The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-23 00:00:00

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DRITEY LLNE. THIS Encomia. THAT RASCAL JACK. Messrs. Rome and )Tevllts; Mesdames Alleyne and Thompson—To conclude with THE GREA CI Hews. Warner, Horton, Eltajantes, Rouse, Irving, Qs. ; Stesilamos Roliertsou, Le 'Mere, and Thompson. HAYMARKET. nits Eva:unto, DE4l , ,\SKilliFf. Menem Campion and ?wren, We. Dec eltzwllllaeo, dc.—A WILD GOOSE leseare. Bother., Huckstone, Howe, Konen, Gorda*. Ac. ; Mesdames Sesta, Chippendale, IIW, Laws, *a —And FAMILY JAILS. rsnressn Tins Evunte, ANTONY AIiTuIiFOPATRA. Antnny. Mr. H. Ursine; Enulptrhus, Mr. V. Verner; CbarmMn. Mies Page; and I:Meopatra, Miss Glyn. LYCEI7II. TED ET/WIVE BAN 11154 - 41715 l Mr. Prim sad Mlle Kale laabop. —7116 DUK ICA 110110. Mr. Vedder, Mews. awry, Widdicomb. Jordan. Prix. de. Maws 10awartay, Ilea. rad% Grattan, aad Carlotta Leelareq. aIItAND. Entiisn. WAITINOiTL THE N DRIAGROUND. —THE LITTLII SAY AGM -PYGMALION; OIL THE STATUE PAUL Marra Th.nme. Imes, Re. ; Madame' Swan RaTnnaln. Earlaad,Juhastune, Holt.—And THY FBANCH HOLBORN. Sn Eirsarao, MY TUBN Nal?. Mr. Robson Moan Paola and Lennox —And FLYING SCUD. Mews. Neville, Bel lmore, Blake, YoUalre, etc. , Madame F. Josephs, C. elaunden, Dade loots. M4das, Lamm; Raymond. no. lIN7VfNLL THrI Enema, TIM 70.1 M Nut •K OE IRELAND. Mrs. E. Igor.—THE Vs )1.12 N I KERR Mr. lilewowl and mho R. r.dvrin. And TON OLD MAID IN TILL WINDING-BNIXL Maas S. Mlles &J. Coveur. HIGH WATKR AT LONDON MUDGE 'lam DAT —Morale& et. an.. —AI Wawa, lb. ft s. 1011ossow—licurnlag, 61i. Tint— --Afterscas, lb. 40ma. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 23. THE Bishop of Bausstrav's Charge, being long enough without the appendix to fill twenty columns of the Guardian, is not likely to be printed in any daily newspaper, for the Church of England has no HENRY Cora. If we are to give an ac count of it, we must say that it is an exceedingly able paper. It has neither the epigrammatic point of Bishop Tinatwau., nor the mellifluous ambiguity of Bishop WILBERFORCE'S charges, but it is grave, thoughtful, and distinct in its treat ment of some of the most agitated Church ques tions of the day. It has been asserted that its meaning is obscure. No asser tion could be more unjust. There are some persons who only recognise clearness in absolute propositions, and who are ready to complain of darkness as soon as statements are clothed with their needful qualifications ; and to this class the charge may well seem obscure. The document opens with some personal references, marked by much tenderness, to those of the clergy of the diocese who have died since the last visita tion, and then, after some minor matters have been alluded to, the Bishop discusses the disputed ecclesiastical questions which are attracting so much attention to his opinions. The propositions laid down as to the Real Presence and Absolution are extreme, but they are stated in a charitable temper, and in the softest of tones. The doctrines which the Bishop considers himself bound to de clare plainly, are thus stated: (1.) That certain men have had entrusted to them by God, "as fellow-workers with Him," some supernatural powers and prerogatives. (2.) That, forexample, God has been pleased to give to them, as His ministers, the power of so blessing oblations of bread and wine as to make them the channels of con. veying to the soul, for its strengthening and refreshing, the Body and Blood of Christ. (3.) That as Christ, our ascended Lord, is now ever pleading His one sacrifice, so these ministers of Christ, as His representatives, plead on earth that which He pleads in heaven. (4.) That God, who alone can forgive sins, has dele gated to these same, His ministers, the power and autho rity of ministering to those fitted to receive it the pardon of their sins. These theses receive ample illustration as the charge proceeds. Thus, of the second, the Bishop says that the priest, as the representative of Coeur, and putting forth some of His delegated powers, blesses the oblation of bread and wine, through which blessing it becomes a sacrament, "and so has "an outward and an inward part." The outward part remains what it was before, except that it has become a veil and channel of an ineffable mystery ; " the inward part is that which our " LORD took from the Blessed Virgin, which he " offered to Got as an atoning sacrifice on the " Cross ; it is His precious Body and Blood, and so, " by virtue of the hypostatic union, CHRIST Himself." This oblation is to be offered as a sacrifice ; it is the LORD'S command, for the original words of which " Do this " is the translation, mean in Alexandrine Greek "Sacrifice this." Care is taken to state that this is not a mere change to faith, a presence, " in the heart, not in the hand," as the Christian Year long had it, but an outward presence. " Our Church witnesses that through " consecration the Body and Blood of Omar be " come really present, and by this I mean ' pre " sent ir;thout us,' and not only 'in the soul of "'the faithful receiver;' or to use words very " familiar to you, my rev. brethren, the Body and " Blood of CHRIST are present objectively and " not subjectively only." These are probably the passages which startled the Rector of Burton Bradstock from his seat, and united the five-and-forty church wardens at Bridport in a protest against the charge. They are indeed, as the churchwardens observe, at variance with the doctrines of the Reformation period ; but they are such as are taught in hundreds of our churches, and they are none the worse for being proclaimed by a Bishop. That acute observers of the signs of the times should think the hour come for declaring them in the high places of the Church of England is a remarkable fact, and of course the doctrines themselves are very important. The Bishop of Ramisscar ought, however, to have credit for his open and straightforward mode of proceeding. He might, we believe, have chosen a more effectual way of promoting sacerdotal;sni than by thus stating its theory and in sisting on its evidences. If we could con ceive a prelate gifted with great eloquence, vigi lant, and of great capacity for labour, ready at any moment to bear his part in ostentation, but studiously harmless, demonstrations against Ritualism,while carefully fostering the ultra-sacra mental party by the exercise of his influence and patronage, we should expect to find in the diocese of such a bisln , p—although his voice might be occasionally heard in Parliament against Roman izing practices—a greater awl more rapid develop ment of sacerdotalism than can be found in the diocese of Salisbury, where, we believe, all chases of the clergy are sure of tolerably fair play. The Bishop of SALISBURY is not the prelate from whom the Protestantism of England has most to him THE American Fenian M'Aertery propounded to the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland on Monday a doctrine not often roundly expressed anywhere, and least of all in courts of justice, but which we suspect is received as a matter of course by the class of adventurers to which he belongs. Being asked why sentence of death should not be passed on him, M'Arrmerr said, " I grant that there " has been a cloud of circumstantial evidence to " allow my connexion with the Irish people in " their attempt for Irish independence, and I " claim that, as an American and as an alien, I " have a right to sympathise with the Irish people, " or with any other people who may please to re " volt against that form of government by which " they believe they are tyrannically treated." If this were no more than a statement of the grounds on which the prisoner justified to his own conscience his participation in an attempt to overthrow the existing govern ment of Ireland a presentation of the reflections which sustained and corn.rolled him under misfortune—it would be above criticism. It takes, however, the form of a quasi-legal defence, especially as the prisoner proceeds to argue : " England sympathised with America. She not " only sympathised with her, but gave support to " both parties. Who ever heard of Englishmen " being arrested by the United States Govern " went for taking up arms on behalf of the Con " federation of the Southern States, or their being " placed upon trial on a charge of high treason " against the Government f No such case ever " appeared." This defence well illustrates the looseness of opinion engendered by the American civil war. M'ArrEary is an ex-Confederate officer, and as such knew that our country men were found fighting on both sides. But no one has over pretended that those who tough'. for the North owned allegiance to Mr. DAVIS'S government while the Confederates early displayed sufficient military force to extort the practical concession of belligerent rights. As Englishmen, we should no doubt expect the United States Government to treat any of our countrymen implicated in the Southern rebellion as well as the native Southern prisoners were treated. M'Arreen, however, seems to ask for more. The Irish Fenian% who have hitherto been convicted have not professed to thinic it extra ordinary that they should be tried for high treason, and their American sympathisers must be held to have cast in their lot w , th them. WAFFERTY has had fair warning. He was tried last year, and then experienced British clemency ; but he and such as he cannot be allowed to trifle with the peace of this country. The execu tive government, it may be hoped and expected, will spare his life, since no purpose could be answered by an execution which would not be equally served by a commutation of his sentence to penal servitude ; but he ought to suffer some real punishment for this second attempt against a country that has done him no harm. OUR CONTEMPORAREBE. (THIS DAY.) THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1867. THE PROOREM OF TM! REFORM MI. The Times thinks it is not too sanguine in hoping that the tones of the county franchise may be settled by the let of June, or even before. The committee might thus arrive on an early day at the redistribution clauses, which form, in truth, the only part of the bill now presenting any very serious difficulty. The amendments proposed with reference to these clauses are many, and the debates they must occasion will inevitably be spirited, and not improbably prolonged ; but the Times trusts that the ministry will not enter tain the insidious suggestion to postpone to another year the consideration of these clauses alto gether. Few things can be conceived mora demoralising to parliament or to the country than that a half measure should become law to-day, with the prospect of a second half next year or the year after. The Proposal, for altering the government scheme which are of the greatest practical importance turn upon the method of conferring additional representatives upon populous counties and towns. The news is in favour of adding to the re presentation of populous counties and boroughs rather than subdividing them. Meanwhile it is incumbent on the administration to "massacre the innocents" at once. When the ground has thus been cleared, the Reform Bill should receive undivided attention. The Times and Daily News both address themselves to day to the arguments against reform which have been advanced by Mr. Lowe. The consideration which Mr. Lowe puts forward of the evils in our existing system, the Times tarns against him as extinguishing his position— that there I. no case for reform at all. Too much has been said about classes in the whole of this controversy. The plain truth of the matter is that all the private relations of the working man will be engrafted into our political sys tem. He will vote with his muter, hie employer, his preacher, his society, and possibly sometimes commit the unpardonable crime of voting as his landlord asks him to vote. The reference of Mr. Lowe to American political parties is asserted by the Doily New to be no happier than his prophecies about our own political future. The various parties in United States politics whose names Mr. Lowe called over as illuitratine popular fickleness by their tem porary life and their entire extinction, have only become extinct because the controversies out of which they rose have been settled. It is the vice and weakness of anti-popular government that controver sies are not settled and th►t grievances are not removed. But to Mr. Lowe, the whole anti-slavery struggle, and other American political discussions, affecting the welfare of millions of white and coloure‘ people, are a mere battle of shams. His clever vaticie . .ns will remain on record not onl► as a proof of the visionary apprehensions and vain fears which characterised the " party of resist ance" in the days before reform, but of their contented ignorance even of contemporary history, and their inability even to perceive the facts which political progress exhibited underneath their immediate observation. The Herald says it is easy for Mr. Lowe to entertain the House of Commons with an eloquent harangue on the dangers of democracy and the unwisdom of opening the floodgates, but no one save him will deny that if the go vernment had declined to attempt to legislate upon the question they would deservedly have been ejected from office. The Herold then continues to argue that the con. servatives opposed the government bill of last year, not because it went too far, but because it did not go far enough. The Scotch Reform Bill, as sketched by Mr. Disraeli, should be, the Daily News says, to English liberals at once an encouragement and a warning. It shows us what we may hope to obtain ; it also shows us what we have to fear. The burgh franchise is fixed very much as we would have it fixed among ourselves; the county franchise is leas satisfactorily dealt with. By giving the majority cf the new members to the counties, and by taking all the small towns out of the counties and g ouping them for the pur pose of borough representation, the conservative leader secures that of the seven new members two wall be liberals and five conservatives. The scheme is utterly unconstitutional, as it throws to she wind' the principle of our county franchise, namely, the representation of property wherever situated and by whomsoever permed. The liberal party must bestir itself, or the system will be applied to Haglund. The Tskproph strongly opposes the county portion o' the Septa Reform Bill, every clause of which it declares has been framed for the express purpose of increasing the power of toryism. But Mr. Disraeli's concessions have hitherto been graceful, and he will doubtless seize this new chance of displaying his statesmanship by erasing the tory features of the scheme, and making it national in fact as well aa in name. The Star takes a similar view, observing that English re formers may learn from this exhibition of the cloven hoof what Is intended here. The extension of the borough franchise principle to Scotland Pealed the fate of the com pound householder. It may be that the unveiling in Scot land of the Disreelian principle of manipulating counties may, by awakening vigilance, lead to • real triumph of reform in the matter of redistribution of nets. Witt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE. MAT =. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Prince and Princess Christian visited the Queen at Windsor Castle. Princess Beatrice rode in the Home-park, and Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Legg, went out walking. The Queen held a council to-day at a quarter before three o'clock, ►t which were present the Duke of Marl borough, the Duke Buckingham, and Earl Cadogan. The Duke of Marlborough and the Duke of Buckingham had audiences of the Queen. Mr. Helps was clerk of the council. Viscount Torrington and Colonel Hon. C. Lindsay, the lord and groom in waiting, were in attendance. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Colonel Hon. C. Lindsay, went to London last evening, and honoured the performance at the Royal Italian Opera with her prasence. Her royal highness afterwards returned to Windsor Castle. The Hon. Mrs. Wellesley had the honour of accompanying her royal highness. The Queen, with Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, left the Castle at a quarter before 7 o'clock this evening for Balmoral. The suite in attendance con sisted of the Dowager Duchess of Athol°, the Hon. Mrs. Alexander Gordon, Lieut.-General Hon. C. Grey, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Dr. Joiner, Mr. Legg, and Mr. SAIL The Prince and Princess Christian and the infant prince, attended by Lady Susan Melville, left Frogmare-house and met the Queen at the railway station in Windsor, and left with her Majesty for Scotland. Mr. Engleheart attended their royal highnesses to the railway station. Countess Blucher left the Castle this morning. The infant Prince Christian Victor was carried yester day at the ceremony of baptism by Mrs. Johnstone, the monthly nuns, and was also attended by the bead nurse, Mrs. Moffatt. The, robe, mantle, and cap worn by the prince on the occasion were of rich Irish lace over white satin, the gift of the Queen. Mr. Jabes Hughes, of Ryde, bad the honour of photo graphing the Queen, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, before her Majesty left Osborne. At the council held yesterday by the Queen at Windsor Castle, a proclamation was ordered to be issued relating to to the Canadi.n Confederation. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Pskington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Rich mond, Lord J. Manners, Lord Naas, and the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Meet Ho nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were the Duke of Richmond and Lord Robert Montagu. Sir George Bowyer, Bart., M.P., Mr. Casolani, of Malta, and Mr. Fawcett, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday respecting the water supply for Malta. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Malta. The Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Secretary of State for the Home Department, will give a banquet at his resi dence, No. 12, Grosvenor-crescent, on Saturday, to cele brate her Majesty's birthday. His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Tuesday, the 28th inst. The next dinner of the Cobden Club has been fixed for Wednesday the 3rd of July, at the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond ; Earl Russell will take the chair on the occasion. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh dined with Lord Henry G. Lennox on Tuesday evening, at his lordship's official residence at the Admiralty, White hall. There were present the Duke d'Aumale, Maria Marchioness of Aileabury, the Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, the Countess of Westmorland, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, the Bishop of Oxford, the Right Hon. the Chanoellor of the Exchequer, and Lady Susan Vane Tempest. Later in the evening a select party assembled, including the Duke of Leuchten berg, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Prince de Teets, Ac. The Duke of Edinburgh will leave Clarence House, St. James's, to-day for Paris, on his way to Mar seilles, where he will embark on board the Galatea for hie cruise round the world. The duke is expected to be absent for about two years. In the firs% instance his royal high ness will visit Bombay and the chief ports of our Indian possessions, and then Pegs; after visiting Chins and Japan he will go to Australia, and probably visit America on his return home to England. The spring general meeting of the National Rifle Association will be held at Willis's Rooms on Thursday, the 30th inst., at half-past 2 o'clock ; Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge in the chair. The festival of the choirs of St. Cross, near Winchester, took place in the church of that famous hos pit►l on Tuesday. The choirs present were from Hurley, Old Alresford, Upham, Bishopetoke, Ouslebury, Fairoak, Morestead, Batley, St. Cross, Chilton, Candover, Crawley, Twy ford, Ampfield, Headbourn, Worthy, Easton, Itchen Stoke, St. Maurice, Ovington, St. Thomas, St. Peter Cheesehill, St. Bartholomew Hyde, Winnall, and the Tnining College; and numbering 350 persona. The Bishop of Winchester and • large number of clergymen attended the festival. The clergy and choirs dined in the Hundred Men's Hall and cloisters of the hospital. The bishop presided at the chief table. M. Archer, the French qtrteier de pai.c who accom panied the Prince of Wales in his frequent visits to the Exhibition, and prevented his royal highness from being et any time inconveniently approached by the crowd, has been presented by the Prince with a very handsome gold pin, having the Prince's arms beautifully set in diamonds. The bill for continuing the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland comes on for a second reading to-night, and will probably lead to a long debate. The Irish members, it is said, intend to reive discussion on the whole course of legislation adopted towards that pert of the empire. The shareholders of the London General Omni bus Company have been invited to to-operate with the directors in checking the dishonesty of their servants. The plan proposed is that the conductor on receiving the fares shall register the number in a " way bill" placed in the omnibus against the price of the said fare or fares, which are thereon stated. The shareholders making use of the company's omnibuses are asked to see that the conductors comply with this regulation, and in ease of their neglecting to do so, to inform the directors of the same. The plan is expected to inerense the return. of the company, and is already in operation on one line of route. The opening of the New York state canals for the season has taken place. According to the Pittsburgh Commercial a scheme for uniting the lakes has been brought forward by some parties who have offered to undertake the building of the ship canal connecting the lakes with the St. I*wrenoe :—" It will extend across Canadian territory from Lake Huron to Lake Ontario, and will cost an enormous sum of money ; but the advantages to be derive' therefrom, and the immense amount of freight that will seek t'sst channel of conveyance, will render I , one of the most profitable undertakings ever at tempted in America." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) VISIT OF THE SOVEREIGNS TO PARIS. PAM, MAT M. It is asserted that the adjournment of the departure of the King of Prussia for Paris is owing to the wish expressed by the Emperor Napoleon that this visit should take place simul taneously with that of the Emperor of Austria, who cannot come to Paris until after his corona tion as King of Hungary. THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. PARIS, MAY 23. The Prince Imperial, who is rapidly recovering from his late illness, came to the Tuileries from St. Cloud yesterday afternoon. ITALY. FLORENCE, MAY 22. To-day in the Chamber of Deputies the Minister of Finance, replying to a question of Deputy Fenzi, declared that the government never had any thought of converting the public rente. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, MAY 23. The Grand Duke Constantine, the Czarewitch, and the Grand Duchess Marie Feodorowna have taken up their residence in the royal castle at Ama lienburg. The imperial guests appeared upon the balcony of the castle yesterday evening, and were enthusiastically cheered by the assembled crowd. The Russian squadron escorting the illustrious visitors consists of seven vessels of war. Tho King of the Greeks is expected this evening with another squadron. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MALTA. MAY 22. The Ripon and Nyanza left at 7 p.m. to-day. Tho former may be expected at Marseilles on the loth, and the latter at Southampton on the 31st inst. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL OF 12TH TO 18TH MAY. MALTA, MAT 22. The Euxine, from Southampton on the 12th inst., arrived to-day at 4 p.m., and left at 9 p.m. for Alexandria. The China, from Marne Wes 20th instant, arrived to-day at 8 p.m., and will leave at midnight for Alexandria. OUTWARD (HEAVY) MAIL. GIBRALTAR, MAY 22. The Massilia will leave during the night for Southampton, where she may be expected on the 27th instant. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. SUSPECTED MURDER IN THE FOREST OF FONTAINEBLEAU. Moat OUI OWN 001IREITONDINT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. _ _ The Emperor of Russia, who was not to have been here till Juno 3, has been induced to promise to come on the Ist in order to see the great Paris races. It is yet uncertain whether the Czar will be lodged in the Tuileries or the Elysde. Besides the fetes to be given him in Paris, there will be two grand ones at two of the Emperor's country palaces—one at Versailles on June 9, and another at Fontainebleau on June 11. The Czar will leave Paris on June 12, in the morning; and the King of Prussia, about whose visit there still hangs a curious leaven of uncertainty, is looked for about the 16th or 16th of July. A Parisian chronicler says that the Emperor of Russia proposes to spend in Paris five millions of francs. Supposing him to stay ten days, as ex pected, that will be 20,000 f. a day—certainly a right royal figure. The news that the Sultan was coming with no less than five hundred followers is contradicted. On the contrary, it is said, that his suite will be far from numerous ; he will be attended by three or four aides-de-camp, three chamberlains, and not more secondary attendants than a European sove reign would bring with him. A few days since a story went the round of the papers about the dead body of a well-dressed lady having been found in the forest of Fontainebleau, with the face eaten off "by a wolf." As there are no wolves in Fontainebleau, and the startling in telligence, given at first with meagre details, re mained for some time unconfirmed, it created little sensation in Paris, and passed as a canard. It is, however, quite true that the body of the lady was found, and that another lady has been arrested on suspicion of having poisoned her. One day last week the driver of a hack fly, while passing along one of the avenues of the forest near a place called Franchart, saw a lady lying on the grass in a copse not far from the road, and whose face was hidden by an open parasol. The weather being at that moment extremely hot the coachman supposed that she was resting herself, and passed on. But it happened that he had occasion to drive along the same road the next day, and when he saw the lady and the parasol in precisely the same position as before, he naturally came to the con clusion that all was not right. He got down from his box and found • dead body, with a parasol fixed in the ground so as to conceal the head. A part of the face was eaten away, probably by a stout weasel or wild cat. The coach man hastened to Fontainebleau to inform the police of his shocking discovery. It was found on in quiry that the deceased together with another lady had come a few days before to stay at an hotel in the town. They had taken a carriage for a drive in the forest, got out together, and sent the car riage back, saying they wished to walk in the wood. In the course of that evening one of the ladies came back to the hotel in a state of great apparent distress, saying she had missed her companion in the forest, and could not think what had be come of her. She added that she would go ' back at once to Paris, hoping to find her there. After quitting the hotel, and doubt less paying the bill, she went to a jeweller's in Fontainebleau, and stating that she had not money enough to pay her railway fare to Paris, sold a gold brooch, giving her right name and address, which the tradesman inscribed in his books. The name of the lady supposed to have been murdered, Madame de M—, was discovered by a wedding ring on her finger, inside which it was engraved. She was twenty-eight years of age, and had been twice married, and the ring in question was that of her first marriage. It is reported that she had lately received • large sum of money in Paris, which she had brought with her to Fontainebleau. A secret "instruction" is now going on, and it is probable that nothing more will be heard of the extraordi nary case till the lady now under arrest is brought up for trial before an saaiza court. The Bourse was rather weak than otherwise. Rente closed • little lower than yesterday, at 69fr. 85c. and 69fr. 87}c., with a fall of sc. and 2}c. Italian fell 35c. and Credit Foncier 7fr. 50c. Mobilier rose 6fr. 25c. Railways were about 2fr. 60e. lower. THE CANADIAN CONFEDERATION. (From a Supplement to Tuesday's London Gazette.) NY THE QUM, A PROCLAMATION For Uniting the Provinces of Canada., Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, into one Dominion, under the name of Canada. Whereas by an Act of Parliament, passed on the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sisty-sinin, in the thirtieth year of our reign, inti tuled " An Act for the union of Canada, Nova Scotia. and New Brunswick, and the government thereof, and for purposes connected therewith," after divers recitals it is enacted that " It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the advice of her Majesty's Most Honourable l'rivy Council, to declare, by proclamation, that on and after a day therein appointed, not being more than sir months after the posing of this act, the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, shall form sad be one dominion under the name of Canada, and on and after that day those three provinces shall form and be one dominion under that name accordingly ;" and it is thereby further enacted, that " such persons shall be first sum- moned to the Senate as the Queen by warrant, under her Majesty's royal sign manual, thinks fit to approve, and their names shall be inserted in the Queen's proclamation of union." We, therefore, by and with the advice of our Privy Council have thought fit to issue this our royal pro clamation, and we do ordain, declare, and command that on and after the lst day of July, 1867, the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia., and New Brunswick, shall form and be one dominion, under the name of Canada. And we do fu r th er ordain and declare that the persons whose names are herein inserted and set torth are the persons of whom we have by warrant under our royal sign manual thought fit to approve as the persons who shall be first summoned to the senate of Canada. _ For the Province of Ontario.—John Hamilton, Roderick Matheson, John Ross, Samuel Mills, Benjamia Seymour, WaLex Hamilton Dickson, James Shaw, Adam Johnston Ferguson Blair . Alexander Campbell, David Christie, James Cox Aikine, David Reeser, Elijah Leonard, Wil liam Mac Master, Asa Al'worth Burnham, John Simpson, James Skead, David Lewis lif:ephemon, George Craw ford, Donald Macdonald, Oliver Blake, Ma Flint, Walter McCrea, George William Allan. For the Province of Quebec.-dames Leslie, Asa Bel knap Fester, Joseph Neel Bosse, Louis A. Olivier, Jacque Olivier Bureau, Charles Malbiot, Louis Renaud, Lou Letellier de St. Just, Chic Joseph Tessier, John Hamil ton, Charles Cormier, Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay, David Edward Price , Elsear H. J. Duchesnay, Leandre Dumouchel, Louis I.waste, Joseph F. Armand, Charles Wilson, William Henry Chaffers, Jean Baptiste Guevre moot, James Ferrier, Sir Narcissi Fortunat Belleau, Knight ; Thomas Ryan, John Sewell Sanborn. For the Province of Nova Scotia.—Edward Kenny, Jo. nathan McCully, Thomas D. Archibald, Robert B. Dickey, John H. Anderson, John Holmes, John W. Ritchie, Ben jamin Wier, John Locke, Caleb B. Bill, John Bounnot, William Miller. For the Province of New Brunswick.—Amos Edwin Botsford, Edward Barron Chandler, John Robertson, Ro bert Leonard Hazen, William Hunter Odell, David Wark, William Henry Steeves, William Todd, John Ferguson, Robert Duncan Wilmot, Abner Reid McClelan, Peter Given at our court at Windsor Cattle, this 22nd day of May, in the year of our Lord 1867, and in the thirtieth year of our reign. God save the Queen. THE BISHOP OP SALISBURY AND HIS CLERGY. ANOTHER PROTEST. The bishop held his visitation at All Saints Church, Dorchester, on Saturday. At 8 o'clock morning prayers were read by the Ven. Archdeacon Bnim D.D., the rec tor • at 11 o'clock there was a celebration of the Holy Communion, at which the bishop officiated, assisted by Archdeacon Buckle, Archdeacon Braim, and the Rev. H. B. Williams, R.D. The offertory amounted to 5/. 45., and is devoted to the fund of the benefit of the widows and orphans of tke clergy in this diocese. The sermon was Preuhed by the Rev. H. C. Pigou, of Wyke Regis. At. 1 o'clock the visitation was held, and portions of the charge was read by the bishop before the clergy and churchwardens of the deanery and a numerous congrega tion of the laity. Immediately after the visitation some of those who had attended it assembled together, when the following me morial to the bisho2 was drawn up, signed, and presented to his lordship : " To THE LORD BISHOP OP SALISBURY. _ _ _ " yLord,— We, whose names are appended to title paper, having given our most earnest attention to your lordship's charge, feel ourselves compelled by our unwavering attach ment to the Church of England and our jealousy for the purity of her teaching, to take this earliest opportunity of protesting, in the must solemn manner, against the strange and unscriptural doctrines set torth in that charge. We protest against the sacrament of the Lord's Supper being 'of a memory made a sacrifice.' We protest against its efficacy being sacribed to the sacerdotal act, instead of the faith of the partakers. We protest against the doctrine evidently intended, although obscured by a multitude of figures, that the bread and wine become the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ otherwise than sacramentally and figuratively. We protestagainsi the assumption of regal and judicial powers on behalf of the rciesthood, as distinct from the whole congregation of the faithfuL These doctrines and statements set forth by a bishop of our church, we declare to be contrary to the plain and recognised teaching of that church ; and we most solemnly, as in the sight of God, pledge ourselves to use every lawful means to prevent the introduction of them into our church, by whomsoever that introduction ma) be attempted. We know that we shall be accused of seektml to make divisions in the church, and of interrupting her unity ; we therefore at once smelt that we recognise no unity as characteristic of the church, except the unity of the Spirit, which can only exist in the bonds of Chris tian truth; and that we believe that the doctrines set forth in your lordship's charges are utterly incompatible with that unity. We earnestly pray that the Great Head of the church will enable your lordship to see the danger ous tendency of these strange doctrines, before it is too late, for your lordship's own comfort and the peace of the church. Signed— " Rev. H. Monle, M.B. vicar of Fordington. " Rev. E. W. Pears, M.A., rector of Dorchester, St. Peter's. " Rev. T. W. Knipe, rector of Woodaford and Tin cleton. " Rev. i;ginald Smith, rector of Stafford. " Rev. A. H. Bull, M.A., incumbent of Cerne Abbsa. " Rev. C. J. Bird, incumbent of West Fordington. " Rev. H. P. Raikes, curate of Cheselbourne. " Rev. K Ludlow, vicar of Martinstown. " Rev. J. Burt, curate of Broadway. " G. Curiae, Mayor of Dorchester. " C. J. Andrews, churchwarden, Dorchester, St. Peter's. " H. W. Hawkins, churchwarden, Mertinstown. " J. Lovelace, churchwarden, Piddlehinton. " Isaac Symes, churchwarden, Portesham. " W. Symes, churchwarden, Muckleford. " E. Bridle, churchwarden, Ilincombe. " C. Kent, churchwarden, " it. Symes, churchwarden, Piddletrenthide. " T. llasoombe. " T. Pouncy. "J. Best, churchwarden, Warmwell. ".1. r. Foot, churchwarden, Buckland Newton. " C. Hall, churchwarden, Buckland Newton." —Sherborne Journal. THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY AND THE CANTER TIPSY CHORAL Unrox.—The Bishop of Salisbury's views on priestly prerogatives are so extreme, and have been so badly expressed in his recent charge. that we cannot but regret to hear that his lordship has been selected to preach the sermon in the cathedral at the approaching festival of the Canterbury Choral Union. Without entering into any discussion of doctrines which are totally incompatible with the spirit of our reformed church, it must be admitted on all hands that his lordship is henceforth a marked man. His preaching in the cathedral on the occasion in question will create great offence even in tolerant quarters, and will stamp an otherwise useful movement with an " ism" which, however dear it may be to a few, is not the " ion" of nine-tenths of the members of the established church. —Kentish Observer._ DISGRACEFUL SCENE IN • CHURCH. —On Sunday morning last the pariah church of Usk in Monmouthshire was the scene of great excitement consequent upon one of the churchwardens named Thomas, a carpenter, at tempting to thrust a parishioner from • seat which he attempted to occupy in opposition to the wiab of the churchwardens. A great many persona left the church in terror and disgust, while the vicar from the reading desk looked on much disturbed. The uproar so completely agitated some of the parties connected with the musical and other portions of the service, that several blunders were made in the performance of the duties. MIDNIGHT ASCZNT OP SNOWDON.—ViIiLOTS are said to be already finding their way into Carnarvonshire, although the summit of Snowdon is yet covered with snow. We have this week heard of • determined tourist who actually made the ascent of Snowdon at 10 o'clock at night, alone, and who found himself at the summit, " mid snow and ice," just before sunrise. The adventurous tourist we refer to left Llanberis on Wednesday fight, and to his dismay discovered when he arrived at the top that the huts were so firmly closed that an entrance could not be effected. The driving snow and biting wind was hard to bear, but the adventurer determined to make a stand against it, and was rewarded with a splendid sunrise. He describes the moonlight walk on the mountain as some thing glorious, in spite of the intense cold.—Uncestry Ad. Faisemso CARCABEB or CArnE.—The following is en extract from • letter, dated Sydney, March 7 : " A chemist here has just found out that he can tit • ship with an apparatus that will keep in a congealed state 500 carcases of beef, in tanks, these carouse having been en. tirely frozen through at starting. I saw experiments yes terday of • perfectly startling character. Beef killed five months ago was quite good. This discovery is expected to 'nuke a perfect revolution in the stock market, and give us all the aid we so sadly want."—Jfelliostree Argue. MIDDLESEX SE---.---SM-ik (THIS DAY.) SECOND COURT. (Before Mr. Payne.) HEARTLESS ROBIIERIES OF LITTLE CHILMXI. Mary A /IA Sulliran described as a tailor's'', m u ie dieted for a very heartless series of robberie s e r ; children of tender years The charges laid M the Wk., ment were as follows :—Stealing a sheet and ot h er a value Bs. the property of Henry Jones, from the pen s , , A Henry Jones, • little boy aged five years ; a frock, w e; fore, and petticoat, value 35., the property ' Taylor, from the person of Alice Taylor, • little girl se „,, years old ; a frock and petticoat tbsyroperty ef th e William Taylor, from the person of Ruth Tayk s , sed also with stealing • little met, the property of Wu. Taylor, from the person of William Taylor, a littl e i n three and a half years old. The prisoner, who denied in toto the whole of th e dente, pleaded not guilty. The first case proceeded with was that first named ie the indictment. From the evidence of a plumber sumo James Palmer residing at No. 25, Wilcomb.atreet, appeared that on the morning of the 28th of Apnl he the prisoner talking to a little boy (Henry Jones) at jb, corner of Marketstreet, and heard her say, "My des e, „,,, you going to take your mother's mangling home ? Caa y ee show me the way to Bedfindbury and wi ll giv e y e t penny." She then took the little boy's head took his bundle from him, and turned up lih r k . "4 street. From there she went to No. 9, Nee s .. street, and took the child inside, and shortly sh e , wards came out alone with the bundle is Me sr s , and ran down the street. He followed her, and ch o w her with robbing the little boy. She mid d i knew nothing about it at first and then h u m crying and prayed him not to give her in chars.. g i then held her until a constable came up, becom e thought she had been guilty of a heartless robbery, my then he charged her himself with committing the rake r ,. lie afterwards learned from the lit:le boy wham he toy crying in the street where he lived, that he bud bra to fetch his mother's things from the mangle. The mod* of the child, Mrs. Emily Jones, identified the pr ees ,„ belonging to her. She sent her little boy, iris), sialy five years old, for it. Mr. Payne asked the prisoner if she had myth* is say for herself. The prisoner—Nothing, except that I newer the child before in my life. (She here began to cry.) The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the orm* remarked that they thought the witness Taber h a d k .,,4 in a praiseworthy manner, as he had been the memo d bringing to justice • very cruel thief. Mr. Payne said he thought be had acted very well, ud ordered him to receive • sovereign as a reward. In the second case three little children, Alice, Ands . and William Taylor, aged respectively 7,5, and 4 yes % living at No. 50, Old Compton-street, were sent into th e St. Jarnes'spark, where the cows are, to play, when L ie Prisoner came up to them and allured them away Wee the pretence of giving them • new frock each. Sint* them into a field, and stripped them of their frocks, pers. coats, and little shoes, saying that "their modes was coining with some new frocks." She then ran asst', saying she would soon return. I The eldest of the three children, who identified the prisoner, gave her evidence very well, in • child's simph wa 4le prisoner said she knew nothing at all of the children, and denied ever taking their things. The jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict d Guilty. _ Mr. Payne (to the prisoner)--Is there anybody here vie knows anything about you—any relations ! The prisoner's father, an Irish tailor, here stepped ie. ward, and. in answer to the oourt, said he had noting :a say about his daughter. Mr. Payne—Do the police know her Police-constable Abel Dickens, 306 A, said beheld in hi hand a long list of little children who had been plunder,: by the prisoner in a similar manner. S o m e h a d let t! t: shoes and stockings, others all their clothes except garment to cover them, and were left thus destitate m tin streets. There were nearly 20 other eases 'gland the prises. but the magistrate thought the present ones Toed le enough. When the prisoner was marched a pair of sort were found upon her which were afterwards identified 1 ,, very poor woman named Mrs. Jane Baker, of &I, Comm street, as having been stolen from her child only 4 yea old. Mr. Payne, in pluming sentence, commented in Tay* vere term. upon the prisoner's conduct, and, after nu malting with a magistrate on the bench, said he be* thought the sentence adequate to the offence; but be II yielded to the suggestion of the worthy magistrate. h she was young, and had never been convicted before, di sentence upon her was that she be imprisoned and keens hard labour for 12 months. The prisoner —I can assure you, sir, I never hai Mr. Payne—You have made your offence greater. Ts her away. The prisoner, who is scarcely 17 years of age, removed. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIB DAY.) BOW-STREET. THE CHARGE AGAINST • POLICEMAN OF BILUJEC Hil COMRADE'S noon. Police-constable Hammer, of the A division. appear.), in discharge of his recognisance., upon &charge o! twig • pair of uniform boots, the property of another** man, Macintosh, of the same division, from the ams 4 room of the station-house in Gardner's-lane. Mr. Abrams, who defended the prisoner, Coiled mate constable, who was in the smoking-room with awes about the time stated, and who declared that llamarei A not go near the boot shelf or the window. Macintosh, being recalled, stated that in the mesa the same day he had sold some clothes to a Jew-a< Lewis Isaacs. Himont had sold • pair of boots to tal same Jew at the same time. In answer to the learned magistrate, The witnesses described the window in Gardner's!, as opening into en are►, which was only soma's from within. A person standing on the loan, could reach across the area to the window. The Mao consisted of two sashes, and coul•l be opened by loam& the top one or raising the bottom one. The slam re thick, and it would be impossible for any person lookit through it to discern the features of a person eithis If the window were partially opened it would be dank fa • person without to see one within, so ILY to recognise Mt, hut if wide open at the top it would be easy. The prisoner was committed for trial. CLERKENWELL. CNSULT CHILDRRN. Mary Ann Pierce end SaraA Taylor, two girls, spa rently about 14 years of age, were brought brfore Barker charged with tieing °buena language to the neat anon of the inhabitants of Wellington-road, Halvah and also with being disonlerly. Mrs. Susan Mason said that on the previous erinint prisoners were outside her house in company with see . rl and a great number of boys, all of whore were OS language, but more particularly the tee le loners. were old to go away, but they retina * do so, and w en threatened with the police thef.` g mead laughing and calling out " Police, polite g then used language to some boys of a most digs= nature. A policeman was then sent for. and 04 W ir given into custody. Mary Hislop corroborated the evidence given by 3 b Mason, and Mr. Henry Poole, a tradesman, described prisoners so a most intolerable nuisance to the whole set bourhood. They were in the habit of frequentillk . . 4 ,' lington-road, and bad a following of from re to orderly boys, whom they encouraged—he also sad be witnessed scenes with the two prisoners and m , me a most disgraceful character. Their parrots were calf" able but seemed to have no control over them. Pan would stand up and fight her own mother and strike!' a man. There were three other gentlemen present to yak* the bad conduct of the girls and the annoying**, caused to the people in the neighbourhood. Mr. Barker said the evidence was so clear that 110° 1 not trouble the other gentlemen. As there had bear , ' conAnnt complaints against the prisoners at ther, station he felt that they should be made evasples should therefore fine them 10e. each or seven dsr.,: h ', prisonment, and if they came before him assiii sto+.l charged he would them fine 40e. or a month. He lav e d'!" their parents would not pay the line, but let thee 0 - 5 their terms of imprisonment. THILLTI TIRE IS COPENHAGEN - s I IVErT• We are requested to acknowledge the following th th e e a be he n e e e ti . t el o en f t M ie rc eed Corwe fire :- 11, 11. wht :ru ice s ; aez , le ,em a vdif... ;7' in postage stamps ; and 2.5. Gd. in postage il- n I A any signature. - - atABLBOROUGHZTREgt TEI DERBY—A FINALS 8112104. , L1 iJI OM Dewsetritu Paakkure, a cab proprietor, m ot 4l • 4E 4 fore Mr. Mansfield with being druitik and inc4sbi!li also with seriously injuring Mrs. Agnes Golding.. Mr. Golding, No. HI, Russell-street, Cotentka' l6l ' Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough stren• pew ed for the defence. it appears that the prisoner bad been emplord Arthur Clinton, staying at the C:.% 11 0 .". Jermyn-street, to take his servants and some wal,. to the Derby. He returned at night with the MT"' the hotel, and having left them, awl no doubt bowl well treated by them, was proceeding towards • row, when be knocked down Mrs. Goldier..,_‘ b° her husband, was crossing Cranhourne street. being that she was so much hurt that she sea taken to the Charing-cross Hospital. and the priggish was drunk, was taken to the Vine-strict station. Mr. Golding deposed to his wife being knix d k it et de. the prisoner, who was driving with great rap y . ot Arthur Herring, GO C, handed the tiisgiarste.s ar finite, signed by the boom surgeon of the awl,' i Hospital, to the effect that Mts. Goldin was se 0"'" Wllow'''. wa Gout Mr. Mai c ation of o f lOW. Bail in A Jou" M • me t r ! Ne w mm ir bbod fo Mr. Ma bad mid The apt Ur. Ms to him be The aPI William green, wa Xr. Joh ham. stab nom be crowd of ; looked do . watch in chain, and last time I behind th, tie. came Anothei similar eel Police-0 into cost° taking the Mr. Lai Henry Robert! prisoner w entering tl •' Here's sling it." took the • went sirs) Mr. Rob he felt his There WM could not chain halm not broken The cow The prison he was can The prig take the w Swain w him. lir. Day The pro hewieboa _ wal Ia old Wtllusn committed hoopeoaam