The Express. — London, England, 1868-07-14 00:00:00

FOR E N NENV 8. (THIS DAY.) A I'I'LEIIENDIFID EA ILTIItaI:A -Th'1••• TTIE PEOPLE. Tho /,Ay,! of PNith contains fin• '1 he inhabitant, of .I,e.therenyi l a 3• 33a terror in ronwnnenee of a Rtraie•Te a7itati•in of , Since the 15th of June, when any ea thplik.• w, , I',ath and other parts of Irunrlary, there lee, , taro agitation of tho earth here anti o i but this agitation has now become a violent .!, over, when the atmosphere iA e;,1111, sial,f—n hling is heard. The people ale eomplet , ly apprehensive that the., i•heviontelia yl';•• sore of some 1.471 rible y.T1. , .y Lev..their homes, and live eight ai.,l Illy n, i • churthen are shut, awl the , v i, bem-ath the sky. The 5!,..ek., • . to north. A VEHICLE SWEPT All•Ay hy AVALANCHE. 01.1 ThurSdny 1}11• IruLlir V..11i.1 , • Ir tin' IPOM 84 . 11.1:0 bet (;:ti) :MA I WILFI Carried away I :11l :I% 11.• N`. . down from the mountain. . the bed of the 171paym, for ;& oli•itan. , • .4 17.. • • after hating been hurled over a 1:r metrea high. Thor• were .ix • vehicle. Two of them hail tiun• to o••• the accident, but the four others won• ~• the torrent. Strange to say no one w the spot. Two were seriously injured, these, M. Payan, a veterinary surgeon m lonette, has since died from th,• .. sustained. THE CHURCH AND STATE LIEF:SiII) JAPAN. The separation of church and state • making what M. de Lamartine said of I}, • flag—le tour du mond,. W. ••,t the absence from the. Pope's Bull of th.• vitation to the secular princes to mk. in the oecumenical council was regard d duration of the secession of the Ron,:, , church from state connexion. Erma different quarter of the world we 1.-ant •!'.• • Chief Priest of Rioto has sent a bull to t NI „ , of Japan to inform him that he is mixin g up too much in temporal matters, awl thit does not reform his conduct he will he ,ww; to abdicate by the clergy. Ai many a. I copies of these documents have been ir , amongst the Japanese." (THROUGH RHUTER'iI AGENrY ) SERVIA. BELGRADE, JULY 13, EVI'N tN • Prince Alexander Karageorgev.ich has to appear before the local court of justio it L• grade on the 21st of this month, being oh , with complicity in the late assassination of I'mc Michael. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Rut 13, EVY.SIS.I. A concession hail been granted to con:tr, railway between St. Petersburg and a port 0•: • Baltic, as also a line connecting Rybinsk with Nicolai Railway. INDIA. cALcurnt, JeS (VilTrieste.) At the sixth opium sale the prices refill:,•i rupees per chest above Mr. Massey's estimat••. The question of an Indian gold curt is exciting much attention. It is 0.0 that the government as a tentative measure to admit English and Australian sovereign. their full commercial value without, howev..r. : • daring them legal tenders. The final proceedings of the furlough cones . will be published immediately. In consequence of the prevent y the detective department of the Bengal government has ordered its reorganisation. The Eastern Bengal Railway Company .s , dertaken to work the Calcutta and South I:‘ , . Railway for the government. BOMBAY, JUNI: > Government telegraph officers are now in 1: • bay, for the purpose of establi-hing :t di!..! to Calcutta. The cable between Kurraehee awl (i broken, but it is not expected that it will • ~.• delay to messages, the land lint.t being :1.1 About sixty transports have :mit...a:it It from Abyssinia, bringing largo troops. Others are daily es 1N• ...1. The weather is intensely hot. and to:tity haveoccurred at Kunliebeefrom }oat awl apoples The homeward bound steaun•r Sunit put. Gallo disabled on the 9th, having lo,t two her screw. The commission on the Bank of 11.4n1,30: adjourned its sittings till the 210th, for the pulp of investigating the books. The cholera is rife at Jubbulpore. CHINA. sh (Vii Trieste.) SHANGHAI, u. v Mr. Cooper, the explorer, has reached tho , fines of Western China, and, acconling to th, advicee, was fifteen days' journey from Tibet. The rebels retired from Tientsin, and th. it s tentions were uncertain. The total arrivals of tea at Toochow are chests. The following vessels are loading for Elinw , '— Sir Lancelot, Ariel, Taeping, Lahloo, tirentithnr. Scrims, Yangtze, Chinaman, Black Prince, and Fidy Cross. A steamer is also expected to kis, London. JAPAN. YOKOHAMA, Mkt (Via Trieste.) The Mikado visited Osaka, where a naval ronew was held. Stotsbashi has gone into retirviamit. AUSTRALIA. DiTBLEi*, MELBOURNE, B%T (VA Trieste.) Mr. Sladen has succeeded in forming a n..w numences 01 tree monaay Concerts, the Musical -- k........‘"..7 '''''''''''''''''s ..'"'m '''' .. "“'''.'"a'a°ll Or '"'' . " . .w e 7 ( . 7 6 ,d1 - w iTi er s- ,;;;;d th e marriage of L a d y air. maaen GU succeectea m 'tinning ;i e. -- DITBLEC, l4. have etoodby their precious wares in the marri age his standing for the borough of Huddersfield, and a g e rnion and the occasional Recitals , that market until the shilling peaches can find nostrictly Conservative they doubtless will be when Katherine Acheson, sister of the Earl of ilostord, and The Ulster Orange demonstrations have passed off Ili look f or evidence of a public who really go to he w a e rtranquilly. A grand meeting was held atßallemacash, near allow the ministers to appeal to their con4l lo ',, purchasers, and it is time for them to music, a n d . know how to enjoy it. he . stands for the . same borough at the ensuing Admirsi Ca g tani Dun s's , win g ia bs ' . a it h ot a t t . ti naciai Grenadi b e, er an Gu d a t e. M i n !. Lisburn ; about 35,000 persons were present. Mr. Verner, The ministers have announced their melee- -' I away the damaged fruit into the basket, g will Music plays so important a part in the election. To be sure at the last election Mr. SLEIGH sought the su ff rages of the electors of Thec.osehpostw:stakauethpolarite; to e tradi end ct of th r ann pres ou r zem t mon th . M . P ., and others vindicated Oran . geism ably. Proceedings treat the Darling grant in a separate bill. . stry. Parliament has adjourned to the leii,hi,..) . 1 and try what a little country air - London summer, that we have left ourselves no orderly. Great Orange meeting in the Rotundo, Dublin ; The Sydney Chamber of Commence are ,1 ,1 " "^ do to revive it. Where flail we e- .- .0 ° • space to speak of other characteristics, advan- Lambeth in the character of an advanced Radical, an i n t e nded marriage between Lord Mahon, M.P., an d about 6,000 present. Mr. Johnston, of Ballykillbeg, and the subject of a direct mail i-ei the Cape. a phrase not strictly grammatical, but never mind but that must have been an aberration of intellect Mies Frances Banbury. the Rev. Dr. Drew spoke warmly in defence of 0 geism. tageous or the reverse, of that ' , . that—is in the mouth of everybody, gentle or • . . a season is rapid ly sinking into " the dreadful past." Mr. Jona th an Pim again seeks the support of the Dublin constituency, and explains why ho could ; simple, select or vulgar, who can possibly get in power. There is no doubt as to which flag the entertained at a grand banquet, which will be given by The sessions hail commenced. Ae ., - away, though it be no farther than the Isle of new Scrjeant will enrol himself under in the forth- the officers of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, on not vote with Mr. Gladstone on . th . e Irish church the north . Go A v d ern viee oreha f d re b m een N w ew ell Z nec a i l ii i i ( - 1 / 1 4 '1 1 b s y ta t t ll ., • i t i 1 .1 1 :1 1,- * . Thanet ; and in the middle of July, " Where shall Till , : WIMBLEDON CAMP. coming struggle. Friday next. The Duke of Cambridge, E.G., and other question, but now adopts the principles sanctioned trial of the Fenians was fixed for the Ist! , 11 , Y , - 1,, :. by the House of Commons, and will advocate The following gold ships have sailed &win:. [ distinguished officers have accepted invitations to be " we go ?" no longer means to Richmond or to --e--- a equality for all churches, without State support. resent on the occasion. month :—The Moravian, 35,875 ounce , : th e Greenwich, but to the hen, the moun t a i ns , or the T H E annual volu n t eer gathering at Wimbledon IT appears by a report to the House of Repro- P Mr. Alderman Lawrence will ask the First Co- sex, 45,500 ounces ; the Vimeni, 35,625 ot , '''" fiords, to Cowes or Ryde, to Switzerland, or to has commenced with what may be almost termed sentatives at Washington, that the following re_ missioner of Works, on Thursday, whether notices will be A curious point will shortly be contested in a and the Essex, 47,250 ounce,. Norway. Here comes a very sad reflection that re- conventional success. Year by year ham this gro a t ductions will be made in the army of the United served during the autumn on the owners of houses in court of l aw w ith th e South Western Company. The CUTS regularly once a year. A fortnight open air festival continued to improve in conditions States before the Ist of January, 1889 :—lnfantry Holywell-street, and also on the owners of house • AMERICA. . or three weeks hence London will be deserted! and management, until our amateur soldiers make 12,096 ; cavalry, 4,113; artillery, 1,837. In the the line of a new street from the Strand to Lincoln': fare for return tickets between two contiguous stations, NEW YORK, Juts I. 1 There will be a bare three million or so of nobodies a thoroughly well organised and well governed six months suonnoding, & further reduction of 12,511 {nn gelds on the west side of the proposed New Law Courts, in order that a bill may be brought in, during A . and B, and station to distant one, Z, is the same. (B on to Z.) A passenger who takes his left in the capital to enjoy the sovereign d a l - camp. Like other excellent things the encamp- men will be made. Of the army of I,soo,oootiiscket at B and returns from Zby a train that does not •'on of parliament, top rov id e approaches re d out neeB of its dingy squares and dusty solitudes, meat , as it is to be seen now, has been a work of which defended the Union- in 1885 there will *h. thg nei lta oe the f • -1) stop at B, is charged an emir fare from B to A, although to new o justice, by the re. he was ne t p ro hibit e d f r om t ram mi ng b y th e train, was American steamship Borussia, am • _ urg . . i and the lively exhalations of its many-odoured gradual growth. Many features are wanting, and remain only 17,160 to defend it in 1869 . Th The moral of Holyarell- street, and the formation of a new not allowed to get out at B, and has paid the full fare Sunday, the latter at 10 p.m. The Hamburg j eteamThealltinr Minnesota, in st n ea eso nis t l a ii , p C an it ( y i o.tfhl.l,oshtham.n,btuhrge 010.01 Amelia. At such a moment it becomes the many more have been added since the first inference to be drawn from this state of fact s by street from th e Strand to 'Await's-inn-fields- to A. American Company's steamship Hawaiians, sp . ; • . .....- _ ... _ _ . _ . . . . . _ •- - - - . • 40F" . . . EEN'S 'l'll EAT RE, I AINU ACRE. Mailaor- Mr W. 11. I.IST‘IN. TO N I U IIT inieith ti Quart, to Eight. a N. It Int t nth , h r . ~ :it it I TI 211 Ean I th.• It M , •• %. Wyo. el, .1. I, Tool, %V, 11. Stephen., 1.. Itrotgli. U . Murray. .1 no (la) ion. 11. 'l. ;It, 11. 11.).1.op, V Markham. bllutoio To vone;o.lo a ith F. I'. Burnam'. E.l 'O , highly no. ol Eattwtor • . FOW I. 1 . 1.11" - - TIME aind the HOUR. rwaLJ."-75mr.." 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ON the eve of the festival of the most ca pricious of Saints, it is permissible to say that the Beason is virtually over. We say " virtually," after the manner of the PRISM MINISTER, who, when be tells the House of Commons that a Bill is virtually passed, makes a mental reservation of his independent auxiliaries in the Upper Chamber. The two Opera Houses are announc ing their last nights, the multitudinous concert-givers, who, if each were an AMPHION, would suffice to build a city bigger than any ancient or modern Babylon, are dropping one after the other into silence. The HANDEL Fee tival is past and gone ; the Duke of EDINBURGH hat oome home, and gone down to his ship again ; Mr. LONGFELLOW has sought shelter in the Isle of Wight ; and, though there are Abyssinian lions enough in town to supply half the country houses in England, they are gradu ally subsiding into the retirement and repose they have so well earned, after appeasing the curiosity of society and the public. Parliament is visibly languishing and exhausted. The salons are closing one by one, and all the painful arta and artifices by which the rich, the idle, the easy, and the important classes seek to kill time and to exorcise ennui in the great roundabout of Vanity Fair, are worn to death and threadbare. Matrons stood by flu THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 14, ^ 1868. dt.tah r historian of the hour to proceed to an ex ittnilmti..ti of the metropolitan conscience. and to 1. , 'der whether the Season has justified or de rired the expectations of titers 1111:e$1.411,11$ gram -10..1.s who predicted that it would be a failure. To begin with, it has been one of the fittest sold lmttest 14404111 R on reconi. Regent-street may fast to be agriculturally minded after three months' uninterrupted brilliant :.unshine, and may join the cry for ruin ; but there can be no doubt that of all the constituents of a pros p erous London season 11011 e is so powerful. for better or for worse, as the " Weather office." Such a May, and such a June, as we have had this year, bring suc cess and prosperity to every trade that waits upon luxury and the mode. Forty days' rain before tit. SW ITII IN'S would cause as much disaster in town as forty days' rain after St. SWITIIIN'S in the country. Some complaints wore muttered about the absence of the Court at the height of the season ; but it is pleasant to record that front this summer dates the reappearance of Her MAJESTY after her long retreat ; and though her occasional presence may have made the intervals of her absence more acutely felt, it mat count on the profit side of the aoason, and is full of promise for succeeding years. The Opera Houses, so conspicuous a feature of the season, will not perhaps be disposed to give to 1568 a white mark in their calendar. Without pretending to disclose any secrets, it may be doubted whether the success of either house has been equal to that of some former years. Nor is this altogether the fault of the season. With the single exception of Mdllc. NILSSON, who has almost revived the glory and the charm of JENNY LIND, and compensated " Her Majesty's Opera" for its temporary migration to Drury-lane, there have been no new singers of remarkable merit, and absolutely no new operas. It would be invidious to risme names. But it is impossible to shut one's eyes or one's ears to the fact that with very few ex ceptions " the Italian Opera" is a memory of the past. It is not the growth of musical taste in this country that Las given us two opera houses instead of one ; but simply the increasing number of unknown millionaires who can afford to take a box at the Opera for the season. And what do they see and hear for their pains ? An admirable miss in arks, an excellent orchestra and chorus, and singers—exceptions excepted—of every rate but the first ; Italian singers who have long sung away the fine edge of their voices ; singers of all nations except Italy, who never thoroughly learnt to sing. The repertories at both houses have been remarkable this year for the absence of novelty ; for the best of all reasons, that there is nothing at once new and good to be had. No doubt the inexhaustible indulgence of a British audience (which some intelligent foreigners mistake for stupidity) will listen with everlasting satisfaction to singers who would not be tolerated for a moment by any audience abroad. But where are the new singers and the new com posers to be found ? Opera-goers of twenty years ago may console themselves with the reflection that they beard in those days singers who have had no successors, or who have survived their own voices, in operas which will always keep the public ear in spite of the singers. There is another side to the Opera House question, however, which we recom mend to the consideration of the managers. Is it not just possible that the old exclusive system of sacrificing the general public to the sub scription list and to the stalls, of charging enormous prices, and endeavouring to turn a theatre into a salon, is worn out ; and that if an Opera-house is to be made a prosperous spe culation (especially in the absence of singers and composers), it must make some concessions to a democratic age, and study the convenience of the general public ? We put the question, without presuming to answer it off-hand. Turning from the Opera to another form of fashionable musical entertainment, we believe th.ire have never been more concert givers or more concerts than this year. This is a fearful and wonderful fact; explain it and rejoice in it who can. There may be some advantage to the common weal in this concentration of virtuosi every afternoon, and there is at all events the satisfaction of not being obliged to hear them. Where do the concert-going public conic from ? Who are they, so brilliant in their attire and so bored and sleepy in their looks ? Well, there are pupils of the virtuoso, and their friends ; there are the religious world who draw the line at concerts ; there are the people from the country who like a good indigestion of musical celebrities once a year, and go wherever they can get the most for their ticket. And after all it is difficult to suppose that many of these incessant and distracting performances of the musical season—we speak of the miscellaneous concerts—can be profitable to any one concerned in them, the giver, or the performers—ex cept ndirectly in keeping up a connexion, or making one. There is one class of concerts, however, of a very different order ; we mean the " Recitals " of Bifirrriovirm and MIL'IDELSSO RN which are given by Madame ARABELLA GODDARD and Mr. Cmtrums HALLE. These are really the gems of the musical season, exquisitely satisfy ing to the most refined taste and feeling, and to young people who are studying the instrument worth a hundred lessons from the most expensive master. The number of ladies who may be seen intent on these rare and perfect performances, and sitting with the score in hand, while Madame GODDARD is playing—as very few can play— one of MENDELssosies Lieder with all the simple grace and distinction of a lady in her own drawing-room, seem to justify even better than the thousands who crowd to a Hexnm. Festival, the boast that true musical feeling and attainments are spreading in this country. In esti mating the just success of a ILuvusa. Festival we must take into account the vast scale of the programme, the attractions of the scene itself, and the interest which oratorio music possesses for the vast religious and respect able public. It is rather to the selecter audiences of the Monday Concerts, the Musical mu •f But, whatever may be the extraneous ph moires indulged in by the volunteers, the aims of the National Rifle Association have been steadily eeiu ntrated upon the shooting. Camp fires, with their attendant jollifications, are among the things of the laud. The copious CAMS of punch ; the tin mugs so often replenished and so gene rously handed round ; the free-and-easy songs ; the gay assemblage round the sides of the natural basin in which the fire crackled ; all led to later hours and more feverish systems than good marksmen should affect. Accordingly, camp-fires are prohibited and a variety of respectable but well war n allusions to REM BRANDT and SALVATOR ROSA midensl useless. The vast and increasing extent of the camp, moreover, makes any general fusion for purposes of amusement all but impossible. The regimental camps find that if they entertain themselves and another regiment their numbers are sufficient for comfort. A quad rangle of small tents, with a large tent for mess in the centre or at the end, makes up the ordinary regimental camp ; and this is in many instances railed or roped off, and its entrance guarded by a sergeant. Those who remember the time when Lord Emit° used to gaily snap his fingers and shriek, while dancing the dance of his country with dervish-like vigour among his follow Scots, and before hundreds of idle night-loungers who were allowed to wander to and fro, and to wander at will, would be amused at the jealousy with which the light blue iron railing round the London Scottish encampment is guarded now. The Civil Service have not yet taken similar precautions, and the result is that ladies who ought to have known better wore to be seen strolling up and down in front of their tents, putting many of the gallant fellows to the blush. The camp is pitched most picturesquely, and has an uninterrupted view of Combs Wood and Richmond Park, with a lovely expanse of ferns and heather in the foreground. Mr. THOMAS Huonas's fine corps of working men are down under the command of Captain S. Wusox, and are prominent for their gymnastic proficiency and skill. But the camp is a collection of little towns, with 230 policemen to keep it in order, and to walk through it observantly is to recognise beneath external uniformity a thousand minute differences of character, antecedents, and training. the great military governments of Europe is, that the United States arc about to plunge into war ; for evidently it is the Europoan theiry that (1101 moua armies are equivalent to pew.. Even to hear of a snow-fall in this weather is a luxury. Happy they who were in the district between Tinl-e and Vosubia last week, where the Journal de Nice informs us so heavy a snow-shower lcolc place that " it required the hot rays of Bun " day's sun to melt it away." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) PARLIAMENTARY 1)11'Is1o.v.q. FRIPPLY. HOUSE OF (X)MMONB.- -MONDAY, JULY 14. Survi.y.- Order for Committee read; Motion , and Question proposod, "That Mr. Speaker do now loalo, the Chair:"— Amendment proposisl, to leave out from the word "'That" to the end of the Quenion, in order to add the words " a scientific inquiry he instituted. to take into consideration the leauling characteristics that Pliould be adopted in the future construction of the yes eels of the Navy,"—(Mr. Seely)—instcad thereof : Question put, "That the worth proposed to be left out stand pad of the Question:"—The House divided; Ayes 47, hoes 37. AVM. Beaeh, Sir M. Hay. Sir J. Patten. Col. W. Unit, Sir W B. Henley, J. W. Pemberton, K 1.. Iliooka, It. Herbert, Oen. Pugh, I). Cave, 14. Heyprate, W. U. Hohertion, P. P. Cave, T. Hallam, Lord Helater-Itooth, U. Marnberit, M.l Bowen, K hi-ymour, O. It. Childers., H. C. Haridake, Sir J. B. Stanley, Lord Dirnadale, H. , Laird, J. Treeby, .1. W, Inmaeli, FL Lan yon, Sir C. Vanderbyl, I'. Hu Cane, C. Leader, N. P. Warren, It. It. Eaton, 11. W. I.ronnz, Lord H. U. Wooterbothanl, 11. Fe o, Sir J. Liddell, 11. 0. Wme, H. C. (loolon, E. It Mannerr, Lord J. Woudd, B. T. Craven, H. H. Montagu, Lord It. Ouinnea, Sir A. Montgomery, Hir O. Tt.1.1..*1i. Hamilton, load (1. Fakington, Sir J. Noel, U. J. Hay, Lord J. Parker, Major Whitmore, IT. NOES. Anson, Major Bray, Hir J. Monk, C J. Ayinun, K. H. Burney, K. O'Beirne. J. L. Paw, M. T. Jaekoon, W. Paget, T. T. Batley, T. Jervoiae, Hir J. C. Parry. T. Blake, J. A. I.obouehere, H. Itainsay, .1. InINIAPIN J. 1. Look, A. liberal, A. C. Butler, C. H. Mackinnon, Capt. Thiimpon, M W. Candlish, J. Dl'Laren, D. Watkut, E. W. Carter, H. Maxwell, W. 11. White, J. Cowen, J. Mill, J. IL !Arty, It. Mille, J. It. -I .I.:.i.ai. Evans T. W. Milton, Part. 5.11,1, C. French, Col. Mitchell, T. A. Natuudo, J. 11. Gwelee, Bell. Moffatt, (I. (In the committee.) Motion made, and question proposed. " That a sum, not exceeding 742,500/., be granted to her Majesty, to complete the sum neeeeeary to defray the expense of steam machinery for her Majesty's ships and vessels, and for payments to be made fur ships and vessels building or to be built by contract, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 814 day of March, 1889.° Whereupon motion was made, and question put, "That a sum, not exceeding 742,000/., be granted to her Ma jesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the ex poise of steam machinery for her ajesty's Ships and vessels, and for payments to be made for ships and veasela building or to be built by contract, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1869."—(Mr. Samuda).—The committee divided—Ayes GO, Noes 92. - AYES. Adam, W. P. Griffith, C. D. Milton. Visa. Allen, W. b. (lunacy, R. Moffatt, O. Ayrton, A. 8. tey's, 11. O'Beirne:J. L. Aytortn, It. 8. Hamilton, E. W. Ogilvy, Sir J. Barnes., T. Hardmatle, J. A. Paget, T. T. Buttelot, Col. Hay, Lord J. Powell, F. 8. Biel, X. T. Hoiden, I. Pritchard, J. Bonham-Carter, J. Hurst, R. H. Ramsay, J. Botiverie, K. P. Jervoiae, Sir J. C. Seely, C. }Light. Jacob Kendall, N. Sharriff, A. C. Sir P. Kinnaird, A. F. Thompson, H. W. C.andllali, J. Leeman, 0. Waldegrave-Ledie, Carnegie, C. Lewis, Carter, 8. Lowe, R. Walker, Major Cave, T. Lusk, A. White, J. Chambers, M. Lyttetton,, C. G. Wioterbotham, H. Cowen J. I n, Capt. Woods, H. Dillwyn, L. L. 'M .. aras, D. Fawcett, H. Martin, P. W. TRI.LF.R.I. Ours J. R. Maxwell, W. H. Sainuda, J. D. Onagers, O. J. Melly, 0. Laird, J. Graven, 8. R. Mill, J. 8. ___ __ . . NOES. Adderley, C. B. Hervey, Lord A. H. Pugh. D. Barrington, Viset. Hay,Read, Bathurst, A. A. Na y l or , A. D. Bearden, D. J. Beach, 81r Y. Henley, J. W. Robertson, P. F. Bcntinck, 0. C. Henniker-Major, J. Eialomons, Ald. Bingham, Lord lima*, W. IL Schreiber, C. Booth, Si r R. HiMiard, T. B. Sdater-Booth, 0. Bowyer, Sir 0. Hogg, Lieut .- Col. Sehrin-Ibbeteon, H. Brett, Sir W. Holford, R. 8. Seymour, 0. H. Clive, 8. Howes, E. Simonds, W. B. Chambers, T. Hunt, O. W. Somerset, E. A. Childers, H. C. Johnston, Sir J. Stanley, Lurd Clinton, Lard E. Kerslake, Sir J. B. Stirling-MaxwelL Cole, J. L. Knatehbull-Hugus. Sir W. Dimsdale,_lt. Stone, W. H. Disraeli, B. Stuart, Col. C. Dowdeswell, W. E. Lecon, lC:4l t.E Bir .F. E. W. Borten, C. F. Du Cane, C. Lennox, Lord H. 0. Thorold, Sir J. H. Dunne, Oen. Lindaay, Col. C. Treeby. J. W. Edwards, Sir H. Manner; Lord J. Trevor, Lord A. E. Fellowes, E. Monk, C. J. Tumor, E. Finch, O. H. Montagu, Lord R. Walpole, S. H. Royer, J. Montgomery, Sir 0. Warren, R. R. Ordway, Vied Morgan 0. . Wise, H. C. Cloldney, 0. , Mowbray, J. R. Wou ld, B. T. Goodson, J. Neste, C. Wyld, J. Gordon, E. S. Newport, Vied. Wynn, C. W. Overt, J . E. VBFren, Sir P. Wynne, W. R. Oradell, H. R. Palangton, Sir J. Hamilton, Lord Cl. Parker, Major TELI.EIii. Harkey, 'l'. Parry, I'. Noel, 0. J. Hardy, 0. Patten, Colonel Whitmore, EL Hartopp, E. B. Price, W. P. A ROYAL TRIP TO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE. Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, Cap tain his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningeu, recently returned to Portsmouth from a cruise beyond the arctic circle, the purpose of which still remains one of the official mysteries. This magnificent vessel is, we believe, the first of her size and costliness which has made the attempt to penetrate the dangerous fiords and intricate channels of the Norwegian coast; and it is to be presumed that the object of the voyage was commensurate in importance with the risk incurred. The ship left Portsmouth on the Ist June, and arrived at Bergen on the 4th. She remained there two or three days, while the paddle-steamer Vivid, which was detached for duty as tender to the yacht during the cruise, conveyed the Prince of Leiningen and other of the officers up the Hardanger fiord. On resuming her voyage the yacht proceeded to Frondhjem, calling en route at Orandsunde and Molde. During this part of the voyage the ship kept well in shore, steaming slowly up the fiords and among the innu merable islands that bound the Scandinavian coast, and she sometimes found herself in rather critical positions. In some places the channels were so narrow, with rocks towering some hundreds of feet above on either side, that it seemed to be almost impossible for a ship to pass; but the yacht answered to her helm admirably, and she was fortunate enough to have skilful pilots on board. Under these circumstances she made her way through the intricacies of navigation without a casualty, and with out appearing any the worse for her voyage. To a tra veller unaccustomed to the northern latitudes, the physical phenomena were most marked and interesting: After leaving Frondhjem the voyagers had the advantage, if it is anadvantage, of perpetual daylight, and the mountains be. tween that point and Hammerfest were capped with mow. The thermometer on board the ship was down to freezing point, while the son, an early riser in these regions, was well up above the horizon at midnight. The yacht steamed slowly northward to Hanimerfest, generally anchoring for the night, and afterwards rounded the North Cape, which is over 70 degs. north of the Equator, and, therefore, some four degrees within the Arctic circle. The ship remained two days at this point to coal for the home mud voyage, and then shaped her course southward, calling at Prondhjem and the Shetland Wands on herway, and arriving at Portsmouth after an absence of twenty eight days. The only surmise we have heard expressed as to the object of the trip ii that it was undertaken as a sort of trial cruise, with the view of its being repeated on some future occasion for the benefit or pleasure of the royal family. The only visitor of distinction on board, how. ever, on this occasion was the Princess of Leiningen. The weather was very %Ad and wet during the greater part of the voyage. THE JULY DEMONSTRATIONS IN DUBLIN. THE LAST OF CHURCH RATES. THAT church rates are abolished henceforth will almost seem to be too good news to be true to the people who remember the fiery ordeals through which this vexed question has had to pass. Yet the vote of the House of Lords last night gives to the acrimony, the agitations, the annoyances, and the worry which some earnest minded men have undergone, all the dignity of history. The memory turns to past disputes, and to the social vexations to which the opponents of the dominant party had to submit, with feelings which are softened by time and by success, but which nerve for future conflict when ever great principles are at stake. The steps by which this end has been achieved have been difficult, but they have been sure, and no one who has deliberately chosen annoyance and hard ship rather than pay an impost he thought was unjust, but has helped to further the cause. The Braintree case, which, thanks to the conscientious persistency of the late Mr. Col:aw:am, decided that the majority in a vestry should have their legitimate power over the actions and decisions of the entire body ; the tedious incarceration of Mr. CHILD, Mr. THOROOOOD, and others, and the distraints and forcible seizure of goods and chattels submitted to by hundreds, seem now like a dream. Without exalting the abolition of Church-rates beyond its merits, it is but fair to recall the steady qualities, the sacrifices, and the labours by which it has been brought about. AMAZONS WANTED. WE have heard lately of the prowess and the doughty deeds of a band of Amazons in Paraguay, and now we hear of an attempt to estab lish what in the sham-military parlance of the day may be called an Amazonian " move " ment," much nearer home. The Paris journal, the Epoque, gravely asserts than Madame ITALIA GARIBALDI, wife of MRrtorri GARIBALDI, is about to raise a regiment of Amazons, who are to be clad in the celebrated IitRATOM cuirass, which is both ball and bayonet-proof. The Epoque says further that two—we suppose we may call them sergeants—of the regiment, left Paris for Dover on Friday evening, with the declared intention of recruiting " parmi les miss et lee ladies de la veille " Angleterre." This is very Battering, but why do they come to us ? Is it that the opinion, more candid than courteous, expressed by the late Mr. NATHANIEL HAwrnolla of our women has been spread abroad ? Do the recruiting sergeants of the Amazons expect to find our land tilled with-- "daughters of the plough, stronger than men, Huge women, blowsed with health and wind and rain, And labour—" like the female guard of Mr. TENN. ?SON'S "Prin cess F" We are not very much concerned at this news, for in the first place, we do not believe it, and in the second, if it were true we have far too high an opinion of the common sense of our Englishwomen to imagine that they would be for one moment beguiled by such ridiculous vagaries. POLITICS AND THE LAW. A RUMOUR was current yesterday in the Law Courts that tho dignity of the coif has been con ferred on Mr. &moil, the well-known barrister, who will consequently henceforth take rank among that honourable body the Queen's serjeanta at-law. Mr. Bmow has for a long time been a member of the home circuit, and is one of the counsel much sought after at the Old Bailey Courts. It is a question, however, whether his talents might not have failed to recommend him for pro motion in the eyes of the present Government had not his political principles been strictly Conservative. Conservative at least they were when Mr. &nos last publicly announced them on the occ as i on of THE OFTWERS Of P,InTENUE AND THEIS votes. Approving the decision in tho House of Lords last night on the above question, the Time. observes that the disabilities of the revenue officers were imposed when the civil service was wholly different from what it is now. Revenue officers were first disabled from the exercise of the franchise in 1782, when government boroughs were a mainstay of the constitution, when civil servants were appointed and promoted from party interest, and when they were even removed from similar causes. All these things have been changed. The members of the civil service now enter it after a competitive examination, and ever since the time of Lord Liverpool the promotion of civil servants has been in the hands of the permanent heeds of departments. The dismissal of a member of the service from political motives is a thing so improbable as to be almost inconceivable. The Daily News soon in the whole proceedings another instance of cabinet contradiction. Mr. Hunt had pledged himself only a few days before to views precisely opprpiite to those expressed by the Lord Chancellor. Nobody anticipated that government would put forward one of their number in the House of Lords to pull to pieces the speech that another of their umber had delivered in his official capacity in the House of Commons. The result of this astonithing feat of political prestidigitation, so far as the measure under consideration is immediately con. cerned, is one over which we may fairly rejoice. Mr. Monk's scheme has now escaped the shoals and breakers, and runs in smooth water. The Post says that the bill only half does the work after all. It repeals the prohibition from voting at elec tions, but it leaves the prohibition from " interfering " where it was. Now, it is evident that it would be most indecent for public officers to become active po litical partisans, or to take a great part in election eering battles, but the regulation of their conduct in this respect is a matter, not for legislation and penal laws, but for departmental rules. TERI= AND BROADSIDES. The Daily New. points out that Mr. fiecly's motion last night had a far wider purpose than that to which it was limited by most of the speakers, and concurs with Mr. Childers in regretting that the Admiralty did not so in terpret his motion am not to press it to a division but rather to accept the principle of the suggestion that the constructive department should be assisted by some sort of consultative body of practical and scientific, authorities, whose assistance should not absolve the board from any past of its responsibility, but whose names and influence would inspire parliament and the public with con fidence. The Trkyreph has no doubt that there is some ground for the misgivings which were expressed last night; but, while the Admiralty is open to attack on the ground that adherence to the broadside system has been too exclusive, we are bound to remember that many able men are without faith in the boasted monitors. They plead that the problem of a sea-going cruising turret-ship has yet to be solved; and the plea is not to be dismissed with a flourish about tb e crossing of the Atlantic by an American monitor aaLLWAY Wan. The Times approves the resolution of Lord Taunton, which declares that no railway bill which proposes to in crease the rates now payable on the conveyance of goods or paasengers shall be read a second time until a special report of the Board of Trade shall have been laid on the table of the house. It will thus be in the power of par liament to permit an increase of rates in those cases where it appears that the tragic cannot be safely and decently conducted at the existing rates, and where, therefore, it is for the benefit of the public that the rates should be raised. the eattrt. OSBORNE, *TERM 13. no Queen and the Royal family walked in the grounds this morning. The Marquis of Exeter and Viscount Royston arrived at Osborne today, and presented to her Majesty the ad dresses of congratulation from both Houses of Parliament upon the Princess of Wales having given birth to a Princess. Marlborough House, July 13, 10 a.m. The recovery of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales proceeds uninterruptedly. The infant Princess is perfectly well. Another bulletin will be issued on Wednesday after noon, the 16th instant. Arrxua Fula, M.D. E. H. Sumuixo, M.D. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Colonel Hon. A. Liddell and the Rev. W. L Onslow, and attended by Colonel Kingreote, went to Portsmouth yesterday, and visited the Duke of Edinburgh on board her Majesty's ship Galatea, off Osborne. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Hong Kong, Ceylon, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island. Despatches; were sent to the Governor of Malta and to the Governor-General of Canada. A deputation from the Canal Association, consisting of Hon. A. F. Egerton, M.P., Mr. Surtees, M.P., Mr. Schreiber, M.P., Lieutenant-General Stanhope, and others, bad an interview with the Duke of Rickman' at the aloe of the Board of Trade yesterday, on the subject of a clause proposed to be added to the Railways Regula tion Bill. The Duke of Cambridge honoured Visootmt and Viscountess Castle:ore with his (=veep at dinner lest evening, at their residence in Greavenor-gardens. The gnats included the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi, the Duke and Duchess of Buc.. clench, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marchioness of Lothian, Maria Marchioness of Ailsebury, the Countess of Newburgh, the Earl and Counties of Bessborough, the Earl end Cumber Oramille, Viscount and Viaoountess Sydney, Archbishop Manning, Lord Water Kerr, Lady Marian Alford, and Colonel the Hon. /amen and Mrs. Maodonald. Later in the evening her ladyship had a small and early party. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, attar entertaining the Earl and Counties of Carnamon and a select party at Non Home from Saturday to yester day, lave gone to Albury Park, near Guildford, and next weak go to Alnwick Castle. The Earl and Countess of Derby leave town on Tuesday nest for Knowsley.. _ _ 4 I R I I I, •