The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-09 00:00:00

r'lll I e l . „ ise":-V-1; _ 41 4 1 I,R,NE,* • • Nicnv• - •ii„t7,...A. , frY Crar4)rtfilL . t 4. 44 . "4111 . ' 5. iSkialida4 Q_ - LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1867. No. 6,476.) [STAMPED. Id. AIIDIZIONALD] CIWOPENCE }IL tu A c;%Nr YOH, 61:111:11*.:5 BRITISH ORPHAN .18Y LUM, Mackenzie !' IS F. —llie i .ocuitioent steamers of the New York L Park, Slough formerly at Claidiencricis . Instituted Ina 7. c• • ni..iny will leave Havre and Falmouth Psecon—tier Most hracious Majesty the Qi LEN. c e a fortnight, as under. 'new For the ilratuitonc Ifo rI. 1 lothing. 1194 E4lll liillll 14 nr.tti. .• ~ ~ o.r %bur passenger iblYtlmmulation. aud tuts orphans from all parts of the ltril. , ll dominions, and •-f All ilcimminotons, whose parents noes ..etc In prosperous • ciunslainces. One hoindrod and sixty-two orphans now in the Institution *mob: room for about sixty wore. Increased support hulls laminable, as this Harley is not endowed. soil is in the great,,t N EEL) of further PEI:UNIX-RV AS•ISTANP V. Subscribers and the public are Invited to inspect the Institu tion. um' judge as to the nature of this Charity and it, peculiar The last report can be obtained on application to the Fitcretary. _ _ EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE PARIS EXHIBITION. the first prize for roses, and MM. Fafalse that for pansies. First prizes for fruit trees were given to MM. Cochet, Jamain, and Durand, Chevalier, and Forest. First porizes in the cactus show were given to MM. Cola, Pfersdorff, And Itamus. The third show is now arranged to Last until the 15th inst. INSTITUTION ( OP CIVIL ENOINZERS. d..;r ~ ~.i: n;. (viol ova OWN 0011111PONDMIT.) ; PARIS, Weio.K.4I,AT EVIL:ONG. (PION OUR OPIICIAL The annual dinner of this society was held last evening at Willies Booms; Mr. J. F4AVLItit, the presidu.nt, in the chair. The enter(a.muent was of the usuld superb description. The guests, who numbered nearly 200, in cluded the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Teak, the Chancel. for of the Exchequer, the Earl of Ca.thnesu, Lord W. Pau let, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., Sir Sterfurd Northoote, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corr:„ Chief Justice Bovill, Chief Baron Kelly, the Lord Mayor, the Attorney-General, Generals Sir John Burgoyne and Sir Hope Grant, Sir Thomas Watson, Sir William Fergusson, Sir R. Lasuiseer, Sir Daniel Gooch, Professors Owen and Sylvester, Dr. Roget, Mr. Lanyon, 11. P., Sir C. Bright, M.P., and the most eminent members of the profession. Mr. C. Mawley, the honorary secretary, and Mr. James Forrest, the secretary, had charge of the entire arrange. meats. . _ . Fr.la Havre. Trout Ishaouth. tra:- .ay, May 15 lEunalay, May 15 : ,Ltnewlei, TMiy •.W .Thuraday, Nlni 30 Any, June 12 Thursday, June rt ,Ine,lny, June 26 .Thurtutay, June 27 THE FL IAII TRIALS. • c 24 IS,. Stst-class, and LIG we •;Oars apply to JAM rd A. WOTTON • . ; r. and Co., Part.; Ct. C. sad IL W. , r I. STARK sad Co., vig Cbsopsids. DrBLIN, WEDNESIDAT NIGHT. .1 young man named Gorman, who was proved to bare been with the party which attacked the police barrack at Stepaside, on Shrove Tuesday, was tried to day for high treason, and acquitted by the direction of the court. He was mutinied on the occasion. No evi dence was given to connect hint with Fenianism, and his own statement was, that when working on the Rathgar road he was seized by a body of insurgents, and forced to accompany them. The Court of Criminal Appeal will sit on Monday, to hear the arguments on the points re served in M•Afferty's case. NEI:IN)0L, NEW YORK, and PRILA PF I I , rE: Vit COMPANY.—INILAN IJYg,— i ede.l Ntrles %1:W& ...) s (11111....vred btewmers will be despatched ma HENRY SYKES THDRNTON, Treasurer . Till IM As TiLSIAN, Chairman. STKEREN REED CATILEIC. M.A., Rua. See. ALFRED MACKENZIE, secretary. I Mtu.es, 73, Cbespslde, London. ItamLam-31essrs. Williams. Deariin, and Cr.., 111rehindane and Meurs. Heywood Brothers, Manchester. Vet od 1.1 V Eft I'OOL to NEW TOMS: : Ns, -.1., Nlsy 11. I op. 1; t1.1 . 151011f„ Wednemby, May 15. • ••• N i • 10.11, essturday, May I. , I 1 L. 11/ IN, It eJnesday, Ma) *22. er) Wednesday and Satur.tay. :enn pss.-,gs by lb. anal 'Woman gallium ovary tl ednesday, ;:, 121 itocortang to the acztomodation. ie•-lu•les a 11111 supply of cooked provlstoos. f Gaisda and tbsliolted IMAM' booked Lb:cachou .3,2 terra.— Vor briber portiothro to I Os.:. WAtoratrort, LtrorPool rad to 1,1 MACEY. 0, King Williaao-otroor. Ledo.. ILERICAL, ►IEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE Ass& lIA NCE SOCIETY. %IKETING. 1887. .;,..cc Fr, wed Ltt a Ileetkg heW on the 3rd January t. , .1, • I, al.,n of the Enthth Bonn, shLLnol. ; IHl: I.ItIeLREASOF THE nocirrv. LI, quieLL4Litionni period which terminated on the ,•••1 'set , for a total eatn of Sieldini . pnbaiums, had been effected, of ohleh awns t • ..dad 1:31,411, and the latter by .1:2,30 . 2, the ebb:. e• 1,5 , •,f ally I.II•VioUS period : that • •••0 . 1..1 liirre.ied from £196,400 to ,a215,:e7 per an . r. lUN , after payment of tn. 5,303 on :amount : , 1 tl,. last Dirihion, had risen from Y 1,422,11,1 to - I'l III: FIN ANCI AL 12241T10N OF THE SOCIETY. hot lb. t. ~n the :WO J une, INK were £1,4519,r49 14 ft . n.l the on the name date 1 :242,109 19 2 ,dirt.his of 2.75,T0 15 S .11 d, aftrt Aelthm aside 050.000 as a spatial reserve f unit, lb.. % AII.AbLE 1 . 10.11? ttZ,&3O 15ii. a., of which sum :',{04114.r5t..0.1311K litle.l for division. 3 711 TtiE TRX DIVISION. That the 'tortoni of this suer of xr...5,000—y12 , live-Maths, or bah 101 l to the Assured, would yield a Et% um, Il v A PH71.1% to the Polities of t27:3632, averaffan p. r van Mg, with the different ages, from 32 to e 5 p r Lb, prewiunui paid since the last division mid ,1 the 1 A•H whit+ b. the exact equivalent of such Reversionary %ono' areeaee per cent. of the like prentliona he Report explain.' at length the nature of the ins estatents t.. 1 the bre.rn of the caletilatlons, the rotund of which, as above t!,”eu, are eroittently favourable. The next Division of Profits will take place in January. 1872, s.l persons ittio eft, t .New Policies before the end of June next lin be eatitle4 at that Divisiou to one year's additional aluure of I7ullts ma tater Assurers. Yorms of Proposal,lhe Report shove mentioned, tL ret‘ Mer , otiot o f the proceedings of the Bonus meeting, 1..,11 hr obtained from any of the Society's Agents; or of CITCLIFFIf., Actuary and Secretary, 13, SC Jaineersquare, Lombm, S.W. VILER TRADE WHARF.—The Commissioners iu of custonsi sad the Lords of the Treastu7.—Prepsring for publixation, the I. orro.ponaleoce on the sabject of Privileges, Por grub-duo! bow withheld. I!1 PORTERS of GOODS who are xo.lextvi In excessive charges on goods landed on captain's miry eat please apply to It. CLAY and Co., gg, Upper Thames amt. City. MEN, MERCHANTS, and 11 A RCN, 13, Hadoehall-etreet, recces stranionunt• botwe'eu ithout pebtletty. Immediate protection Property. Terms very , moderate. Cou rt( emcee. :Itt73III4TA and MCWILLLANB:It'S A HTICLIN. ',YENS will SELL by AUCTION, ingstreet, Cocentirarden, TO -past 12 precisely, CH YNIICAL and ITI :4, cameras and knee* battle, printing • platen, model, of steam-engine.. ipera :topes and tcleacopes, prints. drAw logs, lug of sale, and catalogues had. ...H'S LL WHISKY. IUBLIN AMBITION, ISM old MISR WHISKY gained the DUBLIN t Is pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and very bottle., Ss. tid. each, et the retail boasts in `a In the principal towns in Z o=:i Sindmillatreet, London, W. the oork branded Alaskan's LL Whisky. 2:lt THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 2a., are the prices at which Pit ILLLPS and find Williametreek City, London, KC., BLACK TKA. A price cement post frea to any railway station or market town to All goods carriage free to all parts of ILLIPS and Co. have no agents. Angara priest .PETS. —An eminent Mannino af Tapestry Brame* at 2e. 70., 51. 134 d , ,UOO worth of best Brawls. at Is. 41.1., :arpeta—Bee oar new list of reduced pricer Aare, Bedsteads and Bedding. UphoLv i to select from, at very reduced prices. Minted free throughout the kingdom. Newlagton-butt. •nd °LENNY, OUTFITTERS. .ant in London, unit door to Sconoroe4- , Lista of socessary outfit for ivory purpose India, Citing, and the Colonies, will be tor- , LTDIFIED GLYCERINE newest and beat toilet soap, wears well, t lather, is entirely tree from nowt nut xl contain. half Ita weight of Yrioe's die- 44. and 13d. tablets. CANDLII L'ONYANY (Lkalted), Wurks, Battersea &W. Surgeon Dentist, Author of try," "Pun Dentistry," "Dental Antes iNSULTED DAILY, as hitherto, from 10 17 residence, 0, Oroavenoretreet, bond- HITE and SOUND TEETH are indispens able to personal attractlon, and to health and longevity the proper mastication of food. ROWLAND'S °DONT°, or TAAL lihN TI FR Irlil, compounded of Oriental ingredients, s Winnable value In preserving and beautifying the Teeth, illbeaing the gums, and In giving a pleasing fragrance to 'wrath. It eradicates tartar from the teeth, removes sputa Weinient decay, and polishes and preserves the enamel, to h k imparts a theme whiteness. Its invalualne proper bare obtained the patronage of royalty and the aristaxacy Win*, and it is universally in high repute. Trice m. WI. per Sold at 20, Hattougarden, and by chemists and perfumers. for Rowland's Odonto. . DE JONGR'S LIGHT-BROWN COD LIVER OIL.-The extraordinary eMthey of this nuri eparation In the treatment of consumptbin. chronic coughs. general debility, and all icroful.ms affeetlous, thoroughly recognised. Invariably pure. tialfortuly sat, palatable, and easily taken. Couvincingly proved by verwhelming weight of medical testimony, and by the prac. test of mircesaful eziceience for twenty tears In all parts of Wald, to he Inestimably soperinr to every other kind. Select Opinious--hir HENRY MAR.SII, Bart, M.D., Phy .o Ordinary to the Queen In Ireland I consider Jutigh's Oil to be a very pure oil, not likely to create arts a therapeutic agent of great value." Sir JOSEPH PE, M.D., Phystciala to the British Embassy at Paris I every reason to be satisfied with the beneficial and Wu- Teets of Dr. de Jonah's OIL" Dr. LANK/UTER, Y.E.S., .r for central Middlesex I deem the Oil sold under Dr Josh. guarantee to to preferable to any other kind as re % genuineness and medicinal sillethey." EDWIN CANTON . V. lics_ surgeon to Charing.crose Hospital :—" I And Dr. maks Oil to be much note efficartnue than other varieties same medicine."- Sold only In calotole4l loveriol half-pinta .1.: plata. 4s. 9d.: quarts, 9a.: labelled with Dr. dr Jongh • p and *nutty% by his sole consignees, A NSAR, HAIL. 1 , and Co., 77, Strand, London, W.C., and chemiats. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER - ver faillim remedy, prepared without any me `6.1 found invaluable to all who eufer from bilious Audis, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, disal yes, ht. Yor habitual costiveness, as a faintly Jcine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly 6 : mild In their operation and grateful to the stomach, mate appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the system.--...501d by W. Lambert , chemist, 8, King Charing-crow, and by most diaggista ß eoas; _—, zee times the quantity in °Le ta. Pd. Be mire to f7 f• Dr. Scott's 81110 and Liver MIL ' the genuine are In a Breen package, with ul "Wilam Lambert" engraved on the /RHINE-MEGE (JOZEAU). M. CuEerier, the stdretary of the committee appointed by the Academy iirdielne of Paris to institute experiment& touching the Co expressed him-elf at the meeting of the Tab of 4 wr. tete so follows .—" The ten patients treated with the F lee were cured in four, set en, and eight dam, withoet sickness, or any repugnance." The Academy re ., t. send a letter of thanks to the originator of the Copahlise. vm Lh.yd, Poland. Le Gem Clark. Gay, sad Callaway have xsgelly repeated these experiments In London. at St. Itartho `s. u. Thsnanis. (lure, and the Royal Free Hospitals. I See met of March do, - Mold at do ed. a hottle by ail re able chemist& General Helen. 49. Haymarket, London, at J " 7, - 41 S the on! Trench pharmacies with the diploma of Pads school of • OENTLEM TRADERS.—Mr. r itankruptcy Court, el their Creditors wilt Person boo free. Highest n ••SCIENTIFIC INSTIL' R. J. C. STEVI at his tireat Ron,, ORROW, Nay 10, at h =TR ICA L A l'A RAT • , dark WM., Winail I lace griasfth, lialtroact c.-1)0 clew the iourniat -P INAHAB DUBLIN T is edshrated old IA rule MIDAL.--It is pt trb•lesome. Sold ha bolt! &salon: by the agents In Wholesale at 8, Great Win mai, Mak label, and ci Is is CREAPEI .L per pound it Co., tee merchants, Kix Mr riling good and flue I Ma worth Carriagt free to the United Kingdom. A olon. • 'applied at market pet I OTICE.—CARE • hoer's STOCK of • 11.114. Also £ll.uo ortb fa. 6cL Turkey Car, b lies, gratis. Tamil ri, tr., 8.30,000 worth U moods warranted, and I S WAINE, Ili to lits, 11111111KSHER tkni A. Only eatsblashment oar, Strand. N.B. List • • appointment to India . • on application. I • RICE'S SOL • Patented). —The n ,r, a • rich and fragrant 1 A or excera of alkali, and • glycerine. Sold in PRICER PATENT Belmont , ESKELL, "Dental Surger • • " de., may he CON • 4 o'clock, at his only 1I R. DE JO] LIVkIR OlL- led preparation ir etritla coughs. ge now thoroughly I • • palatable, • overwhelming well • al test of voccemful world, to he Mogi rhea Opinions-4C • in Ordinary • . de Jusigh's oil t• 4, anc a them', • LI I PPE, thyv •e every mama to • effects .4 Dr. do oner tow Central 11 Jonah'. guarantee • ds genuineness an • . P.RC. s., Surge( d'undis on to be c the same medicine.' • SI. pinta. la. 94 • r ' and signatur; k . and Co., 77, St 11 sccrrrs never falling • •• •t, will be foe • • liver complaints, : of the eyes, &c • t medicine, at ._ °• *•llent: mild I n th , w 4 Create appetite, nervous oyster Zkunmetrest, Charli I t ld and three tin w Dr. Scott's BID fr , pun putosp, COPAHINE-M _ _ the secretary of .I ....,.Medicine of Paris ...at- iege, express , Lk l•der,lolo, as toll , .babise were cured ta,+_nea, slcknes r•• 4 t•• send a letter 'wog Lloyd, Peden. erfally repeated I 4. TM:dais Lattet of March tsdakle cherubs& ( ikkdil 4, the onl Me P..- Scheel of P OSPITAL ARRANGEMENTS-PICTURES In PAR lit —The BUILDER of THIS WEEK contains line Illustrations of ancient Iron Work, Ventilation, and Hospital Arrangements, with illustrations —National Portrait Exhibition —French and Enutish Pictures In Paris—The Architectural Ex• hlhltlon, and other papers, with all the cognate news.-1, York street, Corentgarden, and an newsmen. PAINLKS SYSTEM Of DEITI,4TRV. Just Puilinie;l,n;feeld7ca 7 isositeaeloirr rroTAL ABOLITION of PAIN in DENTISTRY. neon GABRIEL, the old eatalalahod DENTISTS, LUDOATE-HILL, CITY, 66 HARLEY-BTREWT, W., i Lon don " 1.14 DUKE-STREET. LIVERPOOL "Latest and greatest hnosoveineut In dental atunery."—Herald. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (aronz's micums.) • THE LUXEMBURG QUESTION. PARIS, MAT P. The Eceoang Mouiteur in its bulletin reviews the various phases of the Luxemburg question up to the present. It says : " During the preliminary negotiations the government of the Emperor, wish ing to spare all susceptibilities, held itself entirely aloof. The cabinets of the other Powers exchanged opinions on the question, and agreed to recommend as a basis of arrangement, the nentralisation of the Grand Duchy, with the consequences which such a settlement would involve, including especially the evacuation of the fortress. Actuated only by ideas of moderation and disinterestedness, France agreed to this programme, thus giving a proof of her conciliatory disposition fur which Europe will be grateful to her. The sentiments enter tained by the Powers allow the hope of a favour able solution." PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Bitt 8. The semi-official Preritwial Correponifixee of this evening says :—" The prospects of the preservation of peace, grounded upon the assembly of a conference, are somewhat over cast in consequence of reliable intelligence of the continuance of military preparations in France. This intelligence states that not only has the French army been raised to a full peace footing, but that by the continued pur , chase of horses and the calling in of men, pursued on a scale far exceeding the exi gencies of peace, it would seem to have been rendered fit to take the offensive. The Prussian government," adds the Provincial Corre spondence, " while entertaining the most earnest ' wishes, and using every effort in favour of the Imaintenance of peace, cannot shut its eyes to the necessity of exercising serious precaution and vigi lance. Up to the present, Prussia has not called out a single man, nor purchased a single horse, and she still fixes, not merely her wishes, bnt . 'also her hopes, upon peace. Nothing, however, but • prompt and peaceful decision by the Conference can relieve this government from the necessity of adopting those precautionary measures which the security of german) , and Prussia demand." BERLIN, MAT 8, EVFAING. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the debate on the draft constitution for North Germany was continued. Herr Reichensperger made a speech in which he said, that although in the North German parliament ho had opposed the passage of the draft he should now vote in favour of it, because it was necessary that Germany should rally her forces. Herren Lowe, Hoverbeck, and Leaker then spoke, the two former against and the latter in favour of the draft. Herr Bockum Dolfrs motion was rejected. The whole draft of the con stitution was subsequently adopted by 226 against 91 votes. The members of the Left voted against the draft. BERLIN, MAY 8, EN-ENING. The King of the Greeks arrived here at 10.52 p.m. to-day. His Majesty was received at the railway station by the King of Prussia and the royal princes, by whom he was conducted to the palace. The Belgian minister, M. Nothomb, has returned here. ITALY. FLORENCE, MAT 8. To-day in the Chamber of Deputies the Minister for Foreign Affairs laid before the house the treaty of Commerce and Navigation with Austria, and the Portal Convention with Spain. The Premier, Signor Rattazzi, announced that the Great Powers had decided to invite the participation of Italy at the London Conference, as an element of European order and peace. He hoped this news would be received with satisfaction. Signor Rattassi also announced that the marriage of the Duke d'Aosta with the Princess della Cisterns will take place on the 30th instant, at Turin. Signor Rattazai then read a letter from the King, in which his Majesty declares he con siders it his duty to give the first example of economy at a time of financial distress by re nouncing annually the sum of four million lire of his civil list. (This announcement was received by the Chamber with loud cheers.) His Majesty expresses the hope that his example will be fol lowed in all branches of the administration. A deputation was afterwards appointed to present the King with the thanks of the house. THE RUSSIANS IN CENTRAL ASIA. ST. PETERSBURG, MAT S. The Emir of Bokhara has gone to Samarcand, and, fearing an attack from the Russian forces, has ordered fortifications to be erected. He is said to have invited English co-operation for the reorganisation of his army. Ho has broken off relations with the Russian authorities. The rela tions of Russia with the Khan of Khokan are of an extremely friendly character. INDIA. BOMBAY, MAT 2, 6.36 P.Y. 71b. Shirtings, sr. 14a. ; 84113. ditto, 7r. 2a. ; 40's mule twist, 13a. Cotton quiet : Dhollerah, 215 r. Exchange on London, Is. 114 d. to Is. 114 d. Four per Cent. Government securities, 87 ; Five per Cent. ditto, 1051; Five-and-a-Half per Cent. ditto, 1084. Freights to Liverpool, 60e. to 655. The latest London date is April 26. As ill all former cases of the meeting of a Euro- I peen conference, the papers state that the plenipo tentiaries take the most solemn engagement among I, themselves not to divulge their proceedings ; and 1 the same papers give news which, if true, can only have been obtained by a violation of theengagement. 1 We have various bits of news to-day ; but they are conflicting, probably but conjectural, and of course unreliable. The France says the verification of powers having given rise to no objections, the Con ferenee was enabled to proceed to business imme diately after its meeting. Lord Stanley read a , project of an arrangement " drawn up and , proposed by England." This project met with no • fundamental opposition, nevertheless " one or two plenipotentiaries"—those, as the France is assured, most recently called in—not being provided with sufficient instructions, begged to refer to their go vernments, and the Conference was " for that rea son" adjourned to Thursday. The correspondent of -the France thinks himself able to state—and a wonderfully enabled perion he must be to do so— that at the second meeting "all questions will be settled.,"and nothing more will remain than todtar up the conventioniagiviiiirttpOn The Pectiie; which assumes like the France to have excellent private information, says two plans for a settlement were read, one proposed by England and the other by Russia, but that there were only formal differences between the two. It seems to have no knowledge of the last coming plenipoten tiaries having referred fur further instructions ; and undertakes to say that everything is going on " most favourably ;" but, instead of prophesying a final issue for Thursday, thinks the deliberations may be continued till Saturday, but certainly not longer. Telegrams from London by the Reuter agency are leas reassuring. They speak ominously of " some difficulties" having arisen; of not " one or two," but all of the plenipotentiaries having telegraphed to their governments ; and, more serious than all, of Prussia " insisting " un guaran tees which England " hesitates " to give. The Moniteur du Sair, in announcing the meeting of the Conference, merely says : During the previous stages of the negotiations the Em- peror's government, desiring to act considerately in regard to all "susceptibilities," stood aloof, said left it to the powers to seek in concert the best means of assuring the consolidation of the general peace. The cabinets having exchanged their ideas have come to an agreement to re commend, as the basis of the arrangement to be made, the neutralisation of the grand duchy, with the consequences following from this principle, namely, the evacuation of the fortress by the Prussian garrison. Guided only by ideas of moderation and disinterestedness, France has rallied to this programme, and thus given • pledge of conciliation, for which all Europe must give bar credit. The sentiments with which the powers are animated per mit the hope of a favourable solution. The Vigie; of Cherbourg, says that the Minister of Marine is endeavouring to recruit merchant cap tains fur the imperial navy, in which they are offered officers' commissions. This is one more of the many symptoms of preparation fur war in France which very naturally excite the " suscepti bilities" of M. de Bismarck. A good joke is attributed to M. Thiers, who is of opinion that the policy condemned by the war party as a reculade resemble, that which lashed French Chauvinism into fury when the Orleans dynasty declined to make war about Don Pacifico. The story is that M. Thiers being asked what he would do at the present juncture if he were prime minister, replied, " 1 would send Prince Napoleon to England to bring the remains of Louis Philippe to France." The text of the judgment of the Court of Cessa tion, in the matter of the defamation of dead people, only published to-day, shows that the general question remains as open as ever. The decision expressly excludes the case of historical disquisitions on the memory of public men, which it declares to be " much more complicated." In the case before the court, the words charged as slanderous were uttered by the defendant in a public place in the presence of the daughter of the deceased ; and the court finds expressly that they were uttered with the intention of insulting and defaming the plaintiff ; and under such circum stances as necessarily to throw upon her the odium of the fact imputed to her father. There is nothing shocking to common sense in holding the defendant liable on a case so stated ; and I can onlyiwonder that the judge reporter in his summing up should have spoken of the solemn judgment about to be rendered as one that would settle a great controverted question in all time coming. The judgment of the supreme court, on the contrary, evades every question upon which there can be much controversy, and in particular avoids de ciding that • dead person is a " person" within the meaning of the statute under which the action was brought, being of opinion that in the case before it the living plaintiff was the " person" defamed. At the Bourse " discounts" to an unusual amount continued to prop up prices, but the market closed with manifest weakness. Bente, after touching 68fr. 55e. for account, left off at 68fr. 321 c., with a rise of 20c. The rise for cash was 10c. Italian rose 40c., Credit Foncier 12fr. 50c., and Northern Railway sfr. In other securities little change. There is a passage in Scribe's comedy, the Verre d'Eau, which gives a life-like description of the pre sent position of Luxemburg. It is the scene in which the simple girl Abigail unfolds to Boling broke the grief which oppresses her at the thought of the two court ladies who are setting their caps at her lover, Maaham : Abigail—What am I, a poor girl, to do! How can I hold up my head against two ladies of quality ! Bolingbroke—All the better for you! Two rivals are less formidable than one. Abigail (much interested)—Ah ! if you could convince me of that. Bohn' gbroke—Notbing more easy. Suppose a great king dom wants to annex a little province ; there is no help for it, the weak state is lost. But if another great empire simultaneously covets the same place, there is a chance of salvation for it. The two great powers watch each other, thwarteach other, neutralise each other, and the threatened province escapes the danger—thanks to the number of its enemies. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The announcement that the military are to be gradually withdrawn from the colony has con tinued to cause no little excitement and comment by a section of the prem. Very violent attacks have been made upon his Excellency the Governor, Sir P. E. Wodehouse, as the promoter of this measure. On the frontier another war between the Basutos and the Free State was becoming every day more imminent, and was considered to have been acce lerated by some imprudent steps that have been taken by the Free State Government. The fine weather has come at last, and this week we have had heat enough to afford us a faint idea of the broil that will be suffered by the crowds who are destined to make their tour of the Champ de Mars in the dug-days. Our neighbours have been cunning • they have all the shady side of the Exhibition. Last month the sun, when it got through the heavy banks of rain -cloud, enlivened the British section and lit up America and Russia. Everybody tended to the sunny side, for the shade was damp and chilly, and men shivered over their absinthe under the eye of Gousset or Rouzd. But now the sun is scorching on the western side, and the crowds having taken their peep at the English barmaids and at the strange apparatus adjusted for the manufacture of American drinks, wind round to the east, and sit to cool under the nose of Char lemagne's charger, by the Porte Rapp. The re served garden looks cool, with its plentiful waters, its glowing banks of flowers, and its broad expanses of tine grass. But there is no shade in it, save in the cool grots where under-water life is art fully exhibited. Only about the fantastic or chestra by the Empress's pavilion has anything like a leafy shade been accomplished. I am afraid the lack of shade will keep the reserved garden pretty clear until sundown. The garden, however, will be a fairy scene on summer evenings ; and will be the fashionable lounge of *ssibste mason. *low s in the northern part of the park, le peaple will congregate and be amused with the theatre, the Chinese actors, the celestial demoiselles, the monotonous Arab music, and the chimes of M. Bollie's forty-three bells—which I find are destined to be musical in the Cathedral of Buffalo, United States. But while every day brings out new points of interest or beauties in this extraordinary Exhibition, while we are delighted one day to greet the first play of the great fountains *A the Pont d'lena entrance, to catch the first *mina of the Guides, or to take our first ex perience of the Chinese tea-house, it is impossible to be long under the outer colonnade of the build ing (where all the Exhibition gossip circulates freely) without hearing of some new Exhibition squabble or lawsuit. I 'innocently hoped that I had parted for ever with the catalogue quarrel. I am awe the public have had enough of it in England its well as in France. But it would seem we have hardly reached the middle of the campaign. A great action impends. M. Dente having lost his case on appeal, it having been decided that he has not the monopoly to which he laid claim, he is threatened by his advertisers with a lawsuit. They paid him, they allege, fifteen francs a line for advertisements in his catalogue, with the understanding that he had the monopoly of Exhibition publicity. It being now decided that M. Dentu could have only a privilege, and not a monopoly, some of his ad vertisers reaten to attack him for having sold that which he never possessed. M. Victor Eniion has discussed the case between M. Dentu and his advertisers in the Echo Aericok ' with the intima tion that should the French catalogue advertisers succeed against M. Dentu he has his remedy against the Imperial Comnoasioners. But this is not the only Exhibition litigation in prospect. Law hangs like a cloud over the theatre in the park, and the actors are whiling away their idle hours in the refreshment departments. M. Bernard, ano ther Exhibition concessionnaire, pretends to have purchased the right to drag the chair from under every visitor who has not paid according to his tariff. Everybody who sits in the Park or Palace of the Champ de Mars must bring profit to M. Ber nard. The restaurant and cafd keepers (who have themselves paid sf, sterling for every square m i tre of the space they occupy) are about to be attacked for having placed chairs about their marble tables .without having settled for . tjteprwith M. Bernard. I expect that in this Exhibition even the swallows pay for their nest room. In one direction, however, the authorities have been, it must be confessed, extremely liberal. M. nevinek, president of the commission for faci litating the study of the Exhibition by working men, has brought his work to a fair conclusion. It is this commission which established the great restaurant for working men against the Ecole Mili taire (where a substantial meal, including wine, is to be had for a shilling), and that has thrown up a commodious building near the Porte Rapp, capable of accommodating 1,200 workmen at a time. Bedding for 5,000 men is in hand, and spe cial guides have been appointed to conduct visitors of the working clam through the trades in which they may be severally interested. Workmen will be lodged under the care of this commission for one shilling a day. It is calculated that by the arrangements made a workman will get two sub stantial meals and his lodging for 3s. a day. Re presentative workmen—those to whom the tank- of examining the Exhibition has been delegated by their fellow-workmen—will receive cards of admis sion gratis. Even more than this is done for French delegates of the working class. With their ticket of admission each delegate receives 50 francs, to pay him for his time expended in the prepara tion of a report on his trade. These trade reports will be sent hi to the commission, and will be published without alteration. Only seven of the Paris trades have yet completed the selection of their delegates, but many other elections are now in progress. It should be understood that this commission, albeit acting in perfect harmony with the Imperial Commission, is an . independent body, whose expenses are defrayed by the volun tary contributions of the public. These contribu tiona have now reached 4,2001., of which sum the Emperor contributed 4001., and the Empress 2001. This amount falls very far short of the expenses. The number of visitors is steadily increasing day by day. Although it is not possible to obtain an accurate account of the number of all who pass the park gates, or of nearly all, we may make an approximate estimate from the numbers who pay, and I find that the important or paying class !wa tered on Saturday last to the number of 43,781. The little vapeur mouche, or fly boats, carried four thousand seven hundred passengers, while five thousand travelled by railway. Another concession! and another squabble ! There are only six munches, or steam water-flies, plying to and from the Exhi bition at this moment. It would seem that they are privileged mooches. They represent a con , cession. They cannot carry one-fourth of the would-be passengers who endeavour to board them, and yet the Saint Cloud boats are to be seen pass ing the Exhibition landing place almost empty. Here is the difficulty. The mo ache company has bought the exclusive right of landing pas sengers at the Exhibition piers. Now, before the most sanguine Imperial dealer in concessions ever dreamt that there would be an international ex hibition of industry on the Champ de Mars, the Saint Cloud Steamboat Company had a Champ de Mars landing place. The injustice of earning them off their own landing-stage, during the exhibition time,because a concession has been sold to the Mouche interlopers, is flagrant. The Saint Cloud Company have made overtures to the privileged Moue-hes, offering them a liberal share of their exhibition receipts ; but it has not yet been found possible to satisfy the concessionnaires. It is said that the 111.0(ches will be presently a flotilla thirty strong. But at present they are only able to tantalise the crowd who watch their departure from the quays, and find themselves left to crawl on foot, over wearied after a day in the exhibition (and the fatigue of such a day is not trifling), back to Paris. The second flower show, which closed last week, yielded prizes to M. Deseine de Bougival and Messrs. Veitch and Son, for their conifer:o. The fine show of hyacinths, planted by the Prussians within the shadow of their great guns, brought them only a second prize. M. Jamain carried off NATIONAL SOCIETY. The fifty-sixth annual meeting was held yester day at Willis's. Rooms, the Archbishop of Carricitsunr, as president of the society, presiding; and there were pre sent on the platform, Earl Beauchiunp, the Earl of Her rowby, Earl of Romney, Lord Redesdale ; the Bishops of Oxford, Lichfield, St. Asaph, Llandaff, Soder and Mann, and Manchester ; Archdeacon Denison, Canon Mills, Rev. Mr. Trevor, Sir T. Phillips, Sir W. James, Sir J. Seymour, Messrs. Hubbard, M.P., Acl and, M.P. &c. The Panainerr, in opening the burdens', enplaned, in reference to the long dismission, which had taken place in previous years, that the only thing done at the meeting which could be binding was the voting by ballot for the members of the committee. He had no wish to prevent discussion, but to inform them that no practical result could flow from it. In conclusion he moved the re-elec tion of the auditors, which was agreed to. The report of the committee was then read, which refers at length to the report of the committee of the House of Commons appointed in 1865, and the alterations raised in that report as to substituting .rating for volun tary aid and a mixed religious education for the existing denominational system, and, concurring generally with the parliamentary committee, records the society's objec tions to any such change. It then gives the financial re sults of the year, viz.:—During the past year the society's income from subscriptions, donations, church collections, and legacies, amounted to 14,162/. ss. 11d., being an in crease over last year of 1,577/. tie. 4d. During the same period 182 applications for aid towards building and fitting up schoolrooms and teachers' houses have been made to the society, in additionto 11 applications for an iecrense of former grants. In the caw of the applicationa for building schools, no lees than 40, from venous causes, do not obtain aid from the committee of council. The total amount of accommodation thus provided was for 24,M12 children, and the sum voted was 7,830/. Grants during the same period to the amount of 5,3681. 10s. have been paid by the trea surer for school buildinp now duly completed : this sum has assisted in the erection of 153 schookeonas, supplying accommodation for 19.219 children , and in building 47 teachers' residences. The committee regard the karmae is this branch of the society's operations, and the conti nued augmentation of its income, as unmistakeable evidence of a growing confidence in the principles on which the society was originally established, and by which its operations have all along been directed. Lord ROMNEY moved a resolution expressing satisfaction at the past efforts of the society to uphold and extend education in the principles of the established church. This was seconded by Lord Ref/gm:Lux, atil carried, The Rev. Mr. TIIEYOZ, referring to a notice of • motion given by Mr. Harry Chester, adverse to the terms of union, a bile regretting that Mr. Chester was prevented by illness from being present, was glad that no other person was prepared to take it up, and that his (Mr. Trevor's) amendment would be unnecessary. The terms of union were thatthe children shoulttbe taught the church catechism and the liturgy, that they should receive religious instruc tion under the superintendence of the clergyman, and should attend church unless specially exc used. Those terms being in accordance with the prin ciples of the established church were those pre-eminently of the society, and it was now more than ever necessary to adhere to them. He moved, with the view of evoking the feeling of the meeting, rather than as a resolution binding on the com mittee, that it is now more than ever necessary that the society should adhere with unswerving fidelity to the terms of union. Arehdeabon Derrisorr seconded the moth* and Indulged in some warm animadversions upon the Educational Com mittee of Privy Council, to which he said he had always been, and would always be the enemy ; and, "so help him God," would on all occasions oome up to town to attend their meetings, and protest against the educe. Honed committee's proceedings. The Earl of HARROWBY protested against the language in which his venerable friend had indulged, anc depre cated the practice of exaggerating the differences between the church and the State. He, however, was an advocate for upholding the terrua of union, at the same time it was to be regretted that the question had been raised. The Bishop of Sr. As.trH made some remarks complain ing of the objection to teaching dissenters' children in the church schools the Apostles' creed, and those general princi ples of religion which had been the common property of all Christians for the last 1,400 years. He pointed out some of the difficulties in which theclergy were placed inhis dio- cese in regard to the church schools, as applicable to the dissenters, consequent upon the stringency of the rule requiring the catechism to be learned, and mentioned an instance in which be bad advised the clergyman to con cede the question of the conscience clause rather than exclude 200 children of dissenters from the school. (Hear.) Lord Lrrrevrolt, while adh i V r lo the opinion he had formerly expressed, was not to say that it was desirable that the society ghoul have any specific terms of union, expressed in words of its own or other than in the words of the church or of the authorities of the church, and if that was the object of the resolution be must oppose it. He thought further that the society would do hatter if it would extend its aid to all schools certified by . autho. rity higher than its own as being constituted on principles in accordance with those of the established church. (Hear.) The discuesion wu continued at considerable length by the Rev. M. W. Mayow, Mr. Aland, M.P., Canon Har vey, Rev. Mr. Garthwaite, Canon Miller (who held that either the society should keep its rule or abandon it, and not uphold in theory that which, as in the case quoted by the Bishop of St. Asaph, they relaxed in practise. The great difficulty of the clergy in reference to their schools was the primary means of propagating church of Eng landiant (Cheers.) If men took that view they never could join heartily in the work of national education), and others, some of whom wandered into the question of the conscience clause and other disputed points connected with the rules of the Educational Committee of Council ; and eventually the motion was put and carried. On the motion of the Bishop of OXFORD thanks were voted to the president, and the proceedings closed with the benediction. THE PEACE MOVEMENT IN FRANCE.—The Dibats of yesterday says :—" During the last few days we have reproduced a certain number of addresses and letters in favour of peace. The signatories of these addresses and letters belong to the roost opposite classes of citizens, and to the most dissimilar districts of France. The expres sions they employ are generally very worthy of attention ; they evince a sincere love of country ; the resolution to defend it energetically if • single inch of its territory were threatened, but at the same time a just and sensible hatred of all aggression against neighbouring nations. These addresses denounce offensive war; they show its iniquity with a clearness of view and an elevation of ten timent and language which are very remarkable. In all parts of France, and even in that Alsace which we were told was ready to make war on its own account if the government refused to declare war, voices are being raised to proclaim publicly what a hundred years before would have been merely thought in secret, and two hundred years ago would have been absolutely unintelli gible. We do not believe, however, that addresses such as those we have just published repre sent the general spirit of French society. Such great evolutions are not accomplished in an instant without struggles and without contradiction. But the resistance to the ideas of war is very vigorous. That is all we wish to point out, and it is what we always desired and hoped when many people, now very pacific, declared themselves humiliated because the Germans had got rid of their petty sovereigns, ' our traditional allies.' Our hopes and our wishes remain the same now that a certain number of the former friends of peace have become red-hot champions of war. We wish all success, there- fore, to the Peace League." The Mitribonniqh Times confirms the report that whilst at Paris, some months since, Mr. George Brudenell Bruce joined the Roman catholic communion. Mr. Bruce is eldest son of Lord Ernest Bruce, M.P. for Marlborough, who is hair-presumptive to the titles of the Marquis of Ailesbury and Earl of Cardigan. The Lord Chancellor has made an order in Chan cery that Saturday, the 25th inst., be observed as a holiday for the celebration of her Majesty's birthday. The Pitramntrr (after disposing of the preliminary toasts) gave "The Army, Navy, and Volunteers." The Duke of CAMBRILKM responded for the army ; Mr. Coeitt, First Lord of the Admiralty, returned thanks for the Navy ; and Mr. HAWKSHAW, Lieut.-Colonel in the Engineer Volunteer Corps, for the volunteers. The PIESILWIT then proposed the " Houses of Lords and Commons." The Earl of CAITIINEs4 responded for the House of Lords. Mr: MII4IIAELI (who had been introduced by the chair- • man as" the greatest statesman and orator of the age") acknowledged the toast for the House of Generous, saying • —lt is only a few night', ago I had the honour on the part of the House of Commons to return thanks for the compliment paid them in the colleges and snidely* of an ; now I have to repeat that duty in what, with the license, bat I hope without the . licentiousness, of metaphor, I may describe as the halls of science. Considering that civil engineering is a new profession there have been relations of much intimacy between your body and the House of Comm ons . I m y se lf ' can recollect that in my experience of the House of Com mons the civil engineers have contributed several gentle. men who were honoured and distinguished inemben of it. It is with satisfaction I remember that I enjoyed the kind feelings, and I hope possessed tho not unfavourable opinion, of Mr. Locke and Mr. Stephens n. They sat on differerit sides of the house, but they were men whom all respected and regarded. It cannot be denied that the House of Commons and civil engineers are extremely well acquainted. (Laughter.) I hardly know any public body of men who have had so much parliamentary experience, indeed, I rather suspect that in tee ace of a decision respecting a standing order for example, they would know much more abeut it, _perhaps, than the leader of the house hi mse lf. (iknewed laughter.) Looking around this room I think I pee many countenances of gentlemen who, without being members • of parliament, have had more experience of parliamentary committees than I have had in the 30 years in which I ' have sat in the house. (Hear.) The President has with plantive dignity alluded to the circun.stsace that our relations at present are not so close as heretofore. ever foundation there may be for that remark I can hardly venture to decide. Judging from my own obeervations in walking daily down to the house, I should say the civil engineers are very busy in the neighbourhood. (Hear.) What may be the precise result or erect object of their present operations I may not presume to decide, but all I hope is that our votes and proceeding,' hereafter are not to partake of &subterranean character, and that at least the House of Commons may be spared toperfurin its duties under the usual circunistances that have hitherto attended them. (Laughter and cheers.) The right hon. gentleman then went on to propose "Prosperity to the Institution of Civil Engineers," and said probably a short century ago a meeting of scientific men like the present VIAS absolutely impossible. A century no—after all only in the times of our grandfathers—there was not a canal in England, and scarcely a road ; and although we have been taught that Britannia was the mistress of the ocean, I believe that the British mariner left our natural purta unimproved, with no artificial advsatages—almost without a chronometer, and generally without a sextant. What, then, his pro duced these wonderful changes in comparatively so short a span? How is it that we live in a country covered with railroads in every direction, surrounded by waters studded with steam vessels, and in so brief a space produced a population that tunnel mountains and communicate in a moment with distant hemispheres and continents It is by observation of nature, by a gradual but periodic rim during that interval of men of ruins who have devoted their study to the secrets of the MiO ty Mother" and have discovered them, who have combined theiri nvention with experience, who ' have adapted science to practical life, and who have melded a schen and a profesainit by which to avail themselves of their inventions and experiments. That school and that profession are the civil engineers of England. (Cheers.) In old days the pretensions were learned ; they were founded on erudition—that is to my, no man who aspired to be a lawyer, a clergyman, or a physician claimed the confidence of society On any other ground than that he had appropriated and acquired the learning and experience of the past. These, then, were learned professions. And science, which is founded upon observation and invention, the results of which are indefinite and incilculable, has also produced professions which may be distinguished from learned professions ' and the chief among them , no one will deny, is that around whose hospitable table we are this evening collected. (Cheers.) Our chair man seems to have regretted that the labours of civil engineers were not perhaps so considerable at this moment as they have been in former years. Pro bably there is not that demand for increased communica tion that distinguished society a few years back ; but I hope the labours of our civil engineers are not limited merely to the creation of railroads. I hope they have other great duties to perform and objects to accomplish of a character not less elevated, not less material and important. If I were to notice one to which I think the attention of the civil engineers should be directed, it is that of the public health, of which they are peculiarly the conservators. (Cheers.) We have recently produced some great works with that tendency, the admirable qualities of which all must admire. But if I might venture to otter the hint, there is a subject worthy of consideration to which I would particularly call the attention of the civil engineers, I mean the supply of this great and increasing metropolis with that pure element upon which more than anything else depends the health of great cities. If our civil engineers would give their time, genius, and invention to the better water supply of London, they would not only find ample means of employing their time and talents, but they would confer upon society and their country the greatest of possible benefits. (Cheers.) It is not half a century ago that the idea of this institution was by a few distinguished men promulgated amongst their own class ; and that has been the origin of many great institutions. An institution like this does not depend upon those uiedia-val aids which once were considered necessary to support all great institutions. Endowmeata are not required, and they would perhaps be dangerous even to the existence and prosperity of an insti tution like the present. (Hear.) But it is of very great im portance that they should acquire a corporate character, that they should organise theneolves into a corporation that would demand public attention, and that they should assume some visible form in the conduct of their affairs that would impress its importance on the nation. Them fore I should be very glad to see that, although this is a society not richly endowed, and which does not seek attri butes of that character, the civil engineers could raise some building worthy of their profession and the prevent age in which they might prosecute their functions, in which they might bold necessary assemblies, in which a great library might be accumulated, and which perhaps might be adorned by the forms on canvas or in marble of that series of great men to whom they owe their reputation, and the imitation of whose example alone can make them great. (Loud cheers.) it would be a fine thing for a young member of this body to enter the hall of the society or corporation of which he is proud to be a member, and truce the forms of itmeeton, Bradley, and Watt, and those men who banded the prac tical torch of science down to the days of Stephensou and Brunel. That would be a long list of British worthies. the view of which would exercise a most salutary influence upon the mind and temper of the young. (Cheers.) I limit myself to the departed ; but I know well there are members of this body who, if such an architectural edifice were raised, would in due time be registered ed. only of • own country but of European countries. I o l'm ur o li ngs ' t th ci e vi g ren t gin d ee ermrt rs co T m he ma re n a rthr resp e ct, nya not think I may say, without flattery, that there is one in the chair of this society whose name and labours have al ready greatly distinguished him, and for whom I hopes reserved an illustrious and eminent ea reer, which will entitle him to the lasting respect and admiration of the society of which he is the distinguished bead. (Loud cheers.) Oar president has accomplished great works, to which I need not in detail allude. But I must say I am especially struck with that great system of subterranean communication which, without extending the area of cities, has infinitely multiplied their conveni ences, and even greatlyincreased their size. I niinutiloubt but that hereafter that invention will be recognised taaheons:eth, at .ad has ac hiu kn l o a wi gre edg a ,ii t influence t too t s h te gres nien t e ly ers pro o . f moted the civilisation of the nineteenth century. And it will be a just source of pride to all Engliehnwu that the great engineer to whom we are mainly indebted for this invention sits in the chair of your society. (loud cheers.) The right hon. gentleman concluded by proposing " Mr. Yowlers Health," in connexion with the toast of the evening. The Ceeferae, after responding, rrepOfted " Our Visitors," to which the Chief Baron of the Exchequer replied.