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To ig wr--yoralos. 3h. 1 : 01, -.....Alternaon, 101, a ;m. 171%7R1, 14 11tRIMIT , .. an I nItITIPI, are rerelyed t Lit insertion same ovanlng. Prjci b. Id. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, COlrraTtiLlta The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and General Intelligence, 13 PU8L13331/ EVERY EVENING. r.:).,") 0 .V. SATURDAY, JUNE 6. I;i' . Kl T A • neither Lord's nor the Oval was c: ..w yr.terday, there were ample evidences at Ir)th pl..ce.v of unabated interest in the national A move; the spectators of tho " Gentlemen of • • play at the former place wore a con aprinkling of compatriots who talked v :t.;. g.•::ht! I.: . ogue of the mighty hits and famous .n,4 h dtittlally made in the sistor-country, and ✓ aiThvided Mr. Hoses batting with a true cilthusiasm. But the keenest lovers • C. sport p.:r se were to ho seen et. benches of the Oval. Sunburnt, a. IF :th the brown of many matches, watchful, ,:lent, 41.1 critical, old, young, and middle-aged, e:.tended in single line all round the enclo- B 're. so, 1... my salient instances of intensity and c,:m..mity of purpose. Stout farmers from Kent • St.rrey ; men about town whose dress and bearing savoured far more of the Park of Hyde than Kennington ; old burgesses who vaunted the hvel naiitiea of their favourite ground ; and keen eyed, stalwart muscular !ousts fellows whose fisom beasme evenhadowed, i ff adamity, it you accidentally stepped tween them and their view of • 1k• were all to be found on the dark roma forms, in the stand and resting plaosi attjaosen. 'heti the gathering at tho Oval was as characte) istic of tho place as that at Lord's was the rover The 22nd of this month and the 10th of nn July are the anniverearies on which to see t St. John's-wood ground in all its glory. The Orford and Cambridge match, and the friendly contest between Eton and Harrow, in which the poet BYRON once played, both appeal to society with its thousand complex motives of vanity, ambition, and display, while the proceedings of yesterday were interesting mainly to the lovers of cricket and the friends of the people plying. But let a random visit be paid to either of the great grounds at any time during the season and it win he strange if evidence, either direct or indirect, be not found of the in tensely national character of cricket. Tho game has never been successfully transplanted save by colonists from the mother country ; and a face tious writer has insisted that "the Italians are " too fat for cricket ; the French too thin ; the " Dutch too dumpy ; the Belgians too bilious ; " the Flemish too flatulent ; the East Indians too " peppery ; the Laplanders too bowlegged; the " Swims too sentimental ; the Greeks too lazy ; " the Egyptians tee long iu the neck ; and " the Germans too short in the wind." The French for cricket is eewaitet, as an Eng lish gentleman discovered to his coat at Cannes thin year. On hospitable thoughts intent ho thought a cricket-ground would be acceptable to the British colony, and purchased a field and pre orders to have it rolled and made ready fur ball and stumps by the season following. The gay colonists migrated for the summer as is their custom, and on their return • neat little table-land mound had been put op in the middle of the cricket Geld. This was smooth and level as a billiard-table and only wanted mallets and hoops to be complete. But it occupied the oentre of the ground, and made any other game impossible. Croquet was tho only pursuit the French workmen thought feasible for Eton lads and University men, and the introduition of cricket—at least into the field specially bought for it—has been delayed for twelve months. But this blunder is less amusing than that fallen into by tho amazed Parisians when the details of a match botweenGreenwich veterans were translistod by their daily journals. The " One-armed" having completed their innings, ran the report, the stumps (moignons) were drawn, whereupon caf6s and boulevards rang with the barbarity of English customs, in the enforcement of which the stumps of tho One-armed were drawn as • penalty for losing a match. Like other more important English privileges the origin of cricket is lost in remote antiquity. In vain do its enthusiastic ad mirers quote SPENSER a handsome bat he held, On which he leaned as oue of old to prove the game was played in the poet's time. The bat meant was doubtless a good thick walking stick, and had no more to do with cricket than has the passage in Love's Labour Lost referring toi " • marvellous good neighbour and a very ijood " bowler." Tradition declares cricket to have originated in Sasictsrlaits's time, but it is at least significant that the only cricket mentioned by the poet is the one idealised by Mr. DICKENS as the harbinger of peace and happiness to the hearth. It is on record, however, that the well known THOMAS Kerr, Bishop of Bath and Wells, wielded' • cricket bat when at Winchester School in 1050 ; an Eton School bill, in the year 1688, contains • charge of ninepence for a ram and bat ; and Swtrr, writing in 1712, declared that the original JOHN BULL nature came out when Englishmen played at football or a cricket match. It was some sixty years later that the laws of the game were settled by the Duke of DORSET and Sir Horace MANN, who played soon afterwards on the side of Kent, in the famous match with Surrey for 2,000/. a side. Cricket had then for more than a generation become an ex- CU= for gambling, and it is curious to read now the sarcasms levelled at it by some contemporary critics. "The diversion of cricket," says a writer in the Gentleotau'olllOgo:ioeof 1743, " may be proper "at holydar time and in the country, but upon " days when men ought to be busy in the neighbour " hood of a great city it is improper to a high de " gree, it draws numbers of people from their em " ployraenta, and many other evils it is tinneces " nary to enumerate. It is because it can be, and is "played in the neighbourhood of a great city," that cricket is so essentially valuable to men of sedentary life, and it surely never was so popular as now. The CrieLTlers' Poetet Boot shows a list of engagements and matches to come, to attend half of which would keep a man con stantly employed, and according to a useful little handbook, The Theory cud Practice of Cikket, the consumption of cricket•balls is so great in England that one maker alone employs 35 workmen and consumes 500 cow or ox-hides, and a ton and a half of worsted every year. But these statistic's, wonderful as they are, are not needed to prove the nationality of the game. " All England" is the title reserved for eleven picked cricketers. " The Gentlemen of Eng " land" means the gentlemen who play cricket. Cricket missionaries have been despatched from our shores for the antipodes, and the All- England eleven has lost and won in Australia. l The aborigines now over here are proudly declared to have been civilised in three short years by cricket. Wherever Englishmen settle they play, and to know the game thoroughly, and to carry knowledge into practice is to have an honourable and lucrative profession to your hand. Who so popular as one of the famous elevens on circuit ? Their visit to a country place is a white spot in its annals, and the doughty deeds of the twenty-two local players pitted against them furnish talk for a generation. There are little towns in the kingdom which having tasted the glory of challenging and being beaten by All England or " The United " rest on their laurels and care notfor further triumphs. It is, perhaps, twenty lyears since, and the vigorous band who came forth so many Inidegrooms from the bedchamber, to do battle, have been strangely dispersed. Some are ruined, others have become rich, sonic have sought their fortunes abroad, and others have found theirs in the silent land which is more distant ; but their names live, and are lovingly intertwined with those of the men they fought. There were giants on the earth in those days says, in effect the narrator who dwells on the magnificent proportions and stately bearing of MYNN ; who talks of the agile activity of the bronze-faced lightning-eyed Box, whose fingers were of quite a zig,-zag pattern through the frequency with which their joints had been " put out " as well as the people stumped ; or who quotes the merry laughter and classic lore of the cheery, kind-hearted FELT; whose passion for the noble game had led him to Awake tue legitimate Ptolemies far its prAtige. a . ..I , • and which telbs hardly upon► Fund." Could not this bo made up, and a match played for Auld Laug Syne by both acts, at Lord's Or the Oval, to which those of yesterday would bo issignificant, and which all England would flock towel ,ABIES. ,) Returning to Mr. Bright's Liverpool speeches, the Times finds a fable with winch to illustrate its own 'rained* of Mr. Disraeli's policy 113 distinct from that of Mr. Bright. The Lion, the Ms, sad the Fox, went out hunting, and bye judicious combination of foram im pudence, and fraud frightened, circumvented, and killed a poor stag. TM Lima requested the Am to divide Al ca rom., which it prerecorded to do with judicial exactness . A stroke of the Limed paw dimmed of the pawn ple ton,and the Foe was requested to do it better. Taking • mouth ful, he gracefully assigned the remainder to the Lion. " Yon are a sensible beast," the latter sold ; " may / ask you where yen learnt your polished manners, and your flue sense of propriety r The Fux pointed to the dead Ms, LI the master in whets sehool he had become such a Roe gentleman. It is as old story—As/moot as old am the story of Mr. Bright'. wonderful achievement.. But there is Mr. Disraeli. defence, and when lie basked who taught him how to govern with no much success and so little glory, he may point to the statue of the great conservative statesman who carried the repeal of the eons laws.— In other artistes,-Mse T;siee rklieukvi the statistics of Lord Bobcat lioetagn as to the amount of education in Rog• land, and treats of the new Freucli loan. Whatever other praiser, it says, may be fairly bestowed on Friona Imperialism, it is hardly possible even for its moat enthu elastic supporters to describe it as a cheap government. The Deily Neve reviews last night's debate. Mr. Aytoun it terms • most respectable and conscientious mar-plot. fu the course of this *Miele it is observed that the lukewarm and reluctant support which the Roman catholic bishops of Ireland have given to Mr. Gladstone's policy, shows that in their sagacious estimate the dire establishment of the high church will prove injurious to uttramontano ascendancy. They have men to hope] for from the concessions to which Lord Mayo now points as the means of establishing religions equality. Mr. Bright at Liverpool ; the watt of interest which par liament shows in social and Mamie/ reforms ; and the Mut racteriatics of the Horsechow which Mooed last evening, I are other topic. discussed in the Daily Newt. The Bergh, continues to tax Mr. Gladstone with wasting the time and discrediting the character of the Rome of Common* ; and in another article takes credit on behalf of • Mr, Dieraelfs government for having " declined to hand over the catholic youth, bound hand and foot and gagged, to the narrow•minded tmishiag of • clique of rammer'. tone Whops." The Pas* sue in • recent cue in the Court of Arches an argument for the admission of the testimony of persons arraigned in a criminal omit The Star cannot believe that the House of Common, I will meant to such e proposition as Mr. Lamont has put on the notice paper—Tic., for the payment of Kr. Pyre's eipenete by the state. If it does, the Jamaica Committee . will, no doubt, feel it to be its duty to renew its appeal t o the country. The twelve hundred gentlemen who form that committee, and who represent public opinion in a far truer and broader sense than their opponents, are not likely to allow a step of this kind to be taken without making an energetic effort to prevent it. The Prince and Primer of Wales, asoemposted by the Crown Prince of Denmark, and attended by the Countess of Macclesfield, Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, and Captain Lund, went yesterday to the morning performance at the Haymarket Theatre in aid of the Royal Dramatis College. The Princess of Wales drove out in the afternoon, ac. crenpanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark. In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Crown Prince of Denmark went to the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Caudell. Prince sad Princess Christian dined with the Doke and Duchess d'Aumele, at Twickenham, on Thursday evening. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial ; office Item the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were seat to Use Governors of Ceylon, Hoag Kong, the Straits battlements, Gibraltar, and Melte. CABINET COUNCIL. —A Cabinet Council is ap- Toioted te be Mid this (Raturdsy) afternoon, at eke First Lord of the Treasury's official residence en Downiug-street. Field Marshal Lis Royal Highness the Duke of Osetbehtse held • levee yesterday afternoon at the Hines Czar& ' when nearly DO•thoere attended. Muss Burdett Coutts entertained a distinguished company hat evening at her residence in Stratton.street, Piccadilly, at a twilled concert, comprising selections from Handel and other popular composer.. The Gurciateri Chronicle says that the visitors ea Whit-Monday to Kew-gardens for ereeeaal is num ber any previously recortied, being 30.777. The recurrence of the anniversary dinner of the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Institution, takes place on the 24th of the patent okenth, wader the presidency of M. T. Baas, Req., M.P. The Weekly Register rebukes " Catholic ladies " fw wearing dresses with troths dragging a couple of yards behind the wearer. On William' Bee, " when Father Harper was delivering his final lecture for the month of Mary, in Form-street, two ladies, clad in the height of faohioe, entered the church dragging after each a train reaching at least two yards behind. The material of the dreams being silk, end the swing in the walk—which seems imperative to carry off these &miss in a becoming manner—being considerable, the main made against the floor completely drowned tha pamelier'e voice to each bench of hie hearers as the ladies passed on. Nor is this the first time that this nuiaanco of sweeping silk dresses has disturbed the devotions of per, eons in the church, although whether from the same parties or not we are unable to say. The church of Farm-street is kept particularly clean, and to sweep its floor with ex pensive Bilk is certainly a work of supererogation, to say nothing of it being a very useless piece of extravagance." MR„. DISIAZLI AND THE ULTRAMONTAXEPARTY.— The Tabietof to-day says :—" Wetly' our personalpreferenue and partisanship to the conservative leader, who vindicates an 1 maintains those conservative principles which are a pert of our creed, and opposes and sterna the tide of those' principles of liberalism which in our opinion threaten the eubversiiin both of religion and of civil society. And, in our opinion, he has at present a claim upon the good sill oven of those Catholic, who differ from him and are legitimately 'axioms to expel him from offloo, because there le no doubt that he has washeasd his position and exposed kisioalt to danger by sn attempt to carry oat a p,licy SI conciliation and concession to the satholiss of Ireland." DEATH OF THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY AND TAL WT.—Henry John Chetwynd Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrews busy and 3rd Earl Talbot, died at Newbattle Abbey, near Dalkeith, ea Thursday evening, at half-past sight o'clock. His lordship arrived last week at Newbattle Abbey on a visit to his son-in-law and daughter, the Marquis and llarobioneas of Lothian. On Friday last the earl was seised with an affection of t►e beset ; apd he became so alarmingly ill, that on Sunday night Sir WUllam Jenner, the Queen's physician, was stopped at Cantairs en his way from Balmoral to London, in order that his advice might In obtained regarding the Earl's illness. Dr. .Termer accordingly went to Newbattle, and expressed his belief that nothing serious was to be apprehended from the attack. Dr. Jenner left Newbattle on Monday; on Tuesday, however, the Earl of Shrewsbury became worse, and Dr. Begble was summoned from Rain bmgh, when be pronounced the case hopeless. Viscount Ingestre, M.P., joint his family at Newbattle on Monday, in consequence of his father's illness. Dr. Madera', Un wed., the medical attendant of the Marquis of Lothian, was in constant attendance at Newbettle after the Earl of Shrewsbury became Ul ; and be re• ported on Thursday afternoon that his lordship was in a very low condition—death ensuing, as we have said, later in the evening. Among the many inquiries regarding the noble earl's health which were made at Newbattle, none have been more regular or kind than those made by his Royal Highness the Primo of Wales. The Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot has never taken any very conspicuous part in party ore imperial politics. The son of the second Earl Talbot, born at logestre Hall (the Viscounty of Ingestre has been in the family since 1781), he married in 1828 the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Waterford, and in 1849 succeeded to the title of Talbot and Ingests.. In 1868, the House of Lords declared him entitled to the 'accession to the Earldom of Shrewsbury, as the descendant of the second earl, the grandson of Lord Chancellor Talbot (1733 to 1736); and in 1863 ha was also declared to be Lord High Steward for Ireland. The late earl commanded the Philomel at the battle of Navarino in 1827, and was made • Via-Admiral on the retired list in 1861 ; he was • Knight of the Order of St. Anne of Russia, and had re ceived the cross of St. Louis of France. His lordship, after one or two temporary parliamentary experiences, was returned for the city of Dublin in 1831, and subse quently, from 1837 to 1849, sat for South Staffordshire. The late earl, who would In November have entered his 66th year, is succeeded by his eon Charles John, Viscount Ingestre, who is about 40 years of age. He is • conserve- I kiss. TRIAL OF EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS. —Some COM pctitivo trills of explosive compounds were made yester day in the shooting-grounds attached to the museum of fire-arms, Peckham-rye, before a committee of reference, composed of Viscount Renelagh, Sir. Frank Reathoote, and Mr. A. W. Arnold. It was considered that the diver sity of opinion existing as to the relative merit of gun powder, gun-cotton, gun-cloth, gun-felt, and gun-sawdust,' as site and useful propellent agents, rendered it desirable to ascertain the exact degree of merit attaching to each, and especially the extent to which each might safely be used in fowling-pieces. The proprietors of each kind were consequently invited to submit samples for trial yesterday. Four points were aimed at in the programme. let. The establishment of a standard of merit, based on the average results obtained from gunpowder of different makers ; 2nd, comparisons as to pattern, penetration, recoil, and general uniformity ; 3rd, the ascertaining of the bursting charge of each explosive in barrels of uniform strength which had first passed the proof-house test; and 4th, the degree of heat at which each would explode. The Hut trial was with gunpowder. Six charges were Bred, each containing three dn, of powder, with 1:,oz. of No. 6 shot, the target being a pad of brown paper sheets tacked together. The recoil averaged ;an average of 251 sheets of paper were penetrated ; the pattern, on the targets gave an average of 1021. The trial of gun-cotton, which had been looked forward to with considerable interest, did not come off in consequence of the wrong cartridges being sent. Schulse's granulated wood gunpowder (55 grains) gave an average recoil of 64'16 ; pattern, 99i ; penetration, 27.1 Reeves's gun-felt (32 groins) gave recoil, 46i ; pattern, 85 2-3rda ; penetration, 211. Double and- treble charges wire fired without injuring the gun-barrel. Further expo- I timents showed that Sohulze's granulated wood gunpow der exploded at a heat of 310 degrees, and Reeves's gun ' felt at 282 degrees. With shots at 60 yet*, Schulze's com pound (551 grabs') made a pattern of 38, and penetrated 11 sheds ; Bermes (36 grains) penetrated 9 sheets, and I showed a pattern of 55. The previous shots were fired at Pt Pa" The Isto 111111 . 1 114 Ow If** .. THE EXPRESS , SATURDAY •:. :', ING, JUNE t1.15 .' \ -- ‘ Oa- • . •• -••••• with" Buttliese ntithe ettaten dar e do -- imirlorefa • did in 1755, l ite, ! t , : , I l il t " curt . be- imam:re ci ity. con ' - Ltrzype• laxly gut ry, • Theatre, boos bey : ; , '•,, ' - , "'" new ,Vittiy, sleeps gt HighgatOnd f ' in ifsrhad given a .. parts in a nap pima . jru to - . iiii0.....1. CASTES. Jews 3. 5, or great cemetery .. .drake min' genetld • t than-Trench omega; and would not be Itgetrased '- Thee Queen went out in the morning, accom- In the marble in which het and bidl even when Aiertck abjectly pleaded that some ~ Prince I.eopold and rriZteete Beatrice ; and her ,cter- tell the simple story of a life ;itumped of the obnoxious persons were Swiss by birth, ma t 7 drove out Is t h e iftersoott, accompanied by erse. out. The least satisfactory thing con- ,' and staunch Protestants in religion ! Princess Louise, and attended by the li on. Mrs. 11. Pon- next necked 'with professional players, is the ecitismA Kerby. I the which has recently divided them into two holies; ; The Duke of Marlborough bad the honour of dining The and which tells hardly upon the " Cricketer's OUR CONTEMPOILLHED3. with the Queen sad royal tastily. , ndly Fund." Coild not this be made up, and • match (THIS DAY.) The Prince and Primer of Wales, aeoesepanied by the THE Fraara PLATE. Tim audience which now assembles nightly at the St. James's Theatre is nearly as interesting a Only as the plays performed there. Foreign faces and foreign fashions are in the ascendancy. Exiled Princes of a royal house are to be We iu the places of honour, while the poor Frenchtmui whom business or necessity, but not pleasure, has made a sojourner in Loudon, occupies the seat in the gallery which at another theatre would be filled by the shopiroy or the rough. Young ladies fresh from a boarding-school are to be seen under the - protection of parents or guardians to whom the language of the actors is unintelligible, and who go thither for the benefit of their charges. Now and then pathetic complaints may be overheard against the puzzling character of the French spokeu by the actors. The rule is for all who travel on the Continent to pro fess familiarity with the French language. No English traveller thinks it derogatory to his or her dignity to admit ignorance of Italian, Spanish, or German ; but hardly a single lady or gentleman will be found expressing inability to speak, or at least to understand French. When it is impossible for them to make a native comprehend something in his own tongue, the fault is laid upon his obtuseness or bad manners. On the other hand, when his talk cannot be understood, ho is blamed for speaking too rapidly. Difficult as it may be to converse in French, it is far more difficult to follow with ease and intelligence the dialogue on a French stage. The actors have a conventional mode of utterance which differs from that of real life, and they employ terms and phrases which it requires a thorough acquaiutauce with contem porary manners and current literature to under stand and appreciate. Despite this the English section of the audience at the St. James's is apparently perfectly versed in the sebjects they witness. We say apparently, because the applause is often too strongly marked to be genuine. Trivial remarinc which a French audience would hear with ,indifference, call forth laughter and expressions of approbation from an English one. The latter is glad to exhibit that it has caught the point of a phrase or illusion. Anxious to conceal its real uncertainty, it betrays the superficial character of its knowledge. The actors themselves must often wonder at the unusual heartiness of the reception accorded to certain of their utterances. They must be as much astonished at the compara tive failure of the stock phrases which Frenchmen think it's duty to applaud. • In Mall .e afferhe for example, there is much said abont the respect due to a mother by her son, and this is couched in the usual French strain, while the mother makes some of those speeches which a foreigner considers affecting and we regard as artificial. To these tirades there was a very feeble response, and that came not from the English, but the foreign ele ment in the house. Moreover, severed allusions which in Paris would be applauded because directed against the Government fell dead on the ears of those who, happily, know nothing of Impe rialism except the name. What is most curious in the demeanour of an English audience, when present at the performance of modern French plays, is the zest with which passages and scenes are welcomed which, if form ing part of an English play, would assuredly bo hissed by the spectators and condemned by the critics. We forbear giving instances which are to be met with in the several plays recently performed. Some of them, indeed, it would be hard to translate into language which would not shock some readers. One, however, we may name. It has no relation to the love of the sexes, but refers to the English love for the chase. At the conclusion of Noe betimes, a dead fox is brought in triumph on the stage ; a fox which has been barbarously shot, instead of being worried to death in the legitimate way. Although this incident might pass unchallenged in a Loudon theatre, yet he would be a foolhardy manager nho should produce it on the stage of a provincial theatre, which the squire patronised. AB a British playwright world never dream of making one of his personages shoot a fox, the offence of repre senting the occurrence would fortunately never be committed on our stage in the presence of true• born English gentlemen. There is one lesson which . some of our actors would do well to learn from their French brethren, and that is how to dress and conduct themselves with taste and propriety. A French actor scrupulously attires himself in the garments he would wear if he were moving not on the stage but in society. The apparel as well as the gesture and phrase fit tho role. This is especially applicable to cases in which the part is ono representing a scene in ordi nary daily life. If the place is a drawing-room and the personage is paying a morning call on a lady the French actor comports him self as if the sham were a reality. He takes off his hat on entering the room, remains standing till told to be seated, and commits no breaches against good manners. His English brother, in like circumstances, would, in too many instances, swagger into the room with his hat on his head, raise it stiffly when near the lady of the house, replace it, and then throw himself into a chair. In order to show his politeness, he will probably rise and lift his hat for a moment when something is said which he desires to acknowledge. Indeed, were if not for the relief afforded by taking off their hats at in tervals some of our actors would be greatly embarrassed, and would not know what to do with their hands. The superiority of French over Eng lish acting consists in its naturalness and adher ence to the recognised rules of real life. The thorough finish of the French actors is probably due to the fastidiousness of French audiences. In Paris the wholesome custom of hissing bad plays and incompetent performers is still maintained. Both toleration and sympathy are often manifested towards the loose morality of the plot and the lax manners of the personages. But the product must be excellent of its kind, otherwise it will be ruthlessly rejected. The most popular of modern French plays have been written by men of rich intellectual culture, whose rank in the world of letters is among the chiefs. On the other hand, the most valuable modern English plays are translations or adaptations from the French. Better, however, is it to ac knowledge this supe r i or it y with ch eerfulness, and . 1 4. 0 . 3 161 Y to w9,loolprioristi Wm smog us, than TILE WEEKLY PRESS. ! Referring to Mr. G lodatone's letter on the subject of the Irish Cherub, and which led to the pommel contest between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli in the House of COMMON on Thursday, the Saturday Retina says the really important point is whether the statement contained in it was true or not. Our contemporary bee so hesitation in saying that it was perfeetly true. The leading members of the ministry may now say that they I never had any intention of proposing an endowment of she different religious bodies is Ireland; sad it is very probable • that there was no express, definite, avowed resolve on the part of the leaders of the government, as there certainly was none en the part of the cabinet generally, to gin endowments to the catholic and pembyteriaes. But no one sun douut that there was s testing ides,a general Ma- Latin) policy, on the part of Mr. Disraeli sad one or two of his immediate confidants, to seek in a general scheme of endowment the solution of that great difficulty which is caused by the existence of the Irish church. No one respects the ministry. There are in it many able t administrators ; and some honest, though not very great, politicians. But as a ministry it has no hold on the re spect either of the country or the house. The consequence is that the House of Commons, which, to do itself jostles, I must be under the guidance of a ministry it respects, has sunk to a really pitiful state of demoralisation. Perna ! mentery degradation can hardly go further than whoa an s English county member occupies the time of the house with a long discussion on the question whether a parson like Mr. Bearden ceased to be a supporter of Mr. Glad i stone because they differed on the Contagious Diseases I Act. Discussing the report of the neutrality commission, the Saturday leerier. says that it goes at once to the heart of the matter, suggests exactly what is wanted, and no MOM. The EACGllintr contends that electoral reform will not be complete as long as the numerous and intelligent classes that make up the staff of the inland revenue, the customs, and post-office respectively, ars excluded from electoral privilege. To the Exastieer, it has always appeared to be a case which might fairly claim the support of conservatives, as bringing within the pale of the constitution a large and influential class, whom instincts are essentially defensive of existing institutions, and who in their political views would, no doubt, in the opinion of good Tories, form a counterpoise to the sprcad of that democracy of which they have such an excessive fear. The claim may also fairly command the support of liberals, on the ground of its inherent justice, when made on behalf of an educated and • tax-paying section of the community. It is the attempt of the Controller-in-Chief to break through the vicious system of account and audit which has so long prevailed at the War-office, and to introduce a healthier one in its place, that has, says the Ex obtiner, led to the violent opposition raised against him. The clerks are powerful for obstruction if weak for work, and the Breathier trusts that they will not be allowed to prevent or defer the introduction of changes which expe rience has shown to be indisputably necessary in the public interests. After discussing " Mr. Justice Blackburn's clever reply to the Chief Justice," the Spectator contends that, remem bering Mr. Eyre's previous career, and giving him credit for the sincerity of his belief in the matter of the Jamaica rebellion, the nation ought to adopt the most lenient con struction of which his actual conduct was capable, con sistently with the due assertion of the right of all classes of her Majesty's subjects to equal and just government, and of the strict responsibility of ill-judging governors for blunders of judgment so grave as to issue in all the consequences of deliberate oppression. But what the Spectator cannot help seeing is that the upper and middle class of the English people—especially the latter— do not care to assert these principles at all ! that they are positively enraged at the dema n d o f negroes for equal consideration with Irishmen, Scotch. men, and Englishmen ; that proceedings which would have cost the most well-meaning of weak-judging men his head if they had taken place in the United Kingdom— which would have been received with shouts of execration if they had taken place in France or Austria —are heartily admired as examples of "strong government" when they take place in the British West Indies. In 1700 there was no lawyer living in the Isle of Wight. In 1588 one came to live there, and wan driven out of the island. The islanders at that period, having no legal business to attend to at Winchester or London, seldom left the inland. • The following epitaph is to be seen in Boldre chu z a, in Hampshire :—" Hero lyeth the boa* of William Omens. Pions, industrious, honest, charitable, ye who he., how good a man be was Orin to osy4o ,P 10 411Lail&M• 111 - 7 1 • . 11 . . FOREIGN N‘l-a. (THIS DAY.) FRESH WAR RUMOURS. Disquieting rumours again prevail on the Con tinent. The Paris corrrspondent of the Nerd says : There is today an increase of warlike news. The general elections are laid to be adjourned on account of the war. It seems that the views of the government are precisely defined on this point, and that the ministers their private. conversations are served on the eventuality of • proximate war. It is not, however, to break out Leforo the loan, and the close of the season—in two months time —as far as one can foresee. These anticipations do not proceed merely from France. Some foreign political peisouagee and very competent military min regard the atinaments and preparations of France as indicating war. Fronde is naturally regarded as the object of attack, but no 1.0. 1? MI yet foresee the political cause which ahould furni.ll the ground of attack. The visit of l'rince Na poleon is not calculated to maitre men's minds. However lightly people may think of the conduct of the prince, It is not the leas certain that he is one of the meet satire agents of the imperial policy. People are entitled to ask what negotiations he is going to carry en in the southern states of Germany and in Constantinople, as they asked what he went to propose in Berlin. Tae private character of his journey affords rather facilities than preseats obstacles to his political undertaking, in spooking thus I am not giving my own impresaioas but those of pretties who are highly placed in the army and adminietration, and who believe that the time is some for deciding right by might. The last council of ministers was occupied with considering the &fence the coasts. (RLUT►R . R TELE(' RA V 9.) BAVARIA. MUNICH, Junz 6. The ministerial Bavarian papers of to-day publish articles expressing doubts as to the vitality of auy Cofederation of the South German States, and ai,k the supporters of this scheme to bring f,,rwanl some diatir.ct plan for the realisation of such a pto poeal, mere words being useless. THE RETURN OF IHE An'SSINIAN EXPEDITION. (Per Malta and Alexandria Telegraph.l SUEZ, deer 4, Ten officers and 154 men of the 3rd Dragoons have arrived here from Abyssinia, and will embark on board the Crocodile. Consul Cameron Ku remained at Annette) , owing to indisposition. OUR PARIS LETTER. THE GRAND PRIZE. (nom Qom owl 00ROMPONDINT.) PARIS. FrODAT EVIOM(0. A sinister rumour that the Paris Crand Price of 4,000 f., which was founded in 18.63 by the city of Paris and five great railway companies for sic years, would not be renewed, is contradicted, on, I think, pretty good authority. Three English horses hsve arrived for the event of Sunday. Tho Marquis of Hastings's Earl took a gallop over the coarse this morning, and was thought to be in splendid condition. The following is tho latoat Lotting : Ems oa The liarL 5 to 2 net Valii Royal. 3 to 1 -- Saaorkio. 5 to 1 Blueskin. S to 1 Nolusko. 10 to 1 Sarrenin. A great deal of English money is said to be bet on Lord Stanford's horse Yale Royal. Sneerain is tho French favourite. It is not thought that out of upwards of 90 entries there will be more than six or eight starters. The turf, after the rain of yesterday, will be in capital condition unless more rain should come, which might make it too heavy. The weather looks a little nucertaie, but at present it is fine. The numerous complaints of assaults on civilians by drunken soldiers have at length induced Marshal Niel to write a circular to Generals commanding districts, calling their attention to the subject and suggesting what the Minister at War thinks a suf ficient remedy. It is a pity, I think, that the first word in the circular is " malevolence"— that malevolence which, according to him, is always on the look out for outrages by soldiers, and seeks to exaggerate them. Certainly there is but too much foundation for the outcry that has been pro voked by many recent instances of ferocious at tacks upon peaceful citizens. At the same time, I cannot endorse the opinions of the Sirle, and other opposition journals, that soldiers should in no case be allowed to carry their arms when oft duty. What is necessary is that they should have a heavy sense of the responsibility of carrying them, and well understand that to use them, unless for military service, is the worst of crimes. It appears that as lung ago as 1816 cent manding officers were invested with the power of depriving any particular soldier of going abroad privately with his arms for the space of six months, and in 1833 the period for the discretionary in terdiction was reduced to ninety days. What the minister now proposes is to allow commanding officers to take away the arms for an indefinite period of " men of bad conduct or subject to get drunk." This extension he thinks will do. It is to be hoped that the evidence of a man being sub ' jest to get drunk will not be acquired at the expense of unoffending citizens and their wives and daughters. It is understood that in answer to a pressing request to the Emperor to visit the Havre Exhibi tion, his Majesty has expressed his regret that his arrangements for the summer will not allow hint to accept the invitation. He held out a hope that his cousin Prince Napoleon might go to Havre when he returns from Constantinople. I am afraid the Havrais will think this small consolation. Prince Napoleon has many striking qualities, but he does not " draw " in France The Abbe Deguerry, cure of the Madeleine, ivas not badly advised in refusing the bishopric of Marseilles which was offered him some time ago. By remaining in Paris ho not only maintained 1113 relations with the wealthiest and most fashionable congregation in Paris, but secured the coveted task of preparing the Prince Imperial, aho is his pa rishioner, for his first communion. The command er's Cross of the Legion of Honour, which hai just been given to the curd, is evidently not a sutlident reward, and I quite believe the report that he will shortly be made a senator. The Bourse was heavy up to 2 o'clock, and Rentes went down to 70fr. 30e. ; afterwards there was a good deal of buoyancy, and the closing prices were 70fr. 45c. for cash, and 70fr. 50c. for account, with a rise of 10c. and 70. Italian rose 200. ; Mobilier, 7fr. 50c., and Credit Fonder, ffr. 25c. The great rise of the day before yesterday is attri buted in great part to forced purchases to liquidate the account of • single speculator who is a l de faulter to the extent of 2,300,000 fr. The oss, however, is pretty equally distributed among some forty brokers and cotaissiers, so that it has not proftuolteny failures on 'Chang, ~7. ~r-,. ~•. .