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A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTADTMQ The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 10. TILE CORRUPT PRACTICES BILL. IN politics, as in private affairs, it is well not to look a gift horse in the mouth. Let us do justice to the good intentions of the Government, and accept in a candid and uncritical spirit their determination to press the Corrupt Practices Bill through the present Parliament. To suppose that they would willingly have backed out of the Bill at the last mo ment would doubtless be to cast an unwar rantable slur on that high political morality which, as their admirers tell us, has always dis tinguished their conduct of parliamentary business, and inspired all their legislative efforts. However this may be, their perseverance in the present instance is decidedly praiseworthy. Nor was the PRIME MiNisrEn indulging in romance when he reminded the House last evening that the amendments in Committee, which the Cabinet had considered, virtually brought back the Bill to the scheme originally proposed by himself. In this respect the Corrupt Practices Bill bears some analogy to the Reform Bill of last year, which it may be re membered was restored by the amendments of the Liberal opposition to the original design of its joint authors, Lord DERRY and Mr. DISRAELI, at the coat of three of their colleagues, the Ten Minutes Bill being thrown into the fire. These returns of Mr. DISRAELI, like the returns of for tune, are among the happiest passages in his minis terial career, and those who take advantage of them should be the last to thow the stone. At the moderate expense of 16,500/. a year, then, it is now proposed, provisionally at least, to try cases of electoral corruption by a Court of less questionable shape than a Committee of the House of Commons. There is no disguising the fact—we beg pardon for the irreverence of such a suggestion—that the public out of doors are apt to regard a Committee of the House of Commons sitting in a judicial capacity to try a petition of bribery, as in some sort a tribunal of the Undetected trying a fellow creature who has Lad the clumsiness or the misfortune to be found out. From a broad point of view all human justice might, perhaps, be described in the language of King LEAR. But when the actual makers of the law are concerned, it is obviously of the highest consequence to keep up appearances. When respectable men have given their names and their countenance to a wholesale ystem of bribery and intimidation, it was in the firm belief that they would not really be called to account. A vulgar impression has prevailed that a Committee of the House of Commons was a solemn performance of winking and face-making; 11 meeting of Augurs behind the altar, who had a THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1868. vested interest in each other's gravity. This idea of a tribunal sympathising more or lose with the offenders they have to try ; this suspicion that, somehow or other, an election petition could be compromised or bought off, was in itself an incen tive to corruption. Tho clauses which Mr. DISRAELI moves this afternoon will secure, at all events, a bend fide investigation of alleged corrupt practices ; the evil-doers really compromised by their illegal acts will be exposed ; the offence of bribery will become a real one instead of one sanctioned by custom or opinion, and there fore none at all ; and many a highly respectable gentleman will at the next election think it wise to keep his money in his purse, and his throats in the recesses of his breast. The Bill will so far be an advantage to honest candidates; it will cheek the unscrupulous seal of landlords and clergy, and paralyse that brute force of cynical wealth, which buys its way into Society through the suffrages of a marketable constituency. It 6012M8 that the constitutional objections of the Judicial Bench to sitting 88 a tribunal be ta ven Parliament and the constituencies have been overcome by the simple process of npi .inling tli roe add itional Common Law Judges, and adding 500/. to the salary of each puisne Judge of the superior courts who is selected to try aloe tion petitions,. Inasmuch as those three now Judges appointed for general purposes will be a relief to the Bench in their ordi nary work, they have doubtless already accepted the scheme of the Government with good humour. Indeed, it may occur to some frugal minds that had the present judicial staff been offered the 500/. for the job, they might not have asked for more judges, and might have found in the extra pay an adequate inducement to do what Parliament required. Tho Judges, however, are neither an overpaid nor an tuulorworked order of public servants ; in mounting to the bench they do not profess to be more disinterested or self-deny ing than when they practised at the Bar, or sat in the House of Commons. And who shall say that in demanding so much more money for so much morework, and in makingthoir acquiescence in this Bill a question of 5001. a year, they set a bad example to the profession they adorn ? If the present Parliament is sincerely in earnest in desiring to prevent corrupt practices at the general election and to redeem the new constituencies from the vices of the old, it will follow the example of Mr. GLADsToNE, and give the Govern ment all the aid it can in passing this Bill. It is avowedly a piece of experimental and provisional legislation, but its operation will very soon be tested ; and its moral effect upon candidates and electors can hardly be tested too soon. Linked to this one virtue the thousand faults of the old Parliament will be more easily forgotten, and true Liberals ought not to grudge the Government the merit of tardy perseverance in passing a measure which according to Mr. DISEA.E.LI'S doctrine in 1866 ought not to have been omitted from the Reform Bill of last year. Mesmer' as private mails. We hope to hear that cheaper rates of postage will be agreed to. An 1110701180 in the opportunities of eoaununios lion will only make the present high charges the more onerous. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) AUSTRIA. The North East Correspondence says that the Duke do Grammont has presented a fresh protest against tho taxation of the French eroditots of Austria, especially as regards the loan negotiated in Paris. "The form of the note," it says, "is friendly, and in harmony with the excellent rela tions subsisting between Franco and Austria." The municipality of Reichenberg, in Bohemia, have agreed to a protest against the allocution of the Pope, and at the same time passed a vote of confidence in the Austrian ministry. The Czech party in Prague have petitioned the Empe ror, praying him to spend two months of the year in the imperial residence at Prague. (TIIEOO6II If7l. Ritl7TEll . B Acki24cr.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE 110LSATIA. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer HoUntie, from Now York on the 30th ult., arrive.] at Southampton to-day, with MO passengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg, 42 sacks of mails, 541,684 doll. in specie for London, 155,185 doll. for Paris, and 7,076 dots. for Hamburg. She made the entire passage from Sandy hook to the Needles, allowing for the difference of time, in nine days and four hours, with more or less fog throughout the passage. On the 2nd inst. she passed the English ship Chancellor, bound west. NEW YORK, JuNE 30, Noon. The House of Representatives by 92 against 55 votes has passed a resolution directing the com mittee of ways and means to report the bill taxing the interest on the United States Bonds at least 10 per cent. General Buchanan, by direction of General Grant, has removed the Governor and Lieutenant- Governor of Louisiana and has installed the re cently elected officers, Warmouth and Dunn, the latter a negro. It is reported that General Grant has addressed the district commanders informing them that the military will give place to civil rule in those states recently admitted to representation a .9 soon as the constitutional requirements are complied with. The Louisiana Legislature was convened yester day, the majority of the democratic delegates with drew. The Mississippi election is still progressing. It is reported that the Democrats are largely ahead. President Johnson has signed a bill establishing eight hours as a day's work for all mechanics iu government employ. The trial of Su rratt has been further postpon"d until the 21st September. The district attorney will not prosecute under the murder indictment. The Bing of the Sandwich Islands, in conse quence of the annexation agitation by Americans, has threatened to place the islands under British protection if his nationality is interfered with. The German national Schiitzeniest has com menced. A grand parade took place on Saturday. On Sunday there was a banquet. A delegation from Congress and several European delegations were present. OUR PARIS LETTER. (ram OUR OWN 0081118PONDENT.) PARIS, ThrrawAY Eraxma The melancholy spectacle of an officer and a gentleman, and a man wearing the decoration of the Legion of Honour, appearing in the dock of a court of justice, guarded by two gendarmes, to answer a charge of swindling, was seen in the Correctional Tribunal on Tuesday. Captain Negroni, a Corsican of noble family, who entered the army as a private soldier at the ago of fifteen, rose to the rank of captain, saw a great deal of service in various parts of the world, had an irreproachable military cha racter, and was able to call us wit nesses, not only brother officers but colo nels and generals, to speak in his favour, was accused of having raised large sums of money by pledging jewels and curiosities which he knew to be of scarcely any value. Captain Negroni was in the French army, during the sack of the Emperor of China's Summer Palace. Like most of the officers and soldiers engaged in that affair, he laid his hand upon a good deal of plun der. Some " demon " appears to have whispered to him, " Negroni, have a taste," and, having formed an exaggerated notion of the value of the nick-necks which fell to his share, he added to his collection by purchases from officers and soldiers, in which he invested not only all his own money, but a great deal that he borrowed from comrades. Re turning to France after 23 years' service, he retired in the full persuasion that his collection was worth a very large fortune. He opened an exhibition in the Rue Rivoli which was visited by the Princess Mathilde, Count de Niewerkerque, M. Thiers, and many distinguished personages. Afterwards he took his collection to Baden Baden and other places in Ger many, and finally to England, but the enormous value which he set upon his curiosities prevented him from finding a market for them. Ultimately he came back to Paris, and being in great want of money succeeded in raising as much as 130,000 fr. upon the deposit of part of the jewels. He had for a long time before published various prospectuses setting forth that his collec tion was worth 140 millions of francs. He had a quantity of " jade " in larger pieces than had ever before been seen in Europe, and every piece of which represented, he said, the labour of a man's whole life, and the wearing out of a great many diamonds employed to cut it. The thing which most got him into trouble was a diamond which ho pledged as worth 10,0001., and which two valuers swore was a Rhine pebble not worth twopence. The parties who in stituted the prosecution were paid their money, and desisted ; but the public prosecutor thought it his duty to go on with it. He ad mitted that Captain Negroni was at one time bond fide under a delusion as to the value of his col lection, but contended that the reports of experts whom he had consulted, and the im possibility which he had found of raising any money upon his trinkets in Germany and England, must have opened his eyes, and that unless he was a fool, which he did not appear to be, he must have known that the curiosities on which he raised a very large sum of money were worth scarcely anything. M. Allou, the baton nier, defended Captain Negroni. He called as witnesses to character, General Soumain, Com mandant of the Paris garrison, Brigadier-General Grolier, the Colonel of the Ist Grenadier Guards, and several other officers, who deposed that they had been well acquainted with Captain Negroni, and gave him the highest character. They said they had seen his collection, and were struck with the many " curious and beautiful things" it contained, though they thought the cap tain was labouring under a mistake as LEGISLATION AND ADULTERATION. ONE of the measures still before Parliament is a bill which proposes to render penal the adultera tion of articles of food, drink, or medicine. Every person who shall adulterate or order adulteration to be practised is to be fined on being convicted, and imprisoned for a second offence. The vendor who knowingly sells an article with which anything injurious to health has been mixed, or who sells as pure an adulterated article, is to be fined on conviction, and for a second offence exposed by advertisement. Vestries and district boards arc to appoint salaried analysts and inspectors ; purchasers of any article may demand an analysis on payment of a fee of one to five shillings ; and convicted persons have the right of appeal to quarter sessions or a superior court. The object is laudable, but the measure would probably prove inoperative. How can the adulterator be caught at his work ? Who can prove that the vendor of an impure article is cognisant of the adulteration ? Why limit punishment to those who adul terate with materials injurious to health ? Why not imprison the man who steals money from our pockets, and keeps health from our children by selling water at the price of milk, or starch for arrowroot ? Why permit a dis honest tradesman to sell any quantity of adulterated goods so long as he does not say they are pure? Then the ap pointment of analysts is to be left to vestries and boards composed for the most part of men engaged in business, men, therefore, whose interest lies in the opposite direction. And what purchaser will care to prosecute when, having already con tributed by rate to the salaries of special officers, he must pay a special fee, attend at petty sessions, and probably again at Quarter Sessions or a superior court ? If this bill became law it is to be feared that the sole effect would be that dishonest people would thereby be instructed in the art of adulterating goods according to Act of Parliament, and the public be prevented from pro secuting by the expense and trouble attending the process. We cannot doubt that a far better measure might be framed if competent men wore consulted. MR. ANTHONY TROLLOPE AND THE AMERICAN POST-OFFICE. Amur two months ago, Mr. ArrincorY TnoLLorz left England for Washington, commissioned by our Post-office authorities to conclude a new Postal Convention with the United States. The negotiations in which Mr. TROLLOPE has since been actively engaged, have resulted in a formal communication to him from the Postmaster-General of the United States, a copy of which we have just received. The American Post-office cheerfully assents to the proposition that the mails be despatched from Liverpool vii Queenstown to New York and from New York vii Queens town to Liverpool three times each week, the days of departure to be Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from Liverpool and New York respec tively, if satisfactory steamers of approved speed and rate of compensation are tendered. There is at present a semi-weekly mail communica tion ; the United States Post-office will gladly avail itself of the earliest oppor tunity to increase the frequency of the trips to a tri-weekly or even to daily service, and is prepared to contract at once under the provisions of the present convention for an additional weekly service from New York to Liverpool vii Queens town, on the same conditions, and at the same rate of compensation allowed to the other steamers employed in transporting the mails to the United Kingdom. The American Postmaster General con siders it inexpedient, in view of the frequent means of mail communication provided by the numerous lines of first class steamers plying between the two countries, to limit the regular mail exchanges to three weekly linos only, plying between New York and Liverpool, vii Queenstown, and to treat all the correspondence forwarded by other lines of AbIiERMAN 8088 AND MR. lINALIM THAT doughty alderman Sir ANDERSON Boer favours the readers of this morning's Times with a " true and conscientious statement" of what occurred at the Guildhall mooting. in whioh the momentous questions as to what he, the alder man, said and did to Mr. DEALER, and what Mr. DEALEB did in reply, together with the comments of the bystanders and Sir Minna sow's emendations thereupon, are given with grave exactitude. Miss MARTINEAU'S History of the Thirty Years' Peace and Mr. KINOLAKK'S record of the Crimean war are both rooallod by this surprising lettor. It has the earof ally minute detail of the ono, and the *determined partisanship of the other, and is unfortunate only in its theme. The battle of the hate lacks the esaentird point of public interest, and, strange as it may appear to Alderman 'Welt, his countrymen are not devoured by any absorbing anxiety to know the extent to which he for got himself, or who ho " kept at arm's length " with my right hand," or what ho displayed " to " the meeting with my left." These are points which might be loft in obscurity without injury or annoyance to the State. To wait fourteen days, and then to reply to a " totter published on the " 24th, and signed by Mr. DEALER," as Sir ANDERSON Rosa has done, almost looks as if ho had taken the advice of his turbulent friends at Guildhall, and " bound himself over to " keep the peace" for that conventional period. But, however well-intentioned, this course has bad the fatal defect of making people forget all about the Aldormanic combat ; and to-day's letter reads like a cutting from some old news paper. Let us humbly hope it will not be permitted to draw a rejoinder from Mr. BEALE& Some gentlemen, who ought to have known better, appear to have lost their temper, and to allow the records and evidences of it to fill up valuable space, is an injury to themselves and an injustice to the public. THE same Democratic Convention which favours the taxation of the United States Bonds and their payment in currency has, it appears, nominated Mr. HORATIO SEYMOUR, ex-Governor of New York, as its candidate for the Presidency. It happens that on the 25th ult. Mr. SEYMOUR addressed an immense body of his friends and delivered a long political speech. This, however, contained but slight indications of his policy. It consisted chiefly of vague remarks upon the necessity for retrenchment, and of de nunciations of negro suffrage. It was aimed, in fact, at the policy of Congress. Mr. BEY moult appears to consider that by the political course he advocates the national bonds and cur rency would be brought to par, and thus all the financial evils of the Union be terminated. A satisfactory feature of his address is that it is opposed in tone to the repudiation theories which appear, despite their selection of him as their candidate, to have found favour with the Convention. IT iS stated that M. R&TAZZI, who has not been heard of for a long time, is charged with a special mission from the King of ITALY to the King of Paussut, and that the interview will shortly take place at Ems. TILE NATIONAL LEDGER.-CUSTOMS deCO UN T. An interesting budget of facts was published this morning in the form of a Blue Book, containing the 12th annual report of the Commissioner, of her Majesty's Customs, which shows, in a concise form, the transactions of the country, as a purchaser and a seller, during the year 1867. The commissioner, point out that of the many causes which contributed to the dulness and depression of last year, the moat important was the paralysing influence of the crisis of 1866, which continued to be felt long after the immediate pressure of the commercial die. aster had passed away. Another cause was the deficient harvest of 1868, and the previously excessive im portation of the principal articles in demand, which was, of course, followed by a reduced rate of prices. The com missioner', however, assure no that the gloomy allusions which were made in reference to the absence, in 1867, of the usual elasticity in the revenue, have not been justi fied by the facts, so far, at least, as the revenue of cus toms is concerned. With regard to the values, of British and Irish exports, the return for 1867 undoubtedly appears in an unfavour able light am compared with that of the previous year, the deficiency amounting to upwards of 71 millions, or 4 per oent. The commissioners have had to report no similar result since 1861, when a falling off of upwards of 101 minims appeared, followed again in 1862 by • further decline of rather more than • million. On those occasions the decrease was attributed to the effects of the American war, and the commissioners now attribute the greater portion of the loss in 1867 to the reaction " consequent upon the vast and sadden overtrading with America in 1866, produced by the cessation of that war." Neverthe less the export values for 1867, though falling short of the exceptional year 1866 by about 4 per cent., still exceed those of 1865 by 8, and those of 1864 by 11, per cent. The falling off in the exports of the United States being 61 millions, and the total decline in the exports to all foreign countries being only 3,900,0001., the commissioners remark that "it follows that of the re maining countries of importance a larger proportion have increased than have lowered their demands upon us for our produce and manufactures." The values of foreign and colonial exports, however, show • more serious decline, amounting in the whole to 10 per cent. With regard to the imports, there was • decrease on those from foreign countries amounting to 4 per cent., and on those from British possessions amounting to 16 per cent., the greatest falling off being in the values of goods shipped from the United States. fiiimmingup in one grand total the values representing the whole trade of the United Singdoin, it appears that the total imports in '66 amounted to 329,577,4131., while those of '67were only 299,070,9001. The exports in '66 amounted to 597,842,4861., while those of '67 were 546 ,108,0801., thus showing that, compared with the most prosperous year on record, there was a decrease on the vast total of only 8.6 per cent. With respect to the revenue, it appears that, compared with the revenue of 1868, there was an aggregate net increase of 693,2361., which shows a more favourable com parison than any that has been recorded since 1859. TUE SLAVE TAM:lE.—According to a return published this morning, it appears that eighteen slave vessels were captured on the east coast of Africa during the year 1867 ; and in this service her Majesty's ship Ifighflyer seems to have particu larly distinguished herself, having made no j oss than ten out of the total number of captures. The total number of slaves on board these vessels was esti mated at 333, but in some cases they were got ashore be fore the captures took place. Most of these vessels sailed under Arab colours. We are requested to state that the concession for the privilege of laying a cable between France and Ame rica, stated to have been adjudicated on Monday last to Baron Emile D'Erlanger and Mr. Julius Reuter, by the French government, has been given in contravention of a previous concession granted by the Minister of the Inte rior, on the 17th of June loot, to Mr. Eugene Deleased and Mr. William Blaolonore.—Dsily IfWs. THIS 1111111 IT SILL. The Times regards Mr. Disraeli's statement yesterday evening in reference to the above bill as, on the whole, eminently satisfactory. The plan now adopted is that originally proposed by Mr. Disraeli himself, and the provisions of the scheme have evidently been settled in consultation with the Common Law Bench. The propo sal, however, that no valiancy in the courts of common law shall be filled up while the measure is being tried, without the consent of parliament, is objectionable, and is apart from the general scheme. Amongst the new clauses the Dews would strongly peer those brought forward by Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Labonehere, and others, for throwing on the constituencies themselves the expenses of the formal machinery of elections, the consti tuencies being guarded against vexatious contests by the deposit of security on behalf of each candidate. Mean while our contemporary takes it as certain that the bill will become law this session, though it counsels Mr. Disraeli to use the power at his disposal to make the best of the amendments and supplementary clauses on the notice book. l'ho Plegraph insists that the plan now proposed must bo considered as merely provisional. From the ex tensive and numerous changes which have boon sue eciaively made in the bill, it is quite clear that the llouse of Commons does not know its own mind in the matter. The !Rustle of an almost concluded session, an approaching general election, and a more than canicular temperature, are conditions not favourable to the calm and deliberate consideration of any recondite scheme to reconstruct the electoral judicature. Accord ingly, what we must now consider is not a finally per foetal plan, but that which time and circumstances per mit. By limiting the act to a specified number of years, the representatives; of the people may secure to themselves the right to resume their authority at the expiration of the appointed period. TRB WAR orincis. The Star comments upon the discussion last night on the present state of the War Office, and thinks that what must occur to every ono on • fair review of the case is that it will be very lamentable if the true and permanent principles of administration cannot be so far accommo dated to the circumstances and opportunities of the case as to enable ns to test the economical fruitfulness of Sir Henry Storks' and General Balfour's labours. As a prac tical and sensible people, can we not manage to organise and retrench first, and to establish treasury supervision and responsibility afterwards LORD IT'a UN. 17011.111TT BILL. The Timm thinks that Lord Shaftesbury has little reason to be dissatisfied with the reception of his measure for repressing the innovations of the ritualista, because it elicited a declaration in favour of the prin ciple of the measure, the time and circumstances under which it is introduced being the only ground of objec tion in the minds of the leading peers. Two reasons were quite conclusive against a direct unction of the bill at the present moment. Ones that there is every prospect of the judicial committee pronouncing a final decision respecting incense and altar lights before the end of the year, and the other is that no measure of the kind ought to be adopted except upon the responsibility of the government. With respect to the merits of the question the Times declares that, although it is not afraid of disunion being introduced by any mere development of church ceremonial, it is satisfied that in points of doctrine the church will not bear unliriiited extension. The ques tion at issue with the ritualists, freed from disguises, is whether our clergy may be Roman catholice in all but the name. The controversy between high church and low church has long ago been brought to a friendly agreement ; but the ritualist' on the one side, and the extreme rationalists on the other, must either abandon their claim to hold office within our church, or must utterly discredit her in the eyes of the nation. 'ALUM ILAILWAY. The Daily tines thinks that Mr. W. P. Andrew and the promoters of the Euphrates Valley Hallway may take heart from the probable success of the Sues Canal enter prise, and hope for the success of their own more useful scheme. This route to India is admitted to be the shortest and the beet, the passage by rail. way along the valley being quicker, healthier, and easier than the route which lies along the stifling valley of the Rod Sea. The real difficulties of the scheme are political, and involve the question how its continued possession shall be guaranteed to its owners. It is difficult to see what the English government could do in the matter, and the Daily News, considering the present state of the eastern question, comes to the conclusion that this is one of the schemes which are born before their time, and whose realisation must, therefore, be delayed. the Court. OSBORNE, JULY 9. The Queen, Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Prined and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, arrived at Osborne last evening, at twenty minutes past eight o'clock, having crossed over from Gosport in the royal yacht Alberta, Captain the Prince of Leiningen, G.C.B. The Duke of Edinburgh landed from the Galatea in the evening, and dined with her Majesty. The Queen and the royal family walked in the grounds this morning. Signor E. Bondi had the honour to submit for her Majesty's inspection at Windsor Castle his miniature portraits and copies in water colours from Ralfaelle and other Italian masters. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Cohmial- Aloe to the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St. Helena, Sierra Leone, Lagoa, and to the Governor- General of Canada. The Prinoess Mary Adelaide and the Prince of Tee& honoured the Earl Porteecne by their company at dinner, yeeterday evening, at the family residence in Lowndes-square. The Duke and Duchess of Bucoleuch, the Earl and Countess Granville, the Earl of Zetland, Vis count Coke, Lord and Lady Proby, lady Marian Alford, Sir Roderick Murchison, Mr. Jerroise Smith, Mr. Duncan, Miss Pitt, &c., were also among the guests. The Earl and Countess Beauchamp entertained at dinner on Wednesday, at 13, Belgrave-equare, the Earl and Countess of Malmesburg, the Marquis and Marchionem of Exeter, the Earl and Countess of Dunmore, the Hon. Major and Lady H. Henniker, the Hon. P. Stanhope, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington and Lady Pakington, Mr. and Lady Dorothy Nevill, and Mr. Cockerel]. Mr. W. F. Forster next Thursday will ask tho Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there has been any recent correspondence between her Majesty's government and the government of the United States, on the question of naturalisation and expatriation ; and, if so, whether he is willing to lay such correspondence upon the table of the house. On Monday Mr. Floyer will auk the Secretary to the Poor-law Board whether, in pursuance of the intima tion given in the last annual report of the Poor-law Board, it is intended to lame any further regulations for the administration of relief to vagrants. Mr. Baas intends to move on Monday that the evidence taken before the Bristol Election Committee having been delivered, the Speaker do not issue his writ for the city of Bristol until three days' notice of a motion for the writ shall have expired. Sir Robert Anstruther will ask the Secretary of State for War on Tuesday whether the travelling allow ance of officers invalided home from Abyssinia has been disallowed; and, if so, for what reason. On Monday Mr. Mill will ask the Chief Secre tary for Ireland if her Majesty's government will take into favourable consideration the question whether the time is arrived when the very heavy sentences passed on Warren and Costello, the only two persons of the crew of the Jackmell who bare not been released, may be re mitted or mitigated. It has been remarked that the Pope's bull sum moning the bishops and prelates of suitable rank to a general council of the church, differs from those of his predecessors on similar occasions, in that he makes no formal invitation to catholic sovereigns to be present eithekpersonally or by their representatives. CRYSTAL PALACE.. ONE SHILLING DAY. TWOBSDAY, JULY 9.—Admiesions by meson tickets, 883; ditto ca paymoak 8,196 ; total lisitora 440013. _ . to the enormous wi th ,„ Is ,, upon it. There waa also ev4letwe when Captain Negroid WWI hum, China, a Jew merchant in the Medit err .„,.,, n terlid him with an offer of 500,040 fr. collection, which be refusod, blievin 4 it t, worth a great deal more. M. Allou argued that his (livid, w ., max:tine was really worth a sum of m impossible to measure, because it eontaimAtt,,.: not in the European market, had bond fid, himself into a belief that ho had all Ahidi:. treasures, and that he most honestly tii the experts who told him his 1., , -mat was worth nothing were ignorant people, 1, yet to his (M. Allou's) mind quite an op-n tion whether the diamond was n o t able. At any rate it bad e:tt. 1,..11 • dieted that the jade was lAllp:trA11-; • ineal immible. The tr iburmal, however, Captain Nl•prroni had fraud uleul I y . by misrepresenting the vale , • given in pledge, and sort teneed L •:1 month's imprisetitnerm!, .mud s • 3,ot.tlfr. (I.ipta'n N e r.mi Lis ceutm,ol Was r., wishing to explain sortiethimmg, Im•u. Blown by a wave of the 11::11.1 judge. Ile tunnel deadly vile whom sentenee, but maid nothing. M. Alluu in the eourse of hi, yellow book, which he said was th,• I. ~ the COTSleall 11011ility, and in which ti: Nelr•uui figured. U REA 7' FIRE IN lII,oOMSBUR tri : 1).11.) An extensivo tiro• occurred this tit.trititl 4 utittutAts &•fore 2 o'clock, :tini in a votoit:ti r.v. y space of time laid in ruins property valued at sand pounds sterling. The prv•n,is.•s iti disaster commenced formed a block of f tones, extending in one direction between no and I••. and were in one part two floors high, lit they towered as high as three floors. The prop. tt, tenanted by Mr..T. Thompson, a cutler; 3fr T. I; .. glar.s-lettor manufacturer; Mr. Pukett. action maker ; and Mr. J. These premises stood at the hack of No. :OA. I^ . street, Bloomsbury. near the wspentge of >t Combe and Co., the brewers. 'lle fire spa., i great rupidity, and was not extillgui.li,,l until :t The damage done is thus otlicially spurted by Shaw :—"59..t, Broad-street, Bloomsbury. Mr. J. T!.. son, cutler; ➢lr. T. BOOM:M. glass-Later iwik,r l'uckett, pianoforte action maker: and Mr. Ifo:htli.% smith. &c.: premises and contents all but destroy,•d. J. Beckett. carver and gilder. front windows of ay,: build out: Messrs. Coral, and Cu_ lyruw ors, lights of cools rage damagist by tu,•, and moval." A MAN P17:11:1) Al.!l' E. --..T11 At g o'clock this morning a Aorion: occurred near the Loughbormerli-road station .4 Metropolitan Extension Railway. where a numbei .• streets are being constructed. A very large and cavation has been made for the purpose of pio,ar.:._ supply of sand for mortar, and this morning a 111.111 James Harding was engaged in getting up the gravel. lie incautiously began to dig un.l-7 perpendicular side of the excavation, and alth • cautioned of his danger he did not man that cautioned him went away, ant m ten minutes it was noticed that he was be seen. The side of the cutting had fallen in, and • pletely buried him. A number of workmen immed is sot about tho removal of the fallen earth, and eventually got out still alive, hut fearfully thighs were broken in several places, and his chest crushed in. He was removed to the hospital iu a lc, . state. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the Right Ron. Matthew F. Maurice Deane, Lord Baron Muskerry, of Sprin Castle, Limerick, and Deune's Fort, Somersetshire: proved in Ireland on June 23, and in England on .d,; the joint personal estates being estimated under tee,: His lordship died, May 19 last, at Cranlev-plitee. ton, at the age of 73, having exeCuteil June 24, 1867, and a codicil November : lowing. The executors are Mr. Thomas •i• M.D., of Albert-terrace, Knightsbridge; and 11. iei i land Keily, Esq., Suffolk-street, Dublin ; to eudi hi;;. a legacy of i,OO/. ; and to two male servants eaeii Of 2001. ; the above legariee free of duty. lie he rt. to his son, the Hon. henry Standish R.N. 5,000/. He leaves to his grandson, Matthew II ton Fitz-Maurice Dean Morgan, now Lord Mikle•rre. only child of his late eldest son, the Hon. Robert *Elko; I' Maurice Deane -Morgan, who died iu 16,17, the • it •21. under marriage settlement. The residue of his lei estate he leaves to Elizabeth Bareness Muskerry 'lady. The will of Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., t inn M.P. for Penrhyn and West Corawall. Deputy Lient• • for Cornwall, and Special Deputy Warden of the s• varies, who died at the age of eighty-two, was ie.., the registry of Bodmiu, under b 4.1.0001. Ills wife, Charlotte, Lady Lemon, daughter ta second Earl of Ilchester, died in 18211. Thu of George Clutterbuck Tugwell, Esq., of Crowe 11 and Widcombe, Bath, was proved, in the registry at I; tol, tinder 120,000/. personalty. The will of Chit John Rennet'. Esq., was proved, in the principal regist under 100,000/. personalty. will of Edward St. J , Mildmay, of 'Wilton-crescent, Belgrave-it-piare., proved us the London Court, on the V.ith alt., mu 2:40001. personalty, the executors being Arthur Go St. John Mildraav, Esq., the eon; and Charles leorge nett, Esq., the - son-in-law. The will and thris• were all executed in 1862, and a fourth codicil Jun , 1867 ; and testator died May 16 last. There are unm. r specific ls bequests. The testator having a di . p . over ,37d/. funded property, leaves one-tiord daughter, Marianne Jane St. John Barnett, and ti husband and children; one-third to Jane and Es.. daughters of Jane Harcourt Vernon ; and the rem ri third, together with the residue of both his real and tonal estates, he leaves to his sun, Arthur fieur;. , ,e St. Mildmay, and to his issue. The will of Thomas Esq., late of Swanwick Villa, Somersetehire. was Fr at Bristol on the 4th alt., under 70.0001. per - • The testator died, March 19, at Oakfield House, having executed his will Feb. 72, 1667. 'Fhe exectit..r• trustees are his relic and his nephews, Edmun.l and Francis Wintle, Esqre. The testator leaves to all consumable articles absolutely, and the dwelleezdt. and furniture for her life, an annuity of 1.•2•0'.• an immediate legacy of 2,0001. He Ixspiew'i , • estates and house property to each of his nieces ; and there are many legacies to other P ) . and friends. Ile leaves 1001. to each of the to local charitable institutions—vv., Bristol Royal bite Bath Auxiliary British soul Fen Bible siiec branch of the Church Missionary Society, Bath :. • tiary, Bristol branch of Ilervey's Benevolent • Bristol branch of the Church Pastoral Aid Soi *v • after the decease of his wife, a further KIM of Ilse_ t of the foregoing institutions, and to the Bristol tiary. He leaves 201. a year to Is, given to elderly women of Westbury. and the interest of :;u. , divided amongst the poor of Cheddar. The re,i,1.1.. property he leaves amongst his several mph 'a Illastraltd Loin/cm Sews. A trifling circumstance such a s a now n tion of the directors of the Austrian Lloyd's steamer• • quires importance as being significative of the ear mod now existing between Rome and Vienna. 1, • vessels have ceased to convey gratis, as lieretof. , re, ganda missionaries from Ancona to the Levant, and versa. COMBINATIONS OF WORKMEN.—A bill 11:1 , laid before the House of Commons by Sir T. F. Ilan_ and Mr. R. Young, to repeal and amend the laws vela• to trade societies and combinations of workmen. Tin''' . delcares that certain existing acts and the common law , plicable to combinations which it proposes to repeal are judicial to the interests of workmen and restrictive ei right of free association. It therefore proride4 sonal violence or intimidation with the object of forcing conditions upon which labour service 411 , 1. rendered shall be punishable witl *hive moat'. ' prisonmcnt and hard labour. TI. • .. •.t binution for trade purposes is not, ' • .• a ems-piracy. Trade societies are ;, • • when their object is mutual min.! seek to impose penalties of 11 • •11 I respecting the terms and mode up.,• H hi, rendered. Provision is also mad , the officers committing frauds upon : • The Rev. George Bras-AI 11 • • assistant curate curate of St. Augt - 4ll' '., S. 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