The Express. — London, England, 1860-06-29 00:00:00

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Who has called for legislation on this subject at this particular time 1 We are led to oak these questions by observing the variety and oppositeness of the classes by which it is resisted. One day our columns relate that it excites the indignation of the working classes of Finsbury as a gems attack upon civil and religious liberty, and next that it is denounced in meetings of the Evan gelical Clcri,7 as full of peril to the interests of Chnstuunty. At a public meeting held on Wed nesday evening last at the British Institution, Cowper-street, City.read, it was condemned by resolution as injuriously affecting the " poorest and most needy inhabitants of the " metropolis ;" and yesterday, at a meeting of clergymen held at Exeter-hall, it was denounced, on the motion of Sir CULLINU Eaautxv , as COUD. iettalllCilig a belief that the Leee's day need not be kept holy. The placard calling the Finsbury meeting combined both dames of objections in the statement that Lord CRILIINFORD'R Bill" Legalises " Sunday trading, and at the same time stereo " the poor and needy." What motive can Par liament have for enacting a law which has not been called for by any large class, which has no strong support from any party, but which is obnoxious alike to religious feeling and popular sentiment ? I When first brought forward, Lord CHUMS- I'..•I••• Bill received considerable support from the E.: medical clergy under a misconception of its cha racter. As a measure apparently for limiting Sun day trailing many of them readily supported it ; but that support they have since withdrawn on per. ce.cuig that it fails to recognise the religious cha racter of the Christian day of rest—that it makes mere 'Nejel convenience the highest end of legislation for Sunday observance--that its prin ciples ate thus secular, and that their adoption wesild N. an abandonment of that strong national testimeny to the religious sanction of the day, and the Divine authority for its ob servance, which all former Acts of Parliament embody. In au " Appeal," which has been ex tensively circulated by the clergy of the Low Church party in London, we find the tendencies of the bill thus described :—" For the first time " in the history of England since the Reformation, " a retrogressive step will have been taken, and a " law of relaxation introduced, instead of that re " deletion by which our legislation has ever pre " viowily been marked. We call it a law of re " taxation, because the stigma of an illegal act, " which has hitherto been affixed 0 all Sunday " trading, would be wholly removed by it. The Bill "does o u t recognise by • single word the religious obli " gatien of the day, but absolutely ignores it. It " treats Sunday trading as a question not of re " ligions duty, but of simple trading convenience. " By the legalisation it proposes to give to trade "em the leiee's day within certain stipulated " hours, it practically declares that, in the opinion " of the Legislature of this country, there is no " moral ening in selling on the Sunday per me, " but only in the unfair competition which one " tradesman may thus manage to secure over " another." Such are the objections taken to the Bill from the religious point of view. We re produce theme because they are too important to he overlooked in estimating the practical conse quences of the proposed measure ; and we ask again whether a Bill, on the one hand so , opposed, and on the other unsupported by any active symi•thy out of doors, is likely to work satisfactorily. We cannot bring ourselves to be lieve that the respect paid in this country to the litieu'e day as a religious institution is due, as the authors of this " Appeal" would have us believe, to the influence of Acts of Parliament in influencing and !ding public opinion, or that it is at all desirable to encourage limuan legislation in religious matters. In that respect we consider the prin ciple of Lord Curtmsvoite's Bill quite sound, and, notwithstanthug the hard things said against it, infinitely more Christian than the principle of applying civil penalties in support of systems and instelitiens of ecclesiastical origin. It is so be.. cense it recognises the responsibility of every man to his Maker only in religious matters. Hut as • practical matter a" have toconsider what would really he the effect of legislation. If on the one hand it is true that a eational testimony to the religious obligatiee of the ledie's day LII borne in the five web two my existing Acts on the subject, it is equally true that publi c opinion regulates the ap plication of these lees. Attempts to apply them to the injury of the poor are soon checked. With the excepted' of Bailie carried on under licenses, there is in fact scarcely any calling that is not exercised at present on Sunday without apprehension of serious legal consequences. If in our great thoroughfares they are net so carried on, it is because the particular public opinion, which governs their inhabitants, condemns muse cessary trading on Sunday. Why alter this state of things, in which a national totinioity to religion, low and limited indeed, but which many value, i. reconciled with individual and social liberty t The Christian Church is free to influence public opinion to the utmostof its power, awl it it's • iiitliience it, but by means exclusively • moral. Again, secular libartyhaewared by the action of the ante agent. If a man wallet° sharpen hh mind upon The Penny Debater on a Sunday morning, or a servant-maid to whom "no follower is allowed" wishes to beguile her imprisonment in the after noon with the Family Herald, they have only to step round the corner, and they will find the shops open. The sale is not legal, but it is allowed. Lord CIILLIVIIPORD would legalise it, except be tween the hours of ten in the morning and one in the afternoon ; thus we lose sight of all principle, and get lost among anomalies. Under the law proposed it would be lawful to buy The Reasoner, and illegal to sell a Bible, on the Sunday. We believe that the conviction is every day becoming more general that these subjects are beyond the province of effective legislation. We leave to others the exact appreciation of the value to religion of the testimony of laws to which the nation refuses to lend force ; but there can be no doubt of the worth of the spontaneous respect which the English public willingly and habitually pays to the LORD'S day. That respect, we believe, is destined to extend and become more profound as it becomes more intel ligent. The great body of the nation is thoroughly convinced of the importance of maintaining the sacredness of the day, as conducive to the temporal welfare of all, and especially to that of the wo,k ing man. We have just said it is not the business of human legislators to regulate religious obser vances ; bat neither is it their business actively to exert their power to break them down. But this is what Lord CURL/1870RD% Bill would do. It would be, if pemed, a declaration of opinion that the LORD'S day may lawfully be cut down by man's authority. At present our practice is imperfect and loose because it is human ; but our standard exists divine and eternal in the Scriptures of truth. Let Lord CRRIJUIFORD leave us to them, and not try to degrade a religious ordinance adopted by the nation for the sake of a few traders who value their Sunday enough to petition Parliament, but not enough to forego the little profit that may be made on Sunday morning before church-time. Wbe court. The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace, and took luncheon with her Majesty. The Prince Consort, attended by Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps, went yesterday morning to the Provident Institution, St. Ilartin's-plans.—His Royal Bighorns pee. sided in the afternoon at a meeting el the Royal Commis sion for the Ethlbition of 1861. The Prime Cocoon, at tended by Lient.-Colonel the Hoo. D. de Roo, arrived at the Palace el Westminster at 3 o'clock. The other Corn ! miareenpreeset were, the Earl of Derby, Earl Granville, Lord Portman, Lord Overdone, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., the Right Hon. R. Lowe, M.P., Sir Charles Eastlake, Mr. Thomas Barks& M.P., Mr. Bidder (President of the Institution of CUR Zeeman), Hr. W. Cr' mime, Q.C., Hr. C. W. Dilke, Mr. T. F. Warm and Mr. J. Gott. Mr. Edgar llowring, socrotory to the Royal Commission, attended. The meet. lag !woks up soon alter ire o'clock. The Kin el the Belgium, attended 17 Colonel Count de eerkeeke, visited the Duke of Cambnage at Gloucester Howe. — the Prime of Wales rode on horseback yesterday. Primes Leopold and the Primes. Louise took a carriage drive. The Queen, aeoompusied by the Priacessee Alice and Bea. tries, and attended by the Hui.. Caroline Cavendish, took • drive in • carriage and four yesterday afternoon, Lord Alfred Paget and Lord Charles Fitzroy attended on hone bec The Prince Cermet, the Prinee of Wales, the Count of Flanders, and the Duke .4 Naze cobourg, attended by the Equerries ll: in Waiting, rude on horseback in the afternoon. , accompanied by the Princess Alice, the Prince 3 u Walee, and the Count of Flanders, honoured the perform ance of the Opera laet evening with her presence. In attendance were the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Horan,. ritopford, Lord de Tablet', Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, and Lieut,Colonel Koppel The Prince Consort and the puke of Saxe Cobourg, at tended by Limit-Colette! the Hon. D. de it IS and itiunn Hochwaechter, honoured the perf o rmance of the Haymarket Theatre last evening with their presence. A ('u) et Council was held on Wednesday evening at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treaainy, in Downiug.street, which Wloi attended by all the ministers. A deputation oo the subject of the Osi (M.Aropolis) Bill had as interview with kits G. C. Lewis yesterday, at the Hoote.odiee. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council set yester day. An appeal from Bengal, " Rogers r. Rajendro Matt sad others ' (part heard), wee conclud e d, an d an a pp ea l from Bengal, " Ramgopol Mookerjee r. Maeseyk and Kenny," was commented. Deiliatches were received at the Colonial-08m yesterday from the Governors of the tape of Good Hope, Natal, St. Helena, Heligoland, and Canada. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge had a dinner party last evening at her residence at St. James's Palace. There were present their Royal High nesses the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenbueg- Sirelite the Princess Mary, their Serene Highnesses the Prince Joho end Prince Jules of Holstein-Glucksbottrg, the Fail of Wilton and Lady Katherine Grey Egerton, the Earl and Countess of Hardwieke, the Earl of Sandwich, the Earl and Countess of Tankerrille, Viscount and Viscountess Com berme re, Viscount Chaterbuly, Lord and Lady Forester, Geminal the Right Hon. J. and Lady Alice Peel, Mr. Leslie sad lady Geraldine Somerset, and Colonel Home Hines, attached to the household of her royal highness. His Excellency the Hanoverian Minister has left town for Hanover, on leave of absence fur a short period. Viscountess Camriden, who has been suffering from severe illness fur several weeks past, is, we are glad to learn, nearly restored to health. Lady Caroline Neeld entertained at dinner on Tuesday, at her house in Grosvenor-square, the following : Lord and Lady Ashley, Hon. W. Ashley, Hon. Mr. end Mrs. Graiville Vernon, Hon. F. Byng, Hon. Miss Lind say, kc. The Earl and Countess of Verulam have arrived in w - mveboustioare from Gorhambury. The Countess Frances Waldegrave gave a hall on Wednewlay night at her villa at Strawberry-hill. Their Royal Highnesses the Lasko and Duchess d'Aumale honoured her ladyship with than• presence. Their Serene Highnewies Prince John and Prince Julie of Olucksbourg, and the Sovereign Prince of Lichtenstein, were alao pre• sent. Frances Anue Marchioness of Londonderry gave a paled tall, last night, at Ho{demean House. His Royal Hig►sses the Count of Flanders honoured her ladyship with kis premise, arriving shortly after 11 o'clock. The Council of the National Rifle Aasociation have made arningementa by which all members of the Arse. canes will he aceocommlated within the reserved spasm pre pred for the presentatiou 14 the aikkenee to her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Cowen. Members of the council and all °Moen connected with the Amocistion are requested to appear in uniform. Major Briggs infernos' the York Volunteers, on Wednesday, that he bad received informatics from the very beet authority, that it was the istsitiss of her Majesty, very shortly, to review the ride corps of the North of dap ; land, is the city .4 York ; and that It was preened this would take place during her next journey to Itabassel It is earlentood that her Majesty will alas take advantage of the same opportunity to review the ticottiali rile corps at Palmsbergh. In our obituary this week we anuounoe the death a( Mr. Captq formerly lasses el the priocipal theatres in Lincoimbire and Yorkshire, and busload of Miss Goddard, of hiatrioair farce is theEr . siage of the drams. The deceased was subject to e ' • fit., and he was removed ham ths s t age ia ale Wachs on his lam ap. tir• at the titaintord theatre a few mouths ago. h b a c il been ill about 10 days prior to his demise on Yriday lam. Mr. Cape in early life altered the legal protease*, after having • college eincatice„ but baring a taste for the &mina he ebandaseal the law fur the r= and it o honey e d he ejant • considerable forties d his managerial maw la eiedeavourusg to revive a 'taste for the dram. Darla( I starting tour la Atrit r a Mr. eat MrP l'aple were Med at Melbourne, and po i anted will, is hatidsume testimonial —Shaufsad iferrierg. ~ FBI 11 $11, R W' ORPREONISTS AT flag CR •,• PALACE. Whatever our Gallic friends may have suffered mince their arrival in London from the "ignoble rapacity" of innkeepers, or the objections of cautious lodging-house keepers to any badges or insignia however innocent, they &Dow moue of It to cloud their faces at the Crystal Palace. There all is joy and music, and when the choristers have ems their sups, and had their dinners, they adjourn to the MiMall panel sad the gymnasium, and there astonish the Mains= Misdate by the agility with which Orpheonists dal WO" at leap-frog. With them it is rather en dannalle game, and haat for the laat two or three days ban Os eldest of careful observation on the part of er own yemeleters, who will, no doubt, go back to school 'NOW wit& several new " wrinkles " in one of file most pepalar of their pastimes. But our Mende have sorrowful Wm to tell of theb• first night's reception in London. Happily the blame lies with a compatriot of their own, who having undertaken to lodge them comfortably, considered be had fulfilled the contract liberally by engaging two waste houses in Islington Cattle Market, and furnishing them with • thousand straw mattresses, carefully laid on the Boor. The pillows be provided only added insult to injury ; but the merry Frenchmen, with their usual elasticity of spirits, after a little mental relief taken in the way of swearing, turned the whole matter into a joke, and bombarded each other all night with the tittle pillows. In the morning they found that their countryman had not emplaned any toilette appli ances necessary in the bedrooms, so that none could wash, and those who shaved could not shave, and as one time it was seriously contemplated to refuse coming to the Crystal Paso at all. However, honour and punctuality finally prevailed over every other consideration, and down the gallant Orpheonists marched to Sydenham, where their singing, under such extraordinary difficulties, was good 'sough at once to establish their popularity in Leaden, They spent their " off " day eery pleasantly, seeing the sights of London, and were highly pleased with the atten tions they received, and the courtesy with which every place worth seeing was thrown open to them. In short, they like everybody in London but the cabmen, who, with that stern impartiality which that distinguished body of charioteers observe to all strangers, fleeced the " Orphee. item," as they called them, whenever they bad the oppor tunity. Cabby had got hold of one French word, with which he made amazing play during the whole of Wednesday. If the " Orpheedtes" were curious as to distance, they had always come " cinque " miles ; and if they asked what was to pay it was never less than " cinque" shillings—a sum which Cabby considered very moderate under the circumstances, the impression being that the situation of " Orphee-ite" was one of the most lucrative public appointments in France. Such things will, however, happen in the best regulated cities, and we can recollect that during the Queen's visit to Paris the chance of sleeping in • bed on the first night of arrival was at first anything but promising. We are happy to be able to close the account of the Orphean perils charily, having ascertained that on Monday afternoon the Crystal Palace Company took their case in hand, and by great acti vity and strenuous exertion snc,eeded in finding them in Christian comforts and toilette apparatus for the second night of their sojourn. It must not be for gotten, either, that this was entirely a voluntary act on the part of the Crystal Palace directors, as lodging in London formed no part of their original arrangement. It was fully appreciated by the Orpheonists, who looked quite new men when they entered the Palace yesterday, and were in the best humour possible with England and the English. When they entered the orchestra they were loudly greeted by probably one of the most brilliant and distinguished audiences ever assembled at a Crystal Palace concert, and the friendly demonstrations became more and more narked during the remainder of the day. The concert began, as on the previous days, at three o'clock. It has furnished very little matter for re mark ; for, on comparing the following programme with those of Monday and Tuesday (which we have given already), it will be seen that the concert of yesterday did not exhibit • single new feature, the pieces of which it con sisted :being merely repetitions of things previously per formed : PAST L y 1. God rive the Queen Y. Tantalite ear Motet en lip* by the Bend of the Guides n Vent Creator Boated. 4. Dfpart du rheostat 6. Le Befralte Laurent de lUIW. S. ()overture de Guillaume %ft by the Band of the (Glides T. La Nouvelle Alliance (wilt hope am eorepanharatJ 8. Ls Septuor des Littooliela PAW I. I. Air Varie by the Bad ii Os Addeo Moly. 2. Idie Cntantsde Parte Adana- S. Le Chapelle 4. Ia Chant du Bivouac S. Iterehe mu Flambeau: li. CUM of Prieree. "0 Ns I° Mozart. 7. Frame ! Frame! A. Thomas. As a prelude to the concert Mendelsohn 's " Wedding March" was performed as a voluntary upon the organ. We masa we did not immediately recognise it, for it was played so slow that it might have been a Funeral Barth, with all the weight of the full organ, and without a single piano pump from beginning to end. it seemed very strange that the organist, a Parisian musician of repute, should show himself so ignorant of this celebrated piece, the true time and character of which say clever English school girl could have taught him. " God save the Queeu" was then ■sing, and on this occasion it wee sung superbly. The French arrangement, with which the audience, the first day, were more surprised than pleased, was now thrown overboard, and our National Hymn was sung with our own plain, straightforward harmony, and with as grand an effect as we have ever heard. This alteration, dictated by candour and good sense, was highly gratifying. In another instance, 'however, the Orpheonista were not so accommodating ; for they repeated the preposterous " Septuor des Huguenots " (which, it would seem, is one of their especial favourites), notwithstanding the cool reception which it had met with before, and which it now met with again, fur nothing could be fainter than the applause bestowed upon it.. The most successful pieces were those which had been most success ful before--the two light and spirited part songs, the Retmite " (in which the beat of the approaching and receding drums is so marvellously imitated by the voices) , and the "Chant du Bivouac." These charming things, song with a fire, spirit, anal refinement which it is impossible to describe, were listened to with greeter enthusiasm than ever. Helevy's chorus, "La Nouvelle Alliance," having been composed expressly for this festival, was repeated us a matter of course, but produced little effect. With its ac companiments of harps and brazen instruments, it is loud and pretentious, with little real power. Mendelsohn's part song, long familiar to English ears, "Le Depart du Chaaseur " (the Hunter's Farewell), was one of the hap. piest performances of the day. It was sung with exquisite delicacy and perfect truth of expression. The band of the Guides, as usual, played superbly. The over. tore to theillamsse Tell was worth going to Byden ham to hear. We have sever heard it better exe cuted—not even by Cesta's orchestra at Covent-gar den. The rich, sustained harmonies of the opening movement, the pastoral sweetness of the Tyrolese melody, and the rapid tramp of the pea redoutle at the end, were delightful ; and the whole overture was a perfect specimen of military music. In common with the pulilic'we have received a great deal of pleasure from the performances of the Orpheonista. They are admirably trained ; and, what is still better, they sing with their whole bearte—with a rerre which (in the pieces most suitable to them) gives a charm to every note they utter. What they se yet want is a aulliciency of matter co which to employ their executive skill—a supply of choral gamic in the true *ease of the word ; a thing which ?mace has still to acquire, either by the exercise of her own ereativs power, or by using the ample stores already accu mulated is other countries. At the termination of the concert an immense crowd col lected in the veetibule in expectation that the a! peva concert of Monday night would have been repeated, but w►ether the disarm hail received a hint that their music kept the company too late, or that they had begun to relish the evening amusementa in town, we cannot tell—the fact ems that there was no vestibule concert, but every one was se to town WI soon as possible. So decided wee the day's aisecese that the orpheoniate were persuaded to repeat their eweeart to-marrow, whoa there is little doubt but that they will have an immense audience. The Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Palmerston, and Lord Lyedhorst were among the more distinguished visitors present at the Crystal Palace yesterday. The twlebrated band of the French Quidee will glee their final convert et 81. James's Hall, tomorrow even• in s , %leder the petrol:mg' of his excellency the Preach ambassador and the Counted.' Persigny. ju o tto DONEE TO THE ORPHEONEWS. - • . • It has been suggested in many influential q that it would be a graceful act to entertain the nista of Frame at dinner at the Crystal Palace after flair farewell concert to-morrow. As there is no time for form. big a committee for carrying out the object, Sir Jen* Piston has kindly undertaken to make the neesseary arrmagemimta m far as time will permit. The list of subscribers already embraces the names et Sir 8. Morton Peto, Titus Salt, M.P., John Bright, 11. P., Thomas Barley, M.P., Samuel Morley, Baron Botha child, M.P., Thomas &limey, J. T. Briscoe, M.P., J. P. B. Weethead, M.P., R. Hanbury, ILP., H. Pease, M.P., Alderman Salomon', M.P., F. Creembly, M.P., G. Hadfield, ILP., W. Reopen, LP., W. Williams, M.P., C. Barton, M.P., and others ; but a considerable sum is Mill required to complete the full amount of the outlay. We are re quested to state that donations will be received by Titus Salt, M.P., Fenton's Hotel ; Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., 7, Pall Mall Bast; Samuel Morley, 18, Wood street, Cheamide ; and Charles Gilpin, M.P., 10, Bed ford-square ; end, as the time is so limited, we hope that those who feel disposed to share in the good work will at once give their substantial 00-operation to this extremely laudable undertaking. ORTHEONIRTI4 IN THE ROWSE or Commo!m— ania DAY. (—Thu morning successive parties of Orpheon tate were seen in the strangers' gallery of the House of Commons. The proceedinp were not such as were likely to interest them, e►en if they understood the language. The house was in committee upon an Irish Tenant Bight Bill, and after some desperate attempts to understand what was going on, the Orpheoniste disappeared in search of more congenial entertainment. FAREWELL CONCERT Or THE ORPHEONTSTIL The enthusiastic and hospitable reception the Orpheonista have met with from large and fashionable audiences at the Crystal Palace, on the 25th, 26th, and 28th, has led to arrangements for a grand farewell performance to-morrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock. As the French choral societies leave London by early trains on the following morning, this must be regarded as positively the last occasion on which they can be heard in this counter In Saturday after noon for this farewell fete, and in mind the general prevalence of the Saturday half-ho • y—one of the most healthful and wise of modern movements—it has been de. cided to leave the admission at the usual Saturday rate of half -a•crown. - _ SACRED HARMON IC SOCIETY, EMITYM-HALL.- A special concert will be given at Exeter-Hall this (Friday) evening to the Orpheonists of France. The doom will be opened at eight, and the performance commence at half ••cr, the entire area of the hall as well as the gallery specially allotted to the Orpheonists. No visitors can be thaL ••• • }* 4 7 r 19, 1860. UVTESr INTELLIGENCE. THE NEW MINISTRY AT NAPLES. NAPLES. Juice 28. The new ministry is formed as follows : Commander Spinelli . President of the Council. Commander de Martino Foreign Affairs. Signor del R 4 lnterior. Signor Manna Finances. Prince Torella Ecclesiastical Affairs. Signor Morelli Public Works. Marshal Lestucci War. Admiral Garofalo Marine. THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. PALERMO, Jul(' 19. PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin in the Debats says : The tricolor flag has been hoisted at the royal castle and by the Neapolitan men-of-war, and has been saluted by the guns of the foreign men-of-war in the bay. An illumination took place in the evening. THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR ATTACKED IN THE STREETS OF NAPLES. Despatches from Naples, dated the 27th instant, state that deplorable events had occurred there. The French ambassador, Baron Brenier, while passing through the Strada di Toledo, where much agitation was prevailing, received several blows on the head from a loaded cane. He fell senseless, and was carried to the palaoe of the Legation, where he received the necessary attention. Baron Brenier having counselled liberal reforms, the attempt on his life was attributed to the anti reform party. It was hoped that his wounds would not prove serious. Garibaldi has issued the following decree : Considering that a free people should abolish every cus tom which calls to mind the old state of slavery : Art. 1. The title of " excellency " is abolished without respect of persons. Art 2. Doing homage by kissing hands is prohibited. . . . • • This decree, if acted upon, is in itself a social revolution. In Sicily the lower orders call almost every well-dressed man his exoellency, and kissing the hand is a common compliment paid by a tenant to his landlord. Interviews between sovereigns appear to be the order of the day. The Emperor of Austria is shortly to have one with the King of Bavaria, and the Prince Regent with the Emperor of Russia. Nothing yet has been decided as to the elty where the latter event will take place, but • definitive answer is expected from St. Petersburg, making known whe ther the Emperor will come to meet his mother, the Em press Dowager, at Berlin, or whether the Prince Regent will accompany her Majesty to Warsaw, where her son will join her. It becomes every day more and more certain that no particular arrangements were concluded at Baden, between Prussia and the secondary states, and that conse quently it cannot be said that any conciliation has been effected between conflicting opinions. To the allusions made by the King of Wurtemberg on this subject, the Prance Regent replied by asking for • written statement of the points on which it was desired that Prussia should change her policy, and also of the questions on which the secondary states were disposed to make concessions. The negotiation will therefore resume the ordinary course of diplomatic correspondence. THE ANNEXATION OF SAVOY. VIENNA, Jun 28. The Marquis de Moustier remitted yesterday to Count Hochberg a note from M. Thouvenel, dated the 21st inst., and of which a oopy has been simultaneously addressed to all the Powers who signed the final act of Vienna, in order to claim from them the official recognition of the aocom- Oldest annexation of Savoy and Nice to the French empire. Not only from this note but from verbal expla nations added by the Marquis de Moustier, it results that France maintains, without variation, the programme arranged by her about two mouths ago. She accepts a European Conference iu order to examine in common the modus of reconciling article 92 of the final act of Vienna with the treaty of Turin. At the same time the Marquis de Meunier stated that the French government would he opposed to any cession of territory of Savoy. - EvikN G, HARROW SCHOOL SPEECH DAT. The last Thursday in June is invariably a gala day at Harrow, for on that anniversary the prominent scholars of that noble foundation, Harrow School, deliver their prise speeches. Yesterday there was en unusually large muster, particularly of old Harrovian'. Lord Pal merston for • few hours separated himself from the cans and anxieties of his exalted official position to seek again the hauuts of his boyhood ; Lord Brougham, Lord Wensleydale, the Archbishop of York, and other illustrious personages, of whom our country is proud, met on this occasion. Among the strangers wee the wealthy Parsee Sir Cur setjee Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy who .apparently took greet interest in the proce inge. Shortly before one o'clock the head master entered the speech. mom, accompanied by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the visitor, the Archbishop of York, and a select circle of friends, and took his seat opposite the rostrum. In close proximity to the head master end the rev. visitor were seated the Marquis of Aberoorn, K.G., Mr. G. C. Glyn, M.P., the Rev. J. W. Cunningham, M.A., governors of tee foundation ; Lord Brougham, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Wensleydale, the Dean of Chichester, the Countess of Clarendon, Lady J. Russell, Viscountess Ebrington, the Dowager Countess Spencer and Lady Sarah Spencer, and a host of the nobility and gentry. Indeed many pillions of quality, owing to the limited amain modation the room affonled, were unable to procure admis sion, and wore compelled to seek a refuge in the echooliard. Ample and considerate provision was there made for the company who could not obtain access to the school-roam. Mr. Ridley, tbecaptain of the school, is the eldest son of Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart, M.P. The heed master, in handing to Mr. Ridley the prise he had so honoumlily gained, congratulated him on his success, and also oomphy mauled him for his industry and exemplary 000 duct during the period ho hod beet at the school. The speeches, labia' were of more than on average quality, were attrativ.ly listened to by the Archbishop of Oanterhury and other dis tinguished individuals, and it will he gratif)ing to those in terested in the school to learn that the reverend and ven t ruble visitor expressed the eatidaction and delight he expe rienced in finding that the vigour and talent of the school was kept up so creditably. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. A court of Common Council waa held yesterday at Guildhall ; the LORD MAYOR presiding. THE PROPOSED DEAD MEAT MIZEITN AT RICITHFIELD. Mr. Deputy ()BEARD said that, Karim understwd that the Smithfield Markets, ha, Hill had palmed the select committee of the House of Commons, he wished to ask the chairman of the Markets Improvement Committee whether he could inform the court as to the precise state in which the bill stood at present Mr. H. Low *N TAYLOR mid the committee bad con cluded their inquiry, and were about to report to the house, but ho was sorry to say they had not adopted the bill in its entirety. Five counsel had been employed in opposi tion, and they had made such an impression on the committee that the rents which the corporation had proposes! to charge of lid. per spare foot per week had been reduced toone penny, while the proposed toll of one farthing for every 14113 a. had been changed to one farthing for every 211 he. The committee had also deemed it necessary that there should be a road leading from the locality of - Victoria-street to the market, and that the rail way should pass under that road, but it was not decided that the alteration should he made by the corporation, and perhaps an arrangement would be made with the railway company for that purpose. The Markets Improvement Committee would, however, meet on Saturday, and would as soon as possible submit a report, which would give the court an opportunity of considering the whole subject. Mr. Alderman COPELAND said that, seeing the frightful leases which the erection of new markets had entailed on the corporation, he thought it necessary to ask whether after the reduction made in their proposed rents and tolls, the committee thought it would be worth while to perm- VON with the bill! (Hear.) Mr. TAYLOR said it would be premature to answer such • question at present. Mr. Deputy DAKIN remarked that fifty per cent. had been struck off the rents and tolls, and as there was • standing resolution of the court that no new market should he undertaken which did not pmmise to be remunerative, the matter might very safely be left in the hands of the Markets Improvement Committee. (Hear, hear.) The subject then dropped. THE PROMISED PAUPER LONATIO ASYLUM. . . . . . . - A recommendation from the Special Lunatic Asylum Committee for the erection at Stone, near Dartford, of a pauper lunatic asylum for the city of London, et an ex pense, exclusive of furniture, of 65,0001., which had been the subject of repeated discussions, was again brought under consideration. It had been last adjoured for the purpose of obtaining the opinion of the law officers of the corporation upon a doubtful point, namely, whether the city unions could be compelled to send their " imbecile and idiotic" paupers to the asylum ; and the committee now reported that they had obtained that opinion in the alternative. Mr. Deputy DAM, chairman of the committee, having moved that the report should be adopted, and referred bark to the committee for execution, Mr. Alderman Annie contended at 'erne length that the plans and estimates of the committee were of an extrava gantly expensive character, and moved, as an amendment, that the cat of the asylum should be limited to 50,000/. Mr. L tWIET seconded the amendment. After a prolonged discussion, the amendment was carried, and the report wss referred heck to the committee, with an instruction to prepare a plan the expense of carrying which into execution should not exceed 50,000/. After transacting some further business the court ad journed. BERISTDA AND THE PRINCE or Wntna.—The Renaud" papers state that the following address has beta masted to the Governor, authorising him to invite tin Prince of Wiles to visit those islands on the voyage out or home :—" May it please your Excellency, -It having been publicly made known that it is the intestine of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wale*, in the course of the approaching summer, to visit some of her Majesty's North. American possessions, we her Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the General Assembly of Bermuda, pray that your Excelle nc y will be to' convey to his Royal Highness our L a ueZl i e and earnest entreaty that his Royal Highness would graciously condescend to visit this remote but ancient portion of her Majesty's transatlantic dominions during the co pa am pi i ,s ia d sojourn ~f his Royal Highness In this heed sphere. Although this colony Is of a very limited extent, 1 yet its ails, to the empire as 1111 important naval and military outpost, the amenity of its climate, the attractions of its scenery, its unbroken allegiance to her Majesty's crown from abnost the earliest period of any British settle ment in America, together with its historical and poetical associations, lest us humbly to hope that hie Royal High. ness may be induced to afford the loyal inhabitants of Bermuda the gratification of such a visit to Its shores." It passed the Assembly on the Stith May, together with as appropriation of one thousand pounds steeling to defray the (misuses of the reception, should the invitation be accepted. THE BRAZIL MAIL LISBON, JiiE 2A. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Tyne, with the above mail, has arrived hem. She will leave for Southampton at noon, with 107 passengers and 27,0001. in specie. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom on ow col PARIS, THURSDAY EITHIRO. The Moniker, while announcing the lying in state of Prince Jerome, omits to mention the day o: the funeral, which was wrongly said by the Pays and Patric, last night, to be fixed for Monday. We now learn on the authority of the same evening journals that Tuesday is the day, and this seems probable, since Monday, according to the Mositeur, is the last day for the lying in state. The deceased prince's private chaplain, Abbd Doussot, and a Sister of Charity, now sit by his body day and night. The public will not see much of the funeral ceremony within the church, for there are only 1,460 places, and 1,200 of these will be occu pied by official people. There remains, therefore, but 200 tickets to give away, and more than 10,000 applications have already been received. By the death of Prince Jerome, the Emperor, gets the patronage of a million of francs a year, which falls in to the civil list. His Majesty, by his Bewails Conaultum of 1863, provided a revenue of 1,500,0001 r. for the dotation of princes of the imperial family. Re immediately apportioned this sum as follows:-1,000,000fr. to Prince Jerome, 300,000 fr. to Prince Napoleon, and 200,000 fr. to the Princess Mathilde. Ou the occasion of Prince Napoleon's marriage, his allowance was increased by a new Senatus Cousultum to 1,000,000 fr., with out prejudice to the original 1,600,000 fr. placed at the disposition of the Emperor. A hint is now thrown out in Bs'!liar's Correspondence that the million now disposable will be allotted to the Imperial Prince, whose military and civil household will be shortly formed. I cannot, however, think this information conclusive. It would be more in accordance with the imperial view of things, if it were to be held that the heir apparent was not iu any way within the purview of a grant for princes of the imperial family, made at a time when the Emperor had no lineal heirs, and it cannot be doubted that the liberality of the Senate would be equal to any new demand that might be made upon it. The Prince Napoleon, who will now have to keep up the whole of the apartments in the Pallas Royal., would no doubt find means to dis pose of the additional million ; and even if he should be thought to have enough, the Emperor has other relations who would be very glad of it. I cannot but think that some other opportunity, and not this, will be taken for providing for the wants of the Imperial Prince—now four years old. You will have received by telegraph the news, in every way deplorable, that a murderous attack has been made upon M. Brunicr, the French am bassador, in the streets of Naples. We know nothing here but that he ix, happily, iu no danger. The suggestion that the assassins belonged to the anti-reform party is entirely conjectural. The Journal de Lyon lately gave an account of a charade played at Fontainebleau. The first word was " Gar," which, misspelling,being allowed in acting charades, was understood to mean Gore, a railway station. This act represented the Emperor receiving the compliments of railway directors and capitalists as he was about to start on an excursion, and some of the privileged players respectfully took the opportunity to ask him to abolish the admission fee of lfr. to the Bourse. The second word was " gan" —read goal. To indicate this the Empress simply threw down a glove, which was scrambled for by two cavaliers. In the third act one of the cavaliers fought with the other and killed him—tea. The whole, as you perceive, is Gar-gan-tua. This type of a man with a capacious swallow is a fantastically dressed Italian, who called continually for more food. After swallowing an unconscionable quan tity of Milan maocaroni he asked for Bologna mor datelle, then for Sicilian salad, and finally for Lacryma Cristi. To each of his successive de mands the courtiers present cried, " No, no," and when the charade was guessed the court rang with laughter at the likeness which they were intended to perceive between Gargautua and Count Cavour. This story was repeated last night by the Pays, but to-day that government journal has received a severe reproof for its indiscretion, and orders have been sent round to all the press to be silent on the subject. More pamphlets ! "The Rhine and Poland „ is among the latest announcements of works "in the press." It advocates ad coptandunt the con struction of a kingdom of Poland, in order to form an excuse for the claim by France of her natural frontiers on the Rhine. But this is not all. The pamphlet, going far beyond the scope of its title, demands the complete emancipation of Ireland with a catholic sovereign, the restoration of the lonian Islands to Greece, and of Gibraltar to Spain ; and the expulsion of the Turks from Con stantinople. The author of this new advocate for a general remodelling of the map of Europe gives his name—he is a certain M. Matted de Bereilly. The Bourse was again exceedingly dull. The Rente closed at 68fr. 65c. for cash, and 68fr. 55c. for account, with a fall of sc. and 10c. Mobilier fell lfr. 25c. The Western Railway fell 2fr. 50c., and Eastern and Lyons lfr. 25c. each ; in the other principal lines there was no change. Paucity of business was the leading feature of this Bourse. The Pays, endeavouring to add force to the denial of the Moniteur, again contradicts the rumour of a loan. Ninety-three paper-makers have presented an im portunate petition to the Senate, praying for a duty of 25fr. the 100 kilognumnes on the exportation of rags ; and, moreover, that the exportation even at that high duty may only be allowed in English bottoms and for ports specifically men tioned, so that foreign nations way not be allowed, so far as ram are concerned, to enjoy the benefit of the commercial treaty with England. A batch of 100 Irishmen left Paris yesterday for Marseilles, to join the " Pope's own" legion. This is said to be the fourth detachment of the kind that has passed through France. It is confirmed on all sides that General lAIIIO.. riders is heartily sick of the service, and only await. a decent opportunity to get away. NAPOLEON 111. AT BADEN-BADEN. TO THE EDITOR OP THE EIMER& Sia,—ln looking into English newspapers I see a number of observations respecting the late con ference of sovereigns at Baden, that seem scarcely justified by the fact. The general tendency of the remarks is to convey the impression that the Em peror of the French was, on the above occasion, treated with something like public disrespect. May I be permitted to contribute my mite of observa tion / I was at Baden all the time of the confer ems', and like others saw what was done publicly. No doubt, the most popular man of the whole royal party was the Prince Regent of Prussia —as it was quite proper he should be so. But public curiosity and interest respecting Napoleon were intense. On Saturday the 16th, vast crowds of people came from all quarters to Baden, to see the Emperor, and on Sunday the 17th, the fever was at its height. Masses of persons of all ranks floated about from point to point, in the hope of catching a glimpse of this remarkable personage. Now, I can confidently say, so far as my experience go that on every occasion the Eleven ir was received with decorous respect. There were few who did not take off their hats and stand uncovered as he passed i The Germans are not a shouting people, and Vm Eniperaw is not their language or their cry ; yet, on Saturday, when Napoleon drove off from the hotel of the Prince Regent of Prussia, there was a good deal of lively exclamation. At no time did I hear a single hiss. It cannot be doubted that in the various German states there is a prevalent fear of Napoleon. But there is an unreasonable as well as a reasonable fear, and looking at the present tone of no small part of the English press, and comparing it with what one hears in France, I cannot help feeling that England is somehow or other allowing itself to get into a panic about invasion. Everything that the ruler of France says or does becomes a matter of ill natured remark. The proposed commercial treaty goes for nothing. Can it be the wish of any news paper, or any party in thestate, to provoke a war-- or what seems as likely, to divert the people by talk of warlike aggression 1 It certainly looks very like it. Uniting most cordially in all proper plans of naval and military defence, I must sin cerely deprecate this everlasting talk about inva sion—this persevering outburst of vulgar abuse of the Emperor of the French, as if it were intended to insult him and the nation over which he rules. Be he what he may, I think that his treatment by at least a portion of the prim iu Great Britain is most unjust and undignified ; and, along with the ostentatious parade of national weakness:sof defence, calculated, if anything can, to prolific* the very results which it is affectedly wished to avert.—T am, are., W. CHAMBERS. Wiesbaden, June 25. A letter from Palermo of the 23rd, in the Cor riere Mercantile of Genoa, states that Massini has arrived it. the former city. The Co/Wit/dimple! publishes the following re marks on the manner in which the Gurefte de dresses (the Legitimist journal) announced the decease of Prince Jerome : " The Gazette published between its puff pa►a graphs and its bulletin of the theatres, • modest necrological list, in which stood the mimes of five or six magistrates of our tribunals, • Prussian officer, and an English consul in Abyssinia ; but it never entered our imagi nation that 'M. le Prince Jerome' could find a piece in alphabetical order among those mimes, however respectable they may be. This is net • simple forgetfulness of political dignity ; it is a profanation." A DUEL at BERLIN.—A letter from Berlin, in the Constitationnel, has the following :—"The general sub ject of conversation here is • duel, which took place on the 20th, between the young Count H. de ltameranrark and the brother of a lady to whom he had been engaged. The count received a ball in the body, and now lies dangerously ill at Aiz.la.Chapelle The cause of the meeting is said to be • marriage broken off between the lady, whom the count had known in Park, and who had eveu accompanied hint into Silesia. A short time helots, the ila7 fixed for the union, the count received • letter c ontaining disclosures which induced him to give up the eunnesion. The parents of the lady sent for bar brother from _intern.. This latter to said to have treated • medical mom who was on the ground with great brutality, hotline, he uttered an ex clamation of grief snit pity when lie sew the owlet fall. When the latter was struck, his Mstol, falling from his hand, went off, and wa■ nearly. wounding owe of the emends."