The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-01 00:00:00

JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy weight, at malleable value, and the workstanaldp as wholesale manufacturers' prime, The gold in the chaise gas sauteed, and repurchased at the price charged. " Here's the note, Row mach your chain weighs to the utmost ears*, The gamma of the gold, and charge for fashion." SHAIMPZAP.2. Manufactory, le, llenriettLelmet, Covent-garden, London. BREAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. B ROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOUR to CUILDIEN'S DIET. To obtain extra profit by the sale ether kinds are sometimes offered instead of BROWN and POLSON'S. "John Brown," "John Poison," is signed by the makers on sack packet. Eke eroreoo. TO COBASSPONDENTEL Advertisements intended for " The Uprise" Loudon Evening tbe at the Mace, 10, Bounds-street, by Two daXa suet the day of publication. DRURY LANK. THIS Evitarna, TEAT RASCAL JACK. Morn. Rouse and Neville ; Mesdames Al'erne and Thompson—To conclude with TUE (MEAT CITY. Mesita Cowper, 3l'lntyre, Villiers, Irving, Rouse, Yitzpunes, & Warner: Madames Robertson d; Le There. HAYMARZET. • --•.•••• .• • • THO Evi NINo. OUR AM EkticAN (*WAIN. Mom Bothers, Haywood, shepherd, Chippendale, Fn 44 4,lart, Ourdoos, He.; G Meadange•Cluppendale, ardiug, t, .—LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS. Mr. Buckstune.—EndFlSH OUT 07 WATER. rtINCIIIWIL THI4 ETZIIING. TRUE . TOlll . E CaL. Marrs. ereswiek, H. Marston. H. Forrester, K Y. Edgar, Ate. ; Miss O. Yauncetort and Miss Nell? Moors.—lluors open at bedtpaat wren com mence at eight. ITHAND. This Evn/Into, DOMEHTILI. Masora. Pantile, Thorne, and James Miss Harland.—And IVANHOE. The Marque, Tunnsbend, Lord Arthur Clinton. Mr. Maitland. tr. . Mesdames A. Swanbnrsugh, Johnstmle, E. Holt, and E. Hatton. BRITANNIA. Enanwo, MOONniiiirrArK. Mt. J. B. Howe d Mks J. Col eney —The Champion Skaters of Famikand Mr. O. Buck atone • Manna. Ilildrlistsnd and vrtnonde ; Mr. and Mrs. M•llaflte. —And the last nave Acts of MAl•BE711. Mr. Reynolds. MOH WILT= AT LONDON BUDD! DOI DAT —Morning. O. :41a......,Aften0m. lik. VW toatoaaow—Mar•bw. Ith Ca......Aftnnooe, fit. Ms. -- ----- LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 1. THE railway question must continue to be a leading topic of the day until by some means the interests of the great body of shareholders are placed upon a better and surer footing. In the past week we have had the meeting of the Lon don and Brighton Company, which produced but one practical result, though that in itself was im portant—tho substitution of an entirely new board in place of the old directors. The acceptance of the chairmanship by Mr. Luxe gives an assurance that the policy which has brought the Company into its present straits will be altogether reversed, but the reconstruction of the Board is only a pre liminary of the work of extricating the under taking from the difficulties under which it labours. The p.isition of the new Board of the Lon don and Brighton Railway resembles too much that of an Italian Minister of Fi nance. A particular sum of money must im mediately be raised at a time when all the regular expedients for borrowing have been thoroughly exhausted. But while Italy can fall back upon the expedient which has been practised by nearly all the Roman Catholic populations of the world—that of secularising the church and monastic property—the Brighton Company must depend upon their credit alone, and that has been considerably weakened by the recent revelations. When a railway company falls into difficulties, there are three courses which it may adopt : . . 1. Thu issue of debentures. 2. The issue of preference stock. 3. The issue of ordinary stock. remain after satisfying the present debenture and preference holders in the company. The earnings will be fairly and equitably divided. Another point, also, may be mentioned. The relative price of the existing 5 per cents. and of the ordinary stock shows a considerable disproportion, ad- . mitting that the calculations of the Committee are correct. Looking at the matter solely in a financial point of view, there is no doubt that even with the present heavy depreciation it would pay the Company better to issue ordinary stock instead of a new 5 per cent. preference. It is, nevertheless, only just to say that the new board may be safely relied upon to devise the best measures for getting the company out of its present dead lock. The first expedient is generally a merely nominal resource. It is rarely found that a company has nut made use of its parliamentary borrowing powers either to the full extent or at least so as to leave only a very small margin. In some notorious cases we know that those powers have been illegally ex seeded. The decisions in the Court of Chancery have also established the fact that debenture holders have rather less security than ordinary creditors, and that the parliamentary sanction upon which they rely is really worth nothing. A possessor of a debenture created under the joint permission of the Houses of Lords and Commons is apparently worse off than the purchaser of a Lloyd's bond issued quite privately, and at the discretion of the directors alone. Hence debentures which at one time were regarded with considerable favour, and often chosen as especially eligible for invest ments of trust money, have latterly been dis credited. Now and then an announcement ap pears in the newspapers that such and such a company has been enabled to renew its obligations on favourable terms ; but a few years ago it would never have occurred to the managers of our great railway companies to congratulate themselves upon the renewal of their debentures at the current market terms of the day. The operation would have been considered a matter of course. The public rarely take the trouble to discrimi nate between one company and another, and hence, if certain railways are out of favour, the rest are, if not absolutely visited with the same condemnation, at least strongly suspected. Hardly a day passes but fresh rumours are spread, some times from interested motives, butmore frequently from mere caprice. The financial position of each great undertaking is in turn attacked, and know ing what they do the public are only too ready to attach credence to reports which, under other cir cumstances, they could not possibly believe. Every shareholder in railway property is in fact under the apprehension that at any moment he may suddenly find the undertaking with which he is connected to be in an unsound, perhaps insol vent, position. One or two simple remedies will readily be suggested. First of all is the closing of capital accounts—that is absolutely neces sary. If this measure had boon adopted a few years ago we should have been spared most of our latest scandals. Next, the abolition of preference and debenture issues ; third, absolute publicity in railway accounts, so that whatever floating debts the company may owe, apart from ordinary trade liabilities, should be distinctly set forth. Lastly, a State audit. With the facts before them, the public are not likely to have a repetition of their experiences of the London, Chatham, and Dover, Brighton, North British, and other lines. Contractors, speculative solicitors, and land jobbers will probably find their gains materially curtailed, but as they have done so well for many years back they have hardly any reasonable ground for complaint. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The next point is the issue of preference stock. This plan of raising money has, however, been pretty nearly exhausted. The expedient has at length been suggested of • creation of pre preference shares, but in at least one case the pro position has been summarily rejected by Parlia ment. If it had been sanctioned it would have given the last blow to railway credit. How could any investor feel sure that the security he was purchasing might not be hereafter overridden by some new creation ? The idea was, in truth, the more perfect development of that unfortunate system to which we have before referred, of issuing preference stocks at all. If a pre-preference security should be sanctioned this year, what guarantee have the holders that a pre-pre-preference should not be granted the next? The precedent of breach of faith once set, it would be only too readily foUowed. If, therefore, a railway wishes to clear itself from its difficulties by the issue of preference shares, the latter must rank after all those already created. The issue of ordinary stock is the third alter native, and there is no question that it is by far the most equitable plan. Of course it would at first sight appear very distasteful to original holders to know that the value of their property should be thereby depreciated some 10 per cent ; but they have to make their choice of two evils. Referring to the London and Brighton, the Committee of Investigation mention that if the 1,000,0001. ster ling at present urgentlyrequired be raised bya 5 per cent. preference stock, the ordinary proprietors may fairly calculate upon • 21 per cent. dividend a year or two hence. Very likely ; but it is utterly hopeless to suppose that a 5 per cent. Brighton preference stock can be placed at par. An 8 per cent. issue, as we have already observed, might be arranged fur the second million that is wanted, but that becomes a matter for after-con sideration. Tho great point at present is the raising of the first million.' Should it be done by the sale of ordinary stock, the existing proprietors have at least the knowledge that, if other persons are admitted to share in their actual rights, the latter have no power of exclusively absorbing per haps the whole of whatever surplus profit may THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 1, 1867. which Lord Russell delivered has multiplied tenfold the beneficent influence which the meeting will exert is the great Republic. There is no better evidence of true great ness of mind than a frank confession of error; and in Lord Resell's ease, instead of being an act of humiliation, it will really exalt his character in the estimation of his countrymen and of the world. LATEST INTELLIGEIiCIL (REUTER'S 'TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 1. Yesterday the Emperor received the members of the Monetary Conference, who thanked his Ma jesty for having placed Prince Napoleon at their head. In the afternoon, at 2.30 p.m., the Emperor re ceived the Lord Mayor and some of the Aldermen of the City of London. The Lord Mayor read an address, in which he referred to the late attempted assassination, and also congratulated his Majesty on the success of the Exhibition. In reply to the address, which was written in English, the Emperor thanked the Lord Mayor and the other members of the deputation in the same language for the cordial step they had taken, and the hearty senti ments they had expressed. OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MALTA, JUNE 30. The Ceylon from Southampton, 20th instant, arrived at 9 a.m. on the 28th, and left at 4 a.m. on the 29th for Alexandria. The Mooltan from Marseilles, 28th instant, arrived to-day at 5 p.m., and leaves at 10 p.m. for Alexandria. AMERICA. CROOKHAVEN, JULY 1, 5.30 A.M. A steamer, supposed to be the City of Vuhing ton, is now passing the Browhead signal station. If it be that ship she will probably arrive at Queenstown at 10.30 a.m. to-day, and letters will reach London on Tuesday at 6.45 a.m. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. ARRIVAL OF THE SULTAN. mom 001 OWN 001111SPONDZIT.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVT.NING. The Sultan arrived at the Lyons Railway station thisafternoon with as much punctuality as any Euro pean sovereign. I, in common with at least half a million of Parisian residents, have set eyes upon the " commander of the faithful." After all that has been said about his supposed Oriental effemi nacy and inability to bear fatigue, he did not seem at all tired after his long rattling journey from Toulon. Ho is a well-looking man with light brown hair and beard slightly grizzled, short and thick set, with broad shoulders, and a very manly look. It was much remarked, when he was seen sitting side by side with the Emperor, that he looked shorter than Napoleon 111. That is, how ever, an uncertain test of the real height, and may not be confirmed when they are seen standing together. As far as regards the number of people that went to see the public reception of the Sultan, it far transcends that of either the Czar or the King of Prussia. The fact of the day being Sunday no doubt accounts to a great extent for the crowds ; but iniependently of that there was intense curiosity to see the greatest of oriental sovereigns, whose name, title, power, and habits are all con founded in the public mind with fairy tales and hazy traditions. I saw in the crowd an old woman whose knowledge of history was so limited that she probably had no distinct ideas of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, but wbo said she wanted to see the Sultan because she understood he had " forty wives " and three hundred " others." I have never seen such a crowd since the arrival of Queen Victoria in 1855. Long before the arrival of the cortege the people stood in serried ranks twenty deep, all along the line from the Louvre, by the Rue Rivoli, the Rue St. Antoine, and the Rue de Lyons, to the Lyons Railway station. The windows and balconies of the houses were crowded with people in Sunday attire. Very many shopkeepers made money by letting places in their windows at a good price. Rush bottomed stools, the fee simple of which was not more than a few sous, let readily for a franc a piece to stand upon in the carriage way of the streets abutting on the Rue Rivoli. In the Rue Rivoli it elf no traffic of the kind could be carried on for the broad footway on either side was jammed as tight as it could be with people for whom there was barely standing room. The Sultan wore a military uniform with epau lettes, scarcely distinguishable from theta a French general. He was received at the railway station with the same ceremonial as that described when the other great sovereigns came a short time ago. The Emperor shook hands with him as ho got out of the railway carriage. There was the same escort of lancers and Cent Gerdes, and, to the disappointment of many, there were the same court carriages and two, instead of the Versailles gala carriages and six. These, I am told, are re served for the distribution of prizes to-morrow. Prince Napoleon and Fuad Pacha rode with the Sultan and the Emperor to the Tuileries. Nine carriages followed with the suite. The Patrie gives an amusing reason for the chamber having, " contrary to all expectation," allowed the debate on the budget to begin onSatur day instead of on Tuesday next. It was, it says, because it was known that on the first day M. Latourdu Moulin would let off his " objurgation,'' and M. Gamier Pages his " theoretically laborious observations " and that it was wished to sever this trifling from serious business. I am persuaded that M. Rouher does not at this moment consider M. Latour du Moulin's speech, charging him on indis putable official evidence with having within the last year made statements on foreign affairs which were the reverse of the truth ; and with having by his recent actions in full accordance with his little more distant recorded speeches shown an indispo sition to carry out the Emperor's liberal programme of Jan. 19. Such assertions falling from the mouth of a man like Latour du Moulin, who was a " director of the press," knows all the secrets of the prison house, and is yet a devoted imperialist, are far more embarrassing to a minister than if they came from an out-and-out opposition deputy like Picard or Pelletan. The Viceroy of Egypt has been so much de lighted with the Exhibition that he has induced the principal functionaries of hia country to make a journey to Paris, and has also indicated 40 Arab chiefs who will pay a visit to the Champ de Mars. The Grand Duchess Marie of Russia has arrived at Trouble, where she purposes passing three weeks. The Tycoon of Japan is described by a corres pondent of a New York paper as a man of ordinarystature, apparently 33 years of age, with good features, bright, black eyes, and splendid teeth, which be frequently dis played in smiling. He was very richly dressed, and his manners are easy and refined. He thoroughly under stands the European custom of drinking toasts, and drank the health of the President of the United States with gusto. RUDOLF4TADT, JVNE 28.—Ilia Highness Prim:* Frederick Gonthier, the reigning prince of Bahwarsburg- Ftudolstadt, died this morning. THe FONIKAL or ARUM Oft WARD.—The funeral of Charles F. Browne (Arternus Ward) was solemnised at Waterford, Maine. on the 6th ult. The Masonic fraternity resisted at the burial. ~ys.~ .~ THE PAM EXHIBITION. -zd . MOM 1: - )1711 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. Sixteen thousand seats have been arranged in the nave of the Palais de l'lndustrie. The Emperor has reserved three thousand seats for his guests, the Senate, the Corps Ldgislatif, the Council of State, and the judges. The foreign commiasions have about three thousand tickets. The first six thousand ticket holders are entitled to numbered places. The Imperial Commissioners have reserved two thou sand places for their officers and for the juries. In these ways fourteen thousand are taken. Another thousand seats are given up to the exhibitors who have won gold medals. Only one thousand seats remain, and these are for sale, at fifty-five francs each. The price was sixty francs a few days since ; but the public is informed that in consequence of the great demand the price has been reduced. To-day Paris arrayed herself in her brightest colours, and people talked only of the gorgeous festivities that are to greet the Sultan and the Emperor of Austria, at Versailles, at Fontainebleau, and at the Tuileries. In the Exhibition, however, the univer sal talk is of medals and decorations. M. Le Play's reward is already announced. He is created senator. It is reported that on Monday, the fete day of Peace, the Emperor will order the Exhibi tion to be thrown open free to the public. Every class must have a share in the rejoicings and in the money spending. Twelve thousand pounds are to be spent on fireworks by the Arc de Triomphe, during the visit of the Emperor and Empress of Austria. The Gra ads-Eau.c play again to-morrow at Versailles. During the last few days several very curiousappe ratus have been set in motion in the machinery gallery-, near Derosne and Cail's exhibit. To judge by the sensation they have created, their inventors should have won considerable honours. But they are so small that they have most likely escaped the showers of decorations and medals that overwhelm French and foreign industry. The first is a little electric engine that works a sewing ma chine, and only requires a small bundle of wood to keep it going. It works with as much speed and force as if it were moved with the foot on the pedal. The second is a hot-air machine, worked by an alcohol lamp. It works by means of a difference of temperature obtained by the help of a little stream of water. The pail serves for re servoir— indeed a basin would contain all the water necessary. Not far from these apparatus, near the exhibit of the ministry, is the electro magnet which has been so much talked about and discussed at the Academy of Sciences. THE REVENUE RETURN& The quarterly revenue accounts show the vanity, observes the Times, of the gloomy forebodings which • superficial view of our trade this year would produce. Estimating the revenue of the year from that of the first three months, which usually give a fair average, the receipts of the year may be taken as something more than seventy millions, or a million in excess of the estimate of Mr. Disraeli in April. An ana lysis of the receipts of the past three months justifies the promise given by the magnitude of the total. The growth in the customs' receipts has been continuous, and there is no reason to anticipate any decline in its rate of progress. The receipts from the excise, which can never be depended upon with the same certainty, jus tify the estimate of Mr. Disraeli. The Post-office produced 80,0001. in excess of the return of 1866, and in two years the receipts from this source in the• second quarter of the year have risen from 970,000/. to 1,110,000/. We may even hope that the sum of 4,6.50,0001., anticipated from the Poet-office in 1867-8 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be found more than realised at the end of the year. The policy, the Times thinks, of reaping so large an income from such • source is at least open to question. Cheap as the service is, it is plain from the profit upon it that it could be perfonued still more cheaply, and a monopoly on the part of the I state ought not to be converted into a means of excessive gain. The amazing influence which a cheap post has had in the past quarter of a century upon the diffusion of I knowledge and the education of the people should encourage some of our reformers to inquire whether its surplus revenue might not be turned to account, and its operations made still more beneficial either by re duced rates of carriage or by an increase in the func tions of the department. In the meantime let us bear in mind the fact that an elastic revenue is apt to produce an elasticity of expenditure, and urge upon the rulers of the next generation that any surplus of income cannot be too speedily disposed of in directly reducing the burdens of the people. THE NELCOME TO MR. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. Other distinguished visitors come to us, remarks the Daily News, with high position and illustrious rank and power to confer considerable advantages: Mr. Garrison's titles to recognition are purely personal, resting entirely on noble efforts and splendid achievements. It was fitting, therefore, that he should be publicly re ceived by those who are the truest representatives of whatever is worthy in our national character. The leader for many years of the " forlorn hope" of aboli tionism in the United States, Mr. Garrison has • right to a larger share in the honours of victory than has been pre viously accorded to him. He wears his honours meekly ; but of that small band of men to whom the awakening of the national conscience to the evil of slavery is due, he is, perhaps, the chief. No man now living has known un popularity for the sake of truth and justice as Mr. Garri son has. For years his name was • byword ; he carried his life in his hand, and there were multitudes who thought that to kill Lim would do their country service. No honour that is done to such a man in this prosaic age can be toe great. He has reproduced before the present generation some of the features of • more self-sacrificing manhood than is ever common in prosperous times. "Give him of the fruit of his bands, and let his own works praise him in the gate." The wonderful success which Mr. Garrison now represents has encouraged the friends of humanity all over the world. The swift and sudden overthrow of American slavery ham been taken as • warn ing by every kindred wrong, and all over the world the party of defence is weaker and that of assault is stronger for the labours and success of the American abolitionists. Rendering tribute to the inflexible nerve and enthu siastic devotion which fairly entitle Mr. Garrison to the homage paid to him by peers and philosophers at St. James's-hall, the Times differ, from the speakers in at tributing the fall of slavery altogether or mainly to moral agency. It was the infatuation of the slave-holding aris tocracy and the vital shrinking of • great nation from dis memberment, and not the articles of Mr. Garrison, or the novels of Mrs. Stowe, that opened new destinies to the enslaved negro. It is to be regretted that Lord Russell's altered conviction—his conversion taking plasm whilst the contest was still undecided—did not impart a more conciliatory tone to his correspondence with the United States, and did not more sensibly temper his speeches in the House of Lords. The advice of Mr. Mill and Mr. Garrison not to fear the reproach of visionary projects is only good when taken subject to proper qualifications. Present duties are not to be sacrificed to false conceptions. Instead of seeking new worlds to conquer, Mr. Garrison and his friends would do well to civilise that which they have already won. The Post traces oat the career of Mr. Garrison with strong expressions of sympathy, and regards the admission of Lord Russell as honourable to him. It is always diffi. cult to bring ourselves to admit that we have been mis taken ; but when we find such penance performed in so high and so unlikely ► quarter, we are still more ready to concede to it the value which its rarity deserves. The Standard ha. no doubt that Mr. Garrison is " a most amiable person," very sincere in thinking the new world has been regenerated by his efforts, but says it is a little too im pudent for Mr. Bright and his friends to think that they have done anything inthe work, or have any title to speak on behalf of liberty. The Star be/levee thet apart from Lord Rolmll's speech. this meeting would have proved an effective mean, of pro moting peace and brotherhood between England and the United States. But the manly and generous speech Cite Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Juxt 29. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon. Princess Beatrice drove out in an open carriage. Prince Leopold also drove out, attended by Mr. Legg. The Queen, the Queen of Prussia, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, went out in the grounds this morning. The Queen of Prussia, attended by Countess Schulen• bourg, Count Nesselrode, and Dr. Brand* went to London today and visited the British Museum ; and honoured the Prussian ambassador and the Countess de Bern storff with a visit at the embassy. Her Majesty afterwards visited the Princess of Wales at Marlborough• house, and from thence drove to the National Memorial to the Prince Consort, in Hyde-park, and the Horticul tural Society's Gardens at Kensington ; after which her Majesty returned to Windsor Castle. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, drove beyond Bagshot this afternoon for the purpose of laying the foundation stone of an addition to the Albert Orphan Asylum at Collingwood•court. The suite in attendance consisted of the Marchioneu of Ely, the Baroness Schinck, the Hon. Florence Seymour, Viscount Strathallan, Colonel Cavendish, Major-General Sir T. M. Biddulph, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe, and Mr. Legg. Her Majesty was received by the officers of the institu tion and received an address, after which her Majesty laid the first stone with the usual formalities. The Bishop of Winchester offered a prayer on the occa• lion, and the children sung a hymn. The Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Secretary of State for the Home Department, was in attendance upon her Majesty during the ceremony. The Queen and the royal family afterwards honoured Sir James Clark with a visit at Bagehot•park. The Prussian Ambassador and Ccantes. de Ilernstorff arrived at the Casette yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. JUNE 30. Her Majesty the Queen, the Queen of Prussia, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Louise, and Prince Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service in the private chapel this morning. The Ver7 Rev. the Dean of Cork preached the sermon. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Malines bury, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord John Manners, Lord Naas, and the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the North American Provinces, Bermuda, and British Honduras. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the Bahamas, and to the Governor. General of Canada. Her Majesty tho Queen, with the junior members of the royal family, will, it is expected, leave Windsor Castle for Osborne on the 9th of July. The Queen will remain at Osborne for a few weeks, and then return to London en rouge for Balmoral. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz dined with the Arch bishop of Canterbury on Saturday evening, at Lambeth Palace. The following company joined the dinner circle: —His Excellency the Netherlands Minister, the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, the Duchess of Northumberland, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, the Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Morley, the Countess Vane, Lord and Lady Taun ton, Lord and Lady de Roe, Lord Ravensworth, the Right Hon. Sir George Hamilton Seymour, G.C.8., and Hon. Lady Seymour, General the Hon. Sir Edward Gust, Count Strezlecki, Hon. Mrs. Bourke, &c. Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess de Paris honoured the Earl and Countess of Derby by their company at dinner, at their residence in St. James's square, on Saturday evening. There were present to meet the royal guests the M►rluis of Abercorn and Lady Georgians Hamilton, the Marquis of Waterford, the Earl and Countess of klaoclesfield and Lady Elisabeth Parker, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Viscount and Vis countess Sydney, Lord Hyde, Lard Henry Lennox, Lord Stanley, Hon. Frederick and Lady Constance Stanley, and Boerio, in waiting on the Countess de Paris. The noble earl was unable to join the dinner circle owing to a slight rheumatic attack. The countess afterwards had a reception, which was numerously and fashionably attended. On Saturday night the Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos threw open Chandos House for the first time since the mansion has been occupied by the family, for an assembly. At a dinner party previously to the reception, there were present the Earl of Mahan/bury, the Earl and Countess of Haddington and Lady Frances Beillie Hamil ton, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford and Hon. Xis Thesiger, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, M.P., and Mrs. and Miss Hardy, Mr. W. H. P. Gore Langton and Lady Anna Gore Langton, Mr. Du Pre, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Hotham, Mr. and Miss Langton. Mr. H. L Bryant, &c. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily Villiers have left town for Faris, TM. month there is to be a grand regatta on the Seine, which is open to all the world. It will take place on the 9th and following days, under the p►tronage of the Emperor of the French, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Edinburgh. Committee :—The Prince of Wale., the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Sutherland, Hon. G. Denman, M.P. (treasurer), Rear• Admiral Sir F. Nicolson, Bart., C. 8., Rear-Admiral Ryder, R.N., Mr. C. J. Selwyn, Mr. S. R. Graves, M.P., Rev. William Roger., Captain Hoare, R.N., Mr. J. Macgregor, Mr. J. W. Chitty, Mr. Allan Morrison, Mr. C. Wylde (hon. sec.), and Mr. E. D. Brickwood, manager. _ _ Tas TURKISH EMBASSY. —His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and M. E. MUJUMS left town yes• terday for Paris, in order to reoeive his Imperi►l Majesty the Sultan on his arrival there. The Fox Club's annual flab dinner was held at the Trafalgar, Greenwich, on Saturday. Th ere were present the Earl of Zetland, the Earl of Albemarle, the Earl of Dartrey, Lord Carew, Lord Mostyn, Lord Dacre, Colonel Adair, Sir E. M. Buller. Bart., M.P.,Hon. Edward Coke, Lord Camoys, Sir Henry Cottrell, art. Mr. John Cotes, Marquis of Normanby, Mr. Frederi c k Du:ndas, M.P., Right Hon. J. W. Fitzpatrick, Lord Methuen, Lord Poltimore, Mr. John St. Aubyn,M. P., Mr. A. K. Stephenson,Viscount Sudley, Sir William Scott, Bart., M.P., Lord Suffield, Mr. E. Thump, Sir H. Williamson, Bart., M.P., Hon. J. H. Vernon, Mr. H. H. Vivian, )1.1'., Hon. G. Vernon, Colonel erratum., hc. Quaturrr MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. —The monthly meeting of this society was held at University College on Friday ; Mr. Ernest Hart, president, in the chair A paper was read by Dr. Robert Braithwaite on " The Organiza tion of Moises," which he prefaced by some remarks on the writers on bryology, and afterwards described the distinctive characters of the spores, stems, leaves, repro ductive organs, development of the fruit, sporangium, Ito., as well as thehabitata of mows, modeof collecting, exami nation, preservation, and uses. He was attentively lis tened to by a numerous audience of members and visitors, who, at a a:numeral:lone which followed, had an opportunity of viewing under the microscopes carefully prepared speci es m ens illustrative of the paper. F our mem b ers were elted. Her Majesty in Council has been pleased to' grant a charter of incorporation to the Poor Clergy Belief Society. Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P. for the borough of Marylebone, has been appointed a deputy-lieutenant for the county of Middlesex. Numerous applications having b een ma d e t o th e War-oflice for tickets for the Hyde-park review, it is stated that tickets are only procurable at the office of the Board of Works, to whom the entire distribution him been entrusted. A valuable collection of modern pictures, in cluding the collections of Mr. W. Brocas, R.H.A., Mr. W. Dixon, and numerous other works from different private collections, was dispoeed of on Ssturday last at the r oo m s of Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods, in King-street, St. James. THE GOLD MEDALS AWARDED TO BRITISH EXHIBITOR& PARIS, SUNDAY MORNING. I have this moment received the list of the gold medals which have been awarded to British ex hibitors ; and which will be given to them to-mor row by the Emperor : GROUP 1.-PIN= ARTS. Class 4.—Grand prize, A. Waterhouse. GROUP IL-APPARATUS AND APPLICATIONS OF THE LIBERAL ARTS. Clam 6.—Printing and Books--Gold medal, V. Brooks. Clean 7.—Paper, Stationery, Binding, Painting, and Drawing Materials.—Gold medals, Cowan and Sons, and T. H. Saunders. Class 8. —Application of Drawing and Modelling to the Common Arts.—Gold medal, Department of Science and Art, South Kensington. Class 10.—Musical instruments.—Gold modal, Broad wood and Sons. _ . Clw 11.—Medical and Surgical Instruments and Appa ratua.—Gold medal, AMI and • • - • • Class 12.—Mathe . matical Instruments and A.ppanstus for Teaching Science.—Gold medals, Dallmejer, T. Bees, B and J. Beck, and Chance Brothers. GROUP 111. Classes 14 and 15. Furniture, Upholstery, and Decoration Work.—Gold medals, Wright and Mansfield, and Owen Jones, decorative architect. Clam 17. Porcelain, Earthenware, and other Army Pottery.—Oold medals, Minton and Co. and W. Copeland and Sons. Class Vt.—Carpets, Tapestry, and other Stu ff s for Fur niture.—Gold medals, British India, J. Templeton, and Brinton and Lewis. Claes 19.—Paper-hanaings.—Gold medal, C. and J. G. Potter. Class 20.—Cutlery.—Gold medal, Brookes and Crooke'. Class 21.—Gold and Silver Plate.—Gold medals, Elkins ton and Co., Hunt and Heiken, and C. H. Hancock ; and Morol.ledsuil, 00-operator. Class 2:1.--Clocks and Watebea.—Gold medals, J. Poole, Victor Kulberg, and Parkinson and Frodsham, Clam N.—Apparatus and Premixes foe Heating and Lighting.—Gold medal, Winfield and Co. GROUP IV. Clam 27.—Cotton Thread and Fabrics.—Gold medals, Collective Exhibition of Scotland and England, Armitage and Sons, H. Barley, Radcliffe and Co., and Horrockses, Miller, and Co. Class 28.—Thread and Fabrics of Flax. Hemp, dm.— Gold medals, Belfast Chamber of Commerce, Charley and Co., Fenton, Sons, and Co., and J. S. Brown. Class 2 9 .—Combed Wool and Worsted Fabric.—Gold medsla, Bradford Chamber of Commerce, and J. Ackroyd and Sons. Class 30.--Carded Wool and Woollen Fabrics.—Gold medals, Cloth manufacture in the South of Scotland, and Manufacturers of the West of England for the towns of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Clan 31.--Silk and Silk Manufactures.—Gold medal, Great Britain. Class 32—Shawl.--Gold medal, Dew= Sing. Class :13.—Lace, Net, Embroidery, and Small Wars Manufactures. : -Gold medal, town of Nottingham. Clam 34.—Hosiery and Under-clothing, and articles ap pertaining thereto.—Gold medal, Brlntyre, Hogg. and Buchanan. Class 36.--Jewellery, Precious Stones, &c.—Gold medal, Phillips. 6 ROCP V. Class 40.—Mining and Metallurgy. —Gold medals, J. Brown and Co., Johnson, Matthey, and Bowling Iron Company, Barrow, Low Moor Company, Co. fAlleshall Com wy, New South Wales Commission, Bury, and Co., Monkbridge Iron Company, and Thomas Turton and Sons. Co-operators, Grand Prise, Bessemer. Class 41.-:Produitsof the Cultivation of Forests, and of the trades appertaining thereto.—Gold medal, Abbe Brunet. Class 43.—Agricultural Products (not used as Food) Easily Preserved.—Grand prize, British India ; gold medal, Towns. Class 44.—Chemical and Pharmaceutical P►oducts.— Gold medals, C. Allhusen, Garage and Sons, Muspratt and Sons, Jarrow Chemical Company, Howard and Sons, Price's Patent Candle Factory, and J. Young. GROW' VI. Class 48.—Agricultural Apparatus.—Cold medals, J. and F. Howard, Clayton, Shuttleworth, and Co., J. Fowler and Co., H. Garrett and Sons, ltansomes and Sims, and R. Hontsby. Class M. —Apparatus used in Chemistry, Pharmacy, and in Tanyards.—Grand prize, C. W. Siemens ; gold medal, Johnson, Ilatthey, and Co. Clam 53. Machines and Apparatus in GerieraL—Gold medal, Mertyweather and Sons. Class 54.—Machine Tools.—Grand prise, Whitworth and Co. ; gold medals, Sharp, Stewart, and Co. ; Shep- herd Hill and Co. . . . . . Class SCl . .—Apparatus and Processes used in Spinning and Itope-amkuig. —(.old medals, S. Lawson and Sons, and Platt Brothers and Co. Class 116.— Apparatus and Processes used in Weaving.— Gold medal, Howard and Bullough, J. Leming and Sons, and G. Hodgson. Class 61.—Carriages and Wheelwright's Work.—Gold medal, T. Peters and Son. Class fa—Railway Apparatus.—Gold medals. Kitson and Co., R. Stephenson and Co., and Saiby and Farmer. Clam St.—Telegraphic Apparatus and Pry:nem—Grand prize, Anglo-American and Transatlantic Cable Company. Gold medals, W. Hooper, and W. T. Henley. Class 65. — Civil Engineering, Public Works, and Archi. tecture.--Gold medals, Chance Brothers Minton and Co. Clan lki.—Navigation, Marine Engines, Lifeboats, Ace.— Grand prizes, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, R. Napier and Sons, J. Penn and Co. Gold medals, Laird Brother', Maudsley, Sons, and Field ; Thames Ironworks Company; Randolph, Elder, and Co., Samuda Brothers, Humphries and Tennant, and E. Clark. Rot P VII. Cl■ss 67.—Cereals and other eatable farinaceous pro ducts, and the products derived from them. Gold medal, A. Bell. — Class 70.—Neat and fish. Gold modal, Commission of Nova Scotia. . . - 61 ass 72. 7 —Condiments and stimulants ; sugar and con fectionery. Gold medals, E. Hery, C. Wulve, H. Pitot, district of Assam, districts of Cachat, of Dehra•Dhocn, Kinsman, Bengal, and of Neilgherry Hills. Class 73.—Fermented drinks. Gold medal, Allsopp and Sons and Baas and Co. CROUP IX. Claw 90.—Gold medal. Book Hawking Union. Eoirrr.—The population of Egypt is estimated to be shout three millions, of whom only one hundred and fifty thousand are Christians, the remainder being chiefly Mshomedens. The extreme length of Egypt is 520 miles, and the breadth from 390 to 400 ; but the land capable of cultivation does not exceed 17,000 square miles, a great part being either desert or mountain. Wheat is the principal crop, but coffee, sugar, tobacco and cotton are easily raised and yield abundantly. 41 1 1110 if • ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The performances here on Saturday night con ei.ted of the overture and second act of Auber's Maas. tiieflo ; and (for the first time this season) the Brothers Ricci's comic opera Crispiao ela Cowan. This work sae first produced at the Royal Italian Opera towards the close of last season, and was then rendered especially attractive by the rich comic humour of Signor Roocosi as the cobbler, and the exquisitely refined singing s a d acting of Mane. Adelina Patti an the cobbler's wife—the latter feature of the performance being still present while the former is wanting. Absurd and far-fetched ae the story is (these objections, however, being met by th e stale device of a dream), the incidents afford some good comic situations, and opportunities for some lively music, which being neither pretentious nor overprolonged is to be accepted without much critical examination. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Since our last notice of this establishment Mae. Christine Nilson has appeared in a new part—new, that is, to the London public, but one of her most successful representations in Paris. The music of Mark is perksp s the best, inasmuch as it is the least pretentious of Flotow's operas. Although not possessing any originality of style or individuality of character, there is a fluency and anises. tion throughout that keep the attention alive, es. pecially in combination with the vivacious action of the comedy to which it is allied—one which has been found strong enough in its merely dra m►tic aspect to sustain an interest both on the Paris and the London stage. Mdlle. Nilason's impersonation of the Lady Henrietta was a performance of the highest re. finement, both in singing and acting. Her lassitude and coquettish melancholy in the first scene with Nang, (Madame Trebelli•Bettini) was anexcellent piece of elegant comedy, and the duet between the two was given with much charm and grace by both. THE ROSE SHOW AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The Crystal Palace rose show of this year was quite up to its predecessors in quality, although there was a considerable falling off in the number of specimens sent in. Some of the greatest of our rose-growers, such as Turner of Slough, Keynes of Salisbury, and one of the Paula, were wholly unrepresented, and amongst the amateurs the falling off was very considerable. The public, who fancy they are suffering the extreme of summer tem. perature, will be rather surprised to learn that it was King Frost who played such havoc among the ruses, and that the nurserymen put the present season down so being a full month backward in as far as warmth and sunshine are concerned. It may be so, but the personal experience of the promenaders at Saturday's show told a different tale. The sunbeams, intensified by the burning glass of the roof, and then wrapped up comfortably in the awning over the flowers, made things anything but pleinint in the promenade, and enthusiastic connoisseurs emerged from their long inspection of the counters into the open space at the end with a most unmistakeable sensation of relief. We were glad to learn that, thanks to the royal patronage, and the noble liberality of the artists, who all gave their assistance gratuitously, the receipts of the concert will form a respectable nucleus for a restonstios fund, which ought to be organised without delay. The people cannot do without their Crystal Palace now, sal we feel sure that the people's friends would not be long in raising the "restoration fund" provided the direeeca and shareholders of the Crystal Palace Company were pre pared to offer a few equivalent advantages to the people. NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND. The fourth anniversary dinner in aid of the Newspaper Press Fund was held on Saturday evening at Willia's-rooma. The chairman was Mr. GLADSTONE. The company was more numerous than on any previous ema sion, and the dinner in every respect was one of the best given by Mr. Willis during this unusually busy season. Amongst the guests, who numbered nearly 2-)0, there were upon the subscription list the names of members of both houses of parliament, professors of all shades of political opinion, and gentlemen eminent in law, litera ture, science, and art. The entertainment passed off with entire satisfaction, for which Messrs. C. H. Scott, W. V. Edaal, J. Mould, W. Saunders, Callaghan, C. V. Boys, Shaw, and Doyle, who were vice-chairmen and generals of division throughout the evening, deserve thanks. The musical arrangements, always regarded at this dinner as A special feature, were carried ontby Mdlle. Enequist, Mr. and Mrs. Weiss, Mdlle. Cosenza, Miss Poole, Mr. Cummings, Mr. G. Perron, and Mr. Benedict, conductor. The pro- gramme included a couple of new bongs, sung by Mr. and Mrs. Weiss. Mrs. and Miss Gladstone were amongst the ladies who listened to the after-dinner proceedings. Mr. GLADSTONE, in proposing the toast of " Prusperity to the Fund," delivered an eloquent speech. He demanded for those who shared in the work of the press that theirs should be regarded in every light as a profession. He pointed to the vast extension of the newspaper press, and declared that while formerly it was but the privilege of the educated classes, it was now the patrimony of the people. Mr. S H I MAT Baoogegave " The Houses of Lords and Com mons." Lord Stratford de Radcliffe responding for the Lords, Mr. Swart, M.l'., for the Commons, and Mr. H. Dixon, to " Art, Science, and Literature," proposed by Sir K. l'hilli• more, the Dean of Ely proposed The Health of the Chairman." The Chairman acknowledged the toast, and proposed "The Health of the President, Vice-President, Trustees, and Officers of the Institution," to which Mr. G. Godwin, F.A.S., replied. The toast of "The Lobes' was entrusted to Mr. l,ewdegate, M.P. During the evening Mr. Taunton, the secretary, en• uounced subscriptions exceeding 900/. The operas announced for the current week at Her Majesty's Theatre are Pang (to-day—a morning prr formanoe), La Forza del Dalin° (to-wortow night) (Area (Thursday), and La Trariata (Saturday). The five performances announced for the present week at Covent Garden comprise La Pararita (to.nighil La Somali:abide/ (to-morrow night), Don (Thundle , Don G ioraw al (Friday, last time), and I'm Diamlo Okra day). Meanwhile, the speedily forthcoming A.0111:0 f Jibe% of M. Gouncel is the operatic town-talk. THE BELGIAN REMIPTION.--on Saturday di Belgian Reception Committee again held a meeting at the central committee rooms, 8, St. blartin's-place, square, under the presidency of Colonel Loyd Litidssy, the mce•president. Amongst the various decisions is the anal arrangement of the programme, and the appointment of sub-committees to carry out the various details coneectal with the different entertainments proposed to is' Ili"' The fact may now be officially stated that the number of our guests will at the least reach 1,000. and they are noel to arrive, it is believed, about 11 o'clock noon oil Thum day, the 11th proximo, off Gravesend. In order Oat their reception shall be worthy of the occasion, it has been defer wined that the whole of the general committee ( s hout:eq. comprising volunteer officers, and other members of the force, as well as noblemen and gentlemen, member' of the army and navy, and civilians, the former in the full uni form of their respective corps, shall be invited to premed on board one of our large river steamers to meet them, accompanied by one or mote volunteer bands. and abcS the Be • s shall have been transferred from her Me jesty's a fps to the small river steamers, to form a proces sion with the Belgian colours flying, and hands playing. and thus escort theta up the river to ‘Vestminster-bridge. where they are to be landed. The metropolitan voluaker corps will probably supply each separate boat with a bea d, thus adding to the gaiety of the occasion, and perhaps each corps will furnish a detachment to form a znard of honour, and line the route from the landing attars at Westminster.bridge to Westminster.hall, where it might be arranged to offer our Feasts the tin dlonocur, as the Belgians did to the English volunteers on landing both at Antwerp and Ostend. We have authority to annouece that on the occasionof the visit of the Belgians to Windier. as arranged by the reception committee, her Majesty wdl entertain them at a grand banquet.—(turf. r. THE NAVAL ReciEw. —The committee of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, at Ryde, Isle of Wight. hoe thrown open their splendid club-house at Hyde to all nn w hen of royal yacht clubs for the week during which l t• review of the fleet is appointed to take place off Seae./ —from the 14th to the 21st inst. It is understood that ! grand illumination of the fleet will take place at Slai n... on the evening of the review day, but no fletieite era , ' heal been issued on the subject up to Saturday. The will most probably, with the exception of the gent"' flotilla, anchor at Spithead in three lines, at about a ca' or a cable and a half length distance between each at- Taking a total of 36 vessels thus anchored, which will as nearly as possible the muster-roll of the fleet poi"' this number will give 12 ship, to each line, car Oil' large area of water, and giving a grand oppor tunity for 0 illumination of the ships and subsequent pyroteelme display to any desired extent. MITROPOLITAN Fagg HOSPITAL, DIVOVSSIt r i semout, erre. —The aggregate number of patients rd during the week ending June 2't was—Medical, 94 0 ; "'- Eiffel, 726 ; total, 1,668 ; of which 785 were sew came to 1 he N t►e L