The Express. — London, England, 1868-07-03 00:00:00

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LONDON. K. FIRST-CLASS FURNITURE, BEDDING, &c. An Illunrrni . ed - 144.Zr Lit knit T. TENABLES and SONS. KA 104. and 105. Whitenhapel, and A 4,6, and 8. t'ummaeWatleed. London. S ANOKTERB' NEW PARASOL, THE " BEATRICE. " Patent Shape. S - --- ANGSTERS' UMBRELLAS (Four Prize Medals Awarded) on Fox's Pinson Frames.—All frame* of Fos and Co.'s oe'ebrated make bear their trade mark—" A Rumble Fos." —To pi event mistakes the nubile are reepertfelly informed that all Umbrellas of gangsters' make bare their name attached. and that their only eetabliehmente are lid Ressmastrest: at. Fleeh.traet 10. Bowl Esehanse: 7%. ChNuwitio. N 8.-Ilb...rye the name. NEWTON WILSON and Co.'e SEWING MACHINES. PARIS ENTITHMON, TWO PRIZE MEDALS. NEW HAND MACHINES. QUEEN MAR. CLEOPATRA. HAND LOCK-STITCH, DORCAS. AND PENELOPE. The only handmwing machines that have prise medals. The American button-hole, eyelet hole, overseanaing machine, for the first time the complete combination of • sewing and button-hole machine. Makes IN buttonholes per bout, and changes in • minute to plain Prying. Illustrated catalogues tree.-IH, High Balboni: Ht. Cbmptide: and HO. Regent.street. The Price of THE DAILY NEWS Y now ONE PENNY. The proprietors of the "DAILY NEWS" have great satisfaetion in announcing a step which they belie►e will be accepted by the public as its own jruitiltration. for the journal only advances in the line of its natural development when ft adjusts its publishing arrangement* to a state of things which for two-and-twenty years it has laboured not unsuccessfully to promote. In promising for this transformation one thought has predomi nated in the solicitude of the proprietors. Their aim has been to make "THE DAILY NEWS" universally riooessible, not to alter Its character: and they would consider their labour worse than lost weir they to connect to changes which would lower its tone or In any way Impair its title to hold its accustomed Place la liaa/le favour. THE POLITICAL AND LITERARY Direction of the Journal will remain undimmed. AND BE SUPPORTED BY AN ACCESSION OF EMINENT WRITERS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE sill rest on an organisation of Special and Exclaim' firrespea deuce, embracing the entire World. THE CITY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS will be, as heretofore. Pull, Early, and Impartial. In a wood. while all the present features of the paper will be maintained, ►ts arrangements will undergo no other modification than such as is necessary to a more thorough and efßoient representation and discussion of the oceonsaion, interests, and opinions apt law day. PUBLISHES° AND ADVERTISEMENT OFFICE. BOUVERIESTREET PLEETSTREET. Mite Orprei4o. NA 114 A RAT:T. 1 . 111. Primp:a. TNT. LADIES CHAMPION.—A HERO OP toMANCE. Mews. Rothern, Howe, Compton, Chippendale, Revere. di Clark; Mesdames Rohertann, lone Burke, Chippendale, l'itzwilliam, Lowe, &e.—Aud A CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT. lIIIII_ l i, 11111 I I I I I 1111.1.11.11.11.1111 IIMM I I. 11111 2 dr IUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. M.knager, not by is member of the Oppesi soic, Mr. W. 11. I,IrrToN. —Second timn, at a gnarl rt , o,_a ,ww eminent supporter of the Gov/Imm Thor. Art It ~,,, noto• preititn, ilititiod TIME AND THH H 51/K. 5i..... A. %Vann, J. 1.. Tonto, Sterhent, Brown, Clayton: Maw* H. 11..!.• o. tlnrtham. and Melly Moore. only the other day was himself a m WALFOLE, -- 11/ 18 appointed to rye IIOWL PLAY.---PETER PIPER PICKED A of those recommendations. The tif 1.1. K OF PEPPEIL—Snreh for the Onfon-n. 10 M. - reported unanimously, and, on adi FOWL PLAY.— Mr. TOOLE ON THE TEA- derable majority PrLE—Orest Flight of Fogey. decided in far m mittee's report. Thereupon the : FOWL PLAY. 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To-Itonsow—Nonzing, lb. 39t0 Afternoon, Ink Oa NOTICE.. advertisers are to make Heir Pod-olloe orders to lar. Jamie EZINOTON, Poet-office,Fleet-etreet, arra". NOTICROI of Brame, MAKRIAOIII. and Duey's, are 111400111 i until 12 o'clock for ineertion same evening. Price ti. la. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 3. THE HONOUR OF THE GOVERNMENT. Ir appears, from the proceedings in both Houses last night, that the announcement we made twenty-four hours since of a grand ministerial intrigue in preparation was only too correct. Our readers will perhaps have noted with surprise the report to which we felt it our duty to give currency yesterday, " that a considerable " number of the ministerial members intend to " try and defeat the Registration Bill, in order " to postpone the dissolution of Parliament till " next year ;" and that " there will also be an " attempt in the House of Lords to reverse the de " cision of the House of Commons with regard to " the Boundary Bill." To an ingenuous public unaccustomed to believe in deliberate breaches of faith on the part of any government in this coun try, this sinister rumour might have looked like a mere party missile, destined to serve a momentary purpose of throwing discredit on the character of an administration which has been more than once accused, even by some of its natural allies, of crooked arta, and by its adversaries of systematic duplicity. We invite particular attention to the discussion last night in the Lords in committee on the Boundary Bill, and to the discussion in committee of the Commons on the Registration Bill. It will be seen how literally and exactly—far more literally and exactly than we could have anticipated —our unpleasant antici pations have been verified. Every dispassionate and impartial observer of this combined flank movement of Mr. DISRAELI'S forces will agree with Lord RUSSELL that " this is altogether a " new wpy of carrying on the administration of " the country," and, with our contemporary the Times, that it is " an outrage upon parliamentary " government." What are the simple facts of the :lase P Certain recommendations of the Boundary Commission were objected to by the majority of the House of Commons, and, by way of com promise, • Select Committee, presided over THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1868. not by a member of the Opposition, but by a.t eminent supporter of the Government party, who only the other day was himself a minister- -by Mr. WALIVI.E.—WSS appointed to reconsider certain of thus° recommendations. The Select Committee reported unanimously, and, on a division, a consi derable majority decided in favour of the com mittee's report. Thereupon the PRR.II IRR made the declaration that the question was virtually settled, and it was felt on all sides that one great obstacle to an early dissolution, to an early general election, and to an early assembling of the new Parliament, had been removed. Yet last night in committee on the Boundary Bill, Earl BEauensme, an " independent" Ministorialist (it is by the agency of his independent supporters that Mr. DISRAELI conducts these peculiar opera tions), moved to set aside the decision of the ma jority of the Lower House and to revert to the original recommendations of the Commission, ex tending the actual parliamentary boundaries of the boroughs of Birkenhead and Birmingham, in direct defiance of the report of the Select emu mit tee, accepted by a large majority of the Commons which had retained the existing parliamentary boundaries in those boroughs. As Lord ItANVILLE with his usual good sense remarked, although tie• words of the Palma MIN ISTE It ought not to bind the House of Lords, they ought to bind Ler Manterrv's Government. Mr. Disuaxu's tactics consist in getting his " ludo " pendent" supporters in the Lords to break his word, and to reverse, on his behalf, the decisions of a majority of the Commons, which, as Prime Minister, he had accepted. To those who value the good faith of public men, and the character of Parliament, above the sue cesa of this or that ministerial intrigue, the characteristic attempt of Lord CAIRNS to make the worse appear the better reason by dint of a casuistry permissible to a special pleader, seems a lamentable exhibition of misplaced and misdirected professional dexterity. To such devices the only response is that which Lord RtrasELL and the Liberal peers were compelled to give last night by declining one and all to assent, even by their presence, to so gross and glaring a breach of faith. Cunning, as the Duke of ARGYLL remarked the other evening, is to weak animals what courage is to the strong. But cunning is apt to overreach itself. Even Lord Cemts, who is seldom betrayed into the danger of travel ling beyond his brief, let the cat out of the bag, if we may be pardoned a vulgar but apt illustration, when he re minded their Lordships that their amend ments would not be conclusive as against the House of Commons, since " the Bill must go " down to the House of Commons again." No doubt it must; and the result would be the rejec tion of the amendments, and all the consequent in evitabledelays in preparing for the general election. That such is the stratagem of the Govern ment, who, by the mouths of a chivalrous Home Minister, and a sentimental Chan cellor of the Exchequer, have again and again protested their burning desire to be released from their present anomalous position, and to appeal to the new constituencies,the scene enacted almost at the same hour last night in the Com mons, pretty clearly indicates. There it was the Registration Bill in Committee, an indispensable preliminary to the general election ; and there, as in the Lords, certain " independent " friends of the Government (two at least of whom will never sit again) rose to complain of the Dissolution being hastened by the Regis tration Bill, on the ground that it would prevent a number of the new electors from voting. Mr. HARDY, it is true, in deference to the decided feeling of the House, resisted, for the moment, his independent allies, and a division was not at tempted. But in the Lords it seems not improbable that the dilatory pleas put forward by Colonel BARTTELOT, Mr. MELLER, and the rest, may be pressed by unofficial Peers, who can be used and disavowed, with a better chance of success. The secret of these tricks is not far to seek. The Ministry have been informed by their electioneering agents that if they throw over the Boundary Bill they will save three seats which will otherwise fall to the Liberal party. And for this great object, the Tory Peers are not unwilling to accumulate against themselves on the eve of the first general election after a Reform Bill, cases of disagreement with the House of Commons. For this great object Mr. DISRAELI is teaching his colleagues and his party a system of ministerial irresponsibility borrowed from the Second Empire over the water. Talk of :Americanising our institutions ! Our pre sent Premier will never do that ; he would rather Ctesarise them—if he could find a Caesar for a master. The new doctrine of his organs is that which the Consfaufiennel has always preached, and M. Ileum has always practised : no Minister to be responsible for the declarations of any of his colleagues ; a discredited Legislature, but a Senate whose " independence" is more Imperialist than the EMPEROR. United Kingdom, and the number of the shares he holds in the newspaper if these exceed two; and the Christian names, surnames, residences, and occupations of the two responsible householders who offer themselves as sureties against the publication of libels—have all to be sent in to Somerset House before a new journal, or a modified or altered journal can legally appear. The security demanded from each of the two householders for a newspaper published in London, or within twenty miles of it, is 4001., while for newspapers published beyond that limit, two bondsmen of 3001. each are held to be sufficient. The official form expressly states that it is "as " sureties against the publication of libels," that these liabilities are enforced. Tux alleged flatness of the season has not affected the sale of pictures at the exhibition of the Royal Academy. The high pric.•s of the last few years show no signs of diminution, and the great hulk of the good pictures of the year have is en sold fur sums at which the collectors and dealers of a quarter of a century ago would have stood aghast. Indeed, the good or bad old days, when the uneiteur buyer could till his galleries for to no, with the certainty that their contents could be disposed of fur hundreds at his decease— the times when a collection worthy of a nation's acceptance could be acquired at a com paratively small outlay—have fled for ever. The professional dealer now steps in between the artist and what used to be called the patron, and a high and progressive rate of prices has been the result. There never was a greater demand for good pic tures than now. Young artists, whose profes sional spurs are yet unwon, or are but newly worn, have but to paint well to command a pur chaser at once. The visitor to the Royal Academy to-morrow would find on inquiry that nine-tenths of the pictures ho admires most are sold, many of them before they were ever sent to the Exhibition —others on the day of the private view, and that it is a comparatively small number of his favourites which have been picked out by the general public since. One well-known firm of picture-dealers did business to the extent of 23,0001. on the private view day alone. The pictures displayed then were sold from to that ex tent. The records of the dingy little sale-room at the Royal Academy show moreover that tho prices paid this year have been both handsome and appre ciative. In whatever other branches of art or luxury the scarcity of money may have been felt, we are glad to find that the painters and sellers of pictures have little reason to complain. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) TILE SERVIAN ASSASSINS. The Theme Agency contains the fullowing cor respondence, datAxl Belgrade, Juno 28 : . . The trial of the tustaseins was concluded in a single sitting. There was no necessity for prolonging the trial as the 13 prisoners confessed their crime. Accordingly nu witneeses were examined. One of the accused said that be was not aware of the assassination plot, although he knew there was to be an attempt at revolution. Maritch, a former magistrate, who had been condemned to twenty yearn' imprisonment for the murder of his wife, and the actual 110441111141 of Madame Alike, said that he was prompted to commit the crime to avenge an unjust condemnation. Stanvie Rematch, an aged man between sixty and sixty five years of age, with flowing white beard and hair, likewise said that ho was influenced by par senal feelings. lle lust the property of some land in a lawsuit under Prince ?Alleged, the father of Michael. lle k. pt an exact account of the rents, and asked Prine3 Micicul to recoup the amount. Prince Michael paid no regent to the lipplicstion, whereupon Itognitelt resolved to kill him. " There wax no justice," lie said, "k. be obtained under the Obrenoviteli, and therefore I was anxious for the restoration of the Kunigeorge lack" Constantine Itattonovitch ileelared that he was actuated by no personal feelings against Prince Michael. He killed him because his brother Paul asked him to come and do so. George Radovanoviteh like wise obeyed the instruction of Paul, who was the agent of Prince Alexander Karageorgevitch, and his political correspondent in Belgrade. This fact wax not denied, and could not be denied, because a correspondence in cypher with Prince Alexander was found in Paul's house. A fourth brother, Lyonbonier Radonovitch, who had been condemned to 10 years' forced labour for forgery, was also accused. Panl seems to have been the soul of the conspiracy. There is no truth in the statement that a captain was shot in the fortress of Belgrade. The North-East Correspondence, in a letter dated Belgrade, June 29, says : To-day Captain Mirz;nloviteh, who endeavoured to make the troops revolt at the moment of the assassination, was shot on the glacis of the fortress, in presence of all the officers of the garrison, two companies of infantry, and the militia. Be fell pierced by four bullets. An immensecrowd was present. The Minister of War published the following order of the day on the occasion :—" Prince Michael organised the army for glorious deeds. He did not believe that in its ranks would lso found traitors as on the field of Casson in 1389. One, however, there has been, Captain Mirzailovitch, to dishonour the flag, to betray the people, and to league with assassins. Our brave army re sisted the seduction of the wretches. To-day the vile Dfirzailovitch has been shot. Brave soldiers! let him descend to hell." Emperor's timAch had yet las n brought forward. The news from the seat of war was not very satisfactory. Two skirmishes had occurred at the Chaco, where tho Paraguayans at both places were dislodged. The Brazilians were endeavouring to cut off all communication with the Chaco. Ilumaita, though completely besieged and bom barded by the fleet, was still in the hands of the Paraguayans, and it was supposed would be assaulted on the 30th of May. The import trade was dull. In the export market produce ruled high. Government stock, 873. The unsettled state of affairs in the South, the prolongation of the war, the electoral crisis at Buenos Ayres, and the monetary panic at Monte Video, all tend to demoralise trade; and Exchange transactions were precu ritll , l, c losing; at 17d. for Bank end 17311. for private bills. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PRESS. Tim case of the little Camden Town newspaper seems likely to have the dignity of establishing a point in law. The Commissioners of Inland Re venue summoned its proprietor before the Bow street magistrate yesterday on the charge of pub lishing his journal without having registered it at Somerset House, or providing the securities re quired by law. It was contended for the defence that when the compulsory stamping of news papers was abolished, the whole theory and meaning of registration and surety-finding fell to the ground. When the Act of Parliament pro viding that all newspapers should be printed on stamped paper, and inflicting punishment upon any one printing, publishing, or having in his pos session an nnstamped newspaper was repealed, all Government control was, it was argued yester day, thought to have gone too. Sir THOMAS HENRY expressed a very decided opinion, how ever, that there was no repeal of the law with respect to sureties, and convicted the de fendant in two penalties of 201. each, a decision which will be promptly submitted to a superior court. The present requirements of the authori ties, " previously to the printing of a newspaper," or upon any change of title in the name of the printer, publisher, or proprietor, or of the places of printing or publishing—are minutely exigent. The title of the newspaper, its place of printing, the parish in which the house or office in which it is printed is situate, and if it only occupy a part of any house, the name of the co-occupier; the same names and particulars of its publishing place ; the Christian name, surname, and residence of every person who is to be its printer, or who is to conduct its printing; the same particulars respecting each of its publishers ; the number of shares into which it is divided; the name of every proprietor residing out of the United Kingdom, together with the place of his abode and the nature of his occupation ; the full Christian name, the surname, residence, and occupation of every proprietor resident in the UT, Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, JoLT 2. The Queen, accompanied by the Prinoesa of Leiningen, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied by the Princess of Leiningen, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Louise, attended by Ludy Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Baroness Grancy, Lord Alfred Paget, Major von Hesse, and Baron von Rabenau, arrived at the Castle this morning from London. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and Prince William of nesse visited the Queen this afternoon. Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, arrivedi at the Castle to-day, and had an audience of the Queen. The Brazilian Minister also arrived, and was Introduced to her Majesty by Lord Stanley at an audience, and pre sented his credentials. Major-General Seymour, C. 8., Groom in Waiting, was in attendance. The Dean of Windsor had the honour of dining with the Queen yesterday. The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lords yes terday afternoon. The Princess of Wales drove out, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark. The Prince and Princes of Wale, aocompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark, went to tho Royal Dalian Opera, Covent-garden, in the evening. VISIT OF SIR R. NAPIER TO THE QUEEN. WINDSOR. TIEURSDAY NIGHT. Tbis evening Sir R. Napier left London by the 6.15 p.m. train on the Great Western Railway from Paddington, es rests for Windsor Castle on a visit to her Majesty the Queen. He arrived at the Windsor station a few minutes before seven o'clock, and was met upon the platform by Sir John Cowell, Master of the Royal Household, who had been deputed by the Queen to meet him. Captain Bulkeley, one of the direc tors of the Great Western Railway, was also present at the station. Few people were about, but one or two per sons recognised Sir Robert, who with Sir John Cowell walked quietly up to the Castle, where it is understood the general will remain the guest of her Majesty till to- InerrOW. (BY TELEORAPTI.) WINDSOR, FRIDAY MORNING. Sir Robert Napier left Windsor Castle shortly after 10 o'clock this morning, and proceeded to London by the Great Western Railway. The gallant general was accom panied by kis Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. VISIT OP THE QUEE4 TO ALDERPHOT.—Her Majesty the Queen with several meiebers of the royal family, attended by the suite, will leave Windsor Castle this afternoon at a quarter-past three o'clock on a visit to Aldershot camp. Her Majesty will drive to the Windsor terminus of the Great Western Railway, where a special South Eastern train will be in resales', and leave the royal borough at twenty minutes past three o'clock. The Queen will travel over the narrow gauge rails of the Great Western line, aid Taplow and Twyford, to Reading, where she will arrive at 3.6.5 p.m. The special train will leave the Reading station of the South Eastern Railway at 4.45 p.m., and proceed, Via Wokinghem and Wellington College, to Aldershot camp, which will be made at half past 4 o'clock. After visiting the camp her Majesty will return to Windsor in the evening. Miss Agnes Zimmermann, the pianiste, had the honour of playing before Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Louise, at Windsor, on Monday last. Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P., woe honoured by the company of the Duke of Cambridge at dinner last evening at his residence in Seymour-place, Mayfair. A select party were present to meet the royal duke. The DUchess of Cambridge, the &and Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits, the Prinems M►ry Adelaide and the Prince of Teck, and the Count and Countess do Paris honoured the Earl and Countess Vane with their presence at dinner last evening at Holdernees House, Park-lane. A select company were afterwards in ♦ited to meet the illustrious party. The Earl Forteeeue entertained the Countess (Dowager) Spencer, Lord Walter Campbell, Lord Cal thorpe, General the Hon. Percy Ashburnham, C. 8., lion. George and Lady Louisa Fortescue, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone, Mr. and Lady Louisa Howard, Admiral and Mrs. Howard, Colonel 'rictus* Miss Fortescue, Mr. Markham, do., at dinner last evening at his residence in Lowndes-square. Field-Marshal Sir William and Lady Gomm entertained at dinner yesterday evening, at their residence in New-street, Spring-gardens, Lord and Lady Clinton, Lord Mark Kerr, Lord and Lady William Lennox, the Bishop of Gloucester and Mrs. Ellicott, Sir Thomas and Lady Gladstone, Sir George Osborne and Miss Osborne, Mr. Darby, it.c. Lady Gomm had a select company after dinner. The Galatea was officially inspected at Spithead on Wednesday by Admiral Sir Thomas Palley. The frigate is in the best order, and the drill of her crew, whether as seamen, gunners, small-arm men, &c., was found to be highly satisfactory, and a matter of no little credit to both officers and men. The Galatea will anchor off Osborne during the Queen's stay at hor marine palace, and on the departure of her Majesty and the royal family to Germany, about the 4th of August, the frigate will proceed to Devonport to refit. THE (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. The following is a summary of the bull convok ing the (Ecumenical Council :—Having mentioned that the church is of Divine institution his Holi ness enumerated the services rendered in all past times by the Sovereign Pontiffs to civil and reli gious society. They have never neglected, says the bull, to call together general councils when they deemed them necessary. Pius IX. then proceeds to describe the errors of modern society ; he represents the church attacked and spoliated, the clergy persecuted, religious orders ruined, the diffusion of pernicious books and a corrupting press, and the education of youth taken out of the hands of the clergy and placed in those of professors who have no religious belief. To provide a remedy for so many evils the Holy Father has felt it his duty to convoke an CEueumenical Council at Rome for the Bth De cember, 1869. His Holiness adjures the bishops to repair thither or to send representatives; and he expresses his hope that the various sovereigns, far from opposing this work of piety, will pro mote it. (TEsouns WITIVII Ammer.) FRANCE. PARIS, Jun . 2. The Consfiltifionnel of this morning says : " Some journals state that the Count de Chambord has announced an intention of visiting Rome on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Parana, and that EL de Sartiges has declared that if the Count de Chambord goes there France would withdraw her troops. This statement is absolutely untrue, and we are authorised to contradict it." ArSTBIA. VIENNA, JILT 3. The Official Gazette of this morning publishes an imperial decree giving effect to the Marriages Bill, and an order limiting the prohibition of thea trical performances to five- days in the course of the year. SEBVT.A. BELGRADE, Jinx 2, Emma. All the Consuls have hoisted Sags over their consulates. After riding through the town Prince Milan re ceived the oath of allegiance from the troops. The ceremony of the installation of tho Prince will take place to-morrow. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, ARM I. The Sultan gives a dinner to-day to Prince Napoleon, to which all tho Turkish ministers, the Viceroy of Egypt, and tho French and Italian ambassadors are invited. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Jur.: 2, The Queen and the infant Prince, Don Carlos, arrived here at 3 p.m. to-day. The King went to Elvas to meet her Majesty. They were received at the Lisbon station by many of the nobility and officials. After hearing a Te Deum at the cathe dral, their Majesties proceeded to the palace of Ajuda. THE BRAZIL MAIL. ►N, AMY 3. The Royal Mail Company steamer Oneida, with the above mails, 33,3951. in specie, 2,168 packages of cargo, and 100 passengers, ham arrived here. At Buenos Ayres the Provincial Chambers were opened by Governor Alain, who condemned tho Paraguayan war, and censured the general acts of the National Government. President Mitre inaugurated Congress on the 18th. The returns for the financial year give an income of twelve million silver dollars, being 26 per cent. increase over last year. The expenditure on account of the Paraguayan war is estimated at 13,920,164 silver dollars. The probable result of the Presidential election was very uncertain. _ The e latest advises from the seat of war were considered unfavourable to the allies. News from the agricultural districts was satis factory. Exchange operations are large at 49k. Specie payments had been resumed at Monte Video by order of the government. A crisis had occurred in consequence of two banks having sus pended payment, and Baron Mans announced that in consequence of the outrageous precipitation with which the government had acted, he would immediately place his Monte Video bank in liqui dation. Two thousand foreign troops had been landed to protect the Custom-house and banks. At Rio de Janiero, in the Chamber of Deputies, an address to the crown had been carried by a largo majority in favour of the government. Now of the important measures announced in the INDIA. BOMBAY. Juwa 9 , viA Thi• appointment of Mr.t•lan,h•rm to the re :ids at Hyderabad hum given general satisfaction. Tin. Bombay Bank Conitnission will lie ote•a-,1 pro forma to-morrow. It intends to tleiringhly exit/ • the books and papers before calliti4 wittiesse3. It is stated that a .‘!hems iN being el:Jou-at,' to form the central provinces into a lieutenant governorship. The Times of India states that a reduction in the Indian telegraph charges is contemplated. Orders have been given for additional wires on the most important lines. The system of stamps is to be shortly introduced. A wing of the 45th Regiment, and a battery of artillery, have arrived at Bombay from Annesley Bay. Other troops are hourly expected. Heavy and abundant rain has fallen at Bom bay. CALCUTTA, JUNE 5. The reports from the agricultural districts state that the recent rain has greatly improved the state of the crops. Forty-one prisoners concerned in the recent case of Suttee in the Cawnpore district have been convicted ; thirty have been transported for life, and the remainder have been condemned to five years' imprisonment. An accident occurred to the China steamer Clan Alpine, on leaving Calcutta with a cargo of opium for China. Her over-heated boilers burst, killing six natives, and seriously injuring twelve others. The vessel, however, proceeded on her voyage. Intelligence received from the Bhamo Exploring Expedition state that Mr. Sladen was unable to proceed for want of carriage, the mulemen having deserted with their animals. Being short of pro visions Sladen sent two persons to Rangoon, and resolved to remain at present at Pone"), and en deavour to complete the object of the expedition. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA MAILS. LIVERPOOL, Jinx 3. The West Coast of Africa steamer Calabar, with the above mails, has arrived here. Her dates are Benin, June 3 ; Fernando Po and Ctuneroons, May 30 ; Old Calabar, 28 ; Monrovia, June 12 ; Jellah Coffee, 6 ; Bonny, 2 ; Lagos, 5 ; Accra, 7 ; Cape Coast Castle, 8; Palmas, 10; Sierra Leone, 15 ; Bathurst, 18 ; Tencriffe, 24 ; and Madeira 25. The Calabar brings 43 passengers, 278 ozs. of gold dust, and 1,130 dole in specie. Trade at Cameroon was brisk and the river healthy. The news from all other ports is =im portant. OUR PARIS LETTER. SPEECH OF M. TRIERS. (nom OUR OWN coaßzepoirmorr.) PARIS, TRTTBADAY Evmerso. M. Thiers yesterday delivered the speech on the budget which he has been carefully preparing for many weeks. Although he occupied the whole day, the speech is short compared with many of his former lucubrations, and it is susceptible of analysis within a reasonable compass. In the outset be took for his motto a phrase which he quoted as having fallen from the lips of an emi nent member of the house when the present com mittee on the budget was selected : I do not expect the committee either in the forthcoming or the next report to devise a remedy for our present financial situation; it is not in their power to find imme diately assets which would not oppress the taxpayer, or to suggest savings which would not prejudice the public service. Nothing can do this but a long course of prudent management. Bat what Ido ask from the budget com mittee is to tell us the truth. M. Thiers complains that the committee, though all " honourable men," though they have worked very hard, and no doubt very conscientiously, have not told the truth. Their mild criticisms are couched in conventional language, which does not differ essentially from that used by the govern ment itself. One member of the majority, how ever, M. Louvot, who he was proud to call his friend, had broken with this conventional language the other day. lie had very well demonstrated how the debt went on continually increasing, But M. Louvet had not sufficiently shown that if the debt increased it was because of the habit of the Chamber to vote expen diture without considering how it was to be met, and more than all, because of a vicious policy without criticising, which it was impossible to get to the bottom of the chronic disease of the budget. In the remarks he proposed to make he should most carefully avoid exaggeration, which would only injure his arguments; but he should also avoid that extreme indulgence with which ho re proached the committee, which completely emas culated criticism. The three budgets now specially to be considered were the one in course of settlement, that of 1867, the cur rent one, that of 1868, and the one which as yet consisted entirely in estimates, that of 1869. According to the figures of the minister, adopted with trivial pretences of reductions by the committee, the situation was splendid. There was an average surplus of about 100 millions, which was laid out in reproductive works, and then the floating debt, cut down when it became too large by new loans, put everything straight. But the truth which he endeavoured to enforce in 186,5, and since, although the government would not listen to him, was, that they were going on with budgets of 2 milliards 300 millions of expenses, while their receipts were but 2 milliards. He protested against the system of half a dozen different budgets, the denominations of which had only been in vented to conceal the troth from tho public. There was in reality no difference between the ordinary and extraordinary budget. The expenses called extraordinary, merely with the view of leading the public to suppose that they would not be wanted next year, were essentially ordinary, and had been wanted for the last thirty years. It was nonsense to talk of extraordinary expenses necessitated by the progress of science and the new arms wanted by the army and navy. Science was always pro 'greasing, and the army and navy would always want new arms. It was ridiculous to pretend, as the budget in effect did, that former generations were ignorant, and that the present generation alone has discovered the ultimatum of science. Ex penses for the improvement of arms would be --.--- 11 . perpetual, and therefore whr,uld not be• class,. ; extraordinary but as ordinary• expense., If,. C.llllllAled to say that the didr•rent d,•nominst. of the budgets- ordinary, extraordinary mil, mentary, rectificative, liquidatory. &I'., wer,• idle words destined to keep back the tru• which was that ever since the establishtt e • nt the empire there bad been an animal it ut least 200 millions, which V 14.1 cally by loans. He argued that in 1889 and 11' the deficit would necessarily be greater, tivot and that it was with 14 vices to the e•bs3ion, attempt); were now made to einieeiii possible the• real state of things. In emielu.i • said the budget wit.: the pliotogrvh ..f policy of the empire. It relliteteil in • of er willing truth Italy. Germany, IVI - xit• Paris. Ile did not bl.•ame the bud, , •t for not having proposed real economy. Ii • ' well enough they were iiitpotettt. Th.• ;i•,!• to do only atteatnte.l t. , t!,.. .1114 . 111, :s few merit ii:• . to say what wtas r.Qly want—i. It. •. , luitiress at the the• wit,• t. 4.1 thc he.el 01 t;e• he could go) no f Ir.r to the . followed for the h..t y.. 47, might is that truths shook , mints to their centres: but it was . - pt t!:, • that the neglect of these truth , : tiegrt:yel t!,• M. MIll.:110, the Flounce Minister, day to refute M. ' niers ' General Turr arrived ill Puri, ue , ru:u•, ir. Germany. Father Hyacinth, the r. , .1..brat..11 pr, t, h. r. going to Englund to study the reli;, , iou, went there. It is rumoured th:tt the F.mlw•ror will liar,• w interview this summer with the Ituileror of Ru.5..4 at Kissengen. A pmjoct for inervasing th'• 11•;4•fi1in,.4.40f th. Beckett Dispensary, at Itan”l.l, t 1... 4.l.lition of an hospital in which surgical tasty can 1.. has re ceived an impetus by the magnificent offer of beinter of the dispensary, Mr. J. S. Beckett, to buil.' th • infirmary wings at his own expenAe, and b. riebnv it wo.ii 2,000 i. A munificent gift was announced yesterday :if 4 special meeting of the monthly board of the Hu 1.1..r0i-, Infiimary. Mr. Charles Brook, of End f.irtu , Ky of Meltharn, near Huddersfield, has offered to build .0,1 endow a convalescent hospital in connection with infirmary, at a cost of 30,0001. This handsome it need hardly be stated, most warmly accepted. The Pope's soldiers are now forhidd.•n , outeide the gatex of Rome, except on duty. Ti:.• recent order, in consequence of desertions, and lia4:r.v4 bothered some of the smart volunteers smeusiom.- lounge in carriages outside the Porta del th• cool of the evening. Advices from Vienna state that the lali..ae; the International Telegraphic Conference, whi,h ri opened in that city on the 12th ult., and in vf10..1, delegates of 22 European states take part. appear lid. is to be of long duration. The assembly has to disco, amendments proposed by tho telegraphic conventi.m Paris, and 124 from other quarters. A congrcn of tetudiers, comprising 2,000. fr••:.i all parts of Germany, ass•ntbhel lately :it Cassel, and .1 .. cussed the whole range of questions relating to p education. Delegates front Switzerland, Russia, I,: France were present, and when one of the adverting to the impulse giv.ll by ti. French gor-ra• ment to primary instruction, prtiouni-eil the moue Duruy, his wonls were greeted with loud applau... The Milan journals tumuuttee the publication n: the banns of marriage in that city of Menotti Garibaldi with a young lady named ltalia It lawn Smyrna, and living at Padua. M. Bourgaud, detained for several yo.:tr--; King Theodore, whom he served in the capacity of armourer, has safely arrived at. M. Etienne, sir: th Meinorial de la Loire, with his wife, their tit, .1.1.4,4 and is young Abyssinian negro; all in exeellent notwithstanding the fatigues of a long and ditli. , lll. journey. M. liourgand traversed the Ne;tritia pany with the English prisoners delivered by Sir It Ji..r Napier as fur as the port of embareation, whew... I, h reached France at his own charges. Ili.; eldest son. s of twelve or thirteen, born at Magdala. speak.. p r fectly the Amkara and Ethiopian language , . and riei. I. of course. He ser v ed as interpreter between his ithe r and King Theodore. The lintildraiiers of in Di •. have resolved to close their shop, at .5 o'el , “ kin the d . noon on Thursdays. DREADFUL DEATH OF TWO FIZENiTIMEN.--TL • de to Sarthe relates the flion .ti.• Salvy, vicar of Setionches, Lied In., n pp.int,..l to t • church of Saint-Denis-des-Pnik, in the C.intiin of I-r Loupe. Three inhabitants at the latter pliee ;irrived at Senonclies to remove his forniturv. %%lien on the point of starting the Abbal placed some hAtle3 of epic! L corner of ..no of the waggons to refredi the men on the journey, and with them Le brought a mailer bottle, well covered and tied up, whit he told them they must nut touch or permit any wet to touch. When about six kilometres from Scnonchei the day being very hot, one of the men said, "That mu:: be right good stuff which the cure told us not to touch." "No doubt," replied another, "it must he far better than the cyder." "Let us try it," said all three. 'his bottle was produced. The man who took a good sup, sail it was not good ; " See," said he, handing it to one of his companions. The second tried, and pronounceda still mom unfavourable opinion. "Asitis so bad," said the third, " I shall not have any—let us put back the bottle." Se.iniely was this done than the two who partook of the liquid fell on the ground writhing in dreadful agony. In a short time both were dead. They drank a solution of nitrate of silver which the abbe used for photographic purposes. The circumstance had such an effect on the abbe that he requested permission to remain in Senouches, sss he did not like to enter upon a new parish under such an inaus picious beginning. QUEF—YSTOWN, JULY 3.—The National Steam ship Company's steamship Louisiana, from New York. arrived here at 9 a.m. this morning. She landed pas sengers and proceeded for Liverpool, all wolf. Tit TEMPORAL POWER."—.Signor Picini holds a large tract of farming land, called if Sano, between Civita Vecchia and Santa Severa, and is now on the property, where he has a orßale, or country house, to superintend the harvest operations, which in those districts are very important, requiring often several hundreds of labourers, who return to their nativo mountains in the Abruzzo or La Marra when their work is over. A few mornings ago, while Signor l'iscini was out in the corn-fields, in the midst of his mew a bawl of bri gands invaded his merle, and demanded of his wifa all the property in the house. She allowed them the bureau in which her husband kept what money he required there, and the brigands immediately forced it and found 300 scudi inside. This pacified them sufficiently to allow of their ordering breakfast, which Signora Piscini supplied them with abundantly. Ex hilarated by the meal, they bethought themselves of capturing and carrying off the lady herself, but she had prudently absconded. and rejoined her husband in the fields, where, surrounded by a numerous array of reapers sickles, the marauders did not deem it prudent to follow her. They contented themselves, therefore. with writing a note to Signor Piscini, informing him that if ho wished to preserve his flocks and herds from being bayoneted, and the crops he was then getting in from being burnt, together with his easaie, his barns. and everything else on the estate, he had better send to an a ''hated place, without delay, the trifling sum of 18, tt t ecudi (4,oool.)'—Correspondent of the Post at Rome. ------ GREEKirmu.—Some of our morning contempo raries state that the result of several meetings held by the leading liberals of Greenwich has been a determination to declare their estimate of the services which Mr. Glad stone has rendered to the people, by returning him for their borough entirely, without his personal co-operation or assent, and at their own expense. This mark of con fidence need not in any way be held to interfere with the right hon. gentleman's candidature for South Lancashire. The Court of Assizes at Posen has just been occupied with a criminal affair, something like the poison ing of the Countess Chorin•ky. A bookbinder of that city, named Wittman, 32 years of age, was tried for having poisoned, between the years 1862 and 1866, four women whom he had successively married. also his son. three yen old. He was found guilty and evidenced to