The Express. — London, England, 1868-05-30 00:00:00

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LOA' Ilt - AT, 1/17'1'111).1F, M.ll :i1), 7ETTING. 1- 11 , 1 yews ag•i we had ii,xl::tg-slitips at every street collier. ambling was made easy to the shop lad, the aelie,i!-boy, the petty clerk— even to tbe common beggar who chose accumu late sixpence or a altilling out of his carnage for the day. Lints were :in view, mill the market odds given upon all the events ef the year. These Lung in dingy whitlows or buttered from dis reputable doorwa:,•a, mil were carefully Adapted to the lowest pecuniary capacity. Neither capital, we knowledge, nor character was required in the bookmakers. Before every Derby, or St. Low, or Ascot week they cropped to the surfs*, is shoals ; after each rave was over Many of them disappeared suddenly and *mysteriously, and their places knew them no more: Ready money was paid over the counter by the people taking the odds, who re ceived a dingy bit of cardboard with "Sufp/;ce 8 to 1 to Is. Derby," or "Flatcatrher "4 to 1 to 2s. 6d. et.ester Cup," scrawled on it in return. In theory the eight shillings or the four half-crowns were paid to the fortunate investor the morning after the animal he had backed won. But this happy consummation depended merely upon the good faith, or to put it plainly, upon the in terest of the list-keeper. If the gains of the latter ex ceeded his losses he generally paid, and his con nection spread. Rut if the investments on the winning horse exceeded in amount the sums put on the animals defeated, the resource of putting up the " office " shutters and departing without beat of drum was unfailingly open. The nobk sportsmen from the desks and tills of London and our principal provincial towns were thus provided with a doubk excitement. Their anxiety as to the performance of the horse of their choice was supplemented by natural tremors concerning di , honesty of the stranger they had trusted. The most pretentious establishments attracted the greatest confidence, and their gains were enormous from the multiplicity of petty sums they received. The smallness of the fish swept into their net is almost inconceivable now. One respect able tavern in Long acre enjoyed quite a reputa ' tion for aristocratic exclusiveness through refusing to open lists for a lower slim than five shillings. Another in the nAghbourhoial of the Strand watrraide was SlT3i!Arly looked up to for de clining shilling beta. At petty cigar shops lined with dummy boxes, and the whole stock-in trade of whirl. might be worth five pounds ; at shabby little "offices.' whose interior recalled the medical department in Anne° and Juliet ; at privat • houses and public-houses ; at barbers', tailors', and bookmakers', betting lists. The • evil was eilormoua. (liven the same facilities for • staking a shilling as 1-r purchasing a tart, and it is not difficult to estimate the result upon the youug. The prisons and the hulks every year received ' their quota of iiivenile gamblers who had mistaken • th:dr masters' money for their own ; society grew alarmed Aral made energetic protest, until, in ' 1833, betting Louses were si!ppressed by Act of Parliament. _ . Of course the snake was only scotched, not killed. Lists are still made, petty sums are still staked, lint-keepers abscond, and youths of all ages are betting now. But the thing—except in the ease of the privileged classes or at ;specified times—has to be done in cor ners and away from the face of day. Perhaps it i 3 a result of this that betting and the turmoil of odds-giving has increased a hundred fold epon our great race-courses. The noisy speeders who make day hideous have been more numerous than ever at the Epsom meeting which closed yesterday. Twenty years ago the bookmakers formed lint an insignificant item in the inclosure before the (rand Stand. They now fill it ;led overelow into an interminable series of supplemeutary enclosures which have sprung up between it and the paddock. The two supposed " Welchers " summarily ejected from the main ring yesterikay, and who were peeled like oranges, and knocked to and fro like racket-belle, by their angry creditors until rescued by the ponce, formed but A fractional percentage lof the seething mass of bookmakers who, in eccentric dress, gaady belts, and advertising hats, which, with name and address printed outside, made their :strange eearers I ok as if labelled es curiosities, were to be seen paying away their gold and crumpled notes directly the '•^etas asses over. Nor does it in ta:iably happen, as is let; down by our old preacher of hard trot' a that "gambling finds a "111311 a sully and leave hint a knave." We heard yesterday of us e goteless innocent who was swindled out of his money through :ielieving in 'i.e eneuly long e-ide given to a '' bonnet " made ep ass clereynein front the ceauitry ; but such liettence- ef misplaced con'adence are happily rare. and, except at raceeeeetirge, it is now always lieceeniry ro :we:, the list-keepers out. The pictures in. " Heueehold Words" of a wail apprentice, parcel ender arm, standing o: tip toe in the Pmseell.etreet betting-shop to de his shilling, and the same shop surrounded by a elem.} one creird of defrauded urchins on the ch.y alter a race are mu longer possible. The bunt who Let must see!: temptation instead ef havice; it forced upon therm There is, after all, a wide difference between making a • pil nrinaage to ' The Mine" in Farringdon-street, " The Trees" in Hyde-park, or the back street by the famous brewery, there to be pushed and hustled by a yelling, shrieking, blaspheming, and the'- .e, to ..nterieg a shop in a respectable • thoroughfare, and tacit g part in its legitimate day's trade. Besides, every eow and then the police ewoop Lionel Nee: :their quarry, and thebetting men pay Ate penalty of violating the law. That this is not done oftener is a tacit concession to the epirit of gambling; and the practice of our police authorities :beet], t. be to wink d as long as possible. and then to condone past ffleilicieecy by a spasmodic but determined raid. Dot if betting is too deeply rooted in the national ellsratter to be abolished by police regulatiove, we may at least insist upon public (bailey being -lee r ed in its indul gence. The whole teller British legislation has been iii this direction. Ever --ince gaming was, eccording to CA :I)EN, introduced into this country by the Saxons, when the losers were sold into slavery Hee mercliande steady efferts have been made to teush it. Public gaming-houses were :abolished in Englaiid forty years before the plague. • 'ore than 100/. was absolved I from paying by an enactment passed by the seeond rle parliament of QUEEN ANNL decreed that there who lost so much as 10/. and paid it, might recover their money at common law. Uo.. Acted game-house keepers were sen tenced to hard labour in the reign of Geoece ; and the police sere empowered to break into I gambling Louses and to take all present—players as well :e; lieopere and servants—into custody soon after her Ms.:EsTv came to the Throne. Nor have thinker, and philosophers been remiss in protesting against the national vice. That Lord IfititflEßT of (111.U:II.V, whose memoirs, edited Ly Eloaene WA Leone, and printed at Strawberry feint the first instate e of English auto biography, emphatically warns his contemporaries against the " dicing.houses, where cheaters meet, and ceeeo young gentlemen out of their money," e . .ce while admitting the principle of gambling in the plant warning : Play not for gain, but port ; who plays for more Than 1:e crib lose with pleasure, stakes his heart, l'erhaps his wife 4 too. and whom she bath bore. iippoati the essence of the whole subject is c...iltt,ined in this advice. Bat the intemperate pitmen, who " knew as well as ony mon when " he'd Lad over much to drink, and who knew hed , to just • benlior " as wsE as ony > wh " but vilio newer _ " bid spougb," was* type of Ig veld. The people wbo bdinost baud are the.. who never know when they've hid enough. It tipulil be useless to inveigh against the eweepstakdr in a country-house or friendly coterie ; the =oh desi derided " interest in the race ;" the modest bet between friends, or even the moderate public " investment. " Nor is it desirable that we should revive such en interference with the liberty of the subject as that which some • eighty years since sent Lady BC VIC INGHAM-. SHIRE, Lady E. LVITRELL, and Mrs. STUART to Marlborough-street Police-oftioe, there to be fined 50/. each for playing faro at the private house of the former. Nowadays no spite ful servants could vent their malice upon their mistress by bringing her into court on a charge of gambling. as they did in Lady Bui KI NI iIIAMAH I KWH case, and there are few people who would be willing to acknowledge such a power. After all, betting must be left mainly to the common sense of the nation. Thefamous medical controversy between the opponents of, and the advocates for, the use of tobacco, resolved itself into the admission that it might be used with comparative impunity, but that it was universally injurious when indulged in to excess. The same thing may be said of betting, which many competent judges declare, despite restrictions, to be more rife in some quarters than I ever. THE REPEAL OF THE UNION. Sixes their accession to office Her MA. , E-sTY . , Ministers have been unwilling instruments in effecting various changes which they have described as seriously impairing the British Consti tution. The Hoes SECRETARY in particular must have been visited by many uneasy pangs, and the process by which his conscience has absolved hint would be an interesting study. Last night, how ever, he became a party to something which must be beyond the range of self-forgiveness. As stated by himself, he formally assented to the Repeal of the Union. A 'week ago in his no-surrender speech on Mr. Gi.awirosts's Suspensory Act. Mr. HARDY spoke in the following terms :—" By the " step which you take in this bill, and which you " hope to perfect in a future bill, you are in fact " and in law repealing the Union. (' No,' and " cheers.) I say that, having consulted a very " eminent lawyer on this subject. he told " me—and I believe him—that unless you " put in such a bill as this a saving " clause reserving the Union, the Union " would be ipso fast" repealed. (Cheers and Oppo " sition cries of Name.') I am willing to adopt " the statement, and therefore as far as I am con " cerned I make myself responsible for it.•' Last night, in reply to a question by Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. DISRAELI said of the measure so described : " I think it is a bad bill and badly drawn ; but I " do not think it is necessary for us to attempt to " improve it. Therefore, I shall not offer " any formal opposition in committee." As the saving clause to which Mr. HARDY alluded has not been inserted in the bill, Mr. HARDY, through the mouth of his PREMIER, becomes a party to the Repeal of the Union, and he thinksit unneces sary to improve an act which, if it passes, IPSO facto, severs Ireland legislatively from the British empire. We are unable to credit this in a repre sentative of the University- of Oxford, and look forward consequently to an announcement of the right hon. gentleman's secession from the Cabinet. QUALIFIED POISONS are rightly excluded from the domain of Free Trade. In future, only properly qualified per sons are to prepare pills. potions, and powders from certain dangerous drugs enumerated in thesehedule of a bill now before parliament. After a time no fresh follower of physic may style himself chemist and druggist, unless he shall have success fully passed an examination similar to the lower of those now voluntarily encountered by aspirants to the title of " Pharmaceutical chemist." This is a wise regulation, for bad surgery is not more mischievous than bad pharmacy ; the public is already fairly protected from the one, and is now offered protection from the other. The most virulent poison may be :in excellent medi cine when administered in minute quanti ties, and medicines harmless in appropriate doses may be poisonous if swallowed too freely. On such points people generally are neither informed them selves, nor have any guarantee that complete knowledge is possessed by the druggist whose aid they seek. Among the indirect effects of the new legislation will be the rise, it is to be hoped. tsf a class of tradesmen who will be chemists in reality as well as in name. Chemistry is now taught in most schools, and often forms the subject of amusement and instruction of the family, but boys usually seek in vain for chemicals, apparatus, or information of the neighbouring druggist. The trade in photographic chemicals seems also to have slipped away from him ; in deed in some cases we doubt if he knows how to test the purity of his own wares. So far as we can see, the proposed alteration and extension of the Pharmacy Act can only be, - productive of good. Tut: overseers at Salford have decided, as far as their powers extend, the debated question of woman suffrage. After giving the matter their best attention, they have arrived at the conclusion that " they love no alternative but to place all " duly qualified females on the next parliamentary " register for the borough." The new Reform Act distinctly limits the franchise to " every man" who satisfies the conditions laid down ; but the overseers areof opinion that this does not necessarily exclude women, as an act passed in the thirteenth year of her MAJESTY provides " that in all acts words im porting the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females . . unless the contrary as to gender . .is expressly provided." The Manchester Gwarrl;au disturbs the delight of the Salford ladies by a hint as to what the Revising Barrister may say, and by doubting whether overseers' law possesses the authority of a dictum from the Court of Queen's Bench. PAIIK-LANE.—in the matter of the Park-lane Improvement Bill, the committee Lave agreed to a 'pedal report, published this morning, to the effect that, in their opki,n, the inconvenience at present experienced from the over-crowded state of the teethe of Palk-lone would be best obviated by opening up Hamilton-place as a thorough fare for public traffic, with a w:clth of not less than GO feet midway, to be obtained by removing the hcn s and other buildings on the eastern aide. _ _ . There appears to be still a brick demand for emi pmt ships at Queenstowr. TLe Cunard extra steamer Siberia called them on Wednesday sal tuck away 170 p 'imagers for New lork. . _ . The Viceroy of Egypt is about to embark for Paris. During the absence of the Vice:oy Shir:ff Naha will act as his regent (TUB Y.) In the opinion et Ike Timms, the constitutional disorganisation which now prevails renders it imperative civic tie 'primae:A t, socelerate the dissolution; and the public suspicion will not be allayed until something mere than vogue &aliveness are put forwards. an earnest that what every one preform to desire shall be realised. In otter aiticies the Tines treats of a paper in the Reeve des Lea: Monde, attributed to the bead of the Orleans family, in which the Irish church is discussed; supports Mr. 'Saline Cothran* in his arguments on behalf of a change f It. for the new law courts from the Carey street tide to the embankment ; and discusses the evils which follow excessive turf beta. The Doily Nina soonest' that Mr. (Redstonels iota• I station that if ministers do not act promptly in arranging foe a general election the House of Commons most take the matter Into its own hands, will probably relieve Mr. Disraeli of some of the scruples which he now feels at hastening the registration. The report of the aelikt com mittee on the Boundary Bill will, in the opinion of the Daily News, be received with satisfaction by the country. The short statement of its contents made by Mr. Walpole last night enables us to estimate its results with sufficient accuracy to perceive that some of the most objectionable features of the meuu•e are now proposed to be eliminated from it. In another column the Daily News claims the result of the Rest Worcesteoshire election as a proof of the failure of the new election tactics which the ministerial party have adopted during the last three mouths. The impottant Protestant oonatikiesey which voted yesterday has not been so led astray by the rhetoric of archdeacons as to see defenders of its faith in ministers who would create a Roman catholic university, pay its expenses, and endow its scholarships and oolkges. Mr. Disraeli, the Post says, scarcely takes the trouble to conceal from the bppoeition th►t be treats them and their votes with the most utter contempt. With the threat of immedi►te dissolution in case of s refusal to grant the neoessery supplies, he knows he can tide corer the remainder of the session. The Telegraph is in favour of the appointment of a select committee to investigate the difficulties of the position respecting registrations. The Star threatens Mr. Disraeli with the censure of parliament if be fail to fulfil the pledge given by Mr. I Hardy, that legislative provision shall be distinctly made for a dissolution on the naiad possible day. According to the Standard, Lord Russell was utterly discomfited last night by Lord Malmesbury, whs has seldom been heard to better advantage. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EV' THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday Review observes that if the House of Lords should, contrary to expectation, pass the Sus pension Bill, the final extinction of rights in Irish bene fices will be accomplished some months earlier ; but, on the other hand, there is some advantage in the habit of instinctive resistance to great organic changes. Institutions incomparably more valuable than the Irish establithment may perhaps be endangered by the discovery that ancient possession affords no security against modern innovation. Mr. Gladstone's proposals may be just and expedient, hut there is, perhaps, more foundation than Mr. Disraeli sus pects for his frequent warnings of the ceisis which may be produced by the ►bolition of the Irish church. The unreformed parliament has overthrown many abuses which seemed Inveterate, and Englishmen may with a safe conscience accept Count Montalembert's compliments on the sound discrimination which has led them to destroy nothing but eviL The new constituencies will perhaps not be equally cautious, and, for a time at least, they will be impatient to reap the fruit of their unaccustomed exercise of political power. When the Irish church is disposed of, some other class or corporation will probably become the object of attack. The contingent risk supplies no reason for maintaining a mischievous system, but it suggests some excuse for the probable scruples of the House of Lords. Discussing the report of the Royal Commission on the Irish Railways, the Examiner concludes that, whether the government purchase or not, there is one course which in common prudence it ought no longer to persist in, and that is the advancement of loans for the promotion of railway enterprise, a course which, though hitherto only entailing a moderate amount of loss, is consistent neither with sound policy nor safety to the exchequer. The account, as it at present stands, gives the amount of loans to Irish railway companies at 2,i77,3641., and of re payments at 1,488,124 W., with 12,000 r. arrears of interest. The only question then that the government is called upon to consider, is whether the circumstances of Ireland are so abnormal or exceptional as to justify such a departure from general principles, and to make it a matter of imperial policy for the executive to become the proprietor of the Irish railway system. The Etantiner would have no heal• tation in answering affirmatively, if the change could be brought about and the whole Irish railway system acquired at an expense not absolutely ruinous. The hpeetahw says that Mr. Disraeli has involved Lord Mayo—who had hitherto been free from the arts of politi cal intrigue—in a not very creditable attempt to disavow the proposals of his first speech this session on Irish policy, so far as they discovered an intention to endow Roman catholic institutions. It Is no longer convenient for the government to be burdened with any proposition that would be odious in the eyes of the extreme protes tants, and Lord Mayo has accordingly tried to explain away his ostentatiously avowed plan of "levelling-up" and so equalising the position of tte churches,—but of achiev ing this "by elevation, not by confiscation." Certainly, " elevation," in contradistinction to " confiscation," would appear to indicate bestowing property on one aide, instead of taking it away on the other. But Lord Mayo now wishes to make it appear that the endowment proposed for the Catholic University in making his first " confidences" to parliament on March 10 was a mere annual grant, and that in other respects his own idea had been to " elevate" indeed, but not by giving property to the catholics, only by conceding them official honour and equal con sideration, as, for instance, in respect of the chaplaincies of gaols and so forth. The Spectator can only say that Lord Mayo's memorandum of the 14th March, on the plan for a catholic university—(and of the intention of endowing it that memorandum expressly speaks)—the whole tenor and language of his speech, and also even the whole tenor of Mr. Disraeli's speech of the same debate, when the Prime Minister boasted mysteriously that he believed hims If on the eve of a policy which should " heal the sorrows of afflicted centuries," will I save on careful critics an im pression of pure amazement and incredulity at the character of the interpretations of their former declarations which are now offered. The London Review, in considering the Dish policy of the government, remarks that the attempt to bolster up the government of a minority can only lead to delay ani result in obstruction. Whatever may be Mr. Diaraeli's inclinations, he cannot carry his party with him in the measures which alone can or ought to satisfy Ireland. The last few weeks have proved that be is powerless to repeat with respect to the sister country the game which he played sucoessfully under cover of Lord Derby's name and influence in regard to parliamentary reform. If that be the esse,it is surely the obvious duty of everylriah member who professes to represent the mass of his fellow-countrymen, to do all be can to assist rather than retard a change of government which will place the reins of power in the hands of a statesman who is willing, and who will have the power, to carry out on the broadest scale a policy of full and complete justice to Ireland. In return for the support which the English liberal party are ready and eager to give to such a policy, they base a right to expect that Irish constituencies will not stultify themselves by again send ing to parliament men who may vote in the right lobby on the single question of the Irish Church, but who are on eery other occasion found thwarting the friends and sup- porting the enemies of the measure of lasstablisbmcnt and disendowmect which they profess to desire. The committee which has charge of the break fart to be given by the members of the Liberrl raity to Mr. Bright, 31.1'., net pesterday, and &aided upon bolding it either in the Philharmonic-hell or the Alm andra Theatre. Ladies will be admitted to the gallefee. WHIT MONI,AY REVIEW AT PANSHANGLA.—EarI Cowper has for wane time been organising a volunteer re view at his seat, Panaheoger Park. The abandonment of the review on Monday at Windsor, has now itdueed several seeps to enter for Panshanwer, and them wi I pro. be* be a lad of wan 2,000 or 3,000 volunteers. •fi"l • ~ MAY 30, 1 Cite Omit. BAUM:MAL CASTLE, MAT 27. Mr QM= drams out in-Ari morning and after noon, accompanied by the primate and princesses. Sir William Joiner has arrirrd at the Castle. Sir vrathun J left Balmoral yesterday (Friday). The Priam of Wales, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Dersmark and the Prinos of Teek and attended by Major Teesdale and Captain Lund, weal to Epsom yes terday. The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Countess of hfacolistkld. In the evening their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark and the Prince and Prineess of Leiaingen, went to the royal Italian Opera, Covent garden. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Libyan, and the Straits Settlements. The Prince and Princess of Wales will have a dinner and evening party at Marlborough House on Wed nesday next. His Excellency the French Ambassador enter tained at dinner yesterday evening the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Hon. Miss Primrose, the Countess of Jersey and Mr. Bundling, Viscount and Viscountess Holmesdale, M. and Madame Van de Weyer and Mira Van de Weyer, Colonel lion. Strange Jocelyn and Miss Jocelyn, Sir Anthony Rothschild, If7s. Henry Baring, Baron and Baroness de Baude, Mr. Mure, Viscount de Virel, The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson had a dinner party on Wednesday at their residence in Groa venor•place. The members of the Burlington Fine Arts Club have made a collection of thu engravings of Marc Antonio liaimondi and his pupils, and the work. are now on view in the Club-rooms, Floutlab,. The report of the Artists' General Benevolent Fund for the fifty-third year of its existence states that the income of the society was 1,686/., of which WU. was subscribed at the last anniversary dinner, and 76 applicants were relieved with 1,217/. The cost of administration for this society during the last six years did not exceed 134/. a year ; 800/. was subscribed at the anniversary dinner of the kith instant. . The Musical Festival will commence on the 20th of September. Herr and Madame Joachim, Maclaine Hartiers.Whippem. Herren Hill and Krause are the prin cipal singers announced. Herr Atop, Schmidt will con duct the festival. The annual meeting of the Palestine Explora tion Society will ba held on Thursday, June 11, at Willis's Rooms. The Archbishop of York will preside, and it is expected that Lieut. 'Warren, the explorer, will be present to explain his recent operations and discoveries. The thirty-eighth meeting of the British Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science is fixed for the week commencing Wednesday, August 19, 1r111.4. at Nor wich. Joseph Dalton Hooker, Esq., D.C.L., Curator of the Royal Gardena at Kew, will preside. Referring to the "Fatherbhip of the Royal Society, it may be worth recording (says the Athrnmum) that Sir Henry Fllis is the preaent father of the Society of Antiquaries, having been elected on the 15th of January, 1307—the centenary year of the society. Next to him is Earl of Lansdale, June 16. DS36 ; and next, Mr. George Ormerod. February 16, 1809. The Society lost its two senior fellows last year—Dr. Macbride and Sit Hobert Sudrlce, both elected in 1805. Dr. Rietz is publishing, at Leipzig, a new and complete edition of Mozart's Operas, in score. Of the history of music, this year has seen the following in Ger many :—Arrey von Dommer's Handbook, to the death of Beethoven,—a fourth edition of Brendera " History of Italian, German, and French Music, to the l'resent Time," —and three volumes of A:trast he:ut Arnbrols General History. Visitors tai tie Leeds Exhibition, observes the Atheneum, should know that two of the most famous works of the modern French school of painting have been, thanks to the zeal and tact of Mr. L. Lerevre, superin- tendent of the modern foreign department in the exhibi tion. placed in the gallery of French paintings ; these are "Phryue before the Tribunal," by M. GerUme, and "The Chess Players," by M. Meissonier. The latter bangs on a screen, the former on the wall. Owing to the late arrival of these works, they are not muted in the catalogue of the gathering. A letter from Warsaw says that the other evening, just as the French company at the Grand Theatre were about to commence, a general in full uniform appeared on the stage and read a telegram in the Russian langnage, announcing the birth of a new Grand Duke. The theatre being full of Russian officers great enthusiasm WAS exhibited, the National Anthem was milled for and sung. At last some Polish ladies in a box opposite Count de Berg, being fatigued. thought they might sit down. The husband of one of them, well known to suffer from weakness in the legs, also did the same. The governor saw the movement, and. getting in a violent passion. sent tha police to expel the party from the theatre. The next dry the Comic sum moned the husbands and soundly rated them. The one already alluded to pleaded his infii:uity, and added that he did not know what was being .4 ung, as he was not ac q uainted with Russian. The General exclaimed that he should start on the Instant for one of his (the gen tleman's) estates in Russia, and stop there until he bad learned the langusge. And he was obliged to go. A despatch sent round the Hams A you y announced a few days ago that General Langiewiez was the organiser of the insurrection in Galicia. " Some friends of the gallant general (says the Si<cle) bring us a letter which has just arrived from Constantinople, in which the Polish hero describes his present occupations as altogether of a studious and meditative character." Near Cologne, in the circle of Sieg, a tremendous hailstorm, accompanied by a waterspout, three days back devastated the territories of about twenty villages. The wind, which was extremely violent, tore up oaks of more than a hundred years old, and blew down several d welling houses. The annual dinner of the 23rd Royal Welch Fwiilien took place on Thursday evening, the 2Nth inst., at the Westminster Palace Hotel, when the following officers were present :—General Sir W. Codrington, G.C.8., Colonel Herbert. C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Harrison, Lieutenant-Colonel Bigge, Lieutenant-Colonel Granville, Lieutenant-Colonel Bruce, Major Norton, Major Gran ville. Captain Gerard, Captain Tulloch, Captain O'Con nor, Captain Knight, Captain the Hon. N. Wickham Fienues, Captain Sidler, Captain Bathurat, Lieutenant Fit, George, Lieutenat Shepherd, Ensign Mayhew, Ensign de Moleyns, Ensign Blyth, Ensign Cowan, the Hon. C. Carnegie, M.P., Mr. H. Hall Dare, Mr. Clarke Thornhill, Mr. W. Remaly. and Mr. Robert Palk. THE. PRINCE OF WALE, AND THE LF.EDS EXIII EITION.—The following letter has been received by Mr. Denison, the chairman of the Exhibition Committee : "Marlborough House, Pall-mall, May 27, 1858.—Dear Mr. Denison,-1 have had the pleasure of receiving your letter of the 22nd, and the honour of laying it before the Prince of Wales on his return from Scotland this morning. As you intimate that the expression of his royal highness's opinion on the merits of the Leeds Exhibition, in addition to the approval of the arrangements connec ted with it which he has already desired me to convey to you, would be very gratifying to the committee, I am directed to state that the Prince of Wales considers thwouid be im possible for any visitor to the Exhibition not to be struck by the magnificent collection brought together within its walls. His royal highness. would especially refer to that part of it representing the old and modern schools of painting. Of these matchless works, on the merits of which criticism has already expended itself, his royal highness has felt that no opinion he could give would enhance the value or increase the interest ; but he has uo hesitation in desiring me to express to you and the committee his high opinion of an exhibition which displays in such profusion so much that is valuable in art and seiencm —I remain, dear Mr. Denison, very truly yours, W. KNOUTS. Wm. Beckett Denison, Esq." THE PROPO2SED REVIEW OF VOLUNTEERS BY I THE Qrarx.—A special meeting of metropolitan com manding officers, was held yesterday at the rooms of the National Rifle Association, Pall-mall, for the purpose of considering the subject of the proposed review of volun. teen, in Windsor-park by the Queen. The chairman (Lord Elcho) lowing opened the proceedings, the following resolutions were adopted :—That this meeting hail with the utmost satisfaction the announcement of her Majesty's gracious intention to honour the volunteer force he reviewing it in Wiadww-park in the nr , nth of chine. That is the opinion of this meeting, Saturday, June 27, being the anniversary of her Majesty's eortlalion would be the day moss likely to insure a large attendanc e at the review—that being an occasion upon which clap= would probably be disposed to give volunteers to employ a holilty so as to enable them to aft( nd. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) (NEUTER'S TELSGRASIA.) HUNGARY, PESTI', MAY Zo, E% ?Jo. In to-day's sitting of the Upper Howie, thc commercial treaty with Prussia, in its amended form, was unanimously adopted. The Emperor has arrived here. Advices from ltalasfalva, in Transylvania, ,ta.,. that a large meeting of Itouiflans had been held. at which resolutions were passed in favour of th. separation of Transylvania from Hungary. AMERICA. THE IMPEACHMF:NT 'rm.\ 1.. • PREPARATIONS FOR AN EXPErnll FENIAN RAID ON CANADA. SEW YORK. M.%v i M .itN N The impeachment managers have exannu.•,i wealthy citizen of Ohio, who rcceive,i :I Log. .„, of money at Washington Bank the day p 1 .,: . the Senate vote on the impcachuu•nt, w:!!, Me • 7., of ascertaining if the funds were ;Ned •• senators. Several other wituesses, inchtdir- ; paper reporter,, were also re-e xaapitzed. The Chicago National Conventi..!: •L 5 ,,••:.! day. Full delegations front the will be present. The Radical Soldiers' and Sail„t • ~,t . Chicago have unanimously noniimi:. Grant for the presidency. It is reported that the Canadian prehending a Fenian raid, hate militia to be in readiness. The royal mail steamship .litAtralaAi•:!,. • New York, arrived at Queenstown at 2 A . day with 50 cabin passengers and 97. - ,,0,51 specie. She landed 6 passengers Mill mails, and proceeded fur Liverpool at 2.1:. well. (sr ATLANTIC TELSGRAPH THROUGH SIR. RE' .I , ,^N - NEW Yi 0:K. st, The Inman steamer City ,•1 Lint rc, ;Lri • to-day. Closing prices :—G..ld. ; sterlo, 4 , on London, 110; ; 5-20 Bondi, *,%•52 I 1885, 109 i ; 10-40 Bonds, PK.; : ! Erie, Cotton, middling :1 troleuna, standard white, 29. (RVUTER . 3 TELMRAM ARRIVAL OF l'IlE (1141:!:11 .. The Hamburg and American Company'. •••ln bria, from New York on th , . P.th M.,y .1 4, ampton this (Saturday) morning, alth YJ p f.,. this port, Havre, and Hamburg, • for London, 67,126 dola. for Par ... Hamburg. On the 27th she p3..5..t I, a. Bravo, and the French schoor , .r Y. : • : n th.. a Bremen steamer, and the If At \ x% 1 The 19 votes for the acrinittal of Trt....hot the 11th article of impeachment . cratic senators, the c .nservxtive se,,stufs little and Dixon—and the tepub:i,..o • • Fowler, Trumbull, and Van The Rouse of Representatives has y •• against 13 the preamble and resolution offered 1) Bingham, which set forth that the 11,3n1ger.i..,, 7 information of corrupt means hating 140 , tl;:y ).• to influence the vote of the So-unto ordering an investigation of the inattcr, with poy.: summon and examine witnesses under oath. Ini with this resolution. the nianageri exarLined ye.t, veral witnesses. The house has also adopted a resolution appoint-r• committee to investigate and report upon the cpua whether the Missouri delegation to the house had :• • perly endeavoured to influence the vote of S4-tkaur II dersou on impeachment. The house Las, moreover, ado;.tcd. a -es-,1,.! calling for official copies of the proceedings of tt- •• peachment Court on Friday and Saturdsy. ' Mr. Boyer, a democrat, offered a resolution that in consequence of the impeachment mtuag. • being avowed enemies of President Johnson, two iuu.:•: members should be appointed on the eJmalitu• ! managers. The house by 6 , 4 to Si refused to revel, L. , resolution. The democrats and conservatives in Boston, and numerous cities and towns fired honour of the acquittal of the President. The committee on foreign allies have repm t,.,1 in ft of an appropriation for the purchase of AlAsk.l. Advices from Vera Cruz to the 11th io.t. stak yellow fever was raging there with great bey,' ity. Salnave, with I.id adherents, bed be. n di ii, a t,. P.,rt Prince by the Cacoa rebel,. The stores of Arwal .1::. -; lied been plundered, the Amer:can coumil bei ' in his appeal to tialnave for rrot%tion. ii f , • fore sent to Havana and .Tatuaicit for .I:tivi i.• ! • protection. The British gunboat ..1 : to protect the Auiericans. THE ABYSSINIAN I:NPEN'NO. THE QUEEN'S CoNoll TU LATIoN- -\ THANKS TO THE EX ARM'. This morning a blue book was In.Lli l, •:•:.: 0- ing further papers connected with the Expedition. Amongst them are the I. The SECRETARY of STATE for IN'' 1.. •, lency Lieutenant-General Sir lI.N v l re. I; !I. G.C.5.1., Expeditionary Force, Abysms!'' INDIA oFFICE, M, , I. Sir, —I have received your E‘ei.;:,ll , y graphic messages reporting the del. at :..e Abyssinian forces, the liberation of the ea:" • the successful assault on Magdala, and th,. of King Theodore. I have already convoyed to %oil by frlegrapi, 1 message of congratulation shich her la. gracious Majesty the Qui en ICs' personally to charge me wit I. I , , • also expressed my own thanks and o•li,T.ti, on behalf of the government. I enclose c op,c , • these telegrams. I await with interest the fullest particulars ..; these important events, which your excell,tlc, hst no doubt forwarded to me.- I hay,- the II , •!!'''" be, dc. STAFFORD 11. Nol:w• The enclosures were as follow : " THE SECRETARY OF STATE 1•IOTI IND! t The t Q s t i i r ee R n o ROBEKTZNAPIER, 27TH A PRIL, IMIS• sebenr(tisNhapeaierty con ratulat l'°s thanks on their brilliant success." "I congratulate your excellency with µF all heart. You have taught us, once more, 3 '.: . meant by an army that can go anywhere Alla anything. From first to last all has h It dd.!. well. I must ask leave for a motto: ••,. suggestion would be' Qualls ab incept°. MgETINC SOF S CIENTIFI C SOul ETI Es "• , ENSUING WEEK..—Monday : Royal Institution, t; Monthly Meeting; Entomological, 7. Tuesday: Institution 3,' Development of Animals, " Dr. Tuesday: . • liortionitunl, 3, General Meeting and Leclule Eiryptian, 7.1, " Erplorations in Pale,tiue," Rev. (.• th e " pAnt/iroological, 8, "Physical Charactei the Dines," Stature, fitt. of Man in the British !skill $, Dr. &aides. Wednesday : Geological, 14, " Carboabit: Corals," Mr. Thomson ; "Pebb le Rle Beds of Ras sex, ko M .," Mr. Wood • " Cretaceoocks, nab; " r. Topley ; "'ldea dip A n ti c linal," 41r. Thursday: Royal I n stitution,:;, ‘• Savages, Sir 1• 0 Royal, 4, Election of Fellows; Chemical, S. •• i Organic Cyanides ko." Messrs. Chapman and n Testing Mineral Oils," Dr. Paul : Lihoesn, 8, logics of Muscles, Rhonlder-doint, • l'inferaor Roliesto:, " Zanites gips," Professor Williamson, " Mfolfr,„ ! :„1 . Zasypna suooinctns, Am." Mr. Galion. Fr ida y : 110 : g ioal, 7, "Norman Element in o ur I•roviacialy!s!!..',,.. Mr. Payne ; Royal Institution, " Abyssinia, Sir Sav3o ci Baker. Saturday : Royal Institut ion, J. Lubbock. —Atheen.rse.