The Express. — London, England, 1868-06-20 00:00:00

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KINGLAKII, whose newly published volumes are attracting so much notice, is a legislator as well as an author. Although an active and ambitions member of Parliament, yet his reputation in the House of Commons is far inferior to that in the world of letters. He may be classed with men like Column, tha•TREY, and Botwaa LrrroN, who have never been able to address a legislative assembly as effectively as they wrote for the general public. In hie ease, as in theirs, it was difficult to fulfil the expectations which sanguine admirers ad formed. Epigrammatic and incisive writing is ften the result of great labour, whereas the most dung oratory is nearly always due to the inspi- Aim of debate. If Idr. Kurouas could - - 5:1 I A3gAle , • :‘-- • dia. iIU r • -• .: 1 - THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, TUNE 20, 1868. have answered his parliamentary opponents, or criticised their opinions in print, much would have been said in praise of his powers. As it is, there are many members of inferior intellectual capacity who can do far more than he to influence a debate and impress the country. When be entered the House in 1837, his renown as an author rested on " Bothell," a fresh and spirited narrative of eastern travel. Published thirteen years previously, it had caused its author to be courted by the great and complimented by critics, and it is still read with interest chiefly on account of the masterly finish of its style. An old and hackneyed story was there re told with a vividness and a charm which rendered it fascinating beyond pleasure. Its author was egotistic to a degree which would have proved nauseous had this not been counteracted by the strength of character and freedom from prejudice he displayed. Such a man, it was thought, would distinguish himself among his follows. It is cer tain that Mr. RINOLAKE fully believed in the sufficiency of his resources, and looked forward to a brilliant career. Ho remarked in the preface that he was no common traveller, seeking amidst Eastern scenery the amusement which he had failed to discover at home. He proclaimed that in journeying thither he was not " flying from " his country because of ennui, but was strength " ening his will, and tempering the metal of his " nature for that life of toil and conflict in which " he is now engaged." This is rather too strong language for a gentlemen to have employed whose avocations consisted in practising at the Chancery Bar. It indicated, we think, that Mr. KINOLAK s aims were higher than his profession, that he was bent on the performance of some task alike arduous and important. As a rule chancery bar risters can brace themselves for the " toil and con " flirt" they have to undergo without traversing Syria. To a man longing for a grander field on which to display his skill than is to be found in Lincoln's-inn, such an event as the expedition to the Crimea must have been most welcome. Mr. BINOLAXE availed himself of the opportunity which put it in his power to witness war on a huge scale, and to 'seek for an outlet for his energies by which he might profit. He was pre sent at the battle of the Alma ; he marched with the allies first against and then round Sebastopol, was a spectator of the siege and of the desperate at tempts made by the Russians to turn the beseigers from their purpose, and did not leave the scene of suffering and slaughter till illness had enfeebled him, and prudence dictated his return to England. Others were there who, at great personal hazard, saw what he did, and framed faithful narratives for publication in the newspapers. With these " news-dealers" Mr. Krerowace had little in com mon. Their duties were distasteful if not obnox ious to him. He had formed a design which should throw into the shade the puny efforts of newspaper correspondents, and associate his name with the great enterprise of which ho knew the hidden springs, and on which he probably considered himself qualified to pass an authoritative and a decisive judgment. It was after Sebastopol had been occupied by the Allies, and Russia humili ated by defeat, and when Mr. KINOLAWE was understood to be engaged in writing the history of the Crimean campaign, that the electors of Bridgewater chose him as their representative, and the House of Commons welcomed him as an acquisition. He took his seat as one professing Liberal principles, yet resolved to acknowledge no leader, being an addition to that party which boasts of its independence, and acts, in turn, as the friend and foe of both sides. On the whole, Mr. Euro- LAME has proved a genuine Liberal in politics. His crotchets have done little injury, and his votes have been powerful for good. If his maiden speech disappointed the House, it did not dis please the Liberal party. It was levelled at the Tory policy, happily now abandoned, of inflicting a stigma on the Jews, by hindering them from con scientiously occupying seats in Parliament. His Crimean experience enabled him to speak with authority on another subject to which he next directed his attention, which was the due execu tion of the treaty by which Russia bound herself to treat with kindness all the natives of the dis tricts which the Allies had occupied for a season. Either intentionally or not, he excited mirth by observing that many natives had been pressed into our service, because their assistance was required to drive the bullocks that did not un derstand either " English or French imprecations." He was foremost in resisting the mistaken and un patriotic Conspiracy Bill, by which the late Lord Per...essaroe endeavoured to assuage the wrath of the French colonels and gratify the Emperor Berm-tow. He urged upon the government of Lord DERBY the duty of seeing that justice was done to:Peen and Wen, the two English engineers whom the Neapolitan authorities had treated with unjustifiable severity. He denounced the cession of Savoy and Nice by Sardinia, or rather to speak more accurately, the seizure by France in the desecrated name of a popular vote of Nice and Savoy. On the other hand, he opposed and ridi culed the attempts of Sardinia to complete the unity of Italy, evincing, in common with other sentimental Liberals, a strange leaning towards Austria. His greatest Parliamentary blunder con sisted in striving to create an impression that not only were his views sound as well as original, but that his information on foreign affairs was exclu sive. More than once ho announced to tho House that ho was acquainted with schemes which foreign powers had in contemplation for the subversion of the European equilibrium. Very frequently these announcements turned out to be alike base lees and foolish. Sometimes his imposing state ments were too vague to be met by a direct nega tive ; at others, however, the refutation was easy and immediate. Thus, having gravely alleged he knew that at the second meeting of the Emperor of the FRENCH with the Emperor of Artemis at Villafranca, the former offered to restore Lombardy provided the latter would countenance his designs on the Rhine, and that Fatima JOSEPH de clined because ho was a German Prince, Lord Joins Russ= dispelled the illusion which such a statement was calculated to produce, by simply observing that no one was present at this interview be tween the two Emperors. By acting as the alarmist who chained credence on the ground that his knowledge was superior to that of his fellows, he laid himself open to the stinging retort from Mr. Baioirr—" It is a delightful thing when " all the powers of Europe slumber at their posts, " that the hon. and learned member for Bridge water should be wide awake." Mr. Hurcieees has shown that he is not unversed in the art of couching bitter sayings, in pointed, yet perfectly courteous language. The effect of the following was not lessened by the fact that, while truth fully characterising Mr. ROEDUCE, for whose 'benefit it was uttered, it was also applicable to the sptaker himself- " He is a gentleman who has '• 80 serene a confidence in the accuracy of his " own judgment, that he does very frequently in " this House state • very foolish proposition " with a degree of solemnity that really gives it " for the moment something like judicial im " penance." It is hardly doubtful that Mr. HrsotAxa's name will be coupled hereafter, not with stirring and weighty debates in parliament, but with the record of the campaign in the Crimea. His laboured volumes will long attract many eager readers because they teem with that polished sar casm which has conferred immortality on the "Pro " vincial Letters" of PASCAL, the " Maxims " of ROCHNFOUCAULD, and the " Letters" of JUNIUS. He is an accomplished hater, and a thorough master of the art of detraction. What he wrote about Lady ilzarint STANHOPI will probably be applied to him as an historian by a critic of the future— " With all the force and vehemence of his " invective, he displayed a sober, patient, and " minute attention to the details of vituperation, " which contributed to its success a thousand " times more than more violence." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The lesson the Times draws from the action against the Teleyreph is, that it is, on the whole, best to accept the verdict of juries in criminal cases when that verdict is an acquittal of the accused person. Whatever may be the right of an author or a speaker to charge a jury with error, or to brand the guilty man who has un justly escaped, it will bo for tbp public benefit to avoid the practice. Other articles in the Dear treat of the subject of the rights of the crown to foreshores, the capitula tions in Turkey, and the amended rules of racing. To the Deily Net's, the verdict of yesterday in Risk Allah Bey's case seems in accordance with the evidence, and a corollary to the Lord Chief Justice's summing up, and, whatever may be the moral judgment formed on the case, few will be disposed to quarrel with the legal principle it lays down. Discussing the oppo sition to the Electric Telegraphs Bill, the Daily Nitre narrates an instance of a threat being made to an Irish journal to stop its telegraphic news on account of its criticisms. Practically, the threat is one of extinction. A Suspensory Bill may be neces sary, placing the companies provisionally under the con trol of the Beard of Trade, so as to prevent their using public concessions for the purposes of private injury. The Herald hails with special pleasure Lord Ellen borough's speech of last night relative to the reception to be given to the Abyssinian army, because the noble lord showed himself in the autumn session a severe critic of the expedition, and one might almost say • prophet of evil. The Post treats the fact that Prince Arthur was yesterday commissioned in the Royal Engineers, as very significant of the times in which we live. Formerly it too often happened that those who were born great assumed offices and functions for which it was not at all necessary that they should have been fitted by previous training and education, but of late there has been a growing fooling of the necessity that men should receive not only a sound and liberal education, but also a special training for the particular service or work for which they are destined, and in no department of life has the necessity been more fully admitted, and practically acted upon, than in the profession of arms. Observing that the attempt to prove justification in the late libel case unquestionably failed, the Star hopes no one will adopt the notion that the liberty of the press has been infringed. The limits of public discussion have not been curtailed, the law has not been stretched, and the jury have hit a fair medium of damages, which are at once sub stantial, and not highly penal. tilt Court CA,TT.E. Jews 19. The Queen went out yesterday afternoon. Princess Louis of Hesse drove in the grounds attended by the Duchess of Roxburgne. Princess Beatrice also drove out. Her Majesty drove in the grounds this morning, accom panied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice. Prince and Princess Louis of If ow, attcndod by Lady Caroline Barrington, Baroness Orunoy, Lieutenant-Co lonel Hon. A. Liddell, Baron Von Itallenau, and Major Von Heise, wont to London this morning. The Prince's Louise, attended by the Duchess of Rex burghe and Colonel H. Ponsonby, went to London this afternoon. nor Majesty the Qeeen held a council this afteriu at a quarter to 3 o'clock, at which were present the Duke of Marlborough, the Right lion. Benjamin Dior. e the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, and the Earl of Tau kerrillo. Previous to the council the Right lion. D. the Duke of Marlborough, and the Duke of Buckinglueu had audiences of the Queen. Mr. Helps was the clerk of the council. Lord Begot, the Lord in Waiting, was in att,:ndince. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday nt a I,—ta, delivered by Colonel Jervoise, ILE., at the R Dude] Service lnaitution, Whitehall. The Princess of Wales drove out, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark. Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lady Srivan Melville and Colonel G. Gordon, wcut to Woolwich to day, and were present at the dhltribution of prizew by the That, of Cionbt idge to the geed( men cadets at the z 1 Military Academy. THE CITY MEETING ON MONDAY. THE meeting advertised to take place on Mon day, at the Guildhall, at which the prospects of the Irish Church are to be discussed, under the presidency of the LORD MAYOR, is arousing con siderable interest in the City. Its chief magis trate has considered it a portion of his duty to show strong political bias, under circumstances hitherto considered unsuitable for such display, but we may be sure that fair play will*. given to both sides at the public meeting he has invited. The LORD MAYOR must not forget that his impulsive talk at the famous gathering of clerical agitators at the City Terminus Hotel led him too far, and that the sentiments he claimed to utter on behalf of the City have been indignantly repudiated by many of the most influential people in it. The strong party feeling which has made some of the gatherings at the Mansion-house scorn like so many electioneer ing festivals given on behalf of the Conservative party, will be kept within proper limits at the Guildhall. The dignity of the City of London is in volved, and it is to be hoped this will never be sacrificed to the predilections of any gentleman filling the office of LORD MAYOR. It is quite clear that Mr. Alderman ALLEN does not absorb the political sentiments of his brethren in his own person, and that opposite opinions are held by even the majority of the municipal authorities whose civic functions are of a similar character to his own. The enor mous and influential class who have no share in Corporation honours, but who are still citizens of London, in the old sense of the words, would regard with extreme jealousy any attempt to pack a meeting, or to carry cut and dried resolutions which have not been fully discussed. We observe that the dignitaries of the Church dine at the Mansion House on the evening of the Guildhall meeting, and we trust that the proceed ings at the latter will be such as to enable them to form a correct estimate of the public opinion it has been summoned to evoke. ARTIFICIAL. LIGHTNING. FEw toys are more lilted than electrical ma chines. The old revolving wine -bottle, or larger cylinder, draped in silk and skirted by a metal comb, formed a never-failing source of amusement and wonder. Who has not witnessed its powers, had his nerves shaken by its shock, or, con spicuously mounted on a glass-legged stool, been laughed at while his hair has stood on end ? And the more modern battery, with its mul tiplying coil: who has not, with unwilling energy, clutched its terminals, or watched its beautiful spark darting front side to side, as only lightning can The development of machines by which to exhibit this grand force for purposes of usefulness or amusement, seems now to bo only a question of money. Thanks to CooKE and WrrEarwrorm the earth will soon be encircled by electric wires, and all nations be placed in instan taneous communication with each other. Electricity is fast taking the foremost place in our lighthouses; already its shoots, with incessant flash, are nightly reflected across the English Channel or penetrate the haze or fog with a power superior to that of any other light. From Now York comes a proposal to light the whole of tho street gas lamps at the same instant, by turning on an electric current in a central office ; an ex tension of the plan adopted during the last year or two at our own Royal Institution in Albe marle-street, whore the large sun-burners in the coiling of the theatre require to be frequently extinguished and relit during a lecture. The maker of a machine consisting of an ordinary electric coil, but of such dimensions as to be capable of giving a spark, or rather a true fork of lightning, no less than sixty-eight inches long, is willing to produce any amount of artificial, nay real, lightning, at the rate of front five to ten pounds per inch. It was hoped that those coils would be used in certain bleaching operations, but at present they have not been applied to industrial purposes• Tin Army and Navy Gazette says that the Ad miralty lately effected the sale of an old ship out and out for 2,1801. The fortunate purchaser ex tracted copper bolts, &c., therefrom 4,2211. in value, which sum eventually was subtracted from the British Exchequer "to repurchase " the old stores bearing broad arrow mark." The official comfort from this transaction is that a clear gain still accrued to the Admiralty of 2,1801., inasmuch as the copper bolts, &c., so repurchased for 4,221/. would fully realise that amount in the open market. It would seem that, according to Admiralty arithmetic, a man who buys back a thing which he has given away, is as well off as ho was before ho parted with it. We are requested to state that as the debate in the House of Lord. on Kr. Gladstone's Suspensory Bill will take place on the 28th inst., the committee of the National Club have postponed the conversations on the church in Ireland, which they proposed to hold on that date, to Thursday evening, July '2. The fifty-third anniversary of the battle of Waterloo was celebrated in the customary manner at the Wellington College • bet, owing to a variety of aireum stances, visitors of 'dietinetion were lees numerous than they have been on any previous cresaion. Amcmg those present were Lord Rumen, bird and Lady Brid port, Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Ifir. and Mrs. John Wiater, Mr. Ocr, Lord and Lady Gilbert Kennedy, Admiral Sir Alexander and Lady Milne, Sir John Say-libuttleweeth, Dr. and Hrs. Ba sica, Mr. and Mn. Charles Kingsley, Colonel and the Hon. lire. Wilbraluun, General and Mrs. Lawrence, to- The natal prizes were distributed by Dr. Benson, the head master, the ceremony being diversified b/ her reai id t- . Bons part mews from Mortere, Gabe, of " God sa and ve the Queen" WOO snag at the end of the sem niony, and the invited /sesta then proceeded to lunch in • a argues erected for the occasion. Vittrrine.m., JUNE 17.—The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto James Andrew Sandilands Grant, 7EBg., doctor in medicine, her royal license and authority that he may accept and wear the in sign ia of the imperial order of the Medjidie of the fifth class, which his Majesty the S u lt an bath been Oilseed to confer upon him in approbation of his services while actually and en tirely employed, beyond her Majesty's dominions, by his highness the Viceroy of Egypt, during the repaint visita tion of epidemic cholera in that country. —o4ustie. WHITEHALL, JUNE 17.—The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend William Forrie Stevenson, M.A., to the united parishes of Lf, Logie, Inverggowrie, end Benvie, vacant by the death of the Reverend Lohlan MacLean.—Gasetts. ME WEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday Review says that Mr. Disraeli's speech at the Merchant Taylors' banquet, although very well suited to the occasion, was a very poor and clipped affair as compared with his great outburst of solf-praise and audacity at Edinburgh. His spirit has been tamed, and ho is obliged to be more guarded and homely. There was nothing on Wednesday night comparable to that astounding flight of fancy in which he assured his Scotch hearers that, little as they might suspect it, almost every great measure passed in the last quarter of a century was due to Lord John Manners. There were no revelations like that in which he described how he had been educating his party, and how very hard work it had been. There were one or two moments when he tried it on rather sharply with his City friends. If any man in England can be trusted to know how great is the nonsense of seeing a spe cial dispensation of Providence in the fact that the new constituencies arc, as their first duty, to decide on the existence of the Irish church, Mr. Disraeli is the man. Conservatives after dinner may be, but Mr. Disraeli is certainly not, capable of believing that, whereas the question of the Irish church must have been brought before • reformed parliament in a very short time, Providence has specially arranged that it should come on this year, but that if it had not come on for a year or two, Providence would have had nothing to do with it. But at a public dinner no ono is critical, and most of those who listened probably believed that Mr. Disraeli knows, in a really remarkable degree, what Provi dence is about, and that it is somewhat due to him that trade, which has been stagnant ever since he came into office, is not even much worse than it is. With respect to the Irish Reform Bill, the SalUrday Benno mays that, in point of fact, it is not a reform bill at all, but virtually contains only one clause by which the hard and fast line at which the Irish borough franchise now stands is reduced to a lower figure. When the Spectator remembers that it was Mr. Disraeli who raid of Sir A. Alison that he had written eight volumes to prove that " Providence was on the side of the Tories," our oontemporary understands what Mr. Disraeli's recognition of the " hand of Providence " in this " awful dispensation" for trying the merits of a tory Reform Act really means. At the Merchant Tayloni dinner he was evidently addressing not his philosophical admirers, but the party which he finds it so hard to educate. For these ho feels that the cry of "Disraeli" alone is no longer sufficient,—so ho raises instead that of " Disraeli and Providence," a com bination of watchwords which he feels very justly that it needs a truly "awful dispensation" to render conceivable. To the Spectator it seems, in no superficial sense. a really awful dispensation that a man who so sincerely believes, and shows that he believes, the assertion he put into the mouth of one of his characters that " men are governed by words," not by convictions, not by faiths, should be fora time the ruling spirit of the English parliament and people. Our contemporary does not doubt that Mr. Disraeli is the agent in a much more awful dispensation than he himself has any idea of--a dispensation intended to bring home to us the frivolous character of an age in which real admiration and tangible power are accorded, by virtue simply of his excelling us at oar own miserable weapons, to "him they call Dizzy." Mr. Disraeli's speech on Wednaiday is, to men of the smallest reality of cha racter, one of the grossest satires upon the age. There is scarcely a outmost in which the speaker's real contempt for the audience he was addressing, and greater contempt for the greater audience whom he hoped to reach through them, is not, with almost perfect inaotoeiwace, betrayed. What Mr. Disraeli means by talking about an "impend ing dispensation of Providence " the Bramiser does not ask, because it is useless to ask questions that c►nnot be answered. Our contemporary once heard a desperate young advocate in an assize court, whose cause required that he should denounce the captain of a ship for having been the cause of its wreck, cap the climax of his denun ciation by the epithet, " thisnaufragioussooundrel." "That was a powerful speech you made," said a friend as the orator left the court : " but what did you mean by nau fragious "I don't exactly know," was the reply ; " but I thought the sound of it would tell." And so the fancy paamage about Pruviclonoe seems to have told at Merchant Taylors' Hall. Only the Examiner would like greatly to know, what does it mean ? Tko City friends of the Premier marshalled a great array of retro grade rank and dulness to listen to the manifesto of their official chief, and had the mane been changed, it is not clear that any greater representation of the conspicuous qualities of conservatism could have reasonably been counted on. Yesterday morning a large gathering of clery and laity, including many permits l friends of the - Rev . Dr. John Ailey, Vicar of Leeds, attended divine service at the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheap- Ade, to witness the confirmation of the election by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford of the rev. gentleman to the bishopric of Hereford, rendered vacant by the death of the Bight Rev. Dr. Renn Dickson Hampden. fuzzes or Cotom GILPIN, M.P.—We regret to learn that Colonel Gilpin, whose presence both as a member of parliament and a local magistrate, is much mimed, iss4 confined to his house at Hockliffe Grange. He bad within the past week considerably recovered, and it was hoped he would have been out again in a few days, but on Monday last a fresh attack of gout destroyed that for the present. gallant colonel was horn in M.—Rorke Indepardiwt. INFIRMARY FOIL EPILEPSY AHD PARALYSIS.- A morning amateur concert was 'yen oney at the Hanover - square Rooms to a ct oors pony in aul of the funds of this useful charity. The buildings have been enlarged sad repaired, in order to re ceive a larger number of in-doorand out-mts, who come from all parts of town and country. Great good is being done for the sick poor aMicted with epilepsy and para lysis, who are generally shut out from other institution. on account of such mysterious and cruel maladies. There are over 100,000 living sufferers. CHAPEL ROYAL, SAVOY.—The evening preachers are as follows:—June 21, Roy. J. Grover, head master of the Coventry Grammar School; June 28, Rev. li Jones, rector of St. Luke's, Westminster; July 6, Itev a .. r 7. A. Abbot, head master of the City of Loudon School; July 12, Rev. Stopford Brooke, teplain in ordinary to her Itajost ; July 19 Rev. ff. I. Mld, head master of the Worcester echo& STATE CONCERT. By command of the (111(4 , n, a state concert was given last evening at Buckingham Palace, to which a party of about 700 was invited. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Denmark, escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards, and attended by the Countess of Kw:eh:wield, the Hon. Mrs. Stonor, Lord Harris, Viscount Hamilton, the Hon. T. Fitzmaunee, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, and Captain Lund, arrived at the garden entrance of the palace at half-pad 10 o'clock. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur arrived at the palace, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Elphiustone. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse arrived, attended by Lady Camline Barrington, the Baronies Glancy, Lieutenant-Cob mei the Hon. A. Liddell, Baron Von Rabenau, and Major Von Howe. Their Royal Iligluiewes Prince and Princess Christian arrived, attended by Lady Susan Melville Mrs. G. U. Gordon, and Lieutenant-C,olonel G. G. Gordon. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise arrived, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe and Colonel H. Ponsonby. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge arrived from St. James's Palace, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Major-General Lord F. Paulet. His Royal Highness the links of Cambridge arrivol from Gloucester House, attended by Colonel Tvrwhitt. His Serene Highness the Prince and her Royal Highne43 the Princess of Teck arrived front Kensington-Intl:ter. • • . - MB Royal Highness Duke Philip and her Imperial Highness the Duchess Philip of %Verminburg arrived wt the Palace, attended by the Countess of Auersperg and Davin 0 ultenburg. The royal body guard of the Yeomen of the Guard was on duty in the interior of the palace, under the command of Earl Cadogan, the captain. Lieutenant-0401A Charles Patterson, the ;non in waiting, was prescut with the c° 2 s irei . ard of honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards, with the hand of the regiment, was mounted in the court of the palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Arthur, Prince and Princess Louis of Ilesse, Prince and Princess Christian, and Princess Louise, ac companied by his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Denmark, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, his Sereno Highness the Prince and her Serene Highness the Princess of Teck, his Royal Highness Duko Philip and her Impe rial Highness the Hecht's; Philip of Wertenihurg, con ducted by the Lord Chamberlain, and attended by th.,ir ladies and gentlemen in waiting, entered the saloon at 20 minutes before 11. o'clock, when the concert immediately commenced. The band and chorus (consisting of upwards of IGO performers) wore 'selected from Her Majesty's 'Theatre. the Royal Italian Opera, the Philharmonic and Sacred Harmonic societies, and her Majesty s private band. Tho performance who conducted by Mr. W. (i. (the conductor of the Philharmonic concerti), Mr. Ander son (the director of her Majesty's private band) being too ill to attend. ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince and Princess Christian, with their suites, attended the annual distribu tion of prizes at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, yesterday. It was expected by the public that the Queen and Prince of Wales would have been present, her Majesty having some time since signified a wish to attend the " break-up " at which Prince Arthur, having served his cadetship, would receive his lieutenant's commission in the Royal Engineers. The expectation was, however, dis appointed. A brilliant staff of generals and other ofrie at, high in rank received the royal visitors, who drove from Londin and arrived on the parade ground in front of the Academy soon after 11 o'clock. A guard of honour was formed by a squadron of Hussars, and the cadets were drawn up on the ground. A large number of ladies promenaded upon the sward within the enclosure. After the royal salute had bien fired, and the National Anthem played, the cadets were marched past, drilled, and put through a few simple battalion movements. Prince Arthur was placed in command of a company, and shouted his orders in true military disregard of his own blood vessels. His residence at Woolwich has hid a decidedly beneficial effect upon his health, and he has grown to be a tall, straight young soldier. The duke, who wore the uniform of the Blues, inspected the cadets, and then the entire company adjourned to the gymnasium. The drawings of the pupils were examined, by which time the large hall was thronged to witness the presentation of prises. The royal party, with a few privileged persona connected with the garrison, occupied • dais at the and, and the cadets were arranged to form three Odes of a square in the body of the hall. The general public were allowed to wedge themselves in behind the young gentlemen, whose tall bearskins effec tually prevented anyone under six foot high seeing any thing but the rear cut of a cadet's uniform. A report was presented upon the dais, and it shared the fate of many other such documents—it was read, hut not heard. We afterwards gathered that it was the report of the council; that it recommended, out of the 44 first-class cadets, 19 for commissions in the Royal Engineers, and 23 for admission intheßoyal Artillery; and stated that the exa minations had been on the whole good. The "gentlemen cadets" were next called up to receive their commissions, Prince Arthur receiving the first call. Of course this cere mony was applauded. A distinct muttering was heard in the direction of the dais, caused, it was said, by an officer reading another report, which spoke of the pleasure Prince Arthur bad given by his conduct and acquirements, and of the general regret felt that he was leaving. Prizes to successful candidates were next awarded. This tieing done, the Commander-in-Chief expressed his satisfaction at the progress made in the Academy, particularly at the indications that scientific acquirements were in the ascendent, and that the cadets had shown a spirit of esprit if. corps that should distinguish every soldier. At the same time he reminded them that after all there was nothing like discipline, without which an army was a mere mob, but possessed of which it was an organi zation that could do anything. The Abyssinian campaign he quoted as an instance of the theory that where officers set an example of fortitude and discipline, an English soldier would be sure to follow it. A second time the duke impressed upon the cadets that discipline Was essential in every army, but in none more than ours. He asked them also to show themselves worthy of being brother officers of • member of the highest family in the realm, and always to remember to behave like gentlemen. After apologising for the shamee of the Prince of Wales, the duke wished the cadets a pleasant holiday, and they were marched away. Before leaving, the royal party witnessed some gymnastic feats. The Countess Cowper received at dinner yester day evening, at her residence in Bt. James's-square---The Marquis and Ma:chimes' of Ailesbury, the Comtism de Grey, the Countess of Dunmore, Viscount Halifax and Hon. Wes Wood, Viecount Canterbury, Lord Dangles, Lord Ronald Leeman Gower, the Lord Chief Joshes (Sir Alexander Cockburn), Hon. J. F. Stuart Wortley, Hon• Mr. Fogey, Colonel Towers, &c. A new sovereign is about to visit Paris. The Queen of Mold& has arrived at Suez on board the Ye/- flower, on bar way to Paris. Whine is one of the Comas group, situated at the southern entrance of the hforanibique Channel. A large and influential audience wee attracted to the Royal United Service 'institution yesterday to hear the Deputy-Director of Works, Colonel arvois, C. 8., R.Z., deliver a lecture upon "Coast Defences, sad the Application of Iron to Fortification." Th 3 interest was sufficient to attract the Prince of Wales, the Commander.. in -Chief, the Comte de Paris, Sir J. Burgoyne, Sir F. Grey, Sir H. Storks, Sir R. Walpole, Sir J. Hay, Sir C. Trevalyan, and many other members of parliament, oft ars, and gentlemen. FOREIGN NElvs, (THIS DAY.) THE fiEItVIAN CONSPI The New Free l'ress, of Juno 17, r , following ou the subjiet of th,• Itiervis : The imprisoned murderer* hay.• o f , from which it appeam that a widely-1 , r., i Carbonaro Society (the Oinla•lina) wr. t i • of the attack on the life of Pro,. m • the members of the tilirenovich were to h • . conspiracy extended even to Paris, w1e0 . .. o• t•• to have been made to seize the 11 -r-o•• • Milano. Madame latkaesew ich, si ot • Cf , 44 Perside Karageorgiewich, and fi r . • teen imprisoned in 1 /1.4g1 i•de. 111, i Hale the conspiracy liar Ipom t.. the members of it, who w.,r, y.flow . 1,. • ingst in one of the most popu! , . 1 ..1,.. • 1 ; PI ince Michael and the prim -ipa I pet •wi • • if . • :.. to be killed, and a eOViTTITTI , .nt *of" retort*. with A leXal4lllT , • • older toiot:rua, the ronfu-...0. ti.. / . /..//4 ft.. th•• to .11 , ,v/ fhomsclvi e, as flay }. • by the people. The hi s i t i,i• three rine:pit 1:111rill•Il• In (lii. .r . .• was leeellrrt to the ground, and th.• rr. • • /11011 e Fayed the parents froll l the r.,• Prince Michad was warm - i twiro iv I • • tempt on his life was intended, and found in the pocket of the ,at the moment of his a , sas•inatiopo. Tit•• / dent adds that the assassination will Iiv•• n turbing the peace of the East. IV.• rr. Fr," Prece) that thie may he tin t • may continue to prevail in Belgrade. (TAROC(111 REIrfEliS A , l;. S-:1 FRANCE. P.U:N The Almolrvr of this morning !, of the gow.rnment of Ihyti, It. i 1: ; the Haytian ports and towns of ti , . goane, and Jaemel are deatn.,l blodcarte." An extraordinary general „: holders of the Credit Mobilier C.,:,.; r . eunverwd for the 30th July. roteruc; %L. LISBON, 1 • I Mr. Laing has left for London, a settlement with Count A%ilu a,• Eastern Railway question. It i, s I • basis of the old emit ra,t of I I.s OUR PARTS LETTER. (rnox out ow COIZIZESPO3D}:N7 PARIS, FRI The news reetwit n rely givcn that Pritiro 11tilan Obrevitch, w110.,•n;p• quitted Paris for Service to as , i•rt dab) contradicted an the ground that ntilin, be settled about the sneeession till the in • • the Schouptchina in July, and that state of parties iu Service and the semi-i which prevails in many tarts of that L.. 7 would not be safe for the lad to sh•av I. there until a rsgular government I, • _ lurly organised. Nevertheless the friend.; of - Milan think it desiralde that. I. ,lionl,l • • grade directly, and I understand it to be an - , • that he will leave Paris on June 2 . 2, aecon,;•. by M. llistisch, formerly a Servian rns, ,• • stantinople, and a very numerous suite. - I . - composition of this suite is highly appropri-,! • i. is said to consist of stalwart youths six foe!. 1. Preneh students $1.9 as Sorvimi, who constitute an efficient as well as faithful guard. It is confirmed that the Emperor will le.e. 1 . • tainehleau for the Chalons camp on the 2.;!! .- • and that he will stay there three days. 1;..• will not be accompanied by the Empre“ Prince Imperial, and I rather think I! .• • current a little while ago, that the inip , •!.: would make along sojourn in the ein,), . • nier, was founded on ;in ititilitiOn «•Li.!l abandoned. Shortly after the Emper.r l• • Fontainebleau at the end of the mmrL l to some watering plaee—probably . his health. The Empress and the Prin. I will stay at Fontainebleau till n:ooly ti.. and in the autumn it is likely that th. , go to iliarritz. It is wished to int •, • studies suitable to the Prince's age possible. Ills "vacation," whieli to insist he shall not be cheated of. is c• n• to be occupied by a visit to .e.. !- Mediterranean fleet. Prince d'Aremberg, a scion of the we:ilthy of that name which possesses large Germany and Belgium, was marrie.l !.1 the Madeleine church, to Mdlle. de Gretfullie. E;- traordinary stories are told about the I ; presents, and stock receipts fur err tr.t: thousands a year concealed in al-titles ,F • trousseau given by " opulent uncle." This has been the hottest day of this pi , hot summer. The centigrade therimuuct• cruy Chevalier), which Lad not hale Tte 1.. more than 29 this year reached :11.3 above 7, r day. THE METEOPOLITIN FoREP.LV MARKET RILL. The above bill, recommitted, stands for mittee on Friday next at the afternoon bitting. Mr. 11 fall, on reading the order of the day for vaiitez ant., e... • mittee on the hill, will move, "'That it he an 114 rii.. to the committee that they have pow, , r il:e • visions relative to the imp,rtattai of rattle trol.i N • mandy, Brittany, Spain, and Portlizal. to b I. the various outports in tinat Brit lin al. ,r. , tL from the North Foreland westward: ti the 1,..” and thence northwanls to the Mull nit aiityre, to be approved by, and in conformity with tl, tions of, the Commis loner of her Mr. Milner Uibeon intends to move ma the pi e to pasa a permanent law requiring that, in orb' v.:: • vent the introduction of the cattle pla,tu • country from abroad. all foreign cattle and other imported into the port of London shall lw land , .1 prescribed spot, and shall not be removed then , ,• • ought not to he considered apart from the g enera! !: of imposing legal restriction:l on the foreign en!! t: in other ports of the United Kingdom." The Queen of Prussia has received at BAI,II visit of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, of the (liana P Marie of Russia, and the Duchess of Letichtimbertt• ' the 25th the Queen is going to the Palace of BAke The King of Prussia left on Tuesday morning let V Palace of Furstenstein, in Silesia. Nothing is yet ` kte. mined upon respecting the future journeys of 13 1, 7: jolty during the bathing season. It is prnbab' about the 2nd or 3rd of July the King will take • partnre for Ems or Carlsbad. The Prussian government has authenol Krupp establishment at Essen to execute a conetio order for cannons of cast steel on account of the 11 ' 1 rn . military administration, Russia being about to tr , "' the whole of her artillery on the Prussian ined-i• Krupp has gone to St. Petersburg in connexion sr.:' business. The sale of the Didier collection producea 04! 20,000/. M. Alexandre Dumss,JUs, bought severs! dart. An album containing 66 of Eugne 1,331 water-colour illustrations of Alfred de Ilweetli l was purchased for 1,000/. Quentin de is Tour's yorr o in pastels of Mdlle. de Is Reynitdre went for skew by Prudhoe. from 101. to 601. (Mb' t• , •:t::: 1 or F' Vic Co. stre