The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-10 00:00:00

nNT ( 3 ) E EN'S T ATR Long-son. MARA,' -Mr.W. H. LISTON. THE !AMIN/0411th: LAIL.. by Henry J. Wm , . having book ' , netted thrvughout to perf..rtumuce with the prelthett M. hi crowded wui esib-d.l audience... will be /nye ht.' IC IrkiltY Xl/11..tt I NU. to A es ' wanntnAlly At 11. - - - • THE LAIS CASA' IHE LASS, at a quarter to K. 1 The demoh.trntintlA in too ~.nr of 'The Lanesshirr Lam* sr.• loud sn4 unankness."- TM" M. . T ___ . _ - -- - - li}: LANCAr-11:1LE LASS, at s quarter to d. -TA, drama wait 1..01 rocksort, and thr author, with Ilan principal sotto.. wail tailed oat at the coadueion."—lhuly Newa. THE LAACA.»::itr. LASS, at a quarter to 8. -me rime throng) was elloetively !toted, awl the men• motional nature of th. plot k the sudtunce in a perpetual state of excit , ment."—lllootr” ,ll Islndon Nees. Wilk; LAACAZillih.t . . LAM, at a quarter to 8. Tim 14%4 is mat wimple*, with highly drainntio &et* whinie intrigw• inter/mt. heighticed by exceibrat ocry."—Wi M., Time, 9 1 11 E LANCAoHt ltE LASS, at a quarter to 8. " Ono Nana, who n a risor mina/Dew appears to dont bodily on UN. stain, creatid a otormy applause. 'Tao Lannashirs Lass' will cnjoy s lonstLevoll rot, ea+. rnted Rporting Nowo. riIHE ,LAss, at a quarter to 8. -a- Mr. Byron wog rvond , d and bowed he anenowledirmentA •n3M rovatrroto» aim, frmn all parte of the theatre."—Standard. - - TILE LANCAtiIiiRE LASS, ate quarter to 8. On IA atcond renn lictitaktion watt toorived mst.h oven groater a pplauae than on the r.rewnr protlnAtion.”—Daily Tel,acmptv. 1/OYAL ALuAasAilte PALACE. —Three AL B Uer.. Broiriesume Coanert. Band of GO. Bees .t t. Boa-o Woe open from II r „ t . 'WILLIAM CM ORTON and SON, uosit.kb rnd BHIRTMAKER& LA.I.IEB' UNDzsmanurre. 111 and M. OXYORINITTRIZT. 011 N— BILOGDP.Is ;LA/3814J JEWELRY. 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What Mr. Ruaxnc tries to do for the physical aspect of Europe the Marquis de MOUSTIER and Lord STANLEY seem to have succeeded in doing for its political aspect. In an interview which, we are assured by the French papers which profess to know what passed, was as prolonged as cordial, the two minis ters reviewed the various diplomatic ques tions now under discussion, and arrived at the gratifying conclusion that they are perfectly agreed upon every one of them. The mere thought of such an afternoon's work almost takes away one's breath. Lord STANLEY'S business habits are well known, and the Marquis de Moonlit's. doubtless possesses all that power of logical arrangement which characterises his nation; but even with all these advantages it must have been difficult to do so much in anew hours. Of course the order in which thesubjects were to be taken had been arrangedbe f ore hand. If geographical positionhad been chosen as the basis, M. de MOUSY= was perhaps dis covered by his visitor standing ready before the Map of Europe with his wand pointed to the north-east corner. If the alphabetical order was preferred, Lord STANLEY probably got out of his carriage carrying under his arm a gazetteer, with the leaf doubled down at " Austria." Still, when we have made every allowance for these and similar modes of making the most of time, we remain lost in surprise at the amount that was actually made of it. An entire agreement between the two powers on every question of foreign policy seems a thing to dream of. Even without going beyond the precincts of the French Foreign office, there was a point or two on which diffi cultiee might have been anticipated. The precise relations between France and Prussia ; the line to be taken by the Imperial Government in the event of this or that change taking place in Germany; the duration of the French occupation of Rome, the probabilities of a closer alliance between Paris and Florence, and the influence to to exercised by such a combination upon the policy of the Cabinet of Berlin—this little group of topics THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST tO, 1868. may conceivably have furnished employment. for the GM hour of the interview. Cheered by finding that France and Eng land were absolutely united on all then points, the two statesmen would then go on to touch upon the Eastern question. From 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. is hardly too much to allow for a survey of all the possibilities involved in there ominous words. The financial position of Turkey ; her capacity of holding her own against the growing power of her Christian subjects ; the past which Russia is preparing to play in the border provinces of the Porte ; the effect which her recent progress in Asia will have upon her European policy—here was a pro gramme ample enough to strain the powers of the most versatile diplomatist to dispose of within the allotted sixty minutes. It is impossible, however, that more could have been given to it, since the re lations of Russia with her western neighbours would claim attention next. It may be supposed, indeed, that Lord STANLEY and M. de Motrwruat thought that perfect unanimity upon the thorny ramifications of the Eastern question justified them in dealing yet more rapidly with Panslavism and all connected with it. But the relations be tween Austria and her Solavonio provinces ; the designs of Russia in fostering the aspirations of the nationalities in Eastern Europe; the part to be played by Poland in thwarting the designs of the Czar--could hardly have been long disposed of when four o'clock struck. Then, if exhaustion bad not supervened, one hour would still be left before the advent of tea recalled the ministers to the routine of every day life. Only minor ques tions remained to occupy this interval, but we can readily imagine that the jaded energies of M. de MOUSTIER and his visitor would scarcely be equal to anything more important. Such trifles as the position of Austria in Ger many, the permanence of Belgium in the European system, and the neutrality of Luxem burg, came in conveniently to give them employ ment for the closing moments of the interview. If the statements circulated in Paris about this meeting had any real value, it would be difficult to exaggerate its importance. Opinions may differ as to the extent to which the interests of England in Europe are allied with those of France, but they must be agreed as to the weight which the two countries would possess in conti nental affairs if the alleged understanding had been arrived at. Unfortunately for those who love startling diplomatic effects, there is not the least reason to attribute to this imaginary conversation either the scope or the precision with which it is invested by certain French papers. We have no wish to blame our contemporaries for giving their invention the rein. After all, when you are describing an in terview at which you were not present, it must rest with yourself to choose the tone to be given to the composition. The Etendard likes a warm dash of colour, and under its imaginative pencil the European sky glows with the brightest tints of peace and amity. Perhaps if a more prosaic artist had been employed to produce the picture the result would have had more of verisimilitude. In that case we might have heard that, after ex changing the ordinary civilities, the Marquis de MOUSTIER expressed the pleasure it gave the 1 EMPEROR to receive the Quasar of Great Britain within his dominions, and his regret that the circumstances of her MAJESTY'S visit rendered it impossible for him to entertain her with the external hospitality he desired. With a proper change of pronouns, Lord STANLEY would express a similar pleasure, and assure M. de Morsrint that no formal reception was needed to convince the QUEEN of the good will of the Emperor of the FRENCH. Whichever minister then took the initiative, we may be pretty certain that his first proceeding was to speak of the necessity of maintaining the peace of Europe. Both would doubtless fed that, as far as Lord STANLEY was concerned, this assurance possessed but little value. A Minister who makes it his chief boast that Eng land under his guidance has altogether withdrawn from the sphere of continental politics, can neither believe, nor expect others to believe, that conti nental politicians will trouble their heads any more about him. It is equally certain, however, that neither Lord STANLEY nor the Marquis do MOUS TIER would care to give utterance to this convic tion ; and the latter would naturally occupy the rest of the interview in repeating these familiar formulas in which the French Government is accustomed to assure the world that their military preparations are only a French way of expressing their rooted dislike to war—to which assurances Lord STANLEY, no doubt, attached just as much —or as little—importance as the Marquis de Mora= designed that he should. Here is a version of the proceedings con structed entirely out of our own con sciousness and general probabilities. It lays no claim to authority, or inspiration, or conftcbm tial information ; but we fancy that our readers will be nearer the truth if they accept it than if they go further afield in the search for more authentic intelligence. rosin land. Its total length, including the usual all mace of from 20 to 23 per oent. for slack, will be in rounetnumbers, about 3,3oomile*, or sheet one third more than the present cable. The point of chief interest to the public, however, is the probability of a considerable tall in the price of messages between England and America. The concession to land cables in the island of Elt. Pierre is granted for twenty years, and as the communication between it and the mainland will be submarine, the heaviest charge borne by the Anglo-American Company is got rid of. The New foundland land linos absorb by agreement some 30 per cent of the earnings of the existing cables. The new one will run to its destination without intermediate charges, and will, we trust, be ono of very many cables across the Atlantic. There is room enough and employment enough for twenty instead of two, if directors and share holders learn the wisdom of appealing to the many instead of the few. gpVl4 4 CONTEMPORARIES. ATMS DAY.) 7117 BIRMINGNAM ZLEOIIOII. !raving referred to the peculiar interest with which the electoral campaign at Birmingham te regarded throughout the country, and to the triumph which the tory party are seeking to achieve through the minority arrangement, the Deily News proceeds to describe the organisation by which the majority of the eloctors trust to avert the threatened injustice. The thirteen wards of the borough have been arranged into three groups, one of which will be canvassed in favour of Bright and Dixon, and the other two in favour of Dixon and Muntz. The nil danger is that the liberal electors, unless thoroughly on their guard, will returl Mr. Bright by a majority largely swelled by votes which, superfluous in his case, were indispensable to the success of one of the other liberal candidates, and for want of which one of them would see himself beaten by a tory. Mr. Bright knows that his seat will be perfectly safe, if the liberal electors will only distribute their votes ac cording to the advice of the Liberal Association, and he has authorised the canvassers of the wards in group oto say that he shall consider a vote given to bizon and Munta as given to him, as by that division of votes the three candidates can be carried. The disadvantage at which the majority of the constituency have been in tentionally placed under the operation of the new Re form Bill, compels them to have recourse to the principle of co-operation. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) THE PRUSSIAN PLAN OF OPERATIONS AND MAZZINI. Several persons claim the merit of precedence in suggesting the plan of operations recommended by M. Von Usedom to General La Marmon'. The Prussians claim it for General von Moltke. General Cialdini has written to say that it was his proposal. Others claim it for the late General Fanti. 'There is another claimant in the person of Joseph Mazzini. Here is what he wrote in the bovrre of Geneva a month before the commence ment of hostilities and a fortnight before the Prussian note: We ought not to localise the war ; we should expand it, we should not make Verona, Mantua, or Venice our objective, but Vienna. Mazzini is quite as clear as Moltke on the ad visability of not stopping before the Quadrila teral. On this ground, chosen by the enemy, fortified by art for many years, safely communicating with his bale of operations, and inaccessible to a popular rising, all the ditadvantages would be on our aide. He predicted a defeat if the Italians gave battle on this ground, and " this defeat," he added, will reduce us from an offensive to a defensive position." Mazzini insisted with peculiar force on the neces sity of sending Garibaldi and the volunteers toraiso the Sc]avic Populations of Southern Austria. He concludes as follows :—" In the Quadrilateral you may fail ; you cannot if you adopt the plan I point out." This letter is dated May 26, 1866. The Italian journals publish another letter from Mazzini of recent date. In it he maintains the absolute necessity of Rome to Italy, but says that the old capital must be conquered by the whole Italian nation, and not by a rising within the city, aided by volunteers from without. Ho has no confidence in the present government, and looks to a ministry of the party of action as the only salvation of the country. THE LATE PRINCE GAGARIN AND HIS SON. The Virnna Prase gives the following details re. specting the death of Prince Gagarin and his son Prince agarin, aged about Xi, took a walk with his wife, their son, and his son's tutor in the direction of the Mill of Redtenbach, which is well known to those who are acquainted with Ischl. The bright and coloured stones at the bottom of the limpid stream attracted the notice of the young prince, and he went into the water to pick some, the father fol lowing him. The princess and the tutor remained on the bank. The prince and his son were studiously employed in their innocent amusement, when both were carried out of sight by a rapid rush of water and floating timber. There is a lock about a quarter of a league from the mill, by which the water is retained to float timber down the stream when necessary. It so happened that the lock was opened whilst Prince Gagarin and his son were in the stream, and the flood came upon them with such force that neither had time to escape, although they were not more than 20 feet from the Dank. They were hurled out of sight in a moment with the floating timber, in the presence of the wife and mother, who was stupefied at the occurrence. The tutor, at the risk of his life, plunged into the water to save their lives, and it was only a miracle that he was rescued. In about a quarter of an hour, when the water had subsided, the body of the prince was found fixed between two rocks. The body of the son was not found till next day. The unhappy princess was borne to her hotel in a litter. (THROUGH RZURTR'S AGENCY.) FRANCE. PARIS, Aroun 10. The Moniteur of to-day publishes an acentint of the reception of the Emperor at Troyes. In answer to an address presented by the Mayor of the town the Emperor said :—" I would not pass through Troyes without stopping a moment in order to give a proof of my lively sympathy for the people of the Champagne who are animated by such patriotic feelings. Last year I felt pleasure in noticing the progress of industry in your province. I urge you to continue it, for nothing to-day threatens the peace of Europe. Have confidence in the future, and do not forget that God protects France." BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Auistrift 10. M. Henri Rochefort, the editor of the Lanterne, who was sentenced last week to four months' im prisonment for an assault upon M. Rochette, ar rived here yesterday. ACCIDENT TO THE WEST INDIA MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Artourr 10. The Royal Mail Company's paddle downer Atrato, which sailed on the 2nd instant with the mails and passengers for the West Indies and New Zealand, has broken down and is returning under canvas. The company's superintendent here has ordered another steamer to get ready for sea immediately to start and pick up the Atrato and tow her to this port. THE NEW ATLANTIC CABLE. THE arrangements for laying an Atlantic cable between France and America approach comple tion. An Anglo-Franco company has been formed for carrying out the work, with the Right Hon. ROBERT Lows for chairman, and a capital of 1,200,000/. The cable and its laying will be based as far as possible upon the successful opera tions of 1868. Sir SAMUEL CANNING will, it is thought, be the engineer-in-chief of the expedition, and will be surrounded by the well trained. well-skilled staff he has led on to sub marine victories in all quarters of the globe. The cable will be practically of the same manufacture as those owned and worked by the Anglo-American Company. The Great Eastern has been chartered for the laying with Sir JASLEB ANDERSON as captain, and the making of the new line is entrusted to the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company. The chief authorities upon electrical science have been retained as professional ad visers, and after a great number of suggestions for improvement in the existing forms of cable, it has been determined to revert to that the prac tical value of which is proved. One of the neces sary consequences of a variety of professional men being employed upon the same scientific undertak ing is that suggestions should be offered and con troversy arise; and it is satisfactory to know that it is only after grave deliberation and dis cussion that an almost similar form of cable has been determined on to the one now doing its work so nobly at the bottom of the Atlantic. It will be observed that the capital of the Anglo-Franco Company is to be double that of the Anglo-American Company; and this is ex plained by the immense difference in distance between the two routes. The new line will run from Breit to the Island of St. Pierre, and from thence across 800 miles of shallow water to the SBORT-HAND WRITERS AND REPORTERS. Tits gentlemen who report the parliamentary de bates get on the whole a fair public acknowledg ment of their duties. They are complimented at every opportunity by the legislators whose speeches they preserve, and can enjoy each year through their benevolent society an elaborate eulogy addressed exclusively to themselves. But there is a branch of the profession of short hand writers which is not so frequently heard of, though their achievements aro equally noteworthy and valuable. The people who have sat through the examination of witnesses during the progress of an inquiry by a parliamentary com mittee are, after all, comparatively few. Such of that number who are moderately observant can scarcely fail to have overlooked the gentleman sitting at the table in front of the Chair man, writing at the top of his speed. Few sittings pass in which he is not appealed to as an authority. Half-a-dozen questions are asked at once ; confused replies are half made and with drawn ; and to the ordinary spectator the scene is for the moment simply one of confusion. Ten minutes afterwards he is surprised to find the Chairman or a member of the committee referring to the gentleman of the note-book for the exact character of a particular observation occurring at the very height of the hubbub. The short-hand writer, for such he is, turns back his leaves and reads question and answer as readily as from a book. But this is the easiest part of his labour. In correction of some recent mis-statements as to the supposed mechanical nature of committee-room reporting, the pleasant and thoughtful essayist who assumes the name of Merrill:iv BaowNE gives us, through the medium of a letter to the Spectator, the character of the work done in committee rooms in a different light. Mr. BROWNE, who states that he is communicating the result of per sonal experience, declares that this work is, gene rally speaking, more difficult than that done in the gallery of the house. In the presentation in a Blue-book of discussions and decisions according to the forms of Parliament a great deal of minute and troublesome abstracting has to be gone though. You may get in evidence in half an hour more " apparently incoherent and certainly unchockable " detail than you get in a week in the gallery " (except on rare occasions), and the intellectual " strain' of taking up matter of this kind for, say, four " hours at a stretch, is no joke." And Mr. BROWNS proceeds to suggest that if one of the writers who has seemed to disparage the achievements of the committee rooms as mechanical, " will look in " upon me some hot evening next session, when " I am getting out the evidence, say, of north " country mariners (their utterance barely intern '. gible, and as rapid as the most rapid convene ' tion) oiinautical matters; the evidence of scientific or mechanical experts ; or the cross-examina ' tion of the accounts of some department, he will have opened to him a door of knowledge which will very much help even his supreme imagine.. tion. It would confound the most physical precieuse in France : with all her materialism " ;he could scarce call me a machine." With another remark from MArruw BaovntE we also cordially concur. We read too many blue books in the course of the year not to feel grateful to the gentlemen to whom the indexing of those tomes is committed. No praise can be too high for the manner in which they do the abstracting of the evidenoe, and we agree with Mr. Baovna when he says that the brains may be easily sucked out of a very long Blue-book if you only put the indexed summary at the end to its proper use. WHILE new theatres are being built in London, old ones are being altered and re-named, and in September the Marylebone Theatre will no longer exist under the same title. It has lately fallen into the hands of a new lessee, who is reconstructing the interior, and who proposes to call it the " Royal " Allred Theatre," naming it after the Duke of EDINBURGH. The Marylebone, it may be remem bered, had once a " legitimate " reputation under the management of the late Mrs. WARNER, and it obtained even more notoriety under the manage ment of that Mr. Werra who robbed the Globe Assurance Company, dabbled in playhouses, aid committed suicide within the space of a couple of years. The Marylebone, standing in Church street, Paddington, was originally started to pro vide the north-west suburbs with a good local theatre, but the experience of a few years seemed to prove that the neighbourhood required nothing but a minor house, managed on what we may call trans pontine principles. In its second or transition state it was very ably governed by Mr. J. A. Cevz, and it is now about to return to something like its original character under the direction of Miss An SEDGIVICIL One of the anomalies of our licensing system is shown in the dramatic license of this house and that of the Bijou Theatre—a little place at Bayswater, about a mile further west. The Marylebone is licensed to per form stage-plays by the Loan CiwsIIKRIAIN, but the Bijou has to go to the magistrates at quarter sessions for a similar authority. Lady Leith, of Weethall, has deducted 10 per cent. from the rent of gram parks lot by her this season, in conaequenoe of the drought. There were (says the Northern inig) some cir cumstances in connection with Lord Downshire's death which are worth noting. He died on his 56th birthday, having been born on the 6th of August, 1812, and died on the 6th day of August, 1868. His father, the third marquis, was also 56 when he died. His grandfather, the second marquis, died at 52. On Thursday morning last, the foy.bells of Hillsborough were rung in the morning to celebrate his birthday, and in the evening the same bells tolled to announce his death. Two assize sermons, preached at Winchester by the Rev. Mr. Young, the father of the celebrated author of "Night Thoughts," have been presented to the public library at Winchester, and an ♦byrinian stroll of prayer found in Magdala hes boss presented to the Winchester Masers. THE GREAT EARTERN RAILWAY. The Tiaras mainly attributes the change in the pros pects of the above company to the potent energy put forward by Lord Salisbury, before whose accession to power the company seemed to be sinking into irreme diable insolvency. Partisans of the old board may plead that the concurrence of the two facts is a mere coincidence, that Norfolk cannot have despatched more farm produce to town in deference to Lord Salisbury, or engine -drivers been more careful of their passengers' lives. Exactly in the same way a victorious general might have his share of the glory of a campaign pared away. In fact, the energy of a chair man is contagious through the whole staff of the company, from his brother directors down to the smallest station master ; and a railway's trade is flexible enough to vary no less with the conduct of its officers than with the needs of its customers. The embarrassments of railways have never arisen so much from want of traffic as from their own financial mismanagement; and a chairman who will not consent to "make things pleasant" by deceiving the shareholders, but frankly communicates to them, as partners in the concern, the principles on which he means to manage it, is able to exact from them the present self denial necessary for its permanent prosperity. ENTABLIMIED The Herald says it has always held with the Libera tionists and tho Roman catholic that the abolition of the Irish establishment is an irrefragable precedent for apply ing the same measure to the church of England, and it also holds with them that Mr. Gladstone is logically bound to be the pioneer in that crowning work of his new policy. He disclaims all intention of playing the part for which he is educating himself ; but even now he sees that it will be thrust upon him, and that he will not be able to escape from it; and already he is framing an apology and a justification for "cutting away" the church of England—another horse to the wolves. THE RAILWAY SYSTSX. The Star bitterly complains of the management of railways in England. The staff of porters is lamentably insufficient, and it is notoriously impossible to get attended to without the aid of bribery, while the refreshment rooms (honourably excepting those held by the con tractors at the stations on the Chatham and Dover line) still prove themselves impervious to ridicule or remon strance, and remain in their primitive stateof Mugby-Junc tioniam. Everywhere it is the same. Wretched carriages, ter mini where passengers must alight without even the protec tion of a shed, insolent officials, unprotected engine-drivers, luggage pitchforked into and out of vans without the slightest care or smallest system of check, fares out of all proportion to the distance travelled or the accommodation afforded, and managers and directors who, as they boldly declare on their tickets and time bills, are not re sponsible for anything—these are some of the principal delights of our English railway system. If things do not speedily and greatly improve, the public will at last come to believe that the one only possible remedy is a direct control exercised over the railways by the State. The Telegraph advises the London and Brighton Com pany to reconcile themselves with the public. If they fail to do this the position of the claimants for a rival railway will be most formidably strengthened. They will come forward in the character of sufferers from a grievance caused by a monopoly ; and that, we strongly suspect, is just the sort of claim on which the next parliament will look with favour. The matter, then, is in the hands of the shareholders of the existing line: if they want their lately-revived prosperity to continue, and to enjoy a fairly-earned dividend next year, they will at once recede from the false position they have taken up, and again be good friends with the public. But they must act promptly, for were such a rival project once introduced into parliament, the offer to restore the old tariff would come too late. VIE CIIXDIT YONCIIIII. Referring to the recent meeting of the shareholders of the Credit Fonder, the Daily NMI observes that we boast ourselves to be the first bun nese nation of the world, but it is notorious that in foreign countries the popular verdict is against our self-estimate. The origin and fate of such an under taking as this Credit Ponder and itobilier Company justify their unfavourable opinion. No parallel can be drawn between this scheme and the Credit Hobilier of France, for the simple reasons that the latter was a creation of the imperial government, and that its manage ment was confided to men of wealth and high financial mate, The English imitation, when started, bad nothing to commend itself to public confidence. Its career has been a course of transformations both as regards name, capital, and management. What is now wanted is an early and judicial opinion whether monies appropriated by the board have not been unduly taken. rite Cattrt. The Princess of Wales drovo out on Saturday, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge. Mr. George G. Adams bad the honour of submitting for the inspection of that Prince of Wales the bust of Lord Napier of Magdala. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Hon. Mrs. Harding. and Major Grey in Waiting, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The service was performed by the Rev. Thomas Helame and the Rev. John Antrobua, Antbem—" Fear not, 0 Land."--Goes Sung by Master Coward, Maws. R. Barnby, Gedge and Winn. . Goes presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Thomas Helmore from St. Luke, chap. 22, v. 19. . . Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Straits Settlements, Gib raltar, and from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governor-General of Canada, and to the governors of British Columbia, the Falkland Islands, Sierra Leone, and Lagos. A letter in the Time. from Lucerne, dated Friday, says The Queen arrived here safely ball an hour ago. Her Majesty came up slowly in a state car riage, occupying a middle place, with the Princess at her side. Descending amid flowers and a most interested but quiet and unobtrusive gathering of the people, she entered a carriage, with handsome horses, driven four in band, and went up to the Pension Wallis. Weather again most splendid, bright, and without sultriness." The Prince and Princess of Wales, with a numerous body of attendants, went to the Royal Strand Theatre on Saturday night. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accom panied by their family, and attended by a numerous suite, leave Marlborough House this evening, by the limited mail for Aberdeen, on their way to Abergeldie Castle, where the Prince and Princess will reside during the shooting season. - _ _ Prince Arthur, attended by Colonel Tsaphin- Arse, leaves Chatham early to-morrow morning by the South-Eaetren Railway, for London, and premeds from lang'••erams Station by the 3 p.a. train for the North. AMERICA. The North German Lloyd's steamer, America, arrived at Southampton this morning, with 103 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen ; 40 sacks of mails ; 203,836 dole. for London, and 10,000 dole. for France. On the 9th inst. she spoke the English ship Edwards, bound west. (Per America yiil Southampton.) NEW YORK, JULY 30, NooN. The Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill for sending in 30-year Six per Cent. Bonds all the state debts at present existing or becoming due within three years. The preamble of the bill declares the inability of the state to pay the interest due upon the debt. Messrs. J. Hill and V. Miller (Democrats) have been elected United States Senators of the Georgia Legislature. Six million dollars' worth of timber has been destroyed by fire in the forests on the north shore of Lake Superior. The fire still continues. It was reported in Feria on Saturday that an at tempt was made on the life of Baron Heinemann by a can totinier in the Bois de Bologna. It is rumoured that id. Lemoinne is to take the direction of the "political chronicle" in the Revue des Ala Houk& Re, St. Marc Girardin, 'Anatole de la Forge, and George de la Fayette will take part in the in auguration of the Polish monument at RapperschyL The Journal de Rouen reports that all the copies of last Saturday's lanterns were seised in that city at half-past 9 o'clock in the evening. This number will be republished in Belgium for the use of foreign subscribers. Authentic accounts from Queensland are to tho effect that the newly-discovered goldfields at Gympie Creek, the Canning Downs, and several other places, are yielding abundantly. Many persons are said to be making rapid fortunes, and thousands of persons are securing high wages with the usual splendid chances which make gold-digging so exciting to the imagination. Some very fine specimens of silver ore have also bean found near Reckhamptcmos populous town in Queensland, lying con siderably north of the capital, Brisbane. QUEENSTOWN, AUGUST 10.—The Cunard extra steamer Tarifa, from New York, arrived here at midnight with 141 passengers. She landed 38 passengers and despatches, and proceeded for Liverpool at 12.20 a.m. AB welL OUR PARIS LETTER. TRE QUEEN'S JOURNEY. (FROM OUR OWN_OORRRSPONDRNT.I PARIS, SCNDAY The paradoxical proverb, " a ire! better than none," seems to have influeo,.„l thu Paris journals in the variety of motives the assign for the non-return by Queen Vietcris o f the Empress's visit to her at the British Broblisy. The France of yesterday adopted from Goii gn ,,„, the singularly bad shot that " etiquette" vented the " Countess of Kent" from go i n ll to see her Imperial Majesty. Had that been so, Empress must surely have known it in tie' spare herself the great preparations which she on . doubtedly made at the Elysi-e for the Quee n . ; r „_ ception. But the France of to-day, tL explanation it promulgated yesterday, say, fb., Queen's state of health was the only csuo• M . l she did not make the pilgrimage of the ir which separate the embassy from the The Gazelle de France, commenting on the tinni suggestion, says: It woe 4 appear that etiquette plays a great part in ta. incognito of English sovereigns, greater irele..4 th ac wh, they are in the full and public ezerci*e of th-ir power. According to the Gan This, etiquette was all th. other way, and commanded the return ~f visit--" for nothing could exceed the exquisite r „ with which the Empreee begged the Qu-,, r , fatigued as she was with travelling, not to cow • to the Elysee; and it was not without difti..ulty that her Imperial Majesty obtained frotu Queen, and as a personal favour to hars4,lf, th ; , breach of etiquette." I have been greatly puit.',..; by the statement of !several journals that required the Queen to go to Lucerne hy the Strasburg line, which is said (tlion ; ••• I am not sure about that) t., L. roundabout way, instead of taking the direct rout. by Lyons. The explanation offered fur this, I: itself, unintelligible proposition is that that th. Lyons Railway passes by Fontainebleau, wt-r -the Empress is staying, and that etiquette h ave required the Queen to stop there. ThA treating as an error which " columns" the long and minute descripti,n nze: of the Queen and suite going to the in I, : carriages, of the Empress receiving her II at the foot of the grand staircase, of tb.) the qu et Queen in as and te ow w f i ot th rilhe fi b i n wers and tapestry, and of the Lran.l-:.- dinner service brought out for the festiv.d, •rr. its elaborate mistake in the following km... The Queen was to have returned the visit at '1:.• where every preparation had been made 1 , a)..r. w announced. But at the last moment au brought on by the thunder-storm which bum .s• l'e towards 5 o'clock, prevented her from goui4. I . Empress, accepted this excuse. This version, as also one that the • leaving the embassy, waited in full ar. upwards of an hour, and at length. out ..frAti.n told her maids to undress hcr, is slightly m. •7... sistent with the other, that the Enwr..s.; when she left the embassy that the Qllll . ll 1.1. acceded to her request not to trouble hers, !f. may be true, as the Figaro says, that the •• dent is of real importance ;" but amidst all tip • conflicting statements the only fact to be tively gathered is that preparations were laid, receive the Queen at the Elysee, and that she .I.i not go ; the exact reason why must be history. Marie Fleutot, the servant sentenced to poh servitude for life for murder and arson at Varoin Saint Maur, has a little girl two years old, whom, it is said, notwithstanding all her crk • and vices, she was a very good mother. Mb condemned to perpetual imprisonment she ~... pressed to her advocate the greatest :nisi..., about the future of this child ; and F. wonderful to relate, has got the infAr adopted by the chairmaker's wife Madame Emir: gard, who came to Paris on purpose to steal child under circumstances narrated in this spondence, and was indulgently acquitted by Seine jury on July 7. M. David d'Angers, son of the celebrated sculy tor, was married last week at the protestant elan., the Oratoire, to Mdlle. Huet, daughts'r of an ens ' nent landscape painter. The ceremony wivi formed by the Rev. Athanaso Coquerel, ant t 1... attendance of friends was very large. THE WRECK OF THE EMPIRE QUEEN OS M 111 SH COAST. COURTO'WN, Co. WEXFORD, Aram James S. Scott, Esq.,J.P., states that the Cour town lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution kthe Alfred and Ernest) was happily the meanv yesterday it bringing ashore the master, mats, and crew of nem. men of the ship Empire Queen, which had become a tool wreck en Arklow Bank. Mr. Martins Clerk, Idoycli agent, and one of the men belonging the a steam-tug bud also been rescued by the lifeboat the wreck.t appears that, as already reported, the ship tamaled on the sand with the crew on board, soled smacks and a steam-tug being employed to take out cargo, but yesterday all had to leave, the 5101 increasing to a gale and the sea getting up. 'De Arklow lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Instihitim again went off to the bank, but the Condom' boat had effected the rescue before her arrival. The ship sit nearly under water to the decks. The coxswain of the lifeboat, on boarding her, sounded the pumps, and foun d 16 test of water in her bold. The Cahore lifeboat nliteb alas belongs to the society, likewise went out, bet turned to shore as soon as she found the other two bog. , were at the some of the wreck. The Duke and Duchess Philip of Wartembrr; and family, attended by the Countess Olga Aurriprr: , Baron Van Guttenberg, Dr. Klein, and suite. bate le the Clarendon Hotel for Shanklin, Isle of Wight. The Duchess of Richmond and family bar arrived at Gordon Castle, N. 8., for the autumn. Tl.: duke left town on Saturday to Join the d uchess. A sd-': company will meet at Gordon Castle to-weave to COO mence grouse-shooting on Wednesday. The Marquis of Bute is on a tour in RlliSii. The last letters recoired from his loolship acre datrl Moscow. The Earl and Countess of Cimarron fi r ' been entertaining a succession of visitors at Iligliclat Castle. The Earl of Crawford and Ralcarres and Lord and Lady Lindsay will receive a large party om +W" Haigh-ball, near Wigan, to celebrate the coming of of the Hon. Ludovie Lindsay (the )faster art Lityliay'• who has just returned from C..”-4.1P The Earl of Romberg arrived in town a Saturday night from St. Petersburg , an d will leave in the week for Wynyard Park, to visit the Earl Countess Vane. The Earl and Countess Russ ell and family ha'. arrived at the Bridge of Allan, and intend to rorauni weeks in Scotland. An interesting trial of speed between pigeeni b e l ong i n g to the well-k nown trainers of France, Cor• many, and the Rhine provinc es, has lately talon th 143'''' The Journal de liege gives the following account of Rot aerial steeplechases. The birds, 180 in numbe r, r' started from Rome on Thursday, the 30th of July. The first arrived on the following Monday at 1.33 ld' gaining the first prize of the value of 300 fr. ; the e e°l ' on Tuesday, at 8.16 p.m.; and the third oar Wedeaulal morning, at 5.40. The three birds arrived in excelle: health, appearing to be in no way exhausted by del journey. Eighteen pr i z es in all were aw arded, W. , we ' which remain to be allotted. The three winners w Belgian birds. The Southampton Tima states that the Tel Ibt of the borough of Lllnington. in Hampshire, coat 879 names. Ilse old list only contained 361 name*.