The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-18 00:00:00

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Patuaceiort and Mes Selly Moore.—Duors open at half past seven; nom toei,e at elitist lITILLND. ltopt rvimmo, IIEVERAF:S. Messrs. Emery, Partellr. Rob- Pon, and stranlownnyh ; Mesdames Ada amanhonough and John. Moor—And TIIE LATEAT EDITION 01 0 FRA DIAVOLO. .\l, n. Thum* Jamul ; Ilesdauna Holt, Newton, .Tv. BILITA!fFIA. Tiffs EVErmin, JAC IC 0 7 1.A1iiiii.5(7018., THE RACECOURSE, NI) TII E ULU E I: I !OWN OF THE T I *RY.—Mr. G. Buckstone Mr. and Mn.s MallaMe ; the Champion Skaters of England —And MUON LW UT JACK. Mn. J. B. Howe it Miss J. Covens,. MOH NATICK AT LONDON BRZDOL Two DAT —Noosing. :11%. Yin Afternoon, ah. Sr-Ifolutow—Mortilne, 35n Afitensoon. btu. LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 18. A NAVAL Review, when we come to con tiler it less in its moral and metaphysical than its material aspects, is, it must be owned, much more dependent than grand military displays ashore on the changes of the moon and the caprices of ' weather for its effect and success. All the 1 1 Monarchies of the east and west cannot " charm " the narrow seas to give them gentle pass." " What care these roarers for the name of King ?" many a qualmish courtier may have asked yesterday, when the royal yachts began to rise and fall upon the crests of the white horses of the Channel, plunging and foaming under the western gide. It is to be re gretted that our Oriental visitors were not with us when the moon was young, and the en-scent shone serenely in a clear sky. Our western full moons are not happy in their auguries : they rise in rain and set in tempest in this month of thunder. On Tuesday night it needed no sea man's eye to read the signs of change and storm. At sunset the rain had lifted, and a hard keen sky, traversed and torn from hour to hour by Eying squalls and scuds of driving air, with fitful ells and battling pauses of the wind, foretold un certainty, trouble, and change in those regions, " over which," as Mr. DISRAELI remarked, " we " have no control" The raw and ragged beauty of the early morning must have warned the most knowing of the select thousands who left the West end deserted, that, though Britannia rules the waves, wind and sea are no respecters of persons, and that British landsmen, espe cially at the height of the London season, are very fit and proper persons to offer sacrifice to the sea gods at whose Altus they presume to worship. " We'll not offend one stomach with " our play " is a promise that even the British Admiralty cannot obtain from the facile Nereids of the Solent when they offer the two Houses of Parliament as hostages. A July gale is not so bad, perhaps, as a March or September one ; but a gale is a gale, and the eager venturers who paid so dear for their whistle yesterday had the satis faction of facing, if not a whole gale, something very like half a gale. We would rather not attempt to picture to our readers or to ourselves the secret sufferings of many an illustrious and many an obscure pleasure-seeker yesterday, in pursuit of patriotic emotions under difficulties. A fleet of fifty war-ships riding out a storm is in itself a splendid sight : a fleet of steamers and yachts freighted with ardent and curious idlers, who, disdaining the "suave man 'nave " philo sophy, go out to share the " great labour " of their naval fellow countrymen, is a spectacle that almost reaches the moral sublime. On the whole, we are inclined to suspect that those who declined or missed the honour of being present at Spithead yesterday were not too deserving of pity. With a very moderate effort of imagination they may have beheld all, and more than all, the privileged eye-witnesses can have contemplated on the scene of the Review through the mist and rain. 0 ! do but think Yon stand upon the rivage, and behold A city on the inconstant billows dancing; For so appears this fleet majestical. And they may have seen this magnificent affair withont for one moment dissembling that most shameful vow for any true Briton to utter—" I " would give a thousand furlongs of sea for an " acre of barren ground—long heath—barren furze " —anything"! THE New York journals, in referring to the exe cution of the Emperor MAR/MILIAN, express them selves with a severity of censure which has not been surpassed by the European press. Some of their displeasure, it may be, is to be set down to natural vexation at finding that so little attention has been paid to the declared wishes of their government, and some to disappointment at not being able to stand before the world as the Republican saviours of an Emperor and the son of an Emperor. But there is no need to search for secondary motives to explain the indignation which they feel at the ruthless execution of a helpless prisoner. Tho Amer icans are not only a humane people, but they have carried clemency to fallen political enemies further than even we have thought it safe to do. They have the better right to speak out against this execution from having protested with equal indignation against those which took place under Maxima- LIAN'S decree of October, 1865, when so many other Christian communities were silent. Our New York contemporaries generally ammo, as we have done in Europe, that MAXIAIILIAN'II execution was simply an act of vengeance in retaliation fer the blood of prisoners of war shed by his order ; and this was all the more probable, inasmuch as it wonld be next to impossible to form a Mexican council of war without including among its mem bers some relatives of the numerous victims of that most impolitic decree. It is to be noticed, however, that President JUAREZ said, in reply to the remonstrances of the diplomatic body, that the safety of the country required MAXIMI LIAN's execution. We, with our calmer judg ment and wisdom, surveying the whole enterprise of MsxturmAN, know that this belief had no foundation whatever in fact, and that the unfor- tunate Prince might have been liberated without the least danger of his return to that country. ' Tho Mexicans, with narrower view, remembered their !wit Eznperur, after having voluntari'y THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1867. abdicated and departed for Europe on a liberal allowance, returned to Mexico with the insignia of empire and the apparatus of revolution. It is impossible not to see that in the deliberations which had so sad a termination, passion and policy disastrously reacted upon each other. One of the most respectable of the New York journals mentions as a well krown fact that MAXIMILIAN was most averse from the policy of the decree of October, and only signed it under strong pressure from Marshal BAZAINE. In justice to all parties the evidence of this statement should be forthcoming. If it should appear that Marshal BAZAINE really used his influence in that manner, and thus placed the EMPEROR in an odious light before Mexico and the world, the fact would be all the more noticeable for the contrast between the conduct which he recommended and that which he practised ; for from the diplomatic correspond ence published at Washington it appears that some months after the issue of the October decree Marshal BAZAINE was writing most polite letters to Mexican generals, complimenting them on their humanity, and negotiating ex changes, while MAXIMILIAN'I4 General, Manx, was shooting his prisoners, as he alleged in a letter to the American General Werrzrx, by order of his Government. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THZ NAVAL 'EVICT/. The installation of the Sultan, says the Post, as a Knight of the Garter by the Queen in person on the quarter-deck of the Victoria and Albert, in the midst of that navy which symbolises the power and is the pride of England, is a ceremony great in its majesty and of world wide signific.ince. The greatest honour the Sovereign has to bestow could not have been more gracefully con ferred, and the Sultan must have felt, with all the keennese of perception which Orientals possess, the full value of the solemnity no less than the oppor tuneness of the occasion, which invests it with additional meaning and force. The Queen has in this instance royally acquitted herself of her public duties, and has earned the gratitude of the nation by her hospitable and thoroughly English reception of our illustrious guest and ally. From her Majesty downwards, to the very crowds who cheer him, the Sultan must receive the impression of the sincerity of our welcome, and the continuance of that friendship of which his country has so repeatedly received tangible proof. THE HOtNE OP LORDS ASO THE BF.FORSI RILL The Timrs mentions a rumour that attempts may be made in the House of Lords in concert with an influential party in the Commons to strike out the lodger franchise, to revive the cumulative vote, to engraft upon section 7 Mr. Ponlett Scrope's plan for disposing of the compound householder, to restrict the boundaries of agricultural boroughs—in short, to introduce organic changes into the structure of the bill. The House of Lords could only debate these amendments afresh with good service if there was any reasonable prospect of their being ultimately adopted by the House of Commons and the nation ; but the Ti anew ventures to say that it would be a great mistake to presume upon the readiness of the Commons to abandon decisions on important points, however narrow the majority by which they may have been carried. The Reform Bill, in its present shape, is well understood by all parties to be a compromise. Nothing but assured success in a great enterprise will re concile the government, the House of Commons, or the public to a retrospect of this 'elision, so memorable for the disregard of public morality which it has shown, and suc cess would be gravely imperilled by any considerable muti lation of the bill. It is easy to revise a provisional ar rangement, but it is dangerous to meddle with the articles of a treaty of peice. Moreover the qualifications of elec tors and the distribution of constituences aro matters which directly concern the popular branch of the legisla ture, just as the creation of life-peerages directly concerns the hereditary branch. No peer can now venture to as sert, as in 1831.2, that the disfranchisement of a borough is a confiscation of their property ; and in other respects the sacrifice, if it be a sacrifice, now demanded of the Lords is trifling indeed compared with that demanded of their fathers. We are reminded by the Daily News that Lord Grey, who has so promptly sounded a hostile note, is in favour of the separate representation of orders, trades, and professions, of guilds and associations. Lord Derby may congratulate himself on his leader of the opposition. Lord Derby's own position is more tlying than that of his colleagues in the House of Commons, for he has had no means of preparing his audience by that gradual process of transformation through which the Re form Bill passed in the Lower House. Ho will have to introduce to the most conservative and aristocratic assem bly in Europe a measure for the extension of the suffrage on principles purely and simply democratic, without any of those checks and Induces on the necessity of which he has often insisted. The statesman who, in forming his government, made overtures through the late Lord Lans downe for the official co-operation of Mr. Lowe, has ended by adopting the policy of Mr. Bright. He has not even the poor consolation of flattering himself that the measure is his own. What is good in it bas come from Mr. Glad stone, whose suggestions have been not the less potent be came they have commanded the assent of the government without being, in the majority of cases, forced upon them by a hostile division. No wonder Lord Derby should be anxious to hurry the bill through the house as hastily as decency and custom will allow. The Star assumes that Lord Derby cannot retain office if the peers mangle the bill. His government have ac cepted it am it stands, and every obligation of political mo rality and honour will compel them to make sn honest effort to pass it in the Lords. No reduction of the amount of enfranchisement will be tolerated by the people. The Lords have the power and the right to attempt a redaction if they choose, but the people have equally the right to enter forthwith into a contest with the House of Peers. If the one denies the people's right to the franchise, the other may open up any question affecting the Peers which may seem appropriate to the occasion. No human power can now restrict the measure of enfran chisement embodied in the bill except for a session or two at the most. and if any attempt of the kind be made the intervening period will be one of vast and dangerous commotion. The Telegraph remarks that ministers were free to drop the bill at any time during its progress through the Commons on the plea that the amendments introduced by liberal members had effected changes so thorough that no one could recognise it as • conservative scheme ; but having accepted those alterations by persevering with the bill as a whole, the Ministers are bound in honour to pro tect it in the Upper House, where, as a general role, they can command • majority. A House of Lords acting for itself alone, and rejecting the advice of the leading men on both sides, could not stand very long. We should then, indeed, see foreshadowed in the future the possi bility of that second elective chamber which the lugubri. ous Mr. Lowe has prophesied for our terror. THE REFORM BlLL.—Subjoined is the text of the letter addressed by Lord Derby to his supporters in the House of Lords :—" July 16, 1867.—My Lord,—The Reform Rill having now passed the House of Commons, it is my intention to propose that it should be read a second time in the House of Lords on Monday, the 22nd inst. ; and although I hope that no division may be called for on that stage, yet it is of extreme importance to have as good an attendance as possible of the friends of the government. I have therefore to request that your lordship will, if possible, be in your place on that evening ; and more especially that you will favour me by your attendance daring the progress cf the bill through committee, in which it is almost certain that some amendments will be moved to which it may be impossible for her Majesty's government to give their assent. —I have the honour to be, my lord, your obedient servant—Hamar." Mr. Hindi= has notEed his intention to bring before the Rouse of Commons the cue of the schooner Mermaid, which, while on a voyage from Cardiff to Anoons with a cargo of coal, in October, 1f464, was disabled and sunk by tho Spanish batteries at Ceuta, and for which no reparation Las yct been obttined. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (num% visamuna.) HUNGARY. MTH, JULY 17. The French Military Commission for the pur chases of horses will, it is believed, remain here a few weeks longer. CROATIA. AGRAII, Jun. 17. The military garrisons of Croatia have been con siderably strengthened. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS. Jun* H. The King and Queen of Portugal and suite ar rived here at 2 o'clock this morning, and alighted at the Belle Vue Hotel. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, JCLY 17. The Imperial Ottoman Bank bas published a statement of the government assignments for the foreign loans and general debt during the period from March 3 till July 12, showing 1,630,000 liras received, and 350,000 falling due, while 1,110,000 liras have been remitted to Europe or paid, leaving 810,000 line disposable. The elevation of Mumma Bey to the rank of =whir is officially announced. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, JOLT 18. The Council of the States has sanctioned the re solution passed by the National Council upon the 11th inst. for the establishment of a permanent Swiss embassy at Berlin, but has also rejected the petition for the appointment of a minister at Washington. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, JULY Is. The National Steam Navigation Company's steamship Denmark, from New York, arrived off this port at 2 a.m. to-day. After landing pas sengers she proceeded for Liverpool. All well. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 18. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Teutenia passed the Needles at 7.25 a.m. to-day. (DT ATLANTIC vizzeitariv.) NEW YORK, JULY 17, G P.N. The steamers leaving to-dad• for Europe take out 1,000,000 dole. in specie. Closing prices: Gold, 1391. Sterling exchange on London, 1101. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1111. Illinois, 125 ; Erie, 71k. Cotton : Middling Up land, 2Gic. Petroleum, refined, 27c. the etturt. OSBORNE, JULY 17. The Queen embarked on board the Alberta at Trinity-pier at a quarter before eleven o'clock this morn ing, and went out to the Victoria and Albert yacht, Captain the Prince of Leiningen, in Cowes Itoads ; when the royal yacht steamed round to Osborne Bay, where she remained until the Osborne arrived with the Sultan on board. The Sultan came on board the Victoria and Albert, ac companied by the Imperial Princes, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Cambridge, and followed by the Viceroy of Egypt and his suite from the Enchantress, and was re ceived on deck by the Queen. The royal yacht then proceeded towards the fleet at Spithead, on nearing which a royal salute was fired. The royal yacht, preceded by the Irene, and followed by the squadron of steam yachts, passed through the line el ships. The Victoria and Albert then steamed to the eastward, where she anchored after the firing had ceased. Her Majesty then invested the Sultan with the Order of the Garter. The ceremony took place upon the quarter deck of the royal yacht. Her Majesty was accompanied upon the occasion by the Prince of Wales, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and the Duke of Cambridge, and by the Prince and Princess of Leiningen. After the ceremony of the investiture, luncheon was served in the deck saloon. The royal and imperial party included her Majesty and the members of the Royal Family, with the Sultan and the Imperial Princes. The Viceroy of Egypt was also present, and Fuad Pacha had the honour of being invited. After luncheon the royal yacht steamed back through the fleet, being saluted as she passed—and returned to Osborne Bay. Here the Queen, Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Prince.. Beatrice, took leave of the Sultan and landed in the Alberta at Osborne Pier. The Victoria and Albert then proceeded to Portsmouth with the Sultan, the fleet again saluting his Imperial Majesty as he passed. Prince Arthur and Prince Louis of Hesse accompanied the Sultan into the harbour, and then took leave. Him Imperial Majesty landed at Clarence•yard on his re turn, and was received there, as on his arrival, by a guard of honour of the Royal Marines. From her Majesty's private station at Vauxhall, his Im perial Majesty was escorted by a detachment of the 3rd Hussars to Buckingham Palace, which was reached at half past 9 o'clock in the evening. The Earl and Countess Vano started at an early hour this morning for St. Petersburg, accompanied by a numerms suite. The earl, as already announced, goes on • special mission to present the Emperor Alexander 11. with the Order of the Garter. In his excellency's retinue are Major-General Lord Henry Percy, C. 8., Viscount Canterbury, the Marquis of Blantlford, Sir Welkin W. Wynn, &c. The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave's ball, to meet his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at Straw berry-hill, Teddington, is appointed for Wednesday next, the 114th inst. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Tovrnshend, who had charge of the Belgians at the Wimbledon Camp, will re turn immediately to Paris to resume his duties as attach**, to the English commission of the Paris Exhibition. _ _ On the medal given to the Belgian volunteers to commemorate their vivit to the Crystal Palace, is the in scription, " Yin: 14 Beige." A correspondent of the Timis sake, "Is this intended for' Vire la Belgique r If not, perhaps, it is our Virandkre that is thu s a ll u d e d t o. " . . . . _ A letter from Bagnerm-du-Luc.hon, of the 14th, says :—" The Prince Imperial takes numerous walks daily in the town and neighbourhood, and the visitors can testify how conducive our climate is to his health. He took his fifth bath this morning at 6, and then walked in the public park, accompanied by General Prosser.' and M. d'Espeuille. At 2he drove out in an open carriage in the charming valley of the Arbonste. The excursion lasted three hours, and the Prince appeared to enjoy it greatly. In the evening he was out on foot, and witnessed the fire works let off in his honour close to the thermal establish. ment." Pio Nono has far emrpassed all his predecessors in the number of saints he has canonised, amounting to 2; Japanese friars, 3 Jesuits, and I Trinitarian, on the Bth June, 1862; and 19 martyrs, monks, and priests, hung by the Dutch Calvinists at Gorcum in 1572 ; the Polish archLishop, Kuncewiecz, born in 1580; the Piedmonteme monk, Leonardo, of Porto Maurizio, born in 1676; the missionary Paolo della Once, born in 1694 ; the Spanish inquisitor, Pietro de Arbues, born in 1441 ; the virgin of Pibrae, Germaine Cousin, hors in 1.179 ; and the Neapoli• tan nun, Maria Fnunzesca, born in 1715—a1l canonised on the 29th June last. Of simple /kali the list would be much more extended, especially with the addition of 205 Japanese beatified on Sunday morning. _ _ A successful ascent of bloatlnane has just been accomplished by M. Deltaic, of Paris, it Minx the a ooud of the season. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yesterday at the Council-chamber, Whitehall to hear Indian appeals. The lords present ware Lord Itc.milly, Sir James 14. Colrilc, Sir E award Vaughan Williams, Sir Richard T. Hindenley, and Sir Lawrence Peel. THE NAVAL REVIEW. LEM= FROM SOUTHAMPTON. (mu A cosszareaniarr.l SOUTHAMPTON, WZDNISDAY NIGHT. Eight special trains left London for Southampton this morning with persons bound for Spithead to see the naval review, and nearly thirty steamers left the docks and pier. We took our passage in the Royal Mail steamer Seine, a magnificent ship, gorgeously fitted u for a pleasure trip. We started from the docks early in the forenoon, our steamer forming one of a large fleet of steamers that followed each other down Southamp ton Water. In about three-quarters of an hour we all defiled before a splendid fleet of rams, iron clads, three-deckers, and gunboats, about 60 in number, in three rows, each extending to a dis tance of about four miles. The sea around was covered with pleasure steamers, yachts, and boats of all descriptions, many of them crowded with visitors. The enormous size ' and weight of the principal ships of the fleet caused them to be unaffected by the wind or waves, and they appeared like solid masses rising out of the sea, or Titanic warriors standing at ease. Government war steamers were moving about along the line of iron-clada, wooden ships, or gunboats, se if examining the gigantic warriors to see if there was anything defective in their appearance, or the lines which they formed. At about midday a solitary gun was fired, which was followed by a stupendous feu de joie, which literally shook the monster steamer Seine. The belchin o ,, of fire and smoke from the rains and ironclads and the sound of their guns were terrific. No sooner was this feu de joie heard, and the smoke cleared away, than the rigging and yards of the fleet were seen manned with sailors all dressed in white jackets ; on some of the principal ships a white spot was seen at each mast-head, which spot a glass revealed to be a Jack-tar. Some of the iron clad. had no masts or rigging, and a row of sailors stood on a sort of platform or bridge in a single line which stretched from stem to stern of the ships. Just as we heard the salute and saw the yards manned, steamers were seen slowly coining out of Portsmouth harbour in single line. The first two or three of the steamers were pilots, and they were followed by various magnificent steam yachts and ships, some of them as big as men-of-war. The flags that were flying from these yachts and ships showed us that the descendant of the great Saladin, preceded by his powerful satrap, the Viceroy of Egypt, and escorted by ships carrying ministers of state and the chief legislators of the land, was passing through the British fleet, on his way to visit the Queen. It was a grand and stately proces sion. The great sovereign of the Mahommedan world had never before been nearer the white cliffs of Albion in war or peace than the Pyrenees or the walls of Vienna until this visit of Abdul Aziz to Europe. After the procession had arrived off Osborne the royal standard was lowered from the tower of the palace, and it was conjectured that her Majesty had gone to meet her august visitor. After some time a royal yacht, with the Turkish flag and the royal standard, was seen to put to sea, escorted by a fleet of between 20 and 30 steamers. The terrific fen fie joie was again heard, the rigging and masts of the ships in the fleet were again manned, the white spots reappeared on the mastheads of some of the ships, and the royal yachts, with their august freight, again returned through the fleet in the same grand and stately procession as before. The cheers of the British seamen who manned the fleet were distinctly heard. Such cheers must have gladdened rho heart of the Queen and astonished her illustrious visitor by their power and heartiness. After describing an im mense circuit the royal yacht, attended by other royal yachts, arrived off Osborne at about 5 p.m., when we were almost near enough to see the extra ordinary sight of a Queen of England take leave of a Mahommedan Soldan in English waters. Thus ended a remarkable and interesting spectacle. FATAL COLLISION ON THE NORTH LON- DON RAILWAY. Last evening, shortly after 6 o'clock, a very serious collision, involving loss of life and a considerable de struction of property, took place on the North London Railway, near the new station at Old Ford, Bow. On the west side of the line, between the station and the Old Ford entrance to Victoria•psrk, Messrs. Waring Brothers, the contractors for the Midland Railway, now in course of construction in St. Pancras, have large works for brick-making. There is a siding from the main line into the brick field where the trucks are loaded ; and it appears that about 6 o'clock last evening an engine and some waggons were let into the siding from the down main lire. It would seem that the signal man made the fatal omission of not closing the points, and shortly afterwards a heavy goods train from Hayden square goods depot, for Camden, came rattling on at a pace of about 20 miles an hour. On reaching the points the engine suddenly left its course on the main line, and with the heavily-loaded train of waggons behind it dashed into the siding, and came in fearful collision with the trucks, which were standing still, and in course of being loaded with bricks. The crash is described to have been something awful, and several of the trucks were hurled on one side and almost shivered to atoms, while others were thrown over on each other. The goods engine left the rails and went on the ballast for some distance, but fortunately it kept an upright position. It is wh►t Is called a tank engine, and the tank being first somewhat protected the more sensitive part of the locomotive from the violence of the shock. Several of the goods waggons were smashed up on one side of the line, and, an may be supposed, there was a serious loss of property. As soon as practicable, a matzoh was made with a view of ascertaining whether any of the workpeople had perished. A labourer named Thos. Meade, who had been only taken on that morning, was known to have been engaged in loading one of the trucks, and after a brief examination his mutilated remains were found almost buried in the ballast under the goods engine. The poor creature had evidently been dragged some distance, and his head was stated to have been almost crushed flat. Another workman named Frost I was also found to have sustained serious injury on the head and other parts of his body. He was removed to the London Hospital, where he lies in a precarious way. The driver and fireman of the goods engine, who kept to their post, were also hurt. As a portion of the broken up goods train blocked the down line, the station master at Old Ford took the most prompt steps to warn approaching trains, and on the first excitement somewhat subsiding, meabures were immediately taken to protect the road. Mr. Garman, surgeon, of Fairfield-road, Bow, and Mr. Gull, of Bow-road, were 110012 in attendance upon the wounded sufferers, and Mr. Kerressey, the inspector of the Bow (K) police, and a strong body of his force, were promptly on the spot, and rendered invaluable service in keeping back the great crowd which had collected. How the signalman came to neglect the points has not transpired. He, however, has been impended to await the result of the Coroner's inquest. During the night labourers were engaged in getting the engine on to the rails and clearing away the wreck of the shattered truck.. Had it been a passenger train that ran into the siding the consequences must have been awful to contemplate. The usual information of the occurrence hu been sent to the Baud of Trade. SUICIDE AT DUBLlN. —Sergeant H. Stewart, of the Coldstream Guards, stationed at Beggar's Bush Bar racks, who was to have been tried by court-martial, has committed suicide by shooting himself with his own rifle, which was found between his legs, his foot being in the noose of a handkerchief fastened to the trigger. The muzzle rested on his nose, and the shot went through the back of his head. Verdict, " Temporary insanity." Dr. Trotter produced n. document. which he found in the I barrack after being called in to see the deceased. It was worded as follows :—" If you please Sir will you be kind enough to forward to my Dear Beloved brother of My downfall I am aqueed of the charge what I was about to be trifle by court-martial which will be a stain on my cor rector as long as I am In the Regiment By men that wish me evil I have got to put up with it which the man which accused me of this he knows it to be fobs and likewise ?COI Morris at Southampton Hotel Chancery Lane Strand Lon don Dear Brother h C office I wish you all well and not be slighted as Nuns as I have been I remain your well 'later H. STIWAST." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF CO3fMONS.—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAK ER took the chair at 12 o'clock. THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT WAIiRINGTON. In answer to a question from Mr. O'BEIRNE, Mr. CAVE said Colonel Yolland's report had not yet been received at the Board of Trade. The board could not compel the adoption of the alterations suggested, and it wee extremely doubtful whether they would effect the object. THE CATTLE PLAGUE. - -- --- — In reply to • question, --- Mr. HUNT said a great deal of the money ordered to be paid for the compulsory slaughter of cattle had been paid, and intimated that the remainder would be so at an muly period. THE BALL AT THE LYDIA-HOUSE. --- In reply to • question from Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN, Sir S. NORTHCOTE, after remarking that the Viceroy of Egypt could not remain to birme g nt at the ball to morrow, his engageme n t s cam • him to leave the country, said that if the list of invitations had included all the members of the Houses of Lords and Commons and a lady with each, there would not have been sufficient room for all ths persons invited. Of course it was necessary to invite • number of ball-going people—(laughter}—and altogether, between four and five thousand persons would probably be present. He did not think it would have been well to make • charge for tickets. The only course that could be taken was to make the best selection that the de partment could. lie did not agree with the hon. member that the list of invitations should be laid before the house. Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN gave notice that to-morrow he would ask on what principle the invitations to members of the house had been made. (" Oh, oh.l The notice included many other points of detail connected with the question. THE NAVAL REVIEW. Mr. RAMITDA gave notice of a question with regard to the facilities afforded to members of parliament to wit ness the movements of the vessels at the naval review. SUPPLY. On the order of the day for going into committee of supply, Colonel DUNNE rose, in pursuance of notice, to move for a select committee to inquire into the amount of fees paid in the office for the registratton of deeds in Ireland, and the application of those fees. The hon. mem ber contended that there had been illegality or irregularity in the matter in connection with the Consolidated Fund. Mr. HUNT thought the case was one for a return and observations upon it, and not for a committee. The house could not decide a legal question. THE RECEPTION THIS EVENING AT THE GUILDHALL Sir C. O'LOOHLEN having expressed a hope that the house would rise that day at 4 o'clock instead of 6, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Secretary of the Treasury was in communication with the City authorities as to whether the carriages of members would be allowed to pass after 7 o'clock. No answer had yet been received ; when it was received it would be laid before the house. The house then went into committee. ----...—. On the vote of 30,479 t, to complete the sum required for nonconforming and seceding protestant dissenting ministers in Ireland, Mr. HADFIELD observed that there had been a con stant increase of late years in this vote. It had risen from 26,000/. in 1834 to 44,0001. in the present year ; while there had been a decrease in the number of recipients. Full information ought to be afforded on this subject. There had been almost innumerable deputations to the government for an increase of the vote. At a meeting of the general assembly of presbyterians there were 1,2 votes in favour of and only 66 against making an application for its augmentation. There were many congregations which did not contribute the amount required as a condition of the grant. The population of Ireland was 5,720,000, and, deducting the eases in which nothing was iceived, only 500,000 presby terians received any public money towards the support of their ministers. Many Roman catholic* had declared to him that they would never consent to any of their priests receiving public money, knowing as they did the advantage of keeping them independent of state influence. He had good information that the wealth of the Irish presbyterians exceeded that of the members of the free church in Scotland,and yet the latter bad sincelB43 contri buted7,soo,ooo/. for religious purposes. At present the pres byterians of Ireland were encouraged to close their purses, and their religious prosperity as a denomination would be increased b the withdrawal of this grant. Whenever they came to t heir right mind on this subject their position would be proportionately improved. The cessation of the vote would remove &scandal and a source of bitterness, and be a satisfaction to the people of Ireland generally. He trusted that in a short time all the religious affairs of Ire land would be placed on a satisfactory footing. The hon. member concluded by moving that the vote be reduced from 30,479?. to 366/. Mr. P. DAWSON defended the vote as proposed, on the ground that its continuance tended to the benefit of Ireland. The presbyterians were not as wealthy a body as the hon. member supposed • and the vote wax due to them on account of the expect ations held ont to their an cestors when they colonised Ulster in the time of James I. The amount now received was, allowing for the difference in the value of money, eight times less than was received by each minister at the commencement, and he hoped that would be taken into consideration by her Ma jesty's government. Mr. KENNEDY said be would support the amendment if the principle of it had been extended to the Established Church. Mr. HUNT said be hoped the amendment would not be pressed. The Presbyterians in the reign of James I. were encouraged to settle in Mater by a promise of grants. The conditions of the grants are still enforced, and proof of compliance was always required before any grant was made. In his opinion it would be • breach of faith to refuse this vote. Mr. W. S. KNOX defended the vote. Sir C. O'LOGHLEN, while opposed to the support given to the presbyterians, could not support the amendment, until the revenues of the established church were dealt with. He should not be surprised if the Chancellor of the Exchequer were to introluce a com prehensive measure on the latter subject. Alderman LUSK supported the amendment. [Left sitting.] "The roadstead at the Hyres islands," says the Toulonnais, " presents just now a magnificent spectacle. The entire iron-clad Mediterranean squadron. under com mand of Admiral de Gueydon, lies ranged in order of battle within a few hundred yards of the shore ; it com prises—the Solfcrino, the Normandie, the Hiroine, the Invincible, the Couronne, the Provence, the Cato, the Devastation, floating battery; besides the Louis XIV., wooden three-decker. The English armoured squadron lies at anchor on the right—the Royal Oak, 35 guns ; the Arethusa, 35 ; the Caledonia, 24, of large calibre. This division is commanded by Admiral Lord Clarence Paget. The Prince Consort has just arrived." The Memorial Dip/mat:qua lays :—" The Em peror Napoleon remained in conference with the Sultan on the day of his departure for London for three-quarters of an hour. On the previous Sunday, Napoleon 111. also had held a private conversation with his august guest at Saint- Cloud, which lasted several hours, Djemil-Pasha acting as interpreter. We have reason to believe that the Emperor took advantage of the Sultan's stay at Paris to again urge the friendly counsels which M. Bourree, on his nomination RS ambassador, had been charged to carry to Constantinople, and to which he made allusion In presenting his creden tial. The Sultan, through both Filed Pasha and Djemil Pacha, has expressed the most sincere gratitude for the friendship shown by the Emperor of the French as to the integrity and stability of the Ottoman Empire, and has promised to devote all his efforts to the amelioration of the position of his Christian subjects, as France has con tinually advised him, as the only efficacious means of avoiding a new crisis in the Mist. We may therefore ex pect that on his return Abdul Aziz will inaugurate a series of salutary reforms." PERILS OF A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT. The correspondent of the Nex York Herald narrates the events which betel him in following the career of Maximilian. "The instructions," he says, "which car ried the present writer into the camp of the imperial army were brief and to the point : ' Follow Max, and write regularly and fully.'—lEd. N. Y. Herald.) To fol low Max from Orizaba and Puebla, when he had deter mined to continue the struggle, was an easy task, and had already been accomplished before the telegram was received. To follow him from Puebla to the capital, and thence to Queretaro, was a more difficult matter, and, among other inconvenience', Involved the per son undertaking it in the following little perplexities:— Robbed to the skin, two ; showed fight, and did not get robbed, two ; captured by liberals, one ; captured by im perialists, one ; . days under fire, 72; struck by spent bullet', two; slightly wound by shells, one; lived on horse, mule, and dog flesh for days, 36 ; travelled on horseback, stage, and muleback, leagues, 4.50." Arrived in Queretaro two days before the advent of Maxi. milian, the Herald's representative incurred a strong risk of being promptly strung up as a Yankee spy. Three days previously he bad seen Marques manifest an earnest inclination to hang a couple of American travellers he had encountered on the march from Mexico to Que retaro, because they happened to possess passes from Embed° and drafts on the capital —an inclination only restrained by the active intervention of the Emperor Maximilian. In Queretaro, before the advent of the I perish forces, Miramon was omnipotent, and Miramon, ; more polished and educated than Marquez, was even more virulent and dangerous in his hatred and dread of foreigners. The arrival of the Emperor alone relieved him of peril." NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION:4MS DA r.) • Wimbledon-common this morning presented a very gloomy and wretched appearance, the heavy fall of rain of last night having had the effect of bringing back that state of mire that had been been partly got rid of and dried up by the strong breeze of the previous day. The only contest of any particular importance filed for this day is for the Elcho Challenge Shield, presented by Lord Elcho for annual competition between eight of the best shots to be found representing England, Scotland, 1 and Ireland. This competition has always been cons id ered an important one, but last year and this it received an additional interest from the admission of eight of the best shots of Ireland, who are allowed to contort with a similar number from the other two countries:. Up to last year this trial of skill was co n . fined to England and Scotland, but the Irishmen considered that if it was to be called an international challenge, it was an injustice to them to be excluded from the competition. This claim appeared so completely con. sistent with fairness, that it was at once determined that Ireland should be represented in it on all future occasions. Last year this determination was made known at so late a period that jor Leech, to whom the task of getting a k m together was entrusted, had but little time for that pur pose, and probably the best men were not selected. Car sidering, however, the hurried manner in which they were got together, they made a much better score than was expected. For the last two years the Scottish eight have won this prize, and this year,while there is a determination on their part, if possible, to prevent the honour from being wrested from them, there is an equally strong resolve on the part of England to do all they can this year to secure the prize. There is a good team, after some squabbling, selected for Ireland, but how they show in adding up the totals, remains to be seen. The contest is one in which none but really good shots can enter, for each man has 15 shots at the respac. Live ranges of 800, 900, and 1,000 yards, making 45 shots each. The other competitions are but a continuation of one that have been going on for several days past. They were begun at the usual hour. LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK. (THIS DAY.) nil day the ordinary general meeting of pro prietors was held in the Bank premises, Piinces•stitet; Mr. Nicol, In the chair • The following is t he director's report : "The annexed accounts, which the directors have the satisfaction of presenting to the meeting, will inform the shareholders that during the six months ending the tick ultimo, the bank has made a net profit of 92,175/.lBe. 4d. of which the sum of 90,000/. is appropriated to the paymentof the usual dividend, at the rate of 125 per centum per annum, with a bonus of tie 3d. per share, together V. Is. per share, leaving an unappropriated balance of 2,175/. Dis. 4d., to be carried forward to profit and loss new account. The guarantee fund, with its accrued interest, now amounts to 3X,8111. 4s. Bd. The board has resolved (subject to confirmation at a special general meeting of shareholders) to complete the addition made to the capital of the bank in 184.1, by the issue of 8,000 shares, the remaining portion of the 20,000 shares authorised to be honed, and of which 12,000 were allotted in August, BCC These shares it is intended shall be offered in the lust instance to the shareholders, in the proportion of one new share to every nine sh ares of which on the 25th day of July they may be the registered holders, at 25/. per share, being 15/. per share, the aminnt paid up on he existing shares of the Com pany, and 10/. per share premium • the sum to be received as premium to be added to the guarantee fund. On the completion of this issue, the capital of the bank will be increased to 80,000 shares of 50/. each, paid up to the extent of 15/. per share, thus raising the paid-up capital to 1,200,0001. A special general meeting has bees conveaed for Thursday the 25th of July when a resolatica will be proposed to authorise the issue of 8,000 new shares, and the directors will avail themselves of the occasion of this meeting to propose to the shareholders certain alters. tions in datums 7,9, and 52, of the deed of settlement of the company, which the board deem for the inter es t o f the bank should be sanctioned. The directors recoguisiug the propriety of granting pensions for long and faithful set. vices rendered by the officers of the bank have established rules and regulations for granting a retiring allowance to the staff of the bank, and from the uniform interest taken by the shareholders in the welfare of those devoting themselves faithfully to promote the prosperity of the bank, thedirectors feel confident that thee: muse they have adopted will meet with the hearty concurrence of all shareholders. The dividend and bonus, free from inane tax, will be payable on and after Friday the 28th inst. " Liabilities and Assets.-Dr.: To capital paid op. viz., 72,000 shares at 15/. each, 1,060,000/. ; to amount of ' The Guarantee Fund,' 31st December, 1866. 33.2,546/. 10s. 9d. ; to six months' interest on ditto, at 3 per cent. per annum, 4,9921. 13s. 11d.-F17,8391. 4s 5.1. ; to amount due by the bank on current accounts, deposit receipts, cir cular notes and acceptances 14,7 3: 3,764/. 17P. Bd.: to no. cial reserve, 40,000/. ;to rebate of interest on bills dia. counted not yet due, carried to new account, 15,110/. 18s. 6d. ; to amount of net profit for the balf•year endiag 30th June, 92,175/. 18s. 4d.-16,295.x9et. •AL Cr.: By government stock, valued in accordance with the resolution passed by the general meeting of sharehriden, on the 19th January, 1865, viz., 1,4'40,000/. ; by caah in band and at the Bank of ngland, 3e. Ild.; by bills discounted, loans, and other securities, 13,568,703/. 18s. 3.1.; by building, furniture, ec., at head office and brinehes,47,sBs/. 175.; t0t:U.16,20 4,8901.195. 2,1„ " Profit and loss account-Dr.: To current expanse, proportion of building expenses, directors' remuneration, bad debta, income tax, Ss., 35,5841. 17s. • to rebate of in' tenet on bills discounted not yet doe earned to new ac count, 15,110/. 18a. 6d. ; to six months' interest on ' The Guarantee Fund,' at 3/. per cent. per annum, 4.9924 13s. 11d.-55,688/. 9a. 3d. ; to dividend account, for the payment of half a year's dividend, at the rate of In per centum per annum, upon LoAnay., amount of paid-up capital upon 72,000 shares, 67,:4.11.; so ditto for the payment of a bonus of esi.:ld.pershare,22, s ool.; to amount carried forward to profit and for new account, 2,175/. 18s. 44h-total, 147,864/. 7e. 9d. Cr.: By amount of gross profit for the half-year ending AM June , 147,844/. 7.. 9d. " Guarantee Fund Account. -Dr. : Present mount, 337,8 e./. 4s. Sd. Cr.: Amount on the 31st December, IS/Si, 332,841 V. 10• ild.; by interest on ditto to 30th Jana, 1867, at :1 per cent. per annum, 4,992/. 13s. 11,1.-totd, 337.5.391. 4a. Sd." The CHAIRMAN, having declared the dividend set forth in the report, remarked that there was a redaction of lir bilities in consequence of a falling off in the tore;gn blue ness of the bank. In other respects there was little change in the accounts. There was some redact:us in the amount of dividend this season, but the times had been unfavourable, and they sure re• solved to act with caution. It might be de-irt le to inform the shareholders that they were sat mixed up with any railway or finance companies eNctp: to an inconsiderable extent. (Hear.) The acceptances of ths bank at the latest date amounted to 3,868,000/., were of undoubted character. (Hear, hear.) re In ply to Mr. Ho PRINRoN, The CHAIRMAN said that it was not likely that ary lee like that which occurred in the Imporial Basil. could occur in their bank. He believed that ample proviske had made for bad and doubtful debts. a nd :best The report was adopted. Mr. Omisby Gore, M.P., was elected a director in the room of Mr. Taylor, deceased. Mr. BROOKING explained the alterations proposed to made in the deed of settlement. At present they ace compelled to have a bco.nl of 19 members with a poo,r el increase to 24. There was no power of diminution. and they wished to have such power conferred an lino , ' nth , a view of reducing the number of directors to 15. 11 1,04 Mr. Brooking also explained the plan of pension r' P° 4 * to be given to the officers of the bank for long and " ! ithfal service,. The plan proposed was to give peniiallS :It TV ais , cation of the directors to the officers of the bank dt r years' service, and that any o ffi cer at the ago of to on e- t hird eentitledthirdtooafptphl the salary fora ulir p y e a n t s i t o h n e , pension time the e t. , o w % the iery bank co given. (Hear, of iHeli n , udki ed the hear.) A to the directors tors . and to the o.r ;err of CHARGE OF STABBING.—A yottag man. named John Barge:mon a commercial traveller, was charged before the city magist rates at Manchester yesterday with stabbing Mr. John Richardscn, agent of Morns. to 1, CooPe, Co., brewers , Burtou-upon-Trent. Mr. Ilchani<on. appeared to be in a state of great weal:nem. ans 5' 60 . 4 into court by one of the nurses of the Royal Infirm iry. It appeared from the evidence that about hii.f.pist I o'clock on the night of the 2nd inst. the prisoner ass ejected from the King's Arms Hotel, Windroastrcet. by the lan d ' lord on account of alleged misbehaviour, and Mr. Richard. son assisted the landlord. After he had been pet out he again rushed into the lobby and stabbed Mr. Richardson several times in the back of the thigh, saying," Wr, sha ll see bow you like that." Mr. Richardson was foun d to "` losing much blood, and was taken to the infirmary. Mr. John Rostoon Woodcock, surgeon, at the ittinuirr. said he examined the wounds of Mr. Richardson. and found one of them to be a puncture about six inches deep. There were two others— one 2' inches and the other I inebll deep. The three wounds were in the inner part sf the left thigh. The prisoner had given up a pocket knife si being the instrument with which be inflicted the wounds. but the last witness said the depth of one wound ell greater than the length of the blade and the handle of the knife put together. The wound might have been inflictri wish a swordstiek. The prisoner was committed for tad at the assize. Mr. R. B. B. Cobbett asked if bail weld' be accepted. Mr. Fowler, chairman of the bench. said tbs case was too tenons ; it might yet become • tharie order. belief thi to obstru cited tomb they had was adde the form committa would el complain Sir B. 1 editor of that it w 4 before • t evidence preferred out to the left it to 1 comments when the i able to im comment, absurd, Tii Bißm Yesterds Taylor Brlly 14130 easter, .1 ure r, Trzom, with ~„21 trio arm Frgoatn. Afro ankom and oth, _" be ing sacked sated from e r; down mkT~with al n d laid Pr:nkc open in see Md n he wag f. ia now of Mi- t), and Rental