifeboat is now afloat in the river, ready to go out again at a moment's noties, and remain by the ship if the weather should get worse. The life boat of the institution at Courtown (the Alfred and Ernest), was also launched to the milldams of the same vessel when she was seen to go aground. She proves to be the ship Empire Queen, bound from Quebec to Dublin, with a cargo of timber. THE ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN. —At a meeting of the Portsmouth Army Medieo-Chirurgical Society, held en Wednesday last, Dr. 7. Sall, M.D., the Assistant- Samson of the MEd Regiment, read en intere kr &ting ; FT " Os the Medical History of the A The paper is given at len& in the L ai l lisa . h The new market in the thoroughfare leading from King's-crow to Camden-town was formally open.d yesterday. The ceremonial was of a most unpretendier, description. There was a slight attempt at floral deem 1. non, and each of the company was presented with a ism. quet. The splendid band of the Grenadier Guards ws, present, and at intervals it played a selection of pieces is appropriate as circumstances permitted. At about halts pest three the market was declared open, and Mr. Shekel' proceeded to take iseissen of it in the name of the tradine community by selling a " pad" of fish. This went off at prices which, it they could only bemaintained, would soon make the new emporium the greatest in point of supply that has ever yet been known. Immediately after this transaction the company, which numbered nearly 400, adjourned to the wholesale meat market, where a cold collation was served by Messrs. Spiers and Pond ; the one special dish being ealmon, which some twelve hours before bad somewhere in the north been disporting itself in happy unconsciousness that it was so soon to grace the festive board in a new market hunched, of mikes The chair was occupied by Mr. Thomas Chambers, If It. who proposed "Success to King's-cross Market." This was drunk with much enthusiasm, and the whole assembly appeared to take a most cheerful view of the future of the undertaking. The site of the market was a wheel factory, and the ut most ingenuity has been used in turning every portion of the premises to account. For example, the engine chim ney has been retained for a furnace, which will be used to destroy any refuse that cannot otherwise be easily dis posed oL The light is admitted through windows in the roof, all of which are contrived so as to have a northern aspect; and thus, while there will be no complaint of darkness, the market will always be cool and well ven tilated. The retail stalls have each a frontage of ten feet, and a depth of fourteen, and are provided with locked cases and presses- These stalls are let to tenants st weekly rental of 14s. each, there being no extras, except for gas. The stalls for the sale of fish by retail are larger, and are separated from those for general provisions. They abut on the eastern side of the area, and are furnished with ice houses at the back, a good water sup ply, and the other appliances requisite for car rying on the trade. This is expected to he one of the specialties of the place. At present vast quan tities come to town by the neighbouring railways, and the flab conveyed straight to King's-cross Market will be in much fresher condition than after it has undergone the middle passage between Easton-road and Billingsgate. The economic, and even the educational advantages which the undertaking is likely to confer on the commit. nity are such as to make it exceedingly desirable that it should answer. The wife, to use a phrase of Mr. Glad stone, is "the great spending department" ordered household ; and it may be said in general terms that when, after • reasonable amount of exp•rience, she does not learn to perform her mission with intelligence she is, as the Latin Articles have it, a "per nicious imposture." In country towns, even of the largest size, the mothers of families make this matter e very serious business Indeed. With matrons o f the middle classes the Saturday market is treate d as a solemn 'function, and is, or used to be, always performed in a kind of full morning dress. In London the custom is to trust far too much to the tradesman, on whom the serf of confidence that comes to be reposed in him has to) often • demoralizing effect. His behaviour reminds one of the poet's description of a rumour. With a new nee tomer he is all humility, fairness, and anxiety to oblige. but the moment he feels that he has gained a same footing he begins practising with more or less caution on the care lessness of his patron, till at last he boldly acts on the principle of sending what he likes and charging *lo`t ha pleases. The opportunities of studying the market which the new establishment of King's-cross will afford the inhabitants of North London will be good alike ier the shopkeeper and the public. PUBLIC STATUES.—This morning a retunt publiabed of the public statues, or public monuments. in !Auden belonging to the nation, exclusive of thus,' in palaces other than St. Stephen's Hall, or in other parts of the Palace of Westminster, or cathedrals, and now under Charge of the Commissioner of Works ; epocifying the dates of erection and names of artists, and born what funds purchased or erected. Tho statues are those of Sir J. /I.C:rigor at Chelsea . 1106Pital, Sir John Franklin at Carlton -house-terrace, Sir C. Barry, Westminster Palace, und King James 1.. Charles 1., Charles 11. (in plaster), William 111 , "' T r IV., and William IV. The last ere are in Westminster Hall and described as " unfinished." TM statues of Sir John NI/rigor and Sir Charles Barry were p publio aid fee bf antiewiption ; the others by parliamentary Plata' THE FASHIONABLE WOMAN. The Saturday Reriete this morning recurs to a favourite theme. The girl of the period, the matron of the period, and the spoilt woman of the period having been pictured, we hese now • porbaitare of " the fashionable woman" of the period, who is described as the oddest of the many odd products of a mature civilisation, the sad dest and strangest thing under heaven. First of all, we have a picture of her "outside life," with the assurance that it is no fancy picture and no exaggeration : She goes to bed at dawn, and does not attempt to rise till about noon. For the most part she breakfasts in bed, and then amuses herself with a cursory glance at the morning paper, if she has sufficient energy for so great • mental exertion ; if she has not, she lies in that half slumberous date which is so destructive to mind and body, weakening both fi bre and resolution, both muscle and =d oe n. At last she rises languidly, to be in time for luncheon and her visitors, if she receives generally ; or for the one or two intimates, if she is at home only, to the favoured. Somewhere about four she dresses again for ber drive—for the first part of the day's serious business ; for paying visits and leaving cards; for buying jewellery and dresses, and ordering all sorts of unnecemary things at her milliner's ; for this grand lady's afternoon Ma, and that grand lady's after noon at home, with music ; for her final slow parade in the park, where she sees her friends as in an open-air drawmg-rooin, makes private and carries on flirtations, and hears and w a nd scandal of • fuller flavour. Then home, to dress again for dinner ; to be followed by the opera or • concert, • Agra, or per haps a ball or two ; whence she returns towards morning, Bushed with excitement or worn out with fatigue, fever ish or nervous, as she has had pleasure and success, or disappointment and annoyance. But the " funniest" thing about this abject nonentity is the ease with which—perhaps, as suggested, for the pleasure of having her favourite physician to attend her— she takes to her bed on the slightest provocation, and the strange pleasure she seems to find in what is a penance to most women. The favourite physician himself, if not as immaculate as Joseph of old, it is hinted, would have something to answer for : EON NEWS. ITHIS DAY.) FALL OF A MOUNTAIN.- GItEAT LOSS OF LIFE AND A WHOLE VILLAGE DK- KTItOYED. Tho hill of Antelao, which hangs over several villages of Cedoro, and was always an object of terror to the villagers, gave way on the evening of the 27th of July, when several of tho inhabi tants had retired to rest. It is supposed that the great heat of the weather molted the snow on the mountain, and that the water washed away the mall support of the masses of overhanging rock. In a brief space eleven persons were hurled under tho ruins of their houses, and mom than 40 families are rendorod homeless. DEATH OF PRINCE OACIARIN AND HIS SON. The Austrian journals announce the death of Prince Oagarin, Marshal of the nobles of Moe cow, and of his eon at Isehl. It appears that whilst fishing the eon fell into tho water, and that the father jumped in in order to save him. The body of the father was soon recovered, but all at tempts to restore him to life proved fruitless. The body of the son was not found till the night. THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. The debate on the tobacco convention which is exciting so much interest in Italy commenced on the 4th instant in the Hall of the Five Hundred, under the presidency of Piaanelli. The President Lanza occupied his place of simple deputy in order that he might be able to speak against the bill. In spite of a suffocating heat, every place was oosu pied. Fr usain opened the debate in an amusing speech in opposition. The argumentation of the finance was simple. —You have called me (he said) to liquidate a state of affairs which I did not create. Well, let us liquidate. Lo, I have an immediate want, I have extreme need of 200,000,000 to pay the January Coupons. Can you supply us with that amount ? If you cannot then lam compelled to meant you this tobacco convention. Is this argument capable of no answer ? Yea, it is. I cannot understand why we should always be going the contrary way to the nest of civilised Europe, and that whilst the principle of the free cultivation of tobacco is advanced elsewhere we should be aiming to continue a monopoly in the bands of a private society. Do !you know what your tobacco convention means? It is a con traction like another very celebrated phrase. You say in substance, " free tobacco in a free state." ((treat laughter.) I participate in your hilarity. But there is the same contradiction in the words "free church," with a predominant religion that there is in free tobacco with a concessionary and monopolising association. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) CANTIOLL also spoke against the convention. Nauru supported it and found fault with the opposi tion members of the Right u the muse of ministerial defeats. Recollect (he said) that Italy had two serious ministers of finance, Scialoia and Sella. Both were defeated by the Right. Let not Count Cambray Diguy meet with the same fate. Yet I confess when I see him engaging so courageously in the contest under so much disadvantage, I have that tre pidation which the Israelites felt when they saw young David going forth to meet giant Oafish. (Prolonged hilarity.) Itaer;zzt concluded the sitting, but had not finished his speech when the chamber adjourned. He resumed it on the 6th. THE CATTLE DISEASE DI RUSSIA. The St Petersburg Journal has the following telegram, dated Grunbinnen, August 2 : Dr: Richter, the veterinary departmental-surgeon, has returned from the journey which he made through Russia. Re states that the cattle are not affected by the plague, but by an inflammation of the spleen. This disease is wide-spread. At Rittower it carried off 500 bead of cattle and 100 horses. In several instances men have been attacked by a similar disorder. On the frontier can tons the persons have already died from it. 1868. 1' 0 OUR PARIS LisTrii,. (MOW 0411 oww cameraman. ) FIIIIDAA Emote The news I sent you that Lord Stanley e a t Lord Lyons would dine with th , . Fontainebleau to-day is e,onfirme•l. Tt e . 7 left Paris g four o'clock this afternoon, and the Duk e of Edinburgh accompanied them—or rathe r. / suppose, it should be said they aceempani,-1 the Duke of Edinburgh. Lord Stanley had prer,,, Q7 an interview at the Foreign-offioe with thes e: , quis de Moustier. It is rumoured that M. Route, will come from his chateau at Cercey to jo:n th, dinner party, and really this menu' „ otherwise, if politics are to be taked ct all, press would be overweighted. Several French journals the CI.. ,„ eluded— persist in repeating the fall.. , Patrie that the paid a visit to at the Elys,:e ; and tLe truinping others, gives a circumstantial account banluet given by tiro Empress to Um 1, " served on a splendid servi 1e cf pinto wil; !., never been used before." The , swan that thr tju;x•n uil not g.. ;.;:w •, equally fah:, news that the outsile th? Elyi:v made cl..•nik.7. of dissatidaction at her abseil' e, are! Iv • cheers to the Empress by way of curia,.,., This organ of information pretends tl, Empress expected her, and " waited •• :. • , she was tired. This is quite ineorr...; Empress had no doubt made preparatioe. ceive the Queen, and most considerat,•l } ' n those preparations not at the Tuileriev, Ir.zt Elysee, in order that her Majesty might scarcely any distance to go; but, as I stat..l terday, the Empress knew perfectly well wh... n she left the embassy at a few minutes lu.tr, o'clock that the Queen was not coming. ae,l i.,; not wait a minute. In the course of the day the Prince... L accompanied by the Marchioness of Ely, ee..rt , Lewitaky's, Rue de Choiseul, 22, to have a graph of herself taken. The Prineems accompanied by Mrs. Here (wife of Captain the naval attache), took a long drive about Pl7l, visiting the Champ Elysees, the Arc de Tri,raph-. the Trocadero heights,the Tuileries, L',us - • N , tr • Dame, and the Rue de Rivoli. Between breakfast and dinner the Que.ll an hour and a half in an arm chair in the healt:f.tl gardens of the embassy. Her Majesty embassy at 7 o'clock in an open carriage, awl dror • to the Strasbourg railway station, Lord Ljou, sitting beside her, and the Princess Louisa and th • Marchioness of Ely being opposite. The Beatrice and Prince Leopold, accompanied b ) dame Bauer and Colonel Ponsonby, followed in , second open carriage. The suite had gon, to th station half an hour before. The Civil Tribunal, presided over by 31. 11, n ii Champy, to-day decreed that MM. Marchal, a:,i, de Bussy and Stamir should each pay 3,000 ft. damages to M. Henri Rochefort for very gra,: an inexcusable libels upon him. In a cross actin by Stamir M. Bochefort was ordered to pay • - oblir. damages for a libel on Stamir, which though °oh retaliatory after great provocation could n.,t L • held justifiable. OPENLVG OF lI.VO'S-CROSS 3L4RKL7 1 I