The Express. — London, England, 1868-06-10 00:00:00

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THE - IabIEW — OijAMPION.- A HERO OF (IMAM E MPhlr”. tlothern, bueltAtono, Omphon, cdtrra, enn (tart; Meadasehaßeiwiihnn, I onn Ithrke, Oh ipyrnim!e. cm, I—we,1 —we, —AM A CO-UPERATITE MOVEILE, a ROTAL TNFATR F. ERULL. in th.ir pettvrumn.n Of Balmeing t Top-ftpannule. unhline. lhr Buttordy. sad Enla IA rtdaw resta. EVERT k 1...• EWA. Wtaluirsday. mai LiaturJart Itali•gs•st Two. uldr.n It half price. Mao, :J•rurol at the. Ilornflt, tram /44 1J: :-'4.c; at Mr. Xitcliull'a. Oki bold-4avat; and priuripal ibeJnew STILL'S O. ex o. SISTERLY VICE.—THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF OULU —Aud MAHRIAOE AT ANY PRICE. BILITAR \ IA. Evs v:r.rn. THE WAN IN AHVASINIA. Support...l by 41. , taohmer.t .11' Scots iNssatiT -Mr. awl Wm. P. I.m.:An; Mr 1 tAllt,•11t: DIM ta I Lewes... —o,ocluduie wi th THE CHIME 4. W. THE HRH rEN I I E %HT. II KM N'ATKII AT LON DON M1111)11E. Morning, :sh. nnt. Afternoon, Mt. lrn. Morning, tek. 3Shn. Afternoon, Ma. .tem. Tu-Y• ~..~~. wuriet>. of Dmar, MAsrai.:>•. and a ITII4. an , remind onta 12 u'aock for an,rton, .onue evening. Price A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAININO The Latest Foreign Telegrams: the Latest City ; Railway. Mining, and other Mures; Sporting, floZd. C.:cral Intolligent 4.. IX PCHt.tMHK9► EVERY EVENING. LONI)OII,WEDNESDAY,JUNEIO. i)PER.I .INP ITS PATRoN.s. To oe n in opera-box is no longer the exclusive privilege of a tins.. The social "levelling ul.- '• war.iw,•' so prevalent of late years, long since landed tip magnates of commerce into the grand tier, and the names to be read on the box-doors ^ew-s-tilys remind one as h of the "Commer cial Dire , tory" as the •• Court Guide." It 14 sareri flints! fact that in post time.: a double b,,z the old houet• has been sold for as much as (VOL and one on the pit tier for 1,1100/., though is goestionable whether sneb prices are often paid now. Hut the Opera is still the most aris tocratic of all our public amusements. It com mand: more attention in the circh.s sacred to Fashion awl Society than all our theatres put together ; the staff engaged for each season is can vassed a, critically :IS a tleW ministry; and the frealiest gossip and the latest scandal are always mooted in its lobbies, and the rooms adjacent. lti short, the Opera means the world of wealth, and display; and not to Is• rtrn the , , inflicts, to • minds, loss of position and a N... 61 tall. no-re is no longer any recog nised ismipetition ls•tween 'helpers and the stage, or bets‘....” home and f , lll 1.11 artists. The dis pubs' v 16 , 11, at the 11l i ll g of the last evii!cr: followed the ao:s,rane:• of the first .;•• tr er of taade. PI: .14(•.% 311.‘1:611n1:1 rt Dv, I; Eel:, anal the bri.willaz of which Ihe :ill - porter, of her English rival . K.vritEni 1 . 01 is no ban! , r possible. :Soto :s nati , anoi:t oittrapsl at the t,%., gr at te•st., of ahe English ofrailho being aoloon.looliscol by foe singers. von! Me. : V the .• oorigionolly H11..l Ise Jon a:1 '.%+l %1•1.1:AlaN that of 'Noma for ...es at which iootio One, oataino2:,•ri:.l wortioie.. ..• out it ve sloe ..1 •o g 1134. Th.. I);..rr,o'.:rla •tiradeliavrirlt, and Rif at 5' I<a tvatitin ha tie., of ovie-anal-favaitty % at.. M',4 , 1. % , • 1 1 , 11 the go.:11 II:Ili:on- were wosa-i fasna It• ! ..V at Her Algje.t.% . N. :.jail sa.ea mai sea talal net i. a alta.:wat Co%etat oico. The appetite i.a• :•ign oo•sie lass shire t lest tinse weittail tat gene. ; V .1 on, and an opera stall or low: ha ho me th•• appanage of wealth. Hut , i .sit from the passion for display, and the sweet THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1868. THE - A - DAllirllti77l.l7'loN FIRIRIA tat ishot i. which rise, iron, e.mfoemisig to Society's rules, the popularity of the Opera would se. in to he due as untch to the cb.eadenceof t • Mng -1141 11141111.6 as to an unaffected to for music. An °pent audience save when 1•444110 favourite air is being sung- is One of the twist inattentive in the world. It talks, and laughs, and flirts, and ogles di ring the long passagisi in which the princi;cll erformers are not on the stage. It likes the /or sem/ of its favourites quit.. as .ll as their It yawns at high art. met dAilierately refers Gousoir and % Latin to IiEIiEIIOVEN and MOZART: 1 while the Traei..l./ or the Trorafor • ate ever popular, works like /.7.idia lay neglected on the shelf. On the other haud. with all their trifling and mock dilletantisin, our English audi t noes are loyal to adoration to their favourite singers. In their eyes age does not wither nor custom stale who have once won their love. The Frenchman who defined Opera as " a concert in '• which the drama is only a pretext. - might have seen in England operas in which the dramatic talent of the artist has been accepted in condo nation of his hided voice, in which the singing ha i been 'solely traditional, and the acting all in all. There is perhaps no more popular woman in Eag land at this time than Mdlle. TITIENS, or ADELINA PATTI, or eIIRMTINS NILSSON and those who remember the JENNY Luau fever, and the wand ‘r fill way in which grave and heavy men battled in the Haymarket for hours before the Opera doors were opentsl, and finally gained its anditorimn panting. ragglii, and forlorn, will admit that it vast enthusiasm for public singers is underlying our English phlegm. But this is happily restrained and chastened, anti never, in our day, transgresses the limits of public decency. Our ladies of quality no longer indite profane sonnets deifying a first tenor, as they were in the habit of doing to FARINELLI in 1733, and though ADDISON'S 'ay satire ut the havoc wrought in female breasts by the melodious tyrants and dulcet murderers of the operatic stage may not have entirely lost its force, the popular admiration for operatic heroes is kept within reasonable bounds. Mdlle. PArn. and the revival of that Foglia de' Reggimento, in which JENNY LLYD won all hearts, has been ono of tho operatic topics of the hour. It is easy to realise the respectful silence and rapt attention which were even more significant than the rapturous plaudits sure to follow the dainty little lady throughout the opera. Assuming Covent Garden to have been, as usual, rather a chatty house, still Thyrtis, with artful strains, has oft delayed The babbling brook to hear his madrigal, and Mdlle. Pawl is equally successful with the babbling bores who disturb the overture. That Mille. PAULINE LEMA will sing in Afriraine to-morrow, that Mdlle. Part" will appear in Son rianthirki the next night, and that La Farorita will bring Signor MARIO again into the foreground on Saturday, were facts which were probably familiar to every lover oft I era. But the gay and spark ling looking people who frequent the Opera tell these things to each other with as much vivacity as if they were startling pieces of news. Th, y crop up irrelevantly at all times during the per formances, and when the ladies and the peers, plutocrats, senators, and faahionables, are blot ke I together on the great staircase at the finish, they seem— while singling out their owe livery from the noble assortment of footmen below, and while waiting for their name to co:ue through the mystic sounding-tube, to act as so many peripatetic speaking advertisements of the attractions of their favourite house. The old theatre itself and its audience have as sumed all the true Opera-house characteristics. The once famous yellow curtains wore saved from the 8; e at Her Majesty's because they were held to be too good for a public admitted at low prices, and common ones were substituted for the cheap nights. It was after one of the*, that the house was burnt down and the deputy curtains destroyed. and thus it was that the originals were preserved to be transferred to Drury Lane. They help to heighten the illusion that the theatre from which the unhappy people who essayed to play Moat. Christ° were pelted away because they were foreigners, and when a riot followed this attempt to perform on the national stage-- that this privileged British spot is a veritable Italian Opera-house built for the purpose, and with no other tradition. Its acoustic properties are excellent, and the portions of the audience who listen can hear every note with ease. The effectiveness of Signor Annin's orchestra and its admirable execution are admitted by moat habituh, and form a valuable testimony to the capa bilities of the old house. When PEPYB visited the first Drury-lune theatre on the second night after its opening. he complained bitterly of " the " distance from the stage to the boxes, which," as he went on to say, " I am confident cannot hear . . . . above all the musique being " below, and most of it sounding undo • " the very stage, there is no hearing of the " bases at all, nor very well of the trebles, " which surely must be mended." But the theatre has been twice burnt down since then, and no one enn complain of basses or trebles !maiming unheard, or of the music sounding under the stage now. After Covent-garden Theatre was eonverted into an Opera, so extravagant were the arrangements that the first season resulted in a loss of 34.7361. We have little doubt that Mr. MAPLE SON is conducting Drury-lane on its first Italian opera season upon Hounder et»nmercial prin ciples, and it is certain that the item of 0,1051. expended on the Oment-garilen ballet is not looked for by the patrons of either house now. The prin cipal desiderata for Opera frequenters appear to be a few bright, particular stars, upon whom they can lavish their plaudits and hero and heroine worship, together with good scenery and hand some stage dresses and appointments and the opportunity for gossip, persiflage, and display. They command all theme advantages at this time ; and the Opera aeeordingly stands high as ever in the esteem of the fashionable, the plutocratic, and the pleestne-taking worlds. ii/NULAKE'S UN/ME.I. THE new vohnues of Mr. Kmoi.AKE's — lnvasion ..f the Crimea whieh have hem ju•it issued, cover a riisl of toomilittais intere4 in the history of the war, and AN anal in statements. eritieisins, and :Lewis.% ilestilied to he as hotly disputed as WO et he political 114/riklll4 of the previous volumes. T e relation.. liet we. thi• Allies are a ewe:toot then e. Mr. X it0pre..,..41 with the bolief that the t. oiler rxiyeueies lif the hood whirh unit.-. 1 t &. toiglity Stat.:: in...0.111y 1 ' 490 tli. • lii t he ii:l u.e 4.f their atreityrtl.. A Cu-it cout)lo.l4. IN.- .paired 1110 their :wt togrtlier in :toy :.:cut "IA110'1.41: :111111 it chtmeing tuna tinis• to t• ft. Ili the f..rtin.e of war. that tow Power W:I4 in a Cu 11.Iitit 11 to to....atilt, and the other WM MIL it Es hi. n Hat sirri run-cipients3.. that the 14.101m1- rni : . of the 1/11e riurictl with it the als- Id. Idiom ..r ludh. •• What benumbed the allies.' .4. . Ml. K il. . • %up% '• WtUt the 11111118111 AV ." Expel ieui e Taw little we: runt to the &Amy 1 (of thane who had i mag i ne d th a t th e con void of England and France would enable them to tin the field with the power of two mighty nations, and the deuieivencas of one. "In that '• lame the alliatue ammo ever joined together " the two armies. It coupled, but did not unite. " hem.** After the battle of the Alma there were, accord. ing to Mr. KINGLAXP.. four "lost. oceaaiona," which a ould have given Selmetopol to the allies. After the victory of the Alma Lord RAULAN urged Marshal Mr. AHNArio to pn.ei on and at once attack the northern fort. without giving the enemy time to reeover from the blow which had felled him. The French General replied that his troops were tired amid it could not be done, and afterwards that the Itits..ians had thrown up strong earthworks. If the Marshal had followed the counsel of Lord Itaonsi and Sir Restrx-n LYONA, the Allies Mr. KIritiSLAKE insists, would have occupied the north side of Sebastopol without encountering resistanee, and, having done this, they could have pun ersLsl ut once to execute the main pur pose of the inva. , by destroying the Black Sea fleet, and the naval establishmenta. Nor wa, even this all : there is reason to believe. the author says, that by adding to their perations the mere occupation of a point on tine road to Baktchi-Serai,the Allies would have secured the surrender of the eouth of Sebastopol, and have brought the campaign to an end. The theory which hest explains the counsels of Use French laud-quarters at this time seems to Mr. KISOLUCE to he one which traces them to the bodily con dition of Marshal St. Anxatu. The avoidance of the Star Fort—the second of the four lost occa sion.: - is attributed by General DR TODLBEN to the same cause. The third occasion was at the close of September, when a proposal to assault Sebastopol was submitted by Lord RAGLAN to General CANROBERT. The French General re fuard to concur, and hie lordship, Mr. Kisataxe allows, was overborne by a great weight of legiti mate authority. Sir JOHN Bruno's-NE and the allied ngineers generally not only adhered to the same conclusion as the French General, but went so far as to think that the opposite counsel was of too wild a sort to be even for ono moment tenable. On the third day from that when the French definitively rejected the proposal, General AIREY wrote to Lord HARDLNCIZ, giving what Le judged to be the probable consequences of the decision just taken. "My own opinion," he wrote. "is that we are here for the winter, " maintaining only a strong position until we " can be reinforced." General TODLEBIIN, who directed the labours of the garrison, has declared that the place at this timo could not have been held against such an attack as the Allies had the power to make. The omission of the Allies to push on their advantage, after the great explosion of the &elan, consti tutes the fourth of the " lost occasions." The failure of the French at the same period at the Flag-staff Bastion led General CANROBERT to decide that the assault must wait until his troops, with spirit restored and with batteries multi plied, should be able to reduce the Bastion to the same condition as the Roden. If the whole allied army, Mr. KucoLaxe argues, had been one people obeying one chief, the confidence and war like impulse engendered by disabling the Roden would have been carried by swift contagion to the men on tho crest of mound Rodolph, and the opportunity for the assault would not have been missed. A return was published this morning containing a elites of pipers relating to the administration of Beset. In September last Sir Stafford Northeote proposed the ap pointment of a special committee to eonsider in what manner the system of government in that province could be improved ; and their inquiry was to be of sufficient scope to include other parts of India also if the committee dermied such an investigation desirable. The essen tial points to he considered were briefly stated by Sir Stafford Northeote, and on the lith November the committee made their report. Considering find the ques tion whether Cakiifta should he retained as the capital of India, the committee came to the conclusion that, although objections of considerable weight could be urged against rush an arrangement, still the fact remained that it has become the metropolis by forte of circumstances alone, mid the importance of its position cannot be exaggerated. Then, again. its defects are gradually disappearing. and the evils arising from the climate use yielding to the influence of well-devised sanitary arrangements. While deciding in favour of Calcutta the committee are of opinion that the periodical transfer of the seat of govern ment to Simla is injurious to the public interests. Having ratiified thenwelvem on thisquestion, the committee arrived at the conclusion (Sir B. Frere and Mr. Arbuthnot being the only dissentients), that the administra tion of Bengal should remain, ass at premed., under a lieutenant-governor without a council. They are satis fied that the existence of a separate government of Bengal with an executive and legislative council, on the system of Madras smut Bonileiy, is incompatible with the presence of the supreme government in Calcutta. Various suggestions are made for the improvement of the government of Bengal, and for strengthening the bond which ought to exist between the government and the people. This latter desideratum the com mittee think is to be found in the large and more systematic employment of adopted natives, and they recommend that the suPlmine govern ment should be called upon to consider a scheme by which the services of natives may be made available n appointments to which larger emoluments are attached than those to which they are at present generally ad mitted. The report is signed by F. Currie, E. Perry, Ross I). Mangles, and H. G. Montgomery. Cite Court. BALMORA.L CASTLE, Jtrws 7. The Queen and Prineees Louise attended Divine eervsee at the parish church, Crathie. The Duchess of Athole, the Hon. Miss Cathcart, and Colonel PonJonby were in attendance. The Rev. Norman Macleod, of Blair Athale, officiatad. Prince and Princess Tack, and Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Jonathan Peel, arrived at Frogmore on Mon day on a rink to Prince and Prince , el Christian. In the evening their Royal Highnevaea had a dinner party, to which the following had the honour of being invited:— Lieutenant-Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Cecil Peel, Captain and Mrs. Keith Fraser, Lady Burin Melville, Lord George Hamilton, Captain the Hon. Frederick Wellelley, and Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. George Gordon. Despatches were received yestenlay at the Colonial once from the governors of Malta and Newfoundland. Despatches were sent to the governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St. Helena, Sierra Leone, and Lagos. A deputation from the representatives of the Smyrna, and Aiden, Varna and Danube, and Kustendjie Railway Companies, had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Foreign-office yesterday, in reference to a memorial ad dreseed by them to the Ottoman government on the aub ject of certain guarantees and other claims in arrear of payment. - A deputation, introduced by Mr. T. A. Smith, M.P., had an interview with the Duke of Richmond and tho Right Hon. Stephen CS Ye, at the °film of tho Board of Trade, yesterday, with respoct to tho amalgamation of the South Eastern and London, Brighton, and South Coaat Railway Compudes. Prince and Princess Teck and Lieut.-General the Right Hon. Jonathan Peel arrived at Froamore on Mon day on a visit to Prince au.l Princess Christian. In the evening their royal hightievios had a dinner party, to which the following had thu honour of being invited : LieuL-Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Cecil Peel, Captain and Mre. Keith Fraser, Lady Swan Melville, Lord George Hamilton, Captain the Hon. Frederick Wellesley, and Lieut.-Colonel and Mn.s George Gordon. Last night the Countess of Durtrey had an even ing party at her residence in Curzon-street, Mayfair. Previously to the reception, the earl and countess enter tained the following company at dinner :—Tho Earl and Countess Stanhope, the Countess of Newburgh, Lord Stanley, M.P., Lonl Hyde, Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton and Hon. Miss Egerton, Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerrison, Admiral and Mn,. Eden, Mr. W. Beaumont, M.P., and Lady Margaret Beaumont, Mr. E. Stanley, Mr. Chartcris, Ac. Lady Cairns will have an assembly to-night at the Lord Chancellor's residence in Cromwell Houma. Among the list of distinguished foreigners now present in Paria are the Comte and Coattail de glanders, who are staying at the Grand Hotel, and the Mareheee d'Ameglio, late Italian Minister at the Court of St. Am.'s's. Among the general visitors during the week at ral is have been the Marquis of Hastings, Lords Clonmel, Miter, and Albert Clinton, Sir Charles Lenard, Sir George Armytage, Mean George Payne, Henry Saville, Fit rireurice, Sumner, Craven, Stanley, dc. Sir Robert and Lady Peel aro on a visit to the island of Jersey. Mr. Hubbard, next Monday, will ask the Secre tary of State for the Home Department whether his att %- bon has been directed to the lamentable amount of juve nile criminality, hugely aUributable to the spread of chew publications and theatrical repremntations of an exciting and immoral character, which corrupt the children of tre lower clime*, and stimulate them into courses of dishonesty and vista : And whether the government will proi.o.o any remedy for these growing and most serious evils. The foundation atone of a new church was laid last week by the Earl of Shaftesbury at Bournemouth, in Hants, to counteract the influence of the ritualistic church in that town. The limits Advertiser states that the church bells were rung last week in Southampton to celebrate ex- Uotemor Eyre's triumph. The annual dinner given by the Society of Poli tical Economy of France took place on Sunday at the Grand Hotel, under the presidency of M. Hippolyte Palsy. M. Emile 011ivier waii on the president's right hand, it Special invitation having been sent to him in acknowledg ment of Ins vetch in favour of counnereial liberty. M. Uvular drank his health. Among the guests were MM. Michael Chevalier, Horn, Wolswsky, Levasneur, A letter from Rome says : --" While Prince Humbert and Pi Moms Margaret are the lions of Italy, thl Count of Girgenti and his bride, Dolma M ar i a Isabella, Infanta of Spain, are equal objects of attraction in Row a with this difference, however, that in Italy the people of all ranks, the entire nation, take jute, est ill the leraons and welfeue of their future King and Queen, whereas in Rome it is only in ecclesiastical and legitimist eirekm that the Count and Countess of Girgenti excite a similar sentiment. The piety and simplicity of the late r are lauded in contrast to the pomp and splendour of the former lady, although the diamonds of the Infanta worth twice the duel) , of Princess Margaret, and the devotion e f Deana !rebel/a to the. Holy See is demon strated by her habitual garb of a white dross and yellow shawl. It would be invidious, or rather odious, :teem ding to the old proverb, to push comparisons into so delimit province an that of perwinal beauty, but these, perbals, the Italian priueims would not fear the teat Of eritiun... The Berlin journals give the following tousslote of the King of Prussia : His Majesty, walking iii tl • grden of Rabel4wrg, spoke to a young gardener, and asked sotne illfa I Wittiell as t., ,nnu• walks. The latter La oceedul to chow them to hi. Majesty, hut after some time betaine uncoil, and, !coking frequently at his watch, at lanoth asked his hfuj.,ty to excuse him. as he ought to be nn paid at Potaitam at such an hour. The King Itnitin4 that to there on foot was not poaibl• in the time, oidered a ran iie,4e, acennipanitst the young nun, ncommeneing the officer nn duty to be indulgent *tumid a few minute• have teen lost.•• A letter fr.int Magenta statel that the der*• o that place and of tho ileighlioniaig *Muffs off, nd lingers for the French and Italian *4 lien Will, fell in IMO. Nest year. the writer says, the booes of the d ta.l will be brought together in the vaults of a dumb which is to be erected in commetaoratioa of the battle. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) THE LEAGUE OP PEACE. The first annual general meeting of the League of Peace was held on Monday in the Herz hail, Paris, under the presidency of M. Jean DoMs, who delivered the opening address. M. F. Pussy, the general secretary, read the report which explained the origin. object, and progress of the leagsur. The Queens of England and of Prussia an• both members, as are also the reverend Father Grafi, , the Grund Rabbi Isidor, and Pastor Martin Paschond. The meeting was addressed by M. Vischers, the President of the Brussels Con gress of Peace, and by the Rev. Mr. Richard, who spoke in English, and told the audience that then, was not a town or hamlet in England in which war was nut made upon war in speeches, books, pamphlets, and hand-bills. The Grand Rabbi con jured the clergy of every persuasion to urge on the most essential work of religion, peace. M. Isidor declared it was a calumny to say that the God of the Bible was a God of Armies. The God of the Bible was a God of justice and never the God of battles. M. Martin Paschoud said that all ministers of religion were bound to make common mase against war, which he characterivsl as " glorified homicide." He nimbi an apology for the absence of Le Pere Gratry. FRENCH OPINION OF THE ENGLISH PRESS. The Arenir National, referring to the News paper Press Fund, whose jpnual dinner, on Satur day last, was presided over by the Duke of Cam bridge, says : One of the membere of the Royal Family, the Com mander-in-Chief of the Army, the Duke of Cambridge, presided at the annual banquet given in London by the Newspaper Press Fund. The Duke of Cam bridge spoke in respectful and friendly terms of that press of which every Englishman knows the value. Lord Houghton, the President of the Fund, bore his testimony to the indept Eidetic* and honesty of the press. limbers of both houses drank to the Freed without the affectation of coluleecension or the simulation of sentiment. Parlia ment knows that in the press it has a vigilant, amass, constant, and devoted, though—it may be now and again —an inconvenient friend. The press kr own that in the hour of danger parliament would forget its little personal pique. to assert the prin ciple of freedom. The rights of free discussion would have no more ardent defenders than those legislators in whose eyes the law-making power could not be exercised with honour and utility if an independent control did not exist somewhere. Unlike what takes place in other countries the preen and parliament of England sustain each other, and so far are they from hating and combating each other that they carefully witch over the maintenance of their respective rights which are those of the nation and of liberty. (ftErrzes orazazums.) HUNGARY. PESTII. JrNE 10. General Slaplca, in one of the Hungarian news papers, bails the arrival of Prince Napoleon as the harbinger of an alliance between Frans., Prussia, Austria, and Hungary against Muncovitt. tendencies. Apartments have been prepared for the Prince at the Hotel de l'Europe. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Jrvr 9, EVENING. Count d'Avila stated in the Chiunber of Peers to-daythat he would be responsible for all the acts of Count Tmvradio respecting the contract with the South Eastern Railway of Portugal. The Chamber of Deputies are discussing the measures recently introduced by the Minister of Finance. (BY ATLANTIC TALL:IRANI TilB01:011 YL BELTIOI . IIACULYI77.) AMERICA. KEW YORK, JuNE 9. The Hamburg and American steurnship Gm-- mania arrived out at 11 a.m. to-day. The Allan steamship Hibernian also arrived to-day. Closing prices :--Gold, 139 i ; Sterling Exchange on London, 1101: 3-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1121 ; ditto, 1895,11(*, ; 10-40 ditto, 106 ; Illi nois, 136 ; Erie, 691 ; Cotton, Midland Upland, 30 ; Flour, extra State, 9 dole, ; Corn, old mixed, 1 dol. Inc. OUR PARIS LETTER. (mow ova oww ooamesromarr.) PARR 'AMWAY EVENISO. M. Gustave Flonrens, son of the well-known philologist of the Academy of Sciences, went out to Clete some time ago as a volunteer. He ob tained such favour among the insurgents that he was sent by them on squeal-diplomatic mission to the King of Greece. When he arrived in Athens in a Cretan costume the officers of the royal palace refused to receive him unless he were presented by the French Minister, M. de Gobineau. An altercation ensued, the result of which was that M. Gustave Flourens was arrested and shipped off to Marseilles so precipitately that he arrii o•i there the other day without having ad time to change his Cretan clothes. At Mar seilles he was still retained as a prisoner ; but a telex a u trout Paris very soon arrived, directing the Prefect of the Benches du Rhone to act him at liberty. AU this news has occasioned considerable sensation, but the still more sensational intelli gence of this evening is that the young Philhelle nist, instead of coming back to Paris, and thanking his stars for getting out of trouble has embarked at Marseilles, on the Messugeries Imperiales packet Anierique, for the Filmes. Has he gone to make the French Ambassador apologise for not protei ting him' Hitherto France has shown herstlf quite hostile to the Cretan insurrection, and hence the mystery. The Eteudurd yesterday annoulausl that General Prim is at Vichy. This news is contradicted. TEe general is in London ; it is added that his h•sslth requires the Vichy waters, but he is not likely to go to take them ; which menus, I sup pose, that the French Government would not I llow such a declared enemy of the Queen of Slain to sojourn on French soil. Here is a newspaper paragraph which will set minty reade►s agog : The EmproPi ha. erased from her ri,ithig li4t the American fromilie, It and A -, who had been intro it, ced during the cleaner of the Duke de Itiisano. Hor Majetit%, it ie mid, thought the young duties too ealentric. M. (3. de Soubeyrati, x deputy of the Corps egislatif, writes to the papers a letter. dated this day. to state that he has instituted a prosecution against the lidirriatiowil. of June a. for an article implicating 1 in MI • re' ,stt notorious Boum , transact' . Thin Bourne was deCidedly weak. Route fell 174 e. for cash. and 13e. fur ttetsnuet. closing at 701 r. and 70fr. 45e. Italian fell ; and Credit Fonder, tifr. :Mc.; Mohilier rose If r. 25. . Five French Sister's of Merry left Stintharuptost y..tro'sy in the Cape of Good Rope until packet. They a s troauithig to Natal, from which place they will go ego mites intrithe country to act as nurses in na homital. lbey were escorted on boanl the oirket by the Rev. lather Mount, the catholic priest of Southampton. THE RELEASED CAPTIVES. THE public may expect to hear a great deal about Abyssinia during the next few week& The late captives are expected at Southampton in about ten days from now, and a hearty reception may becotinted on from that impulsive and catholic minded port. No one will be disposed to withold pity and sympathy from victims who have suf fered so bitterly, and who have lived on with the DAIIoCLES' sword of a savage barbarian dangling over their heeds. None will allow en aug mented income-tax, a great national anxiety, in curred on their behalf, to interfere with the warm and hearty congratulations due to oompatriots who have escaped scatheless from deadly peril. There is, however, a mean to all things; and it should not be forgotten that the generic sufferings of the captives in Abyssinia are not identified with any noble or lofty cause. MissiGnaries are, it is true, included in their ranks, but the main body is not associated with religious or other enterprise. There will be considerable curiosity to sec the men on whose behalf England engaged in a national war, and whose vicissitudes and dangers have been pored over with interest by the civilised world." But it is the cause, not the peril, which makes the hero, and it is not necessary to allow kind-heartedness to master common sense, to proclaim men patriots or martyrs who have simply been unlucky. Let us give a gene rous and hearty welcome by all means, but let us set our faces against undue political or social capital being made out of the escape. But whatever may be the form in which the liberated prisoners will be received, it is certain that we rhaq be all taught and tutored until the Abyssinian interior will be more familiar to most of us than places nearer home, say Sutlterlandehire or the county of Kerry. Mr. CLEMENT MARKHAM' s resent disquisition to the Geographical Society was merely the herald of a coming storm of informa tion. From platform and pulpit, from lecture hell and d' •r-table ; ire the newspapers, in perapblets, in public correepondence and in books will the details of life in Abyssinia be spread. The publishers and the editors of popular periodicals, are tamely on the qui rire, and Consul CAMERON and others may be shortly expected to netke a literary bow before the public. A miserable story hem had a brilliant close, and the natural eppetite for full particulars will, we may be sure, be dexterously titillated and isppeassed. TIIE season at Mont Blanc has begun very early this year. and the Swisa papers already begin to reword attempted ascents of the mountain. A few days ago two gentlemen, M. Ahrnosait Pic rEr HO M. Ai Exis ',oilman started to main• their halt at the Glands Millets. The tient day wale, magniticomt. and the second pri well at 2 in the morning. At 14 they reached the summit of the Corridor. where they were assailed by a di-it ing storm of hail. Hen. they had the prrib lee to beat a retreat. although within un hour or two of the object of their ambition. The guides all agreed that it would le. exceedingly dilowrony to go nay further. The 11018441 k :It Taunton who are on strik.• have kmied the fonownix :satires., : —•• Fel!uvr-workinsii, you sae enin•tly requegted not to x•ek employment in thi. town, MP We are with our einployerA for an Arpnee of waxe..“ A choral festival will he held at Lyudlturst in the Ntw forest on the 18th iuttnatt. The seventh fcstivul of paruchiel choirs in don neetion with the I . lintettoury eein Choral Union took place yeieeriby in the Cathedral. The aloha in vision mustered etroinz 0111 this oression. there being upwards of terse hundred picked voiced. NATIONAL CUOILAL IROCIETT.-- The usual weekly meetings of this society hem termisteted for the season, and will bo resumed in the autumn. ibtxplcAl• CANOE PACE ON I.Arz bEN WEN TN' ATER. At a volunteer fete at )(aisle!: Issi H ~,,. tho occasion of the athletic fat i..d ia 3rd Cumberland Hato Volunteera (•• Skulda w great interest was evinces' ;in a eons- !.. • Mori abed as follows: The Lanai, can,- decidedly the event of the day, awl . i „, announted than a general iu, h was mole allures of the lake, and to the, rorky pv,,r u t celled Friar** ('rag, where the ,t.art place. The surface of the lake st was completely studded with plea ...r • h., during the acvuu similar to a regatta. Five .„., , ..• part in the rare, hut only four w-re They wont . :. N. Thwk, Ecia., who, it wilt r. • made the fanum • voyage down the I•Acii tonly.. .1 is a mender of the Ito)ail Canoe Club, Linche.. . T. Mategrerr, Esq., the well-known i voyager, is captain ; the 11... n. of 'Lord Teiguluouth : Mr. C. Clo K alai Mr. J. Worst, C.F.., ,; • jun.. POll of Mr. Weser. the guile 1,, • aho Matti,' in the t• Mr. Duck was ball , iicapix..l Shaw 4i) seconds. The race wan flout Friar', c Derwent lalunal to the I•ithmus is ay. w, 1. I lund and carry their 111111(` nlwtd WO yank . 1 .. :.• the water and coming down wi th•• went Island to Friar,,' Clue. the iv nn fig a ii:• • : very fair start for Messr.., Glover, the latter residually ~.• and when they re:relied the i.. 1 ,10 w,•, • lengths in the van. .1.14 in (Noy. • sight Captain Shaw iitarleil, :.ad ; dent foam his tine lealdliset that ho we: in .. adept in the leadien's craft than the preceded him. When the liesthes• n. , • of sight, Mr. Dtiek started, :mil chewed cyan mi `. riority than Captain Sliaw in hi. sale of . , the water. As he !Minded the Wand it iv., lie perceive.' that he would soon overt...ld field notwithstanding his h e avy Is..ally. „ appeared in sight at the north end of the i sand the lead of about two leisetlia over Mr. che a ,.„ o , . Ma. Wood, eloeely attend...l, however, hy l'. ! „ . and Mr. Huck. (Ilover appeareil tot., „, ,„ , ' landing at Isthmus Bay, hard followed by tic. scene at this time caused a considerable . ,• went amongst the hundreds who lined the ! ! Crag, together with the occuirants of the is which wan increase.' when the voyagers w. their frail barks after them. When they „ the water, Glover had still the pre-Pllllll••tr— became apparent that Mr. Duck hail ail his minute. He gained rapidly, and finally who was followed by Mr. Shaw, Mr. s, Mr. Wood, a long way in rear. Mr. Duck await middle of the stream on nearing the island, th.. hugging the shore. From this point there as. allegation, and the competitors came in at lie. :;m n , that order, Mr. Deck winning by about tiv^ ! double that distance being between Mr. Captain Shaw. Mr. Duck and C.ept..iu obtain.] a silver cup.—Ceoulffland rucpet. : WEATHE] <THIS D 1Y K", ir• w . IFq 77: - - - ! - :EPORT.. WIT. it:tX 11 to. I A.M. 1 4 fs. Fl 2 iyi.! 1 , Nairn 30.0.4 SA W, 3 Aberdeen 113.03r 56 re w. 1 Leith 3o.osr 17 si W. 14 Shields 30.14r Si ea W. 11.111 4 Scarborce 30.1:r 01.0 W. I 2 Yarmouth ,30.12r 1.466 Helder Cushavea - -!- I - Skudeimas - - Valenti:, ;30.201 :4 40 9.3. W. ! 4 Cape Clear _au .q 4:3,4'54, B.W. Roebe's Pt 30.2*54'60 , W. ! 2 Holyhead 3O 14 (40 54; W.s. W. 2 Liverpool. 30...,ft'64;531W.&W.' ar4roesan 30.11034.5.1: A.W. 1 4 Greencastle .20.090541311W.H.W.; 4 Penrose@ :36.1.4e571301N.N.W.; 1 Plymouth ..:0.!0(156:31 N.W. 1 Weymouth - I- I Portsmouth :30.23r1DW:41 London '3O.We:4 S; C.Orts Net. - Brest Lorient 130.23r..12:.10i Rochefort 130.21r 39,541 Biarritz ,•30.20r Comma ! - Enamels - Parte Birnbaum - ; - Lyons Toulon ._ o.Bor 33.5 N.N.W.' 0 ' 8 N.N.W. LI - Beert's Coa 1 30 LLtt :.4 cri,W ft !G 16 W. Ire W. b c N.W. e W. db W. t o - i - W. mca.: AW. .7: W. e A. W. • c w. V.R. w.s.w.: SW. nr W.N.W. ~r N.W. N.W. , N.E. I N.& 3 N. N. W. - ;-i REMAHRA. W. ' c W.N.IV 14c ; ; c N.K. ; rb Tlw diatnlad ion of fln•sonnosnlwri.nl ormiy melon:Fed sreterilm, awl ic so. miilonte ; been • alight inerewe nt the north and .in' : whilst in other M./rift. eliding. sre aim., the portant difference in temperature ia noted. 3Crie: worl ten the westward have ben prevalent. In the cnannel h., north-westerly wind• are reported. On the eow•gt 0l 1,1-.4 at wind is sow sontb nontrrly. and in Übe wont. of Frog, . strong wind Irian the north-wg.4. is blowing. The .1,7 rally cloudy. letter the audacious depredations of hngan,l3 in the Volmiau mountains. across the Pontinemnehes to the se , coast towns of Nettuno and Porto I.f Armio, where visite, for the fee spring sca-bathing are kept in isintinitnl atm. and the noble Roman famiEcr arc abanioning deficiently eituated marine villas to avoid the dan; r of being captured by night. and certiwl uR the mountain,' for minimums noe.omis. pre, , one of the principal proprietors in t district, still manages to go to and from hi. between Porto D'AriAio and Nettuno will t being stopped in the long and dreary forest drive bets...“ Cectlina and the sea. The prince makes use of 3 eml steam-yacht, which he recently purchased from ~ n nobleman, and so gets snugly and safely onus, c to Fiumicino, and then mends along to Porto thus eluding the predatory plot. .r u e: of brigands in ambuscade. Hitherto ....iuntrol I limited their rperntions to country distrio Ind we lately had an Instance of their actually maturing ant. large town for the purpose of carrying , nt um , of pnueipal inhabitant , . On the night of th, 31. a several armed brigands entered Velleui. rhinf town 0. the province, and strongly ganisoned. and st,ppil L 0 individual they eneounterml in the stn.. t, , indeed under immediate penalty of di ath. to holiest., to ;hem d 0 residence of some rich proprietor. lastead of b. .c iming"t• guidothen and there, the person, under a plut.ihle joetes. deferred doing an until the following ft• Mt. who lo• 4.• eaged to conduct them to a very protl'abir . But, whether ho revealed the appoiotin at warrriallo of gendarmes, Rutti, got to hit "1 discovering the place and the hoer. went ri e to. • detachment of his men under Captain Caroms ceeded in 'wresting -in of the hrogiiielii, ot " •." natives of Canalvieri. in the quondam 5ea...91 , e This coop dr ago has greatly delighted the Velletai, whose virieyanla and wee.. even walls of the town. hnd lately ',risme utt.af..:l.l• visit.—Letter from Rome in the Poo. THE HEALTH OF itt•NDON. It atmo,tef the Registrar f:eneriers odern that hi Ii••• th .! • 1 on Saturday, 4.343 births and 2,144 deaths r in London and in thirteen other large town. t Kingdom. The annual tete of molts tity w 22 per 1.1.1! persons living. 'rho annual rite of mer:.dity lost W. was 19 per 1.000 in London. 19 in Edintier.M. and •••, Dublin •19 ill Bristol. 17 in the china. 24 23 in Dublin; :91 in Salford, 1' in Rradfonl, 21 in Leeds, 24 in Hull. )vin Neweaeln-"P"'• Tyne. and 29 in Glasgow. The ear in Vienna wash ler 1,000 during tho week ending II;' :kith nit.. when the fIIVJA temperature was 14.4 Fahrenheit high •r than in the o ur week in London, where the ode W.l, Theileath-rste riShoeuTelwdeestN butowerla measles w... :rain t : ral;v ptoralnut in many parts of the town. ,wet o no• deat is so s referred to sticill.pon• bet ' l of 1,042 buys nod ri7l is rii 1111 "'". instated in the week. e lm the conesiminling of soon years (1848-87) the averaee number...ere. ted Mr of population, is 2,00.1. Th. death, rtgi•tere.t during the week were I.lfm. If oft- the efr 0t..1 I week of the year: and the ave,age nom lfto of d• •e for that week with a connetio, t.,, of population, 1.219. Th. ,t 0 : I ''' return are less by 89 thou the - 1,111 The annual rate of mortality. wie lo „ I London, 19 in North London. 19 in (*int .11 East London, and 19 in South .! ` nosier rywrolie were 292, the .ern , f••.! being 30'2. Sinteen deaths from ,iiol l .l^'`. u .„„, measles, 41 frcm nearlatinit, 12 Hoot WhOipillg.l . olloll, rot inns .l 7 ire. , . 1 ' , "" . „ .1 were registered. A In &ie.-el - . ..a , s"' ru 2nd June. at Ann's-place. New rarrh—o mondtey. of ehileinie duo tinea. 21 i.f.:::•. • 4 from ft vet- were at tlie un I iPt ••., West London. 3 its North 1,11411.1 i. 9 oa 'kit. 10 iii 1 et Loudon, :111t1 i I. 1.0.1'1 '''• eulating the re.utt. the d, ••IL , ~, the Hoapital bps. heen referred to the .lionie , • 1 • •••''' the Iteriestl.. wefe lemight. ,1 Ink 4th JI.Ill• :It I. 611.8,..41i11. I .-..• I . • RO the death i. tewribetl re ofiottert from flo• erne , father state, •• the tug:.. -ewer from ilove•14,11. 1...e1;111,P;) Ism.. to the Dulwielt not wily :4.11:011 Oie:11 - 1 emits it every griitintr eu °Rendre f tr , ` je l h ' and thy weather. The drains his,. not 1,•••11 trarqed for .onie reason other.'' attention A autlwaities all twer London should Le gives, to the the drain,. The death,. I: 3 i n tempero, of 2 peewee. fawn 12 pen.ons from drowning, of 1 infant. anti I adult," suiTtreal ion. of 7 pec.ons who commil stlimki persons who were killed by horse. or carrinft'" 1 " idreets were registered. • Tri CRYSTAL PALACE.- ONE RffiLl.ixo r• DAY, Jung 9.—Admission by , season ticket'', 2,341 ; on payment, 4,7533; total Tinton, 7,097. 111111 r- I SPTI t.•W 181 (UOI ‘t . CC 1.14 foul to tt forty laud tiorual men on the I the c Mi Jay r\ 1.11 Ti (*Rini 'oath Rich: t4,B‘ Li brow Calf 1. 131b1 atom] I unit I*g e 1 just:c whoa MI fibber have able e Wert tAe o j tent il