The Express. — London, England, 1868-05-15 00:00:00

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A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; and General Intelligence, re POBLIiHE/ EVERY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, MA Y 15. M. PH lERS ON THE l'• , M .fre E TREATY. No ft ngliah Liberal can rem; Inc great speech delivered in the Corps Lt:gislatif on Wednesday last by M. without mingled feelings of admiration and astonishment—admiration at the consummate cleverness of the speaker ; astonish ment at the economical doctrines professed at this date by one of the ablest and most accomplished liberal statesmen of the constitu tional monarchy. But this astonishment would sot be justified by an attenti.e study of M. TEisies* public and political Met:. Although • Liberal in the face of democratic imperialism, a devoted adherent of parliamentary at op posed to personal government, of public liberties as opposed to arbitrary administrative repression— the historian of the Consulate anti the Empire was always and is still an economist of the ago of COL- Ansa, and, in regard at least to the foreign relations of his country, it statesman of the age of Lorvots. these idiosyncraciee of M. TV:re, an Wel! UN 4erstood and fairly iippreciated by on: Elde aNlidebt contemporaries over the water, and go far. in their judgment, 1., deproye his arguments against free amnia:rem' recipro city of any weight attaching to hit mar- l Br: 3P:s the House of Commons was made angry last night by Col one l K NOX , h on. mem b ers had venom skill in the distribution of taliacious been it: a particularly g o od t emper , an d h a d figurtw and the statement ..- facts doabtful dulged in the conve n ti ona l Parliamentary in valuejocu- and authenticity. They cai. taste ion/ enj o y larity which accompanies a discussion upon the the charm of his incomparably (!ear arc easy conversational eloquence being s h ocked accommodation of the House, or upon statues at the staleness and sterility of theor.es, and and pictterme Mr. B. Ossoatte, who is the star, the incurable obstinacy of the chnole.te prejudices I returned his thanks to "the hon. member who which he mistakes for princit.ler.. Barely, if "so well represented the kitchen department," our friends the free-trader s can bear I and att r ib u t e d th e l onger lif e o f t h e Lords to the reason that they so seldom dined i n th e H ouse. tho onslaught of s o e m i nent ant : f orna id a t i : e a I No c .:Istitutional assembly in the world is h ouse d, protecti on i s t as M . THIF.P.- wan as much equa nimity as a French army armed with Uheasepota he says, in so uncomfortable and unhealthy a place. might bear the brunt of a ('...him-Chinese artillery, The new arcade is ruining the facade of the they may well believe that dminuclation of the I building. The statues in Westminster Hall C . ommercial Treaty of I Soft wit.: crane uu othuf feel- are 3 811." .listigllretnent. The ventilation Mut to England than that of regret at the utitiO anoe lof the house is simply disgraceful. Mr. Her Pi ET _LAMENT.II:I AN.4. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY -EVENING, MAY 1 had received an additional sum for his fuseccea, but than what an ill-used man was Mr. M4cuss But, be he painter, sculptor, or -.whited who executes commission for the Mouse of Commons, it he is praised by coo audios* he ia certain to be censured by the ',ext.. Sir °mono' Bowysie, who quite agrees with Mr. Oseoitus about the statues, and who thinks it incongruous to place in a Gothic hall, erected in the time of RICHARD II. —or, as Mr. LOCKE says, in the time of WILLIAM RUFUS—statues costumed in the sty le of the reign of GEORGE 111. , has a poor opinion of MecLima's frescoes. They are too crowded. He " did not believe that when WsLimin " rot; and BLueur.a met they had to walk " their horses over dead bodies." "They never Met " at Waterloo at all," exclaims Mr. OssoaNs, de serting the artist at a pinch. But Sir GEORGE BOWYER'S bete noir is the ladies' gallery. Every session he vows vengeance upon that miserable place in which ladies are cooped up behind a grating ; but the gallant baronet never chal lenges a vote upon the subject. His speeches may be amusing, but meanwhile his fair clients are suffering. Mr. OISHORNE having set up the statues, a general pelting began. Mr. Mounties believed they were originally intended for the Royal Gallery, but that place not being adapted to receive them, they had been " wandering about under " the guidance of the First Commissioner of " Works." Hon. members returning after the recess, had been astonished to find five of these marble statues placed upon permarent pedes tals, and one of CHARLES 11., with his favourite spaniel, in " plaster," on a temporary pedestal. Mr. LOCKE defended the statues and the site, but in dubious terms. There were two things, he said, in the hall to attract attention—the statues and the applestall, and the attention of the public was divided between them. The bronze statue of Sir ROBIRT PEEL, just unveiled in Palace-yard, encounters a storm of ridicule as the tarpauling is pulled away. Mr. LAYARD had a round of cheers last night when he declared that no statue so dis creditable to the art of this country, had ever been raised, and Mr. C. BENTINCK hastened to assure him that he would find on to-day's votes a motion for its removal. Alderman feels most the inconvenience of existing arrange ments when summoned to the presence of the Lords. At a moment when the hon. member for Finsbury would stand with all his natural advantages upon him, he is penned up, he says, disgracefully, and the &uaint is pushed for ward like a prisoner at the dock. The vitality of certain grievances is remarkable. One would almost be excused for thinking they were kept up for the sake of the speeches. which puts I upernilisni in the right, and ;aid of :he Liberal imposition the wrong, before the enlightened public "pinion of Num., There we confidently assume, no reasonable ex i nectation of the liberal commercial policy initiated • by the Second Einpirebeingreversedbya Legislative Body composed fur the most part of Government ; nominees. hi spite of the complaints and grie 4Vancee of a certain number •if manufacturers, we believe, moreover, that the great majority of the Fri.nch people, the consuming, and even the trading classes, would not desire that jedicy to be reversed. - But in env caee we cannot have the slightest hesitation 111 affirming that on this side of tlie Channel there is no other wish on the subject than that the French people Sly , ild be in a condition to I • manage their own :efairs and : own fortunes at their ddiissrresetioonf, their that r °thing almuld occur to reanimate old grudges happily extinct, and to revive old jealousies which have no "tore right or reason to exist at this time of day than sailing packets between Dever and Calais, or diligences between Calais and Pert'. Certainly it is trim! no disrespect for M. In; VP • that hnglish free-traders would de- I cline tii waste wools ui combating his proterticnimt doctrines. They would simply point to the tables of the French emorts and imports, an ask him whether. even in the narrow ground which he tames iip, the ease of his clients is sup ! ported by the facts, and whether supposing, par ire- I I le oil' e, that the Parliament to be elected by the new rconstituencies in England should be disposed to : cancel the policy of en!ir,EN and of PEEL, it would not be in a position to contend that France had been et feast no loser by the liberation of `the industry of both countries from restrictive im pediment!' on mutual interceurse and exchange. Very possibly the Commercial Treaty may have discouraged ur disorganised for a while certain branches of native French industry, accustomed to breathe the closest atmoispliere of high and hostile tart if ~ But we are satisfied that the French econoausta will have no difficulty lin showing that this discouragement and this ditierganitation have been partly the result of bad habits ALAI old pre, 'dices, partly of a series of calamitous events over the operations of which the Commercial Treati could have no control. Many of thane manufacturers who are now complaining so angrily in the Chamber were, like wilful and frac tious children, determined from the first to make the worst of it, :intl. instead of manfully meeting their friendly rivals and competitors, to moan over their betrayal to this new English invasion. In 1846 it was common enough among the "farmer's " friends" in the British Parliament to declare that the repeal of the corn laws would make England a desert. Happily they base recovered their courage and good sense, and have lived to see a larger growth of wheat and barley and a more equal rate of agricultural prosperity than they had !mown in the heat days of protection. There ; have ocieti moments, indeed, within the last few years when not an agricultural but an industrial community has been temptei to attribute its par tial and temporary distress to the French treaty. There is not in the whole long list of woes whieh the French protectionists attribute to that treaty, a single one which has not fallen with equal severity pm the English manufacturer. The cotton. iron, and shipping trades have all been delireased to a degree greater here than there, in proportion to the relative importance of 1 these interest; im one side of the Channel and the other. The American war affected Lancashire at least as severely as [to ten or Roubaix. The iron trade has actually lourished in the French mines, while .t was languishing in our own North country. The machine department in the great Exhibition last yisar bore witness to the coniiuests of the French iron manufacturer The French shipping trade has not suffered as it has suffered in the Thames. English industry has had hard and trying times to traverse Hi:/ce 1860. But who in England dreams of accusing the Commercial Treaty of the conse quences of the American war, of bad harvests, of the financial crisis in the City, and, worse than all, of tleo fetal m - icertainty of European peace Who in England accuses the Commercial Treaty of the ramous results of excessive speculation ? To anyone who has the most ordinary acquaintance with the conditions of French agriculture, or of French shipping, it must seem the height of aleourditi to assign the inferiority of either to the English, to the fact that French farmers are now piircliasing implements from England at a moderate price, or that English merclia , :t :Mips are not prevented from carry ing cargoes into French harbours. French shipping hasalwai been protected andadruiniatered todeath, and if . is not a commercial treaty that threatens to kill it. Flue MiN'44l , f Pof CostsilEPst, we observe, was truprident enough to charge the Protectionists with :, eolitical attack upon the government under a commercial pretext. This accusation was not only imprudent, but irijust. The principal protee tionista in the Chamber are among the stanchest ' suppirears of tie Second Empire. And it is pre • cisely because they have not had the clearness or inciaiweilence of jiniguieut to discover the real origin if half their sufferin gs , an d h ave not I even IN the mural courage to denounce it, that lone., in their mouths, all the dignity !welt, in default of arguments, it bur -1 rows ft-on. the closing passages of M. THIERWS speedo, where lie exposes with unanswerable force th.e difficulties and dangers of the I political sit matiou of Europe which the personal policy of the ,second Empire has created. English free traders will gladly join M. TuiERS in condemn ing a government whose best acts are badly done, whichaffeeting the prerogatives of a supernatural in , deserves to be charged, by ignorance or by malice, with all the calamities no human govern ment eau anticipate or prevent, and which—by execs./ea a expenditure and riotous financial gam bling. a policy it home which is neither honest liberty nor absolute repression, a policy abroad • which is neither pace nor war—robs industry and ,xnanier-e of the , ecurity and confidence which are as ti, brua , h of life to labour and to capital • alike. COLONEL STUART KNOX, M.P. Is the admirable operetta founded on Bo r and Co.c, the part of the landlady, Mrs. Borst se, is suppressed, and its place supplied by an irrepres-1 sible military gentleman called Knox, who at ' every emergency sings the chorus " Rataplat." The complaints, the grievances, the troubles, the loves, the hates, and the embarrassments of the two heroes are perpetually interrupted by a mar tial figure who, without intelligence to understand or sympathy to divine the situation, chimes in with his eternal " Rataplan," as if it were a panacea. His delightful self-consciousness and profound belief in his own importance make this interpolated character as amusing as either the journeyman hatter or his rival, and when the Pend staff played at the Adelphi, " Ksox's" interruptions were the delight of a crowded house. Can it be possible that the designer of this character was impertinent enough to have the honourable and gallant member for Dungannon in his eye 4 The coincidences between the two are remarkable. Colonel STS: ART Ktrox's " Rataplan " is made up of the forms and ceremonies of the House ; and is not musical ; but in other particulars be plays the part of his prototype to the letter. I In season and out of season, at grave constitu tional crises, and when the occasion is too trivial for remark, when the House is absorbed in fierce party conflict, and when it is good-humouredly anxious to get its business done, the figure of Colonel STUART KNOX is to the fore. With a Rataplan to the SPEAKER, and another to the Orange members, he bravely puts himself up to be crushed by Mr. GLADSTONE or pounded by Mr. BRIGHT. The three thousand and odd inhabitants of Dungannon must have a mournful satisfaction in the knowledge that their fleeting representative still treads upon the legislative coat, and that their little borough is emphatically dying game. Its guerilla chieftain exceeded himself last night. As there was no obsolete l oath he could ask to be read, no constitutional custom he could object to, no form of the House he could endeavour to use ; and as vexatious and irrelevant interruption is part of his Parliamentary nature, he read ex tracts from a speech made by Mr. WHITESIDE in 18.;6, and declared them to have been delivered by Mr. GLADSTONE in 1835. This proceeding occurred apropos of the Suspensory Bill, but it would have been equally appropriate had another subject been before the House. It gave Colonel i Ksox, who must have been hoaxed by some ,me, •an opportunity of committing himself, of in terrupting, and of being laughed at and put down, and was thus in strict accordance with pre cedent and routine. IT will be seen that the oompromise which we stated yesterday would be proposed on the subject of the Boundary Bill was, last night, agreed to by the Government, and that, accordingly, no trial of strength took place. There ap pears meanwhile to be an intention on the Govern ment side of the house to waste the time and block up the business. Nearly two hours were lost in ridiculous oommenta and motions on the introduction of the Suspensory Bill. The intention is to prevent the mea sure from passing the Commons ; but the effect, by delaying other bills, must be to greatly increase the difficulties of a dissolution in the autumn. On the Liberal benches there is a unanimous desire to proceed speedily with the business. LORD RODIN.—The health of thin nobleman in rapidly improving. Several days last week his lordship took carriage exercise through Dundalk and the neigh bourhood.—Newry Telegraph. THE LATe Sin PIETER FAIRRAIRN. —Yesterday • fine full-length statue of the kte Sir Peter Fairbekn, the father of the present Mayor of Leeds, was displayed in that town. The statue, which was obtained by a voluntary subscription, is the work of Mr. Noble, the sculptor. It is an exoellest likeness, and has been erected on • suitable site in Caledewharroad, not very far from the Town-hall, in a westerly direction. The statue was un covered by Alderman Newsy, the chairman of the oom.' mittee, who delivered a bf address on the mosaics, as did also Alderman Kahan, Yr. W. Fairbeim, of Man chester, Mr. Firth, J P., the present Mayor of Leeds, and ether gentlemen. The statue, when is in bronze, mounted on a polished granite pedestal, has cost 1,0001., and bean the following inscription Sir Peter fralrhairn, Bark. M.yor of Leeds, 1857 and 1858. This statute wan erected by public subscription by his fellow-towsinnee." She deurt. WINDSOR autos sus 14. The Quoit, accompanied by Nitta:tea Louise, Princess antries, and Prises Leayobk id attended by the ladles and gentlemen in waiting, 4cred at this-Death at 5 o'clock last evening from Buckingham Palace.' Her Majesty drove out this atendag, amempaaied by Prince.. Beatrice. Priam. Louise oleo drover out. The Hon. Mrs. William Grey had the honour of *mom panying her royal highness. The Queen held a council to-day at halipast 2 o'clock, at which were present the Lord President, the Duke of Buckingham and Ohandos, the Bari of Bradford, and the Duke of Beaufort. Previous to the council the Duke of Marlborough and the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos had audiences of the Queen. The Marquis of Salisbury arrived at the Castle and wu introduced to the Queen by the Lord Chamberlain to deliver up the insignia of the Order of the Garter worn by his father the late Marquis of Salisbury. The Earl of Rosebery also arrived and was introduced to her Majesty by the Lord Chamberlaio, to deliver up the insignia of the Order os the Thistle worn by his grand father, the late Earl of Rosobery. After the council the Dube of Marlborough was intro duced to the Queen by the Lord Chamberlain—Sir Charke Young (Garter King at Arms) being present—and her Majesty invested the Duke of Marlborough with the Itiband and Badge of the Order of the Garter. The Duke of Athol* was also introduced by the Lord Chamberlain—Sir John Richardsce (Secretary of the Order of the Thistle) being apresent—and her Majesty invested the Duke of Athole with the insignia of the Order of the Thistle. Vice-Chancellor Giffard and Mr. Julies Hunan were introduced by the Lord Chamberlain and severally had the honour of knighthood conferred upon thew by her Majesty. The Queen afterwards held a court to receive an asidre - sa from the Prelates of Ireland, relative to the established church in Ireland, and also an address from the Corpor►- tion of the City of Dublin upon she recent attempt upon the life of the Duke of Edinburgh. The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos was in attend ance upon her Majesty during the presentation of the ad dresses. The prelates from Ireland, headed by the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin, and accompanied by the Arch bishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishops of Lou don, Orford, and Carlisle, were introduced by the Lord Chamberlain, and presented their address to her Majesty. Her Majesty received the address, and returned a gracious answer. The deputation from the corporation of the City of Dublin, headed by thetLord Mayor, was then,introduced by the Lord Chamberlain, and his lordship presented the ad dress of the corporation. Her Majesty received the address, and returned a gracious answer. The Lord Mayor of Dublin wee then presented to her Majesty by the Lord Chamberlain, and received the honour of knighthood. After which his lordship presented the mover and seconder of the address to her Majesty. The deputation then retired. A guard of honour of the Coldstream Guards, with the band of the regiment, was mounted in the quadrangle of the Castle. The Prinoess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield. In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales went to the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden. The Countess of Macclesfield has suoceeded the If on. Mrs. Stoner as Lady-in-Waiting to the Princess of Wales. The Town Clerk of Tynenieuth had an interview with the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, at the office of the Board of Trade. on Tuesday, on the subject of the County Courts Admiralty Jurisdiction Bill. The Mayor of Tynemouth and the Town Clerk, with Ur. R. Bruce Bell, C.E., transacted business at the office of the Bead of Trade on Tuesday last, on the subject of a loan from the Public Works Commissioners for the proposed Tynemouth Quay and Improvements. A deputation, introduced by Sir John Ogilvy, and oonaiating of the Earl of Strathmore, the Earl of Camper down, the Hon. Charles Carnegie, M.P., Sir Robert Anstruther, M.P., and others, had an interview with the Duke of Richmond at the office of the Board of Trade on Wednesday, upon the subject of an improvement of the lighting of the River Tay. Their Rnyal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale had a dinner party at Orleans House, Twicken ham, on Wednesday, when among the company were the Earl and Countess de Grey, Frances Comities' Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., the Earl and Countess of Kimberley, Lord and Lady Duitsrin, Mr. John Bright, M.P., &c. The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal re ceived at dinner, on Wednesday evening, at their resi dence in Grosvenor-square, Maria Marchioness of Ailes bury, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the Earl and Countess of Cork, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, Earl Cowper, the Earl of Sefton, Lord and Lady Proby, Lady George Paget, Right Hon. Sir Henry Storks, Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald, Dr. Quin, &c. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart., M.P., and Lady Northcote entertained Lord and Lady Robert Montagu, Sir Frederick Currie, Mr. and Mrs- Thomson Hankey, Mr. and Mrs.Weguelin, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. T. Talbot, Mr. and Mrs. Pole Carew, Mr. and Mrs. Baring Young, Mr. G.' Hardy, Mr. Ferrer, Mr. Heatbcote, &0., at dinner, on Wednesday evening, at their residence in Harley-street. Later in the evening her ladyship bad an assembly, which was both numerously and fashionably attended. Sir Henry and Lady Cotterell entertained Vis count Smiley, Viscount Barrington, M.P., and Vis countess Barrington, Lord and Lady AveLuid, Lord and Lady Alexander Lennox, Lady Molesworth, Sir Edward and Lady Phillimore, Sir Robert Brownrigg, Colonel the Hon. James and Hrs. Macdonald, Colonel Lasoelles, Col and Hon. Mrs. Dudley Carleton, Colonel and Mrs. Mar shall, &c., at dinner last evening, at their residence in Bel grave-square. Sir James and Lady Matheson entertained a select party at dinner last evening, at their residence in Cleveland-row, St. Tames's. The Hon. Mrs. Raahleigh gave her first ball last night at the family residence in Hill-street, Berkeley square. A very numerous company responded to the in vitation. Bishops-Waltham Church has been restored at an expense of 1,0001. Some fine old oak rafters have been exposed to view by the restoration which have been con. coaled by lath and plaster for 200 years. Mr. Corrance intends on the sth of June to move a select committee to consider the present incidence and principle of local rating, sad report thereon. Mr. John Peel intends on reading the order of the day for going into committee on the Representation of the People (Scotland) Bill, in the event of Mr. Beater's re solution being unsuccessful, to move to add to the amend ment of Sir Rainald Knightley " sad whose population shall not, since the census, have increased on e -f our th." __ _ __ . _ Mr. Candlish, on Civil Service Estimates, will move, " That an humble address be presented to her Majesty praying that sbe will be graciously pleased to direct that a statue of Oliver Cromwell be placed in her Palace at Westminster." Prince Metternich has left Vienna for his cha teau at Johannisberg. Re will return to Paris on Friday or Saturday. after which it will be known what resolu tions have been determined on at Vienna respecting the journey of the Emperor snd• Empress of Austria to France. The Emperor and Empress of Ramis are shortly expected at Kissingen. The Queen of Prussia is at Baden, where her Mijeoty will rosin about a month. DEATH Or VICE-ADMIRAL J. J. STOTTORD.— The death is announced of Vice-Admiral Jeans John Stopford, on the 12th inst., after a lingering Ulnae. The deemed admiral was son of the LW Admiral the Hen. Sir Robert litopford, 0.0.8. and bro th er of Vice-Admiral Robert Fenshawe ittopeord. He entered the navy in 1829, and obtained his first occondadon in °Acker, 1847, and served for some time as 6ag lieutenant to his father, air Robert litopford, when commander-ththief in the Medi terranean. He was advanced to the rank of a commander in February. 1840, and made captain in May, 1841 ; rear admiral. June 4,, 1861 ; vies -admiral, April 2, 1866 ; and the e th os been plowed on the retired list. 1840)gir r 4 .FOIfEIGN NEWS. CHIB DAY.) (111.71 TILZOLIA1111.) BA VARIIA. MUNICH, HAT 14. Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, left Munich yesterday evening. He is expected back in a fortnight to commence negotiations for the adhesion of Bavaria to the treaty between the United States and the North German Confedera -1 tion relative to the rights of naturalised citizens. (IT ♦TLimTta monAre THROUGH YR. astems's kozetcrr.) AMERICA. ADMISSION OF SOUTHERN STATES TO CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, MAT 14. The House of Representatives passed to-day by a strict party vote—all the Republican members voting for the measure—a bill admitting North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Luusiana, to representation in Congress, on the conditions of their having ratified the constitu tional amendment, and of never depriving of the suffrage those persons who are now entitled to vote. OUR PARIS LETTER. (PROP OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY EVRAHNO. M. Thiers made his great protectionist speech yesterday. It is impossible to analyse it within the space of a letter. As usual he goes into everything ab evo ; and he claimed the attention of the house not only on account of his age and experience and the great positions he has filled in the State, but also because he has passed several months in studying the figures which he marshalled on this occasion. He referred with pride to the protectionist speech he made in 1850 when the National Assembly, M.ltouher included, was on his side. He contended that all his pro phecies of the evils of free trade had been fulfilled. The apparent prosperity of a few years ago was only owing to the American war, which, by stop ping the supplies of cotton, enabled large holders in France to work up their stocks at a profit. He described the present system as regards agriculture as " ruin to growers in time of abundance, and ruin to consumers in time of scarcity." He went in with all the seriousness of an old English maintainer of the corn laws for a tariff which would always maintain corn at a " reasonable " price. Protection, he said, had kept corn at from 18fr. to 28fr. the hectolitre, whereas free trade had seen fluctuations between 14fr. and 36fr. He insinuated rather than affirmed that with his principles the four-pound loaf would always cost about 11 sous instead of varying between 10 and 24 sous. He alleged that English shipping had taken the bread out of the mouth of French shipping from Dunkirk to Bordeaux. He thought it " frightful " that a French grocer at Paris or Nantes who saw some commodity advertised cheap in an English paper, should be able to telegraph to England and get the commodity sent to him. A provincial journal reports that General de Failly, who is at present in command of the ChAlons camp, made a speech to the troops on May 2, in which he said : lam proud and happy to be called upon to command you. We have met here, not in a camp of pleasure, bus a camp of work. I need may no more to show you that we shall begin our labours without loss of time. We shall leave aside instruction of detail, and begin at once those line evolutions which are required in war. Improved arms having superinduced a change in tactics, we shall modify not one manoeuvres, but their application to the new arma ments. War being • possible thing. our practice here must be serious, simple, and consecutive. The most determined optimists cannot deny the gravity of this language. It is certainly something much more than the ordinary exhortation of a general recommending attention to drill. The antithetical expression at the beginning excludes the idea that every camp is meant for work. Many hitherto have been what General de Failly calls pleasure or play camps, but this is to be something very different. Who can wonder—when such language from one of the most favoured generals in France coincides with the various symptoms, which, in spite of official lenitives and ambiguous mani festoes such as those of Orleans, produce con tinuous alarm—that the rumour that war will come between the wheat and the wine harvest should meet with many believers The Opinion Nationale has received a telegram stating that the French occupation of Rome is about to be " renewed." It will be remembered that the French army of occupation, after being greatly reduced, had withdrawn to Civita Vecchia. Rumours have been circulated of late that it was coming home, the French government hoping to bring the Pope and Victor Emmanuel to agree not to a treaty of peace and friendship, but to what has been called a modus vivendi. The news of the Opinion Nationale has a totally dif ferent complexion. It says that General Du mont, in command at Civita Vecchia, has telegraphed to the Pro-Minister of Arms to get the large barracks in the Certoaa monastery ready for French troops, and that large quantities of war materiel are constantly being landed at Civita Vecchia by French troops. " What," inquires the Opinion Nationale, " is this mystery ? " The Chancellor of the Exchequer has issued in vitations fora dinner for Saturday, the 23rd inst., to cele brate her Majesty's birthday. The First Lord of the Admiralty held a levee yesterday afternoon at the Admiralty, Whitehall when the following oniony attended :—Admiral Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, Captain R. Elliot, Captain T. J. Young, V.C., Captain L. J. Moore, Captain F. Campbell, Captain T. Stuart, Captain J. B. Dickson, Captain H. R. Wratielaw, Captain W. Pitman, R.bf. A , Captain W. A. R. Pearee, Captain Thos. !Unmans, Commander R. Napier, Com mander T. S. Gooch, Commander C. Montherp, Com mander T. P. D oug hty, Commander W. Howarth, Commander C. B. Theebeld Commander W. A. Smyth, Commander R. Roche, C ommander R. Pitman, Com mander A. Morrell, Commander F. Newman, Lieutenant 8. G. Price, Deputyllnspector-General of, Hospitals W. IL Smart, C. 8., and Rev. W. H. Holman. THR ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. ALEXANDRIA MAT 14.—The British authorities have advertised for salel at Anaseley, in a few weeks, a number of steam tags, camels, railway plant, and other materials belonging to the Abyssinian rapedition.—Reater's Telegram. VISITATION OF THE CLZROY OP THE CITY OP LOIDOIL—The Venerable William H. Hale, M.A., Arch ! deacon of London, held a visitation yesterday of the cl tithe City of London, and perishes adjacent, at a spnlchro's Church, Seow-hill. There was a large attendance of clergy. The Archdeacon, in his charge, spoke of the vest number of important matters which had arisen during the past year. He said his charge this year might not inaptly be termed " An Remy on the Union of Church and State,"and he quoted extensively from acts of parliament to show how the faith now held by the church became the national religion, and sbuftly urged that for the safety both of church and state, the royal supremacy should remain intact. JUNIOR ATHINALTIE CLUD.—At the annual general meeting of this dub on Theaday r the chairman announced that the offer to parasite Mn. Here's house in Piccadilly had been accepted by that lady, and that the members would probably enter into posessios next July. The Junior Athenaeum was founded in 1864, its original committee comprising the names of several well-known members of the Athenaeum and other older clubs, with Mr. Geerge IL Wright, LELA., as secretary. In its new end splendid home. the Junior Athenaeum pumices to have a vigorous growth, being of all West-end clubs the furthest west. THE CI I A RIT The fifteenth report of theCharityConunissione„ for England and Wales was published this morning. The amount of stock in the public and other fund4t r ,„. (erred to the official trustees daring the year Pi 34 4 ,617 f. lfts. 2d. ; and the total amour held by the... the close of the year was 3,020,3951. 13 e . Id., distributp.j over 4,489 accounts. In their last report the commissioners expressed s a opinioa that the jurisdiction conferred upon the court of Chancery and county courts, simple and inexpensiv e a q it is, had increa., d the security and improved the r 0... meat of charitable endowment s , an d this iniprovemenn. was attended with corresponding results. The expeei,,,, of last year, while confirming that conviction, has convinced the commissioners that some modification the low is desirable. In the case of any charity whose gross yearly in-oa,l does not amount to 501, the jurisdiction of the c,,tirt tog now he tffectually invoked by the Attorney•Gener.d. any tastess or recipients of the charity, tr by a t , of as inhabitants of the local ty in which the futiii are administer, I ; but if the income amount t ) , or exceed tO/., the jurisdiction can oily b e to by a majority of the t note or actual ad a „, trators, to the , tension of the Attorney•Gen er I „ the other parties ; and the commissioners think that discretion to limit the application of the law " i s ao • c, . veniently entrusted to private persona." Th.. incur.. nience of this restriction is the more Apd..reot is considered that in most cases requir.rg vention of the commissioners the trustee, who ar, c tpahle t f rotting their juris fiction in motion, u..,y persots most int-rested in excluding it. It is 4 tf the extended litigation to which endowed been subjeoted, that costlysuits have been , authorised persona, at little risk to theniselve,, which their own judgment alone has been exert!, suits have been disastrous to many foundations. Ti... was, however, toe great extent remedied by th,. ;,„... Trusts Act of 18:0, and the commissioners now a still further improvement, that claims to opp be submitted to the judgment of the Attorn, .;,.. all cases, excepting those which have been the board itself. With a view to the more complete utlh,,t,,e • table endowments the commissioners sug,;• -t relaxation of the law by which found•l, ~1,• • •• attach to their endowments perpetual tract. • even in the interests of society, open to tn•l::. THE llitt3H CH :i;.• that the statement made by the on ••::! with respect to the expected report of the I xi• goners on the Irish church is premature. T. !i,': • the report has not yet been made or officially .! We learn by telegraph that the dumb two meetings at Carlisle yesterday, the .elini,ion : • was by ticket. At the afternoon meeting etitiona r, houses of parliament and an address t•• the ua, • adopted. At the night meeting the proce..ii i , a, re stormy character, and resolutions were put. he U ,l. ' Carlisle was in the chair, TELEGRAPHIC SERVDT OF the rt.,.• examination for appointments to the Indian teieer , ;:. service, held in London, under professor Sir Thomson, the following gentlemen passed sati,factori:, the order annexed ;- Messrs. Ayrton, l'aiveisity or ,• gow ; Maclean, HAI tley Institution, Southampt o n ; Trinity College, Dublin ; Boyd, Hartley Southampton; iorig.lon, ditto, and Landon, •• Messrs. Ayrton, Maclean, and Smyth having 1,13.1e41 tinguished examination were each awarded an exhibit of 501. to allow of their prosecuting their studies (tint.; THE HERO OF MAGDALA.— '` \ V hat are ga'en to Jae wi Sir Hobert the noo, for a' bin gran' '.• in Abyssinia?" "Troth, John, I canna jilt say ; a.' • they'll mak' him a peer." "A peer! bout, :nun • canna dae that," "An' what for no? Sure the can mak' ony ane a lord r' " Alt, wool a wot but if she war to mak' him a' the lords that mei' w .;..• he'd be nae-peer there a vacancy fer 1,-sr pendent in the Hospital for Incurables ?—\\, N"rthern Whig. WILLS AND BEQUESTS.— The will or • confirmation, of the Right lion. Julia, Dowager c •.. of Glasgow, was sealed in her Majesty's Court of 1• in London under 5,000/. personalty ; that of th.• Hon. Sir George Clerk, Bart., under ;5,04) , . ; of Henry Ilouldsworth, Esq , under 400,000/. Th. v. General Sir George Augustus NVetherall. • K.H., Colonel of the 14th R eg i men t, an d ,••., of the Royal Military College, was pro, the London Court under 3,000/. The so.. John Davy, M. l)., F. RS., late of How, near Ambleside, Westmorland, was pro, _ the Registry at Carlisle on the 2nd ult., by 11, Davy, the relict and tole executrix. Tee • sworn under 14,000/. The will is dated Marel: and the testator died January 24 last, at the a.: 78. He held the appointment of inapect.o of army hospitals, having entered the medic,. partment of the army in 1815. He het .. Flanders, France, Ceylon, and th e Mediterranean..• ; and the West Indies. He has bequeathed to Lk so: interest in his estates, real and personal, subject : • payment of two annuities, to near relatives, ottill,r,!:l 260/. per annum ; and after the decease of hia estates will devolve to his son and daughter ,u specific proportions. The watch which was Ls ..• brother's, Sir Humplary Davy, Bart., he lea, es to Archibald, according to promise. The ail. er • which formerly belonged to Sir Ifumpbry be le3o , • t• wife, and afterwards to be held by his daughter loom. He also leaves to his daughter the present. 'f . and silver which were made by the Enipero. of • his brother, and the snuffbox from the Suit.s.. 'll4 . may take out the diamonds front the latter to u.e as ments of dress. The service of plate formerly twine: nz• • Humphry, in accordance with his wishes, afte r d.. d , .• of testator's wife, or earlier, if the thinks pester. is s • given to the Royal Society ; and a medal. 0.101 tr 0.... said service of plate, in to be given annually for ti.. subject on chemistry. The will of Mr. Jallies of Knutsford, was proved in the registry it Chester at :..- 7th ult. by his brother, John Teare, and John 1'..1 v i•. of Preston. The personalty was sworn under will is dated November last, and the testator died 16. There are legacies to hit said brother and nieces, Margaret and Ellen. The eXPCIVOT , 0, • • set apart a sum of 100/. for a prize et.) teetotalism, to consist of 10 chapters, out by the estator in his will ; and to publish tf., prize essay, together with his, the testator'el..ct are. same subject; the profits that may wise theiefrou.. User with the residue of his estate, be leaves to his Ia.:: John Teare, and his nieces, Ellen and Ann 15. on • will of William Danger, formerly of Turanville ' Scone, New South Wales, but late of Cheltenhem• cestershire, was proved, in London, under sonal.y in England. The testator has left the full +'= charitable bequests:—To the Sydney Destitute 11111:j.• • Asylum, the Sydney Infirmary, end the Sydney Asylum, each 500/. The Scone Hospital, Hospital, and Royal Lifeboat Institution, each • St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney ; Maitland Hospital. -' School, Cornwall Bodmin's Dispensary, and Cheltec.. •, General Dispensary, each 100/. To the Vicar of St. • t 600./., to expend the interest for the benefit of the . and deserving poor of that parish ; and from an) cu t residue remaining from his estate to pay to the K, Mercy, St. Winnow, near Lostwithiel, Cornwall. ' Royal Albert Hospit al, Devonport, 100 f. ' • De% unport Institution. 100 f. ; and the Wesleyan Mislionary 104:IL—Mai/rated London Noes. A CUelous FEAST. —A singular feast. fact, a feast of radishes, oaten cake and butter, with st , qmalaioere,tea customary w ian as d thegi,venso n t T of affuesdaaithr.ve In the olden time i 1 v e' duty of the Kendal corporation to open the M.:c.h-r, fair by reading the King's charter, and for this p-1-'"„ that body used to ,proceed to the old po.t tout :1 state, the mayor and his municipal colleagues co 4 hat, robes, and bearing the silver mace and otr,r tho hlth tle l ia , p inth ri g mi an oe d fn o i bffivaci:sh.rifirenvinlanteabortairei!e:vnPeiiedvdtaeltediaoritnbblyhat::tlfheafSeea tuos.4er o: guests walked round the grounds and thence Tt!.../4, to Kendal. Of course, this was merely a cooplimest.,, recognition of the Kendal dignitaries, and as such tr been regarded ever since. Now, however, the become more general ; for, in addition to the esistx; poration, as many of the male portion of the public as n ..,` , te be present are admitted, and ample proviaiou inacooggeordingthmly.epAru the l e fiO co pezn we s, so re m p e re of sen th t esy: . ; tables were laid out in the garden', and upon ths pyramids of oaten cake and patties of butter, tet . ;::, with a whole crop of radishes and sandry CADS or ale. There was the greatest liberality me and the newts ate and drank with eeidetl fort One important feature of the feast is the compalsorl entitled " drinking the constable." This is en "::: ; ,1 through which all strangers are required to rV,,,, for that reason is not generally admired by the 1% 6 f e th liTra uke lveg Th' s e th ua re o i u s i kard a h forf irel on eit a il , isz. s esial " l7 ciated larg , b egrai ed bY s .i ° tib i e r;: z i dark-brown liquor called " 112011000, be to ing it P ,,, 1 ' 0./. " made front burnt malt, and this is given who is required to 'tend upon one leg and dri? fs • man forfeits a sM.llg. Of worse, much is feature, and the contortions and evident &Sire of r 2,, i; " d iAlkinnalk eecl, ": l; wbe. i : : : is di Z ls peeed tlonPrcil: th oreaswab e t w hilvl :: : : : f unthli—A"":ol"enie.ib:lei:lD:::'`i ! peculiar s dlisown Af r to. te_ t r rih t it h not e:eat etheerewuwzreeceavariingoutos a cone: