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A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAISWO The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and General Intelligenco, /9 PC CLISHED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 13. THE EASTER HOLIDAYS. THE English people, according to an impression prevalent among foreign nations, have too few holi days, and do not know how to enjoy those that they possess. Certainly the spectacle of a crowd setting about the task of self-amusement in this country is a curious and even painful one. There is an inaptitude about their behaviour as if they were engaged in an uncongenial and difficult work. The first instinct of holiday-makers appears to be to put as great a distance between themselves and their homes as possible. Tho second is to make appointments for potations long and deep, for lights of men and of dogs, for rolling down Creenwich-hill, and for trespassing in woods and preserves. The faculty of innocent associated en joyment appears to be as much • lost art among the lower clauses of this country as the art of conver sation is among the higher. Perhaps the con nexion between a holiday and a holy day is real as well as etymological. The revelry natural to southern and Catholic nations may be in part due to the reaction from the constraint of enforced fast and service which their church imposes. The license of the carnival—eorei rate, good bye to moat—is the preparation for the abstinence and humiliations of the forty-days of Lent ; and the penitential solemnities of Passion-week give a keener relish to the cheerful enjoyments of Easter. The sense of a burthen flung away, and of a past cancelled, which is natural to the Catholic after canfession and absolution, and the careless and lighter tone of mind which belong to a man who feels that he has the priest to fall back upon, as compared with the grave con sciousness of an irremoveable personal respon sibility natural to protestantisra, explains why Roman Catholic nations are great adepts in the art of enjoying themselves and casting their cares behind them than adherents of the reformed faith. However, we are conscious of our defects in this matter, and are doing our best to remedy them. Good Friday, rejected by the Puritan spirit as a day of fast and humiliation, is seized hold of by the secular spirit as a day of rest and relaxation. The awful shadow of Passion week is felt by the mass of Englishmen no longer, and the well-meant at• tempts of men of sincere faith to revive its reli gions significance shows only how completely and how hopelessly that sense has been lost. Puritanism, which endeavoured to make every day equally gloomy, hasplayed into the hands of the in are genial temper which endeavours to make every day equally cheerful. As for Emter, the " Queen of " festivals," the sacred associat ions tint w Med m it hit are those of light and joy. But the majority of its celebrants think as little of the event which it commemorates as they do of the Quartoderiman controversy, or of theAnglo-Saxon Goddess %vas, whose rites are said to be mingled with the Christian celebration. The coloured paschal eggs with which the children play are no longer symbols of life breaking from from the tomb. The usage which prevails in the northern shires and in the counties bordering on Wale*, according to which on Easter Monday the mon parade the streets and claim the right of " lifting" the women they meet three tuna, while on the fallowing day the men as often—has cored in the celebrant& to be • half profane overwhelming event, and has be horseplay, • piece of loutish i Mk gallantry and coquetry, one to strangers who ars the custom, but fraught with world. Whether the Ritualist mo' it gathers strength, apply itself to gpsib3liA practices where they have fallen into disuse, and in explaining their meaning to HODGE and DOLLY when that meaning has been lost, may depend upon Sir Rosner Patuntorus and the Bishops. One thing is matter of congra tulation. The Easter holidays in ceasing among the many to be sacred, have ceased to be intolerant. The children no longer sing in our streets the couplet which embodies the spirit and the false logic of persecution—. (,`heist is rises, Christ is risen, All the Jews must go to prison ; nor is the custom of stoning that unhappy people in honour of the season, or of eating bacon in contempt of them, practised any longer. Outside the churches, the festival has, for the majority of the English people, become a secular holiday. Whether the change is for the better or the worse, there is no help for it, and wisdom will make the best of it. There can be very little doubt that our labouring classes do need more holidays. They have scarcely any other idea of them than that of rest from work, and of indul gence in stimulants to beguile the mono tony of inaction. Among the branches of technical education in which they need instruction, and Miif. 4ll Telt titted to Impart to them, is that of amusing themselves inno cently. English workmen were sent to the Paris Exhibition to report on the several industries of nations. We would recommend that deputations of artisans and labourers be sent to France to examine and report on the enjoyments of the people, and to see whether they cannot in troduce something of the Continental skill in self amusement which is lacking here. and, for all the special pliestomena et the eclipse, the least shortcoming in totality is as bed as no eclipse at all. "We cannot therefore," it says, "recommend any enthusiastic observer to " combine science with his holiday by visiting the " Neilgherries this year. Not one of the sanitaria " seems to be favoured, and • trip to a coast " station would scarcely be compensation in the " event of failure in one's main object. Flys " minutes of cloud on an August morning and " the chance of observation is lost, which may " not recur in a life-time." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Emily walhnl Tl * U. . . _ Osetle L interview with _ Arlin 12. The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon. and dress, essompested by Primer Chriatisaand Primers Louise. Her Majesty, wassapenied by their royal bigh nesers, sidled Weisser Chapel, when Bane de Tridliteti had the know of showing her Majesty his marble decors time of the walla, with cartoons of portions of the works now in promise. The Quern, the Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Lodes, Prices Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the lidies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel_ Tits Hon. and Very Bev. the Dean of Windsor officiated, and administered the sacrament of the Holy Communion, assisted by the Rev. R. Duckworth. Prince and Primus Christian remained to luncheon with her Majesty. Prins and Princess Christian dined with the Queen yestanky. Major-General and Ldp Emily Seymour hid the honour of being twined. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial• office from the Governor General of Canada and from the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the North American Provinces, British Columbia, Bermuda, and the Bahamas. Her Majesty, with their Royal Highnesses Prim- GAMS Louise and Bestride, and Prince Leopold, attended by Ma Mite sad geatiemea of the mut, will, it ie under stood, leave Windsor Castle on Friday next for Oshorse. After • short stay in the Isle of Wight, her Majesty will return for • few days to Windsor previous to making • trip to Balmoral. Her Majesty will, it is ex pected, pay • visit to Aldershot% this week. Wednesday will probably be the day selected for the purpose. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS or WALE'.—The present brief stay of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham-house is expected to be brought to a close to-day, as the current week will be occupied with their visit to Ireland. It may be remarked that a new wing at Sandringham-house is approaching com pletion, while various minor improvements are being car ried out upon the Sandringham estate. The provincial en gagements of the Prince of Wales appear to be increasing, as the Prinoe has undertaken to be present in June at the inauguration of the Leeds Fine Arta Exhibition. He has also been invited to attend the inauguration of dock works at Sunderland, Hull, and Lynn. THE ROYAL VISIT TO NORTH WALEIL—It has now been decided that the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to one of the principal towns of North Wales shall take place on the return of their royal highnesses from Ireland, en route for London. It is the desire of the High Sheriff of Carnarvonahire, and those acting in concert with him, that the demonstration on the occasion of the royal visit shall be a national one, and with this object a committee has been formed comprising the lords lieutenants, the high sheriffs, and the magistrates of the counties, and the mayors and corporations of the towns of North Wales. This committee will meet at Rhyl to-morrow to arrange the details of the reception, and to draw up an addle,su which will be presented to the Prince of Wales in the name of the Welsh nation. All the towns and communities being included in this address, the trouble of receiving and replying to a aeries of corporate addressee will be spared to their royal highnesses. Bangor was the town fiat named as the pikes of reception, but the peculiar claim of Carnarvon, as being the birthplace of the first Prince of Wales, has been recognised, and 'object to the approval of the Prince the address of the Welsh people will be presented to him in Carnarvon Castle. - It is reported that the Prince and Princess of Wales will pay a second visit to Ireland in August next, and will be present at the National Cattle Show of the Royal Agricultural Society at Londonderry. Their royal highnesses will then be the guests of the Lord• Lieutenant and the Slarchioneas of Aberoorn, at Baron Cond. On Saturday, April 11, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales received at Sandringham House the Rev. T. White, KA., head muter of the King's Lynn Grammar School, aocompanied by W. Moyne, Req., Mayo r of Lynn, and Mr. William Hoff, the successful competitor for the gold medal given &pawkily to this school by his royal highness. This year the medal was offered for modern studies, and the presentation was now made by the Prince. DEATH OP THE MARQUIS OP SALISBURY. We regret to announce the unexpected death of the Marquis of Salisbury, 11.0., which took place shortly after six o'clock yesterday evening, at Hatfield-house, the ancient family seat in Hertfordshire. The Marquis of Salisbury only left town on Saturday for Hatfield, in appa rent health. On his valet going into his room yesterday =rani he found his master evidently labouring under very severe illness, and in consequence the Marchioness, who bad gone on Saturday lea to Knole, near Sevenoaks, to visit the Earl and Countess De La Warr, was sent for. Her ladyship arrived at Hatfield about • quarter of an hour before her husband expired. The late JllOl6ll Brownlow William Oascoigne-Cecil, Mar quis and Earl of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne, county Dorset, and Baron Cecil of Essendine, county Rutland, in the peerage of Great Britain, was the only son of James, first Marquis of Salisbury, by his wife, Lady Mary Emily Hill, second daughter of Wills, first Marquis of Down shire. Ho was born April 17, 1791, consequently had he lived • few days longer be would have attained his 77th year. He succeeded to the family honours on the death of his father, June 13,182'3. The deceased marquis was twice married—first, February 2, 1821, to Frances Mary, only daughter and heir of Mr. amber Gascoigne, which lady died October 15, 1839; and secondly, he married, April 29, 1847, Lady Mary Cathe rine Seekville-West, second daughter of Karl De. la-Warr. By his Brat marriage he loaves surviving runs Lady Mildred, married to Mr. Alexander J. Beres ford Hope, M.P. ; Lady Blanche, widow of Mr. James Maitland Balfour, of Whittinghame; Viscount Orseborne, M.P. for Stamford; and Lord Earth* Cecil, M.P. for South Essex. By his second marriage his lordship leaves time three sons, viz., Lord Sackville, Lord Arthur, and Lord Lionel Cecil, sod Ladies Mary Arabella and Margaret Elizabeth Cecil. The Marquis of Salisbury was appointed lord-lieutenaat of the county of Middlesex on the resigna tion of the late Duke of Portland; was made D.C.L. at Oxford in 1834 ; and was sweated a Knight of the Garter in 1842. KA had been mama a the Harts Militia slam 1861; and was major of the South Harts Yeomanry Cavalry from 1847 to 1864. He was appointed • deputy. Determent of Argyllshire ia 1869 ; and on the resignation of the late Lord Deere wee unanimously elected chairman of the Harts Quarter Sedans. The late Marquis of Sails buy accepted Moo la the Best of Derby's first adminia. tratlon in 1852 as Lord Privy Seal ; end spin in Lord Derby's government from February, 1868, to June, 1869, was Lerd President of the Connell. The deceased noble ' man, it is almost unnecessary to say, was • staunch and consistent conservative in patties, and a supporter of the agricultural interest. Visecouat Cranborne, M.P., by the lamented death of his father, succeeds to this ancestral honours and large landed property. The present peer Wee born February 3, 1830, and married July 11, 1867, Georgina, Caroline, eldest daughter of Sir E. H. Alderson, eme of the Barons of the Exchequer. He was educated at Eton and Christchurch, Oxford, and obtained • fellowship at All Souls in 1863. His lordship has been member for Stamford since 1851 The families of the Earl and Counters Oewl.y, Colonel and Lady Ross Grealle-Nugsat, the Igeffittlia and Marthicsess of Downshire, the Marquis of W.atmesth, Lard and lady Dengsa, Mr. and Lady Mil dred B. Hope, and others, are In mourning by the death of his lordship. The Hon. Mr. Carrington was abated for ifyiparbe as latesday tuimid. He driend Mame an album. of y Glado tad prearsd to rib for Mr. Abel inillee bUL TEA. Anounax Karsorr tow. —On Saturday a retw i a: pebilabad ct the amount of co:l4min power, b for the a u i m e d of freer water in each roma fa- Unite 11. ht the Abyoldnism a r= fadailliwilao onaiewaing vowel to im• =NW ae7. Tbe Mara was aired km by Lud Jetta - • , ,i; •4*• ••,•: ••• ! s • • ).; , ts slit i asl 4t:36 1 women lift the asecatainkg in what locality the oreditions of the "bra. . fp Lauri. . Nies of theavather l are like to be the moat !avowable. A e prod, on anTakeitta, oonteinpmmufw deal of dis- , jila „, ~\• 't l ' • .• a maim, beoome • ewes filipektm c c l o=n & cc.- /ine rena Th e WNW 4 • morning, •I oh or kiirlen- : dose to and noPar Ilatlipateas *raiment - t rather danger; and Kolapoor. Rninagheiry, and R e ,. Aiwa* • b the Boa. Dm not aware of jelterundry ars tolerably p laced . : west eat drtriag, ~,,,, loopold we) Igrounds, atlmiledilot - . Duekwerth. no harm in the ,! a just within the limit to the''' . and 3 6 $02 , 4kmarti Bunt, C. B oaTitadi at w novement will, as 1 linndial to the month. &Mara, Dhar - this atterseca , sad had th e hOisoor of as is b restoring these I war, and Ballary are beyond the bounds ; Ist Majesty. _ . N°• WHAT IS A TINIPERSITY t SUPPOSE the collages, the fellowships, sad scholarships, and the examinations were abolished, how would Oxford and Cambridge be affected by the change F In the estimation of many people such a measure would be much the same thing as the abolition of the Universities themselves. In Professor SEELZY'S opinion, "so far " from being equivalent to the abolition of " them it would materially increase their efficiency." This is not a mere paradox put forward as a text for clever ward-play ; it is the deliberate judgment of a man well qualified to to form a judgment upon the subject. In his " Plea for More Universities," published in the first number of the Leaden Student, Professor SEELEY gives his reasons for thinking that the English Universities assign a too exclusive place to examining students and preparing them for being examined. " The true University has the educe,- " tion of youth only as one of its functions ; " its first object is the advancement of science " and learning. Wherever this latter object is thoroughly carried out abundant opportunities will present themselves for the pursuit of the former, and "a seat of learning without students "is an extravagant waste of power." But with us the error is, for the most part, on the opposite side. "The undergraduate class, being once " admitted, become the most important class. " The ~avant, leave their studies and " their books to dance attendance on " their pupils." Professor SEELEY wishes to see this evil corrected by the establishment of uni versities which shall be bodies of learned men primarily engaged in pursuing their own investiga tions, not hat, lycies aiming chiefly at stimulating the will, or aiding the capacity, of a superior class of schoolboys. In such a University students would be most welcome guests. Its libraries and museums would beopentothem ; itsprofessors wouldexpound their several sciences in public lectures ; in short, every facility would be given to those who wished to learn, although the University, as such, would not undertake the " rousing of indolent minds to " exertion, or the laborious infusion of a little " knowledge into slow understandings." In the practical part of Professor SEELEY'S article there seems, we confess, a certain amount of inconsis tency. He pleads, if we understand him rightly, for an almost indefinite multiplication of univer sities, since he would raise to this level every important literary and scientific institution in the Kingdom—using those words in the very largest sense. And yet he ends his article with an argu ment in favour of incorporating into the single University of London all the learned societies of the metropolis, all the great hospitals, the British Museum, and the Royal Academy. The latter proposal is well worth consideration ; the former, unless very strictly limited to one or two cases of which the circumstances are analogous to those of London, would, we fear, involve only the further degradation of the title which it is Professor SEELEY'S wish to see restored to its primary and more honourable meaning. THE succession of Lord CRANDORNE to the Mar quisate of Salisbury may prove a very serious blow to Mr. DISRAELI s supremacy over his party. A Conservative minister cannot afford to leave the Lords out of his account. They are the natural bulwarks of the Conservative cause ; and a Tory Government which found itself in a minority in the Upper Horse would stand condemned in the eyes of its supporters. Mr. Duractzu is probably not popular with the Peers ; and he will for the future have to hold his own among them by means of an incapable like Lord Macrae:mu RY, or • noises home like Lord CAIRNS, against a statesman who combines with the inheritance of a great name and the purest Conservative traditions, remarkable powers both of debate and administration. If the House of Lords seta any value on high personal character and unblemished consistency of political conduct, they are likely some day to ask themselves whether the new Lord SALISBURY is not their true, representative. It is unfortunate for Mr. DIARAELI • that the branch of the legislature in which' his influence is weakest should now oonta;n two' men who have preferred honour to place, and chosen to abandon 'their party when their party abandoned its principles. The permanence of moral aberrations can never be safely reckoned on ; and if the Conservatives should ever again indulge in the luxury of a conscience, they may be glad to take as their leader • man who has thought it worth while to keep one, even at the cost of money and position. Is the portion of the solar eclipse of August next which crosses the peninsula of India, the duration of total darkness will be 5 minutes and 13 to 55 seconds. The authorities at Calcutta are beginning already to receive communications on the subject, and are particularly desirous of 1111 V./LUMINA AIVIZI. The Daily News thinks it obvious that the scene of the review to-day will be far more interesting than any that has yet been selected. When the due position is reached, a charming and stirring view will reward the fatigue ; but is this the most, after all, that can be made of the great volunteer field day which occupies so much annual preparation? As the force is at present organised, we may admit that it is. There is • otesselly fee its leasla: tr.l'dan and returning to London all in one day, because, with the exception of the few for whom dear lodgings can be found, the men would starve of hunger and perish of cold if they did not. But this fact may help to suggest how very far the force is yet from being an army. A civilian army which must return to its civilian homes every night is hardly an instrument to be counted on in war. A body of men whose commanders, regular end volunteer, agree that it cannot, without the Mayor's help to keep the roads clear, execute between dawn and dusk a...marob of 14 miles, is not exactly • force that can go anywhere. No doubt there would be inconvenience to many if all were to be called out for several days instead of one. But the objection to our present situation is that there are no means for indulging even those who would be eager to campaign for two or three days, and who if indulged would proportionately relieve the strain upon the one day. Without cooking arrangements, tents, knapsacks, and great coats, the mass of the volunteers are not an army, and in time of war would have to stay at home. The TelegrapA suggests that it is Rot too mach to ask for the institution of • Hyde-park review next year, in addition to the more complicated and exalting field-day which it hopes will take place oaths Easter Monday. Mean while we shall have the experience of to-day as a guide for the future ; and the Tekgraph trusts that it will warrant the assembling of equal numbers upon other points se- I lected , not only because they afford good ground, but because they are calculated to test railway capabilities, and to draw men from the largest available area. By this time next year, let us hope, the volunteers will have ' a better organisation, and be subject to some defined and reasonable control Thus we may be spared the vacilla tion which has unfortunately preceded the Portsmouth review that will take place to day. MIL GOLDWIN SUITH. The Times reviews in a tone of banter the late speech of Mr. Ooldwin Smith at Manchester. With regard to his censure upon the conservative government, are all other statesmen, even those of the straiten liberal school, so I entirely without guile, so resolved to do the right thing at all events, and tell tho truth in or out of season ? Was there no alloy of human policy in the long suppression of the Irish church question, and its sudden emergence in the midst of a debate upon two bills for parliamentary reform, and precisely at a time when it was impossible to proceed further than an abstract resolution ? Who was it that began this war of nu menses in reform ? Indeed, ' in such a mess as politics h►ve come to there is not a charge that can be made without its apt reply. As to his views upon land, which the Times does not altogether profess to understand, he is told that everything in this country and Ireland—both public institutions and social habits— rests upon the maintenance of hereditary estates. Our old families, their ancient seats, and patrimonial estates often bring little more than care, sadness, and disappoint ment to living bearers of the great names and the heavy charge ; but they are the unfailing source of pure and simple pleasures to thousands who are content not to call an acre of land their own. An immense proportion of oar people are so born and 'brought up as to wish for nothing better all their lives than domestic service with the gentry, and regular employment on their estates. Those who do not admire this state of things should follow Mr. Geld win Smith's example, and go to the United States. THE ROYAL visirr TO HILLARD. Only in the presence of royalty, says the Post, are reli gion. differences overcome in Ireland. In St. Patrick's Cathe dral protestant" and catholic" will, for once, meet as Chris tiana. But, what is more, the visit will prove to any one who may have doubted the fact, that if the Irish church was established " as the fort of the throne," the imperial sovereignty is no longer dependent on such security. In Ireland, as in England, the crown is guarded by the loyalty and the love of the nation. If, as Lord Lytton's line runs, " Brute force is many—mind is always one," when a people are of one mind their moral force rests, so to speak, upon itself. The natural position is strong in its own strength. Nor may a welcome that expresses confidence be cynically depreciated. There will be no cheers that are not spontaneous ; no mere lip-loyalty. TRADE ANI) FINANCE. The Daily News again refers to the determination of shareholders to rebel against the despotism of directors in joint-stook companies. Losers in these concern, now ap pear resolved to try and retrieve something out of the wreck. The perms whose high names and reputation, canoed merchants, tradesmen, professional men, widows, and governesses to invest their tunas in the joint-stock concern are being brought sharply to account. Many signs have shown that the day for tacit submission to un merited loss has gone by. Shareholders now insist both on accurately knowing the state of the concerns in which they are interested, and on compelling the managers to act up to their full responsibility. The directors who do the moat work are a minority. The majority, as a rule, do nothing except attend board meetings, where they are usually influenced by the officials, generally for good, but in some instances for evil. This is a mistake of judgment, involving a dereliction of duty ; but a 'ln ventive is to be found in the enforcement of the principle that, if a duty is undertaken, its performance is not a question of convenience, but of honour. The congregations in most of the Roman catholic churches and chapel in London yesterday were, at the request of Archbishop Manning, invited to sign petition. to the House of Commons in favour of Yr. Gladstime's Isiah church reeoluticos. EASTER SUNDAY SIEVICYS IN LONDON. —Yes terday there were very imposing services in many of the London churches, the Beaton of Lent having given place 'to that of Raster. At St. Paul's cathedral she sermon at the "maim service was preached by the Very Rev. the Dean (Dr. Kiluian), and that the afternoon by the Rev. W. W. Champneys, LA., vicar of St. Paneruv , the canon ip residence. At the Chapel Royal, St. James'', the ser mon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Oxford, L or d High Almoner. At Westminster A bb ey the sermon at each service was watched by Dr. Stanley, the dean. At the Chapel Royal. Whitehall, the 11011E11111 in th e morning was preached by the Hon. and Very Rev. George Harbert, dean of Hereford, and that in the afternoon by the Rev. StrA. Brook, K.A., minister of St. James's Chap e l, aLe l 'winners. At the Chapel Royal, Savoy, the morn ing asses was pronoboll by the Rev. Marl Mho, el Kum', Ooliip, sal tint in the evening by the Kw. J. T. Pianism, reeler of Hartley Maudit, and Lonarar, ems of Winaltoslor Cathedral. At the church of St. Lawrence. Join', witch has Naomi so famous for its special ser vices, Me sermon was peamiod in the morning Shopßish (neaps Town, and in the evening by the of Oie.a NORTIDIRN HOSPITAL, CiagnoStAm-StiAD, N.—Number of patients for the week ending April 11, 1,001, of which 303 were new oases. -. - - - t•-- : . ,......-::-. :- :: THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1868. F r NEWS. PAY.) • ATION Of ' T• •GENZVA STRIKE. " 112 4 1 r l as Geneve placarded on Than dirtier with the felielling notice : 4 nerurrazire or mecca LID POLICIR The delegates of the masters have communicated to the Department of Justice and Taos in a document signed by them the mations on which it would be possible for them to open their workshops. Them conditions laving bum communicated to the workmen bath been earepted by them. It ie, therefore, deckled that the work will be resumed as thisday, April 13. The friendly relations which always added between nisolows and workmen will be oonsolkithed by the arils just past —a crisis which, thanks to the liberty we enjoy, has ended peaoefully and happily. Long live the Confederation. Long live the Republic of Geneva. PH. Carerriuo, Councillor of BUJ& The result of the strike has been that the masters in the mason, plaster, polishing, marble, white smith, glacier, joinery, and carpentery trades have consented to diminish the day's labour by one hour, that is to say, from 12 to 11 hours, and to increase the wages of the men by 10 per cent. The masters of the locksmith, mechanic, and founding trade; have consented to the reduo tion of one hour's labour, and to an increase of 5 per cent. in wages. (sum's TILIGIANS.) PORTUGAL. LISBON, Arm 12, EVI2IING. The Queen of Portugal and the infant Prince Don Carlos left Lisbon at 2 o'clock this afternoon, by rail, en route for Turin, to be present at Prince Hnnlbert's marriage. The Icing accompanied them to Elves, at which station many noblemen and officers of the court attended to take leave. HTIRRICANE OFF THE MAIIRITH7S. ALEXANDRIA, Aran, 9. Advioes received here from the Mauritius, dated March 12, state that a hurricane had taken place off that island by which 14 ships were driven ashore and the sugar crops damaged. The epidemic prevalent in the neighbourhood had not disap peared. OUR PARIS LETTER. THE ELECTIONS. (mom ova OWN COMISPONDINT.) PARIS, 131'NDAY ENT'SING. The elections decreed in yesterday's Mositeit r to take place on May 2 and 3 for the three death vacancies in the Seine Inf6rieure, Tarn, and Dordogne will be the occasion of a considerable poli tical demonstration in the country. The question is asked why two other vacancies—those in the Somme and the Ariege—are not to be tilled up at the same time. As to one of those seats it may be plausibly said that the late possessor, M. Henry Didier, is dead too recently for it to be consistent with usage to fill up his place just yet ; but for the postponement of an election to supply the place of Count d'Estournel, who was unseated by the Corps Legislatif some time ago, it would be difficult to allege any better reason than that the government, anticipating a defeat, wishes to put off the evil day as long as possible. It is a very monstrous thing that the imperial constitution gives the executive the power to keep a seat vacant for six months. In the Seine Inferieure the government candidate is M. Corneille, the son of the late member. The recent success of M. des Rotonrs, jun., in the Nord, encouraged the government to adopt the hereditary principle in this case. In the Tarn, however, that principle is not acted on by the Prefect. M. Gorsse, son of the late General Baron Gorsse, is tainted with liberalism, and moreover, the votes of his father, in the latter days of his life, were not as subservient 'as might be desired. He frequently kicked over the traces, voted frequently with the tiers parti, and sometimes even with the Loft. The consequence is that M. Gaugiran, the Mayor of Albi, is the official candidate, and M. Gorsse must try his luck on "his own hook." There is another independent candidate, M. Louis Decazes, who in 1863 obtained as many as 8,000 votes. In the Dordogne M. Gibiat, the manager of the Constitutionnel and Pays, who had hoped to be the official candidate, has been finally rejected by the Prefect, and came forward as an independent candidate against a M. Boiaredon, who is to be sup ported by all the influence of government. The divided duty now imposed upon the Con &tut ionwl is unprecedented. It cannot well oppose its own manager, and yet how can it refrain from supporting, as it is wont in all cases to do, the candidate recommended by go vernment t Hitherto it has preserved a judicious silence ; but the Pays, whose editor, Cramer de Casssgnac, thinks himself warranted, in consideration of old and special services, to take liberties with his master, abuses the Prefect in good set phrase for refusing to patronise M. Gibiat. The opposition candidate in the Dordogne is M. de Malleville. That in the Seine Inf6rieure is M. Estancelin, • member of the Constituent Assembly, who in 1863 obtained • very respectable minority in the district. In all these departments there will be • serious contest, and the poll will no doubt forcibly mark the rising tide of oppo sition, but I shall be greatly surprised if the government loses any one of the seats. In reference to these elections the catholic organ, the Union, publishes an article signed by the Marquis de Dreux-Bread, no ordinary journalist, but the head of a great catholic family and the brother of one of the wealthiest bishops in France. The advice he gives to the church party is neither to vote for official nor democratic candidates, but to seek for pure repre sentatives of church opinions. As a reason for not supporting government nominees he refers to the history of the last sixteen years. Never, he says, in any country, or at any period was the system of official candidates carried out with a per sistency and a success such: as it has been the " sad fate" of catholic. to witness under this empire. And yet what guarantees have the religious, political, moral, and material interests of catholic. obtained/ Rather he would ask, what checks have they not suffered t The tolerance of the Chambers resulting from these official elections, if ad their expert acquiescence, has rendered 'tensible those said events which have diverted France from her secular mission, corn- Ineraised her prestige abroad, and diminished her prosperity at home. Among the calamities of the mapke added up by the marquis are the unity of There dripping of the Holy See of four fifths of its dominion', the aggrandisement of Prussia, the Medan catastrophe, the aggressions of free trade, toed dko encroachment' of lay instruction. Fee all these ceuses he has no oonadenoe in any govern ' meat candidate. He would not, however, oompro mime sound principles by forming an allienoe with the revolutionary opposition. It may very likely be that the purely church can lidatts which he mam ma& may sot succeed. But his esloulation a that if in every circumscription of France C,OOO or 7,000 electors were to vote for churchmen, their whole number, amounting to something lik e 1,500,000, could not fail to exercise an influence upon the march of government. PARIS, SATURDAY Sesame°. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotildo will leave Paris on the 14th instant to attend Prin ce Humbert's wedding. The Queen of Portugal i s expected at Nies next week on her way to Turin, for the lame ceremony. I read in the Presse :—" The osremanies of Holy Thursday and Good Friday attracted innumerable crowds to the clunchea of Paris. The washing o f the feet of twelve poor children took place yester. day at Notre Dame by the Archbishop, at St. Thomas Aquinas, by the Pope's nuncio, and at the Madeleine by the Abbe Duguerry, the curs; of the parish, and the Prin ce Imperial's confessor." N ow as "I hate the pride that apes humility," I shall give you an exact description of the feet washin g as i t took place at the Madeleine. An imposing array of the great ones of his parish, in which the ?allie s of the Tuileries is situate, witnessed the self. abasement of Ablei Duguerry. The ladies—such is the church etiquette of Passion week —were all in mourning, but coquettish in the last degre e . The altars were sumptuously lighted up, and the tall beadles, with their three-cornered hats and silver -mounted poles, seemed to hold their heads higher than on ordinary occasions. After the con gregation had waited some time, M. Duguerry made his appearance, followed by a band of deacons. He delivered a 14ort extempore exhortation on humility, in which he spoke of the glorious et ample set by the Pope to the Christian church at the very moment he was speaking, when his Holiness was engaged in washing the feet of twelve beggars. No doubt, but for the enmity of the French code to mendicancy, the priest of the Madeleine would have selected the persons on whom to display his abnegation of self from the beggar class. As it was, he had hardly finished his discourse when the inmates of a boarding echool-- and judging from the aspect of the boys I should say a boarding school for aristocratic children were marshalled in, and from about three score twelve of the youngest and fairest selected. Thee were at once placed on old-fashioned high-backed chairs, when their patent leather boots and sp.t. lees white stockings were removed by a deacon. Another deacon bearing a silver basin preceded M. Duguerry, and set it down m turn before the little boys. A 3 each, after he had immersed a clean plump little white foot in the silver vessel, withdrew it, the cure hastily went through the form of wiling it with a large napkin. I have small judenieut in textile fabrics, but I was assured by a lady that this " towel " was of the finest Saxony linen —tine enough to pass through a wedding ring, and th.d the deep lace border surrounding it was of antique point de Velude. The Bourse was again dull, but the fall is too insignificant to be attributed to any serious appre hensions of war. The Ginnulc of Bordeaux, of the most important provincial papers, suggests that government at this monieut encourages the war rumours for the sole purp..e of exercising a pressure upon the budget mu. mates), which bravely says it will not sanction the enormous expenditure in the war department sue less it is furnished with a "reason. " Rents 10c. for cash and Zie. for account, closing .t 68f. 90c. and 681. 95c. Italian fell 75c., closing .a 47f. 90c. Credit Fonder fell 6f. 75c., and Mot.. liar and Comptoir d'Escompte sf, each. Itailwa,s. which have not lately fluctuated much, were all or sr. lower. A FRENCH ORANGEMAN. Of the Paris journals the Journal de ho., and of the writers in that papa., apparently M. Franc Peradol alone, finds fault with the decision of the Housed Commons on the question of the disestablishment of Irish protestant church. " It would be impossible," says La Literk," to show more ill-humour and disappointment. M. Prevost Paradoi blames right and left ; he is discontented with everylali —with government, with the opposition, with ET. Gladstone who desires to mount to power, and with Mr. Disraeli, whe naturally desires to retain it ; to reproaches the majority with having yielded to the threat! of Fenianism ; be predicts all sorts of evils for FmgLiad to the abomination of desolation ; he even finds fault — who would believe it 7—with parliamentary government, which be regards as having lost ground, in consequence el the attitude of the First Minister and the leader of the opposition." The Liherk concludes by asking why Philinte bas b.rs so suddenly changed into Aleeste —why the fierce Bien• brian of the parliamentary system has burned what be once adored. _ QUOTATION r. QUOTATION. The Opinion Nationale quotes the following from the works of the Emperor Napoleon 111. in support of itt theory of peace :—" Feeble governments alone look to external complcations as a diversion for internal ember. nsament." The Liberti, in sustainment of its war theory, replies by the following extract :—" Never, amongst free nations, Las a government been able to suppreu internal liberty for a long period without acquiring glory ►broad." The Ink etc summons the Opinion to reply yes or no whether France has internal liberty. FATALITIES AMONGST ENGLISH OM( Egi IN INDIA. Major Ruston has been killed, and Major li.ete and Lieutenant Mackinnon slightly wounded in an tie counter with the Bazootees, on the Peehawur frontier. The dindian announces the death at Sealkote, on the , 4 March, of Ensign Robert Smith, of the :48th Regiment. It woe occasioned by his accidentally falling down an un- protected well while returning from duty at midnight. The Pioneer regrets to hear of the death, on the fah instant, at the °Mimes' Hospital, St. George's-gate, Fort William, of Major It. Stothert, of the Bengal Staff (Mpg. Re was buried the next morning. Major Stothert's death promotes Lieutenant (captain in the staff corps) A. Cop. land, of the late 4th Regiment N. 1., to his captaincy. The deceased had only lately returned from medical leave to England. The marriage of the young Princess S. de Min grelie with ?linos Achille Murat has just been determined on, the distinguished parties having been affianced a dAy or two ago. _ _ _ A oorrespondent, writing from Mandalay, de scribes the ceremony of " boring the tors " of the daughter , of the King of Burmah, which took place there Web. The whole of the royal party were bedecked with air moods, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and pearls. Dig Majesty and two of the principal Queens were scarcely ab'e to walk from the weight of the ornaments on their rats. The King and the Queens were supported on either side by maids of honour of rare Burmese beauty. The orchestra was tilled by some of the dancing girls, who performed on saokbuts, drums, harps, Am. It is estimated that the whole affair will cost upwards of ten leas of rupee.. The gates of the palace were thrown open to all—men, women, and children—end theatrical performances went on .14 and night. . . •_ A meeting to advocate international copyright is to be held at the reams of the Historical Society in New York on April 9. Mr. Charles Dickens, it is said, will be present. An Amer:can paper says the Guelphs are a long lived race :--George I. died at ill, George 11. at 77, George 111. at 82, George IV. at 63, and William IV. at 7?. If Queen Victoria lire as long iu her grandfather, be r rOP will not close before 1901. LIR BONSAI' MAIL.—GIBRALTAR, APRIL 12. — The Nyanzt, with the heavy portico el the shove mails, leaves at 10 p.m. te-day. All well. She may be looked for at Southamplis shoat the 17th WS. OUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, AND At;e• Thatuar NA/LS OP WARM 21.7.-8015, Ann s.—The Columbian mad Moose& sailed at midnight today for Borabay and °sheath' reapostively. New You, Aria 12, Eviatuio. —The Inman mai mail Skagit City of Paris wired ben to day. All yell. Ste omuleace I levy westerly winds throughout bar wises. L I. 1