The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-25 00:00:00

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DEAN RAMSAY, whose pleasant and scholarly writings have made his name agreeably known south of the Tweed, has lately addressed a letter to a North British contemporary on the subject of titles of honour given to Bishops who are not spiritual peers. The DEAN, who is one of the oldest offi ciating clergymen of the Scottish Episcopal Church, deals primarily with the territorial and compli mentary titles of the Bishops of his own com munion, but his observations apply more or leas to a large and increasing class of the higher order of clergy, including the Colonial and Missionary Bishops of the Church of England. Dean RAMSAY is anxious to show that it is a mis take to suppose that the titles in question were assumed by the Scottish bishops them selves. For a while, under what was called the College System, they formed a body without territorial distinctions at all, and even after dis tricts or sees had been assigned to them, they took care to add to their designations " of the Epis " copal Scottish Church." Dr. Gr.sro, Bishop of Brechin, who died in 1837, considered his proper designation to be "Theßight Rev. Geoaos " GLeto, in Stirling, Bishop," and if strangers or English clergymen addressed him as " My Lord," he neither looked for nor encouraged it. Bishop WALKER pointedly disclaimed the title. Bishop SAN DFORD was customarily addressed bye gentleman in a high official position as "Mr. Bishop." So Dr. Teartor, Bishop of Edinburgh, in the Scotch Epis copal Church, having been invited by Dr. Gnus, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Edinburgh, to rttend the funeral of Mrs. Maxus% of Pitfoddels, and observing that the invitation began " My Lord," remarked to Dr. GILLIS, " I observe you style me " My lord.' I had always thought that the " Church made bishops, but that the Crown made " lords." The DEAN attributes the practice which has grown up to the influence of the feeling of the English, who cannot separate the episcopal office from the title in their minds. The ex planation is very flattering, and we hope the observant DEAN will tall us how long it has been usual in Scotland to carry deference for English prejudice to any great length. The Eng lish feeling itself he illustrates by an anecdote. The Duke of WELLINGTON having made the ac quaintance of Dr. RUSSELL, Bishop of Glasgow, invited him to dinner when in town, and at table addressed him as "My Lord." After dinner the BISHOP took occasion to remind his host that Scottish bishops, as a voluntary body, had no claim to such title, the see being unconnected with Parliament or with the State. " Yes, yes ; I " know that," said the DUKE " but if I did not " call you My Lord,' the servants would not be " lieve you were a Bishop at all." The case of the Colonial Bishops caused difficulty at first in England. When MIDDLETON was consecrated first Bishop for India, his High Church friends were quite at a loss how to address him. The question was decided by Gismos IV., then Prince Regent, who, informed of the difficulty, settled the matter by accosting Dr. MIDDLETON, " HOW do you do, " my Lord Bishop of Calcutta ? I am delighted to " see your Lordship at my levee." Since that time the colonial Bishops have been re ceived at court as Lord Bishops. Dean RAMSAY, while careful to disclaim all assumption of titles of honour by the Bishops of his Church, thinks it the most natural thing in the world that such titles should be conceded to them by others. His opinion is that "to some extent the Divinity' "which SHAKESPEARE says doth hedge a King' " applies in the general mind to the episcopal office " abstracted from the person." It may be so, but from the anecdote just given the Duke of WEL LINGTON does not seem to have had much confi dence in the prejudice. The habit of ascribing worldly titles of honour to the superior clergy is threatened chiefly by the rapid multiplication of Bishops which has taken place of late years. Dr. CROWTHER, the negro clergyman who not long ago was consecrated in this country Bishop of N rose, declined, it is understood, to be styled " Lord " Bishop." On the other hand the Roman Catholic Bishops are commonly spoken of by lordly titles, and Dr. MANNtso is " His Grace," Dean Ramsay himself never uses the title in addressing a bishop of his own Church, partly because such was not the custom when ho was young, and partly, he tells us, from " a desire "that our church should exhibit and claim re " spectful consideration for the episcopal office ab " stracted from merely civil titles of honour "—a sentiment which, we will add, is eminently worthy of a good churchman. Tea disfranchisement of petty boroughs is re sisted on the ground that they give access to a class of men who would with difficulty find mints elsewhere. There is a good deal of truth in the statement. There is Mr. JOHN HARDY, for in stance, who no doubt suits Dartmouth admirably, but who might not get in for a large town. Never theless, we fear that gentleman was not born to save the pocket borough system. Certainly he often makes a more conspicuous figure in the House than some members who sit for places of greater note, but his appearances promote rather the amusement of the House than its instruc tion, and do not always enhance its self-respect. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 1867. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Too ofteu his rising is the signal for * "scene." On Monday night, desiring to sup port the Royal Parks Bill, he thought it well to say that he had never heard a more disfitgenuorts speech than that which Mr. P. A. TsvLoir lad made against it. There is measure and fitness even in invective, and to say that the member for Leicester is disingenuous is to miss the mark as much as if some one were to say that Mr. DARBY GRIFFITH is reticent or Mr. HARDT himself austere. Upon Mr. HARDY'S challenge to Mr. TAYLOR to deny that ho was disingenuous a brisk altercation took place, which is thus reported : Mr. P. TAlLos—I do deny it. Mr. J. HARDY—Then you'd deny anything. (Laughter, and cries of " Order.") Mr. °TWAY— I rite to order. Mr. J. RARDY—Re's returned by the refuse of a large constituency. (Laughter, and cries of " Order.") Mr. Orwar —I rise to order. I move that the words of the hon, member be taken down. The SPEAKER—The hon. m e m ber has used an expression which is not in order. He has stated that the hon. mem ber is returned by the refuse of a large constituency. When an hon. member has been duly returned to this house, that is not a proper way of describing his return. Mr. J. HARDT-I only meant that the hon. gentleman Deluded such amongst his supporters. (Cries of " Order.") Mr. MoNK—I rise to order. I ask whether the hon. gentleman has withdrawn the expression be used? The SPEAKER—I understand him to say he accepts the rule of order just laid down. Mr..J. Hanoi—l am sorry the expression I used is not parliamentary. (A laugh.) And with this no doubt genuine expression of regret Mr. HARDY reserves himself for new triumphs. We only hope that the political indulgence of the kindest of Speakers will not hasten the time when such expressions as Mr. HARDY used will be as parliamentary as even he could desire. Mr. HARDY, at any rate, has not been returned by the " refuse of a " large constituency." Dartmouth numbers " 293 " electors, including one freeman ;" and the vote of Mr. HARDY, when any important question is to be decided, will be just as good on a division as that of the gentleman who was returned for Binning ham on Tuesday by the votes of 5,800 citizens. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION LAST NIGHT. CHI7BOII RAT= ABOLITION BILL. Order for third reading read; motion made, and question proposed, "That the bill Ise now read the third time:" Amendment peetl, to leave out tk• word " now," and at the sad of the quetion to add the words " upon this day three months" (Mr. Horst). Question put, "That the word 'now' stand part of the question." The House divided : Ayes, 129; Noes, 99. A YES. Acland, T. D. Gilpin, C. Morrison, W. llt Agarlis, L O. Gladstone, W. H. Murphy, N. 1). Apuew, Sir A. Glyn, 0. 0. Neste, C. Allen, W. S. floschen, G. J. O'Brien. Slr P. Aroherley, Vied. Graham, W. Ogilvy, Sir J. Ayrtou, A. 8. Gray, Sir J. CrLoghlen, Sir C. Aytoun, R. E. Grey, Sir G. O'Reilly, M. W. Barclay, A. C. Grove, T. F. Otway, A. J. Bass, A. Gamey, 8. Owen, Sir H. 0. Bliley, T. Hadfield, G. Padmore. R. Berkeley, H. E. Hankey, T. Pease, J. W. Blake, J. A. Hartley, J. Pim, J. Bonham-Cutts, J. Ha. Lord J. Pollard-Urquhart,W Bouvcrie, E. P. Hay, Lord W. Potter, E. Brady, Dr. Raptor. A. D. Bearden, D. J. Bright. J. Henderson, J. Rohartes, T. J. Briscoe, .1. L Henley. Lord Robertson, D. Bruce, Lord C. Bergman, E. Rothschild, N. M. de Buller, Sir A. Hutt, Sir W. Rowell, A. Butler, C. 8. Jackson, W. Ramada, J. D. Candlish, J. Jervolge, Sir J. Samuelson, B. Cornendlah. Lord F. Johnstone, Sir J. Scott, Sir W. Childers, H. C. King. J. L. Seely, C. Clay, J. Kinglake, A. W. Sheridan, H. B. Clinton, Lord A. Kinglake, J. A. Sheriff, A. C. Clive. O. Knatchbull • Rages- Smith, J. B. Cowen, J. *en, K. litstisfeld, J. Con, W. T. luwrencc. W. Stone, W. U. Cranford, K If. Leathern, W. H. Stuart, col. Crawford, R. W. Leeman, 0. Sykes, Col. Davey, R. Lelerre, 0. J. Taylor, P. A. Davie, Sir 11. Locke, .1. Tr aci C. R. Dent, J. D. Lowe, R. Venderhyl, P. Dodson, .1. 0. Look, A. Vivian, Ca pt Duff, M. L Mackinnon, W. A. Waring, C. Eliot, Lord lil'lsgan, P. Western, Sir T. Enneld, Vied. M'Laren, D. Whalley. G. 11. Erskine, Vice-Ad. Maguire, J. F. White, J. F./monde, J. Merry, J. Wickham, H. W. Ewing, N. E. Mill, J. S. Young, R. Eykyn, R. Mills, J. R. Fawcett, H. Mitchell, A. =UM. Forster, C. Mitchell, T. A. Hardcaetle, J. A. Foster, W. O. Monk, C. J. Baines, Z. Castile*, Serjt. Moore, C. NOEL Adderley, C. B. Gore, J. R. Boum, 0. Archdall, Capt. Graves, S. R. Mowbray, .1. R. Baring, H. Greene. E. Naas. Lord Barttelot, Col. Grey, T. de Neville.Grenville,R. Beach, Sir M. Griffith, C. D. Newdegate, C. N. Beecroft, G. S. Gurney, R. Newport, Visct. Bentinck, 0. C. Gwyn, H. Noel, G. J. Bemoaned. Capt. Hamilton, Ld. Claud North. CoL Brett, W. B. Hamilton, LA. C. J. O'Neill, E. Bridges, Sir B. Hamilton, Vhict. Parker, Major W. Burrell, Mr P. Hardy, 0. Patten, Col. Capper, C. Hervey, Lord A. Powell, F. S. Cave, S. Hay, Sir J. C. Read, C. S. Chatterton, B. K Henley, J. W. Robertson, P. F. Conolly, T. Herbert, Col. Russell. Sir C. Corrance, F. S. Heygate, Sir F. ficlater.Booth, G. Corry, H. L Hildyard, T. B. Scourfield, J. H. Cover , L H.l Howes. F. Hunt, CC W. Selwyn, C. J. Cubitt, 0. Seymour, 0. H. Dalkekh, Earl of Kerslake, Sir J. Simonds, W. B. Oimsdale, R. Kavanagh, A. Stanhope, J. B. Du Cane C. Kendall, N. Stuart, Lieut-CoL Inincombs, CoL Mom, J. K. Bailees, C. F. Du Pre. C. G. 1,40, J. Taylor, Col. Edwards, Mr H. Lanyou. C. Vance, J. Egerton, L C. Letroy, A. Walcott, Adm. Egerton, W. Liddell, H. G. Whitmore, H. Pone. Col. Lindsay, Col. C. Williams, F. M. Feliden, J. lopes, Sir IL Wise, IL C. Yellowed, K. Lowther, J. Wood.", B. T. Ferguson, Sir J. Manners, Lord J. Yorke, J. R. Moyer, J. Steller , Cot. TELLF.I.9. Gallwey, Sir W. Montagu, Lord R. Gorst, J. E. Galway, Visct. Montgomery, Sir 0. Schreiber, C. Mr. W. E. Gladstone took no part it appears in the above division, and the names of Mr. Disraeli, Lord Stanley, SirS. Northcote, Sir J. Pakington, and Mr. Walpole are also absent. The only conservatives voting with Mr. Hard castle were Mr. Agar-Ellis, Mr. Hartley, and Mr. M'Lagan. Mr. Hubbard did not vote, nor Mr. Waldegrave Leslie. Eta Court. OSBORNE, JULY 24. The Queen, accompanied by the Empress of the French, Princess Louis of Hesse, and Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four. Major General Seymour was in attendance on horseback. The Empress of the French embarked this morning in the Heine Hortense on her return to France, attended by the Duchess de Baran and Count de Brews. The Queen, with Prince luid Princess Louis of Here, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Princess Beatrice, accompanied the Empress to Osborne-pier to take leave of her Majesty. Mr. Jabs: Hughes, of Ryde, had the honour of photo. graphing the Queen ►nd the Empress of the French yester day at Osborne. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended by the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey. His Excellency Count Lavradio, the Portuguese Ntinister, had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Foreign-office yesterday. Despakhes were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena. The Princess Mary Adelaide of Teck and the Prince of Peck honoured Lord and Lady Foley with their presence at dinner bet evening, at their residence in Groeveaor•equare. The Prince of Wales honoured Frances Countess Waldograve and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., with his presence at a grand dinner and ball last evening at their beautiful villa residence Strawberry-hill, Twickenham. The ball was opened shortly before Ii o'clock. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales danced with the Countess Waldegrave, Mr. Fortescue taking the hand of the Duchess de Chartres, Primo. Edward of Saxe. Weimar that of the Dachas of Sutherland, and the Duke de Chartres attending on the Princess Edward of Saxe- Weimar. The Duke and Duchess of Bucclench entertained at dinner last evening, at Montagu House, Whitehall, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelits, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Cleve land and Hon. Mies Primrose, the Marquis and Marchioness of Allesburr, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Ladies Gertrude and Adelaide Talbot, the Earl and Countess of Bmsborough, the Earl of Malmesbury, Earl Clanwilliam, the Earl of Morley 'and Lady Katharine Parker, Viscount Lascelles, Viscount Hamilton, Lord Schomb er g and Lady Victoria Kerr, Lord Charles Scott, Lady Margaret Scott, Hon. Mr. Wood, Sir Walter Scott, Mr. H. Greville and Lady Geral dine Somerset, Baron Lube, and Colonel Hon. James Mac donald, in waiting on the royal guests. The duchess later in the evening had a concert, at which her Royal Highness Princess Mary and his Serene Highness the Prince of Teck and a distinguished circle were present. Lord Dorby and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have accepted invitations to a banquet to be given at the Mansion-house on Wednesday week, the ith of August. AU the rest of her Majesty's ministers, with the principal officers of state, have also been invited. The Duchess of Sutherland was driving in her barouche in the park on Tuesday when the horses took fright and ran away. They came in collision with the rail separating the footpath from the road, about the centre or the Hamilton•gardens. One horse cleared the rail, and throw itself violently against the garden railings, injuring itself so seventy that we believe it had to be killed. The other was also seriously injured. Her grace, most fortu- nately, escaped unhurt, and was convoyed home by the Countess of Carnaryoo. THE INDIAN Bunorr. —On going into committee on the Indian budget Mr. Ayrton will move, as an amend ment, the following resolutions :—'• That the Governor- General of India should be empowered, with the sanction of her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, to conduct the business of each department of government in concert with one or more members of his council indeed of the whole council. That, in order to insure both attention to the affairs of trade and agriculture, an additional member of the Council of India should be appointed to super intend those affairs. That the government of Bengal should be placed upon the same footing as the government of Bombay. That one nominated and one elected member of the council of the Secretary of State for India should cease to hold office at the end of each year. That the members of the council should retire in rotation according to their length of service, either as members of the council or as Bast India directors. That the existing practice of recording by resolutions of this house certain financial facts relating to India should be discontinued ; and that, instead thereof, the estimates for all expenditure in Europe of her Majesty's Secretary of State for India should be approved by a vote of this house before the same is incurred." (nos ova owl IPORMIPONDMIT.) PAM, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The most important speech of the now expiring Amnion is the one made yesterday by M. Berryer in support of his motion that the estimated assets of the extraordinary budget may be augmented by the sum of 28,569,700 fr. (upwards of one million one hundred and forty thousand pounds sterling), which he holds to be due from M. Pinard, the managing director of the Comptoir d'Escompte and a certain cluster or " syndicate" of bankers repre sented by him, upon a contract with government to take at a fixed price a number of Mexican obli gations, and which sum the government had in tended to excuse them from paying, and had written off to " profit and loss." There is an extraordinary official mystery about the names of the bankers associated with M. Pinard. The government positively refuses to disclose them. The opposition members say their names are notorious, but still abstain from mentioning them. They have never yet appeared in print. When the names of these bankers shall be published, as they must shortly be, there will be found a yet lower deep in that abyss of incredible jobbery and fraud in high places which M. Berryer has exposed. The Abolition for Imprisonment for Debt Bill having received the imperial assent, the doors of Clichy were thrown open at the curious hour (the earliest, I suppose, at which the proper authorities could be informed of the event) of five minutes past midnight. Aa may naturally be supposed the great majority of the prisoners begged not to be turned out at that hour, and they were graciously allowed to sleep as free men in their 'prison beds. Five or six, however, made up their bundles and walked out directly. The Bourse was very heavy. Rente fell 10c, for cash, and 12ic. for account, closing at 681 r. 75c. and 68fr. 72ic. Italian fell 15c. Comptoir d'Es li - compte, affected by the debates in the Chamber, fell 18fr. 75c. Credit Foncier declined 30fr., and Mobilier 16fr. 25c. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TIM CHURCH RAT ABOLITION BILL. Mr. Hardeaatle's bill for the pure and simple ►bolition of church rates was read a third time yesterday in the House of Commons, and passed by a majority of 30 in a house of 228. If this decision should be sus tained, the Times would view the result with a certain equanimity, but would, nevertheless, think it an inexcusable blunder on both sides. It would have been at once wise and conciliatory of Mr. Hard castle, our contemporary thinks, if he had himself modified his bill so as to render it a measure for simply abolishing compulsory payment. It would surely be a matter for regret if, without the slightest necessity, the whole machinery of collecting church rates should be at once abolished throughout the country. The rate is still collected in a majority of parishes, and it forms the time-honoured method by which the chief expenses of church services are defrayed. It is everywhere voluntary, for it can only be imposed by a majority, and when imposed can very rarely be exacted against an obstinate resistance. In a word, it is in practice at once harmless and useful. What constitutes its obnoxious element is mere theory. The dissenters will be contented if the theoretical power is given up, and the rate might remain harmless and useful still. Churchmen have practically to choose between this alternative and a total subversion of the present system. Cannot the wis dom of the House of Lords interpose to procure the ac ceptance of the more moderate alternative! A very simple alteration in Mr. Hardcastle's bill would effect this object, and the proposal would, it is evident, be accepted by a majority of the House of Commons. The Herald thinks the present house had no business to pronounce authoritatively on the church rate question. The division of yesterday may be accounted as nothing. It is the new parliament which must decide. Meanwhile churchmen and oonstitutionalists must redeem the time. Above all things, it behoves the clergy to prove by their ministrations what is the real value not only of church rates but of an Established Church. THE RELTA/101 TOUR. The Daily News observes that the Sultan has chosen a suitable moment fur acquainting himself with the restless, moving life of the western world. Since the Treaty of Paris the Sultan has been one of the great European powers ; it was well that he should himself acknowledge and ratify the political significance of that instrument, by abandoning an isolation which made friends indifferent and enemies un scrupulous, and by entering as an honoured guest the capi. tale and the palaces of his Christian allies. To Filed Pacha's sagacious counsel the visit may, no doubt, be ascribed. It would be rash to anticipate from it any sudden or sweeping ameliorations in the administration of the Turkish empire or in the condition of the Christian populations. But decay can be arrested and alleviated, and growth moderated and assisted, by timely tonics. Fuad Pach• showed • keen and intimate appreciation of his English sympathisers when be not only declared that Eastern hospitality had been surpassed in the West, but that the Turk looked on his mission in the world as that of a furnisher of raw material for English factories and a consumer of English products. England has an obvious interest in preserving so useful and self-denying *creature. Nor was this distinguished statesman less felicitous in remarking that the Eastern Question was more economical than political, or in other words more a material than • moral one, and to be solved by commerce and industry and railways rather than by diplomatic or military inter vitiations. A minister who talks in this wise understands at least the jargon of his epoch. Accordingtothe Slandard the Sultan returns to Turkey resolved to pursue energetically the work of reform. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS IN THE REFORM RILL. If the Time. is not misinformed the House of Lords will be asked before going into committee to affirm the neces sity of extending the redistribution scheme as a condition to a permanent settlement of the question, and it is cer tain that other propositions for the amendment of the bill will be brought forward in the committee itself. But it is above all things necessary that the proposers of the amend ments should be prepared by Monday to submit a complete account of the plans to the tipper House. To secure a permanent settlement the process or disfran chisement must be zarried farther than is provided in this bill. If boroughs having a population below 'l,OOO be dis franchised, the seats thus obtained should be conferred on the large constituencies by accumulation of representatives and not by subdivision of the constituencies. Three-cor nered constituencies afford the only means of reconciling that principle of equality which underlies every proposal of enfranchisement or redistribution contained in the Reform Bill with the maintenance of the representative principle. If we subdivide populous constituencies, we create an assembly in which the proportions of the majority in the country are enormously exaggerated. Whether the method of voting in constituencies receiving third members should remain unchanged, or whether the plan originated by Lord Russell in 1854, and supported by Lord Cairns on Tuesday, or the simple cumulative vote should he adopted is, the rinses conceives, at present of inferior importance. The Telegraph states that a meeting of liberal peers was held at Lord Russell's residence, yesterday afternoon, to consider the course to be pursued in committee on the Reform Bill. In the meanwhile, the redistribution part of the measure has necessarily engaged close attention, and it is probable that the discussions on the subject will have practical fruit, at least in an amendment proposing to disfranchise some of the smaller boroughs. Pftorassou BEZSLY.—We understand that the Council of University College, London, have determined by a considerable majority not to take any step in conse quence of Professor Beesly's recent speech. As that speech has been deliberately considered by the council, we cannot be mistaken in inferring th►t the authorities of the college have understood it in a sense widely different from that which an influential portion of the press has persistently attempted to foros upon IL The least that the decision thus announced shows is that the council do not for a moment believe that Mr. Beady has desired or attempted to palliate or extenuate crime, and we believe that impartial inquiry could lead to no other result. —Dais Were, Ilp ii,‘ THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY AND SENATOR WADE. In his speech in the House of Lords on Tuesday evening the Earl of Shaftesbury attached some importance to a speech, which he stated had been delivered in the United States by Senator Wade, and on which his lordship relied to prove that communism is taking root in America The noble earl could not have seen the following letter from the Senator referred to: " Jefferson, Ohio, June 27, 1867. " Editor! Misoouri bowerat. Dear Sire,—l notice in your paper of the 23th inst. an article on the remarks I made at Lewrenoe, Kansas, which have been so severely criticised by several papers, com mencing with the MID York Times, com meeting upon • letter of its correspondent who was with the party, and who furnished an abstract of the speech. There was no stenographer present, and no one attempted to report the speech literally; and while ! cannot pretend to give the pre cise words I used on that occasion, I am perfectly sure that I said nothing about the division of property, of the un equal distribution of it, or even that it might be remedied by legislation. I did speak of the immense advance that science had made in labour-saving machinery within the last half-century, and the power that man had acquired over the material elements in that time, so that the labour of one man would now produce more of things useful than many could previous to that time ; yet I was unable to see that those improvements had bettered the con dition of the labourer ; that this state of things was wrong and must be remedied. I also remarked that the inadequacy of the compensation of labour was creating an uneasiness and restlessness among labourers everywhere, as manifested by strikes, by endeavours to limit the hours of labours, and a thousand other indica tions which led me to believe that the question must be met, and that the man who should discover and be able to apply • remedy for these great evils would be the greatest benefactor of mankind since the time of Christ, &c. ; but I did not attempt in that speech to point out in what the remedy should consist. In short, your editorial his caught the spirit of what I intended to say, and believe I did say, much nearer than was done by the correspondent of the Times, who, it seems to me, entirely mistook what I said on that occasion. Several senators were present, and not one of them that I have consulted understood me in the way I was reported by that correspondent.—Yours, with respect, B. F. WADY. Mr. Taylor, on Tuesday, will call attention to the decision of a Cornish magistrate sentencing six persona to imprisonment for trespassing off a path through a wood ; and to move, " That in the opinion of this house in all cases of summary convictions before justices of the peace it is desirable that minutes of the evidence on which the con viction was founded should be recorded, and preserved for future reference in came of need." On the 9th of next month Captain Vivian will call the attention of the house to the servioes of the Bri tisk troops engaged in the New Zealand wars from 1840 to 1865 ; and move a resolution. To-morrow Mr. Powell proposes to call the atten tion of the Have of Commons to the inadequate punish ment now awarded in cases of assault, especially in those of an aggravated character ; and to move, "That in the opinion of this house it is expedient that amendments be made in the law or the administration thereof, with a view to providing better securities against wilful injuries to the person." Sir Robert Phidlimore has accepted the office of Judge of the Admiralty, and it is said that the Lord Chancellor proposes Dr. Deane as the successor of Sir Robert Phillimore in the office of Queen's Advocate. The Austrian journals state that the Emperor Francis Joseph, on learning the execution of his brother bfaximih.n,declared that he would never again sign a death•warrant. Prince de Metternich entertained at luncheon on Monday the Austrian military band, whose performance at the competition on Sunday excited so much admiration. The tables were laid out in the garden of the embassy, and the national dishes and drink of Austria were served in abun dance. Subsequently, the band executed a dozen pieces of different styles and character, exhibiting their pro 6. ciency both on stringed and brass instruments. All the foreign ambassadors and Austrian notabilities now in Paris were present at this fete, which lasted from 2 till 6 o'clock. A meeting of the persons engaged in founding a society for the encouragement of fishery in salt and fresh water took place on the lgth inst., in the pavilion of the Imperial Commission in the Universal Exhibition. The mode of promoting the development of this industry is by the circulation of publications, by periodical exhibitions, the loan of fishing implements, and the organisation of societies for the purpose of watching the fisheries as well as preventing poaching and the poisoning of rivers. A bonito was caught in Southampton Water, on Monday. This fish is of the mackerel species, and is the terror of the dying•fish in tropical seas. - - LONDON Taanzs'Corweic.—The annual delegate meeting was held last night at the Bell Inn, Old Bailey ; Mr. Barrow, of the Amalgamated Engineers, in the chair. The annual report of the council began by stating that the ' past year had been one of the greatest importance to trade societies. Strikes, resulting from various maim bad been numerous, and simultaneously there were several lockouts, bothcombining totax heavily theresonrcesof thesocieties. It was, however, a source of much gratification to find that, not only was every one of them perfectly solvent, but that it bad • balance at its bankers'. After refer ring to various questions which had occupied the attention of the council during the year, the report stated that the council bad determined on calling • series of public meetings, at which some of the meet eminent writers and thinkers of the day would be invited to attend and state their opinions, whatever they might be, on the greet question of labour and capital and the present aspect of trades' societies. Several important men had already promised to assist at those meetings. There was an abso lute necessity for every trade society to watch closely the doings of the Royal Commission, and to be prepared to send a delegate to a conference to be called immediately on the presentation of their report to the house. After the adoption of the report, the meeting was adjourned for a f LATEST INTELLIGENCE. TREATMENT OF JEWS IN GALATZ. The New Pree Press of Vienna publishes the following protest of the consuls in Galatz spinet the persecution of the Jews. It is addressed to the Prefect : Galatz, July 15, 1867. The undersigned European consuls have been made ac quainted by public report and by precise information with the painful events which took place yesterday in the port of Galati. Eight or ten Jews were expelled the country on last Saturday by order of the local authorities. The police put them on board a Mall boat, and carried them to the Turkish side of the river. Amongst these poor people was an old man, so infirm th►t two persons had to help him into the boat. Instead of taking them to the Turkish station of Satoka, they were con veyed by the soldiers in charge to an inhabited island opposite Galata, which was inundated with water, and landed in the marshes, as was done on previous occasions. The Turkish soldiers picked them up on Saturday, and brought them back to Galata, intending to leave them at the station of the port-captain. Instead of receiving the outcasts, who were now exhausted from fatigue. and who we are assured are Moldo•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 vowel, but they were carried away by the current and drowned. The Rouman guard made no effort to save them, although they sank near the bank, whilst the Turkish vessel made off rapidly. The Mercury, a steam vessel be longing to the Austrian Danubian Company, got ready to save them, but was too late. The remainder were at last received and imprisoned, after having been left a long time in the water exposed to • burning sun. We do not know whether there was any foreigner amongst the Jews, but in presence of the notorous persecutions to which the Jews of this country are exposed we consider it our bounden duty to protest with energy in the names of the governments we repre sent against this act of barbarism, and to throw before the civilized world the whole responsibility of it on you, the prefect, and on the superior authorities." (11E072103 TZLIGIAMIL PRUSSIA AND DENMARK. BERLIN, Juts 25. The reply of the Danish government to the last Prussian note upon the North Schleswig ques tion, is to the following effect :—" In the matter of the guarantee asked for by Prussia, Den mark has not been able to recede from the point of view she has hitherto maintained. The Danish laws, well known to be liberal, secure equal rights to all subjects of the state, and, therefore, afford ample protection to German residents. Special guarantees, therefore, are not required. With regard to the co-operation of Denmark in settling the frontier of the districts proposed to be restored, touched upon in the Prussia* note, the Danish Cabinet points that Denmark is ex cluded from taking the initiative in this matter by the clause of the treaty of Prague referring to the subject. Denmark must therefore await the proposals of Prussia." The note concludes with the expression of the readiness of the Danish government to enter into negotiations with Prussia. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. JUT 24. A late edition of the Abendpost publishes Captain Groller's official report of the death of the Emperor Maximilian, partly confirming and adding to the facto already known. Previous to the execution of the Emperor Maximilian Captain Grolier had offered Juarez the friendly alliance of Austria in exchange for his liberty. HUNGARY. PESTH, JULY 24. General Klapka and his nephew have arrived hero. General Perczel has been proposed as a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies for Egerszeg. CROATIA. AGRAM, JULY 23. General von Gablenz has arrived here. The newspaper Pu-..0r, the publication of which was prohibited here, will henceforward appear in Laibach. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, docy 25. The Queen of the Belgians is expected to return here in a few days, accompanied by the Empress Charlotte. BRUSSELS. JuLY 24. A circular of M. Vandenpeerboom has been published to-day, stating that in consequence of the reappearance of the cattle plague at Contich (in the province of Antwerp), the orders re-establishing fairs and liberating the cattle traffic from all con trol are suspended. ITALY. FLORENCE, JuLT 24, Evm‘nca. The Italie of this evening says Signor Rattarzi waspreeentat the last sitting of the committee on the bill for the suppression of the forced paper cur rency. He declared that the government would be enabled to a ithdraw the forced currency if the Chamber would grant them the 600,000,000 lire they had demanded, and which they proposed should be raised in the form of an extraordinary tax on the ecclesiastical property. The committee is disposed to propose an additional clause to the bill stipulating that the withdrawal of the forced cur rency shall be effected on the Ist of July, 1868. The government will, however, be allowed a few months' latitude in order to facilitate the operation, and to provide, by other means, for the wants of the Treasury. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Jrcr _ _ _ The Inman steamer City of London, from New York 13th inst., arrived here at 2.30 a.m. to-day, with 53 passengers and 1,383,066 doll. in specie. She landed the mails and passengers and proceeded immediately for Liverpool ; all well. The Guinn steamship Manhattan, from New York, arrived here at 10 a.m. to-day, with 53 cabin and 69 steerage passengers. She proceeded for Liverpool immediately. M. Renher is to leave Paris on the let August for Carlsbad, where he will pass a month. The interim of the Minister of Finance will, it is thought, be madded to M. Baroche. The Dcbatie of Vienna affirms that the last am nesty granted by the Emperor of Russia has not yet been carried into execution :—" From information that can be relied upon," says that journal, "it appears that up to the present time not one of the Poles to whom the measure applies has been liberated. Deports. Cons to Siberia and arrests made secretly at night continue, although the amnesty ordered that all such proceedings should be suspended. In this decree it is stated that every process of confiscation com menced is to be stopped, and the property restored to its owners. This clause of the amnesty has only been appli cable in a single case—with respect to the property of Count Zamoyslry, against which the confiscation proceed ings had not yet been commenced when the amnesty was published. But it is in vain that the Count await, resti tution ; his property, notwithstanding the precise declare ikon of the decree, remains in the hands of the Russian government." _ _ - The Viceroy of Egypt has left Paris for Vichy. THE NEW O F Last night a public meeting of the rate. payers and inhabitant s o f Ch e l sea, Kensington, Ful ham and Hammersmith was held in the Vestry. hall ht , King's-road, Chelsea, to consider what s t eps it mig be necessary to take with respect to the represen. tation of the proposed new borough in parliament. attendance was numerous and influential, and Mr. T. The Torrens, M.P., w as unan i mous l y called ' to the chair, and in an address which was warmly applauded, rm minded the meeting that for fifteen years he had been engaged in trying to get the new bo roug h en f ranchised, and he rejoiced that the concession had come .at length from no party. It had been conceded in a bill which met with the approval of the people of England. That measure heel met with the unanimous vote of the House of Commons, and the Moose of Lords had ratified the decision. It now, therefore, re mained for the electors of the new borough to do their duty ; above all, they should endeavour to steer clear of dictation, and at once set their faces against the pernicious intiueuom of oorniption. His earnest entreaty to them as an old friend and neighbour was to keep the representation in their own hands, and never allow it to be made the subject of a mercantile contrast or merce nary treaty. Several gentlemen had saked him the wa to Chelsea, but he had declined to become their fi ngery post ; and he was authorised by Lord E n fi e ld , one of the members for the county, who was reposed to be in the field for the new borough, to state that he had no desire to seek the honour. Mr. Rabbitts moved the first re solution, expressing the conviction of the meeting that the li th clause of " the Representation of the People Bill " was a just recognition of the right, which had been too long denied, of the district to direct parliaroentary representation. Mr. Chappell seconded the resolution, which was put from the chair, and carried unanimously. Mr. Nyas, of the Reform League, before reading the resolution he had to propose, took the opportu. nity of denouncing the Parks Bill as no less than a high. way robbery of the working man, and he thought that no one should be returned for the new borough who w ou ld not pledge himself to vote for the repeal of that measure should it pass into • law. The resolution affirmed that it was premature to mognise any candidate at present, and that • committee should be formed representing all diadem of the liberal party, for the purpose of organising the borough and of cooperating with others in the work of registration, and the ultimate selection of fit and proper candidates. Mr. James that Mr. Piccadilly, seconded the resolution, and announced Gat Mr. Goldwin Smith had been invited, but declined te become a candidate. If, however, they could not get eminent men like Goldwin Smith and John Stuart let the electors turn their attention to men of usefulness like Mr. Torre= and Mr. Thomas Hughes, the member for Lambeth. He warned the meeting that the Reform Club already had its eye upon the borough, and they should take care it did not also use its heel. The onlyede. guard against dictation was to have • preliminary ballot before the day of election. Sir Wentworth Bilks, /LP., repudiated the suggestion that his son, who was a condi. date, was the nominee of the Reform Club, and gave it as his opinion, derived from experience, that only slang men could stand the wear and tear of the House of Gn mons. Mr. Kingdom (Notting-hill), Mr. Freeman (Ess. sington, a candidate), and others addressed the meeting upon the necessity of keeping clear of electioneering agents, and the resolution having been passed DMZ. mously, the proceedings closed at a late hour with a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman for his past and present services in the cause. THE REFORM LEAGUE AND THE ROYAL PARKS BILL. The ordinary meeting of the Council of the Reform League, held lairt evening at the of in Ade lpbi. terrace, was numerously attended, it having become known that the subjeet of the Royal Parke Bill would he discussed. Mr. BRAM; presided. Mr. Mexaniex proposed, and Colonel Deese, se. corded, the following resolution, which was carried una nimously :—" That the cordial thanks of this meeting be given to Mr. P. A. Taylor, Mr. J. 8. Mill, and Mr. Otway for their firm and talented opposition to the obnoxious Royal Parks Bill, and to all the other members who voted against the second reading of that bill ; end this meeting in dignantly denounces the vulgar and insulting attack made in the course of the discussion upon Mr. Taylor personally and upon the electors of Leicester, who were honest and manly enough to return to par li ament such a true and earuest friend of the people. Mr. BRAUN, referring to the bill, said it was intended to make unlawful what was now lawful, and was a gross and'deliberate invasion of the all-important right of public meeting. Dwelling upon the legal questions involved, be ridiculed the legal opinion which founded its alleged right to exclude the public from the parks on the assuntr. tion that the authority of the crown over the parks was the same as that of any proprietor of lands to prevent per. sons from trespassing on them. The right of property of the Queen in the metropolitan parks, supposing bet to have any such right of property at all as against the public, was wholly distinct from her right of property iu and over the lands of Osborne or Reimers!. In answer to the argument based on the ground that the use by the public of the parks had been all along by the favour and license of the crown, and that the license could be revoked at any time, or be accompanied by any conditions the crown might think proper to annex to the license, he ventured to think that the presumption of law was just the very reverse of that, and that were even the royal parks, instead of being crown property, in all respects in the position of private property, no pri vate proprietor, after the inhabitants of a neighbouring district had been suffered by his predecessors for cen turies, or for • long series of years, to have the use and enjoyment of certain lands at all reasonable hours in the day, and had actually, for • great number of years, and under the express or implied understanding of their having such van and enjoyment, managed and maintained the land at their own expense, could turn round upon them and revoke or terminate or restrict such use; the law would presume that his ancestors or predecessors bad granted such use, and granted it too for • consideration. (Hear, hear.) Moreover, se regarded Hyde - park, it was actually sold in the days of the Commonwealth, and it was not clear that the royal estate was at the preseld day in the crown, and there were rights of way over it which would alone render the closing of the gates against the public in the day time illegal. The council then considered the measures to be adopted to defeat the Royal Parke Bill. After an animated discus -61011, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: " That the secretary write to Lord Derby, to request . hu lordship to receive • deputation from this league on Friday next, or such other day and at such other time, :is to his lordship may be convenient, on the subject of the Royal Parks Bill." NATIONAL REFORM UNION.—WO are informed that the executive of the National Reform rnion bees determined to hold a large conference in 111.thohesttr iw mediately after the Reform Bill has passed the House of Lords, and also a grand banquet during the autumn, which the leading liberals of both Houses of Parliament will be invited to attend. THE LIMITED LIABILITY LAW.—A deputation, consisting of the Hon. L Agar-Ellis, M.P., Sir D. Gooch, M.P., Messrs. Finlay, Graves, M.P., Waring. M.P., Whitworth, M.P., and Meson. Newmarch, Drake, Beaton, Chadwick, and other', waited on Mr. Cave, the Vice-Pre sident of the Board of Trade, on Tuesday, to urge him to proceed with the bill for amending the acts relating to limited liability, in accordance with the report of the com mittee and the recommendation to that effect which it contained, the special points being the conferring on com panies, in certain cases, and under certain restrictions for the protection of creditors, power to reduce their capital, and also power to divide thew shares into shares of a lower denomination than that Axed by their original articles d association. The deputation stated that they represented companies whose nominal share capital exceeded 20,000,0001. Mr. Cave said that the government fully re• cognised the importance of giving effect to the recommen• dations of the committee, and promised that the bill for that purpose, which had been prepared, should be in the hands of members at latest on Friday, and that be would move the moored reading on the first day he could find vacant. BELGIAN VOLUNTEERS AT CHATSWORTH. —la accordance with arrangements made previous to their arrival in Derbyshire, the Belgians paid a visit on Tuesday to Haddon-hall and Chatsworth, at which latter OW they were, in the unavoidable absence of the Dulcs of Devonghire, received by his grace's steward, Mr. eating. ham. The Belgians left Derby for Boesky in a special train, accompanied by upwards of 1,000 excursionists, and on their arrival were met by a crowd of persons who bere.as at all other places along the route, accorded thew a moat enthusiastic welcome. Carriages were provided for the visitors, and after a pleasant drive through awns of the prettiest scenery in Derbyshire, Haddon-hall and Chatsworth were reached. An hour su fficed for the inspeo• tion of the ruins at Haddon, but a much longer stay was made at Chatsworth, every part of the splendid 1:11101 110 a being open to the visitors by . the express command of the noble owner. Later in the day the guests were entertained at a dinner in which every de• limey of the season and wines of the choicest vintage were liberally dispensed, and, after the long lido and the ramble through the grounds, duly appreciated. Mr. Cot• tiogham presided, and toasts of the customary interne , tional character were proposed and honoured. Major Stoats proposed the health of the host, the Duke of Devon shire, the guests rising and " Hip, hip, hip, hurrahing " with much vigour. After dinner thellelgams drove cd to Beesley, and were conveyed back to Derby by , specifl train. At night a grand ball and nipper given in their honour by the town of Derby was held in the Assembly Rooms, which were beautifully decorated for the ocoisioe. Most of the visitors returned bomc yesterday via London and Dover, but a few were prevailed upon to stay over Saturday in order to take part in the review of the midland counties volunteers, which is fined to take place on that day. The exceedingly well-prepared programme of the reception was married out without a 'tingle hitch or flaw, and the whole proceedings reflect much credit upon Derby, and upon Mr. Pratt, Mr. Bemrooe, and the other members of the committee upon whom the management of the en tertainment devolved. EMI nit evident =into Pamir perfect takeab destrD The there a are bet This w and MI sum also pa been al bankru - e — p Wel li ild 1 Sir TI act of it ugh hmiself the etre for the! ismer th The p AF &Jere ty b roil warraal 4k . 1 to Ed defeE „!?ti the 000 , The 'kJ it WI :. 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