The Express. — London, England, 1866-06-07 00:00:00

lif lid s, , , i , , , . 41 1 i , !I ' lli. 1 1 i : i i l 1 II li :1 1 1 1 rsi 11 : I . 1 ,1 1 ' ':I i MIIRTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. A. Omer, 111di, and Invalid TURTLE SOUPS always_ ready. ft Jklinff- HALL , RIGINTSTBAZI, PICCLDII.LY. WK. DONALD, Proprietor• LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM tor Gentlemen.—lthsemeer, we watt tat yoga at WASS." after the Covent Garden Opera and the Theatren Ititt erpreoo. TO COSAMPONDIFIII. Awes/ciente intended for "The piper Bxpreu," London Evening meat be at the Moe, 10, Sonveriewtreet, by Two the day of pub/nation. HAYMARKET. Tan Immo. A ROMANTIC ATTACEN. MW. Yemen, Miss Ada Cavendish, dc.—THE FA HM VORIT T E OE r. YOB, MINE Menem Ilnekstone, Chippendale, and Sothern Era aappoodabk ac.—And TUILYING TaR TARL Mr. Compton. - PRINCESS'S. TIM SYMMS, A LUCKY MlT.—Aftar wt LOUIS XI. Louis. Mr. Charles Keaa Mrtha', lira. CalifilS Keaa.—To waded. with QUIRT LODOLNIOS. 1.1131111. Till IrraNING, poems DAVY. Mr. H. Vadn. THZ CORSICAN BROTHER& Messrs. Pechter, luxury, Jordan, Wein, Wlddkomb, Fltrpstrlck, &c. ; Mesdames Lavern'. Hen rade, sad Urns& —And UP IN THE WORLD. Mr. Wlddicanko. - BRITANNIA. RPIINDOI, RICH AND POOR. The Hunan DIUICOTIL —BELPHEGOR, THE MOUNTEBANK. Miss Mrs BL Cute, lira ILMester E. Senders, Mews. Itiprood, Leslie, RID" ic.—With THE BLACK GONDOLA. MGR WATER AT LONDON =IDOL TRW DAT —Morning, h. tnt Afternoon. Bh. Wm. To- 8 —liornlng, 9h. Nen Afternoon, 9 h. Wm. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 7. Tim Conservative party has • singular faculty of being frightened, and can discern revolutionary tendencies in the most innocent proposiiions. Country gentlemen have endured, in appre hension, all the tortures of spoliation and con fiscation a thousand times ; and yet not an acre of land has been taken from them. On the contrary, they have gone on adding field to field, and estate to estate ; and at this pre sent moment the soil of England, as there is reason to believe, is held by a smaller number of proprietors than at any previous period of our his tory. There is something very unworthy in this moral pusillanimity on the part of men otherwise manly and generous. It is, besides, a gratuitous self-torture. " Cowards (we know) die many " times before their death ;" but there is some excuse for the fear of " that ugly customer," as Mr. HENLEY yesterday reverently desig nated the last enemy. It must come some time or other; but the division of great properties and the destruction of an heredi tary aristocracy, which Mr. BERESFORD Horn, Mr. HENLEY, and Mr. WHITESIDE foresee, as wrapped up in the Real Estates Intestacy Bill of Mr. LOCKE KING, are mere phantasms of a terrified imagination. A listener to portions of the debate yesterday afternoon would have imagined that the member for East Surrey was a " red " of the deepest dye, a sort of English MIRABEAU bent upon establishing an unchecked democracy upon the ruins of his own order. Such a listener would have been sur prised to learn that the measure, which was re jected by a majority of 281 against 84 in a liberal House of Commons, had no more revolu tionary object than to assimilate the law which regulates the distribution of real property in cases of intestacy to that which exists, and is admitted to be equitable and beneficial, in the cage of per sonal property, including not merely chattels, ' 1 but also leasehold estates. At present, if the owner of a freehold not entailed or subject to settlement dies without making a will, the estate goes to the eldest son, the widow and the younger children being left destitute or dependent. The law distributes the personal property, on the' other hand, of intestates in the proportion of one third to the widow, and the remaining two-thirds to the children ; or, if there be no children, of half to the widow, and half to the next-of-kin. It does not admit of question which of these two arrangements is most in harmony with natural justice and natural human feeling. Are there any considerations of public policy which countervail the otherwise irresistible suggestions of duty and affection I The necessity of a territorial aristocracy to maintain the balance of our institutions, and the impossibility of keeping up such an aristocracy if estates are divided, may be admitted to the fullest extent without impugning the principle of Mr. LocKE KING'S Bill. The great estates of peers and country gentlemen are not kept together by the oper►tion of the laws of intestacy. The present Marquis of WESTMINSTER, for example, does not enjoy his vast wealth as the heir-at-law of a man who forgot to make a will. He possesses it in virtue of the law and fact of entail ; and so with every peer of the realm, and nearly every considerable country gentleman in the kingdom. Now, Mr. LOCKE KING does not propose to inter fere with the liberty of settlement and of entail ; and as even the stupidest member of "the stupid " party" must have been aware of this, the use of the bogus argument against his project must be attributed to the formal necessity of imputing revolutionary designs to every measure which has the support of Mr. BRIGHT. Mr. HENLEY based his opposition to the Bill upon his sense of the cruelty which it would in flict on those poor people, labourers with a cottage and an acre or two of land, for whom, we are glad to perceive, his sympathies have been awakened since his advo- cacy last session of close parishes against the prin ciple of union-rating. The desire of the peasant to transmit what he has, undivided, be it only the hut in which he lives, is as intense, Mr. HENLEY argues, as the wish of a great duke or marquis to leave his vast estate to his heir undiminished. But, if so, he can gratify that desire, as Mr. EDWARD JAMES pointed out, by atestamentary disposition of a dozen words. The real point to be considered is whether, in the absence of any distinct expression of thiswish, it is the interest of the State to assume its existence at the coat of reducing three, or four, or five, or six persons to destitution, in order that one person may have more than he would otherwise obtain. We confess that, putting sentimental considerations aside, public policy appears to us to be opposed to the multiplication of pauperism and distress. In many cases, the indolence and want of foresight which lead the owner of real property to neglect making a will, are likely to have prevented his making other provision for the support of the younger members of his family. The law, if it steps in at all, should do so to diminish instead of aggravating the evils of the intestate's careless ness. , • The fact cannot he too strongly insisted on that those political considerations which Mr. WHITESIDE and others carefully imported into the discussion have no bearing whatsoever upon the question really at issue. If the Bill rejected yes terday ever becomes law, it will not operate upon the great estates which these gentlemen are anxious to preserve. It is therefore unnecessary to examine the eccentric history, logic, law, and political economy of the learned member for the University of Dublin. Perhaps it would in any case be superfluous to spend a single word upon the speculation which attributes tie late civil ',ear in America to the abolition, generations before, by the agency of Jsersitaow, of the law of primogeni ture in Virginia; orto discuss arguments which pro oeed on the assumption that the compulsory divi sion of property in Frame has anything to do with a proposition which leaves the right of bequest unfettered ; or to point out that the question of the suffrage is not (as Mr. Wairaarns regards it) a branch of political economy. It must be plain to all per sons who are not blinded by the fear of any sort of change, that, reserving on grounds of policy the law of entail and the liberty of settlement, the con siderations of justice and expediency on which the the law of intestacy in regard to personal pro perty rests, have equal application to real pro perty also. Mr. LOCKE Knro's measure, if itwere passed, would, it is allowed, affect chiefly the moderate estates of the middle and the lower classes. If in some cases it led to a minute sub-division of the land, it would in others lead to its aggregation, as Mr. Harri.av and Mr. BEILEBFORD HOPE pointed out. An es tate too small to be divided would be sold ; and it would generally be annexed to the land of the adjacent proprietor. It is difficult to reconcile this admission with the general purport of theirspeeches, which it refutes. ittat this (Mabee of the dingraoefAd -intakeiency . the misting estmensodation far the rick pew penes bed the peemlaiiti of evil than a reform is reodred, and Com bines with other facto to compel the rensedelling of our poor-law administration. AWRIIIKIAN Pouliot. Contrasting the opposite theories as to the condition of the freed men in the Southern States, of the President and his friends sad of the advocates of negro suffrage, the Daily NOW observes that the facts of the case are also read in opposite ways, and that it is hardly possible to discover what is the real disposition of the mass of the Northern people or the actual condition of the great body of the freedmen, though a joint committee of con gress is shortly to report upon it. It is not in the least to be expected that the two races will adjust their new relations without difficulty on the one side and suffering on the other. General Grant's desire for the increase of the permanent federal army probably arises in part from the conviction that it will not be safe for a long time yet to leave the freedmen unprotected. Mr. Johnson's policy is responsible in great degree for the con tinued unsettlement of the relations of the two classes. I t fosters illusive hopes on one side, and renders beneficent legislation almost impossible on the other. Looking back on the bearing of this country during the civil war, the Post represents English opinion generally as having been in favour of the Union, although the continu. ance of the latter was believed to be improbable. We bad under-estimated the resources and the tenacity of the great western people. Such intemperate outcries as were raised by Mr. Roebuck and others were echoed by a very insignifi cant minority, and were purely the answer to the menaces which were being perpetually addressed to us by the Ame rican press. The Past appeals therefore to Mr. Bancroft to reconsider his charges against us. The Herald and the Telegraph comment upon the ban quet to Captain Maury in terms which seem to indicate a / greater amount of sympathy with the confederate officer / than with the eminent hydrographer. ICS TOPICS. The Times declares that no one supposes that the Re form Bill can pass the legislature this session, but ex presses some curiosity as to how far it will be carried in committee before the fact is officially recognised. The composite bill has been reprinted by order of the govern ment, and is described by the Times as a useful document. Instead of interlining, and erasing. and scrawling all over the original bills with red or blue ink to see what the practical effect of the amendments would be, we have the whole presented in an intelligible form, yet so that it shows its original shape , as well as the alterations proposed to be introduced. After the interpretation clause we come to the proposed reduction of the old qualifications and enactment of new franchises, then the registration clauses, the clauses regu lating the redistribution of seats, the boundary clauses, and miscellaneous provisions. The point which is brought out with the greatest distinctness in the reprinted bill is the fact that the qualification for the occupation franchise in counties is defined in the very first clause which is not merely formal, and must, therefore, be discussed imme diately. Mr. Walpole has given notice of an amendment to substitute for the proposed occupation franchise of 14J. clear annual value a rating qualification of 20!., but he may reasonably demur to being called upon to proceed with his amendment this even'ng. The Daily News discusses Lord Ellenborough's speech on the Public Schools Bill, treating especially of the concern with which that nobleman regards the growing practice of making competitive examinations the gate to advantages in life. The noble lord is reminded that his family, owing BO much to privilege, have been its partisans, and that their merits and abilities have been employed to justify a system of exclusiveness and favour in church and state. The Tdeyrapk enforces upon all those who desire to save the Reform Bill and to preserve the government, that the life of the ministry is bound up with the maintenance of the 14!. and 71. franchise. If Mr. Walpole's amendment succeeds, those who vote for it will take upon them selves the responsibility of displacing Mr. Gladstone, and of substituting Lord Malmesbury or Mr. Disraeli for Lord Clarendon. rite Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Jma 6. • • HOUSE OF COMMONS.--Joan 6. REAL ESTATE INTESTACY BILL. Jar for second reading reed ; motion made, and question proposed, " That the bill be now red a second time :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " n ow, " and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day six months."—(Mr. Beredord Hope). Questio " n put, "That the word' now' s t a nd part of the quaddd. The house divided—Ayes, 84 ; noes, 281. /NM Allen, W. S. Foster, C . Amberley, Viact. Forster. W. E. Armstrong. It. Fort. E. = i k . Forteacue, D. F. OUpin, C. Barnes. T. Glyn, G. C. Barry, G. F. Goldsinid, 8/z F. Baxter, W. E. Gower. F. L. Bosley, T. Grenteli, 11. E. Bonverl, IL P. Gridley, Capt. &ight, J. Hadfield, G. Batley , C. 8. Hamilton, E. W. Buxton, C. MArdeastle, J. L. Buxton, Sir T. F. Harris , J. D. Candlish, J. Henderson, J. Chambers, T. Ilibbert, J. T. Cheatham, J. Holden. I. Corbally, M. E. Howard, C. W. Crauturd, E. IL Kearsley, Capt. Crossley, Sir F. Kinglike, J. A. Mike, 81r W. Kinnard, A. F. Dillon, J. B. Lewis. H. Dillwyn, L. L. Locke, J. Duff, Al. E. Lusk, A. Eliot, Lord Mackinnon, Capt. Ewart, W. M'Laren D. Ewing, H. E. Marshali i W. Fawcett, H. Mill, J. . Fordyce, W. D. llillr, J. B. NOES. Galway, Vinci. Heald, Sir J. Gaeta', J. W. NewdegMe, C. W. Gavin, Major Nicol, J. D. George, J. Noel, 0. J. Gladstone, W. R. Normte, Sir S. Goddard, A. L. Norwood, C. M. Goldney, G. 0 , 1 , ..1en, Sir C. Goldsmid, J. tYNM, K. Gore, J. 8.. •Pakhrgton Sir S Gore, W. IL Palk, Str L Graves, S. 8.. Palmer. Sir R. Greens% G. Parker, Major Oreville, A. C o Patten, Col. Gray, Lieut.-CoL Posse, J. W. Grey, Sir G. Peet, General Grey, T. de Peel. A. W. Griffith, C. D. Pennant, Col. Grosvenor, Earl' Percy, Major-Gen. Grosvenor, Lord B. Phillips, G. L. Powell, Guinness, B. L. y, B. Portman, W. H. Gurney F. 8. Hamilton, Lord C. J Pryse, KL. Hanker,..t. C. Pritchard. J. Hankey, T Rawlinson, 81r H. Hardy, G. Re..d, C. S. Hardy, J. Below, J.O. Hartley, J. Upton, G. W. Hervey, Lord A. H. Ridley, Sir M. Hay, Lord .1. Royston, Via& Hay, Sir J. C. Russell, Sir W. Hay-ter, Capt. St. Auloya. J. Heat cote, 81r W. Solitude, J. Henene, E. Schreiber, C. Henley, J. W. Belater-hooth, G. Henniker, Lord Sco.t, Lord Herbert, P. K Selwin, H. J. og. Selwyn, C. J. Hogg Lieut.- Holland, E. Severn, .1. E. Hood, Sir A. A. Seymouv,O. H. Homby, W. H. Sheridan, B. B. Llomman, E. Bheriff. A. C. Howes. E. Smollett, P. B. Huddleston, J. W. Somerset, CoL Jardine, B. Speirs, A. A. Jervoim, Sir J. Stacpoule, W. Jollitte, Sir W. Stanhope, J. B. Jolliffr, H. H. Ste iley, Lord Jones, D. Steel, .1. Kekewich, S. T. Stronge, Sir J. Kendall, N. Stuart, Col. Kennard, B. W. Stuart, Lt.-CoL King, J. K. Morley. Sir G. King, J. G. Sturc, 11. G. Kuatchhull - Rages- S.urt, Lt.-CoL *en. E. Sorters, F. Knight, F. W. Surtees, H. E. Knlghtley, Sir R. Sykes, C. Knox, Major Taylor, CoL Lacon, Sir K Thorold, Sir J. IL Laird. J. Thynne, Lord H. Laiicelles, IL W. Tracy, C. R. Leader, N. I'. Treeby, J. W. Leatham, W. H. Trevor, Lord Lcchmere, Sir E. TroPope, Sir J. Legh, Major Turner , C. Lefroy, A . Tyrrne, Earl of Lennox, Lord 11. Vandeleur, CoL Leslie. C. P. Verner, E. W. Liddell, H. 0. Verner, Sir W. Lindsay. Col. Vivian. Capt. Lopes, Sir H. Walcott. Admi. Lowther, ('apt. Waldegrave.lsolleo. Lowther, J. Walker, Major Mackie, J. Wain) id, J. W. Mackinnon, W. A. Walsh, A. M' Logan, P. Walsh, Sir J. Mainwaring, T. Warner, E. Manners, Lord J. Waterhouse, S. Manners, Lord G. J. Welby. W S J Majoribanks, D. C. Western, T. B. Martin, P. W. Whalley, G. 11. Merry, J. Whiteside, J. Miller, S. B. Whitmore, H. Miller, T. J. Wickham, 11. W. Milton, Via. Williams, F. N. Mitford, W. T. Winnington, Sir T. Moncrieff, J. Wise, H. C. Monk, ('. J. Woodd, B. T. Ifonsell, W. Wyndham. P. More, R. J. Wynn, C W. lfordaunt, Sir C. Wynne, W. IL Morgan, 0. Wyvill, M. Morris, M. TELLERS. Mowbray. J. R. Berestonl.Hope, A. Naas, Lord Hunt, G. W. Mitchell, T. A. Moffatt, G. Morris, W . Monison, W. Neste, C. Oliphant, L. Otirsy, A. J. Padmom, Philips, L. N. Pim, J. Platt, J. Potter, E. Potter, T. B. gobartm, T. J. Roane% RsMamas, A. heady, C. Maw nand, IL Stone, W. H. CoL Taylor, P. A. Torrena, WTre W. T. velyan. 0. 0. ',- White, J. Whitworth, B. Adair, H. E. Adam, W. P. Adderley, C. B. Agnew, Sir A. Akroyd, E. , Col I nu n=er, Sir E. Antrobus, E. Arkwright, R. Bainle, W. C. Sir J. Mille, H. J. Barclay, A. C. Barnett, H. Barrow, W. H. Barttelot, Cu!. Bottum, Sir T. Beach, /Pr M. H. Beach, W. W. Beaumont, W. B. Beecrott, G. S. Bentinck. 0. C. Benyon, R. Beresford, Capt. Bidduiph, Cu!, Bleigham, Lord Bowyer, Sir U. Brand, H. Breckpock, Earl of Bromley, W. D. Brooks, R. Browne, Lord J. T. Bruce, Lorl C. Bruen, H. Buckley, E. Bulkeley, Sir R. Burghley, Lord Burrell, Sir P. tOlerate, J. H. Calthorpe, F. H. Capper, C. Cartwright, Col. Cave, S. Cavendish, Lord E. Cavelo'ish, Lovtl 0. Clinton, Lord K Clive, Capt. Cobbold .1. C. Cochrane, A. D. Cole, H. Cole, J. L. Colebrooke, fit. T. colvile, C. R. Conolly, T. LUtutenay, Lord Cooper, E. If. Co.:, W. T. Crosland, Col. Culatt. 0. Cwt, C. H. Dalkeith. Far! of Davie, Sir H. Dawson, Capt. Dickson, Major Disraeli, B. Dodson, J. G. Dowdeswell, W. E. Duncombe, A. Inandas, F. Dunne, Gee. Du Pre, C. 0. Dutton, R. H. Dyke, W. H. Dyott, Col. Earle, R. A. Eaton, H. W. Edwards, Col. Egerton, A. E. Egerton, K C. Elcho, Lord Ellice, E. Enfield, \Agee. Evans, T. W. Eykyn, R. Fane, Cu!. ridden, J. Fellowes, E. Fergumon, Sir J. Finlay. A. S. Fttzwilllatn, C. W. Yoljambe, E. J. Fonle, Col. Forester, Den. Foster, W. 0. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,left Windsor Castle for London at half-past 12 o'clock, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, and Lord Charles Fitzroy. Her Majesty travelled by special train to Paddington, and proceeded thence, escorted by a detachment of the 14th Hussars, to Buckingham Palace. Princess Helena was received at the Paddington-station by Lady Caroline Barrington and Lieutenant-General Hon. G. Grey, and, attended by them, visited the Botanical Gardens, Regent's-park, and afterwards proceeded to Buckingham Palace. The Prince and Princess de Joinville, Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg, and her Imperial Highness the Princess of Saxe Coburg (Princess of Brazil) visited the Queen in the afternoon at Buckingham Palau. The Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenberg-Strelitz and the Duchess Caroline of Mecklenberg-Strelitz also visited her Majesty. The Peruvian Minister had an audience of her Majesty to present his credentials, to which he was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, R.G., her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by General the Hon. Sir E. Cust, her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. Sir Arthur Magenis had also an audience of her Ma jesty, on his return from his mission to Lisbon, to which he was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon. The Earl of Clarendon had an audience of the Queen. The Lord and Groom in Waiting were in attendance. _ _ Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helena, left Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle at half•past six o'clock. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark, drove out yesterday afternoon. Kthg, L James, Z. Sir Colman O'Loghlen's bill to regulate and im prove the tenure of land in Ireland between landlord and tenant stands fixed for Tuesday. Mr. Morris on Tuesday will call the attention of the House of Commons to the state of the law of removal from Great Britain to Ireland of persons reseiv:ng rel'ef, and to the injustice of maintaining a system which is applicable in favour of Great Britain only. ' Mr. Torrena intends to move as an amendment to Mr. Hussey Vivian's motion, " that a special report as to the extent, quality, and cost of working coal in the United Kingdom be directed to be made by the persons charged with the conduct of the geological survey, and that the earns be laid before parliament with the least possible delay." On an early day Mr. Maguire will move for a select committee to inquire into the causes which lead to the increasing number of shipwrecks, especially on the coasts of the United Kingdom ; and whether, if possible, any administrative or legal means may be devised whereby the serious losses of life and property so occasioned may be lessened. _ A deputation, consisting of the Rev. Mr. Hansard, ree tor of Bethnal-green ; Mr. Coles, Rev. Mr. Dornburch, South Hackney ; Mr. Artffil, Dr. Christie, Dr. Millar, Mr. Tite, Mr. Bright, Dr. Black, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Addis cott, Mr. Young, Dr. White, Mr. Gowland, and Mr. Brooks, had an interview, yesterday, with the Right Hon. W. Cowper, First Commissioner of ber Majesty's Office of Works, upon the subject of Victoria-park. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh honoured Lady Blantyre with their presence at a grand ball last evening at her new residence in Cromwell-road. _ _ _ Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge, the Princess Mary, the Grand Duchess of Mecklen burg Strelitz, and Prince Teck honoured the Duchess of Inverness with their presence at dinner last evening, at Kensington Palace. The following were also present : The Duke of Lein' liter, the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, the Earl and Countess of Erroll, Lord Liar over, Viscount and Viscountess Sudley, Count Sabotu-off, Lord Henry G. Lennox, Lady Caroline Curt, Ste. The Countess of Wilton'. ball to the Prince and Princess of Wales, postponed from June 4, will take place on Monday next, the 11 th inst. _ _ The Duke of Cambridge, Field-Marshal Com manding-in-Chief, visited Aldershott Camp on Monday , and reviewed the troops at the station. . . . • The Earl and Countess of Derby will have a dinner and evening party on Saturday, the 16th inst. The interpreter to the Chinese mission writes to the Times to slate on behalf of the Commissioner that everywhere, on all occasions, he has been most warmly and cordially received, nothing that kindness and courtesy could suggest as likely to make his visit a pleasureable one having been omitted. To quote his Excellency the Com missioner, he is not " so much surprised at the grandeur of our cities, the Ingenuity of our machinery, or the vast ness of our resources, as lie is at the courtesy and kindness with which all people are inclined to treat insignificant strangers' from a country so remote as his own." THE STATE OF EUROPE AND OF " CARRTGALLEN." Among the notices on the parliamentary paper issued this morning is one by Mr. W. Onnsby Gore, to the effect that on Monday next he will ask the Secretary of the Treasury " Why the mails arrive at Carrigallen and Killygar post offices later than they did last year, and whether there is any intention of accelerating them, so as to avoid the inconvenience to which the public in that neighbourhood are now put." MEETING OF SCHOOL INSPECTORS AND SECRE TARIES.—(THIS DAT.)--This morning an important meet ing of diocesan inspectors of schools throughout the country, together with secretaries of diocesan boards, and others interested in the work of education, was held at the Board-room, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster. There was s large attendance, and the proceedings created great interest in consequence of the existing difficulties with the Committee of Pnvy Council. The Bishop of Oxford pre sided, and stated that the following would be the subjects of consideration What means can be employed for securing a due supply of pupil teachers and of candidates for admission to the training colleges! 2. The present position of training colleges ; their relation to each other, and to the National Society. 3. What practical defects, if any, are there in the six standards as arranged in the revised code! 4. Can diocesan inspectionbe made effectual in forming schools which are at present unaided by the Committee of Council under government inspection, and of extending to them equal capitation grants teach ing in the Catechism and Prayer-book declined under the operation of the revised code !—if so, what remedy for this can be suggested 6. Are the regulations in the revised code as regards night schools satisfactory The discussion on these points lasted all day, and will pro bably be continued to-morrow. BALL AT FISHMONGERS'-HALL.—Ludt evening the Prime Warden and the rest of the governing body of the ancient Guild of Fishmongers, one of the twelve great city companies, gave a grand ball in their fine corporate hall at the north end of London-bridge. The whole interior of the stately building has recently been redecorated and adorned under the superintendence and from the designs of Mr. Owen Jones, in a manner which challenges universal admiration, and it was the first time since the corn • of the work that the Wardens and Court of is had invited so distinguished a company. The guests were 820 in number. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter enter tained the Countess of Newburgh, Lord Burghley, M.P., Lady Howard 1)e Walden, and Miss Charlotte Ellis, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, M.P., and Lady Peking. ton, Sir Stafford Northoote, M.P.; and Lady and Miss Northoote, the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., Ad miral and Lady Saurin and Miss Saurin, Colonel W. Sey mour, Mr. Clifton, Mr. Graham Vivian, &c., at dinner last evening, at their mansion in Grosvenor-square. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon received at dinner yesterday evening, at their residence in Grosvenor crescent, the klarquisof Hartington, the Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl of Morley, Countess Frances grave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., Lord Gilford, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Skelmersdale, Lady Cremorne, Lady Bloomfield, Baron and Baroness de Baude, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.l'., and Mr. Delano. Tae CHINTAZ }llBBloN.—His Excellency the Chinese Commissioner had an audience of the Queen at Buckingham Palace yesterday. He was attended by Major Brine, RR., and Mr. Bowe—the latter gentleman acting as interpreter. His excellency had also an audience of the Prince and Princes of Wales. INTELLIGENCE. throne, has made its report. It proposes that Chamber should uphold a close union of the midi s EXCPTED MATE OF GERMANY. Sum s an d a popular national representation, aet The people of Germany, though proverbially point of departure for a German Parliament. slow of movement, are becoming greatly excited as the prospect of war approaches. M. Seingueriet, the correspondent of the Temps, who from his knowledge of Germany is well qualified to give an accurate representation of the popular sentiment, writes as follows from Heidelberg under date of June 5 : For some days past the Bavarian capital ham been the theatre of riotous scenes. Deplorable excesses have been committed by the populace. The landwehr have used I I their arms and blood has been shed. At first the popular passions were directed spinet some beer-shops. In the midst of wild cries stones were flung against these shops: the windows and shutters broken and the furniture destroyed. The day betroth yesterday the shops of the butchers, bakers, and the houses of some Jews were attacked. Officers and gendarmes were a treated. Showers of stones were flung at the landwels, who fired on the people. One man was killed and 20 wounded. This ferment has been attributed to the intimate relations which exist between the King and Richard Wagner, but those relations have bad nothing to do in producing it. The riot is in no way connected with politics, but it is an evidence of the revolutionary feeling which possesses the people beyond the Rhine. The Ultramontane party, who are working heaven and earth to make the young king nn. popular, and to force him to abdicate, will take advantage of these deplorable street riots to gain their end. In Prussia, where 300,000 famines have been de• prived of their means of support, discontent is in creasing in proportion as want is extending. Already national workshops like those of Paris in 1848 have been organised for the purpose of finding employment for the people. Hunger is a bad political economist, and as • new proof of this some thousands of the Berlin working men held a meeting outside the walls in which they clamorously demanded the expulsion of foreign artisans. In the provinces numerous conflicts have taken place between the men of the reserve and their officers. At Cologne an officer who tried to arrest a man belonging to the landwehr, who had not saluted him, was pelted by the market women with potatoes, carrots, and cabbages, and forced to take refuge in the guardhouse. Similar wanes have occurred in various other places. The anta gonism between the troops of the line, who are for war, and the landwehr, who are for peace, is very marked. The threats of war have thrown the whole population between Landau and Cologne into a feverish excitement. The report of the sale of the coal mines of Saarbruck, which has never been boldly denied, thewithdrawal of almost all thetroops, and the unscrupulous character of Count Bismarck, i have raised the suspicion amongst the people that they are to be transferred to France. The agitation which began in Rhenish Hesse has rapidly spread along the whole Rhine. The anniversary of the restoration of the province to Germany has been celebrated in the smallest hamlets. A National Defence Committee has been formed at Frankenthal, and numerous meetings have been held at Neuatadt, Bingen, Ingelheim, he. Energetic protests have been made against the possibility of dis memberment, and a general arming of the people has been demanded. In the Journal des Dfbdts of to-day we find the following remarks on the position of the two great German powers : Lord Palmerston said that the affair of the Elbe Duchies might probably booms the match to set Europe on fire. Now this chemical match is German, and not Italian. From Germany the signal has been given. Yet it would be puerile to imagine that a match or a spark could raise a conflawation unless there existed a mass of combus tible material ready to catch fire. The affair of the duchies at the present moment signifies nothing. It is all Germany that is fermenting and teasing like a sick man in its bed. The German difference is far :sore complicated than the Italian one. It is composed of so many particulars that it is difficult to comprehend them in their total, and the application of the national proverb, that " owing to the number of the trees you can not see the forest," was never more true than in this instance. And yet there is one point that is very clear, namely, that though the Italian difference were miraculously settled, the German one would still subsist in all its force, in all its completeness, and with all its difficulties. We simply put this question to all the soured politicians, all the discontented stock. holders, and all the disappointed financiers who vent their spleen on Italy. If by a sudden gleam of grace or from an instinct of pi udenee,the mother of safety, Austria consented to recognise publicly what she in her heart admits, that her Italian possession is to herself a burden, to the world a scandal, to justice an insult : were she to say to the congress that she would give up Venetia to Italy, does anyone suppose that peace would be assured ? Does anyone believe that the settlement of the Venetian difference would dispose of the I German difference ? Would not Austria probably in that case turn with all her forces against her ally and scorn , plice of yesterday, and demand from Prussia the ransom of Italy and make her pay the price of what she had resigned ? After setting forth the declaration of the two great German powers, the Debd ts proceeds : Austria holds fast to legality and rejects all reform. On the other hand, Prussia says, " Legality is killing us." The Confederation, she says, of fifty years ago is not suited to the Germany of to-day. She de. mania universal suffrage, a national parliament, an appeal in fact to the nation. Theme are not merely two great powers, but two great principle., face to face, and we may say of them what Cardinal Antonelli said to the ambassadors who were discussing with him, .` We cannot understand each other, for we reason from different points of view." A despatch from Potsdam, dated the sth of June, announces that the Prussian guards were reviewed on that day by the King, after which they were despatched to the expected theatre of war. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL QUA, Arsi Spain and Portugal have agreed t o set common for the defence of their neutrality i n event of a European war• ARRIVAL OF THE BAVARIA . SOUTHAMPTON, km The Hamburg and American Company's st atue Bavaria, from New York on the 26th May, An h ui off the Needles at 12.35 p.m. to-day. PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM TIM CITY OF -(111D3 DAY.) LONDON TO THE DUE; F.DINBUBGH. This afternoon the City of London witaess4 another of these events which have for ceatoxissami the historical association between the municipality it metropolis and the royal family. The *act of the monial in this instance was the presentation o As dont of the City to his royal highness the Duke of FAW N * , Grand preparations were made for the memion, mast architectural and decorative accessories for which ti ts if so femme, were displayed in the utmost fealty, vicious temporary hall, 80 feet long, 60 feet wide, ma feet high, had been constructed in front of 0 11 144 proper, the walls being lined with crimson NI i n ceiling painted of a rich blue colour scam* 1 4 4 gilt stns. At the upper end of this handsome sheste s . for such it certainly is—there was a dais, h i *, an ascent of five steps, on which were pl o d' table, a state chair, Inscribed with the monogram' and covered with velvet with a gilt border. Two handsome seats were provided for the MOTS diatisok visitors. Immediately behind this ceremonial phy. was seen the familiar arch leading to its hall of the corporation ; but instead of • its ordinary appearance, it was distempered and mooted for the occasion. The general des dosed by the aspect of the room was highly m g* to the designer. On each side of this medi u m singed numerous rows of chairs, which were area* membered thecorPoration andladiesandgentleasaw' been invited to witness the presentation. It may , membered that the internal arrangements of THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. pa y building are precisely those of a Court of s. Council ; for however exalted may be the reckami civic honour, the business-like character I proceedings is always maintained. The chid of the corporation were conspicuous in the of office ; the chairman of the City Lands mittee, Mr. James Ebenezer Saunders, who is officially' sponsible for the general arrangement', was adive, almost übiquitous, and the lesser lights of the -* =meat flitted to and fro with restless industry. , of honour from the London City Rifles was delimit the doorway. About • quarter past one the Lord Mayor, seampag by the Lady Mayoress and his lordship's dinkier, Barnett, entered the chamber, preceded by the e sword-bearers, and took his seat at the table ately after came the Earl and Countess Russell, received with loud cheers. Mr. Goschen en was also medially greeted. The following is a copy of the City Chanbethisb address to the Duke of Edinburgh : "May it please your royal highness, " The resolution of this honourable court which', ' been read reminds us that your royal highness &stall 1 to-day not so much to receive a compliment as te obligation, not to accept a grant of the freedom of t_ City but rather to claim as of right, being freaks', citizenship which this Corporation in the ease d royal highness cannot bestow. The remarks vrbidie upon me to make on this occasion must therefore form somewhat excel tinal and itbecomesmy duty in the name of the members of this honourable , acknowledgments and gratification that your , new thus honours the City . of Loudon by elsbairg, enrolled as one of its citizens. They consider honour because they see in the poen royal highness the son of their most sovereign, towards whom it in their pie express on every fitting occasion their most loyalty and affectionate attachment. They regard . an honour because your royal highness comes the freedom in right of desce.it from the best and the worthiest of citizens. They esteem it sal personal grounds, on account of the high which your royal highness bears as member of a distinguished service ; • regarded with interest and pride by a vast commercial enterprise contributes one the customs duties of the empire, and whom marine covers every sea. It has been said, on tical authority, that A sailor should be every inch All as one so a pert of his ship; and this honourable court entertaining that believing the sentiment to be embodied in your royal highness, charges me to present your royal highness's freedom, enclosed in appropriate " heart of British oak," which i I now respectfully request that your royal accept as a trifling souvenir of this intending And now, with brevity of speech whish acceptable to a sailor, I proceed at receive your royal highness as a citizen by ale right hand of fellowship. At the conclusio• inotiial, your royal highness will be ina:ted your name on the roll of honorary citizenship. be acceptable to your royal highness to so doing your royal highness's name will be associated with those of fourhonoured citizens , all of them princes—to wit, Richard Cobden, Freetraders;George Peabody, the Prince of Itilantlesaile Guiseppe Garibaldi, the Prince of Patriots, a - . 1 11 1 0 brother citizen Albert Edward Prince of Wal now remains but that I should express, in the a lordship in the chair, of his brejhren the aldermen,. every member of this court, and rmay add I am' - breach of official etiquette, in the name at visitor now present, their best wishes and hearth that health, happiness, and every blessing may your royal highness." His ROYAL HIGHNESS replied as follows- 4 Mayor, in acknowledging the address I have joss 1 I am placed in • peculiar position, being unable to express my thanks for the honour of being freeman of the City of London, which honour 7 the least diminished from the fact of son of our most gracious Queen, a freeman descent. As • sailor I fully endorse the se premed that a sailor should be every inch part of his ship—(cheers)—and I endeavour in whatever position I 1011 to do my duty in a manner that meet with the cordial approbation , eons of London. I beg to return you thanks for the beautiful and valuable casket' been presented to me, and I shall ever bear i gift is not due twiny merit of my own, but is; goodwill and friendly feeling of the citizens are ever readyto offer the right band of tette who are associated with them. lily Lord MAY , and gentlemen, I thank you for the reoeptioe given me. (Loud cheers.) The concluding formalities were then observed, ceremony terminated with a splendid Ain: Among those who were present to witness were the following :—The Earl Russell, Lord the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P., and ; the Earl of Cardigan, the Duke of St. Albans, Hon. Mr. Gl:when and Mrs. Goschen. His Ro, ness the Duke of Elinburgh was accompanie d 'worries, Colonel Liddell and the Tien. E. A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles says : Letters from Constantinople to the 30th ult. state that frequent councils of ministers were being held on the subject of the Danubian Principalities. Omar Pacba was to leave on the 31st to take command of the army of the Danube. He had taken leave of his friends at an official banquet given on the preceding day to the Viceroy of Egypt. The Prince of Hohenzollern had despatched an envoy to the Turkish capital, but had been compelled to return without being allowed an audience. The French ambassador was to give a fête in honour of the Viceroy of Egypt on the 31st. morm's TZLZGRALX6.) PRUSSIA AND THE DUCHIES. HAMBURG, Juice 7. The Prussian ministry of this city has lodged an attachment upon all funds deposited by the Holstein government in the Norddeutache and other Hamburg banks. The old line-of-battle sailing ship nierly used as a hospital ship in Chatham the application of the committee of the Seamen' Society, been lent by the Admiralty hospital for seamen arriving at the port lug from cholera. The Belleisle has bees from Chatham by the Medusa, paddlog l " Master-Commander T. Potter, but during 4 the Thames was run aground. She was during the following tide without having but trifling injuries. Another extraordinary eonimunicai father of " Ignatius " appears in the should like to know," he writes, " from tl clew, when a son ceases (with God's fiftl. before his eyes) to be the private ProPer tl Also when a servant, receiving wages (P delegation % ceases to be the private master'—or the clergy (with ordination their consciences) cease to be the private , 1 bishops r He cannot but hope that, out " some good will result for that moral youth, made children honour their Para n-- now honours me by taking 'et wish expresita established." t '.. • • VW IiRRESS, I' i i DAY MIENING, JUP n ia 6 frEsT 6 ' urr • eidatee of the iliiiegteoefol ..issullealsooy dieA PARLIAINCNTARY . SS tb a h the i the ma ins tudion, Null mint. i 0 L i lemma LIP, bas 7 . I It° let in 1 Tito : • amity i g th 1 imho.rd aid was fistardy, ~ LIU. I ' Mr. W • L'ON, Areg 7 . • . zanewair PanYe stas" may, assist{ bossy fee the who runal inon,Y. • .REDOI4 As re ed 7l ll .t. Etig Dull 7 1 obtainlir. 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The . who is Addy* Witn • te, was led*, it The btu of the eirith. the oe industry. d pad sten Witn Be was delimits The t the • Slayer, aecempid wed. iP's dacette, b, With Cuni • . NI by the nee of '' le table. boat He ad.. Is Russell, who eft letters :hen on his raid 44 He The . 5 that ' City Makkah The i only b court which Is* before • M oue lighnees stealing liment ss to news The freedom ina /00•113 - being freebn tin sad m in the cue of yea the *marks which bin mon a le ' ut therefore won nesmy duty to ester honourable comttbr hat your royal bid. 'don by Mahatma% They consider it es the per= 54 re 'Ur most gibe d their plasm I their roost bib W . They regard it a Mul ' . knees come ebbed WM C . • a the beat at Will Inca. ti - esteem it &ahem. Berg the high Mande Mond- ears es a Oki sailed ice ; a aerie lii anvil le by a city . Au dant, butes one racy 11 and f and whose mama trot, en said, cc pd ell. . being cu ... y inch The its ship: In sing that opal* of were odied in the co 1 dui . to present the owl In nclosed in a rub d Mr. " which in thorny grow. rur royal Wham el u intermit* swim ~ . , *ten which 4ls to g. • • iroceed at u se le izen by elle:bowl lb conclusios of th lb be lin:led to imide citizenship, asi k 101 IL • knees to find OM 5 • . ire will be immeditsd the red citizens et thir citY real. ti Cobden, the ?A ra re '. • 'rince of Philutarnals Patriots, end you ol d none ince of Wales. Nob( mu , in the aane die Ut. 20th r en the aldermes,nali - ay add lam sale vs ksi hour . the name of emit • .• i hea and heartfelt MS. :n u ' blessing may ever Mini end las follows - VI . -l a" that open ea I have put resind. lock b e ing unable alwlnif fae ou r of being swab T the . 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" , is , p a ddlewheel 07 : but during the 1 714. _.: hin.,o:untiStronilhihenisviwal:iingtionpodioag°l:t....4l.-; U.' th :mleCntew:inspinagolpri'ropertisv:tifienbteifpowige:::::;:ll:. i i .. i t. : : m private ProPer t l Aki o • a that. out of hi ' "": it moral law whic l4 ".„ W ..- • their puento, 0 1,5 in a wish expressed 0 6 $ ITALY. FLORENCE, Jaws 7. The King will arrive here this evening. The Chamber of Deputies has voted the financial bills of the government by 145 to 40 votes. Acorrespondence has been published herebetween General Turr and the Deputy Macchi. The former alludes in his letter to the intentions of the Italian patriots to invade Dalmatia in case of war. Signor Macchi replied that the Italians desired war only for the sake of liberating Italian provinces, but would respect the rights of other peoples. VENETIA. VENICE, Jon 6. A meeting of the Municipal Council has been called for to-morrow, to discuss measures for pro viding means of subsistence for the poor of Venice, in case the city should be blockaded. BAVARIA. MUNICH, Juirs 7. The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on the address in reply to the speech from the OUR CONTEMPORARIES. gals DAY.) THE APPEAL TO THE SHOED. The events, remarks the Times, which have attended the abandonment of the conference, make it almost evident that though Austria alone proclaimed her reservations beforehand, yet both Italy and Prussia en tertained similar resolutions of foregoing nothing in the conference. In the view of the Times the violation of the convention of Gerstein, • private engagement, is hardly equivalent to the violation of • treaty. Having sketched how the conflicting claims in the Duchies arose and were constituted, and having shown that they were all in defiance of German law, our contemporary adds that it is terrible to think how this storm, which is now rolling towards the point where the first wrong was done may spread. In the rear of Italy, which makes no secret of her designs in Venetia to be asserted at all hazards, stands France, and in the rear of Austria stands Russia, already committed, in common opinion, to some interest in the fray. It is even said that the designs of Italy against the Adriatic provinces of Austria have suggested some political concert between the Emperor and the Sultan ; nor does anybody seem to doubt, indeed, that the war which begin, upon the Baltic may extend to the I Black Sea. The Pat thinks it is not improbable that Austria has convoked the estates of Holstein with the express object of precipitating the war. She is naturally anxious to hasten a struggle which she rightly regards as inevitable, whilst at the same time she desires to throw upon Prussia the odium of striking the first blow. Before the conflict terminates who shall say what additions may not be made to the present belligerents The spectacle which Italy presents is the one feature that reconciles the Triegraph to the shameful renewal of slaughter in the centres of human cultivation. War is full of events which none can foresee, but it looks like a fore gone conclusion to match archduke commanders, a bank. rupt exchequer, and soldiers who hardly know whom they are going to fight, with the pats ioticgenerals and regiment, the splendid spirit and hopes, which march under the green tricolour to redeem Venice. The danger which to the Star seem, most menacing for Austria is the revolutionary element which a great war almost necessarily stirs up. A defeat of Prussia upon some historic battlefield might be fatal to the monarchy ; a defeat of Austria either in Silesia or Venetia would bring the roar of revolution within hearing of the Hun• garian people. The counsels of the more ardent, hnpul. sive, and zealous patriots would then have full sway, and protesting, memorialising, and remonstrating give place to action. THE FELLOWS OF COLLEGES. Though Mr. Bouverie's bill to release fellows of colleges from the declarations required on their election would be a slight change in itself, the Times believes it would pro duce extensive results. At Oxford it would effect no practical alteration in the position of nonconformists, and at Cambridge it would simply open fellowships to dis senters in such colleges—six in number—as have no sta. Cites or bye-laws in the way, and in the latter case would leave the colleges free to act in accordance with their statutes, or to obtain the consent of the crown to an alteration. But in any case it is evident that • constant agitation would be kept up for the throwing open of all the colleges. The Times seems to doubt whether there is any object to be gained by such a change for which it would be worth while to encounter the possible inconveniences. At all events it thinks that, if introduced at all, such schemes should appear under the responsibility, and be prepared under the careful supervision of the government itself. The Herald finds in the very proposal of such a bill a warning against allowing any more of the democratic element to be poured into the Rouse of Commons. If the governing bodies at the colleges should ever be com posed of various creeds, many, who now think otherwise, would be induced to advocate • severance [of the ties that now bind the colleges to the universities. If dissenters be really so anxious to participate in endowments they are at perfect liberty even now to establish halls and colleges of their own at either university. Let them transfer their youth thither, and be content with what is their own. MR. LOCKE KING'S REAL ESTATE INTESTACY BILL. - - The Post declares the above measure, which was rejected yesterday by the Commons, to represent but one of the many attempts which are made from time to time with a view to obtaining a footing for democratic, not to say socialist, principles among the institutions of the country. From the time when every acre in the kingdom was held by a direct grant from the sovereign as possessor of the whole, it has been considered that land cannot be said to be possessed in the same sense that personal property is. The Stir being of those who disbelieve in the principle of the law of primogeniture and entail, when the Attor• ney-General says that Mr. Locke King's Real Property In testacy Bill is the thin end of a wedge which will destroy that law he uses an argument, to its thinking, very potent in favour of the proposed reform. Nothing but the most stringent action of an artificial law could ever have made the disinheriting of younger children a common practice, or one which oould be tolerated by mankind. Even now we English stand alone in this respect. No other country locks its land up in this way. Its but fair to the promoters of the bill yesterday to say that it only applies to cases of intestacy, and that any one enamoured of the old mode of succession would still be able under its provisions to transmit his property in the old way. But the small minority of yesterday fully • shows that the whole principle is involved. THE DISCLOSURES AT THE STRAND UNION. The shocking disclosure now under investigation at the Strand Union Workhouse is not, says the Times, of a single case of neglect. A vast system of administra tive cruelty in the treatment of the sick poor has been dragged to light almost accidentally. But for the confes sion of a nurse, who communicated with the committee of the association recently formed to inquire into such mat ters, the veil of interested reticence which shrouds the horrors of our workhouse infirmaries might not have been so rudely lifted for months, or even for years. The sick, it is now seen, were lodged promiscuously over the house ; there is scarcely an attempt at classification. Not only is the overcrowding scandalous, but the incompetence and misconduct of the nurses, who .ere all paupers, almost exceeds belief. Some were unable to read, and the medi cines, though duly labelled with instructions in writir?, were administered by them almost indiscriminately. Many were drunken, and it appears that it was a regular prac tice for nurses to beg, or buy, or steal beer or other stimulants furnished to the sick by the doctor's orders. The Times indignantly asks why it is that we are left to learn this wholesale inhumanity from the voluntary infor mation of a nurse when we have a department established to protect both ratepayers and paupers, especially charged with the duty of checking anew, and provided with as ample staff of officers for no other object! The Tdegrapk, selecting some of the most painful of the statements which have been made in this inquiry, adds,