The Express. — London, England, 1867-08-06 00:00:00

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Til LI V ERPOOL and LONDON and GLOBE INttritANCE tiitIPAN V. : —t. lialeotreet, 'Menem!: 7, Vornhill; and tinging. cross, London. -: • .1 • fends now amount to £3, ,331. the Cr, fete•oic , that of the lite to .c•f•l.:07. , • . of premium. with a tmanuneed filed I..eet. t• • I, i•••heies of this company and thetr value as met tap •• - third parties, render them particularly adviuitagettus. torte 1. granted on reasonable terms, and claims are D , a ;titer admission. JOHN .1T it litrt, Resident Secretary. I)OYAL ALRAIktBRA PALACE. ‘lan3ging Director, Mr. F. Ntr.u3gr.) Three Ballets, S* Pa:o •r.-..• In , trumentattste, Singers, Acrobats, Mimic*: i..:.-.t Teleßearait, P•loolo, suppur-rooms, lAvatortes, • rooms. Evening Paper: 10 orchestral Pieces Every • open at Hall-peat Seven, beget at Eight. Prices—le., ..• 11::1 t.!. Reserved Seats, In. 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LLITIIC.—The IXITUCE contains an active 19 piaci*, the laturina which parses all the within Properties ~ ligitum without lie dangers—Mr. (i.JOTAAU, Preach deeds, 49, Haymarkat, prepares a Syrup sad a Pate of Latta* ht iettace , , highly remaimesided by the Medical sa Profession fee tlima, koncialtis, sad all chest affections. Syrup,la. ad.: lin. sad b. 3d. rat.. by post, la Sad and L . 3d. DR. berm scams BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, • falling remedy, prepa wilts:ad lredisat, will be bread Invaluable to red ell who mane frombilloas "a him ounSistilts, tadigestron, triad, gems, giddiness, disa rms of the eyrie, an lot Lebituat costiveness, e a family sot medicine, and as purifier of the blood, they are tra y weeilt . mild In their operatieu and gratetal to the stomach, Rey create appetite, pr-mote digestion, and strengthen the yew. DeTYOIIII epsnea—aeiti by w.. Ingnbwir that'll". 86111'41 Withatostrest, Chating- c.. , and by most druggists, in see It IA end three times the mukatity in oc% Is. IleL Be sure to eti (or Dr. Scott's Mous and Liver Pltht. me genuine are to a R green gatgage, with "William unbar engraved oa the Mu UNIVRESITIr COLLIDE, LONDON.—At a session of council on the 3rd inst. Dr. Wilton Fox was appointed Reims Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Mr. Fleeming F.H.8., Professor of Civil Engineering. The Jews' Commemoration scholarship of IV. per annum, tenable for two years, was awarded to Mr. W. H. Robison, and the Liston gold medal to Mr. G. V. Poore, of Andover. The thanks of the co unc il were voted to M! voted Ebenezer Charles, for his kindness in presiding at the recent distribution of pnuti to the pupils of the college school. &vinyl liberal donations to the fund now being raised for the erection of the south wing of the college was announced; among them waa one of 1,0001. from an unknown friend, who has for warded his munificent contribution through Professor Key, the head master of tho school, the better accommo dation of which is the primary object of the proposed ex. tea.ion of the college buildings. The result of the exami nations for the summer term in the faculty of medicine were announced on Monday, July 29, by Professor Williamson, Vice Dean of the Faculty, as follows :—Patho logical Anatomy, Professor Fox, DIM& —Filliter Exhibi tion of 30f. J. Stanton Clad ; Silver Medal, Thomas F. Riegood. Practical Chemistry, Professor Williamson, Vice Dears.—Gold Medal, M. A. Tarkhadakar. Certifi catee—ild, W. G. Watson ; 3rd, Charles Henry Carter ; 4th equal, E. M. Swsnwick and J. Chapman ; sth, Jaa. B. Doll; tith, Thom Coloott Fox ; 7th equal, William Wynn ifeetcott and J. Lawrence Bullock ; 8, Alfred il Carter. Materia Medica, Professor Ringer.—Gold me c E It T. smith ; let silver medal, Edwin Rayner, B.A. • e lver medal, equal, W. J. Scott and Deny Jones ; certifi cates, sth equal, Howell Rees, J. G. 11. West, and Howard Mummery ; Bth, John Hilton Phillips ; 9th equal, Andrew Clirk and Edgar J. Pugh ; 11th equal, Sydney Persons, I. 11. Davies, and Josiah Williams. Midwifery, Senior (L.., Professor Graily Hewitt.—Gold medal, E. W. Min ter; silver medal, Stanley Peacock ; certificates, 3rd, George A.kew Hull ; -ith, T. F. Hopgood • sth, J. L. W. larder. Junior Class.—Silver model, Arthur Raynor ; e. uncates, 2sal, Howell Rees ; 3rd, Henry John Broom ; ~tth. T. Smith; sth, J. A. Kite ; litb, T. A. Earle. °am!, Professor Oliver.—Silver medal, W. G. Watson ; tertitc3t,s, 2nd equal, Charles Henry Carter and Thomas Colcott lot; 3rd, Walter Rigdesa. Practical Physiology aad Histokiey, Dr. Michael oster.—Silver medal, Ilirtin ...enfilades", 2nd, Alfred Shower' ; 3rd, W. li. t ; he ; rie Sth, A. Clark. NAIL% AT AND OTHER BILLS BEFORE PARLIA- E trr.—Yesterclay the following business was transacted the es Tway and other private bills before th e Mai , mentary committees:—ln the House of Lords, tia, P r inted Chamber, their lordships proceeded s _ie.th the further consideration of the London, üb.thftn., and Dover Railway (Arrangement) Bill, 'bah h.. been several times before the committee, and a hither .t.ljournment was ordered until this day (Tuesday). ls 1 :40m C the Barrack-lane, Windsor (Right of Way) Bill • I thrones, with certain amendments, and cor n:. to reported. In the same committee their lord °up* pro, , virled with the further consideration of the Great Ea tern li . dlway (Finance) Bill, which was again adjourned l u•I thi, .lay (Tuesday). The bill of the Mersey Docks sal 1i..r..0ur Roads was passed through with further en , cdnients. In Lord Redeadale's committee their paused through the Charterbouse Estate %,ch amendments, and also that of the tiotithse a Railway Company, both of which were ordered • he reported. In the House of Commons, in isod.nn's committee of ways and means, the sub road MA. were passed through, and ordered to be re. The Baron Be Ferriere's Naturalisation ; the Z • choN , luim's Naturalisation ; and the Lange's Nature. Mr. Frere, one of the examiners, hold a "'M, awl declared the standing orders in the case of the eve'?l,oosed petition of the Shipton Grammar School Bill to been complied with. literature• English Writers. Vol. H., Part I. Prom Career to bender. By HISNRY MORLIT, Professor of English Literature in University College, Lon don. Chapman and Hall. When Professor Morley's work, of which a fur ther instalment is now before us, has reached its termination, it will present the most comprehensive history of English literature to be found in the language. We are in fact very ill provided with works of this kind. Wart in " History of Eng lish Poetry," though a most able and learned pro duction, only refers to one-half of our literature— that which is expressed in verse ; and other works of a similar nature have either been equally sec tional or have been constructed on so small a scale as simply to possess the character of manuals. !Professor Morley, however, aims at something much more complete. He includes English writers of all kinds, whether they wrote in verse or prose ; and, beginning at the very commencement of our , tongue, he proposes to bring the record down to the present day. He hasspread his canvas, ; moreover, on a liberal scale. When finished, the work will consist of three large volumes, each subdivided into two parts—strictly speaking six volumes—for the subdivision into parts is merely nominal. The " part" now in our hands extends to 462 pages of full-sized octavo, so that the reader may judge what the dimensions of the entire book will be. Although in many cases " a great book is a great evil, " - and although many works are needlessly large, it is evident that so vast a subject as the entire course of English literature, from the days of the Saxons to our own, cannot be satisfactorily treated in any smaller com pass, unless in the form of a compendium or hand book, the usefulness of which will not for a moment be denied, but which is not sufficient to satisfy the demands of scholars who want something more than an outline of one of the principal literatures of the world. It is remarkable that, while we have voluminous histories of the literature of many foreign countries, we have not hitherto anything of equivalent pretensions on treasintel lectual achievements of our own race. This want Professor Morley is now supplying, and he exhibits many excellent qualifications for the task. He has , large knowledge and comprehensive sympathy ; he has given several years to the study of the subject, and he has all those collateral aids, of general scholarship and acquaintance with the l of the chief continental nations, which are indispensable to a thorough examination of our own writers. We arc, therefore, disposed to regard his book as a valuable addition to the library shelves, giving, not only a critical account, but an epitome, of those great works which have contributed to nake th: ra Elish mind what it is. The first two volumes the stream from its rise to the age immediately preceding that of Ed ward 111. ; in the present instalment we have a view of the subsequent period, extending to the latter part of the fifteenth century. The epoch was one of great importance and of great interest. Its commencement saw the birth of modern English,l and its close the revival of learning and the dawn of the Renaissance. It included, at its two ex tremities, Chaucer, the glory of England, and Dunbar, the glory of Scotland. It was a period of growth, of vital expansion, of strong national life, I of vivid ideas and active intellect. The principal literary figures by which it was distinguished were Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, Occleve James I. of Scotland, " Blind Harry," and William Dunbar ; but others of less importance or of smaller genius, but yet interesting to the student, as illustrating particular phases in the development of the national mind, are to be discovered on a near inspection, and these have been examined and de scribed by Professor Morley: in the trot eluipterl of the present volume, he considers the influence of the revived genius of Italy on the intellectual ! life of England. That influence was unquestionably very great and very beneficial. The re-awakening of the Italian race from the long torpor into which it had fallen after the destruction of the Roman Empire, and the over-running of the peninsula by the barbarians of the north, acted like a powerful stimulant on the English race also. We, too, bad had our interval of lethargy and disorganisation, consequent on a foreign subjugation and an alien tyranny. Mr. Morley is right in pointing out that the genius of England does not commence with Gower or Chaucer • it only starts afresh with those eminent men. B efore their birth "the literature of this country," to borrow the language of our author, " had maintained for a longer time than , has passed since a foremost place in the intellectual history of Europe. To say nothing of the yet earlier Beowulf, English Ciedmon poured the soul of a Christian poet into noble song six hundred and fifty years before Chaucer was born. Six cen turies before Chaucer, Bede, foremost of Christian scholars, was the historian of England, and Chaucer wrote his ` Canterbury Tales not quite five centuries ago. Long before Chaucer, Alcuin gave light from the English mind to the empire' of Charlemagne. In prose and verse, for century after century before the time of Chaucer, there was a literature here of home-seaking earnestness, prat-I wit, and humour . ' But these earlier men formed the heroes of Mr. Morley's previous volumes, and he now taken up the tale with , the immediate precursors of Gower, such as Richard of Bury (author of the " Philo-i biblon "), Robert de Graystanes, Walter Burley, I Robert Holcot, Thomas Bradwar dine, and others. We then come to Gower, of whom an exeallent life is given, together with a prose summary of his principal works. The reader is then conducted I into the presence of Chaucer, who is treated in like manner. Next we pass over the somewhat dull period which followed the death of Chaucer, until with the rise of the Scotch poet, Dunbar , we enter , . on a new phase of English intellect, and catch the first gleams of the larger and richer literature that came with printing, and helped to mould and animate the mind of modern Europe. Though' wanting in first-class writers, however, that inter mediate period presented several noticeable fea tures and some men of mark. It produced the Miracle Plays, the theological writings of the' Lollards and other controversialists, several , monastic chroniclers, the Patton Letters, and some I poets of at least respectable powers. Among the i latter, Lydgate seems to have caught most of the' grace, tenderness, and pathos of the " Canterbury Tales ;" but no man at all approaching the great ness of Chaucer in his entirety arose in the genera tion succeeding him, to carry on his work and add another golden link to the chain of English letters. • With Dunbar, a remarkable development of what must be called the English genius took place on Scot tish soil ; but this admirable poet is reserved by Professor Morley for examination in the second part of Vol. 11., the present subdivision concluding with Dunbar's Scotch predecessors, Andrew of Wyntoun, King James, and Blind Harry. We await the continuation of the present work with great interest, and congratulate its author on the parrihe has already made. Among the most f i estures of the book are the ample summa ries of remarkable works, such as those of Gower and Chaucer. These will be found of great help to the student ; though, had space permitted, we should have been glad to see them accompanied by more specimens of the original text itself. THE FEMALE MEDICAL SOCIETY.—The Female Medical Society is steadily makingway at 4, Fitaopequare, 4521. 14e, having been received by students' fees during the three years of it. existence. There is still, however, a debt of 211 W. due to the treasurer. Could not an effort be made to wipe it off ?—From Social &iota, Aug. 2. ROYAL FRES HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—The number of patients relieved at this hospital, daring the week ending 3rd August, 1867, was 3,352, of which 1,125 were new cases. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1867. I TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (aarnea's rzutosime.) FRANCE. PARIS, Aoauerr 5, Evinnzio. The elections for the Councils-Gentural have ter minated with the following resttlis. Out of 600 elections 464 were secured by government candi dates, and 21 only by those of the opposition. In the remainder the administration remained neutral. The King and Queen of Portugal will leave on the 11th inst. for Bordeaux and Madrid. The £tewlurd of this evening denies a rumour which had been current that the Emperor and Empress of the French would not go to Salzburg to have an inter view with the Emperor and Empress of Austria. Count do Moltke, the Danish Minister in this city, leaves on Wednesday next for Copenhagen, but it is stated that his journey has no political object. The Dunderberg arrived at Cherbourg on Saturday from New York. She made a good passage. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, AUGUST 5, EVIWIMO. ' The Federal Council will meet about the mime of this month. The date of the assembling of the parliament will depend upon the time by which the Federal Council is able to conclude its labours. All the North German governments are believed to have appointed their representatives in the Federal Council. Prussia has already appointed seven, in cluding Herr Pape, Councillor of the Minist ryi of Justice, and the directors of the principal depart. ments of the different ministries. Saxony has ap pointed four members, who are said to be Baron von Friesen and Privy Councillors Weenbeck and Thununel and Colonel Brandenstein. Prince Frederick Charles left to-day for Ostend. Herr von Schleinitz has left Baden for Frankfort.- on-the-Maine. It is expected that negotiations will shortly be opened with a view to the conclu sion of a treaty of commerce between Rnsaia and Prussia. At the recent conferences between the Hanoverian notables and the government it was agreed that the former administrative arrange ments in Hanover should still remain in force. SPAIN. MADRID, AUCCHT 5, EVLIIINC. A royal order has been issued imposing forty days' quarantine upon all arrivals in Spanish ports from Algeria, Morocco, and the Roman states. The King and Queen of Portugal are expected here on the 15th inst. INDIA. BOMBAY, AUGUST 2, 5.5 rat. 7lbs. shirting', sr. 12s. ; Vbs. ditto, 7r. ; 40's mule twist, 13a. Cotton quiet, and 2r. lower ; shipments of the week, 26,865 bales. Exchange on London, ls. 114 d. Government securities : Four per Cent., 894 ; Five per Cent., looti Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 111 i. Freights to Liverpool, 375. 6d. The latest London date is July 29. CALCUTTA, Auoust 1. shirtings, 7r. 2a. ; 40's mule twist, 6/a. Cotton, 17g. Exchange on London, ls. Government securities : Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 1111. Freights to England, 655. to 70s. The Bank of Bengal has reduced the rate of dia , count 1 per cent. CHINA. HONG KONG, JOLT 12. Grey shirting., Oi catty, dols. 3.55. Water twist, 16-24, 185. Tea unchanged. Total ex port, 33,000,0001b5. Exchange on London, 44. fid. SHANGHAI, JULY 7. Grey ahirtine, 61 catty, 2.75 taels. Tea : Oongon dull. Silk active and advancing. Ex change on London, 6s. 4d. Freights, 3/. THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, AucesT 5, 3.30 P.M. The Bourse has been firm. Renter closed at 69.17, or 10e. higher than on Saturday. THZ IIZDITI groom 01711 cant ONDS:NT.) MALTA, JULY 31. The English Mediterranean fleet, under the ' command of Vice-Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, is still at Toulon, according to the latest aooonnta, and it is not ' expected to return to Malta before the end of next month or the early part of the following one. The screw steam frigate, Endymion, 21, Captain C. Wake, which arrived in Malta on the 29th inst. from the Firer's, is to leave in a day or two to join the fleet at Toulon, in order to enable l the officers and crew to visit the Paris Exhibition. The only English men-of-war at present in this port besides the Endymion, are the receiving ship Hibernia, bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Kellett, C. 8., and the screw steam sloop Cruiser, Commander Singer. There are also lying in the portof Malta the two Austrian frigates Schwar senburg, bearing the pendant of Commander Pokorny, and the Archduke Ferdinand Max. The Italian corvette, Euridice, 20, arrived here yesterday from Algiers. According to intelligence received in Malta yesterday from Sicily, the cholera is still raging in that island, par ticularly in Catania, where it is committing serious ravages. Palermo and Messina are free from the disease, but the neighbouring villages are infected. The sanitary state of these islands is satisfactory--thanks, perhaps, to the rigorous quarantine measures adopted by the local govcrnment,with the view of preventing a second visitation of the disease which proved so disastrous to the inhabitants in the year 1866. ' The Courrier d'Orient says that the Emperor Napoleon promised the Sultan, when the latter was in Paris, that be would pay him a return visit to Constanti nople towards the end of this summer. The Empress Eugenie is to accompany the Emperor, and will avail herself of the occasion to gratify a long-cherished desire, that of visiting Syria, Jerusalem, and Egypt. NEW YORK, Avourrr 4. —The Inman steamer City of Baltimore arrived here at 3 p.m. to-day. All well. BT. NAZAIRE, A VOW'S s.—The steamer Louisiana has arrived here with the mails from the Antilles and Mexico, 170 passengers, and 320,000 francs in specie. Tea CHOLERA IN SICILY.—WO regret to state that, according to telegraphic intelligence received in Malta, the cholera at Catania is still on the increase. A private telegram from Messina of the 25th inst., announces that the state of the public health of that town is excel lent. The official accounts of the cholera in Sicily, dated Palermo the 4th of July, report as follows : In the pro vince of Girgenti, from the ltth to the 27th of June, 2,573 attacks and 1,371 deaths; Caltanisetta, from the 17th to the 27th, 1,30 f attacks and 762 deaths ; Trapani, from the 19th to the 27th, 17 attacks and 13 deaths ; Catania, from the 23rd to the 28th, 107 attacks and 51 deaths. For the week ended July 4, for t he rovinees of Catania, Girgenti, and Tra pani the attacks were 2,383 and the deaths 1,421 . Palermo and Messina enjoy perfect health, and both have established cordons against infected districts.—Matta Observer, July 29. Gana IN INDIA.—In the Central provinces alone during the past year and a half 194 tigers and cubs have been killed besides a large number of other " high game." —l34lsbag Ga:ltt. COAL AT CLIFTON GROVE. —Sir Robert Clifton's coal-viewers have been successful in discovering coal, at a depth of about 270 yards, at the foot of • coppice imme diately under the far-famed grove, and immediately within the Clifton pariah boundary. The quality of the seam we do not yet know, but the viewers, we believe, have been agreeably disappointed, inasmuch as they did not expect to meet with coal at a leas depth than 400 yards.—Arol finghout Guardian. [Advertisement.]—HoLtowAy's OtsrmiNT AND Pete.—Redemption from disease—Me hidden cause, the on enepected source of many a wasting sickness and tailing strength have been developed by these admirable Pills, and the application of the Ointment to the malady thus discovered has rescued many valuable lives from a continued torture and premature decay. Piles, in all the many forms under which they afflict mankind, such as fistulas, strictures, Inflammation, ulcaratiots, internal, external, recent or chronic, are thus safely and speedily brought to a Agent ease, and thence couduct4xl to a lasting cure. lioth Ointment and PIM are innocent in composition : both are heal Wig. purifying. and comforting both are gentle in . Pernifriri and midst each other, eve[ helping, RATer harming mirxrei idgiallied.4l4llll. THE BOMBAY MAIL By the arrival of the above mail we have adwioes I from Bombay to July 9, and from Calcutta to July 2. The limas of India thus refers to the terrible 1 accident on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway : On the morning of the 26th of June there occurred, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, one of the moat serious railway accidents which lave yet taken place in India. The mew of the accident is between Bliosawnl and Klioadwals, some ten iniles beyond the former station. At this point the line crosses a tributary of the river Taptee, caßed the "Sookee Nuddee," which, as the name implies is a "dry river" except during the 1:110111110012 fed by the streams from the Sautpoora Rills, it swells to the Proportions &Lomat some 230 feet in width, respectable a of it was en the night of the accident, fifteen feet deep. A sharp bend in the river incressie the probability of the water overflowin g its banks in the event Si a fl ood and this it occasionally does, notwithstanding that • flood stream of WI feet wide detaches a large body of water from the main channel, conveying it under the railway by two arches of 30 feet span each. The principal channel is I crowed by a bridge of seven arches also of 30 feet man. Between the two bridges is a large embankment of loose shingle, sad this the force of the torrent lad torn away I from under the rails behind the abutment of the smaller bridge, leaving the sleepers and rails suspended over the pp, which was about 50 feet long, 10 feet wide, and 20 feet deep. The darkness of the night and the height of the water prevented this chasm from being seen, and it was not until the train plunged into it, that the driver was aware of any danger. The engine and tender happened to shoot amass to the bridge before the railapve way; the rest of the train, with the exception at the gear van o was precipitated into the gulf and washed away by MI river. The train consisted in all of maven carriages besides the engine and tender, and is variestaly computed to have carried from 57 to 112 passengers. The railway officials report 13 killed and missing and 20 injured, but it is generally believed that the killed amount to at least five times that number ; and • thorough investigation by go , vernment officials has been ordered by his Excellency Mr. Fitzgerald. No official investigation was made by any ma , gistrete at the scene of the accident, as is done in almost every case, and this lends colour to the suspicion that the extent of the catastrophe is but partially known, except perhaps by the railway officials themselves. With the exception of three Europeans in charge of the train, all the passengers were natives. It is not yet known whether any blame attaches to the company in respect to the occurrence of this accident ; the bridges are said to he sound enough now, though one of them is reported to have I been very unsound lately. Several other of the bridges on the G. I. P. Railway are said to be in an unsafe state. The bridges acmes the Taptee viaduct on the Nagpore line are mom especially commented on ; and on two separate occasions the government consulting engineer reported several arches to be giving way. . _ The Calcutta Eng fisitinai; says that the monsoon set in unusuallyearly. "The reports of the crops in the Burdwan division are favourable" (it adds), " and it is hoped that the out-turn will remove all apprehensions of future distress. From Orissa the accounts are again growing more and more painful every week. The distress is increasing, as is proved by the larger numbers flocking to the centres of relief." The heavy rains along the line of the Himalayas resulted about the middle of June in a flood, which was very heavy even so low down as Cawnpore, and caused a rise of from nine to ten feet at }firm,- pore. The Commissioner of Cuttack reports that in consequence of last year's floods a district of no less than sixteen square miles in extent has been rendered almost totally desolate. The government of India has issued new rules with a view to encourage the study of Oriental lan guages among newly-appointed members of the Bengal civil service. The use of the knapsack by the native army has been abolished, and a waterproof canvas bag substi tuted. The complete opening of the Jubbulpore branch of the East India Railway had been postponed until the Ist of August. Mail trains were, however, to run in the meantime. The erection of a new European General Hospital is to be commenced in Bombay after the monsoon. Captain Cunningham, who was recently sen tenced by court martial to five years' penal servi tude, is reported to have made his escape. FRANCE. (raw( cooa OWN PARIS, Suinur Eyler's°. The only thing clear about the Salzburg inter view is that it will not take place so soon as was announced. There are singular discrepancies in the details given by the journals. While the Patric says there has been a " postponement" (which is probably true), the France pretends that the meeting was never intended to take place till after the 15th, and that no date is yet fixed. The Mlntorial Diyglinatique, however, says the 17th " seems to he' the day agreed upon. The Patrie insists that it is to be a non-political visit—exclu sively one of condolence, prompted by delicate feelings which heartless newamongors are incapable of understanding. But then the Memorial Diplo matique, which lives and breathes in the atmo sphere of courts, says that M. de Beust, Prince de Metternich, and the Count de Grammont, are to " assist " at the interview ; and, moreover, that although the Vienna court mourning will not be over till August 21st the Emperor of Austria's company of come dians is ordered to Salzburg for the entertainment of the august visitors. How are ordinary mortals to get at the truth t If the three diplomatists above named are to meet the Emperors it is scarcely doubtful that M. Itouher, who started for Carlsbad yesterday, will be of the party. The Empress of Austria, according to all accounts, will not be there, and I look upon the telegraphic assertion that the Empress Eugenie will go by herself to Ischl to pay her a private visit as exceedingly problem atical. It is confirmed that M. Nigro, will only return to Paris to present his letters of recall. Tho Marquis Carracciolo di Bella, now Italian Minister at Lisbon, will probably be his successor. The assertion of the Patric that politics have nothing to do with this change is simply ridiculous. Signor Nigrs Cavour s old pupil, has doubtless no personal affection for the temporal power ; but he negotiated and signed the Convention of Sept. 15, and has been the instru ment of too many promises to the French court to be a sympathetic representative of M. Rattaimi, now that the latter has formed an alliance with M. Crispi and the extreme Left. His withdrawal from Paris is an unmistakeable symptom of teudues relations between the two powers. The Moniteitr has an article which amidst some playful exaggeration contains a great deal of truth about the non-fulfilment of the prophecies that the universal exhibition would starve and stifle the ordinary inhabitants of Paris. Those who ran away to the country expecting to live cheaper have found out by this time that the only way to get fresh fish and vegetables is to continuo to live in tho Boulevard Haussmaim or the Rue Lafayette. There never was a finer show of fruit in the markets. Cherries and plums have been particularly abundant and much cheaper, than they were some years ago. There is too much bread in Paris, and ahuost too much meat, for many oxen are waiting an unusual time in the r.:Dattoirs for the honour of being converted .nto Chateaubriand steaks. So far from the c;xhibition having raised the price of food, it 1 .4. s slightly lowered it, in conse quence of the great competition to provide the Hemmer? , s'apply. Neither has space been con fiscated Dy the hundreds cf thousands of visitors from a parts of the globe. To those who know the . 9 '.crand and the City, the Paris Boulevards nltrst seem almost solitude. People who thought to Fiske money by competing with the »miaow meublees by letting their own apartments at fabulous prices have been in every way dis appointed. In the first place the demand for such private lodgings has been next to nothing. Few LSTAMPED. visitors, indeed, either bring their own servants, or know how tooook forthemsalves, and consequently mere lodging without attendancu is of no use to them. Some few who have lived in garrets or a country village while giving up their rosewood and satin furniture to a foreign family will find the rent a poor compensation for "barrack damages." FOOD FOR THE► SICK POOL Some eighteen months ago a description of the dinner table for the sick poor at Wobern-buildings appeared in this journal. Since that time the good effected by this charity hoe increased so enor mously that a brief account of it piugreas will not be emisideted out of place. It is now nearly lye years since Mr. Hicks, a barrister, residing in the neighbourhood, established the kitchen and diniar room, and during the first twelve months 3,Z1 applicants were relieved. During the first nits months of this, the fifth year of its existence, the numbers have increased to 10,613, allot wham have had nourishing meals during that period of con valescence when food is more than medicine, and all of whom would have languished and starved but for the existence of this charity. The mode of administration and relief is excellent in its economical simplicity. Subscribers share the responsibility of bestowing help with the manners of the charil, or rather take all responsibility upon themselves, while the latter, on their part, under take to supply wholesome food, well cooked, at a fraction under ita cost. No collector is employed to t 'ut for donations, and one matron and one servant comprise the household staff. The sole object is to strengthen the very poor after severe illness, or when the constitution has suffered from a long period of low living. Joints of the best quality are cooked and apportioned out to all applicants presenting tickets, and these tickets may be pur chased in little booksat the rate of forty for a guinea. A ticket entitles the poor man, or woman, or child receiving it toil meal ; and for further convenience the tickets are divided into three kinds, one of which gives the bearer the right to take the dinner to his or her home, the other to eat it on the pre mises, while the third secures wine or other stimu lants. Thus, it is left to the discretion of the subscriber to say whether the patient's friends are to be trusted, or whether the patient is likely to give the food intended for his or her own nourishment to others. The managers of the dinner table wisely limit their functions to supply ing a wholesome article for an incredibly small sum, and all other responsibility rests with those giving the tickets away. That this division of labour answers its purpose admirably is vouched for by the clergy of the district and of adjadent dis tricts, as well as by the hospitals and dispensaries of the pariah, who avail themselves of its benefits for their deserving poor, and who bear willing testimony to its advantages. But any one interested in the question has but to walk up the flagged passage at the back of St. Pancras Church, on any Monday or Thursday, from noon to one p.m., throughout the year, to satisfy himself of its great practical usefulness. These are the "sick children's dinner days," and the wan, worn faces, and stinted, im poverished frames of the poor little boys and girls to be seen there, tell a more eloquent and touching story than we can hope to do. Ina single week (of two days) as many as 114 children have dined here, and 66 have eat down to table at one time. All helped must be between the ages of four and twelve; must be labouring under some illness which is not infectious, or must be the poor little wretches of whom doctors say " they must have plenty of good nourishing food—they don't want medicine—and if they don't have it they will die." All conversant with the trialsand sufferings of the very poor know that when dismissed from the hospital, or smitten with one of tho many minor maladies which spring from physical weakness, it is the impossibility of procuring strengthening food which sends many a breadwinner into the workhouse, breaking up his little home, and throw ing his family on the rates. It is as a matter of sound economy therefore, no less than on grounds of kindness and humanity, that the poor invalid's dinner table rests its claim to support. When we called attention to it last, we stated that for every sixpence given the person subscribing might count upon seven pennyworth of food being given ; that all expenses of rent and management were paid by a small fee taken from those assisted, and that the good effected by the charity was not limited either by religious distinction or parish boundary, but was open to all cases properly recommended. We have but to repeat these commendations now. Since its commencement similar charities have been established at Kensington, Poplar, and St. Msrylebone, as well as at Dublin, Bristol, and Cheltenham, all of which have framed their rules and management on the model of the Woburn buildings one, and are effecting similar good. When we visited the latter last year the prospect of a small annual loss was accepted cheerfully as inevitable, and statistics and statements were given us which showed with exactitude what the probable discrepancy between disbursements and receipts would be. But while these calculations have been verified in detail, the rapid increase in the numbers relieved makes the aggregate loss greater than was anticipated, and after giving substantial aid in the fouryears and three-quarters of its e xistence to 28,500 adults, and 11,100 children, 0r39,600 in all,the dinner table finds itself one hundred pounds in anew. No direct plea is advanced upon any class of the community, but existing as it does in the very 'centre of a wealthy, as well as a poverty-stricken neighbourhood, it is hoped that the squares may lend a helping hand to the alleys and the courts, and that a sixth year of life may commence next October untrammelled by debt. The sum is comparatively small , the good wrought enormous, and it is certain that if the benevolent could but see the practical working of this the simplest and least ostentatious charity in the world, its petty debt would be wiped off forthwith. No salaries are paid to clerks or secre taries, Mr. Ricks, its founder, taking all the drudgery of book keeping and letter writing upon himself as a pure labour of love ; and the whole paraphernalia of professional philanthrophy is eschewed. The plain truth is that the charity would be self supporting but for the rise in the price of provisions and an unwillingness to snake a proportionate increase in the charge for tickets. One hundred pounds is not much, but it re presents four thousand of these dinners, and is cal culated to diminish the scope of the charity to precisely that extent. For besides those supplied to subscribers, tickets are given gratuitously to the neighbouring hospitals and dispensa ries, to scripture readers, district visitors, and deaconesses to distribute as they think best. The cost of these is met by donations front the chari table, and the benevolent public may bestow their money here with the certainty of careful stewardship and practised adwieistration. For every pound subscribed, forty hot and nourishing meat are given to the sick and suffering, sad [TWOPENCE these providing the funds may either have books of ticketa,and send poor people of their own choosing, or they may leave the matter in the hands of the management, with the certainty of their trust being faithfully discharged. The pressing want of the moment, however, is the hundred pounds already mentioned, and it is but reasonable to hops that when the gap this modest little institution fills is understood its usefulness will not readily be let die. pziAL.] REFORM MEETING IN ',PREPARE. The Reform League held another large public meeting in Hyde-park last evening, and hundreds of work ing men again assembled to dimmest political questions, and dispersed without a sign of disturbance or disorder. Por some days placards have been posted over the metro polis and its suburbs having as their bead-line the scrip tural quotation, "To your tents, 0 Israel," and call ing urea the workbag classes to attend "to express the purdis iudignation at the Parks Prohibition Bill attempted to be pared through an expiring and self-condemned parliament, by the enemies of all popular rights; and also to protest against the attempt of the House of Lords to sob the ledger of his franchise." Although the gathering w►s not, in the terse of the pleased, a " monster meet ing," it was sufficiently large to testify that there has been soabaterairat of interest on the part of those who hare identified themselves with the League in the questions width have been uppermost; in as. aide lee ear many month: The spectators of all classes were, however, mach fewer then a any previous 00014_ mien, as was, perhaps, natural after the understanding I that there was to be no repelitioa of tie rdieiel'ineddtieg that threatened so much and did as little at former denmastratioas. Roughs, of course, lassioared rye went, for where a crowd is, there at all times will the tlik of Whiteclapel be gathered together ; but fee once they behaved remarkably well, and did nothing much worse than " bark " each other's shins, or by accident, as it were, send an odd missile into t►e thick of the bystanders. It was said that no soldiers had been " re served,* hut the barracks in the centre of the park were occupied by police, who were, no doubt, if requiaed, to carry out the Home Secretary's rather supesttuou► undertaking to " preserve order." ()sly the ordi nary 000stebks were, however, visible on their usual beats. Prom five o'clock stray groups assembled in side the park, much to the delight of the enter prising gentry whose desire to turn an honest penny was not slow to manifest itself. The " coster" was allowed to conduct his sales without interference, if not without fear, and on the whole the time passed away merrily everywhere. The St. Gilee's press, profiting by past experience, appeared to have thrown all its energies into one grand effort, and the Seven Dials' choristers mustered in wonderful tome to give the limp rhymes a suitable rendering. Old ballads, more or less of a reform tendency, had been modernised, and many new ones were produced wet from the cellar. They were introdueed to the public in the fine nasal unison of male and female voice, characteristic of the professional ballad singers of the period, and the many-nsetred verse breathed liberty, unity, banners, Hyde-park railings, sad all the other sen timents supposed to be proper for such an event. Satirical proclamations, de.ling freely with obnoxious officials and politicians, were tacked to the trunks of cme or two trees, and mild squibs were hawked about under titles far more entertaining than the compositions themselves. As nothing more noticeable than these trillingodds and ends was at hand, the majority of the spectators found more conge nial occupation in watching the carriages and making re marks about the exquisitely hideous pet dogs the fair oc cupants were airing. Seven o'clock brought Mr. Beaks, Colonel Dickson, and some other members of the League, who were escorted across to the large elm, where the chief " platform " was hot time. Detachments of leaguers, who had marched from different muster-grounds, after wards came in at intervals, souse with bands, and all with banners. The Holborn and Clerkeneell branches, always the most ornamental portion of the League's demonstra tions, did what they had not been able to do before— marched through with all their flags flying, and made the meeting as a spectacle more picture.que than any of its predecessors. In the front ranks the red flag with its cap of liberty was borne more as • trophy, however, than ornament, for it boldly shook out its tatters as if in remembrance of • certain conservative meeting in Br James's-hall. Ten park seats were converted into as many platforms, and a placard was hoisted over each giving the name of the chairman. The meeting generally was much better managed than some of the previous ones, and within an hour and a quarter it was all over. The chair men delivered their speeches, and sketched out the order of proceedings, which were confined to three resolutions. Learning wisdom by the past, some of the groups made the three one in order to save time, and get through the business before dark. Mr. Beales, as • matter of course, presided at number one platform, and the other presidents were Messrs. Langley, Perfitt, Mantle, Lnoraft, Cramer, Odjea, Cooper, Dell, and Weston, names now familiar to the public ear in connection with the league. The resolutions were the same at each platform, and, so far as was possible, they were put simultaneously upon a bugle signal from headquarters. These motions,. which it need hardly be said were adopted with enthu siastic unanimity, were : That this meeting, while it cordially congratulates the goven,ment upon having assisted in paseing through the House of Commons • large and gnerous measure for the amendment of the representation , deeply regrets that it should hare accompanied that measure by a bill so invasive of the law and constitution, and so hostile to the rights of the people, as the Royal 9arks Bill, or Parks Prohibition Bill, and vehemently and indig nantly protests against such a bill being made lair, and declares its determination to resist that bill to the utmost. That this meeting earnestly entreats the gov , ,rnment and all liberal members of the House of Commons to reject the so-called amendment introduced by the House& Lords, into the Reform Bill raising the qualification for the , lodger franchise from ltd. to ' which would render th e bill a mere mockery as regards the world/rig-claim voters inn the metropolitan districts and elsewhere ; as.ii also to reject the so.called amendment introduced by ti•e Homo. of Lords enabling votes to be recorded by Inf 11110• of voting papers, 11.4 a uwasure calculated to promote the exercise of undue induence and corruption, and to eabatitute foe the mme the taking of votes by ballot. That this meeting wholly condemns and protests against the novel, mi. llinglish, and unounstitutionid principle introduced by the House of Lords into the Reform Bill by ling the num ber of votes to which • voter is entitled in imastituencitur returning three or more members to parliament, thereby completely destroying the object for which additional members have been granted to such constituencies, enabling the minority to neutralise, oritmay even gain en advantage over the majority, and deliberately violating the ancient constitutional principle of parliament being oumpo ed of persons representing, or supposed to represent, the opinions and wishes of the majority of their several communities or constituencies. The speeches in support of these resolutions were brief, and composed largely of remarks not by any means of res• pen or affection for the House of Lords. The andiences showed how thoroughly they were in accord with the speakers by pointing their applause at those portions where the ability and utility of the peers were called into question, while Mr. Disraeli was scarcely Limed, and Mr. Lowe, whose name used to be " good " for at least three rounds of groaning, seemed to be beneath notice. Three blasts from the bugle gave the warning to conclude, and with evident reluctance and self-denial the orators mitind up with laughable abruptness. Ry this time twilight was coming on, and just as the detachments were leaving the ground singing the Reform League Hymn, or marching to some popular neloily, a convenient shower cleared the park of those who seemed disposed to linger after dark. A small party of reformers, on their way home, n.adc a detour into Palace-yard, and halted iu front of West. minter-hall, for the purpose of hissing the llouw of Lords. They were then told of the action o! their lord ships during the evening with regard to the lodger fran chise, whereupon the hissing gave place to lusty cheering and the strains of " God save the Queen" from the band. A correspondent, writing from Windsor last even ing at eight o'clock, says:—" This evening, it is under stood, orders were received at the Windsor Cavalry bar racks for the 2nd Life Guards to hol•l themselves in readi ness to proceed to London, by special train, in ease their melees should be required in town in connexion with the meeting in Hyde-park. The troorere were accordingly astral to borraa.s." ,~ ~ ;~ •