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Two Emma, JAC IC 0' LANTERN ; OR. THE RACECOURSE AND TUN BLUE RIBBON OY THE TURK—Mr. and Sire 31•IIa16e: the Clutmptua Skaters of England.—And THE Colt BRAN BILLI ER& MOD WATER AT LONDON BRIDGT. MB DAT —Morning, Sh. 31m.— —Afternoon, oh. 10m. TO-11101ROW—Morning, Oh. 40m.. _Afternoon, 100. 22m. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 26. THE third reading of the Church Rates Aboli tion Bill by a majority of 30 in a House of 228, and the withdrawal of all rival or palliative schemes, seem to mark a new stage in this long controversy, and to presage its early termination. The opponents of Mr. HARDVANTL EN Bill appear to have satisfied themselves that there is no alter native between the maintenance of the present law and the total cessation of the power to levy Church-rates. Looking at the history of the controversy, it is not surprising that they should have come to this conclusion. They have had every opportunity of framing middle plans, and the House has again and again shown by un mistakeable signs how much it would prefer a com promise to the absolute triumph of either party. More than this, the very opponents of Church rates were quite willing to forego the complete assertion of their principles for the sake of obtain ing a practical settlement of the question. It will be remembered that the proposition that compulsion as a means of securing payment of the rate should cease, the machinery of the system being left standing for those who chose to resort to it, came from Mr. BRIGHT ; also that last year Mr. HARDCABTLE sacrificed the chances of the session in order to give the friends of Church-rates time to agree upon a scheme, and that nothing was done in this direction. There are those who fancy that if Mr. BERES FORD HOPE, Mr. HUBBARD, and Mr. WALDE ORAVE LESLIE had foreseen the enactment of Household Suffrage in 1867, they would have induced their friends to agree upon some com promise before the question was placed wholly beyond their control. But this is to suppose that the difficulty was wholly or mainly par liamentary, whereas we believe most who have looked into it will be satisfied that it is practical and parochial. The principle of exempting the Dissenter from payment of Church - rates has long been agreed to by all parties in Parlia ment, and the question which has troubled the pro-rate party has been how to let him go without at the same time giving up a hold upon the Churchman. It was impossible to sup pose that a great controversy could long be arrested on account of such a detail. And, besides, it wan certain that in the end the Churchman mast be left as free as the Dissenter. If the noncon formist, separated in many cases by only a slight shade of opinion or feeling from his episcopalian brethren, was to be absolved from payment of rates, it was impossible that the Low Church layman should be bound to contribute to the maintenance of an elabo rate and offensive ritual, and teaching which he regarded as un-protestant and erroneous, on pain of being deprived of his right as a Churchman. We have probably seen the last of these devices for putting a yoke upon Churchmen from which Dis senters are relieved. The ePect of the Church rate system has been to tempt members of the Church of England to forget that religion is worth paying for ; and this has placed the Church M a temporary disadvantage, from which it will recover as 110011 as its interests are seen to be thrown un conditionally upon the devoted loyalty of its chil dren. MERE can be no doubt about the reality of the barbarous treatment to which the Jews are continually subjected in the Danubian Princi palities, and just as little that the Government of that State is wilfully a party to it. But neither the unanimous voice of European opinion nor the remonstrances of the Great Powers of Western Europe have hitherto availed to induce Prince CHARLIM and his minister Ba.►Tuxo to do their duty. The authentic narratives of the per secution of the Israelites in Moldo-Wallachia read more like extracts from some chronicle of the dark ages than passages in the veritable history of the nineteenth century. The European Consuls of Galata have been compelled to join in a protest against events which took place in that port on the 14th of this very month, and which they thus relate : Eight or ten Jews were expelled the country on last Saturday by order of the local authorities. The police put them on board a small boat, and carried them to the Turkish side of the river. Amongst these poor people was an old man, so infirm that two persons had to help bin into the host. Instead of taking them to the Turkish station of Satoka, they were con. veyed by the soldiers in charge to an uninhabited island opposite Galata, which was inundated with witer, and landed in the marshes, as was done on previous occasions. The Turkish soldiers picked them op on Saturday, and brought them back to Galata, intending to leave theal at the station of the port-captain. Instead of receiving the outcast., who were now exhausted from fatigue, and who we are assured are Mohlo-Wallachian subjects, they were pushed back into the water with the butt-ends of muskets, and with bayonets. Two Jews, namely, the old man and a younger person, attempted to return to the Turkish vessel, but they were carried away by the current and drowned. The Rounian guard made no effort to save thew, although they sink near the bank, whilst the Turkish vessel made oil rapidly. The Mercury, a steam vessel be longing to the Austrian Danubian Company, got ready to THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1867. save them, but was too late. The remainder were at lest received and imprisoned, after having been left a long time in the water exposed to a burning sun. It would be well if this atrocity could be traced to some accidental and limited cause, but unfor tunately it is in perfect harmony with what is continually taking place throughout the country ; so that the Consuls have felt compelled to declare that "in presence of " the notorious persecutions to which the " Jews of this country are exposed, we con " eider it our bounden duty to protest with " energy, in the names of the Governments we " represent, against this act of barbarism, and to "throw before the civilized world the whole re " aponsibility of it on you, the Prefect, and on " the superior authorities." Facts like these go far to explain the wonderful tenacity of life which the Ottoman Government displays in spite of terrible abuses and organic weakness of the most alarming kind. It is be cause the Christians of European Turkey are such as they are that the Turk is able to maintain his ground as the only representative of the autho rity which is needed to restrain their habitual and savage intolerance. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EARLY YEARS OF THE PRINCE CONSORT. This morning was issued the volume which has been some time announced, entitled "The Early Years of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort.' • The work was originally compiled under the Queen's direction solely for private circulation amongst the members of her own family, or such other persons as, from the relations in which they had stood to her Majesty or to the Prince Consort himself, would naturally be inte rested in the story of his early days. The present volume is prepared, under the superintendence alluded to, by Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey ; but others which are to follow will be edited by Mr. Theodore Martin. The translation of the Prince's letters are, with a few merely verbal corrections, by Princess Helena. The possibility of a marriage between the Queen and the Prince was, it seems, fondly looked for ward to by the Dowager-Duchess of Coburg from a very early period, and the Prince used to relate that " when he was a child of three years old his nurse always told him that he should marry the Queen ; and that when he first thought of marrying at all he always thought of her." As the children grew up this idea was warmly encouraged by the King of the Belgians, from whom, indeed, the Queen first heard of it ; but the idea of such a mamage met with much op position, and the late King William IY. did every thing in his power to discourage it. No less than five other marriages had been contemplated for the young Princess; and the King, though he never mentioned the subject to the Princess herself, was especially anxious to bring about an alliance between her and the late Prince Alex ander of the Netherlands, brother to the present King of Holland. In his anxiety to effect this object he did everything he could, though in effectually, to prevent the Duke of Coburg's visit to England in 1836, when he came over with his sons and spent nearly four weeks at Kensington Palace with the Duchess of Kent. Queen Ade laide, in later years, said to the Queen that if she had told the King that it was her own earnest wish to marry her cousin, and that her happiness depended on it, he would at once have given up his opposition to it, as he was very fond of and always very kind to his niece. It was then that the Queen and Prince met for the first time, and her Majesty thus records her impressions of the visit ; The Prince was at that time much shorter than his brother, already very handsome, but very stout, which be entirely grew out of afterwards. He was moat amiable, natural, unaffected, and merry—full of interest in every thing, playing on the piano with the Princess, his cousin— drawing ;in short constantly occupied. He always paid the greatest attention to all he saw, and the Queen remem bers well how intently he listened to the sermon preached in St. Paul's, where he and his father and brother accom panied the Duchess of Kent and the Princess there on the occasion of the service attended by the children of the different charity schools. It is indeed rare to see a prince not yet 17 year► of age bestowing such earnest attention on a sermon. It was probably in the early part of 1838 that the King of the Belgians, in wilting to the Queen, tint mentioned the idea of such a marriage. Both the Prince and his father seem to have objected from the first to the proposal that a few years should elapse before the marriage should take place, he being then 18 years of age. "I am ready," ho said to King Leopold, " to submit to this delay if I have only some certain assurance to go upon. But if after waiting perhaps for three years I should find that the Queen no longer desired the marriage, it would place me in a very ridiculous position, and would to a certain extent ruin all the prospects of my future life." The Queen says she never entertained any idea of this, and she after wards repeatedly informed the Prince that she would never have married anyone else. She ex presses, however, great regret that she had not after her accession kept up her correspondence with her cousin as she had done before it. " Nor can the Queen now," she adds, Think without indignation against herself of her wish to keep the Prince waiting for probably three or four years, at the risk of ruining all his prospects for life, or until she might feel inclined to marry ! And the Prince has since told her that he came over in 1839 with the intention of telling her that if she could not then make up her mind she must understand that he could not now wait for a decision, as he had done at a former period when this marriage was first talked about. The only excuse the Queen can make for herself is in the fact that the sudden change from the secluded life at Kensington to the independence of her position as Queen regnant, at the age of 18, put all ideas of marriage out of her mind, which she now most bitterly repents. A worse school fora young girl, or one more detrimental to all natural feelings and affections, cannot well bo imagined than the position of a Queen at 18 with out experience, and without a husband to guide and sup port her. This the Queen can state from painful expe rience, and she thanks God that none of her dear daughters are exposed to such danger. In October, 1839, the visit to England was paid which decided the fate of the young Prince's life. Prince Albert was accompanied by his brother, and both were charged with a letter from the King of the Belgians to the Queen, in which he recom mended them to her kindness. "They are good and honest creatures deserving your kindness, and not pedantic, but really sensible and trustworthy. I have told them that your great wish is that they should be quite unbefangen (quite at their ease) with you. lam sure that if you have anything to recommend to them they will be most happy to learn it from you." The volume then proceeds to describe the recep tion given by the Queen to the Princes, and the way of life at Windsor during their stay. They arrived on the 10th October, and on the 14th the Queen told Lord Melbourne that she had made up her mind to the marriage. The courtier statesman expressed his great satisfaction. An intimation was given to the Prince that the Queen wished to speak to him next day. On that day, the 15th, the Prince had been out hunting with his brother, but returned at 12, and half an hour afterwards obeyed the Queen's summons to her room, where he found her alone. After a few minutes' conversation on other sub jects the Queen told him why she had sent for him ; and we can well understand," writes General Grey, " any little hesitation and delicacy she may have felt in doing so, for the Queen's position making it imperative that any proposal of marriage should come first from her, must necessarily appear a painful one to those who, deriving their ideas on this subject from the practice of private life, are wont to look upon it as the privilege and hap piness of a woman to have her hand sought in marriage instead of having to offer it herself." The Queen herself says that the Prince received her offer " without any hesitation, and with the warmest demonstrations of kindness and affection." The Queen told him to fetch his brother Ernest, which he did. In a letter to the King of the Belgians, which is given, the Queen announces what had occurred, stating that she loved the Prince more than she could say, and that ho seemed to have g reat , tact, " a very necessary thing in his position. The King, in reply, said that when he learned this decision be had almost the feeling of old Simeon, " Now latest Thou Thy servant depart in peace." From Prince Albert's own letters we learn something more of this in teresting interview. In a letter to his grandmother he writes : The Queen sent for me alone to her room a few days ago, and declared to me in a genuine outburst of love and affec tion (Ergusse von Herslichkeiti mid Liebe) that I had gained her whole heart, and would make her intensely happy (übergiucklich) if I would make her the sacrifice of sharing her life with her, for she said she looked on it as a sacrifice ; the only thing'which troubled her was that she did not think she was worthy of me. The joyous openness of manner in which she told ine this quite enchanted me, and I was quite carried away by it. She is really most good and amiable, and I am quite sure Heaven bee not given me into evil hands, and that we shall be happy together. • " The early Years of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort." Compiled under the direction of her Majesty the Queen, by Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey. Smith, Elder, and co. 1867. Since that moment Victoria does whatever she fancies I should wish or like, and we talk together a great deal about our future life, whirl she promises me to make as hippy as pomible. In another letter to a college friend he says : You know how matters stood when I last saw you here. After that the sky was darkened more and more. The Queen declared to my uncle of Belgium that she wished the affair to be considered as broken off, and that for four years she oould think of no marriage. I went, therefore, with the quiet but firm resolution to declare on my part that I also, tired of the delay, withdrew entirely from the affair. It was not, however, thus ordained by Providence, for on the second day after our arrival the most friendly demon strations were directed towards me, and two days later I was secretly called to a private audience, in which the Queen offered me her hand and heart. The strictest secresy was required. Ernest alone knew of it, and it was only at our departure that I could communicate my engagement to my mother. Many interesting passages from the Queen's jouvaal are then given relating to the announce ment of the marriage to the Privy Council and the parliament, and the preliminary arrangements. After the Prince returned to Germany the Queen corresponded constantly with him. The Queen seems to have been indignant at the time with the proceedings in parliament relative to the grant which was ultimately voted to the Prince. But the Prince himself, it is said, soon understood the nature of our political parties, and that " the proceedings in parliament were only the result of high party feeling and were by no means to be taken as marks of personal disre spect or want of kind feeling towards himself." After the marriage, which took place on the 10th February, 1840, the separation from his father, who returned on the 28th, was deeply felt by the Prince. "He said to me," the Queen records in her journal, " that I had never known a father, and could not therefore feel what he did. His childhood had been very happy. Ernest (the here ditary prince, who remained for some time in Eng land after his brother's marriage) he said was now the only one remaining here of all his earliest ties and recollections, but that if I continued to love him as I did now, I could make up for it all. Ho never cried, he said, in general, but Al vensleben and Kolowrath (they had accom partied the Duke to England, and now left ' with him) had cried so much that ho was quite overcome. Oh, how I did feel for my dearest, precious husband at this moment ! Father, brother, friends, country—all has he left, and all for me. God grant that I may be the happy per son, the most happy person to make this dearest, blessed being happy and contented ! What is in my power to make him happy I will do." The remaining chapters treat of the formation of the household, the settlement of precedence, and a general description of the mode of life which was led, with its well-regulated division of duties and amusements. The editor states that there were not wanting some who would have gladly kept Prince Albert permanently estranged from all public business, and " not only so, but who would have denied him even in the domestic circle that authority which in private families properly belongs to the husband, and without which it may be added there cannot be true comfort or happiness in domestic life." Tho Prince himself early saw the necessity of his asserting and claiming that authority. "In my home life," he writes to Prince Lowenstein, in May, 1840, " I am very happy and contented ; but the difficulty in filling my place with the proper dignity is that I am only the husband, and not the master in the house.' Pursuing this delicate topic, General Grey remarks : Fortunately, however, for the country, and still more fortunately for the happiness of the royal couple them selves, things did not long remain in this condition. Thanks to the firmness, but, at the same time, gentleness with which the Prince insisted on filling his proper position as head of the family, thanks also to the clear judgment and right feeling of the Queen, as well as to her singularly honest and straightforward nature ; but thanks, more than all, to the mutual love and perfect confidence which bound the Queen and Prince to each other, it was impossible to keep up any separation or difference of interests or duties between them. To those who would urge upon the Queen that, as Sovereign, she must be the head of the house and family, as well as of the State, and that her husband was after all but one of her subjects, her Majesty would reply, that she had so lemnly engaged at the altar to " obey" as well as to " love and honour" ; and this sacred obligation she could consent neither to limit nor refine away. From the first the Queen, acting on the advice of Lord Melbourne, communicated all foreign de spatches to the Prince. He described his own ob ject as having always been to sink his individual existence in that of the Queen, and so unreser vedly did she throw herself on his support that when suddenly bereaved of it, her Majesty patheti cally said " that it would now be in fact the begin ning of a new reign." It is stated in the work that the Queen up to the period of her marriage had indulged in strong feelings of political partisan ship, her sympathies being with the Whigs, but under Prince Albert's influence this feeling was gradually extinguished. The Prince on his marriage determined to stand clear from all political parties. Lord Melbourne, it is asserted, pressed the Queen to take the same course. He told the Prince that " he thought the time was come when her Majesty should have a general amnesty for the Tories ;" and on another occasion, in speaking of the Tories, against whom the Queen was very irate, Lord Melbourne said, " You should now hold out the olive branch a little." The Prince disliked the dirt and smoke, and still more the late hours of London, and the Queen records of herself that she soon began to share his love of the country. In an entry in her journal written in 1840, she says : I told Albert that formerly I was too happy to go to London and wretched to leave it, and now, since the blessed hour of my marriage, and still more since the summer, I dislike and am unhappy to leave the country, and could be content and happy never to go to town. This pleased him. The solid pleasures of a peaceful, quiet, yet merry life in the oonntry,with my inestimable husband and friend, my all in all, are far more durable than the amusements of London, though we don't despise or dislike these sometimes. As years went on this preference for the country on the part of the Queen grew stronger and stronger " till residence in London became posi tively distasteful to her." Her Majesty says in a note that it was also injurious to her health, as she suffered much from the extreme weight and thickness of the attnmphere, which gave her the headache. Residence in London was, in fact, "only made endurable by having her beloved husband at her side to share with her and support her in the irksome duties of court receptions and state ceremo nials." The Prince, however, was always anxious that the Queen should spend as much of her time as she could in London, though the sacrifice to him was so great. General Grey, commenting on the beauty of the domestic life of the royal family and the freedom of Prince Albert from the vices of former genera tions of the royal family, observes :—" Above all, he has set an example for his children from which they may be sure they can never deviate without falling in public estimation, and running the risk of undoing the work which he has been so instru mental in accomplishing." When the Princess Royal waa born, " for a moment only," the Queen says, " was he disap pointed at its being a daughter and not a son. During the time the Queen was laid up his care and devotion," the Queen records, "were quite beyond expression." He was content to sit by her in a darkened room, to read to her or write for her. A memorandum by her Majesty says : No one but himself ever lifted her from her bed to her sofa, and he always helped to wheel her on her bed or sofa into the next room. For this purpose he would come in @tautly, when sent for, from any part of the house. As yean went on, and he became overwhelmed with work (for his attentions were the some in all the Queen's subse quent confinements) this was often done at much inconve nience to himself, but he ever came with a sweet smile on his face. "In short." the Queen adds, " his care of her was like that of a mother, nor could there be a kinder, wiser, or more judicious nurse." The volume closes with the first year of her Ma jesty's married life : the next will probably com mence with an account of the Princess lto christening, in the beginning of 1841. The edition is a favourable specimen of English printing. Type, paper, and binding are good. Two engravings by William Holl, of Prince Albert at the age of four, and Prince Albert at the age of twenty, are beautifully executed. THE PROPOSED AIIEVIIMENTS TO TIIE REFORM BILL. The 7'imel selects from the numerous amend ments to the Reform Bill that of which Lord Hal'fax has given notice as the one which has the most reality about it. But it is essential that his lordship, in condemning the great scheme, shall submit an alternative one. If he per sists in bringing forward an abstract resolution he must Lail. He must make a distinct revelation of the objects he would attain before he asks the lords to condemn the government scheme. The time is pressing. Monday will be near the end of July, and he would do well u he made the outline of his plan public before the day of discussion arrives. UNIVERAITY TESTS. The Daily Nrl , B remarks that the equal division which took place last Wednesday upon Mr. Fawcett's motion for throwing open the fellowships and foundation scholarships of Trinity College, Dublin, to persons who may not be members of the church of England, symbolises the dead lock at which the subject of Irish national education has arrived. The existing arrangements are a compromise be , tween the mixed and the separate, the secu'ar and de nominational systems of education. A point has now been reached at which any further concession to one of these principles will give it the ultimate victory over its antagonist. The votes of the Roman catholic members on Wednesday confirm the view that the demand of the Roman catholic lalfy for the endowment of the catholic university was rather an expression of resentment at the exclusive sectarian privileges enjoyed by the church of England in Trinity College, and an assertion of the right of their own church to similar advantages, than due to any deliberate and fixed opinion in favour of the system of denominational, and against the system of united edu cation. Despite the vote of the House of Lords last night, the direction in which public opinion sets is unmistake ably in favour of establishing a system of state education open, on equal conditions, to all subjects of the state. This plan can alone claim to be truly national—either in principle or in the range of its operations. The Herald sa3s, that Dublin University was specially founded and endowed for the education of the protestant clergy, and it was just as unreasonable to propose that seats at its board should be thrown open to dissenters and catholics as it would be to demand that protestants should be admitted to the chairs at Maynooth, which enjoys an income from the state of very little less, according to the Irish Attorney-General, than the revenue which Trinity College derives from its estates. MO AND BET NN BANKRUPTCT. If the validity of the claim of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company against the estate of the above bank rupts be valid, the other creditors, remarks the Tim a, except those who may hold collateral securities, must re sign all prospect of a substantial dividend. If it be de feated, we infer from the statements of Memirs. Pettis solicitors that the assets, when realised, will go far to cover the liab;lities. It was, therefore, ab solutely necessary that all consideration of it should be postponed for the present, and it a.ll probably engross the attention of the court during the autumn. It is not without a sense of national humiliation that we contemplate the failure of a house which is identified with some of the grandest mechanical achievements of the present century. The fall of Sir 111Peto has probably been sa severe a shock to public confidence, in its own way, as that of Messrs. Overend and Gurney. It remains to be seen whether the lesson to be derived from it will be equally laid to heart. That lesson is the essential un soundness of " contractors' lines." Common sense tells us that a contractor's business is to execute works and receive payment for them, not to advance money or place shares on commission. 'ARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 23. TESTS ABOLITION (OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE) BILL. Moved, That the bill be now read it second time—(The Earl of Kimberley) ; objected to • an•l an amendment moved to leave out (" now") and insert (" this day three months")—(The Lord President) : On question, That (" now") stand part of the motion !—Contents, 48 ; not contents, 7L CONTENTS. DUICES. MARLA BISHOPS. LARDS. Devonshire De Grey (toiler) Cheater Overstate Grafton Granville Loudon. Ponsonby Nairn Albans Kimberley WEDS. Komilly Somerset. 'teller) Boyle tive and Selo MARQUISES. Lichfield Cianoys Seaton Camden )(Into Charlemont Somerhill Normanby. Morley Cran worth Stanleyof Alder- ZARLS. Russell Ebury ley Abingdon Spencer Gage fltratheden Airlio VISCOUNTS. henry , Sumeid Albemarle Falmouth Leigh Taunton Campernoreit nailing Lyvenden Vernon Dartrry Leinater. Mon son Wentworth. NOT-CONTENTS. AROllitalloP. rs KIS. BISHOPS. toßita. Canterbury. Cawdor Gloucester andDe Summates Litell A SCILLOR Dartmouth and Bristol Dfgby Chelmsford. Denbigh Oxford Fevershain lick Es. Devon Peterborough Fozford Beaufort Graham Logue. Bantams* Buckingham Home Arundell of Clay and Chandos Malmeshury Wardonr Hylton Marlborough NI anslield Begot Love' and Hal- Richmond Monvers Boston land 11ARaMC ISIS. Nelson Brancepeth Lyttelton Abercom Posts Cairns Penrbyn Exeter Romney (Mstlemalne Raglan COILS. Rome MMus Redesdale Amherst Shaftesbury Clements Saltoun Bathntst Stanhope Clonbrock Sllchester Beauchamp Tankerville. Ctancurry Sondes Bradford Sigeotd4lB. Colony Southampton Brooke and De Yawl Colville of Cul-Stewart of Gar- Ware ick (larding° rots teller) tics Carla jai Hawarden Crofton Strathualin Cardluan teller Denman Thuriow Carnamon Teinpletown De Roo Walsinghank PAIRS. ....—. Foit. AnsiXsr. Lord Harris Earl of Ellenborongh Lord Foley Duke of Rutland Lord Dv Table, Duke of Buccleach Lord Dunfermline Viscount Melville Earl of Zetland Earl of Selkirk Lord Methuen Lord Skelmersdale Marquis of Sligo Marquis of Winchester Lord Portman Lord Sherbome Viscount Eversley Lord R.ivensworth Duke of Argyll Lord Temp!emirs Marquis of Allesbury Earl of Enniskillen ford Churchill Earl of Coventry Marquis Comma/tam Duke of Manchester Lord Athlumney Lord Wynford Viscount Sydney Earl Lucan Lord Moatyn Lord Rollo Earl of Clarendon Viscount Exmouth It is stated that the works of the late Emperor of Mexico are about to be published in Austria, consisting of four volumes of memoirs, travels, and poetical effusions. The committee of the French agricultural exhi bitions notifies to the public that the competition of reap ing machines, which was postponed in consequence of the wet state of the ground, will take place on the imperial farm at Fouilleuse to-day and tomorrow. DISPRNRART FOR SKIN DISRARRS, 56, GREAT MARLBOROUGH -WAGE?, REGENT-STREW W.—Two bun drsd and twenty-fire patients were relieved et this dis pensary during the week ending July 20. THE PARKS REGULATION BILL. The following is a copy of the bill, as amended in committee, for the better and more effectually securing the use of certain parks sad gardens for the enjoyment sad recreations of her Majesty's subjects : " Whereas the parka and gardens named in the schedule hereto have been used for the enjoyment and recreation of Her Majesty's subjects, and it is expedient to make further provision for securing such user and enjoyment. Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : " 1. No meeting shall be held in any of the said parks or gardens for the purpose of making any political or reli gious demonstration, or for holding any political, religious, or other public discussion. Any meeting held in contra vention of this section shall be deemed to be an unlawful assembly, and any person knowingly joining or taking part in such meeting shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, sad may, either on summary conviction be adjudged to pay • penalty not exceeding ten pounds, or, in the discretion of the justices or police magistrate by whom the case is heard, may be committed for trial for the misdemeanor aforesaid. "2. All regulations made by her Majesty in relation to the use by the public of the said parks and gardens, and to the maintenance of good order therein, shall be under the hand of the ranger or keeper, where a ranger or keeper of any such 'park or garden has been appointed by her Majesty, and in other cases under the hand of the First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works and Public Building., or of the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Work., according as the parks or gardens to which such re gulations relate are under the management of the Com missioners of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, or of the Metropolitan Board of Works; and a copy of such regulations shall be published in the London Gazclie, and shall be put up in each of the parks or gardens to which the same apply, in such conspicuous place and manner as may from time to time be directed by the said ranger or keeper, or the said First Commissioner, or chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works. " 3. Any person acting in contravention of any regula• tion made by her Majesty in relation to the use by the public of the said royal parks or gardens, and to the ma4n tenance of good order therein, shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings. " 4. Any such regulation as aforesaid may be proved by the production of a copy of the Gazette containing such regulation, or by the production of a copy of such regula tion purporting to be printed by the printers of her Majesty. " 5. Nothing in this act contained shall be deemed to prejudice or affect any prerogative or right of her Majesty, her heirs or successors, in respect of the said parks or gardens. "6. This act maybe cited for all purposes u ' The Park, Regulation Act, 1867.'" Schedule referred to in Act.--St. James, Hyde, and Green Parks ; Kensington-gardens, Chelsea-gardens, Regent's-park, Victoria-park, Battersea-park, Greenwich park, Kennington-park, Kew-gardens, pleasure-grounds, and green; Hampton Court-park, Richmond-park and green, Bushy-park, Finsbury-park, and Southwark-park. Cite Court. OSBORNE, JULY 25. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon. The Might Hon. Spencer Walpole arrived yesterday, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the royal family. The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday morning, at tended by Captain Ellis. The Prince and Princess of Wales drove out in the afternoon. In the evening the Prince of Wales dined with the Duke of Cambridge at Gloucester-house. The Hon. Mrs. A. Hardinge has succeeded the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey, as lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Wales. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President and the Right Hon. H. Waddington. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Bass, Mr. Arthur Bass, Mr. Travers Smith, and Mr. Coson, had an interview with the Duke of Richmond, at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday, on the subject of trade marks. A deputation, consisting of the mayor of Newport (Mon mouth), Mr. C. 0. S. Morgan, M.P., and Colonel Poulett Somerset. M.P. ; also a deputation from the guardians and overseen of Tiverton and West Derby, introduced by Mr. Hont►ll, M.P., and consisting of Mr. Thomas Bird, Mr. Seep, Mr. E. Clements, Mr. Thomas Page, Mr. John Davies, and Mr. W. Parry, had each an interview with the Earl of Devon, at the office of the Poor Law Board, yes terday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governor-General of Canada. THE QUEEN AND THE SULTAN. We are authorized to publish the following telegraphic message from her Majesty to the Sultan on the morning of his Imperial Majesty's departure: "OSBORNE, JULY 23, 1867, 9 A.Y. " I offer to the Sultan my best wishes for his safe return home, and every good wish for his wel fare and happiness." To this message the Sultan telegraphed the follow ing reply : "BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JULY 23, 1867, 10.30 A.m. "Je remercie votre Majest4 de cette nouvelle marque de bienveillanoe quo je recois d'elle au moment demon dipart. Je reste D jamais re commissant de l'accueil cordial qu'elle a bien voulu me faire, ainsi que is royale famine et son people. Je fais des ' , me m( sineeres pour is conservation des prtccieux jowls de votre Majeat4, et je garderai un Bternel souvenir des joule agrdables que j'ai pass 6 stir le sol hospitalier de l'Angleterre. " ABDUL Aziz KHAN." [TRL.NSLATION.] I thank your Majesty for this fresh mark of kindness which I receive from you at the moment of my departure. I shall ever remain grateful for the cordial reception accorded to mo by you and by your royal family and people. I sincerely trust that the precious days of your Majesty will be pre served, and I shill retain an eternal recollection of the agreeable days I have spent upon the hospil. able soil of England. ABDUL AZIZ KuAN. THE EARL OF DERBY. —The Earl of Derby is confined to his bed by en attack of Boutin his elbow and hand. He wee seized with it on Tuesday night. The malady ban somewhat increased in intensity. It will pro bably be some days before his lordship can resume his place in the House of Lords. Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of Major-General William Anson MoCleverty being placed on the staff of the army in India as a lieutenant-general, with local rank, with the view to his commanding the troops in Madras. The name of Viscount Sydney, lord lieutenant of the county of Kent, should be added to the list of those who attended upon his Imperial Majesty the Sultan at his departure from Dover on Tuesday Mat. His Highness the Viceroy, prior to leaving Eng land, is said to have made arrangements for the admission of 20 Egyptian youths to one of our principal public school,. General Shale will receive from his nephew the own of 28,0001., bat not hisooots. _ Mdlle. Pauline Luoca's benefit at Covent Garden la Axed for to-night, when Pause will be played. The sea son will terminate to-morrow evening with Romeo and Jtdia. LATEST INTELLIOMME. (artnia's nu.= ism's.) FRANCE. PARIS. Jiff 53. The division of the Grenadiers of the Guard, the Artillery of the Guard, and the division of cm airy stationed at Versailles will be reviewed today by the Emperor in the Bois de Boulogne. THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JULY 241, The formal investiture of the Emperor with the order of the garter took place yesterday evening. Upon presentation of the insignia, the Marquis of Bath delivered a speech, assuring his Majesty that Queen Victoria gladly availed herself of the pre sent opportunity to confirm the alliance long subsisting between England and Austria. _ _ The Emperor in his reply laid grateful stress upon the value of the friendly assurance Ju s t re . ceived and added that no wish was nearer to his heart than to see the personal relations d rawn closer that connected him with the Queen. ITALY. FLORENCE JCL? N . The directors of the National Bank hare announced that the first half•yearly dividend for 1867 all be at the rate of 62fr. per share. CHINA. SHANGHAI, JUNE 7 (via Trieste). The arrangements made between the Tycoon and Sir Harry Parkes in reference to the establish ment of foreign settlements at Hoig and Osaka have been published. At the invitation [of Sir Rutherford Alcock, s committee of merchants has been formed for the purpose of suggesting alterations to form the sub ject of negotiation at the approaching revision of the treaty of Tientsin. The north of China is suffering from draught, and the price of food is riming. Tea at Hankow rules higher than was antici. pated, in consequence of Russian orders. It is expected, however, that the prices will be lowered. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, JULY 36. The National Steam - Navigation Company's steamship Erin, from New York, arrived here at 2 a.m. to-day, with 250,000 dole. in specie. She landed passengers and proceeded for Liverpool. (Per the Java.) NEW YORK, JULY 16, EVENING. The Senate, by 31 votes against 6, and the House of Re. presentatives, by 30 against 11 votes, have passed tas supplemental Reconstruction Bill with the amendments of the house. The bill has gone to the president. Congress has appropriated 1,000,000 dole. for the area. Sion of the Reconstruction Act. President Johnson, in reply to the congressional inquiry, sent a message to the Senate stating that the Reconstruction Act will necessitate da appropriation of 14,000,000 dollars, and that congress should consider whether by abrogating the coil governments in ten states the national government world not became responsible for the debts legally incurred by those States before the rebellion, amounting to 100,00000 dols., and thereby greatly impairing the national credit. The refusal of congress to guarantee those debts umiak* a violation of good faith and • repudiation of the lepl State debts by the national legislation. The Senate has instructed the Judiciary Committee le inquire whether Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware hue Republican forms of government. The House of Representatives has refused to order the evidence taken during the impeachment investigation to be printed. The house have rejected the resolution proposed by Mr. Munger, a democrat, asking for an investigation into the treatment of the rebel prisoners by the North. A resole. tion was afterwards passed declaring that the house would entertain no resolution implying other than humane treat• meat of rebel prisoners. The correspondence between Mr. Seward and Coked Naphegai, Santa Anna's agent, has been published. Naphegul, on the Bth instant, asked Mr. Seward to demand the release of Santa Anna, and rebuke Commander Roe on the grounds that Santa Anna had attempted under the protection of the flag, and in the presence and with the co-operation of the United States to foment civil war ts Mexico, and that only gre►t national injury would justify the United States in assuming a hostile attitude towards the republic of Mexico. It is reported rid Galveston that the French minister, M. Dano has been refused a passport. Juxrez is con& eating the catholic convents. Cortina. has been ordered to occupy the line of the Rio Grande. The late Emperor left by • ill 100,000 dollars to the widows of Mnawou and Mejia. The royal mail steamship Java arrived at Qucestora at 11.45 p.m. lut night, with 1.12 cabin pasurui;crs and 195,082 dole., and 4811. in specie. She landed 94 sacks of mails, 10 passengers, and proceeded immetli.ttely. well. She took on the mails for Liverpool and scothunl. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGIUPH.) NEW YORK, JULY 21, 44 P.M. Tho body of the Emperor Maximilian has bees embalmed, and has been brought to Vera Cruz. Closing prices :—Gold, 139 k. Sterling exchsine on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds, MS. Illinois, 119 ; Erie, 73. Cotton : Middling Up land, 27. PHILADELPHIA, Jur Petroleum, standard white, 32i. [This manage arrived in London at 9 mu. July 2411 WITHOUT PREJUDICE. —Dr. Sherry, of New York, in a letter to the Philadelphia Reports r coacemiag the present American movement for female physicists, writes that some twenty ladies prevented themselves ..t a surgical clinic and lecture in moot the New York ho pit The surgeon announced that the subject would be berms; and, not wishing to shock the delicacy of the fair auditah he suggested the propriety of their withdrawal. Sews' I hundred young men were present, and he thought it ca fitting that the young ladies should remain. They did eat retire, but occupied the nearest seat, while eightees male patients were exhibited, necesasrily in • state el nudity. At another hospital, lithoteniy was to be perfall 4 on a man. Eight members of "the little bend of true hearted women jut entering the medical pod. siimi," IT* peered to witness it. The surgeon, from motives of deb. racy, asked them to retire, and he sat down to await the result. But they moved not. He thereupon announced that, if they did not withdraw, the operation would he postponed or done privately. Then they left. It is im possible that any gentleman should make such a statement positively, and in a public medical journal, without being well assured of the facts ; but we are still so far behiwi hand in England, es to receive it with honor if not with incredulity.—British Medical Jaime. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.- - The following gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations fur the diploma were admitted members al the college, at a meeting of the Court of EXRlllitliff out the 24th instant, viz:—Mews. Oswald Henry Foster, M.A., cantati, Hitehin, Herta ; Augustus Wells, Sniper. New South Wales; Frederick Aubrey Thomas. L.R.C.S.. and L.R.C.P.. Edinburgh,Devanport ; and William Henry Rawlings, Liskeard, Cornwall. students of Cuy's fiewpwi! Charles Dennis Hill Drury, Newcastle ; George Geldart, North Shields ; Edward Bray Pellew, Gateshead. and George Bolton, Sunderland, of the Newcastle school. James Peter Byrne, Gleneslg, 00. Wicklow ; and Tb°" l4B Costley Bailey, Penrith, of the Detain school. Joseph Moore, Manchester, and Edward Reginald Johnson. in" wy, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Charles Ogden. Rochdale, of the Liverpool school. Francis Haworth Heyoock, Pytehley, Northamptonshire, of the Edinburgh school. Louie Mare Le Grand de la Liraye, L.R.C.F. London, Paris, of University College. Henry Waltman' , Preston, Imacashire, of St. Thomas's Regrind. Jade Thomas Hughes, M. 8., Aberdeen, Llanrwst. North Wa h "' of the Aberdeen school. Robert Lewis Willcox. L.S.X. Wareham, Dorset. of King's Colleeggee Thomas stew dish, Dudley, of the Birmingham LAW lb (T EQII (Before Vioe-Cha TWFIBORNIt r. Sir R. Palmer, Q.C., Q.C., and Mr. C. Barbel these causes, applied to a special examiner, piny Mr. G. M. Gifford. Solicitor-General (Mr. Webb, for the plaintiff, to consent to the apt examiner; but he had n would be proposed. Sir R. Palmer said he motion should be heard f Mr. Gifford said tha pointed, he did not see could come on then. motion day before the va desirous to crossexamine Sir R. Palmer said he t friend wished to have t h e some way or the other be The Vice-Chancellor s the parties had better set once. After some farther eon • The Vice-Chancellor mi examiner ; and it wu its bar had been applied to, to set. Mr. W. M. James, Q.C. other defendauta. VICKES The plaintiff, Edward James N ickers, are broth tiller,' business in Alders, Edward. and in that deed should be at liberty to upon which notice Edward re-purchase at a valuation by two valuers." In use James was to be at liberty t. 4 be relieved from certain on What happened was, the tJ, Edward toelect. Edwardel were appointed, when Jam would not go on with the to file a bill, when some fr and a new agreement wee was to pa Edward cer In full duchargs of all prepared to carry out this their respective attorneys, whereupon this bill wa s of Edward to have specific agreements ; that James II the valuation, or if not t whichever agreement JILL bound by he might be den Mr. W. M. James, Q.( Denney, were for the plait Kay, Q.C., and Mr. C. Ha The defences were three the valuation fell short of bitration, and was not a o perform specifically ; secon ment was verbal only, ru frauds ; and thirdly, that the defendant to execute t At the conclusion of the The Vice-Chancellor sai second agreement. The case was argued on t The Vice-Chancellor, in said that under the peculiar rangements were provided if they could not agree, an forcing the other side to wu reluctantly *lmpelled say that here there was r could enforce and the bill x daring the conduct of the COURT OF PROB, (Before the .1 HIJTLICT r. TI . The Attorney-General, D Mr. Crossley for the axonal Dr. Tristram for the with Coleridge, Q.C., Mr. Day, a This wu a suit relating to provision merchant in Bloc] last. He had began life as of a cheesemonger, but be h nen on his own account, worth 140,0001. l i nT e a rtY short timo ago be and had executed a will leav three months after his des to Mr. Timms, her first I Probate was resisted by th ground of incapacity, and Motley did not know or sr will. The opposition was, howe opening of the cue, and The court decreed probate. THE POLI( (THIS SEANSIOI UNLAWFULLY PoBBErf A shabby-looking young Taylor', was brought before 1 of being in possession of a c stolen. It appeared that in Septen had her pocket picked of th was drawn upon the kept an account. The ch bank, but nothing was Ia afternoon, when the prisoner on his being questioned, bet from a lady, who had purehm for 10/., and he gave her ten said that this lady was an en did not know where to find lady who lost the cheque hod not likely to return to Engles Alderman Lusk committed BOW-S 7 GALLANT RESISTANCN AN I William Webster, a smart charged with highway robber Mr. John Wolf, en elderly ford -square, stated that bet we he was on his way home, ant street into Carolinestreet, he men were hovering about urn street, one of them ( the priaonei twoof theothers static:Rung thei that he was brought to a at: seized his watch, and tore it eye -glass fell to the ground, determined not to low his prof it from him again. The prism pursued him , and though the ground by one of tl . wan 'up again in a second, He thought he must have hit events he staggered back a ben at liberty to continue boner. The prisoner, finding on him, lay down on tl ecostable of Hanway-street, al of, " Stop thief," Came u p and QM:erste struggle succeeded, man, in conveying him to the a was worth 53f., and witness ha at the time. Middleton, the local constab roborated. The prisoner was remanded. WANDSW ALLEOF.D MATH Or A WIVE Ft HUNRA: Richard Roberts, a shoemake road, Nine Elms, was brought yesterday by Mr. Selfe, charge is his wife, Maria Roberts, wh In this ease it was o'ilerved tl had refused to hold an inquest 'dosed to give a certificate as ti The first witness examined f ciligent little girl, aged ii ye Prisoner, and she stated that nether died she was at No. 1 thought it was in the mornim front room on the sofa. She it) in her arm s as silo was be . would t a k e t h e b aby to I Crn mother said he should I take tbe ild away, an then kn elt her MI 41 the sho ch ulder. He ell t broet. He got the baby from we kept kneeling upon her, an , t ben put both his bands upon 1,0 frightened that she ran doe to •• little girl, and went a Mother had no black eye whe when her grandmother came s on her mother since, as she cc The prisoner said he did not i a mistake. Three medical men coroner's officer, and there was Mira Snellin, the grandrnothi the deceased she had a dreadfi told the doctor who attended I