The Express. — London, England, 1868-05-07 00:00:00

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POTICIA of 11 , RTIN, MAltltlAalta, sod DRAW% Ire rereived until 12 o Clock fur Insertion eine evening. 'glee. 6e. 64. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, OONTAINUIO The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and General Intelligence, to PU3LI6HED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, THURSDAY, HAY 7. DEAN STANLEY IN ST. JAMES'S-BALL. Ar a very early period of the meeting in St. .lames'a-hall yesterday afternoon, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY found it necessary to remark : " If a full and patient hearing be not given to " every one of the speakers whose names are on the " list, I shall quit the chair." The orator whose dis courteous treatment by a portion of the audience— if that name can be given to people who refused to listen to him—provoked this rebuke and threat, was SAMUEL, Lord Bishop of OXFORD. The in terference of the chairman was proper, and after an obnoxious person had been taken by the collar, and pushed and pulled out of the room, it was successful. Why, however, was it nut re peated later in the day, when the speaker was not Bishop WILBERFORCE but Dean STANLEY ? His name was down on the list ; he did not receive a patient and full hearing; the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY, did not leave the chair. The sibilant geese, to use the Bishop of Ox FORD'S phrase, who had given vent to their natural utterance, when the modern successor of HOOKER was upon his legs, once more renewed their sibilations when Dean STANLEY spoke ; or were they a different set of geese alto gether ? geese more in harmony with the general feeling of the meeting ! geese who were repeating the exploit of their Roman ancestors, pagan not papal, and saving the Capitol ? No one was taken by the collar and summarily ejected in order to allow the Dean of WESTMINSTER to say his nay. The feeling of the meeting found vent in " hisses," " hisses" again, "cries of Oh!! oh !' " " loud hisses " and other interruptions ;" " cries of flues " Con, and hisses;" " hisses;" " hisses," once more ; yet again, " hisses ;" " renewed hisses and " cries of question ;" " hisses ;" " great uproar ;" " hisses ;" " uproar ; " " cries of 'Go on ;'" a voice, " On, Stanley, on ; " " cries of Keep to " the resolution ;'" " renewed hisses ;" " cries of ' Sit down ,'" and then followed a " re " newal of uproar," which gave practical effect to the suggestion of the last two words, and compelled the Dean to relinquish the attempt to gain a hearing. One eccentric person there was who cried out " Hear both sides ;" but this wild suggestion was not repeated, What became of its author is not recorded. Possibly Dean STANLEY'S friend shared the fate of Bishop WILEERFORCE'S antagonist ; and was tam by the collar and summarily slanted. THE EXPRESS. THURSDA We almost wonder that this summa fik /Mode cf I dealing with an adversary was not employed towards the chief offender, Dean Br.swiaT him self. Once the Archbishop of CANTLE= ET inter vend, saying that if the inierroptions con tinued, and the Dean was not allowed to conclude his speech, he would leave the chair. But the maeting knew his Grace's intentions, sa it turned out, better than his Grace himself. The interruptions con tinued, the Dean was forcibly put to silence, and the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, benignly beaming, kept his seat. These incidents are very instructive. They show that the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY'S " lambs " can be as rude and riotous as Mr. Br.ALce's. In point of good breeding, the last, we think, have the advantage. A mob of dukes and earls and baro nets, bishops and deans, archdeacons and rectors, country gentlemen and members of Parliament, was as turbulent as the noisiest mob of artisans. Dean STANLEY must almost have fancied himself in Convocation. His mind, fertile in historical parallels, may have travelled back to that ecclesiastical council whose proceed ings a father of the Church has commemorated in rude verses as resembling the clamour and strife of geese and cranes. The resolution of the old ecclesiastic never again to enter those tumultuous assemblies may be commended to the reflection of the Dean of W ESTM I NSTER. lie had no busi ness to be where he was. Ole (liable (Wait it faire dons rette galin ? Never theless, we should have been sorry had he been absent. We should grudge the loss of a single hiss or groan. The gentle optimism of ecclesiastical reformers of Dean 8 'a school and their Utopian dreams, are more readily refuted by the inarticulato cries of a brawling crowd than by elaborate argument. Dean STANLEY now knows what are the forces enlisted in defence of the Irish Church Establish ment, and how useless is the attempt to convert them into anything nobler and better. It is based on the policy of ecclesiastical ascendency and of foreign rule ; as an establishment it can rest OR no other foundation. A Russian garrison in Warsaw, or a Turkish garrison in Candle could as easily be made a Liberal and national institu tion as the Protestant Church Establishment in Ireland. In truth, Dean STANLEY is not one of its de fenders. The union of Church and State which he advocates in Ireland is the union of the Church of Rome with the State, exclusively if there must be but one establishment, and principally if there are to be more establishments than one. His expression of adhesion to " the great old Liberal traditions of " Mr. PITT, Lord GREY, and Earl RUSSELL, which " were in conformity with the opinions held by " THOMAS Mrmur," admits of no dispute. Dr. Aallotn thought that the Established Church of Ireland should, in at least three-fourths of the country, be the Roman Catholic Church. He recognised it as a true portion of the Church of Criers; to which, in some respects, ho would gladly have seen the Protestant Church assimilated. These opinions are expressed over and over again in his correspondence. The phrase, of which Mr. DISRARLI is so fond, as to the necessity of asso ciating the principle of religion with the principle of authority, points, like Mr. DISRAELI'S Irish policy, to the same conclusion. Whether thethingis intrinsically desirable or not, we venture to say that it is not practicable. English Protestant sentiment and Irish Catholic sentiment are alike repugnant to it. Lord Russet', whose pre ferences are the sane as Dean Srslitsv's, but who, as a statesman, has better opportunities than a churchman can possess of estimating the real forces and tendencies of society, has lately given very striking testimony, honourable alike to his discernment and candour, to this fact: The votes of the House of Commons say the same thing. The course taken by Dean STANLEY can have no other effect than to strengthen the hands of men from whose spirit and aims he radically dissents. The resolution which preceded that moved by him at the meeting in St. James's Hall deprecated the disestablishment of the Irish Protestant Church, oil " No " Popery " ground which the Dean of Wror- MINSTER does not occupy, and which is revolt ing to him. Unless we .1124 been acquainted with the liberality of his views on the subject of sub scription, we should have been at a loss to under stand how he could hare refrained from holding up his hand against it. Dean STANLEY cannot long keep his eyes closed to the fact that the abolition of sectarian ascendency in Ireland is possible only in one way. Levelling upwards, by indiscriminate endowment and a plurality of Church Establish ments, is out of the question. Religious equality can be secured only by levelling downwards. We have such confidence in the generosity of his temper and in his keen sense of justice as to be lieve that when the facts of the case are forced upon him, he will be ready to sacrifice to them a favourite, possibly elsewhere a sound, but in Ire land an impracticable theory. The great old Liberal traditions to which he is attached have historic worth. But a Liberal of the Liberals, as Dean STANLEY professes himself, a Reformer of the 19th century, must be prepared to sacrifice the traditions of the fathers, even of Mr. Pn-r, Lord GREY, Lord Russet', and Dr. ARNOLD, to the living realities of justice and public policy. Qo m , than ceunterbak. o 44Y . ,Vilirlien44l, such names as 14ord 'Thltat Ls oz, :all% a. aol tigi Gilman, Sle W. Amur a ' tht .Cu Crt.Lon of the 11kCHOW i (Mr. . UNT'' light and aby Illitny is aisialy app ity ' House), and Sir BENJAMIN PHILLIPS. t wealth of imaginative literature should repre sented by Mr. VsicaeLea, and that of historical and classical literature receive Lard Ravaiswonries approval, completes a picture of incongruity which is only relieved by the humus's graceful and appreciative speech. We believe it to be the simple truth that " our language is working " with a vigour and versatility which has " never been exceeded ; that historical in " vestigation has been conducted with an "ornate sagacity that very few periods of site " racy excellence could equal ;" and that "the " commanding influence of the English language" has never been better sustained than now. Mr. DISIAELI was less happy when he claimed exemp tion from the ordinary laws of prudence for lite rary men. Our greatest living authors, whether in fiction, in poetry, in history, or in philosophy, develop no " irresistible predisposition " to impru dence, but are content to worship in their lives the prosaic goddess Common Sense. Thia position of Mr. DISRAELI'S appeal belongs to a byegone age, and marred the excellence of =otherwise admirable speech. THE Hon. C. G. Lerravrosi, the eldest son of Lord Lerretrox, says, in his address to the Elec tors of East Worcestershire :—" I readily pledge " myself to a general support of Mr. GLAD " :next, a Statesman in whose honesty and " ability I have every confidence. In the " action he has recently taken with respect " to the Irish Church, I heartily agree, and I will " assist to the best of my ability in the carrying " out of the proposal he has laid before Parlia " !ilea." Mr. LYrrevroar also expresses himself in favour of a more vigorous measure for the ad vancement of education than the one introduced by the Government, and avows that he has no ob jection to the principle of compulsory education. We hope to see him returned to Parliament on his own merits, but the connexion will also be in teresting as a continuation of the county tradi tions. Among Mr. Lrrrsvrox's ancestry is Judge LITTLETON, whose memory is preserved by his celebrated treatise on "Tenures," and whose tomb is in Worcester Cathedral. Several other Lrrret- TONS during the reigns of Queen Many, Queen ELIZABETH, and King JAMEK 1., were knights of the shire for Worcestershire. Lord GEORGE LYTTELTON author of " Dialogues of the Dead," was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the reign of Groton 11. The present candidate's grandfather, the Hon. W. H. LYTTELTON, represented the county as a Whig for fourteen years, from 1806 until 1820. No opposition to the return of Mr. Glarrarerre's nephew is, we believe, anticipated. THE Boundary Bill is apparently destined to stop the way of Parliament for some little time. There are already oa the business paper notices of upwards of twenty amendments to be moved in committee. These are divided amongst some seventeen or eighteen members. The notices of amendments in committee on the Election Peti tions and Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill occupy five pages. Mr. MILL proposes to prohibit the employment of paid canvassers. Sir THonas LLOYD seeks to prevent the use for election purposes of premises licensed for the sale of intoxicating drinks, and Mr. LABOUCHERE asks to have the payment of expenses for convoying voters in counties rendered illegal. Ors of the reasons why the French Govern ment put off the debate on M. POUYER Qv ea- TIER'S protectionist interpellations till May 11, is stated by the France to be that the warmer weather might have time to produce a palpable effect upon the crops. This is a novelty. Mr. Duman.' is a master of shifts, but we are not aware that he has ever trusted to the sun to procure a majority. IT is narrated at Madrid that when Marshal NARTATZ, on his death bed, was told by his Con fessor that he should forgive all his enemies, ho exclaimed —" Enemies ! I have none. I have " shot them all." CoBDIN Cxr n.—The annual dinner of the Cobden Club is fixed for Wednesday, the 24th of June, at the Ship Hotel, Greenwich, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., in the chair. The weekly meetings of the club are held on Wednesday evenings, at No. 66, Pall-mall. THE GOVERNMENT Or INDIA,—Thu morning was issued a copy of the bill prepared by Sir Stafford Northcote and Sir James Fergusson, to amend in certain respects the act for the better government of India. It is proposed that henceforth every member of the Indian council shall be appointed for the term of twelve years, and shall not be eligible for re-election. The salary of such member is to be 1,300/. per annum, to be paid out of the revenues of India, but he is not to be entitled to any retiring pension. A change is also proposed l in the remuneration to be paid to the auditor, who is to have a salary of 1,000/. a year ; but he is not to be per. mined to hold any other office under the Crown. In future, compensations, superannuation*, and retiring allowances are not to be granted by royal warrant, but by order of the Secretary of State for India, in council, and in no other way. PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITU RE. This morning an account was published of the gross public income and expenditure in the year ending 31st March, 1868, together with the balances in the Exchequer at the commencement audit the termination of the year, and the amount of funded and unfunded debt created and redeemed during the year. This return shows that the excess of expenditure over income was 2,168,023/. 13s. 63. The balance in the Exchequer on the 21st March, 1867, was 7,294,151/. 10s. The balance at the end of March, 1888, was 4,781,845/. 13s. 2d. The sum reined by theereation of ter minable annuities which are to expire on April 5,1885,waa 480,000/., and the unfunded debt, consisting of Exchequer bonds payable in December, 1869, or March, 1870, was 1,700,000/. The sum issued to the commissioners for the re. duction of the national debt amounted to 1,790,4041.95. td. ; but of this sum, 901,6387.95. 4d., has been applied in re-pay. meat of bank advances for deficiency, thus making thasotua issue only 888,760/. The Exchequer Bonds paid off amounted to 1,700,0001., and the Exchequer Bills paid off in money to 45,700/. The Shethorne Journal states that the Rev. B. fipeke bu returned to his pariah, Dowlsis Wake, new Ilminater, and took pert in the services in the church of Sunday last. A second donation of 1,0001. from "Anonymous" hal just been presented to the Curates' Augmentation Fund. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENOINEEN.S.—Upwards of 200 gentlemen assembled fart evening at Willis's-room, King-street, St. James's, on the occasion of the annual banquet given by the president and council of this Institut clan. The cha ir was occupied by Mr. Charles Hutton Gnegor7, the president, and amongst the company ware the Arch ' of York, the Duke of Arpll, the Earl of Caithness, Viscount Halifax, Lord Lebo lit.P., Lord Alfred Pa get the Lord Mayor, Admiral Air J ohe s Bart., Sir Henry Holland, Bart., the Attorney M. ha. The death is announced of General Sir B. B. Anciaintity, G. 0.8., Colonel of Om 7th Beefiest of Foot ewe. Emilia.), which occurred on the Ma ultimo, at 7, The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Tresdale, drove to Woolwich yesterday afternoon, and was present at the athletic sports of the cadets of the Royal Military Academy. His royal highness afterwards dined with Prinee Arthur at the Ranger's•lodge, Blackheath. The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Hon. Mra. Stoner. Despatches were received yesterday et the Colonial °lrma from the Governors of Ceylon, Houg-Kong, and the Straits Settlements. Despatohes were sent to the Governor-General of Canada, and to the Governor of the Bahamas. A deputation of Mexic►n bondholders, introduced by Mr. H. B. Sheridan, M.P., and consisting of Admiral Sir P. Wallis, K.C. 8., Mr. Guts:4lla, Dlr. R. B. Barrow, Mr. E. Wrigley, and others, bad an interview with Lord St►nley at the Foreign•ofase yesterday, to present a memorial preying for a renewal of diplomatic relations between this oountry and the govurnment of Mexico. RETURN UP HER MAJENTY TO WINDSOR.—Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal Highnesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice and Prince Leopold, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the court, will leave Osborne to. morrow afternoon, and cross in the royal yacht to Gosport. Hie lOyal Highness the Field-hfarahal Com manding-in-011cl will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Monday, 11th instant. The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait had a dinner party last evening at London House, St. JlllllClel square. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mu Longley, the Archbishop of Dublin and Hon. Mrs. and Miss Trench, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cairns, Lord and Lady Inohiquin and Hon. Mils O'Brien, the Bishop of Limerick, the Queen's Advocate, Sir Roundel Palmer, M.P.. ►nd Lady Laura Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hodson, tho Rev. H. Holm di, the Rev. W. G. and Mrs. Ilumphry, Mr. A. Denison, as Mrs. Tait had a select company after dinner. Viscount and Viscountess Barrington were honoured by the prasenoe of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian ►t dinner yesterday evening at their bones in Cavendish-square. There were present to meetthe prin•e and princess the Earl and Countess of Tankerrille, the Earl and Countess of Mayo, Lord Stanley, Lord Skelmeradale, Hon. Percy Barrington, Sir Charles Russell, Colonel and Hon. Mrs. Dudley Carleton, and Colonel and Mrs. Gordon, in waiting on the royal guests. The band of the Colddream Guards attended and played during the entertainment. The Earl and Countess Stanhope received at dinner on Tuesd►y evening the Earl and Countess of Car narvon, the Earl and Countess Beauchamp, Lord Richard Grosvenor, Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerrison, and a select party, at their residence in Grosvenor-place. Mr. and Mrs. Washington Hibbert received at dinner last evening at their residence in Dover-street, Pic cadilly, the following company : His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff, his Excellency the Spanish Minister and the Countess de Vis tahermosa, the Duchene of St. Albans and Lady Diana Besuclerk, the Marquis of Waterford, the Marchioness of Waterford, the Earl of Abingdon, the Earl of Morley, Viscountess Grey de Wilton, Viscount and Viscountess Holmesdale, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, M.P., and Lady Otho Fitzgerald, Lord George Hamilton, Lord Arthur Peiham Clinton, M.P., Lord Proby, M.P., and La•ly Proby, Lord Truro, Lord Cremorne, M.P., &o. Liter in the evening Mrs. Washington Hibbert held her first reception this season, et which a most numerous and fashionable company assembled. Sir Benjamin Pine, who has been lately adminie• tering the government of the Leeward Islands, bas been appointed Governor of Western Auatralia. The Herald understands that Assistant-Commis sary-General Henry Robinson has been despatched by the War-office to Abyssinia, for the purpose of advising Sir Robert Napier as to the best mode of dealing with the large quantity of stores and war material which has been accumulated in that country for the objects of the expedi tion. MUSIC. AN E G, MAY 7, vis -1 , - 1 1""' . Its rt. - . . OSBORNE, 4. larc4l:' ...: Mte ()pee dittoe ay afternoon, . - „e s -..,.... triaraied by' and Princess Bei "Thillsjesty w grounds this morning aeon the b y prim", Beatrice. Pre' Princess Louise and Priam Iwopold also went out. and The Dowager Countess or Galoslxwough has sueoseded Ties Lady Chaschill as Lady-in-Waiting to her Majesty. bid, The Flom Mrs. Alexander Cordon has arrived on a visit ...A to her Majesty. THE ROYAL LITERARY FUA Tux Royal Literary Fund is a beneficent lite rary patron, rather than a guild of working men of letters. It does much good by stealth. It attracts to its councils and to its banquets men able and willing to extend a helping hand to those who have fallen by the wayside, and whose lines have been cast in leas pleasant places than the int/dente translator, or the aristocratic dabbler in printer's ink. So far it is eminently useful. Its funds are fairly managed, and are liberally and, above all, secretly dispensed. There is none of the humiliation attached to the receipt of charity in accepting its bounty ; and the last years of many a broken-down, poverty-weighted author have been soothed by an annuity, all know ledge of which has been confined to the officers of the Fund and the reci pient himself. But this admitted, it is impossible to stifle a feeling of disappointment that a great literary festival like that of last night should be chiefly remarkable for the absence of professional literary men. Earl STANHOPZ is a nobleman of polished tastes and considerable acquirements, who has devoted a portion of his leisure to the writing of history ; M. VAN Ds Wxvxa's intense and cultivated sympathy with all pertaining to the arts entitles him to take rank with the experts of literature ; Lord Houn woes sweet and facile versification, and the PINNIES'S never-to-be-forgotten political disser tations thinly coated with fiction, justly place them in the literary ranks. But these are notable exceptions in the distinguished company assembled at the iffeemasose' Tavern last night, and are MR. HENRY LESLIE'S CONCERT'S. These excellent entertainments have been re sumed since the Easter recess. Last week a choral concert was given at whicn the refined singing of the choir, in various madrigals and part-songs, &c., was the chief fe►- ture, and last night the twelfth concert of the season took place, presenting the combined attractions of orchestral and choral performances, and the solo singing of Mdlle. Kellogg. The programme, while of the most varied character, was full of substantial interest. The orchestral pieces were Mendelssohn's genial and poetical "Italian" symphony, equal in beauty, while thoroughly antithetical in style to his romantic " Scotch" symphony ; and Rossini's brilliant and sparkling overture to Guillaume Tell—both effectively given by the capital orchestra assembled and conducted by Mr. Leslie. The choral music included those noble choruses from Men delssohn's setting of the CEdipue," Thou coolest here to the land," and " Ah ! were lon yonder plain ;" and the " Hymn to Bacchtm," from the same composer's Antigone. Of Mendelasohn's settings of these Greek tragedies we have spoken on several recent occasions, and especially with reference to the excellent performances of the works, at length, at Mr. Henry Leslie's concerts. The extracts given last night again produced that profound impression which music of such elevation and grandeur, so admir ably performed as on these occasions, must always have. In the unaccompanied choral pieces, Mr. Benedict's lively " Hunting song" and Morley's well-known, quaint, old madrigal, " Fire, fire," the excellent qualities of the choir were agairdmanifested as they have before been in the same music. A special feature in last night's concert was the choral Fantasia of Beethoven—that original conception in which an elaborate pianoforte solo is combined, not only with grand orchestral detailm,but alsowith the unusual added effect of a chorus, to the text of Kuffner's poem, " Schmeichelnd hold and lieblich klingen." The majesty and beauty of this work are fully worthy of the composer of Fitletio, which preceded it by four years (1805). The fantasia, with its elaborate and difficult unaccompanied introduc tion, was played with much power and earnestness of style by Mdlle. Mehlig, who also gave, in the second part of the concert, a brilliant performance of Liszt's somewhat ad captandunt transcription of the waltz from Oounod's Faust. The chief vocal solos were Mdlle. Kellogg's ex pressive singing of " Betti, beta " (with Mr. G. Collins's violoncello obbligato), and her brilliant execution of " Qui la Too* "—performances more than once noticed by us in their theatrical aspect. Mdlle. Kellogg also gave the " Nightingale's song" from Victor Masse's opera, Les .Noces de Jeannette (with flute obbligato by Mr. Rockstro) ; and the "Soldiers' chorus " from Gounod'm Pause terminated a most interesting concert. The last orchestral eoneert of the season and the direc tor's benefit is to take plaoo on the 20th hurt., when the programme will comprise Mendelssohn's " Reformation Symphony," and a selection from Acts and Galatea, in cluding vocal solos by Mdlle. Thiene and Mr. Bentley. A bill has been introduced by Mr. Serjeant Barry, Major Gavin, and Mr. Famonde, to extend to Ire land the existing law of Great Britain as far as it affects the presence of military at parliamentary elections. THE ABYSEILNIAN EXPEDIIIO2II. —By a return which was published this morning it appears that with the native troops from the Banal presidency, serving with the Almmiaias expedities, those me 8 field officers, 9 apt•ias, 20 subalterns, and 9 medical capers, making • total of 46 Europeans. From the sense presidency there are 61 native ecenmissioned °fleas and 2,567 non-eommindosed odious, rank and Al.. The Bombay native force with the expedition (or belessing to the sth and Bth regiments, which had sot embarked whets these returns were made up) emprima 49 lieldolleare. 14 captains, 46 eubaltense, and 96 medical Mara, making s total of 101 Europeans. The satire form belonging to the same preaideser includes 156 commie alone& Mesa, 395 =Van* 365 norPom lll , sad kin Ammer; twampotere, mid privates, making a total of 4,5114. 1 El N NEWS. (THIII DAY.) THE EAST. d the following in the Avenir National The sews from the Magi is anything but satisfactory. Turkey is not content with fortifying Varna and sending troops to the confines of Servia and Montenegro; she id likewise organising a Mussulinan lendwehr. In the frontier I pnevinces all NUII/1116111154 able to bear arms have received orders to be prepared to assemble when celled upon. Their number will amount to about 15,000—a1l horsemen. These measures will produce a certain effect if the in surrection does not break in at several points at the same moment, but they are also attended with grave dangers. Once armed and enrolled, will not these ir regular soldiers eommit excesses from which even the regular troop* do not always abstain ? and may not these maws kindle the explosion which is apprended by all Europe (RROTER . B I'LLZO RAMS.) RUMOURED AFFIANCE OF THE PRINCESS LOUISE OF ENGLAND TO THE CROWN PRINCE OF DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, MAT 7. The Dagstelegraphen of to-day says :—" It is stated on reliable authority that the English minister, Sir Charles Wyke, will arrive here shortly with instructions relative to the proposed man iage of the Crown Prince with the Princes Louise of England." ROUMANIA AND THE JEWS. PARIS, MAT 7. The Epo j uc of to-day asserts that the guarantee ing Rimers have simultaneously presented a note to the Roumanian government, demanding that an indemnity should be paid to the Jews. The same paper also states that an order has been issued directing two frigates to proceed to Tunis. OUR PARIS LETTER. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The debate in the Senate on the press bill excites no interest whatever in the country. Most of the journals refuse to afford the great space required for the official report, and allege as an excuse that the arguments of the senators are not worth repeating. It is enough to know that they have orders to pass the bill. The Prince Imperial's first communion is fixed for to-morrow at 9 o'clock. The Empress's absence from the ministerial council to-day is ex plained by the fact that she was with her son, who was receiving his latest preparations from the Abbd Dequerry. No invitations are issued for the cere mony of to-morrow. Monseigneur Tiremarch, bishop of Adras in partibus, formerly curd of Ham, will administer the communion. To-morrow the French Academy meets to elect two members to fill the chairs left vacant by the deaths of MM. Flourens and Ponaard. The suc cessor of M. Flourens will probably be M. Claude Bernard, a distinguished physiologist and a mem ber of the Academy of Sciences. His rival, M. Camille Vousset, an historian of some merit, and who will doubtless become an academican one of these days, is thought to have no chance now. For M. Ponsard's chair the candidates are M. Th6o - Gautier and M. Autran. The qualifications of the former are patent. Those of M. Autran require more seeking, but as he is said to possess good academical principles and a good cook he may very likely succeed. M. Bourzat, one of the members of the National Assembly who was banished after the coup orttat, has just died at Brussels, aged 68. He was one of those who, like Victor Hugo, declined to avail himself of the amnesty, and return to France. M. Bourzat, at the time of his election to the Consti tuent Assembly, was bdtounier of the Order of Advocates' at Brives-la-Gaillarde, and a member of the Council-General of the Correze. He used fre quently to speak in the two assemblies to which he successively belonged, and his speeches showed a great deal of erudition and good sense. But before the 2nd of December put an end to political caricatures, he was a frequent subject for the ( 'horirari on account of the rustic simplicity of his dress, and the wooden shoes which he had been accustomed to wear on wet days in the country, and which he sometimes sported when he mounted the tribune. In Brussels he maintained himself by giving lessons, and he leaves in very narrow circumstances a widow and two children, for whom a subscription has been opened in Paris. A Boulogne letter in the Probe , of Arras, gives the following sad news ; Two English students, who for some time have been in mates of M. Bodard's school, went to bathe in the sea, under the care of a man named Leblond, who is in the service of the maitre baignewr, Bougier. Leblond, instead of looking tact the lads as it was his duty to have done, went to sleep for a few minutes. When he awoke he did not see them, and being alarmed called for help, but did not himself go into the water after them. The dead body of one, Mr. Mordan, has been found, that of his comrade, Mr. Little, is yet is seek. Mdlle. Patti's marriage has been announced so often that people would not believe the positive announcement of the Figaro two days ago that she is now the Marquise de Caux. There seems, however, to be no doubt of the fact, and it is stated that her husband, who is one of the Emperor's equerries, has obtained a three weeks' con9E to enjoy his honeymoon. Why, however, the marriage should be up to this time " civil " only, and the religious ceremonial postponed till after the fulfilment of Mdlle. Patti's engagements, is a tough mystery. The reason certainly does not commend itself to ordinary apprehensions. The Bourse was very heavy. Rente fell 20e. for cash and 12ic. for account, closing at 69fr. 30c. in each case. Italian fell 30c. ; Mobilier, sfr. ; and Credit Foncier, 3fr. 75c. The political situation has not apparently changed since yesterday, but a little more anxiety is felt about the German parlia ment, M. de Moltke has arrived at the entrenched camp which Prussian now constructing at the confluence of the Sarre and the Moselle, near Troves, for the purpose of studying the operations there. The intention of the Minister of War of King William is to transform the camp into • fortress of the first order, and to mike it suitable to replace the Luxemburg. M. de Moltke does not confine his defensive measures to these works ; he has ordered to be oommenoed, and to be earried on with the utmost activity, the fortifications of Sarrebruck, on the Sarre, above Sarrelonic Finally, Prussia will connect the entrenched tamp at Troyes with the network of the European limas of railway, in such • way as to put the cities of Cologne and Coblenta within • few minutes of Troves. AITUIPT of TIM Lirs or rag DUKE Or EDl2l3l:7llOH,—The Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Scot land, at • ranting presided over by the Earl of Dalhousie, have adopted an address sympathising with her Majesty in consequence of the attempt made en the life of the Duke of Edinburgh, expreseing the horror and indignation whisk the Preemeenne of Scotland felt at the atrocious and cowardly attack made on his royal highway and co his to her Litton at Majpenvidential aad esty their warmest sympathy and emigrant the of his royal.higiusses from mortal iatfar has Ma agreed to top the Mb Town Glad!. LONDON Hosplret ANNIVERSARY. Laat night the one hundred and twenty-eiglith anniversary of this charitable institution took place at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, Mr. W. E. Gj AO. crone, M.P., in the chair. About three hundred gentle men sat down to dinner, and amongst those who sup ported the chairman on this ocoaaion were—Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart., M.P., Mr. Charles Buxton, bI.P., Mr. Ayrton, M P., Sir Mordaunt Wells, the Rev. T. J. Rowed!, M.A., &c. One of the galleries was occupied by a large number of ladies, amongst whom Mrs. Glad stone occupied a conspicuous seat. From the brief report of the hospital, circulated by the committee, it appears that the total number of in and out p itienta received during 1667 bas been J 5,776, and that since the opening of the Alexandra Ward, the unavoidable expenditure has been upwards of 25,000 t. per annum, while the annual income from fixed sources is only about 15,000!. The deficiency of 10,000!. per annum can b e only met by donations, subscriptions, and pecuniary legacies, and these have lately failed in securing the de sired iesult. The governors, therefore, have been com pelled to sell out 10,13f00/. Reduced Three per Cent. Stock, to enable them to repay to the hospital bankers a loan of 8,5001., and to meet the pressing current necessities of the institution. who is profoundly interested in the conduct and own tagm c a hoi. e nu r l d s f t r a i l a re ‘ yi 'lle a S in l o miumeau te f h : is egre re l th am hdn is: ". 2l.th. grea ohas e c int l abe t p ge : l e .eoP f: ga c u :n u un i t a i w o t to l i ll orot e ; toast ital," ke of to fill, times presided at its annual festival in testimony of that i my title to hold this place is rather de meeh ri bnacip frohd he ly the m ahlut some tachdees e Ca m b rid ge ewhlse.uirnb sidiary establishments than through soy direct share, either on my own part, or on any with whom I ant con nected, with the management and conduct of the London Hospital. Among the characteristics of this hospital has been the fact that it has celled into existence several of these subsidiary institutions, one of them being the Samaritan Feud, and there are also the convale.eent hospitals, which I think every intelligent man must feel to be, under the circumstances of this great metropolis, an essential portion of the appa, rates of an enlightened and Christian philoethrephy. In oonnection with one of them, the name of Sl:es (*.the rine Marsh is to be mentioned with honour, and she it was who brought the affairs of this hospital within the sl ! ere of lily special attention. It rarely happens to a is mon abeorbed, like myself, in affairs widely ditferent to these, to undertake the task of commending to your meine au institution of this character. I assure you, however, it is from want of power, from want of phy s ic a l s t rengt h and opportunities, and , not from want of will. (1:4.k m.) Without desiring to be Invidious, I will at once soy that think there are certain respects in which, amidst .11 its sisters, the London Hospital can present to the notice of the public a paramount and unrivalled claim. ft lu:m.4 The first of there respects I take to be one partieu"arly connected with the law which seems to gee( rn the son struction, organisation, and increase of the masses, I nay say, of this almost ifemmusurable city in emelt we live. (Hear. hear.) It appears to have been tound, or else to have been thought a law hitherto ilie.orahle that as London grows it shall not grow equally, like to the bodies which nature creates, but, on the corm:wry, a.... it shall pow with that lack of proportion and setematise which seem generally to mark the result of liumou enter prise. What one weed desire would be that the growth of London should wean a regular and harmonious iapze. sion of the city as a civilized and Christian comae:etc in all orders and (legless of men—so disbursed a.: sa fused that those less supplied with the good should not have to rely upon their wants tear; Ade:Me tered by those who live nearest to them, but ti,.:e those who are better supplied with the world's wealth the licit. should extend the hand of aid and benevolence to those who may stand in need. The law of London's growth appears to be this—that its weals. and grandeur more and morn go towards the west, while the mass of its poverty sets for the dination of the rising sun. The moral of this singular order of things is rather remarkable, because there is thus conned front the eyes of the wealthy, in a gra.t degree, tie spec tacle of human sorrow. (Hear, hear.) We move through continuous miles of streets and squares in this nu:trepan, inhabited by the upper classes, without having tef.re us any visible sign that these exists such a thing as the struggle of luau against the world—the never, itilire battle of aubmist.nce. Those calamities which are incidental to life in all its forms, although they fall upon the west as well as the east, yet when they come upon one sole of this city, they are mitigated by every is:source that wealth and knowledge can afford—(bear, hear)—and when thq come upon the other—when in fact they turn towards its eastern extremities, they call for aid for the ni(et pad from those whose business it is to supply the wants of the day by the earnings of the day, and who generally have h 0 re serve but the smallest upon which they can fa ll back.(Heal() This is a great subject, upon which it would be easy to dwell, and which cannot too persistently or too forcibly be brought home to the 'Muds of the inhabitants of this great metropolis, and most of all to those who live at its western end, for they are in danger of suffering from ens of the greatesti calamities which can happen to a human being, and that iv, to be in habitual ignorance and blind ness as to the just amount of those &aline which their fellow-creatures have upon them, and in consequence of that blindness to leave those claims unacknowledged and unsatisfied. It is a great misfortune that tho objects and victims of suffering should remain unrelieved, tut it is a still greater misfortune that those who possess the means whereby relief might be afforded are from various ca .see prevented from availing themselves of the privilege and advantage which they would assuredly draw from making their needy brethren partakers of their wealth. (Cbeera) There may come a time when this law to *Lich I have referred will undergo a change ,• but in the mean time, as practical men, the best thing that can be done is that we should in every way encourage the restitution of that link of Christian and human charity which alone can bind together the extremities of this metropolis. (Cheers.) This country is daily visited by thousands from foreign lands, and many objects there are which continually draw , forth expressions of the must fervid and dispassion..., ad miration; but there is one feature of British society stick foreigners neither admire nor understand, and that is its tendency to run into a mass of opposite extremes, and to present a violence of contrast between those innunitiable persons who earn their subsistence by daily labour, and many of whom earn it but scantily ; and, on the other hand, those less numerous, but still very . nuiucrous clam, whose life seems to be, in London especially, little mom than a life of leisure and enjoyment, devoted to the con suming —aye, even laborious consuming —from morn till t u h ig e h l t bo a tu n an& f oteot y heir feean.. i fellow-countrymen, s n to t of their ancestors, has attained. (Cheers.) I uder these circumstances, a rich blessing attends the walk and path rym n yea r 's , o end, ntabe of ti t r h u a d t e fce whi sk of those who, travelling continually from the luxurious west of Loudon to its eartern quarters, bring with them not merely material relief, but the richness of l'hiistian sympathy, and attempt again to forge in its full strength that link which ought to bind together, whether in a city or a county, all members of a well ordered society. (Cheers.) The Londuu Hospital stands at a distance measured geographically of more than a mile by the most direct lice from any hospital in the metropolis, and if you consider what is meant by a radius of a mile drawn around any point in London, especially in the east, you will at once *es what an enormous mass of human beings, and of pain and sorrow, there must be. (Hear, bear.) Indeed the facts are such that it seems idle and officious to press them upon you in detail. The last cholera, visitation was sufficient to severely test the poem of the hospital, and to prove its admirable worth and fitness. (Hear, bear.) One of the peculiar features of this establishment is that in substance, in everything but the merest form, it approximates to the character of a free hospital ; and the number of in and out patients re lieved last year shows how great are the daises whieh isutdaenteiabnadle e tha u t pon thi th t e h in oi sti pi t tal ution w . hic l h be h li a e s ve ibe d largest number of eases of accidents is necessarily, from that fact, the hospital which has the means of giving the largest amount of practical occupation to the students in its medical schoeL If that be so, the London Hoapitalmr doubtedly affords the greatest advantage to those who ue in training for the medical profession. With a view therefore of directing to this east of London a lair prefer tion of the youth of the country contemplating the mm dical and surgical profession, there has been Mai toted a fund for the establishment of schelaiships which are to be called by, what you will agree with me, is a very proper name, I mean the name of Mr. Buxton—(cheers)—a name which for several gear rations has been inseparably associated in this metropolis and elsewhere with acts of Christian philanthropy. (Cheers.) The object of these scholarships is to establish a means of encouragement to those deserving young men who may make the London Hospital the scene of their labour, and I trust that they may answer their purpose. (Hear. hear.) In conclusion, I will say to those who are blest by Providence with means that I know of no nobler or worthier institution upon which they could bestowtheft benevolence than the London Hospital. (Loud cheers.) The toast having been drank, Mr. T. FOWELL Be' . , re re i r bi tcesta followed, and the proceediup did mot ter• minute until a late hour. Yesterday morning the Bishop of Oxford took part in the opening of a temporary church which his been erected in the Lothian- , closely abutting upon the perish of Camberwell. In this district, taken out of the pariah of St. Mark's, • permanent church will be erected, and will have for its first incumbent the Rev. D. I'. W. Medals, N.A., of Brannon College, Oxford, who is now the missionary curate. The third meeting of the conference of the Liberation Society look place yes t er day _ morniog, ih* hall of the City Terminus Thera was *al° 1 numerous attendance of delegates. Mr. E. Sat*, ••• Leeds, presided ; supported by Mr. P. A. Taylor ILEr Cooeham, Kr. E. Mls 1 .. Mr. W. Edward; dif• Carvell Williams, ice. In the awning • soirée ens in the Hanover-Iquart, Rooms, when there was • WS attendance, Yr. T. B. TOMO, of Norwich, prmidial• f