The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-30 00:00:00

BROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR for CHILDREN'S DINT. To obtain extra profit by the sale other kinds are sometimes offered Instead of BROWN and I'OLSON'S. each wa " John wa ßrown." " John Many" in signed by the ' makers on Che erpreoo. THE great masses who are interested in great questions, we would rather not be forced to contemplate. THE House of Lords is once more called to de cide upon the course it will take upon a Bill for the Abolition of Church Rates. The measure which will shortly be offered to it for a second reading is the same which it has before rejected, but it reappears because no other remedy has been found for a flagrant evil. It is well known that a majority of the Peers are hostile to the Bill, but as much might have been said of other measures which they pass from a sense of public duty. The question of Church Rates has occupied some of the best minds in both Houses of Parliament for many years past, and while the result has been to exhibit the incapacity of our legis lators to harmonize the compulsory levy of con tributions with the state of society, it cannot be said that the continuance of the present law is not productive of evil consequences to the Established Church. Some of the Peers will no doubt con eider this subject as Englishmen ; but most will no doubt approach it with the feelings of Church men. So far as they are wise, they will not fail to ask themselves who has most to gain by keeping this question, with all its collateral issues, before the public. The Times advises them to allow the ques tion the advantage of " a year's more considers " tion." But it has had many years' considera tion already, and has had nothing else. In the Commons the party of compromise has abandoned its attempts, not because compromise was resisted by Dissenters, but because no practicable scheme could bo devised. Under these circumstances the proposal of new schemes of compromise in Church Rates at this period of the session would inevit ably wear the appearance of a device to secure delay ; and those who should promote it would be bound to consider the probable effect of such a policy upon the future course of the controversy. The Ti,eca, which now argues that before passing this Abolition Bill something ought to be done to keep the Dis senter out of the vestry, is the only journal which objected to his exclusion when Mr. GLAD srose proposed to accomplish that object. Our contemporary argues that the evil is " sponta " neously curing itself by the judicious discon " tinuance of litigation for the recovery of Church " rates." It is to be hoped that the Lords will not be misled by a statement than► which nothing could be more unfortunate. We are continually asked to report cases of seizures for Church Rates, and sales by auction of confiscated goods, and at the present time there is lying in Whitecross street Prison a tradesman who is detained there in conseqrence of having unsuccessfully resisted a Church Rate. If the general cessation of levies in large towns is referred to, the plea is nothing to the point, since one of the principal objects of the Arti Church Rate movement is to protect the Non conformist in the small towns and villages. It is now several years since a Select Committee of the Lords reported in favour of the exemption of Dissenters from payment of Church Rates, and if after so many delays the /settlement of the ques tion is still to be postponed, it ought to be on the clear understanding that in the meantime the compulsory powers of the existing law should not 'oe exercised. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Aviwthentente Intended for " The Ripreea," London Ironing lOV:moat be at the Odic*, 10, Bouverieotreet, by Two h on the dui of publication. DRURY LANL THIS Remain, TEAT RASCAL JACK. Mean. Rouse and Neville Mesdames Albino and Thompeon.—To conclude with THE GREAT CITY. Hewn Cowper, M'lntyre. Villiers, Irving, Reuse, Mt:James. & Warner; Madames Robertson de Le There. RATH ARK ET. Ting EYlNnia THE LOVE CHAhI. Messrs Chippendale. Howe. Rogers. Kendal, Clarke, Weathereby, etc.. Mesdames Sedgwiet, Chippendale, Burke, de—TO PARIS AND BACK FOB Ea.—And THE RIFLE, AND HOW TO USE IT. 'lemur& Tm! 110Tarao, THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING.—THE 'IdAS 0' AI ELIE. James Harebell, Mr. Herman Veda; Messrs . K. Price, Forrester, Gresham, Maclean, and Marion Misses E. Stuart, Nell, Moore, dc.—And THE CLOCKMAKILICB HAT. aw. THU EVINDIG, REVERSES. M n) arra Emery. Parsons, Rob son, and Swanborough : Madmen Ada Swanboroagb and John. atone.—Ant THE LATEST RDMON UP IRA MAVOLO. Messrs. Morns dt James ; Mesdams Holt, Newton, An BIUTANWI A. Tirn ERWIN, SCARLET DICK ; OR, THE ROAD AND In RIDER.s --Stesart.WoSainson and Craven ; Mr. B Mn. Wadi*: the Champion Skaters—And JACK 0' LANTERN ; OR, THE RACECOURSE, AND THY BLUR RIBBON Or THE TURF. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRYDOL rags DAT —Morning. Ob. tha......Afternoon, Tallottow—liorolqg, lk 2[l. Ls. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 30. Tue Hyde-park Bill lay for two months on the table of the House of Commons, and just before the discussion on the second reading Government has afforded a fresh instance of their want of a policy by withdrawing it and proposing an entirely different measure. There is not a single clause of the original Bill which survives in the new one except the formal saving of all prerogatives of the Crown. The very title is metamorphosed from that of "The Meetings in Royal Parks Aot, 1867," to "The Parks Regulation Act, 1867." But when we pass to the provisions of tho new measure it cannot be said that they are such an improvement as to reconcile us to the substitu tion, or to recommend the measure to the ac ceptance of the Liberal party. What vestiges of liberty were reserved in the first have disappeared from the second. The original , scheme contemplated that meetings might be held by special permission of the Crown ; the amended proposition, in deference to the constitutional timidity of Mr. NEATE and Mr. NZWDEGATE, withdraws this possible license. On the other hand, there is a laxity of language in the second which may lead to some curious and unexpected consequences. The first forbade all meetings of a public character, which certainly would have ap plied to the celebrated betting-ring ; the second forbids only meetings " for the purpose of making " any political or religious demonstration, or for " holding any political, religious, or other public " discussion," which as undoulnedly fails to M ende moothig.o for the purposes of public gambling. It may, indeed, be doubted whether a gentleman so ingenious as Mr. Beitr.s has proved himself to be may not discover that a single speech can hardly be called a discussion, and that therefore meetings to hear him cannot be prevented. And certainly the preachers in the Parks may well argue that since an ordinary service in a church could not be designated either " a religious demonstration " or a " religious discussion," it would be unwarrant able to put down their sermons on the sward under either of these appellations. But if we advert to these loopholes, it is only to point out that the severe intentions of the Government have been but ill-represented by the blundering of their law officers who have penned the Bill. The pur pose of their measure is obvious—it is to deprive the public of London of any place except the streets, in which they can meet to show to the governing classes the numbers who desire an amendment in any of our laws ; and evidence of their determination is found in the fact that, whereas the contravention of the first measure was dealt with as sufficiently punished by a fine of 10f., or a month's imprisonment, the offence under the second is raised to the rank of a misdemeanour, and is thus subject to be visited with a far heavier and indefinite punishment. But this is a course which the commonsense of the country will not long endure. If it should happen that "pressure from without" is never henceforth needed, there will be no occasion for putting the Bill in force, for no one will wish to make demonstrations in the Parks. But if it should be the case that in some future year there are made the same assertions respecting popular feeling as were made last year, if it shall be gravely maintained in Parliament that some mea sure is not desired by the country because there have been no meetings in its favour, or because the meetings have been slight in character, there may then arise a necessity to give visible proof that such assertions are unfounded. But upon such occasions it cannot be pretended that the metropolis ought to have no opportunity of show ing its wishes. If some thirty or forty thousand men in it find a necessity to arise for showing that there are so many of that opinion, it is unreason able and unconstitutional to impede them. The question then becomes narrowed to the considera tion of the most convenient place. Mr. Manama and Mr. HARDY argue that Primrose-hill is quite convenient enough. But they choose to forget that the necessity of an open-air meeting consists in the necessity of making a visible exhibition of numbers and earnestness, and that such an exhibi tion in an out-of-the-way hillock which nobody goes sear is quite useless for its purpose. Mr. GLAD. cross put the question more fairly when he said that the practical choice lay between Hyde-park and street processions. If the Park is allowed, we know by the experience of last May that there will be no crowding and no interruption either to business or pleasure. And if the police areonly as attentive as theyare on theoccasion of a royal drawing-room, we know also that there will be no disorder, and not even any pocket-picking. On the other hand, if the Government have their way and forbid access to the wide expanse of Hyde park. we know that there will be instead inter minable processions in the streets, a stoppage of traffic for hours, and an interruption of business for a whole day. This is the inevitable conse quence of the passing of the Government Parks Bill if the time ever comes when it will need to be enforced. Wo say inevitable, because in such a time it is not to be presumed that oven a Tory Government will venture on the experiment of both shutting the Parks and clearing the streets by police and soldiery. With due latitude for " demonstration and discussion," agitation in Engl.ind 14 a very harmless process. What it may become if majorities like those in the House of Commons last night deny every opportunity of peaceful demonstration and discussion by the OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1667. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOME OF LORDS, JULY 21. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL. • Moved to resolve, that for the purpose of effecting a settle ment of the question of the redistribution of seats the proposed scheme is inadequate, and that it is expedient to provide the means of giving more representatives to large and important oonstituencies than are given by this bill—(The Viscount Halif►x). On question : Con tents, 59 ; Not-Contents, 100. CONTENT ..... --.—. DORI& EARL& St/HOP. LORD& Cleveland Grey Chester wont Engle aomerset Harrowby Login. 'Joslyn NANDI& lihnberley Helper Northbrook Nornsauby Lovelace Blantyre Overstate RARLS. Mlnto Campy. Petre Abingdon Russell Chaworth Ponsonhy!tellerl Mate Spencer Clandehoye &mill, Albemarle Suffolk & BerlDrlermont Saye and Sele Cam clown shire Cranworth Seaton Chichester Zetland De Manley SomerhUl Clarendon Dunfermline Stanleyof Alder- Cowper De Grey Swann& Foley (teller) ley Everslcy Houghton Sundridge Dude Falmouth Leigh 'ranntou F:Ellugham Halifax Lyttelton Vernon Furtmmun Stratford de Lyveden Westbury Gnmville Radcli ff e ileredyth NOSCONTENTS. LD.CHANCELLOR SALLE VIIMONTS. LORDS, Chelmsford. Graham Sidmouth Egerton DE &Es. Hadd!roe Strathallan Yeremharn Beaufort Hard cite BISHOr. ' , oxford Buckingham Harewood theory Gage and Chanties Harrington tonna Grantley Manchester Home Abinger Heytesbury Marlborough Huntingdon Arundel' of II lton Richmond Leven and Mel- Wardour Rutland villa Audley Loyal Wellington Lucan Ballot Lytton mAzquiszs. Malmesbury Berner+ Monson Abercorn Merton Blayney Northwick Bristol Nelson Bolton Penrhyn Exeter Ports Cairns Raglan EARLS. Romney Chitin& Ravenaworth Abergavenny Rome Clements Rayleigh Amherst Shrewsbury Clinton Redesdale Bathurst Stanhope Cloneurry Saltoun Beauchamp Btradbroke Colonsay Hilchester Selmore Tankerville. Colville of CuPticelmersdale Bradford Vendam rose (teller) Sondes Cadogan Winchilsea and Congleton Bout= Cardigan Nottingham Crofton Stant Dartmouth VISCOCRTs. Delamem Strathspey Doncaster De Vend Denman Tenterden Eldon Hardinge Ds Ros Waleingham Ellenborough Hawarden Donsandle and Wemysa Erne (teller) Clanoonal Uainaborough Waster In the division on the motion of Lord Cairns respecting the lodger franchise, the Earl of Carnarvon, Earl Grey, the Earl of Powis, the Earl of Harrowby, the Karl of Shaftesbury, the Bishop of Chester, and Lord Denman voted with the liberal minority for the 101. qualification. In the majority, were two bishops, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and the Bishop of Oxford, the Marquis of Clanrioarde. Lord Arundell of Wardour, and Lord Petro. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-Jur 29. PARKS REGULATION BILL Order for committee read ; motion made, and question proposed, " That Mr . Speaker do now leave the chair : " —Amendment pro , to leave out from the word " That " to the en of the question, in order to add the words "this house deems it inexpedient to proceed further at the present moment with any bill touching the regulation of the p ‘ trics"—(Mr. Locke)—instaW thereof :—Question put, That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question :"—The house divided ; ayes, 133 ; noes, 88. AYE& Adderley, C. B. Greene, K. Mowbray, J. R. Baggiillay, R. Griffith, C. D. Naas. Lord Harlington, Visct. Gurney, R. Neville-OrtenUle, R. Barrow, W. H. Hamilton , Id. Claud N ew degate, C. N. Bathurst A. A. Bananas, Id. C. J. Nicholson, W. Beach, Sir M. Hamilton, Viact. Noel, 0..1. Beach, W. W. Hardy, O. North, Col. Bentinck. 0. C. Hartopp. L B. Northcote, Sir 8. Ben on, R. Harvey, R. B. ;r di t , , o l 4 ll. Biddulph, Col. R. Harvey, R. J. , Sir J. Bldduiph, M. Hay, Sir J. C. Parker, Major W. Bonham-Carter, J. Henley, J. W. Patten, Col. Brett, W. B. Herbert, Col. Paull, H. Bruce, Lord E. Heaketh, Mr T. 0. Powell, Y. S. Buller, Sir K. flnpte, Sir F. Lepton, G. W. Capper, C. HiMyard, T. B. Robertson P. F. Cave. S. Hoff, 11.-Col, Hassell, Sir C. Cavendish, Lord G. Hotham. Lord Schreiber, C. Cobbold, J. C Howes, E. Scharr- Booth, O. Cole, H. Hubbard, J. 0. Selwyn, C. J. Cole, J. L. Hunt, 0. W. Seymour, G. H. Cony, H. L Jervis, Major Smith, A. Cooper, Z. H. Jervolae. Sir J. Smith, J. A. Cowper, W. F. Kamlake, Si, J. Smillett, P. B. Cox, W. T. Karalake, E. K. Stanhope, J. B. Dick. F. Kendall, N. Stanley, Lord Dickson, Major Kennard, R. W. Stanley, P. Mondale R. Knightley, Mr 2. Eitoptord, S. 0. Disraeli, B. Knox, Cot. Stuart, Lieut-CoL Duran, C. Knox, CoL S. /Burley, Eilr 0. Dancombe, Col. Laird, J. Rumen, C F. Dunne, Gm. Langton, W. G. Serum, H. Z. Du Pre, C. G. Langan, C. Steroid, Si, J. Egertm, A. F. Leader, N. P. Treeby, .1. W. R. C. Legh, Major Turner, C. t er h t4m o, Lord Letroy, A. Walker, Major Pane, Col. Lennox, Lord O. Walpole, 8. 11. Fellowes, R. Lennox, Lord H. Walsh, A. Ferguson, Sir J. Lindsay. Col. Walsh, Sir J. Forester. Geu. Lopes, Sir M. Wise, H. C. Frealffield, C. K. M•Ulgan, P. Wyndham, P. o. ollt y lleoL , 0. Manners, Lord J. Moller, Cot. TILLIMS. Gore, .R. Montego, Lord R. Taylor, Col. Gra nt, A. Montgomery, Si, G. Whitmore, H. ravea, 8. 2. Morgan, 0. _ . NOM. Acland, T. D. Gametes, Bee t. Mills, J. It. Adam, W. P. Gilpin, C. Moffatt, G. Agar-hilia, L G. Gladstone, W. IL Monk, C. J. Mien, W. S. Gladstone, W. H. Neate, C. Amberley, Inset. Olyn, G. O'Beirne, J. L. Antrobus, X. Goldtraid, Sir F. Otway, A. J. Ayrton, A. 8. Goschen, G. J. Owen, Sir H. Aytoun, X. 8. Graham, W. Philips, X. N. Baines, X Gray, Sir I. Pim, J Bowyer, Sir 0. Grove, T. F. Polbud- . Urquhart,W Bright, J. Hadfield, G. Potter, E. Bruce, H. A. Monkey, T. Pritchard, J. Butter, C. 8. Harris, J. D. Pug i ai D. Candlish, J. llayter, A. D. R en, D. J. Cavendish, Lord F. Henley, Lord Seymour, A. Chambers, T. Holden, I. Sheridan, H. B. Childers, H. C. Hughes, T. Smith, J. Clay, J. Jackson, H. Y. Stansfeld, J. Cowen, I. Enstchbull- Rages- Sykes, Col. Cowper, H. F. soot, X. Taylor, P. A. Crawford, R. W. Labouchere, U. 114, W. Dering, Sir E. Lewd, A. H. Villiers, C. P. Dixon. O. Lwrencc, W. Weguelln, T. M. linneld, Vise. Leathern, W. H. Whalley. 0. 11. Erskine, Vice-Ad. Leeman, 0. White, J. Esanonde, J. Lefevre , 0. J. Wyld, J. EOM', B. Lewis, H. Young, R. Fawcett, H. Leak, A. Forster, C. M•laren, D. TILLM. Forster, W. E Maguire, J. F. Locke, J. Fortescue, D. F. VIII , J. S. Torrent, W. ICC. The further debate in the House of Lords on the motion for the second reading of Earl fihafteabury's Clerical Vestments Bill is fixed for Thursday next. . - On Thursday Lord Portman will present a petition to the House of Lords, from residents of the diocese of Salisbury, and will all attention thereto. Lord Stratford de Radcliffe intends on Monday next to move that an humble ►ddress be presented to her Majesty for each further correspondence between her Majesty's government and the governments in alliance with her Majesty as may have occurred since the date of the sth February in this year respecting the insurrection of Candia, the means employed for its pacification, and the assistance afforded to the insurgents either by the Greeks, the Greek government, or the natives or governments of say other countries. In committee on Parka Regulation (re-oom mitted) Bill, Sir Edward Bering will move the following clause, "That Victoria•park be omitted from the schedule, and that henceforward the public shall have full permis sion to hold meetings therein, as well as on Primroos•hill, without the intervention of any authority, so long as the proceedings are conducted in an orderly and peaceable manner." On going into committee of supply, Mr. Monaell will ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether her Majesty's government intend to propose any measure for the consolidation of the Irish railway system. On Thursday Mr. MOTISOII will ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he can state the names of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the revenues of the Irish Established Church ; and when he will lay upon the table of the house the instructions to be given to the commission. Mr. Hunt proposes to move Poet Office Packet Service, elan 4, Irish Education Vote, and Supplemectary Civil Service Estimate (in committee of supply) on Thurs day._ Major Anson, on Friday, will ask the Attorney- General "whether he indorses the opinion of his prede cessor with regard to the criminal prosecution of Mr. Eyre, published in the Times of July 29 ; and, whether, in consequence of that opinion, and taking into consideration the fact that more than one ineffectual attempt has been made by certain persons styling themselves the Jamaica Committee, to carry out the objects they have in view, the government will now undertake to defend Mr. Eyre against any further persecution." Mr. Gra;es has given notice of a motion, that cattle arriving from Spain and Portugal may be removed by rail from Liverpool to Manchester and Salford, under somewhat similar regulations to those in force ►t Harwich and Southampton for conveyance of foreign cattle to Loudon. - ; . ;ri . • - THE REFORM HILL AND THE ['ECUs. The resolution of Lord Halifax, pointing to no definite line of action, met last night with a defeat which the Times thinks was completely deserved. It is much to be regretted that at a later period of the evening the same prudence was not exhibited. Lord Cairns persuaded the lords to raise the qualification of the lodger franchise from 101. to 151. Lord Malmesbury, who had so strenuously deprecated any difference of opinion between the two houses on the question of redistribution, assented to the alteration as a compromise, because in the bill of 1859 a vote was offered to the tenant, not of unfurnished lodgings worth 101. a year, but of furnished lodgings worth 201. This decision, and the subsequent rejection of the clause reducing the copybold and leasehold property franchises in counties, exhibit such a spirit of elabo rate trifling with the subject of reform as to make the best friends of the lords apprehensive as to the wisdom of their future tre►tment of the bill. The Times, however, continues to urge the government to extend their redistribution scheme. The mischievous alte ration of the lodger franchise has damned its hopes, but it appeals to the calmer judgment of the government. Lord Halifax is conailered by the Daily Nam to be chargeable with the grave error in tactics of endeavouring to thrust upon opponents an abstract proposition of cen sure for the sake of giving effect to details which might possibly have been acquiesced in had the hostile gene ralities been kept out of sight. The eourse which he has pursued would have abolished, if it had been successful, whatever chance there may be of enlarging the mi nisterial scheme of redistribution. His lordship's speech, however, was one of the most practical and ju dicious which have been delivered in either house on the question of redistribution of seats, and Lord Malmesbury testified to the force of Lord Halifax's arguments by declining to reply to them. Hitherto the amendments which the peers have adopted have for their object torestrict and qualify the boon which the government profess to offer. By the substitution of the plural terns "poor rates" in the third clause for the singular phrase, " rate levied for the relief of the poor," a limitation, if we rightly understand a point which the discussion left some what obscure, is imposed on the household qualification in boroughs. The success of Lord Cairns's motion on the lodger franchise and on the votes of the young men in the colleges and halls of Oxford and Cambridge, and of Lord Harrowby in raising the copyhold qualification are vexa tious changes which show the reluctant spirit in which the lords yield to the disagreeable necessity of reform. The Post does not take the division on Lord Halifax's motion to be decisive on the points really at issue, as many may be inclined in committee to support definitive pro posals who would hesitate to endorse an abstract, and, as many deemed it, an embarrauling resolution. The argument of the Herald is th►t it is the object of the bill to give votes to the lower class, but not to give them supremacy by assigning a preponderance of members to those places in which the newly enfranchised class pre dominate. The Tele!map% thinks the Commons will scarcely tole rate the reactionary alterations which have been made in the bill through the instrumentality of Lord Cairns, and the Star denouncer the conduct of the government as a breach of faith and as wanton trifling with the serious in terests of the people. RATIMAT PINANCT.-PRE-PRETERENCL SHARES. Though the mere name of pmpreferenoe shares is simply abominable to many people, they appear to the Times the simplest and most straightforward, and, therefore, the most honest way of meeting such a difficulty as that into which the North British Railway has fallen. The relief must be in the form of shares, and the question before the committee on Saturday was whether the shares should be added to the uppermost stratum of the vast financial deposit or to the lowest. The company must be kept above ground, having subsided considerably. The proposition in behalf of which Mr. Gladstone bad been invited to speak was to add a top layer of pre-preference shares, which would probably get floated at a very mode rate fixed dividend. This is as simple an operation as filling up a hole. The counter-proposition was far from simple, and was equivalent to underpinning an edifice, and at tempting to lift it up with an immense effort of mechanical p ower . The plan actually adopted by the committee is in fact a fresh issue of debentures—just now not a welcome name to small and anxious capitalists. These debentures are of coarse preferential, and so far stop up the way be fore all the repositions me much as any preference steak scald do. With regard to the Railway Compass Bill the awly hope of the Standard for a mitigation of the mischief is in the characteristic care and caution of the Court of Chancery. It may be that that court will lay down con ditions too stringent for embarrassed railways to comply with, and that thus the act will become a dead letter—an event which moat people will devoutly desire. But if it is to be brought into use at all its effect on the already abnormally depressed market will be most disastrous. No shareholder of any clue will feel that he has any security for his money. Recklessness and fraud will go on more swimmingly than ever. Charges of all sorts will be heaped up, and liabilities of all kinds will be incurred, in confident hope that when the crash comes the pre-preference clause may be used to set the concern on its legs. The Telegraph points out that the Lords• committee have, in the case of the North British Railway, followed the practice for which Sir M. Pete and his partners have been denounced. Moved by an appeal from the counsel to the North British Company, the committee permitted a clause to be inserted, allowing the issue of debentures to the amount of 843,0001. on the security of 2,600,00 W. pre ference stock, which had been authorised but not raised. Now it may be in the recollection of the public that one of the specific charges against the firm of Peto, Betts, and Crampton, in connexion with the Chatham and Dover Railway, was the issue of debentures against stock which, though authorised, was but nominally subscribed. Here, however, we find a p►rliamentary committee sanctioning an issue when the stock had not been subscribed even nominally. SIR W. M.iNSFIELD AND CAPTAIN JZRVIS. The Twits analyses some of the most important of the papers on the above ease, which have just been printed for the use of the House of Commons. The most notable of them perhaps, is a despatch in which the Duke of Cam bridge enters into the question as to the expediency of this prosecution, and decides against the Indian commander- in-chief. He deplores that the first steps should have been of a nature so calculated to lead to opposition to authority, and to the necessity of bringing Captain Jervis to trial. " His royal highness," says the despatch, " cannot help thinking that had you, in the earliest stage of these proceedings, acted in a more conciliatory manner towards him—and, considering the long and per sonal intimacy of your relations with that officer, his royal highness is impressed with the conviction that your aide-de-camp had Is claim to such consideration at your hirrinuctiVfwhatjafterwards 'occurred might have been prevented, and a great and deplorable scandal averted." The Duke of Cambridge regrets that the com mander-in-chief should have.rallowed himself to be] in fluenced by the officers of his staff, in whose reasons for recommending a military trial he cannot concur. But the heaviest censure is reserved for Sir W. Mansfield's treat ment of the court-martial. Sir W. Mansfield not only endeavoured to procure the reversal of the court's judgment, but also upbraided the members with treating an officer as they would not have treated a corporal or a private. The public will regret, remarks the Tivms,that so able an officer as Sir W. Mansfield should by ill-con sidered conduct have drawn on himself so severe a mini mend ; but no one will doubt that it was most richly de served, and that the Duke of Cambridge deserves much credit for the ability with which he has performed a most painful public duty. THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE REFORM BILL-FRESH AMENDMENTS. Notice has been given of the following amend ments to be moved in committee on the above bill : Lord Lyveden— At the end of Clause 15 insert (" and every borough which bad a less population than 5,000 at the said census shall cease to return any member to serve in parliament.") Lord Sondes—" To omit Great Yarmouth from the boroughs to be disfranchised." Lord Harrowby—Page 3, line 24, add to paragraph 2, (" Provided always, that one-half of the occupation shall be in land not built upon.") The Marquis of Salisbury to move clauses to follow clause 27, permitting any voter for a county or borough to give his vote by a voting paper instead of personally, with a number of regulations for that purpose. The Earl of Shaftesbury will move in page 2, line 32, after the words (" hurt day of July") to add (" and shall not daring the same twelvemonths have received or ap. plied for parochial relief.") tire Court. OSBORNE, JULY 29. The Queen walked and drove in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse. ..... Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prince Louis of Hesse, went out also. Miss Bond, of Bouthees, has had the honour of attend• ing at Osborne, to colour photographic portraits of mem bers of the royal family. The Prince and Princess Lsiningen visited the Prince and Princess of Wales yesterday at Marlborough-house. The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lords in the afternoon. A committee of the Lordsof her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council s►t yesterday at the Privy Council aloe, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were Lord Robert Montagu and the Right Hon. Z. Hammond. The Duke of Buccleuch, LG., accompanied by a depu- tation from the Royal Rank of Scotland, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Doerninratreet, on Saturday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Islands, New Zealand, Gibraltar, and Heligoland. We aro informed that the Hon. H. G. Elliot t now Minister at Turin, is appointed to succeed Lord Lyons as Ambassador at Constantinople. The Duchess of Buccleuch had an assembly last evening at Montagu House, Whitehall, which was fashion ably attended. The Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cam bridge, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mockler'. burgh-Btrelier, and Princess Mary of Teck, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Teck, honoured the Duchess of Inverness with their presence at dinner last evening at Kensington Palace. The following company were present: —Baron de Ceti*, Maria Marchioness of Aileabury, General the Right Hon. J. and Lady Alice Peel, Lady Elizabeth Adeane, M. de Sabouroff, Mrs. Villiers, Mr. Peel, Dr. Quin ; and Baron Luhe and Baron Both in at tendance on the royal party. In consequence of the news of the destruction by Ere of Basseterre, the principal town of the island of St. Kitt's, by which 5,000 people have been rendered homeless, a relief committee has been formed with the hope of being able to send out subscriptions by the mail of the let of August. Mr. Benjamin Greene, jun., of the firm of Blyth and Greene, will act as ►onorary secretary. THE Sizos or Marco.—The advises from the city of Mexico yesterday are the first that have been re ceived since the termination of the siege, which took place on the 20th ult., after haring lasted 69 days. They reach to the 27th ult., and happily the surrender had thus far I not been followed by any executions or atrocities ; indeed, the chief danger to the inhabitants had been from the ferocity of Marquez, who had held the city for the im• perialists, and whose appointment by Maximilian greatly exasperated the people against the latter. For some time the population bad existed on horseflesh, and just before the close of the siege as much as 3/. sterling had been paid for a loaf of bread. Large numbers of the poorer classes had consequently died of hunger. Yet, in the midst of all the suffering and peril, it is said the fashionable pro menade in the Alameda was thronged each evening, " the Austrian band playing operatic airs to the accompaniment of the booming of the cannon on every side." All parties seem to have regretted that Marquez bad contrived to make his escape. During the last few days of his com mand be caused the principal merchants to be arrested and confined without food until they agreed to pay what he considered a sufficient ransom. A Mr. Benezke in this way was made to pay 1,2001., Mr. Felix Cuevas 1,6001., Mr. blendizabel, the Director of the Mint, and Mr. Miguel Lizardi, both American citizens, 1,200/. each, and nu -1111110112 other parties sums varying from 2001. to 3,000/. Finally, the soldiers were allowed almost indiscriminate plunder. As Marquez was supposed to be still hidden in the city, hopes were entert►ined that he might yet be taken and brought to account. LATnyr UdaZIORTOR. (noTides TgLiGIUMB.) ITALY. FLORENCE, JULY 30. In the Senate last night, Signor Campello, in reply to Signor Chieri, said that the property of the ex-Duke of Modena would not be restored to him unless he returned all the state property taken away by him in IMO. Signor Rattarsi, in reply to Signor Farina, declared that the government would strictly keep the engagements entered into with the creditors of the state. No conversion or reduction of the Italian Rente would ever take place. The Senate approved of the budget of the Ministers of Finance, Justice, Foreign Affairs, and Public Instruction. In the Chamber of Deputies the report of the commission of inquiry into the condition of the town and province of Palermo was discussed, and the four bills proposed by the commission were adopted. ROME. ROME, Jemr 30. The Jourital de Rome contradicts the statements published in the Italian journals that 210 persons had been arrested in Rome. The report was to tally unfounded, as no political arrests had taken place. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Jruc 29. An imperial ukase has just been issued altering the military and civil administration in the Rus sian provinces bordering China and Central Asia, bringing them under the same general government established for the lately erected provinces of Tur kestan,and giving them the same organisation as a military district. The military and civil administra tion is declared indivisible, and the domestic go vernment is to be administered by natives chosen from among the people. Adjutant-General Kauf mann has been appointed Governor-General of Turkestan. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. GALLE, JULY 19. The Emeu, from China, arrived on the 16th inst., and the Geelong from Australia to-day. The Candia leaves for Suez to-day. OUTWARD MAIL OF THE 26rn-287% APRIL. The Avoca reached Melbourne on the 11th and Sydney on the 13th June. OUTWARD NAIL OF THE 4TH-10m JUNE. The Surat arrived at Galle ou the 3d July. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE HANSA. SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 30. The North German Lloyd's steamer Am', from New York, passed the Needles at 10.45 a.m to-day. (HT ATLANTIC TILICRAPTI.) NEW YORK, Jut 29, 6 P.M. The Inman steamer City of Boston, the North German Lloyd's steamer Bremen, and the Hamburg and American Company's steamer Borussia arrived out to-day. Closing prices :—Gold, 140}. Sterling exch►nge on London and 5-20 United States Bonds (*)— ; Illi nois, 1184 ; Erie, 76. Cotton : Middling upland, 274. PHILADELPHIA, JOLT 29. Petroleum refined, 32i. [Arrived in London at 1.15 p.m., July 30.1 • Unclear, s figure being omitted in transmission it may be :—Sterling Exchange on London, 110 ; 5-20 United Stater Bonds, 1114. ItElf ARIES. N.N.W. N. 14.1 V. N.W. W.N.W. N.N.Y. N. N.N.W. NA, The praser* et the stmospl;t7e, which hes decreased since yesterday. I. now decreasing weer the British Isles. Weather still continues cloudy, with winds which hare backed to the south-west In Ireland, violable and Ilea, Iwousi CIVIL Sicavica.—The civil servioe com missioners have determined not to award the prize of 1001. offered for prolicieney in law in the special examination of the selected candidates of 1865. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nos ous ows CORRZSPONDIONT.) PARIS, MONDAY Rvirapia. The article in the Mouifeur is described by the evening papers as particularly clear and precise, but they doubt generally whether it will have the effect of reassuring the public mind. " The government seems to think," says the Gazette de France, " that the prevalent uneasiness is attributable mainly to false reports, circulated by interested newsmongers. This is a mistake. The public would not be alarmed if it did not see in the ensemble of the situation serious grounds for anxiety." Several other papers speak in similar terms. It is impossible to get over this— that if France is on such friendly terms with her neighbours as the Moniteur asserts, there can be no occasion to go on with the Army Reorganisation Bill, which proposes to raise a standing army of 1,200,000 men. There is already semi-official confirmation of the fact I suggested on Saturday as probable, that the specific denial of a "note" having been lately sent to Prussia on the Schleswig question was based upon an equivocation on the word "note" as distinguished from a despatch. The Patric ad mits to-night that "it is quite true" that M. de Thil, who represents M. de Bismarck in his absence, did receive the representatives of " France and Russia a few days ago," and that at one these interviews M. Lefovre Behaino, the French charge d'affaires in the absence of M. Benedetti, did " inform M. de Thil of the precise views of his government on its becoming aware of the terms of Denmark's last answer." This clearly alludes to the " reading of a part of a despatch of which no copy was left," reasserted by the German journals in terms which render any further denial hopeless. The Bourse was favourably affected by the pacific assurances of the Mouiteur, but the rise was by no means commensurate with their importance if they could be considered reliable. Rente rose 20c. for cash, and 22ie. for account, closing at 68fr. 8.5 c. in each case. Italian rose 27}c. ; Mobilier, 2fr. 50c. ; CreditFoncier, 3fr. 750. ; and Comptoir d'Escompte, Ur. 50c. There was very little animation. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TOM." JCii 30. 8 8.11. W. 1 -- Nairn Abardoes 29.960 N.& lank Airdionau 2 661 W. 026686.616 .1866 W.B. W. Yabotb .6666' B.W. Cap* 08 18 W. if= rentance 16.16 67 Z. Brest *0.1661 N.N.Z. Lorient 20.066! N. Bache( ort 70.6666 N. Z. Plymouth * -14 56 N. Weymouth I — Portsmouth 80.68 56 N. London '70.0666 N.N.W. Yarmouth 20.00 62 N. W. !Scarborough 30.02 55 N.N.W. 17 5h16116 10.0656 N. WIZ CRETAN CoNFLICT. eve4lArgening, toanhe.rd I.aiselreonafbrolemamudr.iejn.ceE.,Hinilaycludingsk:, tLshiindeeor:aeo:grs7:ri2nh:caoknlingpotalitifcoGrereentananksdoo, p : eic e inliaric t t in and W ties il the rs o 's f p ßoce eitire:awm4; a d b it o i wing on of Cre te. T he Th wu e lecturer eapile co of mm be e . r . : 6 l byondeserie of thic4l the richest islands in the world, were it properly governed and scientifically cultivated. Unhappily, however, with all li e beautiful scenery and natural gifts, there was at p resent very little civilisation, and what little there was a y ou ago bad been almost entirely obliterated in the course of the present struggle. The history of the island was next glanced at from the Roman conqueet and the Venetian colonisation down to the middle of the seventeenth century, when the island was conquered by the Turks. From that period the pop e . Lotion had rapidly decreased, so that from a million they soon dwindled to one-fourth that number. Coming tom e present conflict, the lecturer wished it to be unit rsto o d that the statements made by some that the movement we, entirely • foreign one were not correct. To no appreciable extent, although a few Greeks sympathising with the struggle went over as volunteers, was the movement* Greek one. It bad begun among the Cretans themselves, and few among them were so well educated es to think of nationality ; all they knew was that they were fighting for personal deliverance from Turkish rule. He O l i n . self, in his recent visit, was smuggled im e Crete in a blockade runner that bad gained some little fame—the Arkadi. (Cheers-) The Cretan Inn) now m gallantly fighting for deliverance from the Turk was sot what the term "army" usually implied; it was composed of patriotic men willing to fight for their freedom, and ready to sacrifice their lives and their all in a holy cause, and it presented the spectacle of a oolis e ri ec of little bands of volunteers—suffering patriots-- (cheers)—marobing over the mountains from one valley to another, fighting always in inferior numbers, but with dauntless energy, against the organised forces of the Pasha, There Wall something very striking in the pintas of these bands of ragged men, living upon a few scraps of rye bread or biscuits brought to them by the blockade runners, and contending with noble enthusiasm for the freedc , of their island. The false reports that reached this country from time to time were not necessarily inlet tionally so, because the nature of the conflict rendered it difficult to obtain full information of any particuhr event. At the same time it could not be denied that the Turks were the greatest adepts at invention. (Cheers.) The atrocities that had been committed by the Tubu le horribly cruel, but the charges that had been made against the Cretans of a similar character generally meant nothing more than • stern and almost necessary treatment of the enemy. They bad in fact not the oppo r . tunity of perpetrating the worst outrages of which the Turks were guilty, for their opponents had no women or children exposed to danger,wbile the Cretan villages wets subject to be captured, and their inhabitants submitted to every horror by the Turkish soldiery. The lecturer drew • vivid sketch of the nude life and simple habits of the Cretans, and of the chief incident., of the straggle now going on between Christians and Musul mano in the island—apassing reference to the rescue of the 500 women, children, and aged and wounded men by au English gunboat being received with loud cheers. Equally anthwrisatic was the audience when the lecturer said that, although the Christian powers of Europe had beet* " prudent" to allow their vessels of war to take away free the southern coots the hundreds of poor people who had long been waiting for the approach of a friendly ship, the little Greek blockade runners bad left the island mon than once almost sinking with freights of refugees. Some 10,000 persons who were incapable of resistance had already escaped, but in a very little while, unless chaii table aid were forthcoming, they would be compelled to suffer every kind of hardship. He did not intend to inflict a collection upon his hearers, or to send the plate round, but he intended to place • hat a box at the door to receive any mite which ladies and gentlemen might he inclined to give I* e exaggerated) he felt convinced the Cretans would cocain*, the the re ix e m en r t Cretan unfavourable refugees. nfavonrable intelligence( C he e rs . ) Efwvehinchinhetbknefiaraurai the struggle, although the warfare must necessarily be of • guerilla nature, where regular strategy could not be fob lowed, or set principles in the art of war be acted nem. Many persons, not understanding all these things., had visited Crete, and coming away had made an evil report of the people. His own experience was that the Cretan, although rough and ragged, were earnest patriots, suffer. lug much and fighting bravely for their independence. (Cheers.) He had seen the villagers at the alarm, "The Turks are at hand," leave their ordinary occupations, throw down the implements in the field or the tools in the house, snatch the rifle from the shelf, and fix the long knife in the girdle, and hasten out to meet the foe as if it were their every-day business, as in. deed it was. He had seen old men tottering on their crutch to the fray, and lads so young joining in the movement that they were compelled to rest their rifles on a rock ; and he had seen them returning, to languish from wounds which under other circumstances might be cured, but which with the insufficient medical aid from which the Cretans suffered often proved fatal. In conclusion, Mr. Skinner said all that be bad seen during his sojourn is Crete convinced him that the Christian islanders wore is earnest, rind that no man who went amongst them arid as their sufferings and devotion to this cause in which dui were engaged could failto sympathise with them, whatever he previously might have beard. The Turkish erten of warfare was of the most barbarous kind, alma; a■ it dill at the total destruction of the Christian popuir tion, and un►ble to defeat them or break their patriot spirit, it sought to weaken them by desolating 6.: island. The Turks would make a desert, and cdl it peat (Cheers.) On the motion of Alderman Corms, who hoped tht diplomacy would soon begin its work and interfere a behalf of the deserving Cretans, a cordial vote of shuts was awarded to the lecturer. The leettner's appeal for funds in aid of the Crew refugees was liberally responded to. DEATH or MR. MACAFLAT, Q.C. LA TE M.P. rot CAMBRIDGE—The death of this gentleman took plo at his residence, Shaftesbury-road, Ltrooklands,Camteldta about eight o'clock yesterday morning. A BENEFIT "AT MANCHESTER. —The drawat:: performance which was given at the Theatre Koval, )lu' chaster, last night, by the authors and artists s.c• posing the staff of Punch, for the horst at the widow and children of the late Mr. C. IL Bennett, was, we are happy to learn from its local Examiner, a magnificent success in all mope' Mr. Tom Taylor's drama, A Skep in Wars ChsAis'• is* traduced nearly all the actors who took part in thee''' . lag's performance. " Mr. Mark Lemon (says our wean. ), bluff and lusty in the character of Colonel Pert?M ar Z, was moat heartily greeted for the sake of hisownehas meter as the editor of Punch, as one of our nest probbe dramatists, and as an old frietd„ even as on soo ner actor. As Colonel Kirke, however, be by " means so dreadful and ferocious as Miss Anne Cur' seemed to think him. Mr. Lemon tried to be as savage as Jeffr, but only succeeded in being as unctuous as F alstaff, and, as everibmil gone to the theatre more to see what Mr. Moak Leta, was like than to make acquaintance with Kirk , of Kirke s r Lambs, everybody was doubtless very well satisfied. Er. Tom Taylor took the part of Mester Jasper Carew, of which he acquitted himself with perfect as:1(.110W though he failed to hit the pathos of t) . while, Mr. Burnand really acted the lion ratter of Kester Chedzoy, and made it one of features in the performance. The honour , ing, however, so far as reception by the an& fell to the lot of Mr. John Tennich who had v. do as Colonel Lord Churchill, but whose el the stage was immediately seized upon as tunity for the audience to show its appn, one of the greatest of living arti'ts. Mr. thi appeared as John Zoyland, the locksleith, and part admirably. With the Anne Carew of Miss Manchester audience has already been mallets , repetition of the performance last night was a c 1 beginning to end. The strength and gentleness of ter and the light and shadow of the part were ble a delicacy and a power upon which it is lint imagine an improvement, and the actress , nil anguish to assumed gaiety, and from the deep to counterfeited harshness, not only with an late was something wonderful in itself, but with a rc that nothing short of the highest drama* gel command. Sybil was prettily played by Mini Terry, Keziah Mapletoft by )fir Ellen Tel Carew by Mir Sara Lewis and Mr. Borer , Mr. Henry Silver, and Mr. It. T. filled minor Darts in the drama. /zx Do's , A Offenbach, which followed, and was played i afforded Mr. Du Maurier an opportunity of it displaying his versatility, and introduced Mr. who also spoke French as if be had been born whose acting and singing were both full of character. 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