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Already we have to thank the Emperor NArotioN, or rather those fire-eating Colonels who figured on a memorable occasion in the Moniker, for the estab lishment of our own volunteer army of defence. And, although something of the military fer vour of our citizen force may have cooled since the silly threats from which it sprang have been forgotten, and the exercises of our rifle corps may have subsided into a recrea tion and a sport, still the substance and the soul are there of an army of reserve, unsurpassable in all the qualities of a free, self-ruling, and self reliant race. The purely military deficiencies of our volunteers arc such as every soldier's and almost every civilian's eye can detect at a glance. Nothing less than a threat of foreign invasion would suffice to give the peaceful and business-like Briton a taste for playing at soldiers. In ordinary times, the march out, the drill, the manmuvring, the field-day, the review, the encampment, and the shooting matches. are regarded as manly and athletic games. In the Swiss cantons the rifle meetings and matches have always united the citizen and the military element, as becomes a people who breathe the mountain air of freedom. Perhaps, however, it is rather among the great German people that the idea of Rifle Associations, as defensive national forces, was born and bred. Through centuries of disunion and division, through the long agony of civil and religious wars, under the pressure of military monarchies, of petty feudal tyrannies, of a diplomatic and bureaucratic system expressly devised to enervate and repress the national and popular impulses of the race, the ancient German in stinct of a free associated nationality was never lost. Sometimes, as in 1813, it has been appealed to by the very Princes who had dreaded or disdained it so long as their own thrones were safe. After the fall of NAPOLEON, the German monarchs and princelings, with one or two enlight ened exceptions, did their best, or their worst, to lay the national spirit they had evoked against the common enemy of kings and nations. Yet even in the darkest days of the reaction there always existed somewhere in Germany the ineradicable and irrepressible idea of the national unity defended and affirmed by a national army. Here and there, this idea found a patron in some enlightened Prince, who en couraged the meetings of rifle, or choral, or gymnastic associations of Germans from all parte of the Fatherland. Here and there, Princes, whose domestic government was reaationary, if not despotic, have favoured these occa sional celebrations, destined to bear fruit in the future. In 1848 the old associative spirit of Germany burst out into a flame, and, though suppressed for the moment, it smouldered on, until the ambition of the two rival military monarchies of Prussia and Austria rekindled it in Schleswig Holstein. The war of 1806, which THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY BYENING, JULY 28, 1888. expelled t h e Austrian monarchy front Germany, and the victory of Badowts. which routod the jeAlmisy of France, have given a new impetus to that colloctive patriotism which, overpasains the artificial barriers of states, marka out the common patrimony of the whole united German race. _ . The meeting of the Gemini Rifle Asso ciation at Vienna on Sunday last was a most remarkable demonstration of the strength of the national instinct of unity. Our Gorman friends manage these things admirably. There is a picturesqueness, a geniality, a richness of fool ing, a touch of poetry in their patriotic mani festations, which Englishmen, with their na tive shyness, their habitual stiffness and formality, thoir horror of natural emotion, can never hope to emulate. Compare one of our volunteer reviews at Brighton or Dover, or our annual Wimbledon meeting, with this groat national gathering in the Austrian capital on Sunday last, what a tame, and dry, and bald affair our volunteering looks ! The five h /ars' procession of the united associations of Germany through the streets of Vienna, amidst flags and music and &Maiming multitudes, the mutual congratulatory cheers of the citizen troops from Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Prussia, and last, not least, of the German emigrants who have created a new and free fatherland beyond the Atlantic— there is nothing like this for spirit and effect in our English meetings. And if the outward aspect of this gathering at Vienna had all the traditional cordiality and en thusiasm which belongs to the national celebra tions of Germany, that inner sense and purpose which is never wanting to any German festivity was eminently worthy of our English sympathies, and of the thoughtful attention of the Emperor NAPOLEON and his mili tary household. If there are any Frenchmen in the councils of the Second Empire, or of the school of M. TRIERS, who have calculated on the disunion and the rivalries of German States, on the antipathy of South to North, of Austria to Prussia, or on the possibility of any section of the German people conspiring with a foreign enemy against the common Fatherland, it is to be hoped that this Rifle Meeting at Vienna will have undeceived them. For what was the object of this meeting if not to prove that as against a foreign enemy, against aggression or interference from abroad, and in defence of the common German Father land, the Germans of Vienna and of Berlin, of Bavaria and of Wurtemburg, of Frankfort and of Hamburg, are essentially one people, one country, and one cause? When the President of the United Associations handed over their flag to the City of Vienna, the Burgomaster of the Austrian capital promised to guard it as a symbol of German unity. " The object to be " achieved," he said, "is the establishment of " peace between the several races. Peace, and " real legitimate freedom constitute the moans " which should unite us." At the banquet the President of the Central Committee proposed the toast, " Success to the efforts "of Germany for the establishment of free " institutions and equal rights." Throughout the proceedings of the day, the dominant idea, the keynote of the harmony, was " Peace and " Liberty. " Not a sign or a sound of hostility to Prussia was seen or heard; but Count BISILUICK would do well to note that his name, associated as it is with arbitrary government and military usurpations, found no echo in this assembly of Germans, who drank to the toast of " Constitutional Progress in Austria" and " The Austrian Chamber of " Deputies." If Count BISMARCK will take this warning kindly, it points out to him a course of future policy more glorious than that which belongs to him in the past. It is by peace and liberty, not by a bad imitation of Napoleonism that the independence and unity of Germany are to be consolidated and preserved. Such are happily the watch-words of liberal France also ; and it is as a sign and symbol of peace and liberty that we doubt not our neighbours over the water will join with us in saluting with sympathy and respect the flag of the Rifle Associations of Germany. And what of the host who brought them together ? He must have been at least worthy of his guests, for of him Lord ILtosulAY has written, " They (' a fow old men, the last " survivors of our generation ') will remember " the venerable and benignant eountenanoe, and " the cordial voice of him that bade them " welcome. They will remember that temper " which years of pain, of sickness, of lameness, " of oonflnement, seemed only to make sweeter " and sweeter, and that frank politeness which " at once relieved all the embarrassment of the " moat timid writer or artist, who found himself " for the first time among ambassadors and " earls. They will remember that constant " flow of conversation, so natural, so animated, "80 rich with observation and anecdote ; that " exquisite mimicry which ennobled instead of de " grading; that goodness of heart which appeared " in every look and accent, and gave additional "value to every talent and acquirement. They " will remember, too, that he whose name they " bold in reverence was not leas distinguished by " the inflexible uprightness of his political conduct, " than by his loving disposition and his winning " manners." Happy the man whose posthumous fame is thus made safe for over ! It is moot that his old friends should raise statues and erect paintod windows to his honour, but the grandest and most lasting me morial to Lord HOLLAND is to be found in tho tri bute paid to him by Lord MACAULAY. Zbc er.ourt. 08130112411. Jutm 27. The Queen walkod in the grounds this morning accompanied by Printer Louise, Prison Leopold, and Princess Beatrice. Prince and Prinoms Christian of Schleswig-Holstein took kayo of her Majesty leat night on their departure for Oeimany. Their Royal filenames, attended by Miss Bowater and Mr. Bahl, cmlarkod on board her Majesty's ship Enchan tress an Osborn Bay, and left for Ostend this morning. Prince Albert Victor, Prince Ueorge„ and Prinoess Louise of Wales, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, loft Osborne for Marlborough-house, this morning. Prince Arthur, attended by Colonel Riphinstone, left Osborne to-day for Chatham. Tho Bight Hun. Benjamin Disraeli has left for London. Mr. W. Brierly had the honour of submitting, for the Prince of Wales's inspection, Notrelian and ace liketehei taken by him during the late oruize with the Duke of Edinburgh. . . A detonation from the Newington Sick Asylum, con noting of Dr. Corti; Dr. Shea, and Kr. J. Burgess, had an interview with the Earl of Devon, at the office of the Pool-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. THE COURT.—Her Majesty, after her tour upon the Continent, is expected to return to Windsor Castle about the let of September. The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia are likely to visit England at the same time. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prineess of Wales and family intend to leave Marlborough House on the 9th proximo for Abergeldie Castle, N. 8., for the wawa. At the end of the shooting season, the Prinoo and Prinome purpose going to Denmark to visit the King and Queen, and other relatives of the Prinoess._ PORTSMOUTH, JULY 27.—His Royal Highness Prince Arthur arrived at the dockyard this morning from Osborne in the steam yacht Alberta, and proceeded by the Landport terminus for London. _ _ _ After taking his seat in the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Napier, aocompanied by Lady Napier and a distinguished party, partook of refreahmonti in Sir Augustus Clifford's apartments. The late Lord Cranworth married, when already pretty well advanced in age, a Miss Carr, of Hampstead, a lady whose death we had occasion to chronicle some five or six months ago. Ho felt her loss deeply at the time, but ho has not long survived her. In a few days Lord Cranworth's remains will bo placed by the side of hers in the little village churchyard which adjoins his seat of Hallooed, near Bromley, in Kent. The Prince de Joinville and the Duke d'Aumalc are at Wiesbaden, where the Prince and Princess of Pied mont have made a short stay. The Duke d'Alencon, son of the Duke de Nemours, and brother of Count d'Eu, married to the hereditary Princess of Brazil, is affianced to the Princess Theresa of Bavaria, cousin-german of the King ; and the marriage is to be celebrated in the course of next month. The Duke d'Aleocon was born at Neuilly on the 12th of July, 1844 ; and the Princess Theresa at Munich, the 12th Nov., 1850. Mr. Massey, late Financial Minister of India, occupied a seat under the gallery last night during the delivery of the Indian financial statement. To show the system of " reckless and extor tionate demands to which railway companies are liable," Mr. Leeman mentions the case of a person who was in. pared by a railway accident in the north of England, who first demanded 8,0001. of the company, and then brought an action in the Scotch courts for 0,0001. "On the morn ing of the trial," said Mr. Leeman, "he offered to accept 1,7501. ; the company paid into court 2601., and the jury gave him only 881." - On Thursday, Mr Otway will ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has received any inform►tion as to a projected offensive and defensive &Manse between France Belgium, and Holland, or of any combination of those powers, for purposes hostile to Prussia and Germany. A monthly magazine, to be called the Court Suburb, is to make its first appearance with the opening of October. According to the programme, it will be a lead ing feature of the magazine "to describe the principal objects of interest in and around Kensington," which is described as "a locality peculiarly rich in historical asso ciations; remarkable as having been the home of many of the great men and women who have tonrihed during wend epochs;" and "perhaps of all the parishes that neighbour London the one that supplies the best material t o t h e hi s t or i an , on biographer, the antiquary, and the The Pat remarks that in the trial of Rush, the murderer, Lord Cranworth exhibited a remarkable in stance of that placidity of temper *Welt distinguished him at the bar and on the bench. Rash hid been putting questions of a most offensive nature to one c, the wit nesses. After this had gone on for some time, much to the disgust of the court and of the auditory, Lord Oran worth stopped him, and said that he would not permit such questions to be put. Rush replied—" If your lord ship were on trial for your life you would not like to be stopped in putting questions which you think material for your defence." The meek reply of the judge was—" You are right ; I beg your pardon. Oo on." Sketching the bowie of 30 members yesterday, while the Indian Budget was on, the Times thus pita in • few leading figures :—" The front opposition bench given up to Mr. Laing and Mr. Crawford. Behind them a small band composed of men who have served in India, or in connexion with India, with here and there a stray zealot like Mr. Grant Duff, who carries the two hemispheres, one under each wing. Mr. Ayrton was in his piece, not caring to exercise his privilege of attempting • eonnt-out. Colonel Sykes spoke as the representative of that poor shadow which sti►l bears the name of ' John Company.' Mr. Mill manifested a philosophic somnolence which did him in finite honour, and must conciliate many who would be otherwise repelled by the inhuman perfection of his character. Mr. Arthur Kinnaird and Mr. Barley showed that there are bankers and merchants who are in some way interested in Indian companies and Indian progress. On the Treasury bench Mr. Disraeli zealously supported his colleague, and, when forced to retire for a season, carefully sent in a lord of the treasury to keep up a be fitting appearance of interest. There was, in fact, eloquent proof on every side that India was going on as comfort ably as need be." The Empress Eugenie, who continues to reside at Fontainebleau during the absence of the Emperor at Plombilrea, continues bar early morning drives, which she takes in an elegant phaeton, drawn by one horse, and driven by herself. It is related that one morning last week, shortly atter sunrise, a woodman met her at the ex tremity of the forest, not far from the heights of Arbonne, contemplating the magnificent scene which this picturesque site affords at this early hour of the day. Wearing • ins* grey dress, and • light Italian straw bonnet trimmed with a blue riband hosting in the bream, her Majesty walked in the midst of thick enderwood, and climbed up the highest rocks, the better to enjoy the panorama which unfolded itself before hes. The German traveller Eohlfs has arrived at Bremen on his retain from Abreints, where he filled the °Zoe of interpreter to the English expeditionary corps. After the taking of Magda* he went alone to Ulna* the holy city of the country, which has not been visited by any European' for more than three centuries. He found there nine Christian churches of the primitive Byzantine style of architecture, an monoliths—that is to my, each hollowed out of one enormous block of stone, and richly onsameated. In afterwards passing by Arum he discovered that the last of the obelisks still "tending in that place is in a state of almost complete ruin. " The heat here," says a Florence letter, " is intense ; a wind is blowing like a sirocco, and nights of fire have been prevalent for the last fortnight. Florence is becoming more and more deserted every day." The Italian Parliament has just passed a bill according pensions to the widows and orphans of doctors who have died in attending choleraic patients. Three large fleets are at present anchored in Italian waters : Admiral Boutakot with the Russian vessels under his command, is at Brindisi ; the English squadron is at Ancona ; and the Italian at Cagliari in Sardinia. The Berlin journals state that the population of that city is menaced with a serious strike, as the journey men bakers, who number about 1,900, hare notified to their masters that they will cease working on the 30th, if night employment is not abolished and the number of bands increased. FOREIGN NE WS. (THIS DAY.) BARON BEUBTE REPLY TO TIIE PAPAL ALLOCUTION. The text of Baron Boost's reply to the Papal allocution is now published. It is dated Vienna, July 3, and addressed to Baron von Moysonburg. Wo extract its essential paragraphs: We cannot (it say') in the first place, admit the obliga tion which imposts on the Holy See the necessity of fol lowing certain precedent', and of adopting towards Austria the same proceedings as towards other countries of which the Holy See has had to complain. Is it possible, in fact, to draw any comparison? Have we attacked the territory or the property of the church? Bare we oppressed tbo catholic religion and its ministers ? Putting aside examples which do not bear on the case, we may, I think, boldly affirm that there is no country in Europe where the catholic church has so privileged a position as in Austria, notwithstanding the laws of May 26. This circumstance ought to have been taken into account before the imperial government was ("Unfounded in the same reprobation with other govern meta :which were in opposition to the church and the catholic religion in a different way. WO can understand that the Holy Father may have felt it to be indispensable to protest against the laws which modify the situation created by the Concordat of 1b66. We fully expected a proceeding of this kind, and we might have accepted it silently even if its form were loss conciliatory than we permitted ourselves to hope. But what we cannot pass over without objection is the con demnation burled against the fundamental laws ou which the new institutions of the empire are based. These laws were not the subject of dispute, and by attacking them as it has, the Holy See deeply wounds the national feeling, and gives to the present difference a meaning that is very much to be regretted even in the interest of the church. Instead of simply contesting this or that application of the principles which form the bases of the present government of Aus tria, and which are the fruit of the happy accord bet ween the peoples of the empire and their sovereign, it is the principles themselves that are condemned. The Holy See thus extends its representation to objects which we can by no means admit to be within its authority. It envenoms a question which already produced only too much excite ment, by directing men's min,L, to matters where political will be associated with religious passions. Finally, by condemning laws which include the principle Ai Eike 'liberty of the church, and thus offering it compensation for the privileges it less, it renders more difficult a conciliatory attitude of the government. It may not be useless to re mark here that these laws expressly guarantee to the church the property of the wealth it possesses in Austria. This stipulation proves that the laws in question are not hos tile to the church since they maintain to her those rights of which she has been deprived in so many other countries. It is nut for me to judge in what measure this last consi deration ought to mitigate the judgment of the court of Rome. What I have not a shadow of doubt about is. that the people of Austria will find consolation in remembering that more than one very catholic nation is subject to legal arrangements of the same kind which yet live in peace with the church, and that there is especially one great and powerful empire in Europe whose tendencies towards progress and liberty have been always allied with very decided attachment to the Catholic faith, and which, though governed by laws quite as abominable, has, up to the latest moment, been Nosed with the indulgent sympathies of the Hely See. My despatch of the 17th June last anticipated the bad consequences which the allocution would produce if it was not worded in very moderate language. I regret ex tremely that the court of Rome did not pay more attention to these anticipations. They have been completely realised. I do not think the Catholic population of the empire have more zeal now than they had before for the interests of their religion. On the contrary, we see an increase of ardour in the attacks directed against the church, the clergy, and the Pope. This hostility would have been confined within the narrowest limits and would have been easily appeased if the special questions affected by the laws of May 26 had alone been treated of in the papal allocution. Before concluding, I must here also express the painful surprise which the appeal addressed to theHungsrian bishops in the closing sentences of the allocution has produced. It seems to me that Rome ought to be thankful for the pe r . feet tact and reserve with which these delicate matters have been hitherto treated in,llungsry. It would be un desirable in every point of view to raise new differences, and thereby to augment the embarrassments which already Ekt it is especially in the very interest of the court of Rome that it appears to us inopportune to arouse the national susceptibility of the Hungarians. The appear ance of foreign pressure would produce in that nation re sults the opposite to those which the Holy See desires, and we should see a storm raised against the legitimate influ ence of the court of Rome similar to that which is raging on this side of the Leitha. These are the observations suggested to as by a lierueal of the Pontifical allocution. Lay them before his eminence the Cardinal Secretary of State. We shall none the lees persevere in the way we have begun. Whilst we shall continue to faaintaia intact the rights of the state and re spect for the laws, we &UR allow the church to enjoy in peace the liberties which' our laws secure to her ; and we shall endeavour to °beam, in the mutual relations between Church and state, a spirit of conciliation and equity which I hope will be reciprocal. Your excellency will be pleas - ed to make yourself the faithful organ of these sentiments, and in doing so you will only conform to the v i e w s of :I k e Emperor, our august master. BvJer. FIFTY DEATHS FROM SIINS'ZEOKE IN NEW YORK. Advices from New York, of the 16th, static that fifty deaths occurred in that city on the previous day from sunstroke. Heavy manufacturing business was generally suspended on account of the heat. (THROUGH REUTER . 8 AGENCY.) FRANCE. PARIS, JULY 28. His Serene Highness Prince Napoleon arrived in Paris this morning. SERV lA. THE ASSASSINATION OF PRLNCE MICHAEL. BELGRADE, JULY 27. This afternoon, at 4.30, sentence was passed on the persons charged with the assassination of Prince Michael. Fourteen were condemned to death. Among their number are Nadovanovich and his two sons, &ma and Nestovar Nenadovich. Prince Alexander Harageorgevich and his secretary, Trifoovich, were condemned to twenty years' penal servitude ; Philip Stankovich to twenty years' hard labour in a fortress ; and Jeremiys to five years' imprisonment. The execution of the prisoners tinder sentence of death will take place to-marrow morning at 6 o'clock. HUNGARY. PESTH, Jinx 27, Evian:No. The Lower BOUM of the Hungarian Diet to-day authorised the prosecution of Deputy Roman for contravening the press law, and a fresh prosecu tion against Deputy Bossormenyi for a similar offence. The Army Bill will be discussed next Thursday. TEE PACIFIC, AUSTRALIAN, AND NEW ZEALAND MAILS. PLYMOUTH, JULY 28. The Royal Mail steamship Tasmanian, with the West Indian, Pacific, Australian, and New Zea land mails, via Panama, arrived here at 8.45 a.m. to-day. Her dates are from Melbourne May 28, Sydney June 1, Wellington 6, Panama 6, Jamaica 11, and St. Thomas 14. _ The Tasmanian brings 143 passengers,79 sacks of mails, treasure valued at 530,409 dole., 80 bags of Balm. ore, and 1,600 packages gamma' cargo. Owing to the illness of the mail sorters the usual HOLLAND HOUSE. DURING the last few days, an advertisement has appeared in our journals which recals to memory characters who have played distinguished parts in the political and literary history of England. The advertisement is addressed to the subscribers to a fund collected in 1840-41 for the purpose of raising a memorial to the late H. R. VasasL, Lord HOLLAND, who are informed that, at a meeting held on the 14th instant, to which the whole of the original surviving promoters or their repre sentatives were invited, it was resolved to apply a sum of 2,6001. remaining undisposed of after de fraying the cost of the memorial in Westminster Abbey to the erection of a statue of Lord HOLLA_ND, on a site offered by the present Lady HOLLAND, in Holland-park. The concluding paragraph of the advertisement runs thus :—"lt may be satisfactory " for them to be informed that the original list of " promoters above referred to comprised the fol " lowing illustrious and distinguished names, to " which as is well known, many others, of diffe " rent political parties and religious persuasions " throughout the country, were subsequently " added as subscribers." The list of names which follows comprises those of the late Dukes of Suasza, DEVONSHIRE, BEDFORD, SUTHERLAND, and GRArrow, Marquises of ANGLESEY, NOR MANDY, and BREADALBANE, Viscounts MILL BOURNE, IloaDsra, and PeLmnsrow, Meters. Thomas Bemarom MAcAmer, Smarm. Ro om, H. Lirrnix.m., Lord JxYDERT, and Lord BRovoßem. All these are gone from among us, but we see many in the list still living, notably Earl GRRY, Lord Joarr Rose= (Earl Ressiax), Sir J. C. 110131101781 (Lord Bioroirrom), Hon. Fox Metrus (Earl DALHOUSIE), and Mr. ALRANY FONBLANQUE. The eight of these great names and the recollection of the purpose for which they were associated, takes us back to the palmy days of Holland House, to those wondrous gatherings which never have been equalled in this or any other country. In the mind's eye one can see the carelessly scattered groups in " that old, long, unrivalled library in " which ADDISON mused and wrote, and drank," as Ts.t.roriin tells us, that venerable chamber in which as a greater than TALFOIIRD has told us, " all the antique gravity of a college library was so " singularly blended with all that female grace " and wit could devise to embellish a drawing " room." By the aidof thosingularlygraphic power of the same writer, Lord Mecetrisv, himself a favourite guest at Holland House, we can picture the scene : " How the last debate was discussed " in one corner, and the last comedy of SCRIBE in " another; whileWiumgazedwithearnestadmire " tion on REYNOLDS' BARErri; while Mecitorrosn " turned over THOMAS AQUINAS to verify a quota " tion ; while TALLEYRAND relates his converse " tions with BARRAS at the Luxembourg, or his " ride with Lime over the field of Austerlitz." TILE CAVE. IT is SunOS* to watch the scattered forces of those who recently called themselves, or wore called, Adullamites. The Day newspaper itself is not more completely bankrupt than the party it was supposed to represent. Each member of it has drifted off according to his proclivities, some to the congenial shades of Toryism, while others, and these the able and influential, have returned to the party and the principles they temporarily forsook. Their only point in common is a repudia tion of unity. Mr. Roam(Ass was among the first to discover his mistake. No sooner did the Tory ministry show the real scope of their tenure of office than Mr. HORSMAN found ho had been made a eatspaw, and the views he has just ex pressed upon the episcopacy in connection with the House of Lords at least prove that his present " constitutionalism" is not of any bigoted or tight-laced kind. Lord Eurro has been con sistent in his perversity, and the Conservative party are to be congratulated upon their recruit. His lordship's seat is being contested by Lord WILLIAM HAY on tho invitation of the Liberals of Haddingtonshire, and it is possible that the House of Commons may lose the advantage of Lord ELCHO'S presence. A universal arbiter whose self-confi dence is as boundless as his judgment is defective, and his taste and manners faulty, is the reputation the noble lord's many ambitious efforts have ob tained for him. May he be happy in retirement. Of Mr. Lows's vigorous and independent mind it is impossible to speak save with respect. That his views on the Irish Church coincide with those of his party, and that his recent speeches and his allusion to " the hour and the man " prove the political reconciliation between him and Mr. GLAD STONE to be complete, is matter for hearty congra tulation. Lord GROSVENOR has returned to the fold. Mr. DOULTON is exempt from criticism. The Cave created so much noise for a short time as to make its present utter dispersion worth noting. But Mr. BRIGHT'S famous simile as to the relative situations of its head and its tail is more than nor unanswerable now. This little clique of paladins seemed to fulfil its destiny when it landed Stu opponents into power ; and its members having nothing in common save a dread of Reform have already broken up an alliance as unnatural as it was unjust. LORD WINCHILSEd. WHATEVER may 'be the ultimate decision respect ing the poem attributed to Milton', it- has given professional men of letters one signal advantage. They have been favoured with a lesson in style by Lord Wiiveuases. " Messrs. DIXON and Denison, "the two parsons, Professor MORLEY, and the " rest " receive a castigation from his lordship in this morning's Times. The " frank courage" which won the heart of Professor DAVID MASSON, who appeared unreasonably pleased that a real lord should use such phrases as " off his head," is repeated to-day. The keen satire which wounds while it scarcely seems to touch abounds in this last production. Men whose lives have been devoted to close and arduous study, and whose works are the record of their labours, are accused of " the imbecility of ignorance" ; the poem said to be Mrixon's " provokes a fit of " laughter at starting" (the last word, by the way, savours more of the race-course than the study); the noble writer has been " clumsily criticised" ; the editor of the leading critical journal is ad dressed by name as the author of an " absurd and " nonsensical paragraph" ; while such phrases as " bare-faced blunder," " wretched mistakes," " conclusive evidence of forgery," " good " GOD, what authority has Mr. DIXON for the " libel ?" and so on, give an agreeable vivacity to Lord Wirrenri.sEs's controversial style. Un happily, however, it suggests another arena. Lite rary argument is not usually embellished in this florid way. The noble author of " Abd-el-Bader" writes of MILTON and his works as if he were a horse whose performances had not been satis factory, and whose owner were now attempt ing to enter him for stakes for which he is disqualified. Men of letters are treated as if they were so many jockeys and stable lads, helplessly stupid or preternaturally given to fraud. We really think his Lordship had better let these matters be. The more plebeian students of ilwrow wry be content to discuss the poem brought to light by Professor Mosisv in their own way; and will respectfully decline to imitate Lord WI.- CBILALL. "Calling names" is repudiated as • form of argument even by schoolboys, and can not be adopted by mature scholars even at the instance of a poetical peer. PARLLAIIENTARY proceedings occurring at 2 o'clock in the morning are not usually reported at very great length. At about that hour to-day, an attempt was made by Mr. GURNEY, in conjunction with the Government, to pay a Bishop of Jamaica 1,6001. a year out of the Consolidated Fund. The true character of the proposition was at once pointed out by Mr. CARDWELL, Mr. Lows, and Mr. Bon vEitiz. The debate on the subject was ad journed, but the Government will try to smuggle the project through. The Poor Relief Bill, which got through last night, con tains all the religious clauses which were in Mr. Vrturita's measure in 1865-66, and which Mr. HARDY, now so compliant, then vehemently resisted. The right hon. gentleman has again been obliged to swallow his private and party opinions, and to sanction what is, on the whole, a pretty good bill. ocean sorting has not been completed, and tc; mails are forwarded to London in balk Anis, 10.25 train this morning. Among the passengers are the Preneh New 'Zealand, Dr. Viard, arid Lis ebilsiN. pug:engem landed horo, and the Tasnilahin %t 9.15 a.m. for Southampton. The yellow fever in Lima and Calhie, altL nti, not yet quite extinct, was rapidly dea , Mr. Alexander De Mahieu, au eminent engineer, bad died from tho epidemic. Nearly the entire population of Lday 1,0 serted that pert through dread of the fev.T. Fears of a revolution were still ent.Prtkiin..! Lima. Many persona bad been piano "1, Telegraphic communication was extol; I: pidJy throughout Peru. The Chiltern Minister of NV.tr had annoul, the S4ll MtA . that ordure had be,n .w•nt to E. - fur thu outu,truction of a Mouttor. In Ecuador tlio tov..r h.i in Portoviejo and Oipijaini very 8..v.. rr 1 y. Tlio Ainbut° question wt.. y to I.; trouble lictwcon Ecuador ;lad Ex(:hang° un London, l t.. it I; to 461, 'JO days; on Pnrie , tso, ~.) 90 days. A tovclution took plaee in l'Anait• I. The election throughout th e .. in favour of the con-, valve 1, ty, , to keep them out of power Commander of the Forces, lia.l ..!!.• I l'i dent Diaz, dissolved the exi,thig legal!) , :I•.g mcnt, and installed a provi,,ionAl ormiant_ was feared that an armed n.ght t‘k place between the parties, ~ ther, . ...5.• th • i n would be of little import to foreign , !i state. Sa'nave is Stiil brsirg,..l At Jamaica the weather wa, lmt amt ii:N - tive provisions were scarce. Anieri,-an was high. Several post-office robberim, 1. . mitred, the mail bags having lm-cu • while detained by floods. Mr. Anderson, agent-gong-al of initiligr.,ll arrivtcl by this mail, e” for 111 , 11,i. t. eng coolie labourers for Jam an har, Minnie ran upon a reef at The 1,u., Annie Laurie and Anna Catln•rine have been t wrecked near Valparaiso. AMERICA, WASITINOT( J; - IT 27. p . . ; •., Both Homes of Congre , s hac.• introduced by Mr. Banks f"r th.• pn.z.. •, •• " ' naturalised American citizens abroad. It .• that it 18 necessary for the maintetrint, ..1 ; peace that the claim of foreign goy..? nl.t.f:•. allegiance from naturalised Atlirrit-an it,• should be promptly and finally 1 1.1,4V , .1V1,1, enacts.— "That any declaration, instruction, order, or decision of any ofti.,ers of th.: States Government which denie., restrio:, :! - pairs, or questions the right of espatrian.w. hereby declared inconsistent with the 1..1 principles of the government, and and void. " That all naturalised citizens of tli Etates while in foreign states shall bv and shall receive from this government tl. • protection of person and property that is ao • : to native-born citizens in like situation and . cmustunees." The third section of the bill, aa originally I • vosed, contained a reprisal clause, whielt do ; , that when any citizen of the United detained by a foreign pivernuient allegation that naturalisation did not dis..lv. native allegiance, the President should 1,, - powered to arrest any subject of such :roc. in the United States. This clause was struck out. Congress has also passed a hill providing I issue of 30 and 40-year Bonds, redeentabb: in : and free from taxation. They are to bear in• • • at the rate of 4 per cent. and 4; per cent. r , l• tively, and are to equal in amount the totd 5-20 Bonds, and to be employed in their rob iii tien. NEW YORK, duty 27. Congress has passed a bill for protecting mci ruliscd American citizens abroad. The President is empowered by the bill to all means which atop short of lsing acts of war in order to obtain the release of such citizens unjustly imprisoned. Mr. Henry M. Watts has been app.intea rnite.l States Minister to the Court of Austri:i, Littl, is known of him, except that he u a ro , pect.ibl.: Philadelphia whig.—Daily s. ARRIVAL OF THE 11.1\5.1. SOUTHAMIToN , irtc The North German Lloyd btcanier II t , New York, has arrived here with 11:i p 4 for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 37 mails, 348,141 dole. for London, 124,800 dol.. t Paris, 10,700 doll. for Bremen, and 3,900 pa k • cargo. On the 16th, off New York, she spoke?... „Hamburg barque No. 377; on the 21st, the Bret, , bark Thierman ; on the 24th, the American Lancaster ; on the 26th, the British ship Alfred . the 27th, the American ship General MacClell.w. and the British ship Clyde, from Calcutta ' Portsmouth, with troops. NEW YORK, Jinx t 6, NOON. The Senate, by 29 to 3, has confirmed Mr. Everts as Attorney-General. The House of Representatives has coneurnsl in the bill passed by the Senate removing political disabilities from a large number of North Caro linians. Mr. Seward has officially announced that 26 States have ratified the constitutional amendment changing the basis of the national representation and the suffrage. Mr. Seward and Mr. Burlinghame have signed a treaty between the United States and Chinx, which has been sent to the Senate. The trot) . provides full reciprocal relations, both political and commercial, between the two countries, and also religious freedom and non-interveution either side. CALCUTTA AND CHINA (HEAVY) MAIL. "-* GIBRALTAR, JULY 27.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon leaves at 8 am. to f'r Southampton, where she may be expected on the 314 instant. A letter from Argyles, in the Pyrenees, gives en account of a shock of earthquake on the 19th :—" At Argeles the shock lasted about five minutes, and houses were hurled to the ground, though no lives were lord. The people rushed into the streets, nor did they return to their houses for some days, bivouacking in the fields . for safety. The animals are described as having been (invert distracted, horses breaking loose and gal lo i n g about, or p lying trembling in their stalls. No change in the tempe rature or composition of the mineral waters has, however. been recorded, and never were the famed springs of the Pyrenees more crowded than this season." h I~