The Express. — London, England, 1866-05-19 00:00:00

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Mrs. Chlppesdale, &A—AAA A DALGHTEB, TO PRISCPMS. lytie Errawo, A LUCK Y MT.—Atter which HENRY VIII. Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Charles Kean Queen Katherine, Mrs. Charles Kean.--Concluding with QUIET LODGINGS. ,Lt eitUAL Tina /MEMO, SIMPSO,7ASI7O. Messrs. Emery & Hon man ; Mn. Horsman.—And TILE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. hteasn. Jordan, Horsman, Vezin, Emery,Widdicomb, Fitzpatrick, &c. ; Mesdames Ternan, Eliworthy, Lavenu, and C. Leclercq. BRITANNIA. Teas Evraerso, THE DAUGHTER. Mean. Reynolds, Crauford, and Biavintal ; Min Clara 8L Mrs & Lane, and Mrs. E. Yarnold.—The &llama Family.—To conclude arta THE HURON CHIEF. Sir. James Anderson.. HIGH-WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. Tao DAY —Morning, sh. 16in Afternoon, oh. 40m. To-Moititow—Moruing, 6h. (m Afternoon, eh. 32m. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 19. ~; 'Rion on the part of Austria and,: Itskr. 4o clique' to an understanding on this ihibjeet, nor '4,, the readiness of the neutral Powers to telt it vigorously in hand. This may be owing to his prudence and circumspection ; but it may also be owing to his having nothing to say. Austria is not wholly indisposed to treat for the cession of Venetia to Italy ; but hither* in diplomatic interoourse with the neutral Powers, she has attached conditions to the sur render which, from the nature of the case, it is not.in the power of Italy to fulfil. Italy could pay a pecuniary indemnity, and it would be worth her while, now, before any more lives have been lost, to pay a handsome one. But Austria wants a territorial compensation, and has lately been suggesting that it might be found in Silesia, which is really making Prussia a party to the question. It is no wonder that progress is not made under such circumstances, and that Lord CLARENDON can give so little encouragement to those who desire the preservation of peace. If, however, diploma tists, who are so deeply responsible for a state of Europe which is constantly breeding war, can sug gest any way of reforming it so as to give satis faction to legitimate aspirations, they are bound to do so. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Tee Femme SECRETARY was invited last night by Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFTE to give the public any information in his power of a nature to calm the apprehensions that have been excited by the warlike preparations of some of the great continental monarchies. Lord CLARENDON'S re ply was brief and exceedingly guarded. As was to be expected of a statesman of his experience, he was most careful to avoid anything that might create expectations not likely to be fulfilled, and the very limited nature of tho announcement he made shows how narrow is the ground on which hopes of the preservation of peace can be built. Lord CLAREN DON said nothing about the " bases "of a Congress" as having been either found or accepted, or of preliminary engagements asked and given. All he feels at liberty to say is that "confidential communications " are at this moment in progress," and he "hopes " that they may terminate in the meeting to " gether of all the Powers concerned, as well " those which are neutral as those which " are armed ;" and he trusts that a meet ing of all the Powers may give some hope of an amicable issue. Her MAJ E.STY'S Government will spare no effort to preserve peace, and Lord CLARRNDON believes that that is also the wish of the Emperor of the Fermin ; and that is all he finds it advisable to say. We are not of opinion that Lord CLartseooe'e language will disappoint anyone who has seriously considered the causes which have brought about the present danger to the peace of Europe. Judged by these, the prospect of preserving peace is very small indeed. Aa we all know, the present crisis has gTOR - II out of the war which the two great German Powers agreed to wage against Denmark more than two years ago. Prussia, in attempting to appropriate to herself the material gains of that war, disclosed projects inimical to the independence of her neighbours, and her design to seize the supremacy in Ger many. The quarrel which resulted from the natural resistance of Austria and the smaller German States to these designs might have been composed if it could have been kept from com plication with the affairs of countries beyond the Confederation ; for the case of Germany at the beginning of the present year was not like that of Italy in 1859, when the ambition of a royal House concurred with the enthusiasm of a nation to put an end to a state of things which had become intolerable. The aggressive policy of the King of PRUSSIA has been traced by all Germany to a spirit of dynastic ambition which is con demned as strongly in Prussia as anywhere. A few months ago the neutral Powers would have found it perfectly easy in concert with Austria to compel the Ring of PRUSSIA to keep the peace. But they did not deem it wise to do so; and perhaps it was not possible at that time for them to come to an un derstanding. The Prussian Government, thus encouraged, persevered in its policy, and soon after the difficulties of the situation were enormously increased. The Italians, weighed down with debt and taxes which have yearly increased, and con demned to keep up a military expenditure which exhausts the resources of the country, solely in order to be ready one day to take Venetia, made their calculations, and having satisfied them selves that Austria would soon be at war, deter mined to prepare for the long-expected struggle, and from that moment the probabilities of peace or war have been subjected to an entirely new order of considerations. The prospect of a virtual alliance with Italy has apparently strengthened the determination of the Prussian Government. Occa sionally, indeed, we hear of intervals of irresolu tion at Berlin, and it is to these that the rumours of peace for the moat part attach. What, however, it is important to remember is that we hear of no similar irresolution in Italy, and as far as it possible to judge, Italy will attack Austria whether war breaks out in Germany or not. It is not to the purpose now to discuss the wisdom of this resolution. Anyone who reads letters from Italy must perceive that the Italians speak and act as men who are borne onwards by an irresistible destiny. It is useless to speak to them of the probable issue of a struggle with Austria single-handed, for they immediately reply that it would be better to perish in the attempt to deliver Venetia than to prolong their present agony, and that, in fact, their situa tion is absolutely unendurable. This is the state of things with which diplomacy has to deal, and which it must recognise if it would either act with effect or abstain with dignity. There can be no peace in Italy without a settle ment of the Venetian question, and if that were settled there is little probability that Prussia would persist in forcing war upon Germany. Lord CLARINDON, however, says nothing of any diapo- • TBi EXMSS,: S4FURVAY IITIPINDTG, MA gamete Ow* engaged alialreaddenwsphe w haled • ilte aombataniaare patent %the w wort, the danger dike dodgem visible te Ili least ifleileaked. the rush unknown quantity in the Mention of *Otte Aire leen, and he can make this known by an , a pam phlet, a few lines in the Mosiieur, just as way as he can sitting in formal Congress. The project seems to us un real, and if it is real, it is none the lees objectionable, alike for England and the world. For England, because she is not ready to fight for an arrangement in which she ' is *cutely interested, and will therefore enter Congress only to be powerless ; for the world, because the half settlement a Congress would produce would not remove any of the ancient heartburnings, but would leave Europe, armed and watchful, weighed down with the burden of troops, nervous with the sense of insecurity, unable to move lest motion should once more bring down the badly constructed building, A sharp campaign, which must be short, would be preferable to the insecurity now prevail ing, and a Congress could only help to protract that insecurity. The Examiner opposes Mr. Gladtione's theory and scheme as to the supply of coal and payment of the na tional debt. Not wishing to be considered crazy, the Examiner does not believe one word as to the statement that by 1961 the quantity of coal consumed in making pig iron at anything like the recent rate of expansion will be 472,000,000 tons, which would produce twenty-four times the present make of pig iron. But if it be true, or half true, then in the name of common sense and fair dealing let us adjourn the paying off of the national debt until we shall have got into this promised land of unbounded production and unlimited profit, where the nursery fable will at length be realised of the pigs lying about in all directions, seeming to say—Who'll have us! A trifle of 800 million pounds sterling will be nothing to our lucky grandchildren, whose garden of gold will be entered by such iron gates. What will signify to them the weight of coals from Pennsylvania or Hongkong, or the satellites of Jupiter if that should become news wry I Can we make no more of our money than 3 per ceat. If not, let Mr. Gladstone put on aloor 20 per cent. income tax by all means, and with the produce buy up Consols. But if that amount left in the pockets of enterprise, invention, and trade would realise six, eight, or ten per cent., and if it be a notorious fact that the capital of the country is increasing enormously faster than the population, then it is clear that everyday the national security for the debt is growing greater, and the ultimate facility for its liquidation whenever needful is becoming more obvious. Another broad and fundamental principle of all our wisest and beet economists has ever been not to borrow money with one hand to pay off debt with the other. The Exchequer owes 24,000,0001. to the working-classes who have put their money into savings banks, and without borrowing these 24,000,0001. the proposed plan of redemption by creating new terminable annuities cannot be tried. The proposal is to saddle our selves irredeemably for twenty years with upwards of 1,000,0001. a year more than we need otherwise raise in taxation, in order that in 1866 we may have the satisfac tion of thinking we have nibbled an inappreciable corner off the pile of our national obligations. The Ecenomiat believes and hopes, now that the panic of 184;0, which it describes as a credit, not a capital or a bullion panic, is allayed, our improvement from this time will be gradual ; but still it must be interrupted by pain ful events, and cannot be healthy if it is too rapid. " Finance" paper too often means bad investments, and while so much of it is held about the market credit must be tender, uncertain, and liable to vicissitudes and shocks. Of course this applies rather to money-lending credit than to mercantile credit. A merchant is a borrower, not a lender ; he will not have taken finance paper ; if his busi ness is good, and except in particular branches of specula tive trade (as cotton, or pig iron, or the ship-dealing and owning fostered by Barueds . ) English commerce was hardly ever sounder. The foreign exchanges show that there has been considerable distrust and alarm abroad at the state of English credit. And when Overende fail, and Peto fails, and an act is done which foreigners confound with a suspension of cash payments, no one can wonder that there is anxiety. But the appearances of the last two (lays indi cate that this fear is mitigating ; there are new orders for long-dated English bills from abroad, and on the whole there is every appearance that though the immediate future must he chequered and painful, the worst bitter ness of the panic is alraady spent and past. The Press learns with satisfaction that the executive committee of the Church Institution, at a meeting spe cially summoned on Thursday to consider the question, decided by a majority of 14 to 2 to take immediate steps to compass the rejection of Mr. Gladstone's Church-rate Bill, on the ground that, regarded as a " compromise," it would, from a church point of view, operate u a mis chievous sham. In thus opposing the bill it was generally admitted that, so far from deciding to adhere to a policy of indiscriminate non-surrender, it would be the duty of churchmen towelcotne any well-digested scheme for settle_ went. Whether that settlement should take the form of an exemption of dissenters or not, it was felt that the payment, however adjusted, must be protected by com pulsory enforcing powers. SELLING AND HAWKING GOODS ON SUNDAY BILL. DIVISION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS LAST NIGHT. Moved that the Bill be now read the third time—(The Chairman of Committees): Objected to ; and an Amendment moved to leave out (" now ") and insert ("this day six months")—(The Lord Taunton):—On Question that (" now ") stand part of the motion ? Contents 59, not-contents 49. CONTENTS. LD.CTIVICELLOR. MILLS. vißontrrs. LOMA. Crananrth. Dude Clamarty Caatlenmine A RCIIBIMOP. F'ortepcue De Veacl. Feveraham Armagh. Uraham BISHorI. Heyteabury PUKES. Grey Ely Kinn:dna Richmond llarroaby olmamate? and Portman Rutland. _ teller . Bristol _. Raventworth eile €uurt. mai:et:lSM Huntingdon 'Lincoln itrileiilido - Abercont Lucan Oxford (teller) DridAd Ilauvers Peterborough Sherburne Lansdowne. Morton Ripon Skebnersdale Ea LS. Nelson St. Amnia. Somerhill Dar.'oot Russell Lou p& Stewart of Go , liebnore Stradbroke Demers lies eadogan Strange Blantyre Stratheden Doncaster Verulam. Etolton Tredegar. r i WINDSOR CIABTLIe lin IL .1 The Queen, with Princess Helens, (rove out in a carriage-and-four yesterday afternoon, attended by the' Dowager Duchess of Athol% Oolong' the Hon. A. Her dings was in attendance on horseback. Her Majesty walked and drove in the grounds this morn ing, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice also walked and drove. --- -. Princess Helens, attended by the Hon. Mn. Wellisslv, went to the White Lodge, and honoured the Hon. Indy Phipps with a visit. The Queen will hold • council at Windsor Castle at one o'clock to-day (Saturday). The Princess of Wales took • carriage drive, attended by the Hon. Mrs. A. Hardinge, yesterday afternoon. Prince Alfred, attended by the Hon. E. Yorke, left Marlborough-house for Edinburgh in the evening. The Prince and Princess of Wales had • dinner party. The company included the Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelit: and Princess Mary, the Prince of Teck, the Duke and Duchess of Rich mond, the Duke of Rutland, the Marquis of Hartington, Earl Delawarr, Earl and Countess de Grey, Major-General Lord Henry Pertly, Viscount Hinchinbroke, Viscount and Viscountess Royston, Lord and Luly Wodehouse, Lord Harris, Colonel and Lady Emily Kingsoote, lastly Geraldine Somerset (in attendance on the Duchess of Cambridge), Hon. Mrs. A. Hardinge, Lieutenant-General Knollys, and Major Teesdale. The band of the Grenadier Guards, under the direction of Mr. D. Godfrey, was in attendance, and played a selec tion of music during dinner. . . Their Royal Highnesses gave an evening party afterwards, at which a selection of music was performed. The following were present : Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and the Countess Dornburg, Count and Countess Gleichen, the Duke of St. Albans, the Duke of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Duchess of St. Albany Viscount Falkland and Lady Diana Beau clerk, the Earl of Shrewsbury and the Ladies Talbot, Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl and Countess of Dunmore, the Countess (Dowager) of Dunmore and Lady A. V. Murray, the Countess of Hardwicke, and Lady Agneta Yorke, the Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneux, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord and Lady Elphin stone, Hon. Victor Yorke, and Hon. Oliver Montagu, Hon. C. R. Carington, Mrs. and the Misses Knollys, Mr, and Mrs. Fisher, Dr. Quin, Sir. Holzman, and Mr. F. Knollys. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were :—The Lord President, the Duke of Somerset, rd Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Chi chester Fortescue, and the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce. Colonel Harness attended the committee. _ _ A deputation from the borough of Wolverhampton had an interview with Earl Granville, at the Privy Council office yesterday, on the subject of the cattle plague. The deputation was introduced by the Right Hou. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Mr. Weguelin, M.P., and Mr. Foley, M.P. THE MARRIAGE OF HER ROYAL HIGH NESS THE PRINCESS HELENA. We have authority to state that the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Helena is de finitively settled to take place on the sth of July, in the private chapel at Windsor Castle. Her Majesty the Queen is expected to leave Windsor Castle, for Cliefden-house, on or about Friday next, and will keep her birthday, and remain at the Duchess of Sutherland's seat during the Ascot Race week. His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, the Right Hon. Lord Wodehouse, has this week paid a short visit to his Norfolk seat. Kimberley Park. He arrived from London on Monday evening, and left again on Wed nesday forenoon. Lady Moleaworth entertained at dinner last evening Viscount and Viscountess Torrington, Viscount Duncan, Lord and Lady Carew, Lord and Lady Naaa, the Hon. George Vaughan and Mrs. Vaughan, Lord and Lady Lyveden, the Right Hon. Sir Hamilton Seymour and the Hon. Lady Seymour, Baron Meyer de Rothschild, the Right Hon. Colonel and Lady Louisa Tighe, Sir Stafford and Lady Northcote, Mr. Moffatt, M.P., and Mrs. Moffatt, and Mrs. Ford. A levee was held at the Admiralty yesterday afternoon. There were present Admiral Purcell, Rear- Admiral Ommanney ; Captains H. C. Alsjendie, W. Gra ham, R. Purvis, T. F. Birch, S. Saumares, C. R. F. Boxer, N. Salmon, W. J. S. Pullen, F. A. B. Spratt, Robert Jen kins, C. 8.; Commanders W. J. F. Jackson, W. L Stain forth, G. Parsons, J. A. Poland, C. B. Theobald, E. A. T. Stubbs, A. Dlorrell ; Lieutenants J. A. Forbes, N. Bowden Smith, A. T. Freese. The friends of Mr. Alderman Copeland, says the Staffordshire Adrertiser, are about to present that gentle man with a costly testimonial in acknowledgment of his attention to his parliamentary duties, and to the interests of the Staffordshire Potteries in particular, daring the many years he was one of its representatives. The pre sentation will be made st a dinner to be given to the alder man and to Mr. Beresford Hope on Wednesday next. The degree of LLD. is to be conferred by Cam bridge upon Professor De Candolle, the President of the Botanical Congress, and upon Dr. Hooker. With great regret we (Gardeners' Chronicle) have to record the death of Dr. William If. Harvey, F.H.B. and L. 8., &c., Professor of Botany in Trinity College, Dublin, and Keeper of the University Herbarium, a highly distinguished botanist, and a most amiable and accom_ plished man. Dr. Harvey, who had long been ill, died of phthisis on the kith inst. : at Torquay. The singers engaged for the Worcester Festival are said to be Mdllo. Tietjens, Mesdames Lemmens Sher rington and Sainton-Dolby, Miss Whytock, Messrs. Sims Reeves, Cummings, Bentley, and Lewis Thomas. The Royal Medals for the encouragement of Geographical Science and Discovery, intrusted annually for award to tho Geographical Society, will this year be given to Dr. T. Thomson, Himalayan traveller and botanist, and to Mr. Chandlers, who, as a private gentle man, performed the exploration of the Pants river, in South America, mapping it in detail for a length of 1,900 miles. The anniversary meeting takes place on the 28th inst. Should we be destined to see the terrible spec tacle of a continental war, says the At/em - rum, there will be no end of the flight of singing•birds resorting to our perfidious island for food and shelter. A largo portion of the property of the late Thomas Bradley, the well-known bill discounter at Dublin, who died about two years ago, was brought to the hammer on Thursday by direction of the Court of Chancery. It was set up in 23 lots, comprising the same number of houses in the most fashionable parts of the city, and in Konkstown, held for the average term of 120 years. The sale realised 16,030/. Mr. Walter Montgomery has accepted an en gagement to visit Australis for two years, and has taken his berth on board the Great Britain, sailing in September. We (Army and Nary Gazette) understand that Captain Cowper P. Coles has placed himself in communi cation with Maim. Laird Brothers, of Birkenhead, with a view of preparing the drawings for the armour-plated sea-going cupola ship, which the Lords of the Admiralty have directed him to construct for the public service. ROYAL AORICULTURAL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. —The Earl Cowper, KG., in consequence of the severe in disposition of Sir Edward Rerrison, has kindly consented to preside at the dinner of this society, on Wednesday, the 23rd inst. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—At a meeting of the Nottingham town council yesterday, it was unani mously resolved, on the motion of Dr. Tindal Robertson, to invite their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales "to honour the town with their presence on the ocension of the visit of the British Association." A deputation, consisting of the mayor, town clerk, and Dr. Robertson, were appointed to wait upon their royal high , messes. -- LITERARY AND SCIENTIPIC MEETINGS TOR THE itiatlitto WEEK.—Monday, Architects, 8. Tuesday, Eth no:ogical, 4 anniversary ; Zoological . Bi, " New Species of Berycioid Fishes from Madeira," Mr. Johnson. Wed nesday, Society of Arta, 8 , Granite Working," Mr. G. W. Muir ; Geological, 8, " Geology of Sinai," Rev. F. W. Holland ; " New Phyhopodous Crustacean from the Moffat Shales, Dumfriesshire ;" " New Brachynrous Crus tacean from the Forest Marble, Wilts ;" " Genus Eryon of the Lilts and Oolites," Mr. Woodward ; " Primordial Fossils in Lingnla Flags, Tyddyngwladis," Mr. Plant ; Arclueological Association, Bi. Saturday, Botanic, 3i. Atheneum. THE EXPECTED WAR. The Times represents the contending powers on the Continent as having reached that stage in their disputes when they must be hurried on by causes seemingly beyond their oontrol. There is war in every respect except that which alone brings war to a conclusion—the exhaustive actuality of war. All are now on a course which does not permit them to stop, and which reduces political manifestoes to passionate or plausible ejaculations. It matters not what the passenger wishes or says when the train is in motion. Of course, if a nation comes to be worn out without fighting, that is equi valent to passing through the ordeal of actual war and accepting its results. If, for example, 400,000 Italians chose to stand under arms for a whole year, with all the usual expenditure of that position, in the face of an empty treasury, bankrupt credit, and taxation already overwhelming, they are working up to a definite and speedy result, though it is very probable they have no choice in the matter, and must proceed as they have begun. But the very gulf before them compels rather than persuades them to cut the knot of an intolerable posi tion. Yet, how they will then fare, or how they will afterwards stand, it needs one of their old Sibyls to say. The Telegraph thinks that the prospects of peace have sensibly brightened during the last two days, and that the possibility of assembling a congress to discuss the entangled quarrels of the powers has become stronger. The Telegraph fully believes the Emperor of the French to be sincere in his desire to save Europe from the sin and shame of the conflagration which threatens it. The prin cipal difficulty lies with Italy. The Star also thinks peace is more likely than it has been for some time of late. The Emperor Napoleon does not like the revolutionary element which must be intro duced if war is to be conducted on the part of Italy. Nevertheless, no solution is possible save on the under standing that Italy is to have Venice, and to this Austria will only assent on receiving a territorial compensation. She would give up Venice on obtaining a good slice of Silesia, and Prussia would probably give up Silesia on ob taining Holstein. The Star is glad to learn that her Ma jesty Queen Victoria is using her most strenuous efforts to induce the Prussian king to listen to more pacific councils. The Czar is using his personal influence in the same direction, and the only difficulty in the way is the baneful power exercised by Count Bismarck. THE RECIPROCITY TRE tTY WITT( CANADA. The Pat observes that last night's discussion in the House of Commons makes it very clear that whoever may be to blame for the non-revival of the reciprocity treaty, the fault at all events is not attributable to us. Mr, Oliphant is probably correct in supposing that ere long it must be renewed, and that the people of the United States will be themselves the first to propose such a course. The direct consequences of its suspension will fall much more heavily on the Americans than on the Canadkuis, and possessing, as the latter do, the command of the St. Lawrence, they might easily bring such a degree of pressure to bear on the former as would speedily compel them to conclude some such treaty as that which has just expired. It is nut, however, necessary that the colonists should seek to precipitate an event which cannot be long pistpenetL On every ground at present relevant the Star says the renewal of the treaty is to bo desired. Its restoration would be an assurance and type of common amity and com mon interests, and the results would not be less beneficial in reference to international harmony Mum with regard to American and Canadian commerce. In this light the sub ject ought to be considered on both sides of the Atlantic, and while it is easy for Englishmen now to say that nothing ought to divide the two nations, we trust it will not long be difficult for Americans to concur in that opinion to the fullest extent. TR' SUNDAY TRADING BILL AGA/N. It is much to be deplored, the Times remarks, that the Sunday Trailing Bill did not meet with • " happy despatch " last night in the House of Lords. By Lord Redesdale's amendment, which closes all shops save those for the sale of medicines between the hours of 10 and 1 on Sunday, the bill has lost its identity, and, in spite of • good word from Lord Russell and Lord Grey, reached a third reading last night by a majority of one only, of which the episcopal bench contributed • large proportion. Nor ' is its fate yet decided, for on the motion that it should " pass " several new modifications were sug gested, and it was ultimately resolved to give time for reconsideration by adjourning the debate. It would doubtless be • great benefit to get a holiday for these shops on the Sunday, but it is a benefit which may be sought to be obtained by voluntary organisation. So undignified has been the haste with which this bill has been pressed that it was only at the last moment Lord Harrowby proposed it should not extend beyond the metropolis. It is absurd to suppose that, whatever shape the bill may now assume, it will be received with much respect by the lower house. The metropolitan members, whose opinions must carry great weight on such • sub ject, will, of course, protest against it, and they will be supported by the public. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday Review concludes a minute survey I of the considerations which seem to it likely to affect Prussia, France, Austria, and Italy at the present mo ment, with the expression of its opinion that there are signs of a greater disposition to peace than might be fan cied, and that consequently the proposal for a congress is not wholly chimerical. If it is true that Austria has in any way entertained the cession of Venetia as a possibility, the congress might meet with a very fair prospect of being useful in the highest degree. Nor does it make this prospect worse that the congress would meet at a time when Austria is in an exceptionally good position. She would now be treated with a respect that might soften the jealous pride of her Emperor ; and her satisfactory position, both in Germany in Hungary, might open to her the way to new combina tions on which she would set a high value. Prussia could be very easily satisfied in Germany, and abroad <maid be readily induced to give up the glory of seeing a Hohenzollern in the Danubian provinces. 'The answer to the question, Will there be war? seems then to be, that any day accident or misunderstanding may bring on a collision that will be the prelude to one of the greatest wars Europe has ever seen, but that no comba tant has any apparent intention of beginning the war im mediately ; and that, meantime, great efforts to preserve peace are being made, that Europe generally desires peace, that the combatants have many secret motives for desiring peace, and that it seems possible there may be a solution of the present difficulties which shall be at once peaceable and satisfactory. The Spectator believes that matters have arrived at that point at which a compromise is almost impossible, and the nations-before they can settle down in tranquillity most test their comparative strength. The views of all the NOT-CONTENTS. lar KR. LAI:LS. Vl4enrlrN. LORDS. Cleveland. Leven and Mel- Powenkntirt Hunsdon MA Rq UPI. villa Stratton' de Minster Normanby. Mtnto Itedrliffe Montosinle £ A 10. S. Morley Sydney. Oversume Ablnolon B. , runey Otentoord Albemarle Shaftesbury LORN/, PAZUMITe Cannerdown Spencer. Abercrnenby Simile Carnarron vtleorsrg. Aveland Stanley of Al t at 'wart Bolingbroke Helper derlcy Chichester and St. John Camoys Taunton teller) I . 0.1.4.1 . Eversley Carew Teyuham teller) De they Halifax Concleton M . alehouse De•on Hanlinge Dartrey Wrutteshey. Eilinpirim Lister Dlnliy Granville Llfford Foley The following is the list of Whitsuntide preachers at Oxford :—On Whit Sunday, in the morning, the Bishop of Oxford in the afternoon, Dr. Pusey. On Whit Mon day and Whit Tuesday, the Rev. R. Michell, Vice Prin cipal of Magdalen HalL It is the intention of the Bishop of London to leave Hastings this morning and proceed direct to Fulham Palace, where he will remain all next week occupied with the Trinity Sunday ordination examinations. His lordship does not intend to return to reside at London House, St. James's-square, again this season. He has appointed a contirmation for Friday, June 1, at St. Paul's Church, Wilton-place, Knightsbridge. . _ . . WEsTMINSTER ABBEY.—To-morrow (Whit-Sun- I arty) the Very Rev. Dr. Stanley, Dean of Westminster, win preach in the Abbey at both the 10 n.m. and :I p.m. services. The Lord Bishop of Ely (Dr. Harold Browne) will deliver the sermon at the special evening service, in the nave, at 7 p.m. EARL PERCY AT ST. JAMES ' S-HALL.—A crowded public meeting was held yesterday afternoon at St. James's hall, at which Earl Percy presided, to hear an address " On the Instant Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the only preparation by which the Church can be enabled , to meet Him." The noble chairman in a few prefatory re marks alluded to the condition of the church of Christ— ! which was one family in the mind of God—and dwelt on the state of things when at the present daytheauthenticity of the Scriptures was impugned by those who held office in the church. He introduced a gentleman named Walker, ' who spoke for an hour and a half, and was listened to with I much attention. He reviewed the condition of the church —the state of the nations, and declared that the object of God was the manifestation of Himself in Jesus Christ and His Church. God would be revealed, and by the means t He had ordained in the beginning of the Christian diven , lotion. Lord Percy moved a vote of thanks for the admi rable addresses delivered. No discussion was allowed, and after the doxology the meeting dispersed. The London poor-law guardians will, we are in ' formed, bold a conference, on Friday next, at St. James's , hall, in reference to the present mode of administering the poor-law. 19, 1866. LATEST' INTELLIGENCE. THE 110;PRZTh1NG CRISIS. A meeting of the German Diet takes plain to day at Frankfort. The Middle States have pre pared proposals which are to be submitted to the Diet with a view of bringing about a pacific solution of the dispute between Austria and Prussia. Both these Powers are to be called on to give explanations of their ar maments. The conclusion of the treaty of alliance between Prussia and Italy is reported, both from Berlin and Florence. The articles of the treaty are reported to be the following : Prussia binds herself not to make peace with Austria till Italy is in possession of Venetia. Italy likewise binds herself not to make peace with Austria till Prussia has obtained an amount of territory equivalent to Venetia. The treaty will only come into operation when war shall have broken out between Austria and one or other of the contracting parties. General Govone, who negotiated the treaty of alliance on the part of Italy, has returned to Florence. According to a despatch from London in the Inclipendanee Beige, the Austrian minister there intimated, in regard to the bases of the proposed congress, that, as respects Schleswig-Holstein, Austria did not wish for an appeal to universal suffrage, but for a consultation of the estates ; that as re gards federal reform she would require the aban donment of the Prussian programme (a parliament by direct and universal suffrage), and that as to Venetia, she should like to know beforehand what territorial compensation she should have. A letter, dated May 16, from Dortmund, West phalia, in the Rhenish Gazette, says : Some men belonging to the landwehr and the reserve of the Iserlohn battalion passed here to-day. The laws on the press unfortunately prevent us from publishing the sentiments which animated these men, but they may be judged of from the following facts. At the railway station they forced the door from its hinges and flung it on the rails. In the waiting and luggage-rooms they broke 56 large squares of glass to the cry of " Bismarck" The railway officers and the waiters of the restaraunt at the station dared not refuse anything that they asked for, with closed fists and the cry of " I say, Bismarck." GENERAL BENEDEK'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY. The following is the text of General Benedek's Proclamation : Head-quarters, Vienna, May 12. His Majesty, our gracious Emperor and master, has been pleased to direct that I should assume the command of the army of the north, which is being organised. My head quarters will be provisionally at Vienna from the 15th of this month. On that day the generals, troops, the mili tary administrative departments and establishments be longing to th is army will be placed under my controL Having been tried as a faithful and devoted soldier, I know how to obey with joy all imperial orders. But this sentiment of duty is still more strengthened at the pre sent time by the conviction that every individual soldier under my command will bring the most resolute devotion to combat and repel any enemy who shall dare to threaten, inconsiderately and unjustly, our august Emperor and master ; his illustrious dynasty and monarchy, and our cherished country. The army will shortly be concentrated, completely organised and equipped, strong, noble, valiant, animated with the best spirit—the spirit of order, of disci pline, of honour, of fidelity, of bravery, and of absolute devo tion. The Emperor's eye and heart will follow it everywhere. The determination of sacrifice and enthiodasm on the part of all the peoples of Austria will lead us on. The sym. pithy, expectation and hopes of our fellow-countrymen, and of all those who are dear to us, will accompany us. At the approach of the decisive combat for the sacred rights of the Emperor and the country, the Imperial army, full of enthusiasm end exhibiting the tenacity of old Austria, will always know how to conquer or die with fidelity to the Emperor and the country. Soldiers ! I bring for this purpose my soldiers' heart, my iron will, my entire confidence in you, my most humble reliance in God, and my trust in my old fortune as a soldier. With trust in God, I salute you, soldiers— you whom the will and order of the Emperor have confided to my command and my solicitude—l salute you in the firm conviction that Gail's blessing wall not be wanting to our just cause, to our fidelity, to our bravery, and to our per severance. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) RUSSIA AND THE MIDDLE STATES. BERLIN, MAY 19. Russia continues her endeavours with the Middle States, with which the Imperial family is allied by marriage, to exercise an influence adverse to their alliance with Austria. Among other motives Russia urges that the for mation of Polish regiments might load to danger ous movements. Russia is principally apprehensive that Austria might favour a movement in Posen which might spread into Russian Poland. ITALY. FLORENCE, MAT 19. The rumour that the Italian government con templated making changes among its diplomatic representatives at London, Berlin, and Constanti nople is unfounded. NAPLES, MAT 19. The journals of this city assert that the late reactionary movements in the Calabria. were insti gated by Austrian agents. SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 19. Senor Alonzo Martinez, Minister of Finance, tendered his resignation yesterday, but at the request of Marshal O'Donnell has consented to remain at }Us post. The declaration made by Mr. Layard in the English House of Commons, relative to the bom bardment of Valparaiso, has produced a great sensation here, and it is expected that the govern ment will be questioned on the subject in the Cortes. CALCUTTA AID CHINA HAILS. SUEZ, MAY 18. The Mooltan arrival at 11 a.m. to-day (Friday). (Asuraa's ruins.) ITALY AND VENETIA. MILAN, May 15, Evaxma. The latest ad vices from Venetia to the 14th inst. announce that the Austrian military arrangements hive assumed a strictly defensive character. The cavalry and light corps that were echeloned along the right bank of the Po from Aatiglia to Poleaella are now moving towards the centre. It is reported that the Hungarian troops in Venetia will be trans ferred to Bohemia. The emigration of young men from Venetia into Italian territory in order to enrol themselves in the national army has assumed large proportions since the publication of the royal decree for the organisation of the volunteers. About 300 students have left Padua, and the emigration from Friuli and Cadore even exceeds that of 1860. Parties of young men are also leaving Venice daily. _ FLORMCE, MAT 16. The Nazione of to-day contains the following : It was reported yesterday that a note ►ad arrived from the cabinet of the Tuileries pro posing a congress to the Italian government, in concert with the other powers, for the settlement of the pending question. France, it was added, declared that she made this proposal with the desire of preventing war but it no way pretended to impose the mode of settlement of the questions at issue. The Italian cabinet is stated to have replied that it did not decline the prepp ie !, b tti taut 0 preliminary basis of any negotiation moat be th e ele , ka Venetia. Francs undertook to oonnounieste this de t h o tiara in explicit terms to the other Power,, we pda, the above with all due reserve. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAT.: SATURDAY, MAT 19, $ /AL V. Extre „...iw.,,,,,,w., k Nairn 10.08; N.W. ' 1 1 . N.Vir. .ab Aberdeen Leith Airdromes 30.12 66 8.8 3 3 B.W. b ... . Rreenceeile 30.07 kli 8. 1 2 8.11. b e _ ; Valentin. 80.1314 ILL 4 2 8.8. X cb _ • , 1)* (Uzi:. -1 — l - - - !, Liverpool 80.18'57 8.8. E. 2 8 h.S.E. b Nold lO.OBlO B.S.E. 1 1 W.R.W.W.B.W. b-. PORZIIOOO Brest .. '31704 I.E. 4 5 EXP.. b, Lortent Rochefort 29.90 88 LN.E. 3 4 E.N.E. h Plymouth 810.09, E. 4 5 E.8.E. E.g.!. b Weymouth 30.1558 E.S.E. 8 2 E.B.E. b—l Portsmouth 10.1758 8.8. E. 4 3 8. c London _ '30.21 34 B.E. 1 2 X cb ... _ i yartito _ uth . .40.2A51 S.B.W. i Scerborough..3o.2l 88 B.E. 1 2 8.8 E. b — ll Shield r s la me l W.W. 2 2 N.W. c _ i 1 Helde I — - i —1 - - _ ?MAMA VADAT. q NoaTAEItA MOIDAY. Variable, moderate, Comm. Chiefly BIL mid LT moderate to skies,' B.E. to S.W. and back, Wherstah. As above. moderate to fresh, fine generally. Easterly to eoutherty, Borman. X.B Eto SAE fig k moderate to fresh, floe. Variable, moderate, iISTIRN. fine. As next dem Northern—Scotland. Western—lnland, W osectes. Southern—Engllsh Channel and Bq Hastern—llutward England and North Sea. A letter from Bale to the Cowrier du Bas• B is says :—" Communications from Paris state that W e l., bition of animals of labour, which was to have takes* , •,1 in the French capital in 1867 during the great Ban e * Exhibition, has been abandoned. The germ:met,* appears, has interfered, because of the fears lames* the cattle disease raging in England and some paid Belgium and Holland. Apprehensions were entailie s t lest the bringing together of so many anin:els Was necessary relaxation of the scrutiny on their emirs is* France, might favour the appearance of the epidemic.' We (Bell's Life) regret to say that Lord st am , ford's horses, Archimedes and Thal/mains, Ago ce t h e road to Epsom on Monday last met with widest' The former turned restive in his boa at Wolverlisaftak was so much cut about that he was sent bask ; sad Th . Lassius, on arriving at the Euston-station, was fool is have got his near fore leg over the rail or putinin so terribly injured himself that he was immediately sink a veterinary surgeon ; consequently neither of Widen went on to Epsom. In Bailg's Magazine for the current mad a memoir of the owner of Lord Lyon. After sped* ef Mr. Sutton as a hunting man, the writer sap :--`ll2, Sutton's next venture was on the turf, on vikkhe commenced by buying in 1836 four yearlings, ces leig Eurydice, sister to Imperiewse, for which le pa 70 guineas. With this filly, as a two-year-old, he male Althorp Park, which was his maiden race, sad m aim he carried off the Cambridgeshire—the starters keel* strange to say, were the same Orumber as last mud also similar to those which ran in the Hunt Cup st Leaf, which he won with Rouge Dragon. Mr. Sutton's good fortune, however, arose from having in ltlei into an arrangement with Colonel Pearson, one of the and most scientific breeders of the day, for the hire d yearling filly Gardevisure for a certain sum, with tingencies, and her performances are too receet to recapitulating ; but we may, en name,, observe that his Cambridgeshire victory she realised her lessee a very little short of sixteen thousand pounds. The year, viz., in 1864, he followed up his luck by hiring Lyon on the same terms, and with him he has done fur fame, even U the Derby should slip through Minim THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. —BeiT Life informs its readers that " this event" is to take in the course of next week "at a piece sad ens which, for prudential reasons, are kept dark." A conveyance has been obtained, there will be no at trip, and no one need come to teen before Tuesday e bag. " Every care will be taken by the ruana,gen trip to secure order and regularity, and as the wee quite new, and the starting place one where there facility for the exclusion of a mob, we have no doubt t efforts will be successful." Mace is represented to be of confidence. Goes ie " fitter and bigger than have ever seen him, weighing 1 Ist nb., and is in so behind his opponent in his belief of success." ABOLITION OF COMPULSORY CHURCH RAM. great difference of opinions respecting this bill in pressed by the newspapers which are cumaerei more especially the organs of the established char& 1;-siardian supports it, with modifications; the Jots ' , calls upon churchmen "to petition iu such a against the bill that even if it should pass the Carnal the Lords may be justified in rejecting it." The also opposes it, and a clergyman asks in yesterday's ber of that journal, " When a man knows that by eiPiti himself a dissenter he escapes the rate, who will think churchman"" Archdeacon Denison, in his risitstits charge on Wednesday, said he would prefer ssondi' Urinal abolition to Mr. Gladstone's bill. On the sea reading of the bill, Lord J. Manners is to move that it be read a second time that day six months. AWKWARD PREDICAMENT OF A MAN AT ROlll. — On Sunday night a man named Thomas ffiakle bad somewhat narrow escape from drowning on the best the small cove or bay, north of the Holey Rock, Ind, raid as the bathing place for males. Finkle had got PI elevated at Whitburn on Sunday night, end at the Ww where the cliffs suddenly rise at the south end of alit burn sands, instead of taking the path through the fie* over the top, he made his way along the narrow strip or shingly hea d at the foot of the cliffs. Ile had s Ingo dog with him, and when the twain had scramble d sing sit far as the little bay above indicated, Finkle bad down to sleep. He was awoke by the close proxionff the rising tide, sad upon looking about him be found rise the waves had effectually , cut off his escape either bi ad vancing or retreating. lie shouted for help, and bis which evidently shared in its master's alarm. filmdom unearthly howls, that the attention of P. C. WelTberad the borough force, who was on duty in the eicunld Roker, and River P. C. Staley, who was on his beget the North Dock (half-a-mile off) was quickly draws MO spot, and they made all haste to give amistance. Nettle was to be lost, for the tide was coming in fast, and sibie /1 water the bay is completely filled. Ropes were inci" - . by the o ffi cers and let down from the cliffs to the owes and Pickle was safely drawn up, none the worse held, adventure. The dog was also hauled up and saved.--Sw derland Herald. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPRARILNCE OF ANOTHZR PORDGENTLEMAN.—On Thursday information was bog" to the police-office at Scarborough which leads to the,ow elusion that another gentleman belonging to Wager, come to an untimely end, but in what winner is, somewhat uncertain. The gentleman now referred te Mr. Greenwood, brush manufacturer , of Biadfork In early part of the present week he war at Snit-swedes where he received letters from his friends. On \Vele' day he went from his lodgings as usual, and on the dr . : noon of the same day he was seen on the beach, oeri Cayton, a few miles south of Scarborough. Th e li e tA very secluded ; but it so happened that Mr. Grerse"-ti was seen by a farm labourer, who was walking cliff top. The man was struck by certain the stranger was making, hurrying to and fro, tbns his arms about wildly, and conducting lenwel f ,7d extraordinary manner . Eventually he became wee.,„, the observer passed on, thinking that exercise nee !;", the only object of the stranger 's actions. Soma ~_ later he returned in the same direction , and th e n lying on the sands below what appeared to be 1 of clothes. As he saw no one near, he went to the si li and there found a snit of clothes. There Va l 1 .-6101 watch and gold chain , some money, and several 17, and address cards in the pockets, showing the ewe a be Mr. Greenwood, of Bradford. It appeals hie 'T i e has been somewhat singular, as he seems not to ~ duly accounted for himself to his wife, who se letters had not answered. Being alarmed, she P Scarborough, on Thursday, when she found Ol e o husband was missing from his lodging's. She " t oss the police office almost immediately after. Super's Pattison had received the information given by the":;) police. Mr. Pattison concealed the full eircumetanc es, induced Mrs. Greenwood to return to Bradford, *be" friends were made aware of the state of the am• appears no doubt whatever that the unfortunate , gen , man been drowned, and swept away by the tole.. ' was rumoured in Scarborough yesterday morning tnigo body had been washed up and found, but the report Pr° to he incorrect. gp t rt ea h t tobelfoongingur kittens. t thine ai STRANGE FREAK IN NATrRE. —A short vM in the same room sitting on 13 eggs, which " m aw from under her. The hen immediately drove oft and took possession of the kittens, which she sat ( d al% larly. The kittens suckled their mother daily, sod the time they were fed the hen was placed m egel At e t te he ti rime ll s ete h l en .t w ' V elete'dieco. close at hand. It was amusing to see the hen whe n .. 7.4 was released again make puss skedaddle.—Wegg'- p ut and The wif s he had Pow fall? e— coz:2Ze look out week, and ID WOW, has ke F inished pined prick th veal pr, ti b l iatr • apes; for The 1m *greatly U was not qi snake her was she with her ; Lily hart The nos si young Pearancse bly sh , el years, sad of the oth Here /kg Sara Lome The not, and some up f Willy be The h wire his neither her ex A you. dock on a 33‘ a l T r i co awe of a road, Ha through the pri speak to Mote ho after m He cam me to ha and said " Come pressed . glass of A he press r; me, and with his Mr. I) to oak th Prison. Comp Prisoile boppl Prison night. his, but Mr. I ordinary and yet had se all this all upon way man In the plainant The left t and • w prison The No. 14, taken ' ie • A r I:►,. Alto! PIM II