The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-07 00:00:00

QUEEN'S THEATRE , Long - acre. MAILVIIkI—AIr. W. H. LISTON. THE LANCASHIRE LAM. hy Hrnry J. Byrne.. Karla; bnea reawittd throughout ita perforntsuos with to groat's% walla miaow by crowded purrel 4 , 4•11 , 110111. bo wpt,tol EVERT EVEN IN IL at a to a.. anoindiag panatuallY AI 11. HE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8 . T firrnonsdrations in isronr of lanomhire Ltale are loud and unanimonta."—Timor 4 1 HE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to H. -11. "MY dream wee w.O ree#ived, and the author, with the Priartral eetora sae eeltrd nn at the enneluelon."—Daily Nowa THE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8 . "The pesos throoshout wee efootleoly eMed. and the oso ostiollal nature of the page keel. .the asthma* In • 1xT9611.1 stab of oseiteo.ent.' —lll u strated Lon don New.. . . rilliE LANCASHIRE LASS. at a quarter to 8. plot Is Mitatire and simple. srlth Middy dramatic Inci dents which create Intense interest. brightened by excellent scenery." Timm. 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ADderma ; Jena Ptioa—And LADY :GCS MOH WAWA AT LONDON BRIDGE. To -Day —Morning, 4h. 194 a Afternoon, 4h. 35411. To-N4 'mow —Morning, 4h. 50m. Aftersioan, Si. e4a. NOTICE. advert:kers are reqaeated to ;;;;I:e;il;e1 r Post-Aloe orders payable to kr JOlllAit Haainrovon, roat-cdkoe, Meet-street. EA 2foricu of BIRTHS, IiAIIIIIAGIO, and DILTIM, are received until 12 o'clock for insertion urea evening. l'rioe In Id. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7. THE POLICY OF AMUSEMENT. Witten of us has not been disheartened from time to time by the reflection what dreary lives a great number of Englishmen habitually lead ? Existence may be very endurable without active amusements, or without absorbing interests, or without intense emotions. But what does it be come when it is deprived of all these at once, when there is nothing to vary the constant routine of petty cares and sordid necessities, when work ing days and holidays differ from each other only negatively, when business and—we cannot say pleasure, but that abstinence from business which by courtesy is called pleasure—are alike dull and unprofitable P This side of life presents, in some respects, a more depressing spectacle than actual physical needs. The latter seems, at all events, less remote from some kind of alleviation. We feel that many of them are due to causes which admit of removal, that it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the organisation of society may be so far improved as to make actual want, except as the consequence of vice or reckless imprudence, almost unknown among us. But the intellectual necessities are harder to be supplied—and all the more so because the sense of them has usually to be created in the first instance. And then they extend over a far larger area than the physical necessities. When we pass beyond the class which supporta itself by manual labour, starvation becomes an enemy, which may be dreaded indeed at a distance, but has rarely to be met face to face. Intellectual starvation on the other hand is the lot of many far above the artisan. It reigns at Islington as supremely as at Bethnal-green ; it keeps its court with as much circumstance in the respectable wilderness of a middle class suburb as in the hovels of the most degraded poor. In a paper in the last number of the Fortnightly Review Mr. ALZIANDER Balm has discussed whether, and how far, it is possible to " rouse " and rescue the English population from " their comparative dulness to a more " lively and cheerful flow of existence." He is not sanguine of success, and some of the reasons he 'gives for not being sanguine certainly de serve consideration. To tell a man, he says, to be habitually cheerful, is like telling him to triple his fortune, or to add a cubit to his stature. It is partly a matter of temperament, and so altogether beyond his control, and partly " the outcome of " the whole manner of life"—and so almost beyond his control. Men are cheerful when they are young, healthy, well fed, well lodged, and not over worked. When these conditions are wanting the temperament resulting from them is *sating also. Consequently, if you would make a nation cheerful you must first of all " increase the supports and diminish the " burdens of We." You must ratthe eta 44, of health ; you must prohibit deterred:, and so change the ideal of the English people . you must cheek anxiety es to the Means, and mike men indifferent to their own affairs and the le of other people ; and, finally, you must provide the money which amusement even in its cheapest forms is sure to cost. Mr. BAne is evidently so much oppressed with the difficulties of the task that he ends by questioning whether it is worth while to undertake it at all. "There will always be, in a " cautious-minded people, a disposition to remain "satisfied with few and safe delights: to assume " a sobriety of aims that some might call dulness "but that many of us call the middle path." We confess that we are not disposed to give the matter up so completely. In the first place Mr. Bethseems to us to exaggerate the oonditions which must be found in combination to produce the desired temperament ; in the second place, ho underrates the degree in which these conditions may be produced by wise social arrangements. For example, is cheerfulness found by experience to be incompatible with hard work? Does it not depend rather on the kind than on the amount of exertion P and, even where the kind is unfavourable to its generation, may not this evil be qualified by some care in the selection of recreations ? A man whose work is calculated to fatigue and exhaust his mind is often indisposed to any pleasures which are not of the same de scription as his employment. He despises amuse ment that is not intellectual, and then he says, truly enough, that if his brain is to be equally active, he may as well be working as play ing. Surely, the want here is a better com prehension of mental hygiene. We are learning by degrees that when the body is exhausted by labour it is bad policy to give the digestion too much to do ; but we have not yet learnt that when the mind is exhausted it shows an equal de gree of ignorance to give it, by way of relaxa tion, occupations that differ only in name from those in which it has already been en gaged. We should not tell an oarsman who has just pulled at racing speed from Putney to Mortlake to rest himself by a run round Barnes common ; but we think it perfectly natural that a musician should seek refreshment after a morn ing's composing in an afternoon spent in criticising pictures, or that a man of letters should go to the Opera at night by way of a pleasant change after a day's writing. Again, Ms. BMN is hardly happy in the example he chooses to support the state ment that the cheerful temperament is not fitted for arduous enterprises, nor " distin " guished by a severe rigid attention to the " obligations and punctualities of life." His in stance of this is Lord Paemeasroe. "It is very " doubtful," he says, " if Peeseeasrrore could have " borne the part of WELLINGTON in the Peninsula; " his easy going temperament would not have " submitted itself to all the anxieties and precau " tions of that vast enterprise. But PALMERSTON " was halo and buoyant, and the Prime Minister of " England, at eighty ; WELLINGTON was infirm "at sixty." We should certainly not have quoted Lord PALMERSTON as an instance of want of at tention "to the obligations and punctualities of life." If Mr. Lowe and Lord GRANVILLE are to be believed, he was an eminent example the other way. Mr. Lowe, speaking at Bomsey the other day, singled out the habit of conscientious and scrupulous perform ance of all the work that came before him as the quality which m ost struck him in his intercourse with Lord Peemzetrrosr, and Lord °Juicer:unmentioned that at a time when he was occupied night and day with political cares, the old statesman found time for weeks together to write a daily budget of London gossip for the amusement of a young friend who was rll abroad. Nor was the conduct of the Foreign-office, though doubtless not equal in anxiety to the conduct of an arduous campaign, by any means a light matter, while it probably required a large share of that punctilious cir cumspection which Mr. Baur sets down as incon sistent with buoyancy of temper. No doubt the objection that overwork, which is the special characteristic of Englishmen, is spe cially inimical to cheerfulness, and the further objection that there are few very cheap pleasures, do suggest difficulties which are very hard to be overcome. Still, something may be done towards removing even these obstacles. To return to our former illustration, what is wanted is to diffuse sounder knowledge of the elementary facts of our mental constitution. A generation ago there was just as pressing a need for know ledge of the elementary facts of our physical con stitution. People are learning by degrees that if they want to keep well they must have fresh air and take moderate exer cise. Why should we despair of teaching them in time that there are other things as little thought of now as these were thirty years ago, which are nevertheless essential to the health of the mind. We meet old people every day who cannot bear open windows. Perhaps our children will feel equal surprise when they see an old man who thinks every hour spent in amusement as so much time waited. So again with the dearness of pleasure. Many sanitary appliances that to-day are ranked almost as necessaries would have been set down as luxuries a few years back. In like manner, when people grow wiser, they will doubtless look on some of the amusements which we condemn because they are costly as bringing in good interest for every penny in vested in them. That there is a time to spend as well as a time to save, and that the secret of eco nomy lies in the proportion between the outlay and the return, are lessons which may perhaps have been so seldom learned by Englishmen, mainly because they have been so seldom taught. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY . saw water-supply basZ ne . .., oi f in fitAlk ' *timely pliocAlgal fdrol "IPPI I IF Turn wileh'way we !cidd it . • . couttaiirel I I "1 41 it was itopossiblo td avail • , . 4 • of inisfaetaas or dnnoyatice ' ''''' be directly traced.. to the •• . ' ; d the refreshing rain of the last twenty hur hours has been as manna from Heaven to anxious minds and wasted frames. The f suburban gardens will be changed out of all knowledge. They have been like dusty bear pits, and it has been pitiable to see their owners at work, night after night, squirting the company's r water over ground so hot and dry that it had the absorbent qualities of sawdust. Arti ficial watering, as many an amateur has found this summer, at an infinite cost of time and labour, is but a poor substi tute for the blessed rain. Garden grass bus resembled a carpet of Latakia tobacco, and garden soil Egyptian clay baked more than usually hard. But all will be improved now. Before us lie letters from most of the counties in England, all testifying to the general character of the down fall. Everywhere, as Mr. TYNBntsoN beautifully txpresaes it in " Tithonus" : - The vapours weep their burthen to the ground; And everywhere does the cry of gratitude go up for the fulness and increase they bespeak. THE BAIN. A GREAT gladness has fallen over the land. The rain has fallen at last, and from all parts of the country does a cry of relief come up that the long delayed and fervently hoped-for blessing has arrived. The drought was becoming a national calamity. The scorched fields, burnt up commons, and withered shrubs told the same piteous story of long-suffering from one end of the kingdom to the other. The fat meadows and smiling pastures of " Merrie England" were con verted into a vast Sahara, which in colour, pul verisation, and aridity might have been a waste of sand. The eye of the traveller by railway sought for some refreshing colour to rest upon, but from Dan to Beersheba all had turned barren, and a weary feeling of disappointment —not querulous, but sorrowfully resigned has been] expressed whenever the weather has been tallied of by Englishnien during the last few months. Londoners have suffered though not peculiarly. The sickness of poor neighbourhoods has been aggravated ; the chronic disorders of the season have become dangerous and virulent; our galley-holes and sewer-traps have emitted such volumes of poisonous air as to be veritable engines of destruction ; and POSTING DEFAULTERS. To post a ran as a defaulter is as ominous in fact as sound ; and the case tried yesterday at Guildford may be said to have ended satisfactorily both for plaintiff and defendants. Mr. FaANcis HARDING, a professional man, an ex-officer in the Royal Navy, an owner of race-horses, a person of independent means, and a member of the Junior United Service and other West-end clubs, was posted as a defaulter last Derby Day by Mr. VA LENTINE, a professional book-maker, whose proper claims had not, as he thought, been settled. No warning or notice had been given, and Mr. HARDING learnt the circumstance by the unpleasant reception, the cold-shouldering, and looks askance he met with at his clubs. There had been several transactions between the sporting gentleman and the bookmakers, and the balance due to the latter on the bets made prior to the Derby was said to have been not more than 5/. or 6/. The effect of the posting was that Mr. HARDING, besides losing the use of his clubs, through " being ashamed to show his face at any " one of them," could not run his horses at Ascot or Goodwood, and was liable to be warned off both courses by Lord COLVILLE or the Duke of' EICILMOND. Smarting under a sense of aggregated aggravation, he brought an action for libel against Mr. VALEsrriNE and another, expressly stating, however, that his object was not damages, but a vindication of his character. A verdict of 40s. was agreed to, Mr. Baron MARTIN saying " it was " clear that the defendants were not justified in " what they had done ; perhaps, under the circum " stances, there might be some excuse, but it " was clear there was no legal justification for " their conduct." It would be interesting if we could tell precisely where the legal limit was over stepped. If " VALENTINE and another " means the betting firm of " VALENTINE and WEIGHT," it is clear that their course was not dictated by any petty spite. This firm is one of the most widely celebrated on the turf, and it is certain that there was some mistake in, rather than any violation of, the principle upon which turf laws are based. cm court. The christening of the infant Princess, fourth child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, took place yesterday at Marlborough House. The oennsony was performed by the Bishop of London, seated by the Dean of Westminster. The infant Princess received the names of Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary. The sponsors were the Queen, represented by the Duchess of Cambridge ; the Emperor of Russia, repre rented by the Russian Ambassador, the Baron de Brun now ; the Queen of the IT. ll .ne*, represented by the Grand Dacha of Mecklenburg-Strelits ; the Dowager Queen of Denmark ; the Grand Duke Omarevritch ; Prince Arthur; the Dowager Grand Duchess of Meeklen burg-Strelitz ; the Princess Mary Adelaide Princess of Teck ; Prince Louis of Hesse ; Princess Frederick of Anhalt Dessau ; and Prince George of Heese. The following were present:—The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelita, Prince Arthur, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prince and Princess of Peck, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar and the Countess of Dornbury, Count and Countess Gleichen, the Russian Ambas sador and Baroness de Brunnow, the Danish Minis ter and Madame de Below, the Greek banister and Mdlle. Brailas-Anneni, the Ducker of In verness, the Marchioness of Carmarthen, the Earl and Countess of Bradford, Viscount Hamilton, Via. count Newry, Lord and Lady Alfred Harvey, Lord Harris, the Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait, the Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley, the Hon. Mrs. R. Bruce, the Hon. A. T. Pit:mama, the Hon. Frederick Byng, the Hon. C. L Wood, General Sir William and the Mimes Knollys, Major Teesdale, Captain Ellis, the Rev. H. M. Birch, the Rev. C. F. Tarter, the Rev. C. Kingsley, the Rev. W. L. Onalow, Dr. Quin, Dr. Ferro, Dr. Bieveking, Mr. Prescott Hewett, Mr. F. W. Gibbs, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Holrmann, Mr. F. Knollys, Lient.-Colonel Elphinatone (in attendance on Prince Arthur), Lady Geraldine Somerset and Major-General Lord F. Paulet (in attendance on the Duchess of Cambridge), and the Hon. Mrs. A. Harding. and Major Grey (in attendance on the Prince and Princess of Waled). The Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the Hon. Mrs. A. Ellie, Lady Knollys, Mrs. Fisher, Colonel and Lady Emily Kingscote, and Mr. Paget, had likewise the honour of receiving invitations, but were unable to attend. After the ceremony, luncheon was served. The band of the Grenadier Guards, conducted by Mr. D. Godfrey, was in attendance. The Doke of Bichmcad presided yesterday, at the Board of Trade, in the arbitration between the Brighton and Surrey and Sussex Hallway Companies, attended by the same counsel and solicitors as on the day previous, The Prince and Primes' of Wale* and Prince Teck, accompanied by the Hon. Hrs. Hari:tinge and the Hon. Major Grey and a numerous suite, attended the performance at the Royal Amphitheatre and Circus, Holborn, last evening, and expressed their entire satis faction with the entertainment. The Prince of Wales and suite visited the Queen's Theatre on Wednesday evening, and at the con clusion of the performance his royal highness expressed to Mr. Liston the gratidcation with which he had witnessed the performance of The Lameashirs Less. The Duke of Edinburgh was 24 years old Yester day. The church bells and the usual salute in the park announced the birthday in London. At Windsor, in addition to the custonwzy honours, a grand fete and gala holiday by the Oddfellows of the King of England Lodge and Manchester Unity was held to celebrate the prince's escape from the hand of the assassin. The Lord Lieutenant will sojourn at the Vice regal lodge until the 19th, when be will proceed to Barons, court, his seat in the county of Tyrone, for the usual "harvest-home" and accustomed festivities of his tenantry. On the 26th instant his exeißE mo rill visit the show of the Royal Agricultural pt Ireland at Lon donderry, and in the evening day he will be the guest of the society at their annual banquet to be bed la the Corporation HA a►det the presidency of the Nazi of Cbarlemont, vice prceideef for the province at Mater. AUGUST 7. ;c)! I N NE. \Nr ), • •, r ' IS DAY.) - - 1 Tint PONCIPAR MEETING A? (MN AL use 'Popular meeting held on Sunday last Vicuna was a very stormy affair. Dr. Kopp was voted to the chair. The following propositions were submitted by the committee : I. The meeting disapprove, the dismemberment of Ger many, and especially the violent exclusion of German Austria, as at once dangerous to the power and peace of Germany, and the German element in Austria. 2. The meeting protests against the solution of the Gor man question by the method of annexations, and expresses its desire to see the whole of Germany once more united by the free decision of every branch of the German race. 3. The meeting gives its adhesion to the liberal and patriotic efforts directed to this end by the German popu lar pasty, and declares that it is both for the interest of the people and the state to aid these efforts. ANGER/MEM of Berlin, and HA117.17N0, of Vienna, re prei•ied regret that the discussion of the social quastion did not form part of the programme. FREIME, of Btuttgard, thought the social question was implied in the propositions. AEOLBSTEIN proposed the following: the meeting de claim that it adheres in all points to the programme drawn up by John Jacoby, the 24th May, 1868. Oentwrsnrs, Gam, and RMITIING considered that German unity should be sought through liberty, and hr conceit with the social democracy of Europe. Megrim hoped that the first meeting for the promotion of German unity would not lead to a schism between the citizen and the working classes. Voorr (of Frankfort) said that justice must be done to the working classes. Oartawirrona—We are agreed on one point, that of pro testing against the violence of Prussia and against the constitution of the confederation of the north, but our aims are independent of politics, and we go with the European democracy regarded as a whole. Ifssruno—The question of the working man is a European question and not a German one. (Bravos.) Buz= (of Vienna)—The idea of nationalities is super annuated. It is a mere weapon in the hands of dynast' and despots. Changes in the present order of things can only be effected by war or revolution. (Interrup tion.) PFEIFFER (of Vienna)—The working man's question is a fire which will spread like a torrent over the whole of Europe. lam a European, not a German. I recognise no Germany of the north or Germany of the south. Liberty can only exist in the united states of Europe. BRITIRAVEN. (of Vienna)—Workmen, we find no point of union here. (" There are no workmen here ; we are only citizens.") If there are only citizens here then I ask the workmen to retire. (Tumult.) The Germans are not a united free people of brothers, we are made up of lords and slaves. (Renewed uproar.) The Crummy—l beg of you to preserve order. Gaols—l expect . salvation from neither north nor south. They are hotbeds of reaction, as Austria would have been if she conquered in 1866. As long as Cesarism exists the dismissal of troops is a mere deception. There is but one road to unity and freedom, and that is through a social democracy. That alone leads to perfect unity and general peace. Mssunxx—The splitting of Germany into throe parts cannot mean unity. The Cnarnstsx—That is departing from the resolution. Masairmi—The southern bond is the exorcism of the petty states. Unity is not to be bad that way. How then ? I hardly know. God did not come down to help our unity. Well, let the Devil take it in hand. (Cries of " Bismark, Bismark.") Dr. KOIATICHEI, formerly a member of the Frankfort Parliament, after a reference to Robert Blum, which was received with deafening applause, proposed the appoint• ment of a committee which should effect the union of the working class and the citizen elements. The three resolutions were then adopted. (Tames kruns's Aostroy.) FRANCE. PARIS, Auovvr 7. The Minister of Finance has determined that collective subscription lists for the new loan amounting in the aggregate to 100 fr. Bentes and above will be accepted. The scrip of the amount alloted to these subscribers can on the demand of the parties be divided in certificates even below 100 fr. Bente. But in order to prevent any abuse this collective scrip, whatever may be the amount, cannot be used for speculative purposes on the Bourse. SPAIN. 7LtDRID, Auover 6. The rumour of an intended interview between the Queen and the Emperor Napoleon is without foundation. Immediately upon the conclusion of the cabinet council held yesterday at La Granja the Ministers returned to Madrid. PORTUGAL LISBON, Auovvr 6. The Chamber of Deputies have rejected, by a large majority, the South Eastern Railway con tract of the 20th of June. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Avouer 6. The National Company's steamer Erin arrived out to-day. Closing prices: —Gold, 1491; sterling 'exchange on London, 110 f; 6-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1141; ditto, 1885, 112 U 10-40 Bonds, 1098. Illinois, 150. Erie, 59f. Cotton : Middling Up land, 294. Petroleum, standard white, 341. Flour, extra State, 9 dole. 29c. to 9 dole. 80c. Corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 20e. (Antval of the Java va Queenstown.) The royal mail steamship Java, from New York on the 29th ult., arrived at Quenatown at 7 a.m. to-day (Aug. 7) with 84 cabin passengers and 187,388 dole. in specie. She landed 100 sacks of mails and seven passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 7.15, all well. The Java performed the passage in eight days eight hours. bfrEw YORK, Jinx 28. The Senate has confirmed Henry M. Watts as minister to Austria, and General Boseerana as minister to Mexico. The Chinese treaty has also been unanimously ratified, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs has been directed to inquire into the expediency of negotiating a new Canadian treaty with Great Britain. The Funding Bill, as finally passed, appropriates 136,000,000 dole. annually from the imports towards the reduction of the public debt. The Conference Committee has struck from the bill the section legalising gold contracts. Congress has passed the bill discontinuing the freedmen's bureau over the presidential veto, which declared the bill interfered with the Presi dent's constitutional powers of removal and ap pointment. The House of Representatives has pawed a bill prohibiting the sale of gold by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Georgia delegation have been admitted to seats in the house. Mr. Hamilton, the new Radical member for Florida, has offered a resolution to impeach Pre sident Johnson, which has been referred to the judiciary committee. NEW YORK, JULY 29. President Johnson has issued a pz : oclamation announcing that the fourteenth constitutional amendment has been ratified by Georgia. Mr. Seward has also issued a proclamation declaring that the amendment is fully ratified by the re quisite number of States, and is now part of the fundamental law of the Republic. General Grant, with the approval of President Johnson, has issued an order abolishing the woad ~~"^ ; nu &third mlbtary districts with lit.iry supre y. and forking them into a department of th 'South under General 'Meade. The fot*tb district is to consist only of Mis sissippi, under General Gillen, the fifth, of Texas, ander General Reynolds. The department of Louisiana is to be commanded by General Roussevu and of Washington by General Cauly. The Alaska purchase money was delivered to Baron Stoeckel yesterday. OUR PARIS LETTER. THE QUEEN IN PARIS. (VRON OEN 01IN 0011ESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUUBEDAY EVENING. The train bringing the Queen from Cherbourg reached the Fit. Lazard station as the clock struck seven this morning. The journey was performed in eight hours, being four hours less than the or dinary time. No stoppage whatever was made, except to take in water and grease the wheels. Before leaving Cherbourg her Majesty received a complimentary telegram from the Emperor, dated Plombieres, bidding her welcome to France. In pursuance of her Majesty's desire the reception at the station was as private as could well be. Lord Lyons, unattended, was in waiting, and handed the Queen out of the railway carriage. lie then introduced General Fleury, the grand equerry. who was in attendance on behalf of the Emperor, and her Majesty conversed with him shout five minutes. There was no other presentation. At a quarter past 7 one of Lord Lyons' carriages, containing the Queen, Princess Louisa, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, issued forth from the gate of the station, which abuts upon the Rue d'Amsterdam. Although the hour of her Majesty's arrival had been announced in all the evening papers, there was scarcely any crowd. The curious consisted of certainly not more than 100 people—chiefly of the immediate neighbour hood—who were marshalled by three or four sergents-de-ville in two thin lines on the kerb stone on either side of the street. Her Majesty's incognito was so scrupulously respected that not a hat was raised (excepting one) nor a cry uttered as the " Countess of Kent" passed by. Although the Queen is said to be something of an invalid, I thought her looking remarkably well, and it is observed with surprise by some of the French papers that she looks better now than when she was here in 1855. Her Majesty's car riage was followed by Lord Lyons in a brougham. Then came one in which were Sir Thomas and Lady Biddulph. Afterwards a gentleman in a carriage by himself, who, I think, must have been Dr. Jcnner. Some half-dozen carriages and omni buses belonging to the railway company followed with the suite, comprising about thirty persons, and the luggage. The unpretending cortege passed along the Rue Tronchet, the Rue . Royale, and the Faubourg St. Honore to the embassy. It was a bright soaking bot morning, and as the day ad vanced the heavens were hung with black thunder clouds, and the weather became ex tremely sultry and oppressive. Ido not wonder therefore at the official intimation that " the Queen has passed the whole day quietly at the Kirke, and is very much fatigued." In the course of the morning the Duke of Edinburgh arrived from England, and was re ceived by her Majesty. Prince Leopold and the Princesses drove out in the course of the day to see a little of Paris. The Empress left Fontainebleau early in the morning and breakfasted at the Tuileries. At about 3 o'clock she went to the Elysee Palace with a very considerable suite. At half-past 3 the Em press paid her visit to Queen Victoria which did not last more than a quarter of an hour. You will read in the Petrie that "the Queen returned the visit shortly afterwards at the Elysee, and that the two sovereigns had a long interview." This, I can assure you, is not true. The Queen, on account of fatigue, availed herself of the polite dispensa tion, which I told you would be offered by the Em press, with the ceremony of returning her visit. The Empress left the Elysee for Fontainebleau at 5 o'clock. The Queen was to have a sort of tea-dinner at a quarter to 6, and will leave Paris at half-past 7 by the Strasbourg Railway for Lucerne. I am assured that, with the exception of the Empress, her Majesty received no visit whatever at the embassay. It is possible that she may have taken a drive for a few minutes when the weather got cooler just before dinner. Lord Cowley and Lord and Lady Royston are in Paris. The Bourse was extremely heavy. Rente fell 20c. for cash, and 221 c. for account, closing at 70fr. 20c., and 70fr. 27ic. Italian fell 20c., and Credit Fonder, 6fr. 25c. Mobilier rose lir. 25c. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. The marriage of M. Victor Van do Weyer, eldest son of M. Sylvan Van de Weyer, formerly Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Belgium to the Court of St. James's, with Lady Emily Craven, youngest daughter of the late and sitter of the present Earl of Craven, took place yesterday morning at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, in the presence of a large circle of relatives. The bride was attended to the altar by six bridesmaids-- namely, Lady Jane Alexander, Lady Harriet Grimston and Hon. Miss Bouverie (cousins of the bride), and Miss Van de Weyer, Miss Alice and Mies Eleanor Van de Weyer (eistere of the bridegroom). The lion. and Rev. E. Harbottle Grimston, uncle of the bride, performed the religious ceremony, the bride being given away by her brother. After the ceremony, the wedding party proceeded to the Earl of Craven's residence in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, to breakfast. Among the company present were:—The Countess (Dowager) of Craven, the Countess of Caledon and Lady Jane Alexander, the Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily Russell, the Earl and Countess, of Verulam, and Ladies Grimeton (two), the Countess of Coventry, the Countess of Jersey, Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea, Viscount Newry, Viscount Sudley, Viscount Folkestone, and Hon. Mimes Bouverie (two), lady Skelmeredale, Lord Hyde, Sir Frederick Johnstone, Bart., Sir Samuel Hayes, Bart., Mr. Henry Eaton, M.P., Misses Eaton (two), he. Shortly before 2 o'clock the happy couple left town for the Earl of Craven's seat, Ashdown Park, to pass the honeymoon. DEATH OF THE RIGHT RON. S. R. LIII3IIDIGTON. —The death is this morning announced of the Right Hon. Stephen Rumbold Luahington, D.C.L., at the ripe age of 94 years. The deceased was the eon of the Res. J. S. Luahington, and was educated at Rugby. Ho was re turned to the House of Commons, as a member for Rye, in 1807, and sat for that borough, and afterwards for Canterbury, until 1837. He was for nearly 14 years Chairman of Ways and Means in the House of Co®- mans, and from 1814 to 1827 was joint-secretary to the Treasury. Dr. Luahington was Governor of Madras from 1827 till 1832, and published the " Life and Services of General Lord Harris," the conqueror of Seringapatans, whose daughter he married. He was sworn a privy. councillor in 1827, and was created an honorary D.C.L. by the University of Oxford in 1839. Adelina Patti, now the Marchioness de Coax, is passing her honeymoon in Paris. The young marchioness was present at the Opera on Monday evening in an open box in the dress circle, when the Drone** and the Oise& were represented. Notwithstanding the beat of the weather the theatre was crowded. The new wheat is owning into market at. San Francisco, and is selling at 9a. per bushel. FIRE AND PROBABLE LOSS OFllog. (THIS DAY.) About 7 o'clock this morning a fire, which it ft mod, will he attended with loss of life, occurred nu th, premiers of 31r. Oeerge Mattocks, Preach polisher is a large way of business, Porthuni-street, St. Jammi's It appears that some short time after tke nine m If r Mattocks' employ commenced work a barrel of methyt 44 spirit by some means or other beramn ignitedoist explosion immediately following the whole place in a f s ,, minutes was on fire, the flames darting fmm th t back warehouse, where the calamity originated, th t +,., 4h the house with such intensity that a numb,, of houses on the opposite side of the etrcrt greatly damaged, some shop to such an that they are obliged to be closed. Mr. y f toe& premises were situated at the corner gateway, and extended some distance down a y.t whole of the lower portion of them being used for t 1. poses. Immediately after the alarm of tire wit, g,s. t , Folic* went for the engines, and four of the b u r I engines were promptly in attendance, au l th,• were extinguialied, but not till the whole of tie. /.. wero burntout —the fire lastnig littiAmon. thin hull Four persona—namely Mr. G. Mattocks, the pr..- of the premi,es ; Edward Walters, of tireen-5tr.,.4. fulteney-street: Edward Monurm nt, of Cinon.: Idadlesex Hospital; and John May, of were more or less injured by burning, and tat,.„. „ Middlesex Hospital, where they were icon tendod to, but the poor fellow Walter+ precarious state that his life is despaired of , byes were saved by the police by mean, of I , . A body of the C division of police, under the tendence of Inspectors Harrison and Eason, rend •r• I asaistauce to the firemen. It is a fortunate circumstance that the flamed . I ,„. vented from entering a store-house opposite Mr NI k, back warehouse, in which a large quantity of other inflammable materials were stored. AN EXTRAORDINARY PLANT.4TI,IN FIRE. The Nottingham E.rpress of this morning some further particulars of an extensive fire whi w still raging ytatcrday in Sutton Park. The ri; ht thrt tr_:h Stretley Wood, destroying in their : .,,:,. the traces of the old Roman road existing there. Ti. pentt:ated to the plantation belonging to the H Jervis, where considerable damage was done. I. plantation a large number of pheasants, hares, and r • were preserved, and it is thought that nearly all ~ 1 must have been destroyed. The fire also extewl:•d Stretley Wood, and it was much feared that Wadhani's farm, which is contiguous, would be I. to the ground. Near the farm are several valuable 'lt 1.. of wheat, &c., but up to the present time the. 1,,r. been saved. Several other farm - geode on the ikr. of the park were in like danger, and t., t:. preservation of these the firemen mainly dirc.h., their attention. The park is about l it ru in :circumference, and in its widest or over three miles across. Nearly one half common, or upwards of 1,000 acres, has been traver.ei the fire. On Tuesday the design was formed of entr.:,... wide trench from Darlingbarst Wood, where the fire c•iiii• 'Deuced, to Strctley Wood, in order to cut off th•tt port. of the lark which is in flames from th.• 1..7. tion which is contiguous to the town. Ti... work was persevered in with unflagging deferraiiii tion, and late on Tuesday night it was more than h accomplished, This would have the effect of check. ing the progress of the fire in the direction ia town. During Monday night, and early on Ties. day, hundreds of rabbits were seen wildly ran. ning from their old habitations in the park. an: scampering off in all directions. Many of them ran flames again, and were burnt to death. One of the pr.• vileges of residing at Sutton is that all the inhabitant. have a right of pasture for a limited number of rnttl• , in the park. Moat of the cattle were got clear awsy is in time, but a cow and her calf were severely aeurehel by the fire before they could be got off. Several valitahl • oak trees and hollies were destroyed. It is at pres , n: impossible to calculate the amount of damage, which i very heavy. The Rev. Dr. M'Cosh, recently appointed to tii• presidency of Princeton College, tinited.States, is to hat , a hearty reception from his friends in the states. Th. New York Evangelist says that, as a suitable preparatinc for his coming, some gentlemen of that city have rais,d 1 fund of 60,000 dole. to endow his chair. This will be double advantage—of securing to him an annual inovm: of 4,000 dole., and leaving untouched the present salary. which is continued to the retiring president, Dr. M'Lean. The American menagerie of Messrs. Myers and Bell, after having visited various towns us France and a p air. of Europe, arrived recently at Havre, its final dest.ei. tion, as the proprietors are returning home. After n•- meining on view for a fortnight it has now been sold by auction in lots. The elephant fetched 21,000 fr., ant thr lions, on an average, 2,000 fr. each. The total prude« of the sale was 40,000 fr. The Journal of Udine contains a correspondence from which it appears that the cattle disease has arrived in the Frionl (Tyrol). The deputies for that province at once called the attention of the minister of agriculture t 4 the fact, who promptly forwarded an Lower that every necessary precaution should be taken to prevent the disease from spreading. . . Apple trees in Connecticut, in the United States are bearing a second crop of blossom this year. WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The will of the Ron. and Rev. Frederick Baring, M.A., late of Ashgrove, bent. ' and 9, Grosvenor-crescent, Belgrave-square, was proved in the London Court, on the 27th ult., and the 1 ) & 9333 1 1 y sworn under 80,0001. ; the executors being the on. Fre derica Mary Catherine Baring, the relict, and the testator' nephew, the Hon. Alexander Hugh Baring, M.P. The testator was the third son of the first Lord Ashburton, and died June 4, aged 60, having executed his will April 1887, and a codicil, Feb. 8, 1868. He wee Rector of Itchen Stoke, Hants, from 1830 to 1845. He has left his estate and mansion of Asbgrove to his wile for her life, and afterwards to his said nephew, the Hon. A. H. Baring. He also leaves to his wife a hie interest in his debentures in the North-Western Railway and the New River Company, amounting to 49,00 01 . and, after her decease, to his said nephew absolutely. Hs leaves his town residence, and all the furniture, plate, book; and other effects there and at Ashrove to his wife absolutely. The will of the Right lion. Lady Francis Buchanan Riddell, eldest daughterof the first earl of Romney, and relict of Sir John Buchanan Ridded Bart., a Riddell, in Scotland (who flied is 1819), was proved in the London Court, on the 29th ult.. under 20,0001. personalty. _ Lady Frances died on J un " 30 last, at the Palace, Maidstone, Kent, having executed her will March 29, 1860, and a codicil Jan. 15, 1863 , the executors appointed being her sone Sir Walter Buchan Riddell, Bart., and the Rev. John Charles Buchananan Riddell, M.A.. rector of Harrietsham, Kent. Aft"' making some moderate pecuniary bequests to less sons and daughters, and leaving the oil Pie' ins which came from Riddell to her 9011 Sir Walter, she leaves the residue of her pfertY to be equally divided between her two fitme n t" daughter—her two eldest daughters, who are marred. being amply , provided for. The will of Sir Heury Ear l. Bart., of the eity of Dubft,whe died at his London ren &nee, 6, Victoria square, Plico, on Way 27 last, was proved in Ireland under 8,0001. personalty, and sealed iu the London court on July 24. The will, or Scotch centre matron, of Katharine Lady Monroe was sealed in the London court on the 24th ult., the personalty having ten sworn under 37,0001.—/Eastreia Nees. A NARROW ESCAPE.—Mr. John %Irby, wood" merchant, being on the new tower now in cou rse Lion eree bon at the catholic chapel at Market Rasen, bad 3 fen ' ) to ride down in the tub, in which (by m eans of puller and horse power) materials are raised for the worker"' Stepping into his tub somewhat prematurely, the m an who attends to the rope was overpowered and let Iv. when tub and passenger went down at a run. Strange b' out, cleverly turned a half somersault, say, although the fall was between 40 and 50 feet, Mr; Searby earns down right end foremost ; he was Orin' home without having suffered any material damage. M. BOUCHER DE PIRTHES.—This g e ntleman. whose claim to the honour of being the founder of the fief , science called arclueo-geology is now universally admitted. died on Monday last at Abbeville, at the advanced age_ 0 ! 80. Boucher de Creveccour de Perth's was the ar t a: to call the attention of the learned r ii mi t a ges, the those remarkable relics of the ea flint implements used by man before the disco and then walked very of metals. At first ridiculed as a visionary , then by slow degrees listened to with incresatt interest, he at length summeded in proving to aTc hte° stone ; nay , gists that there had teen is Europe an age of he went further, and conquered the incredulity of poi.o• gists by pro ducing _ the first human jaw ever found in undisturbed Alpine drift, showing thereby that man Dad been coeval with the extinct races of large carnivore that peopled before the commencement of the plena geological period. His valuable collection of dint intoe mente now forms an important part of the Gallo -Roams Museum at at. (lernsein.--esltpees. -V tion should be taken to prevent the 'ding. 2 Connecticut, in the United States. nd crop of bloat= this year. lIMIVEBTB.—The will of the Hon. * Baring, M.A., late of Ashgrove, Kest. -crcecent, Belgme-square, was proved art, on the 27th ult., and the t 9 XOl. ; the executors being the A'.7. nte• wine Baring, the relict, and the testator a Alexander Hugh Baring, M.P. The hind son of the first Lord Ashburton, and 60, having executed his will April 5, [Feb. 8, 1868. He was Rector of ants, from 1830 to 1845. He has ad mansion of Ashgrove to his wife I afterwards to his said nephew, the Ltr. He also leaves to his wife a life entaires in the North-Western Railway iv*: Company, amounting to 49,0001. ; ease, to his said nephew absolutely. Ho indents, and all the furniture, plate, effects there and at Ash,grove to his The will of the Right lion. Lady eldest daughterof the first wirl relict of Sir John Buchanan Riddell. *l4 in Scotland (who died is in the London Court, on the 29th ult.. ✓onalty . Lady F r ances died on Juue iCl__Mainistone, Kent, having lexecu 606, and a codicil Jan. 15, 1863 , the td being her sons Sir Walter Buchanan ad the Rev. John Charles Buchan an rector of Harrietaham, Kent. Air' loderate wuniary bequests to h•T km, and leaving the oil plat - e from Riddell to her son Sir mere the residue of her prePertl, vided between her two u nm a ro eldest daughters, who are married, ded for. The will of Sir Henry Marsh, of Dub ft., who died at his London run Plico, on Na y 27 last, ley 8,0001. personalty, and sealed /LI on July 24. The will, or Scotch eolith- s:in. Lady Monroe was sealed in the he 24th site., the personalty having' be° 61.—I1ierstreSsei .&siers Nees. ltruPs.—Mr. John Searby, Wood - -A a the new tower now in course of eree- chapel at Market Rosen, had a fey ) tub, in which (by m eans of puller naterials are Tamed for the worker"' tub somewhat prematurely; the man .e rope was overpowered and let se'• enger went down at a run. Stra r. nge r fall was between 40 and 50 feet, g right end foremost ; he was pitched sj a half somersault, and then walked ing suffered any material damage. DE PERTDES.—This gentleman, honour of being the founder of the new emlogy is now universally admitted, st o at Abbeville, at the advanced age of e Creveccour de Pardus was the first gelation of the learned world to relics of the „ a b e d ages, the used by man before the disco- At Ant ridiculed at a visionary , eirees listened to with increastng th succeeded in proving to archrolo - I been is Europe an are of stone nays id conquered the incredulity of Poke' oiollenisredrlft,eextfirtimaltictskonshcouuneuractailnanbaingle eollothf)eeaeciamerw:st?onvnyteresootbrfaortignivninaeodtrapin;t3ltanadti Lit important part of the Glallo-Sontat raaio.--044prens.