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London Evening rirck , must be at the Office, bouyerieetreet, by Two o' on the day of publication. DZURY LAN IL Tam Evaanto, TIYATTA4tAL JACK. Mears. Moose and Neville: Mesdames Alleyne and Thompson. —To conclude with TUE GREAT CITY. Messrs. Con per. M•lntl're. Villiers, Rouse, Ittstanies, a Warner ; Mesdames Robertson a Le Thieve. HAYMARKET. Tilts EVSNINO, PETE11:4\11 . 31".21 : 4E I (NIiCITZ. Messrs. Rowe, I'ontpt•.e. linnb.n . Vincent, We e, Melt tlanies Sedpvira, Niathews, Lewin. it WllO W SSTS A GVINEAt yeses. Fineksioae, Chippendale, ,te. ;Mini Burke. PRINCIArR. TIM Emma. TRUE TO TUE (ORE. Mews. Creswick, Marston, H. Forrester, KF. Edgar, *c. Mime O. Pauncetort and tins ),lour.—Donn open at kilt-past wren; .111.11. Menai at eight. THIN ETWisO, REVERSES. Mews. Emery, rarnelle, Rob son. and Snantwouol: Mesdames Ada Swanharnant and John- atone.—Awl THE LATE.sT EDITIuN tor IRA DIAVOW. Means. Thorne &Jaws; Mesdames NW, Newton, Le. !fiLITANNIA. Juts EVENI3O. HAMLET. 31esant. J. Reynolds and T him mond : Miss M. Mlles and Miss J. roveney. Mr. 11. Stnicstone Mr. and Mrs:M . llMb: the Champion Skaters of England.—And CLAVIA LA:VAL, TILE LADIES' 'Mill% AY3LUs. RIGS WATU AT LONDON BRIDOZ. TIM DAY —Morning, r.h. Dim Afternoon. 21 ego. Tallositow—Monalott. 3b. A. 1 J3s. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17. THE last grand Naval Review, in 1830, was the euthanasia of the Russian war, in which the British squadrons in the Baltic and the Black Sea had done all the service that was required of them with unfailing zeal, but had found few and slight opportunities of distinction. In the Baltic there bad been a tedious blockade, a tantalising chal lenge to the enemy's capital, a bombardment of a seaport and its defences, with no very decisive re sults, and a few chases and captures. The ships were ill-manned, and not particularly well qualified for the task of reducing Cronstadt ; but, in com pany with our allies, they swept the Baltic clear of hostile cruisers, and performed their exer cises and evolutions in its waters as unconcernedly as though the Baltic were an English lake. It was dull work for the officers and ships' companies ; but the work, such as it was, was well and faith fully dune. In the Black Sea the operations of the fleet were more active, though scarcely more satisfactory to the service. They transported the expeditionary army to the Crimea in good order, waited upon the movements of the land forces from Old Fort to Sebastopol, stood in and en gaged at point-blank range the outer batteries of that famous harbour, maintained the communica tions uninterrupted from the Sea of Marmora to the Sea of Azof, gave a severe warning to Odessa, stopped the enemy's supplies across the Isthmus of Perekop, and in short held all those Russian waters as their own. Under most disadvantageous and discouraging circumstances the British naval forces did all they could, and all that was given them to do, in a manner that fully satisfied their countrymen at home that NELSON'S immortal signal was still the watchword imprinted on the heart of every officer and seaman under her MAJESTY'S pennant. But the officers and seamen themselves were not satis fied with their performances, and were eagerly looking forward to a splendid reranche, when peace fell upon them, and instead of blockading, and bombarding, and prize-making, they found themselves spending their reserves of powder in a general action off the Nab, and engaging Southsea Castle, to the astonish ment of thousands of innocent Cockneys. It was a spectacle not easily forgotten—that long processional' array of line-of-battle ships, and fri gates, and corvettes, and sloops, and gunboats all moving by signal, and as it were imperceptibly, in their appointed order, to the rendezvous, with the royal standard of her MsJewire's yacht in the van, and all the estates of the realm attend ing upon the Sovereign, and half London afloat, looking on and making merry, and huge ocean steamers crowding the middle distance, and swan like yachts innumerable lighting up the picture with their snowy wings. The general effect was simply admirable ; it was the Queen of the Seas with all her host celebrating the national revels on her immemorial and inviolate domain. There was much, no doubt, for a skilled eye to criticise in detail in the actual composition of that fleet, in so heterogeneous a collection of materiel—from the latest and fastest screw liner to the creeping old blockships, from the unwieldy and unsightly float ing batteries to the batch of greenwood gunboats, more remarkable for sauciness and noise than for shape and make. To the honest and enthusiastic landsman it was enough that there was the visible presence of BRITANNIA ruling the waves. And so no doubt it will be to-day to the thousands of fortunate or unfortunate ticket holders who will spend an unusually long morning and afternoon in studying the Admiralty map of the evolutions, and, like the intelligent foreigner who was taken to see a game of cricket, in won dering when the game is going to begin. Steam, which enables a fleet to move in a calm or in the wind's eye, has given. to its movements something • of purely military precision, at the cost, per haps, of something of the old romance and the old craft of seamanship ; nevertheless, a fleet manoeuvring under steam is a grand and imposing sight, and we dare say the Lords of the Admi ralty will not be sorry to show that the old sea manship is not forgotten, if the wind is • strong and fair enough to-day. For th? profess' I spectator the Review will doubt less be full of interest and suggestion. Ho will mark the rapid and incessant process of trans formation which has gone on during the last eleven years. In 1856 the coastguard ships and block ships were simply old seventy-fours with auxiliary screws ; their successors are the smart st lineof battle ships of eleven years ago. The screw line- of-battle ships of to-day are perhaps the but of their race, an the four sailing line-of-battle ships, which brought tears of proud regret to many eyes ai they bore slowly' and grandly up at sunset to the anchorage at the close of a former review, were the last of their glorious family. The Victoria, the Duncan, the Donegal, and the Revenge of to day are either flagships returned from foreign stations, and about to be paid out of commission, or stationary goardbliipa at home. Of the frigates, there in the Terrible—the first, and now THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1867. !the last, of her class. But since 1856 an entirely now order of ships has sprung into existence. The wooden frigates of the Mersey class are almost superseded by the ironclad frigates of the Warrior class, and the Warrior, Sir JOHN PAKINuTON'M pet child, although only on her second commission, is in structure and strength a generation behind the Minotaur. In fact, the professional eye will con template to-day the navy of the past, the navy of the present, and the navy of the future ; for the Royal Sovereign may be regarded as the pre cursor of a fleet of sea-going turret ships. The Channel squadron which recently escorted the SULTAN to Dover may be looked upon Al the most complete specimens of the fighting ships of the present day ; and it is probable enough that their day will be longer than that of their predecessors, for they must always be powerful and effective ships. But a glance at that reseed three-decker, the Royal Sovereign, will con vince the most ur willing that naval construction for combatant purposes has not said its last word. It is evident, from the most cursory survey of the fleet which is to be reviewed to-day, that such a collec tion of vessels of all sorts and sizes is far from representing the actual effective fighting strength of the British navy. Were we unhappily on the eve of war, half these ships, and the most imposing and beautiful of them, must be paid out of commission and laid up. It is rather a museum of naval architecture afloat than a compact and complete fighting force that is to be exhibited on this occasion before the SULTAN and the Viceroy of EGYPT and our other foreign visitors and guests. In this regard, the Naval Review of 1867 cannot fail to strike them as abundant practical proof of the indefatigable vigilance and inexhaustible re sources of Great Britain in all that concerns the maintenance of her undisputed supremacy at sea. clip off that part of the bill, and mend back to the commons the measure thus maimed, as old world tyrants sometimes sent unwelcome messengers back to their masters with hands or noses lopped off. But the peers must have sense enough to know that such a proceeding would simply be what Mr. Lowe calls " untying the bag which holds the winds.' OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE BELGIAN °mgrs. Noticing the blunders which have occurred in the arrangements regarding the reception of the Belgian volunteers, the Daily News observes that the Admiralty began by refusing tc permit the Slerapis to go nearer Antwerp than the Nolen Channel—some 20 miles off from the city of embarkation. When on board, the volunteers were packed much too close for comfort, and ships enough to bring the whole number from Ant werp might just as well have been sent. The corporation of London next treated the guests to • stage banquet, where nothing was real but the intolerably tedious pomposity of the speech-making, and all the rest a beg garly ►count of cold joints, undressed salads, and occa• atonal mint sauce ; something between • tenth-rate tavern luncheon bar and • railway refreshment room—the sloven liness of the one and the staleness of the other, with the bad attendance and shabbiness of both. At Wimbledon things were not much better. The ball at the Agricuturel hall seems to be entrusted to good hands, and ought to be • success', so far at least as the decorations are con cerned. But how about the commissariat? Our guests cannot be expected to subsist on complimentary toasts and cheers during their stay in England. They have good appetites at home, and English air is not likely to appease them. On the whole, we trust our friends from Flanders may get more amusement and satisfaction out of these ten days in England than any official entertainers can secure them, especially in wet weather. No doubt we are a highly " practical" people, but when we try to feed two thousand foreign guests—not to speak of lodging them—even the City dignitaries, whose speciality is feeding, break down deplorably, and we are all reduced by those who represent us in this matter to beg our hungry guests to believe in our good intentions, and to take the will for the deed. THE BREADALBANE PEERAGE. The succession to the Breadalbane Peerage and estates, worth 40,00 W. a year, was yesterday decided in the House of Lords by the unanimous judgments of the Lord Chan cellor and Lords Cnuiworth, Westbury, and Colonsay. The Times gives an outline of the facts of the case. The ques. tion at issue was whether the grandfather of the respon dent was legaUy married to one Eliza Blanchard. She eloped with him, and on all occaaions was called Mrs. Campbell, and was always acknowledged as his wife by the family. Had she been a single woman at the time of the elopement there would be little doubt, according to the Scotch law, about the validity of the marriage and the legitimacy of her son, the father of the respondent. But at the time of the elopement she was the wife of an apothecary, who did not die till four years afterwards. The marriage had been assumed by the judges from the "habit and repute" of so many years and the recognition of the marriage by James Campbell's family during his lifetime. The House of Lords yesterday upheld this judgment. The four peers who took part in the proceedings concurred with the Lord Chancellor in the opinion that " the strong presumption in favour of the marriage of the respondent's grandfather and grandmother bad not been shaken by any proof adduced by the appellant." "It must," continued Lord Chelmsford, " be remembered that they had to do with facts which commenced more than eighty years ago, with an uninterrupted recognition of legitimacy during the whole lifetime of the respondent's father." Such a case as this, says the Times, shows the necessity of a strict marriage law, which shall make the most important contract of life depend on a formal act, duly registered and easily ascertained. Here is a Scottish gentleman, accustomed during his whole life to regard himself as the undoubted heir of the family honours, and when he succeeds to them he Hods his title questioned because there is no evidence o f a marriage which, if ever contracted at all, was con tracted 80 years ago, and be only maintains his position because the presumptions of the case are in his favour. It ie probable that Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were content with an irregular marriage, evidenced by " habit and repute." But bad the husband been an Englishman, and had be de sired to make the woman his real wife, he would have taken the earlieat opportunity after the death of her hus band to marry her openly ; he would have carefully kept the certificate, and made known to all concerned the place and time of the ceremony, and where the register of it was to be found. Such a litigation as this would then have been impossible ; and the respondent in this case would have been spared years of anxiety, while the appellant would not have been excited by the false hope of obtaining wealth and honours, which are now snatched from him after being seemingly almost within his grasp. THE RETORM niscramow. After stating the leading declarations of Mr. Lowe, the Times proceeds to point out why they have been set maids by statesmen of all parties, and remonstrate■ with bim for expressing his readiness to hurry on a revolutionary policy when the bill is in operation. The Times trusts he will reconsider his illadvised conclusions, and find, when the time cornea, that his duty to his country under its re formed constitution will not require of him any further sacrifice than consists in the adoption of a better opinion of his countrymen and the entire renunciation of the dole ful predictions with which be has rather shocked than alarmed public opinion. The matter for surprise to the P•ot is, not that Lord Oranborne and General Peel quitted the cabinet, but that any gentlemen remained in it. The quota.iors made by lord Cranhorrie from speeches made during the past and the present session by Mr. Disraeli, Lord Stanley, Mr. Hardy, and Sir S. Northeote, bore out but too con eliudvely his assertion, not that those gentlemen bad changed their mind., for that would be excusable, but that they now, at the dictation of the extreme members of the liberal party, and, for the mere sake of retaining office, embraced a measure of which in their consciences they disapproved. But is it possible to conceive of any imputation more serious being cast upon the government of the day than that it has used its influence to pass a law which It does not believe to he calculated to advance the interests of the date The Rtar hears there are members of the Hones of Lords who, though not up to ti.e mark of direct opposition, aro yet much inclined to bins for thi putpeao of mutilating the bill. The lodger franchise, for example, is said to he thus menaced. Some peers fancy they see their way to THE REFORM BILL. The following circular letter was issued last night to the supporters of the ministry in the 'louse of Lords: " July 15, 1867. "My Lord,—l have been requested by Lord Derby to beg the favour of your lordship's attendance at No. 10, Downing-street, on Friday next, the Pith inst., at 3 p.m. —I have the honour to be, my lord, your malt obedient servant, " CVLVJLLE It is understood that Lord Derby will to-day address • circular in his own name to his supporters in the Upper House, calling upon them to give him their earnest help in the conduct of the Reform Bill through its several stages, end expressing an apprehension that tho measure will not progress without opposition. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION LAST NIGHT. INCREASE OF THE EPISCOPATE BILL Order for second reading read; Diction made, and question proposed, " That tho bill be now read a second time." Amendment proposed to leave out the word "now," and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day three months." Mr. Gilpin-Question put, " That the word 'now ' atund part of the question." The house divided—Ayes 43, noes 34. _ . AYES. Arland, T. D. Henley. J. W. Nicholson. W. Hume, Sir W. liii.lyard, T. B. Noel, 0. J. Banat, H. Hogg, Lt.-Col. Northcote, Sir & Barron, Sir H. Hope, A. J. Powell, F. S. Beach, Sir M. Howes, E. Robertson, P. 7. Chetterton, 11. E. Hub b ard, J. G. Schreiber, C. Dickson, Major Hunt, 0. W. Sevens% J. X Dimsdele, IL Kerslake, Sir J. B. Simonds. W. B. Disraeli, B. Kendall. N. Taylor, Col. Hudson, J. 0. Langton, W. 0. Turner, C. Fellowes, IL Leathern, W. H. Walpole, A. H. Galway, .'lsct. Mainwaling, T. 'Welkin, & W. Gladstone. W. X Manners, Lord J. Whitmore, H. Gore. J. R. Milford, W. T. TILLER:. Oorse, J. K. Mowbray, J. & Palmer, Sir IL Hardy, 0. Newdegate, C. N. Smith, J. A. ---- NOEL Adam, W. P. EwloS, H. E. Crum- Owen, Sir H. Allen, W. 8. Graham, W. Potter, E. Amberley, Vied. Henley, Lord Samuelson, B. Ayrtoo, A. 8. Holden, 1. Sheridan, H. H. Baines, E. Howard. C. W. fitazudeld, J. Barley, T. Kinglake, A. W. Talbot, C. R. Bright, .1. Kkuialrd, A. P. Taylor, P. A. Candltah, J. Werra, G. J. White, J. cheethiun, J. Lusk, A. Cowen, J. M'lmen, D. TILLERS. Davey, K. MIII, J. 8. Gilpin, C. Dillwyn, L. L. Mina I.E. Hadfield, G. Dad, M. E. Neste. C. Eke Evart. OSBORNE, JULY 16. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Duchess of Rozburghe. Prince Arthur and Prince Louis of Hcue rode on horseback. The Judge Advocate General bad an audience of the Queen. A Committee of the Lord' of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President, Lord Robert Mon tagu, Sir Thomas) Fremantle, and the . Right lion. Colonel Wilson Patten. His Highness Fuad Pacha, Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, with his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, had an interview on Monday with Lord Stanley, at the Foreign office. A deputation, consisting of Dr. Richardson, Dr. Ballard, Dr. Dudfield, Dr. Wynn Williams, Dr. D. Goss, Dr. Rogers, Dr. Paul, Dr. Prosser James, Dr. Greenhalgh, Dr. Ray, and Dr. Seaton, had an interview with Sir Graham Montgomery, at the Treasury-office, Whitehall, on Monday last, on the subject of the exclusion from the franchise in the Scotch Reform Bill of medical graduates of the University of St. Andrew's. A deputation, consisting of the Hon. Francis Scott, Mr. Isaac Ellis, Mr. George Best, Mr. George James Hull, Mr. Daniel Hooker, Mr. Edward Hooker, Mr. William Miles. Mr. J. L. Hewett. Mr. W. E. Elkins, Mr. W. E. Carter, Rev. G. R. Portal (chairman and vice-chairman of Guild ford Union), Mr. Charles White, Mr. Samuel S. Aard (guardians St. (Have's, Southwark), Mr. C. H. Best (chairman South Stoneham Union), Mr. Percy H. Crutch ley (chairman, Windsor Union), Mr. A. S. Mathison, Rev. J. S. Sapte (chairman and guardian Hambledon Union), and Mr. E. Kerrick (chairman Dorking Union), had an interview with the Earl of Devon at the office of the Poor law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Falkland Islands. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Honduras, British Columbia, and Bermuda. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess D'Aosta were among the distinguiahed visitors at the Zoological Gardens on Sunday last ; and on Monday paid visits to the royal family. Yesterday their royal high nesses went to the Crystal Palace,and remained until a late hour. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and the Prince 4, Teck have visited their royal highnesses at the Clarendon Hotel. His Imperial Majesty the Sultan will be present at an evening entertainment at Stafford House on Saturday next, after the review at Wimbledon, and will be enter tained at a ball at the Turkish Embassy on Monday, and also on some day next week, not yet fixed, by the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, at Apaley House. _ . His Highness the Viceroy honoured the Duke and Duchess of Muntrose with his presence at a grand ball last evening, as the family mansion in Belgravesquare. The house and ball-room were brilliantly illuminated, and decorated with choice shrubs and flowering plants on the occasion. Major-General Lord Frederick Paulet has been appointed to succeed Colonel Home Purees in the house hold of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. The fief hears the Sultan, on leaving Paris, pre sented Madame de Moustier with jewels to the amount of 4,3001. The naval review of this day is to coat the country, the Owl says, 50,000!. Mr. William Edward Forster, on Friday, will ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies when be will lay upon the table of the house the instructions which he informed the house would be 'bent tothecolonial governors for their guidanoe in case of insurrection ; and, if not able to do so at once, whether he would object to state the pur port of such instructions. _ Mr. Taylor, on Tuesday, will call attention to the decision of a Cornish magistrate, sentencing six persons to imprisonment for trespassing off • path through a wood ; and move a resolution. Next Thursday, Sir John Pakington intends to move, in army estimates (supplementary), a vote of 83,2301. for increase of pay to the militia. Mr. Remington Mills intends to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies on Monday, whether, under the difficulty of carrying through the present session of parliament the West India Bishops and Clergy Bill, he will submit a measure early in the ensuing session for re lieving this country of the burden of paying 20,3001. per annum for the ecclesisatical establishments in the West Indies imposed by the Act 5 Viet., sets. 2. o. 4 ; and whe ther any appointment requiring to be made in the mean time shall be subject to the future regulations of par liament. On Friday Mr. B. Cochrane will call the atten tion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the petition of William Henry Barber, solicitor, presented to this house on the 15th of Hay last, setting forth that be has sus tained, from an unmerited prosecution by the Lords of the Treasury, a direct pecuniary loss ; and ask if any course is contemplated to meet this appeal to the justice of the state, and for giving fuller effect to the unanimous report of the select committee that the petitioner's case " is exceptional, and that he has strong claims on the favourable consideration of the crown." On Friday Earl Russell will ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether his attention bad been called to the remarks made by a stipendiary magistrate in Jamaica, Mr. Purcell, on the charge of Chief Justice Cock burn in the case of General Nelson. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. Ilzum's Tneowis.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA. JULY 17. In to-day'. sitting of the Lower House of the Reicharath the debate on the penal code came on for discussion. The proposal of the committee totally to abolish capital punishment was rejected by 79 against 56 votes. HUNGARY. PESTH, Jui.r 16. Franz Kossuth, the son of the celebrated exile Kossuth, who was proposed as a candidate for the Hungarian Diet for the district of Csakova, has been rejected. Herr Kossuth himself will stand for the town of Waitron. CROATIA. FII'ME, JiLi• 16. Great preparations are being made for the cele bration of the reunion of the Littoral districts to Croatia, which will shortly take place. Some Russian emissaries who had been ordered to leave Agram arrived here, but were immediately sent out of the town. Stores of arms, which had been smuggled into the town, have been discovered at Porto-Re. ITALY. FLORENCE, Jets 16, EVENING. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the discussion on the Ecclesiastical Property Bill was resumed. Signor Ferraris, the reporter of the committee, spoke in favour of the scheme of that body, and supported some of the amendments which had been proposed. All the other proposals and counter proposals were either withdrawn or rejected. The house then commenced the discussion of clause 1 of the bill. SWITZERLAND. BERNE, JOLT 17. The official reception of the three Japanese ambassadors by the Federal Council took place to-day. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN minA. MALTA, JULY 16. The Ceylon left here at 11 p.m. on the 15th, and the Mooltan at 4 p.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 18th, and the latter at Southampton about the 26th inst. THE BRAZILS. BUENOS AYRES, dire 12. Exchange on London, 481 ; hides, 42} ; wool, 45 to 86 ; lumber, 38 to 48 ; sugar, 19i. AMERICA. FALMOUTH, JULY 17. The New York and Havre Company's steamship Fulton, from New York on the 6th inst., arrived off this port at 9.45 yesterday evening, with 423,200 dole. in specie. She landed 33 sacks of mails, 16 passengers, and embarked Capt. Wotton and family for Havre. (DT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, JULY 16. The Cunard (extra) steamship Hecht arrived here to-day. EXPRFRS FROM PARIS. (raox 001 OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TURROAT EVENTS°. . _ _ How rightly to understand M. Rouher's dia monds is a problem upon which there is very little difference of opinion. The Univers, a popish organ, nearly neutral in secular matters, hits the nail on the head when it says that the Emperor's letter to M. Rouher proves what nobody of common sense doubted that " M. Rouher, in act, word, and deed, and even in his inaction, is nothing but the faithful and docile exponent of the im perial policy." The Liberte says that those who defended M. Rouher against the attacks of MM. Thiers and Jules Favre, are now triumphant. Opposition journals, and tiers parti journals, though in different language, all agree with the government press that there is no conflict between the Emperor and M. Rouher. This is no revelation. Everybody knows that it was only by a decent fiction that the oppo sition speakers assumed that M. Rouher stood in the way of the Emperor's wishes. It was in the evening of July 13, after reading M. Emile 011ivier's speech, that the Emperor chose to cover M. Rouher's breast with diamonds. The amsti tationne/ calls it a great act. I believe it to be a very wretched one ; sad one of very little signifi cance. It shows irritation on the part of the sovereign for the moment, but does not at all prove that the fear and trembling for his dynasty which prompted the letter of January 19, may not when a new fit of it comes on lead him to send M. Rouher to the right about, or to give him fresh instructions which he will kindly follow. The King and Queen of Portugal are now on their way from Ems to Brussels, and will not be in Paris till Saturday. Prince Hohenzollern, the father of the reigning Prince of Roumania, Charles 1., is now in Paris, and had an interview with the Emperor yesterday. The King of Wurtemberg had a " long audience" of the Emperor yesterday. The Queen of Prussia yesterday visited the Exhibition, and in the evening went to the ThO.tre Francais, to see the late M. Ponsard's //orave et Lydie, the Mimi nthrope, and tho Pleader rs. The walls of Paris are now and forsome weeks have been extensively plastered with a portrait, or rather a caricature of Mr. Sothem as Lord Dundreary, with an eye-glass tightly jammed under his eye brows, hair and whiskers arranged in exaggerated Dundreary fashion, and a camelia in his button hole ; he is demonstrating that celebrated pro position that he has eleven fingers on his two hands. In some streets you may see as many as a dozen of these portraits all in a row ; and lately the bill-stickers, by way of variety, have taken to posting them head downwards. Parisians are immensely intrigtiLt to know whose picture this can be ; and as his lordship himself would say, a great many never "make it out." The Liberte says that a provincial inquiring the other day who was represented by the quaint-looking man count ing his fingers, was told, " That is M. Durny, the Minister of Public Instruction, giving a lecture on arithmetic" ! The island of Oparo, or Raps, in the Pacific Ocean, which is to be made • coal depot for the New Zea land and Panama mail steamers, is about nine days steam ing distant from Wellington. It is mountainous, has • goad harbour, and is inhabited by about GOO friendly natives. A closed mail is now made up at Panama for England, and sent by every New York steamer leaving Colon. The postage is le Id., and prepayment is optional. Dr. Burnstall, passenger from Gallo by last mail steamer, was incautiously playing with a pet cobra di capella on the Zird. The snake bit his finger, and he died immediately alter. —.Melbourne (Australian) paper. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF APPEAL. (Before the Lord Chancellor and Lord Justice Cairns.) At the sitting of the court this morning there was a large assemblage of the public and the profession, evidently in the expectation that Sir John Bolt would have been sworn in as the new lord justice. The hon. and learned gentle man, however, did not make his appearance. HOWARD v. THE EARL OF bHREWSBCRT. The facts of this case have recently appeared in our columns. Their lordships gave judgment today. The bill complained of an improper use having been made of a private act of parliament (43rd (ieo. III.) which was intended solely for the purpose of enabling the Earl of Shrewsbury to sell certain lands settled by parliamentary settlement, and to invest the proceeds in the purchase of , other lands of similar value ; and that this act had been ' employed to place lands of • far greater quantity and value into the parliamentary settlement than were in tended to be subject to it. The plaintiffs sought a declara tion that this object was not authorised by the act, and that the lands so dealt with ought to remain sub ject to their original settlement under which Bertram the late Earl of Shrewsbury was tenant in tail ; and that under a disentaihng deed subsequently executed he be came tenant in fee si m pl e f or th em , an d that under the devise contained in his will they had pained to and were now vested in the plaintiffs. The Master of the Rolls held that the case of the plaintiffs failed, and dismissed , the bilL _ The Lord Chancellor said the proceedings from first to last satisfied him that the real question was never clearly brought before the court below. There had been no bona fide purchase, but a mere colourable pretence for one. The parties bad attempted to evade the provisions of the Act of 1808 by concealing the character of the transaction. labia opinion, the decree of the Master of the Rolls must be reversed. Lord Justice Cairns concurred. The principal question was whether what had been done, apparently under the authority of the court was, in truth, a real and bona fide exercise of the power of sale and exchange. In his opinion it was not. The indenture of 1832 professed to be a deed for the conveyance of land in the ordinary way, whereas it was a voluntary settlement, in which the forms of the Court of Chancery and the payment of 1.0001. were resorted to in order to give the transaction the ap pearance of a purchase, and to give this voluntary settle ment a character of statutory validity. He would only observe that the conclusion to which they had arrived had been entirely concurred in by their late much lamented friend, Lad Justice Turner. (Before the Lord Chancellor.) COLBY V. GADSDEN. This was an appeal by the defendant from the decree of the Master of the Rolls. The gait was instituted by • vendor against a purchaser for the specific performance of a contract for the purchase of a real estate called Colby Lodge, near Tenby, Pembrokeshire. The contract was admitted. The defence was that the time which had elapsed before the bill was filed con stituted a bar; that the plaintiff having put the de fendant in 'on had, by afterwards resuming it, abandoned the contract, and that a vein of coal stated in the particulars of sale to exist on the property bad been considerably diminished by working. The Master of the Rolls decreed specific performance. The Lord Chancellor gave judgment this morning. In his opinion the particulars of sale contained • false repre sentation with regard to the vein of coal ou the estate, and on that ground the defendant ought not to be com pelled to specific performance of the contract. He, there fore, reversed the decree of the court below. Mr. Southgate, Q.C., Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., Mr. Babington, and Mr. B. B. Rogers appeared for the parties. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) RRANDRZTH AND HOPICINS r. TIMENCIL Dr. flpinks. Q.C., sad Mr. C. Russell for the plaintiffs Dr. Denman, Q.C., Mr. Pritchard, and Mr. Lamb for the defendant. The ustator, Mr. Richard Thompson, late of Stainaby Hall near Wrexham, died in May, 1866, leaving a will dated June 4, 1856, and a codicil dated the 28th of May, 1865; which were propounded by his executors. l'robate of the codicil, which gave a number of legacies to charities, sod especially to Roman catholic funds, clergymen, and churches was resisted by his only daughter, Lady Ffrench, on sever al grounds, all of which, however, but one of undue execution, were withdrawn. The testator was a Roman catholic, and on the day on which the codicil was signed be asked two lade who had been serving at mass to witness the document. Their evidence was positive, but Mr. Chabot. the expert, was called to sw eat that from the appearance of the writing their statement was not true—and that Mr. Thompson had @limed the sheets of his codicil (a holograph document) as he had transcribed it, and had asked the boys afterwards to write theirnames on the paper. Sir J. Wilde said the jury had rather a difficult task to perform—namely to decide between the positive evidence of the witnesses and the testimony of their own eyes., to the colour of the will. A juror —Is execution on Sunday invalid, my lord? The Judge Ordinary—Oh dear no. The juror—ls a child of 12 years old a competent wit ness The Judge Ordinary—Yee. Sir Jamea Wilde added that the difference between the colour of the ink was undoubtedly surprising, but it might have arisen from the use of the blotting paper in the one case, and its non-use in the other. The jury, after deliberating fora short time, found for the executors. iliecouAl;coordingly decreed probate of the will and codicil. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commiaaioner Goolburn.) IN RE KARLA ANIi GOLDIN.. The bankrupts were merchants of Great St. Helen's, trading under the firm of Cowasjee, Goldie, and Co. Goldie now applied for his release from custody. Mr. Miller supported the application. Mr. Phelps opposed. The assignees had not yet been chonn, and the debts were large, upwards of 10,0001. Mr. Miller said the assets were also large. His Honour saw no reason to depart from the usual course. The application would be dismissed, with leave to renew it in a reasonable time after the choice of as signees had taken place. AROSE OV THE " DEED CLAUSES." . . . Application was made to his Honour to appoint a sitting under a deed case, the circumstances of which were peon• liar. The leave of the court had been obtained to issue execution under a deed, the second which the debtor had executed ; and he bad thereupon made a third deed, as was contended, with intent to defe►t the order of the court. Mr. R. Griffiths now asked for a sitting to examine the debtor under the third deed. He referred to a decision of the Lords Justices in the case of Cowen, to the effect that where there was anything like trick or contrivance the court would not give effect to the deed. His Honour said the abuses practised under the guise of deeds of composition and arrangement were perfectly frightfuL He had heard of a case where a deed promised • oompoaiti m payable by quarterly instalments, and as soon as ever the first instalment came due the debtor was prepared with a new deed. He granted the sitting applied for. IN RE AITKIN. The bankrupt, a commission agent, of Great St. Helen's, applied for his discharge from debts of 3,891 f., the assets and property held as security being estimated at 1,990/. Mr. Brough, for the assignees, stated that the bank ruptcy was the result of an unsuccessful attempt to carry through a deed, under which considerable property had been realised ; hut some of the creditors whose claims were not barred by the deed, had sued the bankrupt. There had been 100/. realised,and a further sum was antici pated. After hearing Mr. Reed for the bankrupt, His Honour granted the order. IN EL RENVOCZR. The bankrupt, late a cardboard manufacturer, of Barbi can, applied for his order of discharge. Debts. GBOl. ; no assets. Mr. Reed opposed. Mr. R. Griffiths supported. It appeared that the bankrupt had kept back three books, and stated in his accounts that he bad kept none. His Honour directed an adjournment sine die. The bank rupt was brouht up in custody, but :is no notice had been given of ap plication for release, he was taken back to THE POLICE COURTS, (THI23 DAY.) SERIOCM ACCIDENT THROWN FURIOUM DIIIVING.-EXPECTED DEATH OF THE BUFFERNE. Richard Tostkisis, aged 29, a hackney carriage driver, badge 16,007, residing at 24, Kirby-street, Hatton-garden, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with furiously driving • horse and cab in Lower Rosoinan-street, Clerkenwell, and also with causing injury to Mrs. Ellen Hurley, of 6, Broad yard, Golden-lane, St. Luke's. Mr. Ricketts, solicitor, of Frederick-street, Gray's-inn road, defended. Police-sergeant Henry Phillips,lo G. said—This morning shortly before 1 o'clock I wai standing at the corner of Rosoman-street, Clerkenwell, when the defendant, who was driving a Hansom cab, passed me, and he was driving at the rate of about 9 miles an hour. When he had pro ceeded from 45 to 50 yards I saw a women fall down. I beard her scream, and I went to her assistance, and by the time I got there the defendant wee out of sight, I had the unfortunate woman conveyed to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn road. Her leg was smashed, and she had • large wound on the forehead. Her leg has since been amputated, and she is in a very dangerous condition. When I told the defendant the charge he said he could not be responsible for driving over a drunken woman. The defendant was stopped by a men who saw the injured woman knocked down. by Mr. Ricketts—The defendant was quite sober, but he could not say whether the injured woman wu drunk or sober. Sh e f e ll c l ose to the kerb, and at that spot there is only room for one vehicle to p•so at a time. The driver did not stop of his own accord. He said he was not driving hurt, but I have no recollection of his saying that she stepped from the kerb under the wheel of his cab. . _ _ Mr. Ricketts said that no one regretted more than the defendant the accident that had occurred, but there was was no blame attributable to the defendant. He should be able to show that the injured woman had been drinking, and stepped off the kerb under the wheels of the cab. In. stead of the defendant being stopped he stopped of his own accord, and went back to see if he could render the injured woman any assistance. Mr. Mansfield said it was a case that would have to be remanded for the attendance of the surgeon. Mr. Ricketts said he hoped the magistrate would take bail. The defendant's master would bail him to any amount. Mr. Mansfield uid he would take bail —one surety is the sum of 50/. and the defendant in the sum of luot, for his appearance next week. The necessary sureties having been put in the defendant left the court. MARLBOROUGH•STREET. SUICIDE PREVENTED. Martin Ronald*, a hootmaker, of No. :10, Little Wind mill-street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with the following desperate attempt to destroy himself. Alexander Stevens, residing at 30, Little Windmill. street, said that between 11 and 12 o'clock on the night of the Nth June, be and a fellow. lodger were in bed, when the prisoner came into their room in • very excited state, and behaved in such • manner that his (witness's) fellow lodger become so frightened that be left the room. The prisoner then set-to calling out "Police!" and said he , was glad there was only one person in the room as Le could do what he wanted to do. The pri. toner then left the room and went into his own !cam, fastened the door, and placed some furniture against it and made • very great noise. Thinking the prisoner was going to do something wrong he forced open the door and saw the prisoner preseing• knife against his stomach. He immediately sprang upon the prisoner and prevented him doing further mischief to himself, he having already stabbed himself in the st omac h. With ass i s t ance h e t oo k the prisoner to the hospital, and he has been there ever since. Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the witness if be could assign any cause for the prisoner acting as he had done. The witness said he believed it was through distress. Mr. Tyrwhitt remarked that the witness would for the rest of his life have the pleasure of remembering that he had saved the life of a feilow.creature. He considered the best thing he could do would be to remand the prisoner for a week, for if he was in distress ho would be as well off at the House of Detention as anywhere else. BIZAKINti STONES. George Rumen, a young man, described as an artist, Tea charged before Yr Tyrwhitt with refusing to break stoma at the workhouse of St. George, Hanover-square. Thomas Whetstone, superintendent of labour at St. George's Workhouse, said—Last night the prisoner brought a ticket he received at the polies station, and I admitted him as a casual. This morning I gave him his breakfast, and afterwards told him to go to the stoneyard and break stones. He refused to do so, and on my telling him that if he did not I should have to take him before • magis trate he said he did not care for the magistrate mom than me. Prisoner—l had some writing to do to-day, and if I bad broken stones I could not have dune it. I offered to pick oakum. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did he offer to pick oakum? Witness—Yea ; but if I allowed the people to choose their work I should not get any work done. Mr. Tyrwhitt (to the prisoner}—You will he committed for four days. You moat be taught that you are to do what you are ordered, and not as you like. WANDSWORTH. ATTEMPTING TO ENTER A TRAIN WNILZ IN NOTION. NARROW ESCAPE. Philip Wright and Edmund Ryan. both laboured, were placed in the dock before Mr. foghorn on a charge of being drunk and attempting to enter a train while in motion, to the danger of their lives. Mr. John Thorn, the Putney station-muter, stated that on the previous evening he saw the prinoners on the op. platform, they having previously crossed the line from the down aide, contrary to the directions of the porters. Os the arrival of a tram for Kew and Hounslow ti.e prisoners again crossed the line in front of the engine after it had started. James Hoare, the guard of the train, said he closed the doors, and meting all clear be blew the whistle, and the train started. The prisoners then ran round from the engine, passed his van, and attempted to enter one of tho compartment.. If it had not been for the presence of mind of the prinengers in assisting Ryan inside he must have been under the wheel. The other prisoner entered afterwards. Witness stopped the train to allow him to enter. In defence Ryan said he was told the train was foriing• aton and he ran to catch it. Mr. Ingham said if the prisoner had been killed hit wife would have brought an action against the company, and it would have been very difficult to prove that he vu the person to blame. If he liked to kill himself that vu his own look out. Ryan was then fined 205., or 14 days' imprisonment; and Wright 10s., or seven days. WHOLr+ALE SUNDAY TRADING. William Crawtry, the landlord of the Hamilton Arms, Hamilton-street, Wandsworth-road, was summoned by In spector Abrook, of the W division, with Sunday trading. The defendant pleaded guilty. Police-constable KemUster said he watched the house OIL the morning of the 7th instant, from 7.50 to 12 o'cloc and during that time he saw the defendant bring out 64 pots and 42 pints of beer into his back yard, and serve them to a great many customers. The defendant's excuse was that he had recently taken the house, and had been deceived by the former landlord. He promised the magistrate that the offence should not occur again. Mr. Ingham fined him the full penalty of 51., and in de fault ordered him to be imprisoned for one month. The tine and 2s. costs were paid. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WZDSKSUAT, JULT 17, 8 A.Y. & , F. W. it. Mamma. W. & . D. Nair° ...... 19.3114! Al:ordain W. W 14 . &L L•lth 29.3260, W. Ardrosaan W. 36 58 N.W. 3 i X Iro 0.40 1 1 N.E. Rao 314 3 1 W. Iro 0.101 3 W. ro / 339 1 4 N.W. r ISO, I. 7 1 N.N.W. oo , 0.11 1 B.M. i r 1.00 3 W.S.W. ro 0.451 t :r W.B.W. cro 016 • I B.W. rfc 0.1! 6 I W. 1 e 0.161 1 / X.N.W. , c 0.0s1: 1 N.W. I e 1.411 ; S.W. cl. 0.0%, 4 &W. / re am 7 B.W. rb 0441 - S.W. e ' i IWSW. en 03 4 S. ru OS, 4 74. n - eta — a t 6 - 4 Valencia— 111.01 be W.N. V►. Liverpool 29.52 55 W. 4 Holyhead 26.55 55 W.S.W. 7 rtIlLllOOl 26.68 68 W. N.W. 4 Meat 29.96 C 3 W.N.W. 6 lenient 29.9661 W. 3 Rochefort 30.04 GC N.N.W. 11 Plylueuth 29.9062 W. 8 Weymouth 29.7960 W.N.W. 6 Portasnouth 26:4 60 W.N.W. 8 London 26.67 40 W. ; I Yarmouth 26.52 CO S.W. ; 6 llearhorough 2637 58 W.N.W. 2 shield& Helder — - I . IZILULK IL • ---- Atmnspherlca! pressure Is Increasing generally this MOVOLL sal the winds have drawn more northerly. They rte, hnse•a• hacking a little In the west of trebled, and are still atm.* the Channel. gain has been general, end to plasm the sunrust considerable. DOWNING-STRIET, JULY 15.—The Queen hat deen pleased to appoint Richard Challenger, Esq.. to to auditor-general for the Island of Bt. Christopher.—thro'• Thu sixth party of excursionists of the Paris Exhibition Excursion Committee left London yesterday in two divisions, in all about 140,, by the London, Chatham. and Dover, and the London Brighton, and South Co ot Railways. A very large majority of the party were from the provinces, and several were from science schools to Ireland. COLLISION ON THIF NORTH EASTERN RAI LWAY. Yesterday morning • sad collision occurred between the Scotch express, leaving London at 9.15 p.m., and a goods train from Hull, near Bolton Percy station. It teemed that the goods train in question was being shonta from the down line on to the up line, to make way for the et press, which at the time we have mentioned had not pati& It was about an hour late, and, consequently,as it was &Inlet momentarily expected, it was deemed proper to elitist the goods train to let it pass. While this was being executed J. Dickenson, the signal maa, turned on both signals both in rear and in front of the goods, for the purpose Of 1 40 * feeling it from all approaching trains. It animated that those signals had nut been noticed, for the Scotch 'Weal came rapidly up, consisting of two engines and • veg heavy train, and ran into the latterpart of the goods trams smashing five of the heavily laden trucks to atoms. The first engine of the expres turned on its side and fell paitlYdaws an embankment, being ripped up and twisted into ~. shape% The second engine fortunately sever left the line, and thus assisted to stop the momentum of the train. Oft the appearance of • collision being inevitable, the engine driver and stoker of the leading engine jumped o ff . and thus preserved their lives. Several of the passentrem through the violence of the collision, sustained severe cuts and bruises ; but all, we believe, were enabled to prosecute their journey the same morning. The gnarl of the ex press was badly wounded, but he too was enabled to go far* ward after some little delay. Luckily a medical gentleman was in the train, and he very kindly rendered all the mot mice in his power until the arrival of Mr. Crumacic. tut' geou, of York, who then took charge of the unfeeling" , sufferers. The news of the accident having been oominum• sated to York, several of the officiate, including Mr. Goodwin, of the Great Northern Railway ronno.tny (nk*e . train suffered the most); Mr. Grayson, North Eastern Mr. Sales, and several ethyl., with a hatch of men. were quickly on the spot, and although the line exhibited.' bete mass of debris, • delay of only some three hours sod* half took place. This 8.15, o and oth The: tdol l h.s : i cto ; se over : 7: e h ,01 1 : : The the mos anA . gual en from ow ampton. 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