The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-09 00:00:00

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THE unfortunate illness of Lord Justice TURNER reveals a defect in our judicial organisation which demands a remedy. It is obviously impossible to expect that judges, like other men, should not hum time to time be disabled from taking their seats on the bench by illness, but considering the constant and severe labours of their daily life it is surprising that the business of the courts should be so seldom interrupted by such causes. In the Common Law Courts the number of the judges in each court is such as to prevent this incon venience. In other courts where a single judge presides the evil is not very serious, but even if it were the remedy would not be very obvious. But in the case which has just occurred of the illness of one of the LORDS Jusricra the evil is peculiar, and specially annoying. It is not merely that the business of the court is stopped, which at any time would be embarrassing enough, and at the present moment, when the numbers of cases —many of them of extreme im portance—exceed 100, is most serious. But the provoking thing is, that the powers of one of the ablest judges on the Bench are paralyzed because his colleague is for the moment disabled. It is Of Lord Justice TVILNIR even for a day, but it is a grievous aggravation of the evil that Lord CAIRNS should not be able to take his seat upon the Bench during the illness of his colleague. The question which naturally suggests itself is whether any remedy can be found for this state of things. To withdraw any of the other equity judges from their courts in order to sit with Lord CAIRNS would scarcely mend mat ters, because the effect would be to shut up a court which would otherwise be open. Besides which, an inferior judge would probably be called upon to sit upon his own judgment, or, at all events, upon the judgment delivered by a court of the first instance. If the existing evil is to be effectually remedied, it must bo by inventing some plan by which, while all the courts are still kept open, the Court of Appeal may be enabled to resume its functions. Perhaps the best plan would be that the Loan CHANCELLOR, in such cases as the present, should be empowered to nominate some ex-Chancellor or other member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to sit with one Lord Justice until his colleague is able to resume his seat. At the present moment it is needless to suggest that there would be no difficulty in providing a substitute for Lord Justice TURNER. Lord WESTBURY and Sir RICHARD Kt NDERSLZY are both admirably fitted to discharge any such duty, and no doubt a decision pronounced by Lord CAIRNS and any judge appointed under such circumstances would command the respect both of the suitors and of the public. The inconvenience at present caused by the unfortunate circumstance which has given rise to these remarks ought certainly to be reme died, and it appears that the remedy which has been suggested is eminently practicable and might be at once adopted. Mr. Seely, on Thursday, will ask the First Lord d the Admiralty, " whether the statement is correct which appeared a short time since in the Giusoorc Morn ing ✓ouraal, that the Admiralty had contracted with eight different fines to build a gunboat each at prices varying from 20/. to 2'.11. per ton; and, if so, what were the reasons which induced them to pay 45 per cent. higher in one case than in another." Mr. Otway has postponed until Friday hie gime ties relative to the withdrawal of the British m.resouta" five from Mexico. Mr. Dillwyn yesterday gave notice of his inten tion to move the following clause in the Reform Bill At any contested election for • borough repre sented by more than one member each ch cto r shall be entitled only to vote for one member : Provided always, that in cases of a vacancy or vacancies in the re presentation of such borough occurring during • parlia. meat those electors only shall be qualified to vote in the election for filling such vacancy or vacancies who did not vote for the sitting member or members." Mr. Kekewich will move a clause giving to non-resident clectois in coun ties the right to vote by voting papers. A letter from Professor Beesley in reply to the criticisms on his late speech which have been made by the Saturday Iteriete and other papers appears in the Daily .Neva of this morning. He denies that be said anything so absurd as that all murders are alike in guilt. With regard to ex•Covernor Eyre he thinks it clear that that person was animated by malice against Mr. Gordon, and that he executed him to get rid of • personal enemy. But he does not believe that Eyre would have paid a secret assassin to shoot Gordon, or even had he done so, would have denounced the crime and orb red a reward for his own discovery, and to that extent he places him above Broadhead. He should have thought it highly culpable to extenuate or apologise for the Sheffield atrocities, but be had before advised the London unionists that the best course of action was not to be constantly protesting, but to prosecute every ease of ass cult that occurred in their trade. Mr. Beesley repudiates with indignation the interpretation by which he was euppoied to have compared the exhibition by a magistrate of animus or partiality with the crimes of • BM like Broadhead. . THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1867. Eke Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, JULY 8. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge, went to London this morning and visited the Prince and Princess of %Vales at M►rlborough-house. Her Majesty returned to Windsor Castle at 2 o'clock. The Queen of Prussia, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove in a carriage and four to New Lodge, and honoured M. and Madame Van de Weyer with a visit. The Prue iiiOA Ambaisador and the Countess de Bernstorff bad the honow of accompanying her Majesty. The Marchioneu of Ely, the Countess Schulcnbourg, and Count Nesseirate, were in attendance. The Queen of Prussia attended divine service yesterday afternoon at St. George's Chapel. The Marchioneu of Ely and Count Neeseirode were in attendance. Her Royal Highneu the Ducheu d'Aumale, attended by Mdlle. Clinchamp, visited the Queen and the Prince and Princess Louis of Hume yesterday afternoon at Wind. Dor Castle. The Prussian Ambassador and the Countess de Bern storff, and the Earl and Countess Granville, arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family in the evening. The Marchioness of Ely, the Countess Schulenbourg, and Count Nesselrode had also the honour of being invited. The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley and Lady Frances Baas have left the Castle. The Hon. Mrs. Bruce has also left the Castle. The Prussian Ambassador and the Countess de Bern atorff and Earl and Countess Granville left the Castle to day. Mr. W. Downey, of Newcastle, has had the honour of photographing her Majesty the Queen and the Queen of Prussia. On Sunday the Prince of Wales visited the Viceroy of Egypt at Dudley-house, Park-lane. In the afternoon the Viceroy visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough-house. The Prince and Princess of Wales took • carriage drive yesterday afternoon. In the evening the Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellis, left Marlborough-house for Windsor Castle. A oommittee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, on matters relating to public health and the cattle plague. The Lords present were the Lord Pre sident, Lord Robert bloater, Lord Naas, 2.! Ylsbt Hon. Vathorne Hardy, and the Right Hon. Wilson Paten. A deputation, introduced by the Hon. G. Waldegrave Leslie, M.P., and consisting of Major Scrivens (Mayor of Hastings), Alderman Putland (Hastings), Mr. Meadows (Town Clerk of Hastings), and Mr. Parkes, had an inter view with the Right Hon. Gathome Hardy, at the Home office yesterday, on the subject of the Local Government Act. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the Falkland Islands. STATE VISIT TO THE OPERA.—On Monday next, by command of the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will visit the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, in state. This royal visit will be in honour of his Majesty the Sultan, who will accompany the Prince of Wales to the opera. It is intended that the reception shall take place in the Floral Hall, the state procession passing through the Hall to the Royal box, which will, we believe, be placed in the centre of the Opera-house. In consequence of the arrival of the Sultan in Er.gland sooner than was expected, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been compelled to alter the day appointed for the inauguration of the London College of the International Education Society, at Spring-grove, from Friday, 12th, to to-morrow (Wednesday), the 10th inst., two days earlier than previously announced. . _ _ The Earl and Countess of Cardigan entertained at dinner last evening Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of Westmorland, Viscount and Viscountess Curzon, Count Batthyany, Lord Strathnairn, Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Admiral and Hon. Mrs. Roue, Sir George Wombwell, Colonel and Hon. Mrs. Curzon, Hon. St. George Foley, Colonel and Mr 3. Baring, Mr. Whyte Melville, Mrs. De Horsey, and Mr. De Burgh. A marriage will shortly take place between Vis count Milton, M.P., eldest son of Earl Fitzwilliam, and Miss Laura Beauclerk, second daughter of the late Lord Charles Beauclerk, son of the eighth Duke of St. Albans. On the 19th Mr. Henry Seymour will call the attention of the House of Commons to the long-continued imprisonment and ill-treatment of her Majesty's envoy and her Majesty's consul and other subjects of her Majesty by the Kiug of Abyssinia, and to pr►y her Majesty that pro per steps may be taken to procure the release of the pri soners by tome of arms. The whole of France is organized into choral unions or Orpheons. They take all sorts of names—some times they are Orpheons—sometime choral unions—some times a rule or club—sometimes amateurs—sometimes friends. One set call themselves Sons of Apollo ; another the Children of St. Denis ; others again the Hope of Paris, the Lyre of Roubaix, the St. Cecilia of some other place. Time was when the Orpheons, who consist mainly of peasants, attempted no more than to sing the simple choruses of the Wilhem School. Now they can attack any composition of any school—the most elaborate works of the greatest masters. As a matter of fact what they ' chiefly attack are the compositions of French masters— Halfivy, Adolphe Adam, Ambroise Thomas, Gounod, Felicien David, and Laurent de Rille. It is rather a serious business to adjudicate upon the claims of :sore than 200 choral unions, which are to be represented in Paris by 8,000 voices, all claiming the prize. The plan is t, break them up into batches, and to hand each batch over to a separate jury. Tits ABYRNINIAN CAPTIVES.—A letter has been received in London from Mr. Stern, dated in May last. Since the King, who is surrounded by rebels, is gradually losing his hold on the country, Mr. Stein considers the fate of the prisoners very uncertain. " The return," he writes to his wife, "of Mr. Flad, the disappointment of the King in not obtaining the requested accession to his white victims, and the consciousness that neither intrigue nor cunning will avail him to extort fresh concessions from the British government, or the generosity of British Christians, all, I believe, combire to bring before long our melancholy and doleful history to a crisis. Every day, nay, every hour, we expect to be transferred to the com mon prison, and to get hand chains ag a in. O n ly a wee k ago upwards of 200 prisoners, among whom are many per sons of high rank, were ordered to be executed. This in discriminate massacre, which has probably been prompted by the want of guards to protect them, indicates no im provement in the tyrant's temper. We fear that wilful, wicked misrepresentations,and cruel, unpardonable selfish ness, united in concealing the true state of our position and the well-known designs of the King. God, in His in finite mercy, may interpose and deliver us ; and if not, our separation sill only be for a short period, and our re-union in glory for ever and ever. God bless you and the darling children, and that we may both receive strength according to our need is the fervent prayer of your ever affectionate husband, HENRY A. STERN." THE SHEFFIELD OUTRAHEA.—Mr. Orerend and his colleagues held a final meeting at Sheffield yesterday. After hearing some evidence relating to a strike of iron workers, and to acts of intimidation in connexion with it, the commissioners proceeded to receive applications for certificates on behalf of those witnesses who had confessed to having been principals in or accessory to the rominis ikon of the various crimes disclosed. Mr. Sugg applied on behalf of many of the men, Broadhead's name being first on his list. Mr. Overend handed him a list of the crimes to which Broadhead had confessed, with an intimation that the secretary to the commission would give a certifi cate. The same course was taken with respect to the other witnesses, the most noticeable of those who appeared in person being Bain Crooks. The commissioners refused to hear Joseph Thompson, the secretary of the Scissor-forger's Union ; they had decided not to grant a certificate to him. Mr. Overend expressed the thanks of the commissioners to the ' town authorities and to all those persons who had aided them in their arduous labours. He concluded by saying : " No doubt there have been very serious revelations made of terrible mimes, things the country never in any degree anticipated ; and although it has been • great diioe to the town, I trust the fact of there having been these revelations will be the means of improving the position of the unions, and will enable the com missioners to present such a report to the legis lature as will enable it to provide laws and regu lations to put the unions in a better position. At all events, not only the crimes of murder of the character we have heard, but also the other various crimes it has been our duty to investigate, have now come to light, and I believe, and my colleagues believe, great good will COlllll of this—however painful the inquiry has been—to the sown and to the country generally." The inquiry wee then formally oloood. fell heavily to the ground ; Mejia remained erect, and waved his arms about, but a ball through the head ended his agony. The Emperor fell back upon the cross, which sustained his corpse ; the body was immediately raised and placed in the coffin, as were those of the two generals. All three were buried without delay in the cemetery, the bishop giving the absolution. General Corona subsequently summoned the Prelate, and demanded the surrender of the letters. The one addressed to the Archduchess Sophia was not opened,as she, being the mother of the Emperor, could not be supposed to receive any dangerous communication from her son. That to the Empress Charlotte was unse►led for weighty and justi fiable political and State reasons, and we have been allowed to take a copy of it. Its terms are these "My dearly beloved Carlotta—lf God one day permits your recovery, and you read these lines, you will learn the cruelty of the ill-fortune which has unceasingly pursued me since your departure for Europe. You took with you all my chance and my soul. Why did I not listen to your counsel ? So many events, alas ! so many sudden blows have broken all my hopes, that death is for me a happy deliverance, and not an agony. I fall gloriously, as a soldier—as a king, vanquished, but not dishonoured. If your sufferings be too great—if God call you speedily to rejoin me, I will bless the divine hand which has so heavily pressed upon us. Adieu, adieu ! " Your poor Me.x." This letter was written in French. A Vienna letter says that the accounts received from Miramar respecting the Empress Charlotte are very sad. All hope of recovery seems to have vanished. The Morgenpost has a communication which says : The mental alienation has now attained to such a pitch that the unhappy princess cannot be left alone for an in stant, and has several times attempted her life. Two recent attempts of this kind were fortun►tely prevented by the watchfulness of Doctor Slek, who has the ►ugust patient under his care. Nevertheless, the Empress is oc. casionally, for a few moments at a time, in full possession of her faculties. In one of those lucid intervals lately she said, "I do not desire to live any longer ; death is prefer. able to such an existence ;" then after a short patse she asked, " Where is my husband? Shall I never see him more? No, no, he is dead, and I am still left in the world." Scarcely a quarter of an hour passes that the Empress does not ask for news of the Emperor Maximi lian. The physical condition of her Majesty also inspires very serious alarm. (REUTER'S TLLEGRANS.) FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 9. The Sultan, his eons, the King of Wurte mberg, the Duke of Saxe Weimar, the Prince of Monte negro, the Prince of Orange, and the Dukes of Aosta and Leuchtenberg were present at the re view yesterday, which was of a very brilliant cha racter. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, JOLT 8. _ _ _ Prince Humbert of Italy arrived yesterday even ing at Tsarskoe-selo, where the betrothal of the King of the Greeks to the Grand Duchess Olga takes place to-day. MAURITIUS AND REUNION MAILS. SUEZ, JULT 6. The Messagieres Imperiales steamer Emirne ar rived here this morning with the above (homeward) mails and 63 passengers. AMERICA. BREST, Jrcr R. The Pereire, which left New York on the 29th ult., has arrived here. She brings 258 passengers, and 1,500,000 francs in specie. QUEENSTOWN, Jecy 9. The Inman steamship City of Boston, from New York, arrived here at midnight with 92 passengers and 175,000 dole. in specie. She landed the mails and passengers, and pro ceeded for Liverpool at 12.15 a.m. IN, Jtn.r 9. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Hammonia arrived here to-day, with 140 pas sengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg, and the usual mails, 284,191 dots. for Franco and 18,972 dole. for Hamburg. On the 3rd she spoko the English ship Gleniffer, bound west. NEW YORK, JUNE 29. General Ord has modified the regulations for registra. tion in his district, in conformity with the opinion of the Attorney-General. It is reported that President Johnson is about to remove General Sheridan, and appoint General Rousseau his suc cessor. General Sickles hu seized the savings bank at Charleston for refusing to pay interest on the deposits of the national soldiers before the war. The Surratt trial is drawing to a close ; the evidence latterly had been principally a rehearsal of the evidenc e on the trial of Mrs. Surratt. Judge Payne, Harrold, and the majority of the New York Constitutional Convention, have reported a bill op posing female and favouring negro suffrage. The Presidential party have been enthusiastically wel_ corned at Newhaven. They made only a brief stoppage at New York but did not stop at Philadelphia, and arrived at Baltimore yesterday, where they were cordially wel coined by the State municipal authorities and the people. President Johnson made a brief speech stating that the reception be bad recently received convinced him of th approach of the era of reconciliation and good feeling. The Indians in Kansas and Nebraska had recommenced hostilities and attacked the forts Wallace and Harker, but were repulsed. Advice. received here from Mexico state that the Mexi can press were urging the execution of Maximilian, and that Kscobedo had threatened to depose Juarez if he op posed the execution. The occupation of Tampico by the Republicans on the 9th is confirmed. (ET ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, JPLY 8, 6 P.Y. The steamers Hansa and the Aleppo arrived out yesterday, and the Guiding Star to-day. • The steamers Hibernian, Vera Cruz, and Bri tannia arrived out to-day. Closing prices : Gold, 1384. Sterling Exchange on London, 110. 6-20 United States Bonds, 1113. Illinois, 1224; Erie, 67. Cotton: Middling Upland, 261. Petroleum : Refined, 27. [Arrived in London at 6.45 a.m., July 9.1 A Paris letter says :—" Of the Sultan we see little. He appears at the Exhibition now and then, and goes about the galleries in a businesslike way. The French are disappointed that he is not more demon strative. It is a question whether he or the small brother of the Tycoon be the more immobile of countenance and the least inaccessible to surprise. If I were umpire I think I should give the prize for this sublime characteristic to the little brother of the Tycoon —pray excuse me from writing his name. The gravity of the little creature's face is amazing to see. Nothing puts him out ; he never smiles, never wines ; eve.ything comes to him as a matter of course ; he lives in • sublime calm which nothing can disturb. But the Sultan, also, has a fine Oriental gravity which is curious to wit new, and which would indicate that be has attained a highly philosophical state of mind. He seemed to be dazed the day he came int) Paris. Now be is very calm— observant, but undemonstrative. What he has most cared for in the Exhibition have been the needle•guns and the aquarium. He examined the rifle-guns carefully, but the great aquarium seeme Ito enchant him. You go into • great 000 l cave ; all round it you see large glass windows which divide you from cisterns of water, where the fish swim. The Sultan much marvelled at the vision, and I dare may you will before long hear of • similar wonder being built in one of his gardens." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova ows PARIS, MONDAY EVINING. It was rather suddenly determined that the mili tary spectacle designed for the Sultan, which was countermanded on account of the sad end of Maxi -1 nuhan — , should after all take place. This morn. bug's Moniteur announces that there would be a "grand review" by the Emperor at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the Champs Elysdes. The public, well knowing that a grand review was impossible in such a place, did not flock to the ground in any thing like the numbers which went to the mere distant Longchamps racecourse on June 6. It was, in fact, a military inspection, not a review, because there was no room for manteuvres. The afternoon was fine and it was a grand and novel spectacle for the inhabitants of the Champs Elysdes to see the grand avenue from the Tuileries to the Arc de Triomphe entirely filled with troops. There were many more which could not be see n front any one point. The Moniteur gives a very imperfect description in saying that the review was to be in the Champs Elysdes, which could nothing like hold all the troops afoot. The artil. lery occupied the circle round the Arc de Triomphe. There were regiments all along the Avenue de Neuilly as far as the Porte Maillot, and the cavalry occupied the new boulevard, the Avenue de Josephine, as far as the river. The Emperor, the Sultan, and a third royal personage, who, I think, must have been the King of Wurtem. berg (though some say he was too young), rode from the Tuileries all along the lines, and then took the quays to the front of the Palais de l'lndustrie, where they took up a position for the filing past. The Sultan rode a splendid light grey Arab charger with all the characteristics of the race, only of larger size than the generality of Arabian horses. M. Sainte-Beuve is beyond all question the most accomplished reviewer of the day, and it was on this ground that he was made a senator. Being a writer in the government journal, the Coistit,t- Gunnel, it was not probably supposed that he would ever say anything disagreeable to power. However, the senators, looking upon him as a dangerou s political and religious free thinker, set their faces against him from the first. M. Lacaze, whose desire to shoot him he has had the firmness not to gratify, was elected in 1841 by the liberal opposition a councillor-general for the Hautee Pyrenees. After the revolution of February ho was returned to the Constituent Assembly as a democratic candidate, but ho almost always voted with the reactionists. He was made a councillor of state immediately after Dec. 2. The Bourse was heavy. Bente fell 25c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at 68fr. 70c., and 68fr. 624 c. Mebilier fell Bfr. 75c. The monthly accounts of this company, published yesterday, are considered unfavourable. Italian only fell bc. Railways were not much affected by the fall in the Rente. The Figaro says that almost all the German, sod particularly the Austrian journals, which speak of Maximilian are now seized daily. These efforts to drill public opinion into the precise official line will not succeed. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE raocarss OT THE REFORM BILL. In the opinion of the Times the shape in which the Reform Bill will be finally submitted to the House of Commocs may be regarded as settled. The relative allot ment of seat. to towns and counties may be considered as determined, and even the distribution of seats among the counties will probably remain unaltered. Subject to the single but considerable alteration of having given • third member to the populous towns of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, at the expense of Luton, Keighley, Barnsley, and St. Helen's—an alteration which would have been still more considerable had it been accomplished by depriving the four stagnant towns struck at last night by Colonel Gilpin of • member a-piece—the Chancellor of the Exchequer's redistribution scheme will pass in the form it was proposed after the Whitsun recess. It would be idle to pretend that it is commensurate with the enfranchising clauses of the bill, and the Times shares the regret expressed by Mr. Gladstone last night, believing with him that "any measure which bears the name of • Parliamentary Reform Bill should, in the main, be satis factory and adequate, so far as the two branches of the question are concerned." But the House of Commons is mule up of mortal men, and time is limited, and the com mittee has acted wisely in expediting • measure which, in spite of inequality in details, contains a more extensive scheme of reform than any bill introduced into parliament since 1834 The Doily News also takes the division of last night to be probably the last of any importance on the Representa tion of the People Bill. Practically, it amounts to a reservation of the subject of the redistribution of seats until a future session of parliament. The present bill ia to all intents and purposes simply a Suffrage Bill, and the liberal party would do well to consider the question of the redistribution of seats as adjourned to a future session and a reformed House of Commons. It seems that nearly 30 clauses were disposed of last night, most of them by being either dropped or withdrawn, or negatived without division, and after alight discussion. The house came fairly within sight of the schedules; and there is no reason why, if similar forbearance on the part of private members be shown, it should not proceed with them to-day. The Ttlegrapk attaches little importance to the current gossip that irritated Tories will somehow contrive to make the Government throw up the bill and then appeal to the country. The plain truth is, the Government cannot throw up the bill. It does not belong to her Majesty's Ministers, for it is the property of the house. More than that, it is the possession of the country. To draw back the offered boon, to sacrifice the severe labours of a session, " to waste a year," would raise a storm which neither minister nor members would care to face. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY AND CONVOCATION. The Times finds it inexcusable that the Archbishop of Canterbury should have told some memorialists the other day, he had the satisfaction of informing them that Convocation would be duly consulted upon the matters submitted to the Royal Commission, before parliament should make any enactment touching them, whereas it now appears that he had not the slightest authority for any such assertion. As, however, from Lord Derby's remarks, it seems that the idea is really sustained, the matter cannot be altogether dismissed with this dis avowal. By law and precedent alike, convocation is desti tute of the shadow of a claim to be consulted upon ecoleai astical legislation. If the clergy should have a voice in such matters, for what purpose do the bishops sit in the House of Lords, except to give expression to that voice ? If the bishops do not discharge this function, it will be necessary to inquire what is the use of their being present in that assembly at all. The truth is that by means of the commission, and through the Episcopal Bench, the church, so-called, is far better repre sented than by that mere pretence of an ecclesi astical parliament which is displayed by Convocation. Besides, both Convocations must be consulted, and the probability of a satisfactory result may be estimated from the fact th,„ tocr4ies have been five years disput ing cn such a question as to whether fathers may stand sponsors for their own children, and are no nearer a settle ment now than when the question was first originated. With regard to the corning report of the commission, the Tunes trusts that this promptitude indicates an opinion that some measure of repression ought to be immediately adopted, and meanwhile it expresses its hope that Lord Shaftesbury will not attempt to press for ward his bill on clerical vestments before the re port of the commission has been considered by the public. When that report is presented, it must at once be taken into consideration by the government, and if its recom mendations appear satisfactory, we hope no time will be lost in giving effect to them. At all events, the country will lose all patience if any further attempt is made to daily with this important but simple matter of reference to so obsolete and so utterly impracticable a body as Con vocation. According to the Standard there is no right more clearly established by historical and statutory precedents than the claim of Convocation to be consulted in regard to state legislation affecting the church. To repudiate that right, as Lord Shaftesbury and the Bishop of Carlisle seem to do, is to arouse the suspicion and alarm of thousands of churchmen, who care very little for Convocation, except as the abstract representative of what they deem to be the prerogatives of the church. It is quite possible, in the opinion of the Standard, that the commission will pass judgment upon errors of defect as well as of excess, but it is reasonablycertain that several details of extreme ritualism will be condemned, and that legislation will be proposed, with the sanction of convocation, for giving effect to that condemnation by such an alteration of the rubrics as aball cut away the ground of legality from under the feet of the ritualiats. THE RAILWAY COMPANIM BILL. To-day the Times again draws attention to the above bill, now before a select committee of the House of Lords, having gone through all its stages in the lower house almost without comment. Bearing in mind the present condition of the London, Chatham, and Dover, and Great Eastern Railways, we find that under this bill, if it should become law, any line that has been in a receiver's hands for • year may be sold outright by public auction or private contract. Notice—but how long a notice the act does not specify—must be given in the Casette, and served in writing upon other companies directly concerned, but no further condition is required. " The purchasers" are thenceforth to hold the railway " freed and absolutely discharged from all debts and pecuniary liabilities of the company, and from all oblige. Lions and liabilities whatever of the company," except those attaching to the company "in relation to the maintenance, repair, management, regulation, working, and use of the railway." There is actually no security against the concern being sold at a price immeasurably below its value, and insufficient to pry off its debts, much more its preference charges. But this is not all. The bill goes on to apply all existing enact ments upon the subject of railways and railway com panies to railways thus sold and their purchasers. It is tolerably certain, the Times contends, that no law so crude and ill-devised as this could be worked at all by the Court of Chancery. A still more fatal objection to it is that, if it could be worked, it could only do mischief and injustice. From whatever point of view the question is approached, the more clearly does the impolicy of passing this bill in its present form appear. It is already too late in the session for an organic reform of our railway irysters. That colossal task must be reserved for another year, if not for another parliament. All we can now do is to sup port the credit of solvent companies by legitimate moans, and to abstain from aggravating the ruin of insolvent com panies by • change in the wrong direction. " The Empress Eugenie," says the Etendard, " had received from Queen Victoria en invitation to be present at the grand review in honour of the Sultan. Her Imperial Majesty, under the painful feelings caused by the dreadful news from Mexico, was obliged to decline the gracious invitation of the Queen of England ; but the latter, while profoundly respecting the sentiments which led to this decision, and persisting in her earnest desire to receive the Empress of the French, charged Lord Cowley, se it is said, to invite her Majesty to pees two or three days privately at Osborne." The Channel squadron of iron -clads, under com mand of Sir Frederick Warden, sailed from Portland for Bpithead at 5 p.m. yesterday. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE LAST MOMENTS OF MAXIMILIAN. We find in Galignanis Messenger of to-day the following article, purporting to be a republication from the New Or!tans Picayune of the details given by the Esperanut de Queretaro of June 20, of the last momenta of the Emperor Maximilian. For ourselves we have received no copy of any American paper containing even the announce ment of the Emperor's execution, and therefore reprint the narrative solely upon the authority re ferred to : The first messenger who reached San Luiz di Potosi on the morning of the 19th of May did not return here with the orders of the President until the 22nd. The Emperor was then informed that he had to appear before • council of war. He protested in writing, and claimed to be tried by the Chamber of Notables, which had called him to the throne. Proceedings were in consequence suspended, and his letters and the papers which had been seized were forwarded to Juarez. The answer was not received until the 30th. It was • refusal, based upon this fact, which no impartial person can contest, that the Chamber of Notables had not been convoked by the Head of the Republic ; but Juarez, animated by a laud►ble sentiment, offered to spare the Emperor's life on condition that he took au oath never again to set foot on Mexican soil and signed • declaration of his own abdica tion. Spontaneously, and by word of mouth, Maximilian replied that he would accept both conditions with plea. sure provided the officers and soldiers captured with him were also amnestied, He was at that time ignorant of the fate of Castillo and Avellano. That requirement was ►lso agreed to, and other communications took place, which, however, led to nothing further. The Council at length met in a secret sitting on the morning of the 11th, under the presidency of General Corona, with whom were Generals Eaoobedo, Martinez, Ruiz, Negrete, and two colonels. The three prisoners were brought before this tribunaL Maximilian declined to avail himself of the assistance of an advocate, whilst Mejia and Miramon chose one to defend them conjointly. We have been unable to obtain the details of this sitting, which did not last an hour. The condemnation, which was sent off the same day, was not returned until the morning of the 18th. The President, it is affimied, was inclined to clemency ; but our minister at Washington, Romero, overcame that disposition, and obtained the order for exeentiQn, notwithstanding the plea that only • small majority had &Mired the sentence. As soon as General Cnrons was put in possession of the necessary document, the ems prisoners were informed of it. They manifested no surprise, because it had been impossible to conceal from them any 101 l et the fate of the others. Maximilian simply requested that theymigLt be left together until the last moment, which was gra ciously accorded. They were transferred to the building, formerly a convent, which served as an hospital for the French troops, because the hall on the ground floor was commodious and spacious, and had a pleasant prospect out upon the garden of the interior court. An altar was raised at the further end ; and the sentinels were instructed to fire upon any one attempting to enter or come out without a written permission from Captain Gonzales. The only person allowed to enter was the Abbe Fischer, secre tary and religious adviser of the Emperor. Some time after the Bishop of Queretaro arrived, offering his sacred minis tration, which was accepted after a brief consultation be. tween the prisoners. The night was passed in quiet con versation, and the condemned men confessed. Miramon was suffering greatly from the wound in his eye, which he constantly bathed with cold water. Mejia fell into • deep sleep. Maximilian asked for paper and pens, which, in the middle of the night, were found with some difficulty. He wrote two letters, one in German, addressed to his mother, the Archduchess Sophia, and the other to his wife. He confided them to the bishop, begging him to have them forwarded. He added a lock of Lis hair, which the wife of one of the guards came and cut off for Lim. He kissed it, folded it together, and slipped it into the envelope, which was already sealed. Towards 4 in the morning the Emperor desired to hear mass, which was said by the bishop. Mejia was roused up, and all three communi cated. After mass, Maximilian appears to have remained for • long time kneeling on the hard stones, for there was no prie-Dieu, with his head bent, and his hands over his eyes. Whether In was praying or weeping is uncertain. Miramon was pale and downcast ; Mejia was radiant—for we must remember that be is:an Indian, and that it is glori ous for him to die along with his master—as he declared. At 7 o'clock the notes of a military band were heard ; and Captain Gonzales entered the chapel with bandages to blindfold the prisoners. Miramon submitted to the operation quietly. Mejia refused, and, as the captain was about to use force, the bishop whispered a few words to the general, who then acquiesced. But the Emperor, coming forward, declared that, as to himself, he would not be blindfolded. After a moment's hesitation, Consoles, with a friendly salutation to Maximilian, went and took his place at the head of the escorting party. The procet. lion then moved forward, • squadron of lancers in front, followed by the band playing • funeral march. A bat talion of infantry, formed in two lines, composed the re mainder of the escort. When it reached the principal gate of the hospital, Mejia maid aloud :—" Sire, give to us for the last time, the example of your noble courage : we follow your Majesty." The Franciscan friars now appeared, the two in front bearing the cross and holy water, the others holding tapers. Each of the three coffins intended for the doomed men was carried by a group of four Indians ; three black crosses to be fixed were each prisoner knelt for execution were borne last. Captain Gonzales then made a sign to Maximilian to move forward. The Emperor advanced courageously, saying to the two generals : Varnas nos a fa fibertad The procession slowly ascended the street leading to the cemetery, behind the church, and by the road approach ing the aqueduct. It soon came out upon the height overlooking the plain, and, seen from below, the ap pearance of the cortege was most impressive. The Emperor walked first, having the Abbe Fischeroo his right, and the Bishop on his left. Immediately behind came Miramon, supported on each side by Franciscans, and Afejia between two priests belonging to the parish of Santa Cruz. When the proce.sion reached the summit of the hill, Maximilian looked steadily at the rising sun ; then, taking out his watch, be pressed a spring which concealed a portrait, in miniatute, of the Empress Charlotte. He kissed it, and handing the chain to the Abbe Fischer, said: " Carry this souvenir to Europe to my dear wife, ►nd if she be ever able to understand you, say that my eyes closed with the impression of her image, which I shall carry with Inc above ! " The cortige had now reached the great exterior wall of the cemetery, and the belle were slowly tolling • funeral knell ; only those composing the escort were present, for the crowd had been debarred from ascending the bill. Three small benches with the wooden crosses, were placed against the wall ; and the three shooting parties, each hav ing two non-commissioned officers as • reserve, for the coup de grdee, approached within • few paces of the prisoners. The Emperor, at the noise made by the movement of the muskets, thought the soldiers were about to fire, and, rapidly turning to his two companions, he embraced them most affectionately. Miramon, surprised, very nearly sank upon the seat, where he remained quite helpless; and the Franciscans raised him in their arms. Mejia returned the embrace of Maximilian, whispering some broken words which were not overheard; he then folded his arms and remained standing. The bishop advancing addressed the Emperor:—" Sire, give to Mexico, without any exception, the kiss of reconciliation in my person ; let your Majesty, in this supreme moment, accord pardon to all." The Emperor was unable to con ceal the emotion which agitated him; ne allowed the bishop to embrace him—then raising his voice, he said " Tell Lopez that I forgive him his treachery—tell all Mexico that I pardon its crime." His Majesty then pressed the hand of the Abbe Fischer, who, unable to utter a word, sank at the feet of the Emperor, bathing with tears his bands, which he kissed. Many pre sent wept bitterly. Maximilian gently extricated his hand, and, advancing • step, said with • melancholy smile to the officer commanding the executing party, di la disposieion de toted. At that moment, on a sign given by the officer, the muskets were leveled against the Empe ror's breast ; be murmured a few welds in German, and the discharge enveloped the spectators in smoke. Miramon EUROPEAN PROSPECTS. A PROPHET OF EVIL. The Lii.ertg looks on the calm which at present pervades Europe as the precursor of some political tempest, although as to what quarter it is to burst forth, the writer seems totally ignorant. Starting from the fact that Henry Heine, in 1833, declared that " the second half of the pre. sent century would behold a drama played in Germany and in Europe, in comparison with which the tragedy of 'A would be only an innocent idyl," the Librrff avows its fall belief in that sinister prophecy, and affirms that the late events in Germany will be thrown altogether is the shade by what time is preparing. The writer then says : " As centuries succeed each other the pulse of humanity beats more strongly and quickly, and with • constant pro gression. Heavy and methodical Germany herself marches with a rapidity which makes one giddy. After the war of Thirty Years came that of Seven ; and after the war of Seven Years that of seven days. The same phenomenon is observable in social disturbances. Of the three French revolutions, the first took three years to overthrow a throne ; the second, three days; and the third three hours. The great territorial ameliorations take part, also, in this singular steeplechase. Seven centuries dragged slowly on in the formation of Ham unity ; more than four hundred years were re. quired for that of France ; little wore than foe: years was occupied in forming a united Italy; said kw months sufficed for that of Germany. Diplomacy Ia ih turn enters upon this same road: the proverbial slower+ of a congress is no more than a recollection; the can Terence of London, convoked on the lit of May, meta the 7th and finished its work on the 11th. The sperm& ing (Ecumenical council will doubtless condense iou eighteen days the labour of the eighteen years of the Council of Trent. Congresses, great empires, revolo time, wars, feel the influence of steam and elect' city. Humanity seems in such a burry to lies that Oaa would believe it was near its end. This giddy dance d the living resembles Holbein's Dance of Death. The yd 11367 marks • pause in the feverish movement which cunt away societies. It is the year of meditation, adjourniums, and compliments ; all the woad embraces, awaiting tA moment when every one will fly at his neighbour's thins. Thu left hands cordially press each other while the tut , hold revolvers loaded to the muzzle. All these fact 1. , ` , something illusive, like the parties given by a fioaeoer on the eve of a disaster ; and Europe eceel'le* eently displays all her riches as the aril, 0 1 • capitalist exhibit. all her diamonds to re , ' oral her husband's situation. In the midst of this mat. sion of galas, reviews, balls, the event of the Itith Jon has appeared as the Merle, Mene, Tekel Uphardn' of the banquet of old. Let us not deceive ourselves ; invitations accepted, journeys accomplished, grips of the band 01. changed, even dangers incurred in connuon, do not change one iota of the general situation of Europe. are the hackneyed acts of politeness which ca.: , only deceive shortsighted minds or blinded In• telligences. The stay of the Sultan, the I , " come of the crowned excursionists. will not cave 1 a deviation of one single hair's breath in the hue of march which the Eastern question has to f o llow, any more than the visit of the King of Prussia will delay for one tale day the complete unification of Germany. The Contla• gration avoided in May last will ',mat out by the force of things next spring, so much the more terrible that the fire will have smouldered longer under the ago. Just Ls it was in the Middle Agee, with the ' Truce eh, God,' the Conference of London has imposed on Eller, 1 Truce of Industry. Like private in.lividu.o4, isopim• the solemn hour which is to decide their fate, their le:. tune, and their life, fall into a general posh-Aim...a l affect an ind fference, a carelessness, an unre..l serenity. s• fictitious calm, • false gaiety, which deceive. nobs!) , There is nothing more smiling than the phy.i.rgnomf of man who is going to kill himself or to fight a duel. . merchant who is going to be made bankrupt, or of a gm:* star who stakes his Lot napoleon. Such is very neatly l•••' actual appearance of Europe." Some persons are employed at l'aria in coll' ing the proclamations of Marshal Rantine, in a loch exercised the most cruel severities towanls the repo } ' . ' party, whilst it is intended to give a list of the pew• di shot by the imperialists. A Moscow paper states that in 1853 tho Rll O . ll army consisted of 580,000 men. At the present tisse.4 consists of 800.000 men. 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