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Is the new number of the Cornhili Maga:int Mr. MATIJIEW Auxom brings to a conclusion a series of papers he has been writing under the fanciful and somewhat foreign title of " Anarchy and Authority." We have read them with all the deference due to the writer's name, and to his authority as an ingenious critic, an inspector of schools, and a classical poet. After this most laborious and bewildering experience we take breath at last, and humbly inquire what all this galimatias of words, words, words, is about, and what this transcendently disdainful and fastidious Hellenist, or British " Philistine converted to mil " tore," as he modestly calls himself, is driving at. We can see that he has studied his Sauna- Bzuvx admiringly, and that like actors who always seize the mannerism of their models, he has not caught something of the delicacy and daintiness of the eminent Frenchman, without converting those delightful qualities into sim pering and mincing airs of superiority, which the substance of his prose is hardly strong enough to excuse. That brataliti which Mr. MATrEaw ARrioLD would probably agree with us in de scribing as an inherent characteristic of the true Briton is not more agreeable when it peeps through a thin coat of French polish, or when it lisps and grimaces with a languid scorn. Mr. Marrtixw ARNOLD has not yet quite un learnt the rude frankness of his countrymen, and the honey of his sarcasm is sometimes not so craftily qualified as to taste like honey. But to pass from the form to the subject matter of all this phrasemaking, we ask again, in the name of common sense or common ignorance, what does all this luxury of words import ? We should be glad to see a brief abstract or analysis of the argument of these papers on Anarchy and Authority. After all, it is no fault of his that he is taken seriously by some readers. Perhaps, in deed, there is more amusement to be got out of thee* pages by taking them seriously than by treating them as a deadly lively series of bur lesque imitations of the attitudes and tones of trilorrwa, CARLYLE, Hamm, and Baum Bsvvs. , • It may be doubted whether, if the Causerie* du Luadi had never been written, Mr. Mummy p ANATOL") would ever have tlowiehed in prom In the oast literal muse le is a repoduotive writer. --a. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1868. The chief of French critics created kWh°. Eeoms In (IMMIX; Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD reproduced her in England. Another eminent Fronoh critio writes an admirable essay on MARCUS Aeasuus ; Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD followed with sweet gravity on the same theme. Without for a mo nu nt depreciating his own rare and fine literary qualities and attainments, we may be permitted to render unto the French originals a part st least of the merit of these brilliant copies. Let us try to discover what he gives us of his own. " Anarchy and authority " to begin with, are cant terms of French reactionary politics, con tinually on the lips of the whole hierarchy of functionaries of the Second Empire ; authority, of course, being synonymous with imporalism, and anarchy with all the old liberal parties. Anarchy and authority are also familiar terms in the political vocabulary of the Roman Church ; anarchy, of course, being synonymous with every form of moral and intellectual freedom, and authority with the infallible oracles of the Vatican and the. Sacred College. But what does Mr. MATIIIEW ARNOLD mean by anarchy and autho rity when ho is writing about England ? Se far as wo can understand from a perusal of these papers, he regards "Anarchy" as the normal condition of public affairs, and of all the active political parties in this country. But as to " authority," unless he moans a Minister of Public Instruction after his own heart, teaching every little boy in the oonntry the same lesson at the same hour, and organising the primary and the secondary, the culture of the youthful British Philistine by decree, we are at a loss to divine the meaning of his message. It is easy to per that he has a general contempt for " the " policy of free trade," for the " growth of in " telligenoe," and for the " practioal operations " of " our liberal friends " in general ; and that ho calls the British aristocracy the " barbarians," to distinguish them from the middle-class Philistines. But here, again, we note a want of originality in Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD'S humour. His " Philis tine " is partly borrowed from the German and partly from the French. His picture of the British Philistine is painted after HEINE and HENRI Muneee. It is a clever mixture of the German student's idea of everybody who is not at the University, and of the French Bohemian's portrait of a bourgeois. Such as it is, however, it is impossible not to feel the vivid truth of the presentation of this type of the prevailing vul garity of the age, of the sordid, dreary, respect able existence of thousands of our well-to-do fellow-countrymen and their congeners in other countries. Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD has really made the indigenous Philistine of England his own, by some masterly strokes of caricature, such as when he insists on " the attempt to enable " a man to marry his deceased wife's sister," as a " very interesting operation of our " liberal friends." Ho is really funny on this enticing topic, as he is on the " great sexual " insurrection of our Anglo-Teutonic race," which some gushing reviewer of Mr. HEPWORTH DIXON has discovered to be the moral of "Spiritual Wives;" and on the cognate topic of " the indefinite " multiplication of poor people." Nor would it be just to deny that, while he gives us no idea of his own on these difficult questions of social economy, he criticises with a clear and pene trating scorn the formulas with which other quacks are continually regaling the public credulity, or hypocrisy. Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD, however, is himaelf an inventor of formulas. In stead of dividing the world, as Voi.- TAIRE did, into an innumerable army of fools and a platoon of men of sense, he divides it into Hebraizers and Hellenists. His Hebraizers are the vast majority of " our Liberal " friends," who waste their energies in empirical attempts at practical legislation. His Hellenists are the calm and cool philosophical thinkers, who sit like the sailor's parrot all day long, each with " a " possible SOCRATES in his breast, trying to clear " and educate themselves," and sighing for the spiritual transformation of the race, or rather, as in the last stage of a Turkish bath, " detaching " themselves from stock notions and habits," and " letting a free play of consciousness, a desire for " sweetness and light," cool and calm their too impatient aspirations. All this, and a great deal more of the same sort, is very pretty talk. But we should be glad to know the sense of it, unless it be to justify Mr. Disasztz's after-dinner sneer at " over-refinement and " affectation of philosophy." This work-a-day world will not be bettered by any number of sailor's parrots, be their plumage ever so beauti ful, or their thinking ever so profound. Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD has a knack of being grave and almost in earnest every now and then, though he sedulously shuns the mire and noise of the market place. But what is his social or political philo sophy ? Apparently, the philosophy of an Epicurean disguised as a Stoic. Ono might as well dream of healing the maladies of mankind by sitting through the summer weather under a cedar tree and sipping cool drinks, as of reaching " the " firm intelligible law of things" by railing lan guidly at every man who puts his hand to the plough. - _ stained to trust a stranger with his goods. It was not till after the horse and brougham had been supplied, that their vendor thought it necessary to apply for informa tion to one of the oornmittetnen of the new Society. Then he learnt that Mr. Bittowat,t. had not that gentleman's confidence, for he thought " the beet course would be to prosecute." The brushes obtained from the other tradesman are raid to have been pawned on the day of their pur chase, and Mr. Burrott, who prosecuted the case at the Marylebone Police-court, said "inquiries " had been made as to the parties whose names " were down " (as committee-men) " but " nothing advantageous bad been gathered, " and some were not known at the ad " dresses given." The found committee-man said there had never been a oommittee-meeting, and that ho bad felt anxious directly he saw his name in print. In short, it is implied, on what it must be remembered is an ex park statement, though Mr. MANSFIELD refused to take bail for the charge, that the " Lady Superioress," "' the Home," the committee, and the society have been so many figments of Mr. BEDwELL'S (also known se TOMLINSON, a name dropped out of deference to pecuniary difficulties) fertile brain. The brougham and brushes are but two cases out of many; and "goods of all descriptions" are said to have been obtained on similar grounds from that most tenderly confiding of all human crea tures, the British tradesman. PLIOROUATRAN OF PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) TH'R ROYAL SPEECH. Their lordships met at 2 o'clock• for the proroxistion. Them wore not s down peers present, and the oeremonial was of the most simple and formal description. Toe Boys, Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Buckingham, the Karl of lialincebury, and Earl Devon. The royal assent was given to a number of The Howie of Commons met this afternoon at half past one o'clock. The prorogation by commission is the Upper House, however, did not take place until a later hour. The Srarsics took the chair at half-past one o'clock. There were very few members present. Amongst them were Mr. Diarseli, Lord Stanley, Mr. Hardy, and Lord John Manners. In reply to Mr. °TWAY, . _ Lord SUM= said he had received no information of any combination between France, Belgium, and Holland for purposes hostile to Prussia and Germany. The royal speech was as follows: MT Loans &ND Orcirmanalr, I am happy to be enabled to release you from year labours, and to offer you my acknowledgments for the diligence with which you have applied yourselves to your parliamentary duties. My relations with foreign power remain friendly and satisfactory. I have no reason to apprehend that Europe will be exposed to the calamity of war, and my policy will continue to be directed to secure the blessings of peace. I announced to you at the beginning of this minion that I bad directed an expedition to be sent to Abyssinia to liberate my envoy, and others of my subjects, detained by the ruler of that country in an unjust captivity. I feel sure that you will share in my satisfaction at the complete success which has attended that expedi tion. After a march of 400 miles through a difficult and unexplored country, my troops took the strong place of Magdala, freed the captives, and vindicated the honour of my crown; and by their immediate return, without one act of oppression or need less violence, proved that the expedition had been under taken only in obedience to the claims of humanity, and in fulfilment of the highest duties of my sovereignty. The cessation of the long-continued efforts to promote rebellion in Ireland has for some time rendered unneces sary the exercise by the executive of exceptional powers. I rejoice to learn that no person is now detained under the provisions of the act for the suspension of the habeas corpus, and that no prisoner awaits trial in Ireland for an offence connected with the Fenian conspiracy. 010+7r EXEN 07 TIM HOME or Commas, I have to thank you for the liberal supplies which you have voted for the public service. Mr Loans AND Gmrnmirmr, I have had much satisfaction in giving my assent to a series of measures completing the great work of the amendment of the representation of the people in Par liament, which has engaged your attention for two sessions. I have seen with satisfaction that the time necessarily occupied by this comprehensive subject has not prevented you dealing with other questions of great public interest, and I have gladly given my sanction to bills for the better government of public schools, the regulation of railways, the amendment of the law relating to British sea fisheries, and for the acquisition and maintenance of electric tele graphs by the Postmaster-General ; and to several im portant measure. having for their object the improve ment of the law, and of the civil and criminal proce dures in Scotland. By the appointment of a Comptroller-in-Chief in the War-office a considerable reform in army administration has been commenced, which, by combining at home and abroad the various departments of military supply under one authority, will conduce to pester economy and effi ciency both in peace and war. It is my intention to dissolve the present parliament at the earliest day that will enable my people to reap the benefit of the extended system of representation which the wisdom of parliament has provided for them. I look with entire confidence to their proving themselves worthy of the high privilege with which they have thus been invested; and I trust that, under the blessing of Divine Providence, the expression of their opinion on those great questions of public policy which have occupied the attention of parliament and remain undecided, may tend to main tain unimpaired that civil and religious freedom which has been secured to all my subjects by the institutions and settlement of my realm. The SPEAM, on his return to the House of Commons, notified what had been done, after which the members present took leave of the right hon. gentleman, Thua ended the last session of the last parliament under the Reform Act of 1831. We (herald) have been requested to correct the paragraph which appeared in our impression of yesterday respecting the health of the Bishop of Winchester. His lordship had on Tuesday morning an attack, not of the nature of paralysis, but caused by the extreme heat of the weather. The illness, which was for a time of an alarm ing character, speedily passed off, and the bishop is now again in a state of convalescence. At the Victoria Graving Dock on Wednesday there was an official inspection by Sir Stafford Northcote and other members of the India Council of a pontoon of unusual dimensions, manufactured by Messrs. Bmmerson and Murgatroyd, engineers of Stockport, for the Bombay government. This pontoon, which forms a portion of an hydraulic graving dock, now being constructed by Mr. Edwin Clark for the Bombay Government, is 380 feet in length, 85 feet in width, and 9 feet 6 inches in depth, and is especially designed for docking the large transport ships lately constructed for that station. The lift itself is ► machine of unprecedented dimensions, consisting of a group of 72 hydraulic presses of 36 feet stroke, each press having power to raise 200 tons, and the whole group, therefore, being able to lift 14,400 tons through ► space of 36 feet in about 30 minutes. It is accordingly capable of lifting the largest vessel extant, and the calculation is that with a sufficient number of pontoons ► fleet of 12 or 15 vessels might be docked in a single day. - - At the Belfast Assizes the representatives of the late James O'Donnell, a merchant tailor, of White haven, have obtained 1,20 W. damages against the pro prietors 'of the steamship The Queen, for the death of Mr. O'Donnell, who. when a passenger on board the ves sel, on the 24th October bun, fell into the hold, and was so severely injured that he died on the 2nd of November fol lowing. A NOTABLE DINNER PARTY. When Mr. Disraeli launched his first tale and found it to be a great success, Lord Lytton, then Mr. Edward Lytton Bulwer, had achieved the proud place as a novelist which he has ever since retained. The aspirant for literary distinction had long admired at • distance the renown of his senior, and encouraged by the reception which his own maiden effort had received, he did what young authors under singular circumstances are apt to do. He sent to Mr. Bulwea a copy of "Vivian Grey," writing at the same time an apologetic note, and giving reasons for the liberty he had taken. The letter with its accom panying gift, were at once acknowledged, and Mr. Disraeli was requested to name a day for dining with their recipient. It happened that Mr. Disraeli had arranged for quitting England on the day but one after receiving this invitation. He wrote to say so, and the morrow was Axed for the symposium. Four gentlemen eat down at Mr. Bulwer's table on that occasion one being, of course, the hoot ; another, Mr. Disrae li ; the third, • man, shy, but evi dently intelligent, for though he said comparatively little, his remarks, as often as he hazarded them, were keenly to the purpose. The fourth, • private friend of the host, need Doi be specified. It was an evening not to be for gotten, became then, as now, both Lord Lytton and Mr. Disraeli shone in convention. The pertybroke up about midnight, and the host and his friend were left alone together. After discuaidng Disraeli, the question was put, " Who is your silent guest P" "He is one of the ablest men I know," was the re.. "He was my contemporary at college. He is now a barrister ' • and, mark my words, he will attain the highest honoursof his profession. His name is Cockburn." The climax to this little bit of do medic history or gossip is very remarkable. The two brilliant no ve lists and the painstaking lawyer who dined together some forty or more years ago, comparatively obscure mesa have all risen to positions of eminence in the state. Mr. Cockburn is Lord Chief Justice of land;Eng Mr. Bulwer, after serving as Secretary of State for the Colonies, has become • peer of the realm ; and Mr. on mere than one previous occasion Chancellor of thel eg ea and leader of the House of COMZIIOII4 now PIM of the Treassary.—Bieektemers Ifsperiors snail pries of4oar and bread=das • IL per peek sad Id. per Ica at a • FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) WAR RUMOURS AGAIN. Tli,+ Florence correspondent of the DAcste writes that " everyone in Italy believes that a war be tween France and Prussia is near at hand." The Opinionr, a very moderate organ, says that " Diplomatists alone have the hardihood to deny the hostility of these militai7 powers." The North German Gazette remarks th e the intorpellation of Gem ral La Marmora in the Italian Chamber was not intended as a defence of the honour of the Italian army, but "an act of hostility against Prussia--an act dedicated by personal and politi cal motives of the most odious kind." The Berlin Correopondence has also a very bitter article on General La Marmon', which winds up by remark ing that, "the produotion of the Prussian note, after two years of secrecy will not bring him a whit nearer to victory." tranotron szvnin'a AanNor SP.II,VIA. BELGRADE, JULY 3D. . _ The imperial firman of investors for Prince Milan was delivered and promulgated to-day. It refers to the firman of the year 1830, by which he m alt/try rights had been granted to the Obrenovitch family and also to the law on primogeniture, as established in favour of the younger as well as the elder branch of the national dynasty. After the firman had been read the presiding member of the Regency addressed Mama Bey, the bearer of the firman, and adverted to the reply given by the late Prince Michael on a similar occasion, adding, in the name of the young Prince Milan, that he would, like his predecessor, be constant in loyalty and devotion to his suzerain, and would zealously watch over the safety of the national institutions. The members of the Regency desired Kiamil Bey to express their lively gratitude to the Sultan for his gracious compliance with the wishes of the Servian nation. The state of siege has been raised throughout the country, the city of Belgrade alone being excepted. FRANCE. PARIS, Jots 31. An imperial decree published to-day extends the term for the exemption of cargoes of grain and flour and breadstuffs from the payment of naviga tion duty until the 31st of December, 1868, the date previously fixed having been the 9th of September. B AVARIA. MUNICH. Juz 31. The King of Bavaria has bestowed the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael upon Baron Von Wagner, the Wurtemburg Minister of War, and the Cross of Commander of the same Order upon Colonel Luckow, chief of the general staff of Wurtemburg. OUR PARIS LETTER. (raox ors owx oosuraspormarr.) PARIS, THURSDAY Ewnio. Although the harshness of the French law of libel, which admits of no jury and no proof of the truth of a libellous allegation, is frequently com plained of the sentences pronounced by the cor rectional judges are sometimes so indulgent as to discourage prosecutions. An instance occurs in the,legal journals of to-day. A M. Albert Wolff, a writer in the Figaro, prosecuted aM. Marchal de Bussy, who, in a pamphlet entitled Les Impure de Figaro, had said of him that he was a " Greek," a " coward," a " broncanteur," and a " flat knave." The court, presided by M. Delesvaux, declared in its judgment that the words were an attack upon the honour and consideration of the prosecutor, and were used with the manifest intention of injuring him. Then follows this paragraph : Whereas, in order to appreciate the gravity of the offence of defamation, it is necessary to take into coml. deration the facts preliminary to the defamatory publica tion, the provocation given, and the general course taken in the press by the libeller and the libelled. These things being duly taken into considera tion the court sentenced M. Marshal de Bussy to pay 1 franc fine and 1 franc damages, and declined to make him pay the cost of the insertion of the judgment in any newspaper. The public has no means of forming an opinion as to the justice of this judgment, because the French law in its wisdom prohibits the report in libel cases of either the evidence or the arguments of counsel. M. deVillemessant, the editor of the Figaro, whO gives the highest character to his friend M. Albert Wolff, insinuates that the pamphlet complained of was written with the encouragement of the police, in order to disgust tho public with the newly acquired liberty of the press. M. Albert Wolff announces that he leaves Paris this day to study foreign jurisprudence in the tribunes of Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Bavaria, Switzerland, and Austria, and that he feels a great consolation in the thought of being some time in Berlin instead of Paris. In consequence of Mr. Otway's question all the semi-official papers of this evening repeat, in a more or less guarded form, that there is no evi dence of the existence of any negotiations for an alliance between Prance, Holland, and Belgium. It is positively stated that the ex-King of Hanover has bought the Chateau de Beauregard. The question is asked whether he will be permitted to reside in it ? I can conceive no reason why he , should not. There were a great many rea sons why the Hanoverian legion should not have been received as a body in France, and the Prussian embassy made well grounded eomplainta about the hospitality afforded to an embodied force which at a given moment would be ready to serve as an env iliary to the French army in case of hostilities. But these remonstrances were not listened to, and d fortiori, if King George of Hanover wishes to re side in France as a refugee the French Emperor is not likely to prevent him. The Marquis and Marquise do Caux (Adelina Patti), have arrived in Paris, and are staying with the marquis's step-father, the Duke de Vabny. The Figaro says that the Queen, when she comes to Paris on August 8, will not rest at the Tuileries, but at the British embassy, where Lord Lyons ie preparing apartments for her; that the Empress will come from Fontainebleau to see the Queen at the Embassy, and that her Britannic Majesty will return tho visit at the Tuileries in the course of the day. . . . The Prince Imperial is expected next winter to inhabit the ElyeCv Palace with an establishment of hie own. The Galslois says that Augustin Iturbido, bro ther of the Prince Iturbide, who was adopted by the Emperor Maximilian, now keeps a beer shop at Conrbevoie, in the suburbs of Paris. The. was scarcely any change at the Bourse. It is Ow evident that the " options " to-morrow eannoi be declared at anything him the highest THE BRITISH TRADESMAN MR. HENRY BIDWELL, who describes himself as secretary to the " Foreign Girls Protection " Society," seems to be an ingenious person. The particulars of a shameful and distressing case having appeared in the papers, he drew up a pro spectus, of which the following is the key-note The recent expose at the Mansion-house as to " the poor Belgian girl and the procuress amply " shows how necessary is this Society. Hundreds " of poor foreign girls are deooyed from their " homes and their own countries, and inveigled " into this for the vilest and most horrible of pur " posse, as the police reports often testify. Their " sufferings cannot be conceived, imagined, or do " scribed." A florid picture of " a London cler " gyman, rector of a parish and brother of an " alderman, an old man of seventy, who for over " ten years has ridden up in his carriage to this " den of infamy," and an imposing list of com mitteemen were added. The society having been thus fairly started, its secretary, Mr. Bin s/nu., proceeded with its business. The first branch of this was to secure a brougham and horse (value 2001.) for Mr. BIDWELL himself ; the second to obtain hair-brushes " for the " use of the girls in the Home." A curious hitch occurred in this last transaction. This zealous and pains -taking secretary wanted one of the hair brushes to be of ivory " for " the Lady Superioress" ; but the shopman " thought wood would be good enough." Yet, with the concurrence of the master-tradesman, Mr. BEDWIDL was allowed to take his purchases away without payment, and apparently without other reference than some papers he produced himself. That it should be necessary to restrain the extravagance of a customer awoke no suspi cions in the minds of the brushmakers, who thus furnish one more instance of the marvellous sues with which a Load= trudowasa ema be per- . THE THEATRES. A QUARTER of a century ago most of the more important London theatres closed their doors about the end of May, the actors either proceeding on starring tours in the oountry, known professionally as the " provinces," or playing at some east-end or transpontino theatre which had a summer season. The general use of railways, however, has changed all this ; an audience comprised of Lon doners proper is scarcely ever seen except upon first nights or other special occasions, the large majority of persons attending the theatres being excursionists brought from all parts of the king dom, who are constantly varying, and to whom the fact of a piece being at its two-hundredth re presentation, as they have never seen it, is attractive rather than otherwise. Now-a-days, a theatrical season in London usually consists of ten or eleven months, the house being only closed for necessary cleaning and repairs, but the excessive heat of the weather has compulsorily restored the old practice of early closing. The Covent-garden opera is closed, its Drury-lane rival has its last performance to-morrow night, the Olympic, the Lyceum, the Princess's, the Prince of Wales's, the Royalty, and the Surrey, are all closed, and to-morrow is the last night of per formance at the Holborn. Nevertheless, those who are heat-proof can yet find theatrical amuse ment at the Haymarket, deserted by its regular denizens, but occupied by a " scratch" company ; at the Adelphi, whither Mr. GEoaez BELleoae has brought his horse " Flying Scud," which he rides with all his old energy ; at the New Queen's, where Mr. BYRON'S clever mixture of sensation and realism is deservedly successful ; and at the Strand, a little bandbox, crammed every night with audiences delighting in Mr. Beotrea's burlesque, and the softened can-can recently imported. By the time holiday-makers are back in London the theatres will be opened again with excellent promise of a capital season. Mr. t3onren.rt returns to the Haymarket with a new play by Dr. WYSTLAND MARSTON. Mr. Bort- Met= furnishes the Princess's with a sensation drama, " After Dark." Mr. FecirrEE comes back to the Adelphi with a new version of " Monte " Chnsto." The management of the Prince of Wales's produce a new comedy, by the author of " Black Sheep." Mr. BYRON contributes a drama to the Holborn, and there are the two and hitherto unfinished theatres, the Gaiety and the Globe, of the arrangements for which wo know nothing save that Mr. ALIBIED WIGAN is engaged at the former. With fresh blood in management and authorship the season of 1866-69 should be specially success ful. • IT Mr. DISRAELI has failed to increase the numbers of the House of Commons he meets with no difficulty in adding to the House of Peers. By an ingenious mode of adjustment, fresh nobles being insinuated at intervals instead of being thrust up in a batch, public opinion is not awakened, and nothing worse than a few sar casms takes place. We have had half-a-dozen new hereditary legislators created this year already; six more are expected in a few days, and another group will of course be made when the Ministers go out. This effective mode of bribery does not, we fear, come under the new Election Petitions Act, but it is fully as scandalous as any of the practices which the judges are to be called upon to detect and to punish. No one pretends that these gentlemen are placed in the House of Lords, and their children after them, for any services rendered to the country. They are paid for their votes and nothing more. The fact that the responsible authorities are in a Parlia mentary minority of 85, and that the time chosen is the lapse between the prorogation and the general election, adds to the conspicuousness if not to the gravity of the offence. the Court. OSI3ORNE, JULY 30. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Louise, the Marchioness of Ely being in attendance, and her Majesty drove in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse, The Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Louis of Heise went to Goodwood to-day to be present at the races. The Hon. Eliot York* and Baron Babenais went in at tendance upon their royal highness... The Queen held a council at Osborne at one o'etoek to day, at which were present the Bight Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandoe, the Earl of Br►dford, and Bin Stafford Northoote. Mr. Masai, the Duke of Buckingham, and Sir Stafford Northoote had audiences of her Majesty. Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Council The Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prins Albert Victor, Prince George, and the Princess of Teck, drove out yesterday. M - r. Alderinan Lusk, M.P., Mr. Wyld, M.P., Mr. C.. 7. Cottingham, and Mr. Saul Isaac had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Foreign-office,: yesterday, with reference to the screw steamer Tornado. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial of ce from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governor-General of Canada. Ms Excellency the Spanish Minister and Countess de Vistabermoss. and Madlle. Owens have left the Spanish Legation in Mazudleld-street, to paw a few weeks at St. The Countess of Cardigan will leave Hose Lodge, West Cowes, on Monday next, for a crabs to the Channel Islands in her steam-yacht, the Sea Hons. The Chelmsford Chresside understands that Mr. C. Du Cams M.P., has purchased the anted the late Sir W. B. Rust, Bart., which, with the aitsonnwonssaur, sad extant at land cad w=ill ken la importing oddities to the Manted Pock prices a the month. The &mite will in double quick time, and them is every prub s : lity of its 'sing issued inuneclately. SCIENCE AND ART IN coNNIII:TIOy WITH IWPCI,AR EDUCATIo.v. . -• This morning a blue-book was publielnli c ob _ taining the fifteenth report of the Science and Art meat of the Committee of Council on Education. From this document it appears that the total number of persons who last year received direct instruction as st i . dents, or by means of lectures, in connection with the Science and Art Department, is about 123,500, being o i increase of over 10,000, or nearly 9 per cent. on DIX. Ty attendanoe at the museums and collections under the sup:, intendence of the department in London, Dublin, 00 l Edinburgh, has been 1,305,374, which was an incrva., 162,374 on the number of the previous year. The exper t . dituro of the department during the financial year lei 4. exclusive of tho cost of the geological survey, w:u It.. Id., while in 196741 it was 179,9501. Os. Id., ~v , ; an increase of 27,093 i. Bs. committee say that at no p•rioit ninee the estlViiti. meet of the department has its influence in pro:n do.; knowhilge of science and art, especially mem: the indindifid classes, been au widely eitmi led or its benolicialresulta so marked a, during the pad. ye. : Illey add : "The increased grants for which parlianc.: has made provision in the vote for seienc and art for il. current year, supplemented as they were by prink rn ficenee, will, we trust, enable us to effuct an spent-able Ulnae.) towards affording to all classes of her Majesty. subjects oppurtunities for acquiring in druction tlis 'Mono°s and arts which are appli.mils/c to je.iiiscliri industry." The ieporl is signal by the Duke of Msrlburough sal Lord Robert Montagu, and the earns '• I frnry Cols secretary," is also attached. TILE UNITED LAND COMPANY (LIMITED) (TBIB DAY.) The first general meeting of the iihareliolderi took place this afternoon, at the offices, 33, Norf o lk. street, Strand ; Viscount BANKLIOR in the chair. The Shourrsse (Mr. liruneisen) having read the aileny. taement convening the meeting, the annexed report of the directors was read:—" The articles of association spent yine that the first general meeting of the United Land Company (Limited) shall be held within four calendar months after a mem-trend uni of association is registered, the direetor, have the ph to,ure to submit the first report to the Misr.. holders, although the business is necessarily only forms!. The short pet iud which has elapsed since the formation Af the company has been fully occupied in the organhet tion of the offices for public bu s iness, and th directors have the eatisfectiun of stating that everything is in working order. The directors have elected as first auditors el the cimi_lvolT. in accordance with articles of association , Biltvers. Johnstone, Cooper, Whale, and Evans, accountants and public auditors, of 3, Coleman-street-buildings, City, E.tt The attention of the directors has been unces , inglya,,..t. to the acquisition of eligible propertic;, and they have h.. . already fortunate enough to secure two highly digit: estates in East Surrey and Middlesex. Due , be given when these two estates can be offered for Otherpropertiei in various counties a re under con:iderat At Michaehnas the agreement entered into with the con. servative Land Society for the purchase of the unsal tions of its estates iu twenty-six counties will bo carn..t out, and the land operations of the old society will thm be exclusively transacted by the United Land Comploy (Limited), whilst the society's business will be mottos' the share and advance department under its eertiti..l rules. The directors of the United Lana Compaq (Limited) are deeply indebted to the members of the Cele 'creative Land Society for the readiness with whit they have taken up the shares of the new company the first allotment of which has been satisfactory. Is directors in due course will make the second allotment. the shareholders of the Conservative Land Society having the preference as before, the liability in teen cases being limited to the amount of the shares taken. The directors of the United Land Company (Limned) will use their beet exertions to carry out the new connasy with energy and economy in the management, and they look forward to the combined action of the parent society and the newly-formed company as tending to advance the prospects and position of both 3+3oCli- WWI. (Signed) " Rimmtoß, Chairman. (Countersigned) gued) " CHAR. Lewis GRUM/WIEN. Sc Tux BUSMAN IMPERIAL TRAVELLERS.—TL.• Emperor of Russia has arrived at Kissingen. The Em press with her chi4hen went as far as Hopenhaufen to meet him. Constantinople letters announce that the Grand Duke Alexis of Itwisia has been officially received and has dined with the Sultan. Tmtimonies of Irsu•.: and friendship were exchanged on the occasion. The Prince is to visit the court of Athena, and his journey wtil extend to the United States. The piercing of the tunnel through Mont-Ceni: continues to advance satisfactorily. On the IstJune S,;IM metres had been completed. During that month 60 metre. additional have been finished on the southern aide, awl on the northern, making a total of 8,498 out of the whole length of 12,220, leaving 3,722 metres yet to be executed. The session just closed has been the longest A.. - aim of the French Legislative Body since its establishment in 18.52. It has held 141 public sittings, whereas last year there were but 89, beginning on the 14th of February and terminating on the 24th of July. 77 sittings have been occupied with the debates on the prow, and 26 given to the budgets and the loan of 440 millions. List year the budget occupied 21 days. The army and navy bilk took up 17 sittings ; the right of meeting bill eight ; and nine were given to divers interpellatiorui on the economic situa tion of France. For the first time since 1852 all the minis ters have successively presented themsslti,s in the Legisla tive Chamber. Numerous instances of the rigour uilli which the Russian officials punish the circulation of WA', in favourable to the government are report. .1 from The other day a student at the university .4 rh. t town w ceived a letter from a friend of his in 'rarloy. refugee. As this letter contained many intvrodiug and comments on current affairs, the stud, at 4s.W. i • several of his colleagues. This having ..a.ns• r t'.. t' • the university authorities, a strict imp. , .. stituted into the matter, and all the were convicted of having read the letter, about tb-. number, in IMPERIA, Tionibiree graciously civil shootim park. His several of Farina, Frew M. Bloch, address or I which was moment after his Majesty to the et Marshal Bazain Lepic fired in r imperial party when the of the bathes naders and sat sequentlywalki The next day • Garen:bier, at half-pent the Marquis in/ the Beg' oadre ; wi along the siasza. His skirts the Lake Bartsaaati,_ valley of NI front of that the Black For entered Month' Exiuelv St. Petersburg, " What caw some time past bons that take I letter of an alar have 'apposed narratives of and in which wa Ramis covering nication stated stretching as kilometres plantations •. every oue here story as absurd exaggeration. are increareug probably arse received from the woods are vonia; as, for in the and or 3 i di ce ablaze, a er ad seeing of Übe caved ea tle bask d She irsity authorities, a strict jibe' , s L., ,t.- ;,, nto the matter, and all the -4 ~,b-1,1., NO, , , 1, , 1 4, , 1 , icted of having read the letter, about Ile , ' ' ' jurio rere expelled from the university. bubl lAL HOLIDAY-MAKINO.-A letter ii . 1,1 tent s has the following :—" The Emperor a - a hie pleased to open two evening:, back lb- t wi ling-lists at the extremity of the imis ,-, L I 1 Majesty went in au open carriage e , tI , -rer his officers, and was received by N. 1111 'resident of the Riflemen's Association, an! h, the Vice-President. There was 1,. , ' formality. The Emperor fired the first slal. a saluted by a flourish of music; and the 2 ter a vivandiere came forward and present'! 1 with a glass of beer, in which he drank TI mecess of the franca-tireurs. Afterwards ate Swain., General de Seville, and General , rat l in succession, and after a short delay, the I d party returned to the town. la the evening, en i a band was playing for the gratirkstiou .sui hers, the Emperor came amongs t the prome- len, l sat down, smoking a cigarette. Maleatl" 6 " LOU walked upend downier sometime before retirin g . the i r, and the ad' ' mountain , . The party lett and ' ll2, X Simms, General de Seville, and is de Fleury, Prefect of the Vosges,soretnaaar hee l error ;in • second carriage were th e orderl y Wel whilst a foargon followed with provisions. All th M wa the populas displayed great Who- e 1 ° Xal y, estJ wltaed sip a part of the ascent which for ' Lake of iletournemer and leads to the Pa rihou 'Wei ~ whence can be seen the whole of the beautiful . TI [ureter. Dinner was served on Cobol grass In 1[ at magnificent view, with the Rhine ow and Forest in the far distance. The Emirror ra- TI ornbiaree at a quarter-past ten at night. SIVE FIRES of Rusete. — A letter from . a ui .4 Sorg, in the &hit Athlie of Lyons, h is : ) u n I speak of except the infliction which has for past desolated Russ • el I mean the millers - ;aka place. Recently the Paris Monde printed s 1 1 alarming character, and which one wadi posed to have been borrowed from th e of early travellers in the New World. it ch was reported an account of prairie tires in r. ering an extent of several leagues. The comme- nted that, from the frontiers of Prussia, and tui far as St. Petersburg, over an extent ofd ~ m (each live-eighths of a mile), the forests ,, er , were burning forseveral dr. At thianarration in pre smiled, and the German ournals treated the mid ; but, unfortunately, there la ill it 00 1 Y 'ma 1 1 MY The Joursurl of the 20 th says: ' Fires :' ,;.? rig in the f onion with an alarmingrapidity. They e n rise from the long-continued drougbi- Xs" In ore the interior of the countryannounoes that . ere ex exam ol amestimini fire ple: in vari tE the ntig ra.rta mi hbG o teau f ur Ebib bo ed o 7 ia ß a ssr t d ataFegi34l4- locsfliiee. Near Bits many formes WI SIB I the sky is darkened with the smoke. 0* the the 19th extensive reasetisms et ars in» rr_ , he lotion from the upper part 11111 OM inilig ' et SUS Dane: LA In e•t• wort the ' aod auto Fug servi our pun were Lust, Lem, Lily • • n• ee: npt. of Eilej ith ors be n u e tt• h • • an 0 p 1 igt Oldh eu- tioo • head of ti It-s r. 1 t Tb uni as •„1, eir pr hie r tl : l :ir , 1,4 2 ole 813 I OWN ace cznb o r on& wine] terfem .ftem lea Inca tim lain ble a at atm • no L r. Kc hese )f Ibe j lop ictul ✓alue .of th ✓ltim court those f nc with r ' 9 f' lh I 'i i I