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A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS PIIBLIBLIIM EVERY EVENING. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 13. BARON NAPIER OF MAGDALA,. SELDOM, if ever, has the country regarded with more heartfelt satisfaction the honours conferred upon a public servant by the Crown than in the present instance of Sir ROBERT N.LPUIR. The ele vation of that illustrious general to the peerage is an sot of sovereign favour as popular as well de homed. In acknowledging the great services which have so signally crowned a career of constant merit and distinction, the Crown emphasises and confirms the .judgment of the whole nation. The public instinct rejoices in rewards which a soldier, un friended by fortune or by family influence, has fairly won at the point of his sword, by those solid and serious qualities which have not always com manded the recompense they have deserved at the hands of the dispensers of patronage at home. The national self-esteem has been flattered by the• perfect conduct and success of a campaign which loaves no shadow of displeasure or regret behind. In Baron NAPIER (of Magdala) England salutes a name nobler than any title, and a pure renown that dignifies the rank it accepts. It hasbeen suggested that as there is already a Lord NeprEß, not undistinguished as a civilian in the public sense, Sir ROBERT should have taken another title, in order to avoid confusion of names. The suggestion seems to us superfluous. There are, as everyone knows, and always will be in the Upper House of Parliament, Peers of the same name, though of different houses, who are as easily distinguished by each other as Lord NAPIER the diplomatist will be from tho Lord NArrea (of Itlagdala) and in the same way. Surely it is very natural that Sir ROBERT NAPIER should, as a sol dier, be loth to part with such a name as NAPIER, and.since his right of peerage is not territorial, that ho should prefer not to assume a territorial title. " NAPIER" and " Idagdala " will make as good a Barony as any ono of feudal or quasi -feudal origin; and it may be added that Sir Bonn only THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY l3 - 11368. follows the example of all his famous Indian pre deeemon. The amount and extent of the pension, 2,0001. • year for his own life and the life of his next heir, have, we are inclined to believe, somewhat disappointed the generous expectation of the public. England it is felt can afford to pay better for her glory than so poor a pittance as this, when she pays so extrava gantly a number of pon.sionaries A .who have brought her neither honour or profit, and who perhaps have done their country no other service than to be born the more or loss remote and useless descendants of great men, and to suc ceed to an inheritance they would never have earned. It has usually been thought proper to confer a pension formilitary services for threo lives. Nor is 2,0001. a year, according to tho present rate of living, • very handsome sustenance for the dignity of • peer whose title has no territory attached. At any rate the just and popular elevation of Sir ROBERT NAPIIIR to the peerage has very seasonably revived the question of Life Peerages, oven in some influential quarters where the theory of Life Peonage., was treated as almost revolutionary and subversive some years ago. It is beginning to be under stood that with a House of Commons elected by almost universal suffrage, the House of Lords may require to be refreshed and in vigorated with now blood, and that this new blood must be found in the veins of mon whose achievements are not heraldic, whose pub lic services are their patents of nobility, and whose genius and worth have neither ancestors nor descendants. It would be a churlish and in vidious task to take the list of the House of Peers, and to point the visible moral of that factitious hereditary transmission of territorial _ _ titles, and sometimes of splendid names, whioh the irony of Nature presents to the contem plative mockery of a critical and democratic age. VAGRANCE Tits sad problem how boat to deal with the destitute cannot be met by a summary denial of their claims. The well-meaning disciplinarians who quote Archbishop WUATELY, and insist upon buttoning the breeches pocket as the first duty of man, would lead ns into infinitely worse evils than those they propose to abrogate. Let what will happen, death from starvation as a penalty for helplessness, or ignorance, or weakness, can never be a recognised principle in Christian legislation. Mr. FROMM tells us that in Queen ELizaarrli's time vagrant mendicancy was punished by a whipping at the cart's tail for the first offence, by branding for the second, and by death for the third ; and it is not many months since some of our metropolitan guar dians publicly bewailed the good old Elizabethan laws for dealing with scamps and tramps. But the present spirit of the country is happily more merciful ; and it is satisfactory to find that the stern letter from a Mr. D. FOSTER, which ap peared in the Times a few days since, is met by a rejoinder this morning, in which an active magis trate of seven years' standing altogether disputes the assumption that no able-bodied man who is willing to work need apply for relief as a pauper. There is the painful fringe hanging on to the skirts of labour of the chums " who cannot do a " full day's work or do their work thoroughly " well. These men," says Mr. %Prim, who is a justice of the peace for Bedford, " find ready em " ployrnent in busy times, but they are the first " to be discharged when work is slack, and they " are the last to get employment when once out. " These men have largely increased the number "of vagrants, and many of them have " sunk into regular tramps who form about one " third of the inmates of our tramp wards. Mr. " FOSTER says they are a bad lot. So they are, " but more miserable even than bad. The " beggar who earned his 3a. a day, and spent his " night as a jolly beggar, does not trouble our " wards, and has, I think, nearly ceased to " exist." The jolly (tramp) beggar is a figment of the poor law guardian's mind, and as opposed to real life as the gracefully fanciful creation of CILARLES LAMB. Mr. SMYTH'S conclu sion, after enumerating the inmates of the Dun stable casual ward on a particular night, is, that vagrancy should be accepted as a necessity, and that such provision should be made for it as shall not encourage idle men to go on tramp, but shall prevent those who are on it from being starved or goaded by starvation into crime. Further, that provision should be made uniform, so that one Union should not suffer for its humanity by being unduly burdened by those who have been refused food and shelter by its neighbours. If permanent officials of the Poor-law Board, with Mr. FLEMING at their head, had the courage and capacity to do their duty, the claims of 4 ' urgent necessity," as laid down in the consolidated orders, would be re cognised throughout the country. But the recent action in the case of the Guildford guardians gives but small promise of this, and when the charge of refusing food to casuals waa publicly brought against a Staffordshire workhouse, all we heard of the matter was that a Poor-law inspector, in a lecture on vagrancy, " hoped for the credit of the " Poor-law that so sensational a statement was " not true." His poems imply st least as many deli cate beauties as they reveal ; and grsoeful thoughts lay hidden from the careless or indifferent student as completely as violets overshadowed by larger and gayer flowers do to the unobservant passer by. To comprehend many of Mr. TE1011'8024 . 8 exquisitely-refined subtleties a man must have thought as well es felt ; while to find pleasure in Mr. Lorrorguow's verse needs but generous sympathies, and an honest straight forward belief in humanity's duties and its aims. Both are elevating teachers, but Mr. Ln—morzia.ow is emphatically the poet of the people. Soma time ago a therapeutical society wa s established in France ; a similar organisation, under the name of the Clinical Society, has sprung up in England ; and, more important, perhaps, than either, the Medioal Council, the chief govern ing body in the medical profession, having already raised the standard of medical education, within the last few days has appointed an influential committee to report within twelve months on the mode in which the various subjects of medical education may be taught with most advantage. With extended knowledge on the part of medical practitioners, especially in tho direction of those chemical principles on which the action of food and medicine would seem to depend, extended the rapeutical investigations and researches may be expected, with corresponding triumphs over dis ease, and with fresh discoveries concerning the laws of health. IT is rumoured that a fresh batch of peers is to be created before the dissolution of parliament takes place. Swallowing household suffrage is to be rewarded with the honour which was conferred upon the captor of Marble,. Several measures will be withdrawn this week, and the 24th is still spoken of as the day for prorogation. Nomura succeeds like success, and the Suez Canal Company have less trouble in getting four millions sterling now than they would have had three years since, in this country, at all events, in getting a million. Sir ROBERT NAP= has congratulated the President of the company upon the satisfactory progress of the canal operations, and expressos his " earnest " hope for their early and successful completion." Sir ROBERT adds that he hopes to have the plea sure of inspecting the canal himself on the occa sion of his next visit to Egypt. Cbt Court. OSBORNE, JOLT 11. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Christian, and her Majesty and the Royal Family walked in the grounds this morning. Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Louise, and the Princess of Leiningen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, visited her Majesty's ship Galatea, in Osborne bay, yesterday afternoon. The Duke of Edinburgh dined with the Queen in the evening. Joys 12. The Queen and the royal family drove and walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon. The Duke and Duchess of Coburg, attended by Major Von Henke, arrived at Osborne in the evening, having been met at Southampton by the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Alfred Paget, in the Trinity yacht Galatea, and were received at the entrance hall by her Majesty and the Royal Family and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting. Major-General Francis Seymour, C. 8., received their royal highnesses on landing at Dover yesterday morning, and attended them to Osborne. Prince Albert Victor, Prince George, and Princess Louise of Wale*, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, arrived at Osborne at the same time, and proceeded to Kent House, where they are going to make a stay. The Duke of Edinburgh dined with the Queen last evening. The Queen, the Duchess of Coburg, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, attended divine service at Whipping ham church this morning. The Rev. George Prothero officiated. Marlborough HOUbO, July 12, 11 a.m. The condition of the Princess of Wales and of tho infant Princess continues most satisfactory. Manua Dams, M.D. E. H. SUMMIT% M.D. The Prince of Wales, attended by General Sir W. linollys and Captain Ellis, was present on Saturday evening at the dinner given by the United Service Club to Lieutenant- General Sir Robert Napier. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing -street. The Ministers present were the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmes bury, the Right Hon. Gathorno Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir J. Pakington, Sir Stafford Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Rich mond, and Lord John Manners. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial office from the Governor-General of Canada and the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the Governor-General of Canada and the Governor of Britiah Columbia. Princess Mary Adelaide of Teel and his Serene Highness the Prince of Teck honoured the Prime Minister and Mrs. Disraeli with their presence at dinner at Grosvenor-gate on Saturday. The circle included the Earl and Countess of Bradford, the Countess of Wilton, the Earl and Countess Beauchamp, Earl ()adopt; the Earl of Camperdown, lady Marian Alford, Lord John Manners, Lady Caroline Oust, in waiting on her royal highness, Mr. and Mrs. de RothwmlA,Viscount Coartenay, and Colonel Napier Sturt. In the evening Mrs. Disraeli had a reception to meet General Sir Robert Napier and Lady Napier. His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi entertained the following select party at dinner on Saturday evening, at the Austrian Em bassy, Belgrave-square :—The Duke and Duchess of Cleve land, the Duke de Richelieu, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess Granville, the Earl and Countess Cowley, the Earl and Countess of Kimberley, Viscount Castlerosse, M.P., and Viscountess Cestlerosse, Lady Molerrworth, Lord and Lady Foley, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Emily Peel, Ron. Frederick Leveson Gower, M.P., Mrs. Augustus Craven, M. Van de Weyer, and the members of the embassy. Later in the evening the Countess Apponyi had an 11.48 CM. bly which7was numerously attended. Sir John Ogilvy received at dinner on Friday last the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, the Earl and Countess of Airlie, the Countess of Ducie and Lady Evelyn Moreton, the Earl of St. Maur, the Earl of lichee. ter, the Earl of Camperdown, the Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley, the Right Hon. W. E. Glad stone and Mrs. Gladstone, tie Right Hon Robert Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. Weldon, &c. The Count and Counteaa de Flandre, with a small suite, have just left Brussels for a tour in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. . Mr. Darby Griffith, M.P., says in his address to the electors of Devises soliciting re-election Th e subject of foreign affairs is one which has at all times at tracted my warmest sympathy and attention. After gra duating at the university it was my lot to visit and care fully examine the condition of many of the countries of the world with whom we maintain diplomatic relations, and I have been enabled to utilise that personal acquaint ance with those countries in the discussions which arose in the house. Through tickets are now issued by the Isle of Wight Steam-packet Company at Southampton, erery Saturday, to last until Monday, by which persons can enjoy Sunday at the most beautiful parts at the back of SO We °Might, such as &Wing, Sandown, Shanklin, sad Veatoor. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) ' HPA!N. The KApotia gives the following oxplanatiog of the expulsion of the Duke of Montponsior and his wife: Ws are informed that, in order to avoid the abuse which the revolutionists make of the name of the " Infant" of Spain, the government advised her Majesty to order, and her Majesty has been pleased to order, that the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier should reside out of Spain until the hopes of those agitators who, in their blindness, do not hesitate to compromise the moot illustrious names, are baffled, and, until the motives which have prompted this painful but necessary resolution have ceased to exist, as we have a right to expect that they will. We thus stand before the most serious ques tion which can arise in the life of governments and nations—the question of legitimate power, of authority, of order, as opposed to the revolutionary spirit which foolishly adopts all means to accomplish its ends, which are anarchy and ruin. The arrested generals are being sent off to dif ferent points. Marshal Serrano has arrived in Cadiz, from which ho is to be sent to the Canaries. The Duke do la Torre, and his cousin, Lopez Dominique, are to bo sent to „Ortova ; General Dulco to Tenerife ; General Serrano Bedoya to Palmas; General Zabals to Lugo ; General Cordova to Loris ; Brigadier Letona to "lira; and Generals Behague and Caballeros do Bolas to the Balearic Isles. Several other generals have been removed. The Commerrio of Lisbon says it is reported that the Spanish minister requested the Portuguese government to send 4,000 troops to the frontier, to prevent Spanish insurgents from entering Por tugal. OUR PARIS LETTER. (Aim ova OWN OORMAPONDKNT.) PA HIS, SUNDAY SVNN!NO. An answer of some plausibility to M. Provost Paradol and other Frenchmen, who insist that France is degenerating, is deduced from the sta tistics of the 'Legion of Honour. In 1852, the number of Chevaliers was 5`2,000; in 184111 it is 63,000. The obvious consequence is that France of 1868 contains 11,000 individuals more than in 1852 who are especially worthy to be exalted above their fellow-citizens. There is no other country in Europe which can make such a proud boast. Prussia, notwithstanding the numerous well-earned rewards gained at the battle of Sadowa, can scarcely show the paltry number of 600 more decorated subjects than she pos sessed twenty years ago. It is a groat consolation for the decrease of the population, the subject of late of so much lamentation, that the quality of the population that remains is so immensely superior to what it was, as the constantly increasing number of Knights of the Legion of Honour indicates. Other corm lations are to be derived from the contampla tion of these phenomena. Churlish oppositionists have calculated that if the national debt goes on increasing in the ratio of the last few years, the national revenues, a century hence, will be entirely absorbed by the interest of the debt. One does not see in that ease how it will be possible to keep up a large army, or go on with great public works. But what a splendid compensation for this inconve nience is afforded by the fact that if public virtue continues to increase in the same proportion as it has hitherto done, there will by that time be 163,000 Knights of the Legion of Honour wearing that rod ribbon so coveted that oven some English civilians who, for unavowed reasons, have obtained a distinction not recognised (for them) at their own court, cannot resist the temptation of sporting the order, not only at private parties, but at British embassies abroad. In a debate yesterday on the management of madhouses in France, the owe was brought for ward of a M. Hamon, who is detained at Bicetre although his friends allege him to be of sound mind. The answer of M. Fulani, Minister of the Interior, was that M. Hamon had asked for the decoration of the Legion of Honour sixty times in the course of a single year, and thereby alone had furnished sufficient evidence of his insanity. The ministerial proposition is, perhaps, a little too absolute, but it may, I think, be conceded that such rabid persistency in a hunt for the red ribbon is a very bad symptom. This M. Hamon was a humble member of the Strasbourg conspiracy, and when he saw all his fellow conspirators occupying high places in the state he could not under stand why he should be refused a simple deco ration. M. Tiennet, the academican, died yesterday at 'Val Saint Germain, at the age of 91. M. Viennet began life as a lieutenant of Marine Artillery in 1796. He was taken prisoner by the English, and remained in their power eight months. He voted against the Consulate for life, and against the Em pire—facts that were noted against him and im peded his promotion. Nevertheless, be fought in the Emperor's ranks at Leipeic, and was made pri soner there. During the 100 days he narrowly es caped transportation for voting against the aces additionnel. When the second restoration came Marshal Gouvion de Saint Cyr made him an officer of the staff. He addicted himself to literature at a very early age. His " Philosophical Pro menade in Pere la Chaise Cemetery" was published as long ago as 1824 ; and a wish which he ex pressed at that time to be buried in a particular spot in that place of sepulture from which a tine view of Paris is obtained, will now be carried out by his friends. He was a peer in the time of Louis Philippe, and made himself remarked by going to the Chamber as a bourgeois in an omnibus with an umbrella under his arm. He wrote several fables and some tragedies, among others Clovis and Constantin. His academical dis courses were models of purity of diction, and some of those delivered in his extreme old age were among his beat. He was Grand Master of the French Freemasons of the Scotch rite, and took a leading and successful part some years ago against the project of the government to amalgamate them with the Grand Orient. There was not in that focus of opposition the Academie Francais° any more bitter or persevering opponent of the second empire than M. Viennet. A new journal has just been started in Luxem burg called the De II - whim. It is in the German patois of the country, and is addressed principally to the lower classes, whom it exhorts to struggle against annexation to France, an event which would quadruple the taxes and enormously in crease the burden of military service. The Ordre et la LibertE of Caen, prosecuted for " false news and insults to a public functionary," has got off with such a light sentence as to show the impoliey of the prosecution. The Caen correctional judges only condemned the principal defendant to six days' imprisonment; and three members of the staff of the paper, tried as " accomplices," were fined 50fr. each. LONGFELLOW AND TENNYSON. Ir is pleasant to think of the great American poet u the guest of the English laureate ; and a passing comparison of the several merits of these two men of genius will rise almost in voluntarily in many minds. During GARIBALDI'S visit to the Isle of Wight some anxiety was displayed that he should spend • few hours with Mr. Tarrersori alone ; and the most fanciful anticipations were indulged in as to the results of this meeting of the man of action and the man of thought. But the planting of a little tree by Gsare.u.nr (afterwards maimed by some ruffianly relic-hunters) was the only effect known to the world of the conversation between the twain ; and some of the sentimental admirers of the two poets would probably be sur prised to find how little the entertainment prof fered by one and accepted by the other differs from that of common-place people of every day life. But it is pleasant to think of the broad humanity of LowaTELLow's writings in conjunc tion with the deep and mystical refinement of our own TENNYSON. No living poets differ more essentially in leading charadteristics. Both are among the popular of their age and country. But LONGFELLOW'S rhythm and thoughts are like some broad fair picture, in which every light and shadow, every valley and mountain, every beauty of field, and stream, and garden, is dearly de fined. His ideas are sharp-cut and penetrating. They sink into the hearts of all who have suffered, or who hope; who rejoice, or joy. or grieve. Simplicity is their characteristic as much as truth ; and there is no poem of LONGFELLOW'S but he who runs can read. Mr. TENNYSON leaves more to the imagination, the culture, and the worldly experienee of his readers. THE CONFESSIONAL LAWS IN AUSTRIA. Several of the large towns in Austria have pro tested against the Papal Allocution. The Lloyd of Pesth says : We shall no more tolerate the interference of Rome in our legislation than we did that of Vienna. We shall tremble as little before a council of churchmen in Rome as we did before a council of war in Vienna. A nation which has passed without wavering through the fusillades of Haynau will be able to defend its independence against the thunders of the Vatican. THE ROMAN CHURCH AND STATE. M. Louis Veuillot writes in the Univers as fol ows: The bull convening the (Ecumenical Council does not invite sovereigns to sit in that legislative council. The omission has been remarked, and it is indeed remarkable. It implies that there are no longer catholic crowns, that is to say, that the order in which society has lived for the last thousand years no longer exists. What has been called the " middle age " has come to an end. The 29th June, 1868—the date of the promulgation of the bull " lEterni Petrie" is the date of its death, of its last sigh. Another era begins. The church and state are separated in fact and both recognise it. Thus we can understand why the Pope has departed from the precedent of the Council of Trent, and has not summoned the representatives of the temporal authority. What place could they hold, and what part could they play, in a programme of the government of mind and morals P What could they venture to do for the object of the council, for the greater glory of God, for the integrity of faith, for the Christian education of youth ; in a word, for the eternal salvation of men P " (711101708 asvraa's AGINCY.) SPAIN. MADRID, JULY 12. A grand military review was held to day. Marshal Pezuella addressed the troops, pointing out the folly of any military demonstrations. To-morrow the ministers will proceed to La Granja to the Queen. Tranquillity prevails throughout the Peninsula. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Jut 12. According to Messrs. Wright's report, the week's receipts of cotton at the United States ports amount to 3,000 bales, and the export to Europe to 2,000 bales. Stock, 89,000 bales. (Arrival of the Union rl4 Southampton.) . . The North German Lloyd's steamer Union, from New York, has arrived here. She brings 107 pas sengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 47 sacks of mails, 125,000 dole. in specie for England, 406,300 dole. for France, and 5,000 dots. for Bre men. NEW YORK, Juzx 2, Noon. The new Constitution has been defeated in Mississippi by a majority of 14,000 votes. Gover nor Reed has assumed office in Florida. General Meade has issued an order directing that all mili tary rule in Florida shall cease. General Grant has issued an order, by direction of the President, removing General M'Dowell and appointing General Gillem as his successor in com mand of the 4th Military District. The Louisiana Legislature has suspended the administration teat oath to officials, and admitted the conservative members to seats. The two Brussels journals--L'Eepiegie and Lo Ci gale—are under prosecution on the charge of exciting to the assassination of foreign prince.. The offence consist. in publishing the report—an expurgated one—of the revo lutionary commune of Paris, read by M. Felix Pyat at the recent meeting in London. The agate is edited by M. if yot, a representative of the people under the republic. Vienna is busy preparing for the third German Ride meeting. Although ousted from Germany Vienna is to be in a couple of weeks' time the theatre of a German Unionist festival. It is to begin on the 24th inst., when the guests are to arrive in batches and to be solemnly received at the railway station. On the 26th there is to be a solemn entry and procession of the Prater, where a great feasting hall is being prepared, and arrangements are made for the rifle shooting, The shooting begins on the 27th at 6 a.m., and is to last up to the 6th of August, when the prime are to be distributed. The interval is to be filled up by concerts, fireworks, dinners, and other festivals. A bill has been introduced in the Washington Congress to establish a government telegraph line between Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, by which it is proposed messages should be carried at 10. per word (leas than a h►lfpenny), each message to be prepaid by stamps, and none to be transmitted with lees than a 3c. stamp. An American menagerie, consisting of a boar, • Mexican lizard, a bull-frog, some New Orleans birds, a crane, some quails, ducks, snakes, serpents, and alli gators, has arrived at Myra from Southampton, to be shown at the former town during the maritime exhibi tion. The HoNabs, which brought an American mail last week, made the passage from New York to South ampton in 9 days 4 hours, which is the quickest passage that has yet been made. THE VELOCIPEDE AND THE HORSE.—A novel race was run last week between a horse and ear and a velocipede. M. Carrere in a one-horse car and M. Car canade in a velocipede started from Castro; at 12, and the victory was to be decided in favour of the person who first arrived in Toulouse. The race was a very keen one, M. Carrere having arrived in Toulouse at 6 and M. Car canade at 6.26. A LADY BACUELOR.—Madame Emma Chenu, who passed a brilliant examination some years back in science and obtained from the Faculty of Paris the degree of Bachelor in Science, came before the same body lam week u a candidate for honours in mathematical scisies. The examination ranged over algebra, trigonometry, geometrical analysis, mechanics, the integral and Metes tiil calculus, astronomy, &c. She obtained her degree. .REYBNUE SERVICE EIf.FRANCHISEME.VT. The subjoined letter to Lord Abinger has been signed by the heads of departments in the Custom-house : "ld Lord,—We, the undersigned, having been in formed that your lordship has consented to undertake the conduct, through the House of Lords, of ' The Revenue Officers' Disabi itiesßemoval Bill,' desire to thank you for the interest you thus take in a measure, which impartially viewed, can only be regarded as a measure of simple jus tice. Much having been stated by those who opposed the bill in the House of Commons, to the effect that con siderable inconvenience would accrue to the public service if the bill in question became law, we think it may strengthen your lordship's hands if we, the heads of some of the most important depar tm ents in this branch of the public service, place you in possession of our opinion upon the subject. From a long experience of official life, we give it as our opinion that no inconvenience whatever need, under proper management, result, directly or in directly, to tie public service from the passing of the measure ; but that, on the contrary, it would tend very ma • to check agitation and create a feeling of con fidencethroughout the service that the claims of public servants, when just, will meet with attention and con sideration.—We are, my lord, your lordship's most obedient servants, n (Si gne d ) " R. A. Gomm, Surveyor- oral ; " F. J. Hama, Solicitor of ILM. Customs ; " H. W. Doasta, Comptroller-General ; " EDW. Bxsztams, Inspector-General Imports and "W. W. ATI:O2, Principal Examiner and Con troller of Accounts; " S. J. Loma; Comptroller Tea and East India Department ; " J. Uwe, Comptroller Legal Quays ; " T. Pamirs, Comptroller London Docks ; " E. JONES, Comptroller St. Katharine's Docks ; J. R. Stionuirra., Comptroller East and West India Docks." ROYAL COMMISSION ON PRIMARY EDUCATION.- (IRRLAND.)—The royal commission on primary education (Ireldodjaset on Saturday at the offices of the commission, Thpper Backville-strea, Dublin. There were present : e Earl of Powia, the Bishop of y, Meath, Rev. Dr. Wilson, Bev. B. M. Cowie, Mr. Ds.isi , Mr. Gibson, Mr. Stokes, Professor Sullivan, and Mr. Waldron. NATIONAL EXIIIRITION OF WORKS OF ART, AT Lure, 1868.—Aottum of admissions:—Saturday, July 11, 6,8111 mama Womb, 742; by payment, 6,076, Total, NA TI ON A RIFLE AS:DTI:I7I th)s . (71118 co Y.) The prize meeting of the National itifl.. A,,, tion for the present year commenced this morn ., Wimbledon-common, and there is every reason for b!!:::' iundit irig th at it will be attended with as great an t r o ut ; success as marked those that have prec e d e d it. the great bulk of the voluntee rs i n t end to taks.,4l commence until Wednesday next, the nu m b er who t:: i out in t the en competitiont he sounding ng for of th the Queen'srefills hens, a limited, but it was obeyed with great alacrity. After breakfast there was a general parade e s volunteers who were to take part in the various e'en., tiona, and this year they were more numemus • have been on any former occasion. The tint ' hitherto been limited to a very few events but tl.:: . there were no less than ten coin petit; mencod, besides pool targets and running • first competition on the list was for tie. Rifle Association bronze modal, prc.ented suss„ competition by the volunteers of the county of '.l with 6W. added by the Middle,ex five shots each at 200, 50n, and GOO yeds. •i• , . was won last year by S. rgt. Knox. of the A.. 111. A contest was also commenced for th, Toe.. National Rifle Association brenes medal, ally by the Aationel Rifle Aseociat.on i.• tition between the volunteers of Vie lets, at the same ranges and the saiii,• 11 , 1110. A third similar competition commenced f ti. sitiess' bninze medal, presented annually for . between the volunteers of the Oxford and i , Universities—six competitors ou each side, i each at 200, 400, and 600 yards. This last year by Private Roc, of Cambridge y The next item on the programme was the • by five representatives from any rifle club, each, at 800 and 900 yards. Another very interesting contest compete- , second series of extra prizes, consisting of a given by Messrs. Mappin, Webb, and Co., ti „ • given by Moms. Howell and James, a silver we by Mr. Bennett, of Cheapeide ; two Snider bre.. rifles given by the directors of the Leiden S.:, •'; Company; a Snider long Enfield rifle given I, don Armoury Company; a telescope given i.. m. Burrows, of Great Malvern ; and a binoculat 0e.... ; s „ gi ve n by Mr. Steward, optician to the Nat: Association. Five shot. each at 200 yards. „, number of prizes there was a large body of coue. Mr. Baas, M.P., gives his usual prize of See , ~.•. to efficient volunteers who have never won .1 p• Wimbledon, or at any county rifle aseicietien Five shots each at 500 yards. The Alexandra prize competition was C0111111.'11. , • first stage, which consists of 156 prizes of : • value of 8254 To be shot for at the resp‘s:ti%- of 200, 500, and 600 yards, five shots at ea. 1.. : • prize members from the following countici _ Aberdeen, Ayr, Argyle, Bailiff, Bedford, Berk., It. k. Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, burgh, Essex, Forfar, Glamorgan, Gloue.eter. Jersey, Haute, Haddington, Hereford, Ilueting.l..:„ Herts. The competition will last for toveril da... The Enfield Association cup, value :eV- to be c , )”.1: • for by life members and members .4 the Association who have paid their sub.. rite lens for the • rent year. Five shots each at '2OO an.l Sts. yiels, Ti..": . her of competitors for this prize was n..t very num - The Duke of Cambridge's ',rim again excited able interest, as it has to be shot for with Mom, ei and the time occupied by each competitor is •• : three minutes. To be shot for a 200 anit.loo vary. object is to fire as many shots effectively as pea-ibl.- ,‘ • a given lime. In this competition it is neee,soy •... every shot must be loaded from a pouch. fr • , pocket, or from a chamber attached to the competition will extend over several dup. There were the usual carton and pool tar.7.-t'. I.: • scores had not come in when this report was del. THE TOTAL MILITARY rOLLECE.-I.111: • 41.11 LE ACCIDENT. A most melancholy accident occurred ou• Lower Luke in front of the lint-al Military C 011...;.• Sandhurst, on the afternoon of Friday last, which r .'• in the kW of two lives. Major F. R. Taylor. profess .• military surveying, attached to the Royal Military went, with four of his young children. aceurupituis : their nurse and a young gentleman who was \dui' . the major, for a row on the lake. They been on the water some time, when one of the girls, aged 3 years, who was paddling her hand is !.. water over the side of the boat, overbalanced hersslt fell into the water. The gallant major instantly ph,., • in to herrescue, but we regret to say, never came tip alive. It is gummed that he as well as the .hill s• fast in the rand at the bottom, as neither of them r • the surface after the first immersion. An slams •i. , rapidly, and assistance in abundatien was quickly e I No drags, however, were to be obtained., there h:suz kept at the College, or probably the deceased nil..he . been rescued. Messages, were sent to Aldershot awl.; ford, 8 and 12 miles distant, for drags. In th.• s, • • time Mr. Edmund Catchpole, of York Town, wh . drag of his own, hastened with it to the spot, and s • . • after much exertion, succeeded in recovering 0,1, the major, after it had been in the water one how • twenty minutes. A stretcher had been provid—l • • hank of the lake in readiness, and all other kit... , pliances favourable for resuscitation, such 11.4 hot 1.4.11. k.• brandy, an electrical machine. &c , and these re's. were brought into instant use under the able and supervision of Drs. Davies and Fry. The latter w• - man worked in a way that de.serves the highest I." , not only in Lis humane ender/sours to restore Ise. also in Lis endeavours to recover the b-sly, 1t . .. . stripped immediately on hie arrival at scene of the calamity, and tilioneeil into the w diving to the bottom many times; but all his eft ~•• were fruitless. Nor was hn the only one; there were • least a dozen, all good swimmers, who continued divii,: until they became themselves exhausted, among wk.: may be named W. ?d`Lean, ILM.C.. An lrov Cl.irk, some members of the College band, whose names we 1..: to learn. A lad named Kinsnian was in the water is two hours searching for the child, after as w , before the body of the father was recurs: , h The body of the child was brought to the face at 9.29 p.m., having been at the bottom ! hours and ten minutes—life of course being extinct—by the aid of a drag that was hastily nu is for the purpoee by Mr. Travis, blacksmith, of York 'f art and used by Quartermaster Sergeant Lendrim, of !!.,. Staff College, in the same boat that received the lair the father. The melancholy intelligence was convey , . the widow, who had only been confined two days, by Dr. Davies, her medical attendant. Never before was , s excitement known in the neighbourhood ; nearly all inhabitants were on the banks of the lake watching toe exertions of those engaged in the work of rescue. P , bodies are laid side by side at the Kings Arms Hotel, I.gt Town, awaiting a coroner's inquest.—Timer. Hir Robert Napier was present at the semi& it the Chapel Royal, Savoy, yesterday morning. TSB CORPS OF CommissioNAntEs.—This assembled at Marlborough House yesterday, by corona of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, for nag grand annual muster. After divine service, the coin• headed by its band, marched into the private garden and, the ranks being opened, his royal highness tasio minute inspection, expresang himself much gratilid the smart appearance of the men and the success that resulted from the establishment of the institution. A l ts ' conclusion of the ceremony the men were marched the Cambridge Enclosure, where the commanding offi , ' communicated to them the flattering terms in which the Prince had mentioned their exemplar character 3 0 soldier-like bearing. Previous to the yinspection by 10 royal highness an unusual number of o ffi cers and 7 6 ,`" men interested in the welfare of the army and assembled on the parade-ground of the corps at 10 od?' ,l to receive two distinguished officers who had A4l'u n ' their intention of being present at the annual eery . ; Field-Marshal Sir J. Burgoyne, G.C.8., who lee; hi r accepted the office of trustee to the Eielosneet Fund, and General Sir Robert Napier, U. ( ' 13 ' en old and ardent friend of the corps. after his arrival, Sir Robert Napier, in conjaa with Sir John Burgoyne, who on this occasion gra ,, ;;.... conceded his precedence, passed down the rank men, entering into conversation with several wir.w rations proved their share in many . a hard fight. men appeared thoroughly to appreciate the paid them, the more so as it was the second ; within the last two years on which the gallant eddy; ;• testified his regard for them in so marked a manner. 81:1)DF.N DEATH FROM HEAT MRRI TYDFTL.—A shocking occurrence took place day. A young man awl woman kft one of the ; ' • tain districts called Ithymnec, near Merthyr. latter place in the afternoon of Saturday. bat tb • was to excer.ively hot that on reaching the bms • young woman hail barely time to seek the da•lter:e! public-house when she fe ll down and died instantly. medical officer who promptly attended to her 11'1.1 c. suspicions amused at the first glance, and soon l e;certon: that the poor thing would shortly have been a She was not manual, but according to her comp/vto: I statement, was on the eve of becoming so when th e event took place. thersc l l arge ndians. Chel din te rt r am is pa n di o i t s e a s n t u hnecr there t a n r a a to m o thingfo converser fur t o re tire d ges I together Rindosimee langur I I 1 li !