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THE four hundred and ninety Bishops who have rallied round the Papal chair to celebrate the eighteenth centenary of the martyrdom of Sr. PETER declare, in an address to the HOLY FATHER, that they believe and teach all he believes and teaches, and they express their joy at the pro spect of an (Ecumenical Council to be summoned in the autumn of 1868, from which they expect abundant fruits. To the uninitiated in the mys teries there appears to be something like an in version of the natural order of things in this de claration of the bishops. The General Councils do not compose the moat edifying chapter of the his tory of the Church, except, perhaps, to the philo sopher who loves to contemplate in no unkindly spirit the aberrations and pretensions of our poor humanity in its loftiest moods. Scandals, we know, are among the things that " must come ;" and an irreverent critic who wanted them for illustration would find plenty of them in a simple narrative of the acts of those assemblies. But it is fair to remark that in the midst of all these quarrels and contradio lions one characteristic may be traced through almost all the Councils which have been held from time to time to determine points' of doctrine or of discipline. The Council has been supposed to represent the collective mind of the Church, under the inspiration, no doubt, of the Ho' SPIRIT. There have been majorities and minorities—that is the human element in such assemblies—unani mity has seldom, if ever, been attained. But the voice of the hierarchy assembled in Council has been the voice of the Church ; and their decisions have been confirmed and ratified by the final assent of the Pon, proclaimed by him, as the Supreme Bishop, to the Catholic world, and en dorsed by his assent with the infallibility of his authority, just as the decisions of an English Parliament become law when they have received the assent of the Crown. No disrespect to the more exalted claims of the ecclesiastical preroga tive is implied in this analogy. Visible churches militant here on earth can only work by human instruments and in human ways, whatever may be the sources of their inspiration. It seems that in our present age of artificial restorations, which would fain supply the absence of faith by a simu lated fanaticism, all this is changed. The Bishops el the Church, assembled from all parts of the habitable globe, begin by declaring their assent and consent to whatever the POPE may believe or teach, and the Pore graciously announces that in the following year he will submit to the considera tion of an (Ecumenical Council, composed of these same Bishops, certain propositions of doctrine and discipline to which they have already subscribed in advance. If anything distinguishes an (Ecumenical from any other general Council, it is that its de crees are ratified by the Pope. In the present instance the decrees of the Pope are to be ratified by the (Ecumenical Council. This is a curious illustration of the excesses into which the fanati cism of priests without faith is apt to fall. These Bishops are as fantastic as a sect of painters who go back to Chaser. for their models, or of musi cal composers who make the future of their art a return to the simple chaunted dialogues of savage tribes. Only, unlike the pre-Raphaolites and the composers of the music of the future, they have really notraditionsorprecedentsto allege in behalf of their interpretation of the Papal infallibility. There is nothing, we do not say in the practice of the primitive Church, but in the practice of the Church of Rome, from Gszoosr the GREAT to GREGORY the Sirrearnea, which warrants such an abdication of the functions and purpose of a General Council before the solo personal authority of the Porn; or, if that expression is too strong, the authority of the Pore and the Sacred College. A general or an (Ecumenical Council has always been credited with inspiration from on high, but that inspiration has been collective not individual, and has been understood to come down from a source higher than any earthly Pontiff. In rati fying and confirming the decision of a Council the POPE has set his seal as the Vicar of CHRIST upon the collective act of inspiration ; he has promul gated, not initiated, the decrees of the Church. We dare say tle zeal of the bishops may be ac:oun'ed for ; bot we doubt whether the dangers of it will escape the solicitude of some sincere but sensible catholic laymen. It may be accounted for by the peculiar circumstances in which this eighteenth centenary is being celebrated at Itomo ; by the strained and critical condition of the Tem poral Power ; and by the disposition of generous and loyal servants to testify their enthusiastic de votion and fidelity to a falling house which so many powerful friends have abandoned. These Bishops have come to Rome bringing costly offerings from the congregations of the faithful in all parts of the earth to the Papal Treasury, and they feel impelled in the face of an inatten tive and incredulous generation to declare that now, when the Holy Father has only a few thou sand mercenaries, of doubtful military value, to THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY K protect his diminished ;ind impoverished temporal' sovereignty, they bow to the decrees of his spiri tual power, as to the oracles of the Most High, believing and teaching all he believes and teaches,. without limit or qualification. Evidently the Holy Father in his spiritual capacity has reason to congratulate hiciaelf on his temporal destitution, if destitution it can be called which is providing such brilliant galas and entertainments for pilgrims and the people of Rome, and vieing with Paris itself in the splendour of its scenic shows. When the Temporal Power was at the height of its for tunes and most confident in its destinies, under the protection of all the Catholic Powers, would these Bishops have been so eager to rally round the Chair of Sr. PETER and to accept in advance every new article of faith delivered by the Sacred College T Reflections of this kind can hardly fail to occur to Catholic laymen who are not so com pletely divorced from the age they live in as to look without misgiving for the "abundant fruits" which an (Ecumenical Council is expected to bring forth when it has decreed the personal infalli bility of every successor of Sr. PETER whom the majority of the Sacred College may elect, and put the nineteenth century on the Index. inasibly oaths subject last sight. Bs aid—we all say— Pat the Iffeedlian of bisslitilian ass a deplorable sad impolitis " sot, but he 41 not Oda the government ought to take say official notice of it. II the Meilen liberals aro mere savages it is hardly worth our while passing a vote of censure on them. . Savages and monsters are not likely to be desist' affected by our condemnation : and there may be even among such a race of barbarians some few sufficiently acquainted with European affairs to remember that when Maximilian's fatal and culpable proclamation sent Mexican officer after officer to death in cold blood, the British Hone of Com mons passed no vote of censure at all. Moreover, our hands are not clean. Surely the blood of Gordon would choke us if we endeavoured to raise a pharisaical voice of reprobation against the slayers of Maximilian. Surely the death of the Delhi princes has not yet been quite forgotten. It is quite certain that if Maximilian bad captured and shot Juarez, no tory gentleman in the House of Commons would have moved any resolution of censure. the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, JuLY 4. The Queen and the Queen of Prussia, accom panied by Prince Leopold, drove out yesterday afternoon. Colonel the lion. A. liardinge was in attendance on horseback. Princess Louise arrived at the Castle yesterday from Marlborough-house, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and the Hon. A. Liddell. The Queen, the Queen of Prussia, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice walked and drove in the Home-park this morning. The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, the Duke de Chartres, the Count and Countess de Paris, and Prince and Princess de Joinville, visited the Queen and the Queen of Prussia to-day at Windsor Castle. The Duchess of Wellington and the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Sir T. M. Biddulph had also the honour of Ming invited. The Hon. Mrs. Bruce and Sir James Clark arrived at the Castle. Prince and Princess Louis of Heave, attended by Baroness Schenck and Captain von Westerweller, visited the General Lying-in Hospital and King's College Hospital yesterday. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most lion. 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 Montagu, and Colonel the Right Hon. Wilson Patten. The Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Lucan, Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., the Right lion. Wm. Monsell, M.l'., Mr. Gregory, M.P., Mr. Lanyon, M.P., Major O'Reilly, M.P., and Mr. Blake, M.P., constituting a body of representatives appointed by the Irish peers and mem bers of parliament to confer with the committee of the cabinet upon the subject of the transfer of the Irish rail ways to the state, had an interview with the Duke of Richmond and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday. The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, M.P., and Mr. Ward Hunt, M.P., were present at the interview on the part of the cabinet. THE QUEEN AND THE VISIT OF THE SULTAN.— We understand that the Queen has postponed her departure from Windsor, in order to receive the Sultan. On every fine day the Princess of Wales now takes exercise in the garden of Marlborough House, in her chair or carriage. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster entertained the Ducheu of Northumberland, the Countess of Macclesfield, Hon. Lionel Ashley, General the Hon. Sir Edward Cwt, the Right Hon. Colonel Wilson Patten, M.P., and Miss Patten, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Sir Edward and Lady Manningham Buller, General Seymour, Mr. and Lady Alice Des VLeux, Mr. Jervoise Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Seymour, du., at dinner at Grosvenor House last evening. The Earl of Bective entertained at dinner, at his residence in Grafton-street, yesterday evening, the Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Cornelia Churchill, Maria Mar chioness of Ailesbury, the Earl Anne,ley, the Earl Cadogan and Lady Mary Cadogaa, Viscount Hamilton, Lord Berkeley Paget, Lady Moleaworth, Lady Virginia Sanders, Hon. Colonel Stanley, Hon. H. Molyneux, Colonel Foster, Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P., &c. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney entertained the Duchess of Btu:clench and Lady Margaret Scott, the Marquis of Waterford, the Marquis of Sligo, the Earl of Ellesmere, Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Rad cliffe and Hon. Mix' Canning, Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.P., Lady Florence Montagu, Lady Feodore Wellesley, Hon. Frederick Levi:son-Gower, M.P., lion. Thomas de Grey, Hon. F. Bridgeman, Mr. and Mrs. Holford, &c., at dinner at the family mansion in Cleveland-row, St. James's, Ism! evening. Lady Herbert of Lea entertained at dinner yes terday evening, at her residence in Cheslism -place, the Marquis of Lorne, the Earl and Countess of Cernarvon, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, Viscount and Viscountess Enfield, Lord Houghton, Lord and Lady Lindsay, the Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Rich mond, kc. The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait yesterday received at dinner, at Fulham Palace, the Earl and Countess Grey, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey and Lady Grey, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole and Mrs. Walpole, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell and Mrs. Cardwell, Lord and Lady Inchiquin and the Hon. Miss O'Brien, Mr. Herman Merivale, Mr. H. Wake, the Rev. J. Kempe and Mrs. Kempe, Sir William and Lady Anna Stirling Maxwell, the Rev. Mr. Knollys and the Rev. Mr. Fisher. Yesterday the magnificent mansion of Sion House, Brantford, was thrown open by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland to his tenantry in Westminster and Middlesex, to celebrate the coming of age of Lord Wark. worth, his grandson, and sou of Earl Percy, next heir to the title and 'Wales. The Viceroy of Egypt is expected to arrive on Saturday at Dudley House, On Sunday afternoon Lord Stanley, it is said, will call upon the viceroy, who will pro ceed to Windsor and remain a vied at the castle for the night. Monday is likely to be spent in the royal park, and in the evening the viceroy will possibly visit one of the theatres. Woolwich may occupy Tuesday ;on Wednea day the Foreign Minister will entertain the Viceroy at dinner in Downing-street ; and on Thursday the banquet at the Mansion-house will take pl.ice. The first conference between the cabinet com mittee and the representatives of Irish peers and members of parliament, relative to the proposed state purchase of the Irish r►ilways, took place yesterday afternoon at the Hoard of Trade. The interview lasted nearly an hour. The Duke of Richmond stated that the cabinet required information upon some preliminary points ; and the Mar quis of Clanricarde undertook that it should be supplied in writing without any delay. The Australian claimant to the Tichborno baronetcy has filed a bill in Chancery to establish his rights. In this document be gives a history of his life. He says that he resided with his parents at Paris until 1845, when he was placed at Stonyhurst College. In 1849 be was appointed cornet in the Rth Dragoon Guards, and left the army in 1853. In that year be left England for Valparaiso, and resided in South America until April, 1854. In that year he left Rio de Janeiro for New York, but was shipwrecked and picked up by • vessel that took him to Melbourne, in Australia. He there assumed the name of Thomas Castro, after that of his friend Don Thomaso Castro, of 3felippilla, in Chili. At Melbourne he was engaged to go to Gippeland. He wandered about from place to place living in the Australian Alps, on the Latrope, Mitchell , and Murrumbidgee rivers, at the Onico diggings, at Danilptin, Bendigo.Tarunt, Dundargsi, and Wagga-Wagga as a cattle drover, butcher, and in other employments. In 188.5 he married and in that year be first heard of the death of his father, who died in 1863. While in Sydney preparing to embark for Englsnd he was recognised as the eldest son of Sir F. D. Tichborne, Baronet, by Mr. Gnilfoyle, • nut on7man there who had been gardener to the Tichborne family, and by Andrew Bogle, a pensioner of the same family. The latter volunteered to sc,omp►ny him to England. The Australian claimant states that since his arrival in this country he has been recagnised by the Dowager Lady Tichborne as her son, and by Mr. Radcliffe, Mr. Biddulph, and Mr. Vincent Gafford, members of, the Ttehborne family, ea their cousin. REIAItKS. This morning atmospherical pressure Is greatest In the south, and is increasing over the British Isles, with generally mode rate westerly and north-westerly winds and cloudy weather. Slight rain has fallen in places. Prince Napoleon, in answer to an article pub lished by the Rerue des Deuz-Mondes relating to the Pater son family, has addressed to the editor of that periodical a letter, of which the following is the termination:—" I ■hall now request from your impartiality, Mr. Editor, the insertion of the present letter, destined to complete, and on • certain point to contradict, the atatemont of 31. d'Hausaonville. Advocating as Ido for every citizen the right of publishing his opinions by way of the press, it is to that liberty that I feel bound to have recourse at this moment, being convinced that • redressing of the abuses and errors committed by the press can be obtained in no other way." The trichinosis, which was thought to have died out in Germany, has again shown itself at Halberstadt (Lower Saxony). A considerable number of the inhabi tants, and amongst them children only three years old, have been affected. Without the intervention of the police, the butcher who sold the diseased pork would probably have suffered severely from the anger of the population. In the Spanish Cortee on Tuesday Senor Moy ano desired to present a resolution expressive of the sentiments of horror which the news of the execution of Maximilian had excited in every mind. The rules of the chamber, however, did not permit, and Senor Moyano had to renounce his motion. M. Pertuiset, successor of Gtrard, has posted on the wall of Paris a large rose-coloured placard, in which he invites all intrepid sportsmen to proceed with him to Algeria, and devote themselves to hunting lions, hyenas, tigers, jaguars, and panthers. The death of Prince Auguste de Broglie is an nounced. He belonged to the younger branch of that famous haute, and was cousin of the old Duke de Broglie and Prinoe Albert, the heads of the elder branch of that family. ENGLISH HAIR-DRESSING.—The spectacle of a contest for the palm of artistic ingenuity in dressing hair was afforded on Tuesday evening at the Hanover-square Rooms. As on former occasions of the MIMS character, • long tnble was placed down the middle of the chamber, with chain and 111i1T011 in a row on either side and singly at the ends. The Telegraph, which boa • long ac count of the proceedings, complains of the arrangements. " The process in each instance could be followed tolerably well by persons sitting round, but the effect could not afterwards be duly estimated foreemucb as the company crowded in so unregulated a man ner upon the ladies who had submitted their tresses to experiment that nobody could gain more than • rapid glimpse in the struggle. It is true that in a pro minion of the fair ' subjects, each escorted by her gallant coiffeur, twice or thrice round the room, • better chance of appreciating the different styles and effects had been pre ous. ly afforded ; but the committee would do well if, on the next occasion, they would arrange matters so that the ladies might sit on • ds or stage, where an uninterrupted view would be given to everybody near or far. If the more practical among the visitors desired • close inspection they might, on showing their professional credentials, be ad mitted to the stage just as members of the Royal College of Surgeons are not only allowed but pressingly Invited to maths' living monstrosities at • show." OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) HYDE-PARK AND THE POSTPONED REVIEW. The postponement of the review leads the Times to urge that it be put off altogether. The portion of Hyde Park available for troops is too restricted to allow of any numeuvres, and a review without manouvres is one of the moat monotonous of spectacles. Moreover even this tame display can be witnessed only by a privileged few. The public are practically excluded. Foreign potentates who video tus can never be dazzled by such detachments as we are able to array before them, and then Hyde-park is now in the heart of London, and The greatest incon venience would be occasioned in the neighbouring districts and in all the adjoining streets by the concentration of troops necessary for a review. Their mere passage through the streets would cause a serious disturbance of the busi ness of London, but the crowds which follow in their wake would occasion far more anxiety. The arguments against political meetings in the parks apply also to reviews, or to any ' lar spectacles, and it is in the interest of the public that the rule should be enforced universally and impartially. For all these reasons, the Tonne cannot but hope that the intention of holding a review in Hyde-park may be abandoned. THE =POEM HILL IN COMMITTEE. The Daily Nem trusts Mr. Disraeli's suggestion, to proceed at once to the consideration of the schedules, in order that the bill may reach the House of Lords in time to give to their necessary assent a decent look of free deliberation, will he carried into effect. Nine-tenths of the fifty or sixty proposals which stand before them on the notice-paper are either mere protests in behalf of par ticular theories of representation, or private crotchets, or, as in the case of the motions in favour of neglected bo roughs and districts, the homage and tribute of indepen dent members to the genii of their respective localities. It is a pity that the schedules are not better worth oon sideting. Like the boundary arrangements, they can only be regarded as provisional. The actual addition to the number of represented towns made by Mr. Disraeli's bill is only five; for against the nine boroughs which are to be newly enfranchised the four boroughs which •re to be wholly disfranchised must be set off. The just apprehension which animates both sides of the house of what may happen if they fail to pass • reform bill this session, the disorganisation of the liberal party, and the disappearance of conservative principles, make Mr. Disraeli master of • rather contemptible situa tion. He will probably have his own way with the sche dules. But even he cannot imagine that such boroughs as Honiton, Dartmouth, Thetford, and Arundel can perma nently keep members denied to Luton, Keighley, Barnsley, and St. Helens. The Tines, on the other hand, considers it, impossible that the committee can assent to the complete proposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and postpone at once all the amendments before it. As Lord Cranborne put it, the only proper course of proceeding is to act upon con. sent. Each member must be allowed his right to insist upon the discussion of any amendment he had placed upon the notice.book, if he deems it of essenti.il importance. It is particularly satisfactory to the rimy; that the cumu lative vote has been forced on the attention of parliament, and it implores the house to consider the proposal with out prejudice and without impatience, for it is the only way of reconciling democratic progress with representative government. The Pose is particularly pleased that Mr. Ilihbert's clause providing that travelling expenses ►call henceforth bo illegal in boroughs is adopted. It is very easy in boroughs to find at a comparatively moderate expense such polling accommodation as would render the payment of travelling expenses needle= ; but in (*unties it is other wise. The Star thinks a still better reformation than that effected by Mr. Hibbert would have been the prohibition of holding of election committees at public•houses. On this point, however, the true tory character came oat, and in spite of stout and steady fighting on the liberal side, the good object in view was not obtained. The Telegraph sake with regard to the cumulative vote, if Mr. Lowe cannot publish a beautiful oration upon the subject, and liberate his mind in that way, or send his last sighs for 'England in the most practical form ? There is not the smallest chance that anything can result from this three-cornered consolation but waste of time, and the right honour►ble gentleman ought to take a nobler revenge upon ua than that. THE EXECUTION OE The Times will not admit that the proclamation of Maximilian under which prisoners of war taken from Mexican ranks were shot, justifies reprisals on his person. There is this difference between the two Caere, that with the capture of a guerilla officer the war was not brought to an end, and in the stern policy of war it might be held necessary to strike terror into others who might take up arms against the government in power. But when the Emperor via taken there was incontestably an end to the empire. Can it seriously be believed that Jaures thought that if Maximilian returned to Europe he would make his appearance again, like Bur bide, to begin a second revolution The severities of the French, who were, the Times believe., the chief offenders, and of one or two of the imperialist generals, cannot be justified, but to avenge these deeds, committed in the heat of a civil war, by the execution of the fallen Emperor when his cause was hopeless has no excuse. The Timer cannot but see in this act the ferocity of the native character, or avoid believing that bad even Maximilian refrained from arrogating to himself that most invidious right of sove reignty, the right of treating domestic foes as rebels, he would equally have shared the fate that befell him parti san.. European st►tes can at least express their opinion of it by the reception they give to whatever persons Juarez may think fit to send to them as hie representatives. The Herald describe. Maximilian as one of the best and greatest of men fallen in the very zenith of his fame by the hands of brutal savages. The sootier the whole gang of murderers is brought to the scaffold, the sooner the Mexicans are thoroughly subdued and taken in hand, their country parcelled out amongst foreigners and its very name forgotten, the better will it be for Mexico, the better for the world. The Standard insists th►t upon the single occasion when Maximilian resorted to the stern law of the country for the protection of his government the act was at least more that of his French supporters than of himself. He might fairly be believed that it was a legal and regular exercise of power, seeing that at the date of his proclama tion he was in full possession of the Mexican throne, ►pparently with the consent of the Mexican people. The nations of Europe can do nothing to mark their Reese of this monstrous outrage but to reject Mexico from their communion—to hold her as an alien and an outlaw from the general circle of civilisation—to refuse to know her as a country entitled to the ordinary international rights and courtesies. The Star hopes that the house will not be called upon to d.acuss any Ruch resolution as Sir L Palk has spoken 04 Lord Stanley seprameed himself very properly and - ,G, JULY 5, 181 LATEST INTELLIGEIir, FRA2.172 AND AUSTRIA. The Inclipendeince Beige says : The Vienna journals, in speaking of the death of tb. Emperor Maximilian. display great hostility towards tht cabinet of the Tuileries. They say it is responsible for all the misfortunes which have befallen the house of Hapsburg. This is a further obstacle (adds the ledipendasee) to the journey of the Emperor Francis Joseph to Paris and to the alliance to which this journey, it was said, would lead. According to the ministerial journal, the Debatte, the journey is not abandoned but postponed. The De lslffr adds : The visit to Paris—and this must not be forgotten— conceals, to all appearance, an important political meaning. It means the binding closer of the ties of friendship which have latterly been established between Austria and France. The meeting of the two Emperors may lead to consequences of great import from which each of the two countries may derive many advantages. In presence of the serious aspect of the present situation the importance of this meeting can. not be ignored. The visit to Paris or the nonfulfilment of that visit may produce grave results. (saorsa•e Tau°luxe.) FRANCE. PARIS, Jur 5. The Muniteur of to-day says :—"The assassina tion of the Emperor Maximilian will arouse a feel ing of universal horror. The act of infamy ordered by Juarez stamps on the heads of those who call themselves the representatives of the Mexican re public an ineffaceable stigma. The reprobation of all civilised nations will be the first punishment of a government, which has at its head such a ruler." The Sultan on hearing of the tragic end of Maxi milian, begged the Emperor to countermand the fetes. The Emperor will go into mourning for 30 days. INDIA. BOMBAY, JUNE 9 (rid Trieste). The shareholders of the Bank of Bombay have expressed an opinion in favour of amalgamation, by 137 votes against 134 who prefer reconstruc tion. The amalgamation scheme will be submitted to the Bank of Bengal shareholders on June 14 ; and another meeting of the Bombay Bank share holders will be held on August 12, to decide defi nitively for amalgamation or reconstruction. The new lighthouse at Cenery was inaugurated on June 1. Mr. W. H. Havelock has been appointed acting commissioner for Scinde, until Colonel Merowether can take up the appointment. The double line of telegraph through Persia is completed, and is now in good working order. Colonel Mere wether had returned to Massowah, whence he forwarded an ultimatum to the Empe ror Theodorus demanding the release of the Abys sinian captives. Internal dissensions are said to have deprived the Emperor of all but a small portion of his territory. The British Consul at Zanzibar up to April 28 still expressed hopes of Dr. Livingstone's safety. The state of public health in Bombay is very satisfactory. It is reported that the government India con templates raising a second loan of million in England, instead of India. • court-martial has sentenced Captain Conning ham of the 88th to be cashiered, to undergo five years' penal servitude, and to make good the defi ciencies of the regimental cash chest. Captain Caldecott, 103rd Regiment, has been killed by a tiger whilst shooting. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) FRIDAY, JOLT L. • AUL ir W MAXIMILIAN WAS CAPTURED. --____ Lie following letterAstod Queretaro, May 20, gives some details of the betrayal of the unfortunate Maximilian : "The principal defence of this town consists in the 'else convent of La Cruz, situated at the south and on the side of the city of Mexico. This building, • relic of the splendours of the Spanish domination, is con structed of stone and adobe (bricks hardened by the sun) ; a part of its enclosure is besides protected by earth entrenchmenta. The convent covers, with its dependencies, more than ten acres of ground, and forms • citadel on which siege artillery only I could make any impression. Such, five days ago, was the principal position of Maximilian, who for some time had made it his head quarters. Immediately opposite in the Corretas mountains, the Mexican General Eacobedo was established, and his advanced guard occupied the valley which separates La Cruz from theCorretu. In the night of May 14 there was a council of war in the town. The imperialist army had exhausted all its sup plies, and was likely to be soon reduced to the last ex tremities. As flour was wanting the Intendanoe every day caused to be slaughtered a certain number of horses and mules, which there was no means of feeding from want of provender. Even this resource threatened to fall before long ; and for that reason Maximilian resolved= , attempting a vigorous sortie, and opening far himself • passage through the enemy's lines. At 11 o'clock the troops were under arms, and the artillery in position ; everything was ready for the attack. But at the last mo ment, in consequence of the slow movements of his generals, the Emperor found himself obliged to counter mand the expedition. Already at that moment the army had been sold to the enemy. The fort of La Cruz was to have been occupied an hour later by the troops of the liberals. It was notorious that there were a considerable number of persons in the ranks of the imperialists disposed to give up the town, but who would ever have suspected the colonel of the Regiment of the Empress, the keeper of the key of Quere tors, the commander of the fort of La Cruz, Miguel Lopez himself' He wee the man who, in the evening of the 14th, sent to Fes:abed° a letter in which he offered to betray him companions in arms for 3,000 ounces of gold (44,000 dollars). Escobedo naturally did what any other general would have done in his place—he accepted the proposal. Towards midnight the advanced guard of the liberals, protected by the darkness, left the camp, and arrived without noise before the convent. Colonel Lopez, ordering his soldiers to ground their arms, opened the gates to the enemy. From that moment, the Emperor Maximilian, who was sleeping tranquilly in another part of the build ing, was irretrievably lost. At the first gleam of the morning the Archduke was on foot, and immediately per ceived that some extraordinary event had taken place, Rousing up the Prince of Salm-Salm, his aide-de-camp, Maximilian directed his steps towards the outer enclosure of the convent ; but had scarcely advanced • few pace* when he was surrounded by a detachment of soldiers com manded by Colonel Rine= Gallardo. Lopez himself accom panied the detachment, and pointed out the Emperor to the troops, crying out ' That is the man—seize him.' A curious incident then occurred. Colonel Galardi), a brave soldier who did not seem greatly to relish the treachery of Lopez, stepped up to Maximilian and said to him, 'You are • private !person and not • moldier ; we have nothing to say to you, go about your business.' With these words he pushed his Majesty outside the convent. Five minutes litter I met Maximilian, who seemed not to have yet recovered from his surprise. He was walking as fast as possible towards Cerro de la Campana, at the other extremity of the town. This position is • fortified hill commanding the northern part of the place. On his arrival there he was joined by Generals Mejia, Cas tillo, and Avellano, the Prince de Salm-Salm, and several others of his officers ; but it soon be came evident that any resistance was impossible. Four battalions of infantry and all the liberal cavalry were surrounding the Cerro. The white flag was then hoisted, and the Archduke with all his staff surrendered to General Corona. The prisoners were al. lowed to retain their horses, arms, and personal effects ; and a few hours later they were conducted to the convent of La Cruz. The first companies of the Mexican advanced guard which had entered the town committed some excesses ; several houses were pillaged and sonic person. rifled in the streets, but immediately after the snivel of the general officers order was re-established. On the whole, fewer acts of violence were perpetrated than might have been expected." A subsequent letter from Queretaro, dated May 25, con tains the following :—" From the convent of La Crus the prince was conducted, with his officers, to that /of Santa Terasita, where they were placed in rooms devoid of all comfort. During three or four days they slept on the bare ground, and their food was very insufficient- The arrival of the Princess de Salm-Salm and her remon strances with Escobedo had the effect of amelio rating the condition of the prisoners. They were transferred to another convent, that of Las Capuchins, and they are now permitted to receive from their friends provisions, wine, and clothing. The adven tures of the Princess de Salm-Salm would form a strange chapter in • romance. Twice did she traverse the liberal lines to reach the capital and return from it, and on two occasions was fired at by the Mexican sentries. She was afterwards detained prisoner for two day. at Guada loupe by General Diaz for having distributed money to the German captives in that place. She at length ob tained a passport authorising, or rather ordering her to proceed to the coast and quit the country. But with that passport she made her way to Queretaro and Sun Luis during the siege of the first-named town. She was accom panied by only one female Mexican servant. Subsequently she had interviews with President Juarez and General Es cobeclo to intercede in favour of Maximilian and her hus band. It is said that the Archduke wept like a child on hearing • narrative of the heroic peregrinations of this courageous lady." A correspondent in Paris writes to the British Mrdirat Journal —" During the last week there has been a good deal of uneasiness at court concerning the relapse of the Emperor into the painful symptoms with which he w►s last year affected. The attack of renal colic, which the Moniker officially described as lumbago with headache, has left behind further sympto.,.a, which have induced the Emperor's physicians to counsel as early a close as state reasons will allow of the court festivities, in order that he may have the benefit of treatment by mineral waters. Meantime, he is for bidden horse exercise and the pleasures of the table. The little Prince Imperial Las recovered his strength wonderfully and seems to be very well, to the great delight of all here." AN Excust; FOR THE GLASS.—There are proba- My few observant medical men who have failed to notice • habit which has been on the increase for some years past, and which seriously threatens the moral and physical in tegrity of society. The growing tendency of those even whore lives are gentle, and whose minds are educated, to indulge in alcoholic stimulation, is a fact which the profession would do well to recognise and protest against. The vine is not the vice of our grandfathers ; the bottle or two of port which often laid them under the dinner table and always sent them reeling into the dniwiug room. The sin of our days is less obtrusive and even more disastrous. It takes the form of an occasional glass at odd times during the day, an extra dose at lunch, a glass of sherry or two more or less fre. quently in the course of the afternoon, another from the , table when the cloth is laid for dinner. Not uncommonly • flask of sherry accompanies the blue-book in the caninge. And it is worth noting that this kind of tippling is not done in secret. So far, indeed, from this, it is rather a matter of boasting on the part of those who indulge in it, and they press other., often warmly, to follow their example. Sometime, it is true, a mild kind of excuse is uttered. The dose is taken " just to keep one up, you know," or as • "whet before dinner." Just as often, when sods or seltzer water suggested itself as • refresh• ment, the question arises whether its accompaniment shall be brandy, sherry, or liqueur. The idea of taking it alone is not entertained. It is described as " weaken ing," " too cold for the stomach," and so on. Not su fre quently, it is to be hoped, but still often enough to be of serious moment, these odd glasses of sherry, brandy-and soda, dry comma, &c., are taken in the morning between breakfast and lunch, sometimes even before breakfast. In coarse of time the results of these indulgences do nof fail to present themselves in the nausea and retchingwhich accom pany the morning toilet, the husky forenoon voice, the want of appetite for breakfast, the vague dyspeptic 7miotoms which lurk about during the day. More remotely it is fora shattered nervous system that the patient—or' person"— seeks relief from the physician. Society is on its knees just now confessing, always in • polite and " respectable" way, its sins of omission or commissica in regard of dress luxury, paint, and the desti-sioude. It behoves the medical profession to see that the vice described is included in the W.—Lancet. THE BOARD OP ADMIRALTY In the House of Commons hit evening, Mr, Seely asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if by opinions coincide with those expressed by the late First Lord on the 19th February kat, when he said "thee the administration of a great department by a board is a clumsy machinery," and " that the constitution of the Board of Admiralty was inconvenient and not profitable to the public service ; " and, if he did agree in opinion' with the late First Lord, whe►her he intended consulting hie colleagues as to how tar in their judgment a change might be desirable. To this question, Mr. Corr, returned the following ye. ply ;—" My experience at the Admiralty as First Lord hm been very short ; but I have u yet bad no occasion to be sensible of any inconvenience resulting from the present constitution of the board. The subject of the hon. mein. bees question is one which, if dealt with at all, ought t o be approached with great caution, and not without gmr s and mature consideration ; and I have nut at present any intention of consulting my colleagues respecting it." , 2. L w. Nairn 12968 54 N.W. Aberdeen '29.69 58 W. Leith 49.8666 W. Ardrosaan 29.97 54 W. Greencastle 90.03 50 Valenti& 30.1868 N. Cape Clear , 00 1 N. W. Uyerpool 29.93 59l W. Holyhead 30.04 57, W. Penzance 30.2164 W.N.W. Breit 30.2466 N. W. Lorlent 30.3061 W.N.W. Rochefort.— 30.24 63 W.B.W. Plymouth 30.16 62 N. N. W. Weymouth 30.1361 W.N.W. Portsmouth 30.06 671 W. N. W. Loudon 30.02,61 W. Yarmouth 29.9764 W. Scarborough 29.9457 W.N. W. Shields 299158 N.A. Helder — MR. W. LLOYD GARRISON IN MANCHESTER. Last evening a complimentary banquet was given • to Mr. Lloyd Garrison, the well-known advocate of segro emancipation in America, at the Trevelyan (Tempera* Hotel, Manchester. Mr.T. BAZLIY, M. P. , occupied the chair; and the company , which numbered about 100 Wise and pen men, included Mr. George Thompson, Mr. Jacob Bright, Mrs. Jacob Bright, Dr. J. Watts, Mr. F. Garri son, M ee Valard, the Rev. Steinthell, Mrs. Moore, Mr. Alder men It. Heywood (Bolton), Mr. Alderman Harvey (Sal. ford), Professor Jack, Professor Ward, Dr. Borchardt, Mr. and Mrs. A. Ireland, Mr. It. D. Webb (D u bli n ) , Mr. John F. Fester (Boston Maas.), Mr. John Pattiaon (Lives pool), Mr. It. HilditehAhe Rev. T. G. L ee , M r. W . Roberts, Mr. W. Moms Mr. Alderman Barlow (Bolton), Mr. Councillor Williams , Mr. J. B. SPlCerrow, Mr, Councillor Murray, &c. The adoption of an address of welcome and congratula. tics to Mr. Garrison was moved by the Rev. S. S. STEINTUAL, seconded by Dr. J. WAIN, supported by lie JACOB BRIGHT, and, the motion having been unanimously I passed, the address was Assented by the Chairman. Mr. °cameos, on rising, was received with loud theme In the course of his speech he said :—Something bad been said of the mobs which rose against him and his smociates. They were multitudinous in every part of the land ; his meetings were constantly invaded by brutal men, and, in j stead of meeting him with arguments and facts, the slam ] holders assailed him with brickbats and rotten egge, and by attempting to inflict Lynch law upon him. The se things ' dud not trouble him at all • the severest trial that be b a d I was are ligious trial. He Lad been taught to look upon I the church with great veneration, and to regard those who ministered in the ulpit as those who stood nearest to the i throne of God. C rtainly he never desired or designed to have any issue with the American church or the American clergy ; but, to his grief of heart and horror of mind, he saw in them s purpose to keep the slave doe% in his chains, and to crush out every effort, if possible, for his deliverance. It was an awful revelation of the corrupting power of slavery throughout the length and breadth of the land. The Bible wan resorted to continual)y to prove that God sanctioned slavery ; that in the Old ' Testament, under Knees and the prophets, and in the New Testament, with Jesus and the apostles, the clearest evidence was to be found that slavery was compatible with true religion and vital Christianity. He had, therefor% • to do one or two things—either to abandon the slave or to denounce that form of Christianity which would keep I him in his chains. (Hear, hear.) To him the choice ins I very easily made. (Cheers.) And then what followed? I In attacking the religion of America, of course he was se infidel. The religion of any country being attacked would I subject any man to the same charge. He certainly was sa i b n u a t d rie l to was the n An o infid e l to si tt e P °l4illg ' ty v o e f d d rivth eses g a " (hear, hear)—who had given Whim and all men this blessed rule, " Whatever ye would that men should do unto co, do you even so unto them. (Cheers.) Using the term , re ligion" in its highest and noblest sense, there sever had been a movement more truly religious than that of anti. slavery in the United States. (Hear, hear.) The abele tionista were eminently religious and deeply coneeientious, . willing to suffer the loss of all things rather than ;be false to God and false to man. But the mad dog cry of "infidel and infidelity !" If it only meant that they could not bow the knee to Beal and turn their backs upon righteousness, they might call them infidels or whatsoever they pleased. "The Lord knoweth them that are his." (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) His land had been fearfully scourged from one end to the other, and it well deserved to be scourged. When the judgments of God came upon • guilty people, he might lament that their sin had insured the judgment, but he would never arraign the wisdom or the goodness of God in sanding those judgments. For the sake of peace, falsely so called, in their idolations, regard for the preservation of the union, a bargain was entered Into at the formation of the constitution of the United States, whereby certain compromises were made with slavery, and the whole country become responsible for its existence. But that which they took into the constitution in order to make the union, God had caused to dash the union in pieces, teaching the great and solemn leluion that all compromise with sin would in the end work destruction, and i hat nothing but right- eousneas could exalt • nation. (Cheers.) While in Aw -1 rim there was a general disposition on the part of loyal men to consider England hostile to the Americin govern ' meat and willing to see it overthrown, and while on this side there were manifestations by no means favourable, yet I he never doubted for one moment that the heart of the English people, as such, beat in the right ilirectioit. (Cheers.) lie expected that the tory element would by the law of gravitation go southward—(laught, sal—but the people, the bone and muscle of the nation, lie felt sure I would be found in the trial hour all right ; and they proved ! themselves so in the end. (Cheers.) It redounded to the credit of England that the Southerns on this side I of the Atlantic never dared to make their appeal to • free and open popular meeting, whereas on the other I side hundreds of meetings were held with open_ . j deon land the people by an overwhelming verdict su Abraham Lincoln. (Loud cheers.) He saw are him those who had been faithful when it required some courage to be so. Unquestionably, the Lincashire ' people had by their demonstration, saved England and I America from a bloody struggle, for if thesemanifestations had not been made, and to the extent that they were made, he was quite sure that war would have been declared by 1 America at all hazards, rind they would have engaged in the , work of mutual destruction. The Lancashire people had, ; therefore, been peacemakers indeed; they had been friends I of America, friends of liberty, friends of their own , country, and friends of all mankind. He desired to return his thanks to the press of England that stood by them—to the London Daily News, the Morning Star, the Sprrlator, the Nonernsferweist, and the Manchester Examiner sad Tinges. And then, to that peer of the realm who was one not simply by virtue of hie title, but because of his manly and upright character, the Duke of Argyll—to the shade of the lamented Cobden—to John Bright—(cheers)—to Goldwin Smith —to J. S. Mill—to Forster, Stansfeld, Hughes, Taylor, I and Mihres —to all these he would say, one sad all, " Stuid back • give place to the working men cot Lancashire ;" bemuse in trials peculiar to their cos& , tion, trials which were inconceivable to those who bad ' not gone through them—with starvation looking ties in the face, with no cotton sad no employment, and tempted by the devil on the right hand, and on the left to cry out for the independence of the South. a order to get cotton, they resolved to perish rather than that their influence should be thrown into the scale of the diabolical slave power of the South. lie stood le fore such • people with the profoundest reverence for the nature that was in them. He came to them with tears of gratitude, and he threw his nrms lovingly around their necks and invoked the benediction of Almighty God upon their heads. If they had gone with the South, they would have had no cotton, or it would have been stained through and through with blood. They would belie had war, they would have had their national debt frightfully Aug mented, and they would have had blond, and tears, and suffering. But they chose wisely ; and now they were going to get plenty of cotton—any amount of cotton — (cheers)—and, above all, free cotton, with no stain of blond upon it ; and where they had got one bale by slavery, Goa would give them ten or twenty hales by free labour. ' FIREWORKS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.-llldUal d by the success which has attended the two great PlTa_. technic fetes already given this season on th e Crystal Palace grounds, a third grand display was held last night. The salute of aerial maroons was the prelude, as usual, to the flight of rockets and coloured fires, of which the beautiful and picturesque combinations are 111111 so fami liar. The properties of the electric light were displayed from two balloons, which carried up its dazzling brilliancy toast, skies. The comets, which, owing to the improvements is the arrangements, now never fail to reach the point of des tination, flew down from the water towers with imuselleas velocity, and having reached the temples on the lower ter race lit them up at every point until their effulrence was as profuse as it was brilliant. The floating stars, which sustain their glittering beauty so long, formed a beg sparkling constellation, changing their colours at intervals until they faded into dimness across the horizon. Tile "et pieces were as elaborate as usual, one of them presenting the design of an octagonal shield, the outlines fornwd of brilliants. Within, countless circular works of coloured fires rapidly revolved, and on the outside a gorgeous firings was formed by what appeared to the spectators a thick rich shower of gold. In the other, which was nem ly 20 1 ft. in circumference, several ingenious modifications of the recently invented eidotrope were introduced. the several portions of it in their revolutions forming ,14,igns of varied and in many crises exquisite design. The illumination of the fountains and the grand ifisole of thousand' , of coloured rocket, were, as usual, the last items on the pmgram*. and were folly as snooeuful as the oorrespondm.. * leat of former displays. One shilling day, Thurelay , July 4. Admission on payment, 14,000 ; ditto by season tick* 5,886. Total visitors, 19,946. • ce I oe re 0.02 b e 0 eo 1 e e e 0.02 NW.