The Express. — London, England, 1868-05-25 00:00:00

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ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-IMPERIAL J Ara N Lig TROI: PE. 1111.01:TANI' NOTICE—The Direetnrs regT, t to inform the public that in consequence of the provincial eng.igementi made by Clem prior to their appearng at the above theatre. they are most ttluctantly compelled to announce lit it the time of their rem doing in London is rapidly drJwiart to a clo.e, but they have arranged that these eatrao►dl nary clever artistes shall give • SEKIRi of FAREWELL PER- I'OttSIA ACE-. introducing many graceful and unique feats, never before nitnesse4, and they revpertfully urge those who Lave not yet tinted the Entertainment to avail themselves of the opportunity now ol.ereJ prior ti thi ir departure, It being certain they %ever will again visit London. Places may he secured at the Hos office; at Mr. Mitchell's, Old Bond atreet and the • Tincipal Libr.itles.—Perfo , mance every night at Eight. and ,", alleido).• Saturdays at half past two. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long -acre.— Lew° :,eel Manager. Mr. W. H. 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Thrum nothing certain in the natural world but death : and there is nothing certain in the parliamentary world but a dissolution. To both the melancholy moralising and the exhaustive enume ration of HAMLET apply—" If it be now, 'tie " not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be " now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the " readiness is all." These reflections are present, we ma% be sure, to the meditative minds of Colonel TAYLOR and Mr. SrorrORTH ; nor are they inoperative convictions there. These clever mana gers have a living faith in the great truth of parliamentary mortality, a faith which shows itself by works. They are sparing no exertions to make The calling and election sure of the gentlemen who sit behind Mr. Dpiesatt, or who hope to do so in the New Jerusalem of the Reformed Parlia ment. Already, after some hesitation, Mr. Dis with an ingenuity which his own Tadpole TEE EXPRESS, MONDAY o: Taper might envy has possessed himself of a cry, wh'e'r bears some a talogy to that whit& his irony put in the mouths of the Conservative wire-pullers in " Coningsby." If it is not precisely " Our young QUEEN and our old " institutions," it be►rs as doses resemblance to that watchword as the lapse of time and the demo cratic innovations of 1867 allow. Mr. Tadpole and Mr. Taper laugh ml to sroni the idea of going to the country with the repeal of the malt-tax, as the rallying cry of the Conservative candidates. Mr. DISRAELI has discarded the suggestion as effectually and contemptuously. He has dallied with the subject while in opposition, he has raised the horse of the sanguine and confiding member for East Norfolk ; but in office he reeks not his own BEAD. He has decided that the Church shall be in danger. He prompts, without openly comm'tting himself to the cry of "No " Popery," and puts the cry of "No Pro " testantism," into the mouths of his anta gonists. We da-o say there are some people who will be imposed upon by the artifice. A gentle man, residing in Wandsworth, proposes, we believe, to devote a considerable sum to the education of Protestant youths in the art of short-band writing, in order to counteract the influence of the Jesuits in th, reporters' galleries of the two Houses of Parliament. The faith has been assailed and defended by wonderful instruments. The last phase of the contest, which resolves it into an affair ~f stenography and a fight of reporter's pencil, is the strangest. Mr. BEARDEN'S crazy and offensive motion on the subject of her MAJESTY'S retirement at Balmoral, a mction for which no one is responsible but himself, if indeed he be responsible, has been gravely com mented upon as the expression of Irish Catholic disloyalty to the throne. Even Lord ELCHO, follow ing the suggestions of a ministerial newspaper, has pretended to see in the proposal of Sir COLMAN O'LooeLxs for relieving the SOVEREIGN from the obligation of speaking offensively on his or her accession of a particular doc trine of the Roman Catholic faith, an assault upon the Protestant tenure of the throne. The LORD-LIEUTENANT of IRELAND has already been released from this necessity. The revocation of the offensive words does not affect one of the safeguards of the Act of Settlement. The Sovereign will be and must be as much a Protestant if the coronation oath is modified in Sir Couture O'Loeuxse's sense as she is now. The misrepre sentation by which poor Lord Excno has been duped is a part of the attempt to foist a cry of " No Protestantism " upon the Liberal party, the party of true Protestantism both here and on the Continent. With the case of Mr. James LORD, of Wandsworth, who is bent on introducing the principles of the Reformation into the reporters galleries, and Lord ELCHO, who sees in Sir COLMAN O'LOGINLEN'S resolution an attempt to expel Pro testantism from the throne, we cannot undertake to say what moues these tactics may or may not have. The authors of them know better than we do the stupidity of the stupid party. They have sounded its depths, and marked out its shallows. The Tories, however, we may be sure, will not be content with a good cry. The Liberal party, in its turn, must not be content with having a good cause. They have displayed sound parliamentary tactics during the present session. Their forces are united and irresistible in the House of Commons. The leaders whose misuaderstandings and disputes were the safety of the enemy have been recon ciled, less by any personal accommodations than by the removal, through the legislation of last year, of the causes of variance. Mr. Lows occupies the front opposition bench in friendly council with Mr. GLADSTONE ; and below the gangway Mr. Hon our( exchanges compliments and confidences with Mr. BRIOHT. All these things are good ; but they are not sufficient. The real battle will be fought in the offices of the election agents and the over seers and in the court of the Revising Bar- rister. The sympathy of the country with the policy of the Liberal party is unquestionable. But this general approval will not win any battles. The sentiment must be organised if it is to be of any use. Whatever the resources of a country, it can fight only with the men who can be brought into the field. The strength of Liberal feeling will do nothing. Until every Liberal entitled to vote has his name on the register, the work is not finished. We trust that the gentlemen on whom the business of looking to this devolves are losing no time and sparing no exertion. The general election may come sooner than they expect. There is talk of the appointment of a select committee of the House of Commons to inquire into the practi cability of hastening the registration. The enemy is incessantly active. A vigilant and well organised minority has won, and may again win, victories over a majority which trusts in numbers that it has neglected to get together, and in a strength which it has left undisciplined. "an extant from a"lssiari spook, evel• felt*. " purges. of denouncing it, nay, under this " Act, be liable to three year' imprisonment." Our contemporary's correirowlefit attributes ibis astounding state of things to a sudden madness having seized upon the colony and its rulers ; and adduces some curious evidence in support of the charge. "Grey headed men," according to the Sydney Morning Herald, " whose tempers had " been toned down by years, and whose subjection " to public order bad become a habit, were hun " gry for an immediate application of Lyrul law. " The Jewish Rabbi, with a tender remembrance " of a sweet and tolerant English Queen, insists " that if the population of the colony were dis " weed, the word Alfred' would be found en " graven upon each heart ; the President of the " Upper House, who has been long known as an " able and earnest advocate for the abolition of " capital punishment, uttered a dignified wish " from the woolsack, and before the trial of " O'FARRELL, that the foul sassasin would be "'hanged 50 cubits high, so that everybody " could see him ; and that the gallows would re " main standing till the last Fenian was extermi " Hated' ;" an agitation is on foot to re-christen the colony " Aifredia," and the Bishop of SYDNEY thinks that fathers will henceforth not dare to look their children in the face for very shame to think that their children should have been born in a country stained with the blood of the QUEEN'S son. Altogether the colony seems to be in a bad way ; and its well-wishers can but hope for its speedy restoration to sanity and common sense. COLONIAL BRAIN FEVER. THE good people of New South Wales have adopted strange means for allowing their detestation of O'FARRELL and his crime. Because the Duke of EDINBURGH has beenshot at by a half-crazy man they have passed a measure for "the suppression of tree " son and sedition" of a character and in a way, we are happy to believe, without precedent in a con stitutional state. By an adroit suspension of the Standing Orders, this enactment was hurried through all its stages, and became law in a few hours. Read for the first, second, and third time in the Lower House, and afterwards in the Upper House the same evening, it received the Royal assent the following morning, so that the colonists had the satisfaction of abdicating their liberties before they had time to cool. A correspondent of the Spectator gives extracts from this measure, from which we find that " under Clause 2of the Act, any one " proposing a peaceful and friendly separation of " these colonies from the British Crown is guilty " of felony, and is liable to penal servitude for " life, or any term nut less than seven years. " Clause 9 provides that, If any person shall use " any language disrespectful to her MiJaerr, or " shall factiously avow a determination to refuse " to join iu any loyal toast or demonstration in " ' honour of her MAJ MITT . . . such person " shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, " and may thereupon be apprehended by any " constable or any other person without warrant " for the purpose, and on conviction shall be " imprisoned with or without hard labour " for any period not exceeding two years.' " Under Clause 10, If any person shall write or " publish words disrespectful to Her MAJESTY 4t he shall be, upon conviction, impri " soned with or without hard labour for any term " not exceeding three years f and it has been " officially pointed out by the Arrosinx-Gliniza, " that all publication of sedition matter, whether "there be any seditious intention or not, will be " followed by prosecution under the Act ; so that "any newspaper proprietor who may publish MICHAEL BARRETT. THE Home Secretary's decision in the case of MICHAEL BARRErr should take no one by sur prise. The condemned man's guilt has been established by evidence conclusive to Judge and jury, whose verdict and sentence have been cor roborated by the inquiries subsequently made. Neither during the inflated speech in Court, nor in the letter to the Glasgow alibi-witness has the prisoner denied that his was the hand which fired the fatal barrel ; and the casuistical assertions as to his innocence of the crime of murder are consistent with the theory that the outrage was I committed solely to free BURKE, and that its horrible consequence. were never contemplated by the conspirators. The only possible plea for not hanging Baaaarr is that he has been respited twice ; and in common justice to other condemned criminals this could not be permitted to prevail. Establish the precedent that inquiries made at the instance of the prisoner's counsel and friends followed by a reprieve entitles a guilty man to go free, and what Home Secretary is there who would not turn a deaf ear to petitions for further investigation ? That every loop-hole for legal escape should have been thrown open to BARRETT ; that the precise inquiries he declared necessary for the establish ment of his innocence should have been instituted by the Crown; and that all should have proved fruit less furnish strong reasons that the law should take its course. Mr. HARDY'S task has been a painful one, but we are glad he has not shrunk from its logical conclusion. THE political sky is changeable, and it is unsafe to rely upon its aspect. At present the air seems to have been cleared by last week's storms, and there is a promise of the session being brought to an early close, in order to allow of a dissolution in the autumn. The appointment of a select committee is talked of to consider what amendments are needed to hasten the registrations; and this step may be of geod service. The late difference as to the provisions of the Scotch Reform Bill is apparently arranged. IT is understood that Mr. DIMHAELI was to have made a speech on Friday night, on the occasion of Mr. REAILDEN'S extraordinary motion, in which the right hon. gentleman was to have entered fully into the reasons for the QUREN'S departure for Balmoral, and into matters pertaining thereto, but he was relieved of the task by the outburst from the House which summarily disposed of the sub ject. M. LOUIS BLANC, in a remarkable letter to the Temps on the death of Lord BROUGHAM, takes occasion to relate a very characteristic story of that extraordinary man, which has not yet, we believe, been published in England. M. Louts &Axe had heard it from the celebrated FRANCOIS AsAoo, who was one of Lord BROUGHAM'S old and intimate friends. Some years ago Lord BROUGHAM, who it may be remarked was an associated foreign member of the Academie des Sciences, sent ARAGO a manuscript with the re quest that he would read it and give its author his opinion onits merits. Theillustrious astronomer read the manuscript, and replied, "Throw it into the fire and say nothing more about it," advice, by-the-bye, which reminds us of Uncle TOBY'S mode of dealing with the production of a very youthful poet. The work in question treated of the influence exercised by the philosophical doc trines of LA HARPS, on the character, the aspi rations, and the policy of the Czar ALEXANDER I. On this topic the noble commentator had been lavish of ingenious reflections. Unfortunately I Lord BROUGHAM had taken the French littirateite LA HARPS for the Swiss Colonel of the same name, who was tutor to the Grand Dukes ALETANDER and CONSTANTINE. The Prince of Wales has caused a letter to be written to the Leicester Town Council to say that he will not be able to attend the agricultural show in Ttily. The Londonderry Guardian "l earns , on reliable authority," that the Prince of Wales intends to visit the North of Ireland in August. THE DUKE OF EDINBUEGH.--It is said that on the return of the Duke of Edinburgh the Privy Council will issue instructions fora Thanksgiving for his recovery to be used in all churches and chapels. His Grace the Duke of Wellingtop has given the use of the Waterloo Gallery, at Apeley-house, to the Working Men's Club and Institute Union, for a reading on the anniversary of Waterloo, by the Rev. J. C. M. Bellew, 8.C.L., on behalf of two working men's clubs. ROYAL Nays'. SCHOOL.—The annual general meeting of the governors and supporters of the Royal Naval School, New-cross, took place on Saturday in the theatre of the Royal United Service Institution, White hall-yard. After some discussion the report was adopted, but there was a very strong opinion expressed that the school was carried out in too expensive a manner, and that considerable amendment in its general management was absolutely needed. Resolutions to this effect were adopted, and thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. U6serrer._ The Southampton Obserrer states that the Hon. Mr. Herbert, brother of the Earl of Carna?von, haa visited Southampton, and attended a select meeting of the liberal party in that borough, and that he expressed himself in favour of disestablishing the English u well u the Irish church. PRAISZWORTHY M UNIFICZNCE. - Mr. Mark Firth, the master cutler of Sheffield, is about to erect and endow 36 almshouses, at a cost of 24,0001. The houses are to be erected on a site of two acres of land, at Hanging Water, Ranmoor, a beautiful neighbourhoood, and • favourite quarter of the She ffi eld well-to-do classes, and are to accommodate 24 single persona either men or women, and 12 married couples. The charity will be open to natives of Sheffield, without respect to religious belief. Each single inmate will mein 7s. per week, and each married couple 10s. A chapel will be erected for the use of the in mates, and there will be • house for the (*Tensor. Each house is to be two storeys high, and will contain • living room 12It. square, a bedroom of the same aims, and a cellar divided for pantry and voids, sad gas and water will be laid on to every house. MAY 25, 186$. ~...--~~ 1: - . erat court F , B CASTLE, MAT 21. The Queen wiatinai ha e morning, accompatial by !lino,' Leopold and Princess Besides, and her Majesty drove is the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise, THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. and attended by the Dunham a Atha& MAT 22. Tits Queen drove out in the serning, seeempanied by Pr.notas Lollies. REIGI NEWS. (THIS DAY.) The Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur, arrived at the Castle, attended by Major Teesdale and Lieutant-Colonel El phinetone. The Queen drove out is the afternoon, sooompanied by Primrose Lorries, and attended by Miss C►thoart. The Prises of Wales and Prlneekrthur went out fishing The Princers of Wales, aeoompsaled by Prince Albert Victor and hince Cony, and attended by the Countess of Macclesfield and General Sir William /Coolly', was present on Saturday morning at the annual guard mounting parade at the Horse Guards in honour of the Qneen's birthday. Her royal highness drove out in the afternoon, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield. In the evening the Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Mae:lesdeld, Lord Harris, and General Sir William Knoll" went to Her Majesty's Opera, Drury lane. The Princess of Wales, with the Counter of Maccles field and Lord Harris in waiting, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. J►mes's, yesterday. The communion service was read by the Dean, the Rev. T. V. rovah and the Hon. and Rev. R. Boyle. Anthem, .• Oml 4 gone up."--Croft. Snug by Masters Coward and Wood, Mews. Francis, R. Barnby, Cummings, and Winn. The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of LOU doe, dean of the Chapels Royal, from Ephesiana, c. 11., verse 12. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lordof the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmes bury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandoa, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Man ners, and the Earl of Mayo. THE HEALTH OF THE QUEEN. —We understand t hat her Majesty's journey to Scotland has been under taken solely in conseluence of the medical advice that has been tendered to her.—/inperia/ Renew. State dinners in celebration of her Majesty's birth day were given on Saturday by Earl Tankerville, Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household ; Earl Bradford, the Lord Chamberlain ; the Duke of Beaufort, Muter of the Horse; Mr. Disraeli, Mr. G►thorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir J. Pakington, Sir S. North cote, the Chanoellor of the Exchequer, and the Attorney- General. Her Mijenty's Body Guard of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms had also a full dress dinner at St. James's Palace. His Excellency the Marquis of Abercorn gave a full dress banquet in celebration of her Majesty's birthday, on Saturday, at the Vioaregal Lodge, Dublin. The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale entertained a select party at dinner on Saturday evening at (likens House, Twickenham. Later in the evening her royal highness bad an assembly. The Count and Countess de Paris entertained at dinner on Saturday, at York House, the Duke and Duchess of Argyle and Lady Edith Campbell, the Duke ana Duchess Decazes, the Earl and Countess Russell, Francois Counter Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., Lord Houghton, the Bight Hon. the Speaker, and Lady Charlotte Denison, Y. and Madame Van de Weyer, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone, the Right Hon. G. J. Gosehen, M.P., Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. Heywood, M. and Madame K Duvergier de H►nranne, Duvergier de Hauranne, Mdlle. Boerio, Mr. Asseline, • The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and Frances Countess Waldegrave have received at Strawberry hill, since Saturday week, the Earl Cowper, Lord Houghton , the Right Hon. Sir John and Lady Young, the Right Hon. Henry Bulwer, the Right Hon. William Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone, the Right Hon. G. Goecben, M.P., the Right Hon. F. Peel, the Right Hon. Charles Villiers, M.P., tho Hon. K and Mrs. Russell, Lady Scott, Sir Henry Hoare, Bart., Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. Childers. M.P., and Mrs. Childers, Mr. Borthwick, Mr. Heywood, M. and Madame Misses Gladstone e 2), Mr. Alderson. A Londonderry paper announces that the Prince of Wales intends to visit the north of Ireland in August next. The Archbishop of York entertained st dinner, on Satkrday, at his grace's residence in G roavenor-place the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishops of London, Bangor, Chester, Gloucester, LlAndaff, Oxford, Ripon, So David's, Kilmore, Limerick, Tuam, Christchurch, Honolulu, Jamaica, Labium, and Sierra Leone. The operas announced for the present week at Covent-garden are La Sonnambuta (to-night); La Favorita (to-morrow night) ; Don Giovanni (Thursday); the/ ugue nota (Friday—first time) ; and Den Pasquale (Saturday). Meanwhile the Italian version of Auber's Domino Noir, with new recitative by the composer, is in preparation, for Mdlle. Lucca (Angela), and Signor Mario (Horace). The performances announced for the current week at Her Majesty's Opera are Signor Arditi's concert, in which all the company of her Majesty's Opera ere to take part, and Mdlle. Hinson is to give the much-talked. of scene of Ophelia's madmen and death, from the fourth act of M. Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet (this afternoon) ; Don Giovanni (to-morrow) ; " a favourite opera" (Thurs day) ; and Chernbini's Medea, with Mdlle. Titian. as Medea, and Signor Mongini as Jason (Saturday). An Italian version of Herr Wagner's Lohengrin is in prepara tion, as well as one of Gustave 111. , in which Mdlle. Nill son is to play Oscar, the page, with some new music, com posed expressly for her by Auber himself. It is understood that tho South-Eastern Railway Company have resolved immediately to issue perpetual debenture stock, in lieu of the whole debenture bond debt of the company, giving to their proprietors the option of subscribing pro ratd, and that the amount will be called up in payments of 5/. at intervals of four months, between August, 1868, and August, 1873, during which period the bulk of the existing outstanding debentures of 4,330,6461. will fall due. A West-end hotel manager complains that many racing and other gentlemen who pride themselves upon being very " wide awake " by day are singularly care less when they go to sleep at night. They not only neglect the simplest precautions, but obstinately refuse to adopt the means provided to protect themselves and their property. With locks so contrived that the door cannot be opened without its special key, and a fasten ing inside which prevents access to the room even U the key has been left outside, with notices in three languages in every room informing the occupier of the arrangements made for his security, gentlemen leave their doors un fastened, and when through their own recklessness they have been robbed claim compensation for their loss. The New York advices mention that the smaller denominations of United States bonds are in request at relatively advanced priced owing to their being largely used in place of letters of credit. Formerly the news- papers were crowded with advertisementa from bankers, inviting travellers and men of business to buy their letters of credit, and a large amount of business was transacted in this way. Bonds are now substituted, especially by German and Continental travellers visiting Euro,ie. " They find them much cheaper and more easy of tezo- Cation than the uldLiaitioned eocumenta." The Sultan of Turkey has just ordered to be manufactured in Paris a silver table, the price of which will not be loath= three millions of francs ! ---- - Just before the gate at Magdala was blown up- —1 the last act of destruetion—a loathsome cripple, covered with mores, was diaoovered near it by &corporal of the 33rd, I and carried by him to a place of safety. There are many In the force, remarks a correspondent, who would only too gladly have joined the stormin g p ar t y an d r i s k e d t h e i r lives in the narrow path, but who would bare shrunk Pram this safe and simple act of heroism. It is, however, but one, perhaps striking, instance out of many. ORYINAL PALACM.—SIVIIN-AND-81IPINNY DAY. —SATURDAY. MAT 23. —Admissions by mama tickets, 11,917 ; ditto on payment, 3,10€ ; fetal Adieus, 15,025. THE DISTRIBUTION OF EFFECTS TAKEN AT MAGDALA. Secretary Sir Stafford Northcote has received from Sir Robert Napier the following telegram, dated Antalo, 13th May, 1868 : "No booty found at Magdala. Some articles which could not have been carried away, except distributed throughout the whole force, were sold by auction, and purchased by officers at high prices, with a view to giving small sums to the non-commissioned officers and privates of the force at Magdala. Total amount will not exceed 3,0001. 1 arrived at Antalo 12th instant, with rear brigade. Shall keep with the rear, push ing on to Zoola all troops as quickly as possible. Fifth Battery, 26th Brigade, Royal Artillery, and Cameroman Regiment, are now embarking ; 1 18th Bombay Native Regiment have sailed. Stores are being shipped fast. For a fortnight there have been daily storms of rain, but troops have not been detained. Weather now better. Heavy rain had injured road through Sooroo defile temporarily. Road again in good order. Troops all well. " SIR ROBERT NAPIER." THE GERMAN CUSTOMS PARLIAMENT. The King of Prussia closed the firstiellioll of tho German Customs Parliament on Saturday last. In the speech delivered by his Majesty on the occasion he said : I likewise hope that the session which I now close will serve to strengthen the mutual confidence of the German peolies and their governments, and t. destroy, or at least to weaken, many prejudices which have been an obstacle to the unanimous manifestation of love of the common country, which is the common inheritance of all members of the German family. You will carry home, gentlemen, the conviction that, in the universality of the German people, lives the fraternal sentiment of a solidarity which is independent of the form that gives it expression and which will surely increase in strength and progress continually, if, on all points, we endeavour to bring out that which unites and keep in the background that which separates us. Called by the unanimous and repeated wishes of the legitimate legislative powers of our German country to occupy this exalted position I regard it as a duty of honour to declare before the chosen representatives of the German people that I I shall exercise and enforce the rights which have been conferred upon me as a sacred trust confided to me by the German people and sovereigns by conscientiously respect ing the treaties and the historical titles on which the community of the country is based. It is not the power which God has placed in my bands, hut the rights resulting from treaties freely consented to by my allies and the oonstitutional representations of their subjects that from this day forth shall be the guide of my policy in the future. It is by desiring the solution of our common task, and with firm confidence in the Divine assistance, that I look forward to the next meeting of the Customs Parliament as soon as new labours *hall require its new action. At a banquet given in the large hall of the Exchange by the representatives of the commerce and trade of Berlin to the members of the Customs Parliament, Count Bismarck said : Gentlemen, permit me to give free expression to the sentiment which induces us, North Germans, to give a friendly adieu to our brethren of the South. The short time that we have been together passed rapidly, like • day in spring. May it produce in the future the fruitful effects of spring. (Applause.) I believe, gentlemen, that after having l►boured in common for the interests of Germany, you will be able to carry home the conviction that you will find here, is all situa tions of life, the hearts and hands of brothers. (Applause.) Let us maintain these relations and cherish this family life. With this feeling I bid our brethren of the South • cordial adieu. (Groat applause.) OUR PARIS LETTER. (TROY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS. SUNDAY Ermmo. _ The cardinals and clericals were badly beaten in the Senate yesterday. It is probably but too true that the church has lately received such encourage ment at court as to stimulate it to make a great struggle for predominance. It is true, also, that the majority of the Senate sympathises with cle rical principles, as being far more favourable to the prolongation of the part which it now plays in the state than parliamentary government would be. But when the government says distinctly, as M. Charles Robert, and his superior, M. Duruy, have done, that it expects a certain vote, the conservative Senate has no pluck to say nay. The petition professing to ask for " free superior instruction " in principle waa rejected by 84 votes to 31, and another vote declaring the allegations of the petition to be in correct in point of fact, rallied 80 votes against 31. Lord Lyons gave a grand dinner yesterday at the Embassy in honour of the Queen's birthday. Covers were laid for forty. Among the guests (all English) were the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Seaton, Lord Abercrombie (in the uniform of a deputy lieu tenant), the Hon. Mr. Herbert, Hon. Denis Bing ham, Consul Falconer Atlee and theattacbeaof the ' Embassy, all in court dresses, Captains Hore and Lynch, in the uniform of the royal navy, the Rev. Mr. Cox, chaplain to the embassy, the Rev. MM. Forbes, Gurney, Sargent, and Marriott, Sir Joseph 011iffe, Dr. Chepmell, Mr. William Galignani, and Mr. Whitehurst, wearing the riband and cross of the Legion of Honour. The band of the 64th Line Regiment, sent to Lord Lyons by the Minister of of War, played in the garden during dinner and struck up "God save the Queen," when her Majesty's health was drunk. A feature in the ambassador's dinner, excellent from first to last, was some real English turtle, the taste of which old British residents here have almost forgotten. Marshal M'Mahon, in a letter to the Petrie, denies that he ever threatened or intended to break up the orphan asylums founded by the Arch bishop of Algiers. He only said in the course of private conversation that if the parents or the " families " of the children receiving relief from the archbishop should come forward to claim them, he thought they could not be withheld. In case of a conflict as to their custody, it would not be for him, but for the law courts to decide. The marshal's letter makes it difficult to understand what can be the real point at issue which has caused a serious quarrel between him and the arch bishop. Those who saw the widow in chief of Theodore on the day of the stormiog of Idagdala, when her face wee exposed, ray that she must in her day have been • very great beauty, "cruelly thrown away upon Abyssinia; of the thoroughbred type, the features delicate and well-cut, I the bands and feet small and exquisitely shaped. The British soldier did not, of course, understand that the removal of her veil (the profoundest proof of sub mission and humiliation that an Abyssinian Wye= give) was anything out of the way, and his efforts to console her by slapping her on the back and informing her that nobody should burs her were scything but rewiring. Happily Dr. Blanc came up in time to rescue her, and she was • month ago sae somewhere in our camp, o'( ssly muffled up and screened from profane THE GREAT INDIAN PENINSULAR RAILWAY. It appears from the thirty-seventh report of the directors of this company, white Las j us t been tamed, that the net reve nue of this hall-year ending on the 31st December last, amounted to 128,138/. Ga. tid., which in sum has been paid into the government treasury reduction of guaranteed interest advanced; and that amount shows an increase of 2. - s,tislOf. ro. Did. on the rave. nue of the conesponding period of the previous year. Th s proportion of opened and unopened mileage rejnij ae g throughout the half year to the 31st of December, 1887, the same as it was at t h e close of the previous; halt rear, open, 852 miles ; under cons t ruction, 421 mum on the 17th February last a further section wee °pelted from Kugler& to Deeds, a distsuiee of 21i miles, in extend*, et the northmist line to Jubbulpoor. The statements of capital amount annexed to the report dhow that 17,937,7301. had been reel. iced on shares and debentures, and paid into the govere, meat treasury to the 31st December last. Deduct. Mg the amounts withdraws to the same date to meet es • penditure, and in repayment of debentures, there then remained a balance of 862.159 f. 15e. 10d. of the company's capital in the government treasury. A u extraordinary meeting of the proprietors has leen smiled, to be held after the close of the Milf-yoarle mee t ing, when a resolution will be proposed, the object of which is to empower the directors to create to the full extent of the borrowing powers of the c ora . pony, and to issue at such price or prie, z. may be sanctioned by the Secretary of Debenture Stock bearing a guaranteed fixed rate ..f interest. The reason given for this proposition is that th , company may be enabled to taku advantage of the fat m.r• able state of the money market to raise foods for messiit.,; expenditure on current contracts in fineland and in India, and of converting the whole of existing debenture bonds into debenture stock, in anticipation of their espy at various dates. The borrowing powers of the comp„ ny extend to 5,000,000/., of which 1,073,07.01. may , tin t exercised. Mr. Nicol end Mr. Watt, directors, and Mr. , :tits, auditor, retire, but are eligible for reelection. ENGLISH BANS OP RIO DE JANE!!!') (LIMITED).-(THIS DAY.) The fifth ordinary meeting of the shareh,id e n was held at noon at the Bank premises, 13. St. R.!. place, Biahopigate-street ; Mr. G. T. BILOOK':, tie chair. Tha report said:—"The gross profits for the year amount to 84,5771.. from which have to be deelueted rebate of i tit. re.: on current Dills and drafts, all charges at the head /dire and branch at Rio de Janeiro for the entire year, :..n1 charges at the Pernambuco Branch from the dd. of the opening on the 2nd October, I e 67, leaving 5..,71te, 17., as the apparent net profit for the year le ;.t It w0...1.1 have been gratifying to the directors to h a ve ben. enabled to recommend the appropriation of a large proportion of this sum to the payment of a dividend, but in view of the depreciation that still exists in the currency of Lira amounting to the sum of 99,903/. 2s. on the capital of the bank employed in that country (estimated at the althea,. between 271 the par of exchange: it which the aea-• • liabilities arc valued, and 20d. the rate of exchst.4.- in Brazil at date of latest advice.), the directors have .1•, Dad it expedient to place to the credit of " Depreciat‘an Capital Account" the sum of 54,669/. 12s, 2,071 f. 4e. rid• at the credit of profit and loss ACC -.mt, a sum too small to he divided on the prevect occasion. In addition to the 54,669/. 12s. 6d. above named. the directors have transferred to depreciation of cents! a'. oount, subject to continuation by the meeting. th.• .urn of 45,=3/. bs. 6sl, the amount of reserve feud, ti.a, u,shin.; the depreciation of capital account 99.90.4. It is gratifying to the directors to be able to rryor: flat the business of the bank progresses satisfacteruy, fatly realising their anticipations ; and that the ac.-t• to be of the seine high character as before." The CHAIRMAN, le moving the adoptiou of the rrp.rt and accounts, said the accounts were oubleittea vii:. satisfaction, though disappointment. The satisfacten arose from the fact that a good awl pe o ae able business had been done; the disepleiatnaat arose from the fact that the depreciation of tde eurreney prevented • declaration of a dividend. Were the bank a private one, instead of being under the act of I a dividend might have been declared ; but under the cunistances, and as the auditors had made the report they had, the board thought it best to adopt the course they had dons. The board feeling v.ay anxious on that eia.,tien, had consulted their solicitors, submitting the ac,ouuts amt the statement of the case to their judgment, mid the 1 , 4.1 advisers were of opinion that the company would not be justified in dividing the profits. The tnanngcnant • the bank both in London and Brazil had the sl. proval of the directors. The retirement of the manager in London, Mr. Gallop, was not the result of any want of care on his part, but was owing solely to his baring been offered a better appoint ment in the City of London. The management in Brazil was also not open to ceneure. A large and profitable business had been clone, but owing to the unfortunate state of the currency they could not divide what had teen earned. Mr. W. OXLEY inquired whether there was any prospect of en early cesution of the cause of the stoppage of dividend. The CHiIIUIAN replied that the latest advice' seemed to point to an early termination of the war, but the directors did not like to speak confidently in reference to the future. A SUARYHOLUER thought the deprechtion should b.• met by degrees. They might have a dividend of I•2s. Ear share, leaving 70.000/. for the reserve fund. lle then moved an amendment to this effect. The an.enduieLt having been seconded, - . . . . The CHAIRMAN said under the articles of association no dividend could be declared which was not recommended by the directors. The company being under the Cowl s. nos Act of 1862, could not act as it might do were it a private firm. Mr. GALLOP (late manager) was of opinion that the arti• else of association prohibited the declaration of a dividend when not recommended by the directors, but he regr e tted that necessity, which arose from the system of revaluing assets which remained intact. As the question at issue seemed open to doubt, be would suggest that it be refern•d back to the solicitors with a view to the advice of counsel being taken. The SOLICITOR (Mr. Upton, of the firm of Upton, John son, and Upton) explained that by declaring a dividend ender the circumstances the company would be diminish. ing capital, which was part of the security of the creditors. He saw no way of properly valuing the assets except by means of a current rate of exchange. If the directors declared profits which were not legally divisible they would be personally responsible. Mr. GALLOP remarked on the extremely luctuating nature of the exchanges, and the consequent (lA:ditty of determining the value of the assets. Mr. Urron said a case might be illustr►ted by that of produce, which in any valuation must certaiuly be taken at the market price of the day. A SHAREHOLDER went into figures to show that the valuation in the accounts was quite correct. Another SHAREHOLDER observed that as an English company they were bound to take the valuation in the way that it had been taken. _ _ . The report was adopted, on the understanding that the vice of counsel should be taken on the question of dirt. dead. and that a special meeting should be convemd to receive the result. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-(TRLS DAY.) The special general meeting adjourned from the 14th inst. was held at the Paddington Terminus, Mr. C. A. Wool; in the absence of Sir 1). Gooch, consequent on the death of Lady Gooch, in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, having expressed regret at the cause of Sir D. Gooch's absence, explained that the meeting was held under the Wharncliffe standing order to consider two bills, viz., the Great Western Additional Powers Bill and a bill for making a junction with the Kingston and Eardisley line. The more iuiportaut pro. vision of the first bill was that which referred to the agreement with the 'idol and South Wales Company and with the Severn Navigation Companies, which had already been discussed. The second bill merely gave authority to the Kingston and Eardisley Company to come into the Great Western at Tilley. It involved, no outlay on the part of the Great Western. Both bills were submitted by the usual formal resolution and approved. In regard to the third bill, the Cambrian, which stood on the notice, the CHAIRMAN stated that the clauses in it affecting the Great Western had been withdrawn ; con• sequently no further adjournment was necessary. M. LEOTARD. TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS. MoNSIZVR,—Ce qu on a prig pour un accident -- heureosement evite—n'est autre chose que le mut perinea: d'ilevation que ja tea invariablement tour sous, pour terminer mes exercises, et que rid hit , Vendredi dernier, pour la diz-huiteent-dix -aeptirme fois. Vanillas evoir bligeance d'inserer me lettre dans retry plus prochain numero, et recevez, Monsieur, l'assurance Js as parfaite consideration. J. LEOTARD. A young woman in New Zealand has gi% en herself up to the polio!aud 000fe•sed to having murdered her lover, William James Thomas, • travelling engineer. at Port Level), paris'i of Braque, in Cornwall, in March, 1867. AUSTRALIAN MAIL.—GALLE, MAT I:i. —The Avoca, from Sydney April 23, arrived to-day. Ourreaso MAIL or 20IH-26TH FIERO tI.T.-1 he Bombay arrived at Melbourne on the 15th and Sydaey on the 17th. 01r. WARD Men or 4TH—lOrtr ArEiL..--lhe Surat reached Galls on the sth of May. OCTWARD MAIL or 91n--15 10 MAT. SIM, MAY 24.—The Columbia eel's! tile morale( for Bombay. Clears off all cargo. Bzaoszt, MAY 24.—The Gennan North Po!e ex pedition left this por. it 3 o'dook this afternoon. Wm , ' vary favverablia •pec • pii brea glare ryin sone sent, T sedu woul defe Semi sad I dere] sifor tne t ltigh of hi