The Express. — London, England, 1868-09-04 00:00:00

IT EEN'S THEATRE. Long-sore. /I • Ad. a- Mr. W. H. LISTON. THE LANCANI II RE LAIVI. /T 11 , 401 LI/ M/ having bt.e tverivr.l Om , . bout ita rerformanno whit th. 0///v• Neale, and e•elt•rlawitemotv. wUI D..try.ratal EVERY EVEN !tit; eta Quarter to 4, eon,' tpling punntu.ll , n 6 11. THE LANCASHIRE LASS. at i quartor to K. The deonenotrat ton.. in &sour o "Mr Lanoashire LOS are loud and unaninuma" - LAN('ASIII.IIE LA:4B, at a quarter to 8. At al. r two". the entlavia.at surged up ho)olet °Antral, and burets ol Omar. anon.. sad waging haaWriohlefegvvt , el thc swopes• of the hero and hen,uta"—Tbe Hollow tom tho Prilli I,AM..Ast I tRE LASS, at a quarter to 8 . -M. "The pare throughout awe efteilroly art.l. and the sea rational Imam , of the phi keeps the eadiretoe la a perpetual state of sachet/ant Illustrfvod London Nowa THE LANCASHIRE LASS. at a quarter to 8. "oI Its rewind repereeetatine wee teenhed with even wester applause then oe the erenhwr et proderlott."—Delly TeleirrePh• finis LANCASHIRE LASS. at a quarter to 8. A kite rem stay be preettoted for the geom. sad. when lentil.) tills spun. it will be as greet a hit se the ' White' Sawn.' " —Polly News. TBE LANCASIIIItE LASS, at a quarter to 8. - Altogether. Judintur tree the Midwest of the pieoe. the elc earmn of the music and the beauty of the pommy, to es the large sad MghtlyMareardng audiences. 'The Lam' will toll". • 004111.0 r of attraction if; : ad = ■ period ao any drama that hoe Weir bees produced." - - 1 yeEllif THEATRE. Mr. FAIRCLOUGH 1.4 haring made an rortraordmary otiocem cor his drin • oa in England. he well hare the honour of ameoring EV ER EVEN -INO during the work in 11 AlgtET. ft. wre kind monition ho met with from • fashionable and crowded honor, on Saturday will nem . be effseed from kin memory. nor the enthusiastic calla that he received before tho murals. by • Wad and diamismating birandiron.. entire strangers to him wad tow only of whom hoard of oreionr attack of Moms on arrival in the country. R OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Three Ballet& Promenade Oonoort. Band or O. Been at & IL 3011-0110 e open trete ll to 4. WILLIAM TARN AND CO. C AR PE T 8, FURNITURE, BE D DIN O. THE LARGEST SHOW-ROOMS IN ENGLAND. WILLIAM TARN AND CO., NEWLNOTON CALWWAY. AID NEW KENT ROAD. 8.3. WILLIAM CHI7RTON sad BON, HOOTERS and BEITRTILUCKRB. LLDIEtr UNDEROLOTKING. ft and a. 017011D-BTREZT. D A I L___Y N B W 8. PRICE ONE PENNY. SCALE OF CHARGES FOR AD' Pie Lbw.' •6 • 4. PROSPECITSES of NEW COXPANIER. 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Vortcas of BIZTIN, MAILLI•011R, and DEAT7III, WO seethed uzaa 12 o'clock for insertion same evening. Price Ils. Mt LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 4. THE CUTLERS' FEAST. MR. REVERDY JOYINSON'S first public appear ance in England, at the Sheffield Cutlers' Feast, confirms most happily all the hopes and expecta tions that saluted his appointment on both sides of the Atlantic. Nothing could be more cordial, or more decided, than his language with respect to the character and the objects of his mission to this country. " I come to you," he said, "as a mes " senger of peace. That messenger I moan to be. " I could not be otherwise if I carried out '• the instructions of my government." The cheers which greeted these words at Sheffield will be echoed throughout the British islands, and that unity of sentiment and purpose which ought, ac cording to the American Minister, to be " indivi " sible," founded as it is on community of blood,of language, and of freedom, will, we fully believe, be more and more strengthened and secured in proportion to the growth of national and popular as opposed to sectional and oligarchical power among us. It was mainly due to the persistent sympathy of the great body of the British people with the cause of the American Union that peace between the United States and Great Britain was maintained during the civil war, and the recognition of the slavehold ing confederacy by our governing classes averted. When the newly enfranchised eleaors come to feel their power and to exert it at a general election we believe the foreign policy of England will finally abandon the old diplomatic tradition of entangling European alliances, and join hands with our kinsmen in the New World for the de fence of the common civilisation. Mr. ROEBUCK, whose eloquence is always a tonic and appetising bitter at a feast, struck a note of his own on this occasion, and as usual thenote, if not abeolutelydis cordant, was somewhat inharmonious. He described the American Minister as the representative of " the haughty offspring of a haughty parent," which seems to suggest that the people of both countries are made in the image of Mr. ROEBUCK. Referring to the Reform Bill and the new con stituencies, Mr. ROEBUCK characteristically enough describes the change in terms of apprehension if not of dislike. Just as he voted for Mr. GLAD STONE'S Irish Church Resolutions after making a speech into which he had condensed every argu ment and every prejudice against them that could possibly occur to Mr. GLADSTONE'S angriest oppo nents, so he enlarges at the Cutler's Feast on the dangers of this LAPerintent of enfranchising the ratepaying householders. " The goveniment " of this country," h says, " is now in Ow hands of " the working classes. 'We most not. conceal this fact from ourselves." If Mr. Romices means by the " working classes" the 111411 who earn wages THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY E*ENIIto,,' , SEPTEMBER 4, 1868. by manual and mechanical labour, his announcement will very muoh surprise thorn. Not even numeri cally, and still less in any other sense, can it be pretended that the last Reform Bill has placed the government of this country in the bands of the artisans. They have their share in it, but a glance at the " Election Intelligence" in every day's nowepaper will show, that the bah►noe of political power is not likely to be disturbed just yet, and if Mr. Roeseex'a really sound ad vice to the landlords and employers of labour, to e•xeut the legitimate influence of mind over mind, instead of seceding through a false fastidious ness from public affairs, is rightly understood, we shall become a more homogeneous bad united people without tearing each other and our common national inheritance to pieces. THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE FOR PLYMOUTH. Mi. eruarr LANE, the Conservative candidate for Plymouth, addressing the electors of that borough, has made a very smart defenco of his directorship of the Crkdit Ponder of England. He points triumphantly to the moeting of share holders, at which only five out of five thousand voted against the policy of the old directors. " If," says Mr. STUART Latta, " the five share " holders were right and the 4,993 were wrong, " I should be prepared to make good to the ut " most farthing anything which they might have " the chance of reclaiming against me." This good-humoured and generous offer was received, it seems, with laughter by the doctors of Ply mouth. As to the " much-abused system" of commission profits, Mr. STUART LANE throws upon the shareholders the responsibility of sanctioning it, whether right or wrong. Although this sort of apology simply amounts to writing down the shareholders as willing dupes— fa tea voile Geo►ges Dandin—it is impossible to deny that Mr. STUART Larra's happy audacity is capable of justification. But Mr. STUART LANE goesfurther, and he has the courage to predict "that " thaw who from one-sided statements have " judged that the Credit Foncier Company " is in a state of ruin, are likely to be themselves " deluded, and their judgment to be entirely in " error." This comfortable prediction will at least hold good till after the general election. At the worst, it is a promissory note that may be in definitely renewed. There is one point, however. on which we are anxious to put ourselves right with the Conservative party. Mr. STUART LANS objects very fairly to " Liberal morality " being " different in Plymouth from what it is in Norwich " or Brighton." There are, as far as I know, three directors of the Credit Fonder of England who are standing as I am to-day before the constituency of Plymouth. Allow me to name them. One is Mr. Edward Warner, than whom a finer fellow cannot be found on the face of the earth—(bear, hear)--and he is a liberal candidate, and at the I resent moment member for the large borough of Nor wich. The other is Mr. James White, the liberal candidata and elected, as far as a preliminary meeting will do, by that large constituency, Brighton, which has at this moment no lees than 10,000 electors. Is it right, is it fair, that these men should have received with me commissions based on exactly the dime calculations, that you, on the one hand, state theme commissions are not correct, and yet that the liberals of Norwich and Brighton should put them up as the champions of their creed i (" Rear, hear;" cries of "No.") Is liberal morality different in Plymouth from what it is in Norwich or Brighton i Is it right, honourable, or fair that I, standing here as the candidate for the conservative party, should be abused for that which those standing fur larger boroughs as the liberal candidates have been praised for having done 7 I have now, under the circumstanced, to ask you to dismiss this question from your minds. Either Norwich and Brighton arc unjust in having chosen those men, friends of my own, and I believe most worthy man, though I differ from them in politics, or you are wrong in haying declared that I—l am talking now to the liberals—am not even worthy of being your opponent. (Great cheering.) Our answer to this manly appeal shall be very ,iniple and direct. We have no doubt Mr. EDWARD W.thNER, the Liberal member for Norwich, is all that Mr. St I'ART Ls.vm has painted him ; and we know that Mr. JsmEs WrtrrE, the member for Brighton, has proved himself a loyal and a zealous re presentative of his party in Parliament. Sup posing a Liberal and a Conservative di rector of the Credit Fonder of England to present themselves together to a constituency, their connexion with that company need not affect the political choice of the Liberal or the Conserva tive electors. Suppose a Liberal ex-director of the Credit Fonder to stand against a Conservative candidate who is free from all such " financing" associations, the Liberal electors may well ab stain from voting even for " the finest fellow in " the world," and the Conservative electors even for " a pure and noble gentleman," whose high character has been made to serve as a prospectus, in order to secure a " solidarity of interests" among co-directors of very different antece dents. stump orator! All the usual mob-cries that assail the stumper reach Aim, too, in the shape of letters and articles—Out it short ! Question, question ! and other impolite appeals. This is not only a great falling off since the days when the holy man could and did, sure of the aoqui cecenco of his flock, capsize the hour-glass, and saying, " Now my beloved hearers, let •' us take another turn," go on for an hour more ; it is also pretty clear proof that the old-fashioned high-supernatural ides of the preacher's function does not now-a-days readily come to the surface in public disoussion Judge not the preacher, for he is thy judge ; If thou mislike him thou oonoeiv'st him not. Whore is that kind of teaching sure of a hearing just now ? It is all very well to say that if there were more GEORGE HEBREWS there would bo more people to follow his rule ; but GEORGE HERBERT'S 11210 Wall expressed without qualification. While now, the man who, by the very hypothesis of his gown, is the supernaturally qualified messenger of GOD himself to the endangered souls of the hearers is the football of the silly season, and chaffed as freely se an enormous gooseberry. Per haps it may not be quite idle to signalise the fact that the idea of which we have spoken is so quietly buried out of sight when prosohers and sermons are the topic. When we hear of it at all, it falls upon us like something in s language half forgotten, so much has the clergyman superseded the apostle in the current symbols of social criticism. - ~ OUR CONTEMPORAR!Ira. (TRIO DAY.) 0./YRCH AND &TATE. Commenting on the sermon delivered by De. Vaughan in the parish church of Doncaster, the Times, after admitting the docitor's peculiar fitness to esti mate the popular position of the church of England, sake whether that &arab has the people with her. It, as it believes, church people are in a great majority, it will either remain in possession of its churches, parsonages, and glebe*, or it will find no dilliculty in replacing them. Dr. Vaughan is the last man to confound an este bliihment with a church, and deolares an unwaverin faith in the promises ; but he fears that a cold scepticism and a Christless education may breed a moo without faith, without knowledge, and without hope. He thinks the church will clear itaclf from the wreck and pursue its course as a branch of the church catholic. The Times believes more than this. The church of England is not national because it is establiehed, but established because it is uational ; and should it be disestablished by the most violent measures a doubly or trebly reformed parliament is capable of—aye, if the House of Lords be reformed also —it will still continue the church of England, not Dei yratirt, but hogrintias telex:ate. The benefit of a splendid and high-titled establishment is very much confined to places, to dem" to cliques, and to families, to the owners of patronage and the possessors of influence. Of course they will lose something. But the many,wiff not lose so much as either the friends or the foes of the church of England seem to anticipate. We have in Rome the church identified with the state ; we have in France, in Italy, in Anetria, the church in more or less violent antagonism to the State. It is only in this country that that separation from the State which Archbishop Manning professes to wish for his own church has been completely effected. Few madam, whether churchmen or nonconformists, were prepared, in the opinion of the Deily Nisi% for the clear and positive language of Dr. Vaughan. Ile distinctly foresees disestablish/Dent and disendowment of the church, and he is far from regarding the prospect with alarm or dismay, although he fears something for the state when it ceases to have a religion. He believes in the advantages of an established church, but he also believes that in the order of Providence those advantages are about to be withdrawn. According to the Triry►aph, the real danger to the ohurch arises from the want of earnest and able te►chere in the church itself. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) TIIE SMOKING EMPEROR AND THE EMPIRE. The L.berti of last evening has one of the moot singular articles that ever proceeded from the singular pen of M. E. do Girardin. It is too long to giro it entire, but its tenor will be sufficiently it! pri I in'ed by the following extract : The Fmperor possesses in the highest degree two sow reign qualities—goodness and sweetness. If he were not ei dewed by nature with these qualities we should have had after December 2, 1851, despotism and a despot, wtcreas we had only tyranny without a tyrant. If we lived in times when names wore attached to sovereigns, he would have berm called Napoleon, "the well meaning." How are we to explain the fact that Napoleon deserves all praise and the Empire all criticism It is because the Emperor's qualities are neutralised, not by a defect, but an error. Led astray by the example of his uncle Napoleon the First, who vaingloriously dated a decree about the TbMtre Fll/Ic&ii from Moscow, he imagines that it is requisite for his present prestige and his future glory that be should conceive and execute everything by himself. But would it not have been better to leave the 7'66kt:A Fran cais alone, and to bring back the army sate and sound from Moscow The Emperor does not banish liberty be cause be is afraid of it, he banishes liberty because he believes that if he were to allow it to expand its wings and take flight it would prevent him from accomplishing the great things he dreams of. Ido not say what he conceives bat what he dreams of. To smoke is to dream awake. The Emperor emotes an immense number of cigarettes, and when ho smokes France appears to him as grand as it appeared to him little under Louis-Philippe. And because Franco seems to him to be great he persuades himself that she is great. Sincerely believing that the greatness he is dreaming about he bas realised, he cannot understand how there can exist minds sour enough to prefer the shadow to the booty, in other words, individual liberty to national greatness. This is not ill meant on the part of the Em peror, it is a simple delusion. The moment this illusion, which is kept up by the drunkenness of tobooco, is dissi pated France will become free, not partially but wholly free. elftliOtTolll ILSOTEVII A 011114774 SPAIN. MADRID, SEPr. 3. The mail steamer from the Canary Island_s ar rived to-day at Cadiz, bringing intelligence that General Dulce was improving in health. The Minister of Public Works has returned to the °maid. AMERICA. NEW YORK. SErr. 3. Closing prices :—Gold, 1431; Sterling exchange on London, 1091; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1131 ; ditto, 1885, 111 f ; 10-40 ditto, 105 ; Illinois, 144 ; Erie, 47 ; Cotton, Middling Up land, 30}. Petroleum, standard white, 32. Flour, extra State, 8 dols. 10c. to 8 dols. 70c. ; corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 24c. (Arrival of the China ri.l Queen town.) The royal mail steamship Chins, from New York on the 27th ult., arrived at Queenstown at 8 a.m. to-day (September 4), with 44 cabin pas sengers. She landed 123 sacks of mails and 14 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 8.20 a.m. All well. KEW YORK, Arorsr 25. A number of citizens of Charlestown have peti tioned President Johnson to provide protection for the city against the threatened lawlessness. as the civil authorities are unable to preserve order. It is reported that secret armed democratic or ganisations are being formed in Missouri, Ken tucky, and Tennessee. President Johnson has ordered the forcible expulsion of hostile Indians from Kansas. Th.' eflitio. ilis.nr.e it Pltrealling tilrollfrit. nit the country. Adviees from Hayti state that Sablare i 9 acting solely on the defensive. NEW YORK, Arum 26, NOON. Tt is reported that the itegroes in Northern Lousiana ane effecting armed organisati.als. Senator Sherman, in a speech at Ohio, declared his belief that the bonds should be made payable in the legal tender. Adviees trout Cuba state that the Captain- General has ordered that no passenger should be allowed to land on the island with zi passport cer tified by a Spanish consul. From Mexico it is stated that the forces of Juarez under Alatorre have been defeated by the insurgents in the state of Vera Cruz. CANADA. MW YORK, Arersr:j. The Nova Scotian Delegates who have returned from London. represent that the Home Govern ment regards its recognition of the Union Act as paramount to the colonial objection, but that that recognition was based on the apparent consent of the people of Nova Scotia, to whom, ueverthelcsi, the right of appeal remains. OrTwAtin BOMBAY MAIL.-GIIRRALTIR, SEP- T!.ILBER 3. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steluner Poonah, from Southampton 29th August, reached Gibraltar at 9 p.m. on the '3lil inst., and loft for at 8 this morning. All well. The Italian journals state that King Victor- Fmmanuel lately had a narrow escape while shooting in the mountains at Valdieri. When in pursuit of a chamois, and at the moment he was surmounting a rock, a portion of the latter gave way, and his Majesty would have fallen over a precipice if a peasant had not lent him assistance. A grand competitive meeting of Orpheonists has just taken place at Havre. Not less thou 1•i0 societies, vocal or of brass uudrunieub., were present from all lusts of France, and numbering upwards of 6.000 member.. For the former class, the piece ese•uted was the chorus Dyquesne, words by M. Gustave Choquet, and music com posed by M. Bain: the grand prize was awarded to the Societe Orphionique of Roubaix. In the second category the highest honour was obtained by the Grande Iharmouie of the same town. A large number of other rewards, consisting of gold or silver medals, were also distributed; that for rending musk at first sight being obtained by the Amend Cheve choir of Paris. The proceedings termi nated by a banquet, at which Baron Leroy, prefect of the Seine-Inferieure, presided. His excellency announced his intension to organise a grand concert at Rouen ou the anniversary of Boieldieu's birthday (lith December), and the proceeds of which would be applied to the erec tion in that city of a large hall for musical festivals, to be named after that composer. THE BELGIAN NIIARTRIOOTER.9.—Prizes were distributed two days back at Antwerp to the successful competitors at the great shooting match there, iu honour of the inauguration of King Leopold's statue. In this contest about 4,000 marksmen took part, 30,793 shots were tired, of which 16.6144 bullets struck the targets, and 2,646 went into the bull's eye. If. Guillaume Fortuna , . of Brussels, carried., the prise of honour given by the ladies of Antwerp, and amidst enthusiastic shouts, the band playing the Brabanlonne at the same time, the wife of the Colonel of the Guard presented to the victor a sash of white satin having on it the arms of the nine provituva. Thu distribution of the prizes lasted nearly two hours. TUE A:NOLO-BELGIAN PRIZE FiTSI). —A com mittee has been formed for the purpose of establishing prizes to be shot for alternately in 'Belgium and England, in commemoration of the national interchange of visits between the volunteers of the two countries. The prises will comprise gold, silver, and bronze " Leopold medals" and money to the extent of 1.501. annually. The funds are to be derived from subecriptions to Captain C. Mereier's picture of the King of the Belgians. It will rest with the committee to decide whether the competition shall lie re stricted to the (lark Civique mat volunteers al Belgium and to eMcient volunteer% in lln•at Britain. or to be thrown open to both country*. The prim.% will he shot for at the approaching Tir National at Brussels. The King of the ►elgians has given 1:*/. roe annum to the ormanittoe of the fund, to he uppripriated to prizoe to be contended for by British volunteers only. PREACHERS AND SERMONS. Ix the " Form and Manner of Ordering of Priests," the candidate, after hearing an address which ex hibits in strong language the dignity and awful ness of a priest's charge, declares to the Bishop that he " thinks in his heart he is truly called to " the office according to the will of our Lord " Jesus Christ." Vast numbers of churchmen, probably the majority, read these words, with the words of the Bishop's charge, in the very highest sense that can be affixed to them—as implying, in fact, that the man who undertakes the office of a priest has, by the hypothe sii of the Church of England, been spe cildly moved by the Divine Spirit to under take a work directly bearing upon the salvation of souls. In one of the letters that the discussion upon the incomes of dissenting ministers has called forth, we happen to get at this very moment the same idea : Get rid (lays the writer of this letter) of the superstition LAM still ►ingers round the Christian ministry as a church order. Substitute for that superstition the ennobling belief that the Spirit of GOD makes His own selection of the men who shall Bane Him, and that Christian men, in proportion to their Christianity, are able to recognise the Divine seal, and know whom don has chosen as bishops of souls. Here we have plainly put, and it is nothing new, the old-fashioned notion that a religious preacher is, by the hypothesis, a supernaturally qualified man, commissioned by Got) himself to do a supernatural work, while those to whom he is sent are supernaturally en abled to teat his fitness. The work he has to do divides itself, in this idea, into two branches ; he has to convert sinners, and to edify the con verted. Now it is noticeable, we say, that this idea has so very rarely turned up in the numerous recent criticisms of sermons, including in par ticular 801110 of the best in the Pull Mall Gazette and other able contemporaries. The preacher has been pretty regularly treated in these criticisms as a lecturer whose authority is only incidental and whose function is nothing in partici der. The theory is that he stands up there in the pulpit, divinely qualified, and most solemnly pledged, to speak of things which have Hell at one side and 'leaven at the other ; and 10, he is snubbed as if he were a THE EMPEROR BEFORE MENTANd. THE Emperor of the Faxxcn is often accused, by his friends and by his adversaries alike, of irresolu tion ; and we have seen a letter, written by a personal friend of his, which applied to him the oelebratod definition, " Cat un roteau taint en ff." Unfortunately this habitual irresolution on the part of so powerful a personage is the cause of what the Governor of the Bank of France has called that " nightmare of uncertainty" which weighs upon every money market in Europe. But it is only fair to give the EMPEROR credit when we can for a fit of irresolution on the liberal side. It has never yet to our knowledge been mentioned that two hours before the battle of Mentana Louis NaroDxox tele graphed counter orders to General DE FAILLY. These counter orders were not obeyed ; probably because the French General shrank from exposing to his troops the irresolution of his Sovereign, and withdrawing them from the scene of action at the last moment ; and, moreover, ►ecause he was anxious to teat the quality of his Chaesepots. Still the fact, if it be a fact, remains to the credit of the Euriaoit's second thoughts. We state it under all reserve, and without vouching for more than the perfect credibility of the person on whose authority we record it for what it is worth. Our informant is neither a French malcontent nor an Italian revolutionist ; but a sincere and devoted catholic and an ardent champion of the Temporal Power, who wee present among the combatants on the Porn's side at the battle of Sfesitaina. FREE TRADE IN DRINK. THAT partial alteration of the licensing eyetem under which the distribution of wine, beer, and spirits is no longer oonftned to the licensed victuallers, properly so called, but is divided amongst grocers and oilmen in country and suburban districts, has created a vast change in the aspect of a trade which has generally been associated with teetotal interests. The "cup " which cheers but not inebriates " is now mated with drinks that have hitherto been almost the sole stock-in-trade of the glittering gin palace. In thoroughfare markets, like Totten hem-court-road, the tea and rs >tree often show a very retiring disposition, and the "fine " old Tom," and equally fine old " Jamaica pine " apple Rum," are pushed forward, or push them selves forward, in rather offensive prominence. It is something new to see a grocer's shop placarded with staring bills asking the public to try " Cream "of the Valley," or " Mountain Dew," or the heavier concoctions of the great brewers. The retaliation of the licensed victuallers has been very mild and meek, and there is hardly a public-house that we have noticed within the metropolitan limits that has the courage to sell tea as lilt were not ashamed of it. The mystic name of " Congou," has been put up in the windows over the brandy-bottles, and the term " full-flavoured" has been ap plied to it, but nothing like the energy of the grocers has been shown in pushing business in a strange liquid. All this activity and competition doubtless gives the public a cheap article in the shape of drink, and it is satisfactory to and that, though the distributors are changed and increased, the consumption of home and foreign spirits has diminished, compared with the corresponding period of last year, to the extent of more than three-quarters of a million of gallons. The placards at the grocers' shops, in low neighbour hoods, look very dreadful under the glare of the gas lamps, but they represent less drunkenness than the old glare of the Gin Palace. lier Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Hecklenburg-Strelits has left her apartments at St. James's Palace for Cambridge Cottage, Kew, on a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. The Duchess (Dowager) of Grafton arrived in town on Wednesday from Buxton. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter are prolonging their stay at Ryde, Isle of Wight. The Earl of Mayo is staying with the Hon. Percy Wyndham, 11.1"., and Mrs. Wyndham at Cocker month Castle. We have to record the death of Lady Katherine Elizabeth Fleming, oldest daughter of Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, who died on the 25th ult. at Florence. Her ladyship was born Dec. 9, 1821, and mar ried, Feb. 27, 1840, Mr. John Willis Fleming, of Stoneham Park, near Southampton, and Hinted, Isle of Wight. On Tuesday the rejoicing, in honour of the Marquis of Graham having attained his majority were brought to a close by a grand ball given by his Grace the Duke of Montrose to the tenants on the estate and a num ber of others who had been invited to take part in the happy gathering. The ball took place in one of the offices of the old mansion-house at Buchanan. About 3.50 were present, and among these were his Grace the Duke of Montrose and the Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis of Graham, Lady Alma, Lady Emily Foley, Colonel Murray of rolmaiae and Touchadam and Lady Agnes Murray, Lord Ronald Graham, Colonel Findlay of Boturioh, The ball-room was decorated with evergreens and floral devices. Dancing commenced about 8 o'clock, and con tinued with great animation till 4 o'clock in the morning. Titz PROPOSED REVIVAL OF TILE IRISH CONVO ernox.—A circular having been issued by the Arch deacons of Armagh and Dublin to the archdeacons of the other dioceses in Ireland, inviting them to 00-operate in soliciting the bishops to pray that writs should issue con vening the convocation of the church of Ireland, Arch deacon Martin, of Kihnore, has published a reply to the invitation, in which he comments on the use of the wools " Church of Ireland," instead of "the Irish branch of the United Church of England and Ireland," and expresses the opinion that the revival of convocation in helium' ut the present crisis could not email., the Irish clergy in the slightest degree "to meet the hostility with which they are now assailed." This can only be done, he says, by helping to increase the number of members of parliament favourable to the maintenance of the Irish church, a work in which he den not ace that the revlral of convocation would assist. THE NO-POPERY CRT. The J)nily Nests remarks that Mr. Coleridge is doing a public service in exploding ono after an. other the hollow and desperate cries by which in their extremity tory candidates and tory electioneering agents are attempting to delude the more remote and agricultural constituencies. In his address some weeks ago he effec tually exposed the unmeaning cry of the " church in danger," and in his address this week he does the same with regard to the " no Popery " cry which, in the irony of fate, is now raised by the political party which, a few months since, seriously proposed to carry out in Ireland the policy of levelling up by giving the Roman Catholics peculiar privileges, and establishing a Roman Catholic university at the expense of the state. £RC7LBIBROP MA rsuto AND MONSIGNOR TALBOT ON ST. TROIL•B • BROXIIIT. In an article treating of an address delivered by Arch bishop Manning on 'Wednesday last, and of a sermon delivered by Mons. Talbot on Sunday on the subject of St. Thomae a Becket and the restoration of the church of Bt. Thomas-o'-the-English in Rome, the Times says that what Dr. Manning means by liberty of the church simply means slavery of the laity. What he claims for himself in this country, what he describes as the law of the laud before and after Thomas a Becket, is what has never bean granted in any of the catholic countries, without at least the restrictions stipulated even in the moat servile concordats. The same as to the inviolability of church property. Mon signor Talbot tells us that what the Norman kings wanted was "to rob the poor," and Thomas a Becket was " the champion of the rights of the poor." The property of priests and monks, a small portion of which went to foster beggary, to corrupt and degrade the lower climes, was confiscated, and that was all. Its very remarkable that ono clergyman after another should be expreesing the same opinion. and that the belief should be strongest in men of the greatest insight. The Standard thinks Mr. Gladstone, and all who follow him, are playing with a recklessness that makes thought ful men shiver and quake into the hands of Monsignor Talbot, the mouthpiece of Rome. By " the only city in the world in which religion is predominant," Monsignor Talbot means the only city in which liberty, progress. literature. science, manliness, and virtue itself. are subor dinated to a di...petit hierarchy. THE. LONDON OEXERLL OM:4IBCP COMPANY. The bad, Nord points out as one mode by which the directors of the London General Omnibus Company may increase their dividend- increased attention on the part of the conductors to the wants and convenience of the public. A more unobservant class of men does not exist. They are looking everywhere but towards the pave ment, seeing everything but the gesticulating would-be passengers, who are trying to attract their notice. Al most the only way to catch an omnibus is to attract tho eye of a passenger who can wake the conductor to his duty. A more assiduous cultivation of the traffic might make the difference between 21 and 5 per cent. Several of our contemporaries continue to devote leader-space to the Abergele disavter. AN EXAMPLE TO LANDLORDS.—The following correspondence (says the Ayr Advertiser) has been sent to every tenant on Lord Eglinton's extensive estates. It does his lordship lasting honour :—" Auchans House, Dundonald, August 21, 1868. Dear sir,--I beg to inform you that it is the Earl of Eglinton's wish that you and lordships tenant on his rdship's estate should exercise his privff • ery ege of voting at the approaching election in a free and unbiassed manner, and ae a wrong impression may be unintentionally conveyed if such • communication is made verbally, Lord Eglinton has desired me to address lyou this note, and to forward you a copy of his lordship's tter to me of the 26th of July last, in order that there should be no misunderstanding on the subject. —I remain, yours truly, O. It. Copy of letter from the Earl of Eglinton. London, July 26, 1868. My dear Vernon,—As the election time is drawing near, I think it as well to write to you my views on that subject. I intend to be strictly neutral, and I am most anxious that my tenants should vote on either side they may think meet to their interests. I write this so that you may distinctly understand my views. I have written to Mr. Stewart much to the mine effeet.—Yours affectionately, (signed) Eousroir." TIRE BRAEMAR GATIIERINO. The Braemar gathering was held yesterday, when, in addition to the local turn-out of spectators, there was a considerable attendance of stranger tourists. Unfortunately for the sports, rain fell heavily. This, however, did not prevent the clean I/uff and Farqquhanwn mustering strongly, of ieered by Viscount Macduff and Captain J. C. Farqu harson. `Shortly after 2 o'clock the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince John of Denmark and Miss KnoUye, from Abergeldie Castle, arrived at the scene of the gathering, Old Mar Castle, and were welcomed with enthusiasm by the Highlanders, who drew up in greatu double rank to receive their royal highnesses. Among the brilliant assemblage in front of the castle were the Earl and Countess of Fife, the Marquis and Marchioness Townabend, Mr. Adrian and Lady Ida Hope, the Ladies Duff, Prince George of Solms, Colonel and Mrs. Farquhar son, of Invereauld ; Lord and Lady Norris, Ex-Governor Eyre, Mr. and Mrs. Mules Forbes, of News Colonel Balogh, sic. The games were keenly contested by the respective clansmen, and the general success of the gathering was not a little due to the foresight and cour teal of Mr. Brown, factor on the Invercauld estates. THE LODGER FRANCHISE IN CILELSZA.—Tho list of claims of ledger* for the franchise in the borough of Chelsea—solar as regardsthe pariah of Kensington—has Just been published by the overseers. The claims are 409 number and of them about 200 were made through the agency of the Working Men's Parliamentary Electoral Association. Among the claimants, the overseers return Miss Frances Power Cobbs, described on the return as an authoress. CHURCH CONORF.BB.—Tho Church Association is about to hold a congrres at Manchester, the days fixed being the 6th, 6th, and 7th of October. The proceedings will commence with a special service, with sermon at Bt. Anne's church. On the 6th the subjects to be discussed are the reform of the ecclesiastical courts, legislative action, middle claw education. In the evening there will be a meeting at the Free Trade-hall. Thu subjects for the second day are—nursing institutions, sisterhoods awl kindred associations, the position of the laity in th church, the Church Association- its plans of operation and its extension. In the evening there will be sermons in venous churches. TLIK FIRST LORI) OF TIIE Al/SIIRALTY.—rt is iinderetocal that the health of thu Right Hou. floury Cony, 11'14 Lord of t h u Admiralty, is uow comidotely reaturcd. ------- NATIONAL EXIIIBITION OF RORKE OF ART, AT Lam.—Neturn of admisaions: Thursday, Reptombar 3, by season tickets, 602 ; by payment of 2.. dd. mu*, 6,116; total, 6,777. OUR PARIS LETTER. (MOW OTni OWN 0010ANNPONDIINT.) PARIS, l'ltsenur Evvoia. M. Andre Parquet (now secretary of th., Electeur), bOlllO tan.. since offered a prize 2,000 fr. for an essay on " the best means for tie. French people to recover their legislative The judges appointed were MM. Berry(T. Mari, , , Pkalue, Jules Fevre, I)ufanre, Desman-st, owl Allou, all past blitonniers of the Paris bar, Ti n , committee Lea now made its report. Sevo nty _ five pamphlets have been submitted to it., pidg. taunt, of which it thinks four worthy of hiou ;i 4 mention, although " not one of them fultil.s th., essential aoriditions of the prugraruw., and tie, object of that programme remains tulattaiii...l,- It, however, votes that the 2,000 francs shall I w divided among the authors of the paiziphlo„, bearing the following mottoes : 1. " Under the Empire we dimippeared." &c. - A M. F. IMohard. 2. " The strongest is never strong enough to be ale sit strong, unless he transforms tome into right and 0h.,j 4 ,.„ into duty."—Author unknown. 3. "Surlum Corda."—Authar, H. Boympt, tin sentative of the people. 1. " There would be no limits to the power of a ri did ho not stand in need of his subjects' money"- A tr, , r M. Lecannt. Ibis award of a spmulative prize which a forgotten comes very apropos for the time.. tions this mond). The Figaro publishes a letter from M. de 'VI measant to M. Pinard, setting forth in a tai,., form the 118.1110 N of all the licensed bookseller. :n Paris who sold his paper on September 1, togohoi with the number of copies taken by each. ' 1 ',,.. figures show that the consequence of the, inteel. tion of the sale of the Figaro in the public was an immediate increas e o f 3,000 in tie. • imi• ~ tion, without reckoning a number of new tions by the month—a shorter period than u 4...- cepted before. The circulation of the p, now 47,300. M. de Villemeesaut th••n Minister of the Interior that the meastur takea with the intention of punishing him has done him no harm. But he says his heart 1,1.1.1. ; to think of the numerous poor families A 11.113 v.• by the sale of newspapers in the kiiseliie4, old w!, , lose from three to six francs every evening by • decree meant to injure the Fe faro. These ven•l•-• pester him so by their complaints that he walk along the foot pavement of the bouleva: i•. but goes in the middle of the street among • carriages. Many talk of shutting up their kiosk . fur they say the government journals have no cir culation worth speaking of, and that when prop . are put to the trouble of going to a sh to buy the Fi.jnro they purchase there the same time other papers which they w•eil otherwise have bought on the boulevard.. M de Villemessant feels persuaded that if M. P.:: I were to take the trouble to review the kiosk; :7. I learn for himself what the keepers of them sae, '. would not leave to his aueveasor the plea.ser• .f taking a liberal measure which would cor-- the gratitude of four or five hundred families:. I told you lately that 31. de Villeiu.,..saut w • man of infinite resource; but ingenious t:. • above argument is as an advertisement, I d•ai•:. if it will influence 3f. Pinard, who proba:ly wil: understand it as a pleading pro • • •••. Although the curiosity of the pu'oh.: see a paper persecuted by authority mace them go to buy it at a library for a whi..•. I have no doubt that in the long run th deprivation of the facile sale in the streets is an injury. If M. de Villemessant did not think so he is not the man to break his heart about the kiosk - keepers. Until the country becomes strong enotiZ:: to put a stop to the abitrary power in which IT Pittard revels, there is no doubt it will used. A l'ari...; tailor, named Avenant, has • - ti.ticed to two months' imprisonment 1.: - hely exciting to hatred and contempt et Ilis offence consisted in rea•li:._- . wine•-slap thereyolutionlry i rozramm• t a" C. ntral Coltimitt.... .Ac ••‘. • origin:ll l ,y d I_.y th.• rot and to a " Y..ii bla..h to 1.- • man. The empire 16 611,ine and nil- re .IE. Dumont. the Prris ortger i 'Le paid to the I'o6t-ethee on Friday t•%en:n. \ the t normttus stun of 2.159 ft. for the cal •::.: ! tuailwr of L•::,'....• 6 whit h he intendt , d for the department: anti foreign countriei next day. Arringtment6 of this kind aro f :t made by large publi,hers to rive time. Ott .- turday morning. Aug:m.4 all the r. i7t the Post-otlice wrre cteizeti. M. Dumont sityl:- I to the Po.ttnaster-General to get hack his tuout• . The latter thought he could not return it. La: 6:titl he would atdc the Pin.tno‘ 3linider. 31. Moo: holds by the maxtin mt money ill:trued.' and M. Dumeut mean: , to Trio;; an :101.1 ~St to try the point. which is a 11,W on.'. a , it w.I ; never helot,: worth while to rate it. 1 :trim L: ! the law is on the •thle of the post-ettke. ready to perform it , otlitrret. and ttnlv •.- by a CI,/ 111 , ,w. The Bourse wa6 very film. Bente • both for cult and account, .t: 7. ' mid 711 fr. S:/e. Italian ro , e 1•• 2fr. ;ale. Credit Foncior 1,-11 I : 2 A , A nti i• in /• / ",,,t .11^ !i• a. 01 , , Jf.di.a(.l„a,, , dl',ti at Neiatou t .ir..•: rank of senator. hints. that his retirement it: in 1.• may not be compub-ory. For the Last two orthn , . . he ...ay., NO-Liton ha. been withdrawaiz • from practice and a .ear ago he voluntarily rco :a prof. ssor-htp. h in action on the part of Xeli ii tribute. , to the fact that that lntent ilk‘• • other men advancing iu a ; ;e.Ob l ig ed 1. , 11. , aid hi:. vi,lon. and that he very couscienta , ..-li lying obliged to .1, a:d. to overating. " A pt.dessor of etimeal sid.gcry.'• N. lc relaut..a to lose often said. " ought to be able t, ' without the help of and. a, he was ol • ha.e recourse to their aid. he reugned •• - Such i. cue veigion o. a subject to whi,h we Al week. Btrlstl STATISTICS..—We weremuch • not to Say surprtred. vu looking over the out-1 , :t: , !.. cidunt books of the various London ho ,, rittis months, to find Mut of b 24 •bof different k • • entered, 1$ were attributed to men or women. s.!:- number was in excel. , of any other animal, wtth th, eeption of dogs, who were accused of indicting the untuber of S.). llors.e-bites numbered the monkey ma donkey being aeensed of one et two remaining were simple entered as bit.- %, • rettaiule have no remora to IJe rlrOttil of our e•.t't dish ma,g tpl IIIroRTANT RAMWAY CoMrENstMAIN C Yesterda7, before Mr. Dowdeswc•ll. Q.C'., as al. , ' a 'trivial Jury. at the Sheriffs Court. lied Lied • the Ime of '• Steele v. The Midland Railway occupied the whole day. It will probably be the railway eompetwatiou ease, as by the new tiet on mita t• • either aide can apply that compensation claims should ho heard before the superior common law courts. Mr. - kin& Q.C.. Mr. Prentice. Q.C.. and the lion. Mr. Thrace' appealed tor Mr. A. It. Steele. for land at l'iiekl,•*•••• 1. and for coneequectial damage to his property tw severance. Mr. llardinge Q.C un.l Mr. J. C. Nit ter were for the eftillialaf. Mr. St.‘le ba,l r...100. - . 1 the eotniany to tale all the Luc!. and nor A 1...111 011 . He re-i•ted at Cri,•klew,vvl. and hit been VVAtly annavri by the new Midland line pate ing through his propertv• 1 hew had been proceedings. at 'owl or t liancery. :nut Mr. Steele hid an 31. i• 1 . 401 c the Itonsc of I,ld , doend.at of ti,, Coati. of t duliwery. The coin. llee WaS 11.4 coatpleled at the ri,dint• of the nail t. and the CRYSTAL PATACIL--ONI SUILLINgt DA Y. Ti.vut DAY, Sitter /ma 3.—Allmisaienv by veisen tickets 4,407; ditto as paratout, IJ,s.il ; total visitors, 1t4,2;g1. the 13 Tb for h gl aim Mi grow SOW ceive being Hu the re f , burn ulna Alfre Kr of thi Laub ing h .efec iwpri Mr. public .ybier • .mnil had he sh .:acs. The L bow d4re ntty claim orth venit ert Rom :tine Wit nd ca :vas pi :11:d as Mar her pa and as tl things Poll •ide ti away kicked The Mr. WaA n nd ith Priß Mr. UtCll4 Ad. boatr. rris4