The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-11 00:00:00

OU E EN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. MAIIA.,WIR Mr W H. LISTON. THE LANCASHIRE LASS. by Remy J. Hymn. Urban been received throughout its wrinrtnanee with the greatest antis, rroirlid and earned te bettor*, .111 he repeated EVERY EVEN OW, at a quartet tAt K. •••neludlizat punetnallr et IL THE LANCASIIII?.}.: LASS, at a quarter to S. -1 - twd,monstrationvm f: s• uur The Lancashire Late' are loud anti unanimous."—Tini"e rirE LANCASHIItE LASS, at a quarter to 8. •Th,• drum .% was w.. 11 received, and the author, with the principal a. t. 'MA nil At thP noneltudon."—Daily News. LANCASII iltE LASS, at a quartor to 8. ..111n None thmughout effort:l.l4y anted, and the ann. witional nature of the plot k.q.% the motional, in a perputual elate of ezeiteinent."—llluntratrd Tomdt,n Nov. THE LA/siCASIIIRE LASS, at a quartor to 8. " The plot is effeotivr told .itoplo, with bieblz drareatio Inoi• dente which create int,nm , uatemst. Iteightowl by eltoullunt THE LANCASIIII{E LASS, at a quarter to 8. 11 •• One scene. when a river itrauter appease to float bodily on the also, errott.l a atorwy topplanoe. • The Lancashire Law' awn bo,thened rub,' Flnortinn Nowa L,INCAZsIiiI:II: 1..t58, at a quarter to S. A- -Mr. N,14111 wax rorall.4l nn. bowed him sairnowleelfmmts Amid emateroil+ clte..t. from an P.riA of the theaßo."—Standard. r 1 111 E LA'S, at a quarter to 8. I, pr,onnutt.l , ,n "rut reo.tved with ev.n greatwe applon. , Lll.l /I 011 (111• ~ 1 nmdu tion "—Maly T 0 t.,,,,,ph. _ pOYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Throe te. Prontenn4l.. l'oneert. Band of SO. Begin at & ][l o ..oth, .• op," tioln 11 to 4. lir 1 , l I4 A O .l s l iERs C . l ” ! t . I .4 7 iiii ß icr T K O AK N and SON, EB& 1..1901E5' I,ERCLOTIII NO. 91 and 91. )7( FORD,STREET. Thee Price of Tll E DAILY NEWS is now ONE PENNY. THE POLITICAL AND LITERARY Thrertlon of the Journal remains Unchanged, AND IS SUPPORTED BY AN ACCESSION OF EMINENT WRITERS. THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ate on an organisation of Special and Egolustre Oorreenoudence embracing the entire World. THE CITY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS aSI heretofore, Fun. E4rly, and Impartial. In a word, tto arraogemonta have undergone no other modidoatton than such as was necessary to a more thorough and efhoient representation and discussion ot the oocurrences, interwar', and opinions of the day. PrBLISHING AND ADvERTISEMINT OFFICL 21. BoUVERIESTREET. FLEETZTRICXT. Efit erprOo• QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Managvr, Mr. W. H. Luton. TNT/ Erll,lllo, at 7.46, 11E'8 A LUNATIC.—THE LANCA SHIRE 1.A.88. MeAsrs. 8. Emery, H. Irving, Clayton, W. H. Stephens, C. Wyndham, W. H. Montgomery, L. Brough, and H. Mellon; Mewlrwu. H. Hodson and N. Moore. STRAND. Tii ETRWING, SISTERLY dERVICIL—TIES YIELD OP THE CLOTS OF GOLD.—And MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. BRITANNIA. Tam BVIIII7IIIO, TUE 151:Th a lliKONTNO; OE, PRESSED Fon THE NAVY. Moms. &Toad; Pitt, Brood, ; /dim M. licudevon, Sr Irmotrelo and a me Tommy; Mao A. Anderson.—And LADY ANNE'S MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE, To-Yearew—ltorning, 7h. 90m Afternoon, 7h. 57m. NOTION., &duelers are respected to make lt — eir Poet-office orders payable to kr. Josue UAWSGTON, Post-dice, fleet-etzeet, &C. UOTICIS of Brame, MANZIAOII, and Deane, are received wail Li o'clock for Weep= lame sunhat. Price fa ed. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11. CANVASSING. To canvass is to endeavour to win men over to • your interests and your hopes. A good canvasser is the diplomat of private life, and must be im perturbable, energetic, and bland. He " skates " upon thin roe" from early morn to dewy eve, avoiding dangerous subjects, withholding his opi nion upon .equivocal ones, and gently estimating the voter's wealmeesee and strength. A canvass is like nothing so much as chasing a hat in the street on a windy day. -If you go too fast you are apt to trip yourself up over the object of your chase; if too slow, it bounds away from you alto gether; if too violent, you crush it ; if too hesi tating, it evade' your grasp, and dances gaily away late a Will-o'-the-Wisp; and it is only by tempering ardour with discretion that you come gradually up with the thing of uncertain move ment, and by a dexterous swoop make it your own. Canvassing is at this time the avocation either in prospect or in daily practice of some thousands of gentlemen who bring to it experience acquired in other walks of life. Its professors vary in ability as much as members of the church or bar, and the candidate who trusta mainly to the representations of his paid agents as to his prospects of emcees is in a fair way of being hoodwinked and cajoled. That the wish is father to the thought, and that all is fair in love, war, and electioneering, are axioms which never have fuller weight than in such times as these; and the tremendous gap between disso lution and election gives unusual significance to both in the canvass preceding this particular election. In counties and boroughs in which it has been already actively commenced, those really interested have a work before them which might well blench the bravest cheek. There are such things at this moment as a house to house canvas, of ten thousand electors, in which the candidates are verifying the truth of their agent's reports by themselves calling upon each elector in turn. Your paid canvasser is, as a rule, prone to take • sanguine view of hie own efficiency. He sometimes reports men as " safe " who have given him equivocal answers, and only thinks a refusal significant when the door is slammed in his face. The weak voter who does not like .saying no, the corrupt voter who waits on the chance of something profitable turning up, the undecided voter who believes most in the principles hehears last, and the voter whose interests are indirectly involved in the success of one of the candidatee, are all rocks in your canvasser's way. He takes hesitation for consent, sly reticence for manly reserve, weakness of character for the habit of reflection, and a selfish motive for a conscien tious weighing of political principles. Such a canvasser is anxious above all things to make a good return to his employers, and to ao this he is often tempted to put down doubtful debts as money pay ments and to give a fictitious and abnormal value to things not precious in themselves. In this case the candidate whose canvass has com menced must be either duped or overworked. No man in his senses would commence electioneering as early as this if he could help it. The time between sowing the seed and reaping the fruit is perilously long. The chances of foul weather and of disturbing influences are proportionately great, and no one who can help it will leave his snug retirement for the turmoil of the election field and the beat and worry of canvassing for many a week to come. All over the country and the Continent are gentlemen, es-senators, and of who tisk% up the paper each morning with a n _ who the the news will come upon them MLA, ohs . oon teat is imminent. The words" ElectionAntelligence," throw them into a parOxyam of new Odd, and as each day's respite makes their position more se cure, they keep quiet advisedly, and avoid their constituents until compelled, by the lapse of time or the appearance of a rival, to emerge from their retirement. Such obecurity is very sweet. It is pleasant to read of addressee and committees, and platform speeches, and canvass ing, while you are stretched full length upon the sands, lounging gaily through a mountain country. or disporting yourself at a distant country house. It is pleasant to realise the fuss, and heat, and bother your parliamentary neighbours are going through for that which you hope to secure by so much less expenditure of brain and muscle ; and it is pleasant to think that your constituency love you too well to require your pre sence until it is essential for the in terests of the party that you should buckle on your armour for the fight. You wait and watch—not confidently, but hopefully,— and Sou bear of the exertions of the candidates for other boroughs or counties than your own with a feeling of gentle pity not unmixed with self-complacency. But all this is changed if a contest is forced upon you. The " quiet" boroughs told counties are getting rarer and rarer, and the gentlemen enjoying a complete holiday are in a minority. Then comes the question—if the fray has commenced at all, how can it be made most deadly and decisive P Half measures are impossible if your rivals are already at work. Canvassing, speaking, advising, instructing; guarding that frail outpost, strengthening this weak plsoe, pour ing forces into the enemy's country and carrying off his spoils, working night and day, study ing questions about which you care little that you may expound them to people who do not care for them at all, allowing yourself to be button-holed by the local bore, putting yourself in a position in which everybody may take liberties with you, and in which your temper muat be invariably mild— such is the candidate's ordinary lot in can vassing. In the larger boroughs and in counties, a personal call upon every voter is declared im possible, and he is supposed to do that wholesale which his lieutenants have performed in a retail way. His platform speeches, his appearance 3 at dinners, his presence in the streets are all de signed to supplement the more minute personal exertions already made. This is the rule. But those who remember the election at Eatanswill will readily recal the social acts by which Mr. Smarm. 81.1.711KNY won the suffrages of the electors. The kissing the children and the shaking the hands, went as far as the presentation of parasols to the female politicians of that excited little town. The example is being bettered in some large con stituencies now. The candidates themselves are going the rounds of thousands of electors, and talking polities with each personally at the rate of from one hundred to one hundred and fifty a day. Fancy a Metropolitan member attempting this ; fancy a map of Marylebone or the Tower Hamlets at the time of the election, the tracks which even the most energetic candidate had been unable to explore, marked clearly on its face. Yet this is being attempted in places the very aim and num bers of which preclude the possibility of its being done thoroughly, "If you want a thing well " done do it yourself," is a role which has led many a man to success in the ordinary walks of life. That it should be carried into electioneering to a far greater extent than formerly shows that the new electors are credited with a liking for direct personal communication, and this discovery may have in the long run a not inconsiderable in finence over the relations of employer and em ployed. —__ THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1868. its parents the City Corporation. Portland market, in Churoh-street, Marylebone, has only been a little more as a. loFakent : a. l : =TOY. 01 1070wing li tV il ikiniketififfithM may call tiottmghfare ikiirkets. In AM orowdmi districts the chief thonmShfares hays long boom the chief Marks's, and allsoreclikk 2tittenhans court-road; the Edgware-road, Wliiteskapel, add the New Cut are still the principal market-places in their respective district'. The now market at King's-cross has the advantage of being at tho junction of several important lines of railway, and will start as a substitute for that once notorious neighbourhood—the " Brill," of Somor's-town, which has been swept away by the now Midland station. ) 1:1 flt ip l / 4 Isere I oil to the pervioe of the chnrch—to the leicice, national thermion. heal diipeaos, Itrothcrl I lent rebellion. existing for the ' 4 kintirdosis tie, .c. Sir Roundell v ti o isving elatij into dress. The pro ' . ich ' • atm made lot the 'goal church in Irchtsd. oul he thinks, . be BLOW* to remain in thota miriade an places where its egdoiments are not diepropostkients the wants of • rorident pmteatant populatirm." The only objection to luch a plan is that it is impracticable. 'ape Court. PENSION WALLIS, LUCERNE, Strom 9. A POWERFUL weekly review, which has not always been free from the guilt of abusing its power, once published the following sentences Tremendous evils would be involved in an " attempt to increase, in any considerable de " gm*, the severity of conventional morality, con " eidered as a penal code. It would involve " nothing less than the dissolution of almost " every social relation ; for if wo did not take the " average comfort of society as the standard by " which the enforcement of social penalties is to " be regulated, no other standard could be found, " except that of ideal goodness. . . . Social " penalties are indispensable [however] for the " comparatively humble purpose of maintaining " social decency and comfort." These are only a few out of a thousand of passages, in which the same key-note is struck in the same powerful re view. If the memory of the Saturday is weak we can help it. But, now, observe. After spending, through a course of years, about as much energy as would suffice to found an empire in spitting in the face of what it calls " ideal good " nese," this powerful review—when its cue is to disgrace Mr. thantrroies, apropos of the FIRLEN case—repudiates its own alterna tive, namely, the standard for ordinary pur poses of " social decency and comfort." It is always the way. Never trust a slasher. His moral code is too sweetly simple. The " gutter " diatribe is now placarded on the dead walls by realons Tory hands, and for this purpose it Was evidently written. Tim concluding sentence of the Emperor NAPO LEON'S short reply to the people of Troyes has a striking similitude to the celebrated one—" Put " your trust in GOD and keep your powder dry." The EMPEROR says—" Have trust ha the future, " and don't forget that GOD protects France." We know it is an imperial maxim that " GOD fights "on the side of the strong battalions." Nothing, say's the EMPEROR, " threatens " aujourd'hui the peace of Europe," but the Paris critics say the word " aujourd'hui," so used has not force enough to meet the situation. They think it means only " just at present," and is worth far less than some explicit assurance that the EMPEROR is now satisfied with the state of things in Europe which he formerly declared France could not permit to continue. The Queen, Prinoese Louise, Prinoeee Beatrice, •and Prince Leopold, attended by the Marehioness of Ely, MajorDeneral Sir Thomas and the Iron. Lady Biddulph, Mims Bauer, Sir William Jenner, Colonel Ponsonby, and Mr. Duckworth, arrived at Lucerne, at 10.30 on Friday morning, and drove immediately to the Pension Wallis, which has been prepared for her Majesty's reception. The Queen was mach fatigued by the journey and great heat, but has been able to drive out in the neighbeurhor,d FiIWO her arrival. The other members of the royal family have also taken drives. F' . ,;:. . y. This day the Queen and the Royal Family, with the I adios and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended div Inc set vice in the House. The Rev. R. Duckworth officiated. imomm.lll rr-.: ti FASHIONABLE PREACHING. WE believe English ladies are much better than their favourite weekly journal pronounces them to be ; and we hope the clergy are not so bad as clergymen paint them. "S. G. 0." would have us conclude that the pulpit has devised two codes of morals, an easy one for the rich and a hard one for the poor. Preachers, he says, to avoid what they know they ought to say but dare not say, wander away in their discourses from plainly speaking plain truths, to everything and anything their ingenuity can extract which may chance to attract, but is not likely to offend. Pleasant things are prophesied for morning con gregations, and the " Devil and his doings" are reserved for the evening. We have reached a pretty pass if " S. G. 0." 's description of our case is sound. " Does not," he exclaims, " every " Bishop and preacher to the • upper ten' know " full well that if, as before God, he did his " duty from Sunday to Sunday, he would have "to tell his congregation some truths as to " their lives they would not endure ?" And there is much more to the same effect. " Dare one " clergyman in a hundred—could he get a Bishop " to do it for him ?—preach Bible truth as plainly " about the duty of employer and landowner to " their poor as they expect him to preach to the " poor the virtues which Heaven demands from " them, and which will make them better earthly " servants ? If your great man or any of the " lesser great ones should live a profligate life, " should he be a known drunkard, would it be " justifiable, even in your Bishop's eye, if you " preached at his vices as he expects you to attack " those of the poor ?" It appears serious that such things can be said by one so surrounded by clerical associations, so experienced in church matters, and so observant as "B. G. 0." But something must be allowed for impulse, and for the tendency to sensationalism from which this trenchant ecclesiastical censor is by no means free. OLD MARKETS. TUB new market just opened at King's-cross is attracting a large degree of public attention, bat there are several old market places in London that are almost as deserted as the great areas of Ohent and Bruges. There is a large open space at Heaton, lying at the back of Pittleld-street, which for nearly half a century has been a play ground for the ragged children of the district. Not far from this locality, at the back of Paul street, Finsbury, is Finsbury-market —a place that has never come up to the expectation of its pro moters. shops intended for the sale of food and merchandise were let out as tenements to persons who lived by taking in mangling, and the only features that reminded the passer-by of Covent-garden, were a few heaps of vegetable refuse. Oxford-market, lying at the back of Ox ford-street and upper Regent-street, never exactly realised the hopes of its founders, any more than Farringdon-market, in Far ringdon-street, came up to the expectations of OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE CHURCH NM The Daily News questions the policy of such elaborate arguments as those just put forward in a ser mon by the Bishop of Gloucester in favour of the union of Church and State. The writer or speaker who volun teers to maintain what is not attacked, not unfrequently finds that he has only suggested difficulties which might never have suggested themselves; while at the best the absence of avowed assailants reduces his champion ship to a superfluity. If there were nothing more to say than is put forward by the bishop, those who are anxious to dissolve the connexion will find when the time for action comes that they have an easier teak than they looked for. His lordship specially warns his hearers against those who argue that the state ought to control and guide the religious expression which it supports; but the doctrine that the legislature has this right is now propagated with singular ability. Its influ ence may be seen everywhere in the sort of paralysis which has overtaken the natural defenders of the principle of an establishment. They find that principle pushed to • length, and asserted to involve consequenoes, of which they bad previously no conception ; and the natural result is that they hesitate to take any active steps towards the support of a connection which for the first time in their lives they have learned to suspect. The full result of this inaction on their part it is not yet possible to predict ; but it is • anions instanoe of the unconscious irony at events that a secession from the defenders of the union of Church and State, Which may prove so formidable, should have been provoked by a new and ardent development of the Emden principle. The Times attributes, in a great measure, the deplorable condition of public affairs in Victoria to the act of the Duke of Buckingham, authorising the colonial governor to recommend to the legislature the grant to lady Darling. His grace has wince done what he could to retrieve his error, in telling Sir Henry Sutton not to recommend the grant the second time unless on the es press understanding that it shall be introduced in a separate bill ; but the new Assembly insists on placing the grant among the estimates. The governor makes a fresh mistake in retaining a ministry which his Assembly has condemned, and the prospect is so un promising that it would almost seem necessary that some divinity should interpose from at home to restore to the constitution the order it has lost. The Daily Xeres says the temente of the constitutional crisis would be interesting to read if we did not know that the cause of all the strife had vanished into thin air, by the withdrawal by Sir C. Darling of his resignation from the colonial service, and his renunciation of the proposed grant. What effect the announcement that the Colonial office has achieved a practical triumph may have upon the colonial majority it is impossible to say. In the ordi nary course of things, the cause of quarrel having dis appeared, the ordinary relations of the Executive and the Assembly should be restored ; but the latter body has seen its power so challenged, first by the Legislatiie Council, and then by the Colonial-office, that it may be disposed to find some new field in which to try its strength, and should it be so minded, no one acquainted with Victoria politics can doubt that it would find one. When the relinquishment of the grant by Sir Charles Darling becomes known in Victoria, it is difficult to be here says the Star, that the majority of the Legisl a ti ve Assembly will persist in including it among the supplies to be voted. SIR ZOVXDILL PALYEE. The Telegraph remark& that Sir Roundel" Palmer's ad dress to his constituents shows that between him and Mr. Gladstone there is not so wide a difference of opinion op the subject of the Irish Church as the kind friend' of both would have us believe. The distinguished liberal lawyer sap that "in per sonal and political attaohnient to Mr. Gladstone" he yields to no one, but that he has been unwilling "to commit himself to a general declaration of policy , . re . specting the Irish church until he should have before him " some practical measure in a definite form." Sir Roundel' is careful to add that he has no sympathy with the let-alone party. With d view to pacify Ireland, be would not object to measures "affecting the political connection between the church of Ireland and the State." Nay, he would appropriate church revenues "to pur poses of general public utility in parts of Ireland where, from local circumstances," it might be appa rent that they were disproportioned to the wants of the resident protestant population. That declaration cannot fail to excite much anger among those who counted on having the rapport of • distingniabed ex attorney-general of the liberal party in their protest against appropriating • fraction of the revenue which THE QUEEN'S SWISS RESIDENCE. A communication from Lucerne, in Galignanis liessolger, rays :—" Queen Victoria is now settled here in a beautifully situated residence called the Villa (Pension) Wallis. It is built on a bill overlooking the town, with the Righi on the left, and Mont Pilatus, distinguished by its serrated ridge, upon the right, and the lake and snowy fit Gothard range of the Alps immediately in front. Her Majesty in coming here used the same train that conveyed the royal party from Cherbourg to Paris, and in which there is good sleeping accommodation. The distance from Paris to Basle, on the Swiss frontier, is 323 English miles, the route, except in the hilly wino districts, having little of •picturesque character to recommend it. At Basle her Majesty and the royal party took breakfast, and here the officials of the Eastern Railway resigned their charge of the train to the officers of the Central Swiss Railway. That line traverses the district of the Jura through very beautiful scenery to Olten, at which point branches diverge to Lucerne and other Swim centres. On quitting Basle the railway crosses the valley of the Sirs over a lattioe bridge, the famous battle-field of St. Jacob, where in 1444 1,600 Swill' had the courage to withstand for 10 hours a French army ten times more numerous, commanded by the Dauphin, afterwards Louis XI. Only 10 of the Swiss es caped alive, and the battle of St. Jacob is still referred to as the Thermopylae of Swiss history. The railway con tinues for several miles along the flat land of the Rhine valley, and then leaving it, turns to the right up the valley of the river Ergolz to Liestal, the seat of government of Basle-Campagne. A wide valley opens as the traveller approaches Olten junction, and in fine weather the first view of the Bernese Alps may be ob served. On leaving Olten the railway enters a beautiful valley, bordered by a varied outline of wooded heights, with the mow-capped Alps in front. Passing in succes sion the small stations of Zofingen, Dagmerzellen, Nibi kon, Sursee (bistorially interesting as the scene of a battle in 1386—the second of the surprising victories by whist, Swim independence was established), Rothenburg and Emmenbruch, Lucerne is approached, through a charming district, with magnificent views on the left and right of the town. The station here was handsomely fitted up, and, in addition to the authorities, a number of English were in attendanee to welcome her Majestr- The Queen and the royal family, with the ladies in waiting, will occupy the villa, and the other members of the royal suite will be accommodated in a pretty chalet, situated in the grounds of the Villa Wallis, and closely adjoining the lake. Altogether the spot chosen for her Majesty's resi dence her charms of scenery of the most sublime charac ter, probably not to be equalled in Europe. It is expected that her Majesty will remain at Lucerne during the next three weeks, or probably until the first week in Septem ber. The continuance of the present fine weather will in all likelihood have an Winonae maths royal move ments. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accom panied by their family, and attended by a numerous mite, left Marlborough Home last evening, and took the limited mail for Aberdeen, on their way to Abergeldie Castle, where they will reside during the shooting mason. The Duke of Edinburgh has left Paris on a visit the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia st Potsdam. The mortal remains of the late Marquis of Downahire, K.P., were removed at an early hour yester day morning from Belgravia-square, and conveyed to Fleetwood, en route to Hillsborough Castle, county Down, for interment. The funeral is to take place on Thursday next at the family burial place at Hillsborough Castle. We (Pod) understand that the marriage of Vis count Eialyn, eldest eon of the Earl and Countess Cawdor, with Mies Tumor, daughter of Mr. and Lady Caroline Tumor, does not take place till the end of next month, aad will be solemnised at the church upon the family estate of Mr. Tumor ta Lincolnshire. The Duchess of Malakoff has been invited by the EZlpress Eugenie to spend a portion of the month of August at the Palace at Fontainebleau. Among the guests who have arrived at this imperial nsidenoe during the bat fortnight are M. Merisnie, of the French Academy, and General Malherbe, recently appointed in the room of General Bolin. CONDEMNATION OF CIFORCH ASCENDANCY BY Tin DUBLIN CORPOIATION. —By a majority of 28 to 23, the Dublin corporation has rescinded the vote whereby Mr. Votes Mackey was nominated Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1969, on the ground that his nomination bad been received as a declaration of the majority of the council and of the citizens in favour of the maintenance of church ascendancy in Ireland. CHATHAM, AUGUST B.—His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, RAI, having completed his studies in en gineering and fortification at the Royal Engineer estab blishment, Brompton-barracks, left the garrison this morning, on leave of absence until the let of November, although it is now generally understood that his Royal Highness will not again return to Chatham. The Queen has presented Captain W. a Stewart, C. 8., super intendent of this dockyard—in whose house Prince Arthur resided during his stay at Chatham--with a magnificent silver vase ; and, before leaving this morning, hie Royal Hi es presented the rupsrintendent of the dockyard police, Mr. J. Strength, with a massive gold pencil case, at the same time expressing his thanks to him for the efficient manner in which the whole of the police is bad been carried out during the time his Royal hnes was resident in the dockyard. ROYAL Bourn° SOCIETY, REOL"Te The twenty-ninth anniversary of this society took place yistarday, 'Lord Chasharn in tile chair. The usual ballot for council and officers for the ensuing year resulted in the election of the Earl De la Warr as president, Mr. Edward Marjorilianks, treasurer, and Sir Francis Goldamid, Mr. Edmund F. Mocce„and Mr. R. I. S. Vyvyan as new members of council. The annual report from the council and auditors stated thatl3B new fellows and Members bad joined the society during the year, this number being above that of any one year since 11369— th e total names now on the books 2„422. The receirita had beici6,946L—or 8531. above the total of last year. Several alterations in the arrangements of the exhibitions, kc., had been carried out during the season, so as to continue the flower-shows during several days, and give greater facilities for the fellows and their Invade seeing the pleats ;, total visitors during the year, 118,340, an increase of 11 614 above 1887. Plans are prepared for the enlargvanarit of the comer ' vatory, and for a corridor or covered way to connect it with the public toad, and thus make it available as a winter garden during inclement weather. A subscript ion commenced among the fellows for this purpose is pro =g thee very satisfactorily. The Secretary' mort men special value of the edneational s anCeomiggio .department of the garden; 130 artiste and stncimbritere - admitted tree, and 6,246 cut specimens distributed for illustrations. Amongst the many new, curious, and in _teresting plants added to the collections during • the year may be mentioned the vine producing the Levant or pudding currant so extensively in at time. The eelebrated Baobab er e de rj d geriea, and the candle tree, whale fruit so resem bles candles that groves of these trees in South America have been likened to chandlers' shops ; the belle pepper— cashew nut—sweet scented tonquun bean—the tumiag agent divi-divi—and other economic and medicSnal Alants. The remarkable plants Poen:v.oy%, Lougarva, gave, Dasylirioides, Alpine Natans, Theobroina Var w , &c., had flowered during the year. A collecti on o f 200 Abyssinian plants were grouped in the garden, but tines had not yet sufficed for the growth of many bulbs sad seeds lately received from that interesting country to determine their names. The usual votes of thanks to the president, council, end officers was paused, and the meet ing broke up. •Gfli NEWS. (THIS DAY.) " IS TT PEACE OR WAR?' The Infl:pendance Beige, commenting on the reply of the Emperor Napoleon to the Municipal Council of Troyui, in which he declared " that there was nctLing to trouble the peace of Europe, and that they might have confidence in the future," raga: We wish it may be 60, but we have little hope of it. Undoubtedly the language of the Emperor is perfectly clear, and his affirmation precise. There is no reserva tion to weaken the 1 url o:t of the words, no ambiguity to obscure their =caning. Yet what a contra diction to facts, and what an unfortunate contrast between universal armaments and these words of peace ! Indeed, we shoed not be surprised to axe the laa gnage of the limps or commented upon and interpreted, in spite of its undoulted ameba, in • sense the very op poaite to its nate, a! baring, and perhaps even there will be found pessimists who will maintain that if peace is so possitwely affirmed to-day it is because war is at hanl. And in confirmation of this, the Opinion Notion ole of to day, although aware of the Emperor's declaration, 1.10,N not hesitate to affirm that, for the last two days, we have been sci.ddiug full sail to war:ike roiolutious. The Parisian jturta! does not I xpla'n Vie subject of dis pute, nor the jx,weis to ba es:gaged ; aid we think we may consider the al prohensious of which it is the echo wholly without foundation. But the rumours which it circulates, at the very moment it priuts the assuring words of the Emperor, prove that these words do not banish uncertainty and incredulity. The Paris correspondents of the Belgian journal write as if war was certain, but not immediate. (11111k017GII IMITEVII ACIINCT.) AMERICA. NEW YORK. Atrourr 10. The Allan steamship Nestorian and the Guion steamship Manhattan arrived out to-day. The Cunard steamship Malta has arrived at Boston. Closing Prices:—Gold, 1461; sterling exchange on London, 110 ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1141 ; ditto, 1885, 112; ; 10-40 Bonds, 109:. Illinois, 149; Erie, 581. Cotton: Middling Up land, 29,1. Petroleum, standard white, 34. Flour, extra State, 9 dole. 24c. to 9 dole. 80c. Corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 17c. OUR PARIS LETTER. (1 , 11031 OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The arrival of M. Henri Rochefort at Brussels is telegraphed, but I believe the news given by the Journal de Paris, that he left France because a warrant was out for his arrest, is not true. Such a proceeding, as a preliminary to the prose cution of the Lanterne, would have been grossly illegal, and I do not think it was contemplated. Government agents do not, however, shrink from illegality, for in many instances they snatched Saturday's Lanterne out of the hands of people who were reading it in the streets. In one case, that of a barrister named Perilher, the policeman tendered him 40 centimes, the price of the pamphlet. That was only adding insult to injury. There is not the least doubt that the warrant of seizure only autho rised the confiscation of the Lanterns in the office and the libraries. TO snatch a copy previously bought out of the hands of a citizen, was an assault and an attack upon private property impossible to be justified. M. Rochefort will republish Saturday's edition of the Lanterne altogether, and I should not wonder if he were to expatriate himself, and bring out the Lanterns at Brussels permanently. The public meeting yesterday at the Waux hall was dissolved by the president, M. Horn, without proceeding to business. Such a row was made in the body of the hall that he thought it the wisest course to leave the chair. In doing so, he by no means intimated his own opinion that public meetings cannot safely be held in Paris, as well as anywhere else, but only imitated the con duct of that well-bred dog who retired when ho saw the probability of being kicked out. The police commissary in his scarf, who by the new law is entitled to be present, and is empowered to dissolve all public meetings, was there on the watch, and M. Horn, as a liberal man, was glad to take the wind out of his sails, and prevent him from giving a proof of his zeal. It is thought, as it was last week, that secret police agents were the principal disturbers of order. A sergent-de-ville, well known and much esteemed in the quarter of the Faubourg Mont martre, an old soldier, named Thiesen, who wears the Queen's Crimean medal among many other decorations, threw himself resolutely the other day in front of a horse who was running away at a great pace with a brougham along the Boulevards in front of the Cafe Vachetto. He succeeded in chocking the horse sufficiently to enable the coachman to re sume the mastery over him, but at the price of being knocked down and run over, and he now lies in a very precarious state. The neighbours, with whom he was a favourite, make frequent in quiries at his lodgings. At the Bourse Rente fell Sc. for cash, and 21c. for account, closing heavily at 70fr. 20e. and 70fr. 30c. Hobiliee was again higher, in consequence of rumours of new arrangements with the Societe Immobiliere. Italian rose 23e. The Belgium papers announce that the number of victims by the explosion of Sainte Henrietta is fifty four. It ia said that M. Louis Blanc is to be one of the candidates for Paris at the ensuing general election. A letter from the Hotel d'Angleterre , Chamounix, dated the 6th, says:—" A few minutes after my arrival here there was carried past the window of this hotel the dead body of a young lady, Miss Stevens, who was killed at the Mer de Oltee. She was here on a visit with her mother, brother, and sister. Prom what I can gather, this unfortunate young lady was with her friends, and happening to touch something with her alpenstock, a very large dose became detached, and falling upon her head killed her instantly. The event has naturally thrown a great gloom over the place.—Your obedient servant, I'. La= Calm." The last survivor of the party of young ladies who strewed flowers in the path of Washington as he passed through Trenton, in 1789, on his way to New York, to assume the presidency, is Mrs. Sarah Hand, now nearly 90 years of age, and a resident of Cape May county. People who know most European cities ( writes Oro Penis correspondent of the 7tei my the asap hers of Paris, u regards variety and quantity, are the cheapest in the world, and provincial Frenchmen declare you can dine better in Paris for Ur. (Is. than in any other city of imperial Prance. The Italian, Oer mkn, Spaniard—people in feet of =oat countries--are suirprised to find that whilst a small ordered dinner at a fashionable restaurant creeps up to nearly 20fr. (les. Bd.), you can dine at the Palais Royal eating salons, elegantly appointed, and looking on to the gay central garden where the bend plays, for 4fr. (38. 4d.). 3fr. (2s. 6d.), 2fr. 60c. (2s. Id.), lfr. 60e. (ls. 4d.), and at a morehumble establishment not generally known to foreigners for lfr. (10d.) The high-priced restaurants give you eight or ten different dishes of soup, fish, fifth, fowl, made dishes, fruit, ice, &c., and all give from five to six different plates, quality and quantity varying of course according to price. ....- MR. FORSTER, M.P., AND HI ti CON STITUENTS. Mr. Forster, M.P., last night delivered ttir annual addreaa to his constituents at Bevitned. A ft . r referring to the local contest, declaring that he supper'," Mr. Miall because he believed he was the choice of ti, liberal party, he said that the great now before the country the Irish church. . 0 one which might well make them wish utony to dispel all personal piques and local jealoinesi. It was a question that stirred men's minds throughout thv country, and it had stirred the minds of the men of ford. What was the motive of the liberal party in ne w , efforts P They believed that unless they carried out tb,,,.. measures we could not preserve the union betw e e n E n , land and Ireland without—for there was no use in min - i n, matters—having, first or last, civil war. Now. whet IN the motive of their opponents These two f-ir, that the interests of proteNtanti,m would br , gered, and that the Eng!ibli church would be What did governing Ireland by fore mean i .--, with the possibility, as the Irish were a high of a civil war breaking out every moment. M ,• , congratulated the Lord Mayor and hi. gue,t, up Mate of Ireland. lie (Mr. Fonder) could not co n ,• ; them upon the state of Ireland. and Mr. his friends hail done all they coni i to s: . countiy upon the state of that land. And the cause of that Omni': In consalering ti r he had had to look deep into the ut...t11,1_, .„ between the two countries. A union botw.• and Ireland was not a union in of the Irish people. If we kept up by Ireland the chinch of a unuenty, . instantly swept away wore Ireland an in 1 1 •,. • country how could it be said that we pre..ere...i upon Gums of political equality: The Q ue , t ion ,e imperial, because it was ono that specially arTe.l- , , interests and Irish feelings ; and Irish feeling...l, : • considered upon many questions, and most of all the. r • • lay deepest in men's minds—that of religion. The oe ought to be considered upon the principles of the Union. n upon those terms which were partly bribed and l 1 . , v bullied out of the protestant minority who then a: Ireland, but upon those principles which .- patriot could accept, those of a real un equal terms of the three countries. Now he to the fears which inspired the polny :if :• - opponents ; and first that of prate , tanti-ni endangered by the disestablishment of the Ind. He was as much opposed to the Roman eatholi, : • religion as they could possibly be with his. but he •i i believe that the interests of prole-A:Hahn' advanced by the protestant ameendaney. . that they could not have adopted a plan to advance the interests of the present. The old system of fume and ;. . secution might have succeeded, bet by no po,ihihr. they have adopted a system less likely to do ,t they adopted in Ireland. The protestant ascemian, . .:.! land had damaged the interests of prot, , tant.sin...% result was that whereas inmost catholic ,outdrew t h a very strong party in opposition to that ultrain .• • • policy whifll, he was wiry to say, now WU-. Ib me, in Ireland there were scarcely :my did not belong to the ultramontane parry. Mg to Dr. M'Seile's arguments on thi, point. he • should be sorry if, by any action of those is the church came to an end, and he w..,1.1 - them why. Not because he thought there is , great advantage of bishops being in the I (Laughter.) Not because he conceived that in th. sent state of society and civilisation an (ill .• was necessary, for if he were a colonist he 'teeth] . bably, as the colonists do, be they e. tires, whigs, or radicals, have perf..et eq.) of religion ; but for this reason, that As land was now constituted and circumstanced, church of England and the clergy of that chum+ 4,1 great good, and he should feel that if the church wer.• .1. - established and disconnected with the state, a great engm.• of good was remover'. That engine of goo.' he 1 , 0 5 1. dered to be the parochial system. There was a erns hi ii system in England which did good, but the paroelna system in Ireland was an insult to the people. How could a man look after the spiritual interests hi, parishioners when the enormous majority of them %vle taught week by week to believe that he was a her...o • That was a glaring anomaly, and he asked all were the real friends to the church of England —those who wished to separate her from the church of Ireland or these who wished to keep her indissolubly united with the church of Ireland? Allowing that the two churches must be united, and that they must remain one, and that the English church could not be separated from the Irish church, at the same time they would believe that the English church could not be maintained in Ireland except at the point of the bayonet, and then they should be oblige to ask the question—Was the English church with its bless ings worth preserving at the coat ? The friends oi the church ought to be very careful before they put tint question to the country, and he asserted that they said that at this moment, and it was because that was that we found so little response to the appeal whip h he grieved to say the Bishop of London had made to twenty thousand clergymen, an appeal which even at tha: moment he must regret that he had ever made. He (the. speaker) was notthe less a friend of the church of England because he argued with all his might in favour of tL.: disestablishment of the Irish church. (Applause.) A. to the endowments of the Irish church, with respect to the anxiety to know his views on that matter, In, should not have the disposal of it, and could ouly them the general principles, and these general prim ivies were these—That all individual interests should b.! generously bested, and that the state should not attempt to dispose of any property which was not state property. (Hear, hear.) He should lac asked what was state pro perty. Well, he should say that the state ought not to interfere with such an endowment as that whieh wasgiven by the late Sir Benjamin Uuinnew to the cathedral 01 Dublin. But it was impossible that he could enter upon this phase of the question, 'and he cxpertol that in the event of any Irish Church Bill being passed. a " UnlittAh ' would be appointed to examine into the ca.c. A. to the surplus which there would undoubtedly be, and hoe they would dispose it, these two principles would guide, that hav'ng abolished one state church, ho shoal I not set up another, and that if there were any surple. let them not think it would be any great quantity. Aft• . individual interests were looked after and nelsrly greedy for the money, it was a question of principle and not of money ; he should say it must be given to Irish in terests, and in doing that he should very much ..onsult th. feelings of the Irish people. (Applause.) twenty-fifth annual BRITISHARCHAOLOGICAL AssoriaTios.—The meeting of the British Arclueolog ie Association commenced at Cirencester yesterday. TO: meeting is held under the patronage of the Earl of Duc eh. Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, and the Bishop 01 Gloucester and Bristol. Earl Bathurst, who re,ides doe to the town, is the president, and there is a list of thirty - Eldon,presis, including the Earls of Effingham. Mar, and Suffolk, Lord Boston, Lora Ileughten , D.C.L., Viscount Andover, M.P., Sir Michad kiwis Beach, Bert, M.P., Sir C. H. Rome Boughton. got- Sir Gilbert East, Bart., Sir J. Gardner Wilkie s• But.. • D.C.L., F.R.S., the Right Hon. T. Sotherea.E-teeat t . Mr. R. S. Hotiord, M.P., Mr. A. A. Bathurst. M.P., Mr. R. H. Dutton, M.P., Mr. Godwin, F.R.S., F.S.A., Th. Jeut inaugural address was delivered by the noble pren half-mat three in the afternoon. Half an hour was d" voted to an examination of the church and town-hall. ant at seven o'clock the dinner took place, at the Assembly Rooms. To-day will be devoted to an inspection of the antiquities of the town. The three suoceedingdays 'b ./Med to excursions:—l. To Trewsbury Camp. Akeisii.. street, Crudwell Church, Malmesbury Abbey, Church. and Cross, Athelstane Hall, Charlton-park ancient stone , at Xemble. 2. To Banbury Rings, Mairseyhantl'b r ' Church, Fairford Church, and Bibury Church. 3. T , Daglingworth Church, Dunstbourne Rouse, Elkstone Church, Brimpaftekl Church and Castle, and Edgworth. ice. The excursion wind up with a clueing one on Satur day to the newly-discovered Roman villa at Chedwortb. of which the visitors arc promised a description by a competent archeologist. Chedworth Church, Celmsclen Wayside Cross, and North Amry Church will else be included in the last day's programme. These will be ' meetings every evening for the reading of papers and dis cussions. Among the papers promised aro the following • —" Rev. W. F. Powell, M.A., andJ. D. T. Niblett, F.S.A., 'On Cirencester Church;' T. Wright, MA.. F.S.A., ' On the early history of Cirencester and on the nature and influence of the Roman municipalities in Britain;' H. F. Holt,. 'On the remarkable paint"! glass in Fairford Church; J. D. T. Niblett, BEA., ESA.. • Fairford Church ;' J. R. Manche •On the Earl of Gloucester;' E. Roberta, F.S.A., ' On Bibury and Mer se=ton Churches;' E. Levien, M.A., F.S.A., 'On of Cirencester and his writings .}orlon 1 4' Hills, 4 On Malmeebury Abbey Church end other eett: Ki t ties at M ;T. Blaalull, Oa the Chutttas of lingworth, Mints arm Rouse, and FJkstone. RYSTAL Rurcz. ONI SKlLLlitft MONDAY. Ammer 10.—Admissicas by season tickets, 1,01 1 ; 4832 ; total visitor. 6.873. - Ito 011 payment, 4,632 ; total Melton, 0,07 ii.