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The parallel between the Established Church in Jamaica and the Estab lished Church in Ireland is so minutely complete, that last night's proceedings in the Upper House completely stultify much of the indignant eloquence of a week ago. We shall touch but briefly upon the personal matters raised between the Earl of CARNARVON and the LORD CHANCELLOR. The former's justification was complete, and the able and accomplished holder of the great seal never appeared at more painful disadvantage than when re-affirming error in the same breath in which he admitted it, and in refusing " to retract, qualify, "or explain," that which he confessed to be untrue. " I said," remarked Lord CAIRNS, " that the grant of 20,0001. a year had been " made by Parliament as an eleemosynary grant "in consequenre of the state to which the " islands had been reduced by emancipation. In 4 ' point of fact the grant was made some years " before the emancipation took place." It ill becomes the dignified bearing and lofty honour which even the heartiest political opponents love to associate with the name of CAIRNS that the president of the House of Lords should seek to condone all that was implied in his humiliating confession by an obstinate persistence in misstate ment, and by taunts and gibes at Lord CAR ttAAVON. " There's nothing new, there's " nothing true, and it don't signify," is not the spirit in which grave questions of public policy are treated by great statesmen ; while the I oelish THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1868. tnik of what formoil tho blood and marrow of tho argument " not mattering a pin's point," and of " not grudging the noble earl his ad " vantage," will remind impartial readers of nothing so much as a foilod and silly woman in a rage. But underlying this passage at arms, and totally independent of it, lies the broad fact that the Government have disestablished the Church in Jamaica. Whatever there was of principle in the opposition to the Suspensory Bill is strictly ap plicable to the proceedings of last night, yet no prelate spoke, no zealous champion of Mother Church struck a blow in her defence; and a bill was rrOpOtial by the SzonsTrinv of STATE for the CoLostss, and read a second time, which strikes at the root of what ho and his colleagues have strained every nerve to defend, and upon which they moan to appeal to the country and hope to keep in power. There is something so inconsistent in this attitude of the Government that it is necessary to give the details of the case to make it fully understood. The Church in the West Indies is, as Lord CAENAILVON said last night, the Church of the tew, and of the rich few. The great bulk of the population care little for its ministrations, but are warmly attached to their own forms of faith. As a missionary institution it has proved a failure ; but its bishoprics and livings have been kept up by tithes and parlia mentary grants dating from 11823. Churches without congregations, shepherds without flocks, and a state religion opposed to the state weal, is the condition of things which the Government has wisely determined to remedy. The measure, read for a second time last night, withdraws the 20,0001. with which the Church in the West Indies has hitherto been endowed by Parliament ; and directly aims at the suspension of all ec clesiastical appointments by the state, from bishop rics downwards. It will enable the Government to decide what, if any, reductions, modifications, and abolitions are necessary in the alien church at Jamaica, and affirms the valuable principle that what Parliament gives it can withhold. This is precisely what Mr. GLADSTONE'S measure was designed to do. The Government and its sup porters found something monstrously wicked in the suggestion, though few bad the honesty of Lord SkusavritY—who must henceforth, by-the bye, be painted olive-branch in mouth, in compli ment to his dove-hie efforts to preserve peace among his tetchy fellow Peers—who declares public property to be private property, and the goods lent in trust to a corporation to be held on the same conditions as his own family estates. This view is at least intelligible, though the distinction between parliamentary grants such as the Rogium Donum and other sources of income is more subtle than acute. But the Government evade anything so outspoken as this, and leave the nature of their principles to be judged by their acts. That the element of burlesque might not be wanting in the debate of last night Lord DENXAN favoured the House with his views on the Hampshire yeomanry in connection with Abyssinia, a subject which was dragged in apparently on the principle on which King Minus's head appeared in Mr. Dicx's memoriaL But this incident was infinitely lees ludicrous than the ludicrous position of the Government ; and it is for the country to consider how justice in Jamaica can possibly be injustice in Ireland, and why suspension and withdrawal are right and proper in the one country and wickedly sacrilegious in the other. the (0888011, forgotten probably before thonort ,enjoys an ephemeral popularity. Moreover, while fiction at such times is in almost universal request, we suspect that there is by no means the largest demand for the beet novels; but that the well worn materials used by the manufacturer of tales are more appreciated than the high art displayed in splendid works of genius such as " Henry Esmond" or " Romola." The Quarterly Review, indeed, observes that even Sir WALTER Sotrrr's novels are comparatively unfamiliar to the present generation of novel readers ; and the remark has been recently echoed by the Saturday Review. We hope the statement is erro neous, and wo believe that the publishers of the Wavorloy Novels could without difficulty prove it to be so. But, however, this may be, it is certain that tho literary merit of a fiction does not news eerily secure its success, except in literary circles. By the sea-side nobody asks whether a story dis plays genius, but only whether it is excit ing or amusing. On the beach and on the pier it is probable that Mr. WILKIE COLLINB is preferred to THACENRAT, and Mrs. HENRY WOOD to °BORON ELIOT. Thera even " Verdant Groan " has his admirers, and there the author of " Lady Audley's Secret " holds unrivalled away. But the sea-side, as we have said, is frequented chiefly by pleasure-takers, and if they can find pleasure in the diversion of reading clever but second-rate stories, it is a mere folly to say that they might do something better. Which of us is wise enough to do the best thing that can possibly be done ? Let them take the enjoyment that suits them, although perhaps the censor may be allowed to hint, especially to boys and girl, in their teens, that even the amusement of novel-reading may bo enhanced by the exorcise of a little discrimination. A pastry-cook's shop is attractive enough to a hungry man, but he will soon feel the need of a purer and more substantial diet. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) FOREIGN NEWS. (Tnis DAY.) THE DEBATE IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER. THE MEXICAN AND ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITIONS. In the Myrna of the adjourned debate on the Budget— M. Mecum said--The comparison I have drawn would evidently be false, if any loan had been contracted from 1864 to 1566 for ordinary expenses. Let us therefore examine the employment of the sum raised by appeal to public credit. First, 1,500 millions were applied to the Crimean war, and few will dispute the necessity of that demonstration. 2ndly, 500 for the Italian campaign ; and I do not think even X. Jules Fans will blame that expedition. Thirdly, 292 for the wars of China and Cochin-China. Were this the proper time, I could easily convince you of the great advantages obtained for com merce by thom measures. The fourth loan was for the Syrian expedition, which I have no need to justify. (Applause.) M. Encnunt Prixrnut.—And Maxim P (Noise.) M. MAONE.—One word more, gentlemen. I have no intention to enter upon politics, but in my opinion the expedition to Mexico is characterised by the phrase, an enterprise legitimately commenced. (Exclamations on some benches on the left.) Volmo—Yes, yes, that is evident; that is indisput aMe. M. Jot= Fay—lt was a monarchical and foreign in trigue that cost the country 300 millions. (Noise.) M. Disown—l give you, gentlemen, the humble appre ciation of one who does not make politics his profession, and who judges facts by the simple light of justice and his individual common sense. M. OILLNIXII DM Csaseotac—And also of patriotism. M. Macnnt—l repeat that it was an expedition legiti mately commenced, gloriously prosecuted, unfortunately terminated. (Greet applause.) The example of England is continually cited, but them are cases where I should like well to see it imitated. England is a very great nation in many respects, and one of the most re markable of them is the common feeling which she esta blishes between herself and the meanest of her children. (Hear, hear.) The protection of England follows all her citizens wherever they are found, and whoever insults an Englishman, or wounds his interests, person, or property offends the whole English nation. (Great applause.) M. Grace-Bmons.—Did England set up an empire in Mexico ? (Exclamations and murmurs, "We protest") The Pummel:yr—Do not protest in listening to such language. Manint—As the example of England is so often quoted, I will say that I often put to myself the following question. I suppose for a moment that the Abyssinian expedition, commenced with the unanimous assent of the public powers in England, and for motives analogous to those which determined the Mexican, had not succeeded. (Interruptions on the left.) I ask myself, I repeat, this question : —ln presence of a national and public misfortune, what would have been the attitude, what the language of the parliament ? (Renewed approbation.) M. Grua-Bizont—There is no comparison whatever to be drawn between the two expeditions. M. Prcuni—We shall have a better opportunity of din cussing the Mexican affair at a later period. I shall now merely inquire whether the country has reason to con gratulate itself on finding that, after a financial direction of 16 years, the last three years show a large deficit to be mei by a loan ; and besides all this, a floating debt promising another loan for next year. This last is the sixth, and if account is taken of those made indirectly, the tenth. Facts speak loud enough, and comment is super fluous. The hour is come for the country to pronounce a solemn judgment. What we demand above all is light— s simplification of the facts presented to the public. (Ap plause near the speaker.) (TIEBOUGH U. ILIVITIEE'S ♦OINCT.) SERVIA. BELGRADE, JOLT & M. Arnould, the correspondent of the Paris paper, La Patric, in this capital, being alleged to have forwarded incorrect reports of the recent events in Sorvia, was to have been exposed to a demonstration of the popular displeasure. M. Arnould, however, having received timely warning, quitted Belgrade, and the demonstration took place in front of the residence he had left. AMERICA. THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. NEW YORK, dram 7. The Democratic National Convention which as sembled here on Saturday last have to-day an nounced their platform. It favours the taxation of United States Bonds, and the payment in currency of the bonds of all public debts except where payment in coin is expressly stipulated. It declares that naturalised American citizens abroad enjoy equal rights with nativo born sub jects of the United States. THE POPE AT HOHE.—The Univers contains a special account of a ceremony which took place in Rome on the 29th of June. "At 11111 e in the morning the Hely Father," it says, "was borne to the basilica of St. Peter in the &die gestatoria by twelve attendants, dressed in red damask, between the two fans of ostrich plumes and peacock feathers, and accompanied by eight prelates, who held'over his head a canopy of red silk with gold embroi dery. The decorations of the basilica were of a piece. The portico was hung with box, mingled with golden coloured ribbons ; the pilasters and friezes were ornamented with red damask and gold. The statue of St. Peter was clothed for the occasion in a Pope's dress, and the head was covered with a tiara. The altar was ornamented with purple and gold fringe ; the cross was covered with ornaments of lapis lazuli. Amongst the relics was to be remarked one in the form of a dome supported by little columns of gold, which contains a anger of St. Peter, with this inscription—" Tu Terns cly. pens nobia." The Austrian Minister of Commerce, M. de Plener, gave a grand dinner on the 3rd, in honour of the members of the International Telegraphic Conference. The series of toasts was opened by the Russian delegate, who drank to the Emperor Francis Joseph. M. de Plener replied in French, and gave the health of all the Sove reigns and Governments of Europe represented at the meeting. 11. de Durkheim, on behalf of France, proposed the Austrian ministers. Baron de Beust returned thanks in French. Count de Murat-hfurinais, who lives at theCha teau de Fontlosier, near Valence, having offered to his Holiness Pius IX. the armchair which Pius VI. had used in his prison, has just received from the Pope a letter of thanks, accompanied by a portrait of the Holy Father, and an autographic communication according some " spiritual favours" to the count's family. A Berlin letter of the 4th says :—" Yesterday, being the anniversary of the battle of Sadowa, the King and Queen arrived in the capital from Babelsberg. His Majesty, attended by his aide-de-camp, Count de Lehn dorff, at once proceeded to the barracks of the regiment of grenadiers of the guard, to be present with the princes, generals, ministers, An., at the solemn consecration of the monument erected in the court-yard of the building to the soldiers of that corps who fell on the field of battle in Bohemia. The King afterwar4p presided over a cabinet council at the palace, and returned with the Queen to Babelsberg in the evening." BANQITET TO GEPIERAL SIR ROBERT NAPIER, G.C.B.—Yesterday evening Sir Stafford Northoote, Bart., Secretary of State for India, entertained at dinner General Bir Robert Napier (the distinguished commander of our army in Abyannia) at his residence in Harley - street The fact of Sir Robert's probable presence as a guest of Sir Stafford Northcote had got bruited abroad, and a consi derable congregation of people assembled outside the mansion to catch a glimpse of the gallant general, and on his arrival, shortly after 8 o'clock, he was identified and greeted with ahearty cheer. Covers were laid for 20. On the right of Sir Stafford Northcote sat her Royal Highness the Princess Christian, Sir Robert Napier, and Lady Susan Melville, their via-a-via being Lady Northcote, his Royal sr:lthe Duke of Cambridge, the Countess of Tanker the Duke of Buccleuch. On the left of Sir Stafford sat her Grace the Duchess of Wellington, the Earl of Malmesbur7, Lady Napier, and Sir John Poking_ ton, their vis-a-rss being his Royal Highness Prince Christian, the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Duke of Welling . ton, and the Countess of Malmesbury. Mr. Northcote and Miss Northeote, Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, and Colonel Gordon bad also the honour of being invited to meet Genets/ Naples. SEA-SIDE READINO. Timms is a special season for special books, and in the summer time the worthy but weighty authors appreciated by a December fire-side are neglected for livelier, although more trivial companions. Many, indeed, at this season are tempted to fling books aside altogether, and to believe that Nature has lessons pleasanter to read and better worth the reading. What is oven Sliismseminz in the presence of the Jungfrau ? What Mums' a description of Eden when rejoicing in that English Paradise, the Vale of Grasmere? Are not the Trosachs in July sunshine, dearer to us than the '• Lady of the Lake" ? Do we not prefer the cataract at Lodore to SorramY's rippling melody about it; and is it not better to roam in solitude or with one dear companion beneath the solemn shade of the forest trees, than to read the finest description ever penned of woodland recesses and bosky solitudes ? Yet there are hours when books are essential even in the finest scenery, and the ordinary country excursionist who takes his holi day after the ordinary fashion, at some popular resort, should not venture to indulge in a month's idleness without subscribing to the circulating library or taking a moderate supply of volumes in his portmanteau. At the sea-side espe cially, to judge from what we may see any summer morning upon the beach, a course of sensational novel-reading is considered indis pensable. /t is a relief to vacuity of thought, and yet it may enjoyed without thinking; it is an idle amusement for people who are bent upon being idle without ennui, and who want excite ment without exertion. Young ladies, if adepts in the art, can flirt and admire Miss: Bssn- DON at the same time; young men can criticise faces and costumes, smoke cigars, and read an extravagant fiction by WHTrE-MELVILLE, while lolling upon the sands in their morning jack ets and wideawakes. A fellow, they say, must do something, even by the seaside, and as it is rather tedious work to watch for long together the inele gant plunges of dripping nymphs and water babies, or the fortifications valiantly erected with wooden spades, the only resource that remains when the daily paper has been read is a tale in three volumes. Novels and watering-places, whe ther inland or marine, seem indeed to be made for each other. Very grave folk who strive when at home to understand political economy and the phi losophy of history, who study Comm and MILL and the excellent treatises of Mr..Heatinner SPENCER, leave all such writers behind them when they take their glimmer outing, and may be found immersed in a story by Mr. SHIRLEY BROOKS, or submitting to the attraction of M. ALEXANDER Dumas, which, if we may believe his own assertion, is less due to genius than to magnetism. It would be foolish to quarrel with a passion so universal, and a predilection so natural. With all respect for a well-known publisher who is advertising his very charming editions of some of our best poets and essayists as reading for the sea-side, we submit that great poems and wise or humorous essays are not precisely adapted for the easy indolence and thepetty enjoyments which mark the life of the pleasure-taker at these familiar resorts. It is not the best books that aro in re quest there, but the lightest ; not the most beau tiful in thought or style, but such as are moat ex citing and the most easily read. Just as at Christ mas, SHANEI4PEARE and the legitimate drama are destined to give way to Clown and Columbine, so in the out-door vacation hours of summer a noble poet like WORDSWORTH, or a magnificent prose author like RUSKIN, will remain untouched upon our library shelves while the fascinating novelist of TUPPER'S PROTESTANT BALLADS. Ma. TUPPER is the most enterprising as well as prolific of poets. There is not a theme which he shrinks from treating. His muse is equally at home when teaching philosophy in proverbs and when rewriting " Rule Britannia." Every sub ject is clothed by him in verses such as he alone can write. In his own line he is without a rival, and may defy competition. His last effusions are as remarkable as any that have preceded them, being marked by the same monotonous character istics. They have appeared in the Bock, a Church newspaper which vies with the Record in its parade of Protestantism and its use of strong language. We are told that " they were composed and are " issued under the conscientious impression that, " at this crisis of our church and our faith, every " Protestant is bound to do his best on behalf of " GOD and his country." It is difficult to per ceive in what way these " Protestant Ballads" will benefit Mr. Turrita's cause and country. However, if he have done his best, we cannot blame him. A small contribution should not be rejected, and it is possible that Mr. TUPPER may aid in suppressing Ritualism and Romanis' in, and maintaining, with all its injustice and abuses, the Church in Ireland. Many are en,gaged in the like tasks whose good sense and intellectual powers are on a par with his. The chief drawback to his influence is the difficulty of understanding what he wants. He contradicts himself in the most amusing way. Thus, having written in one ballad-- We grant, as we ask, equal rights as we ought, Free press and tree worship, tree speech, and free thought, In another we find such serious limitations to this freedom of inquiry as to make it appear as if the only truths Mr. TOPPKR, wishes people to learn freely are those wherein he himself believes. For instance, in a ballad upholding the Protestant claim for every man to exercise his private judg ment, he makes the qualification that no rational Protestant will —dare to denounce or despise The truths ever held by the good and the wise. Yee! just private judgment, our duty and right, Must be led by man's teaching and lit by God's light; Undazzled by glitter the fanatic needs, Undimmed by the dark of heretical creeds. If it were necessary, we could demonstrate that the charity of Mr. TUPPER is es feeble as his poetry is mediocre. Controversialists of his stamp differ from the bigoted Boman Catholic priest in this only, that the former believes in his own infallibility, and the latter in the infallibility of the Porz. 'We cannot, however, part from Mr. TUPPER without thanking him for having shown that it is possible to add stanzas to our National Anthem even more devoid of poetry than those which Britons sing on account of their patriotic sentiments. The fol lowing are the additional stanzas which he pro poses to add to " God Save the Queen :" May she our Church secure Protestant plain and pure, As it bath beau ; So shall our State still be Free-est among the free, Shouting from sea to sea God Sara the Queen. For on whatever shore Henceforth as heretofore Our Sag is seen, Then shall this psalm be sung By every heart and tongue, Rich and poor, old and young, God Save the Queen. LEATH OF SAMUEL LOVER. Dux, on Monday, at a pleasant retreat in Jersey, to which he had retired about eighteen months since, SAMUEL LOVER, wit, poet, novelist, musician, and artist. Mr. LOVER'S partial and indiscriminating friends were wont to compare him with Mentes Mooas, but no one protested more energetically against the com parison than the deceased gentleman himself. He knew perfectly well that he filled a much lower position on the ladder of Fame, and was quite content to be regarded as the most successful among the numerous imitators of the great little man. One striking difference between !doom and Lovie was that while the former was essentially the poet of the drawing-room, the muse of the latter appealed more generally to the people. Few of Moorues Melodies were more popular in their day than " The Four-leaved Shamrock," " The Angel's " Whisper," " Molly Bawn," and " The Low " backed Car." The similarity between MooRE and LOVER extended even to their personal appearance. Both were small men, with bright eyes and intensely Irish expression of countenance ; both were in the habit of singing their own songs, and the statement which will be found more than once in Mooita'sbiography that the poet's singing waa rather a recitation accompanied by the piano than the actual delivery of a song, applied equally to Lovza. This peculiarity, admirable in a drawing-room, where the limited company can group round the piano, in a great measure prevented the success of a public entertainment which LOVER essayed. Mr. Lovas, who had for some time enjoyed a Govern ment pension of 100 i. a year, was 79 years of age. TUE WOMB OP LORDS DEPATKII. The Times entirely agrees with Lord Salisbury in deprecating the recurrence of such conversations as have now been repeated in the Hoare of Lords twice within a week, and would earnestly exhort their lordships that, at least as long as the Dog-star rages, they should reflect, with Lear, when approaching certain topics, that "that way madness lies," and abstain on the instant. If personal questions and private differences occupy the time which should be given to the empire, mon will question the propriety of entrusting to such an ansembly the con trol of weightier tasks. And yet above all it is well to re member that the best way to avoid personal questions is by the cultivation of rigid accuracy of state ment, and the only way to extinguish grow ing resentment is by a frank confession of error. With regard to the subject of the dispute last night, it may be said to be shown that the Lord Chancellor talked rather at random on Monday week. TSB ELSOIION PIWITIONS BILL The House of Commons having preferred in this matter the first proposal of the government to the second, Mr. Disraeli, the Daily Asses points out, has only to perform the often-repeated and successful ma nteuvre of falling back upon the original pro position of the government, with some few modi fications suitable to the changed aspect of the question, and the bill will not only be saved, but will be made more efficient than before. Of course, if the government have only brought the bill forward to save appearances, and would rather sacrifice it than not, here is the oppor tunity for them to do so ; and if they are in earnest in desiring to legislate for the suppression of corruption, now is the time to show that earnestness. The constitu encies are in earnest on that subject, and are watching to see whether Mr. Disraeli's challenge to the house, and the challenge of the house to him, is a mere game of brag on both aides. With regard to the House of Lords, the Daily Nava does not believe that the measure will be imperilled there by the acceptance of the amendments favoured by so large a majority. On those who reject the bill all the blame of all the corruption of the coming election will be cast. TUE PUBLIC 01:1100141 BILL. The Public Schools Bill, which passed through com mittee yesterday, is characterised by the Telegraph as a pitiful, tentative, timid piece of work. A statesman at once bold and well-informed might have drawn and passed a grand measure, which would bare quadrupled the field open to each seat of tuition, and have inde finitely multiplied the value of the education afforded. But, short of such a reform, the next best thing, perhaps, was to push off the business—as the bill does, from parliament to the school-governing bodies, and from them to special commissioners—rather than feebly to tinker at so momentous a subject,. By this bill the schools are to be left alone till next January, or a later date, so that it may be seen whether the authorities at present in charge have the smelled idea of what la wanted by the country. The bill sketches out the direction in which changes are wanted. The authorities may reconsider the regulations affecting the foundation of each school, with the guiding idea of making proficiency In samnination, instead of favour or accident of name and birth, the title of admis sion. They may state their opinions on the desirability of revising, consolidating, extending, and converting scholar ships and emolument. emitted for the encouragement of poor talent, and may formulate fresh plane for all the financial and instructional economy of each institution; and such new pandects, when drawn up—if ever drawn up--are to be submitted, first to special commissioners for approval, and then to her Majesty in Council, who will, or will not, &elan the documents to be statutes of each schooL LORD OARNARVON. The Hersh, cannot congratulate Lord Carnarvon upon the result of his explanation last night, in spite of the applause which Lord Granville so patronisingly made. The Lord Chancellor told him plainly that he had nothing to retract, nothing to gratify, and nothing to withdraw. That was rebuff hard to bear, although something sharper would have been Justified by the strange offensiveness of the language in which the noble earl spoke of his great antagonist. The cheers from the front opposition bench and the patronage of Lord Gran. villa may be grateful at the moment to Lord Carnarvon, but s little reflection must show him what these demon strations of sympathy mean. The liberals use him as their tool. ebe Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, J'in.T 7. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon, and her Majeety and Princess Louise and Prince Leopold went out this morn. ing. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Lord Alfred Paget, arrived at the Castle hat night from London. Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by their smite, returned to the Castle from London this morning. The Queen held a council to-day at one o'clock, at which were present the Bight Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, the Duke of Marlborough, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, the Duke of Richmond, and the Right Hon. Lord Robert Montagu. Precious to the Council the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Duke of Marlborough, and the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy bad audiences of the Queen. Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Counca. Mr. Thomas neon and Dr. Charles Hood arrived at the Castle, and were severally introduced to her Majesty by Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Secretary of State for the Home Department, and received the honour of Knighthood. Lord Skehnersdale, Major-General F. Seymour, C. 8., and Lord Alfred Paget, the Lord, Groom, and Equerry in Waiting, were in attendance. The Dowager Countess of Dunmore and Lady Alex andrine Murray arrived at the Castle yesterday. me Dowager Countess of Dunmore, the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, Major-General P. and Lady Emily Seymour, and Mr. Theodore Martin, had the honour of dining with the Queen yesterday. TEE Qum's VISIT To OSBOREE.—This after noon, about 20 minutes to five o'clock, her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princesses Louise and Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, and attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the court, will leave Windsor Castle for Osborne. A especial train will be provided by the London and South Western Railway for the conveyance of the illustrious travellers. In thin her Majesty the Queen and the princes and princesses of the royal family will leave the Windsor station of the Great Western Railway at 4.46 p.m. The special train, under the charge of Mr. J. Griesson, the general manager, and Mr. Tyrrell, the superintendent of the line, will proceed over the narrow gauge, passing Taplow at 4.69 p.m.. Reading 6.19 p.m., Southcol Junc tion 6.23 p.m., arriving at Basingstoke at 6.46 p.m. At the station the engines will be changed, and after a delay of five minutes the royal journey will be resumed—and this time over the South Western line, with Mr. W. M. Williams, the superintendent, in charge. Travelling yid Winchester and Bisbopetoke, her Majesty will reach Gosport about seven o'clock, and embark on board the royal yacht for Osborne. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone were honoured by the company of their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess de Paris at dinner last evening at their residence on Carlton-house terrace. The dinner circle included his Excellency the Prussian ambassador and the Countess Bernstorft, the Duke of Argyll and Lady Edith Campbell, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord and Lady Frederick Cavendish, Lord William Hay, Lord Eliot, the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor and Mrs. Wellesley, &c. After dinner Mrs. Gladstone received a select circle. ---- The Countess Cowper entertained the Duchess San Arpin°, the Countess of Newburgh, Viscount and Viscountess Stretford de Radcliffe and Hon. Hiss Canning, Viscount Cole, Lord Hyde, the Right Hon. William F. and Mrs. Cowper, Hon. Frederick Leveson-Gower, Hon. Algernon and Mrs. Egerton, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Russell, Mr. C. Barrington, Mr. Newton, Mr. R. Browning, Mr. Bose, &c., at dinner, on Monday evening, at the family residence in St. James's-square. The Prince and Princess Dhuleep Singh and family have &aired at Claridge'. Hotel from Blyrdon rad, Thetford. WINDOW GARDENIN(I. The flower show which took place ye s i ss i I)ean's-yard had many points of special The exhibitors were all working peep's, s wf .;,,, in Westminster, and belonging to the pansies St. Minaret and St. !Ow, Tho flieets) • grown m weir Own rooms, and ander every di.,; vantage of situation and snrmunding. The for Promoting Window Gardening, the presich.l of which is the Dean of Wlaembister, whose auepioes the display took pleas, has Is, singularly buooessful in promoting a .191 , 4! ‘. flowers among the parishione rs o f Westaxast,,. Some of the fuchsias and geraniums shown le s , have borne comparison with any unforced thew,. of their class. The competitors for prime v.-. divided into three elaesee—lst, working women; 2nd, domestic servants; and :del, children of parochial, national, infant, Swirl ty.. ragged schools. The plants speeitied as tin. ,• . which prizes were given were fuchsias, gen i e annuals, and ferns -but under the latter !, • were included the misoellaneous flowers ; 3 7 • il ' amounts given ranged from ten The Earl of Shaftesbury presented those the happy winnera soon after half-past sic ,s • . evening; but the enclosed sews. in the ,• • Dean's-yard was rnodenitely full long bef., hour. The old place had been astir since s. the morning. Soon after that hour wen, • , children and some men might be seen w. their way slowly to the gate near the pure ) , , bearing a precious plant, the product of the y . care, which was deposited tenderly with es the officials waiting to receive it. The nem), -r the pot and a free admission to the flower -11 w after four o'clock were given in exchange, and • exhibitor gave way to other flower-carriers. w 3 deposited and retired in their turn. When iii plants had been received, the task of arrang•n, c: and ()election began, and before two o'chs k t 1.4 was over, and the enclosure and the marquee w'-. thrown open to the public at an admission oneshilling each. We were among the visiteNs• that early hour, and were astonished c the fresh beauty of the show. The warp-, erected on the western side of t grassy quadrangle, was tastefully laid •,.• with flowers in pots, the fuchsias and geraniun, being especially noteworthy fur vividness colour and greenness of leaf. The society, it an be mentioned, has been in existence four years, one gigantic fuchsia having carried off the prize the whole of that time, the question as raised yesterday whether its owner could I,:n. enter into competition again with the same els:.• But it was decided, and we think justly, inasmuch as the care and labour to keep apleo. the first rank of excellence are necessarily .a as are required to bring fresh ones forwsel, t. previous prize winning should disbar. par. ticular fuchsia has grown to an immense 1,••. ; : and has been trained over trellis-work rising '•• • , its pot until its share resembles a section of , w••• balloon. But this is but one out of many of t: notable plants. Some hundreds were shown. •e -fort y-four prizes given, so that the visitor an extensive range to select from and admin.. .1 large braes band, the performers of which are policemen, played lustily in one corner : a pea: tics] reminiscence of Dean Stanley's tray in the East in the shape of the tent ' took with him when he travelled with • Prince of Wales stood in another; and doe about the grass and at the windows of the hen near were interested visitors who had come to r• people's show. It was quite a little fete. T day was bright and hot, the clergy and others v. had promoted the exhibition were pointing nut t. recondite merits and hidden beauties of th• favourites' plants; and the owners themsels. blushed and smiled their appreciation of the lite, compliments paid to their patience and skill. Ma, Stanley, too, kindly dispensed tea and refresl• ments from her brother the Dean's little tell which was handsomely docked out for the °oak. Bien; and in one corner of thelarger:marquee won , sweets and fruits for those anxious to regale oth sensa) than those of sight and smell. The Dean yard gates were dosed, but those keeping the o , by the offices of the Civil Service Commis:i• bad a busy time of it all the afternoon. Carrise drove up from all parts of town, and many a well known possessor of rank and influence came mingle with the clergy and their guess, and admire the flowers. While his lordship w• speaking the _people continued to tte:k until the resemblance to a foreign file, wit) its genial mixture of priests and laymen au of different social strata of both sexes, was 111 , 11 striking than ever. Children were rumens and laughing on every side. Here and they a Westminster boy, white-eravatted and when] might be seen in the crowd looking on tolerant), at its puerile amusements. Carriages were rangt,l all round the railings of the enclosure. Sore, hundred or so of fashionably dressed ladies were assembled near the stand from which Lee , Shaftesbury gave the prizes away ; while th, fathers and mothers and lookers-on filled th, whole of the quadrangle. Dean Stanley mounted th , rostrum when Lord Shaftesbury vacated it, an called for three cheers for his lordship's cleaner speech, which were heartily given, though the might have been more regular had not the dean to whom everybody was looking for the signal. genially forgotten to act as tugleman. Caner Conway, to whose influence the Wintulinst , Window Gardens Society owes much of it mimeo, followed with a few words of kindly cc hortation, and the proceedings terminated. Tie question on the lips of every one present, and th reflection which will inevitably occur to them t, day, is, Why are not similar associations formed i all the poor districts of London, and windot who neemored generally fostered among thoss it most r On Friday the Marquis of Clanriearde will move for copiee of any correspondence that may has taken place between the Foreign Office ar her Majesty's ambassador at Paris, and of rl., communications from British shipowners in reference the exclusion of British vessels from the coasting trade France, and to the existing treaties between® Prance at Spain, or any other country, relating to that trade. In the House of Lords on Monday, Lord Taunt, will move that no railway bill that proposes to raise tl rates now payable on the conveyance of goods or sengers shall be read a second time until a special rep" from the Board of Trade on the subject shall have bee laid on the table of the house. Mr. Blake, on Friday, will call attention to ti deficiency of workhouse dietaries in Ireland, and ine , that, in the opinion of this House, the Poor-law Com missioners of Ireland should establish a minimum scale dietary for the paupers in the union workhouses not le than that now in existence in the Irish county gaols, 3 r which was recommended by the commission appointed report on the county prison dietaries, "as necessary the preservation of the health of the prisoners." In committee upon the Election Petitions Bi Mr. Mill intends to move the following clause:—" (Dui tion of certain clauses connected with election of members.) The provision of clauses d to of the present act, yid the jurisdiction thereby established for the trial of matter connected with the election of members to serve in part's ment, shall remain in force for three years from the pianos' of this act, and until the termination of the then Der session of parliament, and shall then cease and deteriniet unless parliament shall otherwise provide." Mrs. Gladstone and Miss Helen Gladstone mat a long visit to the National Orphan Home, Hain-eonimins yesterday, and expressed themselves highly gratified with the arrangements of this excellent institution. SIR ROBERT NAPIER.—It is understood Uri Sir Robert Napier is about to be raised to the peeraitc. under the title of Baron Napier of Magdala, and that b will be gazetted in a few days. Meanwhile Sir Reber has been pleased to accept the freedom of the City et London, which was recently voted to him by acclamation. with a sword of great value, by the Court of Common Council, and it has been arranged between him and tke Lord Mayor that the ceremony of conferring this mark of distinction shall be conducted in the Guildhall on Tine day, the 21st instant. The committee of the Corporation charged with providing the sword have resolved to elf' pedite its manufacture accordingly. The Lord Mayor entertain Sir Robert and a distinguished party at the Mansion House in the evening of the same day. DISPENSARY FOR SKIN DUMMIES, 56, Glissr Msausomorron-sramer, BROY2M-erase', W.-217 pana.nt" were relieved at this dispensary during the woek ending JOY 4. • • TH JAI • U(/(IS .e I TV' &joy AN' ocmmit lire to ...tly mad • . to of tl n reply to t:IIAN the pr'- ':t the •t.. 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