The Express. — London, England, 1868-10-17 00:00:00

Vie erSVOS. DRtRY-LANK. Tei• Eagan*, BORIOWLD I'LI:MEB.—ELNO 0' SCOTS. Hr. Phelps, Wawa. Ad.daaun, Irving, Rue, is ; Wes lames Heath, Stuart, Rank Matthews, kc.—And A UIiAND BALLET DIVLIMBBEMEICT. .PRINC2BBII. Tms tmormo, A CHIRMI:4O PAIR . —APTER DARK: A TALE Or LONDON LITE. lb. Yining, Hews. Walter Ley, Dominick Murray, Harcourt, Bbaee , ate. ; Hires Margot and Letteroq.—And MASTER JONEBIS BIRTHDAY. eIIHHH'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. eaver, Tam Ivaarro, H at 7. Tomxris T Lus liE tem TROUBAPOT'II Kr. 1.. Brough; Him Montague. —And THE. LuvcAnzau LAN. Ilfeenre. Irving. L. Brough, Holmes, Hrsdharo oar and 8. Emery; Needeome Hodson, Muntarite, sad Nay Moore. STRAND. Tits Emma, EVITERLY GERI/ICE—THE "MC OF THE CLOTH 01 GOLD.—And MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. BBITLNNIL Site Emus, THE. MA; u=t3TORT. Mrs. S. LLne.— THE ORPHAN OF THE STORM; A STORY OF THE RUO OED PATHS OF LIFE . Main. Reynold*. birwood,Cluulton, and Lt.lie; Mfed.n s Coveney, Booth, Re. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. To-lur —Nornieg, 21. Urn Attialioam. 23. !Sta. To-IL•asow —llorolAg, EL. 18... m Aftesoos. BY. :4s. NOTICE. Warms' of Burma, lltiaairvaa, and Thrive, are received tantal 12 o'clock for inaertlon came evening. Pries 2a. ed. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, coNTAirrngo Fhe Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, Is PUBLIBHID EVERY EVENING. LONDON. SATURDAY, OCT. 17. LEGAL AND ILLEGAL ELECTION EXPESsES. ..4.4.111% to b doubtful whether candidates. agent 4, or f:0 ttl'eS are quite aware of the changes in the conduct of eleaions which are ren derd needful by recent legislation. Leaving out of view the new and stringent law against Cor rupt Practices, there are several provisions in the Rao, m Act itself which 4 greatly modify the old system of things. Whether these modifica tions will tend to the better order of elections, to the diminution of expense, and to the prevention of corruption, remains to be seen, but they point in those directions, and may evidently be so worked as to promote those desi rable objects. Perhaps the most important of these provisions is one which is already in full operation, and neglect of which may involve much disappointment and annoyance. One of the bad habits of old constituencies is that of working elections by paid agency. As soon as it is known that en election is to take place certain solicitors are engaged as agents, a committee is appointed, with paid clerks and messengers, and almost an army of paid canvassers. To such an extent has this system been carried in many boroughs that a large section of the constituency look for borne such employment, and it is a deur understanding, on both sides, that the services of those people are retained as the only moans of binding them to their party and securing their votes. Nor has this course hitherto been so ob viously illegal as to enable any candidate to set his face successfully against it. Committeesdo pretty much as they like with candidates, and where com mittees have made extensive employment of voters a regular custom there has been so manifest a con- . venienee in it and so obvious a danger in suddenly discontinuing it that they have regarded a email- BAGS. —TRAVELLING BAGS, Hand Bags , Courier Baia Coat Biwa Drier Bark Wait Baca Work Mem frees to to at 0011.11LACILII arias Bog Waroliouse, Leaseto.hill. W. Nora I oretora. DI:ESSING I'ASES in Walnut and Coromandel woo:. 1ta.....u0r0000. and Solid Loam toe Lathe* and Genslllll4ll. arranr..l 'nth nth, and plated fittings. emu% Ta. Id. to Aga - At 0. 1 11210 Atli BM Y7IIIERS. 37. 1,1145t...bin. Lnmlon. FoESPATCH BOXES and WRITING CARES in 31Ao 47:11;iiMP.;1!AZ,1 - , 311 . 0et u r m itlIACK'S BEAT FOTIMA\ 'MAUS. 1 — 3;, Strand. DRESSINO HAGS.-37, Stnuid. ALLEN'S. OVERLAND TRUNKS.-37, St nuid. ALLEN"S DESPATCH BOXES.-37, A LLENE PRIZE MEDAL, awarded for general szeolinare. lUwasted eatalogues of NI &Masi for waft new& port WILLIAM CHUBTON and BON, BOUIRII .mod SAIRTILILEMS. LAMM' uxramoLaninge. It sod K ox.roansraser. JOHN BROODS:NE CLASSIC 'SMILEY. iaIUS FIRST-CLABB SILVER XRDAL, 1867. JOHN BROODEN'B 18• carat GOLD MUM JOHN BBOODKN•8 BRACELETS. j 01124 BROCIDENI3 BROOCH/ S. JOHN BROGDEN'S OEM sad WEDDING RINGS. JOHN BROGDEN'S NECKLACES. JOHN BROGDEN'B EARRINGS• ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY. NO. 16, ILENRIETTA-STREET, Covent - uarden. 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The "DALLT NSW'," I. an aciaowledged atithonty upon Co euerood and hi.netery questions, enjoy, a high poUtion, and its anemic, and rapidly inn-eating circulation sine* its reduction in prase to One Penny renders It an ignitable medium to all bads of Advertaiers. _ . . Poet-olio. Orders for Adeerneementa should be made parable to Jonas atialsoeos. Post-office. Fleet-street. Postage Stamps reoeited for amounts up to 101 . Mose, n. Bourerieetreet, Fleet-street, LC., London. Itrant THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1868. date's opposition to it as a scruple which they were justitiul in setting at defiance. But now all this is changed. From henceforth to employ an elector is to disfranchise him. Whatever be the capacity in which ho is hired or employed for reward in connection with the election, such em ployment not only prevents hint from voting for the candidate who employs him, but prevents him from voting at all in the election. Indeed, so do terniineil has Parlian e been to stop this source of corruption, that it has partially adopted Lord BROUGHAM'S principle, and has made the giving of a vote in such circumstances a misdemeanour. There is, in fact, only one way now of making the distribution of employment influence an election, and that is by the disfranchisement of opponents. There appears to be no penalty inSio ted on a candidatt, for employing such voters, and there seems to be nothing to prevent an unscrupulous man from engaging the services of as many of his opponents as possible, and thus rendering thorn incapable of voting against him. Such a dodge could, however, be of no avail except in very small constituencies, and even in such consti- tnencies could only succeed once. A better use of it would be to give some small employment to the men who were notoriously corrupt, and thus render their votes unsaleable. Indeed, this might in some cases be a cheap way of getting them out of the market. But it is difficult to see how, in future, the committee-rooms are to be crowded, as they have hitherto been, with a host of re tainers, kept for the sake of their votes. That game, at least, is played out. But another feature of borough elections will be conspicuous by its absence in November next. One large expense of contests has hitherto been incurred in the conveyance of voters to the poll. It has been no unusual ruse for a rich candidate to engage eves• conveyance in the borough for use on the polling day, and a large influx of vehicles from neighbouring towns is generally one of the incidents of the occasion. Half the work of the polling day is the despatch of cabs and carriages in all directions to bring up voters to the poll. Many a free and independent elector who would scorn a bribe is yet quite above the vulgarity of walking to the poll. If they want him they must send for him. He is an important personage on polling day and will have his importance recognised. He may possibly conde scend to go to the poll in a cab ; but an open carriage is the proper thing, and he looks on it as one of the privileges of a Briton to be driven at a dashing pace through the cheering crowds, to give his free and independent vote. But hence forth this luxury is denied him. He must walk to the poll or stay at home, unless the candidate himself or some wealthy neighbour will scud his own carriage to fetch him. There is nothing in the Act to prevent such a use of private carriages on polling day, as it especially provides only against the payment of money for the conveyance of voters to the poll ; but it is not likely that many owners of private carriages will send them out for the rough usage of an election. Yet it will be hardly possible to realise that a poll is going on if there are no placarded cabs and carriages tearing through the streets. Half the fun of the election will be lost in the estimation of idlers, and it will certainly be less easy to raise excitement among the crowds around the polling places. How the can vassers will fare it is impossible to say. There will be no getting reluctant voters to the poll when they cannot be carried there, and ae they must be looked after on foot and their numbers will be unusually large. it is only in cases of urgency that they will be looked after at all. These two reforms—disfranchising paid agents and abolishing conveyance—are in fact two steps towards the abolition of canvassing altogether. They at least inflict discouragement on the practice. As a little compensation to electors for the op pressive requirement of walking to the poll, power is given to local authorities to increase the num ber of polling places ; and as not more than five hundred electors are to poll at any one compart ment not much delay need take place in recording votes. In this connection, too, Parliament has shown a little consideration fur the purses uf can didates. It is enacted that returning officers shall engage rooms where they are available, instead of building booths, and that buildings supported by the public money shall be used if their cus todians permit. Every one of these modifi cations of the old system is in the direc tion of the diminution of expense. With no can vassers to pay and conveyance of voters forbidden, and with power to returning-officers to go eco nomically to work in providing polling-places, the elections, even with the increased number of voters, ought to be less expensive than before. Whether they will be so or not depends on other considerations. But the coming election is almost certainly the last at which any of the necessary ex penses of the hustings or the polling-places will be charged upon the candidates at all. The first reformed Parliament, acting on the fact that the candidate is elected for the public service, and re pudiating the theory that he is a mere seeker of public honours, will charge the legal expenses on the constituency itself. of the esniuent statesmen *elated to represent the party, it is my intott on ti sustain that cause as • private citizen. The " maintenance of the national credit inyio lato." This is not the Democratic cry, and must be attributed to the General's sojourn abroad. Tramlated into American, it means — payment of the 5-20 13( nds in gold, which by the Democratic code is taint emery waste. ROMAN Catholic journalism in England has a rude time of it. Judging by what is told by the journals themselves, their existence is a weekly sacrifice. The Tablet in particular looks back on a devoted career, as those who recollect the late Mr. Lnews's experi ence will recall, and the Tablet, we suppose, is not the least successful of the number. In to-day's issue the proprietor and editor informs his readers that he is about to hand over his trust to another—this time a priest. For his resolve he gives several reasons, some of which relating to the present state of Catholic polities appear significant enough ; but he says at the end, " In reality, be these, or all my other " reasons, wise or foolish, my last and strongest " reason for the step which I am taking is the " private and personal fact, that tho Tablet cost " me ee much money during the first seven years " of my proprietorship that to provide myself " once more the capital required to carry it on is " beyond my means, and I should not be justified "in the attempt." Perhaps if this reason had been put in the front, the others would have been less interesting than they are. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Spe , .•ulating on the probable wearer of the Spanish crown, the Times rays the junta has turned its eyes to Ferdinand of Portugal, father of the present king. t I gh it is raid the latter is not ambitious of the proposed elevation. The union of the two peninsular kingdoms would be promoted by this arrangement. If Ferdinand's eldest son, the King of Portugal, were declared his heir, the two crowns would be unite.) at his death. But even if the younger son were to succeed him, and the two kingdoms to remain politically separate, we should at least have the satisfaction of believing that the kinship id the rulers would tend to make them as one for many important purposes. - The annual mcetine of the Queen's University and the ',perch of the Duke of Abereorn on the occasion lead the Pat., to remark that when such an education is open to members of all creeds in Ireland, and when the counter scheme is seen to fail, we may regard the prin ciple of unsectarianism as secure. The Daily .Nters thinks that there is more than enough in the recent changes in Spain to make the Emperor Napoleon pause, and to incite him to reflect ou the origin, the decline, and the fall of governments which exist by force only, undercover of a simulated represen tative system. But it is to his domestic, and not to his foreign policy that he should turn for • remely to the present situation of affairs. The Mysore case, and some recent developments of Mexican history and of modern fashions, are among the other topics discussed in the Dad", 21; ars. There is also a reference to a remark in the Ethulatryl, Ret-,,ar respecting the ballot. If by diminishing its magnitude, says the Daily Netts, the old whip recusants make it easier for themselves to swallow the pill, by all means let them minify it as much as they choose. The Slardard trusts there is no truth in the story that the Emperor of the Ficudi means to incite the powers of Europe to disarm. Mr. Bouverie finds much sympathy with the conserve, tire papers, and even the Star thinks Mr. Mill has been led astray. The Pest draws attention to • remarkable speech which has been delivered by Dr. Temple against the Irish Eke Court. BALMORAL CARTLZ, Oar. lb. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, and attended by Lady C.iurchill, went to the Olassalt Shell yesterday. Evince and Princess Christian, and Prince and ninniess of Tu k and Prince Arthur, honoured M. and Ma lame Van do Wi per with their company at dinner at Aber geldie. The Lord Chancellor artived at the Castle, as the Minister in attendance upon her Majesty. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, atten led by the Hon. Mrs. Coke. In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales want to the Lyceum Theatre. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Coww•rnors of Gibraltar, Halts, Ceylon, Hong Song, Labelle, the Straits Settlements, the Australian Colonies, and the West Indian Island& TIM VISIT OP TIIM PRIMA AND PPSIIDISS OF WAL TO KICOVSZIT.—WO understand that the visit of the Prince and Princes' of Wales to Knowsley-park, the seat of the Earl of Derby, b to take place, so far as at present can be arranged, on the second proximo. LYeatrw TDIATRE.—Thoir Royal Highnesses tho Prince and Prince's of Wales and suite honoured this theatre with their presence last evening, to witness the new play of the Rightful Bair. Mdlle. Rosa d' Brine, designated " the now Irish prima donna," had the honour of appearing at Marl borough House yesterday by command of the Princess of Wales. The Duke of Cambridge yesterday was at Shoe bui puce. to witness the experimente carried on by the Oidnance Select Committee with Captain Moncrieff'n bar bent, Run-carriage and Colonel Shaw's muzzle pivotting carriage for the 400-pounder gun. His royal highness also inspected Mr. (linden T.anerteter'a new ilitmi-oval bore-rifled 10-inch gun and its studios projectiles; and Colonel Clarke's hydraulic buffer for checking recoil. The celebrated Millwall shield was nest visited, and the dila pidated Plymouth caaninate was also closely scrutinised. 'I he model now erecting of detailed parts for illustrating thu working of hairy guns iu a double-tior iron fort was ukit examined. The Enrl and Countess of Derby will entertain rotui.any the tin•t week in the ensuing month at Knows ley. The nobly earl, who has boon suffering from an attack of gout, in much bettor. WHAT IS LAVA? FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) (rasouoz asurzies Aszirot.) SPAIN. TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF SERRANO AND TOPETE INTO SARAGOSSA. SARAGOSSA, Ocr. 16, Evccuto. Marshal Serrano and Admiral Topete made a triumphal entry into this city to-day, and wore received with great enthusiasm by the people, all liberals of every shade fraternising. Marshal Ser rano, Admiral Topete, and the democratic leader Martos, delivered patriotic speeches in favour of liberty of conscience and the rights of individuals. The people unanimously cried " Down with the Bourbons!" " Long live Serrano, Prim, Toilets, Olosaga, and Rivera!" MADRID, Ocr. IG. The government has decided upon carrying out • monetary reform upon the basis of the French unit. It is announced that a loan of 700 millions of reels will be negotiated with an English bank ing firm on very equitable terms. Marshal &mum and Admiral Topeto left for Saragossa this morning. The revolutionary junta of Malaga has given its adhceion to the provisional government. HUNGARY. PESTA, (k 7. 16. The Empress has left for Goodoelloc this morn ing. Prince Harageorgewii•h hag hem reninvo4l otgain to Pebth. The conference of the ildegates fr the french South German vailwaym have lowered the tariff for the transport of breadatuffd. ROUMAN I A. BUCHAREST, Om. 14. In conformity with the Anny Organisation Bill, which has been adopted by both llous , .s of the Diet, the army will ho completed this year by a contingent of 10,000 men. GENERAL AUCLELLAN. GENERAL M'CLELf-iN, on returning to New York after his long absence in Europe, found himself a hero amongst the Democrats, who wel t:ollWe] Lim with thousands of torAes and salvos of congratulations, but hi reply to these tributes be was us reticent as General Giwrr. American politicians looked on in astonishment. They cannot understand this new element in their midst. Could he be in favour of GRANT for the Presi dency I' Silence• LUX advantages, but it is, sure to be misunderstood. However, the Presidential can didate of MA, though declining to speak, has trusted himself with a pcm, and in a letter dated the 3rd inst., after expressing his determination to abstain from further participation in political life, thus intimates his individual opinions: I gladly avail myself of this opportunity to express my continued hearty sympathy with the democratic enure, and my ardent wisher; for the success of those constitutional principles for which the recent war was undertaken by the North. Separated as I thus am from the distinguished soldier who has been chosen as the leader of our opponents, I know that you will agree with me in the highest respect for the service he has rendered our country; Lot it is my conviction that the measures of the party which has placed him in nomination are Lut continuations of strife, and can never restore peace or constitutional supremacy, and thus complete the work which he and other brave soldiers so ably commenced. The war was only the first epoch in the history of the struggle in which we have been so long engaged. The work of the soldier is, I trust, for ever ended, and it remains for the people to fulfil the greater objects for which they or their sons and brothers were called to the field. A restored Union of States anal hearts; an in vigorated constitution to be firmly and faithfully sup ported; the towintrnattre of the tuitional credit is rioter; a re-establishment of national and State rights in all their integrity - and thus true harmony and' lasting peaces—these are the objects for which every citizen should now strive; and believing those to rest in the success of the democratic cause, by the election THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Lomidcn Review remarks that the contrast between the manifesto of the liberal leader and the war. whoop with which Mr. Disraeli, laughing all the time in his sleeve at his follower s folly and his own comical figure as the wielder of .• the protestant Sail," is instructive and Striking. But while the electors will duly estimate the difference in every department of the public service between the statesmanship of Mr. Gladstone and the clever juggling of the present first minister, the issue of the impending struggle will be determined in the main by the measure which the nation will take of the competing systems of Irbil:policy advanced by the liberal party and by the irresponsible managers of demoralised conservatism. Compared with this question all others have, for a time, sunk into insignificance. There is every reason to be satis fied, our contemporary maintains, with the broad outline of policy which Mr. Gladstone has drawn, and with the well-defined boundaries of political expediency which he has fixed as limiting his course of action. So far, indeed, as the question of disestablishment is concerned, the policy of Mr. Gladstone is as resolute and clear as that of Mr. Disraeli is obscure and vacillating. Commenting upon Mr. Gladstone's addrere, the Saturday Seder observes that it is more serious and more interest ing than Mr. Disraeli's, because it expresses the opi. nions of a majority. The intentions of the future minister are more important than the ingenious rhetoric of his rival. As far below Mr. Disraeli in literary skill as he surpasses him in oral eloquence, Mr. Gladstone is never. theism in no danger of being misunderstood. His intellect has the defect of inability to think of two things at once, and consequently his political declarations are sometimes wanting in calmness, in balance, and in reserve; but his impetuous convictions, if they sometimes make his politi. cal allies uneasy, are thoroughly intelligible to the mass of the people. No statesman has for many years been so strong in the confidence of that vast majority which looks on political leaden only from a distance. If Mr. Glad. stone hereafter proves himself qualified to command, he will have an irresistible force at his disposal, for the ma jority of the next House of Commons will be pledged to register his decrees. The Exemie.r asks whether ritualism isnot, with its at tempt, mortaidivio, to revive priestly power (at a time when other nations are doing their best to place limits to its exci sew), stepping beyond the bounds of moderation, nay, stumbling into excesses which, sooner or later, must come to ben anise of regret to the clergy as it is a scandal to the church t There is, indeed, a strong opinion gd g ground, that priestly influence, under the sanction and prestige of the church of England, is fast creeping into our homes. The übliorrence of this secret influence in our families is as great in this country at the present mo ment as it ever was, certainly as great as it has been in other countries, and with what results to the clergy our contemporary need not say. The reason is that it threa tens our very frenlum. If the question should ever arise whether the toleration which has been the glory and boast of England so long should continue, or our freedom be curtailed, the answer will bo sure, but fatal to that general toleration and religious liberty of which the clergy hitherto have Led the greatest benefits. The Spitint.r declares that Mr. J. 8. Mill is really doing mischief, both to himself and his party, by his affectation to give credentials to liberal candidates in search of &seat. Referring to the letter which the hon. gentleman gave to Mr. Chadwick, recommendatory of the latter, and him claims to the electors of Kilmarnock, our contemporary maintains that this volunteer propagandism of Mr. Mill is invidious as well as mischievous. lie writes from Avignon, the abode of a secessionist pope, almost with the authority,— as well as the humility,—of • new philosophical lope, and does no good by his lettere. Thu Sportator Ulll quite believe that he is not exaggerating when he says that he would put Mr. Chadwick in his plum it he could. Ile lam chivalry enough for that. But NM he can't, why scud out his bulls to the people of Kil mensal Why can't he lot it alone k Presidunt Hill, who was inaugurated President of Harvard College EI. 8., to fill the vacancy caused by the death of C. C. Felton, in 1n63, baa resigned. Among those mentioned for the suecomion are Professor Andrew/ P. Peabody, D.D., and lion. J. Lotherup Motley. Other names suggested are the Rev. T. W. Iligginson, Professor K W. (lonely, Profaner Charles W. Elliot, Francis K Parker, and Chief-Justice Bigelow. TO TEE EDITOR OF 'FRI EXPIRY. Stn,—ln the Erpresi of last evening you ask, " What is Lava ?" Thinking that the same question would occur to many persons I collected characteristic examples of the lava of Vesuvius during a visit to tho mountain with my colleague Mr. Grove, in April last, also of the stones erupted from the crater during our night ascent of the mountain, mul have since placed them with specimens of other volcanic minerals from Monte Somina and Pompeii, in the Pompeian Court at tho Palace.-1 am, &c., DAVID S. PRICE, Ph. D. Crystal Palace, Sydenham, Oct. 16. TUE METEOR. TO TEE EDITOR Or THE =I%MS. FIR,—I have just read your articlo on the October meteor. in which you find fault with the want of accuracy and the vaguenens which mark m many of the notices the meteor of the ith iunt. May Ihe allowed to Fay that I wasstandingat my telescope and fortunately !coking at the exact spot where it appeared; this , was It A 111 h. N 1) 10 deg.. close to the two stare Xi and Omicron in Taurus: it disappeared just to the right of Rigel, falling therefore nearly perpendicularly. This would make the place of its fall about 35 deg. south of east, as seen from this town.--1 remain, &c., Brighton, October 16. H. C. MALDEN. The Attorney-General for Ireland has placed 200/. in the bands of the Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin, in order to found an annual prize of 10!. to be given to the author of the best essay, or to the best answerer at an examination, on the trans and Articles of the Church. A letter from Biarritz says that the Emperor and Empress make frequ,nt excursions, the weather being most delightful. A number of Spaniards are at Biarritz. The Queen of Spain communicates frequently with the Empress. WI ITffiALL . OCr. 14.—The Queen has been pleased to order a range to pass the Great Seal. empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Peterborough to elect a bishop of that see, the mine be ing void by the death of Dr. Francis Jeune, late bishop thereof ; and her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter the Very Her. William Connor Magee, D.D., Dean of the Cathedral Church of Cork, to be by them elected bishop of the said see of Peterborough. The Queen has also been pleased to grant the place of one of the Lords of Session in Scotland to George Dundee, Esq., advocate, in the room of John Marshall. Esq., resigned.—Oesette. ThE MARQUIS OP Bum AND TUE CARDIFF Emereate.—Scarcely a month has passed sines the people of Cardiff, but more mpeciallthe liberal electors, were delighted by the frank and honourable manner in which Lord Bute came forward to declare that his influence should not be brought to bear upon those in his employ and others indirectly connected with him in the forth coming election ; and they put the most le t :icit faith in that declaration, believing that after so em pha tic a state ment the agents of Lord Bute would have decency to withdraw from any active interference in the election. In this, however, they have been greatly mistaken, and one consequence is that a reactionary feeling towards the noble lord is rapidly setting in. His agents have been most indefatigable in the registration court, working for the castle nominee, Mr. (Weird, and arc now doing their utmost in his behalf, whilst other officials connected with the Bute estate are using their greatest exertions to promote the succors of the conservative candidate. The electors are naturally asking whether it is possible, after Lord Bute ' s public de claration, that be is direetly,sanetioning these proceedings, or whether his agents are acting without his consent !. The general belief is that his lordship is not aware of what is going on. Limp 3LAVon'S DAY BANQUET.—The following are the names of the gentlemen selected by the Lord Mayor-elect and the sheriffs to have charge of the enter tainment to be given on Lord Mayor's-day at the Guild hall. Chosen by the Lord Mayor-elect—Mr. Deputy Fry, Mr. If. E. Murrell, Mr. It. Pallett, Mr. T. Lintott, Mr. J. A. Cotton, Mr. J. Land, Mr. A. F. Lawrence, Mr. W. F. hock. Chown by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Cotton—Mr. Deputy Simpson, Mr. C. White. jun.. Mr. J. Cox, Mr. T. Symonds. Choscu by Mr. Sheriff Hutton —Mr. C. W. Stec, Mr. Deputy Heed, Mr. J. Coates, Mr. T. O. Hutton. At a preliminary meeting. Mr. Deputy Fry was unanimously chosen chairman, and Mr. Murrell hon. sec. On Tuesday the members met for the despatch of business, when it was decided that the entertainment shall be of a sumptuous character. The number of tickets to be issued is t 472, tun, the company, it is expected. will include a more than usually large number of distinguished pervnegra.—City Nees. II Elt MAJESTY'S STAOIIIOCNDS.—In order to meet the wish and convenience of the farmers who hunt with these hounds, many of whom are in the habit of attending at Mark-lane on Mondays, Lord Colville has arranged that for the future the meets shall be held on Tuesday and Friday in each week, insteud of on alternate Mondays awl TuTdays. FOOTBALL. AT ETON COLLEGE. Yesterday an exciting match wax played "in the field" at Eton be tween the College eleven and • Cambridge team. The following are the names of the gentlemen who took part in the game. Eton College:—H. H. Benson, H. Freeth, A. O. Tindal, J. Maude, J. E. Edwards Mew W. Courthope, H. J. Hope, It. H. Murr, O. G. Greenwood, C. J. Ottaway, and J. Johnstone. Cambridge: —Hon. F. O. Pelham, A. Kinnaird, Rev. G. R. Dupuis, E. C. Austen-Leigh, E. Hammond, W. D. Rawlins, A. Thomp son, W. Hoare, It. A. H. Mitchell, 3. U. Courthope, and C. Parry. The Cambridge eleven worked bard, and made two rouges within about the first 30 minutes. After the change Etou made • rouge, but failed to re trieve the fortune of the day. Cambridge, therefore, won the game by two rouges to one. TEE ORFORD AND CANTERBURY MUSIC-HALL CONPANY.—Yestarday an application was made at the Rolls Chambers in the wing -up matter of the Oxford and Canterbury Music-hall Company (Limited), in Chan cery, with regard to the Canterbury-hall. The music license was about to expire, and Mr. Capes, the official liquidator, for the benefit of the estate craved permission from the Court of Chancery to apply for a renewal of the music license. It appeared that a similar application had been made to Vice-Chancellor tliffard's Court as to tho Oxford Music-hall. The Chief Clerk (Mr. Church) granted the application, on tho course being followed as in the Oxford Music-hall application for a license. Order sc: conlingly. NATIONAL. ExItIBITIoN OF WORKS OF ART AT TAMAN 11468. Return of admissions: Friday. October 16, by season tickets, 1469, by payment of 2a. lid. each, 1,667; total, 2,616. OUR PARIS LETTER. (MX On OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY Erwaso. The Gazette de France says of the denial in the Cunditutionnel of this morning that any customs and military treaty exists between France and Holland : flat no treaty has been signed is possible and even pro bable. But [the Ci:irostitotionerl will not easily persuade the public that there have been no negutiwtious on the subject. The Finanr,, which first started the news, re turns to the subject in the teeth of the Cunstitu remand, and says it knows, from a quasi official source, that a secret convention between Frame and llolkind has been signed. The Temps combining the above assertions with that of the Opinion Nationale., which I mentioned yesterday, says: In this state of things the denial of the Constitraletwel is not conclusive. The affair is too serious for the public to be contented with a paragraph, the authority of which is very doubtful. It must be borne in mind that the Cointitodionnei, by protesting its independence, as it does every day, deprives its semi-official declarations of any decisive character. A circumstance calculated to confirm the rumours of a reversal of the liberal policy of Jan. 19—(you are aware that there are also ru mours of an extension of this policy)—is that M. Clement Duvernois hits resigned the editorship of the Epoque. This clever writer, and old liberal, who was long a lieutenant of Emile de Girardin, went into the Epoque as an organ of the tiers parti and a'• dynastic union." He was for the Empire but against official candidates, and thought the empire compatible with full electoral liberty. His illusions have disappeared, and ho gives up the hopeless campaign. The Geubes, whose accurate information in the early stages of the Spanish revolution tuts elevated it to the rank of an important political journal, thinks the angry despatches exchanged between Turkey and Greece on the subject of Candia a symptom that the terrible " Eastern question" now threatens an explosion. The France, whose director is still Viscount de la Gueronnii•re, French Minister at Brussels, says that the cengt's in the French army, mentioned by the Patric' as reducing the active force to 354,0110 men, have not the importance which that journal would make it appear. They are nothing more than an administrative measure usual at this season. At the same time the Fra /we.. always seeking the jasfe milia e, says that a power which grants furloughs on such a large scale must be animated by pacific ideas, and cannot contemplate an immediate use of its army. The Bourse opened with much animation, and the Bente for cash touched at one moment the figure of itifr. But the efforts of the Bank of France and the companies, acting under the im pulsion of M. Magne, seem to be exhausted; there was a strong reaction in the afternoon, and the closing quotations were 68fr. tic. for cash, and 6sfr. SOe. fur account, with a fall of 100. and 17 je. lii other securities there was no notable chnge. A private letter from Madrid ears :—•• Three successive Queens of Spain have lived in open scandal. The grandmother of Isabella made her favourite a prince. the mother made hers a duke, and Isabella made hero lutendente of her palace. Isabella's mother is one of the richest persons in Europe, and she accumulated her vast wealth by sharing in the profits of the Cabot slave trade. The reigning Popes of Rome have honoured and rewarded these women as it they wen) patterns of piety and virtue." A New York contemporary sap : —'• The Hamburg and American Company have given notioe to the British government that they will no longer convey the mails frem England to America. They do not get inure than about 8,0001. a year for conveying the mails 52 times across the Atlantic, and this sum is reduced by fines. Their grievance is that they are tined ter starting from England after the stipulated time although their ship may reach New York within the prescribed period. Their giving up the contract will be a serious incon venience to the mercantile community, as their ships are very fast. They will still, however, carry the mails front New York to England, under contract with the United States government." BOMBAY MAIL.-Bt - E'/.. Iti.—The Penin sular and Oriental Counpany's steamship Viol,- La, from Bombay. 3rd inst., arrived at 7 a.m. to-day. TitE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND MA SettNit rattow.—Tho arm bye Preu of Vienna publishes a letter written by the Emperor Napoleon 111. to au .eboet fellow who having become a surgeon had fallen into alai,- tressed circumstances. In consequence, he was un.ible to wait on his Majesty at Salzburg m 1807. but he requested an audience of Prince Napoleon, when the latter WA. At l'estb, and was recommended by him to write to the Emperor. He did so, and reeeived the following reply :—"St. Cloud, Sept. 10. 1 have learned with minds sympathy your painful situation, and I hasten to comply with . your request. Never have 1 forgotten the time I passed IR tiermany, whore my tnother received a noble hospitality, and I myself the Hest advantages of instruction, and found in you • kind companion and a friend. Exile offers painful but useful trials; it teaches us better to knew foreign nations, anal to judge without prejudice their good qualities and their worth. And if, at a later period, the natal suil is revisited. the re '-• sconce is always preserved of the companions among whim ~ r youth has been liaised, and the remembnuno remains Hrmly, notwithstanding time and polities. Your letter affords me an opportunity of expressing these sen timents, which are mine.- -Iteceere this as • proof of the oboes sympathy with which I am yours, Narstuton." NOM OF A JOURNEY THROUGi h•os • A viLA, When I entered Burgos the w 1.,,,. seemed to have turmsl out int.) ti Wu could searcoly make 4,11 r w „ the crowds which thronged the st e place particularly a qua lit, irreg formed by picturesque old heuses,witli running all round it, and a bronze stet the Spanish kings in the centre —seem, great point of attraction. There four barrels were blazing, and an rselisi eea l fired off. The whole of the juve n il e 1 „, Burgos seemed to have ()oiler:tell tege spot. With the beggars and idlers I the meet picturesque groups, lookin g al I and more romantic by the lurid light fires and of the faint oil-lamps, as Bur , yet lighted with gas. In Spain, as in some of the more e ; and backward towns of Germany and the ancient institution of watchmen—., an they are called here—still exists. veed up in huge cloaks, and carryii parade the streets at night, and mug and half-hours in a loud long or ‘, great sight of Burgos is its magnifiers one of the finest in Spain—indeed, th. Europe which can vie with it in riche. turn and profusion of decorations. I ti in the dim light of evening, when it, and long aisles looked doubly imp's.. solemn effect was heightened by the e, which we every now and then eme. ,- befere the feint light, which. wr beams, shone upon s • .-arv.si • • pictured shrine of a ;aut. N. ,• all through it. The sculpt i • warriors, awl bishops in its 11 chapels, its massive, awl .111.v..1 p.i.. lantern tower, and the rich treu,i , silver vessels-- relics of a past sacristan displayed to us, ale . interesting to behold. Another great sight of Barz..- r or Carthu.siun convent of Mir d' • • about two mils from the t-oeri. r• beautiful Alameda, and then tio and barren waste of country. Ti, • as well as all the rest throughou• r. was suppressed some 41) years Air.. only tenanted by four monks, w wondrous chapel to visitors, with 1•. stalls, magnificent altar, and ex marble tombs of Juan 11. and Qu. Portugal, considered to be the ti: Burgos itself so urs to be a der :eye no commerce of any kind. It se..:: gars and numerous idlers—pi. wrapped up in long brown du ...- browner than their swarthy fa.. • . manage to arrange in geseeitil peaked broad-brimmed hats, au I •• entirely ceinposed of many-colour .1 The departure from a Spanish rai:, quite as disagreeable as the arri . .. one small yurehtt fur the sal.• f t classes. There is nothing to side one is expected to approach it : less traveller who conies up to it cne is refused a ticket, and oblig..l last place in tle.. 4144, 410 at the other the third-class passengers are the a imaginable, against which, in our reach the ticket-office. we are wine most unpleasant proximity. Besides who are sorei-ebh travellers, beggars o tious are allowed to enter the stag their idle trade among the paeseug snatching the money out of your haw eels e change after paying for ticket small and confined waiting-room, in w tit ion about three feet high alone se; three classes, one is alone free fret mentors, the pests of Spain. It is imposieble to conceive anything or desolate than the central region of peninsula; scarcely a tree is to be sec seeintry is of one uniform brown, scattr with huge rocks, with here and they village. Over this plain the wind terrific violence. Valladolid is the old capital of S.l interesting city to visit, not only from associations, but also from the quain architecture of many of its strtvts public buildings and churches. The I is a handsome old square, with colonnade and a good public garden in the centre the best shops, and of an evening both colonnades are crowded.as it seems to be and fashionable resort of the inbabi city. It is interesting for many hist. which took place on it, but especially scene of the first auto du it in Si several Lutherans were burnt in the Queen Juana. The town seems to be from the dead state in which it has ref many centuries. There are several mans here. and quite an air of bustle and activi quaint and narrow streets. The Alaniedas nienades by the river side are well laid platted, but tlu• weather W3A too Cr them. Beggars positively swarm here. threatens to be most serious. and the of Valladolid has just put out an earn. urging the faithful in his diocese t. largely towards the relief of their poet ing brethren. On my journey from Valladolid same dreary scenery continued. In there was, however, a sort of sava t about it. rocks were piled on rocks in desolation, and the dark line of the &stint fortued a gloomy anti not unfitting bad:gr.:it: so inhospitable a landscape. The exit... Lt.. •l• netts of the atmosphere cannot help strikmz most unobservant traveller. and at ,tim•:.•• sunset the glorious tints which are ,pr, ,ad this far-extending scene of wild rock. m and desert are really magnitieent. ! ,7 • passed by any I have elsewhere seen. Avila is said to be One of the mo.t titles in the world; in its dark narrow stne:• • • se, ins earned back to the middle age.. 1 • antiquary and evelesiologist it is one of interesting , cities in Slain. Tlir eathear.:l. in l lull, with its thin granite aisle% :mil 51.1. stained-omi. is grand in the extreme : So: of the churches—runny nearly in nuns marvels of early Gothic art. The inhabitants ,t: as picturesque in their appt•artt a 0... m a . 0 thoroughly back% aid , as their ruined oi l . The inn in which we slept carried tts back 1.• t!t • day of Oil Blas tend the Knight of 1.:1 Mr. John Bright, 31. P., and Mn.. Bright, 4.1 , the NI shy,. Z . ...ex. left Torquay yostently. • Dlr. Street is engaged in the repair of Abbey. The Re rate rt Gazette des Tlu'afreg autiounee4 that English company has offered Mlle. Nilsson 100,00 francs a month for a four months' tour in Durland au/ prop I, to continence at the conclusion of her engage. neat at her Majesty's, Since the death of Mr. Charles Kean. his widow has restored to Mr. Lovell the copyright of the tan' dramas. TA.. Seen: and The Taal of Gov. ~.I:lnursar, are glad to think there is a chance ot these works being n•pnescuted before long upon* I cotton stage. The collection of prints which was COMO-lea in the Slade gift to the 'British Museum will shortly be dis played to the public in the King's Library of that imatu• bon. The department of manuscripts, British Museum, has received more than 300 Ethiopic MSS. which were so cured at llagdala. These writings were examined iu Abyssinia by Mr. Holmes and found t„ , comprise Items which are of great antiquity. 111 r. 11. W. Longfellow is now staying at the Hotel Windom., I'aris. Qt' EENSTOW N. ot 1% 17. The Nut . al Steam ship Company's steamship F.rin. from New York. arrival oft this port at I o'clock this m ttttt ing. She lauded pas sengers, and proceeded for Liverpool. AU well. • )1.1(111 hit it r.) ILA, 11. 7 . 11.,14. to al ! , vitli a, :• SI•iI INllll.+l, h4111..,r 1.. ivnal r... . • 16 li:r4 tlr y g 4ll r i f s n'141,, ro•1•14 and Swit/, r. Ti ✓ryinz Lig •,11) • or I. • - , ti r • 1. it- • t. ✓. • t* : I. • .• • a • , i: • • r.l • t:. r. t : • it •a: ix: .1 1 wltle •z tiltk •• del OP,- rg 4 . station 1: . iseugers, • hand as y • rickets. 1:. in which a P separates • • from these • - Ling more . L of the St s:. • ) seen, w cottered there a t. ud sweei”. A f Spain. •om its hi? . uaint in. I. • .-ets and 1:- • M nnades : . entre. IT -• . both gar•it s . tobe the g• habitants historical eL 11y as beim; • o Spain—w • the pm... :: • ) be res., . as i . el =undo,: 7' • d activity •• • tinnedae or - !U laid out to cold to er.: ere. The tan'. the Archte.s': otrnest ! , e to to mtrib:.• pos:r 111‘i surf r- sl to Avi:l, In soint• 1.-L::- avage ' 3 itt the i • • 1 7.