The Express. — London, England, 1868-05-27 00:00:00

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Teta EVlVOlici, JACK OR. THE LLUE RIB BON OF THE ft RE. Messrs. Crant.wd. Fist ke. ; Mesdames courten ay. Both &c Mr. and Mrs. Lltngan . Mr J. NI illk-tgd.— THE DARK BIDE OF THE ()REA r METROPOLIS. Hrs. Low. HIGH WATIM AT LONDON BMW!. Turf , DAY —Morning, 'h. Vm —_ _Afternoon. %h. 53e. Te-solutow—Homing, bb. 20m _—_.Afternoon, 413. 60s. ItirTIPRE of BIRTH•, NIALILIAGES. and TIEATIIq. are received aotlll2 o'clock for Insertion same evening. Price 2e. ed. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, C ONTAINING Thy Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS PVELISR2D EVERY EVENING. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27. THE SEASON. Tat five minutes before and after te I p.m., de serves to beoome as famous as the •,•"art d'h , etre of RABBLAIS. They have been made memorable by the British Parliament of 1868. At live mi nutes to ten an empty House and a discomfited Government, at live minutes past ten turned tables, and the mortifying consciousness " too " late." But the exodus Loafing to the first state of things was more remarkable when the numbers in the early division of the night are compared with that said to have taken place in compliance with an astute and sonorous cry from a 4beral THE bench. The difference hetes:NM tie nunabeas ire- sent on the first occasion and the last amid be reckoned by hundreds, and the question di Where were the absented 1 No we conversant with the I whirl of the London season need pause for a re ply. Despite the complaints current as to its busi nese, its attractions will ever be fruitful in ember remanent to the ablest and most experienced whip. The first ambition of life being to get into the I House, the second would seem to be to keep out of it when elected there. The countless claims of metropolitan existence are in full swing, and our legislators, like every one else of the faintest importance, are deep in engagements and requests. The social labours of a fashionable or ',ladle career make but a trite story, but their severity seems to grow with the century, and even admit ting the parties and fetes to be fewer than usual, this year, London society is to the full as busy as it need care to be. The great national rite of Kotoo is being practised with as much unflagging vigour as when the Snob papers were written, and little TUFTHUNT toadied the Marquis of CASABAS. At dinner parties where the solemn forms of precedence are observed with as much precision as if the host and [hostess had served their apprenticeship to Ulster King-at-firms ; at public banquets, where the best I seats and the most toothsome dishes are reserved for the cross-table ; in ball-rooms, where the best eartis of the season have their train of vestals and are looked up to as demigods ; at assemblies, to which guests crowd to have their names recorded next day in fashionable columns ; and at clubs, where reepectfulbutton-holding and committee courtesy is is at the beck of the man known to be influential —the season's influences assert their sway. A Ottefeelo L'o;eete. of the toils to be gone through and avoided would fill this sheet. Polities, music, flirting, dining, strolling, driving, riding snake up an exhausting curriculum. Public dinners form a heavy item in the list. Besides charity festivals there are so many people nowa days who appear to be sufficiently virtuous, or eminent, or patriotic to be table-cloth heroes, that applications to serve as steward, or to take tickets from friends, are becoming plentiful as blackberries. But lukewarm aide-dishes, fiery sherry, acid champagne, sonorous shouts from the fearful being known as toastmaster, verbose plati tudes from the luckless fellow-creature in the chair, cumbrous efforts at extrication from the intricate labyrinth of their own eloquence on the part of guests, heat, vexation, weariness, and in digestion are among the recognised thorns in modern flesh. Private dinners have no medium. They are enjoyable er hateful — a tableland of Promise flowing with things far dearer to educated palates than either milk or honey, or a Sahara without an oasis, a weary waste of conversational waters amid which the most earnest-minded dove may seek a resting-place in vain. Party-givers complain of the scarcity of lions this year. The interesting representative traveller who has discovered another " missing " link ;" or practised cannibalism from necessity, ..r insulted an ancient religion at the risk of his life, or followed a river to its fountain-head to destroy the theory of every previous explorer, or been tatooed as chieftain of an impose sible tribe of fire water worshippers, is want ing, nor is his place supplied by other leonine varieties. The market for picturesque celebrities is, in commercial parlance, fiat and heavy. Foreign patriots are not in supply ; spiritualism has become ridiculous ; the dis coverers and inventors of the period are not suffi ciently remarkable for Society's crown ; so that until the Abyssinian lions return from their cap tivity London is depending mainly upon its internal resources for wonder and talk. Yet the scientific soirees were never more crowded. Visit the Geo graphical, or the Statistical, or the Engineers, or the Antiquaries, and it seems as if the fate of the empire hung upon the subject to which each seeiety is devoted. The average citizen of the world feels himself terriblybehind-hand in his facts, when the various members of these recondite ado- ciatious pour out their accumulated knowledge and are contradicted or confirmed by learned fellows whose life-time seems devoted to tripping their neighbours up. To listen to an abstruse paper, to dispute its facts and politely ridicule its ' conclusions, and to subsequently criticise its author and his censors, over weak tea and thin bread and butter, represents the enjoyment of the ' season to a large and eminently respectable class. To another and more numerous body, the two opera-houses, each rejoicing in its individual and separate existence, the fascinations of NII,%ssON, the hearts Mdlie. PATTI has 110 H, and the public rejoicings at her being still wedded to her art, and Millie. PAULINE LUteA'S range and compass, form no inconsiderable items in daily life. But morning concerts at noble houses, the excellence of the French plays, and the poverty of English ones, our moat popular light comedian's success as a stage murderer and thief, the last flower-show, and to-day's race, are all talked of with an eagerness which makes the common asser tion, " a poor season," difficult to believe. Yet our fashionable tradespeople insist upon it, and the people who give parties, and the people who visit, cumirm them. Despite the signs and gym bola we have quoted, the gaieties of the year are said to be below the average. The last commercial crisis has left its brand; and the government returns of the number of people keeping carriages, the daily receipts of West-end shopkeepers, or the slack demand for rout chairs and temporary ball-rooms, are all appealed to in support of the assertion. As neither the Abyssinian penny nor the political situation are sufficient to account for this, a dismal kind of comfort is derived from making a scapegoat out of Joint-stock Companies and City speculation. But to the outside observer of our London thoroughfares the season seems as pros perous and gay as ever. Regent-street is blocked every fine afternoon. Family carriages, cabs, and omnibuses make up the traffic. Mail phaetons are rare, and the old cabriolet, with its homoeopathic tiger, clinging for dear life behind, rarer still. The former eschew shopping thoroughfares on principle—the latter never really survived Count D'Oe , iv's death. But your fine old coach, your spacious landau, your fat and comfortable brougham, are never seen to better advantage than ill Regent-street or Bond-street. At the doors of ; the great silk mercers, drawn up higgledy-pig ! pledy, like a disorganised flock of sheep—round the corners of quiet streets, in the vicinity of • celebrated jewellers or the famous bonnet shops, they are lying-to cosily, a fleet of Dutch-built vessels becalmed. Quite a little regiment of foot men, of the finest quality, hang round the favoured shop doors. Those calves are never seen in town out of the season. As well visit the Drive in October to look for rank and fashion as expect those radiant figures to the fore, save at some such date as thi s . Liveried beings of an inferior grade imitate their strut and parody their calm repose ; bat their cahres betisy them, and where art has been called in to supple ment Nature, the effort is vain. Your true foot man, the aristocrat of his class—the 311131 hiughed at by shallow satirists, only vials the metropolis EXPRESS, WEDNESD whet the real wed is is Sows. MA* ills wee . is gilt sbusdigise, se is the o f his gorgeous lesPlililk and Sell - fei main it is difficult to belies aisiaciug arcu ow 01, an unprosperous WISIIOII. • MR. BYRE'S EXPINSES. WHAT is the truth about the Eyre Defense Committee, and the revenues at its disposal I It is no concern of ours to promote subscriptions to this or to any other committee, or to suggest that this or any other committee is invoking public assistance on false pretences. In these remarks we are expressing no opinion on the merits of Mr. EYRE or of his prosecutors one way or the other. We simply ask as the repre sentatives of a legitimate public curiosity on the subject whether or not Mr. Erne's Defence Com mittee is in a condition to need public aid and whether or not " the Jamaica Committee have " virtually ruined Mr. Erne," as Major ANaoN, in a letter to the Times, asserts. The friends of Mr. Evne have always assumed— and we are not questioning the assumption—that the great body of the British public are heart and soul with the ex-Governor against his prosecutors, or " persecutors," as they are wont to call the Jamaica Committee. Undoubtedly, if we com pare the lists of the two committees, we find a vast preponderance of wealth and rank on Mr. EYRE'S side. Mr. Cfrani.ns Bye- TON, indeed, has publicly stated that sums vastly beyond all possible costs are at Mr. EYRE'S disposal. Major Armor; declares this statement " absolutely false," and is most in dignant that Mr. BUXTON should " check the flow "of subscriptions to the Defence Fund," by making it " without having first assured himself "of its truth." Yet if it be absolutely false, dispassionate persons, who have no other wish than that justice should be done without respect of persons, may be excused from inquiring how it happens that the Jamaica Committee, composed for the most part of comparatively poor men, and which is not even advertising for subscriptions, is enabled to meet all the expenses of prosecuting Mr. Ems, while the Eyre Defence Committee, composed for the most part of rich and influential persons, and which is at this moment advertising heavily every day, is suing for its client i,. forrad poilipeeis, proclaiming that Mr. EYRE is already " virtually ruined," and announcing that if the criminal prosecution instituted by the Jamaica Committee, " and the civil cases which they " have promoted against him are to be per , " stated in," the Defence Fund Committee will have to ask the public for much larger subscriptions than they have hitherto received. Apparently there is some contradiction in the state ments and operations of the Eyre Defence Com mittee which requires to be explained for the satisfaction of that immense majority of the pub lic whom we have so often been assured that wealthy and influential committee represents. THE PB.V.VY THEATRES. Jr is said that the Lord Chamberlain, the Right Hon. the Earl of BRADFORD, has been induced to take the case of the penny theatres (vulgarly called " gee) into consideration, and to promise them the same privileges of dramatic representa tion as the higher priced houses possess. The penny "gaff" has fought hard for its existence, and has proved, in many cases, stronger than the law. It would be better if the poorer orders would attend good " Readings," or witness SHAXESPERIAN dramas at the extreme local play houses, but though many have the taste for the first form of entertainment, and enough money for the seoond, there are thousands of both sexes who seem to have neither the taste nor the money, but an enormous natural appetite for amusement notwithstanding. These people have been for years in the nightly habit of witnessing the wretched entertainments set before them by the pro prietors of penny "gaffs." These places open early in the evening and give two performances each night, consisting chiefly of songs and dances, interspersed with juggling, acrobatic feats, and anything that is sup posed not to be dramatic in character, and, there fore, illegal. Sometimes the proprietors have been bold enough to give little scenes, not from well-known and well-written plays, but written by the nameless authors who supply half the comic songs of the day ; and the success of these rude dramatic sketches has em• boldenod them to apply for full dramatic licenses. The agitation for free trade in the drama has been so far successful that it has in duced the Loan CHAMBERLAIN to listen to pro positions which would have been sternly rejected five years ago. THOUCH President JOHNhON has escaped by a hair's breadth the degradation of a dismissal from office, the circumstances are such as will probably induce in him wholesome circumspection during his remaining term. The very men who have spared him are those who have been mainly instrumental in defeating his policy. While the impeachment has been going on the laws have been executed, and with the result that six of the Southern States which, mainly through his influence, had previously been in an anarchical condition, have conducted elections in which the whole people have participated, and will shortly see the admie sion of their representatives to Congress. There is but too much ground for the statement that the peaceful restoration of these States to their place in the Union, is owing to the cheek given to the PR tsiDENr by the commencement of the impeach ment proceedings three months ago. We are requested to state that the Volunteer Review which was to have been held in Windsor Park on Whit-Monday has been finally abandoned, in consequence of her Majesty's intention to review the volunteers later in June. The Persian Gulf cable was repaired on the 23rd must., due which date through telegraphic oonmasier Lion with India has been re-established. The First Lord of the Admiralty held a lewd° at the Admiralty, Whitehall, yesterday afternoon, when the following officers attended :— Vies-Admi ra l Sir R. Smart, Viee-Admiral Sir E. Belcher, Rear-Admiral T. B. Thompson, Captain H. Hervey, Captain E. Harding°, Captain A. T. Thrupp, Captain K. B.Bedin . (field, 7= J. G. Bickford, Captain W. Greet, Captain T. C. 8.; Captain H. R. Tuaon R.Y. Artillery ; Captain the Hon. O. D. Reese, Capt ain W. C. Aldhain, C.B. (re tired) ; Captain R. P. Gator Sta ff Captain W. 8. Luke, Commander Hon. J. H. Yorke, Commander V. 0. Ingle field, Commander R. S. Bateman, Commander J. Ream Commander It. F. Lodder, Commander F. C. B. Robin son, Commander W. G. Silverlock, Lieutenant I'. W. Oliver, Lieutenant A. T. Graham, Lieutenant W. Gre gory, end Staff Bawer W. Saunders. ROYAL BOTITIOOLTOILAZ SOCIETY.—The rhodeo demfrea show at the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Sasiety was yesterday sabreitted to private view. The. =are tilde war partisalmtly megailleent, and are es. to avast.... The pound wader the mit line hoe entirely merranged, with peat imeeses. Maws the aew rhododendrons of eapastal merit way ha senklared Corsi cos, with a rich pinta* erinsih' fiener ; Marks Bagley, of • cherry red ; ClTisispas. a dark Karl's ; and Francis Dickson, a meet t erc lef t all of them resartable fir their use diens ie die beg yerterday Wen ied by Waters sad Gedfray. 17 1 ~AMNIVTAR, 4 OF 0010ION8, • DIPLOMATIC tu „gleeand gumption put, all sums raparod the dipLmatie souks °sett parliament, and tMt entimates to I. submitted ia a form th edoetual mapervilon and pastrol by this house :"--(Mr. Laboachore.)--Tle home Melded ; ayes 76, noes 74 801 . _ . AYE. P. Midland, J. Moot, C. J. Vied. UMlith, C. L. Morns, W. Ayrteas, A. A. Urosreoor, Ellli Murphy. N. D. Aytonn, R. S. Greve, T. V. NW,s, C. Mal . E Eadtoid. O. Hayter, A. D. (Ylleirse, J. L. OLochlen, Mr C. ht. Baxley, T. Hesidersogi J. Padmore, R. Donbas-Caner, J. Hosyklasun. G. Pease, J. W. Bright, Jacob Pelham. Lord Brown. J. Hilo°Uheit 1 , X Putter, S. Bruce,H. A. Herman, E. I otter, T. C. Buller, Sir E. H. Hughes, W. B. Inc., W. P. Candlish, J. Jaclobou, W. Bassay, J. Chatham, J. Jen oise, air J. C. Moodiness, X Childers, H. C. listmody, T. 'gala, Sir O. Comm, J. Kaaba, A. F. sync CeL Dna a. =t Magna, H. W. DOdeoll..r. a. , a, W. H. Verney, Sir H. lasatVice-Adm. Inman, B. Waklegrave.Lealle, tle, I. Lusk, A. O. XYBIIn, X M'Laren, F. Wbatznaa, J. Foll. W. 111Aren. D. . Williamson, Sir H. F , W. D. Moods., .1 F. Wintorbothsm, H. 4. F , C. ]lamb, M. B. Yonder, W. E. Milbanic. F. A. - ILLXVI. French, Col. 11111, J. !I. L:4)0114. hue, H. Glyn, G. C. Moffat, C. White, J. NOR& Barrington, Nisei, (.orlon, EB. Morgan, 0. Batwing, Sir T. Gore, J. IL Mowbray, J. IL Beach, Mr M. H. Ursy, lA-Col. Nevirenville,R. Beach, W. W. Graeae, L. North, Cot Beatnik 0. M. Uwyn, H. Northcutt, Sir S. Bowyer, Sir G. Hamilton. Ld. Claud Paldngton, Mir J. Brett,Kay.Parker, Major Brum, Major Hatiniker•Major, J. Powell, P. S. Brune, Sir H. H. Heygrat, Bir I'. W. Head, C. S. Berton, Sir T. P. Hamby, W. H. kolertaces P. Y. E,.T er L C ' HorsfulL T. B. sender-Booth, G. ....tit, Col. Bowes, K. selwio.lbbitson,H.J Cave, _S. K o w es , A. simoods, W. IL Daikelth, Earl of Knox, Col. B. smolled P. B. Davenport, W. B, Istuyon, Sir C. Stanley, Lord Hinsdale, B. Leroy, A. Start, IL G. Disraeli, B. Leslie, C. P. Tottenham, LL•CoI. Du Cane, C. Leldttl, IL 0. Tumor, E. Eckeraley, N. Lindsay, Col. 0 . Warren, IL R. Egerton, E. C. Lowther, W. Watertdme, S. Midas', J. Wit emit, Mr J. Woodd, B. T. Perguabon. Sir J. Manners, Lord J. Yorke, J. R. FlMPatrick, .1. W. Mayo, Earl of TICLIAR9. Preddlilti, C. K. Montagu, Lord L. Taylor, Col. Galway, V isct. Montgomery, sir 0. Noel, 0.. f. N NEWS. DAY.) OF MONTENEURO. . the National Assembly of tootenegro, .ueinbers voted a sum of 10.000 ducats as the civil list of Prince Nicholas. The prince, who was present, rose from his throne, and delivered a speech, in which he said : Brothers,—lt is too much far me, Prince of Montenegro. Otte-bell the sum is quite suffieient. If I find it ineuffi cleat I alial inform my people in the booupchina. If on the ooateery it should be more than enough, I should ask to here it further reduced. With the help of God, the limits of Montehegro will be extended, perhaps, under my rule, and then we shall all have an easier life. A compromise took place, the Prince receiving 6,000 ducats. It was then proposed to voteAa tiona to the Prinoe's children,b'it the Pi-ince would not hear of it. He said : I thank you from my heart, my Montenerrin brothers. With the money voted for n.e I think I can, God helping, provide for the wants of myself and my children. As to the future, which is full of mystry, I ant pleased to hope that the love and attachment of my brave . people will double my strength to del interests of oar dear country. I deeply feel the • 011,t7,51,hve shown to my family by giving • dotation to of clefiiii.WF: my late uncle Prince Daniel. Or. "4„... iirtral's 7asowte.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN. MAt 'i'. The negotiations for a new regulation of postal traffic between the North German Confederation and the Netherlands were closed yesterday. The draft of the treaty has been drawn up. A satisfactory conclusion to the negotiations with Belgium as to the transmission of small packages by letter visit has also been attained. The treaty will be signed shortly. :KING, MAY f;• , -, ,• . . . 4 .. IMNIVTARY 81 f',..• , . 3 FO. EI G ... ' 0010(ONS, To MA ' 4 * " (rule • DIPLOMATIC VI , • . . question put, " tlto • . gums voquarod to t the . et THE PRINCE 0 VerriCV ought to be seellellY • M At a Nowt sitting of _that *inmates of all ouch mums mile dl ia a form that will admit of t h.tt Montenegro, the ntemb4 ... .__ LORD ABINGDuN ON THE IRISH CHURCH. A vigorous reply has been given by the Earl of Abingdon to a request made to his lordship to aiga an address presented by the " nobility and gentry of the county of Oxford "to the Queen, on the subject of the Irish church. The memorial expresses alarm at what are termed the " unconstitutiemil measures now pending in the lower House of Parliament ;" regards the pro posed legislation as involving an aggression upon the Queen's supremacy in matters ecclesiastical and civil ; as • violation of the fifth article of the Act of Union ; as a blow at the root of all establishments ; and tut subversive of the Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement. The petitioners, therefore, call upon her Majesty to " with- stand this aggrerniveness •" adding : "We deliberately apprehend that if a check be not ini wd upon the present attempts at violent changes in the Constitution (which no consideration of public interests or convenience has restrained), they will gradually result in subverting the fundamental institutions of the country, to the danger of the crown itself, and of img the evil and religious interests and privileges of your - Majesty's subjects of all Wanes." The objections of the Earl of Abingdon to this address are based upon a variety of grounds. In the first place, his lordship objects to it because it is limited to " the nobility and gentry," to the exclusion of the other free holders of the county ; m the second, he thinks it so wrong, and so much at variance with the principles of the consti tution, that he not only declines to sign it, but publicly protests against it. He contends that the address im plies, that those who differ from the petitioners on this question are animated neither by loyalty to the throne nor attachment to the institutions of the country, " but that a monopoly of those ?ilium is enjoyed by those who are active partisans of the conservative party in the county, which is untrue in fact, and offensive in the imputation it conveys." The opinions enunciated by the petitioners as to the effect of the changes proposed have been repeatedly urged before against moat of the legislative improvements of the last 40 years, and have invariably proved to be ground less. To propose, as they do, to drag the Queen's name, influence, and authority into the political contro versies of the day exhibits, to his lordship's mind, an utter ignorance of the constitution of the country, and tends either to endanger that main security for public liberty, which consist, in the responsibility of Ministers, or to plaoe the crown itself in a false and unconstitutional, and therefore a dangerous, position. Lord Abingdon adds that the petitioners appear totally blind to the paramount necessity of pacifying Ireland by a great act of national justice, and so preserving the empire from constant diffi culties ..td dangers. she Cattrt. BALMORAL CASTLE, Mar 24. This day is the anniversary of her Majesty's birthday. The Queen, the Prince of Wales, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, attended Divine service in the parish church, Crathie. The Duchess of ♦thole and Colonel Poesonby were in attendance. The Rev. 31. C. Taylor officiated. The Princess of Wales, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark, drove out yesterday. Is the evening the Princess of Wales and the Crows Prince of Denmark, attended by the Countess of Mac clesfield, General Sir William lEnoll,ya, Colonel Koppel, and Captain Lund, went to Her Majesty's Opera, Drury - lase. Monday being the anniversary of Prince.. Christian's birthday, their Royal Highnesses Prins* aid Princess Christian entertained the Duo and Duchene d'Auntale at dinner at Frogman. The following had the honour it being invited: —Lord and Lady Bridport, Colonel the Hon. Dudley said Lady Elisabeth de Res, the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Welladm, M. and. Madame Van de Weyer, Sir John Cowell, Major• General F. EL Seymour, and Mr. and Mrs. Erskine of Cardiac The band of the let Life Guards, under the direction of Mr. Waterman, performed during and after dinner. A deputation from the parishes of St. Iforylebone, Kensington, St. Margaret Westminster, Whitechapel, St. Pancras, Lambeth, lalington, Bethnal-green, and Oaten well, had an interview with the Lord President of the Mused, at the Privy Omincil-ofilee, yesterday, on the inibjest of the Artisans' and labourers' Dwellings Bill. ♦ deputation from Rtiliester, introduced by Mr. P. W. Martin, ILP., and Mr. Serjeant Kinglike, M.P., and con sisting of the Mayor, Aldensan Coles, Councillor Edwards, and others; and a deputation from Chatham, introduced by Mr. Otirey, M.P., and °satiating of the High Constable, the Chairmen of the Local Board of Health, and others, had an interview with the Earl of Longford, at the Wu edloe, im Monday, in reference to the magazine, at tiPser- A deputation from the Corporation of Sunderland, in troduced by Mr. Hartley, M.P., and Mr. Candlish, M,P., and antisling of Mr. Alderman Williams, Mr. Alderman Kay% and Mr. Councillor Redly, had an interview with Mr. Solaln•Booth at the Treasury yesterday. THZ Quizzes RETURN FROM BALMORAL. —Hz, Moja* dm Qum& aid royal family aro exported to meant from Bahama about tM 16th of mixt mouth.' His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge benoured Mr. Oswald with Ms wormy at raiser lest night at Sunpdea House, Oreen•drest, Grosveserequare, when a select company were invited to meet the royal duke. After dinner there wee a dancing party. The Earl of Wilton gave a grand dinner last night to the members of the Jockey Club and sporting fFisads, at his reaidenoe 6 Groeveser•sitiore. There were doseeekat the banquet the Duke of Beaufort, the Thad at Weatemelead, the Bari of Ooreatry, the Earl Asuieeley, the Eat! of Bradford, the Earl of Strafford, Viesiont Osaisehm7, Viament Banouth, Barest Reesehild, Lord Apo" Moaners Sir Frederick Johnehme, Sir Robert ,1401, tiolloa. B. J. Roes, Colonel the E. M. Vosges', the Right Hoe. General Peel, Mr. Georg* Paine, Host. George Fitzwilliam, Yr. Henry Chaplia, Yr. Stark Mr. Cranford, Mr. Des Voter, and Viseetuit Grey at WOOF • • ,• • • • , Barometer corrected and reduced to $2 deg. at sea level. The letters r (rising). f (BMW, e ;Moody), indicate direction of mo ttos al the mercury within lad la hours. Thermometer ex posed in shade ltd reme force. with Its direction &trim bet 24 hoots Z.—calm. Weather : b.—blue My ; c.—clouds (de. Wald) I.—tog 1.-11g1tInbg ; (buy) ; co.—average (don) ; r.—rain ; r. Rain =an: or WI (melted:. daring BM te b Sea die . • lAARICA. Baresseernial pressure has ßE generally inensased daring the last twenty-four hours most In the south-west of Ireland : at Valenti& this Mamma& in raisdings auswanta ao el* Inch. Between the least premiere at Nairn ask gist as tie south soot •ftd, there la a differs:mos at warty ban as loch. Teammate re Mars Mils treatsin that adar reported • yesterday, sad Is genera" uniform Y somb-mistera gale blew on the northern coeds dames sad at SldakinTbe wind this morning over our islands Is from west to not and moderate . atc ntfnental andona ft Is tubs from the 011itilard. TM sky i generally dowdy. Pius IX. entered on his 77th year on Monday. He is lead of mentioning Ass his father, Ccerof Jerome, died at 84 ; hie mother, the Countess Cathedie, at 82; his paternal ancestor, COUR* Hercule. at 9G ; his brother Gabriel at 87 ; his need brother at 83. 4 The Pilori, a French journal printed in red eluaseten, patellae; the following adverdeesieni— " Wanted, a manager who can reed and write for a literary ioarael Dotage pay whiles is ;pion." HUNGARY. FESTH, MAT 27. At yesterday's sitting of the Lower House the Ministry brought in a bill settling the conditions of state citizenship. The bills respecting the North Eastern Railways were passed. Negotiations are in progress with Prussia for the establishment of a Prussian consulate at Perth. Prince Napoleon is expected at Buda shortly. VISIT OF PRINCE NAPOLEON TO TURKEY CONSTANTINOPLE, MAT 26, EVENING. The Porte has received an official notification that Prince Napoleon purposes visiting Constanti nople early next month. The Viceroy of Egypt and his family are ex pected to arrive here shortly, and proceed to Browses for the benefit of the mineral bathe. The Cheik-ul-Islam, with the Christian patriarchs and Israelite Rabbis, have attended at the imperial palace to present an address to the Sultan, express ing their thanks for the speech delivered by his Ma jesty at the opening of the State Council, promising to observe justice and equality a:nonc, all classes of his subjects. PORTUGAL. LISBON, 7ilAi 27. The official Dine ;..0 of this morning publishes the details of the plans submitted by the Minister of Finance to the Chamber of Deputies on the 23rd. He calculates upon 1,000 contos reis of increased receipts from new imports, and proposes to pay the floating debt by the sale and conversion into bonds of church and corporate property, and by the sale of a portion of the crown forests. The minister also proposes to increase the duties on tobacco, sugar, rice, coffee, tea, butter, and other articles, and to impose a tax of 10 per cent. upon the dividends of public companies. The minister promises in time to exti»gtiiali the deficit. AMERICA. THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT. (Per the Moravian, via Greenuatle.) NEW YORK, MAY IG, EVENING. After the acquittal of the President on the eleventh article, Mr. Williams, who voted guilty, moved the adjournment of the court until the 26th inst. Chief Justice Chase decided the motion to be out of order. Mr. Drake appealed from the decision. The Senate overruled the Chief Justice, and Mr. Williams's motion was carried by 32 to 21. Mr. Wade voted guilty. The Canadian steamer Moravia, from Quebec on the 16th inst., arrived in Lough Foyle this morning. She landed mails and passengers, and proceeded to Liverpool. (IT ATLANTIC TELECIAPH, TBILOEGH 11E. 11113TER'S AGENCY.) NSW YORK, May 26. The Allan Company's steamer Germany arrived out to-day. The Cunard steamer Tripoli has arrived at Bos ton, and not at Halifax, as announced. WEATIEBR RKPORL-OSIS DAY.) WIIIDNESDAT. MAY 27, Aid. V. 112 Extr ; eme. B. r. ,Y W. Mo,- W. B. Ito 1119.1 D. 9 . Nairn Aberdeen 29.78r63160 S. 2' 6 S.W. re 004 2 Leith - Shields Scarboro' 29.9608,64 W.S.W. S 6 S.W. be 2 Yammenth so.iir (mix. 4 S.S.E. e 2 Helder Cuxhaven I : I : Sardegna Yakutat' Cape Clear 19.929 65,64 W.S.W. 9 S.W. c 4 Rocbe's Pt 29.90r 56'63 W.S. W. 8 B.W. oc 4 Holyhead -129.930 57 65 &S.W. 8 P.B.W. c - LiverpooL ;91.01r 68 66 S.& 1 3 S. er 0.07 1 Animism Greencastle - Persauce 5 S.W. c 4 W PlTm" eyniontb ih 180 .2° . 1 1 7 4 1 : 6 5 77 66 65 W S .S.. W W. 6 S.W. re 8 Porimmenth 60.17r6866 W. 4 W.K.W. : e 1 London - C. Ode Nei — - - Dant Loriest — 57 53 E.N.R. 3 3 R.N.E. c 3 Rochefort Manila 30.14 r B 13 8 E. 4. e 6 COnmY- - Erma& 19.16 Paris - c - Strasbourg 73 S.S.R. - LYnns Toulon Heart's Con 80.080 381 S. 2 ' S. . b 1 OUR PARIS LETTER. (now ova OWN CURRI:bI.OI.I,LN7.) PARIS, TVENDAY The Siide complains of the intoleran ce ~; Archbishop of Paris in having ordered th e of his diocese sot' to give certificates of to those young girls who frequent th e 'lona] schools" founded by the Madame Lemonnier, and which so V., earti h, the Bishop of Orleans. The A r',,, , that the Sieck preaches to the wron): the priests think light to refuse absol, •. pupils of these schools, it is not for the • question the discretion of the priests. Th,r law to force people to go to conicss.on the question for parents to considor is they cannot better dispense v. it h 'mien than with these good szlio , ,ll. Ind heard that a number of st.rdent, way this afternoon into the c .rt yar.! Luxembourg Palace, where the Serrate sits, tared cries of " Viva lea Profeseet:ra" and les Calottes." (Down with the vleri. als. ) driven out by the police, who , Ire , : thei•• . and two or throe young men were sound, the absence of further infonnati...:, the con the stud anus seems very foolish. The seri an overwhelming majority. reptitlia:ed the accusation of the cardinals the : sore. Nothing could more stron_ , i • • N d tennate the ignominious defeat of disorderly conduct on the part of th,. • It seems that Verdi's refusal of ::1.• Crown of Italy was not prompte •• !..• motives, as some have supposed, i. • 1, of Rossini, and still more by a 1 . • himself by M. Broglio, the .. Public Instruction. This 111inirt,: !, , ti ,. • ! a commission, of which it ! , • honorary president, to inquire and, the best means of " reviving . ' :I:e music in Italy. Verdi, the rc.th r the T,ariata, and the Tie rut for not admitting that ItiCiatr :, it, of decadence. But what male t•,•, wrath run over was the public rt . . , t addressed by M. Broglio to R “41:11. in said, " The music of the Ls! e:. t be described as' ing about. And what have produced since your (h. fs cr • • but four operas of Meyi Th. • • so stung by this that wht asked to compose a cantata f r • Prince Humbert he excused Irims•• th• that his genius was not aclaptc.i ts • music." ~„~ : . , • „. .. ~. A critique in the F;garo by • .. fort of M. Gerome's picture, • ":'..• I , Marshal Ney," having given often, •, ;... de Ia Moakowa, the latter sent t% , . • general officers) to M. de Rocheior either a retractation or a meeting. ]+l. o.• I: .• - refused in the first place to retract ‘. • he refused to fight on account of had written in the character of a ...Li: added that if the Prince de Ia 31,,5;.(_ , ‘ - thirsted for his blood, he had only : obtain the satisfaction he desire'. affair remains for the present. The Sultan has just made a prest nt to . peror of a cannon which in 151).; •' Francis 1. to the Venetian Gover!or of t • • of Cyprus. M. Bourjon, a prominent Rep:lblican 1.1 • who died on Sunday at the age of nly followed to the grave to-day :n Motor.- Cemetery, during a heavy th•inder • . wards of 600 persons, among wlioni • members of the Corps Legislatif. The firmness of the Bourse cont rose 21c. for account, closing at C.'-fr. - • fell l c. only after the late extranr&r. The ilarirari has a sinTilarly • tire. The god Mars, his enorimo.s S".r. l • • on a peg above his head, is stret.h..i asleep upon a pile of very full Ino.n y reflection is : " He sleeps and dm: S-, mattresses must be very costly." Mr. William Forster, on Fridz , -' ••, . 2 First Lord of the Treasury if he ~“n :t. what steps he intends to take in referent 1:_• .1 . plated measure for expediting the went on the new constituency in the • Mr. Whalley has put the folkowi..g notice on the House of Commons paper fo: call attention to the recent Ito.m.n • Ashton, Rochdale. Stalybridge, r• • the county of Lancaster, and at Biru.:ogi..n. *V , • hampton, Stone. Hanley, and other placee tl • of Warwick and Stafford ; and to move (0:4 cc inquire and report to the house as to the e. of such riots, and what, if any, measures 7. • secure to persons engaged in the delivery , ' speeches on the subject of protest.ustiste, . • better protection." _ Mr. Murphy, ou Thursday, , A Secretary for Ireland whether her Maroty', .• •.. attend to take any further steps with posed Catholic University in Ireland.. Sir Stafford Northcot43 intends 10 morrow that it be an instruction se Le sel. mittee on boundaries of boroughs that the.. consider the petitions presented to this house or it • jest of the places of nomination for coanty that the petition' from South Molten, L.:, 0 , :- Tffnington, and Ilfracombe, relative to the nomination for the northern division tr.e c.. .f • • Devon, be referred to the committee.. Mr. Darby Griffith proposes t.) the rescinding of the rule which forbid , ~.en.s..• • House of Commons to allude in their eecht debate in the other house of parlian,ent. On the 25th of nest month Lord Eld that an humble addled' be presented to h, praying that she will be graciously pleased to royal commission to inquire into and repo! military organisation, in so far as it relate , to tI. • ment of a sufficient and economical army of rts .t • the means it offers of speedy and efficient meet the requirements of war, more esvli-tri defence. The United States' tax on incomes is n. • collected in all parte of the country and the (C- , report a marked falling off as compared with tr , for previous years. The tax is 5 per cent. OL over 1,000 dollar., but the taxpayer has a ng. " duct from his return all income received from •' bonds of railways, canals, or other incorporw ,.. poles, as the 5 per cent. tax is withheld by panics and paid by them direct to the collector. happens that a large portico of the income der'. personal property does not appear in the returt• • ) The annual Congress of German J this year to be held towards the close of A Z. Hamburg. Count trinius de Zaluaki, a Saxon scul: fast died at Dresden of wounds received is a dn.' A' '4 the principal works of the deceased are busts e . Emperor and Empress of Austria prompted it Napoleon 111. The count engaged in PO as ol " in a regiment of cavalry, and was shortly afttrin. • • ,• • officer for his bravery at Sadowa. The Baroness de Stampe, who was the creted friend and patroness of Thorwaidass, the great D rids sculptor, and whoosh chateau Um artist pared tr,e years of his life, surrounded by her with ewer/ 04: 1 _„ affestioa,bas just died at Nyser, is How ark.:ll Chateau of Blampeiserg, hi which she had ha fittal GP for Lin, sad where he exe cuted his lot *"" pr bong in ful other he s oricit buyin, the ai acco was cor.•n pen4e ..ctL4 Mr. F. could make public the of eittint Mr. a =Ma spoil t to oboe ;hi viv IM cbl eta th:e tie pin defe Witt torn ingq , kinc bet evitt T tLe 3. T bent expl.