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Pauncefort and Wu Nelly Moore.—Doors open as half-past seven ; com mence at eight. . ra.xn. Tm Enttalni, Emery, Pantile, Bob sow. and nwAnhotnutth Mesatameo Ada nenusborough and John stone —And THE LATt>IT EDITHIN UV YBA DLtVuLH. Mews. Thorne It James ; Mesdames Holt, Newton, &c. liA7Aww!A- Ms IMMO, JACK 0' LANTERN : OR • THE RACE COURSE, AND THE BLUR RIBBON OM THE TURY.—Mr. G. Backstair° . Mr. Seth s. N•llime; the Cbasopion Skaters of &viand —And MOONLIGHT JACK. Mr. J. IL Howe t Mau J. Corcuty. NIGH WATIaI. AT LONDON BRIDGE. IZIII DAT —Morning. ab. 3.so....—Aftenioun, 3h. To-Noihow—Morning, 4b. lim..—..Aftaraoon, 4h. 2hui. LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 19. THE issue of a new Annualßeport by the Salmon Fishery Commissioners reminds us of a piece of legislation of a merely regulative character which has proved succesaful in a more than ordinary de gree. In this case, unlike that of game on land, the animal for which protection is invoked is not only a valuable and appreciable element of the food of the country, but it draws its own nourish ment from substances which are not themselves available for human food. Its increase, then, is so much clear gain ; but, at the same time, its protection is more difficult than that of any other animal, for it not only cannot be domesticated, but its mere existence and reproduction demand thatit should have access at one season to the sea, and at another to the highest reaches and streams in our inland rivers. Passing thus through a great extent of country, and becoming succes sively subject to the ownership of a great variety of persona, there is unusual facility as well as temptation for its destruction, at the same time that there is immense difficulty in so adjusting the various rights and interests of the parties concerned as to unite them in attaining the common object. Our efforts in this direction have been very tentative, but there is encouragement in their almost uni form success ; and experience has meanwhile been gained, which will enable us to correct errors and supply omissions. These it is the function of the Fishery Commissioners to bring each year under the notice of the public. Taking first the point on which it is easiest as well as pleasantest to dwell, we find that out of 42 rivers of which the local boards have made reports, 24 are returned as exhibiting great and marked improvement, 11 state that there is a " gradual improvement," and only 7 complain of eithei little or no improvement. It is satisfac tory, however, to find that the cases in which the decided improvement is noted are those of the largest rivers, including the Severn, the Usk, the Taw and Torridge, the Tyne, the Dee, the Wharfe, the Tees, the Ouse, and the Wye, while those in the opposite class of " little or no improvement," consist only of the insignificant streams, scarcely known beyond their own districts, named the Teivy and Aeron, Frome and Stour, Exe, Glaalyn, and Conway. When next we turn to see what are the causes that prevent or limit improvement, we have the further satisfaction of finding that, though exceedingly diversified, they are nearly all of a remediable character. They have been elicited by a aeries of questions addressed to the local boards by he Commissioners, and are analysed and ex plained in their Report. One of the most serious of these is the pollution of tie water by foreign substances. In this matter the interests of the salmon are identical with those of *his captor. Both need pure water for the maintenance of health, but the fish is worse off than the man, in that if he is poisoned by bad water he has not the option of boiling it, or puri fying it, or, in the last resort, of drinking beer. And when we read the list of ingredients which are poured into our rivers, the wonder is, not that so many of the fish die, but that any survive. Five stiffSr from gas refuse, four from paper mills, six from lead washing, five from other mines, three from coal dust, three from sewage, three from tanneries, and nine from various other kinds of manufac turing refuse. The Wear seems to concentrate in itself every form of pollution, complaining of " the " slush from the lead mines, black water from coal "washing, bad water pumped from coal-pits, ashes " from collieries, ironworks, and cinder ovens, " waste ley, &c., from paper mills, refuse from " gas-works and chemical works, of sewage, and " of every other abomination that a thickly-popu " lated district can get rid of by putting into the " river." It is unreasonable, however, that rivers which are intended by nature to furnish a who'e district with pure water and wholesome food should be made useless for this purpose by the ignorant selfishness of • few persons who choose to convert them into sewers. With regard to at least a groat proportion of the matters complained of there can be no difficulty in &spoiling of them on land, or at least of properly disinfecting them before letting them mix with the rivers, and there can be no doubt that public opinion will be wish the Commissioners in their eCorts to procure enactments that shall forbid such perversion of • public right. The question of facilitating the passage of the salmon in its annual migration from the sea to the spawning beds is one that cannot be dealt with so summarily. Ladders or " leaps " have in many places been formed, and enable the fish to sur mount effectually the artificial or natural obstruo- tions which are interposed in their course. But in some places they fail, and in these the practi cal knowledge of Mr. FRANK BUCKLAND, one of the Commissioners, has been very usefully directed to pointing out the reasons of the want of success. A little amendment of the law is, however, re quired in respect to the adventures of the fish on their return journey, when, having deposited their eggs, they are on their way to recover health by a course of sea-bathing. They are apt to take a wrong turn into mill leads, and it is suggested that we might fairly require a grating to be placed at the mouth of these to prevent the ingress of the salmon. Its worst enemy, however, at this stage is the poacher, who does not kill for his own use, knowing too well that the flesh of the salmon at this season is not only uninviting but unwholesome, but who despatches his take to foreign markets where the undiscriminating natives consume it with gusto. The difficulty here is to find the consignor, for the consignee is beyond our reach. But the Commis sioners desire an increase of power to check the evil at its root by authority being given to the water bailiffs to pass along the banks of the rivers during close time. This power is exer cised in Ireland, and is so unobjectionable and so obviously necessary that it cannot bo refused here. These recommendations, however, which suffi ciently indicate the general tenor of the Report, arc perhaps rather at present material for future consideration than a basis for immediate legisla tion. On the whole, and with all blunders and shortcomings, our progress is decided, and the " friends of the salmon," as Mr. BUCKLAND en thusiastically calls those who wish to preserve him to be eaten, will be all the better for a year or two of further experience before coming to Parliament with a completer scheme for its sanc tion. Only on the matter of the freeing our rivers from pollution, it may be said that we are ripe for legislation, and this because it has already been investigated, not only in the interest of salmon and its eaters, but in that of human beings who drink . water, even if too poor to eat fish. Tea SULTAN, after a week of various sight seeing, is to receive to-night at the India-house what promises to prove the most brilliant en tertainment that will mark his visit. The ball to be given there in his honour stands out from among the other complimentary festivities which he has accepted, and is intended to do so. It marks a point of view from which no Western government but our own is in a position to regard the SULTAN. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE was not particularly happy on Tuesday in the choice of terms in which to explain to the House of Com mons why this entertainment is given at the India-house, for in his anxiety to state that it is not offered by the Government of this country, but by that of India, he said it was not given by her MAJESTY'S Government, whereas since the East India Company was deposed our Indian Empire acknowledges no Government but that of her MAJESTY. But everybody understood the Minister's meaning. Our Imperial guest was to be contemplated from the meridian of Calcutta or Bombay rather than from that of London, and to be honoured more especially as the sovereign whose empire forms a link between the two vastly different civilizations to which we adapt governments so different in their material, organisation, and methods as those of Downing-street and the India-office. The sugges tion of this entertainment, which seems to be due to Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, does him credit, as at once intelligible and appropriate ; it will be noticed, however, that the thought out of which it grew—that of the special relation of Turkey to India—appears in all the serious addresses which have been presented to the SULTAN, and we con fess that we prefer it infinitely to those which have inspired certain poetical felicitations which have been publicly offered to his MAJESTY. Foremost among the reasons why the Govern ment of India should pay the highest respect to the rulers of Turkey and Egypt, Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE mentioned the propriety of manifest ing in some way our sense of the obligations we are under to those rulers for facilitating communi cation by sea and land, and also by telegraph, between England and her great Eastern depen dency. These are services which ought not to pass without acknowledgment, and no time could be more suitable than the present for their recogni tion. When the immense political and commer cial interests we have in India are considered, a friendly remembrance of what has been done to bring India and England nearer together will be mingled with surprise that more has not been accomplished. While we are all anxious to give the Ottoman Government full credit for the facilities it lass accorded or is ready to accord to us, there can be no impropriety in pointing out that the TurlCsh Government can only benefit by every measure which makes its territory a better fre quented road to India. At present, however, by whose fault we will not inquire, we are not making the best of the advantages which lie before us. Our passenger traffic, with the mails and the more precious articles of merchan dise, follow the route through Egypt, whereas the valleys of Antioch and the Euphrates offer a road which seems to have been marked out by nature for our purpose. A railway of nine hundred miles from sea to sea would give us the best access to India, saving a thousand miles in distance, and shortening the period of transit by ten days. The introduction of so great an undertaking, and its and working, in the moat valuable part of the Sovriaes dominions, could not fail to be followed by immense advantage to the Turkish Government and the people of the country through which it passed. During his visit to the West the SULTAN must have bad many opportunities of observing the important part which material agencies per form in the work of civilization, and among these the means of easy and frequent com munication are of the first importance. Our Indian administrators could tell him that in our Emden' Empire their operation is of even more rela tive consequence ; that there the newly acquired habit of railway travelling is breaking down the barriers of ignorance and prejudice, and giving to millions of people who before were mutually strangers an interest in each other and in the government which protects them all. There is much in our complex civilization of which the SULTAN cannot be expected to perceive at once the full significance ; but the operation of our material means and instrumentalities of progress is obvious, and the lesson can hardly be lost either upon him or upon the distinguished men by whom he is surrounded. THE Naw BOROUGH or HACINsr.—MF. Charles Reed (Deputy of the ward of Farrinedon Within, and son of the late Rev. Dr. Andrew Reed), has issued an address as a candidate to represent this borough, having received a requisition signed by a large body of electors. Mr. Reed states that he has sprang from the people ; his life has been spent amongst them ; his sympathies are with them ; and his highest ambition is to serve them. The guiding principles of his political life have been freedom in trade, liberty in religion ; and for these principles he wishes to secure the fullest develop ' men. He is of opinion that the large extension of the franchise conceded by the reform bill requires a more equitable distribution of seats than could be carried in the present House of Commons, and that for the free exer rise of the suffrage the voter must have the protection of the ballot. He is opposed to all compulsory exactions, and to the appropriation of public money, for religious rupees ; and in the interests of religion and of justice, desires the gradual adoption of those measures of religions equality which will tend to harmonise existing differences between churchmen and dissenters. He would seek the repeal of all taxa which interfere with the industry, and pees unduly on the resources, of the people. He be lieves centralisation to be opposed to the free spirit of our municipal institntlons,and is in favourof load self-govern ment. He would open the national universities to all without distinction of creed. and support any manure for the impartial disendowment of all religious bodies in Ire land. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1867. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (rfils DAY.) flit Erfurt. OSBORNE, JOLT Is. Her Majesty and the royal family, with the exception of Prince Arthur end Prince Louis of Hesse, who accompanied the Sultan back to Portsmouth, returned to Osborne yesterday afternoon at half•past five o'clock, after the naval review. Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse left Osborne for London this morning, attended by Baroneas Schenck and Captain Westerweller. _ BUCKINGHAII PALACE, Jeer 18. -- --- The Viceroy of Egypt, attended by Rughed Psalm and Major-General F. Seymour, C. 8., visited the Sultan at Buckingham Palace this afternoon, when his Highness took leave of his Imperial Majesty, on his departure from England. His Highnem left soon after for Dover. Later in the day Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Captain von Westerweller, visited his Imperial Majesty. Youssoutf Traedin Effendi, attended by Abmed Bey, Salim Bey, and Colonel Hon. A. Liddell, drove out in a carriage and four to the Crystal Palace, and afterwards visited the Thames Tunnel. Shortly before seven o'clock the Sultan, accompanied by the Imperial Princes, and attended by the principal mem bers of his suite as well as by the gentlemen specially appointed by the Queen to attend on his Imperial Majesty, went in state to Guildhall, to be present at the grand entertainment given by the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London. The Great Officers of State of her Majesty's Household were in attendance at Buckingham Palace on his Imperial Majesty's departure to the City. The royal body guard of the Yeomen of the Guard lined the hall and staircase of the palace as the imperial party passed to their carriages. A guard of honour of the Soots Fusilier Guards was mounted in the court of the palace, and an escort of the Royal Horse Guards accompanied the imperial procession (consisting of ten of the Queen's carriages, with the ser vants in state liveries) from the palace to Guildhall. The band of the lit Life Guard', under the direction of Mr. J. Waterson, was in attendance at the Palace this morning, and played a selection of music. The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellis, went to Dudley-house this afternoon to take leave of his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, and attended by Baroness Schenck, Hof Marshal von Westerweller, General Sir William Knollys, viscount Hamilton, Hon. C. Wood, and Captain Ellis, was present at the Lord Mayor's entertain ment to the Sultan at the Guildhall. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards went to the Belgian volunteer ball at the Agricultural Hall, Islington. A deputation from the Eut Riding of Yorkshire Cham ber of Agriculture, consisting of Lord Hotham, M.P., Sir H. Edwards, M.P., Mr. Waterhouse, M.P., Mr. G. Holmes, and Mr. E. Riley, had an interview with Lord Robert Montagu, M.P., at the Privy Council-office, yesterday, to suggest the advisability of branding all cattle on their arrival from abroad, with • view to prevent their being sent into the interior of the country. A deputation from the guardians of the Todmorden Union, consisting of Mr. Joshua Fielden, Mr. Buckley, Mr. Dugdale, Mr. L. Fielden, Mr. Ashworth, and Mr. John Fielden ; and also Mr. E. Akroyd, M.P., Mr. Hornby, M.P., and Sir Francis Crossley, M.P., bad an interview with the Earl of Devon at the oSos of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. Tau QUEEN'S HEALTH.—We have good grounds for stating that the absence of her Majesty the Queen from public evening festivities is really due the fact that agita tion, over-worry, or much talking in the evening is fol lowed by restless nights, most distressing sick headache, and sense of great exhaustion.—Laracd. Tess Pm/wafts or WALES.—We understand that after consultation with Dr. Jenner and Dr. Sieveking, the physicians of the Princess of Wales, it has been ar ranged that her royal highness will visit Wiesbaden at the close of the present season. The waters of Wiesbaden (like those of Bath or Buxton) enjoy considerable repute in convalescence from rheumatism.—Britiak Medical Journal. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will give a grand entertainment to his Imperial Majesty the Sultan this evening at Gloucester House. M. and Madame Van de Weyer had a dinner party on Monday, consisting of the Bishop of Massachu setts, Lord and Lady Wensleydale, the Dean of Wastminster and Lady Augusta Stanley, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Lowther, Mr. and Miss Helps, Mr. and Mrs. Walrond, Mr. Motley, and Mr. Holtzman. Yesterday the marriage of Mr. Hector Stewart vandelenr, lase of the Rifle Brigade, eldest son of Colonel Crofton Moore Vendsleur, M.P., and lady Gram Vends. leer, of Kihash, county Clare, and Mies Charlotte Foster, eldest daughter of Mr. William Ortne Foster, M.P., of Stonrton Castle, Staffordshire, was solemnised at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. BILMBR HOSPIT/I.ITT. The discussion which took place in the House of Commons yesterday, relative to the deficiencies in British hospitality towards foreign princes, is made the subject of comment by several of our contemporaries. The Time,, assuming that the remissness is due to the fact that we do not allow the sovereign the resources or the credits which the French Emperor controls, ventures to add, after Mr. Disraeli's hints yesterday afternoon, that it is not desirable we should. The Civil List is sufficiently ample to meet all ordinary demands, whether of personal expenditure or of royal hospitality, and a single palace affords space enough for the entertainment of royal guests. There is no necessity whatever for an addition to our royal residences. Our resources are sufficient for our wants. As Mr. Gladstone observed yesterday, the Emperor of the French and the King of Italy among existing sovereigns, and the Emperor of Russia and the King of the French, have been entertained during the present reign without complaint and without inconvenience ; and we may hap pily rely upon a repetition of such royal hospitalities whenever the occasion arises for offering them. The Herald thinks if we compare the Queen's privy purse with the ordinary income of other sovereigns, her equals in rank, we shall cease to be surprised at the com plaints which are made of the meagre scale of royal hos pitalities in England. The amount of the civil list is fixed at 385,000/. by the act of December 25, 1837. Of this sum 288,7001. are paid away annually in salaries to the Royal household, in retiring pensions and royal bounties. There remains only 60,0001. for the privy purse, and 36,300/. for general purposes of court expenditure. The Herald is glad to hear that Mr. Disraeli thinks it desirable that a palace should be built and maintained for the express purpose of receiving foreign sovereigns in England, and our contemporary contends that it is the duty of the nation in future to take upon itself this re sponsibility. The Standard trusts the subject will not be allowed to drop. It would cost a large sum of money, of coursej to erect such a palace, but, noblesse 64119 e. The Star observes that if it is unconstitutional for pri vate members to propose grants of public money, it Ps morally as bad for a minister like Mr. Disraeli to draw the House of Commons into lavish habits by cunning sugges tions having no other object than to surround a particular administration with meretricious magnificence, while avoidingithe risks of unpopularity which attend a thrift less policy when honestly and manfully avowed. Pot ITICAL CONSISTENCY. The unopposed re-election of Mr. Selwyn for the Univer sity of Cambridge gives the Times an opportunity for con trasting the present indifference of the university to poli tical principles with its ordinary professions. Had anybody ventured even two months ago to 'avert that Lord Derby and his colleagues were capable of adopting such a policy as Mr. Disraeli has carried out, and borrowing without ac knowledgment, if not without recognition, the programme of Mr. Bright, what a storm of indignant retorts be would have encountered! A prediction of what has actu ally happened would assuredly have been resented as • grow insult, and tew of Mr. Selwyn's supporters would have hesitated to vow that, ooroe what might, they would desert him if be should vote for household suffrage. For alleged inconsistencies altogether trifling when com pared with those of which the present ministry has been guilty, Mr. Gladstone was banished from Oxford. But then Mr. Gladstone changed bis party, and that makes all the difference. Mr. Selwyn has only changed his princi ples, and principles are empty things in the estimation of his constituents, as of the most ignorant elector, without the party interests which give them life and substance. By its sacrifice of personal convictions to public opinion his party has earned the right to reverse the famous vaunt of Francis 1., and to boast that it has saved everything, ex cept its honour. The Standard twits that the extension of the lodger franchise beyond the metropolitan boroughs, the rejection of voting papers, and the cumulative vote, will be reopened in the Houma of Lords, for they have never been the sub ject of earnest national thought ; nor would the Standard care if the prohibition of voluntary compounding were also struck out. At all events these are question, which might very well be referred to a select committee of the foremost men of both parties ; and on which, therefore, the recom mendation of the House of Lords may fairly carry with it sufficient weight to counterbalance • hasty vote of the House of Commons. The necessity of the cumulative vote is • point on which the opinion of one such man as Lord Grey is worth more than that of the majority which con demned it. TAX EKOOND WITHAL The Daily New detcribee a succession of striking inci dent• illustrative of the life and maanen of the young generation who have grown to manhood under the impe rial regime. The late episode in the Senate, in which the insulter of M. de Sainte-Beuve proposed to shoot the in sulted, or run him through the body, by way of a reply to his speech and a refutation of his opinions, is completely thrown into the shade by the personal affrays which have diverted the languid attention of the Parisians for • day or two from the debates in the Corps Legislatif and the eccentricities of their foreign visitors. The peculiarity of those cases is that the principais in both, the Durny brothers and the Cassagnac brothers, are most intimately associated with the existing government, and, according to their own emphatic deciffiation, repre sent the "good society" of their time—the select society, of imperial and official drawing-rooms, as distinguished from the base world of people who are neither functionaries nor flatterers of the government, After going over the prin cipal details the Daily News exclaims:—Such is law, justice, honour, morality, and order under the second empire, or rather in the good society and the official circles of the second empire. It is nut unimportant to the world in general to learn by these examples of what stuff the bril liant civilisation which Imperialism, as inaugurated in France, is composed. It is unnecessary to point the moral of an epoch which such episodes adorn. THE REFORM' BILL IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS THE AMENDMENT TO BE MOVED BY EARL GREY. The following is the resolution which Earl Grey intends to move as an amendment on the motion for the second reading of the Representation of the People Bill in the House of Lords : " That the bill to amend the laws relating to the repre sentation of the people in England and Wales, to which it is asked to assent does not appear to this house to be calculated in its present shape to effect a per manent settlement of this important question, or to promote the future good government of the country ; but the house recognising the urgent necessity for the pawing of a bill to amend the existing system of representation, will not refuse to give a second reading to that which has been brought to it from the House of Commons, in the hope that in its future stages it may be found possible to correct sonic of its faults, and to render it better fitted to accomplish the proper objects of such a measure." The following members composed the minority who voted yesterday against the Irish Rethink Damn : Mears. W. P. Adam, W. S. Allen, A. S. Aran, E. Baines, T. Barnes, J. Candlish, J. Chatham, R. H. Cram turd, Sir F. Crossley, Messrs. L. L Dillwyn, H. E. Ewing, H. Fawcett, C. Gilpin, G. G. Glyn, J. DAllarris, Lord W. Hay, Mr. J. Henderson, Lord Henley, Mears. I. Holden, J. Lamont, 0. Leeman, G. J. Lefevre, A. Lusk, D. M'Laren, J. R. Mills, L. Oliphant, E. Potter, O. Seely, H. B. Sheridan, J. Stansfeld, P. A. Taylor, W. Ilte, B. Whitworth. Tellers, Mr. Hadfield and Sir J. Gray. TEE Naval. Rsvraw.—A fatal accident occurred in one of the forts on the Gosport peninsula during the attack made on the fort by the gunboat flotilla on Wednes day. Two gunners of the Royal Artillery were blown away from the mouth of an 8-inch gun by the premature explosion of the powder charge they were engaged at the time in ramming home in loading the gun. One poor fellow had his left arm carried off near the shoulder, and the other had his left hand and part of the arm, nearly to the elbow, carried away. is The former died in hospital yesterday . The latter may recover, b u t he maimed for ITe r ,tlwill have but • very trifling money recompense for his sufferings and lose, on discharge from the army. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamships Tan jore, Syria, and Ripon returned to Southampton yesterday Imo Portsmouth. and the greeter part of the Other private . steamers that were present at the review returned also yesterday to their several ports. THE NAVAL REVIEW AT SPITHEAD. The following communication has been received by the First Lord of the Admiralty, and has been made known to the officers and men of the fleet : " By command of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, Fluid Pacha requests Mr. Corry, First Lord of the Admiralty, to convey to the Admirals and other officers, and to the ships' companies, of the royal fleet assembled at Spithead, his Majesty's thanks and acknowledgments for the cor dial reception they have given to him, His impenal Majesty desires to add the expression of his admiration at the display which he has wit nessed of the naval power of Great Britain. "July 17." THE VISIT OF THE SOCIETY OP ARTS TO PARIS. The period fixed for the above visit is from Mon day, the 29th of July, to Friday, the 16th day of August, .0 as to include the Napoleon Mee. A reception room has been provided for the use of the members during their stay. where their correspondence may be addressed, and where they will have the convenience of writing letters, making appointments with their friends, and where notices of all arrangements for visits to various plains will be sus pended. Lists of hotels and apartments will also be pro vided there for consultation. The announcement of the intended visit has been received with much cordiality by the French authorities, manufacturers, and others, who have expressed their readiness to aid the society in every posible way. The Minister of Public Instruction has granted special permission to the members of the society to visit the University and Lyeees of Paris. The Prefect of the Seine has promised that the necessary orders shall be transmitted to the 'society to enable the members to visit the catacombs, the sewers, and the municipal establish ments. M. Belgrand, the inspector-general of the water service of the city of Paris, has given instruction' that the great reservoir et MEnilmontant shall be open to the members for a week. The director of the Imperial Observatory has given instructions to admit the members to that establishment. The Director of the Mint has in like manner authorised the visits of the mem bers to that establishment oa two days in the week. The Director of Roads and Promenades of Paris has given permission to visit the Horticultural and other municipal . _ establishments ; and M. Le Play, the Commixnaireekniesi of the Exhibition, hew kiedly offered to do ail in his power to waist the views of the society. The members will be admitted to some of the most interesting and important private establishments in Paris. A reform hae already commenced in the penal establishments in the late Duchy of Nunn. The prisoners at Diets have been freed from the chains and balls which they carried under the barbarous system about to be rap. pressed. _ THE LATH ICIEPEROR MAXINTLIAN.—Yesterday, at the Church of the Sacred Military Order of St. John of Jennelem, Great Ormond-street, there was • solemn Requiem mass for the repose of the soul of the Em peror Maximilian. The mimic was of • very magnificent and in prsrtn character. This morning there was • Requiem Mw, in the presence of Archbishop Manning, at St. Mary's, Moorfielda BIRTH IN • COURT OF JUSTICE.—A married woman, who attended the Kirkdale quarter sessions on Tuesday to give evijenca In a case, was suddenly seized with the pains of maternity and delivered of • fine boy in . an ;iiartment within the precincts of the courthouse before cal aid could be procured. The event having been duly notified to the bench, • meseoger was at sine despatched for • surgeon to give • professional welcome to the little stranger. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (num% man ANL) FRANCE. PARIS, Jots 19. In the Senate, yesterday, the motion that the bill abolishing imprisonment for debt should be sent back to the Corps Legislatif to be reconsidered was rejected by 53 against 48 votes. The eunditt;tiontiel of to-day confirms the statement that the Empress was invited by the Queen of England to be present at the naval review at Spithead. Her Imperial Majesty, how ever, excused herself on account of the late sad events in Mexico. The Queen then begged the Empress to pass a few days with her at Osborne, in consequence of which the Empress will leave for the Isle of Wight on the 22nd instant. Her Majesty will travel incognito. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JULY 19. It is stated on reliable authority that the Prus sian government does not intend that other minis ters besides the Federal Chancellor, Count von Bismarck, should be members of the Federal Council. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JULY 19. A bill been proposed by the Minister of Finance for the modification of newspaper stamps and the abolition of the duty on advertisements, and of stamps for circulars containing advertise menta. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN min A. I, JULY IR. The Ceylon arrived here at 8 p.m. She was de layed by heavy weather. Mails leave for London at 10 p.m. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROM OUR OWX CORIZIPONDRINT.) PARIS, THURSDAY EVINTRO. A letter in the CourKer Francais, signed by a M. Paul Laurent, asks the following " simple ques tions :"—" Why has M. Paul de Csasagnac never mm dergone the two months' imprisonment to which he was sentenced for libel upon MM. Malespin and Gueroult 1 Why has he never suffered the other two months' imprisonment to which he was sen tenced for his duel with M. Rochefort 1 and why was he never prosecuted for his duel with M. Lermina These are questions which really ought to be answered. It is a fearful thing that a professed duellist who boasts, as M. Paul de Cassagnse does in the Pays this evening, of the number of duels he has fought, should, with the encouragement of his father, a government deputy and a government journalist, be let loose to bully political opponents who will not fight him, and be assured that the common law is suspended in his favour. The Patric says : It wee intended that the Empress should be in England during the Mks given to the Sultan, but the mourning of the French court having prevented the realisation of this project, her Majesty has determined to pay a private visit to the Queen of England at Windsor. The Empress will leave Paris on Sunday or Monday. Her stay in England will not exceed 48 hours, and she will perhaps come back by way of Cherbourg. The Bourse closed with scarcely any change from yesterday. Business continues dull. THE IMPERIAL DUELLISTS. In a leading article in the Courrier Francais of to day, M. Vermorel explains and justifies the position he assumed in reference to the attacks of the Csaaagnacs : " If, the other day, in reply to the insults of M. Louis de Canavan, I had broken hie skull or blown out his brains, every one would have said I din right, and no tribunal would bays condemned me. I did not do so, because I had • judicial part to perform, and the mission I had to fulfil was not to inflict death on these people—that would have been doing them too much honour, and giving them the opportunity of appearing victims—but to inflict on them the punishment of public contempt. If I had fought and wounded them, I should be condemned to, and should have to undergo, the penalty of Imprisonment. If I had been wounded they would have been condemned ; but they would not have to undergo imprisonment, and they would have gone on with their insults" In proof of the latter assertion, M. Vermorel publishes the following letter, with the heading of " Plain ques tions":—" Why did not M. Paul de Cassagbac undergo the two months' imprisonment which he was condemned to for libelling lIM. Malespine and Gueroult ? Why did he not undergo his two months' imprisonment for his duel with M. Rochefort ? Why did he not suffer the penalty of the law for his last duel with M. Lermina?" It is expected that the King and Queen of Portugal will arrive in Paris on Saturday next. Their Majesties will reside at the Palace of the Tuileries, and will be received at the station of the Northern Railway with the same ceremony which attended the reception of the sovereigns who have come officially to the French capital. A Paris paper says :—" We have yet a few more of the minor royal people to register as having been re ceived at the Tuileries ; but there are indications of the close of this long and exceptional season. In a few day. the Chambers will be dispersed. Already Paris has lost most of the richer and more fashionable families. The windows of many an hotel are shut, most of the skins are dark, and the furniture is covered with the baggy out of-town drapery. Servants may be seen standing at door ways idling ; tradespeople complain of want of business, and declare this Exhibition year the worst they have known. The Bois de Boulogne is not so gay as it was a few days ago, people are off to the mineral waters, or the pleasurable places on the Rhine. Baden-Baden and Hom burg are filling, we hear ; many of our foreign visitors will this year resort to those pleasant and salubrious regions in order to regain some of the money which Paris has taken away. The railways invite the weary and tired-of-pleasure citizen to Havre, Dieppe, Trouville, and Boulogne. All seasonable signs." Fund Mehmed Pacha, who is now with the Sultan in this country, was the author in his youth of sonic poetry, and published in 1852 en Ottoman grammar, which is much appreciated by savants. He early devoted himself to modern languages, history, law, and social economy. In 1840 he became atradie in the quality of first secretary to the minion of Chekib Effendi in London. In 18-13 he was appointed second interpreter of the Porte at Constantinople, and afterwards made director. Subsequently he was charged to compliment the Queen of Spain on the occasion of her accession to the throne, and he was a most success ful diplomatist at the Court of Madrid_ "There is nothing in him," says a biographer, " which at all resembles the ancient Turk. He speaks French admirably." The daring of one adventurous photographer at the naval review has been chronicled. This resolute man set sail in a small boat from Southse► beach, bearing his apparatus to the No.M•n's Fort, which is now • block of stone just above low water, with a precarious wooden structure on the top of it. He went oat alone in bis undertaking, scarcely venturing to think that the boatman would be able to land him, and utterly ignorant of his chances of returning. However, he was landed success. fully, and forthwith be commenced • scientific struggle with the elements. He had in his ardour neglected to take provisions of any kind. Hungry, drenched, his lens broken, his plates blown about, himself with his head in his camera several times near on being hurled bodily into the sea, with the prospect of having to remain starving at his post until it was possible for the visiting steamer to put off from shore, he battled on undauntedly, and managed to obtain a couple of "negatives." Tired of persecuting him, fortune towards evening rewarded him for his contempt of her. lie was taken on board by a friendly boat that happened to hear of his MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM. BIRMINGHAM, TUVRADAT Nlcirr. A meeting, called by the friends of Mr. Dixon, the candidate in the liberal interest, was held in the Town-ball here to-night, the purpose being to hear an address from Mr. Bright. There was a very large at tendance, and not an available space was left. Mr. Bright entered at a few minutes after 7 o'clock. He vss se. companied by Mr. Alderman WIGGIM (who took the chair), and most of the leaders of the liberal party in the borough. Mr. BRIGHT, who wan received with many rounds of applause, commenced his speech by paying a graceful tribute to the character of Mr. Scholefield, and to the loss which he, as well as the town, had sustained by hi e death. He expressed a hope that in relation to the coming contest no elector would shrink from showing his adherence to those principles of which Mr. Scholefield was so dis tinguished a representative. He reminded his auditory that they were the eons of the men who bad carried the bill of 1832, and urged the present constituency not to forsake the cause which had made the town famous. He diac esae d the circumstances connected with the various Reform Bills which had been introduced to parliament—that of L or d Russell's government, introduced by Mr. Gladstone, had been met by every form of personal animosity. L or d Derby came into power to stem the tide of democracy, and the result had been conversion from the tremendous fruits of a 71. franchise to household suffrage. There was nothing to equal that since the beasts were said to have committed suicide to save themselves from daughter. He described the tory party as wrong, pe r . verse, and intractable. Every good measure was opposed by them. so long as it Wee safe to oppose it ; and when that position became no longer tenable, all opposition rod. denly collapsed, which had been the case in respect to the Roman Catholic Emancipation of 1829, and of the Repeal of the Corn-laws. They saw starvation staring • portion of the population in the face, and a famine in Ireland ; but it was only after immense agitation that they discovered 'the corn-laws were bad. The same tory party had now passed • reform bill, admitting working men to the I suffrage in greater numbers than bad ever been cue templated in any bill ever introduced to parliament by any party. Hereafter the tories would show the same persistent and unchangeable resistance to every improve. ment. When the Speaker the other night put the final question, that the bill be read a third time, not even the very faintest cheer issued from the lips of one of those who sat on the tory side. The bill was, in fact, the child, the offspring of the ambition of one !Mu He had never heard from that party one word of kindly sympathy for those to whom the bill proposed to give the franchise ; but from what was rumoured in reference to the course about to be taken by the other branch of the legislature the bill was likely to become the law of the land. The whole question as to the amount of good it might bring ►bout to the country depended on the future, and on whether constituencies like this exercised their powers with wisdom and fidelity. The votermust have the shelter of the ballot, and be mean. mended reform leagues to continue their organisation until that was obtained. The hon. gentleman discussed at length the Irish question and the Irish church, and west on to remark that hitherto everything of a liberal ten. dency that had been carried out had been done by the towns ; they had bad little help from the counties. That must be remedied by future legislation. Passing to the contest going on, he said Birmingham occupied • proud position in 1832, Manchester in 1846, and Birmingham spin in 1867. That town had again to speak, and must answer before many days were over. Let them now return the right man to parliament, showing that the coned. tuency was faithful to the principles it had ever professed. In allusion to the objections which had been raised to kis taking • part in the contest, he said that his own interest in the result was direct and overwhelming. No man's interest was so great in the return of the liberal candidate. They owed to him (he said) allegiance to their own principles, and for the manner in which be had endeavoured to enforce them. Was be to be only nominally their representative! Was his authority to be struck down by joining him to a colleague whom vote would destroy the force of his? Better far that be should cease to be their representative, or retire from parliament, than that he should be content to sit and speak aed vote with a divided and enfeebled authority. He gathered from their cheers what the verdict of Birming. ham would be in this contest, but he should indeed despair of his country if this town which bad so long held • foremost place amongst liberal constituencies should fall away from the principles it had so long professed. (Great cheering.) He implored them to give him • colleague with whom he could act in harmony as he did with Mr. Scholefield, for the welfare of that great community and the country, in the defence and maintenance of those principles which he believed to be inseparable from the happiness and grandeur of the country. The bon. gentleman, who spoke for an hour, oat down amidst many rounds of applause. A vote in favour of Hr. Dixon was passed. The contest is becoming extremely hot, and the town is in an excitable state. MR. GOLDWIN SMITH AND THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. Mr. Goldwin Smith has addressed the following letter to the Afar4rJ4sier Guardian : " Bir,-1 have just read your article of Tuesday, is which you accuse me of having ' characteristically' volts of ninepins and murder' as mere ' aberrations.' When letter the Dai! you made chaste g ainst whichxa, to th wo y rds o. of my were referring, were before you. They were as fol low, This (the unionist) movement taking place in • class imperfectly educated, and through the de fect of our institutions, politically isolated, was too sum to be attended with many aberrations, and some mimes ; though we have had nothing nor, unless the Times is al lowed to guide us, shall we have anything, like the fearful ins urrections which marked the great labour Mail . ' of the middle ages. The aberrations must be corrected by knowledge, to which, if it is offered in the right spirit, these men seem by no means unwilling to give ear. The crimes mud be punished by justice. Unfortunately the criminals a thin instance hold certificates of indemnity, and are M large with their infamy upon their heads, to the grace of justice and the pollution of the community, IA And further on: I spoke of these outraged to ' a portentous case' and as ' barbarous crime I leave your accusation then to the judgment of any ones in whom the beat of controversy has not extilcuellet respect for the personal character of opponents an reitue_ for the laws of honour. You contnuit my private wme my public influence over the unionists. I can hi" no private influence over them, because I have no pr: rate relations with them—because I have never led any connection or intercourse with them whatever. I watch the movement as an independent economist, dell , ' ring its aberrations and condemning its crimes, thargb the same time not failing to mark the aberrations of those who, ignorant of the nature of the Crisis at which we bare arrived, would goad society into • polity of violent tr pression which could lead to nothing but disaster.—l arc air, your obedient servant.—Gowwirs Strati." MR. LLOYD GARRISON IN THE NORTH. -0 11 Friday last Mr. Lloyd Garrison, who is at present on • visit to the north, was presented with a congratulator, address on the abolition of slavery by the Lilies Ewan°. potion Society of Edinburgh. On Wednesday the Town Council of Edinburgh resolved to present Mr. Garrison with the freedom of the city in consideration of " loft and meritorious exertions to abolish slavery in North America." The ceremony of presentation was to take plat* yesterday. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—At the monthly general meeting bold yesterday at the Society's house in Han over. square, Dr. .T. E. Gray, F.A.S., in the chair, Viscount Dunlo, Viscount Chelsea, Lord Thurlow, Lord Clinton, M.P., Sir R.. Brownrigg, Bart., Sir R. T. Gamut Bart., Sir L Damn, Bart., Major-General Sir Wm. Ingilhls K.C.8., Royal Artillery, Maior-General Sir A. Bogle. Lieutenant - Colonel K. Jopp, Lieutenant John C. Horv, Captain Jos. Gunter, Captain W. Blacker, Captain Thoo. Lambert, Mir G. T. Smith, bliss E. Buchanan, Mrs. L Walker, Mrs. A. A. Hope, Mrs. J. R. Fenwick, Mrs. A. Morrison, Mrs. Willi*, Mrs. Miller. and Messrs. G. Goldney, M.P., A. Perkins, C. Treed, G. Herring, T. A. Perry, C. Musgrove, G. Fleming, J. A. Jackson, H. Fel* lock, J. W. Huddleston, S. Courtaulil, I'. Krell , Wm. Bowie, C. Grinnell, C. Proteins, W. L. Wilkinson, J. Saunders, L. Fort, D. M. O'Conor, E. Genial. T. J. Sherwood, Wm. Mollison, B. &obeli. D. Macgillivral. A. J. Schwabe, W. P. Livingston, J. W. Safe, H. Parka. H. Schlesinger, H. H. Smith, J. Hoyle, T. V. Robert'. W. H. Fryer, H. Waller, S. Laing, jun., G. It. Weiner, R. P. Maxwell, G. V. Hill, J. Harrison, B. Flerning,K Clifton, F. C. J. Reecho, W. C. Gosling, H. St. J. P owell. John G. M`Kirdy. and P. Graham, were elected fellows ; and Dr. Ernest Haeckel, profaner of zoology in the 1 11 t• varsity of Jena, and Mr. G. F. Westerman, director of do Amsterdam Zoological Gardens, foreign members Mr. A. A. Van Bsmmelin, director of the Zooleco. Gardens of Rotterdam, • corresponding member of tlo society. Twenty-eight candidates for the fellowship wee proposed, and ordered to be balloted for at the rod monthly meeting of the society. Mr. al tap of 1 Cher he I complete Wisems2 his appoi of exprea On the Colon; continuli begun by attended ALL] The I held at n chair. 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