The Express. — London, England, 1867-06-27 00:00:00

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It is not easy to say what is the cause that makes most Railway Boards so slow to give their passengers the means of protection against tire, violence, or outrage. Worldly wisdom it cannot be, for there is no doubt that their refusal costs them the loss of fares. Mechanical difficul ties it cannot be, for some railways supply such means, more or less perfect ; and what some do all might do. Red tape they disclaim, affirming that they are eager to discover a satisfactory method, and have spent thousands of pounds in experimentiug. Yet foreign railways have pro vided means of communication between passengers and the guards. It may he remembered, also, that the Queen, a few years since, wrote a letter to the chief companies, calling their atten tion to the fact that when she travelled special precautions for her safety were employed, and urging that her subjects might have the same securities. We read that in her last journey from Scotland each carriage in the Royal train was provided with an electric communication with the guard, and it is certainly not the fact that such comforting resources are afforded as yet to her people. Little light has been thrown on the subject, either by the Report of the Commission on Rail ways or by the debates in Parliament on the Bill for enforcing a means of communication. The former body declined to recommend any plan, and suggested no other means of attaining the desired result than that of leaving the responsibility to the companies, and giving to the passengers a right of action. This idea is very good if it could be pet in practice. Nothing is sounder in prin ciple than that of leaving responsibility to discover its own means of protection, and of enforcing responsibility by recognition of individual rights. But it is to be feared that the practical applica tion of the remedy would reveal great difficulties. A railway company cannot be made liable for acts which no care could in any place prevent. A maniac may enter, a man may intoxicate himself after he has taken his seat, a murderous assault may be made on the instant, such as even the presence of a policeman could not prohibit. The question of due precaution must therefore always be left to a jury. But juries would be greatly puzzled if asked to say in all intermediate cases whether the injury could have been obviated by proper communication or proper patrolling. They would be obliged to sit in judgment on all known means of effecting these objects, and required to fix on some one which the company should have adopted, or else to declare that there were none. This is to impose on them too heavy a scientific burden. On the other hand, the mere enacting that all companies shall provide some mode of communication leaves open a door for very easy evasion. The mechanical genius of the country has been called upon, and, as railway directors triumphantly maintain, it has failed to provide any method which is satisfactory. If this be true, the enactment that some method shall be employed must prove equally unsatisfactory. But what if railway directors have imposed on mechanical invention conditions which make success practically impossible They have said, ' Find out means by which the guard can be warned to stop the train, but make them so difficult to be used that no one shall stop the train except on dire emergency.' Acting under these instructions, nothing has been attempted but some telegraph system to the guards' van, fenced by a glass plate, which mint be broken before the apparatus can be reached, made com plicated by directions, difficult of access, and after all serving only to inform the guard that for the relief of one some hundreds of passengers must be disturbed and delayed. But this is not at all what the public wants. It desires a simple, easily accessible, and unmistakeable means by which any one who is suffering can call assistance. But it does not in the least want to stop the train. It has no more desire to stop the train than it has to stop the performance at the Opera in case a lady faints in her box, or to rouse at night every inmate of an hotel by the clang of an alarum bell in case a gentleman's nose bleeds in his bedroom. In both instances assistance is wanted, and the power of easily summoning it on such small occasions is equally effectual for secu rity against deeds of violence. But railway com panies answer that the cases are not parallel, because the trains they are required to furn;sh attendance for are in motion. And this brings us to the ultimate question, Is there room for a guard to pees up and down on the trains or not ? If there is, of course he may be rung for as easily as a waiter ; if there is not, and cannot be room, the companies have reason on their side. But on this critical question facts are against them. Not only do the American carriages admit of circulation throughout the train, but the Swiss, some of the Italian, some of the Austrian, and some of the Russian do. Mr. HAWKSHAW, our own leading railway engineer, in his evidence before the Commission, described a Russian car riage which allowed communication between every compartment, and which ho said might be put on one of our own lines to-morrow. Re observed, also, that with very few exceptions our railways were all wide enough to allow of the guard THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1867. passing along the footboards at every point, 1 but that it was attended with danger to the guard. But why should not the simple arrjuigementa often suggested for obviating I that danger be adopted ? Instead of requiring I the guard to hold on by his hands, and swing I himself from carriage to carriage, at the risk of falling off or of being dashed against some bridge or passing train, why should he not be furnished with an outside handrail, whichwouldmake falling oil' an impossibility, and confine his movements within the distance of safety ? In such an arrangement there is no practical difficulty, for it only renders safe what is already sometimes done subject to peril. There is little expense, for the carriages need no alteration. There is no facility provided for intrusion, for the carriages may remain constructed as at present. But there would be the comfort of knowing that help was always at hand, and was within reach by a touch on a cord, or a handkerchief waved from a window. Above all, there would be the greatest of all se curities, in the knowledge that at any moment a guard might chance to pass on his rounds. This is what the public wants, and railway directors had best recognise the fact, for it is certain they will never be free from reproach while they refuse to provide for it. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (TillS DAY.) The Standard is in favour of the despatch of an expedi tionary army, eight or ten thousand strong, to Abyssinia, although it does not lose sight of the possibility that on the first news of the landing of a British army on the coast, Theodore, in a fit of revengeful phrsusy, may order the instant execution of his captives. Nevertheless, we shall virtually abandon our position of mistress of the East—nay, more, we shall relinquish our position among the nations of Europe, if we suffer this crying wrong to go unredressed. The Tdegraph, discussing the same question, says let the government make up its mind to demand the release of Major Cameron and his companions under pain of war, and it will find the English people ready to support the mission. Before, however, the ministry can be expected to undertake such a responsibility, the House of Commons and the public must be prepared to back it unflinchingly, and with the fullest recognition of the vastness of the sa crifice which the struggle may demand. Eli, Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, irme Her Majesty and the Queen of Prussia drove out yesterday afternoon. Countess Blucher bad the honour of accompanying their Majesties. Princess Beatrice drove out in an open carriage. Prince Leopold also drove out, attended by Mr. Legg. Prince and Princess Louis of Ilene, attended by Baroness Schenck, Captain von Westerweller, and Dr. Becker, and Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Lord Alfred Paget, went to London last evening, to be present at the State nail at Buckingham Palace. The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, drove in the grounds this morning. Princess Louise arrived at the Castle this morning from London, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Colonel Cavendish, Groom in Waiting. Her Majesty held a council this afternoon at three o'clock, at which were present the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Devon, and the Right Hon. If. T. Lowry Corry. Previous to the council the Earl of Devon bad an audience of the Queen, and delivered up to her,lLajesty the meals of his office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan. caster. After the council Colonel John Wilson Patten was in troduced, and sworn in Chancellor of the Duchy and County Paditine of Lancaster. Mr. Gooch, secretary to the duchy council, administered the oaths. The Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Right Hon. H. T. Lowry Corry, bad audiences of the Queen. Mr. Helm; was Clerk of the Council. Viscount Strathallan and Colonel Cavendish, the Lord and Groom in Waiting, were in attendance. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday morning at a half•yearly meeting of the Governors of the Wellington College, at the New Palace, Westminster. In the afternoon his Royal Highness, accompanied by Prince Louis of Hesse and Prince Edward of Sax Weimar, and attended by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, drove to the Crystal Palace, and was present at the concert in aid of the restoration funs' for the portion of the Palace recently destroyed. In the evening the Prince of Wales dined with the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, at their residence, St. James's-square. A meeting of the Governors of Wellington College was held in the Fine Arts Commission room, at the Palace of Westminster, yesterday. A deputation introduced by Mr. C. Turner, M.P., Mr. R. N. Phillips, M.P., Mr. G. C. Legh, M.P., and Lieutenant-Colonel Gray, M.P., and consisting of repre sentatives from certain turnpike trusts situated wholly or in part in the counties of Lancaster, Chester, and York, had an interview with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy at the Home-office, yesterday, in refe rence to the Turnpike Trusts Bill now before parliament. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the governors of Malta, Gibraltar, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Straits Settlements, the Australian Colonies, the Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, and NataL We are authorised to state that her Majesty's state ball, announced for Wednesday, the 3rd of July, has been postponed till Friday, the nth of July. HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING Room.--(Tais DAY.) —By command of the Queen, a drawing-room was held to day at St. James's by her Royal Highness Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland on behalf of her Majesty. The Prince of Wales, attended by Colonel Keppel, honoured the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough with his company at dinner last evening, at the family mansion in St. James's•square. The following company were present :—The Marquis of Aberoorn, the Duchess of San Arpino, the Earl and Countess Vane, the Karl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, the Marquis of Blandford, Lord and Lady Rendlesham, Hon. Charles Carington, Hon. Oliver Montagu, &c. In the evening the Duchess of Marlborough had a small dance. Prince Arthur of England was present on Mon day evening, in the imperial box, at the Opera Comique, to see the performance of Miyaon. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Tyrwhitt, dined with Sir Anthony and Lady Rothschild last evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-place Houses. There were present the French Ambassador, the Duke of Wellington, the Meequis and Marchioness of Westminster, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, Viscount and Viscoun tess Royston, Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea, Lady Susan Vane Tempest, Mr. and Mrs. Holford, &c. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz dined with Maria Mar chioness of Ailesbury last evening at her residence in Hertford-street, Mayfair. There were present the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Earl of Sefton, the Earl of Bective, the Earl and Countess of Besaborough, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord and Lady Rokeby, Lord l'roby, Lord and Lady Charles Bruce, the Right Hon. Sir Alexander Cockburn (the Lord Chief Justice of England), Hon. Mr. Calthorpe, The Comte and Comtosse de Paria dined with the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer List evening. The party consisted of the Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope, the Earl and Countess of Cork, the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue and Frances Couuteu Waldegrave, the Earl of Clarendon and Lady Emily Villiers, Lord and Lady Lyveden, Prince Alphonse de Chimay, M. and Madame Laugel, Meddle. d'Heime, M. I Bonney de Casteau ; and Madlle. Boerio, in waiting upon l i her Royal Highness the Comteue de Paris. Yesterday forenoon the Princess Mary Adelaide of Tack was eburched in the private chapel at Kensington Palace. The Rev. Ryan Nepean, canon of Westminster, performed the ser►ice. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits accompanied her sister to the chapel. The princess took a carriage drive in the afternoon. Yesterday afternoon, as her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, scoompenied by Lady Caroline Barring ton and Colonel Cavendish, was being driven in one of the Queen's carriages along Pall-moll, one of the horses got his leg over the pole of the carriage, and in its struggles in jured the other horse, and brought it down also, falling on the carriage pole, and breaking it off sharp, so that the coachman lost all control over his horses. The Princess Louise and Lady Caroline Barrington alighted, and were conducted by Colonel Cavendish to Marlborough House. After some delay the horses were extricated from the har ness, and got up and taken to the royal mews. Last night Lady Otho Fitzgerald gave her first useinely this season at her residenoe on Carlton-house terrace. Previously to her ladyship's reception the noble lord and lady were honoured by the company of the Prince of Teck at dinner, when there were present the Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis and Marchioness Camden, the Earl and Countess of Dartrey, Lord and Lady Egerton of Tat ton, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lady de L'lsle, Count Maffei, Sir Hedworth Williamson , M.P., Mr. Butler- Johnstone, M.P.. Mr. Napier, Mr. Petre, THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCAmTTE,—MmuIiky next has been fixed for the re-elec tion of Colonel Wilson Patten, !be new Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The proceedings will take place in the Shire-hall, Lancaster. Colonel Patten ham been one of the members of North Lancashire between 30 and 40 years. There is no talk of any opposition, and his re elation may be put down as certain. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (Bienca's TJLEGRAM3.) FRANCE. PARIS, JUNE 27. The monetary commission met yesterday. Their next sitting will be held to-morrow. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JUNE 27. On the anniversary of the battle of Koniggratz the new army corps will be presented with their colours. THE NORTH SCHLESWIG QUESTION. COPENHAGEN, Jure 27. The Dagblad of to-day, in its French review, asys that the guarantees demanded by Prussia fur the German inhabitants of North Schheig form only a subordinate part of the question. The ne- gotiations in reality turn upon the recovery of Alsen and Duppel. The writer points out that the Danish government could not possibly with draw behind the national lines so plainly marked by the elections to the North German parliament. The Schleswig Danes," says the Dagblad," would prefer the common lot of slavery until the great day of liberation should dawn." ITALY. FLORENCE, Jut 27. In consequence of the suppression of the chief military commands, General Cialdini has, it is said, tendered his resignation. The Chamber has approved the budget of the Ministry of War, with a reduction of six millions of lire. ALLOCUTION O# THE POPE. ROME, JUNE 26. The Pope in a public consistory held to-day, which was attended by 400 bishops, pronounced an allocution, in which ho praised the zeal of the bishops in coming to Rome, and their attachment to the Holy See. Nothing, he said, was more beautiful than that example of the union of the church to celebrate the canonisation of martyrs and the centenary of St. Peter. When the enemies of the catholic church see this union they could com prehend her immense power and the error of those who declared her to be antiquated. The union of the bishops and the vicar of Christ would always tend more and more to strengthen the church. His holiness confirmed the condemna tion of errors already condemned by the allocution of 29th October, 1865, and expressed the ilehire to convoke as soon as a fitting occasion should offer an wcuntenical council to repair the evils which oppressed the church, and to point out the nec.ii sary remedies. The Pope concluded by recom mending prayers to God and the Immaculate Virgin, and by giving the bishops his apostolic benediction. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (IEOI 01311 Olpr COMIIMPOIDIMIT.) PARIS, WEDNZSDAT EVENING. There was a grand debate in the Senate yester day on a petition of certain " clericals" of St. Etienne, oomplaining that in the " popular library" of that town, under the patronage of the municipal council, there were to be found the works of Vol taire, Rousseau, Michelet, Ronan, George Sand, Proudhon, Pelletan, and many other standard productions of French literature. Senator Suin made a report some days ago, strongly recommend ing that the petition should be referred tl govern ment for the purpose of taking action upon it. The report was received with boisterous approbation by the majority of the Senate which thought it mon strous that the common people should have facilities for reading any books but those which their betters might think good for them. On the adjourned debate yesterday, M. Sainte Beuve, one of the youngest senators, who was appointed by the Emperor on account of his great merit as a critic and essayist, made a speech against the report. Baron Dupin, cheered on by admiring auditors, made a speech quite worthy of a member of the Inquisition, and taking it for granted throughout that the Senate was an infallible authority to de cide what literature the people might read. M. lsaroche, who spoke from the government ' bench, threw cold water upon Baron Dupin's and M. Suites virtuous indignation. He thought the report greatly " exaggerated," but he did not oppose the reference of the petition to government, upon the understanding that it would be only used as an indication of opinion with reference to a decree some time in preparation regulating the management of those new institutions, " popular libraries," which are quite distinct from the old communal libraries. The government will probably endeavour not to offend consciences in districts where the clericals are strong, but will certainly not adopt any such sweeping interdiction as the Senate would like to see. The Bourse closed weak, with scarcely any change. STATUE OP AR. COBDEN IN SALFORD. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Noble's statue of Cobden was formally unveiled in the Peel-park, Salford. This is one of the three parks thrown open to the people as recreation grounds by the munificent subscriptions which were raised more than 20 years ago. The park already contained four other statues by the same sculptor, -one of the queen, which her Majesty has visited and greatly admired ; one of the Prince Consort ; one of the late Mr. Brotherton, member for the borough; and one of the statesman after whom the park is named. It was the first statue of Sir It. Peel that was raised in this coun try. Salford has had every eacouragement to persevere in employing Mr. Noble, for the marble statues of the Queen and Prince have withstood unstained the sooty atmosphere of the place, and his latest work is so admirable a likeness of Mr. Cob den as to have provoked comparisons with the Manchester statue, to the prejudice of the latter - the more favourable first impression being largely due ' no doubt, to the superior brightnem of marble to bronze. The statue has been seen and highly commended by Mrs. Cob den, and by many of Mr. Cobden's most distinguished associates. The figure is colossal, and of the best Cam panella marble, so called from its sounding like a bell when struck. It is of remarkably hard and durable quality, and of a pleasing light grey colour. Mr. Cobden is represented in the ordinary drew of an English gentle man, and in an attitude of quiet dignity, one hand holding some papers, while the other, his left, slightly supports the head, which is bent downwards as if in deep thought. The pedestal is of the finest Aberdeen granite, from the quarry of Messrs. M'l)onnell and Field, 12 feet high, and of a grey colour several degrees darker than the statue. On the four sides of the plinth are inscribed these four mottoes, em bodying Mr. Cobden's own leading principles as a states man :-" Repeal of the Corn Laws, " English and French Treaty of Commerce," " Education and Free Trade." '• Peace and Non-intervention." On the abaft of the pedestal there is the all-sufficient word, "Cobden." The ceremonial -uncovering of the statue-had been repeatedly postponed through some difficulty in arranging a day upon which it might be con veniently conducted by one of Mr. Cobden's oldest coadjutors in the anti-corn-law struggle, Mr. Villiers, M.P., who was prominent as a parliamentary advocate of free trade before Mr. Cobden entered public life. As Mr. Villiers yesterday said, addressing the nume rous audience of ladies and gentlemen who were present, it is 30 years since he emne from afar to visit Manchester for the purpose solely of making Mr. Cobden's acquaint ance, having been prompted to do so by the perusal of one of his earlier literary productions. When he observed the wisdom and enlightenment that appeared in that early work he became most anxious to be acquainted and take counsel with the author upon the sub ject of repealing those unrighteous laws which tam pered with the food of the people. Mr. Cobden at that time was reluctant to believe that the reformed parliament, as it was then called, would not repeal the corn laws, whereas the probability was that had the corn laws not existed that parliament would have enacted them, so greatly strengthened were the interests which favoured them, by the Reform Act, much to the disappointment of its framers. Mr. Villiers entered into a comprehensive view of Mr. Cobden's career and character, especially vindicating him from the charge of being either an agitator or a visionary. The late hour at which the proceedings took place precludes a more extended report. • - Among the gentlemen who assisted on the OCCIIAOII were Mr. George Wilson, Mr. Cheatham, M.P. Mr. M. Ross (president of the Chamber of Commerce), the Mayors of Salford and Manchester, and Mr. Wright Turner, el mayor of Salford, who was chairman of the erection committee. Sir George Stucley to-morrow will ask the Vice- Presideut of the Council whether it is not expedient that enclosed markets, provided with lairs and slaughter. houses, should be established at the ports where the entry Of foreign cattle is permitted ; that markets should be held there ; that buyers should buy u at other markets; that cattlgshould not be removed alive, but killed or re tained alive in lairs ; and that importers not selling on one market day might hold the cattle over to the next. Mr. AClanil, on third reading of tho Church Rates Abolition Bill, will move that the bill be re-com mitted, for the purpose of considering the following ad ditional clause :—" The restoration or rebuilding of any church situated in • parish in which a landowner has land, or the building of • new church in such pariah, shall be deemed to be an improvement of land within ' The Im provement of Land Act, 1864,' and all the provisions of the said •ct shall apply accordingly ; moreover, for the purposes of the said act as amended by this section, an archbishop, bishop, rector, or vicar, or other person holding ►ny ecclesiastical benefice, shall be deemed to be • land owner in respect of the lands held by him in respect of his pee or benefice." The select committee on the Oxford and Cam bridge Universities Education Bill immix's!, of the follow ing members :—Mr. Ewart, Viscount Cranborne, Mr. Gladstone, Sir W. Heathoote, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Selwyn, Mr. W. E. Forster, Mr. Liddell, Mr. C. Fortescue, Mr. B. Hope, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. B. Cochrane, Mr. Neste, Mr. Sclaterßooth, Mr. Goschen, Mr. Powell, Mr. Pollard- Urquhart, Mr. W. Egerton, Mr. Acland, Sir M. H. Beach, and Mr. Grant Duff. A letter from Dublin says :—" The old Pagan fire-worship still survives in Ireland, though nominally in honour of St. John. On Sunday night bonfires were ob served throughout nearly every county in the province of Leinster. In Kilkenny fires blazed on every hillside at In tervale of about a mile. There were very many in the Queen's County, also in Kildare and Wexford. The effect in the rich sunset appeared to travellers very grand. The people assemble and dance round the fires, children jump through the flames, and in former times live coals were carried into the corn fields to prevent blight. Of course, the people are not conscious that this midsummer celebra tion is a remnant of the worship of Baal. It is believed by many that the round towers were intended for signal fires in connexion with this worship." NATIONAL REFORM UNION.—The National Re form Union have called a third meeting at St. James's Hall, on Friday evening next, for the purpose of protesting against the re d istribution scheme of the government. end to demand adequate representation for the metropolitan and other large borough constituencies. Mr. Geom. Wilson (of Manchester), the veteran chairman of the old Anti-Corn•law League, will preside on the occasion. Mr. Jacob Bright will als o be preseat aan tether with Mr. John Stuart Mill, M.P., and other gea THE SHF.TFIRLD ATROCMER. Despite the angry denial of complicity on the part of other trades, the Tines insists that the system in vogue at Sheffield has been by no means so eaceptional in character or so limited in extent as was at first believed. Our contemporary refers to the evidence taken within the last few days in support of its charge. The extracts it gives show that besides Broad head, five secretaries and a president of es many different unions were all engaged as accessories before or after the fact in murderous or sanguinary outrages for purposes of trade. Committees of unions are seen either actually paying the blood money for these deeds, or allow ing funds to be abstracted for the purpose without ob servation or inquiry. A large employer of labour consents to hire out one of his own men to shoot a particular stetim, and con2ea's the whole story for ten years together. A score or two of persons, at the least, must have had more or less cognis .nce of the character and origin of these atrocities, and while not one man was found to come forward and give a clue to their origin, the loudest denun ciations of the sy.tain were uttered by those who at the very moment were actually engaged in it. In another article the Tunes, treating of Mr. Bright'e speech to the Fishmongers' Company, suggests that the hon. member for Birmingham now tremble* for the results of household suffrage, and that possibly his misgivings are in the direction of those skilled artisans, the trades unionists, whom last year's bill would have more particularly enfranchised. According to the Time* the murderous wretches whose confessions have appalled the British public as much as the doings of Hare, Burke, and other monsters of crime, are the Brahminical caste in the scale of industry. The Herald thinks that several questions still remain to be answered by trades' unions. Is rattening, even in its milder forms, to be reprobated? Is the concealing of a man's bands justifiable? May an obstinate file-manufac turer's cistern of hard water be pieroed, so that the water proper for hie trade shall run away? May his books be abstracted? May machine bricks be squirted with tar? And how about picketing' May men be called foul and dishonouring names in the Queen's highway ; women be stopped and their p.reels overhauled in the street ; or, as in the case of Margaret Rattenbury, be followed home and bullied into accepting Bie. a week from the union instead of Ms. from Mr. Bowater, though she has to support three children and a husband dying of consumption? Where does intimidation begin, and where does outrage end? PROBABLE REAR' LTS OF THE REFORM BILL. Glancing at the probable party results of the Reform Bill—a point which Mr. Disraeli by communication with election agents endeavoured at the outset to ascertain — the Daily News proceed., to observe that of the electors, the great proportion would if equally polled be advanced liberals. But they will not be equally polled. The large towns will send up for the moat part the same men, while in the small towns the votes of agricultural labourers will in many c wee convert the boroughs from being semi liberal into being wholly tory, each seat thus gained being as good for party purposes in the House of Commons as a seat for the Metrop dis or for Manchester. Not a single small borough is to be disfranchised, and no grouping even is sanctions I left any independence should have a chance. In the counties the 121. tenancy being unattended with any necessity for residence or even for being c ,mbined with a house at all, will give to every estate as many vet TB as are represented by its total rental divided by 12. Since the bulk of the land is in tory hands, this I .vours a universal tory majority in counties. But, t r make assurance doubly sure, • boundary commis sion is to perambulate En . land, to cut off from the counties the "tibial"s of all the boroughs within their limits, and so, again, to exclude the influence of any independent ele ment. Equal justice would naturally assign to the same commission the duty of cutting off the portions of agricultural districts which have been added to many of our small boroughs. But thin would either restore the borough to independence, or would show its real population to be so small, that it must fall under the next disfranchising schedule. So, though manu factures are to be expurgated from counties, agriculture is still to be an ingredient of boroughs, and the new members assigned to both boroughs •ed counties are at tho Nuns time arranged so scientifically that they cannot fail in some places to add to • conservative county representa tion, in others to neutralise a neighbouring but now severed, liberal constituency. Similar principles rule the arrangements in Scotland, and Mr. Disraeli, there can be little doubt, believes he has secured to him self a parliamentary majority at the next election, and thin majority though a false representation of the country, can only be thrust aside by agitation, a new reform bill, and • second election. This is what the good-natured heedlessness of liberal members in the present parliament may be preparing for us. By giving Mr. Disraeli's arrange ments • majority at every division they are making their own exclusion from office, for at least the endurance of another parliament, a dead certainty. MISCELLANY.OI'SI TOPICS. The Times shows that the Libel Bill, which passed through committee on Tuesday night, embodies no principle which need alarm the most zealous censor of the newspaper press. As the bill now stands, a true report of speeches at a "meeting lawfully assembled fora lawful purpose, open to reporters, and at which reporters were present for the purpose of reporting such proceedings for the public newspapers," ceases to be action able; but the publisher of a newspaper in which the report of a libellous statement shall have appeared will be compelled to print in a conspicuorss place an explanation or contradiction thereof on demand from the party aggrieved, and the persona using the defamatory language will be liable to an action. Surely it is far better to sup press libel at its source than to punish those who innocently circulate it. Commenting upon German affairs, the Daily Newa re. marks that the next step towards the great goal of all German aspirations—uational unity—ice the reconstitution of the commercial union, to which wit only the North German Confederation will belong, but those Southern states which, lying beyond the Confederation, and bound to it by all the ties of • common country, will be ad mitted. Iltraria has already led the way. The Post notices with much plesaure an announcement that next year it is her Majesty's intention to hold draw ing -rooms In person, and urges that the ceremony should take place, not in St. James's Palace, but in Buckingham Palace. Why, it asks, should not the gardens be beau tified and thrown open on such occasions, and why should they not partake more nearly of the character of what are celled " breakfasts," instead of consisting as they do of a mere marching past? Another grievance is the court dress, which is now an anachronism and is unbecoming. It would be far better that gentlemen sbou'd he permitted to attend her Majesty's levees in the s mie dress SA they would a roy.l dinner when they arc not entitled to uni form, that is to say, in shorts and silks, or tights, SPAIN. MADRID, JUNE 26. At the sitting of the Congress to-day the Minister of the Interior stated, in reply to a ques tion, that a band of 60 badly armed persons had recently appeared in the vicinity of Madrid, but had withdrawn towards the mountains of Cuenca, leaving several prisoners behind. The minister added that, according to all appearance, public order will not be disturbed in any part of the country. In the senate the proposition of the minority of the committee appointed to examine the budget was rejected by 85 votes to 24. PORTUGAL LISBON, JUNE 27. The Chamber of Peers to-day approved by a large majority the new civil code, the abolition of capital punishment in Portugal, the penitentiary reform bill, and the laws relating to crimes com mitted by Portuguese subjects abroad. The parliament will be closed at 5 p.m. to morrow. BOMBAY MAIL. SUEZ, JUNE 26. The Delhi, from Bombay June 9, anchored at 5 p.m. to-day. OUTWARD MAIL OF JUNE I2—lB. The Salsette leaves for Bombay at midnight. ACCIDENT TO THE NORTH AMERICAN. LIVERPOOL, JUNE The steamer North American, from Quebec on the 15th for this port, vial. St. John's, Newfound land, is reported ashore at Anticosta. OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL. FALMOUTH, JuNE 27. The New York and Havre Company's steamer Guiding Star, Captain Van Sice, Bailed hence at noon to-day, after embarking 55 passengeni . for New York. The total number of passengers on board is 290. AMERICA. (Er ATimmo TISIZGRAPII.) NEW YORK, Jima 2G, i; r.e. It is reported that Maximilian has been par doned, and banished. The royal mail steamship Russia arrived out to-day. The William Penn arrived here to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Cloeing Prices.—Gold, 1381. Sterling exchange on London, 110. 6-20 United State Bonds, 1101 ; Illinois, 1211; Erie, 64. Cotton : Midland Up land, 261. Petroleum, refined, 24. Lord Bath has accepted a special mission to Vienna to convey the Order of tho Garter to the Emperor of Austria. The marriage of Mr. Frank Cavendish Laacelles, Secretary to her Britannia Majesty's Embassy at Paris, son of the Right Hon. Win. S. Lascelles and lady Caro line Lascelles, with Miss Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Joseph 011iffe (Physician to her Britannic Majesty's Embassy at Paris) and Lady Oliffe, was solemnized on Tuesday in the chapel of the British Embassy,. Paris, by the Rev. J. C. Coz, chaplain. Immediately after the wedding, Lord and Lady Cowley. the members of the British Embassy, and the relations of both families, par took of a breakfast at the residence of Sir Joseph 011iffe, after which Mr. and Mrs. Lescelles left for Foptaineblean. The following occupation of the Sultan's stay in Paris immediately after his arrival has been fixed. Satur day, grand reception at the Lyons station, rorlOge to the Elyske, and banquet at the Tuileries ; Sunday, steeple. chase at Vincennes end dinner at the Tuileries ; Monday, distribution of rewards to the exhibitors ; Tuesday, grand review at Longcharops ; Wednesday, ball at the Hotel de Ville ; and Thursday, night fate at the Tuileries. The government of Holland has just made an appeal to medical men who may be willing to serve in the Dutch Indies. Foreigners will be accepted. The Italian journals mention that disturbances took place at Boltate and Melegnano on the occasion of the Corpus Christi. A Verona letter also states that in that city a crowd of people rushed on the prJoession as it left the cathedral. The banners, the canopy, and other objects carried in the cortege were torn and broken ; the canon who carried the Holy Sacrament was thrown down, and the procession, assailed by a shower of stones, was obliged to disperse. The city was afterwards patrolled, ea if during a state of siege. The Abbe Liszt has left Posth for Rome, where Lis oratorio, The Christ, is to be performed on the occasion of the Centenary Mem RUGBY TBRCENTENARK The tercentenary of Rugby School was cele brated yesterday with great festivity. The general holi- day was observed, and the town was quite en flee. The residents displayed oharacteristib determination to show respect to the memory of the illustrious founder of this famous seminary, Lawrence Sheriff. The sm. vices of four bands were engaged. The Odd Fellow s and other friendly societies took part, and the day's rejoicings passed off with great eclat. It being the annual speech day, as well as the tercentenary, the coca. sion drew together a numerous and fashionable assem blage of visitors, including a number of old Rugbeiaus, who thus evinced their attachment to this institution In the morning service was held in the chapel. The sermon was preached by Dr. Temple. The annual speeches began in the great school at three, before a bril liant company. The tercentenary was celebrated in the evening by a banquet at the Town Hall,which was elaborately decorated for the occasion. A large and distinguished company, consisting for the most part of old Rugbeians,was present. The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster presided, and he was supported on the right by the Rev. Dr. Temple, Lord Leigh, the Rev. C. W. Holbech, Mr. \V. Dickens. Colonel Fans, M.P.. the Rev. 11. Biddulph, Mr. T. t'. S. Hynneraley, and Mr. J. E. Curry ; and upon the left by the Bishop of London, the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, the Rev. H. Buckeill, the Venerable Archdeacon Sandford, the Right Hon. G. J. Geechen, 3Ll'., Sir James Ferguson, Bart., M.P., Sir James Stewart, Bart., the Hon. W. Ward, R.N., Mr. C. M. Caldecott, and Archdeacon Philpotts. A number of ladies were present to hear the poatpnusdial speeches. Before the list of toasts was commenced, Mr. Caldecott read the following letter : " Rugby, June 26, 1867.—My dear Mr. Caldecott,— Will you oblige us by handing over the accompanying letter to you committee. It announces a contribution to the Tercentenary funds of 2071. ; and may be entered, we think, as • a token of regard from parents of foundational, and other friends of the school in Rugby.' If you can, I shall be glad if you will let me have the letter again when you have done with it, that I may get the signatures of a few friends who are absent.—Your very faithfully, G. FRYER." (('heers.) The Bishop of LONDON, in reply to a toast to " The Church," said that all great educational institutions in this country, whatever they might be, were con nected with the church. (Hear, hear.) Some great educational institutions had been founded in ill times by famous bishops of the middle ages. The great Chancellor of England, who founded Winchester, lived ins. the recollection of all who were lovers of learning ; but Rugby School, quite ae much as Wiuchester, was con nected with the church. It was not indeed founded by medieval bishops, but it was founded at the time of the Reformation by an English layman of the middle classes. (Hear, hear.) Three hundred years had since then passed, and Rugby School had attained an amount of distinction which probably their founder never contemplated, and it might be that though be desired to promote education in the country, and to do good to the church in this land, yet still he never contemplated how much good might be done by the little seed he then planted. (Cheers.) The time in which he lived was a time when men, who before dedicated their wealth to the foundation of monastic in stitutions, thought it better to dedicate it to places of religions and secular learning, and the great work which he and those who were like minded with him did, had given its character to the church of England ever since. (Cheers.) The church of England, indeed, lived in the associations of the past. It bad never separated itself from the meth:evil church ; but it has learned always to unite itself also with the church of the present and the futons ; and, above all things, where it has beet done its work it has united itself with the edu cation of the whole nation, and has endeavoured also, in remembrance of such founders as he whom they that day commemorated, to bear in mind that the laity were an essential portion of the church. (Hear, hear.) In the middle classes of this country was to be found the strength, not only of their political, but also of their ecclesistical institutions. He had sometimes wondered what it was that gave such marvellous popularity to the life of Dr. Arnold, when it first appeared before the world. True, the character of the man was sufficient to recommend it to persona who were able to enter fully into his sentiments, and to appreciate the greatness of his cha racter ; hut he had a popularity with others beyond those who were thus able to enter into the peculiarities of his character. He thought that his popularity, both in this country and in America, was mainly to be attributed to the fact that in his living he set forth this great lesson, that a man might be fully abreast of the age, and fully understand the wants of the nineteenth century, that he might he a man who entered fully into all the politics of the time in which he lived, and yet be a devoted servant of the church of Christ. (Cheers.) The same thought bad suggested itself to him when their dear friend, who had lately departed from amongst them was so suddenly called to his account. What was it that gave to him that marvellous power in India, so that no bishop that had gone before him, though great were the names of those who had tilled the see, bad had the same influence as be had ? (Hear, hear.) What enabled him to exercise this influence over Gover nor-Generale, over judges, and over military and civil servants of the crown iu that land except that .ame testi mony which his life always bore to the fact that a man zealously devoted to secular cdtication, and fully alive to all the wants of the age in which he lived, could also mani fest to those around him that with all those things he could be a devoted servant of the church of Christ. (Cheers.) They had heard that day, in the solemn service which bad gathered them within that chapel which they all loved— ' (cheers)—and which none of them, he believed,wished to see dutroyed—(renewed cheers)—even though a gorgeous mediaeval cathedral were to rise in its place. (More cheers.) Rut in that chapel they had bawd, that day, that a great public school was the best representation of the church as ' it caine down from the bands of the Apostles ; and cer ; tainly it was his full belief that, during the time of its ex istence, Rugby Scheel had faithfully done it, work as the representative of the church in its bigheA acme. (Cheers.) His own connexion with Rugby was that of a teacher. He hoped he was saying nothing singular for a teacher in i such a position, when be said that he, for one, learned far more than hewn able toteach;and be believed theyears of bie Wrier-ion with that school were the mod valuable years of his life. Rugby School would, he was sure, as long as it lasted havo a great and influential effect upon the church. Men were in the habitof saying that the church of England was going through a great crude. It had gone through a great many crises, and he did not know that the present was worse than any of theme it had gone through before. (Hear, bear.) Rut in this respect it was a crisis—that there was danger in these days lest all laymen who studied doctrinal m►tters should hesitate to become clergymen, and all who abhorred free inquiry should become clergymen. Of all the misfortunes which could befall the church of England it would be the greatest that all the inquiry and all the freedom should he on the aide of the laity, and all the refusal to inquire. and all the falling back on old precedents, should be on the part of the clergy. (Hear.) Rugby School, with its usociations, was • protest against this error. (Hear, hear.) He trusted that the path which Rugby School had hitherto occupied in the church of England would be continued, and that it would produce generation after generation a set of men who, fully entering into the wants of the age, would at the same time show that thee were devoted servants of the church of Christ. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) The Rev. 11M4RT BIDDELPH also respo nded. Sir J. FERGESSON, Bart., proposed, • TLe Almy , Navb and Volunteers." Major MARTINDALE and Captain the Iton. H. C. Wow, R.N., responded. The CHAIRMAN proposed "Floreat Rugbeia." The other toasts on the list were " The Trustees," pro. posed by the Rev. Dr. Temple, and responded to by Lord Leigh ; ' The Masters, past and present," proposed by the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, and responded to by the Rev. Dr. Temple and the Rev. G. G. Bradley ; " Distinguished Rugbeians," proposed by Mr. T. C. S. Nynneraley, and re sponded to by Mr. Coaches, ; " The Chairman , " pro posed by the Rev. W. L. Collins, and responded to by the Rev. Dean Stanley ; " The Gam es and the Rifle Corp.,' proposed by Sir J. M. Stewart, Bart., and responded to by Mr. T. M. Davenport ; and " The Ladies," responded ta by Mr. A. Sidgwick. DOWNING-STREET ' Joss 24. —The Queen he i been pleased to appoint George French. Esq., to be Chi d Justice of her Majesty's Settlement oi Sierra Leone, on the Western Coast of Africa. Gazeac. _ . . A meeting of the Trades Unions Commissioners was held yesterday. Present: Right Hon. Sir William Earle (chairman), Earl of Lichfield, Lord Elcho, Right Hon. Sir Edmund W. Head, Bart., K.C.8,. and Mr. James Booth, C.B. Mr. J. H. Patteson, secretary to the commission, was also present. An adjourned special meeting in connection with court " Goal Samaritan," Bishopegate, wan held last evening at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of initiating Lord Elcho. Captain Handier, D. M. Ream, Edmund Levy, and Messrs. Ratchelors, as members of the ancient order of Foresters. Apologies were made for Sir B. Phillips (late Lord Mayor) and the Right 1100. G. J. Goschen, M.P., who were also expected to take part in the ceremony of initiation. Brother Cotten was p• pointed as the chief, and Brother Morley as the sub-chief ranger, and loud cheers were accorded the new members after the rowel forms had been proceeded with. The " Health of Lord Moho" waspropostal by Brother Fletcher, of Shrewsbury, and the noble lord replied in a humoorous speech, cordially approving of the objects for which the order was instituted, and promising his aupport for the promotion of the same. The other men.heni also addnese‘i the meeting. 1, : II