The Express. — London, England, 1868-08-03 00:00:00

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Two EVISTIIO THE O(SITEECDUNT : OR, THE FORESTS OS °Cr Mew& ReraddA Chariton, Pitt, Bigwood, tr. ; , Mirir ey, Itc.—Amaricart lstmtrer and Jarriore TATE Mir A. Anderson; M. Jaw Pros—And LADY AJINVEI HIGH WATER 4T LONDON BRIDGE. To-Der ==MeniiiiegT - Kft;rnoon.2lt. 2Sco. To-Monson.—Morning. 2b. ifeen. Afternoon. Ks. One. 2POTICE. Ildeertrsert are reAuerted Poet-ollee orders pa to Mr. Josue HAIIIYOTOn, Fleet-sheet, C. Wows* of BIZTI/1, 3dAIatAGILI, and Durex, an 111Krivid Gatil 19 o'dook for WWI= ammo evening. Prior M. ltd. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, 'SI:Id - General Intelligence, EVERY EVENING. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 3. THE LATE PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND 'EUROPEAN FEELING TOWARDS AAIE RICA. Tim rapidity of events during the past three or four years has transferred the assassination of Pre dent LINCOLN to what seems a distant point of hi/dory. In Europe and in America, a new world map to said to have arisen since his death. The democratic element of the English consti tution has received a vast increase of strength. The States-System of Europe (to use the ugly German phrase) has been essentially modified, and its leading powers are not what nor where they were. In America the accidental successor of Mr. Lnscoms, the President chosen by the bullet of WILKES BOOTH and not by the ballot of the American people, having escaped abrupt dismisaal from office by conviction on impeach ment, is waiting for the natural termination of his political career. New issues have arisen there, involving not merely the legal and politi cal equality of races, but the commercial credit of the Republic and its economical policy, and with them its place in the future history of the world. All these questions have come up since the assassina tion of President LuccoLs ; and if his spirit could re-visit the world and be intelligent of what is taking place in it, he would scarcely know the 'Scene in which he did hero's work and earned the patriot's laurel. Among the changes which have 'Wren place since this earthly scene vanished 'from before his eyes in the flame and smoke sod crash of the assassin's pistol, none would be more welcome than the revival of confi dence and affection between his country and ours Which has been so remarkably evinced during the past three years. The welcome even in the United States to Mr. Cassias •Eviefurfte, and in England to Mr. LoNarszLow, `Crak net an expression of literaryadmiration merely. These distinguished writers were not hailed solely as authors who have added—the one to the familiar personages of our life characters more real than those of history, and more agreeable than those of our daily experience ; the other to the pie 'tures which our eyes see when they are shut, and Ito three high thoughts and sweet fancies which 'are the bliss of solitude. The regard of Americans for England and of Englishmen for Americans mingled with the personal feeling of gratitude of which Mr. DICKENS and Mr. Lorcorrs.Low were the objects. Almost as much pride has been felt in and as much admiration for the ,~ THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1868. achievements of Admiral FailitAorrr as for those of Lord NAPIER, of Magdala ; and the American sailer takes his place in the lira of naval heeeos, in which Blain and Matson and . OoLLueowoots ant among the brightest names, who illustrate 04 sovereignty of our race over the sees. The begins ning of this happy change dates from the otitburst of sympathetic grief which the tidings of President LINCOLN'S assassination evoked in England. The two countries have lately boon reminded of this feeling by one of those graceful acts of interna tional courtesy which are happily more common than they were between states, and which are far more likely to knit them together in friendship than the reciprocal flatteries, and the emulous ostentation of Sovereigns. The last day of the present session of Parliament was the witness of a proceeding full of interest, which, however, in the press of business more exciting, and, for the moment, more important, escaped newspaper re cord. In the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons, for Friday, 31st Ju1y,.1868, the fol lowing entry occurs: United States of America.—Mr. Speaker acquainted the house, that, in pursuance .of a resolution of the Con. gm, of the United States of America, a volume contain ing the expressions of condolence and sympathy commu nicated to the United States government on the subject of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States of America, and the attempted assassination of William H. Seward. Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant-Secretary, on the evening of tho 14th of April, 180, has been transmitted to the House of Commons, as a teetimonial of the grateful appreciation by the people of the generous expressions of coudolenco and sympathy in the late national bereavement communicated by the Howie of Commons to the Department of State of the United States. _ Resolved, that this house accepts, with much gratifica tion, the volume transmitted to them in pursuance of the resolution of the Congress of the United State; and hereby directs that the said volume be placed in the library of the house ; and that a copy of this resolution bo forwarded to Mr. Secretary Seward with a request that he will commu nicate the same to the Congress of the United States.— (Lord Stanley.) The volume to which the SPEAKER'S communi cation and the resolution of the House of Commons alike relate, has reached our hands through the courtesy of the American Legation in this country. It is a striking memorial of the feeling which for the moment united all the civilised world in a common sentiment of sympa thetic grief and indignation. This feeling found expression through every possible organ, through the autograph letters of Sovereigns, the official communications of ambassadors and envoys, the formal votes of legislative assemblies, the resolutions of municipalities and chambers of commerce, and of other corporate organisations or voluntary societies, religious, political, philan thropic, of town meetings, and lastly through the press. Amongforeignnations, Great Britain and her dependencies were, as might be expected from their population, and from the ties of race, len ' guage, religion, and, in all essential points, of in stitutions which unite the two countries, the meat copious in their expressions of sympathy. France, Italy, and Switzerland occupy the next places. In proportion to its po pulation, the country last named stands first. The Swiss Confederation, whose fundamental organisation bears so close a resemblance to that of the great Federal Republic of America, naturally watched with keen interest the vicissitudes of the great Western Re public, and saw in its success the triumph of that form of government of which Swit zerland is the sole representative in Europe. Its exultation and sympathy were as much political and natural. In France, a great proportion of the addresses naturally came from that part of the nation whose sympathies in matters of religion and government were with. the United States. "Eminent Republicans," "the Toleration " and Progress Lodge," " the Friends of Truth " Lodge," " the Democrats," " the Evangelical " Alliance," " the Universal Religious Alliance," " the Young Men of France," " the Students "of the School of Medicine," " the French " Committee of Emancipation," are among the characteristic sources whence the addresses proceeded. In Italy the Democratic and humanitarian origin of the manifestoes' is yet. more strikingly apparent, not only in the names and organisation of the bodies from whom they came, but in the language of the addressee them selves. But though one element of political feeling is predominant in these documents, the general sense of the civilised world expresses itself through them. The volume which contains them is • record honourable to the wise statesman, the true patriot, and the upright magis trate to whom the tribute is paid, to the great republic which treated him living and venerates him dead, and to the nations who have rendered to his career a posthumous but still almost con temporary homage. plication. and to seed the original to tho overseer• through the post. The matter is rednecd to such' simplicity that the . number of lodger-voters will doubtler be"rlti bags. • •"' Faou time to Mae we are favoured in the courts of law with novel glimpses' of the moral code. 'Mit chtuoistlincelf Adder' which the seduction of women is sinful, and those under whioli it is tolerably harmless form one of the most interesting clauses in this unwritten law. Major YxLvEnrox, if we remember rightly, drew the line at " gentle blood." To seduce a woman in whose veins flowed that pure and holy stream was, se this gallant officer admitted in open court, a grave offence. The precise degree of gentility in the blood necessary for the preservation of women was not clearly stated ; and Major YELYRBTON'S profession of faith gave middle-class fathers and brothers some un comfortable twinges. Where Major Yvaxicarox and the class ho represented were willing to stop, and under what circumstances the snares of the fowler would remain =sot, formed matter for excited speculation at the time; and a not alt)gether unreasonable feeling was expressed that to ruin a woman was to injure her, oven if she were ungentle. Captain MINIM!, the de fendant in an action for seduction tried at the Guildford Assizee on Saturday, gallantly took this view. If "he had seduced a woman ho " should think himself bound to provide for her " afterwards," though be was " unable to say " what would be the amount of remunera " tion to be given to a respectable girl "by a person who had seduced her." We now have on authority the whole duty of man to woman. Captain Bazisrxrr makes no sentimental mention of gentle blood. If he seduced ho would provide. But the horror of this offence is that the moral injury and the social ruin are irreparable. Thz intention which we attributed to the Govern meat several weeks ago, of sending Lord MAYO to India as Governor-General, will, it is believed, be shortly carried into effect. It is said that Earl DERBY'S second son, the Hon. F. STANLEY, will be appointed a Lord of the Admiralty in the place vacated by the new Governor of Tasmania. Lord Chief Baron KELLY and Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. WOOD are spoken of as the now law lords, and Sir W. Barn as one of the judges to try elec tions. SOME velocipede amateurs of Marseilles are arranging a long journey with this new means of locomotion. The velocipedes are to start from Marseilles for Genoa, by Corniche. From Genoa they are to proceed to Turin and Susa, over Mont Cenis, and return to Marseilles by the valley of the Rhone. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TEE FRENCH Referring to the measures with which the im perial government of France looks forward to the coming elections, the news proceeds to observe that the Emperor, unfortunately, has claimed infallibility as well as inviola bility, and undertaken so to rule France that even legal opposition could never find a vulnerable side in his government. II the contrary is shown by the next assembly, the Emperor must decide whether to put aside his claim of irresponsibility, or re-appear before the representatives of the people at the head of a new cabinet, and announcing a new policy. The Emperor cannot keep a cabinet and be his own minister without declaring the constitution a pretence, and giving his government that personal character which deprives the opposition of all legal utterance, leaves it no room for discrimination beeween the Sovereign and his rule, and justifies it in any length of violent hostility against both. It was a bad day, observes the Daily News, for the re putation of the French Government when It included the notorious "Decker bonds" in its claims upon the Mexican Government. Throughout Europe astonishment was felt that any respectable government should for a moment countenance so =environs a claim. The eiplanation, how ever, was soon forthcoming, that some of th 4 highest per-. eonagee in Prance bodes:quire& a large,if not the entire,. interest in them bonds, and their redemption, it Wm said,. would be insisted on. According to the 'Beetrontitt it has transpired that, after an arrangement bad bean come to with the Mexican government that the amouni of theueshoukl redhead 60 per cent, and that it shoiskl be paid at the rate of 1,000;000 piastres a year in Mexico, by means of a public mile of the bawds; the holders by some means obtained a few months later% draft in Paris for 12,600,000 fr., and that sum was paid by the Mexican Commission of Panics without the knowledge of the /French governalent. There are many mysterious things about the • Jeckerbonds, 'and this is the fault myrterida of all. TEI GALAXITT AT Several of our coattanporaries 'adopt the warning and advice given in' the &rpm, on Saturday, relative to the dangerous state of many of our sinuic-halls and public buildings generally. In England, mays the Timer, it would be hard to name a single building from which the could escape with facility in cue of a onions alarm. One or two doorways, one or two narrow stair oases, by which even entrance is tedious and difficult, are generally thought sufficient. The manager or the builder seems to prefer the risk of such a catastrophe as has just horrified Manchester to the sacrifice of a few seata and a trifling diminution in his profits. There is every reason . to expect that places of ent er t a i nmen t, more or l ess s i m il ar to these music -halls, will increase in numbers and popu larity, and it becomes worth consideration whether some stringent general rules should not be laid down for their construction, and a strict inspection enforced, The Telegraph also Bays that sooner or later the govern ment must require the owners of every music-hall and every theatre to make more ample provision for the public safety. Those who are acquainted with our London theatres and music-halls must be aware that there is no possibility for a "full house" to get out of any one of the buildings in even moderate time. 0171 RZLATIOICII ARTS MINA. The Star sees dens of azrorgiunsatt amongst certain merchants of China for the purpose of inducing England to extend by a high band the policy inaugurated by the treaty of Tient-sin. The drift of the reasoning which the aggressive party use IS simply this—that, as the exalt'. sive policy of the Chinese is a bad thing for themselves, as well as injurious to our trade, we are, therefore, doing the Chinese a service when we force them to abandon their restrictions and jealousies, and to admit Enropeans to what the nun insists upon as the essentials of peace with China, " the right to travel, to reside, and to pursue whatever industry they may think proper." The Star impugns this theory altogether. No State has a right to demand from a co-equal and independent State such pri vileges as these. If they are granted by hance to Eng lishmen, wily Russia to Germany, they a re grante d, not as matters of right, but as of free grace. LAW. The Daily News argues that the conflicting decisions delivered in one court after another—the divergence of opinion between judges in common law and judges in chancery—the appeals, confirmed or set aside-Land the masons by which decisions are given —is not a satiefictory date of things in • country him England, whieh prides itself upon being eminently practical. Pt seems strange that the most commercial nation in the world cannot elaborate a system of commercial law on sufficiently definite principles to prevent a constant re currence to the courts of justice, and it is equally strange that the most eminent men in trade, for some unintelli gible reason, almost invariably oppose the introduction of any reform. After illustrating this argument, the Daily .11 - nca observes that if, according to our law, shares in joint-stock companies had been made to bearer, it is un questionable that much litigation and misery would have been raved in the past, and perhaps as much would be avoided in the future. libe Court. ogn4kiwria, Ammer L The %mu drove out yoglitudity afternoon. ircienponied by Princess Louise:: Tab Maribioness of Ely being is attendance. Her Maj.** and Princess Losisiq.ll46einies Beatrice, the Duke el Edinburgh, Prince Via. and Prince Louis of Hesse, attended Divine eerriee at Whippinghlm Church this morning. The Rev. George Prothero officiated. The ladies and gentlemen in "Wilms were present. The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Nortbeote arrived at Os borne yesterday, arid had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Colonel the Hon. Dudley de Roe, sled Colonel the Hon. Arthur Hardinge have arrived as equerries in waiting, Colonel Du Plat has left Osborne. Tbo Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellie, returned to Marlborough-house of Saturday from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Goodwood. In the afternoon the Prince and Princess of Wale* drove out. TbeTrim* and Princess of Wales wont to Her Majesty's Opera, Drury-Lae, in the seeming. Major Orcy has succeeded Captain Ellis as Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of Wales. His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi have left the Austrian embassy in Be.lgrave-square for Switzerland and Hungary. During the absence of his excellency Count Kalnoky will act as chargé d'affaires. Mr. Warner, M.P., and Mrs. Warner have loft town on a visit to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mre. Gladstone, at Hawarden Castle. Great preparations are making at Cardiff for celebrating the coming of age of the Marquis of Bute. One hundred workmen are now fitting up the castle for grand balls and dinner parties. The marquis will arrive at Cardiff in his yacht, and will be met at the pier by the mayor and corporation. _ _ Field-Marshal Sir Edward Blakeney, G.C.B. and G.C.H., Governor of Chelsea Hospital, died at his residence in that institution at an early hour yesterday morning. THE WILL OF THE LATE SIR BENJAMIN Guntrrass.—The personal property of flir Benjamin Guinness has been sworn under 1,100,0001. He leaves his estates in Mayo and Galway to his eldest son, Sir Arthur; his estates in Kerry, Limerick, and Kilkenny, and 20.0001., to his second son, a captain in the Ist Life Guards ; his estate in Dublin, and his town house, to his youngest son, Edward Cecil. He leaves 30,000/. to be invested forthesole and exclusive use of his daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Plankett. There are a number of legacies to relatives and friends, varying from 3,0001. to small annuities. The brewery is left to the eldest and youngest eons; and if one of them should retire from it, he is to receive from the other 30,000/. and half the value of the stock. These two sons are the residuary legatees. Should the estate bequests fail from want of issue, the property is to go to Trinity College. The interest to be expended in maintenance of protestant students of all denominations, Arians and Socinians excepted. There are no charitable bequests, MUSIC. HER MAJESTY'S OPERA. The fortnight's extra performances of this eetablishment terminated on Saturday night; the occa sion being the benefit of Mdlle. Titian, as well as the close of the season. Instead of the " combined entertain ment" which had been announced, Don Giovanni and one aet of Cherubini's Medea were given by "special desire," in both of which the grand tragic and vocal power' of Mdlle. Titian have been important features for several years past. According to report, next season's performances of Mr. Mapleson's company will take place in • splendid new building, already commenced, on the site of Her Majesty's Theatre. tOR.EIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) THE GERMAN 11.1F1 MEETING. It is stated that M. Von Boust, anticipating the political turn which may be given to the meeting of the German Biles Bund in Vienna, sent a despatch to the Austrian Embassy in Berlin, in which he declared that the government of the Emperor was not in any way mixed up with the festival, and could not be held responsible for any opinions which individuals might give ex pression to. The committee of the Rifles Bund selected Lcip sig as the place for the fourth mooting of the members in 1871, but tho mayor of that city, fear ing that anti-Prussian demonstrations would tako place, refused to sanction tho selection made. On the evening of tho 29th the students hold a great festival in the Pesthalle. More than 10,000 were present. Speeches were delivered and songs sung. The burden of all was that Austria was German, and should not be dissevered from tho Motherland. Professor Hochstatter, in replying to tho toast of the professors, said: When I received your invitation I said, are wo then riflemen also': Yes, I answered, we are. The disk at which we aim is truth. (Great applause.) Our motto is, "Through the truth to light," and that is the motto which you have put up at the entrance of this festival Hall. We lead a band of young rifles, whom we teach to hit the black spot that the light may be mado in the black sect. (Bravo.) We lead • band of intellectual rifles, Ind may they always do their duty." (Loud app:ause.) (THROUGH INUTEI3 . B AGENCY.) ROUMANIA. ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN TILE TURKS AND TUE BULGARIAN INSURGENTS. BUCHAREST, Auotrer 2. Telegrams received from Rustehuk state that an engagement, which lasted three hours, had oc curred between the Turkish troops and the Bulga rian insurgents. Thirty-eight of the latter were killed, and the remainder were surrounded by the Turks at a point between Kasenlik and Schilkau. The headquarters of Mithad Bache, arc estab lished at Grabovo. Shots have been fired upon a Turkish gunboat from the Roumanian bank of the Danube, near Oalatz. A large number of suspected persons have been arrested by order of the Roumanian authorities at Ibraila. FRANCE. THE NEW LOAN. PARIS, Aram 3. An imperial decree, dated yesterday, authorises the issue of the loan voted by the Corps Logislatif and the Senate at the rate of 69fr. 25c. per 100, bearing interest at 3 per cent. from the Ist July last. According to an order of the Minister of Finance, subscriptions to the same will be received from the 6th to the 13th instant. The minimum allowed to be subscribed is fixed at Mr. Rentes, and the de posit on subscribing at one-tenth the amount applied for; the rest payable by monthly instal ments extending over a period of 18 months. SPAIN. MADRID, Avoun 2. The Minister of Finance has arrived at La Granja, to lay before the Queen a decree grant ing a concession for the establishment of a Spanish Credit Fonder. The Official Gazelle publishes a decree rendering criminal all infringement of patents. AMERICA. NEW YORK, At ner 2. The Inman royal mail steamer City of London arrived here to-day. All well. LODGERS IN WESTMINSTER. TnE occupants of unfurnished lodgings at four shillings a week and upwards, and of furnished lodgings which can be shown to be of the value of four shillings a week if let unfurnished, have all votes under the new Reform Act, and are being carefully looked up in Westminster. To exercise the franchise, an occupation of twelve months previous to the 31st of July is necessary, but oc casional absences during that period do not dis qualify provided the rent continues to be paid by the claimant. But the first consideration in proving the right to a vote is the amount of rent actually paid by a sole tenant. Partnership lodgings, where one or more men with or without families occupy the same apartments as joint tenants, do not confer votes, even where the sum per head exceeds the limit laid down. Each man must have a separate room or sot of rooms, for which he pays not less than four shillings a week unfurnished, or such a sum furnished as would fairly lead to the assumption they are worth four shillings a week irrespective of their furniture. Where this is the case the proceedings necessary to insure a vote in the corning election are ex tremely simple. The claim has but to be delivered ' to one of the overseen of the pariah in which the lodgings are situate, before the 25th of this month ; and the thing is done. The Liberal lodgers of Westminster are supplied gratuitously with the necessary forms by Dr. Brawn, at 21, George-street, Hanover-square, who, it is said, is called upon to respond to some hundred applica tions daily. The Christian name and surname of the man claiming the franchise ; his profession, trade or calling; the description of his lodgings, on what floor, how many rooms; the address of the house in which they are ; and the name, description, and residence of the person to whom the rent is paid —are the only particulars required. The remainder of the form is printed, and the signature of the claimant duly wit nessed and the date are the only other formalities required. These gone th roug h , the applicant's name should appear on the list of lodger claims to be published by the overseers not later than the Ist September ; and should it be omitted the revising barrister can be appealed to. Clailsaate are advised to keep a copy of their ap- CRYSTAL PALACE. The summer musical season at this establish ment was appropriately closed on Saturday by a supple• mental concert devoted to the benefit of Mr. Manna, the conductor of the Crystal Palace orchestra, which has risen to such high efficiency and renown during the several years that it has been under his guidance and training. The progriuume of Saturday was similar to those of the recent series of opera concerts, the termination of which we recorded last week ; consisting chiefly of favourite ex tracts from well-known operas. DRAMA. Laura A mangled or "adapted" 'version of Mr. Dis raeli's tragedy of Aland was produced at Astley's Theatre on Saturday night, with .a company ill-fitted to do the author jostles. The Iday, first published in 1839, is wordy and windy, but it would be about as fair to criticise it on the basis of Saturday's performance, as to aiticise one of Mr. Tffaraeli's brilliant speeches after it had been detained by a country town crier. Aloraw ii not Brilliant, mg shows very little of that talent which - DM 118itie Mr. Disfaeß famous, bat it contains far *Sore indications of dramatic instinct than the &uteri thawed the audience to see on flatiirda> tha author's Stage directions hive in may aide been Aire girded,. to the detriment of the play and perhaps, for electioneering purlieus, it would have been better , if Mr. Disraeli had superintended the reheanals. A popular drama Is quite as good apolitical peseport se an unpopular reform bill; and nothing but the author's mature inge nuity 'could make Alamos popular. The story, and the characters, dealing with the Moors in Spain in the thir teenth century, and founded on a well-known ballad, have little Antereet. The drama in hire scores of plays that have been published during the last fifty or sixty years in volumes of poems dedicated to cele brities, admired by a few not very discriminat. ing devourers of " poetry," looked at occasionally by managers in search of a cheap and "legitimate" piece, but never acted. Alarm, we believe, was never acted' until Saturday night, and then it could scarcely be said to have been acted. Mr. Charles Verner, a courageous and versatile actor, who has formed his tragedy style on that of Mr. Phelps, was not altogether unsucoesdul as Count Alara3e, but he was very feebly supported. Miss' Agnes Cameron, the "leading lady," described generally in the bills 8A from the United States, has few apparent qualifications for the grand drama, and most of the per formers., with the exception of Mr. Brandon Ellis, ap peared afraid to open their mouths. Alamos, as a literary production, has long since gone through the fire of criti cism, and may now be allowed to deep in peace, but those who are curious to read it will find it in a cheap edition of the author's works lately published by Mr. Warne. MINISTERIAL lirovincw•ro.—The Right non. R. Damen, M.P., mid Mrs. Disraeli leave town on Wed nesday for Henden Manor, Bucks ; the Lord Presi dent of the Council left his residence in St. Samos's square ea Friday, for Cowes ; the Earl of Malmeebury will town to-day for the north ; the Duke of Buck inghera• left Chandoe-house on Saturday for Wotton, Baths. ; Sir John Pakington will leave thwn to-morrow for Westwood-p erk, his meat in W orc e s t ers hi re; Hr. Gathers. Hardy - left town on Priday for his seat near illtaplehursi ; the Bari and Countess of Mayo left on Saturday for their seat, Palinenton-house, el:unity Kil dare ; f Stafford NOrthee* Bart., leaves Osborne to day, for Exeter. The Lord ManeWm, Lord Stanley, the Bight. Hon. the Pint Lord of the Admiralty , and Lord Jao. Banners remain at persist in town. Low NAPrea AND TDB 51D emir OP LONDON Vounrrimma—On Saturday evening the and City of Lon don Rifle Volunteers, of which Lord N of Magdala has accepted the Unwary adoneley, was by the gallant general in the Regmrs-park, in the presenoe of some seven or eight thousand people. There were 448 men on parade, forming eight strong compamee •' buttes the hour fixed for the Marion (the corps being comp chiefly of working men been an hour later, there is no doubt the muster would ve been much stronger. -3 , tchee were receivedon Saturday at theColo nial-othoe from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong-Kong, Yalta, and Gibraltar. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, the Australian Colonies, the North American Provisoes, the Bahamas, British Columbia, Bermuda, and British Honduras. A Board of Admiralty, comprising Admirals Milne Dames, Hay, Robinson, Controller of the Navy, Lord Lennox, secretary, with the director of archibictunng and downtowns works, arrived at Woolwich at half-past ten o'clock on Saturday morning to carry out the ann ual official inspection of the dockyard and steam factory, and the several departments of the naval and marine service. OUR PARIS LETTER. (NOON OWS OWN PARIS, SUNDAY Evaxneo. The brothers Pereire and the administrators of the Credit Mobilier have been declared responsible for losses sustained by several shareholders. In the affair of the Mexican Bonds things are managed quite differently. The government let the subscribers in, and the taxpayers are made to pay the piper. Advocate-General Chewier, in summing up on Friday in cross actions for libel between M. Rochefort and a person named Mucha, Utica De Bussey, who has been several times convicted of various crimes both by the Assize and Correctional Courts, said that the balance was greatly in M• Rochefort'', favour; and that Marchal had scan dalously provoked him by abominable false hoods. As the parties left the raisin de Justice the crowd, taking part with M. Bochefort, pur sued Marchal with hissing and hooting, and loud cries of " Throw him into the water," were raised. The Seine being disagreeably near at hand, Marchal was glad of the assistance of some ser gente-de-ville to make his escape. An electoral meeting of M. Cazot's friends at Nimes last week was dispersed by the police, as -sisted by a military force. The opposition candi date contends that the proceeding was wholly ille gal because the meeting, although as many as 1,000 people attended, was a " private" one, it being held in.premises belonging to him who called it, and no one being admitted but on presentation of a per sonal letter of invitation. There is, however, very little law for the subject in these cases. It is clear that the Prefect of the (lard dreads the effect of M. Cazot's eloquence upon the electors. The dispersion on this occasion was happily effected without bloodshed; but amidst the in flammable southern population thete was great risk of it. According to a newspaper paragraph the Empe ror has given MM. Ronher, Baroche, and De Motudier " important instructions" relative to the (Ecumenical Council. The most sensible course, and the one most appropriate to the France of 1789, would be, I should think, to have nothing whatever to do with it. Passing along the Rue Laffitte to-day, I made a discovery of which I really think it would be cruel not to give English visitors the benefit in these thirsty times. At No. 27, in a lofty, cool, hand somely furnished drawing-room, champagne of the finest quality is sold by the glass. Few travellers stop at the Epernay railway station without treat ing themselves to a glass of champagne—many take two—but I never before saw the petillant liquid retailed in such small quan tities in Paris. The " champagne saloon " is a new institution, which cannot fail to be largely patronised when it is found out. I hold that a single glass of really good cham pagne is about the moat wholesome as well as the most pleasant draught that a man can take in the middle of a hot day. At any rate even a teetotaller would admit that it is better than the liqueur wines sold by the Paris pastry cooks, all of which, whether dubbed Madeira, sherry, port, malaga, or alicant, are abominable compounds. Nothing can be lees satisfactory than the general run of champagnes you get in the restaurants, and the ~-_--_ misfortune is that th e so lit ary stranger who 111441 up his m i n d t o pay his money fur the minima quantity of half a bottle, feels bound to drink it all, though true wisdom and a mispa.ct fork, stomach would counsel the throwing at lea.t half of it oat of the wind ow . N ow, i n the Roo lii,Raa,,, lounging on a luxu r i ous so f a , I got for 73.- 'h ., ; highest price) a bumper, honestly Ell ,d t., t : ", brim, of beading, no t frothin chatin s ci of most delicate flavour ; and it was artiiii-i:!y is d, so as to be cool, not cold, and mot ropy I was served by a " gentlenum," who, fro!ii i,, .. appearance and manner, might have been a d:p:,. matist, or a director of the Credit blobilier, ,„ i to whom it would ha ve b een an Moult to o'sf,a g waiter's fee, so that I pocketed the sous out ,if „,y - franc. There is another quality of wine, I ,a,... say equally good in proportion, at only I. a : : . franc the glass. The propinquity of ti e . ,:„., i. pagne saloon to the Ru e B re d a suggest,. I a , „., . the probability of its being a favourite rent... ; , at in the evening for tho ladies of that I', ,, ' quarter; but I under s t an d the proprirtor. i.,„ taken effectual measures to prevent arlyt:i.: .; „ i the kind. DUEL BETWEEN 111. V. .1E(; AVER AN!) ol,;. RAIINT—A NARROW E.V,'411: In consequence of an article entitl sl Epilogue" which nppearecl in La Lilarte of duly .• signed " Odyese Bacot," M. Jeeker demanded ~ • from the author by arms, Belgium having been • ; the 'lace of meeting. The duel took place at u :. . Saturday evening near the skirt of the forest . " and the avenue which leads to Waterloo. M. Beret were MM. Leon Cahun and Ulric dt. ; those of M. Jecker were MM. Morineau and t! r. r , fought with pistols, the combatants vet e. ; . at a distance of 25 paces, and at the word g I . seconds both fired. M. Belot was hit iu Ute it abdomen, but by a singular piece of luck ;.,. , turned aside by a button, and was afterwnrl. the waistcoat pocket. He suffered in cot., ; • seven, contusion, which is not likely to bar •t • consequences. Owing to the skill and • Feigneaux, M. Barot was able to return to de. ;. day morning with his friends. GREAT FIRE AT G.1TE4111:.1 GATESHEAD. St In y - . A fire took place to-day at the Fri Chemical Works here, the property of ;.. Chemical Company. It raged fur a con-i.i..: and the estimated damage is 100,001/1. 1.. men are thrown out of employment. Fo , :: injured by the fall of the roof and by btin: '• acid. Two policemen were also , erio.i , ly inj The Ilidilpendunee Belye says that it... of the Exotress of Mexico ha • ,• since she set foot on her native D. strength is perfectly restored: her often lucid and complete; but er..ry ossw so, I plicable ecc^ntricities show that the far from satisfactory. ELECTION " ECrYDS."—We are t.. 1 that the appeal made by the Nati"nal 11: J....! in. 1 has been cordially responded to, but Lou', required to meet the extraordinary dotn.l - forthcoming general election. Am , .11 , 4 th. o•n• , butors we observe the Marquis of ( 61111.4.4,1. V. I. • Deniers, Dartmouth, Fltrwalt r. 1;m: John Manners, Redesdale, and Rolen ; London, Carlisle, Ripon, Peterborough. ant M. 1 ,1 • W. Farquhar, Bart., R. M'Calmont, Esq.. E. I'. ' 4 ' • . Esq., Mary Louisa Finch, and General Aylmer. —d. • A curious trial (says " Argus ") will t pit at Guildford this week before Mr. Justice excites much interest in racing circles, as tt tests the right of betting men to post a Ulla owes them a few sovereigns as a common t ii on the grand stand at Epsom. It seem: '!L1• .:.• plaintiff, who bad a running account with th•• fendants, had taken four "ponies" about Lady and 6t02 to a small amount relative to Speculum f t place. Now, other engagements prevented him Epsom on the Derby day, and the defendants, not faith in their customer, declared the bets off on the gr of his being in default, whereupon he brings his suit. Lambs have been selling for 10s. each, and sho , 3 for 20s. each in the south of England, the Lamm - dr.:4 no keep for them. Mr. Fronde, the historian, has become the tense: of what a correspondent describes as the "romantic ions, and sporting grounds" of Dirreen, near Tralca, and days since he entertained all the children of the loal national school at an open-air Pe. Flags, with t'-• mottoes, "God save the Queen." "Erin go Dragh." , were carried by the children as they proceeded to Dirrees. After the athletic sports, Mr. Fronde briefly addressed Ii young guests, and presented prises to the winner" a the different competitions. The Misses Fronde aca present. - M. Victor Hugo has arrived at Brussels, wins, he purposes remaining a short time with his family. Hippophagy does not appear to be Making much progress at Dijon, "Of the two bone-flesh butchei in this town," say. the Mae* Boargeigatater, " the one ia the Rue Bannelier has knit been closed, and the stock soli by auction. A lot of 80 spiced sausages, weighing ',Mtn., were put up at the small price of 50c., and sold for lfr." A RAILWAY COTIP D'ETAT.—The director, of our southern metropolitan railways have lost ni time in carrying out their reiterated threats. N sooner is parliament out of the way than they Deo • to turn the • screw upon the public, and to turn at at with a will. On the Brighton and the Chatham and Dover lines the fares were raised on Saturday, the rate .4 advance in some cases being's high 15100 per cent. On t!. former railway, for a ticket which not very long sc.. might be obtained for Is. Is. 13cL is now required: a: ' on the latter Is. is charged for what a week ago Ca , J ed. fare. Complaint is useless ; we have fouipl masters, or rather we have made them. We are in the hands of irresponsible monopolists, who have been 101:4 very fast lately, and must have money. It is only th who hold the public completely at their mercy wh thus repair the effects ol extravagance at tls• others. It a great landowner is foolish, and tied -60,0001. a year is of no use to him, he cannot duati:_:.s . rents of his tenants; he must abide the consequin, : his folly. There is probably no other country in the Wu: , where the public interests could be so manipulated 6'l have been in this case. And there is no present r ty. I The recourse to omnibuses, which one of our epondents recommends, would bravery partially meet case. Those who have once enjoyed the conveuience railway will not go back to the slow-moving and clo-i•F' packed omnibus. It is much more likely that tint-ciee • passengers will ride in second, and second-class pas.-e: , ' gers in third-class carriages ; and in this w a y Pe P` companies may learn in time that doubling fares e precisely equivalent to doubling revenue. In the ew.l-.. while the most numerous clam of paelenzera ay* ' 6 ' have no inferior elate of carriage with lower fors to fs.l back upon, are wholly without the mans of witigslini the severity of the imposition.—Daily Sews. at Li ver pool Tail Li dair verp7o ßaLEY l Aft w: iin t N eir gi nled " an o EßL d n pra ffiatu — yer thilleyi daiitebeCllirmadreiinfdenererg ins read and the business proceeded with. The Rev. I. Ithe' grown, chairman of the Liverpool district, rated that no one chapel in the town could accommodate the aura: ben anxious to be present at the ordination services , so! who had in fact received tickets of admission. Sevr l ''' the primly,' ministers were strongly opposed to a (bora of the bermed. Oiled because it wee very desirable til4 t all should hear the ' and ex-president ATI a prolonged conversation it was agreed that umr , yield to utility, though at gTeat personal sacrifice. if m ot risk, and the services should take place in two The Rev. W. Arthur submitted to the earnest solicitswo of the confarenea, and promised to deliver an wi th° the newly appointed ministers in the second chil l, ' s r , pointed for the ordination services. The (ROVE-Street 3 Th , Pitt-street chapels were fi xed upon services for these • question respecting the candidates for the ministry"- then considered. A FISHING MATCH.—The. Nottingham Ell gives an account of what is described as an All Daglag, fishing match." There were 76 competitor& and th e e ; ) 0 selected to fish in was the Navietion-dyke, which fof_ a portion of the river Trent, and u, situated about one 311 13 . and a half from Newark. The first, prize was gi the twsecdri::giinv2len'i,esnthansistedingthirjoighf 111s1"tahingbe4icadureegs,wthiliwc-I:;n34BTh:_meiinanaraeo7: Stubbs, Nottingham, 101 b. 6oz. • 2nd, Wheelhouse, Notuur ham, 71b. Boz. ; 3rd, Belehaw, 'Nottingham, Vb. the two latter caught the same weight they divla("'_ Fifty-three others "weighed in," and to 48 of them rm." were awarded. G n gtt atiao DlBl. 2o 7 7o BAl n.anizT Y FOE , Rzo SKI KsT4rr N DIS RE EAS Irr, E; ( ,._ O 2I , I were relieved at this dispensary during the week einugs August 1. 4 E lei 1 i. i L i 1 N 4 J 1 1 7